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Oklahoma vs Kentucky: There's Something They Are NOT Telling You About Sooners vs Wildcats! · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: And Cole, if I told you going into the Kentucky-Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: game that one of these two teams would be ranked
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  Speaker 1: in week seven, I assume we would have thought it
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  Speaker 1: was Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: No, the Heidenwald Steins would have absolutely been in terror.
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  Speaker 2: They would have been just dominating everybody. I.
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  Speaker 1: I believed that Will Stein was going to knock somebody off,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought their schedule was tough. There was a
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  Speaker 1: trip to South Carolina there, and I thought that would
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  Speaker 1: be an even matchup.
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  Speaker 3: It certainly was.
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  Speaker 1: In looking at this, both teams with a good week
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  Speaker 1: last week, both teams pulled upsets.
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  Speaker 3: This one's really intriguing.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a Kentucky team that's incredibly hot right now,
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  Speaker 1: number 14 right now in the CFA Top 25 poll,
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  Speaker 1: which you guys can go vote in. at CFATop25. com. It
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  Speaker 1: is open until Thursday at noon Eastern. But Oklahoma not ranked,
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  Speaker 1: coming off of a pretty magical performance in the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Massive matchup this week.
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  Speaker 3: Where is this game? Is this in Lexington?
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  Speaker 2: This is in Norman, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: Norman, Oklahoma. So they get to go home after the
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  Speaker 3: rivalry game. Let's talk about it a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Look, this is a really, really, really fun matchup for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of different reasons. You got the defensive prowess
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  Speaker 2: of Brent Venables coming off of a signature and much-needed
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  Speaker 2: Red River shootout win against Texas. Going home and kind
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  Speaker 2: of hitting reset on the season. Because even though they're
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  Speaker 2: sitting at 3-2, they only have one conference loss. And
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  Speaker 2: we know that teams that go 10-2 make the college
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  Speaker 2: football playoff. We saw what happened last season with Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: They faltered against Ole Miss. They faltered against Texas. And
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  Speaker 2: then they went off and they rattled off some major
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  Speaker 2: victories against Tennessee and Alabama and LSU. And they punched
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  Speaker 2: their ticket to the college football playoff. And now with
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  Speaker 2: what we saw from the defense, what we saw at
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  Speaker 2: times from that offense. especially some throws that we witnessed
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  Speaker 2: from John Mateer, this feels like an opportunity to where
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  Speaker 2: they can get back on track. They can get back
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  Speaker 2: into the rankings. They can start believing that while it
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  Speaker 2: may not be as perfect of a season as we
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  Speaker 2: thought it was going to be, everything that we can
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  Speaker 2: do is still the best ahead of us because we
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  Speaker 2: got that win and we found a way to win
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  Speaker 2: in multiple facets in Red River, which again is a
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  Speaker 2: game that nobody understands. It's like a one, it's a
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  Speaker 2: four quarter season. Like that's, that's college football. So, Is
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  Speaker 2: that the version of Oklahoma that now starts its new
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  Speaker 2: season after the game? Or is the one that we
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  Speaker 2: witnessed when they went to Ann Arbor that had struggles offensively,
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't able to get anything really going, that John
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  Speaker 2: Mateer threw a batting reception that led to short field
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  Speaker 2: position for the Wolverines, the team that we saw in
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  Speaker 2: Athens that watches Chris Cole took an easy fumble because
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  Speaker 2: of who the hell was making that type of throw
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  Speaker 2: and then running it back the other way. Is that
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  Speaker 2: the version that we're going to get still? For Kentucky
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  Speaker 2: in this game, Will Stein's called it an incredible game.
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  Speaker 2: Will Stein has been the mastermind of setting up plays,
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  Speaker 2: setting up drives, getting his team in really strong positions
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  Speaker 2: with a balanced approach, knowing how to play with tempo,
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  Speaker 2: knowing how to be able to find short reads, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be to Willie Rodriguez or to Kenny Darby or
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  Speaker 2: to one of his other receivers. Not afraid to take
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  Speaker 2: the explosives over the top to some of the deep shots.
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  Speaker 2: What breaks first in this game? Is it the veteranship
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  Speaker 2: of a defense coordinator like BV that just falls for
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  Speaker 2: the trap of leaning too much into the box to
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  Speaker 2: try to go after Patterson, try to go after CJ Baxter,
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  Speaker 2: take away the rushing attack, and therefore there goes Kenny
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  Speaker 2: Darby or there goes a Nick Anderson down the field
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  Speaker 2: for a gain of 20? Or is it we're going
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  Speaker 2: to try to overcorrect ourselves and be the smart analytical
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  Speaker 2: team like Will Stein, go for it on certain plays,
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  Speaker 2: and you just get bullied up front by David Stone
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  Speaker 2: in this front seven by Oklahoma? That's That, to me,
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  Speaker 2: is the big selling point in this game. It's elite
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  Speaker 2: offensive minds going up against definite defensive prowess level mentality
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  Speaker 2: of meeting on a four-quarter football field for a game
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  Speaker 2: that both these teams kind of need to win if
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  Speaker 2: they want to make the playoff run. But right now,
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  Speaker 2: just to keep the good times rolling and the storylines
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  Speaker 2: of what we have seen in 2026 moving into week
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  Speaker 2: seven or week eight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to compare this, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: this to be called soft, but just like in the
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  Speaker 1: strategy of a game, Will Stein is so smart. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to oversimplify Oklahoma, so feel free to correct me.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma fans don't, don't jump down my throat with this, but.
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  Speaker 1: Like, is there a strategy that could be effective of
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky in being a little more conservative and saying, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to let you score 17 points off of
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  Speaker 1: our mistakes. Like Texas did last week. Like we're not
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  Speaker 1: just going so vanilla and boring, but like, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to play back a little bit and try to let
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  Speaker 1: my tear go two straight games without a massive mistake.
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  Speaker 3: And if he could do that, then great. You'll beat us.
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  Speaker 1: But we kind of want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: not doing what Arch Manning did in giving the game away.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that he just comes out as insanely vanilla,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a defense that can go score by itself,
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  Speaker 1: can make things happen, and can turn a game completely
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  Speaker 1: upside down. Texas beat Oklahoma on a down-to-down basis. They
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  Speaker 1: gave away 17 points in this game. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky is a warning sign to say, yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to do that. We're not going to put the
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  Speaker 1: ball in harm's way and we're going to let them
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  Speaker 1: lose it before we go out and lose it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Playing with tempo is really important here. Like you
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  Speaker 2: don't need to rush up to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: If not, everybody is prepared. Like this is one of
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  Speaker 2: those games to where being methodically slow and watching as
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  Speaker 2: the clock goes from 40 down to 15 before you
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  Speaker 2: actually decide to line on up and you're in the huddle,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's a smart ploy. Because the more time that
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  Speaker 2: you're taking off of the clock in favor of your
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  Speaker 2: offense being on the field, it's the less time that
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  Speaker 2: John Mateer has to work with. And John Mateer's brain
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  Speaker 2: is already going to be working in hyper-level mode because
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  Speaker 2: of what you saw last week where you have to
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  Speaker 2: make some critical throws and you have to be able
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  Speaker 2: to get some shots into position to susceptible Sandell. But
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  Speaker 2: you can't afford to give short field position. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Texas in itself, what would it be? 17 points came
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  Speaker 2: off of short field position in some capacity, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was a Peyton Bowen pick six, a block punt in
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  Speaker 2: the end zone, or a interception by Cortland Guillory right
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  Speaker 2: at midfield to get closer for Tate Sandell's field goal range.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that Kentucky can avoid in this, and that's
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  Speaker 2: by making sure that you play with some tempo, making
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  Speaker 2: sure that you realize, hey, We can run it on
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  Speaker 2: this drive four or five times. If the rushing attack
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  Speaker 2: is really working for us, continue to hand off to Baxter.
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  Speaker 2: If it's a third and one, maybe go to the
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  Speaker 2: outside with a run to Kenny Minchey, and he just
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  Speaker 2: dives forward to get the first down. And then, once
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  Speaker 2: you tire down that defense, then you can maybe take
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  Speaker 2: a few shots if you want to, to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and find a Kenny Darby, or find a Willie Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 2: or find a Henry Boyer.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, guys, do me a favor.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get right back to chatting with Jake, but go
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  Speaker 1: on over to CFATop25. com. You can vote in our new poll.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a media section for this. Jake has voted
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  Speaker 1: in it for this week. We've got a fan section
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  Speaker 1: for this, so literally anybody can go in and submit
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  Speaker 1: a poll. We also have a media versus fans thing,
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  Speaker 1: so you can see how the media did versus how
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  Speaker 1: the fans did.
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  Speaker 3: Ray, react.
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  Speaker 1: You can go to people's Twitters and give them heck
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  Speaker 1: for everything they're saying about your team or their team
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  Speaker 1: and where they're ranking them.
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  Speaker 3: But go check out CFATop25. com.
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  Speaker 2: But the other thing is, you don't have to rush
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  Speaker 2: through anything. Like, the thing about Will Stein's offense that
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  Speaker 2: I love and appreciate is he plays with tempo. Like,
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  Speaker 2: he understands, hey, the defense is not prepared. I am prepared.
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  Speaker 2: Get to the line of scrimmage as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and catch them while they're slipping. Well, this
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  Speaker 2: is one of those defenses that feels like it's always prepared.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's like the mom that packed too much to
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  Speaker 2: go on a beach trip. Like that's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I have everything that you could ever buy. I brought
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  Speaker 2: the house and I took out a second mortgage to
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  Speaker 2: pay for the plane to get here. Like that's Oklahoma's defense.
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  Speaker 2: They're always prepared. So you don't need to rush the
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  Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. The clock isn't going anywhere if it's
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  Speaker 2: a drop ball. So why not just go ahead, get
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  Speaker 2: set on up, try to see if you can catch
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma waiting to call an audible to where you can
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  Speaker 2: call an audible and And then be able to finally
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  Speaker 2: make a play that is more promising for you. That,
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  Speaker 2: to me, I think is really, really important in this
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  Speaker 2: game if you're in Kentucky. Because the lower scoring it is,
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  Speaker 2: it definitely, I think, leans in favor of Oklahoma. But
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  Speaker 2: just because it's low scoring, like tell me it's 10-3.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fine score. Well, it's still 10 more points
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  Speaker 2: than what Oklahoma has. Or 7 more points than what
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma has. So you still found a way to outscore them.
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  Speaker 2: But if it becomes a game where you can keep this,
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  Speaker 2: where here comes Oklahoma's offense and they got to take
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  Speaker 2: the field, that still is 118th in rushing, that still
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  Speaker 2: struggles on third down completions, that doesn't have a secondary
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver that can really make plays outside of Satanga,
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  Speaker 2: does not have a tight end that can really be
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  Speaker 2: able to get on open the way that Rocky Beers does.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else. You're still not getting Parker Livingston involved. You
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  Speaker 2: kind of need your Kentucky's defense able to play with
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  Speaker 2: house money where, yeah, you may give up an explosive,
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  Speaker 2: but they still have to find a way to score.
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  Speaker 2: You can do the exact same thing, but just control
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  Speaker 2: it and go, let's take eight minutes off the clock.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take seven and a half minutes off the clock.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just get in a field goal range. Easier said
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  Speaker 2: than done after the two missed field goals that we
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  Speaker 2: saw in Lexington last week. But still, let's just get
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  Speaker 2: in a range to where we can get points off
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  Speaker 2: of this. Because I think in some capacity, Oklahoma could
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  Speaker 2: be playing with that mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Can Mateer continue, you know, is this the first game,
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  Speaker 1: first power four game? Like he didn't have a turnover.
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  Speaker 3: On Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: How vital is that? Like, is that, is that the most, we,
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  Speaker 1: we had this debate in the red river. Is that
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  Speaker 1: the most vital part of this game? Is it him
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  Speaker 1: continuing to play clean with the football? Because if they
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  Speaker 1: do those back shoulder, shoulder throws to Satanga on the
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  Speaker 1: last drive, like they've got weapons and they can score,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't think they can score 30 points
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  Speaker 1: in this game by any means, but without assist from
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  Speaker 1: the special teams and defense, but taking care of the
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  Speaker 1: ball again, if, if, if my idea for Kentucky is
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  Speaker 1: let them mess up, not us, then my idea for
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is don't mess up.
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  Speaker 3: Like don't, don't have those critical turnovers thoughts on.
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  Speaker 1: Material coming out of that game and the way that
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  Speaker 1: that offense played, can that be a little more sustainable
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  Speaker 1: against a defense that no shots.
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  Speaker 3: In Kentucky certainly isn't Texas's front.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean like, let's be real. It was the
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  Speaker 2: fewest amount of passing yards he has had in a
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  Speaker 2: game all season, but it's also the one game against
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  Speaker 2: a powerful opponent. He has not a turnover. And so
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  Speaker 2: maybe just, just maybe the best course of action is
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  Speaker 2: less is more. The problem with that is that John
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  Speaker 2: Mateer can't be less for your team. And again, this
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  Speaker 2: is where I defend John Mateer without really defending John Mateer.
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  Speaker 2: John Mateer is not a great college football quarterback. John
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  Speaker 2: Mateer is not a great quarterback in my opinion. He
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  Speaker 2: is a very limited quarterback that has certain things to
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  Speaker 2: his game that are major assets to helping you improve.
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  Speaker 2: He also does not have a great offensive line. He
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  Speaker 2: also does not have a sufficient run game. He has
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  Speaker 2: one wide receiver and one tight end to work with.
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  Speaker 2: and an offense coordinator that does not know how to
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  Speaker 2: game plan properly. So, like, even though he is limited,
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  Speaker 2: the limitations that he has is not being brought up
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  Speaker 2: to the same light that you need it to be
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  Speaker 2: because of all the rest of the supporting cast around
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  Speaker 2: him can't hold up their end of the bargain. It's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: our John Mateer is like a perfect example of Texas
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  Speaker 2: A & M was 11-1 last year and didn't belong
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  Speaker 2: in the college football playoff. Yeah, you knew they weren't
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  Speaker 2: that great. You knew that they only got in because
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  Speaker 2: of the way the schedule panned on out. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not their fault that the other teams didn't hold up
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  Speaker 2: their end of the bargain. Oklahoma's, I mean, Oklahoma's, all
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  Speaker 2: the teams on Texas A & M' s schedule, and John
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  Speaker 2: Mateer is at Texas A & M. He can only
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  Speaker 2: do so much. He knows what his limitations are. But
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  Speaker 2: I think that you saw in that game, good concise throws,
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  Speaker 2: easy dink and dunks, take what's given to you, when
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  Speaker 2: things go awry, tuck and run, pick up something with
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  Speaker 2: your legs. Because again, he rushed for negative six yards,
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  Speaker 2: but he really didn't rush for negative six yards. That's
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  Speaker 2: with sacks. So it's like, he can do enough to
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  Speaker 2: be able to keep drives alive. You just need him
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  Speaker 2: to be able to play with a balanced, more consistent
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  Speaker 2: approach of, let's just go ahead and find the open
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  Speaker 2: target and move the six down the field. Like if
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  Speaker 2: I'm Ben Arbuckle, what my game plan is in this
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  Speaker 2: game is to slowly cut and nick and pick apart
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky's defense and play like a game plan of death
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  Speaker 2: by a thousand paper cuts. I would much rather have
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  Speaker 2: Jay Bateman covered with a thousand little like here and
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  Speaker 2: there because we're just able to do the very minimal
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  Speaker 2: to move the ball and to get in the range
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  Speaker 2: for either a touchdown or for a field goal. Then
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  Speaker 2: try to get that big haymaker explosive for like an
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah Satanga 42. And by the way, those things will happen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if a defensive back for Kentucky ends up slipping, okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's an open receiver. He's going off to the races.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's how you find a way to get the
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  Speaker 2: explosive play going. But it's not coming off of the, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to throw it 45 yards downfield. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be winning with a lot of short to intermediate
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  Speaker 2: stuff and hoping that your receivers can make plays in space, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, last week they did. I mean, there
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  Speaker 2: was great coverage at times by Texas' defense, and Satanga
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  Speaker 2: still found a way to catch the ball. So massive
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  Speaker 2: win in that standpoint. And also just a reminder, and
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  Speaker 2: not to be facetious, Oklahoma fans, but it is funny.
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  Speaker 2: Just scream really loud if you see Isaias Tenga break
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  Speaker 2: out open because apparently he's going to be listening to
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  Speaker 2: a behind-the-line discrimination knowing that he's opened downfield somewhere. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe just have that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Six and a half is the spread on this one
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  Speaker 1: over under 43 and a half points. I think I
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  Speaker 1: like Kentucky to keep this rolling. Like, I know it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be different. I am very intrigued to see
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  Speaker 1: how both teams handle the success of last week.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Both massive upsets. I, you know, differing levels. One team
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  Speaker 3: was at home.
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  Speaker 1: One was in a neutral site, but they were both,
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  Speaker 1: they were both what a touchdown dog roughly. I think
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  Speaker 1: LSU was about five and a half, six and a half,
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  Speaker 1: seven points. And I know that Oklahoma was a seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half, eight point dog. So you're talking to
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  Speaker 1: like a touchdown dog for both of them. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of like Kentucky to keep it rolling, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's just if I pick against Oklahoma, they'll win, so
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  Speaker 1: their fans can take some solace in that. I want
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  Speaker 1: to see Mateer and this offense do a little bit more. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's the Breaking Bad meme of they can't keep getting
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  Speaker 1: away with this, where their defense and special teams basically
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  Speaker 1: score 17 points for them, and that's how they win games.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow they keep doing that, so maybe I just need
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  Speaker 1: to stop being an idiot and trust it. I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky on the money line here. I think there's good
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  Speaker 1: value in that. There's the opportunity that Mateer throws a
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  Speaker 1: couple of them up to Kentucky, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the difference in this game. Honestly, whichever team I think
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  Speaker 1: handles the success of last week better and starts this
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  Speaker 1: game well is probably going to be the one to
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  Speaker 1: win it. I don't know that either team is built
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  Speaker 1: incredibly to come back. I think it's very hard to
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  Speaker 1: come back against this Oklahoma defense, if you're down multiple scores,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's very hard to imagine that Oklahoma's offense
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  Speaker 1: can do enough if they get down multiple scores. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to lean Kentucky here. But again, that's a,
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  Speaker 1: it's a wide, what we've seen in the sec this
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: year is teams that have big wins come out the
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: next week and.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Don't look very good.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Whether that's Florida, whether that's a business, we stay, whether
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: that's LSU, whether that's Ole miss, like it just continues
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: to happen, you know, week after week after week. So it's,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: we got to break that trend somehow. So two teams
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: that got big upsets last week, somebody is going to
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: come out the winter here. I'll ride Kentucky, but not
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of confidence. I know it's, it's a tough,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: tough ass to go into Norman and do it, but
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it. I'm doing it.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Where are you going?
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You also said that it's about these teams that
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: they get these massive wins, you know, massive upset wins.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Then they have the letdown moment. Well, the trend with
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: all those letdown moments, TJ is it's on the road.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: So honestly, that leans more so in favor of Oklahoma. Um,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: For me personally, regardless, take Kentucky with the money line.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: If you're going to go ahead and look at this line, 6.5, 7.5,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: far too much. And I get it. Home field, Memorial Stadium, Norman,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: night game. I understand it. You can't convince me that
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: there is a touchdown favorite with the way that Oklahoma's
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: offense is built right now. Agreed. You simply can't. So
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I would take Kentucky with the points no matter what.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I agree with you on the main point. If you
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: are either Oklahoma or Kentucky, especially if you're Kentucky, I
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: don't think that you can be down 17-0 and find
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: a way to come back in this game. There's just
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: no way. The way that Brent Medables' defense plays, the
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: way that their front seven is able to get after quarterbacks,
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I think is going to be a recipe for disaster
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: for Kenny Minshew on the road. So the same would
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: go for Oklahoma if you allowed your defense to give
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: up those explosives to Kenny Darby, to Willie Rodriguez, it's
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: a big CJ Baxter run for a 42-yard touchdown, and
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: now it's 20-0 going into the final three minutes of
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: the second quarter. Even if your defense does get a
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: pick six or a big special team stop or something
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: like that, your offense still has to put up points.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: And in that matchup last week of Red River, you
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: were so codependent on your defense and special teams getting
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: you set up to score points and careless penalties as
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: well because Texas gave up those two major penalties that
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: set up the Avant touchdown in the game. It's very
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: hard to think that this offense, if trailing by three scores,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: is going to be able to find a way to
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: come back in. I see a scenario where Kenny Minchie
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: throws a really bad pick six to open up the game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: But then the rest of the way, it is just Kentucky.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I'm riding with the Wildcats. I think there's a lot
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: of special things brewing right now in Lexington. Credit where
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: credit's due. Everyone talked about how Will Stein, first year
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: head coach, never been a recruiter at the highest level.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Only he's coming back here because of his loyalty to
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: the state of Kentucky. He's building something really promising out
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: in Lexington. And maybe they won't be a playoff threat.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe two weeks from now we'll be talking about them
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: as back-to-back losses and this is where the other shoe dropped.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: But I think the way that the offense looks, the
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: way the defense has been playing, the way that you
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: have a coach that's not afraid to gamble for it,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: and I think that's a major difference in this game,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: is that you have one coach that's not afraid to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: go ahead and drop all of his cards and say,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: hit me. Like, that I think is going to pull away.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I'll go Kentucky in this one. Very, very, very low-scoring game.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I think we're talking like 20-14. just enough to get
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: the job done in the first quarter, and maybe you
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: just kind of have a back-and-forth defensive bout and take
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of credit for what is Brent Mendelsohn's defense
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: that realizes it's still being wasted by a mediocre offense.
• 18:07
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• 18:15
  Speaker 3: We'll see you next time, bud.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Later.