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Alabama Source Does NOT HOLD BACK Before Tennessee Volunteers vs Crimson Tide! | SEC | Bama | Vols · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: for Alabama this week, it feels like every week's a
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  Speaker 2: big game, but before we talk about Tennessee, just thoughts
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  Speaker 2: coming out of that, that Georgia game, I thought Bama
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  Speaker 2: played fairly well at times, did some other things. I
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  Speaker 2: just felt like a back and forth game where Georgia
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  Speaker 2: came out on top, but I thought they played fairly
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  Speaker 2: well at times, and a lot of people watching that
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  Speaker 2: game said, hey, these are the best two teams in
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  Speaker 2: the country right now, so I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 2: quite there or not, but I'm not far off from it.
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  Speaker 2: I think Alabama's still a really good team, played the
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  Speaker 2: number one team in the country really, really well, and
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  Speaker 2: now we move on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think Alabama proved that, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: they're one of the two best teams in the SEC, potentially. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in order to cement that uh they need to handle
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  Speaker 1: uh you know the the a loss the proper way
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  Speaker 1: which is you know to get their minds right and
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to be banged up man i mean
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  Speaker 1: we'll have the first uh you know uh injury report
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  Speaker 1: tonight but there's a really good chance and matter of
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  Speaker 1: fact almost a certainty ryan coleman williams will not play
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  Speaker 1: against tennessee and And I have a feeling Rayson Delgadi,
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  Speaker 1: the transfer center from Cal Poly, he got hurt late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, TJ, knee injury. I don't believe it's
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  Speaker 1: season ending, but I wouldn't be shocked if he's out
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  Speaker 1: this week and potentially even out through the bye week,
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  Speaker 1: which would give you nearly a month because when you
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  Speaker 1: look at it that way, Alabama would play this week
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  Speaker 1: against Tennessee, then Texas A & M at home, take
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  Speaker 1: a bye, and then you play the end of the
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  Speaker 1: next week at LSU which is nearly a month off
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  Speaker 1: not playing in a game rep so I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if those two guys are out if if Rayson
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  Speaker 1: Delgatti is out then I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: Mal Waldrop who started at guard against Kentucky started on
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  Speaker 1: the left side there at left guard and has played
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  Speaker 1: a lot this year and I believe he finished the
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  Speaker 1: game at center against Georgia so He would be the
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  Speaker 1: guy that would have to step in. Then they'd have
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  Speaker 1: to have somebody like a Noah Rogers who's only been
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  Speaker 1: playing limited snaps or even a Sedarian Morgan to come
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  Speaker 1: in and play for Ryan Coleman-Williams. So we'll see there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you might also tweak the game plan and maybe target
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Edwards more, you know, and Marshall Pritchett who had
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown certainly against Georgia in that contest for the
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  Speaker 1: University of Alabama. So we'll see. But certainly it was
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  Speaker 1: a it was a heck of a football game. No
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  Speaker 1: question about that. And I think, you know, I thought
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  Speaker 1: Keelan Russell was good, not great. I've been having to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, deal with a lot of fans in my
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  Speaker 1: area who are convinced it was fixed and the game
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  Speaker 1: was taken from Alabama. But, you know, that happened in
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  Speaker 1: 2022 in Knoxville, Tennessee. That game was fixed. OK, and
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  Speaker 1: it's funny that we're talking about that. Tennessee, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to preview that game. But I felt like the
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  Speaker 1: officiating was bad, but I thought it was actually bad
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  Speaker 1: on both sides. If you see Alabama fans want to
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  Speaker 1: focus on the calls they feel like they didn't get,
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  Speaker 1: but there's other calls in that game that Georgia didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: And what I focus on is reality. And reality is
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  Speaker 1: the officiating wasn't good, but that's not the first time
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  Speaker 1: that's happened. But the real reality is when you get
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  Speaker 1: beat on the line of scrimmage, on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball the second half. I told you last week
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  Speaker 1: that I thought Alabama had to out-possess Georgia. Did not happen.
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  Speaker 1: Thought they had to out-execute them on third down. Did
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  Speaker 1: not happen. Thought they had to win the turnover battle.
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  Speaker 1: It was even. And the real thing that lost the
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  Speaker 1: game for Alabama is you have an interception that looked
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  Speaker 1: like an interception, but then upon replay they decided to
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  Speaker 1: overturn that. That happens. And then inexplicably, you force four fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: or the Georgia fumbles four times. Some of it was self-inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: But you have the ball on the ground four times
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  Speaker 1: and get none. And then the only time you get
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  Speaker 1: a turnover from Bray Hubbard, you go 15 yards backwards
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  Speaker 1: and you don't get anything. So you don't even score.
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  Speaker 1: Because the defensive strength all year has been they've given
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  Speaker 1: up yards in big plays, but they've generated turnovers and
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  Speaker 1: they've scored points, and they didn't do that. you know,
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night against Georgia and Tuscaloosa. So if you
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  Speaker 1: get one or two of those turnovers, then it very
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  Speaker 1: likely changes the game and Alabama wins it. See, they
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  Speaker 1: want to focus on the missed pass interference. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was a miss. There's no question about that. There's
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  Speaker 1: no question they missed the face mask after that turnover
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  Speaker 1: on E.J. Crowell. Now, the interception, to me, it's a
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  Speaker 1: judgment call. I thought QB Reese, when I saw it live,
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  Speaker 1: put his hands underneath the ball and tipped it to
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  Speaker 1: himself and intercepted it, they decided to overturn that. And
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  Speaker 1: then the targeting, look, man, I'm not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and complain about it because I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell targeting is because I've tried to figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. I've seen hits that look like obvious targeting.
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  Speaker 1: It's not. And then it turns around and they call
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  Speaker 1: something else targeting that you don't think is. So sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that happens. But the thing is, is that if Alabama
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  Speaker 1: gets one or two of those turnovers, then I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a different football game. But they don't get
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  Speaker 1: them because, again, to circle back, I thought the biggest
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  Speaker 1: sequence in the game was Alabama did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I thought Alex Asparuhoff did a great job punting.
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  Speaker 1: He punts the ball. The Georgia return man catastrophically misjudges
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  Speaker 1: the thing, lets it go off of him, misjudges the bounce.
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  Speaker 1: There's three Alabama players around the damn ball, and Georgia
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  Speaker 1: recovers it. And so... you would have had first down
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  Speaker 1: at the 11-yard line. That's a better field position than
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  Speaker 1: the interference would have resulted in, which was the 19-yard line.
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  Speaker 1: So Alabama did not make enough plays. They got out-executed
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  Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. And again, I agree
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  Speaker 1: that Alabama could have had a chance at a couple
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  Speaker 1: of field goal attempts if you call the pass interference
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  Speaker 1: and the face mask. But guess what? Did anybody see
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Woodbring missing a 39-yard field goal for Georgia? Hell no,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. And so that doesn't mean that finally that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully he won't miss all year for Alabama's sake.
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  Speaker 1: But any time, anything can go wrong where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Connor Talty could miss or get a field goal block. So,
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  Speaker 1: to me, you lost to a better football team, and
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  Speaker 1: now you have to be mature enough to move on,
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  Speaker 1: and you're playing a Tennessee team on the road. You've
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  Speaker 1: lost the last two times there. 2022, 2024. 2024, you
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  Speaker 1: just got beat. You got whipped in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Your quarterback didn't play well enough. And so Keelan Russell
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  Speaker 1: is going to have to play a lot better than
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Milrow did. And this offense is going to have
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  Speaker 1: to play against a really good defense, TJ, that can
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  Speaker 1: really rush the passer. They've got 25 sacks. And last
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  Speaker 1: I checked, I think 10 different people had registered sacks
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  Speaker 1: for Tennessee. So it's a really good defense. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's as good as Georgia's, but it's certainly good,
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  Speaker 1: and Alabama's going to have to be balanced yet again.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought one positive thing, I know you had
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  Speaker 1: to take out Zach Yardage, but I thought Alabama ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball well on Georgia. So if they can run
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  Speaker 1: the football on Georgia, they should be able to run
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  Speaker 1: it on Tennessee and make it easier on your quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: Keelan Russell. At times, the offensive line didn't pass protect well.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't deal well with Georgia's pressures. They got to
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  Speaker 1: deal with whatever Tennessee throws at them. But if they
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  Speaker 1: can give Keelan Russell time, then I feel like Alabama
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  Speaker 1: can move the football, and I think they can wear
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee down.
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  Speaker 2: Go check them out. On the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia ran the ball somewhat effectively, but if you're Alabama
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  Speaker 2: going into this game, not knowing who's going to start
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback right now, I guess for Tennessee, but two
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  Speaker 2: young guys one way or the other, either McIntyre or Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: Brandon may be coming off an injury. McIntyre certainly not
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  Speaker 2: incredibly prolific. I goal number one has to be to
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  Speaker 2: slow down to Sean Bishop. Cause if you, if you
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  Speaker 2: slow down the, their running attack, which is really good.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that Bishop's one of the better running
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  Speaker 2: backs in this league. If you can slow that down
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  Speaker 2: and you can put the game on one of these
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  Speaker 2: young quarterback shoulders, whoever will start, I suppose.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bama would.
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  Speaker 2: Live with the results there.
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  Speaker 1: Like we're not going to let Bishop beat us. If
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  Speaker 1: one of these quarterbacks beats us, So be it.
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  Speaker 2: If you go out and have a day against this defense.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have a day.
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  Speaker 2: But we ain't letting Deshaun Bishop run for a buck
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  Speaker 2: 75 and three touchdowns like that. Just that ain't going
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  Speaker 2: to be what beats us on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then a key for Alabama. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: the two injuries on offense, racing Del Gotti and Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Coleman Williams. But Terrence Green also missed the second half
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  Speaker 1: against Georgia TJ. And he's their best run defender as
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  Speaker 1: far as along the D line. We'll see if he's
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  Speaker 1: available against Tennessee. If he's not, that probably means more
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  Speaker 1: snaps for Isaiah Faga and Edrick Hill. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they've got to do a better job of stopping the
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  Speaker 1: run than they did against Georgia. especially in that second half. Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, rushed for about 160-plus yards in that half.
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  Speaker 1: And Phillips was really lethal, you know, but they did
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  Speaker 1: a great job running the football period. And at times,
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  Speaker 1: even– and he had a touchdown run of about 14 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Sonny Gunner stocked, and so– They've got to do a
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  Speaker 1: better job. You're right. They have to take Bishop away
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost. I think I heard a stat today.
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  Speaker 1: He's averaging eight yards a carry against Alabama. That's not
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  Speaker 1: going to cut it in his career. They have to
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  Speaker 1: slow him down. They have to make him earn it.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to stop the run against Tennessee. If
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  Speaker 1: they can do that, they do have Matthews and Staley
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  Speaker 1: and some good receivers. I know Davis, the tight end,
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  Speaker 1: is hurt. But I do think they can get after
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  Speaker 1: both these quarterbacks because I think Faison Brandon has got
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  Speaker 1: some mobility, but he's limited as a thrower. And certainly,
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  Speaker 1: George McIntyre is young and not as athletic. So, Alabama
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  Speaker 1: should be able to get after him if they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a good job and make some adjustments and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get him in some third and long situations. And they
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  Speaker 1: should be able to pressure him. I didn't think they
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  Speaker 1: got enough pressure against Georgia. That's another thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Gunnar was back there baking a cake. No. And it
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  Speaker 1: was a good– it tasted good because he was on fire.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he had a Stephen Garcia, Trevor Knight. You
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  Speaker 1: go down the list of all the quarterbacks that have
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  Speaker 1: beaten the University of Alabama when they've played their best game.
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  Speaker 1: He certainly did that. So, Alabama can't allow that to happen.
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  Speaker 1: They have to stop the run, limit it, and they
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  Speaker 1: have to get after the QB. And it's the same stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to win the turnover battle. They have to
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  Speaker 1: generate some turnovers this week to set up some short fields.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have to run the football to help
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  Speaker 1: Keelan Russell. And then Keelan has to use his legs.
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  Speaker 1: And also, I think if they are running the football well,
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  Speaker 1: there will be some opportunities against this Tennessee secondary to
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  Speaker 1: make some plays. And so I think they can make
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  Speaker 1: some explosives. See, Georgia did a great job of taking
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  Speaker 1: Alabama's explosive plays away, except for that 58-yard run for
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  Speaker 1: Treshawn Brown. Other than that, they didn't give up a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot. And they didn't give up the deep ball.
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  Speaker 1: Another thing, too, is you got to hope Keelan can
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  Speaker 1: play as well as he did on the road at
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State because I just didn't think he was as sharp.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it had to do with the looks Georgia
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  Speaker 1: gave them and the pressures and not trusting your protection completely.
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  Speaker 1: But on that interference call, you know, it was definitely
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  Speaker 1: a missed call. But earlier in the season, when I
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  Speaker 1: saw that happen, it happened right in front of me
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  Speaker 1: in the press box. And Rico Scott broke open TJ
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  Speaker 1: and he was, he was, he had, he had beaten
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  Speaker 1: the corner and KJ Bolden was a little late. If
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  Speaker 1: the ball is thrown to the back pylon of the
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  Speaker 1: end zone, it's a touchdown, but he under threw the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And I've got people telling me it hit the receiver
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  Speaker 1: in the thigh. It's not supposed to hit the receiver
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  Speaker 1: in the thigh. It's supposed to hit him in the
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  Speaker 1: hands and it's supposed to be at the back corner
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  Speaker 1: of the end zone. So, uh, you have to tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth and, Keelan will tell you, he said it
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  Speaker 1: in the postgame, he didn't have his best game. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to be sharper. If he's sharper, then I think
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  Speaker 1: they'll be fine. Now, Alabama's been really good in the
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  Speaker 1: special teams. I've already talked about Asparuhoff, the punter, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly Connor Talty. But if you take Ryan Coleman-Williams out
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  Speaker 1: of the equation, TJ, you've got to have a punt returner.
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  Speaker 1: So is it going to be Rico Scott? I sure
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  Speaker 1: as hell don't think it's going to be Dijon Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Because the last time we saw him, it was ricocheting
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  Speaker 1: off his face mask. I think he's a kickoff returner,
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  Speaker 1: not a punt returner. So it will be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see if they let, you know, Rico Scott return punts
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday without Ryan Coleman Williams there. But, you know, look,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia had some guys step up and beat Alabama in
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  Speaker 1: a clutch situation in a big game. Alabama's going to
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  Speaker 1: have to do the same to Tennessee. I may be
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  Speaker 1: a little bit crazy here. But I really like this
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  Speaker 1: Alabama team. I like where they are mentally. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're mature now. I think they can handle this. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this is a great Tennessee offense if
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  Speaker 1: they can limit Deshaun Bishop. If they can hold him
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  Speaker 1: to 80 yards or less, I think Alabama can win
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  Speaker 1: a 30-10 type game because I think they can force
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  Speaker 1: the young quarterbacks into mistakes. Now, I think it will
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  Speaker 1: be a close game for nearly three quarters, but I
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  Speaker 1: think Alabama can put the game away in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: if they force turnovers and keep leaning on Tennessee, the
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  Speaker 1: way to slow down a pass rush or a blitz, TJ,
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  Speaker 1: is to run the football, and they need Treshawn Brown, E.J. Crowell,
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  Speaker 1: and Daniel Hill to combine for what they did against Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: which before you take sacks out, it needs to be
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  Speaker 1: about 190 yards. If they can do that, that means
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  Speaker 1: they're controlling the clock, they're controlling the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 1: which they didn't do enough against Georgia. but if they
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  Speaker 1: can control the line of scrimmage against Tennessee heading into
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and build a lead, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: this Tennessee team is equipped to come back. I think
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee needs to play from in front and then play
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  Speaker 1: off that defense, but Alabama needs to start fast, wear
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  Speaker 1: down Tennessee, and then dominate the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I lean Bama here, and I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: a sure thing because Tennessee does have a good defense.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a good running game, and if those two
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  Speaker 2: things kind of take over the day, then you know,
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  Speaker 2: BIM is going to have to fight to tooth and nail.
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  Speaker 2: But I do, I just have more confidence in Russell,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and, and if, if, if phase on was
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  Speaker 2: fully healthy and had shown us more against Texas or
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  Speaker 2: played the last two games, well, maybe I'd think differently
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  Speaker 2: about that. There was a time three games into this
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  Speaker 2: season where I thought this QB matchup could be really,
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  Speaker 2: really fun. and then phase on getting banged up against
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  Speaker 2: Texas and then not playing the last two games. To me,
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  Speaker 2: that's the separate, you know, that's not the only separator,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the biggest separator is if you've switched quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably pick Tennessee, you know, like especially playing at
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  Speaker 2: home with their run game and their defense, like the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback's a big deal. And I know it's not the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, but it's a big deal in football. And
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  Speaker 2: it always will be Tennessee's got good, good rushing attack,
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  Speaker 2: good pass rush, good defense. I like Jim Knowles a
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  Speaker 2: lot and we'll see who plays QB for them. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty confident in Alabama here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a close game. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good game.
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  Speaker 2: But Alabama does enough in the fourth quarter to maybe
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  Speaker 2: extend a lead or maybe get the lead kind of
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  Speaker 2: salted away. But do you have a score in this one?
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  Speaker 2: And then we'll get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I'm going to stick with it. I think
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  Speaker 1: Alabama can get to 30. The funny thing is, I
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  Speaker 1: told you last week, high 20s, low 30s for Alabama
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  Speaker 1: to beat Georgia. And of course, that didn't happen. They
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  Speaker 1: stayed in the teens. You know, if they had been
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  Speaker 1: able to cash in that one turnover and maybe throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball to the back pylon, you're talking 31 points
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  Speaker 1: and they win the game. But I think if they
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  Speaker 1: can get to that 30-point threshold against Tennessee, against a
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  Speaker 1: good defense, then I think Alabama is more than good enough,
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  Speaker 1: even with the injuries, to win this football game and
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  Speaker 1: potentially win it impressively, which with me and everybody knowing
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  Speaker 1: the way I'm wired, I told someone after the Georgia
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  Speaker 1: loss look I have tremendous respect for Georgia I think
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  Speaker 1: it's one of Alabama and Georgia are two top five
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  Speaker 1: teams in the country in my opinion right now and
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  Speaker 1: Alabama has to you know prove it by going to
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee and performing but I just think right now Alabama
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  Speaker 1: needs to needs to get back on the horse they
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  Speaker 1: need to prove they can overcome some adversity this is
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: the season's first adversity you know proving you can bounce
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  Speaker 1: back from a loss and They need to take care
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: of the Vols and end this two-game losing streak in Knoxville.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing I would like better than to ruin
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee's season and completely knock them out of playoff consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think that would do this.
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  Speaker 2: Where else can people find you? And we'll get out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I've been having a lot of fun on
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• 18:21
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  Speaker 1: in a big game, or Auburn. And Auburn's got a
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: big one at Georgia. Can Georgia handle finally beating Alabama
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa and beat an Auburn team that really, honestly,
• 18:48
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