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Season Preview | 2024 Georgia Football
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Jim and John are joined by Jon Smith and Hunter Jones for a primer on the 2024 college football season and answer listener questions.
Jim and John are joined by Jon Smith and Hunter Jones for a primer on the 2024 college football season and answer listener questions.
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Georgia's SEC Journey
00:00:00
Speaker
Texas A&M has been in this league for 12 years, 13 years, whatever it is. Georgia has not gone to College Station to play to play football. Texas joins and Georgia goes there the year one. It's like, it is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
Season Preview and Website Launch
00:00:19
Speaker
Welcome to My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I are joined by our friend John Smith, as well as an appearance by Hunter Jones with a special guest. This is the 2024 season preview. And yes, we answer questions from you, our listeners. As always, remember to check out the newly redesigned My Gotta Podcast.com to see our latest merch. You can follow us on social media at My Gotta Podcast. Finally, if you need to 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.
Meet John Tweet Sports
00:00:54
Speaker
All right, back for another episode of my got a podcast, the 2024 season preview. I'm Jim JP's with me as always. And if you're watching on YouTube, you, you see that we also have with us, John tweet sports. What's up people. How's everybody doing? I'm doing good, man. Good. Look at this felt this felt, uh, John Smith.
00:01:19
Speaker
that's Looking lean and mean, like you've been ready ready for the off season. I'm ready. I've been training, been doing putting in my reps, um both um in the in the tailgate training and um in moving moving my body a little
Georgia and ASW Distillery Connection
00:01:36
Speaker
bit more. So who knows, man, um we're going to do this this quick tailgate at Clemson.
00:01:42
Speaker
may just carry the thing all weekend down in Atlanta. Who knows? We're ready. Ready. It's been a while. I like it. I like it. You mentioned your preseason reps for the tailgating. What are you repping right now? I am drinking this Fiddler Toasted Bourbon from ASW Distillery in Atlanta. So if you know ASW, this is not It's not sponsored, not a sponsor of the podcast yet that I know of. Um, I got a podcast, uh, but Fiddler toasted bourbon. This is very high proof bourbon. Uh, they just released it, um, last year, I believe, but very, very good. Um, and of course, you know, if you want to support Georgia NIL, you got the hunker vodka, um, from ASW distillery. I didn't, I didn't pick this, this bourbon to intentionally talk about ASW distillery. It's just what was on the shelf and what I want to drink tonight. Um, but it's kind of working out. It's kind of working out. So. I didn't realize ASW made the hunker down. They do. um ASW and Georgia alumni, Charlie Thompson and Jim Chastain, shout out to ASW founders, Charlie and Jim, ah Georgia alum and big supporters of UGA athletics. So love those guys. That's right. ear dogs charlie Charlie fraternity brother of one, ah Lou Wood, AKA Friptog also.
00:03:03
Speaker
so Not at the same
Golf and Surprise Guests
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Speaker
time. Was he social chair? I'm not sure. I've got the full tilt. I've got the elite. Nice. The elite, John, we think alike. I also have the elite full tilt. Full tilt. The infinity bottle. The infinity bottle. This is 99 proof. It says so on the label. I don't know if you can see that, but who knows? I think at this point, mine's a slightly higher than 99 proof.
00:03:30
Speaker
Um, so actually, uh, off season has been a little, uh, light on on our side. Uh, one of the things of late, I do have an update because I know I texted you guys this. I had another good round tonight. I've been doing like a ah nine hole golf league on Monday nights. twilight golf Yeah. Yeah. So it's like after work thing, go play nine holes. Uh, and it's a handicapped league. So which my handicap, you keep playing the same nine holes in the same course over and over again, you get better at it. So my handicap has gone down at least there. So that's been good, but I'm still in first place. Uh, still, still the leader increased my lead after I had a good, I actually shot my best round of the season tonight. So I'm having a that, that was my opening. Uh,
00:04:16
Speaker
before the game, before the recording. And now I get to say, we have someone in the green room. Uh-oh. Who could it be? Who could it be?
00:04:27
Speaker
And we're going to have to be like, you're live on a podcast. Are we going to do the sound? Oh, see, I don't have that sound. But we could do like the, I don't know, just, does that work? Is that close enough? We'll see. Perfect. There we go.
00:04:46
Speaker
Yes.
Fatherhood and Podcasting
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Speaker
True man makes his podcast debut taken a bottle. Yeah, we got about 10 minutes, so I'm gonna have to go. and and What are you sipping on?
00:05:02
Speaker
nada no this This podcast just became x-rated.
00:05:13
Speaker
Oh, that's a special gift for the folks on the YouTubes. Oh, man. Well, yeah. Well, we lost that hunter. What'd you say? I said, welcome to the nursery.
00:05:28
Speaker
This this is like a especially amazing audio content for the audio listeners. So I will describe the situation. We've got Hunter Jones, ah new, fairly new dad.
00:05:40
Speaker
ah but Putting his son to bed, getting in a bottle. ah True Man is is now making his podcast debut while taking a bottle. Although we did talk to True Man last week. We got a screenshot from
Georgia's Game Day Dynamics
00:05:54
Speaker
that. Oh, he's like out. Oh, he's not out. He's enjoying that bottle. He's getting close. We're all getting drunk and he's getting milk drunk. and That's right. He's drinking for me. There you go. how' how's the How's fatherhood treating you? I know that the off season has been kind to you in that regard.
00:06:12
Speaker
Yeah, it's great. He's getting to the point now where he's like, I don't know. We were talking about it the other day, me and Meg, where he's like, fun. Like the bad days are few and far between. And when they happen, you kind of know what the reason is now. He's either hungry or tired and you can kind of put a stop to it real quick. About 95% of the time, he's he's just like getting a personality and he's fun. That's good stuff. It's good stuff. I remember i remember the the double coverage days.
00:06:40
Speaker
but but Stick to stick to double coverage. It stays it stays that way but Yeah, I mean we always we never went beyond manda man-to-man We never had to foray into zone coverage. So same same Zone coverage, especially, you know Powell over here with eight kids running around China. I mean jeez I mean they're they're just running and wild at the back of the end zone like ah like they play in Ohio State or something and
00:07:12
Speaker
It's Arian aon Smith's Gone Deep. a I'm glad you turned around that way and you weren't talking about Marvin Harrison running behind our secondary. but No, no, no, no.
00:07:26
Speaker
um Well, Hunter, actually, you know what? Why we've got you, Hunter. We had a listener question that I i want to have you give your answer, especially considering who our first opponent is um and what happened in 2021. 51-7GATA said, do we see black versus orange uniforms in the first game?
00:07:54
Speaker
I mean, as much as I would like to say, it would be awesome. It would, there's not a shot. Not even, not even a shot. Agreed. I know. No way, no way in hell. Pretty smart is coming out in black uniforms. Uh, and I, I wish it would happen too. No way in hell that's happening. I think the better question is, are we ever going to see the black jersey again? Ever again.
00:08:19
Speaker
It's a good question. and fair Fair question. John's got the connections. What do you say, jo John? it We'll see them again. It's just a matter of will we see them again under Kirby Smart or will it be 12 years from now when somebody else is the head coach? And we're all we're all old men and then we're complaining about you know um tradition at that point. but um But no, what I will say is,
00:08:46
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i It's interesting to me, I'll just say this, I'll just put this out here. Georgia, you know, went back to back 12-0 regular season, back to back national champions um without wearing black jerseys. But then, you know, didn't make the play off without wearing black jerseys. So, I i think for me, you know, i would like to see I would like to see a little bit of variety in the jersey ah Situation this year at least at some point you got a lot of night games this year um You've got you know next year. You're not gonna see them because next year you got that
Conference Changes and TV Deals
00:09:21
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insane home schedule Yeah, at least this year. You got all you know all quote-unquote
00:09:27
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um tough teams on the road so you got a lot of opportunity at home with ah a good bit of night games this year with this whole like new tv schedule and conference expansion and i mean it feels like a good time to throw in a black jersey game um and a night at a night game in athens this year if you're gonna do it um but you know with curvy i don't know i don't know you mentioned the new tv schedule stuff like i mean it's gonna be interesting watching the games on abc this year yeah Yeah, I mean, everything everything is so different.
00:10:00
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um The SEC on CBS is no more. And so the song is the song is gone. Or the song is still there. No, the song is there. It's going to be for the big 10 on CBS. it's You're going to hear, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. And it's going to be Rutgers versus Maryland. I mean, like what in the world are we even doing? I think I said John, I think I said John ah Instagram video about that. Like you're you're playing like one in four Maryland versus versus or or Indiana versus Minnesota. And and know I'm like, what is, what are we even doing right now? Cause the big noon kickoff is still Fox and that's big 10, right? Yeah. Which yeah so big 10 now has 18 teams, by the way.
00:10:50
Speaker
Yeah, well, they've split between, you know, it's the, because the Pac-12 is no more. um I think the, that TV contract with the Big Ten, it's like you have, um I mean, it wasn't dissimilar to what the SEC did with ESPN and, and CBS, but now you have like CBS and Fox yeah um are vying for like those two. I mean, I guess if they, if there are big games in the Big Ten,
00:11:14
Speaker
You know, maybe they're, I don't know if they have big games, but if they have big games in the Big Ten, they're vying for the big games on the on the big noon nooner. and then ah And then you have, you know, CBS is going to get whatever they get, I guess. Actual question that I don't, I legit don't know the answer to this. is the big Does the Big Ten have divisions now or did they go divisionless like the SEC?
00:11:39
Speaker
Do you guys know? Because I have no idea. They went, from my understanding, they went divisionless as well. um Because people were saying you can now have there people were saying that the game may not mean as much anymore because you could have Michigan and Ohio State play and then turn right around and play again for the the next week for the Big 10 championship. Got it. Yeah. Which like, so like reminder, and what we're what we're trying to do here is kind of in general give kind of like a bit of ah a primer on the season because so much has changed. So to get get ready for 2024 college football. football
00:12:13
Speaker
If you find yourself thinking like who's going to win the SEC East and who's going to win the West, like that doesn't exist anymore. No East, no West. SEC Championship game is just the top two top two records. ah And then and and there are possible there are crazy scenarios that are like possible of like teams being tied.
Playoff Format and Strategy
00:12:34
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um So there definitely is room for like chaos with multiple teams with the same record and like flipping a coin or something. I was listening to Will and Tony. I was listening to Will and Tony talking about that on, uh, waiting since last Saturday. I hadn't even thought about that. Like what are, what are the tiebreaker scenarios? The SEC has not released tiebreaker scenarios yet. So no one knows. Yeah.
00:12:56
Speaker
yeah how did So we don't even know what the rules are before we start the season? Well, they're they're going to release them probably this week or next week, but they have, yeah, they haven't officially released the tiebreaker scenario. So like no one, no one knows. But my guess is it'll be similar to the big 10, which is kind of, you know, it goes like essentially your head to head. If there's no head to head, then it goes like common opponents. If there's the same record versus common opponents, then it goes into like ranked team. Like it just goes down um the list.
00:13:26
Speaker
We've got an asleep baby. That's the good thing. He didn't make it. so up there i I'll leave you all on this one more uniform thing. My i hope is obviously we see a black jersey, but I also want to see the red pants again at some point. I feel like that was a good nod back to a traditional Georgia uniform that would be a welcomed um alternative than just silver britches all the time. And with that, tell them goodnight, buddy.
00:14:05
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and i sure man ah later on There's absolutely absolutely no reason not to wear red pants. um Yeah, you know, on the road once here. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Later, guys. Go, go dogs. See you, Hunter. Go dogs.
00:14:20
Speaker
ah yeah Yeah, red pants on the road at Tennessee and black jerseys at home. I will say NCAA College of the Ball, ah or I guess it's sorry, it's not NCAA College of the Ball. It's just EA Sports College of the Ball 25. No red pants as an option when you're playing as Georgia. They do have the black jerseys, so you can put the red pants in there.
00:14:42
Speaker
I mean, the red pants technically haven't been an option since the 80s until the-year anniversary of that one game, so yeah I get it. But yeah, that that I just love, personally, I love that look a lot.
00:14:55
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. like I always say good enough for Herschel, good enough for me. Let's see, while we're on the realignment, so just another couple of reminders on there. So that the teams that went to the Big 10 from the Pac-12 were Oregon, USC, UCLA, and Washington. ah The Big 12 is now up to 16 teams by adding Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. So Colorado is now back in the Big 12. And then the ACC is 17 teams.
00:15:23
Speaker
ah And they added Cal Stanford in SMU. um Yeah. Which is which is my favorite when I think about the Atlantic Coast Conference, I think about Cal and Stanford um immediately. You know, it's just like it's like the old NL West. allward Yeah, no, it's like when the Braves, it's like when the Braves and were in the NL West.
00:15:46
Speaker
Yeah. In like the 80s and the early 90s when they were playing, it was like the N.O.S. was like Houston and San Francisco and the Braves and like Cincinnati. Like it was it was just such a weird. Yeah. It's like a and a national division. But um the Falcons were in the NFC West back then, too. I mean, we've learned some geography everywhere except the ACC, I guess. But yeah.
00:16:15
Speaker
um What about, ah okay, so let's see. So we hit those. So for SEC, we talked about no divisions. We talked about no SEC and CBS. um Texas and Oklahoma come in. And I think the other thing to point out and make sure folks know is like,
00:16:32
Speaker
this year's schedule like I have seen people say things like oh I thought like South Carolina was going to be a permanent opponent but then on the schedule like all that stuff not set like this year was a one-off they decided to basically repeat this year's schedule next year but flip-flop where everyone's playing and then we still don't know so there is no there's no schedule model.
00:16:54
Speaker
Let's be clear, there are no, the SEC has not announced any permanent opponents. Exactly. Like they literally, you like after 2025, who knows, um because they haven't announced any model that that has any permanent opponents, they haven't announced any model that that will give some structure or semblance to like how you're who you're actually going to play ah year over year. So, um yeah, I guess we're going to see. Do you think that that that means that they're trying to potentially add teams so that they don't have to get pigeonholed into into those kinds of things. i mean Greg Sanki has already said, everyone i mean we just have to take a step back. The SEC will add teams if it means more money for the SEC. And if it doesn't, then the SEC is not going to add teams. So Greg Sanki
00:17:45
Speaker
the reason that they added Texas and Oklahoma when they did is because the um TV rights were up for negotiation, like all that stuff, the timing all made sense for them to maximize another television contract. Now, what ESPN has said is like, we're not going to renegotiate a contract mid contract. So Greg Senke is like, well, there's no reason to add teams. Like, because literally his only um his only reason for adding teams is if it means that ah ESPN is going to pay them more money for more games. and um And if they're not, then they're not going to add a team. So it really just comes down to like, will ESPN um give them more money for the games? Will they renegotiate a contract mid contract? um and and Because like you have like SMU join the ACC and the SMU is getting
00:18:33
Speaker
literally getting nothing yeah from the ACC. Because the ACC couldn't renegotiate a contract to pay them, and so they were like, well, we'll join, and you don't have to pay. like You don't have to give us anything, which is wild. um yeah And so, but the SEC is not going to do that. But the SEC is not going to do that. So I think the SEC, personally, I think the SEC is set unless it comes down to if the ACC implodes,
00:19:00
Speaker
then maybe, but but like, who are you gonna, who are you gonna pick up? I mean, and and I'll say this, because I know Clemson is is next on the schedule for Georgia football. The SEC does not care about Clemson. Clemson is not, that is not a brand that is gonna bring in a significant amount, more revenue, ah maybe Florida State, but you've already got Florida, like, i dont you know, it's like, you start looking, it's like, who's on the list? It's gonna bring- I could come up with one.
00:19:29
Speaker
Who? Miami. Yeah, but. my And the Miami TV tv market. Yeah, but like, but you're already in like the state of Florida, like. Yeah, it's like, it it's, yeah, because it's all about, it's all about, it's not even about like, yeah, Miami TV market, but it's all about like, well, ESPN, look at that brand to be like, we will pay more for that team to play teams in your conference. And, and I just don't know who's on that list anymore. I think, you know, it's like, you go back and, and Geographically, it doesn't make sense. And now they're in the Big 10, but it's like Oregon may have been one of those like USC may have been one of those like you there were brands out there, but like they're not out there anymore. I mean, I think maybe maybe Florida State Miami to your point. um But I don't know man. I don't I just I feel like it's been a long time since.
00:20:17
Speaker
Miami and also even Florida State has like really rang the bell when it comes to TV ratings and comes to a an actual brand. um Because if you think about like Texas and Oklahoma, like that makes total sense. Like Texas, it's like, dude, like that's just a money printing logo. um How mad is Texas A and&M right now?
00:20:39
Speaker
We wonder they're their their their overalls are so cinched up so tight I mean they are like it's like they're a little their overalls are just like you know all all cinched tight down there and we're and And we're still never going to go play at A&M, by the way, apparently. That's what I love. What I love is like a Texas joined, Texas, georgia Georgia is not, Texas A&M has been in this league for 12 years, 13 years, whatever it is. Georgia has not gone to College Station to play to play football.
00:21:13
Speaker
Texas joins and Georgia goes there the year one. It's like it is unbelievable. Unbelievable. I mean, you got it like there if there is if there is like little brother energy with it is there for Texas A and&M because it is like Texas joined and they sent the best team in the conference there year one. You've been in there for 12 years and and the best team in the conference has not come there a single time. Yeah, it is. It is wild.
00:21:41
Speaker
ah They are weird, they are weird though. The cult that is Texas A-dom. The rebel yell. Or the yell, not the rebel yell. Just the yell leaders. Yell leaders, yeah. yeah Little old Trevor and Braylon and Kyle and Noah. um You know, they they're all just there with their names across their overalls. Just leading some yelling.
00:22:09
Speaker
ah GP, do you feel like you have a grasp of how the the new 12 team expanded playoff works? and At one point, I wanted to do a whole episode in the offseason to talk about that, but then like we didn't have many offices and episodes, so we didn't do that. so I didn't know, did we need a primer on how that works?
Playoff Scenarios and Rankings
00:22:27
Speaker
or I'm letting you be the ah the measuring.
00:22:30
Speaker
I mean, you might as well just do a quick ah quick review for for anybody that doesn't that doesn't know. um Because there definitely are some wrinkles about the 12-team playoff. Because isn't there a scenario where you've got a conference champ that is you know potentially going to be ranked lower than a lot of teams in the SEC?
00:22:52
Speaker
yeah i Yeah, I think the the main thing to point out is that the college football playoff rankings do not match the college football playoff seedings. So like there's a ranking and then there's a seeding that's based on the rankings.
00:23:07
Speaker
and other factors. So it's like, so there's 12 teams, the highest, the four highest ranked conference champions get seeded one through four and get a bye. So like, even right there at RapidVad, let's say like, not that this would happen, but let's say Notre Dame goes undefeated 12-0 and is ranked number one.
00:23:27
Speaker
They're not number one in the playoff. They might be ranked number one, but they're not seeded number one, because they didn't win a conference, because they're not in a conference. So the highest. Something like that happened. Exactly. So the highest seed they can get is five or even if you take back, if you go back to like 2021. right, with Georgia, where Georgia lost the SECG of a shift to Alabama, made the four team playoff, Georgia would not be a top four seed in this new model at that point, the highest Georgia could be would be number five, because you're not a conference champion. So they, they give that benefit, I guess they say to the conference champions to be one through
00:24:03
Speaker
ah for And then the the fifth highest ranked conference champion gets an automatic bid. That's just that they're in. So they could be ranked the 20th team in the country, but are the fifth highest ranked conference champion. And so they're in as the 12 seed. They won't have to be 12, they could be higher, but so but that's how it works. And then otherwise everything else is just at large and then seeding accordingly.
00:24:26
Speaker
Yeah, and so last year there were five power five conferences, so it wasn't it's not an apples to apples, but last year. The example would be 13 and oh, uh, Florida state would have been, would have not gotten a first round by, they would have made the 12 team playoff, but based off of their ranking, um, because Michigan and the big 10 Washington pack 12, Texas big 12 and Alabama in the sec would have all been ranked higher than Florida state as, as conference champions. Now there's only four, so it kind of works itself out. But, um, but last year that would have been an example where you you have an undefeated conference champion that you have.
00:25:03
Speaker
Uh, teams with a loss, uh, ranked higher than them in getting a bye. Yeah. Um, so then you go, uh, something that, that will, will kind of harped on in, uh, in the, in the waiting since last Saturday, uh, talk about this, this topic was.
00:25:21
Speaker
you're not looking for, you're not looking for records or rankings. You're looking for wins is kind of what he was talking about. So now it becomes like, or you could potentially have these four and five loss teams that could be ranked be higher than someone that has like a, what do you call it? Um, the Chantal players. What was that? Uh, Western Carolina, East Coast island that's coastal Carolina, Coastal Carolina. Yeah. Coastal Carolina, where it's like, where it's like they are, uh,
00:25:50
Speaker
But yeah, so so like, you know, the situation is and I think what JP was talking about is like he it is it does matter more now that you win your conference than it does, you know, who you beat or looking, you know, style points or any of that type of stuff, because you can, you know, literally eat by, um you know, and be a be a ah eleven and one, twelve and one commerce champion and and have lost. Yeah.
00:26:20
Speaker
You could you could eat by you could have lost to you know. a a good team, a ranked team, the only ranked team that you played. But if you turn around and win your conference, then ah you get to buy. And so yeah it conference conference games matter a lot more than these like non-conference ranked. You know, like Georgia, for example, the Clemson game matters far, far, far less than playing at Kentucky or playing Mississippi State in Athens this year. Like those two games matter significantly more than the Clemson game. And that's a weird, it's a weird dynamic ah to think about, but it just does. It it matters more, you know, ah ah Auburn um matter matters more than Clemson, no matter what Auburn record is. yeah so
00:27:06
Speaker
Not that I don't disagree with you that s se matters more than like ah a random ac c team, but maybe I missed it, but um so you're saying that if Clemson, let's say their only losses to Georgia. That that when matters less than the games against Kentucky and Mississippi State.
00:27:26
Speaker
yeah I think you're some of things like, you're flipping it. Yeah. Yeah. So Clemson's only lost. So Clemson, what I'm saying is it matters more that Clemson wins the ACC and Georgia wins the SEC than if Georgia beats Clemson or Clemson beats Georgia. That matters. That doesn't matter. That game doesn't matter at all in terms of if you, you know, you have four power five conferences, those four conference champions, no matter their record are going to get a buy at the end of the season. And so it matters that like the SEC schedule matters significantly more than any, you know, it used to be, okay, well, let's look, you want to book some quality non-conference opponents because that's going to make a difference in the final rankings and, you know, all those things. And now none of that matters. It's like, all right, you know, Georgia, Georgia honestly would, you know, would be better suited to play. Um,
00:28:18
Speaker
You know, little sisters of the poor in game 1, um, and focus on winning the sec, then it would be to schedule. Quality non-conference opponents because those games literally, they just don't matter. it When you have the top, when you have the, the 4 conference champions getting a buy, no matter where they were ranked in.
00:28:37
Speaker
in the ah in the yeah I mean really even in the top 25 it's like shoot I mean there is a scenario right like think about this there is a scenario this will never happen but there is but there is it but there is there is a thought there is a hypothetical that's like okay you could lose all of your non-conference games run the table in the SEC and you end up you know eight and four as a four seed with a bye
Strategic Adjustments for Playoffs
00:29:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. And you're you're in you're guaranteed in the playoff, you're most likely guaranteed a top four with a buy. I think- Well, how would you not? Because there's only four power pack conferences. Technically speaking. And i what what is what conference is Cincinnati in now? are they are they Are they still in? Well, the group of five the group of five is the highest ranked group of five gets in. They get in.
00:29:24
Speaker
But here's the thing, but in theory, in theory, but it's the four highest ranked conference champions. So if we were one again, go back to 2021, Cincinnati was one of the four highest ranked conference champions. Yeah, but do but is it but is it because I thought well, maybe I'm and maybe I missed the thing because I thought they had like qualifiers on I thought that's why they included the group of five because I thought those conferences were not necessarily included in the They are. So it's based so the way that it's worded is the... I see what you're saying. Yeah, the way it's worded is the four highest ranked confidence champions are seeded one through four. Now, presumably, that's going to be the power four confidence champions, but technically, it's possible. you assume i If you point to 2021 as an example, Cincinnati would have gotten by. And actually, Georgia would not have, right? yeah Georgia would have been probably fifth, I guess. Makes sense. Seeding. So yeah, so it's possible, but not... I see what you're saying. Yep. Yeah. So, so in that, yeah, in that scenario, yeah, it is probably not likely if you lost all of your out of conference games that you would be there, but there, but again, it is like, why would you, you know, ah we can talk about this some other time, but, but it is like, you know, it's like, it's like, why does Kirby Smart care? I mean, he cares about it because it's the next opponent on the schedule and he cares about it because it is and a neutral side, big game. And, and it's in his DNA to care about winning.
00:30:47
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But at the end of the day, like the Clemson game literally does nothing for your football team other than get you some reps against a quality opponent to see where you are. But if you lose that game, like it literally doesn't matter. Whereas before, you know, if you lost that game, it's like that could come down to whether it's a BCS or whether it's a CFP like selection committee, it could actually matter. And now it just doesn't. if assuming you take care of business in your conference. um And that's just a weird, it's just a very different mental. but I love it. john John's coming out like the regular season just doesn't matter at all. I didn't say that. No, I didn't say there are eight games. There are eight games that matter significantly. There are four games that it's like, I don't know. Do they matter? I don't know. You you can make y'all the fans can decide. But it's like, you know, if Kirby, if Kirby Smart comes out, you mass right late in the season.
00:31:45
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Kirby Smart comes out and arrests everybody and squeaks out a win. And it's an ugly game, an ugly home game versus UMass. Do you care? Like, because at the end of the day, it's like you do you don't anymore. And before it would have been like you need to be peaking at the end of the season because like the rankings and the committee and all these things. And now it's like, dude, no, if I'm if I'm playing to win the SEC and get that by.
00:32:12
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I don't care about the UMass game at all. like I'm not going to lose it, but you know but I don't care about running um my starters out there and trying to actually
Economic Impacts of Playoff Expansion
00:32:22
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make a statement. I was just just about to say, is that is that the game is that the game in where you put in all of the freshmen kind of situation?
00:32:29
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Yeah, and and kirby like Kirby has said it, like Kirby mentioned it, he talked about it when his interview with Fine Bomb this offseason, where he said a lot of coaches are thinking through roster management. They're thinking through, do you rest guys? How many, how do you manage the load? How do you go through the season? He's like, a lot of coaches are are are thinking through this and dealing with this because because people don't, it's just a different dynamic. And he said that,
00:32:56
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In, um, in the spring in an interview with Paul fine bomb at the region's golf tournament. And, you know, the light bulb went off for me. It's like, yeah, this dude is already, he's thinking about wrestling guys. He's thinking about, um, changing the, his approach. And again, it's like, man, it's a, tough it's just a tough thing when you think about that, when you look at, okay.
00:33:17
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If the SEC Championship game, if you already clinched a spot in the SEC Championship game and now Georgia Tech, I mean, we saw it a little bit last year because guys were just injured and and Kirby was like, you know, obviously like trying to keep lab McConkey and those guys like trying to get them back for the SEC Championship game. But now it's like, do you even I mean, does that game and again, it will always matter to Kirby Smart. It will always matter to us as fans. It will always matter to the team because it's it's a game on the schedule. But does it really matter?
00:33:44
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Does Georgia versus Georgia Tech really matter anymore in the grand scheme of winning a national championship? I don't know that it does. and so that That's like the nightmare scenario for me of why I was anti-expansion. And if Josh Hancher is list listening, yeah I know he's rolling his eye as at us right now. But yeah, that's my hope. That's what I don't like about it. um The soul crushing loss is gone. The soul crushing any loss is gone.
00:34:12
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I think you know the the whole argument of like more games matter now or less games matter now, all that kind of thing. I think the the counter argument is more team or more games matter for more teams now because now we've expanded the playoff and so more teams are playoff teams. um so i I get that, but it's just it's just Fundamentally changes the sport and I think changes could change The strategy and the only thing I'll add there is like I agree like it matters. It could be smart, etc But like these guys are also like diabolical and like they want to win and it's not just that they want to win a game they want to win the championship and they're gonna you know, they're gonna find ways to help them do that and Cutting, you know less wear and tear can help that
00:35:00
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Well, let me, let me, let me add one more layer to it and I know we can move on. What happens when, well, right now it's already there for coaches. Kirby Smart has incentives built into his contract i was just to win the SEC. He has incentives built into his contract to win the national championship. He has no incentive built into his contract to beat Georgia Tech.
00:35:21
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And what happens when those players have incentives in their contract to win an SEC championship? An incentive in their contract to win an after championship? No incentive in their contract to beat Georgia Depp. but but we well know anyone at i listening was that and they'll have contract Then they'll have contracts for for a number of wins. you Yeah. yeah would but But is your contract going to be, I mean, ah again, it's like, it's all, you have agents involved. No agent is going to negotiate a contract to go 12 and 0. I mean, you know what I mean? It's like, like, why, like there's no, there's no,
00:35:57
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There's no, I mean, maybe, maybe, maybe. I mean, you could do 10 wins, right? Yeah. So there are two that don't matter. So which two? Georgia Tech doesn't matter. Clemson doesn't matter. Like, which two don't matter? And that's the thing. It's like you go down the path. Any time you say your incentives are built off of championships, your incentives are built, all the things that they should be built off of, you have to start, you know, you take some things away because again, no,
00:36:24
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ah It's just economics. like there's no like the The athletic department is not going to put in monetary incentives for going 12 and 0 when Kirby Smart has gone 12 and 0 three years in a row. like It's just economically, it's like, yeah, like I mean, the odds of you going 12 and 0 are pretty high. We're not going to pay you more for that. We'll pay you more for winning the SEC Championship that you haven't won very often. Pay you more for winning the national championship that you haven't won very often.
00:36:51
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Um, because there's no, you know, you don't get a, you don't get a revenue boost, um, and going 12 and oh, you get a revenue boost of winning championships. And I think economically that's just for me, um, the expanded playoff and they're gonna move, they're already gonna move to 14.
00:37:06
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It's like with these things um and commerce realignment. It all comes down to. How are you going to incentivize these guys and how are you going to do it in a way that they're going to agree to? Because if I'm a player, like, and I'm like, okay, I got to play the 17 games. I'm not going to, I mean, i don't I don't want it in my contract that I got to show up and play in all 17 games.
00:37:27
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because like what like you know so there is a there is that um it's the wear and tear it's the it's it's everything just changes and you see this in the nfl like the nfl that's the model they're gonna go after and what the nfl does the nfl i mean it is and what the nfl does is there are no incentive There are no incentives for how many, there may be some incentives for how many, you know, snaps you play or, or whatever, but there are incentives for, you hit markers for receiving yards, you hit markers for, and that's, and that's any, and think about it guys. Like think about, think about Carson Beck having to go out and play against Georgia Tech. And he's like, oh, Dominic Lovett needs four catches to hit a monetary incentive.
00:38:08
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Like, I mean, like, like that for me is just it just changes the entire way that you show up to the game, that you coach the game, that you play the game. um And I just think that's I just think it's going to be, yeah you know, but wrap your head around it because it's here. um But that being said, I do. I am excited for I am excited for an expanded playoff in terms of there are some games, especially after you get out of that first round, but it's like, OK, that that's a really it's really intriguing.
00:38:38
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Uh, Alabama, ill I saw Brett McMurphy had a horrendous like, uh, college football playoff prediction where he picked, he predicted like Alabama as the two seed and Georgia as the six seed and all these things. But one of the things he had in there was in the second round, he had Alabama playing Ole Miss in his projection and Alabama and Ole Miss don't play on the, they're, they're not on the schedule this year. Um, because of realignment. And so you're like, okay, well, I mean, I'd like to see Lane Kiffin and Kayla on the board go out of the the college football all playoff game. Like that, that kind of stuff, when you don't have teams on the schedule anymore, it does get, um, interesting, you know, to take a step back and be like, okay, that's a game I would like to see that I wouldn't, would never have seen in a 14 playoff.
00:39:22
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um Two SEC teams that hadn't played in the regular season that now get an opportunity to actually go at it ah When one of them didn't make the make the SEC championship or whatever like that kind of stuff I do think I'll use I'll use this I'll use this and maybe we can move on from the from the the talk But I'm gonna throw out a schedule and you guys tell me how you feel about this schedule You're an SEC team. You're playing Murray State. You've got Buffalo. You've got Boston College. You've got Vanderbilt. You've got Texas A and&M. You've got UMass, your favorite team, John. You've got Auburn. You've got Alabama. You play Oklahoma, South Carolina, Mississippi State, and Arkansas. That is Missouri's schedule. Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:11
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And um and what what I like about that is there are no divisions. So you go out and run the table on that schedule, you're going to get. We could be playing Missouri in the SEC championship. Yeah, but you but but you're going to get Georgia or Texas or Alabama. Like it's not like, ah you know, it's not like in the division, in the division era where it's like, Oh yeah. You know, I mean, again, Georgia has been on the, Georgia's been on the East side of it. So it has felt like you're always going to get Alabama, but it is, you know, at least with that, what I also say with that is Missouri runs a table.
00:40:43
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They lose in this championship game. They end up in the playoff. They're going to you know be going to play Ohio State or somebody, you know, it's like it's a but um i I will. The last thing I'll say, um Georgia plays a real schedule for the first time in history and program history.
00:41:03
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Georgia has good teams on the schedule for the first time ever this year. And so I can't knock Missouri's schedule when Georgia literally has not played a real schedule ever in the history of college football. So finally, Georgia's playing a real schedule. I know Missouri's schedule is an easy schedule, but I can't knock them because it took Georgia, you know, however many hundreds of years of playing football before they finally have good teams on the schedule this year. Yes. Yes. Well said. Well said.
00:41:31
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i do I do like that idea of like maybe you get an Alabama Ole Miss or but like one of those you haven't played. You could get like a Georgia Oklahoma or something. They're not on the schedule. What what worries me is like the multi rematch scenarios as well. Like we could see two teams play each other three times potentially. um I hope we don't see that, but we probably will.
00:41:54
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at least I definitely like the potential for playing teams in places that you like haven't haven't seen them historically go to well the home play the home play the opening round home playoff game is cool like i definitely i like that uh though but again you you're a top four seed you don't get you don't get to experience that It's cool unless you're Georgia like guys like Georgia, Georgia could be hosting like Texas State in a college football playoff game or Liberty or you know, like, right, right. It's cool unless you end up like the five C. And you got let's say let's say Billy. Let's say Billy actually actually makes it through the gauntlet and makes it to the play off. You could be playing Florida at home. Oh, my God. In a playoff game.
00:42:40
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but as They, they, uh, they're, they're going to struggle. It's a possibility. I know. Yeah. fair They're going to struggle to make 500 by the way, but brutal aside from that.
00:42:52
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All right. ah what other any other Anything else ah you guys wanted to hit on before we ah hop over to listener questions? what what else do we What else do folks need to be ready for to to prep for this new new college of wallets about to start?
00:43:10
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i'm I mean, my biggest thing is, uh, be ready for, to be ready to see a lot of people play. Kirby Smart is going to push depth. He's going to put, I mean, George already rotates a lot of people, but be ready to see a lot of people play. Um, and, and also, um, you know, you talk about like long cons and keeping things, you know, close to the vest and like,
00:43:34
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I mean, God, I just I honestly believe and I and I
Beer Sales at Georgia's Stadium
00:43:37
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hated it. I hated it last year because it wasn't a long con because I sat in the rain with Jim beside Jim and watched South Carolina. George almost lose the South Carolina. And that was clearly had nothing to do with like any kind of long con, anything. um But be ready, but be ready for more things to stay, you know, in in the bag um because you you you might I mean, you legitimately mind up playing an SEC championship and then playing three playoff games.
00:44:04
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to actually try to win this thing. And that's ah that's a lot of games that you got to go through as showing teams stuff that they haven't seen before. So um that's the one thing I would i would be ready for. Yeah, I think the biggest thing that I'm i'm all all the postseason stuff is all going to figure itself out and it'll just be like here. Here it is. There's this beautiful package at the end of the season. Figure it out. The thing that I'll be looking for as the games start to kick off is all the rules changes like the the two minute warning and all that kind of all that kind of jazz. Like that's that's all going to be new.
00:44:37
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um Yeah, but but that's the stuff that, like yeah I feel like that there's there's definitely somebody listening to this that's gonna see something happen in the game. They're gonna be like, wait, that's a that's that's a new thing. Yeah, the the the mics and the helmets, I think is the big one. you know the The way that they communicate plays and get things in from the sidelines, I think that's a big one that we hadn't talked about as well, John, besides the the rules changes. But it's like, yeah, but I mean, now ah offensive coordinator can actually talk to the quarterback given the play directly into the helmet.
00:45:09
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um And, ah you know, we are going to lose the guys, you know, doing the, you know, like they're directing like airplane traffic and the, the freaking ah killer Mike, you know, it's like, you got the four, the, the, the grid. And it's got like, uh, it's got like big boy from outcast. It's got like the Oregon duck. It's got like a waffle house logo and it's got like a, you know, a green, uh, red light. That's like green and, you know, whatever they're doing to like trying to, introduce we're going to lose a lot of that.
00:45:40
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I still think they're going to do it. I mean, but why? It's all going to be window dressing. But window dressing, for what? The offense and the defensive coaches can talk. Like, they literally, there's a guy on defense and a guy on offense that has a microphone there. But it turns off after a certain time, right, Jim?
00:46:00
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It does. It does. I don't know. I am i'm hopeful. I've heard people say that that it's not going to away. I what i want the the huge banner things that block the view on TV sometimes. I want those to go away because of this. Do we have those in the NFL? Because the NFL has the The headset and that doesn't happen. So, no, we don't, we don't have those in the NFL. The NFL has headsets. The NFL also has, um, you know, like, like I know college football is getting these too, but the tablets and stuff like that, like, you don't have to, there's so much technology. They don't, they don't do those things in the NFL. They also don't have four guys. They're wearing like all wearing, you know,
00:46:37
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red, yellow, like primary colors, like on the sidelines that are not that are not related to anything any other coach is wearing. It's like, you know, your colors are red and black, and you got a guy wearing green, yellow, blue and purple, like right there. So yeah they They don't have that in the NFL either. so we'll We'll see what happens. I will say, JP, when you were saying that something's going to happen and someone's going to freak out, I will say the first time I played college football 25, I flipped out when there was ah like when the clock stopped for the two-minute warning. I was like, what? like What just happened? I was like, I didn't call timeout. Did they call timeout? I was like, two-minute warning.
00:47:13
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I forgot. Like I had forgotten something. So that at least caught me up over the summer. ah There was also a Reddit thread where someone went off saying that EA Sports was recycling Madden code and their proof was that they forgot to remove the two-minute warning and then someone had to inform them that That's because the two-minute warning is a new thing in cultural years. Pretty funny. That is fun. All right. um I guess we we have a pretty wide range of listener questions. We we can we can hit those if you get if you guys want to. There's definitely one thing that could potentially change everything for for Georgia Vans. What is that? Deer sold at the stadium.
00:47:51
Speaker
This is true. This is true. There could be a lot more pandemonium. I mean like how i feel like for me, first like i don't I don't know how big of a change is going to be for me. like i may I might get a beer, but I don't and don't know. A game. Because we go to the tailgate. like I don't know that I'm going to get the same game. Kim, we heard it here first. Jim's only going to get one beer at the game.
00:48:19
Speaker
Yeah. Famous, famous, famous last words. Yeah. I have a, this is, this is maybe I shouldn't say this publicly, but I've had um this high proof, uh, toasted bourbon from, from ASW. um So I'm just going to tell you all my, I'm going to have a HIPAA violation, but I, um, I have a little bit of an allergy, uh, to beer, so I can't really drink beer.
00:48:42
Speaker
Um, so it doesn't, it doesn't really tempt me so much. Um, unless I just, unless, you know, the team is playing poorly. I'm already in pain. I was putting myself into more pain. Um, but, uh, but you let, I mean, you let them install one of those like full bars, like they have at Mercedes Benz and, um, my, I might do some damage, um, there, but the beer, uh, I'll let, I'll let Jim stick to his one beer, um, Kim and, um,
00:49:12
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and drink drink one for me, so. Lily's gonna be trying it probably, not Kim, but we' we'll we'll put a little Lily on that. Dad, you said you were only gonna drink one. Be a watch.
00:49:24
Speaker
Well, I had one beer and I had one white. It's a night game. Well, there's probably white claws too. There's no laws when you're drinking claws. I like that. I hadn't heard that before. I am actually curious what the lineup will be. We will need to investigate before the first home game. We've got a we've got a neutral site. We can do some investigation before the first game, before the first home game to know those things.
00:49:51
Speaker
Yeah, need to know because you know, um a lot of these lot of these schools now have their own ah their own beer. so If only creature comforts could get on board. I do. Well, they are the official craft. They are now the official craft beer craft brewery of Georgia. It feels like they're they may just be saying that without paying any licensing because it feels like I haven't fully gone like all in. oh I do like the Jimmy Dean sausage baseball cards where they didn't have the the logos on the ah on the players, but they have the baseball cards.
00:50:27
Speaker
I have always been mad or not mad, but I guess sad. I felt like there was something missing where you've got like New Belgium has like Old Tuffy because New Belgium is in Colorado or North Carolina. So they do like the ah they do an official NC State beer. That's the Old Tuffy. You've got these schools with their official beers. I don't know they do one for Colorado State to New Belgium. I can't remember what it's called.
00:50:49
Speaker
um I mean, classic city lager is the closest thing to it, but that's still not like it. It's not the Georgia beer. I do. have I know. ah I ah hang on. I know you were going to save it. but I did a quick investigation. okay And ah the official beer sponsors for Georgia include Dos Equis Twisted Tea, Creature Comforts, and then other offerings will include Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Light. Domestic beer ah will be $8 and Craft and Printing beer for $9. So there you go. It does sound like there is gonna be Creature Comforts inside the stadium, but also Twisted Tea and Dos Equis.
00:51:27
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and Bud Light and Coors Light and Miller Light. Interesting. OK. Yeah. So no white flaws for Bobby. Sorry, Bobby. No, it says no. It actually says now beer and seltzer will be available for purchase to any fan of drinking age. Probably the Budweiser seltzers. Yeah, I'll probably be my guess is it'll be one of those branded seltzers, which I don't think Bobby I don't think Bobby Bobby ah tweet us if you when you hear this. um Do you just exclusively drink white claws or are there other options? Because I i do feel like, um, I know white claws are your go-to, but I don't know if like, uh, what is Luke Bryan Seltzer? It feels like something Bobby would drink. maybe that
00:52:09
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that's
00:52:11
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I mean, in South Georgia, South Georgia. green beer I mean, hug dog, hug dog threw up a picture of PBR the other day. Ain't nothing wrong with PBR. Ain't nothing wrong with PBR. That's for sure. I forgot what I was going to say. That's okay. It's our podcast. I was going to say something in relation to all that. I lost it.
Season Hype and Critical Games
00:52:35
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let's let's let's let's ah Let's hit the listener questions and it'll it'll come back to you at some point. um I will say for 2024, just like last year, the listener questions are brought to you by Working Web Media. ah So they were nice enough to help us redesign mygottapodcast.com. You should really go dig in and look, there's like there's great photos of us in the photography on mygottapodcast.com. You can head over there, check out our store, got all of our merch.
00:53:02
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Um, and if you need help with your website or your online presence, head over to working web media dot.com slash dogs and let them know that we sent you their way. All right. First step. i remember I remember, I remember what it was. I remember what I was going to say. I was going to say, I was going to say like to to circle back on the, on the, on the beer stuff. I will say that in relation to the official beer breweries and stuff, new realm brewery is dead to me at this point. Cause they make a Georgia tech, they make a Georgia tech beer.
00:53:32
Speaker
Did not know that. New Rome. Never heard of her. Yeah, they make a really good miracle. Hey, the Fox. that I'm kidding. I actually like New Rome. Yeah, I was kidding. I like New Rome. That was my that was my joke. You're dead to me to have never heard of her. I don't I'm not I'm not familiar. I see I'm not as familiar with like the the Georgia breweries that you don't get outside of Georgia. So I don't get back enough.
00:53:56
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um All right, this will be a quick one. but This is i'll just just an update on this one. So All School wanted to know what is this year's hype song going to be and when do we get it? ah the The hype video, at least the first cut, is in the can. ah John Powell has seen it. I need i kind of feel like I want to make a few tweaks. So it it'll be out this week. I'm not going to spoil the song. All I will say is All School, you will like it. That's all I'm going to say there.
00:54:26
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I've seen it, and and it's beautiful. So come out this week. By the time you're hearing this, it might be out. We'll see. All right, Brett Building. ah Brett says, welcome back. Let's keep the two-parter tradition alive, um which, shout out Brett, saw Brett at the beach ah this summer. So he got to catch up with Brett and his family and enjoy some bourbon, actually, one evening. It was very nice.
00:54:52
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um So we said, if we lose one game this year, which one can we afford to lose the most? John, you answered that already. It's any non-conference game, and including k Clemson. Pick one. UMass. UMass.
00:55:10
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ah hey Drop you we can drop you a mask one. It won't even matter if we win the rest of them. It's fine. Yeah, that's a beautiful answer ah Not that I like the things but and then he said in the in the least And he said in in my humble opinion, it's always clean old-fashioned hate. So John although you now say ah That's actually not the case technically as far as platform implications. It's no no I think I honestly think the one that you can afford to least lose and this is gonna be um
00:55:41
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Maybe over maybe overthinking it a little bit but I would but I'm gonna say ah I had to pull up the schedule November the 16th that playing Tennessee and Athens. It's your last conference game of the year it's it is the you know it's it's. it's the opportunity um to really feel, you know, to really be clicking on all cylinders. That one feels like the one that you can least afford to lose for me personally, because you will have gone through the gauntlet of ah Clemson at Kentucky, at Alabama, at at Texas, Auburn, Mississippi State, at Ole Miss, Florida, you know. And so dropping that game feels like, because it's late in the season, it's a conference game, ah and Tennessee fans are absolutely back. Sorry, Carter.
00:56:27
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ah crazy crazy on the Twitters, um that feels like the game that you can most that you can least afford to lose for me. um So i'll just I'll just throw that out there. those That's my reasoning. But ah but honestly, I mean, just don't please don't lose at Alabama. That's the one personally that you can least afford to lose for my own for my own help them well-being. Georgia can least afford to lose at Alabama. The rest of them, I don't know, I could maybe deal with, but that one will hurt me.
Potential Breakout Players
00:57:01
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I mean, that's the one for me because you you look at the so the schedule sets up, you know, you got Clemson, Tennessee Tech, Kentucky, and then you got Alabama. That's the one that's going to set the tone because we're going to be favored by pretty decent margins, I feel like in the first
00:57:18
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the first three games there. So um I don't know. I just feel like that to just for my sanity's sake, for for marler the Marlar, the Marlar pushback, I'd like to have that one go down to the books as as the biggest ah as the biggest win in Brandon Stadium history by ah by a visitor. Yeah. um i I'll throw an emotional one in there in safe Florida.
00:57:45
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ah because conference game, but not that I'm worried about them, but that would be bad. I feel like i feel like those big road games, I feel like e like if you you lose one of them, um I think any of those, that's where i I don't put those in there, but that's just my take. What's the most points scored by an away team at Bryan and Danny Stadium? stuff off that That's a great question. That's not to go that far, KP.
00:58:17
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I mean, I'm just wondering if there's like a half a hundred games in Kirby on this one. Yeah. Uh, let's see, British bulldog. but ah did Did you find an answer? No, no, no, you're good. You're good. Go for it. Uh, so he said always, always look forward to this one. Which Georgia player has a breakout year? Who who are we looking forward to, to break out this season?
00:58:42
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I want to go first. I'll let John go first on this one. Okay. is You're most attuned into... You've actually had some of the practices. I have, yeah, I have. I'll say um for me, I think it's Dominick Lovett. I know that's one that a lot of that a lot of people are are high on um and have mentioned a few times, but I think Dominick Lovett for a number of reasons, but mostly because this is a second you know full year in the program, in the scheme, in the offense.
00:59:07
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ah You have the dismissal of Rah-Rah Thomas, you have you know a lot of um ah talented guys ah on that wide receiver core, but you know you you lose Ladd McConkie, you lose Marcus Rosemi Jackson. saying um And Dominic Lovett, he was an all-SEC guy. He led the SEC in receiving um the year before he transferred to Georgia. I think this is his opportunity. Now, and obviously not a breakout year because he had that breakout year at Missouri, but breakout year for Georgia.
00:59:35
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I'll say on the offensive side of the ball, I'll give you one more on the defensive side of the ball. um I do think, and again, this is you know maybe a little bit of a popular pick too, but Michael Williams, I mean, the Nolan Smith said that he referred to Michael Williams as as Trayvon Walker Jr. um I think Michael Williams, I think is just a guy who really has to come into his own this year um in in the mold of like, Anazizo Jalari, like, you know, those guys who just got after the quarterback. um And so that's the guy I'm looking for on the defense side of the ball. Nice. JP, do you have anyone or do you have me to go?
01:00:14
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Uh, I'm on the offensive side, given what we saw in the ball game, um, I'm looking for Anthony Evans to have a big breakout game or season or whatever. Um, on the defensive side, on the de defensive side, I mean, Malachi Starks is obviously, you know,
01:00:34
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preseason All-American. I don't know how what breakout season he could potentially have. That's a preseason All-American. But I just think that he's going to be one of those guys, one of those dudes on the on the on the defensive side that we just can't afford to not have on the field.
01:00:52
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Yeah, I was going to say Anthony Evans, so I'll have to go somewhere else. So good. Trevor Etienne is probably cheating. um But I am, and so maybe a dark horse. Branson Robinson, like I know he's recently or you know coming off injury, but there's been a lot of buzz about him. And he yeah know he looked good as a freshman, im so curious to see how he looks out of the backfield. Do you want me to give you two more easy ones? like Yeah. That we haven't talked about? Arian Smith.
01:01:21
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yeah Yeah. That's it. Can we please have that Arian Smith breakout season? I would love that. Wait for it. Wait for it. Arian Smith, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, Arian Smith, um and then on the defensive side of the ball, i'll I'll also say Julian Humphrey. This is a guy who entered the transfer portal.
01:01:39
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came back out like uh and he i mean this is a guy you know georgia absolutely needs him with dylan ever and daniel harris and those guys playing corner um again you got a really good secondary but not a lot of experience and julian humphrey like he's got to be he's got to be that guy uh on on the corner but man don't i'm telling you um mike boba mentioned a couple weeks ago with with arian smith and and people took it as like a little bit of the kiss of death because he said He works really hard and he's got to work on his consistency, um you know, and that's what he that's been his thing, right? Like the whole time. um But he's been running with the ones ah he's been running in that in that in in in that. um
01:02:20
Speaker
that receiver position with the ones and, um, from everything I've heard, he is, uh, the consistency is coming along. And if the consistency comes along with Carson Beck, hitting the D ball and that guy's speed, you look out. So you talked about, you talked about, um, a couple of wide receivers, which I'm curious to see. We've, we've mentioned them multiple wide receivers in this conversation.
01:02:43
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um Obviously, the offensive line is super deep. Running back room is super deep beyond that, right? And then we've got Carson Beck, you know, preseason Heisman, you know, favorite, right? So who, who are the receivers? Like you got Dominic Lovett, we mentioned Anthony Evans, you mentioned Ariane Smith, but there's a lot of guys that are in that room too. Like,
01:03:09
Speaker
I mean, there's there's not a whole lot of snaps out there, I feel like. No. Well, well yeah. But I mean, but so so the the the starting, a if if starting means anything with the way that Georgia rotates, but it's going to be Dylan Bell, who we haven't talked about. but Yeah. So it's going to be Dylan Bell. It's going to be Aaron Smith. It's going to be Dominic Lovett. Behind them is going to be Anthony Evans. You're going to have um London Humphrey and and Colby Young, who's the big, you know, like six five. Yeah.
01:03:38
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And then you're going to have like these young guys. I mean, I think Sokoby white's going to get some run. I think ah you got Michael jack Jackson, a third who came from USC in there as well. um London Humphries, you know, we mentioned earlier, we haven't talked about him again. And so um that was a good joke. By the way, Michael Jackson, um that guy's a smooth criminal. I'm just it was perfect. It's perfect. Sorry. All season. Get ready for it. He's a man in the middle, too. ah God, he will be that he will be the man in the middle. That's a good one right there.
01:04:07
Speaker
um But no, and but no, I think like this is, you know, people, this is the reason, not the only reason, but a reason, you know, Georgia hasn't had a thousand yard receiver has had one in program history. It's like, we've, Georgia has always had all these mouths to feed, um, either whether it's in the backfield or whether it's in the wide receiver group. Um, and so when I say breakout, I don't mean, you know, I don't know that Georgia will have a thousand yard receiver, um i I hope I think Dominic Lovett has the opportunity to be that for sure. ah But what I will say is like, i I don't think there's going to be any problem with these guys with these guys eating, assuming they stay healthy.
01:04:46
Speaker
um But just going down that list, I mean, I think the guys to watch are definitely Dominic Lovett, Aaron Smith, Dylan Bell, and Anthony Evans. And then from there, you know it goes it goes pretty deep. Yeah, so the offensive side is pretty deep, right? And we've heard a little bit about it, but but what's the depth at quarterback? is it it Is it Gunner? Is it Roshada? Yeah, it's Gunner. I've heard it's Gunner. It's Gunner. And it has to be Gunner, right? So again, a guy who um he's had he He knows the terminology, he's had ah time in the offense. It doesn't mean that that Jaden Rashada couldn't be the guy as the season goes on. but But it's so hard, I mean, it's so hard for a number of reasons to establish yourself as a quarterback, to dethrone even a QB two coming into a place like Georgia where, um I mean, and and and we'll just say it, I'll just put it on the table. um
01:05:44
Speaker
maybe Georgia fans may or may not like this, but Mike Bobo's dad taught Gunner Stockton how to throw football. Like, do you think like, I mean, you know, like, do you think that kid's not going to get every opportunity? I mean, that's how that's how deep that relationship goes is like, literally, George Bobo taught Gunner Stockton how to throw football. That family has had a relationship with with with him and with their family for since the kid was started playing the game. And so, um and he obviously came to Georgia not knowing that, you know, Mike Bobo, like he was actually yeah that that's why people thought he was made go to South Carolina because the Mike Bobo relationship. And so um he came to Georgia not knowing Mike Bobo would end up here. But um but I think it's just hard to dethrone that relationship with no, you know, with the knowledge of the system.
01:06:34
Speaker
in, you know, one spring offseason. Now, with that being said, um with that being said, I do think Jaden Rashada, I think if things, if he continues on, I think Jaden Rashada, if he stays at Georgia, continues in the system, learns the system, the terminology, all those things, I think he'll, I think he'll, he has potential to be QB one next year.
Pregame Strategies and Game Attendance
01:06:54
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um If, if, yeah because I do think he has that kind of talent, there's the reason that, you know,
01:07:00
Speaker
the whole Florida NIL debacle, but there's a reason there's a reason they were paying and what they were going to pay him. I mean, the guy is good. And and people can say whatever they want about Arizona State. But like, it's hard to come in as a true freshman to any system and all and start and play any level of reasonably well. And he did it, you know, at Arizona State and and then ended up, you know,
01:07:22
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have an injury and whatever, but yeah, I'd i'd keep i'd i'd keep an eye on him. Nice. All right. Complete pivot on question two ah for British Bulldog. Any dog related name suggestions for my soon to be born son? I've got one of you on that one. Munson. You could go Larry and not have to be quiet.
01:07:47
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Yeah, it feels like, what's the Mumford and Sons, Munson and Sons? It feels like it has a good ring to it.
01:07:58
Speaker
And you could always make Larry the first name and Munson middle name. You could go Larry Munson. That's true. That's true. We can work in the double. I was actually that kind of segues into what I was going to say. This could be first name and middle name, but I was going to go with Robert Beal. I thought that would be on brand.
01:08:20
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Nice. I recommend I recommend throwing a champ in there. There you go. Yeah. um I would say, ah I don't know, I like I.
01:08:33
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He's it's a British bulldog. He's in Scotland though, right? Yeah, I like, I mean, I like, I like Samford. um yeah You could do, I mean, if you want to go like, just real, you know, ah who was it, Eric Russell? Russell? um There's a lot. There's a lot.
01:08:52
Speaker
Well, this is what let me tell you, I'm not good at at and at telling you what to name your baby, but let's tell you what not to name your baby. So anything like Dooley, not don't name it. Don't name it. Don't name a kid. You know, Athens, you know, any like any. Right. And nothing that's like a right on the nose. Kirby. Kirby. Yeah. Arch. Don't don't name your kid Kirby. Don't name your kid Reed or Baxter or Morris.
01:09:25
Speaker
I just name it like all the dorms like this. Right. Just so. So we've got to name your kid here. Here's what here's here's what you do, British Bulldog. Name your kid Butts Mere.
01:09:42
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perfect After the after the UGA athletic building after the UGA football building butts mere and your kid will be set for life That's what that's the name. I don't know. I'm kind of partial to gumbies gun was started in Guthrie now we Guthrie, get great there you go yeah All right. So we gave some, some recommendations and also some things to steer clear of, clear of. So you have to keep keep us posted on the progress there.
01:10:14
Speaker
town my lounge ah All right, the hug dog, Jason Huggins ah says, hell yeah, let's roll. Do you do you purposefully slow your pregame role, i.e. alcohol consumption, for a noon kickoff so as to crank it slow and low all day at night? Or do you hit the gas at 8 a.m. and hope to not pass out before 3.30 kickoff times? as a but As an adult now or as a college student?
01:10:42
Speaker
i know i' like hook hug dog I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you my advice. Okay. The noon kickoff. I know you're, I know you're probably talking about noon kickoffs in general. I'm going to talk about the noon kickoff for Clemson specifically. It is the first game of the year. No one cares what is happening.
01:11:00
Speaker
after that game is over. You should not care. You should be there in the blue lot with us tailgating 7 30 cracking cold ones going to see where you're going to test our training. We're going to test our reps. We're going to see where we are and you can't the way you see where you are when you go and you do a personal record when you do a PR right you it's a max lift. It's trying to be a beat at a time and a run. um So we're going to see how hard we can go. We're going to see where we are, the high watermark. That's what's going to happen before the noon kickoff for Clemson. Now, if it's noon, you know, if if it's noon for Tennessee Tech or something, like, I mean, you mess.
01:11:42
Speaker
UMass. It was noon for UMass. We got to make some business decisions because, you know, but for Clemson, phew. All gas, no brakes, baby. All gas, no brakes. Starting at 7.30. And we're going to find out. Yeah. And by around 11.45, we're going to see where
Sack Predictions and Player Impact
01:11:59
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we are. That's what's going to happen. That's what's going to happen for Clemson. Beautiful. Yeah, that sounds about right. I mean, that's a great answer. All gas, no brakes. I have nothing to add. Nothing to add.
01:12:11
Speaker
All gas snow breaks, baby. All right. ah friend Friend of the show, Tim Riley. She's a model. She's a model. Uh, Tim Riley, welcome back boys. Give me a fun season. What games do you plan on attending? Um, well, uh, I mean, all of them. No, I, uh, yeah. you mass Probably not going to UMass. Um, yeah honestly, probably not. I, I plan, I would plan to be, uh, at Clemson. Um,
01:12:45
Speaker
ah What is it? What's the Tennessee Tennessee Tech? It's a it's a tech not not a directional school, right? All right. Yeah, I don't know that I'll be at that game because that's like right after we're moving Ella into college, um but otherwise hope to be at the home games.
01:13:01
Speaker
So NC tech is a two o'clock kickoff. So that's perfect. Actually hug dog. Like that's a two o'clock perfect. so Perfect game to assess things. It is. Yeah. Oh man. Get an extra hour to see where you are. It's true. That is going to be a weird one.
01:13:17
Speaker
I don't know. I'm going to earmark some of the earlier games because Quarters baseball schedule doesn't really kick into overdrive until October. So I'm going to be TBD on most of these until I figure that out. Makes sense. Makes sense. And we've got volleyball schedules, which I haven't even seen.
01:13:41
Speaker
all the all the kids sports. Tim also wants to know, will our dogs have a player achieve 10 plus sacks this year? And if so, who? ah We talked in our last episode with Roddy about that we just really haven't had that edge rusher sack guy since Adam Anderson um and who will be that guy. So yeah I don't know. I keep wanting Jalen Walker to be that guy. He's kind of a hybrid guy, but I don't know. that's He's my best guess.
01:14:10
Speaker
I was, I was saving, I was saving questions about what John seen from the, from the defensive line for for this question. Like what, what are you, what do you see in John? Yeah. I mean, it's just hard. It's hard from, you know, Michael Williams is the guy who, Michael Williams is going to get a lot of pressures, but maybe not a lot of sacks but because of the position, the way that Georgia plays him in that position. So the best bet, but Kirby, I mean, the way Kirby's talked about him, it's just been, like Odd, to be honest, um the best bet is Jaylen Walker, but Kirby has talked about him as like a hybrid player and like, they're trying to, you know, he's basically like trying to learn like two positions and, um you know, but, but I think that's probably Georgia's best bet at, at some type of pass rusher like that this year, because he'll be a guy that they'll probably play.
01:14:57
Speaker
like they'll probably put him in more in like pure pass rush sets. Georgia just rotates so many guys, it's just hard. and But I would say, um I would say Jaylen Walker, it's just hard to get that number of sacks because of the way that they rotate so much now. But I would say I would say Michael Williams or Jaylen Walker. um I wouldn't, I wouldn't sleep on. um And again, you know,
01:15:21
Speaker
I wouldn't sleep on a guy like that star position, a guy like, uh, Jonel Aguero, like a guy that just really comes in. Again, a star is more of like a hybrid is kind of like a linebacker corner. So you're, and you can be in coverage a lot, but they liked us. And if you thought, if you if you saw last year, what artists, sorry, in 2022,
01:15:38
Speaker
What Georgia did with Jamon Bullard coming off the edge it gets Tennessee where they just kept sending them and kept sending them and he just kept like hammering in an hooker I can see a guy like ah Janelle Guero coming off as a star coming off that edge just like yeah on those Those star, you know kind of safety blitzes just over and over and over um and and racking up some some s sacks, but if I'm betting It's going to be, it's going to be Jaylen Walker. I would say Smile Monday might be a dark horse. They'll, they'll move him around a little bit too, but, um, but Jaylen Walker might go Williams. I was, I was, uh, I was wondering cause, uh, Aguero was a name that we heard before last season, but, um, didn't he get hurt or something like that and didn't really have too much of a factor. Well, he was, he had two issues. One, he was banged up a little bit and two, he was playing behind Jevon Baller. I mean, we can do like, you got Jevon Bullard and Tykey Smith that you're playing behind. It's like, I mean, it's, it's, there's that too. um yeah But this year, you know, you do have like, like you have, um ah last year you had, ah
01:16:48
Speaker
You had Jevon Bullard and Tikey Smith um this year. You don't have those guys. So you've got guys like Janelle Guerrero. You've got guys like, um I mean, I would even say, you know, we we talked a little bit about Spalina, but I would say like, ah um it's the name escapes me now. Jecory Thomas is another guy that will probably get a good bit of run. He's a junior. um been around for a while, he'll probably get a good bit around in those positions too. But yeah, no, I just look, I'm like, dude, like, uh, people, people wanted to, cause Jonel Aguero was so highly recruited. Um, you know, people were wondering, and he was banged up. So there is that for sure. But people were wondering like, well, why this highly recruited kid? Like, why didn't he get, you know, as much planes? I'm like, he was playing behind Jevon Bullard and Dykey Smith. Like where, where are you going to put him? Um, yeah so, uh,
01:17:36
Speaker
So I think, um, I think you'll have plenty of opportunity this year. I'm going to miss those too. And especially since like late in the season, they were like toying with my emotions, like talking back and forth on social media, like they were going to come back and like really mess with my head. But, uh, and having just made the highlight video that all school is asking about one things that I do and putting those together is I don't.
01:18:00
Speaker
use any highlights of players who are gone. um it's all every Every play you see, the focal point of that play is someone who's coming back. Are you going to be able to have enough players this year? I had to cut a lot of Tychee Smith and Javon. and Brock Bowers. I will say it wasn't quite as hard as making last year's video um where I had to like find like Stets there, you know, I had to not have Stetson basically. So like any of the passes I would show the receiver catching it, but not Stetson throwing it. Cause I'm weird and like, that's how I make those videos. And I had to like find like, you know, when did Carson Beck throw a touchdown pass? So it made it easier from that perspective, but you had to cut a lot of, there's a lot of, a lot of g great plays last season that i I wasn't able to use in that, but
01:18:45
Speaker
I'm trying to get us excited about who's going to be on the field. Anyways, a little behind the scenes there.
Music Controversies and Nostalgia
01:18:49
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um ah Trent Thacker, he said, we'll we'll have new SEC intro music after moving away from CBS. How harsh is the reaction to the new music going to be from SEC fans? Should Twitter or X add more servers? um i mean whatever Even if it's good, people aren't going to like it. I will say that. yeah So we've heard a song. I don't know if you guys seen that. It is to me. I don't I don't think this is like the the anthem. No, the and had they had to release this. They had to release a statement saying it wasn't because the backlash was so harsh that the ABC's PR team, they did. they like The ABC PR team is amazing, but there was like.
01:19:31
Speaker
This was a, you know, what you mentioned, Jim, an anthem or something. Like it's not the actual theme song for the show. Yeah, because people were like, what in the world? Because it was, uh, was it like jelly? Oh, it's Quavo. I thought it was like jelly roll or something. that's way jelly roll I thought I saw something with jelly roll. Oh, I saw one. It's Quavo. And it's like, uh, he sampled Lady Kravitz.
01:19:54
Speaker
Hmm. I want to get it. Yeah, that was the one that they came out and said they released a statement saying this is not the actual theme song because the backlash was so harsh.
01:20:05
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he Because people thought it was the theme song. Right. but but now But to be fair, I will say like I do think um I think the backlash should be pretty harsh if it's like a sample, like a remake of an actual like pop song, you know, rock song from the 90s or whatever.
01:20:23
Speaker
um But did you did y'all see? So, you know, the whole this is a side note, a little bit of a left turn, but the whole um NBA on TNT, right? So NBC like basically stole that contract out from under TNT. Yeah. And so the NBA on NBC is like coming back. And that was like what we grew up, you know, probably depending on her age in the 90s, like watching. Well, they're going to use the John Tesh like theme song from the 90s for their NBA on NBC. So so what I will say, yeah. So what I will say
01:20:56
Speaker
That gives me a little bit of hope that i'm like, is there a song like is there like a theme song from college football like back in the day that abc owns or esp and own somewhere that we hadn't that we forgotten about that they're gonna come and like, bring back.
01:21:12
Speaker
Um, because NBC is getting such a positive reception of like that, uh, using that theme music that they use forever ago with their re reboot of, um, NBA and NBC. So, uh, that could be something I'm hopeful for, but, uh, but to be honest, it'll probably just be, it'll probably be something garbage and people be mad about it. I'll be mad about it. Everyone will be mad about it. Uh,
01:21:37
Speaker
It's going to be, yeah, it's going to be like some, you know, it's, and it's going to, and it'll probably be like some kid like made it using a computer and I'll be like, this is not music because you're not playing instruments, you know, like
Design Debates and Predictions
01:21:48
Speaker
the whole thing. It's going to be, it's just going to be, uh, I just, that's where my head is. So anything, if it's not that I'll probably be pleasantly surprised and at least a little bit more receptive. Yeah.
01:22:00
Speaker
People are going to be angry, regardless but regardless. I am glad you brought up the NBA NBC. everyone he won the People on the internet are going to be unnecessarily upset about something. Shocking. shot shot have shock ear to hear photo speech I'm shocked.
01:22:17
Speaker
so but Yeah, when when NBC announced like when they I mean you when the negotiations were through or whatever and then they announcedun that they their I know at least like their tweet like and NBA on NBC is back and that they had a video with the old themes on it was fantastic.
01:22:36
Speaker
All right. Trent had a question about Clemson. We're going to table that for next week. Bubby also had a Clemson question. We're going to table. um We'll get back to those. Let's see. John had a Clemson question. We talked about that. Oh, I forgot to bring up. where there was We had another uniform question. We should have brought up what Hunter was here. ah This was John Michael D. We had some clarifying questions on this one, I think, during some Twitter back and forth. But he said, should the Power G match the jerseys? And why is your answer? Yes.
01:23:06
Speaker
So I think he was saying like the color of the Power G matches the color of the jersey, um which I actually think – I'm actually an all-black Power G guy. i I kind of like only like the black Power G personally. So I'm going to say – So like red jersey, red Power G. I think that's what he's saying. That's how I read it or how I read it.
01:23:27
Speaker
well um i'm I mean, no, um that should be black power. And like that was that was the internal monologue. John's like, how do I say this? pull out Well, I was I was trying to I was trying to have a softer landing, but this bourbon has been very good. So the answer is absolutely not. John, I love you. Absolutely not.
01:23:50
Speaker
yeah Yeah, i I I even like when I see like the pictures when there was a red power g at the 50 yard line, it still is weird to me that that was ever right. Can I tell you, though, can I say this? I would like to have some type of a throwback field at some point like a like, like whether it's the whether it's the block lettering in the end zones, you know, it doesn't have to be the red power G, but like I think I would like to see so that's something that hasn't been explored. And now that you have, you know, like Tennessee putting a gas station logo on their field, I feel like it opens up the door to actually do something a little bit creative. You want you want like a mud pit or something like we know. No, I just want. No, I just want like to go. You want to go in the end zone? No, like block we like a block lettering. Yeah, no more. Maybe the bolt. Maybe the block. Gee, maybe a standing dog at the 50 yard line.
01:24:47
Speaker
Come on, I'm looking. I wouldn't be opposed to, you know, like homecoming. like so off the rail I feel like we've seen the Standing Dog on the sideline. Have you seen Standing Dog on the field? I don't think so. Maybe I'm making it up. I think you are, but that's okay. Yeah, I could go for a block G at midfield for homecoming, which is Auburn, by the way. yeah um Side note, but yeah.
01:25:15
Speaker
Sounds like a beautiful time for a black jersey throwback. Uh, let's see, uh, onyx six onyx actual, um, we talked about this a bit. He said, what's the outlook on the defensive line this season and are we confident they can get some much needed pressure? So I think we talked a bit about the pressure. Yeah. yeah Um, my my question has been, do we have that like person who can soak up double, double teams in the middle that we haven't had as much either?
01:25:43
Speaker
But, um, no, that answer is no right now. Yeah, that answer is absolutely not. It needs to be Nazir Stackhouse or Jamal Jared, or maybe, yeah yeah, maybe, maybe, um, i don't I don't know, maybe Xavier McLeod could do that, the transfer in South Carolina, but like, it it definitely needs to be Stackhouse or Jared in the middle, but we don't, we don't have it right now. Yeah.
01:26:06
Speaker
Let's see, Aaron King. When you guys are tailgating on campus, where can we come say hi? um Morris Hall. Morris Hall. Tate Center. Come find us. but Not Tate Center. Not the Tate Center. not the Tate Morris Hall. Come by and find us a Morris Hall.
01:26:33
Speaker
Um, and then second, he said, what does it take to be called a friend of the show? I'd even settle for loose acquaintance. I will say, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron has been around asking us questions for years. So, um, the funny thing is I was trying to think back when I read this of like, when we ever started saying that at all. And I actually, and I said earlier, friend end of the show, Tim Riley, like Tim's a fraternity brother, John and I. It was my roommate at one point in college. ah so like and Tim was the first person who ever sent us a question, so he was instantly like, friend of the shift in rallies, is what I said, on our like third episode. so That's where that all kind of started. so I would say, I don't think there are hard, fast and hard and fast rules. Aaron, I mean, Louis Aquinas for sure, obviously. I feel like we've gone we've gotten beyond that.
01:27:22
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. I would say sharing a beverage, talking about the podcast. You're a friend of the show. Yes, yes. Amazing. Friend, now we have answered a friend of the show, Aaron King's question. I love this one, Erch Russell. What do you think Georgia's record will be this year and why is it seven and five?
01:27:45
Speaker
Well, it's an easy. yeah John has been confirming Georgia seven and five here this week. This is an easy answer. It's an easy answer. Georgia plays good teams for the first time in program history. yes Georgia has never played a real schedule. They've never played any good teams.
01:28:02
Speaker
never and in In over a hundred years of playing football, this is the first time that Georgia has good teams on on the schedule. So seven and five incoming. Just wrap your head around it. Seven and five ah with losses at Alabama, at Texas, at Ole Miss ah versus Georgia Tech and versus UMass. So just seven and five, just kind of just just ah deal with that.
01:28:28
Speaker
Yeah, Georgia plays good teams for the first time ever. I don't know if you've heard. Georgia finally has a schedule to ask the Tennessee fan. Georgia finally plays good teams. um And Tennessee, what I love about that is Tennessee has been on the schedule for decades. And Tennessee fans would allow us one saying, you finally play a real schedule.
01:28:45
Speaker
You have been on the schedule for decades. um Tennessee and Florida fans are the ones who are chirping the loudest about Georgia finally playing a good schedule. And I'm like, y'all are the two that have been on the schedule. So it's your own fault if it hasn't been a good schedule. That's right. Seriously. Be better. um That's why our schedule was so much harder in the 90s because they were good back then. Yeah. Yeah. Get good again.
01:29:12
Speaker
We're waiting. We've been waiting. Yeah, come on. i'm I'm fine with that. Well, no, yeah please don't please don't get good get good some other year. Not this year. The schedule. Just stay terrible. Yeah, the schedule is pretty tough this year. Not gonna lie. So please ah don't don't get good this year. yeah don't do this yeah ah We've got a couple that I don't know that this is borderline munching, but we'll see. So Chad Jarvis, which I will say, ah Chad has been hosting a Wednesday night Twitter space with our friends, dog stats, Josh Hancher. So go go check that out. It's a good time, been able to join. and And there's really good conversation and they're interactive and you can ask questions. pretty It's a lot of fun.
01:29:55
Speaker
So go check that out for sure. ah Chad si says, what worries you the most about the upcoming season? I mean, I guess Georgia specifically, because what worries me the most is that you're changing my sport, get off my lawn. um
01:30:15
Speaker
amazing ah For Georgia specifically, though, I guess like, i'm I'm back to this, like are we overthinking some things too? Because we we spend so much time like talking about the offense and everything. And I do wonder, like are we overthinking things? Like in 2021, for example, we were like, oh, the Georgia offense, it's going to be blah, blah. And then like it's like the greatest defense ever. um So i am I am curious there. I don't know. like Not a ton of things stand out to me that I'm super worried about. I guess I would say we're we've got a younger secondary than we've had. um So I could throw that out there, maybe.
01:30:50
Speaker
The defensive line is what bothers me the most. we've At least we've graduated from the offensive line, JP. um And it's not Stacey Searles. Well, obviously, let's not get too crazy. I obviously reserve the right to criticize my friend, Stacey.
01:31:08
Speaker
but Yeah, i the the biggest question mark on this team on on this team right now is the defensive line, in my opinion, like, just period end of story, like, the success of our secondary the success of our defense is going to rely on how good we are along the trenches along the defensive front.
01:31:28
Speaker
and yeah Frankly, like depending on how well we we play against these higher caliber teams this season is going to dictate what our schedule what our what our record is going to be by the by the end of this end of the season. Because you know if if they're cutting through you like a hot knife through butter, that puts a lot of pressure on um on Bobo and and back to manufacture points on the on the other side of the ball.
01:31:55
Speaker
You have to basically play perfect. You have to play high octane. You have to score, outscore the outscore the the other team. and And I'm not saying that we can't do that, but I'm just saying that I'd rather not do that.
01:32:08
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I mean, what worries me the most is just Kirby overthinking all these changes in this schedule. And, you know, I mean, coaches have the tendency to do that, especially ones who want to win so badly as Kirby smart. And when you look at games like.
01:32:26
Speaker
um Alabama, where you have a bye week before going to Alabama. Alabama also has a bye week, and it's Kaitlyn DeBoer's first ever ah game as an SEC head coach. And it's at Alabama. It's like those are the types of games that it just feels like um maybe, you know, it you can have the tendency as a coach, and I'm not saying Kirby Smart will have this tendency, but you can have the tendency to overthink the preparation when you have two weeks to prepare for like the first game post Nick Saban and, you know, and, um, yeah. And I think, and I think for me, um, I just hope, I hope this coaching staff, um, yeah, I just feel, I feel like last year we saw a little bit of that and but and it was a different reason we saw it because Carson Beck was his first year as a starting QB. And so we saw versus South Carolina, you're throwing a lot of,
01:33:18
Speaker
you know, balls behind the line of scrimmage, into a lot of screen game early in the season. You saw it at Auburn and, you know, and and I know what, I know what they were trying to do, right? You're trying to ease in a first year starting quarterback into a complex offense and, you know, all those things, but, um,
01:33:35
Speaker
that's what worries me the most. He's the coaching staff with with looking at this gauntlet of a 12-team playoff, extra games on the schedule, conference realignment, going to Alabama, going to Texas, going to Ole Miss. Are you going to start overthinking um your preparation and and really you know kind of what you've been what's made you successful for the last number of years? and Hopefully that doesn't happen. That's a good one. That is a good one. I didn't realize that we were their first SEC game. First, Kaitlyn DeBoer's first SEC game as a head coach at Alabama is Georgia. So welcome to the SEC, Kaitlyn. Welcome to the SEC. Congratulations. Congratulations. You get Georgia off a bye week. Good luck. Godspeed.
01:34:25
Speaker
um Yeah, you got the Alabama's gotta go to Wisconsin editors. I didn't i even realize that. Yeah, well he'll be he'll be used to that. That's where you know he's he likes the cooler weather. um Let's see the other month's name type question.
Team Depth and Strategy Adjustments
01:34:40
Speaker
Justin Gilland said Kirby mentions lack of depth. It has to be stressed. Is this coach speak or are we not deep? I I think we're not as I think you're never going to be as deep as Kirby wants you to be. and I think he's what was the thing he talked about like, what was his comment around like the kids aren't coming in as ready as they used to that kind of thing like a college ball. Yeah. Was it more? I feel like it was around that. So he talked about. Yeah. So what Kirby said was he said he did. He didn't know he said this is um less depth than he's used to having.
01:35:13
Speaker
And he didn't know if that was because of the transfer portal or if it was more than what he refers to as the the deterioration of college football, yes which when he refers to that, he means um fewer players playing it at the high school level, playing football and the the high school practice schedule in the season, the way that they've done it to protect kids ah has led to less development time. You can't have as much time practicing as much time in the weight room, as much time, you know, all those things that, used to be able to do two a days and all those things. And um that's what he was referring to. And I think people miss the end of his comment, though, where he said, it's less. debt he's He said, I don't know that it's he said we have good players, but there's less you know consistency from year to year and um less guys coming in like ready to play from the high school level. But then he said his last comment of that answer, he said,
01:36:08
Speaker
but we have a lot better more depth than a lot of other people out there. I'd know that. And that's that was the way he ended that question. And I think everybody just heard the first part, but he said, we have a lot more depth. and And so I do think there is some coach speak to there, but what I will say also is like, I think what he's talking about is we talked about in the wide receiver group, right? Like when you look and you're like, okay, well you got Dominique Lovett, Arian Smith, Dylan Bell, and Anthony Evans, right? But that's really it. Like you've got London Humphries, Colby Young, um Michael Jackson, who came from the transfer portal, and you've got Nitro Tuggle, Sokoby White. like
01:36:42
Speaker
You don't have um a lot of guys who who have been in the system, who have who have got playing time. um And the defensive side of the ball is probably what we was talking about more um than than anything, because that's where his where his head is. And when you look at, you know, like the safety position, you got Malakai Starks there, but then you've got, it's like Malakai Starks, Dan Jackson, but then David Daniel Sisova is gone. yeah um So you've got Jake Pope, you got, what, KJ Bolden maybe? you got like i mean you know I think that's what he's talking about more, Jacory Thomas, Justin Rhett, some of those guys, but not guys who have played a lot. And so i don't I think it's a combination of both, but just don't miss the part at the end when he said,
01:37:23
Speaker
We got a lot more depth than a lot of other people out there. I know that. That was the way he ended that answer. I was going to say, how can you say that as, you know, you've had how many number one, number two, number three recruiting classes? Yeah. You've strung together here. You've got the best recruiting clip here that has definitely ever existed at the University of Georgia.
01:37:49
Speaker
Yeah, but when you go down that list, i mean that's recruits that's that's what recruiting services have ranked those guys. And when they get to Georgia, then Kirby like and staff takes a step back and be like, all right, well, who's ready to play? Who know who can who can learn the system quickly? Who who has the physical development? who you know All those things. like that's It is different from we brought in a lot of good players. and And I think that's what he's trying to say is like, it's different than we brought in a lot of good players and we have a lot of good players that have experience and a rate of play. And I think that piece of it is probably what he struggled with more. But also, you you know, we saw it last year and it and a bit it bit Georgia in this CJ ownership game with those true freshmen linebackers, right? When you had Raylon Wilson and CJ Allen fighting for their life against Jalen Millrow running around out there, because they were true freshmen linebackers that just got pushed
01:38:38
Speaker
You know into starting roles when small mondon and jim on the most johnson got hurt and um and i think that's probably what you see in a lot of to where it is like i mean the but those guys were ready i mean they're ready they just didn't it's the speed of the game it's like you know they they just need experience but they.
01:38:57
Speaker
but But they played, I mean, for true freshmen, they played pretty good. So I do think um you know there's a little bit of that with Kirby, where it's like, yeah, you say that, but I watch CJ Allen out there making plays. like I watch the kid can play. like he you know He obviously yeah had has to had to grow up. like He's a true freshman, but but he wasn't i mean you're you're not putting slouches out there even when you run those true freshmen out there. Right, yeah, for sure.
01:39:20
Speaker
ah Let's see, Matthew Key, I think we hit on his second one, but his first one was around running back. Is it going to be ETN as RB1, or will someone else emerge? um Based on my ah playing College of All 25 EA Sports, it's going to be ETN. He's really good on there. And I just, in general, I dig it. I mean, he's the guy to me.
01:39:41
Speaker
I mean, that's the feedback that I've seen and and heard, and I'm curious to see what what mr Mr. practice has to say. hes We haven't had a back like him in how long? Dude.
01:39:52
Speaker
But ah Trevor Etan is the truth. Like this guy this guy is good. And, but I will say, you know, again, and I, and I hate to, I hate to keep saying this, but I do feel like I need to harp on it just a little bit. There is no like RB one, like it doesn't matter. T one doesn't matter. Wide receiver one doesn't matter. Like.
01:40:13
Speaker
Georgia is going to play three running backs. Like if they can, they will play three, right? So that's the goal. um That's where you saw, that's that's that's where you saw, you know, Sony Michelle, Nick Chubb, DeAndre Swift. You saw Zamir White, James Cook, Kendall Milton, like you've seen that. And as long as the room is healthy, they're going to play three guys. ah But what I will say is the guys that keep an eye on,
01:40:37
Speaker
um Robert Robinson is a little banged up, but if he can stay healthy it is, it is going to be Trevor Etn, Branson Robinson, Roderick Robinson will be your three, and then Nate Frazier is going to get, Nate Frazier is going to play. He's going to get in there, and he, Nate Frazier may be the one to unseat like a, like a R, like a R, whoever is an RB3, so whether that's Roderick Robinson, maybe Branson, but Um, but Trevor Etienne is, I mean, he's the guy, what was missing last year, um, ah not to get off on a whole other tangent, but what was missing last year was, was, was thrown into the running backs, right? Like, back like you, you had, yeah, you miss a James Cook, you miss the Kenny McIntosh, you missed like that type of player, um, on last year's team. And that's what.
01:41:25
Speaker
Trevor E.T.N. and Nate Frazier, who's is a true freshman at summer enrollee, but that's what Trevor E.T.N. brings is a guy who he's physical, he can run it, but he can also catch it. and um And Jim and I talked about this a little bit and we've talked about in the in our in our text thread as well. um But like missing that, that was a key component of my of of Todd Monken's offense that Mike Bobo, Mike Bobo was missing two things last year.
01:41:56
Speaker
He was missing the ability like a running back that you could actually throw it to like the the ability to have that kind of ah run that throw game to a running back because it wasn't Dajon Edwards wasn't that guy, Kendall Milton wasn't that guy. um it And he was missing a freaking, you know, tight end that could also play an inline tackle.
01:42:18
Speaker
like Darnell Washington. I mean, people just have no idea what Todd Monken was working with with in 2022 with Darnell Washington being able to line up a guy and you have an extra tackle on the end of the line of scrimmage to block yeah for ah ah to turn around a block for Kenny McIntosh. It's like who's also like who's also going to potentially go out and hurdle people.
01:42:41
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, who who who also, Kenny McIntosh, who also caught who also caught ah had over 500 yards receiving from a running back position, right? So it's like, you know, I just think people, again, it not to harp on it, but it's like, man, Mike Bobo, he's he was missing a Darnell Washington type tight end. He was missing a running back that was catching 500 yards and and and four TDs out of the backfield.
01:43:05
Speaker
um And I think this year he won't, you'll never have the Darnell Washington thing again, but what you will have is you will have that running back component. And then I do think you'll also have, you know, I think you'll also have the tight end room, I think with Ben Yuracek, with Oscar Delp, with even that Jaden Redel kid. These are guys that I think can, they're probably, I'm not gonna say better blockers than Brock Bowers, but the guys that,
01:43:36
Speaker
Uh, the guys that can, that can block, but I mean, last year, you know, um, Dejan Edwards was the leading receiver from the running back position and he had 197 receiving yards. Kenny McIntosh had in 2022 and, uh, Dejan Edwards had 197. Like we just, Georgia did not throw it to the running back position last year. That's crazy. um Yeah. And that was the key component because even in 2021, again, you know it's we don't have to go down this path too far, but james you know but but James Cook had had almost 400 yards receiving and in 2021. And 2021 wasn't like a huge explosive, like offensive explosion type year that 2022 was. True. True. I mean, there's nothing wrong with talking about that back, about that and saying, hey, remember the time we went back to back? Nothing wrong with that.
01:44:33
Speaker
Hey, and when Michigan, when Michigan's title gets, uh, gets vacated and it's going to be, it's going to be a three-peat for the history books. Yes. I'm fully on board with that. Fully on board with that. That's right. Engage. All right. That wraps it up for the Lister questions that, uh, that don't have a theme song. Um, but we have, we have, then we have one more segment and you know what you could we, that's what we decided. Look, the, the.
01:45:03
Speaker
CVS can take the theme song away from our TVs, but they can't take it away from our podcast. no they cannot use thatll
01:45:23
Speaker
All right, it is time for Coach Trillbill's preseason over-unders. I will say last season um at a game I asked Coach, ah yeah we talked about the fact that CBS was going away, and so did he need a new song? And he said, absolutely not.
01:45:39
Speaker
there it coach coachess show see ftmr Coach's decision. Coach's decision. Um, all right. And John, you are welcome to answer answer these as well. Um, coaches over unders, we've got, let's see, we've got four offense, four defense, a special teams and a miscellaneous as the winner of last year's, I will go first. I guess I'll just say that it doesn't matter. I'll go first. All right. Over under offense, a team passing yards over, under 4,750 yards for the season. I'm going to kick us off with an under.
01:46:14
Speaker
Ooh, under. ah Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good, and yeah, I'm gonna go under. It's pretty aggressive. Under, okay. Yeah. um I am, I'm gonna go over.
01:46:26
Speaker
Nice, I'm gonna go nice. um Yeah, I think Georgia. um ah They got you. Yeah, I'll go over. I think I think the extra I think the extra playoff game. I mean, like trying to ah think games are going to play that's a fair point. I also think I also think ah the other part of me is I do think that Georgia is going to.
01:46:47
Speaker
Um, push the envelope with backup QBs and throw it more because they need to like get that development in case anything happens longer in the season. So I'm gonna go over. I should note to self, talk through these things with John before next time. Note to self the factor in the couple of extra games. ah All right. Next step over under rushing yards for the season 3000. So that we're not cheating. JP, you go first, then I'll go and then John.
01:47:18
Speaker
I'm going to go under. OK, I wrote these down, so I'm going to go under. I'm sticking to my guns. John, du are we are we done? ah No, I'm going to I'm going to go under 3000 rushing. That's that's that's a that's a lot of rushing. All right. Over under total touchdowns scored 70. I'm going to go over over. Let's see here. I'm going to I'm going to go over OK.
01:47:47
Speaker
seventy yeah um i will I'll go over. Georgia had, Georgia had, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely go over. yeah um Georgia had 71 last year, 76 in 2022. Yeah, we're going over. Then let's see. Touchdowns by a wide receiver over under 25. I believe that's to you, Jim.
01:48:09
Speaker
Is it my turn again? OK, I'm going to go under actually. I'll go under. Well, is this total touchdowns like wide receivers? Yeah. And I may be skewing things because like we didn't come close to this last year, but we also had Brock Bowers. Yeah. but You know, things they didn't factor in our Dylan Bell throwing touchdown passes.
01:48:33
Speaker
I think. Yeah. Yeah. You get the question. I'm going to go under two, but that's, that's because I think, um, ah Georgia has this tendency to, uh, you know, throw to the wide receiver all the way down the field and then hand it off for like a three yard touchdown. So yes, absolutely.
01:48:52
Speaker
Agreed. All right, to the defense, over, under. So this is allowed. Over, under, 175 yards per game passing allowed by the defense. So JP, I think this is to you. It's to me. Didn't I go first last time? Yes. um that that That was me questioning because I'm thinking. I'm going to go over.
01:49:18
Speaker
I hate it, but I'm going to go over. I'm going to go over, too. Yeah, I'm going to go over. I think, um, again, I think it'll be, it'll be trying to, uh, trying to get depth, maybe games that are a little out of reach and, yeah um, other teams trying to catch up. I think. Yeah. True. Uh, let's see JP. Oh, no, to me. Okay. Over under 115 yards rushing per game allowed. I'm questioning myself, but I wrote down under, so I'm going to say under.
01:49:46
Speaker
I'm going to go, but wait, hold on. I got to push i'm just exactly. Okay. all the other okay Yeah, I'll definitely, I'll definitely go under here. I think, I think they're going to correlate. Like I think, I think Georgia will allow more passing yards because I think they're going to be ah really, really good against the run this year. Okay.
01:50:10
Speaker
Let's see forced turnovers over under 19. I'm gonna say over 19 You said over yeah, and did i'll just I'll just go over just to just edge my bets here I'll go over over this on there And then sacks. Over under 35 sacks. 35 sacks.
01:50:41
Speaker
ah This seems to take a lot. I'm going to go under. Yeah, I'm going under as well. Ooh, boys. nu I'm going to go over for this one. I think Glenn Schumann, I think he's going to put so much emphasis on getting after the quarterback. I'm i'm actually going to go over. I like that. I like to say, I like like to hope that I'm wrong.
01:51:01
Speaker
oh but i'm real wrong Also with the more games played in there too because we had like 30 last year more games typically could get there so This is I think is my favorite over under ah question. For special teams, over under punts returned for the season. Two and a half. I've got go um gotta to go zero. Yeah, I'm going under. I'm smashing the under considering there were zero punts returned last season. That is the under. Yeah. um Man, I'm going to go under, which is ridiculous. can't how you breath how How long can Red Thorson keep this week alive? Zero punts returned.
01:51:38
Speaker
I want to know how long he can go without being a national story for this number. Yeah, seriously. I mean, that's, I remember like looking at our, looking at the stat database that we used last year. I didn't see anyone else like that. Someone, I saw something say it like they're multiple, but I didn't, I didn't see anyone else. So and nobody at this level. Yeah. Yeah. That's wild. yeah um miscellaneous over, under 500,000 beer sales at Sanford stadium. And somebody asked him a clarifying question. I think it was Brett building. yeah a I appreciate the clarifying questions before the episodes. And I already forgot what the answer was. It was $500,000 is what he said. I just said, slam the over. I don't. Wait, 500,000. Is that like one game or is that like?
01:52:28
Speaker
I mean, what are we talking about? Yeah, it's like I love the clarifying question from the guest. Yeah, because like five because that's only that's that's fifty five thousand beers at nine dollars a pop. Now that we know how expensive they are. Yeah, I mean, if it's five hundred thousand dollars, I mean, we might hit that game one. um Amazing. Yeah, we might. I am interested to see those stats.
01:52:57
Speaker
Will they be able to publish them? I don't know. It's public. public ah Well, yeah, I don't know. I say public is too bad. You think they're going to publish the the beer sales? that I think here's what I will say is I do think that they will break it out in. Yeah, I think they'll have to they'll have to break it out in like revenue, right? Like break out like concessions. I mean, maybe like maybe they don't break out so beer sales specifically. But I but I think alcohol sales is a I think, well, I think we could just do the math. We could be like, Oh, what'd we sell last year? Yeah. How much more, you know, and so beer came out to about this. so Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. All right. That's it for the over hunters. Appreciate you coach for saying those and now tracking them for us. Always a good time.
01:53:43
Speaker
All right, that's that this what that's what we had. i you know Usually, like we'll do like make your playoff picks. There's like 12 teams. like I don't even feel like doing that. That's a lot of stuff. Save it. We don't even know. you know i mean Let's be honest. like After you get past the first like three or four, i mean like it is it It could be Penn State, it could be Michigan, it could be LSU, it could be Mizzou, it could be, I mean, you just go down the list, it's like, I mean, because you know how a season goes with with with injuries and all those things? Like, yeah. I think 12-2, yeah, I think 12-2 playoffs. I think that we can more accurately guess the top four coaches that are going to get fired before the end of the season than we should be 12-2. There you go. ah Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:54:36
Speaker
Uh, especially because like, especially because like, I mean, some random, you know, it's like, uh, freaking Texas tech is going to jump up and win the big 12 without Texas and Oklahoma or something weird. Anyway. some yeah and Yeah. It's going to be wild. it It's going to be a wild ride. I'm going to try to not say get off my lawn all the time and just try to enjoy it. I mean, I will say, like for me, I do feel like I'm just going to kind of enjoy the games um because everything's different. All you got to do is make the playoff. And we're going to add the like whole look playoff team. That's a playoff team.
01:55:13
Speaker
be like a new thing in the College of Well, Lexicon, I feel like now. Like we have in the pro sports would be kind of weird, but we'll see. It'd be interesting. Now when you have an opposing fan melting down in your comments on the Twitter site, it's okay, man. It doesn't matter. You're going to make the playoffs.
01:55:31
Speaker
right. Right. Yeah, it's gonna be weird. um Before I forget, because I meant to say this at the very beginning. ah And I'm horrible about doing this. If you don't already, make sure you go check out ah dog dispatch. That John does. Another great ah podcast, both in audio and video form. um So you can find them wherever we hear your podcast and also check them out on YouTube. John does that with with Coach Hayes. A lot of good insight on that podcast. so good coach trying take coachcha as sure do
01:56:03
Speaker
So good, so good. John, before we go, what's what's on what's on the menu? What's on the menu for for Clemson? Uh, yeah, on the menu for Clemson. So, uh, we won't have you on the, we won't have you on the preview. So I figured I'd go ahead and knock it out. Yeah. So we're going to, uh, so we're going to have, um, we're going to have an express tailgate in the blue lot. If folks are interested in stopping by, um, we're going to have a nice selection of Bourbons. We'll have plenty of hunker vodka. Uh, we will have a breakfast. Um, I think, I think I personally, I think I am going to make
01:56:35
Speaker
Now, don't hold me to this if this doesn't really happen. um But I think I am going to make ah breakfast tacos wrapped in aluminum foil for Clemson. So little, little, little chorizo, little sausage, little bacon egg thing. And we will also have most importantly, there will be weller special reserve and combos because Georgia has never lost when I have showed up to a tailgate with Weller Special Reserve and combos. And so that's going to happen. So come on out. We'll have a great time. We're excellent. Man. Sounds delicious. um I will also say, again, looking looking ahead to Clemson. And we'll we'll remind folks about this next week as well. But there is a ah Clemson Georgia Fan Fest Friday night, um if you're interested in checking that out.
01:57:30
Speaker
So they've got, what, they've got three bands that are gonna be there. Jupyric Coyote and The Pink Stones are never gonna be there. That is Friday from three to 11. We'll put the link in the show notes on how you can get tickets and go check that out as well. JP, I think you may try to make it. I don't know if I'm gonna be, we'll talk about that next week, but I'm coming to the game for sure.
01:57:57
Speaker
I'm gonna try to see if John wants to go and and check it out with me. Yeah. Nice. I'm down. I'm down. It's at the Westside Motor Lounge on ah on Friday. Dude, if it's at a place called the Westside Motor Lounge. I don't know, right? But just the name, yeah ah ne el me it looks like me and JP at the Westside Motor Lounge throwing back some brews, listening to Jupiter Coyote. ah I mean, just dudes being dudes. That's what's going to happen. It'll definitely be there for that. Sweet, sweet. Well, a glad we were able to make this happen.
01:58:34
Speaker
ah It's good to be back. John, it was great to have you join us. And Anne Hunter and and and Truman made his podcast debut. Yes. We went ahead and knocked out the the superstitious. we're not We're not superstitious, but we're a little stitious. That's right. Right. Always got to have John and Hunter on before the season starts, because that's what we always do.
01:59:00
Speaker
All right. Well, another fun episode, a great way to kick off the season. If you can't tell, I'm a little kind of, oh my gosh, things are changing. It's going to be interesting, but, uh, it's all right. That's right. i I'm going to deal with it. I'm excited. I'm i'm ready to go. It's been a, it's been a long summer and, uh,
01:59:18
Speaker
We're ready to go and we'll be back. ah We'll be back to the normal schedule now. if i So for the pod, so we will be back next week with the Clemson preview and. But, like I said, be sure to go follow, check out dog dispatch, follow John Tweetsports on the on the socials. And that's what we got. And and connor Hunter Jones and have the jobs for all the uniform takes. There may or may not be inside the services.
01:59:46
Speaker
yeah We need to talk about that. We'll talk about that next week. Well, guys, listen, in the show, Matthew Stafford may not say it, but I'm going to say go dogs. Ah, go dogs. Yes. Go dogs. I didn't even see him. he they they and They had a picture. They had a picture of the dogs, the Rams that he wasn't in there and someone said, someone said that he's afraid they'd say good go dogs.