ACC SQUAD - ACC Football has ARRIVED | North Carolina SHOCKS the College Football World

0:00This is the Lockdown Podcast Network celebrating 10 years of your team every day. Hi, this is Isaac Shade, host of Lockdown College basketball and Lockdown Tar Heels. Today's episode is brought to you by ADT. Imagine you're watching the game at a buddy's house when you get a call that someone tried to break into yours. In a second, everything can change. That's why there's ADT. ADT security systems help keep your home safe 24-7 with the most company operated monitoring centers in the industry. The ADT Plus app keeps you in control the whole time. Don't leave your home wide open during an emergency. When every second counts, count on ADT. Visit ADT.com or call 1-800-ADT-ASAP. And week zero comes at you fast. And we learned some things about the North Carolina State Wolf Pack. Let's bring in the squad. We're talking ball with the ACC squad. From Florida State to North Carolina from Syracuse to Miami and from NC State to California,

1:05it's the local experts of the Lockdown Podcast Network bringing you scoops breakdowns and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming ACC weekend. Hang on, it could get loud, it could get heated, and it will definitely be fun. Squad up, you're part of the ACC squad. College football is back in this episode of the ACC squad is brought to you by Fandool. College football Saturdays are already packed with reasons to get excited in this season. Fandool is giving fans even more ways to get in on every matchup. Join all the action at Fandool.com on this episode. Does Clemson have a chance against LSU? I feel like Lloyd Christmas. So you're telling me there's a chance. We'll preview week one coming up, but we'll take a look back a week zero. What's wrong with NC State and Florida State? North Carolina actually got a win. There's that, but we'll start with the NC State Wolf Pack.

2:05I am Alex Donno from Lockdown Cains. We got Jarvis Davis from Lockdown, Georgia Tech. We got Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone. They're not running from the smoke from Lockdown Wolf Pack. We got Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminole. That was even in a dub. We have a lot to talk about, but Kent and Gibbs, I'll let you buy the first round after a 34 to 8L at Virginia. And I was talking up NC State before that game. What happened? Why we got to talk about this? To be the preacher, this now the winning is coaching Stanford history. He's a hundred percent. He's undefeated as the head coach is Stanford. And we got to talk about NC State. Doesn't seem fair to me. Seems a little biased, but no, in all seriousness. What happened? I'll tell you what happened. You know, I feel a little drunk. I'm not going to lie to you. I feel a little intoxicated. You know why I feel a little intoxicated? Because my friends know whenever you hear me say, everybody get around on me, take my card and send me home. Because that's how I feel having about this first round.

3:06Knowing that my head coach said at halftime, I was not expecting that much quarterback run. Knowing that my Mike Lombacker said after the game, I was surprised by the amount of quarterback run. And knowing that the head coach, that the quarterback, Vanilla Vic, that's what I got a call of now. Because he just sauceed and tossed and sliced and diced all through NC State. So Vanilla Vic, the head coach that Vanilla Vic played for of 12 seasons as a coordinator or head coach. Every single team he's ever coached through for 25 hundred yards except the one where Vanilla Vic was asked to throw a ball. That was the only one. And for some reason, for some reason, nobody on NC State's coaching staff said, hey, we need to load this box up. We need to stop this at all costs. But with that being said, credit must be given to Virginia. They were physical as hell. They came in with a game plan of eight. We're going to punch you in the mouth.

4:07We're going to keep punching in the mouth until you do something about it. And where I come from, we like to say, put your hands up. They didn't. NC State did not want to put their hands up. They had to refer him least to children. They pocket just, oh, man, these punches hurt a lot. We might want to do something to stop this at some point in time because we did a thing called a lock down look where we show one play the impact of the game. And in that play, Virginia had seven men in the box to block. We had seven defenders in the box, including a corner that was five yards outside and five yards deep. That's what we had. And by that point, they had already rushed for over 100 yards. So this was a defensive coordinator being derelict at his duties. And the last thing I'll say is that on offense, what happened in NC State, your big money guy did not perform. We're going to talk about Florida State's big money guy is not performing too, but they're defensive life. That's a little different. Our big money guy was a quarterback. He needed to perform. And he said, I don't really feel like it.

5:08And that's ultimately your ballgame, Fancy State, a physical Virginia team. And NC State team that looked right or early. I know CJ Baby will be better. I know for that, he will be better. But playing like that, playing like he played. I'm not sure we'll be here next week running a lot. Well, I hope you can hear me and or see me. My Wi-Fi's acting up. And I don't know if maybe Dave Dorn is also responsible for that as well. But what a nightmare. What an absolute nightmare in Charlottesville. I would have been actually in Brazil might have had more fun. Yeah. I might have had more fun in Brazil than I did actually being in Charlottesville. You talk about the game like relatively not being competitive. Virginia played bully ball. And I want to give a lot of credit to Virginia because that looked like a team that had been in deep preparation for weeks on end. NC State looked like they literally just rolled up and said, OK, let's play. How do you not know what Boca Rila is good at as a quarterback? Everyone knew in the whole stadium what he wanted to do in that ballgame. So entirely frustrating for NC State

6:10to show up and again, just look entirely unprepared. That's crazy, crazy to me. In year 14 of a tenure, you're going to essentially punt the first game of a season. That's crazy to me. So for all the talk about NC State having an easy schedule and maybe this could be the year, certainly off to a hot start, I would say. Well, I'm from, they say and look at that game for between NC State and Virginia. They say NC State didn't even pinch them. The mother black. No. So when you, because that, I just don't, like when you almost get almost rushed for 200 yards in the first half of a game, that's a fireball offense, especially when you don't make adjustments. And you realize that, hey, it got 100 yards in the first quarter or coming into the second quarter. And you still haven't brought another man that's safe to down in the box. You hadn't switched out your personnel.

7:12You look for a 300 pound deep fifth attack or somewhere on your side lines and say, hey, man, getting the game. I don't care if you've never played powerful football before. Hey, if you're a true freshman, get your behind in that game and dog going to take up two blocks for me. That's all I need you to do, because these linebackers obviously aren't getting any type of vision or any type of pathway to find the football before this running back. It's three, four yards down the field or both for Bula with his knowing throwing behind up your dog and running this dog on quarterback power all game. That's just unacceptable, man. You need to turn your check in. Whoever the defense coordinator is for you, it's a state, man, they just need to turn their check in because, dude, you did not earn. Check this week, man. You need to try again. Go back to the draw board, dawg, because that is unacceptable, man. Because KG, I know KG could have come up with a better game plan than that because, man, he did, man. He did, he did on our show. He literally did.

8:12Yeah. The only thing that I can solve is the worst. The only thing I'll ask is for Virginia credit, their safeties are really good. Hillman, the kid that transferred from Michigan, they ate up the NC statewide receivers. They thought they were going to run deep routes and stuff on them. There wasn't nobody open. And then CJ Panicked. Once he gets down on himself, he's showing it before. He doesn't rebound real well in the middle of games. That's on CJ. No, I'm a good guy, but if that doesn't change, he's never going to get over the hump, get to the NFL. The world I know is he's got the arm to do it. But he panicked and he was just as bad in the second half as it was in the first half. Supposedly. Let me ask you guys something, because you obviously, KG and Grace, man, you all follow CJ really simply. I think he came and walked through that door. My, has he gotten better as a quarterback? Well, I think he's gotten immensely better at many aspects. I think mental resilience is not one of those.

9:14I think he's gotten a lot better. He came in with the ability to layer the ball, but he's getting better at it. He came in with not much ability to redefinite. He's gotten exponentially better at it. However, if you know CJ Bayley, if you know that this team, if you get an interception in the first quarter, in the words of NBA young boy, it's a parade inside my city. Yeah, because the rest of the game is going to be real easy. He is not going to, the vision is just going, it's just going to shut down. And like Smith said, he has the talent. He has NFL talent. He has an NFL arm, the ability to feel pressure and escape pressure. He has it, the ability to keep his eyes down, feel while scrambling. He has it. He has all of the tools. But one of the most important is that mental makeup. We could deal with it at NC State, where you make one bad pass of you out. I'll tell you who ain't going to deal with it. Did Detroit Lions? I'll tell you who ain't going to deal with it, deal land of Falcons. I'll tell you who ain't going to deal with it. Nobody has planned under that shield.

10:15None of them are going to deal with a quarterback that, oh, my Miami dolphins, my they've made some pretty bad decisions over there. Anthony Richardson about missile fortitude. Yeah. That's the one that's the one that's the way he is. Yeah, it's terrible. Yeah, from a top five pin. And it's a where is he, right? So yeah. And you guys are obviously, you're all right about how poor NC State was, but you're also right to give Virginia credit. I think the biggest thing, the biggest reason why I underestimated Virginia, but why I should have known better. I just, I thought, and maybe it could still happen, because this is one game, but I thought there was going to be some regression to the mean, but I should have given Virginia's offense more credit based on their offensive line. The most experienced O line in college football, their starting offensive line consists of five graduate student starters who have over 11,000 career snaps and over 160 combined college starts.

11:15And Brian Smith is the host of the portal. You know this better than anybody. When you've got an offensive line that has that much experience, that's a big boost in this sport. Yeah, that's the difference between winning and losing. And to be honest, after I watched the second drive in that game, I said, this game's open. They didn't make any adjustments. Virginia was just beating on them, whether they scored or not, didn't matter. They just knew we were going to consistently get four yards or more. Didn't the playbook is wide open. You can run play action. My dead grind, Mather, control passed down the middle when there's nobody there. And that's what they did. He went through a handful of passes for his tap, but they were wide open. So yeah, that game was over immediately. Rest in peace to Granny, but allowing four or five yards to carry ain't a winning recipe for nobody. It ain't a winning recipe to nobody. And again, I look at this game and I simply say, I understand sticking to your guns. I understand the four, two, five is your philosophy. Bring another damn man in the box.

12:17Period. Bring out that heavy packet. Come on. That's what Jarvis was talking about. Find you an extra 300 pounder and say, we're going to give one of those safeties up on field until they proved us that they could be us throwing up to fit. And yet all game, I did not see heavy package anywhere besides the goal line. That no, they're going empty to run the ball. They ran empty five times. I want you to guess how many passes were attempted when UVA went empty? I want you to get anybody. Give me a number. ZERO. Brian Smith, you are correct. Everybody's smart. So everybody's so creative except DJ Ellie. Refund them people, they 900,000 DJ. You're still in from the program. You're still in from the program. What's wrong with that? Come back. Go ahead Jarvis. In the game. No, I'm just saying, I was just going to reiterate what KG said. Just add another deep as a diamond, bro. I'm like, well, how hard is that? Take that little DB out the game. And add another line because. Yeah, man. Yes. Oh gosh.

13:18Keep it simple, stupid. It's crazy. We're going to talk some Florida state when we come back. I know that some might say a win is a win. But I don't think Florida state fans were too happy about the performance in the win against New Mexico state. You want to keep it locked right here. The ACC squad is only getting started. You know, it fuels me on these busy college football weekends, five hour energy. And folks, if you've got a sweet tooth like I do, you know how tough it is to find that perfect treat without all the sugar. That's why cotton candy, five hour energy shot, brings you that nostalgic flavor back in a whole new way. This is that classic cotton candy taste that you remember. But with a tasty caffeine boost in zero sugar, it's a quick, easy way to satisfy that sweet craving while keeping things simple and on the go. Guys, when I have this five hour energy cotton candy, I didn't know how much I'd love it before I tried it.

14:20But it brings me back to my days growing up when I used to go to the Dade County Youth Fair. And I would have one of those giant buckets of cotton candy. Like I feel like I'm nine years old again. It's really such a great flavor. So bring on that sweetness with cotton candy, five hour energy shots available online now at fivearinergy.com or on Amazon. Thank you for making this episode of The Lockdown ACC squad. You're first listen, Alex Dono from Lockdown Cain's. We got Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone from Lockdown Wolfpack. Jarvis Davis from Lockdown Georgia Tech. He and I didn't have a game to talk about yet, but the fun starts for us this weekend. And we got Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminals. Brian, I'm not sure how much fun you had watching that, that dub against New Mexico state over the weekend. All right, so break this down for me, Brian. 34 to 17 win, which didn't even feel like a double digit win for Florida state because New Mexico state left some touchdowns off the table.

15:21What went wrong there even in that dub? How much time do you got Alex? How much time do you got? I'll call David Lockett, see if we can do three hours tonight. All right. Let's start with the obvious. One of the first drives of the game. Florida State gets to ball in the red zone. Wide open receiver down the down the scene. Quarterbacks looking right at him. Doesn't throw it. Instead takes a sack and you got to kick a few goal. That is losing football defensively over and over again. And it's this is Tony white scheme. I'm done with him. He's mediocre coach. They're playing 15 20 yards away from the line of scrimmage. It's safety. They don't want anything to go over there. You're playing New Mexico state. Now that decent receivers, but if you can't challenge New Mexico state, pick whoever you want, but the next two games, by the way, in case you didn't know, are SMU and Alabama. How do you think that's going to go at wide receiver, DB? Is that in four states got some talent to guys,

16:24but if you're 20 yards from the line of scrimmage, they're just going to hook, curl, come back. They're going to six to 10 yard you to death and then once the guys are special with those two schools, get the ball. That's when the party begins, because they both teams got some NFL talent. Look, the secondary was awful. The linebackers are worse in coverage. Anybody want to guess out of 17 third downs? How many New Mexico state converted at a 17? What's a team? Correct. 10. 10 out of 17. This is not an NFL team here. This is New Mexico state. Trey head into the quarterback and he's a great kid. I knew him when he was a Tampa Catholic, but he went to Ferman before he transferred New Mexico state. Now you got SMU coming up in Alabama. You get center Arkansas, then you get Virginia, then you get Louisville and then you get Miami. This training is about to be derailed. Florida State can't stop the run consistently. They're not big enough up front.

17:24We kind of knew that. They'd stalemate the worst run offense in college football. Literally they were dead last last year, but they couldn't consistently get pass rush before and their secondary is not good enough. They got great players on offense at school, or get four to steal that doose. Macchi at the receiver spots are both really good. Sam Siltons a dude beat start for most teams, but they got it was McCroma problem is they can't block nobody. Their right tackle has no business on the field. The left guard is pathetic. He tried to trip guys twice on the first drive. Gave up a touchdown and come back because he tripped the guy. He beat so bad he tripped him. They threw a flag on a touchdown. They're horrible. This team is not winning six games, Mike Norvella's toast. Outside of that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play? Well, for all the critiques that Spitty gave, let me continue to pile all so hopefully it distracts people from how bad my boys were. The Seer Twins, where the hell yeah?

18:25Where yeah? All the money that paid you to come up off the portal. And it was what? Some like 60 snaps for on two tackles. That didn't do that. You don't get it done. That just thing. That ain't going to get it done. And then you want to talk about the who's getting cooked? Yeah, that corner Raw is out there. Oh my God, he looked like a well done stake. It looked like you're going to shake the table trying to cut that stake because it well done overly cooked. I mean, no juice in it. If he got pulled multiple times for getting beat by New Mexico state, Wild Rishie. Ryan Williams is coming down the pipeline everybody. He may have problems with concentration drops. One thing he ain't never had a problem with, getting open. That's never been a problem. And so if that team cannot get it together right away, every win is like a baby. Even the ugly ones, ain't nobody going to say, my kid is ugly. Most people ain't going to say that.

19:26It's my baby. And that's how North Veil feels because he probably ain't going to see tomorrow of him but boy, this win sure did leave a lot of people saying, I'm sure Dino enjoyed watching Florida State win is such ugly man. I recuse myself from this conversation. I have no comment whatsoever. I just, I'm very excited for, what is it? October 17th when Miami will see Flamick. I'm excited. I'll leave it at that. I don't think Mike Norvel will lead Florida State to another victory against the people or opponent before he's fired. Oh, chance. They have central Arkansas, which is his alma mater coming up after they play Bama. And then again, there's three game stretch after that is home to Virginia. A Friday night road game at Louisville. And then they played Dono's Canes in South Florida. Then they get a buy. If you're going to fire him, it's right there. And you've become back to next game's Clemson. They're not great, but they're better than what we just saw. I'm going to ask Mario Cristobal to go a little easy on him

20:27because I want Norvel to keep that job. This is a good thing we have going here in the state of Florida. So is the buyout feasible, Smith? Is that the buyout feasible right now? The buyout is it? Look, I'm not saying that it is, but there's this no other option. You can't win three, four games this year. Yeah. The way I've been told, and I haven't went through it. In contract public knowledge because it's public institution, he would get paid incrementally. It's not like he's owed the the sum or anything. The problem, and this is smart for drivers to bring up. You got to pay him, pay out staff and all that. I can just tell you right now, there's a lot of hate for people that make these decisions. They want some of them gone too. My concern is that the power brokers aren't going to open the wallet unless they get exactly what they want. And that's where the political side of this comes in. And this is what every program has to do with. Sure, I'll donate, but this guy and this guy and this guy got to go to blah, blah, blah. And it's, you know, everybody with money,

21:28they kind of get to do what they want. So this may not be a very friendly scenario. And they might end up with taking a flyer on a coach, but they still they have to do something. It can't be this. I mean, this is a joke. This is a joke. Whatever saucy had a couple of years ago, Ed junk is out the door. Yeah, that great no sauce. Now, man, the land is dry. Very dry. That will done state KG was talking about earlier. Those saxophones were getting mighty loud down there in Tallahassee. I'm telling you, October the 18th, he's maybe even the 17th, just right after Miami gives him one last name on the call. It's going to be one of those two days. Well, Donna was that gaming as FSU? Is it a night game or did we know yet? We don't know yet. TBA. I would assume it's going to be an afternoon yet. Because of how bad FSU is. Question is, is he make it back to Tallahassee before he's told whether it's public or not? Like, it's being serious. The game is going to air 12 noon on Comedy Central.

22:28Is what we're saying. That's probably it. Props the Alex for that one. That's pretty accurate. That was solid. Well, hell, that's where NC State need to play for the rest of the season. Because they can't play good on ESPN. You put them on CW, undefeated. You put them on ESPN 8 to Oto. There'll be the 85 bears. But don't you put them on ESPN or else the bid wedding time going to stop? Yeah, so I want to and I feel like I'll start with with one of the NC State guys on this one, Grayson. We watched it was live from Dublin, Ireland. The weather conditions were poor. TCU was really poor. But it's like, I was asked to assess North Carolina's performance in that 15 to 10 win over TCU. And my answer was, North Carolina, I'll say, I'm not sure if they're a good team. But they look like a competent football team this year unlike last season. But it's like, I still need to see more because new TCU quarterback,

23:33Jaden Craig, who was a Harvard transfer. You talk about a drop off from Josh Hoover. It's like, that was really, really bad. So Grayson is North Carolina competent? Or they even better than that? They are more competent than they were last year. So maybe take that with the grain of salt, but to their credit, I think they have improved. I did see improvement on both sides of the ball for them. I think Jolani Thurman, they're tight end. He's a dog. And I'm, well, I don't know. We play them till the end of the year. But I think he's going to put up big time numbers in the ACC conference. If Billy Edwards can just be a game manager, they could succeed across some expectations for them this year. I think their defense has certainly seemed like they've taken a couple steps forward. I'm not going to try and pronounce their defensive edge that's a monster. His name's crazy, but he's really, really good. So maybe I should learn it. But I did see an improved version of North Carolina. This is probably the most credit you'll ever hear me give them. But credit where credit does do, I think I'd give their performance like a B to D minus.

24:34I grew up on buying it. You know, I need to see more because when you think about the way Bobby P came out in that offense and it just pooped out for the rest of the game. You know, like I know North Carolina's defense, they look pretty good. They look competent and they expose, you know, a one Jaden Craig, you know, as far as, you know, from a quarterback at standpoint, they exposed him. But for me, why are you running, they put up 15 points. Your defense gave you ample opportunity to score more points in that. Because Bobby P is one of the better play callers, you know, regardless of all his off-the-field stuff and leaving Atlanta in the middle of the night and riding on motorcycles and getting beat up by, you know, whatever, you know, by the road, you know, it's just, it's just to make sense to me that they weren't able to put more points in that on the board. Because you had ample opportunity, ample opportunity to put some more points on the board.

25:37And you'll be in the end though with 15. And so, yeah, if we say that if it better than what it was last year, it was poopy, putty, doodle, dog, whatever, you want to call it. So now it's okay. Somebody had some strawberries passed through and we got strawberries on a big old pile of doodles. So they make it better. I guess. They need to be nice. Let's be nice. Let's be nice. You look at this team and you say at minimum, the defensive side of the ball looked really good. Yes. We are not saying that TCU is the same TCU from last year. But Mel Carte did not have any sacks against good teams last year. He was consistently applying pressure against TCU, not to say that he's now going to turn into a 20-sack guy or anything like that, but you saw improvement there. You saw the fact that Steven Bellachek has been out with health issues and again, we're all hoping for him to have a speedy recovery to whatever that is.

26:38But the reality is to have this defensive performance even in that weather. It's good for the conference. It's good for the conference. And last thing I'll say about this team, I truly believe that Billy Edwards is on the high end of quarterbacks you have to win in Spider. I truly believe that. I think that he's a quarterback. You have to win in Spider-Fim being your quarterback. However, with that being said, if this defense can be this lights out, which I'm not sure that they can be, but if it can be this lights out, I mean, hey, I'm not sure that they are not saying a bowl with a bowl game. I'm not saying that that Bill Bellachek keeps his job. They can at least be a respectable team if that defense could play like that because offensively, I mean, yeah, I love Bobby Matrino. I think he's a fantastic play call it. How much juice do you think you can get out of this offense talent wise? Yeah, not that much juice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we got some juice coming up this weekend.

27:41Of course, week one. There's a lot of ACC teams in action and a couple of big non-conference games. Does LSU have a chance? Take it on or sorry, does Clemson have a chance? LSU has a chance. Does Clemson have a chance at LSU? And I'm looking at Louisville with a big opportunity against Ole Miss and Nashville. You want to keep it locked right here because we are not done yet on this lock down ACC squad. Football season is time for Fandool, my friends. And your college football Saturdays, they're already packed with reasons to get excited. And this season, Fandool is giving fans even more ways to get in on every matchup. You can back your favorite team, build the same game parlay, bet team props, or make your picks on the biggest games of the weekend. And throughout the season, keep an eye on the Fandool app for even more ways to get rewarded. With a full slate of college football every Saturday, there are plenty of opportunities to follow the games and find new ways to get involved.

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30:51Thank you for making the lock dot ACC squad your first listen. So you got a bunch of games involving ACC teams this weekend Thursday night at seven. Akron is at Wake Forest. Colorado and Georgia Tech will do battle at Bobby dot on Thursday night. PM excited for that one Friday night Miami goes on the road to Stanford Saturday Boston College at Cincinnati to Lane taking on Duke on the road. We'll circle back to this one Clemson at number 11 LSU VMI at Virginia Tech UCLA at Cal late night ACC after dark on Saturday Sunday. You've got new Hampshire at Syracuse Miami Ohio at Pittsburgh also Sunday number 24 Louisville at number nine Ole Miss and on Monday 19th ranked SMU favored by just three points on the road at Florida State. But folks, I want to start with Clemson at LSU. So the Tigers from Death Valley go to the other Tigers from Death Valley and it's Lane

31:51Kiffin's team that's favored by double digits in this one. Kenton, I'll start with you. What has to happen for Clemson to pull off this upset? Well, in order for Clemson to pull off this upset, I wanted to be a smart ass here and give an answer like, oh, everybody from LSU won't have to they're going to have to stay home, but I'm going to tell you, there is an actual path for Clemson to win this game. One thing that you know about this Clemson Tiger football team, that while I receive a room is one of the best in the nation, win healthy. The beauty of this being game one, everybody's healthy for the most part. Everybody's in the best shape that they're probably going to be in for the rest of the season. Those while receivers cannot be good, they have to be great. They have to have the game of their lives. And even when they do that, Mr. Vazina, you got to show up. You've got to prove everybody wrong. If those two things happen in conjunction, if this becomes a shootout, you can beat Sam

32:54Levin in company. You can do it. You can do it. But if this game becomes a rock fight, I'm not sure. I'm not sure you have to withstand a rock fight against LSU. But again, you turn this into a track meet on grass and Vazina is hitting and he gets hot. Go for it. The only problem is, dabbo is still not talking like he's convinced that Vazina is going to be the starter throughout the rest of the year, still at this point, even after the game and the starter yesterday. So again, the whole crux of this thing, the while receivers have to go ballistic. Vazina has to have the game of his life. And if that happens, they have a shot. I'm not guaranteeing a win. They have a shot. If I wasn't married, I have a chance with Kelly Roller. I mean, we'll talk about it. I mean, I don't see it. Christopher Vazina is obviously that dabbo doesn't really have all that confidence in the world that's going to be his guy.

33:56And especially when you have a guy who's been around the block who's been there in that building for a few years and he didn't outright win that competition. That says a lot about the type of player that he is and the type of guy that he's capable of being. But what their ceiling is, the ceiling is low for a guy like Vazina in my eyes. You know, barring some outer, worldly, out of body experience type play that he has against LSU and I just don't see that happen. So especially when you got a, you know, like you can say what you want about Lane Kiffin and I do a lot, but the man can call a place and put up some pumps. And if he start putting up points and they're running game and going to get you where you need to be. You got to depend on Christopher, for Zina's arm to get that ball in the end zone. And you man trouble. It's going to be a trouble and dabbo going to be sitting there looking with a little pool face, you know, and we all know what dabbo sounds like in post game when he takes

34:58ales like that. So yeah, where he blames everybody, but dabbo is what that post game is going to be. Exactly. I agree with Kenton that they got to get the ball to TJ Moore Bryant, Westco and a name for people that don't know it yet. Name burrows. He's a freshman out of Jacksonville for what he can fly recruited by everybody. That's three NFL receivers, possibly. I mean, you got to earn it, but talent wise. Now the questions can they block them? They lost a few offensive linemen from a very experienced unit last year. They weren't that great. They were okay. Now they got to go against LSU, but here's the other side of that LSU has multiple true freshman allegedly going to start at detackle. Now, there are elite players out of high school. Five star guys, but freshman detackles. That's generally not good. I mean, these are elite players. They signed three five star detackles. It's the best three man detackle group I've ever seen, but freshman probably aren't going to do well. So you got a chance to run the ball. And that's still your best path. You can't give link if in the ball over and over again.

36:00You got to shorten the game and take shots. The scene is not going to go through 48 times and win you the game. They're going to be able to run the ball set up. Play action. I tell you what, I wasn't picking Clemson regardless in this game, but I'm definitely not picking them after dabbo's comments today. I mean, not exactly a vote of confidence for your QB1 and then to also kind of get in the mud with the whole lane kiff in the NFL player thing. It almost just sounds like he's beginning the excuse train in my mind. Like, I don't I wouldn't say that dabbo is coming across as like confident into this game. And so to me, this game might already be one for those yellow and gold or yellow and purple tigers down their bat and roofs. So I don't know. I don't have a ton of confidence that Clemson is going to show up on both sides of the ball. I expect their defense to be tough because they always are, but I don't know if if dabbo's not confident and is quarterback and why she didn't even else be. Yeah, I mean, I think obviously, Vizina has to play well. I mean, defensively for Clemson, there's a lot riding on will health in that past rush. Because I know in the case of Sam Levit, who's been an awesome quarterback when healthy.

37:02He seems to be healthy now, but I think the foot injury that he had from last year, lingered a little bit longer into his preparation than they had hoped there in Baton Rouge. So if they can collapse the pocket, get after him, make him uncomfortable. Maybe some of that rust shows up, but I'm having a hard time fighting a path to victory. Now, what about now a team that I'm more bullish on against an SEC opponent this weekend is number 24 Louisville taking on number nine Ole Miss. That's going to be a neutral site game. Nissan Stadium in Nashville. I mean, guys and Brian, I'll let you by the first round on this one. There have been a lot of positives on new Louisville quarterback Lincoln Keyhole, Lincoln Keynholz, who happened to link up with a quarterback whisperer in Coach Brom there at Louisville. So I'm looking forward to seeing what they put together. A lot. A lot of love. A lot. And in the case of Ole Miss, I mean, this is, you know, I know that they were able to carry the momentum into the playoffs even after Lane left them at the altar, but you're talking about the first full

38:08new season with their new head coach at the helm. What do you think, Brian? Look, Brom's always done a lot with even average guy. I mean, Pomer a few years ago, he got to the ACC title again. That guy is a jag. He's just a guy. That's what he is. He's got the ACC title. He said some other guys are more talent and they've done some good stuff. This guy can run as well as spin it. I'm curious to see if he puts him in harm's way against Ole Miss. They got more talent than normal on defense. They got Jake Crawford from Auburn, he's an NFL corner, et cetera. They got some big dudes up front, Will Eccles. Like, I mean, I think Ole Miss will win, but your path to victory here might be using Lincoln Keynholz's legs, especially in the red zone because he can, he can boogie. So if you go and do that, you might have a chance. You got to get the ball to Isaac Brown in a bevy of different ways too. I don't know how good Leave House offensive line will be. They don't recruit it well, but they're mostly a portal team. So that's always a guess until I see him. And of course, the big question, you know that that guy by the name of Trinidad Chamos

39:13is going to score some points. Can you at least contain him when he runs? I don't think they're going to do much against their past game. If he gets a loser like 70 ADR's Russian, you got no chance. You got a tackle in space. You can't allow little screen passes to become eight yard and 10 yard gains when they should be three and four. Just like the little things because they will annihilate you with just the death by a thousand cuts of approach. Trinidad smart. They'll take the free money if you give them the check downs in the easy passes. You got to rally and get the guys on the ground. Yeah, I think that Louisville's path to win it here, very, very simple. It needs to be Isaac Brown has to be your table setter. You have to get him going early. You have to get gold and company on their heels. For what echoes and company bring up front, they still lost a good amount of talent from last year in that front seven. You have to have to have to attack that. You cannot just say, oh, we're going to trust Keen Holtz to make this happen. And we're going, I don't think that they're there at this moment.

40:16When you get the run game to set the table, then you can get Keen Holtz in the situation he's comfortable with. Then you could say, all right, we're going to boot and we're going to run flood to the boundary. We're going to make sure that we've got a bunch of guys easy. One, two, three right in front of you. And if you don't see it, pull it down, tuck it under that right arm and make something happen that way. But if you leave him out to dry and say, you got to win this game, I don't think it's going to go well for the cars. Yeah, I got all missed by at least a touchdown. I think there just can be too fast, too physical. And I think Brian already highlighted it. What is Louisville's defense going to do in a game like this? And I think he won Lacey, the running back for Ole Miss. He really doesn't get talked about enough and I cannot understand why because that guy is dynamic as hell. So I think Ole Miss just has too many weapons. Turned out to Chambers may or may not be beginning a high-spin campaign here. I think it's just going to be too much Ole Miss for Louisville to handle. And I think that Jeff Brown needs to understand that what's at stake here? Because you represent the ACC.

41:17If Louisville finds a way to get a dub against this team and got Tennessee in the second week of the other season, you know, find a way. If you are getting these early wins against the greatest confidence in the world and the United States and the SEC, that's going to go a long way towards the end of the season about getting multiple potential. We had this conversation before. If you able to get wins against these non-con wins against the FawziC, this is going to go a long way in getting more than one team in the Cosball Playout because that's what it's all about. Into this money so you can keep these dog on teams together and continue to try to drive as a powerful conference. Well, let's hope the ACC had a winning record against the SEC last year. Hopefully more of that to come in 2026. Huge thank you to the every dayers for making this ACC squad your first listen. Shout out to Jarvis on Lockdown Georgia Tech, Kenton and Grayson from Lockdown Wolfpack,

42:22Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminels. I'm Alex Dono from Lockdown Cains. And we'll talk to you next time on another episode of the Lockdown ACC squad. We are part of the number one sports podcast network celebrating 10 years of the Lockdown podcast network. Your team every day.