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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's bring in Roman Harper, two time pro bowler, Super
Bowl champion SEC Network analyst fresh off the golf course
back with us for a Wednesday conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Roman, how'd you swing him out there today?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Dude? First of all, it's cold out here. The ball
doesn't travel, and playing at Carmel today, you had to
freaking hammer the ball on the on the greens, which
normally is not the case here. The greens is very
slow today. It's cold. It's what it was. I had
a great time because I got to play eighteen and
uh till Smoke whenever you're watching or like I think
Cam Newton said that, that's what you call a ghost follower,
(00:33):
where you look but you don't actually double click. You
just like lurking in the weeds out there. Integra, Yeah,
you're just out there lurking. That's what he's doing with
South Park. Like you're saying, we know the schedule, but
you're not committed to watching on a week's week basis.
You're kind of a ghost follower.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay, Smoke's a lurker. I think that, Uh yeah, smokes
a lot. He didn't like that. The look on his
face when I say he didn't like that all right?
So uh yeah, well, I mean real quick. I mean
I was with you when you start parted this golf
journey a couple of years ago, and you really committed
to it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Has the game improved? What's your handicapped these days?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The game has improved. I'm probably like I saw the
other day, it was the fifteen to three. But the
thing is, like I hadn't played in over a month.
It's been a grind, and today was definitely a grind.
I mean I hit the ball pretty good. I stopped
losing golf balls after about whole five or six. Cool,
and like all of a sudden, it was like, okay,
I dial did in for about seven or eight holes
and then I had a part three. I put one
(01:27):
in the water. But other night it was good, good
for you. It was it was like what I thought
it would be. Good, not good, not terrible. I'm way
better than I used to be, And uh it was fun.
I got to play golf for the first time a
long time. I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, Cool, let's talk some football here, any thoughts
were talking?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Moore? Sharon Moore, he will go down as the dumbest
coach maybe of all time. Seriously, Like the more and
more that comes out, I mean, you're following Instagram models,
You're like hnd them up on the dms, you order
and plan B to the fulfill Like these are just
all like he had no friends, Like where's his boy at?
(02:04):
That's like, dude, you're being real flagrant right now. You're
tripping like he hadn't like where are those people at?
And he will go down the fact that he it
was two or three hundred million dollars giving away this
offseason to coaches that have been fired yep, and he
added zero to the deficit. Lets me know that you
(02:25):
are got to be one. You going down as one
of the dumbest of all time and nobody cared that
he cheated Kyle. Nobody cares like he could have had
another job out in LA with Harball in like three weeks. Yes,
but now I don't know you could come around and
coach our young people anymore. It like went that far
because of the crash out.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That that's the part, Like I mean I said yesterday,
can you imagine being like nineteen twenty years old being
on that team and you know, you're all of a
sudden reading headlines about your head coach offering tickets to
an OnlyFans model for a foursome, Like I mean, i'd
speak golf.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But like it's crazy, Like seriously, this will go down
as an all timer, is you think? You think? And
it's still kind of creeping out. And not only that,
but shout out to his wife who still showed up
to court with him or something the other day, because
he's strong for that. But I'm telling you he is
underneath the boot, bro. Now, I mean that he'll has
(03:22):
gotten the ten twelve inches now Like, Bro, he's deep
and it's gonna be so interesting how it all comes out,
Like when it's done done, it's not even close, but
got to be the dumbest all time all time.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm with you, brother, I really am. Sounds like, by
the way, your guy Kaylen Debor pretty much shut down
any any possibility of him going to Michigan. I thought
he'd be a great fit personally, but sounds like Kaylen
de Bor has no interest.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, Kyle, I would say, duh, Like Alabama is the
better job than Michigan. Misigan has a lot of lore.
The Big ten is coaching different than the SEC. But
he signed up knowing he came to replace Nick Saban,
Like that's a different agenda in the different mindset. Already,
he talked about how his wife and his kids enjoyed
that area and how much Test Solution has embraced them,
(04:08):
and like the only thing I would say is I
wanted him to kind of flirt with Michigan a little bit,
just to let you know, sometimes it's okay to you know,
sometimes you got to let the one you would know,
like I can still get got, you know. Like I
think it's a happy medium with that at times when
you're in the dating game, especially the way coaching is
(04:28):
and where college sports is right now, the influx of
moving around and things of that nature. So sometimes Alabama
doesn't appreciate what they do have with Kaylen de Boor,
And sometimes the only way to kind of get to
know that or let other people know that is to
flirt with somebody else. And it's interesting and it's great
to be wanted at times. And I appreciate Kayln the
boy because overall he's just a great human being. So
(04:51):
I've never worried about that because in his mind, I
thought the mission was the mission's not complete, and he's
not quitting until the mission's complete. I think he's wired
that way, and so I never worried about it. But
it's interesting that his name will continue to come up
for any job, especially in the Midwest, because that's where
he comes from and he has roots there.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He sure does. Roman Harper hanging out with us here
on the hot Line. I was talking to Ryan McGee
yesterday and he referenced something you said as it relates
to the playoffs this weekend. He said, you know, Roman
says that, Hey, people like to talk about Georgia having
an Alabama problem, but Alabama seems to have an Oklahoma problem.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's our first round.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, that's our first round playoff matchup on Friday night.
As an analyst for the conference, but a guy who
knows Alabama really well, like, what's it going to take
and what is it about Oklahoma that seems to frustrate
these guys?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well? Number one, Brett Bennables puts out great game plan.
This is a couple of things. Let's start with like
the basics, right, how about you just don't turn the
football over three times? Start there? All, right? Understand what
they did to you? And that As I went back
and watched the tape, again, I'll be honest, Kyle, Alabama's
(05:56):
offensive line didn't play as terrible as I thought they did.
They competed and did some really good things there. They
played worse versus Georgia than they did versus Oklahoma, even
though Oklahoma kind of laid out the blueprint of what
to do versus Alabama. Understand that Brett Venables is using
certain body types and abilities and attributes to put pressure
(06:19):
on you and where the blitzes and things are coming from,
despite or don't look at don't get so caught up
in the look and the numbers of Okay, I got
four guys on this side of the center, I got
three over here, So let's think about going that way
where the four is no Who's in those bodies positions
matters more. And so when you have number ten Kip Lewis,
(06:40):
he's the guy that was the absolute game wrecker versus
the first time he's blitzing. Get the protection to him,
understand where he is at. And I had the I'm
blessed and fortunate that I got to work with a
quarterback by the name of Drew Brees that was so
good at identifying where pressures were coming based up on
(07:00):
the number that was blissing. Also the body language. Right
it would be like, okay, Mike fifty whatever to the
right he say said, uhuh. Next, you know, he sees
a corner kind of leaning in doing things that naturally
a corner doesn't do when they're in coverage. As a
matter of fact, packard all the way out to the corner.
So like using those identification keys, I think it's going
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to be really important for Alabama and Ty Simpson. He
has to understand those things and it sometimes it's such
a big advantage when you play a team for the
second time and you kind of learn what they did
the first time that worked versus you, and so how
do you counteract those things? And of course Oklahoma watches
the same film, so they're going to try some different
things too. But I know what I wouldn't do is
lose the same way, and so you'd have to find
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a different way to beat me than what you did
the first time. And Oklahoma has success, so they're going
to do a lot of the similar things and try
and disguise it in different ways. And they use motion.
So Alabama motioning, you know, it's not just the indicator
to show Ty Simpson what the defense is doing. It's
also an indicator for the defense to know when I
just start to get out of my look and get
ready to blitz or do some other things that we
(08:05):
have disguised. So how do you do those things and
counteract those things. I'm really looking forward to it because
of the way you match up the second time. Georgia
did a good job versus Alabama the second matchup of
playing less zone, more Manda man, tightening up the coverages
and presenting different looks than what Alabama was expecting from
the first game. That was really good for them. It'll
(08:25):
be interesting to see what happens for Oklahoma as well
in the same type of matchup, not just Alabama's offense
versus Oklahoma's defense, but also what does Oklahoma's offense do
to try and create some plays because they really struggled
as well versus Alabama's defense.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Robyn we on Saturday have both of the G five
teams in David and Goliath type matchups earlier, can pardon
me Earlier This year Ole Miss beat up on Tulane
forty five to ten. Jmus going into Oregon, I believe
is a twenty one and a half point favorite. What
do you I mean, who's got the better chance to
pull the upset here? And I'll just give you the floor,
(09:00):
which team, which matchup is more ripe for an upset
if we get one at all, I.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Don't think we get even one. If I was to
stay one was more right for the upset, it would
be two Lane versus Old Miss, just because both coaching
stafs are in influx. You know Lane Kipps, the head
coach at Old Miss. You know how Pete Golding with
Weiss junior, the offensive coordinator has come back to call plays,
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but totally different. And then you also have John summerl
who's double duty in it from Tulane and at Florida.
When I look at JMU, their coaching staff is leaving
as well. But I think Oregon overall is just too fast,
too explosive for JMU to deal with them for four quarters.
I totally could see them being close in the first half,
(09:47):
but I don't know about four quarter upset thing. Even
though I'm not totally impressed with Oregon, I don't think
their downfield passing game is that good. I think they're
just better athletes than who they've been playing in the
Big Ten this year when they've actually played good teams.
So I would say Tulane and lean towards that. But Tulane,
when you go back and I've watched the tape and
(10:08):
I'm football is like all in my mind right now, Kyle,
is that the wide receivers of Tulane did not create
enough separation to really threaten Old Miss an Old Miss.
You look at the score they won. They lost by
five touchdowns, but the score was twenty three to three
with two minutes to go in the third quarter. So
it wasn't like just blowout Central the whole time. It
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got uglier the longer they played, but that's what this
game kind of expected at what it was. And Tulane's
wide receivers made no plays, and so they have to
continue to make more plays in this game. They made
more plays in the AAC Championship, the All American Championship
game versus North Texas, they made more plays. And so
if they can bring that type of production over into
(10:53):
versus Old Miss, it gives them a better chance. But
that's really hard to say and that they're going to
be able to do because Ole Miss did a great
job of covering guys and challenging wide receivers and ultimately
won the game because of their defense consistency and also
Tulane had a couple of turnovers and you can't do
that when you're the underdog. As far as talent and
ability in a game that's on the road, this would
(11:15):
be in the more. This will still be on the
road again for Tulane, but they got to get those
things flinged up if they want to at least make
this thing close.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, I'll get you out of here on this
so you can hang in the clubhouse and celebrate that
great round.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Of yours Kyle.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Panthers Saints on Sunday, Carolina kind of did the most
Carolina thing they could do. They blow another chance against
the Saints and you know, there's a lot to say
about it. Lots of penalties in this game and lots
of things that Panthers fans are unhappy about.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What did you think about the game? Whatever you saw
of it? And I guess bonus question there, what do
you think of Tyler Shuck?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know, I love New Orleans because they're already started
like a Tyler Shuck dance. It's been like a song.
It's kind of like just so New Orleans, right, and
he's got gold and diamond in his mouth. And the
pitchers that they're doing the memes. It's been funny, like
this is like Sto in the Ward of Louisiana. So
I love it, especially when we do this through our
white guys, like it's hilarious. So, but if you actually
(12:10):
look at the game, I actually really enjoyed it. Number One,
the fact that Carolina Panthers have games that are being
flexed late in the season shows you how far this
team has come. We talked about it early, like how
they were terrible, how they've been good. They've been so
up and down. They don't know how to consistently win
at a high basis. This is going to be a
tough game. But look at the playoff environment that the
(12:33):
game felt like, it felt like it was a playoffs game.
This is good experience for this Carolina Panthers team. Did
they play good enough to win at times at places?
Yes they did, But how many penalties did they get
on that game that like gave New Orleans first downs
not just a five yard penalty but ten yard hands
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to the face penalties That extended drives on the one
eleven minute drive that heard you and You and Smoke
talking about just the other day how disappointing it was
when they went for eleven minutes of a drive, the
Panthers gave them three or four first downs, did not
drive along, and then the last one when it look
it sucks to play football right now, to be a
defensive player, because I want the guys to go full speed,
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but it's hard to all of a sudden, of a
sudden be able to pull up. Ransom wants to make
a play. Tyler Shuck tells it. You know, quarterbacks act
like they just killed the guy and you just barely
tap them like and you can't be mad at him
either because I want Bryce s young to do the
same thing. And so then you get an extra fifteen
and you lose it. That way, it really showed me
that neither one of these teams are great, but that
(13:36):
both of these teams are young. They're learning how to
win games. And sometimes this will go in another category
for the Panthers up you have to learn what to
do not to lose a game so much as you
have to learn what to do to win the game.
And this is a great learning experience. At the end
of the day, you have Tampa for two out of
the last game, two out of the last three games
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to be able to clinch the playoffs and the division,
and Tampa's heading in the wrong direction. You're still a
team that's trending up. Tampa's a team that's trending down
until hopefully you pass them on the way, the same
way we did in twenty fourteen where we were seven
to eight and one and we were a terrible team,
but we won the last couple of games and we
got hot at the right time, hosted a playoff home game,
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and we won that game too. And it's kind of
crazy because like, you don't have to be great, you
just have to be better than everybody else in your division.
And right now Carolina still has a chance to do that.
New Orleans just wanted to play spoiler. Carolina has things
to still play for and this team, it's a season
for a reason, and they still have a lot of
things to be able to accomplish, and this team is
building for the future. But man, I don't think they
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realize that they can still win it right now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Hey, since you mentioned it, just real quick based on
what you said. Are you in favor then what JJ
Watt and JJ Jansen are proposing this week, that we
just banned the quarterback baseball slide altogether.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, Like, you can't just be mad because it didn't
work out for you. It's like when minnesot To all
of a sudden complains.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
JJ Wat's not mad about that, he didn't he doesn't
have a horse in this race. He just thinks they
should ban the quarterback baseball slide altogether because these quarterbacks
are exploiting a rule that was intended to protect them.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Duh, duh. Like this has been going on forever, Like,
you can't be mad now, and I don't want to
hear anything from JJ about protecting anybody. This dude's a snapper, bro,
He's got ultimate protection and he plays like eight plays
again stop it look nobody cares, like like you have
to get over it. It's just part of the business.
Like there's no the defense has no they don't make
(15:34):
any rule to benefit the defense. It's been that way forever,
and you just have to understand that the only the
only advantage defenses used to have was fear, and they've
taken that away from you too. And so quarterbacks throw
the ball over the middle of the field freely without
even thinking second hesitation, instead of like, man, my dude's
about to get blasted, which is what they used to be.
They don't even have that worry anymore because they want
(15:56):
to get the penalty thrown and so like, it's just
part of the game. You have to learn how to
just to it. And defensively, you have to learn how
to make teams beat you. Still, and neither one of
these teams are great, Kyle. It wasn't a pretty game,
but man, you played good enough in some areas to
win it, but it wasn't good enough when you had
to have it. And I tell you this goes in
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another bucket of we have to learn what to do
not to lose the game. And of course you love
to complain when it doesn't work in your favor, but
if it was on the other shoes on the other foot,
you'd be like, hey, man, you gotta how to pull up.
And that's just what it is. The same way when
we beat Minnesota in the NFC Championship game, next thing
you know, now both teams got to touch the ball
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instead we just got the ball, got a couple first downs,
kick the field goal waffed off and everybody was mad
at it because Brett Park didn't have a chance to
come back down and try and score. And so now
like all these rules are meant to benefit the offense,
and more rules will continue to change as people feel
like life's not like the game's not fair, but life's
not fair, and all we're doing is a disservice. And
if it benefits you, congratulations, and when it does, nobody
(17:01):
feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
All Right, buddy, go enjoy your post brown brus Key.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's actually a bullet bullet bourbon, and thank you, Role Tide.
We've got big business this weekend and I'm gonna leave
it at that. I'm not gonna talk too much trash,
but just know if they let us in this thing,
so whatever happens.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Happened, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Roman Harper, two time pro bowler, Super Bowl champion, SEC
Network analyst with us live from the clubhouse. Following around
that we have textures saying they don't believe Roman played
well today.
Let's bring in Roman Harper, two time pro bowler, Super
Bowl champion SEC Network analyst fresh off the golf course
back with us for a Wednesday conversation.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Roman, how'd you swing him out there today?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Dude? First of all, it's cold out here. The ball
doesn't travel, and playing at Carmel today, you had to
freaking hammer the ball on the on the greens, which
normally is not the case here. The greens is very
slow today. It's cold. It's what it was. I had
a great time because I got to play eighteen and
uh till Smoke whenever you're watching or like I think
Cam Newton said that, that's what you call a ghost follower,
(00:33):
where you look but you don't actually double click. You
just like lurking in the weeds out there. Integra, Yeah,
you're just out there lurking. That's what he's doing with
South Park. Like you're saying, we know the schedule, but
you're not committed to watching on a week's week basis.
You're kind of a ghost follower.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay, Smoke's a lurker. I think that, Uh yeah, smokes
a lot. He didn't like that. The look on his
face when I say he didn't like that all right?
So uh yeah, well, I mean real quick. I mean
I was with you when you start parted this golf
journey a couple of years ago, and you really committed
to it.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Has the game improved? What's your handicapped these days?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The game has improved. I'm probably like I saw the
other day, it was the fifteen to three. But the
thing is, like I hadn't played in over a month.
It's been a grind, and today was definitely a grind.
I mean I hit the ball pretty good. I stopped
losing golf balls after about whole five or six. Cool,
and like all of a sudden, it was like, okay,
I dial did in for about seven or eight holes
and then I had a part three. I put one
(01:27):
in the water. But other night it was good, good
for you. It was it was like what I thought
it would be. Good, not good, not terrible. I'm way
better than I used to be, And uh it was fun.
I got to play golf for the first time a
long time. I like it.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
All right, Cool, let's talk some football here, any thoughts
were talking?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Moore? Sharon Moore, he will go down as the dumbest
coach maybe of all time. Seriously, Like the more and
more that comes out, I mean, you're following Instagram models,
You're like hnd them up on the dms, you order
and plan B to the fulfill Like these are just
all like he had no friends, Like where's his boy at?
(02:04):
That's like, dude, you're being real flagrant right now. You're
tripping like he hadn't like where are those people at?
And he will go down the fact that he it
was two or three hundred million dollars giving away this
offseason to coaches that have been fired yep, and he
added zero to the deficit. Lets me know that you
(02:25):
are got to be one. You going down as one
of the dumbest of all time and nobody cared that
he cheated Kyle. Nobody cares like he could have had
another job out in LA with Harball in like three weeks. Yes,
but now I don't know you could come around and
coach our young people anymore. It like went that far
because of the crash out.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That that's the part, Like I mean I said yesterday,
can you imagine being like nineteen twenty years old being
on that team and you know, you're all of a
sudden reading headlines about your head coach offering tickets to
an OnlyFans model for a foursome, Like I mean, i'd
speak golf.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But like it's crazy, Like seriously, this will go down
as an all timer, is you think? You think? And
it's still kind of creeping out. And not only that,
but shout out to his wife who still showed up
to court with him or something the other day, because
he's strong for that. But I'm telling you he is
underneath the boot, bro. Now, I mean that he'll has
(03:22):
gotten the ten twelve inches now Like, Bro, he's deep
and it's gonna be so interesting how it all comes out,
Like when it's done done, it's not even close, but
got to be the dumbest all time all time.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I'm with you, brother, I really am. Sounds like, by
the way, your guy Kaylen Debor pretty much shut down
any any possibility of him going to Michigan. I thought
he'd be a great fit personally, but sounds like Kaylen
de Bor has no interest.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, Kyle, I would say, duh, Like Alabama is the
better job than Michigan. Misigan has a lot of lore.
The Big ten is coaching different than the SEC. But
he signed up knowing he came to replace Nick Saban,
Like that's a different agenda in the different mindset. Already,
he talked about how his wife and his kids enjoyed
that area and how much Test Solution has embraced them,
(04:08):
and like the only thing I would say is I
wanted him to kind of flirt with Michigan a little bit,
just to let you know, sometimes it's okay to you know,
sometimes you got to let the one you would know,
like I can still get got, you know. Like I
think it's a happy medium with that at times when
you're in the dating game, especially the way coaching is
(04:28):
and where college sports is right now, the influx of
moving around and things of that nature. So sometimes Alabama
doesn't appreciate what they do have with Kaylen de Boor,
And sometimes the only way to kind of get to
know that or let other people know that is to
flirt with somebody else. And it's interesting and it's great
to be wanted at times. And I appreciate Kayln the
boy because overall he's just a great human being. So
(04:51):
I've never worried about that because in his mind, I
thought the mission was the mission's not complete, and he's
not quitting until the mission's complete. I think he's wired
that way, and so I never worried about it. But
it's interesting that his name will continue to come up
for any job, especially in the Midwest, because that's where
he comes from and he has roots there.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
He sure does. Roman Harper hanging out with us here
on the hot Line. I was talking to Ryan McGee
yesterday and he referenced something you said as it relates
to the playoffs this weekend. He said, you know, Roman
says that, Hey, people like to talk about Georgia having
an Alabama problem, but Alabama seems to have an Oklahoma problem.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's our first round.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, that's our first round playoff matchup on Friday night.
As an analyst for the conference, but a guy who
knows Alabama really well, like, what's it going to take
and what is it about Oklahoma that seems to frustrate
these guys?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well? Number one, Brett Bennables puts out great game plan.
This is a couple of things. Let's start with like
the basics, right, how about you just don't turn the
football over three times? Start there? All, right? Understand what
they did to you? And that As I went back
and watched the tape, again, I'll be honest, Kyle, Alabama's
(05:56):
offensive line didn't play as terrible as I thought they did.
They competed and did some really good things there. They
played worse versus Georgia than they did versus Oklahoma, even
though Oklahoma kind of laid out the blueprint of what
to do versus Alabama. Understand that Brett Venables is using
certain body types and abilities and attributes to put pressure
(06:19):
on you and where the blitzes and things are coming from,
despite or don't look at don't get so caught up
in the look and the numbers of Okay, I got
four guys on this side of the center, I got
three over here, So let's think about going that way
where the four is no Who's in those bodies positions
matters more. And so when you have number ten Kip Lewis,
(06:40):
he's the guy that was the absolute game wrecker versus
the first time he's blitzing. Get the protection to him,
understand where he is at. And I had the I'm
blessed and fortunate that I got to work with a
quarterback by the name of Drew Brees that was so
good at identifying where pressures were coming based up on
(07:00):
the number that was blissing. Also the body language. Right
it would be like, okay, Mike fifty whatever to the
right he say said, uhuh. Next, you know, he sees
a corner kind of leaning in doing things that naturally
a corner doesn't do when they're in coverage. As a
matter of fact, packard all the way out to the corner.
So like using those identification keys, I think it's going
(07:22):
to be really important for Alabama and Ty Simpson. He
has to understand those things and it sometimes it's such
a big advantage when you play a team for the
second time and you kind of learn what they did
the first time that worked versus you, and so how
do you counteract those things? And of course Oklahoma watches
the same film, so they're going to try some different
things too. But I know what I wouldn't do is
lose the same way, and so you'd have to find
(07:44):
a different way to beat me than what you did
the first time. And Oklahoma has success, so they're going
to do a lot of the similar things and try
and disguise it in different ways. And they use motion.
So Alabama motioning, you know, it's not just the indicator
to show Ty Simpson what the defense is doing. It's
also an indicator for the defense to know when I
just start to get out of my look and get
ready to blitz or do some other things that we
(08:05):
have disguised. So how do you do those things and
counteract those things. I'm really looking forward to it because
of the way you match up the second time. Georgia
did a good job versus Alabama the second matchup of
playing less zone, more Manda man, tightening up the coverages
and presenting different looks than what Alabama was expecting from
the first game. That was really good for them. It'll
(08:25):
be interesting to see what happens for Oklahoma as well
in the same type of matchup, not just Alabama's offense
versus Oklahoma's defense, but also what does Oklahoma's offense do
to try and create some plays because they really struggled
as well versus Alabama's defense.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Robyn we on Saturday have both of the G five
teams in David and Goliath type matchups earlier, can pardon
me Earlier This year Ole Miss beat up on Tulane
forty five to ten. Jmus going into Oregon, I believe
is a twenty one and a half point favorite. What
do you I mean, who's got the better chance to
pull the upset here? And I'll just give you the floor,
(09:00):
which team, which matchup is more ripe for an upset
if we get one at all, I.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Don't think we get even one. If I was to
stay one was more right for the upset, it would
be two Lane versus Old Miss, just because both coaching
stafs are in influx. You know Lane Kipps, the head
coach at Old Miss. You know how Pete Golding with
Weiss junior, the offensive coordinator has come back to call plays,
(09:27):
but totally different. And then you also have John summerl
who's double duty in it from Tulane and at Florida.
When I look at JMU, their coaching staff is leaving
as well. But I think Oregon overall is just too fast,
too explosive for JMU to deal with them for four quarters.
I totally could see them being close in the first half,
(09:47):
but I don't know about four quarter upset thing. Even
though I'm not totally impressed with Oregon, I don't think
their downfield passing game is that good. I think they're
just better athletes than who they've been playing in the
Big Ten this year when they've actually played good teams.
So I would say Tulane and lean towards that. But Tulane,
when you go back and I've watched the tape and
(10:08):
I'm football is like all in my mind right now, Kyle,
is that the wide receivers of Tulane did not create
enough separation to really threaten Old Miss an Old Miss.
You look at the score they won. They lost by
five touchdowns, but the score was twenty three to three
with two minutes to go in the third quarter. So
it wasn't like just blowout Central the whole time. It
(10:29):
got uglier the longer they played, but that's what this
game kind of expected at what it was. And Tulane's
wide receivers made no plays, and so they have to
continue to make more plays in this game. They made
more plays in the AAC Championship, the All American Championship
game versus North Texas, they made more plays. And so
if they can bring that type of production over into
(10:53):
versus Old Miss, it gives them a better chance. But
that's really hard to say and that they're going to
be able to do because Ole Miss did a great
job of covering guys and challenging wide receivers and ultimately
won the game because of their defense consistency and also
Tulane had a couple of turnovers and you can't do
that when you're the underdog. As far as talent and
ability in a game that's on the road, this would
(11:15):
be in the more. This will still be on the
road again for Tulane, but they got to get those
things flinged up if they want to at least make
this thing close.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, I'll get you out of here on this
so you can hang in the clubhouse and celebrate that
great round.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Of yours Kyle.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Panthers Saints on Sunday, Carolina kind of did the most
Carolina thing they could do. They blow another chance against
the Saints and you know, there's a lot to say
about it. Lots of penalties in this game and lots
of things that Panthers fans are unhappy about.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What did you think about the game? Whatever you saw
of it? And I guess bonus question there, what do
you think of Tyler Shuck?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You know, I love New Orleans because they're already started
like a Tyler Shuck dance. It's been like a song.
It's kind of like just so New Orleans, right, and
he's got gold and diamond in his mouth. And the
pitchers that they're doing the memes. It's been funny, like
this is like Sto in the Ward of Louisiana. So
I love it, especially when we do this through our
white guys, like it's hilarious. So, but if you actually
(12:10):
look at the game, I actually really enjoyed it. Number One,
the fact that Carolina Panthers have games that are being
flexed late in the season shows you how far this
team has come. We talked about it early, like how
they were terrible, how they've been good. They've been so
up and down. They don't know how to consistently win
at a high basis. This is going to be a
tough game. But look at the playoff environment that the
(12:33):
game felt like, it felt like it was a playoffs game.
This is good experience for this Carolina Panthers team. Did
they play good enough to win at times at places?
Yes they did, But how many penalties did they get
on that game that like gave New Orleans first downs
not just a five yard penalty but ten yard hands
(12:53):
to the face penalties That extended drives on the one
eleven minute drive that heard you and You and Smoke
talking about just the other day how disappointing it was
when they went for eleven minutes of a drive, the
Panthers gave them three or four first downs, did not
drive along, and then the last one when it look
it sucks to play football right now, to be a
defensive player, because I want the guys to go full speed,
(13:15):
but it's hard to all of a sudden, of a
sudden be able to pull up. Ransom wants to make
a play. Tyler Shuck tells it. You know, quarterbacks act
like they just killed the guy and you just barely
tap them like and you can't be mad at him
either because I want Bryce s young to do the
same thing. And so then you get an extra fifteen
and you lose it. That way, it really showed me
that neither one of these teams are great, but that
(13:36):
both of these teams are young. They're learning how to
win games. And sometimes this will go in another category
for the Panthers up you have to learn what to
do not to lose a game so much as you
have to learn what to do to win the game.
And this is a great learning experience. At the end
of the day, you have Tampa for two out of
the last game, two out of the last three games
(13:57):
to be able to clinch the playoffs and the division,
and Tampa's heading in the wrong direction. You're still a
team that's trending up. Tampa's a team that's trending down
until hopefully you pass them on the way, the same
way we did in twenty fourteen where we were seven
to eight and one and we were a terrible team,
but we won the last couple of games and we
got hot at the right time, hosted a playoff home game,
(14:19):
and we won that game too. And it's kind of
crazy because like, you don't have to be great, you
just have to be better than everybody else in your division.
And right now Carolina still has a chance to do that.
New Orleans just wanted to play spoiler. Carolina has things
to still play for and this team, it's a season
for a reason, and they still have a lot of
things to be able to accomplish, and this team is
building for the future. But man, I don't think they
(14:40):
realize that they can still win it right now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Hey, since you mentioned it, just real quick based on
what you said. Are you in favor then what JJ
Watt and JJ Jansen are proposing this week, that we
just banned the quarterback baseball slide altogether.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
No, Like, you can't just be mad because it didn't
work out for you. It's like when minnesot To all
of a sudden complains.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
JJ Wat's not mad about that, he didn't he doesn't
have a horse in this race. He just thinks they
should ban the quarterback baseball slide altogether because these quarterbacks
are exploiting a rule that was intended to protect them.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Duh, duh. Like this has been going on forever, Like,
you can't be mad now, and I don't want to
hear anything from JJ about protecting anybody. This dude's a snapper, bro,
He's got ultimate protection and he plays like eight plays
again stop it look nobody cares, like like you have
to get over it. It's just part of the business.
Like there's no the defense has no they don't make
(15:34):
any rule to benefit the defense. It's been that way forever,
and you just have to understand that the only the
only advantage defenses used to have was fear, and they've
taken that away from you too. And so quarterbacks throw
the ball over the middle of the field freely without
even thinking second hesitation, instead of like, man, my dude's
about to get blasted, which is what they used to be.
They don't even have that worry anymore because they want
(15:56):
to get the penalty thrown and so like, it's just
part of the game. You have to learn how to
just to it. And defensively, you have to learn how
to make teams beat you. Still, and neither one of
these teams are great, Kyle. It wasn't a pretty game,
but man, you played good enough in some areas to
win it, but it wasn't good enough when you had
to have it. And I tell you this goes in
(16:16):
another bucket of we have to learn what to do
not to lose the game. And of course you love
to complain when it doesn't work in your favor, but
if it was on the other shoes on the other foot,
you'd be like, hey, man, you gotta how to pull up.
And that's just what it is. The same way when
we beat Minnesota in the NFC Championship game, next thing
you know, now both teams got to touch the ball
(16:37):
instead we just got the ball, got a couple first downs,
kick the field goal waffed off and everybody was mad
at it because Brett Park didn't have a chance to
come back down and try and score. And so now
like all these rules are meant to benefit the offense,
and more rules will continue to change as people feel
like life's not like the game's not fair, but life's
not fair, and all we're doing is a disservice. And
if it benefits you, congratulations, and when it does, nobody
(17:01):
feel sorry for you.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
All Right, buddy, go enjoy your post brown brus Key.
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's actually a bullet bullet bourbon, and thank you, Role Tide.
We've got big business this weekend and I'm gonna leave
it at that. I'm not gonna talk too much trash,
but just know if they let us in this thing,
so whatever happens.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Happened, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Roman Harper, two time pro bowler, Super Bowl champion, SEC
Network analyst with us live from the clubhouse. Following around
that we have textures saying they don't believe Roman played
well today.
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