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It is Thursday morning or afternoon, June 24th, the Year of Our Lord, 2021. I'm Josh Pate. It's college football, wall to wall, didn't have an extra pod on Tuesday because I was out of town. My apologies, for reasons that I'll get into more a little bit later on on tonight's show, I know it's imperative that we release a podcast every single time we're supposed to release one. If you claim to not be about an offseason, then you can't be skipping shows just because it's the offseason. And I get it. So my apologies to you, we're making up for it today, though. We got a loaded mailbag. If you want to submit a question, Josh Pate706 at gmail.com, If you want to hit me up in the DMs on Twitter,

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of those platforms with a third quickly appearing on the horizon. So here's what's up right now.

There is a lot going on at 24-7 sports. I'm going to be able to tell you about it soon.

I'm sitting in our studio right now.

Well, I'm sitting in the office.

The studio is off to my immediate right. And some folks from Viacom, CBS, have to come in here anytime now. They're supposed to be here right now. Hoping I can get this out of the way before they come in. Otherwise, if you hear some clanging and banging in the background, I started all alone, but I may not finish the podcast all alone.

I just want all the credit with none of the blame.

That's all I've ever wanted in life. If you hear some clanging and banging in the background, I started all alone, but I may not finish the podcast all alone.

I just want all the credit with none of the blame.

That's all I've ever wanted in life. So with that out of the way, let's dive in because I think we got some really good questions here this morning. Matthew starts us off. He says, could you talk a little bit more about the dysfunction you've hinted at around Alabama's program in 2017 and why it may have been Nick Saban's greatest achievement to

overcome this. Matthew, I think the dysfunction really kicked up in 2018, more so than 17, but it was there. I think that national championship game was one of his best coaching jobs, but we've talked about that a lot. If you think about just the game itself, and think about all the things that seem to have gone wrong for Bama in that game, and then you kind of zoom it out and you realize, oh, wait, they still won this game? It's pretty crazy. I mean, there's no way Alabama should have won that game. That is Georgia's for the taking. As I've told you before, I was in the press box for the first half of the game, and I remember starting to prepare our stuff. I had to do live coverage for our TV station, actually, on top of

my late kick stuff that I was doing there, because I was independent at the time with late kick.

I was employed by WLTZ. And so myself and our coverage team, Brooke Kirchhofer, who now works

down in Baton Rouge, you guys check her out down there. We were in the press box getting our

stuff ready and preparing our coverage and different angles we

wanted to hit as Georgia has won a national championship. It already appeared that way at halftime.

You guys remember how that game went. Bamahead's into the locker room. They're shut out.

Okay, then you have the big quarterback move. That alone is worth a documentary. That move alone is

worth a documentary. Now you think about that within the context of what I told you about last week

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