Nebraska, Ohio St, Alabama & Tennessee Freshmen raise ceilings + Brady Quinn on Notre Dame, Michigan

Intro the team that could easily of anybody pencil themselves into the 12 team playoff is Notre Dame college football's never been better interest has never been higher believe that we are at the dawn of the golden age of college football it was an epic day of college football it was one of those days where you fall in love with the sport all over [Music] again welcome into the program everybody I'm Joel clad this is the Joel class show we are presented by Hampton by Hilton listen uh folks lot of people listening this week and we know why CU we love college football week one there's been a lot of reaction so thank you for joining us here in week one uh reaction of the college football season um we've got a lot to get into today I'm going to have uh Four Freshmen that I thought played incredible some thoughts still on Oregon that I never got to Florida state that I never got to plus I'm going to have Brady Quinn on Brady Quinn of course of big noon kickoff uh my colleague at Fox Sports he's going to come on we're going to review a little bit more about that Notre Dame win as well as start to preview and look ahead towards the Giant game that will be at on Saturday as big noon Saturday and big noon kickoff head to Ann Arbor for the Michigan Texas Showdown this Saturday on Fox so uh that's what we got going on remember rate review us wherever you're at please subscribe to the YouTube channel we've got some exclusive YouTube content coming out out this week I'm going to have a film study of the Michigan offense coming out this week uh that you're definitely going to want to see and if you're just an audio listener sorry got to go to YouTube in order to check out that film study so get over there subscribe to the show and invite a friend get in the comments down below uh here's what I want to do with these Four Freshmen okay we're going to play a little bit of a game called if th if this then that okay again if this then that with Four Freshmen who had big games in week one and and to be fair one of them is a red shirt freshman but they are all still technically freshman so we're going to go with Four Freshman let's start with the one that I think is is kind of the the biggest of of all of them maybe it doesn't turn into the biggest but it certainly could and let's Nebraska QB Dylan Raiola start with Nebraska true freshman quarterback Dylan rayola so Dylan rayola went out and he was 19 of 27 for 238 yards two touchdowns in his first career game as a starter against UTP so what is the if then then that well if he is just a net positive for Nebraska then Nebraska will be playing meaningful games for the cfp when it comes to November that's that's actually the standard you see everyone has been talking about Dylan royola being possibly the Savior for Nebraska and he's gonna you know rescue them and so on and so forth but here's here's the thing if you actually study them and watch them and see what they did a year ago you'll see that this team was very close a year ago and they had I would say a net negative quarterback play here's if they don't turn it over last year they're a a far different team from a record standpoint they are three to four wins better think of it this way Nebraska was minus 17 last year in the turnover margin minus 17 that's worse in the power five a year ago nebras lost five games by one score last year five by one score four of those were by three points and the other was an overtime loss to Wisconsin and in those games they had 16 turnovers 14 were by the quarterback so all you have to do is extrapolate that out and say if Dylan Rola is just a net positive and not a net negative if he's just taking care of the football those probably turn into wins again 16 turnovers just in those on score losses from a year ago 14 by the quarterback that gets cleaned up there's no doubt with the schedule ahead of him that they'll be playing meaningful games as it relates to the college football playoff in November it was a bit of a wait and see for me after that first game and he showed some flashes so yeah I think he's really good but again let's just peel it back and actually say what it is if he's just a net positive then Nebraska is playing meaningful games in November when it relates to the college football playoff so how big is this game against Colorado this week at home in Lincoln I think it's the difference between them having a loss or two before Ohio State and probably being undefeated if they go into Ohio State you see if they lose to Colorado they're likely going to be in another one- score game against like let's say a Ruckers team that's that's vastly improved under Greg shano so then you could say like W if they lose to Colorado they could probably lose another one before they get to Ohio State but if they beat Colorado at home then there's no one else that really scares you because they've put themselves on a level where they can beat two extraordinary players in shador Sanders and Travis Hunter so then all of a sudden you're looking at that schedule and you think to yourself yeah they're absolutely going to be a 7 and0 team going to Columbus so these are the six games that they've had they have uh Colorado Northern Iowa Illinois Purdue Rutter and Indiana the last five get much tougher but then they're in it they're in the thick of it now remember I didn't say if Dylan Rola doesn't turn it over they're going to the playoff I say they're playing games that will be meaningful as it relates to the playoff they would go to Ohio state they're certainly not going to be favored in that game UCLA is is a team that they should beat and then they've got three games at USC Wisconsin and at Iowa they would be a one loss team at that point they would likely be eight- one and then it's a coin flip if like if you can go two- one in those games and you're a 10- win team you not only are going to have an outside shot to be the second seed in the Big 10 and go to the championship game but probably an outside shot to be in the college football playoff so that's why this is such a huge development in Nebraska and for all of college football because if Dylan rayola is just a net positive for that off offense then all of the sudden they're going to be playing those last three with a lot on the line so that's my number one number two Ohio State wide Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith receiver Jeremiah Smith he you know all spring everyone was talking about him and rightly so and they've been trying to even slow down some of this hype for Jeremiah Smith and it was he was very hyped coming in and you know obviously Ryan Day given the like the the relief at the podium when he finally committed and sent his letter of intent into um the Woody as they call it the Woody Haze Center he had six catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns against akan and yeah those those aren't going to like blow your mind but some of the catches that he made did and in particular because of the style of catches that they were going to him for which was if you're oneon-one you're getting the ball so that tells you everything that you need to know about the belief that Ryan day and Chip Kelly and will Howard have and Jeremiah Smith because even their quarterback will Howard was saying he's the type of player that if he's got one-on-one coverage the ball is going to him it's going to Jeremiah Smith so then what does that mean well if he's him as the kidss say then he will be the tide that rises all boats for Ohio State and their offense if he wasn't going to be him then all of a sudden you can start to cheat as a defense and you can commit resources to stopping the run and you can make will Howard's life much more difficult but if Jeremiah Smith is him like he started to prove against akan in some of those one-on-one situations now you've got a problem as a defense cuz he's probably commanding a double team which means the safety is high if the safety is high then guess what you can block everybody in the runr at least to that side of the football and that run game with quinan Judkins and trayon Henderson and even will Howard himself can start to get loose if you've got to double Jeremiah Smith and keep a safety over him guess who's single covered or doesn't have the ratios acha abuka so now all of the sudden he becomes the tide that starts to rise all boats now normally we talk about that in terms of quarterback play and listen I get it wide receivers are generally a dependent position but when he's impacting the structure of the defense before the ball is snapped he becomes the tide we saw it a little bit with Marvin Harrison but I think this is even even different more different because they're having to commit resources over there it reminds me a lot of do you remember like the Patriot teams with grank and Edelman those guys were such matchup nightmares that what in ended up happening is they would just sit in a formation they did this in the Super Bowl they did this in the AFC championship against the Chiefs I remember they would just sit in in kind of a basic like empty formation where grank was like singled over there and Edelman was in the slot and then Brady would just decide based on the ratios where the ball was going to go so at that point and moment an experienced quarterback or play caller like Chip Kelly or will Howard can then say hey defense run whatever you want you will tell me where the ball is going but you can only do that if you have guys that are matchup nightmares like a grank or like a Jeremiah Smith so that's why I say he could be the tide that rises um the the boat level of the Ohio State offense I don't think this offense is even going to need to score 40 points because of what they do on defense and how good they can be on defense but I guarantee you this if he's him then watch out because that offense can be explosive let's go to number Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava three Tennessee quarterback how about this I mean Nico IIA malava I believe I said that IIA malava if he's the real deal then Tennessee is going to be the 2022 version of Tennessee and not the 2023 version Nico looked incredible granted it was Chattanooga and I understand that but a lot of people listen you could say the same thing about akan you know for Jeremiah Smith these are young guys that are getting a chance to play now I know that IO malava played in the B b game but man if if this guy is the real deal then Tennessee becomes a factor and they become a a 2022 version of Tennessee which was a problem in the SEC Nico IAM malava I'm just going to say it until it's ingrained in my head IAM malava was 22 of 28 314 yards three touchdowns all in the first half so that's incredible stuff and it wasn't just that he put up huge numbers it his wide receivers weren't having to adjust a lot you watch him and and I watched some of the the film and some of the highlights he was throwing the ball so accurately driving it down the field our colleague on big noon kickoff and remember Brady Quinn's coming up later in the show but our other colleague and quarterback Matt liner has known Nico for a long time because Nico's a Southern Southern California Kid Matt's a Southern California guy obviously so he's seen him throw from a young age Matt has always said that Nico is one of if not the most imp impressive young passers of the football that he's seen and that came to fruition on the field for Tennessee so now all of the sudden Tennessee makes it a really deep race in the SEC similar very similar to what Miller Moss has now made USC and and deanan Lynn has made USC so if USC is real now all of a sudden the top of the Big 10 becomes much differ uh different and more difficult I was stuck between different and difficult there but difficult is what I was looking for we know this intuitively well the same thing can be applied in the SEC to Tennessee very similar to what USC is doing over there um I that becomes a problem and now all of the sudden their schedule which is very difficult you know they've got Georgia on there they've got Alabama they've got Oklahoma and now it becomes a huge problem for those teams how do those teams navigate Tennessee because if Nico is really this good then this is a version of Tennessee that can go and compete for a spot in the SEC Championship game that becomes a really really good team and now you know why they were so aggressive with him in recruiting Because he he seems at least through one game to be that guy last one as far as a freshman goes if the if this Alabama WR Ryan Williams then that we're playing is Alabama wide receiver Ryan Williams if Ryan Williams if he is this good then Caleb kin dbor has answers at wide receiver for the tie which is not what they've had in the last two years if you were to ask me what has been the biggest difference between Alabama's teams the last two years and the ones previous to that and in particular when you get to that 2020 1918 you're used to seeing you can go all the way back to like Julio Jones Amari Cooper Jerry Judy Jaylen Wadd Devonte Smith Jameson Williams out there and they haven't had that the last couple of years they just have not now if Ryan Williams becomes him if you will then all of the sudden they are back in that mold and they have an elite playmaker on the outside and now they have it not with you know some random offensive coordinator I know all those guys didn't have random offensive cor you had kein in there you had Sark in there but now you've got kayin dor think romad dun like look at what dor does with Elite wide receivers he just took Washington and went to the national championship game I know pinnick was outstanding but a lot of that was the fact that he had great Elite wide receiver play so if Ryan Williams is an elite player on the outside watch out for Alabama because kalayn dor specifically knows what to do with a room like that Ryan Williams could grow into that he could be dore's new adun and that's scary for everybody so Four Freshman that if then than that these guys are very good man very good I do Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty want to give a a quick shout out to a couple of other performers es that they weren't freshman but they deserve a shout out Ashton jinty the the running back from Boise State if this guy is going to be that good and productive then Boise State's going to have a great chance to not only maybe knock off Oregon this week but certainly represent the the smaller schools in the college football playoff taroa McMillan went off Arizona WR Teteairoa McMillan for Arizona that guy is one of the Premier uh players in all of college football and certainly a guy that I think a lot of so those performances I just got to at least mention out of week one um along with those freshmen that kind of burst on the scene Brian Williams man elite elite elite all these guys are Elite and there was some other ones in there too that I I just couldn't get to um let's see let's go to Oregon How concerning was Oregon? um should we be concerned about Oregon should we be concerned about Oregon they beat idah Idaho from the FCS 2414 and it's like on in one hand you know we're saying like hey Oklahoma State played pretty well and hey even if Colorado didn't look great and made some mistakes they at least beat North Dakota state which wasn't an easy game this is kind of that that Regional Style game and yet it feels way different and so the answer to me for should we be concerned about Oregon is yes I actually have major concerns major concerns for Oregon 2414 they were favored in this game by as much as 49 and a half and they were in one folks like in one the offensive line was only replacing two starters so you've got to think to yourself like okay they've got three returning starters they should be good but they're trying to replace their Center Jackson po Johnson and everybody knows or at least if you've followed Oregon or if you've heard Dan Lanning talk about his Club you'll know that Jackson poers Johnson was a big loss for them but here's what's more concerning is that they had three starters back and Idaho sacked them three times now you might be thinking to yourself like three sacks is not a ton but it sure is when last year you gave up five total sacks on the year five total sacks now that's not Dylan Gabriel is a quick release get the ball out of his hands he is he's not sitting there holding the ball taking a lot of sacks this is not a difference between Bo Knicks and Dylan Gabriel this is all of the sudden this offensive line getting beat up front they gave up three sacks they gave up five sacks total on the year last year and they give up three to FCS Idaho that is not good they ran it for under three yards per carry so yes alarm Bells should be going off heavily around Oregon and their offensive line specifically this is not something that's all that sustainable if you're talking about the expectations that Oregon is bringing to the table now if you're just thinking to yourself like well you know Oregon will get better and they'll be fine okay that's one thing but remember Oregon was a lot of people's National Champion pick now you might be thinking to yourself like why are you unconcerned about Michigan and you're more concerned about Oregon all of that has to do with with the expectation level and the fact that Michigan doesn't mind winning this way Oregon was a 49 and a half Point favorite and won by 10 and averaged under three yards per carry against FCS Idaho who sacked him three times when last year they gave up five total sacks on the season that is alarming this has got to get better and it's got to get better in a big way and fast fast they play Boise State they host Boise State this week did you know Boise state has never lost to Oregon Oregon's 0 and3 against Boise State in their history 0 and3 there was the what was it the 0809 or 0708 backto back home in home and then there was a bowl game in 2017 Boise beat him each time one of those was the legar blunt game in Boise they have to face Michigan's defensive line they've got to face Ohio's States defensive line they have to play better than this up front we thought that this was going to be a team that was going to be able to go out there and handle their business at the line of scrimmage certainly against an FCS opponent so Oregon is concerning I there's no other way to to put it other than that that offensive line has got to get better another team that is in real trouble and maybe just like the alarm Florida State falls out of top 25 Bells have turned off and it's like the lights have gone out and that's Florida State if we look at you know history in college football and I like to do this what we'd see is that at least one preseason top 10 team has finished unranked in 16 of the last 17 seasons and we found this year's Team all right they're not coming back from this you don't lose to Georgia Tech and Boston College in the way that you lost to them and come back from this if you're Florida State and I guess we shouldn't really be surprised it's like like TCU from last year FSU has been very reliant on the transfer portal and guess what last year's group had major differen makers that were transfers and now they're gone Keon Coleman from Michigan State uh Brady Fisk from Western Michigan Jared verse from Albany Trey Benson from Oregon they were all there for two years as transfers but are gone now not all of them but a few of those were two years and now now they're all gone they've got to replace Jordan Travis and then all of a sudden dju is clearly a drop off so there's a problem this is the problem when you're you're playing with the fire that is the transfer portal now in some cases it can heat your whole home it's it's un unquestionably just like that old Christian lner line from Mike shashki Mike shashy used to say like Christian lner was like the furnace if he's controlled he can heat the whole home he can make everything go but the furnace can also burn the home down well that's that's the transfer portal in college football if it's done right it can heat the whole home but if it gets out of control it burns it down and it can do it quickly and we're seeing that and then this is even more evidence like we talked about with Clemson that if you miss on a quarterback and by the way in this case it seems to be missing with the same guy dju I hate it for him but it's certainly not the type of play that we were expecting out of DJ oal Lele they went heavy in the portal again this year they had 17 transfers they had the number seven ranked class but it isn't paying off for them it's just not and that's that's the downside if you're going to play that way if you miss at quarterback if you have a couple of Misses now all of a sudden you're out of luck and that seems to be what's happening with Florida State why because these teams aren't just like beating them with five turnovers they're dominating them Boston College outgained them had more first downs had less turnovers they had the time of possession battle like Boston College thoroughly beat Florida State in Tallahassee big credit to Bill O'Brien how about Bill O'Brien and the BC Eagles maybe Boston College is just way better than we give anybody credit and they're going to be there right in the end by the way Georgia Tech might be in the same boat Georgia Tech plays Syracuse this this week Syracuse looked good all of the sudden now all of a sudden these teams are trying to rise in the ACC while the favorites or preseason favorites are fing at faltering except for Miami Florida State faltering Clemson faltering North Carolina state did not play great Virginia Tech lost to Vanderbilt and yet you've got these other teams that are starting to build maybe they're better than we think maybe the C is going to go on a run the the C have one of the easiest schedules in all the country there's a chance Syracuse goes 9 and0 until some late games in the season you know like there's that chance we see the imbalance in schedule and it's out there Georgia Tech could be a lot better and how about BC that was not a fluke give Bill O'Brien a lot of credit that team played really really hard um all right here's what I want to do uh I want to bring in our colleague my colleague Brady Quinn joins the show and the esteemed Brady Quinn from Big noon kickoff so here we go let's bring in Brady so without further Ado the man the myth the legend himself Brady Quinn joins the show Brady what's going on my man how are you I'm doing great I mean I finally got on the juel clat show some people call it jks I'm just it was the week after Josh P I really thought I would be able to get on your show before Josh P uh those of you that don't know uh Brady threw some shade out on social media he was just like what to him and Matt like what do we got to do to get an invite and so you got the pity invite the next week congratulations and I took it so that's how pathetic I am for those for those of you that don't realize this I've actually worked with Josh Pate I know Josh well uh great dude uh we see him on the road in fact we might be seeing him this week I think Jo I mean I would assume anyone that travels to games is coming to this game you you'd hope so if they're not I mean I'm not really sure what you're doing in college football so I agree I agree Brady and I are going to be in an arbor for the Michigan Texas game uh before we get to that and I do want to to talk about that in particular kind of this this Michigan possible two quarterback system that we saw against Fresno State in in week one I have to get your thoughts though on your boys I mean I was high on Notre Dame in the Notre Dame preseason I know you were as well but there was some cautious optimism in particular with the youthful offensive line that performance in College Station I thought was was maybe not remarkable but man it was impressive what they did what what were your thoughts on that win I would just describe uh that win as the culmination of what has occurred over the past three years for Marcus Freeman and his staff and so I'll I'll start with Marcus if you have looked at the past couple of years you really saw saw the growth in this game as far as how the fourth quarter played out and I think it it speaks volumes to um how the game started his emotion how he led the team on the field a lot of those clips are going viral yeah and and how he's constructed his staff and really everyone I'm including the strength coach as well but you know the the Bedrock of this team and he's a defensive minded coach former defensive player so you kind of figured that's usually where his bread and butter is going to be and that's what he's done by getting a guy in Al golden who they extended this off season made making sure they retained him but he applies this scheme that plays to the person out they put so much pressure on opposing quarterbacks with the different coverage looks Blitz looks pressure looks fronts and things that they do and they're able to do that because they've got Ben Morrison out there they've got xav wat they've got Christian Gray so uh it's a combination of to me what Marcus has been able to do with his staff coupled with his recruiting and building it off the foundation you knows on defense yeah and the surprising part would be on the offensive side because I agree with you that defense and and I think that we would probably say we both expected the defense to play really well wouldn't you agree yeah yeah I said I said A&M was going to score nine points you know they ended up what 13 so right around there but the surprising part probably was on the offensive side you agree yes and for a number of reasons but I guess not so much in this sense is Notre Dame's got an identity on offense like if i s you right now what is Notre Dame going to recruit going to develop and going to pump off into the NFL You' probably say offensive line tied end running back right now is that fair I it's totally fair and that's it in in that order I would say well maybe o line first but yeah tied end o line line of scrimmage and then running backs and that's exactly what they featured in the second half and in particular in the fourth quarter and I think you know for some people who there's always to be criticism right you're not noted in quarterback there's going to be national attention there's going to be criticism and I think there was some concern like hey we all know Riley Leonard's a good athlete he's a dual threat athlete but like what's he going to be like the passing game I'm G take people back remember he missed the spring game this was the first really true live action like in a stadium in an environment like that with this team in this offense with this group so whatever your you know preconceived notions were or your after game thoughts of the passing game is Just pump the breakes like this is week one like I dare you like talk to me after week two talk to me after week three it's only going to get better from here I mean you have a number of transfers too and Bo Collins who came from Clemson Chris Mitchell uh from South Florida or excuse me FIU but you know from the south Florida area um you have a bunch of people who are added into this offense that he's still developing chemistry with because of the the injury he was coming off of through the spring and mind you the offensive line you know as we kind of touched on how youthful that group is and going up against that front so um they leaned heavily on their identity and I thought the best thing was the way uh Marcus managed the game and I think the way you know Mike Den Brock who had been there before by the way and really made it a kind of a perfect fit put together a game plan to allow Riley Leonard to make a big third down throw for a first down and then kind of push and isolate Bo Collins to give him an opportunity to make a big play along with the big running play so um those are the two things I think when you look at at the staff of what he's constructed the last thing I'll say is this did you see the shot of Conor wigman throwing up during the game yes as he's walking and you can tell he's trying not to and then it's just like yeah so you know this because you know you're from Colorado but Notre Dame hired Lauren landow who's arguably one of the best strength conditioning coaches I think I've ever been around I mean I was around him at the Denver Broncos even back before he was coaching for the Denver Broncos I I was with him in draft prep like before he the Broncos so so he trained me he trained a lot of the Denver Bronco guys for a long time he's really good he he's he's better than really good again I I'd put him up against like Mickey Mora who I had back was college now was at Ohio State but but the general point is this when it came down to it the fourth quarter it it wasn't Notre Dame who looked like the team that couldn't handle the heat humidity and everything else in that environment down in Texas it was Texas ANM who didn't look they in shape who got leaned on and and eventually ended up getting worn on and so that's a credit to llando but going back to the initial point it's a credit to Marcus Freeman and the job he's done of constructing all of this this entire ecosystem this program at Notre Dame to be able to display the growth that he's had as a head coach but the programs had over his 10 years so far so I don't want to make too much of one game but I thought it was a pretty defining moment for him in particular well listen I'm gonna make a lot of that game because there's not a lot of tough ones left and so that's why that game was so important and and obviously it behooves them if A&M goes on and and has some success in in the SEC it actually behooves Notre Dame that USC played well against LSU and got a win in week one because now with Florida State falling off the face of the Earth you know at least they've got kind of this bookend of quality opponents at the beginning of the Season hopefully in in in A&M and then at the end of the season in USC Brady of all the teams in week one Miami looked good all these teams look great you know you could say Georgia yeah pencil them in no no no the team that could easily of anybody pencil themselves into the 12 team playoff is Notre Dame you start thinking about that schedule taking care of your own business I I just don't see them losing more than one game I don't see it I don't either I said before this season even back when we thought tnm and Florida State and then the challenges those would be and obviously they got past ANM but even looking at Florida State right now which is just seems like a mess um I still felt like the floor was 11 and one with this team I felt like they've got one of the best defenses in the country their offense with Mike denrock back and the way he could scheme things up to get the ball to The Playmakers and Riley Leonard who's a veteran capable enough of handling all of this I really felt confident in their ability to at minimum go 11-1 if not 12 and0 that's how their schedule sets up so the next step for them is to not get tripped up by the Georgia Tech the Louisville we you know probably both ranked by the time they play them I think Georgia teex ranked at AT AP poll now um and have those games where they stumble kind of like they did last year versus Louisville and and almost getting beat by Duke um that's the next step is is now being able to be the hunted and being able to handle that as they move forward and maintaining that number five spot because as you said it this thing sets up very easily for Notre Dame to be hosting a a first round playoff game and uh I I can't wait to see what that environment is going to be like there's there's no doubt and and I was I was speaking of this early in the earlier in the show before you came on uh in terms of Nebraska this idea that when you're building a program and Marcus Freeman wasn't building a program but and this goes all the way back to to Bobby Bowen you used to talk about you know with a program you got to lose big before you lose small you're going to lose small before you win small you win small before you win big maybe that's the maturation we've seen over the last couple of years that winning small last year is going to turn into winning big at least that's what Irish fans will hope for let's move on to our game huge huge game in an arbor as Michigan takes Michigan’s QB situation on Texas it is a three-hour edition of big news kickoff that's right three hour edition so 900 a.m. eastern the lovely and talented Brady Quinn is going to be gracing your televisions on Fox and you got to be there because it's going to be a really cool show it's going to be a huge show as we prep for that game now big noon kickoff you'll be there the guys will be there Charles Woodson will be there we've got a lot of stuff going on and then we get to the game and Brady I'm I'm watching the film of each of these teams Texas knows exactly who they are they know exactly what they want to do and how they want to attack and then there's Michigan and you watch that offensive game tape and you're like okay they are still in absolute figure it out mode and that starts with the quarterbacks they go with Davis Warren you know the the former walk-on which by the way don't disparage because gotta hang with my Walk-Ons and then Alex orgy sparingly by the way only two snaps in the first half it's not even like they had a real two quarterback system but they were parsing him in there at times times what do you think we're going to see from Michigan offensively I I wonder if Michigan was holding some stuff back and and the only reason I say that is I'll never forget then this happens to a fault at times by the way it happened to be my sophomore year we were playing BYU in Provo to open the season week two was against Michigan and they were G to be I believe a top 10 ranked team at that point in time maybe even top five and our entire train Camp towards the end we had prepared for Michigan then we get out the Provo they're running a 335 defense it was tough for our offensive line to adjust tough for me to adjust you see the field a lot differently in that case end up losing stumble now we come back to beat Michigan the next week but we we had kind of prepared and held some stuff back in preparation for that game thinking we could get by and we didn't so that could be sometimes a cautionary tale and I think that's one of the reasons why when I went back and watched I thought this is kind of vanilla maybe there's some things too that they didn't want to show that they're going to introduce next week and seeing how Texas adjusts to it um so that was my first thought going back watching the tape uh the other thought was you know that this whole two quarterback system I personally have never been a fan of it for this reason is you're making all 10 players adjust everyone else has to adjust besides the quarterback for whoever it is when you're trying to run two you either have a guy in there who's in Davis Warren's case probably run more of a conventional offense uh from the pocket Etc if Alex orig is going in it's probably more run do Etc but everyone else has to adjust to their Cadence their leadership all those intangibles their pocket presence you know the timing with the football how they're holding on to it the type of styles of plays you're running the different football they're throwing too if you're a receiver a pass catcher so I've never been a fan of it from that standpoint is interjecting that into your team and then the locker room standpoint is you and I both know college football and really football in general there's two people that everyone looks to when adversity strikes it's the head coach and the quarterback when you got two you're naturally creating potential fractions within your locker room when that adversity does strike and there's not that one voice you know it's funny like we never say that with coaches University strikes like the coach has to stand up and say something and if he doesn't right they're gonna can him and they're gonna put someone else in there who will right and but but for some reason with quarterbacks we try to make it seem like oh this can work it'll be copesthetic so um I I just I've never been a fan of it I think you have to kind of pick your Lane and go with it and if it's not Davis War if it doesn't work out then you go to Alex if it if it is Alex go with that if it doesn't work out go to Davis waren but I've always been a big believer and like put the guy out there that you feel like gives you on every single play throughout the game the best chance to win and and we'll see if that happens this week and the fascinating part for me is going into watching the film you know I'm sitting there and I'm preparing for this two quarterback system in my head you know I'm like okay let's let's watch these guys play and you know orgy plays nine snaps total and two in the first half and I was like oh wait wait wait this is just a limited package of plays that this guy comes in and runs very similar by the way to the team that we saw in week one and a guy that actually got more than that you know in BO prula for Penn State he came in and and did a little bit now he played more at the end in and kind of mop up duty but but I do Wonder in the back of my head if if you can get away with this if you're if you're internally saying to yourself Davis Warren is our starter but we have this other guy that has to get on the field and they play two very different roles within the system now your point about everyone else adjusting all all the other players the 10 on the field is is an excellent point and that's why yes I'm with you I'm not ultimately a fan partly because I'm a quarterback and most of us are narcissists and so we just want to be on the field anyways right like I know you're laughing a little bit but like you just want like I don't take me off the field because it's true yeah I'm with you you know and so there's there's obviously a a little bit of that going on when I watch that film here's here's what I'll say when Davis Warren is the quarterback it reminds me so much of the early Harbaugh teams that Michigan had 2015 2016 there's no there's not a lot of Dynamic play on the field but it's serviceable and they wear you down kind of eventually and and you saw that there was a lot of mistakes early in the game then they put together a drive late in the game and end up pulling away I just don't know if a team can beat Texas playing that way that's what remains to be seen because I think Texas is an elite team I okay so I think I think Texas is but this will be the game that helped me truly believe that they are because I think this game comes down to two things Michigan vs. Texas for me we know we know what Michigan's identity is and the challenge and really what this game's all about is Chiron Moore is taking over now for Jim Harbaugh and it's the question of can he continue to run this program the way Jim Harbaugh did where your identity is defense and on offense you're gonna run the football and you're gonna grind them down and you're gonna dominate the line of scrimmage because that's really what's at play here the only problem with that is if you look at the past two years and and so tired of hearing the Conor stallion stuff and that's why Michigan had success so we don't need to go into that but and one of the reasons why I hate it is because it discredits JJ McCarthy that's right when when JJ McCarthy was called upon he stepped up and made a play and that's what we're gonna find out about this Michigan team because if Chiron Moore wants to run a system very similar and and run this program just like Harbaugh did then he's going to have to have a quarterback the way they look to be playing right now one these two is GNA have to step up and be that guy when called upon he's got to deliver that that throw on third down he's going have to deliver that throw in a two-minute drive and that big play to make something happen or take off with his legs make something happen that that's the reality of what won Michigan the national championship last year in took the playoff two years ago it was the that that those plays by JJ McCarthy to me combined with what they had offensively up front and running the football and that defense so that's really what I'm curious to see if Michigan is going to be able to find an exec and then on the flip side for me it's about Texas's defense in particular their two defensive tackles yes who now gone to the NFL because you know Michigan sitting there saying we know what you want to do we're just GNA make sure we're g we're gonna test out and see how good the interior of your defense is and if you can stop the the power the counters all the different schemes that we're going to throw your way in the Run game without tandre SWAT without Brion Murphy and and and obviously no disrespect to you know Texas opponent last week it's just it's going to be a different challenge this week when you see Michigan on the field in a real live game scenario and you have to have those run fits on point and the Personnel to do it and they don't have those game records I don't believe now in the interior of their defense so that's what this game's all about in my opinion we're gonna find out um to your point like is Texas part of that Elite conversation of teams we're seeing right now and and tell you what's fascinating to me is that last year Texas was able to get away with playing in the VIN and this is the last thing I'll say and then and Brady will will'll let you go and I appreciate you being on man I really do Texas wants at least their coordinator Pete kakowski his his history is he wants to be an open middle of the- field coverage guy he wants to have two safeties back and the the he doesn't want to give up the big play a few years ago it burned him because teams like Oklahoma State could just run the football on him and they ended up beating Texas now last year he could do that because he had great defensive tackles so you can play two safeties back when you've got great defensive tackles and and without those guys is can you really stop the Michigan Run game with two safeties back because it's against his nature to drop down now he will I'm not saying that he won't but I'm just saying like that he wants to keep them back and if you watch the Fresno State game there was not a snap of football that Fresno State at least that I can remember didn't have run ratios or at least a guy creeping down at least looking at the Run ratios in order to be the unblocked player in the defensive run front I'm sure there's a snap here or there where they played Too Deep but certainly cly not something that they were trying to sit in that to me becomes the game if Texas can sit there and stop the run then it's going to be lights out for Michigan but if they've got to drop their safety and get out of what they want to do then it becomes a much bigger question because that's when coulston Loveland could get one-on-one coverage and and Michigan can potentially throw the ball a little bit that's what I'll be looking for it's interesting that you say that because I always feel like Pete Kowski going back to days of with Wasington right I thought he played more post TI safety then because the cornerbacks that they had they had the Kevin Kings uh of the world of people like that who they could isolate on islands and be able to put that extra Defender down in the box but different time different team different personnel and I think to your point you know you hear about you know everyone Gap Integrity well Gap and a half is what you can play when you have a tandre s a Byron Murphy where those guys could cheat and I think one of the things that I'll look to see if Pete Kowski does is that Michigan's gon to try to spread you out often times but when org's in sometimes you might not you know you might be surprised if they do try to spread him out to get him a lighter box to run the football but if they cheat uh if they're cheating you know whether it's out in the slot with that nickel defender or however they go about cheating with one of the safeties to be able to have him essentially responsible for a gap even though he's still trying to play back you know for more depth because they're not concerned about the passing game of Michigan I mean right now no one scares you outside of Courtland Loveland on that Michigan offense as far as creating a big play and so I again that's another thing is like this is a great opportunity for Michigan and for one of those guys to emerge otherwise to your point it it could be a long day like Texas uh could be able to put up some big plays some big numbers versus this Michigan team Brady I I appreciate Outro your time man um I can't wait to see you guys and and the show and everything that you've got going on again big noon kickoff 9 a.m. eastern 3-hour Edition live from Ann Arbor I I appreciate you man thanks for coming on the show thanks for having me all right that'll do it for Brady and that'll do it for us uh appreciate you watching again subscribe on YouTube make sure that you're there we're going to have some extra YouTube content some Michigan film coming out this week uh our preview episodes are coming out tomorrow on Thursday I break down my games last week 5- one against the spread that's all I'm going to say five- one against the spread wherever you're listening go ahead rate review us do all that fun stuff and uh listen enjoy your Wednesday night everybody we'll talk to you tomorrow