Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
We Covered! (Bama Recap)
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The guys hugely overreact to almost beating Alabama in the sport of football. Get a recap if you missed it, catch up on some valuable hidden insights, and find out what this means for the rest of the season.
Well, bulls fans. 500 was nice while it lasted, but just like red's bedroom performance, the excitement was Short and fleeting. It's Karen Cordal, your go-to podcast for all things u s f football this week. We may not have won but, but red, we won. We won. I'm Puka and we will definitely go undefeated in conference play now.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:And I'm red and I would concur with you if, but not for two big ifs. If our defense plays like that every week Sure. And if our offense learns how to throw the forward pass,
Track 1:I mean, whatever. All I heard was I concur and that means that red is admitting I'm right again which is I think like three times just this week.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, almost as many sacks as Daquan Evans.
Track 1:Woo baby. That man knows how to play defense. Boom. We got the rest of your Bama recap coming up here. Hold onto your butts because red, that shirt worked.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:We covered, we wanted Bama. We got Bama. We covered baby.
Track 1:we are one two against the spread and of all teams we were gonna cover against. How are you not, how are people not riding in the streets? Like the Maple Leafs just made the playoffs. Oh my god. We covered against Bama of all teams.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:We may not have won, but even in covering We managed to knock Alabama out of the top 10 for the first time in eight years,
Track 1:how sweet. It's to be loved by you. Oh my God. It feels so good.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and the most important thing is really gets right in the tingles defense is back.
Track 1:It's back maybe. Oh my God. Those bl we're gonna talk about all of it. The blitzes. I, this is the most excited I've been about defense since Alan, the bull shark defense. This defense was nuts. Yeah. There were some opportunities for Bama to not make mistakes, but, Ooh, we pressured a young quarterback over and over. It was great. The other side of that is what is offense?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, I mean if you were a fan of general college football and high scoring offenses, this game was not for you
Track 1:No
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah.
Track 1:on national television at that. You know what though? I think that's good for us to have a performance like that on national television against the Rank Alabama team. No one expected us to win, but we got a national stage to show that baby, we are back. are back. Dammit.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah. There may not have been points, but it was still exciting. A lot of big hits, sacks a couple turnovers in there. Not in our favor primarily, but I mean, yeah, it was fun. It was for a three, three first half with a rain delay in there, I don't think you could have had more excitement around it. So,
Track 1:nice.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:yeah. And by the way, that was the fewest points in a non-conference game for Alabama since 2007, and we know what a year 2007 was for U S F, so,
Track 1:Whew, man. We are this you, are you not? I posted on the Bulls pen. Are you not entertained? Is this not what you came to see? Oh, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and I thought I was just gonna be sitting back, like just trying to make it through this game. But Woo
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:With all that said, we're obviously very pumped up. Coach Golich did a good job bringing us back to where we need to do be and settle these expectations but also be accountable at the same time. I thought he had a damn good post-game press conference. He's not happy like we are, and it's his job not to be happy.
Track 1:Sure.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:He said, you know, someone asked him about a valiant effort in defeat and he said, Valiant efforts are for losers. And by God, he almost, if he finishes this quote correctly, he would've had red as a fan for life no matter what. Lemme tell you,'cause he started saying, you know, Losers lose. And he said, winners. And I thought he was gonna say he, he's just said, winners win. But I thought he was gonna say, winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Track 1:I mean, so close Coach. Go. Maybe he was thinking it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:he brought out that rock quote from my man, Sean Connery I would've run through a wall for'em. But still, it was good to see, and a lot good to see it reflected in the team's comments too. They weren't afraid of Alabama. They're talking about, Hey, this isn't some effort that we just brought out for them. This is the way we need to be playing. So, but it's still, I mean, you can't help but be extra pumped for that game, especially with the environment to full house, 65,000 people, pack student section students. Were going absolutely. Bonkers loud, enjoying it, especially during the rain. Like if they hadn't, they made some of the fans leave during the actual lightning part, but when it was just kinda initial just rain without the lightning, they were just partying in the stands. Like it was just a rave of,
Track 1:Oh,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:ugh, it was beautiful. Beautiful.
Track 1:How could you not be excited? How could you not be excited about that? This is the first time in years something like this has happened. I would argue that this is better than Florida, that this is better than the excitement and the momentum coming outta Florida. Last season, this felt real.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Well, it better feel real because coming outta Florida didn't translate to anything. We went to Louisville the next week and we were all sorely disappointed in that effort. So hopefully we can translate this better for Rice and I think it being at home too, hopefully helps translate it better for the fans. I'm sure even in that loss, a lot of students, if that was their first time coming out to a game, great environment, a lot of fun, even getting soaked in a downpour. Yeah, there were a lot of Alabama fans there, probably 50 50, but it was still, you know, they didn't have much to cheer about, so it wasn't like we were being dominated by their cheers or anything like that. So,
Track 1:Yeah,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:It was a great environment I felt like. So
Track 1:That's awesome. know what wasn't so awesome actually. I think they're always awesome, but yeah. Time for hot or not baby? The uniforms. What do we see? What do we see on the field?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:it sounds like you're leaning towards Knot in the old hotter Knot. It still gets a, it still gets a hot rating for me. They're not my favorite. I'm a green on green guy and the gold pants don't quite. Match the gold helmet and the gold highlights on the jersey numbers and all that kinda stuff. If you're gonna go with the contrasting color, it's gotta be consistent throughout, right?
Track 1:It's gotta match.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but it's still better than any crazy, so flow or something else type uniforms. I like that it's still, you know, primary colors of U S F, but gold pants weren't quite hitting for me.
Track 1:I think gold pants for me, traditional, you know, Alabama's coming back, you got the green on the gold with gold helmets felt like a very traditional look for a big home game like that. I liked it. Kick it back to the old school like a old fool. I mean, it was good for me. You know what I liked on the other side, Bama wears the all whites and we made'em dirty early. I loved, every time we'd smack the shit outta Alabama, they would get up and they'd have green turf or brown or something all over their uniforms. Well, we hide our hits. Well, wearing the dark greens and the gold. You can't see it. We look like we haven't been affected.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:It's the advantage of not going with the white helmets too. You miss out on so much scuffing on there, you know?
Track 1:Remember when we used to have to polish the scuffing off the helmets? We, the, you didn't have like another set of helmets. You got out there with a towel and some Lysol spray, and you were like scuffing, and they were the practice helmets too. So you get to like the O line and the D line and shit would look like Mad Max and the Thunderdome.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:So now, I mean, we'll have to do a whole segment on this with Lee's of how to properly like brush out a helmet over here. But now they have I think a separate set of practice and game helmets, so you don't have that issue. And even in practice they wear those little dome things on everybody who would be scuffing a helmet. So it protects them.
Track 1:Is that what that thing is?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:yeah, those white or black puffy looking marshmallow things. Yeah, it's a little concussion protocol thing. I don't know why. I mean, as soon as they can figure out how to make that like look decent. With logos on the outside of it and like skin it up or whatever. I assume that's gonna be where they go with all helmets. It's just, you know, instead of just having the padding on the outside, you put the pad or in on the inside, put the padding on the outside as well. Right.
Track 1:Yeah. The helmets have come. So, I mean, you used to have to put the little like inflator thing in there and squeeze it. And I mean you like Yeah. We'll have to. You listen in Lees, we need an update on the hottest tech. I know Lee is listening. He texted us.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Well, plus he also had to do like, the diagnosis anytime you had the scuffs, like did it actually like scratch into the helmet and, you know, ruin the structural integrity of the shell? Or is it just you just wiping it off essentially? But
Track 1:then when we get out there with paint, like paint and a Q-tip and stuff,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah. If you got the deep scratches that you had to really get in there for. Yep.
Track 1:There's like 36 people on the equipment staff right now or something like that. There's like ass ton of people
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I did see that picture. I believe it's Equipment Manager Week, so shout out to them. But yeah, that is six of them doing one of our jobs previously it seems like. So
Track 1:things back in my day. Oh, well, whatever. To the game that was hot or not. That was the uniforms. That's what we saw. Equipment stuff near and dear to our heart. Of course, what isn't near and dear to our heart is how wrong we keep ending up with these score predictions. I will I will say that I only had a score in three points and we only scored three points. Now I had Bama score in 75, but the defense came out and showed me something. 75 to three wasn't that far off.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:none of us were that much closer. I was 50 to 10. Kay was, I don't remember Covering by comfortably something. we were all wrong. Maybe that should be a sign, if any of us, every time all three of us agree on something, we should probably go back and look at it.
Track 1:Yeah. That's a great point.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:But yeah. In the actual game the points it was 17 to three probably could ended, 10 to three, could have been 30 to three. It doesn't really matter. It didn't really reflect the game necessarily. The three felt inevitable three quarters of the way through the game. I didn't think we had any hope of scoring after, after a while. And then it was really just what would BAA's points be in the end? So,
Track 1:Yeah, I mean that I, there was a point there where I was hoping maybe we'd get some points off of turnover or something. Yeah. I mean, I'd given up all hope on offensive points. That just wasn't happening, but I thought maybe, hey, maybe we'll get a turnover here and put some points on the board.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Our best offensive play was a punt that they then fumbled back to us. And so I was really hoping some punts or defensive turnover, whatever it was gonna take, was the only way we were gonna score again. So, We gave up five sacks. Even with that, I still thought it was better protection than I thought it was gonna be. Going into the game where I thought guys were just gonna be getting pancaked off the line every snap. Byron still had to run for his life quite a bit but there were some lanes, at least some guys got their bodies in the way, so we at least could use them as blockers to run around some obstacles out there. Again, our leading rusher at quarterback. So,
Track 1:the pocket collapsed a lot. The pocket, there wasn't a clean pocket for a lot. Is this where we wanna do it? The, I don't think, I don't think Byron's the guy.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Wow.
Track 1:I don't think, I don't think it's him. I mean, what we wanted to see on offense. We, and now you could argue that Alabama's defense was great. They weren't that great, but they were great. Our offense just wasn't that good. And you have Byron who cannot hit a pass, is not hitting the easy passes. You could maybe blame this a little bit on game plan. Like why we're not just hitting the short routes to Atkins and Dinking and dunking it down the field.'cause that's working. But I mean, you've got shit receivers and Simmons who is a Stevens Brown, like playing off the safety to where Brown throws that pick. It's just like the offense is lost. And I don't know that Byron Brown is the guy to really make it work. I need, we need someone with a little bit more experience there under center.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Well, we don't have anyone with more experience under center, so,
Track 1:Where's Gary?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I don't know when Gary's gonna be available. He was not available for this game again. If he becomes available, I could maybe see that you, at least when Byron has a struggle, you can pull him off, put the experienced guy in there, let coach talk with him, walk through what you're seeing, you know, from the sideline, you can see what Gary's doing differently, those types of things. So it's a coaching opportunity. Right now we got Byron's all a got man and I don't think he's doing, I mean his runs are the only thing even gaining any yards for this offense. So you take that away and We got negative yardage.
Track 1:But I mean, you could argue that like the reason his runs are, the only thing creating offense for us is because like he's not actually utilizing the offensive talent we have. Why are we not running screens to the running backs? Like why aren't we putting right out in the flat? That's an easy pass for quarterback to make and start running some screens. Why don't we have pass production to receivers like Simmons, who just looks lost half the time, or Atkins, who actually makes plays? You have tight ends now get a chip block with a tight end, get a out to some space, they're shallow and just dink and dunk down the field with a pass that obviously can't make a deep pass. I think he was like one for seven on passes. Over six yards. Like, that's nuts. You can't win a game like that. I don't care who you're playing. It's not gonna work. You're gonna be Navy,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I would be honestly totally fine running the triple option for a little while. Look, guys have to be open for you to hit them with a pass. I don't think, this wasn't like it was a couple weeks ago or the last couple weeks where there was join or Open or Atkins Open on Go Routes and Brown was just missing. Them guys weren't getting separation. I mean, there was on the two T routes that I remember, like the true Go Balls, Kool-Aid, McKinstry was step for step and picked it off. On one of'em. And luckily there was a holding on that or something, or an offsetting penalties, I don't remember. But we got away with that one.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:And then the other one we just talked about with Brown Steven trying to change his route, reading off the double coverage, and it was just a shot play and probably should just thrown it away in the end. But I think we were kind of at that point where we're like, well, a shot's a shot and we're just gonna take it. Yeah, there isn't, there's not, there's nothing to see there right now. And your dinking dunks only work as long as they respect any sort of deep threat, which teams are not gonna do. So you're just gonna get guys blown up on their short routes or pix or something like that. But they did a couple different things of getting some stuff to the tight ends on some rollouts. we did on the fourth downs. You know, we hit Wi Western Wolf on that one. That was based off some other things, I agree. Running back screen, like traditional halfback screen is probably my favorite play in all of college. Or not just college football, all of football. The Bears tried to run that against the bucks, and that resulted in a pick six this week. So you have to know how to run the screen correctly too. And I'm not sure our oline is talented enough for that. You know, they gotta be able to get out there and block for it. I don't know. I'm
Track 1:But even. Even with all that, if you can get those folks, if you can get the defenders up playing that, you're gonna open up the middle of the field, you put like Joiner or Atkins there in that soft spot in the middle of the field, you're getting down the field. Draw the defenders in, run a couple, go routes, and open up the middle of the field. That's obviously where our offensive production is right now.'cause Brown does not have the accuracy. The pocket is not going to last long enough. We gotta start getting the ball out and we need an accurate passer in order to do it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Sounds good.
Track 1:All right. Put me in
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah. So we had the two turnovers. One was the strip sack from behind Don Brown when he tried to kind of skate the pocket and didn't feel the guy wrapping all the way around. The other was the interception we talked about at the end there. But on the other side of the ball defensively, exactly what you wanna see, man.
Track 1:That was awesome. I was pumped. Oh my gosh. How many blitzes did we have? How, I mean, not just sacks, I'm not talking sacks, but how many times did we send? I mean, we got pressure on just sending four, which was awesome. But then we're dialing up nickel blitzes, and I think Saban said it was some of the most exotic blitz packages they've seen. Whew, woo.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and my favorite thing about those, you know, we sent, we'd send Evans from one side or stokes from the other, or even send a true corner blitz with the Morris Brown going sometimes. My favorite thing about those is, On a lot of'em, they're not just getting there clean because the old line didn't pick it up. They're dipping their shoulder and they're getting around the edge on an old lineman who's, who should pancake a DB like that, right? And they're still getting pressure and fighting through it. So that was nice to see that those guys can actually put in a pass rush mover too, essentially. Right. So
Track 1:They were swimming. That was the thing. Like they would catch the edge on an o lineman who knew they were coming, right? It's not like they didn't pick up the blitz. They knew they were coming, they still got around and would get the, get either Buckner or Simpson on the blind side, just man, it was awesome. I'm surprised we didn't get turnovers on
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:was gonna say the only thing we gotta add onto that is now getting the blindside strip sack out of it When you hit that guy. But I mean obviously the Alabama offense was not good. We told you they weren't gonna be good. We did have the wrong quarterback, but we also told you they might make a switch, so I didn't think they were. Gonna be as bad as that or we were gonna make them play as bad as that. So I'm proud of that. But I mean, even on Run Defense, we were good. You know, they late game, they started to just get behind those hog mollies they talked about and just chunk it off. I think I, but passing game, they had nothing. They essentially hit one pass and that was about it. But yeah, defense huge. One other thing we talked about too, just on all aspects of the ball was penalties. You know, the last couple games we'd had a hundred yards of penalties or, so we cleaned it up a lot. We were down to just five for 40, but we still had some bad ones in some key areas.
Track 1:yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:They went both ways. Like Alabama, like we said, had that interception taken away on some offsetting penalties. They had a huge kick return taken away on a holding. But we gave them two first downs on defense jumping off sides. And we also had a key holding in there, which may have taken away at least a field goal attempt for us. I'm not saying it was a guaranteed three points, but
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:in a game like that, you know, a chance to get three more points would've been huge. What do you think of the penalties?
Track 1:Maybe it's because I just watched the Boston College game. Where like, didn't their team just set a record for The number of penalties in the game for them it was like they had 18 penalties. So maybe just coming off of that game, I'm thinking like, wow, this is a pretty clean game for us. I thought coming outta the game. We just had in the past two games, I would say we're like, we've really struggled on penalties. When you're mismatched like that, talent-wise, that's where penalties come from, right? You're holding the guy who doesn't get away from you. You're like you're maybe jamming'em five yards past the line or you're doing things, you know, you, you're getting the hands to the face'cause you're just getting beat off the line. We didn't see that in that talent mismatch and we knew there was a talent mismatch and so I felt really comfortable with whatever they did coaching-wise or sitting with the players like, listen, it hurts us more. Make it taking that penalty than if you just, you know, play the game. Let's get back to fundamentals. Let's get back to just playing the ball like we know we're supposed to. And I mean, it worked for us.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, that's a great point. Do you think that's coaching improvement? Does goldish get any credit for that or is that just
Track 1:You know what I
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:a little bit of luck?
Track 1:you know what? I think you're getting ready to ask me
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I'm gonna ask you.
Track 1:hey, should we fire coach Alex Gold? Shit. Do I think that's coaching a hundred fucking percent? I think that's coaching It takes so long to turn a culture around. It takes so long and you have a team that desperately wants to win. You have, I mean, guys don't like losing, so you are going to do anything possible to stop from getting beat on that play again, right? You can only get beat so many times. You're gonna take a penalty. I mean, I think this is a culture shift and that takes time. Now there's some things a little frustrated with QB struggles. Got it. I don't know where a coach goes with that stuff.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I mean, he's an offensive coach. I mean, he's gotta be, he's buck stops with him, right? If it's his QB choice, if it's, a lot of people think he's messing with Byron Brown because Byron Brown had that amazing 21 for 21 performance, obviously he can't be. inaccurate. We must have fucked him up somehow. Right.
Track 1:What did we do?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:But yeah I think the QB struggles are less about actual mechanics or coaching. Maybe what you were talking about a little bit more of. We gotta change some of the scheme you know, play into our strengths if we have them on offense. I'm not sure what they are yet besides the QB run. Let's try some other things.'cause it's certainly our strengths are not what they currently are, but at the same time he's gotta, he's putting in a new scheme. He's gotta keep trying to get, teach guys what they're meant to be doing and evaluating them to see if they can do it at some point. And maybe that's, he's gotta rotate through some different bodies there. I don't think QB is anything that you're getting. I. Better at, unless Gary Bohannon is ready at some point. That just gives you a different option and experience and maturity level. But to me, that's nothing on Coach Golish to get him fired yet.
Track 1:I mean,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:the people around me would say, what you really need to fire him for is his fourth down decision making.
Track 1:oof. I mean the, there was a point, right? And we were talking about this in the chat where it goes from like, fuck it, we have nothing to lose to, oh my gosh, we might actually win this game, right? Like, oh my gosh, there's, I'm not saying we're going to, but ooh, we're a lot closer than I thought we were gonna be. Let's change the game plan. And I felt like watching it from home, that it still had that sense of funky, we've got nothing to lose. And that led to some reckless kind of coaching decisions. That fake punt. I was, maybe that was busted or something. I was not a fan of that call.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:So there were four failed fourth downs in the game for us. One was a fourth and 15, one was the punt. I think the other two were both fourth and short runs. I really didn't have a problem with any of them. I was all on board with the fuck it. We got nothing. I lose all the way through.
Track 1:You're like that, you remember that game on PlayStation? Twisted Metal and the ice cream truck with the burning clown head on top of it that would just fuck stuff up. That's you.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:demolition derby. Just we're out there to wreck shit. And we'll go through those different four, definitely the punt and the fourth and fifteens certainly too.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but once you go back and look at'em, maybe not horrible. But yeah. Let's go through all, everything.
Track 1:Well wait before, before we get there, one other thing on this I think the rubber hits the road. Whatever, however you say that you have. You have a loss against Western Kentucky. You have a win against F A M U and you have held close against Bama. As we start to shift now into conference play, you talked about, okay, rotating through guys and seeing what we've got. This is where we need to see the adjustments going into conference play. This is where we need to see. Okay. You've gotten the three. No one expected us to beat Alabama and we held the close. Got it. It's a wash in my book. You saw some great stuff. Would I have liked to see like maybe the Atkins double pass again, you know, against Bama. Try to get some points if you're really going for it all. I would've loved to see that. Sure. But I mean, for some reason they didn't do that and he owned a lot of it in the post-game presser. I will say Four o'clock. Kick against rice that we'll preview here soon. This is where we need to see the stuff shift.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:For sure. But yeah, so 17 to three game, there aren't gonna be a whole lot of highlights for us to run through here, guys. Yeah. And I would hope, you know, national tv, every Bulls fan should at least seen that.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but yeah, it was defensive battle when it was three, nothing off of the, again, the fumbled punt that we recovered and then did nothing with, and then just kicked from where we recovered it. People were taking pictures of the scoreboard of us beating Bama. They recognized that this may not last. That, that may be all the fun we were having for the day.
Track 1:It lasted a lot longer than anyone thought it was going to.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:for sure. But overall, I mean, the first half was essentially two fumbles, which resulted in two field goals. A whole shit ton of punts and one very wet long rain delay. Actually, it wasn't too long. It was,
Track 1:No.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:they got through it pretty quick. I think we restarted around five 30. But once we opened that second half, you know, we we had like a little mini drive. We got to about the 50, and this is again going back to the penalties. So on third down we get a false start. It was like third and five or something like that. Brings us back to third and 10. And then we run the ball to get it back to like third and seven. We didn't get much on the third down. And that's where I think maybe they already had the punt in mind. Because if you don't have that penalty and it's fourth and two, Punt that, that fake punt works. But it was fourth and seven is the problem. And Gunner Greenwall just didn't have the athleticism to, to get
Track 1:get seven yards. Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:He did not have a great day. He had a 15 yard personal foul in there and I think maybe something else, I don't remember. But yeah, fake punt. They obviously saw something. It wasn't horrible. It was, you know, they got three yards. It had well blocked pretty well. They had a numbers advantage, but just the athleticism and the.
Track 1:Wasn't there?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:The call now, the good news is it didn't hurt us. We turned it over midfield. They punted, they didn't go down and score right away.
Track 1:Amazing defense. I'm crediting that all
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and that's the one thing you can, if you're, if we're gonna get all these fourth down attempts and they don't come back to Biden us in the ass, then keep on going. That's the one you really wanna see. The aggressiveness is you have faith in your defense to say, Hey, we can do this and I know you're gonna get the ball back for us anyways. You know,
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:that's where the team kind of builds on the team. And you can, but it can also, you can make the opposite argument if you have the good defense rock and then you just wanna play the field position battle and put your defense in better positions to try and get a score or whatever, you know. But that particular fourth down punt, fake punt didn't hurt us. Alabama's one or real first touchdown drive started their own 16. It was an 84 yard drive. They hit us with their one. Good pass the day, which was like a, it was pretty much a gadget play. They hit their tight end on a deep post.
Track 1:Yep.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:You know, I think we were all sucked up playing aggressively, weren't expecting him to be the target there and they, you know, it was long play, switched the field position. Then they had switch one good run on there, which got him down into the first and goal type situation. And from there they just, Alabama does for the final few yards.
Track 1:I just ran it. But I mean, I, that was one of those where I wasn't, I mean, I was bummed, but you had this feeling that the dam was gonna break at any moment.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Well, what I liked on that too is even the one good run they had, If that was last year's defense, that one good run is in the end zone. Like there's no safety make, taking the angle to cut him off inside the tent. Right. If they
Track 1:Oh God.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:he was gone.
Track 1:that's Matt Hill's music. And he missed
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yep. Exactly. Exactly.
Track 1:That's La Pointe. Oh.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:even though Barry Hill, you know, he had a couple angles that I wish he had back still, but it wasn't like, oh, I'm running in the opposite direction of the field type. Bad angles. It was, oh, I gave up an extra five yards versus, you know, that I didn't stuff the run versus, oh, I gave up a touchdown.
Track 1:Oh, sure.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and I also really liked that even after they scored, we probably had our best offensive drive and respond. You know, we came back, we didn't get our heads down, we didn't get dejected. Oh, the game's over Alabama finally scored. They're gonna run away with it. We actually, we responded, we drove the field. We got down to the Alabama 20, we got down to a fourth and one fourth and two maybe, and tried a QB power, which we just got again, I would say Alabama, of, hey, the rubber met the road and they outmanned us on that play
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and just stopped us.
Track 1:But that wasn't our last chance.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:No, it wasn't our last chance. And even though we used that, like we, it was like a too tight end, very tight formation where we ran the QB power. That's actually, we obviously do a nice job of kind of scheming up a couple different pl, short fourth downplays out of the same formation.'cause we came back to that same formation when we ran a fourth down later. It was the same thing where we hit Weston Wolf and said on the play action for that conversion. So it's nice to see they're at least planning that out ahead of time that hey, we can't just run the same play. so we did exchange punts after that failed chance and we got the ball back and again, we were driving, got across the 50, got the, that Western Wolf conversion, like I just mentioned. I think Atkins had a couple dinkin dunks, like you were talking about moving. And Goli even said this one was on him. He got impatient, felt like maybe he could take the shot play. And we threw the interception. Brown and Brown Stevens were just not on the same, We're not on the same
Track 1:I mean, it's double coverage. The, we kind of talked about it a little bit already too. Brown Stevens goes to the inside ball, goes to the outside. I mean, it's an easy play for the defender to make, I mean, we weren't even close to it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I don't think I don't think Byron Brown's at the point where he's really reading the coverage during the play there. I think it's still a little too chaotic for him, where he's reading it pre-snap to see if they're in a decent look that we think the play might work against. But then, you know, the pocket he could step up in the pocket, but it was still a lot of A lot of collapsing around him. So I mean, he put a, it was a pretty ball. He put it right, right about where you want it.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:It's just there's two Alabama guys waiting there for it instead of r o wide receiver. So I think as one is the competition's a little less maybe that plays there to be had. And two, I think Goldish said he was gonna take some things from there too, of maybe we have a better check down option on that We're not seeing it, that hey, there's something else built in there where we can just there's an option B.'cause that was like a Max Protect play. We're taking the shot, heave it and see what happens. Like that seemed like it was the design essentially.
Track 1:I mean, but you had pulled both defenders out there. There was somebody that was gonna be open,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. Well, you would think there was somebody that was open. I'm not sure there actually was, but There should be somebody open.
Track 1:Not Simmons, that's for sure.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. So, and we don't have the athletes who are gonna go win those, Contested battles certainly as well. And it didn't help and it didn't help that he had there was, like I said, miscommunication. He was reading, you know, he saw the two guys out there. He tried to bend it in brown into the same thing. He put it outside shoulder. So that's never gonna help you contest that play any as well.
Track 1:and to argue your point, we do have an athlete. His name is Sean Atkins.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Okay. Okay.
Track 1:Yeah. And he could've done it. I mean, that's, and from there it, it's kinda like, all right here comes Bama, right?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. Yeah, I think at that point they decided, Hey, we need to end this game. Enough playing around, they didn't attempt a pass on this next drive and just ran it down our throats.
Track 1:yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:we got it down to fourth and two, and this was an interesting time because a field goal for them, Would've essentially won the game for them as well. Make it a two score game with, I don't know how much less than two minutes left or something like that.
Track 1:was like three minutes or something like
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:three minutes. But still, especially with the way our offense had worked, it was a two score game was for sure the end of the game.
Track 1:just need to pray for a punt return
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. But I think Saban was trying to speak to his team a little bit more than win the game by going for it on fourth down there. I think he was like, we're Alabama. If we can't get two yards against these guys, that's a problem. And we hadn't stopped them from getting two yards, to be honest, in the run game at that point. I don't know if that was fatigue or just mindset setting in, you know, those types of things.
Track 1:whole drive, they were getting too easy.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:But you felt like, hey, well, you know, still giving us a chance. If you get the stop there, then we do have a chance. But unfortunately we got a little too amped up and jumped off sides and just gave it away to them. So it, yeah. And then they just finished off by just. Running it in the rest of the way for a touchdown to widen the lead a little bit. But that really didn't matter at that point.
Track 1:That's where I felt bummed that play right there. That's where I felt bummed.'cause I thought there was hope. I mean, they were gonna kick the field goal, it was gonna be like a Game regardless.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:They decided not to kick the field goal. That was
Track 1:If they would've, if they wouldn't have gone for it. Right.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Oh yeah.
Track 1:field goal eventually, like if we would've got the stop, that's where I felt bummed.'cause I was like, there's a little bit of hope here.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. I had no hope still at that point. I wanted to see defense get the stop, obviously, just for what that would mean for the defense. But
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I did not see any way our offense was going to execute a two or three minute drive to go down and get a game tying
Track 1:But what a u s f fucking thing to do, to wait until the very end
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, exactly.
Track 1:actually do it. Like, I could see it happening because, oh God, that's what U S F does.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:So given your thought, your feelings on that fourth down and don't. I don't disagree with you. I think I might have a early prediction of who your Matt Hill Player of the Week award was.
Track 1:Yeah, it was tough for me. For me, the Matt Hill player of the week, the guy who we think probably really screwed the pooch, it's a close one for me between Simmons and Gordon. And here's the thing for me, Simmons, his performance over the past couple games, I mean, the guy just can't catch a pass or seemed to get on the same page with Byron Brown to save his life. And then there's sometimes where I'm like, are you even blocking? Like what do you even, what do you do on the field? What would you say it is you do here? What it is you say you do here, and then just Gordon, you, I hate that for him, but you know, don't jump. Watch the hard count. I know you're trying to make a play, man. This is like you knew they were gonna try to draw you off sides. I hate that.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, I was gonna say this later for dad gamut, but I'll move it up to here just'cause of since we're on the subject, obviously can't do that. It's a, at least it wasn't a, how do I phrase this?
Track 1:How do you phrase it?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:was almost an effort play. He knew he was desperate and he was trying to time it up to shoot the gap and make a big play. Right? He was just a little too amped up, almost still a boneheaded decision, but it wasn't like he was, it's not the personal foul slash throat slash type Inexcusable. F What I did like about it with the silver lining was I saw Logan Berryhill showing some leadership and getting after him. You know, he didn't do it on the field there right then, and then they still had some football to go play after they scored the touchdown. As they're coming off, he's, you know, getting after him letting'em know, you know, that's not acceptable on our defense. They got to get, you know, they didn't come to fisticuffs, but they had to get separated, pulled apart. Things are heated out on the football field. I like that. I want my team to be heated when they make a mistake, you know? And then I think, I can't remember if it was KP or I think it was actually Todd Orlando who then, you know, pulled Gordon aside and talked about him and coached him up, you know, wasn't, he wasn't ripping'em a new one. He was coaching'em up about how we're gonna learn from this. And I don't know what was said, I wasn't there, but while I was there, but I was 50 yards up in the stands. not that good of a lip reader,
Track 1:Oh, he called him a bitch. Oh my God.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:That does remind me of when coming outta the rain delay. I was trying to watch all, I was texting you guys about these interactions I was seeing between the refs and Saban and Gish. There was some sort of controversy that happened during the rain delay. I don't know what it was, whether Saban felt like we were still too close to the lightning or if he just wanted to cancel the game and have us forfeit or what I, he was chewing out the refs. The refs were then coming over talking to like five U S F officials who looked like they were on radios and stuff. Obviously something to do with the weather or the facility or something. I don't know what it was or time. I don't know what it was, but as I'm a little bit different, maybe people think I'm on the spectrum, I don't know. But during a football game, I'm there. I'll have fun during the tailgate, but during the game I'm generally not drinking as much. I'm there to like watch football and so I'm watching every little thing on the sidelines. I'm looking if a guy comes off injured, I'm watching what kind of, what they're working on. Does it look like he's gonna be able to come back in? I'm like a sideline reporter from 50 rows up. So,
Track 1:I like it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:yeah.
Track 1:You give us the end game
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Right. But yeah, so it was good to see them take a bad thing there, which probably didn't really matter in the outsides. Pretty sure we had that game lost anyways. Still wasn't great to see. Use it as a coaching moment. Hopefully we don't see that repeat itself and then that can be the benefit of it. We'll see. I don't have, I'm sure we'll still jump off sides at some point this season,
Track 1:That's gonna happen.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but yeah. So that was so you had a little debate on the Matt Hill player of the week. No one really. I agree. Both of those guys did not play their best especially in those situations. Mine, I'm actually gonna take a little positive spin on this. I just wanna make this back into a normal, instead of being the bad player of the week award, I'm just gonna give this to Daquan Evans for how well he played. If he keeps that up, we might have to get rid of the segment. You know, maybe if we get a win maybe that's what we do. If we get a win, we'll make it a good player of the week. If we get a loss, it's a bad player of the week. Award.
Track 1:I like that idea. All right. If it's a loss, it's the Matt Hill player of the game. If it's a win, it's the Daquan Evans player of the game. Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:But yeah, I mean, just outstanding effort from that young man. Sachs tackles for loss, pass breakup, all kinds of stuff going on there, earned his American honor roll or whatever he got. So,
Track 1:and he led, I mean, we could go back and look at his stats. He had like eight tackles for a loss.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:yeah.
Track 1:He had like two sacks, or three sacks or four s something, I mean, like an insane effort from that guy.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:crazy especially from a nickel or third safety, whatever he's playing. Whatever role, he's kind of playing that inside db. You can take that back and put a challenge towards our d lineman that, hey, you're letting this little DB out, SIA light a fire under their ass, hopefully for some future games.
Track 1:Oh yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but he made some crazy plays. We also had, you know, we had the traditional macie. Holy shit, how'd he do that
Track 1:Holy shit. How do you do that?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Byron Brown had another crazy third down run, Bob and him weaving through like five, six different guys coming. A theme for him, I think really just'cause he has to unfortunately,
Track 1:there's no options
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:You had Evans, our guy. He had a leaping past breakup. One-handed, it was pretty nice. I think most people would probably vote for this one. Just from what I've seen on Twitter, even though it was like a three yard gain on the play, it was not, this is not an amazing play, but it did convert fourth down, I think. Weston Wolf late in the game, got a little play action, flat pass and hurdle. The defender.
Track 1:Got the hurdle and then he got stuck as he was still in the air. I mean,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:did not, I don't think he got a chance quite to land the hurdle. And so he got flipped around quite good.
Track 1:but it was, you know. Yeah. That was that. I liked that he even got some props from Archie three, you know? That's good to get, that's good for these guys
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:the announcers were interesting on this one. They were obviously excited. We'd get fired up. I think there, I think that really showed on this. There was one segment we had today. You know, we talked about some different options when this play happened. I knew this was the winner. There was no debate. I didn't need to watch any other plays. It was undisputed
Track 1:undisputed.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and we're just gonna go ahead and play it for you.
Track 1:Just play it. Woo. Oh my God, baby, I'm, oh, I can feel it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:The only thing that would've made that better is if the announcers had said you got creamed. Like they somehow had the segment in there for us.
Track 1:Like they knew it was coming. We could just put it in number two. Baby, you got creamed.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I believe Downs was his name
Track 1:Ugh. It's unfortunate. Creamed. Creamed.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:creamed.
Track 1:Oh my gosh.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:on the Bulls pen already titled it to, they called it out.
Track 1:Yeah,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I'm glad that glad it's catching on.
Track 1:outlaw my man. He was like you. We already got the segment. Damn right. We do. That's right. Content curator right there. You know you get awards on the Bulls pen for things you do. We should have a caring cord content curator, the four C's of engaging with the pod. Is that All Seas? Anyway this podcast is All Seas. Yes, you got Creamed Quam, right, baby. That's all you, I mean, that is all. You lowered the shoulder. I heard that. 10 states over. I felt the ripple. Oh my
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:beautiful. We bowed down to you Quan Wright, just like Downs did as you ran him over.
Track 1:Trucked him. Truck sick. Baby
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:it is my honor to say that number two downs for Alabama. You got creamed
Track 1:cream. You got, I mean, you got cream so bad, you could whip that up and turn it into a ganache. dammit.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Beautiful. Dad. Gamt. Pookah. Why You gotta bring the why You gotta bring the food recipe
Track 1:dad gambit.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Gamt.
Track 1:There were some coaching mistakes, man. Some dad
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:there anything we haven't talked about on Dag Gatt? I think we hit all the dag GAMTs. DJ Gordon was a dag gamut. The fake punt was a dag gammut we talked about.,how we could justify that one.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:The one that really seemed to grind a lot of people's gears, at least in the section I was in the fourth and 15, Still going for that one. People thought we could have kicked a field goal there. It was gonna be like a 50 something yard field goal. I think we just know our kicker doesn't have that range.
Track 1:I don't think
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:can't really punt, you can't really punt from there.
Track 1:yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:If you get a punt, you're most likely just gonna get a touchback, so you're only gaining like 10 yards on the punt.
Track 1:So you're saying
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:so, so I liked the fourth and 15.
Track 1:Okay.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Well, I didn't like the fourth and 15 situation I guess, but I liked the fourth and 15. Go for it. I didn't love the play call and I didn't love the execution or coaching that'd be given to Byron Brown.'cause on that play, you're really hoping for a couple things. Defensive penalty. You get a new set of downs. Just toss it up. If they get, if they pick it off, maybe you're gaining some field position just by them. Caching it inside the five, something like that. So, so the fact that we didn't, Byron Brown ended up running outta bounds on the play.
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Just hed the ball up give you, give someone a chance, let chaos happen out there. See what happens.
Track 1:Dad, gamut. Coach. That's on you.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:The other thing that's dag game about that play is we talked about this. If we hadn't gotten a holding on the third down and they just, it was an incomplete or small yards game where we didn't convert on third down, we're still in field goal. We're at the 28 and we can kick the field goal. That's a 45 yard field goal, I would hope that's in our range. But once we got the holding, that took us back outta range. And so that gamut, I think it was, I think it was Jennings who got the holding, but I'm not positive.
Track 1:I surprise there.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Alright. That's enough for the fun segments. Let's wrap this thing up. What are our takeaways from this game? Obviously we were very excited. What does it all mean?
Track 1:I
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:me. Oh, go ahead.
Track 1:I don't know. I was about to ask you what it means,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Oh, this is where Pookah just shuts his mouth and let Red do the real. Now,
Track 1:tell when you're wrong.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:If here you're very quick to do that, but yeah big picture. Nothing really changed for me. I'm trying not to get too high off of this. I don't think, even though I really wanna believe in that, this, especially on the defense is what this team can be. I'm not gonna believe it until we actually put it on the field again in a victory.
Track 1:Sure.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Until we show we know how to win in pressure situations, I think we're gonna find ways to lose. We gotta get that monkey off our back. We gotta see that same defensive effort next week. We gotta see some improvements on the offense. I just don't think we got the wide receivers on offense. We gotta do something where you're like, you're saying if we don't have what we need to, run some guys out there doing decoys and know the primary option is really underneath the screens, the rollouts. Gotta do something Even on the rushing offense. We did okay. We did better than I thought against spam. We had a couple like gap runs where we could open stuff. We certainly weren't firing him off the ball or anything. I mean, that's a monster D line, but we had some big runs. Still too heavily relying on the QB run. Byron Brown took again another few shots where I thought he was gonna be done for sure. He's got a slide, but for now he's just, coach Goldish is tough ass dude out there. Maybe go goldish might be forced to make a QB change
Track 1:yeah, There were a couple moments where I thought that change was coming. Like there was that one hit where he was slow to get up and I was like, well, there it is.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah. But defensively, yes, we gave up 200 yards on the rush. This is last year's team. It's probably like 2000 in a game. You know, like I was still encouraged by the Rush D events, especially against Bama. Got a lot of D linemen rotating in there. I talked about this. The no easy tds, even on the touchdowns they scored even on the big plays they hit. It wasn't the one play touchdown, it was one play gets you chunk of yards, another play gets you another chunk of yards and then they have to go in and finish it off against Bama. They got the bodies to go in and finish that off from inside the 10 against other teams. That's gonna give us a chance to make some plays tighten up down in the red zone and hopefully get some stops. And then pass defense, I think was the big poo boss surprise. I mean, five sacks. That's, we're now at over half our sack total for the entire year, last year through three games. So
Track 1:That's awesome.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:the blitzes we're getting there. Really only one busted coverage on that tight end play like we talked about solid. Special teams, no huge issues. You know, punts were fine. The field goal was good. We obviously don't have much faith in the field goal distance, so I'd like to really know, kind of
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:comes to shove, what is really
Track 1:What's the
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:there.
Track 1:do we have? Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:We got no excitements on the returns. We did have the one busted return coverage, but we'll just be nice and say that's only'cause they had the holding. You know, We definitely had it covered if it wasn't for that.
Track 1:it wasn't for the holding, we would've been good. For sure. Don't go back and watch it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:yeah, guys were quick to jump on the fumble. On the punt. You know, special teams got the turnover, so it's a couple weeks in a row for turnover on special teams,
Track 1:That was, they listened to our last pod where we gave Hickman shit for not looking at the ball that was maybe live, and they're like, listen, we don't wanna, we don't wanna be on the wrong side of carrying cord here. I'd imagine they play this in the locker room during team dinner or something.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:for sure. For
Track 1:Yeah, I'd imagine
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I mean, I think it's probably how they kick off. Take film review for the week of just, well, we'll go to the experts right away.
Track 1:Let's go to
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:give you the high notes for what you need to know. And that's true, we should probably put out the pod earlier'cause that could be a deficiency of
Track 1:It could be we're ruining the team here, but, and we're getting ready to get into other dumb takes, like we're ruining the team. But for me, looking at all that, how could you not say that there's progress? You have taken one of the worst defenses, the worst defense in the nation and held strong against Bama. You took an offense, right? That we're not really producing right now. God, I mean, we didn't do super bad against F A M U. We've got some plays in there. We right here, folks. I have this feeling that we are right where we need to be, even if we have a mediocre season, even if we come out on the losing end of this season. Holy shit. The progress that we have made across three games from where we're at just last season should be exciting. I understand being bummed out. I understand being kinda like let down and like seeing hope and like having it right there, but my God, do not lose the forest for the trees. What an amazing effort by U s F in this game. Don't you agree?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I do. I'm ready. You know, all of those things have got me ready to run through the brick wall. I'm ready. I'm amped up. I feel like the team is feeling that way too. They're feeling confident after all that my worries are gonna go to run through that wall and get rejected by the wall. That wall being rice, I guess
Track 1:I'm gonna say is Rice the wall?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:And what's gonna happen at that point?
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Can they pick themselves back up and realize, hey, progress comes and ebbs and flows,
Track 1:Yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:We're gonna have some struggles, we're gonna have some adversity still. It's not all rainbows and leaps and bounds of, oh, we're only going up from here.
Track 1:It takes time and I mean, it just, it takes time. That's all I'm gonna say.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:All right, that's enough for all you have to say. I wanna highlight some things that other people had to say,
Track 1:Go for it.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:and this is normally our dumb tweet of the week candidate, but some of these are some positive things, okay?
Track 1:Ooh.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:We're trying to give it a little bit new fla. Not all of it. Don't worry, we're not going completely soft on
Track 1:have heard the people,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I have, and sometimes we'll do. It really just depends on our mood. Right now we're feeling okay after the Alabama game, all right? And people weren't saying too much dumb shit because of that.
Track 1:yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:First, I wanna highlight the bar stool, U S F account. I don't know if you've been following this at all, but they have made some sort of transition in Ownership and it is getting more engagement than ever. We gotta get them hooked up with the pod. If they plug the pod, listen's going huge.
Track 1:Who is the barto? If you're listening to this email? Red at big red nuts. Nine four twenty@gmail.com. We are ready.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Or just d m k on Twitter
Track 1:Oh, yeah.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:whatever the fuck it's but just great epic shit posting from, you know, you're familiar with Barstool, typical college bullshit epic shit posting, you know, they've been doing a whole running Byron and t Swift joke because of the whole Kelsey and T Swift type stuff.
Track 1:That you fucking lost me there.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:don't worry about it, man. Don't worry about it.
Track 1:All right. Good.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Nick Saban is over, was their hashtag for the week, all that kind of stuff. So it was good stuff.
Track 1:Oh.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:And then I got a shout out to Barstool Bama a little bit here too, just'cause they took a nice little shot at our friends down the road. Even in victory, Alabama, you know, tweeted out their last four matchups against the Florida Big Four, their 4.0 and then they had the scores of our game. Alabama Beat Florida, Alabama beat Florida State and Alabama beat in Miami. So
Track 1:oh.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I'm ruffled a few feathers and I didn't mind because even though c fans promised that they were gonna be out of our mentions, that they'd moved on to the Big 12 and they were gonna be big dogons. Now they're still following every tweet. U Ss F makes complaining about all this bullshit. They were mad because we had a tweet about thanking our fans for showing up 65,000 strong. And they're like, oh, how many of those were Bama fans? Of course there's gonna be a shit ton of Bama fans. We get paid still for those tickets. Like,
Track 1:Oh my God. We don't return that money. We don't give that back to them.'cause they're Bama fans. You're, I bet C fans are the kind of folks that when people started kneeling for the national anthem, they burned their shit thinking they were doing something right. Like, here's my Colin Kaepernick jersey, I'm burning it, whatever. See? Get over it. Just go be in the big 12. Leave us alone. We don't care about you anymore. You're like that. You're like that dude who's abusive that doesn't know anything about himself, that like the emotional intelligence of a fart goes on other relationships, but then still is like madly in love with your high school girlfriend and won't let her go and like sees her dating other people and doing great things and living her best life. And you're like, yeah, but she farts in her sleep. Like, go, who cares? Just go. We don't love you anymore. We don't need you. I don't need you.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:This next one, Nothing egregiously wrong, but just stood out to me as I was rewatching the game. And I saw you guys texting about it during the game as well. We talked about the announcers already. One of, I think this was on a Byron Brown run. He was being evasive, made some guys miss and RRG three decided to throw out there. He's got more moves than a military family.
Track 1:That's pretty good.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Yeah, you liked that.
Track 1:That is pretty good.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:your seal of approval.
Track 1:some military families out there. Adam don't make a joke of my husband's service as they're sitting at Applebee's for the veteran state discount that's coming up soon.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Then the last one was back to the Bulls pen again. This was from a new member, so maybe I'll take it a little easy on them. They just signed up here in September, so fresh to the pen. Maybe still figuring out how the message board works,
Track 1:Okay. They don't know. They don't know that this is a thing. If you say,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:in. Yeah. They definitely don't know that we're coming after'em, that's for sure.
Track 1:yeah
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Mr. Armstrong
Track 1:okay,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:very fancy with the naming,
Track 1:Mr.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:spelled out the mr
Track 1:Yeah,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:You don't see that very often,
Track 1:no you don't, Mr. Anderson.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:but his message was and it starts off okay. Some coaches adjust their schemes to their player's ability instead of forcing a scheme on their players that don't fit. This is the difference between being three and oh and one and two. Well, Mr. Armstrong, I was with you. I was with you for the first part. Yeah, Gish does need to do a little bit better job adjusting the scheme. It's three games in. Sometimes you gotta take a little time to evaluate the scheme, but god dammit, it is definitely not the reason we're three. We're not three and oh instead of one and two. We're lucky we're one and two. This team is God fucking awful. And we gotta shake a lot of that off. The fact that we were in three games is a godsend to me, and that just proves to me that you haven't been watching U S F football for long enough to not be thankful for that Pka. That's usually your job to go on the rant. And I tried to put a, he said I wasn't ranting enough. Na last week. it wasn't enough to get you to come to the game, so I tried to put a little more oomph behind it for you.
Track 1:I felt the fire. But the other thing is, you're right, and that's what makes your rants hard because You're right. A lot of the time I'm wrong, but I don't care.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:You just full send.
Track 1:yeah, I just full sense. But you're a hundred percent right? Like come on, how do you're telling me that the only thing that has us at one and two is scheme. How do you know the only thing having us at one and two isn't scheme? Like how are we not o and three because of lack of scheme? What are you like? I don't understand. I don't understand where maybe if there was like a report card for life where shit like this that you put on the internet followed you for the rest of your life. So you had to atone like answer for these things. Like you go for a job interview, like,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:think they have that in China.
Track 1:oh good, we need that. I think I saw that on an episode of Black Mirror too. I wouldn't be against that.'cause Mr. Armstrong. Ooh, what's Mr. Armstrong's job? I think he's a personal trainer. Or she. Or they,
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I think he is a professional cyclist.
Track 1:Ooh, one testicle. I. Some performance enhancing drugs.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:allegedly.
Track 1:Allegedly. No. He admitted to it, man. admitted to it. Just like, I hope Mr. Armstrong, you'd get on the bulls pan after this. Admit that is a shitty take. Or you could do what other folks have done. Futilely and argued, but there's
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:showed up At our houses and threatened us.
Track 1:yeah, but my mom told that last guy to leave and I appreciate that. She does the best. I wonder if
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:how cut he was though.
Track 1:Well, I think she knows him anyway. we'll add that one to the pile of losses, but it is the shiniest participation trophy we are probably ever gonna get. Maybe yet for sure. Maybe we managed to steal Nick Saban's Mojo. 71 years old.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:God. I fucking hope so.'cause even though it's nice to have that it, we almost beat Alabama Trophy. We hung with them for three quarters. It'd be so good to just be a winning football team for eight years, eight years straight. Wouldn't that be nice? Just not having to worry about anything. Just like, oh, we lost in the national championship this year, guys.
Track 1:Ah, dang it. Dang. Could you imagine the bowl gift that they get? The other thing is, I got real fucking tired of them talking about how many times Alabama has made it to a national championship with only one loss. They just talked about, they had graphics. They were like, talk about it nonstop. I would love for that to be us to where like, you could be a one loss team and still be looking at national championship.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:Are you, is this the time where we've finally, or. Our national championship hopes are done at one and two over
Track 1:I think our national championship hopes were done when we went to the American I'm not saying that, that's definitely it, but we're not in the conference that's getting the yeah. You know, we're. You know, two laws. U S F is definitely gonna take it over. Like a zero loss Ohio State or something. I'm sure.
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I mean, what about when they see our victory over rice next week?
Track 1:Woo. Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Tune in later this week for the rice preview. should be a powerhouse matchup of conference rivals that are gonna make this past week. Seem like we were just playing some peewee football or something. I am Ron Burgundy. Why'd you put that in there?
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:I don't know.
Track 1:Cos
squadcaster-7dc5_4_09-18-2023_160831:go.