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Know the Enemy: Wofford · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  And welcome back to The Foundry Corner podcast.
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  I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian Sigler, buddy.
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  How you doing tonight? It's a Tuesday night, man.
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  We are coming off a dub. I'm tired.
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  I haven't shaved this week. You do numerous things going her
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  from the house here. But doing good, man.
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  How about yourself? Man, it's been a few days of
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  recovery but I'm getting back in the swing of things.
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  Now we got a good Tuesday under the belt.
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  Monday was a little rough, but what can we do?
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  What can you do? Well obviously, before we get
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  into the recap mr. Siegel, let's go ahead and he'll
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  hear cigs Adventure in the bird on Saturday.
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  Yeah, I ended up taking my son with me to the game.
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  We had a good trip in hit a little little traffic there just
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  just before, 220 on 81. So that's load us up a little
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  bit. Did a little tailgating took my
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  son up to hook, you Village for a bit.
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  He got got some photos with the cheerleaders, which eventually
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  made the the official. Yo, the, for the postgame vid.
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  So, that was pretty cool, yet. The, the 10-second Mark
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  approximately, it was pretty. Yeah, pretty sickening 10
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  seconds. My kids, they're hanging out
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  with the cheerleaders. Those smells pretty nice.
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  He got got a picture with the Hokie bird.
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  So did a little bit more, tailgating ate some food, hit
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  the game, found my seats. Jump to Sandman.
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  Yes. And then we proceeded to beat
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  BC's ass. For four quarters.
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  Yes, we did. And apparently, the seats you
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  got were like creme, de La Creme, right?
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  Like, middle up, 50-yard line about.
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  Yeah, we're about middle. Middle.
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  Middle middle? Yeah.
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  It's awesome. In East.
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  Yeah. And you're in East, which means
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  you, if you're a middle middle, you were probably about what two
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  sections from the student section, which was pretty
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  electric Saturday night. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah sweet.
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  Good times. It was real good time.
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  It was loud on our side for sure.
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  Awesome always is loud. Only she got to be yeah.
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  Be careful over in West People shush you for no apparent
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  reason. All right, but let's get into
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  it. The game itself or mr.
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  Siegel was at on Saturday night, it's great to be wrong sometime.
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  And see, I love being wrong when it involves a hokie dub.
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  Yes, Hokies win for dub. I'm okay.
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  Being wrong, Hokies win. 9:33. And, you know, let's just start
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  it straight out and let's talk about that the defense man
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  because this defense is kind of reminiscing of Defense as we've
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  seen throughout our lifetime. And I'm going to tell you, it's
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  started quick. Second play of the game Armani
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  Chapman. Absolutely.
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  Set the tone with that interception.
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  Yeah. Out the gate, the Roar and lame
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  was Spectacular. Like, It felt like the old Lane
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  like right out the gate, all of a sudden punch him right in the
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  mouth, get a turnover get in scoring Grange.
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  And then we were able to punch it in quickly.
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  Take the Lead 7. Nothing already.
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  They're kind of out of what they want to do.
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  Absolutely. And that play was great.
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  I mean, I couldn't understand. I don't quite understand the
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  leverage, but he essentially just wrote his guy out of bounds
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  and your Kovac. I don't know why he threw the
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  ball. All, I mean I don't know if it
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  was a 1 read and he thought he was going to come back in or
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  something, but when he threw it it was almost like as soon as
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  you saw the ball in the air, it was like, that's a, if Armani
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  can catch it. That's a pig because he played
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  it perfectly. Yeah, I me through its Jordan
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  inside when our money had already ran his Man Out of
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  Bounds. So, not a good throw.
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  Well, it was a good decision or not, it won't get through.
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  Absolutely. And that's sort of set the whole
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  tone for the defense, the whole night, I I mean five sacks total
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  on defense, the defensive line as a whole shows out.
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  We saw Cole Nelson, get on the board.
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  Sigue McRae. Get on the board with sacks but
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  obviously, Garbutt, flashed more than anyone.
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  He was named the ACC defensive lineman of the week and then
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  that picture. I don't know if you've seen it
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  with him carrying the lunch pail and if you didn't know y'all, go
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  find this picture on. Around the lunch, pail is a dog
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  collar. And, I mean, I don't know whose
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  idea this is. I hope that David Cunningham and
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  he better. Somebody asked that question and
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  tomorrow's our Thursday's press conference because I don't smash
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  because that looks nasty. Yeah, I mean the combination is
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  pretty sweet and I mean, I liked it to the defensive line is kind
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  of getting in on their own kind of tradition here, right?
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  I think that's going to be fun to see.
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  See and see who ends up with that, that dog collar going
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  forward. But Garbutt big game, he was
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  playing, he was all over the field.
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  He did he did well against the run but he did a great job
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  pressuring to Kovac the entire night.
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  Your Kovac was in hell for flawless quarters, pure.
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  Hell for four quarters and what garbage said after the game is
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  he played like a dog that hasn't eaten for three days.
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  And if you mess with a dog that has a need For three days, they
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  will bite you and he bit them all night long.
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  He only get credited with one sack it should have been too
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  because of the one you're Kovac is running away from him and he
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  falls down the statistician. Took it away from him which you
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  wonder like what the hell like The nearest man to that.
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  They made it a rush instead of a sack and but whatever he had
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  three tackles for loss in that game as well.
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  And you know, a total for Thailand garment.
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  So all of his tackles were for loss hit three tackles but it
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  was just the constant pressure all night and already backfield.
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  Oh yeah, McRae had, you know tackles for loss Will for
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  Pinette with a half a sack Pollard with half a sack.
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  We saw Kendrick a couple times. The ball and get up in there
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  quick, the defensive plot line essentially played possessed.
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  Yeah and they were going against, I think they really are
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  Leone smell blood in the water with that offensive line.
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  Yes. And once they saw that, they're
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  like, all right, we're in attack mode.
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  We're in attack mode. They can't, they can't block
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  this in the Rush game. They're not gonna be able to run
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  the ball pin. Your ears back go after gjakova,
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  absolutely, and if that wasn't good enough, Ten total tackles
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  for loss. I mean, so not only the
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  defensive line show up the linebacking.
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  Sure short core showed up, as well with Dax and Jaden, both
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  James Keller and Mc Donald Jr. Walker everybody, that touched
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  the field. Had some sort of impact, play it
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  scene and, you know, Brian, you went back and watch the game
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  again. I felt like the tacking was
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  better Saturday night because we caught more in the backfield
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  when you watched it not only live but then come back.
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  Did that reaffirm that the tackling improved from Week 1 to
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  week? Two best tackling came.
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  I've seen in at least the last three years.
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  Pittsburgh 2019. Correct.
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  Last time you were in laying. Yeah, exactly.
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  And you know, maybe I should go to lay more often, maybe, maybe.
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  Maybe maybe that's that. Maybe that's the Message, I
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  think that's the key but I think in general, we mentioned last
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  week that it had already taken a significant step forward
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  compared to the last two years. We were we are almost there.
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  We left a few in the backfield last week but still last week,
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  they were getting that 223 yards.
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  I don't think Pat, garlow got maybe back to the line, maybe
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  the line of scrimmage because obviously, you know, when you
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  get this isn't incorrect. Folks, for total yards on 26
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  carries. I mean that's pretty insane.
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  Yeah, I mean that says, that's as good as you could expect
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  against any opponent, let alone a power five conference
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  opponent, what the running back who it went over, 1,000 yards
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  and I know they're lying is hurting.
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  But you still see guys who get over 1,000.
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  Usually can put up something but I mean absolutely nothing.
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  I I think he may have actually had it up here.
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  He had 15 total yards. Yep.
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  Hear what 12 carries? 10 carries one carries weight 5
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  per carry so yeah, get it was just flying to the ball in and
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  did the um go off with some of those open field.
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  Tackles behind the line of scrimmage.
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  I mean, you can, you can hear it, especially the one key on to
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  be brought down the running back.
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  You have got a big one there. I think the one word Cray made
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  the play at the flat. Got a pretty big one.
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  Absolutely. So those and the other thing and
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  he only had one tackle but it was a big one.
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  The screen pass where Jaylen strowman again, it was no
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  hesitancy, when jaelen strong and came on that screen.
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  He went straight to the ball. He didn't try to read it.
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  It was just like he's got the ball mount to go tackle him.
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  Yeah, he made some good plays and we're seeing like them mix
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  up things on nickel, right? You saw.
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  Yeah, more strobing. We saw a lot more DJ Harvey this
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  week. Obviously, saw more Breann
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  Murray with some, some coming in there, to spell for Dorian
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  strong. So it was kind of a mix of
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  everything, the secondary. And we got got some additional
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  reps in there. And I think that kept everyone,
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  you know, more fresh for the the later quarters there.
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  When we kind of need it that that extra oomph at the end.
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  We The crazy part is you talk about strowman and you talk
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  about some of the guys that played nickel so Harvey played
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  nickel. Connor played nickel, Lawson
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  played, nickel Jenkins played nickel and actually Jr.
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  Walker started the game at nickel and it's that position
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  flexibility, right? We're okay.
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  We can take you out to here, will bring tamari down, we trust
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  Jalen on the back where you can start mixing things up.
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  And again, like you just mentioned guys, get to stay
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  fresh and that Sam linebacker? Spot stayed fresh all Night and
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  I mean to the to the tune of the BC offense, only four yards,
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  rushing only 155 total yards offense, I mean 3rd and 8 3 of
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  18 on third and fourth Downs. And I mean right now you know
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  you look on ncaa.com Hokies are the best third down conversion
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  percentage defense in the country and 13%.
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  Yep. And when you look at it you know
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  almost a third of their total yardage came on one plate is a
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  flowers. Yeah.
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  And that was the only big catch. He had all night.
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  Yeah. And I mean, it's pretty wild to
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  think about that. But then you start digging into
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  the data and I know we're a couple games in.
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  So it'll be interested in how this goes out.
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  But the Hokies are a top 15 passing efficiency defects.
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  I mean, that's, it's slowly getting there.
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  I think we expected, you know, Brent prior to improve the
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  defense significantly. You're talking about a team, a
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  defense right now. I don't know where one in one in
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  losing at ODU game sucks. But you're talking about a top
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  five, Total Defense. You're talking about a top 15
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  scoring defense. Yep.
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  It's you know and and we're talking about getting people
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  down behind the line of scrimmage with the 10:00 on
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  Saturday night. You know, we've got 24 total,
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  We've got a lot and we're another again, top 20 team
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  tackles for loss and as much as it was holding Day.
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  Flowers, big, I thought, if anything Cactus, once I saw how
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  quick we were getting, I thought Cactus would get some catches
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  Yeah, they really didn't have. I don't know if it's just
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  because they were playing from behind.
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  But, you know, we did a good job of taking him away as well.
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  He wasn't that kind of reliable check down, he wasn't the guy
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  that was kind of helping them move the sticks.
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  They weren't able to get him the ball consistently he had one
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  catch so he not only shut down flowers, but we kept them from
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  being able to go to any Outlets as well.
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  Yeah, absolutely, you have Z flowers, 79 yards and the big
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  one was 50. So he had 2029 on three other
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  caches. So they did the job on him and
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  don't get me wrong the movie put on Dorian was nasty.
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  But we is it was a good double move.
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  It was a great double move but guess what?
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  You know, that's when you kind of sit there and say, all those
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  under throwing balls suck, but in that situation when you're
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  putting that pressure on and he has to come back to it instead
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  of being a 70 yard gain or a touchdown, he had to come back
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  to it by that time Dorian and the Seer people's got down
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  there. Leveraged in tackling.
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  Yeah, PS. He pulls probably had an angle
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  on him but he could have if he had caught that industry.
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  He probably going to be, you could have made a move on
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  people's there, so him having to kind of regroup and collect it.
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  Both of them were able to kind of wrangle him down there, which
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  is good. Absolutely so defense playing
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  Lights Out, it's going to be fun to see this group, as again, as
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  guys start to mature more as guys, get more comfortable in
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  the system, right? They've already, they've already
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  kind of. It doesn't take much right.
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  You go out there and you start hitting the quarterback.
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  Picking balls all force and fumbles by and happens quick tip
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  so and it seems like you know prize definitely calling the
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  defense which you know for more if prize sitting there kind of
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  understand what the game plan is it's getting Marvin getting the
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  chance to work with his linebacker Corps.
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  And again maybe that's the reason we saw such a good step
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  is I'm working with the linebacking corps, I'm focusing
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  on fundamentals, and we're going to, we're going to see the
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  Improvement foot. Yeah, I mean, we've seen, I
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  mean, we thought that the linebacking corps was definitely
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  the most veteran in terms of experience, but we've seen such
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  a ratchet up in play so far, that, I mean, it's hard not to
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  be a little impressed and I know it's early, I never played a
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  team, that is a G5. We play the team that has
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  probably one of the worst offensive lines in the ACC right
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  now, at least. Yeah, yeah.
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  I don't necessarily think that the players on that line Are not
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  talented I think they're just not ready to play the amount of
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  snaps they're playing. Yeah at this point in their
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  careers. Exactly that they got too much
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  youth at too many positions. Yeah.
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  And the big part was the best offensive lineman you know that
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  they had did get called you know basically game day couldn't play
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  and like you said they the the defense smelled the blood in the
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  water but like like you also say is against the quality of
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  competition that the defense is essentially dominated dominated.
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  And that's what you want. If it's a lower team, you want
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  to dominate them again. They gave they've given up two
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  big plays all season, two big plays.
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  If they keep progressing, they keep progressing.
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  It's going to be interesting, especially what goes on roughly
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  10 days from now? That's kind of going to be the
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  two games, right? They're going to be those
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  landmark with have that. This defense is when they face
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  the West Virginia offense and when he faced the UNC offense.
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  So let's let's let's just keep that in mind as we get into next
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  week. All right.
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  Let's let's flip it over to the offensive side of the ball.
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  Out. Not not all World offense under
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  300 total yards 284 total and let's go talk about Grant Wells.
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  You know, you know, people were screaming, we should go ahead
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  and throw in brown, throw in other players, but he comes out
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  and have some self a solid but in unspectacular game, which in
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  this case is what we needed, right?
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  Yeah. They'll be.
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  There was really no need to take a ton of risk as we got that big
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  lead early. He did a good job taking care of
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  the football which is what he didn't do well against though to
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  you you know when we were looking at the stat line I mean
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  obviously zero interceptions stands out with the thing that
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  stood out more than me was looking at the bad balls that
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  were thrown last week compared to you know what they were done
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  with what we saw this week, there were some bad thrown balls
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  but there weren't any bad decisions.
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  Balls. You know, we saw those risky
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  mrs. Become safe, mrs.
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  And that's what I mean. That's what you want.
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  You, I mean, you want some calculated risk from time to
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  time, but you want to make sure that when you're taking those
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  risk, you're taking those risk where it's safe to play, right?
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  I'm like the Caleb Smith, throw ya deep shot, downfield.
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  And let's talk about that pass because that pass is going to be
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  the ACC catch of the week. Week, where he put that ball
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  Brechin will bullshit. Grant Wells has a hell of an
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  accurate. Default where dropped it, right?
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  He dropped it right in the bucket, man, right there in the
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  bad part, is Caleb. Look like literally Caleb's, the
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  face mask is getting pulled amazingly Kayla, maybe catch,
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  which was unbelievable. Yeah, we didn't get a flag on
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  that. I mean, I'm glad it came down as
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  a catch anyway, regardless book, exact, how there wasn't a flag
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  on that is beyond me? But yeah, I mean, that was a
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  hell of the throw and if we can Get a couple more of those at
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  game, then we're cooking. Then we're on to something.
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  Yeah, but you know, when we look at what he's doing, much better
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  game. I'll take an efficient game over
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  a 300 yard game with three or four turnovers, absolutely.
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  And now, because of how this game played out, its we're going
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  to, we got to mention what's his leash because we look at the, we
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  look at his completion percentage, he's right at 61%
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  For what we're probably asking to do.
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  You say that's Valley malware? You should be about where we
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  need it. Yeah, I mean, you'd like to see
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  it right around that 65. So he's hovering in that
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  ballpark obviously, it's fall sample size so far.
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  So, you know, the bad game is disproportionately helping.
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  Yeah, there's numbers right now. When I look at what he does in
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  other aspects though, I think he needs to be more decisive when
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  our run is called. Or when called on the Run.
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  Thinking about when he scrambles being a little more decisive
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  earlier in the drop back when it's the call run being a little
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  bit more decisive with, you know, where he's finding the
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  hole, where he wants to go and not not thinking as much when it
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  comes to those, those scrambles and those design runs, I feel
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  like that's holding him back a little bit.
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  He had a couple good runs though for us.
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  You know, he had one on that first drive where, you know,
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  both guys in it up running to the flat.
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  Got out of the pocket. Got about 45 yards.
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  Yeah. And a couple other good runs one
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  for a first down on a third and long.
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  So he had he had some good runs. I'd like to see a little more
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  decisiveness there. And I mean, I think the big
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  thing is, is that if he can continue to show that, he's not
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  going to hurt the offense, keep rolling with him until Yeah
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  absolutely. The other thing you can look at
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  just the data point is he's averaging a little over four
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  yards or run and I think for who he is that's where we need him
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  at. He's got he's averaging about 35
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  a game. I would like to see him a lot
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  more decisive like one of the plays there was a player coming,
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  he's going to the sideline. And this is a third-down play my
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  buddy, few kids me up and said, why didn't he just turn into
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  that versus going out? And I couldn't explain because
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  he was close enough if he turned it in and then about two series
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  later is when he ran that draw and goes into like to BC
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  Defender. He literally, I think he knock
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  somebody out of the game with it but you are You know.
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  It was. What am I looking for here?
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  It was like trying to prove a point to when he went out on the
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  sideline last time that he essentially he was trying to
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  back himself up and say I'm not afraid to make contact with you.
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  Yeah I mean I like that that aspect.
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  I like the we're being more assertive.
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  So you know we'll see if how we proceed with the quarterback
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  situation especially with you know what we have coming up this
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  week we're going to talk about a little bit.
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  Absolutely. It's gonna be really interesting
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  to see how we handle Wofford game.
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  Let's talk about a little bit more on the offensive side of
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  the ball to pass catching Prime. If I told you we won by 17
• 23:28
  points but Gallo had one catch it, and it did not come until in
• 23:33
  the second half. Would you believe me?
• 23:35
  Last Tuesday, not not at all. I would, I would not have
• 23:40
  believed you, especially after what we saw with ODU and how
• 23:46
  heavily targeted he was in that game.
• 23:51
  But we had some other guys step up, right?
• 23:52
  We had Caleb in particular was one big catch down.
• 23:57
  The field, had the touchdown Khan.
• 23:59
  Plumber Academy had a bunch of good plays Gosnell, had a couple
• 24:04
  good stick moving routes. So you know, we saw some signs
• 24:09
  of life from the wide receiver room, a little bit more this
• 24:13
  week, but we also have, you know, a couple guys, take a
• 24:17
  little step back, right, Lofton, two catches for -1 and what I
• 24:26
  hated, oh, God, I hated it Shay. Shades of that pot pass into the
• 24:31
  boundary was just the to me. I hate those places because I
• 24:36
  think it was like woman second and five and it was just like no
• 24:42
  not this is, you know second and one.
• 24:46
  Yeah sure. Second and five, it put us now
• 24:50
  behind the change third and seven.
• 24:52
  I just hate going any kind of sweep into the boundary.
• 24:55
  I just I get that but if you looked at the play, if King gets
• 24:59
  Block. He probably at least gets 223
• 25:02
  yards if not the first down, okay?
• 25:05
  Okay. You know, you kind of got to
• 25:07
  take the bells good sometimes you got to execute and that's
• 25:10
  what if you execute you at least get a positive play, okay?
• 25:13
  Whether whether that's still a good play in, your mind is kind
• 25:16
  of up to you. But you know, there are often
• 25:21
  times where a Jet Sweep was a good play but you fucking hated
• 25:24
  to see it. Well, you hated to see it when
• 25:26
  it was like at the most to me, it's always.
• 25:29
  He's down in distance for those plates because if they aren't
• 25:32
  blocked correctly, you said it before it those plays aren't
• 25:35
  block directly, you can lose a lot of yours.
• 25:38
  You can put yourself in a good position to a bad position again
• 25:42
  second and one you lose. Three hits third and four.
• 25:44
  We can live another day so it's really interesting, but you
• 25:46
  mentioned it earlier. Caleb obviously is the best
• 25:50
  receiver on the team and him going down again.
• 25:53
  So, do you definitely heard the game planned, but seen blumrich
• 25:56
  and Gosnell. Bloomberg had five catches For
• 26:00
  46 yards, hit a couple Wildcat things actually, I think he
• 26:05
  because of one of them was blown up, completely accidental with -
• 26:09
  yards there, but it shows you need to be on the field
• 26:12
  personnel with the stick movers. But now it's like, okay, we saw
• 26:17
  gallo and Drake via successful combo.
• 26:19
  Game one actually a trio of Gallo, Drake, Dwayne right along
• 26:24
  with Caleb. The second game we see blumrich
• 26:28
  and we see Gosnell kind of Step In so it's kind of feeling like
• 26:35
  that moves. Getting a little bit better.
• 26:37
  Overall. Yeah bro.
• 26:39
  We do your we do. We're going to need Caleb to be
• 26:40
  a consistent contributes, captain Kayla.
• 26:43
  You gotta get that you can get to the point where we can mix
• 26:46
  and match behind him. That's only the better for us
• 26:49
  because it means they can't just key on Gallo.
• 26:52
  They can't just keiondre. They can't just key on Lofton or
• 26:55
  blow over the whole field. Yeah.
• 26:57
  Cover the whole field. You get four or five guys that
• 26:59
  can do. Thing.
• 27:01
  Then that at least gives you an opportunity to really use the
• 27:04
  whole field of your advantage because they're not just going
• 27:07
  to be able to key on, you know, one or two.
• 27:09
  Guys, let me ask this prod. You mentioned to me that we had
• 27:15
  our most success with our intermediate stuff, that roughly
• 27:17
  five to 15 range. Why was that?
• 27:20
  What were they doing? That sort of made that
• 27:24
  intermediate range where Grant, you know, he was 64 percent.
• 27:28
  He was essentially I think the data was 14:16 of 25y.
• 27:33
  What were they doing that? Forced us to play that
• 27:36
  intermediate route versus running screens and obviously we
• 27:39
  took the one shot, but I think that was more of where the game
• 27:41
  was. Its kind of kind of three fold
• 27:45
  here. So number one we had a step up
• 27:48
  in competition. They were a little tighter on
• 27:50
  our routes in those those quick hitters, they were keen on that.
• 27:54
  They watch the ODU tape so we weren't getting a ton of
• 27:58
  separation. But to when we saw that, I liked
• 28:04
  it Bowen, kind of he's realized that we don't necessarily have
• 28:10
  guys that can consistently get separation just on their own.
• 28:15
  He's using the scheme to get Guys open.
• 28:18
  And that's where a lot of those intermediate routes are really
• 28:22
  heavy in terms of the scheme. So that's why you're seeing
• 28:27
  success there. Got it.
• 28:30
  All right, that makes sense. I'll be really interesting what
• 28:33
  we do this week against Wofford, and then obviously the West
• 28:36
  Virginia game coming up. Let's talk about a couple more
• 28:38
  things. Wrap up sort of close, the book
• 28:42
  Run game, 144 yards. Total the biggest ahead.
• 28:48
  I don't know why 200, I wanted 200 but not bad what.
• 28:52
  We'll take it, obviously. With some of the stuff you were
• 28:55
  going to talk about a minute with the offensive line.
• 28:57
  I think, maybe we could have gotten 200.
• 28:59
  But let's talk about the one, big one.
• 29:03
  When you saw that, he Shaun King run and you saw a develop
• 29:07
  because where it was, that was right at 30.
• 29:09
  So you had that perfect view from the West stands down, onto
• 29:14
  it right here. So, I'm sure you saw everybody
• 29:16
  moving, but when you saw that and in full and him, just go had
• 29:20
  to make you feel. It was glorious.
• 29:25
  That was the best block play. They had in the entire night,
• 29:30
  exactly. How you draw it up.
• 29:33
  What? I like we saw Clements kind of
• 29:37
  get out there, get the kick on the outside backer we saw JJ rap
• 29:41
  get a good block on the on the inside linebacker.
• 29:44
  But what impressed me most was was Jane blue on this play
• 29:49
  because he had a read where he was kind of trying to get an
• 29:52
  angle on the corner to get a block.
• 29:55
  He saw the corner ran himself out of the play.
• 29:57
  It immediately went up, feel got to the safety, got a block King,
• 30:01
  set it up for Him got to the edge touchdown Hokies.
• 30:07
  Yeah, they weren't going to catch Keshawn King once he got
• 30:09
  in that open field and it was and I'm sure that place was
• 30:12
  rocking because it's, you know, long touchdown runs have been
• 30:15
  few and far between especially last year.
• 30:18
  So, you know. No, unfortunately, he Shaun King
• 30:21
  got bang. I think everybody's saying,
• 30:23
  like, if they would have needed him in the second half, he could
• 30:26
  have came in. This is one of those management
• 30:28
  issues like if we need you were going to put you in stay on the
• 30:31
  bike. Stay loose.
• 30:32
  Um and after he goes out, you know, Dylan Holston, got most of
• 30:37
  the run after that, you know, he ended it with 25 carries.
• 30:42
  I mean we were running the ball a lot, but I did not realize
• 30:45
  Jalen got 25 carries only for 60 yards.
• 30:49
  We're hearing more and more about Malachi Thomas that he's
• 30:54
  close. He's close to the fastest
• 30:56
  dealer. He was practicing last week.
• 30:58
  He wasn't doing contact but he was practicing But he's needed
• 31:03
  back. And again we said it a couple
• 31:06
  times and we're not trying to drag but Malachi Thomas and
• 31:10
  Keyshawn, King give you that one-two punch of dynamic Runners
• 31:14
  Thomas coming back to it also gives you that opportunity to
• 31:18
  put him in King on the field the same time and give you even more
• 31:22
  looks. Yeah, because we started talking
• 31:25
  get split out a couple times. Like I said on the the Miss
• 31:28
  block but you know, we ignore that but King has the ability.
• 31:32
  They're on the edge where as you can Malachi probably is more of
• 31:37
  a back, feel specific type running back.
• 31:40
  So if you can get both of those guys on the field at the same
• 31:44
  time, you know, from time to time, I think that's going to be
• 31:46
  a good thing. And we saw what, you know, what
• 31:49
  we wanted to see this week from the from the running game
• 31:51
  overall, we had a big play, you know, we got some consistent
• 31:56
  yards, they weren't we weren't getting chunks, but we were, we
• 32:01
  were getting some things here. Here and there.
• 32:03
  The problem was, we had a little bit of trouble on first down
• 32:06
  where we got a little predictable.
• 32:08
  I think in the calls on first down and we weren't overwhelming
• 32:12
  them in the middle of that that defense like I thought we could
• 32:18
  to get to still get some positive yards even if they are
• 32:21
  key in on it. All right, by the way, don't
• 32:24
  take this back hole. So had 20 carries 20 carries for
• 32:28
  48 yards, I was had the wrong data point up there.
• 32:31
  Alright, let's talk Got it obviously, the oath offensive
• 32:34
  line, did some good stuff this week, which your grades overall
• 32:39
  and then run game passing. We're going with see this week
• 32:43
  overall. Okay, I like the the Run game is
• 32:48
  a borderline C+ for me, but I think those first down calls
• 32:54
  that I'm talking about there, or what kind of held them back from
• 32:57
  kind of taking a c plus B, minus range overall, you can't on
• 33:02
  First down, get your shit pressed in consistently like
• 33:06
  that even if they know it's coming at some point you got to
• 33:09
  have some pride and start getting some positive yards.
• 33:11
  Were consistently on that down. So that's a knock, but pass Pro.
• 33:17
  It was better at times and I was and I'll say I'll qualify it
• 33:23
  this way when they were sending for.
• 33:26
  Or they were just blitzing one. We did a good job when we when
• 33:31
  we saw it when we Had it was pretty clear Who had who
• 33:35
  pre-snap? We did a good job, much better
• 33:39
  than last week. Alright, good deal.
• 33:41
  Good deal when they were bringing five or more we
• 33:46
  struggled and I know and I know we're going to talk about that a
• 33:52
  little bit later. So teaser bronze, got a few
• 33:55
  things that he feels on why we're struggling with that.
• 33:58
  Is anybody in the doghouse asleep?
• 34:01
  The whole line because of the reason that we're talking about
• 34:03
  now, Are we cause if that doesn't improve when we get to
• 34:07
  other teams, that consistently, bring that type of type of
• 34:11
  pressure, we're going to have some problems, got it.
• 34:14
  So we will hit that in just a little while here.
• 34:16
  Let's split, let's, let's let's wrap this up.
• 34:18
  Special teams, obviously a much better day.
• 34:21
  Clean synapse. Will Ross is now 343 for the
• 34:25
  year, including the 49-yard that would have been good like from
• 34:29
  58 and something. If y'all haven't noticed, and
• 34:33
  I'm not getting what Yeah, when he kicks the ball, they're down
• 34:38
  Main Street. Yep, every time Every time he
• 34:44
  kicks a field goal, he is putting it right down the
• 34:47
  middle. You never gonna live that down
• 34:53
  ever. Don't call me out, I'm good for
• 34:56
  it. Yeah, you have you were in the
• 34:57
  bird Peter more boom, some boom. Absolutely boomed.
• 35:04
  One got a good bouncer seeming like he Fades at the end.
• 35:07
  I don't know if that's technique or just you know, just the are
• 35:10
  of the game. So it'll be interesting to see
• 35:12
  that. But I think the one piece We'll
• 35:13
  talk about really talk about what you about the difference in
• 35:16
  coaching philosophies. DJ Harvey made an error.
• 35:22
  His first one of the year in special teams, essentially we
• 35:27
  were up and he tried to make a play.
• 35:31
  Yep. Good evening.
• 35:32
  Robbie hambone. Something in Wilkesboro, he's
• 35:35
  got connected. He must be at the field house
• 35:36
  tonight. He's got to be, he makes the air
• 35:41
  because he was trying to make a play.
• 35:44
  But he did lose his job. He didn't get benched and he
• 35:48
  shouldn't have You mean you got a young guy and you instead of
• 35:52
  putting the doghouse, you coach him up and you get him back out
• 35:55
  there to do it again and he did it right.
• 35:57
  That's a novel fucking thought right there, right?
• 36:02
  And the next time, that was a font.
• 36:03
  He went up, he got it. There was some people coming
• 36:06
  down. Maybe you could have made a
• 36:07
  play, maybe he didn't but right. Yeah, but you live, you learn.
• 36:14
  I mean it's one of those things if you're out there making
• 36:17
  consistent errors and not trying to Correct it.
• 36:20
  Yes. Put that person in the doghouse
• 36:22
  if they make one mistake because they're out there trying to make
• 36:25
  a play. No.
• 36:28
  Can't do that coach him up and get him out there and do it
• 36:31
  again. So it was, it was glorious to
• 36:36
  see him. Go back out there, but special
• 36:37
  teams, cleaned it up. And obviously, penalties,
• 36:41
  cleaned up 25 penalties. And are we perfect?
• 36:45
  Brian know, we're not perfect at all, but let me ask this.
• 36:49
  In your view, did we see the coaches?
• 36:52
  And the players clean things up in one?
• 36:54
  Should say this. The amount that we saw cleaned
• 36:57
  up, get it shocking. We cleaned up more than I
• 37:02
  thought we would week-to-week. I mean I know we talked about it
• 37:05
  when we were on here you know I said BC made a lot of mistakes
• 37:10
  week one we made a ton of mistakes.
• 37:12
  We were deaf we definitely had the further ground to cover in
• 37:17
  terms of getting to a clean slate and we definitely covered
• 37:21
  a lot more than they did and made up that ground and then
• 37:24
  some, you know, again we're not perfect.
• 37:27
  There's still a bunch of things to clean up.
• 37:30
  We got tight ends that are still missing blocks.
• 37:32
  We've got, we got wide receivers that are still missing blocks.
• 37:36
  We got wide receivers that are still not able to get open
• 37:39
  without some scheme help you know, we got things here and
• 37:45
  there on special teams that we need to clean up.
• 37:47
  There's there's stuff all over the field that we need to clean
• 37:49
  up but the progress from Week, 1 to week 2, what was really
• 37:54
  impressive? So if we can keep making those
• 37:57
  strides in, this isn't kind of one of those Those, you know,
• 38:00
  two steps forward, one step back, type deals.
• 38:03
  Then I think we're working with something abso-freakin'-lutely.
• 38:07
  So again, let's let's close the book BC.
• 38:12
  We take the wind Hokies are now 1 and 1 1 and 0 and ACC play.
• 38:17
  As I joke with Brian. Before we got on here, we
• 38:19
  control our destiny to make it to shout it.
• 38:23
  Shout out to true it with the eleven and one in the bayou.
• 38:26
  So they are Brian. Let's um, let's go.
• 38:32
  Hokies news. Notes other college football
• 38:34
  notes. I don't know if you got in the
• 38:37
  stadium early enough. But the line of recruits that
• 38:44
  picture I cannot remember who put it out there and if anybody
• 38:47
  knows please comment so we can give them proper.
• 38:50
  Shout out whoever get that picture of the recruits lined
• 38:53
  up, literally from the 50-yard line.
• 38:54
  All the way back to the tunnel. Yep.
• 38:56
  We knew there was a lot. We you there are a lot of
• 38:58
  recruits on campus. I'm sure you being you around
• 39:02
  and show you around a lot ones and two, which is near merryman.
• 39:06
  Not far from Miriam, and I'm sure you saw some that's
• 39:09
  impressive. I don't care who you are.
• 39:12
  Yeah, we got 60 yards worth of recruits on campus for one game,
• 39:17
  and then you show out like that, not only was laying great
• 39:22
  laying, you know, laying his Lane is usually great on a night
• 39:25
  game. That's kind of a given it was as
• 39:28
  advertised. Yes, it was Saturday night and
• 39:31
  then you go out there and you put a performance like that
• 39:34
  especially defensive for performance where that's what
• 39:37
  you've hung your hat on historically, as well.
• 39:40
  That's Big, that's big for the program.
• 39:42
  It's only going to help you in terms of moving forward with the
• 39:46
  recruiting, not just for this cycle, but for 2024 and 2025 in
• 39:50
  particular because a lot of those kids were on campus to.
• 39:53
  Yeah. And again, it's the piece that
• 39:54
  you talked about, it's having them, there's great you got on
• 39:57
  there, the, the atmosphere, but then the stadium was full, the
• 40:00
  opening shots of the stadium. There was not a there was not a
• 40:04
  gap. I think the only little Gap you
• 40:05
  could see was up at the Boston College section, but sometimes
• 40:09
  they aren't given back in time where you can LM because
• 40:11
  technically it was a sellout because what is it, the
• 40:16
  allotment. If the allotment tickets are
• 40:17
  sold, you can still considered a sell out but that's all
• 40:20
  south-south had people in still in the fourth quarter, which is
• 40:23
  just impressive. So, it's love, seeing that.
• 40:27
  All right. Now when you got your obviously
• 40:31
  all over, tailgate scene of these three upsets, which one
• 40:36
  made you smile the most abstract and them Marshal over Notre
• 40:40
  Dame. Or Georgia Southern over
• 40:42
  Nebraska. All right, laugh or smile.
• 40:48
  What made you laugh? The one that made me laugh.
• 40:51
  Is the Braska losing to Georgia Southern?
• 40:54
  She was like, all right, so he's gone for three weeks.
• 41:01
  Yeah, we can't wait three weeks to save half the money.
• 41:04
  We're going to go ahead and get rid of him.
• 41:05
  Now, the one that made me smile, the one that made me smile was
• 41:11
  was App State over, am Just but, I mean, and that, let's not,
• 41:18
  let's not, you know, I've got a little soft spot in my heart for
• 41:21
  appstate anyway, so just absolutely cool campus.
• 41:27
  We used to practice there. Any time we went down to
• 41:29
  Suwannee to play them. So they were always good to us
• 41:36
  on those on those road trips. So got a got a soft spot in my
• 41:40
  heart for App State, and then you got am, which is, you know,
• 41:44
  I've said it on here before I say it all the time, there the
• 41:47
  UNC of the SEC. Yes, they are Got Talent all
• 41:51
  over the field and they end up shit the bed, four to five times
• 41:55
  a year. And they did it again and this
• 42:00
  it could be a case of just not starting the right quarterback.
• 42:02
  You got Max Johnson said in there.
• 42:05
  Yeah well they started changing yeah and the I don't know if I
• 42:09
  don't know if a quarterback change is going to be good
• 42:11
  enough for them but Then to get the laws, and then you get the
• 42:18
  yells faltered, hit the timeline that was through the timeline as
• 42:21
  early as Saturday. And it's just, it's kept going
• 42:24
  and kept going. So, yeah, that would made me
• 42:26
  smile. But then later, it made me
• 42:28
  laugh. It made you laugh.
• 42:30
  Yeah, that one just made me do a little bit of everything because
• 42:33
  the amount of money they spent on an IO, the amount of
• 42:37
  five-star recruit. They essentially bought the
• 42:39
  amount of money, they paid app state to come there and lay that
• 42:42
  whooping on them, 1.75 million. The almost 100 million.
• 42:47
  They paid Jimbo because no, it was 100 million because they
• 42:50
  bought out, as far as state contract and they're getting
• 42:53
  nothing in return and it just makes you understand that.
• 42:58
  Even in the highest level of football, there can be the team
• 43:01
  with a lot of talent that can't do shit with it and it kind of
• 43:05
  makes you happy. I mean, if you wanted to win
• 43:07
  eight or nine games and get maybe one big victory, a year,
• 43:10
  you should have just kept someone, yes, they could have
• 43:13
  done that but me the exact same. Records.
• 43:16
  Same time through. All right, real quick, before we
• 43:19
  head off to break here, the ACC hoop schedule was released
• 43:25
  obviously a lot of good games, both Carolina and Duke at home.
• 43:30
  Only do you go on the road, they quarter screwed the Hokies out
• 43:33
  the gate though with UNC game, because if you look on your
• 43:38
  calendar, Bryan, pull up that calendar on your computer and go
• 43:41
  down to December December. 4th is a Sunday in My anticipation
• 43:46
  is if it's Sunday, they're probably going to put it on
• 43:48
  between six and seven as to not interfere with football, or try
• 43:53
  to catch the back half of football.
• 43:56
  So, that sucks. But, you know, I like the flow
• 44:02
  of the schedule because you get UNC out the gate, then BC and
• 44:06
  wake in Clemson then state. So it's not like there's a
• 44:10
  murderer's row section in my opinion, anywhere in the
• 44:17
  schedule where it's like you can play Carolina, do state
• 44:21
  Louisville, Florida State back to back to back.
• 44:25
  Yeah, there's like a one tough stretch where they open and
• 44:28
  close a month with UVA but that's really the That's
• 44:33
  probably the meat of the schedule.
• 44:35
  Yep. Yep.
• 44:36
  But overall, I think it does schedules final be interesting
• 44:40
  to see how this team plays out again.
• 44:44
  I just don't want to start like last year.
• 44:47
  We've got to get over that this year because if we can be solid
• 44:53
  especially in conference play, I mean we didn't start the season
• 44:56
  awful. I think overall we had a couple
• 45:00
  losses that we wanted to have back but as soon as we got in
• 45:03
  the conference play and just drop so many out, the gate You
• 45:07
  know, you had to really fight to even secure your spot there and
• 45:13
  it we probably wouldn't have had if we had to went down to went
• 45:16
  up to New York and when the whole fucking thing.
• 45:19
  So exactly, exactly. It's pretty wild.
• 45:24
  You don't want to put yourself in that situation again.
• 45:26
  So you gotta think jump jump on that January schedule would be a
• 45:30
  lot better in January. Then you weren't here last year
• 45:33
  and be close to as good as you were in February.
• 45:37
  Because you get that's going to be tough.
• 45:39
  It's going to be tough. That's gonna be tough because we
• 45:41
  weren't there. The thing is be better in
• 45:43
  January, so you don't have to be almost perfect.
• 45:45
  Well, you don't have to be perfect in February, but you
• 45:48
  could you need to be close to consume.
• 45:50
  You need to be as consistent as you want to be there because I
• 45:56
  think we've got probably a deeper roster top-to-bottom than
• 46:01
  we had last year. Yep.
• 46:03
  I think there's more guys that were on the roster last year
• 46:06
  that are ready to be key. Contributors this year out, the
• 46:08
  gate. And then you got, you know, guys
• 46:11
  coming in that have played big roles on other teams, and I
• 46:15
  think they're ready to kind of slide in.
• 46:17
  So if you can get acclimated in those early months of the Season
• 46:20
  before you get into conference play in early December, I think.
• 46:26
  Going to be me what needs to happen to get the thing rolling
• 46:30
  abso-freakin'-lutely. Alright Braun.
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  topics website. Nice, will do know, the episode.
• 47:10
  We're gonna do this a little different because we're not only
• 47:12
  going to do know the Emily. We're going to do a know that
• 47:14
  sell for a couple games in. We can talk about a few things.
• 47:18
  With Wofford being an FCS opponent, not a lot of data on
• 47:22
  there. They are not a good team at all.
• 47:25
  There Owen to, they haven't scored a point and Brian, I know
• 47:28
  you did a little reading earlier today and found some interesting
• 47:32
  stuff out on them. She got out treadmill, horse out
• 47:35
  there. Who did a little interview with
• 47:39
  JoJo games longer thinkin's? Yeah, but I'll let you go on
• 47:43
  that because you were asked him to before, I went to baseball
• 47:45
  practice. So I'll let you go on that, man.
• 47:48
  Yeah, so again big shout-out to treadmill horse treadmill
• 47:51
  horse.com then the interviews up there with Joe James from
• 47:54
  Wofford fans.com, I guess that's their that's the Big Blog.
• 47:59
  He's been running it for four years, I think.
• 48:02
  I think Joe actually lives if I want to if I remember correctly
• 48:05
  in Northern Virginia now. So he's in the area.
• 48:08
  But big Wofford fan goes way back and the head coach for a
• 48:17
  walk. It is.
• 48:20
  It's coach Conklin and he's on the hot seat and he might not
• 48:23
  make it through the year and I didn't think we were going to be
• 48:28
  talking Justin Fuente in this. Preview.
• 48:33
  But somehow we are because they're kind of looking at an
• 48:37
  FCS equivalent of the Fuente regime down there at Wofford
• 48:41
  right now I'm going to read a quote from from the interview
• 48:45
  that was on there and you know we'll talk about that a little
• 48:48
  more here in a second. All right.
• 48:50
  So this is the quote, a big elephant in the room is that
• 48:52
  basically every fan at Wofford wants, Josh Conklin fired, he
• 48:56
  tried to leave our program twice before we went downhill.
• 49:00
  Once as a defensive coordinator position in Tennessee of once as
• 49:03
  a head coach of South Carolina and we've been awful ever since
• 49:07
  from our perspective, he came in rode the coattails of a or
• 49:10
  success. That's the former head coach saw
• 49:13
  us as a stepping stone to greener pastures failed and is
• 49:17
  in over his head. It's wild.
• 49:19
  He hasn't been fired yet in my opinion.
• 49:23
  So the biggest difference well, I guess the Baylor flirtation
• 49:26
  you put on there. At least this guy.
• 49:30
  Either the Baylor flirtation, a years essentially is Bud Foster
• 49:35
  in this situation where he stays around for a couple of years, he
• 49:39
  modifies his offense a little bit and then he retires.
• 49:43
  Yeah, so there there's a lot of parallels here that are just
• 49:48
  that they were two. Interesting, not to note.
• 49:52
  And aside from the fact, I think a lot of the fanbase wanted him
• 49:56
  fired at the end of last year when they went 111.
• 50:00
  And now they are starting the year owing to when they have not
• 50:04
  scored a point yet. That is the really, really bad
• 50:09
  peace because they have not scored a point yet.
• 50:12
  I mean, and then played two decent teams and UT Chattanooga.
• 50:16
  New on. Don't get me wrong, Chattanooga,
• 50:19
  particular challenge. That nigga's ranked Ilan has I
• 50:22
  think made the tournament for a few years but I mean, I think I
• 50:28
  read part of that article offered had been to the playoffs
• 50:32
  numerous times under airs in the past few decades.
• 50:36
  Like I'm very good very solid football program down there so
• 50:40
  it's like that. I mean that's the correlation
• 50:42
  where you take a team that is used to a lot of success, have
• 50:47
  some success and then try to move to greener pastures Conklin
• 50:52
  had been the DC down at Pitt. He was a safety coach out of
• 50:54
  Tennessee and I kind of When I hear well I'm gonna go be the
• 50:58
  head coach of South Carolina when they fire will muschamp
• 51:01
  this like Homeslice know you ain't got your gonna go to
• 51:05
  offer. I'm not trying to be crappy to
• 51:07
  offered your coaching. Wofford now maybe the defensive
• 51:11
  coordinator to Tennessee maybe but again you're at Wofford
• 51:15
  there's a reason you're there. Usually if you're there and you
• 51:18
  have some success you would bump up potentially to a G5 you
• 51:22
  didn't. So it's fascinating I'd love to
• 51:29
  Put up the message right there from Robbie.
• 51:35
  So this is our coach. Is everybody coach Robbie
• 51:38
  Compton on? In one of their main supporters
• 51:40
  is a walker alumni and then don't like the guy.
• 51:43
  So clearly, it's reciprocated that he is not well, liked a
• 51:48
  pencil over. This is not just Joe James, you
• 51:51
  know, breaking out of raging. All right, so the question is,
• 51:56
  let's talk about this team now. Unless Wonder, can we hang
• 52:01
  enough points on this team to continually?
• 52:05
  What are you sleeping in black? I mean, so I don't know if
• 52:10
  that's the case because I mean they're expecting to get
• 52:13
  pummeled regardless, I think that's so bad, that's the
• 52:18
  expectation. When you play a game like this,
• 52:22
  you kind of expect to get pummeled, but I mean, that
• 52:25
  offense has been abysmal through two weeks against FC.
• 52:28
  S competition, right? They've got an inability to
• 52:31
  really effectively put together drives and to score points.
• 52:37
  They are still breaking in their new OC.
• 52:40
  So let's break that down. Let's break that down a little
• 52:43
  bit. So they are looking to see.
• 52:44
  I'm looking at the notes here and I'm wondering why are you
• 52:49
  even trying to do this at the FCS level?
• 52:52
  So they had it. They had a do see under airs,
• 52:54
  that was running the triple option, the first year under
• 52:58
  Conklin they ran the triple option Conklin wanted to move
• 53:02
  them away from the triple option so they're old coordinators
• 53:05
  started running. Or of he kind of modified the
• 53:09
  offense. It was more of a quasi West
• 53:13
  Coast spread RPO that was kind of getting put into place there
• 53:18
  and the 21 season when they played in the in the spring it
• 53:22
  went pretty well. And then he stepped down and
• 53:28
  then it was a clown show last year and then it's been a clown
• 53:33
  show so far this year and they got a new.
• 53:35
  Oh, see this year after. Conklin promoted two of his boys
• 53:42
  to take over the old osce's role for the start of the 2021 fall
• 53:46
  season last year. So it's been a, basically, a
• 53:51
  comedy of errors, but so, yeah. Now they're more of a spread,
• 53:54
  our po type of attack versus a triple option of the offensive
• 53:58
  line struggles heavily. As you might expect from an
• 54:00
  offensive line that not only, you know, is FCS, but was
• 54:05
  recruited to run a triple option and they consistently shoot
• 54:11
  themselves in the foot on offense between fumbles,
• 54:14
  interceptions, missed assignments and things like that
• 54:18
  so they are just not a good. Offense to watch.
• 54:21
  Yeah, I mean, luckily Brian got actually to see.
• 54:24
  He was afraid, he wasn't going to be able to get any tape from
• 54:26
  this year at. Luckily, the elongation was on
• 54:28
  ESPN plus over the weekend. So you actually got to see the
• 54:32
  tape looking through. I was just at diving and I mean,
• 54:37
  the, the stats are ugly. I mean, it's ugly ugly in when I
• 54:42
  say, ugly, ugly on offense. Y'all, I mean, to a point where
• 54:47
  they're averaging basically, they have D6 total yards gained
• 54:55
  crushing the ball, they have 192 passing, they are averaging, and
• 55:00
  175 yards of King, you can make an argument that they're running
• 55:06
  game is their strength right now.
• 55:08
  Yeah. I mean, the Mike Walker.
• 55:10
  I mean, but that poor guys only got 80 yards for the year.
• 55:14
  So actually go back and think about that.
• 55:16
  One guy is accounted for quarter their offense.
• 55:20
  Yeah one guy and he's put the ball on the ground three times.
• 55:26
  So yeah, it's not exactly great here on the offensive side of
• 55:31
  the ball but defensively and I go there playing FCS, it's not
• 55:36
  much better. Is it run?
• 55:39
  It's not great, especially for FCS.
• 55:41
  I mean, they're giving them about 29 Points a game, you
• 55:44
  know, we said they're kind of playing that upper mid level FCS
• 55:47
  competition. Right now they played
• 55:49
  Chattanooga's. Ranked solid solid team, not
• 55:52
  upper-tier though. And, you know, elon's kind of
• 55:57
  the upper end of that middle of the road back there.
• 56:00
  They run a base 3-4, which is I mean, they've ran ran that for a
• 56:06
  long time that that even goes back to a or so, that's one
• 56:09
  thing that Conklin hasn't changed all they are a little
• 56:13
  more multiple but they are a 34 base.
• 56:19
  They are better on defense. In an offense like we talked
• 56:21
  about but they still struggle in the trenches as you would expect
• 56:23
  from an FCS team. They defend the pass better than
• 56:28
  the run and they but they can be influence with the play action
• 56:32
  and misdirection in the past game.
• 56:34
  So I think that's something that we can take advantage of run a
• 56:37
  lot, what we saw at ODU. I think we can.
• 56:40
  We can get them kind of confused with with the flow and come back
• 56:45
  to the tight end on the other side.
• 56:46
  Come back to the Digger Cross or something like that, that kind
• 56:52
  of gets them away from where the, where the flow of the play
• 56:54
  is going. But, yeah, it's this is a game
• 57:00
  that we should dominate on both sides of the ball and on special
• 57:04
  teams. Absolutely.
• 57:07
  I mean they're just not a good team whatsoever and obviously
• 57:13
  going through a ton of turmoil I'm sure down a small community
• 57:16
  like wall for does players are here in it so it's going to be
• 57:21
  interesting to see the outcome of this game.
• 57:24
  Now the most the most like cringe thing though.
• 57:27
  What's the most cream? I guess the coach does like he's
• 57:31
  like weekly Is his weekly interview?
• 57:36
  Okay, I can see the guy that's interviewing is trying so hard,
• 57:42
  not to completely crush. This guy's hopes and dreams and
• 57:46
  keep it as positive as possible. And it's, it's, it hurts me so
• 57:50
  much. How it's like, you haven't
• 57:53
  scored a point. You're giving up almost 30 a
• 57:55
  game. It's one of the like he's just
• 58:01
  grass with re. How can I ask this question in
• 58:03
  the most positive way possible, considering that we're owing to
• 58:07
  and have not scored a point yet? Not scored a point.
• 58:10
  Now, we have to go to a power five opponents, home field.
• 58:14
  Now lucky for them it's an 11 o'clock game.
• 58:17
  Not even 3:30, so which yeah, those kids are going to get home
• 58:21
  in time to Rage. That's hilarious.
• 58:26
  Alright, Braun. So little so there's your little
• 58:28
  That ground on Wofford. But let's let's flip what this
• 58:34
  week is really about. We've seen us through two games,
• 58:36
  we've already talked about some improvement.
• 58:38
  Let's know that self and Ron as we always mention this as an
• 58:41
  offensive lineman podcast, let's start there.
• 58:45
  What is the biggest thing that we have to do this weekend on
• 58:49
  the Hokies offensive line versus Walker?
• 58:52
  For both are short and long-term success on the offensive line,
• 58:56
  we need to get Xavier chaplain and Braylon more some
• 59:01
  significant snaps against this competition.
• 59:04
  What about how? And I threw hollifield in there,
• 59:07
  as well. Okay, but I prefer, we got to
• 59:10
  get chaplain and more. You say hollyfield because that
• 59:16
  way if you if your Center does go down, you got someone else
• 59:19
  that's taking live stamps. Yeah, that's really it.
• 59:24
  But I think in terms of long-term Chaplain and more,
• 59:29
  probably more important because I feel like they can help us
• 59:31
  potentially this year. Whereas hollifield is truly,
• 59:34
  unless something happens to Johnny is a next year situation.
• 59:38
  Okay. What about push?
• 59:41
  You looked at this offensive line or just defensive line of
• 59:45
  Walford. You said, they're not good in
• 59:47
  the trenches. Is this the game?
• 59:50
  Where if you don't see push, you get a little worried.
• 59:55
  Yeah. If I don't see them
• 59:56
  re-establish, the line. Scrimmage at the gate then
• 1:00:01
  that's going to be problematic. For me we got to be better on
• 1:00:05
  first down runs like I said, sometimes you just got to sack
• 1:00:07
  up and get some yards even when they're selling out for it.
• 1:00:11
  And I know they're selling out for right now because we haven't
• 1:00:13
  been as consistent in the passing game.
• 1:00:14
  Is you hear me? But when we have been somewhat
• 1:00:19
  predictable on first down but you still got to be able to get
• 1:00:23
  two yards. Every time you line up at run
• 1:00:24
  the ball regardless of whether it's predictable.
• 1:00:28
  And especially against this opponent, right?
• 1:00:30
  So doing that, but you mentioned something to me, we didn't hit
• 1:00:36
  it on the BC because I kind of wanted to hit it here.
• 1:00:38
  You notice that some of those not ugly runs where we only got
• 1:00:43
  two or three yards that they were actually block directly.
• 1:00:46
  Write in this people were missing the lanes.
• 1:00:49
  I know I I pulled up one, somebody put out there, can't
• 1:00:52
  remember who I can remember, who I'd let you know, but somebody
• 1:00:55
  put up one it was a Jalen Holston run.
• 1:00:58
  Anybody like all terribly block and you look you slow it down
• 1:01:02
  and literally there's the lane lane is to the right.
• 1:01:05
  Yes, there's a linebacker in that hole but is it the job
• 1:01:09
  right there? Is you go to that hole.
• 1:01:11
  Your job is to try to get by him, run over him.
• 1:01:15
  But if nothing else, there's five yards, he tackles you on
• 1:01:19
  spot. You're going to fall forward to
• 1:01:20
  going to pick up 7 versus getting three or four dip.
• 1:01:24
  And I'll say this, holsten's biggest strength is How hard he
• 1:01:28
  runs holsten's, biggest weakness is his visibility.
• 1:01:34
  He does not have the best visibility in terms of picking
• 1:01:40
  the right lane. That's something he struggled
• 1:01:43
  with his entire career here. It hasn't gotten better but he
• 1:01:47
  runs hard and when he when he picks his Lane, he gets as much
• 1:01:50
  as he can get wherever it is, even if it's true, right?
• 1:01:52
  One on that play, he got like four yards and because he just
• 1:01:56
  barreled ran as hard as he could.
• 1:01:58
  But when I still that lane, it's like if you make that cut that
• 1:02:02
  line backers going to have to meet you in the hole, he has to
• 1:02:05
  tackle you yes to bring you down so it's interesting.
• 1:02:08
  All right we mentioned this is the teaser from our earlier.
• 1:02:11
  You mentioned past Pro had gotten significantly better
• 1:02:14
  against BC. You greatest as up, they went
• 1:02:16
  from a d and now they're into the sea categories.
• 1:02:20
  You said they're good with the straight up four man, Rush.
• 1:02:23
  That's not the issue. but you started talking about even five,
• 1:02:28
  they can handle, but if they started bringing more pressure,
• 1:02:34
  That's when the issues came and give me, give me what your
• 1:02:37
  hypothesis is on this. Yeah, I mean, it comes down to
• 1:02:40
  communication. It looks like they are not
• 1:02:43
  whether whether it's Wells, not getting the right checks or
• 1:02:46
  checking into the the right audibles for check downs.
• 1:02:52
  But I think it's more this, the communication on the blitz,
• 1:02:55
  across the board. Because anytime there was like a
• 1:02:58
  five-man pressure six-man pressure They were struggling if
• 1:03:05
  they didn't see where the blitz was coming from.
• 1:03:06
  Have that guy identified in advance of the stamp, there were
• 1:03:11
  some communication problems about who was going to commit.
• 1:03:13
  Take who a lot of times you had a guard or a tackle block, no
• 1:03:17
  one because the communication wasn't there.
• 1:03:20
  So you got a you got a free rusher, we had several where,
• 1:03:24
  you know, we had five lineman in a running back in there to
• 1:03:26
  block, so we had six accounting for six but we had to come free.
• 1:03:31
  That can't happen. You've got to be able to
• 1:03:33
  communicate who's taking who understand if there is any sort
• 1:03:38
  of Twister stunt who's passing to who That's got, that's got to
• 1:03:44
  be established pre-snap and that communication.
• 1:03:48
  And that feel is just not there yet.
• 1:03:49
  And I don't know whether it is not being communicated at the
• 1:03:52
  line or whether just we haven't repped enough and have the feel
• 1:03:56
  for those type of heavy pressures.
• 1:03:58
  Yet, we're comfortable with passing guys off or making those
• 1:04:03
  adjustments after the ball is snapped and we kind of see what
• 1:04:06
  they're actually bringing. All right.
• 1:04:08
  So, obviously, there and I mean is it is it a week like this?
• 1:04:11
  Where that is something? Rudolph can really coach knowing
• 1:04:15
  this is a lesser team. If there's anything, you're
• 1:04:18
  trying to implement with that communication or offensive
• 1:04:22
  coordinator talking about making the right check is this a week
• 1:04:25
  to really? Let's bring this to the front.
• 1:04:27
  Before we get into this stretch of games, we're playing nothing
• 1:04:29
  but essentially, good competition from here on out.
• 1:04:36
  I mean, it's definitely going to be a point of emphasis that's
• 1:04:38
  probably something they talked about during the correction
• 1:04:40
  period on Sunday. It's probably something that
• 1:04:42
  they're going to work more on probably during I don't I don't
• 1:04:46
  know how they break down practice in terms of, you know
• 1:04:49
  what they work on offense, but if they have like a third down
• 1:04:51
  period, they're definitely going to work on that during third
• 1:04:54
  down period. So that's what I want to see.
• 1:04:59
  Is just some improvement again. I don't expect every time they
• 1:05:04
  bring six for us to pick it up. That's a, that's a big ask,
• 1:05:09
  okay. But but if we got to be more
• 1:05:11
  consistent then you know one out of eight or whatever it was.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, Saturday, got it. All right, so there's some stuff
• 1:05:18
  we want to see on the offensive line.
• 1:05:19
  The big piece, get the young guys involved and let's see the
• 1:05:22
  communication, get better on blitzes.
• 1:05:25
  All right. Now, let's talk about the skill
• 1:05:27
  positions, even though we've hit it earlier, obviously we said
• 1:05:30
  Caleb Smith secure the room. It was great to see, blumrich
• 1:05:32
  and Gosnell get more involved this week, but of all the names,
• 1:05:35
  we've heard. The one named we have not heard
• 1:05:39
  other than his nasty downfield blocking his Jaden blue.
• 1:05:42
  How important is it to get his confidence up this week in
• 1:05:49
  overall start thinking. Now we have maybe six reliable
• 1:05:53
  wide receiver targets. He and I think what's strange is
• 1:05:57
  that we've done a good job of like scheming a couple other
• 1:05:59
  guys open. Predictably Gosnell in blumrich.
• 1:06:03
  I'd like to see us start working some some scheme to get blue,
• 1:06:08
  some open touches chance for him to get the ball in space and let
• 1:06:12
  him work a little bit because I don't know if it's a confidence
• 1:06:15
  thing right now but he's not getting good separation.
• 1:06:18
  When he's on the field, he hasn't seen a lot of targets and
• 1:06:23
  I think we need to start calling it.
• 1:06:25
  A little bit to get him comfortable in this office
• 1:06:27
  because he's going to need to play a role in this offense.
• 1:06:29
  Whether he ends up, you know, playing the role that I think
• 1:06:32
  that a lot of us thought he could be coming into the season.
• 1:06:35
  That's the question. But he's going to still need to
• 1:06:37
  play a role for us this year. So we need to start getting in
• 1:06:39
  some confidence. Yeah, it's definitely he's sort
• 1:06:45
  of like that. I don't want to say it's the
• 1:06:47
  linchpin. But I feel like he is because if
• 1:06:51
  you feel like, if you get him going because he does have a
• 1:06:54
  skill set, he has it will make things a year.
• 1:06:58
  So you for Caleb, it will make things easier for Connor and
• 1:07:01
  Gosnell. Even the Wayne just, he's like
• 1:07:04
  that one guy. So it's really going to be
• 1:07:08
  interesting to see. I hope they scheme.
• 1:07:11
  I hope that the game plan is like you said, around scheming
• 1:07:15
  him to where he gets the ball and he feels comfortable.
• 1:07:19
  All right, um notice the depth chart that our friend, David
• 1:07:23
  Cunningham put out. Did you see who was 2 on The X
• 1:07:27
  side? Yes, I'll be got it.
• 1:07:30
  Christian Moss Out There. Interested.
• 1:07:35
  The walk on Willie officially is no longer on the wide receiver
• 1:07:38
  depth, so we don't know it, but could Moss have been battling
• 1:07:43
  something. We had heard his name, mentioned
• 1:07:45
  a few times, how important to get him and you know somebody
• 1:07:50
  else coming back, Jalen Jones, how important to get them on the
• 1:07:53
  field for a ton of reps this week?
• 1:07:56
  Yeah, I mean, those are the two guys we were talking about
• 1:07:58
  preseason of kind of being that, you know, fourth, fifth, six
• 1:08:02
  guy. In the wide receiver room that
• 1:08:04
  we're going to need to count on to some degree this year.
• 1:08:08
  It's great seeing their names back on the depth chart in the
• 1:08:10
  2D looking forward to seeing what they can do in some
• 1:08:15
  extended time. I know Moss, I think got a
• 1:08:17
  little run against BC, we haven't seen Jones yet but he's
• 1:08:22
  back in the depth chart. So I'm looking forward to see
• 1:08:24
  what he can do out there this week.
• 1:08:26
  And this is the week that you can kind of let some of these
• 1:08:28
  young guys cook a little bit. I feel like because I don't I
• 1:08:32
  don't think that That they're going to match up that great
• 1:08:34
  with us outside so I want to see us try to get some separation.
• 1:08:39
  I want to see us work in some young guys and get them some
• 1:08:42
  targets just like we did we do we talked about with blue?
• 1:08:45
  I want to see at least one or two routes schemed for moss and
• 1:08:49
  Jalen to kind of get the ball in their hands and make a play.
• 1:08:54
  All right, what can we do? As far as the tight ends go, you
• 1:08:59
  mentioned, you were not satisfied with their blocking.
• 1:09:03
  When they're in line or in the wing.
• 1:09:05
  What can we do to help? Obviously plan or lesser
• 1:09:09
  opponents? A confidence Builder.
• 1:09:11
  But what do you look for technique-wise in a game like
• 1:09:15
  this? I mean, I think right now the
• 1:09:18
  biggest problem is that, sometimes it's the assignment
• 1:09:22
  they're not reading the alignment of the defense
• 1:09:23
  correctly and they're missing their assignment.
• 1:09:26
  Okay? So I think What needs to be
• 1:09:28
  looked at this? We can correct.
• 1:09:29
  It is that you know you got a lot of times where you seeing
• 1:09:33
  Gallo ship when he when you shouldn't.
• 1:09:38
  You got it. You got him going up to the
• 1:09:40
  wrong backer, you get. I mean there's a lot of things
• 1:09:43
  that are just maybe just Gallo still getting adjusted to some
• 1:09:47
  of the elements of the offense because we didn't see as many of
• 1:09:51
  these blocking snafus from him last year.
• 1:09:54
  But I don't know whether that's just a comfort with the offense
• 1:09:57
  that he had last year that he hasn't gained this year.
• 1:10:01
  He looks a lot better. He's picked up the passing
• 1:10:04
  elements quickly. Okay, it seems like he has not
• 1:10:07
  picked up the Run. Elements of this offense as
• 1:10:10
  quickly. That's interesting, especially
• 1:10:13
  when Gallo was known as kind of The Blocking tight end last
• 1:10:16
  year. I mean, he got a little warm or
• 1:10:19
  of the offensive play maker role in James Mitchell, went out.
• 1:10:22
  So I find that interesting he hadn't picked it up that quick,
• 1:10:25
  but again, Being asked to do different things and maybe it's
• 1:10:30
  just not there again. We see him.
• 1:10:32
  Catch the ball. So we know we can do that but
• 1:10:36
  hopefully this week the blocking gets better.
• 1:10:39
  Because as we get again, this is sort of the one where it's like,
• 1:10:44
  we're in the woods right now, and we're about to hit the
• 1:10:48
  opening, and we've got a lot of people in front of us.
• 1:10:51
  We got to go through. All right, Brian, let's flip the
• 1:10:54
  defense, let's talk a couple things on that side of Ball.
• 1:10:57
  Let's just go ahead and say it with their play in the first two
• 1:11:00
  games. Dorian strong in Armani Captain
• 1:11:03
  have absolutely locked down the ones.
• 1:11:06
  Yeah, they played well other than, like, you know, one, one,
• 1:11:10
  one ball here, they're not a whole lot to, you know, shake my
• 1:11:15
  fist at for them Strong's had some good plays, you had the one
• 1:11:20
  where you got Burnell, that double move buys a flowers but
• 1:11:23
  you know who in the ACC, hasn't at one point Chapman with the
• 1:11:27
  big pick to set us up to really kind of get BC off their game
• 1:11:31
  early. So they're locked in there.
• 1:11:34
  But we did see Bree on. Murray back from suspension.
• 1:11:36
  In this week we saw DJ Harvey gets significantly more run this
• 1:11:40
  week outside and in the nickel which I think was good because
• 1:11:45
  it gave Harvey more confidence and it gave strong and Chapman.
• 1:11:50
  The opportunity to get a blow and stay fresh for longer into
• 1:11:53
  the game. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:11:56
  I think that really helped as the game wore on when Marie and
• 1:12:00
  Harvey had been in there, getting those reps getting those
• 1:12:03
  chances, but You know, the one touchdown that BC scored, it
• 1:12:11
  doesn't look, I think very is who he is, and I don't think, I
• 1:12:16
  think he's good for a blow, he's good situationally.
• 1:12:19
  But I think the next time there is a team inside the 30-yard
• 1:12:22
  line, I have a feeling real Marie won't be on the field.
• 1:12:26
  Yeah, I mean, you know, we talked about him struggling with
• 1:12:29
  you guys with with speed or size and yet He does a lot better
• 1:12:37
  when he's able to read and react.
• 1:12:39
  He doesn't do a great sometimes when he's asked to, to run with
• 1:12:43
  those guys and I'm looking for some improvement.
• 1:12:49
  Because right now, it's mostly inconsistencies and technique
• 1:12:52
  and decision-making on his part. If he can clean some of that up,
• 1:12:57
  he might be a little bit more reliable but I think he's good
• 1:13:00
  enough again. As you said to kind of give
• 1:13:02
  those key guys, a blow especially in certain parts of
• 1:13:05
  the field. Yeah, It's like he's gonna be a
• 1:13:07
  between the 30s guy because the coach down he gave up to Jaden
• 1:13:11
  Williams. I mean, As soon as you saw the
• 1:13:15
  lineup in the route here and you knew he was running a fade and
• 1:13:19
  in something, he never got around.
• 1:13:21
  And it was just an easy TouchDown for Williams.
• 1:13:24
  So, but again, That's okay. At least I'm going to go back to
• 1:13:29
  something prize said know your weaknesses, now we officially
• 1:13:33
  know. That's prions.
• 1:13:34
  Will you just sit still, the weakness here to here.
• 1:13:37
  He's fine though, but it's going to be like we got a
• 1:13:39
  situationally, get him in the beginning of drives.
• 1:13:45
  So it's going to be such a key thing there.
• 1:13:49
  All right. Brian.
• 1:13:51
  Let's talk about the D line because I think if they're in,
• 1:13:54
  we're holding them off till last.
• 1:13:56
  Because I think, If there is a group that has now in multiple
• 1:14:00
  games at both positions, I think this group has now become
• 1:14:07
  pleasantly surprising at least to me at least to me and yeah,
• 1:14:13
  thank you. Yeah, I thought this group was
• 1:14:16
  going to be fine this year. I thought they were going to
• 1:14:19
  struggle depth wise but I thought they would be fine.
• 1:14:22
  Not much more than that. And they've really been probably
• 1:14:27
  Outside of the linebackers, you know, playing as well as any
• 1:14:31
  other group on the defense. And because we knew that we had
• 1:14:34
  a veteran, secondary we had a veteran linebacker Corps and we
• 1:14:39
  had, you know, one vet and then a one vet at defensive end one
• 1:14:46
  vetted, the d-tackle room and then a couple of other young
• 1:14:48
  guys that were riding along. We weren't really sure, kind of
• 1:14:51
  what the deal I was going to look like, we knew we had some
• 1:14:53
  depth concerns at d-tackle because we only had proven guys
• 1:14:57
  there and you know, they've stepped up we've gotten some
• 1:15:02
  additional play out of Garbutt, he played a ton of snaps against
• 1:15:07
  ODU and then came back and had the game of his life against can
• 1:15:10
  see the very next week. We saw McRae was healthy this
• 1:15:15
  week, he got some more run. Look, good looks at least like
• 1:15:19
  he's going to be able to give us that second unit for that we
• 1:15:24
  need. And you know, interior I'm going
• 1:15:27
  to give a big shout-out to Wilfred Pinay.
• 1:15:30
  He's improved significantly said last year.
• 1:15:34
  Definitely Shrunk the gap between him and those like those
• 1:15:37
  big three that we just talked about in that room.
• 1:15:40
  You know, we thought there was going to be kind of a drop-off,
• 1:15:43
  you know, once you get got past Kendricks, Pollard and fuga and
• 1:15:47
  there isn't a significant drop-off there.
• 1:15:49
  Well there's not he's going out there, you know, obviously got
• 1:15:54
  to half-sack this week and there were numerous time you could see
• 1:15:57
  him being this guy off the snap, he's gain that weight.
• 1:16:00
  You know he was he was he was undersized last year and now
• 1:16:04
  Now, he's getting up into the to 80 range.
• 1:16:07
  He's an athlete. Anyway, I know when you look at
• 1:16:09
  this tape, like kids an athlete, they got to figure out what to
• 1:16:13
  do with him and I think that's great to see because now that
• 1:16:18
  you've got four on that you can continue to run and we saw that
• 1:16:21
  Saturday night, man you saw him. You saw him and Kendricks him
• 1:16:24
  and who you saw fuga and Pollard, you saw Pollard and
• 1:16:27
  Pinette that constant rotation which I think is something we've
• 1:16:31
  gotten even more excited about because It feel like although
• 1:16:36
  Brent prize, calling the defense, I think Chris Marv is
• 1:16:39
  handling the rotations. I do not foresee.
• 1:16:42
  Brent pry, handling both in. That's a good thing.
• 1:16:48
  And you mentioned CJ McRae. The more I see Cole Nelson in, I
• 1:16:56
  don't think it's next year, I think next year, he is going to
• 1:16:59
  be a very good defensive end I think two years from now.
• 1:17:02
  I think Full Nelson is going to be special You are you're seeing
• 1:17:07
  the flashes getting the time this year.
• 1:17:10
  I think next year, there's going to be some learning because
• 1:17:12
  you've got to be the guy. I think 20 24.
• 1:17:16
  I think that kids could be all-acc.
• 1:17:19
  Just what I'm seeing right now. We'll see man.
• 1:17:23
  I mean I like his progress. I like that, he's taking some
• 1:17:26
  steps coming into this year because we needed it, right?
• 1:17:28
  Like we. Yeah, we were never said we
• 1:17:30
  needed somebody else to step up. I'm glad to see McRae stepping
• 1:17:33
  up. I'm glad to see him stepping up.
• 1:17:34
  I think that's going to be play pay dividends down the road
• 1:17:38
  because we got a lot of young guys outside of Garbutt that are
• 1:17:40
  that are making some plays on that defensive end position.
• 1:17:44
  Abso-freakin'-lutely. All right y'all for making
• 1:17:47
  prediction let's just go with a few hokey Keys here.
• 1:17:51
  I think the first one Brian. As soon as I seen wolper didn't
• 1:17:54
  score again is we cannot play down to this opponent.
• 1:17:59
  We need to force our will upon them.
• 1:18:03
  Yeah. And that's going on both sides.
• 1:18:05
  I don't think the defense is going to have a problem making
• 1:18:08
  plays and keeping them in check. I need to see some level of
• 1:18:12
  domination from the offense. And yes you that out the gate.
• 1:18:16
  Well you won't I think you've already said you won't 250 on
• 1:18:19
  the ground. And I and I think what it is, I
• 1:18:23
  want at least 250 on the ground. And then, I mean, I want to get
• 1:18:27
  the younger, guys, some experience because I feel like
• 1:18:29
  that is going to be the biggest biggest thing this week.
• 1:18:32
  That's that's key. Number two is getting young,
• 1:18:35
  guys experience all over the field, all of all of the field.
• 1:18:39
  Every position, the young guys need to play.
• 1:18:42
  I think specifically, we got to look at the wide receiver room.
• 1:18:45
  Yeah, we talked about that in our in our know thyself.
• 1:18:50
  Get those young guys. Out there.
• 1:18:52
  I want to see. I want to see brown getting some
• 1:18:54
  some run out there. I'd like to see Devin get out
• 1:18:57
  there and get, give it at least a few couple throws in a few
• 1:19:01
  runs if we can. Yeah, on the defensive side of
• 1:19:06
  the ball, get some of the younger linebackers, some more
• 1:19:08
  play, get some of the younger guys.
• 1:19:10
  In the, the safety room somewhere play.
• 1:19:13
  What about the inside? What about, what about the line
• 1:19:16
  do you think? I mean, we, I mean, Burgos, and,
• 1:19:20
  who am I missing? Here.
• 1:19:23
  Walking on that, think, moist them moist and I think they've
• 1:19:26
  got some run already, but I think we need to look at the
• 1:19:29
  detangles to because obviously, you know, after next year, we're
• 1:19:33
  going to be losing to, I think, give them run know this.
• 1:19:37
  You haven't got her out there. Why, why not for this game, why
• 1:19:41
  not? Because you still have three
• 1:19:44
  games where you can, you can still save the shirt, so I'm
• 1:19:48
  with you everywhere on that field.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah. I mean, you could, you can
• 1:19:52
  unload the clip in my We should be up enough where I can unload
• 1:19:55
  the clip, walk home walk, ons. All right, I think this is a
• 1:20:00
  real big one and not only to for the rest of the season or if
• 1:20:06
  this is a big one for the rest of you.
• 1:20:07
  We've got to continue to play clean and when I say clean, I'm
• 1:20:10
  talking about the penalties. I know turnovers are going to
• 1:20:13
  happen. You know, you hold your hands up
• 1:20:15
  on that, but I don't want to see the dumb penalties again.
• 1:20:18
  I don't want to see the procedural stuff.
• 1:20:20
  We cleaned it up. Let's continue.
• 1:20:23
  To do that for the rest of the season because the less tiles we
• 1:20:26
  shoot ourselves in the foot. It's going to make it tougher on
• 1:20:30
  the other team especially if our defense is still going the way
• 1:20:33
  it's going. Yeah.
• 1:20:35
  And I think the big thing is we don't have to necessarily win
• 1:20:38
  the turnover battle, but we can't lose it.
• 1:20:40
  Yeah, we look at turnovers as far as the penalties.
• 1:20:44
  Yeah, we got to keep it around that, you know, 45 for 25 or 30
• 1:20:49
  that we had this week versus, you know, 15 for 110, that's a
• 1:20:56
  big difference. You can't give up an entire
• 1:20:58
  Drive. Extra the entire drive worth of
• 1:21:01
  penalties really two drives and if you look at it in penalties,
• 1:21:07
  compared to the ODU games, so that's got to be something that
• 1:21:10
  we keep up with, you know, a pi here.
• 1:21:14
  There, you know, ahold sometimes that happens.
• 1:21:18
  But we can't get burned by almost 50 yards, procedure,
• 1:21:21
  open, and penalties like we did against ODU.
• 1:21:23
  So keep that clean. Keep that moving.
• 1:21:26
  And I think we're going to be onto something, and I'm going to
• 1:21:28
  say the Last one here. We need some Beamer ball this
• 1:21:32
  week. We meet at least one defensive
• 1:21:34
  respectful team score. They're going to give us some
• 1:21:37
  opportunities both in the in the Special Teams game and with that
• 1:21:42
  offense throwing and putting the ball on the turf, alright,
• 1:21:45
  advantage of it, and get the ball in the end zone.
• 1:21:47
  I mean, if we play the way we, I think we can, we have the
• 1:21:51
  potential to put up 14 to 21 just on defense and special
• 1:21:54
  teams alone. All right, well then, if you're
• 1:21:57
  thinking that what's your prediction This game.
• 1:22:01
  My prediction for this game, is that the Hokies do not sleep,
• 1:22:05
  walk out. The gate, they are solid on
• 1:22:07
  offense and they are spectacular on defense.
• 1:22:09
  It's a forty one to nothing win for the Hokies.
• 1:22:12
  All right, I am not poor. Same exact margin of Victory.
• 1:22:16
  I say Hokies 44. I say Wofford three.
• 1:22:19
  I do think they break their streak and they can average 1.2
• 1:22:22
  game. But when they get their field
• 1:22:24
  gold, it's going to be against the sixth string wall homes in
• 1:22:27
  the fourth quarter after the first half, when we put 31
• 1:22:31
  points and basically cruise home from there.
• 1:22:35
  So I think big wins. Do I want to see more?
• 1:22:37
  Yeah, I'd love to see 60. I'd love to see 63 7 or 63 but I
• 1:22:44
  think since we know the importance of mixing in a lot of
• 1:22:47
  the younger guys, I think we get up something get-ups, five or
• 1:22:52
  six touchdowns. We're going to start getting
• 1:22:55
  everybody else in absolute freak and looting.
• 1:22:58
  All right, Brian. Let's look at the big screen.
• 1:23:00
  Wieners this weekend. A lot of really good games going
• 1:23:03
  on. Ranked battle up in Oregon this
• 1:23:06
  week, and I'm going to take it down south.
• 1:23:09
  I'm going to go down to the plains of Auburn.
• 1:23:11
  Where print prize former team goes on the road to play Auburn
• 1:23:17
  Auburn has struggled in their first two games.
• 1:23:19
  They almost lost to San Jose State at Auburn last weekend.
• 1:23:24
  I think they want, 2416 Penn State's going in there laying
• 1:23:28
  three points. And I think Penn State wins this
• 1:23:32
  game by about ten like 3121 because they're trying to get
• 1:23:37
  Brian hearts and fire down there, let him lose.
• 1:23:41
  Let him lose Penn State. They'll probably go ahead and
• 1:23:42
  buy them out on Sunday morning. What about you?
• 1:23:45
  What's yours? My big screener is one that has
• 1:23:50
  a little bit of ACC flavor a little bit of.
• 1:23:54
  All right, let's let's pile on. I've got Miami at Texas A&M.
• 1:24:00
  Let's keep piling on am, while the balls are old right here.
• 1:24:04
  So right now am is a five and a half Point favorite at home.
• 1:24:09
  Okay, I'm picking Miami in this one.
• 1:24:14
  I'm not sure if making you, the quarterback change is going to
• 1:24:17
  be what is needed. And we'll see if that's what
• 1:24:19
  that's what happens this week. But there could, there could be
• 1:24:22
  another acclimation period between getting a new signal
• 1:24:26
  caller in there. And before this offense is
• 1:24:28
  humming like it needs to to win and when I look at Miami there,
• 1:24:33
  a better quality opponent than App State in terms of the talent
• 1:24:38
  that they have on the field. So I don't think that I am is
• 1:24:45
  quite ready for prime time again, okay?
• 1:24:49
  Even with the quarterback change, if that's the route,
• 1:24:51
  they go. So I think Miami takes care of
• 1:24:53
  business in a close one, but I'm picking Miami to not only cover,
• 1:24:58
  but to win the game outright all righty.
• 1:25:03
  All right, we'll write those two down.
• 1:25:06
  Brian, has anything broken in the last hour?
• 1:25:10
  And 26 minutes? I think we're good, man.
• 1:25:14
  I don't see anything of import. All right, well that is going to
• 1:25:18
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• 1:25:22
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