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Speaker: Welcome, everybody, into Warm Weather Fans, the Sunbelt podcast. It is your hosts, Brian Stone and Zeke Palermo. And we are back to go over all of the Week 2 action that we saw in the Sunbelt this past weekend.
Speaker: Zeke, you've actually created like a a set of buckets or a tier list as to... which games. Do you want to explain like how the tiers are going to work or you know just give us a sort of broad outline before we jump in?
Speaker: in I looked at the slate from this past weekend in which it was. Honestly, pretty positive from a Sunbelt perspective. um I believe the Sunbelt went...
Speaker: Above 500 on the week, the teams that looked good looked really good. um obviously the team's at the bottom not so much and i have just kind of chunked these up into uh if you're familiar with tier lists how they work they go s down to f tier s being the best a b c d we skip e Because...
Speaker: That's how we do it ah And then you go down to F. um I noticed a little bit of a trend, like here in my F tier, there's only one game and it's. lost and looked actually terrible.
Speaker: um Actually, I've got two games down here. In my D tier, it's lost, but there is a positive. C is you lost, but there's... A little more than one positive.
Speaker: ah Moving up to the B tier, it was... ah Middling wins or good losses. A -tier. It was ah a good win or a really good win. Most of them or actually all of that A tier is our FCS wins.
Speaker: And then the S tier is you actually impressed me this week. Um, So i'll I'll give you the dealer's choice. Do you want to start at the top or the bottom? Let's end on a high note and start at the worst and then work our way up. Sure.
Speaker: Um, the The very worst… ah the The point of tiers is to kind of clump things that are going to be similar, ah but I did try to rank within the tiers for my own sake. At the very, very bottom is Southern Miss' 43 -8 loss to Auburn.
Speaker: Um... They Southern Miss showed something against Alcorn State. Granted, it was Alcorn State, but we thought maybe there's a little more positive in this complete roster turnaround that they had.
Speaker: Um, First game under Blake Anderson, there was thought that maybe Blake Anderson was. ah Because he was kind of backpedaling his ah offseason. Um, oh, we might win the West vote. He kind of backpedaled like the week before.
Speaker: um And there was a thought maybe this is Blake Anderson under -promising so he can then over -perform. Um, I don't know. The offense is not good. The defense is not good. Granted, it's Auburn. this is you know There's the SEC Sun Belt discrepancy. but you know I don't know how much you believe in Alex Golish there.
Speaker: I think there's still work to be done. Um. But from an offensive perspective, i mean this is just the non -starter for Southern Miss, and it's it's been this way for years. Five for 13 on third downs, two yards per carries, 11 penalties against.
Speaker: Auburn did get flagged 10 times as well, but just from ah from a holistic perspective, there wasn't a positive I could take away from this game for Southern Miss. no I mean even when you go through if you look at the ah Again, for everybody listening, like once we get into actual conference play, we will have probably more in -depth breakdowns. but like It's so tough to take anything of note away from a 43 -8.
Speaker: beating at the hands of an SEC team for Southern Miss. I... I think the the most jarring thing is I was posting the um the PFF quarterback grades this morning. We're recording this on Monday.
Speaker: And. ah Ethan Hampton. Is ADOT in this game? 2 .9 yards. So... Easily worse than the Sun Belt. Only behind guys like Austin Carlisle, who threw the ball.
Speaker: 20 times. uh and completed half of them for 56 yards and Let's see who else. Lunch. ah was at 5 .6. Your three worst ADOTs of the weekend are Ethan Hampton at 2 .9.
Speaker: Carlisle at 3 .3 and lunch at 5 .6. Uh... They. We had talked about this with Dima in the preseason. It's like they just don't have...
Speaker: the skill position guys. I don't think like Steven Robinson at the running back spot, like shows a little bit last week, but again, You've gone from... HBCU to SEC West team like in the span of one week. So I'm sure he's going to kind of settle here down the middle.
Speaker: But with Ethan Hampton, I mean, it's been... what two games in a row now like he hasn't looked good Uh... he went Last week, he went 13 of 23 for 180, a touchdown and a pick.
Speaker: This week, he goes 18 of 27 for 146, a touchdown and two interceptions. And then again, his average depth of target was 2 .9 yards. so it's just going to be, it's going to be a building season for Southern Miss like last week. Nice.
Speaker: way to kick off your season in game one of the Blake Anderson era. I'm not saying Sunbelt teams are going to be doing this to them like throughout this season. right But there are going to be more results closer to this than there are ones where...
Speaker: it looks like they did last week where they just ran away with it. ah despite some bad quarterback play. So that's all it is. The only other game I have in this F tier where it's lost and I struggled to find any positive takeaway.
Speaker: East Georgia Southern 22 -7 versus Clemson. Um, Max Johnson is good. Defense looked better than it's had in previous years. So maybe they need to deserve a shift up, but also.
Speaker: This is a bad Clemson team, man. This is not a bad Clemson team. um Yeah. Both of the quarterbacks that Clemson rolled out were more really. Horrible. Vizina. the the guy who ended up getting the start through.
Speaker: I mean, I tweeted it. It was an arm punt. in like the first half ah that that Georgia Southern picked off. Uh, Tate Reynolds played. in relief of him. posted a whopping QBR of 11 .3.
Speaker: ah That is on a scale of 100. um And factors in things like sex and all of that. Uh... I don't even really know where to start. Max Johnson. is not good.
Speaker: Um... I kind of said that last week. Uh, The play calling in the first half was... Maybe the most scared, cowardice. a thing I've ever seen.
Speaker: out of Ryan Applin. There were multiple times where... I get that the running game wasn't working. But he... he and even going back to last week he's insistent on throwing these like short passes out to the flats and like hitches and The entire scheme as it stands is predicated on a receiver.
Speaker: Yet. That's the entire scheme because... There were multiple times in this game like I didn't tally them all because, frankly, who cares? But... There were multiple times it would be third and five plus, third and seven, third and eight.
Speaker: and they would throw a three -yard hitch. And then the entire offense just skips off to the sideline like nothing's the problem. And it's like. I don't think either team came out of this game feeling good. are our George Southern's defense played very well.
Speaker: Uh... I will say. they obviously they they missed a lot of opportunities Southern did but it's like What do you expect when you play a power for school?
Speaker: And on the opening punt return, your punter decides to jump up in the air. while the ball's coming down to him and it goes straight through his arms and then recovered by Clemson. So I'm just like, It started that way. It didn't get any better.
Speaker: West and Brian came out for one. Throw. He caught Clemson off guard, had a guy on a walk -in touchdown, overthrew him by like 5 -10 yards. um And then the rest of the game, I mean, the whole first half, like I said, was...
Speaker: Pure cowardice. um I was losing my mind because I'm like, Other people felt felt this way, too. Guys from Gattatalk, who we had on for the preseason preview, got people I follow that are like prominent Southern fans are like.
Speaker: I would rather throw the ball deep. And die. with a fight. Than just. curling up into the fetal position and letting Clemson just hit me with body shots for 60 minutes. and They tried to open it up in the second half at certain points, but it was just too little too late. Like they had. basically waved the white flag like in the first half. And you're like, It's 7 -0. Like, why are you just waving the white flag and being like, it's over, guys?
Speaker: just go ahead and pack it in and get ready for next week it's like If you're not going to try. Don't even get off the bus. Just cancel. it Forfeit the game. take your Take your butt and get back home. I guess you need the paycheck, so you're going to do it that way.
Speaker: It's just so frustrating because it's like... It took so much. push from the fan base to get Helton to fire Brandon Bailey last season. They bring in Mike Moots. The only positive for this team so far this season has been the defense. offensively, they've looked terrible.
Speaker: Yep. Special teams, like I said, There have been, I think, two fumbled punt returns in the last two weeks. Special teams is is sloppy, especially when it comes to the return game. And then offensively, you've got Max Johnson throwing.
Speaker: I mean. He... His average depth of target. According to PFF, was eight point. Sorry. 8 .8 ah I guarantee you, if you looked at just the first half, he's probably right around Ethan Hampton at 2 .9. It was... A pitiful effort, honestly. And again, it's like...
Speaker: I would rather go out throwing bombs and just hoping it goes well and getting picked off and making mistakes and stuff like that. Against a team like Clemson. Who's offensively challenged. Rather than.
Speaker: We just slowly lose the the field position battle with punts until Clemson like is finally able to cash something in. And that's basically what happened. Sure. ah You get Jacksonville State next week. I think that's like the closest we're going to get to.
Speaker: even competition in the non -conference for you guys. That's going to be really telling. I think that's going to. Tell us a lot about the defense. obviously It's going to confirm what we know about the defense, that it's much improved but still has holes. And it's going to...
Speaker: ah confirm what we know about the offense, which is. It stinks. Um, Yeah. Yeah. We'll climb up to Jacksonville. I haven't done my research on Jacksonville State yet, but unless their defense is like...
Speaker: truly awful, which I don't know because I'm looking at their schedule. They lost to North Dakota State by 26 in the opener. which is, you know, North Dakota State's good. So like... you know, presumably that's not super embarrassing.
Speaker: You beat east Eastern Kentucky in FCS school no in the second game of the season. Whatever. Throw that out. It's similar to all these FCS blowouts. And then you lost to Ohio by two points last week. so i Jacksonville State's another team where it's like...
Speaker: They lost their best player. to West Virginia and Cam Cook. They haven't been able to... really get any, which is shocking. They haven't been able to get anything going on the ground outside of their quarterback, Caden Creel.
Speaker: So it's just going to come down to can they contain him on the ground? Because Jacksonville State's also offense also doesn't have much going for it. So I don't. I don't know Yeah. Uh... Maybe we move Southern, I think, with the defensive. ah play up into the d tier where there's lost but there's a positive ah my cu games area I think that's probably fair.
Speaker: ah But the other two games that I do have in the D tier here are Old Dominion loses 44 -21 to Virginia Tech. and ULM loses 26 -20 to UAB.
Speaker: um Start with Old Dominion. Dude, Quinn Hanekel. it It's just not. And their offensive line sucks too. That's the thing. is like Malachi Williams. I watched a good bit of this game. I was having trouble with ESPNU. uh over the weekend so i didn't actually get to see very much of the app game even though I wanted to.
Speaker: Uh, Malachi Williams for Virginia Tech. Let me read off his stat line. Four tackles. three and a half tackles for a loss and two sacks. for Virginia Tech. there He was like living in the backfield. when Old Dominion would get the ball.
Speaker: Uh, Their offensive line just doesn't look good, man. And it's like... You already are kind of hamstrung again because Colton Joseph is gone and you don't have the level of passer with Hinnickle.
Speaker: that we had talked about kind of all offseason. Yep. I... I don't know, man. if the office If the offense is going to be predicated on... Safe throws and Hennekel taking the majority of the carries, there's a real hard cap on this team. like When we finally get to conference play.
Speaker: and the the contenders for the conference title like reveal themselves to us They're going to have, again, a tough ah tough time because. Certain defenses are just going to look at them and go. stop pinnacle and then everything else just kind of falls into place because that's been Kind of what what has... you know been the game plan thus far So.
Speaker: I dunno. Positive for Old Dominion, and this was slept on last year. Their rush defense is still really good. Held Virginia Tech 2 .1 per carry. ah Virginia Tech, we made some jokes in the preseason.
Speaker: Kind of coming out of a cannon with James Franklin. um They're looking a little better than anticipated. I didn't make any jokes about them. I thought... they They are... Here's the thing. I made jokes about Penn State because Penn State's expectations are insane. Right, right. Virginia Tech was at a point where it's like, it's got to get better. like It would be hard to be worse. So I think in the preseason...
Speaker: The only joke I really made is that Old Dominion had had their number as of late. And it's like. Who is their ex -head coach? he He's still on staff. Their ex -head coach who they fired came back and became the defensive coordinator. after it pry after he got fired he's a great defensive coordinator He's just not head coach material. James Franklin put him in a position to...
Speaker: succeed and now they're... they're like, Yeah, they're kind of cooking. Um, Grunk and Meyer, their quarterback. 327. Two touchdowns, no picks.
Speaker: hinnacle I mean, again, it's like... it's really tough because it's like outside of hinnicle they can't run the ball all that effectively. Um, Devin Roche was... Fine. He had 45 yards on nine carries.
Speaker: But it's like. Their entire offense is just predicated around, can Hinnickle carry us to every single win? And then their offensive line, like I said, is is not as good as it was last year. Right. um And I don't feel like that's like... arguable.
Speaker: Yeah, Hennekel's just not thus far in that tier of like the Jalen Rayners and the Colton Josephs where it's like no it doesn't matter who's around me. I can – will us to win, although you know to Colton Joseph's credit and Jalen Rayner's, both of them had some pretty good skill guys around them.
Speaker: uh when they were no he's closer to a samari collier lunch winfield like one of those guys where you're like I love that what you give me with your legs. I love the mobility and the added dimension.
Speaker: With the arm? Don't really know. And and that's going to be something he's really going to have to improve through the air throughout the season because it's like. 13 -21, 187 in a touchdown in a game where you... Lost by 23.
Speaker: We got to be throwing the ball more than this. Like, I'm sorry. um ulm loses 26 to 20 to uab the only thing that kept ulm out of the f tier for me out of definitively out of the f tier for me ah No Aiden Armenta, baby.
Speaker: Woo! War is over. Austin Carlisle still stinks. But at least he can run, man. Hey. Yeah. Again, you know what you had in Aiden Armenta. So yeah, he...
Speaker: Carlisle might not be the answer. But you know Armenta's not. And so. yeah Just having the gut. I mean. you know Say what you want about UAB. ULM was up 14 -3 in the second quarter.
Speaker: Uh, 20 -10 in the third quarter. Kind of blew it. and and allowed UAB to kind of rack up all their points and in the ah in the third there. But I'm like.
Speaker: Signs of life. like yeah it It was almost like The Undertaker sitting sitting up from like laying down. It's like... Okay, yeah, you didn't win? And Carlisle could use a lot of work throwing the football.
Speaker: But here's here's my question too. It's like, he might not be good. We don't know. I have now and i have had before serious questions about their skill positions and the only reason i hadn't really addressed those before is because i knew our mentor was bad And even if they had.
Speaker: Ted Hurst on one side, Camden Brown on the other. And, um you know, whoever else running in the slot, it's like, are they going to get the ball? I don't know. So... now yeah Now it is kind of a chicken or egg thing. It's like... Is Carlisle bad or does he have nobody to throw to? I don't know.
Speaker: You get the opportunity. I mean, this is just. we get an opportunity for the first time in what, like two, three years to really examine ULM's offense and see. um where the deficiencies really are outside of quarterback. um You mentioned it outscored 16 to nothing in the final 22 minutes of this game that cost them.
Speaker: ULM had a chance in the second quarter to put another score on the board. on third and fourth and one got stuffed both times those are probably just the two that um Separate this from a 27. The 26th win.
Speaker: to a 26 to 20. Um... we'll see man austin carlisle again he gives you something with the legs Passer... It's not worse.
Speaker: That's all it is. It's not worse. well And again, like I said... He gives you something with your leg with his legs. the way that Armenta absolutely did not. I will say this was a funny revenge game for Braylon McReynolds, who was with ULM last year. 16 carries, 75 yards, and a score.
Speaker: I don't know. There's probably not any hard feelings with him toward ULM, but... It's got to feel good to be like. this team was garbage last year. And like, it was not my fault. So like, right yeah, take, take that L back to. Putting the L in ULM.
Speaker: ah Jump up to the C tier. It's just like... You lost a football game I expected you to lose. um And that's Louisiana Tech loses 45 -14 to No. 8 LSU. um I think Louisiana Tech.
Speaker: I'm scared because. Granted, LSU's defense looked insane this year. you know They've played Clemson and Louisiana Tech. um But I think it was Sonny Cumbie said he's like, this is one of the best defenses I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker: Um, Oh yeah. When you take the run game out of Louisiana Tech. There is not a whole lot going for them. Right. We saw on Saturday that they cannot pass the ball well.
Speaker: Um, And that's kind of what scares me. is What happens when you get again? Like. Old Dominion, right? There's there's a... there's a hypothetical world.
Speaker: where you face like an old dominion in a conference championship game because the west is so wide open um and honestly the east is looking somewhat open as well and you know Let's say Quinn Hinnickle figures it out. They reach a conference championship game.
Speaker: you're just going to get blown out. I mean, it's just going to be Louisiana Marshall because. You can't pass the ball and you're facing a team that knows how to stop the run and Yeah, the final's going to be like... 21 to six or something.
Speaker: Uh, I think the biggest... ah there's not a lot to take away from this game because again the level of competition is just so there's like an ocean between right where number eight lsu is and where louisiana tech sits I think the number one. Takeaway is like.
Speaker: I think Louisiana Tech is just West Georgia Southern. like they were They were only down 10 -7 at half and had zero offensive yards. in the first half.
Speaker: Uh, Blake Baker was. pff's uh lowest graded Quarterback. In ah week two. at a 32 .4 Um...
Speaker: I don't know, man. like So it's really going to be this whole offense is going to be how how the the run game goes. um Like you said, if they get into a tight spot, they might look a lot like Old Dominion, actually, where it's like.
Speaker: Mobile quarterback. Questionable passer. Running backs are kind of You never know what you're getting from them. We'll have one good game and then one not so good game. and But the defense is good.
Speaker: All right. So... Yeah, I mean... You know, got a pick six on Sam Levitt. Was there only, you know, kind of off ah de was a defensive touchdown to open the.
Speaker: What was it? Second quarter. And then Blake Baker throws one ah in the fourth and kind of garbage time. Mm hmm. Yeah. i mean the initial read on this team so far has been spot on which is Run heavy.
Speaker: Defense. Not a lot of passing. You're not going to have a lot of ah shootout games like you did last week. ah where you score 80 -plus or whatever. there's no There's no more Northwestern states on the schedule after this.
Speaker: mm -hmm ah We jump into then the B tier. That's our only C tier team lost, and we kind of expected that from you. Uh... In the B tier are our middling wins and the good losses. um And you could argue Louisiana Tech versus LSU is a good loss.
Speaker: um ah But, you know, when we talk about the other good loss in here, you'll see kind of the differences. ah Marshall beats MTSU 28 -26. Troy beats Alabama State 34 -17.
Speaker: Louisiana loses to number 14 USC, 49 -30. And then South Alabama loses 28 -24 to Tulane. The difference here but for me between the Louisiana -South Alabama games versus Louisiana Tech.
Speaker: um Louisiana just actually played a football game. It was a little garbage time. I think they were down 35 -10 in the third, so some of it was kind of clawed back late.
Speaker: Um... Against USC. And then South Alabama over. uh, Under Tulane, rather, losing to Tulane. The difference there is South Alabama outplayed Tulane. um Yeah.
Speaker: Did not turn the ball over. Can't be fixed. 16 on third downs. I think they were plus. 70 yardage. um Had the ball for 15 more minutes than Tulane. um but still managed to lose.
Speaker: I kind of want to start with that one because... I don't know if I need to point at Bishop Davenport or at Major Applewhite. On both of the last two drives, Bishop Davenport had the opportunity.
Speaker: to extend drives with his feet he's you know not an elite runner but he's a mobile guy this is not when ah You know, he's not a... um Goose Crowder statue in the pocket type.
Speaker: He can run. And just did not take the opportunity to do so. I don't know if that's decision -making for him or if that's Major Applewhite keeping the reins on him. um But I think.
Speaker: South a Alabama had the opportunity to win that game and squandered it. because of that decision to just Not. Let Bishop use his legs. which is that maybe the first time we've ever.
Speaker: put a blame ah on Bishop Davenport. for not. you know. Oh, you could have, we know you can do better. We've we've criticized him a lot for... you know hitting his ceiling which is historically been fairly low.
Speaker: this is an opera I saw in this game, I'm like... Yeah. This guy could have done something for you and you just didn't let him. Well, I... So they finally let him throw the ball down the field. for the first time in what seems like his entire South Alabama tenure. ah His ADOT in this one was 9 .7. It was the fourth highest in the conference this week. Um,
Speaker: I think this should be proof point. for like this is you know you may have lost this is what we need more of offensively Right. ah I think the problem Two, I mean...
Speaker: I didn't watch a ton of this game, but... defensively. Giving up. a game winning touchdown, letting. Tulane walked down the field seven plays, 78 yards in three minutes. and score the game -winning touchdown with a minute 17.
Speaker: ah I think we had a lot of questions coming in about South Alabama's defense, but it was overshadowed by the fact that. They don't score points. You know what I mean? like Right. I think when we talked about their scoring average.
Speaker: Going into this season, what was it last year, like 19 or something? It's like You can't even muster three touchdowns a game. And now it's sort of flipped where it's like, even when you do. You're like.
Speaker: we can't stop and you know We can't stop people when we need to at the end of games. Yeah, and I think what sours it, and maybe this is just perception, but what sours it even more for me is it's like, when was the last time Will Hall had a game -winning touchdown drive?
Speaker: This is not... you know some game management maestro. That was opposite you. If you're a major Applewhite. This was. will hall who is like No one thinks this is going to go well. There's a world.
Speaker: Who else does Tulane have? They get Southern Miss. In two weeks. yeah i mean it's like this is a This is a pretty. universally considered bad two lane team especially in comparison to recent years Um,
Speaker: I don't know. I think this sours me on Major Applewhite. Not that I was necessarily high on him previously. So he's a Granny Smith apple. Well, I like those. Hang on. Well, they're sour, so there you go. uh louisiana loses 49 30 to number 14 usc um well done to not lay down they were down or you know lie down and take uh take it like a sick dog They were down 35 -10 in the third.
Speaker: um they They crawl back into it, I guess. You still end up losing by 19. um The run game is still bad.
Speaker: that's but that's my biggest thing That's my biggest thing. But the defense the defense is... ah Getting there. The defense is getting there. Lunch is... I think we know what we have with lunch. It's like he's a... perpetual, like... so 55 to 60 percent guy but he they're letting him throw it down the field um So you can kind of get away with that more so than some of these other guys.
Speaker: ah that we're seeing like Carlisle, for example. Um, i don't know it's The crazy thing for Lunch is that his yards per attempt was 9 .6, but his ADOT, according to BFF, was 5 .6.
Speaker: So... He's hitting on the big shots when they're there. But otherwise, it just seems to be like. short pass short pass short pass yeah the big the big concern for me i i kind of throw this is another one i kind of throw it out it's like defensively you were never going to stop My Ava. Like.
Speaker: I watched him do this this same thing to Southern last year, and Southern's defense wasn't good, but he's he's basically... When he plays like lower competition, he just absolutely dices. like pg5 teams up uh The run game being so bad is is very, very concerning because if you don't have... We have all these teams with...
Speaker: mobile quarterbacks, that are questionable throwing the football. And they don't have really anybody else to to to help them out in the run aspect. And it's like. lunch had 91 yards on 14 carries again. That is including.
Speaker: Let's see. ah they only had USC only had one sack of lunch, so he he played a pretty clean game overall. Lunch. 14 carries, 91 yards, two scores. Outside of that. Your leading rushers were J .J. Garner with 26 yards on five carries. and Anthony Reagan Jr. with 23 yards on six carries.
Speaker: That's... That's not going to get it done. defensively i don't really care how they play defensively because this is not the team you're gonna type of team you're going to see every Saturday. But. Offensively, like...
Speaker: We knew they had a really young running back group coming in. And now... chickens are kind of coming home to roost and it's like, If we get to Sundell opener time, let's see. Let me see who Louisiana has in the opener. Arkansas State.
Speaker: or a Louisiana Tech the week after, if you're struggling to run the ball against those teams... It's going to be another another long season. in Lafayette. you know Last year, they they couldn't run the ball, and we're doing kind of the similar things. And they had to, what, scratch and claw to get to 6 -6?
Speaker: So. This is going to be tough for all the people that were like, Louisiana's walking to the title game in the West. like Don't don't don't don't question them. And I'm like. other than getting healthier what has changed since last year and it's like They downgraded kind of at the running back spots.
Speaker: Russell Babineau is giving you something through the air as a, as a number one pass catcher, at least in this game, we'll see if he can keep it up. Mm hmm. And it's so tough to be one of these teams where you just leave your quarterback out on an island and are like. You need to do it all. You need to lead us in rushing. You need to throw. Throw touchdown passes. Don't make any mistakes because...
Speaker: We can't bleed. leads away. Because, we again, we can't run the ball with anybody besides you. it It looks a lot like Coastal did it at times last year where with them. You know? What's his name? But.
Speaker: We call you. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Um... That wraps up the two like. good losses, quote unquote. Um.
Speaker: Then you come over to two wins that were uninspiring. Troy beats Alabama State 34 -17. Alabama State is a really good FCS team. ah But this is two weeks in a row that Troy.
Speaker: had an opportunity and really should have put. like their foot on the throat. and simply didn't. having done Gotten a similar result against Sam Houston last week. um They also disappeared in the second half.
Speaker: I think only... 31 first half points, three in the second. Um, outscored 10 -3 in the second half. They did not convert a single third down in the second half.
Speaker: Yeesh. This was bad, you know, and As I refine how I'm going to do these tiers, like maybe this is a C tier. because I don't know. It's like.
Speaker: At a certain point, they kind of... The results in the bag, let's not necessarily... run it up but The comeback. It's like you. you That's... You're only allowed to.
Speaker: Go to sleep for your half of it. If you can also ensure the other team's not going to wake up, and that's what Alabama State did. To um a greater degree. Um,
Speaker: And that kind of spooked me about Troy. Uh... uh positives to take away very very few but uh Still running the ball better than you did last year when, again, you were the seventh -worst run offense in the entire country, yardage -wise. This this week, it was Jaheim Merriweather with 127 yards and three touchdowns. He was good.
Speaker: Gavin Griffin gave him 56 yards on the ground. He was the leading rusher from last week. Uh... I'm beginning to have... doubts. That. this team is a good fit scheme -wise for the personnel that they have.
Speaker: I know that they've wanted to do the run and shoot. offense like coming into this season. Up tempo. Go, go, go. Yeah, this is... I'm beginning to think like... We needed a slower paced.
Speaker: offense with more run concepts. A lot of play action. bootlegs stuff like that for for goose crowder to do I... like I said, I just don't know that the the team that they have and the way that they're constructed are made to go.
Speaker: up -tempo, throw the ball. Deep. you know all of that kind of stuff it's like So far the returns on that have not been great. Goose Crowder's not been efficient. Like with his past attempts, I think he's he's probably sitting around 50 % completion percentage for the season with the two games combined. Um,
Speaker: Yeah, this is about I would say this is probably as deflating as a. 17 point win could be don't don't you agree like oh yeah you look at it especially when you look at the other fcs wins this week Right. and Even last week, it's like the the conference as a whole has been rolling.
Speaker: over ah other FCS teams. um is you're You're the first team. all season within the conference to just kind of. Like this is what I expected you to do against Sam Houston last week.
Speaker: Yeah. know the The part that, i yeah, besides the the passing attack and maybe they get the kinks ironed out and they find some other ways to to take advantage of that The falling asleep in the second half thing is is a real thing that will come back to bite you. Those are the teams that really struggle. late in seasons because they will have a game that they need to win in the West and they'll go play.
Speaker: a Louisiana Tech or something, and they'll just... fall asleep if they fall asleep for two quarters in a game like that that they need to win In order to, again, go to the Sunbelt title game. like Can't do it.
Speaker: yeah You just can't have it. And especially against like ah an HBCU, you like. This is ah this a kind of bad start to the season to be 2 -0, I would say. just oh There are a lot of a lot of holes you can poke in this team and go, Well, what about this? This is going to come back. you know Do we need to be concerned about that? It's like...
Speaker: The coach can do the thing where he's like, we're 2 -0. We're not thinking about that. but These are real problems that have to get ironed out in order for them to repeat. Among the other 2 -0 teams in the country, it's like looking over at UMass, it's like, I like that 2 -0 a lot more than I like...
Speaker: choice. Yeah. Um... Last B -tier, this was another middling win. Marshall beats MTSU 28 -26. I'm just uninspired by this team. I mean, they look like when you talk about.
Speaker: Like your qualms with the Clay Helton Georgia Southerns. Of like we just look flat. And we look uninspired and the offense isn't doing anything and the defense is out there just trying to arm tackle.
Speaker: That's what I'm kind of feeling out of Marshall under Tony Gibson. Uh... They're saved from going to overtime. MTSU scores a late touchdown. goes for two because they need to tie it.
Speaker: And their quarterback, whose name is Roman. His last name escapes me. Jack Liano? One of the worst passes you're gonna see all season And it's like...
Speaker: It's so bad. You would think. The receiver, you know, it's just a quick. Receiver runs in. It's like so bad you would think he maybe thought. that the receiver was going to cut out or and run some sort of fade from the from the two. Yeah.
Speaker: But it was also so... Not off target. That it's like no, he knew what route he was running. He just threw one of the worst passes you're ever going to see.
Speaker: It happens. And if not for that, you're going to overtime against MTSU. I'm just – my clock's running out with Gibson already. um And from what I saw out of Marshall fans kind of on Twitter.
Speaker: Um... Thundercast some of those guys it's like I think everyone's pretty in consensus. Like this is just. It's not happening it's not gonna happen uh you know it may not be an absolute disaster but it's just this isn't it Especially after you got so spoiled with that last year of... a Charles Hough.
Speaker: i Yeah, I mean, we would be, I guess, remiss to not mention the fact that Carlos Del Rio Wilson heard his... shoulder in the second quarter who cares we're not high on him Yeah, but...
Speaker: Zion Turner looked good. I actually kind of have liked Zion Turner over him regardless of... Yeah. preseason awards and everything like last season the times that Zion Turner outside of I think it was the opener against Georgia he looked really bad But again, UGA.
Speaker: I had kind of liked what I had seen out of him. Now... If Del Rio Wilson misses extended time, I am interested to see what a Zion Turner. Like. Full. Start.
Speaker: like gets the reps and practice. goes through the film session as the assumed starter like what does that all look like because Uh, I don't know. i mean Del Rio Wilson was kind of cooking in this game before he got hurt. It was like. 7 of 8, 92 yards, a passing touchdown.
Speaker: ran 10 times for 43 yards and a touchdown. Like I said, Hurt is... shoulder, collarbone area. ah with like three minutes left in the first half. And.
Speaker: Marshall you know had to storm back ah with... A Xavion Turner -Bradshaw run in the fourth quarter and a TJ Lester touchdown run. uh to you know, put this game away because it was 2120 entering.
Speaker: are uh 20 to 14 entering the fourth quarter I. i'm pretty mid i think i'm just middling on this team like all around i i think they are Okay?
Speaker: Everywhere. they're But they are not spectacular anywhere, which is where where I'm sort of disconnected from this team. I'm like... Quarterback. B - when Del Rio Wilson's healthy Running backs.
Speaker: C plus. right receivers c plus b minus like b i don't i don't know like everywhere just seems fine they do not have And I know, you know, you can't really compare those teams two years ago. I could name off a ton of contributors that they had on those teams, both offensively and defensively. This year, I'm just sort of like...
Speaker: Apparently, Boogie Trotter is one of these people that has been caught up in the... The... court case stuff he's technically on the team but i don't think he's he's not allowed to play playing So...
Speaker: He's basically not on the team Offensively, you're down to your backup quarterback. We've seen this work with Marshall, with Braylon Braxton two years ago. but I just have real real concerns.
Speaker: even if he Even if Zion Turner comes out and he's good. Do they have the people around them to take advantage of that? I don't know. Toby Payne looked really good in week one, didn't do as much receiving this week. So I guess jury's kind of out on if that was a flash in the pan for him. but uh yeah they are they are rebuilding a lot of weapons and so um that I mean Marshall to me is – What was, you know.
Speaker: a now extinct archetype, but like this was an 8 -8 NFL team. which is distinct from like a six and six you know those are very different This is an 8 -8 NFL team.
Speaker: through and through Right. Move up to like. This is technically the A tier. Like maybe we could call this instead B plus because this is. Good job. You beat down on an FCS team like we thought.
Speaker: like you were supposed to. ah James Madison. one ups, Louisiana tech, uh, BeachWagner87. to three. Arkansas State runs wild over West Georgia, 52 -7.
Speaker: And Coastal Carolina showing life still, 45 -7 over Fordham. Not a ton to take away. I think... um Obviously in the James Madison game, the storyline is JC Evans is hurt.
Speaker: ah It's all Cam Coleman, although they ultimately trotted out, I think, three quarterbacks. ah From the JMU guys that I follow, they really liked what they saw out of third string Arrington Maiden.
Speaker: I'll be honest, I was not watching by the time that... he was in the game um This was not this was not ah on my screen on Saturday. I'm sorry, everybody. like when When we get into more comparable competition, I watched a lot of the Liberty game last week. i As soon as I saw on the schedule it was Wagner week two, I'm just like...
Speaker: Nope. That will not... that I will not be spending time watching this game. I'm sorry. Right. Um, so I don't know, Kim Coleman. Played well. The offense is just so different without him. without JC Evans. um They're doing the same thing they did last year with Sluka and Barnett. it's like We have two completely different playbooks, um and we don't know.
Speaker: Who's going to. i I guess Coleman's the the impending starter for the time being as long as Evans is out. but Um, how good that is.
Speaker: for the team remains to be seen. Arkansas State over West Georgia. um We were looking for Trey Owens to turn ah stop turning the ball over. He did not throw an interception. He did lose a fumble. Um...
Speaker: They get a 70 -yard rusher, their first since Halloween of last year. Jesus.
Speaker: I don't you know. Take that for what you will. Trey Owens, I need to see a zero turnover game before we evaluate him further. And then Coastal Carolina. Deuce Bailey went under 500. The rush, they actually started started to run the ball well, but again, like Arkansas State, it's like odd. I don't know how much I believe that.
Speaker: Anything on any of those three because they were all kind of snooze fests Can I just say one more thing about JMU? Yeah, yeah please. they they might have the best special teams. not only in the conference but maybe maybe in the country like oh my god michael scott tried to Tried to murder the Wagner punter on a block ah that got, what, returned for a touchdown ah to start the game.
Speaker: Uh... Yeah, Michael Scott, like you said, ah return you know touchdown return. Two touchdowns, 258 return yards. Yeah.
Speaker: um And Morgan Swore is 12 for 12 on kicks. That's what I'm saying. They might have the best but one of the best special teams unit like in the country. like not yeah If you look at it against comparable... comparable competition like if they go play like a really tough team that they shouldn't beat and then it doesn't go as well ah You know.
Speaker: that's fine. But when they get into Sunbelt competition, like you're not going to be able to... to kick to them. Or no you're going to need to bring in extra blockers for punts because. They will get to the punter.
Speaker: or the you know kicker or whoever, and block kicks, and they will they can also return them for touchdowns. and that's If you're getting those on top of the offensive production that like. has been Better?
Speaker: you know, ah in this game, obviously, than it was last week, like... That's going to be a really dangerous team because it... All it takes is one. Oh no, we kicked to the Michael Scott and he's gone and there's a touchdown on our on our heads. And now we're we're down. Um,
Speaker: I don't know. The other ones, it was like... Let's talk about Coastal a little bit. Like I said, Deuce Bailey, like you said, under 50 % passing, three touchdowns, 203 yards. Beat an FCS team that's now 0 -3.
Speaker: um Still struggling to kind of run the ball. Um, I guess Jaden Allen Hendricks. Averaged 8 .3 per carry, 7 for 58 in a score.
Speaker: But. you're You're still not. where you need to be running the football last week was a real wake -up call against West Virginia because they had to be really one -dimensional and put it all on Deuce Bailey because they just I don't think they have a running back that really like moves the needle. ah Colton Hinton was the number one receiver in this one, three for 101 and a touchdown, including a 65 -yarder.
Speaker: Uh... It just seems like everything on this team is going to be. distributed evenly to everybody. There's not going to be a number one receiver, really. There's going to be guys that pop off here and there. Running back -wise, I mean... I know it was a blowout, but they had one, two, three.
Speaker: eight, nine. They had 11 people take a carry in this game. Sure. ah nicely is is okay but they don't give him Like, the reps, really? ah They didn't last week, and he wasn't good.
Speaker: Javon Edwards is fine. This is sort of the thing. is like very write like This is going to be, I think, a down year for running backs around this conference. There's nobody that has really blown my socks off. right yeah sure I. And all of these like lukewarm things that you're saying about Coastal Carolina.
Speaker: are nicer than anything we ever said about them. With. ah Tim back. So... Off to a fu good start, Ryan Beard. Well, they were an absolute. Miss. yeah offensively, which is crazy when you have an offensive head coach to be that.
Speaker: Poor. Right. So, yeah, it is it it's it's trending better, but there's still like. There are problems that will prevent this team from really doing anything outside of Making a bowl. which I... They probably will. But yeah.
Speaker: uh maybe we rebrand that a tier to like b plus you did your job Some in sexier fashions than others. Sure. S tier. These are the two teams that actually truly like actually impressed me.
Speaker: ah It's Georgia State in a 31 -17 win over Kennesaw State. and then App State 27 -24 over Eastern Carolina. Um... Both of these, I think, are...
Speaker: From a Georgia State perspective, I'll just start there instead of trying to make broad sweeping statements about the both games. This is the best game I've seen. Under Del McGee, I think probably even better than the Vanderbilt win.
Speaker: um PFF grades this as their best game since ah Sean Elliott's last game as coach, the bowl win over Utah State. where they won like 45 -7 or something.
Speaker: Mm hmm. I don't know necessarily. Um... Again, the floor keeps rising. on this team i don't know if the ceiling is necessarily still that high i think From what I saw, this was a very regressed Kennesaw State team, and we talked about it last week, how volatile.
Speaker: conference usa can be it's like other than jacksonville state no teams have really had staying power and even they this year look like they're taking a step back Um... The owls are really missing Amari Odom.
Speaker: Oh yeah, big time. In a big, big way. So. But man, I mean, it was like, this is the first time I've seen Georgia State play an FBS team and feel bigger, faster, stronger.
Speaker: Um... Cameron Brown. You and I joked about it. Welcome back, Darren Granger. He has a cannon of an arm that he cannot control. right And is also willing to put his life on the line for Del McGee.
Speaker: a la Haynes King, right, and Brent Key, that relationship. Um... Run defense actually came out to play. The offense came out to play. um This is just the like most all -around performance I've seen in an FBS game.
Speaker: from Georgia State ever. um or at least since Under Del McGee. um And quite possibly, it'd have to like really wreck my brain, but it's like... Other than Tennessee, what are the landmark wins under Sean Elliott even? so Right.
Speaker: They look really good, man. Can I hit you with a an Oppenheimer -level level like nuclear take? What you got? through two weeks I think Cameron Brown and Malachi Singleton might be the two best quarterbacks in the entire conference oh certainly I mean, but but here's the crazy thing, like team wise.
Speaker: Don't know because they haven't. Like. right you know we'll we'll see when they get into conference play Eh? They might be one in two by the end of the season. or in like either order i mean malachi singleton has played like eight quarters of like excellent football. compared to like what what we saw last year out of that.
Speaker: cavalcade of like the AJ Swan, the JJ Cole. Um, I can't remember Was it Wiles was the third one that had taken? Billy Wiles was taking snaps. Billy Wiles. Yeah. they They have really found a dude in Malachi Singleton. And I feel the same ah way about Georgia State.
Speaker: ah Now with Cameron Brown, it's like... Imagine where this team would be. I know you already know this, but this is... kind of rhetorical for the listening audience. Imagine where he would be in his quarterback development if you didn't fart around for most of a season with TJ Finley, Christian Valer.
Speaker: Literally anybody we could have given a snap to not named Cameron Brown last year. yeah like imagine if you didn't just farted up for an entire season for no seemingly no reason just threw it in the trash you Maybe Del McGee felt the heat and was like, I need to win now.
Speaker: Everybody else. that wasn't in his office with him and Hugh Jackson knew that last season they weren't going anywhere. The worst thing you could do. Is like stunt. a guy who has promises development.
Speaker: For seemingly no reason, which is what they got. You know that better than anyone right now. Yeah. yeah the entire Um, Yeah, I'm pumped. I think...
Speaker: Georgia State has looked honestly. It's like them, App, James, Madison have kind of looked like the best three teams through. two weeks. I don't think that Georgia State is a top three team in the conference, but they have looked the best.
Speaker: through through two weeks. Um, Which is really crazy to think because… I don't know. Del McGee could still get fired this year. um Yeah.
Speaker: So, you know. Who knows how much that actually moves the needle for him, but that they look fun. They they look really exciting. Yes, they're... Sorry, you guys are are in a position, and I'm sure this goes for like a lot of teams. but But McGee especially, just because of how... bad the last couple years have been. If Cameron Brown gets hurt, he might as well just go ahead and pack his office up. Right.
Speaker: Because nobody that is coming in behind him is going to give you what he's giving you through two games and and shows the level of like. yeah as as del mcgee if you wanted to go to the ad at the end of the season and go Listen. uh We won.
Speaker: let's say four or five games. We didn't make a bowl or whatever, but we we we definitely showed signs of life. You can pitch that and say, if we bring Cameron back next year. Like he's only going to get better.
Speaker: Maybe we go out and and add some additional receiving weapons out of the portal or recruiting. Maybe guys take another step in that department. You could save your job behind this. However.
Speaker: Like I said. He is in a unique position in that if he if if his quarterback goes down. He's out of a job. Because they're going to win what? one or two more games more games the rest of the season without him like Yeah.
Speaker: I don't know. Something interesting that you just said about... Yeah, something you said interesting there. Obviously, with like the eligibility stuff, it's weird. i I don't know how it... All works. i No one does.
Speaker: um He is a fifth year senior. He did two years. at West Georgia. a year at Texas Tech, and this is year two for him. Um, So it's possible this could be it.
Speaker: does Yeah, but does he... So who who did you say he played for first? ah He played two years at West Georgia. I think one of them he redshirted, though. And he wouldn't be a beneficiary of that new rule about like, we don't count.
Speaker: what I have no idea. I truly have no idea. I think maybe i think maybe that was that might have been Junior. junior or community colleges. or something i don't know it certainly doesn't impact fcs teams Oh, okay. So yeah, he...
Speaker: Cameron Brown's done after this season? that that's my impression of it which sucks um make it last because right make it you might be you might be back to the doldrums next year you know you never know who you're rolling out Um... This is our...
Speaker: Southern Miss year. um with Braylon Braxton. Moving over to App State. They look complete. We said this last week. um You know, they just look.
Speaker: Every phase of the... game passing rushing It all looks good offensively, defensively, special teams, no significant holes. You talked about it. Malachi Singleton, I think, has...
Speaker: 10 incomplete passes on the year. of which three have been dropped. Which is insane. yeah He is 42 of 52 through two games for 558 yards, three touchdowns, no picks, and has...
Speaker: Taking three sacks. Yeah. I mean, that's as what clean as it gets. That's just pure. He's completing 81 % of his passes through two games. Mm hmm.
Speaker: ah While you've got stats pulled up, do pull up Sam Pickett's. Go to the Sunbelt. like website and look at the receiving leaders according to the Sun Belt. and tell me what you see there. I'll vamp for a second.
Speaker: Uh, Jakari Lewis looks good. Uh, this is back to back weeks for him. Um, That was kind of a thing for App State. Who's going to take control in that rushing room? I think we're doing the same thing with Jaquez Cross that we did last year where it's like.
Speaker: is he going to show up or is he just a six yards? or six carries for 40 yards guy. Um, Who's leading the Sun Belt? Oh, sorry. Just make Jakari Lewis the guy. That's that's all I was going to throw out. Yeah, that's all there is. the The receiving leader, you want yardage or receptions? ah Give me yardage.
Speaker: Jalen Mickens is first. He has 234 yards and nine on nine catches. So he's just been kind of a deep ball guy. I'm sorry. What side are you looking at for that? I'm sorry. I'm just on ESPN sorting. Okay. So I need you to check out the Sunbelts website.
Speaker: What? what's What's the difference? you'll You'll see in a second. Um, So rush game looks good, pass game looks good, and the defense looked really good. they only They gave up a couple busted plays, a couple long, like a 75 -yard...
Speaker: run and a 40 -yard pass for touchdowns. um App State is the best looking team through. two weeks in my opinion in the conference. Uh huh.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: Dude, their website doesn't work. Honestly. i clickt like I gotta pull it up. I click football statistics and it sends me to a page where I can download a PDF or an XML file. And then I clicked PDF and it sent me to a 404. so their website just doesn't their website doesn't work i thought they were going to display it The way that it. Like...
Speaker: does on espn right they well they should um i will tell you As I pull this up on my own screen. that The Sunbelt, according to the Sunbelt, the leading receiver is Sam Pickett of App State.
Speaker: ah with 10 receiving touchdowns and like... 500 yards. well Something's funky with their website. We've got we've jumped through all these hoops to point out that – Again, it doesn't work. Something's not right with their website.
Speaker: as He has, in reality, has nine catches for 162 and two touchdowns so far. Yeah, they have him on like 25 catches for... four 50 and 10 touchdowns. um Huh! That's good. you You said you missed most of this game because of ESPN+. plus ESPNU was like giving you...
Speaker: It kept kicking me out and being like, you need to reauthenticate. And then I would do it and it would be like, reauthenticate again. And I'm like. yeah I'm just punching in code after code after code. And after a while, I was like, you know what? Old Dominions played on CW. Like, I have that. I'm not i'm not i'm not messing with this any longer. Yeah. Through two weeks, it's like...
Speaker: ah I don't know what the comparison is, but it's not like sexy. It's just good. It's efficient. It's just it's football ethical ethical hoops. Yes, that's all it is. There's there's no gimmick. there's There's nothing crazy going on. They're... throwing the ball well, and they were defending the pass well.
Speaker: They're running the ball well. and They're stopping the run well. Um... And again, how long has it been since you've been able to say that? About Knapp State team, certainly. Not last year with Dow Logins.
Speaker: Certainly not the last couple years of Sean sean Clark. so John Clark was a weird coach, though. like He had real like giant swings in the in the way that like coaches typically do not.
Speaker: Um... you know, RIP. Uh, But. it it It was weird in that. I guess Desert Moe is the only other guy that is like this, where he would have... one like totally season. Everybody wanted him out of there. And then the next season he'd go like nine and three.
Speaker: Make the Sunbelt title game lose to the West team. But then you'd go, well, we can't fire the guy who just made us a Sunbelt title game. We have to give him another season. And then they'd go like five and seven and you'd be like.
Speaker: all right well what what is actually going on so right Yeah, that's that's kind of where where we are right now, where it's like... This is the cleanest they've looked in ah in a while, like you said.
Speaker: Um. Malachi Singleton's passing is the equivalent of like a... A Kevin Durant mid -range jumper. Where you're like. yes you're like it's it's going in like 75 percent of the time the guy's just better than everybody else like what do you want me to say and he's not an adot merchant though that that's the other thing is because we saw numbers like this earlier in the year with Carlos Del Rio Wilson. And obviously like the.
Speaker: the weeks where he was putting up like a negative a dot or like sub one a dot where kind of apparitions but malachi singleton like they're using him like a normal quarterback he's he's he's ninth He was ninth this week in ADOT. His ADOT was 8 .1.
Speaker: Behind guys that were significantly worse, like... technically max johnson had a higher a dot technically blake baker had a higher a dot But if you're inefficient, none of that matters.
Speaker: Right. So like... A goose crowder. Can be. a high ADOT guy in this new offense, but if he's completing 50 % of his passes, you're like... Does it matter?
Speaker: Like if we're basically just throwing 50 -50 balls all game. Does that ever translate to wins? like I don't know. Yeah. So. But yeah, when you're completing 81 % of your passes.
Speaker: And the team. runs through you and everything else is kind of complimentary you you got i'm sorry but yeah i said this before you got to make jacari lewis the guy just bite the bullet like i know i understand Jaquez Cross came in and that that was... Fine and all.
Speaker: Just make Lewis the guy. He's shown more flashes since last year, even when Dubinian was kind of stinking it up at the end of last season. I was like... We're not going anywhere. Why isn't Lewis getting more run?
Speaker: And then they kind of did that at the end of last season, but they hadn't fully committed to it. And now they're still in this like two back system. And it's like, This needs to be one. Jakari Lewis won. Cross two. Not 1A, 1B. Right.
Speaker: I just think Lewis has more. juice And I know Cross is recovering from what that ACL tear or whatever he had at the beginning of last season. He just doesn't need as much work as someone like Lewis does who shows like a good deal of promise, I think. right Yeah, Carlos Del Rio Wilson, get well soon, buddy, because that player of the year is slipping. quickly.
Speaker: i I mean, I feel I truly do feel bad. It'd be one thing if it was like. he was able to play out the whole season. But when someone goes down with injuries, like I don't blame them. He was never going to win it anyway. Also, how serious is his injury anyway?
Speaker: Do we know? Ah. it's TBD. You know how these college teams are with injury reports. It's like, A lot of these teams don't have a reporter beaten down the door being like. I need daily updates on his shoulder. They're just kind of like.
Speaker: well, the coach handed me the injury report needed in practice today. And like, that's the extent of it. Um, I don't know. Like I said, I feel bad because I like. I always thought the hype was very, very overblown, but also I'm not going to dunk on the guy like when he's hurt. like if he yeah course he was If he was out there and just not playing well...
Speaker: We could be like. See, this is what we're talking about, but it was like. He was pretty good in this Middle Tennessee game in the in the in the bits that he played. And so I'm just like. It depends on how long he's out. like it you know He's probably He's probably not going to be back for.
Speaker: at least a week, and then that puts him even further behind the eight ball if Singleton keeps balling out. Singleton might just - take singleton might be the sunbelt player of the year An app might also not win the East.
Speaker: But that's just kind of where we're at. Especially if... If JMU is committed to splitting these this time between. Evans if he gets healthy. Coleman with the passing snaps. Like.
Speaker: I don't know that Singleton doesn't like Hasselbeck is coming in and running the ball some in these Wildcats. sets but he's not taking significant significant playing time away from what singleton's able to do length statistically. So...
Speaker: As of right now, that's that's my leader in the clubhouse and the best quarterback. through two weeks in the Sun Belt is easily singleton. i think I think that would be the consensus opinion.
Speaker: Right. so It was a good weekend, man. Um, NFL got off to a start too. ah My team did better than yours. That's all I'll put it at. um 3 -0 across fantasy for me. so It was a good weekend.
Speaker: yeah All right. i had a I had a good week as well, fantasy -wise. ah um All right, so as we wrap up here, Zeke, you want to let everybody know where they can find you on socials, and then I will do the same.
Speaker: I'm on Twitter at Zeke Palermo, Z -E -K -E -P -A -L -E -R -M -O. And you can find me on socials at WatchTheStone. You can find this show on X and TikTok and all of...
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