Episode 16, Lightning/Rays/Bulls/Gators

· Happy Labor Day o Safe, fun labor day weekend § Toast to family friends § Celebrating 8 years with now wife o 3 years marriage next month · Coppertail Hop Skull · Went to Zydeco, filed trip hazy ipa o gumbo · TBBCo · Bernini pizza o Bottle itialian red o Marcus Burke and Jacurri Brown had first games of highschool season and showed out § Marcus Burke 4 star wr commit 2021 class § Brown dual threat qb 2022 class 4 star o 19 days until Florida travels to Ole Miss for game 1 o Grantham has talented depth across the dline and in the defensive backfield § Even after replacing talent and production along the dline, there should not be a decrease in stats talent. Lost 3 quality players from a year ago. But return 28.5 sacks the most in the SEC. § Remember this team was in the top of the conference in missed tackles and lack of practice could mean this becomes a problem. (137 missed tackles last season) § Florida was 5th in sacks. o Rays are 28-13 1st in the east § 5.5 up on the yankees § 23-6 since August 7th § Nationals, Sox, Nationals · Next 8 games · Nationals 14-25 · Redsox 11-22 · 25-47 combined · Pitchers are starting to get healthy o Yarborough will start Tuesday vs the Nationals o Yandy diaz has no timetable to return with right hamstring injury Oliver Drake about a week away o Lightning game one of the ECF tonight vs the Islanders § Lightning only team going into conference finals with a full week off · Copper was quoted saying that the time off is needed but you never want to “lose your edge” § Regular season played them only 3 times, 1-2 record. § Islanders first trip to the ECF since 1993 · Outscored them 11-4 · Wouldn’t read much into this. · New teams at this point in the season o Kuch is practicing § ESPN with interesting article, lightning in 7 is their prediction · Goalie advantage “tie” · Coaching advantage “islanders” o The rest were mostly in favor of the lightning · I like lightning in 6 o USF Bulls play the citadel @ Raymond James § Time was changed from afternoon game because of heat to 7 pm · ESPN FPI predictor has USF with nearly a 95% chance to win this game. · Jeff Scott debut, I want to start getting into a little more detail regarding the Bulls this week leading up to the game.