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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee. It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

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 The Boomo Bugg Show. New exclusive inside track to the Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC. Now your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Good afternoon and welcome into the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us your ride around the Tennessee Valley. Brett Beaird, welcome in where? Alabama fans with a close eye on the latest news out of Trojan country. Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Thursday to you and the listeners. Congratulations to the Milwaukee Brewers for winning the World Series four games to one over Tampa, which is quite frankly a victory for small market teams.

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 Yes.

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 Telling people you don't have to have the Yankees and the Dodgers payroll to win a World Series.

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 Caleb Suggs of the Decatur Daily will preview the top games tonight and Friday for the final week of the regular season.

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 But BB is here right now to preview and predict the top games for college football this weekend.

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 He's made it this far with a perfect record.

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 We can confirm or deny that next with the man, Bill Bender, the national voice with the Sporting News.

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 Bill, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 There certainly was not a perfect record last weekend.

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 There were a lot of upsets in college football last weekend, but it was a fun weekend.

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 And now the challenge is to get through Halloween without looking ahead to next week.

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 Next week, holy moly.

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 I know.

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 That's an old-timer.

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 Before we get to that, Bill, how do you explain college football across the landscape to date?

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 Yeah, you know, I think there's no dominant team.

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 There's a lot of two-loss teams that are going to have a playoff case.

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 There's a lot of three-loss teams that might have a playoff case.

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 And I think, you know, as you get into that, you know, we're going to get kind of an idea next week with the first set of rankings.

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 I know LSU-Alabama is one of those games that sticks out as maybe a little bit different than the rest next weekend.

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 No question about it.

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 Auburn and Ole Miss, both of these teams' defensive, quite frankly, have been disappointing.

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 The Rebels are a 13-and-a-half point favorite over Auburn.

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 In fact, Ole Miss has given up 161 yards, rushing a game.

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 You predict Ole Miss to win this game 38-24 and cover the spread.

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 That's a hard one to figure out, Brad, because I think Ole Miss should win that game.

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 But, I mean, how hungover are they going to be?

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 And that is the operative.

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 Well, you mentioned the Milwaukee Brewers.

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 I'm sure there's a couple hangovers in Milwaukee today.

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 But which teams get past last week?

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 And last weekend, a lot of these teams had hangovers.

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 I'll tell you what, if Ole Miss comes out, throws the ball around, does what they're supposed to do,

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 like their chances to blow out victory there and get right.

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 And then, again, not peeking ahead to Georgia.

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 That's a huge game on November 7th.

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 Huge game.

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 Basically, you're going to have a close eye with a team down the road from you there in Columbus, Ohio.

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 The Ohio State University taking on USC.

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 Before we get into the X's and the O's and the Jimmy's and Joe's, let's talk about the Lincolns.

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 News from Lincoln Riley publicly dismissing exit rumors, stating he is in the right place as the Trojans prepare for a massive showdown against the Ohio State University Buckeyes.

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 The reason that's relevant, obviously, across college football, there's been rumblings that if he leaves,

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 the fellow down in Tuscaloosa by the name of DeBoer might be interested in his mutual interest in going west, young man.

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 Your thoughts about the news from Lincoln Riley?

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 Is it entirely his call and your thoughts as far as the off the steel field news before we get into what's going on with USC this weekend against the team from your backyard?

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 The relationship appears to be strained, and I think it comes down to the big game.

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 You know, here's one thing worth knowing that since Lincoln Riley took over at USC, they are 0-5 against top 10 teams.

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 Three of those games were in the Coliseum, and they have three top 10 opponents in their last four games.

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 My goodness.

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 You've got to win the big game at some point, right?

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 And, you know, by happenstance,

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 Kaelin DeBoer was the coach of Washington in one of those top 10 games.

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 So his name's going to come up, but I just have a hard time believing that Kaelin DeBoer would leave,

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 knowing that we went through this song and dance last year.

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 Alabama's in the playoff time.

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 There are a lot of names that are going to pop up for that USC job if Lincoln Riley is.

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 It's not about him going somewhere else.

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 I mean, at this point, if it goes really south, he might be asked to leave, like not on his own accord.

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 Let me ask you this.

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 I mean, especially when you look at DeBoer, if you're objective, and it's rare for a fan to be that way,

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 but this team this year for DeBoer is young.

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 They've got a lot of talent.

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 Right now, it looks like the only major loss they're going to have would be Ryan Coleman-Williams,

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 and who knows that now with the injury.

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 But in other words, what I'm trying to say is, this year, they've gone to school, including Russell.

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 They've gone and got a lot of the studies out of the way.

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 Next year, they're going to have an experience out of the belt,

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 returning pretty much a nucleus of what should be on paper in a way a good team.

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 How big of a factor would that play in DeBoer's decision?

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 I know a fan's not always going to look at that because they won't win now,

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 even if it's I Love Lucy playing.

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 and he was mentioning how beat up Alabama's been on the offensive line and those kind of things.

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 So, yeah, you've got to be healthy, and that's part of the story.

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 Oregon, for example, Harold, they fired an offensive coordinator who didn't have a quarterback.

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 And I'm not going to fire your coordinator when, of course, that's what I would have said if I was him.

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 I'd be like, what do you want me to do?

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 I mean, we lost our starting quarterback.

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 So, I think health will have something to do to it.

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 I think Hale and DeBoer's had success.

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 You know, the one thing, the one sore thumb from this year is how they looked against Tennessee.

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 There's no question.

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 But they still head into November 7th in that matchup against LSU I just talked about.

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 If they win there, they're looking pretty good for a playoff spot.

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 Let me ask you about the game itself.

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 USC's offense is obviously pretty good, but Wisconsin did an incredible job.

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 Luke Fickle has really turned that program around.

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 They've got a lot more physical.

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 If Wisconsin can hold USC to negative 17 yards, I shudder to think what the Ohio State defense could do.

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 And it's not as good as last year, but it's still really good.

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 Ohio State going to probably be starting freshman Luke Fahey.

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 You've got the Buckeyes winning 27-20.

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 I think it's going to be tight game.

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 You know, I do.

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 I do think USC's going to play a little back against the wall.

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 It is on the West Coast.

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 Ohio State does have a new quarterback.

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 All that comes into play.

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 It definitely, for USC, like I said, it's about the big game, and here's a chance to do it.

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 For Ohio State, I mean, how do you go into this game?

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 Cardale Jones is getting a lot of run this week.

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 The quarterbacks, you guys know him.

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 He started against Alabama way back in 2014.

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 But that Ohio State offense at the time changed because Cardale's ability to throw it long opened up running lanes for Ezekiel Elliott.

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 Ezekiel Elliott had a ridiculous playoff.

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 So how does Luke Fahey or Avian St. Clair, whoever gets the majority of the snaps, which Ryan Day hasn't said yet,

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 how do they get the ball to Jeremiah Smith?

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 That's the big question.

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 If they can do that and lean on their defense, Buckeyes are going to be fine.

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 A big GFI game.

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 It looks good on paper or video games, but in reality, it's a different story.

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 Bill, Ben to the Sporting News.

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 Here we are this late in the interview, and have we talked about Florida and Georgia yet, Bill?

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 Well, I think, you know, I'm looking to see what Jon Sumrall adds to the rivalry, right?

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 Like, I didn't realize this until I was doing some research last night, and Spurrier 11-1 against Georgia.

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 Herb and I are 11-1, or 5-1.

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 Kirby's 7-2 against Florida.

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 The last five meetings, most of them haven't been all that close.

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 It was close last year.

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 And they're coming off their bye week and their loss.

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 So, to me, it really comes down to, does Georgia play clean?

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 They have three turnovers in their last loss against Auburn.

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 They play clean.

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 It's at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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 Something's a little bit off about that.

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 But I think the Bulldogs will cruise in that one by a couple touchdowns if Gunnar Stockton doesn't turn the ball over.

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 I agree with you.

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 I think that's the key.

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 Georgia fumbled four times against Alabama and did not lose one of them.

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 And Stockton should have thrown three interceptions.

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 Buster Faulkner, when he was the offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech, gave Georgia's defense fits several times.

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 Arizona, Texas Tech.

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 We were talking to Bruce Marshall, a Las Vegas dude, earlier this week.

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 Texas Tech got upset last week.

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 Noah Fifeda is going wild.

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 34 more points, five straight games.

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 He picked Arizona straight up.

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 Texas Tech wins 31-28, according to Bill Bender.

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 I don't hate that pick, though, if you want to just go ahead and pick Arizona.

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 I know, I know.

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 Fifeda's hot.

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 He is.

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 And Brent Brennan's coaching really well.

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 Their offense is on fire, and it adds up to what could be a really fun Big 12 game.

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 But keep an eye on that.

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 How much Big 12 chaos do we have this week?

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 Because, you know, the SEC's eyeballing that because they're just dying to say, hey, our three-loss teams are better than your two-loss teams.

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 Our two-loss teams are better than your one-loss team.

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 And that's coming next Tuesday.

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 Let me ask you this, Bill.

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 With one of those two-loss teams beat Indiana by then, they got Minnesota.

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 No one's giving the Gophers much of a chance.

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 But let's face it, the 2026 Hoosiers are not looking like the 2025 Hoosiers either.

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 No, and they need to get to their bye week.

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 Josh Hoover's beat up.

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 They're not quite what they were last year, but they're a very solid team.

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 I was impressed with they got out of Michigan with the win last week because they didn't, again, they didn't.

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 Hoover threw one pass in the second half, an interception, and then the first play of overtime,

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 Cignetti lets them rip it to a tight end that sets up the game-winning score.

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 So, I mean, that's coaching.

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 Kurt Cignetti continues to prove that he is an elite coach.

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 And I think they win running away against the Gophers before they get into their bye week.

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 By the way, Bill Bender, one more upset predicted by Brett Beaird, Northwestern and Oregon.

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 The Ducks are three and a half.

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 Northwestern is much improved.

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 Oregon fired.

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 Dan Lanning fired his offensive coordinator.

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 Northwestern's running for 204 yards a game.

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 Northwestern looks more like Oregon than Oregon does.

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 And I think Northwestern goes in there and pretty much finishes off Oregon for the year.

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 Bill Bender, talk about NFL picks, college picks, pre-game, post-game.

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 You got it all covered, my friend.

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 Where can we get online to do it?

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 Hey, trick-or-treat on top of that.

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 There you go, bud.

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 All your listeners out there, make sure my kids bring me home plenty of candy for the weekend.

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 And, you know, we're going to have a lot of fun.

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 Check us out at Sporting News.

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 We've got all that content.

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 We'll have a lot from the weekend.

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 And like I said, we've already got some things in the work for November 7th.

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 That's going to just be a fantastic weekend.

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 I can't wait.

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 No one wants those kids to bring candy home more to Bill than his favorite dentist.

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 Bill Bender, the Sporting News.

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 Coming up.

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 As I say on the corner, the end is near.

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 Caleb Suggs to tell us next.

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 Yeah, roll tide.

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 I think we had a couple of goals that we had coming in.

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 First quarter, you know, hopefully chalk it up to some jitters.

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 Maybe some bad game planning by me defensively.

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 So those were really good.

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 So really didn't need her to score.

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 You know, Tiana getting out on the brink.

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Welcome back in.

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 It is a pleasure for us to open the door and say hello to Caleb Suggs.

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 They're at the Decatur Daily.

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 Caleb, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing good, guys.

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 How are y'all?

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 Hey, Boom.

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 Kind of frustrated and confused here, Caleb.

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 Are we the only ones, Brent and I, and a lot of other folks listening right now?

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 But it seems like just yesterday that this thing was beginning, and now coming up starting that,

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 it is ending a thing called the regular season.

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 It goes by fast, is it not, Caleb?

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 Yeah, unfortunately.

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 I know some sportswriters, they love basketball season, so they look forward to that.

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 But I always love football season.

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 To me, there's nothing like it.

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 So, yeah, it goes by real fast.

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 But like I said last week, I'm trying to manifest at least a few more weeks of it.

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 Absolutely.

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 Talk about the headliner for tonight, in your opinion, because traditionally, on the last

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 regular season of the schedule, a lot of teams play.

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 You get this at the beginning of the season.

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 You get it at the end of the season.

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 A lot of teams just want to go ahead, especially those getting ready for the playoffs, get an

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 extra day in there.

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 But what is your headliner for tonight's Thursday night menu?

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 Yeah, well, obviously, I think you look at Austin and Bob Jones.

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 You know, Austin had a tough loss last week, you know, where they had a chance to win the

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 region, but they lost another fourth, and they have to go play Clay Chauvel in the first

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 round.

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 That's a pretty all-or-nothing game.

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 So I know that was tough.

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 So, you know, I think they can.

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 Their offense is really good.

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 I think they can score with Clay.

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 Are they probably going to go on the road and upset them?

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 Probably not.

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 But they have a chance.

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 But I think to have a chance, they need to play clean football.

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 And I think that needs to start tonight.

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 The last few weeks, they just had, you know, crucial mistakes, you know, just little things

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 that can make a huge difference in a close game.

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 And against Lawrence, against Hartzell, they overcame them.

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 They couldn't overcome them against Russell.

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 So they need to figure out a way to play clean football going into Clay Chauvel if they want

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 to have any chance to win.

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 And I think that should start tonight.

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 So hopefully they'll cut down on those mistakes, get some momentum, and then maybe go on a

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 chance to have a chance to pull an upset.

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 We'll see.

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 Let me ask you about what I think is the best game Thursday and Friday night in our area.

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 Undefeated Hatton at 9-0, trying to reach 10-0 for the first time in the history of the

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 school against a very much improved Central Florence team.

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 Heath Woods has got Central Florence at 8-1.

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 And we've talked about Hatton all year long, and I'm like you.

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 I think they can make a deep run in the playoffs.

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 Cade Parham, nearly 1,800 yards throwing.

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 Nassie Gamble, 800 yards running.

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 He's taken over for an injury at Severius Evans.

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 Lucas Price has been running well for Central.

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 Ja'Corey Brown.

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 This is a tremendous game tonight.

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 Undefeated Hatton at Central.

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 Yeah, I think, you know, a big-time game, especially when you have a team that, like

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 you said, trying to go 10-0 for the first time, you know, that's always a cool moment

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 just to see if that can happen.

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 So Hatton's been really good this year.

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 I mean, they've only had, you know, two one-score games against Brooks and against

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 Cease Lawrence.

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 So against everybody else, they've been dominant.

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 And despite losing Severius, they've haven't, you know, they've been the same.

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 Nassie Gamble's played really well, and they've got talent all over the place.

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 And Cade Parham's really good.

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 I'm interested to see, you know, Central Florence, I mean, they're consistent.

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 Coach Wood is very consistent with that program.

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 They're always good.

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 It's good to see how they handle the athletes of Hatton.

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 You know, I look at the kind of the similar games.

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 You know, they've, you know, Hatton beat Brooks by a touchdown in the first game.

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 And then you look at Central Florence lost to Brooks by two touchdowns.

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 And I think Brooks has, you know, some similar, you know, really good athletes on there.

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 So I'm interested to see how Hatton, they'll handle that with Hatton.

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 I think Hatton will get it, probably get it done tonight, get that 10-0 and go into the

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 playoffs with a lot of momentum.

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 Caleb Suggs, Decatur Daily.

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 Let's talk about the East Lawrence, East Limestone, the Battle of the East tonight.

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 On paper, we know how it should go.

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 East Lawrence, five and four.

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 You've got to feel for the kids over at East Limestone, oh and nine.

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 Still looking for that first win of the season.

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 But it could be a special season.

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 If you don't mind, talk about the significance of this.

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 And who, by the way, is the head coach at East Lawrence?

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 And what's on the line tonight in terms of turning in a great season?

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 Probably, what, since 1997?

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 Help us out with some of the particulars there, Caleb.

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 Yeah, so obviously head coach Jamie Suggs, you know, his first year.

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 My dad.

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 It's going to be a big game, you know, tonight.

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 I'll be there.

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 It'll be my first chance I got to see him this year.

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 And my whole family will be there.

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 And, you know, it'll, yeah, I mean, you know, you look at, you know,

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 I know it was disappointing last week you lose the Fed and kind of drop to fourth.

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 And now you've got to go play Plainview.

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 But, I mean, you go out there and get a win.

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 You know, it'll be a winning season.

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 It'll be the first since 2020.

427
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 They did have one with the Culver season when Bo Culver was there.

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 But just, I mean, just first since 2020 and then only the second since 1997, like you said.

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 So if you're, you know, you get hired till May.

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 So if you're able to go out there and get a winning season for a program that's been starving

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 of winning seasons in your first year, I think that's a huge accomplishment.

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 And then they'll get to go to the playoffs.

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 Kids will get to experience that.

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 So, yeah, it's a big game.

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 There's a lot on the line.

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 And I don't think they're taking it lightly.

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 I know East Limestone has had a rough year.

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 I'm sure those kids are a little beaten down.

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 You know, they were pretty competitive early on, even though they were losing.

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 You know, I think the season has worn on them.

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 So we'll see how they handle it.

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 But you're still talking about a team that's a 5A team playing a team that's a 3A team.

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 So you never know how that's going to handle.

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 So it'll be interesting to see.

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 But, yeah, a lot on the line for East Lawrence.

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 And I think a win would be huge for that program.

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 Every week when we talk with you sooner or later, we talk about West Morgan.

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 They got off to a slow start.

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 They're hosting Coleman tonight.

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 Coleman got off to a good start, and they've lost five in a row.

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 West Morgan now 6-3.

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 Things really turned for West Morgan when they went to an eighth grader at quarterback,

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 Brantley Phillips, who is Drew Phillips' son.

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 Ever since he took over at quarterback, they're averaging 53 points a game.

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 Jabari Wiggins, the running back, helps them out.

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 He ran for 106 last week.

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 Colby Jones is really good.

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 Again, they are a much better team than the one we talked about in September.

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 They'll win this game tonight.

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 I think they may make a deep run in the playoffs themselves.

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 It'll actually be tomorrow night.

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 Well, I'm sorry.

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 Yeah, that's what I meant.

464
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:32,180
 They'll be a game on Friday.

465
00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:36,640
 But, yeah, I mean, Brantley, you know, the quarterback has been a game-changer for them.

466
00:25:36,860 --> 00:25:38,420
 And he didn't start until the third game.

467
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,080
 Drew, understandably, especially against Athens, didn't want to throw him out.

468
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,580
 You know, not just being his son, but he's an eighth grader.

469
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,460
 I mean, he's really young.

470
00:25:46,620 --> 00:25:49,800
 But you just see him getting more comfortable every week.

471
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:54,140
 And I think Caleb Graham, the offensive coordinator, early on, he tried to protect him.

472
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,540
 But the last four weeks, he's really let it loose and opened the offense up.

473
00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:58,920
 And he is just thriving in it.

474
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,760
 He made, and I'll watch the video back from last week, he made one pass in between two defenders.

475
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,060
 I'm like, that's a junior-senior type pass that the eighth grader is making.

476
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:08,640
 So, it's made a difference.

477
00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:10,080
 Like you said, 53 points per game.

478
00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:14,900
 That's actually two points more than the 23 team that led the state in scoring.

479
00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:17,720
 So, I would say they're doing pretty good.

480
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:21,860
 So, yeah, I think they're going to come out and make a statement against Coleman, a 5A team.

481
00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:27,160
 It's kind of a good benchmark because it's kind of booked, you know, you open the season with Athens.

482
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:28,300
 It was a tough loss.

483
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,500
 And now you close with Coleman.

484
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,220
 So, I think they feel a chance to prove themselves, show how far they've come,

485
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:38,920
 and then get ready for a postseason run with a lot of – that has a 4A north that has a lot of good teams in it.

486
00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:44,060
 Can't imagine, some of these teams get out hot and they get cold as the season wears on.

487
00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:47,660
 And conversely, some start out slow and catch heat at the right time.

488
00:26:47,980 --> 00:26:50,240
 Is anyone doing that better than Lauderdale County?

489
00:26:50,420 --> 00:26:51,480
 Correct us if we're wrong.

490
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:53,680
 They got off to a 1-3 start.

491
00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:56,320
 They have won their last five in a row.

492
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,560
 Now they're taking on Ardmore.

493
00:26:58,740 --> 00:27:01,860
 Lauderdale County 6-3, Ardmore 2-7.

494
00:27:03,020 --> 00:27:04,740
 Yeah, not surprising to me.

495
00:27:04,860 --> 00:27:06,580
 Actually, I felt like this was coming.

496
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,400
 You know, no offense to Central Florence either, but I think they caught them at the right time.

497
00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:13,820
 I feel like if that game was played again, it would probably go differently.

498
00:27:14,020 --> 00:27:15,820
 Lauderdale County is just playing really good right now.

499
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,120
 They're going to win this game easily, and they're going to be a team to watch out for in the playoffs.

500
00:27:20,420 --> 00:27:23,460
 Yeah, Curtis Ritter is playing really, really well.

501
00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:30,220
 Listen, the great previews, a lot of games tonight, as Harold mentioned earlier, and, of course, tomorrow night.

502
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,860
 You've got the stance.

503
00:27:32,020 --> 00:27:37,520
 You've got previews of three of the top games in the Decatur Daily area.

504
00:27:38,780 --> 00:27:41,620
 Twitter, pre-game, post-game, you've got it all covered.

505
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,860
 Where can we get online to get all the great stuff?

506
00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:52,280
 Yeah, you can get online at DecaturDaily.com, and then my Twitter is at CalebSucks2, and we'll have all those updates and stuff that you mentioned.

507
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,940
 And we'll be listening for that song, We Are Family, tonight.

508
00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:57,460
 Good luck to your dad and the family.

509
00:27:57,540 --> 00:27:58,120
 Okay, Caleb?

510
00:27:58,920 --> 00:27:59,500
 Thanks, guys.

511
00:27:59,560 --> 00:27:59,720
 Thanks, guys.

512
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:00,180
 Thank you, bud.

513
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,120
 Caleb Sucks, the Decatur Daily.

514
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 Coming up, oh, how fast a worm can turn.

515
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:09,100
 Just ask the Tennessee fans and Ryan Callahan next.

516
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 Stay with us.

517
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 Well, the days are getting cooler, and the smell of fall is in the air.

518
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 They have 12 brands of pre-owned street bikes with prices starting at $24.95.

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528
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529
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 Call them at 256-764-3038 or visit longshorecycles.com.

530
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 At First Metro Bank, we believe there's something special about fall in our community.

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 The United Way of North Alabama invites the community to dust off their brooms and join the annual Witch's Ride.

576
00:32:03,780 --> 00:32:08,860
 On Thursday, October 29th, the Whimsical Parade will once again take flight through downtown Florence,

577
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,380
 bringing together costumes, candy, and community spirit, all in support of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

578
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:19,400
 Registration begins at 5 p.m. on the corner of Mobile and Seminary Street, with the parade beginning at 6.

579
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 Participants are encouraged to dress in their spookiest, silliest, or most creative costumes.

580
00:32:24,460 --> 00:32:27,060
 Tickets are $35 with under 12 free of charge.

581
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 Also, a limited number of VIP tickets are available for $100.

582
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 An included admission to an exclusive adults-only VIP afterparty featuring heavy work herbs from baking and events by Jack.

583
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 All proceeds to benefit Dolly Parton's Imagination Library,

584
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 helping provide free books to children in Lauderdale, Calvert, Franklin, and Marion counties.

585
00:32:44,220 --> 00:32:50,840
 For more information, call the United Way of Northwest Alabama at 256-764-5892.

586
00:32:51,460 --> 00:32:54,700
 That's the annual Witch's Ride, Thursday, October 29th.

587
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 Progressive presents the Sports Flash on 93-9, The Score.

588
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,660
 In college football tonight, Troy is set to play on the road to James Madison.

589
00:33:03,820 --> 00:33:06,420
 The Trojans are 3-4 on the year 1 and 2 in the Sunbelt.

590
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,420
 James Madison is 7-1.

591
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,080
 On Saturday, Auburn's on the road as they travel to play number 12 Ole Miss.

592
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 The Tigers 4-3 on the year 2 and 3 in the SEC.

593
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 Ole Miss 3-2 in the conference.

594
00:33:17,380 --> 00:33:20,080
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595
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 Jaguars are 4-3 on the year 2 and 1 in the Sunbelt.

596
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 Saints are off on Sunday.

597
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,280
 The Falcons head to Tampa.

598
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 They'll take on the Buccaneers.

599
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600
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601
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 Milwaukee Brewers were winners last night over the race 4-1.

602
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 They cap off the World Series, a first in franchise history.

603
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 They win the World Series four games to one.

604
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 Tune in tonight for high school football as Florence plays at Fort Payne.

605
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 Pre-game at 6.

606
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 Kickoff at 7 o'clock.

607
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642
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643
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 Really appreciate the free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

644
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,140
 And with that, why don't we go to the states of Tennessee and say hello to R.C.

645
00:35:28,140 --> 00:35:28,920
 Ryan Callahan.

646
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:33,040
 Ryan got it all covered when it comes to Big Orange at Go Vols 24-7.

647
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:33,980
 Ryan, welcome in.

648
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:34,540
 How are you?

649
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:35,680
 Hey, guys.

650
00:35:35,740 --> 00:35:36,100
 Doing well.

651
00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:36,400
 How are you?

652
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:36,840
 Hey, man.

653
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:39,220
 Well, we've come to the conclusion, Ryan.

654
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:45,000
 See if you agree that Josh Heupel does not listen to Ryan Callahan at Go Vols 24-7.

655
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:52,980
 You said last week, Josh, this is, as the Greeks would say, Hades for Tennessee playing at this place.

656
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,960
 And by golly, Gile, Ryan Callahan was right.

657
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,560
 When is Josh going to listen to you?

658
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,960
 I'm not sure he needs to listen to me on too much.

659
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,540
 But, you know, all we do is read the history.

660
00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:14,740
 And, man, there was a lot of history that suggested last Saturday might happen the way it did.

661
00:36:15,260 --> 00:36:22,420
 And, obviously, some tea leaves about that Tennessee team that hinted they might be in some trouble against a team that could score some points.

662
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:28,860
 And South Carolina finally was the first team to score more than 24 against Tennessee this season.

663
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:36,000
 So, an impressive game by South Carolina at times, but certainly a game that Tennessee is going to look back on and say,

664
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:37,540
 man, how did we let that one slip away?

665
00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:40,440
 Because they were sitting there with a seven-point lead in less than four minutes to go.

666
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:47,820
 Had a chance to maybe put away the game and had a kind of head-scratching mistake in a big spot on fourth and one

667
00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:54,360
 that ultimately let South Carolina back in it and made it a just gut-wrenching loss for them at the end of that game.

668
00:36:54,800 --> 00:37:00,020
 Brian, what did South Carolina and that coaching staff do that Alabama and Ken and DeBoer's staff did not do?

669
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:02,680
 Yeah, great question.

670
00:37:02,980 --> 00:37:09,120
 You know, I'm not sure we'll ever have a great answer for why Keelan Russell and Alabama had so much trouble that day.

671
00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:15,260
 You know, I'm sure some of that, you know, Tennessee just dialed up a great game plan for Alabama.

672
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,160
 Maybe, you know, players always motivated to play against Alabama.

673
00:37:19,500 --> 00:37:21,220
 You know, maybe that has something to do with it.

674
00:37:22,060 --> 00:37:28,160
 And also, let's not diminish the factor that Alabama might have been in that game

675
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,560
 because when you're coming off a physical, demanding rivalry game,

676
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,420
 it's sometimes hard to get back up the next week.

677
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:37,780
 So maybe Tennessee not quite at the same level.

678
00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:40,680
 For that matter, South Carolina was coming off an open date itself

679
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,760
 and had extra time to prepare for Tennessee.

680
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,520
 So certainly those first two drives of the game, Kendall Bryles had drawn up some good stuff

681
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,840
 and they went straight down the field, took a 14-0 lead early in that game.

682
00:37:52,060 --> 00:37:57,020
 They had Tennessee really on its heels and they adjusted and settled in and played really well from there

683
00:37:57,020 --> 00:38:01,620
 until the final minutes of the game, giving up only three points until those last two drives.

684
00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:08,060
 So they did a good job after they got past the stuff that South Carolina had probably scripted out a little bit.

685
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,880
 But clearly they caught Tennessee off guard with some of the things they threw at them early.

686
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,380
 And Lenore Sellers, when he's on, you guys have seen it before.

687
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:20,140
 He can be very up and down, but he had some moments in that game last weekend

688
00:38:20,140 --> 00:38:23,460
 where he kind of took over single-handedly and was really good.

689
00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:29,740
 And with some of those top players in the SEC, and he's one of them when he's at his best,

690
00:38:30,380 --> 00:38:32,280
 there's only so much you can do to slow them down.

691
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:34,420
 He certainly had some of those moments that reminded you, man,

692
00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:38,560
 this is why they were talking about him as a possible early first-round pick going into last season.

693
00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,080
 I'll tell you one thing, penalties played a key role last weekend.

694
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:48,080
 Texas and Ole Miss, Texas had 14 penalties for I think 120 yards.

695
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,740
 There were 22 flags thrown in the game, and I know you've heard this all week.

696
00:38:53,460 --> 00:39:02,120
 Tennessee committed 12 penalties for 90 yards, and of those 12, three negated touchdowns, touchdown passes.

697
00:39:03,740 --> 00:39:07,760
 And we were talking to our good friend Vince Rohr about this on Monday,

698
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,900
 and Vince said all three of them, at least to him, look legitimate.

699
00:39:11,260 --> 00:39:16,740
 But this is not the first time Tennessee's had a lot of penalties in the Josh Heupel era.

700
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:21,120
 Heupel does a lot of great things, including running the ball very effectively.

701
00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:23,160
 But your thoughts on penalties?

702
00:39:24,260 --> 00:39:26,040
 Yeah, you said it.

703
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,280
 I mean, it's been a common theme throughout Josh Heupel's tenure as a head coach,

704
00:39:29,300 --> 00:39:31,320
 even going back to his days at UCF.

705
00:39:31,540 --> 00:39:35,460
 His teams just tend to be more heavily penalized than a lot of other teams.

706
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:39,660
 It's not every year that they rank in the bottom 20 or 30 in college football,

707
00:39:39,820 --> 00:39:41,700
 but some years they are down there in penalties.

708
00:39:42,460 --> 00:39:45,040
 And at best, they tend to be middle of the pack.

709
00:39:45,820 --> 00:39:48,960
 So that's kind of a recurring issue there.

710
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:54,240
 And we've wondered, you know, for years when tempo was a big part of Tennessee's offense,

711
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:59,520
 you certainly wondered if penalties are just one of the side effects that come with running at that pace.

712
00:40:00,020 --> 00:40:01,340
 But Tennessee's not doing that this year.

713
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,820
 They've been slowing it down, running the ball more.

714
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:09,240
 And so that makes the penalties a bit more of a head-scratcher as to why they continue to happen

715
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:14,000
 and why they might be just sort of baked into a Josh Heupel offense and Josh Heupel team.

716
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,340
 It's hard to change that mid-season.

717
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,040
 You know, people have asked us this week, of course, what can be done to sort of reverse that trend

718
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,500
 and instill a bit more discipline and get players a little more on the same page

719
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:28,180
 and prevent some of those penalties.

720
00:40:28,380 --> 00:40:29,720
 And there's only so much you can do.

721
00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:32,060
 That's one of those things that can be kind of a long-term thing.

722
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,420
 It kind of goes from the top down in how you handle penalties in practice.

723
00:40:35,620 --> 00:40:38,600
 And they have officials there and do all the things they can.

724
00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:40,720
 And you guys know this, too.

725
00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:43,540
 SEC officiating crews vary so much one week to the next.

726
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,380
 I thought one of the holding penalties that went against Tennessee late in that game

727
00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,920
 on wide receiver Rodarius Jackson was a tough call.

728
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:53,640
 Not that it wasn't maybe a legitimate holding call,

729
00:40:53,700 --> 00:40:56,780
 but it was one of those holding calls that a hand just got too high up on the shoulder.

730
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,220
 You could call that 80% of the time in college football.

731
00:40:59,220 --> 00:41:05,340
 You get some of those kind of, not say ticky-tacky, but borderline calls.

732
00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:07,560
 Go against you, and it can change the game.

733
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,560
 But, yeah, those three touchdown passes being wiped off changed the game completely.

734
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,700
 And look at George McIntyre's stat line.

735
00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:17,540
 People are kind of wondering after his fourth-and-one head-scratcher

736
00:41:17,540 --> 00:41:22,000
 where he didn't hand off to the sign brain on what looked like a designed full-back run

737
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,960
 that could have converted on fourth down.

738
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,340
 Instead, he stopped in the backfield for a loss,

739
00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:28,820
 and South Carolina takes over with less than four minutes to go.

740
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,860
 After that mistake, people are saying,

741
00:41:30,980 --> 00:41:34,500
 man, McIntyre only threw for 136 yards, no touchdowns,

742
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,100
 and has a bad turnover, and then gets sacked later and fumbles.

743
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,540
 Put three touchdowns to 200-plus yards on the stat.

744
00:41:41,540 --> 00:41:42,720
 It looks like a different day.

745
00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,960
 So it changed the day completely, those three plays being wiped off.

746
00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:47,920
 I'm just looking at you from Greg Sanky.

747
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:49,480
 I think they're called judgment calls.

748
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,800
 So what you have with the commission on that?

749
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,560
 Your thoughts, Tennessee fans saying conspiracy theory.

750
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,360
 Who was the referee in that game with Carroll?

751
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,280
 Can you help us out with that, Ryan?

752
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,380
 This is my biggest eye roll of the week here.

753
00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:09,340
 I've heard this ad nauseum.

754
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:14,980
 I mean, I understand why fans latch onto this stuff.

755
00:42:14,980 --> 00:42:21,000
 And look, just the fact that you even have the appearance of a potential conflict of interest

756
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,360
 on the surface, sure, it's not ideal.

757
00:42:24,820 --> 00:42:27,260
 But this is a guy who's officiated SEC games for years.

758
00:42:27,420 --> 00:42:30,480
 We've heard this about Tennessee-Alabama games in the past.

759
00:42:31,060 --> 00:42:38,840
 I mean, the bottom line is the referee, the head of an officiating crew, does not make every call.

760
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:47,380
 And even if other guys are making calls and he has the ability to maybe steer things a certain way

761
00:42:47,380 --> 00:42:49,460
 and overrule them, that's not really your job.

762
00:42:49,460 --> 00:42:55,040
 Your job is to listen to what the other officials on the crew say and make sure they feel confident in the call.

763
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:56,220
 And if they do, you go with it.

764
00:42:56,300 --> 00:42:58,900
 So it's not like the head official is responsible for all of that.

765
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,980
 So just one of those things fans are going to latch onto.

766
00:43:03,460 --> 00:43:06,840
 But, again, you touched on it there a minute ago.

767
00:43:07,220 --> 00:43:10,660
 Three touchdowns wiped off by penalties, but they all appear to be legitimate penalties.

768
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:14,460
 So unless you're talking about a bunch of phantom calls, I don't think there's anything there.

769
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:21,440
 Yeah, you're talking about former Alabama quarterback David Smith, who is now an official with the SEC,

770
00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,300
 who, quite frankly, I think is a very good official.

771
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,840
 But, yeah, boy, I bet you've heard that all week long.

772
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:33,020
 Injuries, Tennessee and Alabama mercifully have a bye week.

773
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:42,480
 Alabama's got about six or seven key players out against Texas A&M, lost a few more during the game.

774
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,620
 And we've talked about this with Tennessee.

775
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:50,400
 They've got six players, and correct me if you've added to that, but that's enough.

776
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,600
 Six players out for the season.

777
00:43:52,600 --> 00:44:00,420
 And I'm sure Tennessee's beat up, too, with the hottest team in the SEC coming up November 7th

778
00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:02,100
 with those Kentucky Wildcats.

779
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,800
 Yeah, the open date, as it turned out, probably came at a pretty good time for Tennessee.

780
00:44:06,980 --> 00:44:10,860
 They did pick up a few more bumps and bruises last week at South Carolina.

781
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:16,100
 Deshaun Bishop, their star running back, being one of them, left that game briefly

782
00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:21,080
 and had Javen Gordon in to replace him for a key stretch in that game,

783
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,620
 including that failed fourth down play where he was the running back that was kind of the decoy

784
00:44:25,620 --> 00:44:27,180
 that went off to the side on that play.

785
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,940
 So, you know, Bishop banged up.

786
00:44:30,020 --> 00:44:33,160
 Sounds like he'll be fine for next week, but certainly could use the rest,

787
00:44:33,220 --> 00:44:36,560
 especially after the heavy workload he's gotten in the past four games.

788
00:44:36,660 --> 00:44:38,520
 He's had 30-plus carries in some games.

789
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:42,680
 They also lost one of their starting linemen, offensive linemen, last week.

790
00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:45,200
 Donovan Haslam was out of that game.

791
00:44:45,380 --> 00:44:49,100
 They had Nick Moore out for a stretch of that game as well, the starting left guard.

792
00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:51,660
 So, a little bit banged up now on the offensive line.

793
00:44:51,860 --> 00:44:56,640
 So, yeah, they had done a good job, aside from those six or seven season-ending injuries,

794
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:02,240
 of avoiding, you know, kind of the minor bumps and bruises that don't cause guys to miss the rest of the season.

795
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,840
 Now they've got a few more of those, like a lot of teams, eight consecutive games in eight weeks.

796
00:45:07,140 --> 00:45:09,200
 You're going to pick up some of those in SEC plays.

797
00:45:09,340 --> 00:45:15,040
 So, probably a good time for them to lick their wounds and coming off a loss as well, to regroup.

798
00:45:15,300 --> 00:45:17,260
 And like you said, get ready for a Kentucky team.

799
00:45:17,700 --> 00:45:19,140
 Now, this is crazy to think.

800
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:25,760
 I haven't looked back to confirm this, but this might be the first top ten matchup if the rankings fall just right.

801
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,580
 Tennessee would have to move up a little bit.

802
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:31,980
 But it has the potential to be the first top ten matchup in the history of that series.

803
00:45:31,980 --> 00:45:32,280
 I think you're right.

804
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:33,540
 It goes back more than 100 years.

805
00:45:33,820 --> 00:45:35,040
 So, it would be pretty remarkable.

806
00:45:35,260 --> 00:45:37,800
 But either way, there's going to be a ton at stake for both of those teams.

807
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,120
 Not a playoff elimination game, but Kentucky wins that one next week.

808
00:45:42,220 --> 00:45:43,000
 They're in great shape.

809
00:45:43,020 --> 00:45:43,360
 Absolutely.

810
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,760
 Tennessee has to win that one to stay in the playoff race.

811
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:46,920
 Right.

812
00:45:47,020 --> 00:45:48,300
 Catalan, go ball is 24-7.

813
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,240
 Let's talk about the balance of the season.

814
00:45:50,420 --> 00:45:54,560
 It looked like Tennessee was in the driver's seat, control your own destiny after the Alabama game.

815
00:45:54,620 --> 00:45:56,400
 And now, we've been talking about what it is.

816
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,280
 It's up to you.

817
00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:59,300
 You talked about the Kentucky game.

818
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,240
 You know, in the preseason, everybody says, it's going to be a tough stretch.

819
00:46:02,740 --> 00:46:06,240
 After they knock off Kentucky at home, they've got Texas A&M.

820
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,460
 My, oh, my, how that narrative has changed.

821
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,160
 You go on the road to College Station.

822
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,160
 And then, a very interesting close.

823
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:14,760
 Vanderbilt, of course, is the end.

824
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:15,960
 That's going to be in Nashville.

825
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:23,920
 But before that, you've got the mustard-bottle game with Lane Kiffin returning to Tennessee.

826
00:46:24,060 --> 00:46:26,660
 Your thoughts about the balance of the schedule for the Vols.

827
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:31,840
 Yeah, we knew from the start of the season that this was a back-loaded schedule for Tennessee.

828
00:46:32,020 --> 00:46:37,540
 And the only thing fortunate for them, I guess, is that Texas A&M game looks a little bit more winnable than it did at the start of the season.

829
00:46:38,140 --> 00:46:42,740
 But still, you've got to go on the road and win a tough place to play in the SEC.

830
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,720
 We'll see what A&M looks like by the time you get to that game.

831
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:49,440
 But it certainly looks like Tennessee's got a more realistic chance of winning that game.

832
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,300
 I thought that was one of their more likely losses going into the season.

833
00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:53,960
 I wouldn't say that now.

834
00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:02,800
 And if there's anything working in Tennessee's favor where, again, your backs to the wall now, you've probably got to win out down the stretch to have a good chance of making the playoff.

835
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:08,680
 They get the two toughest games left in their schedule probably at home in Kentucky and LSU.

836
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:17,980
 And as we've seen with the home-field advantage Tennessee can have, especially with it being a night game against Kentucky next weekend, the LSU game could be a night game as well.

837
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:23,060
 Those will be some pretty charged-up crowds that will give Tennessee a noticeable advantage in those games.

838
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:26,360
 So I still think this is kind of a flawed Tennessee team.

839
00:47:26,460 --> 00:47:28,920
 Their offense is still not producing a ton of points.

840
00:47:29,220 --> 00:47:31,540
 They've got to live with their defense in their run game.

841
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:36,080
 But if they keep playing the way they're capable of, there's no game left on their schedule.

842
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:36,920
 They can't win.

843
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:45,560
 So it's a difficult stretch, but the fact that they do play those two tough games at home gives them a manageable path where I wouldn't rule out they could win out.

844
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:49,160
 They've just got to play really well, and the margin for error is pretty slim with this team.

845
00:47:49,500 --> 00:47:57,080
 Well, I would also guess that the media welcomed the bye week, too, and particularly Ryan Callahan this weekend.

846
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,360
 Maybe get a chance to do a few things around the house, et cetera.

847
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:12,940
 A lot of things going on, basketball gets started next week, recruiting, baseball exhibition games going on, pre-game, post-game.

848
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,260
 It is going to be nice to get a break.

849
00:48:15,620 --> 00:48:17,880
 Where can we get an old line to get all the good stuff?

850
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,420
 Yeah, GoVols247.com.

851
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852
00:48:22,940 --> 00:48:27,740
 Got updates now on where Tennessee's coaches are recruiting ahead of the open date this weekend.

853
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:35,820
 So full coverage there and plenty more coming up throughout the weekend as we get ready to turn the page to this pivotal stretch run of Tennessee's schedule.

854
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,480
 So great time to check out GoVols247.com.

855
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,180
 Good luck with getting candy this weekend, okay, door-to-door.

856
00:48:42,380 --> 00:48:43,960
 Yeah, appreciate that.

857
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:44,780
 You're going to need it.

858
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,980
 Ryan Callahan, Higgins, GoVols247.

859
00:48:47,980 --> 00:48:51,140
 B.B., before we jump off, you brought up a good point, the head of the show.

860
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:53,200
 Good fortune for Milwaukee.

861
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:54,880
 They give inspiration to a lot of folks.

862
00:48:54,960 --> 00:49:02,880
 You realize, in terms of market size, Milwaukee is the smallest market in all of Major League Baseball, so congratulations.

863
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:09,940
 It shows you what happens when you put smart people in management and knows how to recognize talent and motivate and delegate.

864
00:49:10,220 --> 00:49:13,380
 Good fortunes for the Milwaukee Brewers World Series champs.

865
00:49:13,380 --> 00:49:15,660
 Yes, they did a tremendous job.

866
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,620
 They've got a great manager in Pent Murphy.

867
00:49:19,340 --> 00:49:30,520
 And what about the MVP, Harold Bugg, William Contreras, the bull, who Atlanta traded, which did not make Bill Shanks very happy.

868
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:31,740
 I can't win.

869
00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:38,360
 Eight of 21, four RBIs and threw out four attempted base runners.

870
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,680
 And also, congratulations to Tampa Bay.

871
00:49:41,820 --> 00:49:43,180
 They're a small market, too.

872
00:49:43,300 --> 00:49:43,700
 That's right.

873
00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:47,800
 You can win a World Series if you budget your money.

874
00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:48,960
 Way to go.

875
00:49:49,020 --> 00:49:51,120
 And know how to recognize talent and keep them happy.

876
00:49:51,260 --> 00:49:53,440
 Coming up, the next time, I'm going to be taking you all over the place.

877
00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:54,560
 How happy are Tide fans?

878
00:49:54,660 --> 00:49:55,880
 Ryan Feller on that.

879
00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:58,480
 Also going to be checking in with Mark McLeod, Token Gators.

880
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,820
 And KJ, Kevin Johnson says it's curtains on the regular season of the Forenside Falcons.

881
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:03,740
 More straight ahead.

882
00:50:03,820 --> 00:50:04,300
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886
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:22,080
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887
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,020
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888
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 has been pouring money into an independent candidate

1019
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 who is currently challenging state lawmaker Ernie Yarbrough

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 for his seat.

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 Yarbrough has been a strong proponent of school choice

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 and the National Education Association

1029
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 for influencing public schools with liberal ideology.

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 Yarbrough calls the NEA

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 a vile and evil organization

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 that is completely opposed to Christians,

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 Alabama, and American values.

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 House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter

1035
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 has announced his full support of Yarbrough

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 in this political race,

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 saying he looks forward to having Yarbrough

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 back in the House next year.

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 that will be coming to future Hyundai vehicles.

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 The Hyundai Manufacturing Plant in Montgomery

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 first started production in 2005.

1061
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 The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency

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 has graduated 44 new graduates

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 It's the Ravens at the Bills,

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 this Sunday on Sports USA.

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 93.9, the score weather.

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 Today's sunny with a high around 80.

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 and a high around 75.

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 Your weather from 93.9, the score.

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 Shoals, Decatur, Athens,

1132
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 and all of northwest Alabama

1133
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 and southern Tennessee.

1134
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 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM sports voice.

1135
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 The Boomo Bugg Show.

1136
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 Your exclusive inside track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

1138
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 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, the score.

1139
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,360
 Welcome back in hour two to the Boomo Bugg Show.

1140
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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Britt Beard.

1141
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 Thank you so much for giving us the ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1142
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 And speaking of rides, I want to head on down to the Sunshine State and say hello to Double M.

1143
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 Mark McLeod.

1144
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 He's the host of The Blitz with Mark McLeod and the Gator Blitz podcast.

1145
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 Mark, welcome in.

1146
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 How are you?

1147
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 Hey, doing well, Harold.

1148
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 Good to be on with you guys.

1149
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 Hey, Benny.

1150
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 You too.

1151
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 Mark, Brent and I want to know if we might get together and have a pickleball game Saturday about,

1152
01:00:03,500 --> 01:00:05,340
 say, starting at 3.30 Eastern time.

1153
01:00:05,380 --> 01:00:08,080
 Have you got anything on your agenda that might prevent that, Mark?

1154
01:00:08,540 --> 01:00:10,260
 I just can't make it, guys.

1155
01:00:10,340 --> 01:00:10,820
 I'm sorry.

1156
01:00:11,340 --> 01:00:13,340
 Hey, just a point, Mark.

1157
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:14,420
 What could be more important?

1158
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:16,480
 A wee little cocktail party.

1159
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:17,280
 There you go.

1160
01:00:17,340 --> 01:00:17,960
 A wee little cocktail party.

1161
01:00:17,980 --> 01:00:18,640
 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

1162
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:19,320
 Whoa.

1163
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,980
 Whatever happens to the world's largest outdoor cocktail party?

1164
01:00:23,980 --> 01:00:28,000
 Is it going to be the world's largest indoor cocktail party this weekend at the Dome?

1165
01:00:29,340 --> 01:00:30,180
 Well played.

1166
01:00:30,420 --> 01:00:31,220
 Well played, Harold.

1167
01:00:31,340 --> 01:00:32,360
 Yes, it is.

1168
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 You're right.

1169
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:34,320
 Yeah.

1170
01:00:34,740 --> 01:00:40,320
 And look, you know, go back 10 years ago, seven years, nobody saw this coming.

1171
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 You know, we're thinking, you know, Jacksonville's kind of hit or miss with a lot of miss as a pro football franchise.

1172
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 And let's face it, guys, they're in a college town.

1173
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 We all know it.

1174
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,700
 They're in a college town trying to make it work.

1175
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,860
 So, you know, I didn't see this happening, but here we are.

1176
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 We were going to be in Atlanta this year and then the following year down in Tampa.

1177
01:01:01,900 --> 01:01:04,060
 Let me ask you a couple of things.

1178
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 That's one starter at quarterback.

1179
01:01:06,020 --> 01:01:08,220
 I know nobody's mentioned that this week.

1180
01:01:08,220 --> 01:01:11,380
 Aaron, Aaron Philo, who's been hurt.

1181
01:01:11,540 --> 01:01:19,420
 I thought Tremell Jones played exceptionally well against Texas and something else that is easy to overlook.

1182
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:27,360
 Buster Faulkner was the offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech several times when Tech gave Georgia fits.

1183
01:01:27,820 --> 01:01:33,180
 They had an overtime game a couple years ago that, quite frankly, Georgia Tech should have won the game.

1184
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:37,100
 Now, again, he's got to have the horses to be able to do that.

1185
01:01:37,220 --> 01:01:40,420
 And Florida Steel still has a good roster.

1186
01:01:41,140 --> 01:01:42,300
 Who starts at quarterback?

1187
01:01:42,620 --> 01:01:45,920
 And how much of an impact will Buster Faulkner have on this game?

1188
01:01:47,640 --> 01:01:51,300
 Wow, huge, absolutely huge impact on this game.

1189
01:01:51,420 --> 01:01:53,200
 I've got to believe, Brett.

1190
01:01:53,260 --> 01:01:53,900
 I really do.

1191
01:01:54,120 --> 01:01:58,800
 And, you know, also the quarterback situation, I mean, he refused to answer it.

1192
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:05,740
 I mean, you know, John Summerall was asked in the Monday presser repeatedly about the quarterback situation, as you guys will expect.

1193
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,740
 And, no, he was not going to bite on it.

1194
01:02:11,060 --> 01:02:18,180
 And, you know, I think there's some, you know, I get it, but here's what we didn't know.

1195
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:20,760
 We didn't know Tremell Jones Jr. was banged up.

1196
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,180
 But he's on the list now, too.

1197
01:02:24,100 --> 01:02:30,680
 I'm sorry, Summerall explained that, look, he and Buster, they're going to have a decision to make.

1198
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:39,620
 But, obviously, he said he looks at Tremell Jones Jr. last week in practice during the bye week and said, you don't look exactly right.

1199
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:41,040
 You doing all right?

1200
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,180
 He said, no, sir.

1201
01:02:42,260 --> 01:02:45,920
 He goes, I'm a little, I got this going on with me, I got that going on with me.

1202
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:48,180
 So, he had to hit the training room as well.

1203
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,280
 Checking in with Mark McLeod.

1204
01:02:51,700 --> 01:02:54,360
 Mark, which Georgia team is going to show up?

1205
01:02:54,420 --> 01:02:57,400
 I mean, this is, you can't, this is just a fact straight up.

1206
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:02,440
 They've had seven, if you will, basically boo-boos over the last two games.

1207
01:03:02,660 --> 01:03:03,860
 Four against Alabama.

1208
01:03:04,100 --> 01:03:05,480
 Three against South Carolina.

1209
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:09,900
 The difference, they recovered every one of their boo-boos, all four of them against Alabama.

1210
01:03:10,060 --> 01:03:11,960
 We saw what happened in that game as far as an outcome.

1211
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,580
 From a Georgia perspective, not as lucky against Carolina.

1212
01:03:16,300 --> 01:03:22,560
 Your thoughts, you've got to believe, this Florida coaching staff says that may be one of the sheets in their armors right there,

1213
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:25,580
 is if we can force turnovers because they are prone to do it.

1214
01:03:26,420 --> 01:03:27,060
 Yeah, you're right.

1215
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:31,160
 Turnovers, and you know, when I was kind of digging into this game, Harold, a little bit,

1216
01:03:31,580 --> 01:03:35,720
 I started looking at how many times, when I went back and watched that Auburn-Georgia game,

1217
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:37,840
 good grief, how many times did they run up the middle?

1218
01:03:37,940 --> 01:03:41,040
 So, I went back to the report, and I looked, goodness gracious,

1219
01:03:41,740 --> 01:03:45,080
 Auburn gashed Georgia up the middle, which you wouldn't expect.

1220
01:03:45,540 --> 01:03:49,480
 Because, guys, I have not been impressed with that Auburn offensive line,

1221
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,260
 and, you know, they did, though.

1222
01:03:52,340 --> 01:03:59,420
 Byron Brown ran 15 of 21 carries, of the 21 carries that Auburn ran up the middle.

1223
01:03:59,540 --> 01:04:03,340
 21 times they went up the middle, got 138 yards against Georgia.

1224
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,660
 Of course, we noticed that they ran for 192 in the game.

1225
01:04:06,820 --> 01:04:10,820
 So, that was a significant part of the Auburn success was going up the middle, apparently,

1226
01:04:11,220 --> 01:04:12,420
 as I watched that game.

1227
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:17,380
 And particularly in the second quarter, I had a few good runs in the fourth quarter as well.

1228
01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:21,480
 But, in the second quarter, they really started gashing them in the middle.

1229
01:04:22,340 --> 01:04:23,080
 But, you're right.

1230
01:04:23,220 --> 01:04:27,380
 Also, Kirby talked about that, Harold, to your point, and talked about the turnovers.

1231
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,300
 And, look, guys, we've got to do a better job of taking care of the football.

1232
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:36,940
 He goes, this is something that no team in the SEC is able to go on and win.

1233
01:04:37,820 --> 01:04:41,860
 You're going to make it awfully tough on yourself if you are going to hope to win,

1234
01:04:41,940 --> 01:04:43,320
 if you're going to keep turning the ball over.

1235
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:48,040
 Mark, whoever the quarterback is going to be under center against Georgia,

1236
01:04:48,820 --> 01:04:54,660
 good news, Vernell Brown III practiced last week and looked, quote,

1237
01:04:54,740 --> 01:04:57,580
 normal after missing three games.

1238
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:02,100
 Mark, if he comes back and he's the Vernell Brown of old,

1239
01:05:02,220 --> 01:05:04,600
 that is a huge plus for the Gators.

1240
01:05:05,220 --> 01:05:06,220
 Spot on, Brett.

1241
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:07,080
 It really is.

1242
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:11,400
 Because, Brett, do you realize, you guys realize, this is the first game, maybe,

1243
01:05:11,580 --> 01:05:16,820
 that Vernell Brown III, Dallas Wilson, and Eric Singleton Jr.

1244
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:21,640
 actually line up for more than six minutes?

1245
01:05:22,100 --> 01:05:25,560
 Because in the first six minutes of the game of the season opener, when they did,

1246
01:05:25,980 --> 01:05:27,500
 Singleton went out with an ankle injury.

1247
01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,480
 So, they got a whole six minutes with him.

1248
01:05:30,820 --> 01:05:31,220
 Amazing.

1249
01:05:31,780 --> 01:05:32,960
 This will be the first time.

1250
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:34,980
 Yeah, that's a very important point.

1251
01:05:34,980 --> 01:05:38,460
 And whoever starts, be it Trammell Jones Jr., which I agree with your point.

1252
01:05:38,580 --> 01:05:39,720
 If it were me, I'd start him.

1253
01:05:40,060 --> 01:05:45,060
 I just think the offense, you know, first-time starter away from Florida in Austin, Texas,

1254
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,940
 and he seemed to grow in confidence throughout that game.

1255
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:52,620
 And I think a key point, guys, is what John Summerall told us in the postgame.

1256
01:05:53,260 --> 01:05:59,720
 He said, you know, in the second half, Florida had a big run by Trammell Jones over the left side

1257
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:01,180
 for a big first down.

1258
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,060
 I believe he picked up 11 on the play.

1259
01:06:03,420 --> 01:06:06,060
 But he told, he said, I went to him in the huddle.

1260
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:08,060
 We had a timeout call, and I went to him.

1261
01:06:08,100 --> 01:06:09,960
 I said, you know, they're going to be keying on ball.

1262
01:06:10,620 --> 01:06:13,340
 He goes, you need to take the ball, fake it.

1263
01:06:13,420 --> 01:06:15,940
 You need to take the ball, and you need to make that happen and make that run.

1264
01:06:15,940 --> 01:06:16,300
 There you go.

1265
01:06:16,380 --> 01:06:16,860
 And he did.

1266
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:22,920
 And, guys, I think that's huge for a coach, for a first-time starter, a kid who, you know,

1267
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,260
 by that point, they had done a few good things, but he had made a lot of mistakes.

1268
01:06:26,940 --> 01:06:29,500
 And to give that kid that confidence, and the kid did it,

1269
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:36,160
 and then he made a beautiful throw later in the game on a 15-yard out to Dallas Wilson

1270
01:06:36,160 --> 01:06:41,800
 that was with phenomenal coverage by Jelani McDonald, the All-American from Texas.

1271
01:06:42,300 --> 01:06:46,640
 So, I mean, you could just see that kid's confidence grow throughout the game, Brett,

1272
01:06:46,700 --> 01:06:48,840
 and I think that's kind of what you alluded to earlier.

1273
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:51,260
 Mark McLeod in the huddle with us.

1274
01:06:51,300 --> 01:06:52,200
 You mentioned first.

1275
01:06:52,500 --> 01:06:56,240
 Let's talk about the chess masters here, the brain trust.

1276
01:06:56,400 --> 01:07:02,120
 You got first-year coach John Somerol, full of moxie against the old grizzly veteran by now,

1277
01:07:02,260 --> 01:07:04,940
 Kirby Smart, dean of the class when it comes to coaches.

1278
01:07:05,580 --> 01:07:07,220
 Your thoughts about that matchup?

1279
01:07:07,460 --> 01:07:10,680
 Because sometimes Kirby's very good, taking nothing away from him,

1280
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:15,620
 but he has a tendency sometimes in games like this to maybe go in a different mode, if you will.

1281
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:17,800
 And I think Georgia fans say, why are you doing this?

1282
01:07:17,820 --> 01:07:18,640
 Just let it go.

1283
01:07:19,100 --> 01:07:23,840
 Your thoughts about basically a guy that could be cast in one of those old westerns,

1284
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:26,740
 Somerol has to shoot from the hip and do the wild, wild west thing.

1285
01:07:26,820 --> 01:07:28,460
 He's already proven he can do it on the road.

1286
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:30,480
 Your thoughts about the coaching matchup?

1287
01:07:31,420 --> 01:07:33,280
 Yeah, that's a very interesting take, isn't it?

1288
01:07:33,620 --> 01:07:36,060
 And, of course, as you guys mentioned, Buster Faulkner earlier.

1289
01:07:36,260 --> 01:07:38,500
 Yeah, of course, Faulkner was under Kirby at Georgia.

1290
01:07:38,500 --> 01:07:41,300
 He was a goal coach on that offensive team.

1291
01:07:41,300 --> 01:07:46,060
 And Kirby said in his Monday pressure, Tuesday pressure, whenever Georgia does it,

1292
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:50,540
 he said, you know, he goes, Buster Faulkner is one of my really good friends.

1293
01:07:50,660 --> 01:07:51,680
 He goes, I'm good friends with him.

1294
01:07:51,940 --> 01:07:54,300
 I think the guy's a phenomenal offensive coordinator.

1295
01:07:54,680 --> 01:08:00,380
 He will design some things and do some things and really try to get you going one way,

1296
01:08:00,460 --> 01:08:02,240
 and then he's going to go another way with the ball.

1297
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:05,640
 He goes, he just really has a lot, ton of respect for Buster.

1298
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:07,720
 So, to your point, Harold, there you go.

1299
01:08:07,820 --> 01:08:09,100
 And you talk about Somerol.

1300
01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:11,120
 Isn't he the wild card in all this?

1301
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:12,480
 Sure he is.

1302
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:13,580
 You don't know what to expect.

1303
01:08:14,060 --> 01:08:14,420
 Yeah.

1304
01:08:14,780 --> 01:08:16,240
 As far as a couple, a box of chocolates.

1305
01:08:17,780 --> 01:08:18,180
 Exactly.

1306
01:08:18,580 --> 01:08:22,120
 And, Harold, what he said on Monday was very interesting.

1307
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:23,340
 I know Brett will find it interesting.

1308
01:08:24,480 --> 01:08:29,240
 Somerol said, you know, during the bye week, I went back and I started looking more at Kirby Smart

1309
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:30,980
 and what he does and what he likes to do.

1310
01:08:31,020 --> 01:08:34,540
 I started really digging into his roster and how he does things.

1311
01:08:35,100 --> 01:08:37,860
 And he goes, he manages that roster so well.

1312
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:38,480
 He does.

1313
01:08:38,480 --> 01:08:41,160
 He talks about his use of a transfer portal, his use in recruiting.

1314
01:08:41,360 --> 01:08:44,240
 The fact that they don't lose a lot of key guys.

1315
01:08:44,420 --> 01:08:45,880
 They just don't under him.

1316
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:48,800
 And he said, we very much want to build our roster that way.

1317
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:49,340
 But you're right.

1318
01:08:49,420 --> 01:08:52,000
 He really had a lot of praise for Kirby.

1319
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:56,820
 And, you know, I think that's going to be a phenomenal matchup because you've got two coaches

1320
01:08:56,820 --> 01:09:02,420
 that it's a capital P in physical when they want their teams to step on the field.

1321
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,760
 You had a great article earlier this week.

1322
01:09:04,860 --> 01:09:06,520
 I sent it out to some of my folks.

1323
01:09:06,900 --> 01:09:08,060
 Takeaways and turnovers.

1324
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,300
 You want to know why Kentucky's number nine in the nation?

1325
01:09:11,300 --> 01:09:13,700
 They have 18 takeaways.

1326
01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,540
 They've only turned the ball over five times.

1327
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:17,880
 That's a plus 13.

1328
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:23,740
 They're third in the nation in takeaway turnovers.

1329
01:09:24,020 --> 01:09:30,140
 Mincy, their quarterback, who transferred from Notre Dame, he's thrown one interception the entire season.

1330
01:09:30,700 --> 01:09:33,260
 No wonder they're number nine in the nation.

1331
01:09:33,460 --> 01:09:36,060
 Missouri only has four turnovers.

1332
01:09:36,860 --> 01:09:38,700
 Alabama's got 12 interceptions.

1333
01:09:38,700 --> 01:09:40,360
 Five they've taken to the house.

1334
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:42,900
 Nineteen turnovers, which leads the SEC.

1335
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:45,480
 That was an eye-opening.

1336
01:09:45,940 --> 01:09:54,640
 If you want to know why teams are successful, look at the plus-minus turnovers, and you can figure some of it out.

1337
01:09:54,980 --> 01:09:56,020
 You really can.

1338
01:09:56,260 --> 01:09:57,080
 Yeah, you really can.

1339
01:09:57,380 --> 01:10:00,260
 And kind of a thorn in Gators, the Gators side.

1340
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:07,500
 Brett, is the fact that Jordan Castell is one of the top safeties in the SEC right now over at Kentucky.

1341
01:10:08,220 --> 01:10:11,940
 And he and Ty Bryant had five picks in the last two games.

1342
01:10:12,300 --> 01:10:13,060
 Five picks.

1343
01:10:13,580 --> 01:10:17,960
 And Castell, he was on my mid-season LACC team.

1344
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:23,160
 Saturday down south had him on theirs, and he played for the Gators for three years before leaving this year.

1345
01:10:23,780 --> 01:10:25,040
 And then, of course, you've got Alabama.

1346
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:30,900
 And Alabama, Ty, because, goodness gracious, with the Alabama defense, they're just gobbling up turnovers.

1347
01:10:31,340 --> 01:10:33,020
 And they're turning him into touchdowns.

1348
01:10:33,100 --> 01:10:34,460
 And you look at what they're doing there.

1349
01:10:34,660 --> 01:10:39,820
 If they could stop turning the ball over, I think that would certainly help Alabama, as well as a few other things.

1350
01:10:41,260 --> 01:10:43,140
 I like that observation, Mark.

1351
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:44,060
 Let me ask you this.

1352
01:10:44,460 --> 01:10:48,140
 Who wins Saturday in this neutral site game?

1353
01:10:48,980 --> 01:10:51,600
 Well, you know, Harold, I'm doing my preview right now.

1354
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:54,840
 I'm wrapping it up on the Florida-Georgia game so we can post it in a few minutes.

1355
01:10:55,060 --> 01:11:00,500
 But, you know, one of the interesting things I found was, guys, we've had a lot of three-point games in recent weeks.

1356
01:11:00,980 --> 01:11:08,940
 You know, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, and last week, South Carolina, Tennessee.

1357
01:11:09,480 --> 01:11:13,940
 So I'm sitting here saying, I would love to see another three-point game between these two teams.

1358
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:18,060
 But, you know, I think the Florida quarterback situation is dicey.

1359
01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:20,820
 But both have been starting with the first and second unit.

1360
01:11:21,060 --> 01:11:21,900
 Both have taken time.

1361
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:24,160
 So I've got to believe they're going to be just fine.

1362
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:25,680
 But we'll have to see.

1363
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,660
 And, look, I think Georgia's a beat-up football team as well.

1364
01:11:28,780 --> 01:11:29,660
 They're often beat up.

1365
01:11:29,900 --> 01:11:32,160
 So this bye week couldn't have come at a better time.

1366
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,340
 I think Georgia should get the win.

1367
01:11:34,820 --> 01:11:35,540
 They should be angry.

1368
01:11:35,700 --> 01:11:39,480
 I mean, Kirby hasn't lost back-to-back game since 2016, his first year.

1369
01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:39,780
 Wow.

1370
01:11:40,340 --> 01:11:40,940
 Ten years.

1371
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:43,680
 I'll give it to Georgia on this one, Harold.

1372
01:11:43,820 --> 01:11:46,640
 But I think Florida can keep it somewhat close.

1373
01:11:47,140 --> 01:11:52,620
 By the way, Mark, don't try to tell me that the Mercedes Dome is a neutral site for Georgia.

1374
01:11:53,180 --> 01:11:55,800
 That's one of the biggest crocs in football.

1375
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,760
 I've seen about six Alabama-Georgia games there.

1376
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:02,760
 And it's about 75-25 Georgia.

1377
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:04,120
 Go, Doc.

1378
01:12:04,340 --> 01:12:06,380
 As far as the crowd is concerned.

1379
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:08,760
 That's one of the biggest crocs in football.

1380
01:12:10,100 --> 01:12:11,280
 Great stuff, my friend.

1381
01:12:11,440 --> 01:12:13,860
 Where can we get online and get all the great stuff?

1382
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:17,620
 Yeah, well, they sent out the email earlier this week and said it was 50-50.

1383
01:12:17,780 --> 01:12:19,060
 Oh, give me a break.

1384
01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:27,120
 Yeah, at blitzsportsradio.com and on Twitter, on X-whatever, at McLeodLive, M-C-L-E-O-D-Live.

1385
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:32,700
 Well, speaking of crocs, I got a feeling, Mark, you hope your crocs come out on top of that neutral site game this weekend.

1386
01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:35,900
 Good luck if you're heading up and back home.

1387
01:12:35,980 --> 01:12:36,860
 Thanks so much, my friend.

1388
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:38,060
 Thank you, guys.

1389
01:12:38,180 --> 01:12:38,720
 Thank you, buddy.

1390
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,180
 WL, Mark McLeod, the blitz with Mark McLeod.

1391
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,080
 KJ, getting ready for the call later on tonight.

1392
01:12:45,140 --> 01:12:46,120
 You're on 93-9.

1393
01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:47,260
 The score details next.

1394
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:47,700
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1395
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1401
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:26,180
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1402
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1403
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1404
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1405
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1406
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1407
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1408
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1409
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1410
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1411
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1412
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 The Florence Beautification Board invites you to a Florence holiday tradition.

1445
01:16:04,740 --> 01:16:09,340
 The North Court Street Tree Lighting will take place on Sunday, November 22nd at 5 p.m.

1446
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:14,620
 This festive evening will feature treats from U&A Culinary and joyful music from community carolers.

1447
01:16:14,860 --> 01:16:19,480
 Gather with family and friends as we light the tree and welcome in the holiday season to downtown Florence.

1448
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 That's the North Court Street Tree Lighting, November 22nd at 5 p.m.

1449
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 For board information or project details, visit the Beautification Board at the City of Florence page at FlorenceAL.org.

1450
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1451
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 First, at 9.30 a.m., there will be a Holy Communion service at Grace.

1482
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 Then at 3 p.m., at historic St. John's Episcopal Church in downtown Tuscumbia, there will be a service of evening prayer.

1483
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 Hey, it's Michelle Swalman, and coming up Friday, my Packers sit in last place in the NFC North, so what a loss to the Panthers mean it's time for everyone to panic in Green Bay?

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1485
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1486
01:19:09,300 --> 01:19:13,960
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1487
01:19:14,480 --> 01:19:15,380
 Welcome back, Ken.

1488
01:19:15,440 --> 01:19:23,480
 It is hard to believe to say this, but the end is near for the regular season in high school football for our neighbors throughout the entire North Alabama area, and for that matter, the state.

1489
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:30,620
 No one weeping more than K.J., Kevin Johnson getting ready for the call, the Florentide Falcons and Fort Payne Wildcats.

1490
01:19:30,740 --> 01:19:31,660
 Kevin, welcome in.

1491
01:19:31,740 --> 01:19:35,160
 Boy, I tell you what, when the Falcons take a road trip, they take a road trip, don't they?

1492
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:41,920
 I'm not sure if there's a team in the state of Alabama that has traveled more in the past five years than the Florence Falcons.

1493
01:19:42,340 --> 01:19:48,260
 They have taken a lot of road trips, and I've been with every one of them, so I would say we're in the top ten, that's for sure.

1494
01:19:49,260 --> 01:19:51,140
 Interesting road trip to Fort Payne.

1495
01:19:51,180 --> 01:19:51,980
 It is a trip.

1496
01:19:52,280 --> 01:20:02,800
 It's one of the most interesting places in the entire state of Alabama, and I go back every time I hear Fort Payne, people don't realize what a jewel, the number one fan over there is, and that's Randy Owen.

1497
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:03,860
 This is a true story.

1498
01:20:03,980 --> 01:20:14,800
 When his kids played ball, this is the guy who had 41 number one hits in country music, and every time he had a daughter named Miranda, that was her name.

1499
01:20:15,180 --> 01:20:16,160
 She played basketball.

1500
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,520
 Randy sometimes would get to the officials, and they didn't want to throw him out of the game,

1501
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:30,980
 but after every game, Randy Owens calling a station with a final score before the internet, it just tells you what that means to that town and what this football team means to this town.

1502
01:20:31,160 --> 01:20:33,320
 So, I know Florence High is looking at the record.

1503
01:20:33,420 --> 01:20:38,860
 A lot of folks are, but this is a proud program, a proud town, and I know Florence wants to go out on a high note.

1504
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:44,340
 Well, tonight, the whole goal is just not let Randy Owens' band play mountain music for Florence.

1505
01:20:44,340 --> 01:20:44,920
 That's right.

1506
01:20:45,600 --> 01:20:48,460
 And, you know, let's get that fight song for Florence to play a lot.

1507
01:20:48,660 --> 01:20:50,500
 It is a great place.

1508
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:52,000
 It's a great facility.

1509
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:52,960
 It is.

1510
01:20:53,100 --> 01:20:57,340
 You can see the mountains, look out mountain, sand mountain around the stadium, and it's just a really neat facility,

1511
01:20:57,620 --> 01:21:01,740
 and I think the folks from Florence are going to really enjoy tonight, and I've been there a couple of times.

1512
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:03,960
 It's been a while, but Fort Payne's a great, great place.

1513
01:21:04,340 --> 01:21:08,760
 It has great football for history, and so it'll be a tough game tonight, no matter the records.

1514
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,540
 Yeah, I think the record is deceiving.

1515
01:21:11,740 --> 01:21:14,760
 They've lost four games by less than the touchdown.

1516
01:21:15,700 --> 01:21:16,760
 Vincent is their quarterback.

1517
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,080
 Lane Vincent Boggs is their running back.

1518
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:26,460
 Chris Elmore has been there nine seasons, and I believe this is the first time they have missed the playoffs in 10 years.

1519
01:21:27,060 --> 01:21:30,240
 So, this may be their Super Bowl, so to speak.

1520
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,000
 I was looking at some of your talking points.

1521
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:34,600
 This is a defense.

1522
01:21:35,460 --> 01:21:43,240
 We talked a lot about the front seven, the linebackers, and the secondary, but when you know you can lean on a defense

1523
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:48,940
 that hasn't given up more than 21 points in a game all season, that's a good thing.

1524
01:21:49,740 --> 01:21:56,320
 It really is, this defense, and honestly, some of those 21 points, not all, but a couple of them were with backups in there,

1525
01:21:56,420 --> 01:22:03,000
 so getting a lot of kids some looks, but they've only surrendered really 21 points in two games that were really,

1526
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,060
 where they were starters in the whole time.

1527
01:22:05,460 --> 01:22:06,180
 And they play together.

1528
01:22:06,440 --> 01:22:07,480
 They love each other.

1529
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:10,200
 They play together, and they've grown, and they're a mature group.

1530
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,460
 It's a mature group, and I think that's part of it, too.

1531
01:22:13,900 --> 01:22:17,920
 And they have shown that they are definitely the centerpiece of this Falcons team.

1532
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:23,100
 Over the years, there have been times where Florence has had a good defense, or maybe even had a good offense,

1533
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:24,160
 but not in the same year.

1534
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:29,280
 But this year, I think Florence is well-versed, so they have a pretty good defense and a good offense as well.

1535
01:22:29,340 --> 01:22:31,080
 But that defense has definitely carried the load.

1536
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,480
 Kevin, obviously, you want to go out on a winning note for more reasons.

1537
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,960
 One, there's pride, but you also want to keep the momentum going into the playoffs.

1538
01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:40,920
 Talk to us about this team from that standpoint.

1539
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:46,860
 It's easy to sit here and take your foot off the pedal and lose that momentum just from an intangible standpoint,

1540
01:22:46,860 --> 01:22:49,460
 and how things are setting up heading into it.

1541
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:54,560
 First things first, I know they've got the game with the Wildcats, but also setting up for the playoffs.

1542
01:22:55,780 --> 01:22:57,660
 Well, first and foremost, you want to stay healthy.

1543
01:22:57,980 --> 01:23:01,200
 That's probably the biggest thing, is you want to stay healthy as much as possible.

1544
01:23:01,300 --> 01:23:03,680
 But the second thing is, I do think you want to send a little message.

1545
01:23:03,780 --> 01:23:04,540
 You want momentum.

1546
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,740
 You want your team to come out playing well, playing confident,

1547
01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:10,520
 and that does carry over in high school kids, especially.

1548
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:11,760
 It does with college and NFL.

1549
01:23:11,980 --> 01:23:13,200
 I know it does with high school for sure.

1550
01:23:13,700 --> 01:23:17,340
 And so if you get the confidence, then a lot of it's not just putting points on the board.

1551
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:21,280
 It's just being consistent, you know, taking care of the football, no penalties,

1552
01:23:21,700 --> 01:23:23,140
 just being who you're supposed to be.

1553
01:23:23,140 --> 01:23:28,600
 And I think this Florence team will do this, and they sense what they've got the potential to do.

1554
01:23:29,100 --> 01:23:31,700
 And Coach Kenny Marson is a veteran coach that understands that.

1555
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:33,120
 So I feel like they can do that.

1556
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:37,640
 But tonight's a good chance for them to do anything they need to do to clean up on all one

1557
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:38,820
 before they get ready for the playoffs.

1558
01:23:39,460 --> 01:23:42,940
 We have talked about a lot of positions, as I mentioned earlier.

1559
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:44,780
 But talk about tight ends.

1560
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,300
 In high school, it is severely overlooked.

1561
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,800
 You know, when the teams line up in 12 or 13 personnel

1562
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,240
 or they don't use their tight ends very much,

1563
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:59,040
 it is so critical to the success of an offense.

1564
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,780
 Well, Mitch Boyd is one of the tight ends that does a great job.

1565
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:06,240
 He was an offensive lineman, moves a tight end just out of necessity.

1566
01:24:06,820 --> 01:24:08,380
 And then Kirkland Blank as well.

1567
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:10,080
 And I'll tell you a funny story.

1568
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,940
 Kirkland Blank got his first touchdown catch of the year last year.

1569
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:15,540
 And you know it's your year when things like this happen.

1570
01:24:15,660 --> 01:24:19,100
 But last week against Hartsell, it's fourth and 20.

1571
01:24:19,480 --> 01:24:22,620
 And our quarterback rolls out left and throws it towards the end zone.

1572
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:24,820
 And Kirkland Blank catches it at the two

1573
01:24:24,820 --> 01:24:26,860
 and walks into the end zone for his first touchdown.

1574
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:31,600
 Later to find out, though, that he was supposed to stay at the end and block,

1575
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:33,200
 and he didn't get the signal.

1576
01:24:33,740 --> 01:24:36,700
 And so the reason the quarterback had to scramble

1577
01:24:36,700 --> 01:24:39,140
 is because the kid he was supposed to block, he let go.

1578
01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:40,900
 And he ends up catching the pass.

1579
01:24:41,220 --> 01:24:44,400
 The story gets even better when the head coach talks to the quarterback

1580
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:47,820
 and he says, you know, the funny thing is, he said, I'll be honest with you,

1581
01:24:47,980 --> 01:24:49,100
 I wasn't throwing it to him.

1582
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:50,000
 It just slipped out of my hand.

1583
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:50,680
 Oh, my goodness.

1584
01:24:51,440 --> 01:24:53,420
 So that's when you know it's being your year.

1585
01:24:53,500 --> 01:24:54,200
 Yes, it is.

1586
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:56,060
 That's why you're 8-1 and chance to go 9-1.

1587
01:24:56,320 --> 01:25:01,060
 But those tie-ins, they're secret weapons on this Falcons team, no doubt about it.

1588
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:04,260
 It's like, too, when he took the big sack in the championship game with Georgia,

1589
01:25:04,340 --> 01:25:06,680
 he said it just gave me more room to work with to Nick.

1590
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:10,200
 I don't think that was the truthful, if you will, verdict of that.

1591
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:14,420
 But, Kevin, you've seen this program, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

1592
01:25:14,700 --> 01:25:17,520
 How special is this team to Kevin Johnson?

1593
01:25:18,860 --> 01:25:20,360
 Got a chance to be pretty special.

1594
01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:21,000
 Already are.

1595
01:25:21,220 --> 01:25:22,180
 I love their chemistry.

1596
01:25:22,500 --> 01:25:23,580
 I love the coaching staff.

1597
01:25:23,660 --> 01:25:25,620
 I think the coaching staff gets underrated, too.

1598
01:25:26,140 --> 01:25:28,320
 Coach Kenny Morrison's got veterans on this coaching staff,

1599
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:32,600
 but he's got some young coaches that really are going to be superstars, I think,

1600
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:34,180
 in the coaching field in the years to come.

1601
01:25:34,180 --> 01:25:36,400
 And I think it's great they're getting mentored by him.

1602
01:25:36,620 --> 01:25:41,020
 But I think the other thing is, is this team has a chance to make some noise.

1603
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,400
 They're going to have to bring their A game every week.

1604
01:25:44,700 --> 01:25:45,820
 And then we'll find out.

1605
01:25:45,880 --> 01:25:48,680
 We'll find out where they stand in competition as the weeks go by.

1606
01:25:48,780 --> 01:25:53,420
 But I think a deep run is very possible, and I think this team knows that.

1607
01:25:53,700 --> 01:25:56,920
 It's just the mentality, will they be able to pull that off, is the next question.

1608
01:25:57,220 --> 01:26:00,540
 Kevin, they've got to focus on Fort Payne, obviously, tonight.

1609
01:26:00,540 --> 01:26:05,680
 But right now, and again, a lot of these, the playoff seedings,

1610
01:26:05,940 --> 01:26:10,680
 some teams are still working on that, even though it's a non-region for most teams.

1611
01:26:11,320 --> 01:26:13,800
 Right now, first round of the playoffs for Florence,

1612
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:15,580
 they would host St. Clair.

1613
01:26:16,100 --> 01:26:17,240
 They're 5-4.

1614
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:18,660
 Is that correct?

1615
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:21,280
 In two weeks, Florence would host St. Clair County?

1616
01:26:22,100 --> 01:26:23,700
 Yes, they'll play St. Clair County.

1617
01:26:24,220 --> 01:26:26,440
 The Saints will come marching into Brawley Stadium.

1618
01:26:27,100 --> 01:26:28,580
 And so it'll be a fun game.

1619
01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:30,040
 First time these two have ever met.

1620
01:26:30,480 --> 01:26:32,900
 They end up being the fourth seed, Florence the one seed.

1621
01:26:33,300 --> 01:26:34,200
 And that's a tough region.

1622
01:26:34,380 --> 01:26:37,660
 I mean, any time you're in Clay, Chalkville region, Oxford, Pell City,

1623
01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:38,920
 I mean, they've played a good team.

1624
01:26:39,100 --> 01:26:41,500
 So they're not going to be big guys playing Florence.

1625
01:26:41,580 --> 01:26:43,200
 It'll be a tough first-round game.

1626
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,500
 And Florence will have to bring their best.

1627
01:26:45,500 --> 01:26:48,480
 This is a team that took Pell City to double overtime.

1628
01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:50,020
 And Pell City is a really good team.

1629
01:26:50,280 --> 01:26:52,220
 So St. Clair County can really play.

1630
01:26:52,620 --> 01:26:54,140
 But I expect the home field to help.

1631
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:56,780
 I think the home field will be a big part of it.

1632
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,160
 And I think this Falcons team is ready to make things happen.

1633
01:26:59,580 --> 01:27:02,880
 Yeah, most of the shows is traveling to Oxford in the first round.

1634
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:06,160
 Yeah, that's quite a region.

1635
01:27:08,020 --> 01:27:12,920
 Pre-game kickoff, I know the coach's breakfast is done for the year.

1636
01:27:13,580 --> 01:27:15,180
 But it's a Thursday night game.

1637
01:27:15,240 --> 01:27:20,020
 A lot of games being played tonight give everybody a lot of teams that extra day

1638
01:27:20,020 --> 01:27:21,180
 leading the playoffs.

1639
01:27:21,440 --> 01:27:24,180
 Tell us about pre-game and kickoff.

1640
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,160
 Well, we're loading up the truck.

1641
01:27:26,240 --> 01:27:28,220
 My guys are loading up as I talk to you right now.

1642
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:30,900
 So we're about to head out and excited about 6 o'clock.

1643
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,700
 The TNT fireworks pre-game, 7 o'clock kickoff from Wildcats Stadium, Fort Wayne.

1644
01:27:35,220 --> 01:27:37,560
 And just so thankful for these guys and all my crew.

1645
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:39,320
 This crew's been together 10 years.

1646
01:27:39,460 --> 01:27:40,880
 That's Jeffrey Jones on the sideline.

1647
01:27:41,260 --> 01:27:43,020
 John McDaniels, our statistician.

1648
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:45,300
 And Mike Albertson's been with me forever and ever, it seems like.

1649
01:27:45,660 --> 01:27:47,100
 So it's a great crew.

1650
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,000
 We get compliments a lot of times.

1651
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:52,240
 But the reason we really enjoy it, I think that's one thing.

1652
01:27:52,300 --> 01:27:55,680
 But the compliments really go back to people like Greg Thornton, James Moody,

1653
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:57,860
 and others that are really carried behind the scenes.

1654
01:27:57,920 --> 01:27:58,680
 And we appreciate them.

1655
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:00,080
 So we're looking forward to a great game.

1656
01:28:00,580 --> 01:28:03,460
 And let's go down there and see if we can play some Dixieland delight.

1657
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:06,120
 Amen and amen.

1658
01:28:06,340 --> 01:28:08,400
 Safe travels to and from, KJ.

1659
01:28:08,500 --> 01:28:09,800
 We look forward to your call tonight.

1660
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:10,840
 Safe travels, my friend.

1661
01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:11,100
 Thank you, sir.

1662
01:28:11,440 --> 01:28:11,860
 Thank you, bud.

1663
01:28:11,860 --> 01:28:12,320
 Thank you, guys.

1664
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 If you're looking at your original schedule, it says tomorrow night for this game.

1665
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1666
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1667
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1668
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 Coming up, what's the moves out in Tiantown?

1669
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1670
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1671
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1676
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1677
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1711
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1712
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1713
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1717
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1718
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1723
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1725
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1790
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1791
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1792
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1793
01:33:28,340 --> 01:33:29,460
 In college football tonight,

1794
01:33:29,540 --> 01:33:31,000
 Troy is set to play on the road

1795
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:31,840
 to James Madison.

1796
01:33:31,980 --> 01:33:33,960
 The Trojans are 3-4 on the year 1-2

1797
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 in the Sun Belt.

1798
01:33:34,660 --> 01:33:36,560
 James Madison is 7-1.

1799
01:33:36,900 --> 01:33:38,460
 On Saturday, Auburn's on the road

1800
01:33:38,460 --> 01:33:40,220
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1801
01:33:40,300 --> 01:33:42,860
 The Tigers 4-3 on the year 2-3 in the SEC.

1802
01:33:43,460 --> 01:33:45,140
 Ole Miss 3-2 in the conference.

1803
01:33:45,540 --> 01:33:47,600
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1804
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:48,240
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1805
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 Jaguars are 4-3 on the year 2-1

1806
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1807
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 Saints are off on Sunday.

1808
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1809
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1810
01:33:56,620 --> 01:33:57,740
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1811
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1812
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1814
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1854
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1855
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1856
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 Ryan, welcome in.

1857
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 How's life, I would assume, all along the western front of the state of Alabama today?

1858
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1859
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 It's good.

1860
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 It's good.

1861
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1862
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 It's a bye week, and we're trying to, you know, still, I guess, spend a little time talking

1863
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1864
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1865
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 Yeah.

1866
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1867
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1868
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 And, you know, I know SEC is still continuing.

1869
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1870
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1871
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 Ryan, are fans fair to coaches now in the modern era, given the fact that it's, I mean, it's

1872
01:36:27,440 --> 01:36:29,480
 easy to sit here and say, well, he's not doing what Nick did.

1873
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:33,300
 The question, I guess, the other way of asking, could Nick do now what he did then if he had

1874
01:36:33,300 --> 01:36:37,680
 to play with the same rules that these coaches do now with a lot of, let's face it, prima

1875
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:42,160
 donnas, kids making money, more money than some of these assistant coaches on the South.

1876
01:36:42,340 --> 01:36:43,360
 They're 18, they're 22.

1877
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:44,680
 They got chicks digging them.

1878
01:36:44,840 --> 01:36:47,320
 Your thoughts just about, you mentioned college football.

1879
01:36:47,440 --> 01:36:49,100
 It's a different world than what Nick left.

1880
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:51,820
 I think it's why he left.

1881
01:36:52,660 --> 01:36:54,700
 I think he saw this coming.

1882
01:36:54,880 --> 01:37:01,720
 You know, if Nick Saban, no doubt he was a national championship caliber coach.

1883
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:08,340
 But one of the things that I always laughed at is I'd be in a room and he would say something

1884
01:37:08,340 --> 01:37:11,060
 and he would grab my attention of looking ahead.

1885
01:37:11,060 --> 01:37:17,500
 He could see, you know, the car rounding the corner way out there when most of us took it

1886
01:37:17,500 --> 01:37:23,800
 a little bit closer to see and we were trying to, he could, he could see it and he would predict

1887
01:37:23,800 --> 01:37:25,440
 things that would happen.

1888
01:37:25,540 --> 01:37:27,620
 That world would change around college football.

1889
01:37:27,760 --> 01:37:31,820
 Sometimes I'd sit in the front room and I'd be like, okay, what's he really saying here?

1890
01:37:32,300 --> 01:37:36,820
 Well then three or four years later, you're like, he told us then that it was going to happen.

1891
01:37:37,020 --> 01:37:40,020
 I think he saw this, this ball rolling down a hill.

1892
01:37:40,020 --> 01:37:47,120
 And many of the things that he coached with and used as a part of, you know, quote, the process,

1893
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:50,480
 he, it was going away.

1894
01:37:51,020 --> 01:37:58,940
 Whether we're talking about, you know, the incentives to be able to, you know, to get to the NFL

1895
01:37:58,940 --> 01:38:04,860
 was the big carrot that he would dangle out in front of their face and say, guys, if you show up

1896
01:38:04,860 --> 01:38:09,740
 and do this and this and this and this, then I'm going to get you here.

1897
01:38:10,300 --> 01:38:13,120
 Well, the problem is now is you've already got that.

1898
01:38:13,340 --> 01:38:17,480
 I mean, a lot of these guys have already seen more money than they've ever seen.

1899
01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:22,920
 And someone, you know, never had this much, but you, I mean, think about an average job in the

1900
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:31,140
 state of Alabama, many average jobs make seven or $800,000 a year doing anything.

1901
01:38:31,140 --> 01:38:36,440
 I mean, there's not many that's in this state that, that, I mean, you know, you can talk

1902
01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:37,760
 about your best trauma surgeon.

1903
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:41,240
 Well, he's, he's probably not making $800,000 a year.

1904
01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:43,460
 Well, you can, and you can do it playing football.

1905
01:38:44,980 --> 01:38:53,600
 And, and that to me, it has to lessen the motivation to, if, if, if you're, I mean, think

1906
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:58,820
 about us, if, if the first day of college, if we were given million dollars, would we have

1907
01:38:58,820 --> 01:39:06,500
 finished college or no, I mean, I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, we would have probably took

1908
01:39:06,500 --> 01:39:10,880
 our time, uh, probably wouldn't have been as motivated because the motivation was that

1909
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:13,380
 you wanted to earn, uh, a living.

1910
01:39:13,380 --> 01:39:15,560
 You wanted to be able to get to a certain level.

1911
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:18,800
 Well, many of these players, they've already arrived at that level.

1912
01:39:18,800 --> 01:39:20,920
 They've already driving the luxury vehicle.

1913
01:39:20,920 --> 01:39:26,220
 I mean, go around to these college campuses and look, I mean, heck, they've got necklaces

1914
01:39:26,220 --> 01:39:29,860
 on that are more expensive than any item that I own.

1915
01:39:30,380 --> 01:39:37,840
 I mean, maybe it's so the motivation is different and I don't think we're fair to coaches to go

1916
01:39:37,840 --> 01:39:39,320
 back and answer your original question.

1917
01:39:39,700 --> 01:39:42,260
 I think we've put a lofty expectation on them.

1918
01:39:42,260 --> 01:39:43,440
 And I did it yesterday.

1919
01:39:43,440 --> 01:39:48,720
 I, this was part of my show yesterday is how do you watch college football?

1920
01:39:48,940 --> 01:39:54,780
 Because we keep saying you should recalibrate, but then here comes Saturday and none of us

1921
01:39:54,780 --> 01:39:57,180
 really recalibrate, recalibrate.

1922
01:39:57,300 --> 01:40:00,120
 And we talk about it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

1923
01:40:00,260 --> 01:40:06,340
 But then when Saturday gets here, we spend all day griping and complaining, but college football

1924
01:40:06,340 --> 01:40:07,080
 has changed.

1925
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:12,760
 And I don't think it's ever going back, you know, I tell Alabama fans this often, your

1926
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:16,140
 record of 18 national titles, that is secure.

1927
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:21,700
 Most of the people that are living, you will die as Alabama, the king of college football

1928
01:40:21,700 --> 01:40:24,240
 because nobody's going to be able to catch it.

1929
01:40:24,500 --> 01:40:26,260
 And now it's just a big old job.

1930
01:40:26,380 --> 01:40:30,080
 I mean, whoever thought we'd be going to the last weekend of November, excuse me, of October.

1931
01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,040
 And you would literally have what?

1932
01:40:33,220 --> 01:40:36,860
 10 to 12 teams that have a chance to win a national title.

1933
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:43,660
 I mean, there's probably, what, how many teams that more than half have a chance at the

1934
01:40:43,660 --> 01:40:44,880
 playoffs in the SEC?

1935
01:40:45,300 --> 01:40:45,400
 Yeah.

1936
01:40:46,780 --> 01:40:50,760
 I mean, but it makes it, I'm sure, great for TV ratings.

1937
01:40:51,140 --> 01:40:52,180
 And it's very popular.

1938
01:40:53,220 --> 01:40:55,480
 You know, it engages other fan bases.

1939
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:57,320
 To your point, Ryan.

1940
01:40:57,440 --> 01:40:57,960
 Go ahead, Brett.

1941
01:40:58,040 --> 01:40:58,280
 Go ahead.

1942
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:02,540
 Let me ask you about the bye week, trying to get some of these guys well.

1943
01:41:02,740 --> 01:41:05,520
 Ryan, every team, and Harold, I talk about this.

1944
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:08,460
 Every team has injuries in mid-season.

1945
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:12,200
 But this team has had very significant injuries.

1946
01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:16,380
 Their starting left guard is out for probably another month.

1947
01:41:16,440 --> 01:41:22,460
 And Will Sanders, the starting center, the starting cornerback, the top receiver in Coleman Williams.

1948
01:41:23,260 --> 01:41:27,400
 The top two defensive tackles in Terrence Green and Desmond Zulu.

1949
01:41:28,060 --> 01:41:30,840
 Most dynamic running back in EJ Crowell.

1950
01:41:31,300 --> 01:41:35,240
 Red Morgan missed half the game because of targeting.

1951
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:39,060
 Yonsei Pierre has been beat up even though he's played.

1952
01:41:39,620 --> 01:41:42,600
 And, of course, Drake Kirkpatrick Jr. is dismissed.

1953
01:41:43,460 --> 01:41:48,500
 Will everybody but Will Sanders be available for LSU?

1954
01:41:49,440 --> 01:41:55,260
 I think that is a question that I don't know if Thursday coming, today was their final day of practice.

1955
01:41:55,800 --> 01:41:59,580
 And they're going to take a couple of days and try to get their legs back under them.

1956
01:42:00,860 --> 01:42:08,040
 I think that's a question that we probably will not know the answer for until this time next week.

1957
01:42:08,100 --> 01:42:15,820
 That, you know, it's probably, you know, I think Ryan Coleman Williams is a guy that you could probably bank on.

1958
01:42:16,660 --> 01:42:20,400
 That he's going to be, you know, headed in the right direction.

1959
01:42:21,520 --> 01:42:25,320
 Rayson Delgatti is a guy that I think is pacing.

1960
01:42:26,580 --> 01:42:30,120
 That he should be, you know, able to give it a go.

1961
01:42:30,120 --> 01:42:36,500
 And then when you look at, you know, Terrence Green is another one.

1962
01:42:36,580 --> 01:42:38,240
 As you said, William Sanders is going to be.

1963
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:39,960
 But, I mean, you look back at that injury list.

1964
01:42:41,740 --> 01:42:44,720
 I mean, this explains college football.

1965
01:42:45,060 --> 01:42:45,880
 It does, yeah.

1966
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:50,020
 Your guard goes to center and plays there.

1967
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,000
 Your left guard goes down.

1968
01:42:52,860 --> 01:42:57,360
 And then you have to replace him with a guy that you recruited as a center.

1969
01:42:57,460 --> 01:42:59,260
 Now, listen, they practiced him at guard.

1970
01:42:59,260 --> 01:43:02,200
 I mean, he didn't walk in there cold, but straight on.

1971
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:05,520
 If you'd asked me one month ago, I told you, man,

1972
01:43:05,540 --> 01:43:09,100
 it's going to be a long time before that young man hits the field.

1973
01:43:09,160 --> 01:43:11,280
 Because he was still progressing as a player, right?

1974
01:43:11,380 --> 01:43:13,160
 He wasn't where he needed to be.

1975
01:43:13,500 --> 01:43:17,200
 But he did come on in the last couple of weeks because probably he had to.

1976
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:18,700
 He started getting a lot of reps.

1977
01:43:19,540 --> 01:43:21,720
 And, you know, credit to him.

1978
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:23,640
 Because I thought he played well.

1979
01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:25,480
 But, I mean, that's the world that we live in.

1980
01:43:25,480 --> 01:43:29,680
 And you've got to have a – and you say the next man up.

1981
01:43:29,760 --> 01:43:34,020
 But it's not the next man of, hey, there's another five-star here that we have to play.

1982
01:43:34,220 --> 01:43:34,360
 Thank you.

1983
01:43:34,360 --> 01:43:35,040
 Play him on in.

1984
01:43:35,380 --> 01:43:40,000
 No, I mean, he may be a guy that you didn't expect to make a contribution because of injuries.

1985
01:43:40,340 --> 01:43:41,140
 But it's happening.

1986
01:43:41,760 --> 01:43:44,240
 Look at the injury report that we get from the SEC.

1987
01:43:45,100 --> 01:43:49,980
 You know, go to the SEC availability page and you just look at it.

1988
01:43:50,060 --> 01:43:57,020
 I mean, it looks like – listen, I've said it, the playoffs, I mean, they need to be presented by, like, the Walking Dead or something.

1989
01:43:57,320 --> 01:44:00,180
 I mean, it's – I mean, think about what we get to the playoffs.

1990
01:44:00,660 --> 01:44:06,440
 And, I mean, it's – and I know that coaches manipulate these failability.

1991
01:44:06,560 --> 01:44:07,360
 I get that.

1992
01:44:08,020 --> 01:44:12,500
 When they put a lot of guys on the, you know, probable and questionable side of things.

1993
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:17,700
 But the world that we know of of college football, I mean, it is full of injuries.

1994
01:44:18,240 --> 01:44:23,820
 And I just wonder when we add these 24, you say, well, it's only – it's only a couple of more games.

1995
01:44:24,180 --> 01:44:25,720
 Well, it's only a couple of more games.

1996
01:44:25,720 --> 01:44:31,660
 But we never went through this with the depth issues that you have in college football.

1997
01:44:32,760 --> 01:44:33,700
 It's called money.

1998
01:44:33,880 --> 01:44:37,700
 I mean, to illustrate your point, what happened when Waddle went down against Tennessee?

1999
01:44:38,540 --> 01:44:40,980
 They brought in this kid named Devontae Smith, and what happened?

2000
01:44:41,040 --> 01:44:41,940
 He won the Heisman.

2001
01:44:42,100 --> 01:44:44,220
 And that's another reason why Nick saw this.

2002
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:47,020
 To win, you've got to have the best coaches, and you've got to have depth.

2003
01:44:47,100 --> 01:44:49,140
 And I think that goes back to our original point.

2004
01:44:49,620 --> 01:44:52,860
 But, Ryan, be that as it may, you can make all the excuses in the world.

2005
01:44:52,860 --> 01:44:56,320
 And to your point, on game day, fans, forget all about it.

2006
01:44:56,720 --> 01:44:58,480
 You've got to win in spite of it.

2007
01:44:58,540 --> 01:45:00,680
 Your thoughts about the matchup with LSU?

2008
01:45:00,820 --> 01:45:01,740
 What is your gut tell you now?

2009
01:45:01,800 --> 01:45:03,860
 We'll talk about it, obviously, more in earnest next week.

2010
01:45:04,260 --> 01:45:05,420
 But a couple of things.

2011
01:45:05,700 --> 01:45:09,820
 Will they go to a more manageable game for Russell to keep that defense off of him?

2012
01:45:10,260 --> 01:45:14,100
 And will the defense stop being the Red Cross and give them these soft patterns?

2013
01:45:14,180 --> 01:45:17,200
 Because you know Lane is a master of mismatches.

2014
01:45:17,220 --> 01:45:20,880
 You know the name Dejan Lee is on his mind.

2015
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:23,940
 And your thoughts, the early thoughts about the game with LSU?

2016
01:45:25,100 --> 01:45:28,200
 I mean, Alabama is going to have to play their best football.

2017
01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:29,700
 But to me, it goes down.

2018
01:45:30,100 --> 01:45:32,200
 It definitely goes down to the defense.

2019
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:36,960
 And I think you look at it there, but you also look at Keelan Russell.

2020
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:39,120
 He's got to go to Baton Rouge.

2021
01:45:40,080 --> 01:45:42,380
 And you say, Greg, thank you.

2022
01:45:42,420 --> 01:45:44,140
 I know we pick on him a lot in Tuscaloosa.

2023
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:47,880
 But I know Lane Kiffin was upset about the 2.30 game.

2024
01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:49,120
 He was disappointed.

2025
01:45:50,340 --> 01:45:55,960
 You know, it's an advantage for Alabama to play at 2.30 and not in the evening.

2026
01:45:56,180 --> 01:45:59,340
 I mean, look, there's nobody in Tuscaloosa upset that they've got to play at 2.30.

2027
01:46:00,440 --> 01:46:06,680
 But Keelan Russell's got to go down to Baton Rouge, the game of his life, and play out of his mind.

2028
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:15,960
 Because, really, if you think about the road game so far, Mississippi State was okay, but they ran the football to take pressure off of him, which is good.

2029
01:46:16,040 --> 01:46:16,800
 They need to do that.

2030
01:46:17,580 --> 01:46:22,960
 But Tennessee, Kentucky, he did not get off to a good start.

2031
01:46:23,380 --> 01:46:26,120
 And, you know, if you look at Tennessee, he really didn't have a good game overall.

2032
01:46:26,480 --> 01:46:28,620
 But getting off to a good start is going to be key.

2033
01:46:29,280 --> 01:46:31,820
 Because that stadium down there, it's crazy.

2034
01:46:32,180 --> 01:46:36,060
 You know, I mean, you know, the stadium is loud, and rightfully so.

2035
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:39,820
 But, man, you go down there and give those guys some confidence.

2036
01:46:40,420 --> 01:46:48,280
 And Lane Kiffin, you almost wonder, if given the opportunity, and listen, I expect that it's going to be a very competitive game.

2037
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:51,360
 I think it's going to be, you know, it's going to be a one-score possession.

2038
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:57,480
 But if he's given the opportunity, he's probably going to try to run it up as much as he possibly can in Alabama.

2039
01:46:58,040 --> 01:46:59,680
 Because this is his dream job.

2040
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:00,820
 He wanted this job.

2041
01:47:01,320 --> 01:47:07,060
 And I'm sure in his eyes, you know, he looks at Kayla DeBoer going, man, he got the opportunity, and I did not.

2042
01:47:07,400 --> 01:47:08,320
 Didn't get the phone call.

2043
01:47:08,440 --> 01:47:09,260
 Kayla DeBoer did.

2044
01:47:09,620 --> 01:47:11,020
 I'm going to show Greg Byrne.

2045
01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:14,460
 And, look, there was no way Lane Kiffin was ever going to be hired in the U.S.

2046
01:47:14,460 --> 01:47:15,520
 No way.

2047
01:47:15,820 --> 01:47:16,160
 No way.

2048
01:47:16,660 --> 01:47:19,020
 But in his eyes, I'm sure he thinks that way.

2049
01:47:19,740 --> 01:47:24,300
 Yeah, he burned that bridge a long time ago when he was the offensive coordinator.

2050
01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:31,540
 Everybody, including the media, Ryan Fowler, look forward to a bye weekend.

2051
01:47:32,380 --> 01:47:36,720
 Who have you got on the show today, and where can we get online and listen?

2052
01:47:37,900 --> 01:47:39,460
 Well, we're going to go down to Baton Rouge.

2053
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,160
 We've got Matt Muscona coming up by 2.15.

2054
01:47:42,740 --> 01:47:45,680
 We've got our friend Rodney Orr, tighterinsider.com.

2055
01:47:45,680 --> 01:47:54,600
 We've got Bruce Marshall coming up, and we'll kick off a little parlay pick contest that we'll do every day, every Thursday, excuse me, every Friday.

2056
01:47:54,740 --> 01:47:57,400
 We'll kind of back that up, and we'll do Thursday and Friday this week.

2057
01:47:57,600 --> 01:48:01,920
 But, hey, always enjoy being on with you guys, and let's get through this five weeks.

2058
01:48:01,980 --> 01:48:04,600
 Let's enjoy some college football, a little stretch-free.

2059
01:48:04,760 --> 01:48:05,460
 Yes, it is.

2060
01:48:05,460 --> 01:48:09,420
 Lower the corner for this weekend.

2061
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:10,620
 You guys have a great weekend.

2062
01:48:10,660 --> 01:48:11,220
 You too, buddy.

2063
01:48:11,580 --> 01:48:12,840
 Ryan, thanks so much, buddy.

2064
01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:13,400
 You do the same.

2065
01:48:13,480 --> 01:48:16,960
 Ryan Fowler, host of the game, Tide 109 FM in T-Town.

2066
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:18,980
 BB, the final word goes to you.

2067
01:48:20,260 --> 01:48:26,740
 Yes, it is going to be an enjoyable weekend, and Bill Bender alluded to November the 7th.

2068
01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:40,660
 If you have not taken a look at the games, the slate of college football games for November the 7th, it will take your breath away because it, again, may be right.

2069
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:43,580
 It may be one of the greatest slates in the history of college football.

2070
01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:51,320
 But first, how about a little Florence Fort Payne action tonight right here on 93-9 to score pregame, kicking off around six.

2071
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:55,220
 The boys on the road, even as we speak, over to DeKalb County, Alabama.

2072
01:48:55,460 --> 01:48:59,420
 That's going to take care of us for now on behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

2073
01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:01,400
 Parole Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

2074
01:49:01,480 --> 01:49:06,080
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two, for the Bermode Buck Show back here on Sports Radio 93-9 to score.