Week 1 Reaction Show + Deion Magic & Ohio State Issues | Late Kick Live Ep. 424

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That according to MEMA, age is a go and it's just as true today as it was when she said it. Lake is live at a Sunday, September 3rd, the year of our Lord, 2023, we're jam packed, high atop and obviously sunburned, downtown Nashville, Tennessee, a little bit earlier. Start time for the live show tonight. We've got a little game between LSU and FSU coming up that we didn't want to overlap with. It's not the NFL after all. We don't want to interfere with actual college football. But plenty of it happened yesterday, friends. I was in Salt Lake City Thursday night. I came back here in time to go to Tennessee, Virginia yesterday, full week one reactions. Sunday nights, not that you should never miss a show, but Sunday nights are really the ones to lock in for because I don't know that we're going to have the most popular opinions on tonight's show. I find myself thinking some things about what we saw over the past 72 hours that it's safe to say is in the minority. I'm going to talk about Dion. I'm going to talk about Ohio State's offensive struggles. I'm going to talk about Bama looking really good. I'm going to talk about Georgia looking totally lethargic, got clowns everywhere to call out when it comes to the Ramanoodle Express, which contrary to popular belief, one money yesterday, like we made money, believe it or not, internet would tell you otherwise. We got coaches being questioned left and right. I've got to announce where we're going on the once upon a Saturday tour this Saturday. We're actually going to go to a game on Saturday this week. So yes, plenty of caffeine, plenty to talk about. And they're watching us in Conroe, Texas, Salisbury, Maryland, Cosby, Tennessee, Salt Lake City. You talk, can confirm great crowd out there, like a suspiciously great crowd. A ton of you guys gave a shout out. So we had posters in the stands at Rice Eccles Stadium. So I appreciate that. The week two schedule is on actual fire this week. It's amazing. We got all kinds of great matchups. We'll predict them all Tuesday night. We have got a lot to talk about though. That's a paper slammer. Let me do it again. Never done that before. Jesse Collins maybe will incorporate that into the show. We got four best bets also. Like I've already moved on four games. So man, we're loaded. Let's lock in. Okay. Where else would I start the show? I didn't see this coming two years ago, but where else would I start the show? Colorado beat TCU yesterday. Let me repeat that for those of you including myself who didn't necessarily think this is going to happen. Colorado hung 48 and they beat TCU yesterday. What they didn't do is beat the team that played for a national championship last year. That was one of the more ignorant statements floating around out there in the Twitter sphere, but I'll address that later. I got to talk about winners on this show first. It was interesting to be me watching this game yesterday because I'm someone who found himself a little bit conflicted. I thought TCU was not only going to win the game. I thought they'd run away with it. I said that like three or four times last week, I was really emphatic about it. Pretty embarrassing if you want me to be real, but that's football. Things happen. Crazy things have happened before and they'll happen again. So it's not getting the pick wrong. There's the problem. When they hired Deon at Colorado, I went so overboard and was so effusive in my excitement and praise of it and for it on this show that people started calling me a homer. People started accusing me of all sorts of things. Some people thought Deon was paying us. I don't know where the checks are. Maybe he will be. Maybe I need to check my Venmo. We hadn't got that yet. But anyway, so I'm all in on Deon Sanders and his vision for the program. I'm all in on what they did in the portal. This is me in the spring and summer. This was me talking. But I wasn't necessarily all in on this team this year being able to do stuff like they did yesterday. So I don't know if you would call it a head of schedule. Certainly from one week's perspective, they were a head of schedule. But it's like, I don't know. It's vision of future versus what I thought the here and now would be. So that's where there was a little bit of a disconnect for me yesterday. It's a funny thing when you choose what you want to have faith in in this sport. I'm not talking about out there in the real world in life. I just mean in football, it's very interesting because faith is the assurance of things hoped for. We remember Sunday school, right? The assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 111. And in a college football sense, there are things like, for example, North Carolina's run defense. I heard good things in fall camp. I chose to take a wait and see approach. I did not have faith in it. Well, I was wrong. We'll talk about that game later. With Deon Sanders, he preached about belief. They were very adamant. We're going to win this year. They were very adamant. We got the horses to do it this year. And I just had an entire lifetimes worth of watching college football and hopefully having good instincts from watching it working against me because nothing they're doing has ever been done to this degree. People have taken transfers before they haven't built a team of transfers and put it together and had it all gel and gone out and won immediately. They've never done that. No one has. So you had to have total blind faith and they did and it really doesn't matter who else believed in them. Like I've listened to Deon talk a lot about that really that matter. That matter of a soul outside that locker room believes in them. They believed. And so they got it done yesterday. Now here's what I could not help but continue to take away from watching them as they not only got the early lead but you knew the counter punch was coming from TCU and TCU landed several and then Colorado delivered right back. That's the kind of stuff probably that took a lot of people more by surprise than just some really good athletes making plays early on. Like we see the cattle prod approach all the time in college football. That's where they just kind of stun gun you to the neck and you're staggered and you're on the ropes. But eventually the deeper more seasoned veteran team responds and yesterday that would have looked like it did early and then TCU pulls away. That's what that would have looked like. Colorado never let it happen obviously. They never let it happen. Deon's got really good players out there. It's got really good coaches too. I think he's done a really good job of kind of sharing that praise and evening the butter out over the bread so to speak. He's always going to take a lot of credit. He should take a lot of credit. He deserves a lot of credit. But part of the credit he deserves is hiring guys like Sean Lewis, his offensive coordinator who was a head coach in the Mac and left to go be his OC. Charles Kelly was one of the most valuable pieces on Nick Sabin's staff. He left to go out there and be the DC. They got guys on their coaching roster who have been there before. They've done it. They've been around winners and not that that locker room full of kids lacks for confidence. But a lot of that locker room full of kids have not been on winners yet at the college level. The coaches have. Deon has as a player, the coaches have, in some cases that's players and coaches. So it was so glaringly apparent when you saw Colorado yesterday and you expected them to finally have the moment overcome them. The moment never overcame them. That stuff, quite frankly, as stuff sports writers love to talk a lot about, I don't think they even care. It never even phased them. Did you ever watch this game yesterday and say, uh oh, there it is. It's being turned up on them. Like the Travis Hunter really looked like he cared that, oh, I bet the viewership is up over three million households across the country on this game. Now, I'm getting a little nervous. Now I just did stuff like that, total alien play, complete alien play. He played like 140 plus snaps yesterday. Everyone's talking about fatigue, everyone's talking about how winded he is. Meanwhile, post game press conference. How do you feel? I could probably play again. I feel good. I feel pretty good. I'm going to suggest to you, the modern athlete is a little bit different in some cases. And there aren't really many others like him. I had a guy, I'd look it up if it wouldn't take me like two minutes. I had a guy friendly enough, come at me about two hours ago and say, why all the Travis Hunter hype? Like, all he did, and this is dead serious now, all he did was have a hundred yards receiving played both ways, had an interception and a pass break up. This is this dude not joking. He's talking to me seriously, and he said, aren't we over hyping him a little bit? Travis Hunter plays and starts and shines for every other college football program out there. And would be drafted very highly right now if he could go to the NFL. So no, we're not over hyping him. If you didn't watch this game yesterday and you've just heard the talk, everything they're saying about him is true. We did the whole show, hey, Otani comparison about a month ago. They put it on a YouTube short. That thing did more traffic yesterday than it did when we released it, Jesse, which goes to show you what Google was doing yesterday with his name. Look, I'm not going to compare him to show, hey, Otani after one game. I'm saying we are going to watch a player at the power five level attempt to and be equipped to do something that we don't really see. We don't see players play both ways at the major college level. We just don't see it. You know, it's, it's funny how there were wildly differing thoughts out there about how Dion acted when he came in. Everyone had an opinion of how Dion acted when he came in and should he treat those players like boys, college athletes, should he treat them like men or more like employees would be treated. And at the time, I said, look, you can't be in the modern area. You can't be in the NIL area. You can't be in the players rights era where they enjoy all the trimmings and trappings of adulthood, but also expect them to be treated like kids and amateurs when it's really not that anymore. And so I never had a problem with the tough love approach that he had when he walked in. He walked in and said, it's my time now. So if I sink or swim, I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to do it with my players. He flat out total locker room full of them. A lot of you are not going to be here in the fall. Come to grips with it. It's tough. I'm not saying it's pleasant, but that happens in the American workplace. And the powers that be, in many cases, have turned college football into that. And so that was their choice. One of the consequences is, it's very much like you saw Dion deal with it. That's how it is moving forward. So I didn't have a problem with that. Then we get into spring and then we get into summer and then fall and he's starting to talk to folks and look him in the eye and say, do you believe? And they're kind of skeptical. He says, okay, you don't believe. But you'll see soon. They win the game yesterday. Afterwards, he's looking a reporter in the eyes and says, do you believe now? And the reporter said whatever he said and he goes, oh, you still don't believe. Okay. I can tell you don't believe. And everyone had an opinion on it. Except me because I really couldn't care less. And you're going to hear me say that a lot about Dion Sanders. I guess it's the same that I view a lot of things through the prism of. I just know what he's hired to do. He's there to deliver. You cannot use a conventional approach to start off with at the University of Colorado and deliver. He is not conventional in any shape, form, or fashion. It's in your face. It's brash. I think he's a little more humble than anyone realizes where it's needed. But dealing with media is not where being humble is needed. I'll do respect because I'm over here. I talk behind a microphone. I don't call myself a journalist, but I'm part of that media infrastructure. You don't owe it to me to be humble around me. You don't owe it to a locker room or well, you owe it to your locker room to be completely different. You're accountable to your locker room. You're not really accountable to the local media or national media. I know that a lot of folks want people like Dion Sanders to bend a knee to him. I just don't care. I don't care. I don't even have to particularly love the way he goes about it. It doesn't matter what I think. It doesn't matter what anyone else in my profession thinks. I saw a lot of people have an issue with him and talk about how it's not the media's job to believe. You're right. You're free to do your job how you want to as well. It's just that I'm extending him the same courtesy. That's it. That's my take on that. Here's what happened yesterday. While everyone is watching Colorado look really good on the field, everyone yesterday's watching Colorado eventually beat TCU. Big upset, three touchdown underdog. Wow. They just lit a fire under TCU. No, friends, that's not really what happened. I know it's what happened on that given Saturday, once upon a Saturday. Some would say. Colorado, Deon Sanders in Colorado, didn't really beat TCU yesterday and didn't really put TCU in an uncomfortable position as much as they put many, many head coaches across America in an uncomfortable position. This was the talk. This was what was being texted to me left and right by agents, by some coaches brave enough to admit it. That was, oh man, this guy is showing people or he's going to show people at least what they'll think is possible everywhere now. Picture this, your Billy Napier at Florida, your Steve Sarkiesian at Texas. You are a coach that's a couple of years in at a well-restorced institution and you have not delivered to the degree they want and you've been preaching patience and you've been preaching how it can't get turned around overnight. Then all of a sudden, Deon Sanders walks in Colorado and does what he's doing. I have no idea what the rest of the season has in store. I have no idea, obviously because I didn't even know what yesterday had in store. There is a logical approach that says, okay, there's only one Deon Sanders and you certainly cannot expect that approach to be sustainable and duplicable at multiple institutions. That's your problem because that is logical. You're trying to apply logic to an illogical situation, fan bases who aren't getting a return on their emotional investment more than one year in, especially don't have time for that. It's going to create a mess. I would imagine the real Deon Sanders effect on the industry is going to be such that patience, which is already in short supply, will evaporate for a lot of guys because their fan bases and their boosters who aren't necessarily experts on the matter but who have pockets deep enough to have their opinion heard are going to look at this and say, I'm telling you this quote's coming, we need to find our Deon. You guys got a serial number on his back, one, one of one, that's how many of him there are out there. It won't matter. People are going to start saying, where's our Deon? Well, we need to go get a guy who can do what he's done. Good luck. Good luck. Another fair warning, I issue this every year about one or two teams, I'm going to issue it early about Colorado, recalibration of expectation is coming with this team. There is no doubt in my mind. There are people out there who said they won't win four games who are now going to recalibrate instead of admitting they're wrong and Colorado is going to lose by 13 to USC and that same person, even though they're in root to winning seven games maybe, is going to say, they couldn't even beat Oregon or USC. They didn't even beat UCLA or Oregon State. They didn't beat any of the top teams in the pack 12 and that person will just watch it happen. It's so seamless. It happens like you're not even supposed to notice it. Those people who are the biggest haters and the biggest doubters instead of ever admitting they're wrong. They just redefined the expectations mid season and then hate on you for not meeting their adjusted expectations. It happened with LSU last year. It happened with Michigan State two years ago. It'll probably happen with Colorado. So I'm not going to do that. I'm going to hold them to the same standard we had them in the preseason that over underwent total was three and a half. They are 25% of the way to hitting the over and they got Nebraska this week and that line opened around a field goal. So we'll see. I got a reminder that I need to deliver to you guys. I appreciate you being tuned in. I know it was an early start time tonight. So I know some people are going to tune in later and there's already going to be a replay of the show on the channel. What a surprise. That'll be. Let me just give you a little reminder. You know what? First off, Colin. Let's deliver the happy news. Four best bets. I got four Ramanoodle Express picks. The lines came out. I did not want to wait on these. We need to move on these now. I tweeted these out earlier. I especially think this first one is going to move pretty quick. Or who knows? Maybe not. Oklahoma State is playing at Arizona State this week. Oklahoma State looked horrific yesterday. Therefore naturally we love them this week. They are laying two and a half. We are laying two and a half with Oklahoma State. Going to get that one early because I saw it cross three in some places. Next up, Charlotte plus 24 and a half at Maryland. Love the number there. We have it down closer to 19. So I love the number there. We're crossing several key numbers. Next up a team that cashed for us yesterday. We're going to ride them again. Liberty is minus 12 and a half at home against New Mexico State this Saturday. We love Liberty by 17 and a half. So we really, really like that number. And we bet this exact number yesterday and got demolished. We took 35 and a half with Arkansas State. They lost 73 to nothing. Don't care. We're going to do it again. We are taking Tulsa plus 35 and a half. They're going to Washington. So this is very early. I don't normally hand out more than one or two games on Sunday. I'm moving on four of them. I think we're going to have a pretty loaded week actually. Oklahoma State minus two and a half Charlotte plus 24 and a half. Liberty minus 12 and a half. Tulsa plus 35 and a half. OK, PSA. I'm only going to do this once this year because a lot of you don't even bet. So you don't care about this. But even you guys who don't bet probably have a passing interest in point spreads. And you have a real interesting clowns. A lot of people expose themselves yesterday. So here's how it works. My blanket advice to you is don't ever bet on sports. That's just my blanket advice. If I had to give one piece of advice for humanity, it would be don't bet on sports. Now knowing that a lot of you are going to do it, I try and tell you do it responsibly. Don't be betting money. You don't have proper money management, define your unit size immunity, et cetera, et cetera. And then I tell you, I'm going to give you some games every week on this show. We call it the Ramanoodle Express. It's intent is to keep you off a diet of Ramanoodles. I want you to be able to afford that 10 ounce filet or filet where I'm from. If you so desire, but the one rule that I give you guys is either bet every one of the games I give you or don't bet a single one. Do not pick and choose because if I hand out a hundred games and you only bet the ones you agree with me on, you might as well not bet any of them because your net result will be the exact same winning percentage you would have had on your own. It's trust me. The math works out on that. So here's what happens every week one without fail. I will have people who don't know anything about betting and have no business having a sports book account who have opened one and they don't get how this stuff works and they'll go and they'll pick two or three games and inevitably they'll pick losers and then they'll come back at me and they'll start chirping like have the audacity to chirp. So here is the one PS8, the one warning. I'm not Brandon Walker, okay? I don't block people on social media but so help me if you come in my DMs and you're talking about bets I didn't force you to make especially on a day where we ended up winning. We went three and two yesterday. Stats and info ran the numbers. I have it right here. It turns out that's 60% that's really good. Especially on a day we win but even if we go O in five if you come at me and you start running your mouth either passively aggressively or especially aggressively that really makes you a clown. I am blocking you. You will not be able to hear from me anymore. I won't hear from you anymore. Bet them all or don't bet at all. Don't be cherry picking and especially if you cherry pick losers don't be coming at me. So 99% of you that doesn't apply to the 1% you know who's you are. Let's move on. What a what a game in Charlotte last night. So North Carolina beat South Carolina 31 to 17 and it's a huge rivalry. Huge rivalry but I'm not talking about Gamecox Tar Heels. The big rivalry I'm talking about right now it rages on is me versus the model. I shared with you candidly last week. The model loved North Carolina loved him. I called the model names because it is after all an anemone object doesn't have feelings. I don't think except about Texas. And I not only for sucked the model I actively went in the other direction and I took South Carolina and how dumb did I feel last night. I didn't have as bad a night as a South Carolina offensive lineman mind you but it was tough on me. It was tough on me because I don't know in the words of Richard Marx I guess I just should have known better. So here it is Mac Brown. We talked about Tes Walker all week and he was not declared eligible and I will drag the NCAA rightfully so in just a second for that but we got a padlock stat. We got a good old fashioned padlock stat first one of week one padlock stats for those of you who are new around here. Those are the stats where if I told you this before kickoff you wouldn't have needed to watch the game. You would have already known the outcome. Well if I told you South Carolina was going to have minus two yards rushing you would not have needed to watch the game. Yes that is with sack yardage included which is significant because of the next stat I'm going to give you South Carolina allowed 16 tackles for loss nine sacks. So there was significant yardage shaved off that rushing total for sack yardage. It is the most sacks allowed by North Carolina in a game since 2000. We were fresh off Y2K the last time a disaster of this magnitude happened to an offensive line in Columbia South Carolina. We don't talk about losers first we talk about winners hats off to North Carolina. As I admitted earlier and I will admit at least once more I was wrong and I should have believed a little bit more a lot more in this defensive front. So in August on every show we do we lead it with what we lead it with practice intel team whispers insiders points of view on teams. And there I was about three weeks ago telling you the guys over at inside Carolina specifically Ben Sherman they were communicating with us that this defensive line was ready to shock the world. They had kids like to Mari Fox who didn't even play last year as well as guys who have been highly recruited guys in the past and just haven't as a collective performed up to the level of expectation. They kept telling us Ben Sherman company over there kept telling us this is for real this time this is not a drill and I was just slow to believe because I've bought in and been bitten before counting on any kind of even average improvement from North Carolina defensively. And yet here it is last night now some of you because I know it's one week sample size you'll still sit there and say well this doesn't prove much because South Carolina just was it was like ghosts you know you might as well put five chalai on the offensive line they would have had a better look stopping that pass rushed in North there didn't South Carolina actually did and look I get where you're going with that it's an argument that is as old as time after one week anyone who does something good there's always a yeah but or well but I'm just going to judge it based off what it looked like and it looked like harassment all night like you do that stuff on the streets and a lot of y'all are waking up in jail this morning. But you didn't you didn't where you were supposed to so no Devantes Walker at receiver for Carolina which many of you DM me and just asked me to refer to North Carolina as you said I don't need an apology I don't need you to admit you were wrong I just want you to call us Carolina in the game recap so there you go that's this fair I think those conditions are fair so Carolina without Devantes Walker still inexplicably ineligible and we don't even have a ruling on his status from the NCAA apparently on a long Labor Day weekend vacation up there they still had five receivers with three plus receptions they averaged 11.2 yards per catch that's getting it done Josh Downs is gone test Walker not eligible and still they didn't really miss a beat at least to the to the common eye they didn't miss a beat South Carolina's got real issues I got a new game I want to play with you around here and that is when there is perceived crisis on a team don't we don't we need some scale around here like as a staff we've decided we need some scale so we're either going to call these casual concerns or credible concerns or outright crisis and I'm not ready to say crisis yet I'm teetering on it but at the very least the offensive line is a very credible concern that you were not a casual if you're worried about the South Carolina offensive line they averaged on the ground last night negative 0.1 yards per carry mathematically it should be impossible but when you tack on sack yardage and tackles for loss yes their net result last night was every time they tried to run the ball they went backwards on average they went backwards and then I think to myself self some things in college football get cleaned up you know happens every year it will happen with this team somewhere but do I really watch the guys they tried it out there last night and think to myself oh that'll be a completely different looking unit when they go to Georgia in two weeks you know when they play Mississippi state and senior senior senior senior senior senior on the defensive front oh they'll be fine by then hey Florida's defensive front can get after you we watched Tennessee from field level yesterday they didn't look bad you think South Carolina is going to fare better at Texas A&M they've got to play Clemson still they got to play Kentucky still you quickly start seeing how things could unravel now they got firm in this weekend should be okay I have my fingers crossed doubly if you're listening on podcast but it could with this kind of schedule it could quickly snowball and injuries piled up on them and continue to pile up on them so it could snowball so this game right here this North Carolina win that is a classic check back game about a month from now you're going to want to check back because you know as well as I do if you've watched the sport for any length of time there are games early in the year where you put a value on it the moment it happens so the value we put on this yesterday is really really good for North Carolina South Carolina's terrible that's just the average feel that I got from the game when I when I pulled a few of you well we could get oh I don't know a month down the road and maybe South Carolina is just a disaster and so in your mind you look back and you say hmm maybe I shouldn't have thought that highly about Caroline after that or maybe South Carolina goes and upset Georgia shocks the world and meanwhile North Carolina is just rolling and you're thinking yourself who at the time yeah I was impressed with that win they have but it was even more impressive than I imagine we didn't really know how big a win and how good a win that was for North Carolina check back game we have them all over the place check back game check back about a month from now check with me right now actually for Academy Sports and Outdoors having everything you need and then some for Labor Day weekend I know you guys are going to do what we call celebrating a holiday 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I gotta be honest with you I don't share a popular opinion with most of you on this game you know I got Ohio State in the national title game and I was getting laughed at yesterday after this result I believe if art galleries were run by a lot of you they would just be empty because a lot of you would throw the painting away when it was a quarter of the way done and you would say this painting sucks and the artist would be like it's not done like wait a second understand where I'm going with this nope nope take your brush take your easel get out of here next that's how a lot of folks watch football that's how a lot of folks judge football teams week one you ignore me malls advice you don't just observe week one a lot of you draw conclusions in week one it will bite you it's bitten you before I think you get amnesia every single of season which some of you celebrate proudly apparently and you're right back to diving in to conclusions after week one and the conclusion is Ohio State's offense is terrible they're going to lose two or three games and burn it down let's start all over I smiled yesterday as I watched this game and I didn't smile because I'm anti Ohio State in fact I'm kind of rooting for them because selfishly I want to be right and I want to see him go to the national title game I I was not shook a lot of people were shook when they watched this yesterday I smiled and I smiled because of this quote which I kept in my back pocket from a show two weeks ago and it sounds a little something like this quote I think Ohio State's going to play for a national championship I also think Ohio State could look really ugly to start the season that quote was delivered by me on this show I got exactly what I thought I'd get yesterday believe it or not I thought they'd look hideous offensively I because I don't think the quarterback situation and the offensive line situation has lent itself to firing on all cylinders out of the gate I saw a really good question over on button nuts earlier I was perusing I was just trying to feel out the fan base and they are varying degrees of unhappy right now but someone said well this was about a three touchdown win what if we won 42 to 21 instead because that would be kind of a normal Ohio State score from the past several years what if we won 42 to 21 and the general consensus was I would probably be a lot more comfortable because what would that mean well that would mean the offense is right there where it needs to be and the talking point would be we just got to clean some things up defensively I look at this team in a totally inverted direction I would much rather look at defense completely suffocate a team and by the way it's the first time Ohio State held a team to three or less since 2019 they don't do this stuff evening it's horrific offenses Ohio State does not play this kind of defense but maybe they do now I had a whole lot rather had that defense play in that caliber and looking at Ohio State and saying hmm when offense gets going then this will be a championship caliber team because there's a thing that I can assume a lot easier I can assume a lot easier Ryan Day and his staff are eventually going to get a pretty good offensive product on the field then I can Ohio State is going to put a really solid defensive product on the field if I don't already have it like I because I have seen no track record in recent history to indicate they're going to be anywhere close to elite defensively so if all the sudden they look like that and I do have a track record of them being really good offensively I'll just take my chances there like I'm a guy who thinks the world of them I thought they'd look terrible yesterday so I got what I expected so I'm not upset about it I I just wonder what those staff meetings sound like today that's what I wonder Chip Kelly had a good line last night they they ended up beating coastal Carolina but it wasn't really pretty but but they beat coastal Carolina and he said selfishly as a coach sometimes these are the kinds of wins you want early yeah you'd love to dominate you'd love to run it up score half a hundred but selfishly for what I need to put in this teams head the rest of the way it's really good if we win ugly games early and I I wonder how many other staffs feel that way right now I wonder how many other staff I wonder if we may not have a staff in Columbus Ohio that was a little bit more hidden smile behind the curtain please that they won yesterday but it was kind of ugly because you you sometimes never know you never know how a staff really feels because they're pretty closed off with that kind of information look Ohio State's offensive staff could be sitting there saying Kyle McCord's our guy at quarterback bar none let's commit to him and let's ride him in as far as he can take us that's where we're gonna go it could be that that's the case I'm not claiming to know anything otherwise I am claiming to have a little hunch that that's not totally the case I am claiming to have a little hunch that that entire coaching staff's not all in on Kyle McCord because you got Devon Brown in that room too and so you know let's say I'm running paid state and I got a couple of quarterbacks and maybe I put one out there and I ride him the whole way I don't really insert the other guy because I want it to be glaringly obvious what we've got with him I'm not saying Kyle McCord played bad football yesterday offensive line left a lot to be desired it's a it's a collective effort you get all that we all understand how football works I think but I watched what happened yesterday and Kyle McCord you wouldn't define him as electric game breaker you wouldn't call him elite in any way at least at this point in his career and there's been really good feedback come out of that camp from some people about Devon Brown so what I wonder without an answer right now is I wonder if that staff doesn't get together and meet and instead of saying what you think they're saying I wonder if that staff doesn't get together and meet and say all right there you go and maybe you're looking across the room at certain people and saying all right there you go you you wanted to ride McCord well this is us with Kyle McCord so now who wants to try the Devon Brown experience out I just wonder just wonder if that may not be the dynamic there so I wasn't surprised by what I saw yesterday but my feel is that defense is where it needs to be my feel is offense will eventually get where it needs to be my feel with that defense is offense does not need to be where it's been in the past and in the aggregate get that offensive line figured out which which has a ways to go based on what we saw yesterday yes I still think exactly what I thought about Ohio State this time last week I still think they can win every game they play I still think they can be a national championship caliber team I'm just glad we don't play it next week I'm glad they don't play Michigan next week I'm glad they don't play the big 10 title game or a playoff game next week that is the beauty of this sport you get 12 of these things not just one they're watching us in Brooklyn, New York San Jose, California and we die we Alabama or as they call it the Brooklyn of East Central Alabama we appreciate you guys being tuned in I had a little adventure yesterday and I was not alone I had a little adventure with a couple of people who may or may not exist one of him is named director Colin the other one is named producer Jesse and we marched ourselves right across the Cumberland River and we went to Nissan Stadium and we watched Tennessee in Virginia and a good time was had by all aside from our Virginia brethren so I'm gonna take a sip from the chalice and I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think about this oh by the way I got thoughts on a ton of other teams coming up I mean I got uh you know believe it or not three six seven eight nine I guess like 11 teams left to talk about but it's gonna go quicker than it sounds so don't worry we're gonna be out of here way before FSU and LSU kick off and if you're listening on podcast ignore what I just said um so interesting score here okay so Tennessee beat Virginia 49 to 13 yesterday we were at this one over there it was not the once upon a Saturday tour stop that was Thursday night we just went over there because it was in our backyard so you look at 49 points being hung and you say wow Tennessee exploded out of the gate no they did not they did not in fact in a shortened game because of new clock rules they found a way to hang half a hundred even though out of their first five drives four of them ended in a punt or a turnover so it was kind of slow out of the gate but that was normal college football stuff that's a casual concern that's not a that's not a legitimate concern that's just a casual concern Joe Milton I got a story to tell you about him in a second but Joe Milton 21 of 30 200 yards through the air a couple of touchdowns 33 on the ground another couple of touchdowns I don't know that I could have expected anymore from him in a debut as a starter I I was happy I was pleased with what I saw from him offensive line though was a big concern for Tennessee coming into this game and that's really the area where all things considered Cooper mazes out I thought that unit stepped up you're not going to go back if you have access to all 22 film and look at it and say oh what a clinic just procedural look at this they annihilated Virginia they weren't going to it's a bunch of new pieces anyway and then you got one of your focal points out they did planted it more than well enough to obviously win a game and run away from a team and win a game but Joe Milton on that opening drive I think it was he's coming right down to our end of the field and there was a fourth down play I think it was fourth and five and he went through progressions and he checked that ball down and they got it in the end zone and I was over on the Tennessee sideline though they were so ecstatic not just that they scored but they saw him do what as a coaching staff they hope he has the maturation to do or the maturity to do and so I just kind of always took that kind of stuff away because that's week one you know it's the kind of place you expect the guy to be in week six week one though that's just a good sign it's Virginia I know what the comments section will say well yeah it's just Virginia I get it it's like a blanket statement you can make about 95% of teams who played in week one but Josh Hype will develop quarterbacks I could go on a hype video one day I think Josh Hype will develop quarterbacks though so when I see them have three running backs get 12 plus carries I see 5.5 yards per carry and I have what they had on the offensive line and that's my starting point I do have legitimate reason with Tennessee quarterbacks to think it's only onward and upward from here I don't say that about everyone I just trust the developmental process there at that position to where I mean if I if I got 52 carries 287 yards at the tailback position so I'm solid there they trust a number of guys at that position I know that quarterback is what it is and will get better for me barring injury I I feel good I don't know what I'll tell you I feel really good there was a point early in this game where Ramel Keaton dropped a bomb would have been a bomb probably touched down pass but at the very least a long completion so I told myself that looks like it was about 65 in the air he looks like he threw the ball about 65 yards in the air and I went back and washed it that's what pretty much what it was about 65 in the air so before this game I got over to the stadium a little bit early we had some stuff to do and I got over to the stadium early I went up at the press box because I cannot explain to you in strong enough terms how much I love 11 a.m. kickoffs because we get to eat breakfast big breakfast guy and so I'm sitting up there producer Jesse's next to me we're talking to some folks Tennessee has arrived at the stadium so it's before normal warm-ups Milton's down there throwing I didn't really realize I wasn't paying a lot of attention he's still in his like hoodie I mean he's not even in warm-up clothes yet so I see out of the corner of my eye what looks like the trajectory of a point now if you've been in football stadiums you know what that looks like and so it's the difference between a pop-up and a home run ball usually and so I look down there and a receiver catches it like I'm kind of seeing this out of the corner my eye I look down and Milton's throwing he's on the opposite 30 yard line and I watch him and he is no crow hop he's just throwing balls 70 yards in the air to receivers running like simulated 20 yard go routes I've never seen him do it in person I've heard stories about it I've never seen his arm in person until yesterday then he backed up and he was throwing it 80 in the air and it still looked effortless and I was texting somebody saying you will not believe what I'm watching right now so then in the game when they finally threw it deep and it was dropped so it's not on anyone's like you know highlight reel he just he just flicks the ball 65 in the air dime just dropped it right in a bucket no problem I don't know that there's a stronger arm out there like Anthony Richardson was a total freak of nature last year with his arm strength I don't know what kind of charity we have to set up to make it happen I just I'd love to see those two shot for shot look I think Milton may be able to throw the ball 100 yards in the air if he gets a little bit of wind behind him and he double crow hops it I don't know man he looked like he was throwing on the moon yesterday in warm-ups you'd have to see it I know I know you may be calling BS on that I'm telling you it was effortless he's throwing the ball 70 yards in the air no crow hop so I'm sure a bunch of you can do that with nerf balls I know it's not impressive to some of you but to me it was I need to talk to you about a couple of teams here I'm gonna announce by the way in a few minutes the destination for the once upon a Saturday tour this Saturday deep week we had a really deep week got a got a number of games on the bench that we could go to do me a favor if you're watching live and a ton of you are just click the thumbs up button that's all I need you to do and if you haven't subscribed to the channel and many of you think you have but you haven't so make sure if you haven't if you haven't subscribed to the channel go ahead and do that too all of it's free no process no forms to fill out no no spam no nothing just it helps us I watched Bama and I watched Georgia yesterday and these were not like main event games but their main event teams like both of these teams will figure in the SEC and national championship races so Bama beat middle Tennessee state pretty soundly and I cannot tell you how many times people have told me Bama doesn't have a quarterback just cause they hadn't settled on one Bama doesn't have a quarterback half of my staff thinks that Bama doesn't have a quarterback uh whatever you can prove against middle Tennessee state you decide that in your own mind Jaylen Moe wrote pretty good yesterday now I have I have a set expectation for him so he is not Bryce Young in my mind therefore when he goes 13 of 18 for 194 through the air and he added another 48 on the ground had five total touchdowns no interceptions no turnovers like that to me is a great Jaylen Milro game but um there was a padlock stat in this game that totally went over everyone's head because you weren't watching because it's it's a blowout but um if you remember Alabama games last year watch this touchdown by the way total alien play um if you remember Bama games last year and those of you who were Bama fans know where I'm going with this there was something that probably drove you up a wall week after week after week and that is the fact that they average nearly eight penalties per game for about 70 yards per game at two penalties yesterday and here's the padlock stat none of them were on the offensive line which is like the prayer emoji come come to real life for Alabama fans and it was the biggest mystery in the sport how did Alabama all of a sudden become one of the most undisciplined teams in terms of penalties in college football well several theories out there and we're only through one game this year that looks to have stopped the energy their defense played with yesterday I do not care if it was against air the energy their defense played with yesterday the physicality the the flying to the football the aggressiveness the technique tackling it's been void it just hasn't been there and they went hired Kevin steel and that was met with a collective from people whatever it is they did between last year and this year I just find that button and I keep on president like like Lawson has been there for a couple of years he looked like a monster last night and for the record that's a guy and our team intel we kept on telling you about the ante Lawson at middle linebacker is a guy who's been like one of the stars of their fall camp yeah keep him healthy and that'll be one of the best players in college football this year so remember back at SEC media days I told you we talked to Nick Sabin and I got a pretty good read on how he felt about his coordinator hires and it wasn't how the rest of america felt the rest of america and a lot of Alabama fans frankly looked at him hiring Tommy Reese as his OC and Kevin steel as his DC and they thought oh man these are these are average to blow average hires and there are a lot of metrics out there a lot of people who know how to grade that stuff that would agree with that and I'm not disagreeing with it I'm just saying Nick Sabin's different than pretty much anyone else and so the vibe I got off Sabin without him outright saying it was there about 30 coordinators out there I can win with if I have the right team mentally because I know how talented we are so as long as I just have a team wired the right way there are 30 different guys I can put an OC or a DC name tag on and we'll be good I think that's the kind of team he's got and so the Memphis Kevin steel the Memphis Tommy Reese that matter really who it is he's got the right guys from a mental standpoint at least it peers that way and you know I felt that way throughout fall camp so you know who they play this week they play Texas this week so when he doubts you have which is totally fair like if you weren't sold after a middle Tennessee state win that's cool you'll get him answered this week that's the beauty of the sport again we don't play one game we play 12 so they got a big one this week more on that a little bit later Georgia played UT Martin they 148 to 7 they looked really sluggish offensively again this is something we expected kind of like with Ohio State I expect to bambool look uglier than they did offensively so that was a pleasant surprise I got what I thought I'd get from Georgia I got what I thought I'd get from Ohio State that's why I'm not freaking out about them looking sluggish but boy I knew what was coming I knew when Carson Beck didn't light the world on fire I knew when that offensive line did not blow people off the ball especially considering its UT Martin I knew what was coming Mike Bobo hate was coming and there is a long and story track record between the Georgia faithful and Mike Bobo he's got a history there and they they've got a history and so when Kirby had him back in his program and then elevated him to OC I knew when it happened that feels good now but come fall as soon as that offense not hang half a hundred in the first half against an inferior opponent could happen in week one uh there's a question that's going to be relevant and so director Colin has pulled from the archives me doing the Lord's work I knew it was coming so I went ahead and I asked Kirby smart two months ago this question one of the hardest laughs I've had is when Todd Monk can get to job elsewhere you've known Mike Bobo for like 700 years and folks who have never met him a day in their life were mildly critical and saying why didn't he conduct a national search why did he just elevate from within plus we've seen Mike Bobo before we want something new I'm delivering that to you just in case you don't subscribe to the paper these days so when you listen to that kind of stuff what's your reaction other than say a chat up I love I love it because I'm like this is the same crowd that when Mel Tucker left said who's Dan Land and uh the same crowd that went down land with who's going to human um and and you know when we hired Todd Monk and there's not a lot of people that just were over uh abundant with joy with that hire so on each hire is going to be graded based on the results and the outcomes and to me it's really a more process related I'm more thinking of like who's going to do the best job with our staff who understands our staff who gives us continuity who's called it before who's coach quarterbacks before it was a really good fit and we brought him in with the thought that if Monk never left we would be comfortable they got a new quarterback starting up there they have got a new offensive coordinator even though Mike Bobo's from the system they are badly banged up have been throughout the majority of fall camp and they looked lethargic yesterday and I'm going to give you the reason it's caused it's not Xbox it's real life and that stuff just happens in football sometimes and um I did not necessarily expect that I'd be the one having to defend Georgia and tell the folks to calm down folks have labeled me a Georgia hater right now because I I had the audacity to uh not predict someone to win a third championship in a row but I'm going to tell half of you who did pick them to win the title they'll be fine this team's going to be right there at the end of the year they'll be fine it may not look exactly the way you want it to every week they'll be fine there are people making decisions there that know what they're doing they they may just not have as good a team as they had the last two years like does this occur to anybody so UT Martin notwithstanding they play ball state this week they're going to win that game and there'll be some ups and some downs and then they get into conference play and I have this wild idea that that staff is handling the first three weeks of the season accordingly let me translate I think you would have seen a different Georgia team yesterday if South Carolina was on the schedule call me crazy I just believe that I don't know why like I believe Lincoln Riley would have handled the San Jose state game a little bit differently if it were Oregon in week one I just have a sneaking suspicion so yeah any actually anyone who wants to sell their Georgia stock I'll take some I'd love to have some of that my portfolio I think they'll be fine uh Colin I think now is as good a time as any to remind the masses out there that it's a big week coming up we got a massive week coming up just think about the games on the schedule even Texas A&M Miami which is a game I'm actually going to talk about both those teams before we go off the air but that game is huge a Texas tech went up into Laramie Wyoming last night and lost and they're playing host to Oregon this week that's the last place on earth I would want to be if I were Oregon wounded animal mode home team in Lubbock Texas in week two so anyway a lot of big games on the schedule but man come on now the once upon a Saturday tours headed down I 65 and we're headed to Tuscaloosa Alabama because Texas is playing at Alabama and this is the one we've had circled for a couple of years now actually we were at this game last year in Austin apparently everyone and their mother's going to be at this one offer up a little prayer for Josh Max in this week if you don't mind by the way it's a much bigger game for him than either Sark or Nick saving in many ways so yes we will be down there and we will be down there with bells on looking forward to this one it will be one of the most intense environments that you will have seen in Bryant Danny Stadium the 2019 LSU game was like that this game will be like that what I did not do is I did not just compare Texas 2023 as a team to Joe Burrows LSU I did not do that I repeat for those in the back I did not do that what I'm telling you is there's this weird dynamic with Bama Sabin's been there a long time now they've won a bunch of championships they hardly ever lose at home rarely are they ever even threatened at home and so the environment can sometimes lag as a result of that there is there's no way to avoid it when you win that much your fan base gets complacent to a degree and they have an expectation to win and they don't feel threatened Bama folks will feel legitimately threatened three times at home this year this is the first one cause this team almost beat him last year and half the country thinks they're going to lose outright Saturday we'll pick that game Tuesday night by the way the LSU game is at Bryant Danny this year and LSU beat him last year and that is their perceived biggest threat in the West and Tennessee beat him last year Tennessee's got to come into Bryant Danny those are three games this year where you turn it on Bryant Danny Stadium will be on fire like I'm glad we're going to be there that's what I'm saying so we will be there Saturday that's a prime time kick not on my network but we're going to be there and need I remind you paidstatematerial.com as of tonight we'll have the once upon a Saturday tour shirt go live we sell it for one week and one week only for this particular game and it'll be gone forever but also we got Texas and Alabama paidstate my state shirts and they are beautiful if I you don't mind me saying so and both of those are available right now in the store at paidstatematerial.com would love to see some of those saw some Utah shirts out in Salt Lake last week pleasant surprise I'm still not used to that the fighting Jesse's had a darn good night last night Penn State 38 West Virginia 15 some of you were very upset at the end of this one some of you thought oh West Virginia's not going to win this game but certainly West Virginia will cover and I have always told you guys some people are more aware than others about the point spread on their games this is nothing nefarious it's just some coaches are aware of that stuff and some are not and coaches they know they're alumni I love to bet on this stuff I tweeted out last night when when West Virginia thought they're about to take a knee nah Penn State 10 seconds to go let's just score one more for good measure there are two people on planet earth more aware than anyone of what the spread is on a Penn State game and they're both in that photo right there one of them's me the other one is James F Franklin and he got you again last night got you again didn't he out stagger to the ribs for some of you it didn't affect us either way so I got some feedback from a couple of coaches that Penn State will have to play this year and it was basically a collective uh-oh as they were watching this game kind of like uh-oh and that was in reference to Drew Euler who as it turns out is everything we thought he would be 21 of 29 325 through the air three passing touchdowns and more so than the stats hmm if you didn't watch this game Drew Euler was in total control it was really his I'm not going to call it his first start it's like his first time as the QB1 starter for Penn State and he worked every level of the field and he worked through progressions and frankly he was under a little more duress than I would have been comfortable with so there there wasn't necessarily a clean pocket for him all night but when there was and even when there wasn't sometimes totally aware he looked like he he had two or three years starting under his belt it just if I'm a Penn State fan I am watching that and I'm not nervous if that kids my quarterback I'm totally at ease that's how I feel after watching him just through one game we went up there in the spring and and uh Franklin let us watch practice and even then and it was it was a scrimmage and in spring practice but even then you look at him and every throws not perfect I'm not saying that but I'm saying he did not look like a guy who was green or a first year starter he looks so much more seasoned than he actually is there's plenty of room to improve on this team too they won 38 15 past pro was not great for Penn State last night run stopping defensively not great that's one of the biggest concerns on this team I would not be comfortable with them facing Michigan right now Michigan ran for about half a mile on them last year based on what we saw last night one game sample size I wouldn't be comfortable with Michigan coming to town but here's the good news they don't come to town this week that's all the way I think in November so the one thing I kept reminding myself or kept thinking to myself watching this game is you know what could happen here uh they've got a quarterback that could win a shootout like if someone does figure out that they can run the ball for 245 yards in an afternoon on Penn State it's not an automatic loss I got a quarterback here that that may just be able to outscore you I I'm not a guy who's been overly confident in Penn State winning a 48 to 45 game in years past that is not Penn State football uh but if that happens at some point this year and I don't expect it to that defense is too good to be hanging out in the 40s but you get what I'm saying 38 35 let's say I got the guy I think they can do it there and I I've also got a guy that probably gets the absolute most out of a or wide receiver room they didn't even involve the tight imposition much last night so I've still got a lot of room for growth offensively I like where Penn State is I'm getting clowned right now because I predict them to go to the playoffs that's fine that's okay I felt pretty good with what I saw last night now they got Delaware this week and then they go to Illinois in week three dogfight in week three don't be fooled dogfight on the way in week three I'll do respect to Delaware okay some other thoughts here and then we got a big game to watch tonight anyone changing their pick on that by the way LSU FSU think we got about 30 minutes to kick off I I went back and forth I won't lie to you I got to shoot straight with you guys I went back and forth I got LSU in the game there was about a four hour chunk of my life over the weekend where I almost thought about just kind of getting on Twitter and saying cancel that I'm taking FSU now I'm not doing it because that would be unethical but I'm not not a dime if my money is on that game tonight I'm just watching along with you guys and a lot of you are watching right now make sure you like the video if you're here and haven't done so already did you see Miami play the other night they played Miami of Ohio that offensive lines totally transformed when we were down there uh over the summer and I watched summer workouts and I so I'm watching stuff that coaches aren't even involved in and I'm watching Francis Malgoa who may also pronounce his last name according to the broadcast I am watching him he's the true freshman who came in I could not speak more glowingly of him and I told you I watched them do something so the offensive line group was in the indoor facility while we were filming some stuff and then afterwards I was just watching them work out we were down on the field with him we were catching some balls with him actually yeah you heard me right so so Malgoa is out there running pass routes and he's like 330 340 and he's just so fluid he looked like an actual receiver with the way he controlled his body and then he went over to the jugs machine he caught 41 straight balls one handed off the jugs machine turned up pretty high so total freak athlete oh also he started it left tackle for him at offensive line like I could not have been more pleased if I were Mario Christball I could not have been more pleased in in game one with how that unit looked cause they were dreadful last year and they just totally overhauled it not even the same people are on that line from last year so I I loved the start Miami Ohio never got any oxygen and I know there are a lot of people out there who say oh it's just Miami of Ohio again it's your prerogative to think that way that's fine the line on this game was about 15 and they won 38 to 3 they've got Texas A&M coming in there this week one of the spotlight games of week two because of A&M and I'll talk about them right now A&M played a directional school yesterday and most of you didn't watch that game Texas A&M against New Mexico or I don't care against New Mexico high school you better take Texas A&M seriously and I saw all I needed to see Connor Wigman could be a breakout player this year at quarterback you you may think it's too early for me to draw these conclusions I don't I don't he was 18 to 23 he threw for a lot it's forget about all the numbers the stuff that you hoped you would see as an A&M fan the stuff that was never there under Jimbo regardless of who you were playing it was there yesterday wasn't it it was there yesterday now all the sudden now the sudden people have to start looking at that A&M wide receiver room and acknowledging what we've been saying on this show for about two months and that is they're loaded you just don't fear them because you've never trusted they could get the ball to them now they can Texas A&M is to be taken very very seriously in the SEC West now here's the thing they're they're not playing a conference game this week but they're going to go play very quality competition camp kitchens at Miami may be the best safety in the country so they'll get some really really good tests this week defensively you they they are loaded and they get to face what I think is a much improved Miami offensive line really good matchup they over they overpower they outman Miami still that line Jesse remind me what did that line open up at you remember off the top of your head six and a half or seven A&M about a six and a half or seven point favorite so lock in for that one but I'm telling you by stocking that team right now that team's going to be for real this year I've just got very little doubt at this point next up talk about doubt talk about a Sarah McLaughlin special talk about the splattering of the week Oklahoma 73 to nothing was this necessary but Jones is a person too and so I felt bad for him I felt bad for myself because we bad Arkansas state yeah we sure did we were those people who had an Arkansas state ticket hey we won yesterday overall so you just got to own the losses frustration was taken out on Arkansas state by Oklahoma this was this was rough this was painting the walls with their blood it was funny cause last year you kind of got your own blood on your hands if you're Oklahoma oh they had blood on their hands yesterday but it wasn't their own it was red wolf blood everywhere so I know that a lot of people I think I've said this nine times in the show will not take much from this cause it's Oklahoma or it's Arkansas state well again there are things you didn't see last year as an Oklahoma fan both sides of the ball that you saw in this game against an inferior opponent no doubt but you saw it you didn't even see it against the inferior opponents last year they play SMU this week another very sneaky good game SMU is a about a 16 point dog and they go into Norman I expect the public to be heavy on Oklahoma and we'll see I'm not necessarily in the the mental or emotional place I need to be right now to bet against Oklahoma as is obviously the case so I'll probably leave that one alone what about Texas number one rule in the show number two rule in the show number one rule in the show listen to me ma number two rule don't don't lose to food Texas played rice yesterday and they won 37 to 10 now one of the bright spots of Texas fall camp has been the run defense and they gave up 27 rush yards on 25 carry so there was no running rice yesterday they forced three turnovers so rice turned it over a lot that's good I am a believer Texas can win games with defense early while the offense gets figured out the offense still needs to get figured out you guys who watched this game yesterday quarterback play left a little bit to be desired offensive line play left a little bit to be desired they had penalties all over the place it didn't leave me feeling overly warm and fuzzy that their next game is on the road at Alabama but again that's that's the weak one to week two thing it's overlooking an opponent potentially all that could have been in play I think you'll get the best of Texas at Alabama this Saturday we just got to find out what the best of Texas is uh Washington just a obliterated Boise State yesterday Michael Pentax 29 of 40 450 through the air five touchdowns there are question marks about this team lost their best running back in fall camp uh they didn't do much on the ground yesterday obviously they didn't need to so that's uh remains to be seen thing Boise couldn't take advantage of anything even if they wanted to defensively for Washington so a little bit of that still remains to be seen but an overly impressive performance from Washington in week one I did not want that to be overlooked I do want to talk to you about Baylor Baylor was favored by 27 and a half against Texas State Baylor lost to Texas State 42 31 they were struggling to just stay in the game and there were some inexcusable issues here I'm a big Dave Aranda guy I still am I'm not selling on Dave Aranda a lot of you DM me about that no I'm not selling on Dave Aranda uh but there were some very fundamental issues they had like wide receivers understanding how to line up on or off the ball it's apparently it's been an issue for them all fall camp like that was an issue just really really like basic week one install type stuff was an issue they had trouble snapping the ball yesterday they had trouble getting a playoff and Aranda afterwards he had never shy away from that stuff but he just he sounded very dejected very disappointed which he should have been but you know I tell you guys all the time don't be drawing conclusions in week one and look they've got you talk at home this week maybe they'll be a different team the problems Baylor had yesterday I don't know that you correct those in a film session I don't know that you just show up at practice the next week and you clean that stuff up I hope I'm wrong because I happen to like Baylor but I saw Utah in person last week and they're on extra rest before this game so I know what those guys are bringing regardless of who starts at quarterback form I have no idea what Baylor's bringing right now speaking of that game yeah I was at the Florida Utah game and we didn't do a show the next day so I haven't talked to you about this yet um not good man not good for Florida great night for Utah I I picked Florida to win just on the wrong team just on the wrong side it was very obvious what's crazy is when you look at the box score if you were to if you were to cover up the third down statistics everything else makes it look like Florida male one now man you go one of 13 I think they were three of 18 on third or fourth down tries just bad man it's just really bad and there were just glaring glaring problems procedurally I was talking to an NFL guy on the sideline up there and he said it's so crazy that Billy Napier's reputation is to be so detailed oriented and so dialed in on this stuff and his team in year two is coming out of the gate looking like this that's an NFL guy now that that has been around all these teams and that was the you know that was the opinion I had that's the opinion he had Graham Mertz ended up not being the problem for him like it was the pieces around him doing or not doing their job but Kyle Winningham has the best program in the pack 12 that gets overlooked sometimes because people I'm guilty of this people try and look everywhere other than Utah to pick their winner out there I did it again this year I picked Oregon and you sometimes overlook what so obvious and that is they've got the most rock solid program out there they have for a long time I had a great time out there I was surprised at how well we were received I don't mean from a hospitality standpoint although just aces across the board let us in the stadium way way early to do the show and all that was great but now the reception we got from the people out there I just didn't know that that many people in Salt Lake City knew about the show but I appreciate it sure to appreciate it but they got another really good team because when you when you're without your top two quarterbacks and and you just kind of handle you kind of toy around with an SEC program you're kind of off to the races and they go to Baylor this week and then a couple of weeks from now they got UCLA and UCLA good last night still with issues to work out but Dante Moore man Dante Moore may have had his time come very early for UCLA it could be a really good year it's going to be a really good year in the pack 12 I don't know what in the world Florida is about to do they got what should be a very winable game this week and then they got Tennessee in two weeks so yeah whole lot going on abnormal in week one our shows always have to get bumped around and this is an early start time for us but we got it all in I promised you would be off 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