Shutdown Fullcast - 40 for 40: The 2016 Peach Bowl

Episode Date: December 30, 2016

Number 35 of 40 bowl previews, in which we may not discuss the Peach Bowl or the teams playing in it whatsoever! I mean, it's a playoff game, so we're probably going to talk about the teams and the game. But this is a pretty bad and pointless podcast, so there's a chance we won't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to actual football. Yeah, this is a 40-for-40 podcast, but we're not talking some trifling game. Oh, no, we're not talking some exhibition. No, we're not talking some excuse to just roll up to some, like, run-of-the-mill large block consumer joint and consume like a bunch of buffalo wings in the name of friendly competition between two schools.

No, no, no, no. We're at the Peach Bowl semi-final. That is the game which is symbolized on SB Nation's bowl guys, with a cow riding on an enormous zeppelin. Yeah, we're at Alabama, Washington. This is real, and it is happening at 3 o'clock p.m. in Atlanta, Georgia, and 50% of this podcast will be in the booth.

Where am I going to be? You don't have a shit. You don't have a shit. Yeah, you're going to be in Brooklyn. You're going to be all posted up with the baby and some stuff, right? Yay. Yeah.

Yeah. Rubbing elbows with, I can't name names on this podcast, can I? Look at it. Look at it this way. You'll be with a very small human in an enclosed space, and Holly and I will be with Nick Saban. Right, another small, squalling human being in another enclosed space. So it's really... He's colloquy, too, so watch out for that. Perpetually colicky. The process is colloquy.

Let's just say that. The Peach Bowl featuring Alabama v. Washington. That would be number one, Alabama. That would be Alabama undefeated. Alabama has not really even sniffed defeat all season long. Versus number four Washington, our Pack 12 champs, coached by Chris Peterson, coming off of a one-lost season in the Pac-12. That would be one loss to USC, a team that, yes, early in the season.

and before they were really fully formed and changed quarterbacks to Sam Darden, Donald, what was the score of that game? Does anyone have that on hand? Was it 56 to 3? I think it was 80 to 9. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it was a heap a lot to nothing, basically.

And people will assume that means a lot here. So what we have to do is we have to sell you on the notion that maybe Washington stands a chance in this game. Anybody want to take a stab at that? The SEC is doing a real good job in bowl season so far of lending credence to the idea that Alabama is very good, but the competition they faced in the conference this year was not. Bill had a good piece up on it today.

He did. Overall S&P rankings for the SEC and largely down over the last three years. Until you look at one team, Alabama. Thus buffeting my theory, that Alabama is basically this, like, large tumor, just sort of sucking energy, life, and time off of the rest of the conference. Gross. Accurate. I mean, I guess the other easy thing people have pointed to is Alabama's actually going to have to face a quarterback this time.

That's also a thing that they didn't really have to do in a lot of conference competition this year. they're playing they're playing like uh uh chad kelly who doesn't have guns probably that's that's one way to look at it sure um all i know is that he jake browning's thrown more touchdowns than i want to make sure i get this right yes this is right he's thrown five more touchdowns than florida auburn and lSU combined hmm that sounds challenging i will also state this while we're selling on this. And this is a tangible, and I have an intangible to go after it.

One tangible advantage that Washington has is this. Washington has two wide receivers. And like, tell me a time when Alabama's faced two actual wide receivers with an actual quarterback who can get them the ball. It's been pretty rare this year. And with, also, they're facing the best coaching staff they've faced. I don't think there's anybody who's going to be more obsessed. progressively prepared for this game than Chris Peterson.

That doesn't mean they're going to compete because I don't know with the massive recruiting that Alabama has been able to do over the course of Nick Saban's tenure that anyone's really going to be able to go depth chart for depth chart with them. But they're not going to walk in not knowing what they're going to see. They're going to see everything and they're going to know what's coming. So Washington will be like the most studied and they'll have an advantage at the perimeter. Other than that, I got nothing. Yeah, the flip side is, if we're going to talk about Alabama, maybe not facing much competition this year.

Ooh, boy, Washington. Yeah, you want to. And the problem with Washington is that when they did face decent teams, those were the games that got a little wonky. Yeah, like versus USC where they could not protect Jake Browning. They could not. Or versus Utah. when Utah really had almost every chance to win that game until the very, very end, and Jake Browning wasn't very good in that game.

So there was definitely an element of Washington benefited from a Pac-12 North that was pretty far down, and they caught most of the teams on their schedule, with the exception of USC, I would say, kind of at the bottom or when they were trying to figure shit out. Uh, so yeah, it's I don't know, man. Wow, we, I guess we made a good effort. But all we've done is really mimic what the media as a whole is done over the past like two weeks. Everybody came in, well, everybody came in and said, oh, it's Alabama, they're going to stop Washington.

And then everybody started digging up, well, you know, let's try to make a case for Washington. And then the case for Washington just sort of fell apart and we're like, well, uh, hopefully it'll be a fun game. Which is not to say that, you know, we don't have opinions about this game because regardless of our feelings about Alabama, I am consistent in my position of just wanting something, anything different to happen. Please, I'm bored. There is, there is one X factor here. And that is that, now that Lane Kiffin has a new home to go to, he's getting a little mouthy. Yeah, Lane Kiffin, in addition to... Nalphi's a big word for it. notice we didn't say mouth we didn't say mouth and brainy right he's not mouth smart no yeah i'll also not just sidine kind of hmm go ahead yeah do it well it's just it's let's let's say this

it's special it's special that at the end of you know the running theme of uh lane kiffin's alabama tenure was this was quote unquote like a rehabilitation of his image And part of that was that he really wasn't allowed to talk very much. When he was, it was under very controlled circumstances. Nick Saban was careful to give him praise, but also, you know, not overdue it. It was all very well managed from a PR perspective. And then... And then, Lane Kiffin said, you know what?

Now that I have a job at FAU, I think that people need a Lane Gets Real feature. Whoops. yeah and they got one they really got one because he did say this that when asked if his three years at Alabama had been fun he said quote fun yeah we don't use that word a lot but yeah but holly really wants to

I know holly wants to talk about more than that it's it doesn't really it's not really a tonal fit for this podcast I'm not sure this is the medium to point out instead of being like The usual Anodyne kind of asshole he is. Lane Kippen said, you know, he hired Kendall. He's hiring Kendall Bryles to be his offensive coordinator. That's Bryles from Baylor and said the reason he didn't bring Kendall's daddy along

was because he didn't want protesters. Yeah, and also on the roster now is the quarterback who was booted from FSU for punching a woman, which apparently that was in motion before Lane got there. I don't know if I buy that, really. Because, like, who brings in a quarterback without consulting the coach you're about to hire? but that's the thing he said it when it came up in nancy armor's USA Today's story yesterday and i thought it might have been like i read it and i got mad and i read it again and you can see a way in the story in which this quote could have come from like somewhere else in the interview and it's just

unfortunately placed but then he fucking said it again he was pretty yeah when he talked to thammel it was pretty it was pretty clear yeah well you'd have to assume somebody was why watching the FAU situation at all. That's where things get real. Private prisons and Panopticons, but this doesn't feel like that's all the place. Yeah, let's remind everybody, Florida Atlantic was going to have

an actual stadium named after a prison, a private prison company, right? But yeah. The Running Man Stadium. Between Schnelly, Carl Polini, Alcatraz, and now Kiffin? It's pretty special. yeah this is

it's gonna be good two words boat accident boat accident two more words insurance fraud insurance guys guys it can be both they go hand they go hand in my insurance

I will also I would also be I think I'd be irresponsible and I'd be completely disloyal to the mission statement of this podcast and our website if I did not cite things that would happen to Alabama fans as they entered Atlanta because many of them are veterans now but there's still people from Alabama entering the city of Atlanta so the following things will all happen if you have a few just chime

in I've got a couple that are just guaranteed one when do we get off the train when is it is my favorite when everybody behind them just start screaming go go go like they're in a navy commercial yeah which I have done a very slow Navy commercial. Do you want to exit train slowly? The Navy. I have never once taken advantage of the fact that

these jackholes don't know where to get off a labeled train station. Yeah, the thing that says the Georgia Dome, and they're like, is this where we get off? Yes, it's where you get off, funny. I've never once taken advantage of this, and it's not out of the goodness of my heart, it's more out of boredom.

I mean, all I'm hearing is Washington fans need to doctor some sign it. so uh two alabama fans milling around the georgia dome with the universal lookup this ain't shit on their face that's it that's another good one is this ain't shit swan around atlanta going like it's everything wrong with the world like it's new york like their like their sneer gets an extra dollar in the donation but they're not even in the sneer worthy like the the den of sin part of Atlanta they're just in the boring part no man they're a bunch of like parking garages and like uh like the cnn center that that's where they're at they're across from beautiful centennial park and they're like i don't think coke i don't think coke deserves its own world i think it's a wonderful product but let's be honest that that world belongs to the lord he couldn't even win the win the cc once roll tide you know what that water ain't even moving in the georgia aquarium that's that that that the

That's cruel to the fish. What are they doing there? I mean, you know what? Jonathan Allen, he's got more movement than a beluga. Baluga ain't shit to me. Birmingham Aquarium wouldn't have one. It's a metaphor for Georgia football.