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COMM 201: Interpersonal Communication · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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My name is Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian sigla is is a Thursday
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night. Good buddy, what you drinking
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on? Thirsty.
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Thursday. Having a little Janessa beer
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watching the snow. Come down outside schools.
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Closed for the kid in the wife. Tomorrow I'm working them half a
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day. Good night to record man.
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Yes it is man. I've got my hands here.
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We're watching some snow as well.
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We got about got about an inch so far.
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It's sticking a little bit. It's kind of you know everything
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and flowing between big fluffy flakes and flurries but looks
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like we're going to have a little bit of fun in the
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Tomorrow, buddy. You are going to have a little
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fun in the snow tomorrow. I don't plan on going anywhere.
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I've got ten beers in the fridge, a couple fifth.
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I want a little drink food for the fam.
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Although if my wife, you know, being you know, with child as
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she is, if she said, honey, I want this from here, I would
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trade my butt out and I'd go get it because I am a smart man.
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You know when they happening, you know what's up?
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Hey, what's it? What's it?
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You know you've been there. Once it's happened.
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It's like you. Unlike you know, you know what
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to do. You don't overthink it.
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You just do it. I'm sitting here also watching
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Golf out at Pebble Beach. It looks like it's about 68
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degrees perfect weather. So I'm also longing for a good
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spring day now. Like after this I'm done with
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winter. All right, don't need someone
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more. Let's get warm you like beIN,
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get out. I'll be done with you.
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Have my permission to die. Alright hokey fans, so what
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we'll be talking about tonight. I biggest thing is we're gonna
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be looking at the red cord Nielsen and the Justin Hamilton
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press conferences from a couple days ago, breaking down some
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things, they said some things we heard.
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We like some things we heard, we didn't like, A couple shots here
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and there, but before we jump to that run, run jump to a
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non-football related thing in Virginia Tech wrestling and that
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epic I mean, epic win versus NC State man.
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Holy moly epic win. So I mean that was one of the
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best. I don't watch wrestling
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normally. So not that.
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I'm very We familiar with it. I used to go to a lot of a lot
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of stuff in high school and things like that, but I it's
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been a long time since I've watched something like this
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live. And it was, it was, it was a
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great watch and the back and forth.
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And then the Epic finish. I mean, most everybody thought
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it was over and then it wasn't. And then We pull it out.
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And then I was just like, I was on the edge of my seat.
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I know that there was someone else that was calling this, that
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was really, really on the edge of their seat was, literally and
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figuratively, Rock Harrison, man.
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First of all, he's a UVA grad, but a billion kudos to that guy
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a billion. He kept.
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It engaging, he broke it down, sort of simplistically for
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folks, like me and you who don't watch a lot of wrestling.
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And unfortunately, in Kovac times, probably friends that we
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could have over to watch the wrestling with us.
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We really can't get together. It's too tough.
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He made it exciting. And by the way, He joined
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Twitter this week, I followed him immediately just and then
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they showed his is it to is it to isn't to play.
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It was so much energy in, you know, I think what we just saw
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is for us as very casual fans. That was a top-10 matchup.
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I think, probably my expectations now is I look on
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acc Network, Big Ten Network ESPN.
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If I see like to top 10 teams going at it and wrestling
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weather associated with the Hokies are not.
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I think I'll probably stop and watch for a little while because
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I think, you know, the level of competition when it's that high,
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it's really good. Level competition is awesome.
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The passion that they bring to the table, both from an
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individual perspective, and from the team perspective, and how
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they were really getting each other up for, for the, for the
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match at me. That was just it was awesome to
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watch and like you said, I'm definitely gonna I see it in
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passing out, at least give it, you know, 10, 20 minutes of my
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time. If I've got some time to kill
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there because that was fun to watch, those are really good
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time. And after that, when The Hokies
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go from number eight to number four in the country.
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And you see a lot of when we watch the Hokies a lot of the
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Hokies guys had pretty high numbers next to the names.
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So individually they are very high ranked and my buddy David
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Fuqua who wrestled it along with his fraternity brother.
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And I'm big Hokies fan. Ryan, you got to meet him last
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year in Blacksburg He gave me a little bit of insight and kind
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of the way the way I'm kind of feeling it is this is the
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potential National Championship team, not only for individuals
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like Macau was a few years ago, but all around, it could happen
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because all of these guys has potential to go far once the
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NCAA tournament happens in St. Louis.
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So really big and then tomorrow night Pitt Panthers number 6.
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Number 16. Again, kudos to ACC Network
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Friday night wrestling. Is it six?
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Not eight? I'll try to put it on for a
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little while, definitely do the follow-up.
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So hey, Brian. Guess what?
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What's up, man? I was right.
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Yeah, you were yeah, youyou got this one on me.
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My Tom Brady. He did not come to fruition.
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He got it done along with fellow Hokies Bruce.
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Arians Cody, Grimm thicker Pony. I mean, they that really wasn't
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a game. And all, I mean, it was
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competitive in the first quarter and then, you know, the couple
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of adjustments defensively that were made to kind of stop those.
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Those little short drives that Kansas City was able to have
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just completely took their offense out of the game and
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let's start there. You kind of need you tackles to
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have success against a good pass rush, right?
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You damn you right. You too?
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Damn right? It was brutal.
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I mean they took full advantage of a I end up offensive line,
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you know? And again it's great having
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three Hokies. You know, going to have those
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Super Bowl rings especially you know, it's great for Bruce
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because, you know, Brian Bruce with your Colts and I think you
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saw that years ago like this guy's is a damn good head coach.
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He's off in a ring or us of Our Generation Cody.
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Grooms, one of those Hokies, man, the best whip you ever
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seen. And Cody played a few years in
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the league and now Now he is shining as a coach Nick
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performs, an older Hokie respect to all of them but now you got
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three rings coming back the Blacksburg which is awesome.
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Now Ellen before we get into the press conferences here, guys,
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unfortunately, basketball, Louisville, game Revenge game,
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postponed due to covid issues. Obviously, if you hadn't read
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the news, Chris Mack Louisville, head coach, you know, test
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deposit for Hogue has about four days ago.
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So essentially he was not going to be there and it seems like
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your contact tracing. I don't think Tracy the ugliest
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word currently in the sporting. Language pretty much bench them
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and I mean bronze just looking at his phone.
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Right before we got on here, oh the Hokies are complete another
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home game. What?
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For like two more weeks? Yeah, we're still looks like
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February 23rd against Georgia. Tech is what we're looking at
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now. So, yeah, we're still two weeks
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away from the Hokies playing another home game here in terms
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of getting boots back. And in terms of getting a little
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couple of the guys that have been banged up back, probably a
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good thing. But in terms of the riding, the
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wave of consistency that this team has had and just haven't
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playing out there for the fans. I mean, that those aspects
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definitely, you know, sup with all these cancellations no doubt
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it does suck but I do think this I think, I can't remember who I
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heard mentioned. I can't represent the radio
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today or when I was watching. Watching CBS Sports, maybe but
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basically regardless what happens with the Hokies between
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now and they're in they because of having such good winds and
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the record there in beating going to be more of the
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importance of told you Brian my opinion.
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I don't want to be a three or a four.
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I feel like when they play teams of lesser ability It seems like
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we lose our Focus. I want to be in that 67 ring.
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I want us to have a team across from us, that we know the name
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on The Jersey and we have to take extremely serious.
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Yeah, I'm right there with you. I definitely think having
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opponent that you've got to get up for we seem to show up and
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show out when when it counts even more so than when it
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doesn't. So I would definitely prefer
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that middle too. You know, back third seating
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some but getting a higher seeding would be a good Prestige
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pick for the Hokies. So you know, you kind of way
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that you know what matters, more do you kind of hedge your bets
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on what you think will be the best setup or do you kind of
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just want to go for that Prestige move?
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And have that that lower number next to your name?
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Yeah, it's a coin flip. You love The Prestige but Maybe
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it's maroon glasses. I see this team is a team.
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If it catches fire of all the teams I've seen this year, I
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have not had my watches watches. I normally watch this, you know,
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a Playing football season because I normally watch a lot
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of football. Anyway, but when you're doing a
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podcast in your up till 2:00 every Saturday night, you kind
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of got to know what mama got to cut down somewhere.
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So basketball got to cut. I think that expire I think they
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can beat any team in the country On Any Given night in any given
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for that's my opinion. We shall see man.
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We shall see the next next three weeks or so is going to be some
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some good Conference basketball then we get to the tournament.
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Yes sir. We do.
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All right guys, let's jump to it real quick.
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We're going to start pressors. We're going to start with the
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Brad cornelison presser first, and I'm going to just jump right
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into it. No, the first questions they
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asked him was essentially about the quarterback room primarily
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about Connor Bloom Erick. First of all, he is essentially
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everything you heard in that presser Brian.
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He's essentially the backup quarterback.
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Yeah, that is seems like, what is going on here?
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Is that corn likes. What he sees on practice tape
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for Connor and he's really trusting Darrell Dicky's
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opinion. But there'll Dickies, you know,
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that probably should be here. I don't think we.
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Yeah, Darrell Dickie probably should have corn job if the
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stars would have aligned the way we have hoped when we initially
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brought in Justin Fuente. But that's neither here.
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Nor there we. This is not about bashing corn
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necessarily. It's about what was actually
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said in the presser. So yeah, so Looks like Connor
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Bloomer is going to be the de facto backup at this point.
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Looks like Knox is going to potentially compete for that
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role. Whereas, you know, you got a guy
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like Taj Bullock that's coming in.
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It's probably going to need at least one one year seasoning
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before he starts competing for a too deep at the quarterback
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position. Yeah, I mean and of course, he's
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gonna have Spring ball and stuff to help him.
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He's going through Drew, you know, he's going through
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workouts right now and they're seeing more and more of him.
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But Brian, Even though this was a later on in the press
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conference, not nail its kind of brass talking out of both sides
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of his mouth because he says, well, we need a quarterback to
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develop for three years. First of all, Connor blumrich
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had not been in a quarterback room for three years.
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Kind of the way it looks kind of, he'd been between running
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back room too, tight end room quarterback room.
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Special teams are in all the time.
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So what you de facto saying and it scares the shit out of me is
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if Braxton Burmeister, who is a Very capable quarterback to win
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games and run the office. If he goes down, the guy who's
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been the jack-of-all-trades for Texas A&M is our backup
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quarterback. Who probably hasn't played a
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full season in what four years isn't High School?
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Yeah, I mean at this point you you know, if he's just running,
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Some QB powers and handing the ball off to Holston or whoever
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the running back is for us, you know, you feel comfortable with
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him, doing things like that when it gets into reading coverages
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and making throws on time and accurately you know you don't
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feel quite as good because you haven't seen a him do it at a
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power 5 level consistently and be he's been you know learning
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in rooms that aren't a quarterback.
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For the last. What, at least season and a
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half. Correct.
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Yeah. At least if not longer because
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he was 17. Right, restore.
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Yes, Evan. So, 17, 18, 19, the probably get
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two years then I'll need two years.
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I'll go to you, he probably spent a couple years in the QB
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room primarily but obviously we've telling Mom there, you
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know, tell him I took that job and he never had a chance to
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sniff it something else. That, you know, Brad said.
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And kind of again, it's going against what's happening.
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He prefers to have five quarterbacks on the roster.
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Well, we have four. Yep, he said he's good with four
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or five but, you know, at this point, he's, you know, we're at
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that. We have to underside of that it.
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And in my opinion for isn't bad. If you had a situation like we
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had last year for is bad, when you have a situation like, we
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have rolling into 21 where you've got Really truly one
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experienced quarterback, one quarterback.
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That's mostly an athlete that hasn't really been engrossed in
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the position in the last two years one that is still coming
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along and one that's a true freshman.
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Exactly. And you know, last year we set
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not actually not too long after our first episode last year, we
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talked about how our quarterback room was the deepest quarterback
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around the country in which it was and it proved during the
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season it was. Because all three guys at some
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point, I'm playing at a very high level but now we're
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probably among the thinnest. You know, we have one guy that
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started one. Guy that's only played.
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What? What?
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What knocks play quarter and a half against Clemson.
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Yeah. And Plum next week and you know,
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we sit here, you know. It's just not good and the way
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he made it framed way he framed it is we're not looking for
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another one which is a massive mistake.
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I think we could find FCS FBS G5.
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We could find a better backup quarterback and carnarvon Rick.
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It's not been in it, not necessarily better but at least
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one that is had enough reps recently where if Connor isn't
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what you think he is, you've got to plan B.
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You know I'm saying that. That's kind of what bothers me
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more. It's not so much that Connor
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doesn't have the potential to go out there and do good things as
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a backup for Braxton. It's that we don't know that and
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not knowing that not in not having a plan B of someone that
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it can at least go out there and make the throws and and do the
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things that you need to do. You know, other guys can step up
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the slack for a guy that can at least do all the little things,
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but we don't know. Even if Connor can do all those
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things and I think that's what is more concerning.
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But the other thing that was concerning or at least was
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concerning to the the timeline, the Twitter feed with some of
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the comments about the two of the quarterbacks that
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transferred out of the program. Curtis Yep.
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It absolutely was a treat out there by Norm would that way it
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framed it absolutely sounded terrible in the way, Brad said
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it. But you know in reality in
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reality the way he made that statement it was not as bad as
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it seemed. It wasn't we literally today me
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and Brian set, while we were working our normal jobs, we got
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in a got in a Call together and say, let's play it.
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Let's listen to it and we'll talk about it.
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Don't like when reporters do that, because for us,
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unfortunately, we don't get the live stream because if we got
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the live stream and people like me, and you are listening, and
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no one would do that. Sort of bullshit.
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You don't think any of you would be on that Top Line, saying,
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hey, Norm bullshit dumbass we could call this out in real
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time, instead of having to, you know, Fight The Narrative that's
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already in place. And I'm not saying we're out
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here. White knighting for Brad core
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Nelson, because we're definitely Not.
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But what we're saying here is that the way the comment was
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framed by norm and the narrative in general, and the sentiment
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among the fan base in general about Braddock or Nelson, that
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was only going to go badly. And normal would knew that when
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he, when he tweeted it in such a way do I think that core Nelson
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did a great job of saying the words that he needed to say?
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No, you Probably said as few words to describe, what he was
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trying to get across as possible, but I don't think he
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was saying, well, we expected to lose two guys.
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That was always the plan from Jump Street.
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No, he's essentially saying if you got three quarterbacks that
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can play football at a pretty high level, they're all within a
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similar ballpark of each other. In terms of Eligibility,
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eligibility remaining, especially the two younger guys,
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and hooker and Quincy. They're going to want to get on
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the field, and if they don't have an opportunity to do that
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here, they're going to take that opportunity to do it somewhere
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else because they're too talented to not be on the field.
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I don't think he said it as good as that and I probably have not
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saying it as good as I want to say it, but it's in the context
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of the actual answer, it sounded better than we expected to guys
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to transfer. And then just kind of Yeah, let
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it hang out there in space. Again, in overall, brand with
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the entire, the entire press conference.
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No. Is he the worst ever?
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No. Is he the best ever know he's
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somewhere in the middle? Like most people are they, if
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they're going to put him out there, when we talked about,
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putting them out there, go get. Go get somebody to help him out
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with go get somebody to help him out because he needs it.
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Maybe he's a guy that needs to stand up version sitting down
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who threw that know. If we say like sitting down,
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maybe core Nelson's a standard. Who knows?
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He likes to lead on the podium the leaning on the podium.
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Makes him comfortable. It's like a security blanket.
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I don't know. I always like leaning on a
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Podium. I'm not a sitter.
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You lean on things, you feel like, you know, you can change
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your position, you can, you know, move constantly.
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All right. Well, with all that essentially
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Braxton is the de facto store. As of today, it's still weird
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that he had to say that since no other quarterback had started
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games on the roster before then, but somebody made a point.
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Ron and I want to ask you from looking at Braxton's, you know,
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games last year. He talked about, you know, some
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of his throws, he takes stuff off me and you talking earlier,
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he is got the Oppo of Michael Vick, where Michael Vick you
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were in a 4-yard hit, you better be ready because it was going to
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be a rocket coming. And there are story.
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It not only Michael Vick what other quarterbacks to about
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breaking guy's fingers because listen, your own a 4-yard hitch,
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I'm getting it there as quick as possible.
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Yeah, but practice is a little different in.
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Can you see that from some of the stuff we saw last year?
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Yeah. I think some of that goes into
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thinking too much, you want a quarterback making reads, but
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you don't want a quarterback thinking about the throw, he's
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making that that at that point because between reps and
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everything else, how that throw comes out, should kind of be
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second nature and it looks like he's overthinking that aspect of
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his game at this point where and it may be something to do with
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because he doesn't have the strongest arm when he can Let it
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Loose. He's trying to Let it Loose as
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much as he can and then when when it's not that 20-yard throw
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downfield he's taking a little bit more off of it then he
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should that's my take on it. But It definitely is something
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that we saw. We saw it sometimes when he was
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trying to throw those screens, just putting way too much loft
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on the ball, some of those little flares and quick outs too
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much touch to the point where guys can break on it to the
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point where guys can get in there and get their hands on the
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ball while it's in flight. So you don't want that on those
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short passes. And another thing, Brad talked
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about was getting a little bit more.
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Bulk on Braxton going to the season so he's a little bit more
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ready to play a 12 game schedule compared to only getting a few
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games of action and leaving two of those with with some degree
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of injury. Before we jump to the next
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actually topic. I have a question.
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What was he doing there in the whole year?
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He didn't play, I sit here and I heard him say that and I said,
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Ron stop it. Ron shouldn't have been putting
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on weight and putting on muscle when he had nothing to do but
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lift put on muscle, put on weight again.
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It's one of those things where it's like, you know, kind of
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Wonder was Braxton like essentially run a scout team in
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that situation. Even though he couldn't play to
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me. Some people say, well, that
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makes a lot of sense to me. It doesn't because he has, no,
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he can't get on the field. He's trying to scout.
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Team is really good. Quarterback.
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That's awesome. But here's the deal.
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You're giving reps to him. Where Quincy could have been
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getting reps on the scout team or someone who could have been
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getting reps on the scout team and been able to go into the
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play. So I hate that.
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All right Brian, I'm going to jump to it because I'm hot and
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this is gonna make me hotter. We talked about the running back
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room in the absurd amount of running backs.
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We currently have on the roster and said, well the numbers are
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skewed and we don't want to recruit that many Brian, stop
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it. And then ask this question, Then
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why job recruit a minute? I think there's probably a
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reason behind it, but again, he's not coached up well enough
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in a press conference to talk about it but it doesn't make
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sense. And now you have three guys
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coming in and one of those guys you know, run Kenji.
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You loved it. Like it, come in again plane.
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Oh now I'll say this may be at the end of spring, we lose a lot
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of running backs and we open up a lot scholarship for the poor
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is. It's very possible man.
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But you know we're talking about the running back room.
26:46
I like I like really all three guys will be brought in but I
26:50
don't other than Kenji. There was no must have With the
26:56
guys that we already have on the roster.
26:58
And that's, that's no, not to chance or Malachi here, but at
27:03
the same time, we already had eight or nine that we were going
27:08
to be coming coming back with now, we got three more so
27:13
running back rooms going to be interesting.
27:15
They expect some attrition, they're either after spring or
27:20
before the season starts, because I don't think we're
27:23
going to have that many. Come the end of summer or end of
27:28
spring. So that's going to be
27:30
interesting to keep an eye on the other thing that we're that
27:33
Brad talked about next. Was obviously the offensive line
27:37
which we've had on some of the last couple weeks with how thin
27:40
it is. And he did admit that that we
27:42
are light at the offensive tackle position in particular
27:46
which I think is something that we kind of know.
27:49
But interesting enough. He did say Daryl, Bailey and
27:52
Daniel Miller chick is going to have a Shot at tackle.
27:55
There I thought it would take would be more of a guard so
28:02
that'll be interesting to see. Does that worry?
28:06
You does that worry? It doesn't say worried me
28:09
because I like this technique so I think I mean he could he's
28:13
going to need some work whereas I think guard would be more of a
28:16
natural. He'd come in he'd fit after a
28:19
year or so he might he might be pushing for the 2D.
28:21
Whereas now he's going to be a tackle and have to Essentially
28:25
be a depth pick their because of all the the depth issues that
28:30
we're having the position. And he talked about another
28:33
thing like with false depth and what he means by that is that
28:37
there's a bunch of guys that can cross Play and play a different
28:41
position. So you feel like you have as
28:43
long as you've got six or seven guys as long as three of those
28:48
guys can play every position or most positions that you've got
28:52
some built-in. Flexibility there.
28:56
But that's still that's not the way you want to do it because to
29:01
do the old Parable here. We're robbing Peter to pay Paul.
29:06
Yeah, because if two new to gets bang for two games, and you got
29:10
to pull Rock, Hoffman, or lettuce, meant to go play left
29:14
tackle, we're not deep at guard anymore.
29:18
So you're talking about bringing someone like Caden more or Jesse
29:22
Hanson, and who have really no. In-game experience and that's
29:28
sort of scary the other scary thing, right?
29:31
At least to me it's scary is he is discussing that Park of
29:35
commit. Could be pushing for too deep.
29:38
Yeah. And I know you do some things
29:41
with Parker last year to say his second season on campus.
29:47
He's pushing too deep. Yeah, I would have been, I would
29:52
have expected to deep push, maybe next year, but when you
29:56
lose Nestor and you lose Hudson, you have to start shuffling
30:00
pieces around and now, you know, tackle was going to be thin come
30:05
next season anyway. And then it got immediately thin
30:08
this season because of those transfers.
30:11
Yep. Any sort of did confirm John?
30:16
He's going to be the center Brock going to move to guard.
30:21
You know, he wants to get the five best players on the field.
30:27
I mean yeah sure that's a great philosophy to have.
30:30
I like that. But we're still looking at the
30:35
depth issues that tackle even if removing Brock over.
30:37
So again I'm not so much concerned about the first five.
30:42
I think we're not quite as good as last year, but I think we're
30:45
still in the ballpark. It's the next three that scare
30:51
me. Because last year, the next
30:55
three were guys that have started a ton of games or guys
30:58
that were either redshirt freshman or Redshirt sophomore.
31:02
Is it already had significant amount of playing time their
31:04
first year on campus, or their second year on campus?
31:08
Abso-freakin'-lutely man. All right, let's jump over to
31:12
guys on the outside, looking at the wide receiver room.
31:15
Great news, about Jaden peyote should be able to practice some
31:18
in the spring and then be a full go in the fall.
31:22
We mentioned it last year that he was going to probably be a
31:26
huge piece of what we were going to do offensive ly with his
31:29
speed. So, you know, knowing that he's
31:33
going to be coming back as great.
31:35
Let's hope all heals. Well, Well and he's getting
31:38
weeds there because the honest truth is, look at how we're
31:43
built this year offensively. He's gonna you know, mind you
31:48
mentioned it to me and so I'll say it.
31:50
He's got to be he's got to be a big-time contributor whether
31:53
it's essentially opening up the game or catching balls.
31:58
Yeah I mean if he's not either coming in and grabbing the slot
32:02
position or being the primary one of the primary first guys in
32:07
the rotation. Ation to come in for tray or Tay
32:10
where he can help take the top off of a defense.
32:14
That's going to be a big problem because we don't really have
32:16
that guy in terms of a guy that's been on campus for
32:19
multiple cycles of this point. We got a couple guys coming to
32:25
may have that capability but he's really the guy with that
32:29
Elite level speed that has that capability to take the top off a
32:33
defense. So getting him as a key
32:35
contributor will help a lot. Because one of the things
32:38
missing from our passing game last year, was any sort of deep
32:41
threat? Yeah.
32:44
Absolutely. Yeah, I did we didn't test
32:46
people down the field enough and that hampered what potentially
32:51
could have been an all-time great running game and just made
32:54
it a damn good running game day. And right on that.
32:59
Now, something I was kind of shocked about was his praise of
33:03
Dwayne often in Jalen Jones. Praise to a point.
33:07
When I, when I when I heard about that are you kind of
33:11
called my ear like, okay, we're going to have to try, you know,
33:14
Ray. Ensure torturing me true
33:15
freshman getting potentially a lot of snaps you know you had
33:19
Evan fairs transfer out you know they eventually convinced Chang
33:24
the hives to hang on another year.
33:25
And we saw Chang in that last game.
33:27
Catch them so much low intermediate routes to
33:30
essentially relieve the pressure of that.
33:33
But when you hear them talk about, those two guys, I know
33:37
you're, you really like Jalen Jones and then you know, Dwayne
33:44
kind of grew on and then you saw the Wayne this year and some of
33:46
this tape and all his accolades and you got to say, okay, we
33:51
might have got me Real Deals here.
33:53
Yeah, to Real Deals that I think the wide receiver room is going
33:56
to be the most interesting one to watch at least on the
33:59
offensive side of the ball. Going into next year because I
34:01
feel like from a running back perspective, unless something
34:04
changes and we bring in another running back.
34:10
If everything stays at it is, I feel like the first first kind
34:12
of three or kind of set, and then the question marks are
34:16
after that, with the wide receiver because a, we need more
34:19
of them because you, with running back, you generally only
34:21
have one of the feel of the time when I receive you got 2, plus,
34:24
most in most cases, it's going to be interesting to see who
34:28
really steps up behind tray and Tay this year is that going to
34:33
be pay? You, is that going to be Lofton
34:36
or Jones? Is that going to be Tyree
34:38
Saunders? Is that going to be changa
34:39
Hodge? Is that going to be a guy?
34:43
Raheem Blackshear that moves into more of a slot role,
34:46
consistently versus being a number two, running back or a
34:49
spell back in the back field which would also help with some
34:52
of the Log Jam. We have at that position so
34:55
there's the wide receiver room is going to be really
34:58
interesting to watch. That's why I'm glad we actually
35:00
are getting a spraying because I can at least get an idea of what
35:04
that is going to look like a little bit better because last
35:07
year, it was very much of an unknown and it didn't work in
35:11
our favor and I feel like Having the spring and getting some of
35:14
these guys in and seeing what a Tyree Saunders can do and seeing
35:17
what some of these true freshman guys, coming in can do that,
35:22
that's going to be good for us heading into the season and
35:24
already having an idea of their capabilities.
35:27
Yep. That this spring this year is
35:28
going to be big and having James Mitchell back not only for the
35:32
spring, but next fall is absolutely huge.
35:35
But the one thing I found weird today.
35:37
Brian was essentially the offensive coordinator Virginia
35:42
Tech. It had no conversation with them
35:44
about this. And I mean he mentioned coach
35:48
Fuente did and some other people did but he didn't.
35:52
Yeah you said he said he talked to Coach Fuente and Coach Shah
35:55
best and did not have a conversation with the offensive
35:59
coordinator. Which I mean, I mean, not
36:03
completely off off-kilter there but just something doesn't smell
36:06
right about that. For a, in my opinion the best
36:13
all-around player on your offense between what he does
36:18
blocking what he does, receiving all of that, what he does in the
36:22
even in the Jet Sweep game. I mean, there's so many aspects
36:26
that Mitchell plays for this offense, you would think that
36:31
the offensive coordinator would have some discussion about
36:34
whether or not he returns to Virginia Tech for another
36:37
season. Absolutely.
36:39
That's just me. Yeah, and me and Brian discussed
36:43
about having James Mitchell, that guy should be every single
36:49
position on the field numerous times again and something that I
36:55
want to say it. Kind of grinded bronze gears a
36:57
little bit was talking about you.
37:01
Come on baby you go look yeah. So we'll get to it more when we
37:07
get to the sum of the Compressor details.
37:10
But the beef that I have, and the vibe that I get, and just
37:15
watching the pressure in the juxtaposition between the two J
37:19
Hamm, understands editing J Hamm understands re-engineering J,
37:24
Hamm understands. If something's not working, we
37:27
need to take a look at it, evaluate it, cut it, if
37:31
necessary, re-engineered if necessary, and keep it moving,
37:37
and I feel like with Cornell, In it's very much a you know we do
37:41
we do type philosophy to the offense, which if he was a high
37:47
school football coach that's fine but he's not, you
37:52
definitely need to figure out. In my opinion, a good offensive
37:57
coordinator of the college football level does a good job
38:00
of getting the ball in his play makers hands any way possible
38:03
and letting them make the plays, It's not us, it's not a system
38:07
thing. It's a guy.
38:08
It's an idea of making letting your Playmakers, do what they do
38:12
best. Absolutely.
38:14
And a guy like James Mitchell, you should want him to at least
38:18
see 10 to 15 targets again and it was not that way.
38:22
All right so let's turn off the corn.
38:25
We don't again we don't hate them completely you're just very
38:29
critical of him. Alright the next guy when he
38:32
came on the mic it was just different and You know, the
38:36
first thing he touched on was Jack's promotion and JC Brian
38:41
and you know, obviously he's got the relationship with JC case.
38:46
It was a g when he you know, was a player.
38:51
And he essentially mentioned it several times about being part
38:53
of the Brotherhood in. He talks about, you know, Kappa
38:59
leaving the great person once in a lifetime person, and You know,
39:06
when you have to replace somebody like that JC start
39:08
checking the boxes and JC. Check them all.
39:11
Yep he checked a lot of the boxes you know he's talking
39:14
about tap as an individual cannot be replaced but tap in
39:17
terms of the work he did. JC checks, a lot of those boxes,
39:23
JC checks, you know, the various things that tap kind of was, you
39:28
know, you would say it were positive attributes or tap JC
39:32
kind of kind of fills that role as well.
39:34
So it was good to hear him. Say that talk about that but
39:38
also talked about, you know, Taps going to be missed here.
39:41
Great encourager of people, both players and coaches and people
39:45
did anyone that he was around, so losing that type of energy in
39:50
that type of Person is going to definitely be a big blow so I
39:54
was glad to hear him talk about that but also glad to hear that
39:56
he's got the utmost confidence in what JC brings to the table.
40:01
Absolutely. And then essentially probably
40:04
got we feel like you know tap brought in he spoke very highly
40:08
of Jordan Williams, you know talking about coming from the
40:10
Clemson program if you know, winning down there.
40:13
But kind of way I kind of felt that in this is gonna sound
40:18
funny because it's, he's walking in seems like the way he feels.
40:21
It's, Jordan Williams has walked into that offensive line room
40:24
and his essentially I don't know, like got everybody
40:28
together and say, listen, I know what it takes to win.
40:32
Follow me. And it seems like just the hams,
40:35
like, the guys are buying quick that he's the anchor down in the
40:40
middle of that line and he's the guy that they're going to be
40:43
leaning on. Well, you immediately talk
40:46
about, you know, a plug and play in terms of probably leadership
40:51
relative to what we lost with a Jerrod Hewitt.
40:54
But in terms of both, Eyes and I'd say, at least, you know,
40:59
upper in capability I think I think you seen an upgrade at
41:03
that so that's going to be big but what JM talk to you more
41:06
about is his work ethic and what he's already shown in a short
41:09
time on on campus and also just the idea of having that veteran
41:13
presence to be the leadership and leader on that unit and
41:17
leader in the in the locker room and at least on the defensive
41:19
side of the ball in particular. absolutely, and again, run,
41:25
you've mentioned it several times about how Jordan Williams,
41:32
what we're doing on defense, he is the prototypical defensive
41:35
tackle and you talked about having that with the work ethic
41:41
with the veteran leadership you know essentially you're catching
41:44
Aces on everything awesome. He also did a quick mention of a
41:48
lie you know mentioned how a guy like him playing in the SEC.
41:52
Getting That many starts in the SEC playing to that level in the
41:58
SEC. Having those sort of Statistics,
42:01
big thing, obviously, cap put us on him again.
42:05
So it's losing Darryl but, you know, it's one of those things
42:12
where you almost feel like we lost Divine Diablo.
42:15
I know he's not built like about But you almost feel like there's
42:20
a little bit of a buffer, right? It will lose them Divine not
42:24
going way down. We're only going maybe one or
42:28
two rungs down maybe in the spring taking get up to that
42:32
level. Yeah.
42:33
If he brings like you know there's a thing to be said of
42:36
parallel, skill sets where you get the same overall return,
42:41
even though they're, you know, they're different type of
42:43
skills, you know what I'm saying?
42:46
So, There's the potential there. If you take those steps in the
42:49
spring and in the offseason, you know, that he can get Parallel
42:54
level production, even if you're not getting the same type of
42:58
play that you got with with Devon Diablo, Now he did also
43:03
talked about, there was a question about spring practice.
43:06
What's the plan? What's the focus?
43:09
And this is where we were talking about earlier about the
43:13
we do we do this is where the good stuff took place and this
43:19
this had me roped in the big thing.
43:23
He said, you don't throw everything out.
43:28
But you don't carry everything over.
43:30
Yes, sir. That was he said that at open my
43:33
eyes like this. Oh guys, like wow.
43:38
And again, I like I said, I juxtapose that against the, the
43:41
we do what we do mentality with offense and I know offense is
43:44
different than defense, but I like seeing folks that are
43:49
willing to evaluate themselves and and like I said earlier,
43:54
throw out what's not working re-engineers, some stuff that's
43:58
kind of working but not to where you want it to be and then keep
44:02
plugging away at the stuff that looks good.
44:05
And he talked about, you know, some of the things Concepts on
44:08
defense is going to be addition by subtraction simplifying, the
44:11
things unifying Concepts and making sure that the language
44:16
that each coach is speaking to these kids is Unified across.
44:20
All of them. Were they say this it means the
44:22
same thing when JC says it, or whether Ryan Smith says that
44:26
her, whether J Hamm says that no matter who is saying it, it's
44:30
ringing true in the same way. It doesn't mean something
44:32
different depending on what You're talking to the other big
44:37
piece about this Braun and you know, you talked about all that
44:40
but the last piece he hit on that.
44:41
And again if you hit me, right? The staff now knows the kids
44:46
they didn't get spring last year, know the kids.
44:49
And as we mentioned in the back towards the back, end of the
44:51
schedule, you started seeing that defense come together deck
44:54
set it. But they know the kids, they
44:56
know their limitations, you know what they do?
44:58
Well they don't they don't do good.
44:59
They know what type of situations to put them in which
45:02
tells me a Pam knows I've got to learn my players again.
45:08
It goes back to that. Same thing.
45:09
Don't try to force a square peg in a round hole.
45:14
If it doesn't fit, the guy can't do that, don't make him go do
45:17
that and I love it. Now, speaking of a guy, what you
45:23
can make him do what you can't make them do is Devon Taylor um
45:27
you know, he's going to start out where he finished last year
45:29
at safety, but the 190 called my ear was hand mentioned that he
45:33
is a defense. Of back.
45:36
I was gonna say yeah I mean he's a defensive back, he's talked
45:39
about, you know, he's going to start, where he, where he
45:41
finished at safety, could be moving to Corner.
45:45
Could be attached to some of the other positions that are more
45:47
hybrid but they want to get him in the in the spot where they
45:53
can evaluate him because they didn't get that chance.
45:55
Last year. He came in.
45:58
So laid the process. We were so needy at a position
46:03
that Got thrown out there and in a lot of cases in a very sink or
46:09
swim type thing and sometimes he swam and sometimes he sunk, I
46:14
think one thing they're going to need to work with him big time
46:16
on in the offseason is going to be tackling and especially if
46:22
they're going to keep them at save you.
46:23
They definitely need to work with them on tackling but you
46:28
know, you saw flashes and I think if they can get some
46:31
consistency to that after they get that eval period.
46:34
And then he could be a big player for us or at least the
46:38
player we need him to be. Yeah, we talked about there were
46:42
times last year. A lot of times, he was just in
46:44
the right spot at the right time, which tells you, he's a
46:47
heady player, The Tackle and thing, I know, it does worry
46:50
Brian, but let me ask this how many times or think about Devon
46:56
Taylor? He hadn't played what since
46:58
November of 2019 He didn't get a spring.
47:05
He showed up, basically fall Camp was over.
47:09
So do you, do you think going almost nine months without
47:14
hitting, anybody could that have affected him and lowered it
47:17
down? Or is it one of those things
47:19
where after the first few hits you should have been in there?
47:22
It could be man because we're talking about all of those
47:25
factors and making a jump in terms of competition level.
47:29
So there's there's two factors there, it's not just you did.
47:33
I have this stuff. It's like you didn't have this
47:34
stuff and all of a sudden the competition level is jumping up
47:37
so it's going to be very similar to some of these high school
47:41
kids that are coming in that potentially could have been
47:44
impact players is true freshman if they haven't played in a
47:47
fucking year, so the opportunity is still there, but it's less
47:54
likely than it was before, because they're not only making
47:56
that that big jump, but they haven't had the offseason stuff
48:00
that they're used to absolutely. Now the next I talked about was
48:05
Dax and whether you love or hate Dax and I feel like with Hokie
48:08
Nation there is no middle ground with him.
48:11
There are people that love them, they love the enthusiasm and
48:15
then there are people that hate anything, he does, you know, he
48:18
could, he could do the game ceiling intercept when and well,
48:22
he could have taken it upfield, Jesus cries.
48:26
Okay. But the one thing he said about
48:29
the accident made sense, that was a super highly rated player.
48:32
Dax was recruited by. Everybody in the country.
48:35
So he really talked about how he had the expectation.
48:38
The day he stepped foot on campus.
48:40
There was no, you know, you have to earn it while you're there
48:44
was there was no easing in and because of a lot of the things
48:47
that he walked into, he got thrown into the fire quick to.
48:52
So, he's always been since he's been on campus, he's been in
48:57
front of us. And I think it's it's hard to
49:01
grow when everybody's watching, absolutely.
49:06
So I think there's some of that attach to that.
49:08
There's some of the fact that he probably should be playing Mike
49:11
and not backer attached to some of the sentiments that a lot of
49:14
us have about his play. And I think one of the things
49:19
the J Hamm talked about a lot during this and about Dax in
49:23
particular is you know that he likes to learn it, he likes to
49:26
pick things up and figure it out.
49:28
Out and he's not just learning one position.
49:31
He's learning pretty much every position on the defense, what
49:34
they're doing, how they're doing it.
49:37
So that means he's got the ability upstairs to get guys
49:39
where they need to be at the mic position.
49:42
You know, the big thing for me is going to be, I think he's got
49:45
all the ability in the world. I think from a athletic
49:49
perspective while he wasn't athletic as we would like to be
49:52
at backer, he's probably actually a slight step up at
49:56
Mike compared to what we were getting with rook in terms.
49:58
Athleticism. So if he can get some of the
50:01
other things that he has struggled with, which is
50:04
tackling, which is shedding blockers, if he can get really
50:08
good at those things in the offseason, or at least better
50:11
than he has been. That's going to be a pretty big
50:14
jump for him in terms of what he does on the field, I think
50:17
personally. So again, I haven't been very
50:19
high on Dax, especially if you could go back and listen some of
50:23
the podcast, especially beginning of the season last
50:25
year, but he came along as the season went on.
50:28
On. And I think that the move to
50:31
Mike is going to help him. Absolutely, next thing that
50:36
coach am hit on, was just defensive line in general, you
50:40
know, Deshawn Crawford manual. Belmar coming back, big veterans
50:45
on the team, you know, having that sort of leadership on your
50:49
line along with the Jordan Williams, you know, that
50:51
defensive line where last year, Brian me and you were looking
50:54
like we're kind of thin. We're not this year.
50:59
No we're going to be. It's going to almost be to a
51:02
point like it was on the offensive line last year.
51:06
We're looking, it's like you've got fuga.
51:10
You've got Williams, you've got Crawford, you got Bellmore, you
51:13
got bar know, you got garbage coming back, you got a leak
51:18
Kendricks, that's 8 right there and I'm missing defensive ends,
51:23
I know, You got Wooten in the alley Bryant, you got I mean you
51:29
got the guys coming in. So I mean there's gonna be a lot
51:32
of potential for the defensive line, especially this year.
51:34
I think we're good, depth wise, I think in a year or two, we're
51:38
going to need a lot more defensive tackles coming in, but
51:41
for 2021, we're looking pretty good across the whole defensive
51:44
line. So I mean, I really looking
51:47
forward to what this unit can do, especially, with the way
51:51
Barn. Okay?
51:51
Mon You know, I think the thing j Hamm was talking about most is
51:55
that you had a good year. You progress significantly
51:59
within a short period of time. Don't stop getting better just
52:03
because you're at good. Don't stop just because you're
52:06
good keep going. Keep working hard, keep doing
52:09
the little things. Yeah, keep going a little
52:14
things. He also talked about somebody
52:16
asked about playing wait and he said he's going to let the
52:19
essentially strength F to determine that it because he's I
52:23
like the way he said it. I don't need a certain him to
52:26
play at a certain number. He's like he needs to get to a
52:29
weight where he can still. It's almost like he can be
52:31
functional, he can do what he does best but it doesn't stress
52:34
him. It doesn't hurt him.
52:37
Essentially don't put weight, just put weight on if you play
52:40
ungodly at 2:40. Play it 240.
52:44
That's your weight and it's one of those things where I know you
52:47
can attest to it. Robert Malthus everybody in the
52:52
National Football League said, Robert Malthus is too strong or
52:55
too. Small to play defensive end at
52:57
235 pounds. No, you are correct incorrect,
53:02
but I like the wait for me, I'm saying that because I think for
53:05
his players, you get to a good way, you know, coach.
53:09
I'm 245 how you feeling feeling good play?
53:14
Because your 245, and you go out there and ball at tapes going to
53:18
show you're going. To make it somewhere.
53:21
The last couple pieces. He hit Brian was kind of more
53:24
about JC and somebody asked about the Deep connections with
53:27
it. And, you know, essentially back
53:31
2012, 2013 and he want to start visiting other coaches and
53:36
learn. And JC was one of the first
53:37
class he reached up to it Marshall, you know.
53:42
And again, I think it's the Hokey Brotherhood that you hear.
53:44
So many of these guys talk about and Inhaling that he mentioned
53:54
talking about essentially press this upon his like he's going to
53:58
press this upon his kids. Make your connections because in
54:02
a few years and older guy could be asking you for a job or you
54:07
could be asking a younger guy for a job.
54:09
That's essentially how JC happened because the JC's
54:12
connections with ham and going up to Marshall visiting with
54:16
them. JC introduced me to circles and
54:18
then Marshall coming down. And Virginia Tech coach went
54:21
ahead invited them and JC, always there always connecting
54:25
with them. And you feel like that, you
54:31
know, there's a mesh that he even he even mentioned talking
54:35
about built are in the cabinet, you know, having the line and
54:37
everything he found this perfect little piece and it fit right
54:43
in. He's a hokey.
54:46
He's one of the all-time guys is a guy that's busted his ass to
54:50
get where he is and now he gets to come home and, you know, it's
54:58
a pretty cool story. I hope they can write a hell of
55:01
a chapter this year. Yeah, it's going to be, it's
55:05
going to be pretty big seeing what he's able to do in this
55:08
system and how he can kind of step into that tap role and
55:11
maybe even in some areas, be kind of a plus in that role.
55:15
Compared to what we were getting with tap there.
55:17
So I'm looking forward to seeing that I love with Jay Han was
55:21
talking about about you know understanding the importance of
55:23
those connections and engaging with others and how that can you
55:27
know, come into play. Either a year from now or 10
55:30
years from now. But he also talks a little bit
55:33
about the the recruiting role that price is going to step into
55:36
with coordinating for the defense.
55:38
And, you know, I like what he what he said, they're, you know,
55:42
going to be talking about, you know, who the kids talking
55:44
about. Whoo.
55:45
Within that kids orbit you need to connect with to make sure
55:49
that, you know, you're on the right page with the people that
55:52
are important to that kid, coordinate back to the coaches.
55:57
What's been said to that kid? What needs to be said to that
56:00
kid, all those type of things that's going to be important for
56:03
that role. So he highlighted that and I
56:05
think that was kind of good insight into what, you know,
56:09
kind of the the progress this team is making on the recruiting
56:12
front, even if it's not quite happening as fast as we would
56:15
like it to Yep. Well, we're in a now Society.
56:18
Everybody wants now now, now, now now, but that orbit thing,
56:22
you talked about, because he even said it, he's like, you
56:24
know, uncle's coaches trainers, pastors know everybody, because
56:31
if you connect with one of them, a potential, you connect me,
56:35
connect with the, you know his uncle his Uncle Jim and he loves
56:41
Uncle Jim and you have great conversations off.
56:44
I'm Jenna Uncle. Jim is Is able to translate some
56:48
of the stuff you're saying to him and it's Uncle Jim saying it
56:51
not the coach from Virginia Tech that's when it starts coming in
56:55
and slyke will hold on. If Uncle Jim likes what he's
56:57
saying and I understand what he's saying and I like it.
56:59
Okay, maybe this is where I go. All right, Brian.
57:03
Let's just go ahead and beat up on, everybody's favorite
57:05
punching bag in the Hokies Community.
57:06
Currently Pete, Moore's. Eat more.
57:12
If we're gonna, we're gonna hit him because it's couple things.
57:16
That happened a we already mentioned it earlier with the
57:18
norm would tweet. If U stream the presser in real
57:23
time, you do not have to refute these clickbait headlines or
57:31
clickbait tweets or all this stuff, it's already there.
57:35
People that were interested of already seen it.
57:37
And if someone comes out with this bullshit, you can in real
57:41
time before it becomes a narrative.
57:46
You're back it up with actual footage that can say hey, that's
57:49
not what he said. Here's what was said in context.
57:52
Yeah, it's a no brainer. These are stop missing the
57:55
layups. I must've stopped missing the
57:58
layups but it's also a funny point because you talk about,
58:02
not only they can do it but we Okie Nation can do it.
58:06
Because if that they have been streamed live and there's
58:08
probably three, four hundred people listening to it, probably
58:11
on Twitter, like we are see Norm.
58:13
Does that they're all over him. The second he tweets it.
58:17
Bullshit Norm, or you need to take this down and you need to
58:20
put it. Exactly how it is.
58:22
Contextualized. You're trying to get clicks.
58:24
You're trying to write a narrative.
58:26
We don't like it. It.
58:27
And then the whole piece becomes if people start looking at that
58:31
and saying why are all these people saying?
58:32
What he said was wrong, do they listen?
58:35
Oh, here's the key. Oh, Norms full of shit out of
58:38
shop. What about the other thing,
58:40
Brown? We're listening to it.
58:41
There's 23 minutes of Jay hams and we're sitting here is going
58:43
to a really good piece. And seriously, J Hamm was
58:47
talking about his family and some other stuff and all of a
58:50
sudden the feed ends. I don't think there was any
58:53
other questions after that, but he cut him off before he The
58:58
answer he was giving to the last question or the or whatever, you
59:02
know, context, he was he was speaking on at that time as he
59:05
was closing things out, probably not anything of importance there
59:10
but you don't cut somebody off in the middle of a sentence just
59:13
to do it. So that was kind of weird to me
59:16
and it looks unprofessional, especially since you're putting
59:18
that on your website for any and everyone to listen to Yeah,
59:25
that's just Bethany. Exactly.
59:29
I Braun. So let's just go ahead and just
59:32
do it, you know, we watched both of them.
59:36
Give me the what you felt in kind of what we discuss.
59:39
Is the biggest differences between the daehan presser and
59:42
the corn. Presser The way J Hamm in gauges
59:48
with the members of the press Corps is not only significantly
59:53
better but impressive in its own right.
59:55
Praise the good questions that we're coming out.
59:58
Makes observations about people, in the Press Corps that are on
1:00:01
the zoom call. Then he called out Mike Barber
1:00:04
having some of his children's drawings, in the background on
1:00:08
the zoom call. So he understands that those
1:00:12
personal Aspects of these type of engaging things matter.
1:00:18
These engagements matter. It, it's good for the fanbase,
1:00:22
it's good for the media. It's good for everything.
1:00:25
There's no reason to be combative with with these folks
1:00:30
because they're, they're trying to do their job most of the
1:00:33
time. And you know, when it comes time
1:00:36
to something like the norm would tweet, you have a leg to stand
1:00:40
on if your You've been engaging with with the media, whether
1:00:45
you've been open with the media. If you're not open, they write
1:00:49
the narrative themselves, but when you have stuff like this,
1:00:52
it helps that relationship and it helps when you do have some
1:00:57
sort of beef with something that that is written or tweeted.
1:01:00
You feel like you've got some sort of leg to stand on with
1:01:03
your argument. Abso-freakin'-lutely.
1:01:06
Brian. Absolutely right.
1:01:08
Your narrative, right? Your narrative.
1:01:10
Don't let them write it. Brian, checking out here.
1:01:14
I don't think anything's broken. I don't think we picked up our
1:01:16
second commitment of the day with high.
1:01:20
Yeah man. You guys will hear about that on
1:01:24
a separate episode coming at you soon here.
1:01:28
There's nothing left. Brian, it's late man.
1:01:31
The snow keeps falling. It's going to be a fun day
1:01:33
tomorrow and that's going to wrap up this episode of The
1:01:37
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