Josh Pate's Biggest SEC Takeaways & Questions - Post-Spring (Late Kick Cut) 

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On LSU. 1) Check out the great spacing of the main 5 games LSU plays. SC, Ole Miss. TAMU, Bama, OU. 2) Check out the off week and opponents in the weeks leading up to the Ole Miss visit to Tiger Stadium vs Ole Miss's, 3) Do some homework on Kaleb Jackson for running game, 4) The Super Junior Leaders of 3rd year starting Tackles Campbell and Jones, a defense built to enable playmaker Harold Perkins, and TE Taylor, 5) Arguably the best DL/DE Coaching staff in all of CFB, 6) Baker as a HUGE DC upgrade, and 7) Corey Raymond with a much more talented DB crew than 2023. .That's some factors to balance out your question marks. I could add more, but there is a few

Pate always keeps it 💯. Best cfb content on the interwebs.

Love the insight on MSU, real deep and thoughtful!!!

Great video! Thanks man

Arkansas segment didn't even warrant a schedule graphic. God we suck.

Really like you're take keeping it real great job Josh Go Dawgs

Excellent take on each team in the unique Josh P. Style,which is hilarious & honest truth from a guy who physically goes to most of these schools,to see if reports are true.Alabama will be sizzling and playing fast w/ South Alabama's coach and his gang tackle, blitzing style of attack,taking plays away by disruption of opposing offensive attacks.Womack is just as critical as coach DeBoers in figuring Bamas success initially during first year of the new staff.LSU will always be nasty just like Auburn but now that Freeze is there get ready for misdirectional,crazy,head scratching plays.

Keep overlooking Missouri just like you did last year.

Best case scenario for Florida is improving on both sides maybe win 7 or 8 games hopefully Lagway starts the bowl game and balls out similar to Nico for Tenn. If all that happens Napier could weather the storm and a lot of folks would be stoked for 2025 with DJ Lagway as QB1.

QB coach Joe Sloan had more to do with JD5s development than Denbrock. Now Sloan is also the OC. The bowl game was just a preview of the LSU '24 offense. Those 395 passing yards Nuss had would have slotted in as JD5s #3 passing game. Last time LSU lost a 1st round QB and TWO WRs in same draft. Tigers were national champions the next season. They return the BEST 4 starting Olinemen. They have the best bookends in college football. If DC Blake Baker can improve scoring defense by only a FG per game. Tigers scoring defense would be upper 40's very low 50's. LSU probably plays 4-5 SEC opponents better than those 2 ex pac 12 teams. Neither game is in ca. CBK just brought in one of the best defensive staffs in the country. Last years issues weren't about the jimmies and joes. Tigers 3 toughest games 9ole miss, bama and ou) are all in Death valley. LSU not losing all 3. wouldn't surprise me if they go 2-1 even 3-0. Last time joey freshwater and they gumps played in BR both teams left with the "L". CBK currently has his team in a better situation than the other nine opponents.

You held on to TN for last just to make us watch the whole video... I don't blame you though

I think Auburn is going to be the sleeping giant no one sees coming. There's so much excitement and build up for the coming year, I think this team could fly under the radar and slowly out together one of their better seasons to date.

Florida going 9-3 with Mertz at Qb with that schedule 🤣🤣🤣🤣 if happens they would be ranked 5th highest you can be without winning conference

Absolutely incredible segment starting at 28:00 , Josh. Thank you for speaking the truth against all these lunatics that hate the SEC just because the SEC is the best and plays the hardest schedule.

I can't wait to see Ole miss at South Carolina. Overlook Carolina now...

That last 7 for Florida. . . .damn

My man knows about Oklahoma 🤝🏻

Your Texas A&M schedule graphic is wrong. It says they play New Mexico when they play New Mexico State

Good show

Pate, as always, is one of the first in on sleepers and nailed it with OU.

Heupel is going to throw everything he has into the OU game.

I promise you the committee is not worried abt record, go ahead and look at this last year

Bobby P or no, I'm looking for a .500 season. Realistically, this is probably just Bobby's "red shirt" season before his return as Head Coach.

Lane knows his job is safe as long as Ole Miss wins 8 or 9 games. He doesn't push any harder than that.

So hyped for this season I can’t wait till august 31st!!!! Beat Miami!! Go gators!!🐊🐊🐊🐊

I think the SEC (from a W/L record pov) is going to look like the best NFL conferences. Your best teams in the country will have 9-3-esque records. Those types of teams will fill the 12 playoff spots imo.

Hot take (maybe?) - Ole Miss makes the playoff.

I think its very possible LSU's situatuon is identical to last year. Offensive line will be one of the very best in the country and there dont seem to be any weaknesses anywhere else offensively, so its hard to not see their offense running very efficiently. Defensively, even though coaching got a huge upgrade, and could be the best defensive staff out there, the player personnel just is not there. It will not be pretty. Best case scenario they are just ok, which is fine when youre offense is one of the best, but thats a best case scenario. Worst case scenario is an offense that is just good with last years defense. Best case scenario is last years offense with a defense that is just ok and somewhat servicable

Im tired of the excuses for Napier. he is not an SEC caliber coach and the results of the past 2 seasons have shown that, plus the lackluster ending of this recruiting class which his entire hiring philosophy was based on. UF has always had a tough schedule, thats just the nature of the SEC and having FSU and Miami as in-state rivals so this schedule isn't new. Rebuilds in this era of CFB no longer take 4-5 years and the program still has huge holes that he doesn't seem to be very concerned about even in year 3. Think this season will be his last.

I am a die hard bama fan!! But every sec team can’t go to the play offs can they?? I have to say I favor ole miss to go this year!! They look good

OU gotta be very surgical with there season. they cant get high, they cant get low, just say with the proccess and dont let your emotions get out of control win or lose. people will get injured so gotta have a next man up mentality, and that goes into fall practice because if these backups arent paying attention or have the mentiality of IM NOT GOING TO PLAY THIS YEAR SO IMA NOT GO 100% IN PRACTICE, because the reality is if we get on the wrong side of the injury bug then are backups are going to have to play.

You better watch out for South Carolina. Everyone isn't giving them a chance, Top 25 before the season, won't look anywhere near the same.

Bro, Cody Schrader was the leading rusher by ohhhhh....400 yards. Daniels was 3rd

By halftime of the Okla-TN game everyone in the country will know who James Pierce Jr is 👀🔥

Every SEC team can’t have there best season in years this year lol

Go Gators!

I see Alabama for the first time in 15 years. Losing at least three games if not 4.

Ole miss will have a load of drafted players

COACH WOMACK GOT WORK TO DO!

LSUfeels like USC last year

With Jalen at QB and the running backs BAMA has BAMA will have an explosive offense 🐘🐘

Listen idc if they’re close games or not!! We get the dub that’s all that matters!! Also BRIAN KELLY is not doing anything this year

Why don’t you talk this way about Dabo s team. He started off great is it just the portal? Is Dabo having head problems for intentionally taking a bullet for the Gipper of good ole tradition? Or is he nuts for taking 11 million to destroy what he has mostly built?

UF goes 5-7, ends the year with 5 straight loses. They could literally go 3-9. But I’ll give them Miami.

Y’all talking down on Auburn like we sorry or some

Am I missing something here. Josh did not say one word about Georgia's brutal schedule. Their good, but not good enough to run through that schedule. Georgia goes 10-2 . That should be good enough to get to Atlanta.

I got an interesting scenario: 10-2 Mizzou or 9-3 Florida for the last playoff spot?

In 2037 we learned how to post comments in the past let me put y’all on. Uga 11-1 Alabama 9-3 LSU 7-5 ou 7-5 usc 6-6 ua 4-8 uk 8-4 Auburn 6-6 am 10-2 um 8-4 uf 7-5 ut 10-2 Tennessee 9-3 ole miss 8-4 vandy 2-10

AAC

I think that every team that wins their respective conferences should have a spot in the playoffs and nobody else . It's simple . No guessing needed . No complaining warranted

People do not think the offensive line will be a disaster. Not one person close to the program from a media standpoint to a fan standpoint thinks that. Bill B has never had a disaster for a OL. Are we concerned it’s not going to be a good as what we think it can be and need it to be to have an elite season? Yes. With what we have on the OL we still think it will be middle of the SEC as it stacks now. What we are concerned about will it be better than that so JA can have the opportunity to utilize his skillsets and gives him time and the ability to grow without having to be pushed off his spots and not have the time to be as productive as we think he can be. That’s a huge difference between a disaster. We are talking about arguably the best OL coach in the country. The questions are only there because we haven’t seen a large majority of the line play on a down to down basis. Do we think we do t have talent there? No As an example. We lost our two tackles in the 2022 draft. What did BB do? Turned around and had his next 2 OT get drafted with another one for two years in a row as a first round draft pick. So the notion BB would ever roll out a OL that’s a disaster is just way off base especially to what anyone that is familiar with program thinks. OU’s fan expectations are championships and especially the disrespect we have e received while Texas, who we beat and have dominated for years, gets all of the praise. People act like OU doesn’t reload and just look at the recruiting classes the last 3 years. Those 3 classes have top 10 and a top 5 class in them. So do you not think we do t have talent there at all? You shouldn’t it’s just we haven’t seen the talent play. Our right guard is an NFL player. The center Outside of the right guard are the only starters who will have been rated lower than a 4* with both projected tackles as top 150 kids. So we can’t act like again there isn’t talent at all and it would be a disaster it’s just that we haven’t seen all of the talent play. Huge difference

LSU Defense????

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 Hookem!

8-4 florida may still get a shot at a playoff spot, insane schedule

as usual Missouri gets 30 seconds of coverage. Josh if Missouri wins 10+ games this year, will you give them a little more coverage next year?

ROLL TIDE 🐘🐘

Look out AU. Is coming

Beck aint winning a title he doesn have the it factor that stetson has and or had also bama is in great hands a stronger penix jr for debore, milldoo will thrive with kalen as the coach there hes onna get used like jalen hurts and its gonna be fun to watch bama this season, go dawgs 🍻

Lane Kiffin is what will always hold Ole Miss back.

NCAA messed up, going to let them Dawgs lose a game and still make the playoffs? God speed everyone else.

You haven’t missed many games at Oklahoma. They rarely play anyone worth watching, much less at home.

HOOKEM HORNS 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

College Football Nerds have always been LSU haters. They doubted the 2019 team all the way until the playoff. And now try to pretend like they didn't

Synergy is not synchronicity stop misrepresenting the two words, synergy is the expression of individual pieces when combined as a whole while making the whole quantifiably more valuable or more valuable than the quality of individual pieces..use synchronicity instead or not at all

Miami still wins in the swamp aug 31

When Ole Miss plays Kentucky, it will be viewed by an enormous amount of drunk hillbillies........you are wrong on ole miss not being watched......lol

Auburn upsets Georgia. I’m calling it now lol

Josh! Josh! Josh! 🤦🏾‍♂️ First off, let the SEC leave the National scene with ESPN and do their own thang! They’ll be doing the rest of the country a favor! 💁🏾‍♂️ Okay, I agree with you on the record thing about maybe a 9-3 team being more deserving than a 10-2 team, but here’s the catch! The SEC teams has to schedule the other teams and play some home and away games and then, we will see who has the best conference. All you media pundits talk the SEC into being these world beaters and I know & understand what’s been done lately, but that shit has been choreographed like none other! If there is gonna be revenue sharing? Alabama, Georgia, Florida & others will need to travel to Corvallis, Pullman, Stillwater, Lubbock, Waco and Salt Lake to name a few and they’ll definitely see just how easy those games will be! This goes for the BIG 10 too! This will put some of that bias bullshit to bed, because imagine an SEC runner up going 9-3 losing to two BIG12 teams, but screaming they should get a spot over a 10-2 BIG12 runner up? Let’s get this right!

yeah UGA has a culture for sure...a underground drag racing culture and most of the players openly talk about hating Kirby Smart

I can already see it, some overrated 11-1 team in the Big 12 is gonna get in over 9-3 Ole Miss. As wrong as it is, it’s gonna happen. In the sport with the largest talent gap, why are we paralyzed by records?

Here’s the thing about Texas being overrated: they start nearly every year with a high ranking, with every talking head declaring “They’re back’” until they fall flat on their faces. In 2016 they were #11 and ended up 5-7. In ‘19 they started #10 and were “back”; they won 8 games. The following year they started at #14 and won 7 games. Remember how they were a “dark horse playoff team” coming into 2021? 5-7 season. The casual viewing public is tired of hearing about them being “back” until they can have two good seasons in a row.

I have to disagree about Auburn. With a dynamic QB, Auburn is a playoff contender this year.

Texas is Overrated: "Texas made the playoffs" - but they shouldn't have. Georgia was a better team and the resulting playoff LOSS (like the majority of the other Big 12 playoff teams) proved as much. Texas played 3 teams that talent wise could match up with them, they LOST 2 of those games (OU, Washington). They SURVIVED Houston, TCU and K-State, none of whom recruit or are stacked talent wise like Texas. Texas won the Big 12 which can debatably be argued that it was the weakest it's been in years. Heck, They beat OK-State in the title game and they had a passing defense ranked in the 120's and an overall defense ranked in the 110's. And because of ONE, again ONE SINGLE SEASON, of success you want to say they are at the "head of the SEC table" with teams that have MULTIPLE national titles in the playoff era? Where is the logic in that?! If Texas goes out this year, with this schedule, and wins 10+ games then I'll give em respect and say they've arrived. But when you were 2 losses out of 3 games where teams matched up with you and you are about to go play 6 games where talent won't be the separating factor, I'm pumping my breaks on this team being at the "head of the table". Go win 10+ games and I'll be the first to say, "Texas has arrived".

Texas is always overrated every year I don't get the hype they haven't won a national championship since 2005 😂. Roll tide!

This is a hot take, but Bama wins 8 or less in 2024 but still beat Auburn.

Texas is not a top tier program in the SEC. And it's absolutely ludicrous for you to claim such

Texas only got into the playoffs because the committee wanted Alabama and could not justify putting them in without the team that beat them.

Oklahoma 7-5. JP’s optimism won’t help this O-Line be able to block the War Daddy Defensive line talent in the SEC. A Culture Shock is coming to Norman Oklahoma!