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SEC Championship Preview | 2024 Georgia Football
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Jim and John preview Georgia’s rematch with Texas in the SEC Championship and answer listener questions.
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00:00:00
Speaker
I'm going to go over. I'm going to agree with you. See, see i'm at I'm at the position where I've got to go against you. you're i know um like You can choke me out. You're on the Kirby death march.
Episode Introduction
00:00:19
Speaker
Welcome to My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I preview Georgia's rematch with the Texas Longhorns for the SEC Championship. We talk through what we're looking for in the game, and we answer questions from you, our listeners. As always, remember to check out the newly redesigned My Gotta Podcast dot com to see our latest merch. And you can follow us on social media at My Gotta Podcast. Finally, if you need help with your website or your online presence, head over to workingwebmedia.com slash dogs.
00:00:49
Speaker
Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
Georgia's SEC Championship History
00:00:55
Speaker
We're back. We're back. Back in the SEC Championship. i saying for For another SEC Championship preview, which is exactly what we predicted was going to happen after the Ole Miss loss. Yes, exactly. Exactly exactly as we predicted. um Yeah. um And we have a familiar foe.
00:01:15
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, the let's see this is yeah, how many times have we SEC Championship rematch and we had that what so 17 we had Auburn twice actually I guess 2003 2003 we lost at LSU and then played them again in the SEC Championship. So I think those are the only two Georgia SEC Championship rematches that I can think of. So you know i've been thinking to a lot about like the whole like wanting to not play in this game narrative you know like do you want to miss the scc championship and get and get there and because we look at you look at a tennessee and you're like all right well they're already in and they're just gonna sit watch but like
00:01:56
Speaker
I guess what I keep thinking to myself is, you know what, like heading into that Ole Miss game, we had one loss in the schedule and we had knocked off
Playoff Hopes and Scenarios
00:02:03
Speaker
number one, Texas. Like we didn't want to lose that game, you know, at Ole Miss and had we won that we would have just expected to keep going and and be in this game with one loss. So and that's kind of where my head has gotten to is I want to be in this game. So I want to be in this game and get that, get that number two seed in the playoff. So but that's, that's my stance. That's kind of where I've, where I've landed on all of this personally.
00:02:26
Speaker
I think that ah the fact that we won won out our games and we sat and in a position of pretty much guaranteed a spot into into the playoff based on all of the performances of everyone else um last weekend.
00:02:44
Speaker
um pretty much solidified that we were going to make the playoff no matter what. And so, you know, as long as as long as that was still on the table, I was fine with it. um What you hate to be in a position of is like a position of, you know, Clemson, where you you lose this game and you're out. Right.
00:03:03
Speaker
right um that's That's the thing that that I didn't didn't like about the the way that this was setting up. um Had everyone else won out, you could have potentially been in that scenario, right?
00:03:18
Speaker
right um The only reason we were sitting comfortable is because of the chaos that ensued. And I think that kind of highlights the the flaws in the overall process because, you know, along with that chaos came teams that were very much outside looking in. um Obviously we're recording right after the, there's been a lot of chatter in the last couple of hours that Yeah, I just get you and I were just getting caught up on it in the conversation in progress. um Yeah, but I think that it's just one of those things that the chaos ensued.
Current Playoff Speculation
00:03:53
Speaker
And we ended up in the Alabama invitational that you predicted.
00:03:57
Speaker
Yeah, well, while we're on that, let me, I'm i'm going to flash up the the bracket. If, if the playoff were to begin today, just for the folks that are on YouTube. So as we stand today, um, Alabama would be in at the 11 seed, um, with Arizona state at 12. So Alabama being the last, they would be the last, um, like at large bid to get in. So.
00:04:20
Speaker
Yeah, I definitely went, I don't know, maybe I'll tweet it out. Maybe I won't. I went and dug up my rant when you and I went on dog sports live, uh, like three years ago with, with Graham and Josh, um, talking about the playoff expansion that was, was coming. And that was always my complaint was that, and I, what I said then was.
00:04:39
Speaker
Alabama, Ohio state and Notre Dame, you're never going to be able to keep them out of the playoff. Um, I, you know, I think honestly, since then that was rerecorded that before Georgia won back to back titles, uh, but before we had won one. Um, so I dunno, maybe we're kind of entering that realm now too. Um, but that doesn't make it right to me. So I just, I think it's kind of silly. You can have this Alabama team that.
00:05:02
Speaker
Lost at Vanderbilt and got blown out at Oklahoma and is still sitting here. Um, although not guaranteed in still, there's still, we got cheap and cheap championship week yet to go. Uh, Clemson sitting there, um, can play spoiler for someone there. They have the, uh, the opportunity to steal a bit. So we'll have to watch, watch, uh, this weekend to see what happens there.
00:05:25
Speaker
The interesting thing to me is if you're sitting here looking at this and you're a Tennessee fan, like, I mean, how, how amazing is that feeling? Like you guys didn't think you were going to make the play off and you're comfortably in, and you're sitting in a spot where, you know, Penn state and Ohio state, or is it Penn state and Oregon, right? Uh, Penn State and Oregon. They're playing for the championship.
00:05:51
Speaker
Yes. Yes. That's the big 10 championship. Yep. So depending on what happens in that game, right? Like there, there could be some shuffling that goes on in this, in this whole structure and they could find a, they could wind up in a position where they could be hosting a game.
00:06:06
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if Clemson beats SMU, I think that's, um, that's on the table too. Things could shift around a bit. So it's going to be interesting.
Evolving College Football Landscape
00:06:15
Speaker
Yeah. It is is going to be, it's going to be very interesting. There's still chaos on the table. Jim is what I'm saying. There is. and And I have kept saying like, John, you don't want case at chaos, but I think at this point, I guess you do. Um, I think, jim I think we do.
00:06:30
Speaker
Jim, it's college football. I always root for chaos at when I'm a neutral looking at what's going on and in general. I find it hilarious, though, like, you know, if had had we, you know, been on the outside looking in, if all of the team, all the favorite teams won and we were sitting there like, OK, if we were in the Alabama shoes, for example, like, great, you made the playoff like as a fan and as a you know student of the of the game and as a like get off my lawn a member of get off my lawn you yeah yeah um the fact that we're sitting here talking about teams that got blown out and against awful awful teams lobbying for being in the playoff you got colorado lobbying for the heisman you've got south carolina lobbying to be in the playoff too
00:07:23
Speaker
Like, golly, dude, just shut up. Like, you guys have awful, awful losses. Like, yeah you have no business being in any playoff whatsoever. And frankly, like, in the old school, in the old school way of doing it, like, Georgia probably wouldn't be.
00:07:42
Speaker
Well, see I disagree that's where and I saw Josh Pate was saying that like We'd still be in the hunt because we're in the SEC Championship game playing against Texas so like and we're number five right now in the rankings I guess I guess that's fair because we would have been in the play we would have been in the SEC Championship Yeah, excuse you look at in the old in the old way like we were like last year like last year, right? So if you'd look at it from last year, we'd still be in the SEC Championship and we're sitting here at number five right now and we beat number two Texas, we're in the playoff, you know? Right. Right. So. Though it's fair. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I, you know, um my brother-in-law, not ah Greg ah Warren, Kim's sister's husband, he's a Bama grad. And we talked about this over, over Thanksgiving. And he was like, you know, you know, people, this was before all the other additional chaos happened on Saturday. So this was like on Thanksgiving. um But he was saying, you know, like, you know, like he was saying that he didn't feel like Bama deserved to be in the playoff. He didn't understand.
00:08:39
Speaker
Well, people were talking about the playoff. He's like three losses. Like, let's just end it. Let's go to next year kind of thing. So I don't know. Yeah, seriously. Like you have three losses shut the shut the hell up. Yeah. Like, I mean, I think that the playoff salvage situations like last season, like where you had multiple undefeated teams kind of thing. Yeah. Um, or you had a team that was undefeated that they got left out, like for ridiculous reasons. Um,
00:09:08
Speaker
In those scenarios, it's fine. But in a season like this, where there's literally no elite teams whatsoever, um I think that you you have you've hammered home and I've been slowly coming around to it. But I think that where people are probably struggling and they they need to find solace in is that this is a different sport. Like we're literally playing a different sport now. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:31
Speaker
With the transfer portal, with NIL, with 12 team playoffs, like this truly has become NFL light. and Just wait until next year because next year the schools can pay players and schools are already hiring basically general managers. so Um, so it's going to change even more. So buckle up, buckle up. It's the new, uh, the new culture ball. Yeah.
Georgia vs. Texas Game Preview
00:09:54
Speaker
All right. Well, I figured we could, we could get that out of the way. I know that one time we kind of did some playoff stuff at the end that we could kind of get that out of the way since it was fresh. Uh, I brought a bourbon. I believe you to do. What do you have tonight? JP. I have the bourbon that you and I sampled, um, last weekend. It is, I can't really get the.
00:10:13
Speaker
and There we go. It's a high West cask collection. Um, it is a blend of, it's a blend of straight whiskeys. Um, and they are finished in petite Syrah barrels. I can confirm that it's delicious. Uh, was able to sample at the Morris Hall tailgate, uh, this past weekend ahead of the clean old fashioned eight. Uh, it was fantastic.
00:10:36
Speaker
Yeah, it is fantastic. um And I am almost out, and I will probably be going again and buying a third bottle. um This is a store pick that that they had. And I've been telling everyone, because he has plenty of it, I've been telling everyone I know to go and get some, because this is this is one of the best one of the best bottles, one of the best store picks I think I've ever ever had.
00:11:03
Speaker
and Particularly for right now. It's, it's a Christmas, it's a Christmas bourbon, you know, Christmas whiskey. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Uh, I decided it worked last time. So I'm i'm running it back, uh, with the long branch, uh, with Texas as the opponent. So, but as we discussed last time, no longer, no longer Matthew McConaughey, uh, who is a graduate of Texas, as we learned last time.
00:11:28
Speaker
Uh, no longer his signature on the bottle. And, uh, I still associate it with that. And it's Oak in Texas, Mesquite charcoal refined. So I, uh, I need to go back and find ah recall what I drank the last time. Cause I don't remember it because now I'm getting a little stitches.
00:11:45
Speaker
All right. John Michael D. Oh, nice. All right, man. Hey, cheers to the SEC championship. Cheers. We've made it here, uh, four years in a row. Um, you know, people always said that, uh, Georgia just makes it because they play in the weak SEC East kind of thing. Well, you're one of an expanded conference with no divisions and yet we find ourselves here again. So that was kind of cool. All right. We are inevitable. Nice.
00:12:17
Speaker
All right. Let's, uh, let's do the, the matchup rundown really quick. Um, so the game is at four o'clock on Saturday, uh, for Eastern Mercedes, Ben stadium ah seats, 75,000 people, uh, a from familiar location for this team. This is the second game in that stadium. Uh, this season could be potentially the second of four. There's the still, that's still on the table to play in that building, playing that building four times this year.
00:12:43
Speaker
Uh, the dogs come in, uh, 10 and two, six and two in the sec, Texas 11 and one, seven and one in the sec with the only loss. I received the dogs. Uh, Texas is now number two in the rankings and the CFP, uh, with Georgia at number five, we've got the big broadcast crew, uh, Chris Fowler, Kirk Herb Street, Holly row, Laura Rutledge, and the official hashtag is hashtag UGA verse Texas. Actually UGA verse TEX.
00:13:13
Speaker
um the dogs now uh trail only four to two in the all-time series uh with the last meeting being one 30 30 to 15 just back on october 19th it is going to be cold i know the game's inside but if you're tailgating if you're going to be out there uh in the blue lot tailgating with the morris morris hall crew uh it's gonna be 24 degrees at 6 am m i'll say that so for those who are sitting at the tailgate however early you can get there it's gonna it's gonna be cold bundle up um it'll be up to like I think the high, so the high is like 53 and it's going to basically be up to the red around there at kickoff at four, but you're inside for the game anyway, but, uh, bundle up for the tailgate for sure. If you're going to be out there, yeah yeah it's going to, it's going to be cold. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, we have the heat set. We have the heat set on, uh, in the power household and.
00:14:03
Speaker
I've gotten, I've gotten the lamentations of the women begging to turn the the the heat on. So it's on here too. We had to turn it up. Hey, it snowed here last night. What in the world? Like woke up this morning, uh, to a video that Kim had sent me from when she got up. Cause she gets it before I do of letting the dogs out, like running out into the snow here in Charlotte. It was wild. So as far as I know, that wasn't in the forecast. Um, crazy. Yeah.
00:14:29
Speaker
I think that they've got the, you got the Arctic, you got the Arctic weather coming in,
Historical Rivalries and Trivia
00:14:34
Speaker
in from the North. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I prepared three fun facts for you, John. Uh, I figured since we've already played Texas and you gave us the, the Texas fun facts earlier, I was going to bring a few things just about the sec championship game. So, okay.
00:14:52
Speaker
So I'll frame these in the form of questions. If you don't know, all good. Uh, we can write them off quickly, but Texas is the fifth team that Georgia has faced in the SEC championship game. Do you know who the other four teams are that Georgia has faced in this game? That we faced in the SEC championship game. Yep. Auburn, LSU, Arkansas. There you go. Set it. No, it was facing four games. Who got one more. I've got one more.
00:15:18
Speaker
Who do we play? Who do we play the last year? Who are we playing all the time? Alabama? There you go. Yeah, Alabama. Yeah. I feel like I'm missing an obvious one. Yeah, yeah. So of those four teams that we've played, who have we played the most times in the SEC Championship game? In the history of the game? The SEC Championship game, yep. I feel like Alabama's got to be the easy answer here. You're going to go to Alabama?
00:15:45
Speaker
I'm going to go, I'm going to go pivot Auburn. It's actually LSU. Oh, okay. Five times we've played LSU in the championship. I guess that makes sense. Cause we played them. We played them a couple of times. Yeah. there's less Three, five, zero three, five and 11. So three of our appearances in this game and or in so in sequence, we're against LSU. Oh, three, oh five, 11 2019 and 2022.
00:16:10
Speaker
Uh, Bama comes in second at four times, uh, and then Arkansas and Auburn each once. So, okay. All right. I got, I got one more for you. Interesting. Okay.
00:16:20
Speaker
When in this one, some folks may have known this, but I have, I think you probably missed this, I think. So fun fact about this question. It was the onscreen trivia question during the Georgia UMass game, which you were in the stadium. So you may not know it. You may not have seen it. When is the last time a team won the SEC in their first year as a member of the conference? First year, a team won the SEC as the, as the inaugural member.
00:16:48
Speaker
As a, well, yeah, just there as a first time, as a first time. Yeah. So relevance here being this is Texas's first year in the league and they're in the championship game. And you said when, right? Yeah. When is the last time or what? Yeah. When is the last time a team won the league in their first year in the league? Okay. Well, and yeah. When we, maybe you could start, we could start with who I feel like, I feel like we have to go pretty far back. Yes, that's correct.
00:17:14
Speaker
I'm going to say, was it the first, was it the first sec championship game? Oh, so sorry. but So not the sec championship game, just the league period. Oh, okay. Shoot. I got nothing because I know it's going to go way far back. Yeah. i Yeah. You have to go back to the first year of the league.
00:17:31
Speaker
The first year of the league. Yeah. Yeah. yeah So, uh, 1933, uh, Alabama won the first year. shockcking yeah must It's going to be Alabama. Yeah. But so since then, no one has ever joined the league and then won the league in their first a season. So.
00:17:48
Speaker
Hmm. All right. Those are my SEC champion fun facts. Those aren't fun facts. I should have done. I should have done SEC championship fun facts as well. That's okay. That's okay. I, I told you I had it covered. Uh, so you're good.
00:18:03
Speaker
Yes, I will say I will say the fun facts that I did not talk about you could probably hear on chapel bell curve for the the week that they had because I learned even in my research um some new stuff that I was not aware of about how the University of Texas is structured financially um with all of their I knew that there was oil money but I didn't understand exactly how there was oil money and To put to to paraphrase Nathan's explanation on how deep the pockets are and in Austin, Texas, um the university makes a substantial amount of money on land leases to drill and produce oil on from their campus, from their campus property, I guess is what I should say. Yeah.
00:18:52
Speaker
um which i I was unaware of and then under the umbrella of you know the schools can pay players in the future. i wonder I wonder how much that's going to extend to their operations. Yeah. In theory, it shouldn't because there's a cap. so you cant One school can't, other than you can allocate the money differently, ah but there is going to be a cap.
00:19:14
Speaker
of money. Got it. Well, like I said, I was not aware of how that, how how that was structured. So kudos to to Nathan on, on that research. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Shout out our friends at Chapel, Chapel, Bill Kerr. All right. Uh, we do have a hasty's, our good history.
00:19:52
Speaker
All right. Uh, did you want to run through this? We didn't talk about this. bla I can read it. Okay. Yeah. Go for it. You go for it. All right.
Coaching Connections with Syracuse
00:20:02
Speaker
Georgia fans might've heard the recent comments by Syracuse coach Fran Brown about what he learned from Kirby smart, uh, during his, during his tenure in Athens, uh, as assistant coach, Fran Brown, isn't though the only coaching connection between Georgia and Syracuse.
00:20:20
Speaker
In the 1890s, coaching as as a profession was relatively new. Most college coaches were former players who after their college years, you know, they might travel between schools for several years, offering advice on playing football or baseball before setting up ah settling into another profession. Coaching would not be a year-round job until well into the 20th century. Most men who coached college teams had another profession during the offseason. Football coaches would be hired by colleges then would report for work usually after school had already started for the fall. It wasn't unusual for fall practice to be well underway before coaches arrived on campus. They would then leave campus as soon as the short seasons
00:21:05
Speaker
of the 1890s were over as the red and black reported in its february 17th 1894 edition jim do you have that copy i do not i should though i'm kind of disappointed maybe maybe jason has it you can go check it out yeah um the coach is usually the coach is usually a graduate who has sacrificed a vacation at some other period of the year to assist in the fall work Georgia's first head football coach was Dr. Charles Herdy, a chemist. Herdy did not coach the first team in a way that that we would think of a coach doing today. He merely helped to organize the team and taught the players the rudiments of playing football. I kind of think of it as like a like ah football camp.
00:21:54
Speaker
Yeah. but Yeah. It's kind of, that's kind of, that's kind of my takeaway here is that these are guys like camp leaders as opposed to the head coaches we think of today. yeah so Georgia's second head football coach was Ernest Brown. Brown had played football at Cornell. Ever heard of it?
00:22:10
Speaker
Then came to Georgia to take a master's degree in chemistry. He not only coached the team in 1893, he played half back in several games. The October 6th, 1894 edition of the red and black notes that the Thallians, is that how you say that Thallians? I believe so.
00:22:28
Speaker
have determined to pay the expenses incidental to a football trainer. They usually do what they try to do, and will this time, if the student body will continue its support. That football trainer was Robert Winston, and the Thallians, now the Thallian Blackfriars, were the university's dramatic club who were also planning a production of Hamlet.
00:22:53
Speaker
I feel like that kind of explains their wording, that they were the, they were the dramatic club. Yes, exactly. um Robert Winston, an Englishman from Fulham, shout out Fulham football team, whose nickname was apparently the dragon. That's a cool nickname. How does one get the nickname, the dragon? Seriously.
00:23:15
Speaker
Um, whose nickname was apparently the Dragon was already an experienced professional coach before he came to Athens as our first paid coach. He'd coached the Blackheath Harriers Football Club, a rugby team that is still playing today in West Hall, Greenwich. In the United States, he had worked as a trainer with several college football teams, including for Yale, the premier program of its time.
00:23:38
Speaker
In addition, he had been the head head coach at Syracuse in 1890, leading the orange men to a seven and four record in their very first season. It's kind of interesting um to have the, the rugby, the rugby influence on college football dates much further back than originally anticipated. Yeah. Yeah, seriously.
00:24:00
Speaker
Winston brought a level of professionalism to the football team that it had not previously had. The red and black reported in the same October 6th issue that Winston was holding two practices a day, one at seven in the morning and the other at 4.30 in the afternoon. Two a days. I was just going to say, man, he brought two a days. I love it.
00:24:20
Speaker
Two a days this circa 1890, uh, his efforts paid off in his one season in Athens. Winston produced a five and one record with the only loss to a strong. So wanting team. He also led the team to a 10 and eight win over Auburn.
00:24:38
Speaker
the first of many victories over the ancient enemy.
00:24:47
Speaker
apparently he liked Apparently he liked driving in his truck, Jim. Yes, he did. A small but significant memento of Robert Winston's 1894 team now resides in the vaults of the Russell Special Collections Building.
00:25:00
Speaker
As the winning team of the November 24th, 1894 game against Auburn, Georgia's team was presented with a small silver chalice. This chalice would be engraved with the following. University of Georgia versus Auburn, November 24th, 1894, presented by alumni and friends of both colleges, won by University of Georgia football teams. Score, University, 10, Auburn, eight.
00:25:28
Speaker
Though Winston was in Athens only during the fall of 1894, his legacy is Georgia's first professional coach lives on, as does a small artifact from that team that played during an autumn so long ago. So cool. I love it.
00:25:43
Speaker
And the chalice, uh, came up in conversation the the first time we had Jason on Jason Hasty on the podcast. Um, we were just talking about stuff like cool stuff and he, he brought up the chalice. Um,
00:26:00
Speaker
And I don't know, John, if if you're looking at the, at the screen, but I, you know, got ah the picture that Jason, uh, Hasty sent us of the chalice, but a flip over also, um, you know, we always say you can go to the Hargroet library, um, kind of picture from my visit to the Hargroet library, uh, in the fall of 23. And so this is, uh, me holding the chalice, uh, standing there with our buddy, Chris, uh, AKA British bulldog.
00:26:27
Speaker
Um, so we, we went, um, had a visit with, uh, at the Hargroet library with Jason Dwight was with us. And then John, you, you and Carter, uh, and my parents, uh, were there a little bit later in the day. Uh, so all was a great time at the Hargroet library. Uh, as you can see, I, Jason made me wear gloves, uh, to hold the jealous. So I was not allowed to touch the jealous with my bare hand, uh, had to hold on like the white, uh, the white museum gloves is pretty cool.
00:26:51
Speaker
As I recall, that is the oldest artifact that we have in the collection, correct? I believe so. I believe so. I think that's i think that's how it came up. you that was That was a question I think you asked Jason, and that was his answer. Correct. Yeah. And that's what he said. um I did not get to hold the chalice. Super jealous. um But um that that is amazing. um i would have I would have attempted to drink out of it or something. Yeah. yeah I think we were like, can we put? like ah Could put some bourbon in this. Yeah, I think we wanted to have like we wanted to put like Guthrie sauce in it and like dip chicken tenders in it like that. I think that was right. That would have been frowned upon. Yeah, and that would. Yeah. The vinegar would not would not do good things. I just realized um I think that for that game, the Auburn Auburn UGA game,
00:27:41
Speaker
Um, I believe there, there is a, a competition amongst the golf, the golf teams, right? Like there's a golf, there's a golf cup that happens where they have some alumni that play. There's some golfers that play like, I don't know. I feel like I i remember that that was a ah competition that existed when, when we played Auburn. Hmm.
00:28:01
Speaker
Good. A chalice like cup that is is awarded during that during that weekend. um I have to go back and look. I can't remember, but I do believe that there is a chalice that exchange hands. I wonder if it dates back to that time period. Gotcha.
00:28:18
Speaker
Well, that's Hasty's Hoggart history. Uh, thank you, Jason, as always, always, always love going through these when you send them, uh, enjoy it every time.
Georgia Football History Artifacts
00:28:26
Speaker
And like we always say, be sure to go stop by the Hoggart library. Jason would love to host you and show you around and show you some really cool, cool artifacts. So they've got a whole, um, like catalog. You can kind of go through on a computer and look at what, look at what they've got. Um, and I'll be happy to show it to you. So thanks always, Jason.
00:28:43
Speaker
Yeah. Jason, like us, has already done his Texas history. That's right. That's right. We've already played these guys. That's right. That's right. This was a little post-season history. Post-season history. um Okay. so let's couple I just have two news and notes, and maybe there's a third week kid to at least
Player Transfers and Updates
00:29:01
Speaker
acknowledge. ah so One, have to include the news and notes. We've had our first person in Julian Humphrey to announce that he plans to enter the transfer portal.
00:29:14
Speaker
So we will bid adieu to Mr. Humphrey, uh, wouldn't be surprised if he ends up, uh, on the team we're about to play for what it's worth. So, um, I think we need to also add a, we need to add a sound bite that says, you you know, it's ice cube from, from Friday, it's by Felicia.
00:29:34
Speaker
i I will just quote Warren Brinson who commented on his Instagram and said making that announcement the week of this game is lame. I didn't say that. Warren Brinson said that. We'll move on. Enough about that. I didn't see really much of anything in Kirby's press conference like with the local media and such. I read through his SEC Championship teleconference ah From Sunday know the only thing that jumped out to me. He got asked about ETN and he said he said that ah ETN is a ways away from getting on the field. So that doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies um So don't expect to see him in this game on Saturday
00:30:14
Speaker
Hmm. Yeah, that is not that does not spark joy. Yeah. Yeah. but Don't like that one. Don't like that. one When we were talking about like, Hey, let's look looking at the stats in the podcast before like pulling up stuff from the last game and uh, he was kind of the offense in that game. So we'll get to that in a minute. The other thing I don't honestly, I don't really, really, I don't know any, I don't follow it closely enough to say anything about it, but Hey, national signing day is tomorrow.
00:30:40
Speaker
So, uh, again, I always just, I, as an old man, uh, miss the days of folks, so you know, gathering at the blind pig, um, and things like that. And then going over to Buttsmere, um, eagerly awaiting the faxes to come through. So I don't know. I don't even know if they use fax machines anymore or not. Kind of sad if they don't. So I miss the olden days. This being in the middle of season just is so weird to me. I don't like that either. Get off my line.
00:31:09
Speaker
Maybe they could, maybe they could replace the the fax machines with like pulling up the school's I message and just showing the text messages that come through with the the signed documents that are probably happening because people are like, I don't have a printer. I don't have a fax machine. Here's the picture. I feel like we're going to, we're going to run into issues there. We're like, someone's going to send someone the message and they're going to get left on red. And then it's going to be a controversy.
00:31:35
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yeah We already had that last year when the school posted that like they had like the little animation thing like the cartoon drawing everybody and like there's one where there's like a quick flash of Dylan Riola on accident. I don't know if you remember that. I was like, oh, come on guys. So yeah, so that's having tomorrow. Feel free to follow along if you enjoy that kind of thing. I'll be excited for all the players who signed with Georgia. That's kind of my take on it.
00:32:01
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Yeah, especially in this NIL era, like I wonder how many I wonder how many McDonald's bags of cash are being dropped off at at players houses this evening kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gone are the days of Vince to sleep being outside of Hershel's house to make sure he commits. Yeah. or so Gone gone are the days of the mysterious. um How did you pay for a Trans Am? Yeah. would you get the transant Yeah. Come on. Bring him to the good old days.
00:32:29
Speaker
All right. Um, okay.
Winning Strategies Against Texas
00:32:31
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So let's talk about this sec change of game rematch with Texas. Uh, first matchup we won there 30 to 15, um, defense came out in here on fire and really Trevor ETN was kind of the offense. Honestly.
00:32:45
Speaker
Um, updates on some stats. Uh, Texas is plus seven and turnover margin. Dogs are even in turnover margin. Uh, Texas is at 2.34 yards for play net and Georgia is at 1.16. Um, let's talk about what we're looking for when George offense has the ball. John. Um,
00:33:05
Speaker
You know, I think for me, um, like the notable guys or whatever, not much has really changed there. Um, one of the guys though, like, uh, actually two of them, uh, or the leading interception leader, he had one against us, um, Andrew Makuba and then Jada Brown Baron. Sorry. He had two picks against us, um, and that last game. So definitely some guys to watch out for still, um, and then Anthony Hill Jr. Still stud sophomore linebacker leader on the team and tackles and sex. So.
00:33:34
Speaker
I just would jumps out to me in like looking back to everything from the last time, you know, one was obviously, oh, man, you know, ETN did a lot in that game. But the other thing was just the turnovers. um This was kind of early on in that that funk and kind of rut that the offense was in um Carson through three picks. um He has been much more stable of late. He's been protecting the football. He's been doing a much better job of that.
00:33:59
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He has been spreading the ball around. Um, so for me, I mean, it feels like I don't think we have to do anything like exotic. I think we just need to protect the football. We need to play our game and i mean and we need to catch the ball.
00:34:12
Speaker
Yeah, catching the ball would be a good start. um No deflected passes, that sort of thing. um I would say that um you know I'm definitely going to be looking. but might ah I'll give you a spoiler on on how I feel about the defense too. But um if we control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, we will win this game running away, period. Yeah. um I think that this um among amongst all of the games that we've played is going to be completely completely reliant on that if we can keep back clean um on the offensive side. you know we kept him We've kept him clean the last several games and he's not you know produced any turnovers.
00:34:56
Speaker
Um, I think that we're starting to allow him to flex his ah athleticism. Um, I don't think that it's necessarily a long con. I think that it's been born out of necessity. Um, you know, we've been asking for things to change in the offense and I feel like we're getting some of that rollouts Beck's getting a run. Um, can, can we just please have him run over a safety early in the game?
00:35:22
Speaker
so that we can start the game on offense. Yeah, seriously seriously. Let's get Beck lathered up, bobo give him some rollouts and let him let them go to town on on somebody in the secondary, please.
00:35:34
Speaker
Yeah, I like that. And he, I mean, he had a big run against them in the first game. Um, I agree. I agree. Let's let him do his thing. Um, I also feel like, um, the unofficial official, uh, would love to see a big game out of him. Um, have him kind of be a bit of that X factor. You know, we kind of got his feet wet coming back from injury.
00:35:56
Speaker
last week against Georgia Tech. And Kirby did say it seems like he felt pretty good coming out of that game. um So I would love to see us to continue to get the ball in hands, not only in the passing game, but also the run game and we in that, you know, the the end around has worked this year.
00:36:12
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Um, so we're we're going to continue to see that jet suite misdirection type stuff. So stay on schedule, protect the ball.
Impact of Dome Environment
00:36:20
Speaker
Um, and the line is playing better. The line, the line has been playing better. Um, I think Monroe Freeling at left tackle has made a big difference. So yeah, agreed. I think that, um, one thing that I would also be kind of looking out for is, um, I'm telling you, man, Dylan Bell can throw the ball. Yeah.
00:36:39
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, I like that. And again, he's a Texas guy. He's a Texas guy. So we'd love to see that continue to utilize the tight ends. Titans have come on of late too. So im I feel pretty good about the Georgia offense. Honestly, I am. I'm comfortable with the Georgia offense. Um, I think that what we saw in the Georgia tech game still is, you know, lingering the first three quarters. And then we finally turned it on in the fourth quarter.
00:37:04
Speaker
ah Some might call that manufactured adversity. I don't know, but, um, like it would make me feel a whole lot better for us to come out with our hair on fire on offense. Yeah. I would think of it. Here's how I think of this, the Georgia tech game is the first possession of the second half was a three and out every week. We scored on every possession regulation after that until the the one play ended at the end of the game. So four straight touchdown drafts. We're going to just continue that honor.
00:37:32
Speaker
I'd go ahead and just continue that and score on every every score touchdown that every possession. Um, I do think that this is going to be a first, this feels, this feels like a first team to 30 wins this game. Yeah. Yeah. Which I think was that way the last time. I think so. I think that's what we said last time.
00:37:49
Speaker
All right, let's let's talk quickly about what we're looking for when the when texas has the ball, you know again Uh two quarterbacks, right queen years and arch manning. We we know them. We know them Well, we did see arch manning come in a little bit in the texas texas anm game You know yours has that those like taped up angles. Um, so we'll we'll see we'll see there. Um how he holds up Also, you know, all the talk from the receiver position going into the last one was all about ah Isaiah bond. He is back and playing, but you know, it's his way down on the receiving numbers for this team just because of the time that he's missed, um, due to injury. Um, I think from the first game, obviously the big thing mentioned earlier, like this was the game where the defense came out and just hair on fire.
00:38:33
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Jalen Walker, just instant pressure. It was Michael Williams first game back, you know, from injury from the Clemson game. Um, and they were just creating havoc nonstop. Uh, Texas turned the ball over four times. We had Adele and Everett sack fumble, Adele and Everett interception, Damon Wilson sack fumble. Uh, and that was on, on Manning when arch Manning came in and then Michael Williams also had a sack that got the phone. Um,
00:38:59
Speaker
So if we can get anywhere close to that kind of pressure, I'll feel great. And I think that kind of lines up with what you were saying earlier, John is controlling the line of scrimmage and this being a trenches game. Yeah, it's definitely going to be an in the trenches situation.
00:39:14
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Um, fresh IRC podcast did have a question that I wanted to bring in here. He said, can the defense shake off two rough outings and come out with discipline, aggressive play and improved tackling? Yeah, I would say the tackling has been an ongoing theme, um, this season, but yeah.
00:39:31
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, and I think, I think, I think we certainly, I think we certainly can. It's like that team is, that team is in there, you know, like we've seen it, we've seen it in flashes. Um, but now, now, now is the time.
00:39:47
Speaker
ah Now is the time to do it where we are officially in. This is a postseason game. This is not a see ah a game that was on the schedule. um We're in the postseason, I think. um Yeah, they know they know that there are flaws and that we've got to be, you know, focused um to overcome them. So I don't know that kind of see. That's where my heads up with this with these guys.
00:40:15
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, control the line of scourge, control the turnovers, win the game. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. All right. Let's see. Um, special teams, not, ah not much there. Um, just reminder of their punter is, uh, from Florida. He's not ah from Australia, so they don't entirely take special teams seriously. Uh, that's Michael Kern and their place kicker. We don't like his name, um, Bert Auburn.
00:40:42
Speaker
He is 10 of 15 on vehicles still perfect on extra points. You know can't take you seriously can't take you seriously you don't have a you don't have an Aussie. cannot cannot The other thing I think on the on the special teams front is hey inside ah dome environment no swirling winds.
00:41:01
Speaker
Uh, kind of thing. So I, I liked that from our perspective, as far as like payday, um, kicking field goals, et cetera. Um, so I liked that. I liked it. I think that plays well for our team. Uh, yeah, ah I expect that payday will have an influence in this game. Yeah. Agreed. and Agreed.
00:41:20
Speaker
All right. um Should we head to the listener questions, J.B.?
Team Strengths and Weaknesses
00:41:24
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I think so. I mean, we've played these guys before, like I said, I think that um this game just sets up as the quintessential. ah yeah We already kind of talked about it. You know, we've got we've got pretty much a guarantee. I mean, as far as I unless we don't unless we don't get blown out by 100 points or something, right? Like,
00:41:43
Speaker
That seems to be the consensus that we're is that we're we still have more football to play regardless of what happens in this game, um which I do think sets up interestingly, depending on how things start to go or you know whatever. I for sure do not want to see anybody get hurt in this game. um So it it kind of sets up like if if things start to get lopsided, you know let's let's just protect protect everyone kind of thing.
00:42:12
Speaker
Um, but having seen us come back so many times this season, I'm not optimistic that that's going to happen, but, um, you know, it just is what it is. This team we know is flawed. We know is not perfect. We know that they're not great. They're good. Um, really good.
00:42:30
Speaker
They're battle tested in an environment like this and it's ultimately going to come down to kin the Georgia teams that have showed up recently that protect the football and control the line of scrimmage is you know best as best they can. um Is that team going to show up for four quarters? And if they do, then it's going to be pretty straightforward win for us, I feel like.
00:42:54
Speaker
Yeah. yeah it's no It's no simpler than that. I think you and I were talking in the conversation beforehand. like when we were I had asked, had asked like can we can we pull up the ah game notes from previous? And frankly, nothing really has changed. you know Maybe the margin of expected victory that Texas has in this game has shrunk, which I think is is fair. They haven't played anybody um other than Georgia.
00:43:23
Speaker
All season long. Yeah, they have a pretty weak schedule. um They've done very well with it and their stats reflect that Georgia has a very tough schedule and we've done pretty good. um Frankly, you know, one play away from having one loss.
00:43:41
Speaker
you know, kind of situation, but, um, you know, we've had some ugly games we've overcome a lot and, you know, we have played one of the toughest schedules in the country and our stats reflect that, um, these are two good teams. These are two good teams. And I think that, um, ultimately it's just going to come down to, like you said, you know, don't turn the ball over and control the line of scrimmage and we should be fine.
00:44:04
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I mean, I know a lot of people are looking at Jordan saying like Georgia's a flawed team, but having watched Texas, I mean, Texas is a flawed team too. I mean, we watched them turn the ball over a lot against Texas A and&M. Um, you know, they went out to that early lead and then couldn't extend it and never scored again. Um, so I, I think they are also inconsistent. I think they just didn't have the gauntlet that we had. And so that's why they're the one game ahead of us in the, in the loss column.
00:44:34
Speaker
Yeah, well, I'll say on that, like in the Texas A and&M game, that again, that's a team that represents a tougher, you know, a tough ah tough game, a tough environment on the road yeah they that they haven't really seen. um Otherwise, I would say that I think Hunter tagged us in a wonderful tweet that seems like it's going viral right now. But Um, you know, if Georgia had had the schedule, what is the record? And it, you know, showcasing out all the teams that Texas has played. I mean, you like Georgia's chances against pretty much everybody on that, on that page. Um, the one caveat there that we haven't seen from Texas is, you know, they didn't get to play.
00:45:15
Speaker
They didn't get to play Florida with lagway fully healthy. Cause I feel like that if, if had that been the case, I feel like there, there are probably some questions being asked about Texas and frankly, I think how they played with lagway healthy, they probably would be looking, we probably would be looking at a different team in this game. Um, yeah, but you know, that said, um, they're here, they're, they're still a dangerous team. Um, yours.
00:45:41
Speaker
Yours seems like he's hurt. I mean, they had him all wrapped up and all that kind of stuff in the game, but then he busted that long run in the Texas A and&M game. um yeah and It'll be interesting to see how that dynamic plays out. I think that the broadcast crew and during that game was mentioning that um They thought that URs would have a short leash. um You know, if things started going poorly, they were going to yank him pretty quickly is what they were saying. um um I'd be curious to know and how the backup, how the backup fares in this game protects us if things don't go, start don't start going their way and we and get a ah more mobilized quarterback. But that said, i I think that we showcased that we were able to handle both of their quarterbacks.
00:46:25
Speaker
Um, yeah, for sure. In, in, in the last game. Now I, there are players that are, you know, like you said, you said Trevor, at you know, Trevor Etienne is questionable. Hopeful. Has he gotten the hopeful kiss of death? No, he didn't even get the hopeful. He, that's the thing. He got the, he's a ways away or whatever. ki says Yeah, and that does not give me a whole lot of warm fuzzies. But I guess if Rod Robinson is is able to go, can he step in and and be an impact in this game? um Yeah, it would make me feel a whole lot better if we had a proven
00:47:00
Speaker
a proven runner um ready to go. And yes, Nate Frazier is great, but i I'd like to have a little bit more dynamic um dynamic options at the at the running back position for sure.
00:47:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I am. I'm with you. I'll say this on the on the Texas quarterback situation. We're going to see him both is what I would say. We saw him both the first time um we saw we've we saw them insert Manning to run the ball um against A and&M, but I won't be shocked to see them do that again.
00:47:35
Speaker
um But again, I think it, I think, I think the good thing is our coaches are going to expect that. So, um, we seem to be perfectly ready for, for Manning in the, in the first go around. So shitty enter the game this time. ah I expect that to be the same.
00:47:48
Speaker
Going back to the yeah the A&M game and how they played against A and&M, um I'll say this. I think that there are A and&M got outcoached 100% and outcoached themselves in many of those situations. um when When A and&M got them down into the goal line, they had the the opportunity to to put some points on the board and they chose to go for it and got stuffed.
00:48:14
Speaker
um i don't think that that same coaching philosophy and seem How do you describe, how do I describe this? That same desperation or panic mode that they saw against Texas A and&M is going to be on the sidelines versus, uh, on the sidelines for, for the dogs. So, um, Kirby Kirby is, is the, has, has shown and showcase that he can keep his team together for a late run in a game. And I do not expect that to change. Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. Agreed.
00:48:48
Speaker
All right. Let's listen to listener
Personal SEC Championship Memories
00:48:51
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questions. I think i think we got a couple we got a couple of actual football questions in there. um We can hit those in there as well. um so Lister questions as always are brought to you by Working Web Media. We had Working Web Media in the house at the Morris Hall tailgate ah for for the clean old fashioned eight. so Always great to be there live and in person.
00:49:13
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00:49:40
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head over to working web media dot.com slash dogs, and they will know that we sent you their way. All right. Amen. First up the building bonus, TM, TM, TM. Number one, what is your favorite SEC championship game? Brett adds that his was 2017. Some say DeAndre Swift is still running all the way to Philadelphia.
00:50:00
Speaker
Some say the DeAndre Swift's father is still slashing his throat. Nice. Yes, seriously. um My personal favorite SEC championship game was the game that Shockley, Patrick Garvin, posted um petra garvin posted the clips of the SEC championship that Shockley played in, yeah where we played LSU. um What was it? Was it 2000? It was 2005.
00:50:26
Speaker
2005. Yeah. um Yeah, so I was actually at that game. um I was I was a beneficiary of some tickets from an LSU fan that I played soccer with at that time. um Incidentally, ended up breaking my ankle two years after this anyway.
00:50:46
Speaker
um I had to retire from that team. um but But yeah, the i got I got offered some tickets and and went with a buddy and a buddy of mine at the time. And he was a big LSU fan. And I sat in the LSU fan section in the 300 level.
00:51:04
Speaker
um basically almost almost all the way up to the back row. But um I had some LSU fans that were surrounding me. So the the clip that he posted was Shockley through on the first touchdown to Sean Bailey. And i that was running towards me. And I was losing my ever loving mind when that happened in the middle of a sea of LSU fans. And that was just the beginning of it.
00:51:29
Speaker
um There was a grumpy old man that very much wanted me to shut up and expressed so in very colorful ways. Um, and sit down and there were LSU fans that were all around me, including my buddy. They were like, sorry about that guy. You know, it is what it is. We're getting our, we're getting our. Right. Right.
00:51:54
Speaker
Uh, sorry, Carter. Sorry, Carter. That was my, that was my favorite. Uh, I got to see Shockley and I got to see us completely to demolish a team in the SEC championship came in live in a person. Yeah, that was a good one. Also, uh, Sean Bailey, uh, Milton high school graduate, Florida.
00:52:10
Speaker
Uh, I'll go with 2002. Um, also one that I was at in person. That was my, uh, my red shirt senior year of college, as I like to say, my extra semester. Um, first ever SEC championship win for the dogs. Uh,
00:52:26
Speaker
was there basically i was there with our group that we um have our season tickets with. So the that that's six. So Kim and I, my sister, Greg, and my parents. So although none of us were married yet, obviously, um but ah my parents were.
00:52:47
Speaker
Kim and I were not yet. We're my sister. Uh, so yeah, I'd go to, um, you know, I think at the time we said it, uh, kind of like knocked the lid off the program off the dormant program. Um, great win. When, uh, when we had the block punt in that game, it was like the Georgia dome, I was still in the Georgia dome, although so was it was five, but it was like the Georgia dome exploded. Uh, it was incredible. So I'll go with, I'll go with that one 2002.
00:53:14
Speaker
It also gave a gave us the beautiful gem from our friend of the show, George Foster, when he was asked how sweet was it to win an SEC championship, and he said, sweeter than a Cinnabon. All-time quotes. That is an all-time quote. That's good. ah Let's see. Brad had a bonus bonus. ah Will we get a wallpaper this week?
00:53:36
Speaker
You know, I tried to be like cool about it last week and I tweeted out like the just a, you know, when you notice that Georgia hasn't read the wallpaper, but you're just a cool guy. So you're not going to make a big deal about it to post the wallpaper. Like it I don't get it. um and We need one. We need one. I made one makeshift from the the game program that we sent out. But yeah, how about how about a wallpaper? Well, i we should find out tomorrow when they when they come out, they tend to come out on wallpaper Wednesday.
00:54:04
Speaker
We need to tag, we need to tag Josh Brooks. If, uh, if it doesn't get posted, this seemed to work lately. yeah some pleasure so Yes. and There have been, there's been some commentary that has cracked me up, but, uh, amazing. Cool.
00:54:21
Speaker
All right, let's see. Next up is 51-7 GATA, which by the way, he came and stopped by our seats after the end of the eighth overtime in the in the tech game. We were able to hug and snag a picture. It was a great time. Oh, that's right. I saw that picture. It was a great time. Yeah, so it was awesome. Awesome.
00:54:41
Speaker
and Let's see. So he says, if the SEC championship, if the SEC championship does go to overtime, what lesson, uh, what lesson do you think, uh, sorry, what lessons do you think were learned from the tech game? Uh, seems to me both Georgia and tech may have wished they ran the ball in the first few over times.
00:55:00
Speaker
Yeah, I would say that running a ball is probably one one of the, one of the takeaways. Um, I don't know. Yeah. I'm honestly not sure either. I mean, defensively, not really sure eventually we did great. Right. I mean, we held them to one of seven. So, um, I do think that I'm not sure there's much I've got other than that there. Um, I don't know, maybe spread them out, spread them out more. i'm I'm not even really sure. Cause I, we kind of sorted into that. We even got it back on the move on some of them.
00:55:29
Speaker
So yeah, so as they we peel them out. um And and we tried to get him to run. There was a quarter. We have one that was a quarterback draw. And I was like, Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. So Hey, defensively, I would say in generally that was good offense. Yeah. I'm all for it. I'm always for a run the dang ball. So yeah, seriously. I did realize I skipped breath second original second question, which was at what point do these championship games get absorbed into or replaced by the college
Future of SEC Championship Games
00:56:01
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football playoff. Um,
00:56:02
Speaker
I to me as long as long as there's money to be made by the conference. I think that that is an answer that you're going to have. Yeah, I think the only thing you could do is like, I mean, and again, like absorbed into like, if these are basically play in games, the playoff, I, I would be firmly against that. um Then you really get into that whole like, well, I'd rather miss it. You know, like you, you'd rather be third than second kind of thing in a league. um So.
00:56:30
Speaker
I don't I don't see him getting absorbed into it. The only way that that would happen is if there's an expanded playoff, I'd be like. Yeah. Yeah. And exp expand exp expanded expanded, expanded playoff. Right. Yeah. If if we, if we're, we're, we're, we're, we're basically in the playoffs. Yeah. If we get, yeah, if we get to the big 10 sec challenge league, where it's just the big 10 in the sec, you could, I could see the S I that would be the only way is if it ends up just being those two leagues and those two leagues basically have a playoff and then the champions of those two leagues play, which man, I hope we never get to that. the Super league, the super league. Yeah.
00:57:06
Speaker
Yeah, I think that'd be the only way, but hopefully hopefully it does not come to that. So we didn't get a question from Fletcher Proctor this week, but still wanted to honor the the basketball minute, ah especially with tonight. The dogs had a 21 point victory over Notre Dame. ah Mike White has this team cooking. I think it was like the best start in like 18 years or something like that. he Yeah, I was, you know,
00:57:35
Speaker
I have been a noted passive basketball fan, you know chiming in here and there, but I have actively been watching and I mentioned it to you in the podcast before the podcast. but I turned it on ESPNU and I ended up going to sleep with with my daughter when I put her to bed earlier, did the classic classic dad move. um But the basketball team was winning when I went to sleep. yes they ah they They definitely turn turned it on at the
Georgia Basketball Highlights
00:58:11
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end.
00:58:11
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Yeah, it was, is a bit of a wild game. Like my, uh, I know my dad had texted me before tip off and it was like, you know, big game tonight. And I was like, um, you know, it's gonna be a big one. He was talking about like, he was making jokes about our tech predictions and stuff. And, but anyways, he was like, you know, we just need to not turn the ball over and basketball. And, uh, I think early on that we trailed like six to nothing. And I texted my dad, I was like, we might need to like make a shot. And then like, they just caught fire. So I had a 17 point lead at one point, a 15 point lead.
00:58:41
Speaker
Um, I think that the 17 point lead shrank down into single digits, but then they just never relinquished it. Um, that's a, that's a, that's a big win that gives the, the SEC a victory in the SEC ACC challenge. Um, so amen. Uh, I'm, I'm excited and folks are starting to take notice, uh, including one John Rothstein. I know everyone's always like Rothstein, where's the Mike White victory tweet? And, uh, he was tweeting about Asa Newell right after the game. So, uh,
00:59:11
Speaker
We're on the map. We're on the map. They are. They're fun to watch. I say it. I say it. It's like a ah weekly, weekly JP comment. Poop dogs are fun to watch for sure. For sure. All right. We can, uh, get on with the rest of the listener questions, but Hey, I think we hit the, uh, the Georgia basketball two minutes this time. So Fletcher, hope you enjoy it as as promised. ah Awesome.
00:59:35
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All right. Dogs forever. Uh, dogs have always felt confident in referencing rematch games as it most always refers to the 21 Natty versus
Facing Texas Again: Challenges and Confidence
00:59:44
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Bama. How are we feeling about this rematch with Texas? Hmm. There's, there's my heart and then there's my head and scenario that I'm struggling with because my, my head is telling me that it's hard to beat a team twice because we've seen yeah it is, it is hard to beat a team twice. So, uh,
01:00:05
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you know, it would not shock me to see us lose this game because of that factor alone. Now, where I take solace in that with my heart is that we probably were we probably are going to end up playing these guys again.
01:00:20
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Yeah, um which is just hilarious um I hope that they'd rejigger things and the chaos that's gonna happen in the next week or so um You know these next round of games I hope that they try to avoid that as best as possible. I'd rather not have to play Tennessee again I'd rather not have to play Texas again and rather not to play Alabama again like that's the that's the I guess it's a feature, not a bug, or it's a bug, not a feature. I don't know how to feel about that, but Georgia's already played several of these teams, and that's the ridiculousness of this whole thing.
01:01:00
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Yeah, I pulled that back up. So like with, as again, if the playoff were tonight, as of his, if we started as it is now, like you would have another Georgia, Texas would be lined up, you know, if if everyone wins to their seed, you have a Georgia, Texas quarterfinal, which is yeah. ah Gross.
01:01:19
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uh don't like that but yeah i i think i'm pretty i don't have a much to add there i'm with you it it is it is hard to beat a team twice um but uh it's definitely happened we've seen it happen and i know there has been analysis done on that where it's like it's not as you don't see it as much in in college just say like the nfl so i know i think there has been some analysis on nfl teams with rematches and Kirby talked about that today too. like He talked about that as press conference or yesterday. that like You and the NFL, you play everyone in your division twice. you it's It's normal. um He got into like you know flipping coins, right heads or tails, and kind of thing. It's like each individual time, the probability is still 50-50.
01:02:01
Speaker
Or whatever. Um, so he's like, not that I'm saying this game is a coin flip or whatever, but I mean, but you know, I think that's the way to look at it. Um, just look at it as a, as an individual game. And I, like, I, I still just look at it as a matchup. And I think George's flawed and Texas is flawed. I think it's going to be so. Yeah, it should be a good game. Um, what I would also say about that is, um, last I checked Alabama hasn't checked into the game and yeah our record against non-Alabama teams is pretty good. Yeah. Agreed.
01:02:30
Speaker
Um, non Alabama and non Ole Miss, I guess needs to be added, added to that after this season, but, yeah um, any team not named Ole Miss or Alabama has not fared very well against the team from Athens. And if we're speaking even broader in broader terms, most coaches don't fare very well against Kirby smart. So in Kirby, we trust.
01:02:55
Speaker
Amen. Uh, John Michael D had a little stitches update Carson Carson was back to the double black leg sleeves slash compression pants and certainly played well. Is it possible to get some of these for our DC need to feed the unofficial official more, but I like our shot from here to the end. Agreed. John Michael D, uh, be sure to update us, uh, with a stitches update, uh, as the game gets going on Saturday. Yeah. As long as we don't, as long as we don't go back to the travel ball face, face paint or paint situation, I'll be, I'll be okay.
01:03:25
Speaker
I did get an update. John Michael D. Uh, he tweeted after our review episode of pond as famous candle and wanted to make sure that my mom's candle has enough life left in it to last for a playoff run. I sent a screenshot of that to my mom because she's not on Twitter and she was like, I believe it does. So, uh, if you're not the candle was there also by the the vibes are high. The vibes are high.
01:03:50
Speaker
Uh, that also apparently came out and from a whole like conversation between like my sister and her friend, Beth, and they were talking about like lighting candles for things and praying and stuff. And so that's like how the whole thing came about. Uh, and my sister sent me a picture. I don't have this pulled up to show.
01:04:07
Speaker
But they like they lit this candle and then there's a Chick-fil-A cow that's like doing the prayer over the candle, which is an old long story ah from when I was a freshman in college when the Chick-fil-A cows reigned from the top of the stadium.
01:04:22
Speaker
Impeachable. My sister's friend Beth was at the game with her. And so it's a long, long running joke. So there's a little more little more backstory on the. We're teetering. We're teetering into Catholic Catholic rituals. yeah Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's that's funny. um What was I going to say? I was going to say something while you were while you were talking through that. um Oh.
01:04:50
Speaker
I was going to make a comment since we're teetering on some a religious reference in the in the and the situation here. um you You may remember one of my pastors that we I seem to always run into him when I'm in Athens. I did not run into him on the Georgia Tech game and I i know exactly why.
01:05:09
Speaker
But I did not run into him this past weekend, but he made a comment um in in the service, actually in the lead up to the service on Saturday and said that if you made any promises last night, services start at 930 on Sunday.
01:05:28
Speaker
And he made a comment. He made a comment about that on Sunday morning as well. It was, it was funny. That's funny.
01:05:37
Speaker
ah Shout out. Shout out Daniel Higgs. Um, but yes. Nice. Uh, let's see. Kevin wants to know, is it more responsible to take your blood pressure medicine before kickoff or after the game? Uh, and he said his buddy Bradley needs to know. I don't know. I'm not sure. I'd say before.
01:05:55
Speaker
I would say before, because it takes the, it takes a little bit of time to to take effect, I believe. Right. And Hey, as, as Lauren Smith has said in the past about the Georgia teams, this is a cardiac team. So I'd recommend before, uh, let's see, Will Garland, Arian Smith is our leading receiver for the season, but he also continues to drop the ball at key moments. Is he more of a liability or an asset when he has running routes downfield? I mean, I don't know. I know there's been some analysis of like his actual like.
01:06:23
Speaker
What coaches like grade as drops versus what we see as drops the example I would say is that one and whatever overtime it was that ball was like tipped twice and We're not that that ball is not getting counted as a drop um Stuff like that, but I don't know man. He he's the coaches I'm gonna trust them. They continue to put him out there. I know they've got the They've got the faith in him, um, to, to deliver and he's the guy that they trust to be out there. So I don't know. That's, I guess that's my take. I feel like, I feel like i'm we're Kirby smart answering questions in ah and a press conference. He gives us the greatest probability to win. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. Um, now what I will say is, is that if you were a player listening to this podcast, take that man, get him a slump buster.
01:07:14
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Again, two episodes in a row.
01:07:18
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ah I mean, it's a question. It's a question that came up and right. Right. Right. It's a, it's a thing. It's a thing. Um, yeah, I would say this, my try there are only a couple of players on the field that we have given the ball to and, and around situations. Um, Um, you know, there's a reason that he's out there. He has a skill set that not many players on the team have. Um, I don't know if you remember the, the races that they had pre-season last year. Um, there was some, there was some chatter about, you know, who could win and in different races and stuff. And everyone was gunning for Ariane Smith for a reason.
01:07:57
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the reality is too, the guys made some huge plays for us. Um, I mean, that Ohio state come back in the peach bowl. I mean, that, that deep shot to him changed the game, uh, and kind of gave us, gave us some life to, uh, to kind of fire off that comeback. So again, that guy, that guy's in there. That guy's in there. We're pulling for him.
01:08:19
Speaker
Hey, talking about, um, redemption and, you know, rematch. Maybe he gets a chance to redeem himself on ah on a deep shot. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. All right. Let's see. Um, there we go. All right. Garrett Garrett day underscore hugs, uh, Garrett chimes in Jalen Walker game of the season again.
01:08:40
Speaker
Man, I hope so. yeah that mean that would like Everyone, like Twitter was like ablaze with like and NFL guys, too, like talking about Jaylen Walker and the in the first match up with him. He definitely matches up well with his team. He matches up well with his team. That said, I think that there have been a couple of games that we've put on film that other teams have been able to isolate him.
01:09:01
Speaker
um I'll take it. I'll take it. But there's very clearly been some, I don' i don't know what teams have done to account for him, but he has he's been fairly quiet as of late. So he's due is what I'll say to that.
01:09:18
Speaker
And like you said, this does set up nicely for him, for his type of game. What I'll say that I feel like is probably impacting the lack of his name being called is some of the injuries that we've had on the defense that have not been as impactful as they were during this game. So we need some, in order for him to have a huge game, I feel like we need some other guys out there that are commanding attention so that it frees him up.
01:09:45
Speaker
Yeah, you know and on that note. I know we were I don't think we mentioned this earlier I think it was in the podcast before the podcast saw some rumblings on twitter of christen miller maybe being okay, you know He injured his what shoulder against umass. Um, so if he can come back again, just take enough space to free guys up Um, also unless i'm remembering wrong like mondon wasn't there in the in the first match up with these guys unless my mind is just totally wrong, but Um, you know, again, having him doing things like, like in coverage, for example, free enough jail and Walker to, to rush the passer. So I like that too. Um, yeah. Here it says, how much do you think he was injury? Injury will affect his ability to make the big plays. I'm not totally sure. Like, I don't know that he's going to make plays with his legs as much other. Like you just mentioned, we did see him do that. He was off a little bit on some throws against A and&M. So I don't know. I mean, shoot, I'd love it for it to throw him off a little bit, but
01:10:38
Speaker
Um, he played pretty much the duration of the game and then they got a brief spell from arch just to like basically do a QB. so See, ah see above. Yeah. Yeah. If, if, if we can get, if we can get some guys putting pressure on him, getting him to, we saw, we saw him have success with his, with his legs, um, the, the injury. Um, I'm sure that they're going to be trying to rehab him.
01:11:01
Speaker
All throughout the week, I expect him to be heavily taped again, um because those lower leg injuries tend to be lingering. I'm sure he was feeling it the next day, after particularly after those runs, after the adrenaline wears off kind of thing. yeah um But ultimately, it'll it'll it'll depend on how how well we're able to get pressure. Again, just goes back to what I was saying, line of scrimmage and turnover. All right. The last one from Garrett, I think we probably already answered. Aaron Smith, starter bench. Hey, if there was, he's starting.
Game Approach: Aggressive or Cautious?
01:11:35
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Start.
01:11:36
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Um, insert whatever Kirby wants to do here. Yeah. Uh, let's see boss dog. It seemed as if we were pretty vanilla on both sides of the ball, uh, for at least first half more or more. So on defense, I would like to see some more exotics on the defensive side of the ball. How aggressive do you think we get, or do we get a feel for the game and then get aggressive? I mean, we were so aggressive from the get go in the first matchup. Do you think that'll change?
01:12:00
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, i don't i don't know the I don't know that I have a good answer for this, but it does tie into the questions that I've asked to the threads that we're all a part of. This game
Importance of Winning the SEC Championship
01:12:13
Speaker
is a weird game for me, um because if I am comfortable that we're making the CFP and that this is a new sport that we're playing in,
01:12:23
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um Yeah, you want to win the SEC championship and we'd love to all win when just when when the whole effing thing to quote our video that we posted lately um But you don't have to you don't have to win the whole effing thing um i don't I don't know, man. It feels like that there have been personalities. We've got a personality disorder, but I don't know if it's been by design. I hate to use the term the manufactured adversity in situations where like Kirby would very clearly like to just put people away.
01:12:57
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um
Team Adaptability and Stadium Food
01:12:58
Speaker
But it is noticeable that we're able to just flip a switch whenever we want to, whether it be on offense or defense, to figure something out with the exception. The only exception to that is the Ole Miss game. um The Ole Miss game was the only game in which we were unable to figure out a way to flip that switch to turn on whatever we needed to turn on.
01:13:22
Speaker
Um, it was there in the, in the Alabama game. I think that we just found ourselves in a situation where we were just one play short. Um, I have a feeling that they're going to figure it out. I don't know what, I don't know what team shows up. If it's going to be the team, you know, that wants to play all four quarters, like we did against Texas, um, the first time, but yeah I think that, I think that it's there. It's just a matter of if we want to release the hounds now, or if we're saving it for the playoff.
01:13:52
Speaker
And I don't think that that's necessarily like, uh, you know, like I said, manufactured adversity or the long con, whatever, but it's weird, right? Like, is it, is it, am I, am I alone? Like, do you feel the same way? Like I actually disagree. So here's my thing. My, my thing has always been with the SEC championship game is if you make it, you better win it. Like, because you do not, because you're adding a, you're adding an extra, like if you lose it, you would have rather been Tennessee.
01:14:20
Speaker
and sit at home and rest. And now we're in this game. We have to play this game. You can't subtract a game now, right? The only way to subtract a game from your season is by winning this game and getting a buy straight to the quarterfinals. Like you go, you do everything to get that by indicated to that quarterfinal. Cause you get it, you get it, you get an extra week. So that's my stance. So your opinion is to pull out all the stops. I say you unload the clip. Like and we're in the playoffs. That's, that's how I feel. I like it. So I'll take it. Cool.
01:14:50
Speaker
All right. Uh, let's see. Aaron King says, uh, seems like a relatively simple game plan to pick Texas again on defense, stop the run and pressure the quarterback, just like we did before on offense. Carson's got to protect the ball this time. We've got to at least do just enough with a running game to slow the pace of the game down. Hey, agreed, Aaron. I think, uh, sure. We should have just read that off earlier. Uh, agreed. Agreed.
01:15:16
Speaker
All right. Let's see. what What I hear you saying is that it's going to come down to turnovers and line of scrimmage. Correct. Correct. Um, all right. I don't have a graphic for this one, uh, for those on YouTube, but we get, we did get a word from Yara Yara reached out to us. Uh, we've got Yara's corner, uh, Yara from child. Be sure to like and subscribe.
01:15:36
Speaker
So she started off, there's a lot of different food options in our second home field in Atlanta. What is your favorite Mercedes Benz concession? Do you have one? Have you been there enough to have a favorite? Um, I do enjoy the barbecue nachos, um, that you can get down there. Um, I also enjoy the brisket sandwich. If you're going on the frugal side, there are definitely lots of options. Um, the hot dog is fantastic.
01:16:05
Speaker
I can't remember what the beer is called. they have ah They have a fairly inexpensive beer that is is quite tasty. um nice yeah i mean one One benefit of ah going to the game in person is they do have plenty of of food options that are very affordable versus the $16 beers at at Sanford.
01:16:28
Speaker
right Right the Of the like the food options um I'll say last month here. I think Lily and I had wings from JR crickets I believe is what we got ah and those were good um It was just ah what was what was close and Lily likes wings. So we got those so I'll let those I haven't been there quite as many times um I'll go with that I usually load up on food before I go into any stadium that I'm going in. So, um, I don't, I don't tend to eat as much, but, um, I have eaten a couple of times inside, inside the, inside the stadium. Carter would say, go to Chick-fil-A. Yeah. Well, yeah, true. Hey, and
Hypothetical Player Additions
01:17:05
Speaker
you know, that's always like, that was always the joke, like with, uh, you know, Falcons, primarily Falcons Sunday, is it Sunday, but Hey, this is one of those times you can be in there on a Saturday and get Chick-fil-A. So.
01:17:17
Speaker
maybe Maybe, hey, maybe they'll have that pimento cheese sandwich that yeah that you can get that's like limited edition. That would be a pretty epic flex is ah eating eating one of those fancy Chick-fil-A sandwiches in your seat with a beer saying cheers, boys. I like it. I like it.
01:17:37
Speaker
All right. This one's good from Yara. If you could get one former Georgia player back on the field for the upcoming SEC championship game, who would you choose? Who would you choose and why? So she said the rest of the team is the same. You just get to add a guy. So that's your guys, Todd Gurley.
01:17:52
Speaker
That is the one, that is the one position that I am most worried about in this game is, um, the lack of an, a potential ETN, uh, being a ways away as, as you put it yeah as Kirby put it. Um, anyway, and Todd Gurley basically figured out how to get four or five yards every time he touched the ball. So I can't give me Todd Gurley.
01:18:14
Speaker
That's a good one. That's a really good one. I was thinking more more defense just from controlling the game. So I had I had two in mind. One was ah Jordan Davis because that just helps everything. But then I started thinking and then I was like, hmm, what could I cheat and have someone that could help um both sides of the ball? How about a little champ?
Alternative Venues for SEC Championship
01:18:36
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How about a little champ Bailey?
01:18:38
Speaker
ah chant bailey have him have had a lockdown corner and a number one receiver. So ultimately I landed on chant bailey. I do. I do like that. Yeah. um I also ah the Jordan Davis was another one that I that I thought about. I would also have accepted with enthusiasm Brock Bowers. Yeah, man. Yeah. Or McConkie. He got on his donkey.
01:19:02
Speaker
dude's having a seven heck of a rookie year. Uh, who said, who said we couldn't develop pass catchers? Yeah, seriously. Uh, let's see if you could choose another venue across the whole world to play the sec championship game in, where would you relocate it to and why I'd go Sanford stadium for the home field advantage.
01:19:23
Speaker
I was about to say, can we, can we play, it can we, can we give the home field advantage to to the team? Um, okay. So if you're going to go to Stanford stadium, I'll go, I'll go completely off the walls and and give a shout out to British bulldog. Can we play it at all at the theater of dreams? Old Trafford. Nice. Nice. For those, for those unaware, that's where Manchester United plays soccer. Nice.
01:19:50
Speaker
Uh, last one from Yara, the uniform team ended up picking the red jerseys after originally starting with the white ones throughout your time as a Georgia fan. What has been your favorite Jersey combination? Uh, so one thing really quick on that, basically everyone, at us so Georgia is the away team as we finished second in the SEC. Um, Texas is the home team. So we had assumed Georgia would wear the white Texas chose to wear white as the home team, which then, so then we decided to wear red.
01:20:18
Speaker
Uh, so that's that. I mean, I actually, I'm well kind of with a lot of people that like the red helmet, the white Jersey in the silver britches is a very clean uniform. I do really like that uniform. Um, I guess I'll go with that one.
01:20:33
Speaker
And honestly, actually with the one thing I would add is I i liked it in like the nineties in the eighties, even when we had the, like the red and black stripes at the end of the sleeve, it's harder to do that now because the sleeves are so short and tight. Um, but I always, always liked that. I think Hunter had a mock-up at one point where it was like, it had that stripe and had like the standing bulldog right there on the shoulder. That was cool.
01:20:55
Speaker
Give me, give me, give me a circa 2007 black jerseys. Yeah, it was really, it was really all right. Yara's corner. Amazing. Thank you Yara. And I know,
Uniform Choices for the Game
01:21:05
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uh, I think John, at least you, you had submitted a chapel builder of a question over there. So they give us the mic on a podcast corner. i shall know So soften that up.
01:21:14
Speaker
All right, let's see. Friend of the show, Tim Riley. ah What offensive group do we lean on the most? Running backs, wide receivers or tight ends to make the biggest impact for victory. I feel like it's not running backs for you based off kind of what you've been saying or is it lean on?
01:21:31
Speaker
Hmm. I think it's, I actually think it's the receiver core. Like I think, I think we're going to need the tight end group to step up, but I think as far as leaning on, we throw the ball a lot. I mean, yeah that's kind of our MO now we're going to throw the ball and we're going to get guys involved and end the rounds and just sweeps on but misdirection. So I think it's the wide receivers. Honestly. Yeah. I would agree with that. I was, you know, the tight ends have come on strong, but we, we throw the ball a lot. Let's just, let's just have no drops.
01:22:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, man. Can we get a, can we get a no drop game, please? Yeah. Catch the ball. That's the positive way of saying it. Catch the ball. I think that's the positive way to say it. Right. All right. This next one has some music.
01:22:12
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fire
01:22:29
Speaker
All right, it's time for Jason Huggins, the hug dog. Would you rather, would you rather win the SEC and then, and thus the number two seed in the playoff or lose, but host the first round playoff game? I guess I already said my piece earlier. I'd rather win and get the number two seed. I'll take a win. Yeah. Yeah.
01:22:49
Speaker
Would you rather have a Kobe young touchdown or a Malachi Starks pick six? Kobe on touchdown is tempting because it means he's playing. That means he's playing. Yeah. Um, give me, give me a Starks pick six, please. Yeah, I'm with you. I, I just feel like that, that ignites the crowd too and just changes the environment and the momentum. So not with you.
01:23:12
Speaker
I feel like it not only does that, but you know as much as great as it would be to have Colby Young in the game, I feel like. um Frankly, I think that he's still relatively unproven, but um you you've we've we've we've talked about the you know ah what's What's happened to Malachi this season? He's he's lost money, you know, whatever. um Having a pick six in a game like this would be a huge confidence boost to the overall team morale, particularly on the defensive side that has caught a lot of flack. um Frankly,
Hypothetical Game Scenarios
01:23:50
Speaker
you know, lack of turnovers, lack of, you know, I don't know, lack of overall
01:23:58
Speaker
overall rankings and all that kind of stuff, like all the stats are showcasing that this is a down defense. I think that a lot of that is covered up by the fact that we're playing, we've played a tough schedule, but having a guy like Malachi Starks get a, what they refer to as a confidence boost goal, um, on the soccer side of things, um, would be very, very, um, precipitous for us as we move forward in the, in the playoff. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you there. Just a reminder that you are elite son.
01:24:26
Speaker
Yeah. Hey, he does big things in this building too. So let's not forget that the the, the interception against Oregon, the interception against c Clemson this year, uh, would love to see Malachite go off in that, in that building. And it's it's, and it's not too dissimilar to Carson Beck. You know, we talked about it in the the Georgia tech preview where he threaded in the needle between four defenders.
01:24:49
Speaker
Um, that throws like that or why he was regarded as a, as a high profile, um, you know, quarterback for the NFL, uh, uh, pick six. Whew. That's that's tasty. Yeah. ah Agreed. Agreed. Would you rather yours or Manning start for Texas? I don't care. We're going to kill him. Whatever.
Brand Loyalty and Game Day Choices
01:25:13
Speaker
Uh, what are the answer? did i If you give me, if you give me Manning and that tells me that there's blood in the water. Ooh. Okay. Yeah. Dude. The funny thing is I was sitting there ringing and I was like, eh, I'm indifferent. So like, uh, I don't know. If you start Manning, if you start Manning over the guy that got you here largely throughout the entire season yeah and just be, you know, a ranked, a ranked opponent on the road.
01:25:38
Speaker
Um, bald out by, and by and large, um, that would tell me that there's blood in the water. Yeah. Agreed. On that note, Manning.
01:25:52
Speaker
ah All right. Uh, Jason rounds us out with, if you drink Tito's this week, you suck. So reminder Tito's supports the Texas Longhorns. You should drink hunker vodka support the classic city collective, uh, and the Georgia football players.
01:26:06
Speaker
Uh, horns down and good dogs. Uh, and then there was Jason had had included ah a photo. Uh, it was like a screenshot of his FaceTime, uh, with Hampton of them doing horns down. Hampton was in Austin for the, for round one. So love it. Good times. All right. Uh,
Game Statistics Predictions
01:26:23
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this next one has music as well.
01:26:32
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my god a freshman trying to put glasses on it it is time for coaches over unders sec championship versus Texas. All right. I still maintain a slight lead. So I get to go first or I get to choose and I choose to go first starting up the offense over under 275 passing yards for one Carson Beck. I'm going to go over. We'll also go over, even though I'm in a situation where I feel like I.
01:27:06
Speaker
Need to go against you All right over to you over under 85 rushing yards for one Nate Frazier Wait what over under 85 rushing yards for Nate Frazier? Oh, I'm at the wrong. I'm at the wrong dock. Hang on. Let me catch up Amazing. I hadn't agreed in the first match yet. I was in the first match. I was like, what the hell? Questions are off. I was prepping. I was prepping. Uh, 85 rushing yards. I'll go over. Oh my gosh. Sorry. That was amazing. Um, uh, I'm going to go over. I'm going to agree with you. See, see I'm at, I'm at the position where I've got to go against you. You're at the position where you can choke me out.
01:27:56
Speaker
You're on the Kirby death march.
01:28:02
Speaker
ah Yes, you see my strategy. All right. ah Over under eleven and a half wide receiver catches in the game um catches. Yeah. Catches for wide receivers. I'm going to go over. We say we're going to lean on the receivers.
01:28:19
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to have to go over. Okay. Um, over to you over under two and a half, we're over over to the Georgia defense also, uh, two and a half sacks for the Georgia defense. I'm going to go over.
01:28:31
Speaker
Yeah, me too. A because I think it's going to happen and B because I'm on the death mark. ah and to um Over ah under one and a half forced turnovers by the Georgia defense. Um, man, we had four in the first game. Um, I do feel like one and a half is a good number. Oh man. I hope it's over. Uh, I'm going to go over. They just turned it over a couple of times against A and&M too. So I'm going to go over.
01:28:56
Speaker
I'm going to go under. Okay. And then over to you, over, under, uh, 250 pass yards for Quinn years. I'm going to go under death March under, uh, for me over under seven and a half points for pay for payday or Peyton Woodring, our special teams question. So seven F points. Um, this including extra points. Yeah. So a point. Yeah. So it would be field goals plus extra. Um, it is a very good line. Uh, I'm going to go, I'll reveal my reasoning later. I'm going to go under.
01:29:32
Speaker
I'll go over. Okay. Um, and then last but last last but not least, the miscellaneous trash thrown on the field over under 30.15 pieces. Is this to me or is this to you? I think this is you. I'm going to go under because that's a long distance.
01:29:52
Speaker
Okay. Fair. Uh, I also in general just don't like to disagree on ones like this, but ah man, if they, so I'm going to go under, but man, if they rain down the rain down the trash, uh, in not their own stadium. Uh, Hey, I will say that, you know, that's another advantage, another advantage to us. We're not in their place. They can't throw trash on the field to, uh, to influence the river, the referees. So.
01:30:18
Speaker
Yeah. All right. Well, coach, have they ever, have they ever played in Atlanta? Now that I'm like, we've gotten all the way to the end of this episode and I haven't asked that question. Have they ever played in Atlanta? but Have they played in Atlanta?
01:30:31
Speaker
Um, good question. Uh, I don't remember it. So the, cause they wouldn't have played in a, they wouldn't have played in the peach bowl back in the day when it was like the SEC, you know, bowl game. Cause that was an SEC, ACC, ACC bowl game. And then since it's been in like the new, whatever the new year six, like, I know we played them in the sugar bowl. I don't remember them. So yeah, the question would be, would have they played in the P or a national championship game?
01:30:57
Speaker
I don't know. I'm going to guess no, but someone is yelling at there. If you're yelling at the podcast player of choice, the answer is yes. Uh, hit us up and let us know when it was Jason's going to Jason's going to investigate this. know True. True. True. Watch it. Watch. They played it like, um, what do you call it? Um, grant grant field or something like that. Yeah. Like play at Georgia tech or something like that. Yeah. Um,
01:31:21
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Yeah. All right. Well, shout out, uh, coast drill bill. Thank
SEC Championship Outcome Predictions
01:31:25
Speaker
you as always for sending us the over unders. Uh, we enjoy it all season long, right? JP. Um, let's see. Here we go. When they all, I will say Texas long horns. They've never played a Mercedes Benz stadium. I'll say that there was a ah rare trip to Atlanta, the Benz for Texas Longhorns article. Um, so at least got that. Good times.
01:31:47
Speaker
All right, let's get into the predictions. Um, I'll throw up the CFP graphs for those on, on YouTube. Just look at this matchup again. I think we talked about this last time. Like it does look very even like in, in this graph, like blue was good, red is bad and kind of thing. Um, so, uh, what is the one, what is the one red?
01:32:09
Speaker
It's, uh, what is that? It's like R R O E. I believe it's rush rate over expectancy or something like that. It's like, if w do you run the ball when teams expect you to run the ball or something? That's what, how Josh explained it to me, but I don't understand how that gets like, quote, bad. So that one always kind of confused me, but that's, the is this saying that they don't run the ball a lot?
01:32:31
Speaker
Uh, no, it's like when you expected them to run, I guess they don't or something like that. I don't know. Cause they, they're at like 6% and we're at negative five. I still, I don't understand. I didn't understand what the purpose of it was. So, okay. Yeah.
01:32:47
Speaker
Alright, so um Odd Shark has this as a Texas is favored by two and a half. The over under is 49 and a half. um That gives you an implied score of Texas 26 to Georgia 23 and a half. The Odd Shark predicted score has Texas 36 to Georgia 30.6. This Culture Ball Insiders graphs has Texas 24.31 to Georgia 21.03 CBC R2 has Texas 27.8 to Georgia 20.1 and our impact score has Texas 25.57 to Georgia 20.98 so I know John we talked about this a little bit before like this is kind of like what it looks like heading into the first matchup
01:33:30
Speaker
Um, all the analytics said Texas, um, was going to win the game. I think we kind of felt like at that point, they hadn't really played anybody yet. Frankly. I think we kind of still feel that way. And for me, a lot of this is on, I do things. You know how I roll. That's a lot of like feel.
01:33:48
Speaker
And like, how do I feel about things? And I kind of try to look to the past and we were talking about this with John and Hunter earlier this week. And I think for me, it's like last year, Georgia made it to this SEC championship game. We're undefeated. We're rolling. I think we kind of felt like we were invincible. Um, this year we know we're not invincible. Uh, we know we can be beaten because it's happened. Um, but we are battle tested. Um, and I think Texas frankly is not.
01:34:15
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Battle tested the one true battle they had was with us and they lost it um So I'm gonna lean on this team and they're in their resilience I've got the dogs in this one 31 to 24. Oh
Other Conference Championship Predictions
01:34:28
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my god. Are you kidding me? I would literally have that as the score that I had
01:34:35
Speaker
Yeah, this guy can be death March. Um, yeah, I had 31 24 as, yeah, I guess as we used to say as usual, we agree.
01:34:48
Speaker
All right. can Can I, can I drop a omens? Can we, can we get into omens here? Sure. Okay. In our, you know what, you know, I love a good omen in our first preview. We also predicted the same score unexpectedly. So, uh, so we'll go with that.
01:35:05
Speaker
Yeah. Quinn. Sames. Sames. Sames. Sames. Omens. Omens. All right. Awesome. We've got three pickup games from Coach Trill in three of the other conference championship games. I know what I want to happen here. I'm selfishly. So you got Iowa State number 18 Iowa State against number 16 Arizona State. Although, sorry, these are I did not these update these with the new playoff rankings. So those rankings may be a little bit off.
01:35:33
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Um,
Impact of Conference Schedules
01:35:34
Speaker
but Arizona state is favored by two, um, like it's Iowa state big 12 championship game, 12 o'clock on ABC. I know nothing about either of these teams. Give me Arizona state in this game. and Yeah. Yeah. I look good. Oh, I watched, I watched, I've watched some of their games as they happened to be on after hours being West coast. So I've seen him like little bits and clips and I don't know, man, that that, that, that dude out in Arizona, it looks like he's, he's cooking.
01:36:02
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. I was going to go with them too. I'll, I'll stick with it. Yeah. All right. The one, the one that's going to have, actually let's go these in the upper and reverse order, uh, of what I have them written down here. So big 10 championship game. Uh, you got Oregon against Penn state, um, Oregon undefeated Penn state one loss. Oregon is favored by three and a half. Can James Franklin, can James Franklin pull it off? Can he win a big game?
01:36:26
Speaker
That line stinks to high holy heaven. That it's only. version yeah Yeah. Yeah. Where's this game? Where's this game being played? They used to play it in, um, in, uh, like an Indianapolis, right? Like where, where we played the natty. I haven't, I haven't had to care about the big 10 until this year. So.
01:36:46
Speaker
Yeah, it's in Lucas oil stadium in Indianapolis. So I was right. Okay. Yeah. So it's not going to any Indianapolis. Yeah. okay So again, in indoors, um, so no, no weather, uh, implications there. I'm going to go Oregon. I just, I agree. I think that line is kind of iffy, but I don't, I'm going to trust Dan Lanning over James Franklin. I'm basically just picking off the coach.
01:37:08
Speaker
Yeah, I have, I have little to no confidence in James Franklin at all, especially after the mentality that he exhibited against a, you know, Mike Loxley, you know, he's a fairly, he's, he's a, he's a fairly good coach and well regarded. And for him to go off on, on him like that, I thought i thought was kind of as, as was quoted by, uh, Dustin Hoffman and hook bad fall.
01:37:35
Speaker
Wow. Okay. Take a deep into there. Yes. Uh, give me, give me, give me Dan land and his face tattoos. Okay. I'm with you. I'm with you.
01:37:48
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All right. And the last one coach sent over was the ACC championship game. You got number 17, Clemson against number eight, smooth as we like to call them. Uh, Hey, now this one, there could be some weather implications. Uh, it's eight o'clock Saturday night on ABC, uh, at bank of America stadium in Charlotte. So.
01:38:09
Speaker
I can, you know, like I said, John, it snowed here last night. It's quite cold. So that one's going to be outdoors at night. That's going to be cold. Let's see. All of us. You know what? I'm checking. It's not going to be like Athens cold. Looks like it'll be in the 40s. So it's not going to be like it was last weekend. So 40s is actually. I was looking at that to see like, you know.
Personal Traditions for Championship Watching
01:38:32
Speaker
Uh, on our last pick, I was trying, I was just curious, like what the environment was going to be like for the big tens situation. Cause you had mentioned, you know, we've talked about how cold it was in Indy, uh, for the national championship, but, um, yeah, it hasn't gotten quite that cold. Um, it's, it's, it's definitely going to be chilly in Charlotte. now Yeah, it will be in the forties. So it won't be as cold as it wasn't happens last weekend, but.
01:38:56
Speaker
Out of curiosity, have you looked to see like what the, what the tickets are for this game? I'm just curious. Tickets as low as it says tickets as low as $39 is what it says. That is just mind boggling to me for such a magnetic. This game means so much to the CFP and who goes and it's only 39 bucks for you to go in Charlotte. Oh man. That's crazy. Um, yeah. Give me, give me Clemson in this game, please.
01:39:24
Speaker
Yeah, I'm with you. And you know what? You could say I'm picking Clemson to keep Alabama out of the playoff, but the reality is I'm just pulling for my cousin, Sammy. So give me the time. We're keeping it in the family here. Keeping it in the family. Go Yeah, go. Go Tigers. Go Tigers. Hickory dickory dock.
01:39:49
Speaker
calling All right, that that wraps us up. Those are the the Pickham games. Um, so those are the biggest, the ones are the biggest implications here. So we'll, we'll see how this all, um, how this all lines up, you know, by the time we're doing our review of this game, we'll know the playoff, uh, the landscape of the cultural playoff at that point. So we'll have a lot to talk about in our next episode.
01:40:13
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Yeah, seriously. um but um i was just I was just curious. I was just going back. i I didn't look at it ahead of time. But talking about like the the disparity in schedules, there's going to have to be a conversation about this and in the future. Because you know i just got to i just SMU, like WTF, like how the heck are they ah the heck are they here?
01:40:38
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, they're in the they're in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which makes all those ends, right? Yeah, but if you look at their schedule, they played Nevada, Houston Christian, BYU, their loss, they lost a ah ah close game to BYU, which frankly, BYU is not that great.
01:40:56
Speaker
TCU, Florida state, Louisville, Stanford, Duke, Pittsburgh, Boston college, Virginia, and Cal. That is the schedule that SMU has played the entire season and they find themselves on the precipice of potentially being a number four pick in the CFP playoff. That to me is an egregious miscarriage of what we're trying to do here. And do you know how they're going to fix it? They're goingnna have expand they're going to add four more teams. so They're going to expand the playoff. That's going to make it worse. Yes. It's going to make it worse. It's going to make it worse, guys. It's going to make it worse. Whereas again, you could really fix it by doing conference re-relignment and making the smaller conferences and shrinking the playoff down to eight, whatever. Yeah. But I say all that to say that that's why I'm picking clips.
01:41:44
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm with you. Hey, they Clemson definitely has played a type of schedule. So I mean, well, I know we talked about this a little bit before, but I'm I'm not going to the game. You know, we ah it's kind of our tradition. We we now like we decorate our Christmas tree and the day of the SEC championship game. That's kind of our thing has become our thing. So having beat Georgia Tech last week, we get to do that. Otherwise, you know, we we would not have
Closing Remarks and Team Resilience
01:42:10
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had been allowed to have a Christmas tree for Jeff Dantzler's rules.
01:42:13
Speaker
Um, but so we'll, we'll, we're staying back. We'll be doing that. Uh, so we'll just be watching watching from home, uh, having the bean dip. So that's our plans for Saturday. I have some pork. I'm going to, I'm going to smoke some pork and I'm now that you mentioned the bean dip, I may go, I may go, I may go and get some bean dip situation. Nice.
01:42:34
Speaker
We'll do, we'll do some, we'll do some barbecue pork sliders, some bean dip, and then probably salads to make the ladies happy. Sounds like a, sounds like a nice little Saturday. It is. It is. It's going to be quite chilly, man. It's going to be, it's going to be cold in Atlanta for the the little bit here. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. For sure.
01:42:52
Speaker
Look cool, man. Hey, four years in a row in the SEC championship. Like we said, when we opened, did not expect, you know, didn't see this coming. Um, you know, after being pretty down after the lost Ole Miss, but we've, uh, held our own, handled our business since then. And like I said, man, you made it to this game. Uh, you, you want it, you want to go win it and get that by. So excited for Saturday.
01:43:17
Speaker
Amen. Amen. Amen. um I'll leave you with this on the YouTubes, but horns down. Go dogs. dogs.