The Kyle Bailey Show: Chip Patterson

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got to get to it.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Chip Patterson, CBS Sports dot Com, CBS Sports Network and
the Cover three podcast. He's back with us for a
Friday conversation, Chip, what's going on, brother Howard things?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
How was week one for you?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh? I mean, like kaomic right, you got five and
five days. I did a little in studio work all
day Friday, all day Saturday. I was in Chapel Hill
for the most one of the most horrifying nights of
football that I've ever been a part of. You know,
it's a you know, I'm still unpacking it. I don't
know if you've got to hear the Instant Reaction version

(00:32):
of the Cover three and we did right after the
TCU win. But I did it from the Athletic the
TCU Athletic Directors spot, and so it was a very
raw outpouring basically therapy of Confernelli letting me unpack yet
another opportunity of the tar heels just falling on their
face on the biggest stages in the sport.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It was very kind of TCU's ad to give you
a space to get your thoughts out in podcast form.
But for anybody who didn't hear it, we all talked
about it, certainly all day long on Tuesday Prime Time.
They get blown out after an incredible pregame scene, after
a great opening drive, and it was just all straight
downhill from there. How bad is it? How bad is
the aftermath? And how does that, in your opinion, change

(01:14):
the trajectory of the tar heels.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Feeds up one of my burning questions about Bill Belichick
in college football. You know, I said that one of
the biggest questions that we would not know and would
be impossible to know until we got into the season's
going to be how is he going to guide a
locker room of one and ten, one hundred and twenty
college players through adversity? Because when you're up within New England,

(01:40):
or even if you're in Cleveland, those are fifty three
to seventy five men that are playing to put food
on the table, in many cases, to put food on
the table for a family. Just an entirely different mindset
about the way that you face adversity. That is not
the case for has never been the case for college athletes,
where very few percentage of them or even going to

(02:01):
the NFL, and it is even less the case from
college athletes in today's transactional nature of college sports, where
the transfer portal is always awaiting. His great challenge for
this week is to keep that locker room together because
what they've got ahead. Everyone thought it was gonna be
an easier manageable schedule, but I just think the margins

(02:22):
are very thin for this team. The weaknesses that we
had on paper in terms of upfront defensively exposed right
away by CCU. It's kind of whipped them at the
line of scrimmage. And those offensive line injuries, you know,
all of the way, being down to your first string
center for the season opener very clearly an issue once
they got after that first drive, a total inability to

(02:45):
run the football. So you know, this is a group
where I know they talked about the roster building process
and you know, being bigger and stronger. In Michael Lombardi's
own words, quote the middle of the field, well, the
middle of the field right now and at least against
CCU quote showed that it needed a lot of work.
So there's some soft factors, you know, some intangible in

(03:06):
terms of making sure that this team seventy new players,
many of them haven't been fighting for their brother year
over year like you have in some other programs. He's
got to keep that locker room together. But then there's
also some very simple x's and nose stuff. And Kyle,
here's what I'll tell you. I am confident that the
x's and ose stuff will get sharpened up, they'll find
new ways to win. They'll put in some adjustments that

(03:27):
will make them a better football team when they take
the field against Charlotte this weekend. But I do not know,
and we won't know even through maybe the middle of
the season. Is the intangible stuff, whatever's being done to
help keep this feet together.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
All right, So, Clemson, LSU, Florida State, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Like,
which game in Week one do you think induced the
biggest overreaction from college football fans?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I mean the arts Manning of it all was
definitely the biggest shover reaction.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Right, Yeah, I mean I think that's pretty safe.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, like that's the way that it
was getting thrown out. Then then our whole what is
the definition of a generational talent? I mean, we've we
really lost the plot because I'll tell you what I
saw from arts Manning and really from the Texas Longhorns.
I saw a super talented player have a bad game.

(04:23):
I mean credit to Ohio State yet, but I'm not
going to bend over backwards to say it was all
Ohio State and arch Manning in the press conference right
after the game admitted we have to get better on
offense and it starts with meet Texas's defense looked awesome.
Hexan's defense played well enough to win that game, and offensively,
they just didn't have it. There were some throws that

(04:45):
Art Smith he was not seeing it in terms of
the defense and the pressure that they were bringing or stimulating,
looked a little bit off schedule, kind of running for
his life a lot. And there's just a lot that
needs to be improved on. And I just players have
bad games. People have bad days. At worn't arch Banning
will be better. And the thing is to go these

(05:07):
next couple of weeks and he's going to put up
a stupid number. He's going to have incredible highlights. He
is going to hit all of the like trending topics
with you know, five total touchdowns against San Jose States,
and he's going to light up their next opponent. And
it's really going to be only a couple games this
season that arch Manning will be able to reverse the narrative,

(05:28):
because here's the narrative. You came from newman you know,
a nice, very nice school in New Orleans, but your
competition was not the same as the very highest levels
of high school football. And you are out there as again,
as I said, lighting up lesser opponents. But what arch
Manning needs to do, and really what Texas's offense under

(05:49):
Steve Sarkinsian needs to do, is to be able to
really have that same success against the very best opponents
and the very best defenses that they face. Because last
year Yewers going up against Georgia in two offices did
not score seventeen points in either game, and Texas against
the best defenses really started to struggle last year. So

(06:11):
Canteve Sarkisian and Arch Fanning and Texas football did it
done against the best competition. Because right now, I still
think even after wahting Texas in Week one, they can
go to the College Football Playoffs quarterfinals or semi finals.
So I'm not ready to pick Texas as a national
champion until they show that offense can be just as
successful against Ohio State as it is against San Jose than.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Did the Clemson loss on Saturday night lead you as
it has some to believe that maybe all Clemson did
was take it was bring back a good team from
last year, but not a great team. I mean, obviously
this week Dabo is begging writers to write all about
how his quarterback sucks, his wide receiver sucks and everything else.
But you know, since we're talking about conclusions, what did
you take away from that one?

Speaker 1 (06:55):
What's important?

Speaker 3 (06:58):
What's important is the gap between you know, you're talking
about being very good and being excellent and elite. You know,
the gap there. I might have been on display, and
I will talk about the quarterbacks because the other quarterback
looked like the other quarterback made some plays against what

(07:22):
I think is one of the best defenses in the country,
right like I think Clemson's defense is phenomenal and clearly
did almost everything that they could do to be able
to give Clemson a shot to win that game. And
Garrett Nutsmyer again, he didn't pile up a whole bunch
of touchdowns, but the way he avoided pressure, the way
he kept drives drives alive. He hung in there, took

(07:43):
some big hits and got back up, kept throwing punches
that was that was a performance in a hostile environment
that as we're looking around for QB one at the
end of that Saturday, you know it's like, oh God,
well it's not gonna be Arch and Julian saying on
the other side for Ohio State, you know, we'll hire
State one. But it wasn't like he was going to
be the one that knocks you off your feet. And

(08:05):
Cavee Clubbe in that moment, did not think you step
forward and grab hold of really looking like I'm gonna
take this game over. I thought Garrett Enoughsmeyer did. I
thought both defenses were outstanding. I think both defenses are
among the best in the country. Place Bakers done a
phenomenal job but solidifying what's been a leaky, leaky LSU defense.

(08:26):
But I thought Garrett Enoughfmeyer outplayed cave Klubneck and that
is the seven point differential in the game. So again, say,
Binggas Texas Funson good enough to win the ACCA, good
enough to make the college football playoffs? Do you take
them seriously at the national championship contender? I say no
until I see their quarterback chef up and grabble one
of the game like that.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
I hear you all right, last thing here, We'll let
you go. Not not nearly as big as Slate. In
week two, we do have Michigan Oklahoma for Game Day
Top twenty matchup, but we had Manny Diaz on the
show yesterday. They won their opener against Elon. Took them
a while to pull away, but they eventually did. And
they're going to see Brett Vilama and twelfth ranked Illinois,
or they're hosting rather Brett Vilama twelfth ranked Illinois this weekend.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Do they get it done? How big a win would
this be for.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Duke oh Man? It would be a massive win for Duke.
I think it could jump start a really special season.
It would continue to build confidence for in Darien Mensa
in this offense, continuing to try to build on the
success that they had in the second half against Elon.
I do now do I think it happens. That's a
that's another conversation because I can buy some stock big

(09:32):
picture while also within the context of looking at this
mashup and say to that Duke defensive front and the
really the linebackers in particular, they're gonna have their hands
pull because Illinois brings back a really big and a
really experienced offensive line, and my as they are continuing
to look to find the next replacement a wide receiver
for Zachariah Franklin and Pat Bryant who are now in

(09:54):
the NFL. You know, I think that in the road environment,
they're going to really lean on this ground game, you know,
kind of just blow things down because Duke goes fast,
right offensive coordinator Jonathan Brewer, he just want to go
fas that's fast. Let Garry and miss to fill it up.
How do you counteract that long flow? Methodical drives? You
might get them Wisconsin ret Bilma out there in this game.

(10:18):
Duke's defensive front got to get stopped, got to get
off the field, maybe force some turnovers, because the game
plan right now leads like, well, not into their strength.
I think Duke is stronger in the secondary where they've
got phenomenal players and they aren't necessarily upfront. I could
be wrong about that, could be proven wrong in Durham,
but I just think that right now, that's the game plan.

(10:40):
You've got to get off the field because Wisconsin's coming.
I mean, now with conson, look at that Illinois coming
to play bullyball and try to make sure Darian Vinson
doesn't touch the ball all that offense.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I hear you, Chip. Have a great weekend buddy, as always,
enjoy the game. We'll be tuning into the podcast on Monday.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Be well, sounds good, Jobby Will