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Introduction and Soundboard Throwbacks
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We need to do the throwback for some of the these episodes. so find that I should add that to the soundboard. It was like a beat that like i made in GarageBand with like the loops. hidden Jim's in the studio.
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Got a podcast, honey.
Preview of Georgia vs Florida Matchup
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Welcome to My Gotta Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I preview Georgia's matchup with Florida and the world's largest outdoor cocktail party. We talk through what we're looking for in the game, and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
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Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
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back and well rested after the bi-week.
Chad Powers Show Finale Discussion
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um This is the Chad Powers season finale review episode, right?
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I haven't actually seen it yet. and need to I need to get caught up, Jim. Okay. okay no No spoilers. no spoil I won't spoil it. i won't spoil it. Other than I'll say like Lily and I pointed at the TV.
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We did like the, pointed at ourselves when they showed our ensign. There we go. There we go.
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Oh, man. water are good What a good show that's that's been. Yeah, surprisingly surprisingly good. yeah Go check it out. At any rate.
Coaching Changes and College Football Dynamics
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Glenn Powell, ah big movie star, but also like you know silver screen superstar.
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Yeah, yeah. yeah he's all like he's everywhere He's everywhere. um At any rate, in all seriousness, the there's a football game this weekend. There is a football game. The world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
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Always a fun one to go down there, um play these guys in Jacksonville um in one of the few remaining neutral site games. Sorry, Josh. And um yeah, man, going to be weird one.
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um First game for Florida with new interim head coach, Billy Gonzalez, after Billy Napier could not could not last all the way to the to the Georgia game.
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Yeah, he's he's definitely licking his wounds. He doesn't have, what, 80 million? i mean, the the coaching carousel situation is kind of wild, dude. and like It is.
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I mean. He's gotten out of control. it's it's definitely It's definitely drunk, dude. like there I mean, there could easily be even more chaos in the coaching carousel coming up. I mean, at some point, like at some point, there's going to have to be some, there's going to have to be some regression to the mean, I guess, to to use Josh's favorite, favorite term, like,
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these this These athletic directors at some point need to collude against each other and say we're not hiring coaches with buyouts higher than XYZ amount at some point because ah just don't see that this is – the math ain't sustainable. Yeah, I mean especially now when you've got roster full of players to pay as well. Like, you know, that that didn't exist when all these – crazy files are being like implemented.
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And now that that is there, I am curious to see if the market changes at all there. Cause I mean, and also like, don't know, like do expectations need to change it a little bit now too, you know?
Playoff Expansion and Expectations in College Football
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I mean, um it's crazy. Like not every team can win a national championship every year. Kind of. Right. Only, only one team out of a hundred and whatever, 30 teams, right, Jim?
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um yeah can we can win the national championship. So that means 136 other teams are going to be disappointed. um i think that it goes back to the, you know, the Mark Richts, you know, he was always, oh, you're only going to win 10 games a season. Like in games a season is cfb team exactly
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In basketball terms, it's making the dance every year, which is what everybody's goal is. We want to make the playoff. I mean, shoot, cover your ears, Jim, but it sounds like the playoffs are going to get bigger in the future. Oh, yes.
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Totally coming
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coming. 12 only made sense as a stepping stone to 16. yeah I think that what's even wilder is that with all of the chaos associated with these coaching carousels is that you've got teams that are making decisions and coaches that are in positions that for whatever reason, whether it be just, I don't know. I feel like Lane Kiffin has sucked the oxygen out of the room for all of these open positions somehow, some way. like And I'm like, so you're telling me that you want –
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to replace Billy Napier with a guy who's never won a conference championship in a Power Four conference and really only just started playing for anything of substance last year, make it make sense that that's the guy that you're going to go and blow your wad on.
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Yeah. ah Even LSU. Like, that's what that's what I keep hearing is that LSU is a better job than than Florida right now from as a program. Like, it's that's that's what it is. But, like, I don't know. I just think that i think that these decisions that are being made and the in the college athletic superpowers and boardrooms and double secret probation rooms, just it's just not sustainable. Like, what what what we've built is just not sustainable.
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No, I agree. You got three SEC head coaching jobs open at the moment in Florida, LSU
Current SEC Coaching Landscape
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and Arkansas. You got Penn State open. got Oklahoma State open. um Yeah, it's going be really interesting when the dominoes start to fall because it'll be even more shifting because somebody's going to take one of these jobs and then that's opening and et cetera. So it's going to be a wild off season for sure.
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Checking that. yeah Bull season, you know, heading into playoff season is when some of that stuff will probably start happening. We've got over a month left in the regular season, dude. Yeah. Yeah, I know.
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I know. All right. um You to head over into that? The hat says it all. Hat says it all. Yeah. FTMF. Let's get after it. but Let's get it what's a going. All right. So the matchup. We had the matchup Saturday, November 1st.
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ah We'll be coming off ah Halloween and eating all our Halloween candy. um Game kicks off at 3.30 in what is now called Everbank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.
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The dogs come in six and one, four and one in the sec. Florida comes in three and four, two and two in the sec. Uh, the dogs are ranked number five in both polls and the Gators are not ranked.
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Um, the game is on ABC. The announcing crew will be Joe testator, Jesse Palmer and Katie George. Um, We do get the multiple SiriusXM stations again, 160 or 191. Not sure what's up with that. And the official hashtag that we will forget to use is hashtag UGA versus UF.
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um All-time series history, we say that it is Georgia, 57, 44, 2. forty four and two And what they say doesn't matter. um Confirmation, this is a rivalry because a it has a name, and B, we disagree on the series history.
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Last meeting, Georgia won this game 34 to 20 on November 2nd last year. And if you are going, it looks like the weather is going to be amazing. um Enjoy the warm weather, like 70s, because as we were discussing in the podcast before the podcast, it's gotten cold, like really fast. It got cold. And like, what is going on?
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and don't know i don't know where the the coldness is. is it's It's chilly season suddenly. but Yeah, yeah. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't like it. um But yeah, so y'all that are going to be down there, um enjoy it.
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I need to look at the 10-day forecast and see what that looks like. I'm sure many of you are already down there enjoying it already, which is awesome. Judging by some of the listener questions, it sounds like that some folks are.
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Yes. Yes,
Historical Highlights of Georgia vs Florida Rivalry
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for sure. For sure. um Okay. Let's, let's hit a couple of reminders. I don't want John Michael D getting upset that I didn't do any of these rundown things. Just remind, reminder, you can follow us on social media at my got a podcast on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Tik TOK.
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um Let's see. You want to head over here into Hastie's Hagrid History? Let's jump into it, Jim. All it. Let's do it.
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All right. As always, Jason Hastie has submitted ah some information for us, as he always does, from the Urgret Library archives. And reminder, if you watch on YouTube, you can see the visual aids that he has provided as well.
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All right. Hacy's soccer history, uh, world's largest outdoor cocktail party edition from 1980 through 1983, the Bulldogs won 43 games, three sec championships and the national title.
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The 1984 season was a rebuilding year and the dogs won only seven games. One of those losses was a 27-0 humiliation in Jacksonville. This was the first loss to Florida since 1977. The 1985 season started out with a loss to Alabama, quarterbacked by Mike Shula, but Dooley's dogs had rebounded behind a punishing running game led by a deep stable of running backs.
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Going into the 1985 edition of the world's largest outdoor cocktail party, Georgia had a 6-1-1 record and had demolished Tulane, coached by future UNC and Texas coach Mack Brown, 58-3 on Homecoming.
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on home cuttingtting The destruction of Tulane was so thorough that Brown refused to show the film to his team. As he said, there was nothing positive to be learned from it.
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oh Florida's football program bottomed out with an 0-10-1 record in 1979, but they'd steadily rebuilt under coach Charlie Pell throughout the early nineteen eighty s This rebuilding of effort culminated in a 9-1-1 record in 1984.
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The Gators technically won the SEC championship that season, but the title was vacated after Florida was sanctioned by the NCAA for extensive violations of recruiting rules. Man, remember when that was a thing, John?
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Among Florida's sanctions was a bull ban and a ban on television appearances for the 1985 season. Again, and unfathomable, almost. um Pell was fired three games into the 1984 season and was replaced by Galen Hall.
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Paul stabilized the program amidst the sanctions, and going into the 1985 edition of the cock cocktail party, he had the Gators cruising through their schedule with a 7-0-1 record. The week before the WLOCP, the Gators shut down bo Jackson and Auburn and had been rewarded with the Gators' first-ever number one ranking.
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Georgia fans were confident heading into Jacksonville because despite the humiliation of 1984, they firmly believed that Vince Dooley owned the Gators. Because the game wouldn't be televised, tickets were in high demand among Georgia students and fans.
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The game started with a georgia Georgia turnover that gave the Gators hope for an easy win, but those hopes were soon dashed and the game became a nightmare for Florida. Georgia's defense punished Florida quarterback Kerwin Bell throughout the afternoon, sacking him five times and harassing him whenever he dropped back to pass.
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Defensive end Greg Muddy Waters got three of those five sacks himself. Bell put up 408 yards passing on the Dawgs defense, but could never find the end zone. Running back Neil Anderson, who would go on to be drafted by the Chicago Bears to replace Walter Payton, could do little against the swarming Georgia defense.
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The Bulldogs' offense was just as punishing as its defense. Freshman fullback Keith Henderson set the tone early with a 76-yard touchdown run on the Dogs' second possession. James Jackson and Wayne Johnson alternated a quarterback and added to the Georgia rushing attack with option plays and QB runs.
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Georgia was up 7-3 at halftime, but the Gators and their fans knew that the day was lost. In the second half, the Dawgs continued to pound the ball with their running backs. The game was sealed by freshman tailback Tim Worley's 90-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to bring the score to a final of 24-3.
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Henderson ended the day with 145 rushing yards. Worley had 104. For the day, Georgia piled up 344 yards on the ground and only 31 through the air. Oh, man. Run the damn ball, JP.
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Florida was number one for only a week. They'd win their final two games of the season against Kentucky and Florida State. On the FSU staff was a second-year grad assistant named Mark Richt. But they were inalible ineligible for a bowl game because of the NCAA sanctions.
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They wouldn't win their first non-vacated SEC championship until 1991. Georgia couldn't sustain the success of the first part of the season. The Dogs lost to Auburn and Tech, then tied Arizona 13-13 the Sun Bowl.
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Keith Henderson would have a fine career as a fullback, finishing his time at Georgia with 2,243 total yards and 10 touchdowns. He would be drafted by the San Francisco 49ers and win a Super Bowl ring in 1989.
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Worley would have a troubled career, but would be named a first-team All-American in 1988 after rushing for 1,216 yards and 17 touchdowns. He would be drafted in the first round of the 1989 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers and played in the NFL until 1994. Shout out, Lamar.
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shout out lamar ah Galen Hall was fired midway through the 1989 season. Vince Dooley retired after the 1988 season with a 17-7-1 record against Florida in his 25-year career.
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Amazing. um I do want to add um something extra um from an extra note from Jason ah for those that were on YouTube and and take a look at every all the visual aids.
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um He said that aside from the photos of the game day program cover, in the offensive of a defensive lineups. All the visual aids came from Vince Dooley's 1985 playbook.
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Coach had all of his playbooks, along with administrative materials, practice reports, memos, to and from his coaches. From the time he was coaching at Auburn until the year he retired, he had them all bound together.
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um He said, we have all of them, and they're all open for anyone to request to view. I thought some excerpts from the section on Florida would make a nice look a nice look into the team's activities that week. So...
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Pretty cool. Pretty cool that a, that Vince Dooley like did that, like to do something like that. Like not everyone thinks about that. And pretty amazing that it's all preserved at at the Harvard library.
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So pretty cool. Very meticulous man that, that Vince Dooley. Yeah, for sure. For sure. We must make third down plays is like huge, big and bold from that.
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ah feel like I feel like we need to post that. ah I feel like we need to post that on the socials to invigorate the team for their third downs. I like that. We will do that.
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We'll do that for sure. All right. We'll always have to close out just reminding everyone that, you know, if you're in Athens, uh, you can always stop by and see Jason ah at the Hargit library. the fall exhibit this year, is around UGA swimming, swimming and diving was helped curated by obviously by Jason.
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Uh, but then also by legendary UGA swimming and diving coach, Jack Barrely. So, um, if you're there and Athens go head over and and check it out. And Jason gives a free tour on, on Friday afternoons. I like how he scratched out Georgia and Florida.
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du it's So good. So good. All right. Um, we can move on to news
In-Depth Analysis of Current Georgia vs Florida Game
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and notes. So i was checking just like on the injury report isn't out yet. I was getting ahead of myself. I was trying to look it up, but, uh,
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We're recording on Tuesday and it doesn't come out until Wednesday night. So the official injury report is not out yet. The only thing I gathered, like reading through Kirby's press conference was ah around Kyron Jones. um So someone did ask about him and he said, Kyron, again, we're trying to get him back as soon as we can. We're hoping he's able to make it back.
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So does not give the warm and fuzzy as... Hopeful kiss of death for Kyron Jones. That does not spark joy. Does not. Does not. um But I thought we could do a little on Billy Gonzalez. um Wasn't sure if everybody knows much about this guy.
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um So he was the wide receivers coach of this team um prior to being being elevated to interim head coach after Napier's firing. um little bit about his background.
00:17:07
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um He actually the coached under Urban Meyer. So he hooked up with like Urban Meyer and like Dan Mullen and crew back at at Bowling Green when Meyer was a head coach at Bowling Green. So he was with Urban Meyer at Bowling Green, at Utah, and then at Florida. So he kind of stayed with him for a bit.
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and Then he bounced around a bit, was at LSU for a bit, and obviously now is back at at Florida. um Also, the one thing I did notice too is like he's pretty much always been a wide receivers coach. so like He started out as a wide receivers coach back in 1994.
00:17:37
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essentially... um he he essentially been that ever since. I think he was a co-offensive coordinator and passing game coordinator at LSU at one point, but he's never been a head coach.
00:17:48
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So just FYI for what that's worth. um Also showing those ties with Urban Meyer. Apparently he called Urban Meyer for advice this week on how to play. Yeah.
00:18:01
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So many articles about that. that's all that's That's all I got here. yeah hopeful Hopefully Percy Harvin and Tim Tebow are not walking through that door. Yeah, yeah, yeah. i According to the players to watch, JP, they will not be, from what I can From what I gathered from the research.
00:18:19
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Right. um I think like the one thing I was going to say, just kind of like at the macro level for them, um I think you and I were talking about this like in the podcast, maybe after the podcast, after we did Ole Miss review.
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um Florida's schedule is absolutely insane. Um, cause I think i was starting to, I was getting frustrated with the whole, like, you know, no home game. We go from Ole Miss all the way to Texas. And I was like, you know, four weeks. i was like, does anyone else like have to deal with that?
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um and it was like, yes, Florida, like twice. So Florida in like their second Yeah. stin where they have this crazy like no home game mean there's a bi-week in there but they already went from september sixth they played south florida at home and then their next home game wasn't until october fourth against texas and then right now just like us they played a home game for the last game and so they they hosted mississippi state um they actually don't play another home game until November 22nd against Tennessee, which is wild. So at least our next home game is November 15th against Texas. They go an extra week.
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So absolutely brutal. They played like... Like as far as rankings at the time, when they played these teams, they played number three LSU, and number four Miami, number nine, Texas, number five A&M.
00:19:37
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ah Now they're playing number five, Georgia. And then they've still got yet to play number seven, Ole Miss, number 14, Tennessee, plus their in-state rival in Florida State. So absolutely. I hear you saying, Jim, is that they'll be home for Christmas.
00:19:50
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep adding the L's in Florida.
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Oh man. Okay. Um, so yeah, so that, uh, just maybe a little bit about kind of how they got to that three and four record, uh, fired, fired head coach. Um, net yards per play. Georgia's at 0.88.
00:20:10
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Florida is at 0.17. Um, they're actually worse in the turnover margin department than we are. So we are like one in the red, they're three. Um, so they've had three more turnovers and takeaways. so Um, okay. Let's talk about what we're looking for, like Georgia offense against that Florida defense.
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Um, so just some kind of notable defenders for Florida. Um, miles Graham's a sophomore inside linebacker leads the team in tackles with 40. Um, Jordan Castell is a junior defensive back. He's got two picks on the year as well as 22 tackles.
00:20:45
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And then come around. James is a junior edge rusher. He has two and a half sacks on the season. I would say to just like statistically, think like um their defense is better than their ah than their offense. I'll say that.
00:20:58
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So like, if you look at like the kind of like what our offense does and what their defense does, like that's, I would say more even massive matchup than like their offense, our defense. um So don't know, just something to watch for. I think the Georgia offense is, is pretty good and has been playing well of late.
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um But didn they do have a good defense. Yeah, it seems like that and seems like that they are they've got a decent they've got a decent rushing defense, and I think that that's going to be something that is goingnna is going to pan out.
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um I have a feeling that yards are going to be tough to come by on the ground. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. um Yeah. I think the, the most points they've given up was 34 and they're lost to Texas A&M.
00:21:49
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I guess, I don't know. What are you, what are you looking for out of the offense though? What are you looking for us to do against these guys? Um, as far as the offense goes, I'm definitely, like I said, and I'm definitely going to look to, it's going to be a platoon, platoon running back. I mean, I think that we've got the three headed monster, ah so to speak of, you know, we know Chauncey Bowens is going to get, he's going to get his carries. I'm hoping that he's, you know, he's healed up, um, mended up from his injuries.
00:22:18
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Uh, guess we'll see you in the injury report see you like where he's at, but, um, You got Nate Frazier as well. And then, I mean, the unofficial, official like a wide receiver, My God of Podcast is also going to be a threat.
00:22:34
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I like that. On the ground too. um But I think this is a good this could be a good game for Gunnar. Because like I said, I think that yards are going to come are going are going to be difficult to come by.
00:22:47
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um So I don't necessarily think that we're going to have a hundred yard rusher or anything like that. So could be wrong, but yeah, I think that that's, I think this sets up nicely for gu for another gunner game.
00:22:59
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Yeah, i think that I think that sounds right. um It is, you know, first game where, mean, I guess he basically wasn't there in the last game, but Colby Young, right? So what does the offense look like in the post-Colby Young area or whatever? um and And that's where I'm thinking, you know, we always say like next man up.
00:23:20
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And like at that position, I think that's Noah Thomas. So um people have been wondering where Noah Thomas is, and I think he i think he gets his opportunity. to shine this week. So be watching for that.
00:23:31
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And then, you know, throw to the tight ends, all that kind of stuff. Yes. Yes. Step right up and throw to the tight, step right up young man on the wide receiver front and throw the tight ends for sure. Yeah.
00:23:41
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Yeah. Okay. um You want to move on to like their offense, our defense? Let's do it. Okay. So over there on that side of the ball, um let's just talk about like the skill players of Florida. So you got DJ Lagway is a sophomore quarterback.
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um He's thrown for 1,513 yards. He's like a completion percentage. Nine touchdowns, but nine interceptions. um So he throws a pick for every touchdown he throws.
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um Jaden Baugh, sophomore running back, 611 yards on 117 carries, four touchdowns. He seems to really be like the workhorse. The next leading rusher is Jacoby Jackson, only 98
Florida's Strategies and Team Performance
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yards 27 carries.
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on twenty seven carrie Um, and then Vernell Brown, the third is a freshman wide receiver leads the team with 451 yards receiving. And then Sturt event is senior wide receiver, 214 yards receiving and in one touchdown.
00:24:34
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Um, but like i was saying earlier, ah like I think our, I would love to see our defense like come to play for four quarters and not wait around. Um, and like statistically,
00:24:48
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I don't know. I feel like they should be able to in this game. Yeah. I mean, I think that, again, i think for our defense, I'm very much in the show me ah show mes situation.
00:25:01
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So yeah um I don't know, man. i i need to see I need to see it because I haven't i haven't been seeing. What I've seen thus far is not justification enough to have confidence that they're going to be you know able to impose their will, so to speak.
00:25:19
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Yeah. Yeah. Which is going to be a problem as we get into the deeper reaches of the season. But, you know, by and large, doing that and, you know, not getting home, things like that, getting pressure, we don't necessarily need s sacks.
00:25:35
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We just need to get consistent push and consistent pressure. And ah yeah if you can't do that, then it it could be a long night in Jacksonville. Yeah, I mean, remember last year, like, Lagway came out and looked, like, really good early in this game last year. Started off super hot, then started to kind of cool down, and then he got hurt, um which I think was time the time point was if he hadn't got hurt, they would have won.
00:25:59
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That's not the floor defending. um But, yeah, I don't know. one I guess I'll say, let mean, the Gonzalez is an offensive guy, um so I don't know. Like...
00:26:11
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i mean he's always There's always that situation where you've got the the interim coach bump. Yes. Right? Yes. Yes. I've talked about that with some Florida fans, friends of mine.
00:26:23
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ah really? You have Florida fan friends? I'm just kidding. I do too. Yes. My daughter's, my daughter, one of my daughter's friends good friends is, they're they're Florida fans. They're Florida alums.
00:26:35
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oh Got it. Yeah. and So we were talking about like the, the the the interim coach bump and they're like, yeah yeah. The guys can be inspired, like fresh new beginnings. They want to show off like, yeah, it could be, but I imagine that Kirby's going to be looking to quash their spirits early.
00:26:55
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I mean, I would definitely like watch for the trick play kind of thing. You know, I mean, they've got nothing to lose, like literally. So literally, i mean, yeah. And this guy's got nothing to lose as as the interim. So I would, know, be be ready for them to try some weird stuff.
00:27:10
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but Yeah. I discipline. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Stay home. Stay in your your rushing lanes. All those kinds of things. Yeah. Okay. um Not much on like the special teams.
00:27:25
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um I did my my usual research. So their kicker is a senior, Trey Smack. um He's 12 15 on field goals, 17 extra points.
00:27:38
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And happy to report that Florida does not take special teams seriously. ah Their punter is Tommy Doman, the senior... Um, he averages 44 yards a punt, which is nice, but like, he's from like Michigan or something.
00:27:51
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Um, he's not Australian. So I don't, I don't even know what we're doing here. Failure, failure to communicate. The general commentary, that though, still does always hold. If you've been listening to my God of Podcast you know since we've been around, we always have to remind, beware of the swirling winds in Jacksonville.
00:28:10
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Always got to watch out for that. When you're kicking toward the end zone that's by the river, it gets a little squirrely. um So always be on the lookout for that. Yeah, sure, sure.
00:28:21
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Okay. That's what I got. Yeah, I mean, I think by and large, this is going to be game ah game of Jimmy's and Joe's are outmatched on paper by ah much greater force than the one that they're able to you know put out there. But it's it is the world's largest outdoor cocktail party. It is Georgia, Florida. It is always going to be a big time.
00:28:47
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And there's going to be a lot of people in in town. There's the voodoo that's associated with this game. you know There's all sorts of bad juju associated with these orange and blue clad morons.
00:29:04
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i think that I think that it's just one of those things that we just got to come out. and I'm not... expecting a fast start, it would be nice. However, you know, i would definitely like to get them uncomfortable early, so to speak.
00:29:21
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Yeah. I mean, don't know. Like, I feel like the offense did start fast against Ole Miss. um ah Florida might have a slightly better offense or sorry, better defense than Ole Miss though.
00:29:32
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I don't know. I'm, I'm kind I don't know. I want to see the offense come out and like, keep doing what they've been doing. And then, you know, let's just not spot a team 17 points or whatever again, you know, like, come on.
00:29:45
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So yeah. Yeah. I think that we should, you know, looking at the, you know, the explosiveness numbers that we have there, i think that it kind of reinforces what we've kind of been talking about is that there's a bit of a shift in philosophy um until you get to the fourth quarter where there's another pivot.
00:30:04
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I'm not sure what that means or what our telltale signs are, but, um, generally speaking, it's not great to have to have some question marks like this. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, anyway, that's, ah yeah.
00:30:24
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All right. I don't know where I was going with that. That's fine. That's fine.
00:30:30
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um'm I'm generally with you. I'm generally Let's, don't know. Let's just play like we're capable of, you know? Seriously. Like, can we play a complete game? We've yet to play a complete game. Yeah. um i'd like to I'd like to see us play a complete game. That's really what it comes down to. Yeah.
Listener Questions Segment
00:30:48
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100%. 100%. All right. and Let's hit the listener questions. We got a got some good ones this week. And as always, just remind folks that the listener questions are brought to you by Working Web Media.
00:31:00
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00:31:23
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All right, as always, John, let's start it off with the building bonus. TMTMTM from Brett Belding. One, how many football head coaching searches does as an athletic director get before they are in the hot seat?
00:31:36
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I mean, it's ah seriously. talked this earlier, right? Like, we talked about this ah earlier right like Yeah.
00:31:47
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Brett had a, I think he had a follow-up clarifying statement. So he said of note, the same athletic director who hired Jimbo Fisher at A&M is LSU's current athletic director.
00:31:58
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um So who obviously hired Brian Kelly there. He said that's $175 million dollars in buyouts between the two coaches. Kind of wild. That's not an insignificant amount of money. Yeah.
00:32:11
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Yeah. I think that, you got to hold You got to hold 80s accountable, right? and Yeah. Period. Coaches are held accountable, right? I mean, players are held accountable.
00:32:22
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You know, you got to perform on the field. So, yeah, I don't know. I think that it had Florida not won the national championship in basketball, right? Like there's, yeah, there's a lot of There's a lot of question marks there about where they're going as an as an athletic department.
00:32:36
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um I mean you look at all let mean, look at Auburn, look at Tennessee. um All of these teams have let multiple coaches go. I mean, we talked about it on the last podcast. you know we've We've had so many coaches. We've we've we've had, you know, can count on two hands how many coaches we've had. You know what I mean?
00:32:57
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Yeah. and Yeah. It is still insane. Like that's not normal. Like what we have is not the norm now. Yeah. But I mean, you could say that it's not the norm, but it's the norm for Georgia because it's just, yeah.
00:33:08
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Yeah. It's, it's, it's how we, how the powers that be in inside the program have structured how this is going to be. And, and, Georgia is a good job. um We are in smack dab in the middle of SEC country. We have Atlanta culture, food. We've got great schools.
00:33:31
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We've got a good talent base. We have a talent base that's been historically growing. like this There's not, i mean I mean, all of our coaches are still retired and live in the area where they coach.
00:33:44
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yeah Like, this is a great place to be. And that's not, i think that's not lost on people that one that when the Georgia job is open, it's going to be a desirable one in the future. And it will always be a desirable one.
00:33:57
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um Yeah. yeah yeah I I don't know many people that want to live in Columbia or Gainesville. sorry Sorry if you do.
00:34:08
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Fair enough. um Okay. So his second question was how much influence do big donors, individual and corporate have on hiring and firing decisions? I mean, I'll start with, I think it, it depends. It depends depends on the school.
00:34:23
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um And I would say like, I'd say Auburn a lot, yeah but it's going to, it's going to vary by school. We haven't seen any yellow fellow commercials. Have we?
00:34:35
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Man, but that's on the that's on the ah that's their on field logo, which we didn't talk a lot about this, but and sorry to pivot off of this, but like as far as as far as like on field logo goals go logos go like sponsorships. I mean, I'll take Delta over like Yellowwood anything.
00:34:54
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Like, if I ah have to have a logo on my field, I want one that's inconspicuous, that is ah representative of not only the state that we live in, but also is reflective of, you know, who we are as ah as a team. and the team flies Delta when they need to fly. And um fortunately they have a bulk of our colors that are incorporated into the logo that's being used. So I definitely wouldn't want Waffle House as a logo, you know, for example, I wouldn't want, fair ah you know, something orange slapped on the field, like,
00:35:34
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um yes yeah it's like sorry arthur blank can't have home depot yeah seriously uh cool all right um brett sorry i kind of took a turn there but to your actual question i still think i think it depends think it depends i do think it depends i think that How big is the donor that we're talking about here?
00:35:55
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Is it a billionaire donor? Is it a, you know? Right. and what are you I guess your definition of big in in the state of Georgia may be different than the this the definition of big in the state of Texas.
00:36:08
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Sure. Sure. All right, let's head to GATA.
Recollections and Trivia of Past Games
00:36:14
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ah With this being the last game before a two-year break in Jacksonville, do y'all remember where y'all were for the 1993 timeout slash monsoon game?
00:36:24
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He said this win still hurts, FTMF. I don't know about you, John, because I don't know. you i don't think you had been indoctrinated yet. you weren I wasn't. This is not showing up or in my ah memory bank.
00:36:36
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yeah Okay, so I know where I was. um I was in the house I grew up in with my family, um watching it in our in our family room, in our house.
00:36:49
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And yeah, i that game was absolutely crazy. um Like, total downpour. And then we scored...
00:37:01
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I probably won't get it like totally right. I can't remember if like we still would needed to get a two-point conversion or what the deal was. or it was going to Basically, we're going to be tying it up. But like um Eric Zier threw a touchdown, and Florida had allegedly called timeout right before the snap. like No one stopped. Everyone played the whole down.
00:37:20
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um Got called back, and then ended up not not able to do so. So to karma. 13-year-old me did not understand... and That was you know part of where I began like yelling at the TV. I'm like, what?
00:37:34
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like I don't get it. They can't do that. They can't do that. You soaked my battleship. Yeah, I was not heavy. so but Brainstruck Jim.
00:37:49
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Yeah. yeah Yeah. that Yeah. It it started. It started early.
00:37:56
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All right. oh Let's see. Let's go over to to Kevin. We've got a new, we've got and a recurring theme that's happening with Kevin here.
00:38:14
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All right. It's time for Jeopardy. The category is Beyond the Hedges. And today's answer is... The Daily Double.
00:38:25
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Kevin says, all the here is the answer. Although the series officially began in 1915, Georgia fans argue it truly started in 1904 when their team defeated this predecessor to the University of Florida.
00:38:39
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So the funny thing is, ah Kevin added like in a subsequent tweet that he was going to send a direct message to the podcast Twitter account with the answer. Um, I haven't looked at it yet because I wanted to try to see if I could just remember it.
00:38:52
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Cause I know we've talked about this on the podcast before and John, I can't remember if you had it as a fun fact at one point or Jason talked about it potentially like last year or something. Um, I can't remember what it was called, but it was basically like, do you do you know what it is? It's like there's another, so or it was like some some form of University of Florida. It wasn't called the University of Florida, but it was like a school.
00:39:14
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I know you i always like to talk about how like schools change names over time or something. it is one of those kind of deals where like we played a school, a college in Florida. That's what they claim. We claim that it was them. They say it wasn't them.
00:39:25
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Something like that. Yeah, I think it's ah Lake City University of Florida, something like that. Okay. Okay. I'm going pull it out. like like Lake city. Okay. He says Florida agricultural college is what, is what he is.
00:39:40
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So, but yeah, they, I know it's like, they're like, we're like, yeah, that's what you were called then or something. and they're like, no, it wasn't us.
00:39:49
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Yeah. So after the civil war, um Let's see here. Yeah, it's ah after after the Civil War era, ah seminary moved to Gainesville.
00:40:04
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It was consolidated with the University, with the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City. Hmm. Yeah, I think that's i think that's what... i think they're and think he's right, yeah, basically.
00:40:17
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Okay, cool, cool. Yeah, i I knew we had talked about it, couldn't remember it. um And then, yeah, Kevin, I did i saw the DM come through, hadn't looked at it until just now to check, so...
00:40:33
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Definitely enjoy the enjoy the Jeopardy. Keep keep those coming. um Okay, let's go to John Michael D. um he He said, the eldest has known for years and is ready, working on Little Bro still.
00:40:47
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And there was a video attached of his son saying, like, gators eat boogers. It's it's hilarious. So yeah you got to always follow the the replies to see great stuff like that. um He said, hashtag little stitches does full of little Florida. Finally hire a coach without L's already in his name.
00:41:04
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It's good. We shall see. i don't know. Not if they hire Lane. Yeah. Yeah. I think that John had mentioned that there was an interesting coaching hire. Yeah.
00:41:14
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like the two lanes coach um seems like that that might be a good option for them um as far as like an up-and-comer um yeah i don't know man i think it's they're gonna have to find someone that could potentially end up being like a brian harrison harson type hire or even like another jim mckelwain i mean they've been burned they've been burned on the coordinator route they've been burned on the up-and-coming like you know power four group of five coaches or whatever um you know billy napier was from saban tree um so like they they went with muschamp um another saban tree defensive guy billy napier was an offensive guy
00:42:01
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um I mean, where do you go? Where do you go from here? Because they're going to have to, yeah across all all facets of potential sources for coaches, like where where do you go? Do you go to the lower levels?
00:42:15
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Find someone like Urban Meyer came from... what, Utah Grambling? I can't remember. he Yeah, he he was at Utah right before he came there, but they had gotten like really good. you know like They were in like PCS polls or whatever or whatever they were called back. Right. so like like The and coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats was a Luke Fickle. like He was a hot name for a while there for a while.
00:42:36
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um which you know If he comes, what is that, one l two ls Well, he's at Wisconsin or something now. Oh, he is? okay. yeah well Well, Cincinnati's in the in the in the conversations again this year. Yeah.
00:42:51
Speaker
and I just hope they get it wrong and wrong again. Yes. yeah yeah You know who to hire. Butch Jones is available. there we go Here we go. Here we go. we got a new question asker this week. It it looks like it's from a friend of the show, Tim Riley, but we're going to hold his towards the end like we usually do.
00:43:10
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So this is from Addison. So Tim's daughter is now sending questions. He said she does not have a Twitter handle yet. um So no handle, but question from Addison. So Addison wants to know,
00:43:21
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How do you think the Gators come out with Billy being
Georgia Team Updates and Strategy
00:43:24
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fired? How do our dogs game plan for this? Which I think is a fantastic question. I think that they're going to come out inspired. I mean, like I said, we talked about this earlier. the the The interim coach bump um is is a real thing. I mean, didn't we, wasn't it McClendon was a head coach for this game at some point?
00:43:46
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uh for us he yeah he coached our bowl game when rich got fired so it wasn't in this game but he coached our bowl game yeah okay yeah yeah um yeah so there's always that that component of like you know do it for the guy that's still there that you know i i think that's a real thing so i'm definitely going to be on the lookout for that Yeah, I think i think the the second part is really good, too, because I think it's it's hard to game plan for this because you don't know what he's going to do. Like, is he going to just keep doing what they've been doing?
00:44:17
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You know, kind of like keep it simple. But the other the flip side of that is there you know they had an off week, too, right? And they fired him heading into the off week so that they had two weeks, two full weeks with the interim coach to get ready for this game.
00:44:30
Speaker
So, I mean... I don't know. I would say tough to game plan. probably wouldn't expect a ton difference from their defense, I guess. Um, other than I'm sure they're watching the film of what people are doing against us, but I expect to see wrinkles from their offense.
00:44:44
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I'll say that. Yeah, I mean, it's happened all season long. We are everyone's Super Bowl. They play us like it's their Super Bowl. They implement wrinkles just like a Super Bowl type level match.
00:44:58
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um Yeah, so i'm I'm sure that we'll see some trickeration. Yeah, for sure. All right, Addison, welcome to the show. ah we We welcome your questions every week.
00:45:10
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Happy to have some more undergrads into the fold. Yeah, bring down the average age of these questions.
00:45:19
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Amazing. All right, let's go to Herman Woods. I think the first one was kind of in line with what asked and was asking, what's our biggest challenge with the firing of Napier? think we've talked about that kind of like the unknown and then the bump there. um by which By which quarter will the Florida fans have left the building?
00:45:37
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Always a great thing to see when that does happen. Probably in the fourth quarter would be my guess. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Um, all right, go to, our buddy, Matt key, Matt key chimes in. um one does Florida come out even more fired up than usual with something to prove for an um interim coach that we've covered that. Yes.
00:45:56
Speaker
Um, number two, I actually have an answer for this one. Number two is the landing, even a spot to go to anymore. And the answer is no, the landing does not exist anymore. As far as I know, unless they've like rebuilt it, they tore it down. Right.
00:46:09
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Get off my lawn. Yes. Bring back the landing. Yeah, so unfortunately, no, it's gone. um Man, spent some good times in the landing, but I digress.
00:46:21
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I went down there. I went down there a few times. I think that, yeah. it's it's Did you ever see that band there that we like had them at a band party at our house? Like someone found out who they were? Trotline or Zoso? Yes, I think that was that.
00:46:37
Speaker
I think we like saw them at the landing and someone like got their info and was like, we're going to have you at a fraternity house, and then we did. that sounds like it That sounds like a Tim Riley move or a yeah a Phil Campbell move.
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah. I talked to Phil recently, by the way. I need to tell you about that. Oh, wow. Okay. i was talking to I talked to ah ah Phil and and and Justin Bates recently. Oh, wow. I haven't heard Bates in a while. Totally off the rails. Sorry.
00:47:03
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Yeah. out. Shout out fraternity bros. ah Okay. But yes. So unfortunately the landing does not exist anymore. They tore it down like a few years ago.
00:47:15
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um So yeah last time I was there, it was there. I haven't been in a while. Last time I was there, was um the landing was still around. It wasn't where people went.
00:47:27
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I mean, this had to have been, golly, this had to have been like 04, 05, something along those lines. Five is the last time I went to this game. I didn't go for the game. i was actually in Jacksonville for business. i was interview I was interviewing for a job out there.
00:47:42
Speaker
Um, it was, um, don't What's the railroad? There's a railroad company that's, that was down there. don't still are, but I interviewed for a railroad company and, um, and I didn't end up getting the job, which would probably set my career on a different trajectory completely. But, um,
00:48:01
Speaker
But yeah, no, ah the landing was nowhere near. It was a shell of itself, even when I was there. And yeah, long gone were the days of just basically like Bourbon Street by the river in Jacksonville kind of thing. That's kind of that's kind of the vibe that I had yeah from down there.
00:48:20
Speaker
kind of like the I think maybe it was just a little too early for its time. um Maybe they flew a little too close to the sun because the mixed-use development next to a you know big sports venue, like they were like they were kind of like a Truist Park before Truist Park was the thing because they had the big center area with the concert venue and all this kind of stuff. and I just remember...
00:48:48
Speaker
sea of people, just a sea of people for this game. yeah and long And long gone are the the the giant footballs of Jack and the jack jack Daniels football, little Jack and Coke.
00:49:01
Speaker
Yes. Yes. Mine is a reminder that mine is a piggy bank now. Yes. Yes. I still have one of those. All right. And then um I think, yeah, so i think we answered the earlier other one as well earlier. So, yeah, does Noah Thomas get more looks starting this week with Colby Young out? Yes, definitely.
00:49:19
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Yeah, I think that Noah Thomas earned earned has earned some some some looks there. I'd also watch out for Sokovi White. You know, it seems like he's – I'm going to be getting getting opportunities as well.
00:49:32
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Yep. Yep. All right. Oh, let's head over to all school. Can Georgia's offense handle the Florida defense more effectively than their offense handles our defense? Um, probably and would say, think, I think, yes.
00:49:47
Speaker
I think on paper we're fairly evenly matched as far as like just defensive and offensive rankings. Yeah. Um, like on paper we're kind of mid, but at the same time UGA is pretty resilient.
00:50:01
Speaker
Um, Yeah. Yeah. Hard to kill. I do like Hard to kill. I do like that one. um How healthy do we expect to be this week? So like I mentioned earlier, like there wasn't much around like health updates and stuff from Kirby, but like we did, I mean,
00:50:18
Speaker
The offensive line looked the best it's looked, I would say, against Ole Miss. And we've had a bye week to rest and and heal up. So, I mean, I think we're probably, Kobe Young aside, um i think the offensive line where we've struggled the most there, and i think we'll be the healthiest there we've been for a while.
00:50:36
Speaker
Yeah. And then he finished out, I have faith. I just wish we could play a whole game like we played the fourth quarter versus Ole Miss, Auburn, or Tennessee. Amen, brother. Holy cow. Yeah.
00:50:48
Speaker
All right, let's see. Let's go to Fletcher Proctor. If Curtis wants to visit Vandy, whatever. I say bring Gunner back in 2026 and let's ride like Stetson did in 2022. Then we turn it over to Montgomery in 2027. for this week,
00:51:03
Speaker
What a wild ride that was last weekend with like, ah why am I blanking on who who was the game day picker? um make ah naep burgo Nate Bargatze. i mean, like openly, like, is that not a recruiting violation? Like, ah like ah i don't know. Are there not recruiting violations anymore? Like, can you just go on TV and be like, hey, come to the school? i mean, I guess you can, but that was interesting. I did think that was interesting.
00:51:24
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it's It's the Wild West is over or, you know, or you know whatever. Yeah. Everything that you knew about it is over. Now it's the Wild West. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough.
00:51:35
Speaker
But yeah. Heck yeah, man. I mean, Gunnar come back. I'm up for that. If he ends up, um, if he ends up going to Vandy and decommitting from Georgia, I would say that, um,
00:51:48
Speaker
That's probably a good indication that Gunner's coming back. And not that I don't think, i think he's going to leave, but I'm just saying, I think that, um, yeah, that would be an indication that someone's afraid of competition and we don't need them here.
00:52:01
Speaker
Yeah. For what it's worth. Um, I thought his commentary was pretty funny when he actually got asked afterwards, he was like, I just went there to see game day. So I thought that was kind of funny. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. hundred percent committed to the dogs. Yeah.
00:52:13
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Let's go to Rambo. i hate Gator. That's it. Just a statement. Yeah. We say, if you have any questions or topics, you know, so we have Rambo. ah hear you I hear you. hear you.
00:52:24
Speaker
but i love the Twitter name, by the way. It is also, also same. um Also, I feel like this is maybe a good time to talk about, have you seen the picture with Gunner with like a Gator over his shoulders? Yeah. Yeah. Seriously. That's my quarterback. That's my quarterback right there. I think he's with the DDD guys.
00:52:43
Speaker
ah yeah Yeah, like the outdoor DG. Yeah, like the outdoor or something or whatever. The guys that do the hunting videos with folks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Amazing.
00:52:54
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All right. So yes, Rambo, we're with you. where We're with there. Let's go to Ryan Heinco. What is your favorite rival team's color scheme? And why is it Gator Teal in the fourth quarter in Jacksonville?
00:53:07
Speaker
After the ninety s and early 2000s, I will relish in these days for as long as we are living in them. Yeah. 100%. These are the good old days. Yeah, when those gators start leaving the stadium, you see those Jacksonville Jaguar teal seats that they have vacated, and it's a beautiful sight.
00:53:25
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It's a beautiful sight. Yeah. right, let's go to Gene Fambro. You got to answer the the favorite rival team's color scheme. Oh, he answered it for us.
00:53:37
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i Yeah, an actual favorite rival's color scheme? i mean how do we i mean, who's a rival at this point? Right, right. Well, I mean...
00:53:50
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I'm going to read that SEC rival, like SEC team. ill I'll make an extension. I'll say the Fighting Hunters. Okay, that's good.
00:54:01
Speaker
That's good. um I'll say this. I don't like their color scheme, but i do like I do think Auburn does a good job with uniforms in general. I know we were having ah conversation with Hunter about their throwback baseball uniforms. um and You were questioning like where Auburn's not powder blue, that whole conversation.
00:54:21
Speaker
um But I think they do have like a general generally like classic look. I like the way they do their striping and stuff. But I don't like their color scheme. So my answer is also, yeah how I'm going to say I'm going to go LSU because they have the color scheme of our fraternity.
00:54:36
Speaker
So there's my cheating. ah Nice. Okay. Okay. Answer the question. Did Jody did joddi pay you to say that?
00:54:47
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He did not. He did not. All right. Let's go to Gene Fambro. Considering that my dad graduated from Florida and ribbed me merciless mercilessly during the 90s, how stitious should I be this week?
00:55:00
Speaker
A, not. B, a little. C, super. going say A, not. so Don't be stitious. Don't be stitious. Yeah. yeah you're you're You're overcoming some generational curses to say that. three He said, also love the fact that y'all use the red coat version of Krypton fanfare to open the show.
00:55:23
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Okay. yeah Yeah. That's a Jim Wood special. It was already created before even officially became part of it. Not true. you you Oh, that's right. We had that we had that we have the rap music. We had the horrible music. that We We need to do the throwback for some of these episodes. Go find that. I should add that to the soundboard. Dude, it was like a beat that like i made in GarageBand with like the loops.
00:55:52
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hidden Jim's in the studio.
00:55:56
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Got a podcast on me.
00:56:00
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o Dude, I can't remember. Somebody somebody like ripped me like after the first episode. I want to say it was Daniel Morrison or something. This is the fraternity show episode for that reason.
00:56:12
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um But somebody was like, dude, like what is going on with that music? was like, don't know. Sorry. And so then, hey, then we switched redcoats and here we are. You can't go wrong with it.
00:56:23
Speaker
I forgot about that. Glad that came up. Okay. We'll move on. I don't need to talk about my poorly made trap music that I try to make.
00:56:36
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and All right. We're going to go to Chris Haddock at Dr. Dog 1996 on Twitter. I've noted a dramatic drop in the number of dogs on Amelia since the 2008 recession.
00:56:50
Speaker
Are the younger generation of dog alums embracing the tradition staying till the Monday after the game? Genius. I'm still not dry from the 93 game. Are y'all? So yeah, that was what the earlier conversation. um I'm not sure. mean, you know, you know, Munson talked about all the dogs on St. Simons and Amelia Island, or he didn't say Amelia. He said St. Simons. thought you said Jekyll. Jekyll Island and all those places where the dog places have those condominiums. That's what he said.
00:57:18
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I will say, i think we've got another amelia and question later. I don't think I've ever done that. Amelia specifically. Yeah, yeah, I haven't. I haven't either.
00:57:32
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um But so, yeah, I don't know. I guess we're not the right people to ask, but we can. I would say listeners hit up Chris and and let him know because I'm not I'm not sure. um But I do. I don't know.
00:57:45
Speaker
I think I definitely see a lot of people still at like St. Simons and stuff. And some people do like see that Sea Island. um As I say, Sea Island's another another popular. Yeah. ah say yeah When I was a broke college kid um or just didn't like have my own
Game Day Experiences and Predictions
00:58:01
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money, really.
00:58:01
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We would, we would, if we splurged, we would do like just do Jacksonville beach um and go out there. And that, that was always fun too. So, yeah. I've also done just like the find the cheap hotel anywhere. totally.
00:58:15
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totally done that. Yeah. Totally. All right, let's go to friend of the show, Tim Riley. He opened this one now my turn ah because this is right after he had sent him Madison's. um With all the kids going to Frat Beach, what would be your gallon jug drink of choice to survive the day?
00:58:33
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um I'm not sure because I need to survive the day. so
00:58:39
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I would say in college, I mean, I guess today, in today's life, Now I need water.
00:58:51
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I mean, ah aqueous solution would also be incorporated. Like I'm thinking like along the lines of like an Arnold Palmer kind of situation, e like a sweet tea, vodka, lemonade kind of thing going on. Maybe a little, little strawberry or something or other to jazz it up a little bit.
00:59:09
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um I would definitely have some liquid IVs in my back pocket. That's for sure. Got to have those. Got to pack those. Those are cute. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. I'm with you.
00:59:21
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I don't know how they do that, though. I don't even remember that being a thing when I was a kid. No. No. Walking around with a gallon jug was just hot liquid. It just seems terrible. I mean, literally, everybody walks around today with double insulated you know drinking devices. like Right. Seriously. you don't yeah You don't have to walk around with a hot beverage in your hand. Dude, like never go anywhere without a koozie. That's kind of my thing.
00:59:45
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. a hundred percent 100%. Especially on a tailgate. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's ah go to the Hug Dog. Fireball.
00:59:59
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All right, we got some ah back to some Jason Woody Rathers here. um So St. Simons or Amelia. We brought it back to that. So um I'm going to go to St. Simons. I'm going St. Simons.
01:00:15
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It is in Georgia, for one thing. So I'm going go to St. Simons, and I've i've been there. i haven't done Amelia. I don't know that I've done Amelia Island. I've done... um Yeah, I've done Sea Island,
01:00:27
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um but and so I kind of figure it's probably similar. Yeah, I'm going to go with St. Simons just based off of, I think St. Simons is more relaxed, but I'll say that, you know, if Jason is is co-signing on it, it's probably a good place to go. Fair enough, fair enough.
01:00:47
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Wherever Jason's at is where I want to Yeah, Jason, you tell us. You tell us. Yeah. All right. Coffee walk or wine walk on the beach? I don't know that I so much.
01:01:00
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i think I'm going to say coffee, but I don't usually walk with coffee. um But I do like like a morning ah morning walk on the beach. I'm also not huge on the wine. So I'm going to go with coffee walk.
01:01:13
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I'm also going to go with coffee walk. um'm thinking that um I'm thinking that the coffee walk would probably be more enjoyable from being on the beach on that on the Atlantic side. because isn't Wouldn't you get a better sunrise if that's the case?
01:01:32
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as As opposed to a sunset? right so yeah yeah I'm going to go sunrise on the on the coffee walk situation. Nice. nice see That's like extra analysis. I wouldn't think about that.
01:01:47
Speaker
Yeah. um And then finally, Mimosa or Bloody Mary? i i cannot stand Bloody Mary. I don't understand how people are able to drink them, so I'm going to go have to go with Mimosa on that one.
01:01:59
Speaker
I'm not that... Enjoy enjoy your tomato soup. i'm not I'm not that anti-Bloody Mary, but I also don't like them either. I'll try. like I'll try one, and I can have i can have like a little bit, but I can't like finish one.
01:02:13
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That's how I always go. So I'll go Mimosa. um But I have now remembered that Kim corrected me, and I have to apologize to whoever asked this, because someone asked us about...
01:02:25
Speaker
a drink before a few episodes ago uh it was like pre it was like morning drink or whatever and what kim pointed out that my well she was like your answer was wrong and she told me what my real answer is so she said your real answer is it's like it's like the redneck mimosa so it it was like orange juice with like a miller high life we had this somewhere and it was it was like actually amazing So we were out, we were, we were at a brunch spot once and that was on the menu and we got it and phenomenal.
01:02:56
Speaker
So, so I would actually have a redneck mimosa. A redneck mimosa. i like that. Yeah. The champagne of mimosas. Exactly. Exactly. But the champagne of beer is an orange juice and now we're talking.
01:03:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah. No, I, yeah. Yeah. I know people get geek out and like get all very particular about their Bloody Marys and such. Like, i don't know if you can throw a pickle in it. I'm probably not going to like it.
01:03:23
Speaker
Yeah. Someday, someday we're going to fix that situation. All right. He said last game in Jacksonville for two years. What's your favorite memory? So yeah, this game going to be in Atlanta next year and then Tampa the following.
01:03:36
Speaker
um My favorite. and Oh, you go, you go. I was going to say favorite memory. Just being in the landing and enjoying the, the festivities. Yeah.
01:03:48
Speaker
walking around like as a student uh honestly like the best best time that i can recall was when me cord and tyler and uh ben tisdale like we all rented not rented we all but just got a place uh i think it was a day's in if i remember correctly it was like a day's in or something like that and we all just stayed stayed in this hotel with all of our girlfriends like dates or whatever and like There was a courtyard and they had a pool and we were just all hanging out, throwing the football, jumping in the pool.
01:04:24
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like but ah Most of my memories of this game, you know being that we sucked most of the time that we were in college, like i never saw I've never seen a UGA victory in Jacksonville like firsthand.
01:04:39
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yeah Yeah, I know. matter of fact, I didn't go to some of them. i didn't go to the... I didn't go to the 05 game. Well, 04 is the only one. 04 game, yeah.
01:04:53
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I didn't go to the 04 game my senior year because we had lost three years in a row. And one of the years I one of the years i got pickpocketed at the landing.
01:05:03
Speaker
Yeah. I lost my wallet and everything. So, ah yeah, not so much great memories, but like the one memories that I look about and think about this game have nothing to do with the game.
01:05:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. ah Because I was at i was at the 2004 game, so I'll say that. That's the only time I've seen us win in person. Nice. It was that 2004 game. So I was there. I was down there with Patrick.
01:05:29
Speaker
um or I was sitting with Patrick. I was down there with Patrick my sister, if I recall. Um, at any rate, we were sitting like in the Florida section. So that was weird. Um, I did not myself.
01:05:40
Speaker
Uh, yeah, but at any rate, I was 24. What are you gonna do? Um, so that was fun. I don't know. Like a recent memory though, dude, the, the, the turn of events, the crazy swing at the end of the 2021 game right before halftime, like it's going to be hard to top that.
01:05:57
Speaker
I mean, insane. Yeah. There's that. And then you've got the Mark Rick game, the dancing in this Trenton started dancing in the end zone situation. that was awesome.
01:06:11
Speaker
Okay. So Jason said, would you rather this game be back on campus or remain at neutral site campus? Okay. Okay. I like it in Jacksonville. I think they should have done home and home for the next two years.
01:06:22
Speaker
So that's my split of difference. I actually, I'll tell you what, I'm going to, I'm going I'm going to throw you your curve ball clarifying statement. um My personal preference is that I'd like this to be home and home and then rotate Atlanta and Jacksonville like,
01:06:40
Speaker
Okay. So it's like a big, like a four year thing. ah So it'd be like, um, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Atlanta, or or something like that. Like ah make it a true Georgia, Florida game right where the neutral site games are alternating and the home and homes are alternating so that you get a full Georgia, Florida experience.
01:07:02
Speaker
Okay. Okay. I would say too, I'll add one other cool thing about that is if you're, if you are at a school for four years, you'd get to play in all four locations. That'd be cool too. Correct. Okay.
01:07:13
Speaker
Okay. Okay. And and if you're you know if if you've been around for a while in recent years, you'd be like, we kicked your tail in four different and four different places.
01:07:28
Speaker
True. true Okay. okay i'm I'm open to that. I'm open to that. All right. We got one more. ohll allow it All right. We got one one more. are You ready?
01:07:42
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All right. Let's go.
01:07:49
Speaker
Oh my God! My God, a freshman. Trying to put glasses on. 90-80, who, brother?
01:08:00
Speaker
It is time for Coaches Over Unders Florida Edition. um We're coming off a bye week. can't remember. can't remember. Where we stand.
01:08:11
Speaker
um i think i went it was all tied up again. yeah that sounds right. All right. um Well, I'm going to give you the honors. Do you want to go first or do you want to take the ball or do you want to defer?
01:08:24
Speaker
Oh, shoot. Hang on. We're starting off with the offense and the first one is over under 225 passing yards for one Gunner Stockton. That's the first question. For one Gunnar Stockton, um i am going to, let's see here.
01:08:41
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What's the second question?
01:08:45
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I'm going to I'll take this one. I'm going to go over, Jim. Okay. um See, I agree. I had actually thought about this one ahead of time, so I'm with you. Agree. um Over, under, total rush yards at 125. I'm going to say over.
01:08:58
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hey I've got to go under, Jim. Wow. Okay. And then over under 0.5 tight end touchdowns, the Georgia offense.
01:09:09
Speaker
I've got over on that one, Jim. and Okay. I do too. I do too. I'm with you. All right, we move on to the defense. I'll start us off here. First one is over under 225 passing yards for DJ Lagway.
01:09:27
Speaker
I'm going to take the under. I'm also going to take the under. Okay. Then over to you. Over under one and a half sacks for the Georgia defense. I'm going to take the over, Jim. Wow.
01:09:40
Speaker
Wow. Wow. I was expecting, I was the kind of expecting to hear us show me but I like, like the attitude. like that. Oh man. We're like agreeing over, but I actually think, I think we're going to go over to, so going to take the over.
01:09:54
Speaker
Um, and then forced turnovers over under 0.5 and taking the over. These guys turn it over a lot. I've also got the over Jim. Okay.
01:10:05
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This is the episode where we agree. That's okay. Um,
01:10:10
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We'll continue on. We have to have coach give him a break here and here sometimes. Amazing. It's like, well, we're going to be tied again. No, it's good.
01:10:21
Speaker
Okay. We did have one different. We did. We did. We did. um Special teams over under.5 Florida punt returns. so we're back to the wills. Will the opponent return Brett Thorsen punt?
01:10:34
Speaker
I've got under. Okay. I'm going to go over. We're getting crazy. We're getting crazy here. ah We've had a few of those this Swirling wins are going to take over. Swirling wins cause an actual punt just to be returned.
01:10:50
Speaker
Okay. And then ah Florida coaches in any sport released or fired during the week over under 0.5. I think I got to take the under here. got to take the under. Yeah.
01:11:00
Speaker
I'm going to take the under as well. Okay. Okay. There's a non-zero chance that they fire Norval. Right. Right. Okay. All right. ah Coach, thank you as always for sending in the over-unders.
01:11:14
Speaker
Always enjoy them and appreciate you. We'll see you when we're back in advance. right, JP. Let's do time for the predictions on the game. um So let's take a look at kind of what what the people are saying. So Georgia is favored in this game. Looking at odd shark. Georgia is favored by seven points.
01:11:34
Speaker
ah The over under is 50 and a half. That gives you an implied score of Georgia 28 and three quarters to 21 and three quarters. um The odd track predicted score has Georgia 38.6 Florida 19.4.
01:11:47
Speaker
florida nineteen point four um If we look at college football all graphs, that's ah Parker Fleming's model. He's got Georgia 29 to 14-ish, 29.13 13.82.
01:11:58
Speaker
like twenty nine to fourteen ish twenty nine point one three to thirteen point two and are my are The official God Podcast scoring impact tm as georgia twenty nine point one six to florida fourteen point ah two um you want to drop your scored do you want mean to drop mine um I'll let you go first, Jim.
01:12:20
Speaker
Okay. I, you know, this one, i've I've had a hard time thinking about this one. um So with the whole, like, we don't know what they're going to look like, interim coach bump, all that stuff. But at the end of the day, I just feel like we've got a better team. I think you said it well earlier, like it's the Jimmies and the Joes, and I think ours are better.
01:12:38
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I've got the dogs 31 to 17. Ooh, I've got us Okay. Okay.
01:12:45
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okay close Close game. First 30 Yeah, I mean, Yeah, I mean, that that tracks. I think this is another one of those just like, got like protect the ball, win the game.
01:13:00
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Yeah. so yeah
SEC Game Predictions and Insights
01:13:03
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All right. um Take a couple of look at some, some games around the sec really quick. Yeah, let's do it. um So coaches pick them games that he has sent to us. The first one we've got a number 18, Oklahoma travel. So number 14, Tennessee, that's a night game on ABC. Tennessee is favored by three and a half.
01:13:24
Speaker
um And i I have to mention, and know I sent this to you that, The Tennessee, so Tennessee was wearing their quote dark mode uniforms, which like ah black is not one of your colors, but whatever. The video was kind of cool.
01:13:38
Speaker
It was like a Tron. Super cool Tron video. Yeah. Yeah. so that was a, that was pretty cool. Like announcing of the, of the uniforms, but at any rate, um, I think this one could be interesting.
01:13:50
Speaker
I think I'm going to take Tennessee. I'm going to take Oklahoma on that one, Jim. Okay. Okay. Nice. um The next one we've got, South Carolina travels to number seven, Ole Miss and the Fighting Hunters.
01:14:04
Speaker
Another night game that's at 7 o'clock on ESPN. Ole Miss is favored by 12.5. i mean, South Carolina coming off that near miss with Bama last week. um I kind of feel like there's going to be post-Bama hangover with that one for them, unfortunately. Sorry, Chuck.
01:14:19
Speaker
um But I got to stick with the the Fighting Hunters there. Yeah, I've got the Fighting Hunters in that one. i think that they've but they've got a little bit of a momentum situation going on right now for sure. And I think USC is just going to have continued fallout as a result of getting their hearts shattered at the end of the Bama game.
01:14:41
Speaker
Yeah, that was tough one. That was tough. Yeah. It was right there. Right there. um Let's see. Next up, we've got Kentucky travels to the plains to take on Auburn.
01:14:52
Speaker
um Unranked matchup of unranked teams, 7.30 p.m. on SEC Network. Auburn is favored by 10.5. I saw something like they were talking about like they're having like quarterback competition at practice or something this week at Auburn.
01:15:07
Speaker
cool Yeah, so... I've got Auburn in this one for sure. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Me too. Me too. um Okay, dude. Big game.
01:15:19
Speaker
ah The SEC game of the week, I guess. I don't know. Maybe that's Tennessee. I don't know. Number nine, Vanderbilt. Travels to play number 20, Texas ah this's at 12 o'clock. That's a big game at 12 o'clock on ABC.
01:15:33
Speaker
Texas is favored by one and a half at home. um Is Arch going to play coming off that concussion last week? I don't know. Yeah, I don't either. But I think I'm going to go with Andy.
01:15:49
Speaker
I'm going to go Texas on this one, Jim. Give me the home team bump. Okay. and go I think and think that should be... and they don't like it I don't like it, but that's what I'm going for. yeah a That's okay.
01:16:00
Speaker
So, question here. Should you have should you have a voting... like Should you have a preference for game time for the Texas game over the next couple of weeks, right?
01:16:14
Speaker
Is that game still a pivot, right? um Yeah, it's on the yeah whatever day window. It's like a flex game. yeah yeah Basically, I think if Texas wins out and we win out, like when we win out and if Texas wins out...
01:16:31
Speaker
um I have a feeling that's going to be a night game, right? like That would be the the logic there. it certainly could. Yeah, I mean, it certainly could be. I think that's kind of what we all assumed at the beginning of the season, that it would end up there, but Texas kind of hasn't held up there at the end of the bargain. Yeah, seriously. It
Personal Plans and Game Day Traditions
01:16:52
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was intercepted, Jim.
01:16:53
Speaker
Right, yeah, true. But only two more games to go until that one. Yeah. crazy yep yeah give me texas on that one okay but if you want a night game i would say that you probably want texas to win fair enough fair enough cool all right man um uh and we like i mentioned at the opening right we got halloween friday night what's your costume jim but your what's your what's the wood family costume situation I don't know
01:17:24
Speaker
I don't know. I think we're going to do like a handout candy, like pair up with some neighbors and sit in their driveway and do like a um fire pit driveway situation and hand out candy with them.
01:17:39
Speaker
i like that. It's because you've retired from your trip to breeding. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. du I mean, yeah. Lily is like going over to a friend's house. So like, you know, Ella's a college, Liz going to friend's house. There's no like stuff really going on anymore.
01:17:51
Speaker
So I don't even know if I'll dress up. We'll see. We'll see. I'll be walking around. I gave a little, little hint. Camden has begged me to dress up for something related to her, her costume. So it'll be a bit of a reveal for for you guys for, for my costume.
01:18:08
Speaker
I'll be walking around. I'll be walking around with her. Okay. Okay. Now I'm intrigued now. I can't wait to find out what's going on. Yeah.
01:18:19
Speaker
Cool. Yeah. that That'll be your plan for Friday. And then what's, what's your, what's, what's the game day? What's the game day plan for the wood clan? i mean, we'll see how the weather is. It's been so nasty. Like it's been raining all week.
01:18:31
Speaker
um So got to check the home forecast. I usually like to sit out on the back porch and watch this game. um You know, nice three 30 games in the back porch. And our couple of Florida fan neighbors that live behind us can hear me yelling outside.
01:18:44
Speaker
um Usually like to do that, I don't know. We may do it inside if it's if the weather doesn't hold up. um Yeah, I mean, we'll have some bean dip ready to go kickoff and some good cold beer.
01:18:56
Speaker
So that's generally. some old Some old cold beer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I stocked up on my creature comforts when I was in Georgia. Yeah. oh i need to get the need to get the review on the uh the salted uh oh so good yeah the beers i got were were really good um the vibe coating was actually very good as well that was an ipa that was good okay that's the one that's like double ipa uh yes yeah it's good though it's good yeah don't know if it was double it was like a west some kind of west coast ipa is it like nine percent alcohol or something like that
01:19:31
Speaker
No. Like a high gravity? Like the dark beer, i think, was pretty strong. Oh, okay. That was like the double cocoa bunny. Double. I'm not a big fan the cocoa bunny, but...
01:19:43
Speaker
That one, like it's in the 16 ounce can. So like, uh, I split it with a friend actually. So like we went over to neighbor's house and like, uh, my buddy, like his, his wife, she likes dark beers like I did do. So she and i like opened the can and split it across two glasses and shared one.
01:20:00
Speaker
So yeah, that's, that's how you those. Nice. We've got a little bit of volleyball situation. I think I'm going end up dropping off maybe. um Caroline's got to go to, she's got to volleyball on Saturday.
01:20:15
Speaker
But I've informed the people that are involved that I will not be doing pickup. okay So she'll have to get a ride.
01:20:28
Speaker
i clock out. My adulting clocks out after that. um But yeah, that's ah that's the plan for us. And then I'm i'm participating in a chili cook-off on Sunday, Jim. So I may actually be concocting some of the chili at some point on Saturday too. so Excellent.
01:20:48
Speaker
so That's ah that this is a good time of year for it as well. Yeah, dude. Cold, like get some chili. Yeah, it's definitely chili season. I'm super excited because when this thing was planned, it was like 80 degrees outside. Right, right.
01:21:02
Speaker
Now I kind of want to like make chili for Saturday night. This is a good idea. Okay, noted. Yeah, we we could do a we could do a My God, a podcast chili competition.
01:21:13
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Yeah.
01:21:17
Speaker
Might have ah my has to do that the next time we're co-located. Yeah, yeah. Ponda's famous chili cook-off. Ponda's famous chili cook-off.
Closing and Enthusiasm for Bulldogs
01:21:32
Speaker
I love that. I love that. Well, um it's it's the Gators. It's FTMF season. And go Dawgs. Go Dawgs.