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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

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 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

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 The Boomo Bugg Show.

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 Your exclusive inside track to the Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC.

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 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9.

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 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome in to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in.

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 Where the question is, are you ready for the curtain to come up on week one?

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 That's week one of the college football season.

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 Hello and how are you?

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 Happy Thursday to you and the listeners.

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 Yes, it is time to play football and talking season is over.

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 Thank you, God.

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 Benjamin Ray, voice of the UNA Lions, will preview a trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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 Caleb Suggs of the Decatur Daily previews week three.

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 Yes, week three of high school football.

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 And BB is here right now to preview week one of college football.

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 BB, you know, back in the day when he was in college, all the ladies, they saw Bill.

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 And now he is being sawed by every voice out there when it comes to telling us what's going to happen on the gridirons for week one of college football.

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 When he's not busy doing that, he is the voice of the sporting news.

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 Bill Bender, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Harold, Brett.

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 Well, Brett said talking season's over, but they're talking in a courtroom down here right now.

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 So it's not quite over, but I can't wait for that to happen.

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 Judge, what in the world is going to be the verdict?

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 Are we tired of that mess?

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 What is it going to take for us to say, it's just like kids fussing, and mommy and daddy comes in and says, do I have to stop this car?

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 I mean, is Lane and his crazy nuts down in Louisiana going to win the war here?

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 Are they going to wear people out, or what's the deal, Bill?

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 Well, they could win and still lose.

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 You know what I mean?

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 Because you can win in that courtroom.

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 But I think, you know, it's kind of what I thought about the Brendan Sorsby case earlier this summer, where you can lose in the court of college football opinion.

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 And I think that's very real with what we're dealing with right now.

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 I want it to be over.

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 I don't want there to be NFL players on the sideline.

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 I thought the reactions, Harold, from NFL GMs and coaches this week are like, what are you guys doing down there?

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 That's a bunch of kids that just basically everybody wants to keep their own toys.

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 Bill, obviously, week one is here.

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 We say it that way because a lot of folks said I thought it started last week.

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 It starts tonight.

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 And amongst the games on the menu is the opening act for an SEC team, Missouri.

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 I don't think we're going to find out a whole lot about their opponent tonight, Arkansas Pine Bluff.

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 But what grabs your attention for week one of college football across the country?

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 Down your way, Keelan Russell.

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 It was titled The Seven Teams That Can Win the National Championship, and Alabama is not on that list.

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 But if you read down to the SEC part, I say very clearly, I struggled with this one because if Keelan Russell is who I think he's going to be, they're the wild card.

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 They're the eight that I would put on there because I know the talent's there.

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 And I'm not saying it because I'm on your radio station.

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 Some others might prefer LSU or Ole Miss or Oklahoma, and I get that.

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 I chuckled out loud on the weather update when I heard 100.

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 Yeah, we've joked about it for years that the legislature needs to pass a law that you cannot kick off a college football game in the South in September before 6 o'clock.

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 Auburn, Baylor, Alex Golich debuted for the Tigers.

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 Baylor, basically a new team.

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 And the Baylor Bears, who Dave Aranda is a defensive guru or used to be, gave up 197 yards rushing a game last year.

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 Sunday night is one of the best slates I've seen in a while.

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 The Apple Cup is at 3 o'clock on NBC, Washington State, Washington.

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 Huskies are 23-and-a-half-point favorite.

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 Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Lambeau Field, the home field of Bill Bender's favorite NFL team.

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 The Irish, 20-and-a-half-point favorite.

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 I keep hearing Luke Fickle has a better, more physical team.

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 Number 9 Ole Miss, number 24 Louisville, 6-30 on ABC.

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 There's one of two reactions that could happen.

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 Or Notre Dame beats them 42-10 and we start proclaiming that they're the national champs.

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 Five nights, starting tonight, of college football is a dream for all of us fanatics.

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 It'll be kept with Florida State and SMU.

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 SMU obviously comes in the heavy favorite.

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 Well, then there'll be unrest about Michael Vell and that blowout at Florida State.

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 The blowout will lead to a buyout, right?

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 Florida State didn't look great.

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 Bill Bender also has LSU beating Clemson 28-24, but they don't cover the 10.5-point spread.

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 Clemson had nine players taken in the NFL draft last year and finished and won seven games.

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 The circus ringmaster will be on primetime Saturday night.

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 I have, Brett, a little bit of a fascination factor here with Vizina, though, tall quarterback.

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 We wrote, you know, the reasons that we love college football today, and I put that out there for us today.

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 And one of the pieces I love Lane is because he is annoying.

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 And he is, you know, one of those guys that, you know, love him or hate him, anything in between, he gets a reaction.

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 He really burrows into your brain a little bit.

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 And I think a lot of, I'll tell you this way, everybody up here in the 10th country, my buddies, they're all rooting for Clemson.

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 Lane is that boy that sat behind you in school and flipped you in the ears and the teacher wasn't looking.

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 And then, golly gee, threw his dimples at the teacher and said, me?

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 A little old innocent, me?

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 Bill, obviously, every year we have that giant killer.

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 One team I'm going to watch, Michigan opens with Western Michigan.

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 Western Michigan picked to win the MAAC.

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 But, you know, you could say, I just think this can be a little bit of a different vibe around Michigan with Whittingham than they had last year with Sharon.

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 I'm going to be curious to see if Fresno State can keep that USC game a little closer.

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 That's tomorrow night.

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 On Fox, you've got USC winning 42-17.

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 Those USC freshmen, Trent Mosley, the receiver, and Dixon Wyatt and Alston were quite impressive.

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 Gary Patterson, they gave up 26 points in the fourth quarter to San Jose.

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 That's going to, but I agree with you.

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 I don't think there are many upsets this weekend.

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 Great stuff.

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 Get online and look at your predictions for the top 25, the top seven teams who can win a national championship, and everything else.

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 Where can we get online and look at it and have a great five days of watching football?

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 It's all at sportingnews.com.

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 I love talking football games with you guys.

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 And, Brett, Harold, I hope you guys have a great weekend.

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 Stay, you know, cool as you can.

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 And be good down there.

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 I'll talk to you guys next week.

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 I appreciate it.

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 Sounds great, Bill.

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 If you don't mind sending some of that northern weather, we certainly would appreciate that, too.

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 On Thursday's edition of Crimson Drive, driven by NASCAR, we'll be joined by Alabama defensive lineman Devin Tompkins.

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 I think everyone started to deal with each other around the same time.

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 I would say like midway through spring and, you know, it's only been going uphill from there.

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 And, you know, that's really going to help us when we get on the field.

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 But I would say this is a close-knit group for sure.

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 One of the closer ones I've been around to.

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 And we know you're thrilled to be at Alabama.

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 I mean, you put the script A on your body.

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 How soon afterwards do you get that?

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 For sure.

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 I got it.

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 I would say it was like May 8th.

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 I think that was the day.

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 I got it because, sure, I got that SC one too, but I got this one because it's obviously where I'm going to be drafted out of.

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 And, you know, I felt a real brotherhood already since being here, and I felt like it's going to be a part of my legacy that I'm continuing to build every day.

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 So, you know, I had to get that script A.

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 Welcome back, Ken.

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 Isn't it amazing?

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 We've just been talking, talking, talking about week one of the college football season, about to get rocking and rolling.

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 And believe it or not, by the time college football gets rocking, high school football will be through week three.

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 You heard right.

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 Caleb Suggs has been a busy boy following it all there at the Decatur Daily.

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 Caleb, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing good, guys.

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 Technically, it's week two.

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 If we want to be technical about it.

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 Nope.

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 But, yeah, it's the third game.

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 Yeah, a lot of us fail math.

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 And I think the folks in Montgomery could be counted in.

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 If it's the third game, it's week two.

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 Then it must be the modern math.

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 But, Caleb, be that as it may.

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 It looks like it's rivalry week, including one there in your backyard, Decatur and Austin.

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 Very interesting records coming in relative to the last few years.

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 Decatur comes in, even Steven, at one and one.

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 And Austin is still looking for their first win of the season.

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 would have believed you.

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 If you told me that before the season, it's been one of the biggest surprises to see them

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 kind of struggle early, offensively and defensively.

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 I think they've had some shaky QB play, which isn't normal.

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 I've seen Coach Perkins' teams have, you know, someone to have a new starter, some uneven

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 quarterback play.

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 They usually get that hashed out.

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 The defense is what's been surprising, just seeing them give up 45 to James Clemens, 38

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 to Spartan.

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 That's just very unlike them.

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 So, it's just to see if they can get it kind of fixed.

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 And then you look at Decatur, you know, it's been a struggle very lately.

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 And I think they've since an opportunity.

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 You know, I feel like they've been better offensively.

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 They kind of were okay last week, but their quarterback was out.

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 He'll be back this week.

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 So, I think that's going to be a push.

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 But, you know, you look at this game the last three years, they've only scored nine points

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 So, something's got to give.

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 Either Austin's got to be better defensively this week, or Decatur's going to finally have

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 that offensive breakthrough they're looking for in this game.

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 One of the best matchups in North Alabama tomorrow night, Russellville, Golden Tigers

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 undefeated under Daryl Higgins.

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 They beat Desser when Desser failed to convert a two-point conversion at the end of the game.

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 Then beat St.

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 Morris Hill.

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 Daryl Higgins knows that team pretty well.

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 Their first regular season loss in 21, actually 21 games.

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 And you hit on this last week.

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 Everybody thought Hartzell was going to go and win and beat Coleman.

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 I've heard Coleman was improved, and things happen when you go to Coleman.

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 Well, they did last week to Hartzell.

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 They ended that game on the five-yard line.

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 Manic Southern, 73 yards.

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 Mara, 71.

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 They ran the ball pretty well.

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 Russellville, Tripp, Cleveland, their quarterbacks have a great season for them.

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 This should be one of the best games, I think, in North Alabama.

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 But Russellville, 2-0 at Hartzell, 1-1.

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 Yeah, and I'm excited we're getting this right way back.

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 You know, I can remember back when in the 2000s, around the time that, you know, I was playing,

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 you know, this was a huge deal, one of the biggest games in all of Alabama.

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 So, excited to see it back.

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 I'm not surprised that Higgins already has Russellville looking really good, beating two

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 really good teams.

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 Obviously, though, this is a bigger step up in competition when you're going to play

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 Hartzell, especially at Hartzell.

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 And then you look at Hartzell, you know, like I said last week, I knew it was going to be

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 tough.

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 And I think that, I think you got exactly what you normally get out of a young team.

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 They had a huge win that I think caught a lot of people by surprise over Bob Jones.

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 And then they had a little bit of a sophomore slump on the road in the second week.

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 They played not very well in the first half.

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 I think they had some missed opportunities in the second.

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 So, I think they're kicking themselves.

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 I expect them to be back to more of what you saw week one.

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 So, you know, I think this is going to be a really good game, I think.

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 But I'm not sure Russell's quite there yet.

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 But it's not going to take long for them to get there.

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 And you may see glimpses of that this Friday.

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 Caleb Suggs, and now with us, the Decatur Daily.

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 Caleb, first things first, as we talked about rivalry games, if you're over in Limestone

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 County, you know this, Athens and East Limestone, your thoughts about tonight's matchup?

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 Well, my first thought is, some of the stuff we use AI for is just hilarious.

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 I saw a picture where they put East Limestone's big field house, they put home of Cody Grossfield

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 or something like that.

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 So, stirring the rivalry up there.

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 But yeah, I mean, it's exciting to get this rivalry back.

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 I think they haven't played since 2023.

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 Athens, you know, they beat West Morgan week one, went on the road last week, lost a tough game

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 to Bob Jones.

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 I'm interested to see, I think East Limestone's better than I thought they'd be two weeks in.

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 I know you're thinking we're 0-2, but they're ahead of where I, you know, Coach Jawan Simpson,

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 he's a great coach, so they're ahead of where I thought they'd be.

457
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,720
 So, and this is a rivalry game, it's a home game, East Limestone's first.

458
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459
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 it's not going to surprise me.

460
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 Brooks, 1-1 at West Morgan.

461
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:25,140
 I had to look at this twice again, 0-2 after a 34-game regular season winning streak.

462
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 West Morgan has made some mistakes in their first two losses.

463
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 They've got a stable of backs.

464
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:34,780
 Wiggins, Stover, Taylor Stevenson, as you mentioned.

465
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 Brooks, Speedy Coffee, what a name for a running back.

466
00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:45,160
 Tavion Casey is a good quarterback, 174 yards last week.

467
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 It would be hard for me to envision West Morgan starting the season 0-3.

468
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 Yeah, that would be crazy, you know, 0-2.

469
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 I mean, it's just crazy in itself.

470
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 I mean, credit to them for going out and scheduling two really good, you know, out-of-region opponents.

471
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 And this is unfamiliar territory for them.

472
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 None of these players on the current roster know what this is like to lose back-to-back games.

473
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 I mean, literally, they don't.

474
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,220
 But Coach Drew Phillips is one of the best motivators out there.

475
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,840
 And so, I'm sure he'll get it turned around.

476
00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:16,640
 And I think this is going to be a very exciting game.

477
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 Absolutely.

478
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 Listen, great stuff.

479
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 I really like the stance, the previews, your predictions.

480
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 Where can we get online and get tonight's game, tomorrow night's game,

481
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 and certainly the recap on Friday and the weekend?

482
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 Yeah, you can get online at decatordano.com and find all that stuff.

483
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 Sounds great.

484
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497
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498
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 Osaka had blown a 5-3 lead in set two.

499
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500
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 and is right now serving for the match.

501
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502
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503
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504
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505
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 they're even at a set apiece.

506
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 The 9-seed Taylor Fritz will take on Italian Mattia Bellucci later.

507
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 We like Lane.

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 I don't know about that one, Paul.

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 You would be surprised, Sean.

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 All fun gone.

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 Weekdays at 3 Eastern on the ESPN app and the SEC network.

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 Welcome back in.

631
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 How ironic is that, BB, talking about Lane, even as we speak.

632
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 Bill Bender alluded to it earlier.

633
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 Busy right now.

634
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 The SEC says, if you can do it, we can do it.

635
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 They are formally filing a lawsuit against LSU, including Lane Kiffin, the press down there in the AD.

636
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 It's been done in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Alabama.

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 Now, Huntsville has a location.

638
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 Birmingham has a location.

639
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 I haven't seen a specific city, but that is the breaking news happening even as we speak.

640
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 LSU said, we want to play the pro players.

641
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 The SEC says it will be after a judge says you can, BB.

642
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 Well, the roster, you've got to set your roster tomorrow, basically for the season.

643
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 And this ruling is going to have a big impact on that.

644
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 But it's very obvious, Harold.

645
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 The SEC is not playing around with this.

646
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 No, and you can't blame them.

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 They've got to go ahead and take the lick because if they let the Pandora out of the box here, who knows where it will end.

648
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 Where we're going to start this segment is in Knoxville, Tennessee with RC on UT.

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 Ryan Callahan got the Tennessee cover there at Gold Vols 24-7.

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 Ryan, welcome in.

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 Are you in the courts today with Lane?

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 Or how's life treating you, man?

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 So we try to stay out of that as long as we can.

656
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 But no, not today.

657
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 No, Tennessee's got Furman on the brain, or do they?

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 Ryan, how do you sit here?

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 But what is Tennessee trying to learn in this game against Furman in all due respect?

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 Yeah, you know, they do have a lot to learn.

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 That's where you start.

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 I think Tennessee's got to learn a lot of things about.

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 Start with the offensive line.

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 They go into the season with the right side of the offensive line being still sort of unsettled, maybe.

674
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675
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 But it's either going to be Jesse Perry at right tackle and Sham Umarov at right guard, or it's going to be Jesse Perry at right guard and Ori Williams, the LSU transfer, at right tackle.

676
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 And we'll see where that one goes.

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678
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 At wide receiver, you've got a third wide receiver job still kind of up for grabs that's going to be competed for during the season.

679
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 Radarius Jackson, T.K. Keyes, Travis Smith Jr., who comes out of that mix.

680
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 And then on the defensive side of the ball, I think is maybe the biggest one in some ways.

681
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 You know, some big questions about that side of the ball after last year, a new defensive staff, obviously doing things differently in some cases,

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 and an unproven pass rush with no really established edge rushers back on this team after the Chaz Coleman departure during the offseason.

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684
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:32,320
 And does the defensive line just in general play better than what they had last year when they struggled to stop the run, too?

685
00:39:32,460 --> 00:39:34,340
 So some major things they've got to figure out.

686
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,380
 I think we'll learn a lot about all four of those things, I think, on Saturday.

687
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:46,840
 We've talked with you throughout the summer about the acclimation to Jim Knowles coming in, one of the best defensive gurus in the country.

688
00:39:46,980 --> 00:39:53,080
 And I've been asked, well, why did Josh Heupel make a change as defensive coordinator?

689
00:39:53,380 --> 00:40:03,980
 With Tim Banks, when you look at it on paper, they were 112th in pass defense, 118th in red zone defense, and 91st in total defense.

690
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:14,800
 When I looked at that for the first time this year, I thought I was seeing things, because, again, Tennessee has historically been known for one of the better defenses in the SEC.

691
00:40:15,220 --> 00:40:21,700
 I think this is a better one, and particularly in the secondary, the corners were so beat up and hurt last year.

692
00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:24,600
 And you're right, what's the pass rush going to do?

693
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,580
 Will the linebacker core be one of the better ones?

694
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:33,820
 But I do think we're not going to be seeing Tennessee 91 in total defense at the end of the season.

695
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,420
 Yeah, that certainly is the expectation.

696
00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:39,720
 Now, that group did it last year.

697
00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:49,600
 It was really unexpected that it ended up being that bad, because they had a lot coming back from the previous year on a team that made the college football playoff.

698
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,280
 Had a lot of veterans on last year's team.

699
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:57,180
 And this team, you're replacing a lot of your depth up front in particular.

700
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:03,940
 You're replacing a couple cornerbacks that got drafted this year in Colton Hood and Jermod McCoy.

701
00:41:04,220 --> 00:41:13,340
 Of course, McCoy didn't get to play last year, but Hood was a guy that was available all of last year and was still part of a defense that had numbers that were that bad across the board.

702
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:17,020
 And they brought in several transfers to patch things up.

703
00:41:17,100 --> 00:41:18,100
 They certainly needed to.

704
00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:23,740
 That's one of the reasons they feel better about their chances of playing pretty good football across the board this year.

705
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:26,400
 And obviously, Knowles is doing some things differently.

706
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,780
 I think the system, in some ways, is a little more user-friendly for this group.

707
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:39,740
 There seem to be some things that just are allowing guys to play a little more instinctively, maybe not think quite as much after the ball snapped in particular.

708
00:41:40,300 --> 00:41:46,060
 And I think that's going to make things a little bit more intuitive for guys in terms of run fits and just knowing where to be.

709
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:54,360
 There's a lot of things on the mental side of the game that were really taxing, I think, for guys in last year's system.

710
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:58,340
 So I think this year's seems to be allowing them to play faster.

711
00:41:58,460 --> 00:42:01,340
 And if that shows up in games, that could be a really big deal.

712
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:07,940
 So, yeah, it seems like this defense really, even going back to the spring, despite installing a new system,

713
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,500
 they seem like they've caused more problems for Tennessee's offense than we ever heard about, really, with the former staff.

714
00:42:13,620 --> 00:42:18,400
 So it does seem like they've referred to Jim Knowles as a master of disguise.

715
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,960
 He knows how the disguise looks and caused some problems for opposing teams.

716
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,660
 I don't think we'll see much of that on Saturday.

717
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:30,680
 But certainly, when that's needed, that's the type of thing that could cause some problems for other teams in the SEC, too.

718
00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:33,640
 That's something that we'll see how much it helps.

719
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,640
 But I think there's a lot of reasons, and those are just a few of why Tennessee thinks it's going to be a lot better on defense this year.

720
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,860
 Jim Knowles, the wise man, wear the shoe that fits.

721
00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:46,600
 Otherwise, you get corns, and that's not very pain-free there.

722
00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:47,740
 Let's talk about it.

723
00:42:47,740 --> 00:42:49,560
 It's always interesting in game one.

724
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,900
 Everybody's got certain names on every roster that they think they're going to know.

725
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,980
 It's always fun to see the name that emerges.

726
00:42:55,700 --> 00:43:01,140
 And one name, speaking of Jim Knowles that he seems to like, is Jeremiah T. Lander.

727
00:43:01,260 --> 00:43:01,940
 What does he call him?

728
00:43:01,940 --> 00:43:04,700
 The heart and soul of Tennessee's defense.

729
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:15,160
 Yeah, and that might surprise some people who know how much Tennessee has coming back on defense, especially at linebacker, and how much depth there is in that group.

730
00:43:15,380 --> 00:43:20,380
 You think about Arian Carter being seen as probably the leader of the entire team.

731
00:43:21,340 --> 00:43:28,120
 You've got Amari Campbell, a Penn State transfer, who's also a senior and has played a good bit of football at a couple different schools.

732
00:43:28,700 --> 00:43:32,440
 And then you've got Edwin Spillman coming back, who actually led the team in tackles last year.

733
00:43:32,820 --> 00:43:40,180
 And somebody's got to be sort of the odd man out, at least one, if not two of those guys that's going to be coming off the bench once everyone's available.

734
00:43:40,180 --> 00:43:57,880
 Now, one thing about this game, Arian Carter sitting out this one because of that two-game suspension that was reduced to one game by the NCAA for what seems silly in hindsight, the flight that he paid back to his agent before he was drawing from the NFL draft.

735
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,200
 So, yeah, you've still got to see what that's going to look like.

736
00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:06,100
 But even with all that, yeah, T. Lander's the one that Jim Knowles is saying that about.

737
00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:15,160
 And I think that says a lot about how quickly a defense coordinator in his first year like that has been impressed by T. Lander and everything he brings to the table.

738
00:44:15,580 --> 00:44:17,900
 T. Lander's had a good offseason for starters.

739
00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:24,620
 He seems to have improved his athleticism by all accounts and has put up some impressive numbers in the weight room and in terms of speed development.

740
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,940
 So they think they've got a faster, more athletic linebacker.

741
00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:34,740
 And a guy that's played a lot of football with 21 career starts already under his belt in T. Lander.

742
00:44:34,740 --> 00:44:36,900
 And then this year he's doing some different things.

743
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,020
 It sounds like he's got some versatility to his game.

744
00:44:39,340 --> 00:44:45,420
 That's one thing we'll have to watch on Saturday, what they'll do exactly to sort of offset their lack of a proven pass rusher.

745
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:53,260
 I think one option that's been used quite a bit in the preseason is, you know, some packages that have three linebackers on the field in different capacities.

746
00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:59,840
 And one of those might be with T. Lander or someone like that kind of off the edge, rushing the passer a little bit more.

747
00:45:00,020 --> 00:45:03,000
 And it sounds like he's done pretty well when they've asked him to do that.

748
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:09,200
 So he's really shown his value this offseason and I think enhanced his game in some ways that people might not have expected.

749
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:15,180
 And he's, yeah, always a valuable part of this defense, but I think even more so this year because he's got multiple ways he can help them.

750
00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:19,360
 It was Tennessee, how healthy are they coming into Furman?

751
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,200
 Injuries certainly on the defensive side of the ball.

752
00:45:23,460 --> 00:45:24,980
 Farouk out for the year.

753
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:25,880
 Jane Harmon.

754
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:27,980
 Jadis Richard.

755
00:45:28,620 --> 00:45:31,800
 Davion Hobbs coming back from a spring foot injury.

756
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,160
 We talked about Rodarius Jackson.

757
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:39,820
 I think one of the best tight ends, Ethan Davies, has been nicked up, hasn't had as much reps.

758
00:45:40,580 --> 00:45:46,760
 Is Tennessee, obviously, besides the three who are out for the year, are they fairly healthy for Furman?

759
00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:50,020
 Yeah, relatively healthy, all things considered.

760
00:45:50,140 --> 00:45:52,260
 They've had some guys who were banged up, as you referenced.

761
00:45:52,260 --> 00:46:00,000
 You know, Ethan Davies missed a lot of camp after suffering an ankle injury or what appeared to be an ankle injury the first day of preseason practice.

762
00:46:00,540 --> 00:46:05,920
 But he's kind of ramped up over the past week and a half or so, and it sounds like he'll be available for this game.

763
00:46:05,980 --> 00:46:09,520
 How much he'll play against a team like Furman especially, we'll see.

764
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,440
 But it sounds like he'll at least be out there on Saturday.

765
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,940
 And then some guys on defense who've missed some time as well.

766
00:46:17,060 --> 00:46:19,900
 You know, Ty Redman had an illness for a lot of the preseason.

767
00:46:20,100 --> 00:46:22,720
 He's worked his way back and is good to go now.

768
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:29,100
 So most of the guys who've missed some time are fine now, and it sounds like they're pretty close to 100%.

769
00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:33,120
 Hobbs, as you mentioned, should be full go, it sounds like, for this game.

770
00:46:33,420 --> 00:46:39,420
 So, yeah, you can't say it's no big deal, but they've lost those three guys to season-ending injuries.

771
00:46:39,860 --> 00:46:46,220
 Really, the only one that was expected to play a big role for this team was Idris Farouk, and that certainly was a significant one.

772
00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:53,260
 But aside from that, you know, they seem to have gotten through the preseason without too much else that's going to affect them once the games are starting to be played.

773
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,340
 Brian Callahan, Govall, 24-7, which kind of leads to the next question.

774
00:46:57,340 --> 00:47:04,800
 As far as depth, in your opinion, where are the coaches saying, please, no injuries because we're kind of thin here?

775
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:06,580
 That's a good question.

776
00:47:06,740 --> 00:47:12,760
 I think, you know, not many teams feel great about their depth on the line of scrimmage.

777
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:15,560
 I think Tennessee would probably be in that category.

778
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,660
 They're not quite as deep as they've been in the past on the defensive line.

779
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:24,600
 So I might start there because they've often been 12 deep with guys that Rodney Garner likes to rotate.

780
00:47:25,060 --> 00:47:28,220
 This group is probably somewhat, you know, maybe closer to eight deep.

781
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:37,300
 So I think an injury up front is going to be felt a lot more with this team, and they've got some young guys that need to step up as it is to fill some of those backup-type roles.

782
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,200
 Cornerback would be one that's a little bit thinner.

783
00:47:40,300 --> 00:47:49,020
 We mentioned the Jadis Richard injury, and that was one that was maybe bigger for depth, not so much to the guys that are going to be out there first in games.

784
00:47:49,180 --> 00:47:53,720
 But you've got Ty Redman and Kay and Lee, the Auburn transfer that you feel pretty good about.

785
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:59,740
 The second pair behind those guys, Trey Poteet and Timothy Merritt, an Alabama native.

786
00:47:59,860 --> 00:48:06,060
 It sounds like those guys are likely to be, you know, the next two that you would see there.

787
00:48:06,060 --> 00:48:09,940
 And then beyond that, the depth and experience drops off significantly.

788
00:48:10,180 --> 00:48:12,060
 It would be mostly freshmen after that point.

789
00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:22,720
 You've got a couple guys out of the transfer portal that maybe could factor in there, but maybe more likely at the nickel position in Tevis Metcalf and Isaiah Harge.

790
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:28,860
 And then, you know, really the true freshmen beyond that that they've signed in the 2026 class are the only option.

791
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,040
 So corner a little thin.

792
00:48:30,220 --> 00:48:36,340
 And then, you know, I would probably throw in there, to some extent, quarterback, just because you really can't afford.

793
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:41,960
 I mean, most people can't, but, you know, you don't want Faison Brandon to go down, obviously.

794
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:46,340
 But George McIntyre's got nine career pass attempts under his belt.

795
00:48:46,540 --> 00:48:50,520
 And behind that, a Colorado transfer, Ryan Staub, who hasn't played a whole lot.

796
00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:55,540
 So just the lack of experience makes quarterback, I think, one of those positions where you absolutely can't afford an injury.

797
00:48:56,100 --> 00:49:05,280
 You know, we can look at each position and a lot of players, but when you look at the schedule, a lot of people think Tennessee will begin the season 3-0.

798
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:13,400
 Well, that game at Georgia Tech is not going to be easy, but Furman and Kennesaw State sandwiched between Georgia Tech.

799
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:29,000
 And then, again, you know this, Texas, September 26th, Auburn, both those games in Knoxville, at Arkansas, Alabama, third Saturday, at South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas A&M, LSU, and Vandy.

800
00:49:29,700 --> 00:49:33,440
 Kentucky, Texas A&M, LSU, and Vandy to end the season in November.

801
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:34,920
 That's a tough schedule.

802
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:36,700
 It is.

803
00:49:36,780 --> 00:49:40,660
 You know, I think when you look across the board, there just aren't any easy schedules in the SEC.

804
00:49:40,660 --> 00:49:49,020
 So, yeah, I've seen a lot of rankings that have Tennessee listed as, you know, one of the five or six easier schedules in the SEC.

805
00:49:49,580 --> 00:49:56,560
 And that sounds crazy when you read off Tennessee's schedule, but I think we're just sort of used to thinking about what schedules looked like last year.

806
00:49:56,640 --> 00:50:01,740
 I think this nine-game schedule is just going to look so different for everybody from one year to the next.

807
00:50:01,780 --> 00:50:02,740
 It's going to be really hard.

808
00:50:02,940 --> 00:50:04,820
 So, there just isn't anything easy.

809
00:50:05,180 --> 00:50:10,440
 And, yeah, no matter what, you're going to have something you're complaining about each year, I think, when you look at your schedule.

810
00:50:10,580 --> 00:50:18,380
 For Tennessee, the one thing that is favorable is they play four top 15 teams to start the season, at least in the rankings.

811
00:50:18,860 --> 00:50:25,740
 And all those teams are possible playoff teams based on all the early projections, Alabama, Texas, LSU, Texas A&M.

812
00:50:25,740 --> 00:50:33,460
 But three of those four games are at home, and that's not nothing in the SEC, especially where you're going to be playing a lot of close games in all likelihood.

813
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:36,120
 So, we'll see if Tennessee can take full advantage of that.

814
00:50:36,220 --> 00:50:39,860
 They've traditionally played a lot better at home under Josh Heupel, much better record there.

815
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,440
 Their two wins over Alabama have been at home.

816
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:47,660
 So, they've got a better chance of pulling an upset, at least against one of those teams with those games being at home.

817
00:50:47,740 --> 00:50:55,120
 But, yeah, there's just going to be a few tough games for everybody, and that's one of the reasons you see Tennessee being widely picked as a seven- or eight-win team,

818
00:50:55,180 --> 00:50:58,460
 just because that schedule is so much tougher than what they've had the past two years.

819
00:50:58,980 --> 00:51:00,540
 The game in the middle of the afternoon.

820
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:08,320
 Well, the temperatures dip down into the 90s by then, and I would imagine it's going to be a pretty special day for the 9-to-5 girl, Dolly Parton.

821
00:51:08,580 --> 00:51:09,660
 I'm sure it's going to be recognized.

822
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:11,180
 Oh, absolutely.

823
00:51:11,180 --> 00:51:23,260
 Tennessee announced earlier this week they'll have a helmet sticker for the entire season with, of course, the butterfly emblem that she's so connected to and her signature across it.

824
00:51:23,420 --> 00:51:25,580
 And, yeah, we'll see what else they do to honor her.

825
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,520
 Some people have wondered, will there be a new song at the start of the fourth quarter?

826
00:51:29,620 --> 00:51:35,500
 They've been playing a Morgan Wallen song that features a live performance on video from a Neyland Stadium concert.

827
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:40,420
 He's a local guy, but, you know, Dolly Parton obviously means so much to East Tennessee.

828
00:51:40,420 --> 00:51:42,080
 We'll see if they change anything up there.

829
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,380
 But either way, definitely going to be some acknowledgment there.

830
00:51:45,540 --> 00:51:49,180
 And people just glad to be back in Neyland Stadium, even if it is that hot.

831
00:51:49,260 --> 00:51:50,940
 But no question, people need to stay hydrated.

832
00:51:51,100 --> 00:51:52,960
 It's going to be a steamy one starting at 3.30.

833
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:54,620
 No, no question about it.

834
00:51:54,660 --> 00:51:55,600
 Well, it is here.

835
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:56,620
 Thank you, God.

836
00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:01,520
 Your staff's done an incredible job of getting everybody ready.

837
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,480
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848
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849
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922
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923
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,220
 A Senate committee has released a report of its findings on the National Education Association

924
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 and the American Federation of Teachers.

925
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:14,120
 The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana,

926
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:20,220
 says that both of these teacher unions have been promoting dangerous ideology rather than advancing student learning.

927
00:57:20,620 --> 00:57:25,440
 Cassidy wrote in a summary of these findings that parents deserve to send their children to a school without concern

928
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 that there will be indoctrination and the sowing of doubt about the purposes of the U.S. Constitution.

929
00:57:31,220 --> 00:57:35,300
 The report reads that children in schools are currently struggling to read and do basic math,

930
00:57:35,300 --> 00:57:40,100
 while the two teacher unions are injecting dangerous anti-American ideology into the classrooms.

931
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:44,540
 The Senate committee is expressing substantial concern about these far-left organizations

932
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 getting money from teachers by way of union dues

933
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 in order to work against the values and beliefs of both the teachers and parents with children in school.

934
00:57:53,660 --> 00:57:57,280
 The committee is recommending that Congress review the NEA's federal charter

935
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,280
 and provide greater oversight to their political activities.

936
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:06,000
 current law here in Alabama prohibits the collection of dues from the paycheck of a state, county, or local employee

937
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 or an organization that engages in any political activity.

938
00:58:09,580 --> 00:58:13,420
 However, the Alabama Education Association and the Alabama Federation of Teachers

939
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 continues to deduct dues from the payroll of Alabama teachers.

940
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941
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942
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943
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944
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 Four people were arrested at the Fonday Elementary School in Mobile this past Wednesday

945
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946
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947
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948
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:49,940
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949
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951
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952
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:08,060
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953
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954
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960
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961
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 Evan, Canty, and Michelle are unsportsmanlike.

962
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 Anthony Edwards loves Matilda, as do I.

963
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 Never saw it.

964
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 With the great Danny DeVito?

965
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 That's a you-must-have-seen kind of movie.

966
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 Nuno, have you seen Matilda?

967
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 I have, and I'm going to share this, and I'm probably going to be made fun of.

968
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 Me and Danny share our same birthday.

969
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 You and Danny DeVito?

970
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 Yes.

971
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 Same height, same birthday.

972
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 As I said, you know, probably.

973
00:59:58,480 --> 00:59:59,340
 No, not same year.

974
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,020
 Yeah, Danny's way younger than Nuno.

975
01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:02,540
 Unsportsmanlike.

976
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:07,360
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977
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979
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981
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982
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,000
 93.9, the score, weather.

983
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 Today, sunny and hot with a high around 100.

984
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985
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986
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987
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988
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989
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 Ampere Saturday, sunny and hot with a 20% chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms

990
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991
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993
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 Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

994
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995
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996
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997
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 Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

998
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:22,160
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9.

999
01:01:22,540 --> 01:01:23,540
 The score.

1000
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:24,900
 Welcome back in.

1001
01:01:24,940 --> 01:01:26,120
 Now, we're here to the Boomo Bugg Show.

1002
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:27,900
 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

1003
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,660
 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1004
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:32,320
 And quickly, maybe some breaking news.

1005
01:01:32,460 --> 01:01:34,960
 Talked earlier about the LSU folks.

1006
01:01:35,060 --> 01:01:38,860
 They were just going to bulldoze ahead and try to play these pro players coming back from the NFL.

1007
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:41,440
 The SEC says, not so fast, my friend.

1008
01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:42,320
 Let's go to court.

1009
01:01:42,860 --> 01:01:44,300
 That's what they did early today.

1010
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:51,860
 And the freshest layer to that, a judge has basically said to LSU, right now in round one,

1011
01:01:51,940 --> 01:01:53,520
 the SEC is winning.

1012
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:56,080
 He cites a lot of legal terms here.

1013
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:57,160
 We're not going to bore you with that.

1014
01:01:57,240 --> 01:02:01,900
 But at the end of the day, right now, a judge says, I don't think it's conclusive.

1015
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:03,800
 I don't think it's in the ninth inning yet.

1016
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:09,680
 But early in this rodeo, if you will, the judges look like they're siding with the SEC in this argument.

1017
01:02:09,900 --> 01:02:13,180
 I kind of thought that's what was going to happen, at least for round one.

1018
01:02:13,180 --> 01:02:14,960
 And that's the best way to coin it, Harold.

1019
01:02:15,060 --> 01:02:19,160
 This may be about five rounds before everything's over again.

1020
01:02:19,220 --> 01:02:23,840
 But again, as I mentioned earlier, tomorrow is the final day to submit the rosters

1021
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:29,480
 and that's one of the reasons why this went to court, at least went to a hearing today.

1022
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:37,260
 Nathan King would say, if you're talking courts and Auburn's not involved, that's good news for the Auburn Tigers.

1023
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,160
 That's what else is shaking and baking in Nathan's backyard.

1024
01:02:40,300 --> 01:02:43,140
 He's got it all covered there at Auburn 24-7.

1025
01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:44,080
 Nathan, welcome in.

1026
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:47,680
 Would you agree that if you're not talking lawsuit and Auburn's mentioned, that's a good thing?

1027
01:02:47,740 --> 01:02:48,240
 How are you?

1028
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,080
 Oh, it's been fantastic.

1029
01:02:51,260 --> 01:02:54,260
 We've been talking about real football for the last four weeks.

1030
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:56,660
 Not courtrooms, not lawsuits.

1031
01:02:56,900 --> 01:02:59,100
 I'm tired of hearing the words TRO.

1032
01:02:59,780 --> 01:03:01,820
 We're about to play some real football.

1033
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,220
 Yeah, let's talk RPOs, if we will.

1034
01:03:04,540 --> 01:03:06,100
 Nathan, talk to us about this team.

1035
01:03:06,220 --> 01:03:14,180
 It is the Thursday before the Saturday for the neutral site game in Atlanta with the Bears from Baylor.

1036
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,280
 Your thoughts about roughly 48 hours away now.

1037
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:24,880
 Yeah, I mean, like Alex Golesh said yesterday, like, I mean, what, eight-some-odd months of preparation lead you to this moment,

1038
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,800
 and then you've got two days left.

1039
01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:32,160
 You've got to kind of put your head down and keep your head on straight if you're a football player on this team.

1040
01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:35,440
 Like, they'd go play tonight at midnight if somebody asked them to.

1041
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:37,380
 They're just ready to kick this thing off.

1042
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:42,500
 I feel like Auburn was fairly confident with the way it closed out fall camp, particularly on offense.

1043
01:03:42,740 --> 01:03:48,880
 That was kind of where the focus kept drawing back to because D.J. Durkin in this defense felt like you kind of knew what you had,

1044
01:03:48,940 --> 01:03:53,720
 but obviously this offense drew a lot of the headlines throughout the offseason, like getting a new system in here,

1045
01:03:53,800 --> 01:04:00,040
 getting a guy in Alex Golesh who has a lot of his former players and his former coaches trying to create a sense of familiarity.

1046
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:05,440
 But it's really interesting when you look at the matchup on their hands for week one and what they're going to have to prepare for

1047
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:09,940
 because the pictures that they're looking at are not clear.

1048
01:04:10,140 --> 01:04:15,500
 You've got a new defensive coordinator for Baylor in Joe Klanderman who was a hire from Kansas State.

1049
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:16,800
 Seems like a pretty good hire.

1050
01:04:17,020 --> 01:04:18,000
 Like, he did a good job there.

1051
01:04:18,460 --> 01:04:21,660
 But Alex Golesh told us, like, you're watching some K-State film.

1052
01:04:22,220 --> 01:04:28,040
 You're watching individual film from Baylor last year, but you're also watching a ton of these transfers on defense.

1053
01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,340
 Like, they've got a good nose tackle from Indiana.

1054
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:31,580
 They've got to go turn on his film.

1055
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:33,220
 They've got an edge rusher from Southern Miss.

1056
01:04:33,300 --> 01:04:34,500
 They've got to go turn on his film.

1057
01:04:34,660 --> 01:04:38,180
 And so there's a lot of guesswork in week one.

1058
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:41,180
 Like, there's no film on either of these teams from this season.

1059
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:45,560
 And so in that sense, I think one of the most important things Alex Golesh said was,

1060
01:04:46,220 --> 01:04:52,040
 building a blueprint for a game is important, but what does your game plan look like in the second, third, and fourth quarter

1061
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:56,440
 when you see what the bullets, you know, when bullets are flying and what things actually look like?

1062
01:04:56,780 --> 01:04:59,020
 That's going to determine whether Auburn wins this game on Saturday.

1063
01:04:59,140 --> 01:05:02,060
 If they can look at Baylor's new defense and a new offense with D.J. Lagway

1064
01:05:02,060 --> 01:05:04,040
 and adjust over the course of the game.

1065
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,640
 Because I do think if they do that, they have the better roster.

1066
01:05:07,060 --> 01:05:09,580
 So if they can make that happen, I think they have a good chance of winning.

1067
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:17,540
 Nathan, that's the issue with so many teams is, for example, Auburn's got 61 new players on this team.

1068
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:19,860
 Now, I use that as a caveat.

1069
01:05:20,460 --> 01:05:22,180
 On paper, it's true.

1070
01:05:22,740 --> 01:05:26,040
 But again, a lot of these players are very familiar with Alex Golesh.

1071
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:27,780
 They were there in the spring.

1072
01:05:27,780 --> 01:05:33,720
 You had Kemp Golesh for two weeks, and the guys bonded with that.

1073
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:36,920
 You've got coaches that came with him.

1074
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,600
 And I know, again, that's the question.

1075
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:46,680
 With so many of these teams, we have talked about the offensive line with you quite a bit during the summer.

1076
01:05:47,220 --> 01:05:49,100
 I think they've had a good spring.

1077
01:05:49,260 --> 01:05:54,880
 Again, Joe Simmons, Plaus, Cole Bass, Cole Skinner, Bramille at right tackle.

1078
01:05:55,600 --> 01:06:01,040
 But again, as you and Harold said, until the bullets start flying, you don't know.

1079
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:04,600
 What's your gut about the offensive line going into Baylor?

1080
01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,740
 I think they'll have a good game plan for this one.

1081
01:06:07,860 --> 01:06:13,740
 I do think what's interesting is Baylor is fairly confident in the moves they've made along the defensive line,

1082
01:06:13,820 --> 01:06:15,080
 like adding a lot of players there.

1083
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:19,360
 Josiah Wheeler is probably their number one defensive lineman.

1084
01:06:19,460 --> 01:06:23,140
 He's a nose tackle who started five games for Indiana last year.

1085
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,380
 And, I mean, that Indiana defensive front was no joke.

1086
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,160
 Obviously, it's one of the better defensive lines in the entire country.

1087
01:06:28,300 --> 01:06:30,100
 So he's a pretty decent player.

1088
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,660
 Brought over a Texas State transfer as well who was quite productive.

1089
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,960
 It's funny, you know, Dave Aranda is going into year seven now.

1090
01:06:37,620 --> 01:06:41,320
 And some of the things he said in the preseason and all-off season was,

1091
01:06:41,700 --> 01:06:44,980
 well, you know, we made the decision to invest in the line of scrimmage.

1092
01:06:45,060 --> 01:06:46,420
 Like, we think that's the most important thing.

1093
01:06:46,500 --> 01:06:52,000
 And it's kind of like, well, yeah, man, year seven is kind of late time to be figuring out

1094
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,700
 that that's the most important investment to make.

1095
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:56,100
 And obviously, Auburn knows that, you know, right away.

1096
01:06:56,100 --> 01:06:59,160
 And they know that it's the group that has to perform well.

1097
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:04,240
 It's obviously the group that, for me, carries the most concern going into game one.

1098
01:07:04,420 --> 01:07:10,300
 I think we'll learn early on whether Auburn is able to run the ball in a comparable way to last season.

1099
01:07:10,460 --> 01:07:15,940
 Remember, last year in Waco, 307 yards on the ground for this Auburn team.

1100
01:07:16,460 --> 01:07:20,660
 And you look at their personnel, a quarterback and running back, I mean, I don't think they're better.

1101
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,140
 I pretty much know they're better.

1102
01:07:22,140 --> 01:07:24,460
 I mean, Byron Brown is a really good running quarterback.

1103
01:07:24,820 --> 01:07:27,640
 And Auburn's deeper in the backfield than they were last season.

1104
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:32,180
 So, if they can replicate at least some of that, I'm not saying they have to go for three bills,

1105
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,560
 but, like, if they can replicate at least some of that rushing attack,

1106
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:38,360
 that's going to take a ton of pressure off this offensive line.

1107
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:42,900
 The more third and longs you stay out of, I think this offensive line is going to be okay this season,

1108
01:07:42,940 --> 01:07:45,580
 but they are a work in progress, and they will be a work in progress.

1109
01:07:46,220 --> 01:07:49,160
 Keep Byron Brown out of third and nine, third and 10, third and 11,

1110
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:52,080
 and I think you'll be in a decent spot in this game.

1111
01:07:52,140 --> 01:07:56,880
 And with Jeremiah Cobb and the Baylor transfer, Bryson Washington there, able to run the football

1112
01:07:56,880 --> 01:08:02,240
 and obviously Byron Brown being a running quarterback, I feel fairly confident this group will be able to do that

1113
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,900
 because, I mean, Baylor's got a lot to prove as a defense.

1114
01:08:05,020 --> 01:08:07,360
 They could not stop a nosebleed last season.

1115
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:11,260
 I know it's a new coordinator, but they were very, very bad on that side of the ball.

1116
01:08:11,340 --> 01:08:13,300
 So, we'll see how well they're able to contain Auburn.

1117
01:08:13,380 --> 01:08:15,800
 I think the running game will open up a lot of different things for this game.

1118
01:08:16,620 --> 01:08:18,460
 Nathan King, Auburn 24-7.

1119
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:23,880
 Hey, Nathan, if Auburn fans saw the Florida State and the UNLV game,

1120
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,240
 they're saying, what in the world were those coaching styles thinking

1121
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:28,260
 with those quarterbacks who are no longer at Auburn?

1122
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:29,160
 Brown is.

1123
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,660
 You mentioned pretty much it goes without saying what kind of element he brings to it.

1124
01:08:34,060 --> 01:08:35,140
 And I agree with you.

1125
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:39,320
 If you've got a good running game, the offensive line says we'll owe you a stake and some change.

1126
01:08:39,740 --> 01:08:41,800
 But let's say that there are some third and longs.

1127
01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:46,440
 How does this receiving core stack up with the ones over the past few seasons for Auburn?

1128
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:51,120
 Yeah, I mean, on the surface, and that's what we've been talking about all offseason,

1129
01:08:51,380 --> 01:08:53,260
 is that this group is not as talented.

1130
01:08:53,660 --> 01:08:56,320
 It's not as high of recruiting ratings.

1131
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:59,640
 And that kind of goes without saying, because that was Auburn's bread and butter

1132
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:01,380
 in terms of it's recruiting under Huber.

1133
01:09:01,540 --> 01:09:06,160
 Like, they kind of base the entire team around the fact that they recruited a few good wide receivers.

1134
01:09:06,380 --> 01:09:09,440
 Now, maybe not the best idea to do that.

1135
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:13,500
 But, obviously, Cam Coleman and Malcolm Simmons and Perry Thompson are no longer there.

1136
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,600
 And Bryce Kane is not playing wide receiver for Auburn anymore either.

1137
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:18,220
 He's now playing cornerback on the team.

1138
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,700
 So, basically, you put all your eggs in that basket,

1139
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:24,480
 and now none of those guys are playing receiver at Auburn anymore.

1140
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:28,320
 In my mind, you know, there's so much talent.

1141
01:09:28,440 --> 01:09:31,620
 And Cam Coleman was, I think, he's going to be a top-10 NFL draft pick.

1142
01:09:31,620 --> 01:09:33,540
 And I think Malcolm Simmons can be really good.

1143
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,600
 But it's like, you did all of that, and you had so much, quote-unquote, talent at receiver,

1144
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:38,580
 and you still couldn't win.

1145
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:40,400
 You still couldn't win big games.

1146
01:09:40,780 --> 01:09:42,000
 You still couldn't have a winning record.

1147
01:09:42,340 --> 01:09:47,460
 I think this group, obviously, we mentioned the familiarity and the comfort level within this system.

1148
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:49,520
 That's what we've been harping on all offseason.

1149
01:09:49,660 --> 01:09:51,040
 But these guys are skilled, also.

1150
01:09:51,220 --> 01:09:52,380
 Like, these are some talented players.

1151
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:57,520
 In particular, Keyshawn Singleton, they're sort of number one do-it-all wide receiver,

1152
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:00,500
 led USF in all categories last season.

1153
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,300
 He's been a monster the last couple weeks of camp.

1154
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:05,060
 I actually have a story coming out of him tomorrow.

1155
01:10:05,140 --> 01:10:08,240
 I talked to his dad this morning, and he said he was at a Saturday practice

1156
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,980
 where Singleton had three touchdowns and just really was kind of unguardable.

1157
01:10:12,220 --> 01:10:15,920
 I asked Joel Gordon, the offensive coordinator, about Singleton earlier this week,

1158
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 and he said, look, man, he's doing stuff we haven't seen him do in years.

1159
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 And they were with him for three years at USF.

1160
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,580
 And so, if that is true, and he's playing at a high level,

1161
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:26,980
 Jeremiah Cogar's a really big target.

1162
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:30,020
 I'm also interested to see how the tight end factors into this group.

1163
01:10:30,020 --> 01:10:33,460
 Like, Jake Johnson, the North Carolina transfer, really big body.

1164
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:35,040
 Jonathan Echols is 6'6".

1165
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:39,420
 They have a 6'7", Howard transfer, who could maybe be a red zone target.

1166
01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:43,540
 Arliss Bordingham is a Florida transfer, had a lot of good production there in the SEC.

1167
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,080
 And so, they definitely have options.

1168
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:50,480
 I don't think Baylor is the toughest defense you're going to go against this year.

1169
01:10:50,620 --> 01:10:54,520
 So, if they light it up on Saturday and do pretty well, you're going to have more challenges down the road.

1170
01:10:54,620 --> 01:11:00,860
 But I think this group will be fairly explosive on Saturday just because of how well they know this system

1171
01:11:00,860 --> 01:11:04,120
 and also how well we've heard they've been playing the last couple weeks at receiver.

1172
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:06,520
 You've alluded to some of this already.

1173
01:11:06,660 --> 01:11:08,720
 You had a very good point in one of your articles.

1174
01:11:09,300 --> 01:11:17,100
 I think it's going to help the Auburn defense because they're facing new starting quarterbacks in their first five games.

1175
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:23,680
 I think that's huge because those guys are going to be making mistakes, too.

1176
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:29,680
 What are your two or three keys for Auburn to beat Baylor Saturday?

1177
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:32,160
 Yeah, you mentioned quarterbacks.

1178
01:11:32,420 --> 01:11:38,880
 So, how about not letting D.J. Lagwe get comfortable, I think, is probably number one when you look at that defense

1179
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:43,280
 because he's had a rocky couple seasons as a former five-star recruit.

1180
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,240
 But I think we can all agree he hasn't, first of all, hasn't fully healthy.

1181
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,260
 And he was on a sinking ship at Florida under Billy Napier.

1182
01:11:50,380 --> 01:11:54,520
 So, it's not like all of his context was positive.

1183
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,340
 Like, he wasn't on a very good team.

1184
01:11:56,820 --> 01:11:58,920
 Don't let this be the narrative change if you're Auburn.

1185
01:11:59,020 --> 01:12:03,620
 Don't let people come away from this weekend and say, wow, this is the facelift that D.J. Lagwe needed.

1186
01:12:03,780 --> 01:12:05,360
 Like, you don't want to be hearing that.

1187
01:12:05,540 --> 01:12:06,500
 So, keep him uncomfortable.

1188
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,320
 We're inclined to believe these linebackers can do that pretty well.

1189
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:16,300
 On the other side, I think unleashing Byron Brown and using his full skill set in the offense is going to be a big key.

1190
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:18,760
 Like, guys, he's been on campus for eight months.

1191
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:22,520
 We've never seen him run the football in the sense that he could be tackled.

1192
01:12:23,100 --> 01:12:25,160
 And so, we've also never seen him run over somebody.

1193
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:26,740
 But we know that's what he likes to do.

1194
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:30,860
 We know he's a, you know, 235-pound locomotive of a quarterback.

1195
01:12:31,180 --> 01:12:32,220
 That needs to be rolling.

1196
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:36,380
 Because if you watched USF the last couple years, like, that's the bread and butter of what they do.

1197
01:12:36,380 --> 01:12:40,300
 If he's rolling and this running game is rolling, it opens up so many other things.

1198
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:42,360
 And Alex Gullish talked about it yesterday.

1199
01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:48,820
 Like, you know, game one jitters and execution, like, you know, there's a lot of improvement from week one to week two.

1200
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:51,820
 Because you just don't know what it's going to look like in week one.

1201
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,280
 And I think that's something they've really been hammering home.

1202
01:12:54,460 --> 01:12:57,040
 And so, you know, you could say it every game.

1203
01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,940
 But trying not to, you know, trying to keep the turnovers down.

1204
01:13:00,300 --> 01:13:02,380
 Like Gullish said, trying to keep the ball off the ground.

1205
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:07,460
 Like, if it's an incomplete pass, you know, that leads to a third and long, just take the easy wins.

1206
01:13:07,660 --> 01:13:10,400
 I think they're going to have a good game plan in place.

1207
01:13:10,500 --> 01:13:12,540
 I think they'll do a good job in the red zone.

1208
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,180
 But I'd definitely look at both quarterbacks.

1209
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:17,460
 I'd look at the running game as well for Auburn needs to be established.

1210
01:13:17,660 --> 01:13:19,120
 Because I think they're the better team.

1211
01:13:19,220 --> 01:13:21,800
 I've got Auburn by a couple touchdowns in this one.

1212
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:23,200
 But you never know with Baylor.

1213
01:13:23,300 --> 01:13:24,580
 You know, there's a lot of newness on the field.

1214
01:13:24,660 --> 01:13:25,200
 You never know.

1215
01:13:25,260 --> 01:13:27,840
 But I do think it's going to be a home game for Auburn.

1216
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,400
 There'll be 90% Auburn fans there.

1217
01:13:29,440 --> 01:13:31,160
 So they should have that support as well.

1218
01:13:31,660 --> 01:13:36,640
 Something else I love, Nathan, air conditioning for all the Auburn fans who are fussing about moving this game.

1219
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:45,820
 They're going to be great for at 72 when everybody else around the South is going to be running and shedding pounds faster than a politician running from a scandal.

1220
01:13:46,340 --> 01:13:50,660
 It's got to work to the advantage to be in that environment for the first game of the season in the South.

1221
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:55,180
 Yeah, I mean, it definitely levels the playing field, I guess you would say.

1222
01:13:55,180 --> 01:14:00,900
 There's not going to be, you know, the elements of, you guys are going through, I'm sitting here waiting to come on.

1223
01:14:01,060 --> 01:14:03,460
 And you guys are going through the weather in the Tennessee Valley.

1224
01:14:03,620 --> 01:14:04,680
 And it's like, oh, goodness.

1225
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:06,560
 It's going to be brutal this weekend.

1226
01:14:07,440 --> 01:14:07,840
 Absolutely.

1227
01:14:08,180 --> 01:14:09,360
 Listen, great stuff.

1228
01:14:09,580 --> 01:14:11,320
 Safe travels to Atlanta.

1229
01:14:11,580 --> 01:14:15,740
 I know you and Jason and everybody else have been looking at this.

1230
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 It's finally, I'm finally glad it's here.

1231
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 Any specials on Auburn 247?

1232
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 And where can we get online to get yours, Jason, and everybody else?

1233
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 Yeah, for sure.

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1237
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 We've had a lot of good content this week.

1238
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:39,300
 Like I mentioned, a little teaser.

1239
01:14:39,440 --> 01:14:41,140
 Got a story tomorrow on Keyshawn Singleton.

1240
01:14:41,620 --> 01:14:45,320
 He was an unrated recruit who's now making his hometown return to Atlanta.

1241
01:14:45,780 --> 01:14:47,680
 And now he could be Auburn's number one wide receiver.

1242
01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:48,600
 And it's seen you happen.

1243
01:14:48,980 --> 01:14:50,880
 So we'll have a story there on him.

1244
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:52,840
 And then, you know, all the stuff from Saturday.

1245
01:14:53,060 --> 01:15:02,020
 We're really, really looking forward to seeing what this team looks like, what year one of the Alex Golesh era could look like, and what game one will look like on Saturday afternoon at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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 So if you want all that, if you're an Auburn junkie and you've been looking for some more content, we have you covered at auburn247.com.

1247
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:09,880
 Sounds good, Nathan.

1248
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 And have safe travels to and from, okay?

1249
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 Thank you, guys.

1250
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 I appreciate it.

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 Thank you, bud.

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 Thank you.

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 Hey, it's Michelle Smallman.

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01:21:06,620 --> 01:21:10,100
 And coming up Friday, we get you ready for a jam-packed week one in college football.

1360
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 And I'll tell you which ranked teams are on upset alert.

1361
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 It's on Sportsman, like 6 a.m. Eastern, right here on ESPN Radio, ESPN2, and ESPNU.

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 The Score.

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1364
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:27,920
 Welcome back in.

1365
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 It's not often.

1366
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 You can go to heaven.

1367
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 That is hog heaven.

1368
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 Benjamin Ray says, follow me.

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 This weekend, I'll show you the way.

1370
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 Ben is the fine voice of the U.N.A. Lions on their way to Arkansas.

1371
01:21:40,260 --> 01:21:40,960
 Ben, welcome in.

1372
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 How are you?

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 Man, we're off and running.

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 I'm doing great.

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 Excited to be with you guys.

1376
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 It's the first week for some, second game for U.N.A.,

1377
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 and we're fired up to head to hog land over there in Arkansas.

1378
01:21:53,620 --> 01:21:55,960
 Before we look west, let's look east.

1379
01:21:56,500 --> 01:21:59,740
 Your thoughts now that the dust has settled, opening act,

1380
01:21:59,860 --> 01:22:02,140
 you're packing up some miles on the road, are you not?

1381
01:22:02,180 --> 01:22:05,720
 This past weekend, you opened up at Huntsville's Joe Davis Stadium.

1382
01:22:06,440 --> 01:22:10,460
 Your thoughts, what's your takeaway from the game with your boys from Bama-Samford?

1383
01:22:11,680 --> 01:22:16,340
 I think it leaves a lot for U.N.A. fans to be excited about.

1384
01:22:16,340 --> 01:22:20,340
 It was a win North Alabama's been looking for for a while

1385
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 to really just get people excited again.

1386
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 It's been a rough couple years.

1387
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 A couple tough losses the last handful of years.

1388
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 And Samford's down a little bit, but to still go out

1389
01:22:30,660 --> 01:22:33,040
 and beat an in-state school like you did,

1390
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:35,820
 and to really walk away feeling like, hey, you know what?

1391
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:38,740
 We really physically handled them.

1392
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:42,800
 We dominated that game in the trenches, in the front seven defensively.

1393
01:22:42,840 --> 01:22:45,840
 The offensive line really came together in the second half.

1394
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:49,040
 But to hold a team to negative eight rushing yards,

1395
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:53,960
 10 different players that accounted for 13 tackles for loss,

1396
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:56,560
 that is a dominant defensive performance.

1397
01:22:56,660 --> 01:22:57,680
 I don't care who you're playing.

1398
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 And that will win you games at the FCS level.

1399
01:23:01,220 --> 01:23:01,740
 Absolutely.

1400
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:08,420
 Eight players on the U.N.A. roster right now came to U.N.A. from Memphis.

1401
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:10,840
 Where did Ryan Silverfield go?

1402
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:12,880
 The coach at Memphis to Arkansas.

1403
01:23:13,740 --> 01:23:20,900
 Joshua White, Mon Cole, Harris, Neville, Benton, even Xavier Johnson, wide receiver,

1404
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:23,080
 center wheel French, et cetera.

1405
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:30,360
 I was reading a report this morning on Arkansas to where Cramsey, the offensive coordinator,

1406
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 has actually changed some signals because a lot, certainly the Memphis players,

1407
01:23:36,320 --> 01:23:40,420
 are very accustomed to Silverfield's system.

1408
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:42,800
 How much will this help?

1409
01:23:42,900 --> 01:23:46,720
 Again, it's blocking and tackling, execution, lack of turnovers.

1410
01:23:47,540 --> 01:23:52,920
 The familiarity between the former Memphis players with his system, how will that help?

1411
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:58,920
 You know, you imagine it'll go both ways where they feel like they probably know the strengths

1412
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:02,400
 of those U.N.A. guys as well and what they do well and the weaknesses.

1413
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:07,860
 And you always hope coaches are smart enough to change things like that.

1414
01:24:08,060 --> 01:24:10,940
 But you also know, you know, think baseball.

1415
01:24:11,100 --> 01:24:12,780
 People are pretty set in their signals, right?

1416
01:24:12,780 --> 01:24:15,640
 And that will be very interesting to see.

1417
01:24:15,740 --> 01:24:20,180
 There's no more paranoid group out there than coaches.

1418
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:28,420
 And so, you know, I'm willing to bet that they have changed some things up to try to prevent

1419
01:24:28,420 --> 01:24:30,800
 North Alabama from getting that advantage.

1420
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:35,020
 But you talk about those Memphis dudes, and you never know what's going to happen

1421
01:24:35,020 --> 01:24:37,920
 when guys transfer down or transfer in.

1422
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:40,820
 And it was just great to see all of those guys perform

1423
01:24:40,820 --> 01:24:45,100
 because we've gotten to know them off the field, and they are all outstanding individuals.

1424
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:50,700
 And to see that come together for them and for them to perform like they did for U.N.A. fans,

1425
01:24:50,820 --> 01:24:53,540
 again, it should make people pretty excited moving forward.

1426
01:24:54,060 --> 01:24:58,200
 Boy, so the Lions, Ben Ray, talk to us about what's realistic this weekend.

1427
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:01,520
 Obviously, U.N.A. going to SEC country.

1428
01:25:01,820 --> 01:25:04,440
 So what is realistic for U.N.A. this weekend?

1429
01:25:05,480 --> 01:25:08,820
 You want to go out there and give your best showing.

1430
01:25:08,940 --> 01:25:10,620
 I mean, it's a game on the SEC network.

1431
01:25:10,980 --> 01:25:12,500
 I go back to three years ago.

1432
01:25:12,620 --> 01:25:15,600
 We went down to Tallahassee, Florida, to play Florida State.

1433
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,420
 And it was the last game of the season.

1434
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:21,140
 And let me tell you, I don't think anybody wanted to go down there.

1435
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,460
 It was actually off of a – it was a bye week, and then we went down to Florida State.

1436
01:25:26,020 --> 01:25:27,120
 And, well, what happened?

1437
01:25:27,300 --> 01:25:32,880
 Well, U.N.A. forever changed the world of college football going up 13 to nothing against Florida State.

1438
01:25:33,340 --> 01:25:40,240
 You could really argue that that moment sent college football down the path that it has been on with the playoffs and whatnot.

1439
01:25:40,740 --> 01:25:41,360
 And Florida State.

1440
01:25:41,360 --> 01:25:43,360
 You want to go out there – yeah, exactly.

1441
01:25:43,620 --> 01:25:46,340
 You want to go out there and, one, give your best showing.

1442
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:53,000
 Hey, in this age of college football, if you're a U.N.A. guy and you go out there and you have a strong showing,

1443
01:25:53,380 --> 01:25:55,780
 hey, it might open up doors for you down the road.

1444
01:25:55,980 --> 01:26:00,320
 And then, you know, hey, you want to go out there, grab a lead, win the ball game.

1445
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:01,620
 That's always the goal.

1446
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:05,260
 But also for U.N.A.'s sake, we feel like we can be good at the FCS level.

1447
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:07,260
 So let's not have anybody get hurt.

1448
01:26:07,420 --> 01:26:11,400
 Let's not lose anybody of true significance in this ball game.

1449
01:26:11,460 --> 01:26:13,380
 And let's go out there and try to shock the world.

1450
01:26:13,480 --> 01:26:14,580
 Hey, why not us?

1451
01:26:15,260 --> 01:26:15,360
 Yeah.

1452
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:21,160
 Ben, Destin Wade completed 68.4% passes.

1453
01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:24,100
 That's good whether it's in college, high school, or the NFL.

1454
01:26:24,580 --> 01:26:32,000
 But the other thing that U.N.A. was able to do, they were able to run the football, I believe, for 165 yards.

1455
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:36,360
 Can U.N.A. run the ball and shorten the game some?

1456
01:26:37,500 --> 01:26:39,160
 That'll be interesting to see.

1457
01:26:39,420 --> 01:26:41,600
 And you look back at the first half against Stanford.

1458
01:26:41,740 --> 01:26:42,980
 North Alabama threw it a lot.

1459
01:26:43,180 --> 01:26:47,260
 Then you look at the second half and the Lions had a lead, and they went to the ground game.

1460
01:26:47,860 --> 01:26:53,620
 And I think one of the most encouraging things was the offensive line got better as the game went on,

1461
01:26:53,620 --> 01:27:01,260
 and offensive coordinator Travis Partridge pointed out to me that you had four guys making their first career starts at North Alabama.

1462
01:27:01,260 --> 01:27:06,800
 Now, they all either transferred in from JUCO, FBS, other levels, so they might have played some.

1463
01:27:06,860 --> 01:27:10,900
 But that was the first time the bulk of those guys had played together as one unit.

1464
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:13,160
 And they got better as the game went on.

1465
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:15,720
 You're going to have to move the football.

1466
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:20,180
 You're going to have to win special teams to go and win a ball game like this.

1467
01:27:20,420 --> 01:27:24,880
 So, I think establishing a run game, that's always Brent Dierman's bread and butter.

1468
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:26,980
 I think that'll be a high priority on Saturday.

1469
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:32,900
 Tell us real quick about the Varsity Network, where we can hear the game, you and Mr. Neese.

1470
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:37,800
 Yes, you can catch myself, Brian Neese, Chase Glover, on the Varsity Network app.

1471
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,380
 Super easy to download on any smartphone.

1472
01:27:41,140 --> 01:27:44,860
 You can find any college football game on the Varsity Network app.

1473
01:27:44,900 --> 01:27:48,380
 And then we'll also be on all of our social media channels, Facebook, Twitter.

1474
01:27:48,380 --> 01:27:53,820
 We had nearly 20,000 people tune in across our social media handles last week for the Sanford game.

1475
01:27:53,940 --> 01:27:57,480
 So, we're very excited about what we've got going on, and it's super easy to find.

1476
01:27:58,200 --> 01:27:59,180
 Safe travels, Ben.

1477
01:27:59,300 --> 01:28:00,260
 All the best to you.

1478
01:28:00,340 --> 01:28:02,100
 Thank you so much for your time of day.

1479
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 In the meantime, the latest from the U.S. Open.

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 Stay with us.

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 Westwood One Sports presents this special tennis update brought to you by Fisher Investments.

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 Two-time champ Naomi Osaka stumbled late in the second set, but dug deep to beat Katerina Sinjakova to advance to round three.

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 The match was definitely really tough, and I don't know, I just felt like I had to fight.

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 I definitely had a couple opportunities in the second set, and I think I was a little bit too hard on myself.

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 So, I took the bathroom break, regrouped a little, came back, and just tried to have no regrets.

1486
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 Meanwhile, Madison Keyes saved five match points before beating Anna Bondar in a third set tiebreaker.

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 Anna Anasamova is up two breaks in the third set on 18-year-old Lily Tagger from Hungary.

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 On the men's side, nine-seed Taylor Fritz already up a break early on against Italian Mattia Bellucci,

1489
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 and the three-seed Felix Oje Aliasim loses in four sets.

1490
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1537
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 We're also glad to cheer on the Falcons as they celebrate milestone achievements as well.

1538
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1543
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1544
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 If you remember listening to this.

1545
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 And this.

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1635
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 Speaking of waiting, the wait is over in Ryan Fowler's backyard of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

1636
01:36:56,840 --> 01:37:00,800
 Ryan is the host of the game on Tide 109 FM in T-Town.

1637
01:37:00,900 --> 01:37:02,200
 Ryan, welcome in.

1638
01:37:02,260 --> 01:37:02,860
 How are you?

1639
01:37:04,420 --> 01:37:05,120
 Oh, good.

1640
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:05,540
 Good.

1641
01:37:05,600 --> 01:37:08,480
 I haven't been in a courtroom today, so I guess I'm better than LSU.

1642
01:37:08,500 --> 01:37:08,760
 Yeah.

1643
01:37:09,140 --> 01:37:09,660
 Yet.

1644
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:10,280
 Yet.

1645
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:11,060
 Yeah.

1646
01:37:11,300 --> 01:37:11,640
 Yeah.

1647
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:12,100
 Yeah.

1648
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:13,720
 I mean, listen.

1649
01:37:14,380 --> 01:37:15,900
 I've told you guys this before.

1650
01:37:16,700 --> 01:37:17,940
 I don't know what I'm covering.

1651
01:37:18,800 --> 01:37:19,200
 Honestly.

1652
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:22,020
 Honestly, I do not know what I'm covering many times.

1653
01:37:22,020 --> 01:37:25,720
 It's just a, this is a weird, this is a weird game.

1654
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:32,580
 Obviously, we've got a lot of weirdness going on, but nothing shocks me.

1655
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:38,800
 I mean, if the players wind up in, you know, zebra costumes on Saturday.

1656
01:37:38,880 --> 01:37:39,140
 Nah, it makes money.

1657
01:37:39,540 --> 01:37:39,800
 Yeah.

1658
01:37:40,220 --> 01:37:40,660
 Yeah.

1659
01:37:40,740 --> 01:37:46,900
 I mean, I mean, you know, and, you know, I think about this 11 o'clock game.

1660
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:55,360
 You know, I think about ESPN, you know, they, well, if you, here's the thing.

1661
01:37:55,380 --> 01:37:57,640
 And you say, well, ESPN, you know, they're making money.

1662
01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:03,120
 Well, if you had a million dollars five years ago and you would have invested into their parent

1663
01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:08,440
 company, which is owned by Disney, it'd be worth $475,000 today, five years ago.

1664
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:10,280
 So you put in a million, it's worth four.

1665
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:10,740
 Yeah.

1666
01:38:10,740 --> 01:38:11,140
 Yeah.

1667
01:38:11,140 --> 01:38:16,280
 That's, you know, you'd fire your financial advisor and hire another one quickly.

1668
01:38:17,160 --> 01:38:23,860
 But it's, um, when you, yeah, I mean, I mean, well, yeah, cause you'd have to be trying

1669
01:38:23,860 --> 01:38:32,260
 to find a way to come back somehow, but the 11 o'clock games to me, it was okay during the

1670
01:38:32,260 --> 01:38:33,400
 Jefferson pilot era.

1671
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:34,180
 Thank you.

1672
01:38:34,260 --> 01:38:34,780
 Exactly.

1673
01:38:35,080 --> 01:38:35,560
 Exactly.

1674
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:40,740
 You put, but, but now it's like, we need to give some authority back to these.

1675
01:38:40,980 --> 01:38:41,420
 Yeah.

1676
01:38:41,420 --> 01:38:48,740
 And, uh, allow them to, because it's, you know, it's, it's, uh, you know, I, I, listen,

1677
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:51,860
 we're, we're going to go and we're going to be there and we're going to be excited to be

1678
01:38:51,860 --> 01:38:53,920
 there and all these wonderful things.

1679
01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:59,580
 But, but I do look at it and I think about, man, God, God, what a health concern.

1680
01:38:59,880 --> 01:39:00,280
 Absolutely.

1681
01:39:00,700 --> 01:39:02,120
 Well, it's, it's, it's ludicrous.

1682
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:05,600
 The players, the fans and everything else.

1683
01:39:05,740 --> 01:39:12,840
 I mean, it is the world that we live in college football and, you know, but Bristol, Connecticut

1684
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:16,680
 is, has got us here and, you know, glad to be here, I guess.

1685
01:39:17,100 --> 01:39:19,960
 It's a golden rule who has the gold rules.

1686
01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:24,660
 Uh, and that, and I, I agree with you when they should be given back, but I say no, because

1687
01:39:24,660 --> 01:39:27,120
 they're going to bow at the almighty dollar.

1688
01:39:27,220 --> 01:39:27,900
 Here's the deal.

1689
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,720
 If you're looking for Brett Saturday, he'll be easy to, to, to find.

1690
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:35,440
 If you don't mind, Ryan, he'd be the one in the blue jean, cutoff shorts and the muscle

1691
01:39:35,440 --> 01:39:39,960
 shirt, uh, lacquered, if you will, in sunbathing oil.

1692
01:39:40,280 --> 01:39:41,440
 You are right, Ryan.

1693
01:39:41,480 --> 01:39:44,840
 I mean, anybody who's lived anytime in the South, that's ridiculous.

1694
01:39:45,800 --> 01:39:47,080
 I'm going to save him a seat.

1695
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:48,240
 I know you will.

1696
01:39:49,280 --> 01:39:49,640
 Yeah.

1697
01:39:49,780 --> 01:39:53,020
 I mean, don't be throwing your co-host out there like that.

1698
01:39:54,080 --> 01:39:55,380
 I'm used to it, Ryan.

1699
01:39:56,180 --> 01:39:57,760
 I mean, I mean, I mean,

1700
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:02,800
 listen, I mean, we get treated with, now, now we may have our own bottle of water, but

1701
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:07,740
 and we could, and I'm not sure they've cut down the size of the press box.

1702
01:40:07,860 --> 01:40:09,300
 We may be sitting in each other's lap.

1703
01:40:09,380 --> 01:40:11,600
 We're going to be in a cool, a cool area.

1704
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:12,940
 Do you think it's hot now?

1705
01:40:12,940 --> 01:40:13,460
 Or cooler.

1706
01:40:14,900 --> 01:40:21,180
 Well, and, and, and now a cooler, and that's the trick, but now here's the, the part is it's

1707
01:40:21,180 --> 01:40:23,760
 on the East side and we're going to be looking right at the sun.

1708
01:40:23,880 --> 01:40:24,080
 Right.

1709
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,100
 Oh my gosh.

1710
01:40:26,180 --> 01:40:28,680
 But, uh, yeah, they, well, they actually sold.

1711
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:35,440
 There's a, you know, we were crossed the field in a beautiful press box.

1712
01:40:35,860 --> 01:40:40,080
 And then about three years ago, they moved us over to the corner and we were all complaining,

1713
01:40:40,200 --> 01:40:41,400
 you know, Oh, look here, look here.

1714
01:40:41,620 --> 01:40:44,500
 And it was a little, it was probably about a third of the size.

1715
01:40:44,640 --> 01:40:49,520
 Well, now that third of the size has been cut down about 50%.

1716
01:40:49,520 --> 01:40:51,520
 I don't know what to expect.

1717
01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:56,240
 I mean, it's, uh, here we are, here we are.

1718
01:40:56,380 --> 01:41:00,100
 And, uh, we'll, you know, we'll, we'll cover it as best we can.

1719
01:41:00,160 --> 01:41:04,660
 And, you know, at some point we're all going to be moved to a closed circuit television.

1720
01:41:04,660 --> 01:41:09,200
 You know, just listen to the word, they're going to move us to a closed circuit television.

1721
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:15,100
 But this weekend, we've got a little bit of an advantage because we will have some air

1722
01:41:15,100 --> 01:41:15,420
 conditioning.

1723
01:41:15,800 --> 01:41:20,680
 I do feel for those fans out there that are getting brutal, you know, just absolutely.

1724
01:41:20,860 --> 01:41:24,460
 I mean, cause there's no way that you're going to be able to drink enough fluid.

1725
01:41:24,460 --> 01:41:32,880
 And, and to me, I wish that Greg Byrne had one root card, one root card that he was able

1726
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:33,360
 to play.

1727
01:41:33,480 --> 01:41:35,680
 And guys, we're not playing at 11 o'clock.

1728
01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:36,060
 I agree.

1729
01:41:36,220 --> 01:41:37,280
 We're not playing at 11 o'clock.

1730
01:41:37,600 --> 01:41:38,280
 So here we are.

1731
01:41:39,060 --> 01:41:39,500
 Absolutely.

1732
01:41:39,900 --> 01:41:40,460
 Uh, okay.

1733
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:42,400
 Let me clear this with you.

1734
01:41:42,780 --> 01:41:45,600
 Will Sanders is going to be the starting left guard.

1735
01:41:46,140 --> 01:41:48,880
 Rico Scott is the third receiver.

1736
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:53,960
 Connor Tolti is going to be attempting field goals and extra points.

1737
01:41:54,280 --> 01:42:02,960
 EJ Crowell is going to be playing at some point in the game as per you off is the punter.

1738
01:42:03,380 --> 01:42:05,300
 Uh, what else have I missed there?

1739
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:12,920
 Let me say that William Sanders is going to start at left guard in this game.

1740
01:42:13,060 --> 01:42:19,020
 I don't, he's got a chance to earn that position, but I also wouldn't count out Mount Waldo.

1741
01:42:19,020 --> 01:42:27,800
 I think he's still going to play a significant role this season and, uh, something kind of

1742
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:29,620
 creeped in there at the last little bit.

1743
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:37,420
 Uh, I think they're going to give William Sanders the nod, but don't be shocked if Mal Waldo slips

1744
01:42:37,420 --> 01:42:39,040
 back into that left guard spot.

1745
01:42:39,140 --> 01:42:40,320
 It'll be based on the performance.

1746
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:45,820
 Now, if William Sanders comes out, this offensive line looks like, you know, the 2012 group,

1747
01:42:45,820 --> 01:42:47,520
 then they probably won't change anything.

1748
01:42:48,360 --> 01:43:06,840
 Um, Jaden James is going to start at right tackle, you know, and, and the other part is I don't know what to expect with EJ Crowell because, uh, my understanding is he's no doubt a football player, but he's also part-time cyclist.

1749
01:43:07,920 --> 01:43:12,540
 If you're reading my language, he likes that bicycle.

1750
01:43:14,480 --> 01:43:17,120
 So just kind of keep them, keep that in the back of your mind.

1751
01:43:17,240 --> 01:43:24,480
 I don't know if they're going to let him ride that bicycle in the end zone, but we'll see Saturday if, uh, if they're going to let him, let him ride that bicycle.

1752
01:43:24,480 --> 01:43:31,240
 If people can read between lines, but, uh, it's time for this young man to, uh, to pay off.

1753
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:43,940
 We're, we're, you know, we've heard all about it and we're going to see because Treshawn Brown has benefited from EJ Crowell and locking that bicycle because he's taking, he's taking those reps.

1754
01:43:44,060 --> 01:43:47,740
 I mean, he's, he's getting those reps and he's only got better, better, better, better, better.

1755
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:50,360
 And, uh, he gives Alabama some quality there.

1756
01:43:50,420 --> 01:44:01,220
 And I'm not doubting EJ cause I've seen him play enough, but, uh, in either they're being super, super conservative with him or he's trying to be a part-time.

1757
01:44:01,240 --> 01:44:02,940
 They're cyclists at the university of Alabama.

1758
01:44:04,120 --> 01:44:05,740
 Then we get the message there, right?

1759
01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:07,760
 What's to be realistic about this game?

1760
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:12,140
 Obviously on paper, Vegas says it's going to be a blowout 28 and a half.

1761
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:16,260
 Uh, I don't think anyone is doubting who's going to win the ball game.

1762
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:17,740
 The question is how will they win it?

1763
01:44:17,740 --> 01:44:24,020
 Will it be one of those deals where they come out, take charge, live up to the billing, or will they get into the second half, still trying to put them away?

1764
01:44:24,080 --> 01:44:27,080
 Like Florida state did last week against the Lester opponent.

1765
01:44:27,180 --> 01:44:28,900
 What do you expect realistically Saturday?

1766
01:44:31,240 --> 01:44:40,260
 You know, if you look at Kalen DeBoer, he really needs a big win to get this season off to a start.

1767
01:44:40,800 --> 01:44:47,800
 And there's been a cloud that's been hanging over Alabama and it's called the Indiana cloud.

1768
01:44:48,060 --> 01:44:48,660
 And that's correct.

1769
01:44:49,120 --> 01:44:59,920
 The best way to forget about the Indiana game is to, is, is to go out there and beat somebody that you're supposed to beat by the number that you're supposed to beat them.

1770
01:44:59,920 --> 01:45:01,660
 And I understand Vegas didn't get everything right.

1771
01:45:02,060 --> 01:45:05,240
 Uh, but go out here and beat this bunch, go out here and beat this bunch.

1772
01:45:05,820 --> 01:45:18,360
 And you know, you should be able to push these guys around, establish some balance, be a little creative on the offensive side of the football, but, uh, you know, line up and, and whip somebody that you're supposed to.

1773
01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:27,440
 And get some momentum for your quarterback and some confidence going to Kentucky, because regardless of what you think about Kentucky, it's still on the road.

1774
01:45:27,500 --> 01:45:28,320
 It's still the SEC.

1775
01:45:28,560 --> 01:45:29,640
 They've got a lot of new places.

1776
01:45:30,020 --> 01:45:32,760
 I think they played Youngstown state this weekend.

1777
01:45:33,020 --> 01:45:37,440
 So they're not going to have to show too much to be able to beat them.

1778
01:45:37,440 --> 01:45:44,340
 And I don't expect Alabama is going to show everything to East Carolina, but East Carolina is at least a team that you can respect.

1779
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:52,180
 Uh, I think they won nine football games last year and they got a lot of new faces, but everybody's got new faces.

1780
01:45:52,180 --> 01:46:06,100
 I mean, Alabama's got four new transfer portal, uh, well, the four new offensive linemen, uh, they took in what four portal guys, Ethan Fields is not going to be able to, but they'll provide some depth, but, um, everybody's got new faces.

1781
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:08,680
 So we're excited about the game.

1782
01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:14,520
 I'm just not excited about the environment, but listen, we've waited 245 days to get here.

1783
01:46:14,840 --> 01:46:16,620
 We've got to watch it from a sauna.

1784
01:46:16,860 --> 01:46:18,520
 I guess we're going to have to watch it from a sauna.

1785
01:46:19,020 --> 01:46:25,660
 Uh, Ryan, uh, Jimmy Stein is on our show again tomorrow and I was, uh, James Moody and I were watching.

1786
01:46:25,760 --> 01:46:36,140
 Our producer was watching, uh, their podcast earlier today, and he made the point Eastern Carolina of their 22 starters, 17 are juniors or seniors.

1787
01:46:36,520 --> 01:46:46,740
 They've got a 25 year old quarterback in Mitch Griffiths, uh, and Blake Harrell, uh, who came in and more or less resurrected the program.

1788
01:46:46,940 --> 01:46:49,060
 He's going 14 and five.

1789
01:46:49,340 --> 01:47:01,120
 Again, uh, I think a lot of people feel like Alabama is going to be able to meet, um, uh, the, the point spread, but this is really a veteran team with East, Eastern Carolina.

1790
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:03,620
 Well, and, and, and what did they do?

1791
01:47:03,700 --> 01:47:13,140
 They went out and got a guys that, uh, they felt like they could coach up and East Carolina lost a lot of players that went to bigger schools to your power for schools.

1792
01:47:13,140 --> 01:47:14,960
 But they also brought in a lot of guys too.

1793
01:47:15,440 --> 01:47:24,400
 So it's, this is the part that makes it so hard to predict what a team is going to be able to do.

1794
01:47:24,740 --> 01:47:31,160
 And, you know, used to, you would find money in Las Vegas in, in the betting odds.

1795
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:37,460
 The first couple of weeks is where you could really take the handy, you know, the, the sports book,

1796
01:47:37,700 --> 01:47:43,580
 the handicapper had the advantage because it just seemed like they were still trying to find their odds.

1797
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:54,200
 I almost wonder if that swung back the other way because it, it makes it a challenge because it's just, you don't know these football teams that there, there's so many new faces.

1798
01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:59,460
 I mean, listen, well, you know, we, you know, we like to throw shots across the state, but we don't know what Auburn's going to be.

1799
01:47:59,940 --> 01:48:11,640
 And, and we, you know, this team can walk out and look like a, you know, a pot of gold, uh, uh, Saturday afternoon in Atlanta against Baylor, but they can also be the complete opposite.

1800
01:48:11,820 --> 01:48:22,580
 It's just, it's almost until you get out there in that live fire, you just, I don't think, you know what these teams and these rankings that we do preseason rankings.

1801
01:48:22,580 --> 01:48:31,340
 It's like, I was asked to submit a, what is it? Top 16, super 16 football right association this year, a voter.

1802
01:48:32,420 --> 01:48:35,040
 Yes. I don't have the slightest idea.

1803
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:37,920
 How am I supposed to?

1804
01:48:39,040 --> 01:48:40,720
 I mean, we don't have preseason games.

1805
01:48:40,960 --> 01:48:43,040
 It's all clicks. It's all clickbait up to this point.

1806
01:48:43,140 --> 01:48:47,500
 I mean, especially until you get through, not only the first game, the first two or three games, it's clickbait up to that point.

1807
01:48:48,540 --> 01:48:55,040
 Yeah. But I mean, I mean, how am I supposed to vote? I've not went to all these different practices and trying to submit.

1808
01:48:55,260 --> 01:49:00,400
 Yeah. We'll have a better feel, but these preseason rankings don't mean anything at this point.

1809
01:49:00,520 --> 01:49:00,800
 Zero.

1810
01:49:01,100 --> 01:49:02,040
 Nothing. Not one thing.

1811
01:49:02,080 --> 01:49:03,800
 Take him. Take him with a grain of salt.

1812
01:49:03,940 --> 01:49:06,540
 On the other side of the ball, everybody's talking about the offense.

1813
01:49:06,700 --> 01:49:09,740
 Womack says, I've been waiting three years to put my system in.

1814
01:49:10,360 --> 01:49:12,580
 Said he talked with a guy named Savin' the offseason.

1815
01:49:12,700 --> 01:49:18,060
 I don't know why it took that long, but be that as it may, what do, what do we expect on the D side of the ball?

1816
01:49:18,540 --> 01:49:25,260
 Well, I think that's, to me, I'm pretty confident about that group because there's just so much experience coming back.

1817
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:29,380
 And, you know, he told us that the first time we had a media available.

1818
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:34,940
 I know Chris Lowe wrote an article where he had talked with Kane just a couple days ago.

1819
01:49:35,100 --> 01:49:41,940
 But he told us that he had met with Savin' in the offseason, and there were some things.

1820
01:49:42,020 --> 01:49:46,920
 I mean, it was almost the exact same float, you know, that he gave us.

1821
01:49:47,460 --> 01:49:50,520
 But he said he sat down with him, and he said, you know, he really liked a lot of the things.

1822
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:57,460
 But, you know, listen, what kind of resource is it when you've got Nick Savin' a couple of feet down the street that you could say,

1823
01:49:57,520 --> 01:49:58,660
 hey, what do you think about this?

1824
01:49:58,720 --> 01:50:02,320
 Do you like the way that we're running this place or this place?

1825
01:50:02,440 --> 01:50:04,840
 Or do you like what we're trying to do here?

1826
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:12,880
 You know, what is the true challenge of trying to find a way to, you know, line up this football team?

1827
01:50:12,880 --> 01:50:14,960
 And, I mean, he knows how to defend it.

1828
01:50:15,100 --> 01:50:20,440
 He knows, you know, how other people are going to try to attack, which may be the biggest advantage,

1829
01:50:20,440 --> 01:50:26,920
 is that he can show you how teams are going to go at you.

1830
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:33,760
 And, you know, that's where I think that, you know, Nick Savin's still on a consultant basis in Tuscaloosa.

1831
01:50:33,960 --> 01:50:35,260
 He's still drawing a salary.

1832
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:42,640
 That's probably money very well spent, that he can evaluate your, you know, your players.

1833
01:50:42,880 --> 01:50:43,400
 Your personnel.

1834
01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:47,480
 And, you know, if you're tipping too many things off or you're staying in this.

1835
01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:53,820
 But I think that's going to be the, and I did read where Chris had talked about the different elements of this defense,

1836
01:50:53,920 --> 01:50:58,040
 that they're going to be able to do some things that they've not been able to do.

1837
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:02,700
 And I think some of it is they're going to be able to put pressure on the quarterback

1838
01:51:02,700 --> 01:51:05,860
 and not have to bring as much blitz pressure.

1839
01:51:05,860 --> 01:51:07,640
 Now, that's always going to be a part of his defense.

1840
01:51:08,060 --> 01:51:14,080
 But they're going to be able to get pressure on the quarterback without having just to bring the heat every single down.

1841
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:20,500
 Keep an eye on that because that gives you a lot of options if you're able to put pressure on those guys

1842
01:51:20,500 --> 01:51:22,560
 and not have to bring too much of the heat.

1843
01:51:23,520 --> 01:51:23,960
 Absolutely.

1844
01:51:24,300 --> 01:51:26,140
 Tell us who's on the show today.

1845
01:51:26,260 --> 01:51:27,960
 Where can we get on line to listen?

1846
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:36,200
 And there's a rumor floating around about you that you're going to have a suntan stand that sells ice.

1847
01:51:36,340 --> 01:51:39,040
 Any truth to that rumor outside of Bryant-Denny?

1848
01:51:39,660 --> 01:51:45,460
 I thought you were about to go with a suntan because I just looked down to see if I had a suntan.

1849
01:51:45,540 --> 01:51:48,380
 I'm telling you guys, I'm as white as I was March the 1st.

1850
01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:51,560
 I'm a guy that never changes.

1851
01:51:51,940 --> 01:51:55,020
 You know, my wife, she turns into the dark, dark, dark.

1852
01:51:55,360 --> 01:51:55,880
 Not me.

1853
01:51:56,020 --> 01:51:56,460
 Not me.

1854
01:51:57,380 --> 01:52:00,220
 I'm as white as a polar bear.

1855
01:52:00,300 --> 01:52:02,200
 So I thought you were fixing to say I had a suntan.

1856
01:52:02,560 --> 01:52:04,540
 I was about to say, you got some bad information.

1857
01:52:04,900 --> 01:52:06,400
 But, you know, I'll tell you what.

1858
01:52:06,480 --> 01:52:12,540
 Just for the great fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide, find me in the press box and I'll have some SPF 70.

1859
01:52:12,900 --> 01:52:13,800
 That's the trick.

1860
01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:15,160
 SPF 70.

1861
01:52:16,680 --> 01:52:21,100
 Well, I mean, listen, I don't like it up there looking like a red lobster.

1862
01:52:21,100 --> 01:52:23,380
 So I use the 70 SPF.

1863
01:52:23,680 --> 01:52:25,660
 And if you'll do it, you won't get burned.

1864
01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:29,440
 And I think it's 80 minutes on the water protection.

1865
01:52:29,740 --> 01:52:32,900
 You know, it's waterproof or water repellent for 80 minutes.

1866
01:52:33,040 --> 01:52:37,540
 That'll at least get you through the first, you know, quarter, maybe quarter and a half.

1867
01:52:39,360 --> 01:52:41,440
 Well, find a shade in the A.C.

1868
01:52:41,500 --> 01:52:42,600
 Have fun in there, Ryan.

1869
01:52:42,680 --> 01:52:44,760
 Quickly, where can we get your show this afternoon, buddy?

1870
01:52:45,840 --> 01:52:47,240
 Tide at 109.com.

1871
01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:48,780
 Tide at 109.com.

1872
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:49,480
 Rodney Orr.

1873
01:52:49,620 --> 01:52:51,260
 We've got Josh from College Football Nerds.

1874
01:52:51,920 --> 01:52:55,500
 And we've also got Bruce Marshall coming up all this afternoon.

1875
01:52:55,660 --> 01:52:56,600
 Appreciate you guys so much.

1876
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:57,340
 You guys have a great rest of your day.

1877
01:52:57,340 --> 01:52:58,540
 You do the same.

1878
01:52:58,660 --> 01:52:59,960
 Find a shade, Ryan Fowler.

1879
01:53:00,020 --> 01:53:03,200
 The game tied 109 FM football tonight.

1880
01:53:03,340 --> 01:53:04,680
 Braves are off amongst them.

1881
01:53:05,200 --> 01:53:07,820
 Missouri gets the SEC rocking and rolling tonight.

1882
01:53:07,960 --> 01:53:09,820
 BB against Arkansas Pine Bluff.

1883
01:53:09,820 --> 01:53:12,540
 Look forward to seeing what Austin Simmons can do.

1884
01:53:12,680 --> 01:53:14,380
 And as you mentioned, no Braves tonight.

1885
01:53:14,500 --> 01:53:17,740
 Lord, they've got a four-game series beginning tomorrow in Philadelphia.

1886
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:18,920
 Good luck with that.

1887
01:53:19,420 --> 01:53:25,220
 But Kevin Johnson hosting the Florence Falcon Show from Los Pizza tonight.

1888
01:53:25,460 --> 01:53:28,320
 Probably talking to Kenny Morris and some of the players.

1889
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:30,060
 And that begins at 6.

1890
01:53:30,060 --> 01:53:32,280
 And you can hear it on 93.9, the score.

1891
01:53:32,860 --> 01:53:33,420
 Yeah, that's great.

1892
01:53:33,500 --> 01:53:34,780
 That's going to take care of bids for now.

1893
01:53:34,900 --> 01:53:37,200
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

1894
01:53:37,280 --> 01:53:39,280
 Peril Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1895
01:53:39,760 --> 01:53:42,120
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two, for the Boom on Buck Show.

1896
01:53:42,200 --> 01:53:44,480
 Back here on Sports Radio 93.9, the score.

1897
01:53:44,480 --> 01:53:44,560
 We'll see you next time.

1898
01:53:44,560 --> 01:53:44,560
 We'll see you next time.