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zone Auto Zone. I am blown away by the game
that we saw last night that ended early in the
morning on the East Coast. Tennessee beats Georgia Tech forty
two forty one in double overtime. I was there in Atlanta,

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still a little bit in disbelief that Tennessee, which gave
up five hundred and thirty five rushing yards, that Georgia Tech,
which carried the ball eighty six times, eighties six different
times they ran the football. The amount of plays they
ran was extraordinary, almost a hundred plays, and UH Tennessee,

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which was outgained by nearly three hundred yards in total offense,
wins it on double overtime on a attempted two point
conversion by Paul Johnson's Georgia Tech. UH Yellowjackets there and
really still kind of in stunned disbelief over the weekend
that was in college football Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and

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then Monday, five straight days and many of those games
coming down to the wire. I didn't necessarily believe that
we could have a almost wilder Maybe it was wilder
game than the one that we saw at the ending
of Texas A and M and U c l A
out in the Rose Bowl, but we may well have
seen it in this game. In the process we talked

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about Kevin Sumlin uh the demand that he be fired
by one of the regents on the Texas A and
M board. Well, butch Jones may well have at least
stepped out of the firing squad for a moment because
had Tennessee lost to this game, and there were a
lot of signs that Tennessee was going to lose this game,

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I think if you are a man, if you are
anything other than a Tennessee volunteer fan, or you were
gambling on on them some form or fashion, that is
one of the wildest things that I have that I've
ever seen. I don't think Tennessee deserved to win this
game at all, but they found a way to do it.
And I'm still stunned that they won this game. In particular,

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I don't know what was going on with Butch Jones,
but I tweeted, should Butch Jones be fired at halftime?
Eleven thousand of you voted and six of you said yes,
and then I don't understand this decision at all. The
Butch Jones era, to me, can be summed up in
a metaphorical situation here with the absurd decision to put

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it a garbage can on the sideline, label it Team
one one, and carry it around all day. I am
not a gimmicks guy, right. I think ultimately you have
to be good at what you do, and you have
to show up and do it. And if you're a
gimmicks guy, I think eventually people see through you. I'll

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tell you this before. I've always believed that Butch Jones
was a gimmicks guy. I think that he is an
eight and four head coach. The first time that I
ever met him, I was going around the University of
Tennessee football facility and everywhere there you could go on
the wall, there was a urine chart like everywhere in
the entire facility, and I'm like, what in the world

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is going on? With this urine chart. And while you're
standing there going to the bathroom, there is a urine chart,
and you're supposed to look at the color of your
urine and compare it with the color of the urine
on the wall. And if you are dehydrated, you're supposed
to make sure that your urine looks as you know,
like as clear as it possibly can in and so
Butch Jones is obsessed with having guys care around carry

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around their own water jugs to make sure that their
urine is constantly the right color. And I remember standing
there thinking this is a really weird thing, like, and
then later that day at practice he's walking around screaming
at the players about their urine color. Now, look, I

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don't know exactly whether the color of your urine that
depends on whether or not you perform at a high level.
But I do know that you have relatively limited amounts
of time to talk to kids in college football, and
so the time that you spend instructing them on the
color of their urine is time that otherwise you're not

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doing such things as maybe telling them how to handle
a triple offensive attack from Georgia Tech. It's a gimmick.
There's no way in hell that Nick Saban is running
around all day telling his team about the call of
their urine. He's just not gonna do it. And he
did it all throughout practice, and I was kind of

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lost in the whole process, and I said, man, you
know what, this is a gimmick. And to me, successful people,
especially in the world of coaching, are not gimmick guys.
But can you imagine Nick Saban allowing there to be
a garbage can on the side, a trash can on
the side of his sideline, and for people to dance

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around with it, and then after Tennessee one in double
overtime for there to be a guy running around with
the trash can like dancing with it. If somebody suggested
to Nick Saban that you put a trash can on
the sideline and that it's a metaphor for how the
football team's gonna play and you're trying to get the
ball and put it in the trash can, he would
fire the person who suggested it and maybe strangle him

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to death Darth Vader style right then and there, because
he doesn't have time for gimmicks. You know what doesn't
work in the grand scheme of things, gimmicks. You gotta
be good at what you do, and so Butch Jones
has always been a gimmick guy to me and eight
and four caliber coach. I don't think in the long term,
this outcome of this game really changes very much. Now,

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maybe if Tennessee goes on the road in two weeks
and what could be a disastrously awful game and finds
a way to beat Florida, then maybe Butch Jones is
gonna be safe. I just don't think this team is
gonna be very good. I think if you gave up
seven eighty five yards rushing or whatever the heck they
did five and fifty yards rushing, Alabama is gonna run

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for four thousand yards against you. I think that everybody
who watches this lineup, uh this film in the SEC
is gonna say we are gonna crush Tennessee. I think
that Butch Jones is not long for this coaching world
even with this win. And some people are gonna say, hey, well,
you gotta be so negative they won I say, yeah,
this is the most pyric victory I have ever seen.

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This is a loss in virtually every other place, but
the scores column, and I ultimately think that this is
a This is a game that is just further evidence
of the fact that Butch Jones is not going to
get it done at Tennessee. Eight seven seven six three
six nine is the phone number. I want to play

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you the end calls of this game. Let's start, guys,
Let's play the Georgia Tech call here, double overtime. The
Yellow Jackets line up to go for two. And this
is what it sounded like, running right, Marshal on the option, running, throwing,
clipping it cut, it's Benson. Does he get across the
gold nine? They say, incomplete? Incomplete on that left tit's clip.

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That's the ball game, and Tennessee holds onto the second overtime. Alright,
that's Georgia Tech. Now Here is the final call from
the University of Tennessee broadcast team. Waits for the staff.
It's gonna roll right, gonna tuck it off. He's not
gonna make it. Tennessee stops him. Tennessee stops him. Marshall

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tried to turn it up, and the ball is picked praying.
The Tennessee volunteers have held on in double over time
as the balls Riley don't win it forty to forty. Wanda. Now,
I think it was the right decision by Paul Johnson
to go for two there because at this point in time,
neither team could stop the other one. And if you
have run the ball, and it was true that they

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had done it, if you have run the ball like
they have, Georgia Tech had run the ball, what did
I say, eighty six times for five hundred and thirty
five yards, You would lined up to run the ball
eighty six times and you would average six point two
yards per carry. So to me, that was the right
call to go for two because I don't think their
defense at this point in time could stop Tennessee either,

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and both of those teams were incredibly tired. Again, total
yardage Georgia Tech six hundred and fifty five total yards,
Tennessee three hundred and sixty nine. I would love to
have a team looking at these data. How often has
a team won a game where they got almost three

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hundred yards less than their opponents. It almost never happens. Now,
Georgia Tech turned the ball over twice. As the game
went along, Tennessee got better on the offensive side of
the ball, But I don't know how many overtimes they
would have had to play before one or the other
of these teams stopped each other. Remember, in the third overtime,
they would have had to start going for two. So
I think it was the right call. What's the long

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range impact of this game. I think Paul Johnson's gonna
be a Georgia Tech kind of as long as he wants.
For Tennessee. They're gonna beat Indiana State on Saturday, and
then they go to Florida, and then they get Georgia
in week five. So Tennessee will play Florida and Georgia
before the end of September. And I don't think anybody

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in the SEC East is any good at all. I mean,
I think from one to seven there may be an
awful team in the SEC East, But I think the
ceiling of the SEC East has never been lower. That
is the team that may win the SEC East. And
this is saying something because the league has been in
that division has been a dumpster fire for a long time.
It would not astound me if any team can beat

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any team at any point all season long in the
SEC East. I think there's a good chance that the
champ will end up five and three. I really do so.
I think, you know, trying to predict what's gonna happen
in the SEC East out of this opening weekend is
almost impossible. But Tennessee did get to win. I think
it probably keeps them right around eight and four. But

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Jones is gonna be an eight and four. Coach is
eight and four good enough in the long range. You know.
I was out at the tailgates yesterday for all the
Tennessee fans, uh, and we've got some great videos coming
for you from from OutKick from all the the the crews,
both at Alabama, Florida State and then also at Tennessee,
Georgia Tech all the tailgates, and I asked a lot
of Tennessee fans at those tailgates, all right, you were

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gonna go seven and five this year, which is a
pretty crappy year historically for Tennessee, but you get to
hire chip Kelly, you win the chip Kelly sweepstakes? Would
you sign up for that right now? And just about
every Tennessee fan that I asked said that they would.
And I think that's because in general, there is a
belief fair foul, and I think it's very fair based

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on the four years of evidence plus one game so
far this season, that Butch Jones is and eight and
four coach, that he's good enough to get you to
eight wins, that he's never gonna get you beyond eight wins,
and the past two years he's been nine and four. Uh.
It was bo Polini esque. If you're a Nebraska fan,
that's kind of where I believe. Butch Jones has got

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this Tennessee program nine and four, eight and four something
along those lines, just good enough to make you upset
when they don't win as many games as you think
they should. Only Butch Jones could beat Florida and Georgia
last year like he did and still lose to South
Carolina and Vanderbilt and not win the SEC East. I'm
gonna open up your phone lines eight seven, seven, six,

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three six nine. I'm also gonna give you a heads up.
Someone's gonna be some gnashing of the teeth. There's gonna
be some anger. Channel eighty three Fox Sports Radio on
Sirius Satellite Radio. We are only on until six thirty
today and then they're gonna put on a TV show.
They are moving us to a brand new serious XM station.

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I will let you know, as soon as that is official,
they are terrified at satellite radio of what your reaction
is gonna be. I'm giving you a heads up right now.
I know, I know, I know you can. I'm I'm
my choice right now. Alright, So it's going to be
we're going to be on a new station. You don't
have to to riot completely, but I understand we're only

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gonna be on for thirty minutes today, so at six
thirty Eastern where you're gonna pop off and they're gonna
start for now. I think it's a bad move, but
it's what they've decided to do. And they decided that
when you know, a year ago, when they decided to
have a Fox Sports channel, they're gonna put a lot
of TV on the Fox Sports Radio channel on satellite radio. Now, Uh,

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that is their idea, that is their goal. They're gonna
put TV on radio. I think it's a bad combo,
but it's what they're gonna do. So you're gonna get
a new show from f f S one, and then
you're gonna get uh the Skip Skip Bayliss Show. So
you're gonna get six straight hours of dude sitting across
the table from each other talking and it's not gonna
be very entertaining on satellite radio. But don't worry about that.

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We are moving to a new station. I'll be able
to give you all of the details. You're gonna have
to set a new programming guide for your car, but
it's not yet set up and ready to roll, so
I'll let you know when that's gonna happen. I'm trying
to give you a heads up again because there's gonna
be mass up rate, mass uproar when that officially happens
in about fifteen minutes. But first give me your calls

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on car insurance. Talking about Tennessee's miraculous almost fair to
call it one double o t win. If you're a
Georgia tech fan man, your team had this game put away.
Five minutes left, You're driving up seven, guy breaks into
the open field, gets the ball stripped away. The best
part of the game from Tennessee's perspective, I think was

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the drive to tie up the game, where you went
ninety three yards in seven plays, tied it up at
twenty eight and then coming back the opposite direction block
a field goal by Georgia Tech after they get back
into into range. And after that, man, I don't know
how Georgia Tech even attempts a field goal for the
rest of the year. They missed a forty seven yard

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or pretty badly, and then they got that one blocked,
and it didn't look like it ever really had much
of a chance uh that field goal. So this was
I thought kind of a a messy game from the
get go. It ended up being wildly entertaining. I give
props to college football in general for what I think
is one of the best opening weekends in the universe

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of sports. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, UH five
straight days of awesomeness. By the way, hate to brag.
Gambling Picks finished twelve and three UH for the first
week of college football twelve and three pretty fantastic. I'll
have some more gambling picks for you. It's already up
on the OutKick v I p page. You can check
that out OutKick v I p uh inside of our website.

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But in the meantime, Uh, just an awesome week of games.
Bring in Jason Martin. Uh, Jason, any additional thoughts you
had on this game in general? Not really, because honestly,
the trash can ruined it for me. They showed that
thing at least twenty times, probably in the first half alone.

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It was so lame, maybe one of the lamest things
I've ever seen in my life. And it was so
butched Jones. It hurt, like, like it actually physically hurt
to watch, just how pathetic that was. It's just like,
just let these guys play football. Like early in the game,
he's a gimmick guy. Oh you mean, and I hate
gimmick guy because gimmick guys like, I mean, he's like

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a bad used car salesman, right like. And and the
worst thing that gimmick guy is gimmick guy who actually
believes his own gimmicks, right Like, Sometimes coaches talking cliches
all the time, and you wonder, like Okay, are they
just doing that to try to avoid making news Like
Puts Jones talks in cliches all the time and isn't
aware he's talking in cliches. You know that, Like a

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guy who is so not aware of the larger cliche
riddled universe that he uses him and thinks that he's
being profound. That's put Jones. And so I was just like,
I mean, during the game, I was texting people like
in position to prominence, like please just save us from this,
like Tennessee fans were booing at halftime as the team
ran off the field. I mean the defense, I don't.

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I mean, I don't understand how it's possible. I mean
just I mean this, honestly, to spend months preparing for
an offensive attack, right, like I understand the triple option
offense is challenging. It's you have to play your position
and everything else. But you have months to get ready
for it, months to get ready for it, and you

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still give up six hundred and fifty five yards of offense,
the most rushing yards in the history of the University
of Tennessee. All right, five hundred and thirty six yards rushing.
What would they have given up if they had not
been preparing for this four months. I mean, like, what,

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what did they actually aged to accomplish such that they
only gave up six hundred and fifty five yards? Yeah,
it was It was astonishing. Now. I was impressed, certainly
with Marshall in the way he was able to run that,
and I was impressed with Callaway and what he was
able to do as a playmaker for Tennessee, especially in
the second half. He was kind of everything for them.
But I'll analogize the gimmick thing to Breaking Bad. The

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very first episode of Breaking Bad had a ton of
underneath music, had a ton of bed music underneath it.
And I remember hearing Vince Gilligan talking about how the
guy that created the show talking about how he utilized
music in the first episode, and he had friends and
writing friends that sat him down after that episode and said,
do you not trust your writing? And he didn't understand
at the time what that meant, And then later on

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it came to him and he realized, Yeah, the music
is like a defense mechanism. It's like, I don't trust
my script, so I'm gonna put all this extra stuff
in here. Does Butch Jones not trust his script. Does
he not trust his own writing as a head coach,
but he has to talk in cliches that he has
to bring out stuff like ray dumpster trash cans onto

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the sidelines to try and pump up the kids. The
kids know how to play football. But it seems like
Butch Jones. I don't know that it's a distraction, but
it clearly indicates somebody that does it fully buy in
because he has to do this, Like, no, they should
know how to win football games. Yet you've got trash
cans and people slamming footballs into it and all this,

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and it's gonna be the easiest mockery in the world
when they lose. Because when they lose and they've got
this trash can out there, whoever that team is that
beats them, I hope that there's a YouTube video them
slamming like a U T whatever into a trash can,
because it's gonna be the easiest mockery of all time
when they lose. Yeah, I mean, in general, if I
were a coach on the hot seat, if I were

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worried about whether or not I was gonna keep my job,
and if my team frequently played like trash I don't
know that I would put a trash can on the
sidelines and reinforce that existing metaphor by allowing a member
of my staff to run along down the sideline carrying
a gigantic trash can eight seven seven six three six nine.

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Who who should I go to here? First? Travis and Maryland? Yes,
Travis and Maryland. What's up, my man? What's up? Play?
Congrats on the Tennessee win last night. I'm pretty thrilled too,
because you've made me love Tennessee football over the years.
Just because of how much, for better or worse you
talked about them, I began to pull for them. So
congrats last night. I was a happy night in the

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in the Travis household. Yeah, well, look, I mean it was.
I'm in Atlanta, so I got to go to both
of these games. And I will tell you this. I mean,
like the difference between the uh, the competence on the sidelines, um,
you know, for between the Bama F s U game
and the Tennessee Georgia Tech game was seismic, right. I mean,

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I think Nick Saban is so an eternal control whereas
at no point in time did you ever feel confident
on the offensive or defensive sides of the ball with Tennessee.
And I think that's just a function of you know,
it flows down from the head guy and Butch Jones
always running around on the sideline red as can be. Um.
People say, oh, you won the game, you should be excited. Look,

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I mean it's a pyric victory. It's an example of
somebody who wins the battle and loses the war. I
have seen enough of Butch Jones to know that he's
not a guy who's ever gonna win at a high
level at Tennessee. It's just not gonna happen. And I
think that once you know that, the question you have
to ask yourself is what's the purpose of this relationship?
Butch Jones is an eight and four guy. It's like

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dating a girl and knowing that you're not gonna get
married to her. Okay, the relationship can go on or
vice versa. You're dating a guy and you know you're
not gonna marry him, But like, what's the point, right?
Both sides have gotten everything out of this relationship that
they can. I think it's run its course. Butch Jones
is a mid major coach, all right, That's what he is.
He is a mid major coach where he can run

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around on the sideline with garbage cans at places like
Central Michigan and he can sell his gospel of of
of of ineptitude and guys are gonna buy into it.
It doesn't work at a major program in the SEC.
It just doesn't. I mean, Nick Saban is gonna watch
this film and he's gonna look at everything and he's
gonna say, my god, we're gonna rush for four thousand

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yards against these guys. And look. And I'm not saying
that Nick Saban should be the target for most coaches
in college football right now. He shouldn't, but you should
at least have an aspirational idea that your guy can
beat Nick Saban at some point in time. I think
that Butch Jones could coach against Nick Saban a billion
times and go, oh, in a billion, that's how much

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difference I think there is between them. And look, I
think the rest of the SEC East is similar. I
think it's a big pile of garbage. And so maybe
that was efficient and effective that Tennessee had a garbage can,
because not just representing them, it's also how far everybody
else in the SEC East has fallen that really, I
mean literally every team is capable of beating another team.
There is no excellence at all in this division. The

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most unbelievable part about last night's me Like you heard
the annunce. You're saying, oh, it's been half spring ball
preparing for the triple options and books jars. It looks
literally literally looks like the line I told Jason, like
books jars might have been like playing quarterback, like in
those practices, Like that's how bad they looked against the
triple options. They look But what possibly were they doing

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to prepare, Like was the garbage can the quarterback? Like
what were they doing to prepare for the triple option
to look that? Like the immediately when they run it
last night and let a quarterback run for two hundred
fifty yards? That's unacceptable. Yeah, look, I mean I agree,
And again my question would be, you gave up six
and fifty five yards of offense or whatever the number was,

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how many yards thanks for the call? How many yards
would they have given up if they hadn't ever prepared
at all and they had just rolled out, Like if
I had been coaching this team on the defensive side
of the ball, and I had like a week to
get them ready. How many more yards could I give up?
I mean it's not like it's it's not like it
is inconceivable what they are going to do from one
play the next. Jimmy and Tennessee, what's up Jimmy doing?

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And thinking four years old? Wait till next year? My
time is running out? What is it gonna take to
get this man? Fire? Eight and four? Are Are they
going to be satisfied with that? Again? You know what? Um?
I think in general, in all honesty, thanks for the call,
I think that if you are a rational Tennessee fan,

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you need to just have it. They need to get divorced.
They need to find Butch Jones another job and just
have him leave. Right. I think it's gonna get ugly
this year. I know people are saying, well, they won
last night, and you're talking like this. This is like
seeing into the future. This was a performance that was
so bad. It's written the stars that things are not
going to go well for Tennessee and Butch Jones in

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the games ahead this year. They're gonna be a lot
of ugly performances. Now, maybe the SEC East is so
bad that Butch Jones and Tennessee will contend for the
SEC East. I think that's probably likely. But they're gonna
be contending for the SEC East not as like a
ten in two or eleven and one team in an
ideal universe like you would enjoy seeing. Probably not even

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as a nine and three team. They're gonna be contending
as an eight and four team. And this is an
s I think the SEC eas this year will be
one with a five and three record, and I think
Tennessee is capable of getting to five and three because
there are a lot of bad teams that will be
playing against. And then you know what's gonna happen. They're
gonna get in the SEC title game whoever gets in there,
and they're gonna get beaten, bloody and senseless by Alabama.

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Like I can already tell you the future eight seven, seven, six,
three six nine. Let's bring in Eddie Garcia. Eddie, am
I being too unkind here? You were up watching this game?
Was this? Uh? Was this as ugly to you? Well,
you've seen a lot more Tennessee football than I have,
so I will defer to you. But look, Tennessee won
the game, give him credit, but they could have very

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easily lost this game. It wasn't should have should have
lost this The only thing you can say for them
is that they found a way to win a game
that they did not deserve to win. I can't argue
with that. I cannot argue with that. But if if
people didn't see the final score, it was number twenty
five Tennessee edging Georgia Tech one in double overtime. Now,
Georgia Tech did miss at late field goal that would
have won the game. Tennessee did rally down fourteen points

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in the fourth quarter to force the overtime, and the
Yellow Jackets went for the win on a two point
conversion in that second overtime and they were stopped. So
Tennessee escapes with the victory. Some baseball games and known
the American League, the Indians won their twelfth game in
are Obedi in the White Sox five to three. Yankees
down the Orioles seven to four in New York's now
two and a half back of Boston. The Al East
as A Red Sox lost to the Blue Jays tend

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to four, and the Angels I'll score the A's eleven
to four to move a half game out of that
second wild card spot in the American League behind Minnesota
because the Twins lost to the Rays eleven to four,
and Clay We are still awaiting the arbitrators ruling on
the Ezeko Elliott case. We are told that could come
down any time now. The NFL Network reported that a
ruling has to come down before four pm Eastern time
or Elliott will be eligible play in Week one. And

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the NFL has followed a motion to this Smiths Elliot's
federal court case that was earlier this morning. So we're
still waiting to find out about the Esekiel Elliott arbitration case. Yeah. Look,
I mean I think he's probably gonna get a suspension
reduced a little bit, but I still think thanks Eddie
Garcia for the break there, I still think that he's
gonna face a legitimate suspension. And I don't believe he's capable.

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We talked a little bit about this when the lawsuit
was filed. I don't believe he's capable of winning this lawsuit.
I mean, I understand the purpose of it, and I
understand what he's trying to trying to do here, and
I don't blame him. You guys know, listen to this
show that I've been telling you for a long time
that there is no in my opinion basis whatsoever for
the NFL to be suspending guys for non criminal activity

(28:41):
that occurs off the field and has nothing to do
with the actual game of football itself. But the players
acquiesced to Roger Goodell having that power in their collective
bargaining agreement. And so what I would bet if I
were gonna bet, I bet Ezekiel Elliott suspension gets knocked
down to three or four games on on appeal, and
that he then agrees to serve those three or four

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crew out in l A here Uh, we've got Danny
g and we've got Justin. Did you guys stay up
and watch the entirety of that game between Tennessee and
Georgia Tech. Yeah, I definitely might be an unkind No,
not at all. I was surprised that Tennessee pulled it out.
And if I'm to Kawan Marshall, I'm so piste off
this morning. What that was his first college start? Right,
Clay fantastic five t d s and he loses. And

(30:57):
then I was gonna ask you John Kelly, And of
course I love watching running backs play. Did you know
that that dude was such a beast? Yeah? Look, he
showed a lot of flashes last year. I mean in
particular and however many overtime game. It was against Texas
A and m John Kelly came in and ran for
a ton of yard. So I think Tennessee's got a
lot of talent. I mean, that's what I'm saying. Butch
Jones has not left the cupboard. Bear right. He has

(31:19):
taken them to eight and four. I'm not sure that
he's ever going to get over the eight and four
type pump. Uh. The last two years he had a
better team than he does this year, and they both
went eight and four and then won bowl games to
go to nine and four. They are certainly good enough
to get to eight and four. I think it's just
time for both to acknowledge, you know what, this is
his fifth year now at Tennessee, and I think it's
time for him to acknowledge that he's not gonna ever

(31:42):
take the next step. And for Tennessee, it's like a
relationship that's run its course. Tennessee should say, hey, thanks
for getting us back to being decent. Now we need
to go find the guy who can take us to
the proverbial next level. And who do we think that
guy is. Well, chip Kelly's sitting out there on the sidelines.
I think Chip Kelly at the University of Tennessee. It's
a Nike school. I think it makes too much sense

(32:02):
not to happen. Bring in Chip Kelly. He can go
get Mark Helfrichard offensive coordinator. He can remake this Tennessee
offense in a hurry, and I think he can win
at a really high level. And I think that's what's
gonna happen. Chip Kelly's gonna go coach somewhere new And
I've been saying this for a long time. In college football,
the coach is the equivalent of a quarterback. In the NFL,
all that matters is your quarterback. In college football, all

(32:24):
that matters is your head coach. And right now, Tennessee's
got a head coaches and eight and four. Guy. If
they got Chip Kelly, they'd be able to win ten
eleven games a year, and they'd have one of the
six or seven I believe best coaches in college football.
Over time, the quality of your head coach and the
dictates that he sets determine whether or not a team
wins at a high level. And I think somebody's gonna

(32:45):
get Chip Kelly. If I'm Tennessee, it's time to make
that play. I've seen enough. I saw enough against Georgia Tech.
I know what's gonna happen this year. I've seen this, UH,
seen this storyline to play out again and again before
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talk about man, what an unbelievable situation. Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday and now Monday, five straight gay days of outstanding games.
Let's go to Kyle in Ohio. Kyle, what's up? Yes? Uh,
glad believe I got a good fix for Tennessee's program.
If I was in charge to be going after Peyton Manny,

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I mean, have him me the head coach. I know
you don't have any head coach experience, but you on
the face of the program to be here. You know,
somebody the media likes that can get recruits, you can
run an offense. I think that's a good start. I
know you must not do good for the first year,
a couple of years, but why not. They haven't been
good for a long time. Yeah, you know what I mean.

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There's a lot of people out there that that their
dream is Peyton Manning coming back to college football and
that he would basically be a modern day this generation
Steve Spurrier, Right, Steve Spurrier came back to the University
of Florida and was phenomenal in taking the Gators program
from decades of obsolescence to immediate relevance. I mean, Steve Spurrier,

(34:39):
I believe, took over the Florida Gators in and one
of the big problems that Florida faces now is that
their program is perpetually caught in the fun and gun cycle. Uh,
you need to not just win at Florida, you need
to culturally make and play an exciting brand of football.
And that's all directly connected to the decade of dominance

(35:01):
that Steve Spurrier established from about two thousand one with
the Gators, and so Urban Meyer came in and eventually
was able to to win two national titles, but at
the end of his tenure they were really bad. And
then you had Will must Champ and now you have
Jim mcwain and those are incredibly defensive, kind of forward

(35:22):
facing football teams ever since Tim Tebow left. And so
I think that's the challenge that the Gators are gonna face.
In general, I have no idea what's gonna happen when
Tennessee and Florida play in two weeks. I think it's
totally a toss up. Game. I don't think either team
is very good. And to see the descent to which
this rivalry has fallen from, you know, back in the

(35:44):
nineties where this was basically the equivalent of a playoff game. Uh.
You know, Tennessee wins the title in ninety eight, Florida
wins the title in UH six, and down the stretch
those years, both those teams were involved in so many
championship caliber uh content test and now you've got basically
both programs descended to the point where I think, you know,

(36:06):
both teams Florida and Tennessee's fans are gonna be watching
this game with their hands over their face, like kind
of peeking through their fingers, because it's just, uh, it's
a pale shadow of the game that it used to be,
and the SEC used to be frank as a pale
shadow of the division that it used to be. But
Georgia used to be great, Tennessee used to be great,
Florida certainly was great. Uh. And now all those programs

(36:29):
are trying to be great again, and as a result,
there none of them are any good at all. I mean,
you remember those games, Jason Martin, when Tennessee Florida was
like the game one of the top rivalries in all
of college football. And now I mean with Butch Jones
there and with Jim mcwain, I mean, I just feel
like it's a it's a it's a poor approximation of

(36:51):
what used to be with Phil Fulmer and Steve Spurrier
and Tennessee fans. It's funny used to be furious with
Phil Fulmer when they would go like ten and two,
are eleven and one and lose to the Florida Gators.
Now that first year when Butch Jones won eight games,
they want to put up a statue to them. I mean,
it's crazy how expectations have changed and fallen to such

(37:11):
an extent at the University of Tennessee UM and UH.
And the same thing is true with Florida. I mean,
Florida fans would have never been ecstatic or excited about
the opportunity that they're gonna go nine and three back
their way into the SEC's championship and then get beat
downs from Alabama to straight years where they never had
a chance to win that game, right. I mean, it's

(37:31):
just it's amazing to see how far those two programs
have fallen. And as a result the SEC East as well. Yeah,
that's absolutely true. I mean the Florida Tennessee game, even
before I lived in this area, when I was growing
up in the Carolinas, I just remember that being maybe
even before I really paid attention to the CBS Saturday
afternoon game. I just recalled that game being there at

(37:53):
three thirty or four thirty Eastern time where I was
growing up and just tuning in and paying attention, sitting
down with my dad or sitting down with friends as
I got a little bit older, and watching Tennessee in
Florida and hating Florida, especially because I always hated Spurrier
for some reason at that point in time, and watching
just the talent flowing through on both sides of the field,
on both sides of the football. Those games were just

(38:16):
flat out slobber knockers from starting to finish, and those
teams and the passion of those fan bases is still there,
which is why it's almost sad that there's not more
vitriol geared towards mediocrity, because neither one of those programs
right now can be considered elite. I mean, what did
we just see? We saw Tennessee kinda win last night,

(38:37):
and we saw Florida get just trounced by the fighting
Hardballs on Saturday afternoon. How many times did they show
that Malik zay Ear play where he got blindside in
the end zone when they were doing montages last night.
I mean, that was that was a microcosm of that
Florida game. That was an utter embarrassment for them. And
of course they're gonna play in a few weeks and
everybody's gonna talk it up in this area. Is certainly

(38:58):
like it's gonna be a huge game, but it may
be because as you said, I think you're right. I
think five and three probably wins. And that's sad, like
that's not the way the East should be. It should
not be that unbalanced in the SEC, where the West
is really the only thing you need to pay attention to. Well,
I mean, really, what's happened is that there has been
a destruction of the league in general by Nick saban Uh.

(39:20):
The SEC coaching ranks have been thinned out because everybody's
trying to beat Nick saban and as a result, mediocrity
and even just good has been kicked to the curb.
Whether it was Phil Fulmer, Mark Rick urban Meyer obviously
had his health issues and left all of these guys
less Miles who won at fairly high levels historically for
their programs were shown the way to the exit door,

(39:42):
and they haven't been replaced by anybody who was as good. Okay,
I've got several things for you. Top of our two
We're gonna talk about the ten best teams in my opinion,
my OutKick Top ten after week one. I'll also tell
you and saved by the Bell fashion. Now that week
one is in the books, who should be most excited
and who should be most scared? Who was the best

(40:02):
and who was the worst? A and M Florida, Tennessee.
Who should be the most scared out there of all
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here talking about Tennessee's somewhat miraculous forty two to forty
one double overtime win over Georgia Tech. What it means
going ahead? But I said we would set the overall
parameters now of the college football universe, now that we
have had games take place on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, five straight game days of glorious college football action.

(41:14):
If you are like I am, a college football fan,
and if we're gonna do that, which we are every
single Monday, I'll bring you the OutKick Top ten. Now, Inevitably,
when I bring you the OutKick Top ten, a lot
of people are gonna listen, and they're not gonna understand
what I do here with the OutKick top ten the
way that I do the top ten. Okay, I'm gonna

(41:35):
say this, and then people are not gonna understand it.
You're gonna be tweeting me complaining. Listen closely. There may
be a reading comprehension test given when I do the
top ten. What I do is rank based entirely on
games that have taken place on the field. That is,
I'm not telling you who I think is the best.
I'm judging based on what's taking place on the field.

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And how do you judge? How do you uge early
in a college football season? You give credit to road, neutral,
or maybe home games, which are wins over Big five
conference opponents. All right, by and large, there is a
two tier system in college football. There's the five major conferences,

(42:18):
the SEC, the A, c C, the Big Ten, the
Pack twelve, and the Big twelve, and then there's the rest. Okay,
So when I look at what's happening, especially early in
the season before conference play really takes off, what I
look at is did you play a Big five conference opponent?
And if so, how did you perform? So with that

(42:39):
in mind, here is my top ten. Do we have
any top ten music? Yes, there we go, there we go,
big time top ten music breaking in there in the background.
Number ten in the OutKick pole of the ten best
college football teams, Washington. I know they went on the
road and they just beat Rutgers, But last time I checked,
Rutgers is actually a Big ten football team, and I

(43:00):
know Rutgers is awful, but there were not very many
bcs FBS top five conference wins. So Washington I've got
a ten. I've got the Virginia Tech Hokies at nine.
By the way, that means that I do not have
Tennessee or Georgia Tech in my top ten. I don't
think either team deserved to be in the top ten.

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So even though Washington wasn't very good against Rutgers, they
don't deserve to be in the top ten. Virginia Tech
I have at nine. Number eight, I've got U c
l A. Ultimately, that's basically a vote for my guy,
Josh Rosen. I'm sorry, Aggy fans, but he was phenomenal
in the fourth quarter. Number seven overall, I got L
s U. B y U is basically a shadow top

(43:44):
five conference team, and this was a beat down of
epic order. A lot of you didn't notice because it
happened late on the night on Saturday. Do you know
the b y U got held to less than a
hundred yards of total offense and L s you put
up nearly five hundred. That was a dominant, strangling defense
from L s U. I've got l s U at

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number seven, Number six will must Champs Boys. I don't
think again, I do not think South Carolina is a
very very good football team. They're not the sixth best
team in the country in my eye test, but they
beat n C State and they looked much improved, so
as a result of actual on field play. Again, I

(44:26):
do something radical here with my poll. I only rate
teams based on what they do on the field, not
based on whether or not I think they're good. I've
got South Carolina at number six, which ties in with
my number five team, Maryland. My Maryland. The Terrapins went
down to Texas and put up fifty one points on

(44:47):
the Texas Longhorns. Longhorns are not back. I've got Maryland
at number five, number four. DeAndre Francoise injury is probably
gonna have them falling down quite a bit. But I
did not penalize Florida State for starting off the season
by playing against Alabama. So I have the Florida State
Sentinals at number four overall. Ohio State buck Eyes at three.

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They took control of that game on the road against Indiana.
One of the few teams out there in college football
who has already played a conference game. Then I've got
the Michigan Wolverines at two, and I've got the Alabama
Crimson tied at one. I thought through Week one, by
far the two most impressive teams in college football were

(45:29):
Alabama and Michigan. What Alabama did against Florida State and
what Michigan did against Florida was they established dominance and
looked to be again through one week, the best two
teams in college football. All right, that's the out kick
top ten. Now who should be really nervous? I'll go

(45:50):
around the horn and get you guys teams as well.
It's one week. People say, well, you don't want to
overreact to one week, and I understand that argument. But
there's only twelve weeks of college football. So when is
it okay to overreact after three games? After four games?
My argument would be, we spend a lot of time

(46:11):
overreacting to things that don't actually matter, i e. They
aren't games. So when we actually get games to react to,
I don't think it's possible to overreact because you only
have twelve games in general to react to, only twelve
guaranteed weeks a year. Can you watch your team play
in college football? And have an opinion on them. So

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I don't think you can overreact. That's my personal opinion.
So if I had to pick a couple of teams
that to me should be incredibly nervous. One Tennessee. I
know Tennessee one, but I think if you're a Tennessee
football fan, this was a victory that also had built
within it an awful lot of seeds of defeat. This

(46:54):
performance on the defensive side of the ball will have
sec offensive coordinators licking their chops. I know it's a
complicated defense to defend. I know it's a schematic based defense,
but there was nothing about this performance at all that
made anybody excited that I can see to think that

(47:14):
this defense is gonna be any good at all. So
I'd be very nervous. If I was Tennessee, I would
also be very nervous. The most nervous. The most nervous
number one on my Oh, this is a real season
list based on all of the games that were played.
The Florida Gators. I think Florida is gonna be awful.
I don't think they have a quarterback. I don't think

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their defense is what it was last year. I think
that floor the Florida Gators in the midst of a
really mediocre to bad SEC East are gonna be really,
really bad. And so if I had to push the
panic button on one team coming out of Week one,
it would be the Florida Gators. Now you can say,

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I know Antonio Callaway was suspended a wide receiver. You
can a Jordan Scarlett out at running back. He wasn't there.
It's gonna be a totally different team when those guys
get back. You're wrong. We have seen this team play
for three years now in the Jim mcwaen system, and
other than a couple of games where Will Greer came
out and looked like he was gonna be really good

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and by the way, he looks like he's gonna be
pretty good for West Virginia too, and they're loss against
Virginia Tech. Will Greer did, Florida has looked really bad,
and that's unfortunate because they brought in Jim mcwain to
be the offensive mastermind that was going to right their ship,
and instead he looks like he basically rode Will must

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Champs defensive players in year one. In year two, and
now most of that defense has started to graduate the
recruiting has not been as good, and there's been a
drop off on the defensive side of the ball, while
the offensive side of the ball has not gotten better.
That's a bad combination. So if all the teams out
there pushed the panic button after a week one, I'm

(48:57):
hitting it on the Florida Gators. Who you got, Jason Martin,
Who would you be the most nervous about after a
week one? Well, because I mean what you just said
is true, But I'll say Texas because there I don't
know what the expectations are for Tom Herman right out
of the gate, but based on what he did to
Houston and how excited they were to get him down here,

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and even the stuff in the off season with the
new media regulations and all that we were talking about
gimmicks with Butch Jones. The stuff with the media is
not gonna help you win or lose football games either way.
So they're focusing on that and then they give up
fifty one to Maryland and don't look particularly good in
doing so. I thought Michelle would remember we saw Michelle
in the first game last year against Notre Dame and
we're like, Wow, this kid can play, and it's not

(49:41):
that he necessarily can't, but there's still a lot of
things that they're gonna have to do, and it's gonna
take time in Texas, and that's not a fan base
that generally gives you all that much time. So if
I'm Texas, I don't feel particularly good right now either,
although I think the Florida situation is much more dire
because that offense. Are they ever gonna have another offense?

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Or was Tim Tebow the end of it? Like when
he left, did he take all of the offense with
him and he's never gonna let them have it again
because they've been putrid pretty much ever since that point.
They had that one little flash with Will Greer and
then they excommunicated him, and since that point they've been
an absolute disaster. Yeah, the one thing I would say
it's it's a great point. The one thing I would

(50:23):
say in favor of Texas is at least it's a
brand new coach. To me, the Gators are exactly what
you think they are, right. They are the team that
Jim mcowaene has created. In year three, that's a big
difference to me. You hit the panic button in year three.
Brand new coach in year one. I would say the
same thing about Baylor, right they lost all liberty, brand

(50:43):
new situation there, a new coach. A lot of times
we were Nick Saban lost too, was at Louisiana Monroe
in year one when they went seven and six his
first year with Alabama, and then in year two they
took off. So sometimes those growing pains happened. I understand
if you're a Texas fan, you're like, man, why are
we so bad? Like why have we go seventy nine
and eleven with Colt McCoy and then or fifty four

(51:07):
and forty six ever since he left Colt McCoy got injured,
that is in that title game against Alabama. I totally
get it, But that to me is probably the biggest
the biggest takeaway there. It's a good argument Texas should
be nervous. The one thing I would push back on
is at least Texas is still in the infancy of
their program with Tom Herman, whereas Florida is what Jim

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mcawaine has created. L A anybody that you guys think
should be really nervous in the college football universe, Danny
g Or justin a team that comes to mind. Well,
agree with you guys on Texas and Florida and of
course close to home here because of what happened at
the Rose Bowl. Texas A and M was the first
team that comes to mind. You plent spent plenty of

(51:51):
time yesterday morning talking about someone he's gonna have to
salvage what at least a nine win season to keep
his job and maybe not even keep it after that
star calls out. We don't know what mun can do.
He was highly recruited, but he looks like more of
a rushing quarterback then a guy that you know can
throw the ball a lot Starkle and Donovan Wilson the dB.

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They're both out for a long period of time, both
needing surgery. So just bad news all the way around
for Texas A and M. Yeah, I agree with you
on A and M. I think that they're coming back
from his crippling of a loss as they had UM.
I think it's gonna be really difficult for them to
kind of right the ship. And obviously Kevin Sumlin is
up against it. In terms of hot seat talk. He

(52:34):
would be owed eleven point to five million dollars if
he's bought out. Uh. Within sixty days. We already had
one of the ten members of the Texas A and
M Board of Regents go public on Facebook and Twitter
with the fact that he believed that Kevin Sumlin should
be fired. I think that's crazy after one game. But
obviously Kevin Sumlin and UH and the Aggies are in

(52:56):
rough shape, just in any teams at all, So I
would agree three bit, by the way, three pretty big
programs right after a week one Florida, Texas and Texas
A and M. Three of our programs where you need
to push the panic button, any program at all for
you justin Well, I'm sure you guys talked about it
a little bit when I was gone yesterday, But for
for most of the game, I was pretty uh nervous

(53:18):
slash upset watching USC, and for most of the game
as well, just for Sam Donald, I was like, man,
it doesn't look like a Heisman winner this year. But
you know they you know, pulled away at the end,
so I'm still hopeful. So you're hitting the pants. See
I I think USC like it's hard to get up
for Western Michigan. I will reserve judgment on USC until

(53:41):
I see one. What's going to happen? To get Stanford
this weekend, because Stanford has out physical usc to a
large extent for the past several years, and so I
think I want to see what happens in that game.
And then also Texas, because I think Texas could bounce
back as poorly as they played against Maryland with a
new coach and a relatively young team. They don't have

(54:02):
great memories, and so the fact that they lost week
one is not really going to have that much of
an impact to them in week two or three. If anything,
it makes them realize they need to listen maybe to
their new coaching staff more than they have been. Eight
seven seven, Well, actually, or what are we doing here?
Do we go Alex Marvez next? Or are we gonna
go to him still at the bottom of the hour? Okay,

(54:23):
he's up next, so we'll talk If you're ready for
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We're expecting a ruling at some point today before four o'clock.
We will talk to him about NFL Week one. A
lot of bad quarterbacks out there, and certainly unproven quarterbacks
in terms of who's gonna be taking the field for

(54:45):
a lot of teams out there that are in the
Josh Rosen, Sam Donald h Josh Allen, maybe Lamar Jackson sweepsteaks,
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I'm gonna start with that question for you. You You probably
didn't expect things to go spectacularly well against Michigan, but
you've been watching and the Gators play for a while.
Where did that performance rank? It wasn't as horrible as
some like a must Champ like performance. You know, everything
has to be judged on the scale of Will must
Champ okay, because you know, we lost to Georgia Southern
without the opponent having attempted to pass. So when we

(56:16):
talk about low moments there, when you talk about falling
behind to Furman Ferman, okay, under Will must Champ giving
up twenty two points in the first quarter, everything goes
from there and goes down. You know, the reality is
that I thought that I thought they were outplayed, I
thought they were out coached, I thought they were out
flast I mean, you know, those high are package to
me was something that should have been used on a
limited basis, expecting an offense that has ted kids suspended

(56:40):
to basically run two different types of offenses. Was was
silly Not sticking with Philippe Franks wasn't a great idea either.
In the defense got worn down. I mean that's what
it is. It's not a great Florida team, But I
don't think the sky is falling right now, and they
look a whole lot better once those kids come back,
if if they come back, by the way, from these suspensions. Yeah, no, kidding, Right,

(57:00):
Let's shift into the NFL. It's officially eat NFL Week one,
and the biggest story by far is what is going
to happen with Ezekiel Elliott. What is the latest that
you were hearing about his appeal about the potential suspension?
What is his play going to be? Here? Well, I
have right in front of me in the United States
District Court from the Eastern Division of Texas, Sherman Division,

(57:21):
the legal paperwork fired filed late last night uh from
by the NFL basically saying you cannot issue a temporary
restraining order against the Ezekiel Elliott suspension if you don't
even know what the punishment is yet And basically that's
the NFL's argument against the NFL p A, you know,
And so we'll find out what happens with that court
ruling and at the NFL it gets you received positively,

(57:44):
then we're just gonna sit here and wait on Harold
Henderson to make up his mind. And is he going
to do it before the season opener? How quickly is
this going to come about? And listen, this is a
mess for the Dallas Cowboys from a coaching standpoint. You
have to go into the week with two different game plans,
one that has Zeke Elliott and one that doesn't, and
that may not bode well for you right there. And listen,
Zeke Elliott, this was not a good week for him.

(58:06):
You know. When the NFL p A decided that they
were going to file a lawsuit against the NFL, claiming
that that Roger Goodell made a decision without knowing all
the facts, that the league bungled the investigation. They filed
the paperwork that exposed everything that went involved in the
NFL's investigation, and the collateral damage is pretty immense. Once again,
Urban Meyern no idea what his players are doing off

(58:26):
the field, or he simply doesn't care. Uh, you know
you have that. You have Braxton Miller getting involved in this.
His name was mentioned in the report as Bryant's agent
Rocky Arsenal or one of the people he knows was
in this. And we found out about what a what
a deviant is v Kellyot is when it comes to
the ladies. So, I mean, listen, it's I think that
when you read that, it was it was just pretty

(58:48):
darn damning. Everything that was going on was zke Elliott
and listen to the NFL and not happy the way
he's living his life, and it's like, you know, this league,
they're trying to legislate morality. Come on, Well, what's also
amazing about this is I think he's getting bad legal
advice because you can disagree with the NFL's decision, and look,
I think a lot of people do, including me, but
not disagree with the fact that they have the authority

(59:08):
to make that decision. And I think that's an important
distinction that a lot of people are missing out here. Look,
the NFL has the authority you conduct investigations and make
its own determination about whether or not players have violated
the NFL Personal Conduct Policy. That's what they get the
authority to do under the Personal Conduct Policy in the
NFL Players Association Agreement. Now, you still have to be

(59:31):
uh somewhat uh, you know, generous in terms of how
you apply that standard. You can't be totally arbitrary and capricious.
But that's a really tough standard to meet, and given
what you just said, all the facts at play here,
I think a lot of people can look at this
and say, hey, I may not agree with Roger Goodell's decision,
but I definitely appreciate and understand he has the right

(59:53):
to make that decision, and that hurdle getting over that
burden is really really difficult for Ezekiel Elliott to do,
and in fact, I don't think you can do it,
and so as a result, I think that suspension stands.
If I were him, I'd say, look, hope you get
a suspension reduction during your appeal, and if you get that,
just take it, serve your suspension, and try to stay
out of trouble in the years ahead. I agree with

(01:00:15):
you and listen, but understand, like you know, how Mongo
was pawned and game of life back in the days
of Blazing saddles Alex Harris in the nineteen seventies. Well
zeq Elliett a bit of a pawn by the NFL
Players Association when you think about what this union has
done to try to attack Article forty six and what
they agreed to and collect a bargaining giving Roger Goodell
this type of power. They are looking for that one

(01:00:36):
case that is going to provide that crack of daylight
for them to attack Roger Goodell's power. And they couldn't
get it done with Tom Brady. They had short term
success in the district corporate. As you know, federal courts
are much much more in favor of the business side
of things. The the more, not the union, but obviously
the company that has that agreement, you know, the other

(01:00:56):
governing body, however you want to call it, the nfl
p A, keeps looking for that one case that's gonna
say nope, Roger Goodell overstepped his bounds, and then every
case at that point can be attacked by Adam. You
render Article forty six a bit useless. Listen at the
NFL p A is all that unhappy about this. Then
go to the mat next time and say we're not
gonna deal with a collective bargaining agreement until Roger Goodell's
all with that power, They're not going to do it,

(01:01:17):
no kidding. I mean, you agreed to give him this
power in your bargaining agreement. If you were that upset
with the idea, then get your union to stand up
and say we're not going to give him the power
to have this unilateral suspension authority, which he clearly does
under the existing NFL collective bargaining agreement. So it's hard
for this affects of the players playing at best. Out

(01:01:42):
of two thousand players, most guys are doing things right.
It's it's the knuckleheaded guys that it supplies to. But
it becomes a much bigger deal when it comes to
Roger Goodell because he's an easy punching bag. Yeah. And also,
I mean that's the way every union works, right, And
I've always said that I used to do some work
for these guys back in the day. Uh not the
NFL p A, but unions sometimes in general, every union

(01:02:04):
is only as strong as its weakest link. And most
of the time union spend defending awful employees. Right, That's
how you end up what you end up doing whether
you're a you know, whether you're on a union right
now making cars, or whether you're on a union in
the NFL you don't. Or you're a doctor, or you're
a or you're a lawyer or whatever like group represents

(01:02:25):
you collectively, you don't end up defending the people who
do their job right, and that's the vast majority of
your members. You end up fighting for the guys who
are screwing up. And that's that's obviously what the NFL
p A is doing as well. Let me bring in
my guy, Eddie Garcia here. Can you stick with us?
A little bit of Alex marvezan elipside here? All right,
let's see if he let's see if he has been
you known, latterally suspended by me or Roger Goodell or

(01:02:47):
anybody else. Eddie is still able to play. I'm still
able to play, thankfully. But we'll see how the rest
of the show goes. You never know. Kid. In college
football last night, Number Tennessee gets by Georgia Tech forty
one and double overtime, Tennessee rallying around fourteen points the
fourth quarter to force the overtime. They did get a
break with a missed field goal late and then then
stop the Yellow Jackets on the game win a two

(01:03:09):
point in version attempt in that second overtime to get
to win baseball games. And note in the America League,
Indians of one twelve straight after beating the White Sox
five to three, Yankees down the Orioles seven to four.
New York's now two and a half back of Boston
in the AL East raising the Red Sox lost to
the Blue Jays tend to four, and the Angels outscore
the A's eleven and nine to move a half game
out of that second wild card spot in the American League.
By in Minnesota, the Twins lost to the Rays eleven

(01:03:30):
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But we're now keeping an eye on Hurricane Irma in
the Southeast Atlantic and I know that uh that uh.
The NFL is exploring the possibility of moving the season

(01:03:52):
opener between the Buccaneers and Dolphins. Maybe moving up to
Thursday or Friday, or maybe moving to a different side altogether. Yeah,
that's a good point, and obviously there's I appreciate that,
Eddie Garcia. There's a lot of you out there that
listen in South Florida who are obviously very nervous about
what might happen with Hurricane Irma. I think a category
four right now moving through the Caribbean. I used to
live in the United States Virgin Islands, and I know

(01:04:14):
they're in the eye of that hurricane, and then Puerto
Rico is up next. Um and I know you lived
in South Florida for a long time. Is this something
you're paying attention to, Alex And obviously there's it's a
it's a small part of the overall impact, but there
potentially is a substantial sporting impact going on here as well,
with the NFL having to make decisions about games. Oh,

(01:04:34):
absolutely right about that. In yes, indeed, I'm trying to
sell a house down there, so they're not putting the
shingles on the roof so we don't risk them getting
blown away. But you know, this reachs havoc with teams
as well as far as Okay, you want to get
the game in but you want to be safe, you
have to have emergency workers, people who work at the
stadium's play. It's so much more than just a game.
I mean, there's roughly a thousand people that have to
get to the stadium that work in some form or

(01:04:56):
fashion in terms of concessions, in terms of police e
m t s all of those folks, so you know,
and they're gonna in some of them quite honestly, from
a law enforcement standpoint or a safety you know, ambulances,
et cetera. These folks may be on call as it
is during a storm. So it puts a lot of
strain and a lot of folks. Some speculation, would they
move the game to Orlando, for example, and then the
Dolphins for them, they essentially lose a home contest at

(01:05:18):
that point because there'll be a lot of Tampa Bay
Bucks fans will going then take that our trip over
from the coast. So yeah, it's it's alarming. And then
what you don't know as well, once if it can
get into the Gulf of Mexico, well then what happens
then last thing we need is that thing going back
through Houston. And listen, you can't discount that possibility either,
So some scary times be safe. All the water's gone
by the way at Sam's Club and games tho when

(01:05:38):
I went yesterday and for some reason, frozen green beans. Also,
do you have any really people are already stocking up
even in Gainesville. Yeah, all the water's gone and the
frozen green beans. I just didn't I didn't get that. Uh,
maybe they never die. I have no idea. Speaking of
never die, there are a lot of NFL fandoms that
probably should die based on who the quarterback so are.

(01:06:00):
I thought it would probably be instructive. I mean, everybody
knows the Bradys, the the Matt Ryan's, the Cam Newton's,
the Russell Wilson's of the world, the guys who have
been starting for their teams for several years. But can
you give us a rundown of some of the guys
like the Tom Savage is, the Nathan Peterman's who were
out there that I feel like nobody knows and they're

(01:06:21):
actually gonna be starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Come this weekend,
absolutely and listen with Tyrod Taylor still dealing with his
concussion situation. Very real chain set that Nate Peterman fourth
round pick out of pit is going to get the call. Listen,
the reason the Buffalo Bills like him, they thought he
was a really nice fit to run that Kyle Shanahan
type of offense with boots and waggles, and that's what
Rick Dennison runs a long time Mike Shanahan assistant, you

(01:06:43):
know Tyrod Taylor. And it was weird because when you
watch Tyrod this preseason, they kept him in the pocket
a lot and he wasn't very good. That's not Tyrod Taylor.
Specially Now I can understand why not wanting to tip
your hand on the players you're gonna be running in
the regular season. But you know, Tyrod Taylor, I think
it's a short timer. With the Buffalo Bills. You've clearly
see that they are clearing out this roster. Tom Savage,
you know, after four years there in Houston, it's now

(01:07:05):
or never. The guy can run this offense competently. But
you know, when you think about it like this, with
this type of defense, oh you have to do is
not screw it up, right. I mean, yeah, you're gonna
have to make some that some big time plays in
the passing game. And they just gave DeAndre Hopkins forty
nine million dollars guaranteed in the contract extension, the biggest
sum ever given to a wide receiver. So I think
there's something that you know, I think that they are
expecting bigger things. But let's be real here. Tom Savage

(01:07:27):
a placeholder until Deshaun Watson is ready to perform. And
when you go to Indianapolis, look Jacoby Brissette championed by
the Colts and their press release. I think they thought
they were trading for Tom Brady rather than Jacoby Brissette
the way that you read the thing. But you know,
Scott Tolzine is going to get out there, but but
he showed nothing in the preseason. He'll play against the
Rams and listen with this a lot of answerless thing
with Aaron Donald going on. It was thirty years ago

(01:07:49):
that the Rams ended up trading Eric Dickerson because of
a contract dispute. I don't put anything past it at
this point right now, because Aaron Donald is entrenched with
wanting to get that big deal. The Rams basically ignored
paying him Clay this offseason, instead trying to sign guys
in free agency, putting a franchise tag on Tremaine Johnson
for a second straight year. They knew that their big
guy was unhappy with his contract. He's twenty six years old.

(01:08:12):
He's not a young young player on his first contract.
He's older because he came out of school later. It's like,
keep monitoring that situation because at some point, if this
guy is on the move because the RAM still is unsignable,
it wouldn't shock me as good a players Aaron Donald
is what is going along with brock Osweiler? Is this
the saddest I saw people tweeting, like the saddest coming
home story of all time to have brock Osweiler coming

(01:08:34):
back to Denver. I mean, the guy has gone Denver
to Houston, to Cleveland, back to Denver. What's going to
happen with him? Well, first off, how does he store
that thirty seven million dollars he's earned in the meantime?
Because anyone's yeah, you know what I mean. Look, the
guy comes back to Denver, and if anything, this is
the best thing that could have happened him. Thirty one

(01:08:56):
NFL teams probably not a great fit, but for the
Denver because a team that knows his trends and weaknesses,
a team desperate for a backup quarterback who can play
in something happens to Trevor Simmey and the taxi them
lynch out for five weeks. This is perfect. I mean,
he knows Mike McCoy from his time as rookie season
in Denver. He knows Emmanuel Sanders, he knows to Marius Thomas,
and the Broncos know how to camouflage his weaknesses and

(01:09:18):
emphasize his strengths. This is the perfect place for brock
Oswiler to be right now as a backup to try
to get his NFL career back on track. In fact,
I think this might be the most understated signing we've
seen in a while, just in terms of a backup quarterback.
This is great for everybody. The Broncos get someone on
the cheep that can that can play if they need
him to play, and if they can resurrect him. Hey,
this is the best spot for this guy, you know.

(01:09:40):
As for Cleveland when they're the Browns and look long
long day coming for Deshaun Kaiser on Sunday, they just
got a hope of by November December. This young man
is growing and playing good football. Because I don't see
it happening early on. He's just not ready to play.
What else should we be aware of out there? Should
I ask you about Colin Kaepernick at all? I mean,
we haven't talked about him in like a mo here,
but I know he's still a story. Uh at this

(01:10:02):
point in time, is there any reason to believe he's
gonna get signed? A zero reason to believe he's gonna
get signed unless there is a major quarterback injury. I
just don't see him getting a shot at this point.
I think that's that's the stuff. You know, we're if
we're talking to the off field sauce. I mean, yea
Dike Elliott thing is just going to continue to hang
hang over the league in a big time way. You know. Look,
I think too when you saw what happened with this
trade of Jacoby Brissette to the Colts, it's really made

(01:10:25):
me start to wonder, is this Tom Brady's final season
with the doing the Patriots, Because you would think that
if they were going to move on for Jimmy Garoppolo
in eighteen, they'd be grooming Jacoby Brissette for that spot,
and said they trade him for Philip Dorsett, who should
help this team this year. But not exactly a huge
bounty gotten for Jacoby Brissette. So when you look at
the Patriots entering the two thousand eighteen off season, you're

(01:10:47):
gonna have Tom Brady gonna be forty one years old,
and you have Jimmy Garoppolo said to become an unrestricted
free agent. Could there be a succession plan already that
we don't even know about it? We know that just
how bunch of has talked about wanting Tom Brady to
retire she you know, she were is about his long
term safety and the concussion issue and things like that,
and Tom hit a concussion last year being the sportsman
that he is, So I think there is that real

(01:11:08):
possibility that this maybe Tom Brady's final season. This this
one's crazy to me because what do you do with Garoppolo?
Do you franchise tag him and you pay twenty million
dollars to a guy to sit on the bench. If
Brady comes back in what's exactly gonna happen? This percessing
has me really scratching my head as to what the
future of the quarterbacking is in New England. Speaking of
scratching your head, Andrew luck Um, it is difficult to

(01:11:31):
figure out what's going on with the quarterback situation there
with the Colts. Is he going to play at all
in September? How many games is he gonna miss? I mean,
this whole thing has been a very strange story. I
feel like we haven't really spent that much time talking
about his health, but they've done a good job trying
to keep it quiet. Obviously, I believe now he's not
going to play in week one? How long is he

(01:11:52):
actually going to be out? You know, I'm hearing four
weeks will be like the best case scenario. That is
the best case to listen to his shoulder surgery. And
I was told this last December a lot more serious again,
actually was in January after he had it, a lot
more serious than was led on by Jim Mercy, then
led on by Chuck Pogano. Everyone was just being hush
hush about it. And they're saying they're not gonna rush

(01:12:12):
Andrew Luck back, which is smart, and I'm glad to
see that they don't need to redo a Bird Jones
from the nineteen seventies, right, a great quarterback who was
ruined because of arms surgeries and coming back too soon
to play. So to me, I think it's wise what
they're doing with Andrew Luck. It's just that they thought
Scott Tolzeen might be a little bit of a better
backup than what they had. Curtainly he isn't. But we're
gonna sit away. This Colts team not good and I

(01:12:34):
don't know how that bodes for Chuck Pogano. You see
John Harball get a lifeline from the Ravens organization. They
realized he's a guy that could be considered on the
hot seat because they have a lot of injuries there.
No one really knows how Joe Flacco is gonna play
coming back, you know, after missing the preseason early on,
So he gets a one year extension. Not the same
for Chuck Pogano right now, and this when we talk
about coaches hot feed list, he's got to be the

(01:12:55):
guy atop the list in the NFL right now is
that coach. I don't see him getting fired during this season.
But I'll tell you what, at the end of the year,
they the Jim Mercy image to say, you know what, looks,
let Chris Ballard pick his head coach because we were
four and twelve this year. This is this is a
bad Colds team going in the season. Alex Marvezma, man,
we will talk to you next week, and amazingly, next
week we'll have actual NFL games to discuss. Thank you

(01:13:17):
for joining us, man, what's to deal with that trash can?
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(01:14:29):
I was scared, boys and good I thought he thought
I was like this enormous piece of chicken. Dim times
I have. This is animal thunder doog this story. I'm
gonna start off for this one. I couldn't believe this.
Several of you sent it to me. A man in

(01:14:53):
India decided to take a selfie of himself with an elephant.
It did not go well. A shock Barti reportedly been
drinking alcohol before approaching the lone elephant near koor Amanda
Adishas State in eastern India. However, has he tried to

(01:15:14):
take a selfie with the elephant. The animal charged at him,
leaving Mr Bardie running for his life. The incident was
caught on video and I'm watching it right now from
a distance. And the man as he was sprinting after
trying to take his selfie that angered the elephant. He
took off at a full sprint. He was drunk. He fell,

(01:15:38):
The elephant then ran him over and ambulance was called
to the scene. But are selfie taking drunk man died
in route to the airport. Can you believe a worse
way to go than being killed by an elephant after
you decided to get close to him and take a selfie. That,

(01:16:01):
my friends, seems like a really bad way to go.
What do you guys have? What else is out there?
A couple of snake stories of course. Yes, Australian snake
Catcher called to the home of a family who were
shocked to spot a six foot carpet python slithering by
the top of the refrigerator. Okay, on top of the refrigerator.

(01:16:23):
I was afraid it was gonna the skylight story. No,
we're that will never happen again. It'll probably happen tomorrow
now that I just said that. But yes, on top
of a refrigerator, Mackenzie told the Sunshine Coast Daily quote.
Originally he was just relaxing on top, but then he
made it difficult as soon as I touched him. Usually
they just slide off the top of the fridge usually,

(01:16:45):
but he was able to get his head in the
back and wedge into different areas. I don't really like
head grabbing, which I did have to do gently in
the end. So the guy that owned the house that
found a six ft carpet python, which is terrifying in
itself because that intimate that pithons are on carpets. He
just grabbed this thing by the head to get rid
of it, so that's terrible. And he said, oh, well,

(01:17:08):
I left the window open and that's how it climbed in.
So that's one snake story. The other one Alberta, Canada.
A pair of Alberta roommates said they were initially terrified
to find a ball python in their laundry room, right
there by the washer and dryer underneath it, but then
they fell in love with it and gave the two
foot ball python a new home and a new name,

(01:17:28):
t Swift, so they named it after Taylor Swift. And
then they decided since it was an escape pet, they
end up moving the washing machine, used gloves to pick
up the snake, and then quote Stacy says, once we
realized how sweet she is, we both had a good
laugh at how crazy the whole situation was and why
we were so scared. Local vet gave it a clean

(01:17:48):
bill of health, and yes, they then just let it
out in the wild. So another snake relocated, probably back
to where it's going to attack somebody else in the wild.
So that's two snakes stories. They let it in loose
into the wild in Canada? Can pythons just live in
the wild in Canada? Now? Is this what global warming

(01:18:09):
has done to? Where is Alberta? Does anybody know? Back?
I believe Quebec? So, I mean that's cold there. Pythons
would surely freeze to death if you let them outside
in Canada, right, you would think, so, let's hope so
or are they capable? I mean like, it's a it's
a it's a it's a cold blooded predator. Is that

(01:18:30):
al able to have to have snakes now managed to
like be able to withstand cold? That's a bit. That's
a game changer if they have evolved to be able
to withstand cold, Like, I don't know what they could
be thinking in Alberta letting a snake go into just
the wild of Canada. I can't imagine that it would
just be able to survive. I'm just tired of these
people letting snakes back out in the wild, Like when
you catch them, that's one on our side, right, like

(01:18:52):
you you don't let that happen. I don't understand why
people need to have snakes as pets. I don't like,
what are you gaining? Like, I'm down here in Atlanta still,
and they've been having this dragon Con stuff. And I
guarantee you a lot of these dragon con people are
snake people too. Like if you dress up as an adult,
there's a huge overlap with that, and like if you're

(01:19:13):
a Renaissance Festival person, I guarantee you there's a huge
overlap between Renaissance festival people and snake people. Yeah, you're
you know what weird? Actually saw some live action role play.
I saw some larp. What I was dry. I don't
know what that means. You don't know what it means.
I was dressed up his Game of Thrones characters having
sword fights in the middle of the park. I saw

(01:19:34):
it actually like two days ago. I don't know where
exactly I was driving, but I was about to get
on the interstate here in Nashville, and I look over
to my right and I see like a bunch of
people and cloaks having fake sword fights in the park.
That's the first time I've ever seen that in person.
You don't know what took up. I've never heard the
term larp. Uh role models the movie. I haven't seen

(01:19:59):
that movie, you know, I haven't really seen very many
movies ever. Since I had kids, Like, I just missed
lots of movies, Like I saw everything before, like to
to two thousand and six. There's seven since then, I
haven't seen anything. My life just kind of comes to
a start once I had kids. What's the time situation here?
We're almost going to break? Are we? Yes? We are
to the end? Yeah? All right? Voicemails coming up. The

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on this news which doesn't have anything to do with sports,
but we have a lot of listeners in South Florida
and beyond who are paying attention to this. They have
updated Hurricane Irma. This is the latest news to a

(01:21:08):
category five hurricane with winds of up to a hundred
and seventy five miles an hour. We're talking with Alex
Marvez an hour to about the sports impact that could
come into play here. But this is potentially one of
the strongest storms to ever come in the direction of
the United States. Now, if you know exactly what happens

(01:21:32):
with hurricanes, it's still several days out there. I used
to live and practice law in the United States Virgin
Islands out in the middle of the Caribbean Ocean, and
it was wild to to be on a tiny island
out there during hurricane season. And reports are that the
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are forecasts to see deteriorating

(01:21:52):
conditions throughout the day on Wednesday, with the worst of
the wind and the rain arriving there on Wednesday night.
The x spectation is that around Saturday, I believe looking
at this Saturday, it would get in the vicinity of
the United States. So as a part of this and
and where exactly it's gonna go, the tracking of the

(01:22:14):
storm becomes more accurate as the days move along, and
obviously this is potentially going to have a substantial impact,
not just on the uh on you know, sports, which
is what we talk about, but I mean so many
different communities potentially in the mix here that could have
substantial issues. Not to mention that if this skirts the

(01:22:35):
the South Florida region, it could come into the Gulf.
The Gulf obviously waters being very warm, we could see
a replay of what just happened with Hurricane Um Hurricane Harvey. Uh,
everything that was surrounding that. So, uh, if potentially that
is gonna happen, it's gonna be a major story as

(01:22:55):
the week progresses. We talked to Alex Marvez again NFL
college foot ball games potentially in the mix, and also,
god forbid, given everything that Houston has gone through, could
the Gulf Coast region be setting up for another hit,
this time from a potentially Category five hurricane. Again, lots

(01:23:16):
of area where potentially this storm could go and we
just don't know what exactly is going to happen with it.
But I wanted to update you guys, uh as you
start off your tuesdays across the country that that is
a an extremely dangerous is the official phrase, and it
has now been upgraded to a category five, which is

(01:23:37):
the highest level of hurricane. That exists. Uh, and it
is very rare to have a hurricane five category five
hurricane approaching the United States. So that is the latest
news on that. I just wanted to get that out
there to you guys. We have started off the show,
not surprisingly discussing everything that came to pass last night.
In the game between Tennessee and Georgia Tech, tenn See

(01:24:00):
emerges the winner forty one in double overtime, and to me,
even in victory, this confirms my opinion that Butch Jones
is not the right coach for the University of Tennessee. Ultimately,
you have to make a decision whether or not a
guy is getting your capable of getting your program to

(01:24:20):
the proverbial next level. And to me, Butch Jones is
an eight and four coach. He's good enough to get
you to eight wins, four losses, middle tier bowl game,
but he's not ever able to take the next step.
And what I saw last night just confirmed all of
those fears. I think if you are a Tennessee fan, Uh,

(01:24:40):
there's lots to talk about Kevin Sumlan being on the
hot seat, Butch Jones remains on the hot seat even
with the win. And if you watch that game last night.
I mean that the statistics on it were unbelievable. Tennessee
gave up the most rushing yards they have ever given
up in the history of their program, by nearly a
hundred yards. Six against Alabama was the most yards Tennessee

(01:25:02):
had ever given up. Last night. They gave up five
hundred and thirty five rushing yards. Georgia Tech carried the
ball eighty six times for five hundred and thirty five yards.
Georgia Tech put up six hundred and fifty five yards
of total offense. Let me go ahead and get the
guys in l A to get those final play calls
ready for you. Uh, if you went to bed before
that game ended, if you're just starting off your day,

(01:25:25):
Let's go ahead and hit here the end of the
game situation from the Georgia Tech announcer perspective. Here you
go running right, Marshal on the option, running throwing, clipping
it cut it's Benson. Does he get across the gold line?
They say incomplete? Incomplete on that last TIS clip. That's
the ball game and Tennessee holds on in the second overtime.

(01:25:49):
And that was the Georgia Tech announced team there on
radio Here is the University of Tennessee's play call of
the final two point conversion in double overtime. Georgia Tech
goes for the win, and it sounds a little bit
like something like this, if you're wearing orange colored glasses.
Waits for the snap, It's gonna roll right, gonna tuck
it off. He's not gonna make it. Tennessee stops him.

(01:26:11):
Tennessee stops him. Marshall tried to turn it up, and
the ball is picked, praying the Tennessee volunteers have held
on in double over time as the balls riley don't
win it forty to forty Wanda and now Paul Johnson
I think made the right decision to go for two
here because neither team could stop the other one. Now
they would have both had to start going for two

(01:26:33):
in double and triple overtime, and the Georgia Tech yellow
Jackets here averaged six point two yards to carry, so
deciding to run the ball given the fact that they
had rushed for five and thirty five yards, there were
not very many negative offensive plays for Georgia Tech all
night long, and so that game in in Atlanta, they
inaugurated what was a spectacular and is a spectacular football stadium.

(01:26:57):
I went down to some of the field suites, I
walked around. The Georgia Dome was not that bad of
a football stadium by and large to begin with, but
Atlanta said that's not good enough for us. They broke
in the new Mercedes Benz uh Stadium and UH for
both the Alabama Florida State game as well as Tennessee
Georgia Tech phenomenal setting, outstanding, outstanding place to watch a
football game, a lot like Jerry's World down there in

(01:27:20):
the Dallas area if you have ever been to the
Cowboys stadium. So where does this leave us? Well, from
a Tennessee fan perspective, I think it leaves you questioning
what in the world they did in the off season
that they prepared for this offensive attack and managed to
give up six hundred and fifty five total yards of offense.
Georgia Tech outgains Tennessee by nearly three hundred yards, yet

(01:27:41):
Tennessee finds a way to win, thanks in part to
a late fumble. As Georgia Tech was driving up one,
they had a player in the open field stripped. Tennessee
takes back over possession at the seven yard line drives
ninety three yards down the field, ties the game at eight,
and then it just to withstand a thirty six yard

(01:28:02):
field goal attempt which they blocked, and then wins it
into overtime on the two point conversion play attempt that
they were able to stop. I mean, just a wild,
wild game that uh really to me put the capstone
on a spectacular opening weekend to college football Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

(01:28:22):
and Sunday and Monday, five straight days of college football,
just excess. If you love college football like I do,
it's tough to beat and along the way hates a brag,
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(01:28:44):
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money there as well. I am in Atlanta for the
second straight day. I'll be back in Nashville tomorrow. Sunshine
coming up. It's a bright sunny morning. If you are

(01:29:06):
a Tennessee volunteer fan, it is a dark, stormy day
even though there are no clouds on the horizon here
in Atlanta. If you are a Georgia Tech fan, because
you felt like you had that game one and you
still found a way to lose it. So that was
the big game that was going on last night. I
will run through for you my top ten here momentarily,
but I want to bring in the crew. It is

(01:29:29):
my opinion Jason Martin that Butch Jones and Tennessee are
like a relationship that has run its course. Butch Jones,
I believe, is a mid tier level coach who is
better suited to be in charge of a program that
doesn't matter as much. He is a Central Michigan or
a Cincinnati level coach, a guy who doesn't belong in

(01:29:50):
a major conference. I think that is where he would
be happier. I think that's where he fits. I really
wish that he and Tennessee were able to just agree
to split up and Tennessee could go out and go
after Chip Kelly and try to bring in a legitimate
top five, top seven caliber coach into Knoxville. Do you
agree with me that Butch Jones is basically an eight

(01:30:11):
and four coach? Did anything change as you watched the
team running around with a big garbage can on the sideline?
Trash can on the sideline? Just ridiculous gimmicks. You know
who doesn't do gimmicks, Nick Saban. Butch Jones is a
gimmicky coach. He is a lot like a used car
salesman in my opinion, and it's time. Eight and four

(01:30:32):
is his ceiling. It's time for both parties to go
ahead and start exploring other options. In my opinion, I
would agree, and I agreed before last night's game, but
the trash can certainly crystallized it for me. You look
at certain coaches, even like P. J. Fleck and Row
the Boat and all of these kinds of things, like
there are teams that go out there and play football

(01:30:53):
and win games and practice hard and do their job,
and then there's others where you talk about their pro
ram in terms of well that's cute, like whether or
not it's a trash can, or whether or not it's
this slogan or that slogan, brick by brick or whatever.
New mantra Butch Jones might have for the team and
all of that kind of stuff. It just gets so tiresome.

(01:31:16):
And again it feels like some kind of defense mechanism
against the fact that he can't just coach a football
game without a bunch of this other stuff. These young
men don't need this. These young men are very very
well versed and how to win games without nonsense like this.
This is the kind of stuff that you will see
on a mid major level, and it becomes kind of
great for that community. They get tight ennit, you buy

(01:31:37):
shirts with throw the boat on it or whatever it
might be. But you don't do that in Tuscaloosa. You
don't do that in Baton Rouge. You don't do that
in Columbus, you don't do that. You know in Eugene
in places like this, because they just go out there
and win football games. I've always thought, Butch Jones, we
know what Butch Jones is. He's a dude that can
recruit him and then he's probably still gonna lose three,

(01:31:58):
maybe four, sometimes five games the year. And honestly, for
a school like Tennessee that has the coffers that they have,
that have the tradition that they have and the passionate
fan base that they have that should flat out be unacceptable.
And we know now, because this isn't like one or
two years. We have enough of a resume on Butch
Jones to know exactly what that guy is and who

(01:32:18):
he is. And Tennessee fans should expect better from a
program as good as their program should be. By the way,
they may also expect better from this radio show. All Right,
there are four people on this radio show, right, everybody's
to blame here. I want everybody to take their blame
because I'm getting blown up on this over Twitter. All Right,
you guys told me that Alberta, Canada was in Quebec. Yeah,

(01:32:40):
I was gonna tell you. I I looked it up after.
I just kind of have I have never gotten more
anger over our lack of knowledge of Canadian geography. I
don't think it a life. I don't know anything about it.
But it's a western province, alright. I looked it up
during the break. I realized as soon as I said,
I'm like, no, it's not Quebec. It's a Western province.

(01:33:00):
I looked it up after the fact. So can snakes
live in Alberta. I guess because this one was there.
I mean, I know it was there, But I mean,
like in the wild, can they live? Can snakes? Like
a python? Can it live in Canada? Let's go around
the horns. You think, well, you don't even know where
Alberta is, so clearly on you, you guys are on

(01:33:21):
the west coast. This is on you. Well, no, this
is this is on Jason Martin. We didn't we didn't
say anything about Alberta. You'd have been all over this
right right now in Calgary, albert I don't know why
it's Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Forty three degrees fahrenheit is the temperature, right?
That's cold? That would that would seem like it would
freeze the python. I'm not an expert on wind. Pythons

(01:33:43):
would freeze, but like that's a big eight. You're going
from forty three to eighty the highs eighty Tomorrow, eighty seven,
Thursday eighty nine. But it's six am there right now,
forty three degrees so apparently, yes, it does have quite
a fluctuation in temperature. Well, so what do the snakes do? Well,
I mean, the desert has fluctuation in temperatures and snakes

(01:34:06):
in the desert. Like you know what, justin sometimes your arguments,
I just don't even know where they're coming from. Like
your first is Alberta a desert? No, but I'm you're
saying can a snake survive? Snakes live in the desert
and there's a high fluctuation of temperature, they're not that
much daytime are normally sixty eight to seventy seven degrees,
but can reach the nineties in Alberta. Okay, but how

(01:34:30):
cold does it get? Well, I mean it's forty three
degrees right now. Now get on it, you're you just
go research Alberta. I don't want to coming back on
and I don't want on the radio show until you
can tell me everything I would ever want to know
about Alberta, Canada, because I gotta tell you. I checked

(01:34:52):
my Twitter feed and I'm like, why are there a
hundred things? People are mad because we got bumped off
of serious Xmas here, And also I gotta hear about
us getting Alberta, Canada wrong. If you're on Alberta, Canada,
reci it does get well below freezing there and the
snakes cannot live outside. Now you would think that they
could position that snakes cannot survive in Canada outdoors if

(01:35:13):
they are pythons all year round. The real question is
are there Chick fil A's in Alberta? Uh? Yeah? Yeah?
The real question is what, like why the desert bring
back up justin Cooper here. So your first thought when
I asked whether or not snakes can survive is that
it's cold in the desert, like not that cold though,
like below freezing. Well, I mean forty three is not

(01:35:38):
below freezing. But yeah, I guess desert when you went
when deserts get cold, it's totally different kind of cold
than the cold that exists in like Alberta, Canada, like
Death Valley. I'm sure it gets a lot colder at night,
but it's not like it's gonna get down to like
twenty degrees. I'm thoroughly discussed it with all of you

(01:36:02):
right now. This is this is how, this is how
every Tennessee football player feels about Butch Jones by the way,
and that garbage can They just can't tell him, like
but they're like, I know that I'm surrounded by incompetence,
this Alberta failure. Jason Martin, You're on the report this
Alberta failure. I want you to come back like you're
delivering a four eight speech. Back in the day they
still do the four eight speeches. Remember that? Did you

(01:36:24):
guys have four h out in l A? What's that?
The four ag Have you ever heard of it? Yeah,
that's a northern California thing. All right, So we had
four h and you had to give like speeches every
now and then. Jason Martin better come back with like
the greatest four eight speech ever in the history of
of of anything on that part of Canada for data.

(01:36:50):
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This is Alberta's number one raphos. You could have been
by the way, you could be leading me completely over

(01:38:38):
the middle. I have no idea what this is. Yeah,
for all you know, this could be Quebec's number one rapper.
Yeah right, I mean it could be. It could be
Egypt's number one rapper for all I know. Yeah, you're
right to start the healing process with Western Canada. This
is Sabo Forte, Alberta's proclaimed number one rapper. I have
always loved Savo Forte. I've been thinking to myself for

(01:39:00):
long time. You know this guy, Sabo Forte, next Kanye,
I've been to I was you heard it here first
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making amends to Alberta candidates because Jason Martin said they
were near Quebec in one of the Animal Thunderdome stories,
I gotta tell you, Jason Martin really bad stretch in

(01:39:23):
the Animal Thunderdome first to where Alberta was first. When
I was trying to read the story. Well, that's the
kind of thing you should know when it's your story.
You know, yes, you don't know where it is, no idea,
that's why I asked, that's how kids learn. There's a
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(01:39:45):
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Casey Smith off odds that she knows where Alberta, Canada
is around the horn? Will Casey Smith be able to
know where Alberta, Canada is Jason Martin, No tipping off,

(01:40:08):
No tipping off. We're in the trust tree here. I
think she generally listens before she comes on, especially like
the segment or two before, so I have a feeling
that she may have heard it. If not, I would
say maybe what about L A L A. I'm a
little bit disappointed in U L A because, like, I
know Vancouver is on the West coast, because I have

(01:40:29):
made that trip up the West coast. I've flown into
Seattle and I've driven to Vancouver. You should know when
something is close to your coast, that's like that's your obligation.
What does it mean when Geico says, just I do
this already. What Geico says just fifteen minutes could save
you fifteen cent or more on car insurance, it means
you probably should have gone to geico dot com fifteen
minutes ago. Do you think Casey Smith will know where
Alberta is? Yeah, that Texas gals Well traveled, so I

(01:40:52):
would say yes. In my defense. By the way, the
only distance between Quebec and Alberta, I said they were close.
It's only seventred and fifty miles. Seventeen hundred and fifty
miles been more wrong? That is so wrong. Seven What
is seventeen hundred and fifty miles difference in the United States?
That's like you saying that that like, uh, I don't

(01:41:13):
know what. Like Montana is that right Montana to Maine said,
it's probably not. Yeah, but they have deserts between Montana
and Maine. That's all that is. It's just a desert.
Just seventeen hundred and fifty miles. I think that's like
the distance between Nashville and l A. So you have
nearly missed the continent. I've got to work report for you,

(01:41:36):
all right, what do you have? How many people live
in Alberta. I did not find that I was looking
at the weather. All you have to do is pull
up the Alberta Wikipedia page and read the opening paragraph.
That's probably the questions that I'm gonna ask you. I
told you to be ready for your four age. No, no,
I wanted to know the weather, but I said, I
want you to inform me about Alberta. So that I asked, okay,

(01:41:58):
estimated population of four million sixty seven. So that's a
big city, four million. For you to think that it's
just not a city, it's a whole province for Poulous province.
So what's the city. Then there's different ones in albert Calgary,
I mean there's different cities. Oh all those are still

(01:42:19):
all those places are in Alberta. Yes, okay, how manny
thirteen the provinces, thirteen of them. Uh, isn't it the
same as the colonies? I think it's fourteen provinces. But
you may be right. I'm you know, we need to
you know what we need to do is get jam
ban on the like I have. There's ten provinces. I

(01:42:41):
thought they were third. Just looking at a map and
I saw yeah, this that I counted thirteen is I
think Justin Cooper is wrong here about there being ten
provinces max Max is a wrong. Al Right, here we go. No,
we keep asking questions, will no hold on? I will
tell you this I and I I was, this is

(01:43:02):
unfortunate because I have really good bona fides in Canada.
Jay and Dan, I know, started back up UH Dan
O'Toole and j Nree they started back up on UH
Sports Center of Canada. And obviously we worked together at
FS one. So this is we're all We're also on
all over Canada. So maybe I've just thrown them under
the bus by saying that we're friends. But I thought

(01:43:24):
I was pretty good with the people of Canada. So
you just completely led us astray here, Jason Martin, all right,
what other information do you have? In the summer, average
daytime temperatures range from around twenty one degrease celsius. That's
I don't want Celsie all right, yeah, no celsius ever
on this show. I just want to ever mentioned. I
don't believe how they do it in Canada. Yeah, I know,
but we did. We use fahrenheight here. Okay, don't even

(01:43:46):
in the Rocky Mountain valleys and far North up to
around eighty because if you started with celsius, I never
know what that means, and it's always frustrating with somebody's like,
well it's it's gonna be twenty four degrees, and I'm
like celsius, Like, I don't know what that means, all right,
So seventy to eighty two, depending on where you are
in the summer, Okay, winner can be extremely cold, average
January highs of thirty two in the southwest, two as

(01:44:09):
low as minus eleven in the far North, with total
precipitation reaching around twenty four inches annually. There's also an
Alberta clipper storm that maneuvers by the jet stream across
southern Canada and actually can infect the northern tier of
the US in southwestern Alberta. And this is kind of
we were talking about the fluctuation and temperatures. Very cold
winters can be interrupted by chinook winds off the mountains

(01:44:30):
that can propel temperatures upward from frigid conditions to well
above freezing. For example, this is crazy one at Pincher Creek.
An example here, temperature sword from negative two point two
degrees to seventy two fahrenheit in one hour. Oh, that's amazing.
That is astonishing. Seventy four degrees change in sixty minutes.

(01:44:51):
Average ture snakes not at all. Average temperatures in southern
Alberta thirty to fifty five central area the numbers dropped
to twenty four if fifty one, and up north the
range is nineteen to So does everybody agree with me
that snakes, particularly python's, living outdoors in Alberta would be impossible?
So the reason why this story came up is because

(01:45:12):
the people just decided to free their snake out into
the wild, and that thing's just gonna immediately freeze to death.
So maybe it was actually a murder. It was like
a slow motion killing to let the python out, which
honestly I'm in favor of because I think all snakes
should be murdered. Show did a little research here. It
says all Alberta reptiles survived the winter in places where

(01:45:33):
they will not freeze. Each fall, Alberta snakes set off
from their summer feeding grounds back to traditional winter dens. Yeah,
there's tent that there's apparently a snake den, a garden
snake den in particular in Manitoba, which is very it's
pretty close to Alberta, and they actually come out in
the spring mate and then go back into these events

(01:45:55):
where snake crossing signs exist. Literally what, I don't think
that pythons live under the ground like during the winter.
I don't think they can go there. I think that's impossible.
And if you don't know, I mean like it's there.
If there's anything we've learned, it's that I pretty much
I'm always right about everything. All right, let's uh, let's

(01:46:15):
get let's get in Eddie Garcia. Eddie, did you know
where Alberta was? Well, yes, I'm a huge NHL fans,
so I know general geography when it comes to so
thoroughly disgusted by Jason Martin when he said it was
basically the same place as Quebec, which is actually seventifty
miles away. Yes, it's no, it's nowhere near. It's it's

(01:46:36):
like saying, you know, Montana and New Hampshire near each
other something. You have the right you know that if
we are wrong on something, you have the right to
just turn your mic on and say, like, you guys
are totally wrong. I will remember that in the future.
Like especially, let me just say this, especially if Jason
Martin is wrong. I'll just say that we assume that
Justin Cooper is wrong about everything. But certainly when Jason

(01:46:57):
Martin is wrong, you just step right in. We'll do uh.
College football last night, number twenty five, Tennessee gets by
Georgia Tech forty forty one in double overtime. Tennessee rallied
down four teen points the fourth quarter. They did get
a Georgia Tech missed field goal as tom expired from
thirties six starts out to get into overtime, and then
they stopped Georgia Tech's game winning two point conversion attempt

(01:47:17):
in that second overtime to preserve the victory. Some games
of note in baseball, in the American League, Indians of
one squelve straight. They meat the White Sox five to three,
Yankees over the oriol seven to four. New York's now
two and a half back of Boston. In the Al
East Races, the Red Sox lost to the Blue Jays
tend to four. With the Blue Jays, by the way,
or in Toronto, and that's in Ontario, the Angels beat
the A's eleven and nine. Angels are a half game

(01:47:37):
out of that second wild card spot in the American
League by Minnesota's and Twins lost to the Rays eleven
and four. Some notes from the NFL. The Bears named
Mike glenn and as their starting quarterback for a Week
one against the Falcons. Colts named Scott Tolzene as their
starting quarterback for a Week one against the Rams. Because
Andrew Luck is still recovering from shoulder surgery and Clay
Raiders kicker Sebastian Janakowski could be cut as early as

(01:47:58):
later today a matter of fact, vs cut likely gonna
be today. They're asking him to rework his contract that
will pay him four million dollars. He's saying no, he's
paid two hundred. Excuse me, played two hundred and sixty
eight games for the Raiders. That is more than any
player in franchise history. And he and Tom Brady are
the two oldest players right now in the NFL. Excellent
stuff from Eddie Garcia. We're coming to you live from

(01:48:18):
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(01:48:41):
we have Casey Smith ready? Is that true? Is Casey
with us? All right? Casey? Have you been listening to
the show at all? Okay, I've listened to the last
five minutes and I heard my name and something about Canada.
I have no idea why my name and Canada were
in the same sentence, So I'm just gonna go with it,
all right. So the question we have for you, do

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you know where Alberta, Canada is? How would you describe it?
Would you? If you had to guess, where would you
how would you describe it? Uh, somewhere in the middle.
Maybe somewhere in the middle everything in Canada. To me,
it's just north right, Like, Okay, Canada is above the
United States. That's about as good as my knowledge is.
And I would just say, I don't know, somewhere in

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the middle. It is America's top hat the nation of
Canada and uh, somewhere in the middle. Let's go out
to l A. Would that be so Jason Martin described
it as by Quebec and it's actually sev and fifty
miles away. Would it classify as somewhere in the middle?
Would that be an accurate description of Alberta? I'm going
to Could I change my answer? Remember I put all

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my faith in Casey and said she she would definitely
nail this. Yeah, not so much, Eddie, Eddie Garcia, you're
the resident Canada expert on the show. Would somewhere in
the middle be a valid answer for where is Alberta?
That would be akin to saying that Idaho is in
the midwest. So you know what I might go with that?

(01:50:06):
I would have to say no. One that all right?
It's closer than Jason Martin's answer, though, right, it was
closer than than j mart I think because I think
because he was on the East coast and it's actually
on the west coast, so he basically almost missed the
whole continent. Um. Speaking of missing the whole continent, A
and M traveled across half the continent to play, and
they got an unbelievable start and then they fell apart.

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What was that experience like for you as an A
and m Aggie grad watching at halftime, I was watching
you with a group of people up here in Boston
and that you know, they don't care about college football
up here, so I was already trying to explain it
to them why it was such a big deal. And
at halftime, I said, I do not believe that A.
M will win this game, and even if they do,
I will believe that they're going to get the wins

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taken away from them because they probably cheated. Because I
just don't believe that A and M can win football
games like that. I just it's called battered Aggie syndrome.
It's a real thing. And even when it was thirty
one of three at half, I was just like, there's
just no way that this team is that good. So
as it slowly started to unravel, it was still unbelievable
to me that they could score, you know, five answer

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touchdowns and Josh Rosen could look that way, but it's
just it's the way Aggie fans have lived the last
few years. They can't have anything nice. And that was
just sixty minutes of the Texas A and football season
all at once at the beginning of the year. So
I wish I could say that I was completely surprised,
but that was horrendously bad, and Aggie Fander in a
lot of pain right now, I believe. So what happens now?

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What should Texas A and M do with Kevin Summon?
One of your regents already came out and said, Hey,
we need to fire this guy. I think that's crazy.
But what should happen? I think that they're gonna wait
to see what happens over the next few weeks, because
they play Arkansas and they play South Carolina after two
non conference games, and then I think if they dropped
either one of those games and then lose to Alabama

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or Flora like they're supposed to right now, at least
for Florida stands right now, I think he gets fired
in them by a week. I mean, I think that
right now there's just so little patient for Kevin someone
and to see that game go the way that it did.
It wasn't just that they lost. I mean, they weren't
supposed to win that game. It was the way that
they lost and how he really just got out coached
by coaching staff that should not coach his So I

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would say it depends on what happens. But you know,
if he only drops a game to Alabama and wins
the rest and the bye week, maybe he's sitting pretty
The only other thing I can think is A and
M loses in the second half of this season normally
with him, that maybe this is one of those things
that just was a really bad start and losing their
quarterback and Nick Stark. I don't know, but all I
know is that his leash was already tight and there

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are a lot of fans that wanted to see him
get Lane Kiffen on the tarmac. So I don't think
he's gonna have much room to lose. There's no question. Alright,
so you watched last night, I'm sure Tennessee play against
Georgia Tech. My argument is, Butch Jones is an eight
and four coach, And by the way, if I was
on the hot hot seat like he is, there's no
way that I would carry a trash can on the

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sideline with my team's logo and blaze and on it.
So that people have an easy metaphor for exactly what
I've been able to do since I got to Tennessee,
which is coach, Like, I belong in a trash can?
Where does that rank on the dumbest motivational tools you've
ever seen? It's pretty high up there. I mean, and
you're also talking about I don't know if you saw
doing the A and M game. Now granted I'm sure
it was more like the Championship belt, but the and

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M players had a pimp cane, which I knew was
going to backfire as well. Like, I'm just like, what,
like Travon Williams is walking around with a pimp cane, Like,
come on, guys, but the trash can is really really
high up there, because again, like you mentioned, it's a
trash can. Like, can't you guys get something else? What's
interesting about the logo on it? Casey, Like, I like
when like imagine that you are the g A who

(01:53:41):
was in charge of going to get the UT logo
put on a trash can so you can carry it
around on the sideline. Like at some point that nobody
say you know what, but maybe not a good idea,
you know, it's too easy of a metaphor what if
we play like crap and we're holding a garbage can
on the sideline, like everybody's going to talk about this, No,
they go out and they do it. It's just drives
me insane. The only other thing that I guess could

(01:54:02):
be worse is if you have like a dumpster fire
on the sidelines, Like that might have been maybe more accurate.
I don't know, the gifts. If everybody had just been
warming themselves by a dumpster fire on the sideline, that
would be a lot closer, probably, I guess. But the
thing is, it's like Bush Jones tries to do all
these like funny, clever things, and you just think at
some point, like if a guy the g A that

(01:54:24):
had to hold that trash can like looks at like
the rundown for the week and says holds trash can
on sidelines or has to go get the logo, like,
at some point somebody has to be like, Butch, this
is not going to work. You're only going to be
mocked on the internet, especially if we lose. But no fail.
I mean the Internet is great anyways, just undefeated when
it comes to these things. But the photoshops of him

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sitting in the trash can with his arms folded, I
mean that alone was entertaining enough so I hope the
trash can continues to make an appearance just for entertainment stake.
Can you imagine the g A being like, Mom, Dad,
big time deal. We got the Monday night football game.
It's US against Georgia Tech. This is a really big
my career watched for me on the sideline. And then
Mom's like, well, what are you what are you gonna
be doing on the sideline. He's like, I'm gonna be

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the guy who's holding the trash can above my head
for the entire game, Like that's somebody's son. And I
guarantee you that somebody's mom was watching, probably listening to
us right now, given how many people from Tennessee listen
that Bore Bastard's mom was out there like telling everybody
that she knew. Look at my son on the sideline
holding that trash can. Look at what a good job
he's doing holding the trash can. And then they ran
on the field doing it afterwards. Yeah, it's like, you know,

(01:55:28):
normally when guys have to hold the clipboard, it's like,
you know, supposed to be like the lowest level thing.
I oh, I've got to hold the clipboard. Like this
guy's like no hold my beer and watched this. I'm
gonna have to hold a trash can over my head
for a college football game on national TV, by the way,
the only one that was on. So I it's just
it just writes itself. I mean it really does. Like
what he's doing. I don't know. I when I covered him,

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he did things like, you know, printed out clocks to
put all over the locker room to remind players of
what time the game kicks off. And I remember being like, seriously,
like they need printed out clocks, not actual digital clocks,
like printed out clocks, And I can never figure that out.
But the trash can trumps at all. So again, the
entertainment value was very high last night. Speaking of high
level entertainment value, we have got voicemails coming up next Casey,

(01:56:12):
thanks for joining us. We're going to play them for you.
It's everybody who called, even Clay in the immediate aftermath
of Tennessee Georgia tech. I haven't heard him, You haven't
heard him. They're supposedly phenomenal. They'll be up. We'll talk
to you next week, Casey. Uh, And here come those
voicemails right after this spectacular break. Great news quick way
you could save money. Switched to Geico. Go to Geico
dot com and in fifteen minutes you could say fifteen

(01:56:34):
percent or more on car insurance. Eight hundred, eight hundred
clays the number call after every game. This was after
Tennessee Georgia Tech. Hey, I'm a Tennessee fan. Really, all
I have to say is, well, you know, it was
a good win, but Tennessee a great game all around,
and I think the real winner tonight was basically any
college football team that hadn't plastered their logo all over

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at trash can. Any Tennessee fan who was down with
that and thinks that's, you know whatever, We'll just go
ahead and put the power tea onto my bucket and
roll it out in Thompson Bulling for the basketball games.
But anyways, it was a good game. Trash can stupid both.
Hey man, it's junior again. I just want to want
to hung up the phone and realize that I might
actually be on out kick because my performance was so

(01:57:17):
good on that bosmail I got excited thinking about much
players in the game, and the best play of the
game was when Colton Jumper he went to tackle some
boy and he just come on now Clay yout fan
man drunk dad was when he's mong was repeating, yeah, hey, hey, Clay,

(01:57:40):
this is a Georgia's sagg fan called in here real quick.
I just wanted to say that, Uh, I think that
absolutely anybody in this world could have kicked the field
goal higher than what he tried to kick in that second.
That second field go there to win the game for
Georgia's Tech. I've never seen some more pitiful out of
the team on special teams that day in my life.

(01:58:01):
I've never seen a quarterbard played that good for a
team only to watch his special teams run it the dirt.
I think it's first time I've ever as a george
Tech fan had a loss like this and not playing
Paul Johnson, which is I guess a plus. But the
matter of the fact is that has got There's got
to be a better kicker on this team. There are

(01:58:22):
on that campus nation. I mean, just gotta be someone
better at Georgie's Tech that can kick them all better
than that. I just don't know what say, Hey play,
uh we love you, YEA be bad. This is a
couple of kicks fans out here, Butch Jones is his
trash and uh offen the lines trash play comes trash,

(01:58:44):
but shows uh he needs to be fired. Put him
in that trash game that they have on the sidelines.
I love that one well and I don't know how
we did it. Marks had await. John Kelly confirmed, dog
you see's probably gonna go six and six. Thanks for
the call your dog. Stop the Triple lives and they

(01:59:05):
kept holding on to it thinking it was gone you
with the stop on the time, We're still gonna fire,
but showing to pick up jip killing though or maybe
lets But for now, I have seen Atlantis sports seems
lose incredible ways. I have seen the Falcons lose, blow
a three league and somehow lose the Super Bowl, the

(01:59:29):
biggest game in American professional sports. And now I watched
Georgia Tech blow a seven league for twenty onths or
whatever it was, and I'll can't see my three years
and something I was so I think I am, I
think I am investing for sports being a coud and
is never gonna get better play? What the hell? Man?

(01:59:50):
I cannot believe. No, Notre Dame Irish Love, they pounded,
pounded Temple wasn't even close. Cli abbess. Nick Thomas here
from Bakersfield, California. Dude, you are so freaking monia on
tonight's game. I listened to your show this morning, and
the Valls did it. I made twelve hundred dollars brother,

(02:00:13):
Thank you, Clay. I just watched short and text field
goal get blocks in the game. Tennessee must be the
luckiest stand based on the face of this earth. Last
minute beat of Apple from staying overtime last year, a
huge comeback against Florida last year, Hail Mary Pattings and
doing its shorga last year. You gotta give me a

(02:00:34):
great having against your teams running around with a trash
on the sideline of trash can play? How in the
hell did Tennessee keep doing this of trash can Butch
Jones the guy, the guy talking about the kicker. I
legitimately was drinking my water here and I just spit

(02:00:56):
it out all over the studio. That was the worst
game winning field goal attempted I have seen in a
long time. I I they all, he barely. I almost
got it blocked by his own lineman. I don't know
how high I can get the kick, but I gotta
be honest with you, there's gotta be dudes and inner
murals that can get the ball up higher over the
line than the one they went for that winter. Uh,
Big Time Ball is gonna go fifteen and oh odd

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