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3 Guys Before The Game - Garrett Greene Returns (Episode 509) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Yeah, it's uh, it is true. It is true. I'm fine.
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  I'm fine with it. Sometimes I've been accused on this program of over
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  promising and then under delivering. That's that's what that's what some say on this
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  program. Well, well look who promised, Look who delivered. Welcome in
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  everybody, we do? Yeah right, yeah, look who's back? How
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  are you guys. We're wonderful, We're wonderful. Here he is, man,
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  it's three guys before the Game, episode number five hundred and nine,
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  and it is our Garrett Green returns episode. And I give him a ton
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  of credit for coming back after the way he was treated rudely before this,
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  just before the season started, just before practice began. Brad, you remember
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  that situation. Yeah, but here's the thing. He ran around Kerchieval like
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  he went around the Baylor defense on Saturday. It was he's not worried about
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  any questions. All I'm saying is this, I wish we were rolling tape.
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  I wish we were rolling tape when Garrett walked in before we started recording
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  and immediately launched on Kertieval. He just launched in on Kercheville like if they
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  went to like replay review, like they'd come back out on the field and
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  they go after further review, the West Virginia quarterback did target Hoppy Kerchieval and
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  hit him right in the head. I mean he didn't come here to play,
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  Brady, he's not playing. I mean he just in the audacity of
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  kerchieble you guys, I what are you saying? You guys? He said
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  it. Why are you saying you guys? Cause you're like you're noddy because
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  you're not like, oh yeah, Tony. I personally think that we don't
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  have to talk about garyl he's not here. That Garrett can take a tough
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  question or two, obviously think anyways, he can take any question. Is
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  that correct, sir? Yeah? I tend to agree. There you go,
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  all right? So we okay? Now no good Now I might come
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  just a little bit. Connley CPA group providing value beyond the numbers. And
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  a special shout out to the person that makes it possible to have Garrett in
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  the studio with us, and that is our guy Phil at Daniels Men's Store
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  of Morgantown. Yes, Daniels, excuse me, Daniels, Yeah, Daniels
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  Men's Store there in Morgantown, right there, And special thanks to Daniels Men's
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  Store of Morgantown. And finally looking Phil who provides the the the n I
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  L and look how we dressed a little buddy here he's layered, he's layered
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  up in nice. We got a Daniels stuff. Can you zoom in on
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  that? There we go, Thank you, Luke. So there we go
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  first gart Garrett, Okay, that's the under So that is that the horn
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  legends horn Legend. You can't see it on that screen, but it's got
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  a nice little pattern in it, light blue and khaki. That's a quarter
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  zip there, horn Legend quarter zip and then Peter Millar pull over. That
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  is like, that's that's elite. That's elite. Yeah, because it's got
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  that nice little puckering on that material there. Don't sleep on the horn legend
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  though. That's a nice material as well. Out of that. Because you
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  can go that, you can go you can go work, you can go
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  the office with that, you can go right to the stadium, you can
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  go the call Sam. Yeah. Right, you need to layer up like
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  Garretts done. You get the Peter Malar jack on on top of it.
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  You could put it underneath your jersey and uh without anything. I mean you
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  could. I don't think Austin over in the equipment room would mind if you
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  put a quarter zip on underneath. We're not all our sleeves that's the rule
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  office of You guys aren't out of sleeves. So that's a solid well Phil
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  sells is you know it sells vests. Yeah, maybe maybe a nice puffer
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  vests on underneath the pats. Absolutely in the postgame interview would be like NASCAR,
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  like you know it was. It was tough out there, but thanks
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  to the Daniels layover. You know, I was seriously gear, I was
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  warm out there today and you know you say that, you say that,
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  and it's coming. There's absolutely zero question. Like on Saturday, you kept
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  going to your ball cap a lot when you went over to the Is that
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  is that a deal? No, that's that that's an awesome special government issue.
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  That's that's Austin Blake specially right there. You. I mean, it
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  was heavy ball camp. Here's a couple of things I noticed about you.
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  We're gonna jump all over shockingly on this program, but a couple of things.
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  And Brad and I watched the end of the Baylor game on Monday or
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  Tuesday because we hadn't you know, I see it happen, and then I
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  need to go back and watch it six times. In process, everything went
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  but just totally off, not on the playing field, but going over to
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  get the cap, going over to get the cap, absolute seven to eight
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  year NFL veteran move like post your NFL And then when you walked across the
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  field, jumped when he jogged across the field like it was it was absolute
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  NFL dude, like ten years and just like yeah, like championships on the
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  way over there to say congratulations at a quarterback, but there was no like,
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  ah, this is a big much just like okay, man here I
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  am. Yeah, just just brought it down your throat. No time.
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  I've done that three of the last four halfs. Nice to see, appreciate
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  you guys. Have a good Okay, take care, we'll see it.
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  Thanks for having us. I don't know if you noticed that at all,
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  but that's I said to him. We were laughing about learned a lesson the
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  hard way, so you know, you didn't even have your helmet with you.
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  It was just somewhere else someone else had. So you know, I
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  learned it, learned it that way. Yeah, I mean during since the
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  last time we saw you, there's been a lot of lessons learned. Here's
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  what I thought. I had this thought, this is this is who you
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  were and this is who you've become. Who he was when before the season
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  started, when he got here before the season a little bit. But you
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  have matured from a wild, bucking Bronco to a wonderfully controlled field general.
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  The process has happened. You've been tamed, but you still have that specialness,
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  but now it's under control. Dude, I've been here a long got
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  calls it a z raised line. What's it called? A zoo raised line?
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  Can't teach instincts? So I like that, do gazelle in the cage
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  of the line. What's the line gonna do? Situation? Yeah, he's
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  gonna but the line also knows how to be tame. So zu raise line.
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  That's a coach Scott line. Yeah. So basically that's in when you're
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  inside the white lines your ball, or when you're outside the white lines.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's what happens. That's what I think. That's that's
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  what we've watched. You've matured. Like wine, you can't drink it the
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  first night to put it in the bottle. You wait, you wait,
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  and then you get some really good wine. But it takes time. So
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  how did it? How did it change? We talked about this this summer,
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  and it was just hypothetical at that point. But how did how did
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  it change your comfort level, your mindset, your approach to the game.
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  Knowing you had the game, you're the starter, you're the guy. You're
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  not in having to make two plays getting pulled out back in. It's just
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  your game, you gotta go. How did it specifically change your approach?
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  I think it does a lot with just the confidence and over overall, like
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  getting in like rhythm. Like the whole year I never had to never had
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  to look over my shoulder and like think about think about what's coming next.
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  It was kind of just all about getting in a rhythm and just just making
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  plays like I know how to. So you're bawling. You got to the
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  point, like back when you were in high school, you're just like I'm
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  playing and you're not thinking. You just going, Okay, what's my next
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  play, what's my next play? What's my next play? And once you
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  get that mentality instead of like doing like yeah, I'm not then you start
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  to Then you start Yeah. So that old cliche that it slows down the
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  more you play. Were you were you hitting that point as the season kept
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  going. Yeah, But by the end of the year, you're like,
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  okay, whatever, throw whatever you got, I got it. Probably second
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  half after Penn State, really like the game really started to slow down.
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  Yeah, the stuff I was watching all week on film, I was kind
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  of like putting those two together on the field. So I probably say after
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  Penn State, like the second half of Penn State, I really started to
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  see it. Yeah, and got super comfortable at that point. Yeah,
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  exactly. So. But was there was there a moment was there a particular
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  quarter or seer or play where just like, oh, yeah, okay,
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  yeah I got it. I mean, I guess you could start with I
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  threw like a seam ball to Cole Taylor off the left hash he made a
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  really nice catch. But I guess it was after that where that was the
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  first like in rhythm throw I had or whatever it was. But after that,
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  I really felt like I was getting into more of a rhythm. Yeah,
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  that's your best ball, isn't it the same? Yeah? Yeah?
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  I love love ripping balls at the scene because that's kind of baseball esque.
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  Yeah, that's just kind of like, yeah, I grip it and rip
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  it. Yeah, I don't know, you're straight deep ball over the tops
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  play damn cut that's like nat like one of the best in the nation,
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  just saying that kind of looks one of the best in the nation and throwing
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  the deep ball. What do you have any numbers to back there? I
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  have a special spreads on stats edition might be only Garrett Green related today,
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  but we'll get to that later. Really, so you just have a spreads
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  on stats specific to him, specific to him, And I had to cut
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  it down because I knew it was going to be too long. There's that
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  there's that many good positive stats. Not to talk about him as as if
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  he's not here. I know, we don't want to it. Do you
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  ever have any has ever in practice or in a game a receiver come back
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  to you and said, man, I think it was coming in hot.
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  I mean take it, take a little something off that way. You got
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  a fastball. Yeah, sure, Pete Fox Preston Preston, especially when we
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  were like younger, like freshman, because we would always play Monday night football
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  or throw routs or whatever, and I would probably probably let him fly a
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  little too fast and they really should have been but I'm learning as I go
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  kind of. Yeah. Neil has said on a couple of occasions, you
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  can bring it. Yeah, you bring it. If you threw, like
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  if you did throw from a mound, what do you think you'd bring it
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  at baseball? I'm talking about not a what would you throw baseball at?
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  How How long do I have to? Like you warm up? You do
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  that, You do everything you need to warm up to get it going,
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  Like would you be like an eighty five mile more? No? Yeah,
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  I think you know this. This may be the ego talking, but I
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  think I could hit ninety. I think I think I can ninety off a
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  mount. You would hit ninety? Yeah, I think I could. Yeah,
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  it comes. It's been a while stuff thrown the baseball, but I
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  think I get ninety. No, no clue where it goes, but well
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  I understand the speed would be there. Yeah, if it needed to get
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  somewhere quick kind of like look kind of like Federal Express. If it absolutely
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  positively needs to be there, he'll get it there some way. Neil has
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  said on a couple of occasions that what they're working with you now mostly is
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  just some base fundamental stuff on feet and hip walk me through exactly what's going
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  on there. Because I'm happy about that, because that's fixable stuff that I'm
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  sure, now and until you go again next year. Obviously the bowl game,
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  but other than that, you're gonna work on that what's going on there?
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  Yeah, So basically the way coach Brown has kind of described it to
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  me as since I'm since I'm a pretty decent athlete, a lot of this
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  stuff growing up and my early playing playing years, I've been able to get
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  away with it. But now that I'm getting every single rep and every single
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  snap, that kind of those those things are magnified and you can kind of
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  see the see the big misses when when my feet are feet aren't right and
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  my hips aren't right. So I've been watching a cut up of like all
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  my misthrows. So I think, you know, leading into the bowl game
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  and then you know, all of next season through winter, summer, spring
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  ball, and fall camp. That's kind of going to be the emphasis of
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  me. Last time you were here, you had been at the Manning camp
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  and you said, hey, really gave me a new appreciation of watching tape
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  as the season went on. How much Manning stuff did you incorporate? How'd
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  that go? Yeah? If you if you look on the on the board
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  in our film room, I had like a weekly schedule of you know cutups
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  that I was watching formations, you know, situations, stuff like that,
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  and that's basically all stuff that that I got from the manning camp. So
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  when I would watch it, I'll check it off, check it off,
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  and then it went Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  and then it's Saturday morning. Was just like a quick cut up top
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  of look stuff. But that really helped my preparation. And you know,
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  as the season went on, I really started to see the things I was
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  watching on film, I was seeing them on the field. Yeah, which
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  makes a huge, huge difference. So it's all about anything, right,
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  Like that's that's a story of life. If you're comfortable and what it is
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  that you're doing, it just happens easier. And until you get to that
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  point, it's sometimes it's a struggle. Yep. Sometimes it's a wonderful balance
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  this year of when to stay and complete the throw and when to take off
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  running straight instinct? Did you have to work on that a little bit?
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  Did you have to kind of talk yourself through staying patient back there? How
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  did you determine that? Because it was it was spot on almost the whole
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  season. I think really kind of going to the second half of Penn State.
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  I think the early part of Penn State, I was leaving the pocket
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  too early. I was too jitterting, too antsy. Obviously, really good
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  defense, really big environment, first game of the year. But after I
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  complete that pass to Cole Taylor, I think that's when I really started to
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  started to get comfortable and not really feel the rush and not really see the
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  rush, just kind of trust in the best offensive line in the country that
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  they were going to protect me. Yeah, makes a world of difference.
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  I mentioned this earlier, So let's talk about this and we'll just again.
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  We're gonna hop all over the place. The driving the field with no timeouts.
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  You do it again Cincinnati, you do it first half, Baylor.
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  You do it at the end of the game against Baylor. And Neil has
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  said that's something they said Houston to Yeah that's true and is true. Yeah,
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  absolutely, Yeah, that's right. My bad good poll, thank you,
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  thank you spreads on stat So he said, you guys rep that all
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  the time, You rep that all the time. Walk us through your mindset
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  when you go out there. I mean, they score, they go up.
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  It hasn't been you know, obviously things are going on, what's your
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  what's in your head? And do you specifically do anything mentally leading up to
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  situations like that so that when you do go out there, you looked chill.
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  Yeah, I think it just it just goes back to the confidence that
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  I have in the group, in the group that I have with me,
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  you know, between the O line, the wide outs and running backs everybody
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  man, that's something that we practiced all the time. So you know,
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  as an offense, we feel like we can score at any time. Anytime
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  someone touches the ball, we feel like it could it could go to the
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  house. And Jim had a lot a lot of runs like that where it
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  doesn't really look like much and then you know a few seconds later it's he's
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  sixty yards down the field and you're like, how the hell that happened.
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  But it's just it's just a confidence that I have in the guys, and
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  we we rep it so much, you know, between summer, uh spring
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  ball, fall camp, you know, we probably do we probably I've probably
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  done one hundred two minute drills in my time here, So it's just kind
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  of just second nature and just going out and playing ball with the boys.
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  Do you know you're going to Hudson Clement on that little receiver screen first?
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  Yeah, Okay, what was it? Why? Why did Why was that
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  the play that made sense there? Uh? Because we felt like that they
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  were getting a lot of early down pressures, so like first second down,
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  they were bringing a lot of pressure, and you know, one of the
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  best ways to to beat pressure is to throw a screen in right behind them
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  because it slows down their pass rush and it gets it gets four or five
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  guys out of the play. Did you have any idea of the significance of
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  Zach's injury when that happened. No, And and that's kind of that's kind
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  of the bummer from that game, because I feel like I could really enjoy
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  it postgame as much as I really wanted to, because it was a great
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  win. Defense came away with some huge stops late and then offense. Offense
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  obviously obviously went down and scored the game winner. But you know, I
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  just hurt for him. You know how much he's meant to me, how
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  much he's meant to to this program in the state. I don't think it
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  can really be put into words. Totally agree with you. Could you say
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  anything to Brandon when he came in, because that's the other part of that
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  story that's amazing. Not only Zach with the wherewithal to get himself off the
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  field, but yeah's coming right in, dropping in at center and hitting you
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  with perfect steps. Do you say anything or he just steps in does his
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  job. You guys got to get moving well. To be honest, we
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  really have time to to really talk. I just kind of gave him,
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  gave him a call and and we kind of rocked with it. But postgame,
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  postgame, you know, I gave him a hugging, like told him
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  that, Like people really aren't gonna know how like big that was stepping in
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  there at that moment, you know, not really not playing center basically all
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  year. Yeah, and delivering snaps, getting the calls right, getting the
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  mic id's right. People don't really talk about that, but that's something that
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  if you know football, like, that's a pretty big in a huge situation,
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  in a pressure packed situation. Go back to kind of what he asked
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  you there. So you come in on that last drive, is it in
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  your head we're scoring or you just simply what's the play? I'm just executing
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  each play as it comes, so you're not thinking of the end goal,
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  it's just the next play. In those moments, you know, I just
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  I'm just playing ball like I'm it's backyard football with the boys, and in
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  those two minute situations because basically all hell breaks loose and like there's times running
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  down, bodies are going everywhere. You're getting plays fast, so you really
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  don't have time to think about, Okay, I gotta get this next first
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  down or whatever. Obviously you have to have situational awareness to where if you're
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  if you're close out of bounds, get out of bounds, off the clock
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  and you're in the middle of the field, get a first down and go
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  down. But after that it's just basically just playing playing ball with the boys.
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  You're just getting the play call and making the play call and going exactly
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  two go ahead. Was it the same on that on the wheel route to
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  Jahim White? Because Round said that you all had practiced that but had not
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  run that in a game. So you get the call like, okay,
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  but it doesn't occur to you while we haven't run that in a game.
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  It's just like, okay, let's run this play. Yeah, with how
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  much walkthroughs and practice and stuff we do, there's probably not a play that
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  coach Brock can call that, I'm like, oh God, like, what
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  is this? You know with we we worked those plays all from springball,
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  all the way to fall camp and even in season that you know, at
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  this point in my career, everything's just kind of second nature. You saw
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  he was you saw he was busting open, he was going to be open
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  or did you So that's good? Yeah? You could you see how wide
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  open he was or you just you have a point that when he turns that
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  corner, you're throwing it on a timing. What what did you see on
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  that? Yeah? Well, really the it was it was Jehem White on
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  on their number forty one, Yes, and the corner we kind of ran
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  a Hudson went inside in the scene and then kind of jem Jahem was outside,
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  yes, and you can see the corner come in with k And as
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  soon as he did that, you know, Jam's one of the best,
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  he's one of the best athletes in America. And it was it was him
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  on no offense number forty one, but that's just an acial chance. Yeah,
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  And it looked like forty one thought he had to pass off to the
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  corner, right, So you're watching the corner. Yeah, so I read
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  as soon as he came in, you said, okay, I got Jim,
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  I'm hitting it. Yeah exactly. And then I really didn't think about
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  the throw, just let it. Let it up, dude. You stroked
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  it so well. I got nervous. I mean that bad. Yeah,
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  that bad boy. It's an say. I got binoculars when I'm doing it,
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  and I'm watching it, and I look down there and I see my
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  guy running down there, and I'm going like, he is absolutely wide open,
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  and you feathered it in there, and it was just like whoa.
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  Yeah, well, uh, you can pull up practice clips from Tuesday.
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  We had that same look, not in the same field zone. This was
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  kind of like we snapped it on the fifty, so it was kind of
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  more open field. But we had we ran that play two times last week
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  and it was two incompletions I missed though by me and then a drop and
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  then obviously the Baylor game, we uh, we converted it to the wheel.
• 19:57
  Guy was in I mean, same thing to the corner to him on
• 20:02
  the same yeah, and we didn't connect on it. But practice makes perfect
• 20:06
  yep, exactly. You had a couple of nice runs on that drive.
• 20:10
  What were those plays initially supposed to be? Were they runs or was I
• 20:14
  see you later? Guys? No, And Coach Brown has been pretty good
• 20:17
  about like giving me freedom of if I see a rush lane, I can
• 20:19
  take it. And that's that's kind of what happened on those two rush plays.
• 20:23
  You know, they're there, guys rushed super high and super wide,
• 20:26
  and then our tackles and guards kind of just pushed them off. And then
• 20:30
  I saw open grass and got what I can and then got down, got
• 20:33
  out of bounce, jahem, gave you a great block on the one.
• 20:36
  Yeah, at the edge coming right spring sprung you right up the left side
• 20:38
  there. Yeah. Yeah. Describe your relationship with Neil Brown as the season
• 20:44
  since you got here to where it is now. Yeah, I think even
• 20:47
  going back to before I even got here, was you know, he was
• 20:51
  my first offer when when I was a sophomore in high school, so I
• 20:52
  was I don't know, I don't know how old I was, but I
• 20:56
  was probably a fourteen fifteen year old kid, and then you know, kind
• 20:59
  of fast forward seven Yeah, it's been seven years, but fast forward seven
• 21:03
  years. Now I'm twenty two, and you know, kind of we have
• 21:07
  a really great relationship where you know, he can jump my ass and he
• 21:10
  can do all those things, but at the end of the day, we
• 21:12
  know how we feel about each other, and I want to want to play
• 21:15
  for anybody else. That's interesting you say that, because that's kind of my
• 21:18
  perception too, that he like it's almost like father's son in the sensely he
• 21:22
  cuts you no slack and you don't want to have any slack cut. He
• 21:26
  knows what you can do. He's got total trust in you. But at
• 21:30
  the same time he's going to let you know, dude, just do what
• 21:33
  I tell you to do and it'll all work. And it's all work.
• 21:36
  Yeah, that's a great way to put it. If if I were the
• 21:38
  coach of a team that needed a quarterback, I would call you. Okay,
• 21:45
  So how many calls of you here? He goes, See, he's
• 21:49
  a catfish, always digging up from the bottom. How many How many calls
• 21:53
  have you gotten to say come play for us? Throwing money around A and
• 21:59
  B. Are you open to any of those? Or are you gonna definitely
• 22:03
  be here next year? I mean, anybody could call me in. I'm
• 22:07
  not leaving, so, but you've gotten calls. Anybody could call me in
• 22:11
  and I'm not leaving, so you'll be here next year. Yes, thousand,
• 22:17
  Hoppy, not ninety ninety five, ninety seven, ninety nine, one
• 22:19
  thousand. Tell me we're in a world and again not to talk like he
• 22:25
  knows that we're in a world wherever people are gonna get calls. Yeah,
• 22:27
  well good, you only get paid here too. You know he's gonna listen,
• 22:32
  he's gonna be the big twelve offensive play that your preseason, So gota
• 22:34
  come back here. The call he takes, the call he takes is when
• 22:37
  fine looking Phil over Daniel's calls him and says, hey, when you go
• 22:41
  down there and sit with the three guys. Despite Hoppy's questions, isn't that
• 22:44
  true? Yeah, I'm exactly every where? Did I mean? Yeah,
• 22:48
  all right, I don't have any more questions. No, in all serious
• 22:52
  sit over here. No, in all seriousness. Though, this is retention
• 22:56
  week, as you well know, and it's a hard week. So that's
• 23:00
  it's all morph literally since I mean, it didn't even exist when you got
• 23:03
  here. So how much at all do you even talk with your boys about
• 23:10
  stuff or is it just kind of happen and you just kind of everyone does
• 23:12
  their deal I mean, I don't mean to deal literally, but everyone's just
• 23:15
  kind of doing it, going and doing their thing. Yeah, I think
• 23:18
  it's all it's all dependent on, like like who the player is. You
• 23:22
  know, if it's somebody that you know, I have a connection with that
• 23:23
  you know, possibly maybe thinking about leaving or whatever, you know, I
• 23:29
  probably wouldn't wouldn't stress too much about it. But if it was if it
• 23:33
  was one of my guys or someone that really care about, you know,
• 23:36
  I I'll kind of just have have the real conversation, not really persuading him
• 23:38
  to to stay here, but kind of making them think about, all right,
• 23:42
  if I leave the pros the cons and if I stay here the pros
• 23:45
  and the cons. Am. I correct at your mom when you signed here,
• 23:48
  she said, you're going to West Virginia. You're stayed at West Virginia,
• 23:52
  and you're gonna graduate from West Virginia. Yeah, that's kind of been
• 23:55
  that's kind of been my whole family's deal is you know, you this this
• 23:59
  state's done done a whole lot for you. So you're you're gonna stay and
• 24:02
  you're gonna get your degree from there. M hm. So I was thinking
• 24:06
  about this as well earlier today you are old school in the sense that you
• 24:11
  had to go through adversity and perseverance before you got your opportunity. And that's
• 24:17
  how it used to work, because unfortunately now a lot of times when people
• 24:22
  get into these situations, they bolt and maybe sometimes it works for them,
• 24:26
  sometimes it doesn't work for him. But like to me, like you're in
• 24:32
  a category for me now of a guy that hung it hung through. You
• 24:37
  went through the obstacles and you and you got the reward, and that to
• 24:41
  me is like the ultimate thing because that's the best life lesson right there.
• 24:45
  And so you know, it wasn't all easy, but you get through it
• 24:51
  and now at the end you're gonna go like, I had my year that
• 24:52
  I just had and I've got another year coming up. There that's the reward,
• 24:56
  and you've learned a ton about yourself by not saying, you know,
• 25:00
  pe on this, I'm out of here. I'm gonna go somewhere else.
• 25:03
  Yeah, And you know, I think it kind of just just goes back
• 25:06
  to my family, you know, like whenever I was going through you through
• 25:10
  that time, my mom sent me a verse John thirteen seven that says like,
• 25:14
  although you don't know what I'm doing now. Eventually you will understand.
• 25:17
  And that's kind of the story of my career so far. You know,
• 25:21
  played a little, played, didn't play at all, and then kind of
• 25:22
  last year kind of back and forth, and then eventually you know, it
• 25:26
  ended up being the starter. Yeah, you think your mom could come on
• 25:30
  three guys with us and talk. She'ld be willing. I think so,
• 25:33
  because that's social that one post you had, that one post she throws,
• 25:37
  she plays catch with him. She I mean, she can bring it.
• 25:40
  And he told us that last time. Yes's day. Yeah. So with
• 25:44
  my dad being being a professional baseball coach, you know, obviously in the
• 25:48
  springtime and a lot of in fall league and stuff like that, he was
• 25:52
  gone a whole lot. He did his best to come around us. But
• 25:55
  you know, I was a little kid, so I always wanted to throw
• 25:56
  the football round and my mom was was the best the white I I've ever
• 26:00
  had. Yeah, absolutely, she can bring it. You. You got
• 26:04
  off social media during the season, just turned it back on. Yeah,
• 26:07
  oh was that there's no really, no really need to need to be on
• 26:14
  it, Like I've turned I got it back when when I needed to post
• 26:17
  something or whatever. But you know, the only people's that opinions matter is
• 26:22
  inside that building. And you know, and if your opinion matags me,
• 26:23
  you have my cell phone number. So there's no real need to be on
• 26:27
  social media. What's what's it? What's it like when you're when you all
• 26:33
  try or when you were carrying the ball on like a fourth and one and
• 26:38
  it's just like everybody's going to push you forward and like it took. It's
• 26:44
  like a scrum with twenty guys in there. I mean you're like, where
• 26:47
  am I? Where's the ball? Who the hell is pushing me from behind?
• 26:51
  What's going on? What is that? Like? People grabbing the ball?
• 26:53
  People grabbing it? What's that on? Yeah, there's just it's just
• 26:56
  bodies everywhere, like you're getting you're getting blood on you that you don't know
• 27:00
  where the hell is from. Like there's people laying on you that you don't
• 27:03
  even know they were in on the play. Yeah, it's just it's a
• 27:07
  cluster. You know what I'd say that what are you looking for? Like
• 27:12
  when you get it, where are you going first? Like are you going
• 27:15
  right right in the back right knee, back of his right knee and going
• 27:18
  where? Yeah? Usually it's like game by game, which which side Fraser
• 27:22
  is going to? But then I was kind of just tucking behind him and
• 27:26
  going and you see, like you feel terrible pressure behind you. That's what
• 27:29
  it's Nestor doing. These guys, Travis and you guys have almost dated basically.
• 27:37
  Yeah, I mean, did you set number goals before the season?
• 27:40
  No, just just just went because that's the only really stat that matters,
• 27:45
  the stat that we all talked about in the off season. Okay, the
• 27:49
  one thing Garrett has to do is limit his turnovers. Limit his turnovers.
• 27:55
  That's the thing you said it to us. That's what he told us.
• 27:57
  You confirmed and like, sound you have those numbers down there by any Chand
• 28:02
  what how'd we do? Did you only had four picks on an entire season
• 28:07
  and not all four years? Not all four years? What do you mean?
• 28:10
  I'm just saying he doesn't have to respond that. I'm just saying that's
• 28:12
  four and Steth, it's unbelievable. Fifteen touchdoup asses four four picks, doesn't
• 28:15
  count the rushing touchdowns, not all four picks for years. That's an incredible
• 28:21
  that's an incredible season just in and of itself, for that being the thing
• 28:23
  you said you had to work on the most. I mean, how were
• 28:26
  you able to do that? What what caused you to be able to keep
• 28:30
  the interceptions down like that? I think it all just goes back to my
• 28:33
  preparation and kind of how how I prepared a weekend and week out. I
• 28:37
  think that's kind of kind of the mark of a quarterback is how well he
• 28:41
  plays or how well he prepares, and then translating that that to how well
• 28:45
  he plays. And I think, you know, learning from JT and learning
• 28:48
  from Daygi, you know, in my younger years, you know, kind
• 28:52
  of set a great foundation for how to prepare and how to how to know
• 28:56
  a game plan and know what the defense is doing in and out. We'll
• 28:59
  go through. Pro Football Focus does a stack called turnover worthy play, So
• 29:02
  it's not just interceptions, but maybe it's passes. It probably should have turned
• 29:06
  into turnovers. You didn't really have any of those either. You only had
• 29:07
  nine all season. So were there times when you would normally have thrown it
• 29:12
  into a tight space that you pulled back on? Man? I can only
• 29:15
  think of one where you tried to force one in, and I get it
• 29:18
  because you were rolling. Yeah yeah, I mean I think, yeah,
• 29:22
  right, yeah, that was That was the heat check. It was a
• 29:29
  good heat check. You were rolling, things were working great. That was
• 29:32
  wasn't It wasn't too fond of that one. Yes, I will say,
• 29:36
  but but I'm not sure that's not the only one you had all season.
• 29:37
  Like, how did you in the moment? I know, I know you're
• 29:41
  back there and things are coming at you. You're not sitting there able to
• 29:44
  walk it through like we do when you watch it, But how did you
• 29:45
  rain that back in? I think that you know, Coach Brown and coach
• 29:49
  Reig, and they do a great job of just harping on me that,
• 29:52
  you know, treat every play at its own play, So like not if
• 29:56
  we if we run one play into this look and they show that same look,
• 30:00
  the outcome may not be the exact same. So it's kind of just
• 30:03
  treating each play independent from one another, and that kind of saves you from
• 30:07
  from all the guests work. How do you what happens when and take the
• 30:11
  Baylor game is the first half, you guys are just like, just give
• 30:15
  us the ball, I mean, just up and down the field those topics,
• 30:18
  and then things stall out in the second half until that frontal drove.
• 30:21
  I mean what happens. What happens. Then, Yeah, you know we
• 30:23
  the Baylor came out and they played really really well on defense. You know,
• 30:27
  their record doesn't show up, but they have really really good players on
• 30:30
  defense. I think number two is a really good player. Fifty five was
• 30:33
  a really good player. I have a pretty pretty good secondary. And then
• 30:37
  we had some costly penalties that kind of stalled out drives and you know,
• 30:41
  get us in third and longs third and you know, extra long sometimes,
• 30:47
  and that really kills an offense. It's tough to be, you know,
• 30:48
  phenomenal as an offense if you're having to convert third and fifteens, third and
• 30:55
  twenties sometimes. But then you know, our guys are super resilient and that
• 31:00
  it's kind of been been the theme this whole year is just how resilient our
• 31:03
  group is, and you know we were able to respond. That third down
• 31:07
  was critical for you guys. Sports Info Solutions put a stat out yesterday.
• 31:11
  You guys were fourth in the country. So it's third and long rate and
• 31:15
  that translates to the lowest percentage of set of downs reaching third and seven or
• 31:19
  longer fourth best in the country. I meaning he had the fourth fewest of
• 31:22
  those situations. Your first and second downs were really good this year. That's
• 31:26
  critical to you guys, right, and you get to third and four and
• 31:29
  that whole playbooks available to you. Yeah, then that's kind of you know,
• 31:32
  in fall camp, coach Brown had the tracker of you know, p
• 31:36
  and ten first and ten and then second down efficiency. So it's kind of
• 31:38
  something that we tracked and we you know, worked on throughout the whole entire
• 31:45
  fall camp, was how how to get better at first downs and how to
• 31:48
  get better at second downs because he has the statistics. But you know,
• 31:53
  if you get four more on first down, you know, your chances to
• 31:56
  convert, your chances to score, you know, skyrocket. So that was
• 31:59
  really the point emphasis this afseason. Let's talk about Neil for a second and
• 32:02
  play calling, and I realize a lot of what I'm about to say comes
• 32:06
  because of success on first down. It comes from lack of turnovers from you.
• 32:10
  But the playbooks seemed to really expand and open up this year. Multiple
• 32:15
  sets, multiple motions. Every game there was a new wrinkle put in.
• 32:19
  Just give us a little bit of behind the scenes about how you were able
• 32:22
  to add and stack different formations throughout the year and let him kind of get
• 32:25
  creative with you. Well, I think it all just all starts with our
• 32:29
  personnel and who we have at the skill positions now even talking about the O
• 32:34
  line because they know how good they are. But you know, we have
• 32:37
  Jehem White who you saw in that last catch. He's great hands. They
• 32:39
  had the Baylor catch. So I think for an offense, it was just
• 32:44
  how do we get those guys the ball in open space? So we had
• 32:47
  Ridney on a couple of jet sweeps, and we had Cole Taylor up the
• 32:52
  seams, and we had Trailon Ray running running deep ball, So just how
• 32:54
  do we get the ball in those guys' hands? And you could just run
• 32:59
  multips during our last game at former WV defensive coordinators with us, and he
• 33:02
  had sketched out the seven or eight different plays you run off the same formation,
• 33:08
  and we were just tallying up as you went that that stuff that you
• 33:12
  weren't doing last year, you couldn't do last year, but you were able
• 33:15
  to do it this year because of all the components that were in place.
• 33:17
  Right. Yeah, and co coachbind does a really good job of kind of
• 33:21
  making looks and how stuff looks on offense, really really hard for the defense.
• 33:25
  But then the play calls are still the play calls, you know,
• 33:29
  like for a quarterback. Like the spots the people are gonna be There's gonna
• 33:31
  be people in the same spots. It just may change who's gonna be there.
• 33:36
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  mean it'd be fun to go back home, but really we can play wherever.
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  O'Tay physically you've played twelve. I would imagine you're like, oh,
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  I need a little rest here. How you feeling physically after for good?
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  Good? You know, ankle and rid, but you know, feel good?
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  Okay, that's that game. You There was one game well a couple
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  of years, like it looked like you were really hurt, like you limped
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  off like, oh one you see U s F. How possibly did you
• 35:53
  go down like that and then come back in one play later? Because I
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  thought you broke something? What was going on? Yeah? They just you
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  know, went in the tent and then you know, is there magic.
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  It's just it's tough. It comes out Vincent Zach did a great job and
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  you know, like mister ready to go, Like when you walk into the
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  tent, I remember, like it's like and they like they're like that's best
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  special stuff and they said do do do do? And they just kind of
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  yeah, Vince, Vince has some secrets that right, you know, like
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  he got me from you know, after Pig Game not not really being able
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  to walk, like in a walking boot on Monday to you know, I
• 36:30
  was, I was able to to be ready to play, uh against Texas
• 36:34
  Tech next week. Yeah, so let's talk about that week TCU week where
• 36:37
  you don't think you're gonna go, Nico gets hurt midweek and you go out
• 36:43
  there. How how what was your percentage of health against TCU? Uh,
• 36:49
  tough to remember back that far, but probably we're going to go. But
• 36:52
  you started Thursday, you got probably like somewhere in the sixties probably. Uh.
• 37:00
  Yeah, Like when we found out he was he was hurt and he
• 37:01
  couldn't go, I felt like I really felt like I was in high school
• 37:06
  again, throwing throwing for college coaches because like during meetings, uh, coach
• 37:09
  Brown and the trainer like got some white outs and we went up in the
• 37:13
  indoor and Coach Brown was just like calling out routes and like I was just
• 37:15
  throwing routes. So I really really felt like I was I was in high
• 37:19
  school trying to get an offer again. You you we've been watching the games.
• 37:24
  We noticed many times and perhaps you'd be having a conversation with the opposing
• 37:28
  team if the discussions going on one. I forget which game it was,
• 37:32
  Brad, but it seemed like there was two or three of them and one
• 37:35
  of Garrett Green and discussing back and forth. It was early and Penn state.
• 37:40
  You described maybe tcu ayenas might have been referenced the Yeah, yeah,
• 37:52
  so all over got your back was right? There was there just in gag.
• 37:59
  Give us some characterization of how that starts, what might be said in
• 38:04
  those circumstances when you young men have those discussions. Yeah, you know,
• 38:07
  I just as some like really really how their family's doing. You know,
• 38:12
  how their mom's doing, how their dad's doing, you know how they like
• 38:15
  the weather, you know if it's too hot or too cold for them,
• 38:17
  and really just like how their day was going. It's kind of all.
• 38:20
  It's all it's said in those instances, And they were returning the same questions
• 38:24
  to you, just tressing how I was doing, how how the how the
• 38:27
  flight treat me, how's the hotel? Stuff like that. Yeah. Generally
• 38:31
  though the theme of those conversations, Yeah, the theme of those conversations are
• 38:37
  generally this am I right or wrong? The theme is the defensive player will
• 38:42
  say you ain't anything, and you're saying like I'm gonna be here all night
• 38:46
  long. You can't stop. That's basically what it is all the time,
• 38:49
  right, Like, you can't stop me like that. That's in between asking
• 38:52
  you know how the family and stuff like that. I get that, I
• 38:54
  get that. I get that. You referenced this earlier, the low point
• 38:59
  of your seat the Houston game at the end. Okay, So again,
• 39:04
  as I said to you earlier on perseverance and going through hard times, is
• 39:08
  when you come out of it, you go like, wow, how did
• 39:12
  you deal? Like how crushed? And how what was your best piece of
• 39:16
  advice that you got to get through that? Get there through that week and
• 39:19
  let's go play the next game. Yeah, you know, I think it
• 39:21
  just I think it just goes back to my weekly routine, you know.
• 39:27
  I mean after that game it came obviously sucked, and you know, I
• 39:30
  made a mistake that you know, tony quarterback can't make in that situation.
• 39:36
  But you know, Friday morning, I visited, uh this, I visited
• 39:39
  the hospital actually started a fundraiser for for her. Her name's Katie, Katie
• 39:45
  Strong, and me and Fraser did that at like nine in the morning on
• 39:51
  the Friday after and that kind of like puts puts a lot of things into
• 39:53
  perspective that here this girl is she she's a sophomore in high school, and
• 39:58
  she's really really battling her ass off balance this day after the game. This
• 40:01
  is the morning after and you got home at whatever it was three whatever.
• 40:06
  Yeah, so that that was the next morning. I kind of just showered,
• 40:08
  rolled out of bed and went up there. But it kind of just
• 40:12
  puts puts everything in a perspective for me. And the Sunday went to church
• 40:15
  and then you know, everything was was going going after that. Yeah,
• 40:20
  I mean think about it, and that's all mindset stuff. If you let
• 40:22
  that fester and you let it kill you, it'll crush you. If you
• 40:27
  go the other way on the thing, you can use it as a source.
• 40:29
  Absolutely. I think Hoppy's been better behaved. Yes, I feel like
• 40:36
  he's got some questions lined up, so just fire. I've been doing some
• 40:39
  stuff. Hey, let's I'm not even I'll just tell you this. I
• 40:43
  mean, everybody's stroking you, and they should. You had a great year.
• 40:46
  I've seen a lot of games. I've seen a lot of games.
• 40:51
  I've you know, to be a mountainer fan as at times is a sufferer.
• 40:53
  You know, I've graduated from the university, and I just I really
• 40:58
  enjoyed the year. You know, I mean, we cover it, but
• 41:00
  I mean as a fan, I enjoy the year. I enjoyed watching you
• 41:04
  all play, you know, And I think that that was one of the
• 41:07
  things and Brand and I talked about there's a lot about this team. There
• 41:09
  were there were times, there were many times where you go, not with
• 41:13
  this team. You go who's going to score, Who's going to make a
• 41:15
  play? What's going to happen here? That we're frustrations and there this team
• 41:19
  brought a lot of joy this year, and for that, I think you
• 41:22
  all deserve a lot of thanks. And I know it's a lot of hard
• 41:24
  work, so but you brought a lot of joy to to mat your nation
• 41:28
  this year. Thank you. Yeah. And this team is kind of one
• 41:30
  of the one of the closest teams I've been on. You know, everybody
• 41:34
  from defensive linemen to even quarterbacks and safeties to o lineman. I think top
• 41:40
  to bottom that this was a really really close core and close group that I
• 41:45
  think that's what what eventually led to success. Yeah, it makes the difference,
• 41:47
  doesn't it. Yep. No, doubt. Yeah, what's something that
• 41:52
  common folks don't know about Neil Brown that makes them good at what he does?
• 42:00
  I think just like just how he goes about business and how he not
• 42:04
  really so much football wise, but just how he develops men. You know.
• 42:07
  I mean, I came in here as an eighteen year old boy,
• 42:09
  graduated high school early, came from the sunshine to the snow, and it
• 42:15
  really really I've you know, I say I was born and raised in Florida,
• 42:19
  but then I really grew up in West Virginia and that couldn't be more
• 42:22
  true. Like I wrote my first check and I hadn't had to ever write
• 42:25
  a check before. But you know, it's just a little stuff like that
• 42:29
  that like my laundry. I gotta do my laundry, Sure, stuff like
• 42:32
  that, like making your back, but all the stuff are kind of so
• 42:36
  small, but I'm on the greater scale just just really becoming a man.
• 42:38
  And I think that's I think that's what he really does best that people don't
• 42:43
  really realize, is how good of men he makes. Yeah, fifth quarter
• 42:47
  program has been good. We talked about that last time when you went overseas.
• 42:51
  By the way, we received a couple of emails here. Still have
• 42:53
  some outstanding bills at a few bars in Greece when you made your way over
• 42:58
  there. I gotta get on that, try to try to wrap that up.
• 43:01
  God forbid, I have to go back there and handle it. Terrible.
• 43:06
  I forget someone one of your one of your teammates told me that they're
• 43:08
  going over. They're going heck, I just talked with them. I forget
• 43:12
  who it was, but they're going over this year or this summer. You're
• 43:15
  not going back, are you? Oh you're going back. We're back this
• 43:19
  see yeah for you, Yeah, we're going back. So when's that in
• 43:23
  the summer. I have no idea. I've just been I've just been worried
• 43:28
  about Saturdays. So yeah, yeah, but I do know that we're going
• 43:31
  back. So when you're all done, done, done, done done,
• 43:36
  I mean, when when you have finally the airs out of the ball,
• 43:37
  I mean, I don't want it's going to be what do you want to
• 43:40
  do? I want to do do something finance of financial advisoring, wealth management,
• 43:45
  some some something like that. My original, my original playing with I
• 43:49
  want to be offensive coordinator. But but you know, after seeing how how
• 43:53
  much this guys busted their ass, and how much at the stadium. You
• 43:57
  know, I like my free time. So yeah, well you'll do fantastic,
• 44:01
  you do fantastic. So one of the one of the really great mountaineers
• 44:06
  of all time. Under Johnson, who's from Florida, played at Stranahan down
• 44:08
  at Fort Lauderdale. He came here as a running back in the eighties.
• 44:12
  He was part of the undefeated team to play for the national championship. And
• 44:15
  he became a financial advisor right out of football and has done just tremendous maybe
• 44:22
  you know, oh sure, we went to get under absolutely. Yeah remember
• 44:25
  the how family does that as well? Oh yeah, absolutely, certified financial
• 44:30
  player. Yeah, absolutely, so big. We can get that. We
• 44:34
  can get that. We'll cut you out of here in a second. But
• 44:37
  you're good. Christmas Wise, is this you? By the way, is
• 44:42
  this your favorite podcast that you do? Without a doubt? Thank you?
• 44:45
  Not even close. Uh what's what is what is green family tradition at Christmas?
• 44:50
  Is there something that is just like was a standard that you guys always
• 44:52
  did. I mean, other than my mom's cooking. You know, my
• 44:58
  dad's a really really big basketball fan, so we always had we always had
• 45:02
  basketball on which I don't really care for about Like really, yeah, that's
• 45:07
  interesting. Yeah, I'm not really like, like basketball probably my fourth favorite
• 45:12
  support to watch. How about that? What I thord? Then, because
• 45:15
  there's obviously baseball football. One did go football baseball and then I may get
• 45:20
  flag for this, But golf. I love watching golf like I love love
• 45:23
  to play, and then like watching like my favorite week of the years,
• 45:27
  the Augusta Masters week, because all I do is just sit there and just
• 45:30
  watch just people do something that I could never do. Would you watch?
• 45:34
  Do you watch football? So like Coyler college games, you sit down and
• 45:38
  watch college games in season or you get away from it when you're away from
• 45:40
  it. You want to be away from it. Yeah, so really during
• 45:44
  during season and stuff like that, I try to not not really watch too
• 45:46
  much game just because I watch so much football, like throughout the week then
• 45:51
  and stuff. Right, you know, I kind of just want to decompress
• 45:53
  a little bit and not watch them. So like I really don't watch NFL
• 45:55
  football on Sunday. Will you pick it up? Now? Watch NFL now
• 45:59
  so as you're going through or yeah? So I always watch the bowl games
• 46:02
  because I feel like they're just so fun and so interesting that you know,
• 46:07
  you never know what could happen. Oh, they're crazy. Now you don't
• 46:09
  know who's not playing who is playing it. It's yeah, so probably now
• 46:13
  I'll start watching. Right about now, I start watching more football until we
• 46:16
  eventually get to a game week. We have to really start swing. What's
• 46:20
  your favorite goal golf course? You play around here, Pete die? What
• 46:23
  do you shoot? My personal best is eighty one there, it's pretty good.
• 46:29
  It's my personal best. What do you think if you start to really
• 46:31
  when you become a finance advisor and you got to take your clients out to
• 46:35
  play all the time, what do you think you'll get it down to?
• 46:37
  My goal is I want to become scratch? That's my goal. Is that
• 46:42
  realistic? Yeah? I think so. It's just the my dad always jokes
• 46:46
  to me because I'll pound it three hundred yards and then we'll end up with
• 46:50
  the same show but the same score, but drive for show. And right
• 46:53
  now where my golf game is. I'm a big show guy. Your dad
• 46:58
  great with a fun go back. Oh gosh, he could hit that through
• 47:00
  the catcher straight up in the air. Oh he he maybe he maybe HiT's
• 47:05
  a It's a fun go as good as he throws it like he could he
• 47:08
  could probably bust the camera lens out, which just it's one of the hardest
• 47:12
  things in sports. Those guys the infield fungo pop up to the catchers hardest
• 47:16
  things in sports. Fact really, Garrett Fact. Yeah. Oh, you
• 47:21
  think about what you're doing because you got a bat about that big, and
• 47:23
  you're hitting a ball straight up in the air for the catcher and he's got
• 47:27
  to have back spin because in the game, uh, when whenever they hit
• 47:31
  a pop to the catcher, it always comes back towards the phone. Oh
• 47:34
  yeah, they have to get the right spin on it to where it comes
• 47:36
  back. Oh yeah, it's an art. Yeah. I mean those guys
• 47:39
  are like like like that. They rank right up there with like pool sharks
• 47:44
  and everything else. I mean that's a yeah, because the other thing is
• 47:46
  also at the lower level, like a high school and even some of the
• 47:49
  smart colleges. You got, both teams are watching you, right if it's
• 47:52
  the last thing that happens, so you don't want to go to do it
• 47:54
  and it goes out into center field and everybody's on your right, so you
• 47:58
  got pressure. It's pressure. Yeah. One of the rare pregame pressure moments
• 48:00
  there is you've looked really good sometimes well not sometimes. I mean going into
• 48:06
  the stadium this year when you do the the walk there mountaineer man trip.
• 48:12
  Our boy Phil took care of you, didn't he. Yeah, that's that's
• 48:15
  that's his specialty. So when you go there, like, how's a conversation
• 48:19
  Like, are you saying, Phil, I'm feeling mauve or I'm feeling bow
• 48:22
  tie? What do you it? Well, I'm really really gonna divert this
• 48:28
  one to the boss. My mom she kind of she she sends me pictures
• 48:32
  of I like this, I like this, and I'm kind of just yeah,
• 48:37
  I kind of just do what I'm told. The model. Yeah,
• 48:39
  I kind of do what I'm told. So whatever she wants is what I'm
• 48:43
  she she shut down the full seersucker suit this year. My mom put the
• 48:47
  kebash on. Really, that's kind of a sound the border climate wise,
• 48:52
  I don't think you wanted that. I mean something, you can seasons different
• 48:57
  seas well. He just did this yesterday. What do you mean, Well,
• 49:00
  you just got you got new suit coming for the bull game? Right?
• 49:01
  Oh you got your bullsuit? Alright? Did you get so last time
• 49:05
  you were here, we discussed this. Did you go pants like ankle length
• 49:08
  again? Right? You went the shorter pants or did you drop these down
• 49:10
  a little bit, a little bit older since you were here last time?
• 49:14
  Yeah, my dad, my dad hates the short short pants. But I
• 49:17
  don't go with the short pants. You can pull the short pull the short
• 49:20
  pants off. You can go. Yeah, you can do what you get.
• 49:23
  Do you have a picture of what do we get here? Because you
• 49:25
  got pocket square? You do a top hat this time? Or no top
• 49:29
  hat? Hop hat, walking stick with a walking stick that's strong? Yeah?
• 49:35
  What is it? Gray and gray blue? And you go to the
• 49:37
  pop tart. I may have a may have a little caveat, may go
• 49:40
  back for sher soucker. If you do that one possibly might need to do
• 49:44
  that nice brown where it's Johnson and Murphy shoes. I think like maroonish reddish
• 49:50
  tie blue pants. Very good pocket square, Well, I mean we're not
• 49:54
  surprised. I mean Phil dresses the stars. I mean right, Phil from
• 49:59
  A is Z from A to Z he'll But truly the best part on all
• 50:02
  seriousness when you go in to fill the best part is you can you can
• 50:05
  pull what Garrett, you just walk in Sarah go ahead, what bring it
• 50:08
  out? And he just starts dropping things down, and all you have to
• 50:12
  do is yes, no, yes, no, that's it right, And
• 50:15
  then everything that shoes, socks, pockets square the whole thing. My fun
• 50:19
  thing is if by some weird chance, it's not a perfect fit, he
• 50:22
  runs the tailors out, tailors come out. Taylor's plural, the tailor's right.
• 50:28
  I mean here, chalk Harry, Harry. Harry just kind of looks
• 50:30
  up at you, and then all of a sudden he goes boom boom.
• 50:35
  Yeah, there's there's no better feeling than a perfectly fitted shirt from from Daniels.
• 50:39
  There, you go, give me one yesterday. You know it's holiday
• 50:42
  season, so you tend to be a little carry the extra water weight sometimes
• 50:45
  during yes I said, we're filling a little tight. I gotta be able
• 50:49
  to go. We'll just have Harry just pop this right out here. We'll
• 50:52
  just ease it out, dude. A little chalk line right on the coat
• 50:53
  there makes it really easy. Yeah. Hey, before uh, he's got
• 50:57
  to go to class, So listen before we before we let him go,
• 51:00
  you're can do some spreads on stats with him. You got his spreads on
• 51:04
  stats numbers. Yeah, I got right here. Let's do it. Okay,
• 51:05
  wait a second, let's just do a little bit of this because we
• 51:07
  have special Garretrean editions. We'll just go right to the numbers. Comes.
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  straight individual. First time we've done straight individual while the individual is sitting right
• 51:32
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  said, yes, I do know that. I say that I'm the read
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  you to know that. And he says, well, I'm a tax lawyer.
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  So he respected the CFO services. All right, give me some Garret
• 52:24
  Green numbers. So here we go, Garrett. So this normally in this
• 52:27
  will give like keys to the game, find different matchups. We use the
• 52:29
  analytics to look inside the game, like coming up in basketball for you leave,
• 52:31
  I'm gonna mention that Saint John's likes to go to that left short paint.
• 52:36
  That's where you're gonna have to offend them on the block. That's that's
• 52:38
  our main point. Yeah, they'll shoot that about seven percent of the time.
• 52:42
  They'll go for field goals in that part twelve to twenty nine on the
• 52:44
  year. So they shoot it pretty well from there. Okay, so that's
• 52:45
  kind of what we normally did. This is a little different. It's a
• 52:47
  little different. This is all about you. Okay, excuse me put this
• 52:51
  on here, Garret Green. Welcome, this is your life. And so
• 52:55
  I think, well I'll save it till the end. Here's here's just some
• 52:59
  straight numbers for this Garrett Green second best Pro Football Focused grade in the Big
• 53:04
  Twelve among quarterbacks. Very good season. But how about this seventh best grade
• 53:08
  nationally? You had this year of all quarterbacks that played college football, you
• 53:12
  had the seventh best grade point of clarification. I saw somebody put a tweet
• 53:16
  out there yesterday with this that they were actually incorrect they had you had eighth,
• 53:20
  your seventh based on grade big time throws. We talked about that a
• 53:23
  little bit ago. So that's a pro football focused stat that measures great throws
• 53:28
  that you had, even if they didn't necessarily turn into touchdowns. Greated his
• 53:30
  big time throws. He had twenty nine, most in the Big Twelve.
• 53:35
  But you had a big time throw percentage of ten point four percent of the
• 53:38
  of your past attempts ten point four percent, Tony. Need you hear that
• 53:43
  ten percent of his throws were big time throws? According to Pro Football Focus
• 53:45
  ten the next closest in the league five point seven percent, almost double.
• 53:51
  Is that a pretty good year? Who was that? Don't have it in
• 53:52
  front of me? Touchdown don't care? Only cared about him touchdown passes over
• 53:58
  twenty yards or more. Garrett led the Big Twelve with eleven, the only
• 54:01
  quarterback in double digits this year throwing the deep ball that well, how about
• 54:05
  rushing yards? Garrett led the Big twelve seven hundred and eight rushing yards this
• 54:07
  season. His thirteen rushing touchdowns led all Big twelve quarterbacks. Was only one
• 54:15
  of only two Big twelve quarterbacks to have double ditchit rushing touchdowns as well.
• 54:17
  You want me to keep going because I can. I got a couple more
• 54:21
  misstackles forced. Garrett had twenty seven again led all Big twelve quarterbacks wiggly hips,
• 54:27
  and finally ten yard runs or more. Garrett led all Big twelve quarterbacks
• 54:30
  with twenty eight. There's a million more. I know he's got to get
• 54:34
  to class, so we won't do them all. I think after going through
• 54:36
  all of that said last night, he got hosed out of this at least
• 54:39
  second team All Big twelve Quarterback. Yeah. All due respect to Will Howard
• 54:43
  at Kansas State had a good year, Garrett should have been that. I
• 54:45
  think we can safely name him as the Three Guys Podcast Big twelve Offensive Player
• 54:51
  of the Year. Yes, correct. Everybody likes to give their own awards.
• 54:53
  Are you on board with you? I have no question. I'm wondering
• 54:57
  about that. Yes, the Dame Howard got Look, I get all,
• 55:00
  Gordon's a player of the Year. I mean I do get that. But
• 55:01
  I mean when you consider not only Garrett's well again, talk about it like
• 55:05
  he's not here. I mean Garrett's passing and his running and his production based
• 55:08
  on those stats, I mean, that's that's worth the team. Look at
• 55:12
  all those stats that I just gave right there. I know, I know,
• 55:14
  are Tony you good with that? Three guys Big twelve Offensive Player of
• 55:19
  the Year Garrett Green. Yeah, I'm getting ready. So we don't have
• 55:21
  a trophy yet because it's the first year we've done this. So I'm gonna
• 55:23
  give him a piece of this peanut butter pie that el Yeah, that's his
• 55:29
  word. Ude, I'm gonna get in all seriousness. In the South,
• 55:30
  love languages, foods. So yo, that's unbelievable, Like you didn't just
• 55:37
  have a good year. Like if you would have come in and been the
• 55:38
  starter, first year starter, put up some numbers, that would have been
• 55:40
  a good year. That's an elite year right there. That's one of the
• 55:44
  best offensive years in this league. A question, But just so, how
• 55:49
  do you keep your head on straight? Uh, A lot of it has
• 55:53
  to do with my dad. Really. He just says, he just says
• 55:57
  that, you know, you're like you're kind of discratching the surf, and
• 56:00
  you know, that's kind of kind of the first full year I've played as
• 56:02
  a quarterback in college. And you know, I know, I know him
• 56:07
  and my family is gonna keep me humble, to keep working, and you
• 56:09
  know, we still we still got still got games to win. But the
• 56:14
  main thing is the main thing, and that's uh, that's winning ball games
• 56:16
  number one thing you'll work on on the off season heading into next year.
• 56:20
  Uh. Tony said it earlier, but like basically, there's basic pass game
• 56:24
  fundamentals, so where the easy toes are one hundred percent. Yeah all right,
• 56:30
  so let me try this live on air. Little cut you just a
• 56:34
  teeny little slide piece there. Yeah, seriously, So this is our first
• 56:37
  ever Big Twelve Conference Player of the Year, awarded by three guys, and
• 56:43
  we don't have a trophy, so we're paying them in peanut butter cake,
• 56:46
  but made by Laura A Left. Yeah, dude, tell me, we'll
• 56:50
  talk me through here. What do you logit? Right? That's what it's
• 56:52
  supposed to taste like you know the go that's that's the standard. M h.
• 56:55
  Yeah, that's well. Congratulations on your award. It's a wonderful season.
• 57:00
  Like you you don't need. That's not a traveling. That's not a
• 57:02
  traveling. Keep it. Yeah, you get to Yeah, and we'll we'll
• 57:07
  take care of you. Because let me just tell you this, here's the
• 57:09
  deal on this show. Now that people know that you like that. At
• 57:14
  the Pushcar Center, you're gonna walk in one of these days and Lorie Laurie
• 57:17
  Rice is gonna go, hey, Garrett, there's a package here for you.
• 57:21
  And then you're gonna look over there and there's gonna just be I think
• 57:23
  people, don't you think you guys know this. People will send him stuff
• 57:27
  now and you'll just like you won't need to pay for anything as far as
• 57:30
  desserts go. People take care of you. We shouldn't pay for anything when
• 57:34
  he's out. Ever. Ever, you heard that once a mountain here,
• 57:37
  always a mountaineer thing. There's some truth to that. If you see Garrett
• 57:42
  out having dinner, buy his dinner. No, wait a second, you
• 57:46
  guys don't have to mean you can't do that. I don't know if that's
• 57:51
  a violation there's you can't buy a dinner. I'd have to take a picture
• 57:58
  with him. I think, yeah, that would be in N I L.
• 58:00
  He But now you dinner for N I L. I was going to
• 58:04
  say this, that is a violation. But if you tell if you are
• 58:07
  on a federal wire tap and you say, I made the kid a strong
• 58:09
  ass offer, which approved. Yeah, yeah. But if you go get
• 58:15
  him like over at fish World over there and you get them like a piece
• 58:17
  of Alaskan cod with some green beans, that would be a violation. Really,
• 58:22
  is that right? I didn't know there was still rules. Crazy except
• 58:24
  when you're from Western Union to apply for a waiver. That might be the
• 58:27
  only situation. Okay, he's got good class. Yeah, you got good
• 58:31
  class, dude. I appreciate you. Coming. Business is a time,
• 58:37
  busy time there. He is Garrett Green presented by Daniels Men's Store of Morgantown.
• 58:40
  You can go here on in town or check out their website. All
• 58:45
  the gear they got, the reality is this they have Like there's gear all
• 58:50
  over Like everyone sells gear. We get that. We get that everyone sells
• 58:52
  gear with flying WV on it. Phil sells stuff that no one else has
• 58:58
  because he designs it you and he gets a lead, real quick plug.
• 59:00
  We're recording on Thursday. If you get this in time, you're coming to
• 59:04
  the game. Tomorrow's the coliseum. Friday night. It's a gold rush.
• 59:07
  It's a black rush. No, that's not that's coming up later. Friday's
• 59:10
  the gold rush. Oh gold tomorrow, get it together. Friday's the gold
• 59:14
  rush. Phil's got a bunch of new gold that's out there. If you
• 59:15
  need something on your way to the coliseum, here about what half a mile
• 59:19
  from the coliseum, swing in, grab it, head up to the game.
• 59:21
  So you're saying gold on Friday, Friday, next Wednesday for pitt Ah.
• 59:27
  Okay, he's got black stuff out too, in anticipation. I don't
• 59:30
  even know well, I mean hoppy. I'm like him. I turn off
• 59:32
  all social I just focus. I just focus. I watch game tape.
• 59:37
  I just walked watch the next game. There he is, Ladies and gentlemen,
• 59:39
  Garret Green. Now we're going to make our super smooth transition. Here's
• 59:44
  textual healing. Put the slide up and Garrett's gonna disappear. It's like a
• 59:46
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  hundred dot com. Hi, yeah, go ahead, just you guys give
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  me a hard time, no what I feel like? I asked questions that
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  folks would want to know. But also again and Brad and I talked about
• 1:00:59
  this in our covers this year, and I know it was for some real
• 1:01:02
  I mean, it was this real sort of in one sense, a tumultuous
• 1:01:06
  year because Neil Bren's job was on the line and what was going to happen
• 1:01:08
  this year was Garrett Green? How good was he going to be? What
• 1:01:10
  about the offense? It was fun? We had a lot of fun.
• 1:01:13
  This was a fun fun team to watch, specifically offensively with Garrett. And
• 1:01:16
  that's I don't know that there's the right words. I know, we use
• 1:01:20
  words for a living. I still don't feel like I'm getting the right words
• 1:01:24
  around what an unbelievable season that dude had, right, I mean, you
• 1:01:28
  heard some of the numbers there. We talked about it. He went from
• 1:01:30
  not having started full time to how many different categories did I say he led
• 1:01:37
  the Big twelve or he was top ten nationally? And seriously, I could
• 1:01:38
  have done thirty of them. He didn't have a kind of good year,
• 1:01:43
  Hobby. He had an unbelievable season. Was it was a seminal year.
• 1:01:46
  It was going to a particular peak which he may or may not exceed next
• 1:01:52
  year, you know, you never know. But it was that kind of
• 1:01:54
  achievement that was that was not that not only was it significant cause of the
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  level of achievement, but because of where he started, okay, because of
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  the because of the questions about whether or not he could achieve it, and
• 1:02:08
  then he not only did, but exceeding exceeding, they're taking care of the
• 1:02:13
  ball if you go back in. And it's the reason why everybody always says
• 1:02:15
  you got to have a quarterback that produces because the usage rate, they're throwing
• 1:02:21
  all your passes, right, and in his case, he was getting so
• 1:02:24
  large of a bulk of the rush carries as well the usage for him.
• 1:02:29
  Listen, Dylan Gabriel had a great year. There were some really talented offensive
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  guys in this league. He was every bit in the conversation for Offensive Player
• 1:02:37
  of the Year this year, no question for what he meant for a team
• 1:02:38
  picked last that finished fourth. And then you had and you had to have
• 1:02:42
  the pieces come together, right. You had the offensive line, you had
• 1:02:45
  finally part of it, yeah, big part of it. You had you
• 1:02:47
  had receivers starting to make plays. You had Jahem White come on, you
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  had see multiple running backs, so you had things like that that all contributed.
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  So it came together sure, And and and as you've talked about multiple
• 1:02:58
  times, you had some really really good play calling and formational creations by the
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  head ball coaching, no question. And then and then just the mental approach
• 1:03:07
  of just stay on the offense for a second. That particular group to tune
• 1:03:10
  out all of that noise all season, and you heard him turn off Twitter
• 1:03:14
  and don't and don't look at the nonsense and go out and play. I
• 1:03:16
  I truly could not have been more impressed with what Garrett Green did this season
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  on the field. Why he got the three guys first ever, first ever
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  Big Twelve Offensive Player of the Year one. And I'm totally good with giving
• 1:03:29
  him food instead of a trophy. Yeah, yeah right, I mean,
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  trophy's just a trophy coming, guys. I'll remember that peanut butter cake for
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  a long time. Thank you. Trophy is just no the trophy thanks to
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  Laura A left by the way, as you mentioned. Yeah, she's unbelievable.
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  You have coffee with her recently with Natalie. Oh, you had it
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  with Natalie. Yeah, I feel like you were large daughter Natal. Oh
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  yeah, no, Natalie, you know, I didn't know. I thought
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  it was Laura. You went and I had coffee. So Natalie's doing coffee
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  now too. She went, wait to coffee? Yeah. Yeah. Over
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  at Mountaineer Roasting, we did especially three guys blend. Did you drink the
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  we were over there, flying off the shelves. In fact, while we
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  were there. Yeah, I know, he told me, I wonder are
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  we still in the air. I don't know. We're just talking. No,
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  you have any other analytics on Saint John's Yeah, you want to talk a
• 1:05:04
  little hoops for just a second. I won't give you a ton yere.
• 1:05:06
  But that game comes up Friday at the Coliseum. As we mentioned, it's
• 1:05:10
  a gold rush that game. This will be a big test Rick Patino back
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  at Saint John's. Coming from my ownA. So they're I've watched them a
• 1:05:17
  few times this year. They're still coming into their own. They're not where
• 1:05:20
  they're going to be at the end of the season. They do some things
• 1:05:23
  well though. One of the best offensive rebounding teams in the nation, in
• 1:05:27
  fact, they're second, So you're going to have to keep them off the
• 1:05:30
  offensive glass. They shoot the three well thirty third nationally. Stop me if
• 1:05:33
  you've heard that, is that sound like a Patino team? M m yeah,
• 1:05:36
  right, they're going to come after you. The one thing they don't
• 1:05:39
  do right now, they haven't been getting to the free throw line very much,
• 1:05:42
  just fourth percentile nationally in getting to the free throw line. So the
• 1:05:45
  challenges there for West Virginia are going to be able keep them off the offensive
• 1:05:48
  glass, don't give them free buckets. If you get a misshot there,
• 1:05:51
  you have got to get it and start the other way. A couple of
• 1:05:55
  things, Oh yeah, hot. By the way, Hoppy came in before
• 1:05:58
  you were here, Brad, when you're up there wight for Garrett, he
• 1:06:00
  said, he like he came in, like like Vince McMahon, like,
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  I got I got Saint John's stuff. I said, okay, big oh,
• 1:06:09
  I have is two little dates. That's he was getting nervous when you
• 1:06:12
  start, because he thought I was going to take what he had. Yeah,
• 1:06:15
  I know what you have, don't worry. I'd go ahead, I
• 1:06:17
  save stuff. I'm not sure I want to do it now. I would
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  hold a Garrett Green against Baylor with you just went right around what you had
• 1:06:23
  my own stuff? Go ahead, what do you got now? I feel
• 1:06:27
  like an idiot doing it, but I wouldn't be the first time. Well
• 1:06:30
  just it's kind of it's a little bit of a throwback, right like big
• 1:06:32
  Man, Big Man Joel Soriano with with Saint John's who's six eleven two fifty
• 1:06:39
  and Jesse Edwards who's six eleven to forty. Now, they're not going to
• 1:06:42
  do old time Big East right when they throw the ball down to the down
• 1:06:45
  there all the time. But you do have big Man on Big Man.
• 1:06:47
  I tell you what, they would be nice if they did old Big East
• 1:06:49
  six files, remember when the Big East go ahead, So there's that.
• 1:06:55
  I think that'll be an intriguing matchup to watch. You know. Chris ledlam
• 1:07:00
  Is, that's an interesting story because he came from Harvard, was going to
• 1:07:02
  go to Tennessee. Rick Patino went to him and said, tell you what,
• 1:07:05
  you're from Brooklyn. Don't want you to go down south. And this
• 1:07:08
  check cash is, yeah, stay here in New York. He's sick,
• 1:07:11
  he's been sick, and but they think he'll play but may not start.
• 1:07:15
  So and I think, like brand, like you said, this team is
• 1:07:18
  just starting to come together because there's twelve new guys right and ten transfers whatever,
• 1:07:23
  so you might you could catch this this, you could get this one
• 1:07:27
  because they haven't come together either. One thing that does concern you is Patino
• 1:07:30
  team. They like to run in West Virginia. Justesn't have a deep bench,
• 1:07:32
  So those are my nuggets. Yeah, they're not running as much as
• 1:07:34
  they will when Patino gets other guys in there, but they do. Soriano's
• 1:07:39
  listen really good. He's shooting at almost eighty percent at the rim on his
• 1:07:42
  shots close to the basket. So edwards there's gonna be a lot of pressure
• 1:07:45
  on him, and this may be one of those games. You saw it
• 1:07:46
  down in Florida, Tony when he's when Edward started the second half with those
• 1:07:50
  three quick fouls and you got into foul trouble. Outside of that, you
• 1:07:54
  haven't seen it. This is going to test that. Right. Patino pretty
• 1:07:58
  smart coach. I think he knows where he's going to coaching. So their
• 1:08:00
  best players are big. They know they want to get Edwards in foul trouble.
• 1:08:02
  I would think this is a game where they feed Soriano early and Edwards
• 1:08:06
  is going to have to make a decision on how to defend. That's a
• 1:08:09
  really tough thing. If they're going man to man, what's Edward supposed to
• 1:08:13
  do with a big guy backing in on him here? That's going to be
• 1:08:15
  a tough matchup one thousand percent right. And here's the other intangible in this
• 1:08:18
  game. Quinn Slazynski of West Virginia played for Rick Patino at Iona. Let's
• 1:08:25
  say that it wasn't all apple sauce and rainbows. So it'll probably go one
• 1:08:32
  of two ways. Slazynski either goes off and has one of those games where
• 1:08:39
  he gets against his coach and like shows him up, or he tries too
• 1:08:43
  hard and it doesn't materialize. Well, it'll be probably one of the two
• 1:08:47
  extremes and probably not the middle. So correct me if I'm wrong. So
• 1:08:50
  Sleznsky. But he was at Saint John's, right, he was at Iona.
• 1:08:55
  At Iona. This is Patino's first year at Saint John's. He was
• 1:08:58
  at Iona last year. Slaznsky was on the last year. Okay, yeah,
• 1:09:01
  One other note on Soriano. He his shots are like straight up the
• 1:09:05
  middle of the field. Excuse me. He'll go at the rim, then
• 1:09:10
  he'll step into the lane and hit some shots. Then he'll go right elbow
• 1:09:14
  and take a couple. And the only time he's going to shoot a three
• 1:09:16
  is dead down the middle of the floor. He's four of five from the
• 1:09:19
  top of the key shooting the three. Has not attempted one anywhere else.
• 1:09:24
  You know why, because he's been watching that new nd season NBA tournament and
• 1:09:28
  they have that middle for they have the tunnel right down. He stays right.
• 1:09:32
  That's that's a tremendous call by you. Yeah, stay, that's a
• 1:09:34
  tremendous call. He stays right in the the NBA tournament tunnel does Soriano very
• 1:09:41
  good. He's really good. That's so that's going to be a fun matchup
• 1:09:43
  to watch. Okay, man, I got more, but that's good.
• 1:09:46
  Texter, thanks for let me have a little. I thought you did well.
• 1:09:49
  You just bring to every show. We'll stick with you real quick.
• 1:09:53
  We talked about pace there, and you're right. Patino teams normally up and
• 1:09:57
  down on you. Fifty six in the country right now in tempos, so
• 1:10:00
  they will get up and down. Not probably where they're going to be in
• 1:10:02
  year three under him there, but they will get up and down. That
• 1:10:04
  will be an issue for West Virginia as well. You know what Josh Eiler
• 1:10:08
  said to me the other day. I don't know what we were just talking.
• 1:10:11
  I never heard of this in my life, but it makes all the
• 1:10:13
  sense in the world. Right now. They deliberately take a foul to let
• 1:10:16
  the defense rest. They have a play set where they'll loose commit a foul.
• 1:10:20
  Have to do it so we can get breath, So we can just
• 1:10:24
  get our breath. I mean, this is where, this is where,
• 1:10:26
  this is that point. That's an old Warren Baker's strategy. I mean Bake
• 1:10:30
  said that he used to be left in the game thirty eight minutes he sai'd
• 1:10:32
  foul. Somebody should a breather seriously. Yeah, yeah, absolutely right from
• 1:10:38
  the text line listening to the podcast Monday about the trust and keeping guys for
• 1:10:43
  next year. Even if you get the guy that you want, nothing is
• 1:10:46
  guaranteed. JT. Daniels got paid didn't turn out to be worth it.
• 1:10:50
  Neil has shown an ability to find guys that others miss jahim CJ etcetera.
• 1:10:57
  I hope they stay, but I believe in Neil's ability to recruit. We
• 1:11:01
  talked about that yesterday. Beanie Bishop Cole Taylor were both off season acquisitions.
• 1:11:08
  They both earned Beanie first team and Cole Taylor's second team in the Big Twelve.
• 1:11:13
  So those are two big hits those time say you're not going to hit
• 1:11:15
  everybody, but you got to hit some here. You got to hit some
• 1:11:17
  in corner to the texture's point there. I know he referenced to him,
• 1:11:21
  but really you should be referencing cornerbacks there because that's the position where you're going
• 1:11:25
  to have to get in the portal and reload. You're losing both your starters
• 1:11:28
  Beanie Bishop, as you mentioned, All Conference guy Malachai Ruffman, rough and
• 1:11:31
  great program guy that played all year and had a really good season this year.
• 1:11:35
  So you're going to have to go back in and listen. They've done
• 1:11:38
  a good job last year. They didn't end up with a high end guy
• 1:11:41
  there necessarily, but they've gone in there and got Alonzo A dye A Charles
• 1:11:45
  Woods now at Beanie Bishop so at that position specifically defensive backfield. I should
• 1:11:48
  say a diplay safety defensive backfield. They've shown an ability to go in and
• 1:11:53
  find guys out of the portal to play defensive backfield for him. Mike and
• 1:11:57
  Myrtle rights until there is a national pay scale aproved, moved and disclosed,
• 1:12:00
  the trust pool or collective should not be public knowledge. In my opinion,
• 1:12:04
  why you're opening a can of worms for more public and media speculation on why
• 1:12:10
  you kept this guy and didn't spend more to keep a guy that left who's
• 1:12:14
  having more success. I have a couple more thoughts, but trying to keep
• 1:12:16
  my text short. Thanks for having me signed by Mike and Myrtle. Texter,
• 1:12:20
  Hey, Brad, how about the final grade on Garrett Green seventh and
• 1:12:25
  all Power fives with a ninety point eight I would like to know when was
• 1:12:28
  the last time a quarterback finished in the top ten grade wise at the end
• 1:12:31
  of the season from West Virginia. Good question, I have to effort that,
• 1:12:35
  Humpbrad. Yeah, take a look as a West Virginia quarterback ever finished
• 1:12:41
  in the top ten. Texter Pat from Wheeling, that's up there in the
• 1:12:45
  Northern Panhandle, Hobby. Oh yeah, I saw these in a local convenience
• 1:12:49
  store yesterday. Since you guys are receis savants, I naturally thought of you.
• 1:12:54
  Have you guys seen these giants? I consider buying one and sending it
• 1:12:58
  to you, but was afraid it might max out my visa card. But
• 1:13:00
  I figured I would have to send two packs of two, two for Tony
• 1:13:03
  and one for each for Bread and Hoppy. Hoppy could slice it like a
• 1:13:05
  pie and it would last a week or two. Love the podcast. So
• 1:13:10
  they know you, Hoppy know about them, have had them? Love them?
• 1:13:13
  What are they? Big? Giant half pounds? Oh? I mean
• 1:13:17
  he's serious. You would use it like a pie. Well, think about
• 1:13:19
  how big that is. Think about that, Think about how big that is,
• 1:13:23
  and then we're talking about eight ounces, talking about half pound night.
• 1:13:26
  Yeah, So like that's two quarter pounders of recas. Now it doesn't come
• 1:13:30
  with bread, but I mean it's it's you know what I mean? But
• 1:13:33
  what would you eat? Like a normal piece of candy would be two ounces?
• 1:13:38
  Maybe yeah, maybe like a four it'd be like a four bagger Texter.
• 1:13:45
  I'll tell you this thing, this this cake sitting right here. That
• 1:13:48
  thing's a big I'm bringing it upstairs. I'm gonna let everyone share, because
• 1:13:51
  that's what that whole time. A fairly new listener here echo another message,
• 1:13:58
  Go red devils anyway, what's your opinion on the transfer rule with a coaching
• 1:14:01
  change? With the rules now, it's an almost pointless rule aside from an
• 1:14:05
  extended widow window. If it's a late coaching change, wouldn't it help ray
• 1:14:10
  kwon? But wouldn't change? Wouldn't change the rule that two time non grad
• 1:14:15
  transfers makes more sense to actually be a useful rule. So what he's saying
• 1:14:18
  is this, if you if your coach leaves, you still should be eligible
• 1:14:25
  as a two time transfer. That's the point he's making. And the reason
• 1:14:28
  that ray kuana right, and the reason Rayquon isn't is because he would be
• 1:14:31
  a two time transfer. That hasn't graduated. But it makes all the freaking
• 1:14:34
  sense in the world. But then again, don't try to apply since Jeff
• 1:14:38
  and Lumberport. I'm scrolling through your website episode eight hundred, and I just
• 1:14:41
  got excited just when I thought the hanky was there. No, it's a
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  three guys car flag car flag looks good, but it wasn't a flag flag.
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  Yeah, we do. Should I stop looking for the hanky? I
• 1:14:51
  can't order by ten December if it isn't there. By the way, which
• 1:14:55
  is my fortieth birthday. Thank you, Jeff. Had to be early birthday
• 1:14:58
  to you. Jeff's going to be forty. Can we get I don't know,
• 1:15:00
  can we get a dog on? We've got a lot of things going
• 1:15:03
  got coffee, popcorn? Guy? Want the guy? He anywhere? Speaking
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  of that, you're wearing a nice Phil Daniels the Peter Malar quarter zip.
• 1:15:13
  I love with the new secondary mark. Really happy with the new logo designed
• 1:15:16
  by a WVU student. Yes, it is because that's what we're doing.
• 1:15:19
  We help West Virginia people and kids. But anyway, why is it you're
• 1:15:24
  at the wrong camera. Gosh what you zoom in on? This on TV
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  all the time and you can't figure out how to get the camera. I
• 1:15:31
  don't know. I don't know if do we have a producer out there?
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  Well, I don't know if that one's automatic. Here we go, here's
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  just But anyway, the logos subtle. I love it. It's totally subtle.
• 1:15:42
  You can represent three guys, but you could also be at a cocktail
• 1:15:45
  party and it looks just like a nice little cool, little squiggling. We're
• 1:15:47
  frequently a cocktail party, and we've said before on this weekend. So this
• 1:15:50
  one, I've got the I've got the original, right, which is great.
• 1:15:54
  Love this like that stands outs excellent. That's a nice if you know
• 1:15:58
  you know right first, if you know you know you didn't get an invitation
• 1:16:01
  of that cocktail party this weekend? No up where Christian lives. You didn't
• 1:16:06
  get to call on that one? No, yeah, I'll tell people you
• 1:16:11
  said, Hi, Hey, three guys, can I get a little love
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  and shout out to my golden Blue claud Greenbrier West Calves. They're headed to
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  Wheeling State a championship assistant coach none other than the runaway beer Truck Owen Schmidt
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  sign not Charlie from charmco coverage you'll be there. We had all six of
• 1:16:29
  the teams the absolute best. You know real quick on that. It's going
• 1:16:31
  to be a fun, full circle moment for West Virginia fans watching that.
• 1:16:35
  You've got both runaway beer trucks in attendance, Wes Hours the original and the
• 1:16:41
  Music City Bowl right rumbling down that's left sideline there. Yeah, he'll be
• 1:16:45
  their son, Dylan place for Fairmontine the best players in state West assist coaching,
• 1:16:48
  and then Owen the latest version. He will be there as well.
• 1:16:54
  Both of those runaway beer trucks would be carrying kerchievel in there. I don't
• 1:16:58
  think their truck question. Yeah, Texter. Hearing your last episode reminded me
• 1:17:01
  of my first ever WV basketball game. Was my fifteenth birthday and I asked
• 1:17:08
  to go to a game and had dinner at Jambi's restaurant. Yeh awesome.
• 1:17:12
  In ninety six, I got to see West Virginia defeat Miami at the Coliseum
• 1:17:16
  in the first Big East season. My mom, dad, late little brother
• 1:17:19
  and I made it a weekend hitting up the old Cono Lodge that used to
• 1:17:24
  be by the show nees right near the Coliseum. Great memories. Randy and
• 1:17:27
  silver Spring, Maryland by the way of Mason County. It's a contoledge reference.
• 1:17:30
  I did that, daw didn't see the aconolage coming in. I did
• 1:17:33
  not see that. That's right, well, Don Texter. I read the
• 1:17:36
  Ross Dellinger article from Yahoo Sports on November twenty one that Tony's mentioned a couple
• 1:17:42
  of times. This particular sentence stood out. The Night Commission is encouraging college
• 1:17:46
  football playoff leaders to place restrictions on how that distributed money can be used by
• 1:17:53
  schools, such as tethering it to educational purposes and athlete health and well being,
• 1:17:58
  as well as regulating a sess of coaching salaries through earmarks. I find
• 1:18:03
  it quite curious that just as athletes are about to be able to be paid
• 1:18:06
  directly by the university, that all of a sudden, the individuals at the
• 1:18:10
  top who determine how the money gets used have decided now is finally the time
• 1:18:15
  to get spending under control. Gee, what a coincidence signed by JD Southern
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  Coalfields Texter. This person's funny because they they started their text by saying Texter
• 1:18:29
  Comma because they knew I was going to say Texter, so I guess I
• 1:18:31
  got to say, they're just going to read it for you. They put
• 1:18:33
  it in their s. I gotta say, Texter, Texter, I stand
• 1:18:36
  by my pre I stand by my text pre win. I believe the frustration
• 1:18:42
  for Mountaineer fans with the results of the season comes down to five years without
• 1:18:45
  being ranked. We have not been in the national conversation for five years.
• 1:18:49
  How often has that happened in the last thirty years? JP and Parkersburg Texter
• 1:18:56
  longtime listener, second time Texter. I know a lot already been said about
• 1:19:00
  Zach Fraser's final play. I have not heard anyone mention what he did leading
• 1:19:04
  up to getting hurt in the heroics of getting off the field. Think about
• 1:19:09
  what he did past block gave Garrett time to throw downfield, that is downfield
• 1:19:14
  too soon and getting penalized, released at the right time, got six to
• 1:19:17
  seven yards downfield to carry Clement for a first down. That part was critical.
• 1:19:23
  He understood that without a first down the clock continues to go. He
• 1:19:28
  actually probably saved us an additional ten seconds doing that. Proud of him,
• 1:19:30
  the entire staff. Ken and Huntersville, North Carolina PS Tony. The next
• 1:19:35
  time you're down this way, just to help you with the geography. If
• 1:19:39
  you're in a home depot, then you're in Cornelius. But if you're just
• 1:19:42
  down the street at Low's, you're in Huntersville. Yeah, because that whole
• 1:19:45
  Huntersville Mooresville Lows thing. Yeah, Texter, my buddy from middle school introduced
• 1:19:53
  my other buddy of forty years to this show. Our group chat blows up
• 1:19:58
  every Monday and Thursday after to your shows. We all live apart. About
• 1:20:02
  two of us are in North Carolina, ones in West Virginia. I bought
• 1:20:05
  the three of us, three guys hats for an early Christmas. Thanks for
• 1:20:09
  having us there, he is. Look at that. Ain't that kind of
• 1:20:11
  need? Thank you very much. We've helped bring friends together, fellas.
• 1:20:16
  Thank you. Here's my guy here, Charlie from mid Lothian. Those pete
• 1:20:21
  those pairs by the way, remember when I told you about of those Harry
• 1:20:27
  and David Pears, that they have that window that once they get ripe,
• 1:20:30
  like you gotta go. Well, I came in this morning and there was
• 1:20:35
  there were two left in that box, and I mean I put my knife
• 1:20:40
  in them and that skin comes off like velvet. Yeah. Question, I
• 1:20:45
  took one down yesterday. I've been testing mine. It's got to go to
• 1:20:49
  evany dude. I'm just telling I might have to go home after this,
• 1:20:54
  and Charlie. Charlie writes, in my research budget, my research budget is
• 1:21:02
  limited due to the recent pair purchase, although we did gas three vehicles last
• 1:21:08
  night using the thirty five gallon limit for Just look at that two dollars and
• 1:21:12
  seventy six cents he paid for thirty five gallons. But I digress, he
• 1:21:15
  says. My Google search has found that rocket is Mile returned two kicks for
• 1:21:20
  touchdowns twice and victories against Rice and Michigan in the Big House. Another Baylor
• 1:21:28
  player did it back in twenty twenty. However, one was a kickoff and
• 1:21:30
  the second one was a free kick after a safety. Again, Baylor won
• 1:21:34
  both, So the Mountaineers are the only team to give up too and still
• 1:21:39
  win the game. Interesting, How about my guy he got thirty five gallons
• 1:21:42
  of gas for two dollars and seventy six cents. Is he the fricking best?
• 1:21:45
  That's the way he can send those pairs. Those pairs aren't cheap,
• 1:21:48
  good, they're expensive. Yeah, they were good hoppey. By the way,
• 1:21:51
  Charlie got the golden pair that's wrapped in the gold foil. He thinks
• 1:21:54
  it's like Willie walkersh he thinks he gets something special for that gets me into
• 1:21:58
  the pear factory. This was kind of neat. I got several of these
• 1:22:00
  and we'll show you several. So Spotify at the end of this year,
• 1:22:04
  hopy of the calendar year, they send out to people who are listening to
• 1:22:08
  their audio where they rank, so you probably get a lot of these.
• 1:22:12
  I thought i'd share how much time I've wasted listening to you, three guys.
• 1:22:15
  So there is This person has listened for four fifty five minutes, which
• 1:22:19
  makes them a ten percent fan of in the top ten percentile of people that
• 1:22:25
  listen to three guys on Spotify devoted pretty good. Right, Yeah, thank
• 1:22:29
  you for doing That's awesome. That's awesome. Hey, three guys, Tim
• 1:22:31
  and Austin just wanted to say thanks for another great year of mountaineer insight navigating
• 1:22:35
  us through a pretty nice season. I was blessed to catch four games pitt
• 1:22:39
  Texas tour of TCU Houston last week. Baylor. This team is fun to
• 1:22:43
  watch. They never quit. Glad we're going bowling maybe the team will be
• 1:22:45
  nearby and I can catch another game. My suggestion for the home version of
• 1:22:49
  thanks for having us would be, hey, don't be a stranger. Thanks
• 1:22:54
  for all you guys doing hope. That's a pretty good one, That is,
• 1:22:57
  hey, don't be a stranger. Don't be a stranger. We'll see
• 1:22:59
  you, see you guys back here. But with this massive league coming up,
• 1:23:01
  some of them will be strangers. You don't play somebody, they're not
• 1:23:04
  playing again for another thing, Yeah, Arizona State, Like, how about
• 1:23:08
  this one at all? How about this one? Super super simple? But
• 1:23:12
  it's still how about just good seeing you? You're walking out of the home
• 1:23:17
  venue basketball football, you beat them, and you had talked to them earlier,
• 1:23:21
  and you just say, hey, good seeing you. What do you
• 1:23:25
  think I think? I like? I like good luck? Hey, good
• 1:23:29
  luck the rest of this season? Like you just like that, But you
• 1:23:32
  don't mean it. It's okay, no, but you really don't mean it.
• 1:23:36
  You kind of do because you beat them, and then the better season
• 1:23:41
  they have, the better it is for you. Man, I must wish
• 1:23:43
  them too much good luck. No one gives no, one gives you good
• 1:23:45
  luck. One tells you good luck and thanks for having us is perfect because
• 1:23:49
  you're you're truly saying, we just want, we just want in your building.
• 1:23:53
  Thanks for having us, like you truly mean thanks for having us.
• 1:23:58
  Yeah, we really haven't landed on anything. That's why. I don't know
• 1:24:00
  if you need it. The roads roads a special kind of victory. You
• 1:24:03
  usual think, maybe not even have one from home. Yeah, maybe don't
• 1:24:06
  even have one. Yeah, I mean the southern West Virginia. Be careful
• 1:24:11
  is a good one. Yeah. Those people down in the southern West virgin
• 1:24:14
  they can't say be careful enough when you leave. Well, you go down
• 1:24:16
  southern West Virginia. It's just be careful, like you're going into a funhouse
• 1:24:20
  or something. Hey, Hoppy, in light of trust the climb to lessen
• 1:24:27
  your anxiety. This is a doctor Hoppy. The doctor recommends this trust.
• 1:24:31
  The trust signed by doctor Jeff and Charleston ps. If an opposing player runs
• 1:24:38
  a kickoff back for ninety plus yards, why would you kick it to him
• 1:24:41
  again moments later? A fair question. Neil Brown had the same question.
• 1:24:46
  Or when you see sometimes what the coach call and then what happened on that
• 1:24:49
  field go different, or sometimes when you kick it to him a second time
• 1:24:53
  is also then tackle or getting his way or something. Yeah, that was
• 1:24:57
  bad. Will from Williamstown, which is probably not his name, rights three
• 1:25:01
  guys after eating a tub of the famous mountaineer munch, I grabbed my three
• 1:25:08
  guys throw blanket and drifted off into a deep slumber. In my dream,
• 1:25:12
  Marvin Graves gets ejected for inciting a fight. Tremaine Mack is blocked in the
• 1:25:16
  punts sales downfield, Pete Gonzalez's pass on fourth and seventeen falls incomplete, and
• 1:25:26
  WV fans don't complain about our schedule when we go eight and four. Maybe
• 1:25:30
  it was the kerchieveil, but the dream shore was nice. Signed by Will
• 1:25:34
  in Williamstown, there's a dedicated fan that knows about some real pain plans in
• 1:25:40
  mountaineer history. There excited to watch his yellow Jackets coming up. Oh sure,
• 1:25:44
  playing Saturday night first Natty. Well they're playing against Greenbrier West. Yeah,
• 1:25:49
  three guys headed to the game. We just call them world championship,
• 1:25:55
  that's all they are. Three guys headed to the game Friday looking for some
• 1:25:58
  hope. Question for each of you, yes or no? West Virginia will
• 1:26:01
  win two of its next three games. As always, I love the show
• 1:26:04
  sun by Corey and Washington d c PS. I've done my part on the
• 1:26:09
  Three Guys Christmas Shopping. How can I get some Three Guys popcorn? So
• 1:26:14
  I'm glad you asked that note popcorns on the website. But here's the deal.
• 1:26:20
  As you know, we do these West Virginia businesses. The popcorn and
• 1:26:25
  the coffee are made here in West Virginia, but one's in Morgantown. On's
• 1:26:29
  in Shepherdstown. If you ordered multiple items in one order, you're going to
• 1:26:32
  get salt. You're want to get multiple packages, so they won't like if
• 1:26:35
  you get a T shirt and a coffee and popcorn, you're gonna get three
• 1:26:39
  different packages. Okay, so don't don't freak out it don't freak out and
• 1:26:42
  all of a sudden, you got the popcorn, you go way second,
• 1:26:44
  where's my other stuff? You're going to get three packages because we also are
• 1:26:46
  strong advocates of using the US Postal Service, so we want to get to
• 1:26:50
  let those guys get as much as they get out of the deal. Yeah,
• 1:26:55
  December tenth, right center on that stuff. Order me by December ten.
• 1:27:00
  Yeah, yeah, just make sure they have time to get it to
• 1:27:01
  stuff's going out all the time. Has been fantastic. But yeah, so
• 1:27:05
  just make sure just to make sure you got it. Do that and you
• 1:27:09
  might get multiple bet all orders. Hey, three guys. Spotify wrapped up
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  twenty twenty three. I'm proud to say I'm on the leaderboard top five percent.
• 1:27:16
  There's a top five percent right there. Thanks for all the hard work
• 1:27:20
  to help me get through grad school. College sports has been a passion of
• 1:27:24
  mine. Have been a great distraction. Signed by a future rocket scientist,
• 1:27:28
  Josh from Morgantown. Godspeed, young man, future rocket sciences. Yeah,
• 1:27:36
  Mineral County step one large step for three guys. Mineral County checks in.
• 1:27:44
  This is Eric and Burlington. Three guys. I'm going to make this rant
• 1:27:47
  short and to the point. I really wish our fan base would tune into
• 1:27:50
  a Three Guys episode before the game to obtain educated intellectual statistics, especially from
• 1:27:56
  the Senator, before posting nonsense on law. The factual information I believe might
• 1:28:01
  help dilute the keyboard pushers throwing fire without education facts to back it up.
• 1:28:05
  And maybe not, as I've been in law enforcement seventeen years and sometimes common
• 1:28:11
  sense is hard to come by on a side note the fans that want Jimbo.
• 1:28:15
  He had a top recruiting class and beat one ranked team in the past
• 1:28:18
  two seasons and only one win on the road total. I absolutely love the
• 1:28:21
  show. Keep up the good work. Please send lots of Mountaineer roasting coffee
• 1:28:26
  Eric, Eric will Well, if he's in law enforcement, those guys drink
• 1:28:29
  a lot of coffee. Oh yeah, I would think thank care. Going
• 1:28:32
  forward, probably all state police barracks, probably in their coffee machines, probably
• 1:28:38
  should have game day grind from Mountaineer Roasting, right, I mean, you
• 1:28:41
  know it won't be lawing off the shelves. Plus how many times you in
• 1:28:45
  law enforcement nine o'clock at night, something happening, Well, put on a
• 1:28:50
  pot of coffee exactly, be a long night exactly. Now you can get
• 1:28:54
  that. Yeah, absolutely, Texter, I think qualifies me. This qualifies
• 1:29:00
  me as a P one listener. Even if my kid texted in a couple
• 1:29:04
  of months ago and tattled that I said, Tony was eighty years old,
• 1:29:06
  thanks for all the great times and joined the show, Eric and Nutter.
• 1:29:11
  So he is a four percent, eight fifty four hundred minutes. He's given
• 1:29:14
  us this year of his life. Thanks awesome, Eric, thank you.
• 1:29:17
  This next one was it was an ethnic racial attack on me. Hmm yeah
• 1:29:24
  really m hm. So I'll delete the ethnic slur and I'll pick it up.
• 1:29:29
  I don't like that I'm talking to you, Tony. You disrespected me
• 1:29:32
  the last time I texted into this show. You mocked me, and you
• 1:29:35
  question whether I even existed. Don't ever doubt my existence, Tony. I
• 1:29:41
  am an elusive figure who is seldom seen, but I do make an occasional
• 1:29:45
  stealth appearance. Here. I am attending the WVU Vermont soccer game last Saturday.
• 1:29:53
  I developed a passion for the beautiful game when I lived in the Old
• 1:29:56
  Country before immigrating to Point Pleasant. Kudos to Lieutenant Dan and the team on
• 1:30:00
  their great tournament run. I might even make another stealth appearance at the Loyola
• 1:30:04
  Marrimount game if you plan to be there, Broadcast boy, watch your back,
• 1:30:11
  what am I? What am I looking at? And one more thing,
• 1:30:13
  Mike Jockey, stop bad mouthing all the fine upstanding CPAs of the state
• 1:30:18
  when you're introducing spreads on stats. My son in law is a CPA and
• 1:30:21
  I will not stand for it. I'll put the mothman curse on you son,
• 1:30:26
  doubt me at your peril, signed p. Six six six listener Mothman
• 1:30:31
  from Point Pleasant. Wow. So he was at the game and there's the
• 1:30:35
  Mothman thing. It's we'll tell you something, mount punch you right in a
• 1:30:42
  face, repeatedly and often. Plus he doesn't know you travel with security,
• 1:30:48
  so I know them well. I know the Mothman. Oh Dean, Well,
• 1:30:53
  I mean I've already broadcast that. I think that's well noted fact.
• 1:30:56
  Move on. Do we have a T shirt? In episode eight hundred,
• 1:30:58
  says I know the Mothman? That's good question. That'll be a good shirt.
• 1:31:01
  I'd are probably be the only one that could wear it. Guys somewhere
• 1:31:05
  busy days when well, I guess I better get work on. The First
• 1:31:09
  thing I want Dave to do is put a dog on hanky for that poor
• 1:31:12
  buddy killing. I know I can't do that. I'm not selling. We're
• 1:31:20
  not getting hused. Now, Hey, three guys, you shouldn't even be
• 1:31:25
  reusing yours, let alone Jeff. There's nothing wrong with a handkerchief that does
• 1:31:29
  not have a hankerff dog on filthy thing that has not on? He just
• 1:31:32
  asked me, and you what do you not have a handkerchief? And was
• 1:31:36
  stunned. No, I don't have a handkerchief. Why wouldn't you have a
• 1:31:42
  handkerchief? Would you do you have that? I go get well right now.
• 1:31:46
  If you say like something happened, now, I go get a dog
• 1:31:49
  on paper, towel or a kleenex. That's what they're for. What to
• 1:31:53
  you? Are you two hundred and six Ben Franklin, I mean, what
• 1:31:57
  are you doing? Don't need a handkerchief because you're gonna blow your nose and
• 1:32:00
  put it back in your pocket. People started using that before paper. I
• 1:32:04
  mean, that is the most piculous old man thing I've ever seen. I
• 1:32:08
  always have a handkerchief. Get it out of you and then you dispose of
• 1:32:13
  it. You don't put it back on your person. Here, let's get
• 1:32:15
  let's me. Let me blow disease and germ into my face and stick it
• 1:32:18
  in my pocket, get it all over my hand so the next time I
• 1:32:21
  have to use it, I'll stick my hand back in, get more disease
• 1:32:25
  on it, and then I'll blow it on my nose. I try and
• 1:32:30
  get your back. I cannot. I cannot in this. No, I
• 1:32:32
  don't have a hank. I have a hank? Do you have a handkerchief?
• 1:32:35
  He was stunned. What if I burst into tears at some point?
• 1:32:39
  Just use some paper towel. I hate to see it come to this.
• 1:32:45
  It's been a good one. I did not know. I did not know
• 1:32:47
  that was like, don't have a handkerchief. I didn't know that was Here's
• 1:32:50
  what Okay, now it was Radioactris. Now we're gonna go graduate level,
• 1:32:55
  Brad, Brad, Now we're gonna go graduate level on this. Do you
• 1:32:59
  know how bummed out he's been at me? If you know how bummed out
• 1:33:02
  he's been at me through the years, there have been We've known each other
• 1:33:05
  for two hundred years. I'll go into his office, like during cold and
• 1:33:09
  flu season, and I'll go like, I will be talking. All of
• 1:33:12
  a sudden, you know, I got like the I got a hack.
• 1:33:15
  So I was just like, and I'll bring him up and spit in his
• 1:33:17
  garbage care and my man, he loses his mind. So I can't spit
• 1:33:24
  into a garbage can't and all. But it's totally bad doing that. But
• 1:33:28
  he can blow his nose, get like all kinds of mucus siles on his
• 1:33:31
  face, and God knows what you're stick it back into his pocket, and
• 1:33:34
  I'm the bad guy. Problem solved. Next time you go to his office
• 1:33:38
  and have to do that as to borrow's hanky and just hack it right into
• 1:33:41
  the hanky and then give it back to him. Say what's the problem next
• 1:33:44
  time? What's the problem this year? I just want to use your hanky?
• 1:33:46
  Wait a minute, Okay, there's a difference between he came in and
• 1:33:49
  spit in the my my guard and my trash can spit on the floor.
• 1:33:59
  Thank you. You know what I'm doing next time? Well, I'm coming
• 1:34:00
  into your office. I'm gonna go, yo, big boy, I'm gonna
• 1:34:03
  pick your garbage can up, put it on your desktop, and I'm gonna
• 1:34:06
  go one hand and on one side of my nose and just do a complete
• 1:34:10
  blowout clean out. Might get a Nettie pot, might get a Nettie pot.
• 1:34:14
  Just pour it back there and just double down on my nose in your
• 1:34:16
  garbage can't reference you know, I don't think their text is Spotify. You're
• 1:34:31
  talking about Nettie pots and looking into his waistbasket. These poor people are spending
• 1:34:36
  five thousand minutes listening to us. Clout right, you're talking about a handkerchief.
• 1:34:44
  No more, no more, No, I need no more handkerchief move
• 1:34:47
  on. Yes, but those little packs of tissues you can get the little
• 1:34:53
  carry on pack of tissues. Buy him for like a dollar in the target
• 1:34:57
  aisle there where you can just buy individual servings of Just get one of.
• 1:35:00
  Well, got to remember to him a dollars, two hundred thousand dollars.
• 1:35:04
  Put it out there to our listeners. Yes to handkerchiefs. No to handkerchiefs.
• 1:35:11
  That's all. See where our listeners say, thank you? Okay,
• 1:35:13
  deal, three guys. I have to admit I was wrong. WVU football
• 1:35:16
  exceeded my expectations. I had to purchase Fubo TV in order to watch West
• 1:35:20
  Virginia's last four games. Although I wasn't happy with the result with the Oklahoma
• 1:35:25
  game, this team was fun. Garrett Green, Jehem White combo brought back
• 1:35:28
  memories of White and Slaton. Okay, maybe a little bit Coach Brown very
• 1:35:31
  like Well. I think he could end up being another Don neelan if even
• 1:35:34
  though he has started out a little bit slower than done. But maybe after
• 1:35:39
  a few offseason adjustments, a few transfer pickups, West Virginia could be better
• 1:35:43
  next year. Most of the star players come back. By the way,
• 1:35:45
  I noticed that Moosa see Say was cleared to play for Old Miss. Now
• 1:35:51
  the NCAA needs to do the same for Raekwon Battle. Let's cheer on the
• 1:35:55
  men's soccer team. Keep up the great work going for eight episode eight hundred.
• 1:35:59
  It won't happen. Signed by hot Rod in Woodbridge, Virginia's is that
• 1:36:03
  Saturday toning a Saturday Saturday Ay two? They moved the women's game up to
• 1:36:08
  noon, so you go to go over to coliseum watch the women's game noon.
• 1:36:12
  They got the same bond A Venture bonnies, and then you can go
• 1:36:15
  right across the parking lot there and go watch the guy you hired as the
• 1:36:19
  men's soccer coach. He was on our show on sports Line this week.
• 1:36:23
  He's still doing that personally. Not often true that this time of year,
• 1:36:31
  not a whole lot. I'm here during the summer like Johnny Carson. Yeah,
• 1:36:36
  Texter Professor Vinnie here, I thought i'd add some stats and clarification to
• 1:36:41
  those individuals complaining about eight and four football seasons. West Virginia football has been
• 1:36:45
  consistently playing ten or more games since nineteen thirteen, so it's about one hundred
• 1:36:49
  and ten years. In approximately thirty eight percent or thirty four percent of those
• 1:36:56
  seasons, they've had eight or more wins. That means in seven two seasons
• 1:37:00
  or sixty six percent of the time, they've had seven wins or less.
• 1:37:03
  Go deeper in the nitt numbers. Furthermore, twenty one of those eight win
• 1:37:09
  seasons have come when West Virginia was a member of a conference fifty five percent
• 1:37:15
  of the time. Regardless, it's a lot easier to get eight wins when
• 1:37:17
  you're playing in the Southern Conference or you're playing Rutgers, Temple and BC.
• 1:37:21
  With all due respect, the point is winning is indeed hard. I'll take
• 1:37:26
  eight and four in the Big twelve over eight and four in the Big East
• 1:37:28
  Side. Note you want to have a good chuckle, go back and look
• 1:37:31
  at some of the teams that West Virginia played back in the twenty eight thirty
• 1:37:35
  seven sixty nine season. We're talking to Richmond, West Virginia, wesleyan Fordham,
• 1:37:41
  Waynesburg, vm I, Western Maryland, William and Mary and I swear
• 1:37:45
  to goodness, Davis and Elkins College all due respect. Yeah, there are
• 1:37:51
  some absolutely crazy, funny things that if you go back into the eighteen late
• 1:37:59
  eighteen hundreds, in the early nineteen hundreds. I mean, I'm talking you
• 1:38:01
  think wild wild West right now. As far as eligibility, the guys that
• 1:38:06
  played in games back then was comical. I mean there were dudes that are
• 1:38:13
  like grown ass men that just they'd pop them in. Well we had there's
• 1:38:16
  a guy would play over here on a weekend, then go play in a
• 1:38:20
  professional league over in Ohio. And you know, it's just funny stuff.
• 1:38:26
  I mean, it's just kind of funny. Last one, Robert and Big
• 1:38:29
  Chimney. I know it's too late to comment on the Baylor game, but
• 1:38:33
  the Mountaineer football team literally snatched a victory from the jaws of defeat. How
• 1:38:38
  many times have we said they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory? And
• 1:38:42
  then he said this, by the way, that popcorn he's talking about Mountaineer
• 1:38:46
  munch is great with three exclamation points. It truly is. I had not
• 1:38:53
  tried it yet. I saw it being made. They send video out and
• 1:38:56
  showing the people here in Shepherdstown making it Mountaineer popcorn. And then I got
• 1:39:00
  a bag. Why had that we had the bags here? Yeah? And
• 1:39:02
  then I opened it. It was just speechless. It was there there,
• 1:39:08
  it is right there. It was like one of the first time I drank
• 1:39:11
  the kerch of al beer. It was like, holy cow, this is
• 1:39:15
  really really good. You won't go wrong. I'm giving you my seal of
• 1:39:20
  approval on that stuff. If you like chocolate, if you like light peanut
• 1:39:24
  butter flavor, and that great carame, it just is get it before December
• 1:39:29
  ten. Get you some where do you get it? Episode eight zero zero
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  dot com Episode eight zero zero dot com. That's where you get that from?
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  No handkerchiefs, they do not know, they do not apparently falling out
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  of favorite I guess it would be six. Do you have suspendons there?
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  Bats men's garters for socks, collars, pocket watch, train whistle, top
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  head? What do you say train train whistle? Because like a pocket watcher
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  right there too? Anything I'm missing? Hey? Uh so again, let's
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  have a meeting right now in front of everybody. Okay, so basketball plays
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  Friday, we'll just we'll just come in and do a show Monday, right,
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  Yeah, Okay, we're on Monday. Yeah, okay, cool,
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  because we'll wrap up the Saint John's basketball game. Look ahead to wrap out
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  the soccer game. The women's basketball is playing Saturday Monday. They're going Saturday
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  Monday. So we'll do what we'll be a due. We'll do a Monday
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  show. Yeah, heavy week of basketball coming. Saint John's, then pet
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  then Drexel. Yeah, that's big. Can you get two? That's a
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  hard stretch. Pit's playing well, Saint John's a better Drexel. Drexel's got
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  to Zack Spiker, Morgantown native coach of Drexel's got a really good team.
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  They rolled last night over Lafayette. That says a tough stretch. Well,
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  I guess what, Well, but you got what you gotta get what you
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  can three more those and then those three and the nine game stretch. Kerk
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  Carrisa then becomes eligible after that. That will be a massive addition. Obviously,
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  Yes, yes, yes, and yes okay, So all business I
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  think is an order. Special thank you to Daniel's Men's Store of Morgantown for
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  sponsoring Garrett Green to come on the program. That was a lot of fun.
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  You know. We had him on just two days before practice started back
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  in August and got it five days after the season ended. That was a
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  fun talk about season going fast. That that was a fast run. But
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  what a difference in just that three months. Wouldn't it want the high character
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  guy to come back here after Hoppey assaulted him? All right, I think
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  you were totally fine. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. I
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  thought I was too, But no, all kidding aside. Think about this.
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  Think about it. When he was here two days before practice started,
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  were legitimate like, okay, well we knew he was going to be the
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  quarterback. I mean it was, yeah, it was, But at the
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  same time, it was like, okay, you're gonna be the quarterback.
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  I hope things go well. And then to listen to the numbers that he
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  put out there now that the season's over, I mean, those are national
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  numbers. What did he rank as the number among quarterbacks? Seventh best quarter
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  right eight country. If you would have said he didn't just have a good
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  year, he had an elite year. I mean, if you would have
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  if you would have said before the season, if you would have quoted those
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  number six, here's what you need to achieve, you'd go, that's impossible.
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  He's not doing that. That's impossible to do that. That's too much
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  of a one year leap. Right fifteen and four fifteen. I think,
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  hey, Garrett, next time you come back, you need to throw fifteen
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  touchdowns four interceptions. You need to run for over seven hundred yards lead to
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  big twelve in Russian. You need to be the seventh best ranked rated a
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  quarterback in the country. Can you do that for I'll get on there.
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  You would have said that or suggested that. We would have said you dial
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  it down your nuts. Yeah, what do you do? He's doing that
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  in their first year as a starter. He did. Three guys before the
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  game brought to us by a game Yeah almost basically two two games. Yeah,
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  five plays of the PI game and there's foreur innerceptions weren't all on him.
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  group providing value beyond the numbers. SI Jeff Jenkins as a handkerchief, I
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  think he used. I think he does. I think he does. Is
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  he got a handkerchief because of kerchival or he just so Eastern Kanaal County grow
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  up, grew up, Eastern Kanaal County. I think was a big train
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  area too. A lot of handkerchiefs in that area. Well, he had
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  train tracks right by his house. Do with the hank a handkerchief you brought
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  up? Like a train? Whistle? And train in conjunction with handkerchief?
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  What does one have to do with the other. Chiefs and trains are synonymous
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  with each other. Whole railroad guys always have like that red square heavy with
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  the railroad. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're talking about training here,
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  train guy, there's train station, our train guy. We have a
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  train expert that listens to us. Ted, he said, you know me,
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  handkerchief. I've been advocating for an international or for a domestic train system.
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  Ted squashed that down. Ted's probably got seventeen different colors of handkerchiefs.
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  He trains and handkerchiefs are all common that everybody knows Trains and handkerchiefs all aboard.
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  Make sure you have your handkerchief. I'm sorry, have you already named
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  this episode, because that should be the name of this episode, Trains and
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  handkerchiefs. Our Music's done. See you