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Syracuse Game Recap · Boundary Corner Podcast

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This episode of The Boundary Corner podcast is dedicated to
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the memory of our friend and hokey, Brian Wilkerson.
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We lost Bride on Tuesday of last week.
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And we both spent Saturday gathered amongst his many family
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and friends, remembering the good times and morning the
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thought of not being able to make more of them with them.
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Well, Brian spirit and our memories of him will never fade.
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Whether it was taking laps around our hometown, and it's
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Tahoe one times at Longwood. Although he never claimed, he
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went to Longwood. When the great times in
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Blacksburg, whether it be at hokey football games tailgates.
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Just roaming around. Fox Ridge.
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And I was lucky enough to have the pleasure of playing with
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them for five years. Playing football together, both
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in middle school and high school.
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Sometimes words just don't do a thing justice.
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So if you'll bear with us we're going to share a tribute from
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our good buddy. Jason long to a friend.
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He'd known since elementary school going to miss you be
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well. Now, back to the regular show
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Ryan, you got another pass interference call as Jason was
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playing at tribute to Brian Colts.
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Get another call. Y'all are in the, isn't that me?
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Say this one might be a zesty win tonight because we got the
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Colts in the Niners play in here.
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Yeah, Carson's made well questionable.
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Decisions to bank. So the only way The only one I
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disagree. We've ran the ball up and down
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the field on you. Draw, the Taylor's pushing 100
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yards, man. Well, he's just every the
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feelings I have is every time I looked up, it's a yellow flag
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for us but let's let's jump off that because we're going to
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probably interrupt enough of our things to my congratulations.
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Your Braves. Yeah.
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Bravo's World Series. Let's do this first time since
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you were how old I was 16. Yeah.
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I'm like that 1650 actually 50. Take that back 15.
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You're right now? Yeah, yeah.
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The first century, the Brave and he battles like how old was I 99
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1699 was a great year and I tell you what those jerseys look
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dope. Yeah that would tissue.
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I mean I know I'm not, I'm not I'm preaching to the choir here
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but petition to make those and then a white version of those.
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Full-time uniforms and then we can have alternate space based
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off that whatever we want to do. It's true in some people.
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And I saw some people out there saying, nah, but you need to
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have innovate and I like, listen, you need Basics and you
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need to throw in the alternates, the up-to-date looks and stuff
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like that, you know, every now and then, but that was such a
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clean look. The orange number on the side,
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the block lettering, the maroon the right shade of maroon, no
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Stripes. Yeah, I said, I think that's the
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thing is that, you know, a lot of what was done then, I mean
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it's kind of the turn now, right?
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Like that clean. Look, I mean, that's coming
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back, it's not a flashy, you know, there's times for that,
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but I think the clean look is what's really really playing
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well right now and I think that that was as clean as it gets,
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man. Let me bounce.
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This idea off of you. If you had people who are out
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there like what you got to do something different, what about
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if the numbers were ho Keystone like keep them white, but get
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that outline of the Hokey Stones where we find with that, I'd be
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fine with that everything everything else keep the same.
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The I mean, the Hokey Stone numbers were the thing.
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I like the most about the current Jersey.
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So I guess, you know, if you, if that's the one thing you want to
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squabble about that, One thing I'm not going to push back on.
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That's what I'd say do when you pack do that with the letters
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and then get the white versions and essentially I would what
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would you say? Maroon maroon numbers, white
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jersey maroon numbers. Yeah, I mean tell Callie wants
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orange numbers we reached a liette tally ones orange
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numbers. At least he's not going to have
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a white and orange could pull my knowledge will look fine.
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And then make the Seven maroon seven, the number on the side of
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the maroon. Yeah.
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Make that maroon in those uniforms.
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I'm fine with that. Now, let's just say this, the
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team that took the field Saturday was the not the
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nineteen ninety, nineteen and man, lot going on yesterday with
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us. But we found, we had the
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opposite of the miracle and Morgantown.
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We had the blasphemy and black Suburbans, what we had.
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And, you know, everybody is probably going to to say you
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guys always crap on the offense. Ya'll say you prese defense.
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No. Yesterday was the defense's
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failure. If you told us that we got 34
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points because I'm going to, I'm going to give the defense there
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too, right? Give them there because that was
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a heck of a play that was primarily defensive starters out
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there. If you told us we got 34 points
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yesterday from the offense, defense chipped in a safety.
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We win this game. If you told me, we got 4 and 24
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touchdowns. Two field goals.
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Out of felt really good about our chances to win that football
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game. And it wasn't enough.
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And you know, as me and Brian were on the road, we were
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listening to the radio broadcast pretty much from Richmond all
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the way back to our hometown and Brian.
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It sounded like to me like, the defensive line was in trouble.
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They were making mistakes. And, you know, you mentioned
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you, what? I watch the tape.
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My eyes aren't the best. To me, it looks like, you know,
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they did have some troubles, he got pushed around some and they
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work. Fishing tackles for losses, in
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sacks. But you looked a little deeper
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looked at more than I look to condensed.
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I know you got a little deeper and found the full version.
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What did you see? Because you said it wasn't as
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bad as you thought it was going to be.
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It wasn't as bad as it sounded initially.
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It was still not not, they're definitely not their best
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effort. Probably one of the worst
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efforts of the year, but it wasn't the the clown show.
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I was anticipating, they did get pushed out of their gaps, a
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good, a good amount that did result in.
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Bigger Rush, Lanes, making it harder for the linebackers,
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making it harder for the safety's coming up in their
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fields, but they did a better job of getting after the
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quarterback, you know, a lot of what, you know, we did miss some
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tackles and that's something you got to clean up.
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But a lot of what happened is that Schrader just did a really
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good job of Getting through the pass rush Lanes.
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So, kind of creeping outside underneath the, the outside guy
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getting escaping the pocket and then just making plays with his
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legs. A lot of times on some of those
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pass plays that broke down and I think more than anything, it
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wasn't so much getting physically dominated.
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It was that over the course of this game.
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We saw depth show up again, right?
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We saw dep show up again and by the time we were kind of getting
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towards the end of Game that defensive line had had played a
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bunch of snaps and they just weren't quite bringing it the
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same way they were even though on the the ultimate touchdown
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play, we did have a big hit on the quarterback just before the
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ball went out there and Dorian strong Mystic by.
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Yeah I mean that was just that was just a bang-bang play in
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Dorian had some other when we will talk about during a little
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bit he had some other places where he probably didn't do his
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best effort but you know he was he was running step for step.
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Up there was just a well-thrown ball and yeah but you did the
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what you did. The one thing in man coverage
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you can't do I mean you let him get a little bit further behind
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you then you want yeah let's talk about the flask 342.
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We were going to do that a little later on this rundown but
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since you kind of brought it up and brought up the point they
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scored 14 points in the last you know and basically three minutes
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and 42 seconds and it was only about 40 for left on the clock.
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Yeah it was the depth and it Then we went back to last week
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about roster management about recruiting and bar.
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No, and Garbutt are good. Some of the guys on a defensive
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inside are good. Probably a few guys could be
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would be more of the third rotation, not the second
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rotation but since we're not that deep they're only they're
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up in the second rotation so you know you sit there and it's like
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those last three minutes what they With a nine-point lead,
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they go in just a couple minutes drive down, get it within 5, and
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then in about 45 seconds scored, including 45-yard bomb.
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And that's now the second time it's happened in the last every
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weeks and it's showing the depth and it's showing where we aren't
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haven't had the time to develop more defensive end and the three
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guys that could be potentially playing this year.
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All gone. Yeah, I think that's, that's the
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bigger thing is that, you know, you took a problem issue, and
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then, you can pounded it with with the three guys that had to
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transfer out for, you know, University related situation
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there. So it's very unfortunate.
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Like I said, it was a situation that we had already made pretty
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rough by the fact that we had Essentially one, I mean, in
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theory, we were coming into this year, you know, bar, no, not
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completely knocking it out of the park with one veteran
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defensive end. Yep.
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And a guy that changed positions and then a bunch of red shirt
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will technically going to be freshman, but he's a second year
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freshman, that was The Game Plan before these guys transferred
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out. And now Cole Nelson, who's a
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true freshman, it It's Jalen. It's Adams who had Barry got
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many steps in his career and there's no depth at that spot.
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And in those last those last four drives of the two games
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we've lost on last plays. You could see there wasn't it
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wasn't there. And that was a lot to go into,
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don't get me wrong. I mean you know, Syracuse even
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up to that point still had shredded us all day.
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I mean. Yeah.
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And the big thing, I say the other thing Beeline struggle
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with upfront was some of that setting the edge, especially on
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back side. There was a lot of cutbacks for
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Tucker. He had especially the one, not
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the one that went for the touchdown but but the other long
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run, he had was just a bad contain on the back side by the
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defensive end. So that's got to get better.
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You know, you got to understand your responsibilities there in
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the run and not over-pursue where they have those Lanes.
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To cut back and that was consistent throughout the day.
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There was drives where we did better with that and were able
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to force them off the field and there were some drives where we
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just couldn't and it's a yo-yo, right?
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It's a big-time yo-yo it was a yo-yo.
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We're not we're not used to it being quite as much of a yo-yo
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on defense this week. So this week we the defense was
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a yo-yo. We're used to the offense being
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somewhat of a yo-yo. Yes, we are.
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They still were not. They still were Our alert you
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guys watch the game, but we're not used to the defense doing
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this. And this was one where the the
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offense had picked them up most of the game, and they weren't
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able to do it late. And I think the defense that was
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just gassed. And, you know, that's not an
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excuse that the staff should have been preparing them for
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those situations. I mean, at some point, you've
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got to figure out. I've got to have the legs and
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the bodies and the opening to get this done at the end of
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games. It's true.
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Brian something you talked about, is you talk about time of
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possession on Wednesday night and that was pretty.
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Fair 31 to 28 pretty much. It was almost a 31:29 type thing
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so that was kept in contained. But we just look up and down.
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I mean the stats I mean, on third and fourth down they went
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11 of 20. They went over 50% because they
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were converting in 444 on forth which weird Dreadful 12:15 for
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the You're awful dog. Shit.
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What doggy and then just in general, 550 total yards.
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They averaged seven, a carry Garrett Schrader.
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Put over to 36 where he had been averaging, like, 170.
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We didn't force any turnovers, you know.
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It's it was literally the worst game, the defensive played all
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year and wasn't it was we'd probably say what a see game.
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And up into the last few minutes and then it went from a c to a
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d-minus. But just a few days and I know
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something you were telling me a little bit earlier that you were
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assuming to see the defensive line, have their struggles, but
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we looked at the safety stats and it was like well seem like
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just a few were cleaning up. The messes not the case between
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the safety and the linebackers worse or better than a defensive
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line. For the years, I'd say
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linebackers about what I expected when I looked at the
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tackles a lot of Apps lot of not really seeing where the ball was
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going and this kind of the same with safeties.
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Let's take a look at Sean Tucker's big 4th and 1
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touchdown. Run Nasir people's jumps inside
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and he didn't need to 2 ax head that Gap.
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But yeah, he's hanging around inside and all of a sudden, cut
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back Lanes, there, nobody's outside and it goes for six.
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You know what that looked like that looked like Carolina last
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year. Yeah, when he couldn't find the
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right gaps, and they were just hitting the wide open gaps from
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massive gains, and that backside of below-average game, Tisdale
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had had a pretty, he had his day was very up and down, he was
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either making a play or he was completely out of position.
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And again reminds you a little bit of last year and we hadn't
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seen a game like that from this defensive unit in the second and
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third level until this week. And I don't know if it was
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having the Out rushing attack from both the running back and
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the quarterback had did it or the fact that offensive line.
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Sorry fact, that the offensive line wasn't sorry.
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The running game wasn't just a product of the talent in the
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backfield but also from the offensive line that was a solid
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offensive line combined with the fact, they had a very talented
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running back combined with the fact they had a quarterback that
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could run the ball well, and did he 174 on the ground?
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For great Shader, he almost average a to carry Tucker did
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what Because Tucker kept them around in the first half, and
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then, Schrader completely took over the second half.
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Yeah, I told you the other day, I feel for Tucker, having this
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type of season, his sophomore here, not his junior year
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because if he would put up these numbers and it was next year,
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people would be talking about him in at least the first three
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rounds in. Hopefully, for that kid, you
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know, even though he is at a different school, I hope that he
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continues to success this year. In the next year.
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But we played with this point, he can do whatever he wants to
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now exactly thing, buddy. I'll just run something, we
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thought that we wouldn't see it all now he was just under 50%,
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please put 236 yards up and you know quite a few of those yards
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came in the last few drives when we needed the pass rush and even
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a couple of the passing touchdowns earlier our Corners
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just didn't look right and I do not have a wall or out.
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There is a big thing. Especially and this is what you
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call a good offensive coordinator.
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As we were driving down the road yesterday.
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How many times brine in? Just the course of about 15
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minutes? Did we hear all they're going
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for wide here? Essentially, we can run the
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ball. We're going to stretch you out
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and even though they passed and we broke up a couple of those
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plays later in the game. When they were going for Five
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Wives to play catch-up no Waller there, we had to put them in
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experienced guys, playing Corner putting Jamari out on the island
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and Corner Corners had what up. I mean, average.
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It wasn't great. No, it was, it was it was very
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much yo-yo. There was either they were doing
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100% what they needed to do or they just kind of look a little
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lost. There was times when Connor was
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out of out of position and coverage was late, kind of
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reading what the what the receiver is doing in man, not
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just not getting there on time, there was a couple times where
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Armani Chapman was kind of laid on the break.
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There was one. There was like a A deep come
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back, that was throw away outside and it hung out there
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and I was like, surely that's going to be a pig but Chapman
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was about half a second late and didn't get his paw in there and
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it ended up being a good completion for a first down.
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And that was kind of indicative of how the, how the passing game
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went for them. It was balls that were sometimes
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questionable but they got there. And then there was balls that
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were very much 50/50 and we just weren't winning the battles.
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And sometimes, It was the corner, just not getting their
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head around. Even when they were in position
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and sometimes it was just not one in enough.
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It seemed like. And then, of course, we had the
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one that broke the broke the camel's back there at the end,
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which I mean, we were up. We want to cover one, but you
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made it a point to me when I hit you up earlier.
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And you just kind of said where they were on the field and how
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they were moving the ball either.
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They were going to in the time they had left, you said either
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they're going To nickel and dime you, if you play zone, they're
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going to be able to run, they're going to be able to pass short
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passes. Or you're going to have to play
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covers one cover 0, give them nothing put a smile on a
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quarterback and say you're not getting past here because you
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can't kick a field goal. Past here.
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And that's what it was. It was the yet you watching.
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It wasn't if it says eight-point game if your hand is like Nickel
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Dime has but instead you have to go to that because of the
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situation. Well it's the failure on the
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third and fourth down to get them off the field and then the
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failure on the next play to contain the screen to Tucker
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that went for another long first down that kind of set things up
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in motion, right? So if you're if you're able to
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get off the field, Field there, you're able to let them keep the
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clock running if you're a like if you just do some of those
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little things that either bleeds more clock or gets them off the
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field and you don't get into that situation.
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But once you're at the 45-yard line because that's when it gets
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difficult to call the defense because they do have just enough
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time where if they get a first down, they can clock.
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If they still got a chance to kick it, you get a little
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aggressive and you say, all right, we're going to try to Or
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that a little bit, bring a little noise and it doesn't get
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home in time. And their receiver has about a
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half step on our corner and that's all it takes.
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That is all it took to essentially finish the game
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because with 20 seconds left, it was, it was not going to happen.
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I mean, we somehow got a bomb into the end zone to just have a
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prayer there at the end. I mean, that was a, it was a
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big, big nut throw by by Bragg's.
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In this side, the 15 to kind of get us in a position there.
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We could at least take a shot but you know all you don't want
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in the situation where you're up nine with under four minutes
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left, you shouldn't be in a situation where you're throwing
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Hail Marys at the end of the game to even have a chance.
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It's true. Well, even, even let's go back
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to earlier. The probably the biggest one,
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that kind of kept them in this game is And we'll talk about the
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offenses failures on this, but Peter more kicks a wedge that
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thing flips back to the 3-yard line.
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The safety false start gets them back to the 1.
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And then they go on a 98 11, play a 98-yard, 11 plays for a
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touchdown even though yes we did block the kick and they did not
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tie it. But at that point in time as
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we're listening and hearing the game Flow me and you immediately
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say if we get to 21 They can't run the ball anymore.
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They can't run the ball effectively.
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The essentially you're able to sit in your zones and say, you
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know, if you run you're going to get four yards.
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If you pass, you're going to have to hit your spots.
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And essentially, we're going to make this game longer because
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we're up and eventually straighter probably would have
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made a mistake. But when you have that drive
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happening, get them right back in the game.
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You know, we did get them down on but you felt like there were
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times just watching it right now.
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Ron, we could have been up 14:21 without blinking.
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Yeah, we Yeah, it seemed like the the defense just couldn't
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make enough plays to to get us in that situation and then when
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the offense did have some opportunities with short fields,
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we just failed to capitalize even though the offense overall
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had some really good drives in this game.
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Yeah. Sometimes when they were gifted
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short Fields they didn't do a whole lot with them.
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Well, they were there were really in the beginning of the
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game. There were two, right?
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One is immediately after Hey. Immediately after the touchdown,
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we Fort, they Defense Forces, one of the three and outs and
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then we get it down to the tech. You know?
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We break it down to the Syracuse 45.
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It was the play where they tried the double reverse to Trey.
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That completely screwed that in. I'm sure Brian.
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Remember the plate? We were sitting here.
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Like what the bleep did you do that for?
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Like, why would you like, you know, it's second down and it's
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8:00, you're moving the ball with not doing any sort of
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trickeration, right? Yep.
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And then they do that. Get way backed up.
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We blow the opportunity there to that was right after lectures.
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Big screen where you kind of picked it up off the turf almost
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and yeah, took it 30 yards. Exactly turn around on second
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down and eight especially the way we were running the ball
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pretty consistently there. Yeah, it made no sense to do
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that. If you had all of the month,
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when you watch that play today, it was a QB lead playwright with
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the with the with essentially rotten and then going and then
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flipping it. If you looked at that and you
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look at that angle today, There were there were holes.
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Yeah. If that's where you know it's a
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trick play because if that's a read and he didn't see that
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pulled the kid out but then Braun, we defense holds again,
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it's another three and out this time again we get the ball like
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near Midfield lose. Two yards on again that set up
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the 98-yard play you had two drives Midfield nowhere to go
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you stall you wrote it was another one where you had a good
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First down play, and then you negated it with the negative
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second down play. Then he had the sack on third
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that puts you in negative yardage for the drive there, it
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just it it's those little things.
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And again we're not going to hammer the offense.
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The offense especially the running game overall was better
28:30
as good as we've seen all year. This is what we kind of expected
28:34
from day one. So I'm not going to give them
28:35
too much of a clap on the back. This is what we should have been
28:38
experiencing all. Year, especially against this
28:41
defense and they had a pretty ever pretty good running.
28:43
Run rush defense but you know, I'm glad that we've had a
28:47
commitment to the Run. We should have had a commitment
28:49
to the run. When we have a quarterback that
28:52
has some of the limitations that Braixen has, if you're not
28:54
committing to the run, you are doing him a disservice, you're
28:58
doing an absolute disservice and then you have malachite Thomas
29:03
Freshman who comes in and goes for over 150 yards, close to
29:12
close to 200. Actually, 200 all-purpose yards,
29:16
well over that. And two big runs 11 went for a
29:20
touchdown, but you still sit here, Brian and it's got to be
29:24
questioned because of this coaching staff, right?
29:27
It happened with Hendon, hooker in 2019, And in the press
29:31
conference, we listen to his like, well, he had done some
29:34
good things in practice. If he's doing things like that
29:36
in practice, he should have been the starting running back
29:40
Carolina, not six games into the season.
29:44
Yeah. So again it's this I mean in he
29:50
runs hard, he has Vision right there were a couple times.
29:54
You can see him in those things. He was waiting.
29:57
Developing a whole found the whole, hit it.
29:59
Now and what Herbert? Yeah, but did you notice how
30:06
much more we're running inside? The tackles in this game?
30:10
It was much less of the outside Zone, a lot more inside, a lot
30:16
more counter inside counter a lot more power, a lot more trap.
30:22
I'll be there, were there were a bunch of bunch of things going
30:24
on inside that we haven't seen a whole lot of all year.
30:28
So getting that, Out there was nice because I feel like the
30:32
strength of how we would our running game is now in the
30:35
interior. So finally focusing on that is I
30:40
think what paid part of the dividends now.
30:41
There were still some, some questionable things on the
30:44
offensive line this week. You know, past Pro was not
30:49
great, Braixen didn't have a whole lot of time.
30:53
Tackles are still very hit-or-miss in pass Pro.
30:56
Luke 2 Nu du is Is looking better but still is having some
31:04
of the same types of things that we've seen you know, last season
31:09
where they would be the snap. Sorry just whatever reason it
31:14
sole situation, right? Yep.
31:18
So we're still dealing with that and that that's obviously not
31:21
helping Braxton as much as it could.
31:24
But this was a much better overall game from the offensive
31:27
line than we've seen in the last few weeks.
31:30
And some of that was actually because the calls played into
31:34
their strengths. Let me ask this Braun.
31:36
Did you when you were watching, did you notice what were the
31:39
combos looking like yesterday? Like what was it was?
31:44
It always Luke. Let it gets Brock Caton stylist.
31:48
Or do we do we pick some things up on the line.
31:52
It was, It was kind of mixed up throughout the game.
31:54
They did, they did some different things and I've seen
31:57
but it was kind of A little bit of there was more pulling
32:03
interior than kind of the the pull and wrap that we've seen
32:07
with some of the offense that we've seen from the from the
32:11
previous week. So I think that was a little bit
32:15
of a change and it kind of, I think it helped them out a
32:17
little bit with getting up inside the tackles there.
32:21
Got you. Also yesterday, Raheem
32:24
Blackshear goes over 100, all-purpose with the big screen
32:28
catch, and then average and 7.8 on the ground for 78 yards.
32:32
Still not using them the way we, you really want to use some but
32:35
at least getting involved in things that he does better.
32:42
Yeah, I don't know what they're challenging here.
32:44
Like we threw the red flag, but y'all recovered ahead of the
32:48
first down. So what's the point?
32:50
I don't know what he was. I don't we don't have the volume
32:56
on with that we be explaining but you know but to see them
33:00
again using Rahim in the screen game and some of the other
33:03
things they do with him yesterday, you felt a little
33:07
better. You still don't feel 100%
33:09
because you feel like it's Talent, you've said it numerous
33:12
times to me and other people Rutgers is getting more out.
33:16
Got more out of this guy with a terrible staff that got fired,
33:19
maybe that maybe the staff is worse and that's why they can't
33:22
do it. Yeah, I mean, that's the point
33:25
that I like to make is that, you know, you saw some of the things
33:27
that we're hearing Blackshear did in 2018, right?
33:34
PE only played four games in. 19.
33:39
And in those games he did a lot of you did a lot from the slot,
33:42
he had a if you extrapolated his stats from those four games out,
33:47
over a full 12 game slot you know he'd be just under 1,000
33:51
yards, receiving so when you think about that and then you
33:57
think about how we're using. I'm not saying I want him in the
33:59
slot all the time but I do think that we need to do more with him
34:02
in the passing game then just what two Targets.
34:05
One. 30 yards? Yeah, absolutely.
34:11
They you don't Someone doesn't quite understand how to use
34:16
them. Now, something that was said and
34:20
you tell me how big of an impact, this would have said in
34:23
the interview went day and maybe this is why the defense didn't
34:27
play good and the offense played better, but went day.
34:32
Did not run the scout team offense this week against the
34:34
defense. He ran, he was, he had a lot
34:38
more time in the meeting rooms with the offense in general.
34:42
Could you see some of the plays especially like, how they were
34:45
reusing the HVAC a little bit more pudding, Gallo in, but just
34:49
watching some of the place today, I feel like it was
34:54
something different and I don't know how big of an impact.
34:57
The head coaching come in for one week and make that big of a
35:01
difference. Well, I think when you when it
35:05
comes to the game planning side of things of how initially out
35:09
the gate, they're they're planning on attacking the
35:12
defense. I think that's where it makes
35:14
the most. And I think when you talk about
35:16
practice, I think some of that is the Intensity and attention
35:22
to detail that probably Fuente brings to.
35:24
It that seems like Brad cornelison does not really grasp
35:28
and that attention to detail matters.
35:32
That attention to detail matters.
35:35
I mean there were there were times that I mean, I in college,
35:40
I had a head coach that ran the offense.
35:41
So I never experienced this. Well, I had my head coach was,
35:47
was blowing the whistle. Do it again?
35:51
My head coach was calling us a clown show, if we screwed it up
35:55
and we were running it until we got it fucking right, and then
35:59
we'd run it another time to make sure that we got it right.
36:03
And that reflected on Gameday, we knew what the hell we were
36:06
doing. We executed and we put up a
36:11
bunch of fucking points show did.
36:14
And at some point, I mean, again, the deficiency is either
36:18
you didn't get, you haven't recruited the right players and
36:20
develop them enough to run what you're trying to do or you're
36:24
not scheming properly, to put them in the right positions to
36:27
make those plays. Again, execution is a one-off.
36:32
Excuse execution is not a weekly fucking thing.
36:35
All right, let me ask this Prime.
36:37
Do you if you are If you are, if you're just in for Wednesday.
36:49
Do you continue to do what you did this week?
36:51
Where you're defense played less?
36:53
Because you're not running the scout team again.
36:54
It's a pension detail, right? Or do you say the defense has
37:00
enough Playmakers? If I put the often situations
37:03
and get them to score, we can win a few games from here.
37:08
Out. What do you want?
37:09
I'm going to ask the question. Why does my head coach have to
37:12
be on a field for us to have success?
37:14
Whether it's offense or defense? Well that's why we created this
37:19
scenario. Why we created a scenario where
37:22
you are reliant upon the head coach for practice field to
37:27
function as it needs to week-to-week.
37:30
Yeah, it went talked about it last week with the staff.
37:37
And six years in, it should be a, heck of a lot better guys
37:41
should be moving on to bigger and better things and they're
37:45
not the guy's a Marlin, Max citing Marlin.
37:49
Matt, couple years gave you that fantasy pick up.
37:51
People had to have. All right, Ryan will continue to
37:56
say this and watching some of the Tennessee Alabama game.
38:01
When I got home last night and seeing hinted hooker have a very
38:05
good game. Alabama in Tuscaloosa against
38:09
the saving defense. I've probably the most
38:11
competitive Tennessee had been since Lanes game where Mount
38:16
Cody blocked, the final second field goal to win it even though
38:21
the Reflection In the End doesn't go that way because
38:24
Tennessee start pulling their feet off.
38:26
But bb10 420, I mean, he didn't break 200 yards, his big throws
38:33
great there today, on the sidelines, that was his biggest
38:36
third day. It wasn't a great throw, it was
38:38
focused tables and his backside it was it was a decent through
38:43
it. Got it was the best throw that
38:46
he could make without It getting intercept.
38:51
Yep, what I mean let's just say what he is.
38:54
He's at best average how they game planned up until this week
38:59
makes him below average. Where I got to believe you.
39:06
Got to believe passing lies hidden.
39:07
Would be much better in this offense.
39:12
Yeah, and we've seen it right. We've seen him in.
39:16
Be better in this offense. So I'm just I'm confused.
39:22
I'm not so much confused of You know, why you made a play to
39:26
keep Braxton? I'm more confused that you did.
39:30
Make a bigger play to keep Hendon.
39:32
Yeah. Like there wasn't a situation
39:36
where you were out there doing everything you could to keep
39:39
that guy in the building. Yep.
39:40
It's true. Regardless, what happens, the
39:44
stories that have come out like that guy had talent and it's
39:48
showing you just don't go down at us.
39:51
Clues against the saving defense regardless, if it's great or
39:54
not, great in do what he did, especially in the first half and
39:58
then keeping them in that game in the second half.
40:00
So, Again, it goes back to our last week if you guys have not
40:06
listened to last week's episode. If you can skip through the pit
40:09
part and get to our assessment of the Five Pillars, you'll
40:14
understand what we're talking about now.
40:16
Brian, before we get into tonight which is going to be
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y'all, we just past halfway point of the Season.
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Now back to the episode All right, so guys, what we're going
41:00
to do for the rest of the episode tonight is, we're going
41:02
to give our staff evaluations by all means.
41:05
If you want to chime in, feel free, to give your grade will
41:08
say who it is and be grateful, throw it up on here, and we'll
41:12
throw it up. So, here showing off of the
41:14
world. Exactly.
41:15
But let's start. Brian.
41:17
I want to start with J Hamm and I'm going to jump on this one
41:21
first. Because, okay, yesterday's game.
41:24
I was bordering on b-plus. First year, first year of having
41:30
it, the defensive played well, definitely depth is a concern
41:35
but overall the defense was playing well I'm not going to go
41:38
full letter grade back but now it's on the be - so he's
41:41
probably sitting on the 8281 versus the 88 to 89 for me.
41:48
After that game especially here in after the head coach was not
41:52
run on the scout team, which, which was probably given him
41:55
some help to be a young coordinator.
41:59
Yeah, I won't be - and but before yesterday it was B+, what
42:02
about you? Yeah, I'm going to give him a.
42:06
I'm gonna go see. Plus I will like they dropped a
42:10
full letter. I'd say overall we've done a
42:16
really good job this year especially up until recently
42:20
kind of slowing down the pass game for them for the other
42:23
team. But I'm a little suspect on the
42:27
The Rush defense and we're going to see more heavy rushing
42:31
attacks with better offensive lines as we kind of close out
42:34
the year here. Not that they're necessarily
42:37
High Caliber in terms of the Elite Talent like a Notre Dame
42:40
has at the running back position but I Take the whole workings of
42:45
the team on offense might give us some problems, so that's
42:49
going to be something to watch out for.
42:52
And if we have another game, you know, a few more games like we
42:56
had on Saturday, you know, that gray could go down a little bit
43:00
more but Saturday kind of made me a little wary, just because
43:05
I'd seen a little bit of that before this game, especially
43:10
against pit when I was like they shouldn't be getting the edge
43:13
like that. Shouldn't be getting the edge.
43:16
Yeah. And then we saw some more stuff
43:17
like that. This week, it's kind of trending
43:20
in a direction. I'm not comfortable with long
43:24
term and I'm hoping that we can, we can do some, do some things
43:28
here to kind of change that up and get that going back in the
43:30
right direction. All right, let's move to the
43:34
other side of the balls coordinator and let's go to Brad
43:36
cornelison. Brian.
43:38
What grade are you giving him seven games into the season?
43:42
This game, he moves up to a flat.
43:44
I told e - he all he got out of the F into a d-minus for this
43:51
week's effort, only but d-minus to me is still you need to get
43:55
the fuck out of here. Yeah.
43:57
Right because I mean, absolutely, you're going to be
43:59
on academic probation and then you're going to be out of school
44:02
if you just drop and he's all over the place, right?
44:07
So, that's where we're at. D-minus for corn.
44:13
And it really just goes back to the inconsistency in situational
44:17
football and the inability to adequately.
44:23
Get the players ready to execute week in week out and see Braun.
44:30
I was at a d-minus before I wasn't going to fit.
44:33
Well, I'm going to fail it yet. Well I'm going to fail it yet.
44:38
It was trending that way, but I was going to move into D + until
44:44
we heard the interview that basically Fuente was in the
44:46
offensive room all week. And I I'm going to stick it a
44:52
d-minus. I beg them near.
44:54
Gave it an F because literally you had to pull the head coach
44:58
in there to put this sort of game plan to again, you said it
45:03
attention to details and things like that.
45:08
All I can say is this if we continue to play like we did
45:13
authentically, put up points, good drives more good than bad
45:17
drives, less three and outs. I'm just going to go ahead and
45:22
rack it up that 20 is in the room the whole time.
45:26
And he is basically putting everything together and more
45:33
than likely, it's more him than it is brass.
45:36
Just Brad calling the plays, okay?
45:39
All right, d - that is, you know, be miles across the board.
45:46
All right, Brian? I'm gonna go Jack, Tyler next in
45:50
the linebacker play, has been just okay.
45:52
This year. Not great.
45:55
Not Dreadful horrible. Last year when Tracy claeys was
45:59
on an island trying to coach. I'm back to play any kind.
46:04
Yeah. But I'm gonna give him just a
46:08
just to see first year, a lot of different things he's having to
46:13
go through even more. So the outside noise even more.
46:17
So with the second year really true first year coordinator.
46:22
So, you know, like you said, it's up and down.
46:26
There's been times of linebackers have played really
46:28
good, there's been times, there's been yuck moments.
46:31
So all it all balances out to me to see.
46:35
Yeah, I'm kind of I'm right there with you.
46:38
I'm with the C-4 Jack as well and he's done some good things
46:42
on the recruiting Trail early return so far too.
46:44
Right, so I think the combination of that I think the
46:47
combination of seeing some improvement especially some
46:50
improvement. I know Tracy, claeys had never
46:54
coached linebackers before but he was also a extremely veteran
46:57
defensive coach. So I think, you know, he
47:00
understood understood conceptually what that would
47:03
take but Jack is And it seems an upgrade so far and I'm hoping
47:12
that we continue to Trend in that direction.
47:15
That's my hope. So, it's a good Trend but it's
47:18
still not where it needs to be yet.
47:21
Now we're upload. Just put it on the ground at
47:23
Midfield. You guys got the ball up a
47:25
point. So yeah, y'all get y'all get a
47:31
touchdown here. This is pretty much game over.
47:37
Let's go to. I like them Berg next run
47:38
because this isn't okay, because you feel like yesterday might
47:42
have turned a little bit. But what are you given?
47:46
Atom, like, Timber go up to this point.
47:49
I'm going to give him a C+ and a lot of that is tied to off the
47:56
field stuff. I think, I don't know how much
48:00
credit to give him for Khalil Herbert other than getting him
48:02
in the building. But that's not because I mean,
48:08
we saw what he did last year, we see that he's tearing it up in
48:11
the NFL already. Now these got an opportunity the
48:13
last two weeks. And really two and a half weeks
48:17
going back to the previous game where he came in and it just
48:22
seems like I'm not really sure how much his coaching is
48:28
impacting the on-field product. But I know that he's getting
48:34
some of the right players in the building to be successful.
48:39
And I'm not sure who was holding back Malachi, Thomas you from
48:43
getting on the field more stamps, whether it was him or
48:46
whether it was Brad cornelison, or whether it was Justin Fuente,
48:50
okay? So I'm not sure whether to ding
48:51
him for not getting Thomas More carries earlier in the year or
48:55
not. So right now, I'll stick with
48:58
c-plus You're going to stick with C plus on it.
49:01
Okay, I'm going to give him a beat - again.
49:05
A lot of its the off-field stuff. you know I think without
49:10
a doubt that is probably one of the bigger things, he is a good
49:14
recruiter, he does have a good eye for talent, you know, he was
49:19
a secondary on Malachi last year he brought in Herbert, he saw
49:22
that tape so We're idiots in the back end now.
49:33
Okay. Um, but also with Herbert, it
49:38
was a year of consistency. We had seen Herbert's tape when
49:42
you he could blow up, what it is like Timber got the consistency
49:47
out of and that's why we're seeing it up there, whatever he
49:50
said to him. The piece that I'm interested in
49:53
is just what you are. If Malachi Thomas, who we heard,
49:57
he had done some good things, but he was missing this That.
50:01
If you have a guy like that and he's missing.
50:03
Well, he's missing some past Pros, you should be banging on
50:05
the table saying when we should be running the damn ball.
50:09
A lot more than we should be in past Pro even though it might
50:13
give away when he's not in there that we're going to potentially
50:16
have more of a pass. The kid comes out once against a
50:19
good defense like that. To the tune of 150 yards on 24
50:25
carries averaging. Almost six of carry.
50:30
You should be stepping up, slamming your fist on the table
50:33
and saying, see I told you that thing, if we had those running
50:37
backs in the West Virginia or the Notre Dame game so I give
50:41
them a b-minus, still wish they would use him, right?
50:45
But I'm a little soft on Adam That I Used to Be.
50:49
Okay, fair enough. All right.
50:52
So where we going next, man? Let's go next to.
50:56
This is going to be a good one because it is all over the place
51:00
Vance. Vice.
51:02
If we're if we're just talking this year, give me a see.
51:07
Okay, well the I'd say this year and recruiting this year, you
51:11
still sticking with the sea. Still sticking with the sea.
51:14
Okay. Why, why why not?
51:21
You know, why not lower with this year?
51:24
Because clearly in the offseason, he made some serious
51:29
mistakes that hurt our depth. Why not lower?
51:35
The recruiting has still been there and I think he was dealt a
51:44
bad hand that he had a hand in somewhat creating because this
51:49
season was going to be a little bit of a work in progress before
51:57
two guys. Got ran off into other ACC teams
52:03
will not ACC teams but Power five teams and I think we look
52:11
like we made some ground up there.
52:12
When we were using our current running backs the way they
52:16
should and playing to the strengths of this offensive
52:19
line. So you can't put as much on
52:21
that. But I think that he's done a
52:24
poor job with the rotations. He's that that's that's that's
52:28
that's the one thing that I'm still frustrated with is that he
52:31
has not figured out who is best 5r and you ran off to good
52:36
players and we have been inconsistent at best both in the
52:41
Run game, which I I'd expect and in the past game, which I 100%
52:45
did expect, All right, I'm going to be a little harsher on him
52:50
and I'm going to go with the D+ because running off to guys, who
52:55
would have been key to depth would have significantly.
53:01
Help this offensive line I think Doug Nestor would have started
53:04
it right tackle I think Silas tansy would have started it
53:06
Right Guard. I think Brian Hudson would have
53:08
been your swing guy inside. Right, that that's that's that's
53:13
accurate. That's one big strike that, that
53:16
to me, where it takes him from like, potentially a C+.
53:19
Or now you're down to a seat. The next one is, I still don't
53:25
think he's putting the best five out there because my reality if
53:29
you want to make the best file, especially running the ball.
53:31
Johnny Jordan should be playing probably Center in Brock Hoffman
53:35
should be at Right Guard. But again, Back to the other
53:40
point. Why he, ran guys off is probably
53:43
the same reason with this, and the whole goal should be get
53:48
your best five out there. We know, Brock and plague.
53:51
Our, we know we've done, Johnny complete, Margo your mixing, and
53:55
your mixing and that's fine. I get you might need to give
53:58
guys a breathers but give it a chance like this.
54:05
Give that a chance and give that a chance in Fall Camp versus
54:12
early. Do I think Kaden more is a nasty
54:14
guy guard. Yes he is.
54:16
Yes he is but he has some deficiencies because he is a
54:20
freshman dip and you know it's one of those things to it's like
54:26
dude you playing for your job this year.
54:29
Well, what if he gets mad and I lose the line?
54:32
What if you lose the line, you're probably going to be
54:34
gone. Going anyway, if you don't put
54:35
your best five out there. Yeah, and I've played in a
54:39
situation where, you know, I've been one of the Swing guys in a
54:46
six-man rotation. I know that sometimes you ride
54:52
the hot hand and then sometimes it's a tree rotation and then
54:55
sometimes it's a play to your strengths.
54:57
So I get that aspect of it, but I'd like to see them play to the
55:01
strengths of what's happening in the flow of the game.
55:04
Mmmmm. Then just getting guys out there
55:08
to get guys out there. Yeah, that's very true.
55:13
All right, bro, we're going to pair these next two guys
55:15
together because they essentially run the same line
55:18
and that's JC price and beer, bill, till Nick and I'm going to
55:22
give JC and Bill a solid be. Like you said, earlier, The Edge
55:28
stuff with the rush defense, has not been the greatest.
55:31
They are also working with the very limit They're also working
55:35
with limitations on the outside because of depth but overall the
55:38
defensive line has played well this year, not unbelievable but
55:43
it's not been the true detriment to the defense.
55:47
Even though yesterday they had their issues and on the last
55:51
couple drives of several games, they've had their issues.
55:55
But overall, this is also the second year of it.
56:00
Yep, guys. They'd recruited to the system.
56:02
Three on the defensive end. Left.
56:05
So, you know, if you asked me today, I would want at least JC
56:14
price to be on the next staff as one, you know, it usually
56:18
happens. Usually don't see a complete
56:20
gutting and everybody leaves. Usually one or two guys has
56:23
remains on staff. I think if what's going to
56:26
happen what we assume is going to happen, I'd like to see JC
56:29
price stick around Yeah, I'd like to see JC price stick
56:33
around and, and bills harder because Bill cost more and Bill
56:36
doesn't give you as much on the recruiting Trail.
56:39
True. So JC is the easier.
56:43
Keep their, I'm going to give them a C+.
56:47
Probably I could go be - I'm really kind of going between the
56:51
two. I think given the limitations of
56:53
their depth that is really nothing to do with them.
57:00
I think they've done a really good job overall, they're still
57:03
dealing with a their most elite player is a guy that switch
57:08
positions and is, you know, more of a freak athlete than a true
57:14
defensive Edge Presence at this point, but they're still getting
57:16
a good amount out of him. He had a, he was a, he had an
57:19
active game. The play that impressed me.
57:21
Most is one of the one Schrader took off and he's walking him
57:26
down from the back side. Yeah and yards downfield that's
57:31
impressive and he doesn't give up on plays.
57:36
He's always going that's a big thing for me and Garbutt has
57:40
really turned into a really solid overall player at the
57:46
defensive end position. And if we can clean up, just
57:48
some of those technical things that we're seeing those two guys
57:53
could really be, you know, some of the the top two out there in
57:58
the ACC. So I think they're turning a
58:01
corner a little bit but they're not quite there overall.
58:04
Just the depth is killing them and that's hurting them.
58:07
So I'm trying not to give them give that too much of a not for
58:11
him. So I'll still go see plus like I
58:13
said, I could go be - but they're kind of right there.
58:17
Got it. All right, here's the next one
58:19
for you. Brian.
58:20
And this is going to be the really interesting one Jafar.
58:30
I don't want to fail him but I might have to fail him.
58:35
I might have to fail him. We just we haven't seen enough
58:40
of the guys, he's bringing in. Take some steps.
58:45
Most of the guys that are doing well, we're either already
58:50
recruited before he was hired or we're already playing before he
58:53
was hired very true. You know, we still have Tay and
58:58
tray that are out there doing their thing.
59:00
I haven't seen Significant jumps in game from, from Trey, from
59:07
2018 to. Now he's been just steady Eddie
59:10
consistent. He was good at the gate and he's
59:13
continued to be pretty good the whole way through.
59:16
So, and the only thing I can say is that Jafar has that wide
59:22
receiver core blocking, like a motherfucker.
59:28
They are some good ass blocking wide receivers they are.
59:32
They are they are. He definitely could be a
59:34
consultant for the rest of his life making.
59:38
I don't know, hundred thousand dollars a year.
59:40
Just going around to Tween spring practice and fall camps.
59:45
Just teaching wide receivers to block.
59:46
I'm I'm giving him enough. Plus I'll give them a plus block
59:51
the bonus but it's just, it's nothing.
59:54
There you're not seeing like we're not seeing you made the
1:00:00
point would pray and say they do their thing and they're about
1:00:04
where they were when they got here, right?
1:00:08
Yeah, that way when they got here, wide receiver was We've
1:00:11
not seen Lofton, pay you Jones the other any other guy you want
1:00:17
to mention briefly, come on and start making it big.
1:00:21
And this is the year three. This is the year, you usually
1:00:24
see. So if you tell me at the end of
1:00:26
the season, hey Robinson was 1,000-yard receiver.
1:00:30
Trey Turner, had 1,000 all-purpose yards between 650,
1:00:34
700 yards through the air, and using him on jet sweeps and
1:00:38
things like that, okay? Great, you're doing your job.
1:00:41
It's the same old. And you know what?
1:00:45
We went from Harlem and Wiggins to him, is kind of crazy, right?
1:00:52
Because Wiggins had Ford in them who had good Seasons.
1:00:57
They were known Commodities when you that were very solid and
1:01:00
they came in all three of those guys in 16 exploded.
1:01:04
Cam comes back. The next year, builds upon again
1:01:07
in an 18 with a bunch of young guys, guys, Flash.
1:01:11
Ash you know. Yeah, gate an 18 so ever since
1:01:16
he got here it's just been doesn't feel like he's done
1:01:19
anything and you know That's just the feel I got to give the
1:01:25
f+ so. Alright.
1:01:28
Next guys this is one I think we're definitely going to differ
1:01:31
on James shall best the tight ends and special teams coach
1:01:35
that man gets an A minus in my book.
1:01:38
Okay, tell me why well, okay, first of all.
1:01:43
What, let's, let's start going after John Parker Roman fixed,
1:01:46
his short kick issues. Rome has been banging them.
1:01:51
He'd bang to 48-yarder yesterday.
1:01:53
I saw that kid could have been good from 58, maybe 60, all
1:01:56
right, kick return, game, Malachi and Keyshawn, getting
1:02:03
good averages. If you kick it short to us, you
1:02:06
can pay somewhere between the neighborhood of 28 to 35 yards.
1:02:10
Every time if not more Right. Yep, punt return.
1:02:15
I think Taylor Robinson is getting up there to being the
1:02:18
absolute best in the country. A 40-yarder yesterday and a big
1:02:24
run back helped us out. Peter Moores are freshman.
1:02:28
Kicker five-star. Oh wait I'll store kicker.
1:02:32
Plenty his ass off. And I know it's one of those
1:02:36
things where you dwell you know, we don't want to be punting a
1:02:39
lot. Everybody needs a good partner.
1:02:43
Everybody needs a good if you don't have a good punter, look
1:02:45
at Syracuse. How many times they set us up
1:02:47
inside with bad kicks? The other we're taking advantage
1:02:51
of them. It would have been blowing the
1:02:53
doors off of them versus losing the game.
1:02:57
And then just think about how gallo and Drake played
1:03:00
yesterday. When they truly let Gallo get
1:03:03
into the HVAC position. Running game was better.
1:03:06
Drink, caught a touchdown pass. Need to see more of that.
1:03:11
If those guys were truly producing at a great clip, I'd
1:03:14
probably get in the neck but right now sign of stymied but we
1:03:19
are especially Gallo plan that HVAC position.
1:03:22
Definitely seeing the moves there.
1:03:25
Now, how much lower you going to me?
1:03:27
Because I know you're not going higher.
1:03:30
I'm gonna go be. It could be higher if we'd seen
1:03:34
more from the HVAC since James Mitchell has went down.
1:03:41
I think overall that he does a probably one of the better
1:03:47
special teams coaches in the ACC, definitely has kept the
1:03:53
tradition going with, with Beamer ball, with special teams,
1:03:58
being a focus outside of last year in punt, return situations.
1:04:04
I really don't have a ton of negative things to say about the
1:04:07
special team since he's been here.
1:04:09
And looking at this year, same, same story other than the short
1:04:13
kicking it Use that drop, John Parker Romo, had in the first
1:04:17
three games. I don't really have a big
1:04:19
problem with with the Special Teams this year, I'd like to see
1:04:25
more out of guys, not named James Mitchell.
1:04:28
Since he went down in the HVAC roll, it seems like some of that
1:04:34
has been game Flow. Some of that has been calls, so
1:04:37
it's not all on him. But those guys haven't went out
1:04:41
there and flashed as much as I was expecting them to flash
1:04:45
since James Mitchell's went down so that's what kind of brings it
1:04:48
down. For me a little bit, got it.
1:04:50
Alright. Alright then, let's hit this guy
1:04:53
up. Ryan Smith where you put in Ron
1:04:56
Smith that Ryan Smith gets a B+ I'm solid b-plus.
1:05:04
He's done some good things with the young guys that have come
1:05:07
in. Killing it on the recruiting
1:05:09
Trail. When he's got his best guy out
1:05:13
there, you can tell. Yes.
1:05:16
So and but he's brought the other guys along the younger.
1:05:21
Guys along both last year and into this year a little bit
1:05:24
faster than we anticipated, much fat and short of a few snafus
1:05:30
here and They've held up against some pretty solid competition
1:05:33
this year. I think, you know, you could
1:05:37
there is room for improvement there, that's why it's not an a
1:05:40
it so it's not a - but overall I like what Ryan Smith is
1:05:45
bringing, I think he's probably other than JC price.
1:05:47
The only other coach that I think probably gets retained by
1:05:51
whoever the next staff is absolutely.
1:05:54
Absolutely. And I think Ryan Smith is
1:05:57
probably the biggest no-brainer on that just because of his age
1:06:00
and the position and unless whoever is coming in as a
1:06:02
defensive guy that wants to coach corners and exactly.
1:06:06
And there's not many of those guys that move on to DC /.
1:06:11
Hate head, coach positions. I'm with you on a B+ also.
1:06:16
Funny fact, me and Brian went to college with Ryan sister.
1:06:23
We did not know this. Until a few weeks ago, I'm
1:06:26
friends with her own social media.
1:06:28
I think Brian you are too and yep, it's all Pop up and I
1:06:31
messaged him like, is that Ron Smith?
1:06:34
Oh yeah. He's my brother's.
1:06:35
Like, how did we not know this season?
1:06:37
She was like, oh, he's just, he was significantly younger.
1:06:39
When we were all in college, I'll make sense.
1:06:42
This girl, friends with salad. Basically, every day in college
1:06:45
is really funny, but it's a lot of the point you made is to
1:06:48
recruiting. It's the younger guys Walter
1:06:51
before he got banged, was kept playing better and better each
1:06:55
week Jermaine Waller. We saw in 2019 who was out in
1:06:58
2020 returned in 2021. And look even better.
1:07:03
And the difference between 2019 and 2020.
1:07:06
One is Ryan Smith, he is a good recruiter, he is a young guy, he
1:07:10
is a rising star. He should be retained in some
1:07:14
capacity with the next head coach.
1:07:19
Well, JC and Ryan. If you're taking both of them,
1:07:21
you can kind of hit the ground running with the recruiting
1:07:24
footprint that they've started to build.
1:07:26
Yes. Since they've come on staff.
1:07:28
So that, at least helps you potentially Retain the class
1:07:32
that you have and get you your boots on the ground as soon as
1:07:37
the new stabbed gets in place. Exactly, exactly.
1:07:41
Alright Braun. Well we've done everyone.
1:07:43
So let's go to the head ball coach.
1:07:46
Where are you with Justin Fuente?
1:07:52
I mean it's got to be a d - right for me it's a d-minus in
1:07:58
the big thing goes is that he's not making changes to make the
1:08:02
team better know that that's my big thing.
1:08:05
When we look at the struggles, we've had with Brad for Nelson.
1:08:09
When we look at a lot of the game Flow things.
1:08:15
If we look at just an inability to make changes during the game
1:08:21
when he sees things aren't going the way they need to, when we
1:08:26
look at how he is as a recruiter.
1:08:30
Yeah he is not a recruiter he does.
1:08:34
Well when he gets Recruiters on his staff, very true but he is
1:08:38
not a guy that's going to he's not Mack Brown he's not going to
1:08:41
go in the living room and and get you a kid.
1:08:45
He's not Frank Beamer. He's not going to go and 757 and
1:08:48
get you a kid. Nope he's not that type of
1:08:51
coach. It's got to be pretty much a
1:08:55
close done deal when it get when the player comes into his office
1:08:58
to get that final. Yay, or nay exactly.
1:09:03
And you know and even then sometimes it's not a it's not a
1:09:07
closed up shop there. So, exactly.
1:09:11
I'm going to go D, not the D- it least this week, he noted
1:09:15
finally took five games in noticed issues and decided to
1:09:19
move himself from one part of the game planning and to another
1:09:23
part of the game planning. And we did pay dividends on that
1:09:29
D should have been gone after yesterday.
1:09:35
Yeah, I do believe that because you are a reflection of what
1:09:39
your team does and numerous time this year in situations, he has
1:09:45
essentially failed his team and I know everybody can say well
1:09:49
there's offense and there's all this key is the reflection of
1:09:52
the team. How they how they perform these.
1:09:57
You because it is a trickle down, you tell the offensive
1:10:01
coordinators. What you want you to other
1:10:03
defensive coordinators with they won't?
1:10:04
They go down to their guys. If you're giving the wrong,
1:10:07
message the wrong signals, the drawing Vibes.
1:10:10
That's why there have been so many failures this year.
1:10:13
You can see what his body language a few weeks ago in a
1:10:16
Monday Presser You can see it yesterday.
1:10:19
He did not walk out on the interview yesterday for he did
1:10:22
not like that. Last question that was asked, I
1:10:25
think by David Cunningham with textile on, he answered it and
1:10:29
he walked away slipped, he looking pissed.
1:10:32
But if that's how you carry yourself and your team sees it
1:10:35
or hears about it, they're going to be similar to it.
1:10:39
So yeah. Yeah, and I think that's the big
1:10:43
thing is that he, he's almost to even Keel, right?
1:10:49
He's to even Keel. And I think, when you, when you
1:10:54
get to the bad body language, the bad body language is the
1:10:59
start of the week and it carries on into the post game, right?
1:11:03
Yeah, can't have that. I'm sorry, I'm celebrating over
1:11:07
here. It's okay, it's so cool.
1:11:09
You didn't get the to. So we're still up dudes, we
1:11:12
still score, but it was also a fantasy score to.
1:11:15
So now, I've put my projection, let me, let me just say I am now
1:11:20
up, almost 50 points on the guy I'm playing.
1:11:23
Yeah, but every every time young score, your defense points, go
1:11:27
down down down because you started the Colts defense.
1:11:30
Here's the thing. I went from 19.3 On defense. 218
1:11:35
Debo went from 10 to 18 fair enough so your netting out
1:11:42
pretty good. There you got out there.
1:11:43
Yeah as long as he's the guy burning, I'm good.
1:11:47
So anyway there's our staff evaluations as long with minors,
1:11:51
Colts, talk fantasy talks, what we do here that you kind of go
1:11:56
through it. There's only a couple guys above
1:11:59
average, a lot of guys below average numerous D's and F's and
1:12:05
you see the way things are trending.
1:12:08
And as this season goes along, we're going to have more
1:12:10
segments like this on Sunday nights where we've got some
1:12:13
other ideas in our heads. Yeah, these two crazy heads so
1:12:19
definitely check this in now Brian, let's look at the
1:12:22
pickles, also, Brian. Let me say this.
1:12:25
You actually, you do not get the number, right?
1:12:29
But you almost nailed the spread right on the game with the
1:12:32
Syracuse by For, you know, essentially Syracuse, you know,
1:12:38
does eventually win the game yet 4136 so slightly off there?
1:12:42
So, you had a good read on that, just not that many points now.
1:12:45
On Saturday, pick them's You gained some Down, The Back in
1:12:51
the Saddle. Again, the big guys, Back in the
1:12:55
Saddle. Again, the big guys, back over
1:12:57
500 again, Brian's back to 42 and 40.
1:13:01
After a seven and three week. Brian nailed, the army, weight
1:13:06
game, the FSU UMass game, the Clemson pit game.
1:13:13
The Bama Tennessee game, okey State you at Notre Dame and
1:13:18
Oregon. So you know the only games you
1:13:21
essentially Miss were the three ACC games BC Lewisville.
1:13:26
NC State Miami which I don't think anybody saw that coming
1:13:30
and then we detect. Got you again.
1:13:35
Yeah they tend to do that. Any time I pick them it's like I
1:13:38
get one and then they bite me the next three weeks if I go
1:13:41
with them. So I gotta I gotta remember if I
1:13:43
win one with them. I got to move off of him real
1:13:46
quick and we'll also Jeff Collins going for to last night
1:13:49
which made no logical sense. And the only thing you could say
1:13:54
is inside, we were going to go and score.
1:13:58
When the game we weren't going to tie it.
1:14:00
I went six and four. You know, the one that got me
1:14:06
probably, the biggest was laying 35 and a half points with UMass
1:14:10
and not getting that I should follow my instinct.
1:14:14
Well, they're bad team and I should have thought in some way
1:14:18
FS you would get at least more than 35 and a half points then
1:14:22
it but I tell you the one that really got both of us was in Sea
1:14:26
State Miami. Yeah man.
1:14:28
Well as we sit here we thought a couple weeks ago was just Duke
1:14:32
and we saw Miami place like what we got a chance there now.
1:14:35
It's like Miami went from being potential to not very popular.
1:14:41
They're settled in at quarterback again and now
1:14:43
they're starting to score some points again and that's helped
1:14:45
their defense stay off the field as much.
1:14:49
Yep. And so even though they still
1:14:50
have some of the same problems on defense that they had three
1:14:53
weeks ago, they've got some offense to go with that.
1:14:57
So that's covered up a little those blemishes.
1:14:59
Yeah absolutely freaking lutely brine so I think Think me and
1:15:04
Brian. Probably going to be on this
1:15:07
after we sign off in a couple minutes here and watching the
1:15:10
end of this game because it's going to be a tight one.
1:15:12
This could be a very big key Drive.
1:15:14
Frying, anything breaking in the last nothing big man.
1:15:19
I haven't seen anything come across my board and was going to
1:15:23
do one more check. I'm not seeing anything either.
1:15:27
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