· 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.
