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cksmart-world · 3 years ago

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The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

GOP BREAKTHROUGH: EARTH NOT FLAT AFTER ALL

What? Utah Congressman John Curtis has just said Republicans really do care about climate change. Subversive and traitorous talk like that could get him hanged in West Virginia or Wyoming because Real President Trump said it's all a big a hoax. So what's up with Curtis, who just launched the Conservative Climate Caucus. “Republicans do care about this Earth... We, too, want to leave this Earth better than we found it,” he said. But there is, of course, a catch: Caucus members will press for private-sector solutions and labeled as sacrilege cutting back on fossil fuels. Why kill the economy just to save the planet? The caucus already has round-filed President Biden's goal to cut emission levels in half by 2030, because it's just un-American. Republicans, Curtis said, ��will show the need to depart from the shaming-culture found in today’s climate dialogue... ” Yeah, no more coal-shaming and no more tie-die Earth Day B.S. Still, it is PROGRESS because until now any Republican uttering the words, “climate change,” would have their image photo-shopped onto Nancy Pelosi Christmas cards and mailed to constituents with the caption, “Climate change is real and Earth is not flat.” God rest their souls.

SUPREME COURT: F-YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON

It's official, kids can now tell their teachers and principals to F-off on Snapchat. (We are not making this up.) The case in question involves a 14-year-old girl who posted this after failing to make the varsity cheerleading squad: “F — school. F — softball. F— cheer(leading). F— everything.” Bad went to worse when school officials yanked her off the JV cheerleading squad as punishment. But wait, what about free speech? Her parents filed suit in federal court, arguing that school officials can't impede free speech outside school. The Supreme Court agreed, citing the First Amendment. So the staff here at Smart Bomb decided to consult our F-bomb experts, Wilson and the band. Nobody told them the First Amendment protected the F-word back in the dinosaur days when they were in high school. When Wilson dropped the F-bomb, he was punished with endless hours in study detention making paper airplanes, because back in the day it was not in common usage — only hardened criminals and cowboys in bars fired off the F-bomb. Times have changed and now 14-year-olds throw it around like jellyrolls. Soon, F-you will lose all of its obscene sting and phrases like: “F-you and the horse you rode in on,” will be like, “Gee good to see you and your nice pony.”

JAN. 6 — FORGET WHITE SUPREMACISTS, IT WAS THE FBI

Ah hah, the truth comes out. The Jan. 6 insurrection was planned, orchestrated and carried out by the FBI. We know this because Tucker Carlson got the legal papers that say exactly that. The charging documents for some 500 rioters refer to “un-indicted co-conspirators” and everyone knows that is government speak for Federal Bureau of Investigations. Now, about Antifa and Black Lives Matter — of course they were involved, it's just that only white people show up in the videos because those black rascals were in disguise. Next, them people are coming to take away your house, Rudy Giuliani said on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show. And now New York has suspended Rudy's law license because, they say, and we quote: “He lied his ass off about Trump winning the election.” Anybody can see what is happening here — the Deep State is taking over the government and stealing our freedom to lie our ass off. And that's not all, as Ingraham explained it: the military is trying to root out conservative Evangelicals in its ranks. This is nothing short of a grand scheme called “critical race theory” to get rid of all caucasians. White People Matter and they're tired of being trampled on by minorities — it's not fair. White people want their freedom back.

Post script — Well, pickleball fans, that about does it for another rousing week here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of overgrown frat boy Tucker Carlson's drivel so you don't have to. (e.g. Gen. Mark Milley, is a stupid pig.) Carlson has perhaps the most watched “cable news” show among the 25-54 age group, drawing well over 3 million viewers. Breaking News: The Manhattan D.A. may charge the Trump Organization with fraud felonies that could shut down the whole fraudulent enchilada. Funny thing, Carlson hasn't mentioned it. Fortunately, The Donald still has his day job as Real President in Exile, which does provide a tidy income as long as all the “Trump Won” crazies keep donating. Meantime Jared and Ivanka are on a slow boat to China or hiding in Monaco — totally under the radar. Even they think that daddy is bonkers and don't want to catch that virus. Hey, wasn't your dad the guy who kept saying he was president? Too late to put that genie back in the bottle. Yep, he's going down in history as the Walter Mitty of Mar-A-Lago. Still, who knows, if Republican legislatures across the land can screw with voting restrictions enough, maybe he could steal Bill Clinton's moniker as The Comeback Kid.

Don't worry Wilson, that probably won't happen. Anyway, we've got other pressing things to worry about, like hot hot heat. Do you and the guys in the band have a chilling number for that:

Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head But at night it's a different world Go out and find a girl Come on, come on and dance all night Despite the heat it'll be all right And babe, don't you know it's a pity That the days can't be like the nights In the summer, in the city In the summer, in the city (Summer In The City — Lovin' Spoonful)

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In search of the hidden hand

This History channel “Unidentified” series — ever think it really might be a government information-management project? The thought never seriously occurred to me until this week, when De Void got a load of Tyler Rogoway’s ruminations in The War Zone. Rogoway, a defense-tech reporter whose informed and welcome reporting on UFOs has lately become more aggressive, made connections that weren’t so much new as they were assembled in a way that blurred the lines between the jockey and the horse.

By Billy Cox De Void 6-7-19

OK, to whoever’s running the show, riddle me this: Why does your script resume after each commercial buzzkill with a summary of what we saw just three minutes ago? This is not a model of efficiency. Can we skip the micro-rehash, please, we’re not all ADHD or Alzheimers (yet). And if you’re using “Unidentified” as a social experiment, clue us in: How, exactly, do you want us to think? We’ll go there, just tell us. You’ve already played your Black Aces, and you’re definitely holding our attention. In less than two years, you’ve given us certified Defense Department videos of F-18s chasing UFOs, pursuit-pilot testimony, on-the-record assessments by former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Chris Mellon, plus a couple of independent video experts struggling for analogies. You’ve spoiled us so rotten, we’re impatient and ungrateful. But guess what? You’ve had a clumsy product rollout, and you can’t control everything. What happens next is contingent upon media competence. And what’s happening journalistically lately is unprecedented, and atypical. There’s no guarantee it’ll last. And there’s plenty of erratic, lazy, formula-driven, obstructionist dreck waiting to fill the lapses. Which means we can’t stop calling that stuff out. Just for the hell of it, let’s start with space.com – clearly one of the most slammin’ domain names of all time. Something with an audacious flag like space.com should not only own news from the high frontier, that ownership should be creative and oracular. (De Void is glad De Void’s name isn’t space.com.) But just look at what space.com does when it tries to keep up with a conversation instigated by the likes of Politico, the NY Times, and the Washington Post. Space.com decides to interview – yup, yup, bingo – Seth Shostak. Good god — not again. Look, if space.com wanted to justify their headline “UFOs Are Real, But Don’t Assume They’re Alien Spaceships,” they had a much more credible path to that hypothesis. They could’ve consulted with, oh, say, Tyler Rogoway. Last week, Rogoway and co-author Joseph Trevithick took a detailed look at the operational parallels between what happened with USS Nimitz aviators in 2004 and USS Roosevelt pilots in 2014-15. Both strike groups, a decade apart, were conducting their first exercises after undergoing, by orders of magnitude, major systems upgrades, including radar and surveillance overhauls. And both training runs produced video footage of UFOs acquired through new state-of-the-art detection technology. Trevithick and Rogoway make a not-implausible argument that the UFOs might have been, in both cases, military assets deployed to give the new configurations a rigorous workout. The authors aren’t saying that’s what happened. But given The War Zone’s dispassionate track record for reporting on UFO activity using FAA records, its journalism doesn’t appear to be promoting an agenda. Anyhow, space.com could’ve used that sort of sourcing to blow off the phenomenon. Instead, space.com dusted off tired reliable old Seth Shostak again. Probably on speed dial. And it isn’t fair, not to readers or to the SETI Institute’s Most Famous Radioastronomer. It just makes him look bad at this point; Shostak knows nothing about The Great Taboo, and he isn’t interested in knowing. But space.com knows that. Maybe they’re tired, too. Shostak wouldn’t flinch or say “Ow!” if a UFO took a wet towel and popped a stinging welt on his fanny. He’d say something like “That’s a good policy. Let them do it.” No kidding, that’s what he told space.com last week when asked about the Navy’s frankly astonishing public announcement to encourage pilots to report “unexplained aerial phenomena,” without making them fret about career repercussions. Shostak didn’t say hmm, that’s interesting, wonder what’s behind all that? Just That’s a good policy. Let them do it Sorry, space.com, that kind of “reporting” won’t cut it anymore, at least not in this new competitive media environment. And for all of Tucker Carlson’s evolving tenacity on this UAP story, and despite Brian Kilmeade’s creditable interview with former DoD honcho Chris Mellon, Fox News’ apparent designs on leading the network pack on this issue won’t amount to much, either, if they keep cut ‘n’ pasting junk stories like the aforementioned space.com snoozer on their website. If only parroting sloppy work were the biggest challenge going forward. The worst will come from the dead-enders, whose clawbacks will grow increasingly desperate as whoever’s running the show lays down more cards. To wit: the most talked about piece in the aftermath of “Unidentified’s” premiere last week was published in The Intercept by freelancer Keith Kloor. OK, I’m slow, I’ll admit it, but I really hadn’t heard of Keith Kloor until April. That’s when, writing for the National Academy of Sciences’ quarterly journal “Issues in Science and Technology,” Kloor dispensed with the finesse. Working with the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, Kloor had exclusive dibs on breaking the results of the first technical analysis of the ’04 Nimitz/Tic Tac incident. Lots of sound bites cluttered the airwaves on the Nimitz affair, but until SCU assembled an impressive team of volunteer investigators to work the images for math and physics, anything less was just talk. Kloor used his prestigious NAS connections to gain access, and SCU in turn timed the release of its report to coincide with the publication of Kloor’s article. Huge mistake. In an article referring to the SCU crowd as “a community of believers in extraterrestrial visitations,” Kloor never addressed the actual contents of the report; instead, he used the occasion to divert the increasingly focused UFO debate onto an exhausted trope — the latest chapter in America’s mental dysfunctionality. Perhaps because Kloor ignored his own scoop and wadded it up into something all too familiar, media competitors never bothered to look at what SCU produced. Kloor struck again last Saturday, when he went after Luis Elizondo, the controversial former intelligence operator and catalyst behind the release of the F-18 UFO vids. Kloor’s line of inquiry was reasonable enough. The To The Stars Academy, which Elizondo joined in 2017 after resigning from the military, has the sort of serious transparency issues that SCU does not. In efforts to understand Elizondo’s role in the $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program first reported by the NY Times in 2017, Kloor reached a Pentagon spokesperson who cast Elizondo as a phony. “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in (the Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence), up until the time he resigned effective 10/4/2017,” stated DoD’s Christopher Sherwood. As Kloor pointed out, Sherwood’s disclaimer refuted Elizondo’s assertion that he ran AATIP. Thus, Kloor — nobody’s fool — was quick to charge that Elizondo, and TTSA colleague Mellon, have been manipulating “a largely passive and credulous press to generate sensational UFO headlines” over the past 18 months. Ignoring Navy veterans’ eyewitness testimony as well as 270 pages of SCU analysis that he failed to report on two months ago, Kloor dismissed the UFO imagery as “grainy footage of tiny, darting objects.” Seriously, that’s the entire sum of Kloor’s assessment of 270 pages of science. Oh, and he said the videos “made for great television.” De Void started Googling the guy and discovered a Whac-A-Mole whose UFO snark has also lately been popping up in the likes of Slate, Newsweek, and the maybe irrelevant online platform Medium. Four months ago, in yet another long-winded eulogy for common sense titled “America’s Enduring Obsession With UFOs,” Kloor lamented the MSM’s new “wide-eyed coverage” of “crusading actors” pushing “extraterrestrial enchantment” which “until recently … had largely been relegated to the tabloids and fringe outlets.” Sounding nostalgic for simpler times and suspiciously like Seth Shostak in his refusal to confront hard data, Kloor figured it all out. “I argue it’s the news media,” he proclaimed, “that keeps the specter of extraterrestrials alight in our skies and minds.” De Void would argue that inept media coverage is what kept The Great Taboo on the fringe for so long. But this is Kloor’s show, and he wants us to bundle everything we know about the Navy’s recorded UFO incidents into whether or not Elizondo misrepresented his duties. Elizondo’s credibility is not a tangential matter. But implicit in the assumption that he lied is Kloor’s own credulity. Maybe he’s getting played as well. Would a government flack ever try to bamboozle anybody? Maybe Christopher Sherwood is really Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I mean, who’s to say? One last thing about the article. Kloor wrote Elizondo had “a pug face and billy-goat beard” — and he complained that Elizondo won’t call him back. But here’s all you need to know: The genie that neither Kloor nor anyone else can jam back into the bottle is the Pentagon’s DD-1910 form vouching for the authenticity and release of the videos. So what’s really in there? We’ve all seen the footage, but what does it really show? Evidence of military stress tests? Hardware or software glitches? An Achilles heel, maybe? Ours? SCU’s team analyzed only the Tic Tac footage, and the results about velocity and g-forces were startling. Somebody not connected to the National Academy of Sciences really should put some decent journalism into what the GoFast and the Gimbal vids can tell us. Or maybe whoever’s steering the “Unidentified” project is merely planning to string us along for just five more weeks. Either way, we’ll wait. Obviously.

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Questions are being asked about outside influence on Donald Trump after the US president called off air strikes against Iran at the last minute.Having initially said he believed Iran made an error when it shot down a US drone on Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, the president nonetheless reportedly approved military strikes against the Islamic Republic later that day. The operation to hit targets such as radars and missile batteries was in its initial stages, the New York Times reported, and planes were in the air and ships had been moved into position. But before any missiles were fired the operation was cancelled. It was not clear if Mr Trump had changed his mind, or whether the strike was called off for operational or strategic reasons, said the report, but Dr Karen von Hippel, a former senior adviser at the State Department said she believed “somebody obviously got to” the president. “It’s really hard to say with President Trump, and I certainly wouldn’t consider myself to be a Trump whisperer, but somebody obviously got to him, and whether that was Tucker Carlson from Fox News or prime minister Trudeau, it’s hard to say, “ Dr Von Hippel, now director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Mr Trump had met with Canadian leader Justin Trudeau earlier that day, while the Daily Beast reported Mr Carlson has privately advised the president against military action in Iran.It comes in contrast to the hawkish position on Tehran taken by two of the most senior members of the Trump administration: secretary of state Mike Pompeo and particularly John Bolton, Mr Trump’s national security adviser.CNN reported Mr Bolton, who has repeatedly called for Iranian regime change in the past, has been locked in “debate” with Mr Trump over how to handle Iran, with other senior officials playing the role of “swing votes”.On Fox News, there appears to be a battle for Mr Trump’s ear after Sean Hannity, another host and longtime friend of the president, on Thursday night called on the US to “bomb the hell out of Iran”. “A strong message needs to be sent that a huge price will be paid if you take on the United States of America,” Mr Hannity said. “Simple peace through strength, and it works.”Mr Carlson on Monday devoted a segment of his show to question the shaky evidence provided by US authorities purporting to prove Iran was responsible for an attack on two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman.He attacked Mr Pompeo's "misplaced certainty" over Iran's responsibility and compared it to the Bush administration's discredited justifications of going to war with Iraq in 2003.“We’re still paying a price for that,” Mr Carlson said.Dr Von Hippel speculated that Mr Trump may have followed Mr Carlson’s advice. “He’s been anti-war in the Middle East, and he’s been pushing Trump very hard not to do anything with Iran, and even challenged Pompeo’s intelligence briefing the other day on Fox News, and we know Trump really likes him and listens to him,” she said of Mr Carlson.She added: “With Trump it seems that he has one approach and it’s the same approach in business as foreign policy, and he likes to push very hard to the brink, and he assumes others will cave, and in foreign policy it just doesn’t work that way.”Ben Rhodes, former national security adviser to president Barack Obama, said the confusion surrounding strikes against Iran demonstrated an “absence of any rational, coherent process for national security decision making” that “has always been a clear risk under Trump”. “Now we see what that looks like in a crisis,” he added.> The absence of any rational, coherent process for national security decision-making has always been a clear risk under Trump. Now we see what that looks like in a crisis> > — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) > > June 21, 2019Former US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, suggested the leak over Mr Trump’s U-turn could itself be an attempt by a Trump administration official to force the president’s hand into striking Iran by making him “look weak”. Iranian officials told Reuters on Friday that Tehran had received a message from Mr Trump through Oman overnight warning a US attack on Iran was imminent.“In his message, Trump said he was against any war with Iran and wanted to talk to Tehran about various issues ... He gave a short period of time to get our response but Iran’s immediate response was that it is up to Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei to decide about this issue,” one of the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.The circumstances of the shooting down of the drone, a US navy RQ-4A Global Hawk, by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, are disputed.Iran said the drone, with a wingspan larger than a Boeing 737 and costing more than over $100m (£79m), had violated its territorial airspace.The US said the "unprovoked attack” happened in international airspace, but failed to provide compelling evidence for the claim. Either way, it marked the first time Iran had struck the US military, which released a set of coordinates it claimed the drone was shot down at.Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Twitter that the aircraft had taken off from the United Arab Emirates “in stealth mode & violated Iranian airspace”.A Revolutionary Guards statement said the drone’s identification transponder had been switched off “in violation of aviation rules and was moving in full secrecy” when it was downed, Reuters quoted the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB as saying.Additional reporting by agencies

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Auburn has finished the summer strong on the recruiting trail and could be in store for more good news if they can get it done on the field this year.

There’s no denying Auburn has some serious momentum on the recruiting trail right now. Things were moving a bit slow heading into late June when Auburn hadn’t landed a commit since A-Day. Then things got rolling:

3* WR Shedrick Jackson releases epic commit video breaking the drought.

A week later 4* S Quindarious Monday shocks everyone by committing on a visit to Auburn.

In late July, 2019 4* WR George Pickens surprisingly commits to the Tigers right before Auburn’s last junior camp.

Later that evening, 3* LB Josh Marsh earns an offer after an impressive camp showing and commits on the spot.

Just a couple of days later, the Tigers land one of their top LB targets in 4* Michael Harris.

Then 4* S Jamien Sherwood finishes off the run committing the day after Harris making it four commits in five days for the Tigers.

4* WR Matthew Hill ended his summer long commit watch by pulling the trigger two days before his senior high school football season began.

Finally, today Auburn beat out rival Alabama to land their top RB target in 4* Asa Martin.

That’s quite the way to finish the summer. Throw in Auburn trending for 4* Buck Richard Jibunor, 4* WR Seth Williams and 4* OT Dylan Wonnum and you have plenty of reasons to be excited about what the Tigers are doing on the recruiting trail. However, a big year on the field in 2017 could really take this class from what should be really good to elite. Guys like 5* QB Justin Fields, 4* OG Trey Hill, 4* WR Justyn Ross and 4* CB Kyler McMichael are going to be watching Auburn close this fall. If the Tigers can accomplish what we think they are capable of accomplishing on the field, this could end up being one of Gus Malzahn’s best classes since arriving at Auburn. But you got to win for that to happen.

Recapping Corky Kell Classic

Quite a few Auburn commits and targets took part in the Corky Kell Classic this past weekend, kicking off the 2017 Georgia high school football season. It was a mixed bag for Auburn commits. 4* LB Michael Harris had a big day despite battling some early injuries. He was flying around the field and made two really clutch plays late in the game to help his Tucker squad escape a very feisty Kell team.

WATCH: Auburn linebacker commit @NikeMikkey shows highlight ability + tells Tigers fans what they should expect. | http://bit.ly/2ws949k http://pic.twitter.com/n5he70wKqd

— Benjamin Wolk (@benjaminwolk) August 22, 2017

4* WR Matthew Hill on the other hand, had a much rougher day. He flashed some explosiveness in the return game but also dropped a TD and had a fumble. Duke commit, 3* CB Taiyon Palmer, did a great job smothering Hill and not letting him get loose. I expect the Tiger commit to bounce back in a big way this weekend.

New #Auburn commit Matthew Hill with a slick 48-yard punt return. @Matt_D_Hill http://pic.twitter.com/bZD0ewEwjn

— Keith Niebuhr (@Keith247Sports) August 19, 2017

AU linebacker target, 4* JJ Peterson, had his snaps limited due to a nagging sports hernia injury. When he was on the field though he looked explosive off the edge rushing the passer. Hopefully he gets healed up soon and can see more time on the field. He continues to say Alabama is his leader with Auburn second.

4-star backer JJ Peterson gets after the QB. A teammate beat him to the punch. http://pic.twitter.com/D7PwiZtYmI

— Keith Niebuhr (@Keith247Sports) August 19, 2017

There were a lot of players that stood out this weekend. Most of these schools will be competing for state titles in their respective classifications and are loaded with FBS talent. Here are some other players that stood out to me Saturday who may or may not become or are Auburn targets.

2020 DL Myles Murphy - The Hillgrove DL was a one man wrecking force against a loaded Buford team. He’s an AU legacy and already holds an Auburn and Georgia offer. Will probably be one of Auburn’s top targets in two seasons.

4* WR Josh Vann (South Carolina Commit) - Vann was the best player I saw Saturday. He committed to the Gamecocks after Tucker’s wild win over Kell. He flashed everything from outstanding hands to elite speed to tough blocking. Will Muschamp is getting a stud in this kid.

Archer’s Secondary - I mentioned last week that this was going to be a great test for Hill facing an elite secondary. And oh man was that group tough to handle. Palmer was the star with his two interceptions but I also though 2019 4* S Jalyn Phillips stood out. He had some big time hits on Hill. Also, I continue to be impressed by 4* DB Andrew Booth who I think could be a 5* by the end of next year’s recruiting cycle.

3* K Jake Camarda (Georgia Commit) - Norcross lost a controversial heartbreaker but my goodness do they have a kicker. This dude was booming punts, kickoffs and even drilled what should have been a game winner under some wild circumstances. It seems like Auburn and Georgia always have a solid kicker and that won’t be changing for either team with Anders Carlson and Camarda.

2019 QB Austin Kirksey - I thought the best QB of the day was Walton. He’s listed as a pro style player but he’s got some wheels when needed. He flashed a strong and accurate arm and seemed to stay in control of that offense. His stats weren’t eye popping but I saw a Power 5 QB on the field. Looks like he’s on Auburn, Alabama and Clemson’s radar. Won’t be shocked if ends up in the SEC in two years.

2019 RB Tyler Goodson - The 2019 class is absolutely loaded with RB talent, especially in the state of Georgia. There’s a very good chance Goodson is the best of the bunch. He had a big day on the ground for North Gwinnett and showed a little of everything from tough running to catching passes out of the backfield. Not sure he ever went down on first contact.

High School Football Underway

This week, Alabama and Florida join in on the action, kicking off their high school football seasons and there are some big time matchups on the docket. None bigger than the primetime Saturday night matchup that will be on ESPN2 at 7:30 PM EST featuring Auburn commit 4* QB Joey Gatewood’s Bartram Trail team traveling to face off against Clemson commit and #2 player in the country, 5* QB Trevor Lawrence’s Carterville squad. This will be a great chance to see how Gatewood stacks up against one of the premier players in the country. Fair warning, Gatewood will rotate with fellow senior 3* Riley Smith at the QB spot but should see plenty of action regardless.

Auburn target, 5* QB Justin Fields, got off to a strong start against East Paulding last week. This weekend though he faces a much stiffer challenge in the Rome Wolves who are loaded with FBS talent. Their defensive line consists of at least three future SEC players in 3* DL Jaquon Griffin (LSU Commit), 3* DL Jamarcus Chatman (Tennessee Commit) and 4* DE/LB Adam Anderson (Former UGA/LSU Commit). Fields is going to have to carry a pretty heavy load for his Harrison team to pull this one out but it should be an electric atmosphere and an exciting game to watch.

Finally, there will be plenty of Auburn targets and a couple of commits in action when the Hoover Bucs travel to Loganville, GA to face the Grayson Rams. Both teams won their state’s 7A title last season. Hoover features a pair of Auburn commits at the wideout spots in 3* Shedrick Jackson and 4* George Pickens. They will be facing a loaded Grayson defense that includes two top 2019 AU targets in 4* LB Owen Pappoe and 3* CB Jalen Alexander.

If you got nothing better to do this Friday night, go check out a high school game in your area. You never know, you might get a chance to see the next Auburn star in action. War Eagle!

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