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Paul Feinbaum
the pride, passion and pageantry of college football lives here. This is the Paul Feinbaum Show. Our two podcasts.
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Cole Cubic
This might be college football. Welcome back in Paul Feinbaum show, our number two underway Thursday, July 16th. Appreciate you tuning in 855-242-7285. We will take your calls throughout the show and we'll get to Bill Connolly of ESPN in just a moment. First we'll go to Chris in South Carolina. Who wants to chime in? Chris, welcome to the show.
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Caller Chris
What's up my man? It's good to hear your voice man.
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Caller/Listener
Absolutely.
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Caller Chris
Appreciate you being a question. When I went off air yesterday and you said do I think that if Dabo swinging will have to that job in Alabama? I don't think so. I don't think he would. I don't care how much money he sent him. He said he know the ship is sinking down there. But another thing, Cole, every time you say Christian versus La Shoe and Death Valley, you, you get my whole son because I think it's a home game because everybody know what a real Death Valley is that we ain't talking about them imitation Tigers down there. Mike the Tiger, man, he don't even want to be an LSU Tiger. If you look under his pillow, he got a Clemson Paul right there. That's the honest truth about it. And no, I'm not looking.
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Caller Chris
Why do you think everybody want to go see that Northern, that that cheaters Bowl Ole Miss versus lsu. That's the cheaters of the cheaters. Both teams should be disqualified coming out there because they probably already stole each other plays. They're probably already going to steal each other players when they play. But I just don't understand it, Paul. I'm sorry Cole. I just don't understand it because I get worked up when I start talking about Kiffin and old Pete golden, two biggest cheers there is in college football. But one thing I'm I want to get your opinion on say if a team has elite wide receivers, have elite offensive line, got great running backs, they got everything they need on the offensive side of the ball. They got great defense, but they don't got a quarterback to go with it. How far you think they'll go in these in today's game?
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Cole Cubic
I think they got a chance to
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Paul Feinbaum
go a long way.
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Cole Cubic
But you're right. Elite quarterback play something, Chris, that feels necessary to not only make the College Football Playoff, but to advance in the college football playoffs. So that is something that's either going to have to develop and when you don't have it, I think you got to have things that you can work around it with it while it does develop, while you get those snaps and you get those reps in. So that could be run game, elite group of receivers where you can quickly distribute the football. Maybe an offensive line, you can lean on all those things. It could be your defense and you lean on that while the offense grows, you find a way to work yourself into it. So I think there are a lot of ways that it could play itself out over the course of the season. Appreciate the call, my man. We got to get to Bill Connolly of espn, who joins us now to have an interesting conversation on College Football Playoff expansion. Before we do that, Bill, we talked earlier this week about leadership and experience and how it's sort of. You can't really formulate it. But a lot of coaches are just trying to go get it from an experience standpoint. And I don't mean to put you on the spot without going back to look at your numbers right way. What SEC teams do you have in the best shape heading into this season of just maybe games played in snaps played, guys who have been on rosters, been on teams across college football their entire careers?
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Bill Connolly
Well, I mean, the first thing, first answer that comes to mind for me is Georgia, not only because they rank really high in my returning production rankings, but also they rank really high. And they now have a quarterback who's very experienced as well. So it really does feel to me like they're the most trustworthy team in the league this year. And that and that continuity and that experience. You know, they were so inexperienced last year on the defensive side of the ball. They kind of had heavy turnover two straight years, but about halfway through the season, it clicked. And I think they're extremely experienced. If we're just talking about raw experience, maybe not necessarily the right experience. I think maybe South Carolina is kind of interesting in that regard, too, but I don't think they've earned quite that level of trust yet.
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Cole Cubic
Not quite. Okay. You have an article up now@espn.com about potential college Football Playoff expansion and maybe what can be taken from the World cup expanding, which it did this year. I don't know if a lot of our listeners quite understand that and how it could be applicable in a positive way moving forward. Take us through sort of how you got to where you got with this article.
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Bill Connolly
Yeah, I think, you know, I have two hats here. I got the college football hat and I increasingly have the soccer hat and did a lot, you know, covered a 10 World cup games, all that stuff and you know, socate verity up close and just kind of an incredible story of them tie in Spain advancing, almost beating Argentina and all that stuff. And it was, it was, it was cool. It really was kind of like this little glimpse of March Madness within world soccer and people seem to absolutely love it. And of course then if I do a radio hit about college football in between soccer matches, they immediately ask, well, what does that say about football, you know, CFP expansion as well? And it's just not nearly the same thing. The World cup expanded from 32 to 48 this year, but almost all the new bids went to African teams and Asian teams and North American teams and basically everybody except Europe and South America, which have won all the World Cups to date. And so really the exact opposite in every possible way of all the CFP expansion that's been proposed to date. And yeah, I just, you know, I hate the current way that this proposed 24 team expansion has drawn up. And I really hope Greg Sankey and anybody who's resisting continues to exist, resist. But if it were to include, say every conference champion and actually be kind of an inclusive high access deal, then suddenly my main, my mind changes pretty quickly.
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Cole Cubic
We're visiting with Bill Connolly of ESPN. Great article up now@espn.com on college football Playoff expansion, the possibilities of it and what they could maybe learn from what the World cup just did. And that is finding a better way for teams to qualify. And do we ever get to just the 12 best in your opinion? Is that something that is even feasible or even on the table any longer?
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Bill Connolly
Well, I just don't think best applies to a playoff. You know, the more qualification you get, the better it is because Best best asked the CFP committee to get more involved and the CFP committee kind of confirmed once and for all last year that it just doesn't, it just doesn't work way that it needs to work with 12 or 13 teams. And so, you know, qualification, having a certain number of conference champions and whatnot is really the only way that it works for me. But you know, the more influence, if it means an extra bid for the SEC or Big Ten, then you know, those are the two most, you know, influential commissioners in the sport. And there's a chance it does happen eventually.
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Cole Cubic
Bill Connolly with us. Article up@espn.com on college football Playoff expansion. If you were to run through the different ways of those qualifications with where college football has sort of reinvented itself from a conference standpoint, what does make most sense to you that would give us maybe closest to what I just asked for, and that is the 12 best teams.
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Bill Connolly
Why do you think, you know, if you think, I know Tony Petit is trying as hard as possible to make this seem inevitable. And I don't. I mean, maybe it is at this point, but if you have a 2014 playoff, then, you know, to me, first of all, you know, if we included every conference champion, you would get about those last four births would go to conference champions. Well, guess what? No matter who you include in those last four births, champions or non champions, they're not winning the national title. There's going to be a 99 point something percent chance that the first 20 teams are the one are going to win. One of those teams is going to win the title. So it's really all just about kind of aesthetics anyway. You're going to include the best teams in a 2014 playoff, and so that's fine. Include the best teams, include conference champions. If you get a better seed and you draw the worst conference champion, if you draw Kennesaw State or something, fine, then Kennesaw State got in and that that number nine seed or whatever got a better, you know, an easier game or however you want to put it. Eventually we're going to have upsets that people remember forever. And it just seems like a pretty good deal. It seems like the only good deal for me if we were to go past 24. But you know, all that said, I think we get most of the good teams with the best teams with 12 already. And you know, we still have pretty. We don't have the highest stakes. You know, Michigan beat Ohio State a couple of years ago. Ohio State so wins the title and all that, but it seems like a pretty good balance at 12, so I'm totally fine with staying there.
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Cole Cubic
Well, and I think a lot of us too, Bill would look at Miller's 24 and you just said past 24, which I think a lot of people just look at it and say, how could we ever get there? And would it make sense? I love Having the conversation every year of wherever we are in the playoff, how many teams are out there that we realistically think could win it. I personally think this field right now looks to be a little bit bigger than maybe last year. I thought last year we probably had four or five that we could realistically see. And even finding a way to pull it off feels like there's more that have a realistic chance of maybe push through. What do your numbers tell you about how big the field might be of realistic teams pushing through a playoff and taking home a national title going into the season?
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Bill Connolly
Yeah, I think really last year was. I don't know if I. I guess we shouldn't call it a turning point because one year we never really know in advance, but it does feel like last year the best teams weren't quite as good and it opened the door for more teams to. Well, I mean, Miami. Miami all but missed the playoff and just kind of sneaked in at the last moment because another team lost and therefore they got to hop Notre Dame in that ridiculous scenario. And then, you know, they came within, you know, what, 40 yards or so of winning the national title at the end of the games. So I do think we're already pretty close there. And if you just look at, from an SP plus standpoint, you know, number three, Notre Dame and number 11 Alabama in my projections are about a touchdown apart. And beyond that, you know, Oklahoma is only, you know, just a little bit behind. So I mean, I. 12 is probably too many. If you gave me, I could probably get about eight teams and feel really confident that I'm picking the eventual national championship. Same time I wouldn't have picked Indiana for that last year. So who knows?
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Cole Cubic
I feel like the computers don't like Ole Miss. Maybe this is solely the football power index, which I'm coming off to see him for the first time. A couple days ago was surprised how low they were. I was surprised what the wind projection total was. I think it was like 7.35 or something. Around that, I realized the schedules ramped up from what it's been the last four or five years. Are you as down on Ole Miss as maybe some of the other computers are?
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Bill Connolly
I like their overall experience. I do think, you know, with the. With what he brought in on the defensive line in the secondary, the defense has a chance to potentially improve a little bit. And, you know, with. With the amount that they're going to get hit. Trinidad Chambers and Kiwan Lacey, like having them healthy all year is kind of, you know, you might worry about that. A little bit. But I like the roster pretty well. I think from USB plus has it pretty similar to FPI. They're projected to fall from to 15th overall overall and I could see, I see my, I could, you know, I could see a case for being higher than that. The reason they're projected to fall that far in SP plus is partially because there's now kind of an adjustment for losing a coach that was abnormally successful. And the fact that the coach that was, you know, more successful than any Ole miss coach in 50 years left, that kind of drags them down a little bit, which I kind of, I like that. I understand that concept. I think it's a good one. But if, if the backfield's change, they're going to have a very good chance to be top 10 again.
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Cole Cubic
What team do you look at that's maybe getting a little too much love right now that should not be towards the top of a lot of people's rankings that you consistently see there?
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Bill Connolly
Well, I think, and I mean if any Alabama fan listening to anything I've said on this show for the last six months kind of knows what I'm going to answer here. But if Keelan Russell isn't outstanding, I'm really, really concerned about Alabama. Both FPI and SP plus have them pretty high still. I think FI is even higher plus has. What did I say 11? That's. I just, you know, seen what their offense was unable to do last year and now seeing, you know, two or three top three receivers gone, seeing a brand new offensive line, the run game was already poor last season. Just feels like you're asking. You need a quarterback to save your entire offense and the most high upside quarterback on the roster is a redshirt freshman. And that just seems, that seems really scary. We've seen redshirt freshmen absolutely turn things, turn an offensive around and everything else, but if he's not awesome, I do not see it from Alabama this year.
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Cole Cubic
Bill, great stuff as always man. Really do appreciate the time. Leave us with this though, because you mentioned 12, 24 past 24 even. Where is your sweet spot number after taking another dive into this for this article that you have up now on what college football can maybe learn from World Cup's expansion. Where should it be today?
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Bill Connolly
You know, honestly, I've really enjoyed two years of 12 and I'd like more than two. Even if we're, if it's inevitable that we expand eventually, let's have a few more years of 12 and see kind of strengths and weaknesses from it because I've really, really enjoyed it so far.
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Cole Cubic
I'd be with you there, Bill. Great stuff, man. Thank you so much. Enjoyed the conversation. We'll do it again soon.
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Bill Connolly
Sounds good. Take care.
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Caller/Listener
All right.
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Cole Cubic
Bill Connolly of ESPN joining us on the phones here on the Paul Feinbaum show at ESPN. Underscore Bill C. Find his work@espn.com it's an interesting article because a lot of us didn't coming into this World cup, we didn't even know that it expanded. And some of the things that have ended up being net positives for FIFA soccer, soccer fans, those of us that aren't really soccer fans, that got us into it this year, maybe keeps us into it. What can we take away? So we'll take your calls on that. 855-242-7285. Villains in college football Playoff expansion teams as we head into SEC media days, players we want to talk about the most. I didn't want to come on today and do an all SEC team. I feel like that's a little bit nerdy. You're going to get a hundred of those. But maybe players at each position that we're most looking forward to watching, we can have that conversation. We'll take your calls next. 855-242-7285 right here on the Paul Feinbaum Show.
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Cole Cubic
Go back in Paul. Fine Bomb Show Cole Cubic sitting in for Paul today. 855-242-7285. You want to get in talk biggest villains in college football. Who is it going to be at the end of the year maybe. Who do you project taking over that spot? Majority of the response that I've getting after putting this question on Twitter has been some version of Texas Tech and Cody Campbell. Now I've gotten a Notre Dame. I've gotten an Nil. I've gotten a couple Lane Kiffins out there, but mostly it has been Texas Tech and or Cody Campbell. Does it shift back to Lane Kiffin, lsu? Is there somebody else that sort of takes that spot across college football this year? When we're talking biggest feelings and we've seen, we see multiple Miami teams. Maybe a Miami player like Brian Bosworth held that at one point in time. Lane's had it. Lincoln Riley's potentially had it. Alabama had it, Nick Saban had it. Michigan's had it a couple different times in the last three, four or five years. Who might be next on your College Football Villain List? 8552-4272-8585-5242-7285 also talking heading into next week of SEC media days, what players at each position are you most looking forward to watching this year? So maybe to who you don't think the best is now. Who do you think becomes the best this season? My list going to be very different from some other folks because I kind of look at my list as some of the guys I'm looking for them to get their due, so to speak. Guys that I think are flying under the radar a little bit. Like if you gave me defensive, I mean I'd give you Will Echo's Ole Miss and maybe even if you just went interior and then we can go outside, it's gonna be hard not to be Dylan Stewart at South Carolina. If you're talking edge, guys, unbelievable flexibility. Twitch, get off bend Maniac. But I'd also say center and Perkins Edge at Ole Miss is going to get a chance to do some things he didn't have as many opportunities to do last year, so he might fall into that category. But Will Echols on the defensive line for Ole Miss? I want to see him continue to wreck shop and I want more people to learn his name. Running back, we don't know Ahmad Hardy status. I don't know how much we're going to get from that next week from Eli Drinkowicz, but mine's still going to be Cedric Alexander at Vanderbilt. Only 567 rush yards last year, 11 rushing touchdowns. This young man can block. He will tee off on you in pass protection. He can catch the ball out of the backfield He's a good route runner. He can make you miss in the open field and he will put his head down and attempt to run you over. I just think he is one of the best overall football players in the nation and not a lot of people know about him. Diego took a lot of that spotlight last year. He deserved it. He did a lot of things to take it and deserve it. He also carried the ball 167 times. So when you have a quarterback that can take a lot of those carries and then McKylin Young also got some carries and helped out a little bit. He still got some guys like Eli Stowers that needed to get the football on the perimeter. He just wanted to get the touches. I think he gets the touches this year. They'll try to protect the quarterback position a little bit more. Cedric Alexander at running back would be the guy for me. I'm most excited to watch play football this upcoming season. Now listen, I have an affinity for Jaden Bott Florida as well. I think he's just one of the more enjoyable college football players to watch, period. The way he plays the game, it is just a fun watch because you're not supposed to be £234 and do the things that Jaden Bough does. It should not be legal in 48 states. I just enjoy watching that guy do what he does the way that he does it. So. But like I said, I want some guys to get their due that not a lot of people are talking about. And I think Cedric Alexander would probably be that guy. 855-24-27285 if we went with a different version of an all SEC football team heading into media days, who would be the players at each position you're most looking forward to watching? This could be your team. It's fine. This doesn't have to be the absolute best. We're not pounding the table here trying to prove our points. Going to a jury of who the best player is at each spot. I just want to know who you want to watch the most. What receiver do you want to watch the most this year? What tight end do you want to watch the most this year? Throw quarterback in there. Linebacker. Who you looking forward to watching play most at each position in the SEC this fall? 855-242-7285. We'll get to more of your calls next right here on the Paul Feinbaum Show.
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Paul Feinbaum
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Cole Cubic
Podcast Back into The Paul Finebaum Show 855-242-7285 players you're most excited to watch this upcoming season inside the sec. So our version of an all SEC team. Instead of me being journalist and just handing you guys the list, you help us pick the list players at each spot you're most looking forward to watching. We mentioned running back Cedric Alexander, Jaden Boffer, me defensive line Will Echols. I think somebody that I'm extremely excited to watch this year see what he's going to be able to continue to do now. Not going to have Xavier Harris next to him, but I still think Ole Miss has one of the better defensive fronts across the board in the Southeastern Conference. It's going to allow him the ability to freelance, move, do some different things where he's going to be able to wreak some havoc and cause some problems. If we went tight end, which direction would you go? There inside the Southeastern Conference. I don't know too many people. If you're being unbiased on your teams and if you are being biased with your teams, we don't care here on the show today. 855-242-7285 but if you're looking at it holistically across the board, it's got to be traded as Green at lsu. He is a literal power forward playing tight end for the Bayou Bengals. Red zone threat. I think in this offense
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Ryan Reynolds
they will
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Cole Cubic
be able to find some matchups for him that could be lethal and he has the athleticism, the speed, the catch radius to be able to go attack the football and make things happen. So I would put trade as Green tight end LSU towards the top of my list as who I'm most excited to watch play that position in the SEC this year. Preston wants to chime in on the phones, discuss college football topics.
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Caller Preston
Professor from Texas. Born and raised in Austin, by the way. But man, them Florida Gators caught my eye when I was young. Back in 08. First time I ever seen a college football national championship.
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Bill Connolly
Tim Tebow hold up the golden ball.
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Caller Preston
Florida Gator for life. And we finna go in and beat Texas 42 to 10.
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Caller Chris
Mark my words.
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Caller Preston
And we're gonna go nine and three this season. Maybe miss a college football player by some stupid committee because they need Texas in there for views, for ratings, for everything.
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Cole Cubic
Texas is crap.
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Caller Preston
Texas is about to go eight and four. Y' all finish. See it? Y' all finish. See it. Texas is nothing.
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Cole Cubic
So you say what you said. Florida wins nine this year.
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Caller Preston
Yeah, nine.
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Cole Cubic
Most excited about watching on the team this year in a Florida uniform, Dallas Wilson, the goat.
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Bill Connolly
Number six, the wide receiver.
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Caller Preston
Wide receiver.
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Caller/Listener
You.
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Caller Preston
By you, he's all right. By you, he's all right.
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Cole Cubic
No, listen, if Dallas Wilson's healthy, man, he's a problem. He's got. Availability is your best.
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Caller Preston
He's a big problem.
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Cole Cubic
He's got to be out there. If he is, it's. It's going to be fun to watch. I love the Eric Singleton get from Georgia Tech slash Auburn, getting back with his old offensive coordinator. And I just. You heard me just talk about Jaden Baugh. That's my guy. I love watching Jaden Bob play football like he does it the way it's supposed to be.
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Caller Preston
And I'll be. I'll be there on October 17th at the stadium.
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Bill Connolly
Rock and blue.
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Caller Chris
All.
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Caller Preston
All down.
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Bill Connolly
Rock and blue.
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Caller Preston
I'm excited.
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Cole Cubic
All right, there you go. Florida at Texas, October 17th. That comes off a consecutive game streak against Auburn on the road. Ole Miss at Missouri, South Carolina, then at Texas and leading into an off week, which sometimes I don't like. Sometimes I don't love having a big game, a big opponent before you have a bye week because it's almost impossible as a player. I'm telling you guys to not start looking ahead at that. Just a little bit. Just. You're just clamoring for that one day off. You're clamoring for the one afternoon that you don't have to put the pads on out there and go practice again. Just give me a day where I can come home from class. Not that a lot of these guys even go to class in person anymore. And I can sit there and watch TV and kind of veg out, not do anything, be a little bit lazy and get away from football for a minute, take a weekend, maybe go home or just relax, be with your guys and just not do the same things that you've been doing every single day for the last 8, 10, 12, 20 weeks. Because that includes fall camp for a lot of these guys as well. You get into that routine, that rhythm and listen, it's worth it when you get in the games. The games are worth all the work. The games are worth all of the practice time, weight room time, conditioning time. But it's nice to have a week off every now and as well. And sometimes I'm a little concerned when that team might be staring down the barrel of it and they have a big opponent in front of them. Casey is in OKC wants to chime in on college football. Welcome in Casey.
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Caller/Listener
Michael, this is. This is Casey from Newcastle, Oklahoma, right across the river from Norman. So I kind of got an OU focus there. I'm curious. Got two parts. One part is how do you think Oklahoma's offensive line looks going into the season? And what do you look? Where do you like, what are you going to look for them to to do and how to improve. I'm really interested in Jake, the center from Stanford. The transferred from Stanford. I can't say his last name. I'm not even going to try at the Oklahoma twang but and then outside of Oklahoma, what offensive line units are you most excited about? Where would. Who would you pull out for your all SEC offensive line?
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Cole Cubic
All right, well, yeah, we'll get to that. We'll roll through that throughout the course of the show today. Jake, my cool is my pronunciation that could be off. I'm sure we'll learn it during the course of the season. Good player though that you plug in there at center for Susie's back. He's super athletic. We've seen Eddie Pierre Lewis play a lot for this group. I think the good news going in is you have a lot of guys that have been in the system that have been around Bill beaten bow understand what the expectation is going to be. And even though it wasn't great football at times, they at least now have that experience. I also have a lot of faith in Bill Beaton bow individually as the offensive line coach. There some of this too. Casey, as we've talked about with a couple of different teams and we actually talked about this individually with John Mattier. This comes down to the offensive coordinator like try to make life a little bit easier running the football and not just third and two, not just fourth and one, not just second and three. Maybe find some different downs to run the football. Sometimes don't give your quarterback the option to pull the ball. Just give you a call it and run it. Go inside zone, go counter. Here it comes. We're just going to try to do it because that puts a little bit more on that old line of, hey guys, we got to get our job done instead of, hey, even if we get our job done, they're probably throwing it, so who cares? So help change the mindset with how you call plays. And I think that could be beneficial for this Oklahoma football team. Other groups, I'm excited about Georgia because I think they, they have a chance to be one of the best in the nation and physically they could just, they could elicit blunt force trauma on a very consistent basis. I'm excited about that. But I'm interested to see LSU because you've upgraded the talent and think about what that offense might be if they're able to go. I'm interested in Florida because if Florida's O line is good and they have a couple of reasons that present themselves to you that say it's feasible, very feasible with the weapons they have, that offense could all of a sudden just go and be very difficult to manage. So some of it has to do like Texas. I'm also intrigued with. I know you don't want to hear that answer, but when you have Ryan Wingo, Cam Coleman, Hollywood Smothers, Arch Manning, your line gets going and all of a sudden it's like, man, this group could be a lot of. A lot of fun to watch and could just take off the other that I would give you that I think is just going to be an enjoyable watch that people no one's talking about is going to be Tennessee. I think Tennessee's O line going to be pretty good. They're going to have some nasty and they're going to push some people around. And I know people don't look at that offense and say that's what they do, but those would be the groups that I say. I have some intrigue in this upcoming season.
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Caller/Listener
You'll indulge me. When is your next break? If we got any more Tops Chrome Football Mystery.
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Cole Cubic
Yeah, Mystery Breaks on Fanatics Live. Where that'll be. We've got. We've got Tops Finest right now with Tops Chrome Football. We've got Topps Chrome Black in there as well. We have an NBA Cosmic Chrome NBA going right now. So that's over. Mystery Breaks. You all want to break some cards with us? Casey, I appreciate you hopping in, being a part of the Paul fine bomb show today. 855-242-7285 if you want to get in. Players are most looking forward to watching at every position across the Southeastern Conference. And this doesn't this is not you making a case for them being the best, just you personally, individually, who are you excited to watch play? And we'll continue running through some of those offensive linemen that I might be excited to watch play this upcoming season. 855-242-7-285. More of your calls next on the Paul Feinbaum Show.
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Cole Cubic
Back into the Paul Fine Bomb Show. Cole Kubik with you. 855-242-7285. You want to get in? We're talking SEC football teams. We've gone through a couple of schedules. We looked at that LSU schedule, Tennessee, A team I want to get to today. We haven't talked much about Tennessee heading into SEC media days. I hadn't talked much about Missouri heading into SEC media days. Texas A and M team I don't feel like is garnering a lot of conversation right now, although I do think in the media specifically they're very well respected heading into SEC media days, but just not a lot of people talking about the possibilities or maybe the ceiling for that Texas A and M team. I think there's just a lot of trust in Elko right now where people say, hey, he's going to get it done. Just don't know how far down the road they're going to be able to go. Unlike Texas, Georgia, a couple other teams like lsu, maybe even in the Southeastern Conference that are getting that sort of attention. Want to hear from you, though, on players at each position in the SEC you're most looking forward to watching this season. Also, college football villains. Who would you have at the top of your list? Who maybe do you think is going to take over that spot as the next villain in college football. Now we had one that I think sort of played that role for a few minutes at Tennessee a couple of years ago after he decided not to be a part of that football team. And it was Nico I. Amaliava. Maybe it was a week or two, but he was up there garnering a lot of hate, a lot of venom from some Tennessee fans and really college football fans of just how that departure was handled. Which quarterback situation has been a little bit in question since Joey Aguilar came in. Did a great job, I think. Exceeded what a lot of people expected from him a season ago. But what's back for the Falls? What could you expect them to be this upcoming season? And I think there are guys that aren't going to get a ton of attention, not going to be mentioned nationally with some other guys that deserve to be talked about. David Sanders has the making of being one of the best tackles in this league. I would probably put him next to Jordan Seaton as the two tackles I'm most excited to watch in the SEC this fall. David Sanders, specifically, if he puts on, let's just say 8 to 12 pounds, gets a little thicker, specifically in the lower body, keeps working on the lower body, flexibility. He's got a chance to be a great one in a Tennessee uniform. Man, like he's going to be fun to watch. Jordan Seaton, still a couple of minor holes in his game, specifically in the run game, but talent. When you watch him get up and go and you watch him move in a uniform, it is beautiful for a young man his size. Those will be the two tackles that I would want to watch. But Wendell Moe is basically a club bouncer at guard for Tennessee. Sam Pendleton was as solid as any center in the country last season. Might not have the athletic upside as some others. He's a really good football player. You get Jesse Perry back, you go find Orey Williams in the portal, you're going to plug them in. But what I like is you got Ethan Davis back at tight end. Now you lose one that I know you'd love to have back, but still Ethan Davis, great flex, tight end that can get out, be a good route runner, hands that you can rely on. Can win some battles in the open field, but not afraid to mix it up at the line of scrimmage. With DeSean Bishop back at running back, how much is going to be on the quarterback? Now you this offense is driven by the quarterback. It's just what it is. Tennessee's offense usually goes as the quarterback goes, but it's an offense Under Josh Hyple at Tennessee in Knoxville that has a 400 yard rushing game, multiple 300 yard rushing games during his tenure. They want to pound the football and I can tell you specifically their off season emphasis last year, Joey Halsey, Josh Hyple was to find a way to win different battles on offense, not be as reliant stretching the field. They were getting so much drop eight they had to find other ways to do it. So what does that mean? Relying on bigger bodies, different ways to run the football, compressed formations, play action being a bigger part of what you're doing. Once you get that run game going, that doesn't allow people to play drop eight because they got to respect the run. Now you get the play action, the backers and safeties by boom, you hit them over the top. So those are the things that they put the most work into on that side of the football going into last season and you saw it pay off. Now some people got mad when it was a bit of a ball control offense and they didn't step on the gas all the time or they didn't throw it deep 47 times a game. Who cares as long as you're effective. So that's been unlocked for this offense just a little bit. Now you probably are going to have to find a way to help your quarterback a little bit more. You're going to have to probably create some explosives in different ways. I would not be. It wouldn't surprise me if a part of the off season study at Tennessee was more combination routes, maybe finding ways to generate more one on ones and finding some more explosives down the field. Maybe the screen game, something that could be a little bit more diverse for Tennessee this fall. And I haven't talked to Joey or Coach Hypo about this and boy I bet they'd be pissed off if I just nailed that. Desean Bishop can go. You got a couple receivers like Braylon Staley and Mike Matthews that can get it in different ways. I think you have the weapons, you got the offensive line to make this offense work. It's just now instead of the quarterback helping everybody around him, which we've seen in this offense not just at Tennessee, but with Drew Lockett, Missouri, with Dylan Gabriel at ucf, you've seen that happen. Now how can the offense help the quarterback? That's probably going to have to be at least what happens earlier in the season. And then where's Faison, Brandon in all of this? The young freshman quarterback that's super talented, bigger body QB that can be a dual threat Maybe quarterback run is something that they would like to emphasize just a little bit more and bring to the table. You can go back a couple of years ago when Josh Dobbs was there. I know this because we talked to then Alex Golish and we talked to Josh Hypo about it. They didn't have a lot of Q run inserted. But then all of a sudden they get two, three games into the season, here goes Josh Dobbs running left, running right, taking out of the pocket, pulling a ball down when there's a pass rush and picking up 8, 10, 12, 25 yards. And they said to themselves, we got to put this stuff in. And that became a bigger portion of the offense, what it was and why it was able to go. So how do they operate around the quarterback position early? And it's okay to admit that. It's okay to say that you don't have a solidified guy going in. And it's the understanding of it that usually helps you survive it. Instead of just going in saying, here's our offense, dude, you better pick it up. You better be able to read that coverage, you better be able to know how to read that zone read. You better know when to throw the uncovered. So instead of doing that, help your young quarterback grow, get him reps, get him games, and all of a sudden as he gets more confident, then you put more of the offense on him. Tennessee's got some of the pieces to be able to do that. And you're bringing in a much more aggressive style on the other side that has a chance to just flat out be a little bit more responsible. A linebacker in Aaron Carter that can play a couple of D tackles that have given you good snaps over time. Not the depth you've had there though, that would scare me a little bit because Tennessee has been in great shape on the defensive line the last three, four years. I do not think the depth is going to be close to where it was and if you lose a guy or too early, that could end up being a problem. But there's pieces of this team, man, where I don't really agree with people who are just sort of swiping left on Tennessee saying, nah, I don't really see them being problematic for anybody. I don't see them being an issue for anybody this upcoming season. Maybe they get their non cons, they sneak up on one or two teams, they get a couple things come together, all of a sudden they could be a really dangerous football team. 8, 552-427-285 on the other side, Kevin Egan of Apple TV going to join us and talk future of soccer coverage in the United States. What is it going to look like after this World Cup? We got World Cup Final coming up on Saturday and then maybe just streaming services and sports and how that's going to project forward as well. How does football, American football play into that down the road? Because we know these TV rights are now being discussed as being pooled. And if that were the case, how much would the streamers have their way if that ever did actually happen? I don't think it's going to, but some people believe that that has the support behind it. Maybe we'll get to it one day. 855-242-7285. We'll take your calls over the next two hours. You let us know players you want to watch, schedules you want to talk about, things you're focused on. Heading into SEC media days next week in Tampa, Florida. ACC media days wrapping up today. We'll get you set for more of that and the SEC media days next week. Next on the Paul Feinbaum Show.
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