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Coaches Report Card 2020 · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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I am Curtis Wilson and with my partner.
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Ryan, Sigler, how are you doing, buddy, buddy, National
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Championship Monday, watching the game.
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I'm on the coaches film room for anybody who's never watched
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coaches, film room on the national championship game.
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If you love football, you are missing out my man across the
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way from me here. Can definitely can confirm that.
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Yeah, so was watching it to start before we fired at the
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podcast here because I got it on mute now but Hugh freeze is very
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good at this. He is really good noses, stuff.
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The until all the guy that can talk offense and really
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understand various levels of the concepts, and I mean, he's
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knocking it out of the park, but he's doing it, not quite, he's
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not digging too far into the like that.
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Coach Jurgen were not real, a person can't follow.
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Well, not at all anybody that bike either like warm level or
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study that some of football. You can understand what all four
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of these guys are talking about, all good, all making good points
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you know it's the funnest thing to watch.
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I look forward to it every year. I wish they would bring a bunch
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of old heads in every Saturday night with their per pound.
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Don't espnu's because I would watch it over the main
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broadcast, no disrespect to her beer, Fowler like those guys,
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but when you get this, you get into the grind, you get into the
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play calls when they talk about avoiding zones route Concepts,
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you know, and then they show the replay and you're like, holy
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moly like now you see why that happened?
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So loving it 21-14 Bama but how State on the The doorstep really
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competitive game so far. So I think we all wanted.
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There was a moment there where I thought of Alabama was about to
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give a sizable lead when they had that big play.
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Big turnover, and Ohio State, punched it in, tied it up, and
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looks like we're going to get a back and forth.
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I think our our predictions are still still in the realm of
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safety right now, so we'll we'll celebrate that.
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Hopefully, Yeah it's true. 12 weeks man since we yeah we now
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obviously y'all we probably talked to maybe each other when
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text me phone calls here and there probably are wives.
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Don't know, very true, very true.
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Last week we were going to record but it got us right in
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the behind late. We were going to press record on
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Thursday. We start texting If I ignore
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this first week back at work, you know what it was.
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It was definitely harder and busier than I anticipated.
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It was one of those things where I thought when we got to carve
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out a little bit of time here, a little bit of time there and get
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myself ready to go and then I looked at it and the further we
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got and we come like I haven't had any time that I've had my
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week. Phil, we had something big we
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were working on coming, right out of the holidays.
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So It was kind of kind of stressful there, but, you know,
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we push through. Exactly.
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We got through, we decided to call a timeout and inaudible
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last Thursday. Instead of recording, we both
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went to sleep at nine. They're just taking a fight, but
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a lot of news since we've been gone folks, and we're going to
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try to hit all the topics, but also on this episode We are
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going through the coach, keep the Hokie coaching staff and
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we're giving the bounds of recorder grades, which is going
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to be our grades combined in. There are individual grades with
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some pieces here. And there, we're going to do
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every coach on staff. All 11, some we parked on, in
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the season, you're going to hear some more points but then a few
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other things as well. Lots of yellow on the field
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right there. So let's start Braun, lets start
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first with some of the stuff that gone on several weeks ago.
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Let's talk about But a daily transfer the safety out of
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Vanderbilt transfers to the Hokies which you had said to me,
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and I'm not sure if you set it on the Pod but you talked about
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safety being a position in need especially when dividing, even
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dip needed safety, help got some safety help here.
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So I'm glad to see that. Here's a guy that was projected
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starter at Vanderbilt before, opting out the 2020 season due
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to covid, you know. No decent-sized.
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A safety probably a little lighter than we're used to, but
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still still in that same mold and You know, has had some
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success there at Vanderbilt playing in the SEC.
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So I think this is a good ad for us, definitely a need position.
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I feel like a guy that can be least, come on, can't come on
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campus and contribute even if he's not kind of that first
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level starter for us. So we'll see what the offseason
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holds for that. But I like the pickup because we
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needed safety help whether it's front end or depth.
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Yeah. And with him it's a guy who like
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you said, play in the SEC I mean, 17 career starts all its
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safety, you know, over 100 tackles, you know, a good number
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of tackles for loss interceptions, forced fumbles on
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again, opted, out this year at a Warner Robins Georgia
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originally. So, I mean, it feels a need, it
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brings Dias. He's a starter just so you can
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get Devin back outside. I mean, I think you pencil a
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minute starter it, one of the positions there and you No, let
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him essentially lose it. I'll be.
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I think, based on his the snap she's guiding thus far at the
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position versus playing out of position.
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Like Devin was I think that should give him a leg up there
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and I think we're going to need Devon and other positions
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potentially just because of his versatility and the different
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things he can do now especially after getting a season playing
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in there at safety for her. Good good chunk of snaps there
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he's definitely our most versatile.
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Defender in the secondary now. So, I think having him kind of
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have that swing Reserve role would be a good thing for us.
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Absolutely, alright, more good news for the Hokies a trio of
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Hokies, returning, Bill Maher returns let it get Smith returns
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to Shawn Crawford returns. I mean, to me, I look that makes
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me feel better about the defensive line and the offensive
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line because essentially the three guys were all starters
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last year, Brian. Yeah.
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And those are two things we had talked about where depth was a
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concern for us was across the defensive line and now with some
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of the transfers we've had across the offensive line,
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getting front end guys, coming back.
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Is only going to be a good thing.
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Yeah regardless of how everybody else is progressing, regardless
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of who we bring in from the transfer portal.
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Yeah and it kind of the way I see now with you know the
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defensive line counting bar know you've got really Three or four
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stars on the defensive line back.
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Now on the offensive line with the addition of Johnny from
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Maryland. Yep you have for starters on the
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offensive line yeah you know the interior is kind of going to be
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settled I'm sure they'll be some position battles to nude on the
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right tackle. Yep you lose your left tackle
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but ain't nobody questioned and are so leaving.
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Yeah, you're essentially ever to fill in a tackle now instead of
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having to fill in multiple positions across the hood.
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Exactly? Right. this was a kind of a
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shocker to me, but I think well, one of the guys I feel like
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should go the other guy I'm trying to figure it out.
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Both Oscar Bradburn and Brian Johnson.
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Not returning for Oscar. I get it Oscar's a senior Oscar
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is from Australia. He's not from the United States
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so why not try to make it in the NFL, you know, do it?
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Yeah, Johnson on the other hand, I don't get it.
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I don't he's a solid. Collegiate kicker, he hit some
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fifty yards, he made some clutch kicks, but the way I compare it
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is so we will say well look at Joey slime.
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Look how good. Joey slice doing when balls used
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to come off. Joey sli's foot, you knew he had
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an FL power. You can see how hard there are
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times, they put him at like 59 yards and he'd put it there.
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The accuracy was off. Once he got the accuracy,
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clearly, he's just signed an extension with the Panthers.
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It was the consistency act like he walked.
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He would hit him. He just wasn't always 100%.
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If it was under 40, you were still like, well, he might he
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might shank one here, you might shank one there but he was
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consistent enough and he always had enough leg and once he kind
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of worked out that consistency, he's done very well in the NFL
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Johnson. I mean the only thing I'm going
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to say is that he put out some good tape this year.
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He did turn and I'm he might be wondering if this is the best
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tape he's going to have going into a an offseason.
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It's true man. And you don't I know where some
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of these guys are, I think Johnson was graduating to, so
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again, it could be similar to Hewitt.
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Listen, I've got my degree. I want to give it a shot.
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I don't want to wait an extra year.
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I'm just going to go if I get lucky great, if not essential, I
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can start my life after football weather, you know, that's in the
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career field, they're choosing or coaching or something like
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that. Now, had a commitment by Ron,
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that was an off the radar commitment, but when a guy, like
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the white Vic speaks highly on a kid, you kind of take notice
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Samuel and banca out of South County.
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If you remember, South County. That's where the Van Dyke
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brothers, were from two very kind of, very good hockey
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players, but danke coming a 64 205-pound defensive back.
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Did you get a chance to look at any of his Tatum and he was
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Allstate, you know, trying to figure out
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on the radar at least they were getting kind of like Fringe.
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Power 5 Buzz, pretty much throughout the last two seasons.
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So I'm just I'm trying to figure out what out there.
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Had this guy so under the radar but you know when Dwight Vic
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gives you the the stamp I'm going to trust that, you know,
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this is this is a pwo situation. It looks like so we'll see how
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it goes but that we've got three corners that are in the 64
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range. I know, probably the McDonald
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twins are not going to be playing cornerback for.
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Us. But The concepts are there.
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What we're looking to do on the back end?
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When yeah, we're going to have four guys, but it's a lot of
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tall. We're starting to get some
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height on defense and guys that have link that can play with
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that wingspan. Yeah, work.
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Leverage at the line of scrimmage.
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If there's any sort of press element in there.
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And, you know, guys with range like that tackle better
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typically. Longo Divine Diablo body types.
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Like 63 64 100. And you know, we know Devon did.
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So act, like why nothing wrong with that?
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Nothing wrong with it at all Brawn.
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Well Brian is much too, there was good news.
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There is has been some bad news probably I'm not going to say
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this is the biggest, this is the biggest because of where he went
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Hendon hooker, commenced to Tennessee as a graduate transfer
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and if you Rockets up he's got who hears of it.
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Two years of Eligibility left. Obviously that happened in a
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couple of days later, the Tennessee allegations drop,
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which is kind of like and, you know, I have no issue with him
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going here and you get to them to a program that will be in the
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spotlight best of luck to him. Yeah.
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You know Guantanamo their old starter essentially moved out to
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Wazoo in the immediate backup transferred to Colorado.
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So the competition for him is a guy by the name of Brian Maher
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who was a three-star out of Ocala Florida.
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And the more interesting one is Harrison Bailey.
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Here are some Bailey Was a highly regarded.
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Number three, quarterback top 100 rated somewhere in the
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neighborhood of about a 95 on the four-star scale, so very
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hydrated guy out of the 2020 class.
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So I think what Tennessee is setting them up for is kind of
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good. Because if Bailey's not ready
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next year, dip you have someone and you essentially have a
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bridge guy at worst. And you potentially, if he shows
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out and wins the job and that's good for them and if he doesn't
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win the job, he's definitely a backup.
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You can count on me. So, I mean, it's a win, win for
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Tennessee. In this situation with with some
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of the transfers they've had leaving out of the program to
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get a guy like hand in the Ted, a lot of playing time has Poise
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and can can make some plays for you.
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So good for them, good for Hendon.
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You know, you're very good for me.
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All love to hit and I mean, you do what you got to do, man?
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There's no, you go be great. Yeah, exactly.
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You go, you'll be great. You know, I hope that allegation
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stuff isn't big. I hope it's not one of those
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things where it really, you know, hinders his career
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development going there and everything.
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Because what would really suck is if like the Pruitt coaching
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staff gets in trouble, they fire them all and he's like sitting
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here Lake. Who's the new coach commit to
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any of these guys. But then if it's Tennessee,
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they'll end up. Filling the power Hugh, freeze
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Part B, without somebody's going to exactly.
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So the next bit of bad news was our director of on-campus.
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Recruiting Alex, white returns to North Carolina.
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I have one thing to say, Brian, before you go one thing he's a
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fucking enemy spy. I'll tell you what it is and the
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more I looked at it, the more it made sense, here's someone that
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was asked to take a significant pay cut because of everything
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that's happening in the athletic department, with the budget cuts
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and her alma mater officer way more money do the same job.
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Just so happens to be North Carolina and we fucking hate
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those guys. So there you have, you know,
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it's, I mean, I get it. It's the alma mater P, so, you
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know, but we still have to mention it.
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It'll be interesting to see who The Hokies give into that role,
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you know, over the next couple weeks here, you know, is it
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something? I'm hoping we don't fall behind
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on this man because I mean this is a bad time for that type of
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transition. I feel like we were just making
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some good Headway with this type of thing.
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Even though we haven't been able to have folks on campus, having
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someone in that role is something that we needed for Or
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years and it was nice to finally have something like that.
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So I'm hoping we turn that back on.
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Turn it over real quick and get somebody else in house that can
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do the job that Alex has done over the last few months.
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It's very true. But again, it's just a part of
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the business and now it's going to have to be one of those
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things where, at least we know where her pay cut level was,
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that is one of the biggest upside because the room is
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there. So, I mean, I'm whether she was
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making, she was making Grant, you is going to go down to 70 at
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least you know where you're starting is.
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Yeah. You know, it's one of those
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things to do. You find somebody that might be
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associated with the program and just say Hey listen here's your
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opportunity, here's the money. Come back or maybe some kid
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there, I don't know, but they don't need to wait too long
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because knowing our luck, we won't have anybody in the role
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in the NCAA will dislike. Pull up in March 2000.
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Recruit has opened back on campus.
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Now come on. Yeah yeah we need to go ahead
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and strike on that while we can exactly all right one more bit
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of down and used before we get into really the big news of the
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day for us hokey fans Tori and gray gets hired by Shane to
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coach cornerbacks. Poor in who just a few weeks ago
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was fired along with Ron English.
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Another former Hokies coach from the University of Florida.
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I mean I'm not shocked. No I mean that as soon as he was
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gone I was like well if I mean unless we you know we are not in
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a dire need of a quarterbacks coach.
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He's probably going if he's not going back to the NFL, he's
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going to go to South Carolina and sure enough.
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South Carolina, it'd be dumb for for shame not to call him.
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I mean, you had to be stupid not to call the guy with that much
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success coaching cornerbacks in the college ranks is true and he
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has a, obviously, a long-standing relationship on
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the team. I mean, you've got to remember,
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torian was on the team when Shane was on the team.
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Yeah, late 90's. Then obviously a four year
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coaching on together when he's with his dad.
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Dad. So it makes sense where I feel
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sorry for those. I feel sorry for torian because
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I think Tori has a mind to be a defensive coordinator and I when
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he got fired and Shane would yet to name his guy was like, he
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should hire like make Tori in the DC given that Spiel.
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And then he hires the guy to Western Kentucky, then hires
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torian, you know, I don't know if it's one of those things
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where it's like he's going to be a positional coach all his life.
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It stinks because I think grave more than that.
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It's one of those things to Brian where I look back and I
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still wish to this day that in 2011, Frank and hung it up after
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an 11 win season after winning the Sugar Bowl.
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Guess we won that game. I don't care what the record.
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Books say, Danny Coale, caught the ball.
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You've got the damn ball. If he had turned it over to Bud.
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Torian probably gets his chance right there.
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Yeah. And we don't Don't know, that's,
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you know, revisionist history. You can write what happens.
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So, but so there's that kind of, bit of bad news, but Brian, we
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got good news, buddy. Yes, we did.
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Late this afternoon, Clemson Tigers, defensive tackle, Jordan
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Williams. Who had entered the portal
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commits to the Hokies. Williams, a 757 products out of
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cocks, where 757 time. Water hot water shit.
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You know, he was one of the guys back in class of 2017.
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They went after hard he came out as a top.
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You know, top 150 player. Here's a fine piece.
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He came out as a weak side defensive end guess where we
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wanted to put him in, why he didn't commit to us.
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Probably defensive tackle. Yeah, he won't commit to us.
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He went down to Clemson, that's why they put him defensive
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tackle and that's going to fit in nicely with what we like to
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do on the defensive line now. It absolutely is man.
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And I tell you what, if if built are only turns this kid into a
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first three round pick, he's worth every penny.
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Every penny, they paid him. Yep.
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Because it's one of those things where we're talking about when
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I'm talking about little while like what James doing.
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But this is how I feel like this is one of those kind of Barrier
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Breakers because he was at Clemson, he could have stayed at
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Clemson Right here bility. He's been a rotational piece.
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For really his entire career. But, You kind of Wonder a, the
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selling of an NFL defensive line coach in an opportunity to
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start, but also Darryl, Tapp potentially having those
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connections, getting in these young man's ear and selling the
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program and what they're doing. Yep.
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But we got some beef on the inside beef, on the inside,
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getting a guy that immediately comes in.
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To probably the role that Jerrod he would held down.
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But plus 30 pounds and 3 inches probably backed up by Josh fuga
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and then you still get, you know, combination of Pollard
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Kendricks and Crawford, at the three technique, I mean that's
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going to be a pretty decent defensive line.
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Rotation. Now, with him coming in
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defensive tackle rotation, I should say, I really like that
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too deep now, because you're not, but no matter who you put
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it, the three technique, you're no longer completely under sized
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in the interior with a guy like him.
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I like it. No guys, no wonder size.
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It will be interesting to more. See what the nickel sort of
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concepts are like Pollard and Kendricks.
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But as far as you're talking about having three big beef
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guys, you got on it. Cunningham comes back healthy.
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You've got four. So which once was a worry about
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defensive tackle depth is no longer a worry.
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All right well let's hit one more piece.
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That is kind of completely not hokey.
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Did. But I wanted to touch it just
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because we watch college football.
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Devonte Smith wins the Heisman. First, they tied it the fuck
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right? The first time in 29 years, a
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wide receiver one has been last one was Desmond, Howard.
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The only other one has bit, was Tim Brown back in 87.
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Um, Brian, if you didn't see him just catches that last
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touchdown, you don't know what stat line for the first half.
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Oh, I'm looking at it buddy. We got 12 catches to 15 and 3
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touchdowns in less than a half of football.
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Good God. He's with this performance,
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obviously, you know, his first big time.
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Play was the to a touchdown against Georgia, where he just
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went by the guy on the cover to safety peaked inside.
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He's potentially could be a top 5 wide receiver in.
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This is something like some people say never take one that
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half, but he literally can do everything.
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XY slot, he does stuff out of the back field, he can do some
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of those jet sweeps. He catches screens, literally
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everything that you can think of he can do.
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Yep. And I'm kind of pulling up the
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NFL draft order right now because I'm just interested to
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see who is should Miami say through the Watson trade.
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And take him at 3:00 here to aback with.
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I mean, that's, that's not a bad call.
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And I mean, when you look at this guy, reminds me of kind of
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like essentially a more top end Percy Harvin in terms of
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receiving skills, coming out of college.
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I should say, we've got a little bit more seasoned receiver, but
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a guy that can do a lot of those first.
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Things from the slot from the back field, but also line up
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outside and run the full route tree.
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So I really like what I see from him, I think there's going to be
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some somebody's going to take him in the top 10, no doubt.
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So you can look in, it's kind of like, well if Miami done taking
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it, three with Cincinnati, take him to pair with Borough would
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eat. Well, I don't know what the
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hell, the Eagles are doing after firing Peterson today, it makes
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no sense to move. Panthers, probably not the
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Broncos Cowboys. Probably not.
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You know what? Actually he there's no way he
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can make it past 11:00 because the Giants need a one.
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I would say if he made it to 12. I would be okay with us taking
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and pair them with Debo with IU Kettle.
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We've taken enough like, second and third round receivers
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lately, where I don't think we would take a shot in, but I
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don't, he's not going to get anywhere close to where we yet.
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Well, I don't have to worry about that.
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He is, but, you know, you never know, you never know, but if he
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falls to 220, sure, screw it. All right, let's let's move on
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Brian. Let's move on to our coaching.
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Grades for this staff of 2020 and how we're going to do it,
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folks. We're going to talk about the
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defensive Staff first. Then the offensive we are going
28:16
to wait to do the head coach last, just because I think a we
28:20
talked about him enough during really the last three to four
28:24
months that if y'all don't know, probably a grades on him.
28:28
You you probably not been paying much attention so yeah.
28:33
Let's go out Brian with Justin, Hamilton the boundary Corner
28:39
overall gives him a seat. What are you doing?
28:44
Ryan, personally, I'd like to give him a c-minus but to me, I
28:49
mean, it's a true grade. That would be fair would be an
28:52
incomplete because we didn't get to see what a full offseason
28:57
would look like with a brand new defensive stabbed brand new
29:00
defensive concept for the most part, so incomplete to me.
29:04
But if you had, if you helmick held a gun to my head and maybe
29:07
pick a grade, I'd go see - it took a while for him to kind of
29:11
get Feet Under. In terms of game adjustments,
29:16
obviously, some of that had to do with the covid stuff early in
29:18
the season where he wasn't even at the games, then once he did
29:25
kind of get in there, it felt like very much a like a square
29:28
peg. Round hole situations with some
29:30
of the Styles and then the system sounds a play of the
29:34
players with the system. We were implementing and so
29:37
little time to prep it's a little time to really get the
29:41
the techniques and the Concepts ironed out and instead of just
29:45
essentially understanding The Playbook enough to line up
29:48
correctly and I feel like that was a lot of what what we were
29:52
trying to do early on was just all right if we can if we can
29:55
line up correctly we might be all right and you know that goes
29:59
back to the no true offseason but I mean, as the season went
30:02
on, they started looking a little better.
30:04
Some of the position group started to come around a little
30:07
bit. We started working in some of
30:10
the older Concepts to kind of make the transition feel a
30:13
Little bit better, kind of stuck with the new Concepts we got,
30:17
but maybe throughout some of the ones we were struggling with and
30:21
went to more of a Bud style system in those situations where
30:25
that was called for. So yeah, I'd say, see, - what
30:29
about you, buddy? I'm going to just straight-up,
30:31
see, and a lot of reasons just very similar what you hit the,
30:36
no offseason thing, you know, that, that probably the biggest
30:41
not being able to truly install what he wanted.
30:43
To do. But the reason I bring it to a c
30:45
and not a lower grade because we did not have a good defense this
30:49
season. Anybody that tells you we did,
30:51
they need to be slapped because they weren't paying attention
30:53
but a I think the scheme that he wants to run in general, I think
30:59
it can work with the type of talent we can get right now.
31:01
And also with this scheme it is bringing up into more than
31:07
modern day where but had adjusted it feels like the last
31:13
Of years that things were passing by.
31:16
And it was getting us further. And further behind the 8-ball,
31:21
very interesting, we forced 17 turnovers this year.
31:25
So, now you're looking at an 11 game season, that's one and a
31:29
half a game. That's a significant amount of
31:32
the other thing is, I'll say, is this the play in the latter half
31:36
of the Season especially against Clemson against Miami and UVA.
31:43
The week before, Miami Dash hollifield is presser said,
31:47
things are starting to click three of the next four weeks are
31:51
through the best defensive performances.
31:53
Yes, 45 points were given up to claim:.
31:58
Most of those in a quarter and a half.
31:59
Well, as it does in a quarter and a half.
32:02
Also, we had four turnovers that game.
32:05
They also force, one of those turnovers back into its several
32:09
work in our territory. But overall, what you saw was
32:13
His scheme against that type of talent for for two and a half,
32:19
quarters a day day one, I'm not going to confuse but they will
32:22
kind of Struggle Bus them and you had a knowing what he can
32:26
get. And you see some of the pieces
32:27
that are coming down in the pipe.
32:29
You're like, okay, if this, if this goes the best way, it can
32:34
go. Could put us back into that 115
32:37
consistently. All right, Brian, let's move on
32:40
next. Let's go to build till Nick.
32:43
We overall given him a b-plus. I personally gave him an a -
32:49
very how I'm built a the way we looked on the defensive line
32:52
from game one to the last game, looks significantly better.
32:57
In my opinion. You know, we averaged, you know,
33:00
over three sacks of game which was good for ninth in the
33:04
country, 36 total sacks which was good for fifth in the
33:09
country. We were getting almost seven
33:11
tackles for loss of gain. Mmmmm.
33:13
But that's only 30 second, but listen to this. 328 yards lost
33:21
on those. That was good for ninth.
33:24
Okay, well here that that's telling me penetrate and we're
33:27
the defensive line were getting the guys down when they got to
33:32
him in the backfield and I'll say this, I think probably him
33:37
with the combination of the next person.
33:39
We talked about, got Jordan Williams in the boat.
33:43
That's true. I know, we're pretty much
33:45
grating on field product here with, that's definitely
33:47
something we're going to Ring up in certain cases here to justify
33:51
our grade. I feel like because that's part
33:53
of the puzzle piece to here and some of this stuff is coming,
33:56
you know you start working on them in season start working on
33:59
just after the season. I wouldn't be here.
34:02
I like the fact that are sacked numbers are up.
34:04
I like that the season went on and you can see that they were
34:08
adjusting to it more, the technique being very much about
34:12
disrupting the action in the back field whether it's it pass.
34:18
Player Run play. If you're disrupting that,
34:22
you're going to get a lot of tackles for loss, it's showing
34:24
up on the stat sheet and it's showing up, especially in the
34:28
amount of yards that that they surrendered in those tackles for
34:31
loss and the number of sacks we have.
34:34
So I feel like those are positive things that we're
34:36
looking forward to in the future.
34:37
The biggest thing that I thought that I saw that, I like the most
34:42
is how fast they brought bar no along from being a very
34:47
situational. Player to being an every down
34:49
player. By the end of the season, he was
34:53
one of the two or three best players on the defense.
34:57
Yeah, and that's and that's coming from game one where if it
35:01
wasn't third and long, he looked lost.
35:05
So that's a big, big shift in his ability to impact the game
35:14
and that's in season. Imagine if you get them off
35:16
season with him a proper offseason, a proper spraying.
35:20
That's going to be something. It is, let's flip to the next
35:23
guy on the line Darryl Tapp overall, we give them a E+
35:28
Brian. You gave them the higher grade
35:30
than me, so I'll let you lead. So I mean, I'm going to give him
35:34
some of the credit on what's going on with bar, know they're
35:36
bringing him along. I got a feeling that tap was
35:41
probably working some with him one-on-one to kind of bring him
35:45
along as bills working with whole line or half line or
35:49
something like that. So I feel like he's got a big
35:51
chunk of bar. No, coming along their love, the
35:56
energy that he brings. Is Love The Bona Fide
35:58
credentials of both being Virginia, native hokey and
36:03
having that NFL pedigree that he brings to the game.
36:06
I got him. Like I said just a shade lower
36:09
than then tearling just because I don't know how much he had
36:14
impact on the scheme design and things like that of the
36:17
defensive line. But I feel like he's he's
36:21
bringing a lot of good things to the table and when we talk about
36:25
the recruiting side of things, this Is the guy that's bringing
36:28
people into the building and getting guys like Jordan
36:34
Williams in the portal because of those Bona fides and I was
36:37
talking about earlier well and you wouldn't be - I meant like a
36:43
c and it's not an act of Darryl but the the couple big reason is
36:49
because of built till next rep. I don't know where to put him
36:53
because we know when you read about Bill is is Dad wherever
36:58
bill is coach. The defensive lines have been
37:00
good. They've been good.
37:02
It's not like well he goes to every here and there.
37:05
Okay. And then he went there, they're
37:08
really good, it's like know wherever he's been the defensive
37:10
lines have been the anchors for their defense has.
37:15
So it's so tough to say what he did versus what.
37:20
Tap did what I'm going to tell you what you talked about it.
37:23
The fire on the sidelines was definitely there bringing the
37:27
energy. The one I think about the
37:29
biggest one was the Duke game with getting the stop giving
37:34
that stop because you they showed him and he was fired.
37:38
Those guys up and got that stop. And do think that if he kills
37:48
cruden, And that's every level starving Jordan Williams.
37:51
Today, the the high school level.
37:55
The portal level could be in a next year at this time.
38:00
But then I kind of think about what you said with bar know, and
38:03
maybe I should put in a C+ or maybe even the be - with you to
38:08
bring them up to a b - because it makes sense, you have a
38:12
feeling that A if Bill saw something with bar, no, starting
38:18
to click. If he just told Darrell, you've
38:22
got to go with them on and he could and you know, two guys
38:25
being in the NFL and he can say, you know what about me, helping
38:28
Justice justices, good Fillmore's doing I'll work with
38:31
them. You can get him to be in an
38:35
every down player in a few weeks.
38:38
Did what you just said by six games into the season, he was
38:43
basically in every down player re can have it, you know, still
38:47
trying to figure out how he didn't get a higher.
38:49
You know how he did get higher on the all-acc when he led the
38:54
freaking league and tackles for loss.
38:56
Yep. They're all right.
38:59
So let's go next to the next guy here.
39:02
Braun Ron Smith me and you agreed.
39:07
Down the line on this one, Ron Smith Reserve b-plus.
39:11
I mean could have been higher. I think it would have been
39:15
higher if he had Caleb and a healthy germane but me he lost
39:18
his best quarterbacks basically at the beginning, the season
39:22
because Jermaine was never ride all year.
39:24
Caleb gone early, he got put in some crazy situations, you know.
39:29
Basically his first couple games, he's basically calling
39:33
plays out there, but all year, his unit They consistently
39:38
performed. You know, they didn't they
39:42
didn't blow it out the water but they were never the liability on
39:45
defense. No, and the other thing that to
39:49
me took in from a beach of the B+, right underneath an a-minus.
39:55
He basically coach Dorian strong from the 13th hundred, best
39:58
player in the country fruiting ranking saying to a freshman
40:02
All-American and that's got the big thing that I had on my
40:07
grades as well man. You're working with, you know,
40:12
you had your two best corners that one opted out the other
40:16
Miss so much time. And the time that he was there,
40:20
he was not 100%. So you're pretty much work.
40:24
King with your number three and number four corner to start the
40:27
year. On top of the fact that one of
40:29
the corners you brought in had to be moved to safety and you
40:34
have a true freshman that's having to play a significant
40:37
amount of snaps, right out the gate, handled all of this and
40:43
honestly thrived in most of the cases, they're man brought
40:47
strong on very quickly had veterans, adjust to the newer
40:51
scheme faster than the other positions on the It's other than
40:56
a few blown coverages here. Are there?
40:58
Which sometimes is just an execution thing and not add to
41:01
anything to do with coaching. I've got very little to complain
41:06
about. Like I said, it's just it's hard
41:10
to give him a hacker grade just because of the fact that he was
41:15
working with one hand tied behind his back before the
41:17
season started, Truman very true.
41:21
But it's tough to give him a bad grade because of how it is.
41:24
Unibrow certainly. Yeah I mean he definitely made
41:26
lemonade out of lemons there. Now the next guy in the last
41:30
gallon defensive side of the ball, Our worst grade was Tracy
41:35
claeys with the background, he has.
41:39
And how me, and you expected the linebackers door, especially
41:42
with the experience unit. We're giving them an f+.
41:46
So thing, guys, f+ the thing plus is the thing Brawn, I'ma
41:51
let you go first because you Echo like everything I have But
41:57
I I gave him slightly different, just a slight.
42:00
I gave him one position regressed across the board.
42:10
I mean, if this was one position, one player or maybe a
42:14
couple of the guys, you might say, oh well, you know, it's
42:16
just covid this that the third know like everybody on his
42:21
position unit regressed. Across the board.
42:24
It took them forever to even get consistent at playing the
42:29
position that you were talking earlier.
42:31
We're deck said, you know, three games left in the season, we're
42:35
finally starting to click, that's not good.
42:39
All right, Bob that's not good. That's not good at all, you know
42:44
Brooke. It probably the worst season of
42:45
his career Tisdale Oscillated between looking like an
42:51
All-American and looking like he didn't know what the fuck he was
42:54
doing. Like he'd have a, he'd have a
42:57
play where he looked like the best player on the field and the
43:00
next play. He looked like he was lost like
43:02
just literally out of out of out of position doing the wrong
43:06
thing, just not knowing what the fuck is going on?
43:08
And for someone slightly underside of the position you
43:10
damn will need to be in the right place.
43:14
It's true. Not just saying you can't be
43:16
undersized and not doing the the the technique, right?
43:21
And Dax was decks for six weeks. It's just Dex settled in towards
43:32
the end of the year and probably at the end of the season, was
43:36
the most consistent linebacker on the field.
43:38
Which if you told me that at the beginning, the season out of
43:41
said you were full of it. You have the like I'll smack.
43:45
You get out of here. Ya go along with.
43:57
I'm not gonna say anything but the only reason I did not give
44:01
him enough and I maybe I'm just nice.
44:03
I didn't give anybody. D enough, anybody enough?
44:08
I give Maddie - because of covid, he did not have a chance
44:12
to work with the guys you know throughout the spring and stuff.
44:16
And of all the guys on this coaching staff, he was the has
44:23
the most tenured. He's essentially coaching close
44:25
to 27 years, he's gonna coordinator before.
44:29
He's been a successful coordinator before, which is why
44:31
what we saw this year was Head, scratching and what the fucking
44:37
exactly. Exactly.
44:39
We hope there is a spring where he can work with the guys and
44:42
build upon what those last four games where we could like, you
44:44
said. And like, I mentioned laughter
44:48
games, kind of clicked in with especially with Brooke going pro
44:52
and that coming back at Mike Dax, clicking late playing Mike
44:57
could be a big step Tracy. You got nowhere to go but up
45:02
baby. Yeah.
45:05
All right, we gotta you got a small chance of going down to a
45:08
full left. Not an f+ but you know that's
45:11
neither here. Nor there we invented f+.
45:13
Anyway. Yes Alton am honest.
45:17
It's essentially a thirds and lured.
45:19
By the way, there are plus to the bottom though.
45:35
Yeah, it's true. He's at the garage level.
45:37
Then this is garage level. He is not white at the lobby,
45:40
but United the bottom either. He's on the boiler room yet.
45:54
By the way, or is it 3517? Either way, I picked looking
46:02
good. Well, maybe not too good because
46:04
they might put put 60 on them. All right, let's move over to
46:07
offense and let's start with the wide receiver coach too far
46:10
Williams too far in his second full season.
46:15
We kind of pretty much agreed on this see - form run and Brian.
46:22
What do you feel like what do you feel like he's doing so far
46:26
that making him not in the D's? Not in the below, average is but
46:32
I mean on the good side to good side.
46:34
So number one is he's done a damn good job of teaching.
46:38
These guys to block whether the quarterbacks running the ball or
46:42
whether the running backs had the ball or whether it's a Jet
46:46
Sweep. These guys know how to block out
46:49
there in space. So that is a big plus because
46:52
that's not the easiest thing to teach wide receivers.
46:57
And number two Trey Turner Tavian Robinson had good
47:03
Seasons, not spectacular Seasons, but they had good
47:06
Seasons. Yeah, from there, it's kind of
47:09
downhill. He did a poor job of getting
47:11
other guys. A lot of touches in this
47:13
offense. Some of that had to do with the
47:16
fact that they weren't doing a good job of getting separation,
47:18
some of it had to do with the rotations and the I think the
47:22
level of trust that they had in those guys I don't think they
47:25
gave them enough Trust. To make those plays.
47:29
And I think that's part of that's a big problem in some of
47:31
that goes back to the position coach.
47:34
I think we've seen a lot of attrition at that position since
47:38
he's been there and some of that has to do with someone else will
47:42
get to and some of that has to do with him.
47:45
And I think next season is kind of make or break, I think we
47:48
need to have all these CC caliber players at the wide
47:52
receiver position next year, if we're going to keep this guy
47:55
around for another season because Not killing it on the
47:58
recruiting Trail either. If he was killing it on the
48:00
recruiting Trail, you might be able to overlook some of the
48:03
stuff that's going on on the field but he's not doing that
48:05
either. It's true, I'm with you on the
48:08
make-or-break year but what do we know?
48:11
Because her wit this is Foose year one, we're going to get to
48:15
that later. Stop it because pray and they
48:20
are good and they produce you you know they don't always get
48:24
separation but they occasionally do get separation.
48:28
They're to me, I feel like Tavian Robinson's route running
48:31
got better this year. Like, there were times where he
48:34
finds his own and just kind of hang there and you get the ball
48:37
to him. Let's definitely reading things
48:39
better. And I mean, take tase, tase
48:41
plus, has always been like his ability to kind of make those
48:45
lateral cuts at smooth. Like he doesn't, he doesn't have
48:48
the best top-end speed but when he when he makes those cuts,
48:52
he's not slowing down, he's not losing that step.
48:55
So he like but I'm gonna make one more.
48:57
Yep. No other receivers stepped up.
49:00
And you talked about the attrition But is that his fault
49:07
again? That's what he's got a he's got
49:08
a lonesome of it because I feel like it's like a Wiggins would
49:12
have talked some of these guys to stay and gotten them involved
49:15
and figured out a way. And I know it's hard to as we're
49:20
talking about Devante Smith winning a Heisman Trophy with
49:25
Holman Wiggins that they're coaching him, it's kind of hard
49:28
to compare Williams to that, but that's what we had before
49:31
Williams got here. So the four Silly motherfucker.
49:34
That's what we're comparing you against it is what we will talk
49:43
about that in a little while. All right, let's move next to
49:46
obviously your favorite band spice overall.
49:50
We're giving him a b. I'm going to, I'm going to go
49:53
first and hit a few quick points and let you jump in because I
49:55
know this is your bread. Dude.
49:56
Be for me, best offensive line we'd seen in a long time.
50:00
In this program, the running game was absolutely dominant.
50:03
Ain't the passing game wasn't bad when we give up 22 sacks
50:09
about two sacks of game, 48th in the country about middle of the
50:11
road. We could, when you're running
50:13
the ball as good as we did, that something you can live with.
50:17
He literally made Christian. Daris offers from pick and I
50:20
know some people will say well that's Dara saw to and it's to a
50:23
point it's like We have seen players who are unbelievable
50:29
when they get to the pros, get draft in the seventh round
50:31
because they have piss-poor coaching in college.
50:33
We've seen it. It happens now.
50:36
He was probably a boy - for me or an a for me, but that great
50:42
game considering lie down with the transfers, especially the
50:46
caliber of transfers. Brian, it's all yours now.
50:51
Easily best offensive line across the board that we've had
50:53
in a decade. Most of it with homegrown guys,
50:58
most of it on the strength of big-name guys that Vice targeted
51:04
specifically. So we're talking Nestor, we're
51:10
talking Brock Hoffman and obviously Dara saw was a guy
51:16
that was brought in, I think a combination of a couple guys on
51:20
the staff, but Vice definitely played a role there.
51:22
So Dara saw being a homegrown development situation there for
51:27
us, we've got take a guy that came in not necessarily
51:32
highly-touted. Now, all of a sudden, he's
51:35
arguably the number one tackle in the draft this year as
51:39
technically underclassmen soul. I mean, that's some big fucking
51:42
shit to talk about. Yeah, I love the Run blocking,
51:46
that's gotten significantly better and he's been targeted.
51:50
Guys that are coming out of high school, that know how to fucking
51:54
run block, block through the whistle.
51:58
Got a little, got a little mean streak to them, and I like that.
52:01
And it's finally showing up on the field.
52:05
And so, that's a good thing. Plas pass, blocking was
52:08
sufficient outside of Dara saw, no one was Elite, everybody's
52:13
very, very middle of the road but as much as we drop back we
52:17
didn't need much better than middle of the road and And most
52:20
times as long as we had the right checks before the snap, we
52:24
weren't giving up a ton of sacks in the game where that was a
52:28
complete liability, where we were getting taken out of the
52:30
game because of sacks. It's so that's something big to
52:34
hang your hat on. It is discussed throughout the
52:38
season, we're not on the line, the line did their job to block.
52:43
It was essentially quarterback. Not getting rid of the ball like
52:47
the Braxton Burmeister play versus into you stay with me.
52:50
His wrist perfectly block. Yeah find the open guy.
52:54
He it's a scramble he gets sacked.
52:56
They get credited for it as a sack against them.
52:58
When in reality it's like they held up 47 seconds.
53:05
I mean at some point you know you gotta.
53:07
Yeah. It's some point you guys sex or
53:09
sex or very it's one of those things where it's you have.
53:13
The offensive line gets the Lion's Share of the blame for
53:16
them but you know you can't just say, well, they gave With this
53:20
many sacks and say, well that's indicative of a bad pass
53:23
blocking offensive line. It's not always the case.
53:26
I mean, in this case I'd say, you know, we're 48th in the
53:29
country in terms of actual talent.
53:32
Maybe top, 40 top, 35? I mean we got some situations
53:38
where guys are doing the wrong thing with the football.
53:40
So that that happens man. What?
53:44
Yeah, do you think that one of these analytical Services should
53:48
start documenting? Insects more than, like two and
53:52
a half seconds where you can say, if someone like an online
53:56
that like you and someone that pays attention like me to say,
54:00
well, shit, you know, they gave a 40 secs, 28 of them are over.
54:03
40 seconds, are over two and a half seconds.
54:06
That is an offensive line problem.
54:08
That's a quarterback that I can. Yeah.
54:10
I mean you do something like pocket sex in less than 5
54:16
seconds or something like that. Because offensive line is, they
54:21
shouldn't always get dinged Force acts that occur outside
54:25
the pocket. Exactly, but maybe they
54:28
shouldn't get dinged for sex that take place, five seconds or
54:32
greater after the snap. So if you just remove those, I
54:36
feel like that'd be a fair of pretty fair assessment of an
54:40
offensive line in terms of past Pro.
54:43
Anybody else that's offensive line out there.
54:45
They can comment on this and tell me how wrong I am or how
54:48
right I am. but, All right, well, that's my two cents on it.
54:54
Let's move on to the next coach, first-year, coach, Adam, like
54:59
Timber get running back overall, he gets a b.
55:03
I'm gonna jump on this one real quick brown before you jump into
55:06
it. I have one statement / Chris
55:08
Stapleton. I was wrong.
55:13
Yeah man, you missed on this one.
55:15
I mean obviously depending on who you are, you might vary this
55:19
grade, you know, up a Letter grade or down a letter grade,
55:22
but nobody's giving this guy a d or an F.
55:24
What we saw this year? Yeah, this the most production
55:29
we've gotten for the running back position since 2011 and if
55:34
it weren't for Her being out, essentially, two full games
55:40
between sitting one and being very limited.
55:44
And another, he probably even, you know, crushes it even more
55:49
there. So, that's, that's got to be
55:51
something that we look at. He also does a great job
55:54
recruiting in the transfer portal in the Juco circuit.
55:57
He really does a good job of bringing those guys in so
55:59
highlighting Talent. Spotlighting, those guys getting
56:02
them in letting the position coaches kind of finish the job,
56:06
Job. But he's the guy that kind of
56:07
gets the ball rolling on a lot of these things and he does a
56:09
good job there. I'm dinging him down from
56:12
probably what could have been a a minus B plus down to a solid B
56:16
because he should not have had Blackshear as a freaking spell
56:19
back. We have to determine if that was
56:22
him or not though, we have not. But I'm, he's a position coach.
56:26
If he's got to have the balls to 7% and tell, whoever it is, that
56:30
is making those decisions. If it's not him that you need to
56:33
sit the fuck down. There's something you just said,
56:37
But to it because how he is identified, the Juco and the
56:42
troll portal town. It's like he can look at a guy
56:45
and say, he just need. We just need to get in this
56:49
guy's here, and he can take the step and here, it was far.
56:54
No, it was Herbert. It was black here in certain
56:57
situations that they use black hero to be a lot better, but I
57:02
liked for who we are as a program.
57:06
He's the type, he is the type of guy you want to say, well, look
57:10
at this new coat. A, no, no, that guy that guy
57:13
right. There is one step away from
57:16
being the division, one college football in the more you get
57:19
those in, especially where we are as a program, the more it's
57:22
going to help. All right, let's move on to
57:24
tight end. / special teams coordinator James Shad, best, we
57:28
are giving him a b - I gave them C.
57:31
Plus it would have been a b-plus but for one.
57:35
Damn. Reason you can we Lottie how to
57:38
freakin field? A punt, full letter grade drop,
57:41
everything else. Awesome.
57:44
What you did? That's a full letter grade drop
57:46
because it cost us multiple gangs and me, it made the Duke
57:52
game closer than it should be made a couple other games either
57:55
with Out Of Reach or completely lost on the on the fact of it.
57:59
So yeah, I'm with you there man. We saw some really good
58:04
production from the tight ends. Actually James Mitchell.
58:07
We saw a couple other guys. Come on, Gallo, especially,
58:12
yeah, Drake had some some good good snaps in there.
58:15
This year, I didn't feel like we We didn't super Miss Dalton
58:22
Kane. I felt like they did a good job
58:23
by committee kind of filling in those roles.
58:25
James Mitchell's blocking went up significantly, he was a much
58:30
better blocker this year, not to be, was ever a bad blocker, but
58:32
he was much better this year than he had been.
58:35
And, like, you said, man, muff, Punk's.
58:39
Got to stop. We can't have muffed punt, so
58:42
those situations, but I think he did good job with some of the
58:46
situational special team calls. So I'm going to give him the The
58:50
a bump up for that if we could get Romo to stop kicking out of
58:54
bounds occasionally and, you know, feel too.
58:57
Damn, pun. I think we're going to be all
58:58
right. At that position, man.
59:00
It's very true, man. All right.
59:02
Well we kind of Saved. We did this order for a
59:05
particular reason, so we could highlight probably to people.
59:08
We you can say bashed or you can say I'm not going to say that to
59:12
people, we have constructively criticized all year.
59:17
Let's start with bread, poor Nielsen.
59:22
I gave bread corn, Nielsen a d-minus, it matched our overall
59:26
because my D- was damn near enough.
59:28
Plus in Brian's D was damn near d - yes, it's it's the same shit
59:36
Braun, you know, we're sitting here watching these two teams
59:42
tonight and it is, it's an 18 point lead for Alabama.
59:45
They have excelled offensive ly. I can't tell you what Alabama is
59:50
going to do next. I can't tell.
59:51
You the concepts going to come out.
59:53
Listen in a few fries and a place and and, you know, the
59:57
a.n.t. head coach with chizik. I don't think he could do that.
1:00:02
I think you would sound like a bleep and wore on
1:00:24
Yeah. I mean I feel like it's you know
1:00:27
you talked about the thing with sitting in the in the booth and
1:00:30
watching the national championship and commenting on
1:00:33
it, explaining things in real time and I feel like maybe it's
1:00:37
a processing thing because I feel like we had just so slow
1:00:43
situational play calls are so bad.
1:00:47
We get across the opponent's 40 and just forget out of fucking
1:00:52
Play offense, I figured out a call, the game, lose the flow,
1:00:58
whatever you want to call it, and it's just, it's so
1:01:04
frustrating in mind-numbing that.
1:01:09
We've got that much talent on the field.
1:01:12
We're scoring at a clip. That's pretty high.
1:01:16
Yep, at times and then, you know, a few play calls here in a
1:01:21
few play calls there, and take two touchdowns off the board.
1:01:25
It's like, it's, it's so frustrating.
1:01:28
It's very, it's just my numbing and the adjustments don't come.
1:01:32
We keep saying, we do what we do.
1:01:37
But if what we do ain't working, we need to do some Nails, damn
1:01:40
it. And earlier today, I hit Brian
1:01:43
up with these stats and y'all good.
1:01:44
You can look at it. The data is out there.
1:01:47
We scored our range this year and y'all think with the talent
1:01:50
we've had the offensive line James Mitchell, Tate, Ray juice,
1:01:56
whatever quarterback we had back there, we scored an area range
1:02:00
from 10 points to 45 points. We scored less than 24 for X.
1:02:09
That makes no God, forsaken sentence.
1:02:12
To score less than 24 points, four times.
1:02:16
And then, as I'm digging into a deeper and deeper, and I through
1:02:20
this tube right, I think it shocked a little bit because it
1:02:22
took him a couple. It took him a few minutes to
1:02:24
respond to me. We scored 62 points in the
1:02:28
second half this year of our game 62 points.
1:02:31
We averaged 31 and game. Do the math, that shows you
1:02:35
right there. That we were scoring well over.
1:02:39
We were scoring 200 plus points in the first half.
1:02:42
Half 62 points in the second half.
1:02:45
That's 10 points, that's not good in itself.
1:02:48
What makes it worse? Brian, when I sent you this, I
1:02:51
believe you gave me the bullshit in, right?
1:02:55
You take out the 31 points. We scored against UNC in the
1:03:00
second half. And do the math.
1:03:03
We scored, average six points in the second half of the other
1:03:07
games, that, that can't happen. You can't come out of halftime
1:03:14
essentially, sit on leads and then sometimes you don't have
1:03:17
those leads, those are the losses to the second 31 in five
1:03:23
games we lost. Not killing you and see 31
1:03:27
points. So if we're up for not doing
1:03:29
enough to keep the lead and if we're down, we're not doing
1:03:31
anything to get it back. We're not, we're not and, you
1:03:36
know, it's just point where it's like, If plan a doesn't work,
1:03:43
there is no adjusting, there is no changing of Direction.
1:03:45
It's essentially square peg, round hole Ram, it harder.
1:03:50
And that's where some of the stuff you talk about.
1:03:52
The situational play-calling just infuriates you because it's
1:03:55
in here and it's like, they know that's coming.
1:03:58
Do something different. Yeah, I mean he's got above
1:04:00
average design, but it's the adjustments and the situational
1:04:05
play calling, that just Dooms this offense, a lot of times and
1:04:10
sometimes its execution and sand, which goes back to a
1:04:14
degree to coaching. And sometimes, it's just the
1:04:16
coaches, not putting these players in the right position to
1:04:19
make the plays and need to be. B.
1:04:22
And a lot of that goes back to the play call or law that goes
1:04:25
back to the head coach and some of the goes back to the position
1:04:27
coaches but I mean at this point we're talking about Brad
1:04:31
cornelison. A guy that Again we haven't had
1:04:36
access to Hope on whatever reason.
1:04:40
Yeah. And devoid of an answer and
1:04:45
devoid of other facts to present an opposing case.
1:04:50
This is the conclusion that we've come up with so you know,
1:04:55
maybe if we get more access to the guy will seem a well, he was
1:04:58
a fucking scapegoat the whole time, I don't think so, but
1:05:01
maybe maybe we'll see that. But as of right now, they have
1:05:05
not given us any reason to think otherwise, Two of the four
1:05:08
coaches, we had to ask, is it? Are they the issue, wise?
1:05:15
The second line guys aren't producing or is it somebody
1:05:18
else? We have what about Jafar?
1:05:21
We ask that about in and like, Timbers can't seem like the
1:05:25
worst case to we didn't even mention.
1:05:27
It was Jalen Holston. Yeah, not getting him, the
1:05:30
touches are really not getting him to spell juice.
1:05:34
You kind of sit there and we sit here we talk about and we could
1:05:36
say, if you had the right combo, they're running Blackshear,
1:05:39
where you're supposed to and gadgets on sweeps on screens,
1:05:42
letting him run some easy route. Where the slot goddamn?
1:06:18
And essentially it made them have to adjust their safeties,
1:06:22
which supported the Run game strong, which for the downfield,
1:06:25
passing him stronger. We would like to brief you have
1:06:27
the rotation right, where it's juicing Holston and I'm still
1:06:31
trying to figure out why Marco leading get as much play because
1:06:34
that couple times we saw him run the ball.
1:06:36
Good law. And it looks like you want to
1:06:37
run through somebody Hamma Hamma.
1:06:40
I mean, any, when you sit there and you and it keeps going back,
1:06:45
because There's a new running backs coaches and you wide
1:06:49
receivers coach. And then there's Brad because
1:06:54
tight ends and offensive line. We've always said they're doing
1:06:57
a sufficient enough job to keep their jobs.
1:06:59
Yeah, you kept. You lost one.
1:07:01
Alabama, can't do anything about that.
1:07:03
The other you're fired because of like a production and you
1:07:07
have Brad who not the best recruiter.
1:07:12
Clearing out the blood spray color.
1:07:14
Good play designer, but that's, you know, that's it.
1:07:19
And it's just that thing with him.
1:07:22
It's just, you'd want to see some growth, right?
1:07:27
We'll see some growth and I think that's where we are with
1:07:30
him. It's like, we get five years in
1:07:31
and it's just like, he's doing the same shit.
1:07:33
He did at the beginning that didn't work.
1:07:35
Why do you keep doing it? Yeah.
1:07:37
And I mean, I'm gonna go back to your point a little bit there.
1:07:42
We're talking about the wide receiver production and so one
1:07:46
of two things is happening, right?
1:07:48
So either the wide receivers are not the the second line weren't
1:07:55
doing enough at the beginning of the season to justify up snap
1:07:59
counts and up targets well, or they were doing enough and
1:08:04
weren't being given that opportunity.
1:08:06
So well, hold on, let's go back to the beginning of 2019.
1:08:14
He made the decision for Ryan Willis He made the decision.
1:08:19
Yes. And you say what you will?
1:08:23
You feel like if this is a structure, Justin Fuente, the
1:08:26
president Virginia Tech football, J, Hamm and corn or
1:08:29
his vp's on each side of the ball.
1:08:32
They can be given direction to say they're ready.
1:08:35
I'd like to run on these packages and what can they?
1:08:38
I'm sure they can veto it right. Yeah, I'm sure as Hammond
1:08:44
Sydney. Now, Marty Raney offense, but
1:08:47
I'm sure there were times where he that Euro line coach would
1:08:51
say, hey, can we let's run this play?
1:08:52
Marty be like, no, it's just walk away and just like Boys.
1:08:58
I wonder if there were times but I would say that was a big
1:09:02
situation or maybe because my offensive line coach was six
1:09:07
foot six 340 pounds in played under Joe pod, Penn State.
1:09:12
So he wasn't the guy that you always want to say no to.
1:09:17
But yeah, yeah he would definitely over.
1:09:19
Overrule him for sure and Like I said, the big thing is that when
1:09:26
we talk about core Nelson and that wide receiver situation.
1:09:28
So if either of those things are true either, you're not doing a
1:09:31
good job of getting your number, your second line, guys the ball
1:09:34
when they're on the field or you're not recognizing a flaw
1:09:40
and seeing a potential solution in Black sheared, at least
1:09:43
increase the depth at that position and moving him to that
1:09:47
position full-time. Trip.
1:09:51
So I mean if you're saying those guys aren't getting it done,
1:09:55
you've got tape of a guy getting it done.
1:09:59
Under a, what you would consider an inferior staff because they
1:10:03
got fired from fucking Rutgers. Let's be honest here.
1:10:09
I mean, put chips on the table, it's a travesty that they didn't
1:10:14
get that guy more touches in the passing game from a traditional
1:10:18
wide receiver position. You know what?
1:10:20
I keep watching this and I know about the Smiths a special
1:10:24
player, but how many times have they just ran a heart inside?
1:10:27
Slant from the slot with him? Him.
1:10:30
And you feel like you see Blackshear shiftiness and you
1:10:34
say, he can run that for yard slant.
1:10:37
Yeah, now, I got to say this Ohio, they've ran it like six
1:10:40
times Ohio state has failed to adjust to it, like me to change,
1:10:44
leverage with your gal. He's in the slot, we can go
1:10:47
deep. I don't care.
1:10:48
If he can go to, he freed me with the freaking slant.
1:10:50
Every time. Make him beat.
1:10:52
You deep once at least. All right, let's let me Focus
1:10:56
back on what we're doing here. All right.
1:10:58
Last but not least, Braun. Head ball, coach, Justin, Fuente
1:11:05
me and Brian said he discussed this for a little while and
1:11:09
there was no possible way that we could give him a grade above
1:11:15
combined D. Yeah, I wouldn't be plus and a
1:11:23
lot of my stuff it's not so much the season.
1:11:26
The season is what it is. There were several Real times
1:11:30
you could tell with the overall game plan was I feel like that's
1:11:33
him with an overall game plan? That were very good.
1:11:37
It made sense. I'm still convinced.
1:11:40
Still convinced he called in Sea State, I feel like me and you
1:11:46
can should go back and watch that game one day because that
1:11:51
game felt different than any other game.
1:11:53
We played this year and they work that game highlighted are
1:11:58
very good elements of our offense and In hid the bad
1:12:01
elements of our offense and I still think that was him calling
1:12:04
because remember the rumors flew that week, that corn had had
1:12:08
covid, he was going to be back, but he was going to be back late
1:12:11
in the week. Essentially a play where he
1:12:14
can't do play calls because he's not there to install.
1:12:16
The rumors flew, never confirmed or denied what the way that game
1:12:23
was called but the way every single game after that was
1:12:28
called was completely different. He gets the D for me or the D
1:12:32
Plus for me for what happened in the last month.
1:12:37
You just came off a five and six season.
1:12:40
You had it all you guys on defense.
1:12:43
You want to fire some of them go for it.
1:12:45
That's your decision. Most people are going to hammer
1:12:47
you on that because they didn't have an offseason.
1:12:51
You have to position groups, we've mentioned before, pie,
1:12:55
tins and offensive line. It feels like from day, one have
1:12:58
always produced have always been solid, you fry, two running
1:13:01
backs coach and that went up. You have a wide receiver coach
1:13:05
in his second year. Whose two best players are
1:13:08
consistently producing at a good level.
1:13:11
There's one consistent and you won't fire him, and he should be
1:13:16
fired. And if you even if you don't
1:13:18
fire him, demote him or bring on somebody else to take over the
1:13:23
play calling. And even if he keeps his
1:13:26
offensive coordinator job, bringing in, like a, some sort
1:13:30
of game coordinator to just handle the play, calling you
1:13:34
whatever it is like, look in the mirror, self-evaluate figure out
1:13:39
where the deficiencies are and at least put a fucking Band-Aid
1:13:44
on them. Even if you don't go in there
1:13:46
and you know, Stitch it up, like do something.
1:13:51
Not, we're rolling. No, we're Nolan guys.
1:13:57
We are rolling on. We just lost six games.
1:14:00
We were sub 500, we lost a liberty.
1:14:02
We got blown out by pit. No, we are not rolling, we're
1:14:07
not fucking rolling sputtering. Yeah, I mean, we're all getting
1:14:12
by if you're cool getting by that, do you, but that's not
1:14:16
what we want. And that's why we were calling
1:14:18
for your head this off season. And here's the thing, and I
1:14:24
think this is this is probably me and you and more level-headed
1:14:27
fans. We want you to succeed next
1:14:30
year. Yeah, we do.
1:14:34
But when this I'm not going to say when, but if the same shit
1:14:40
starts happening, which we assume it is your, you you need
1:14:45
to be gone. We are it's going to get more
1:14:47
and more vocal. It's going to be more and more
1:14:49
seen because my assumption is the way they're saying it.
1:14:53
That what are they saying by July?
1:14:57
Every person in Virginia could have taken the vaccine.
1:15:01
Every person in Virginia will have had the opportunity to take
1:15:04
the vaccine. So would you hear that me?
1:15:09
You know, you assume that there it's going to be stains going to
1:15:13
be open the opportunity to take the vaccines there.
1:15:15
The treatments are better. We know more and more.
1:15:17
What this thing targets who it doesn't Target.
1:15:20
We know how to protect ourselves yada yada, right?
1:15:23
Yep. If it starts talking bad.
1:15:27
Add the stadium is going to look bad and eventually people are
1:15:30
going to they're going to call for your head, the Bayou.
1:15:32
It's going to be a hell of a lot lower next year.
1:15:36
Hell of a lot lower and you will assume with all the cuts that
1:15:40
have been made and everything your heads there.
1:15:44
So this is my advice, a pray. You don't have to play a card
1:15:48
team on Labor Day, but if your boy cruise around and is doing
1:15:54
bad things, you better you better.
1:15:57
You said Brian. Look in the mirror quickly.
1:15:58
Take the accountability and set your done cut it because it is
1:16:04
your job and is going to be gone.
1:16:07
Yep. And I'll say that, I'll be the
1:16:10
bad thing. Is that, I mean, it's going to
1:16:12
be very hard for them to do something different without
1:16:18
firing cornelison at some point because, yeah, you know, we're
1:16:22
talking about the budget cuts in the athletic department, this,
1:16:26
that and the third, Third. And what is available to funds
1:16:31
for the support staff? I mean, even if you want to
1:16:33
bring in like a quality guy on offense to essentially do what
1:16:37
kill did. I mean at that point that's
1:16:39
that's a hard ask for an athletic department that's, you
1:16:43
know, cutting salaries across the board had to fire a bunch of
1:16:47
people in some of the lower positions.
1:16:49
I mean, it's going to be something where You know, you're
1:16:55
still going to be dealing with the Optics of the situation to
1:16:58
make to put the product on the field.
1:16:59
You want with this coaching staff versus at least getting
1:17:03
some Goodwill, some extra donations.
1:17:06
All of the things that come with bringing in a head coach that
1:17:10
can reinvigorate the program at the right time.
1:17:13
Exactly. And well again we want them to
1:17:18
succeed and again we have said it in the past.
1:17:21
We feel like if things If things were constructed correctly on
1:17:27
the staff, certain people doing certain things differently.
1:17:33
I'm not saying the mid-January game is attainable at the
1:17:38
moment. But I think your sixth
1:17:41
attainable I think winning the coastal is attainable.
1:17:45
Certainly, what do you cope Coastal should be attainable?
1:17:48
Just based on the fact that we are fucking Virginia Tech and we
1:17:52
play in the coastal. Sure.
1:17:54
I mean, if we get past UNC in Miami, were Coastal Champions.
1:17:59
You should be able to every year split that if not when both not
1:18:04
win. Both if not when both and then
1:18:07
me and you've talked about in the past, with the scheme, we We
1:18:10
run we show that we can score points or points on these guys.
1:18:14
We feel now more consistently with what we're going to do.
1:18:16
Defensively the defensive side against certain offenses,
1:18:21
especially against the Miami's. The North Carolina type offenses
1:18:27
that they're running right now. We're going to get better.
1:18:31
Yeah, it's two people got D's on our report.
1:18:36
Well, with the exception, Tracy claeys.
1:18:39
I still think the Tracy things and having covid the other two
1:18:42
guys have been here. But 12 guys have been on the
1:18:47
staff, this whole time, one guy in and administer in more of a
1:18:52
own field product rule. If you Justin Fuente.
1:19:01
Is literally his Ace in the Hole.
1:19:03
Going to be Let's say we start to into, and when I say that by
1:19:10
starting to into we play UNC dopin, we lose them.
1:19:15
But we beat Middle, Tennessee would lose to West.
1:19:17
Virginia would lose the black down Trophy and we lose and we
1:19:19
beat Richmond. We're where we were at the Duke
1:19:22
game. Is the only thing that would you
1:19:29
do if he at that right then and there firebreak or Nielsen and
1:19:35
we played significantly better the rest of your I'm offense.
1:19:38
Would you let him come back? Or it's like nope, you waited
1:19:40
too long, fuck you. I mean, yeah.
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So which one is? It is it?
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You waited too long or we're going to let you stay.
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That's a you waited too long. Okay.
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You waited too long, fuck you should have got rid of them last
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year he was never that good. Yeah.
1:20:00
All right. Real quick.
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Before we wrap up here tonight guys, bold pick x-brawn, you
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went five and four six and three over here.
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I beat you by a game, Ohio state held to a field goal.
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Just got inside, the 20 yard line with 703 in the third.
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Is there anything else breaking Braun?
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Did we get any other commits? Anything else?
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Interesting happen. I'm not see anything popping up.
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I'm looking back through real quick just to see if anything
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jumps out. And I think we're good, man.
1:20:30
All right. Well, folks, that is going to be
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this. Well, that is going to wrap up
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