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There's Something THEY Are NOT Telling You About Clemson Tigers vs Virginia Tech Hokies! · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: Clemson and Virginia Tech, the Hokies and Tigers in the ACC,
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  Speaker 1: a big game for both teams. Clemson's certainly not dead
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  Speaker 1: in this conference with just the one conference loss to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech with a couple of losses but needing to
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  Speaker 1: rebound a tad.
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  Speaker 2: What are you thinking here, Cole.
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  Speaker 1: From the ACC perspective of Clemson-Virginia Tech? Again, presented by PrizePix.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Virginia Tech got right last week when they played
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  Speaker 3: against Georgia Tech in the 34-24 win. You got to
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  Speaker 3: see more of the Ethan Grunkemeier that we had witnessed
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  Speaker 3: when he played against Pitt and when he played early
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  Speaker 3: on in the season that gave you life. And I
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  Speaker 3: do think that's beneficial because you also played that game
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  Speaker 3: at Lane Stadium, which gives you a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: momentum back on your side. How do you handle Death
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  Speaker 3: Valley at a, what is it, 2.30 kick, 6 o'clock kick?
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  Speaker 3: So dust type of kick. It's still a good Clemson defense.
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  Speaker 3: It still is a defense that can get after you.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's 7 Eastern. 7 Eastern.
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  Speaker 4: 6 Central.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 6 Central.
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  Speaker 3: It still is a good Clemson defense. It still is
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  Speaker 3: a Clemson defense that can be proactive getting after you.
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  Speaker 3: Can you do what you've done throughout most of your
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  Speaker 3: ACC competition this year if you're Gronkemeyer, finding open receivers
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  Speaker 3: and winning with the explosives downfield to be able to
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  Speaker 3: create opportunities that give you the advantages with the deep shots,
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  Speaker 3: with the passing across the intermediate, winning on second and
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  Speaker 3: third down. And then for Clemson, you know, Clemson right
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  Speaker 3: now is alive because they beat North Carolina and they
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  Speaker 3: beat Cal State. And they beat Charleston Southern. But you
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  Speaker 3: don't learn anything in the Charleston Southern game. Now, Tate
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  Speaker 3: Reynolds still has his faults. Again, 127 passing yards in
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  Speaker 3: that game. They also went to... Perman got... What was it?
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  Speaker 3: He got in the game. Brock Bradley, I think, got
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  Speaker 3: in the game. They ran it for 251, though. And
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  Speaker 3: they were very balanced with the rushing attack with Wilson, Johnson, Reynolds, Davison...
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  Speaker 3: Can that be an advantage to you of where you
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  Speaker 3: take the ball and be out of Reynolds' hands, give
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  Speaker 3: the ball to your defense to keep this as low-scoring
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  Speaker 3: as possible, going up against a Brent Bride defense, and
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  Speaker 3: try to hope that you win 17-7 or 14-13 or
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  Speaker 3: something along those lines? Can your defense do enough to
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  Speaker 3: not force Tate Reynolds to have the play in a
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  Speaker 3: world where he is going to have to step on
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  Speaker 3: up and deliver strike after strike?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder about the matchup here.
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  Speaker 1: Of Tate Reynolds against this Virginia tech defense, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not completely sold on the tech defense. Like I, and
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  Speaker 1: I think Tate has continued to improve. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if dabble got that quarterback battle wrong in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: or if taste just a little bit more of a gamer,
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  Speaker 1: but I, I do think that he's a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: quarterback that, I mean, he's a developing quarterback that looks
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  Speaker 1: better each week.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you like better Tate Reynolds or George McIntyre?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, McIntyre far and away.
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  Speaker 4: Not close?
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  Speaker 3: McIntyre.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't even have to think about that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Tate played pretty well against Miami, all things considered.
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  Speaker 4: True. Tate reminds me of Billy Edwards from, like, two
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  Speaker 4: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to go that far.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he reminds me of him.
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  Speaker 4: It's very disrespectful, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It is pretty disrespectful.
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  Speaker 3: Like, he threw for nearly 300 yards, but he also
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  Speaker 3: had an interception in that game. So it's like, yeah, there's...
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  Speaker 3: let's say this. He's a true freshman. If he was
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  Speaker 3: making these mistakes as a sophomore, you'd feel a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot different about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. You can forgive a freshman. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I am interested.
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  Speaker 1: So I, I do want to see, cause that Virginia
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  Speaker 1: tech defense at times has been very, very leaky. And
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  Speaker 1: I wonder about that secondary. If some of these weapons
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  Speaker 1: for Clemson can get going. Conversely, I do like, I
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  Speaker 1: do like Clemson's defense, but I really like grunk. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's been one of the better, one of the
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  Speaker 1: better quarterbacks in this league and, which has pretty good
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play. You know, I don't certainly don't know that
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  Speaker 1: it's up to the level of, of some other conferences,
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  Speaker 1: but quarterback play in the ACC.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is it, is it better than the
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  Speaker 2: big 10 right now?
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  Speaker 3: Um, I think that there's more names that you look
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  Speaker 3: at and you say that there's balance. Like think about it.
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  Speaker 3: You have keen Holtz. You have, um, you have Mensah,
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  Speaker 3: you have Gio Lopez. We have still have Kevin Jennings.
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  Speaker 3: Those are four automatically. I take over most big 10
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks at this point. Uh, Gronkermeyer has been phenomenal in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of big, a lot of ACC matchups, uh,
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  Speaker 3: He also has some blundering mistakes. That's five. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how dare you slander his name?
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  Speaker 3: I would gladly do it.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to take it here, but. Tommy Ashton Daniels
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  Speaker 2: has played better.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, stop it. Ashton Daniels is playing the wrong sport.
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  Speaker 4: Stop that.
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  Speaker 1: Go look at what Ashton Daniels has done. He's played
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  Speaker 1: better than most big 10 quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: Which is bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely stupid. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I was very low on him. Ashton Daniels has not
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  Speaker 1: been a top five problem for Florida state this year.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's the thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's played.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, The interceptions are bad at the worst time,
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  Speaker 3: but that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: That you could say.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they almost always come when they're trailing by multiple scores. Yeah. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so like I just, I think quarterback play.
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  Speaker 1: And so anyway, all that to say, I, I like
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  Speaker 1: grunk and I think that this defense can get got
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  Speaker 1: how they run.
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  Speaker 2: The ball will be interesting to me too. And again,
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  Speaker 2: how they defend.
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  Speaker 1: The run because Pittsburgh went down a quarterback and you
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  Speaker 1: were at home and with Pittsburgh down a quarterback, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to run out of your throat every
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  Speaker 1: single play.
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  Speaker 2: And they pretty much did.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So the matchups in this are fascinating. How Clemson.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing that is so important. Obviously, Franklin had
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  Speaker 1: the and Tom knows this better than anybody. Franklin has
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  Speaker 1: that thing, man, where it becomes a big game. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how big of a game this is,
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  Speaker 1: but it becomes a big game and things just don't
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  Speaker 1: go right. And whether that's on him or just bad
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  Speaker 1: freaking luck.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. I'm not trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Pile on when, when things have gone hard, but in
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  Speaker 1: big games, things have not gone right for James Franklin.
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  Speaker 2: How big of a game is this? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's big enough.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like it's, it's two of the teams that
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  Speaker 1: are alive in the ACC right now playing at 7.
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  Speaker 1: Like on the road, like that's a big game to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's not Ohio state, Indiana big, but it's
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  Speaker 1: big in this conference. So I, I wonder about that too.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a thing we can break down, but like
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  Speaker 1: just in general, that's something that's on my mind. I'll
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  Speaker 4: But you're fair to bring that up because Clemson right
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  Speaker 4: now is tied for fourth in the standings in the ACC.
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  Speaker 4: You're behind Miami, Wake Forest, and SMU. So Clemson needs
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  Speaker 4: to keep pace if they want to be in contention
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  Speaker 4: potentially for that second spot in Charlotte in the ACC
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  Speaker 4: title game. Right, and then Virginia Tech, it's a logjam
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  Speaker 4: of two lost teams within the conference. Louisville's 3-2, but
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  Speaker 4: then Pitt, Cal, Virginia Tech, and UVA, all at 2-2.
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  Speaker 4: So for Virginia Tech and James Franklin, it's trying to
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  Speaker 4: keep up and keep yourself in the upper echelon of
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  Speaker 4: the ACC as the season goes on, because otherwise you
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  Speaker 4: fall behind. into a situation where you're in the bottom half,
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  Speaker 4: and that's not where Franklin wants to be. The Pitt
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  Speaker 4: game was not necessarily a game that we looked at
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  Speaker 4: as like, wow, this is like an earth-shattering game, but
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  Speaker 4: it was a cool matchup. Heichel gets hurt. It looked
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  Speaker 4: like everything should go Virginia Tech's way at home, and
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  Speaker 4: they still found a way to blow it. Then Pat
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  Speaker 4: Arduzzi says some dumb stuff after the game. But this
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  Speaker 4: game is far bigger because this.
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  Speaker 2: Is James Franklin. To be fair, Pat Arduzzi, Pat Narduzzi
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  Speaker 2: says dumb stuff at all times.
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  Speaker 4: Every day. Every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Every day. He wakes up. He's like Dan Wolkin. He
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  Speaker 2: just wakes up and says, what's the stupidest shit I
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  Speaker 2: can say today? All right, let's do that. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: back to your point.
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  Speaker 4: Pat Narduzzi is the type of person that gets stoned,
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  Speaker 4: writes down a cool thought the night that they are stoned,
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  Speaker 4: and then the next day they're like, wow, that was
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  Speaker 4: a great idea. I should say that out loud to
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  Speaker 4: other people. So I think this is a very important
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  Speaker 4: game within the world of the ACC community Trying to
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  Speaker 4: get yourself to a college football playoff. Because let's not forget,
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  Speaker 4: we talked about the Big 12 earlier. Everybody's in love
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  Speaker 4: with the Big 12 right now. Oh my gosh, three
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  Speaker 4: Big 12 teams could make the college football playoff. Well,
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  Speaker 4: here's the ACC saying, hey, we should at least get two.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we should get three. So Clemson and company, you
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  Speaker 4: can't afford to not be in the ACC title game
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  Speaker 4: if you're within this conference. Because if you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: make the playoff, you have to make the ACC title game,
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion. So Clemson has to keep pace here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you, TJ. I like what Grunkemeyer can do
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  Speaker 4: within the passing game. I think Clemson, yes, they have
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  Speaker 4: been tested against some good passing teams, Miami being the
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  Speaker 4: best one, and Miami smoked them like a blunt at
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  Speaker 4: a frat party. I don't think this is going to
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  Speaker 4: be the exact same thing, but Virginia Tech's going to
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  Speaker 4: have their opportunities. Tough place to play. I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to barely take Clemson. This is a one-point win,
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  Speaker 4: something like that, very narrow, comes down to the end.
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  Speaker 4: There will be turnovers. Both these teams seem to turn
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  Speaker 4: the ball over at bad times. This is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a fun game. This is really going to be
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  Speaker 4: an interesting game within the ACC.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to watch this game because I do agree.
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  Speaker 1: It's fascinating on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Cole.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say, do you, did you
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  Speaker 3: guys watch last week? The Georgia tech game coming out
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  Speaker 3: of the break, they scored 14 unanswered points. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it was like within, but it was like with
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  Speaker 3: the yellow jacket scored back to back touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 3: Like a minute 35 of time of possession. Like they
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  Speaker 3: had the explosives. It was a three play drive for
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  Speaker 3: 40 in 48 seconds and And then a two-play drive,
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  Speaker 3: 37 yards for 28 seconds. And trust me, it helped
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  Speaker 3: that you had a good field position. But still, my
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  Speaker 3: point is, is that do you have an explosive playmaker
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  Speaker 3: and do you have a trust in a quarterback like
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  Speaker 3: Tate Reynolds to find a Bryant Wesco or a TJ
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  Speaker 3: Moore that can get open like that to shift momentum
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  Speaker 3: when Virginia Tech's up by double digits and now they
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  Speaker 3: make it a one-point game? So it's like, that to
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  Speaker 3: me is where I think it's really important to have
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  Speaker 3: context involved. I don't like Virginia Tech's defense. I don't
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  Speaker 3: hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fine.
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  Speaker 3: But there's two passing touchdowns right now in the year
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  Speaker 3: for Tate Reynolds. There's two. And for the total season,
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  Speaker 3: there's two total, I mean, one total passing touchdown. There's
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  Speaker 3: seven turnovers by both him and Chris Fazzina. As much
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  Speaker 3: as I think that it is a game that because
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  Speaker 3: Death Valley plays a role in it, I'm taking Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 3: Better quarterback, Nathan Gronkmeyer. Better offensive concepts, I think right
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  Speaker 3: now is Virginia Tech. I think that Virginia Tech-Stevens can
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  Speaker 3: do just enough to win this one. I'll go 34-28.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of like Virginia Tech here, too. Clemson a
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  Speaker 1: two-and-a-half point favorite. So basically just the home field advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas telling you these teams are incredibly even.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about that is Clemson fans don't yell at
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  Speaker 2: me for this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like whole, I don't feel like Clemson
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  Speaker 1: because they're in this weird spot. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: they're in the purgatory quite like we are in Tallahassee,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think they're in a weird purgatory spot too.
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  Speaker 1: And I just don't know that I've seen death Valley
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  Speaker 1: be death Valley in.
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  Speaker 2: The way that it was in the past. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: chicken or the egg, right?
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  Speaker 1: Is it, it's, it's easier for death Valley to be
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  Speaker 1: death Valley with Deshaun Watson at quarterback and Trevor Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: at quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: It is, you know, but I just don't know that
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  Speaker 1: we've quite seen that. And so I am so back
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  Speaker 1: and forth on this. I'm going to lean slightly Clemson here,
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  Speaker 1: but I do, I do think it matters which Clemson
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  Speaker 1: team shows up. I do kind of feel like I
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  Speaker 1: have a little more confidence in knowing kind of which
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  Speaker 1: Virginia tech team is going to show up and having some,
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  Speaker 1: some confidence in more consistency there.
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  Speaker 2: Clemson's been such a roller coaster.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously I have less of a sample size with
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  Speaker 1: this just being Franklin's first year. Clemson has been such
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  Speaker 1: a roller coaster that I feel like you could get
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  Speaker 1: wild variants on performance and, and what team shows up.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm banking on the good one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the better one to show up this weekend for Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: but with very little confidence, I'll take the tigers close
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  Speaker 1: fun game. 31 28 is what I'll say, but, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, man. Tell me which Clemson team shows up,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you who wins. But I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I kind of know what I'm getting for Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of a coin flip with Clemson right now.
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  Speaker 3: Doubting, doubting, doubting, doubting, doubting James Franklin in big games.
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  Speaker 3: How dare you? You have every reason to, but how
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  Speaker 3: dare you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go Clemson. I'm going to go Clemson 28-27.
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  Speaker 4: I think Grunkmeier, statistically, it looks good. There will probably
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  Speaker 4: be a turnover at some point that really kills Virginia
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  Speaker 4: Tech's chances. We take odds on whether or not Dabo's
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  Speaker 4: going to fall down the hill one of these days.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to that happening.
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  Speaker 2: Literally or figuratively?
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  Speaker 4: Literally. He's sprinting down the hill. I know Clemson fans
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  Speaker 4: love him. So I'm not hating on Clemson by any means,
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  Speaker 4: but like the bus thing, they just go in circles
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  Speaker 4: around the stadium and then he sprints down the hill.
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  Speaker 4: And like time catches.
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  Speaker 2: Up with all of us, man.
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  Speaker 4: One of these days, Hammy's going to give out.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome. Is that the way they
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  Speaker 3: get rid of Davo toward ACL out for the season?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then the entire hundred, you know, everybody just tramples
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  Speaker 1: it out.