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Speaker 2: Let's chat about UVA, FSU.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to ACC Football Addiction, FSU and UVA this weekend.
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Speaker 1: while who's 24, seven, Jackie, Frank, truly on with us
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Speaker 1: for a few minutes to talk about the game. We
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Speaker 1: were talking off air, uh, UVA, a favorite in this game.
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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's surprised. And I don't know if
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Speaker 1: that has more to do with Florida. Say UVA obviously
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Speaker 1: had the really big week zero win, then dropped the
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Speaker 1: game at West Virginia. But what is the, so with
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Speaker 1: both of those things in mind, what is the mood
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Speaker 1: right now around UVA with kind of the highs and
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Speaker 1: lows already to start this young season?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's some cautious optimism about what this
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Speaker 3: team can do. I think for me personally, I thought
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Speaker 3: there was a high ceiling for this team. The only
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Speaker 3: caveat now is they had a couple of key injuries
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Speaker 3: like Jason Hammond, a defensive tackle who Florida State saw
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Speaker 3: last year, who did really well last year. He's hurt.
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Speaker 3: He's out for the rest of the year. And I
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Speaker 3: know that's just one guy in the middle of the defense,
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Speaker 3: but the issue that they have is their depth on
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Speaker 3: the defensive tackle side because Zion Wilson didn't win his
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Speaker 3: extra year of eligibility was already down a guy. So
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Speaker 3: with Jason Hammond out, that's where you're kind of going, okay,
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Speaker 3: maybe do they have the depth in the defensive line
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Speaker 3: to go against some of these guys that are a
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Speaker 3: little bit better as a run offense? Like I'm looking at,
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Speaker 3: you know, West Virginia, for instance, that's where I highlighted
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Speaker 3: that was kind of part of the weakness. But overall,
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Speaker 3: I think Virginia is still a team that can compete
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Speaker 3: with the ACC, and they do have depth in a
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Speaker 3: lot of positions. I mean, one of them is at quarterback.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Bo Perville is a starting quarterback, but then
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Speaker 3: their backup is Eli Holstein, who's started an ACC game.
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Speaker 3: So that's why sometimes I think Virginia has a little
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Speaker 3: bit of the edge. And also, when your average age
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Speaker 3: on the O-line is almost the average age of the
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Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys O-line, I mean, that always weighs you a
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Speaker 3: little bit.
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Speaker 1: Um, speaking of Bo Pribula, I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: saw this. I don't know if you got a smile
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Speaker 1: out of this or what the UVA reaction was. FSU's
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, Tony Elliott compared Bo Pribula to Tim Tebow,
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Speaker 1: which I thought was a little, uh, a little much
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Speaker 1: like I like Bo. I, you know, obviously followed him
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Speaker 1: coming from Penn state, but, uh, I thought that was
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Speaker 1: a little bit much, but just maybe back that off
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Speaker 1: a little bit and tell me your, your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: him overall through, uh, a handful of games here so far.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So For him, I think the first game obviously
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Speaker 3: saw what he was capable with his legs, right? I mean,
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Speaker 3: if you listen to NC State, apparently they weren't, they
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Speaker 3: were shocked that Bo Privula could run the football. I
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Speaker 3: don't know how, but they were. So yeah, so that's
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Speaker 3: what he showed his legs against Norfolk State and even against,
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Speaker 3: you know, in the last game, they were able to
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Speaker 3: show that he was able to pass the ball against Delaware.
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Speaker 3: And it was a good showing for them because they
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Speaker 3: had their starting wide receiver Rico Flores back for at
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Speaker 3: full health because he missed the first two games with
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Speaker 3: a hamstring injury and just came back for the West
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Speaker 3: Virginia game, but didn't have as many snaps. So you
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Speaker 3: have a starting receiver back and you saw those two
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Speaker 3: connect a lot. And what Rico Flores did was he
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Speaker 3: opened up things for Cam Courtney, for Jaquan Gibson, for
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Speaker 3: Deshaun Martin. So that highlighted Bo Pribula's passing. Because that's
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Speaker 3: always been a question mark for Bo Pribula coming in
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Speaker 3: because of how Missouri ran their offense last year. They
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Speaker 3: highlighted so much of the run game, but we never
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Speaker 3: saw Bo Pribula in those passing situations. And even now,
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Speaker 3: one of the questions you still have is can he
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Speaker 3: do that under pressure, right? Virginia has a really good
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Speaker 3: O-line offensively. But Florida State remember Jamari Taylor from last year.
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Speaker 3: He was a really good pass blocker. He really was
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Speaker 3: good at picking up the blitz. They haven't had a
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Speaker 3: guy in that. And the way Virginia runs their offense,
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Speaker 3: they run two running back sets and two tight end sets.
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Speaker 3: And those guys are crucial in the pass blocking and
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Speaker 3: also run blocking. But specifically the pass blocking, we're talking
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Speaker 3: about Bo Pribula. And in West Virginia, they didn't do
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Speaker 3: very well with that. And that caused Bo Pribula to
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Speaker 3: be under pressure a lot. And sometimes the timing was off.
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Speaker 3: So that's the key that I want to watch against
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Speaker 3: Florida State is because he's going to face a team
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Speaker 3: that could put some pressure on him. I know Florida
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Speaker 3: State's been up and down on defense, but still, that's
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Speaker 3: still a question mark for him. And I know UVA
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Speaker 3: has been really working with him to not just go
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Speaker 3: automatically for the run, to try to go through your
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Speaker 3: progressions and wait for your wide receivers to get separation
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Speaker 3: because you do have a really solid line.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Florida State.
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Speaker 1: from my perspective has not been good enough in the
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Speaker 1: past rush. They were a little bit better this weekend,
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Speaker 1: but you're kind of considering the opponent in being central Arkansas. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I felt like Keelan Russell had all day to, to
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Speaker 1: get through progressions and get through reads and was able
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Speaker 1: to do pretty well.
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Speaker 3: Shoot.
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Speaker 1: I thought Kevin Jennings had the same, same kind of benefit. Uh,
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Speaker 1: when SMU came to town, And then really even New
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Speaker 1: Mexico State's quarterback ended up going, I think, 10 for
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Speaker 1: 13 on third down because we just could not get home.
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Speaker 1: And that is a definite concern of mine, especially with
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Speaker 1: UVA last year. I was in Charlottesville for the game
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Speaker 1: and I'm still a little scarred. But UVA last year
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Speaker 1: felt like they kind of exposed Florida State. They were
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Speaker 1: certainly the first team of seven to beat them. But
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Speaker 1: they kind of exposed Florida State in the fact that
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Speaker 1: our linebackers can't cover And if I see mesh one
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Speaker 1: more time, which I'm sure I'll see it plenty of
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Speaker 1: times on, on Saturday and it'll give me more nightmares,
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Speaker 1: but that feels like the, the part of Florida state's
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Speaker 1: game that if they can't get home, I don't know
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Speaker 1: how many deep shots UVA will take in this game,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know how many of they need to,
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Speaker 1: if they can continue to kind of work in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the field where Florida state is really, really weak.
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Speaker 2: And Kevin Jennings saw some success. Keelan Russell.
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Speaker 1: No, I was able to kind of find whatever he
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Speaker 1: wanted in that second half. I feel like that's kind
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Speaker 1: of your plan of attack. If your UVA is, man,
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I'm shocked that Virginia didn't utilize that
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Speaker 3: against West Virginia, to be honest, that was something I
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Speaker 3: was kind of expecting to see more of them playing
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Speaker 3: that way. Um, they do miss cameras. Uh, he was
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Speaker 3: a very pivotal part of the offense last year because
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Speaker 3: of their pre snap motions. And they haven't really done
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Speaker 3: that as much this year. So I think Cam Courtney
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Speaker 3: coming out and being more confident in the last game,
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Speaker 3: that was kind of his game where he had two touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: He had that 52 yarder touchdown that he took a
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Speaker 3: screen all the way to the house after two good
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Speaker 3: blocks from the wide receivers. And I think that's what
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Speaker 3: they want to see from Cam Courtney. He was inconsistent
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Speaker 3: the last few years. So that's who, if you're going
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Speaker 3: to try to target in the middle of the field,
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Speaker 3: it'll be Cam Courtney or Jake Juan Gibson. Those are
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Speaker 3: the guys that can go into space, but also Dakota Tweedy.
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Speaker 3: Dakota Tweedy is their tight end. And he's kind of,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to say he's not as quick as
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Speaker 3: he was last year after his injury, but he's still
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Speaker 3: trying to get back to that game conditioning from after
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Speaker 3: from last year. And I think he's the guy that
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Speaker 3: also will be a mismatch problem for Florida State in
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Speaker 3: the middle.
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Speaker 1: Over under on this game is 51 and a half,
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Speaker 1: which I don't go super deep into the betting lines
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Speaker 1: of games, but it feels low to me knowing what
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Speaker 1: we saw last year. And also just knowing what the
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Speaker 1: strengths of, you know, if you call it a strength,
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Speaker 1: like Florida state's offense show that they could go on
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Speaker 1: the road and put up 36 points in Tuscaloosa. I
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Speaker 1: would think that their defense will struggle against this UVA offense.
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Speaker 1: And that may lead this to be a little bit
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Speaker 1: higher scoring, but But looking at UVA's defense, you struggled
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Speaker 1: against a team that can run the ball well in
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Speaker 1: West Virginia. I think Florida State, for all of its problems,
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Speaker 1: has two really good running backs in Croma and then
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Speaker 1: Wisner back there with Singleton injured. Daniels' legs could be
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Speaker 1: a factor as well, though he's not shown a propensity
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Speaker 1: to run a ton.
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Speaker 2: He certainly can move around at times. And then they've
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Speaker 2: got good wideouts.
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Speaker 1: Now, the offensive line is a question, but thoughts on
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Speaker 1: Virginia defending against West what may be a talented offense
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Speaker 1: in certain spots?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually my biggest question when I was looking
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Speaker 3: at this matchup is because the Virginia defense you saw
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Speaker 3: against NC State was fast. It was physical. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they didn't give NC State any sort of time to
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Speaker 3: do anything. They didn't have a hundred yards of offense.
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Speaker 3: So CJ Bailey really struggled in that game. So That
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Speaker 3: defense is very different to the defense we saw against
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Speaker 3: West Virginia. And again, I mentioned Jason Hammond's injury. That
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Speaker 3: kind of threw things off a little bit because you
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Speaker 3: have Darren Henry Young, who was in their third down
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Speaker 3: defensive tackle for their speed packages. Now he's coming in
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Speaker 3: and replacing Jason Hammond, who was one of their best receivers.
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Speaker 3: guys to kind of penetrate and put pressure up front,
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Speaker 3: especially in those run situations. So you take out Jason Hammond,
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Speaker 3: you move Darren Henry Young there. They were able to
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Speaker 3: get Kazem Moore because of the new rule. They got
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Speaker 3: extra eligibility because of a court case in Kentucky. So
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Speaker 3: he came back, but he was an edge rusher last year.
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Speaker 3: Now he's moving inside as well. So those were kind
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Speaker 3: of questions that I had on this defense is can
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Speaker 3: they get enough pressure up top? Because they haven't been
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Speaker 3: able to get home as much to the quarterback. And
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Speaker 3: then the only thing is they have Cam Robinson back.
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Speaker 3: He didn't play against Florida state consistently last year. So
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Speaker 3: he will be back. And, um, He's a really good
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Speaker 3: guy to put pressure. Now, with Cam Robinson fully healthy,
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Speaker 3: I expect him to be kind of moved a little
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Speaker 3: bit more forward and he's going to be adding into
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Speaker 3: a couple of those pressure situations. And he actually was
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Speaker 3: one of the ones that had the best pass rush
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Speaker 3: grade against for profile focus. against Delaware. So I can
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Speaker 3: see Virginia using them. My thing is UVA secondary against
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Speaker 3: West Virginia. Yeah. They did not have a great game.
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Speaker 3: I mean, West Virginia was able to, I don't know
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Speaker 3: if they did something unexpectedly, because their wide receiver was
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Speaker 3: wide open in that game. I guess they just sold
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Speaker 3: themselves and they were going to kind of stop the run,
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Speaker 3: but then West Virginia attacked and went on offense as
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Speaker 3: far as the passing game. That was the main struggle
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Speaker 3: for them. And against Delaware, I mean, their starting quarterback,
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Speaker 3: who was a good passer, left in the second quarter,
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Speaker 3: if I remember correctly. for an injury so we didn't
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Speaker 3: really see them getting you know some passing and we
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Speaker 3: didn't see them really do much there I mean they
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Speaker 3: were playing their third guys by the time the third
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Speaker 3: quarter came around but that's my question there can Brandon
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Speaker 3: Hillman who had a stellar start to the season kind
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Speaker 3: of add to his takeaways his interceptions can he be
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Speaker 3: the one that's be more aggressive right because Devin Neal
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Speaker 3: was such a big part last year and Jason Brevard
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Speaker 3: when they played against Florida State those guys aren't there
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Speaker 3: anymore so you're looking for those guys to stop. So
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Speaker 3: if it's the Virginia defense from the first game, this
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Speaker 3: could be a lower score game. And I would take
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Speaker 3: that bet. But if those, that defense kind of shows
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Speaker 3: a little bit of what we saw in West Virginia,
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Speaker 3: this could be a close, close game and it could
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Speaker 3: be a high scoring game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I, I wonder how much just, and you kind
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Speaker 1: of alluded to this, but just the threat of Hawkins,
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Speaker 1: his legs, it was, I mean, he had 120 yards rushing.
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Speaker 2: He threw the ball.
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Speaker 1: He was 19 yards per completion. A lot of explosives in,
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Speaker 1: in that game. He was certainly finding it downfield. Ashton,
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Speaker 1: I think can move, but certainly not to the level
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Speaker 1: of Hawkins, right? Like Hawkins is closer to like a
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Speaker 1: Tommy Castellanos. You saw last year who admittedly, I think
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Speaker 1: it was a little bit banged up in that game
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Speaker 1: had gotten nicked the week prior. But I don't think Daniels,
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Speaker 1: I don't think they'll ask him to move quite like that.
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Speaker 1: But I do think he's probably, at his best, a
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Speaker 1: slightly better passer. I mean, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: he went out and threw for 377 yards on the
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Speaker 1: road in Tuscaloosa. You don't do that without having some ability. Like,
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Speaker 1: you know, you're not doing that to Bama. Now, Florida
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Speaker 1: State saw, you know, the run was dead, so they
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Speaker 1: had to throw the ball more. It took them a
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Speaker 1: lot of completions to get there. But they certainly can
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Speaker 1: beat you downfield at times. Deuce Robinson, I think, is
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Speaker 1: one of the better wide receivers in this conference. I
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Speaker 1: think Makai Danzy is really good. Jayvon Boggs has kind
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Speaker 1: of broken out, transferred from UCF last year. No, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: He was a recruit that flipped at the end of
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Speaker 1: signing day. So I do think that they have the
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Speaker 1: weapons to– be competitive against a UVA defense. My biggest
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Speaker 1: question mark is the offensive line. They, um, they have
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Speaker 1: not done a good job in my opinion, again, last
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Speaker 1: week is, is kind of an anomaly because you're playing
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Speaker 1: central Arkansas, but they didn't, they haven't done a great
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Speaker 1: job of, of protecting Daniels. Um, they, it's the weirdest, uh,
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Speaker 1: combined stat that you can find Florida state is one
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Speaker 1: of the highest in the country when it comes to
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Speaker 1: pressures allowed. And they're also one of the highest in
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Speaker 1: the country when it comes to the quarterback holding onto
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Speaker 1: the ball too long, which is a wild thing to
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Speaker 1: think about because both when the pressure is good or,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's getting sacked or getting hurried and throwing
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Speaker 1: it away. When the pressure is not able to get home,
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Speaker 1: he's holding onto the ball too long, which is a
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Speaker 1: terrible combo to have.
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Speaker 2: Like they're kind of bad on both ends of it.
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Speaker 1: So I think that matchup of, and we know this,
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Speaker 1: like all games are decided in the trenches, but that
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Speaker 1: matchup of FSU's O-line trying to give Daniels time, if
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Speaker 1: he has time, I think the offense can.
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Speaker 2: Score 28, 31, 34 points, whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: If he doesn't have time, I really struggle to see
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Speaker 1: Florida State being able to continuously move the ball effectively.
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Speaker 1: It'll come down to a lot of shot plays. Following
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Speaker 1: that up, I do like our running back. I think
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Speaker 1: Guzman Kroma, could be one of the better running backs
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Speaker 1: in the conference, in the league.
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Speaker 2: Thoughts on UVA's run defense?
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Speaker 1: Because that is a place that Florida State at times
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Speaker 1: has certainly seen success this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, again, Jason Hammond was, I keep pointing
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Speaker 3: to Jason Hammond, but because of his loss and that depth,
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Speaker 3: because Virginia relies on depth on D-line. If you remember, well, again,
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Speaker 3: last year, the way they play their D-line has a
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Speaker 3: lot of substitutions and they're average about Let's see, Jameer
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Speaker 3: Carter last year only had, what, 29 snaps in the
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Speaker 3: game against Florida State, and it went to how many overtimes? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So that was a depth and D-line that they rely
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Speaker 3: on last year. That's why they were so good late
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Speaker 3: in the game, because there were guys that were fresh.
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Speaker 3: When you take out Jason Hammond, you take out Zion Wilson,
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Speaker 3: who didn't get his eligibility waiver, and they couldn't replace him.
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Speaker 3: Those are things that you're looking at when you look
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Speaker 3: at run defense. Now, the good news is Cam Robinson
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Speaker 3: is back fully healthy. And you have Maddox Marcellus, a
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Speaker 3: South Florida guy who's been at Virginia now for a year.
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Speaker 3: He's really used to it. And he had a great
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Speaker 3: game against Delaware. He's very solid in run defense. I
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Speaker 3: think with those two, I think they've done a better
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Speaker 3: job there. And plus with Donovan Platt, who's kind of
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Speaker 3: taken over that Jason Prevard role from last year in
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Speaker 3: that Spur role, he's also done a good job there
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Speaker 3: kind of moving forward. And I know he's a corner,
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Speaker 3: but Jacoby Henderson... is actually been a pretty solid coming
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Speaker 3: up front and also helping in that run deep. That
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Speaker 3: was kind of his role in West Virginia. And he
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Speaker 3: didn't grade too badly considering what the game was for
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Speaker 3: that defense. He did actually a solid job for his assignment.
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Speaker 3: I think I want to point that out. Like a
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Speaker 3: lot of people look at pro football focus, but when
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Speaker 3: you look at his assignment and what he was meant
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Speaker 3: to do in certain plays, he was technically doing his job.
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Speaker 3: So he is actually something that the way John Radzinski
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Speaker 3: kind of figures out what they do with their DBs
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Speaker 3: because they play five. So they're, kind of moving forward
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Speaker 3: a little bit. And I think they do a good
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Speaker 3: job in that role. And I guess West Virginia, they
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Speaker 3: just sold out and they were just trying to defend
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Speaker 3: the run because they knew what Hawkins can do. So
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Speaker 3: I don't know if that situation kind of plays out here,
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Speaker 3: like you said, but I think their run defense is
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Speaker 3: relatively solid. Even, you know, against West Virginia, their running
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Speaker 3: back wasn't as successful. It was pretty much Hawkins. That was,
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Speaker 3: that was a game that Hawkins just did what he
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Speaker 3: wanted against Virginia. Um, and you have a guy, what
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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting with Virginia, their third down packages
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Speaker 3: in those situations, when even in short yardage situations, the
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Speaker 3: way they kind of change how they look and having
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Speaker 3: a guy like Nana on you kind of comes from
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Speaker 3: the other side. He's probably one of their best pass pressures. He,
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Speaker 3: you move him on the outside and then you move
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Speaker 3: two guys that are really quick in the middle of
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Speaker 3: cuisine more. And sometimes you have Darren Henry young and
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Speaker 3: that kind of changes the dynamics a little bit too. So.
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Speaker 3: Virginia is pretty solid on the run defense. Again, for me,
16:37
Speaker 3: the issue for Virginia is one that depth on the
16:43
Speaker 3: inside of the interior. And because those guys aren't getting
16:47
Speaker 3: the pressure up front, I feel like you can kind
16:51
Speaker 3: of get some success in the passing game that will
16:53
Speaker 3: open up your run. So I think that's my thing
16:57
Speaker 3: is if they can't do what they need to do
16:59
Speaker 3: up front, then you're going to automatically open up that
17:03
Speaker 3: run because they're going to have to figure out how
17:06
Speaker 3: to stop Florida State in the passing game.
17:08
Speaker 1: We talked about this at the very beginning, but we'll
17:11
Speaker 1: loop back around to it.
17:12
Speaker 2: UVA, a favorite in this game. I think it's close.
17:15
Speaker 1: I think it's like two and a half points, so
17:16
Speaker 1: it's not a huge spread. But on a neutral field,
17:19
Speaker 1: that's Vegas telling you maybe this would be a five-point game.
17:22
Speaker 2: At home, maybe that's seven or eight, right?
17:24
Speaker 1: So saying that UVA is the better team here, despite
17:28
Speaker 1: going on the road into Doak Campbell Stadium, It's a
17:30
Speaker 1: weird time at Florida State. You know, they like they
17:34
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're coming down for the game
17:35
Speaker 1: or not, but they they will boo when when the
17:37
Speaker 1: head coaches announced. In fact, last week, Florida State immediately
17:41
Speaker 1: started playing music after Mike Norvell was announced to try
17:43
Speaker 1: and drown some of that out when you're playing Central
17:46
Speaker 1: Arkansas and it's family weekend and parents weekend. Then when
17:50
Speaker 1: you've got to do that, it's certainly a. a weird spot, uh,
17:53
Speaker 1: for the fan base to be in. But I will
17:55
Speaker 1: say they, the fans do a good job of they,
17:58
Speaker 1: they don't blue boo the players much. You know, they're,
18:00
Speaker 1: they're not happy with the administration. They're not happy with
18:02
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. They want change. Um, but it's a
18:06
Speaker 1: place that still gets loud on third downs. And if
18:08
Speaker 1: the game is competitive, I expect the crowd to, to
18:10
Speaker 1: stick around. Um, how do you think UVA handles and,
18:13
Speaker 1: and as, as Tony talked about this a little bit,
18:15
Speaker 1: just handling, going on the road, being expected to win.
18:20
Speaker 1: going into a place that's like Doak Campbell, I often think, man,
18:23
Speaker 1: Florida State and Clemson and Miami, they don't get the
18:27
Speaker 1: benefit of when they're down, teams don't take them lightly.
18:30
Speaker 1: Like there are times in the ACC where maybe you
18:32
Speaker 1: take Wake Forest lightly or maybe you take Syracuse lightly.
18:36
Speaker 1: Even when Florida State's not good, that's still a logo
18:39
Speaker 1: that these kids grew up remembering being really good. And
18:41
Speaker 1: I don't think Florida State, Clemson, and Miami get that benefit.
18:44
Speaker 1: And so just thoughts around how Virginia handles an opponent
18:49
Speaker 1: like this, because obviously when they went on a neutral
18:51
Speaker 1: side against West Virginia, to go back to that, it
18:53
Speaker 1: didn't work out great, but just handling the moment is
18:56
Speaker 1: maybe the, the idea.
18:57
Speaker 3: Yeah. They, uh, Virginia hates Charlotte for right now. They,
19:00
Speaker 3: they hate the stadium, but no, actually, uh, we are
19:03
Speaker 3: speaking to Tony Elliott. Um, actually after we record this,
19:06
Speaker 3: that he only talks on Tuesday, but funny enough, after
19:08
Speaker 3: the Delaware game, he actually spoke about Florida state. Um,
19:12
Speaker 3: because he said he has huge respect to the Florida
19:14
Speaker 3: state program. He joked that he was happy. It wasn't
19:17
Speaker 3: a night game because he said he remember playing Tallahassee
19:20
Speaker 3: don't Campbell at night. And it was always such an
19:22
Speaker 3: electric environment. Um, And he made a point by saying
19:25
Speaker 3: in his career in the ACC, you have to go
19:29
Speaker 3: through Tallahassee in order to win the ACC. He made
19:32
Speaker 3: a point to saying that Florida State is still a
19:35
Speaker 3: great program and it's hard to win in Tallahassee. He
19:40
Speaker 3: went and talked about two minutes about this game already
19:44
Speaker 3: after Delaware. So I think there's a huge respect for
19:47
Speaker 3: the program. He said it doesn't matter if they're having
19:49
Speaker 3: a down year or not. It's still a tough game
19:51
Speaker 3: for them and they're treating it as such. And that's
19:54
Speaker 3: something that even the team is talking about now as
19:57
Speaker 3: well is, you know, players were saying that they understand
20:01
Speaker 3: the magnitude of this game because for them, they play
20:05
Speaker 3: at SMU in a few weeks as well. So they
20:07
Speaker 3: understand that if they stumble against Florida State, their chances
20:13
Speaker 3: at an ACC championship game appearance again, and going back
20:16
Speaker 3: to Charlotte, dies down a lot because they do have
20:19
Speaker 3: that trip to SMU in about two, three weeks. So again,
20:24
Speaker 3: for them, they understand that this is such an important
20:26
Speaker 3: game in the bigger picture for them. But they also
20:28
Speaker 3: know that this is a team that should be respected.
20:32
Speaker 3: I mean, they really think that this offense for Florida
20:35
Speaker 3: State could cause them some issues. So Again, there's a
20:38
Speaker 3: lot of respect from the UVA staff.
20:41
Speaker 1: Just as an outsider, I'll get this and then we'll
20:44
Speaker 1: wrap up and go. But as an outsider, obviously I
20:46
Speaker 1: talked about just how it's such a weird time at
20:50
Speaker 1: Florida State. What's the outsider's perspective on Mike Norvell and
20:54
Speaker 1: just the situation there from you personally?
20:56
Speaker 3: For me, it's definitely, it's very interesting to see that
21:03
Speaker 3: because like in any other situation, I know there's other
21:05
Speaker 3: things going on financials and all that stuff. But for me,
21:09
Speaker 3: like the hot seat has been pretty hot since last year.
21:12
Speaker 3: So it was just seeing this continuous hot seat for
21:16
Speaker 3: Mike Norvell and the Florida State program and just kind
21:18
Speaker 3: of continuing on as someone from Florida too. So I've
21:23
Speaker 3: seen this Florida State program at its highest. So it's
21:27
Speaker 3: definitely very different. Even when talking to recruits, like I,
21:32
Speaker 3: it's very different talking about Florida State now than it
21:34
Speaker 3: was maybe because you do get questions of the future
21:38
Speaker 3: of the coaching, what's going on. So you do see
21:42
Speaker 3: that now, you know, I cover recruiting on the side
21:43
Speaker 3: for Virginia. So I do talk to guys and you
21:46
Speaker 3: do have that question. It was something that even Tony
21:48
Speaker 3: Elliott had to deal with two years ago, right? The
21:52
Speaker 3: thing is like, am I going to be going to
21:55
Speaker 3: play for the coach that I'm being recruited for. So
21:58
Speaker 3: it's definitely interesting. And the way college football works now,
22:02
Speaker 3: you have to kind of make a decision so early
22:04
Speaker 3: because it's not, you're going to affect everything down the way.
22:06
Speaker 3: So it's definitely interesting how everything's being, just as an outsider,
22:10
Speaker 3: you're like, okay, is this the game that will decide
22:13
Speaker 3: the future here for Florida State?
22:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
22:18
Speaker 1: Ultimately, I don't think anything happened Sunday, but I do
22:20
Speaker 1: think it it will have a large impact on, on
22:23
Speaker 1: what happens. Now the cake might already be baked, you know,
22:26
Speaker 1: but winning this could move that down the road a
22:29
Speaker 1: little bit.
22:29
Speaker 2: You still have Clemson coming to town.
22:31
Speaker 1: You should go, you know, on the road and play
22:33
Speaker 1: at pit on a Friday night, Louisville on a Friday night.
22:36
Speaker 1: Miami is, is certainly looks like they're in a different
22:38
Speaker 1: weight class right now. NC state comes to town. That's
22:41
Speaker 1: certainly a winnable game. Boston college is a road game
22:44
Speaker 1: that Florida hasn't won a road game in like 1100
22:46
Speaker 1: days or something at this point.
22:48
Speaker 2: So it's, Yeah.
22:48
Speaker 1: Like it's, it is daunting. Uh, but UVA could maybe
22:53
Speaker 1: bring about a stay of execution. If Florida state could
22:55
Speaker 1: find a way to win.
22:56
Speaker 2: It, uh, really early in the week.
22:58
Speaker 1: Do you have a, even if you don't have a
22:59
Speaker 1: full prediction, do you have a, a lean on this
23:01
Speaker 1: one or what do you think happens on Saturday?
23:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Virginia, I give the edge to Virginia
23:07
Speaker 3: right now in this early part of the season, I'm
23:09
Speaker 3: giving an edge to Virginia in a lot of these
23:11
Speaker 3: games that are close because of their veteran experience, especially
23:14
Speaker 3: in the trenches on the old line. If they give
23:16
Speaker 3: Bo Pribula time in the pocket to develop a passing
23:20
Speaker 3: game and you give time for them to run the
23:23
Speaker 3: football like they did against NC State, I mean, I'm
23:25
Speaker 3: going to give them the edge. Because even against West Virginia,
23:28
Speaker 3: although the defense didn't give them enough stops, the offense
23:31
Speaker 3: did start moving the ball pretty effectively after they kind
23:35
Speaker 3: of got into the rhythm. So I'm giving the edge
23:37
Speaker 3: to Virginia because I think Virginia's offense can take advantage
23:41
Speaker 3: of Florida State's defense.
23:43
Speaker 2: Awesome. Where can people follow you?
23:45
Speaker 1: What do you have coming this week as you continue
23:47
Speaker 1: to preview this game and then wrap it up and
23:49
Speaker 1: everything else that'll go on?
23:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. You can find me on wahoos247. com. I'm an
23:54
Speaker 3: at Jackie friend underscore, uh, today on Tuesday, Tony Elliott
23:58
Speaker 3: will be speaking. So we'll have more updates on everything
24:01
Speaker 3: that's going on injury wise for Virginia, if there's anything
24:03
Speaker 3: developing there, and then I'll have all like player interviews.
24:06
Speaker 3: We're talking to a couple of players that were there
24:08
Speaker 3: last year against Florida State. We're also talking to guys
24:12
Speaker 3: that are from Florida who obviously have a different type
24:15
Speaker 3: of angle and different type of experience playing Florida State.
24:18
Speaker 3: So all that's coming on Wahoos 24-7.
24:20
Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you so much for taking a few minutes today.
24:22
Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend.
24:24
Speaker 3: Thank you.
24:24
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