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Pittsburgh Game Preview · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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  I'm Curtis Wilson, I'm Brian sigla buddy.
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  Hump day, hope Day evening. How you doing, man?
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  One day evening, enjoying the flight and logger.
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  There you go, throwing back a little bit of Hollywood's finest
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  or at least Hollywood's party with Sookie.
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  Relaxing Grill, some pork chops tonight on the grill.
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  A can't big tickle pork chops, man.
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  You cannot be looking nice little girl in action.
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  You know, I've had two days of this, like come get off work and
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  do nothing. So, you know, I don't, I don't
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  know do it myself. I've been soaking in the playoff
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  baseball. We're so that's been happening.
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  Yeah. That that's been my go-to in the
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  evening. You know, bright and nice little
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  break tonight. Break tonight, congrats to the
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  Bravo's and the stocks absolute it on, to the a LCS and NLCS
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  respectively in years where I don't think anybody would have
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  expected either of those teams to make it.
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  I mean, for real like that, the injuries you guys had.
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  And you know when you tell us a Boston's going to make it but
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  Chris sales going to pitch a month of the Season people like
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  people like nah, y'all aren't going to do it but they made it.
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  What it shows you though about baseball.
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  As if ever in every other sport, if you draft, good players or
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  get good, young players and develop them, you will win
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  games. That's what the Braves have done
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  for the last few years. Ears.
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  And if you start looking at the socks, that's what it is there.
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  You know, when they traded mookie and got Verdugo and
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  quique, like you knew they were good, solid players. and you
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  knew between Devers and Bogaerts and some of the kids in the pin
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  and ivaldi guys, who hit they developed in the system or
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  traded when they were younger, It clear development, that's
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  what that's why the Brazen the Red Sox are in the ICS
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  championship series and the Braves have such a good young
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  core and then two of those guys go down with seasonings in the
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  injuries before the All-Star break and we completely
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  Patchwork that thing together before the trade deadline and
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  just kept moving. Well, y'all are under 100 is
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  beginning of August. Y'all went on.
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  A are it was it was a big day. It was a big tear, it was a huge
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  tayyar. Well, if what we were flirting
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  with, with 500, pretty much from May until August, and then we
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  finally got over the hump. And once we were there, we more
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  or less, you know, kind of handled business.
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  As we closed out there had, like, one or two Series where we
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  didn't didn't play well, but more or less.
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  We were able to, you know, take most of the series down the
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  stretch, swept a couple in there.
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  There's and you sweat, sweat sweat, the big one.
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  At the end there to close it out against the Phillies.
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  So, yeah, in 15 games over 500 many injuries.
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  As you guys had is unbelievable, man.
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  So we continue as we record. If you see the head move, you
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  guys will know why but not tonight and you guys will find
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  out what hundred Burger team. Y'all play.
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  And what's your preference Dodgers or Giants?
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  I think we match up better against the Giants.
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  Yeah, I think so even though Revenge would be sweet.
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  It Revenge would be sweet. I think just in terms of
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  matchups and and overall top to bottom.
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  And I just think it's a better matchup for us but you know,
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  we'll see how it goes. Absolutely, I'd love nothing
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  better to put it to the Dodgers. So it will be it will be good
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  either way, for me, either way, either way, so Brian watching
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  will Monday Night Football. On Twitter going back and forth
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  to Jon Gruden. You make brakes.
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  Yep. And every joke went what last
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  longer? This Jian game or John grew in
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  fires awning. If you took the John Gurdon
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  resigning or getting fired, you were right.
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  You know, in years ago, company emails, some of the crap that
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  was said, man, you just don't say that.
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  It's just, it's just wrong. You don't say that.
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  You definitely don't say that in company emails that you know, I
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  don't say it. Subject do shit like this.
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  Like what is wrong as it was? And as much as you know, he, you
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  know, he resigned, he didn't fight it, you know, and he's
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  getting, you know, essentially washed away which is one of
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  those sad things because people can make mistakes, say things
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  and still change and etcetera. Etc.
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  But my piece is this. They're saying that they're they
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  can't release any emails or find any emails on the Redskins
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  Investigation ID Again. Full not especially mean, you've
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  got stuff coming out with all that stuff that even schefter
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  was sending over to Bruce and like, how, how is nothing else
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  coming out like that. So it's there somebody's got it.
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  Yeah, but he's gonna be dropping hammers because you can't wait.
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  Think about that investigation, an investigation.
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  Ended. It was it was a point made on
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  the radio here in Richmond that investigation was concluded.
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  Do you remember what it was? Concluded Ron because the point
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  that is funny. It was made July 2nd.
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  July 2nd, the weekend before July 4th.
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  What happens normally Friday's before, holidays, in most
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  corporate workplaces holidays, you leave early, leave early,
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  you're gone by lunch between, want you to everybody's out of
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  the office? People are gone.
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  What happened Monday? Everybody had the federal
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  holiday because the fourth was on a Sunday so they break that
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  and use them. People start talking about a
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  Tuesday but by Tuesday, it's like who gives a crap.
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  Yeah, whatever. And now they took the Friday,
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  dump to like the complete all they took it to ten exponential
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  level. They're unbelievable.
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  Question is what additional comes out?
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  And now you're having people who was involved in that especially
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  after Jay, Gruden, who have been there for all those years.
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  Oh yeah, I was never interviewed.
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  Nobody ever talked to me. It's like huh.
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  So I think more is going to come out.
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  Out and I tell you whoever's got that info.
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  You can get a feeling that they're going to start leaking
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  it. Yeah, I mean, I know, I know a
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  lot of Washington football team fans that would love nothing
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  more than for Snyder to have to wave bye-bye to this franchise.
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  Oh yeah. And it would be even more more
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  Just Desserts considering some of the shit that was happening.
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  It's especially around the early, really around the, the
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  The needle labor. Yeah.
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  Well the labor situation like there.
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  They were playing a lot of shenanigans at that point.
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  Anyway, abso-freaking-lutely? Alright, Braun.
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  We tell you what really grinds my gears about polls.
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  What you got man? Alabama, who's the number one
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  team in the country needed within the Texas A&M?
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  Texas. A&M undefeated Braun.
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  No, they were not. What were they even ranked in
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  the top 25? No, well, the over 500.
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  No, no, no, no, no, but they lose if you didn't watch you
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  into that game. After if you could, I could
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  stomach it watching the hockey game, me and Brian jabbed, a
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  couple minutes, and then I'll watch the end of that.
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  You would expect. Normally if this was any other
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  conference, any other our team, how many spots would you have
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  expected them to fall losing to a 500 team unranked?
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  Even though it was on the road they did least drop to eight or
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  higher. Well they dropped a five, they
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  drop for spots. Yeah, they essentially gave them
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  the same treatment that Penn State got ten straight, who was
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  for, who is now seven or eight. I've got to look back at the
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  polls who lost to The number three team by a field goal.
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  On the road. Yep, as well.
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  I hate the poles. You you hate them at the
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  beginning. I hate on for these reasons.
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  When certain teams get favorable treatment, if they lose a game.
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  I mean at this point, I don't know if that's if this is SEC
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  buys or just Alabama buys, that's that's coming into play.
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  Here is some Bubbles and it's ridiculous.
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  And, you know, I get that Alabama on paper is still a,
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  probably one of the two best teams in the country.
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  I get that. But you got, you still got to
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  win the games. You don't, you don't get to have
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  favorable treatment just because on paper, that's how it works.
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  Because football isn't played on paper, you still got to go out
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  and win the The game, it's true. You shouldn't penalize other
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  teams that are taken care of their business, just because
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  another team is top to bottom the best roster and they've got,
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  you know, one of the best coaches of all time.
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  Like, you can't ask you can't live off of that in the polls.
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  It has to be, you know, week to week.
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  And what they actually do on the field, it needs to be concrete,
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  it doesn't need to be. What about isms, or
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  hypothetically, hypothetically that investing So
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  hypothetically, if they lost four games, would you still put
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  them in the playoffs? The honest truth.
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  There would be somebody on that committee, that would say, well,
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  you know, they only lost by a combined nine points in those
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  four games still there, essentially giving them a
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  mulligan. Because they know that at some
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  point, they're going to have to play Georgia, more than likely
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  EF are essentially giving them a mulligan saying, okay, well,
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  here's your Mulligan. You're gonna have to play
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  Georgia at some point. We'll figure this out at that
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  point. It's true and it was your
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  bullshit, it's bullshit. But you know it is what it is is
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  reasons why we still stand on a hill of we need a fucking
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  playoff. I mean, it's the reason I down
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  the hill because if you're going to start seeing that losses are
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  irrelevant, then put more than four teams and they're getting
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  people a chance. And if you're saying losses are
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  irrelevant, then you can potentially.
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  If you're, you know, if your bread makers have a, have a
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  pseudo Bad season for them, you know, ten wins two losses
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  potentially three losses, they can still get in.
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  So yeah. And some of this Being saved
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  surgery, will it goes back to the money thing, right?
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  Let me it's a big deal to keep Alabama in the In Contention.
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  It is it is they draw eyes are like Ohio state.
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  They're like, you know, Oklahoma and in a way it's multiple teams
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  that draw the eyes of the Casual public.
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  Yep. Hey Brian.
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  Um, but we jump in the Hokey notes Here.
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  Big, big news. News out of Miami.
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  Dear King is done for the year shoulder injury, on top of
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  essentially to recover an ACL so he's done, he will not be in
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  Coral Gables, Miami Stadium Hard Rock Cafe at the end of November
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  versus us or against any other team but he hasn't yes.
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  Contemplated coming back for his seventh season on Sunday.
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  Hold on Sunday. You said as of right now, The
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  only game you could see us winning without a shadow of a
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  doubt was do, does it change anything with them losing their
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  King, especially the way they look a few weeks ago?
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  I mean I still put it probably in a toss-up category but I
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  think it's one that we are, it's a favorable one.
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  You know, at the beginning of the season I probably had that
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  as a probable loss seeing how they looked In general, I was
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  already kind of leaning towards full on toss-up.
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  I'd probably put that in the toss up with us as being the
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  slight favorite there. Now, kind of in the same
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  ballpark is maybe the Georgia Tech matchup.
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  Maybe the Syracuse matchup kind of in that same ballpark at this
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  point and it's because Derek King kind of made that ship go.
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  It on at least on the offensive side of the ball and their
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  defense hasn't quite played to the level.
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  That we were expecting them to play this year and coupling that
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  with not having Derek King on that offense, you know, we're
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  starting to see things that we were talking about going into
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  last year again, right? With that offensive line and
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  some of the other struggles that they were having so.
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  Well their defense was expected to be the reason they were so
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  highly ranked, right? They were returning so many
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  guys, I mean they lost some Edge presents and Philip.
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  Oops and Roche, but they still had a couple guys behind them.
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  The defense look has looked like, and I've watched pork to
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  the Alabama, the App State. I watch part of the UVA.
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  I did, I miss the Michigan State game.
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  That was they the day? They played that game was just
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  bad time and I couldn't see any of it, but it look like that
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  defense gets on the field and their expectation is 0 where the
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  Miami defense. And then they get pumped into
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  face and it's like, so, like, what does that matter to us?
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  We don't care if you're the Miami defense.
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  Yeah. And without them, having that
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  Elite pass rush this year, I mean, you're starting to see.
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  They've got an elite players on the back end, but kind of
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  remember the one of the big questions we asked before the
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  season is, you know, are they going to be able to generate
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  enough pressure for them to maximize Talent, they have on
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  the back end and Now the answer has been no, so far them, losing
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  truly three top top line Edge Rogers, I know one didn't play
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  last year for them, but losing three pass rushers off that
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  defense. I mean, that's a big deal.
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  All of those guys are NFL caliber players, all of our own
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  rotten. Yeah.
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  All three of them. So exactly.
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  So, you know, that that that's, that's been a big deal for them
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  and they haven't really found Found a footing where they can,
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  you know, put four quarters together on either side of the
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  ball and some of that goes back to Derek Kings injury and some
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  of that goes back to that defense just not being what it
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  was last year. Exactly, and the honest truth
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  is, For Manny Diaz. Obviously we've restored your
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  coming out about the president of the University doesn't care
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  about football. The ad does we discussed it
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  amongst ourselves with other people?
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  They have the boosters to keep their program of floating on
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  being in pain, regardless at the school says they're not trying
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  to give them anything. But at what point this year Does
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  does a call or is it calm a like, he's gone.
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  Go find someone else, man. He's going.
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  Yeah, and I think because, you know, there's two things at play
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  here. So number one, you know, they
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  don't necessarily have the support from the University at
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  large, but also because of that they are in because they're
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  private institution, they are primarily, you know, so much of
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  the funds that are coming in have always been That of the
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  private nature. So they can make moves like that
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  on that side without necessarily having to seek the budget Ariel
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  approval of the of the University of the same way that
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  a public institution would. So I can see them going after.
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  Manny Diaz. I don't necessarily think that
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  what he's dealing with this year is completely falling at his
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  feet. But it's another example.
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  'Well of you can't keep stacking decent recruiting classes.
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  You can't be a team in Florida and and continue to put out a
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  mediocre product every year. Absolutely, absolutely.
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  I'm Brian. Let's flip it over to the hook
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  you notes. Will the press conference will
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  build things said by coach Fuente but let's start with
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  this. Me and me and Brian, got
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  together and watch this for a few minutes.
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  We watch the whole thing. Yeah, it was a solid 30, 35
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  minutes, watched it in the first two minutes were watching it in.
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  Was it me or you? Like, I was like, he's cracking
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  his knuckles and playing with his wedding ring?
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  He does not want to be up there. His body language and majority
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  that press conference. With the exception of what we're
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  going to talk about the end with the targeting, he was
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  uncomfortable it Look terrible, you know, he even had a few
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  Clips with Mike Missoula. Kyle, you know, I know you gotta
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  ask it well you know it at least act you don't have to say that
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  like he looks so bad up there. And you know it's it's a it's
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  kind of a could self-portrait to say well this is where we are.
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  You know, it's a lot of uncomfortableness.
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  It's a lot of cracking knuckles, it's playing with writing rings
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  and for any of you guys who are married, you know, the you know,
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  I do it watching games, you know, movies that I haven't seen
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  that are suspenseful. I'm playing with my ring.
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  It's just a common thing. So as soon as you saw that is
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  like he ain't in the best headspace as of this moment.
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  Yeah, I mean just looked like he was You fidgeting a lot and I
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  think it was just, I'd like to be other places than here and I
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  can I can understand that. I mean yes.
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  And you know, I think one of the things that I mean we can we can
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  start. I know he didn't get to this
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  right away. But you know, when we talk about
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  the decisions to go for two and not go for two, you know?
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  He he definitely took some ownership of that choice even
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  though he said, you know, from a His.
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  He said his way of going about those things is probably more
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  traditional than what the statisticians would probably
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  advise. Yeah.
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  In the thing was, you know, if you go by the book, the book
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  said, you don't go to go for two when we went for two.
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  And then if you went for to, there you go for two.
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  Again when you score later the later, right?
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  Yeah, you go for two. It either spot.
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  Because if you get both well, if you get one, not the other,
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  essentially you're up more than eight and it's a two score game
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  and again, well, it doesn't necessarily help you.
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  I B8 does force a, you have to get a tattoo, but at the other
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  type of CO2, but at the same time, if you're up seven,
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  they're not going for to unless, you know, they're completely
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  going full on. What it does.
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  Well, there you said it aloud to me after he talked about it,
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  what it does is if you get that too and you get to nine one way
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  or the other. Yep.
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  Especially after we were up seven and go up.
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  Eight, you go. For two, is you sit there and
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  say, if we go for two here and we get to 9, even if they go
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  score and they get the two point conversion, which they don't
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  have to say, they'll probably still just kick the one who
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  probably kick it. But at that point in time, You
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  can essentially run the ball three times, even though they
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  didn't use their timeouts, you still force a timeout.
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  You get, you get rid of their timeouts unless they're going to
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  hold them. Well, it's a different set of
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  play calls, right? It's a different set of play
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  calls, you're not trying to move the ball into field goal range.
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  You're trying to run out the clock.
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  That's a completely separate part of the place sheet that
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  you're looking at. In the other piece mean, you
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  talked about this how they attack going downfield to get
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  The field goal middle of the field.
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  Why he had three timeouts in his back pocket?
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  If somebody got tackled short burn it By attacking it.
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  If we had, if we had been up nine and we're run we run and we
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  run and we only take like 12 seconds off the clock, they
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  burn. All three of their timeouts.
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  Well, now playing the middle of the field is risque It's risky,
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  you get tackled short even if you get tackled and get the gun
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  in the game. If you send some my way down
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  field, we talked about a Sunday. Well, now you got to bring
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  everybody back up in the clocks kicking, kicking kicking.
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  So more or less, you're going to have to go outside the numbers
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  and it makes it more difficult to move down feel, but we makes
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  it more difficult to move down field and it plays to the
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  strengths of our secondary as well.
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  Yep. They're throwing into the meat
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  of what of what our secondary is versus into the, the middle of
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  the defense where we're probably, that's probably the
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  weaker area of our defenses in the middle, right?
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  So. Oh yeah, it's absolutely, it
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  changes. The dynamic of both, the of that
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  last drive for them and, and our last Drive.
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  Yeah. Absolutely.
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  So let's, let's talk about this. Do just something he did talk
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  about, he talked about execution and we Heard it before and you
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  just kind of went into a rant, do you?
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  I didn't have to ask you to pause it.
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  You pause it. And went Yeah.
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  So I mean the the big thing that I always Harper on is that one
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  off games execution, can be placed at the feet of players
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  players don't always go out and have a have to have the best
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  games in terms of execution habitual, acts of execution,
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  errors are 100% on the coaching staff.
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  If you are consistently going out there and not executing
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  you've done one of three things, Things wrong you didn't recruit
• 24:18
  the right players or you didn't prepare them or there is
• 24:23
  something going on in your scheme and you're not putting
• 24:25
  them in a good position to make those plays.
• 24:29
  Yeah, and over this time as many times we've heard execution,
• 24:34
  it's finally, it's like it's on y'all don't don't don't try to
• 24:37
  put on the players, its on you you should take the ownership
• 24:42
  for it now. Can I say this problem?
• 24:47
  Would you be more accepting of execution type stuff?
• 24:51
  If things have been changed, Yes.
• 24:56
  Only because you're at that point, we'd be talking about a
• 24:59
  new system, right? We'd be talking about still kind
• 25:02
  of playing into things, potentially not having the right
• 25:05
  Personnel on campus to run things the way you want to.
• 25:08
  And that's that's thinking of bringing in a new offensive
• 25:11
  coordinator. Not Fuente taking over the play
• 25:13
  calling. Yeah, that's not that.
• 25:14
  If went a mistake, you know the play calling.
• 25:16
  Then those excuses would go out of the window and so they would
• 25:19
  go out the window but it's that whole pieces.
• 25:21
  Why do you see guys when they into a four or five year deal?
• 25:26
  And this isn't all lines of football.
• 25:29
  You see them. If things aren't clicking pretty
• 25:32
  quick especially year three and four.
• 25:35
  That's when I you've got to go. You have to leave.
• 25:40
  We aren't executing like I can again you made the point that we
• 25:44
  can deal with Gamers here and they're consistently on.
• 25:48
  Executing is not good at all. So yeah, and he had the chance,
• 25:55
  he's had the chance multiple And she didn't do it.
• 25:57
  So, again, everything is continuously falling on him, you
• 26:02
  know, I told you a few weeks ago, I'm, I'll still throw bread
• 26:07
  when he got to go onto the bus all throwing, but it's often
• 26:10
  went in there, it's all on him. So he's got an ankle decisions
• 26:15
  and he's made the bed at this point, right?
• 26:17
  Like State. Yeah, at this point, corn is who
• 26:20
  he is. There's no going back on that.
• 26:24
  We're just have to deal with the Consequences of that and those
• 26:27
  consequences fallback, if went a we did get some other news
• 26:32
  though. So yeah, you know, we were
• 26:34
  talking about Braxton Burmeister and whether he'd be available
• 26:37
  and turns out, he's been 100% full go at practice this week so
• 26:41
  we'll go steady. Surprise said he felt good in
• 26:44
  the interview today. So I'm going to assume Brown
• 26:48
  probably probably nothing muscle wise probably know separated
• 26:55
  shoulder. Probably not even a deep bruise.
• 26:59
  Stinger, maybe bone bruise would be the most severe, you know,
• 27:04
  we'll never know because yeah, I don't talk about it.
• 27:09
  We have be Beyond here in six months.
• 27:11
  We'll find out exactly the story want to try to mark your
• 27:16
  calendars guys. We did find out that kind of
• 27:20
  blown work is at least going to be out for a while.
• 27:24
  He did leave open the opportunity for him to
• 27:26
  potentially return Towards the end of the season but depending
• 27:30
  on what that injury was, he did say it was a leg injury that
• 27:35
  doesn't look good for him. I'm guessing it could
• 27:39
  potentially, could have been like a bad sprain versus some
• 27:43
  sort of actual tear in the knee because it looked like it was a
• 27:46
  neat, the knee area. So it could be some sort of MCL
• 27:50
  sprain or something like that. Those are usually like six to
• 27:53
  eight-week injuries. Yeah.
• 27:54
  Something something significant. A severe sprain of those would
• 27:59
  definitely even an LCL, they'd be out for quite some time.
• 28:04
  Usually, it's the MCL. What really sucks is the way
• 28:08
  they used him Saturday, say what you will, you know, The
• 28:13
  incorrect use of a more terrible when they used incorrectly
• 28:17
  multiple times, it was an addition to the offense that was
• 28:21
  helpful and we never it, never really got to truly see what
• 28:27
  Connor the H back with Braxton on the field could have looked
• 28:31
  like to, because that could have that could have created some
• 28:34
  interesting matchups against a defense.
• 28:36
  So I was a little sad. We didn't get to see that as
• 28:38
  well. So we'll see how that continues
• 28:41
  forward. I guess the other thing we
• 28:44
  talked about when they talked about was Dax with the targeting
• 28:51
  penalty, going to be out the first half of pit this week, as
• 28:55
  a result of it being in the second half asleep, towards the
• 28:57
  end of the game and this case so looks like Dean and Keyshawn are
• 29:02
  going to get a good amount of play this week.
• 29:06
  Look for look for probably Keyshawn to get get a good
• 29:08
  amount of play. Although you know I'll talk
• 29:12
  about a little It now this is a great opportunity to especially
• 29:15
  with the way pit likes to play essentially writing that true
• 29:20
  nickel for the majority of the game.
• 29:23
  Yeah, like we probably should have did in that last vs.
• 29:26
  Notre Dame or the last two series and they had a pass, but
• 29:30
  Jay and we love you. But you made a bad mistake.
• 29:33
  Don't keep doing it Keshawn. They said it has been getting
• 29:37
  the primary ones this week, John has been with the system.
• 29:42
  Mmm, a little longer than Dean, he's a little bit older or more
• 29:45
  experienced in, you know, it's still tough because middle
• 29:52
  linebacker brother coming and colder with a week of prep.
• 29:56
  Has to make all the calls has to put everybody in position.
• 30:01
  And that's sort of the that's the part that we miss the most
• 30:04
  on Dax even in those last few drives.
• 30:08
  You know, was getting people lined up, right?
• 30:11
  You know, the middle path. Ass that was the big Gainer.
• 30:15
  You know, argue all you want up and down that could actually
• 30:19
  covered a wide receiver. If taxes in the game, I don't
• 30:22
  think they call that play. I don't, because if the way I
• 30:27
  saw it is if you saw the Tisdale play Ferguson was hesitant to
• 30:31
  come up and help clean up that mess and then, The very next
• 30:38
  play, they attacked it. So and I think, you know, it's
• 30:42
  more of a, you know, you smell blood in the water type thing,
• 30:46
  then it was necessarily Dax is a head and shoulders above Dina
• 30:50
  terms of coverage like that's not what I'm talking about here
• 30:54
  but you got a cold player coming off the bench.
• 30:58
  Most most coordinators attack the cold player because
• 31:01
  regardless of their ability they might be playing either too
• 31:05
  hesitant or too loose. And you can take advantage of
• 31:08
  that. It's 100% man.
• 31:10
  All right, Ron, the targeting call, it was one of those Highly
• 31:14
  Questionable calls actually, both bargaining was Saturday
• 31:17
  night and he wasn't even the one that worked in our favor and
• 31:20
  granted. I think the the time it happened
• 31:23
  and the player, it happened to definitely hurt us.
• 31:26
  A whole lot more than it hurt, Notre, Dame, but you did it.
• 31:31
  Did both of them were were questionable in terms of malice.
• 31:35
  Yes, letter. Letter of A law of those were
• 31:38
  targeting penalties. Yes.
• 31:43
  But neither of them were forceful or intentional contact
• 31:48
  to the head and neck area. No it wasn't.
• 31:50
  And it's and it's something that I told you Brian not long after
• 31:53
  it happened, something like this needs to happen to the right
• 31:58
  team and on the right stage against the right opponent,
• 32:03
  that's how the change is going to happen, that's how it's gonna
• 32:06
  happen. It's got It's going to be to me,
• 32:09
  when I say, right opponent, let's say this year in the
• 32:13
  playoffs Georgia plays Michigan. Or you know, someone else and
• 32:21
  it's a tight game late in its third and its second and goal.
• 32:26
  The guys going to the corner of the guy.
• 32:29
  Does a good football player but it's Target and he's out top
• 32:32
  linebacker. The other team punches it in
• 32:35
  Beach. Georgia.
• 32:36
  Georgia is not in the final. That's when things will happen.
• 32:41
  But during the conversation with went day, he met you know he
• 32:47
  made the point about how coaches and stuff had been discussing
• 32:51
  that there should be a targeting one and a targeting too much
• 32:55
  like the flagrant one inflate your to him basketball and
• 32:58
  listening to that. He got very comfortable.
• 33:00
  The body language means when he was talking that it very
• 33:02
  comfortable in it and he made some really great points.
• 33:08
  Yeah, and I'm actually 100% with this because I'll me too.
• 33:12
  I have no problem with any any sort of contact to the head neck
• 33:16
  area. Flag it.
• 33:17
  That's fine. Yes, you know because you still
• 33:20
  want to try to keep that out of the game as much as you can.
• 33:24
  But penalizing a player that is not purposefully and forcefully
• 33:32
  initiating that contact it needs to just stick with the flagrant.
• 33:36
  One, keep that player in the game or even if you're going to
• 33:39
  do. Essentially you get a flagrant 2
• 33:43
  or 2. Flagrant ones in a game equals a
• 33:45
  flagrant two. Yes that's the way it should be.
• 33:48
  That's the way it honestly should be.
• 33:51
  You know for one day said he felt like they've talked to this
• 33:53
  at ACF afca coaches with officials and it's just they
• 33:57
  like feel like it just goes into space and he made the best point
• 34:01
  he made whether you love or hate the guy, it's all your decision.
• 34:06
  He says the reason it's not happening so quick, as nobody
• 34:09
  wants to be seen as going backwards against player safety.
• 34:13
  And and that's the thing that you have to essentially sell to
• 34:16
  the officials and the presidents of it's not going backwards,
• 34:20
  it's staying status quo but it actually not being negative
• 34:28
  towards just an incidental play in that and you're not you're
• 34:32
  not just hurting a team either, you know, you're hurting Players
• 34:36
  stock. I mean, there's a lot of things
• 34:38
  that that you're hurting here, especially, if you know that
• 34:41
  player is playing on a big stage at a big, big moment.
• 34:45
  And all of a sudden, like, if a player is pushing for, you know,
• 34:50
  borderline first line draft first-round draft status, and
• 34:53
  they're playing in college football, playoff and they're
• 34:56
  gone, the fifth play of the game.
• 34:58
  I mean, that's high quality game tape that they know, they don't
• 35:01
  have, they can't put on their resume is at the next level.
• 35:05
  That's a Big deal. And if that ends up costing
• 35:08
  their team a game, they don't get a chance to put that out
• 35:10
  there for the next game. So there's real world
• 35:14
  ramifications for the player itself, not just the team and it
• 35:19
  looks like that the main punishment here is that they
• 35:21
  want to okay, well the team gets punished for a players choices
• 35:24
  here and this that and the third and, you know, we want players
• 35:30
  to be safe and play the game as safely as possible, but at the
• 35:33
  same time and this was kind of emphasized.
• 35:36
  And this has always been my thought on anything is that you
• 35:40
  know, doing the right thing is always better than doing.
• 35:43
  You know whatever the flavor of the week is and that's the
• 35:46
  flavor of the week now is the targeting injection and you
• 35:50
  know, I wanted to change quicker than anyone because you know Can
• 35:59
  we just say it? Just say it that penalty has
• 36:03
  caused two games against Notre Dame, two games, Waller's
• 36:08
  playing in nineteen, don't think they drive the field on that
• 36:12
  last drive and win, and I'll say this, it dax's on the field for
• 36:17
  that entire Drive. I think what happens is probably
• 36:21
  it's not as a quick a drive as it was because a they gained 40
• 36:25
  yards, 15 off taxes penalty and 40 off attacking Ferguson They
• 36:31
  were at the 35-yard line or 30 yard line when that play
• 36:35
  happened. Yeah, you do the math, that gets
• 36:38
  them to the 45. You take the 25 yard there in
• 36:42
  Red Zone pretty quick because of that one play.
• 36:48
  And again I think if it's a vice versa play and it affects Notre
• 36:52
  Dame. Maybe this was the time it
• 36:54
  happened. So.
• 36:57
  Well, guys, what we're not saying is that that necessarily,
• 37:00
  you know, Resulted in Notre, Dame winning the game but it
• 37:03
  certainly was one of the factors that played a role in that.
• 37:06
  Absolutely absolutely. Alright.
• 37:08
  So before we get into knowing the enemy, the Pitt Panthers, we
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• 37:44
  right, so let's look at the Pitt Panthers offense Prime.
• 37:46
  Start out with first of all something.
• 37:48
  I thought I'd never see Pitt, Panthers leading the country in
• 37:52
  scoring at 52 points of game forth and total offense, it, you
• 37:59
  know, 455 yards a game, really good red zone offense, you know,
• 38:06
  scored 25 touchdowns out of 32 trips down there again.
• 38:11
  Another highly ranked And if I told you all that and I told you
• 38:17
  the first thing on, this is the quarterback has had the same
• 38:20
  offensive coordinator for three seasons.
• 38:23
  Same people teaching the things for three season and it's making
• 38:28
  Jenny F and picket a potential has been Contender brand 3 star.
• 38:36
  You know it's just it's it's 1730 yards. 19 touchdowns one
• 38:45
  pick 72, the not only the best numbers of his career.
• 38:50
  I mean it's just it's Leaps and Bounds above it.
• 38:53
  And I know in reality, he really should be on an NFL roster right
• 38:57
  now because his Last year should have been his last year last
• 39:00
  year. Say that five times fast, but
• 39:03
  he's here Braun. What's changing is game from
• 39:07
  even last year, when he did, okay?
• 39:11
  The big thing that I'm seeing is that it looks like the talent
• 39:14
  around him has really come into their own a little bit more, and
• 39:20
  he's doing a really good job of Distributing the ball to a lot
• 39:25
  of different players in that offense and going These
• 39:28
  progressions a little bit quicker than he's gone through
• 39:31
  them in his in his history. So far.
• 39:34
  He said, he looks like he's working through his
• 39:35
  progressions, a lot faster. Getting the ball to the open man
• 39:39
  within the the framework of the play a lot better than he has in
• 39:44
  previous years. I mean and we've seen, I mean,
• 39:46
  obviously everyone listen to this those who Kenny F and pick
• 39:49
  it is and yes, we always say F and our fucking, I mean, it's
• 39:55
  literally it's what we don't really.
• 39:58
  Not necessarily the animosity isn't so much directed at him,
• 40:01
  but the fact that he's the quarterback for Pitt and our
• 40:03
  doozy and the whole shebang, he's Kenny fucking picket.
• 40:08
  But I mean we know what he brings to the table.
• 40:11
  He's got good athleticism for four primary throw first
• 40:16
  quarterback. Probably even a little bit of a
• 40:20
  step up, even from Sam howl at the athleticism standpoint does
• 40:26
  a really good job on those. Loud as he keeps his eyes
• 40:30
  downfield but he knows he has a really good feel of when he
• 40:33
  needs to kind of Turn It Up field and just get what he can.
• 40:36
  And like I said, he's been delivering the ball to a lot of
• 40:40
  different receivers and that's really kind of meant that you
• 40:43
  can't key on specific players down by down as much and I think
• 40:48
  that's really helped him kind of move forward, right.
• 40:52
  Let me ask this Prime, you talked about, he's going through
• 40:54
  his progressions quicker, being with the same OCC.
• 40:58
  Same system. Same guy. how easy is that for
• 41:04
  an OC to come in here and start taking things out of the
• 41:06
  Playbook and say, essentially start changing the the the the
• 41:14
  The wide receiver chart like okay we're not running this in
• 41:19
  this combo anymore. Kenny can't read it but he can
• 41:21
  read this and this great he can read a smash you know Smash book
• 41:26
  route, great. We're going to throw that in
• 41:28
  this set so it's been the same guy in his ear the whole time.
• 41:33
  Why? Same play, same concept, same
• 41:36
  looks not rotating cast of characters.
• 41:38
  Yeah. Well so, you've been to their
• 41:40
  little bit. So, one thing, the coordinator
• 41:42
  has a good feel what Kenny is comfortable with in terms of
• 41:45
  Route combinations Kenny's guide, more more comfortable
• 41:49
  overall with all of them and because he is a veteran
• 41:52
  quarterback, this point, what he is, working it on in the
• 41:55
  offseason is all up here and timing.
• 41:59
  That's it. He knows the system, right?
• 42:01
  Yeah. He doesn't have to work on that.
• 42:02
  He's Working on this, how to get through it faster and the timing
• 42:06
  with those receivers in the, the other thing that he's benefiting
• 42:09
  from, is that most of these guys are coming back from last year?
• 42:12
  Oh, absolutely throwing to yeah. So, he already had some comfort
• 42:16
  with them. He's working on more comfort,
• 42:18
  and it's just looked a lot smoother this year.
• 42:20
  All right, let's talk about those guys.
• 42:22
  Let's talk about to see your Mac to Star when he came out went to
• 42:25
  Indiana at first transferred, and December of 1704, Over to
• 42:31
  pit. So essentially he's been there
• 42:33
  three. This is his fourth season with
• 42:35
  picot 62. 190. Interesting place.
• 42:38
  He played High School football played in be kny plated
• 42:41
  Brooklyn. Yeah you don't see many guys at
• 42:45
  a D1 level are real climate. Yeah. 16 catches for 304 yards
• 42:51
  for two touchdowns averaging, you know, 19 perception.
• 42:55
  And I tell you Brian his, he's had to 100 plus games and in
• 42:59
  both those games I was at right at 25 yards per reception.
• 43:04
  So I got a feeling you're about to say speed Yeah, he's got,
• 43:08
  he's got good speed. He's there, deep threat.
• 43:11
  They also run him a lot on those kind of deep comeback routes
• 43:15
  where he can catch the ball and kind of turn up field and then
• 43:17
  use that as lettuce ISM in the open field and they throw also a
• 43:22
  lot of Fades and digs over the middle of the field where he can
• 43:26
  really kind of plant his foot turn and then kind of use that
• 43:29
  acceleration across the field to get open and make some big plays
• 43:33
  saw him. Do a couple of those
• 43:35
  cross-country routes as well. So, He's the guy that's going to
• 43:39
  get the the consistent big plays in the offense but he he will
• 43:44
  occasionally, you know, just be a guy that moves the sticks for
• 43:46
  him. Like I said, they do run those
• 43:48
  digs and comebacks. So look for him to probably be
• 43:55
  the guy that they're going to take some shots with.
• 43:57
  All right, so the next guy is the guy that's really been
• 44:00
  lighting it up. Stat wise, Jordan Addison,
• 44:02
  already twenty nine. Receptions, 524 yards, three
• 44:06
  100-yard. Games, his last three games
• 44:10
  6-foot 175, you was a four star athlete in the consistence.
• 44:15
  When he came out for 24/7, he's probably going to go play
• 44:17
  defensive back of some type. And he's a top 150 player, he
• 44:23
  was the number for athlete in his class.
• 44:25
  So this guy, obviously athletic as hell.
• 44:30
  Nine touchdowns averaging 18 yards per reception with 29 524,
• 44:36
  It seems like, I look at those numbers and especially three
• 44:40
  100-yard games. Already this early in the
• 44:42
  season, back to back to back. He's probably not a one-trick
• 44:45
  pony. No, he's kind of to do it all
• 44:48
  weapon on the offense, they run him on.
• 44:53
  Switch screens. Swings Slants.
• 44:57
  He's got the full complement of the route.
• 44:59
  Tree is available to this guy and they take advantage of it
• 45:02
  with him. He's a little bit more, elusive.
• 45:06
  Than fast compared to Mac. He kind of has that, that
• 45:11
  shiftiness they line him up in different places all over the
• 45:14
  field and because of his route running ability and ability to
• 45:18
  really kind of do everything in that offense.
• 45:21
  So he's the he's the weapon that you really have to keep your eye
• 45:23
  on because he will bust a big play on you.
• 45:28
  But he's also a good stick mover and kind of the guy that that
• 45:31
  pick it will look for when he's in trouble.
• 45:35
  All right, so Macan s and look for them on the outside and
• 45:38
  Brian are they? They XY are the orders Whipple
• 45:42
  movies, guys. All around Mac is going to
• 45:45
  primarily be outside. Addison will will line up all
• 45:49
  over the offensive formation. All right, all right.
• 45:53
  Now they have another weapon as well.
• 45:56
  Lucas crawl. What a journey for.
• 45:59
  This guy started out at Arkansas and he came out in 2016, then
• 46:03
  went to a Juco juuko came out as a top four player, the top tight
• 46:08
  end, then he went to Florida, then he finally transferred to
• 46:12
  pit 66 260 a prototypical that's an NFL tight end body.
• 46:19
  He has the size and the height, 15 reception so far this year
• 46:25
  193 yards and 12.9% options. He scored touchdowns and 45
• 46:30
  games I'm assuming he is your traditional inline guy.
• 46:38
  Yeah, he's kind of the quintessential inline stick
• 46:41
  mover guy, that uses his sighs. Well, to create a target for
• 46:46
  Kenny. Pick it on those key Downs.
• 46:49
  He doesn't do anything flashy, but he will kind of be the
• 46:54
  outlet receiver in a lot of routes.
• 46:56
  They'll sometimes work him as the primary on, like a third to
• 47:00
  short and occasionally I think they threw one gadget Play to
• 47:05
  and where they had a wide receiver.
• 47:08
  Throw a kind of a fake screen touchdown to him against I think
• 47:14
  it was Tennessee if I'm not mistaken when I went back and
• 47:17
  watch the tape. So, okay, you know, kind of kind
• 47:22
  of the the traditional mold there.
• 47:24
  Nothing that is, you know, you wouldn't classify him as a joker
• 47:28
  or anything like that. He is a typical inline guy that,
• 47:32
  you know, has the hands to be a thread the receiving game.
• 47:37
  Yeah. Um, you know, obviously scoring,
• 47:41
  you know, touchdowns in four or five games.
• 47:43
  They obviously aren't afraid to utilize him down in the red
• 47:46
  zone. And I just think about a guy
• 47:50
  that size. I mean, we have no one that can
• 47:54
  match up with that. Now, hopefully his speed and
• 47:56
  stuff we make up for it. All right, Brian, let's flip,
• 47:59
  let's look at the offensive line and as much as been talked
• 48:02
  about, we've talked about the passing.
• 48:04
  Yep. They don't have one set.
• 48:05
  Really running back between. Vez.
• 48:08
  I'll be in the cond pronounce that right?
• 48:10
  Andrade hand, and Junior. They all have roughly the same
• 48:15
  numbers, give or take Hammond jr.
• 48:17
  Hadn't played in as many games. But overall, the rushing offense
• 48:20
  is, it's not terrible. It's about, it's literally
• 48:23
  middle of the country and 165 again.
• 48:26
  Their 65th, in the nation, and the line hasn't given up too
• 48:31
  much on a twenty four tackles for loss, only eight sacks,
• 48:35
  probably more impressive with the Sax's.
• 48:37
  It's only It's under 60 yards. So it's not like it's, you know,
• 48:41
  they're giving up 10 or 12 yards per Sack or even in the Even in
• 48:48
  the tackle for loss game, it's only 198 yards.
• 48:51
  So overall, their offensive line looks pretty good.
• 48:59
  Yeah. And a little bit of the running
• 49:00
  game is a mirage though because Kenny pick Kenny Pickett is
• 49:04
  getting a good number of those yards, okay?
• 49:09
  So when you look at, when you look at Kenny picket, in terms
• 49:13
  of the running game, he's getting a good amount on
• 49:16
  scrambles. He's getting a good amount on
• 49:19
  some design runs. So that is skewing the numbers a
• 49:24
  little bit. When they just line up and hand
• 49:26
  the ball off, to a running back, they do a great job of not
• 49:29
  getting caught behind the lines of this isn't a Notre Dame
• 49:32
  situation but they're not, they're not out there gash in
• 49:36
  you in the Run game. It's very much in support of the
• 49:41
  passing attack. They run the ball, they want to
• 49:44
  be effective enough in the running game so you have to
• 49:48
  honor it so they can throw the ball like they want to.
• 49:52
  Yeah and you're right Brian pick it I'm just pulling up the data
• 49:54
  here he is getting about 25 or 26 yards a game only about under
• 50:00
  for Carrie but take him out that's down to 140 that's
• 50:05
  significantly falling down. So I'm glad you made that point.
• 50:09
  But what else are we seeing? From the what about past probe?
• 50:13
  so past like I said, they'd like to set up the set up the run
• 50:17
  with the pass, they do a good job of Protecting Kenny Pickett,
• 50:23
  especially with it's just like a four-man pressure.
• 50:27
  They also do a good job in Blitz pickup, but when that is like
• 50:32
  add oblate delay Blitz, that's when you can kind of catch them
• 50:36
  napping a little bit. If they see it coming, they do a
• 50:39
  really good job. They diagnose it and they get
• 50:42
  where they need to be. They don't know where the
• 50:44
  pressures coming from pre-snap. All bets are off a little bit
• 50:48
  and that's when you can finally get to Kenny pick it because he
• 50:50
  is hard to say. Sack because of how well they
• 50:53
  are up front of it at picking up the the four-man rush and the in
• 50:59
  the pre-snap blitz show. All right.
• 51:04
  Brian before we get into a little data point two players
• 51:07
  here what sort of Defense are we going to see Saturday with our
• 51:12
  doozy? It's a familiar defense buddy we
• 51:16
  got it we got a four to five coming in the house.
• 51:20
  Not a shock day in so far I'm doing a little little thing here
• 51:30
  for these stats. I'm about to give you I took out
• 51:32
  their game against New Hampshire defensively because it's skewed
• 51:36
  a little bit and they're scoring defense.
• 51:40
  You take out that game, they're giving up about 26 and a half in
• 51:44
  game which is in the mid 70s. As far as scoring defense has
• 51:49
  go. Yep, you're given about 383
• 51:51
  yards, a game, which is again, mid-70s.
• 51:54
  And I'm gonna get you some data after Brian goes through these.
• 51:58
  We go through these players here that we've kind of taken a look
• 52:00
  at and it's going to be just a little you're going to raise
• 52:04
  your eyebrows and say how can you be here if you take out one
• 52:07
  game in your here if you had them all its cues.
• 52:10
  But Brian, let's talk about defensive line first you know
• 52:13
  you got the big clogger in the middle and Keyshawn Camp 64.
• 52:17
  Or 290, you've got baldonado with three and a half sacks.
• 52:20
  Coming off the edge, 65 to 60 and that.
• 52:24
  And that's who I kind of was saying to you.
• 52:26
  What about these guys, Brian? And you said, nope, there's one
• 52:29
  guy you need to look up Curtis please.
• 52:32
  You can't see six-foot-two 75d tackle 3 star.
• 52:38
  Ten, tackles 2 sacks, 34 loss, 3.
• 52:41
  Tackles for loss this year, what is the tape saying?
• 52:44
  Because the stats don't jump out.
• 52:45
  The body type doesn't jump out Brawn, but what is can't see
• 52:48
  doing on tape. That is making this pit.
• 52:52
  Making him kind of the key on that deal.
• 52:54
  I'm I'm not going to make this comparison lightly, but it's
• 52:58
  like shades of Aaron. Donald in terms of the way he
• 53:01
  has a motor inside the tackles, he's he doesn't jump off the
• 53:08
  screen in the same way that Aaron Donald does obviously.
• 53:11
  So, again, this is a comparison not saying he is that player
• 53:16
  that caliber player, but the way he plays inside, the tackles is
• 53:20
  impressive. He impacts the game even when he
• 53:23
  is not making the play, Yeah, he is blowing up the line of
• 53:28
  scrimmage impacting the angle the running back impacting with
• 53:32
  the offensive line is doing as a unit.
• 53:35
  He kind of makes the whole defense go and makes the job of
• 53:39
  the other deep members of the defense of wind and the
• 53:41
  linebackers defending the run that much easier.
• 53:46
  All right, so shades of Aaron Donald, you know, just when you
• 53:55
  think When you look at the body type, when you look at at the
• 53:58
  impact it, but that's that was the first thing that jumped off
• 54:01
  to me. Like I said, I don't think we're
• 54:03
  looking at that caliber player. But in terms of how he impacts
• 54:08
  the game, that that's the type of player you're looking at,
• 54:11
  it's essentially, his job is similar to Donald's and it's
• 54:16
  probably why you're seeing baldonado have sex and Pam,
• 54:22
  Keyshawn Camp have some sacks as well because Of if he's eating
• 54:26
  that space and he's getting in gaps.
• 54:29
  Essentially, there there's nowhere to go there with him, do
• 54:33
  it. He's a star but he doesn't have
• 54:36
  to eat to be the star. All right, makes sense.
• 54:40
  All right, let's take a look at the next guy.
• 54:42
  Take a look at John petition 6. 1 to 25 so far this year twenty
• 54:49
  two tackles and in interceptions couple sacks and four tackles
• 54:52
  for loss. Seventh year behind ya that bit
• 54:58
  of we're going to say that we've said that quite a few times this
• 55:01
  year while he was a three-star who actually originally
• 55:04
  committed to Penn State bringing it from Pittsburgh transferred,
• 55:08
  back to Pittsburgh as a transfer.
• 55:11
  And I think you're about to say a familiar position for us.
• 55:15
  Yeah this is a whip and probably more of a traditional whip than
• 55:19
  what we have Tamara Connor playing now.
• 55:24
  It's more of it. More true true hybrid versus
• 55:28
  kind of the the nickel that Shamari plays on a regular
• 55:33
  basis. He doesn't this, you know he's
• 55:38
  very it's a very Sound Player. He does a great job with
• 55:41
  backside run contain from that position.
• 55:44
  They Blitz him a lot as well. He gets some impact in there
• 55:48
  especially on run blitzes. So he's not necessarily a guy
• 55:51
  that they're bringing after the quarterback a whole ton but he
• 55:54
  blew You up a big goal line play against Tennessee, coming off
• 55:58
  the edge hard. So he'll they'll bring him a lot
• 56:02
  in run blitz, situations where he can really impact the edge of
• 56:04
  the defense and just a solid overall player that, you know,
• 56:09
  kind of just wears you down a little bit, so nothing flashy,
• 56:14
  but just somebody to keep an eye on nothing flashy, but if he's a
• 56:18
  guy doing his job hurts us even more on.
• 56:22
  Now, what about this next guy? Braun.
• 56:25
  Brandon Hill looks like a safety 511. 195 leads a team in tackles
• 56:32
  with 28. Also has a pic in there was a
• 56:34
  three-star when he came out. What are we seeing from this guy
• 56:39
  to have so many tackles secondary position?
• 56:43
  Yeah, he's kind of the cleaner, he's that classic safety, that's
• 56:47
  coming up there and filling on running plays.
• 56:49
  He is patrolling the middle kind of that that Rover position for
• 56:54
  us. Very similar to similar to that.
• 56:57
  He kind of rolls in to the middle to the back of the
• 57:00
  defense plays really good and Zone coverage.
• 57:05
  They like to drop him inside the box and Zone coverage and he'll
• 57:09
  he'll make some noise. They're very sure tackler.
• 57:12
  Big hitter in the secondary, he'll he'll lay out if you come
• 57:16
  across the middle. And like I said, great in zone
• 57:19
  coverage. He can be beat when he is in a
• 57:21
  man situation. So that's one area we could
• 57:23
  potentially take advantage of their But he's also the one that
• 57:26
  picked off hidden hooker against Tennessee, to kind of close that
• 57:29
  game out there. Alright, so again, not only guy
• 57:34
  that can obviously clean up the Run.
• 57:36
  Not afraid to stick his head in there, but we have to keep an
• 57:39
  eye out for him intercepting passes.
• 57:42
  Wonderful. All right I remember this name
• 57:45
  from last year. Brian sobytia', dentist, one of
• 57:48
  the inside linebackers there. We talked about him last year.
• 57:52
  You know, he's 61 230 was a two-star.
• 57:55
  When he came out, twenty seven, tackles two for loss and a sack.
• 58:01
  What do you think about him, Brian?
• 58:05
  Yeah, he's kind of the guy in the middle of the defense that
• 58:07
  kind of makes them go and allows that first level of their
• 58:10
  defense to be so strong along with that defensive line, he's
• 58:14
  kind of eating up, anything that gets through that that defensive
• 58:18
  line. There does a good job running
• 58:19
  sideline to sideline and a good job of preventing.
• 58:24
  Any runs up the middle from getting to the second level and
• 58:28
  when he does Blitz makes makes a lot, makes the quarterback Rush
• 58:32
  there. Throws a lot.
• 58:34
  We'll work in some delay blitzes and things like that on a
• 58:37
  regular basis. So he's a guy they're going to
• 58:40
  have to watch out for not only you know when we run the ball
• 58:43
  trying to get past him up to the second level but also make sure
• 58:47
  that he doesn't get to Braxton. Absolutely.
• 58:52
  All right, so about eight minutes ago, we started this
• 58:55
  segment. I gave you all some adjusted
• 58:57
  numbers. I didn't adjust these numbers
• 59:00
  and it kind of paints a picture as a team, who's on the back
• 59:03
  half of the defense and a team. That's a leak.
• 59:05
  So I look at all five of their games.
• 59:08
  Brian and third down conversion rate.
• 59:11
  They are a top 10 conversion rate, giving up less than 27
• 59:16
  percent converting. When you have all five, Five of
• 59:20
  their games. Now the other one maybe not as
• 59:23
  much of a difference but showing they're really good in the Red
• 59:26
  Zone their ninth in the country in the Red Zone.
• 59:29
  When looking at all five of their games and I wanted to do
• 59:32
  this because when you take out that big skew game and you look
• 59:37
  at more of just the power 5 opponents and you can do this
• 59:41
  for us as well and it will skew our defensive numbers without a
• 59:44
  doubt. But when I see a team from going
• 59:47
  in the top 10, Fifteen being down in the 70s.
• 59:53
  I feel like maybe their defense is a little bit of a mirage.
• 59:57
  They have their issues that because they played one really
• 1:00:02
  bad team. The numbers are saying they're a
• 1:00:05
  lot better than actually, what they are.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah, and they're not, they're not great on the outside, we can
• 1:00:13
  we should be able to beat them outside with our receivers.
• 1:00:19
  So that's one thing to look for is that they are they're a good
• 1:00:24
  defense but they're not an elite defense in my mind.
• 1:00:28
  They're they're, they're probably closer to you know if
• 1:00:32
  you put the you put the numbers in there, over the course of a
• 1:00:35
  full season, you're probably looking at a defense in the 40s
• 1:00:39
  or 50s, Not kind of where their ranking right now with that a
• 1:00:44
  larger game in place. So you know what, we will see.
• 1:00:48
  I know we're about to talk about what the Hokies are going to
• 1:00:50
  have to do here to kind of counter what they bring to the
• 1:00:53
  table. So and we absolutely have to
• 1:00:56
  talk about it to Zeta version. We've continued to move on and
• 1:01:01
  on, we're going to look at the defense first Prime because when
• 1:01:05
  a team coming is coming in scoring this much.
• 1:01:08
  Moving the ball at will having some weaknesses.
• 1:01:12
  But not having a significant weakness, like we felt Notre
• 1:01:16
  Dame had problems with the offensive line.
• 1:01:18
  We saw it rear chatterley, but mugger in.
• 1:01:22
  It changed the dynamic. But I think what we're going to
• 1:01:26
  start with here is, although he has some athleticism, there is
• 1:01:30
  no way, Kenny pick, it is going to run as much as Buckner did
• 1:01:34
  for success for having our defensive end Pace him.
• 1:01:38
  So we are coming out and saying we got to put Kenny up and pick
• 1:01:43
  it on his fucking ass. A minimum of 10 times hitting
• 1:01:47
  him dip. Minimum got to hit him 10 times.
• 1:01:52
  I'd like to see at least four sacks that would be a good
• 1:01:55
  number to start with it. Like I said, it's hard to get to
• 1:02:00
  him, we got jehan's going to have to dial up, something a
• 1:02:05
  little creative and hopefully early on.
• 1:02:07
  We can at least get some pressure with four and then kind
• 1:02:10
  of mix up some of the blitzes as we go along there too.
• 1:02:13
  When they start to adjust to that, All right, so put Kenny
• 1:02:18
  down. Now the next one we talked about
• 1:02:21
  the Run game, Brian. Brought the point that pick it
• 1:02:24
  as part of that run game but they're still getting 140 yards
• 1:02:27
  from a couple guys which is still not too terrible.
• 1:02:29
  Especially the way they're passing the ball and I think I
• 1:02:35
  know we didn't put a number on this brine, if they run the ball
• 1:02:38
  30 times, they can't crack 110. We have to keep it in that mid
• 1:02:45
  three. If they're a virgin for Carrie
• 1:02:49
  it's going to get ugly. Yeah.
• 1:02:51
  Because if they're able to complement their paths attack
• 1:02:54
  with a rushing attack that can get them in short, you know,
• 1:02:58
  secondly manageable third manageable situations that's
• 1:03:01
  going to let Kenny Pickett really have his option of who to
• 1:03:04
  throw to. We need to keep them behind the
• 1:03:06
  sticks. And, you know, we want to make
• 1:03:09
  them as one-dimensional as possible.
• 1:03:12
  I know there. Strength is throwing the ball
• 1:03:15
  around, but if we can take away the run that strength, becomes a
• 1:03:19
  little bit less, so that's going to be.
• 1:03:22
  The goal is to make sure we contain that rushing attack and
• 1:03:25
  make any pick it have to beat us.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah, and that's what we're looking for, you know?
• 1:03:32
  By having that semblance of a Russian attack.
• 1:03:35
  You know, pick is averaging about 12 and attempt if they
• 1:03:40
  keep the Russian attack it's definitely going to be twelve.
• 1:03:42
  Maybe even more the way things have worked the last few weeks.
• 1:03:46
  But if you can tell me that he's at like between eight and nine
• 1:03:50
  and that's only to my says that's only three yards but when
• 1:03:53
  you throw it as much as they've thrown at this year, you know,
• 1:03:56
  where they're throwing it close to 35 times a game that's 100.
• 1:04:03
  Also, the more we can put them in situations where they're
• 1:04:07
  passing on obvious passing Downs.
• 1:04:09
  Oh yeah. That means we can, we can come
• 1:04:11
  at them. We can make play calls that are
• 1:04:14
  specific for that type of play. And that's why it's important to
• 1:04:18
  get behind. You keep them behind the sticks
• 1:04:21
  if you get them and you know, second and ten second and eight.
• 1:04:26
  If we can do that consistently they're going to have to start
• 1:04:28
  throwing the ball on those Downs that we're going to be able to
• 1:04:32
  adjust according Ali and either bring some sort of Blitz in or
• 1:04:37
  we can definitely pin your ears back a little bit more than we
• 1:04:39
  would, if we were in like a second and five second and for
• 1:04:42
  situation, absolutely another one, Brian you put this on here.
• 1:04:45
  And after talking about Mac, reading about macron about
• 1:04:49
  Addison, we've got to tackle, I don't think we can afford to
• 1:04:55
  tackle like we did last week because I think these guys
• 1:05:00
  Because they're much more receivers than running backs.
• 1:05:04
  They have potential go, big play.
• 1:05:07
  Yeah, yeah. If we don't wrap them up and
• 1:05:10
  they get into space, they've got the speed to turn it into a home
• 1:05:14
  run. So limit, the run after the
• 1:05:16
  catch, and that means tackling, we can't see what we saw.
• 1:05:23
  Especially in the Red Zone last week against Notre Dame, having
• 1:05:28
  three tackles on a, on a single Three B, tackles on the single
• 1:05:31
  play, got to wrap up. Got to get guys to the dirt.
• 1:05:36
  If we can do that, then we at least limit the the big play
• 1:05:40
  potential of that offense. Yep.
• 1:05:44
  Alright, the last piece here, Braun, I've been talking to you
• 1:05:48
  about it. We are literally the worst team
• 1:05:52
  in the country in the Red Zone. If you get in the Red Zone
• 1:05:56
  against us, you score touchdowns You score touchdowns 8 out of 3
• 1:06:02
  times 8 out of 11 times, the clothes, 20% of the time you're
• 1:06:06
  getting it in. We haven't stopped anybody.
• 1:06:10
  Christine 411, we haven't even blocked a field goal, doorstop
• 1:06:12
  field goals. this is if it doesn't change this week, I
• 1:06:17
  mean, You know, there's no chance.
• 1:06:23
  Yeah I think that's that's the big thing is that we we our
• 1:06:28
  defense has shown such significant Improvement that
• 1:06:32
  it's sad that we're seeing that one statistic be so glaring
• 1:06:36
  right now. Yes, it is.
• 1:06:38
  It seems like as soon as they get in the Red Zone, we forget
• 1:06:41
  how to tackle forget how to cover.
• 1:06:45
  And it's getting a little, a little silly, and I'm not so
• 1:06:50
  much concerned about, you know, getting turnovers here blocking
• 1:06:55
  kicks. I just want, if you just flip or
• 1:06:59
  bring that, bring that touchdown to field goal ratio at least
• 1:07:03
  closer to that. 50% Mark, if not better, that, I'd be fine with
• 1:07:08
  that. I think if you told me we were,
• 1:07:11
  you know, five touchdowns six field, goals or six, touchdowns,
• 1:07:15
  five field goals, I'd feel okay about it but we're about to
• 1:07:19
  About three touchdowns worse than we should be.
• 1:07:22
  We got it. We had a force them to kick
• 1:07:24
  three more often when they get in the scoring area.
• 1:07:27
  Well, if it was flipped completely Brian and it was
• 1:07:30
  eight field goals, three touchdowns, I'd be celebrating
• 1:07:32
  that number. Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  Yeah. When you get down here, cool,
• 1:07:36
  you're going to score on us about 20% of the time for
• 1:07:41
  touchdowns every other time, you're going to be kicking free.
• 1:07:44
  Well, it would go back into the Mantra of the bend don't break
• 1:07:47
  that. We've done a really good job at
• 1:07:49
  Between the 20s. We just need to do a better job
• 1:07:52
  inside the 20. All right, let's flip it over to
• 1:07:55
  the offense. Brian.
• 1:07:57
  And again the version we've got to see.
• 1:08:01
  We did not break 30 last week. Even with the defensive
• 1:08:04
  touchdowns, even with five scoring drives five, we did not
• 1:08:11
  break 30. I don't think we can win this
• 1:08:14
  game in the terms. Now, we've got at least get to
• 1:08:17
  30. Preferably morbid.
• 1:08:20
  Mid-30s is probably where we're going to at least have to get
• 1:08:24
  against this pit team. And it's going to take a little
• 1:08:29
  bit of different things to get there.
• 1:08:30
  The, I think, the first thing is that we need to run the ball
• 1:08:33
  somewhat effectively early in the game and then use that
• 1:08:36
  rushing attack to lengthen, the game limit, the time that you're
• 1:08:39
  going to give Kenny Pickett to score.
• 1:08:42
  And if if your defense is doing what it should do and that is go
• 1:08:44
  occasionally, forcing some field goals, then you're working with
• 1:08:48
  something there because you shorten the game.
• 1:08:52
  And you've made it so that Kenny pick.
• 1:08:54
  It has to be more perfect than he's used to being because he's
• 1:08:57
  not touching the ball very much. The other thing we need to do is
• 1:09:01
  get Braxton comfortable in the short passing game and play
• 1:09:05
  action early. And that starts with that
• 1:09:07
  rushing attack, man. Yeah.
• 1:09:09
  And right now we're not running the ball.
• 1:09:11
  Good at all. We did get creative with Trail.
• 1:09:14
  A couple sweets D plays like that but overall, I running game
• 1:09:19
  less be be scrambling. And getting great gangs, we
• 1:09:24
  don't have an effective rushing attack and, and, and I don't
• 1:09:29
  know if it's, I mean, a last week, quarterbacks running the
• 1:09:33
  ball 17 times compared to 24, multiple running backs.
• 1:09:38
  If we're this deep into season and they haven't decided on who
• 1:09:42
  the two or three backs. Are they brought Malachi up, the
• 1:09:46
  freshman and I'm fine with that. But it's like we're we can't get
• 1:09:51
  production. Rahim, black chairs, look like
• 1:09:53
  the best guy. I know what irritates you run
• 1:09:55
  that, they still cannot use him correctly because essentially
• 1:10:01
  they're struggling to use them correctly because the the end up
• 1:10:04
  having to use him as the primary lead bag and so many instances,
• 1:10:09
  So, and I get that if he's your most effective guy, you've got
• 1:10:14
  to use them there, but it's just sad that we haven't found
• 1:10:16
  someone. That is more effective between
• 1:10:18
  the tackles, and it's sad that our offensive line hasn't taken
• 1:10:21
  some of the strides. I thought they would take
• 1:10:23
  because I thought the offensive line would be okay this year, it
• 1:10:26
  especially in the Run game and we have not seen that.
• 1:10:32
  No, you know, we looked at, you know, pretty much a I didn't
• 1:10:37
  think we'd see much drop off in the interior and I thought that
• 1:10:41
  the tackles that we had at least in the Run game would be good
• 1:10:44
  enough to more or less be in the ballpark of last year just with
• 1:10:49
  the less Dynamic rushing attack from the actual running back
• 1:10:52
  position because we knew we weren't getting a Herbert type
• 1:10:56
  player at running back this year.
• 1:10:59
  We knew that we do. The Blackshear has other
• 1:11:02
  abilities that are that are beneficial to the offense but he
• 1:11:06
  I'm going to put out the type of rushing attack in the outside
• 1:11:10
  Zone and the running game is a hole that we saw from Herbert
• 1:11:14
  but we haven't. That means offensive line just
• 1:11:17
  has not played a four-quarter, good game yet well and we seen
• 1:11:22
  flashes here and there, we've seen Quarters here and there but
• 1:11:25
  again they're not putting it together and it almost comes to
• 1:11:29
  a point. You want to question Vance, Vice
• 1:11:31
  of rotating guys, where you're almost sitting there.
• 1:11:34
  It's like when you have a successful quarter just like Let
• 1:11:36
  that ride don't you don't because it goes back to the old,
• 1:11:44
  the old, you know, the pieces of well it's this guy's turn to run
• 1:11:48
  the ball. Well, the other Jag just went
• 1:11:51
  his last two drives. Had eight carries for 40 yards.
• 1:11:55
  I wouldn't take him out right now unless he was a breather.
• 1:11:58
  It's not even game Flow specific either.
• 1:12:01
  Like that's, you know, if if you get a lead on a team and you put
• 1:12:04
  in your like Caden more or a Silas at a certain position guys
• 1:12:12
  that you know or more road graders than they are
• 1:12:15
  necessarily Elite pass protectors then.
• 1:12:18
  At least, you know, your kind of catering to the game Flow.
• 1:12:21
  Yeah, that makes sense. What doesn't make sense is just
• 1:12:25
  kind of throwing guys out there to see what works.
• 1:12:27
  We're in. We're going and there are six
• 1:12:29
  Game of the Year. This should have been figured
• 1:12:32
  out by now, and we've only had really one injury to dictate
• 1:12:36
  any. Sort of shuffling, well, swing
• 1:12:38
  it elephants were one game and Silas was back against Notre
• 1:12:43
  Dame's. So absolutely figure out your
• 1:12:46
  best five and only sub. If it is game Flow specific, if
• 1:12:52
  we're if we're behind and we're dropping back a lot.
• 1:12:55
  Absolutely. Get your best five pass
• 1:12:57
  protectors out there and, you know, vice versa, if we get up
• 1:13:01
  and we're trying to grind the game out, but don't just keep
• 1:13:05
  switching lineups. Rather drive to see what's
• 1:13:08
  working. I mean, we were either what up,
• 1:13:13
  or close to close to being up and pretty much the duration of
• 1:13:18
  the Notre Dame game. There was no, there was not a
• 1:13:20
  game Flow situation, where it said we should be subbing
• 1:13:24
  offensive lineman in and out. None, none whatsoever.
• 1:13:28
  And talk about all you talked about the offensive line in
• 1:13:31
  general, but I'm going to flip it back the passing game because
• 1:13:36
  we saw some elements of that short and mid-range game last
• 1:13:40
  Saturday work that when we were actually driving the ball,
• 1:13:44
  that's where the successes were. And I know your big thing is
• 1:13:47
  getting comfortable, get him comfortable, but Brian, you've
• 1:13:50
  also mentioned as much as we need to get that play action
• 1:13:52
  going. Looking at the tape, we can't
• 1:13:56
  sit there and try to drive the ball 15 plays every time we've
• 1:14:00
  got and I mean, everyone's yeah, and the way they go outside,
• 1:14:04
  it's very much similar to what But Bud used to do.
• 1:14:07
  They are going to get up on you, it's going to be some man or
• 1:14:10
  some Kind of that press Cover 3, they're going to, we're going to
• 1:14:16
  have some opportunities to take some shots down the field.
• 1:14:20
  And we need to take those, there's going to be one on one
• 1:14:23
  situations. There's going to be a couple of
• 1:14:25
  free release situations. We've got to not be afraid to
• 1:14:29
  press the ball downfield when they give it to us and we got to
• 1:14:32
  complete those passes. All right?
• 1:14:34
  So there's the version of what we feel like needs to happen for
• 1:14:38
  the Hokies to win. And now it's our prediction time
• 1:14:42
  Brian Braun last week you led. So I'm going to leave this week
• 1:14:45
  and as much as I want to win this game because the last Last
• 1:14:50
  game mean you went to at Lane, stadium was fit in 2019 in the
• 1:14:54
  28-nothing when how Narducci has acted throughout his time at
• 1:15:00
  Pitt? He acts a lot of time like a
• 1:15:02
  petulant child on the sidelines he's talking shit.
• 1:15:05
  Again about jumping off side so he does he does not believe car
• 1:15:08
  may exist man. He re yeah he jumped I mean last
• 1:15:13
  time he said that they jumped off three times and that game we
• 1:15:15
  were it walks in there and rain so blamed I what backed out of
• 1:15:19
  me It was like what 52? Yeah somewhere 50 50 to 55
• 1:15:23
  somewhere in that range. Yeah, it was it was a rainy one
• 1:15:27
  and but but I can't go with this Prime.
• 1:15:33
  We're sewing instance, do on offense.
• 1:15:36
  They have a good offense. Our defense is good.
• 1:15:40
  Is it Elite know if it was a lead?
• 1:15:42
  We have I'd probably flip this. We had a good defense on Elite
• 1:15:46
  defense. I offenses inconsistent.
• 1:15:49
  It basically, bottom third bottom quarter of the entire
• 1:15:53
  country and I think probably it's going to come down to just
• 1:15:58
  them getting one extra score and I'm going 3427.
• 1:16:05
  Yeah, and I'm pretty much right there with you.
• 1:16:07
  In terms of the point differential I'm a little bit
• 1:16:10
  lower on both teams. I think our defense probably
• 1:16:13
  plays one of the better games, especially considering the
• 1:16:15
  competition this year. I think the final is going to be
• 1:16:19
  3124 pit because I don't think that the offense does enough on
• 1:16:24
  capitalizing on some of the shots we can take down field.
• 1:16:27
  Yeah, I think we do enough moving the football to get
• 1:16:31
  probably at least three scoring drives.
• 1:16:35
  And then, can I say this? I don't think it's going to be
• 1:16:37
  last year. No, no, no, I think the
• 1:16:40
  combination of this defense being better and it being in
• 1:16:44
  Lane. I think that alone kind of puts
• 1:16:46
  this in a closer match. Ouch up than what we saw last
• 1:16:50
  year. Yeah.
• 1:16:51
  If you told me this was in Hinds, I would, I would say, I
• 1:16:55
  could go at least six to six to ten points higher on the
• 1:17:00
  differential layer. But in I'll say this, if you ask
• 1:17:04
  us well what has to happen in this game from the wind will
• 1:17:06
  consistency and offense the scoring Drive.
• 1:17:09
  Some last week, we had if we see that 80% of the time, we have a
• 1:17:13
  chance, but my big One's Gonna Be this I think we have to be
• 1:17:20
  plus 2. Turnover differential, plus 2 in
• 1:17:24
  the turnover differential. We were plus 2, and it's going
• 1:17:27
  to be hard to force that it's going to be hard to force that.
• 1:17:32
  Can he pick? It, doesn't turn the ball over
• 1:17:33
  very much. I think the opportunity we might
• 1:17:35
  have to get him to turn the ball over is probably going to be you
• 1:17:39
  know, either one of those good Breaks by Jermaine or Armani on
• 1:17:43
  the outside or if we can get somebody into the backfield and
• 1:17:48
  get a you know, a sack fumble, he is up.
• 1:17:51
  He has a propensity to When he gets back to let go of the ball
• 1:17:54
  so maybe that can happen. All right, Brian, let's go ahead
• 1:18:00
  and take a look at the 10 additional games.
• 1:18:02
  This Saturday, pick them current record, Braun had a miserable
• 1:18:06
  weekend, goes to games under 30, and 32, I had my best weekend of
• 1:18:11
  the year. I'm now four games over at 33
• 1:18:13
  and 29 and I'm on a lead. Let's start Friday night in the
• 1:18:17
  ACC in the dome run. Syracuse Clemson Clemson is
• 1:18:23
  laying 13 and a half points. This isn't legal limit but the
• 1:18:27
  way Clemson has played all year and the waist excuses, played
• 1:18:32
  both on the road and at home. There.
• 1:18:37
  I don't know what Vegas is on and I know they build hotels
• 1:18:40
  every day because people that it, but I cannot see, Clemson,
• 1:18:44
  probably wins the game outright, but it's going to be an absolute
• 1:18:47
  grind Fest but I'll give me cues.
• 1:18:50
  I'll take the 13 to have points. I'm right with you.
• 1:18:55
  I think you've got Carrier Dome + improved.
• 1:18:58
  Rushing attack, + above average defense for Syracuse, I think, I
• 1:19:04
  think that's enough. If to keep this game under two
• 1:19:07
  touchdowns just because I haven't seen enough from
• 1:19:10
  Clemson's offense to know that they're able to pull away from
• 1:19:12
  anybody. So yeah.
• 1:19:14
  You begin the over-under in the over unders 45 and you split
• 1:19:19
  that out and take the 13 away. That's a 32.
• 1:19:22
  They're saying this is going to be like Clemson 36:16.
• 1:19:28
  Yeah, Clemson 30. No Clemson getting 30 opening,
• 1:19:34
  getting the 30, they probably win the game 27:17.
• 1:19:38
  All right, let's go to the 12:30 kick in the ACC.
• 1:19:42
  Braun Duke goes to Charlottesville was and UVA.
• 1:19:47
  UVA is the 11-point. Favorite will say you on this
• 1:19:51
  one. Man, Duke 10 be some favors last
• 1:19:58
  week. Give me UVA.
• 1:20:07
  All right. Give me UVA.
• 1:20:10
  I think they're going to be able to score enough points.
• 1:20:12
  I think Duke is going to be a little inconsistent on offense
• 1:20:16
  and probably not have enough on defense to compensate.
• 1:20:19
  That's about where I am to 69z over under total and they're
• 1:20:26
  saying juice going to score some points, but not enough points to
• 1:20:30
  keep with UVA. And I'm with them.
• 1:20:32
  I see it. Probably two touchdown game
• 1:20:34
  probably somewhere like 4530. Yeah, you know, somewhere in
• 1:20:39
  that neighborhood. Ugh.
• 1:20:39
  But I'm taking UVA in this one, too.
• 1:20:41
  We're essentially saying uva's offense against Dukes.
• 1:20:44
  Defense is going to be more consistent than you call.
• 1:20:48
  Police offense. Against UVA is defense even
• 1:20:49
  though I'll bad. Evas defense has overall,
• 1:20:53
  probably the over the over, would probably be a better than
• 1:20:57
  this one because both the defenses aren't good.
• 1:20:59
  Both the defenses are easily given up 30 a game on the field,
• 1:21:05
  right? Interesting.
• 1:21:05
  Matchup ranked. North Carolina.
• 1:21:07
  State goes up. To Boston College.
• 1:21:11
  They are a three-point Road favorite.
• 1:21:16
  And in, this is the one I've just been looking at since I've
• 1:21:20
  laid these out on Tuesday. Brian, and I go back and forth
• 1:21:25
  and it is as good as NC state has played at times this year.
• 1:21:31
  They've also had some Clunkers of games.
• 1:21:35
  And being on the road. This is going to be a 7:30 night
• 1:21:41
  kick Boston College four and one I think I'm going to take the
• 1:21:46
  home dog here. I'm going to take BC, I don't
• 1:21:49
  know if BC wins the game but I think it's going to be tight
• 1:21:52
  enough where BC is going to cover the three.
• 1:21:56
  So I'm going to take BC 3 All right, I'm going to make up some
• 1:22:01
  ground on you here. I'm going in Sea State and I
• 1:22:05
  think that's going to be that's going to be a great environment
• 1:22:07
  for that game, but I will go with NC State here.
• 1:22:12
  I think they've got enough juice to pull it out.
• 1:22:16
  Probably just, it's not, it's going to be close to probably
• 1:22:18
  gonna be about a touchdown game, but I think it's more it more
• 1:22:20
  than the three. All right, over Underwood's. 52
• 1:22:24
  on that one. So if you're right handed in
• 1:22:28
  your head, all right, there we go.
• 1:22:29
  Look at the Two, biggest frauds. Fraud alert to think is frogs in
• 1:22:37
  the country. Miami travels to UNC for A330
• 1:22:42
  kick that somehow is still on going to be on what mother
• 1:22:47
  moving to ACC Network. I thought they were having it on
• 1:22:49
  ABC, but North Carolina, Lane seven points on this one.
• 1:22:53
  Brian. What do you think between on
• 1:22:56
  this game? I'm gonna go UNC and it's solely
• 1:22:59
  because of the dear King news. And just, I feel like that's
• 1:23:03
  going to be deflating for that team overall.
• 1:23:07
  I think they're going to come out a little, huh?
• 1:23:09
  Dover and UNC is going to be able to jump on them enough
• 1:23:12
  early where that's going to carry throughout the game.
• 1:23:15
  Yeah, I'm with you. I think you and see wins this
• 1:23:18
  game and I think UNC wins this game, big.
• 1:23:21
  I don't think this is going to be like a tight game.
• 1:23:26
  We saw how Miami at times with here, King, not on the field has
• 1:23:31
  struggled to score UVA, took him a while to get going against one
• 1:23:35
  of the worst defenses in the country.
• 1:23:38
  They pretty much could do anything against Michigan State.
• 1:23:41
  They got held under 20 and I know UNC does not have a great
• 1:23:44
  defense, but the way Miami's defense has just basically
• 1:23:48
  hemorrhaged points all year. I think this is like a 17-point
• 1:23:53
  game, I think same house slings it around, they win like 3821,
• 1:23:59
  give me Miami or give me um see on that one.
• 1:24:02
  All right, Brian, let's go out of conference.
• 1:24:04
  Kind of a big ranked match up of the day in the Big 12.
• 1:24:10
  Take a look at High Noon, Texas and Oklahoma State at Texas in
• 1:24:15
  Austin, Texas, Lane five and a half points after blowing the
• 1:24:20
  ungodly. The lead to Oklahoma and Kaleb
• 1:24:24
  Williams last week. Where you're on this one man.
• 1:24:29
  I see this as a Texas hangover man, I think I think Oklahoma
• 1:24:34
  state does enough to kind of shell-shocked them, a little bit
• 1:24:38
  out, the gate. I think they come out a little
• 1:24:40
  flat after last week, and they probably fight back, but
• 1:24:44
  probably not enough to bring it, bring it under that, that five
• 1:24:47
  and a half. So I'll take okey State here.
• 1:24:50
  All right. I'm kind of with you on that.
• 1:24:53
  Okey state has played three scary solid opponents in Boise,
• 1:24:57
  in Kansas State, and in Baylor, and they meet the last two by
• 1:25:05
  double digits. I don't think the Texas crowds
• 1:25:09
  going to have that big. I'm wondering how many people
• 1:25:11
  even be there especially after the loss last week and given
• 1:25:14
  five and a half points. I think is enough to make that
• 1:25:18
  cover. So I'm going to go with you with
• 1:25:19
  okey state. And yeah, now let's look at the
• 1:25:25
  second Big 12 game we've got on here to Big 12 games, were
• 1:25:28
  actually looking to, hopefully, find fun offense where BYU the
• 1:25:32
  ranked team goes down to Baylor, and Baylor, the home unranked
• 1:25:38
  team laying six and a half points.
• 1:25:41
  We're on this one. Brian!
• 1:25:43
  A BYU just a few short weeks ago was inching towards the top 10
• 1:25:48
  and after the After the loss to Boise by nine points.
• 1:25:53
  In Provo, they somehow stayed in the top 20 at 19.
• 1:26:00
  And I like, what Dave Aranda is got going on at Baylor, really
• 1:26:06
  good defensive coach, the Okie State game was close, they lost
• 1:26:09
  by 10. Normally, you know, Dundee's
• 1:26:12
  have it has a solid offense and I think BYU's going to take
• 1:26:16
  another loss. And I think Baby.
• 1:26:20
  Justin for one day's going to regret his decision.
• 1:26:22
  Not leaving but I am Italian. Give me Baylor, latest, six and
• 1:26:30
  a half points. Baylor wins by 7.
• 1:26:37
  I'm gonna go be why you here. I think this is this is one of
• 1:26:42
  the ones I've been kind of waffling back and forth on, but
• 1:26:44
  I think this one comes down to the wire.
• 1:26:47
  I can see a field goal winning this game late.
• 1:26:50
  So I'll take BYU here. All right, just a few more to
• 1:26:55
  pick. Let's go to Cincinnati in the
• 1:27:01
  Gus Malzahn, UCF. Golden knights coming to town,
• 1:27:06
  to face the Cincinnati. And Have you seen this line yet?
• 1:27:12
  I'm not sure yeah, but 120 121. I mean, I like Cincinnati and
• 1:27:19
  everything. I think so.
• 1:27:20
  Now, he's going to win this game.
• 1:27:21
  I think 20 once, just way way too much to play, because
• 1:27:25
  anything Malzahn, even against good defense has has been known
• 1:27:30
  to manufacture points. Yep, I just think 21 is way way
• 1:27:35
  too much if it was like 17. I think I take, I think I take
• 1:27:41
  Sensi, but three touchdowns Give me give me UCF in the points.
• 1:27:50
  I'm gonna go with UCF as well. I like Cynthia lot, I just think
• 1:27:54
  that's too much in a game that matters for both of these teams
• 1:27:59
  big time in terms of both big picture and Conference.
• 1:28:06
  So I'm going to take UCF, I think they keep it closer than
• 1:28:09
  the 21. Obviously, I still think it's a
• 1:28:12
  pretty Start to finish when force in C but it's not one that
• 1:28:19
  ever gets out of hand. Alright.
• 1:28:22
  Alright, next team we got here. There is no spread Braun for
• 1:28:27
  Pac-12 after dark, pick up, Arizona State and Utah is a
• 1:28:33
  straight pick on that line had been at like two and one and
• 1:28:37
  finally got down to a pick them a little earlier today.
• 1:28:41
  What do you think on this one? Brian.
• 1:28:43
  You're going with the the ranked team, the rink, Arizona Sun
• 1:28:47
  Devils at 5 and 1 or the home team Utah at 3 & 2.
• 1:28:57
  I kind of I'm leaving Arizona State but something about going
• 1:29:00
  going into Utah is giving me pause so you know you play to
• 1:29:08
  win the game so I'm going to go Zone a state-owned Arizona,
• 1:29:11
  State play to win the game. All right, well Ron I am going
• 1:29:19
  to completely flip this on you. Not so fast.
• 1:29:22
  Utah's two losses are two, ranked teams in Off to BYU by 9,
• 1:29:27
  which we watched that game late. You have the usually Utah kind
• 1:29:31
  of pissed it away. And then, Austin, San Diego
• 1:29:35
  State out of the Mountain West, who is ranked 24 and undefeated,
• 1:29:38
  they lost them by two points. I really think that Utah.
• 1:29:46
  This is like a game were calling him.
• 1:29:48
  It looks like he's going to lose any wins.
• 1:29:49
  Every year, they coming off a blowout, win of USC, and then
• 1:29:54
  after in a wind, over y Zu, the week before.
• 1:29:57
  Give me that home field, give me Utah straight up.
• 1:30:02
  All right, all right, back to the SEC for the last to the
• 1:30:07
  first one. As we've all been doing keeping
• 1:30:10
  an eye on pintle hook. Tennessee.
• 1:30:13
  He starts the gauntlet for him to see if the numbers are real
• 1:30:18
  or if just a competition of what it was.
• 1:30:22
  They go play Ole Miss in man, the first thing I noticed on
• 1:30:27
  this game. Brian the over-under, you're
• 1:30:29
  ready for it. Shoot the over under this game
• 1:30:34
  is 82 and a half, okay? I was gonna say it's somewhere
• 1:30:37
  around 80 so I was ready to pull apart-er.
• 1:30:39
  Have this spread is Is Ole Miss Lane two and a half points.
• 1:30:46
  So they're saying this game is going to be over 40.
• 1:30:52
  As much as I love hindon. And as much as I love Tennessee.
• 1:30:58
  I don't think they're going to be able to keep up with Kevin's
• 1:31:02
  offense with Matt Correll. And that group, I think it's
• 1:31:06
  competitive. I'm really think looking at
• 1:31:08
  Saturday night. That might be the game to watch
• 1:31:15
  of all the ranked teams again, is going to kick it 7:30 and
• 1:31:19
  it's going to be an absolute shootout.
• 1:31:20
  I think Ole Miss wins 52-42. So I will take Ole Miss and lay
• 1:31:27
  the two points. All right.
• 1:31:33
  We're going to, we're going to differ here.
• 1:31:34
  I think. Tennessee pulls.
• 1:31:35
  This one out. I think they have just enough on
• 1:31:39
  defense to Keep Ole Miss from completely blowing their doors
• 1:31:44
  off. I think in and comes up with a
• 1:31:45
  little magic late, I think this is an outright win by Tennessee.
• 1:31:49
  It's going to come down to the wire though.
• 1:31:52
  All right, well, I'm taking the two with the home team gopala.
• 1:31:56
  Tennessee moneyline Tennessee. Put his part of his report of
• 1:32:03
  your parlay this week. Alright.
• 1:32:07
  Yeah. Alright, last game is Kentucky,
• 1:32:10
  Georgia, big game of the day, two ranked teams Kentucky.
• 1:32:15
  Number one in the country, in Georgia number of, excuse me.
• 1:32:19
  Kentucky 11 in the country. Mark, Stoops has Georgia Roland.
• 1:32:23
  I've told a buddy, my buddy, Mike and work the other day.
• 1:32:26
  If Mark, Stoops wants to after this season ends, you need big.
• 1:32:30
  Position open. He could probably go get.
• 1:32:33
  He's 54 years old. He's been in the coaching game
• 1:32:36
  for 30 years. He seen it all.
• 1:32:38
  He obviously he's been a Kentucky.
• 1:32:43
  Since let me get it. I think he's been a Kentucky
• 1:32:46
  since 13. Yeah, that's Mike Stoops.
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  Mark Stoops, he's been a Kentucky since 13.
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  And obviously what he's done in Kentucky is crazy, he's five
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  games over 500 with that program.
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  If they have to be see with some 10-win seasons and 81 seasons.
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  And obviously he was with his brother when they won a national
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  title. I think he can go wherever he
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  wants and in this game, Brian, the line is Georgia laying 23
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  points. What do you say?
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  Yeah, I like Georgia a lot. I don't like them that much and
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  I think you know, Kentucky has played some good football this
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  year and as you said consist, I mean they've been in you know
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  say what you will about them historically but Kentucky since
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  2013 since Mark Stoops has been there has been a better overall
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  program that were jigna Tech and they have it's crazy to say that
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  shit but you know it's true and I just I think they keep it
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  closer than The 23 and a half or was aligned towards anyone
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  worried 24, three touchdowns. Yeah, we'll go.
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  I can't, I can't put that much out there.
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  That's way too much and I'm trying to see if Jay to Daniel's
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  is back this week. Give me a second here.
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  I want to just see if maybe this is what's doing it.
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  If you see some brown, I'm trying to get it here.
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  All right, even if he was back I still couldn't like 24 in his
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  first game back. Give me Kentucky, give me the
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  all the points everything because I think that's just way
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  too much Stoops has a good enough defense, I think you'll
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  keep it a grind Fest. I think Georgia pulls away a
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  little late and it's probably like a 31:14 game but nowhere
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  near the 24. You're talking about Brian
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  anything. Broken over the last hour and a
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  half I'm not seeing anything fun.
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  Everything looks pretty, pretty low-key, man.
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  All right, everything's low-key. All right.
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