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MTSU Game Recap · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast, Ron, Siegel it
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is late on a Saturday night. My friend.
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How are you sir? I'm good, buddy, watching,
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Michigan. Close this one out against the
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dub. Yeah, that a little bit of good
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day for college football. Been a few few upsets a few
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close calls. It has Ohio State goes down to
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Oregon without cave on Thibodeau.
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That was a little bit shocking. The old BC quarterback, Anthony
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Brown leads them to Victory. Brian is Texas back.
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No sir. No, they are not an isolated.
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In Fayetteville that Arkansas, we get that one wrong.
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Yeah, well you're wrong. That's okay.
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It's okay. Arkansas is defense.
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Show the hell up? They did you know who else
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showed the hell up and almost pulled out a massive upset, kind
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of driver. Oh yeah, Colorado abstain as
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well. AB state was on the door.
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I took the nine. You know, the hurricanes and
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their wonderful home stadium with 26,000 people not much of a
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place to play. So it was a really good day for
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college football and even better when the Hokies BL w.
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We stay. We have we gotta get to W.
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Naught may be the prettiest. We we are not enthusiastic about
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this W but we will take it. We will take it.
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I was a hot garbage time touchdown from nailing the
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spread on the money at 28 and then you know we decide to put
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every young player in and they almost held but they did.
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I was in close. I almost I pretty much nailed.
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And what Tennessee state was going to do.
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I was a undersold Us by a field goal.
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So I was pretty damn close. If it was if it was Price, is
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Right? I hit that shit on the money.
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You did, you did hit the prizes to Bronson.
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Let's first before we do anything else, let's toast the
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W. Yes, sir.
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Hey guys, you know, I'm repping fighting Hoagies here with this
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is actually Sierra Nevada. So you're writing fighting
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hokey, pull stand up a little bit, show the Sheraton.
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You get to find Hoagies long if shirt.
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I got the number Clear, Mountain, Air John laser shirt.
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We are truly 2021 spokespeople for the Hokies out there.
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So, but again, we got the W. I think, if I think if this run,
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if I tell you the game in the 3514 but it was 21, nothing in
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the first half. I think everyone is doing this
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game different but it didn't happen that way.
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No, not the flow of the game is the problem and kind of the
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overall We're all feeling of way.
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The first half kind of went down was the problem, not necessarily
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what the end result is. I think we're pretty much fine
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with with the end result cover. The spread Captain, it orange
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length, especially the entire second half.
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But that first half just, it didn't sit.
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Well it didn't feel right and it kind of got everybody in a
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little bit of a funk, right? You're right.
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You're up. So let's jump into it.
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So before A jump into it though. Shout out, Matt Neal.
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What are you drinking tonight? Stan.
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Hello and listening in. I bet.
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It's bourbon. I bet it's Tito's.
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Hey, I bet it's Tito's Tito's, and he does and some some
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Lacroix out there. All right, so Brian is
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effectively labeled the Middle, Tennessee State, the tale of two
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halves. So let's start with the first
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half and let's start the first play of the game Run.
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Keshawn King kind of in the doghouse little bit for the
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fumble. Last week comes out.
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Gets it right at the goal line. He takes it.
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He sees a crease left, he cuts and he goes.
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Yep. And you saw the leverage, he was
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going to get caught but not before he got just about to
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Midfield. I mean when that happened to me
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the first thoughts in your mind like it's like okay this is
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going to be a route. Yeah, I was like okay we're
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coming out the gate hot again, you know this this is kind of
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the energy that we brought to the start of the UNC game.
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We're going to kind of keep that going and then the offense took
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the field and it just felt different Seem like they just
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couldn't get out of their own way.
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A little bit did really, like the way the offensive line was
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playing in the first half, but those first couple drives a
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particular look, like, they just weren't quite getting the calls
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where they needed to be weren't quite where they wanted to be
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getting to the second level. Blankenship was making plays.
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Did a good job of kind of running sideline, to sideline,
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to stretch some of those lateral runs out.
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And it was just just wasn't a good start for us.
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Yeah, it was yucky it. As yucky it looked super plane.
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Unlike you and see we did not attack the edges.
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Any and in the passing game? No.
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Well, in Braun, something mean, you talked about was they were
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small undersized quick defense, would you have with the first
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play you have read would have been outside zone or if you
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around a little, something different.
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I mean, it's our bread and butter but at the same time it
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does kind of play into the string.
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So what they like to do and how they like to attack the
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offensive lines. So Have been nice to see
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something different. Something similar to kind of how
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we came out against UNC with that.
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Little swing pass to get Blackshear up open, get them
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kind of on their heels a little bit, you know, but it seemed
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like the the plan from the get-go was kind of to keep
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things vanilla on both sides of the ball.
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That's kind of how we came out on the offense, the call the
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calls, were kind of vanilla kind of straightforward and
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unfortunately, the way we executed them reflected, That.
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Yeah, the way we executed reflected the way we executed it
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also looked like again why did not want to be right?
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Is because you know, like any time we get a ranking this early
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in the season it's like I don't necessarily say goes to the guys
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heads, but it's like it. We lose the chip.
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We had a chip last Friday night we played angry.
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What's up tally? Thanks for checking in with us
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tonight. Man in tally we got a we got
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Billy on here. Billy everybody will Bill
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appreciate you guys jumping in hanging out with us.
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Exactly. For Billy though.
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Billy you're in the west coast man.
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It's the night has just begun for you sir, but it's the whole
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piece of We get it, we lose the chip and then it takes us having
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a bad have to get the chip back, you know?
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So the first two drives not good.
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It started the game off slow. But you know what?
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Brian, what we saw last week with UNC defense came to play
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again. Yep, defense came to play, had a
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couple couple plays where they had some positive.
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Then we would just we would put it back in the - there and then
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we got two quick three and out. It's to start the game for them.
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I like the energy that the defense brought out the gate,
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which the offense would have batch that.
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But overall, first two drives ended up debt.
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What for total, three announce for both sides.
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They're so kind of a slow start on both sides all offensively
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and then we kind of woke up. It was kind of a weird way that
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we woke up man because we woke up after a Braxton Burmeister
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scramble that resulted in a big shot on his shoulder that end
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up. Taking Braxton back to the
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locker room for a little bit. Yeah, unfortunately, that had a
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happening. And when that happened, Brian, I
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just in the words of Leslie board and I just sat there.
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I went. Well, shit.
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That's the season. Usually wait, you went full in
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the other ear. Like alright.
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We're done. It's over.
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Yeah. Stick a fork in this.
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I was like no. Well now we gotta we gotta wait
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on this man. Well, this is still I mean no
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disrespect to Middle Tennessee but this is still Middleton.
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Ceci, hold on there. But yeah, we'll just be thinking
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long-term whole season, not just one.
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Sure, sure. But it's also the fact that he
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got hit and he just laid there. Yeah.
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Laying there and we can we know his history with his shoulder
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and we haven't know that. One of the key things we want to
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do is try to try to limit that those big hits.
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You know, his game, he's going to take some shots but you don't
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want him taking shots like that you know, somebody that's on the
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the baseball team. Team, teach this kid to slide,
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please. Let's do that first.
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If you don't teach him to slide at least teach him to leave his
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left shoulder, not his right shoulder.
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I mean he's a full-on gamer though because you know, we had
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a couple good plays from Knox. Kadem came in there, we got one
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another about 20 yards. Yeah.
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Or so on that drive after knocks came in.
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Then you know, Braxton comes back out, throws a nice little
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Fade to a v on Robinson and the left corner of the end zone.
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Good guys are up 7-nothing. Exactly, good guys up 7-nothing,
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they ran that route a little bit shorter than they did.
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Last week against UNC and nailed it perfect, something else.
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And it might have saved for Braxton on that drive was there
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was a review for targeting dip because Braxton went out, he
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went to the tent. Then they took him back and I'm
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sure that it will just make sure he wasn't concussed.
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But I'm Ted was quick to so maybe he was back.
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He was back in the locker room. Probably shoulder pads off
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before they ever even got back from the review.
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So this is what I think. And with that, I think they went
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under the tent because test pool, you know you can get up in
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there, Brian feel, anything, feel broken know and probably
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the next thought was well you've bleeped up this shoulder before.
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Let's get these pads off us. Check your ranges of motion.
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Get him back here. Pull the shoulder pads off.
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Check the range of motion. Everything looks good.
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Feel good. Yep.
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Let's go. He's on the sidelines.
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Throwing That targeting the review that took like four and a
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half to five minutes. I think that was big because it
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got him, they got him back out, make that touchdown pass and get
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the confidence up. Yep.
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Because I mean, at that point, throwing the ball that had been
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definitely Struggle Bus for most of the entire first quarter
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there. So getting him in a with a throw
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that he's comfortable with getting that touchdown that
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definitely got a little confidence, going back in the
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offense. Oh absolutely.
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And by the way what needs to be said is some of his passes you
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know the downfield stuff isn't where it needs to be, but the
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fade routes especially short yardage compared to what they
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were last year. When we Psalm they've gotten
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significantly better more touch more accurate.
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Yeah. In that thing for both of those
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things are. So the touch gives the receiver
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a chance to be where he needs to be the accuracy.
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Obviously means that when it's thrown, it's not going to be a
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pic and it gives the receiver a chance to come down with it in
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bounds every time. So that is really big, in my
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opinion, and it's great to see. All right, so defense does its
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job again and then Tavian Robinson, absolutely wonderful
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punt. Return flips, the field and
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Brian, let me just say this between Keshawn King and Tavian
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Robinson. Any Royals in the booth today at
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Ian's? Bill here in.
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Touchdown, tech gave me chills, but I think we have two Elite
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return men. In the country, not just in the
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ACC in the country, they both have good Vision, they both have
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good speed what we saw today, numerous times.
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You know, with a couple good kick returns and good punt.
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Return was we flip the field without having to do too much
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just those guys being good. Yep.
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And that's going to be key because I think that was
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definitely something that was lacking.
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Especially on the punt side last year is that they never got
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fully comfortable back there. Had a couple muffs.
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We ended up kind of having a rotating cast of characters as
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we close out the year last year punt.
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Return That, that was more of a mitigating disaster position
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than it was about having any sort of positive impact on our
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team. And I feel like that's
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definitely turned into an asset at least in the early going of
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the year so far. Absolutely, he seemed very
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comfortable back there. He's getting the opportunities
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to run, which is really big. All right?
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So that sets up the really good drive.
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BB has that as a really good scramble.
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Which, you know, I'll have to ask you.
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Brian, you know. Yay, or nay.
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Did you like him still scrambling after taking that
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pop? Yeah, because he's got to play
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his game. I don't want to see him change
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how he's approaching the playing the quarterback position, just
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because of one big pop now, I do want to see him, not take
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unnecessary hits at the end of plays.
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Okay, so there's a difference there, right?
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Yeah, one is how you're approaching.
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Your mindset in terms of what you do with the ball, the other
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is how you finish the play and keep yourself safe.
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So you can still make those plays.
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And as its closing out, you get out of bounds when you need to
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you slide ahead of the contact. When you need to, you make a
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good slide in that lead with your head and shoulder, right?
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Okay. Truth of that you may live
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slides. Yeah.
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Don't, don't put yourself out there.
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Like you did the first time and get yourself absolutely killed.
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Yeah and I mean it wasn't a fighting for yardage getting the
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first down In. You had the first day on you
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just need to get down safely, right?
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Exactly. This isn't a John Elway sticking
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his neck out there to get the get the first down.
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It's not the Super Bowl, and you have to continue to drive to go
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take the lead or to extend the lead.
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Yep, it's early in the game. All right, so he gets a good
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scramble and we get down inside the 10 yard line and they bring
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in kind of Limerick. We get ten yards, Bloomberg up
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the middle, little little sweet to Big Stone Gap.
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Yep. He Dives forward, he just misses
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it and then we take Connor blumrich up the middle one more
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time pounds it in its 14-nothing.
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The return of the wild turkey. We had a little diamond
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formation running on that one. It was it was a pretty sweet
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thing to see. Well simply shows that the the
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gears are turning a little bit there, in terms of at least
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getting Connor active in the The offense because I feel like that
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was something that we didn't really see a whole lot last
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week, that's an element. That's a wrinkle that we showed
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this week. We didn't show a lot of wrinkles
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on offense. This week getting Connor,
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blumrich involved in the offense, was one of the few
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wrinkles that we did present this week from.
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And we'll talk, we'll talk more about that in the second half
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and I kind of like what we did in the second half even more
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than what we did in the first so that his teacher asked exactly.
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But let's, let's, let's just let me Dress for a second if you
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don't mind. Yeah, go for you had a similar
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guy, the last who years on this team, that you did not do these
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things with coaching staff and now he's out at North Dakota
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State so if anything I get more irritated because me and you
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call we were calling for like get Quincy, some packages like
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this. This.
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Yep, some packages like this because if nothing else it takes
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it makes them see something different on goal-line situation
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and you know, eventually with especially when you throw in
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those phases, like actually gets into State visually, they're
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going to sell out and there's going to be just an easy slant
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or easy fade route. So I'm done digressing about
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that because we have a similar guy that could do the same
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things and you chose not to do it.
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Shout out qp4 tearing it up today.
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Oh, did he good day? Yeah, good day.
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Good day for him. Nice.
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Alright, let's jump back. Look at the defense again.
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You know. After kind of what happens,
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really great start. We start to see some old Ryan.
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What did you specifically see that kind of, you know, when
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they gave up the touchdown on that long drive?
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I saw a lot of off coverage Corners play in about eight
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eight to ten off the receivers. They were mixing in some covers
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six and looks like Middle. Tennessee was consistently
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attacking the half-filled side of that coverage behind the
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corner in front of the safety Corner.
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Routes little kind of will sluggos things like that where
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the can get the wall then behind the corner back.
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Back and linebacker didn't have enough time to get over to make
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the coverage there. And it happened on key downs.
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And I think that was what it was more frustrating.
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Is that, you know, we have, we have good to you first down
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second down, they'd be either third and five or more.
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And then they would just keep running.
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Kind of the same route Concepts that kept kind of working in the
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same areas of the defense. And There was a moment where it
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looked like Armani. Chapman was a little frustrated
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with, with kind of those Concepts.
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Had a little, little little back and forth.
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There with J Hamm or someone on the sidelines.
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And, you know, we kind of wrote out the rest of that drive like
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that. They ended up getting a
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touchdown. It was a close play.
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We're about an inch and a half from that being kind of a yeah,
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Linda incomplete pass. It was called incomplete on the
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field. He got that right foot down,
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just as he kind of secured the ball and then, you know, the
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Left foot came down out and little bit of wind out of the
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sails there. Just because you know when when
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we got the ball back, didn't do anything with it.
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Yeah, I think that was the more frustrating thing.
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Well, that three-and-out drive was frustrating in a lot of ways
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because it was the first time we kind of purposely took shots.
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Down the field. Right?
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Purposely took shots. Yeah, and I know there was
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actually a sense of urgency. It was a one score game.
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We were getting late in the Hat, the first half.
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So they're actually feels like, okay, we're it's not just early
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going anymore. We're almost in the end of the
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first half and they're still in this thing, right?
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Exactly. And I think you mentioned
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something to me. Um, when we talked about 5:00
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today you've said, that is the first place you should have
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seen. Like, this is how we should have
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came out immediately roll MVP, get a few yards and then attack
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them because they're clearly they're clearly song sinking in.
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Here's why? Yeah, I would like to see, you
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know, shots down the field like that because I mean, there were
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a couple plays where we were running verticals across the
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board. We didn't see a whole lot of
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Those Outlet routes with Blackshear where he was kind of
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the guy underneath that if it wasn't there.
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There was someone to drop it off to.
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We saw one time where they rob was targeted, but it was clearly
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Braxton was just getting rid of the ball out of nice to seem,
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you know, some sort of Outlet route to, you know, get it into
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Blackshear. Maybe get five or six yards.
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See if he can break a tackle and get a first down.
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Yeah. And I'd like to see more levels
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to the concepts here. We're here.
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We're not necessarily running for guys deep and there's
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there's no Outlet. You know, run Too Deep.
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Run Run something whipped up the seam run one guy on the outside
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deep and then you know maybe work in a dig or or a some sort
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of like play in the flats just to get get the ball out of
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nothing's working for you. I don't like these Concepts
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where we're just running for deep and there's, there's no
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really other option than either thrown it Deeper throwing it out
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of bounds. Exactly.
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And I think the big piece on you do that sort of concept is, we
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know how risk-adverse that they're teaching the
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quarterbacks to be about not turning the ball over.
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Yep. Well, you're running these
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Concepts that essentially, that essentially, you're teaching
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them to be risk adverse and you're giving very high-risk
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Concepts versus, and we have guys that can do it, right?
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I think this is probably what frustrates us more than
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anything. versus running Blackshear or Holston, or Big
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Stone Gap, or any of those guys putting them out just in the
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flats or having them hook up 325 yards downfield, because if
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someone blows coverage and forgets about those guys and
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you're able to make that dump down, You're running guys. 20 30
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yards off. Yeah there's going to be a if
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the guy doesn't make the initial tackle there is going to be that
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right there in front of those guys.
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Yeah so did I mean like I said we're looking at Kind of what we
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did. I'm a I'm definitely looking at
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it and say, okay, well, they went full vanilla in this game
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that was that was by Design By Design.
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They weren't going to do anything.
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Yeah well I mean look at look at the UNC taping and look at this
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tape. The concepts are significantly
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less unique less inventive. There was not the only zero
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Throwbacks. I mean there was yet another
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There was none of that. So keep that in mind.
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When you're evaluating, what this offense did today by no
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means, am I happy with the outcome?
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But at the same time, I recognize that by Design, this
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was supposed to be vanilla. The only difference is Middle
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Tennessee. Did a fairly decent job of
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stopping vanilla? Exactly, by the way, folks, if
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you see me and Brian's head or eyes move, We're watching Pac-12
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after dark. We made some things on these
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games. So and that's why we just run
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this live right now, we're going to be up anyway, watching the
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late night games and, you know, showing our love for college
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football. So you'll see our eyes move
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pivot on slovis, just slid perfectly and then he did a
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Braxton slide across straight anymore.
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If Braxton did that, like perfectly slide and then the
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next one, Look like an awkward draft going down.
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All right, so burn. One more thing before we hit a
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break here under 90 seconds, left the balls at like the 4
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yard line. We finally, get aggressive.
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Tell me your frustration would happen.
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So I'm not frustrating that we did it in this game.
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I'm frustrated that we did it in this game, with 116 left inside,
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our own 10-yard line, starting the Artie, the drive when we
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didn't do that against UNC with more time and better field
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position. Can you explain that?
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That's in that that's that's that's my beef, you know, I get
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that I'll say this. We needed to show after the the
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couple drives we had before that that we could still move the
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ball consistently against that defense just to just to mental.
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So I think some of that played a role, okay?
25:42
But at the same time just I mean if you're going to be
25:45
conservative or aggressive, situationally I would prefer it
25:50
to be a little more predictable and I'm not saying predictable
25:56
from a, you know, the It says it's coming to but you know.
26:01
If you're going to be aggressive in those situations, be
26:04
aggressive or, no, but it's kind of, it was kind of weird that,
26:09
you know, you get different treatment here.
26:10
I get there's less Stakes here. So, yeah, it's 14-7.
26:15
It's, you know, we have seen, you have the same roughly, the
26:20
same lead, right? But you're playing a lesser what
26:23
you consider a lesser opponents. So you feel like the stakes are
26:25
lower right Stakes, a little you feel like if you make a mistake
26:29
they're not going to take advantage of it especially way
26:31
that Consider played the 85 percent of the first quarter so
26:36
get it completely. All right guys before we do get
26:39
into the second half, we are going to take a quick pause for
26:44
a message from our digital Partners.
26:46
All right, Brian. Let's start second half and
26:49
Middle. Tennessee, State comes out and
26:52
probably has their second best Drive of the game to open it up,
26:58
you know, and what they showed. And I hope that JC price and
27:03
Bill Care on it. Sorry to be the throw you off
27:10
there so that's all two questions.
27:13
Come up they want to write real quick.
27:15
Yeah, so so meals asking that, you know, if our passing game is
27:19
based on smoking mirrors and misdirection, you know, why do
27:22
we side decide to go vanilla against anyone?
27:25
I think I mean, you got West Virginia, your, you got a big
27:28
game coming up. Maybe they don't want to put
27:30
some of the stuff on tape, but my beef, but that is that, you
27:33
already put some of it on tape against you and see.
27:35
I'd rather you throw the kitchen sink out There and make West
27:39
Virginia have to pick and choose how they're going to prepare
27:41
against you. Then go full vanilla, but you
27:44
still got some tape from you and see that they can fall back on.
27:49
That's a good point. I'll let you continue into the
27:51
second half, sir. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna just
27:54
follow up on that and makes it makes perfect sense, right?
27:57
Like it makes perfect sense. You've already shown it.
27:59
Why not continue to let the guys execute the plays on the field
28:03
against live competition again. I think you said it before,
28:08
sometimes this coaching staff outsmarts themselves and it gets
28:13
us in trouble. I think the game today throwback
28:17
to everybody, 2019, the game today could have been firming
28:20
back in 2019. It could have yet, but I think
28:25
we are have a much much better leadership group.
28:33
Between guys like Brock lettuce, Shamari Connor Dax Jordan
28:39
Williams. And some in Jermaine Waller, you
28:42
have more guys who can hold everybody together, where things
28:46
like that, things weren't going, right.
28:49
It was just like, what do we do? What do we do?
28:51
What do we do? And it wasn't good.
28:54
Yeah, leadership wise, this is closer to the the 2016 and 17
28:59
edition of the Hokies and hopefully Carries forward and
29:03
games like this where we aren't quite fired on all cylinders.
29:07
We've got that leadership to fall back on where we don't let
29:10
you know, a couple of - plays whether offense or defense turn
29:14
into two or three touchdowns that end up costing us the game.
29:19
Exactly. All right.
29:21
So now let's go to Middle Tennessee State out of the half,
29:25
as I've said, a couple minutes ago, had a really good drive to
29:30
come out of the half and kind of show something.
29:32
I hope built to your neck and that I hope JC price are showing
29:37
the defensive line. The big play on that drive.
29:40
Was a little throwback screen essentially, taking a girl,
29:44
taking advantage of their aggressiveness on the of on the
29:47
defensive line Brian. I know it was Middle Tennessee,
29:50
State. But I know.
29:51
Please like that or things as an offensive.
29:53
Lineman you love and offensive guy.
29:55
You love ya. And I mean the concept was
30:00
great. I saw it coming before it.
30:02
Then I was like they gave a completely free rush to Bar
30:07
know, something's coming, that's not by Design and then it all of
30:12
a sudden you see the guy come out.
30:13
The other side of the, the formation you see the the
30:19
throwback from Hockman over there to him and ended up being
30:23
what about 35, yard gain? I think on that play huge game,
30:28
I mean really huge gain. And, you know, luckily, we they
30:32
Get down to about the 30. And, you know, instead of going
30:36
for it, regardless of down and distance, they chose to punt and
30:42
they pinned us deep and, and I'm not saying, I mean, it's 14-7 so
30:47
you get it. But I also, why is it not in the
30:51
back of their mind? We scored one time on them.
30:56
We had to go out of our normal pattern, to score a touchdown.
30:59
Every other time, we touch the ball.
31:01
We did a little To nothing. Why aren't we taking advantage
31:06
of this? But you essentially think they
31:09
might be an empty the clip mode, right?
31:11
Exactly. I would be you would think you
31:13
would think given the scenario you're in how close the score
31:16
is, you empty the clip but they did and they did and they
31:20
decided to play it conservative. They thought their defense could
31:24
could keep them around and our offense came out a little bit
31:29
more Mojo in the second half. Yes they did.
31:32
Typically it started with, I know we talked we broke it down
31:36
a little bit, they broke it down, really good.
31:38
Actually in the the broadcast, the trade, the big ball to trade
31:44
that kind of set up everything there looks like, Blankenship
31:50
decided he was going to kind of free wheel a little bit.
31:52
He wanted to jump under the route, gave a signal to the
31:56
safety safety. Didn't quite get it.
31:58
Thought he had inside leverage inside held here.
32:02
If not Trey had a free release up, the seam ball was a little
32:06
under thrown a little. If it was a perfect ball tree,
32:10
probably walks in it wasn't but I will take an under throw over
32:15
and over, throw anybody that saw the Tennessee first half can
32:20
definitely understand exactly what I'm talking about.
32:25
And it wasn't just the one wide open one, but it was several
32:28
others that were overthrown. There were five.
32:32
I've over throws. We're like, What was completely
32:36
wide open, which was terrible. Two of the other three.
32:39
If he'd, even under thrown a little bit, they have a chance
32:43
to catch the ball, if at worse, it's a pi.
32:48
Yeah, at least in this situation, the way I think.
32:51
The way we talked about it felt about bronze this, okay?
32:56
If there's tight coverage, you must overthrow.
32:58
You must you just have to. It's the safest place.
33:01
The guy gets there and catches it wonderful.
33:04
In this case would be be. Looked there was no one there.
33:09
Okay to under throw that. Yep.
33:11
Okay, what I'll do? I want to see you hit in stride?
33:14
Absolutely. Yes.
33:16
Absolutely. Because you hit him in-stride.
33:19
It makes every single defender on that side of the ball
33:22
especially in the secondary safety.
33:23
We've got to stay further back which What we do opens it up
33:27
more as beautiful as that was the play that scored the
33:32
touchdown on this drive. Brian had Jalen Holston looking
33:37
like Khalid, oh Herbert with that cut because that cut was
33:41
nasty, that was the best cut of Jalen holsten's career.
33:44
That I've seen foot in the dirt and kind of weaved between two
33:50
Defenders that were engaged in a block and then boom up the
33:54
field. Early 90s as your shirt says.
33:57
They're nothing but clean Mountain Air.
34:00
Oh yeah, number clean Mountain, Air touchdown.
34:03
And in right there it's 28 the game's over.
34:08
Effectively, right there. The game is over.
34:12
We put enough distance from you want me to be 17, the games, get
34:17
it 21-7, the game's over because they're already plane surrender
34:20
COBRA. They can't hit their deep shots
34:22
to get touchdowns. They're getting deep shots just
34:25
to move the ball and The defense after that initial open drive
34:33
timed up a little bit. Brian defense started playing a
34:37
little bit closer to the line of scrimmage at the cornerback
34:39
position. And there was less room for
34:43
those guys to kind of get to their spot in their routes in
34:47
the slower, they get to their spot, the more the defense can
34:50
react in that zone coverage. Right.
34:53
True. But do you like it that we're
34:55
playing that we were essentially giving them some easier?
34:59
Rose. Do you like that?
35:00
We're playing that cover six that soft quarters in a 21-7
35:04
game because games it's not over quite yet.
35:07
But you feel like we have control.
35:09
Well, that means the reason I like it is because what happens
35:11
next? What we sow Waller in a good
35:15
position, laughter cuts the route, he knows he's got help
35:19
behind him and all of a sudden, you know, gets the pick runs it
35:24
back for about 25 yards. We're sitting pretty again,
35:28
right? We're ready to punch it in one
35:30
more time. We are.
35:31
So, I think what you're trying to, what you're kind of saying
35:34
here is two score lead, you're doing this.
35:37
Eventually, they're going to get to a point when we're sending
35:40
these zones, there's going to be no free run because there's
35:43
going to be no where to go. And essentially, and I mean, I
35:46
think we do need to do a better job of mixing up coverages and
35:50
key Downs. Like, third, and five, third,
35:52
and six. I mean, we can't be playing 89
35:54
yards off the ball. You know, we're inviting first
36:00
downs. You're in blindly saying, you've
36:02
got to react exactly right to stop the first down, right.
36:07
All right. Okay.
36:09
So we meet, we need to. I think we need to mix it up
36:11
again, but I think Even looking at the defense, the calls were
36:16
vanilla tonight. There was a couple Zone Blitz is
36:20
here and there, but there was nothing that was put on tape.
36:25
That said, okay, I mean we didn't see the stunts that we
36:28
saw against you and see we didn't see any of that stuff.
36:31
Now, we saw big very basic in, you know, I'll go later on into
36:37
how they ran the ball which wasn't very well.
36:39
So your main intercepts ball. We're on the right side of the
36:44
field after his interception. And then, you know what?
36:48
We have next goes on. It was b.
36:56
B's. Big scramble.
36:58
And then like you did a good job.
37:00
So he stepped up. He saw that, it wasn't their
37:03
took off up, the feel made, a couple guys miss and that was a
37:07
big run. And then, you know, Blackshear
37:10
kind of took over the back half of that, that drive had a good
37:14
run that said set us up in the the Red Zone, then closed it
37:17
out. So it was it was really probably
37:21
the in terms of fluidity kind of the most fluid drive.
37:24
We had it was it was one of those quick quick.
37:28
Punches there. And at that point, you kind of
37:30
felt like, all right, this this this game has been put in hand.
37:36
We're comfortable again. We're doing what we want to do
37:38
on offense for shutting them down on defense a little bit you
37:42
kind of felt good about where it was heading.
37:44
There still would like to see the offense be a little more
37:48
consistent with some of their plays because we kind of got got
37:52
back into some of that later in the game.
37:56
But overall I'm happy With, with the way the second half went off
38:00
fensively. Well, let me ask you this Raheem
38:04
Blackshear, you know, ten Russia's. 53-yard didn't see
38:09
much in the past game tonight. How did you feel about his day
38:12
in general day in general? Really good anytime.
38:15
He's over five yards, a carry is a good good game for him.
38:21
I like that. He had ten carries, I'd like to
38:23
see him. Get about ten carries every
38:24
game. I'd like to see him used a lot
38:27
more than the One catch for five yards.
38:31
He needs to at least get five targets a game.
38:33
Minimum are you? Are you still?
38:39
I guess now it is what it is. Like we're not going to see him
38:42
come out of diamond. We're not going to see Colston
38:44
him on the field the same time yet.
38:46
Maybe maybe maybe that's in the cards for the next game.
38:51
That's something they've never seen but it still feels like
38:55
we're not last week. It felt like we took advantage
38:57
of his whole arsenal today. Again with the vanilla game plan
39:02
you don't and I don't like that because of this, you're going to
39:07
play another team. If you take away the actual live
39:12
situations where he's running the wheels or the flats, or you
39:15
run some screens to him or doing some other things to him, all
39:18
you have ever done, is put him in the Situation's behind
39:21
practice, not live games and we start up with that.
39:26
You let them do it in a live game.
39:28
You saw him get 60 plus receiving guards against you and
39:35
I'm with you, I would like to see him get more opportunities
39:39
in any. A game, because any game against
39:42
live competition, is better than any simulation in practice,
39:45
right? Woohoo.
39:46
So that's what I would prefer to see is, is a little bit more.
39:50
You don't have to, you don't have to show anything you
39:52
haven't already shown on tape, but you need to, at least keep
39:55
that those elements in your offense, right?
39:57
Yes. But you've already shown against
39:59
you and see. It's already on tape against a
40:01
quality opponent one, similar plays.
40:04
Yeah. We run the same thing.
40:07
But but again it's I think this is why the why we always are
40:13
critical of the offensive staff, is because some of these designs
40:17
are just like, you can show this 30 times.
40:20
Yeah. And, and you can even say it
40:24
again. Look how he was schemed open
40:25
last week. Screaming somebody open is going
40:30
to consistently happen because the second that they decide to
40:33
move that linebacker to the flats, what you're doing is,
40:35
you're opening up a slant route. Yeah.
40:38
And you're open up the slant route, where if that Defender
40:40
doesn't play perfectly and he puts it on the mate, on the
40:43
money to tray or Tay and that other linebacker, you know, the
40:47
weak side linebacker is out of place.
40:50
It's gonna be the strong safety or the free safety style to come
40:52
down and take him out. And if they don't take him out,
40:54
it's are. So it's like why are you
40:57
outsmarting yourself? Yeah, like I said and you know,
41:02
they made a point there with when Neal brought it in there.
41:05
A lot of what we do is misdirection a lot of what we do
41:07
is getting our Playmakers in space so they can make guys
41:11
miss. When you take away those
41:13
elements, our offense is very pedestrian because we don't
41:17
we're not a especially this year coming off of last year.
41:21
We're not a just line up and run it down your throat offense this
41:25
year. That's not that's not our game.
41:28
And when you go vanilla and you don't have that, it shows real
41:33
quick and I think that's what we saw in this game.
41:35
True we have a more diverse offense than we did last year we
41:39
don't have quite maybe the Home Run potential because of the way
41:42
Khalil Herbert could run yep we have a more diverse offense to
41:46
get the ball down. The field in numerous ways which
41:48
we need to take full advantage of.
41:50
We need to be better at matriculating.
41:52
Like I like big plays as much as anybody else.
41:54
I like the excitement of a big play.
41:56
I don't think this offense is going to be an Exciting offense
41:59
to watch but I think it could be a very efficient offense.
42:03
If we do the things that we're talking about nature, all right?
42:07
Brian, let's go last Drive Unit. A Robinson to get some big 26.
42:13
Yard haul sets up Connor. Blumrich coming in 30-yard run.
42:23
I think kind of Boomer might be officially part of this offense
42:27
in packages. Now, after we see him multiple
42:30
times today not seeing him last week and then black sheer caps
42:34
it in with the second touchdown of the day, you know?
42:41
It's 28-7, the game's over. It's just another good drive to
42:45
get people feeling good. That baby's actually 35 35 7.
42:50
At that point. Yep 30,000 that made it 35 7.
42:53
Yep. So long I'm looking up here.
42:57
Stanford just should request to open with USC every year.
43:01
Ha ha ha. I mean we definitely on the
43:13
wrong side of that one stand up for USC.
43:17
All right, let's move on Braun Soca.
43:20
So let's talk about Connor there because Connor got in their HVAC
43:24
sweet. Took it to the one yard line.
43:26
Things like that or what we talked about, we thought Connor
43:28
might end up doing in this offense outside of, you know,
43:33
the short Yardage heavy, backset like the wild turkey that that
43:37
type of formation. And that's what you that what we
43:41
want to see. I mean he is an athletic player,
43:43
he is a little bit more of a athlete than kind of the other
43:47
guys on the, on the line there, except me and Mitchell.
43:50
Maybe the one exception that has that degree of athleticism.
43:54
I don't think she quite has the top end that when we're at, can
43:57
get to and he's designed to be a little bit more Shifty because
44:02
he has played that quarter. Position has played HVAC for am
44:07
before. So getting him involved is going
44:10
to be good. I like that.
44:11
We at least saw what he could do even though we didn't see him
44:15
throw the ball and I like that knocks got a couple drives there
44:20
at the end. I know we kind of we've wrapped
44:22
up the scoring here, but but not just got out there again after
44:26
having that, you know, half a drive.
44:29
When Braxton went down, he got two more drives late, yashoda,
44:34
Again that he's capable of getting the ball down the field,
44:37
a little bit, showed a little bit of his laugh.
44:39
Lettuce is, mm. Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking he
44:43
doesn't have, you know, he doesn't have Braxton level
44:45
athleticism but he can, you know, make a guy Miss and get a
44:49
first down when he needs to. Yeah, he's one of those own
44:52
schedule, guys. You know you think about where
44:55
he played down in Georgia, that was the Trevor Lawrence
44:57
Division. And he was like right on the
44:59
heels and then they won the State title the year after
45:01
trailer went. So obviously he Was from a
45:04
really good football background, but I think just the the kind of
45:10
the end of the fourth quarter. You had some younger offensive
45:13
guys, get out there. You had younger defensive guys,
45:16
get out there. We talked about needing to look
45:18
at the depth that happened. I wish it would have happened.
45:23
More myth third, not worn to the fourth but that is what it is
45:27
because of our digressions in the first half.
45:30
So yep. Brian you let them hang around
45:33
for too long to Ali. Get any substituent snaps out
45:36
there but it was nice to get something there at the end.
45:40
Even though it was the garbage time was a lot more protracted
45:43
than we wanted it to be. Yeah, 100% run.
45:49
Now Brian before you know we close what that final thoughts
45:53
here. Yesterday because it is nine 12
45:58
mil yesterday was 9/11 in the 20th anniversary and it's it's
46:04
probably the honest truth Brian in our lifetimes.
46:09
It is probably the most earth-changing life-changing
46:14
event that's happened to us. I was 18, you were seven.
46:18
Yep. And I mean, a lot of things, you
46:21
know, it changed a lot in real time and it changed a lot of
46:24
how, you know, the next Decade or two how our day-to-day
46:29
change. So there's definitely been
46:32
serious ramifications from that moment.
46:35
And you know, I think that's one thing that we kind of we kind of
46:39
miss a little bit is that you know, regardless of how we're
46:43
feeling you know, politically or socially or all that stuff.
46:48
There was a moment in time there where we were kind of felt we
46:51
felt United, We felt like we were on the same ground
46:54
everybody everybody. She had come together in
46:57
response to that and it'd be nice to get a little bit of that
47:01
back. So but it was it was a sad day.
47:07
It was, it was sad to feel attacked and attacked in a way
47:10
that targeted civilians and not military assets.
47:16
And I think that was that was the big thing for us.
47:19
It's absolutely right. So for, you know, thinking about
47:22
it for everyone that lost their lives that day weather in New
47:27
York at the towers at the Pentagon, or on flight 93 that
47:31
went down in Pennsylvania and then for all the military in the
47:36
subsequent years, but essentially lost their lives.
47:41
You know, a tip of the hat and a big thank you.
47:47
Because it was the changing event of our lifetimes and it's
47:52
been 20 years in. For some of y'all who are
47:57
listening tonight, y'all are kids.
47:59
We weren't we were on the present.
48:01
We were, we were adults, we essentially, we're adults.
48:04
I have football practice after after this happened that day and
48:08
that was a different type of experience, you know, a lot of a
48:14
lot of talking about things that were happening and those those
48:17
ramifications and kind of what the what the future was going to
48:20
show for us and how the next few weeks were GoGo and again we
48:24
were I was in Halifax County. I was more or less removed from
48:31
the actual events themselves and they still had that let that
48:34
degree of impact on the day-to-day life and I can only
48:36
imagine what the folks that live through that in real time in New
48:43
York in in DC and on The on flight 93.
48:49
I can only imagine what that was like for them.
48:51
So you still sad day day of remembrance and and something
48:56
that will never forget In Our Lifetime, not at all.
48:59
All right. So folks, we're going to go back
49:01
to the football now and kind of hit our closing thoughts from
49:03
today's game, the beta version, and I'm going to hit you with
49:07
some stats crying. And then, I want your some of
49:09
your philosophical thoughts here.
49:11
All right, things I like for the day, Braun, who are over 50
49:15
percent, converting third Downs, On this team that must be
49:18
consistent. We were right at 50% last week.
49:22
5.7 / rush if we rush 5.7 / Rush every game this year, we are
49:28
going to win a lot of games. I don't give a damn what anybody
49:31
says, because if we're going to run the ball, anywhere between
49:33
30 and 40 times a game like we did today, we're going to get
49:36
200 plus yards. All right, the things that
49:40
didn't like or one more thing I did like zero turnovers.
49:45
You play Queen games, were going to beat.
49:47
In every games or against lesser opponents like this, we are
49:50
going to essentially run away from them.
49:52
Yeah, well then like we have to clean up the first half, we have
49:57
to clean up and every time we get the ball we must take
50:00
advantage there. Cannot be three and outs.
50:04
There can be non scoring drives but there cannot be three and
50:07
outs. We're like in Keyshawn, Kings
50:10
case when we get a three and out we're at Midfield.
50:14
You are roughly 25 yards from putting points on the board.
50:17
We cannot let that happen. And then the other thing is the
50:20
passing game, we've got to kind of look at what Braxton does
50:24
best and take advantage of it. So sir, I'm going to turn it
50:28
over to you. What are your thoughts on some
50:30
of this stuff? So my first thing is this, you
50:35
talked about yards per carry. I'm okay with with what we did
50:39
in the running game. I think we need to be more
50:42
consistent with how we rush the ball and get to the next level.
50:47
So I'm going to go a little bit of criticism here on the
50:50
offensive line. The offensive line is what I had
50:52
the biggest problem with in the first half and it was poor pass.
50:59
Pro-poor Blitz pickup and A poor job on combo blocks in the zone
51:05
game of getting to the second level.
51:08
We would more or less manage their defensive line, but then
51:11
their linebackers would come up and make the play to yard
51:14
three-yard gain. We can't make our entire game go
51:17
off at two or three yard gain. So you got to be more consistent
51:22
by getting to the second level. When we did get past that second
51:25
level we hit some pretty good plays both in the scramble drill
51:30
and a couple of those line up. Running plays, and especially
51:33
some of the jet sweeps. So we did a pretty good job,
51:36
total of getting yardage in those, you know, those big,
51:40
gains offset, the negative plays.
51:42
I want us to be more consistent, especially in the first half,
51:45
right? Yeah, second thing we need the
51:50
need need to get something going in the passing game consistently
51:55
because we did a really good job of peppering in the short
51:58
passing game against UNC, especially in the first half.
52:02
And I didn't see hardly any of that in this game.
52:04
And I know again, I know they were going vanilla here, but
52:09
that doesn't mean you go away from what's working for you,
52:11
right? It's true.
52:14
It's true. So that was frustrating.
52:16
And on defense, I want to see a j Hamm.
52:19
Get be a little bit quicker with the trigger on adjusting those,
52:23
those coverages. When he sees that they're
52:25
clearly taking advantage of The Off, Man.
52:29
And some of the, the cover six philosophies.
52:32
He was going with for an extended period of time there
52:35
because they were, they were just working it behind the
52:37
corner in front of the safety. Every time there was a key down
52:40
and we couldn't stop it. In on defense.
52:44
Brian, you know, we get we gave up some big plays tonight.
52:48
I think we can live with that. I think are pass.
52:50
Rush is good enough. I do I think the password is
52:54
good enough. Listen, you guys want to take
52:55
five and seven? Step drops against Powell on
52:58
garbage. Jordan Williams, Pollard
53:00
Kendricks fuga bar no Griffin go for it.
53:06
You're going to pay whether you actually get sacked or there
53:11
right there and bearing down on you, so that's fine.
53:15
But we have to be careful with it as we get into games against
53:18
better defense has become, plays are going to kill us.
53:22
What I will. What I will compliment.
53:24
I'm gonna compliment real quick. We did a good job of when there
53:28
was that big play of as Ted last and likes to say be like a
53:33
goldfish, we forgot about it. We moved on, we play the next
53:37
play, right? So That's what you like to see.
53:41
We didn't let one bad play. Turn into five that turned into
53:44
scores consistently. Yep, the other thing, I noticed,
53:50
9 of 19 on third and fourth, and almost 50% cannot do.
53:54
That cannot do that, especially how bad they were against
53:58
Monmouth on third down. Like, yes, this is, I will
54:03
caveat here caveat. So I was just talking about the
54:07
one scoring Drive, they had. In the second quarter almost
54:10
half of those third down, conversions occurred on that one
54:13
drive. All right, so we take that drive
54:16
out there. It's more like 40%, 40%
54:23
conversion versus you know, 65% question.
54:27
Right at 50 productivity. Right in 50 percent conversion.
54:29
Okay. Hi.
54:31
The good 12 - plays. Three sacks nine.
54:34
Tackles for loss, I thought we'd have more but clearly they were
54:39
playing the underneath game. They were trying to hit him
54:41
quick, but anytime we last week we're at 95%, I'd love to see
54:47
the rush ratio, the quarterback hit ratio as well, but if you're
54:51
twenty percent of getting a play in the backfield, That's one out
54:57
of one every five plays, that is a good thing.
55:00
As long as we stay between that 20, I'm going to hope there's a
55:03
game where worth 30%, maybe it's next week and I get to be wrong
55:06
about something that Brian you were not happy about the number
55:12
of yards. They got your up, haha, I'm
55:15
wanted less than 50 Prime there at one point eight per carry.
55:19
We had 66 total yards. Rushing I want to under fifty
55:22
eight, I'll allow it. I'll allow it.
55:26
So I mean, good job overall by the defensive line linebacker
55:28
played. Well, Tisdale had a really good
55:31
game again. I only feel had a solid game
55:34
again. Consistently on third down, went
55:37
through nickel, though. Love it.
55:39
That's it. I mean, that's was running off
55:41
more often than not on third down, unless it was third and
55:45
short. He was coming off.
55:47
If we could sub, we've got that sub package going in with three
55:50
really good defensive backs. Now Brian, the one last thing,
55:53
they're going to be people looking And saying, we gave over
55:57
300 yards to this offense. Do not count the last 86 yards.
56:03
That was literally all of our freshmen and this.
56:08
That wasn't even to deeper on. That was like three and forty
56:11
out there. You can count those yards, but
56:13
you need it in context and understand that, you know, this
56:16
was this was garbage time, right?
56:18
So, if you take that out, 260 yards of total offense.
56:24
Yeah, I'd like to see under 250 but you know, all right.
56:30
Brian if I Spect a shins. All right, Brian.
56:33
Here's the deal, man. Yep, I'm looking at pics.
56:37
We actually had a good week. Okay.
56:39
A good week. We had only about it.
56:41
You can go no worse than 500. Okay, I'll take that.
56:46
No worse. That means you're not making
56:47
much much ground on me. I'm not actually.
56:51
I want seven and three it. I can go seven and Korea you, so
56:55
you're so you might catch me. Let's see, or B?
56:59
0 b, 1 game back. No no no no.
57:01
I'm not gonna be one game back because I started off so bad.
57:05
That's going to take a little while.
57:07
But here's what we got folks, Illinois's UVA Brian.
57:11
Got that right? I still don't think UVA is a
57:16
good team actually went back and looked at pick six previews and
57:20
read some more stuff on Illinois that damn Nebraska game was a
57:23
fucking anomaly but never really bad.
57:28
They were that was the outlier. I want some of that game early.
57:33
Own. And there was just like, no one
57:36
near UVA players and it's like, Look at some of Brenda Donald
57:40
Sterling's passes their Ducks. If he goes and throws those next
57:44
week against crimes and stormed up, they're going to have 4 plus
57:47
turnovers easy easy. So Brian got that one right?
57:53
I missed on that one. Tennessee pit.
57:57
I got that one right? Brian?
57:58
I took pick came close. Man.
58:00
I called the hooker coming in and almost getting the come
58:03
back. I didn't quite finish it though.
58:05
Hookers. Now the quarterback at
58:06
Tennessee? Yep.
58:07
Occasional quarterback. Tennessee.
58:08
There's There's not even a question about.
58:10
It looked more fluid in that offense.
58:12
He was more consistent with throwing the ball again.
58:16
I know I talked about it earlier, but Milton trying to
58:18
throw anything further than 15 yards over shot every time every
58:24
time like you would think, I mean it is, this would be one
58:28
thing if there was tight coverage every time and all
58:30
this, but he had three of those. His guys are either wide open or
58:35
had two steps on the corner. Zack.
58:38
You can't. This really miss those.
58:40
Exactly. All right.
58:42
Rutger Syracuse, we both cook. Rockers laying the two and a
58:44
half. That was an ugly game.
58:47
Syracuse was really in it to the end barriers has them fighting.
58:52
I just don't think there's the talent there and it showed
58:54
today, that the way Rutgers has recruited last couple years with
58:59
its Keanu, who has a nasty bird as that or Papa John's.
59:10
But the way, when they start playing The Talented teams even
59:13
if they have the perfect game plan, they execute great.
59:16
Eventually the fourth quarter of the gas is going to run out
59:20
Milton is pathetic t. Oo SM.
59:24
Yes very pathetic. We both got that one right NC
59:28
State we both missed on. Yeah, it's not so much the
59:35
defense. I think we expected Mike Leach
59:38
to get some points on them but they couldn't run the ball
59:42
against that defense. Yeah, that was shocking.
59:45
That it took them. I mean they never really got the
59:47
running game going. Leary was having to carry that
59:50
offense and he you know, didn't do a bad job but he just didn't
59:55
have a whole lot of help and you know that that was problematic.
59:59
They really kind of got behind and you can't really fall behind
1:00:01
against a team that Can do things offensively and then the
1:00:07
defense for Mississippi State showed that they can, they can
1:00:11
run with with a pretty decent offense.
1:00:14
So NC State going down is definitely kind of my well, I
1:00:19
don't call it an upset of the week, okay.
1:00:22
All you've got to say some of us.
1:00:23
Don't say what you said to me. I'll Fair we're not saying that
1:00:25
yet. No, we're not saying that at
1:00:28
all. Hey, but NC State going down
1:00:31
definitely was kind of the, the Sha Shocker for me of the
1:00:34
weekend in terms of teams, I thought we're going to kind of
1:00:38
handle their business that didn't ya.
1:00:42
So it's sort of shocking to see that but you know, kind of is
1:00:46
what it is, right? So we both missed on that one.
1:00:50
AB State, Miami. Told you Brian hangover game?
1:00:54
Hangover Miami is officially not my pick to win the coastal.
1:01:00
Oh sour. Word on the canes and it only
1:01:05
took two weeks only to couple weeks but I got that one right
1:01:09
Brian. Swing on it.
1:01:10
We nailed the game of the day we nail game of the day.
1:01:14
Iowa's goes into Iowa, State goes into Ames and handles
1:01:18
business, such as clean water, but they also took a nail today.
1:01:22
It took a big Elder day. You know what?
1:01:25
I think. Matt camels probably found his
1:01:27
home for the next 15 years. Okay.
1:01:31
Now, I'll say that in two weeks, he's going to beat Oklahoma by
1:01:34
like 20. He's the best coach in the
1:01:36
country, Texas, not back. Not that that we both swung and
1:01:42
missed on that one in Miss. Big-time terribly on that one,
1:01:46
but we got Michigan, Right? Michigan will yield Michigan.
1:01:49
Michigan, definitely Michigan. Without any expectations, is a
1:01:54
different team. No, it's not Michigan.
1:01:57
It's Jim Harbaugh with no. Tation Harbaugh with no
1:02:02
expectations at Stanford. Look what they did.
1:02:05
Yeah. Great.
1:02:06
All right. Unbelievable.
1:02:07
Even when they were doing okay people still writing them off
1:02:11
Harbaugh when he went to San Francisco.
1:02:13
After six. And ten year, there were no
1:02:15
expectations, right. None 13, and 3 to Kyle Williams
1:02:20
fumbles from punching a ticket to the Super Bowl.
1:02:24
So, when there's no expectations on Harbaugh, I think he just
1:02:27
coaches looser. All right, but we got that.
1:02:29
One, right? And then the big game of the
1:02:32
day. I thought Ohio state with them
1:02:36
without Kavon Thibodeau, but Anthony Brown.
1:02:39
We talked about it earlier handles business.
1:02:41
We nailed that one organ wins out rights of our 14 and a half
1:02:47
easily lays there. And I tell you what it's really
1:02:51
interesting to see Does the playoff picture of the moment?
1:02:58
It's I mean for real. It's really interesting because
1:03:01
you have, you know, you feel like right now is a 2 SEC teams,
1:03:06
guaranteed with Georgian Bama, don't know yet, we don't, it's
1:03:11
too early. We don't list is too early.
1:03:14
But I mean if you're using the sample size we have and
1:03:18
projecting that out over 12 games, then the answer is, yes.
1:03:24
True. Because right now, The Big Ten
1:03:30
could be left out, the ACC could be left out.
1:03:34
And you know, that would get things super interesting.
1:03:39
Yeah, I also think honestly other than Oregon that means you
1:03:44
gotta see ya, I mean, they're down 14 right now to Stanford.
1:03:50
So I was more saying like other than Oregon.
1:03:53
I mean has any other non SEC teams really looked impressive
1:04:04
How many teams teams that are in position to make the play off
1:04:09
that you thought were in position to make the play off?
1:04:12
Well, I'm glad you got Georgia and Bam and you get Oregon has
1:04:15
anyone else looked interested in two weeks?
1:04:18
Not really because Notre Dame did not look in Brussels today.
1:04:21
They mean they were borderline about the most certainly do so
1:04:26
who knows and obviously so that gets us Brian five and four I'm
1:04:31
six and Three at the moment. If Stanford covers, we're both
1:04:35
going to finish about 500 and but Stanford cover.
1:04:41
And also, I think we got that in the bag because I don't think I
1:04:44
can see USC scoring 32 unanswered.
1:04:46
Now they have, I won't find it in some way, so, you know, I'm
1:04:54
going to get a few games back after starting absolutely
1:04:56
terribly this year. Yeah.
1:04:58
My week to went a whole lot better than my week one in my
1:05:01
week. One.
1:05:01
Close to 500. So, I think this should put me
1:05:06
above 500 altogether. If Stanford ends up finishing,
1:05:11
how we think, or I'll bring a movie, you will be at 500 and
1:05:15
500. Okay, I'll take it.
1:05:18
We had 500 yet. We're probably going to be up
1:05:22
another hour or so. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, if I
1:05:25
get to 500 and you guys can officially say that, I'm just as
1:05:29
good as flipping a quarter when it comes to betting.
1:05:31
All these cases. We gotta we gotta go back and
1:05:35
look at our combined pics here, Rutgers want to know, then 1 +
1:05:39
12, + 12 + 23 + 2. We can go five and two combined
1:05:47
same pics. Okay, might be finding
1:05:50
something. We like the same game.
1:05:52
Bet on a guy's as anything else. Popped up honking Nation.
1:05:55
I don't think, I think we got this game unscathed, no injuries
1:06:00
that we had, we had a couple. Of scares.
1:06:03
You know, we had Mitchell with a Nick, we had obviously Braxton
1:06:05
went back and then we had what was it Griffin had?
1:06:10
That had that scare coming off of The Edge one time but I think
1:06:16
overall you know nothing ended up being something that was
1:06:19
going to keep guys from from significant time.
1:06:22
Hopefully he had to Jenkins gets his foot, right?
1:06:25
He'll be ready for next week. Yeah, I think it's got such a
1:06:30
good will take Brian. There is one thing we missed
1:06:33
Florida, State loses to Jacksonville State.
1:06:36
I was actually about to mention that because I saw that pop up
1:06:39
in my feed here after closing out of their minds against Notre
1:06:43
Dame on all those. See what Notre Dame did today.
1:06:46
I'm not sure that this is necessarily a Notre Dame team to
1:06:49
really talk about is is what Notre Dame did to Florida state
1:06:53
is that they're going to kind of be what happened to us. 2018,
1:07:04
learn some new things about the next week.
1:07:06
I don't, I don't know if I don't think the first two weeks.
1:07:08
We really know a whole lot about that.
1:07:10
I think we know that Their offensive line is is very much
1:07:14
average this year. They record you next week, okay.
1:07:19
Who is 2 and 0, but they have played Oregon, State, and
1:07:25
Connecticut for Duty. Connecticut, today, 49 to
1:07:28
nothing. That's can I give me a that's
1:07:32
not going to be any game vacant Overlook.
1:07:34
I mean produce probably not the greatest team out there but they
1:07:38
will show up and they will give you hell for four quarters.
1:07:42
So we want one. If they all come in there and
1:07:45
start like they have the last couple weeks, they could take
1:07:50
the L there, you know, cone cone showed some metal today and the
1:07:54
way he finished that game. Yeah.
1:07:57
But their defense isn't what it Was last year and their offense
1:08:01
because of the offensive line. I mean, they had to find
1:08:05
inventive ways to get Tyree the ball in space, where he can make
1:08:09
some plays, because they're not a team that can just line up and
1:08:12
run it down your throat anymore. Yeah.
1:08:14
I think, I think the defense and they're, they're still good up
1:08:19
front on the line, but I think not having a su su a Jeremiah.
1:08:24
I was going to say that that second level is where they're
1:08:27
missing it because I don't those guys have grown into the
1:08:31
position of what they need to be in that defense, I think even
1:08:34
more. So with a new defensive
1:08:36
coordinator and Marcus Freeman, you know, certain people out
1:08:41
there love Marcus Freeman and he is not doing great to begin with
1:08:46
anything else, breaking Brian and I felt tomorrow.
1:08:51
Yeah, boys. We kick it off tomorrow.
1:08:54
Looking forward to see what the Colts can do against the
1:08:56
Seahawks. I know Curtis wants us to get
1:09:00
the W so that's what matters the dove please.
1:09:03
I'll be probably listening. Yeah, a bunch of errands to do
1:09:06
tomorrow. I'm going to probably be
1:09:07
listening to the Niners game and the San Fran affiliate as I mow
1:09:12
my grass tomorrow afternoon. So yeah, Brian if nothing else.
1:09:18
Let's let's sign off here, let's watch the end of the holy word
1:09:21
word. BYU just got like a nine-yard
1:09:25
tackle for loss on like an inside hand.
1:09:27
Hoff. Yep.
1:09:28
That was the most. Unbelievable thing I've it was
1:09:30
the most slow developing handoff I've ever seen and be white
1:09:33
things. Blew it up that makes bronstein
1:09:36
Springs. Little compressive, Arizona
1:09:38
State in a dogfight with UNLV and USC having to make the
1:09:44
comeback. So I'm going to sign it off.
1:09:45
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