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Week 5 Recap & Breakdown
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In this episode, Colton and Will discuss and breakdown everything Week 5 before hopping into another draft to close out the show
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Episode Introduction & SEC Teams Chat
00:00:01
Speaker
On today's episode of Trouble with a Snap, we will be recapping everything week five, as well as having a brief discussion about a few SEC teams before jumping into our new edition of the draft. Roll the intro.
00:00:28
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He's going to try and run for it. Leaps gets spun around. Snap that shot to Cam Rising. Now he breaks it down and rolls out, Rising. Step out and gets absolutely demolished.
Weekend Recap: Austin & Dallas Adventures
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Speaker
Alright everybody, welcome back to the latest episode of Trouble with the Snap. I am Will, as always joined by... I'm not even sure how to describe this man. I'm joined by Colton. Colton, how are we doing today, boss?
00:01:14
Speaker
Pretty good, that's the best intro that I could have ever asked for. Thank you very much. Quite honestly, I mean, there's so many good ways to describe you. I mean, I was honestly, I'm just less speechless sometimes, you know? Yeah, I get that a lot. I bet you do. Well, how you been? How was your weekend? How was the Texas, Kansas game in Austin?
00:01:35
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It was good, man. It was fun. A little bit more stressful than it should have been for a while, but thankfully the shade came over me in the second half, which was very nice. So yeah, it was fun. Nothing, nothing too crazy. Looking forward to getting to Dallas. How was your trip to Dallas?
00:01:53
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It was a lot of fun. I will talk more about the A&M football team in a moment, of course. But they looked pretty dang good out there. And so as long as they keep winning, or at least look like a decent football team, I'll always be happy. But other than that, Dallas itself was awesome. I had a great time with my family. Just chilled, went to the game at Jerry World, and just drove home later that evening and just had a great weekend.
00:02:19
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Yeah, I mean, anytime you're in Jerry World, beautiful stadium. I'm not the biggest fan of it if you don't have really good seats, but it's a pretty sweet stadium. I mean, I told you this earlier, but like the perfect, I feel like in my opinion, the perfect way to describe Jerry World is like going to a football game in an art gallery. Like it's just, it's so beautiful, but it doesn't at the same time, it doesn't feel like it fits football, but I don't know. It's definitely a world-class venue to say the least. It's almost so nice that you don't want to mess it up.
00:02:48
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Yeah,
Fan Behavior & Game Etiquette
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exactly. That may be the entire intention behind it looking so nice.
00:02:55
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Question, have you ever been asked to sit down at a game or been lectured about that because me and the people in my section were lectured about that? Okay, so if I have, it happened a long time ago. I want to say that I have, but I can't necessarily pinpoint as to when it was. However, I will say though, on the student section side here at A&M, the absolute bare minimum expectation for you to be on that side is that you are standing for the entirety of the game.
00:03:24
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No questions asked no no if hands or butts even when the band is playing in halftime. I think you're still standing so I mean they we take that very serious here, but aside from that I can't really think of a time where I've had that no, that's the thing because I never seen the student section because I just sit with my dad he has his tickets and We're in the upper Bowl per se, but we're pretty low in the upper Bowl we try and get everyone fired up because obviously if
00:03:54
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The whole stadium is loud. It is a home field advantage, but yeah, we get asked to sit down all the time and not just us, but some people around us. And then before the game, some guy came up to us probably in his fifties or sixties and he was just telling us that we're being bad fans or something.
00:04:13
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We told him, I was like, hey man, respectfully, you should maybe watch the game from home then. We're at a football game, not a church service? Yeah, that's what we said. I've been coming here for six, whatever, since the 70s. I was like, all right, you should probably know how it works then. He said some of it, he was like, oh, I bet if you were down by the players, they would tell you guys to not be as loud.
The Role of Crowd Noise in Home Games
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Actually, the players tell you to get up every single play.
00:04:43
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So then I guess we were good because at the end of the game, he kind of saluted to us. Anytime man. So I don't think I did anything different, but I feel like that doesn't happen at places like LSU or Alabama, but.
00:04:56
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Yeah, so I can't speak for those venues, of course, but I can also say I do for pretty much every home game here. I also sit with my dad because he has season tickets. And so when I go sit with him, it's not the student section, like as I was just saying a moment ago. So that's where obviously your main alumni fans or former students go sit, whatnot. And the point of them paying a certain amount of money for those season tickets, they're not.
00:05:26
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paying that price to stand up the entire game and, you know, get hammered and then get ejected halfway through the game by the cop for, you know, a PI whatnot. That happens all the time. It ain't him, by the way. It's actually kind of funny because I don't know if I sent you the tweets with the Texas A&M Police Department. Yeah, the Texas A&M Police Department literally like they don't live stream, but they will live tweet like every single time they eject someone from a football game for whatever reason. But anyways, as I was saying, so sitting over on
00:05:55
Speaker
the section where I sit with my dad, you know, it's a lot of older people, like how you were saying that gentleman behind you. So we definitely stand up in big moments, like if it's a big third down or fourth down or just a huge play in the game, like everyone will all be standing up cheering, yelling. But for the most part, we are sitting down in our seats and just kind of just enjoying the game. But we definitely do stand on occasion like how I just mentioned.
00:06:22
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Yeah, no, well, that's fair. I mean, obviously on, on third and fourth downs, always standing, but it's also more so a matter of just making noise. And I don't know. I mean, I get it, I guess, but it's kind of, I don't know. I take it pretty seriously because I think if you're allowed that it makes a difference. That's the reason why there's a home field advantage. So.
00:06:47
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Yeah, for sure. My PSA, I think if you go to a football game and you complain about people being loud, then you should not attend the football game.
00:06:57
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The other thing too though at A&M is you know we have we have the Yale leaders and we have like all these different yells that we do during games and so of course whenever you hear us do those yells on TV it's always mainly it's mainly the student section and when you have you know 40 to like 50,000 students alone crammed into the football stadium
00:07:18
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It's definitely not going to be quiet, especially when they're doing those yells. But as for where I sit with my dad, so on and so forth, you know, if we do like one or two, like our marquee yells like beat the hell out of whoever we're playing that week. And so whenever we get to that one, you'll probably have a few former students sitting behind me or around me who still participate in that. But other than that, like the other ones that we do there, they are just dead silent.
00:07:44
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Well, the thing is, we don't really have a chance like that, but we'll just be going, oh, just kind of trying to make noise. And I don't know. I mean, some guys were like, yeah, it's just whatever. 10 of y'all doing it. No one's going to be able to hear it. I'm like, if the whole stadium does it, it makes a difference. I don't know. There's a reason we played Banda last year at home. They had five fall starts. Yeah. No, I totally agree. I don't know. That's just me getting on my soapbox.
00:08:14
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You're good. No. And I totally agree with that. The guard told me that. And I went to the concession stand and bought like three beers. I was like, it's going to be loud tonight. Like. Yeah. No, that's the thing, though, is like what you're saying, though, last year when he played Bama, they had like five fall starts. Like that's the thing is that if everyone in the stadium is actually cheering and yelling and making as much noise as possible, like it truly does create that like X factor of an environment, you know, where it can truly make or break certain teams and certain drives and so on and so forth.
00:08:43
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No, yeah. I mean, I don't think I'm ever going to be a quiet fan. You shouldn't be. Shouldn't be. All right. Well, I think that that's enough talk. You want to jump into some of these games in this past
Oregon State vs. Utah Analysis
00:08:54
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weekend? Yeah, let's do it. I'll lead us off to Utah beating Oregon State. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. Oregon State beating Utah 21 to 7. Wow. Wow. Really? I mean, I really fumbled there. I definitely had trouble with the snap there. But yeah, Oregon State.
00:09:12
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self-plug. Yeah, Oregon State dominates Utah 21-7 in Corvallis. I mean, Utah really, really needs cameraizing back. There's just nothing's working for them, whether it's Bryson Barnes and Nate Johnson on offense. They just can't get it working. JaQuinton Jackson's star running back was also out. But yeah, look, I mean, this Utah defense is really good. And honestly, it's kind of impressive that they're, what, 4-1 without rising.
00:09:39
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Yeah, I mean, I hope the rising can come back. He's a really fun player. And just got to wonder what the scene could look like if he comes back. But yeah, that game was ugly for Utah. But credit to Oregon State, Jonathan Smith is a really good coach. And DJ didn't play great, but he was able to get some work done on the ground. And yeah, Oregon State gets a big win. All right.
00:10:01
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So I do have a few thoughts to say about this. I completely agree with you as well. I've been saying this ever since the season pretty much started. Utah literally needs cam rising like how we need air to breathe. And I feel like this is the most prime example.
00:10:16
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So far in this season is their first loss. They only put up seven points as you just mentioned that Utah defense is very good But you know that defense can't win every single game for you At the end of the day though as for Utah They still have a very scrappy team. It's their first loss of the season at the end of the day It shouldn't be that big of a deal. They just
00:10:38
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are able to manage and take care of business going forward, especially if you get someone back like Cam Rising, then that should be 10 times easier than what it is now. But other than that, Oregon State look good. But yeah, Utah, that absence of Cam Rising is really starting to show. Yeah, they can't do a single thing on offense without them. But let's hop into another Pac-12 game.
USC vs. Colorado Recap
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USC defeats Colorado in Boulder 48 to 41.
00:11:07
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Really good game again from Caleb Williams, six touchdowns. He also will get this, I mean, he can extend the play. And I think one of his touchdowns, he had over seven seconds to throw the ball. So yeah, and USC was down Zachariah branch, but really no issue for them on offense. They're winning this game by a lot, by a lot for pretty much the whole game. This game wasn't ever really in doubt. Boulder got an onsite kick at the end to try and make it close, but they couldn't recover it.
00:11:33
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, credit to Colorado for fighting back here. We kind of thought they would get blown out. And I'm impressed that they were able to make this one close at the end. But I mean, I just can't buy USC as a true contender at this point. That defense is just gross. I need hand sanitizer after watching it. I mean, it's so bad. And it's just kind of the same Lincoln rally thing as it's always been. I don't really understand why he is so attached to Alex Grinch. And I don't know.
00:12:02
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can't help but think they're going to waste Kayla Williams and not make the playoffs with them because I just don't see. I mean, they can't stop anyone.
00:12:10
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No, and it's, my gosh, that is the one true defining factor. I feel like that separates USC compared to every other contender, as we all know. The offense, absolutely world class. It's elite. Caleb Williams is that guy. But as you mentioned, that defense, it's, oh my goodness, I don't even have the right words to describe them.
00:12:37
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You know, so I will also say this game, it was my lock of the week. And I am a little bit bitter because I believe the line was 21 and 1.5. And I chose USC to cover. And for the vast majority of the game, that line felt pretty safe until their defense decided to just go home early. Ultimately, though, USC did get to win 48-41. It was a packed Folsom field in Boulder. And it's impressive.
00:13:04
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to always get a big whirlwind like that, especially in the conference. But I completely agree with what you just said a moment ago. There's absolutely no way in my mind as of right now that I can consider USC a true legit contender for the CFP just because of how bad that defense is. That's the thing is that I feel like if USC just had an average defense, they would for sure be, I wouldn't want to say a lock, but they would be,
00:13:32
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certainly in the conversation a lot more than they probably are now for the CFP. Ultimately though, that's just the knock on Lincoln Riley, man. He emphasizes offense over defense so much and it is so evident when you watch his teams of recent memory. I mean, if you remember like when he was still at Oklahoma and like the whole Baker Mayfield teams and the Kyler Murray teams and all those guys,
00:13:55
Speaker
You know, they had it. It's the exact same thing. He's just now in South. He's just now in Southern California. Um, you know, you had an elite quarterback and a really shoddy defense and it can only get you so far. And clearly that's just his bread and butter for whatever reason. And, you know, I don't expect anything to change at all until Lincoln rally decides to actually start, you know, being serious about playing defense. Yeah. I was talking about this earlier with my dad. I wonder.
00:14:20
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I think Logan Riley would probably have at least two national championships by now if he had a somewhat average defense because his first team with Baker would have definitely won it.
00:14:30
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Yeah, the Rose Bowl game with Georgia that was overtime. I think they would have scored them on the title game if they played them. Yes, the thing is that as you were saying, I think it's had an average defense. They don't even go to overtime with Georgia, most likely. And they carry that momentum into the national title game. And as you said, I definitely think they would get the job done that year as well. Why is Lincoln Riley like this, though? Why is he so opposed to playing defense?
00:14:59
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I don't know. I mean, he's not dumb. You can't be that dumb. He's such a good coach, offensive. I mean, he's an offensive genius. Yeah, and that's putting it lightly, it feels like. But I mean, there are two sides of the football, and he's got one covered, and the other one he just turned a blind eye to. Yeah, I don't get it. But let's jump into my lock of the week, Kentucky
Clemson's Victory Over Syracuse
00:15:24
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over Florida. This one covered.
00:15:27
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I like Devin Neri a lot. He has not really had the season I was expecting, but it didn't really matter because Ray Davis went for almost 300 yards. So that was great for Kentucky, Florida. I don't know how they'd be Tennessee or what kind of a diving that is on Tennessee, but Florida is just not good this year. We've said it since week one.
00:15:44
Speaker
They can't move the ball, really do anything. They just look discombobulated. And yeah, Kentucky's 5-0 having an undefeated matchup with Georgia coming up. Clemson beats Syracuse 31-14. Actually a big conference for Clemson because they really needed to get in the win column there. Good game for Cade Klubnick. And yeah, this Clemson defense pretty much shut down Garrett Trader and his crazy play action fake. So yeah, a big win there for the Tigers.
00:16:08
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Yeah, it's something nice to see Clemson get back on track. That's their first conference win of the season, isn't it? Yep. Yeah, so I mean. Think about it. Yeah, it's certainly weird to think about, especially seeing them unranked now. Like, we haven't seen that in forever. But anyways, no, they, you know, Kate Klubnick and company certainly was able to handle business and Syracuse.
00:16:34
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As I was just saying though, it certainly is weird to see this. But at the end of the day, the times are changing and it is what it is. Old dinosaurs fall and new ones rise. So it'll be interesting to see what happens next. All right, jumping back to the SEC.
Georgia's Narrow Win Against Auburn
00:16:52
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I'm going to dive into the Georgia Auburn game real quick. What an absolutely electric game on the plains, by the way.
00:16:57
Speaker
um yeah we had this game late we weren't going to talk about this game in our preview and then i decided to throw it in and wow what a great game my gosh so
00:17:08
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To my knowledge, from what I remember, Auburn had the lead in this game for more than half of it, especially at home in Jordan Hare. You know, boys are feeling good. Hugh Freese is calling up the right plays, so on and so forth. They look pretty good. I was actually pretty surprised to see, especially how notorious Georgia is for having a great defense over the past few years. It was actually impressive, at least for me, to see just how bad that Auburn offense was and just
00:17:36
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They were still able to put up 20 points on a really good defense, which I didn't really have in my bingo card going into this game. But anyways, Georgia ultimately pulls it out in the end. Brock Bowers is an absolute freak of nature. I believe he had like halfway through the fourth quarter, he already had over 148 receiving yards in that second half alone. So pretty much the third quarter and like half of the fourth, he already had over 148 yards.
00:18:04
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All in all though, it was an incredible game. And, you know, Georgia, I will say right now they still in the latest AP poll are still number one in the country. And if they keep playing like this, that will not last long at all. Yeah, I couldn't believe that game was that close, especially how anemic Auburn's offense against A&M. A&M has a good defense, but I mean,
00:18:27
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their quarterback plays is really bad, but they were able to force a couple fumbles and yeah, he freeze and called up some pretty good plays there. And yeah, I mean, Auburn found themselves in the fourth quarter with a chance to win, but yeah, ultimately, Brock Bowers is just unreal.
00:18:43
Speaker
I feel like if I would, I mean, it'll, it'll not go to a tight end again. What feels like forever. But if I had to choose, um, like a non-quarterback to win the Heisman, I would easily have Brock Bowers, like towards the top of my list. He does it all. He's just a freak dude. I love watching that. Like they run handoffs for a tight end. It's insane. He's a ridiculous athlete. Yeah. Yeah. I'll jump into
Texas Triumphs Over Kansas
00:19:09
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the game. I was at Texas beats, Kansas 40 to 14.
00:19:13
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Big news here, before the game, the Jayhawks star quarterback Jaylen Daniels was not able to go. He had some back tightness that he had been dealing with early in the season as well. So, in comes Jason Bean, who is actually a pretty good quarterback. He started some games for them last year and this year. I don't really know why he stuck around. It's really he could play at a decent amount of schools. But yeah, he comes in and KU had two big play touchdowns. They had a post right over the top. Texas really needs to clean that up. They've been burnt deep.
00:19:40
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three of the five games so far, but their first touchdown that Kansas had was one of the crazier plays I've ever seen. I'm sure you saw it. That fumble. Yeah. So Kansas runs a triple option and their quarterback runs for about 25, 30 yards. And then Texas safety jail and Catalan rocks their quarterback who fumbles the ball. It hits the turf, bounces right up to the KU running back who walks in for the last 20 yards for the touchdown. So that was a pretty wild play, but outside of that. Sorry.
00:20:11
Speaker
Yeah, I was just saying, it was just like you drew it up. Yeah, no, exactly. I mean, that's in the play design. But yeah, besides that, KU really couldn't move the ball. UT didn't have any sacks, only three tablets for a loss, but there's really nothing going there for Kansas. This game was closed for a while, and the only reason it really was closed was because Texas could not finish off their drives, whether it was missed field goals, a Quineer's interception, bad play calling and execution, a snap flying over year's head, because
00:20:35
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UT had close to 700 yards of total offense and never really struggled to move the ball, but three or three quarters, they kind of just struggled to punch it in the end zone. And yeah, late in the third and the fourth, Texas kind of took over there. Jonathan Brooks ran for over 200 yards and AD Mitchell had 141 through the air. Quinn Ewers had another 30 yard touchdown run for the second week in a row and Xavier had another pretty good game. So
00:21:00
Speaker
Yeah, it was a game where Texas probably should have won by a lot more, but they just weren't really executing. But overall, I think KU is a pretty good team. So I'm going to take a win there going into Red River, but they really have to clean up the kicking game in particular and executing in the red zone. But yeah, 40 to 14 win. I like KU though. I hope they can make some noise because I think they're a fun team and get Daniels back. So
00:21:27
Speaker
Yeah, 40 to 14 there. Ole Miss beats LSU. Wait, Colton, Colton, Colton. Before we jump into the next game, I have a quick question for you in regards to Texas. Please correct me if I'm wrong. So aside from the Alabama game, in my opinion, I feel like the MO for Texas so far this season is y'all start out fairly slow, kind of sloppy, whatnot. And then once the fourth quarter really hits, that's when y'all really turn it on.
00:21:54
Speaker
I mean, one, is that true? And if so, why do you think that is? That's a great question. It's definitely true. It's been a trend. I think part of it is UT has been rotating our players a lot. I think to get more guys in the game and also kind of, we have better depth this year. So I think it allows them in the fourth quarter to kind of pull away from teams.
00:22:16
Speaker
Yeah, I definitely agree with you. I mean, I think this Kansas game should have been a blowout. I mean, it ended up being a blowout, but it shouldn't have been close at all. And the Baylor game, Texas dominated, but yeah, I think it's really just kind of an inability to convert in the red zone. Even in the Bama game, you could argue that UT should have been up by a lot more. They had two drops that could have been touched on in that game too.
00:22:36
Speaker
I think it's more of an execution thing. So the other game does notable as well as the Wyoming game. I mean, that was like a one score game going to the fourth maybe or something like that. Yeah. I mean, that was a really sloppy game. And really what happened there was Wyoming had a 10 minute drive in the third quarter. Yeah, that is true. But yeah, I mean, that's the thing with Texasism. I think there's kind of two ways to look at it. I think that you could look at Texas and you could say,
00:23:02
Speaker
You know, they're not really playing as great as a top three team should be for, for kind of most of the game. I wonder if they're overrated. And I think kind of an optimist perspective is saying there's like, there's kind of a lot of meat left on the bone here for Texas and they're still able to blow out teams. So we'll see. I do think that I don't think that Texas has played their best game yet, which is encouraging, but yeah, while it never really felt like the Kansas game was in doubt, I think their games later on in the year where.
00:23:30
Speaker
If Texas messes around, they could lose the game. Like I just, I think they have to be, I don't know, in college football, I think it's really hard to just go through your employee, everybody out. It's much of 18, 22 year olds, but yeah, I mean, it's, it's a bit concerning because I think if you mess around too much, then you'll get beat. Yeah. I mean, look, Georgia had the same thing happen to them. So yeah.
00:23:52
Speaker
But yeah, a bit frustrating. But overall, I guess I'm not going to complain about a win. But I mean, I'm definitely with you. That is a concern of mine.
00:24:00
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Yeah, Ole Miss takes on LSU in Oxford, 55 to
Ole Miss vs. LSU Thriller
00:24:04
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49. Will called this one. Lane Kiffin really needed this win. I feel so good about calling this one before him, by the way. It feels so good, actually, to get that one right. Kiffin looks stressed on the sidelines. You knew he could do it. Did you see his hair sticking out of his – Of his visor? Yeah, out of his visor. The dude looked like he just had like seven days in hell, dude. Yeah, I mean, he really – it feels like Kiffin kind of needed a signature win like that.
00:24:27
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And yeah, I think we talked about it before the Bama game, how we'd never really seen Jackson Dart have a breakout game. And man, Dart was fantastic. That hurl he had was just pure adrenaline. And yeah, for a while, it looked like Olmos was going to lose his game there down nine in the fourth quarter. And they found a way to come back. And I mean, for LSU, Jayden Daniels is playing really well. Their receivers are very good, aside from the fact that Daniels got rocked and fumbled.
00:24:54
Speaker
I mean, LSU had a chance to win at the end there. The ball actually hit the receiver's hands, but I mean, for LSU, this defense is just really bad. We talked about it after the Arkansas game, but this is the worst LSU secondary I can remember. It's probably worse than that 2020 team that had a very bad defense. And yeah, I mean, Quince and Judkins ran all over LSU. Ulysses Bentley did as well. Trey Harris had a big game. So great for Ole Miss to get the win, but for LSU, I mean, this defense is the USC level of add.
00:25:25
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Yeah, and that's the thing, too, is that that defense is led by Harold Perkins, and he got major burns out playing DB, so on and so forth. As I mentioned in last week's episode, that is probably the worst possible name anyone could have for playing cornerback. But anyways, great win for Ole Miss, as we just talked about. Jackson Dart truly felt like he did everything on the field, no problem on Saturday.
00:25:50
Speaker
Absolutely crazy game electric atmosphere one of my good buddies from high school who now goes to Ole Miss kind of I texted him yesterday So on and so forth that's how the game was and he said it was one of the most Electric and intense games he's ever been to so I can only imagine what it was like to be a fan slash student at that game But anyways, you know, Jay Jayden Daniels did play a great game as well once again So if you're an LSU fan, it's really encouraging to see your quarterback kind of slowly build
00:26:18
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that offensive momentum whatnot throughout the week or throughout the weeks, excuse me. But as for Ole Miss, you know, this is certainly the most signature win to date for Lane Kiffin since he took over in Oxford.
00:26:33
Speaker
And it'll be really interesting to see because obviously these two teams are both in the SEC West so it'll be really interesting to see the type of implications that this game can potentially have once we get down to the stretch of the season and ultimately see who will be playing in Atlanta.
00:26:48
Speaker
But all in all, great win for Ole Miss. However, I will say there were over 1,300 total yards of offense by both teams. So clearly, both these teams must be really big Lincoln Riley admirers because the offense was absolutely popping, but the defense was nowhere to be found.
00:27:09
Speaker
Yeah, both teams definitely need to go back to the drawing board in regards to defense. But other than that, great win Ole Miss. And it'll be a lot of fun when the Ags travel to Oxford in a couple weeks. The Ole Miss fan doing the flip off the goal post was one of the best moments of the week. That was funny as hell, yes. There was no rotation on that flip. There was no way he was going to land that. No. And if he did, he probably would have broken something.
00:27:35
Speaker
I feel like he probably still did break something. Yeah, probably. He's definitely a tailbone or something. Yeah, as opposed to his leg or ankle. College football never changed. Seriously. And Ole Miss never changed. But let's hop into Notre Dame beating Duke 21 to 14.
Notre Dame Edges Out Duke
00:27:51
Speaker
I mean, Mike Elko put on a fantastic performance coaching for about 59 minutes in this game. I mean, Notre Dame had to go 95 yards for the wind down 14 to 13. Sam Hartman converts a huge fourth and 16 on the ground, and then they run it in with SDMA for the game winning touchdown. Unfortunately, Riley Leonard for Duke gets hurt trying to lead them down there at the end.
00:28:15
Speaker
Looks like that's a week-to-week thing. But yeah, for Notre Dame, I mean, clutch to pull this game out, that would have been pretty bad to lose that game and fall to four and two. Duke's a good team, but you don't want to lose two in a row. And yeah, I mean, just having an experienced guy like Sam Hartman is so key. But I almost feel like Notre Dame just doesn't have the skill guys this year to really get the best out of Sam Hartman. So I don't know. It kind of seems like a wasted opportunity for me, just kind of looking at this Notre Dame team with how good of a quarterback Hartman is.
00:28:44
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Hey, you know, you survive in advance, so good for the Irish and market streaming. No, I completely agree with that as well. Because if you remember the game last week when they played Ohio State at home, it was like, what, a three-nothing game at half. And then, of course, you score a few more points, get in the end zone a few more times before it's all said and done. But anyways, you go from a bit of a low-scoring game against Ohio State, who's
00:29:07
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a really good defense so on and so forth to another low scoring game against another really good defense in Duke. So the thing is that when you have a quarterback as good as Sam Hartman you pretty much expect to blow out every single opponent that you play and regardless of how good the defense is but I completely agree with you what you just said a moment ago it just does not feel like they have
00:29:28
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those true elite skill position guys liked what they've had in years past. So it is a bit of a bummer to see, I don't want to necessarily say it's wasted or they're wasting Sam Hartman a little bit because he is still playing exceptional football and currently still leading Notre Dame to quite a few wins up to this point. But all in all, I truly do feel like if Notre Dame had just an exceptional wide receiver,
00:29:55
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or wide receivers whatnot or certain running backs just pretty much just skill guys this team could just be that much better um but anyways going back to this past weekend's game you know shout out to duke shout out to mike elko i still miss you in college station um i feel like i'm
00:30:12
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and it really does suck
00:30:33
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a lower leg, lower body injury. Cause the dude was an absolute warrior all night, played a great game, played his heart out. So for him to go out like that, it was just, it's just a huge bummer. But anyways, great win for the Irish, great win for Marcus Freeman, but another close game. And fortunately enough, they were able to pull it out this time on like last week, but it'll be interesting to see how Notre Dame responds going forward to see if they'll actually finally be able to start blowing more and more teams out. If they'll just constantly be in back and forth slugfest like this.
00:31:07
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All right, let's hop into the game I was at this past
A&M's Defensive Masterclass
00:31:10
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weekend. That would be A&M in Arkansas. So I believe I said the last time, or when I was previewing this game in our last episode, I mentioned that A&M, that their key to victory in this one would be to contain KJ Jefferson. And my goodness, the Aggie defense did that and then some. It is the second consecutive game where the Aggie defense has recorded at least seven sacks. I believe in this one, they actually had one more than the Auburn game with eight.
00:31:36
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The whole unit as a whole had, I believe, 15 tackles for loss, and they were absolutely flying to the football. That difference in front with all those five-star D linemen, Walter Nolan, Shamar Turner, Shamar Stewart, LT Overton, Gabriel Brown-Lodendi, all those guys, et cetera.
00:31:56
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they are finally starting to really click and it is really fun to watch. Because that was the thing with them last year is that they were so young and experienced. I feel like sometimes they still thought they were playing in a high school game against college level opponents and they would just get absolutely blown up and so it is really nice to see them finally start to piece some things together on the defensive side of the ball and really wreak some havoc in the backfield.
00:32:20
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As for the Aggie offense, this was the first start of the year for Max Johnson and
00:32:29
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in replacing Connor Wigman, excuse me. And so in my opinion, I think Max Johnson played a really great game. He started the game, I believe it was like eight for eight, something like that. And that pretty much, he just kind of built his momentum from there on that hot start. If we come out first drive of the game, he finds Evan Stewart on a little fade ball in the end zone for six points pretty much immediately.
00:32:52
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I will say though, he did have a few mistakes and the Ags ultimately did have three turnovers. One of them was a pick six on a screen pass to start the third quarter, which was a completely ill-advised throw. And on top of that, he was responsible for another turnover. He decided to tuck it and run on a single play and ultimately got blown up and fumbled the football. So I will say this for Max, while he does not run as well as someone like Connor Wigman, he still is a great runner.
00:33:21
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But he's got to become, he's known for lowering that shoulder and really fighting for extra yards. But that dude, in order for us to have a really good season here and a really special season, which I feel like we can have, he's got to go from the tough lower the shoulder guide to a lot more of a slider, if that makes sense. He's got to get down. He's just, he just got to protect the football. He's got to protect himself ultimately for, um,
00:33:45
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for him to stay healthy and for him to stay in the game. But all in all, it was a great win by the Ags. I was pretty, I was thoroughly impressed by that defense for them to come back back to back weeks and put on an absolute clinic. I will say though that the main concern for the defense is the secondary, more specifically the DBs and man coverage because Arkansas
00:34:10
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They only took two deep shots down the field and they went 50% on those. They missed on the first one and in the, I'd say the latter half of the fourth quarter, they decided to take another shot deep when it was pretty much garbage time already. But still, those points count, those numbers counts. And our DB, Josh DeBerry, got absolutely cooked on a deep ball by KJ Jefferson.
00:34:33
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With Alabama coming to town this week, they got quite a few things they should clean up in the secondary. But other than that, it was a really complete win for the Ags. And I'm really, really excited for who's coming to town this weekend. And I cannot wait till Saturday. Yeah, that A&M D line is nasty. And I think we talked about it before the game. I couldn't decide if I thought Casey Jefferson was good or not. I don't think he's good. But hey, I mean, actually, I feel like he's got worse every year.
00:35:02
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He probably has. But yeah, that defense was nasty. I think I saw they've had 15 tackles for loss last two games. I think we had 15 tackles for loss in this Arkansas game alone. Oh, wow. OK. Yeah, I'm saying. Well, yeah. I don't have my specific stats pulled up for the moment. But if you'd like for me to go find those, I'm more than happy to. Well, I mean, that's probably around 25 last two games if you had eight sacks against Auburn.
00:35:31
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Yeah, that's wild. But yeah, I mean, yeah, this defense is really clicking, which is good because I mean, after the Miami game, that look that that defense looks so bad. So credit to them. Yeah, this game is going to be interesting. I think that that in any line is going to give Alabama some problems. And the second area, we'll see if they let Miro air it out. But yeah, I mean, we'll get into that one on Thursday. But
00:35:57
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Wednesday, but yeah, we were talking about defensive woes, LSU Ole Miss. I mean, I think we can go to the SEC West. The thing with A&M and Bama that this week could ultimately decide the West is that both these teams actually have defensive defenses, which, yeah, let's see what Ole Miss do not.
00:36:15
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And that's the thing too is what I just mentioned, both Bama and A&M are tied for first in the West right now. So whoever comes out of this upcoming game on Saturday, victorious will be outright in first place in the West for the foreseeable future to take care of business. But I don't wanna get into that too much in this episode. We'll talk about that one in the next one. But either way, my gosh, I'm just so excited for this Saturday.
00:36:42
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It's going to be fun. You and me both have some pretty big games going on. But yeah, I think that'll just about wrap up our week five recap. We had some very good games.
Cuisine Draft: Tex-Mex to American
00:36:55
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All right, you ready to kick this draft off? Let's do it. All right, so tonight's theme for draft, shout out to Colton's roommate. I don't remember which one he said it was, but it was one of their suggestions. Tonight, we will be drafting our favorite cuisines, favorite styles of food, whatnot, not anything too specific, just more kind of broad cultural wise. And so with that being said, with the first pick, Colton, I am taking Tex-Mex off the board.
00:37:27
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That's a good pick. Not what I was thinking, but that's a good pick. What's your rationale? Well, one, we're born and raised Texans. We've been eating it our entire lives. And especially now that we're both 21, my eyes have been completely reopened to the greatness of the frozen margarita with Mexican food. I mean, I've always heard about it, but I never knew just how good it was until I could finally have one legally. And my goodness, it just does not get better than Tex-Mex. Just straight up.
00:37:54
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Will has never had a margarita until three weeks. Exactly. I never have. Nope. That's a great choice. I eat a lot of Tex-Mex, but for my first pick, I'm going to go with just American food.
00:38:09
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I just think we're a football podcast. What are you eating when you're watching football? It's probably gonna be American food that I could include. Cheeseburger wings. Yeah, exactly. Burgers, chicken wings. I mean, there's just so many great things. Fries, fried pickles, pretty much anything fried. Anything fried, yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna go with that. I'll see a lot of fried food at the Cotton Bowl this weekend. And yeah, my second round pick, I'm gonna go with a personal favorite of mine, just some Italian food.
Italian vs. Bavarian Cuisine
00:38:37
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Okay, that's a little bit of rigatoni. There's whatever I mean, linguine, there's just too many pauses even name. Yeah, Italian, I think always get the job done. It's probably my preferred cuisine.
00:38:51
Speaker
OK. All right. For my next pick. So this is this cuisine is specific to about three countries. So I'll just listen real quick. I'm taking German, Czech and Polish food. Shout out to I know you're kind of looking at me like what the hell is that?
00:39:10
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So German, Czech, and Polish food, they are known for like buttered potatoes, sauerkraut, wiener schnitzel, certain things like that, pierogies. Actually, believe it or not, Colton, I don't know if he knew this, but whenever you and I go out to Kenny and Ziggy's back home in Houston, I always start out my meal with like a cup of chicken noodle soup. That is actually a Polish thing because, or Czech and Polish thing, because my dad told me when he was growing up, his,
00:39:36
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his grandmother and grandparents, so on and so forth. They used to always prepare chicken noodle soup before their actual, uh, actual like entree. If that makes sense. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. I mean, cause yeah, I mean, I know that you always get that. And I think you should go with the matamosh soup, but I did not know the cultural significance behind it.
00:39:56
Speaker
But anyways, we can also credit the Czech and Polish for the creation of the Kalachi, the Copa Sneaky, certain things like that. And also, that's where my ancestors are from. So shout out to the homeland. So I am taking, I guess I'll just call it Bavarian food to simplify it. So I will take Bavarian food. Wow, what a pick. I did not see that one coming. I appreciate that. This is a snake, so I get next pick. This is tough.
00:40:26
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I don't want to go too basic, but I also don't want to go like completely off the wall, you know?
00:40:34
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Can I just say Chinese food? Of course. You know, like Chinese food is like, it's, it's a staple here all over the US. You can always get Chinese food, those little white takeout boxes and you know, the chopsticks, you can always get fried rice or a little Maine or, um, sweet and sour soup, so on and so forth. And of course you can also get a fortune cookie, at least here in the US. Um, anyways, I love Chinese food. You can get it, as I was saying, pretty much anywhere. And yeah, you can never really go wrong with a good Chinese place.
Chinese & Japanese Food Favorites
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solid pick. Chinese food rarely fails if ever. For my last pick, this is really tough. I have two I've been really deciding between, but I think I'm just going to roll with Japanese food. I love me some sushi. I think you can't really go wrong. It's very classy. It tastes great. Fairly light too, which can be a bit of a downside at times. I don't have to get some sort of a rice dish or a protein to fill me up.
00:41:34
Speaker
Yeah, Japanese food is my pick there. I cannot get enough sushi. Yeah, sushi. Have you ever had miso soup? Of course. OK, just making sure. If you like to say it. Miso soup. I don't know. I don't know, dude. I mean, I've asked that to at least two or three people before, and they're like, what the hell is miso soup? So I just had to ask. I felt inclined. You need new fans, then. I definitely do. I was going to pick Greek food.
00:41:59
Speaker
Greek food's really good, especially, um, Oh, Island grill that we go to. Like that, that is one of my favorite restaurants in Houston. I mean, Greek tie. I like Vietnamese food a lot too. Yeah, that's good stuff. There's just too many good ones, but I think you want to have, do you want to have one more pick each before we wrap up the draft? Cause we still can. I think I already named all my picks. All right. That's fair. I guess that's why we still can't.
00:42:25
Speaker
I mean, you can't be cheating because I just gave you. I'm not cheating. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not doing anything. I don't know. There's something going on here. I think we'll just call it here because I really like my picks. Yeah, I think I won the draft. Actually, I know I won the draft now. Yeah, I do. Although your your second pick was wild. That second pick was completely off the wall. But once I explained it and the whole kind of backstory behind it, you're like, that's a really awesome pick. Yeah. No, I mean,
00:42:51
Speaker
That'll get you a good second place. But it's a good pick. OK. OK. Damn. That's pretty harsh. I've got confidence in my picks. But yeah, I think that'll wrap up our draft. If you have anything else you want to add? No. It feels good to finally win a draft so far. I'm confident with these picks. I would not be so sure about that one.
00:43:16
Speaker
Well, you know what? For everyone who's listening to this point, I will leave a poll if you're listening on Spotify down below. So if you just swipe up right below the episode, you can vote and decide on who ultimately won this draft. So whenever I win the draft, we don't do this, but it's a rigged system, Colton. What can I say? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, OK, well, you know what we can do to make it fair instead of just doing it on Spotify, we can like put a poll on our Instagram story and just ask that instead.
00:43:46
Speaker
I don't know if you want that embarrassment, but we can do it. I don't think it would be an embarrassment. I'm telling you Colton, I feel extremely confident in my picks. That's fair. I like your picks, but mine are just a bit better.
00:44:00
Speaker
All right, well, that will just about do it for our draft and for this latest episode of Trouble with the Snap. Colton, any final parting words before we say goodnight? I think that's about it. Thank you all for listening. If you have any life advice, please submit. But yeah, we're excited to get back to you all in a couple of days, previewing a very exciting week six.
00:44:22
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Thank you all very much. Like Colton was saying, please submit life advice. Please submit life advice questions. Good Lord, that took a while to develop. I apologize. Please submit those if you have any or anything you want us to talk about at all. But yeah, that will just about do it. Thank you very much for listening and we will talk to you all in probably 48 hours. Thank you all.