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Mac & Bone Show - Jake Crain Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about it all. Let's let's celebrate talking
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  Speaker 1: season with our next guest. Jake Crane joins us here
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  Speaker 1: from the Great Crane and Cone Show. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to at Jake Crane Underscore, c R A I and
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  Speaker 1: Underscore on Twitter slash x you can find the YouTube
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  Speaker 1: link to the show. But he is a ball knower
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  Speaker 1: and a ball lover when it comes to college football,
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  Speaker 1: and he's joined us here on the Mack and Bone Show. Jake,
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  Speaker 1: It's go, Tom Baby, how you feeling, man?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I'm feeling great. Yeah, it's all I know. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only thing I know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, dude, I'm so fired up. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: every time we get to media day, especially SEC media Day,
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  Speaker 3: we're we're kind of getting to the fourth quarter of
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  Speaker 3: the so called off season. But yeah, man, a lot
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  Speaker 3: going on, a lot to get to and yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: hate I miss the the Big twelve Monster Energy. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Triple AUSA dot Com Media Day.
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  Speaker 1: They're like a damn NASCAR driver in Victory Lane mentioning
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  Speaker 1: their sponsors at media dare like.
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  Speaker 3: A dinner at Ricky Bobby's.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, man, I love it all. Right, So
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  Speaker 1: let's let's start right at the top with the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of the coverage yesterday on
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  Speaker 1: the SEC network and they're already breaking it down, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe you think this isn't right, but they were breaking
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  Speaker 1: down a Georgia Texas battle for the title. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's what it comes down to? Or do you
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  Speaker 1: want to throw somebody else into the mix?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're never.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy to put Georgia in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously in the championship game.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like Alabama's got to be in there somewhere too.
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  Speaker 3: But man, I tell you, we did our top SEC
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  Speaker 3: offenses yesterday. We're doing defenses today and a player ranking
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  Speaker 3: and going to get to predictions. Man, it seems about
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  Speaker 3: as wide open. And it's not because you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think the SEC maybe better than it's ever been from
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  Speaker 3: top to back. But I do think there's more parody
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  Speaker 3: at the top then there's been in a long time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we remember when Nick Saban monopolized the sport,
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  Speaker 3: and then Kirby Smart did it for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: seasons right after that, and then nil hits. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you'd be crazy to throw Texas, to throw
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  Speaker 3: Georgia to throw Oklahoma to throw A and m to
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  Speaker 3: throw LSU to throw Old Miss.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can keep going, dude.
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  Speaker 3: You look at Bama. I mean, let's be honest, it's uh.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot more Victoria's Secret models at the top
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  Speaker 3: of the runway list of the SEC than there used
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  Speaker 3: to be, even though she used to be the baddest
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  Speaker 3: on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: That's fun though. If it's that freaking wide open, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a fun season.
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  Speaker 4: Ask you about the teams that weren't Georgia in Texas
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  Speaker 4: and you name them all off there, but say, Ole Miss, Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 4: A and m Bama. Which of those four and maybe
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  Speaker 4: LSU if you want to, But of those four or five,
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  Speaker 4: which one do you actually like the most entering the season?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as far as picking out of that group,
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  Speaker 3: who was you, you know, throw me in a in
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  Speaker 3: a room with a hood on and have people talking
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  Speaker 3: around me, who would I pick. I'm gonna family surprise.
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  Speaker 2: For people here. I'm gonna go Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, man, I look at the recipe.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously they lost our Mason Thomas the double
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  Speaker 3: pieces on defense, but they've added on defense. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of continuity. They were the number one defense in
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  Speaker 3: the SEC and points per game last year. Brent Venables,
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  Speaker 3: that's his baby, And I'm just telling you offensively, there's
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  Speaker 3: just no way that Bill Beatenbaum, their offensive line coach,
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  Speaker 3: who's a legend in the game, puts another product out
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  Speaker 3: there that looks the way that it looked. John Mattier
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  Speaker 3: had to be the whole team.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's perfect. Nobody is. But if Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: can have.
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  Speaker 3: A semblance of a run game, I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 3: despite these senses are tingling for the guys in Norman,
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  Speaker 3: and it has nothing to do with baseball doing what
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  Speaker 3: they did either.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, man, Yeah, that is a and that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough, tough schedule, but they are an intriguing team.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta feel like Mateer he said it yesterday, not
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  Speaker 1: making excuses, but he had to kind of change the
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  Speaker 1: way he threw the ball with that injury. You get
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  Speaker 1: the feeling you're gonna get a much better version of him. Jake.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Lane Kiffin at LSU because
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  Speaker 1: that might be the sexiest storyline of them all, the
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  Speaker 1: controversial move. You know that that the whole free world
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  Speaker 1: outside Louisiana is going to be rooting against him. What
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  Speaker 1: do you expect for year one for Lane Kiffin and Company.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, you know, I give Lane credits for going
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  Speaker 3: to a place that the pressure is at an all
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  Speaker 3: time high. You know, he could have stayed at Old
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  Speaker 3: Miss and look, who knows what would have gone down
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  Speaker 3: in Old Miss if he had stayed there and had
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of success and you know, become like King
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  Speaker 3: of the Castle, King of the castle. But he just
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  Speaker 3: he didn't want to just take over due log. He
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  Speaker 3: wanted to take over the whole thing. Uh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: a that's a Shrek reference. My daughter won't stop watching it.
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  Speaker 2: She's eighteen months old. So nice, But.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking that was Game of Thrones and I
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  Speaker 4: got confused.
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  Speaker 3: Nor Well, in a way, it's the same thing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: to me, the pressure is at an all time because
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  Speaker 3: you're paying this guy and oodles.
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  Speaker 2: And oodles of money.
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  Speaker 3: You spent forty million dollars on a roster, and the
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  Speaker 3: expectation I think anything less than a playoff versus a disappointment.
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  Speaker 3: But but you know, Lane wants to smoke and I
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  Speaker 3: give him credit for that.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not. He wants it.
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  Speaker 4: Jake Shane Beemer speaking today, what are you expecting from
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  Speaker 4: the game cots and specifically what what Nora's sellers. Will
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  Speaker 4: this be the guy that ended the season two years
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  Speaker 4: ago red hot, or you know a guy that was
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  Speaker 4: part of a really struggling team a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, it's the offensive line doesn't get better,
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  Speaker 3: and that's been the question I think for South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: really the big weakness. I mean, Leonoris, Guys, last year
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  Speaker 3: you finished what one hundred and twenty first in rushing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean last two seasons, Leonoris has ran from everybody
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  Speaker 3: except the tops. I mean, at some point, South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the offensive line, man, just be good. You know,
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  Speaker 3: nobody's asking me to be a steamroller. You've got that
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  Speaker 3: dinosaur at quarterback, Nicholas Harbor, and look, I think he's
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  Speaker 3: incredibly talented.
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  Speaker 2: Demand's like Zoolander. It's all the same.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 2: He can just run.
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  Speaker 3: Deep and maybe a post every now and then. He's
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  Speaker 3: got to be able to branch out that route. Seat
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  Speaker 3: But South Carolina's got players, you know, it's it's the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line. So if the offensive line is just good enough,
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina I think has a chance to have a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big season. I want to be shocked if they
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  Speaker 3: knocked off Georgia or somebody in the regular But it's
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  Speaker 3: just hard for me to believe in. And Kendall Browns
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  Speaker 3: was a great hire. I like Kendall a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But if that.
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  Speaker 3: Offensive line isn't fix, it's not gonna work. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's the engine of the car, that's the heart
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  Speaker 3: of the body, that's the roots of the tree. And
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  Speaker 3: they just haven't figured it out yet.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in brought in a ton of O line transfers,
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  Speaker 1: but did they get the evol right?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Are they healthy? But man, give Leonora Sellers some protection
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  Speaker 1: and help for God's sakes. Okay, So arch Mania is
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  Speaker 1: happening all over again, right like last year arch Mania
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  Speaker 1: was upon us. He gets off to the slow start,
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  Speaker 1: but then he kind of gets it right and finishes strong.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're to the point and my god, they've
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  Speaker 1: added into portal to help him out. How do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like, is he like, do you think he can
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  Speaker 1: make good and be you know, the best or second
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  Speaker 1: beat like one of the top three quarterbacks in college
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  Speaker 1: football this year? Can he pay all that hype off?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 3: I mean are we talking about just statistically, are we
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  Speaker 3: talking about him being one of the best three quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: of the country just kind of in general in general?
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  Speaker 3: I think yeah, I think sometimes we get lost in
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  Speaker 3: the stats a little bit. You know, there's some really
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  Speaker 3: good quarterbacks that have really good run games out there
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  Speaker 3: that can kind of hide the numbers. Yes, I think
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  Speaker 3: Art has that type of talent and ability.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny with Art. To me, I can
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  Speaker 2: see both sides of the coin.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, one, the hype was just ridiculous, Like I
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  Speaker 3: don't care who you're related to. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 3: kind of like Harry Potter. You know, he didn't mean
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  Speaker 3: for it to be like this. It just kind of
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  Speaker 3: was like this. Like you know, I was just six
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  Speaker 3: months old in my crib when I beat Voldemort on
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  Speaker 3: accident kind of things, so I don't you know, so
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  Speaker 3: part of me kind of feels bad for him. But
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  Speaker 3: then I realized how rich they are, and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I don't feel bad for you.
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  Speaker 3: Like what nobody cries on a jet ski, like you've
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  Speaker 3: gotten every advantage possible. But yes, I think he can,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's a mixture of his ability, his experience.
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  Speaker 3: Now in start system and obviously the personnel that they've
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  Speaker 3: added around.
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  Speaker 2: But guys, I'm gonna like a broken record. But you
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  Speaker 2: guys know it. I know it.
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  Speaker 3: God knows that. I don't think Texas is off.
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  Speaker 2: The line was great last year.
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  Speaker 3: So this isn't This isn't basketball where one guy can
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  Speaker 3: win a game, or baseball where a guy can go
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  Speaker 3: out and throw a perfect game or hit for the cycle.
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  Speaker 3: One guy can't win it. If we don't have eleven
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  Speaker 3: out there moving as one organism, we're dead.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what the logo says.
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  Speaker 4: Jake, what do you think of Tennessee this year? And
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  Speaker 4: what's your expectations for the balls? We have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of balls fans at our audience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Probably one of the hardest things I'm having to do
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  Speaker 3: as I'm looking over everything once again, is I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why I don't have belief in Tennessee, but yet
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  Speaker 3: I have some in Alabama. I mean, when you really
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  Speaker 3: look at it, they both have a similar issue and
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  Speaker 3: that it's a new starting quarterback. It's a quarterback battle.
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  Speaker 3: Both guys are green, right, which means they're going to
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  Speaker 3: make mistakes. But I look at this Alabama team, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if they're gonna be able to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Couldn't run the ball last year. Ty Simpson, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think got enough credit for what he did for Alabama
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  Speaker 3: with an absolutely abysmal run game which put them in
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  Speaker 3: third and long so much and they just wizard of
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  Speaker 3: odds their way out of it. But look at Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a good line. I trust pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm get off his bunk. Good running back room, good
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  Speaker 3: wide receiver room. The defense, to me is the question.
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  Speaker 3: I love Jim Knowles, His system takes a little time.
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  Speaker 3: The personnel I think is good over there, it's not great.
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  Speaker 3: So I you know, I look at the defensive side
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  Speaker 3: of the ball. It's where I worry about Tennessee. But
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  Speaker 3: I would not be shocked if they went seven and five.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be shocked if they went nine and three.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a pretty hard projection, to be.
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  Speaker 1: Honest, No, it is, man. It's it's fun to just
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  Speaker 1: be and it's hard to project in general with so
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  Speaker 1: many changes with these programs, but that will not stop
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  Speaker 1: us from trying. Brother, you are getting rave reviews on
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  Speaker 1: our text line, and I got to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't said anything nice about us in five so
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  Speaker 1: like you, you are winning.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it with my grandparents listen,
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, well keep up the good work. It is Crane
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  Speaker 1: and Cone. Check out these guys college football lovers. A
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: lot of good so other college football chatter as well,
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  Speaker 1: and fun analogies as you can see too, coming from
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  Speaker 1: Jake Crane. Jake, thanks so much for coming on. Man,
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  Speaker 1: be good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, anytime you guys need me, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's sell, Let's go and get the season here, all
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  Speaker 3: right
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  Speaker 4: No doubt, no doubt,