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The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

9/11: Is it time for Ohio St. to move on from JT Barrett? + Phil Savage on Alabama

The Audible with Stew & Bruce: A show about college football

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bruce and Stew dive into Week 2 of the season, including Ohio State’s deflating loss to Oklahoma (1:00); What it means for starting QB J.T. Barrett - is it time to replace him? (5:00); Reaction to the Georgia - Notre Dame game and Brian Kelly’s exchange with the media (12:00); What are the Top 3 Heisman candidates after Week 2? (20:00); And more thoughts on other Week 2 matchups (27:00); Bruce and Stew then welcome in former NFL GM and current Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage about his relationship with Nick Saban, who he worked alongside during his time with the Cleveland Browns (38:00); How he ended up becoming the Alabama football radio analyst (41:00); His book 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection (43:00); and the Alabama QB situation (49:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:11.4

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0:17.0

Learn more at Trader Joe's.com and at Trader Joe's on Instagram. Welcome back to the audible. I'm Bruce Feldman joined as always by Stuart Mandel. Some

0:44.6

interesting weeks of games we can talk about. We'll also have a great guest. It is

0:50.0

Phil Savage. Nobody is plugged into Alabama better than he, a long time personnel man who

0:57.2

now is part of the Alabama radio broadcast crew.

1:01.4

We'll get to fill in a little bit, but there's some flag planting and some interesting

1:06.0

stuff we need to delve into, right, Stu?

1:08.6

We do. So how are you doing? Are you having a better morning than Ohio State?

1:12.8

Wow, I'm going to find out to do because actually our crew is doing the Ohio State Army game

1:18.1

where Army comes in to the shoe riding its first five-game winning streak in 21 years.

1:25.7

Let's just get right to it. Do you think, I'm sure J.T. Barrett is going to be the

1:29.3

starting quarterback against Army, but do you think we will see any of Duane Haskins for the Buckeyes?

1:34.8

Yes, I think we probably will see Dwayne Haskins, but I think if that's assuming as form holds that Ohio State

1:40.8

opens it up in the second half, I don't think we'll see him injected into

1:45.8

the offense in the first quarter. I think Urban Meyer is going to be very sensitive to not

1:51.7

creating more of a problem.

1:53.4

You know, if he puts in Dwayne Haskins

1:55.5

and he goes down the field and hits four, you know, three deep passes

2:00.1

and they go 80 yards in three plays, then I think it just creates more of a

2:05.9

swirl around what's going on with the offense. And I think he has, you know, this is

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