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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football - Coastal Carolina Recap (Episode 735) · 3 Guys Before The Game

• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Showtime in the big city. Hey everybody, what's going on?
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: We welcome you in to Three Guys Before the Game.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: The band is all assembled. Now you know the season
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: is really on because... It's Sunday morning, and we're back together.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Band is back. Yeah.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: Got over our internal squabbles, and we decided we're really
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: better together.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: You know, during the summer, it's just much more of
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: a sedated schedule. Fluid. Fluid. Like, hey, you want to
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: do it now? Hey, you want to do it then? But, like,
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: season starts like we're in. It's Sunday morning. Thanks so
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: much for being with us. West Virginia starts the season
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: with a 31-24 victory over Coastal Carolina. We're going to
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: break it down, and there is a lot of breaking
• 1:04
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• 1:26
  Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina made it back down to South Carolina. Glad
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: to hear that. On those Lou Wendell pontoons. They had
• 1:31
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• 1:42
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• 1:45
  Speaker 1: this weekend.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of Mountaineer fans going in there. Those protein
• 1:48
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• 1:53
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• 1:54
  Speaker 1: Take no for an answer. They simply won't. Good thing
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Jan Dills wasn't working that Michigan game last night. They
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have taken no for one more second.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: The Western Michigan podcast this morning might be a doozy.
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: I might make it a doozy for them. How bummed out.
• 2:14
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  Speaker 3: So there's no overreactions and it's very balanced.
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• 2:36
  Speaker 1: including you.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: All right. We're in.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: The first weekend of the season is over. It started
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: for us on Thursday. We'll go back to the stuff
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: that we were doing. Had a great time Thursday. At
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Wild Wings. And then Friday, the food court was great.
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, you guys said it was really good Saturday morning.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: And then we'll close the thing up here. So let's
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: jump on in. We do not talk about the game
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: amongst ourselves before we start recording.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you missed the meeting.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: So like you, have you guys talked?
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: So good. So like you, I am waiting to hear
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: what is being said. Bottom line, obviously, is you want
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: to win. They did, 31-24. But it was a game
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: that I think in a legal sense you could say
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: it was a bifurcated game. Would you agree? Two very different.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: It was two games in one. One, if they stopped
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: the game at halftime and everyone said, okay, that's the game, everyone.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming out. like everyone would be high-stepping today,
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: like the band leader at Ohio State.
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: National Champions Coach of the Year, two different Heisman winners.
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, it would have been, everything was perfect.
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: But instead, you had to play the second half. They
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: make you play the third and the fourth quarter, and
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: then that made those people that were talking at halftime
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: about the Heisman Trophy winners, they were going, we'll never
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: win a game for the rest of the year. And
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: so it's somewhere, as we say, in the middle, never
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: as good, never as bad as you think it is.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: So before we do Hoppy's his obvious observations. What do
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: you got? I'm looking at you. What do you got?
• 4:13
  Speaker 3: That? I thought there were surprising bright spots in this game,
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: and I'll get into them because most of my observations
• 4:20
  Speaker 3: are tied to some numbers, but I thought there were
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: some bright spots, certainly. The first half, listen, you can't
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: do it a whole lot better than that. It really
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: should have been 31-0, except for that horrific rule when
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: you fumble out of the end zone, overly punitive rule,
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: but we'll talk about that later. I thought the first
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: half offensively, You saw what you wanted to see. I
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: thought there was some good push from the offensive line.
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: I thought when Hawkins dropped back to pass, there was
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: a nice bubble around him. And I thought he was
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: really good. Michael Hawkins showed what you hoped he would show.
• 4:47
  Speaker 3: Dynamic on the ground, had a burst, had some wiggle,
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: big plays, and could throw it. I thought some of
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: his passes were outstanding. Cam Cook opened the season. Say
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: hello to Cam Cook. That's how you start a season.
• 4:58
  Speaker 3: So that was as advertised. Offensively, I was really impressed. defensively,
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: we'll get into this a little bit. Obviously, the second
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: half didn't go where you want it to. I thought
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: that pass rush by West Virginia was a big, pleasant surprise.
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: I was really concerned about the depth of the defensive line,
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: and I thought those guys played great. Again, I've got
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: some numbers on that. Certainly, you need to shore up
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: pass coverage. You need to work on the back end
• 5:21
  Speaker 3: of that. I get it. I understand all of that,
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: but I thought there were some things to walk away
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: with after a game one win that you went, okay,
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: this team's got a chance to do some things here.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, pass rush just feels sick over
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: the injury to Darius Wiley because you could tell in
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: very limited action that he was going to have a
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: major impact on this team. I watched him during the
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: fall in August, and you could say that dude literally
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: stands out both figuratively and literally, and you hate to
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: see it. And obviously that was a bad leg injury,
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: and it just makes you sick.
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: Because he's one of the guys I was referring to there.
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: When you go in and you have Juco players that
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: have to step in right away, you just don't know.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: Are they going to be able to help you right away?
• 6:07
  Speaker 3: Is that going to be five games? Is it going
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: to be a year? I'm with you, Tony. He was
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: a guy that as the game's going on, I had
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: his number down to talk about today. I thought he
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: jumped off the the screen or the field to you,
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: and that was sickening to see.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: Feel for him.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: First team All-American last season at Hutchinson Community College, and
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: that was a defense that gave up 11 points per game.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: He led the nation last year in 20 tackles behind
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. He was number three in the
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: country in sacks, and he was making plays yesterday. So
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: we wish Darius Wiley the very, very best. It makes
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: you sick. He does have more time to play. He
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: played at Hutchinson yesterday. In 24-25, so in today's world,
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: he will have two more years. And in today's world,
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: with five for five, this counts as a year, despite
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: the fact that he's only going to play one game,
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: it appears, is that he's only going to play one
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: game for the year. You ready?
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: All right, let's do yours. Sorry.
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: He's got thoughts that sound brand new. But they're things
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: we already knew.
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: He's got his lip balm ready. Heaven knows. Let's make
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: it quick before his bladder blows.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: There he is. Yeah. Wow. Do you carry lip balm
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: now this time of year in September, or are you
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: still moist on the lips?
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: No, I'm year-round.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: Year-round guy, so it's a sickness.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a compulsion.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: It just is. At this stage, I can't change it. So, Tony,
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: West Virginia 1-1 after the first two games of the season.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: No, they were 1-0.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: No, they're 1-1. Oh, okay. But it seems like it
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: was two games, right? It was two games.
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: And you.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: Brad, as much as we talk about the season and
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: you're waiting for the first game because how will this
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: team perform, right? How will this team perform? We need
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: to have something we can measure. And then you see
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: the game yesterday and go, well, we see how good
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: they can be and we see how bad they can be.
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: So you got both ends of the counter there, right?
• 8:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and welcome to a season opener. It was game one, right?
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: It was game one.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: This was game one? I understand it's game one. But
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: you don't come away saying, oh, okay, now I know.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know both ends of what you can be.
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: It's just can you clean up the stuff that you
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: don't want. And I think the Mountaineer Nation comes away going, oh, yeah,
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, okay, okay, but okay. And I'm just, don't
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: attribute this to me, although I'll take, attribute it to
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: Rich Rodriguez. They were just awful in the second half.
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: Third quarter, just awful. Just bad. And you had Coastal.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: You know, Brad, you had your foot on their throat
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: when they were down at their own one.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, that you thought, okay, now you got it.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: And then you had, like, three bad penalties in that drive.
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: Kept that drive alive. They go 99 yards.
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: You'll never know, but I think that changed the entire
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: complexion of the game. If that drive gets snuffed and
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't become a 99-yard drive, right? Right. Old Mo, right,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: the old momentum, does it shift? But it shifted, and
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: it stayed with Coastal for the rest.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: Of the game.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they made some plays. I mean, Deuce Bailey
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: did a nice job getting outside the pocket, and we'll
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: get into him and making some throws. I thought there were,
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: and football's like this, right? Sports is like this, but
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: football in particular. I thought there were three big moments
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: that could have changed that. The Hawkins fumble through the
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: end zone, and you're up 31-0.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Like, hello, see ya.
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: That drive right there was one. And I do think
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: the Wiley injury, and you can never– You can never
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: calculate this or there's no data to back this up.
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: That's hard to watch, guys. I mean, that's hard to
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: watch when your teammates down and trainers are running out there.
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: Clearly something was wrong. That takes a minute to snap
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: back from here. And so there's some moments in there
• 9:59
  Speaker 3: that kind of... of switch that momentum that I think
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: you got to give a little bit of grace here.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it wasn't perfect.
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: It's first game.
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: You know, you're allowed to get better.
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: Do you know that? I am aware of that. Somebody's
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: ever said that. Now I'm going to say something controversial.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: It's a good thing the game ended when it did.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: Excuse me?
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: It's a good thing the game ended when it did.
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: I think another possession. Coastal had all the momentum, all
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: the momentum, and they were able to move the ball
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: with 300 and some yards in the second half, whatever
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: it was. Another possession, they might have won the game.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: They had a chance to win the game because they
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: had all the momentum, and West Virginia's defense could not
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: stop them in the second half.
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: Would you say it's the most needed end of a
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: game since the Sugar Bowl against Georgia? That one needed
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: to end too.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to put it up there with that,
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: but you get my drift.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: Okay. Michael Hawkins, I know Brad will get down to
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: the numbers. I thought his performance was very solid. We
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: were anxious to see him. I mean, 11-14, 132, passing
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: a touchdown. Ran the ball 20 times. Rich Rodriguez 20 times.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: 100 and some, 132 yards. And that fumble out of
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: the end zone, I excuse that because, like Brad said,
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: it's a lousy rule. And he's trying to make a play.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: It's fixable, though. You can't do that. Don't stretch it out. Okay.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: But point being, he was trying to.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: 100%. You can't fault the effort, but you have to know,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: you have to be situationally aware. And basically the rule
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: is you only do that in overtime on fourth and goal. Okay.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Other than that, eat it and go down to the
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: one yard line and go score.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: It's a natural instinct to try it.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: Especially in your first game, he hadn't played in a
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: long time. He was trying to make a play.
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Don't fault him at all.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Just talk about Coastal. They only might play four quarterbacks.
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: Who knows? Four quarterbacks. Four guys are going to play.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: Deuce Bailey was the best player on the field. Best
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: player on the field.
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: He had a nice game. I wouldn't go that far.
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: He had a nice game.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Cam Cook.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: You think you overreached there?
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: I do. He had a really nice game. Cam Cook.
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: 57% completion percentage, though.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Cam Cook. I mean, ignited. I mean, the crowd was
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: just like. buzzing, right? I mean, it was just like,
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: everybody's excited. They're all there. It's the first game and
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Pat white and the whole thing. And then Kim cook goes,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: goes 70. And it just was, the crowd just went,
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: was frenzied. And I, that propelled that crowd the whole
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: first half. That was just, that was just enormous. However,
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: worth noting, worth noting the other 29 carries. He averaged
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: two and a half yards per carry.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Worth noting. Definitely worth noting. Okay.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Uh, I wanted to be at the game. I have
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: proof of life that I was at the game.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, you were there.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Jake, do you want to show that picture?
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you're proud of this picture. He's asked about it
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: three times.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: I got nine different texts on different text threads from
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: this and another one.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: Just that I had not been to a game in
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: 13 years, and that was a proof of life that
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: I was, in fact, at the game. 14. And I'd
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: forgotten the feeling. I wanted to be on the field
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: for the Pat White thing. And I'd forgotten the feeling
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: that you have when you're there.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Getting misty-eyed? As an alum, you got a little misty-eyed?
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: A little bit, yeah.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Awesome. They're going to play again this Saturday. You go
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: on back there now. Don't be a stranger. Don't be
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: a stranger. Get back out there.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: The Pat White ceremony was just talk about misty-eyed.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I made national news. It surprised me how big it
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: got nationally. ESPN had it, headlines, and that was great.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: And get into that a little bit after the game stuff.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: I thought that was really.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: And the crowd, you know, Brad, the crowd is there
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: because it's the first game. It's the Mountaineers. But they
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: were there, too, for Pat White.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: Whiteout worked.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: Whiteout. Looked great. Oh, and I got to say that
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: I screwed up because I came to the tailgate wearing
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: a blue shirt. Forgot. Oh, let's talk about Pat White.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Final look and Phil saved me. This is a shirt
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: he gave me. So, final look and Phil. Situational awareness
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: by Hoppy. You weren't the only one out there that
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: didn't go with a white shirt. I mean, look, how
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: much have we talked about Pat White and Whiteout, and
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: I show up with a blue shirt, but Daniels helped
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: me out, so I got this shirt.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: It hadn't been in 14 years. You didn't know.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: If only someone would have said it was a whiteout.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: I know. So fine-looking Phil over at Daniels took care
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I went in there in a panic.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: He went in, do you have any shirts?
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, though. They were out of white shirts.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Because the whiteout, Brad, they were out of white shirts.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: Had to go in the back, find one, and that's this.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Phil, for again saving Silly Hoppy. Finally.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Finally. There's an ancient Chinese saying that a journey of
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: a thousand miles begins with a first step.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Point being, every season you got to start somewhere. And
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: whether you think this team is going to have three wins,
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: four wins, six wins, seven wins, nine wins, ten wins,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: you got to start somewhere. And you start with a win.
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: You start with a win. So that in and of
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: itself is a solid start. Half the teams that played
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: yesterday didn't win. So you start with a win, win,
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: move on. You're 1-0. That's a net positive.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Very good. Thank you. I think he's in mid-season form.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Saw some results this weekend, right, that made you go.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: Guess what? It's the first. week of the season, Oklahoma State.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Do they have to give back their Big 12 trophy
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: that they were awarded?
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: No, they still probably, they're still probably the Big 12 favorite.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: There were a lot, a.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Lot of people telling us how great Oklahoma State was.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: All due respect, we've got to play them, I understand.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: A lot of people were way over their skis in
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: what that team was going to look like.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: A bit humbling. Oregon, a bit humbled.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Struggled.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Michigan, humbling for them.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Michigan, Kyle Whittingham should have hung a big fat L
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: necklace around his neck to start that season. I don't
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: know what that, call was. There's a lot of controversy still.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Hail Mary to win the game after the first Hail
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Mary was incomplete.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: This may surprise you that Big Ten says it was
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: the right call.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Is that right?
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech. Texas Tech. They'll go undefeated. They won't lose
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: all season. Everybody tells you. 17-3 at the half against
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Abilene Christian. A lot of poor Mountaineer influence there. Graham Harrell,
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Keith Patterson.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Go back to Oklahoma State. Man-Man Singleton, remember him? He
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: had a touchdown for Tulsa.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, did Man-Man have that? Man-Man went bye-bye real quick.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Turned the corner and took off.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: He looked good.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma State, interesting. And then, of course, UMass over Rutgers.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Rutgers probably would have liked to win ugly.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That was the ongoing debate is do you set off
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the fireworks?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: No. No.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: You eat the fireworks.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Eat the fireworks. All right, move on.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: We'll talk other games later. We've still got more on
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: this one.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: That's all I got. Last year, I was just looking.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: You know, Indiana obviously ran the table. They were going
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter in their opener last year against
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Old Dominion. They were leading 17-7 at the half. They
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: were leading 27-7 at the break. They ended up winning
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that game 27-14. Correct. So you don't– again, I may
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: have said this last week. To me, the first game
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of the season– everything that goes into it, it's like
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: getting a cruise ship ready to leave dock. Like there's
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: a ton of work and a lot of stuff. And
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: then you just get it off. Week two, week three,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: week four. Beno Cook, the legendary sage of college football,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: always used to say, and we used to do a
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: segment with him every week. And he would say, I
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: won't do his voice, but he would say, minimum, it
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: takes three weeks to know what your team is. And
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of times it takes the first month to
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: know who you really are. So With that being the case,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: we'll wait and see what West Virginia looks like. Three
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• 20:20
  Speaker 3: A couple things. Yeah, a couple things jumped. If you're
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: looking for some bright spots in there, and listen, I
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: get all the angst. I understand that. But as you
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: start to roll through some of this stuff, I do
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: think there's some things that you can walk out of
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: this first game with and say, all right, We think
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we know this. Now you just got to keep improving
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: on some different areas. You know, you never got below
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: 96% win probability in that game. As rough as it
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: looked in the second half, Hoppy, to your point late
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: in the game, at play 119 combined, there were only
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: 133 plays in the game. At play 119, you had
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: a 99.1% chance of winning. So I know you want
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to come out and look perfect, but that was a
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: game that you were never really in jeopardy of losing
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: as close as it got there late. So now you've
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: just got to improve on some of the stuff. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: a lot of that's defensively, certainly in the second half.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Offensively in the second half, I'm interested to know and
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: dive into more on that. Did he just back way
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: off there?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's game one.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: You're not going to need to show everything next week
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: at Tennessee Martin. You're saving some stuff for Virginia. You
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: saw Hawkins can move. You saw Cook can move. To me,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: that was a, we're not trying to lay 70 on
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: you here. We're trying to work on some things in
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: the second half. and not put a ton out there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Agree or disagree?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I heavily lean into agreeing with that because I've been
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to a lot of practices, and I didn't see what
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: they've been working on a lot of, and I think he...
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Here's another part.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Here's some plays we're going to run consistently all year.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: We need to work on some of those, and let's
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: just keep jamming it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: The fact that he wasn't apoplectic... at the end of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the game where he kept saying, like, we got the win.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. We got the win. Tells
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: me that he knew that he had put some reins
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: on them that in a normal situation he wouldn't have done.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So I think he went like, yeah, just a win's
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a win. A win's a win. That's my gut. Because
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: there's so much stuff that he.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: You're up big at half.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: You keep running it, which is what this offense is
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: going to do if it's successful. You start throwing that
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: thing around a bunch and get some incompletions, then the
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: clock stops, then you do start to get worried they're
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: coming back. So I'm not going to totally flip out
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: that the second half offensive production wasn't what you wanted
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: to see. That first half when everything was going and
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: you were pressing the gas, it was working pretty well there.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to be overly alarmed. So let's
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: start there. Let's talk about the offense first. Cam Cook,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: if there was a line we've used in the offseason
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: that came to fruition 1,000%, it was, Rich finds somebody
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: he trusts and likes and likes to use somebody.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: He'll use them.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Cam Cook, 30 carries in the debut on pace, guys,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: in case you haven't done the on pace number, for
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: 360 regular season carries, which would sail over the 260
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: number that was set in this studio.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Earlier this season.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: So 30 carries in his debut, a buck 42, obviously
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: 72 of it coming in that first run, two touchdowns.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Here's the number that jumped to me, though. Nine missed
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: tackles forced against Coastal Carolina from Cam Cook. Nine of them.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: For some context, Dior Hubbard led the team last year
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: with 15. The whole season. For the entire season. Cook
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: just gave you nine in the first game. So that
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: stood out to me. Michael Hawkins, we mentioned. I thought
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: that was, Tommy, that was right up what I wanted
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: to see in game one. For a guy that hasn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: played a bunch of snaps, but you've seen in practice,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: you've seen flashes, but hasn't taken a hit. He took
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: some hits.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: He.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: He ran the ball, too. 50 of the carries for
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: West Virginia, 50 of the team's carries came between Cook
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: and Hawkins. Find something that works, and you keep doing
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: it if you're Rich Rod.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I would say, is that not patented Rich Rod?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: It was exactly Rich Rod. 103 rushing yards for Hawk
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: and a touchdown. And I thought the throwing it was
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: really efficient, and I know that's part of what has
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: people upset. Why didn't you throw it more? Why didn't
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you throw it more in the second half? He was
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: really good, guys. 11 of 14, 79% completion percentage difference.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: In game one, 132 yards and another touchdown. Eight up
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: the middle of the field. Seven of eight, 115 of
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: those 132 passing yards right down the middle of the field,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: including the nice big touchdown to Armani Weaver. Four runs
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: of 10-plus yards. Here's a number that jumps out. Tony,
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: pay attention to this one. Four runs of 10-plus yards
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: for Hawkins on the day. Last season, at the quarterback position,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Khalil Wilkins led the team with nine for the entire season.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Hawkins is almost half that through one game. So if
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: you're pulling pieces out, Cook has advertised Hawkins really, really
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: good in a debut. So I was excited to see that.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Two 100-yard rushers, as I just mentioned. Last time, West
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Virginia had a quarterback-running back duo rush for 100 yards.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: November 25, 2023, Garrett Green and Jaheim White in that
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: 34-31 win over Baylor. So it had been a couple
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: seasons since we'd seen that. I did think there was
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: improved play along the offensive line overall. Need some more
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: push in the second half. But again, they put 112
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: guys in the box on you. And Rich was just saying,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: all right, go ahead. Let's see if we can move
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: that box out of there. But I thought that was
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: clear that that was better. The one thing I watched
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: most closely on that that we had talked about, how
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: many guys are going to play? Talk about how many
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: different linemen there were in the offseason that could play
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: for you. They just did not. Five guys went the distance.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Isosa and Agbo came in. They were playing tight end.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: He went complete game. Had five guys throw a complete game.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Talk of 10 linemen, there's 11 linemen, there's 12 linemen.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: There were five linemen game one. He went all five
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: straight through.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And what does that tell us? What we always say.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: College football coaches lie the most of anyone. They lie
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: more than criminals. They lie more than criminals. We've said
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it for years. They'll say one thing and they will
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: do exactly the opposite. So when they say, you just
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: go like, okay. So they played five guys.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Trusted five guys. Now, you'll see some more next week.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: You'll see some more. But five guys played along the
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: offensive line.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But those five guys needed to work, right?
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: So that's the balance, and that's what we have to
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: remember going into next year. That's the thing with Hawkins
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: and that line. Yeah, they're your starters. Yes, you're also
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: in a game, but those guys needed reps and snaps.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: They have got to get some plays, and they did.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: They got all of them.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I do think this. I don't think that in that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: particular case of playing multiple linemen is.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, lie, lie.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I talked to Trick on Friday afternoon in the building there,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and I said, how many do you think? And his
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: plan was, he said, if the situation allows itself, he goes,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I plan on playing. Like, I'll play walk-ons just to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: give those kids a little sugar for all the hard
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: work that they put in there. But it didn't allow itself. No.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I do like the heavy package. I giggle inside when
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I see those two extra linemen running out there. Because
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: one time, so you had... Fullback was Luke, so you
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: had Bray, a running back, and a quarterback, so you
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: had eight offensive linemen. I love that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: You'll see more of it. Okay, here's a good number.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: You want another bright spot to pull out. Just try
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: and get past what the score looked like at the end.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: We talked occasionally last year about available yards. We did
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: it offensively and defensively, just a measure of your overall success.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: How many of the yards that were available to you, Hoppy,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: when you started your drive, were you able to gain?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: offensively and defensively. Last year, it wasn't pretty on either side.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: West Virginia was 123rd nationally in net available yards percentage
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: in 2025. That's out of 136, so right near the bottom. Offensively,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: you gained just 37% of available yards last year, also
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: near the bottom nationally. Did you hear me, Hop?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: 37% of the yards last season. This was one game,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: but as long as we're all going to overreact to
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: one game, I'll overreact too. How about this number for
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: game one? You gained 70% of the available yards yesterday.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Efficient.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: That's real good.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: For context, Notre Dame led the country last year at 67%.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: So that was overall. That's one number that you pull
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: out that you don't normally look at that you went, OK,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: that's pretty good.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: You'll take that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Not suggesting you'll do it for an entire season. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: for one game, that was a good statistic as well.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Let's dive into some grades. Highest graded offensive player. And again,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: my standard disclaimer when we do this early in the morning,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: these may change a little throughout the day as more
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: film gets in. Top graded offensive guys won. Michael Hawkins, 79.5
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: in his debut. Number two, encouraging here, Bubba Grayson, 78.5.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Good job by Bubba in his debut. The rest of
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: the top 10, Armani Weaver-Bomar, Amari Latimer, Epps, Cam Cook,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Nick Cray, Wes King, Kevin Brown, all top 10 of
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: your overall offensive grades. Latimer's interesting. You know what he's
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: right on pace for?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: What?
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Six carries in the game, 72 carries. What was the
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: number we talked about? It wasn't our over-under number. We
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: dropped under. Was it 60-something? 70 carries was that benchmark
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: for Rich on freshman running backs. If you get over 70,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: that's rare. Not many have done it. He's right on
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: pace to do that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: He did nothing to dissuade you from, I mean, 230 pounds. Obviously,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: he becomes that third down conversion running back. Here's a kid, man,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: heck of a pedigree. You run for over 5,000 yards
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: in high school. At 230 pounds, he whacked it right
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: up in there. Yeah.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Let's talk defense for a second. Obviously, still some work
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to do in the passing game there. It was a
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: glaring weak spot last year. Certainly still was a weak
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: spot against Coastal. That's got to get some work. ability
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: of Bailey where I thought he was really good Hoppy
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: just his ability to extend the play and get out
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: because the pass rush as I said in the open
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: that that frankly guys that really surprised me I'm not
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: stunned that the past defense had some issues you were
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: starting a ton of new guys in there so I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: not surprised there were open spaces and that you were
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: giving cushion trying to keep balls in front of you
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: there and not get beat deep so doesn't totally surprise
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: me there that it was that yards were available. What
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: surprised me is that you put so much pressure on Bailey.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And I'll get to some of those numbers in a second.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: But he did a nice job of escaping that pressure. Therefore,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's containment has to get better. There's no doubt
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: about that. But the pressure was a real bright spot.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: And Bailey, as you said, Bailey's ability to scramble and
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: sometimes even throw against his body and find an open receiver.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: I just thought he was effective. You know, what do
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you do when you got a pass rush? You try
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: to get outside the rush. So they did a good
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: job in the second half kind of spreading the field
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: and giving them opportunities.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: All right, here's some numbers. Nearly 40 pressures on the day.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: 40 quarterback pressures.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Massive.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Just massive. I mean, guys, you can't overstate that for
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: a group that you were questioning so much. You got
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: nine of them just from Nate Gabriel and K.J. Henson.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: So Henson's another guy, Juco from Hutch as well, that
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: you come in and see him second on that depth chart,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: and you're like, all right, You Juco guys are going
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to have to play right now. There is not time
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: for you to learn. You've got to go right in.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: We mentioned Wiley. I thought he stood out. And then K.J.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Henson was in there making some plays. Good to see
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Zeke Durham-Campbell. He led all West Virginia players with six
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: going against his former team, Coastal. If West Virginia is
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: going to have a good pass rush hoppy, he's going
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: to have to be a guy that has a lot
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: of them this year. Jason Hall played well, transferred from Villanova.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: He had three.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: That was a guy that we didn't talk a whole
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: lot about.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: In the offseason. You're right. He was making plays in practice.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: So yeah, he popped out there. It was good to see.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: Here's the number you guys asked me to look at.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Havoc makes a return.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: 34% of West Virginia's defensive plays were Havoc. So again,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: were there gaps? Were there holes?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Were there receivers running wide open?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: But to come up with a 34% Havoc rate, 22
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Havoc plays, again, I'm being an on-pace guy a bunch today.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: If you did that on-pace throughout the season, you are
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: on-pace to be a top seven or eight defense when
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: it comes to havoc specifically. So that part of the defense,
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: that niche part of the defense, I thought was really,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: really good. Coastal had a 30.5 pass blocking grade.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: 30.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: That's not good, Tony.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: That's horrific.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: So again, coverage needs work. Pass rush, if it can
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: stay anywhere close to that, man, that was impressive. Bailey,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: 373 yards passing. Here's what got you. 17 yards per completion.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: So they were, to our point, there were receivers open downfield.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: They were pushing it downfield when he would scramble and
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: break contain and the play would break down. 50% of
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: his passing yards, 49 to be exact, were yards after catch.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: So that's another part, right? You got to get them
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: on the ground when they get the ball. 157 of
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: those yards were yards after catch there.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Big number.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Highest graded defenders, Nate Gabriel, one, Zeke Durham, Campbell, number two.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Harper Holloman, number three, bright spot. Our guy, Ben Cutter,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: friend of the program. No surprise, he's number four in his, what,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: ninth year with the program?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: This is his eighth year.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Did you see that hit in the first half he had?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it got incredible.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: And Wilson had a couple huge hits.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: So, Gabriel, Durham, Campbell, Holloman, Ben, K.J. Henson, Nick Taylor, Wiley,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Keyshawn Robinson, Corey McIntyre, Kamari Wilson, among the other top ten. So, again,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Long way from where that defense needs to be, but
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I do think you can pull some spots out of there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Gabriel's pass rush.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Grade was an 80.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Guys, for an interior defensive lineman, that's not even necessarily
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: his main responsibility. So how does this look moving forward
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: with this pass rush? Can you continue to get a
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: push from those guys?
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: We know this.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: If those front four guys can get a pass rush
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: by themselves and you don't have to keep running those
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: linebackers in there and guys off the edge, safety blitzes,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: you're going to be in much better shape. Holloman was
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: a 75 pass rush grade.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Thought he played well.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Here's another guy that I thought stood out. We said
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: that linebacker group is what I thought was the deepest
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: unit among the defense. So obviously, you know what Cutter's
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: going to bring. Isaiah Patterson was a guy that you
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: didn't hear a whole lot about in the spring that
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I thought jumped yesterday. I saw him make a bunch
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: of plays. He wasn't among the top 10 defensive grades,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: but he led the team with four stops. PFF classifies
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: that as a failure for the offense. So he had
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: four of those. He had a sack in the fourth quarter.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: He had three pressures. So again, some bright spots. Here's
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: another one, guys. Hoppy, you'll remember this stat from our over-under.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Fumble recoveries. Remember last year? You forced a ton. You
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: recovered very few. It was a huge gap. We thought
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: there should be some regression to the mean, where if
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: you can keep forcing some, it should go your way.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: The luck should turn.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: It did.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Game one. You forced three. You got on two of them.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Wait, Sig played a lot. He got one.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: So that's where I was going next. Matt Sig, we'll
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: talk about special teams here in a second. But he
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: had one of those recoveries. McIntyre forced one, but couldn't
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: quite fall on it. That was the one you didn't get.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That was huge.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: You needed to get that one. Nate Gabriel forced one.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: So I just thought that, again, you're not going to
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: force three probably every single game. But you did get
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: some bounce turnover luck going your way. All right, let's
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: hit special teams for just a second. Yeah, Sig was
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: all over. Sig was all over the place. Did a
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: nice job. Down that punt inside the five.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: You see he got a little something to him. He does.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: It doesn't take long to watch him. You go, like,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: he got a little something to him.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: He's a player. Like, he's a guy that belongs on
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: the field, right?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: He's a player.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: So, again, as we thought, the three highly touted freshmen
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: in Brown, Latimer, and Sig that you've thought all through
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: summer ball, okay, they hit on those guys. There's going
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: to be mistakes because they're true freshmen, but you.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Hit on them.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: I thought first game action, all three of them you went, okay,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: those are guys. How about Jack Cassidy? We talked about
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: his hammer.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: All summer.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a booming leg. Six kickoffs, no returns.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: That was a different dimension that has not existed.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Just unloaded. 47-yard field goal, too. They cleared it easily.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Take the points off the board. But, man, he hammered
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: that ball. So I thought special teams showed you some
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: things as well.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: The one he made from 47 that came off the board,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: that thing would have been good from 57. I mean,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: he's got a club, and he was using it on Saturday.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Now, the punt game.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I've got a million more, but that's good for episodes one,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: season one.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: The punt game was also kind of like the game.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: You had some highs and you had some lows, right?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: You had a punt that traveled 74 yards, but Ryan
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Hansen had a couple of shankers, right? And then drilled
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: one late in the game where you were trying to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: cough and corner that thing, banged it into the end zone. So,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you know, first time through. everyone gets an opportunity to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: kind of get their feel of the field, and then
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: you go back out here in this week and see
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: what you got.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: After that one that went through the end zone, he
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: had a conversation with the head ball coach after that.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: The head coach may have been peering around a little bit,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: looking for him to return to the sideline.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: On the punt?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, on the punt.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That kind of jumped off his foot, though. I don't
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: think he got it.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: He kind of locked me in. Then Coastal had a
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: good punter. That guy launched a couple.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: What did he end up with? Patesta, a 42-yard average
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: with a long of 53, four inside the 20. Australian.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Imagine that.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: So overall, to recap numbers, I think just back up
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: what we saw. There were some flashes there of some
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: good that you take out of there. And now it's
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: just a matter of how quickly you can get better
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: and how much can you improve in some of those
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: areas that we saw. Tighten up that coverage. Continue that
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: pass rush. Got a chance to get better on defense.
• 37:37
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• 37:41
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• 41:19
  Speaker 1: jumping in again. Impossible to read every single one because
• 41:24
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• 41:34
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• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Recap of the weekend. Hmm. Hey, Jakey, roll some photos here.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: So here we go. We started the things out. We
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: had a really nice crowd at Buffalo Wild Wings on Thursday,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and that was the first one. We'll be there again
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: this coming Thursday. As you can see, we pretty much
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: packed it out. And a good time, as they say,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: was had by all. We also had some celebrity special guests.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer footballers. There's the guy whose mom makes cookies on
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: the left. Right? I mean, the guy that makes cookies,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Ben Cutter was there among a bunch of those guys.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Aiden Woods in there, Tyler Skolsky in the back.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So we talked, Johnny Estelle, Mountaineer assistant basketball coach,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: was there talking about their upcoming fantasy camp first weekend
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of October. And Hoppy was looking pensively. Then we had Oh,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: it was a close call. Well, we had a near disaster.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: That was the chicken wing eating contest.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Blazing wings.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Blazing wings. It was three different sauces. The dude in
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: the middle really wanted to win badly, and he overstuffed.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And so you could see his cheeks were loaded there
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: with the chicken wings. He lifted his hand up. He
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: was getting close. And what happened moments later, if this
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: was a running video, He spun on a pivot foot,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: took through that back door there, and we thought he
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: was going to hurl.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Well, a couple notes. One, I executed a tush push
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: to get him out the door because it was close.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was close.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: So I physically pushed to get him out of there.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: The bigger story in that, thank God that wasn't the
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: story because it was close to being the story. That's
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: like a 16 over a one seed there.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Beth Robinson.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can you show the picture there again, Jake?
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Beth Robinson.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: The young lady on the right-hand side.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: On the right.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: One of the all-time great high school softball players in
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the state, by the way. She stepped up before she went,
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: and I said, you like hot stuff?
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Never ate it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Don't do it.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: I don't think she quite knew what this was. She
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: just motored through the entire challenge, even when there was
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: chaos in the middle.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: She didn't pay any attention.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: And there was pushing and shoving to get them outside.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: She smiled. Like, talk about a competitor. She said, oh,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: is that right?
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that right? You're having trouble keeping it down?
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Guess what I'm going to do?
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I'm going to finish my last three and win this thing.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So they both won because they both ate the allotted
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: amount of wings in the time, but the dude almost puked.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: So that was the first time that almost happened.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: We'll have to reconsider then.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: No, we're going to do it more. Let's get it more.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: It's not hyperbole.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: That was a close call.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: On Friday, we started the food court for the first
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: time this year. Fresh pavement, new signs. We're ready to go.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Had a nice turnout of folks. We started it at
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: 4 o'clock. Weather was getting a little weird on us. Basically,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the weather service was calling for Noah's Ark, to be
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: floating by at any time. But we had one shot,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: and then it went away. And so just kind of
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: like milling around crowd. And we had great musical performances.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Mon Hill Records again.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mon Hill Records doing a really nice job performing.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: And there she is. So that's Ben's mom, Jen. And
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: those are the Oatmeal Cream Pies.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: World famous now.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Award winning.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I picked up a few tidbits that I didn't know about.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: So those things sold out. They are fantastic. I ate
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: my first one driving home Friday night, then had some
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: with coffee on Saturday. And then we met the whole family. Basically, well,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: there's Dr. Benson, Mike Benson, the president. Of course, he
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: was there. With Ben's mom, Jen, and the dog. Whose
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: dog is that? That's his. That's the president's dog.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, he came with a dog?
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: He came with his dog?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Of course, dog-friendly.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: So this is really interesting. Dog-friendly.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: This is dog-friendly.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: This is really interesting. I mean, so this is when
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: you get to know a family a little bit. That's Jen,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: and that's Ben's aunt on the left. Now, her name
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: is Lori, but I didn't know this. When she was
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a young kid, she was the model for Little Debbie Snacks.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Get out of here.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: So then Han comes together.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, look.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So she was the model. For Little Debbie snacks.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Is that how the oatmeal cream pies became a thing?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: That's it. So they were big into that when they
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: were teens. So this is like a family tradition kind
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: of thing. So she was Little Debbie. That's a story.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Then I found out that's what Little Debbie looks like now.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: And so she's all grown up. And then I found
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: out that Ben's mom, I was saying she'd won a
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in these baking contests in North Carolina.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: World Championships. Right, World Championships. So she's... I think they
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: may be doing something different for Tennessee Martin. They might
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be doing chocolate chips. Oh. But crazy.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Now you got my attention.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: You know those contests all the way... Won a contest
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Excuse me? Chocolate.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Is this confirmed?
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: And so chocolate... Big in there. She goes lined up,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: went to Geneva.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: International.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: International. So now like international.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: To the home of chocolate.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: To the home of chocolate. I just laughed at the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Swiss people.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, you guys know chocolate? Here, I'm going to give
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: you a little North Carolina chocolate. Crazy. Anyway, we sold out.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: We'll do something else. We'll know when we come back Thursday. Well,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I guess we need to put that out there. What
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: are we doing? Chocolate chips? Are we doing chocolate chips
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: this coming week? We're doing chocolate chips this week.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: We don't know, in fact.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Same thing, pre-sale like we did?
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: After she won that in Switzerland, Switzerland set off fireworks.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Baker's Dozen, I think they're going with. Now, that would
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: be 12 plus 1 makes 13. You get a Baker's Dozen,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: a chocolate chip. You can preorder on our text line
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: at 304-404-4333.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: So real quick, before we move into text line, let's
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: do a quick preview of next week. with the events
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: coming up for next week again, because it's a similar
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: schedule to this week.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Same schedule. So Thursday, we're at Buffalo Wild Wings from
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: 6 until 7.30. We invite you to join us. Friday,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: we're 4 to 10 at the food court at Daniels. Saturday,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: the game goes one hour later, so it's a one kick,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: but we're going to start again, I would assume, at 9?
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: 9 until 12. Real quick note.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Programming changed for Friday.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Programming change for the food on Friday night at the
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: food court.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Big announcement. Okay, go ahead. All right, go. What is it?
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Two new vendors will be there Friday evening.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Pliables.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Those Pliables are very good. Fruit.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Acai.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Acai. You'd like that. I do. Try that Friday.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: And Bites and Sips is going to be there. With
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Smash Burgers.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Friday.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Bringing her food truck.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So Rev Kev's not there Friday.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: He's there Saturday. Rev Kev's catering event won't be available.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: So we're sliding in here. Playa Bowls and Bites and
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Sips is going to help us out. Also told the
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: lemonade from Bites and Sips is elite. So you'll have
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: to try that. But Playa Bowls, they have a location
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: here in Morgantown.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: So are you saying that if the regular starter is
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: not able to go, that somebody else has to step up?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Deep Bench.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Deep bench.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Deep bench at the food court.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: By the way.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Bringing pliables, bites, and sips in.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Back to Rev Kev, I had Saturday morning biscuit and meat.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they sold out Friday.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Biscuit and brisket is what you had.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, biscuit and brisket.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, they sold out Friday.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. All right, here we go. Let's do these.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Wayne from Fredericksburg. Could this be the greatest thanks for
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: having us of all time? UMass enjoys a fireworks show
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: and a $ 1. 55 million check for beating Rutgers at... Rutgers.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Tony, I was obsessed by that, and I was asking
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: some people.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I was obsessed by it.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I just think it's, and I was talking to
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Brad about it, too, because Brad was in the marketing
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: department for a long time, and my understanding was you
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: got a permit there in New Jersey, you got a
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: permit to set off fireworks. It's not like you can
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: delay it and and set it off at another time.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: And also, it was part of their youth sports night,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: K-9 GHT. So it was a preplanned thing. But you
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: can say all you want. It still is just a really,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: really bad look. And they got so many problems there.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Poor Kelly's in. They got a $ 500 million deficit. But
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: you should have eaten the cost. I mean, because now
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: you're just viral, the worst possible setting, the worst possible
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: impression of you because of that.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: So you became obsessed over it.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I just thought, well, stuff like that interests me. Like,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: why did you do it? The why? The why?
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: So you're saying it's because they had a youth thing
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and they already paid for it. That's a tough call.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: But still, you don't do it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Joe in Ohio writes, I'm happy for the win. Lots
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: of coaching opportunities in the coming week. As you all say,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: we are allowed to get better and we are going
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: to need to. Texter, preseason optimism gone. Zach has work
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: cut out for him.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Well, come on. I mean, you won the game.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Feels like we're in year five of no secondary. That said,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: you're allowed to get better. Please get better. Texter. Mark
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: from Richmond writes, Rich is saving his air package for Virginia.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Tony, that first half, that long touchdown pass, that was
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: classic Rich Rod, wasn't it? Because you run, run, run, run.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: And Brad, on that pass play, you were watching the secondary.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: What did that defensive back do? Just sucked right up.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: And Hawkins did a great job.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Saw a flash of Armani Weaver going by and just
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: got it up there. Just launched it deep.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Go get it.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I was talking to some folks. That's a hard pass.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: It is, but you notice what he did with it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: It was really a smart play. He threw it extra high.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: So he knew he had a guy deep, but he
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: probably couldn't see him exactly because he did have pressure.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: So he just knew, I'm throwing it up and out,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: but up enough that he can run under it. I
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: thought that was a super smart play by Hawkins.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Boy, that D-back was just miscalculated. That'll be a tough one.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Texter writes, I just want to say, while watching the
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: retirement of number five, I... was choked up and had
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: tears in my eyes. Pat White definitely deserves the badge
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: of honor. Thank you to Pat White and the team
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: for great memories. I'll never forget where I was during
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma game. I was running a motor underground in
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the mines, and I kept getting updates from the dispatch.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: I got outside, and we were all huddled around a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: small radio in the mine office. We were laughing, crying, hugging,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: and just truly proud of being a West Virginian and
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: proud of that team. That's what people in other states
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: don't understand. This is our team. I've been all over
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the country and around the world a few times. I
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: have always seen the old flying WV where I have been.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Good win. There are some improvements needed, and I believe
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Coach Rod will get it going. Let's go, Mountaineers. Greg
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: in Stewart, Virginia. Texter writes, hey, three guys. I know
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: it's never as bad as it looks. However, my biggest
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: concern is it seems like every year we are always
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: talking about the secondary being weak. And here we are again,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: talking about the secondary being a weak spot. Normally when
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: we talk about a weak secondary, it's weak at the
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: beginning of the year and it's weak at the end
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: of the year. So he's concerned that there will not
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: be improvement.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: You know, Tony, on that, when, and again, credit that
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: quarterback for Coastal, getting away from the pressure and throwing
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: a pass. And Steve Dunlap, what does Steve Dunlap, former
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: defensive coordinator at Red, always say about when passes are completed,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: when the quarterback is, when things start to break down
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: is you can't guard guys forever.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, so some of that is just the other
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: team gets to make plays.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: And then we'll hear more this week too. I do
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: wonder how much of it was a, a keep the
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: ball in front of you type of defense. There were
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: some alarming gaps out there. I mean, guys were catching
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: balls with wide open grass in front of them. So I,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: I get the concern, but also I'm interested to see
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: it moving forward. But the, The defensive back position, corners
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: in particular, were a question coming in because you had
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: some significant inexperience there. So you're going to need some
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: guys to get some snaps.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Texter writes, WVU quit at halftime. Coastal did not. That
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: was embarrassing. It's the same thing I've seen for seven years.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I am tired of being patient. Texter, David in Rochester.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: It's up in New York, Hop.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Disappointing second half. Not sure why we didn't try some passes.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Can he not throw or the receivers can't get open?
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: On defense, our defensive backs looked slow, and the rush
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: line was undisciplined. What do you think, David and Rochester?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I think we've hit on a few of those topics there.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Anthony in White Post, Virginia. During the game, Tony remarked
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: that it was raining while the sun was shining, which
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: encapsulates the essence of this game. It was rain and sun.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Jake from Wirt. Was the lack of passing something we
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: will do all year, or were we holding on to
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: some stuff? Yeah, I think holding. You're going to pass
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the ball more than 14 times going forward. Rich, Satellite Beach, Florida,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: checks in. Why did Rich continue to run into a
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: run-centric Coastal Carolina box versus throwing? Additionally frustrating to watch,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: woeful pass defense again after years of the same issue.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, Rich. They're in Florida. Like
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I said, there's a continuing theme. Yes. We'll not get
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: to every text, but we'll try to address some of
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: the issues. Charlie in Midlothian. Well-known gas stealer.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a little harsh. Jeez, that is. That's unfounded.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: I'll just say he runs it against the envelope on
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: that gas.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: He drills down and points at the address.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: He's got five family members lining up behind there just
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: running them on after like it's a pit stop. Anyway.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Did you notice that Rev Kev is offering a Renfredo
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: sauce option? Yes. Although he's going with the generic white sauce.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, he says, I pay my Rhone County
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: taxes for mineral rights every August by calling the sheriff's office.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Here in Chesterfield County, we pay our taxes via ACH.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Remember we were talking about going to the tax office? Yeah,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: so Charlie lives large on those mineral rights there in
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Rhone County. I mean, who doesn't? Everyone's got mineral rights,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: service rights, except us.
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Except us.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And everyone else got land, too.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: We don't have any.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: We got land.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: We got nothing.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Texter says, after the game, Rich stated that even
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: when Coastal loaded the box in the second half, we
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: were going to still try to run it. I get it.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: But wouldn't it be good to spread them out, say,
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: when they've got 10 in the box? And even if
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you run it, lighten up the box a little by
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: making them cover three or four receivers. His comment reminded
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: me of another game when we ran into a loaded
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: box over and over, and that did not end well, Evan,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: in Iowa. Hello, gentlemen. This is Craig from Winfield, and
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: that is still my real name. My postgame thought, I'd
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: ask Rich, if you had to do it over again,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: would you have kneeled on the ball to run out
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the first half? So this is his hypothesis. My thought
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: is that did two things. It took away our offensive momentum.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: And it may have backfired. And instead of being good sportsmanship,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: they were very likely feeling that they thought the game
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: was already over and it might have motivated them. I
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: know hindsight 2020, but I think both of those likely
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: were the result. I think the team is improved. I
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: think we should be encouraged. That ball does bounce funny.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Congratulations on nine years. I hope you guys celebrate it
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: with a big tater platter and a merry be there
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: at Tudors. Thanks for keeping us connected.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Tony, I like. Taking a knee at the first half,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: you're up 24-0. Everything's going your way. Don't do something
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: at the end of the half, Brad, that could be
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: a mistake that gives them momentum. Just get to halftime, right?
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: No?
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: No big deal. Texter, we are going to run the
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: ball even when they know we want to run an
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: almost gotcha beat. 223 run yards, first half, 58 in
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: the second. Text her, we are allowed to get better,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and so are the refs. Hoppe's obvious observation, that 99-yard
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: coastal drive changed the game. So, he adds parenthetically, so
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma State hype train might get derailed.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Ha ha. So those were good calls, though, right? The
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: holding calls? Were they, Tony?
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: One I thought was BS. Really? I thought so. Yeah.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was interesting because in the first half, you
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: were clean. Yeah.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Again, I think that drive, 13 plays, 12 plays, 99 yards,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: I thought that just.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you said, Tony, on the broadcast, you said that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Coastal's best offense was West Virginia's penalties on defense.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: We had three penalties on that drive.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Drive continuing.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Gave 35 yards on that, penalties. Craig from Cheat Lake.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Last Thanksgiving, our family was in North Myrtle for the holiday,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: and we took in The James Madison Coastal Carolina game.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Pretty campus, extremely nice people. And yes, they do give
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: free hot dogs, nachos, and sodas during the game at
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: the concession. They just get as many as you want.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Is it as many as you want? You go four
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: at a time. You can get four at a time.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: The guy writes, my brother-in-law didn't dress warm enough for
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: the game, but he was really smart because he went
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: to the concession stand, grabbed four free hot dogs, put
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: them in his pockets for warmth.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Used them as hand warmers? Yeah.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: A great example, he says, of mountaineer ingenuity.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: First I've heard of that.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Jeez. First time I've ever heard a guy use him.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Is that a?
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Pocket warmer with a hot dog.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: Is that a hot dog in your pants? Move on.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: I missed something.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't listen to him.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Brad never listens to me, so it's good to listen
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: to anyone.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Text her. The guy wants me to yell hello. Hello.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Bart from Elkins. What a pleasure to briefly talk with Hoppy, Brad,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: and homeless Dave Saturday while picking up my oatmeal cream pies.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness I volunteered to pay Dave because Dave was
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: just giving away. Now, we had a picture made, he says,
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: holding the beautifully wrapped oatmeal cream pies. Finally... started crushing
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: them Saturday night. If the Mountaineers had the killer instinct
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I had with those pies, they would have won by
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: a lot. God bless Jennifer Cutter with her baking ability.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: Hopefully she sends those to all the food court events.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: I'll need to walk those off on the hills of
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: Davis and Elkins College, maybe join the guy that doesn't
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: have a worry in the world playing Frisbee golf. Thank you,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: three guys. Thank you, guys, for three. Yeah, so he
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: really liked them oatmeal cream pies.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: You know, Jen's on the hook now, isn't she? I mean,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: now she's got to spend her whole week making cookies.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: I think Jen might have been the top-graded Mountaineer from
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: the weekend.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: How did Jen grade out, Brad?
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: She takes the biggest grade of the weekend.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: That'd be funny if Rich comes out when he does
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the weekly awards and goes, game winner, Jennifer Cutter.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Jen Cutter.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Are they going to have the oatmeal cream pies there
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: this coming week?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: Cutter's oatmeal cream pies grade out 99.3, Hoppy.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: 99.3.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: Cutter's oatmeal cream pies grade out 99.3.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: So you can pre-order oatmeal cream pies and the Baker's
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: dozen chocolate chips as well.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: You've got to get back home today and start.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Texter says, I would love to get back of
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: being the type of team, if you had a chance
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to step on someone's throat and hang 50 on them,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: you'd do it. We've had way too many years of players, coaches,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: and everyone involved with the program always letting up and
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: not having that killer time I think you might call
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: that soft.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I don't think that Rich was intentionally saying, let them
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: score 24 points. Let's just, you know. Texter, last one.
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  Speaker 1: Can you all double check with Wren that he got
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  Speaker 1: permission from Jaden Daniels to retire number five? I just
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure we aren't going to get in
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  Speaker 1: any legal trouble there. Yeah, it's become quite.
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  Speaker 3: Ceremony was cool. I also liked when they honored the
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  Speaker 3: Gator Bowl team at the end, and then right at
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  Speaker 3: the end of it, Pat ran over from the sideline
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  Speaker 3: into that group, and they all jumped and bounced around.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was a fun moment as well.
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy, you were down there. Did you talk to any
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  Speaker 1: of those guys?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. I should have. I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened with that. Did you have
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  Speaker 1: fun at the ballgame?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: You did.
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  Speaker 2: I love being on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just saw a lot of people and just the excitement. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when they come to be on the field,
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  Speaker 2: when that team comes running out, Brad and the coaches
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  Speaker 2: and the play home and the staff.
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  Speaker 3: Return to the tunnel, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No inflatable helmet, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 3: Would have loved to seen the throwback helmet come out.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know if that's still around.
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  Speaker 1: I like what they've done.
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  Speaker 3: Probably doesn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I like what they have done with the train. Like they've.
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  Speaker 1: They've matured the train. Like Rich was here the first year.
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  Speaker 1: It was like back in the old days, like Lego,
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  Speaker 1: one of those things called Lego Brights or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the old train looked like. Now they got
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  Speaker 1: like a sophisticated, like, I do love, I love the train.
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  Speaker 1: The train speaks tremendous West Virginia, right? I mean, you
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: got like, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're a train guy too, so of course.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the train. Love the train. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: good deal. So now we're back to a regular schedule,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: which means... that we'll be here doing our preview on Thursday.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: And if you are coming in for the game, you
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: want to preorder the cookies, we'll do something on social. Twitter.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: Let's just go to Twitter or where else do we post?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Do we post on IG? What do we do? I
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: 304-404-4083.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put stuff out. All right. That's good. Time is up.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to get out of here. They've got a
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: flea market using a studio at 1130. Is that right?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're selling like, I don't know what it is.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: Jen's Cookies? I don't know if Jen's Cookies will be here.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I think they're doing, I think today is like upholstery, fabric.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Just like rolls of fabric. We got to get out
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We be out. Thanks for being with us. You going
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: to game on Saturday?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know yet.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Just said he had seen on this classic. Had a
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: great time. Not sure he wants to go do it again.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Because he can just never enjoy fun. You can't enjoy.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: I'm all into joy.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Just go to the game. All right. See you.