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Tennessee Volunteers PROVE Something HUGE with Critical Decision! · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: Especially when it comes to... I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the situation with Tennessee and their starting quarterback because they
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  Speaker 1: actually came to a determination, but there's so much to
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  Speaker 1: be excited about when it comes to college football in
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  Speaker 1: general this season. I'm just dying to get to the
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  Speaker 1: games because I'm tired of talking about all the legalese
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  Speaker 1: and all these things. So, Cole, I would love to
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  Speaker 1: get your feelings on the new Tennessee starting quarterback in
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  Speaker 2: Well, while Cole's out, I'll tell you... my quick thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee made the right call here. Absolutely made the right
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  Speaker 2: call with going a phase on Brandon. Not only do
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  Speaker 2: I think he has the higher ceiling, I think this
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  Speaker 2: is a kid who once or twice a week, you,
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  Speaker 2: you may get some freshmen mistakes. You are going to
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  Speaker 2: scratch your head and say, how in the world did
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  Speaker 2: he just do that? I also think that when you've
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  Speaker 2: got a player who has the talent around him that
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  Speaker 2: he has, which we talked about this last week, you
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  Speaker 2: could not have done a better job here. And, and, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I very rarely get things right. We were all kind
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  Speaker 2: of in agreement last week. This needs to be phased
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  Speaker 2: on Brandon's job. This needs to be the direction that
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  Speaker 2: they go because they're kind of playing with a little
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  Speaker 2: house money this year. If they go seven to five, they're,
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  Speaker 2: they're not firing Josh. It's all setting up for the future.
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  Speaker 2: I think they made a great call here with going with, uh, Brandon.
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  Speaker 2: I think he fits what they want to do a
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  Speaker 2: little bit better. And so I'm glad that Josh Hypo
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  Speaker 2: ultimately listened to me and went with Brandon as the starter. Cole,
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you go from there.
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  Speaker 3: Um, Yeah, I was higher on Brandon than both of you.
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  Speaker 3: I may have thought he was going to be the
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  Speaker 3: starter by the end of camp. I truly was bought
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  Speaker 3: into him being the guy long-term because of just things
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  Speaker 3: that he does that gives you an upside. I think
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  Speaker 3: the main takeaway here is that when it's this late
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  Speaker 3: in the process and you're neck and neck, you got
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  Speaker 3: to go with the player that has more upside. And
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  Speaker 3: the more potential is a guy like Faison Brandon. Great arm,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. Phenomenal arm.
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  Speaker 4: Good mechanics. Good solid footwork. Things that you would love
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  Speaker 4: to see in an offense.
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  Speaker 3: I am incredibly excited to see what he can do
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  Speaker 3: this upcoming season. But you throw in the mobility aspect
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  Speaker 3: of things, too. That's the main thing I look for.
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  Speaker 3: You got a 214-pound, 6'4 linebacker versus a guy that's
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  Speaker 3: built like a twig in George McIntyre.
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  Speaker 4: So now that you know that you can run.
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  Speaker 3: Your system pretty convincingly with a quarterback that is really
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  Speaker 3: well-designed to, I think, work for Josh Heupel, this just
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  Speaker 3: gives you a slight edge. And the other thing that
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  Speaker 3: I think people need to be throwing out there is
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  Speaker 3: Josh Heupel with young quarterbacks has been successful in the past.
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  Speaker 4: Multiple times.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at Drew Locke when he was the
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  Speaker 3: OC at Mizzou. When you look at his time with
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  Speaker 3: Dylan Gabriel. When you look at his time with Sam Bradford.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at his time even with veterans like
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  Speaker 3: Hendon Hooker and such. He has been able to work
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  Speaker 3: with first-year starting quarterbacks and be able to get the
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  Speaker 3: best version out of them.
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  Speaker 4: It's slam dunk move. I love this for Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you're going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: get to 9, 10 wins, but I sure as hell
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  Speaker 3: think that you have a lot more upside, and we will,
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  Speaker 3: by the season's end, be saying a lot more promising
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  Speaker 3: things about the future of Tennessee football because of who's
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  Speaker 3: starting under center.
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  Speaker 4: Now back to the clip.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, we were all kind of big on Brandon here,
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  Speaker 2: and I do agree. Cole was our pole position. He
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  Speaker 2: was our leader on this, but when you have the
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  Speaker 2: decision to go with the slightly more experienced or the
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  Speaker 2: higher ceiling, honestly, we'll talk about Bama here in just
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  Speaker 2: a minute. It looks like two of the three teams
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  Speaker 2: did that. Now, I think that Florida might be our
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  Speaker 2: exception to the rule when we're not doing them, but
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  Speaker 2: they may have gone a little bit different of a route,
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  Speaker 2: but just thoughts around the decision here on Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: I like the choice overall. I think Brandon gives you
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  Speaker 1: more and it's nothing against McIntyre. And it also is
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  Speaker 1: a situation I think more so now in the history
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  Speaker 1: of college football, you're going to get to these younger
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  Speaker 1: players faster than ever before. So the concept of, even
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  Speaker 1: if you started McIntyre and then you worked your way
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  Speaker 1: to phase on Brandon, it was probably in the, in
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  Speaker 1: the inevitability, looking at their schedule, you open up against Furman.
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  Speaker 1: So not necessarily going to be too difficult there. You
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  Speaker 1: go on the road against Georgia tech in your second
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  Speaker 1: game of the season that I expect to be a
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  Speaker 1: challenging game. I expect Georgia tech to put up a fight.
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  Speaker 1: I do expect Tennessee to win that game, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: who's a quarterback, but I like the idea of putting
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  Speaker 1: Brandon into that situation before the you host Texas in
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  Speaker 1: your fourth game of the season, and you really open
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  Speaker 1: up SEC play with that game, obviously. So you have
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  Speaker 1: Kennesaw State in between the Georgia Tech and the Texas game.
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  Speaker 1: So you have a little bit of a runway here
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  Speaker 1: for Faison Brandon, but considering that the supporting cast is talented,
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  Speaker 1: but still there's question marks at different positions, there's question
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  Speaker 1: marks on the defense, as we talked about, there's been
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  Speaker 1: a handful of injuries, the Chaz Coleman debacle, Arian Carter
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  Speaker 1: is potentially going to be missing. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: setting up Tennessee for the best-case scenario for their young
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to develop early and develop quickly. What the expectations
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  Speaker 1: are in Knoxville in terms of what he could potentially
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  Speaker 1: lead them to, I'm not entirely sure of that. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, I think this is just where
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  Speaker 1: they were inevitably going to go anyway, so you might
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  Speaker 1: as well just get to it and get the guy
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  Speaker 1: who can potentially get you out of some situations if
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  Speaker 1: things break down. His athletic gifts can give Tennessee more
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  Speaker 1: options on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Cole, where is the ceiling for Tennessee now that this
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  Speaker 2: announcement is official and we kind of know what their
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  Speaker 2: roster looks like?
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  Speaker 4: I think probably 10-2 is the ceiling.
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  Speaker 3: If you get everything going defensively, if you're able to
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and have Faison Brandon look like a veteran
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  Speaker 3: quarterback by the season's end, it's a manageable schedule. There's
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  Speaker 3: not a lot of trap games. You do have to
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  Speaker 3: walk him in Alabama defensively. You do have to go
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  Speaker 3: face-off against Texas. You still have matchups where you have
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  Speaker 3: to face-off against Texas A & M down in College Station.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not ready to go ahead and just say it's
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  Speaker 3: a slam-dunk win for you against Georgia Tech, but I
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  Speaker 3: texted a buddy of mine yesterday, and I asked him,
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  Speaker 3: what's the deal with Alberto Mendoza?
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  Speaker 4: And they said... He's good. He's not his brother. So
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  Speaker 4: you got to feel a lot better about that part.
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  Speaker 3: I think that you're looking at about a nine-win campaign
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  Speaker 3: minimum would be the ceiling. If everything goes according to plan,
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  Speaker 3: dark horse for the college football playoff. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of learning on the fly and growing
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  Speaker 3: from your mistakes.
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  Speaker 4: But the talent is there in Knoxville. The talent is there.