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WVU Game Preview · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to be boundary Corner podcast.
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  I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian Sigler, buddy.
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  Wednesday night. We back pump, we back is hump
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  day. It doesn't feel like fall
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  outside. We value, you know, we're
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  clipping the 90s this week for whatever reason we went from
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  like it's that, what is this? This is false fall, right?
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  If the eight seasons of Virginia whether oh yeah, we're currently
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  in false fall. We got like the week of the
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  North Carolina game was fall. Perfect, like 79 degrees during
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  the day. What low 70s?
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  Mid 60's during the game? Cool.
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  Nah. Nah, he's hot brutal, weather.
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  Not some ribs as one last Roar here, before it goes quietly
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  into the night. There needs to go.
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  I'm I'm I'm done with Summer the pools.
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  Pretty much closed. The kids are in school.
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  I ain't asking what once I get back from vacation kind of like
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  Late July after. After my anniversary, I'm kind
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  of like, all right. Right?
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  Y'all can keep the rest of the summer.
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  Let's bring on Fall. Yeah, I mean, thankfully,
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  thankfully, we have a podcast and we follow football.
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  So August kind of goes by pretty quick for us, August flies by
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  when you're on a podcast. And once August hits in every
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  facet, it's it flies by the next thing.
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  You know, we are going to Blink and maybe seven to ten days.
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  It is going to be 80 degrees for a high note humidity, the nights
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  are going to be perfect at the fire pit out.
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  But as of right now, for the rest of this week here in the
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  r-va and I believe throughout most greater Virginia.
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  Yeah, we're sticking in the mid-80s.
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  Looks like we get some low 80s starting next week.
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  So, fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.
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  She chose up. I'm definitely ready for fire
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  pit and outdoor movie nights and we're still about 10 or 15
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  degrees away from that. We are definitely that so folks,
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  before we get into deep topic, welcome to hate week 1.0 the
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  battle for the Black Diamond trophy is upon us.
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  It has been four years since we played the West Virginia
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  Mountaineers back in 2017 up at FedEx.
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  Yep, I think it's bull that they got the first home game.
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  In this series, they'll be coming to the Lane next year
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  before we get deep diving into that.
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  We do have a few things. We want to take a look at first
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  and let's start kind of around the ACC brined earlier this week
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  announced filled your kovich, the quarterback up out of BC is
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  now done for the year. I'm going to go ahead and say it
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  this pretty much flips my prediction of that from a win or
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  a loss to a win. In just not knowing who the
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  backup is as of yet. And you know he was that guy if
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  he took the step he was going to get them to be the you know 2nd
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  to 4th best team and now he's gone.
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  Well that's you I'm kind of right there with you.
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  I think that this was a game that playing in hostile
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  environment and just the skill level.
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  That BC was showing they were starting to kind of climb that
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  mountain a little It huh? Not having that quarterback is
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  going to be a big deal. I feel like this goes from a
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  kind of a lien BC to at least a toss-up for us, right?
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  Um, I think it's now lean Tech. I mean because if you go there,
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  I can definitely go there. But uh, I'm trying to be a
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  little conservative here. I don't want to Discount would
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  be seized doing here. But, you know, I think in terms
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  of getting the ball down the field, they're going to struggle
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  a little bit. The It is going to be, can they
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  replace that with what seems to be a little bit of an improved
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  defense and somewhat improved running game?
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  So yeah, we shall see. Yeah, the backup is Dennis
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  Grassle. He did play some last year for
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  BC, let me see if I can get his testicle numbers up here.
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  He played last year to the tune of 54 attempts. 37 completion,
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  68% 568. So six touchdowns three
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  interceptions. So not terrible for last year.
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  He obviously played in some in last week's game against UMass
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  as I feel went down, you know again time, we'll see but to me,
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  you don't go from a guy like your kovich to the back up it's
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  half. He's going to have his work.
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  Cut out for him and maybe the way you can say it's a toss-up
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  for you now is now they have six weeks to get prepared for us or
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  to find the groove of what we're going to do.
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  While we don't, you know, While we don't know what beholds for
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  us yet, true, although the same time we've got tape on their
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  backup quarterback, which if this happened the week before,
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  we don't exactly know, what type of game plan they're going to
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  have for me this point. By the time we see them will
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  know what they like to do with rasul and can prepare for it on
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  defense. Very, very, very true.
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  All right. Next is look at Georgia Tech,
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  Jeff Sims went out against Northern Illinois.
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  Did not play against Kenneth Allstate Yates, the backup took
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  over and for me. That's what's your thoughts on
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  this so far? Brian with Sims out.
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  Haven't heard much if he's going to play this week against
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  Clemson. I mean, that's that's a, that's
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  a struggling situation. That's, you're adding insult to
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  injury there, right? You?
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  Jeff says, it's probably the most consistent element of team
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  last year. And losing him week one, not
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  having a week to haven't heard a whole lot about his availability
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  this week that definitely definitely limits their ceiling.
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  And it was a ceiling that was bouncing around already, right?
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  So you know it's going to depend on how long he's out in terms of
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  what Georgia Tech's able to do over the coming weeks.
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  Is he out another three to four weeks there?
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  Is he out just another one or two?
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  Well, regardless, if he's out just one or two or if he's back
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  this week against Clemson for them, those first two games
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  against Northern Illinois and Kennesaw State, we're going to
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  be his in game development games.
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  Where he can get on the field, they can try plays, they can see
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  what he's seen because now this is the way their schedule looks
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  up until Virginia Tech, okay? You're a headache, Clemson,
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  North Carolina it, they then have Duke then UVA then, uh, so
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  you John, you see you John. So, it's like, they're not
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  coming into playing lesser opponents to give him time to
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  again. Get that in game development.
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  Comment, give us feedback from owners, like go play, Clemson,
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  then go play North Carolina, then play pit, you're playing
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  one elite. Team one good team, one solid
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  team. You finally get Duke and then
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  you get UVA before you get text. So those first two games, as we
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  used to see it in the past building confidence, finding
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  plays, you know, work with the guy and that's gone.
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  So it's going to be interesting if he does come back as he
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  automatically back or is Yates the guy.
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  Yeah. And I mean, it seems like like
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  we said in terms of where that ceiling is, you feel like Jeff
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  Sims, probably gets them higher but much, how they may be able
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  to work worked back up in there for the last couple weeks is
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  probably going to have them again this week.
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  Maybe just a but there's no riding the hot hand, right?
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  No, there's no no. It's because there's not a hot
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  hand there is, and it's also the level Sims is a look.
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  He's an elite athlete. That to me with the way Georgia
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  Tech is right now. He has to be out there.
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  He's gonna give him the best chance to win, so it's just
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  going to be interesting if he does come back against Clemson a
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  against that defense with really kind of going to be your first
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  true game. I mean, that's going to get
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  ugly, I mean, and we'll talk about that line a little bit
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  later and what I'd be willing to lay, all right, Brian, even
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  though this is an ACC news, it's college football news.
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  To me, it has a potential big trickle down for Virginia Tech
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  and for the east coast in general clay Helton gets fired
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  Monday after losing to Stanford by essentially getting blown out
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  by a Stanford team that did not look like.
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  It could play the previous week against Kansas State and every
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  name under your mother's popping up, Urban Meyer, Jack Del Rio
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  Eric, be on the knee. Tonio.
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  You sing got thrown out there but the one that got said again
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  and we've heard it in the past James Franklin.
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  Yeah, I mean, I know Dan Patrick made the announcement this
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  morning that there is mutual interest between the two
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  parties. I don't know what, what degree
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  that means. That, you know, Franklin is the
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  leader in the clubhouse terms of what they want at at Southern
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  Cal, but it's going to be interested in.
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  I see from the trickle-down because you in the last, you
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  know, Max been been coming across the border into into the
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  757 the last two to three years, but James Franklin has been
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  dipping his toes down in Virginia for the last eight or
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  nine. Yeah, and it's been, you know,
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  especially as the skill positions you seen running backs
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  in particular taking their talents up to Penn State, so it
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  will be nice to see him go. So if for no other reason, that
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  more than likely, the next guy in probably at least is going to
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  take a year or two to get get his legs under him for the
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  recruiting starts to uptake again.
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  Well, the question is, can pin State grab another Elite.
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  Recruiter, like James Franklin, they had Bill O'Brien before
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  that you had Joe Papp for all the years before that Franklin
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  was an elite recruiter. He is a good coach and of his
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  in-game decisions can be questioned here and there but he
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  would Vanderbilt in the top 25. And your rights who will happen
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  when seasons of Penn State's of. Well, I don't know, I mean, a
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  Big Ten title Rose Bowl. I mean, a bunch of different
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  stuff. He has been coming down and he's
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  not just been coming down to 75. It's been all over, Virginia
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  grabbing the talent, the biggest differential between him and Mac
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  is Max going particular to one area?
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  Yes, he did get the yes he did get Jennings out of here in the
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  RV. A Max also 68 years old And the
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  thing with Mac right now, they have a big game this weekend.
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  They've already lost, Virginia Tech.
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  And now it's, you know, you already saw the didn't Jenny's
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  tweet something after the game, like what like, yeah, dude, like
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  UNC doesn't hold a candle when it comes to Tech Penn State.
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  It's just been tough because it's almost like when Franklin
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  got his hands, and his claws into a recruit.
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  We could get it back, we'd be on track with somebody.
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  You here. Oh good, we this is great.
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  We're probably going to land in, he comes in makes a visit, gets
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  the claws, take some back. Now, I'm going to say this this
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  and this is me being a college football fan.
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  If you are James Franklin and you want to win a National
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  Title, your best bet is to go to USC Penn State.
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  He has been stacking essentially, top 12 classes.
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  I know they have the number to class right now in the country,
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  I believe or number one. I think that'll change as, you
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  know, the biggest dogs get the highest in Tallinn over the next
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  five months. Yep.
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  But USC has the Introduced at top five classes on top of each
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  other. And it is a national brand, so
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  he still could come to Virginia in attempt to get Talent.
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  You could go anywhere in attempt to get Talent.
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  So he also doesn't have to leave his State.
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  You also doesn't have to really his City recruit in California
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  is very true. I mean, the the amount of talent
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  just in, you know, hour and a half of the campus is
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  incredible. It's true.
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  It's a crazy amount. That's true.
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  John he can't get over the Ohio State.
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  He can't get over the Ohio State, huh?
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  And the reason he can't get Ohio State hump, how state is
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  stacking top five classes on each other?
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  Yep you know he's got the one win he's competed with them.
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  So you know I think it's the move after the season unless he
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  you know does something crazy and wins a national title.
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  That's the only way I can't see him leaving.
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  Yeah, I don't think they're quite there yet.
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  There are good team this year, although he they are catching
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  Ohio state is probably as weak as they've been in a while.
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  True, but you also now have a wounded, Ohio State, and
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  usually, when Ohio state gets wounded as when they play their
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  best, all that they put to a put you know somewhat of a duck out
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  there and then kind of played 1/2 down to an opponent before
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  putting them away. So yeah.
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  It's true, man. All right, next we are going to
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  turn to Hokies news and notes and on Saturday night we maybe
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  we shouldn't have said it Brian, but it was said, looks like
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  James Mitchell's, okay? The news comes down earlier this
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  week. James out with a knee injury
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  rest of the season. Will have surgery is an absolute
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  gutshot. Big-time big-time got shot.
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  And let's talk about the announcement first because I'm
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  not sure what went down with that weather was a
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  miscommunication or what was going on.
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  Whether, you know, in terms of his his well-being and whether
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  he was going to be good to go to the sounded like postgame, they
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  thought he was going to be good to go to, at least, get some
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  practice in and then play against West Virginia, and then
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  we got, you know, not just different news, but in the
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  communities that direction, right?
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  So that's a little disappointing.
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  I'm not sure where the disconnect in the information
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  channel was there but let's let's not focus on that.
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  Let's focus on the player and you know, we talked about him
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  being a talent him being versatile.
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  But the one thing I think we're going to miss the most is the
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  on-field leadership. Yep.
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  That he brought to the table. He was kind of a calming effect
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  but also that leader that, you know, when He barked people,
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  listen. Yep.
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  It's very true. And now, the question is, who
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  amongst the offensive skill players steps up into that role?
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  Because on the line, you've obviously got Brock and lettuce
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  who they bark everybody listens. So who is among that skill set
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  does Burmeister step up into the type role.
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  Is it trade Turner? Is it someone else?
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  We don't quite know yet, but that's got to happen.
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  It's got to have the calming effect because you know, we joke
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  about The governor. That's what he was.
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  It was one of those. Everybody listen to him, we're
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  going to miss so much that leadership, the versatility, I
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  mean, his run blocking, which looked even better than it did
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  last year and you know? So now what we've got to turn
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  the page, you know, we got to turn the page and we've got to
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  look in, I don't hate saying this, this was one position that
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  if the top guy went down, Would probably going to be okay.
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  Your ceiling Falls, but the floor is still pretty high,
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  right? Yes.
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  So I think that's a good thing for that position because
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  there's other positions that, you know, when the ceiling goes
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  down, the floor goes out, we all we all must go to the floor to
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  so, right? But having Nick Gallo in trade
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  to Louis as, as kind of the back up there, that's going to be big
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  because they not only had some A lot of game game reps at this
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  point if they have. But, you know, you also have a
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  little bit of a kind of two guys that can together.
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  Do some of the things that James Mitchell did is one person,
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  right? So we talked about it until he
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  but you know Nick better little bit better in the blocking game
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  and Red Zone touches where his drinks a little bit better in
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  the open field, on some of those throwback screens and things
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  like that. So the more athletic little bit
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  more fluid And I'm interested to see Gallo though, because I
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  think Gallows going to get more snaps.
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  I think if Gallo has any, if he has 70% of what James Mitchell
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  path, if it shows it needs to show quick, because he's
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  essentially, because James is so good at what he does.
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  Gallo in a way has been sort of Pigeon-holed into that role and
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  you say like you're out, you're out, you're blocking tight in,
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  you're not going to go out on routes when I will send you up
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  to seem not all the time as he called some balls.
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  Yes. But now it's going to be your
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  one egg. What can you do?
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  Yeah. I mean if you've got that that
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  tight in one route set you're giving that to Mitchell every
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  time, right? So absolutely, yeah.
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  Well we'll see if Gallo can step into that role and do and do a
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  little bit with that. But what we talked about third
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  tight end, we actually have John here talking about third side
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  in. Well, you know, we're going
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  Connor blumrich here, actually are cute.
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  Cute qb3 becomes tight. Ten 33.
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  Yes. And Chris Coleman said it and I
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  think a lot of people were thinking it but Cohen from TS L
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  said it. Me and you had bounced it off
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  each other via text. It's some point.
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  I'm on the James Mitchell news was announced but luckily,
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  Connor got in and got some live touches.
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  I don't know how good his hands are, you know, there were
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  reports that he had some sort of similar role to an HVAC.
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  Type role at am sure some games. But yeah, I mean he's 65, he's
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  220 pounds, he's definitely not going to you're not going to
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  look at in line blocking, but he's definitely could be a joker
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  tight end or run H back out of the backfield.
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  I think if there is a creative, Heart of our offensive mind.
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  It has to come alive now. Yeah.
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  Well, because this is jeans is versatility.
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  It was really hard to replace that but I feel like you can buy
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  committee do all the things that you were doing before you just
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  have to do with different Personnel, right?
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  Yeah. And I think Connor helps add to
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  that. Just because of his, his overall
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  athleticism and his top end speed there.
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  Good. You know, again, we haven't seen
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  his hands. What that looks like yet.
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  We've seen him with the ball in his hand running, looks good
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  doing that, very good and let's let's talk about what I mean.
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  When I say we don't notice hands look like like if he's got you
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  guys a step or two on somebody and you throw him the ball, I
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  think he's going to catch the ball for throwing a throwback
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  screen, you know, when he's open it and, you know, traffic or
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  anything like that, he's on catch those.
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  What I'm working certain about, is he going to catch, you know,
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  that That seemed with a guy on his back shoulder, is he going
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  to catch that ball? That's kind of thrown high in
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  the end zone where he has to go up and get it and win that
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  battle. Those are those are the catches
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  that I'm concerned about because we don't know what that looks
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  like yet. But you know if you get this guy
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  the ball in space I have no question that he can do some
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  damage. Oh no.
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  Not at all. I mean just look at him in the
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  way he ran especially on that 30-yard run when he gets the
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  ball and he has a crease he can get going.
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  Obviously we saw even I think, even what made you feel even
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  better was running that gold on package that he ran?
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  He took some contact. He took the pit.
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  So you almost feel like, okay, he's not going to shy away from
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  contact. That's kind of his role now.
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  It's like go in there and, you know, bust it open.
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  But other than him I mean really he's the option.
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  Yeah, he's the option. I think we're going to, I mean,
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  potentially we're gonna see more.
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  Three-wide sets. Hopefully in bronze eyes, we see
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  more duel running back sets to change the pace up a little bit
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  but that and like we said, we've talked about was getting one
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  mark on the field. I mean, that creates the
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  mismatches there as well. So we'll create the same
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  creative, go ahead, that was some creative things.
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  We can do Personnel was to to really keep defenses on their
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  toes. Despite not having James
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  Mitchell in there, it's just going to use is our coordinator
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  is Our offensive coaching staff going to take advantage of that.
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  Yeah, the other thing about you talk about mismatches, also the
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  possibility of a trick play. We know the guy has been a
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  quarterback. So I hate to say this, I'm not
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  hate to say this, but I like saying this, you get down inside
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  the 10 and you decide to run a little sweet with him, and you
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  do that behind the quarterback. If everybody syncs up, there's
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  going to be somebody open and can he get the ball there?
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  And then the next thing, you know, no, the lanes are opening
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  up because now, someone a stay with the guy Paul stood over
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  there, one time he might feel it.
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  Thinking a little jet sweet pass.
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  We'll just sweet pass. That'd be something interesting
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  to see. Let me think about this.
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  All right, let's go and Brawn. We did this last week.
• 23:28
  We looked at some snap counts, we're going to look at them
• 23:30
  again. Shout out Evan Watkins over at
• 23:33
  24/7 for putting this up but we're gonna start the
• 23:36
  linebacking corps because I think Brian that is where we are
• 23:40
  feeling really good. Seeing how many guys got snaps?
• 23:44
  So Tisdale High field obviously 5246 now it's respectively but
• 23:50
  we go down a little bit and both.
• 23:53
  Ferguson and Keyshawn artists, both with 25 snaps.
• 23:58
  That's a lot. That's a big number and I will
• 24:02
  say, looking at the tape and looking at everything.
• 24:05
  Keyshawn artist played a really good game those stamps.
• 24:08
  Do you got in there? Almost had to pick one time.
• 24:11
  Stuck his nose, in there. Got a couple of tackles just
• 24:14
  really overall, good game for him showed that really him and
• 24:19
  Dean Ferguson in there. There wasn't a ton of drop off
• 24:22
  from the first line to the second line because those guys
• 24:25
  got in there. When Middle Tennessee still had
• 24:28
  their starters in the game, so yeah.
• 24:30
  A good job for both of them and good job.
• 24:33
  Overall, from the linebacking corps, I feel like everybody had
• 24:36
  a really good game overall, nothing splashy but I don't
• 24:39
  really need splashy from from the linebackers, the way this
• 24:42
  defense is design. I just need them to be where
• 24:44
  they need to be and make the tackle exactly.
• 24:47
  It's the way the defensive design, do your job.
• 24:49
  It's going to be fine with them getting that much.
• 24:51
  I think, now, again, it was Middle Tennessee, State.
• 24:55
  It was a G5 school, but I think now, maybe in the back of
• 24:59
  Justin, Hamilton's, my And if I want to give that accent is a
• 25:04
  full were either 4325 plays. I think what happens is he's not
• 25:12
  afraid now. I put these out there, I put the
• 25:15
  right coverage in. They're going to do their jobs.
• 25:17
  I'm not worried about liabilities.
• 25:20
  Yeah, because it's showing that they can do it a couple other
• 25:24
  ones before. Look at wide receiver, Brian
• 25:27
  Cole Nelson, 12 reps, Oops, snaps Wilfred Panay 14, Jalen
• 25:35
  Griffin 17. Keeping up with his normal CJ,
• 25:38
  McRae with 20. I like that.
• 25:42
  We had talked about him possibly getting some extra reps this
• 25:45
  week and then it came to fruition.
• 25:48
  And the number says that he's kind of that almost working into
• 25:53
  that, that that same number with that second line, right?
• 25:56
  Yeah, I'm he got more than Griffin.
• 25:58
  Yeah, you know and he definitely got let me see if I can find it
• 26:03
  here and he got more than he liked our atoms.
• 26:07
  By the way. Miss stretch Carol 14.
• 26:09
  They Got some play, but the McRae thing does Stand Out Ron
• 26:13
  2020 is a big number when you know you're looking at the top
• 26:17
  guys bar. No.
• 26:20
  And Garbutt with 4437 respectively.
• 26:23
  Yep. So they probably overall played
• 26:27
  a little bit more than we probably wanted them to.
• 26:30
  Yes. But I like that we were able to
• 26:33
  get a true 33 deep line, rotating a defensive end.
• 26:38
  Yeah. That's a good sign.
• 26:40
  Another good sign is getting some of the freshmen that we
• 26:43
  need. Probably going to need more in
• 26:46
  late October and November. Then we need them right now, but
• 26:49
  getting them reps now is going to pay off once that time comes.
• 26:54
  So again, the key is going to be keep guys healthy, keep them as
• 26:57
  fresh as possible and hopefully, get some of the younger guys
• 27:00
  enough reps, where they can give us meaningful snaps and
• 27:03
  meaningful games. Absolutely.
• 27:05
  All right, next we want to look at the wide receiver, see how
• 27:08
  that's starting to shake out. No shot Tavian Robinson Leading
• 27:12
  The Way with 50 snaps Trey, Turner, 45.
• 27:16
  Caleb Smith with 44 and then Jaden pay.
• 27:21
  You got 17 snaps so quite a few for him Lofton with nine, Jalen
• 27:26
  Jones with sixth. I'm going to start here and I
• 27:31
  said it's Saturday night and I'll say it again on Wednesday
• 27:33
  night. If Lofton and Jones are showing
• 27:36
  that much have to get on them on the field more than essentially
• 27:41
  one series. Yep.
• 27:43
  You have it. It's starting to get
• 27:46
  infuriating. Like, if they're showing if
• 27:48
  you're talking them up and you're not giving them a playing
• 27:51
  time, then don't talk them up because clearly you don't have
• 27:55
  any meaning to get them on the field.
• 27:58
  Yeah and it's disappointing seeing them essentially.
• 28:00
  I think if I'm not mistaken Lofton, was you Used one series
• 28:06
  before kind of garbage time you pay you got a little bit more
• 28:10
  run but I still would have liked to see him get more snaps.
• 28:14
  And unfortunately from it just a Target standpoint we're still
• 28:18
  not getting the Targets in the passing game that we need to do
• 28:23
  a lot of even a lot of our calls are ending up either throws out
• 28:29
  of bounds or scrambles. We're not getting actually.
• 28:33
  A whole lot of passes that are actually getting to the point.
• 28:37
  They need to get to and that's disappointing at this point, you
• 28:42
  know, we talked about it a little bit on on Saturday night
• 28:45
  and I'm just going to reiterate it here.
• 28:46
  We've got to get more consistent in our passing game.
• 28:49
  Got to get better separation at the wide receiver position and
• 28:53
  Braxton needs to take a little bit more risk with the football
• 28:57
  than he is right now, I don't want turnovers, I don't want to
• 29:00
  go back to Ryan Willis, but I need you to To push the ball a
• 29:04
  little bit more right now because we're not good enough to
• 29:08
  wait for that wide open man. Sometimes you got to you got to
• 29:12
  put the ball and take a calculated risk crew and we're
• 29:15
  going to discuss that a little more and we get into the banquet
• 29:18
  Alley. We're going to get a little bit
• 29:22
  more into that with the gamma version of what we're looking
• 29:25
  for in the Hokies a little later on in the program run.
• 29:30
  So now guys, before we get into Know The Enemy working at
• 29:34
  Virginia tonight, Battlefield Black Diamond trophy.
• 29:37
  We are going to take a quick pause for a message from our
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  digital partners. All right, Brian.
• 29:44
  So we're going to get in here, and we're going to start with
• 29:47
  the West Virginia Mountaineers offense and knowing the enemy
• 29:51
  and Brawn. I want to start tonight by
• 29:52
  looking at West, Virginia's, running backs and the offensive
• 29:56
  line, and we look at the running backs.
• 29:58
  We've got to look at Levi Brown 5 11 to 16.
• 30:02
  He was a three-star coming out of high school, but a three-star
• 30:07
  with offers from Bama and University of Florida, so he
• 30:12
  obviously had It caught the eye of some pretty high-end Elite
• 30:16
  teams when you see offers like that.
• 30:19
  Okay. Was it real?
• 30:20
  Was it not real? It's reported they at least had
• 30:23
  enough interest to wear it gained it on 24/7.
• 30:26
  Now last year hell of a season, 1010 rushing yards about five
• 30:33
  point one to carry another 202, with 31 receptions, 11
• 30:39
  touchdowns last year, you know, as far as the receiving goes
• 30:45
  kind of on the same pace for it this year.
• 30:48
  What are you seeing out of Lady Browne?
• 30:50
  The tape he's above average. Runner really is good.
• 30:56
  Between the tackles, they run a lot of inside Zone.
• 30:58
  They run that very well. So he's going to, he's going to
• 31:01
  do a good job in that, making kind of get into the second
• 31:04
  level making we got Miss and stretching, you know, 5-yard
• 31:08
  gain into a 12 or 13, yard gain. But to me, he's a bigger threat
• 31:12
  in the passing game just because they use him really extensively.
• 31:17
  Both in the screen game, they swing him out, they'll put him
• 31:19
  in motion and get the ball to him and space.
• 31:22
  They do a lot of good things with him.
• 31:24
  I don't see him break a ton of big plays in the passing game,
• 31:28
  but he is the guy that can kind of move.
• 31:30
  The sticks for them with kind of you know that little Dash here
• 31:34
  Dash there eight or ten yards, scoot to the first down.
• 31:39
  So that's what they really bring to the table but their offensive
• 31:42
  line is kind of what what keeps that going?
• 31:45
  They do a good job on the inside Zone.
• 31:48
  Do a good job with the combos inside getting to the next
• 31:52
  level. Giving lady Browne, some room to
• 31:56
  kind of operate and make us miss and space.
• 31:58
  There. We obviously know.
• 32:00
  That one of our own Doug Nestor is now playing guard for the
• 32:06
  Mountaineers. Yes he is handsome made some
• 32:10
  good classes at the offensive line position over the last kind
• 32:15
  of two or three Cycles. They're adding in Doug, just
• 32:19
  kind of helps that. So they're they're pretty good
• 32:22
  unit, they're not as great in passed through, as they are
• 32:25
  running the ball, they'll allow sex.
• 32:28
  And that's, you know, Pounded a little bit by their quarterback
• 32:32
  and how he kind of operates. But overall, it's going to be a
• 32:38
  little bit of a struggle for us, but I think our defense and wind
• 32:40
  is up to the task for it has an ester actually looked, I mean do
• 32:46
  this, it would Doug, Nestor, be absolutely starting somewhere on
• 32:50
  our line or would it be rotational?
• 32:54
  I mean, he definitely be starting for us this year, okay?
• 32:56
  But at the same time I don't necessarily see a different dog.
• 33:00
  Mister it, West Virginia than I saw in 2013 for the Hokies, he's
• 33:05
  a guy that will go out there and get a good pancake, good
• 33:09
  pulling, good to get into the next level but has some lapses
• 33:12
  here and there and sometimes that can you have the have the
• 33:18
  quarterback on his bag? Sometimes that's just you.
• 33:21
  Miscommunications line of scrimmage and that blows Running
• 33:23
  plays. So, still up and down sometimes
• 33:26
  in terms of consistency. But he, when he, when he plays
• 33:32
  well, he's he's a handful, I've got it, the offensive line, you
• 33:37
  know. Statistically, you know, they're
• 33:39
  putting up some points and everything.
• 33:41
  They have given up, five sacks, and two games.
• 33:44
  That's against Maryland and that's obviously against Long
• 33:48
  Island University a FCS upon who two years ago, didn't want to
• 33:52
  game. And they've given up about nine
• 33:55
  tackles for loss against both of those teams.
• 33:58
  So one of those things to keep an eye on them, to drop a stat
• 34:01
  on you a little bit later, when we wrap up everything Braun that
• 34:04
  I think is going to shock you a little bit about about that
• 34:09
  enough. But let's move on Braun and
• 34:12
  let's take a look at the wide receiver rooms and Brawn.
• 34:15
  You talked about twins when we were talking a little bit
• 34:17
  earlier today. And let's talk about these
• 34:20
  twins, Sam james511 183. Real three-star offers went to
• 34:26
  what offers from Mississippi State and Georgia Tech.
• 34:29
  Really? Not really a productive year.
• 34:34
  You know very productive in 2019, not really productive.
• 34:37
  Last year, only 31 receptions for 300 yards, 9.7 catch two
• 34:42
  touchdowns, the other guy, Sean Ryan, the bigger body guy 63.
• 34:46
  198, 3 star also actually came as a portal transfer over from
• 34:52
  Temple. Again not great stats in 2020,
• 34:56
  25 4269, no touchdowns. So from these two guys I know
• 35:01
  you wanted to talk about them together.
• 35:03
  What are you seeing on the tape? When we see these guys lined up
• 35:07
  near each other, So a lot of what we're seeing is, they'll
• 35:12
  run, they'll put them. Both on the same side of the
• 35:15
  formation, they run a lot of knife route Concepts.
• 35:18
  So they're running one of them either on a slant or some sort
• 35:23
  of inside play, Within the other ones running a corner.
• 35:27
  They're trying to get you the outside guy on the inside guy to
• 35:30
  get rubbed. So they can get kind of a free
• 35:32
  release, they've had a lot of success against Maryland doing
• 35:36
  that especially in the first half.
• 35:39
  Barely kind of adjusted to it in the second half when a lot more
• 35:42
  Zone Concepts in that took away a little bit of that, they were
• 35:46
  still able to get some completions but they weren't
• 35:47
  able to kind of bust them for big plays over to middleware,
• 35:51
  big plays down the sideline. But Sam James is a little bit
• 35:55
  more of the athlete but Shawn Ryan is is the guy that he
• 36:00
  doesn't get a ton of ton of caches but when he does, they
• 36:03
  usually go for pretty big yardage.
• 36:05
  He said to plays over 30 yards in two games so far.
• 36:09
  Not a ton of catches but he's doing something with it.
• 36:12
  Every time he gets his hand on the ball, James is definitely
• 36:15
  more of the kind of the steady, Eddie the consistent guy, but he
• 36:19
  is a big play threat as well because of his speed.
• 36:22
  So, both of those are guys to watch the other person, I will
• 36:26
  mention in this wide. Receiver core is Winston right
• 36:31
  jr. And I know you've seen the
• 36:32
  highlights. A lot of those are going to be,
• 36:36
  he's going to do some good things in the passing game for
• 36:38
  them. But but primarily he is a weapon
• 36:41
  in the Special Teams. Absolutely punt returner and
• 36:45
  kick returner had two big kick returns against.
• 36:49
  Maryland did muff a punt though so that that resulted in a
• 36:55
  turnover. So that's something to watch as
• 36:56
  well but if he gets his hands on the ball, he can be a threat.
• 37:00
  So we got to make sure that we're doing well in our coverage
• 37:03
  on both kick return or kickoff and on a punt.
• 37:08
  Yeah. Hello, needs to get it to the
• 37:10
  back of the end zone Brown because it's not a, this isn't a
• 37:13
  one trick pony with Winston. Right the 59 180 three-star, his
• 37:18
  career, he's returned 33 kickoffs for 925 yards.
• 37:23
  He's almost averaging 30 yards every time he takes one out of
• 37:28
  the end zone, which is that's a, that's an obscene number, in my
• 37:31
  opinion, in today's age, he's ran to back to the house.
• 37:35
  We obviously saw one already this year, one, that was Close.
• 37:41
  We haven't seen him as much in the, we hadn't didn't see him a
• 37:44
  lot in the Maryland game but last year I mean he can he can
• 37:48
  definitely hold his own as far as you know, being a receiver
• 37:51
  being a threat, forty seven receptions last year for 553
• 37:56
  yards, One Touch. So I'm kind of seeing maybe with
• 38:00
  that may be little more gadgety with his size and his speed and
• 38:06
  you know, but Romeo's got to send it.
• 38:09
  Let that mean. Touch the ball any, as far as
• 38:13
  our punter goes, Peter more Peter more, keep doing what
• 38:17
  you're doing, because if you have not been booming on letting
• 38:21
  the covers team get there, you have been putting good angles on
• 38:24
  them, I think, Peter more. This is going to put more in the
• 38:27
  Hokies talk as a freshman. He is a true five star punter
• 38:31
  because he's coming in and do it exactly what you expect.
• 38:34
  Somebody that's done the job for three years.
• 38:36
  Like, Bradburn it done. Yeah.
• 38:38
  Yeah. He's done a good job.
• 38:39
  Job so far. I mean, the only thing you got
• 38:41
  to worry about with the punished, you know, make sure
• 38:43
  that there's enough air time if you do.
• 38:45
  Boom it so you're not out kicking the coverage there.
• 38:49
  Exactly. All right, let's turn it.
• 38:51
  Let's look at the quarterback. Jared Dodge was a 3-star
• 38:55
  transferred from Delhi. Diggy Dives 2010 D-Day geeky guy
• 39:08
  from Bowl. Green back in 2018.
• 39:11
  Had a really good season with Bowling Green, 27 touchdowns 14
• 39:15
  interceptions in last year solid season with West Virginia, you
• 39:19
  know, 63% 63 percent completion percentage 2,500 plus yards, 14
• 39:26
  touchdowns for interceptions, obviously his brother played
• 39:31
  Seth played down at Texas Tech. So Brian, what are you seeing
• 39:37
  from sip? Not Seth.
• 39:39
  With Jared wrong Duty. What are you seeing from him?
• 39:42
  On tape, he's not a great athlete, but he is good.
• 39:48
  Enough to scrambling. Get a first down here there.
• 39:50
  So we're not preparing for any sort of mobile quarterback, but
• 39:55
  he does have a little bit of at, which he does have a good feel
• 39:58
  of went to take off and get the first down.
• 40:00
  If he needs to, he does really well with the clean pocket,
• 40:04
  delivers an accurate Ball. But when the Gets a little bit
• 40:10
  muddled, that's when he struggles.
• 40:13
  He's thrown a couple pics that I've seen early in this year
• 40:16
  already. When, when the pocket gets
• 40:19
  crowded there he gets contacted. So it's going to be interesting
• 40:23
  to see what we do. We really need to get pressure
• 40:27
  on him, the sum of their, some of their skiing.
• 40:30
  With that power power rate is, is what is kind of call.
• 40:33
  They're combining the power run with the air raid.
• 40:39
  He does a good job running that and they mix in some RPO
• 40:43
  elements a lot of inside Zone and counter.
• 40:46
  And then, you know, they throw the ball off, play action with
• 40:49
  it. And I think the play action is
• 40:51
  where we play action. In.
• 40:52
  Our PO is where we could potentially get burned.
• 40:55
  I think if we just line up, we're going to hold the whole,
• 41:00
  The Zone and check. And I think we'll hold just the
• 41:02
  the five-step drop in check, but we need to make sure that we're
• 41:06
  not out of position. When you can, we get some runs.
• 41:09
  Action or that are po going. I hear that something else I'll
• 41:14
  make a point on Brian because you pulled up a couple clips and
• 41:16
  showed me a couple days ago in not necessarily a clean pocket
• 41:21
  but he doesn't really have his pocket Mobility is bad.
• 41:26
  Like I remember there was one playing you we showed him like
• 41:29
  Brian why doesn't he just like all he had to do was kind of a
• 41:32
  couple steps left. We could have reset his feet and
• 41:36
  fired instead like the guys coming.
• 41:38
  It's like oh God throat. And he did that numerous times.
• 41:43
  So I think for us it's it's not only keeping the pocket clean
• 41:47
  but just making the noise of being there because he clearly
• 41:51
  does not have the capability to just didn't see him step up, you
• 41:57
  didn't see him slide left or slide right as much as we want
• 42:01
  to knock Braxton, we've seen him slide left slide right, we slim
• 42:05
  slide up in the pocket and then take off and run.
• 42:09
  Jared doesn't do that in. You know, the one thing that
• 42:12
  I've been looking at Braun is this, alright.
• 42:16
  So we're not even going to look at Liu right?
• 42:20
  The laura-leigh ER it's given up 14 either Sachs or tackles for
• 42:24
  loss plays in the backfield. Yep.
• 42:27
  Maryland in two games, has a combined 15.
• 42:32
  What are those games against Howard?
• 42:35
  And they blew the doors off of them.
• 42:37
  You care to guess how many Virginia Tech has between sacks
• 42:40
  and tackles for loss in two games. 22:27.
• 42:49
  Okay. Non-sex 18 tackles for loss?
• 42:53
  So, when I'm starting to look at this, in just like its
• 42:56
  comparative. Analysis is saying, well, the
• 42:58
  one team that they play with division, one Talent only has 15
• 43:03
  for the year, they're not doing a whole lot.
• 43:06
  You're about to bring essentially a much better
• 43:10
  defensive line who is getting into the back.
• 43:13
  Field and bringing people down. Not even counting quarterback
• 43:19
  hits or pressures. So, when I'm thinking about
• 43:22
  Jared and his a kind of has a Mobility unless he absolutely
• 43:27
  has to, or his bad pocket, awareness.
• 43:31
  I have a feeling that that lines going to get ate all day.
• 43:38
  Or ate a lot of the day order. He's going to be taking some
• 43:41
  absolute hits as he's letting go of the ball.
• 43:45
  Yeah, I think that's the thing. We definitely have to do.
• 43:46
  We've got to be able to get pressure with for like we did
• 43:49
  against you and see you know, they're going to run that RPO a
• 43:53
  little bit. So we I think we can bring a
• 43:55
  similar type type game plan to the table to try to slow these
• 44:01
  guys down. The question is going to be?
• 44:04
  Can we consistently get home with the with the defense with
• 44:08
  the defense of wine? Especially just bringing for,
• 44:11
  I'd like us to be less familiar. Nila this week obviously
• 44:15
  compared to what we did last week, making better be make some
• 44:20
  more stunts. Some of the The Zone Blitz, some
• 44:23
  of the delay Blitz but I don't think we need to Blitz a lot.
• 44:27
  I want to completely get pressure with for and make sure
• 44:30
  that we're we got the coverage going in the back.
• 44:32
  And we keep the run and check because we can keep the run in
• 44:36
  check. Then again like we did against
• 44:40
  UNC, we make that offense one-dimensional, it's a whole
• 44:43
  lot easier to stop. Abso-freakin'-lutely.
• 44:46
  All right, now that we closed down the offense and give you
• 44:49
  some names and things to look for it.
• 44:51
  Let's flip it over to the defense bar on the wonderful 335
• 44:56
  stack, and let's start taking a look.
• 45:02
  I want to give the guys name and the position, but I want you to
• 45:07
  explain what it is before you get into too deep so actually.
• 45:11
  So let's do this first. The Darius Calhoun 64 245, he
• 45:18
  plays the Bandit position. He's a star transfer from
• 45:22
  Alabama, the sky was a top hundred pledges few years ago in
• 45:26
  the country. He only had about eight games
• 45:29
  prior to this season between Alabama and West.
• 45:32
  Virginia 14, tackles five-and-a-half tackles for
• 45:36
  loss, three sacks, one, fourth Rumble.
• 45:38
  So not a lot of production and just a few games there.
• 45:43
  But before you get into what you're seeing, On him.
• 45:45
  What exactly does that Bandit position do for West Virginia?
• 45:49
  So let's start with with the actual defense and I can kind of
• 45:52
  break down with the band it does.
• 45:54
  So the defense is really a multiple front 34 base so they
• 46:02
  run, they'll run the 34 alignment.
• 46:05
  They'll have a 33 stack alignment.
• 46:07
  They'll have a 42 alignment so you're going to see various
• 46:12
  fronts but their base is kind of a Hybrid 34.
• 46:17
  And what Bend areas kaolians position is, is the Bandit,
• 46:21
  which is a hybrid, 34 edge, meaning that, you know, if
• 46:26
  they're, if they're front is the 42, he's either a stand-up or
• 46:30
  hand in the dirt defensive end. If it is the 34 base, he's more
• 46:35
  of a traditional Edge rusher outside linebacker.
• 46:40
  He will be kind of the backer. If We're translating it to hokey
• 46:47
  speak here, he'd be the backer in the 42 alignment.
• 46:50
  So there's a lot of things that he can do.
• 46:54
  In this in this alignment, but he's really the hybrid player up
• 46:58
  front. That enables them to kind of
• 47:01
  have that multiple front and not really skip a beat All right.
• 47:07
  What have you seen from him on tape?
• 47:09
  I mean is he is he disruptive as he better in coverage as you
• 47:12
  better play more the true backer and position the for to these
• 47:16
  versatile buddies that he's much better when he's attacking
• 47:19
  forward then he is in coverage. Okay so even if he is at that
• 47:24
  linebacker in the three threes at the linebacker, if he's in
• 47:27
  the for to weave on the edge, He likes to attack at the line of
• 47:33
  scrimmage and get tackles for loss.
• 47:37
  That's that's his bread and butter, but he does pretty good,
• 47:40
  especially when he's, he has to do limited things in coverage,
• 47:43
  like, cover the flat, he does that very well.
• 47:47
  He's got enough athleticism to stick with a tight end in that
• 47:49
  space and stick with a running back in that space gets a
• 47:53
  little, not, not 100% great when it's not Zone.
• 47:58
  When it's, when he's locked up deeper down the The field in a
• 48:01
  man situation but he doesn't have to do that a ton with the
• 48:05
  way they kind of scheme for him. Got it.
• 48:09
  Alright. Now let's take a look at Scotty
• 48:11
  young who plays the spear position 510 207 pounds 3 star.
• 48:17
  He was an Arizona Wildcat transfer so West Coast to East
• 48:22
  Coast. Very good 2019 because he had to
• 48:25
  sit out 2020 with the trains for twenty nineteen, sixty six,
• 48:28
  tackles two and a half tackles for loss and then Shin I guess
• 48:34
  it's Wayne spear first and then what you think from Scotty on
• 48:36
  tape spear the best way to think of it is very similar to the
• 48:43
  Whip and what the whip used to be.
• 48:45
  You're talking about a hybrid safety linebacker that likes to
• 48:50
  play in the box. So it depending on what what
• 48:52
  front they're going is going to vary whether he's playing more
• 48:56
  of a nickel type role of safety type role or a true in the Box.
• 49:01
  Linebacker type role. But those two positions, the
• 49:04
  Bandit in the spear combined is kind of what what allows them to
• 49:08
  to go. Those multiple fronts because
• 49:10
  they can kind of switch the alignments up and really not
• 49:12
  miss a beat. So you got to have versatile
• 49:15
  players at those two positions and Scotty young is a versatile
• 49:18
  player. Definitely a guy that likes to
• 49:20
  hit makes good plays in the running game, probably a little
• 49:26
  stronger in the running game than he is in coverage.
• 49:29
  Similar to cow and But he's not a liability in coverage, but he
• 49:33
  will get beat on occasion, but definitely in the Run game, he's
• 49:39
  kind of the spill guy. He's the guy that, you know,
• 49:42
  when they wash it outside, he comes in and cleans it up.
• 49:46
  Alright, tape. You know, you know, is the tape.
• 49:53
  Average, above average. Would you want to be above
• 49:58
  average player? Okay.
• 49:59
  Yeah he's definitely above average player.
• 50:02
  More Mega said he will. He will he will occasionally get
• 50:05
  beaten coverage but not anymore than, you know.
• 50:08
  Shamari Connor does but he's kind of not quite the hitter
• 50:11
  that Shamari is but definitely is good in terms of tackling and
• 50:15
  coming up and making the play, like he is.
• 50:17
  Alright? So we've kind of looked at a
• 50:19
  defensive lineman, / linebacker, we kind of looked at a T. /
• 50:23
  linebacker. Let's look at the two safeties
• 50:26
  because me, and you took some time and looked on tape with
• 50:30
  these two guys. And if there's anywhere, I think
• 50:33
  we can attack its with these two Gentlemen.
• 50:35
  Let's start with the free safety, Sean my home. 511 200
• 50:39
  pounds 3 star had offers from UK and Cincinnati, when he came out
• 50:45
  his 2020. Season 53, tackles two tackles
• 50:48
  for loss in an interception. But Brown, we looked at the
• 50:51
  tape, it was Either good and solid or yeah, yeah, very feast
• 50:58
  or famine. He had a couple good plays where
• 51:03
  he was, right? Where you need to be in
• 51:04
  coverage. Wouldn't made the play?
• 51:05
  And then there was there was one play where he was in a cover to
• 51:10
  Lost leverage just had a had a big clean run for a touchdown
• 51:14
  for one of the Maryland receivers on a corner route that
• 51:18
  probably should have been only been a 25-yard gain.
• 51:22
  Not a 50-yard touchdown. Yeah.
• 51:25
  So It's really very much. Both of these safeties are kind
• 51:30
  of feast or famine. They make solid plays, they come
• 51:34
  up, make big plays, good fits in the running game and then you
• 51:38
  know they'll have a handful of plays a game where you're just
• 51:41
  scratching your head like how did you let that happen?
• 51:43
  Yeah, you know with with the way we're going to talk about the
• 51:48
  other Alonso die in just a second but with the play that
• 51:50
  you show with Mahone and a couple other plays, it's he's
• 51:53
  essentially It's not significantly out of position,
• 51:58
  but if a, the right play is called and he's where he is on
• 52:02
  some of those, it's a massive game, it was a it was a
• 52:06
  situational thing. It was very much a, he misread
• 52:10
  the situation, didn't get enough depth wasn't where he needed to
• 52:13
  be in relationship to the hash and that gave too much of a, of
• 52:18
  a window to throw the ball towards the sideline.
• 52:21
  Yeah. All right, let's talk about
• 52:23
  Alonzo with that 510. In 1986 2020.
• 52:27
  Really good season. 66 tackles two interceptions in a forced.
• 52:32
  Fumble. I don't I feel like you looked
• 52:36
  at his place more than me. I remember the Mahone plays?
• 52:39
  What do we see out of a die in the good and the bad?
• 52:43
  So the good is that he is a very willing tackle tackle, he will
• 52:47
  get up in there in the box and make plays in the running game.
• 52:52
  The problem I saw was some inconsistency with his run fits
• 52:56
  a couple times kind of getting kind of approaching the box but
• 53:00
  then kind of getting caught in the wash and not getting to the
• 53:04
  fit to make the play. Was he was that that running
• 53:07
  play. We looked at where he
• 53:08
  essentially followed the linebacker versus going to the
• 53:10
  correct Gap, that's correct. Yeah.
• 53:14
  There was a, there was a couple other plays that were similar to
• 53:16
  that but that that one definitely stood out.
• 53:19
  Well, when we looked, if he was a little bit more patient with
• 53:23
  we're especially considering where the gaps were opening in
• 53:27
  the blocking scheme, if he was a little bit more patient, he
• 53:29
  would have been able to make the play there and make the tackle,
• 53:31
  even if it was only for, you know, five to eight yard gain,
• 53:34
  turned out to be about a 25 or 30 yard gain on that running
• 53:37
  play. If I'm not mistaken.
• 53:39
  All right. Just, you know, the difference
• 53:41
  between doing the fundamental things, right?
• 53:44
  Yeah, and when you we saw that play, Brian, I had the
• 53:47
  flashbacks to you and see because it looked like how do we
• 53:50
  looked against you and see in 2020 where guys were just in the
• 53:55
  wrong spots? Massive gaps opening and again
• 54:00
  you kind of pointed out it's like he's got a hesitate and I
• 54:04
  think it goes back to what you said he's willing to look for
• 54:06
  contact and sometimes with guys like that you see it.
• 54:11
  They're looking for the contact versus the hesitation and fine.
• 54:14
  Adding where to go and that case it look like he trusted his
• 54:18
  instincts and not his eyes and his eyes told him something
• 54:21
  completely different than his instincts told him and sometimes
• 54:25
  instincts are big, but some guys play with instincts and that's
• 54:29
  good. If they're if their instincts
• 54:30
  are consistent but sometimes when they're not you're going to
• 54:34
  have yourself out of position on these plays and that can that
• 54:37
  can create some big gains if things aren't flush across the
• 54:41
  front six or seven there, Very true.
• 54:44
  Alright, so that's going to close no.
• 54:46
  The enemy on the defensive side of the ball, as we did last
• 54:51
  week, we have a hokey version. This is the Hokey gamma version
• 54:55
  we've seen Alpha. We've seen beta.
• 54:57
  We are at Gamma and Brian. We're going to start with the
• 55:00
  offense. Watching the Maryland tape.
• 55:05
  Yep. A it made you happy because I
• 55:09
  think you know, these are in our Arsenal, what do we need to run
• 55:14
  the damn screens run? The damn screens multiple, we
• 55:19
  should be able to scream and short pass, this team all day.
• 55:24
  I know we're talking about we want to get more things involved
• 55:27
  in the in the passing game. The best way to get things
• 55:30
  involved in the passing game is give Braxton some easy reads
• 55:35
  early in the game just like you did against you NC and get his
• 55:38
  ass comfortable. Yep.
• 55:40
  And get them two guys who can make things happen.
• 55:43
  Blackshear trait, a don't be afraid to give Caleb Smith a
• 55:47
  chance, don't be afraid to give potentially Keshawn King, one of
• 55:52
  the screens that were set up in the Maryland game.
• 55:54
  I mean, it the way their defense, their defense looks so
• 55:59
  unprepared for it. Yeah, they ran a tunnel that
• 56:02
  went for big yards. They ran a tight end throwback
• 56:04
  that went for big yards. They ran a running back.
• 56:07
  Bringing that went for pretty good.
• 56:08
  Yardage couple flares that went the win for pretty decent
• 56:13
  yardage so we'll be able to do some short passing game.
• 56:15
  Things against this defense, we need to be consistent with it
• 56:19
  and we need to Pepper it in early to get Braxton comfortable
• 56:23
  with the game plan. Absolutely.
• 56:26
  Now, the second part of this puzzle is something.
• 56:31
  We saw one time versus Middle, Tennessee, State.
• 56:33
  It was the jet Suite game. City with Brian Tuesday after
• 56:40
  afternoon and Tuesday afternoon. Yeah, and he's showing me some
• 56:44
  of the plays and, The Motions completely screwed.
• 56:51
  They're essentially, their second level up.
• 56:54
  We saw it, we already talked about a die making mistakes.
• 56:57
  When you give them the window dressing and removing players,
• 57:01
  they are going to the wrong gaps.
• 57:03
  If for nothing else, even if we only hand the ball off, three
• 57:07
  times on a Jet Sweep, giving that motion is going to give
• 57:10
  space. To our running game on the
• 57:14
  inside, right? Ron.
• 57:16
  Yeah, yeah. We talked about the Jet Sweep
• 57:18
  All the Time. Loved it or hated we've seen.
• 57:22
  We've seen that. It's an efficient play.
• 57:24
  I know that James Mitchell got hurt on the Jet Sweep, so we're
• 57:28
  not going to talk about that, but we need to talk about is
• 57:32
  that consistently. We've done good things with the
• 57:34
  jet Suite, it helps open up Avenues and alleys to run in our
• 57:39
  offense, it does a good job of kind of Getting outside of the
• 57:43
  box with the ball quickly. As long as we can get that Ali
• 57:48
  block properly. It's a pretty good play.
• 57:51
  We've had a lot of success in the Red Zone.
• 57:53
  I think this these linebackers and the the spear in particular
• 57:58
  can be influenced by the window dressing that we like to use.
• 58:02
  So I'm hoping that we take advantage of that with the Jet
• 58:04
  Sweep and some other motion that we run.
• 58:09
  But Brian, what what has to happen with our quarterback?
• 58:14
  He's gonna have to pull the damn trigger on some mid-level
• 58:16
  passes, you know, I don't know if we necessarily need to take
• 58:19
  the ball, deep down the field, a lot against this team and
• 58:23
  especially without James Mitchell, I don't see us
• 58:25
  attacking deep down the middle of the field against this team
• 58:28
  consistently. But I what I would like to see
• 58:31
  is us working. The mid-level passing game
• 58:36
  inside the numbers, and inside the hash, Is to keep them
• 58:40
  honest. So we can still have that short
• 58:43
  passing game to get outside the hashes in the numbers, to take
• 58:47
  advantage of their weakness. Yep.
• 58:49
  In, we've always known how risk adverse they want our
• 58:53
  quarterbacks to be. And, and luckily, for what they
• 58:58
  said, he talked about, you know, we value protecting the ball,
• 59:01
  but sometimes you've got to throw the ball.
• 59:04
  I enjoyed hearing him say that because we think it as fans.
• 59:08
  Yeah. It's cool to protect the ball
• 59:10
  but sometimes you got to throw it and when your head coach is
• 59:12
  saying that it's almost like a trigger, right?
• 59:14
  I should be a trigger for Braxton Burmeister protected,
• 59:17
  don't throw anything stupid by all means.
• 59:19
  Yeah, as you said a little earlier Braun, you can't wait
• 59:23
  for it to come completely open. You have to anticipate that when
• 59:27
  Trey runs a 10-yard in, he's going to get the ten yard in.
• 59:31
  He's going to be this guy. Put it where he can run with it.
• 59:35
  That's your job. Yeah, I would much rather brag.
• 59:39
  Burmeister take a calculated risk with the ball.
• 59:41
  While the pocket is still clean. Then go on the run and try to
• 59:46
  get rid of it as someone's bearing down on him in a
• 59:50
  scramble drill, right? Yeah, I would much rather a
• 59:55
  clean pocket where you can step into the throw and it's a
• 59:58
  calculated risk, where more than likely, it's either a catcher.
• 1:00:01
  An incompletion right, true? And we, and we've had a
• 1:00:04
  relatively clean pocket. We've only given up two sacks
• 1:00:07
  and two games. Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  And there's because if some of that is Braxton being Elusive
• 1:00:11
  and getting out, but some mean some of it is just we hold the
• 1:00:15
  pocket for long enough for him to at least get rid of the ball
• 1:00:18
  or get the ball down, feel right?
• 1:00:20
  And and it's not going. Alright.
• 1:00:23
  Brandade we've got actually get the ball down field to the
• 1:00:26
  receiver on time, within the framework of the play call.
• 1:00:31
  Yep. We can't just be top top, top of
• 1:00:35
  the drop, it's not there. Alright, so now I'm going
• 1:00:39
  Scramble a little bit roll outside, and try to get rid of
• 1:00:42
  it. Downfield to Caleb Smith, trying
• 1:00:45
  to get open or James Mitchell, trying to get up.
• 1:00:47
  Like it's, we can get some big plays that way at some point,
• 1:00:54
  but we've got to be consistent with the passing game because
• 1:00:56
  they're just they're just looking for for those things
• 1:00:59
  that we're being inconsistent with because they're taking it
• 1:01:01
  away in the first couple seconds and then bracks is just going
• 1:01:05
  away from it. Yep, very true.
• 1:01:08
  All right. One One last piece.
• 1:01:09
  We're looking for this week. Is someone Whether it be Trey
• 1:01:16
  Turner, Savion Robinson, Raheem Blackshear, somebody has to get
• 1:01:22
  in all 100 yards, all purposed, yep.
• 1:01:25
  Against this defense. And what we have seen on the
• 1:01:28
  tape and how they reacted against Maryland, I'd like one.
• 1:01:34
  I think there's a potential for to, if we execute our game plan,
• 1:01:38
  at the highest level and I, and we have the guys who can do it.
• 1:01:44
  It's just Get them the ball. Yeah, I think I think probably
• 1:01:49
  Blackshear and Taylor Robinson are probably the most likely
• 1:01:51
  candidates for this, although the the wild-card being tray
• 1:01:55
  with with any sort of Jet Sweep, that he takes her big yardage
• 1:01:59
  that he can actually do. Yep.
• 1:02:02
  I'd like to see one of those three go over 100.
• 1:02:05
  Hopefully, two of them. Two of them would mean big, big
• 1:02:10
  things. All right, Ron, let's look at
• 1:02:13
  the defense real quick and let's talk about that.
• 1:02:18
  Secondary you already talked about the way they like to run
• 1:02:21
  the pick plays. What what do we have to do this
• 1:02:24
  week against them greed? React.
• 1:02:27
  Make sure that we're passing off our our men properly.
• 1:02:31
  So we don't have any big gaps for them to throw a big windows.
• 1:02:34
  I should say for them to throw the ball into We probably won't
• 1:02:39
  go man a lot especially when they send those two wide
• 1:02:43
  receivers to the same side just because of the way they like to
• 1:02:46
  run those knife routes to that side.
• 1:02:52
  But again the sound keep everything in front of you, make
• 1:02:56
  the tackle All right, and something.
• 1:03:01
  We've alluded to earlier already another big piece of the gamma
• 1:03:04
  version for the defense is going to be get Gyarados off the spot.
• 1:03:10
  We've already talked about how he's not a runner.
• 1:03:13
  And we've also discussed looking at the tape that he's not gray
• 1:03:17
  good at moving around in the pocket.
• 1:03:19
  So if you move him and get him without setting his feet, It's
• 1:03:23
  the, it's what you do in college.
• 1:03:26
  You make some bad decisions. Yeah.
• 1:03:29
  And we're gonna have to do a better job than we did against
• 1:03:32
  Bailey Hockman. Last week of doing that.
• 1:03:34
  I think we can definitely pull that off.
• 1:03:36
  We saw that Middle Tennessee was running a lot of a lot of help
• 1:03:41
  to kind of keep some of that in check there.
• 1:03:44
  I don't think that West Virginia will keep his many in to kind of
• 1:03:48
  keep that protection. There, we need to get consistent
• 1:03:51
  pressure with. For though to kind of keep
• 1:03:54
  everything in check and if we can do that and we can get Diggy
• 1:03:57
  throwing either before he's ready or making an ill-advised
• 1:04:01
  throw in traffic. That's going to bode well for
• 1:04:03
  us. It absolutely is Prime.
• 1:04:07
  And again when you see when we saw a couple of his pics they
• 1:04:12
  were ugly picks. It wasn't like it was a
• 1:04:14
  beautiful Beautiful thing cam cop in this up tonight, Thinkin
• 1:04:21
  similar to US versus UNC. We cannot let them score early
• 1:04:27
  right now. The way the offense is playing,
• 1:04:28
  I absolutely 100% agree with that.
• 1:04:32
  If we get down, we have not seen our offense hitting a year where
• 1:04:36
  he can pop off 14 or 21 points in the in the course of one
• 1:04:40
  quarter. Brian let's go to the last piece
• 1:04:44
  here. And I want you to say it for the
• 1:04:47
  people in the back. Brian.
• 1:04:49
  You have said, we have to be Gap sound.
• 1:04:52
  So what do you want to sound Gap?
• 1:04:54
  Sound. We also need good safety run.
• 1:04:59
  Fits. Always good safety run fits and
• 1:05:03
  we've seen it pretty consistently the first two
• 1:05:06
  games, right? We can play has been really
• 1:05:09
  good, especially in the Run game and the short pass game.
• 1:05:11
  We need more of that because they will test us.
• 1:05:15
  Yep. And the good news about that
• 1:05:17
  even more. So looks like he on to Jenkins,
• 1:05:21
  probably going to be a full go on, if not a daily, did a very
• 1:05:26
  good job in his absence last week.
• 1:05:29
  Yeah. So, you know, Know what we got
• 1:05:33
  to do that, we've got to make sure they can't run the ball
• 1:05:36
  because if they can't run the ball, it bodes better for us.
• 1:05:42
  All right, Braun. We've got some thoughts from the
• 1:05:45
  tear down. Some listener predictions.
• 1:05:46
  We got a couple out here tonight.
• 1:05:48
  So before we give our predictions, let's hear theirs.
• 1:05:56
  34:24, Virginia Tech. We need to Arch.
• 1:06:01
  JJ, Singleton scores going to be 31:17 Hokies, and we're going to
• 1:06:06
  have to passing touchdowns YouTube.
• 1:06:11
  All right. Jay Jay's, got his throwing for
• 1:06:13
  to passing touchdowns, that's going to be.
• 1:06:16
  That sounds like that'll be a pretty good game for for Braxton
• 1:06:19
  there. If you can pull that off, get to
• 1:06:20
  passing touchdowns hopefully get over 250 yards through the air,
• 1:06:25
  that would be nice to see and tally, always wants the orange.
• 1:06:30
  So Fact that all the orange bring all the arms, all the
• 1:06:36
  orange also predicting a win. They already say 3817.
• 1:06:41
  Yeah. Big blowout, big blowout.
• 1:06:44
  I Braun. Well it's our turn now man.
• 1:06:48
  You want me to do the honors? Yeah, good.
• 1:06:51
  All right. I think that we're going to go
• 1:06:54
  into Morgantown with a little bit of fire under our ass.
• 1:06:57
  We're going to come out. We're going to score first.
• 1:07:00
  We're going to lean on our defense.
• 1:07:04
  We're going to be opportunistic with putting points on the
• 1:07:06
  board. We're going to be balanced,
• 1:07:09
  despite not really putting the ball down the field very much.
• 1:07:13
  We're going to work them in the short passing game working with
• 1:07:15
  the screen game. I think it's a good game on both
• 1:07:18
  sides of the ball, even if it's not standing out on the offense,
• 1:07:23
  I think we end up 2724, Virginia Tech, and Brian goes to 7:24 V T
• 1:07:34
  and now it's my turn just a few weeks ago.
• 1:07:40
  I predicted this game as a loss in our season preview predicted
• 1:07:45
  Carolina is a win. And as of right now, I'm not
• 1:07:49
  coming off of it, we have not shown them passing game to go
• 1:07:53
  into a hostile environment. And beat a team that does have
• 1:07:58
  some weapons that can score some touchdowns.
• 1:08:02
  They lost a Maryland by six points.
• 1:08:04
  They turn the ball over over 4 plus X.
• 1:08:08
  I don't think they're going to turn it over 4 plus X against
• 1:08:10
  us. I think they're going to be a
• 1:08:11
  little more conservative with it.
• 1:08:13
  I think us going there with some holes in our offense.
• 1:08:20
  And they loud crowd that it's been 15 years.
• 1:08:23
  Since we played there, it is a nasty place to play.
• 1:08:27
  We Know It is Brian friends with their things happen.
• 1:08:31
  They'll throw liquor at you. They'll burn couches all sorts
• 1:08:34
  of crap so I think her liquor bottles that don't have liquor
• 1:08:38
  in them. Sometimes they have urine and
• 1:08:39
  I'm shout out. Dwight Vic.
• 1:08:41
  Yep, battery he's full beer cans but I think it's going to be a
• 1:08:48
  closely contested game and I'm going to go unfortunately I'm
• 1:08:51
  going to say 2827 West Virginia. oh, You know, that's a tough
• 1:08:58
  one. It's gonna be a heartbreaker.
• 1:09:02
  So you predicted us having having one last possession, and
• 1:09:05
  just can't get it. In field goal range.
• 1:09:06
  Is that kind of what you're, what you're seeing or or is it
• 1:09:10
  or is it a late? A late touchdown to make it make
• 1:09:13
  it close. I don't think it'll be, I think
• 1:09:17
  it's going to be one of those. We get the ball later in the
• 1:09:19
  game. We can't convert anything, they
• 1:09:22
  get the ball and eventually the Deep.
• 1:09:24
  It's going to be the old hokey. He's from our youth, we're going
• 1:09:29
  to do, we're going to have opportunities to do big things
• 1:09:33
  on offense. We're going to screw it up.
• 1:09:34
  We're going to wear out our defense and eventually in the
• 1:09:36
  fourth quarter, they're going to get the lead and we're not going
• 1:09:39
  to call back. Now, if you ask me what, I put
• 1:09:44
  my mortgage payment on this know because I do think we have the
• 1:09:48
  talent and if you want to know how how we do it is, we it's
• 1:09:53
  going to be similar to UNC is Cam said we jump early. if you
• 1:09:57
  tell me, we are up 14 after the first 20 minutes, Then I think
• 1:10:03
  we're going to win the game. Yeah, but I don't foresee us
• 1:10:07
  getting into some sort of shootout with this team?
• 1:10:09
  No, I if it's a shootout, I don't we to me, we have no
• 1:10:12
  chance, but if we get up early and can do exactly what we did
• 1:10:17
  against UNC and start leaning slowing down their run and
• 1:10:21
  forced into g into bad throws. Then we have a chance But this
• 1:10:26
  is also going to be a hostile environment.
• 1:10:29
  They're going to be screaming their freaking lungs out at us
• 1:10:32
  the second we touch the field so you're not going to have that
• 1:10:36
  sense of calm to get down the field.
• 1:10:38
  You know. Listen I'm hoping I'm sitting
• 1:10:41
  here and about how many hours is it?
• 1:10:45
  72 hours braund. Listen.
• 1:10:50
  You've got to be a realist. I'm a realist.
• 1:10:53
  If you if you if you think we're going to win every single game.
• 1:10:56
  Go to Vegas, put it put put all of your savings that we're going
• 1:10:59
  to go 12 and oh yeah well he predicted 9 & 3.
• 1:11:03
  Yeah. We as we definitely bring the
• 1:11:05
  realness here, we're not we're not going to sugarcoat it right.
• 1:11:08
  Run first game with you said we're gonna lose to UNC, he does
• 1:11:12
  help your inhale to come on here Friday night when I love being
• 1:11:16
  wrong. When I when I pick a girl's
• 1:11:18
  boobs, that's my favorite time. I love being wrong too and I
• 1:11:22
  hope I'm wrong on this one. I really hope.
• 1:11:25
  That by about 130. I can sit back and just put my
• 1:11:29
  feet up because we blow the doors off on the slight.
• 1:11:33
  Well, this ain't a game anymore. I'm really glad I'm wrong.
• 1:11:35
  So I'm hoping about 72 hours from now.
• 1:11:38
  I get to sit here and say I was wrong and it's the happiest I am
• 1:11:42
  when I'm wrong. All right, Brian.
• 1:11:46
  There are a lot of other games this weekend and our Saturday.
• 1:11:50
  Pickens and Brian, believe it or not.
• 1:11:52
  We and you bald last weekend, Brian, six and four got his
• 1:11:57
  record to 511 and 11. I went seven and three and went
• 1:12:03
  from three and nine to ten and twelve and one Fell Swoop
• 1:12:08
  weekend. So and I think the games we put
• 1:12:12
  together, the only game we lost was was we got Ohio State.
• 1:12:16
  We got the Iowa game, right? We picked four games.
• 1:12:20
  Exactly the same. We were three in one.
• 1:12:23
  Yeah. So when we agree, you might want
• 1:12:26
  to take some of that to the bank.
• 1:12:28
  If we agree to take it, take it to Vegas.
• 1:12:30
  If you, you know, if you want to go follow my pics, you might, as
• 1:12:35
  well just flip a coin at this point.
• 1:12:38
  I'm 500 on the nose through two weeks.
• 1:12:40
  So we'll see how that builds over the rest of the year, but
• 1:12:45
  Going to get into this first one, buddy.
• 1:12:47
  Let's go to it, man. Since you are leading, you have
• 1:12:50
  the honor sir. We look at Friday night,
• 1:12:52
  Louisville vs. UCF, UCF Lane seven points.
• 1:12:58
  Yeah, I'm still not a believer in this Louisville team.
• 1:13:03
  I feel like the pieces that they've lost just have not been
• 1:13:06
  been replaced at this point. I think UCF is kind of their
• 1:13:11
  good team and I think they can, they can probably get them that
• 1:13:14
  I think that's going to be Be UCF, probably by 10.
• 1:13:17
  So I'll take UCF in this one. Yeah, I'm actually with you on
• 1:13:22
  this one. After the Way, Louisville looked
• 1:13:25
  against Ole Miss and then last week, you know, they played
• 1:13:29
  Eastern Kentucky. You know, the kernels out there,
• 1:13:33
  they only 1:30 to 3. And it was a similar game to
• 1:13:37
  what Virginia Tech look like. They were only up 2:40 at
• 1:13:40
  halftime, so not a like not a overly dominant impressive.
• 1:13:45
  I've gained against an even lower level of competition in
• 1:13:48
  the Hokies, so I'm with you give me UCF lay the seven, I think it
• 1:13:53
  might be uglier than the 10-year talking about Brian.
• 1:13:56
  I think Scott Satterfield officially gets on the hot seat
• 1:14:01
  in just a few days. Put it in one of the sea, put
• 1:14:03
  him on the scene, almost. All right, let's go down.
• 1:14:07
  Miami. Michigan State.
• 1:14:09
  Miami Lane, six and a half. I'll start with this one.
• 1:14:11
  Brian. I think Miami gets back on track
• 1:14:17
  this week, okay? Thank you know, with what
• 1:14:21
  Michigan State likes to do. Michigan State, out of the gate.
• 1:14:23
  Very good against Northwestern Northwestern ever.
• 1:14:26
  You don't know what they are until about week six.
• 1:14:30
  Yep. Because sometimes, they'll come,
• 1:14:32
  you know, will couple years ago they lost to Duke and they ended
• 1:14:34
  up winning nine games and it was just like houses the same team.
• 1:14:39
  So I'm going to take Miami in this game, I don't think six and
• 1:14:42
  a half is enough for In state I see this as a 10-point game.
• 1:14:46
  Probably 3121. Miami pulling away late.
• 1:14:51
  Yeah, I'm actually right there with you buddy.
• 1:14:53
  I think this is this is the perfect game for Miami to get,
• 1:14:57
  right? Because it's good of enough
• 1:14:59
  competition that they are going to get the focus going into it.
• 1:15:05
  But at the same time, talent-wise top to bottom, they
• 1:15:08
  have more talent and I think he finally play up to that level of
• 1:15:12
  talent this week and It done against Michigan State.
• 1:15:17
  All right, Brown roll up into the next one.
• 1:15:18
  Here Temple, BC, BC, land 16. Temple.
• 1:15:31
  And it is solely because the quarterback and it's solely
• 1:15:33
  because Temple seems to play up to better competition when they
• 1:15:38
  get some of these matchups of late in the last few years.
• 1:15:42
  So I'm going to pick Temple here.
• 1:15:46
  Um I would say that but not in this case temples got their
• 1:15:52
  doors blown off by Rutgers just a couple weeks ago and last week
• 1:15:57
  they played Akron and that game was tied at halftime.
• 1:16:00
  They pulled Away late. So I'm gonna even with a
• 1:16:03
  different quarterback. I think BC is going to blow the
• 1:16:06
  doors off Temple, not enough tape yet to understand what
• 1:16:09
  they're doing. So give me BC lay the 16 on
• 1:16:13
  that. Temple is my upset Alert in the
• 1:16:17
  ACC this week, true upset? Yeah, yeah, I'm feeling good
• 1:16:22
  about that. All right, Brian, this is, I
• 1:16:26
  don't know how we're going to pick this game and I've got to
• 1:16:28
  leave it really Florida. State vs Wake Forest, weak
• 1:16:33
  forces, Lane five and a half. Part of my brain looks at Notre
• 1:16:39
  Dame game versus Florida State in thinking, even though it's
• 1:16:42
  not as a good of Notre Dame team as it's been the last few years,
• 1:16:45
  there's still a good team. If that team shows up, they're
• 1:16:49
  going to be tweaked by 14 points.
• 1:16:51
  The other part of my brain turns on this is what it says.
• 1:16:54
  Did you see the Jacksonville State game?
• 1:16:56
  Hey, Curtis. Did you see the Jacksonville
• 1:16:58
  State and especially they didn't fire him.
• 1:17:04
  But any defensive coordinator who chooses to run like a cover
• 1:17:07
  one, the last play of the game. When the opponents near
• 1:17:11
  Midfield, I don't know what you're worth your weight in.
• 1:17:15
  She's not even near Midfield who really like the 32, or some
• 1:17:19
  shit. Know there were 44 years.
• 1:17:22
  They were at the place where you don't still play a cover one.
• 1:17:26
  I don't give a shit if they were at the 20 seriously.
• 1:17:30
  You're not going to put at least three to four guys.
• 1:17:32
  Back at the 10-yard. Deadline.
• 1:17:35
  Well, you put all your deep guys deep, but then you drop,
• 1:17:37
  everybody else kind of at that level where they can make the
• 1:17:40
  play, if he gets past past the past fifty, right?
• 1:17:44
  They can make the play before they get the field goal range.
• 1:17:46
  I mean, it was six seconds. That's going to be a quick ass
• 1:17:49
  route to get 25 yards and six seconds, right?
• 1:17:55
  True, it couldn't have happened. If you put four to five, guys,
• 1:17:58
  back at the 10-yard line. They win the game.
• 1:18:02
  I'm going to go here. I think Florida State's going to
• 1:18:04
  win this game. I think Florida state is going
• 1:18:11
  to win this game, so give me the points.
• 1:18:18
  Give me the points in Florida State.
• 1:18:23
  Yeah, I'm going to take Week. Jacksonville State broke me.
• 1:18:31
  I'm not picking the Seminoles until they prove me wrong in the
• 1:18:36
  other direction. Alright, alright.
• 1:18:40
  Brown will Tennessee state? I'm not, I don't think about
• 1:18:45
  that. I don't know about that one.
• 1:18:48
  All right, Brian, Georgia Tech, Clemson.
• 1:18:50
  It would be closer than if they showed up the way they showed up
• 1:18:52
  last weekend. Be closer than the experts would
• 1:18:54
  say. It wouldn't be close to the
• 1:18:56
  expert. They wouldn't cover the 20 and a
• 1:18:57
  half. I'll say that right now.
• 1:18:59
  He'll know why Braun Georgia Tech Clemson you ready for the
• 1:19:03
  line? Yeah, it is Elaine 28 and a half
• 1:19:08
  point. Yeah, that's telling me that
• 1:19:14
  Jeff Sims is not playing this game and I will trust it.
• 1:19:18
  Give me Clemson, Clemson legal limit, I think.
• 1:19:24
  Well, remember the game last year 73. 7.0 got to beat up on a
• 1:19:31
  lesser opponent. Last week, they are going to
• 1:19:33
  beat the shit out of Georgia Tech.
• 1:19:35
  I mean, I think I'm seeing this game.
• 1:19:37
  Something like 5614. Okay.
• 1:19:40
  Like bye. I beat the dog mean.
• 1:19:42
  Georgia Tech. That's about.
• 1:19:43
  That's about where I see you, too.
• 1:19:45
  I think thinking they could definitely take you to, you
• 1:19:48
  know, 55 scores, 35, right point with the next one.
• 1:19:53
  We got here. Brian is we've got Duke and
• 1:19:57
  we've got Northwestern. This is in Durham, do you
• 1:20:01
  ghislaine Or Duke is getting three points on North
• 1:20:06
  Northwestern Lane points. And this is just such a weird
• 1:20:11
  game because we saw Northwestern they lost to Michigan State.
• 1:20:17
  You know, Michigan state county. Kept him at arm's length.
• 1:20:20
  They get Indiana State the next week you expect, okay.
• 1:20:22
  They're going to blow the doors off 24-6.
• 1:20:25
  It wasn't ugly. Do you go on the other hand went
• 1:20:28
  down the Charlotte and an uprising.
• 1:20:31
  Charlotte team basically had that game.
• 1:20:33
  One lost in the And barely, we saw the way they start against
• 1:20:36
  North Carolina A&T, and it looks like they're gonna lose another
• 1:20:40
  one, and then they come back in the second quarter Beyond and
• 1:20:42
  just blow the doors, off, A&T know, these two teams.
• 1:20:47
  I have no clue what they are. They had I have no clue and when
• 1:20:52
  I have no clue I start going to, you know, history the last few
• 1:20:58
  years have been rough for Duke, the last few years Northwestern
• 1:21:03
  had a good year. And then they had a bad year
• 1:21:04
  than last year. They had a really good year.
• 1:21:06
  I think Northwestern wins this game by touchdown.
• 1:21:09
  So I will lay the three points with Northwestern.
• 1:21:15
  Give me Duke in the points and I don't like it at all but I just
• 1:21:21
  I don't know what to expect from these two teams and I will go,
• 1:21:26
  you know, ACC this way I'll say hey, we need to finally get one
• 1:21:32
  need to kind of time. We have had a ton of luck in the
• 1:21:35
  non-conference against Power 5 opponents, this year so far.
• 1:21:39
  So let's try to go out there and get one, very true, just had an
• 1:21:43
  update a line. And UVA UNC.
• 1:21:46
  Was it nine a few hours ago. It is now at eight so UNC Lane
• 1:21:51
  eight points. What do you got in the UVA UNC
• 1:21:55
  game in Chapel Hill? This is make or break for you
• 1:22:00
  and sees hopes of winning the coastal, right?
• 1:22:03
  It is you can't, you can't fall behind UVA and Virginia Tech.
• 1:22:07
  Bye-bye, half-game, a heads up game in the, in the coastal.
• 1:22:12
  This early, you can't have two conference losses in your
• 1:22:15
  schedule. This early, I think UNC is
• 1:22:18
  focused. I think they come out quick, and
• 1:22:22
  I think it's a tight game. But I think I think UNC covers.
• 1:22:28
  I think it's a 10-point 10 point game.
• 1:22:30
  I think I think UVA is just they haven't been tested yet and I
• 1:22:33
  think that unc's focus is going to be where it needs to be
• 1:22:38
  right. I'm sure like me, you're around
• 1:22:43
  Saturday morning, hanging around the house, having a cup of
• 1:22:46
  coffee, maybe eating some Pop-Tarts for breakfast and that
• 1:22:51
  game was played against Illinois.
• 1:22:54
  Yep. The way Brandon Armstrong was
• 1:22:57
  throwing those outside passes. If they were Ducks, they were
• 1:23:01
  Ducks. I hope he is still throwing
• 1:23:03
  those in Scott Stadium. Come Thanksgiving weekend.
• 1:23:08
  If he, if they do that game plan and they try to attack the
• 1:23:11
  outsides, I think he's throwing it at least two, maybe three
• 1:23:16
  interceptions? Yeah.
• 1:23:19
  We just haven't like you just said it.
• 1:23:21
  We haven't seen UVA play any quality competition.
• 1:23:25
  We saw right now, we saw UNC, you know, big win last week, and
• 1:23:31
  we saw him against us against what we're seeing right now.
• 1:23:35
  Is a very good Virginia Tech defense.
• 1:23:39
  Only boat Corrales is out. So they're starting to get
• 1:23:42
  healthier. And I'm sort of teetering
• 1:23:46
  between, is this going to be a 10-point game?
• 1:23:48
  We're just going to look a little uglier on paper.
• 1:23:50
  I think, either way I think, um, c-can cover eight points in this
• 1:23:54
  game and it's one of those games.
• 1:23:58
  It's a it's like a win-win lose-lose.
• 1:24:02
  You wish they both could lose mean.
• 1:24:05
  Would that be nice? That'd be nice.
• 1:24:07
  But either way, we're going to hell.
• 1:24:08
  If they all get enough covid then it'll happen because the
• 1:24:11
  ACC says, if you have to cancel because of covid-19, We're gonna
• 1:24:15
  go down the LabCorp tomorrow and get my everybody has code.
• 1:24:19
  They both have to lose now. I think we all say it's the win
• 1:24:23
  win is if if you and see when they're effectively out of the
• 1:24:27
  coastal picture, if you know, if UVA loses you know, and in the
• 1:24:37
  manner I think it's going to happen.
• 1:24:38
  I think effectively they get put to bed is okay.
• 1:24:40
  Those first two games were just smoking mirrors.
• 1:24:43
  So that's the field on that run. All right, really, haven't been
• 1:24:47
  tested by good offense yet. Now think that's the thing is
• 1:24:52
  that the defense hasn't been stressed tested.
• 1:24:54
  Yet the defense has entrusted to put the pressure on the offense
• 1:24:59
  to actually have to do something exactly what not playing loose.
• 1:25:04
  All right. Brian going here to my pretty
• 1:25:08
  big ranked games at the end here.
• 1:25:10
  We're going to start with auburn Penn State.
• 1:25:13
  In Happy Valley, it is going to be a white out on Saturday night
• 1:25:17
  Penn, State's Lane Six, Penn State already battled tested,
• 1:25:22
  with the Wisconsin game. Where to me?
• 1:25:24
  They still should have lost I do think Auburn's got a good
• 1:25:28
  defense, but I think Auburn's going to get a shell shock
• 1:25:32
  Auburn. Has literally played no one this
• 1:25:34
  year. No one.
• 1:25:37
  And unfortunately for them they have to go on the road to a
• 1:25:43
  super hostile environment and it's to a place, they normally
• 1:25:47
  don't go. And this is where my peace
• 1:25:50
  comes. Why I don't like neutral site
• 1:25:52
  games because when you have to go to a Out of conference team.
• 1:25:57
  You don't normally play. Everything's different right
• 1:26:00
  Ron? Yep.
• 1:26:02
  Oh well, they play in Alabama. It's 100,000 people.
• 1:26:04
  There, they allow those kids go to Alabama with multiple times
• 1:26:10
  in their careers. They know where they're going to
• 1:26:12
  stay. They know the meals, they're
• 1:26:14
  going to eat. They know what the locker rooms
• 1:26:16
  look like to know how the fields, feel they know where the
• 1:26:18
  noise comes from. They know the fans are their
• 1:26:20
  fans are, they are going into a stadium.
• 1:26:23
  They've never been in there going further up north Me a
• 1:26:26
  check on what State College weather going to be on Saturday
• 1:26:29
  night. Temperature-wise, just just
• 1:26:33
  interested. What time is it?
• 1:26:43
  7:30, it's not getting. It's going to be.
• 1:26:49
  About 75 and grizzly. All right, so they're not
• 1:26:54
  getting any sort of Chilly fall weather early.
• 1:26:57
  But either way, we look at it, I think Penn State wins this game
• 1:27:03
  because I think do you really want to get tested an
• 1:27:06
  environment like that for the first time this year?
• 1:27:10
  That's definitely not the environment.
• 1:27:11
  You want to go into with your first big test.
• 1:27:17
  It's going to definitely be loud.
• 1:27:19
  Whiteout is always loud about as loud as Penn State gets in the
• 1:27:24
  season. I'm with you on this one.
• 1:27:29
  I've got Penn State. I don't think it's by a ton over
• 1:27:34
  the spread their, I think it's, I think it's another probably
• 1:27:37
  about it by the 10-point game. I think kind of in the end.
• 1:27:43
  Penn State holds on, I think, Auburn out of the gate is Shell
• 1:27:45
  Shocked by the atmosphere and the town of Penn State.
• 1:27:49
  But they kind of their defense settles in, and they kind of
• 1:27:52
  make a little bit of a run late, but it's too late.
• 1:27:56
  Absolutely. All right, Braun, where we're
• 1:27:58
  going next going to be the Pac-12 after dark game, but not
• 1:28:02
  all Pac-12, future, big 12-member.
• 1:28:05
  BYU versus Arizona State. Arizona State lay in three and a
• 1:28:10
  half. We watch some BYU last week and
• 1:28:14
  we hit a little bit of the Arizona, State game.
• 1:28:16
  Rhyme. So, what are you thinking for
• 1:28:17
  this one? I think this is going to be kind
• 1:28:22
  of a letdown game for BYU. I think they're still going to
• 1:28:25
  kind of be riding the high of last week.
• 1:28:29
  And I think zone is just going to kind of wear them down over
• 1:28:33
  time in that game. So give me his own estate in the
• 1:28:38
  points. All right, bronze.
• 1:28:41
  Going to take Zone. Estate.
• 1:28:43
  I'm going to go with the not so fast here.
• 1:28:45
  I think coming off that Victory versus Utah course and they won
• 1:28:49
  that game in nine years. I think the Elation I think
• 1:28:52
  they're going to stay in the their heads are going to be in
• 1:28:54
  the cloud. Do they win?
• 1:28:58
  I wouldn't pick this one on the money line.
• 1:29:00
  I think they're pretty evenly matched teams.
• 1:29:02
  You've got a really good quarterback in Jane Daniels at
• 1:29:05
  Arizona State but I think this one is going to come down to the
• 1:29:08
  wire. So, what I think of a game being
• 1:29:10
  like that, I've got to take the points just to, you know, hope
• 1:29:17
  the home field. I think, gives Arizona that a
• 1:29:19
  little bit in the end and it's like a 3130 game is almost a
• 1:29:25
  twins BYU. Evers.
• 1:29:28
  Okay. All right bro, that's one buddy.
• 1:29:31
  Last one, the big one. No in the small re 38b or in CBS
• 1:29:39
  on Saturday, I'm going to go make sure this line has not
• 1:29:43
  changed because it is a big line already.
• 1:29:46
  Make sure we can get points one way or the other, but Alabama,
• 1:29:51
  it did go down in the last little while here Alabama, is a
• 1:29:54
  14 and a half Point favorite over.
• 1:29:58
  Florida in the swamp. The 3:30 afternoon.
• 1:30:04
  Well you let the last one shit. It's such a tough thing because
• 1:30:12
  we know Alabama's talented. And we know Nick Saban is
• 1:30:16
  absolutely wonderful at creating game plans with the month.
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  So I don't know if what we saw against Miami is the true
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  Alabama because savings so good. When you give him a month he's
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  gonna dissect you in every single way.
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  If you give him time, he will eat you alive.
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  You will. It's why the playoffs, you know.
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  He's destroyed teams on that first weekend but 14 and a half
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  is so So many points to lay against a home team against the
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  raucous crowd against an athletic quarterback.
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  Do I think Florida wins? I don't think Florida wins but I
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  think it's going to be a more competitive game than two
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  touchdowns, so I will take Florida. and, Take the points.
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  Okay, I'm right there with you buddy while we agree right there
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  with you. Yeah, I like Bama to win this
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  but I don't like it. 14 and a half points.
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  I think they're going into the swamp.
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  It's going to be a rocking atmosphere.
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  I think that's going to be. I don't think that's going to
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  intimidate Alabama, but I think Florida is going to be kind of
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  feed off that energy and really play.
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  Above their ability against Alabama, at least for three
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  quarters. Yeah, I can see that being a
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  close game until till the fourth quarter, but I don't think they
• 1:31:45
  put three scores distance between the think it's going to
• 1:31:48
  be either somewhere between 1010 to the, the two touches.
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  Yeah. I'm so probably probably just a
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  just enough to for Florida. Hang onto the cover there.
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  Yeah, over unders, 59 and a half on that game.
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  So Vegas is seen. That game is almost like a
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  Almost like a 3531 3521. Yeah, 30 3821 somewhere in that
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  neighborhood which is really unusual.
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  So yep, Brian is anything broke. Once we have been on here for
• 1:32:21
  the last hour and 33 minutes, I haven't seen anything crossed my
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  timeline, buddy. All right.
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