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The Day After LIVE (11/10): Texas beats the Florida Gators, SEC standings, Shake up in the top 5
Welcome everybody to your Sunday the day after pill as it were as we're taking it all in some post some post college football some of you are taking a tiny break from your NFL time. We've got a special guest here with with my friend Emma is one of my favorite people to talk ball with and of course incomparable coach is here with us which is great. Please hit us up with your questions let us know what you're thinking about that game as Emma and I were talking about a little bit earlier it got a little boring and for being honest, a little bit boring toward the end there but that's okay that's kind of how you want it in the fourth quarter. Things in hand. But coach, you and I were talking on Friday during the round table about some things you wanted to see in the game. Were you satisfied did you get what you wanted out of that game. Okay exactly what I thought I would see from Quinn. The defense, not quite the running game until late. Right. So, yeah, well they really I mean they didn't really go after the running game at all. I mean at least at least in the beginning it's it was I can't remember how many Quinn had straight out the gate but it wasn't something like eight in a row. Yeah, something like that he went, he went, they really rarely went to the run game. So. I figured there would be our game plan though the short part of the game with the passes and the quick screens right when you especially got Isaiah blind back that's what he does I think I talked about that pre game like. Get him involved because he can take those free passes to the house which he took one so. Really is just, I saw what I thought I would see, but I would like to see more of a running game. I like to see special teams get cleaned up. Right. And I'm thinking about the future. I'm thinking about SEC championship playoff. I'm not thinking about the games we got coming up. I'm thinking about the future and the better teams we may face a thing. So, Emma, you are, I think we should let the people know. You are a University of Alabama alum. You did you did some nice things and you definitely watch this Texas game what were some outsider points of view on this Texas game. I mean the biggest thing for me is the last two games Texas has had. They have struggled they lost to Georgia and then they had a close one against bandy so really seeing them perform to their capabilities on offense getting a lot of things cleaned up. It makes me hopeful for the future for them. It makes me think that they can go to that SEC championship win that game get that by week so I'm really excited to see what SARC does as well as Quinn yours moving forward. I think that Texas A&M games really going to be your last big hurdle to get there so I'm really excited to see what happens. Yeah, just as Emma was saying our next game is going to be at Fayetteville it's obviously an old school, old school Southwest Conference rivalry game getting that back and then straight into A&M so two big rivalry games. Actually if you look at the history of the history of the team so it's exciting it's a great way in my mind to end the season especially a season that has been fraught with a lot of hope and expectations to play some old foes I think is really good but let's go ahead and go to the chat we want to give credence to those folks that are joining us today and one of the things that we did see was we got to see a lot of Gibson right this is something that Justin was talking about in the round table. What were your thoughts on that baby rhino there coach. It was good to see him back look they're killing those how to run straight right he gets the ball right at you. I wrote an article about him and I just won I called him baby rhino then too but he did what I thought he would do like that's what he did he runs hard he runs through arm tackles. I'm not saying other guys can't he just way more consistent and more effective running down here and running at people. So it was good to see him out there and you know live up to the baby rhino name I like to see more of him I guess going forward because we will meet him but hey we'll see. So your coach choice let's pretend your coach choice here and you've got a wildly talented young man on campus that in a position where there is a lot of wear and tear on your body and he has zero desire to run around people. What do you how are you coaching him in that regard. Honestly when you watch your family going to film with kids like look you talk about the potential of what runs can be right every time you don't have to run through somebody. If you had made a guy miss maybe you gain actually 10 or 12 yards. Like right because it's not about who and I ran a guy over like we're pastor you're not high school and we're not trying to make anybody's highlight. We're trying to gain gain yards right we're trying to go score so you don't have to run through everybody. Well I get it late in the game. You want to run through people because you want to pick up first down the milk the clock cool understandable but you know you also got to talk about the potential runs you may miss by trying to run so about to go run through contact every single time. And plus you got to save your body because you know there's some guys on the other on the other side of your poems who can hit and you know we're seeing a ton of injuries happen this year so sometimes you need to avoid the hits if you can. One thing and I know that Emma you being new or Texas being new to your beloved league. What was the what was the I'm just curious what was your expectation of Texas and Oklahoma coming into the league this year. Well Texas already set the standard for what they were going to do coming into this year so high at the end of last year so I had very very high hopes for them. Well I did as well but their team quickly got depleted by injuries as you were talking about. So I wasn't as interested to see what they were going to do this year I didn't really think they were going to make it as far as Texas has and I still think Texas is going to go to the playoffs. I had a lot of them from the SEC Championship, but because they made it to the semis last year I always thought, well, they've retained a lot of their roster they brought in a lot of great people like Isaiah bond from Alabama and I was like this team. They have all the goods to go to the national championship. It's just whether or not they can execute in the SEC and they have to a degree. And I think they have every capability of winning out so I expect semi finals at the least. Oh sure I would think so absolutely. So coach what so one of the more frustrating parts of this Texas team has been the offense and the consistency with that offense, especially with what Emma has been talking about just the I mean the horses and the high stables are our thoroughbreds. I mean we've got a lot of talent on that roster and I think the thing for me watching this last game was Quinn's ability to get the ball to those players. I mean you you'd see some swing passes and you've got blue going 70 yards. I mean it's nuts. So having that ability is is always been the metric by which we've set that high standard. And it's just the ability I think of Quinn to get the ball to those folks. And at least from my perspective and certainly what the stat sheets are showing is that he was able to execute that on Saturday. What were your thoughts on Quinn's maturation to this year I know unfortunately every year that he's been on campus he's had to deal with some sort of injury but he seems to be out of the woods a little bit there. I'm just curious what your observations were. Yeah just like I said watching the game Saturday just like he was mentally and physically healthy though right and mental more mental than anything. It plays a factor because your mind can do some play tricks on you right and so you can see the rush when it's not there. You can kind of flinch. And you're not about to get hit and you're not about to get hit and it messes with your psyche. But a lot of people think oh I thought the swing passes those easy passes but a lot of teams still can't complete those right. So the fact that he's completing those at a high clip says a lot as a lot of positive things about the offense and the way it can go. Those things work and they're great until they don't Georgia right and so you've got a lot of counter punch so to speak to build off of that going forward but I'm happy to see that hey, it's a confidence builder for him. I think even gonna help say you know he just needs to get this confidence back. It's like a layup in basketball the swing passes between a layups right the RPO got gone a wide open. Those things build confidence and so it was good to see that because you need that for the last stretch of the season to build on his confidence his psyche the whole nine just so I love what I saw. Because I want to see the guy grow and mentally shake off injury shake off pass bad games anything like that and you got to continue to move forward and progress and so this is a great game to do it. So we'll see how he does next three games. They are they are big games these next three games and one of the things we're gonna I want to go to his cotton is given yeah it comes give us a little bit of joy here. The Sean tape and some photo on D more, but here's the deal. I mean the ball was there that to me is the key. That hasn't always been the case with Quinn, especially this season. So, knowing that the ball is at least getting there. I have the utmost confidence that those those errors. Let's call them what they were by the Andre are going to get fixed. I have the utmost confidence in that young man but having the ball there is to me the big deal. And I think that was that was a big step forward for our boy Quinn. So, you know we're seeing some stuff in here. A little bit about some of the other games that were going on the AP poll has just come out not too long ago and I want to take a look at this with you to really really quickly. So, Texas currently is the highest ranked SEC team currently the two big 10 teams are Oregon number one Ohio State number two Texas is coming in at number three and then another big team. The next two four and five are big 10 teams as well with Penn State Indiana and then number six is the last SEC team in that top six which is going to be Tennessee so we rounding out the top 10. Seven is BYU eight is Notre Dame nine Alabama and 10 Ole Miss Georgia who lost to Ole Miss this weekend only dropped to number 11 which which I think is a testament to both the logo and people's people's faith in Kirby to turn this thing around maybe but what are your thoughts on that I'd love to hear where you land on this one Emma with Georgia dropping only to number 11. I expected them to be below Bama at least because we have the win over them. I do think they should have dropped lower like you said I think it's logo and what people think Kirby's ability is but Kirby almost lost to Kentucky Kirby has not dominated like we're used to seeing him Carson back has been severely off his game before. He's not played Ole Miss he already had 11 interceptions. He has not been producing and I really think it's a big deal that he doesn't have Brock Fowers or Lad McConkie anymore who are both in the NFL. So he has received I won't blame everything on him because his receivers are dropping whatever he is actually making so I don't know where they're going to shake out they have to play Tennessee next week so we'll see if they're able to pull out a win against Tennessee who have been a little hit or missed too and they lost to Arkansas. But I honestly think they should have been a little bit lower. Coach where do I mean what were some of did you able to catch many games yesterday I know that I know that that's that's the highlight of our week but I'm just curious if there's any of those games that stuck out to you. I got so I got to see if you just a little bit I know so Georgia Ole Miss saw a little bit of Indiana and so Indiana needs some more respect when they're undefeated man we'll start with that but you know I watched a few but not all and then of course I have to watch you know the in Hawaii there was a late game so I think that the one thing and this is obviously going to be in the chat here because let's face it we love talking about OU because it brings us a tremendous amount of joy. John Johnson says OU is going to look like a bunch of five year olds trying to tackle a greased up bowl in that Bama game so yeah we got Bama coming up and let's just talk about the absolute cluster cuss that was that my misery came especially the last three minutes of that game and look I'll be honest what the one of the things that I love about college football is chaos and man did we have that in abundance this weekend. The NFL they they're a bit buttoned up they've got their act together chaos is really hard to come by not so much in college football and man did we get a full helping of that in that Missouri Oklahoma game. Did you get to catch any of that Emma because that thing was buck wild. I did I started watching it and I was like this is just field goal city. And then it got interesting but OU committed four turnovers and I'm like they're already depleted both of these teams are depleted. And so it's like second third string against each other and I don't know they dropped the ball again it's just not a fun start for them in the SEC which it's harder here. It is I we talked about this in the round table of just the level of parity I mean look. Mississippi State has not won an SEC game that doesn't mean that they're not going to give you everything they've got each week and you better be ready to play and I think. That's been the testament to to being in this league and honestly I think I did not to disparage our former home but it's not the type of thing that you would see every week in the big 12 and I think this is this is the. This is the new reality that we're facing I want to talk a little bit about what is going on with with the SEC because I think it's important that we have a look at this this is the. I'm going to bring this up right now that these are the standings for the SEC current current standings and what you're going to see here is pretty interesting because right now what we've got are a bunch of one lost teams. And then you've got a whole sea of potential to lost teams that could be coming into the mix here so I want to bring that up for you guys let me just make sure I've got my screen up here so you guys can see it. I'm going to bring this up I don't know what's going on with my computer here sorry about that guys. Where is. Let me see here. What are you guys seeing I'm making sure that I've got the same thing here. Are you guys seeing anything. No. Great I don't know there you are there we go. That's nice. Thank you technology. Here we go. I'm going to bring these things. As of right now now obviously this is going to be a little bit inconclusive but if you're looking at one lost teams we've got Tennessee, which is going to be playing Alabama next week if I'm correct on that Georgia Georgia Georgia Tennessee. There we've got Alabama Oklahoma next week, A&M is playing I believe New Mexico state in a primer to their their Texas game Georgia Alabama Ole Miss so if you're looking at this let's say hypothetically Texas drops to A&M wins out you're going to have potentially a Georgia. An Alabama and an Ole Miss with two losses going into this and it is it could be a potential absolute. Just craziness at the end of this season when it comes into the SEC championship game so looking looking at this. I have to wonder. If you had to pick right now going into this knowing who's playing and what's going on in the final weeks what are you seeing coach if you had to pick it today which is. An impossible task but if you had to pick it today who do you see in this championship game. Right now probably would have Tennessee and Texas. Yeah like both teams could went out at the UT versus UT junior. Who knows how you feel the bragging rights of SEC fighting for the bragging rights of who's the real UT or who has the right perfect orange. I'm sorry I had a little jib visitor. She's good. I think that would be a lot of implications that would be fine but my dream matchup is Ole Miss because I want to see Sarg versus. Oh man absolutely. I want to see it so bad. But I think Tennessee Texas if I was to call it now. What are your thoughts on this and I want to get to the chat here in a second but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Again calling it today. Could you have in the championship game. I think Texas will beat Texas A&M. I think Bammell went out. I think Georgia will beat Tennessee. So I'm putting Texas and Bammell in the rematch. Oh right. Okay. Be true. All right. One of the things and I want to bring this up because this is our old friend David Keith Williams is asking so Texas is lost to a two lost Georgia team Ole Miss is lost to a three lost LSU team. And a six locks Kentucky team. I'm not sure what other people would view Ole Miss is higher ranked than a Texas team right now. Now I get that but one thing that's really interesting David and this is something that we've talked about a lot specifically with this SEC and certainly in the Big Ten but less impactful in the Big Ten. Is the fact that everybody's obviously not playing each other and the transitive property is really hard to apply here because of so many injuries and everything else. I wonder, I wonder really how this is going to play out toward the end. How many teams from the SEC are going to make it into the playoff. That's a really big question that we have to ask because you know if you're sitting at four teams potentially maybe even five with two losses similar records and what David Keith Williams is talking about here that transitive property kicks in and really seeing who is the better team. But ultimately as we all know it has to do with how you're playing at the end of the season. So obviously yes we beat a Michigan team that will prove to be far less successful than they were in the last year. We beat an Oklahoma team that as we've already alluded to is not that strong this year. So our big games are really going to be that Georgia game which as you pointed out is a two lost team. The rest of the country seems to think that Georgia is still a top 25 team putting them I believe it would we say 12 something like that 11 12. So this is a tricky one and I definitely am with David Keith Williams here in the sense that I think this is this is again this is what I love about college football this is just absolute madness. There's no clear delineation on the only clear team right now seems to be Oregon. To be honest with you but if I had to just guess I would probably align myself with our very own Eric Nallene and say maybe Ohio State is probably the better team in the country right now so it's it's a tricky it's a tricky thing to call and I this is what I love about all of this is it just is absolute madness going into it. What let's talk a little bit about your beloved Indiana here coach I mean they are they are coming in at 10 and 10 and 0. Their coach is arguably the greatest coach on the planet. If you ask him I'm pretty sure that's what he'll tell you. But you know the proof is in the pudding he's definitely executing this year he's they do have Ohio State next next week which will prove to be a very big test for all of them but I have to say. One of my qualms with the AP seems to always be that they're very very good about delivering some very very what's the best way to put it timely rankings right before big games right. So we're moving we're moving Indiana into the top five the week before they play Ohio State. I'm curious what your thoughts are on that and and what are you seeing out of Indiana that you have seen this year and if they in spite of being 10 and no they've really kind of flown into the radar. Yeah, to me it's like the kid in the board effect that coach he wanted jam you. He's instilled the same culture and winning mindset at Indiana right and he took a lot of players from jam you to Indiana with him like so they're really good players and really well coach team. Combined it was some of the athletes they already had they're just playing like complete team football complimentary football offense defense special teams and so that's how you get it done but man kudos to him right because I always root for the underdog the coach who not supposed to be the power five coach right he can't make it in his league and he's proven everybody wrong day not only can he compete he's undefeated right now so I always root for coach like that but it's tough right because now you got to go against Ohio State you know and I'm not saying they can't get the upset or anything like that but it's going to be tough. It's going to be tougher Indiana, you know, I don't know if they can roll or they're playing in Columbus, but it'll be a great game and kind of just see where he's at but he just reminds me of the kid on the board effect like when he wants to watch you know you just you're building something you just a good coach and everybody's watching. Yeah there's no denying his acumen I mean he's clearly an excellent developer and he has a very keen eye for talent because he's obviously getting, he's getting kids that are flying below the radar and getting them to play to their ceiling which is not an easy thing to do I mean you see a lot of coaches especially these marquee programs. They'll take the five star and there's not much development going on so this is he's he's doing he's doing the hard work and I definitely appreciate. I definitely appreciate what he's bringing to this moving forward Emma what I mean. What do you what are you looking to see as we close out this season what are some things that you're really excited about. I'm just excited to see how the whole 12 team playoff shakes out I think because of the NIL and the transfer portal teams can't be completely dominant week to week we haven't really been able to decipher who's going to win a game and when we do like pick like Georgia across the board Ole Miss comes in and absolutely demolishes them. So I want more chaos of course and I want great playoffs and I think that's exactly what we're going to get so this has just been a fun fun year we're in November. This is where teams really have to show out when big so they can make it into the playoffs make it to their bowl games. So I'm just ready for more football. I think one thing that we all need to be ready for in life are those those occasions when we might need a lawyer and if we ever need a lawyer I want you to call our friend on this video is brought to you by Andre the lawyer. 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Were you a little bit surprised, am I imagining there's a I know that you're an objective person but were you surprised at frankly how much Alabama worked LSU like a part time job. Oh yeah. On sassy stuff we talked about how this is going to be a very, very close game. Blyed picked LSU I picked Alabama and loyal. But I said it would be by like three like a field goal. So it was very shocking. It was joyless murder ball without Nick Saban and I was so excited to see it. It seemed like everything was coming together. Kalen Dibor let Jalen Milroy do his thing like he's most dangerous on his feet. He freaks defenses out and if they can continue doing that I think skies limit for this team and the defense the past few weeks has really improved and this is a very young defense, especially in our secondary. So having them grow so much this season I know it has not been perfect by any means but even in the tennis game. They were in there for a very long time they just couldn't get off the fields and you know what happens there tails oldest time but it's it was good. It looked good but you just can't rely on that consistency and even at halftime I was like I can't even get excited about this because we saw this in the Georgia game and you see what happened there. So if they can continue down this path I think skies limit for this team but I don't trust them. I don't trust any team week to week right now and that's the beauty of college football it's absolutely chaotic. So I'm excited to see where they go from here if they can continue relying on Jalen Milroy to run and be consistent and have the defense. Do what they've been doing the past couple weeks I think we have a shot for sure. I you will find him that we at inside Texas and I know I shouldn't probably speak for everybody but I would say that the majority of us are massive Milroy fans is a great guy really I mean obviously almost had him here at Texas. We he's an easy easy kid to root for and my god is he fast. That was that was an absolute show that he put on and it was a very very impressive thing to see and I'm you know every week that we're not playing him he is an easy kid to root for and I hope I hope he does really really well except for not against Texas. He needs to have a tummy ache he needs to be a little sad something needs to happen where I can't have him at full force during that but what what were your thoughts on that Alabama game coach were you able to catch any of it any of the highlights. I actually got to watch that one but I thought Alabama look fresh I thought they look healthy Tennessee they're kind of banged up and they got a bi week. They like the team that was played against Georgia you know I mean that's what they look like that's what it reminded me of they went back to that. I'm not so they look fresh a lot of young guys have grown up throughout the season but I think they needed that bi week before because then that team looks fresher like they did. He's not playing previous games and so your old looks healthy because he couldn't run away from Tennessee but he was nipped up a little bit right so you got a different Alabama team who's continuing to get better. Yeah I think this is their first year under divorce so it's a whole new system they're growing. You got a bi week everything so I don't know that dangerous and they are really really dangerous they look good and it's like okay. Here we go again like man I thought that was going away and here we go so they got my hopes up for sure now. Yeah yeah yeah but it's good to see but minerals like you say he's a great kid and a tremendous athlete he is fast he gets an open feel you know strike up the band. And he'll run through you too. Yeah he's a very big dude I think that gets discounted too like he's a massive man with that speech. I wish you just didn't want to talk to him and I know a lot of people made a first about well he didn't throw the ball much like it was pouring down rain. You don't have to. Yeah the recipe for the success if you can run the ball and that type of weather so the fact that they could speaks volumes. This is and look I'm going to go with Ryan here Ryan is saying Ole Miss is a top five level team from a power rating perspective bad spot for Georgia before Tennessee and after the Florida game talking about that schedule. I think I think Ryan you may you may find some allies certainly on this particular call with coach and I we are rooting heavy for Ole Miss. We want a Ole Miss Texas game real bad for no other reason than just that Sark Kiffin matchup. That's fun that's why we play college that's why college football exists is for stuff like that I cannot wait for the Twitter's Twitter sphere to blow up the second those two get to play each other I think it's going to be a very very fun week. And I hope it happens I don't know there's a lot of things that have to happen in order for that to come into play but that would be pretty pretty amazing stuff. You were a match up. Oh of course that'd be great. Oh absolutely. Oh thank you for this this is good this is important information Texas is in the SEC Championship for soccer this is potentially our first SEC championship we're pulling for them. And that's that's great thank you for that update big dog Texas we appreciate that. 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Oh man here we go. It's totally fine to me on the bus I love it. I want to see that we can stop the run because we're going to get a full steam ahead of tail and green if he's healthy and they're not old QB to Quinn and Jackson. They're going to try to run right at us and read option and it's, you know, they're going to try to stay in the game because I really don't know about the past game especially if Mr Green is hurt. But it's just really going to be an interesting game I'm glad I said 11 am because that that that crowd won't maybe they'll be into it but not like if it was nighttime when they have a whole data you know be, you know, have a bunch of fluids. I'm glad I said I'm glad I said 11 am but it's still going to be ruckus proud still going to be. I guess, hey, we 2.0 right we had owe you this hate week 2.0 so it's going to be a fun good robber game I got uncle who played Arkansas tells me about all time so I this is going to be a fun hard hitting game. I spent some pillows in his game for after the whistle activities right because that's what kind of game is what kind of atmosphere it should be. It's going to be a great one I'm looking forward to stopping the run that's number one. Well we do I mean we do I think it's worth noting and it's it's one of those things it's obvious it's in front of everybody but you know Texas is closing out the season in 2 hostile environments you know going to go to a good game. We've had our toughest game of the season has been home. It's been against Georgia. This is this is going into a place and as Ryan says I want to give you some props to this absolutely Ryan Texas Arkansas is coming off of a bye week. This is Arkansas Super Bowl make no doubt about it. This is going to be Aggie Super Bowl make no doubt about it. These are the games that were circled on the schedule. These are as they should be. These are old rivalry games. This is exactly what it should be. This is in no way in no way hyping up Texas saying that Texas should be circled. No these are rivalry games and as coach pointed out these are generational games. These go back. Families talk about these games so absolutely should they be circled. These are the types of games that you play college football for. So it is very very exciting. I'm looking forward to it. I'm wondering for you Emma and if we can for a second you've obviously got a massive game next week against Mercer. And I'm just curious what you really are looking for out of that game. It's it's something I know that you guys have probably circled you've canceled all of your plans for this Mercer game. What are you looking for out of Mercer next week? I'm looking to play Ty Simpson. A lot more. I don't want Milro getting hurt on that field. So I mean well it's Mercer let's shut it down. And then they go into Oklahoma and then Auburn. So I mean, see what happens that I'm really excited for Texas. I really like you're saying coach want them to stop the run. They gave up 197 rush yards to Florida. And I was like, well then Arkansas could be a little tough. So I want to see Texas shut another team out before they get to that Texas A&M game. Oh, I think that's yeah absolutely. I think that's a very good way of looking at it. We've you know, this was the number one statistical defense going into that Florida game, not letting up virtually any yards, frankly, to especially in the run game. You know, there was there were some things that were exploited. Now, again, a fair chunk of that came against some second team late in the game, which fair enough. But still, I mean, this is, it's a team game first and second team. They're still on the same team and they need to execute at a level. So I do appreciate that was going in. So as we kind of round out this, I want to invite you to join us this week. We do have the whole litany of shows are going to go. We're going to start on tomorrow morning. We're going to have. We're going to have our traditional Texas homework with Paul. They're going to break down what you just saw with Florida and start looking ahead to Arkansas and then we've got the entire litany all week. Ian and Homer are going to be breaking things down. We've got our deep dive coming out with Paul and Ian that are really going to get into the weeds on this and we've got our lives starting Monday night with myself. I'll be covering for cookie this week on Wednesday as well. And I want you to check out our friends over sassy stuff. Thank you Emma for joining us. I really appreciate you coming out over here. Tell us, tell us a little bit about what time your show airs and where we can find you. We will be breaking down the biggest games in the SEC Mondays 11, 12 and one little episodes. And then we will also have our previews all week. So come check us out. We do appreciate you being here. Please go ahead and check us out. 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The Longhorns improved to 8-1 and enter the final stretch to the SEC Championship. The top five is facing a shakeup and we look at the SEC standings going into the final weeks of the regular season.