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Oklahoma Sooners Gets GOOD UPDATES before HUGE Game vs Michigan Football | Wolverines · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the other side of this,
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  Speaker 1: like almost rivalry matchup. That's just happening with the wrong rivals,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan and Oklahoma presented by prize picks for a few minutes. Um, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: I'll start with, I'll start with you again on this one,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously we had the controversy and the drama and
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  Speaker 1: everything that we've talked about win or loss for Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: the issues that they had, um, on Saturday night in
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  Speaker 1: the big house against central Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Do you expect Michigan?
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this with FSU and New Mexico state
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  Speaker 1: the other day when I said, I expect Florida state
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  Speaker 1: to play better, but I think the opponent's better too.
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  Speaker 1: And so how much will that, do you think Michigan
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  Speaker 1: plays better in this game because the opponent's better, but well,
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  Speaker 1: how much will that matter with playing a team that
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  Speaker 1: is significantly better than central Michigan?
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  Speaker 3: I expect a better performance from Michigan in this game.
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect them to win. I think given the
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  Speaker 3: outcome and the controversy surrounding the Western Michigan game, I
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  Speaker 3: won't even call it a win. Michigan has a lot
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  Speaker 3: to clean up, and you could see throughout that Western
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  Speaker 3: Michigan game that Kyle Whittingham was furious. That is not
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  Speaker 3: a Kyle Whittingham team. Most of his teams are very,
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  Speaker 3: very disciplined, not nearly as many penalties, far more buttoned up.
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  Speaker 3: You were encouraged by the fact that the defense was
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  Speaker 3: so good that they kept you in the game like that,
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  Speaker 3: but you looked at the offense and you're like, what
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  Speaker 3: in the world is going on? Everybody is going after
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Underwood. I know I went after Bryce Underwood in
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  Speaker 3: our post-game show last week. But, like, there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: that needs to be corrected. What do you do offensively
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  Speaker 3: against Oklahoma's defense that is actually going to put a
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  Speaker 3: dent in the Sooners? Like, you're going up against the
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  Speaker 3: best defensive coordinator in, what, the last 20, 30 years.
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  Speaker 2: In this sport?
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  Speaker 3: And Brent Venables knows your quarterback struggles with processing, has
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  Speaker 3: bad mechanics, and he wants to put you into passing situations,
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  Speaker 3: I think Oklahoma is going to take away the running
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  Speaker 3: game because Western Michigan did a pretty good job limiting
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  Speaker 3: the running game for Michigan, which was genuinely surprising. I
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  Speaker 3: think you'll see a better effort from Michigan in this game.
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  Speaker 3: But if I'm Oklahoma, I'm putting a bunch of dudes
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  Speaker 3: in the box, and I'm daring Bryce Underwood to beat
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  Speaker 3: you with his arm, and I am rushing the hell
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  Speaker 3: out of him to force him to make bad throws.
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  Speaker 3: off platform and make decisions quickly because he has been inaccurate.
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  Speaker 3: His decision-making has been rough. He doesn't seem to process
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  Speaker 3: what's going on downfield very well. And I just, I
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  Speaker 3: don't love this as a matchup overall. The flip side
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  Speaker 3: for me is how much does John mature? How much
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  Speaker 3: different does John mature look in this game? Because you tap,
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  Speaker 3: like how much do we really learn about what Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: state Oklahoma can be offensively? Excuse me. Have they figured
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  Speaker 3: out a running game? Has Oklahoma figured out a way
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  Speaker 3: to run the football against what will be a good
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  Speaker 3: defense in Michigan on the road in an environment where
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  Speaker 3: they need to win that sort of situation? So I
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  Speaker 3: think this is going to feel similar to the way
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  Speaker 3: the Notre Dame Wisconsin game felt this past weekend. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to be tight, I think, in the first half
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  Speaker 3: and a little bit into the third quarter. And then
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  Speaker 3: I think you're steadily going to see Oklahoma pull away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be that same final
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  Speaker 3: score that you saw for Notre Dame in Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was, what, 40-something?
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  Speaker 3: 41-13. Yeah, I don't think it's going to balloon to
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  Speaker 3: be that high, but it's going to feel that way.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Oklahoma leaves no doubt in the second half.
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  Speaker 4: I think that what you look at in this game
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  Speaker 4: is how much can you take out of Bryce Underwood's
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  Speaker 4: hands to make it an easier path to keep this
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  Speaker 4: as low-scoring as possible. Because when I look at Bryce
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  Speaker 4: Underwood's film, and I went back and I watched that
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  Speaker 4: game on my own dime, Because if I, for some reason,
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  Speaker 4: am a sicko and just want to watch pure pain.
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  Speaker 4: There's not a lot to take away.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I would even say when you look back
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  Speaker 4: at that first drive, he got bailed out of trouble
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  Speaker 4: with the J.J. Buchanan play. Like, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of good from that tape. And the last thing that
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  Speaker 4: you can say is, oh, we're going to get right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I believe that Bryce Underwood, and honestly, Michigan can get right.
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  Speaker 4: You don't get right against Brent Venables' defense.
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  Speaker 2: You just don't.
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  Speaker 4: It's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: Cole, I'm sorry to interrupt you. is there a worse matchup?
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  Speaker 1: If you struggle offensively, is there a worse matchup possible
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  Speaker 1: in college football than Brent Venables coming to your house?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Going on the road maybe could make it worse, but like,
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  Speaker 1: just matchup for matchup.
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  Speaker 4: Going to Norman and playing in his house.
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  Speaker 1: Just coach alone. There's not a worse matchup right now
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  Speaker 1: for Michigan. And that's what scares me so much for Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I care either way who wins, but like,
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  Speaker 1: If I'm Michigan, I'm like, it had to be that
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  Speaker 1: guy this week. It couldn't be like Norvell or somebody
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like Tony White, what's he doing this week?
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  Speaker 4: Why can't we play UTEP this week before we take
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  Speaker 4: on Graham Venables?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Why do we have to take him after?
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  Speaker 2: No, again.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of problems with this offense outside of
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  Speaker 4: Bryce Underwood. The inability to run the football I thought
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  Speaker 4: was massive in that game against Western Michigan. Savion Heider
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  Speaker 4: and Jordan Marshall finished with less yards than Bryce Underwood did.
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  Speaker 4: And they almost had the same combined yards that Bryce
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  Speaker 4: Underwood did. So it's like you weren't able to run
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  Speaker 4: the football. Wide receivers weren't getting on open. The offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: not holding a block, not creating running lanes was awful.
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  Speaker 4: And this is a defensive line that will get after you.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is that I still believe that one game
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't define your entire season, so you are going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to get better play from this offense personnel
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  Speaker 4: of Michigan. The question is, can you do it in
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  Speaker 4: the way of where Bryce Underwood runs it a lot,
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  Speaker 4: or that you trust that Jordan Marshall and Savion Heider
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  Speaker 4: can hit the outside corners, and that they're going up
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  Speaker 4: to the second level of defense, and they're gaining six
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  Speaker 4: and seven, and they're running clocked down, and they're able
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  Speaker 4: to keep this as low-scoring affair as possible. From the
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  Speaker 4: Oklahoma side of things... Are you able to establish your
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  Speaker 4: dominance against this defensive line in the rushing attack to
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  Speaker 4: finally start getting people to corral the box. That way
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  Speaker 4: you can take those deep shots down the field to
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  Speaker 4: Terrell Harris, to Isaiah Satanga, to Araki Beers. That's what
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  Speaker 4: I wonder in this game. Or is it going to be,
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  Speaker 4: we have to throw the football because that defensive line
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  Speaker 4: isn't going to allow us to run it efficiently. So
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  Speaker 4: in that case, is that a worrisome? Just because you
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  Speaker 4: still were trying to figure out what John Mateer is
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  Speaker 4: going to be. I thought John Mateer played fine against UTEP.
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  Speaker 4: I was more impressed with the receivers being able to
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  Speaker 4: break on open and make plays in space. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if you're going to get that against Michigan's defense.
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  Speaker 4: You will get some completions and you certainly will move
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  Speaker 4: the sticks, but I'm not sold that you're going to
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  Speaker 4: see as many explosive, oh my God, look at that
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  Speaker 4: running lane that Rocky Beers has for a gain of 32.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that wide open range for Isaiah Satang going
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  Speaker 4: to push it on in for 56 yards into the house.
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  Speaker 4: I think that special teams will play a major role
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  Speaker 4: in this game. Literally, Tate Sandell and his leg is
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  Speaker 4: going to be crucial to make sure that you continue
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  Speaker 4: to check away. Satanga with the punt return, setting up
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  Speaker 4: great field position, is going to be crucial in this game.
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  Speaker 4: I think that Michigan is going to get right because
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  Speaker 4: I just have too much respect for Kyle Whittingham. Kyle
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  Speaker 4: Whittingham is a guy who I appreciate came on out
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  Speaker 4: and said, he's not my quarterback full-time if I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Want him to be.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what they're paying him. I didn't sign
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  Speaker 4: up for this. I signed up to win football games
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  Speaker 4: and change this culture and bring it back to a level.
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  Speaker 4: If he's not doing his job in my eyes, sorry Portnoy,
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  Speaker 4: pay whatever you got to get out of this contract
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  Speaker 4: to get me a quarterback, but I'm not dealing with
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  Speaker 4: this anymore. The problem is that you can get right,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get right against a Brent Venables team. And
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  Speaker 4: that's the issue in this game, is that even if
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  Speaker 4: you say this looks different for Michigan, are you really
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  Speaker 4: going to look that different against a Venables defense that
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  Speaker 4: has talent at every level that's all-American play? I agree
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  Speaker 4: with Tom on one thing. This is going to be
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  Speaker 4: a very low-scoring first half. I may even be so
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  Speaker 4: fair to say, hey, it's 10-6.
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  Speaker 2: It's Louisville, it's Louisville.
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 4: It's 10-6. It's can you do it for four quarters,
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  Speaker 4: and that's where you lose me.
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  Speaker 1: I took the over in that game, and at 3-0
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  Speaker 1: after the first quarter, I was just like, boy, what
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  Speaker 1: an idiot you are. And they covered with ease. So
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you, Louisville. Appreciate you, Ole Miss, for what you
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  Speaker 1: did for me on Sunday night. Before Monday, unfortunately, happened. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the path to an upset, Cause it's still
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  Speaker 1: less than a touchdown spread, right? Like we're, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not saying it's going to be a blowout. At least
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  Speaker 1: Vegas isn't the path to an upset is just to
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  Speaker 1: hope that Oklahoma's offense hasn't taken the leap that they
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  Speaker 1: should have taken over the last year.
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  Speaker 2: And Michigan's defense is still really good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're, you're hoping that John Mateer is not improved. I
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  Speaker 3: think your hope is John Mateer turns the ball over
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  Speaker 3: a bunch on the road. But John Mateer also last
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  Speaker 3: year in this game, granted at home, ran the hell out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the football.
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  Speaker 3: So they found ways against Michigan last year to get
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  Speaker 3: the job done. Will they be able to do the same?
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  Speaker 3: I think with a renewed vigor in terms of trying
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  Speaker 3: to find a running game, it's going to be better.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see how Mateer looks against a power
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  Speaker 3: two defense. I think that's going to be a better
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  Speaker 3: test than what we saw from him at UTEP. So
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be important to me. When it comes
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  Speaker 3: down to Bryce Underwood, it's not a make or break game.
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  Speaker 3: And I know there's a lot of people that are like,
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  Speaker 3: when are we going to see Tommy Carr, CJ Carr's
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  Speaker 3: little brother, backup quarterback at Michigan. So there's that connective tissue,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think it's in this game. I love
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  Speaker 3: the fact that Kyle Whittingham said publicly, he's a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: right now. And that's not, despite the $ 12 million that
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  Speaker 3: the Ellison's and Portnoy have dished out for Bryce Underwood
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  Speaker 3: for him to say that publicly and as comfortably as
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  Speaker 3: he said, it tells me that when he took the job,
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  Speaker 3: they probably were like, hey, this is your discretion to
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  Speaker 3: figure out who's playing, who's not playing, all that sort
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. So it's not necessarily as close to what
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  Speaker 3: we experience in the NFL when a guy gets drafted
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  Speaker 3: number one overall and he stays the starter even though
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  Speaker 3: he's struggling. It's like there's a lot of money attached
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  Speaker 3: to his name. Bryce Underwood... I will be the first
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  Speaker 3: person to admit he has gotten a raw deal at Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: He walked in, he was in a horrible situation last
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  Speaker 3: year with no quarterback coach. Now he's trying to figure
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  Speaker 3: everything out in year two, and the expectations are through
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  Speaker 3: the roof. And he's put a lot of that on himself,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not exactly that he's a victim in all this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think Underwood loses his job in this game.
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  Speaker 3: If he does get pulled, I'd be really surprised. He'd
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  Speaker 3: have to be playing absolutely perfect. horribly to the point
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  Speaker 3: where it's you're a detriment to the offense by being
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  Speaker 3: on the field and you need to fix some things
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  Speaker 3: so i don't think this make or breaks underwood's career
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  Speaker 3: at michigan or in college football i think it's a
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  Speaker 3: little too early for people to be saying he's a
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  Speaker 3: bust i've heard that from a lot of different national
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  Speaker 3: media pundits who want to be first to say it
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  Speaker 3: i get it this is a what 19 year old
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  Speaker 3: kid 19 year old kid How many times in the
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  Speaker 3: history of college football before the NIL and transfer portal
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  Speaker 3: era have we seen a guy start from freshman year
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  Speaker 3: all the way through his senior year? And boy, did
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  Speaker 3: he suck freshman year, but senior year he got real good.
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  Speaker 3: And we just don't allow the time for that stuff anymore.
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  Speaker 3: There's still time for Underwood to figure these things out.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to humble himself, and that's the thing. If
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  Speaker 3: he got benched, I don't think he humbles himself at all.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of components to this for Whittingham and
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  Speaker 3: Michigan to manage from a quarterback standpoint. Biggest thing against Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 3: you need a lot of stuff to break your way.
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  Speaker 3: You have to win the turnover battle. Time of possession,
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  Speaker 3: you have to win.
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  Speaker 4: You have to win the time of possession.
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  Speaker 3: God, you've got to run the hell out of the football.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's a situation where Bryce Underwood only throws
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  Speaker 3: the ball ten times and he's your number two tailback
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  Speaker 3: or even your number one running back, that might be
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  Speaker 3: the path to victory, but it's a slim chance.
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  Speaker 4: I will explain pretty efficiently why I think Oklahoma wins
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  Speaker 4: this football game. Because if I would trust both these quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: if you said they got to run it 17 times,
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  Speaker 4: screw it. I believe that both can do it 17 times.
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  Speaker 4: There is not a single thing on that tape that
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  Speaker 4: I saw last week that says that Bryce Underwood can
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  Speaker 4: make the right throws and the right reads at the
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  Speaker 4: right time. I believe that I can at least get
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of that in John Mateer. And honestly,
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  Speaker 4: that might be enough in this game. One or two
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  Speaker 4: really good throws downfield. Remember the throw that you saw
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  Speaker 4: Isaiah Satanga make in the Auburn game? While everyone said
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  Speaker 4: it was an illegal play, but it was right on
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  Speaker 4: the money. Easy touchdown play. That might be just enough
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  Speaker 4: to guarantee that Oklahoma wins this football game. Because I
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  Speaker 4: can't trust that Bryce Underwood will make that throw. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, I agree with Tom. If you throw
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  Speaker 4: it 13 times in this game, that's a win in itself.
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  Speaker 4: If you throw it anymore, you're right in your own
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  Speaker 4: death sentence. You need to run it. You need to
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  Speaker 4: run it a lot. And more specifically, you need to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that Bryce Underwood is not putting the ball
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  Speaker 4: in harm's way because he sure as hell did enough
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  Speaker 4: of that last week.