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Episode 3: Arch Madness, Bama Back(?), 8-4 Dreams & Vandy Turnt · The Crazy Sheet - CFB Handicapping

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls, it's your favorite time
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  Speaker 1: of the week.
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  Speaker 2: You get to download the crazy seet, you get to
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  Speaker 2: talk about some college football. I'm Mark, I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: podcasting studio, Scott. He's at home. Brother.
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  Speaker 1: We are gonna talk to us some SEC is our
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  Speaker 1: first conference that we're gonna preview you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited about the SEC this season, man.
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  Speaker 1: SEC media days are going on. Brian Kelly's already talking
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  Speaker 1: about they gotta win game one. I mean, let's see
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  Speaker 1: what they got that Mustard tre for them.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is fabulous. He did lay it out there.
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  Speaker 3: My favorite part of Brian Kelly's talk yesterday was coaches
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  Speaker 3: have got to decide the rules and have some character
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  Speaker 3: and stick to it. Well, good f and luck with that, buddy,
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  Speaker 3: luck with that.
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  Speaker 2: If that's what you're waiting on in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Then you better go find a new job, because that's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna happen. I can't tell you much, but I
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  Speaker 3: can guarant that gun to you, that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever they got to do to win, if that means
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  Speaker 3: step on your neck, they're gonna step on your neck.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's buddy, Yeah, it's amazing to me, like
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  Speaker 1: what we will do to win and we will overlook.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Hugh Freeze was essentially fired at Old Miss's
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  Speaker 1: escapegoat for maybe maybe not hiring hookers to come he.
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  Speaker 2: Hooks in the bottom line hiring hookers for players.
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  Speaker 1: And then he ends up in an evangelical college to
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  Speaker 1: get baptized in the in the waters. And now he's
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  Speaker 1: the head coach at Auburn, and you know they're coping
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  Speaker 1: to turn that thing around.
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  Speaker 2: You got that going on.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Petrino, who was what's the head coach at University
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  Speaker 1: of Arkansas, was fired for lying to his boss, the
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  Speaker 1: athletic director, and because he was sleeping with someone that
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  Speaker 1: worked in the football department that was a graduate.
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  Speaker 3: Student that he's giving a job to without proper, proper
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  Speaker 3: uh proper interviews across the board. He just gave her
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  Speaker 3: the job because he was sleeping weather and then boom,
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  Speaker 3: he's back at Arkansas and maybe the next head coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean you imagine it's like, hey, I come home,
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  Speaker 2: what happened? Mate?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I lied to my boss and uh and they
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  Speaker 1: fired me. And then two years later coming back, well
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  Speaker 1: they're not doing very good. So they're bringing me back
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  Speaker 1: into the phone. Football is the only sport that works.
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  Speaker 2: Michael think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think went to prison. They got he got
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  Speaker 1: out of Prison's like, hey, we need we need to
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  Speaker 1: back up quarterback. All right, get Ron Mexico back in here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get this thing rolling. I mean, it comes to
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  Speaker 1: sports we have the rules are completely different, if there
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  Speaker 1: are any.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, the SEC powerhouse kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of the bullying of college football now trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out if they're gonna be the ones to set the
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  Speaker 1: reins the way this is gonna go. Obviously, they've got
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  Speaker 1: the most money, they've got the most stroke, they've got
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  Speaker 1: the best teams. Uh. Everything about the SEC, if you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy college football, is fun. Uh, but it's gonna be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: They had not won the Natty in the last two years,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm sure Greg Sankie is probably thinking about
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit because he wants to be in control,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wants to play bully ball with everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: And I think this season, when you look at the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: there's some fascinating storyline. I think there's gonna be coaches
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  Speaker 1: that may not have jobs at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how their contracts are. As far as buyouts
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  Speaker 1: or concerned and things of that nature, I think you've
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  Speaker 1: got some definite tiers of what's going to.
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  Speaker 2: Go on in the SEC and so I'm I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that we're probably gonna have someone that
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  Speaker 1: will play for the national championship coming out of this conference.
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  Speaker 1: I know that's not like an earth shattering thing, but
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  Speaker 1: they would.
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  Speaker 3: Have last year if if the quarterback doesn't get hurt
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  Speaker 3: at Georgia. I mean, look, that team was playing really,
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  Speaker 3: really well. Texas was a nose hair away from beating
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State. I mean, look that Jack Sar you're getting
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  Speaker 3: that they score right there, and man, Texas may win
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  Speaker 3: that ball game. Yeah, and it ends up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being an Ohio State cover because of that, because.
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  Speaker 2: Of that play.
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  Speaker 3: But man, that was a great ball game Texas in
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  Speaker 3: that had a chance to win it. That's team that
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  Speaker 3: lost to Georgia twice. Georgia was a different football teach.
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  Speaker 3: No way they lose that game to Notre Dame if
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  Speaker 3: their quarterback's healthy. That's just my personal opinion, but that's reality.
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  Speaker 3: That's college football where we're at now. Kids are going
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  Speaker 3: to get hurt and the depth isn't there that it
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  Speaker 3: used to be the league. We mentioned this before we
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  Speaker 3: started recording that I got more excited about where the
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  Speaker 3: league is at after studying all the teams this week,
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  Speaker 3: really getting into it and getting into some depth of
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  Speaker 3: it and looking at some teams. I got higher on
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  Speaker 3: A and M after this weekend. Now, look, they always
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  Speaker 3: find a way to gag it, you know, so, but
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  Speaker 3: so can they get it done. There are three or
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  Speaker 3: four teams in this league that are going to go
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  Speaker 3: as their quarterback goes. They can be really good and
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  Speaker 3: they can be really bad. OHU, schedule is brutal. They're
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  Speaker 3: one of them. My tears as good as advertised coaching
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  Speaker 3: comes in because I do think the coaching quarterback combo
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  Speaker 3: is going to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: For them getting some continuity back.
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  Speaker 3: They took a step back because they lost their offensive
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  Speaker 3: coordinator and guy they brought in didn't do as good
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  Speaker 3: as a job. That's why they weren't as good on
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  Speaker 3: offense last year. That's why Arnold was in the portal,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it's so there's some there's some excitement.
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  Speaker 2: There for me. Man. That schedule is brutal.
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  Speaker 3: They could be a really good football team and go
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  Speaker 3: seven and five or eight and four.
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  Speaker 2: The flip side, they may make the They may make.
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  Speaker 3: The playoff at nine and three because of that schedule,
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  Speaker 3: and hell they may win it all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. How good I think this team can be or
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  Speaker 2: how bad I think they can be. I think he
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  Speaker 2: can go.
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  Speaker 3: Seven and five, be a really good football team, and
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  Speaker 3: he may get fired. So there's some excitement about this league.
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  Speaker 3: You know, look, man, if Simpson I ain't, Bama's got
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  Speaker 3: a chance.
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  Speaker 2: To be damn good. I mean really good. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: big on Simpson.
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  Speaker 3: You know, didn't know his dad is a stretch had
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  Speaker 3: met his dad. The guy's a coach. Just a smart kid,
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  Speaker 3: a really talented kid. People forget this kid was a
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  Speaker 3: five star coming out and he is a great athlete.
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  Speaker 3: He ain't Jaylen Milroe, but man, he's.
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  Speaker 2: A really good athlete.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably top three athletes playing quarterback in this league.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a really good athlete. And he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's a coach's kid. He's gonna be savvy. I think
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  Speaker 3: this is a better fit for the Bower. I think
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  Speaker 3: you see more of what you've got from Presno and
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  Speaker 3: Washington under the bower than you saw last year this year,
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  Speaker 3: and so I think it's becomes more his team this year,
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  Speaker 3: and I think you start seeing why everyone thinks so
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  Speaker 3: highly of Kaylen the Boer. So I think this league's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be I mean, super excited.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Hell I can spend ten minutes on every team. Tell
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  Speaker 3: you why I'm excited about him or why I'm really
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  Speaker 3: down on him. You're gonna wish there wasn't the blowback
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  Speaker 3: of you getting hired at at A and M buddy,
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  Speaker 3: because I think the end of the run may be
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  Speaker 3: happening in Lexington, and it's been a darn It's been.
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  Speaker 2: A hell of a run for that guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he put them on the map. But I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's dive in real quick. The team most people want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the whole country's got to University of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: You've got arch Manning coming in here. I was sitting
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  Speaker 1: there talking to my daughter last night. I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about how crazy it is. His granddad played in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: his two uncles played in the NFL, one of them
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, both of them won Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've got a kid that's going to go
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas. He's going to lead them to
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  Speaker 1: hopefully run their national championship back after they haven't been
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  Speaker 1: relevant in about twenty years in that space, and then
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  Speaker 1: he'll end up getting drafted. This team lost three games
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  Speaker 1: last year. They lost to Georgia twice, and they lost
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  Speaker 1: to Oklahoma, and they lost to Ohio State. And the
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  Speaker 1: Georgia loss in the first one, they shut them down.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia completely absolutely shut that team down. And the second
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  Speaker 1: Georgia loss, Texas played better, but they still got out dueled.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you get.
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  Speaker 1: Into the Ohio State game, they don't funnel that there
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  Speaker 1: in the goal line, and that's a completely different game
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  Speaker 1: in that space. But the one thing that I've started
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  Speaker 1: looking at with Texas is how interesting it is. They
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  Speaker 1: lose Kelvin Banks off the offensive line. They've got to
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  Speaker 1: bring some new guys in. I think that's their biggest
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  Speaker 1: spot that they're going to have to rebuild. But they've
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  Speaker 1: got a ton of talent face on the defensive side.
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  Speaker 1: They've got three All Americans. You've got Conlin Simmons, You've
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  Speaker 1: got Anthony Hill, and you've got Michael Taut that are
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  Speaker 1: coming in there. And so as a hole with this
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  Speaker 1: Texas team, you've got a thousand yard rusher coming back,
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  Speaker 1: you've got CJ. Baxter that you've got injured last year
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  Speaker 1: coming back, and you've got Arch manning. The one knock
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  Speaker 1: you could look at over the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: with the Texas team is they haven't been great in
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  Speaker 1: the red zone as far as converting those into touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: But I kind of think with Arch you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see some more RPO that they didn't do with Ers
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  Speaker 1: because viewers didn't I'm not saying he didn't like to run,
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  Speaker 1: but he wasn't as mobile or maybe as durable as
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  Speaker 1: Arch is. But when I look at this Texas team,
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  Speaker 1: the over under win totals at nine and a half,
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  Speaker 1: I lean heavy to the over here. But I think
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  Speaker 1: instead of betting at nine and a half, because their
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  Speaker 1: schedule is still gonna be really tricky.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of potholes in this thing.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of betting the over at nine and a half,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna lay plus three with Texas opening weekends at
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State and then if and then if that, if
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  Speaker 1: they lose that game, by chance, I'm gonna come back
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  Speaker 1: and bet them get a chance to win the national championship.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's interesting is I you know this schedule
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  Speaker 3: is in today obviously go to Ohio State and that
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  Speaker 3: is such a gigantic game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean where you're going to see that.
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  Speaker 3: That is a I mean that's every bit as big
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  Speaker 3: as Vince Young going up there a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: This is a huge game.
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  Speaker 3: But they bounced back at home against the San Jose
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  Speaker 3: State team that I think is gonna be a better
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  Speaker 3: football team this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've got don't sleep on them. Don't sleep
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  Speaker 2: on them. Don't sleep on those guys.
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  Speaker 3: So you're gonna get and for you talk about flat,
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  Speaker 3: ain't no way long warns aren't gonna be flat. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's San Jose stayed. This is a tricky spot
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  Speaker 3: for them. Now after that, Longhorns are gonna get are
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  Speaker 3: gonna get into this schedule. I mean, look, I like
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  Speaker 3: this schedule. They're at Florida. I think we all know.
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  Speaker 3: But the Longhorns need to be they I think if
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  Speaker 3: they've got if they've got hopes of of real national championship,
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  Speaker 3: I ain't they got to figure out how to beat
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  Speaker 3: obyt State. I really do, because if they look at
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  Speaker 3: that team at Oklahoma games a toss up, and it
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  Speaker 3: is every year, and I think Oklahoma's going to be
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  Speaker 3: really good this year. At Florida's sneaky. Now they got
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  Speaker 3: at Kentucky and a Mississippi State that ought to be wins.
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  Speaker 3: Then you got Georgia on the road. Then you got
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  Speaker 3: what is what should be an easy win, but as
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  Speaker 3: a rivalry with Arkansas, and then boom, A and M
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  Speaker 3: right back, and A and M is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a really really good football team. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 3: I like about Texas, and everybody's eyes are story with Manning,
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  Speaker 3: and I like their running backs. I think they got
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  Speaker 3: two of the probably the ten best running backs in
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  Speaker 3: the league. This is a good offensive line. You've got
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  Speaker 3: a really really good dual multiple quarterback. I think this
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  Speaker 3: offense in Sarkisian. I think they are going to be
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  Speaker 3: clipping along. And look, this defense is gonna be good.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is a really really good football team.
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  Speaker 3: They are a legitimate national title contender. I think Texas, Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: and Georgia are all three national title teams, but all
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  Speaker 3: three of them are only gonna get there if their
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks can play to a level to get them there.
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  Speaker 3: That really Now, I will tell you this, I think
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  Speaker 3: arch Manning, because of that that running game I just
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  Speaker 3: told you about, has got the widest window to not
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  Speaker 3: be great and still get his team there. Does that
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  Speaker 3: make Does that make sense? Meaning he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 3: go be an All American for them to get there?
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  Speaker 3: Now to beat Ohio State, yeah, the one at all?
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  Speaker 3: Does he have to be great? One hundred percent? I
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  Speaker 3: think so do. I think this team is good enough
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  Speaker 3: to get to a player because look, with this schedule,
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  Speaker 3: I really do believe therefore sure end with two losses
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  Speaker 3: for sure. Yeah, if they lose to Ohio State, lose
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  Speaker 3: to Georgia, they're for sure in. I think it's very
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  Speaker 3: possible with a third loss, depending on what A and
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  Speaker 3: M or Oklahoma does, that they could get in. So
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  Speaker 3: that's that is what I mean about arch Manning. Doesn't
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  Speaker 3: I think doesn't have to be great. I think Simpson's
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to be really good for Bama to take
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  Speaker 3: to be better than they were last year. I think
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  Speaker 3: they've got to have improved quarterback play. And I think
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  Speaker 3: the Georgia Bulldogs are only going to go as far
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  Speaker 3: as the quarterback that played in the playoffs and in
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  Speaker 3: the you know, in the rest of that championship game,
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  Speaker 3: he's got to be better than that. He's got to
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  Speaker 3: be a better player than that.
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  Speaker 2: See, you've got Georgia and Alabama who play each other
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  Speaker 2: this year, that's right, right, I didn't overlook that.
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  Speaker 3: But both everybody's playing same schedule they played last year.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, Georgia and Obama are playing again. So everybody
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  Speaker 3: SEC repeats, you're just flipping it. Road games went to
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  Speaker 3: home games.
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  Speaker 1: So when you when you look at both of these schedules,
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  Speaker 1: both Georgia out. So the top tier of the SEC
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  Speaker 1: to me is Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and then I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of somewhere between L s U A and M and
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  Speaker 1: LM Oahoma L s U.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so wait, let's take the top three. All
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  Speaker 2: of those teams have nine and a half wind totals.
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking at Georgia and Alabama, and you can
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  Speaker 1: break them down how you want to go through it.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at both.
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  Speaker 1: These rosters, I think the two best teams of the
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  Speaker 1: conference are going to be Texas and Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: I think I don't that's my personal opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia to me, even though the roster is fantastic and
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  Speaker 1: the one the commonality between those three rosters is high
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  Speaker 1: school recruiting. All three of those programs have done a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a job recruiting high school kids and developing
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  Speaker 1: their rosters around it, and they've used the portal to
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  Speaker 1: plug talent where they need it. They haven't had to
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  Speaker 1: reboot the roster, right, And that's the luxury of being
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  Speaker 1: a blue blood in college football is that you can
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  Speaker 1: still recruit high school kids.
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  Speaker 2: You can build a roster. They're willing to stay.
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning has been there for three years. Dude, Ky
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  Speaker 1: Simpson's been there for three years, you know what me
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you get that, and they're
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  Speaker 1: coming into Gunnar Stockton's been there for three years, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the commonality around that, and it's just a
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  Speaker 1: matter of what's gonna happen. Like last year, Georgia's offense
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  Speaker 1: was their biggest problem. They could not there was no
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  Speaker 1: explosion last year. No one realized how much they were
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  Speaker 1: gonna miss brock Vowers in lad mccackey until they weren't there.
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  Speaker 1: And then everybody wants to point it, you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and say, oh, he wasn't that good.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody's figuring out now, Ladi McConkie wasn't just a roll guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that guy's.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe one of the best wide receivers in the NFL
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  Speaker 3: this year. He's a grinder, hard worker, he runs great route.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I agree with you. They lost some great
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  Speaker 3: people and couldn't replace them.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're looking at George and Bamba. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna go with it? All that and a half wins?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Texas, Georgia and Alabama looking for your schedules?
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  Speaker 2: Look at the rosters.
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  Speaker 1: Can all of them go over nine and a half wins?
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  Speaker 1: Or which one falls to ninety three? And then you're
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  Speaker 1: keeping your fingers crossed?
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  Speaker 2: Do we get a bit? You know where I really look.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say one thing as I say this,
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  Speaker 3: because I'm gonna I'm gonna double talk on you here
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, because I think that I think that
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  Speaker 3: Bama has the toughest road to get to ten wins.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that.
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  Speaker 3: But I also think Simpson is going to be a player.
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  Speaker 3: But gunnerstock to forget this, he was his classification in
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  Speaker 3: Georgia's Player of the Year. I mean the dude was
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: a damn good athlete. Making you go back and watch
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: videos that kid in high school. It looks like a
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: video game. I mean, he it's crazy. So that kid's
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: are really that kid's talented. I just think I think
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: he's gonna grind. I think he's a hard word. There
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the reason Kirby Smart didn't go out and hit the
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: portal because he certainly could have. You know, he could
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: have gone and gotten one of these marquee guys that
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: was in the You think Materier goes to Georgia or
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma if you want. I mean, that's the that's the
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: bottom line. There's reason Kirby didn't go get one of
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: those guys. That's the truth. And I think he's got
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: a lot of confidence in him and he sees him
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: every day. I think that that that the schedule sets
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: up better. Honestly, I give the lean of because here's
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: Bama's road schedule at Georgia, at Missouri, at South Carolina,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: and at Auburn, and then they've got LSU and Oklahoma.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: I just and.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Here's the other side of this, of this Alabama schedule.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: They play eleven really good I mean ten really good
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: football teams. Because they played Florida State, who I think
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: they'll beat, But Florida State's gonna be better. Then two
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: weeks later they play Wisconsin. They're one of the only
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: teams in the Southeastern Conference them in Florida playing that
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: hyghe oftalent. Do I think they're gonna beat Wisconsin. Yes,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: because we'll get into that in the Big Ten. I
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: don't think Consin's gonna be very good. I'm not saying
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: they're gonna lose those games. That's wear and tear on
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: your body that these teams go look at Georgia's schedule,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Marshall and those kinds of guy.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: No, it's not the same. It's not the same schedule.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: So I lean towards Bama being the nine and three,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: even though I think Simpson's gonna be really good. But
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I don't line with you. I wouldn't take the risk.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I think the SEC is gonna have some losses and
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: the depth gets into it. I think there's gonna be
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: some teams with some losses. You look, man, I go
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: look at this Georgia's schedule, and look, we'll talk about
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: this when we briefly get to Mississippi State. I think
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: they're gonna be better. But ma'am, they here is their schedule.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: They got old. Let me let's go back Alabama, Kentucky
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: at Auburn, Ole miss Auburn and Georgia. The longest running
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: rivalry in the Southeastern Conference. All right, that is a
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: gigantic game off week Florida, huge rivalry at Mississippi State Texas.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: You think they're gonna go to start more remotely ready
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to play. They're gonna play just like they did last year.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: When and if States remotely better, that may be more
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: game than George is expecting. I'm certainly not expecting them
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: to lose that game. They're gonna win that game. But
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: George show up and that that is That's where the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: love with their off weeks fall. That's one of the
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: reasons I like this Georgia team to be there at
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: the end. I think if one and you know the
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: other reason that I like Georgia, nobody's talking about it,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Andy Hell is nobody talking about this team nobody. I mean,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: they are gonna be nasty. They were nasty Lass. They
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: were the best team in the league last year until
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: their quarterback got hurt and they got a lot of
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: players back.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean Dell is probably the best tight end in
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the league.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, if if the if the Bandy kid didn't,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I mean it is that kid's a stud. They've got
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: some players they went that got a couple of good
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: wide receivers.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I expect I expect this team to be really good.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, they always have running backs, So I mean
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: it's this is a good football team and nobody's talking
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: about them. So of those teams, I think Bama is
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: the is the least likely to bounce sober. But man,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of up people. I think
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: this league is really good. It's significantly better than last year.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I could see all these teams getting to ten wins
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to be hoes.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, and it's gonna be a hard path to
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: do it, but I honestly think there's a chance.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: If all three of them get to ten wins, then
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the rest of the leagues they're gonna be a bunch
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of seven and five and six and six.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Is that's the out And I think that's entirely possible. Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And so I can I can completely see that.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And so that's the reason when you start breaking it down,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and the reason no one is talking about Georgia and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the reason is for two things. And you can say
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to, but the talking points of college
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: football this season.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Have been archbanning.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It had been what's going on at Texas Tech University,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and that is taking the shine off of everybody else.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: And and frankly, if you're those coaches, if you're Mike
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Elko in your Texas A and M, you know how
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: much you're loving the fact that people are paying attention
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to Texas Tech and you're not.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Looking at what we've got going on down.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Here that have to be And so yeah, like when
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I look at A and M, if you dive into
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: their schedules.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Speaking and M, let's roll right on to the edge.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you dive into A and M,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you look at this team and here's what you got
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is defensively, they're rebuilding the defensive line completely. They lost
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that go into the from last year.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: They bring back some linebackers, They bring back some defensive
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: backs that are going to be pretty strong. Offensive line
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: should be good. You bring back Marcell Read, the quarterback
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: who last year. Keep in mind the problem A and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: M had last year was they rolled into the season
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: with colra Wegman as their starting quarterback. He couldn't make it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Then you had quarterback issues and confidence issues. The next
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: thing you know, Marcel reads the quarterback. But they bring
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: back that Beyond Moss, they bring in two tight ends
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: that they brought in off the portal. Both are really good.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Colin Klein the offensive coordinator, he wants to run twelve formation,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he wants to run two tight I think you're gonna
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: see a lot of unders protected's A and M. I
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: think the defense is gonna be really good. I think
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: they're gonna pound the ball and they're gonna hide the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: fact that Marshall Reid is not a very good passer,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and they're just gonna run right at you and wear
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: some people down.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I think they'll do a good job doing it. Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Mark Mario Crag coming over from Missippi State was a
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: true freshman stud. They brought in Conception on from North
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Carolina State, so they got some weapons out on the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: outside and Craver's that one of those guys in the
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: slot and things like that. They can get open kind
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: of underneath. I love Moss, but let me tell you,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Ruben Owen's a guy you've probably never heard of number
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: one running back in the country coming out of high
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: school stud big time player. You get behind this offensive line,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you start running the football.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: You just talked about the double tights.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I think you're gonna see a lot of ground and pound.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I think I agree with you may see some.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Low scoring ball games from the Aggies, but I think
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be in every ball game.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Aggie's have got a chance to Look. They impressed me
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: when they when they in the lost to Notre Dame
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: last year. And that sounds strange when you say that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: They go to Notre Dame and win that, and boy
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: is gonna get some attention. But hold on opening the
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: week the road Runners coming in. That's gonna be an
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: interesting ballgame right there. I mean that is you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Trailer always puts puts a good team together. That team
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: got so beat up last year, but they got a
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: lot of guys, They got a lot of experience on guys.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I think that's gonna be a pretty good football team
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: in the in the fund Belt. So that's gonna be
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: an interesting game. I think a n M and Notre
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Dame is gonna be a grind fest. I mean, that's
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: gonna be a fabulous football game to watch and then
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: listen to this. So their utsa Utahs State at Notre Dame,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: they win that ballgame. Off week Auburn at home, Mississippi
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: State at home, Florida at home at Arkansas. Those dudes
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: can't be seven and oh when they roll into Baton Rouge.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: This team seven and oh going into Baton Rouge. Oh, buddy,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: you got some It's it's all then. I mean that
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: is because look the rest of the schedule, they're off
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: week at Missouri, they get South Carolina at home Samford,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: and then they're at Texas. You're not I legitimately think
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: the Aggies have got a chance to go ten and two.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I said the same thing last night, and the only
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: reason I came back after reviewal likely.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Three is very likely to me.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, but this team has historically been an eight
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and four kind of that's their ceiling.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: It's been that eight and four they had looking. But
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna beat Notre Dame. I really do.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I have a higher on A and M than I
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: have Notre Dame this season. I know Notre Dame's got
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of people back, and I know They had
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a magical season last year. They had the ball bounce
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of their way many times.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Love Marcus Freeman, couldn't yeah my son the other I'm
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: telling me, I stand by Marcus Freeman. If he could
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: go play for anybody in college football, I'd want it
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: to be marks three.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And we're not Catholic and I hate not of that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Give me an lsu rundown. What Brian Kelly is? He
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: gonna be there at the end of the season. He's
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: got probably I would tell you the quarterback right now
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: going into next year's draft, it's a guy that's.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: The most NFL ready. I love Nosmeyer. He's a gun slinger.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: He's got some crazy weapons.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: The biggest problem they've got is an unproven offensive line, yep,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and a defense that has been.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Garbage really for the last two or three seasons.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: And I think based on this defensive line that may
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: be garbage again. They got to figure out how to
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: get Harold Perkins loose. I mean, that really is the
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: That really is the deal. They need Patrick Payton to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: be a good player. They need him to get up,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: turn it loose, you know, they need him to be good.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: They gotta have Harold Perkins get loose, and they got
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to get him back just going after the quarterback and
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: make plays. Let it make him stop thinking and just
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: go make plays. And they keep saying, oh, that's what
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: we're gonna do. Well, let's let's see you do it,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: because it hadn't happened for a couple of years. And
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: that guy's a stud and they got to figure out
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: how to get that guy loose. They have upgraded Monsieur
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: de Layne at cornerback. Uh they are. I mean, look
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: he was, he was at Virginia Tech last Year's a
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: guy they brought in. I think they've upgraded this defensive backfield.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I like their linebackers a lot. I like the Week's kid.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I think that.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, just just the damn picture of what college
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: football is supposed to be about is what we But
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just tough.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just hard to love that kid.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: But how do you win when offensive and defensive line
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: are your question marks in this league? I just don't
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: think you do, especially with a quarterback like nuss Meyer
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: who's sitting in the pocket. But I love their wide
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: receivers Barry and Brown's coming over from Kentucky.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I think they'll figure out how to use him.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Uh. I mean, look, uh, Zaidion was there. I think
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: their third wide receiver last year. I think he was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: the third guy. He's still the third guy, you know.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I mean they're bringing in Nick Anderson from Oklahoma. I
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: mean they brought in a bun They brought in a
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: bunch of guys, and so I think they've got a
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: chance to I think this is you know, I think
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: this does.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Avion Thomas is who I was talking about. Uh.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Who was their third guy last year? And I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: he started. I think he had eight ten starts something
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: like that last year. So I mean he's played once.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: He's not even started. So they've upgraded their wide receiver
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: or not projected to start. They've upgraded their wide receiver corps.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: You got what is the best quarterback? I like their
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I like their running backs.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be I think they're gonna be
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: really really good at the skills spots on offense and defense.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Can they get it done at the line of scrimmage.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: That's not where you want to be questioned, That's not
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: where you want to be good. Mix in, they've got
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: a brutal schedule. I saw a ranking of schedules. I
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: think the Tigers were six. They open at Clemson, They're
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: at Florida, I mean they got Florida at home, They're
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: at ol Miss, South Carolina, at Vandy, A and M
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: at Bama, Arkansas, Western Kentucky, and then at Oklahoma. You
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: don't want at Oklahoma, at Alabama, at Bandy and at
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: old Miss to be your road games. That generally is
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: about Old Miss is a huge rival for them. That's
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: obviously Bama is a rival for him, and at Vandy
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: sneaky as they showed as they.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Showed him last year.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: So and you hear Clark Lee talk about this team,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: and I think he's really excited about this football team.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: And I think they've got a great coaching staff up there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: And honestly, to think about Pavia and I don't want
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: to get too much into Bandy, the.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: He just makes them play free. That team's kind of
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: taken on it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: It lets the guys be who they are, and I
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: think that has really helped them a lot. So I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: think the Tigers have got a chance with us and
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: this skill set.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: To be great.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I think they've also got a chance for Brian Kelly
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: to get fired and go seven and five, eight and four,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: because I think, you guys eight and four, they're going
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: to fire him. I believe that, especially if he loses
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: to Clemson week one.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: If they beat Clemson the week one, I can see
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: this team going on a run and being undefeated all
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the way to the end game and then they finished out. Yeah,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I mean so, and I could see A and M
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: being undefeated going into that same spot, and so I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: kind of cheering for that, to be honest with you,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: because I.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Think that's where.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine what that atmosphere would be like, man,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Baton Rude would be on its ear with two undefeated.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I wonder if my wife would want to go to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: do that game for anniversary because nothing says love like
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Sunday night, like.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Saturday night and Baturday Night, Matton Rude.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Just drunk on Nicholson, just stumbling around with strangers, You'll
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and go Tigers and all kinds of.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I will say that I the one The only thing
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: I like about the Disney contract with the SEC is
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: they are playing the best game at night now instead
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: of two thirty at that that's six pm kickoff. Man,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: You just get zeused up. I mean that really is though,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's really is. When you get go, it's
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: hard to go have a good time for the weekend
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: at eleven am kick off, you know, two thirty, it's
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: still it doesn't get you quiet, and you still get
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: your mind right at eleven at two thirty, but man six,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: every SEC stadium is a tough place to play.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: That's borderline grows because the bathroom's out in the parking
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: lot aren't working much anymore. After that point, you know,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: there's a lot going on in there. Have you read
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: side track before we get too far. There's an article
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in the Athletic if you haven't read it yet about
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: how the Big ten does your schedule because their TV
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: contract has got three or four people involved in it, right, yeah,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and so go read it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I'll plugging it. We don't have anything with you know, Athletic, obviously,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: we don't do anybody. But it's interesting. They do it
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: like a dry like a Little League draft.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Where you're going through in your order every weekend and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you pick, well, no, they drafted already.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: It went on the summer. They so they drafted.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: They walk in with the entire schedule for the year
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and then they start drafting based on their order and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: rank on what they get and what games did they want,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and there's couple and there's some rules and there's some tradeouts.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: But it's pretty fascinating.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: And uh, the guys at Fox actually did mock drafts
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so they could figure out how they were going to
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: build out their fall schedule because they've got obviously big
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: new kickoff and last year, if you know, all the
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Ohio State people were bitching because they pit them in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a new that's the.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Dog issues going on around here. Man.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Well, I will tell you this Ohio State and as
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: much as they may hate it, and I can certainly
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: understand why because they got such a great fan base
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: that I was speaking of, zeust up, they want to go,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: you know, they want to go. Get that way. My
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Ohio State and the Big Ten have been playing at
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: eleven am. They've been playing early. I mean my whole life.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I remember that's the game you watched early.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll do I'll do you one better. My buddy
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that played it, Purdue. The reason that they've played so
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: many day games is because it was super cold at
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: night and so people wouldn't show up. And I didn't
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: know this ross age stadium were Purdue played didn't have
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: lights in it in the games, and if they got
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a night game, they had the rent temporary lights that
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: they would post up outside the stadium so they could
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: put lights there.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: And I was like, what on Earth, dude.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: So anyway, inside the point, anyway, let's talk about this
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: team that I think is gonna be talk about it
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: LSU being fascinate.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about Oklahoma.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma just wrapped up their second losing season in three years.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: You know why that's a big deal, Scott, because they've
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: only had four losing seasons.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: In eighty years.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Two of them were in the nineties was Sam Blake
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and the other two were World War.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Two Don Blake dismal.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: So anyway, if you're looking at this Oklahoma team, uh,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you bring in Brint Vinibles to fix the defense, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: he's fixed the defense, and he's let it be known
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that he took over one of the worst defenses in
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the country and that's who Oklahoma was over the last
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: couple of few years. And he's really turned this defense around.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: It's been a top twenty fifteen unit the last couple
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of years. Last year they really leaned on this defense.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: The last year to the issue was is they went
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: from having a team that had a Joe Ward's nominated
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: an offensive line two years ago to last year they
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: had all new guys and it was a train wreck,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and then you had to switch quarterbacks because Arnold wasn't healthy.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: They lost every starting wide receiver. I had forgotten about this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: They every starting wide receiver and their tight end they
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: lost at certain points during the season. If you go
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: look at their depth chart from last year to start
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the season and you go through the whole thing, those
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: guys in their starting two d are their starting depth
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: chart for week one. They only played like forty five
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: snaps together all season long. And so not only was
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Arnold's handicapped from a bad offensive line, but then the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: fact that all the skill position players that they had
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: were hurt.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So it was just a hodgepodge of what they can
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: get it done.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Obviously, their signature win was being the Alabama State champs
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: because they beat both Auburn and Alabama last season. But
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: this is a big season for these guys because I
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: think this is the one that Venables has to win
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: or he's probably gonna lose his job. He brings in
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Ma Tier from Washington State. We've talked about that a
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: little bit, but then they also bring an Arbuckle, the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, to take over. If you don't know who
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: this guy is, he's the Houston Christian coach that brought
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Bailey Zafy to Western Kentucky who turned him into being
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I think that he won the area, ended up passing
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: up Joe Burrows record somebody's record for the most te
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: passes of all time in one season. Then he goes
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: back to Washington State. He ends up coaching cam Ward
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: for years, who then turns out to go to Miami
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: and gets drafted. He gets Materi out there at Washington State.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: They're fun to watch. He's got all kinds of different
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: things that he does with the offense, but he makes
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: it fun and exciting. This defense, I think is in
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a rebuild, but it's still really
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: really solid and I trustibles in this. I like Oklahoma
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: as a team. I'm hoping we can catch this team
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and get some points in some games because I think
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be I think this is a surprise team
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: that could make a run it win in.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: The SEC Championship.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Man this schedule for Oklahoma is absolutely. I mean, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: look there's that. You can say that a lot. But
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: they got Michigan in the non conference. They're at Temple.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Who in the hell I mean, Cassie only year, whatever
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: his name is, that this group.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Up to Temple. I mean, that just doesn't make any sense.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I hope you got a four for one, but they're
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: road games.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I was got Texas at a neutral site.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: They're at South Carolina, at Tennessee, at Alabama is there
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: and so, which means the Texas game would would really
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: be a game. So that means these boys get eight
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: home games. They'd have nine if they're playing Temple at home.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: You know, this is a really but man, it's the
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: type of teams are playing. They got LSU at home,
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: they got Old miss at home. You know, they got
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Auburn at home. They got Michigan at home. Man, that's
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: really tough games. They got Missouri at home, at Alabama,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: at Tennessee, at South Carolina.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: As I said, this is a tough schedule.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: But I think this Sooners team is one of those
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: teams that can bounce forward. Of the three, I like
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: the roster the best of the three in the middle.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: I like the roster the best at A and M.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: But I like Oklahoma's second so I like that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: A and M schedule a little better. I feel like
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: they can jump up.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: But I think Oklahoma's got a chance to And the
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: reality of this deal is can they can they be
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Alabama State champs again? Because if they win and Tennessee
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: is certainly a winnable game on the road, even though
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: they lost that game last year, that's a winnable game
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: on the road. So I just in South Carolina, I
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: think it's a winnable game on the road. They've got
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a chance.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: To make some hay.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: They've also got a chance to be seven and five
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Invenables be looking for a job. So this is a
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: fascinating team. That Michigan game Week two, Holy Smokes, is
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: a big game for both of these head coaches.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I'm now a huge.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Game for both of these head coaches. Can't wait to
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: watch that game. Think Oklahoma will win it because I
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: think Materier is a good player, but he showed out
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: at the Manning camp, so everybody talking about Materier still
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: got the same offensive coordinator. My guess is as Venables
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: is going to get out of the way and let
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: them go do their thing. Going to be an exciting
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: team to watch this year because we covered the top
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: tier and then the next tier of SEC teams I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: think is really really good, and and then the top
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: team is the top three are great.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I think the.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Next three, with a little bit of luck, can be
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: really good. And then we'll talk what is the biggest
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: piece of the pie next in the conference, which will
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: be Old Miss Tennessee, Missouri the benefit. You know that
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: this is a pretty big group of the Auburns, the Floridas.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: This is all of those teams to me, are together.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: A couple of them are gonna jump up, which means
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: a couple of these teams that are in that next
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: tier are gonna drop down because I don't think any of.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: The top three are going to really fall very far. Now.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I agree, I think Tennessee is going to take a
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: step back. I think losing Nico Malaba.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Is a big deal. Uh. They've got a lot of
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: pieces on that team that they need to rebuild. Uh,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys, a lot of guys.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And I'll let you run and have you want to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: go deep, Old Miss. I have a lot of faith
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and Lane, I bet they go eight four.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Austin Simmons. I think they're gonna be a good but
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I think that kid's really good. I'm gonna tell you
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: two things that I like about Austin Simmons, and both
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: evolve around the Georgia game. First, he comes in. Two
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: things about that touchdown drive that kid put together, because
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: ultimately that's what won them that ball game. That scoring drive.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: It tells you how much confidence Lane Kiffin had in
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: that kid. That it wasn't three hand doson punt that
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: we're worried about this kid making a mistake. That tells
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: you a ton about the kid. This kid's already graduated.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: This is his third year. On can ain't like his
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: kid's been here four years. I mean, the kid's a
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: redshirt sophomore and he's already a graduate. That tells you
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: the kids a very cerebral kid. And then you combine
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: that that means he's doing all the work right in
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: practice for Kiffin to have that kind of confidence in
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: he and then I'll give a shit about how prepared
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: you are and how hard you work. You got to
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: have some moxie as a redshirt freshman to go out
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: there and play. What is the best one of the
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: best teams in the country, and I don't care if
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: you're at home and go lead a touchdown drive and
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: your first meaningful snaps as a player. You got the
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: moxie factor too. I like Austin Simmons. I think that
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: may be the difference for them. And that is all
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: based on one drive. So does that Does that make
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: him a great player?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Hack?
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: No, but boy, it tells you he's got a lot
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: of the pieces to be in place. They also took
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: that kid to media days, and I know that pretty
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: much everybody brings their quarterback, but you don't have to
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: as a sophomore. I think it tells you a lot
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: about Kiffin and that kid speaks the right language. I
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: think he I think he says all the right things.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: This kid looks like he's got his head on straight.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I think he's a kidd. He and Kiffin go to
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: yoga togain.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, the last thing you want is Kiffin having
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: a quarterback that's he's got a really good relationship with,
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: because those are the kids well, I mean you look
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: at Dark.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: He and Dark got close when the quarterback what was
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: the kid's name, On's Carolina. That's kind of the gun Slinger.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't a real heady kid, but he
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: calmed him down.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Matt Carrall, Yeah, Corrall.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: He got corral calmed down and got really close to
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: him his last year and that's the reason that kid
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: took a big step forward. And I think you've got
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Simmons here as a young kid who's really bought in,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: and I think they've got a chance to be good.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Plus the schedules outstanding for the Rebels. Three uels in
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: the league, and I say best meaning the weakest are
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss, Tennessee and Missouri. Forty seven for Tennessee, forty
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: eight for Ole Miss, and fifty for Missou.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: You can't get any better than that. I mean, that's
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the truth they got.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: They open at Georgia State, They're at Kentucky, Arkansas, Tulane,
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: and then LSU at home off week Washington State, and
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: then then they start playing somebody decent. Are you kidding
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: me that the Rebels are going to be bawl eligible
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: before they play anybody, and really before they go on
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: the road.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Because I don't count.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, Kentucky's a tough place to play, but Ole
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Miss should win this ball game, especially after the way
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: they gagged it last year. I think they go up
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: there with a little pissed off on and when that
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: they're at Georgia and at Oklahoma.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Rebels find a way to win one of those their
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: playoff team. That's my honest opinion.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: And I don't think this team has got a playoff roster,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: but I do think that there. I do think this
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: is a good I do think this is a good
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: foot a good football team. Centering Perkins maybe the most
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: impactful defensive guy in the Southeastern Conference. He's what everybody
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: talks about Harold Perkins beating and know they're not related.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Perkins goes out and makes plays and makes them at
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: key times.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: When they send him from that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Jack linebacker, he gets there or he causes havo when
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: he if he doesn't get there. Kid's a good player,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: really good guy. But I'm gonna tell you something, this
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Old Miss team. They bring in so many guys every year.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, wide receiver, this is a whole new crew.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're quite as good as they are.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: I say all this to say I think the Rebels
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: are gonna be an eight and four football team. But
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I like Austin Simmons, I think to the player, I
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: do think they've had to fill so many guys in.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: I do think they may lose to LSU at home.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: I think they probably lose at Georgia and at Oklahoma,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: and then you know South Carolina Florida, and yes, I'm
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: gonna say Missippi STATEA is the rivalry. Hell, they almost
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: lost that game last year and they have no business
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: doing it this time. They got to go to Startville.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: They you can always lose that game. I think this
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: team is a seventy five to nine and three.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I think they fall at eight and four. That's what
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I think. If Kelly gets fired, does LSU call Lane Kiffin?
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: If I think if Kelly or Venables gets fired, called
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin. And I'm gonna tell you something.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: He's got to be.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: It's got to look, I know old miss pay and
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: he's winning games that ain't LSU and it ain't Oklahoma.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: It's got to be driving his ass nuts watching Sarkisian
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: doing what he's doing at Texas, and he's got to
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: be thinking, damn it, if I can get one of
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: these jobs. I'm gonna wear him out because I do
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: think I do think he's a better coach. I do
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: think he's a better offensive mind than Sarkisian, I really do.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: And but his defense is that he's been putting on
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the field that old miss is what's been completely overlooked.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I mean you and have been playing ole Miss overs
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: for two seats and say that's the first number I
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: look at every week and.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: People are like, oh, you know, they think of offense.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: But he's done a hell of a job there.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: And you know, this off season coming out about his sobriety,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of himself.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, rebuilt himself. He was great on THEO
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Vaughn talking about it.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: And so you can tell the guys, I mean sounds
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: crazy to say, man, that's he's really looked inside himself
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: and matured. And I think you've seen that product on
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the field the last couple of years. I think that's
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the reason those quarterbacks have drawn to him so much
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and they've been so good because he made Jackson darn
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Way better than when he showed up.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: On no doubt about it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: In Corral too. He made Corral a much better player.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Look here here's the thing on Kiffin. I think he
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: absolutely gets a call because look, there's three jobs four
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: jobs in this conference that may be open. Florida, Auburn, LSU,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: and Oklahoma all have the potential to be open. I
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: think all four of them are idiots if they don't
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: call Kiffin. And I also think what would scare me
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: as an old miss fan? And they're not gonna say
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: he loves Oxford. Oxford is a good place. Yeah, I'm
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: sure he does love Oxford. I love you, but you're
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: not any of those jobs I just named. And that
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: in Missippi State hating on you, that's reality. And Oklahoma
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: is a Marquie job. And if they come calling, I
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: don't think there's any way he's not gone.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: And I mean the stame is probably true for Florida.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Because let me tell you something, there about could be
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: some upheople in the state of Florida. Mike Norvell, don't
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: when Florida State's gone. Hell, Florida State may come calling,
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: you know, so I think, and look, how long is
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: the road for Crystal Ball.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't lose.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I mean he literally had the number one quarterback in
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: the NFL Draft and found a way to lose to
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Syracuse and Georgia Tech two out of three weeks.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: We'll get to it.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: We talked to acc he is the and I've said
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: this countless times, he's the worst any game coach, no
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: power football.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: He was in Oregon. But it's not about it. He's terrible,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: no doubt about it.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: So I say all that say, if I'm the Rebels,
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: I think you look at some of the changes that
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: lanes May. I don't think there's any doubt he hadn't been.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Why am I not getting some of these jobs? Why
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: why is Steve Sarkisian getting the Texas job? And I'm
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: not what what? What's the deal? And I think some
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: of it is changing. There are boosters out there. You
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: can say, look, you can get away with a lot.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: I think that's true. Dayton co Ed's ain't one of them.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of dudes that Wright checks
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: that aren't gonna that are gonna frown on that. And
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: at the Marquis job, I don't know if the ad
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: wants to get tied to something like that. He's man,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: he's made a lot of changes to himself and what he's.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: Done is just grown up. And look, man, don't forget.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm not telling you that
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have done the same thing. And Lane Kiffin
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: got to be the head coach of the Raiders at
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: what thirty two? Yeah, I mean he know that the
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: guy's ego for risky. Is that really hard to believe?
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Heck?
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: No, I mean do I think that? And then he
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: went to and look at the college jobs, he said.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Mark usc and old Miss.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you may get over inflated value of yourself, you know.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, the dude's still not fifty, is he? I mean,
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: I think it's I mean just incredible.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: So I think a lot of these changes are natural,
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: and I think, but I also think they may lead
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: to him getting a job. And if I were an
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: old Miss fan, that would concern me because it's gonna
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: just make him that much more attractive as he's now
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: a stable, you know, adult, you know, basically, And I
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: don't mean that as and I really that sounds like
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: a shot at Kivin and I don't mean that. And
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: that's why I say, I'm telling you that my I
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: might have behaved the exact same way, So it's not
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: a shot at him. You know, the guy's had so
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: much success and had so much thrown at him at
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: a young age that I think a lot of people
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: would have made a lot of the same mistakes that
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: he's made, and I think him realizing it making it
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: changes is what is going to make him a dangerous
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: aid coach. And I think it's why some big school's
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: gonna come get him now that they didn't, I guess
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: would be the right way to say that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: I want to jump over to South Carolina for a second. Uh.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: This year, this team caught a lot of hyphe last
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: year they won out their season after finishing with one
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: to two three.
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: They won six and seven games in a row, including
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: a victory over in state rival Clemson.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Uh, you're gonna hear a lot of talk about little
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: wrest sellers. He's a freak. The wide receiver that they've
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: got out there. Uh. Nick Harbor, that's Nick with a why.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: By the way, he's a freak, got six five, two
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: thirty five, got a lot of DK metcalf feel to him.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: As far as straight line speed, he actually qualified or
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: was asked to come to the Olympic trials. They went
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: up like a ten to two hundred.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And then on the on the defensive side, Dylan Stewart,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be a first round draft pick. Here's my thing, man,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I think this team is completely overblown and how good.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: That they are. And so let me tell you how
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna bet the squad.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Like if you look at their opening, they've got Virginia Techs,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Carons State, Vanny Missook. They can win every single one
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: of those things, and I think they probably will.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: For the Battle of Colombia is always kind of a
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: weird one for him. But I think I think they
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: take care of business.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: They get into the next part of that schedule after
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: that buy and they're gonna go on the Skins L
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: s U, O, Ubama, Old Miss, and A and M.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: And then they finish up with Clemson.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: This team, their offensive line was terrible last year. Sellers
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: kind of overcame it because he's such a big athlete,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, Cam Newton big. They actually brought in a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: coach that worked with Newton to help him.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: She's got the tools. But I just don't know, like
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: how good this team is. It's really around him. But
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: where I really.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Want to go to is the fact that they had
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: five guys off of their defensive front seven that went
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: to the NFL. They were drafted I think all of
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: them are drafted, and so you don't lose that amount
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: of talent at a school like South Carolina and just
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: assume it's next guy up. You know, that's A that's
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: A that's a Georgia, Alabama. You know those types of school.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: You know, Ohio State can redo those things, not South Carolina.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I think South Carolina takes a step back. He was
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: ninety four last year. Where I look to fag them
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: is after they go through that first run of the season.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: I think they'll probably cover some of those games.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it closely, and then I think they're
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: gonna hit the skids hard coming into the second half
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: of the season and fall off in this spot. I
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: just don't think Sellers can be Superman again now that
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: they've got a year tape on it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: On the defensive lines of stud but after that you
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: got total unknowns. And what they're doing is bringing in
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: you know, their dts are coming over from Alabama and
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: A and M, but have never played I mean very
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: minimal snaps. You don't know what you're getting there at all.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Uh So it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: see what they get.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: You start digging in the depth charts.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: You got guys two years at Campbell, you know stuff
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, I agree with you. They're gonna they're
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: gonna struggle up front. I don't think there's any way
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: to teams as good defensively this year as they were
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: And I think that's the difference. Sellers is a stud.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: But man, we have seen it time and time and
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: time again. They get you get film on freshman quarterbacks.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: You know what they do well, they study it all
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: year long. They're playing the exact same eight SEC teams
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: they played last year.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: The coaches are going to figure out how to stop
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: this guy. And he's a sophomore.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: And we've seen quarterbacks repeatedly as they start to open
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: the playbook up take a step back as a sophomore quarterback.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Do I think Sellers is a beast? One hundred percent?
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Do I think that probably all but a handful of
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: teams in America would take Leonora Sellers as their quarterback
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: one hundred percent.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Not a shot at Sellers at all.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: But this defense isn't going to be as good, and
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: I agree with you, he's gonna have to be superman
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: in some of these spots. To be as good as
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: they were. I mean, they're bringing in wide receivers from
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Georgia State. You know, they're talking about a wide receiver
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: being a starter. That that is is is coming in
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: on the transfer portal. Uh, they're bringing in guys from Troy.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: That's gonna be you know that that's gonna be a
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: big difference. I mean, you're you're you're talking, you know,
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: just a few catches from the guy coming in from Troy,
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: they're talking about him being a starter. Uh, that that's
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: kind of what you know, that's kind of where.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: We're at that they were over. They're having to rework.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: They're having to rework that offensive line, centers coming over
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: from Troy. There's a lot of different things that play
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: on this On this South Carolina football team. I think
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: they've got a chance to be really good. But man,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: they won and lost some close games last year. How
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: does that affect what they do? I think it's Virginia
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Tech game's gigantic. I'm gonna tell you, I'm probably gonna
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: bet on South Carolina that first week because I'm a
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: little down on Virginia Tech. It just feels like they
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: lost a lot of like they lost a lot of
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: eyes and a team that's supposed to be on the
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: upswing shouldn't be losing that many guys. And then they
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: get bandy. Week two, they're at Missouri and then Kentucky.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: They better make hay Buddy, they better make a because
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: it starts in October. That October schedule, I don't think
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: anybody in America wants to play at LSU Oklahoma and
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Alabama and home and at Ole Miss. I don't think
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: anybody wants any of that. Oh, then they get an
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: off week in November and go to A and M.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: It's a tough stretch. It's a really tough stretch. So
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: and Coastal Carolina is not gonna be a sleeper after
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: that A and M and before Clemson. So I mean,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: that's you know, you can't go to sleep in that
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: ballgame or you can lose that game. So this is
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: a tougher schedule than I think people think for South Carolina.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: So it is one of the reasons I think they
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: fall middle of the pick. I don't I just don't
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: think this is I just don't think this is gonna
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: be a team that's as good as it was last year.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I think this is six and six, seven and five
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: football team. Let's talk about the Auburn Tigers. Down the
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: plane that you've got here.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: This team has a losing record last four seasons in
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: a row. And you know, we like to think of
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Auburn as this nationally relevant team because they've played for
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: the national championship, they've won the national championship. The reality
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: since two thousand or since twenty twenty, this team.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Is barely above one.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, they've got a losing record after finishing twenty
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: twenty just six and five.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: And so when you start digging into this roster. We
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: talked about this last season with this that we thought
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: that we thought Hugh.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Freeze was like waiting to see what he could put
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: together before he would go out and spend some money.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: He went and got himself a quarterback. They've added some
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: key positions to this roster. I'm not as high.
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: On this team as you are. Personally, I'm going to
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: fade this team. I think first five weeks of the season,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I think this team could easily go two and three.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: They got Falure Friday night.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: They wrap up the month with the trips to Oklahoma
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: and trips to Texas, A and M. Their schedule gets
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: much easier after that. But it's how much confidence you're
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: gonna have if you come through there two and three,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: maybe even three two. I there's a lot of unknowns
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: on this Auburn roster, and I'm just not one hundred
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: percent convinced that it can turn the dial and do it.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: I know you're on the other page for me to this,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: but I'm fading. I'm under I think.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I think if Jackson Arnold is remotely as good as advertised, uh,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: then I think they've got a chance to be really good.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I love the addition of Singleton a wide receiver, because
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: you have you have Coleman and Simmons who are already
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: good players, and I think they just simply didn't have
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: anybody that could throw them the football, and and Simmons
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: was outstanding as a true freshman last year. This then
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: everybody could get them the football. I like Arnold here,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: I like the running back Austin. I think he's a
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: pretty good player as well.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: I think they've got a chance to to really to
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: really do some good things. This team is only gonna
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: be as good as its defense, and that defense has
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: kept them in ball games for the If that defense
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: is remotely as good as it is as it's been.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: I think this is a team of this group who's
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: got a chance to shoot forward. And talking about talking
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: about schedules at Baylor, at your Baylor Bears opening the
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: weekend Marquee game, for this football team got to figure
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: out how to win it. They have to figure out
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: how to win this ball game. I don't think that's
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: the case for Baylor. I think Baylor can lose this
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: game and still potentially get in the playoff. I think
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: they got to win this game because those two road
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: games in September back to back are brutal games at
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma and at A and M. We both talked about
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: we think they're going to be much improved football teams.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: They lose both of those off week and get Georgia.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: If that football team is two and four after the
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Georgia game, Hugh Freeze is probably not the football US.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm trying to, you know, And
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's got to figure out how to
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: win this Baylor game.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: And then they got to figure out how to.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: Win one of those two road games, because I don't
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: think they're gonna beat Georgia at home, even though that
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: is a rivalry and a huge game. Then they got
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Missou at home, and then they're at chedle is not
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: that bad until you get till you get to Obama.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: So but this team, I think for Hugh Freeze to
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: keep his job, has got to go eight and four,
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: maybe seven and five. They might keep him. If he
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: can go seven and five, I doubt it. I think
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: it's eight and four. I think he's gotta be an
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: eight and for football coach uh to keep his job.
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: And I think that really kind of gets into they
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: gotta beat Baylor to get there to get eight and four,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: because I don't think they're gonna win out Oklahoma or
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: A and M. I don't think they're gonna beat Bama.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: And I think they lose to Georgia at home. I
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: think that's their best case scenario. They lose to Baylor
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: to start in their seven and five football team, and
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: it may fall apart on them because Missouri is not
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: gonna be well. Let me rephrase, we'll get to the
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: Tigers in just a second. At is a wild card team.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: I mean they're like, that's like a wild card joker.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: You don't know what the hell you're gonna get from
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: those guys.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think Missouri and Tennessee are both
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: two teams that I have gone back and forth on
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: that I don't really know what we're gonna get from
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: either one of these teams.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Schedules, they play the two of the three easiest schedules
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: in the league. I mean, I feel like Old missus
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: better position of those three teams to to to maximize
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: that schedule.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: But man, Miszoo, holy smokes, this schedule is a gift.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, so that is that's one of the reasons
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: that I think this team's got a chance to really
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: make some hay. But you look at a lot of
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: people and there's just so many moving parts to this team.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Are they going to get the same quarterback play? I mean,
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: I know, I know that, like this kid coming in
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: from Penn State, But but are we are we really
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: we really thinking this guy's gonna put up the same
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: kind of numbers they've gotten the last couple of quarterbacks.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: And yeah, they guys, But then drink Woodz always figures
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: out how to get it done. I mean, he's over
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: achieve a bunch, So so that is that is an
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: this is an interesting team. But man, you look at
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: this schedule and holy smokes, Central Arkansas, Kansas at home,
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Louisiana at home, South Carolina at home.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: U Mass at home. Off week Alabama at home.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: They're gonna be five and oh most likely when Fama
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: comes to town.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there and we'll live in the state
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: of South Carolina.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: They're at all Are you if this team's remotely as
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: good as they were last year, how.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: They can win off both those games?
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: They are literally seven and one if they lose Tobama
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: and then then then it gets a little more difficult.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: But I mean, they're at they get a and Evan home,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: they get Mississippi State at home, they're at Oklahoma, and
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: they're at Arkansas. They win at Arkansas, they probably should
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: win at Arkansas, will beat Mississippi State at home. I mean,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: you start looking at this team and you're like, damn,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: how the ain't not gonna win eight games? They're not
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: to suck to not win eight games. I know, you know,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: I do think crazy it's gonna be a little better,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: but I ain't they're gonna win that football game that's
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: a rivalry football game. But I think they're gonna. I
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: think they're gonna win that football game. So all of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: I say all of this to say, man, the Tigers,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: they need to be given a hundred dollars handshakes to
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: whoever the hell gave them this at the SEC office.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: It's a it's a good schedule for especially when you
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: look at a team that's rebuilding. Eli Drinkowitz quietly as
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: one eleven games two years ago.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: He's won kid games last year.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: He's been there, you know, several years now at this point,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: he's done a hell of a job at mis Zoo.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: And again, like I said, some of these job openings
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: come up, I think you got to get this guy's
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: all because it's not like the Zoo is a perennial
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: blue blood type program.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: And he's winning back to back years where he's got over.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Ten wins and he's playing SEC schedules and so it's
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: fascinating to me.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't have any idea what to do
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: with that team. Yet the other team, like I said,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: I don't have any idea what to do with this Tennessee.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: You know, losing the quarterback, they lost a lot of
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: pieces off of this team, a lot of pieces, And
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: I just don't know what you're gonna get.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: I would be I would not be surprised.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: That all this team was seven and five or eight
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and four and was competitive all season long.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: Too.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing, Mark, and I believe this. I think, well,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: agalar are not nearly as talented of a player.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: He's experienced. He was a good quarterback at Appy.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: State, and I think you're gonna get a You may
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: get the same production out of this football team because
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you go back minus
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: Nko running, he wasn't very good.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was an average gause, he was okay.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: Now he's talented, and do I think he was going
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: to grow into something. Absolutely? I think that's what's And look,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: they got a great quarterback coach too, and meaning their
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: head coach is a great coach of the quarterback position.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: So I think he was absolutely gonna develop.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I think you're
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: going to get a very similar production that got even
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: though they lose their three best pass catchers and went
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: out and got some they went out and got some
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: good guys. I think defensively is where this team is
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: probably gonna take a step back. But I think they're
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: still gonna be a good football team. Playoff team.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they won't make the playoffs, but I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: do think they're probably gonna be pretty good team.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Bottom teams I've gotten this conference. You can break them
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: down whatever you want to is Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Mississippi State.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Uh. Vandy's probably the one that will get the most notoriety,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: obviously with Diego Pobby and his team went seven and
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: six last year. To go bowling probably saved Clark Lee's job.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: He's done a good job, I think, you know, trying
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to you know, manage the expectation but also do well
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: the spot here uh schedule.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: It will be a grinder all year long. This defense
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: is terrible. It was terrible last year. It'll be terrible
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: again this year.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: They just don't have the dudes to do it offensively, though.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll be in some games. The only thing
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: they don't have going for them this year that they
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: had over last year. They're not gonna sneak up on
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: anybody this year, That's right, I mean everybody this year
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be like, all right, we can't completely overlook
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  Speaker 1: bandy and you know what they're gonna try to do
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  Speaker 1: with Pavia. Uh, you know how he's moving the ball around,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. So I think they'll lose that edge.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: But I do think this team is gonna still be
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: in a lot of these games. Their schedule is just
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  Speaker 1: as tough as anybody else's. Uh, But I I can
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: see Bandy still being you know, five wins, six wins,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of where I had the squad.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, I agree with you, totally agree team. I think
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  Speaker 3: that is gonna be worse than everybody thinks. I ain't Arkansas,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm out on the Hogs. I think I'm gonna
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: go back to say the same thing I said about
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: more sellers, because really, this year, Taylor Green's all they got. Yeah,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: that is, they lost a lot of pieces. I mean,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: they lost some really good guys that I was surprised
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: went into the portal.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: To me, that says more about the state of Arkansas
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: program than anything I think Taylor. I think Taylor Green
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: is a great player, but I think again, defensive coordinators
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: are going to have had a full year to scheme
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  Speaker 3: and game plan for this kid, and I think they're
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I think I think they're gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Have some trouble. It does help them with their schedule.
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  Speaker 3: They obviously lost, obviously lost Oklahoma State, but they're at Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: You look at that, You look at this schedule, They're.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: At Ole Miss, at Memphis, Notre Dame at home. How
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: did you think they're gonna play in Memphis? The biggest
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: team's gonna go oh and three those three games.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody I've talked to it that's in the Arkansas
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: you know, programmer around It's like they're stoked about Notre
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: Dame coming in there. Stoke and uh and so yes,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely think this team when they played Memphis is
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: gonna be something.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: That we could easily.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: You know, I'll be laying Memphis in this game because
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: I actually think Memphis is gonna be pretty good.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: And I don't have a lot of faith.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: Don't make any hay. It's gonna it's gonna come down
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  Speaker 3: to that Memphis game and then October at Tennessee A
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: and m Auburn and Mississippi State. Only Tennessee's on the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: road in the month of October. They gotta go three
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: and oh in those three home games, in my opinion,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: and if they win at Memphis, that gives them six wins.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: That's already better than I think this team's probably gonna be.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: Uh because at LSU Missouri to end, I think they
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: lose all three of those games to end and they
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: win seven games if they can win at if they
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: can go undefeated in October and beat Memphis. But I
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: think this football team is more like more likely to
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: be four and eight. I think missisis date is absolutely
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: thinking that they can win this ball game, you know.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: So I think there's some teams coming in there. I
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: think Auburn's thinking they can win this football game. I
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: think I think A and M has it chalked up
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: as they win, you know, in in Jerry World. So
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: I think that is I think that's the excuse me,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: They're they're done at Jerry World, right, They're going to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: They're going to faetball this year, so the U. So
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: I mean that's a So that right there is a big,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: big part of this. So I I think I'm selling
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: on Arkansas. I think Sam Pittman's gone, uh is my
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: honest is my honest opinion. But I do think Bobby
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: Petrino is an excellent offensive football coach. So that that
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: is the one. Hey, I just don't think this defense
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: is gonna be get enough to get it done.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fading on this team.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: I know how.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Kentucky, not how Kentucky, not how Missippi State.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think Kentucky's got real problems
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: Zach Klzaida coming over at quarterback. At the end of
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: the day, I just don't think he's very good. I
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: think they've had better quarterbacks and hadn't gotten good numbers
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: out of them. And I don't think Kentucky's good. I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: think this is likely the end of the Stoops era,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: and it has been a damn good one, probably the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: best since Bear Bryant was in Lexington.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: And my beloved Ouldogs.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: If Jeff Levy gets these guys bull eligible, he ought
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: to be coaching the year. And I don't care if
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: an SEC team goes sixteen and oh and wins the NATI.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: I mean that he gets them six and six and
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: he's done an unbelievable job. I do think the team's better.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: I do think they might win a game or two
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: they shouldn't, but it is an absolutely brutal schedule. Last
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: year was the toughest schedule in the country. I think
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 2: May be equally as tough or tougher.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: They're at so other than miss the Star, Arizona State
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: at home, Alcorn State, Northern Illinois, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: At A and M off.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Week, at Florida, Texas, at Arkansas, Georgia at Missouri off week,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: Ole miss That doesn't set up very good for the Boks.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: That's a lot of two and three and nine four
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: and eight. I mean they could be a significantly better
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: football team, significantly better and go four and eight.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: I think they are better. I think they're but ten.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: They also bring in my favorite player from the portal
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: give it to Bluff bluff Boxwell, I knew that's where
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: you're going. Is that not good? Do you know? Do
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: you know why his name is Bluff? I do not.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Apparently he was an eleven pound baby when he was born.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: And folks, if we have some younger listening, I don't know.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: If your wife ships out an eleven pound baby, that's
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: a big kid that's coming.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: Out thirteen ounces. I was evidently I was plucked. Start
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: calling you Fluff Dinston the uh.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: I will tell you an interesting thing about this about
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: this football team, I think they're better. They lost some
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: really good players offensive line and defensive line. They were
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: atrocious on the defensive line last year. Are they better?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: I think so, but how much better? Offensive line has
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: got to be better. Quarterback spots fascinating to me. Blake
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Chafin got hurt early, think highly of them, but man,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: they've got some really good players. Bulldog brought in a
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: top fifteen quarterback in the country, a kid named Kamario Taylor,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: Mississippi kid.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: Kids got a rocket arm, super athlete, big kid. Fascinated
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: to see how much he's on the field because they
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: also have a good.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: The kid coming in from Florida State as the quarterback, Luke.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: I can't even pre Crowman Hooick or however you say
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: his last name, but he's actually on the roster, and
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: I know Levy loves that.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: Kid, so he was the one that took over after
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: that's great quarterback. I heard a couple of years ago.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: That's correct.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: So fascinated. Fascinated to see how the quarterback play at
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State goes. There's no shortage of ability behind shape
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: and if he struggles at all, and I can't imagine
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: he's not going to struggle with this schedule and that
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: offensive line, so fascinated to see what goes on with
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: this football team. Obviously from a personal aspect, but just
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't look like But I also think they're talented enough
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: we could get some covers from Mississippi State, especially at
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: home or even in road games, depending on what spot
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: they're falling on schedules for people, because I think this
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: team's going to be significantly better. And look, they covered
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: a bunch covered Texas over Georgia. They covered all those
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: big numbers they got last year, played better than laid
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: eggs at home when when line started getting tight, So
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: to be fascinating to see how all that works. I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: think State's gonna be an interesting team to see. Can
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: you gamble on these guys and make some money?
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Do you so?
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Week one when they have to go to Hattiesburg. Speaking
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: of signing weird deals, why on earth was going to
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: committment to go down and play the Mustard buzzards? And
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: you not only that this team right here is that
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Southern miss is fantastic. There are more players that started
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: for Marshall last year that are going to play for
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Southern mess that are still on the Marshall roster. He
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: brought twenty one starters for the Marshall roster to Southern
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: mess with him. When Charles Hufcot canned and took this job.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: The line's fourteen. If you had to bet at today or.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: You I beat the I bet the buzzers and a heartbeat,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: I pro real best the buzzards opening. I think that
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: number is a little too big candidly, but I see
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: them winning this game straight up.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: You bet your bottom dollar I can. This program's not fixed.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: Although Levy will tell you he believes his backups this
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: year could have beaten the starters last year.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: He believes that well. I do think there's going to
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: be some opportunity here. You're going to get a huge
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: number Week two when they have Arizona State comes from town. Huge.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: Look, I don't think that team that team. Look, I
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: know their quarterback's good. Cam's Kataboo made that team. It
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: was his attitude, his mindset. It was a full mindset
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: that that full team embraced. And what do they do
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 3: now that he's gone. I think there's a lot of questions.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: We'll get to that when we get to the big
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: twelve by Arizona State and still a really young football code.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: Tremendous job. The first two years, But what do they
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: do year three? And is this something that's going to
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: be a long term deal at Arizona State or was
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: that a special season and then they fall back to normal.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: That's gonna be a great storyline coming out of Tucson too,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: I mean coming out of me.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: So, if you had to, what are your favorite two
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: sec preseason best I don't know if you've made any
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: or not.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: I have not made any yet, but I'm going to.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: I will tell you what probably my favorite. My I really.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: Really like odds. And I know that sounds sounds crazy,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: what some heisman ods.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: Ryan Williams at Alabama could make some real hay. I
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: mean that kid was a complete, complete showman. If Alabama's
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: as good as I think they are, I think Simpson's
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: got a chance to so I think that will be
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: that will be really really fascinating. So that's the that's
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: the that that that's the couple I like. So I
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: think they are surprised. They could really surprise some people
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: with some with the numbers that they're able to put up.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: And I would also tell you I think if Oklahoma
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: is a playoff team, which I think they have the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: ability to do my tier is going to be a
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: real Heisman contender.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: Ryan Williams thirty five to one. Yep, to win the
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: How is Reuben Owens twenty five to one and Ryan
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Williams is thirty five to one? That was even seen? Yeah,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: the kids play you got him? Man? That is crazy?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and the tiers. Let's see what we get
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: here to go find him? Yeah, two hundred or something
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: to one, and he, I mean he's way down. Maybe
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: I got to look at that. It pick Colin Simmons
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: at forty to one. They won't give you big numbers
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: at two hundred and one anymore. After Well, you can
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: still take Caleb downs at Ohio State. He's one hundred
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: and twenty five to one.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: You know, I think Jerff who's gonna win Hesman? Here's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: that Jeremiah Smith. As we talked about Ohio State. We'll
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: talk about that on the Big ten. But I had
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: that's who. I think that you talk about a great
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: flyer on the I think he's twelve to one. Last
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: time I looked, thank.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: You seventeen to one.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: Seventeen Yeah, So I mean that's that's twenty eight to one.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: So I mean that's a so that is a that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: those are the guys that I think have got long shots.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: That I mean, you can put just a small bet
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: out there and really get you know, get paid off.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, man, that was fun.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to We'll have more bets put together.
• 1:15:37
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• 1:15:39
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• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: a long drive of long Walker and great workout, so
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: we appreciate it. But there's so many damn teams in
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: the conference now, it takes forever to get through.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 5: We'll keep plowing along. Next one'll put up Scott, you
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: will do Big ten or the Big twelve.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: Let's do Big ten. Next one'll put up next week
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: a big Big ten conference.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: Then we'll go to America's conference the Big twelve, trying
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: to figure out who's.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: Gonna win that thing. And then we'll start grouping up
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: the group of five conferences we go through there. I
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: love the sun Belt this year. I'm pretty excited. I'm
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: pretty excited about it.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: My love for the sun Belt has replaced my love
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: for the MAC.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: I feel like the MAC has just been ravaged. I
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: don't think is gonna dominate that lead I've already got
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: I've got a couple of early season bets.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: I like on Toledo to win a couple of games
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: out right, So I'm pretty excited about it.
• 1:16:27
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• 1:16:30
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• 1:16:32
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• 1:16:33
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• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: We'll keep everything flying ahead, looking forward to another great season.