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Syracuse Game Preview · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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I'm Curtis Wilson, I'm Brian siglo buddy.
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We got a Wednesday night. We got the braised play in.
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Get the braised playing. We've got some fun build action
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down at appstate down in Boone. Third, Jamie Chadwell at Coastal
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Carolina closely here tonight. You know, one of those, why
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would you be doing that Curtis, you know, good and well while
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I'm doing it I will be attempting to do with other
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Coaches and coordinators in the upcoming weeks, but good.
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Good. You told me class didn't last.
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As long tonight. Brian.
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Not a little short one tonight. Nothing too big.
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We're in full on group project mode now.
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So yeah. Fun stuff.
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Full full steam ahead. Yeah, it's just kind of a check
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in and see how everything's going type deal.
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So nothing, nothing too big tonight, very nice, very nice
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middle midweek here on a Wednesday on a hump day, we head
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to the back end of the weekend and, you know, Brian, we've been
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sitting here kind of talking and you know, talking about those
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vacancies and I tell you what, we've got a bunch of head coach
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and vacancies already or some blue buds.
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Some other lower-level jobs or Lord, P5 jobs, and probably some
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potential. But you know, we started talking
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about it and you look at USC fine play Walton.
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They were in early, they were in really early.
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Yeah. Um, that sounded like one of
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those things, the second, he loses a game of ironing and then
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Ed urge Iran. Who pulls off the big upset in
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Death Valley of Florida Saturday night.
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Yeah, but it does sound like this was arranged well before
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that big hand for them and it may have been one of those
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things where you know he knew the air was over coached a
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little more loose that team looked probably as good as they
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looked this. So this whole year so far so
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good for them. But you know Coach O out after
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this year they mutually agreed to part ways.
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There's been Whispers of female Canyons participating in
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practice we all contains kids participate.
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Like if so that is going to be whoever writes that book is
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going to make a lot of money just to know everything about
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kocho and what happened there and I'm not knocking coach, oh I
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love him not being my coach but I don't think he's a fit at
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Virginia Tech mainly because several reasons and some of it
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has to do with what we just talked about.
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But, you know, I know he won a national championship, but if
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you are still having trouble, putting the pieces together with
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the resources and Facilities, that LSU puts at your disposal.
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Then Virginia Tech, probably not for you, not for you at all.
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Not at all. But now the other one is wazoo.
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The bitch got fired YouTube State back.
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That is going to be a freaking score to follow because he is
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now suing the school? Yeah, it's going to go in and
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the stuff in Tennessee is starting.
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I mean, I know that that's not a vacancy but they're the stuff
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that they're there. And well through it Pruitt's,
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put a lawsuit up there against the university for the full full
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compliments of the of the buyout and other Damages.
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So it could get really ugly there and I thought he got fired
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straight up and they just had to take the buyout.
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Did they? Did they, did they attempted not
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to pay the buyout? That's my understanding.
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I need to, I probably need to read the article again, just to
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get a better understanding without that was my
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understanding is that I guess because of the Sanctions.
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That would be my guess is they were trying to essentially,
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they're trying to. They're trying to not pay the
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man. Yeah, even though fired with
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with, with calls with cause. So he's going to just come out
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and be like, Yeah, The A-Team you all about this Phillip
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Fulmer knew all about us, being all players, and then it'd be
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like, we might need to kill this program but bags begs.
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All right, so let's, let's let's, let's also Talk about
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potentially Miami and FSU Diaz is on the absolute hottest of
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hot seats. I mean, yeah, d as a seat is as
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hot or hotter than 20 days and we know Fuentes is on fire.
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So in case is on fire Diaz is in Gold.
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Yeah. Meaning God, like it's just,
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it's all up and down and, you know, I told you earlier today,
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Brian. Miami.
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Just they can't find the right guy.
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And the thing is, what I don't think people understand about
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when they were winning cooker. Had nothing to do with them,
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winning that team was so talented.
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Anyone could have walked in there that just you have a code
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simple drills and they would have warm.
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It's, as simple as that and you saw as the as butchers Talent
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level went off as did Coker, but butch was a hard-nosed coach.
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Dennis Erickson was a hard-nosed coach Jimmy Johnson and our
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show. Le Berger were super hard news
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coaches. Yep, those were guys who
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commanded the locker room and sense.
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Basically, I guess you can say Butch left.
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They haven't had anybody like that.
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And they were like, well we brought back, you know, Randy
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Shannon played on the team, right?
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Randy played on the team Manny like, but the whole thing is you
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literally have to in some ways you have Have to break that
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locker room. Break it.
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And that state just took something to the house.
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So, Chad Wells. Down got a name gotten coach
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defense. Don't want to, but you you, if
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you look at those coaches and what they brought in since then,
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none of them have that, none of them have that mentality of,
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like, I am the boss here inside here, we do.
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As I say, I don't care what you do out there and I don't think
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Miami is A program that can get back to where it was without a
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guy like that. And they keep going for culture
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fits and it would not Shock me one.
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Bit at they fired. Manny Diaz and they hired and
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read, it wouldn't shock me when I.
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Oh, yeah. And that's a because.
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What is he right now? Defensive consultant for them?
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No, no. He is the, he's the general
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manager. He is the like, the head of
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player Personnel, okay? Okay.
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So, how do I knew? He had some role in the team
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right now? I wasn't sure what it was.
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Yeah, the director of player personnel, which is a in college
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nowadays. That is a pretty big role.
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It's becoming more and more of a role, but that could see them
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doing that. Now, it now could Ed, who was
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one of the boys become Ed to God, who cracks down on things,
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maybe, maybe because it is that type of player, You know that
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could potentially happen. The other one, you brought up
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which I shook my head at no. You told me FSU, right?
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FSU, and in, if they can pay the buyout, then I think they make
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it. They take a chance on it now,
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can they pay a buyout after still send champagne, Willie
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tagger money. That's the question, but and do
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use hit the reset button on something after two years after
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you, just hit the reset button. Essentially after You know, one
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full season of the previous, two tenured coach.
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So fsu's going to be the interesting one to watch just
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because they're used to winning and they're not.
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But they've already dug themselves a hole because of how
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fast they moved on from Taggart. They dug himself a deep hole
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financially with tagger, but I think what they're digging
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themselves into a deeper hole with is not giving guys time.
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And eventually just keeping the ball eventually, you know, we're
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going to give two years, two years.
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Like you can't rebuild a program in two years.
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Yeah, can't okay, if you have talent there, if you're trying
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to implement stuff very, very seldom.
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Do you come in that something's a dumpster fire, get the fire.
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Put out and start rolling again. You just don't.
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Yeah and I mean you still dealing with one of those
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Seasons being a covid-19 Season 2, which I mean, funky, everyone
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was dealing with but that definitely puts you behind in
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terms of development. Well, development and
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installation, right? Let me know.
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Bill had no time to input the offense of the defensive wanted
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to run, but I say it more to this.
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Brian. If you were a G5, your billing
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Napier, your Jamie Chadwell and FSU comes knocking on your door.
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Hey, come on down here, man. Would you not stop for pause and
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say, dude, you're giving people a year and a half or two years?
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Yeah, you know, definitely definitely too.
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Quick of a For a coach that doesn't see your program as a
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stepping stone. Exactly.
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See if they see your program as a stepping stone, then by all
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means. It's it's still an attractive
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gig, but if they see if they want their next gig to be, you
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know, a potential decade run at least the Hecate run, 35 years,
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you sure. Yeah.
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They're not looking at at FSU, not looking at FSU at all.
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So Buddy, he's asking why the hell are you guys talking about
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this? Well because there's going to be
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Fallout because again our our minds are where they are.
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The season is over this this era is over the Fuente 10 years
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over. And you've got to look at
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essentially who could be, where's the Fallout?
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So let's let's play the role game Brian.
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Because this is how we're going to figure it out.
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All right, first of all. I honest to God, think?
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There's no way, James Franklin doesn't go to USC.
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Yeah, exactly. That's that's more than likely
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happening. That's what happens.
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So, you're so you're talking about and here's where the
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couple things that the vacancies themselves.
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Don't necessarily hurt us, but who's filling the vacancies
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could hurt us. Yep.
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Exactly. And so now Penn State in are
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more or less, geographic region is now looking for a new head
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coach and Program lies there about A step above us.
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There's the terms of in terms of being an attractive program
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attracted program money, but I think with who they are, I think
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they have the potential. I think our topping guys would
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be on their radar. That's my.
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Yeah, that's my Truth. All right.
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So start thinking of all your names that you can throw out
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there, Billy Napier, Jamie Chadwell Dan Lanning.
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This It goes on and on and on and on.
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But now let's look at LSU. The other is you job, which just
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won a national title two years ago?
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Well, different. I think most people because you
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think he took over and what 1616, right?
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Yeah, it was there five years, he had good success.
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The last few seasons have been rough based on the other stories
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that are coming out. And that's why he was like a, if
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he was still wanting between eight and ten games issue
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without the shenanigans. I don't think they fire it up.
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I just don't, I think maybe next year, but if LSU goes, So, where
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are they going to? You know, I think they're
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looking at a else party. Mel Tucker, Mel Tucker.
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Now, if Tucker goes and Tucker Coast down there in the early
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2000s, like Mel, Tucker go to Michigan State.
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To me is a program exactly like us similar Blue Collar, you
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know, similar type portfolio. I'll say that portfolio.
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Now, the same level people that you would say, we're probably
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more attractive because of where we play.
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They play in the Big Ten East with Ohio, State and Penn State
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and Michigan, but they've still been able to win a conference
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title and go to the playoffs from there.
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So. But it's also that point to
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where You know, if you think of somebody like what a Marcus
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Freeman or a loop fickle, take that job, it's party.
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Being of how State guys would they go in conference to play
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their alma mater every year? I don't think Freeman does.
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Well actually, I don't think tickle does.
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I think thick where they are with Cincinnati right now and
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how the big 12 reshaped? I think they they are where they
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are. I think I think fickle is going
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to hold until he can get the job.
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He absolutely 100% wants at a Blueblood School, potentially
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his alma mater again with with. Yeah, with With sincere move
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into the Big 12 that that kind of creates a situation where
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he's not in a second-tier conference anymore.
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If he gets the wins, he needs to get every year.
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He will be playing for college football playoff.
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Yeah. So that, that, that that takes
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him out of that having to essentially be perfect category.
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Yeah, and I think that's going to be enough for him to kind of
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move. Pain with that if that
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situation. Yeah.
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And then you start thinking about Miami and FSU, you know,
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they're still higher than us. Miami can pay more clearly, FSU
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more clout. But then what you mentioned,
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what you said earlier was, would you say?
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You talked about the way those programs are viewed.
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They start coming. They start seeping into
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potential are coachable, right? Yeah.
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Yeah, you know if those Open. And it's not just the conference
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thing, but it's definitely because of the the recruiting
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footprint and everything else, they're going to be looking at
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similar tiered candidates to who we're looking at, you know,
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they're their top guy. Might be some someone that's out
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of our range. But their number two choice is
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probably our number one or somewhere in that ballpark.
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So that's going to be interesting to see how that
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shapes out. And whether both of those come
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open, But I mean in the pecking order here you know we're at
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least going to be probably forth on the totem pole.
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Right. Yeah.
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Come if that's the the way wit decides to go with the end of
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the season in which we think that's what what should happen.
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So yeah we think that's what should happen.
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What's going to tell the story and I won't?
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And what would Bob Costas going to look at is what the stadiums
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and look like Saturday. Yeah, 56 or 57.
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Last Saturday and looked good, but if it starts getting under
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50 and it could very well do that and it starts looking very
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scarce. He's got to look longer term.
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That's why we were advocating last year.
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Like you have to look longer term because right now, if we
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were 3 and 3 with a brand new coach and we were a few going
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away from being Notre Dame in one possession away from being
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West, Virginia on the road Regardless, what happens in the
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pit game. People are like, we're on the
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right track, they just had a great game against us.
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That's what be saying, right? Right?
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Yeah. And I mean, let's be honest, I
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mean I know some of some of this was a little bit of conservative
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move heading into a big funding push.
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Yeah. But at the same time, there's
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nothing that buoys a big funding push like the honeymoon effect
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of a new coach Liam, right? Danilo.
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Let's see how much everyone will still have hope and that that's
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what's lacking from the I think. Overall the fan base right now
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is that there's still some hope but I think people are done they
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don't have confidence in that hope anymore.
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No there's zero confidence and you bring a new guy in.
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You get a little bit more confidence and people are looser
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with their dollars when they feel like there's a chance that
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it pays dividends for them. Absolutely.
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So in the oncoming week, folks, I'm sure will be probably
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talking more about some of the potential candidates.
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Obviously, someone like Wazoo, you know, what if I were them
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honest to God. Truth, if they could hire Justin
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Fuente and just say, leave the core Nelson guy on your flight
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over somewhere while every piece of Missouri, right.
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Kansas and Missouri. Just just, just touched down in
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st. Louis, and be like, Great.
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Knowing you, I'm going to go to Poland.
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It's been fun. Hadn't been real, fun.
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Exactly. Alright, some hokey notes Here
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on Brian. Let's talk about the booze at
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the intro. Thank do some, some boots on the
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ground and some listening re listening to the videotape.
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Literally they waited, they waited, they waited head coach,
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Justin Fuente burn And then it and that that wasn't the only
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time that he was booed in the, in that game.
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Because once the offense started to struggle mightily in the
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first half, they were raining down again.
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And at some point, when your Boos don't get responses, you
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just, you go home and that's what happened at halftime.
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That's that is what happened after he got the end of the.
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The one that was taken about six or seven.
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This for the end of the game that was really ugly.
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That's I don't think I've ever seen link that thin.
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Yeah, you know in a game now we sit here and he was asked the
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question, right? He was asked a question and he
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and he answered it. He answered it correctly.
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It's part of the job. You get criticized, you just
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have to deal with it. Don't you?
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Wish you had a gave a Bret. Bielema answer, though.
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Did you did hear about that, right?
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I did. Oh my god.
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Did. Yeah.
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Hey Brett, you got, you got a prime, your Bret, Bielema coach,
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the booze were coming down pretty hard.
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What do you think about that? Fuck those guys and I'm scared.
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I'm rich here. You don't come here again, what?
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Yeah, you know, it is a part of football, at least, he said in
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that way, and not some douchey answer, but I think it will
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continue on Saturday when he comes out.
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If the offense struggles, heck, I even think he could get booed
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if we win. We won.
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Yay Booth. Unless we go out there and
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handle our business for four quarters.
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There's no way that there's aren't there's not more booze
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coming out this this Saturday. Yeah it's if it's been a it's
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been a rough go man. It's been a rough go.
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It has been other news and notes from the Hokies Peter Moore.
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The Freshman is a midseason. Freshman All-American.
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Congrats Peter Is he still working on his throwing arm?
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I hope he is, because we're going to need at least one fake
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pass to win some at least one or two more.
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He's got to get a little bit more juice on the next one.
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Yeah, you can't do that. Now, I don't think you'll be
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passing anymore. But on the other hand, you know,
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we might do something crazy. You still want to have that in
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your back pocket, it is good for him, but legitimately I can say
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this if Peter Moore was a bad punter, the season would Be
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worse. Oh yeah, I mean field position
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is has been huge if we could just I mean we haven't turned
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the ball over a lot, but if we could stop, you know, given that
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one turnover, a game and giving the offense the other offenses
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short field, I mean, yeah, we be averaging about, you know, three
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to six points less surrendered on defense and that that's
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probably an extra winner to so yeah, Peter more fields.
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Mission making the other offense Drive the field.
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It's worked in our favor so far. So keep it up bud.
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You know job. All right news about Devon
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hundred Dean Ferguson Dean obviously I do not recall seeing
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under Keshawn ones out there. Devon obviously hurt during the
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game both out for the year. Definitely hurts depth at
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positions where we're okay? I think it hurts a linebacker
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and a little bit more, I think Dean's kind of looking like that
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next guy. Yeah.
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Now Keshawn is going to get the rotations and Keyshawn to me.
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He made some errors Saturday, but overall for his half he
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played solid. Yeah.
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I've got no, big-time notes. There were a couple times where
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the defense look like, they weren't quite aligned and that
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was probably the area that he was going to be the most
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uncomfortable with just Because that does take reps, and just
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being out there. Consistently do.
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It's hard to get the mental reps of making those calls and get
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everybody and seeing everything in real time because say what
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you will, you can practice it, but if you don't sometimes see
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in the other team, do it. It just, it feels different.
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You just got to get a feel for it.
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So that's one thing. I mean, obviously, you know,
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Devin Hunter. We thought he was going to play
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a little bit more of a role in The Roots rotation at safety.
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Has it really been that been primarily a specialty?
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Teams player still has hell. Yeah, hell of a story.
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The fact the fact that he's even on this team and making any
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impact was a big story so you know, sad to see him go down
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with the injury, on a special Team snap this past week.
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So yeah, best best of luck to them healing up but on the next
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on to the next, well, the next brine is Sunday night.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's a big one, gold
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miners, or podcast, Colts Niners.
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One of the teams will be at three wins.
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You guys will likely get Jimmy G or potentially Nate subfield.
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Yikes I'm not I have your the Colts defense and fantasy.
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I'm not benching them. They're playing and teaching
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them but I don't know I just I don't feel good about the way
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everything's been handled way Brandon.
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I uh been handled the way the whole quarterback situation has
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been handled, you know, I really think y'all are probably going
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to win the game. I think it's going to be a fun
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game to watch. Yeah, we're definitely trending
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in the right, right direction. The last few weeks even even
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taking the loss to Baltimore, you know.
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We showed the one that guy that won that game.
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I know, I know. But so you're showing fighting
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showing that, you know, we could take care and run run with
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pretty much anybody in the league.
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Yeah you know few steps in a couple games and we're for and
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to instead of two and four so well and I'm the same way with
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those weird. Two and three.
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And we've lost the last three weeks by three, seven and seven
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and we've lost to Aaron Russell and collar.
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Yep. And we kept collar under 20
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points where the only team to do that this year.
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So in literally, with Rogers, we were here that out Sunday night
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without episode. Literally we scored with 40
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seconds. Left and 42nd was just too much
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time and we couldn't stop it. Yep.
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We've lost by a combined 17 points to best team in the
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league. One of the best quarterbacks in
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the league and another of the best quarterbacks in the league.
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Yeah. Well, what can we do?
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And we're kind of the same same thing as me.
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We lost a Russell, we lost to the Rams.
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And then we had a singular fourth quarter takeover by Lamar
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Jackson to throw us another L and then just a grind Fest that
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we came up short on against Tennessee.
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Yeah. And y'all in y'all also have
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been battling injuries, everybody that will injuries but
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with your quarterback Bang. And you're all pro-gard.
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Bang a little different. The defense was a little banged
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up, you know, I think we're finally getting a little healthy
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and I think a lot of guys have settled in we get T why bag that
27:07
was a kind of a lift this past week.
27:09
So I think it's I think it's gonna be a good game regardless
27:12
probably I would go, I don't know what the over-under is but
27:18
I'd probably take the under in this one just because I think
27:20
it's going to be more defensive than, than that.
27:24
People think. Oh, yeah, it's definitely too.
27:26
It's definitely two top. Ten defense has without a doubt
27:29
and the over-under Net game for Santa is 44.
27:32
So I think they've actually got that pig.
27:35
That's about right? Yeah, right.
27:37
And it's yours a four-point, favor actually.
27:42
Weirdly in the for. Okay.
27:45
They are given us home two plus two.
27:49
Somebody else get hurt. You don't know about or is
27:51
Carson limping around that you don't know.
27:53
No not that I know of I know T. Why is he had a little bit of a
27:59
quad? I mean at the end of the game
28:01
but he's they said he's good to go for the game.
28:03
So Hmm. Interesting, interesting.
28:07
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28:11
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28:45
guys, so Know The Enemy we're going to take a look first at
28:48
Syracuse has offense and Brian you kind of noted to me.
28:52
This is a power, smash power, Smash Mouth spread, heavy read
28:55
option and we see it. So we're going to kick it off
28:58
with the offensive line. You know, that offense is
29:01
average and 231 yards a game. They've only given up twenty
29:05
four tackles for loss 38th in the nation, only 103 yards on
29:09
that. So just that four yards, which
29:13
Is it for tackle for a loss? That's unbelievable.
29:17
It's really good. Just again, how much they run.
29:20
They've only given up 15 sacks. Now, I will say this, they've
29:23
only passed the ball 175 times, so they are giving up sacks
29:27
about 15% of their drop backs. Maybe a little something to take
29:31
an I own, but what are you seeing from this offensive line?
29:37
Because I wish we were running for 231 yards a game.
29:41
I think we wouldn't have lost a game yet.
29:44
Yeah, the big thing like you've already noted there but they
29:46
really don't have a lot of negative plays on the offensive
29:50
side of the ball. They work well as a unit and
29:54
they do a really good job of minimizing penetration in the
29:56
backfield. There's no real standout player
29:59
per se, but there, I mean, there's just a bunch of really
30:02
good solid players across the board that do their jobs.
30:05
Well, they're above average in past Pro.
30:08
They do have the propensity on some of the drawbacks because
30:10
they don't pass often when they are passing, it's in those
30:13
moments. More obvious passing situations
30:16
that can tend to, you know, cause that sack ratio to get a
30:21
little bit out of whack, but they just do a really good job
30:26
of pushing, guys off the line really good.
30:30
You know, ball get off. And it's going to be a long day
30:34
for that that defensive line, they're going to have to work
30:38
the whole game and it's going to be a struggle.
30:42
Yep. Bravo's don't fuck this up.
30:44
Sorry, man, 52. Now, bottom five and maybe the
30:53
one big upside and some people are heard Saul somewhere.
30:56
If it was a tweet or maybe in conversations with someone,
31:01
they're like, well this is like what Notre Dame did but
31:03
souped-up the difference is though we do not go into the
31:09
Notre Dame game prepared for it. The if you were, if he came in
31:15
it was like if he comes in it's going to be a play at least with
31:18
this. We have that prep time and Brawn
31:22
we absolutely need to prep time because Sean Tucker the 510
31:26
200-pound running back. I'm out of Townsend.
31:29
Maryland a three-star. He is second in the country and
31:32
Russia he is at 948 yards. He's averaging over 6 Carrie.
31:38
He's ninth and touchdowns. He's got nine already in seven
31:42
games. He's not a he's not a one.
31:45
One trick pony. Either 224 yards receiving on 14
31:49
catches with a couple touchdowns there much like Khalil Herbert
31:54
was last year. He's top five.
31:56
He's number two and all-purpose yards.
31:59
Yep. What are you seeing from mr.
32:03
Tucker on the tape. The thing that jumps off
32:07
immediately is that he runs hard through arm tackles, he has
32:11
great vision and patients at the point of attack but he does when
32:16
he gets to the second level he is a big play threat.
32:19
He's got second level speeds, got home run speed.
32:22
If he gets in the open field, he will make you pay and he is
32:26
deceptively good in the screen and short passing game, they run
32:31
him a lot on kind of like those quick running back outs.
32:34
They get the ball to him in the Green game and he's just really
32:37
good at turning up field getting good yardage making guys, miss.
32:42
And like I said, the big thing for him is that he is a home run
32:45
threat. So it's not just a guy that we
32:46
have to contain and make sure he doesn't, you know, nickel and
32:50
dime has, but we also got to stop him from banging.
32:53
The big play on us. I hear you Brian and the thing
32:58
that I kind of noticed about their offensive there's nobody
33:02
behind him, really? He is the horse dip, right?
33:07
He is 11, he's not there's not an A or B, there's not a spelled
33:11
a true spell there. This this is his show.
33:15
So you know, it's key obviously the stop him and when you hear
33:18
all those things especially that second level, I mean that's what
33:23
we're missing, right? The other method than the home
33:25
run. Hitter like we had last year
33:28
and, you know, it's really funny because every year it's like
33:33
this is why football is one of the more amazing Sports
33:36
three-star guy out of Maryland, we didn't recruit him on the UVA
33:40
recruited him, he had like four or five offers it goes up to
33:43
Syracuse and now he's I'm sure what that skillset, Brian.
33:48
He's probably already being looked at in the NFL because
33:51
again with the scheme with the past catching ability, I mean,
33:55
he's putting on tape. I don't know if he's a senior
33:58
Junior. I did not look that far.
34:00
I want to say. You have that information up.
34:04
I thought he was a junior, but I'm not certain.
34:07
Give me a second here. I had everything up.
34:10
I needed earlier and I completely took it down.
34:15
Completely took it down. There we go.
34:21
Effort in here. I just want to see where he's
34:22
at, because I see a guy like this and especially the kind of
34:26
scheme, they're running. I would not mind him in San
34:28
Francisco. We're still efforting folks.
34:33
I'm going to get there eventually freshman.
34:36
Sorry, he's a, he's a roll, he's a second year, freshman, ouch,
34:42
that hurts for him. You're not supposed to blow up
34:44
your second year, freshman year, you're supposed to grow up your
34:46
third year, you can get through this.
34:49
All right? So but Again, with the crossover
34:51
being Atlantic, we're not going to probably see him again.
34:54
All right, Brian? There is one more element to
34:56
this rushing attack in. That is the Mississippi State
35:00
transfer, who was a four-star out of Charlotte, 64, 230
35:05
pounds, Garrett Schrader passing stats, very pedestrian.
35:09
Obviously we've already said that's not what they're going to
35:11
do. You know, only completing 53
35:14
percent of his passes for 810 yards, five touchdowns three
35:17
interceptions but buddy, Kenny run the ball. 400 400 plus
35:22
yards, averaging over five carry nine touchdowns.
35:28
What are you seeing from this big athletic guy?
35:30
Who transferred from Mississippi State and 2020.
35:33
Why didn't we? Well I guess if we're talking
35:38
Mississippi State transfer Syracuse got the better of that
35:41
against UVA, right? That's true.
35:44
That's it. And that's no disrespect to
35:48
their football player football player but yeah, in terms of
35:55
actually on the field production, Garrett Schrader's,
35:58
get it done for them, he's an absolute legit.
36:01
Rushing thread in that offense can run past you and
36:05
occasionally run over you. He will put a shoulder into you
36:09
and kind of plow forward for that first down, adequate arm
36:13
strength, he's not swinging it deep.
36:16
Accuracy is very average but he does just enough to compliment
36:21
the rushing attack. But what he really is great at
36:24
is that read-option, he's really, he's got a knack for
36:27
when to keep it when he keeps it he makes takes it up.
36:31
Field gets good yardage in the Run game so he really has a good
36:34
feel for that and that's what's been able to keep this thing
36:37
moving. Because you know, even when you
36:39
do stack the box they're still because there's that that
36:42
element there. It's hard to really get a, get a
36:45
good feel for it on defense. That's right.
36:47
So what are they like? I mean you mentioned
36:49
read-option. I mean is it just strict
36:51
read-option, he's going the opposite way, are they running
36:53
any inverted beers and he leads any powers with them?
36:57
It's a little bit of everything, not so much the inverted v r but
36:59
a little bit of everything else, but it's probably it's primarily
37:03
the read option that that's their bread and butter, okay?
37:07
So, they're not, they're not doing a lot of other stuff.
37:09
They're essentially in, why would you with a guy like tuck?
37:12
It's in the play but like other stuff is in the Playbook, but
37:16
it's more of Say it's dialed up at specific times.
37:19
It's not something that they're calling every drive.
37:23
Just from looking at how the they're calling their games.
37:29
I guess because of the jailed offensive line into threats like
37:32
that the lack of a passing attack really doesn't hurt them
37:35
that much. It doesn't hurt them too much it
37:40
only hurts them when you can do a good job on 1st and 2nd down
37:43
and get them off schedule. Like I said the the a don't
37:48
really pass the ball unless they have to.
37:49
It's not quite Georgia Tech levels of real whistling in the
37:53
ball on, you know, third and ten when we're down a touchdown or
37:58
more. It's not quite that level but it
38:01
is, they're not going to put the ball.
38:05
It's it's going to be if if they're going to put the ball in
38:09
a receivers hand and it's not in a third and long situation, it's
38:13
in the short passing game usually to Sean Tucker.
38:18
Yeah. Because you've already mentioned
38:20
it their wide receivers have not done much.
38:23
I would say keep an eye out for Courtney Jackson.
38:28
Definitely their lead. A wide receiver but also watch
38:31
out for this team. A big guy wide receiver, 66
38:34
Damian Alfred, he's only got about 12 catches but he's
38:38
averaging over 20. Excuse me, only has about seven
38:41
catches. He's averaging over 20, catch
38:44
those. So that big guy, they
38:46
potentially just Chuck it up to downfield.
38:48
But like you said Tucker, with what he does, he is essentially,
38:55
I think he is actually leading the team.
38:59
Which is kind of, if you're a Syracuse fan, that's kind of a
39:02
little bit sad, right? Like the running back, leading
39:05
our team in passing catching, he is, he's leading the team in
39:08
pass-catching. So for us, we're not going any
39:14
more offensive players. Disrupt their line.
39:18
Stop these two guys we win this football game.
39:21
Yep. That's it.
39:23
Yeah. And because nothing's nothing
39:26
scares me about third and long them dropping back and having to
39:30
get it into a wide receiver consistently.
39:32
Yeah, nothing about that scares. Me and every game they've lost
39:36
this year or three, the three ACC games they've lost is all
39:39
been three points. They lost to Rutgers by 10 so
39:44
it's not like the losses are all they lost it.
39:47
FSU they lost a Clemson. They're getting their doors
39:49
normal. Know they easily.
39:51
Could have won those games as they did lose them.
39:54
So that's kind of the worry part in the other War Paulette slip
39:57
it over. Brian, their defense is good.
40:00
I mean, Tony whites defense. He's a walking long disciple.
40:05
If you're watching San Diego State and some of the late
40:07
games, this year, always a grind Fest.
40:11
You know, what type of defense is he running hearing on good
40:16
old? 35 stack baby.
40:19
Godly have we not seen that. Let's think we've seen that as
40:23
either a base or as a multiple front of like three defense has
40:29
so far. Exactly.
40:30
Three defense has so far. I'm trying to think it would
40:32
have been Notre Dame West Virginia.
40:36
And now it yet Notre Dame in West Virginia.
40:39
Both have 33 as one of their one of their fronts that they will
40:43
show. All right, this is this is the
40:45
first true 335 base where you're going to see that look pretty
40:51
much every snap in some way, shape, or form.
40:56
And the big guy up front that you got to watch out for is Cody
41:00
Roscoe. He is the defensive end.
41:03
He is an absolute disgrace. Disruptor in the Run, game gets
41:08
really good. Penetration loves the time the
41:11
snap count and just kind of blow up an offensive play.
41:15
He's also an Elite pass rusher from that that kind of you know,
41:20
that three-man front D and position.
41:23
Does it does a really good job of impacting the game from
41:25
there? And he absolutely must be
41:29
neutralized for any sustained success in the ground game,
41:33
whether you run a dim or away from him, he does a good job of
41:36
making plays and get into the football.
41:39
Yeah, well that doesn't make me feel good but I tell you what
41:44
kind of crazy as his backstory. Braun Roscoe's, from Houston
41:47
Texas. He came out as a 2 Star.
41:52
Now, listen to this, he came out as a 2 Star inside linebacker,
41:56
when he came out. Ha, ha ha kid.
41:58
You not, he, he, he originally went to McNeese State and then
42:04
with covid happening to me, any state that division essentially
42:08
canceling, he transferred over to Syracuse in 2020 and he's 61,
42:14
he's 275. So he's even you think three
42:17
technique, even a little bit undersized for a three
42:19
technique? But obviously, the way you
42:21
mentioned the get off the Paul mean he's killing.
42:23
He's got thirty, three tackles, he's got seven and a half sacks.
42:27
X and ten tackles for loss. So he's getting a sack of game.
42:31
Um, you know, is he primarily on the left or the right side of
42:36
the offensive line, when he lines up, he's primarily lining
42:41
up on the offense has left, right?
42:44
So he will go against one of our better.
42:47
Guys in Libya, at least we are going somewhat big on big in
42:51
that situation. All right?
42:53
Yeah but he's not the only problem Brian the next to look
42:57
at is we're going to take a look.
42:59
At Stephen Thompson, Malik Jones Jones, 61 220 64.
43:06
Tackles one sack five-and-a-half, tackles for
43:09
loss had four interceptions last year.
43:12
Should definitely have some ball skills.
43:13
There he comes from ING as a three-star to me.
43:17
I don't you don't play it. I am G as a three-star, so
43:20
probably somebody missed an eval on him Thompson, 612, 3543
43:26
tackles three tackles for loss Two forced fumbles, his numbers
43:31
are already starting to look significantly better than its
43:33
2020 year. He's out of Charlotte
43:36
three-star. Guy, what are you seeing out of
43:39
this Duo? Who's the Mike who's the will,
43:41
and what do they bring to the table?
43:43
So you have three backer said in both of these guys are the
43:46
outside, guys. So this is the will and the Sam
43:49
for Jones and Thompson respectively, their primary
43:54
blitzers from the linebacker position.
43:56
So, you know, they usually bring the three-man front.
43:59
And usually an extra guy most Downs, sometimes that's the Mike
44:03
but usually it's going to be Sam or will they both do a really
44:08
good job blitzing and the run and the past and they do a good
44:14
job remaining under control when they're coming down hill in
44:17
those run blitzes. I think that's that's important
44:19
because a lot of times some of those guys come out of control,
44:22
they end up making the whole wider than it needs to be and
44:25
you get a big Ali up the gut, they don't do that.
44:28
They're pretty pretty sound in that and neither are our
44:32
liabilities and coverage, they're actually pretty good.
44:34
They primarily cover the tight end or running back in coverage
44:37
responsibilities, they'll have different areas of the field in
44:41
zone but they do a good job in both of those techniques and you
44:46
got to account for them every snap.
44:48
And, you know, the only upside is that, you know, coming from
44:52
second level unless they time it different.
44:55
You can least see where they're coming from, but the big
44:58
problem, That you don't know which ones coming at you at any
45:01
given snap. All right, well, obviously a
45:04
good. You go there on the outside?
45:06
Obviously making noise making numbers.
45:10
I think what worries me? Well, what?
45:12
What I would say would worry me would be the running back in the
45:15
tight end stuff but how we've called our offense, the last few
45:19
weeks there's really no concern there for it because we aren't
45:23
putting that in the Playbook. We're not throwing to our tight
45:26
ends or H bags, or running bags with any degree of consistency.
45:30
The last few weeks. It seems like as soon as As we
45:34
lost James Mitchell, those elements of the offense kind of
45:37
went bye-bye, which is kind of weird.
45:41
Yeah, yeah, the HVAC being being like a linchpin of the Fuente
45:45
offense and now it's, you know, we get one injury and we can
45:50
completely move away from. I don't know if that's lack of
45:52
trust in the guys that we still have their or if it's just
45:56
designed the end that you'd it is ineptitude because we Talked
46:02
about it when James went down, right?
46:04
Although you weren't perfect, they're not James, James is an
46:07
Elite Talent gallo and Drake have Their good qualities and
46:15
we're not seeing it. They're using Gallo exactly like
46:18
they used to when James Mitchell is on the field.
46:20
They're not taking they've taken advantage like one time of
46:23
Drake's athleticism so it's ineptitude, they don't like it
46:29
soon as you take something off the table for this offensive
46:31
staff is like what do we do? What do we do?
46:33
I don't, we don't know what to do.
46:35
I don't know to do my fingers, I don't know what to do.
46:37
I think the I think the bad part is that, that yeah, they did
46:39
finally go to Gallo. He had that drop, I think On a
46:42
third down against your last week and then as soon as soon as
46:48
I have it, all right, well you're back in the doghouse,
46:50
like go blog. You give these guys some
46:53
confidence like trust that they're going to make some
46:55
plays. I mean, right now, they're not
46:58
playing with confidence and you're not doing anything to
47:00
help them gain confidence. All right, so as good as they
47:03
have really solid players at the first and second levels, even
47:08
though this guy is not leading the team in interceptions, even
47:11
though he You know he has some good stats but Garrett William
47:16
six-foot, 190 defensive back. 32 tackles three tackles for loss
47:21
is zero interceptions. The guy's got six past
47:24
deflections already this year. He's out of Harrisburg, North
47:28
Carolina. He was a three-star when he came
47:30
out. What are you seeing from
47:33
Williams? Its heat.
47:35
Is he making these numbers because he's like a nickel or is
47:37
he playing on the outside? He's played on the outside, he's
47:40
actually there. Lockdown guy.
47:42
Why? So, he doesn't get targeted a
47:46
ton. He doesn't have the stats
47:48
because they're not throwing at him.
47:49
A ton. They're not testing him a ton,
47:51
and when they do, he's getting in there and breaking things up
47:55
here. You know, they tend to put him
47:57
on, whoever the Deep threat is for the offense.
48:01
And while he has given up a couple deep balls, he gave up
48:04
one against Wake Forest in particular.
48:06
That I remember, which I know that that is a, the, a unique
48:10
way of how they go deep in that, Pain.
48:12
So that's a little different, but has given up a couple big
48:16
plays but has also came in there and broken up some really key
48:20
plays as well that that stopped the other offense from from
48:24
getting touchdown. So he's going to be the guy to
48:26
watch. He's the guy that you know,
48:28
could potentially cause Trey Turner to have a long day.
48:34
Wouldn't surprise me whatsoever and just, you know, again,
48:37
Syracuse was looked at potentially the laughingstock of
48:42
the ACC. We both pick that we'd win this
48:44
game. I think we might be whoo.
48:48
Yeah, but I made a boo-boo there, but, you know, their top
48:52
10 and sacks their top 20 Total Defense.
48:56
The only given up 114, rushing yards a game So they are a good
49:01
defense, there are three and four.
49:03
But you know, the defense is definitely not the reason.
49:08
And the way the offense plays Brian, let's flip it over to the
49:11
8th of version of the Hokies. Can the offense just do
49:16
something anything. Can they anything?
49:19
Anything? Anything.
49:21
It's don't look a pathetic. Don't look, no.
49:24
Good luck competent for at least.
49:27
Three quarters. And that's where it's just like.
49:31
It's so tough to see it because there's there's so much bad
49:36
going on right? Yep.
49:38
So much bad going on that like you've always talked about keep
49:44
things. Simple, do things simple.
49:47
And that's a and they're trying even lower than that to me
49:51
there. Some of the stuff they're
49:53
running is like, I don't want to say pee wee football but it's
49:57
definitely middle or high school football that we're going to do
50:00
this and this and this and you're sitting here like the
50:02
guys over there and that Booth are getting paid three, four
50:07
hundred, five hundred thousand dollars.
50:09
Some more to stop this, not think they're going to see it.
50:13
Yep. You got think they're going to
50:15
see what you're doing. So you know, sorry for the rant
50:21
know. You said there were two other
50:22
big keys for you. Yeah, it's the two other keys
50:26
are going to be keep time of possession, even much as they
50:30
run the football if we can keep time of possession, even that
50:32
probably bodes well for the outcome of the game for us.
50:37
And the last thing is and I've said this is kind of been a
50:40
weekly theme since what? Middle Tennessee, not thy sin.
50:47
It's since West Virginia. West Virginia is Middle
50:51
Tennessee. You hated what?
50:52
They did that. They didn't try to get him
50:54
comfortable. Yeah.
50:55
So yeah, since West Virginia get Braixen, Burmeister comfortable
51:00
early, give him easy throws. Give him throws.
51:04
He's comfortable with get him in a Groove.
51:09
So that when you do start adding in those intermediate and deeper
51:12
routes into the offense, as the as the plays go along as the
51:17
series go along, you know, he's throwing those with confidence,
51:21
their receivers have confidence in him there, making plays for
51:24
him. It kind of feeds off of each
51:27
other right now, we don't have any confidence on that offense.
51:31
They're like, afraid to make mistakes and because they're
51:34
afraid to make mistakes. They're not making plays.
51:40
It's true and they're afraid to make mistakes.
51:43
They're not being put in good positions, there's no
51:47
aggressiveness. There's, it's almost like
51:50
someone thinks it's a coded year again.
51:52
And well, this year, doesn't matter.
51:55
Because we've heard those stories, right?
51:58
Yeah. We're not.
51:59
We're not dealing with that this year, guys, know, we're not
52:01
dealing with that at all this year.
52:03
All right. Let me ask this brine.
52:05
Let's go over to the defensive side of the ball real quick.
52:09
And I told you, this was my thought.
52:11
I think we have to almost those but elements in this defense, we
52:15
see. I think they have to be in full
52:17
force with this game. I think even early, I know you
52:21
mentioned to me, we should look at some cover threes, I think.
52:25
Early, early cover, 1 cover zeros, press man, load the line
52:34
essentially, if they beat our prayer.
52:37
Well, bear little bear, like, do not let them get this running
52:43
angle, if you want, if they take, if they take shots and
52:48
they hit three big shots, and they beat us.
52:50
So, be it, do not let their strength beat you. by trying to
52:56
go off kilter The next thing we need to do is tackling must be.
53:06
What it was against UNC and not will be seen up and down since
53:10
West Virginia. We got to tackle.
53:14
Well we can't we definitely can't tackle like we did last
53:17
week. We absolutely cannot tackle like
53:19
we did against Notre Dame or West Virginia.
53:24
And the last thing man we gotta we gotta Force turnovers because
53:27
I think we're going to need some good field position to generate
53:30
some points against this defense.
53:33
So turnovers are going to have to be there.
53:34
We you know we I don't know we haven't really got the status on
53:38
on wall or yet whether he's going to be going.
53:42
Not so very concerning their, although with their with their
53:49
defense, you know, as long as they don't get to the outside
53:55
especially against Dorian, since he still undersized there,
54:01
that's okay. To me, like, if water is not
54:05
here, this isn't the week that we were there going three, why?
54:08
They're not going to throw it all over the place on us, but
54:11
I'm more thinking. I'm from from a ball Hawk
54:13
standpoint. If they're going through the
54:15
ball up, I want Germaine wall or out there to grab it.
54:18
Yeah. Jack got you.
54:19
You want for that? Well, I mean the other part of
54:21
the defense is I think we've got to have a special teams
54:23
touchdown in some way shape or form and I think the what you
54:27
said that turnover, it's got to happen.
54:30
It's got to have D happened, deep in their territory because
54:33
I can't see this offense driving the ball more.
54:39
Maybe twice on this defense. Maybe twice. so, I mean, Yeah,
54:49
there's a lot of things that have to go our way.
54:51
This weekend against, this is against a 3 and 14.
54:55
This is in against the one-loss, team, this isn't against 5 and 2
54:58
team is against a 3 and 14 and this is how we're talking.
55:02
Yeah, we're playing tight against a team that at the
55:05
beginning of the year, we thought was you know a book, it
55:07
w and you know credit to them and you know discredit to sell
55:15
them short and or or at least us Even more confidence, in what we
55:20
thought this product was going to be and start of the year,
55:23
what it is. So we'll take the L on that one
55:28
lies. You told you told him, we told
55:31
him we saw something that wasn't there and we got sold a bill of
55:34
goods that weren't good. So let's sell the bill of goods
55:37
for this week. Brian, let's get the predictions
55:39
out here on. I'm not a bleep.
55:43
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lead. All right.
55:44
All right, go for it. I think the Hokies are actually
55:48
going to win this game. I think if you are sitting on
55:52
your couch or in a bar, whatever you like to drink, Keep the
55:59
bottle near you or the six-pack near you because you're going to
56:02
need a lot of it to stomach this one.
56:03
I think we win 2120. I do think we get at least one
56:10
defensive or special teams touchdown and I think we get one
56:14
additional defense sets up the offense for the win.
56:18
Okay. What we want to want me and I
56:20
think I do think ham will be ready for This rushing attack
56:27
even though it's been kind of our weakness, at least is
56:31
something we have prepped for this week.
56:34
It's something you prep for and you don't have the passing
56:37
element to really, you know, scare you here.
56:40
It's very much a you can focus on the rush, take away the rush
56:46
and more than likely you're going to be okay on the back
56:48
end. Yeah, I'm not as confident as
56:51
you and the outcome though, we got a one point win.
56:54
My confidence isn't like I've got a four-point loss.
56:59
I've got a 2420 Syracuse Victory.
57:03
It's totally on the distrust of the offense and not knowing not
57:09
having confidence that they can score more than two touchdowns.
57:15
I think that's just where I'm at.
57:17
At this point. Unfortunately, I think the
57:19
defense does enough and gives the offense some chances there
57:22
but they don't take advantage of enough of them.
57:26
Like last week. Yeah, exactly.
57:28
Like last week, hers, first two drives with the game stand.
57:32
Nearly a block punt, 50-yard line, two yards.
57:36
Yeah, and the defense kept that game as close as it could for
57:41
the first half in the offense decided, we're not gonna do
57:45
anything. Nothing, nothing yet and I don't
57:47
think it's the players. I think the players are given
57:49
full effort out there. I think it is the coaching.
57:54
Staff, completely. And we've already had this
57:56
conversation. I think if you put, I think if
57:59
you put guys like Trey Turner Taylor Robinson, some of the
58:02
running backs. I know, we haven't looked good.
58:07
But if you putting everybody in a bad position like I'm sure
58:10
you're sitting here Braun and this is probably Bryan's.
58:13
Brain James Mitchell goes out. You've been using Rahim.
58:16
Blackshear is primarily a running back.
58:19
All right. Screw James is gone.
58:21
Change your offense put him somewhere where he can be
58:24
dynamic. Nope, we're not going to let him
58:26
be dynamic. We're going to let him be right
58:27
here. And I feel for that kid because
58:31
I think he was sold a bad bill of goods.
58:33
Like, come here, we're going to use you and you're going to get
58:35
all these touches and in Ality. Now you can again a fired
58:40
Rutgers regime got more out of Raheem Blackshear than we have
58:44
in to seize a well-seasoned and a half.
58:46
Is he eligible next year? I think so.
58:51
All right. Maybe we get a new staff in
58:53
here. We could.
58:55
We could have discuss. All right, Ron, let's flip it.
58:59
Let's talk about some other games will be watching on
59:01
Saturday. First of all, let's go.
59:05
Year-to-date. We already discussed it Sunday.
59:08
You went five and five last week.
59:09
I want seven and three. I'm at 40 and 32 you're at 35
59:13
and 37. Have you done any different,
59:17
analytical scouting this week or got any?
59:22
I'm making a comeback this week, man.
59:25
This is my week to make some moves.
59:27
I'm going at least 73 this week. All right.
59:30
Least 73. So he's going to probably pick
59:33
against me at least six times tonight.
59:34
Everybody go ahead and write that down.
59:36
All right, let's heart Army and wait, Army and wake wake laying
59:42
three points. In this game, run, this game is
59:46
going to be one of the twelve Thirty early kicks for the ACC
59:50
and we was the moment here, it is actually going to be at West
59:54
Point. So up in new, Armies for and two
59:58
going to be on CBS Sports Network.
1:00:01
What do you think about this one?
1:00:02
Brian. You've got the kind of new age
1:00:05
offense versus the old school offense?
1:00:09
Yeah, I think I like wait to cover this.
1:00:12
I think weeks going to take care of business.
1:00:17
I just think that some of the things they do on that offense
1:00:19
is going to cause some problems for Army.
1:00:22
I think wakes defense is going to be good enough to kind of
1:00:25
slow that attack. Down, that rushing attack down.
1:00:29
But again, it's at home. Army.
1:00:31
Probably lengthens that game or shortens that game.
1:00:33
I should say to the point where wakes got to be pretty, pretty
1:00:38
perfect, but I still like wake to close it up.
1:00:41
Yeah, I am with you on that. I'm not.
1:00:44
Not like doing this just to spite you.
1:00:47
So, yeah, I'm with you. I also think with wake, it's
1:00:52
their defense, they're not full of athletes.
1:00:55
They're full of good sound disciplined football players,
1:00:58
right? When you're going against Army,
1:01:00
what do you need? Good sound disciplined football,
1:01:03
players who know where the balls going?
1:01:08
A lot of people you know screen for years.
1:01:11
Why did buds defense struggled, so much with Georgia Tech
1:01:15
because it was athletes who attack you can't attack the
1:01:19
triple option, you can attack the wing option, whatever you
1:01:22
want to call it. So I think wake I think weight
1:01:26
wins like that 10. I think whenever weight gets the
1:01:28
ball they score and I think they'll get four to five
1:01:31
possessions. Something like 3121 is what I'm
1:01:35
feeling on this one. All right Brian, the next one.
1:01:39
Here is U Mass versus fsu's at 12:00 kick.
1:01:45
The over-under is 60, the last this you Lane 35 and a half.
1:01:52
I know UMass is one in five and I know UMass has lost some
1:01:57
games. But they have only had two
1:02:01
games. They've had three games of their
1:02:03
six that were over 35 and a half.
1:02:07
I can't trust FSU. I know they're playing better.
1:02:10
I just think 35 and a half. We'll just way way too much to
1:02:13
lay. I will take you bass in the
1:02:15
points. Not so fast my friend.
1:02:21
Give me FSU. This is my, this is where I make
1:02:26
up some Gap here. This is where I close the gap.
1:02:29
This is where FSU doesn't screw me for once.
1:02:34
Hopefully, so I'll take FSU and the points.
1:02:39
I'll lay those points and I think, you know, we'll see what
1:02:42
they do. They have been playing better.
1:02:45
The next one is going to be the head scratcher, right?
1:02:48
All the next one is just going to be.
1:02:50
I'm Like I'm still, I'm literally might slip and flip a
1:02:55
coin, then inside this one, the next one is the Clemson.
1:03:00
And the pit game. This is going to be 3:30 kick
1:03:05
that pit pit for the first time. I think they said in five years,
1:03:11
the Louisville game going to Death Valley against Lamar.
1:03:15
Clinton is not favored. In an ACC game, hit laying
1:03:19
three. What's Seiya.
1:03:21
Braun. I can't believe I'm doing this.
1:03:27
I'm taking Kenny fucking picket padding are doozy and the Pitt
1:03:33
Panthers. Over Clemson.
1:03:38
I just don't Clemson's, offense is not share it specifically.
1:03:43
DJ has not shown me that he's playing with enough confidence
1:03:49
in what he's doing offensively to put up enough points against
1:03:53
Pitt. I think pit will be able to put
1:03:55
up Somewhere in the mid to Upper 20s against that Clemson
1:03:59
defense. Because what they do kind of
1:04:03
plays into the, the small weaknesses that the Clemson
1:04:06
defense does have. So I think they will be able to
1:04:11
get a few touchdowns, maybe a field goal or two, and I think
1:04:17
they pull it out. So I think they cover that
1:04:19
three, I'm gonna go not so fast. My friend.
1:04:24
It spit, there's always gains where pit just craps the bed,
1:04:29
right? When they shouldn't grab the
1:04:31
bed. They've already done it once
1:04:32
this year against Western Michigan and to me Clemson's got
1:04:41
too much talent there too. Not eventually get out of this
1:04:48
offensive rut, we know, DJ's a good quarterback.
1:04:50
We saw that last year but the thing that I think everyone
1:04:56
didn't think about was not so much him and I know he's
1:04:59
struggling but I think there's some other element struggling.
1:05:03
Their pit doesn't have the best defense, they held US 27, but if
1:05:09
you saw in that game, there were numerous times where we had
1:05:11
really good opportunities to potentially score and we Just
1:05:15
crapped the bed, I'll take the three and I think Clemson pulls
1:05:19
it. I think comes and pulls the
1:05:21
upset and makes all things right in the world of ACC football.
1:05:28
It's a weird time to say, Clemson pulls the upset in any
1:05:31
in ACC matchup little lazy. It's Truman very, very good.
1:05:37
Alright, next game, BC Louisville Louisville.
1:05:43
Three and three Boston College at four and two.
1:05:47
Louisville is Lane six and a half points.
1:05:51
Louisville's last game they lost by a point to UVA.
1:05:54
Essentially, they missed a field goal, right?
1:05:57
Yep. Yep.
1:06:00
And Boston College coming off a pretty bad loss to n.c. state.
1:06:06
So you know I sit on this one Brian and it's his home-field
1:06:11
worth six and a half is Louisville that Good.
1:06:13
I've seen Louisville's offense score.
1:06:16
Some I've seen their defense. Give up a lot, BC.
1:06:19
Just had a play. Probably maybe the one of the
1:06:24
better defenses. Not only in conference but
1:06:26
probably, you know, in top 20 in the country.
1:06:29
I'm going to take BC. Give me the six and a half.
1:06:32
I'm going to take them to cover this game.
1:06:36
Yeah, I'm going to take I'm going to take BC as well here.
1:06:38
I think it's a bounce-back week for them.
1:06:42
I think NC State is better than than we think.
1:06:45
I think they're probably one of the three best teams in the ACC
1:06:48
right now. So yeah I'll take be see here,
1:06:55
hard to trust Louisville to close out a game and six and a
1:06:58
half. It's probably just enough where
1:07:00
I feel comfortable there abso-freakin'-lutely.
1:07:04
All right. Well, let's jump out of the
1:07:05
CeCe, Braun, and let's head down to the Alabama.
1:07:13
Tennessee, game, third Saturday, in October, it's always been
1:07:18
like that. It's one of the great traditions
1:07:19
in college football and trying to look up here.
1:07:25
Have you seen any news on hinted hooker tonight as he cleared
1:07:29
after getting kind of malt at the end of the other game?
1:07:32
You know, I have, I have not seen Let me check real quick.
1:07:40
Same here. Now, pretty never do not 14.
1:07:45
Optimistic Outlook. Optimistic Outlook.
1:07:56
Day to day. So he could go.
1:07:59
All right, either way, it's in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is laying 25
1:08:03
and a half points. I even think when tendon hooker
1:08:12
obviously Tennessee's defense will give up points.
1:08:16
The whole question is, this is how much they give up early.
1:08:19
How quick does neglect the gas off?
1:08:22
if it was a guaranteed on you Hinton was playing I would
1:08:27
probably take Tennessee what the points with him, not playing, we
1:08:32
saw We saw how Joe Milton looked especially the how many
1:08:39
overthrown passes it like only the first half, it was it was
1:08:44
for bad ones, it was for bad ones in.
1:08:46
Probably another one that you know, was questionable but he
1:08:51
had one where the it was just a, it was a slaughter, a tight end,
1:08:55
just streaking up the seam and just airmailed it by about 8
1:08:58
yards like clothes. So yeah, I'm taking bam, I will
1:09:02
lay the 25 and A half points, whether it be a injured hooker,
1:09:08
or Milton. I don't think they stay close.
1:09:12
Yeah, I'm going to do the same thing.
1:09:14
I think it is. I think that line is about,
1:09:19
right, but I feel like it's going to be about a about a four
1:09:21
score game, so give me Bama Whether it's a banged-up hooker
1:09:29
or whether it's, you know, more or less you like that, whether
1:09:36
it's a banged-up hooker or a Milton that likes to sail the
1:09:40
ball. I think that's not going to bode
1:09:42
well for them. All right, let's go down to the
1:09:45
Big 12 where Barry interesting game top 10.
1:09:50
Oklahoma state who's number 8 at 6 and 0 coming off a big win
1:09:54
over comeback. Win over Texas.
1:09:55
Last week, goes up to Iowa, State up to Ames, be A330 kick
1:10:01
our state forward and to Iowa State, pretty big number here is
1:10:07
a seven-point favorite against okey state.
1:10:14
What do you think on this one behind?
1:10:16
Yeah, I'm taking Okie State all the way.
1:10:18
I don't think there's a letdown game after the the win last
1:10:20
week. I think they go out to handle
1:10:22
their business. Kind of assert themselves as one
1:10:26
of the teams to watch in that conference going forward.
1:10:29
So I'll take Okie State here and I'm with you on this and it's
1:10:33
not so much that, you know, I don't like Iowa State, it said,
1:10:38
okey States playing a really good really good defense.
1:10:42
This isn't your normal Well, Mike Gundy team where they're
1:10:44
running and gunning and went beating teams.
1:10:47
You know, 45-42, you know, every game this year 16 points,
1:10:53
against Missouri State 23 against Tulsa 20 against Boise,
1:10:57
20, against Kansas State, 14 against Baylor and 24, last week
1:11:02
against Texas, you start doing that math?
1:11:05
I mean, they're, they're basically given up right at 19,
1:11:08
20 points of game and you. I will stay Matt Campbell, if
1:11:16
you ask me tomorrow, without take him here, probably his
1:11:20
recruiting has never been that good.
1:11:22
I think he's a good football coach, but I'm with you bro.
1:11:26
I've got to take a key State because I think defense travels
1:11:29
I think that is going to be a heck of a game to watch.
1:11:32
If you like 27, 24 games there on and I know some people don't
1:11:38
like just like too much defense, but I think it's going to be a
1:11:41
good old-fashioned. Yes.
1:11:43
They're all right Brian the battle for the jeweled
1:11:47
shillelagh USC, Notre Dame, Notre Dame is the favorite here
1:11:55
laying seven points and this is the very very rare.
1:12:01
Very, very rare. USC Notre Dame, 7:30 it and
1:12:07
South Bend. Very rare.
1:12:13
Very rare, USC 3 and 3 essentially waiting for James
1:12:19
Franklin to come take over the program.
1:12:23
Last time they were out, they got their doors blown off by
1:12:26
Utah and it's kind of been that way just about every other week
1:12:33
for them. They got the doors blown off by
1:12:35
Oregon State. They got the doors blown off by
1:12:37
Stanford. And honestly I don't think Notre
1:12:42
Dame has the horsepower to blow the doors off but I think Notre
1:12:45
Dame has the horsepower to win by more than seven points.
1:12:48
Give me the Irish with the freemen defense, shutting them
1:12:51
down 28:17 Irish. Okay, okay, I'm actually right
1:13:00
there with you. I think this is a Good matchup
1:13:05
for Notre Dame and I think they go out there and handle their
1:13:07
business on defense. I think it is a somewhat low
1:13:11
scoring game, that gets into the kind of Twenty Eight, Twenty
1:13:17
Eight, twenty 28:17, somewhere in that range.
1:13:21
Yeah, it'll probably be again, it'll probably be an
1:13:23
entertaining game to watch and I don't actually, let me look at
1:13:29
some of them might slave here. It actually might be maybe the
1:13:32
most entertaining game in the nights.
1:13:34
Wait to watch it. 7:30, Georgia Tech Virginia, NC State Miami,
1:13:42
Ohio State Indiana, I don't know.
1:13:43
Watch that change playing the Aggies, 21-point line on that.
1:13:49
That's a pretty big line for their.
1:13:53
Yeah. So Yeah, that might be.
1:13:58
There is no Pac-12 after dark this week.
1:14:00
There is a there is an early Sunday morning, whack action.
1:14:04
If you want to look at a why they're so you know, if you're
1:14:09
really a degenerate and want to stay up till 3:00 3:30 a.m.
1:14:13
eastern standard time Hawaii, Mexico, Hawaii's up being 18.
1:14:20
There is one more West Coast game Ron.
1:14:22
We got to jump on here tonight and that is going to be where
1:14:25
game day is. Yep, feeling like the game day
1:14:28
of old going to an important, even though it's not the top
1:14:33
matchup of the weekend, a important matchup for the Pac-12
1:14:38
with organ and UCLA 3:30. So a 12:30 West Coast kick down
1:14:46
in the Rose. Bowl number 10.
1:14:48
Oregon is essentially a two-point dog here.
1:14:53
What do you think on this game, buddy?
1:14:56
Yeah, I'm going Oregon here. I think what UCLA doing is done
1:15:02
is impressive, but I think Oregon just has a little bit
1:15:05
more in the tank. They're going to be able to
1:15:07
finish them off late and I think they pull a pretty narrow win
1:15:11
out, maybe touchdown or less but definitely covers that too.
1:15:16
Yeah, I'm with you I think we're just too good.
1:15:18
A team did not take points. You know sometimes it's just
1:15:23
like a principal player. I like UCLA's, a good story,
1:15:27
gift their home team in their favorite, but it's two points
1:15:31
are literally saying the Rose Bowl in Oregon traveling.
1:15:35
From Eugene to La, is the difference in this game.
1:15:39
It's not the difference. In this game.
1:15:40
Organ is the more talented team. So, I'm definitely with you on
1:15:44
that. All right.
1:15:46
Brian. Anything breaking the left
1:15:49
little while here. Nothing.
1:15:55
I see man. Nothing I see.
1:15:58
How do we met? Do we miss to pick homes?
1:16:02
No, that's to do. We do Miami and NC State man.
1:16:08
I forgot to put that one on here tonight.
1:16:12
I think I already know what I tell you.
1:16:13
I race that I did. I miss to pick up with Jesus
1:16:16
Christ. The show is not over yet.
1:16:20
Miami NC State Bar on NC State, laying three points.
1:16:26
Let me just say this. Yeah, legal limit.
1:16:30
NC State is going to not only cover, the three points.
1:16:35
NC State is going to win my 17. Yeah, I'm with you.
1:16:40
That's a legal limit. B NC State, whatever you got in
1:16:44
your, in your wallet, go for it. Exactly.
1:16:48
I think I think you're not going to quite see as much offensive
1:16:51
output is Miami had last week. I think that was more of a of a
1:16:54
one-off than it was an interesting parallel.
1:16:57
The only person that can sing on North Carolina's, the Virginia
1:16:59
Tech Hokies. Yep, and we still won the game,
1:17:03
but damn it was, it was a tough one.
1:17:06
It was a tough one. That should have been like 34 to
1:17:09
10 where our defense played that night and that game is the 730
1:17:14
kick down at Hard, Rock stadium with the wonderful 8,000 fans.
1:17:18
It'll show up there we go. All right.
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Now, Virginia Georgia. Tech up at UVA.
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It's the 30th Anniversary, 31st anniversary of the when UVA was
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number one game. The year coach Bobby Ross took
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his Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to the National Being shipped
1:17:40
for anyone living in Richmond if you've never met Bobby, Ross and
1:17:43
talk to that man. Just a treasure.
1:17:47
Great, absolute treasury, dude. Yeah, we got to got to hang out
1:17:51
with him one night. He did a talk down at Kappa l in
1:17:55
the city, it was him and Michael Robinson was Wes McElroy hosta
1:18:02
thing. It was it was it was a good good
1:18:04
time down there, Bobby shared some good stories.
1:18:07
Got to Talk to him afterwards for a little while.
1:18:10
Good, all around. It's a one-on-one with Bobby
1:18:12
that night, man. Yeah, I know you ran into him a
1:18:15
couple at once at a gas station, right?
1:18:17
When entering the first time at a gas station and I saw him
1:18:22
about a month ago, I cannot remember where I was, but I saw
1:18:26
him and said, hey, coach, Ross, how you doing?
1:18:28
And he, if you say, hey to him, he will say, hey to you back.
1:18:32
So, he's out here in the West End of Richmond.
1:18:35
If you ever see him, if you recognize Who he is, say, who
1:18:39
say hello, he will say hello back to you a living treasure
1:18:43
here, but his Georgia Tech, Yellow Jackets that teams way to
1:18:48
bastok. As much as I hate pains me to
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say this, I think UVA is going to win this game by about 14.
1:18:57
I think, again, I think it feels like every game on the ACC sleep
1:19:02
this week, it's going to be very entertaining games.
1:19:06
Yeah. Maybe with the exception of ss.
1:19:08
You unless you take the 35 and a half and just sitting there
1:19:11
like, I'm going to be doing like, okay, okay, yeah, we got
1:19:17
it covered. So I'm taking UVA there.
1:19:20
We think I'm taking Georgia Tech.
1:19:23
Oh God. And I'm hoping they don't screw
1:19:27
me again but I'm taking Georgia Tech.
1:19:30
I think they keep it close. I think it's very similar to
1:19:33
that UVA Louisville game. I think it's going to come down
1:19:38
to something at the end of the game.
1:19:39
That's going to kind of decide if they're, I don't think it's
1:19:42
going to quite be more than the seven that were laying here.
1:19:45
So, Let me get, let me get Georgia Tech there for that one.
1:19:50
George close it out with that one.
1:19:52
Yeah. How are they going to win it?
1:19:56
I'll shit. Why not?
1:19:58
Oh, Yellow. Jackets outright win.
1:20:01
Fuck UVA. All right, well if nothing
1:20:06
hasn't broken, then Curtis who overlooked on.
1:20:08
I run down sheet here to games completely, because I'm watching
1:20:12
the App State game and Coastal that Coastal with the ball.
1:20:17
Who's At the ball here. Somebody's inching closer and
1:20:19
closer to a field goal line. I think it's appstate 2727.
1:20:25
Yeah, two minutes left. Oh my God, they've got.
1:20:29
Did you know the FSU? You see that you want to get
1:20:33
that game up the fs? Yeah you know defensive
1:20:35
coordinator for Coastal Carolina.
1:20:38
Hey I kid you not. All right well if we got nothing
1:20:42
else that is going to wrap up this episode of The Boundary
1:20:45
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