Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
Carrying Cord: A USF Football Pod
Delusions of Grandeur (FAU Preview)
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It's HOMECOMING week! Join Pookah and Red this week as this one goes a bit off the rails in ways that hopefully the FAU game doesn't.
It's carrying cord. Your U S F football podcast and this week we're coming home. That's right baby. It is homecoming.
Track 1:nothing like coming back to the comforts of home with a raus. You 10,000 fans there waiting to cheer you on,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:that better be more than 10,000 fans or I'm coming down there. I'm Puka.
Track 1:and I'm red.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:And this week our goal, you may have noticed I'm a little more subdued. it's to bring you no joy or hope. There's no funny punchlines or delusions of grandeur. This is just boring stats delivered in our normal grading voices.
Track 1:I have two things to say that only there's only one written, but how the fuck do you say the word grandeur?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Grand Grandeur Grandeur
Track 1:you, you can tell I wrote the script.'cause that's not a word you must use very often over there
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:grandeur GR grand.
Track 1:like. Like it's like a J even though there's no J in there
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:What did I say? Grandeur. Grandeur. This is a whole thing. This is going in too, because it's, illusions, delusions,
Track 1:people vote if I'm just being an asshole or not. But it sounds like you're saying it weird to me.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:wait. no. Before you go on with that note to our social media manager, put a poll on the Twitter of how it's pronounced that is going in here.
Track 1:as you can tell, we're very serious in this episode. Please endure. Oh fuck. Now. Now I try to say enjoy endure Fuck me.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:please endure with our compliments.
Track 1:please enjoy with our compliments.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:that was a whole grating intro. We didn't need to do all that. You know what? Greats on my nerves red
Track 1:No,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:having to do retractions. Do we have any retractions this week? Did we get anything wrong?
Track 1:in luck. No, I don't think we did. All the problems were on the field for the football team. We had no issues, but just to cover our bases. We're trying to step it all up, trying to get down to business,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Okay,
Track 1:button
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we're serious.
Track 1:We're serious. We're not trying to fuck around here.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No. Okay. How are we not fucking
Track 1:help the team win.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. Okay. So how do we do that? Because I don't know how to not fuck around.
Track 1:Eh, we'll wing it.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh, okay.
Track 1:goes well for us.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Cool.
Track 1:I mean, we only tried to go with a tight 32nd intro there and spent two minutes arguing about the pronunciation of a word, so we're on the right track.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We're off to a great start here folks.
Track 1:This is a real u s f start here. We're only down 14 already in the podcast, so
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:So we've got a lot of support lately.
Track 1:Yeah.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I mean, that's pretty cool for a couple guys. The last season we were just like, Hey, maybe we should take this from the group chat to a podcast, and we've actually got people coming outta the woodwork talk about how we're their go-to U S F football dealing. I'm flabbergasted.
Track 1:a lot of compliments on both the social media and people we haven't interacted with before. And on the Bulls pen, we've doubled our viewership or listenership essentially. So thank you to everyone for your support. I don't know whether it's the winning or was the winning or Kay's social media efforts, or just the good fortune of the world smiling on us. But thank you for listening.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I don't know what I did to deserve that, but we hit our, uh, U A B preview, hit a download record for the pod. I think we mentioned that. And it's still going. I. That now that game is over. You all don't have to listen to that one anymore. We're moving on, but people are still downloading the thing so.
Track 1:people are still just listening to it, hoping that's the way it turns out, because,'cause the recap episode is not doing as well. So I think people are
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No. Yeah,
Track 1:don't wanna live in that
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:that. I know how that goes. That's like watching Titanic and turn it off when they get like
Track 1:Oh, there's everything sailing. They're gonna be home in an hour. I don't need to watch the rest of this.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:some say they're still sailing to this day, On the opposite of appreciation is hate. And you know who we hate rivals. Is this our new rival week?
Track 1:That's what Matt Baker would have you believe.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:This guy again,
Track 1:This guy, again, kinds of drama about F A U in-state, new rivalry, new cf. You
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ooh.
Track 1:pun?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Why did you say pun like that? You like that pun? I do like that. Pawn.
Track 1:no rivalry here. I have no feelings towards f a u. They're just another owl.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:owl. This is if you've ever gone to their high school stadium where they play, at least they have a stadium, but it's on third down, they would have the owl eyes, come on, this is what we were talking about earlier this season. And it would go hoo. And all 15 people wouldn't, man, I was so hungover. Yeah. I was so hungover when we went there.
Track 1:When I was reading, I was Perusing their Wikipedia page, just trying to learn more things about the f a u owls. And apparently the okay sign is the sign of an owl somehow. And I guess it's like doing the owl eyes.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh.
Track 1:I didn't get that. I thought they were all just a bunch of like white supremacists down at that school. I wasn't sure
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, imagine like having to have a talk with your student section. Like, all right, we had no, we had nothing to do with this, but we have to adjust. All right. I mean, the Redskins are changing their name. We gotta change our school symbol. We're all kind of coming on board here. Ugh, man, that's a lot. that's a lot of policing.
Track 1:Yeah. we gotta have some talks with our fans too. Not about white supremacy, but apparently there's more drop. You know, we lose one game and everybody starts falling apart here of, don't you tell me how to fan. I'll fan. However, one, I want to fan over here if I wanna overreact everything I can.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I mean, fair. Yeah.
Track 1:I mean, that is the type of stuff that made us start the podcast in general was people just with completely outlandish takes that we felt like we had to put in
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:but.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We did get some feedback about that, about the fire coach Alex Golish section. it's not getting the best reviews, even though it's a take on how fickle some U S F fans can be. I want y'all to know out there, we're reading the feedback. We're taking it to heart. It's going to the drawing board.
Track 1:the feedback was like, oh, I guess they're just being tongue in cheek about the fans, but I think we all know we're not trying to fire coach Golich yet. sure. But then two threads down from that is Fire Todd Orlando. So and I don't think it was in Jest,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No, it
Track 1:Todd Orlando's gotta go or something like that.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:my gosh, we had the best defense, complete turnaround in one game. And it's someone's gotta get taken out,
Track 1:yeah. But yeah, in, in as a solution to all that, Rashad, Cheney had he recommended just, he deleted Twitter this week.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh, nice.
Track 1:I would delete Twitter myself, but I think Kay would yell at me for all his hard work on the social media side.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you can't do that.
Track 1:It is kind of nice just to unplug sometimes though, and just get away from the crazy thoughts
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I'm not coming to homecoming. I wonder if she'll be there at homecoming, but Rashad Cheney would know'cause he got rid of Twitter. Good for him. I got rid of my Instagram for a bit. It was refreshing.
Track 1:Also, he mentioned, you know, some U S F fans yelling at the road game, getting personal with players like, look guys. There's no need for all that. We have some fun at player's expense on the podcast, but it's all in jest. We have no serious comments to actually say to a player or yell at them or talk about their families or any shit like that. Like
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:What?
Track 1:people are dumb, man. You know it all from
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah,
Track 1:you lose one game and people start acting like you owe them shit and all that kind of stuff.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the, oh man. The other thing about it is it, someone said this to me the other day and I was offended, but then it makes sense. It's you know, you have a podcast about a game that kids play. And like thinking about it like, yeah, these are kid, like they're 18 to 20 something year old kid. These are kids, like their brains aren't even fully formed yet. Why you gotta come out and treat them like, yeah, we say things in good fun and I'm sorry Matt Hill, if we've ever said anything that's like really forbidden, detrimental and I will personally come to you and apologize, I promise. But to come out like that, golly. It just, it's, at the end of the day, it's just a game. So anyway, let's make predictions and get overly upset about them.
Track 1:that is the point.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the point.
Track 1:some of our predictions about players and all that kinda stuff. Kind of stale. So I think to spice it out, maybe after the bi week, we need to make some fresh predictions to
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ooh.
Track 1:in.'cause we know that Sean Atkins is doing well and you called that. And
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:called it
Track 1:that's about all we called, well from the player prediction type stuff. We'll get to some of your other clairvoyance over there in a second,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the the smartest guy on Earth. I mean, I like that idea. I also like the idea of reminding you every week how I was right. So we got the s and p plus predictions. Huh?
Track 1:Yep. They did tell us that, that U a B was below us, but now they're ahead of us. We dropped down to 1 0 9, after our loss last week. but we're still in a good spot. We got three teams above us, three teams below us. Unfortunately, a team we play this week, f a u is one of the teams above us in the rankings. So even though we're favored and all that rankings say, maybe it can be a tough game, f a u's, even above U A b, who we just lost to as well. But let's be honest, the rankings don't really mean that much. There's a little guideline to help judge where we're at, you know, ballpark it, but individual number rankings are not that important.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the proverbial, you in the air for thing. Yeah.
Track 1:exactly. if we can go three and three, we're in a good spot. I know we got a little excited last week and we're like, oh, let's stop shooting for six and six. Let's shoot for the stars. I'm good with six and six again, you know.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:let's come on back down to Earth. Let's, we were really feeling ourselves for a minute there. All right. Reality check set in. I'm good with six and six.
Track 1:With all that reality though, we have to point out going back to the start of the season before we started getting all hyped up and everything, where we were just kinda going with the gut and really the analysis of the team overall where it stood. You said we'd be seven and five at the end of the year. I said two and 10. I'm obviously wrong. So let's forget about red. Let's just focus on Puka.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah,
Track 1:Puka, you're six and oh. With that preseason prediction so far.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:know. I didn't wanna point it out because I think it was really affecting you. Personally,
Track 1:for you.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:thank you,
Track 1:laed all of your success and I'm not jealous at all.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:These aren't allusions of grand juror either, but I mean the numbers are there. The proof is there. Go back and listen to the first pot of the season. I'm six and oh on these picks, baby. I know what I'm talking about. X's and O's.
Track 1:And I am hoping you go seven and oh, because in the preseason you had us beaten F A u I had a loss in the preseason. We'll see if that sticks. I think I might be joining you. We'll see.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:oh. A little bit of teaser for the end of the pod here. Let's see. what happens.
Track 1:see. I gotta get through a lot of analysis and maybe it's, I'm done giving it all, not be feeling as hot, so I don't know.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Fair enough. we've played f a U in the past.
Track 1:We have. We have, they're not a new opponent. Rice was a new opponent to us.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:yes. Rice was the new. owl on the block.
Track 1:Yeah. We've played these owls and we've definitely played the temple owls a lot before, so we're familiar with the owls. Hopefully we just lump'em all together and we beat'em all. Like the rice owls, just three zero against the owls would be great.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:that would be great. That would
Track 1:home games too, which is weird. But yeah, we're three in one all time two in one at home. So the one loss did happen at home, and that's the most recent game as well.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:okay.
Track 1:When I think of F A U, there was one game that happened a long time ago before we were part of the program. 2007. That's what you were talking about, I think with the owls on the scoreboard when we went down there,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:2007 was when we were there.
Track 1:that's what I'm saying, man. Owl's on the scoreboard.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you said before we were part of the program.
Track 1:Bef, there was a one game before 2007.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh, okay.
Track 1:the four games I wanted to talk about. So I said, screw that other game. That happened way before. We're only talking about 2007 and 2013.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you are doing a great job of English today.
Track 1:I'm sorry.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:You're doing fantastic. The people love you. Go ahead. 2007.
Track 1:2007 at F A U Set the scene. Howard Shellenberger coaching down there, a legend. We'd just beaten West Virginia at home. We're ranked number six. We go down there and play awful. Man. We had turnovers all over the place. We barely escaped that game. It was the, the Ben Williams hero game went off for 25, carries 185 yards and four touchdowns.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:The dude was a cannonball.
Track 1:And we needed it all because it was a one score game late in the fourth quarter until we pulled away at the very end. But,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I was so hungover on that sideline. I wanted to die. There is a picture of a bunch of us on the sideline. I still have it somewhere, and I got sunglasses on and I was like, I had been up, we had to be at the stadium at six, and I was out till five. Oh my gosh. It was, ugh.
Track 1:So not as the F S U game road game where I just went straight to the stadium from going
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. No, I at least went back to the room for a hot pick me up, but it was, yeah, it was brutal.
Track 1:But then the most recent f a U game, 2013 loss at home. This was one where Taggar was his first season. Trying to build that offense wasn't going well. Just brutally bad offense.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:Defense only gave up 200 yards, but turnovers gave them like 14 free points and we I'd be happy if our defense only gave up 200 yards this week though.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:That, that would be great. That's fantastic. When we had that great defense and then everyone was still like, fire Coach Taggart, get off this bus. We hated, we lost to f a u. Are you kidding me? look at us now. Look at us now. We're favored
Track 1:Still
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:still. I don't know how, but we're we are.
Track 1:we lose to U A B. The fight in Trent DERs and
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:still on our bus. I like it. I'm not used to being favored, to be honest with you. So we're favored by two and a half over under 58. The last time we were favored against a real team in Raymond Gym Stadium was 2021.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:2021 Temple Man, we have a lot of stuff going with Temple.
Track 1:Yeah, Temple's been our one team we could beat until they weren't. and speaking the Temple Owls, again, this is the second of the three Owl teams temple being the third that we're gonna play at home this year. One thing I saw mentioned by some fans, I don't know if they noticed this during the Rice Owl game, but When was the last time you went to Raymond James Stadium?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Florida last year.
Track 1:yeah. Florida game. Yeah. So if you remember, they still have the Hit Hootie promotion. I'm sure you remember that.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yep.
Track 1:It's been going for forever. someone was like, oh, we should boo Hootie when he comes out because he's an owl. And I was like, whoa, man, fuck that. But it did inspire me a little bit, is that, I don't know, it seems like it's a running joke for a while now. They have the worst fucking dudes ever try to hit Hootie or Chicks.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:people of all.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the preferred nomenclature is not chicks, red unless we're talking about baby owls that are like throwing
Track 1:Is a baby owl a chick? don't know. I don't think so.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:there is on Spotify, at least one woman that I has, I've seen, downloaded the pod and so to you, ma'am, I apologize. For the misogyny. It's brutal. So the chicks are hitting Hootie.
Track 1:I mean, they do have the Hooters girls out there
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I know. Well, that's, it's it's
Track 1:let's not act like I'm driving misogyny around here when it's a Hooters promotion.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Baby steps. All right. we are still, we're trying to be a more
Track 1:whoever's trying to throw the damn ball at Hootie, they pick the worst people, like I think they scout the parking lot. And look for people who are just awful. And like sometimes they'll really they'll get a super voided up dude, but unfortunately he just can't move his arms in a circular motion because he's so muscular and shit.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I l Ss
Track 1:just like people look like they're throwing for the first time or throwing with their left hand, like it's miserable. These people trying to hit Hootie, I don't know how they find people so bad. Anyways. I don't want those people there this week because we're playing the owls. I wanna fucking destroy Hootie. So I want like Lee's and Pat Jest out
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I was about to
Track 1:throwing dick lasers at Hootie.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yes, Lee is there on the sideline. Lee, my man, I know you're listening. Hit Hootie. Do it. Oh, man. That's exciting. That's
Track 1:even if it's not part of the promotion, just like he's already standing there dodging other footballs just from the sideline. Just launch a practice ball
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh,
Track 1:30 yards away and just drill
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:up. Yeah, just rock him. Oh, that would be so great.
Track 1:the fans would go nuts, right? If you just laser comes in from nowhere and just knocks out. Hooey.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:all the chicks would go nuts. It's such a great throw.
Track 1:Anyways, two and three. Record for the owls. They beat Monmouth. They lost to Ohio. They lost to Clemson.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Who? Monmouth, Grand juror mo row ads. R. There's a throwback to an old Chris Farley movie anyway.
Track 1:The roots,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:RO ads. So they lost to Ohio. They lost to Clemson. I don't know. Only a few teams have actually lost to Clemson this year. Lost to Illinois Big 10, but they beat Tulsa.
Track 1:they managed to beat Tulsa last week. It was an interesting game. I had to go back and watch it. When I say watch it, watch the highlights. I'm not watching a whole fucking game of F A U Tulsa. You want me to shoot myself Jesus again. Suicide prevention hotline
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. Nine, eight. Eight. Anyone that might be actually struggling with thoughts of self-harm, you are not alone.
Track 1:especially U S F fans. Early first quarter, they get up. Big 14. Nothing sound familiar.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Mm-hmm.
Track 1:Tulsa's just went foreign out or something. Turnover on downs. Then a turnover and spots. F a u a 14, nothing lead. And then F A U just hangs on for the rest of the game. 2017. So basically did nothing after getting up 14. Nothing barely held. I mean, so it came down to the last drive Tulsa was driving and f a u gotta stop at midfield somewhere,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Did they,
Track 1:the final drive.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:did they just score a touchdown and miss the extra
Track 1:No, it's two field goals. It's two field
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Wow, so that is some, sorry, offensive production there.
Track 1:Yeah. They're not a good offense.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Tell me more.
Track 1:why? Thank you for asking. they're led by new head coach Tom Herman, who sounds familiar. He's from Houston. we've interacted with him before.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Uhhuh
Track 1:You may also know some other storylines. Speaking of coaches, Todd Orlando and Kevin Patrick were coaches for F A U last year.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:that they were,
Track 1:Jamie Patway was a transfer from f a U last year, and so there's some very personal storylines and Gish had some interesting comments. I he, again, when he was asked about is it a rivalry, he's no, it's not a rivalry. But he's there are some personal storylines. And he was very particular to say he always likes to. Use those personal moments whenever he can.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ah. Is it rivalry? I'm just picturing him being like, is rivalry. Shut up nerd. Next question. ain't no damn rivalry.
Track 1:I feel like there's more and more of that of coaches just shutting down dumb ass reporter questions. Mike McDaniel does it a lot now, and, the Penn State coach, I saw a cliff of him doing it. Like he was just like, he was getting asked some question. It sounded like I'm not to be mean Pook. I'm sorry you're a football genius now with your predictions and
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I'm brilliant.
Track 1:it sounded like a question you'd ask. And he was like, the reporter was like, Do you ever just tell your QB to throw it deep no matter what? Like I don't want you to read this play. I just want you to throw it deep'cause you've been checking it down too much. he was just like, no, that's not something any football coach would ever seriously do. Like you're making my skin crawl just by assuming that's some sort of thought process that actually occurs out there.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:amazing. Good. put these people in their place.
Track 1:yeah.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Stupid questions, but I mean, it's not a stupid question for the F A U coach for old Tom Herman.'cause their offense is bad,
Track 1:Yeah, their offense is struggling. Definitely only 340 yards per game average. I mean, but do you know what the remedy is for a really bad offense,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:A U S F defense, baby
Track 1:Exactly. We can make'em look good real quick.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Watch this.
Track 1:I. It's interesting that their offense is so bad too because they actually have a lot of, preseason hype around their offense. A lot of returning starters. a couple guys on the, all a c lists. Now they did lose their starting quarterback,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Okay.
Track 1:the guy they brought, the guy who's backing'em up and who's play will be playing on Saturday is QB number 10, Daniel Richardson. He actually transferred another transfer. he played for two years at Central Michigan and put up decent numbers and won some games. It wasn't like it was a complete loss up there, so I don't know what his falling out was or if just better opportunity to come back to Florida or something where he is from, I don't know.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:knows? He stays.
Track 1:but yeah, he's, this season he's only put up 520 yards, two touchdowns and three ints, and completing about 60% of his passes. So he hasn't been strong. He has not been good.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I mean, that's not horrible in terms of passing touchdowns. that's not great. But those aren't really high interception numbers and I don't, are they run first team? Is that why?
Track 1:they're not a run first team, but it seems like that is almost what they're trying to be now in their one win against Tulsa. They heavily relied on the run, and Illinois was a close loss and they seemed like they were. So I don't know if they're kind of, they're adjusting their offense because the passing game isn't working or what. I'm not sure. But, running back, number three, Larry McCammon, he's their primary running back, gonna be relied on heavily. He's got 63 carries, 360 yards, three touchdowns, and also adding 13 catches for about a hundred yards on there as well.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Okay.
Track 1:So he's gonna be a focused weapon and he's one of those first team all American, but not all American guys. Like all American Conference, not all
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh, okay. You gotta be like careful saying that
Track 1:Yeah. I mean, whoever named the American conference, fucking, I wanna say the R word. Glad I didn't, we're too good of a podcast
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we are too good for that. We'll call'em chicks, but we won't call'em r. We won't say the R word. We got We have limits. Great. Great job. I wonder though, with that many catches, but not a lot of yards, if they are one of those short dinking, dunk teams, like if they're wide receiver, I mean he's got a lot of catches.
Track 1:Yeah. Number wide receiver number one, LAE Wester. 52 catches.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Wow.
Track 1:That's a lot through five games averaging 10, 10 catches a game. Pretty much only 500 yards though, two touchdowns. So yeah, I think it's a lot of possession. Receiving,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. Possession, receiving, so not over the top stuff, which bodes well for our safeties. And our coverage
Track 1:They may try to hit the over the top stuff
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:yeah..They. might have watched our film and be like, oh, this is it. We are finally a passing team.
Track 1:On the other hand, they'll do those possession catches and we just won't be able to tackle him, where usually he's been tackled for limited gain. Now he'll be running free.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:some say, he still running to this day, like Forrest Gump, just running right into the tunnel. Just still going.
Track 1:So yeah, wide receiver number one. He's also one of those first team All American Conference guys, and he's also a dangerous punt returner too, so we gotta watch out for him there.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Maybe if you said First team, all American Athletic Conference guys.
Track 1:You want me to say athletic? I said All American Conference that time I did say
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, but you did, but it's still kind of confusing.
Track 1:and I really hate saying A, a, C'cause I always get confused with A C. C.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Let's just move on.
Track 1:I don't really have any defensive players to call out for them. now defense isn't as bad as their offense, but. I'd say, I think rankings wise it's about equivalent as U S F, but no real like huge star player that I know of to call out and be like, watch out for this guy.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Okay.
Track 1:I do have someone, something special to call out. For you though,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ooh.
Track 1:from the special teams, you may be like, oh, special teams. Well, it's really just special team'cause there's one guy doing it all. Logan Lupo, he kicks and punts.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Okay. Wow.
Track 1:He's not very good at the field. Goal kicking though. He's four or seven or something like that. So he's trying. He's doing, I mean, that's what happens when you ask one guy to do it all. I remember when we used to have Delbert Alvarado do both. He wasn't very good at the field goal kicking either.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No, but he was a cool guy
Track 1:He's a cool guy. He also wrapped, I don't know if Logan Lupo wraps.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:with a name like Luo, like Lupo Fiasco. He might. He might. Yeah. Maybe we always talk about player relation to other football players, but have we checked into any other famous relations? Maybe Logan Lupo is related to Lupo fiasco hard hitting
Track 1:I did not research that one. I will get on it after the pod, see if it's a retraction. We need to issue next week.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you looked up who was gonna be playing the homecoming concert, but you didn't look up to see other famous.
Track 1:I am sorry. I'm sorry. I was not, I, you wouldn't even known who logo Logan Lupo was if I hadn't
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Logo Luo. You know I'm on your ass a lot tonight, red. And that's okay because I don't want to be on US F's ass.'cause I don't want them to do the things we're about to talk about. What don't we want to see from them?
Track 1:No snowballing. Not like this podcast where it just goes off the rails and we can't get it back.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:are way off. I don't even know that we released this one. Whatever. It's going
Track 1:This one. This one's just going into
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:the archive. Ah, man. And then I'm gonna go a little crazy here if I haven't already. when we talk about what I wanna see from the offense, I'm going completely off what I usually say of be patient, hit the underneath stuff. Sometimes when you're trying to coach and build something, you just gotta say, fuck it.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Hmm.
Track 1:I kinda wanna see the offense, say fuck it, and show a little confidence in the guys and their abilities out there. We had some drops. We had a bad week last week.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:Go over the top early, show some confidence, hit that shot, and just let it roll from there. Get some positive momentum, just crazy out the gates. If it works, I'll be a genius. If it doesn't work, we're all gonna be like, fuck. Why do we keep going deep?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we keep doing that? Because they're, I mean, the way I see that going is they go over the top and the ball gets dropped and it's
Track 1:here we go again.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we're in bad shape. Which comes to the other part of this piece. You wanna see if we can't hit that, we need to be moving the chains
Track 1:we do. and this is again, someone just like I, we got beat, we got dominated last week. And I wanna see us just say, you know, forget about scheme, forget about finding the matchup with the QB draw that was working. So just line him up and beat the man across from you. run the ball with some success.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:this is like a philosophy thing of, and coach Go talked about it in his presser when you're trying to build a team on the one hand, When you find something that works, you wanna keep doing what works because you're trying to win the game and you need to do that to win.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah,
Track 1:On the other hand, you're trying to develop players and teach them and build confidence and all that kinda stuff, and you have to fix and work on what isn't working at the same time. Like we can't just be like, oh, we're never running the football again.'cause it hasn't been working well
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We're not doing that
Track 1:game experience is the best way to do that, of going against live opponents who are trying to stop you from doing that and figuring out what's working, why it's not working, is it a guy out there who need, who's not doing his job? Is it the scheme? All those types of things, and really breaking that down and getting film of that. So you kind of need to do it and be like, Hey, we can make these adjustments. I heard one of offensive linemen, and he was talking about, yeah. One of the things we noticed from this week is we gotta do a better job when we come off the field of telling the coaches what we are seeing in our blocking assignments and communicating and saying what looks they're giving us and those types of things. So like you're already seeing some things there. Exactly.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:Hey, we're learning. That's good. Yeah.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Learning is good. It is like AI only we're humans. Yeah. However you wanna put that, but I mean,
Track 1:it's called artificial intelligence.'cause theoretically, the humans already have intelligence,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:theoretically in theor. So you're saying there's a chance
Track 1:I kind of let my bias show of what I think about most humans intelligence there. So I
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:these are more of those illusions of grandeur.
Track 1:But yeah, so there's a lot to fix on the offense, but we still scored, what was it, 35 points last week? Something like that.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. we still had offensive success. some of it was late, some of it was inconsequential. A lot of it was Byron Brown just putting the team on his back.
Track 1:Right?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Spread that around this week. Let's go. We got this early down. Success. Establish the run. Don't abandon it. Receivers. Do your part. Catch the ball. To extend the drive.
Track 1:Very succinctly put, basically what we're saying is do stuff better offense
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Be better. Do better.
Track 1:on defense. Very similar theme for me. Domination. Especially in the trenches we got,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh,
Track 1:we
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the way you
Track 1:like whips and chains.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:the way you said domination, got me excited,
Track 1:Lee's, we want the leather uniforms this week.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:please. Baby dude's just falling out in the first quarter, like cramping their asses off. But
Track 1:No, their asses won't be cramming'cause we'll it'll be aless chaps, so the asses will be fine.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Wow. Wow. I have got my uniform through. Oh my God.
Track 1:Anyways, man. We can't make it through one little preview without this shit just going crazy today, man. Sorry, we're sorry everyone
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Dominate the line
Track 1:but yeah, set the edge. We got pushed around. We weren't our usual selves. Guys have said it. It's gotta be different. We gotta see the response.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:it. Yeah,
Track 1:don't just let them walk in for the easy touchdown. Make them make a play. Hey, if sometimes you're playing defense, you're gonna give up some touchdowns, they're gonna do some shit that you weren't ready for or make an amazing play, and you're like, damn, he just got the better of me on that one. And that's okay.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:It happens.
Track 1:when you're really good, then you get pissed off about that shit and you say, no, that's not okay either. But right now, we're just shooting for make the plays that are there to be made. I'm not asking you to do anything spectacular. Make the tackles fundamental football, make the, take the right angles. do your job, and we're good.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Simple. Just do that
Track 1:Man. This winning thing actually sounds pretty easy when we break it down like this. Huh?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we put it like, we made it sound easy last week too. I did. Yeah.
Track 1:but we're making it sound different this week. This week it's much more, factual. Last week was like, Hey, you just win. Just go out there and win guys.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:just would, it's easy. Just win. Just do the win thing. But we need it. we need this win. I feel like we kind of need this one.
Track 1:Yeah. We've, so we've got. This is our last conference game before the buy'cause reminder. Yukon is not a conference game anymore. That's outta conference.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah,
Track 1:So I feel like we really need this and I, maybe not even the team needs it. I feel like the fans need it. The fans need this one.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:The podcast needs it.
Track 1:Yeah, that too.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:Morale's at an all time lower on the podcast. maybe not all time.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:definitely not an all time low.
Track 1:Let's reel that back in.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:See also Temple 2022
Track 1:man. We are what we don't want others to be. That's a profound quote just made up by red, which sounds like it could have been someone else. But no, that was from me because we were, we started this podcast by harping on Don't overreact, and all of a sudden we're at an all time low from one loss.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We are all time low. Picking ourselves off the floor.
Track 1:no, the pod's doing well.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We are, but also you. You do need this one from Riley. You need to beat on paper a team that's not as good as you. You need to come back from a loss last week. You need to do those things as a program. You have a good week of practice. I'm sure the guys are feeling it. Get out there and win the fucking game So that brings us to our weekly segment, the Money Pit. case pumped. Dump. Dump. D U M P. She got that big old dump She got that again with the misogyny. Come on, man. again. I can't like, oh gosh, I just can't, I do not condone this
Track 1:You are gonna need to find a new podcast partner. I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna get suspended for Yukon Week over here.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Your ass is getting canceled. I haven't been suspended from Yukon since but I mean, how'd he do last week? not
Track 1:good. Bob.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:His worst week goose, egg. Oh, and three. and four. If you throw in U s f
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah,
Track 1:it rains, it pours.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:he's gonna be turning into a poor, if he's betting some real money on this,
Track 1:so you're allowed to call people pores, but I'm not allowed to talk about
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:It's a fact. It's a factual thing.
Track 1:I mean, people can be poor. I don't think you're meant to call them a poor,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No, That I misspoke.
Track 1:I would like to also go back and talk about things I misspoke about.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I misspoke. I did not inhale. It's all business this week. There is there. He's coming back.
Track 1:For sure. Just like the pod, it's all business. The team's gonna all business. We, I think some of the players even mentioned they, they bought into the hype a little bit.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:yeah.
Track 1:they, we won a couple games. We hadn't been there before. We didn't know how to handle that. And then when we got pushed around at U A B and we're refocusing goes for the team. The fans need to refocus. We need to be out there in force for the home game.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:this.
Track 1:This pod has been very focused and serious, all recording,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:The whole recording. This is,
Track 1:Kay took his pics, the most serious he's ever taken'em this week.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:he did, I he even picked a Thursday night
Track 1:Yeah.'cause he's letting us know before we even get to Saturday, how ready he's gonna be and how bright he is
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, we wanna
Track 1:Also, by the time we, I edit this, hopefully Thursday hasn't already happened and you guys get this in there before the game
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:this actually happens. I think that's what it really was. He was telling us to get off our ass and edit this,
Track 1:Yeah. I'm gonna do it. We're gonna, it's gonna be edited. Nice little package for everyone to wake up to tomorrow morning.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ooh. Package.
Track 1:Package in the morning, just the way the chicks
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Package in the morning, package in the evening package for supper time. When you got package in the podcast, you can have package anytime.
Track 1:Puka brings the podcast package, by the way, how's that for some alliteration, by the way?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Pooka. With the
Track 1:Pukas podcast package.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:That's,
Track 1:should be a whole new segment.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:should have a secret Santa.
Track 1:it's just, that's just me and you.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, but it's me and you. We don't know
Track 1:wonder who I got
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, but also like we can dress up and go to children's hospitals, a LA U A b and call it Pukas podcast package and spread joy and cheer
Track 1:Oh,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:or,
Track 1:don't think they, I don't think the kids would enjoy that very much.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:and I mean, it could be Hanukkah, we could do it for Hanukkah too. Seven days.
Track 1:Seven days of podcast packages.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Podcast packages, please.
Track 1:about you. Maybe you can. I don't think I can deliver seven days of packages in a row.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Oh, baby. I've been delivering seven days of packages since I was a toddler. Whatever, man. what is his first pick? We just, we didn't even get to the pick.
Track 1:Right Kay's Pumper Dump West Virginia at Houston. Thursday night game, he's got West Virginia covering two and a half
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yes
Track 1:on the road. Says Houston sucks this year.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:they do. Dana Holm not doing too great.
Track 1:Next, pick Florida State. Minus 17 home versus Syracuse. Syracuse did not look good last week. Florida State cruised to victory against Virginia Tech. I think
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Ooh, I'm gonna, I'm calling. So each one of these I should do a pukas. Protect your pick,
Track 1:protect your package.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:protect your package. Yeah, pukas. Protect your package. Call out. This is one I'm saying he's probably gonna be wrong on Florida. State's. Overrated. I think Syracuse comes in and a conference game, stuns
Track 1:scare. You. Okay. and then Kay got Scout Navy in person a couple weeks ago, so he's picking Navy minus two and a half at Charlotte.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:not much to say about that one. That's
Track 1:I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable picking Navy after watching. Them lose U S F and then U S Ss performance last week. But I guess Navy did beat North Texas last week, so they got that going for'em.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Football powerhouse North
Track 1:And Charlotte's may be the worst team in the nation. So go Navy.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. Cool. Go Navy.
Track 1:And did we mention he's got U S F covering already? I don't remember.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:we did, but he
Track 1:Kay's also got U S F covering.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:U S F covering baby. So that means we gotta win by a field goal.
Track 1:Yep.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. So that takes us in our predictions.
Track 1:Yeah, it does.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:is the only reason people listen.
Track 1:The moment we've been waiting for, you know, speaking of people, the only reason they listen. So I was playing around with Buzz throughout and they have a chapters feature so we could bookmark like different segments and things like that and people could just jump to the segments they like instead of having to listen to the whole thing. So if people only want Case pumper dump, I just put a little section and they go, case pumper dump at minute 25, and they go boom,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I think had the ability to see stats, this, that would be the like least clicked on
Track 1:Wow.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:chapter.
Track 1:Wow.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Not because I think people are getting tired of betting.
Track 1:You think they just like U S F, they don't need
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:just, no, I think this is a great segment. no. Don't get me wrong. Oh shit. It's gonna sound like I'm calling out. Kay. this is a great segment. I'm saying that they're not gonna wanna click on that. They wanna listen to the whole pod. They want the whole thing. it's like making fettuccine Alfredo and then only drinking the sauce.
Track 1:Sauce is pretty good if you mop it up with a breadstick.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:It's delicious, but what's the point of having it on its own?
Track 1:Yeah. I need some chicken in there. Exactly.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Let's not go that far. Broccoli, some peas. got some the pasta's good on its own, but that's what I'm saying. It's all a meal.
Track 1:What would this podcast be? If we took the chicken out of it though and we just were just the pasta, it would just be you talking and, no, none of me.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah. If the meat was gone.
Track 1:Yeah.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah.
Track 1:I bring the meat, you bring the pasta.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:There you
Track 1:You're probably the sauce too, to be honest.'cause you add all the flavor and the what? People.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:at that, but
Track 1:I'm the substance. I'm
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:but I'm like white people. Pasta sauce. Like
Track 1:yeah. not any crazy Thai spice
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:No. nothing like that. It doesn't have any sort of seasoning, it's
Track 1:a lot of useless carbs too, which is just filler for people's brain.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:which people love it. People are addicted to it.
Track 1:Yeah. we just figured out the recipe for why the podcast's been doing so well recently.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:We are fettuccine Alfredo baby.
Track 1:you like how I said recipe there too? That's, do I need to call out that pun? I didn't know if it was too subtle or it was, you know, it was kind of,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I didn't get it,
Track 1:a good thing I called it out then.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:yeah. Good job,
Track 1:it's time for your prediction, sir.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Why didn't I do mine first last week?
Track 1:Oh, you want me to go first?
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you go first.
Track 1:In quite the surprise. Red is going with 45 34 U S F going against my preseason prediction. Red is finally picking U S F to win.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:What?
Track 1:the response is there. I've liked what I've seen from coaches. I think defense is gonna be playing personal for KP and for Todd Orlando. They're gonna be getting after it against their former team. And we're gonna have some fun. We're gonna get to enjoy. We're still gonna give it some points. I mean, we're not, we're still far from perfect, so let's not, there's no blowout happening in here, but we win, baby.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:I like it. I also like how you started that prediction with Speaking to the third person.
Track 1:Oh, I do that
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:was really cool. Yeah, that was awesome. I like it, man. Welcome on board. Welcome to the team.
Track 1:Yeah. I guess I'm finally a U S F fan.'cause you, because you have to pick'em to win if you're gonna be a fan.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:you're gonna be a fan, what is wrong with you? Why are you even watching? I'm with you though, saying 35 21 U s. F. We're gonna give up some points, but not as much. They just did that poorly against Tulsa, and I think a lot of our offensive success is probably gonna come later in the game. I'm thinking early on it's gonna be a little scary, but we're gonna get into a rhythm. We're gonna wear them down, and eventually we're gonna start scoring, pull away with it. So that's what I got. I mean, I'm just hoping we don't have back-to-back losses for the first time since. Oh, I. I guess just last season That wasn't,
Track 1:correct. Yep.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:wouldn't be too,
Track 1:How fickle we are and short term memory around here.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:spoiled. Do you, you'd think we were fucking Alabama
Track 1:two weeks knowing nothing but winning and just forgot everything else.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:on top of the world. That's like that guy that meme with the dude's like spraying champagne and biting his metal and then it zooms out and he's all the way at the bottom of the podium. Like he's 16th place. You seen that one? Yeah, it's a 3:30 PM not am kick, that's in the outline, so I make sure I gotta say that. It's 3:30 PM this Saturday on e espn. Two, two exclamation marks there. That's also an outline. 15 15% chance of rain at game time. So there it's supposed to be some am thunderstorms. You know what that means in Florida, right? Because it's got like a high of 80 something low of in the seventies. That means it's gonna be a wet muggy day.
Track 1:Cool. So guys, we're gonna be cramping out there and it's gonna be a four hour game while I watch seven different guys lay on the field for a while and then finally get up and go to the sideline.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:You know what I was really thinking of, but you bring up a good point. I was just really thinking of the tailgaters. Won't someone think of the tailgaters? Y'all go out and tailgate. It's homecoming. Who cares if the weather sucks? You only get one homecoming year. We wait all year for this for football season. We wait all year. It's here. It's finally year. You got the concert tomorrow night, Luna. baby
Track 1:Yep. Boom, baby Tate.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Baby Tate, not baby tape. They're gonna be there. I don't know who that is, but I'm sure some people do and they're really excited. Then you got the parade. Go out there and support the team and then get out there and tailgate, even if it's muggy. Now, if you're watching from home and the announcers suck like they did last week, to at Bulls Unlimited, listen to Jim and Sam. Instead, you can get the radio broadcast. Jim Lau a legend. Go listen to that guy. Call the game.
Track 1:Yeah, they have almost as much radio presence and angelic voices as we do,
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Yeah, with a lot less of things that might get them canceled and honestly, I don't care who's calling it. I'm just hoping for a wind going into the buy after.
Track 1:not the bye. Yeah. I really fucked you by putting that stuff in there about the bye with the last conference game.'cause now you're forgetting all about the Yukon game still. I'm sorry, that's
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:easy to, it's easy to forget about Yukon, so
Track 1:we may be canceled for the Yukon game, so let's just go straight to the bye.
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:right, right into the buy and then people are fickled, they'll forget things pretty quick and forget that we
Track 1:yeah, me too. I'm just hoping for a win. Let's just get a win this week and then
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Who knows. Maybe the next time you hear us, it'll be in a segment with Kay Catrell.
Track 1:definitely not after this
pookah_1_10-11-2023_194724:Definitely not after this one. I don't know. You never know. Either way, go Bulls,
Track 1:go Bulls. Thank God that's over