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Tennessee Source ADMITTED Something About Vols Before MASSIVE Texas Game! · SEC Football Addiction

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to SEC Football Addiction. We've got
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  Speaker 1: Sports Talk Jay on with us. Tennessee and Texas this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Texas. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Arch. I want to talk about Brandon. But to
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  Speaker 1: put a bow on out-of-conference play, Tennessee looked pretty good
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  Speaker 1: through three games. Now, didn't play great competition by any means,
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  Speaker 1: but got the road win. against Georgia Tech, dominated at
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  Speaker 1: home the way they needed to. Overall, I know it's
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  Speaker 1: hard to judge when it's not the SEC, but would
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  Speaker 1: you give this team an A through three games?
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  Speaker 2: Probably an A-minus or something like that. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: beating Georgia Tech, that was a game I was concerned about.
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  Speaker 2: It turns out they're not as good as what they
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  Speaker 2: have been the last three years. But, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: still going on the road. I'm real pleased with that.
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  Speaker 2: With a true freshman, that's obviously– You know, that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be the running theme of the entire season is
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  Speaker 2: how quickly can he become not a freshman. And at
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  Speaker 2: some point, he becomes a sophomore this season. That's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of how that works. So, no, I'd give him
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  Speaker 2: a good solid grade of an A-, somewhere in that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been impressed overall.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing the things that you're supposed to do against
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  Speaker 1: teams you're better than. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that that's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, well, you beat bad teams the way
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  Speaker 1: you were supposed to beat them, you're going to all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden go to the playoff.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: think they're the, the nation is kind of waking up
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that Tennessee is looking a lot better.
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  Speaker 1: Now they get the big test this weekend against the
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  Speaker 1: number one team in the country. I don't know that any,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking on your show, like, yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: little better. You don't have to go on the road,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know that any tests get much tougher
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  Speaker 1: than playing the best team out there. And so with
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  Speaker 1: Texas coming in this weekend, we talked about arch a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and you asked me kind of my opinion on,
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  Speaker 1: on where he's at. He has struggled with, on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and he's not looked super sharp this year in his
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  Speaker 1: first few games, certainly had his moments against Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: which you can't take away from them. But if Tennessee's crowd,
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  Speaker 1: if their defense, if Jim Knowles, if the secondary can
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  Speaker 1: rattle him just a little bit, it certainly would help
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee's odds in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're going to try to pressure him
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit.
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  Speaker 3: I know I would.
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  Speaker 2: I would be putting as much pressure on him as possible,
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  Speaker 2: and I would be trying to use the crowd to
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  Speaker 2: sort of combine with that I would not lay back
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  Speaker 2: and just let him have time I think if you
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  Speaker 2: do that he's going to get comfortable and probably have
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  Speaker 2: a really good day you want to force him to
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  Speaker 2: run even if he hurts you with his legs I'd
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  Speaker 2: rather he do that than connect up with Cam Coleman
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  Speaker 2: and all these five-star wide receivers that he's got that
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna you don't want to be trying to stay
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  Speaker 2: with them for four seconds you can stay with them
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  Speaker 2: for two or three after that you need to put
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  Speaker 2: pressure on.
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  Speaker 1: Him Tennessee, on the other side of the ball, Tennessee's
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, I look at that as a big, big
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  Speaker 1: key for this. If Tennessee can keep Brandon clean, if
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  Speaker 1: they can give him time to operate against a good
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  Speaker 1: Texas front, and if they can run the ball, if
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  Speaker 1: that offensive line plays to its ability, which I think it's,
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  Speaker 1: if not one of the best offensive lines in the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: if they can be good, and I know offensive line
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  Speaker 1: play is not sexy.
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  Speaker 3: We'd rather talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon, you know, his deep ball. We'd rather talk about
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  Speaker 1: Bishop running. But to me, the key is the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: If they can slow up that Texas pass rush, that's
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  Speaker 1: where Tennessee is going to find a lot of success
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  Speaker 1: offensively on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the offensive line, I think, has played pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of folks here in K-Town are not
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  Speaker 2: thrilled with their play. Now, we've averaged like 280 yards
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  Speaker 2: on the ground all three games. But again, that's against
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  Speaker 2: inferior competition. What can we do against Texas? I think
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  Speaker 2: if we get in the 150, 160-yard range rushing, We'll
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to win this ballgame. If we're at 100,
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  Speaker 2: I think we've probably lost pretty badly. That's not going
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  Speaker 2: to work. We've got to have at least 150, 160,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully if we get to 200, I think we
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  Speaker 2: win the ballgame.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get right back to chatting with Sports Talk Jay,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know if I can do a video,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to talk with you guys after the game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm picking Tennessee in this one, so you ride with
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  Speaker 3: All right, back to Sports Talk, Jay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's hard to predict this, but do you.
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  Speaker 1: have any kind of expectations for the day that brandon
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  Speaker 1: has just like because it is facing the best team
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  Speaker 1: he'll play so far but he's also playing at home
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  Speaker 1: he's got good weapons good offensive line good coach for
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  Speaker 1: this like thoughts around what.
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  Speaker 4: He'll he might look like on saturday it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be really interesting you're going to find out a lot
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  Speaker 4: about him in this game because he's going to go
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  Speaker 4: up against the most the best roster he'll see all
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  Speaker 4: year will be saturday because that's about a 50 million
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  Speaker 4: dollar uh return on investment they've got over there and
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be coming at him hard and you're
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  Speaker 4: going to see the competitive nature of this young man
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  Speaker 4: because usually these guys that have played at a really
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  Speaker 4: high level and are very accustomed to success the guys
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  Speaker 4: only lost.
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  Speaker 2: One game in the last four years and three games
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  Speaker 2: so he's used to winning you're probably going to see
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  Speaker 2: him get his dander up and be like hey wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute You think you're going to push me around?
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  Speaker 2: And you may see him really trying and getting into
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  Speaker 2: that mindset. I think it's going to be a very
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  Speaker 2: interesting game to watch how he reacts to tremendous pressure
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  Speaker 2: coming off the edge. Will he take off and run more?
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  Speaker 2: This is going to be a heck of a game
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  Speaker 2: to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Defensively, again, Tennessee's not played great, great offenses by any means.
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  Speaker 1: But defensively, the things that you can tell from the
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  Speaker 1: early part of the season against kind of inferior competition,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how much that translates against an offense that
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  Speaker 1: has a ton of talent, whether it's Smothers, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Relique Brown, whether it's just any of their weapons. You
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  Speaker 1: talked about Coleman, Wingo's there, and then Arch, right? Like
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  Speaker 1: the centerpiece of all of it. I do wonder, this
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  Speaker 1: is Tennessee's first real test on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the ball too, what that defense can do.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you can hold Texas under.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the magic number for this game is,
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  Speaker 1: but it feels like if you could hold Texas in
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  Speaker 1: the mid twenties, maybe 28, Tennessee would have a really
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  Speaker 1: good chance to win this. If they get up to
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  Speaker 1: the 30, 31, 35 range, that's where I think it
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  Speaker 1: gets pretty tough to say, all right, are we going
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  Speaker 1: to answer them score for score in the shootout? But
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  Speaker 1: if Texas can be held down, which they only had
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  Speaker 1: 30 against UTSA, if Texas can be held down in
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  Speaker 1: this game, that defense is going to have to show up.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a big question for me too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The defense has played well. The first three games, um,
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's against the competition that we've gone up against.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to find out a lot about Coach Owings
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  Speaker 2: in this game, the guy they brought in to strengthen
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  Speaker 2: this team, to get them to where they don't get
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  Speaker 2: bullied anymore. If this was last year's defense, I would
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  Speaker 2: have not a lot of hope that we could keep
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  Speaker 2: them under 35. I think they'd probably just bully us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to bully us, though, come Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see a much tougher team
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  Speaker 2: physically and mentally this Now, there's no guarantee you win
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  Speaker 2: the game over that, but boy, if we don't win,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want us to get bullied. That concerns me,
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  Speaker 2: and if we don't in this game, we won't the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the year, I don't believe, because this, again,
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  Speaker 2: is going to be the best roster we see. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be some rosters that are very similar when
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  Speaker 2: we play Alabama, LSU, and even Texas A & M
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  Speaker 2: that I'm a little less concerned about right now, even
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  Speaker 2: though it's on the road after seeing Kentucky's game, but
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  Speaker 2: this will be a huge test to see how Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: handles this level of physicality.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about pressure from the defensive line and
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  Speaker 1: trying to get after Arch, how confident are you that
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  Speaker 1: they can get home with four?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you think they'll have to bring some design blitzes?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that defensive line, again, we only know what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen so far, but thoughts around the ways that
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  Speaker 1: they'll try and bring pressure?
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll be able to put some pressure on
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  Speaker 2: him because if UTSA had him worried, And I know
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  Speaker 2: our defensive line's certainly as strong as theirs or more strong.
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  Speaker 2: So we might be able to get some pressure on
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  Speaker 2: him and force him to run and cause him to
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  Speaker 2: maybe throw an interception or two. That would be really
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  Speaker 2: helpful if you could get a turnover in Neyland. That
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  Speaker 2: would just flip the crowd in a heartbeat. But I
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  Speaker 2: really feel like pressure's going to be the key. You
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  Speaker 2: cannot let him sit back there. That would just be
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  Speaker 2: a travesty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. When you.
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  Speaker 1: Watched that LSU Ole Miss game. Were you surprised at
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  Speaker 1: how that thing finished up? Did you think LSU was
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  Speaker 1: going to go in and win? Or were you a
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  Speaker 1: Trinidad believer before it even started?
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  Speaker 2: I had them winning 34-31 Ole Miss. And I thought
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  Speaker 2: it would be a field goal at the end with
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  Speaker 2: Trinidad driving down the field and getting either into a
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  Speaker 2: field goal or a touchdown or something along those lines
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  Speaker 2: because I knew he was the better quarterback. I expected
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  Speaker 2: Sam Levitt to run around like a gazelle, which is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what he did, even though he was really doubtful,
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  Speaker 2: very doubtful a couple of days before, but then he
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  Speaker 2: was out there running a four, four 40 and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 2: doing wind sprints. So I think he was okay. Trinidad. I,
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  Speaker 2: that was what Lane Kiffin was worried about the most
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  Speaker 2: was Trinidad Chandler. He was scared to death. Oh, cause
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  Speaker 2: he knows him. He knows this is a winner and
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  Speaker 2: a guy that will get you at the end. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, it came true. You know, he was the
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  Speaker 2: whole day. So that was my biggest concern. And, So
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  Speaker 2: I was not surprised. old miss won great win for
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  Speaker 2: them i was rooting for them not because i don't
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  Speaker 2: like lsu because i don't like lane.
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  Speaker 3: I think we may be.
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  Speaker 1: We maybe drank a little too much Kool-Aid after that
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  Speaker 1: Clemson win because Clemson is just a disaster. And I
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  Speaker 1: still think LSU is good. I still think they can
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  Speaker 1: go to the playoff. Not saying they will, but I
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  Speaker 1: still think they can. But maybe LSU wasn't quite as
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  Speaker 1: good as they showed in week one. And I think
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that showed up against Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: I never expected Clemson to be this bad. They're atrocious
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  Speaker 1: right now. They were lucky to get out with a
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  Speaker 1: win this weekend against UNC, who is also bad. But
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked at the, you know, not shocked at
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  Speaker 1: the result Saturday, but just I'm shocked at how bad
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  Speaker 1: Clemson is. And it makes that win by LSU in
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  Speaker 1: week one certainly a little bit less impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Clemson went into a buzzsaw and LSU, that crowd
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  Speaker 2: was really excited and they just got pushed around. Really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where are the dogs? that Clemson always has
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  Speaker 2: on the defensive line. They've always got some guys that
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  Speaker 2: can really disrupt. I'm not seeing that out of that team. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: LSU is a really good team. They're just not as
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  Speaker 2: good as they were that first week because we got
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  Speaker 2: thrown off a little bit with Clemson's poor play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Were you surprised that they only won by a handful,
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  Speaker 1: but Florida dominated Auburn this week?
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  Speaker 3: I know it hurts to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Almost as bad as it hurts to talk about FSU.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost worse when your rival's good at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Florida's good. Their offense is really good. They're talented. And
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  Speaker 3: Philo's a lot better than I thought he would be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Philo, the film guy was high on him, said
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  Speaker 2: he could really spin it. And normally that guy's pretty
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  Speaker 2: spot on. And some are all, of course, we were
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  Speaker 2: all hoping he would be Billy Napier 2.0. It sounds
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  Speaker 2: like he's not going to be that. That's a good
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  Speaker 2: win against Auburn. That Auburn defense has been stingy the
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  Speaker 2: last few years, and they pushed them around pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, they've got that running back that nobody can tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That dude's a problem, but yeah, I know the Florida fans,
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  Speaker 2: they got to be pumped up. Yeah, they didn't get
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  Speaker 2: their man, but maybe they got lucky, and Auburn had
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  Speaker 2: John Summerall, and it just didn't work out for them,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe it'll work out there, but Auburn's just like,
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  Speaker 2: they're bad luck schlep rock right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for real.
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  Speaker 1: The Florida stuff. You mentioned A & M. I was
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  Speaker 1: shocked by that one. I think A & M was
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  Speaker 1: stunned by it, too.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that. I'll tell you who else. You
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  Speaker 3: guys play Mississippi State?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God for y'all. I was like, dang. That guy's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: That kid, I think he's the second best quarterback. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want anybody else to get mad at me for
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  Speaker 1: saying this. I think he's the second best quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: the league right now. I think Trinidad's number one and
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  Speaker 1: he's number two.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe y'all ought to go after Jeff Libby and that quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Bring him in? Bring those two guys in.
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  Speaker 1: I'd take that in a heartbeat just to get one
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  Speaker 1: year of him. Because then if you can recruit somebody
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  Speaker 1: like that once, maybe you can grab another one and
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  Speaker 1: keep it going.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, no, he's really, really good. All right, I
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  Speaker 3: know it's just Monday, so we've got a long way
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 1: But I was on an SEC show this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason to it, but just because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be there, I picked it.
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  Speaker 3: I like Tennessee with the upset.
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  Speaker 1: I think 30, 31, 28, 34, 31, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I think Tennessee finds a way to get this done
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  Speaker 1: at home. I think they're playing. I know Texas had
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  Speaker 1: the win against Ohio state. but something about it, something
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  Speaker 1: about going to New England. I think last year, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really believe in karma, but I think the karma
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  Speaker 1: of last year missing that kick against Georgia, I think
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  Speaker 1: you get one to go your way this time, and
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  Speaker 1: I think they pull the upset.
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  Speaker 3: Are you drinking the Kool-Aid with me or not yet?
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  Speaker 2: I might on this one. Arch's play last week gives
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit of optimism that he may not
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  Speaker 2: come in there and be dominant. Of course, we haven't
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  Speaker 2: really seen Faison under this level of pressure, he might
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  Speaker 2: come out and play reasonably well or really well. I
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  Speaker 2: could see the crowd playing a major role in this,
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  Speaker 2: and Texas has not been good on the road. They
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  Speaker 2: just haven't been. They've struggled. So, yeah, I could see
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee pulling this off.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: We're both drinking the Kool-Aid. Jay, I appreciate you for
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