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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 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome here to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brad Beard.

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 Brad Beard, welcome in where?

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 Memo to LSU.

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 Here comes the law, y'all.

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 And Florence, are you ready to take the curtain up on a historic weekend?

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 I got tickled when I heard Bill King say LSU is bringing 19 state troopers to Oxford.

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 Head football coach Kenny Morrison reviews the best start for the Florence Falcons since 2007.

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 And as you alluded to preview, a historic night in Florence Saturday night.

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 Coach Brent Dierman in the huddle with us.

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 The boss of UNA football coach.

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 Where are the emotions this week?

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 And, by the way, if you're just brand new to the show, thanks for joining us.

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 I won't steal your thunder of why I got a feeling a lot of folks are kind of walking on air this week in your program.

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 What we've got to do is, all the emotions that are going to come from this week, it's worse than a homecoming week, to be honest with you.

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 Because they've been, there's school here for 196 years, I believe.

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 They've been playing football here for 78 years.

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 First time in the history of the university to have an on-campus football game.

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 Beautiful stadium right outside.

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 Cheerleaders band.

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 Everybody's fired up in this community.

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 Backed house, tailgating, all this stuff is getting ready to go on.

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 And our guys have got to understand how to bottle up and control your emotions.

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 But you've got to play in such a way that we honor all those that came before us that put us in this situation.

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 Because I think a lot of fans just think it's a simple matter of going out, well, I got this player and I got that player.

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 Bama had the better roster.

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 As a coach, talk to us about coaches, how they sit here and try to contain.

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 These kids, and a lot of them are kids, still teenagers, 18 to 22 or so.

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 At the end of the day, you're dealing with 18 to 22-year-old males.

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 I mean, there's so many different things that 18-year-olds are so much of an emotional rollercoaster.

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 to calm them down, to focus them in, lock them in on the task at hand, when good or bad.

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 that everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the mouth.

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 and know what makes him tick, know what brings him back to level.

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 Recalp southeastern Louisiana for us.

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 You had an 18-7 lead in the first half and unfortunately lost 30-27, as you mentioned.

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 We're in the first drive of the game.

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 We are driving, and we get down to a third and one inside the 15-yard line, where if we convert that third one, we'd probably go on and score a touchdown.

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 It's 22-7, and you probably can start putting the game away a little bit.

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 We kick a field goal, well, three points is a little bit less than seven points, and it's not as much momentum going into halftime.

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 We miss a field goal going into halftime, and then come out of the half, and we had horrific tackling in the third quarter.

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 We just got dominated in the third quarter of that ballgame because we came out flat after halftime.

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 Our kids know that we had every opportunity in the world to win that game against an FCS playoff team on the road, and we let it slip.

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 It kind of woke us up, sent us a good message that we've got some things we've got to clean up and look forward to doing it in front of our home crowd.

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 Coach, man, Jim, in the huddle with us.

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 Coach, obviously, what was it?

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 Nick Saban said, don't waste an opportunity like that to learn from it.

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 There's two kinds of mistakes, those you can't help and those you can help and kind of clean up.

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 In other words, when you look back and you sit here and look at the film, how many of these problems were, as you mentioned, self-inflicted?

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 How many of them can you say, listen, if we just sit here and focus a little harder, concentrate a little bit better, and do our job that's the next play, how much of it is fixable, in other words, from the mistakes last week?

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 I mean, you've got to lock in your focus level when you're tired.

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 That's why we had a bad snap.

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 That's why we jump off sides on third and one, is you lose your attention to detail when you get tired.

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 So, the first way we attack that to fix it, Tuesday and Wednesday's practice this week is going to be a little bit harder.

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 We're going to make those guys get to that tough situation, that tough moment, make you tired, and see how you respond in that situation.

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 We had a full-on tackle drill yesterday where we brought our offensive skill players to the ground, or we missed them, and we just made our guys tackle yesterday.

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 So, the two biggest issues we have from this past game of lack of attention to detail and tackling are going to get fixed yesterday and today.

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 You made a comment at the game about Destin Wade, who is a very talented quarterback, but you said his feet right now are all over the place.

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 Obviously, his mechanics are a little bit off.

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 I know you've been working on that this week.

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 How much progress have you made with him getting ready for, obviously, Saturday night?

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 I feel like it was a lot.

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 Normally, we do what's called a 707 or a skeleton period, skelly period, against our defense on Tuesday and Wednesday,

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 where we change that and say, you know what, let's just go full-on team pass, and let's put the O-line and D-line in front of him.

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 I think Destin felt pressure a lot in that game that sometimes wasn't there.

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 So, you don't like having pressure around your quarterback a lot in season, but we just had to make that decision that we're going to go roll with it

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 Everything yesterday was based on that with our quarterback.

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 Let's talk about what's coming up here.

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 Alcorn State, obviously, they got waxed in the first game by a much bigger school, Southern Miss,

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 but then after that, correct me if I'm wrong, Coach, in the Miles game, they won 56-7.

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 You see the message here.

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 When they get rocking, this offense has the potential of scoring some points.

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 Alcorn's a very talented football team.

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 They're going to come in here.

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 They've got some big guys up front.

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 That's something our defense has not had to play this year.

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 So, this week, their emphasis was preparing for tempo, preparing for a fast-paced, hurry-up lineup, put the ball down offense.

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 They do a lot of different things, a lot of different fronts, a lot of different coverages, which usually simmers us down a little bit.

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 We've got to keep our eyes in our keys and our gap.

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 I'd like to get our run game going a little bit more than it has been, take a little pressure off our quarterback.

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 Let me ask you, I know, obviously, there are mistakes made against Southeast Louisiana, but I know some players played pretty well.

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 Who caught your eye in the game?

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 Xavier Johnson leads the nation in receiving points right now, which is unbelievable.

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 That's the first time in my career that I've had a receiver that's had that kind of statistics to start a year off.

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 He's a big play guy.

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 He can stretch the field.

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 He's got great body control.

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 He knows how to go up and attack the football.

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 He's been kind of in a security blanket for our quarterback these first two games.

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 I think Caden Adkins and Kamor Harris, both of our stars, have been really good edge players.

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 I think Southeastern tried to minimize their impact last week, and they ran away from them a lot, tried to get the ball out quick in the passing game.

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 Coach, before you go, let's talk about the 12th man.

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 The team, the program's been waiting for this weekend, but the community has two linebackers.

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 They can't wait.

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 What message can you tell UNA fans right now before Saturday's big game?

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 Oh, man, this team, this community, this city, this football team is all fired up for what's about to happen this weekend.

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 We hope it's a packed house.

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 It's rocking.

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 Come be loud.

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 Do the wave.

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 Get excited on third downs.

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 This football team's going to fill it.

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 This team loves this community.

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 This team knows that it is a part of this great community.

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 And we want to come out with a win.

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 We're going to do everything we can to christen that stadium with a win the first time.

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 You only get a couple firsts in life.

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 You get one first kiss.

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 We got an opportunity for the first and only first game on campus in school history.

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 But us as a whole community, I challenge this community, this fan base to come out and do this first with us together.

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 I heard Monday, only 800 tickets remaining.

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 You've got so many things to do this time of the week.

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 Turned things around, so I think we executed that great.

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 Does that make you fired up that there really didn't seem like any panic on the sideline, even when you guys were down early?

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 Yeah, I think it just shows how much we trust each other and how much we back everyone on the team, especially Keelan, you know, throwing the two interceptions.

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 But, you know, just having his back and just keeping him going and just being able to make some plays.

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 Just how did you see him approach everything this year, winning that quarterback job?

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 Welcome back in and we've been waiting on this game on the planes this weekend for a while.

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 I think John Ferrari would agree with that.

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 He is busy down in the Sunshine State.

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 W-F-O-Y.

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 John, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Harold, we have been waiting for this game for, I think, nine months, if not longer.

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 And I don't know what all the fuss is about some diva going to Oxford.

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 This is about a Huntsville man going to Lee County this weekend.

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 That's what this is about, guys.

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 So, a lot of excitement in Northeast Florida over this one Saturday night.

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 You know, John, everybody knew John Summerall would probably be at this game,

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 but a lot of folks thought he'd be rooting for the Auburn Tigers as their new head football coach.

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 And why not?

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 It looked like that's where the winds were blowing after coming out of Tulane.

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 He's from Alabama, as you mentioned.

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 Huntsville's a hotbed for Auburn.

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 His wife is an Auburn grad.

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 And what does he do?

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 He goes to Florida.

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 When asked this week, the obvious question, will your family be rooting for you or against you?

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 He says, basically, Florida pays my mortgage.

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 Anybody who doesn't root for me, I don't consider them to be a part of my family.

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 John Summerall just doesn't beat around the bush, does he?

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 And he hits it out of the park every time, at least for what Florida fans want to hear, guys,

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 because that's exactly what you want to hear.

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 You don't want to hear that he has any sentimentality towards Auburn this week.

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 And he is practical, too, with Florida pays his mortgage.

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 And they certainly do.

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 So, I think this is just going to be intriguing, guys, to see how this plays out,

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 because both these programs are kind of in the same place.

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 We talked about this all along the way.

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 They want to get back to their glory days.

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 They've got first-year head coaches at their programs.

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 And they really haven't played a big opponent yet.

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 Nothing against Baylor.

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 I know Auburn played them the opening game in Florida, obviously, with FAU and Campbell hasn't.

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 So, it'll be interesting to see on a big stage.

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 And Florida, by the way, has not won a road game since 2024.

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 They didn't win a road game all last year.

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 And that was against a 2-10 FSU team that needs an athletic director.

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 So, it's a big game for Florida, I think, on a big stage to show that they can get back to that

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 and to see if Aaron Filo, that quarterback, can continue to run that offense as efficiently

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 and as fluid as he has the first two weeks.

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 And so, Jaden Ball is obviously going to be set a lot on Saturday night.

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 And if he can run the ball and Florida can run the ball,

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 I think that sets up Filo and that passing game pretty well.

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 John, I think that's going to be the key to the game.

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 Florida's put up a lot of impressive offensive numbers.

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 Jane Ball, one of the best running backs in the SEC, ran for 296, five touchdowns.

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 Brunel Brown, a new punt return record, told 216 yards and three touchdowns.

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 Wilson is 104 on five catches.

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 But let me ask you about the intangibles that we've talked about for years that Florida didn't have.

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 Intensity, physicality, attention to details, winning the line of scrimmage,

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 being sound in the kicking game.

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 Have you seen that the first two games?

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 I have.

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 The second half, it got a little bit away from them last week against Campbell.

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 But for the first six quarters, absolutely, Brett.

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 And especially, let me start with attention to detail, because that's something that under Billy Napier the last four years has been awful, as we all know.

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 And then special teams, not one but two returns for a touchdown last week.

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 Talking about intangibles, that's something that in a close game on the road in the SEC could be the difference.

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 And you have to be able to do that once in a while.

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 Florida hasn't been for years.

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 Now, it was against Campbell, I get.

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 But you better believe Auburn's going to change their hunting game.

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 They're going to be aware of where Brunel Brown III is on Saturday night, which may open up something for somebody else.

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 That's the way that works.

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 So, I think that type of stuff is very important.

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 The other big question, Brett, for me is, defensively, we haven't seen much of a pass rush out of Florida the past two games.

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 Now, I think the offense or defense has been pretty vanilla because of the opponents as well, because we haven't seen any packages from Brad White, the defensive coordinator.

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 I think that's going to be a factor on Saturday night as well against Byron Brown, who Florida fans are familiar with from last September.

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 I think John Summerall and Brad White are going to have something dialed up for that young man as well on Saturday night that is not on film yet.

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 John Fari again, 1021news.com, WFOI down in the Sunshine State.

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 John coming in, as far as the health, overall, how healthy are the Gators?

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 Any key injuries?

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 And Vegas says it's going to go the Gators' way.

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 They got them favored.

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 Last time I looked, by two and a half.

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 Do you agree with Vegas?

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 That surprised me, actually, Harold, because Florida hasn't had a lot of success on the road recently, as I said a moment ago.

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 Eric Singleton is the only key injury.

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 Wide receiver, had a high ankle sprain, got it on the very first play against FAU, unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago.

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 I'd be surprised if he plays Saturday.

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 If he does, it's because it's Auburn, I can tell you, because if it was an ordinary game, I don't think you'd see him out there.

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00:27:08,740 --> 00:27:14,700
 Everywhere else, Florida's pretty healthy across the board, other than that one area.

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 But even without Singleton, the playmakers Florida has.

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 Dallas Wilson had over 100 yards receiving last week.

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00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:25,240
 We talked about Burnell Brown already.

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 Bailey Stockton, who's a guy a lot of folks don't know about, more of a possession receiver, but came over from Georgia Tech with Philo, too, has made some plays.

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 T.J. Abrams has made some plays.

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 So, even without Singleton, I think Florida's going to be okay in the receiving area on Saturday night.

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 But other than Singleton, I think everybody else should be ready to go for Florida.

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 John, what about the offensive line?

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 I thought Florida was going to have one of the best offensive lines in the SEC last year, and it did not happen.

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 Harris, Moore, Lovett, Jones, and Friends.

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 Your thoughts on the O-line's performance the first two games?

453
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,920
 I think it's been pretty good the first two games, Brett.

454
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:16,220
 They've been able to run the football.

455
00:28:16,460 --> 00:28:17,880
 We mentioned Jaden Baugh.

456
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,940
 I think they've been good in pass protection as well.

457
00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:25,120
 However, they haven't been tested.

458
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:31,160
 Like, they're going to be tested on Saturday night against Auburn, and especially in a hostile environment.

459
00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:36,460
 But I think it's much better than what we've seen over the past few years.

460
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,020
 No question about that.

461
00:28:38,420 --> 00:28:44,060
 And I think Jaden Baugh is going to get a chance to get warmed up on Saturday night,

462
00:28:44,060 --> 00:28:52,560
 meaning he hasn't even had 20 carries a ball game yet because of the way the games have played out the first two weeks.

463
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 I think you're going to see them north of 20 on Saturday.

464
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:03,480
 Games like this are why John Summerall stressed the strength and conditioning as soon as he got there.

465
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 And that the offensive line had to be stronger or else they weren't going to be able to compete in these type of games.

466
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 And he went to Atlanta, Georgia on Christmas Eve to get Jaden Baugh back.

467
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 These are the games for the reasons he did that.

468
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 So, I think we're going to see that on display Saturday night.

469
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:24,480
 Absolutely.

470
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,120
 Bud, always great to talk with you.

471
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 This is one of the big games.

472
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:35,080
 I know everybody wants to look at Oxford, but this is fascinating to me as far as the result.

473
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,820
 We'll know much more about these two teams.

474
00:29:37,820 --> 00:29:48,740
 By the way, Bud, I saw last night on ESPN the 30-30, 14 days in Gainesville where they chronicle Steve Spurrier's first season.

475
00:29:49,540 --> 00:30:00,920
 And mirrored with that was a two-week vigil over, of all things, a serial killer who killed five students on the Florida campus.

476
00:30:01,260 --> 00:30:02,360
 I saw most of it.

477
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,420
 That was absolutely fascinating.

478
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,780
 If you haven't seen it yet, they'll be replaying it.

479
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,060
 But quite a way to begin Steve Spurrier's career.

480
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,160
 I think a lot of people had forgotten that over the years.

481
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:18,300
 But where can we get online and listen to your great show?

482
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:29,080
 You can get online at 1021news.com or in St. Augustine at 102.1 or 1240 WFOI.

483
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,540
 And God bless those young ladies and their families, by the way, from 1990.

484
00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:34,780
 Brett, you're right.

485
00:30:35,140 --> 00:30:37,920
 I'm glad ESPN did chronicle that.

486
00:30:38,340 --> 00:30:40,740
 But, guys, one more thing on the way out.

487
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:51,020
 If Florida wins on Saturday night, I think the fact that Ole Miss is playing LSU this week helps Florida next week when they host Ole Miss.

488
00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:55,280
 Not to look ahead, but that could help John Summerall.

489
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:56,180
 We shall see.

490
00:30:56,580 --> 00:30:58,080
 But first things first.

491
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:00,140
 There you go.

492
00:31:00,220 --> 00:31:03,020
 Big boy football is up on us.

493
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:03,780
 John, listen, man.

494
00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:05,180
 Thanks so much for your time, Dave.

495
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:06,400
 Let's do it again soon, okay?

496
00:31:07,220 --> 00:31:08,420
 Thanks for having me, guys.

497
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:08,960
 Thank you, buddy.

498
00:31:09,380 --> 00:31:13,500
 John Flory, 1021news.com, WFOI.

499
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 Why do you say we head on down to Tietown, Alabama?

500
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,700
 Pretty big ballgame in the south with a team from Florida.

501
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 Welcome back in.

616
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:15,240
 It is a pleasure for us to go to the middle of heat country this weekend, they say, down in Tuscaloosa, Rodney, where I think can testify to that.

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 He's the founder and editor of TiterInsider.com, and his book is called Bigger Than Bama.

618
00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:21,300
 Rodney, welcome in.

619
00:38:21,380 --> 00:38:21,880
 How are you?

620
00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:23,820
 I am doing well.

621
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:24,540
 How are you, Harold?

622
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 And we're doing all right.

623
00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:31,380
 Rodney, it's safe to say after this game with Kentucky, Alabama football this season can be good and it can be bad.

624
00:38:31,500 --> 00:38:33,440
 It's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

625
00:38:34,100 --> 00:38:41,240
 When's the last time you've seen a game where a team led for over 40 minutes and they end up losing by four touchdowns?

626
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,840
 That was a wild game, was it not, Rodney?

627
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:54,520
 Yeah, we need to figure out when that was, Harold, because I don't know that I've ever seen a game where a team led for 42 minutes and lost by that wide of a margin.

628
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 But, yeah, it's pretty incredible, pretty crazy.

629
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:05,760
 But I think it just goes to show the difference between the first half when you turn the ball over three times and then the second half when you play much cleaner.

630
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 You play sound defense, which I thought they played defense great the whole game, but they even played better in the second half.

631
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 And your quarterback doesn't turn it over three times.

632
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 So, I just think that's really, they cleaned things up, and I thought they ran the ball a lot better.

633
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,080
 I mean, obviously, they ran for five yards in the first half.

634
00:39:25,180 --> 00:39:27,680
 They ran for 150 in the second half.

635
00:39:28,140 --> 00:39:30,220
 Ninety-three of that was in the fourth quarter.

636
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,700
 So, they did a really good job in all of those areas.

637
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 Rodney, I think the last time anything close to that may have been 19, what was it, 89?

638
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 When Ole Miss kind of hit 21 to nothing in Jackson, or Oxford in Alabama scored 62 consecutive points.

639
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:53,300
 Obviously, a different era, different games, but that kind of reminded me a little bit of it.

640
00:39:53,700 --> 00:40:04,040
 I've been asked the last two weeks a little bit more about the bigger picture, about the transfer portal commitments, the transfer portal players.

641
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:06,440
 I looked that up this morning.

642
00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:16,900
 Rodney, there are 14 transfers that came in who are starting, or they have played a significant role on this team.

643
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 Now, they've only played two games.

644
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 There's a long way to go here.

645
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 But I was asked about, can this team and coaching staff evaluate and develop?

646
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 And I think you can probably say, looking at the transfer guys, yes.

647
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 In the 2025 recruiting class, there are 13 players starting or playing a significant role.

648
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:45,620
 I would say, yes, this coaching staff can evaluate players.

649
00:40:47,620 --> 00:40:50,260
 Yeah, I mean, I think they've done a really good job of that.

650
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 I mean, I think we see that.

651
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 I think, you know, you look at the roster that they've built, you know, from the games we've seen.

652
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 We've seen them on the field.

653
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 I think, you know, there's people that say this might be the best defense in the country.

654
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:02,500
 And, again, I don't know.

655
00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:03,980
 That may be getting way ahead of the game.

656
00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:04,580
 We'll see.

657
00:41:04,740 --> 00:41:06,660
 I mean, there's a lot better competition to come.

658
00:41:06,900 --> 00:41:12,040
 But, I mean, but when you see the speed, the athleticism on this defense from front to back, it's pretty impressive.

659
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 Now, we said all summer, we said, you know, since last spring that the feeling inside the building was that they were going to be really, really, really good on the defensive side of the ball.

660
00:41:22,660 --> 00:41:27,500
 And they appear to be, I mean, like I said, front to back, really like what we've seen on that side of the ball.

661
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 I think that the portal additions on the offensive line have been really good so far.

662
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 Delgatti, I think Javon James has done some really nice things as well.

663
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664
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665
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 So, yeah, they've done a really good job, obviously, building the roster.

666
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 I think you look at the running backs, too.

667
00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:55,420
 Absolutely.

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 Daniel Hill.

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670
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671
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672
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 suggesting Alabama doesn't have money, they don't have this, they don't have that,

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676
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 You know, I think it's a really good roster that they've built.

677
00:42:24,420 --> 00:42:30,200
 And, you know, it's a roster that you could see as it develops could certainly be a roster

678
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,260
 that puts Alabama in position to compete for championships, I would think.

679
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,500
 Rodney, or tighterinsider.com, I think the other side of that equation of the modern era is

680
00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:43,500
 know how to evaluate fully, and that is, I don't think anybody's missing Smith and Russo.

681
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:47,700
 I think Ohio State may be wanting a refund on those guys leaving Alabama.

682
00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:49,300
 I'm going up there to the Texas game.

683
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:53,380
 But your thoughts about just managing that, and basically you've got to know who to add,

684
00:42:53,540 --> 00:42:55,060
 and you've got to know the space, it's business.

685
00:42:55,260 --> 00:42:56,160
 You've got to know who to track.

686
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:56,940
 100%, Harold.

687
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:57,880
 100%.

688
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,240
 You can go out and you can spend a lot of money, but if you waste money,

689
00:43:02,660 --> 00:43:05,720
 and I'm not saying that Russo and Smith are waste, that's not what I'm suggesting,

690
00:43:05,940 --> 00:43:12,180
 but they're on tighterinsider.com, it's about 80-90% of those posters that suggest those guys were waste.

691
00:43:12,580 --> 00:43:18,560
 So, going by that theory, if you're paying those guys money, are you really spending that much money?

692
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,140
 Are you getting the value in return?

693
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:26,020
 And I think value is where you're going with it, Harold, and I think this staff's doing a really good job with that.

694
00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:32,700
 So, I mean, again, I think you look at teams that are spending more money maybe than Alabama is,

695
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,100
 but are they getting more value?

696
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:35,700
 I think that's the question.

697
00:43:36,100 --> 00:43:37,020
 Well, look at the New York Mets.

698
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,800
 Just spending money itself doesn't do anything.

699
00:43:38,940 --> 00:43:40,240
 Land the Mets in the last place.

700
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,200
 But your thoughts, I mean, in some ways, you look at that first half,

701
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:47,340
 and I think we've been talking about this for a long time,

702
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,320
 and I think anybody that has a degree of maturity knew this was coming.

703
00:43:50,780 --> 00:43:54,760
 When you basically throw a teenager out there, first road game, let's face it,

704
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:59,040
 Will Stein had that crowd, they ramped up, and a kid walked into that,

705
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,160
 and I think, first of all, he was like deer in the headlights, the first part of that game.

706
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:03,480
 That's the bad side.

707
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,480
 The other side now, he knows what it's like on the road in the SEC.

708
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,160
 You couldn't put a value, speaking of money, on the experience he gained with that rough start,

709
00:44:12,300 --> 00:44:16,880
 and to his credit, was able to sit there and once he got his wherewithal about it and settle down.

710
00:44:18,380 --> 00:44:19,300
 I'm sorry, Harold.

711
00:44:19,380 --> 00:44:20,960
 I kind of missed where you're going with that.

712
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,280
 I'm talking about just the lessons that Russell learned in that ball game,

713
00:44:26,340 --> 00:44:30,060
 the rough start in that environment, his first road game in the SEC,

714
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:34,040
 and then once he finally got a hold of things, you can see that talent coming up

715
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,880
 once he adjusted to the reality of playing on the road in a hostile environment.

716
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:45,580
 Yeah, I mean, I just think right now, Harold and Brett, with him, he's got all the tools.

717
00:44:45,780 --> 00:44:48,120
 I mean, we saw the flashes in this game.

718
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,020
 We saw the flashes in the first game, obviously,

719
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:54,500
 but I thought he did a better job of hanging in there in this game.

720
00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:57,500
 You know, he didn't bail out on the first sign of pressure.

721
00:44:58,220 --> 00:44:59,160
 I thought he hung in there.

722
00:44:59,220 --> 00:45:03,040
 He made some fantastic throws, incredible throws, and again, he missed some.

723
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:07,040
 He had some bad decisions, and, you know, he had some things that you said, Harold,

724
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:08,320
 he'll learn from, and he will.

725
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:13,160
 So I think all of those things are really important, but the tools are there.

726
00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:15,280
 I mean, they're obviously there.

727
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,840
 It's going to be how quickly he continues to develop.

728
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:22,760
 And, look, I think each one of these games coming up, Florida State games,

729
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,600
 great opportunity for him to take the next step, not only for him but for the team.

730
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:33,340
 And then all of a sudden you take another big step, I think, or a step up when you play South Carolina.

731
00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:36,280
 And then you've got to go on the road to Mississippi State.

732
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,880
 So that rounds out those first five games that we talked about all offseason.

733
00:45:41,260 --> 00:45:46,320
 If you can get through those first five, grow, develop, you know, gain some confidence and momentum,

734
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:52,520
 then as you move into the next part of the schedule, starting with Georgia, I think it's on October the 10th,

735
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,980
 and then all of a sudden you might be in a good position, you know.

736
00:45:56,180 --> 00:45:58,900
 And so we'll see how it all kind of unfolds.

737
00:45:58,940 --> 00:46:06,400
 But I really like the way these next few games set up that will, in my opinion, give Alabama an opportunity,

738
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,520
 even though there'll be competitive games, that's what you want,

739
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:16,540
 but they'll give Alabama an opportunity to grow and develop and prepare for that second half of that schedule,

740
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,920
 which, you know, right now, like I said, if Alabama can go 5-0,

741
00:46:21,420 --> 00:46:25,000
 they'll be in great position when that second half of the schedule begins.

742
00:46:25,220 --> 00:46:30,020
 Ronny, let me give praise to another unit, and that is special teams.

743
00:46:30,140 --> 00:46:34,060
 I go back to the Oklahoma game in Tuscaloosa last year,

744
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:42,320
 and I'm sure a lot of your subscribers on the message board wanted to run Jay Nunez and Connor Talty out of town.

745
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,900
 Well, Talty's now hit 10 consecutive field goals.

746
00:46:48,140 --> 00:46:51,020
 Quinn is kicking the ball into the end zone,

747
00:46:51,780 --> 00:46:55,780
 and they snuffed out that fake punt by Kentucky.

748
00:46:56,060 --> 00:47:02,600
 QB Reese, Ivan Taylor, I think those guys lost three or four yards on that play.

749
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,820
 Again, we've only got a small sample size,

750
00:47:06,020 --> 00:47:10,120
 but special teams so far, Ronny, have looked pretty special.

751
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,020
 Yeah, I mean, they have taken a big jump,

752
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:16,940
 and like you said, I think Jay Nunez, you know,

753
00:47:16,980 --> 00:47:20,320
 I know certainly on tighterinsider.com and on various other places,

754
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:25,140
 social media has kind of taken a beating over the last year or so on those special teams,

755
00:47:25,300 --> 00:47:26,080
 but they have, man.

756
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:27,080
 They've been really good.

757
00:47:27,580 --> 00:47:31,500
 Yeah, that was a big play, too, you know, when they stopped that fake punt.

758
00:47:31,980 --> 00:47:34,220
 So they've been really alert in those situations,

759
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,260
 and, you know, they did it last year against Missouri,

760
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:38,660
 and that was a big play in that game.

761
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:39,960
 So you're right.

762
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,560
 I mean, I think they've taken a big jump,

763
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:45,520
 and I think that, you know, Lorcan Quinn really came coming in,

764
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,300
 kind of challenged Talti to take it to the next level.

765
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,440
 And, you know, here's the thing with Talti, too.

766
00:47:51,620 --> 00:47:54,880
 Don't forget, now, some people had him the number one place kicker in the country

767
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,860
 coming out of high school, so he was pretty good, too.

768
00:47:58,580 --> 00:48:03,580
 And I do think that, again, his progress has been – I mean, he just looks –

769
00:48:03,580 --> 00:48:06,620
 as I look at him right now, just his body language when he's kicking,

770
00:48:06,820 --> 00:48:08,560
 he just looks so much more confident.

771
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:10,800
 Ron, you weren't tighter than Saturday.com.

772
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:11,420
 It's amazing.

773
00:48:11,540 --> 00:48:13,120
 We've reached this far into the interview,

774
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,540
 and we haven't talked about the revenge game.

775
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:20,220
 Your thoughts about Alabama and FSU this weekend?

776
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,380
 Well, I mean, you know, again,

777
00:48:24,380 --> 00:48:27,380
 you know that they haven't forgotten what happened.

778
00:48:27,580 --> 00:48:29,500
 The players that were here, obviously, DeBoer,

779
00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:31,720
 and kind of the fallout after that game,

780
00:48:32,260 --> 00:48:34,580
 even though they did respond really well, obviously.

781
00:48:35,140 --> 00:48:37,360
 But, I mean, still, there was a lot of fallout after that game.

782
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:37,940
 It was crazy.

783
00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:38,920
 It was a wild week.

784
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,080
 And, you know, it's certainly something that you use, I would think,

785
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:43,260
 for some sort of motivation.

786
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:44,840
 And I'll say this, too.

787
00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:48,040
 You know, let's not forget that Florida State,

788
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:49,360
 they're 1-1 right now.

789
00:48:49,900 --> 00:48:53,120
 This last game that they had against SMU,

790
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,200
 they've had a little break since then.

791
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,720
 Wasn't that – that was on Labor Day night, right?

792
00:48:58,260 --> 00:48:58,880
 I believe.

793
00:49:00,180 --> 00:49:00,780
 Yeah, no.

794
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:01,840
 Yeah.

795
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,220
 But they played a really good game, actually.

796
00:49:05,220 --> 00:49:07,060
 You know, SMU's a good football team.

797
00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:07,720
 They really are.

798
00:49:07,820 --> 00:49:10,140
 They're, what, 17th in the country, whatever they're ranked.

799
00:49:10,620 --> 00:49:12,100
 And they're a quality team.

800
00:49:12,820 --> 00:49:15,780
 And, you know, they get beaten in the final 21 seconds of the game.

801
00:49:15,980 --> 00:49:18,160
 I mean, it was a hard loss for FSU.

802
00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:20,280
 The question is, you know,

803
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,400
 where are they kind of mentally right now coming into this game?

804
00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:24,480
 This is a road game.

805
00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:27,900
 It's obviously a lot of things going against them that, like we said,

806
00:49:27,980 --> 00:49:30,220
 the kind of the chip on the shoulder that Alabama should have,

807
00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,560
 its motivation, those types of things.

808
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,860
 So, but now when you look at FSU, Ashton Daniels, don't forget now,

809
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:37,820
 last year at Auburn.

810
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:38,480
 That's right.

811
00:49:38,660 --> 00:49:40,340
 He threw for 250-plus.

812
00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:43,080
 He ran for over 100 yards as well.

813
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:44,840
 He had a really big game.

814
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,360
 You know, that's probably his career game to date.

815
00:49:47,620 --> 00:49:48,960
 That's probably his career game.

816
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:54,560
 So, but now, look, he also won't have both those receivers

817
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,260
 that Auburn had last year, Coleman and Simmons.

818
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,060
 But he does have Deuce Robinson.

819
00:49:59,420 --> 00:50:03,200
 And Deuce is 6'6", 230, and he's a legitimate deep threat.

820
00:50:03,660 --> 00:50:05,340
 And he's a big physical guy.

821
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,080
 So, he's got a good receiver.

822
00:50:07,620 --> 00:50:09,600
 They seem to be better on the offensive line.

823
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,000
 They ran the ball pretty well.

824
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,280
 They've run the ball pretty well.

825
00:50:12,460 --> 00:50:16,760
 And I thought, you know, Kromov, Usman Kromov,

826
00:50:17,020 --> 00:50:19,640
 he is really a good top-notch back.

827
00:50:20,140 --> 00:50:22,840
 He's got, you know, he's averaging 6.4 yards a carry.

828
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:24,300
 He's a really quality back.

829
00:50:25,060 --> 00:50:27,400
 So, they've got some weapons offensively.

830
00:50:28,020 --> 00:50:29,860
 You know, again, they like to run the football.

831
00:50:30,020 --> 00:50:31,100
 That's going to be a challenge, though,

832
00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:34,980
 because Alabama defense has been really, really stingy against the rush.

833
00:50:35,100 --> 00:50:37,100
 You know, they've only given up, what, I think,

834
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,400
 67 yards rushing or something in two games.

835
00:50:40,860 --> 00:50:42,400
 That's pretty amazing, actually.

836
00:50:43,460 --> 00:50:48,520
 So, you know, and again, Daniels is kind of, they move him around.

837
00:50:49,260 --> 00:50:51,420
 You know, he throws on the run well.

838
00:50:51,900 --> 00:50:56,840
 So, it would be a little bit more of a challenge, maybe, with him than it was Minchie.

839
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,280
 But I still just think, Harold and Brett, you look at this Alabama team,

840
00:51:02,820 --> 00:51:05,640
 they kind of seem to be gelling together a little bit.

841
00:51:05,780 --> 00:51:08,640
 You know, he simply took a step, especially in that second half.

842
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,940
 So, I think Alabama pulls away.

843
00:51:11,060 --> 00:51:12,240
 I picked it 31-13.

844
00:51:13,140 --> 00:51:18,880
 I remember last year, late last year, Rodney Orr, when we were evaluating the recruiting class,

845
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,000
 said, well, we went through a lot of names.

846
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:26,100
 He said, oh, by the way, this defensive back from St. Francis Academy,

847
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,520
 Jaira Edwards, watch him.

848
00:51:29,860 --> 00:51:33,220
 And I look at the code words that Rodney Orr puts down.

849
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:41,500
 Have you ever seen a freshman playing with a broken arm, anticipate a snap, look like he's a missile,

850
00:51:41,740 --> 00:51:45,120
 and knock down the quarterback and the running back at the same time?

851
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,800
 Yeah, I think he's got a little potential.

852
00:51:49,380 --> 00:51:50,760
 Yeah, no doubt.

853
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:53,640
 I mean, he is a good-looking player.

854
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,440
 I know they raved about him all offseason, how mature he is,

855
00:51:57,660 --> 00:52:01,240
 how he really took in the offseason program that they had.

856
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,860
 You know, so he's been doing really well since he got here.

857
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,700
 And then, you know, a guy that's not playing, you want to talk about another freshman,

858
00:52:08,820 --> 00:52:09,740
 D.B., Jordan Edmonds.

859
00:52:09,820 --> 00:52:10,940
 That's for the future.

860
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:12,100
 That's for the future.

861
00:52:12,260 --> 00:52:13,080
 But it's just clear.

862
00:52:13,180 --> 00:52:15,940
 You look at Xavier Griffin on the field for them.

863
00:52:16,940 --> 00:52:21,760
 You look at some of these other young players, Crowell, Treshawn Brown, you know,

864
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,580
 Jackson Lloyd's just a sophomore, Michael Carroll's just a sophomore.

865
00:52:26,700 --> 00:52:29,240
 You know, so they've got some really good young players.

866
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,180
 Lotseer Brooks, he's just a sophomore.

867
00:52:31,600 --> 00:52:33,300
 Derek Meadows, he's just a sophomore.

868
00:52:34,100 --> 00:52:37,500
 And again, you know, assuming you keep all these guys, which that's their goal,

869
00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:39,280
 their retention is their philosophy.

870
00:52:39,540 --> 00:52:44,900
 So, with all that said, it goes back to what we were talking about earlier.

871
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:46,760
 They've done a nice job of building the roster.

872
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:53,480
 And so, no, I'm really encouraged by, you know, not just Jairo Edwards, like you mentioned,

873
00:52:53,620 --> 00:52:55,680
 although, you know, he's a fantastic player,

874
00:52:55,740 --> 00:52:58,680
 but just so many of these young players that I think are really talented.

875
00:52:59,180 --> 00:53:02,360
 Ronnie, this could really be quite a team in 2027.

876
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,500
 Everybody says, wait, wait, wait, wait.

877
00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:07,340
 We've got a long way to go in this season.

878
00:53:07,700 --> 00:53:11,100
 But if they can keep these guys, they've got to pay them some money.

879
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,520
 This could be quite a team next year.

880
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,680
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893
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894
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895
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897
00:54:02,580 --> 00:54:03,640
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898
00:54:03,940 --> 00:54:05,580
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899
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,460
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900
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:10,060
 And thanks for your time today.

901
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:11,620
 Okay, guys.

902
00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:12,180
 Appreciate it.

903
00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:12,260
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904
00:54:12,260 --> 00:54:12,740
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905
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,720
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906
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,020
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907
00:54:18,140 --> 00:54:20,840
 Coming up in the next hour, double day, Drew Jarman is going to be on board.

908
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:25,320
 Joe Cox sitting at the table around the SEC in a high-flying falcon

909
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,820
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910
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 1819 News.

1001
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 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is calling for the deportation of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

1002
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 Tuberville referred to Omar's connections to the large-scale fraud that was conducted in the state of Minnesota

1003
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,820
 and says that issue alone should be cause enough for her to be deported back to Somalia.

1004
00:59:34,820 --> 00:59:39,700
 One of Omar's congressional staffers has already been convicted for taking part in this fraud.

1005
00:59:40,020 --> 00:59:44,640
 Tuberville says that Omar has openly supported communism as well as represented people in her district

1006
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 who have gone on to steal millions of taxpayer money from federal programs.

1007
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 Tuberville says that even though the U.S. immigration system is broken,

1008
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 it's not so broken that Omar and liars and frauds like her cannot be removed from the U.S.

1009
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 I'll be back with more Alabama stories after this.

1010
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:03,880
 Some of the greatest blessings is just having the people that care about you,

1011
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 to have someone that's just going to love you and make you feel important.

1012
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 They encourage you to be in church.

1013
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 They encourage you to be in prayer.

1014
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 They encourage you to be in your Bible.

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 Now it's a part of my day every day.

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 My house parents planted seeds in me that you can see where those seeds have sprouted in my life

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1019
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 This week, the Montgomery County Commission passed a budget for fiscal year 2027

1020
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,400
 that includes half a million dollars to the Montgomery Whitewater Park.

1021
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:39,840
 This comes despite recent comments made by certain members of the commission

1022
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,080
 that they did not want to continue funding the park.

1023
01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:45,300
 Commissioners Isaiah Sankey and Dan Harris voted against the budget

1024
01:00:45,300 --> 01:00:48,300
 and Sankey specifically stated that it was because of the funding

1025
01:00:48,300 --> 01:00:50,340
 that was inserted for the Whitewater Park.

1026
01:00:50,600 --> 01:00:53,960
 Commissioner Sankey recently told 1819 News that he and others were not interested

1027
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:58,480
 in any more funding of the park until an audit of its finances was completed

1028
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:01,720
 as well as more details given of its future business plans.

1029
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:05,640
 A financial audit on the water park is due to be released this coming October 1st.

1030
01:01:05,900 --> 01:01:06,600
 I'm Andrea Theis.

1031
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:11,300
 For more news affecting Alabamians, go to 1819news.com.

1032
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 And while you're there, subscribe to the daily newsletter.

1033
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:20,620
 It's an evening with Alabama softball coach Patrick Murphy and All-American pitcher Jocelyn Briskey

1034
01:01:20,620 --> 01:01:23,760
 benefiting the Howard Gamble Scholarship for the Red Elephant Club.

1035
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 Monday, September 28th at 2807 East Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals.

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 There'll be a meet and greet at 530, dinner at 630 with speaker and Q&A session to follow.

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 Get your tickets early.

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 For tickets and more information, call Robert Newton at 256-366-9616.

1042
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,420
 Listen to the Crimson Tide Sports Network for Crimson Tide Rewind.

1043
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 Live from Romhauer's Victory Grill in the Stavie Hills, Monday nights at 6 p.m.

1044
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 Tune in and roll tide.

1045
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 Valley Broadcasting Corporation, WITK-FM, Rogersville, Athens, Decatur, The Shores, Sports Radio 93.9, The Score.

1046
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:10,200
 J. Jeffcoat here with the AHSAA Radio Network, inviting you to join us for another fantastic season of high school football

1047
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,600
 on the AHSAA Radio Network Scoreboard Show.

1048
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 Every Friday from 10 to midnight, we'll bring you all the scores and analysis from our team of experts across the state.

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 Presented by the Alabama Department of Transportation, Russell Dewey Center, the Alabama Community College System,

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 the Alabama National Guard, and Southeastern Land Group and the Southeastern Land Show.

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 Join us Friday nights for the AHSAA Radio Network Scoreboard Show, right here.

1052
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 Brought to you locally by Lost Pizza, John C. Saylor, Attorney at Law, The Courier Journal,

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 Friday night football is something special around the South.

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 And on Saturday mornings, we'll tell you all about the high school football action in this area.

1056
01:02:44,140 --> 01:02:46,620
 Here on 93.9, The Score, it's the Coach's Breakfast.

1057
01:02:46,620 --> 01:02:50,560
 As we join high school coaches from around the area, breaking down Friday night games,

1058
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:52,700
 and talking about future schedules as well.

1059
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:57,500
 Join host Kevin Johnson as he talks with coaches from around the area on the Coach's Breakfast.

1060
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 Saturday mornings throughout this football season.

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 This Saturday morning at 8 on 93.9, The Score.

1064
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 93.9, The Score, weather.

1065
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 Today's sunny and hot with a high around 100, and heat index values as high as 103.

1066
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 A heat warning is in effect.

1067
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 Tonight mostly clear with a low near 70.

1068
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 Tomorrow, sunny and hot with a high around 100.

1069
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 Tomorrow night mostly clear with a low near 70.

1070
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 And for your Friday, sunny and hot with a high around 100.

1071
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 Your weather from 93.9, The Score.

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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of northwest Alabama and southern Tennessee.

1073
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:53,140
 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

1074
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,440
 The Boomo Bugg Show.

1075
01:03:58,980 --> 01:04:04,200
 Your exclusive inside track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

1076
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:10,320
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, The Score.

1077
01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,700
 And welcome back to the Boomo Bugg Show.

1078
01:04:15,820 --> 01:04:22,620
 Brett Beard, Harold will be joining us in just a few minutes, but I am absolutely delighted to bring in a good friend.

1079
01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:26,800
 He talks baseball, basketball, and football.

1080
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:31,660
 Joe Cox of Saturday Down South rejoining us for the season.

1081
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,740
 Joe, welcome back to the show, my friend.

1082
01:04:33,840 --> 01:04:34,380
 How are you doing?

1083
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,300
 B.B., my friend, I cannot complain.

1084
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:38,000
 Doing fine.

1085
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:38,880
 Hope you're doing well.

1086
01:04:40,020 --> 01:04:41,340
 We're doing all right, Joe.

1087
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,040
 We appreciate you taking time out.

1088
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:47,340
 For folks who have been waiting for big boy football amongst the family,

1089
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,780
 A.A.K.A. SEC on SEC,

1090
01:04:49,780 --> 01:04:52,200
 it looks like the wait is over this weekend.

1091
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,980
 And I think I know where you're going to start with this game, Joe.

1092
01:04:56,580 --> 01:05:01,140
 Well, yeah, I mean, gosh, it's so good to finally get it back.

1093
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,820
 You know, up here in Kentucky, they thought there might be one this past Saturday.

1094
01:05:05,180 --> 01:05:07,700
 And for about two and a half quarters there was.

1095
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:12,480
 But then, you know, it went by the wayside a little bit at the end there.

1096
01:05:12,660 --> 01:05:17,200
 But, yeah, the Lane Kiffin Bowl is the game that I think is on everybody's mind.

1097
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:21,920
 Although, I've got to admit, Florida-Auburn is another one I'm certainly going to be paying a lot of attention to.

1098
01:05:22,580 --> 01:05:28,200
 Joe, we want to ask you about your thoughts on the, now that it's in the rear view of Mirabama at Kentucky since you live there.

1099
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,560
 But have you ever seen a game with this kind of drama that's going on in Oxford?

1100
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:37,220
 I was there after the Sugar Bowl win over Alabama over Miami.

1101
01:05:37,940 --> 01:05:43,580
 And one thing I learned, I was on the field after the game, and a lot of drunk Bama fans wanted to rush the field.

1102
01:05:43,780 --> 01:05:46,160
 And those guys on the horses down there, they don't mess around.

1103
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:50,780
 They had them put those zip handcuffs they ran out of, the real cuffs.

1104
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:52,380
 They had people lined up.

1105
01:05:52,420 --> 01:05:55,280
 It looked like a pile of cannonballs at Shiloh over there.

1106
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:56,600
 They don't mess around.

1107
01:05:56,700 --> 01:05:59,080
 They brought in the horse-mounted police from Mobile.

1108
01:06:01,020 --> 01:06:03,900
 Your thoughts just about the off-the-field drama for that game.

1109
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:09,900
 Oh, I mean, this feels more like week three of the college football playoff than week three of the season.

1110
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,080
 I mean, there is a lot here.

1111
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:18,100
 And I will go ahead and say right now, if Ole Miss can take down Lane Kiffin in his former house,

1112
01:06:18,540 --> 01:06:22,080
 I'm not sure there's anything they can do to protect that field in Oxford.

1113
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:25,720
 They may have to build a new stadium before their next home game.

1114
01:06:26,140 --> 01:06:27,900
 They bring in John Wayne, the cavalry.

1115
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:35,500
 But to add to the drama, LSU, even before the game, at the camp, LSU defensive end Princewell,

1116
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:40,820
 I hope I pronounced this correct, Uma Miela, served with papers, court documents,

1117
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:43,680
 going along with this lawsuit filed by Ole Miss.

1118
01:06:44,180 --> 01:06:46,020
 Ole Miss says, we ain't playing with you, boys.

1119
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,380
 No, not at all.

1120
01:06:48,380 --> 01:06:56,780
 And on some level, I had to be reminded with the Phil Fulmer shuffle to avoid the litigation in Alabama over the years.

1121
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,040
 But it's been a while since we were talking about that in an SEC rivalry.

1122
01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,100
 So, yeah, I think everything's on the table for this.

1123
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:09,020
 And there's going to be a lot of hostility, a lot of aggression.

1124
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:12,520
 It's going to be a game that means a lot to both teams, obviously.

1125
01:07:13,020 --> 01:07:13,380
 Absolutely.

1126
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:19,200
 I wonder if the LSU defense is going to be the biggest factor in the game.

1127
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:24,860
 They're number one in total defense, only allowing 142 yards and 12 sacks.

1128
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,220
 A game, Harold alluded to it.

1129
01:07:27,660 --> 01:07:34,100
 Kentucky thought that a new day had arrived with the Wildcats.

1130
01:07:34,180 --> 01:07:38,100
 And I still say Will Stein is going to win a lot of games before he leaves.

1131
01:07:38,300 --> 01:07:41,020
 But Alabama looked like Alabama and Kentucky.

1132
01:07:41,140 --> 01:07:48,080
 In the second half, Joe, Florida State at Alabama, we know what happened last year to begin the season.

1133
01:07:48,940 --> 01:07:51,120
 Believe me, you don't need to mention that again.

1134
01:07:51,620 --> 01:07:53,020
 The times look pretty good.

1135
01:07:53,280 --> 01:07:55,260
 The line of scrimmage is tougher.

1136
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:03,060
 The defense, amazingly, Joe, lead the nation in third down conversions, only allowing one of 23.

1137
01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:06,360
 Your thoughts, the Tide is a 20-point favorite.

1138
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:09,300
 I think that's probably about right.

1139
01:08:09,300 --> 01:08:12,160
 This is not a very good Florida State team.

1140
01:08:12,260 --> 01:08:16,300
 Ashton Daniels is kind of one of the scrap heap quarterbacks at this point.

1141
01:08:16,820 --> 01:08:20,100
 A subtle key for Alabama in that second half.

1142
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:21,020
 A lot of things went right.

1143
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:26,520
 But one of the ones that I think is most important to watch is Daniel Hill running the ball really effectively.

1144
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:30,180
 Russell is an athletic threat for the quarterback position.

1145
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:35,840
 But if you can get a consistent running game to support him, boy, his life gets a lot easier.

1146
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:39,800
 And then you're going to see Ryan Coleman Williams getting open in the middle of the field.

1147
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,180
 And big things tend to happen when that happens.

1148
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,660
 So, yeah, I like where Alabama is sitting right now.

1149
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,280
 You know, that was a take care of business second half.

1150
01:08:48,440 --> 01:08:52,760
 And if they can play that way, they're going to do a lot of good things.

1151
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:54,800
 Joe Cox Saturday down south.

1152
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:58,120
 Obviously, LSU and Ole Miss did a lot of national headlines.

1153
01:08:58,260 --> 01:09:00,140
 I'd love to see the number on that one after the game.

1154
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:06,140
 But it isn't a shame that a game that's being overshadowed and it's all right would be the game on the plains.

1155
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,980
 John Somra, we were joking earlier, Joe, that he was going to be at this game.

1156
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:14,620
 A lot of folks thought that one time he'd be on the Auburn sideline as their head coach.

1157
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 Now he's on the other sideline making no bones about where his allegiance is.

1158
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 He's following the paycheck.

1159
01:09:19,540 --> 01:09:21,220
 Your thoughts about Florida and Auburn.

1160
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 Two teams that basically right now, would you agree this could be what defines the team?

1161
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:28,520
 Because so far, they've had the dress rehearsals.

1162
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 Now it's big boy football.

1163
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:31,940
 Yeah, it really is.

1164
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 And so for two new coaches at new schools, you know, yeah, this is your first real hardcore test.

1165
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 It's going to be incredibly interesting to see what they bring to the table.

1166
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 I mean, obviously, Auburn got a little bit better test there in week one with Baylor.

1167
01:09:46,100 --> 01:09:49,880
 But, you know, Somerol, yeah, there's some emotion there.

1168
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 Again, in a lot of weeks, this would be the game that we were all in.

1169
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 Right.

1170
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 It's not for that little circus down in Oxford.

1171
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:02,900
 But I'm really interested to see Florida's offense and Auburn's defense.

1172
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:07,460
 I think Auburn has been pretty stout defensively from what I've been able to pick up.

1173
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,800
 Again, we're all kind of guessing at this point.

1174
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 But, you know, Somerol is by heart a defensive guy himself.

1175
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 So I'm kind of curious if all these points Florida's put up really mean anything or not.

1176
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 And we'll find out on Saturday.

1177
01:10:20,180 --> 01:10:23,080
 Joe, we're going to find out about two other teams.

1178
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:25,560
 One game really flying under the radar.

1179
01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:30,420
 Mississippi State, South Carolina, the Gamecocks, a seven and a half point favorite.

1180
01:10:30,900 --> 01:10:35,580
 Kamari Taylor has been absolutely incredible for Mississippi State.

1181
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 They went to Minnesota and just waxed the Golden Gophers.

1182
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 Taylor's been playing out of his mind.

1183
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 I also noticed, Joe, they just look like a better team from top to bottom.

1184
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 South Carolina, again, Lenore Sellers, Dylan Stewart's supposed to be back, Nick Harbor.

1185
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 They've got players.

1186
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 Joe, this is an intriguing game to me.

1187
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 It absolutely is an intriguing game.

1188
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 And one where I think State really has a very good chance of pulling the upset for all the reasons you just said.

1189
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 Look really good at Minnesota so you're on the road again.

1190
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 And really, they've got to get it.

1191
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 Jeff Libby, to have any kind of a season, they've got to get it early because they hit October.

1192
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 And you go Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma, Texas in October.

1193
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 That's going to be a rough month.

1194
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 So September, you know, you've got to go ahead and get some hay in the barn if you're Mississippi State.

1195
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 And I think South Carolina's vulnerable.

1196
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 They've got a lot of talent.

1197
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 They've put up a bunch of points against bad teams.

1198
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 But I've never been a huge buyer in the Lenore Sellers market.

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 And I wouldn't be surprised for State to scramble things up enough to pull the upset.

1200
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 So let's talk about your neighbors.

1201
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 Obviously, a lot of emotion last week.

1202
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 Kentucky taking on Alabama.

1203
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 And let's face it, you can love Alabama, you can hate them.

1204
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 But they sell tickets and they sell emotion.

1205
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 That was a ramped up crowd.

1206
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 Beautiful day.

1207
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 Other people missed their forecast again before that game as far as game day.

1208
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 Your thoughts about what's your evaluation of Kentucky and the challenge of coming off a big game with that much emotion at home.

1209
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 And now you're going on the road to a top eight team at Texas A&M.

1210
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:16,480
 Yeah, it's going to be tough.

1211
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 That's a tough place to play for anybody, any time.

1212
01:12:20,020 --> 01:12:22,500
 You know, for Will Stein, it's really a long game thing.

1213
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 I think this season is not probably going to be any great shakes.

1214
01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:32,380
 The schedule's tough and the cupboard was pretty empty with what he inherited.

1215
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:39,320
 But he's got to give people enough reason to stay with him for year two, year three, year four.

1216
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 And a lot of that's recruiting.

1217
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 They were very active in that.

1218
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 They had a bunch of kids there to see that Alabama game, which, you know, seemed maybe an iffy proposition to me.

1219
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 Do you want to bring somebody in to see you get kicked around a little bit?

1220
01:12:53,920 --> 01:13:01,080
 But from what the tea leaves we're able to read these days with kids, it seemed to leave a bunch of kids impressed.

1221
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:06,060
 A bunch of kids, I guess, came away thinking, well, you know, for two quarters they hung in there.

1222
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 Maybe if they had a few more guys like me, they could put the third and fourth together.

1223
01:13:10,020 --> 01:13:18,920
 You had a good article about predicting after two games the teams in the SEC, their season record.

1224
01:13:19,460 --> 01:13:32,980
 Alabama 10-2, Georgia 10-2, Texas 10-2, Texas A&M 9-3, Tennessee 8-4, Auburn and Florida 7-5, and you mentioned Kentucky at 4-8.

1225
01:13:33,380 --> 01:13:36,380
 Right now, Joe Cox, those numbers look pretty good.

1226
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:42,600
 Yeah, that's, you know, just trying to keep a finger on the pulse and see where it's going.

1227
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 I will admit, shuffled a few things around from week one.

1228
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 I was more impressed with Alabama than I thought I'd be, and I still didn't think they'd have a lot of trouble getting the win.

1229
01:13:53,440 --> 01:14:00,160
 But they stood out, and, you know, Texas obviously proved a few of us wrong.

1230
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 It didn't look good for the first three quarters or so, but sometimes it's how you finish and not how you start.

1231
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 Absolutely, and you've got Auburn and Florida at 7-5.

1232
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:14,680
 Well, listen, you know how much, Harold, and I enjoy talking ball with you.

1233
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:16,880
 Great to catch up with you again.

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 Where can we get online and get all of your stuff and the teams?

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 We'll be checking in on Saturday down south.

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 That weekly feature, it is, you know, fresh and clean every week.

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 So, if I'm wrong about the way things stand, I get another mulligan on Monday.

1238
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 So, check that one.

1239
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:39,740
 And then I try to do a viewer's guide just to remind everybody what games are on, when they're on, where they're on.

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 Help you play in your Saturday for most efficiency.

1241
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 Joe, it's always good to catch you with you.

1242
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 Thanks so much.

1243
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 Let's do it again soon, okay?

1244
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 Let's do that, guys.

1245
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 Take care.

1246
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:49,620
 Thank you, bud.

1247
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 Joe Cox, Saturday down south, coming up.

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 He is high up in the sky right now, high-flying falcon.

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 Coach Kenny Morrison, next.

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 One last thing to think about before kickoff.

1364
01:20:10,220 --> 01:20:15,740
 Woodman Life and Feeding America are having their Fight Hunger charity golf tournament to benefit school backpack programs.

1365
01:20:15,740 --> 01:20:18,940
 Monday, October 12th at Blackberry Trail Golf Course in Florence.

1366
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:23,520
 Calls for the four-man scramble is $400 per team and breakfast, lunch, and mulligans are included.

1367
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:29,800
 It's a 9 a.m. shotgun start with prizes for longest drive, closest to pin, hole-in-one, and first through third place teams.

1368
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:34,540
 Call 256-760-1581 for more information or to register.

1369
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:41,100
 That's the Women Life and Feeding America Fight Hunger charity golf tournament from Blackberry Trail Golf Course, Monday, October 12th.

1370
01:20:41,100 --> 01:20:42,940
 What's happening this week in college football?

1371
01:20:43,260 --> 01:20:45,480
 The Lindy's Football Report has the answers.

1372
01:20:45,820 --> 01:20:49,340
 30 minutes of college football discussion on the biggest matchups of the week.

1373
01:20:49,580 --> 01:20:51,560
 Concise, engaging, accurate.

1374
01:20:51,860 --> 01:20:55,420
 With opinions thrown in from some of the most knowledgeable reporters in the business.

1375
01:20:55,780 --> 01:20:57,160
 The Lindy's Football Report.

1376
01:20:57,520 --> 01:20:58,020
 Check it out.

1377
01:20:58,780 --> 01:20:59,740
 The Score.

1378
01:21:00,180 --> 01:21:04,960
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1379
01:21:05,380 --> 01:21:06,300
 Welcome back in.

1380
01:21:06,340 --> 01:21:10,580
 It is an absolute pleasure for us to open the door and say hello to the highest flying falcon.

1381
01:21:10,820 --> 01:21:12,920
 Anyway, Coach Kenny Moore.

1382
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,320
 Coach, welcome in.

1383
01:21:15,380 --> 01:21:16,060
 How are you?

1384
01:21:17,100 --> 01:21:18,060
 I'm doing great.

1385
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:19,120
 Thanks for having me on.

1386
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:19,580
 Hey, Coach.

1387
01:21:19,660 --> 01:21:20,860
 You're more than welcome, Coach.

1388
01:21:21,020 --> 01:21:21,420
 Congratulations.

1389
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:28,580
 You've done something that Brent and I could never do in school, and that is after the midterm report card comes back, you get an A.

1390
01:21:29,420 --> 01:21:29,820
 Congratulations.

1391
01:21:30,540 --> 01:21:34,400
 I don't see how the start of the season could have gone much better for you, Coach.

1392
01:21:36,380 --> 01:21:37,980
 It's been a good start for sure.

1393
01:21:38,100 --> 01:21:39,340
 We've got a long way to go still.

1394
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:41,340
 Let's talk about that start.

1395
01:21:41,340 --> 01:21:47,440
 But, obviously, not only are you unbeaten at this point, it's against a very, very challenging schedule.

1396
01:21:47,620 --> 01:21:51,240
 Talk to us about your team and the journey to this point of the schedule.

1397
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:59,980
 You know, this journey started the day after the season last year when it was all said and done.

1398
01:22:00,820 --> 01:22:08,360
 We felt like numbers related that we might be dropping to what was 6A, which is now 5A.

1399
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:16,480
 We thought we had a shot to get into this region, and, you know, we started then that it's time to go to work.

1400
01:22:16,580 --> 01:22:18,060
 We didn't take any time off.

1401
01:22:18,180 --> 01:22:22,940
 You know, a lot of times coming out of a season, you'll give them some time off going into Thanksgiving.

1402
01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:32,380
 The Monday after the playoffs, we were in the weight room, and we didn't come out of the weight room until – well, we still hadn't come out of the weight room,

1403
01:22:32,420 --> 01:22:36,380
 but as far as our structured program, it was June 1 before we took a break.

1404
01:22:37,300 --> 01:22:38,760
 We didn't do spring training.

1405
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:47,100
 We went with the fall, early fall, so we could do a jamboree, and the main thing was to stay in the weight room during May

1406
01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:50,000
 and to keep lifting heavy, and it's paid off for us.

1407
01:22:51,060 --> 01:22:51,460
 Absolutely.

1408
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:58,660
 Coach, let me ask you about a play that a lot of people overlook that may be one of the biggest plays of the season to date.

1409
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:05,500
 It was against Melissa Scholes, and you ended that 10-game losing streak to them.

1410
01:23:05,740 --> 01:23:11,900
 There was a high snap, I believe, in the second quarter that went back to the end zone,

1411
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:16,280
 and I know everybody in the stadium said, well, this is about to be a safety.

1412
01:23:16,980 --> 01:23:30,240
 Tagon Williams ran back, scooped up the ball, and somehow beat Melissa Scholes defenders to the pylon and got the ball out of the end zone.

1413
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:38,960
 That would have resulted in a safety and a free kick to Melissa Scholes, and they would have had probably very good field position.

1414
01:23:38,960 --> 01:23:47,080
 I know he had the winning touchdown, 56 yards, but plays like that can make an incredible difference in the season.

1415
01:23:48,120 --> 01:24:01,240
 It was a game-changing, season-changing play, and we always say that a game can be determined five to seven plays each ball game,

1416
01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:08,200
 but if you look at this one play, a safety, they get the ball in favorable field position.

1417
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:10,780
 You never know, they go down and score an extra point.

1418
01:24:11,240 --> 01:24:12,100
 It's nine to nothing.

1419
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:12,560
 I see it.

1420
01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:18,540
 And in that game was an insurmountable amount.

1421
01:24:18,700 --> 01:24:23,640
 We felt like that the first team scored was the one that was going to win, and we were just tickled to death.

1422
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:24,160
 It was us.

1423
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:25,620
 But, yeah, it was a high snap.

1424
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:27,620
 I'm not sure exactly.

1425
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,340
 It might have even been third quarter.

1426
01:24:29,440 --> 01:24:31,180
 I'm not real sure exactly the time.

1427
01:24:32,040 --> 01:24:38,660
 But instead of falling on it, he picked it up and turned around, and they had us surrounded.

1428
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:42,560
 There were about four guys there that were ready to make the play,

1429
01:24:42,740 --> 01:24:46,320
 and he just would not be denied coming out of that end zone.

1430
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:51,320
 And I've said it in several news things that, you know, you get running backs,

1431
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:56,880
 and you're going into the end zone, and they're diving to get in and reaching the ball across the goal line to score.

1432
01:24:57,500 --> 01:25:03,000
 He did the reverse of it to get out and reach the ball just across the goal line,

1433
01:25:03,440 --> 01:25:07,020
 just broke the plane to put us at about the six-inch line coming out,

1434
01:25:07,620 --> 01:25:13,640
 and we were able to be able to punt coming out from there versus kicking from a safety.

1435
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,660
 So phenomenal play, game-changing.

1436
01:25:16,980 --> 01:25:17,540
 Who knows?

1437
01:25:17,740 --> 01:25:23,900
 That's a – you know, I feel good about what Muscle Shoals will probably do the rest of the way.

1438
01:25:24,020 --> 01:25:26,660
 They're a phenomenal team, and, boy, they got team speed.

1439
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:37,140
 They got a good football team, and they're – that game could have decided a lot in the region standings for sure

1440
01:25:37,140 --> 01:25:39,780
 as this thing progresses, but we all got a long way to go.

1441
01:25:40,380 --> 01:25:44,780
 Lawrence Highhead football coach, Katie Morrison, including what's the biggest game of the year

1442
01:25:44,780 --> 01:25:48,440
 because it's always the next game, and that's taking on the Red Raiders from Decatur.

1443
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:49,680
 Got a proud program.

1444
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:52,980
 Your thoughts about taking on Decatur this week?

1445
01:25:54,800 --> 01:26:00,840
 Well, as y'all probably know and remember, I spent 22 years there with Jerry Adcock.

1446
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:08,160
 And, you know, I was the offense coordinator there for 20 of those 22 and raised my kids there.

1447
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:14,100
 It was a special place for our family and a special place for me as a coach.

1448
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:18,480
 It really catapulted my career being with Coach Adcock,

1449
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:23,820
 and I wouldn't be in the seat I am today without him and without that community

1450
01:26:23,820 --> 01:26:25,740
 and the support they showed us over there.

1451
01:26:25,860 --> 01:26:31,100
 So I've got much love, much respect for them until about 7 o'clock Friday night,

1452
01:26:31,100 --> 01:26:36,640
 and that'll obviously change just for those few hours.

1453
01:26:37,700 --> 01:26:43,140
 But, yeah, it's next game, it's homecoming for us.

1454
01:26:43,300 --> 01:26:46,560
 Oh, my goodness, I don't even want to get into that, what this week's been like.

1455
01:26:47,500 --> 01:26:51,860
 And it's like that for every head coach, but it's not been fun.

1456
01:26:52,340 --> 01:26:56,140
 And it's just Wednesday, so we've got a lot more to go with that.

1457
01:26:56,140 --> 01:27:01,520
 They've got a bonfire tomorrow night, 6.30, and a parade on Friday.

1458
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,200
 So there's a lot to go in this homecoming week.

1459
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:07,040
 But, yeah, we're excited about the ballgame.

1460
01:27:07,140 --> 01:27:10,980
 I keep telling our guys our main concern needs to be 7 o'clock Friday night

1461
01:27:10,980 --> 01:27:13,900
 and let everybody else enjoy this homecoming week.

1462
01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:18,280
 And I'm pretty sure they've had enough fun all the way to this point.

1463
01:27:18,580 --> 01:27:20,960
 It's time to put the fun aside.

1464
01:27:21,100 --> 01:27:22,520
 It's game time coming up soon.

1465
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:25,360
 Let me ask you about defending the wing tee.

1466
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:31,140
 I call Daryl Higgins a rustle ball, the Yoda of wing tee.

1467
01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:33,300
 Taurus Davis has been running wild.

1468
01:27:33,540 --> 01:27:36,580
 I saw Russell and Dasher the first game of the season.

1469
01:27:36,780 --> 01:27:39,240
 He ran for about 170 yards in that game.

1470
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:45,120
 He ran for 129 in the first half, but your defense made adjustments

1471
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:50,240
 and held him to only 32 yards in the second half.

1472
01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:53,880
 And you got out, I believe, to a 35-14.

1473
01:27:54,060 --> 01:27:55,080
 They scored late.

1474
01:27:55,080 --> 01:28:00,820
 But talk about defending the wing tee and the job your defense did in the second half.

1475
01:28:01,880 --> 01:28:07,300
 Well, first off, as I mentioned a minute ago, 20 years as offense coordinator,

1476
01:28:07,420 --> 01:28:09,920
 and I've been on that side of the ball my entire life.

1477
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:14,380
 So, I won't take any credit for what went on with that stopping that wing tee.

1478
01:28:14,380 --> 01:28:17,180
 And you called him the Yoda.

1479
01:28:17,340 --> 01:28:19,020
 I got great respect for Daryl.

1480
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:24,820
 Coach Higgins and I went to high school together, played ball together, a great friend of mine.

1481
01:28:25,820 --> 01:28:26,980
 Love him to death.

1482
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,480
 And he's doing a great job of that program.

1483
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,740
 But we got the wizard on our side, as the kids call him.

1484
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,040
 Harold Wisdom is our defensive coordinator.

1485
01:28:35,440 --> 01:28:37,920
 And the kids have nicknamed him the wizard.

1486
01:28:38,580 --> 01:28:43,620
 But he and that defensive staff got together.

1487
01:28:43,860 --> 01:28:46,460
 And I had to go outside after I talked to the team.

1488
01:28:46,540 --> 01:28:51,800
 Everybody said, boy, you probably gave them one heck of a speech, and you chewed them out at halftime.

1489
01:28:51,860 --> 01:28:52,640
 I didn't, really.

1490
01:28:53,100 --> 01:28:54,540
 I went there and said, guys, settle down.

1491
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:55,040
 We're okay.

1492
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:56,860
 We just got to tackle them.

1493
01:28:56,860 --> 01:29:00,940
 You know, we tackle them, make them snap it again, and not give up a big play.

1494
01:29:01,060 --> 01:29:04,600
 They've got us on two big plays, and let's just keep playing.

1495
01:29:04,860 --> 01:29:09,200
 And so, I turn around, and I'm splitting up the offense-defense half.

1496
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:10,760
 I can't find the defensive staff.

1497
01:29:11,100 --> 01:29:14,900
 I had to go outside, and I said, guys, we're meeting with our team.

1498
01:29:15,040 --> 01:29:16,720
 They said, we're coming, coach, right now.

1499
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:18,500
 We're just getting a game plan together.

1500
01:29:18,640 --> 01:29:23,020
 And so, they used up every bit of that halftime to get the plan ready.

1501
01:29:23,220 --> 01:29:27,040
 But to be honest, Coach Wisdom went in there and told them the same thing.

1502
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:29,320
 Guys, the scheme's there.

1503
01:29:29,540 --> 01:29:31,480
 We're just not doing what we're coached to do.

1504
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:33,060
 Stick with the scheme.

1505
01:29:33,300 --> 01:29:36,080
 Stick with what we're supposed to do and tackle.

1506
01:29:36,580 --> 01:29:40,980
 And we did that, and our guys responded really well.

1507
01:29:41,180 --> 01:29:43,320
 And, you know, it wasn't rocket science.

1508
01:29:43,660 --> 01:29:47,160
 You know, everybody thought we came up with some phenomenal game plan at halftime.

1509
01:29:47,580 --> 01:29:51,960
 All we talked about was blocking from the offensive standpoint, hold on to the football,

1510
01:29:52,140 --> 01:29:54,240
 and tackle on the defensive side.

1511
01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:55,040
 Absolutely.

1512
01:29:55,700 --> 01:29:57,080
 Not a hard concept.

1513
01:29:58,420 --> 01:30:02,240
 Listen, congratulations again on the 4-0 start.

1514
01:30:02,420 --> 01:30:04,620
 Wish you the best of luck against Decatur.

1515
01:30:05,180 --> 01:30:07,240
 Hopefully, we can do this again with you soon.

1516
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:08,760
 Absolutely.

1517
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:09,920
 Thank you for having me on.

1518
01:30:09,980 --> 01:30:10,520
 Go Falcons.

1519
01:30:10,860 --> 01:30:11,900
 Thank you so much.

1520
01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:12,420
 There you have it.

1521
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:16,780
 You know, BB, the word is, if you search long enough, you'll find one Harold that's full of wisdom.

1522
01:30:16,780 --> 01:30:20,260
 And I think Coach Morrison made the right choice.

1523
01:30:20,620 --> 01:30:22,760
 Coming up, it's time to go to the Double D Show.

1524
01:30:22,860 --> 01:30:24,360
 Drew DeArma and I and Jack, stay with us.

1525
01:30:28,440 --> 01:30:29,240
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1526
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,320
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1527
01:30:31,480 --> 01:30:36,560
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1528
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,580
 We're located on 417 East College Street.

1529
01:30:39,780 --> 01:30:44,160
 Our phone number is 256-980-0951.

1530
01:30:44,740 --> 01:30:49,820
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1531
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:50,840
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1532
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,700
 We're proud to be a sponsor of Florence Falcons football.

1533
01:30:54,060 --> 01:30:58,320
 And we wish Coach Morrison and the team good luck to you in your season.

1534
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:00,680
 Getting the kids to practice on time.

1535
01:31:01,140 --> 01:31:02,900
 Remembering if it's your day to bring snacks.

1536
01:31:03,380 --> 01:31:05,160
 Making it to the game with a clean jersey.

1537
01:31:05,660 --> 01:31:08,020
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1538
01:31:08,500 --> 01:31:11,280
 Thankfully, with auto owners, insurance doesn't have to be one of them.

1539
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1540
01:31:14,820 --> 01:31:16,640
 So you can worry about more important things.

1541
01:31:17,020 --> 01:31:19,780
 Like whether your kid is going to run toward first or third base.

1542
01:31:20,340 --> 01:31:21,640
 That's simple human sense.

1543
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1544
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1545
01:31:25,700 --> 01:31:28,420
 Or call 256-383-3400.

1546
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:29,360
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1547
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1548
01:31:31,260 --> 01:31:34,040
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1549
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1550
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1551
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1552
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1553
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1554
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1555
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1556
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1557
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1558
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1559
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1560
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1561
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1562
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1573
01:32:42,380 --> 01:32:46,060
 Unfortunately, I didn't check the heat level on the wings at the tailgate first.

1574
01:32:46,580 --> 01:32:47,640
 These are pretty good.

1575
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,740
 Uh, those are the fried infernos.

1576
01:32:51,900 --> 01:32:53,580
 Almost took out Donnie over there.

1577
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,400
 Why weren't they labeled?

1578
01:32:55,740 --> 01:32:56,740
 They were.

1579
01:32:57,740 --> 01:32:58,220
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1580
01:32:58,660 --> 01:33:00,280
 Yeah, checking first is a win.

1581
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1586
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1587
01:33:07,860 --> 01:33:12,700
 This is Kenny Morrison, head football coach of the Florence Falcons, and you're listening to 93.9 The Score.

1588
01:33:13,740 --> 01:33:15,480
 This is the story of the one.

1589
01:33:15,860 --> 01:33:20,280
 The shipping manager who's there before the first truck backs in and the first pallet is loaded.

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 In college football action on Saturday, the Alabama Crimson Tide are back home as the Tide hosts Florida State.

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1671
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:36,420
 Welcome back in.

1672
01:36:36,460 --> 01:36:38,180
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1673
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1676
01:36:42,420 --> 01:36:43,340
 Drew, welcome in.

1677
01:36:43,420 --> 01:36:44,020
 How are you?

1678
01:36:45,140 --> 01:36:45,980
 I'm good, guys.

1679
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 How are you?

1680
01:36:46,480 --> 01:36:46,800
 Hey, bud.

1681
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:47,820
 Man, we're doing all right.

1682
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:51,080
 Getting into some serious, as we say, down south football this weekend.

1683
01:36:51,180 --> 01:36:52,120
 Want to take a look at that.

1684
01:36:52,180 --> 01:36:55,740
 But a little bit of a sneak peek back through the first two games.

1685
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:59,620
 Drew, what have we learned about Alabama and Auburn through two games?

1686
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:04,300
 Well, I mean, I think Alabama's played well defensively.

1687
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:06,200
 Auburn, you can say the same thing.

1688
01:37:06,440 --> 01:37:09,140
 Certainly, they both played pretty well on that side of the ball.

1689
01:37:09,840 --> 01:37:15,740
 I think Alabama has run the football much better than a year ago, and they've had some injuries

1690
01:37:15,740 --> 01:37:19,220
 like Mike Carroll on the offensive line, so they've been able to work through that.

1691
01:37:19,740 --> 01:37:25,100
 Auburn ran the ball much better against Southern Miss, but, you know, as I've said on Talking

1692
01:37:25,100 --> 01:37:29,740
 Ball, this isn't, you know, Curly Hallman or Jeff Bowers, Southern Mississippi.

1693
01:37:30,460 --> 01:37:31,360
 No, that's bad.

1694
01:37:32,700 --> 01:37:38,240
 They've had some pockets of success, and, you know, and it's tough that Charles Huff left

1695
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:44,440
 them in a year, but, you know, they're not what they used to be from a program standpoint.

1696
01:37:44,440 --> 01:37:47,060
 But Auburn did what they were supposed to do.

1697
01:37:47,160 --> 01:37:51,120
 They beat them soundly, you know, and they ran the football really, really well.

1698
01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,220
 So, I think hopefully that will help build some confidence.

1699
01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:59,280
 They didn't turn it over, but I think both teams are still trying to kind of gain their

1700
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:05,080
 confidence at the running back position, you know, and I think Alabama, from a running

1701
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:10,480
 back standpoint, I think Daniel Hill has shown the improvement hope that everybody had hoped

1702
01:38:10,480 --> 01:38:14,340
 he had shown, and he's certainly done that and been, you know,

1703
01:38:14,440 --> 01:38:19,780
 an outstanding performer with that 100-yard game against, I think, a pretty good Kentucky

1704
01:38:19,780 --> 01:38:20,040
 team.

1705
01:38:20,120 --> 01:38:25,020
 I still think they're probably in the bottom third of the SEC, but still, I mean, they're

1706
01:38:25,020 --> 01:38:28,060
 not a bad football team, and you're playing them on the road.

1707
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:28,560
 Right.

1708
01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:34,380
 And so, we certainly will see going forward what's going to happen with them.

1709
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,440
 But I thought Alabama ran the ball well.

1710
01:38:37,900 --> 01:38:40,400
 Now, I will say the first half bothered me.

1711
01:38:40,480 --> 01:38:43,440
 I didn't think it was called very well by the offensive staff.

1712
01:38:43,860 --> 01:38:50,460
 I thought, honestly, that, you know, really with Keelan Russell being a first-year starter,

1713
01:38:50,460 --> 01:38:55,980
 and I know, look, their M.O. is to put a lot on the quarterback and be very aggressive,

1714
01:38:55,980 --> 01:38:58,620
 but I just felt like you're going on the road in the SEC.

1715
01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:00,180
 It's a very hostile environment.

1716
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:04,280
 We knew what Will Stein was trying to create, and I think he did create it at the start of

1717
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:04,700
 the game.

1718
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:09,040
 I just felt like when you're, even with, and especially with Mike Carroll being out, and

1719
01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:14,160
 you had to kind of shuffle a little bit, and you had, you know, certainly, you know,

1720
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:22,180
 you had some shuffling at the guard spot, you know, and certainly, I thought that Alabama

1721
01:39:22,180 --> 01:39:26,540
 settled into the game in the second half, but I just felt like, overall, when you had to

1722
01:39:26,540 --> 01:39:33,460
 shuffle the guards along the offensive line, and you didn't, you know, and you had a young

1723
01:39:33,460 --> 01:39:37,500
 quarterback, I just really felt like, overall, what they should have done is they should have

1724
01:39:37,500 --> 01:39:42,220
 come out, established the line of scrimmage, got the offensive line comfortable, got the

1725
01:39:42,220 --> 01:39:46,100
 running game comfortable, and if they'd have done that, I think they would have pulled

1726
01:39:46,100 --> 01:39:51,100
 away from Kentucky sooner, because really, I felt like the turnovers is what kept Kentucky

1727
01:39:51,100 --> 01:39:56,740
 in the game, and some dubious officiating, but I really think that Alabama's defense was

1728
01:39:56,740 --> 01:39:57,880
 lights out all night.

1729
01:39:58,220 --> 01:40:03,800
 They've been really good the first two games, and the one aspect, and look, man, I also said

1730
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:08,200
 it on your show, and I've said it on mine, I've racked Freddie Roach over the Coles, but

1731
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:15,940
 I think, you know, the Devin Tompkins addition, Kendrick Bingley-Jones, certainly Terrence Green

1732
01:40:15,940 --> 01:40:22,060
 definitely helped their defensive line room, no question about it, and I think, you know,

1733
01:40:22,180 --> 01:40:26,700
 and then Jay Nunez, who I was very critical of last year, at times with the special teams,

1734
01:40:26,780 --> 01:40:32,160
 and especially the way they melted down against Oklahoma, I think that, you know, he's done

1735
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:36,160
 a great job, the special teams, is kind of an aspect of the squad, nobody's really talking

1736
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:40,660
 about a ton, but I think they've been lights out the first two games as well.

1737
01:40:41,420 --> 01:40:42,640
 You're exactly right.

1738
01:40:42,760 --> 01:40:44,560
 Let me ask you about the offensive line.

1739
01:40:44,700 --> 01:40:51,740
 According to the head man, Michael Carroll, should return at right guard against Florida

1740
01:40:51,740 --> 01:40:52,460
 State.

1741
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:58,480
 Therefore, the question, D2, who's going to play left guard, or start at left guard?

1742
01:40:58,600 --> 01:41:00,900
 Will Sanders or Mal Waldron?

1743
01:41:02,300 --> 01:41:08,240
 Well, I mean, I think Will Sanders, by the end of camp, even though I think both of them

1744
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:14,040
 kind of suffered minor injuries toward the end of fall camp, but I think Will Sanders, you

1745
01:41:14,040 --> 01:41:19,300
 know, because this coaching staff is usually very transparent with their, you know, with

1746
01:41:19,300 --> 01:41:21,140
 their position battle situation.

1747
01:41:21,140 --> 01:41:27,220
 I think Sanders had finally gotten healthy, they thought, and then was going to win that

1748
01:41:27,220 --> 01:41:32,060
 left guard slot in a very, very close battle, even though Mal Waldron was one of the, you

1749
01:41:32,060 --> 01:41:34,740
 know, the stories of camp and had done a great job.

1750
01:41:35,100 --> 01:41:40,920
 But I think really what happened is, once again, Sanders got a little nicked up, he had an oblique,

1751
01:41:41,120 --> 01:41:44,960
 he struggled in that first half against East Carolina.

1752
01:41:45,140 --> 01:41:49,340
 So that opened the door for Waldron, who played well and did a good job.

1753
01:41:49,340 --> 01:41:53,700
 And then I think, you know, they were confident that, and I think that's why they didn't do

1754
01:41:53,700 --> 01:41:58,520
 as much shuffling as they could, because I'll be honest, the first info I got after Carroll

1755
01:41:58,520 --> 01:42:04,000
 was ruled out with a concussion is that they were going to go, you know, with Mal Waldron

1756
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:10,780
 at right guard, and then William Sanders, Will Sanders at left.

1757
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:15,580
 And so that would have moved two spots, but I think they decided, and probably wisely, okay,

1758
01:42:16,020 --> 01:42:20,500
 you know, Waldron has been playing left guard pretty much all camp.

1759
01:42:20,580 --> 01:42:24,380
 We're going to put him there, not move him, and then we're going to put Will Sanders in

1760
01:42:24,380 --> 01:42:26,040
 the right guard slot.

1761
01:42:26,740 --> 01:42:31,080
 And then, but I will say, I thought Waldron struggled some during the game.

1762
01:42:31,300 --> 01:42:32,800
 He did get beat for a sack.

1763
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:35,700
 I think Sanders is healthier now, played well.

1764
01:42:36,300 --> 01:42:41,440
 If you had to ask me and guess, I would guess that Will Sanders would get a slight nod at

1765
01:42:41,440 --> 01:42:41,800
 left guard.

1766
01:42:41,880 --> 01:42:43,200
 We might see both of them play.

1767
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:44,680
 Wouldn't be surprised if we did.

1768
01:42:45,380 --> 01:42:49,920
 But I think Will Sanders will likely get the start, and Mike Carroll will be back at right

1769
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:50,320
 guard.

1770
01:42:50,760 --> 01:42:56,240
 But I will, as I said at the start of the segment, though, Alabama came out and struggled,

1771
01:42:56,460 --> 01:43:01,120
 and I think some of that with the operational stuff with the quarterback, I think, you know,

1772
01:43:01,120 --> 01:43:04,980
 Keelan was struggling a little bit, you know, getting in and out of plays.

1773
01:43:05,120 --> 01:43:06,300
 His eyes were slow.

1774
01:43:06,700 --> 01:43:12,060
 And then, you know, with the RPOs, they've got to learn, he's got to learn that you don't

1775
01:43:12,060 --> 01:43:13,420
 have to keep it every time.

1776
01:43:13,680 --> 01:43:15,540
 Either you throw it or you run it.

1777
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:21,360
 Just see it with your eyes, and when it opens up, if there's a hole there for that back, you

1778
01:43:21,360 --> 01:43:23,420
 keep it in his chest and you run the football.

1779
01:43:23,700 --> 01:43:27,480
 And I think they're trying to make that point, certainly.

1780
01:43:27,700 --> 01:43:29,780
 But, you know, it'll come with more playing time.

1781
01:43:30,160 --> 01:43:32,360
 Hopefully, he's going to go through his progressions quicker.

1782
01:43:32,700 --> 01:43:35,300
 And I will say, and you guys watched the second half.

1783
01:43:35,340 --> 01:43:41,360
 The second half was a beat down, and I thought it was a good sign because I'm worried about

1784
01:43:41,360 --> 01:43:45,960
 this coaching staff making adjustments at times, but they did seem to adjust in the second

1785
01:43:45,960 --> 01:43:46,380
 half.

1786
01:43:46,740 --> 01:43:49,080
 They started being more intentional running the ball.

1787
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:54,720
 And then, you know, and then when they did that, those RPOs opened up for Keelan to throw

1788
01:43:54,720 --> 01:43:55,120
 the football.

1789
01:43:55,580 --> 01:43:58,900
 That's why his first touchdown pass of the year to Rico Scott in the back, the end zone

1790
01:43:58,900 --> 01:44:01,640
 was so easy, because Alabama had run the football.

1791
01:44:01,900 --> 01:44:05,500
 Once you start running the football, it makes life easier for a quarterback.

1792
01:44:05,800 --> 01:44:07,940
 And I thought Keelan settled down in the second half.

1793
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:13,960
 And when you only have one penalty, no turnovers, and he's making plays with his feet and with

1794
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:14,540
 his arm.

1795
01:44:14,860 --> 01:44:19,200
 With that running game and that improved offensive line, and then a defense that looks like it's

1796
01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:24,440
 a top 10 caliber unit, maybe top five in the country, Alabama's going to be tough to handle.

1797
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:29,240
 I was going to say, it's pretty basic formulation, not just run the dang ball, do your blocking,

1798
01:44:29,400 --> 01:44:30,040
 do your tackling.

1799
01:44:30,660 --> 01:44:35,980
 And let's face it, this defense right now through two games, statistically, it's got this fan

1800
01:44:35,980 --> 01:44:36,880
 base fired up.

1801
01:44:37,240 --> 01:44:40,480
 But let's take a step back and see the route to the competition.

1802
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:44,480
 Is it a legit defense going forward when the schedule toughens up?

1803
01:44:45,700 --> 01:44:53,660
 Well, I mean, and I know some people are going to say that East Carolina lost 27-24 to Appalachian

1804
01:44:53,660 --> 01:44:56,320
 State, and Appalachian's usually pretty good.

1805
01:44:56,480 --> 01:45:00,340
 And then certainly, and I've already mentioned it to you guys earlier in the segment, that

1806
01:45:00,340 --> 01:45:05,440
 while I think Will Stein is going to do a good job at Kentucky, I still would probably, I

1807
01:45:05,440 --> 01:45:07,380
 would put them in the bottom third of the league.

1808
01:45:07,660 --> 01:45:13,300
 So it was obvious to me that they were much better than Kentucky, but they beat them soundly,

1809
01:45:13,340 --> 01:45:15,840
 and they beat, you know, East Carolina soundly.

1810
01:45:15,980 --> 01:45:21,740
 So I think the defense, the biggest thing that my eyes tell me, guys, is that the front

1811
01:45:21,740 --> 01:45:22,940
 seven is much better.

1812
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:28,020
 You know, I'll just say this, you may have already had other people on your show point

1813
01:45:28,020 --> 01:45:32,760
 this out, but I was watching the Texas-Ohio State game.

1814
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:33,440
 Thank you.

1815
01:45:33,440 --> 01:45:38,740
 And I didn't really see James Smith or Quay Russo do anything.

1816
01:45:38,740 --> 01:45:39,960
 No, no, no, no.

1817
01:45:40,380 --> 01:45:47,680
 And so, and Yonsei Pierre beat out Quay, and then James Smith made some plays in his career,

1818
01:45:47,820 --> 01:45:49,500
 but he was about 50-50.

1819
01:45:49,840 --> 01:45:54,620
 And, you know, if hindsight's 50-50, as Pat Dye used to say, you're in trouble.

1820
01:45:55,000 --> 01:45:57,540
 So, I mean, at least in football.

1821
01:45:57,760 --> 01:46:01,240
 So I think they've upgraded, bringing in those transfers.

1822
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:06,320
 I think they're, and then, to me, another aspect of this football team, and I've told you on

1823
01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:11,420
 your show, it's probably my biggest question on defense going into fall camp, is the linebacker

1824
01:46:11,420 --> 01:46:14,400
 court is much faster than it was a year ago.

1825
01:46:14,580 --> 01:46:16,700
 I mean, Caleb Woodson is a stud.

1826
01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:21,380
 He controlled that game, and he was as good in pass coverage as he was rushing.

1827
01:46:21,780 --> 01:46:27,200
 And he was really, he got, he had two sacks, he did a good job of, you know, in dropping

1828
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:28,080
 back in coverage.

1829
01:46:28,180 --> 01:46:32,500
 He was called for a hold one time, still never saw it, don't really know where it came from

1830
01:46:32,500 --> 01:46:33,780
 unless it was FanDuel.

1831
01:46:33,900 --> 01:46:37,780
 But anyway, I just, I thought he looked really good.

1832
01:46:37,780 --> 01:46:41,580
 And then Mets, I told you guys that I've been watching and tracking him.

1833
01:46:41,860 --> 01:46:42,700
 This is the summer.

1834
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:45,020
 He definitely looks like an upgrade.

1835
01:46:45,380 --> 01:46:49,920
 And Justin Jefferson had a good year last year, but he's big, he's fast, very instinctive.

1836
01:46:49,980 --> 01:46:51,280
 That pick six was huge.

1837
01:46:51,660 --> 01:46:56,720
 And in settling everything down and getting Alabama back in the game, and then QB Reese

1838
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:58,120
 was big on that fake punt.

1839
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:02,560
 So I think their linebacker core, and then you've got Yonse, Justin Hill.

1840
01:47:02,600 --> 01:47:04,720
 I just think overall, it's a better looking unit.

1841
01:47:05,060 --> 01:47:06,580
 The front seven looks much better.

1842
01:47:06,580 --> 01:47:10,900
 And you already know what you have with the secondary, because there are some people worried

1843
01:47:10,900 --> 01:47:13,020
 because they were down three corners.

1844
01:47:13,140 --> 01:47:17,920
 But I tried to tell them that Chuck McDonald, you know, was up to the challenge, Red Morgan.

1845
01:47:18,200 --> 01:47:21,800
 They've got a lot of personal pieces, and I don't think they missed anybody at all.

1846
01:47:22,100 --> 01:47:24,020
 It'll be great to get Jordan Edmonds back.

1847
01:47:24,160 --> 01:47:25,980
 But Zion will be back this week, too.

1848
01:47:26,020 --> 01:47:26,680
 He was sick.

1849
01:47:26,760 --> 01:47:28,800
 But I think the secondary is outstanding.

1850
01:47:28,980 --> 01:47:35,100
 And I just think overall, when you look at all three levels of this defense, if they stay healthy and continue to work,

1851
01:47:35,260 --> 01:47:41,660
 the pass rush organically and then blitzing looks much better, I think this has got a chance to be a special defense.

1852
01:47:42,180 --> 01:47:42,580
 Absolutely.

1853
01:47:43,060 --> 01:47:45,940
 Yeah, the Huskies were impressive.

1854
01:47:46,140 --> 01:47:47,880
 Red Morgan, 39 snaps.

1855
01:47:48,580 --> 01:47:50,040
 Chuck McDonald, 19.

1856
01:47:50,900 --> 01:47:57,420
 Could we see A.K. Deer and Noah Rogers by the South Carolina game?

1857
01:47:58,260 --> 01:48:00,300
 I would be surprised if we don't.

1858
01:48:00,380 --> 01:48:05,680
 I'm going to be interested to see if maybe we might even see maybe Noah play a few snaps this weekend.

1859
01:48:05,980 --> 01:48:06,560
 I don't know.

1860
01:48:06,860 --> 01:48:12,080
 I know that they're both getting a lot closer to being back.

1861
01:48:12,640 --> 01:48:14,860
 Jaira Edwards, by the way, is a cyborg.

1862
01:48:15,300 --> 01:48:15,700
 Yes.

1863
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:16,840
 He broke his arm.

1864
01:48:16,980 --> 01:48:18,800
 I mean, I broke my arm when I was a kid.

1865
01:48:19,380 --> 01:48:22,520
 And I didn't have to have, like, a pen put in it.

1866
01:48:22,820 --> 01:48:26,840
 I mean, I'll tell you guys, it's probably the most pain I've ever felt in all my life.

1867
01:48:26,980 --> 01:48:29,680
 But my doctor jerked mine back into place.

1868
01:48:29,900 --> 01:48:31,040
 It was a complete break.

1869
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:35,900
 But he jerked it back into place with just a little bit of sedative there.

1870
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:39,960
 And, of course, and then I recovered, but it took six to eight weeks.

1871
01:48:40,400 --> 01:48:45,320
 For him to be back in three weeks and have to have surgery is unreal.

1872
01:48:45,440 --> 01:48:53,620
 And then, you know, some friends of mine who were watching the game, the blitz he had in the stop, he was so fast.

1873
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:54,440
 That's right.

1874
01:48:54,600 --> 01:49:02,160
 The first two things that went through my mind were two Coach Bryant quotes from his coach's show years ago where you're out to practice early.

1875
01:49:02,400 --> 01:49:03,620
 Bingo, that's a goody.

1876
01:49:03,920 --> 01:49:04,040
 Yep.

1877
01:49:04,080 --> 01:49:09,260
 I mean, you know, and you've got to understand, he's barely played.

1878
01:49:09,440 --> 01:49:11,900
 So his role will continue to increase.

1879
01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:13,720
 But he's a tremendous talent.

1880
01:49:13,720 --> 01:49:21,660
 And I just think, overall, if they can get A.K. Deer back, you know, the odd man out is kind of Kevin Riley.

1881
01:49:21,740 --> 01:49:23,120
 He's not getting a lot of reps.

1882
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:35,280
 But when you look at it, I would think, guys, I don't know the exact snap count, but I thought I saw where, you know, E.J. Crowe only played three snaps and he touched the ball every time.

1883
01:49:35,480 --> 01:49:37,500
 So I'd like to see him touch it more.

1884
01:49:37,580 --> 01:49:39,620
 I'd like to see Brown touch it more.

1885
01:49:39,740 --> 01:49:41,300
 And then you're talking about A.K. Deer.

1886
01:49:41,700 --> 01:49:43,480
 Certainly, that's going to push Daniel Hill.

1887
01:49:43,600 --> 01:49:48,200
 But I just think you can't really even compare the running back room from last year.

1888
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:49,840
 I think it's much, much better.

1889
01:49:50,440 --> 01:49:52,480
 You know, A.K. Deer knows what he's doing now.

1890
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:53,620
 He's a talented kid.

1891
01:49:53,940 --> 01:49:55,200
 And you've got two great freshmen.

1892
01:49:55,620 --> 01:49:57,500
 And then you've got an improved offensive line.

1893
01:49:57,660 --> 01:49:59,740
 But you need to play off of that.

1894
01:49:59,820 --> 01:50:00,960
 That needs to be your identity.

1895
01:50:01,480 --> 01:50:07,320
 And you need to help Keelan Russell, you know, come along and gradually get better.

1896
01:50:07,500 --> 01:50:12,720
 And I think this is a good opportunity because I don't think this Florida State defense is very good.

1897
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:19,160
 I've watched them in their two games, especially the SMU game, and they gave up nearly 600 yards.

1898
01:50:19,440 --> 01:50:21,580
 I don't think they're great along the lines of scrimmage.

1899
01:50:21,580 --> 01:50:28,280
 And so, if I'm Alabama, I'm coming out trying to establish the run, and then I'm trying to make, you know, Ashton Daniels beat me.

1900
01:50:28,380 --> 01:50:34,600
 I've got to stop Cromo because he is their one guy that I think is a true weapon, and they need to stop him.

1901
01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:39,300
 And if they do that, I think Alabama can cover and win this game going away.

1902
01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:40,040
 All right.

1903
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:46,460
 They will know by the late afternoon, about the time the Auburn game gets rocking, the pride of Huntsville, Jon Sumrall.

1904
01:50:46,540 --> 01:50:47,180
 What's going to happen?

1905
01:50:47,260 --> 01:50:50,720
 What's going to be the final score Saturday night down the plains?

1906
01:50:51,580 --> 01:50:58,180
 Well, I mean, I like Florida in the game, but I think it's going to be a close one because, you know,

1907
01:50:58,260 --> 01:51:04,500
 one thing with John's team, I've watched them some, and I don't think this is a defense down the road.

1908
01:51:04,700 --> 01:51:06,820
 Down the road, I think his defense will be much better.

1909
01:51:07,020 --> 01:51:08,740
 I guess that's what I'm trying to say.

1910
01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:11,560
 They needed to change the culture there a little bit.

1911
01:51:12,280 --> 01:51:18,460
 I know their defense was pretty good a year ago, but I think he's changing some things schematically

1912
01:51:18,460 --> 01:51:25,060
 and probably needs, you know, a talent infusion somewhat and continue to get, quote-unquote, his guys in.

1913
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:29,200
 And I think Auburn will be able to run the football a little bit.

1914
01:51:29,380 --> 01:51:32,520
 I've seen that happen in the first two games to Florida.

1915
01:51:32,980 --> 01:51:37,140
 And for both of these teams, it's going to be a big time up in competition.

1916
01:51:37,320 --> 01:51:37,780
 That's right.

1917
01:51:37,780 --> 01:51:40,300
 I won't say Auburn has at least played a good Baylor team.

1918
01:51:40,440 --> 01:51:44,760
 I think Baylor's pretty decent, and it's better than either team Florida's played.

1919
01:51:45,100 --> 01:51:47,540
 So, somewhat, Auburn should be ready for this.

1920
01:51:47,900 --> 01:51:50,540
 I think it's going to be a really close football game.

1921
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:54,560
 But if I had to pick a score, Alabama game, I picked 49-10.

1922
01:51:54,700 --> 01:51:56,320
 I picked a beat down in that game.

1923
01:51:56,480 --> 01:52:01,500
 I think they match up really well with the Florida State, and they already know Ashton Daniels.

1924
01:52:01,780 --> 01:52:06,560
 In the Auburn-Florida game, I know last I saw it was two-and-a-half for Florida, I think.

1925
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:11,660
 Well, I would have Florida cover, but it would be about a half a point.

1926
01:52:12,100 --> 01:52:16,020
 I think it's going to be a pretty – like a 23-20 type ball game

1927
01:52:16,020 --> 01:52:20,380
 and go down to the latter part of the fourth quarter, and Florida will make one more play.

1928
01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:23,900
 But I just think – my basic issue is this.

1929
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:26,780
 I think so far I've been really impressed with Philo,

1930
01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:29,040
 but he's going to have to prove it against a better defense.

1931
01:52:29,460 --> 01:52:30,680
 But I do know this.

1932
01:52:30,900 --> 01:52:32,920
 I don't care how good your defense is.

1933
01:52:33,300 --> 01:52:36,160
 Jaden Ball is a stud, and I think he's the difference.

1934
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:40,840
 I think he's a little bit better than Cobb, and with him being the best player on the field,

1935
01:52:41,180 --> 01:52:44,020
 I think Florida will find a way to get John Summerall a big win,

1936
01:52:44,060 --> 01:52:45,520
 but it's going to be a great football game.

1937
01:52:45,900 --> 01:52:46,300
 Absolutely.

1938
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,080
 D2, I always enjoy the conversation.

1939
01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:51,440
 My friend, look forward to seeing you on Saturday.

1940
01:52:51,840 --> 01:52:55,740
 Where can we get online and get you and listen to you and Scott?

1941
01:52:56,880 --> 01:53:00,900
 Well, you can certainly connect with me at DrewD977ESPN.

1942
01:53:01,040 --> 01:53:11,280
 I've been asked to vote in many a podcast link over the last two or three days

1943
01:53:11,280 --> 01:53:13,720
 as the Nigerians try to take my account back.

1944
01:53:13,900 --> 01:53:15,860
 But I'm not falling for that this time,

1945
01:53:15,860 --> 01:53:18,180
 so they're not going to get my account back, hopefully.

1946
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:22,460
 So I have my DrewD977ESPN that you can connect with me on.

1947
01:53:22,960 --> 01:53:29,200
 Certainly, you can also connect with us at 977ESPN.com to listen to the show online,

1948
01:53:29,320 --> 01:53:33,640
 or if you want to go on WCZN-TV, which is our YouTube channel,

1949
01:53:33,920 --> 01:53:35,880
 we certainly enjoy the conversation there.

1950
01:53:36,200 --> 01:53:39,380
 You can watch us live, and if you miss it, you can watch it there.

1951
01:53:39,480 --> 01:53:47,020
 Or if you want to go back and listen to the show in your car, you can go to 977ESPN The Zone on SoundCloud

1952
01:53:47,020 --> 01:53:48,260
 and listen to it there.

1953
01:53:48,340 --> 01:53:50,080
 We post everything after the show.

1954
01:53:50,180 --> 01:53:54,840
 And, of course, we're on 7 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, and a lot of great conversation.

1955
01:53:54,980 --> 01:54:02,480
 It's going to be a really interesting week of SEC football, especially under the radar, South Carolina and Mississippi State,

1956
01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:07,440
 because one of those two teams is going to – especially if the Bulldogs in the maroon and white win it,

1957
01:54:07,760 --> 01:54:14,740
 I'm telling you, that road trip for Alabama in three weeks is looking a lot more difficult than it did

1958
01:54:14,740 --> 01:54:19,760
 when everybody just assumed it was going to be a rout, you know, during SEC media days,

1959
01:54:19,820 --> 01:54:22,180
 because Camario Taylor is the real deal.

1960
01:54:22,900 --> 01:54:23,000
 Yeah.

1961
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:25,200
 Drew, man, thanks for your time today.

1962
01:54:25,340 --> 01:54:28,340
 Safe travels over the next few days, and let's do it again soon, okay?

1963
01:54:29,740 --> 01:54:31,780
 Absolutely, guys, and go Brewer-Hicklin.

1964
01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:33,200
 One for three last night.

1965
01:54:33,260 --> 01:54:33,800
 There you go.

1966
01:54:34,420 --> 01:54:37,300
 Double D, Drew DeArman, 97.7 FM The Zone.

1967
01:54:37,300 --> 01:54:39,180
 Busy night here on 93.9 The Score.

1968
01:54:39,280 --> 01:54:41,240
 Hey, coach, and then the Braves and the Cubs.

1969
01:54:41,340 --> 01:54:49,160
 By the way, BB, the Braves can clinch a postseason burst with a win and a loss by either the D-backs or Padres tonight.

1970
01:54:49,160 --> 01:54:51,140
 Yeah, J.R. Richie pitching night.

1971
01:54:51,240 --> 01:54:57,560
 They won 6-3 last night doing what they do best, hit three two-run homers.

1972
01:54:58,080 --> 01:54:59,520
 Kick back and enjoy.

1973
01:54:59,660 --> 01:55:00,940
 It's going to take care, Biz, for now.

1974
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:03,860
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James, Blair, the entire crew here.

1975
01:55:03,940 --> 01:55:05,860
 Perel Buck, thank you just so much for your time today.

1976
01:55:05,860 --> 01:55:08,200
 Let's do it again tomorrow at noon to two for the Boom on Buck Show.

1977
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:10,580
 Back here on Sports Radio 93.9 The Score.