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Dan, Yeah, we are available on Spotify, so if you're listening to music, you can have your podcast right there too, no problem. How you feeling, brother, I'm feeling pretty good, Ty, surprisingly for staying up far past my bedtime for an overtime exciting, excellent National Championship game, and waking up pretty early, especially I think my wife had an early meeting on
top of everything. I feel good, though. I have to tell you something that is going to sound harsh, But we're all about honestly sure, We're all about being up front. You don't sound great basically right now? I left it all on the field, Dan, if you continue to deteriorate and it affects your performance. About halfway through this show, I've got a younger Hawaiian co host. He's left handed, He's ready to go and really pick up the slack. He he's got a deep voice if you see what
I did there. Yeah, and I've come to calling him tai a tiger voloa.
Wow.
So I'm I'm ready to pull that trigger should the need arise.
Well, you might do my best to make it through here, okay, because we got one more game to talk about. Dan and I are both home from our trip our exploits, our journey to Atlanta. Had a great time down there. Hopefully folks had a chance to check out all the cool stuff we did on Facebook and the live show was awesome, incredible. That's going to be posted next Wednesday in place of our normal weekly show. We promised to put the audio up for that. I went through it
yesterday and you know, just so much fun. We had special guests come up and talk about what went on in the world of college football. So really good to get out meet people that support the show and do it at the side of the national championship no les, which made it a little bit more special.
I love the fact that our listeners are just as weird and fun as we try to be. It was a complete fun experience. Can't wait to do it again. And also the fact that we had a great game to talk about that even with all the bitching and moaning that and I think to a certain degree we did a little bit that we were a little disappointed that quarterback play going into the game wasn't as sexy as perhaps previous national championships, but that we just had a full on great football game to watch.
What an incredible way to close out the college football season. Really truly the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat for our purposes here the ultimate backup better than the starter moment with two a tonguea viola mm hmm. Getting the second half start for Alabama leading the tie to
a championship in overtime. You couldn't have scripted it any better yourself, Dan, The game really had I think a little bit everything you had, the youth movement, YEP, missed opportunities, some questionable calls and non calls which maybe we could talk about, and of course most importantly because not only are we an honest show, but we're also a very self aware show. We saw a particular celiverbal bump for guys that we interned my Facebook live stint.
Mccol Hardman, Levi Wallace with a huge third down stop.
Anthony Everett had a nice sat at one.
Point, Anthony Averett, both Christian Miller and Jamie Moseley and on the action a ton it was. It was a good day for the solid verbal bump in both directs. And you mentioned is the backup better than the starter? Which is like the obvious thing, but full on in this game, it was is the former walk on better than the scholarship corner for Alabama?
You know?
Or just is he just more of a factor? Levi Wallace was fantastic you have? Is the student better than the teacher? Kurry smart? You had? Is the little brother more impactful than the big brother? With Riley Ridley and Calvin Ridley, So there were so many different like here's my hot question of the moment and it actually paid off to and just an incredibly entertaining watch from start to finish for somebody who wasn't rooting for either team.
I apologize Georgia fans, and we will get to how to deal with losing in a national championship game in a heartbreaking way. Nobody is more experienced than myself and Oregon fans everywhere over the last few years than what this feeling feels like.
So here's what we're going to do here. He took calls on the reverb blind. We got text messages. I was messaging with people TI about one am. I'm not kidding, all right. We were talking about to a time, and you know all sorts of I was talking movies, Christopher Nolan, movies with one verballer.
No dog shots came in.
No dog shots.
Thanks, That's the win right there.
Very very fun to interact with, folks. Here were your college football playoff national championship reverbs have all this same.
Damn Hi for the final time, I must know, do you believe that you can win this fight tonight? Tie and Dan. This is Luke calling from ur Rah, Alabama.
Hey, this is great in Atlanta.
Hey, this is Monty in Cleveland.
Craig South Bend, Indiana.
This is Jonathan from Alabama getting ready for my twenty eighteen national cruck putting that bulldog meat is going to be nice and tender.
It's Mamma Georgia.
It's the sec points just mean more three nothing. I might have just sealed it for the dogs. Dealing Hurst is really not that good of a quarterback, and I should know. I'm Marlen Turpins. Fam.
I think I had to personally blame Kendrick Lamar for the the letdown that was this Alabama comeback. I believe that hope was gone and then somehow Kendrick Lamar breathed it back into existence to the tide.
Honey, it's halftime and this mad's still cold.
Ah crap, I forgot to plug in the crock pot. Heh it'll be done right after regulation.
Of law. Oh my god, he no scoped that throw?
What's over under? For number of the followers demanding CUA get a dood alert because I'm going to take the.
Over Georgia, I am so so sorry for you, guys.
I'm I'm sorry.
Searching nothing at half and up three points with a second and twenty six in overtime.
Somehow Georgia managed to out Georgia themselves. Congratulations, Alabama. I just watched my crimson. Time to come back. Two thirteen down to the true freshman backup, and all I have to say is to the argument is settled to the best barbecue to taste, Hawaiian barbecue torul Tide, What fun dead fun dings to a National.
Tim game when you're a war Eagle fan.
All things considered, that's about as good as it could have gone.
I get to make Alabama kick your jokes forever and give Georgia fans wrap forever.
Perfect Warrior.
I'm walking home in about twelve fifty at night, and naturally the streets are completely asleep because no one in New York he has about college football. But I am wide awake because that was one of the most amazing games I've ever seen in my life. Alabama one again and I'm currently deleting all major forms of social media City next year. And I think BAMLA took a different
approach to this game. Instead of a crock potting or a microwaving, I think they wanted a panini because at one point they just put the sandwich in and they finished it.
Go down and we'll see you next season for the exact same thing.
Hi Anthony from Australia, And all I'm gonna.
Say is God, Baby, I'm out here in the country and I declare I can't hear any of those folks that said Alabama should not have been in the playoffs.
Row row there you go, Dan, Uh yeah, big thanks to our friend Taylor, our trusted deputy Taylor, who woke up early this morning to put those together on our behalf. He was adamant about putting one more together. He said, there's one more big game. Make sure you tell folks that the line is open. And as you can hear, we got a bunch of excitable calls. So thank you again for calling four oh eight verbal one. The reverb blind for now is a actively closed Thank you for
your participation. It always makes the game more fun.
We'll open it up during the Iowa State spring game broadcast. Sure right, that's where we will be selective in getting your feedback.
So, okay, Alabama twenty six, Georgia twenty three in overtime. I you know, let's just talk through this, Dan, Let's see, let's take the temperature. I felt from the jump that it might not be the best night for Jalen Hurts because you'll remember the way the game started. Bama picks off Jake from opening drive. Yep, Alabama gets good field position, they get some tempo. Herts has Calvin Ridley wide open, streaking to the end zone and he can't connect.
Right overthrows him a little bit.
Yeah, and that was kind of his story in the first half. He was three of eight, only twenty one yards. I don't know if he was any better or worse than he's been all year, but he just didn't give him any spark and there were a couple missed opportunities that he left out there.
Yeah. I mean, he was mostly succeeding with his legs, and they turned that opening pick intwo. I believe that was the badly missed field goal, which I guess book ended the game the regular the regulation for Alabama, and then it was three out of the next four drives worth three and outs. It was just it was ugly, It was a rhythmic, It was uninspired and didn't seem to be fully cohesive in terms of what Alabama was
trying to do. It was a lot of sort of Jalen hurts right, Jalen hurts left, you know, Jalen hurts count or whatever, and which is fine. It takes advantage of an extremely talented runner, but in terms of getting him comfortable as a thrower with completable passes early. Something that Chris Brown talked about on our Scheme preview show, just in general, how quarterbacks get going in these huge
games to get nerves out. It didn't seem like Brian Dable and the offensive coaching staff fully put Alabama in a great position and on the flip side tie. And I'm sure you have thoughts about this. Georgia went over the top to try to get Jake from comfortable so much so that and I know there were RPOs, so he had the option the ability to hand it off
to whoever Chubb or Sony Michelle or DeAndre Swift. But they start out with seven straight pass attempts of one of which was or the first of which was first or second that was that was picked off a bad throw down the left sideline. So it was it was interesting to see how the different coaching staffs went into this game in terms of how do we get this offense in a rhythm philosophically. It was interesting.
I texted you what three quarters the way through the first half, Yeah, I was, I was fading fast, you were. It was tough to watch.
You know the fact that neither one of these offenses was you know, we had a couple what early field goals from Georgia. They'd drive down the field, one of which was pretty methodical. I think it was thirteen or fourteen drives, and that's great get points on the board. It's not a game that you should be worried about kicking field goals instead of getting six just because the defenses are so good. I don't think, you know, either one of these teams expected a shootout that they had
to stake chances early on. But certainly there were plays left on the field, There were overthrows, there were just lapses in focus.
Georgia offensively didn't exactly light the world on fire in the first half, but to your point, they went over the top to try and get from comfortable and they definitely had control of the game. They definitely dictated the terms of the game, which I thought was a big deal for them from as a whole. If you look at his box score, the numbers aren't outstanding, but I'm telling you he looked out standing for a good chunk of that football game. What was he sixteen to thirty two?
That's not indicative of the kind of game he had, especially in the first half, where he was making a bunch of big throws, was very poised in the pocket. You know, he had the bad interception to start. He had the goofy interception in the second half which bounced
off a guy's head. But you know, I just hope that the ink didn't dry on Justin Field's letter of intent yet, because if from continues to play the way we saw in the first half, and if he continues to improve over the course of his college career, there's not going to be room for anybody else. He was outstanding in this game.
Yeah, No, he will be the starter for two more years, barring injury or some sort of significant yip situation. And also, and to your point, it helps the fact that Alabama's offense was off the field so quickly and Jake Fromm was able to get comfortable in the first half, and the fact that, honestly, the Georgia defense was inspiring enough given the fact that they had to cover what twelve yards of field? Ye, what was the threat with Jalen
Hurts at all times? And listen, it's been amazing watching Jalen Hurts. The best version of Jalen Hurts these past couple of years. But early on you mentioned the mystar early to the corner of the end zone. I was flipping to the coach's feed the film room on whatever was ESPN news during commercial breaks, and they kept rewinding. There was a post pattern in the red zone where Jalen Hurts was protected. He could have stepped in and hit Ridley in the rhythm that he should have and
just didn't. Just didn't have that. And if nothing else, if there are at criticisms a valid criticism of to attack of iLoo, would we'll get to in the second half, much more of a rhythm thrower, much more confident in his abilities to the detriment of some throws. A little too confident perhaps, Yeah, Yeah, But that was ultimately the spark that he had that Jalen Hurts, at least for the past I don't know, a month or so. That flame just sort of went out it hopefully just temporarily.
You know. I tried to watch the coaches feed. I enjoyed it so much. During the Rose Bowl. Yeah, it was like a wall of sound, just an amorphous blob of sound, at least through i'd say a quarter and a half of the coaches feed they were all talking at the same time. Down the stretch it got a lot better and you got some individual analysis from Kevin someone in my Gundy and David Cutcliffe was putting on
a virtual clinic. But at least in the early part of that, I was a little bit underwhelmed because you know, you couldn't really decipher what was going on.
Yeah, and seven people on TV is just a lot the six coaches and who was it was Tom Lougan Bill doing the sort of not narration, but he was. He was the air traffic controller of sorts. Yeah, I thought that was fun. I thought it was good, and it was it was cool. Gundhy and Cutcliff, I thought stood out to me as just being interesting voices in the room. Someone had some thoughts obviously playing Alabama as much as he had, but at least going into the half,
it just seemed And what was the score at half thirteen? Nothing?
Yeah, thirteen, it.
Was thirteen nothing. That if there was any one specific thing that Georgia succeeded in doing more than anything, it was doing what Alabama does to teams. I tweeted this out from the Solid Verbal account and that is getting Alabama out of its comfort zone. And you can win out of your comfort zone. But Alabama's mo is always just to step on your neck until you start doing
things that are uncharacteristic for how you usually succeed. And that's what Georgia in going up thirteen nothing and they were really good on third downs, over and over and third in a lot. They were, you know, Sony Michelle, ridiculous, Yeah, just a ridiculous talent, tiptoeing down the sideline. It was third and ten, it was thirty eleven, it was third and twenty, whatever the case that they just kept extending dry. And I thought the play calling from Jim Cheney, especially
in the first half, was exceptional. And ultimately that the fact that Alabama had to play phrenetically, which you know we're going to get to right now, that was insane to watch because we're not used that. We've seen it at moments against teams like Ole Miss when it gets to a shootout or text A and M these past few years. But really, those Alabama teams were prepared to play like this, whereas going to a backup quarterback because nothing was working in the first half sort of indicated
to everybody that like, Alabama needs something. Maybe you know, it's like when you go to goal line defense the whole time playing NCAA because you keep getting run on, you get out of what actually should work well.
Georgia led thirteen to nil at half, and long before that, you and I were texting and wondering if or when it was going to be too a time. Yeah, I was texting with people on the reverb line. I was
telling him, I'm like, it's coming. You said it on the preview show, and just like that, Nick Saban, you all remember that crazy bastard yanks his starter, his starter, mind you, with a career record of twenty five and two in the second half of the National freaking Championship Game in favor of a true freshman from Hawaii by the name of Tua Tongua Baroa and Dan. Yeah, that's when we started to see the tide turn.
Oh Tye, I appreciate what you just did there, because you are very much on brand for yourself. Jalen Hurts has exclusively led Alabama to National championship games. Yeah, he has done nothing else for Alabama but lead them. And I say that as not saying he's done nothing else, but he has you know, he has never led them
to a lesser situation, which is incredible to see. But at the same time, the stones it takes to not just bring into it to see if he can provide a spark and then go back to Jalen Hurts, who sort of has calmed down now that he sees the game from a different perspective. No, the second half was two as even with bad picks, even with you know, sort of looking uncomfortable, when he scrambled out of that sure sack to extend play and extend the drive, that
was that was incredible. That was something special that I did not see coming because two is just not I mean, he's athletic and ridiculous, but he is not the athlete that Jalen Hurts very clearly is, and for him to make that kind of play and they were running to a left, to a right, and he ultimately led them in carries by a pretty wide margin. But the fact that they were able to come out in the second half with that sort of confidence and say game is yours,
we are being shut out. Give us something, and he very quickly did incredible.
There was about a ninety minute window last night where Twitter servers were being powered exclusively by bad tua takes like Jack Dorsey was over there, just shovel him in like a coal engine. Was it a desperation move by Saban or was it just the only move that he had? Because I go back and forth on it. You can't look at what he did, pulling a guy with the credentials of Jalen Hurts and say that there it didn't wreak a little bit of desperation, you know, a little
bit of trying to set a new spark. I get that, but on some level you have to have confidence. Nick Saban has done this time and time again. He's the best coach at college football for a reason. If he made the move, it was not just him grasping at straws. He saw something that he thought could give them an advantage, and lo and behold twoa comes in, he leads into victory.
Yeah, and it's not a frozen it's not a cold toa he has He threw about eighty passes this year, and most of the time are all of the time they were up double digits in those moments. But this is somebody who has seen the field against good defenses trying to attack a true freshman quarterback, albeit for the most part unsuccessfully. He ran it about thirty times during the season, So there is warmth to Tua's muscles, his
football muscles. That sounds very weird now that myself say it out loud, No, but there is you know, there is experience, and he is a bit seasoned, so I think there was confidence. Obviously, the way he must have been performing and practice gave Alabama Nick Saban and Brian Dable the confidence to roll him out in the second half because with the way Georgia's defense was playing, notably up front, not giving Alabama anything on the ground, rokwand
Smith was incredible. Whistle to whistle. They couldn't hang with, let alone beat Georgia without any sort of downfield passing threat to open anything up. And it wasn't desperation. It was the only thing.
Yeah to me. Well, he came in and he instantly gave them more of a vertical threat. Yeah, and that you're right, that is what started to open things up. He started to get the sense midway through the third quarter and things are getting a little weird out there to what comes in throws a touchdown pass to Henry Ruggs to make it thirteen to seven. Jake from answers with an awesome eighty yard er to our boy McCole Hardman, who had a huge game touchdown on the ground and
through the air. Yes, just like that. George's back up by two, scores twenty to seven. Ensuing drive to it comes in, forces a lollipop into quadruple coverage, some sort of miscommunication, but Georgia gets it back and again, ensuing possession. Jake from doinks a pass off to Sean Han's helmet right into the willing, waiting, comforting arms of Raykwon Davis, which gives Bama the ball back. They march down the field. They get a field goal to make it twenty ten.
Even in that moment, George's defense was still pretty stout. This is an excellent defense. How many times have we seen it? When Alabama gets a big play from its defensive line, from its defense, they get a turnover, they instantly use that to begin the crock potting, if you will. George's defense was such that they were not going to allow that to happen. They were not going to allow Alabama to write any kind of heater, and I thought a really strong testament to what they're doing down there.
And it should also be noted that there were a couple of calls early.
On in Ah, Yes, let's talk about those.
That were not wonderful. Now, I will not go and I very seldom do, especially when a team is up, you know, twenty to seven at a certain point, and an offense has repeated opportunities to extend the lead and doesn't. But the fact of the matter is that jump on the block punts. Yeah, that wasn't off sides Dan, it seemed in the moment it seemed it because he jumped before the ball was snapped, but didn't actually get into the neutral zone, didn't cross the line of scrimmage. It
was just a accidental great jump. Who's to say, I don't know if he was really like honed in on focused on the long snapper, but that would have given George the ball in the red zone. Yeah, so it seems at the very least that gives them three more. And also there was the non clear face mask on third down that that forced Georgia to punt, and I think it's set up fourth and thirteen or fourteen. Those were bad calls, those shifted rhythm in that moment.
Like I could deal with missing a face mask or a personal foul or even that pass interference towards the end on Malcolm Parish, which was questionable. I could deal with that. But you can't mess up false starts and off sides, man, you can. I mean, he was a false start on that touchdown that Bama scored on fourth down, the one that sharted the game. That was a false start on the receiver on the bottom. They didn't call
it either. And I'm like you, I don't go so far as to say that Georgia would have won if calls, if these calls had gone their way, because clearly there was a lot more at play here. But Georgia definitely got the short end of that stick in this football game.
Yeah, I don't. I think Alabama won the game fair and square outright, and that they took advantage of opportunities, and that referees are humans, and that Georgia again had opportunities. They I think were scoreless for the last quarter and a half. Correct. Yeah, So, yes, Georgia on those specific calls and in those specific moments screwed. They were. It doesn't it's not gonna sit well. It's not gonna sit well for a long time, just in the way that
I still make jokes about Michael Dyer being down. Yeah, nothing I can do by making those jokes over and over again. But you know, it's it's gonna sting for a while. The fact is, though, and I'm not going to ask you to play the music, at least not yet, Tye. But the final you know, the second half drive chart of Georgia is not pretty dramatic.
Yeah, it's you.
Know, after it was you know, it's after the initial punt and they score on the long McCole Hardman catch, which was just a superb throw from Jake from they throw it was the sort of tipped interception off ahead to I think it was ray Kwon Davis. But that's It's four straight punts to end the game for Georgia to drive down the field. And I know they started really sort of backed up most of the time, but they had the opportunities to put the game away and they did not.
The score was twenty to ten at the end of the third quarter, which brought us to the fourth. If you're like us, if you follow along on Twitter, the indomitable. Chris Felicka from Game Day tweeted out that three of the last four national champions had actually trailed going into the fourth quarter. Ooh, okay, interesting little factoid. Yeah last night obviously.
Do you think Tom Hammond likes that interesting little five?
I'm certain he did.
It's driving him bananas.
After last night. You can make it four of five. Here's what happened. Alabama's defense held. Their offense got a boost from Nase Harris, a top recruit from a year ago, the third running back on their depth chart, also a freshman, big freshman presence in this football game. He actually ended up leading the team in rushing yards. By the time all was said and done, this whole game really what
an incredible case for building depth. I know we talked about it at the top of the show, but I was trying to think in my mind, like what is the best way that I can describe this? And the one thing that kept coming to mind, maybe because it's cold here, but you know the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Jim Carrey reveals that he's got a second pair of gloves hidden. Yes, of course, that's how I feel about Alabama's depth. At this point, they have so many weapons.
Dan, you had another five star this whole time, exactly, and then obviously, you know, a suitcase full of money. You know, there's the association that you can draw TI, you can draw that. No, and the fact that Nase Harris does my favorite underrated running back thing. That is the greatest thing to see if it's your running back, and the worst possible thing to see if it's an opposing running back, where oh, he's gonna get tripped up for four yards he just stumbled for like nine more.
Yeah, what the hell?
That incredible balance. And you know, we've talked to people about like what separates a three star six foot two hundred and fifteen pound running back from a five star. I'd say it's balance. Especially you watch Sony Michelle tipto down the sideline in the first half. You watch Naj Harris just completely dominates in just sort of weaving, threw an unbelievable Georgia defense in the fourth quarter, fresh legs, fresh five star running back legs for Alabama in the
fourth quarter, and that is It's maddening. It's maddening. If you're a Georgia fantasy, you get contact early but it doesn't fully matter. And on the other side tie And I know this is something you noticed too, Is it looked like Sony Michelle was going to put this game away? Oh yeah, it very much did. He started running with an incredible amount of steam and then he didn't touch the ball and hopefully there's a good reason for that
that he is hurt. We hope he is not hurt, but hopefully there is something behind that that we are not fully aware of at the time of this recording, because it really seemed like they were going to do the Alabama thing and just slowly push Bama away from the line of scrimmage with the running game, but it just sort of disappeared.
The combination of Tua with naj Harris and then eventually Calvin Ridley, who wasn't involved much until late that's sort of what got Bama in the position to win. TOUA hits Calvin Ridley in the middle of the end zone about three minutes left to tie it at twenty all.
Did you think he was trying to throw it to Calvin Ridley or he just like, well, there's a bunch of white jerseys around there.
It might have been a little bit of both.
I'm not convinced that he was like, this is where Calvin Ridley is going to pop out of a giant mass of huge humans.
It was definitely not see receiver hit receiver. He just sort of threw it to a spot. Yes, nonetheless, he does hit Calvin Ridley. They omit the fall start at the bottom of the field, and they give Alabama a twenty to twenty tie ballgame. Alabama had another shot to win this game.
They did.
What did you think of that kick?
That kicker has been good for Alabama all season long, for the most part, he has been dependable, has had a good leg, and early on when he slipped when planting and missed that kick by a wide margin, it's like, ooh, this guy's gonna be in his head a little bit. But Alabama kicks what the field goal near the I think sort of the middle of the third quarter. I was like, all right, confidence is probably back and he steps up and how long was the field goal? I
member it was It was like thirty six. It was in the thirties. It was not particularly long, and they center it for him and to slip with his plant foot again and to send it wide. I believe it was wide left again. Yeah, that's you know, I neither one of us is. You know, we don't care who
wins this game. We just want a good game. We want people to be healthy and fun and whatever, and for that to happen, it just aw is that brutal if Alabama loses because of that eventually, and it's it's hard to muster a ton of sympathy for Alabama and you know, heartbroken fans, but for that specific kicker, Papa whatever, Papa not soos or whatever that is, you can't have that that side.
There's wide left, a woefully left, yes, and this was more of the woeful variety. Thankfully, it's not something that he'll have to live with the rest of his life because well we'll talk about overtime now. But in overtime, Georgia gets the ball first two runs four yards that Jake from takes a bad sack and that's when they turned the reins over to our boy, Rodrigo Blanketship in his stylish goggles. He has been automatic oh for most
of the year, certainly this postseason. Hit a long field goal, I think a fifty one yarder in the Rose Bowl a week ago. Another fifty one yarder in overtime from the right hash to give Georgia a twenty three to twenty lead. Not to be out done, Dan Bama takes back over Tua takes a bad sack of his own all the way back at the forty one yard line.
The freshman quarterback moments in overtime were spectacular.
All the way back to forty one yard by Nick Saban's doing the arm thing. What the hell you doing? Yes, seems like it's going to be a major turning point in favor of the Georgia Bulldogs.
They cut to Jalen Hurts on the sideline saying, hmmm, interesting, interesting taking a huge sack in overtime. Huh.
On the very next play, he finds another freshman, Davonte Smith, on a forty one yard streak right down the left side to win it twenty six to twenty three. I thought the broadcast did a good job explaining what was going on, But in layman's terms, Georgia was in a cover too, which means that safety in the back was
supposed to drift to that side of the field. He was supposed to cover Smith on the deep ball if he ran it, and he just got a little bit too far to the middle of the field, which gave Smith enough time to break the initial coverage on the left side, streak down the field to a hit him and stride for a touchdown. And there you have the rest his history. Twenty six, twenty three. An incredible way
to close out the college football season. An absolute stomach punch if you're a Georgia fan, Like a level twenty seven stomach punch if you're a Georgia fan.
Oh my god. First of all, the confidence to throw that ball, and this was again Alabama winning the game with a true freshman with a four verts. Look, you know a three by one trips on the right, you know a streaking Davante Smith on the left side. And here's word for word, here's the quote from Tua. They had split safeties, the safety on DeVante's side, the single receiver side. He tried to disguise his coverage. I tried to look him off, but he stayed in the middle.
Then I went back outside. It was cover two on their side. They stayed on the inside. So I took a shot downfield and he caught it that sort of And if you watch the throw, it's not him dancing around. It's not him sort of buying himself time and chucking
it deep. It is to a taking the ball, rocking back, looking to his right, trying to get a defense to shift the coverage to shift, coming back to his left as he's stepping in and throwing the ball from like the forty eight to the three on the coldest of
frozen ropes to a streaking DeVante Smith. It was if you didn't like that play or Jake From's throw to McCole Hartman, I believe in early on in the third quarter, you just don't like football, This is the wrong sport for you, because those were it was the top level of beauty that we can get to offensively, especially in the passing game. And for to it to have that type of composure again coming in unexpectedly in the second half and going to overtime, taking a bad sack and
just launching it deep. My god, yeah, my god, especially down three and needing to get into field goal range at the very least and throwing it deep like that, that's just it's stupid, ty, it's stupidity that Alabama has the ability to sort of go to what is it in hockey where you go to like the next group of the shift change whatever line change, the line change that Alabama just had a five star line change. And this also includes a left tackle, a true freshman left
tackle in Alex Leatherwood. Leatherwood that sounds shore like his name, who came in for Jonah Williams who went down sort of in the middle of this game. So true freshman protected by true freshman, succeeding handing it off to a true freshman in the fourth quarter, and ultimately finding a true freshman streaking down the left side of the field to win the national championship, all unexpectedly going into the game. It's just I mean, it's if it happened to anybody else,
who would be a little bit more magnificent. But even with it happening for Bama, you have to tip your hat to like the unlikely nature of all of those events.
Really just an incredible way to close out the season. So congratulations to Alabama. We had the good fortune of meeting a bunch of Alabama fans down at our live show at All Points in Atlanta. A lot of fun to interact with them and see their excitement for this game. And Lord knows it's not going to go away anytime soon. A big one for Nick Saban. He wins his sixth national championship, which is obviously quite historic in its own right. But Satan was about as excited as I think I've
seen him post any game. He actually seemed to have some genuine degree of happiness upon winning this football game.
Yes, he absolutely did, and I think he actually said, this is the happiest I've ever been in my life. Yeah, right, Like whoa say, just say football thing, Just say football thing. You're married with kids, be cool. But you know what, I can't hate on that that pure honesty and emotion in that moment because I can't imagine what it feels like. And I mean, this is what third national championship appearance in a row they've always been in the playoff, and
second national championship in three years. So man, it's not that we should go over the top and saying who could have ever imagine Alabama winning another national championship, But the way that they did it was certainly new and novel.
Well, thank you to everyone out there who played a lot with us this season. Yeah, your final score one more time, twenty six to twenty three in over time, your national champion is the Alabama Crimson Tide. Before we tell you about our plans now moving forward, as we forge your head into the off season, I'm going to tell you right now that after this podcast is over,
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Ready for a segue tie that I just I've been working on. I've been massaging real nicely, so please, I'm dying for read. Since Casper does such a good job bringing you from today to tomorrow, should we look forward at what Alabama and Georgia perhaps lose and gain. Not necessarily a game, we will talk recruiting when that sort of all finishes up in the beginning of February, but what these teams might look like in twenty eighteen, just in terms of who's playing quarterback? Who do they lose?
Alabama loses a ton so no Robert Foster. We assume Calvin Ridley will go to the NFL.
I would think so. Yeah.
Upfront, they lose what looks like at least one or two offensive linemen, and I think they have defensively. Deron Payne, We'll see what happens with his future. DeShawn hand as a senior, Rashaun Evans ridiculous linebacker, He's a senior Levi Wallace, Mika Fitzpatrick, Anthony Averette, Tony Brown. So they lose a lot of star power. We say this every year. It doesn't necessarily affect how the season ends up, but this
will be a very different looking Bama team. This is not a team led by you know, red shirt freshmen and sophomores that are getting all of this done. So there's a ton of upperclassmen, you know, Damien Harris and both Scarborough. I don't know how much more they have
to prove as running backs at Alabama. I would expect them unless they, you know, are extremely happy and Tuscaloosa and want to keep playing for an excellent football team, I would expect them to at least figure out if they should be going to the NFL, especially at that position. And now that to a Tagabaloa is now Cardil Jones, what will Jalen Hurts do in a sort of very mobile quarterback transfer economy.
We'll see.
I don't know what Bama's quarterback depth looks like behind those two. But if TUA is now in a position to grow from winning a national championship and become an even more accurate, confident passer, I don't know where that leaves the quarterback room in Tuscaloosa. I really don't. So that's what Alabama looks like, and Georgia loses a ton of talented seniors, I think they lose something like thirty seniors from this class. This was always going to be
the year when you looked at the depth chart. But yeah, Terry Godwin's a junior. We'll see what happens with him. Jake from is obviously going to be around for a while, Sony Michelle and Nick Chubb are going to be gone, but they've recruited running back really well. Big John Atkins is a senior in the middle of that defense, Lorenzo Carter who obviously had a huge play in the Rose Bowl and played very well against Alabama last night. Davin Bellamy, we expect Roquan Smith as a junior to at least
figure out what his value is. Perhaps the next level the secondary is filled with upperclassmen. So these two teams have recruited so well and have rotated and enough guys to build reps throughout the season, blowing teams out that I'm positive they're going to be very very good next year. But both will look exceedingly for differently.
Yeah, well, Daniel on that note again, twenty six to twenty three year final, Congratulations Tobama fans. Congratulation to Bama, and hey, congratulations to Georgia fans as well. That was a good game. Georgia very much deserved to be on the field with Bama. Great season, great season, Damn near won the game. Can't ask for a better way to
close out the year. Obviously, I'm sure dog fans wish it went a little bit differently, but for the rest of us who didn't necessarily have a dog in the fight, so to speak, it was a good way to close it out, a fun Monday night to watch some college
football one last time. In regards to the podcast, yes, we are going to take let's talk about us, Yeah, a little bit of time off now, and it doesn't mean we won't be putting shows out, but it does mean that we're going to alter the schedule a little bit, so you can look for one show a week from this point forward all through the off season. Once we get closer to the twenty eighteen season, we will resume our normal two weeks, but for a while now we're
going to go once a week. We've got all sorts of fun stuff planned for the year ahead, starting of course with the live show we did in Atlanta, So if you weren't able to actually come on out to that show, you can listen to it next Wednesday, when we'll publish the audio. I went through it yesterday. After
that point we'll keep everyone updated. We've obviously got recruiting, and then before you know it, it's spring football and some other creative projects that you and I are inevitably going to work on now over the course of the next couple months. But if you are a college football fan, and if you like the cut of our jib, please do keep it here, keep subscribing, keep downloading, and we'll do our best to get you through the long, cold doldrums that are college football. Is offseason.
We should mention with the live show that is not with the Q and A correct that's only.
A bonus to people who actually paid the money and were able to show up.
Yes, that is only for the people that showed up, and I believe the aerial photos will justify it. The most attended, solid verbal live show we've ever done. It was our coronation. Now we had a fantastic time at the live show. And I will add because we are doing one show a week for the off season, and you did say two a week, and now I really want to do it to a tag of a low a week. Somehow talking to Hawaiian people who know him
and just deep diving to up. But there will be bonus Q and as you know, sometimes there'll be a couple episodes a week. Sometimes it might be a video on our Facebook page that we'll have some fun with an experiment with some sort of new media kind of stuff. So even though it's once a week, those will be long, action packed shows. We will do theme weeks the months,
whatever the case may be. Throughout the off season, we will talk to people far smarter than we are, which there's just so many of them, so we have so many of them to talk to over the course of the off season. But yeah, we will be doing a ton. We will be ramping up all sorts of various new avenues. So extremely excited for us to deep dive a bunch of stuff to get weird in the off season. Some people prefer the off season to the season because that's
when we can't be wrong about games, no predictions. We just can't be although I would argue that's our charm that we are always wrong, so that it's an exciting time for us personally because this is when we really like to stretch our deep diving and weird College football muscles. I bring it back to the muscle reference because that's just what I do. But please join us. Let's have some fun for these next few months, because there is
still going to be a ton to talk about. We have recruiting at the beginning of February, with the end of the signing day period and various goings on. There's still probably you know, Arizona doesn't have a coach, so they're still going to be coaching movements that you know, are perhaps unexpected that we've seen throughout spring football. All sorts of stuff to do. So very excited for the months that lay ahead.
Tie and last but not least, Yeah, there will be another live show later than the year.
Yes, and it's a new city that we're going to be doing it.
It will be in a different city. We have not settled on which city, but we have a number of really strong options. And if you're interested in showing up to a live show, we've got people from Atlanta who basically swore a blood oath to fly to wherever our next show is. They enjoyed it so.
Much, that's amazing. Yeah, So the flights into the Allentown Airport, right, what's that that you can fly. It's straight into Allentown.
That's right. Next, we're going to do it at Terminal B.
Which coincidentally is also terminals.
It's also Terminal A. Yeah, that's correct.
Yeah.
So anyway, thank you after that long winded description of where we're headed for bearing with us here all throughout the college football season. We will be back next week. Alabama, you're twenty seventeen eighteen college Football Playoff national champions. For that guy over there, Dan Rubinstein, for myself, Ty hilden Brand over here in Allentown. Thanks again for tuning in, and stay solid peace.
All right, ty little bonus. If you're still listening, you're still listening to the show after it actually ended, I'm gonna give you the first half of Alabama and the second half of Georgia in my dramatic drive chart voice, missed field goal, punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, touchdown, interception, punt, punt, punt, punt, field goal, and a game