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Go Miami I hope Cam has a outstanding season. The talent they brought in is good but at the end of the day results on the field is what matters I don’t get caught up in off-season hype. It’s good talent they brought in, but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is results on the field.
What happens during the season... atarts in off-season. I'm 49, and i watched the process during the late 90s. If you don't know, then you dont know. But i know what I'm seeing. And they are building something special
Well I hope he doesn’t lol…but I’m fairly confident he will🤷🏻♂️😂 Obviously I want my Noles to beat your Canes this season & EVERY season buuut honestly I would LOVE it if FSU AND MIAMI BOTH got back to being consistent top5 programs…to watch that rivalry return to its rightful place as THE BEST in CFB would greatly benefit both programs.
It's going to be interesting to see some of these SEC teams come up north and play some cold blustery 20 degrees days maybe some snow falling. Hopefully some of these meetings will work out that way.
…well before you get your hopes up I just wanna make sure you understand that eSECpn losses “don’t count”…so don’t be surprised to see them move UP a spot or 2 after losing to your Northern team by 28 points. This is coming from an FSU Fan, the non SEC team that has been dominating the SEC on a yearly basis since 1989…every year we beat at least 1 SEC team & every year eSECpn explains to the nation why “that game didn’t count”. Hell, when we beat LSU by “not that much” in 2022 the Tigers got ranked ahead of us…and then in 2023 when we beat LSU by 4 touchdowns & held Jayden Daniels to his worst performance in 2 years (the 2nd worst performance was against us the year before)…they gave him the Heisman, made a weird rule for the first time ever saying “there can only be 4 players at the Heisman Ceremony” (Jordan Travis finished 5th in voting), and ensured that NO ONE (not espn, not On3, not 24/7) ever mentioned the 2 times he faced FSU’s defense. With the eSECpn teams there are only “wins that PROVE they’re a legit top5 team” & “quality losses that didn’t really count & can’t be held against em”
Love the channel, can't wait for the kickoff. When talking transfer portal it seems the focus is on the additions, not the losses. NFL free agency they talk both. College all about incoming. Georgia added 10 players, they lost 24. Wondering why there is no talk of the loses, only gains.....
Dude if you actually think Miami is going to beat the gators in the swamp on opening night with 90 plus thousand fired up and actually better recruiting talent in the past 2 years player rating wise😂 yall gone learn today 😂
Agreed, historically I love the guy buuut he’s been making a LOT of suspect “assessments & predictions” this off-season…almost like he was instructed to pump up 2 specific conferences at all costs🤷🏻♂️🫢😂
lol welcome to “the FSU treatment”…you have now been lumped in with us & are one of the programs eSECpn instructs On3 & every other “CFB platform” (who all literally work for the University espn) to downplay, shit on, & belittle at all costs. For what it’s worth, every-single-year On3, eSECpn, 24/7, etc. always pick Miami to beat FSU (and I think we both know that’s never what happens lol)…sooo the more they spread the narrative “Clemson just can’t compete with FSU” the more I think to myself “shit…Clemson must be really good this year”😂🤷🏻♂️🍻
Seriously? So taking who you think is going to win is lazy if their the favorites? Lol the obvious choice is the best choice literally most of the time. This is such a stupid take.
@@caseysmith5890 how many times has the pre season AP top 4 finished top 4 at the end of the season? Of the power 5 conferences last year only 2 of the preseason favorites won it that was Texas and FSU. Kinda contradicts your “obvious choice being literally the best choice most of the time” take.
😂😂😂it is NOT “the deterioration of football”😂😂😂…FSU, Miami, Oregon, Texas all have the deepest high-level rosters they’ve had EVER (well, since the nineties & early 2000s for FSU & Miami). The fact that On3 is on here campaigning for “poor ol Georgia” & trying to convince us that “making SEC teams have to compete for players is unfair” is just further proof that they too have been bought & paid for & now exist for the sole purpose of propagandizing eSECpn’s ridiculous rhetoric & maliciously false narratives.
So .. your saying I'm getting a divorce, since I already been playing cfb25 since it came out ! Lol. She knows who/what she married! Miami @ Florida Can't wait ! Go Canes !
@@4s4l229 Very true but look at their schedule. It's not Florida level hard but it certainly leaves plenty of room for error. Clemson week one, @ Kentucky, @ Alabama, @ Texas, @ Ole Miss, and Tennessee. a 9-3 season is very much a possibility. It's not likely but entirely possible.
Ugh I don't want to even get in to how stupid 5 SEC teams in the playoffs is too much, I've said my peace ad nasuem regarding teams like Ole Miss and how losing 52-17 to Georgia should immediately disqualify you. I don't care if they play in the SEC, if they already showed they couldn't beat the best team in their league (I'd consider a closer loss better proof of that even) then what's the point of including them in the playoffs? Let someone else who's likely got better wins take a crack at that. Didn't we learn a lesson last year? You lose all the games you don't play, sure Alabama beat Georgia, but I think everyone would agree that in the playoffs Georgia likely wins the national title, handily even. But Alabama beat them, lost in the first round, no SEC team in the final. You let other's try their hand at teams in the SEC you know what sometimes they do actually win. For the Kirby Smart thing, I heard what he said, and it's the same idiotic self serving crap Saban was saying, and JD you eating it up is really disappointing. This isn't a case of Kirby saying what he said and we should be concerned about the depth EVERYWHERE in college football, oh my are the poor eating off napkins!? No Kirby's complaining because the supreme NFL talent depth he and Saban enjoyed in the SEC all the way down to their 3rd damn team is now all of a sudden taking NIL money and going elsewhere. His incredibly asinine assumption is not just that he's the best, but that literally nobody else can do it. In his mind there's no other staff that could possibly take these talented kids and develop them, look at the NFL drafts, it's all SEC kids, particularly Alabama and Georgia. So when they had an injury or early departure they had several guys lined up behind that player to take on the role, and at all of the most important positions. Now other teams have a chance to say take that second team guy, who in reality is one major injury on the first team of a Georgia team away form being a first team guy, and throwing him on another team. What he's scared of, and what he believes will be the ruination of college football, is the fact that there won't be 3-5 super teams in the sport, and the overall quality of HIS games will go down. But those players are existing elsewhere, and there are up and coming coaches all over the country who are just as good as he and his staff can be, and they're just lacking the talented kids to develop themselves. Saban had been carrying this banner before, and now Kirby's taken it up in his absence. This is the SEC complaining about the fact that NIL has disrupted their system of destroying amateurism in college football, and introducing a new one where every team can get involved, regardless of multi billion dollar TV deals that enabled SEC schools to hire away better coaches, build better facilities, and offer better "standards" to players, but never dear god actually paying them because me oh my that might destroy the amateurism of this beloved sport. SEC killed the spirit of college football in 2008. NIL is giving players a chance to make a decision again, and allowing schools outside of the SEC to compete, and man did that piss Saban off.
I think it's going to be some upsets in the first 3 weeks, watch out Texas. Michigan might buy the refs and u kno they already kno the play signals 😂😂😂😂😂
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Miami is underrated this year around because that roster is STACKED there should be no excuses.
Indeed
Go Miami I hope Cam has a outstanding season. The talent they brought in is good but at the end of the day results on the field is what matters I don’t get caught up in off-season hype. It’s good talent they brought in, but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is results on the field.
Miami needs to jump on them from the start - No conservative Mario
What happens during the season... atarts in off-season.
I'm 49, and i watched the process during the late 90s.
If you don't know, then you dont know.
But i know what I'm seeing. And they are building something special
Every team has offseason hype. Don’t buy into the fake narrative they are pushing about Miami 😂
Well I hope he doesn’t lol…but I’m fairly confident he will🤷🏻♂️😂
Obviously I want my Noles to beat your Canes this season & EVERY season buuut honestly I would LOVE it if FSU AND MIAMI BOTH got back to being consistent top5 programs…to watch that rivalry return to its rightful place as THE BEST in CFB would greatly benefit both programs.
Indeed
It's going to be interesting to see some of these SEC teams come up north and play some cold blustery 20 degrees days maybe some snow falling. Hopefully some of these meetings will work out that way.
…well before you get your hopes up I just wanna make sure you understand that eSECpn losses “don’t count”…so don’t be surprised to see them move UP a spot or 2 after losing to your Northern team by 28 points. This is coming from an FSU Fan, the non SEC team that has been dominating the SEC on a yearly basis since 1989…every year we beat at least 1 SEC team & every year eSECpn explains to the nation why “that game didn’t count”. Hell, when we beat LSU by “not that much” in 2022 the Tigers got ranked ahead of us…and then in 2023 when we beat LSU by 4 touchdowns & held Jayden Daniels to his worst performance in 2 years (the 2nd worst performance was against us the year before)…they gave him the Heisman, made a weird rule for the first time ever saying “there can only be 4 players at the Heisman Ceremony” (Jordan Travis finished 5th in voting), and ensured that NO ONE (not espn, not On3, not 24/7) ever mentioned the 2 times he faced FSU’s defense.
With the eSECpn teams there are only “wins that PROVE they’re a legit top5 team” & “quality losses that didn’t really count & can’t be held against em”
Love the channel, can't wait for the kickoff. When talking transfer portal it seems the focus is on the additions, not the losses. NFL free agency they talk both. College all about incoming. Georgia added 10 players, they lost 24. Wondering why there is no talk of the loses, only gains.....
These CFB podcasts are usually overly optimistic especially in the offseason. Less and less are willing to be critical and truly honest.
The only way Miami loses is if Mario chokes
Or if UFs talented roster finally clicks...
…in that case, consider it a done deal✅😂🍻
Dude if you actually think Miami is going to beat the gators in the swamp on opening night with 90 plus thousand fired up and actually better recruiting talent in the past 2 years player rating wise😂 yall gone learn today 😂
I love JD's takes, but I strongly disagree with a lot of his predictions in this particular episode.
Agreed, historically I love the guy buuut he’s been making a LOT of suspect “assessments & predictions” this off-season…almost like he was instructed to pump up 2 specific conferences at all costs🤷🏻♂️🫢😂
The Clemson hate is absurd
Clemsoning is back
@@juhgfdsapiyhhnnxc3517 after 1 9 win season ? Yeah that makes sense.
lol welcome to “the FSU treatment”…you have now been lumped in with us & are one of the programs eSECpn instructs On3 & every other “CFB platform” (who all literally work for the University espn) to downplay, shit on, & belittle at all costs.
For what it’s worth, every-single-year On3, eSECpn, 24/7, etc. always pick Miami to beat FSU (and I think we both know that’s never what happens lol)…sooo the more they spread the narrative “Clemson just can’t compete with FSU” the more I think to myself “shit…Clemson must be really good this year”😂🤷🏻♂️🍻
All conference champion predictions are betting favorites and this guys final 4 is all betting favorites. Lazy picks
Seriously? So taking who you think is going to win is lazy if their the favorites? Lol the obvious choice is the best choice literally most of the time. This is such a stupid take.
@@caseysmith5890 how many times has the pre season AP top 4 finished top 4 at the end of the season? Of the power 5 conferences last year only 2 of the preseason favorites won it that was Texas and FSU. Kinda contradicts your “obvious choice being literally the best choice most of the time” take.
😂😂😂it is NOT “the deterioration of football”😂😂😂…FSU, Miami, Oregon, Texas all have the deepest high-level rosters they’ve had EVER (well, since the nineties & early 2000s for FSU & Miami).
The fact that On3 is on here campaigning for “poor ol Georgia” & trying to convince us that “making SEC teams have to compete for players is unfair” is just further proof that they too have been bought & paid for & now exist for the sole purpose of propagandizing eSECpn’s ridiculous rhetoric & maliciously false narratives.
Clemson goes 11-1 with a loss to Georgia. I say Georgia beats us NO MORE THAN 10! #CallingMyShot
Gator win
well said
Lol
So .. your saying I'm getting a divorce, since I already been playing cfb25 since it came out ! Lol. She knows who/what she married!
Miami @ Florida
Can't wait !
Go Canes !
Can't wait go georgia not to even make the natty😂
Nobody more loaded than Georgia 🤷🏾♂️ hating won’t stop them from going because they’ll definitely be in the playoffs you can bet it
@@4s4l229 Very true but look at their schedule. It's not Florida level hard but it certainly leaves plenty of room for error. Clemson week one, @ Kentucky, @ Alabama, @ Texas, @ Ole Miss, and Tennessee. a 9-3 season is very much a possibility. It's not likely but entirely possible.
man, i don't know who thought of this cfb layout but Florida State should not be ranked in the CFB that high or even at all.
😂😂😂😂…let me guess, you watched Paul Finebaum😂😂🤡
You should bet everything you own on FSU not being a top10 team this season lol…literally everything💰😉
Ugh I don't want to even get in to how stupid 5 SEC teams in the playoffs is too much, I've said my peace ad nasuem regarding teams like Ole Miss and how losing 52-17 to Georgia should immediately disqualify you. I don't care if they play in the SEC, if they already showed they couldn't beat the best team in their league (I'd consider a closer loss better proof of that even) then what's the point of including them in the playoffs? Let someone else who's likely got better wins take a crack at that. Didn't we learn a lesson last year? You lose all the games you don't play, sure Alabama beat Georgia, but I think everyone would agree that in the playoffs Georgia likely wins the national title, handily even. But Alabama beat them, lost in the first round, no SEC team in the final. You let other's try their hand at teams in the SEC you know what sometimes they do actually win.
For the Kirby Smart thing, I heard what he said, and it's the same idiotic self serving crap Saban was saying, and JD you eating it up is really disappointing. This isn't a case of Kirby saying what he said and we should be concerned about the depth EVERYWHERE in college football, oh my are the poor eating off napkins!? No Kirby's complaining because the supreme NFL talent depth he and Saban enjoyed in the SEC all the way down to their 3rd damn team is now all of a sudden taking NIL money and going elsewhere. His incredibly asinine assumption is not just that he's the best, but that literally nobody else can do it.
In his mind there's no other staff that could possibly take these talented kids and develop them, look at the NFL drafts, it's all SEC kids, particularly Alabama and Georgia. So when they had an injury or early departure they had several guys lined up behind that player to take on the role, and at all of the most important positions. Now other teams have a chance to say take that second team guy, who in reality is one major injury on the first team of a Georgia team away form being a first team guy, and throwing him on another team. What he's scared of, and what he believes will be the ruination of college football, is the fact that there won't be 3-5 super teams in the sport, and the overall quality of HIS games will go down. But those players are existing elsewhere, and there are up and coming coaches all over the country who are just as good as he and his staff can be, and they're just lacking the talented kids to develop themselves.
Saban had been carrying this banner before, and now Kirby's taken it up in his absence. This is the SEC complaining about the fact that NIL has disrupted their system of destroying amateurism in college football, and introducing a new one where every team can get involved, regardless of multi billion dollar TV deals that enabled SEC schools to hire away better coaches, build better facilities, and offer better "standards" to players, but never dear god actually paying them because me oh my that might destroy the amateurism of this beloved sport. SEC killed the spirit of college football in 2008. NIL is giving players a chance to make a decision again, and allowing schools outside of the SEC to compete, and man did that piss Saban off.
I ain’t reading allat
@@drewbarnett9852, ok!! Dude typed a whole sports column.
Most of it is wrong anyway
…everything you just said is 💯 correct ☝🏼✅🫡
@@drewbarnett9852…and yet to STILL felt the need to take time out your day & comment on something you (by your own admission) never even reviewed 🤔😂
Clemson losing to both Nc state and fsu just ain’t gonna happen
I agree Clemson will beat NC State
Agreed…I don’t see the Tigers losing to NC State, the Wolfpack don’t have anywhere near the talent or roster depth
I think it's going to be some upsets in the first 3 weeks, watch out Texas. Michigan might buy the refs and u kno they already kno the play signals 😂😂😂😂😂