**** I thought Thomas had been declared as an opt out due to Covid. Huge addition and big deal for our offense if he is able to play.

Overtown T4L said:

What’s the song at the beginning

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Ice Cube- Turn off the Radio

That "Xavier Thomas" talk is all BS coach speak. No way they put that kid out there. Sounds good to tell the media as it could give Manny and Blake something to scheme for but that kid wont see the field in this game. Maybe WAY later in the year. Covid is too much of a hot topic right now to risk it and Dabo in August was talking like this kid got the worst strain you could possibly get. Plus lets be frank here, they could beat us and everyone else on their schedule without him.

That said, great podcast and great listen. You almost had me there with Loose Ends sample. I was about to fall out of my chair thinking it was the original song! lol.

Yall sounded a little shook on this one. Playing Mahalia Jackson as the outro. WTH goin on?

cooks002 said:

Yall sounded a little shook on this one. Playing Mahalia Jackson as the outro. WTH goin on?

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I feel great. Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.

Jassid82 said:

That "Xavier Thomas" talk is all BS coach speak. No way they put that kid out there. Sounds good to tell the media as it could give Manny and Blake something to scheme for but that kid wont see the field in this game. Maybe WAY later in the year. Covid is too much of a hot topic right now to risk it and Dabo in August was talking like this kid got the worst strain you could possibly get. Plus lets be frank here, they could beat us and everyone else on their schedule without him.

That said, great podcast and great listen. You almost had me there with Loose Ends sample. I was about to fall out of my chair thinking it was the original song! lol.

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I hope so. He's a problem in multiple ways.

DMoney said:

I feel great. Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.

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Let's ride then.....

DMoney said:

I feel great. Soon and very soon, we are going to see the King.

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Real talk. My gut feeling is telling me Clemson should be worried.

Good news is if it rains it makes that hill they run down much more slippery and improves the chances of Lawrence or Ettiene slipping and hitting their heads on that stupid rock or pulling something...

Sabetta said:

Great pod as always. Only thing I disagree with was ‘17’s Dline is far superior to our current version. That DL lived in the backfield and had a million TFLs.
Attack Nolan, attack #47 and the young guys on the edges. Use WRs as decoys to open space up for a Brev, Mallory and our backs

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I like our DEs better this year and think Nesta can be a better college player than McIntosh and Norton. The ‘17 duo was probably better as a whole.

This is a nice opportunity for JHH to make some plays on the national stage.

Belen will last forever.

Good stuff about robber coverage. I'll do a writeup one of these days about robber (inverted 2) coverage. I coached it for a bunch of years and yes--you need someone like Jaquan playing in the robber role. That dude needs to be like a LB in a $'s body, but also skilled enough to play in coverage.

DMoney said:

I like our DEs better this year and think Nesta can be a better college player than McIntosh and Norton. The ‘17 duo was probably better as a whole.

This is a nice opportunity for JHH to make some plays on the national stage.

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Chad, Trent and JJ combined for 36 TFLs and 22 sacks and were close to dominant as a unit in ‘17. I love what we have but the depth isn’t close to ‘17’s as of now. I also think RJ was close to dominant toward the end of his junior year. I don’t see that consistently from Nesta at all. RJ lived in the backfield against ND who’s line was loaded. What could’ve been if he stayed and paired with Willis.
I’ve been critical of Nesta because he hasn’t been dominant vs a good team. Hopefully he shows out this weekend. I’d love to be wrong.

@DMoney ive been saying all week more Frierson and smith together. This isn’t the week to have Jennings in space with entienne.

Sabetta said:

Chad, Trent and JJ combined for 36 TFLs and 22 sacks and were close to dominant as a unit in ‘17. I love what we have but the depth isn’t close to ‘17’s as of now. I also think RJ was close to dominant toward the end of his junior year. I don’t see that consistently from Nesta at all. RJ lived in the backfield against ND who’s line was loaded. What could’ve been if he stayed and paired with Willis.
I’ve been critical of Nesta because he hasn’t been dominant vs a good team. Hopefully he shows out this weekend. I’d love to be wrong.

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Agree.

These dl isn’t he’s fit as good as the 17 dl. Ford has been average , nesta has improved , hunte is coming he’s just young but the interior has been far from dominant.

Where's the "we roll" thread?!

Cribby said:

@DMoney ive been saying all week more Frierson and smith together. This isn’t the week to have Jennings in space with entienne.

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All in on this idea. Less Jennings. McCloud + 2 strikers works for me. Having Brooks out there with those two would be even better, assuming he's able to make good decisions.

Cribby said:

Agree.

These dl isn’t he’s fit as good as the 17 dl. Ford has been average , nesta has improved , hunte is coming he’s just young but the interior has been far from dominant.

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We can argue back and forth on which DL was better. They both were/are good enough to beat this year's Clemson OL. That's the important point. And while we give up some mass on the DEs, we do have guys that can get to the QB even more quickly in Phillips and Roche.

Personally, I think the effectiveness of our DL in this game depends entirely on what Lu said he wants to see -- CBs pressing. If we contest the underneath stuff and make Lawrence take a half second longer on his RPO decisions and progressions, we have a real shot at putting some pressure on him.

Of course, that means we may get burnt deep. But our safeties have the athletic ability to cover in space, especially when Hall comes back in.

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@DMoney ive been saying all week more Frierson and smith together. This isn’t the week to have Jennings in space with entienne.

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You think Baker has enough sense to do this?

grover said:

We can argue back and forth on which DL was better. They both were/are good enough to beat this year's Clemson OL. That's the important point. And while we give up some mass on the DEs, we do have guys that can get to the QB even more quickly in Phillips and Roche.

Personally, I think the effectiveness of our DL in this game depends entirely on what Lu said he wants to see -- CBs pressing. If we contest the underneath stuff and make Lawrence take a half second longer on his RPO decisions and progressions, we have a real shot at putting some pressure on him.

Of course, that means we may get burnt deep. But our safeties have the athletic ability to cover in space, especially when Hall comes back in.

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I still need to see more from the dt’s, consistency has been lacking. Ford has really disappointed me. That being said if we lose I think it’ll be the lb’s ******** the pootch. I just hope we don’t play Jennings much. This is a bad matchup.

CanesFan93 said:

You think Baker has enough sense to do this?

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If he’s watched our lb’s he should have that much sense.