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Mac & Bone Show - Chris Doering Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Is former Gator stud-wide receiver Chris Doering, who joins us
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  Speaker 1: here on the Mac and Bone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, how you been, man? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. It's good to be back with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, CD? How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: So the first question is, and I guess we've got
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  Speaker 1: to try to figure out all these teams in the
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  Speaker 1: SEC with the ups and downs, but how do you
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  Speaker 1: explain your Florida Gators to me after that performance against Texas?
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  Speaker 1: They are a tough one to get a read on
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head.
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  Speaker 3: The conference, the only thing that's consistent is the inconsistency,
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  Speaker 3: and Florida was one of those first teams involved in
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  Speaker 3: the inconsistencies. Remember back to the big win they had
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  Speaker 3: in Gainesville over Ole Miss and everybody having plans for
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff appearances and going to the SEC championship game,
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  Speaker 3: and then you lay two eggs against Missouri and South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: and everybody kind of wrote them off for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the year, and then they find a way to
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  Speaker 3: go on the road with a backup quarterback without Vernell
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  Speaker 3: Brown III, without Duke Clark, a defense that had been
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  Speaker 3: getting torched by Missouri and South Carolina and put together
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  Speaker 3: a masterful performance. I thought the defense was maybe one
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  Speaker 3: of the most surprising things to be able to see
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  Speaker 3: them have the success they did against Arch Manning in
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  Speaker 3: that offense, but it was a little more aggressive plan.
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  Speaker 3: They decided to pressure– Arch blitzed him 10 of 13
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  Speaker 3: dropbacks alone in the second half. They were able to
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  Speaker 3: get home five times, including a strip sack that they
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  Speaker 3: kind of finished the game off with. And then a
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  Speaker 3: really good performance from Tramell Jones in his first start
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  Speaker 3: as the quarterback there at Florida. Just really impressed with
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  Speaker 3: what they showed in terms of heart. And on the
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  Speaker 3: other side, Texas was kind of the opposite, man. Just
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  Speaker 3: really very little fight from them after going up 17-3.
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  Speaker 3: dominated the rest of the game. Obviously, we're here talking
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  Speaker 3: about what the future for Arch Manning looks like, what
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  Speaker 3: the future for Sark looks like there in Austin.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of that, why do you think it's been so
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  Speaker 4: up and down for Arch Manning based off what we
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  Speaker 4: thought he was going to be? Good moments, but bad moments.
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  Speaker 4: Why have they not found consistency with him at Texas?
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  Speaker 3: I think he's first a victim of everybody else's expectation
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  Speaker 3: level just because he had the name Manning and came
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  Speaker 3: out as a such a highly recruited player. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody expected him to be the same guys as Eli
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  Speaker 3: and Peyton and those folks. But I think at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the day, there's a lot of blame to
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  Speaker 3: go around probably. You know, when you look at the tape,
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line hasn't been very good. They didn't do
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  Speaker 3: a great job of picking up those blitzes, haven't been
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  Speaker 3: able to run the ball very consistently. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: think you look at receivers, you've had drops from those
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  Speaker 3: guys and dating back to the Ohio State game with
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  Speaker 3: Cam Coleman, let one bounce off of him, and Ryan
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  Speaker 3: Wingo dropping a touchdown. The defense has been largely pretty
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  Speaker 3: good for the most part, but again, gave up some
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  Speaker 3: 24 straight points to Florida late in the second quarter
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  Speaker 3: on through the end of the game. So I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of blame to go around, but the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing for me, I just don't think Arch understands
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  Speaker 3: the the concepts of what they're trying to accomplish. Multiple
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  Speaker 3: times you've got plays that are wide open to be
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  Speaker 3: made that he either chooses not to make the throws,
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  Speaker 3: holds it too long and gets sacked, or throws it errantly.
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  Speaker 3: So I do think the development has not been there
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  Speaker 3: from what we expected. But, again, I think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys on that team that were four- and
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  Speaker 3: five-star recruits that haven't developed the way that you expected
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  Speaker 3: them to.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I want to– we're talking Chris Doering, SEC
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  Speaker 1: Network here on the Mac and Bone Show. I want
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  Speaker 1: to jump ahead now to this week because this South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina-Tennessee game is so fascinating now after what Tennessee just
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  Speaker 1: did to Bama.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what a performance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of feels like, if I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: a read on this conference, it kind of feels like
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina might win this game.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about that matchup?
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  Speaker 3: Well, have we not seen it five or six times already?
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  Speaker 3: The big game hangover the following week. I mean, we
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  Speaker 3: saw it last week from Georgia and Alabama. Both of
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  Speaker 3: them looked completely juiced and not really dialed in. I
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  Speaker 3: mentioned earlier the Ole Miss-Florida game. That was probably the
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  Speaker 3: first one where we had one of those head-scratching lines where,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a highly– Rated team is going on the road,
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  Speaker 3: and they're an underdog to an unranked team. So this
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  Speaker 3: is one of those that plays along with the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the season so far. With that being said, I
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  Speaker 3: also believe that South Carolina, at least for one game,
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  Speaker 3: figured things out. They stopped shooting themselves in the foot.
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  Speaker 3: They were able to finish drives. They didn't turn the
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  Speaker 3: football over. Lenora Sellers spread the ball around to a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of different receivers. I thought the defense has been–
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  Speaker 3: one of the more consistent parts of the team this year.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, Tennessee's got to
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  Speaker 3: show that they can come up and back up a
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  Speaker 3: great performance with another great performance in a very hostile environment.
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  Speaker 3: The defensive line was tremendous in that game against Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: completely neutralized any of the explosiveness that we had seen
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  Speaker 3: from the tide. So I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: interesting to see if we can find a team that
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  Speaker 3: can show that they're consistent from one week to the next.
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  Speaker 3: Vegas right now looks at least like they don't believe
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  Speaker 3: that's the case for the Vols.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, I thought Georgia might be above the chaos, but
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  Speaker 4: obviously I was wrong for that. What did Auburn do
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  Speaker 4: to mess up Georgia, and does that change your view
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  Speaker 4: on what Georgia could be the rest of the way,
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  Speaker 4: or was that just another example of that's just the
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  Speaker 4: nature of the SEC?
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  Speaker 3: I thought coming off of that game between Georgia and
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  Speaker 3: Alabama that even though Alabama lost, we had two consistent teams,
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  Speaker 3: two complete teams in the conference in Georgia and Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: To see both of them come back the very next
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  Speaker 3: week and lose was pretty surprising to me. The biggest
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  Speaker 3: head-scratcher was Georgia not playing typically like we see Georgia play.
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  Speaker 3: They turned the football over three times. They were minus
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  Speaker 3: three in the turnover margin. Inopportune times to have penalties
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  Speaker 3: that cost them The lack of ball security from Gunnar
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  Speaker 3: Stockton turning it over three times himself with two picks
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  Speaker 3: and a fumble there that cost him at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Very uncharacteristic performance from Georgia, but also an uncharacteristic performance
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  Speaker 3: from Auburn. We hadn't seen them play that way. Their
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  Speaker 3: offensive line had been pretty bad for the majority of
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  Speaker 3: the season. They were able to go out and run
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  Speaker 3: for 192 yards with over 100 of those coming from
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  Speaker 3: Byron Brown. I thought they used him really well, and
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  Speaker 3: that mobile quarterback, if there's ever anything that's given Georgia
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  Speaker 3: a hard time defensively, it is the mobile quarterback involved
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  Speaker 3: in the quarterback run game. I think they had 13
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  Speaker 3: plays that were designed quarterback runs for him for about
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  Speaker 3: 92 yards and rushing production for him. So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: thought that's what they did. They did a really nice
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  Speaker 3: job of going in and playing smart football. I was
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  Speaker 3: shocked when they were down 14-0 that they actually came back.
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked. when they were up by 10 in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter and they let that lead evaporate and
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  Speaker 3: they were able to actually put a play together to
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  Speaker 3: get down in field goal range. So, yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Alex Golish's team can carry that over, but
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  Speaker 3: it looked very much what I expected them to look
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  Speaker 3: like in the preseason that had been kind of elusive
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  Speaker 3: to this point.
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  Speaker 2: Doring, last quick thing I need to ask you.
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  Speaker 1: The Tennessee Vols fans set an all-time college football decibel
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  Speaker 1: level record of 130.3 in Neyland Stadium at one point
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  Speaker 1: in that game against Alabama. When you went to Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: was that the loudest, or was it maybe LSU?
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  Speaker 2: What was the place you played at in the SEC
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  Speaker 2: that was ridiculous?
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  Speaker 3: LSU stunk when I was in the league. So when
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  Speaker 3: we played them, I think we put 52 on them
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  Speaker 3: my sophomore year and then went there at like 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: It was like a morgue. And I think we won
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  Speaker 3: 24-10 or something. But yeah, Neyland's always one of the
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  Speaker 3: loudest places to play. It's a great environment. Really enjoyed
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  Speaker 3: playing them, especially as an arch rival coming into Knoxville.
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  Speaker 3: The other one, my favorite road stadium, though, is still Jordan-Hare.
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  Speaker 3: Going to play Auburn in that kind of environment, they're
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  Speaker 3: rocking your bus when you're driving into the stadium. They're
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  Speaker 3: incredibly loud from start to finish, very knowledgeable fans that
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  Speaker 3: show up whether their team's good or not. We lost
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  Speaker 3: to them my sophomore year and then came back and
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  Speaker 3: beat them there my senior year. Very difficult place to
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  Speaker 3: play just from a noise and communication standpoint.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure none of them are really libraries too often
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  Speaker 1: in that conference, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, man, always love chatting with you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're busy this morning. Thanks for making some
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  Speaker 1: time for us. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it again, man. Thanks for having me, guys.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Be good.
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  Speaker 2: That is Chris Doering.