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Speaker 1: What's up, 12th man? Texas A & M definitely gave
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Speaker 1: you some hard prepotations throughout the afternoon, but at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, the better team came out on top.
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Speaker 1: You got to see exactly what you wanted to from
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Speaker 1: your defense, especially with the turnovers, and Marcel Reed still
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Speaker 1: showed you he's got that dog in him as Texas
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Speaker 1: A & M prevails. in a 48-20 victory over Arizona State.
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Speaker 1: And what was the big takeaway in this one? Well,
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Speaker 1: code HMA. So, Texas A & M with a massive
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Speaker 1: win this afternoon out of Kyle Field in honor of 9-11.
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Speaker 1: The big takeaway is that good teams know how to
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Speaker 1: close out games. That is exactly what you saw from
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M' s defense and a little bit of
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Speaker 1: the offense starting in the fourth quarter. You can look
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Speaker 1: at the score and say, well, it was a 20-plus
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Speaker 1: point affair. That wasn't how this game went. It was
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Speaker 1: a back-and-forth battle between Cutter Bowley, Marcel Reed, the defensive
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Speaker 1: prowess of Mike Elko, the offensive consistency of Kenny Dillingham,
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Speaker 1: and ultimately, you looked for which team had that next-level mentality.
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Speaker 2: And that's where Texas.
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Speaker 1: A & M slightly outweighs a team like Arizona State.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they completely outweigh a team like Arizona State
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Speaker 1: and certainly can outweigh a lot of other teams in
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Speaker 1: the SEC if they're able to start off strong. Texas
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Speaker 1: A & M' s offense found a rhythm in the second half,
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Speaker 1: most notably because of a couple of bad penalties, but
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Speaker 1: still really key grabs from Mario Craver.
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Speaker 2: A massive touchdown reception by Isaiah Horton.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. and more consistent
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Speaker 1: throws from Marcel Reed. But the defense is the story
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Speaker 1: of this game. When you needed a crucial turnover on downs,
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Speaker 1: when you needed a stop, they delivered, and they outclassed
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Speaker 1: the Sun Devils in the second half. Really, what this
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Speaker 1: comes down to is that Texas A & M' s defense
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Speaker 1: bailed them out of trouble. Last season, that was the
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Speaker 1: backbone of this team. Once again, when you needed to
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Speaker 1: get a critical strive, that's what happened. A 24-0 point
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Speaker 1: differential situation. Two defensive scores, including a scoop and score
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Speaker 1: and a pick six by Julian Humphrey to close this
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Speaker 1: thing on out. Texas A & M out gained Arizona
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Speaker 1: State 76-48, and they were able to go ahead and
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Speaker 1: find their way into the red zone to score not
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Speaker 1: only a touchdown, but also a field goal to see
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Speaker 1: the offense be able to put up points. Now, that
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Speaker 1: was the main takeaway, and this is something that you're
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Speaker 1: going to rely on moving forward going into the rest
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Speaker 1: of the season. You got another tune-up game next week
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Speaker 1: before you have to travel on down to Baton Rouge
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Speaker 1: to take on LSU, one of the most potent offenses
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Speaker 1: in the country, which is why some of these other
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Speaker 1: takeaways that we have for this matchup are direly important
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Speaker 1: for Texas A & M to work out the kinks.
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Speaker 1: Let's start off with number one. Texas A & M
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Speaker 1: with another slow start. I was very underwhelmed in that
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Speaker 1: first matchup against Missouri State.
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Speaker 2: Now, credit where credit's due.
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M found a rhythm starting in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter, and they were able to mollywop the Bears
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Speaker 1: all the way towards a 50-0 victory. But it was
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Speaker 1: 19-0 going into halftime, and it was really because the
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Speaker 1: offense had an underwhelming start to the game. The offensive
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Speaker 1: line still working out the kinks with four new starters,
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Speaker 1: a quarterback lurking with a new offensive coordinator in Holman Wiggins.
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Speaker 1: It just felt like there was something not clicking immediately.
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Speaker 1: And you can throw that in for first-game jitters, the
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Speaker 1: inability to really have just a good offensive identity. No
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Speaker 1: one's going to judge you because if it's week one,
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Speaker 1: look at what we just saw out in Ann Arbor
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Speaker 1: between Michigan and Western Michigan. Now we're watching as the
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Speaker 1: Wolverines are acting like victors of the world because they
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Speaker 1: took down a top 15 Oklahoma team. You work out
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Speaker 1: your kinks in week one. And that was very evident.
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Speaker 1: But then we go back to this game and the
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Speaker 1: same issues were on display. Erratic offensive line play with
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Speaker 1: the inability to get anything going on the ground. Marcel
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Speaker 1: Reed with a couple of really bad overshots down the field.
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Speaker 1: Wide receivers not able to get on open at ill-advised times.
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Speaker 1: And ultimately it led to a couple punts. A couple
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Speaker 1: of really bad three and out drives. Texas A &
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Speaker 1: M in the first quarter only gained 14 yards of
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Speaker 1: offense on eight plays. And Marcel Reed didn't even have
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Speaker 1: a completion in the first quarter. So another slow start
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Speaker 1: that definitely could become a problem for the Aggies if
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Speaker 1: they aren't able to start getting a motion going. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it needs to be an issue long-term because
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Speaker 1: you're still trying to figure out what are the kinks
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Speaker 1: about Holman Wiggins' offense that probably could be on display
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Speaker 1: by the time you go into next week's matchup. But
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Speaker 1: you need to figure this out before you go off
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Speaker 1: down to Baton Rouge to take on the LSU Tigers
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Speaker 1: because that's a defense that knows how to get after you,
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Speaker 1: especially on the offensive line play. They know how to
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Speaker 1: shut down the run and they're going to force you
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Speaker 1: to have to make plays. through the offensive aerial attack.
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Speaker 1: And that's something that right now you're still trying to
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Speaker 1: figure on out. The entire first half, it felt like
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Speaker 1: the Texas A & M was stuck in neutral. Now,
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Speaker 1: there were moments to where you were able to see
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Speaker 1: them find their way into the end zone. They were
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Speaker 1: able to capitalize over massive turnovers by Arizona State. The
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Speaker 1: muff punt that put them inside of the red zone.
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Speaker 1: They walked in the touchdown run with Reuben Owens. That
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Speaker 1: was a very smart play by Holman Wiggins. But still,
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Speaker 1: you ask yourself, what more did we need to see?
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Speaker 1: And that's where you saw Cutter Bully be able to find...
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Speaker 1: Reed Harris downfield for a massive 21-yard score, and then
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Speaker 1: it became off to the races. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the first half, Texas A & M was actually outgained
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Speaker 1: by 77 yards to Arizona State. And the reason why
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Speaker 1: that's important is because if this was the first time
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Speaker 1: all year that we have seen a team inside the
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Speaker 1: top 10 be outgained by more than 40 yards in
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Speaker 1: the first half by an unranked opponent. Now the good
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Speaker 1: news is, They figured out a rhythm, and they were
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Speaker 1: able to get back into a groove, and you really
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Speaker 1: saw after that massive interception by Marcel Reed to start
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Speaker 1: the third quarter, things just started clicking. The big touchdown
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Speaker 1: pass to Isaiah Horton, the 33-yard score to Mario Craver,
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Speaker 1: getting the interception by Marco Jones, getting the other interception
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Speaker 1: by Julian Humphrey, which by the way, it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: scoop and score, it was an interception. The ability to
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Speaker 1: be able to play stronger in.
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Speaker 2: The second half.
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Speaker 1: Find the weaknesses of opponents and be able to capitalize
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Speaker 1: on them, put pressure on a quarterback to deliver and
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Speaker 1: have your quarterback step on up is critical in moments
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Speaker 1: like these to be able to pull away and show
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Speaker 1: why you are a premier team in college football, which
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M certainly can be if they continue
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Speaker 1: to play the way that they did in the second half.
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Speaker 1: But slow starts are something that we are going to
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Speaker 1: be monitoring moving forward for the Aggies, because if this
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Speaker 1: is now the second game to where it felt like
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Speaker 1: that you needed a quarter to finally start getting in
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Speaker 1: a groove, and then another quarter to actually not just
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Speaker 1: get into a groove, but really kind of take control.
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Speaker 1: Takeaway number two. Where the hell was this version of
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Horton last season?
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Speaker 2: By the way, he is.
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Speaker 1: Worth every single penny. So Isaiah Horton comes on in
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Speaker 1: from Alabama. And one thing that was really important for
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Speaker 1: Alabama was they decided to go ahead and let him
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Speaker 1: walk into the transfer portal because they want to utilize
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Speaker 1: and allocate money elsewhere, most notably on the offensive line
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Speaker 1: and also in the running back room, trying to go
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Speaker 1: land Hollywood smothers. Apparently, he was making about $ 700, 000 last
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Speaker 1: season out in Tuscaloosa, when I was making probably roughly
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Speaker 1: around $ 1 million, maybe a little bit more. And he
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Speaker 1: is worth every single penny because of that is a
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Speaker 1: godsend that is now going to be a X factor
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Speaker 1: whenever you're inside the red zone. One thing that was
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Speaker 1: not talked about enough when it comes to Texas A
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Speaker 1: & M' s offense last season underneath Colin Klein is that
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Speaker 1: you had two really, really, really good receivers in Mario
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Speaker 1: Craver and Casey Concepcion. But both were known as being
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Speaker 1: vertical threats. They were great route runners. They were exceptional
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Speaker 1: in between space, and they were good at making defenders
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Speaker 1: miss in the open field because of that home run
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Speaker 1: caliber speed. Both were known for agility rather than physicality.
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Speaker 1: Now this season, you lose Casey Concepcion to the NFL,
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Speaker 1: but what you do is you bring in a guy
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Speaker 1: like Isaiah Horton, who stands at about 6'4, and is
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Speaker 1: known for that physicality, not going to go down, going
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Speaker 1: to get those hard yards, fight through contact, and be
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Speaker 1: able to deliver. And that's what you saw today, was
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Speaker 1: more of Isaiah Horton proving to you why he is
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Speaker 1: just that enforcer that allows his body to pull himself
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Speaker 1: forward towards the end zone.
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Speaker 2: Because he found it twice.
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Speaker 1: Once, simply by a great route execution in the second quarter,
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Speaker 1: and then another time by a beautiful throw from Marcel Reed,
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Speaker 1: more on him in a minute, but a hell of
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Speaker 1: a toe-tagging grab going up against an ASU defender to
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Speaker 1: go ahead and regain the lead, but more specifically, regain
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Speaker 1: that momentum. This is going to be a wonderful pairing
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Speaker 1: alongside with Mario Kraber, because now you have two different
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Speaker 1: forces to pair alongside with what you got at the
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Speaker 1: tight end position like Micah Riley. And also what you
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Speaker 1: got with a guy like Terry Bussey and Ashton Roman Bethel.
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Speaker 1: But the point is, is that now you have a
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Speaker 1: difference maker who probably is being missed in Tuscaloosa because
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Speaker 1: Ryan Coleman Williams, probably by the time we get done
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Speaker 1: with this video, has already had two drops. And Keelan
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Speaker 1: Russell is turning to guys like Cedarian Morgan and Derek
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Speaker 1: Meadows to have to step on up in critical plays,
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Speaker 1: which is going to be massive for you when you
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Speaker 1: travel down to Tuscaloosa later on in the month of
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Speaker 1: October for what could have playoff implications on the line.
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Speaker 1: Number seven is no longer there in case it comes
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Speaker 1: out its own, but you walk him into brand new
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Speaker 1: number seven and a guy like Isaiah Horton, who certainly
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Speaker 1: has proven that he can be a difference maker for you.
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Speaker 1: Takeaway number three. And this is one I think many
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Speaker 1: Aggie fans feel right now. I am pissed at Marcel Reed.
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Speaker 1: I get frustrated watching Marcel Reed play football. And many
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Speaker 1: of you would say, well, Cole, he had three touchdowns
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Speaker 1: on the day. Right. But where was that in the
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Speaker 1: first half of this matchup? Marcel Reed finished the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: 15-25 for 163 yards. He also ran in about another
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Speaker 1: 17 yards, and he nearly found his way into the
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Speaker 1: end zone.
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Speaker 2: But that's not the point.
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Speaker 1: The point is that for every throw that you see
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Speaker 1: from Marcel Reed that is a beautiful, right-in-the-bread-basket type of play,
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Speaker 1: one that we are watching make highlight reel after highlight reel,
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Speaker 1: everyone starts believing this is the Marcel Reed that's taking
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Speaker 1: the next jump forward.
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Speaker 2: What do we see? A bad throw into coverage. A
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Speaker 2: late read. The inability to be able to get out
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Speaker 2: of pressure.
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Speaker 1: And then throwing off of his back foot that leads
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Speaker 1: to another turnover or a third down incompletion. And it's
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Speaker 1: like at one moment, you're just wanting to know what
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Speaker 1: version of Marcel Reed are we getting. It's like jumping
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Speaker 1: into a bag of Cracker Jacks and asking yourself, hey,
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Speaker 1: which is the prize that's going to show on up?
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Speaker 1: Am I going trick-or-treating or is my house going to
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Speaker 1: get hacked?
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Speaker 2: That's what it's like.
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Speaker 1: Playing with Marcel Reed. Because the good Marcel Reed is incredible.
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Speaker 1: The throw to Isaiah Horton in the third quarter. may
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Speaker 1: be one of the best plays to a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: that we've seen so far in the early college football season.
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Speaker 2: No one should take that away from him.
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Speaker 1: He put it right on the money to where an
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Speaker 1: Arizona State defender couldn't make a highlight grab, and instead
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Speaker 1: you walk away with the touchdown. He was able to
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Speaker 1: avoid a couple of pressures, step on up in the pocket,
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Speaker 1: eventually take off and run and keep drives alive with
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Speaker 1: his legs, but then you gotta talk about how he
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Speaker 1: was inconsistent in the first quarter on third downs. Then
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Speaker 1: going into the second quarter. And then coming out of
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Speaker 1: the break, after dealing with the near injury where he
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Speaker 1: was definitely limping and you could tell that the mobility
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Speaker 1: was going to be a problem, you saw him throw
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Speaker 1: directly into a position with a lofty ball for a
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Speaker 1: turnover by Arizona State at midfield. And that was when
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Speaker 1: momentum you thought was going to shift on over to
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Speaker 1: the Sun Devils and away from Texas A & M
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Speaker 1: in their own house.
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Speaker 2: It's a good player. He's a fun player.
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Speaker 1: Marcel Reed is a quarterback that you can win with.
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Speaker 1: That is somebody that you believe is good enough to
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Speaker 1: get you to that next stage. And I hate when
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Speaker 1: people say, well, last season was last season because they
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Speaker 1: had an easy schedule. Texas A & M is given
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Speaker 1: one game to be able to be played per week.
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Speaker 1: It's their job to be able to execute as the
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Speaker 1: other team's job to show on up. It's not his
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Speaker 1: fault if he holds up his end of the bargain
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Speaker 1: and the Gamecocks or the Bulldogs or the Tigers or
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Speaker 1: the Gators decide not to go ahead and play football
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Speaker 1: and instead lay down Dorman in the second half of games.
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Speaker 1: If he wants to deliver, that's on him. But every
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Speaker 1: single time that you watch him take the field, you're
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Speaker 1: asking yourself, what is this drive going to be? Because
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Speaker 1: once you start getting in a rhythm with Marcel Reed,
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Speaker 1: that guy is cinematic. That guy is everything.
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Speaker 2: That you want. 10 is perfect.
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Speaker 1: Perfectly fine to lead the Aggies back to the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff.
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Speaker 2: But it takes a while.
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Speaker 1: And more specifically, it also can be frustrating because if
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Speaker 1: you watch as he's not able to find a rhythm
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Speaker 1: early on, or late in games when you go up
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Speaker 1: against better competition, there's an opportunity to where he may
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Speaker 1: end up putting you in a position to where it
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Speaker 1: costs you a game. So Texas A & M right
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Speaker 1: now has a quarterback that once again is just frustrating.
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Speaker 1: And I know every A & M fan feels this way.
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Speaker 1: Because if you are seeing an offense and a defense
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Speaker 1: have the pieces with the rushing attack and with great weaponry,
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Speaker 1: and more specifically with a defense that is able to
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Speaker 1: keep you in games while you figure things on out.
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Speaker 1: But then on the flip side, you ask yourself, what
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Speaker 1: am I going to get from my quarterback? Is this
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Speaker 1: going to be one of those games where he ends
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Speaker 1: up completing 60% of his passes and he finds the
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Speaker 1: end zone twice, but he also has two critical turnovers
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Speaker 1: that lead to scoring opportunities for the opponent? Or is
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Speaker 1: this one of those games where we're looking back and
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Speaker 1: we're saying he is the reason why we're sitting up top?
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Speaker 1: In the third and fourth quarter, he was a big-time
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Speaker 1: reason why the Aggies were able to coast their way
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Speaker 1: to a double-digit victory and be able to beat the 14.5-point spread.
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Speaker 1: But he also was put in a position where it
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Speaker 1: felt like at one point Arizona State was going to
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Speaker 1: fight their way to come back into this matchup. Now,
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Speaker 1: out on the regular. My final takeaway here is that
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M' s defense will keep them in games.
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Speaker 1: But you do have to have a little bit of
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Speaker 1: trepidation when it comes to the deep vertical passing attack.
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Speaker 1: Cutter Boley threw three interceptions in this game. And he
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Speaker 1: had three turnovers that led to Texas A & M' s scores.
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Speaker 1: He also had two touchdowns in this game. And more specifically,
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Speaker 1: he also had two touchdowns in this game where he
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Speaker 1: was able to connect downfield with Reed Harris, the Boston
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Speaker 1: College transfer. Six-foot-four difference maker who finished with nine catches
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Speaker 1: for 189 yards and had four plays of over 30
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Speaker 1: yards downfield. And that's not to mention what you also
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Speaker 1: have with O'Marion Miller, who really didn't do much, but
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Speaker 1: he was able to get a couple of first downs
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Speaker 1: and keep drives moving at some points.
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Speaker 2: But let's talk about the vertical passing attack.
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Speaker 1: Texas A & M is going to be going up
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Speaker 1: against some of the best offensive weapons this season in
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Speaker 1: college football.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about just.
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Speaker 1: A Cam Coleman when you go welcome in the Longhorns
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Speaker 1: late in Thanksgiving weekend. I'm talking about when you go
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Speaker 1: down to Tuscaloosa and you have to take on a
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Speaker 1: player like Ryan Coleman-Williams, who last week, even with the drops,
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Speaker 1: still went for over 130 yards. And they got a
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Speaker 1: quarterback in Keelan Russell that is able to go ahead
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Speaker 1: and make plays behind the line of scrimmage. John Mateer
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Speaker 1: may not have an elite arm, but he does have
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Speaker 1: an elite receiver like Isaiah Satanga, who if he can
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Speaker 1: break on open at the line of scrimmage, he is
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Speaker 1: off to the races. Not to mention, you also got
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Speaker 1: to welcome in a team like Tennessee. And Tennessee is
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Speaker 1: two difference makers.
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Speaker 2: On the outside. Braylon Staley and Mike Matthews.
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Speaker 1: Mike Matthews is still running his way into the end
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Speaker 1: zone after having a two-touchdown performance against Furman. And I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he's going to be doing more of that tonight
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Speaker 1: when they go down to Bobby Dodd Stadium to take
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Speaker 1: on Georgia Tech. And Braylon Staley knows how to break
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Speaker 1: on open as well. So there are some weapons that
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Speaker 1: are on display for Texas A & M that are
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Speaker 1: going to be able to win vertically just like Reed
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Speaker 1: Harris did this afternoon. And that's not even including what
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Speaker 1: you get next week against, two weeks from now, against
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Speaker 1: a team like LSU, who still is trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out what their offensive identity is. But let's just call
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Speaker 1: it as is. They got a Winston Watkins. And they
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Speaker 1: got a Trey Wilson. And they also have a Jace Brown.
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Speaker 1: And every single one of those players knows how to
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Speaker 1: get on open downfield for an easy 15-yard pickup. And
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Speaker 1: if you allow them to break on open, they're going
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Speaker 1: to make plays in space. So that's something that you
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Speaker 1: are a little bit concerned about. Not saying that it's
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Speaker 1: a big deal because, again, talent at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day outweighed Texas A & M and made sure
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Speaker 1: they were able to coast their way to a double-digit victory.
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Speaker 1: But you are going to be facing off against those
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Speaker 1: teams on the regular. You do have matchups against other
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Speaker 1: top 25 opponents. That includes a team like an LSU
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Speaker 1: or potentially even a Missouri. And Missouri is looking pretty
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Speaker 1: good at least at quarterback with Austin Simmons. Or Alabama,
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Speaker 1: or when you travel down to Willie B, or when
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Speaker 1: you go face off against Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Texas to
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Speaker 1: close out the year. Final thing, Texas A & M
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Speaker 1: was able to win a football game, and they won
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Speaker 1: convincingly in the fourth quarter. Can we take part of
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Speaker 1: what we saw in the second half and bring it
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Speaker 1: closer towards the first.
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Speaker 2: 15 minutes of a game?
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Speaker 1: If they're able to do that, you've got to feel
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Speaker 1: mighty high about the direction of where the Aggies are
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Speaker 1: going into 2026. Matchup next week against Kentucky, then they
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Speaker 1: welcome in a team, then they go down the road
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Speaker 1: face-off against LSU, and then they go face-off against Arkansas
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Speaker 1: and Missouri before they finally take on the Citadel, and
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Speaker 1: then they have to take on Alabama. So let's go
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Speaker 1: ahead and take a breather after the bye week next week,
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Speaker 1: see what you can figure out before you welcome on
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Speaker 1: in the Wildcats. When you welcome on in Kentucky on
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Speaker 1: the 19th, you'll have a week to be able to prepare,
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Speaker 1: look back at the tape, see what went wrong, and
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Speaker 1: how are you able to go ahead and get a
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Speaker 1: better start offensively. Hopefully you can get something going in
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Speaker 1: the run game on a more consistent basis, and you're
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Speaker 1: not going to rely on highlight plays from Mario Craver
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Speaker 1: and Isaiah Horton for you to be able to feel
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Speaker 1: confident about where your offense is.
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Speaker 2: The good news is defense wins championships, and.
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Speaker 1: Once again, you have a hell of a defense coordinator
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Speaker 1: in Mike Elko that's going to be able to guide
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Speaker 1: you all the way to potentially a college football playoff berth.
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Speaker 1: win is a win. Be thankful of that. You have
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Speaker 1: 14 days to figure out how you're going to be
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Speaker 1: better before you take on a team like Kentucky.
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Speaker 2: Until next time, peace.