Today, for "Legends of the Locker Room," we have Lifetime Longhorn football star linebacker Brian "BJ" Jones, who talks about the college football playoff format. Where should Texas be ranked in the College Football Playoffs Poll? How different is this year's game against the Georgia Bulldogs? The impact the offence can have on the Bulldogs' defense. How much growth has Arch Manning shown this season? Who does he see on the defense as big-time impact players? His thoughts on the Indiana vs Penn State from last week. Plus, what Texas has to do to be successful against the Bulldogs. We also laughed about Mark's eating habits. You can hear it all here on "The Morning Kickoff Show!"
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let's mark Henry and Hard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He's a lifetime long horn. He's a legend all over
the place. But let me tell you this, if you're
watching him on TV, you know how clean he is.
He's the one and only lifetime Longhorn Brian Jones, and
look at him. He's always repping them hook him horns.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What's up, BJ, Good morning fellas.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's right, we're doing better now because we get a
chance to rap with you. I want to get into
it because there's a lot of I'm not going to
say controversy, but there's a lot of conversation about a
possible three loss team getting into the college football playoffs.
You can over the Big Ten. Now, you used to
(01:02):
be part of the SEC. You've you've gotten to see
both of these conferences up close and personal. And if
there was going to be a team with three losses,
it would have to come from the SEC because they
cannibalize themselves.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah no, I agree one percent.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And if there is going to be a team with
three losses, I'm banking on our Longhorns being that team.
They've got a hell of an opportunity this weekend to
knock off a nemesis who I'm li likening to a rivalry.
When you play a team as much as we played
Georgia and we've lost.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
As you guys know, the last two, that becomes a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And now to go back into their backyard and have
an opportunity to knock them off, that would be a
huge win.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They get that one no matter what happens the rest
of the season.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I shouldn't say no matter what happens, you definitely want
to knock off a true longtime rival Arkansas and and
but if they are to stumble one more time and
then went out, I think they by the.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Strength of their schedule, they should get in.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You've already defeated two top ten teams, and I'm still
mystified that they sit behind Notre Dame. Only a ranked
team they defeated is usc who they mauled. They're on
their home field, ran for over three bills against the Trojans,
and of course lost to Texas A and m lost to.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Miami, who's floundering currently.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
They did win last weekend, but so that's still I'm
still perplexed by that ranking.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
But Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Has that cachet, Texas has that cachet Ohio State, Alabama,
you know the blue bloods. They have that going for them.
But yet three lost Texas team definitely should be in
the playoff. And another reason why we should expand this
they We're never going to get to an ideal number.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Never, there's always gonna be someone complaining.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I was left out, so I just want more foot
and I was clamoring for us to go from the
BCS to a playoff that was four teams. Now we're
at twelve. Let's expand to sixteen, and I'd be cool
with that. If you want to go further than that,
that's icing on the cake. But I'm cool with sixteen.
But we're never gonna please the masses.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
BJ.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'm in the same boat with you with no to
day with Notre Dame. Texas is in a spot where, uh,
this is not the same Georgia team that they played
the last two years. You want to be even, you
want to get a win and make it even. But
don't you think that this Georgia defense has less likely
(03:39):
a chance to stop Texas offense this year.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
From a blitzing sack perspective, Yes, because I believe they're
last in the conference right now.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
In sacks, and that's something they really huned their head
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And you guys remember when they walked in here last
year and just ate us a lot. It was quinn us,
whether it was arch Man and whoever was running the rock.
We couldn't get rhythm, tempo and anything going, and they
just wore out that offensive line. Now the offensive line
is played better, can they continue to congeal and progress.
(04:16):
That's gonna be key. But one thing Georgia's defense does have.
They still have some dudes up front. They still win
the line of scrimmage. They may not have the TFLs
and the sacks that they've amassed in the past, but
they can still hold the line and they're gonna be
physical and they're interchangeable. They play a lot of guys,
just like we play a lot of guys. They looked apart.
(04:36):
So that may be one of the saving grace that
we can hold the line ourselves, not allow them to
get to Arts, giving him time to get down pill
and also arch uses legs.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We don't want him running too much until the hit
he took.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, in the previous ballgames, Mississippi State being the
one that stands out. But if you can keep those
guys in bay upfront, get Arch time to survey the field.
He can make some hay with our receivers. That's going
to be the key. I'm not I don't know if
I'm going to see much from my running game. Oh
(05:10):
you game that was beautiful the way they ran the
rock and the last game I thought wise, the ran tough.
He's physical, he ran through arm tackles.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
He was decisive.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Everyone's going to have to do that, and everyone's gonna
have to do that in this one man.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
This is big time sec ball here.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, he ran very physical and was very decisive with
his running. Wasn't tiptoeing through and trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
BJ.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, you talked about Arch manning and what he's
been able to do, and I've heard you talk about
this on your show College Football today. They were talking
about the fact of where he was at the beginning
of the season to where he is now, and you
and I all know and Mark, No, once you get
more game reps, the game is going to slow down
for you and his progressions. He's learning how to get
(05:58):
through those. Perfect example the touchdown to c. J. Baxter
last weekend where he rolled out and let it develop it.
Two weeks ago, he would have tucked his head and ran.
He wasn't even thought about looking for a past. Those
are the things that were continuing to see grow. Is
that something that you're noticing as well?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'm noticing Mark over there, chunking man. What's up?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You had a big, big breakfast burrito before the show
and something Calachi.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh yeah, cheese.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to come in studio.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Cheese. Oh yeah, where you get those from?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Pah Shipley's the bomb.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I love me some shipping. They don'tnuts. Come on now?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm in at Houston Airport. I'm trying to
get back there, trying to get back up to your
wrestling places.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh my god, I hope he's sharing those nobody. No,
he's not, he's not.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
He's hard.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
He's hard. You're gonna be a sugar shot baby.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We're gonna check your blood this. When I moved back
to Austin almost two years ago, the one thing I
missed where those breakfast burritos here.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And my spot is one in a million. I give
you of them. Don Ones. Oh those are those babies the.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Wrong but I will pay money to see if you
get do that one and a million challenge.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No, my max is three. Don jes now I will
it's eight. You did eight? No, I never finished it.
I could never do it. Three is mine? That Adam Richmond?
How did he do? He did that? He did eight?
He did all? Get mine? I ain't gonna lie. I
get mine without the potato. I just want eggs and meats, like,
(07:57):
get the potatoes out of it. And they sealed you, mangas.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's that's a dozen eggs and a pound of meat.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Wow, yeah, dang. Now, I don't even try that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I stay in my lane and i'ma stick with my three.
A good day, I can knock out three. So when
I got the munchie, I was the question I got distracted.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It wasn't about it was about Arch. It was about Arch.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Listen, we all know you're either getting better or you
getting worse. This young man has gotten better, and I
don't know what afflicted him the first couple of ball games,
because he couldn't even make the rude minary throws. And
I've been there, dude, and I'm sure you guys have.
When you're just trying too hard and you don't let
it come to you. And I tell the story all
the time that Colorado game my senior year, trying too
(08:51):
hard because I wanted to inflict pain on being in
me and all those guys for what they had done
to us the year prior up there in Boulder, and
ended up just tripping them on two feet man missing
tackles left and right, and one of the worst games
I've ever played because I didn't let it come to
me right. And so I think Arch has figured it out.
And you hit the nail on the head. More reps.
(09:12):
The more reps you get, especially in live action, the
more comfortable you become.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And I'm seeing this guy set his feet now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He's not trying to through all these crazy throws where
his feet and his foundation are not under him, and
he's taken checkdowns. He's taking the little throws if nothing's downfield.
So yes, that is the evolution of a quarterback that
has figured things out. We've got Penn State at Hey,
(09:39):
who do they play at Michigan State this weekend? And
I was just looking at the game film on their
new quarterbacks since Aller's been out, and this guy Grunk
and Meyer, same thing has gotten better each and every week.
You've seen the completion percentage, you've seen yards per ten,
and you've seen all of that increases. He's gotten better
and in tempo, in real them with that offense, and
(10:01):
he's playing with a ton of confidence.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
More so than he was weeks ago. And so we're
sitting experiencing the same with Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So that's what you want. You want to evolve throughout
the season. Of course you don't want any l's on
the ledger, but there are two on there. I still
think that Florida game inexcusable, losing that game to the
team that's not that great, and that's what's hurting them
now in the rankings if you although they were ten
this week, but get better, man and that's what Arch
(10:30):
has done.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Bj being a dominant University of Texas defensive player. Who
do you look at on this defense and go Wow,
that is a dude And I can't wait to see
him at the next level.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Colin Simmons has come into himself this season.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He got off to a slow start and now this
guy is just terrorizing opposing offenses. He's done it back
to back weeks and he has to continue to do that.
Of course, Anthony Hill Jr. Gets a lot of press,
as he should. He stepped up his game, and they're
gonna really have to play well this weekend because they're
going up against a physical Georgia offensive line. So I
(11:08):
would say Simmons right now, I said it coming into
it this year. He's got that money step coming off
that edge man and that's gonna give those tackles fits.
And he's been doing that here here of late. But
collectively they're gonna have to buffle them on tight because
they Georgia is running the ball. This Nate Fraser had
the best running game of the Georgia back has had
(11:29):
since twenty eighteen. And watching him one cut and I'm
gone burst, big strong h he ain't messing around. You're
not gonna arm tackle this guy. You gotta wrap him up,
and not just for one, two, three, four quarters. You
gotta play tough. Then they've got a wider range of
receivers and tight ends.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They got just one cat.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What is it, Elijah, he spells it it's Illstius. I
believe y e l y some is s s A
spells it differently, crook letter crookoleta.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I he is Williams.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Williams number ten.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Seven six mirrors at Washington Cat they had number zero
a few years back. And of course you got Delp
and the others. Lucky who was knocked out of the
last ball game. We'll see if he played. Then. All
these receivers, even without Kobe Young, we had a ton
of receivers Branch that can take it to distance. You
got the kid, Uh, he's from Texas at number five
(12:26):
and he transferred in I believe from A and M. So, Uh,
they've got some great athletes on that side of the ball.
Texas has to do what they did versus Bandy. They've
got to get pressure on first, get him.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
In third and long.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, they get pressure on gunners stocked it and cage
him as they did Poveyer for most of the game
until you know he broke out on the right side
and ran for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But uh, those are the two guys.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Colin Simmons man keep doing what he's doing in Anthony Hill, Julie.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, the wide receiver is Noah Thomas and the other
one is Zion Branch. Noah Thomas from Texas, A and
M and Zion Branch from USC. So those are the
guys that are going to bring some trouble Before we
let you go, man, I wanted to ask you about
that game last week where Indiana pulls it out against
Penn State. You know, Mendoza is getting a lot of
(13:13):
love at the quarterback position, possibly a Heisman candidate. How
exciting was watching the end of that game.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, we were working, we were actually on air, and
I was letting my dudes hold it down while I just.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Out the game. And I'm yelling and they're like, why
is he yelling?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Because you got Omar Cooper Junior over there toe Tampa
man in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
And I was just watching the game film.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And so Penn State played great this fagain, I'm wondering
where's that been. They played as well as they played
since that Oregon game, and we know it hasn't been
excellent since that lost to Oregon, but they really got
after that Indiana offense.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But it was Fernando mendoz in his legs. He utilizedes.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think the first touchdown they scored Indianda score was
him running it in. So he showcased that here of late,
his ability to be elusive. And then it was others
stepping up because they didn't have their number one receiver,
Elijah Sarratt. So you had this Charlie Becker guy, you
had this row Akowski guy, and then of course Cooper
(14:20):
he stuffed E. J.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Williams, a transfer from Clemson.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So all these other guys stood up and took advantage
of their opportunities without their star receiver in.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The bowl, and they got it done.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And you're gonna have games such as this, and this
just galvanizes a locker room man when you can go
on the road and walk Penn State. Their record doesn't
show how good they are. They played to protect their backyard.
They played like we thought Penn State would play all
season long. And Indiana found the way. That's the key,
finding the way, the same thing Oregon did. They found
(14:52):
the way to win on the road, not in ideal conditions.
And they proved that we could play bully ball. We
don't have to just go out there and and throw
it all over the field. And they bullied that Iowa defense.
I did not envision that over two hundred and two
hundred plus yards rushing versus that Iowa defense gots what
these championship teams do and during a championship journey, You're
(15:15):
gonna have games and situations such as this, and you
gotta find a way.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Both of those squads did appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
As always, prediction Texas, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Dude, my heart says Texas, My brain says Georgia. I
just I've got to see it. So I think Georgia
wins this ballgame Texas clearly if they play their best,
and they have been lately, and they were playing outstanding.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I'm sitting in the studio two.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Weaks ago watching this bandy game and it's thirty one
to ten. Yeah, I look up and it's thirty one, Like,
what the hell just happened?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
They eat the ships, They don't let go to sleep
over here? What happened? They gotta let die bet it?
Come on, I'm not, I'm not. They got they got
the items they got. I wouldn't sleep. I haven't sleep.
I have a sleeping disorder.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, you gotta donut disorder, that's what you got.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Let me putting that on in something yet, donuts.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm he's a narcoleptic eater.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Eat when I'm sleep. Gotta wait for man man.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As always, if they play a complete game and I
understand they had the injuries in the secondary and the
trust me. It showed those guys are back healthy and
they can lock down his receivers and put pressure on Georgia.
They can win this ball game, but they're going in
the hostel territory and this. You gotta love games like this. Man,
you can go in there and quiet Samford Stadium. WHOA,
(16:48):
that's gonna be so cool. I'll shave this and I'll
shut up. I'm liking it to a couple of years
ago when they went to Tuscalosive.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Say it again, brother, say it again. I mean talking
about it all week. That's what I'm looking at this
ass that opportun tunity to slay the dragon at their home.
Go in there, Dragon's Layer, that old video game and
get in there and make it happen.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Next time.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I want some doughnuts on the Kilachi mark.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We got you through, we got you, we got you
all right there, He is Brian Jones of CBS our
gouy BJ doing what he does, cracking us up.
Let's mark Henry and Hard.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He's a lifetime long horn. He's a legend all over
the place. But let me tell you this, if you're
watching him on TV, you know how clean he is.
He's the one and only lifetime Longhorn Brian Jones, and
look at him. He's always repping them hook him horns.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What's up, BJ, Good morning fellas.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
That's right, we're doing better now because we get a
chance to rap with you. I want to get into
it because there's a lot of I'm not going to
say controversy, but there's a lot of conversation about a
possible three loss team getting into the college football playoffs.
You can over the Big Ten. Now, you used to
(01:02):
be part of the SEC. You've you've gotten to see
both of these conferences up close and personal. And if
there was going to be a team with three losses,
it would have to come from the SEC because they
cannibalize themselves.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah no, I agree one percent.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And if there is going to be a team with
three losses, I'm banking on our Longhorns being that team.
They've got a hell of an opportunity this weekend to
knock off a nemesis who I'm li likening to a rivalry.
When you play a team as much as we played
Georgia and we've lost.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
As you guys know, the last two, that becomes a rivalry.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And now to go back into their backyard and have
an opportunity to knock them off, that would be a
huge win.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
They get that one no matter what happens the rest
of the season.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I shouldn't say no matter what happens, you definitely want
to knock off a true longtime rival Arkansas and and
but if they are to stumble one more time and
then went out, I think they by the.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Strength of their schedule, they should get in.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You've already defeated two top ten teams, and I'm still
mystified that they sit behind Notre Dame. Only a ranked
team they defeated is usc who they mauled. They're on
their home field, ran for over three bills against the Trojans,
and of course lost to Texas A and m lost to.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Miami, who's floundering currently.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
They did win last weekend, but so that's still I'm
still perplexed by that ranking.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
But Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Has that cachet, Texas has that cachet Ohio State, Alabama,
you know the blue bloods. They have that going for them.
But yet three lost Texas team definitely should be in
the playoff. And another reason why we should expand this
they We're never going to get to an ideal number.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Never, there's always gonna be someone complaining.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I was left out, so I just want more foot
and I was clamoring for us to go from the
BCS to a playoff that was four teams. Now we're
at twelve. Let's expand to sixteen, and I'd be cool
with that. If you want to go further than that,
that's icing on the cake. But I'm cool with sixteen.
But we're never gonna please the masses.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
BJ.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'm in the same boat with you with no to
day with Notre Dame. Texas is in a spot where, uh,
this is not the same Georgia team that they played
the last two years. You want to be even, you
want to get a win and make it even. But
don't you think that this Georgia defense has less likely
(03:39):
a chance to stop Texas offense this year.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
From a blitzing sack perspective, Yes, because I believe they're
last in the conference right now.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
In sacks, and that's something they really huned their head
on it.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And you guys remember when they walked in here last
year and just ate us a lot. It was quinn us,
whether it was arch Man and whoever was running the rock.
We couldn't get rhythm, tempo and anything going, and they
just wore out that offensive line. Now the offensive line
is played better, can they continue to congeal and progress.
(04:16):
That's gonna be key. But one thing Georgia's defense does have.
They still have some dudes up front. They still win
the line of scrimmage. They may not have the TFLs
and the sacks that they've amassed in the past, but
they can still hold the line and they're gonna be
physical and they're interchangeable. They play a lot of guys,
just like we play a lot of guys. They looked apart.
(04:36):
So that may be one of the saving grace that
we can hold the line ourselves, not allow them to
get to Arts, giving him time to get down pill
and also arch uses legs.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
We don't want him running too much until the hit
he took.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, in the previous ballgames, Mississippi State being the
one that stands out. But if you can keep those
guys in bay upfront, get Arch time to survey the field.
He can make some hay with our receivers. That's going
to be the key. I'm not I don't know if
I'm going to see much from my running game. Oh
(05:10):
you game that was beautiful the way they ran the
rock and the last game I thought wise, the ran tough.
He's physical, he ran through arm tackles.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
He was decisive.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Everyone's going to have to do that, and everyone's gonna
have to do that in this one man.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
This is big time sec ball here.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, he ran very physical and was very decisive with
his running. Wasn't tiptoeing through and trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
BJ.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You know, you talked about Arch manning and what he's
been able to do, and I've heard you talk about
this on your show College Football today. They were talking
about the fact of where he was at the beginning
of the season to where he is now, and you
and I all know and Mark, No, once you get
more game reps, the game is going to slow down
for you and his progressions. He's learning how to get
(05:58):
through those. Perfect example the touchdown to c. J. Baxter
last weekend where he rolled out and let it develop it.
Two weeks ago, he would have tucked his head and ran.
He wasn't even thought about looking for a past. Those
are the things that were continuing to see grow. Is
that something that you're noticing as well?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I'm noticing Mark over there, chunking man. What's up?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
You had a big, big breakfast burrito before the show
and something Calachi.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh yeah, cheese.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to come in studio.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Cheese. Oh yeah, where you get those from?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Pah Shipley's the bomb.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
I love me some shipping. They don'tnuts. Come on now?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm in at Houston Airport. I'm trying to
get back there, trying to get back up to your
wrestling places.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh my god, I hope he's sharing those nobody. No,
he's not, he's not.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
He's hard.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
He's hard. You're gonna be a sugar shot baby.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
We're gonna check your blood this. When I moved back
to Austin almost two years ago, the one thing I
missed where those breakfast burritos here.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And my spot is one in a million. I give
you of them. Don Ones. Oh those are those babies the.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Wrong but I will pay money to see if you
get do that one and a million challenge.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
No, my max is three. Don jes now I will
it's eight. You did eight? No, I never finished it.
I could never do it. Three is mine? That Adam Richmond?
How did he do? He did that? He did eight?
He did all? Get mine? I ain't gonna lie. I
get mine without the potato. I just want eggs and meats, like,
(07:57):
get the potatoes out of it. And they sealed you, mangas.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
That's that's a dozen eggs and a pound of meat.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Wow, yeah, dang. Now, I don't even try that.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I stay in my lane and i'ma stick with my three.
A good day, I can knock out three. So when
I got the munchie, I was the question I got distracted.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
It wasn't about it was about Arch. It was about Arch.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Listen, we all know you're either getting better or you
getting worse. This young man has gotten better, and I
don't know what afflicted him the first couple of ball games,
because he couldn't even make the rude minary throws. And
I've been there, dude, and I'm sure you guys have.
When you're just trying too hard and you don't let
it come to you. And I tell the story all
the time that Colorado game my senior year, trying too
(08:51):
hard because I wanted to inflict pain on being in
me and all those guys for what they had done
to us the year prior up there in Boulder, and
ended up just tripping them on two feet man missing
tackles left and right, and one of the worst games
I've ever played because I didn't let it come to
me right. And so I think Arch has figured it out.
And you hit the nail on the head. More reps.
(09:12):
The more reps you get, especially in live action, the
more comfortable you become.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
And I'm seeing this guy set his feet now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He's not trying to through all these crazy throws where
his feet and his foundation are not under him, and
he's taken checkdowns. He's taking the little throws if nothing's downfield.
So yes, that is the evolution of a quarterback that
has figured things out. We've got Penn State at Hey,
(09:39):
who do they play at Michigan State this weekend? And
I was just looking at the game film on their
new quarterbacks since Aller's been out, and this guy Grunk
and Meyer, same thing has gotten better each and every week.
You've seen the completion percentage, you've seen yards per ten,
and you've seen all of that increases. He's gotten better
and in tempo, in real them with that offense, and
(10:01):
he's playing with a ton of confidence.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
More so than he was weeks ago. And so we're
sitting experiencing the same with Arch Manning.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
So that's what you want. You want to evolve throughout
the season. Of course you don't want any l's on
the ledger, but there are two on there. I still
think that Florida game inexcusable, losing that game to the
team that's not that great, and that's what's hurting them
now in the rankings if you although they were ten
this week, but get better, man and that's what Arch
(10:30):
has done.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Bj being a dominant University of Texas defensive player. Who
do you look at on this defense and go Wow,
that is a dude And I can't wait to see
him at the next level.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Colin Simmons has come into himself this season.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
He got off to a slow start and now this
guy is just terrorizing opposing offenses. He's done it back
to back weeks and he has to continue to do that.
Of course, Anthony Hill Jr. Gets a lot of press,
as he should. He stepped up his game, and they're
gonna really have to play well this weekend because they're
going up against a physical Georgia offensive line. So I
(11:08):
would say Simmons right now, I said it coming into
it this year. He's got that money step coming off
that edge man and that's gonna give those tackles fits.
And he's been doing that here here of late. But
collectively they're gonna have to buffle them on tight because
they Georgia is running the ball. This Nate Fraser had
the best running game of the Georgia back has had
(11:29):
since twenty eighteen. And watching him one cut and I'm
gone burst, big strong h he ain't messing around. You're
not gonna arm tackle this guy. You gotta wrap him up,
and not just for one, two, three, four quarters. You
gotta play tough. Then they've got a wider range of
receivers and tight ends.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They got just one cat.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
What is it, Elijah, he spells it it's Illstius. I
believe y e l y some is s s A
spells it differently, crook letter crookoleta.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I he is Williams.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Williams number ten.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Seven six mirrors at Washington Cat they had number zero
a few years back. And of course you got Delp
and the others. Lucky who was knocked out of the
last ball game. We'll see if he played. Then. All
these receivers, even without Kobe Young, we had a ton
of receivers Branch that can take it to distance. You
got the kid, Uh, he's from Texas at number five
(12:26):
and he transferred in I believe from A and M. So, Uh,
they've got some great athletes on that side of the ball.
Texas has to do what they did versus Bandy. They've
got to get pressure on first, get him.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
In third and long.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, they get pressure on gunners stocked it and cage
him as they did Poveyer for most of the game
until you know he broke out on the right side
and ran for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But uh, those are the two guys.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Colin Simmons man keep doing what he's doing in Anthony Hill, Julie.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, the wide receiver is Noah Thomas and the other
one is Zion Branch. Noah Thomas from Texas, A and
M and Zion Branch from USC. So those are the
guys that are going to bring some trouble Before we
let you go, man, I wanted to ask you about
that game last week where Indiana pulls it out against
Penn State. You know, Mendoza is getting a lot of
(13:13):
love at the quarterback position, possibly a Heisman candidate. How
exciting was watching the end of that game.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Well, we were working, we were actually on air, and
I was letting my dudes hold it down while I just.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Out the game. And I'm yelling and they're like, why
is he yelling?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Because you got Omar Cooper Junior over there toe Tampa
man in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
And I was just watching the game film.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
And so Penn State played great this fagain, I'm wondering
where's that been. They played as well as they played
since that Oregon game, and we know it hasn't been
excellent since that lost to Oregon, but they really got
after that Indiana offense.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
But it was Fernando mendoz in his legs. He utilizedes.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think the first touchdown they scored Indianda score was
him running it in. So he showcased that here of late,
his ability to be elusive. And then it was others
stepping up because they didn't have their number one receiver,
Elijah Sarratt. So you had this Charlie Becker guy, you
had this row Akowski guy, and then of course Cooper
(14:20):
he stuffed E. J.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Williams, a transfer from Clemson.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So all these other guys stood up and took advantage
of their opportunities without their star receiver in.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The bowl, and they got it done.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And you're gonna have games such as this, and this
just galvanizes a locker room man when you can go
on the road and walk Penn State. Their record doesn't
show how good they are. They played to protect their backyard.
They played like we thought Penn State would play all
season long. And Indiana found the way. That's the key,
finding the way, the same thing Oregon did. They found
(14:52):
the way to win on the road, not in ideal conditions.
And they proved that we could play bully ball. We
don't have to just go out there and and throw
it all over the field. And they bullied that Iowa defense.
I did not envision that over two hundred and two
hundred plus yards rushing versus that Iowa defense gots what
these championship teams do and during a championship journey, You're
(15:15):
gonna have games and situations such as this, and you
gotta find a way.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Both of those squads did appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
As always, prediction Texas, Georgia.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Dude, my heart says Texas, My brain says Georgia. I
just I've got to see it. So I think Georgia
wins this ballgame Texas clearly if they play their best,
and they have been lately, and they were playing outstanding.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I'm sitting in the studio two.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Weaks ago watching this bandy game and it's thirty one
to ten. Yeah, I look up and it's thirty one, Like,
what the hell just happened?
Speaker 4 (15:48):
They eat the ships, They don't let go to sleep
over here? What happened? They gotta let die bet it?
Come on, I'm not, I'm not. They got they got
the items they got. I wouldn't sleep. I haven't sleep.
I have a sleeping disorder.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah, you gotta donut disorder, that's what you got.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Let me putting that on in something yet, donuts.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I'm he's a narcoleptic eater.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Eat when I'm sleep. Gotta wait for man man.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As always, if they play a complete game and I
understand they had the injuries in the secondary and the
trust me. It showed those guys are back healthy and
they can lock down his receivers and put pressure on Georgia.
They can win this ball game, but they're going in
the hostel territory and this. You gotta love games like this. Man,
you can go in there and quiet Samford Stadium. WHOA,
(16:48):
that's gonna be so cool. I'll shave this and I'll
shut up. I'm liking it to a couple of years
ago when they went to Tuscalosive.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Say it again, brother, say it again. I mean talking
about it all week. That's what I'm looking at this
ass that opportun tunity to slay the dragon at their home.
Go in there, Dragon's Layer, that old video game and
get in there and make it happen.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Next time.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
I want some doughnuts on the Kilachi mark.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We got you through, we got you, we got you
all right there, He is Brian Jones of CBS our
gouy BJ doing what he does, cracking us up.
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