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Does Georgia really run the SEC?Is Will Stein the sauce for
Oregon in 2025? And yeah, Alabama really needs
to beat Florida State more than Florida State needs to beat
Alabama. Let's go.
It's adept. And respond with me.
RJ Young. What's up, kid?
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Folks, it's RJ Young. I am not on a step.
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Do you believe that Florida State has nothing to lose when
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they play Alabama in their week opener or week 1 opener?
And frankly, I think that is a much more interesting question
to me right now then who the king of the SEC is.
But I didn't make the rundown today.
Today the rundown is made differently.
And I think that's good, right? I think that's that's good
because we're coming off of SEC media days and we're coming off
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of a lot of coaches having a lotof things to say about just what
has transpired basically in the last 8-9 months from the College
Football Playoff. Going from the highest ranked
group 5, excuse me, the five highest.
Do this again, the conference champions getting the buy right,
getting elevated to these bye week.
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There should be no world in which Boise State and Arizona
State were getting buys that probably should have gone to
other teams. That's the point here.
OK, getting frustrated even thinking about this.
That we went to straight seedingis great because that was it was
needed. The more I think about that, the
more sense it makes. I didn't like seeing Boise State
be the home team against Penn State in the Fiesta Bowl, right?
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I I, I didn't enjoy that. I think like you, I thought the
Penn State was a better footballteam and they barred that out
right. We're also looking at this from
the standpoint of should Alabamahave gotten in over Southern
Methodist in the at large did and that's getting back to that
Alabama question. But one team that did get
seated, we think right where they were supposed to be is
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Georgia. Now, did they end up playing the
kind of opponents we thought they should play?
No, the same thing could be saidabout Oregon when they finally
got to take the field and they looked up and said, damn, we got
to play Ohio State again. So I'm looking at this and I'm
asking myself, what is it that Iknow about the SEC?
And what I know about the SEC in2025 is that it belongs to
Georgia, it belongs to the Bulldogs.
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It's belonged to them longer than people would like to
realize. And that is mostly because of
what Nick Saban had been able todo and frankly, what he wasn't
able to do in 2021 and 2022. I think it is remarkable that we
have put this pressure on Caitlin de Boer to succeed Nick
Saban while also not looking over there in Athens, GA, and
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seeing what I think is one of the two best coaches in the
sport and certainly the best coach in the SECI gave you some
numbers that kind of round this out for me.
But Georgia is one of these programs that I investigate from
an identity standpoint, right? That is to say they're going to
run the ball and they're going to play defense no matter who
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the head coach is, no matter when they take the field that is
they're they're going to do thatis their MO in this age of 1000
yard receivers, 4000 yard passers.
Think about 2019 LSU and what they were able to do.
Georgia has continued to do it their way doesn't mean they
don't throw the ball around. Just look at the quarterbacks
numbers. You'll see 3035 hundred yard
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passers. What you won't see is 1000 yard
receivers. Like I beat this one to death,
but you know, I like beating up this one because I think it
shows the excellence that Georgia plays with and that not
every brand of football is for you, right?
So they've got one 1000 yard receiver in a single season in
their history. Terrence Edwards 2002, but I can
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take that step further. The last time that Georgia had a
1000 yard rusher was 20/19. Remember, they've won two
national championships since then.
They've got 2 Heisman winners, right?
One of them, you know by name, Herschel Walker.
But more than anything else, thenumber that sticks out to me is
105. That's how many wins Kirby Smart
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has since he became head coach at Georgia.
Now, Georgia was not a bad football program when he took it
over, but it wasn't an excellentone either.
And Georgia fans, be the first to tell you that a lot of games
that we should have won and say the Mark Richt era that we did
not. And games where we probably
could be playing for the SEC championship and winning or we
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could be playing for a national championship.
Doing what Florida was able to do in the early odds, late odds
with Urban Meyer, 2006, 2008 is what I'm thinking about now.
Think about Caitlin de Boer's claim to fame before he got to
Bama. It was his outstanding win loss
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record to do that went 104. And what is it, 104 and 3?
Right at what level? Right at what level?
Excuse me, 104 and 12, not 104 and three.
I'm looking at my nose now. 104 and 12 where Kirby Smart and
last basically says getting to Georgia going 105 and 19 is more
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impressive to me because you didit all at Georgia.
Caitlin aboard doing this at, you know, Sioux City, OK, doing
this at Washington, sure. Making the national title game,
absolutely excellent. Win the PAC 12, yes, absolutely
excellent. Putting out a Heisman finalist
in Michael Pinnix, junior, excellent.
Romo dunesy first round draft pick, excellent.
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But while we're looking at Bama going nine and four going, I
don't know about this. Kirby Smart went into Austin,
TX, played what we thought was the best team in the SEC and
gave them the what? 4 in the hell now?
Then they did it again in the SEC Championship and they did it
with the backup quarterback because the defense is just that
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strong. So I wrote a column earlier this
week about Georgia and Kirby Smart and why I know that they
are kings in the SEC and every Rd. runs through Sanford.
And it is in large part because that nine year run that he had
as defense coordinator for Nick Saban is the blueprint for which
he uses to build and continue tobuild at Georgia.
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Even as we've had changes that he has coached through, from the
implementation of the transfer portal to the advent of
immediate eligibility in FBS, tothe advent of name, image and
likeness and paying players to revenue sharing that we're
experiencing now, the blueprint he's working is the one that I
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think everybody else is going tohave to if they plan to compete
at the level that Georgia competes AT.
And that is you recruit the hellout of them after you evaluate
who can help you. And then you play everybody and
you play them as much as you can.
So one of the things that most of the players at Georgia know
when they get there, you're going to play significant
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football snaps. You're not going to play as many
as some other starters at other places, but you're going to play
a lot and because you play a lot, you are fresh.
Toward the end, we rotate in andplayers get to do the one thing
that they showed up in Georgia do, which is play football,
right? It's one of the reasons why we
look up and these Georgia football players are getting
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drafted in the first round, don't have the stats that many
people expect them to have as first round draft picks.
But if you look at their production on the field and you
look at how they play the game, it's very clear that Kirby Smart
has developed the hell out of this team.
They practice a lot, they play alot.
And he has said if you want to get to the NFL and you want to
be a first round draft pick, what the NFL has told college
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football players is stay there as long as you need to because
you're going to get practices and development that you're not
going to get at the NFL. At the NFL, you got to be able
to go right away. There's still another level you
can reach if you were that kind of elite player, but for the
most part, you're going to have to have it put together by the
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time you get there, especially if your first round pick.
They expect you to start, they expect you to pick it up.
They expect to not have to teachyou much because they don't want
to. They are drafting you based on
what you did over there. So the practices that you have
in college are much more valuable than the practices that
you have in the NFL. They don't like to hit.
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They don't hit a lot. The impetus is on keeping
everybody healthy enough to playthe games because in the NFL you
only get played during those, you know, weeks that you play
games. It's an interesting system,
right? So if you don't play, you don't
get no check or you need to learn to save you money, right?
Both of those things are all areimportant, but I think saving
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the money thing is something that you either learn early or
you don't learn at all. As we got a lot of adults that
are trying to spend these kids as money or tell them what to do
with their money. But I wonder round this out
because Texas is picked to win the SEC with Arch Manning a
quarterback. And as many detractors for Arch
Manning have told you, they don't see it, right?
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Or they haven't seen enough of it.
Two starts against ULM and Mississippi State does not make
an SEC Championship quarterback.Cool, got it.
And Arch, to his credit, says I don't deserve all this attention
that I'm getting. I really haven't done much of
anything except dressed like a Kappa sig at Media days.
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I, I guess that can't be helped,right?
I I guess that can't be helped, but if you're talking about
winning at a high level and you're talking about doing this
for championships, you're talking about Georgia football,
You're not really talking about Texas just yet.
Even as Texas has won the Big 12championship, let Oklahoma tell
you what winning a bunch of Big 12 championships is worth in the
SEC. That said, we do expect Georgia
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and Texas to be right back thereat the end of this and it's
going to be a very cool game. When Tech's got to go to
Sanford, all roads go to Sanford.
Last point on this is the last time that Georgia lost a home
game at Sanford was 2019 S Carolina jacked for the hedges.
You know, the head coach was then.
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It's a real Muschamp. He's been on staff at Georgia
for the last five years and he'sbeen calling the defense for
multiple years. It takes a lot to go into
Sanford and get AW, if Texas cando that, then we can have that
conversation. But for now, the Kings in the
SEC are the Georgia Bulldogs. So let's have ourselves a
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conversation now about Alabama, Florida State week one.
This one got a lot more spicy, got spicier last month when
Tommy Castellanos told Pete Naco's Ad on Three he can't wait
to play Alabama. He's always wanted to play the
Alabama. And since he transferred from
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Boston College to Florida State,he's been aching to play
Alabama. And he is saying, look, every
team that I've played on starts fast.
We get on the board quickly and we don't let up.
Nick Saban ain't there to save them anymore.
Of course, Alabama fans heard this, and Alabama players heard
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this. Deonte Lawson heard this.
Isaiah Horton heard this. Kaden Proctor heard this.
And I hope the Alabama staff heard this.
Because if I'm the defensive coordinator, all I'm going to do
is put up big pictures of Tommy Castellanos going.
Are you going to let him talk toyou guys like this?
Are you going to let him talk toyou this way?
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Are we not going to handle our business when it comes time to
handle our business? I've never seen a quarterback be
so audacious as to put himself out there like that.
Because your offensive line, they just look back at you and
go, dog, why you got to make this harder than it already is.
It ain't as if we're not going to have to be blocking an
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Alabama defensive line to protect you.
And Tommy Castellanos ain't a dude to just stand back there in
the pocket. He going to be running for his
life a couple of times of his own accord because that's part
of the game here. Now, he played a little bit for
Gus Malazan. People are fond of saying so,
and that might matter. But because Florida State was so
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garbage, to use that French termlast year, we don't really know
just how good they plan to be. Well, I guess we know how good
they plan to be. We don't know how good they're
going to be, right. I look at this and I say, if
Florida State loses this game, it doesn't make or break their
season like it did last year. Last year when they lost to
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Georgia Tech, we were all looking around like uh oh.
And by the time we figured out that uh oh was way worse than uh
oh, Memphis had got him for the bag, right?
You go 2 and 10 last year, you blow up the staff, you get a new
offense coordinator, new defensecoordinator, go back to your
mentor and Gus. Gus Malazon was offensive
coordinator at Tulsa when Mike Norvell was Aga, and I remember
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this because I was in school at Tulsa when this is going down.
So the idea of Mike Norvell being the boss of Gus Malazon is
kind of wild to me. But it worked.
You know, one dude was great wide receiver at Central
Arkansas. One dude, one of the greatest
high school football coaches Arkansas has ever produced, Gus
Malazon. And you're going to have dudes,
right? You lost a lot, but you're going
to have dudes. I think Squirrel White is going
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to help them tremendously stretch in the field.
And we know what Gus likes to do.
He likes to run the football andthrow it deep.
Throw it deep, son, throw it deep.
And if you can run the football well, you ought to be OK.
Now, what did them in last year,Central Florida is KJ Jefferson
put the ball on the floor. But between, you know, your,
your, your, your run game and your quarterback, your plus one
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one game and your and your tailbacks.
They got that right. They're going to find their RJ
Harvey. Maybe it's Roy Dell, might,
maybe not, but I don't really believe that the one game is
going to be the make or break part of Florida State's game
against Alabama. I believe it's going to be
Alabama's ability to run their offense against Tony White's
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scheme. Ty Simpson is saying all the
right things the doing the anti Tommy Castellanos out there, but
he also is very clear about who they're playing for.
And I think as we continue to talk about this and I did the
Georgia segment for this, I wonder or we harpin on Caitlin
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de Boer or are they harpin on Caitlin de Boer?
Because the idea that you would need to continue to tell us that
Nick Saban is no longer the headcoach of Alabama Crimson Tide
some 1819 months after he retired ain't exactly screaming
confidence, right? I realized that nobody has had a
mark on that program as big since Barrett Bryant, but it
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ain't as if y'all didn't go 9:00and 4:00 last year, which is
respectable, just not by Bama standard.
Especially when you throw in losses to Vanderbilt and a loss
to a bad Oklahoma, right? A six and seven Oklahoma.
The Tennessee loss I think people could live with, but it
could just be like it was last year for them.
Like they could get off to a four and O start and still not
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be that good down the stretch. Now Ty Simpson takes better care
of the football and Ty Simpson has a better relationship with
Ryan Williams, Isaiah Horton, Cole Adam.
When you hold on the ball, you're going to be all right.
You're going to be just fine. Jam Miller's going to be able to
run the ball. It's going to be good.
I can't wait to see what RichardYoung can do.
I think Deonte Lawson is due. I think Damonte Jackson is a
great cornerback. But you got to put together
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however you can ratchet up the heat underneath your seat with a
lost Florida State. That's not going to be a top 25
team when you play them, unlike last year when they were top 10
for some. Top five for me.
Yo, dawg, what? They're going to be a team that
has a lot to prove and they're playing in the ACC.
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They know that if they win the ACC championship, they're going
to be fine. People might look at that
Alabama lost, you know what Alabama does and make some
judgments. But if they win the ACC
championship, they're getting inthe playoff.
Are they going to get in as a top five seed?
Probably not if Alabama is not that good.
But it won't matter, right? Because you win a powerful
conference championship when youknow what you're going to be
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about, you make it to a powerfulconference championship, you're
probably going to get in. That's not how I'm looking at
Florida State this year. How I'm looking at Florida State
this year has more to do with just how good they look when
they play competition that they should beat.
When you look at their schedule and you see Bama on it, you go,
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OK, we would love to win this game.
But if you look at the rest of the schedule and you ask
questions up and down it, that'snot bode well.
Like, we should not be able to look at Florida State's schedule
and circle more than two losses in any given year.
They've shown that during the Bobby Bowden era, during the
Jimbo Fisher era and frankly, upuntil last year in the Mike
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Norvell era, just last year happened to be the worst season
that Florida State football had played basically since it
started playing Division One football.
It's a long time ago. It's been real, real hard for
you to look back at them and say, hey, is this the worst
thing that we've seen since the 70s?
Yeah, probably. You can make an argument for the
50s depending on how you want todo the fuzzy math of FBS Power
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4A CCSMU coming in right away and running straight through the
ACC into the ACC Championship game, doing enough during the
regular season and apparently inthat loss to Clemson to justify
the selection committee putting them in there.
I'm also getting around to this idea that we should probably
eliminate this election committee.
But I also understand that eliminating this election
committee leaves it up to this 4+ 4 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 format that
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I think everybody kind of hates and also takes some of the fun
of being a human being out of this.
Like the one time that we thought they got it wrong was
Florida State goes undefeated, they lose Jordan Travis to
injury and they get bumped for Nick Saban in Alabama in the
last 14 playoff. Had Nick Saban been Caitlin De
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Boer that year, are we sure thatFlorida State gets bumped?
No, your job is to make sure that you can win that argument
this year. That's what you're thinking
about if you are Florida State. I think Rosalini win against
Alabama would do a lot for that,but I'm more interested to find
out what Alabama fans are going to think if they lose this game,
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even if it's close to Florida State because you know that you
got to play better teams in Florida State the rest of the
way. And that's, that's just the way
it is. The SEC is just that much
stronger. There's not an easy schedule in
the SEC. If anything, there's more
difficult schedules in the SEC and that is their argument.
We're playing 8 conference gamesas opposed to 9 like everybody
else. That's cyclical though.
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I, I realized that the SEC has been a dominant conference for
20 years. But you got to also remember
that when I was a child, nobody in the Big 12, especially as we
got to 9899, was afraid of an SEC team.
You know, if anything, it was how are you going to play
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against Miami? How are you going to play
against Florida State? How are you going to play
against Nebraska? The Texas, Those were the teams
that you feared here of late. We got to see that the Southeast
cares more about its college football than any other region
in this country. And that's bearing out, right?
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That's why you've got, yeah, thelast two conference national
champions come from the Big 10, but they also come from the two
programs that care the most about football above the Mason
Dixon line, Ohio State and Michigan.
Again, that bears out in the championships that you win.
Florida State is going to have to try to put together a better
season than Florida, which is going to be difficult because DJ
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Lagway makes them a playoff team.
They're undefeated at Florida when DJ Lagway starts and
finishes the Game 6 and O, That's not insignificant, right?
That's a that's a nice sample size.
Miami expects to be there once again at the end with Carson
back at quarterback. It's just is Mario Crystal Ball
going to get out of the way, getin the way, or is Bert Auburn
going to miss a field goal that he absolutely should make?
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Yeah, That's where he went when Texas said, hey, man, kick, kick
rocks. We're bringing in Macy Shipley
for your job. We don't.
We don't need you no more. I need this year to be the magic
year for Caitlin Demore. Otherwise, I don't know how much
longer he's going to get to keepthat job.
And at that point, do you back up the Brinks truck and do you
bag Dabo Sweeney to come to Alabama to save you?
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That would be interesting, but it could be just what it was
with Billy Napier last year. It could be simply you get off
to a slow start and you finish strong and that earns you
another year with people knowingthat you still got a Ty Simpson,
Akeel and Russell back there that you can make this thing go.
And we're going to try to keep this together because we know
that you with Ryan Grubb changesthe math on this or so we think
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we're going to find out just howimportant Ryan Grubb is to be
operation this year too. Very interesting match up, one
that I am expecting to really set a tone for how we feel about
both Florida State and Alabama the rest of the way.
More Alabama than Florida State also want to have this big
conversation about probably the offensive coordinator that we
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haven't spent the most enough time talking about nationally.
I'm sure in Eugene you feel somekind of way about that.
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Let's talk about Will Stein. Let's let's, let's talk about
Oregon's wunderkind offensive coordinator.
Let's talk about the dude that came out of Texas to take over
the job that Kenny Dillingham had been doing so well and has
been doing it better than Kenny Dillingham did.
OK, so we get Dan landing in, weget Bo Nixon.
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It works. Kenny Dillingham gets an offer
to go coach at our Arizona Stateand he takes it.
And then Dan Lanning goes and makes one of the smartest
offensive coordinator hires thatwe have seen since Lincoln Riley
at Oklahoma. I mean that, All right, Will
Stein's 35 years old, OK. He's playing quarterback at
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Louisville in 2012. Wasn't that long ago gets to
Oregon and has to pick up and make it go after A10 win season
with a quarterback in Bo Nix whohad a very tight relationship
with the last offense coordinator and try to make it
work. What did he do?
He turned out a 4000 yard pass through 45 TDs and a run game
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that produces 1000 yard rusher. Gets the most out of Troy
Franklin and gets the most out of Tez Johnson and continues to
do that the next year. So since Will Stein arrived, OK,
Oregon is 25 and three, they wonthe Big 10 championship and they
played in two New Year's 6 bowl games.
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Matter of fact, the knock is they haven't won and won.
That's the knock, right? Excuse me, excuse me not they
haven't won a College Football Playoff game in New York Super
Bowl. But that's that's going to
change. It's going to change, I think,
as I'm looking at a guy who's producing 3500 yard passer
back-to-back years, 30 TDs, back-to-back years, more than
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73% of passes completed by both his quarterbacks.
Actually the average is closer to 75 because Bo Nicks had a God
like year of 77% and Dylan Gabriel had a damn great year of
about 73%. So there's that.
Then you're talking about having1000 yard rusher again, Bucky
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Irving. I'm thinking about Jordan James
and I expect Noah Whittington orMakai Hughes to be that guy this
year. One of those two guys, probably
Noah Whittington, been in the system.
It's also his turn more than anything else.
And I don't think we talked moreabout the passing attack than we
should because it's really not about pushing the ball down the
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field. It is about taking these high
percentage throws when they are there and doing a great job of
getting in and out of bad plays.Like Dylan Gabriel was elite at
this. He was really good at seeing
where the leverage was for the play and if they beat in the pre
snap, he would get them out of it, get them into something they
could work with. The only time I saw him confused
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was when they got destroyed by Ohio State in the Rose Bowl last
year. I don't think that's going to
happen again in the way that it happened, but I'm sure that
Dante Moore was coached up on this.
And that's really what I think is the thing we're talking about
most with Will Stein. He's done this with two
different quarterbacks. This is his third quarterback in
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as many years. The system works and he works
the system. They identify the strengths of
each one of their quarterbacks and they play to them.
And if you look at the early reports on Dante Moore as a high
school player, you'll see very high floor, excellent with the
ball, doesn't make poor decisions.
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Now that got tested when he played for Chip Kelly at UCLA.
But that was absolutely the move.
Like, I don't like how it went, but you can see give Dante more
an opportunity to develop and build his confidence.
And he can be as good as any quarterback in the country.
And he might not. It might have to be honestly,
because he's going to be withoutEvan Stewart, at least to start
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the season. We think from all the season
that's going to give another opportunity to new guys like Ted
Johnson's not there anymore, even though we've seen
back-to-back years of 80 catchesor more for one wide receiver.
Will that receiver be Gary Bryant?
Will that receiver be Malik Benson?
Or will that receiver be the Corian Moore?
I don't think it's going to be the Corian Moore unless the
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Corian Moore shows himself to besomething like Jeremiah Smith.
And I think the good Lord only made one of those.
But if you look for somebody whocould be as close, it's him.
Like I think the Corey Moore canbe every bit the player that
Ryan Williams was last year. A guy with, you know, over 800
yards receiving about 40 plus catches, averaging about 1819
yards per catch, maybe get to double digit TDs depending on
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where they put him. But when you hear the wide
receivers talk about him, when you hear Austin Novosat talk
about him, they say versatility,explosive, understands the game,
smart about the game, can play all the wide receiver positions
from X to Y to Z to A. He knows what everybody's going
to do and knows how to do it. That means he's probably going
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to get into the game quicker than you might think.
Also, Oregon has benefited this year from what I think is a fall
forward and win 10 game schedule.
Like they don't have anybody tough to play except Penn State.
Except Penn State. Indiana comes to them.
The toughest away game I think they got honestly outside of
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Penn State is flying to Rutgers because that's going to be quite
literally a cross country trip and you're traveling across
three time zones to get there, right?
Then you're going to play that game whenever you play that
game. I'm also curious to find out how
aggressive they stay because that's been a hallmark of Dan
Lanning. He's going to go foot on 4th
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down, He's going to pressure you.
He's going to give his guys a chance to go win it.
And it might not work, right. We saw that Washington and
Oregon couple years ago. It didn't go, it didn't work.
But as he said, I'm a big boy. I understand the decisions that
I make and I'm making the decisions that I think are best
for the team. So one of the things we like
about Dan Lanning is he's not hiding behind anything or
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anybody. He's going to take whatever it
is is coming. He's going to deal with it.
It's easy to like a football coach like that.
My favorite story to tell about Dan Lennon is going to PAC 12
Media Days, which is a relic. But usually you have coaches and
players that are coming through individual rooms to talk to Big
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10 Network, Fox Sports, ESPN, whatever.
And they've got handlers, right?There's an Sid, There's an
assistant Sid, there's a student, whatever, somebody
beside them to help them prep for what they might get asked
about in this next room. Dan Lanning, head coach,
University of Oregon, had no such handler.
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He had the schedule in his jacket pocket where he was
supposed to be when he's supposed to be there.
And he walked up, said, you guysready for me?
And you say, yeah, he sits down,say let's go, let's get into it.
I love that because that's also saying I'm here right now, I'm
ready to go. You show me what it is that you
want me to do, and I'll execute,which is exactly what he asked
his football team to do. So you add to yeah, a new
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quarterback and you got a new body in the running backroom and
you're going to luge. I think you're number one at
wide receiver, but you come backwith depth, right?
Isaiah World we think is going to be a top ten talent if he
plays to his ability as an offensive tackle at Oregon.
Mateo Uyongole is great on that edge.
Dylan Finaman is going to be a safety that Ducks fan fall in
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love with. I love his game.
And then they're going to be there at the end once again.
And this time it's not going to be about winning the Big 10
championship. It's going to be about winning
the national championship because Oregon is on the Texas
program. They're trying to win it all.
Can they win it all with a firstyear quarterback like Texas?
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I think so. I think the more bites at this
apple, you get more opportunities, excuse me, the
better off your chances of winning.
See this with Michigan, who makes the playoff, gets beat by
Georgia, makes the playoff again, gets beat by Texas
Christian, makes the playoff again, wins the national
championship. It's usually how these things
go. It's one of the other reasons
why we're so bullish on Texas. They made the playoff
back-to-back years. And in each year they learn
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something. I mean, not for nothing, but
they got beat by the national title runner up in 2023 and they
got beat by the national champ in 2024.
If they get the bracket set and they can get to the championship
game, I don't think anybody's going to bet against Steve
Sarkeesian being able to big game that right because we've
seen him call a great game in the national championship
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setting as the offense coordinator at Alabama.
All that's going to work. What's going to be more
interesting to me is if will Stein in Oregon go win 1011
games once again, or 12 or 13 or15.
It's still going to be an offensive coordinator at Oregon
the next year. Doesn't seem like he's in any
hurry. Seems like he's waiting on one
job to open up. And being from Texas, I got an
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idea of what that job is and it ain't likely to open up soon.
However, somebody somewhere is going to try to get him to take
over their football team pretty quick, fast and in a hurry.
And as a 36 year old head coach who is an offensive wunderkind,
that could be great, right? Say 36 cuz next year.
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