FSU SMU PREGAME SHOW HOUR 1

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1:05Good afternoon. Welcome everybody. This would pay the Jeff Cameron show right here at 93. We'll talk really or chant TV. I'm on a game day Monday. Yeah, that'll work. I'll explain everything in a moment. Glad you're here. I'm Jeff. That's Tom. Show it out the house. Listening on 93. 3 FM or driving about town on your way to tailgate. Thanks for supporting Tallahassee's only locally owned and operated radio station. On Twitter, attach a Cameron show. If you're watching on war chant TV, thanks for supporting war chant. Thanks for supporting the Jeff Cameron show. However, it is you take it in. Hello to everybody in the chat. Good to see you. Good to be with you. And appreciate you all. What a weekend. Wow. Wow. I'm a little. I'm a little tired, a little tired from all of the damn football viewing that I took in this week,

2:06which is a great thing. A great thing to be able to do. Man, the good, the bad, the ugly will incorporate all of it into today's show. Today's show is a little different as it serves as a normal Monday, JCS, but it also serves as the pre game show, war chant game day. And that's a good thing too. We'll have Iron 230. He'll join us next hour. Look forward to it. And we'll of course talk a lot about Florida State SMU since that's the game tonight that the country will be watching. And that's where I want to start, Tom. Good day to you. I like your fancy new glasses. Oh, thanks. Appreciate it. You know, you know, who really loves my fancy new glasses? My eyes. Oh my God. At the end of the day, I have an extra hour or two in the tank. The frames broke about a month ago. So this has been quite the relief this weekend. So your eyes are rested. Is your nervous system solid, intact, feeling good?

3:10Cause I got to tell you today's weird. Today struck me as incredibly weird. Yeah. I got up with a nervous energy. I got up with anxiety. I got up with I had to go on a long ass jog. I don't run much anymore, but I'll jog with the best of them. And just to kind of get it out. Just to get it just to and it's weird that I feel this way. And I hate saying this because Florida State has been, you know, a poor football program for the last couple of years. And the games haven't, I mean, it's quickly gotten away from Florida State, right? So there wasn't a lot at stake when we played these games. Once you've lost a handful, you're kind of like, well, you know, whatever dreams and visions and hopes that you had at the start of a season, it was quickly unraveled. Now last year, obviously, a different four-state beat Alabama. And I don't know that I was nervous about that because I really thought last year

4:13that we were going to lose the Alabama game. And I thought decisively so. And it was because we had gone two and 10 the year before. And so I just assumed that that wasn't going to work out for us. And man, I couldn't have been more wrong. And I was so happy to be so wrong. And I was in the stands for that game. And we've talked a lot about it. Everything every seminal knows where they were on that fateful day is the clock struck zero in Florida State had indeed sent Alabama back to Tuscaloosa with a solid, not a fluky, but a solid ass kicking. And we thought, here we go. Here we go. We're going to take off from here. This is going to be different. That was a blip on the radar. Now we're back. We're back to being the nobles, baby. That's what we thought. And of course, it didn't end up that way. Now, this year, I think we've all come in and talked a lot in the off season about, look, the expectations are fairly marginal by Florida state standards for those of us that

5:19have been around a long enough to remember when the standard was national championship or bust, but a long time since that was the standard. But that's, that's the way I always kind of think about the good versions of Florida state football is, can they be that? So we knew going into this year, they weren't going to be that. But could they have a winning record? Could they put together a good season that gives you a glimmer of hope, something to make you think that it could get turned around? Thomas said before that, you know, well, I thought last year was going to be the moment of truth. I thought last year was going to be a snapshot that gave you the picture you needed to make big decisions turned out. It wasn't turned out. It wasn't. So we thought, well, this year, it has to be this year. It has to be. And I guess despite the data piling up last year and there was conclusive evidence. Yeah, they, it wasn't enough. They chose to ignore it. So I don't think they can ignore it again this year though. If it goes south, if big if it starts today, Tom, it starts today and that's the

6:21nervous energy. It starts today because here, here, let's just be honest with each other. We all guys, you know the deal here, right? They got to win this game. They got to win tonight. They have to win tonight. You could do the thing where you convince yourself that, oh, they could lose tonight, Jeff, it's still have a good year. No, no, they can't. They won't. They're not going to have a good year if they lose tonight. They're not. And you know it in your heart of hearts. You know how big this game is. You know that while we may not be anywhere near where we want to be, any semblance of a decent season is I think contingent on a victory tonight. I think you have to win tonight. Now, do I think that if you win tonight, it's a guarantee you have a good season? No, but do I think that if you don't win tonight, you're likely in big trouble given what's on the horizon? Oh, yeah. The the ACC as of this weekend and even going back to week zero has shown you that

7:28this is in my mind, probably the wrong year to have the toughest ACC schedule. You've ever had because Miami's legit going to be great. And you already knew that Louisville shine last night and looked like a program that's found a quarterback. Brahms, a very good coach toe to toe with Ole Miss could have won the game. You play Louisville on the road on Friday night. Virginia was physically dominating in their first win against NC state. Now, if you make that kid throw the ball, who knows what they're going to be, but they couldn't and they beat NC states asked thoroughly physically. Not real sure that that's an automatic win. Kid for pitches through seven touchdown passes over the weekend. I know it's an outmatched opponent, but we already liked that kid. We already knew he was a good player. Hunch was a guy that we thought, God, if we could get their coach to come in here and he could bring that quarterback, that'd be nice. Anyhow, he threw seven touchdown passes, play them on the road as well. You know that SMU has been one of the best ACC teams each of the last two years.

8:35You know that Red Lashley has skimmed it up. He's got an experienced quarterback. That's who we got tonight. Big game. You know, and as you look on down the schedule, you can see the pitfalls. You can see the moments. You're on the road at Alabama next. You could go on and on with this thing. There's not a lot of room to come up for air. You've got to get off to a good start. You've got to find a way to infuse real belief that you're a different program. Then your record says you have been each of the last two years that this year is going to be different. And the only way that you're going to believe that is if Florida State comes out tonight with the country watching as a slight underdog and show up. Show up the way they showed up against Alabama. Show up and give yourself at least the possibility. Of having a good season. And I think that's why I woke up nervous. Because I think it's going to go one of two pretty dramatic ways. They're either going to do just that show up play well.

9:35It's going to come down to the wires. The fourth quarter, you've done what you've needed to do to put yourself in a position to win a huge football game. The fans are into it. It's loud. It's a great game. You see elements of the offense that you didn't see a week ago, including running ashton Daniels, double digit carries at least all these other things. The plays off the plays that we didn't see with the vanilla approach last week. The defense is up a little bit tighter, not playing off coverage. Well, generating past pressure, all that stuff. You see it. They're physical. They're hyped. They play well. They pick each other up and you're in a position to win a big game. That's either going to happen. And it could. It could absolutely happen. Or I think they struggle to get stops. Well, Ashley's got it dialed up. He exposes Florida State secondary. Which proves to be overrated again. The nobles get down. They're not able to fall back on the run game the way they want to because they're down two and three scores. And it gets away from you in the second half. And there's a lot of gloom and doom staring off in the distance.

10:35Oh my God, we're going to go through this again this year. We've got to wear this again this year. And the people walk out of dope like zombies knowing. New year, same results. Here we go. And then you're just going through the execution line every week, every week becomes so great. Who gets to kick our ass this week? And you're just flummoxed. You're just absolutely bereft of hope as I say. And I feel like one of those two extremes is going to happen tonight or at least I'm worried. I find it refreshing that you have the butterflies. You must have gotten mine too. I don't have them. I find it strange. Today has been a very strange. Maybe it's because it's the Monday game. Maybe it's because it's just so late in the process. I mean, we don't kick off for another six hours. I'm more nervy about the things we have to do today for the job. Oh my God. I'm not nervous. They show that the post game, the logistics, all that stuff. There's a lot on our plate, but this is why we do it.

11:37But it's rare. It's rare that I don't have the fan butterflies well in excess of the logistical job butterflies. I just woke up feeling strange today. I want to know that we're in the conversation. I want to know that we're in the conversation of what we watched this weekend. But I also know that week one can be a giant mirage. See us in Alabama last year about what we were. I remember the game that I went to 10 years ago. Now Texas Notre Dame Sunday night football. The world was watching. It was the only game. You had a Bouchel and swoops and that game went to overtime. And people thought when it was over, the fan bases Notre Dame and Texas walking out of the stadium and Austin, everybody said, we might see each other again in the playoffs. Yeah, they were both terrible teams. They both, it was a really entertaining football game, but they were both terrible teams. Like so last night's game between all Miss and Louisville, extremely entertaining, but are both those defenses just awful? I mean, is that a big part of the equation? Well, I think they both have quarterbacks that can play. They do. There's, yes, there's no question about that.

12:38But just there are going to be some warts that emerge for some of the teams we watch in week one look so sharp. Quote unquote, you go, oh, that had everything to do with the other team being kind of bad. Had this specific. Yeah, we'll learn a lot more. Of course. But I still agree with you when you talk about us and you keep it to us, which is number one, we have to see that when we're not playing New Mexico state, we belong at this level, not the elite level, but that next conversation about you can compete with teams that are in the top 25. Are we a part of that conversation? I just, I don't know. It's still a grand mystery. Maybe that's what it is. Even though we watch 60 minutes of football and you know, the communication on the defensive side was not good at all. And you know that you got some things you want to clean up at right tackle. It's still a mystery because you didn't play a great opponent. So what happens tonight? Far from a great opponent. Far from a great opponent. Yeah. So I'm just kind of in between. So maybe when we get to end to go and you're talking with Luke Lauks at 545, about the greatness that the basketball program is trying to run down, trying to run down.

13:40Trying to run down. I was going to say, let's go easy. No, no, no, no. So that's they, they clearly have a mission. They got their jersey patch. They got their top 10 class. They got their kids out of the portal. Looks like they're going to be getting one of their own back after a temporary injunction, hopefully in the coming days to finalize that roster. Like maybe it's at that point. I'm going, okay. All right, guys. And I'm like, I'm kind of rocking back and forth. Let's do this thing. But hasn't kicked in yet. You know, I, I feel this nervousness that I used to feel when we played really big games because we were hosting another top 10 team and we were a top 10 team. And we knew that the schedule basically dictated that it was going to come down to one of two games. I mean, back in the day for those of us in the 90s that were at every one of those games, you remember what this city felt like? You remember the energy, the buzz, the feeling. It was intense. You felt it on Thursday. I mean, I remember going out to and doing shows and then going to AJs or doing shows live from AJs and feeling that intensity, you know, Thursday, Friday, you walked outside Tennessee Street,

14:45bumper to bumper, but it was kind of a joyous calamity, right? There was just everybody yelling to their friends across the way. They were watching other friends go into the liquor store. You know, you, you, all the stuff, you know, that you used to have associating with big games. Oh, head of swivels when you're driving. Oh, you're like, oh, God, there are no rules that could just sprint across the road. All of it. It was great. Been a minute, been a minute since we felt like that. But that's what those games were. This isn't that, but it is a sense of this game's important. And I don't know that I have felt a lot of that in some time, not even Alabama's game last year. I was excited, but I kind of thought that we were going to get housed. I could have been more wrong. I think I joined a large percentage of people that thought we were going to get housed. And then we played well and we shocked everybody. We shocked the college football world last year. No, nobody really with a platform thought that Florida State was going to be Alabama.

15:46But then what you would say if you were one of the dozens of fans of Virginia football or you were pit fans, well, we're in trouble. Look at what Florida State is. And then they played him. They're like, oh, yeah. Well, never mind. Sure, but I didn't sense the same nervous energy that I had this year. And I wonder again, I think some of it, you know, I don't take any great pleasure in Florida State being bad to the point where I have to call it out on the air with thousands upon thousands of people listening every day. As a know, I hate having to do that. It is my job. It's what I will do. And it's what we've done for a very long time, just like we've also hyped them and we thought they were very, very good and everything in between. But I take no joy in having to say my God, we suck again. It I hate it. And it gets uncomfortable because then you start putting people in crosshairs. You start talking about people's jobs and whether or not they should have them.

16:46People don't like hearing that they ought not have the job that they currently have. And believe me, I can feel that kick back when it comes my way. It's all right. It's part of the job. It's what it is. Best job in the world. I'm a lucky man. But I don't like it. I don't like to have to say those things. And I wonder if my anxiety today is a little bit rooted in that about like what if it's what if it's your worst nightmare? What if it's they're not any good again? And what if it's they get out again, not a good again? Like never. Oh no, no, I'm talking about again this year. Oh, okay. What if they're not any good? They haven't been any good the last two years at all. You've documented time again, the amount of losing seasons in the last eight years. We're staring down the barrel at eight out of 10 years. That's right of six or more losses. Right. So that's not any good. And if I have to put the stamp of not any good at all on this team again this year after tonight,

17:47that sucks. I don't want to have to do it. I'm worried about having to do it. I'm worried about having to do all psychologists. Lang, I got you here. I think it's your anxious about tonight, but that also means because you guys take the stage at one o'clock with headlines tomorrow. Yeah, I think that you're probably thinking about that first segment tomorrow a little bit. And what's that going to be? What do the 60 minutes tonight inform us about and how does that affect the way that tomorrow goes? Because that's, that's must see and must listen multimedia content. Yeah. You know, listen, I never really think about future shows. I don't think about like, oh, what's Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday going to be like? What's Monday going to be like after a Saturday winner loss? I don't tend to do that. I tend to wake up on the day of the show and get a vibe and a feel for where I'm at. I'll rewatch the game usually in the morning early when I get up after I walk the dogs. I put, I sit down. I've got the notes. I'm ready to kind of take possession by possession.

18:49And that in more informs what we're going to talk about that day. To that end. If you've got YouTube TV people, they have finally made it work. Did you notice this weekend if you have YouTube TV, the alternate broadcasts that are built in, you don't have to go to ESPN's app now. Nice. So the wirecast, I'm assuming we're going to get it because we're a standalone game tonight. But the wirecast was available for LSU Clemson. It was available last night for Louisville Ole Miss. So you get the tight copy, the video game angle, if you will, as an additional broadcast option. And it's right there. I'll change it to the way you can look at the game and when you're talking about rewatching all like tonight, I can't wait. I'm going to have the play by play on one screen. I'm going to have the tight copy on the other. Yes, sir, that's, that's good stuff right there. We can have a little fun, by the way, for a second or two. And this whole show can't be just three hours of four to state SMU. We will talk about what we saw over the weekend. But one of the things that we saw was the 51 to 10.

19:50Ash Chalacan that is you laid on Clemson. I felt that coming. With that far away stare on Davos face, asking the Lord Jesus why he's forsaking him. No doubt. And watching, watching that football team look like a bunch of buffoons. Sorry, the Lord is busy listening to James right now because he's got to deliver James from those pick sixes first. You'll be up next in Lion Davos. But yeah, that was the best watching that. Just seeing that the incredulous Clemson fan thinking to themselves. All right, we've, we've come to that place. We've come to that place. I can hear Al Pacino. I too have come to the crossroads in my life. Like that fan, because you know how many of them were in just sheer denial. Yeah. And they bought the the Hoki Huxterus nonsense fake preacher stuff that Davos does.

20:51And they were all in. And then they're like, oh no, you're a fraud. Well, what happened two weeks ago. I hadn't really looked at Clemson too much because their wind total was so low and they're so late in the schedule. I'm like, what's going on up there? And then I realized that they were going with Vizina at quarterback. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. They didn't bring somebody in. They don't want somebody else. They ain't good. No. It's not to say that he can't get better, but I felt like he was going to be pretty bad. And they'd played out. What delayed the inevitable was the weather delay. Man, the idea of what was the number I had here? I pulled this up. This was unbelievable. So going back through and looking at that, obviously 51 to 10 is something to behold. What was the number? I think they had that first first down and then they had to wait 30 minutes of game time until they got their next first down. Oh, buddy. Yeah, that's the correct stat. Yes. Yeah. 30 minutes of game time. Well, you see what happens when it's not you. And you're like, I recognize that.

21:52Like when everybody looked at the replay of the left tackle, just, oh, he decided to go 90 degrees. It's the weirdest. Like hang him up, buddy. It's like, are we in a simulation? Because if we were, that kind of replay tells me that we're in a simulation. It's like he was stuck. It's like when we were lined up backwards under Willie. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We got face in the opposite direction at the snap. Wasn't there a player number of years ago with Florida? One of their players did something similar. He didn't line up backwards, but he did something as a sign as those two examples. We're like, what is that guy doing? Oh, he blocked his own guy. He drowned his ass. Yeah, like that's that. Be a part of social media for that stuff tomorrow. Can we please today? Let's not be a part of that tonight. Well, you're talking about crossroads. That's, I think part of the reason I don't have the nerves is they've been beaten to death. We're always at a crossroads. Everything's always existential. Even when it was good, you had the snub right behind it. And so now you're asking questions about your existence

22:53in this conference. There was a little grace period. There was a little grace period the night of the victory over Louisville as we left that stadium. It was great. I walked out of there and we were all sky high. Our house, the whole bottle of champagne on the post game show. It was great. There were a lot of good people there that night. We were watching this on the sweet. You were having a good time. I was having a great time. I mean, Bill Stevenson was there, Russ Forriss was there. Obviously, Ingram was there. I was a lot of people. A lot of people were there. We were having a big time. We were having a big time. Celebrating. No, it's hugging no, ACC champs rolling up out of there feeling very good. RAN IN THE DOC BRADY, MY BRADY, OH, it was awesome. We were having a blast. And then we had a month of peace time last year because of the way the schedule laid out after Alabama. September was fine. September was a fine month. But outside of that for the last 24, 26 months. It's been a toughy. Been rough, man. Everything is always. This is why the nerves, Tom.

23:54It's like, I don't want to spiral to that so soon. Not so soon. Can we just, can we have a little joy? Can we have a pocket of joy that lasts from tonight through the by week? And then maybe you feel a little existential crisis as you hop in your car to drive to Tuscaloosa, perhaps. But that's like 14 days, 13 days of real joy. You win this one. It's a house money game. No, I agree. You win this game. It really doesn't, I mean, it matters because we're going to take the field and you have pride. You don't want to lose. And it would be really cool to upset Alabama again and all those things. And I'll be at that game. I'm in the stands for that game. No matter what happens tonight, I'm rolling to Tuscaloosa. I'm hopping in the car. I'm going. I got good seats. Can we do in the pregame show from Section C? Section C. So I'm going to be there and I'm pumped about it. And you're right. I would like to be playing with house money when I go in. I'd like to walk into that stadium and go, you know what? I'm a bad beer. Anybody need a beer? That's what I'm going to do.

24:54I'm not worried about what happens on this opening drive. You need to you need one? How about the row? Everybody need to be here. I got you. That's what I'm going to do. And you know, if it's 24 to 7 midway through the third, it's all right. Anybody need to be here? Anybody need to be here? I'll get another one. And it'll be great. I'm going to be here. Yeah. And we'll have a good time. And then the next morning, I'm going to get up and I'm going to drive home after I leave whatever fancy hotel I booked myself at. And then I will drive back to Tallahassee for him. We'll be looking at the next ACC game. The Red Roof Mobile. Central Arkansas. Up next. That's another win. See, we'll just be rolling on Big River. We're going to be okay. I won't be nervous again until Virginia. A win tonight. And I will not be nervous again until Virginia. Well, that's the crazy thing about the schedule. If you were to win tonight, you think about it this way. You had weeks to prepare for SMU and a game. Tune up for them. You had weeks to prepare extra time to prepare for Alabama. Because they play this weekend. We don't. And then your next game against Virginia.

25:55You have weeks to prepare for Virginia and install for Louisville. If you bother to play well, this first half of the schedule, it lines up beautiful. Yeah, but you're not going to be sneak peeking the Louisville game. Put all your attention on that Virginia game. Sure. Sure, but it's still. I mean, your first three major opponents, you have extra time for. Yeah. Then it's Louisville on a short week. I just want the freedom to enjoy the football season for a brief period of time. Yeah, man. Why does everything have to be so damn serious? That's what I'm saying. If you lose tonight. The existential dread that we describe so frequently falls upon you again and you realize, oh no, here we go again. You just, you know what I don't like? I don't like those sympathetic, empathetic eyes that I see from all the rival fans. There, we've been so bad. They're like, partner. You know, it reaches a place where the head shaking where people who normally couldn't wait to jab you

26:57to say something smart out to bring up your foibles. No, instead, they're like, I bought you a double. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, yeah, because we've been that way. You've got fans, friends that are boosters alumni, just big time fans of other programs that we load. But if they're good fans, knowledgeable fans, you know, fair minded fans, like you'll empathize with them when their team is down a little bit. If it's, if it's overwhelming, if it's over the top. There's a guy in my golf league, you've met him before, Scotty Woods. He's a big Miami fan. Yeah, I mean, he's a big make mistakes. He's a good Miami fan as those go. And there'll be times where on the first T, over the last eight years of being in that league, and I'll be like, hey, man, I'm sorry, dog. Well, God, thank you for you knowing him for the last 20 years, prior to last. 20 years of you going, how about you beer, I put it in your golf cart? I just do Dr. Evil to make him laugh. Hello, Scott. But you would be like, hey, listen, you're one of the good ones, one of the five good Miami fans I've ever met.

27:59I put a beer in the cart there, buddy. I know it's 730 in the morning, but it's Saturday. Go ahead. I got you because we all know what's going to happen. It's a bourbon IPA. Jeff Cameron shows slash war chain game day. Stick around 93 real talk right now, war chain TV. But you go through and walk it, those hiring process, and it's time and again, for a lot of programs. And it's in the modern era of college football, this is not what we're looking at anymore, where you say that guy is a guarantee. There used to be guys like that. There used to be the iconic coach that was an instant fix because of his recruiting prowess. And the way the system was set up, that guy would want to be a guy who would be like, that guy would walk through that door and with him would come big time players because of his name. Everybody pays players now. Everybody's in. Everybody has a shot. Your reigning national champion is Indiana.

29:01So it's not a guarantee, but you can't operate a business out of fear. For fear that you'll get it wrong. You just got to rip the bandaid off. If that's what's required, and invest in the next guy, and hope like hell, he is the answer. But you won't get the certainty of which you seek. You desperately want it. We all do. I want the SAV. I want to know that I put this on this sore. And we're going to be all right. But I can't guarantee it. That guy doesn't exist. We all have an opinion about who we want. We all have an opinion about a guy that we bring in. But we also know that we can't guarantee that it would work. It's also not something we need to talk about today. Because they are going to play this game tonight. And at least on this particular pregame show, Jeff Cameron show, WarChamp Game Day, we're operating from the assumption that they could win tonight. They could win. They could go out there and play a much better football game tonight,

30:04and they could beat SMU. As a slide underdog, and you'd be 2-0. And you could live, let that marinate. You could live in that moment that you're 2-0. With a bi-week, you could exhale. You can enjoy other people's football games as you sit around 2-0 and say, all right, season's still enjoyable. My team's still in it. We still have possibilities. There are things to achieve. This is why I'm nervous. Because if we go out and lay an egg and get blown out, you will instantly feel the opposite of that. And I don't, I'm not ready for that. I'm not ready for that. Well, I mean, you should be used to it though. I am used to it, but I don't like being used to it, and I'm not ready for it. You spend the entire off season yearning for football's return. And I don't like to have that clouded immediately by the reality that we suck ass again. I just hope for clarity again tonight. And we got it last year. They just didn't act on it. Just give me clarity of what this team is capable of and what they're capable of doing.

31:05Because they got the free warning signs. They got the free education in the week zero game. The coaching staff I'm talking about in terms of how to prepare them, where the communication breakdowns might be. I'm not talking about safety to safety or safety to court. I'm talking about coach to player. Where is our communication breakdown? That these guys look like they've never played together, even though we've done it for nearly a couple of dozen practices in the last month. And we also get to put our hands on them and discuss and go through mental reps and everything in the summers, like never before. So where is it that we miscommunicated that they look like with simple motion like they've never played as a unit as one, never before. That's what the defense got a chance to correct from New Mexico state to tonight. Can they do it? We'll see offensively. All right. Jim Dia will be all right, tackle. But we may need to call some plays around him. I don't think we have to help him out. We may have to chip with. Got to find some people who can chip. Oh, you don't have tight ends again.

32:07So you have all of these things. You got to leg up in that regard. That's why that game is invaluable. With how sloppy we were in victory over to Mexico state, you realize the value of that game ahead of tonight. Well, we'll see. And did you cash in? I was going to say, well, see if it's valuable or not. It could just be that you're inept. In the ways that they were in that in week zero, that would be that would be truly stunning. Even for this regime, which has had some low moments that you can't even just like talk to each other. I mean, are we going to have to hold up a sign in the first quarter? Tom, it was very loud. Quiet, please. I don't know why you can't understand what Tony was trying to tell you. It was very, very noisy in that stadium. Did they contact Lulu? Somebody tell Lulu. Everybody please. It's really difficult to hear right now through all this enthusiasm from you fans. He's going to have to do as the judges do. The umpires do in tennis. Like, thank you. Thank you. I don't. Thank you. Third and seven. Thank you. Thank you. I would, I would submit to you that we need not announce

33:10that it's third down. It's just another down in a series of downs. You know, like we all live for the weekend and we can't wait till it's Friday, but it is just a day. We put a lot of significance on that day. I'd submit that if there were ways in which you could have as much enthusiasm for the other days would be more balanced in your life, Tom. Third down is just another down. Second and seven, third and four. It's just a down. Let's see how we do. You were in the stands last week. Did they still do the money thing? Did they still hold the dollar sign up? I believe they did. Yes. No, man. Okay. That would be the first thing. Yep. Milk and a cow. The whole thing is stupid. Page and tree tradition. Fight songs, college footballs, back hard rock bed is your home for betting the fully loaded week one slate. Still going. It's your last chance tonight. The end of the week one slate happens with FSU, SMU. You waited all summer long for real football.

34:10It is here. Get in on the action on hard rock, bet Florida's only legal sports book, roll with us offered by the Seminole tribe of Florida. Must be 21 years of age. We're older and physically present in the state of Florida and wager terms and conditions apply. Concert about your gambling call or text. 1-833 play wise. That would have been funny and and it would have been a first. I step back to get to the mic, Tom and tripped over the chair behind me. If I go ask a vertiko, I'll great with that. Have been you see my feet? He is nervous. Florida state caused this man to drop dead. I got to get caught up in the chat. You guys have come out in full force. It's great to have everybody on board. Thanks for joining us for the combo JCS slash Warchant game day edition here all the way till four before making our way over to hotel in to go. I am scheduled to talk to Luke Lokes at some point over there. Around 545 is kind of a panel conversation.

35:10Just he and I it's not alive on the air thing. But it'll be live there. Hey, we're excited about basketball. The menu was excellent last time as well. I'm told it's the same if not maybe just a scoosh even better. But you got register sausage. You got sliders, the mac and cheese, the baked beans, all the good desert station. That's for purchase. If you're not at a certain tier of battles and membership level, just like the bar is a cash bar for purchase. There were a couple of mixups last week with that. So I just want to make that very very clear. The buffet is for purchase. I like the idea of a guy being like, I don't modify. That's what I'm doing. It's rolling on it. 2K Driggs writes or just became a YouTube member. Thanks for doing that. I'd like to know what he was playing on guitar there. Jeff, this SMU minus two and a half is the easiest free money money made ever. I will see. It is weird though. By the way, if you're of the mindset and I'm just speaking to those who feel like this is a mismatch. At a guy email me this morning and he said,

36:12you know, Jeff just feels like sort of doomsday. This feels like the clarity that we seek and for those that have not yet come to the realization that the program is in shambles, they'll get it tonight. When four state gets housed at home on national television, that's what the email I said. And he's not alone. There are a lot of people, including that last poster year that believe tonight is not going to be much of a game that SMU will win comfortably. I hope they're wrong. I hope they're wrong. It's a distinct possibility that they're not, but I hope they're wrong. I hope that we're all coming in here tomorrow, getting set to do the show. And we say, holy moly, that version of floor state looks like it might be competitive this year. This could be fun. That'd be a fun topic. J E F S U 39. Just because. Thank you very much. Nicely done. Thank you, sir. No, Tom 11 writes based on the play this weekend of the ACC teams we play.

37:16I think we are in for a long year. At least we will finally be able to move forward like we all know we need to do. Good news. So no, Tom, I brought that up at the beginning of the show and just talking about we are going to the schedule. Was difficult. If you just looked at the projected order of finish in the ACC in the preseason, according to the odds, right? In the various sites that obviously project these sort of things. Florida State was playing the teams that are projected to be at the end of the year. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth. Those were the teams that were already on your schedule. Now obviously we got to play the games and we'll see what's what. But pit look great. Louisville look great. Well, I say great. More than capable, certainly. Total toe with Ole Miss all night long. When you watch that play out, you're like, oh great. What we thought would happen with Miami at Stanford, Tom, is exactly what happened. Asking kicking. That was the easiest lay in whatever I laid. 24, 23, whatever that was.

38:17That was an easy one. You play them. You play in Virginia. You look really good when they beat NC State in week zero. You go back. You've seen enough from ACC teams so far that you go, oh, I tell you what, the Florida State Crimson game may be a war. But you get a little nervous and then you figure in Alabama and you figure in Florida. We'll see what they are. But yeah, it could be a long year. It could be. That's why you got to win tonight. You got to win tonight. Give yourself a chance to believe that you can win more. Yeah, well, this is kind of like the first year. The first real year for Mike Norville, which was 21. And the opportunity of winning that LSU game, sound like Mike there. But you needed that blocked extra point. In order for them to have any prayer whatsoever. That was 2022 that season. But for that team to have a prayer of succeeding, like if you choke that game away, and you lose that game in the Super Dome, I mean, that's easy. You dominated that game. You dominated the game. Yeah, there was no reason for it. Yeah, right. You have to allow this group, which is different to the tune of more than half the roster. You have to allow them the spot to feel confident and trust in what they're doing.

39:21Because last week, there was enough evidence. You're like, man, they're kind of teetering. So we need to give them a little positivity and reinforcement. And that's they can help themselves tonight with that with a win. That'll make practice for the next week and a half that much easier for everybody from a morale standpoint. Yeah, you might have. And as I've said before, sort of an infusion of belief. So yeah, you're absolutely right. Hour number two of the show, Jeff Cameron shows slash war chain game day. Ira Schifel will join us when that comes up next. Stay tuned.