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Week Eight · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Music. And welcome back to the Boundary
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  Corner Podcast along with my partners, Brian Siegler,
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  Jonathan Tally and Shelton Moss. I'm Curtis Wilson and Boundary
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  Comments. That name looks a little
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  different. That name looks very familiar
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  though. But welcome back boys.
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  How y'all been the last week or so?
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  Man, you know what it was? It was nice having another
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  Saturday that was stress free, just watching college football,
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  not worried about whether the Hokies were going to take care
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  of business or not. And we get another one this
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  week. So that's going to be be be
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  pretty interesting. What was the what was what was
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  y'all's favorite game of the weekend?
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  Let's let's start there. Oh.
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  Oh oh Sheldon, y'all got one? I'm I'm like, I'm I'm trying to
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  inflect on what was Alabama. Yeah, Alabama, South Carolina
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  was pretty good. I watched that.
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  Tennessee, Arkansas was pretty good.
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  Tennessee, Florida. I mean, Tennessee, Florida,
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  Tennessee, Florida was pretty good.
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  So I mean, you kind of kind of came down to what I thought.
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  Sheldon, you got 1. Yeah, I kind of I, I missed the
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  early afternoon games because I went outside and was able to
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  touch some grass, wanted to hike South of Waynesboro, so got
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  outside a little bit. So, but yeah, not, not that it
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  was a good game, but I enjoyed watching Boise State just to
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  watch Ashton Gente. I've kind of been on the the
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  Gente hype train. So I stayed up till 2:00 AM
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  watching the Boise State Hawaii game to watch.
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  That go off. For 200 yards, so I enjoyed
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  that. Yeah, I got, I got to go with
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  that Oregon, Ohio State game. And, you know, you got to love
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  the the call to throw a 12th man out there and run a little clock
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  that, that that's, that's the way to, you know, play some 3D
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  chess out there. All right, you like that one.
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  I, I enjoyed watching the Penn State USC game A because when
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  that game went to overtime and USC didn't score, I knew I had
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  won that one. And I think that was the only
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  one I got right on the pickums. Not sure.
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  We just lost Tally. I don't know where he went, but
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  we'll get back to him in just a second here.
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  But mine, mine, LSU, Ole Miss lived up.
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  LSU, Ole Miss lived up Saturday night, Death Valley, Jason's
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  pick went to overtime. Lane Kiffin loses another one.
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  And now basically they're just about out of it.
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  They're just about out of the playoffs unless everything
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  breaks perfectly. We've been talking about
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  everybody said the playoffs going to not make the regular
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  season fun. Well, to me, it's making it
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  better because right now Ole Miss is not out, but Ole Miss
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  cannot lose again. Ole Miss cannot lose again.
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  I heard him pop back in. There he is, Tally.
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  He's loading. He's loading.
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  He's loading Tally. My buddy Phil sent me a message
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  saying we got to get Tally some Starlink and he's like you.
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  Know, I don't think it worked. I don't think it matters, man.
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  I think you don't think it matters.
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  It it worked, it works fine until I get on here and then it
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  wants to. It starts acting crazy.
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  Somebody is pushing a little button or something.
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  They don't want me to talk. They don't.
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  Want to talk all man? UVA UVA fans, man, they messing
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  man and they're there you go. There you got to.
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  Get on them all. Right.
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  Well, it is Tell the Truth Tuesday and unfortunately,
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  Shelton, we're not. Unfortunately, it's fortunately
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  Shelton could not join us last week.
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  He was taking care of some business.
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  So Shelton's got a few little things that he wants to share
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  with us. We're going to call it Shelton's
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  Corner and Tell the Truth Tuesday.
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  If y'all haven't go key play.com.
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  Shelton wrote a hell of an article last week concerning a
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  lot of stuff he wanted to bring up tonight.
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  But Shelton, we're going to give you the floor man.
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  Yeah, so I I talked about this in my article for the key play
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  this week. I like you mentioned, you want
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  to go check that out and become a member too when I subscribe.
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  But so First off, you know, I think we've seen car in drones
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  develop a lot as a password this year.
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  You know, he started off pretty rough, but since then he's he's
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  improved a lot since that game against Marshall.
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  You look at the overall PFF numbers, pretty kind to him,
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  24th overall highest rated quarterback in the country,
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  Kyron Jones 41st passing. Now to me that's a big deal
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  because that's a sixty spot improvement from Ray was last
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  year. You know, he was not
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  particularly efficient as a passer last year and certainly
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  the the advanced metrics weren't kind to him there, but the
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  graders have liked him this year.
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  And So what I want to do is figure out why.
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  So a few things. First of all, Kyron's turnover
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  worthy play percentage is down a little bit from last year.
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  So he's making good decisions with the football.
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  He has been pressured a lot. He's top ten and most times
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  pressured as a percentage of drop backs, but he has 11
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  throwaways, which is 1/3 most I believe in the country.
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  So he has a really good ability to avoid the disaster plays, get
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  rid of all he needs to and he's done a good job of minimizing
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  the the number of sacks relative to the times he's been
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  pressured. So that's been a huge help for
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  this offense in terms of avoiding those big negative
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  plays. The other thing is with Kyron in
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  terms of intermediate throws, so I talked about this a lot, he
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  grades up over 90 on PFF on intermediate throws.
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  Remember that's 10 to 19 yards down the field.
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  So why is that a big deal? Well basically intermediate
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  throws are the result of post snap decisions.
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  So you have to go through your progressions, diagnose the
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  coverage in contrast to deep balls and throws that are behind
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  the line of scrimmage, which are typically they're not always the
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  result of a pre snap decisions. Those are usually predetermined.
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  So the fact that he's improved a lot on those intermediate
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  throws, I think is a really, really good sign.
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  And then we saw again, Stanford, you know, he was more
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  comfortable scanning the pocket, moving around the pocket,
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  manipulating the pocket with his feet and just having the
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  confidence to scan the field and, and stand tall and make
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  good throws. And I think that's a, that's a
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  sign of really impressive maturation there.
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  So good job for for Karen there. The other thing is I talked
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  about pressure rate. Tech has done a great job of
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  getting to the quarterback this year.
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  They're D lined this year as a team, they ranked second in sack
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  rate, 12%, seventh in a pressure rate and 21 total sacks as a
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  team, which is I believe second most among FBS teams against FBS
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  opponents. So APR has been awesome, Peoples
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  has been awesome, even Wilfred Renee, I think is has shown a
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  lot of growth on the D line spot.
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  So and I could go through all the numbers you want to, but
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  really Long story short, the D line has done a great job making
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  life hell for buzz and quarterbacks.
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  And I think it's gonna it's gonna sustain itself throughout
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  the course of the season. So I did have some other notes
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  on Beige Hall 2, but I'm gonna get to I'm gonna get to that a
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  little bit later when we kind of progress through gift some
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  awards. But but that's kind of what I
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  talked about. Basically Chiron, a ton of
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  growth we've seen this year. And then Zacksburg, man, it's
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  back. Zacksburg is back.
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  I love Zachsburg being back and when we can lead from that,
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  pressuring the quarterback standpoint, that makes the whole
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  back end work a whole lot better, makes their job easier,
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  and it makes the, you know, the the defensive chance of forcing
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  turnovers go up significantly. Anytime you can rush the
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  quarterback, make them go faster through their reads, make them
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  get rid of the ball when they're not ready, that's only a good
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  thing in terms of turnover. So the more we can keep that up,
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  the better. And you're seeing everybody eat
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  a little bit. Obviously you got APR number,
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  you know #5 in the country and Sachs.
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  But then you, you know, everybody else is doing their
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  part as well. And, and having really no
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  weakness across that defensive line.
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  I think it's really been a big thing for us this year because
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  it's it's kept that pressure even when you, you know, douche
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  kind of shade your protection towards APR's way.
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  Yep. The bigger thing about the
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  intermediary passing thing I think is what just kind of jumps
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  out at me when you were talking about it, Shelton is because
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  that's your 3 to fives because that's the someone is just about
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  there and he's making the right reads.
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  And what that does is over time, eventually, well, the safeties
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  have to stay back, right. Safeties have to stay back.
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  You have to start doing things different defensively like OK,
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  we we are not getting there fast enough to where he's not hitting
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  that I think intermediates what's in the 15 is that an
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  exact 10 to 19. So when you're starting to hit
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  those, especially with the guys who we have with Quan Felton,
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  with Jay Lane, with Jennings, with you put you put the ball in
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  those guys hands 10 yards down the field.
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  It's usually not a 10 yard game. It's usually it borderlines on
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  becoming an explosive play every time because of who they are.
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  And for Kyron that is a great maturation process.
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  It's really good because of what I like hearing about that is it
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  wasn't the the best first three games.
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  He had a little rough start to this season, but up here it's
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  never stopped churning. Mentally, he has not quit.
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  Mentally, you're seeing him get stronger and stronger and that's
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  a great thing to see. Yeah, and, and just to put a bow
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  on that, I I saw Steven mention in the chat they're doing
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  without blitzing. I agree.
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  I haven't seen a ton of blitzes. I saw maybe 11 safety or
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  linebacker blitz against Stanford.
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  But you know, they've done a good job getting home with four.
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  And I think, you know, obviously the rushing stats have been not
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  great. That's probably 1 weak spot of
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  the defense, you know, being able to stop the run.
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  But we, we saw some pretty good run fits against Stanford.
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  It was better, not perfect, but better.
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  And I think for me, if this defense can fit the run at a
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  decent clip, that's going to be able to, that's what's going to
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  take this defense from like a, you know, an average defense to
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  a really good defense because they've already gotten the
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  pressure, they've got the corners, safeties are getting
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  better. They just got to be able to stop
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  the run. Yeah, a lot of.
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  A lot of that rusty yardage has been kind of on those, you know,
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  third down situations. You know, some of that has been
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  on, you know, quarterback scrambles.
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  Obviously we watched what Diego Pavia did in the Vanderbilt game
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  would just consistently getting those third downs on like 8 or
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  10 yard gains. And I think that's really been
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  kind of our Achilles heel is you just the inability to sometimes
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  get off the field on those money downs with a quarterback
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  scramble or or with one of those plays that you're just kind of
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  not necessarily expecting and and get burned and and dinged a
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  little bit there with Tally. Go ahead.
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  I know you're about to say something there.
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  No, you good. I was just going to say, I seen
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  somebody put in essay, they start bringing Spencer off the
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  edge. I said, hey, if we can get him
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  to start getting his quarterback to the ground when he get there,
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  then Zachsburg is really going to be back.
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  It's going to be up, baby. I mean, they said it today when
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  they were talking in the in the press.
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  It's like, you know, we're we're really up there in terms of
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  sacks and, and we could be a whole lot better than we are if
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  if if we finished a couple of those where we were home, you
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  know, a couple of those in against the Miami game.
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  I mean, that was Stanford. If you finish a couple of those
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  and, you know, you probably don't have to come down to a
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  Hail Mary there at the end. So, you know, it's it's
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  definitely back. And and like I said, if you do a
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  couple more things, clean up a little bit of technique there,
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  you you might even be even better.
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  Yeah. Yeah, definitely. 100% and again
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  it was probably mentioned it like not only would we be
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  leading the country, we would be well ahead of people in the
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  country if you took those finished sacks it we'd probably
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  be up five to six and we've missed a lot.
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  So Kevin, what's happening tonight?
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  And again, I'm going to keep putting this up, if you only
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  the next week, anything before we will not accept.
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  All right, so real quick, we wanted to do some mid season
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  awards and we're going to start with the MVP and I I don't think
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  I don't think anybody else is going to detest this.
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  Our MVP is basically 2. Yep.
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  Any disagreements? The.
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  Only, the only case you can make against him is APR, that that's
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  you. You could.
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  That's the only other case I think you can make.
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  But yeah, I mean Tooten has done everything that you could want
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  from a running back position and more.
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  All right, Sheldon, you said you were holding it.
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  What do you do out on Tooten? Yeah, he was my MVP too.
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  And, and I talked about this in the piece, you know, yards per
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  carry. He's only 86.
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  I think this is sometimes where you got to kind of watch the
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  film and sort of put your your thinking goggles on.
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  He's obviously doing everything he's doing behind a, you know, a
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  fairly limited online and there's a few ways we can look
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  at that. He's forced 33 missed tackles
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  this year, which is 14th most in the country.
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  He ranks top 20 in elusiveness on PFF, which basically grades
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  how well you run independent of blocking.
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  And he's top ten in breakaway yards, so 15 plus carries.
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  So I think on the occasions that he's gone to the second level,
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  he's been extremely explosive. And and one set also that I
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  found is that in terms of yards before contact, tech ranks 108th
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  on average yards per rush before contact after contact the 12th.
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  So that's a pretty massive gap. And I think what it shows is
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  that if this online was able to open up more holes to them on a
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  on a more consistent basis, this would be this would be a crazy,
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  crazy good run game. So I think I think Tune is just
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  tremendously talented. He was certainly one of the more
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  dynamic backs in recent tech history.
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  I know there's been so many good ones and certainly before my
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  time so I can't come in there, but he's he's definitely up
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  there. So you put you put Tootin behind
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  that 2020 offensive line. What's he doing?
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  I mean, I will say I think it was a little bit different
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  schematically, like that was more of a zone, zone line.
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  So I don't know how the pieces would match.
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  But yeah, if you put him behind a really good O line, he would
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  be, I mean, he'd be putting up, you know, Lee sucks numbers like
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  it's it would be crazy. Yeah, I mean, look at him when
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  you talked about the second level, you talked about after
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  that first, that first missed tackle.
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  He does remind me a lot of Herbert in the way he finishes
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  runs after that first broken tackle or once he gets to that
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  lane on the outside, like he runs hard.
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  But he does have that breakaway where you know he's not the
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  fastest 40 wise, but he knows the angles to take and he gets
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  where he needs to be. 100% All right, well, let's move on
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  because we got to move on. We got a lot of stuff to cover
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  tonight and and and I got a feeling this is going to
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  probably vary, but I'm going to kick it to tally first tally all
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  the players. Who, in your opinion, is the
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  most improved player on the tech team up to this point?
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  Most improved player, I don't know, man.
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  I probably would have to go with Wilfred Penne.
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  He has come in and done a great job on the defensive line.
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  You know, we've got some people who we expected to do some some
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  good stuff coming into this season.
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  APR you know, Peebles, you know, even Fuga and Piney was just
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  kind of a guy that was there, but he's actually came in and
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  made a difference. Somebody put Woodson in there.
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  I would have said Woodson, but I think Woodson is more of a
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  breakout kind of player than a improved player because Woodson,
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  we didn't get to see a whole whole bunch of them last year.
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  But I expect Woodson to be a really good player, but he's
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  more of a breakout player than a improved player to me.
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  So I'm going to go with Penne, just kind of help him with that
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  defensive line. Ron Sigler.
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  Most Phillips and to me it's it's close between him and
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  Penne. If you especially we look at the
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  defensive side and I think I go with most just because we needed
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  it, especially when Strowman went down.
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  His play hasn't been perfect. It, it's been inconsistent at
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  times, but seeing where he was last year and seeing kind of how
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  he started the season and the steps he's taken since then, I
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  think we're starting to see that consistency ratchet up and up
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  and up every week. And that's good.
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  That's important because that position, we're so young at that
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  position until Stroman's back in the lineup.
• 20:25
  And you know, we, we may not, we may not see him back this year
• 20:28
  at this point. So him taking those steps has
• 20:32
  been very important for us. Sean, what about you?
• 20:36
  I went with Moses as well. I think he's improved
• 20:38
  tremendously. Even just, you know, watching
• 20:39
  the tape, but looking at numbers too, his PFF grade is up by 14
• 20:42
  points. His coverage grade when targeted
• 20:46
  is down like crazy. So I, I think he's been a really
• 20:48
  stabilizing presence in the in the secondary.
• 20:52
  Nice. And I'm going to go with this.
• 20:54
  Me and James in the chat here are agreeing.
• 20:57
  I think Xavier Chaplin, he is becoming the anchor on that left
• 21:00
  side. It's becoming to a point you
• 21:04
  don't worry about him anymore, right?
• 21:05
  It's like he's going to go out there, he's going to be good in
• 21:08
  the run blocks. Just a few weeks ago, Shelton
• 21:11
  brought up on the program. He was the best offensive
• 21:14
  lineman graded out in the country in PFF, the best one
• 21:18
  week. That's 132 teams.
• 21:20
  That's how many lineman is that 600 plus lineman?
• 21:24
  And he graded the best and it shows his maturation because he
• 21:28
  was OK last year. And to me, he has went from OK
• 21:32
  to being above average just about every category.
• 21:35
  So that's the most improved player.
• 21:40
  Now, the next one I like, I did a little spin on it here because
• 21:43
  we got our MVP. You know, we got to keep tuning
• 21:46
  rolling. We got to improve, guys.
• 21:48
  We hope to see more out of Wilford, Most and Xavier.
• 21:51
  But what about this? What is the most improved
• 21:55
  player? What player must improve the
• 21:58
  back half of the season? Brian Siegel's laughing, so I'm
• 22:00
  gonna let him go first. What is the must improve?
• 22:03
  Must improve. I mean, it's, it's the same guy
• 22:06
  it's been for the last 2-3 years, man, It's Parker
• 22:09
  Clements. And you know, I hate to rag on
• 22:14
  the guy, but at this point, when we look at our ability to just
• 22:18
  drop back in obvious passing situations, he isn't he is a
• 22:21
  liability at right tackle. And if he can improve
• 22:27
  marginally, I think that really puts us in a in a good position
• 22:31
  down the stretch, especially when we go against teams at the
• 22:34
  latter half of this schedule like Clemson.
• 22:37
  And no disrespect to them, but defensively, I mean, UVA to a
• 22:41
  point, there's going to be people that are going to come
• 22:44
  after Kyron in the passing game. We got to be ready for that.
• 22:50
  Tally. So I'll go a little bit of a, a
• 22:52
  different route with this because I don't think that
• 22:56
  somebody's name that was just called needs to be on the field
• 22:59
  anyway. We kind of talked about it
• 23:01
  earlier, but some of the lineman that we have.
• 23:03
  And again, I, I get it, you know, at the point you, you just
• 23:07
  feel you got to have a veteran out there.
• 23:09
  So it is what it is. But I'm going to go with I'm
• 23:11
  going to go with Kyron. I'm going to go with Kyron Must
• 23:14
  improve. Not saying that he is so bad,
• 23:18
  but I know that we know that he has a a higher cylinder.
• 23:23
  What we started the season and I'm just judging by what the
• 23:25
  season is from the beginning throw those first three games in
• 23:29
  there looked very uncomfortable, probably mainly because of the
• 23:32
  line, but it's the same line that he had against Miami.
• 23:36
  It's the same line he had against for the most part
• 23:39
  against Stanford. And you can see that he's
• 23:42
  getting comfortable and he's getting back to his old self.
• 23:45
  He's just doing Chiron things. So I think if he continues to
• 23:48
  improve the, the, I mean, the Sky's the limit.
• 23:53
  All of the games that are in front of us, we're just taking
• 23:55
  it one game at a time. But all of the games in front of
• 23:58
  us are winnable games. All of games that he can take
• 24:02
  control of. He has to be the MVP for the
• 24:05
  rest of the season for us to do what we need to do to get to
• 24:09
  Charlotte. So I'm going to say Kyra here.
• 24:13
  Sheldon. I'm going Dorian Strong.
• 24:16
  I think he's been pretty underwhelming this year.
• 24:18
  His coverage grade is at a career low.
• 24:21
  You know, he's been gotten beat a few times and his friend
• 24:24
  defence grade has also been, you know, pretty, pretty poor.
• 24:27
  So I think he's a more talented player than what he's what he's
• 24:29
  shown so far. I just think for whatever
• 24:31
  reason, he's kind of aggressive here.
• 24:33
  And if he can get to playing that peak strong level that
• 24:35
  we're accustomed to, you know, you combine the the pass rides
• 24:38
  with those lockdown corners. I mean, that's another thing
• 24:40
  that's kind of keeping this defense from achieving their
• 24:42
  their maximum ceiling all. Right.
• 24:45
  And I'm going to throw kind of a, I don't know if you want to
• 24:48
  call it a breaking pitch, a curveball, but I need Malachi
• 24:51
  Thomas to be the most improved player because we are leaning on
• 24:55
  Basil Tooting. We are leaning on Basil Tooting
• 24:58
  so much that if Malachi can just come in, get 4 1/2 a carry, pop
• 25:04
  the line, fall forward, we got to take a little pressure off
• 25:08
  the MVP, just a little pressure. And up to this point, he's only
• 25:12
  got 23 carries. So, and maybe this is more on
• 25:15
  the kosher to say, listen, you've got to be willing to give
• 25:18
  him carries because we know PJ Prolu, he's out.
• 25:20
  He's probably not coming back. Stroman's probably not coming
• 25:24
  back. So those two rooms, like the
• 25:25
  guys who are in those two rooms, they're there a lot of other
• 25:28
  guys coming back healthy hopefully this week.
• 25:31
  So that's a good thing. So there it is.
• 25:35
  We saw some of y'all throw it in the chat.
• 25:37
  So keep those comments coming about, you know your MVP, your
• 25:42
  most improved and then your most improved player in the
• 25:45
  second-half year to keep it up. And as always, we are brought to
• 25:49
  you by accounts Family Pharmacy, your friendly neighborhood
• 25:52
  pharmacy located three O 1 S Main St. in Blacksburg.
• 25:56
  Also, I'm pumping it up a lot and we will continue to pump it
• 25:59
  up over the next three weeks. We are giving it away.
• 26:01
  Brian, bring it on the screen here.
• 26:04
  It's back. There's the pyramid.
• 26:06
  There you go, right there. Piece of the goal post torn down
• 26:10
  the 1999 season, the victory over Boston College that locked
• 26:14
  up the Big East, that locked up the trip to the national
• 26:16
  championship game. Put 1999 through YouTube.
• 26:20
  Again, we're going to be very key about this.
• 26:24
  You have to subscribe to YouTube.
• 26:25
  You have to put your comment on there 1999 to become eligible.
• 26:30
  We've already got a bunch of people already entered.
• 26:33
  Hopefully a lot more over the next few weeks.
• 26:36
  But as always, every week we turn to knowing the enemy.
• 26:41
  Last week Brian had to do 2 weeks ago Brian had to get back
• 26:45
  deep study in the film room. This week, not as much a study
• 26:50
  as we have some friends of ours coming from the Eagles Weekly
• 26:55
  and I believe tonight we got Brett from Eagles Weekly.
• 26:58
  Brett, how are you doing tonight, man?
• 27:01
  Good. How are you guys?
• 27:03
  Doing good, doing good. It was for those that don't
• 27:06
  know, I got to jump on Eagles weekly last night for a little
• 27:09
  bit. So appreciate Brett jumping on
• 27:12
  us with us tonight returning the favor.
• 27:15
  We talked a little bit about how they're still, you know, a
• 27:17
  little bit of a rivalry there with with the Eagles there and
• 27:22
  kind of carrying over from the Big East.
• 27:23
  So appreciate you joining us tonight, Brett.
• 27:26
  It's AB here and your giveaway feels a little little targeted,
• 27:31
  but I don't. You know, it just came.
• 27:35
  So the company shipped it to us. It got here a couple days ago.
• 27:38
  I was like when we play BC it's from BC, we we got, we got to
• 27:42
  start it off, we got to kick it off this way.
• 27:44
  So no shade directly at you, but you know.
• 27:48
  No, no whatsoever. It's all timing.
• 27:51
  Now, the alumni for who run this thing, they are alumni of Tech.
• 27:57
  So they might have been personally targeted to get that
• 28:00
  on this week because they do watch us on Tuesday night and
• 28:03
  they knew what we were going to be talking about here.
• 28:05
  But no shade intentionally. We should.
• 28:08
  Say no, no, that's a fun. I I remember I was a kid
• 28:11
  watching watching that that season too.
• 28:14
  It was a good season for you guys so.
• 28:16
  And we're just going to put this up real quick.
• 28:18
  Anybody that throws it over here, is it loud?
• 28:21
  So Brett, real quick, I know Brian mentioned it's it's you
• 28:24
  guys are much like us. There is a bunch of y'all
• 28:27
  running podcasts, doing things. So what's a little bit of
• 28:29
  background, not only about yourself, but about the Eagles
• 28:32
  Weekly podcast? Yeah, so I started in.
• 28:37
  Well, let me backtrack. When I was in college, I was
• 28:41
  writing articles for our Sports Illustrated section under a guy
• 28:46
  by the name of AJ Black, who he he really is kind of the leader
• 28:49
  of our entire space for BC COVID hits.
• 28:53
  I graduate college, I end up having to get, you know, a
• 28:56
  regular job. I wasn't able to really break it
• 28:58
  in, break into journalism, Ended up starting a fan podcast in
• 29:02
  2022, which we kind of parlayed into making a website last year,
• 29:08
  Eagles daily, Eagles daily.com. And that really kind of took off
• 29:13
  in its own right. And then this past, this past
• 29:18
  winter, yeah, this past winter, I ended up getting a, a contract
• 29:23
  with the Belief Network. So that started out just
• 29:26
  basketball. And then it rolled over into
• 29:29
  this summer where we were able to rebrand, start talking
• 29:33
  football as well as hoop because, you know, the hoop team
• 29:36
  is, you know, looking a little dreadful this year.
• 29:38
  So all is welcome to be able to to add football to the
• 29:42
  repertoire. And we rebranded to Eagles
• 29:44
  Weekly and here we are today. Nice.
• 29:47
  So real quick the the ACC poll came out today.
• 29:50
  We're pick 14th. Where's BC pick?
• 29:53
  Did you get that 18? Wait a minute.
• 29:57
  All right in there. Only 80.
• 30:01
  Yikes. Hey, Curtis.
• 30:02
  Curtis, I was going to say something about that.
• 30:04
  I was going. No, no, no, no.
• 30:05
  I'm glad you did. I was going to wait because we
• 30:08
  got Brett on here, but Brett, just hold tight for me for just
• 30:10
  a minute. Hey, whoever's doing our
• 30:12
  graphics for basketball, we got to do a better job.
• 30:16
  Because when I'm scrolling through X and I see Virginia
• 30:20
  Tech picked 14th in in men's and 12th in women, I thought we were
• 30:24
  fourteen in the nation. Fucking 14th in the ACC.
• 30:30
  Like come on man, y'all got to do better than that.
• 30:33
  I was about to get hype. I was about to retreat.
• 30:35
  I'm not retweeting that shit. Like what are y'all doing man?
• 30:40
  And I mean, they had a strong picture of that like.
• 30:42
  They said 12. Coaches pumping their fist.
• 30:47
  I thought some good shit was happening and then I paid
• 30:49
  attention. I'm like, oh man, anyway, I was
• 30:53
  going to bring that up, Curtis, but I just thought about it when
• 30:55
  you said that. So.
• 30:57
  Good. Hey, that's the way we roll
• 30:59
  here, man. That's the way we roll.
• 31:00
  Well, Brett, good to thank you for joining us and good to hear
• 31:04
  that you kind of are in the space of the college football
• 31:07
  world with Boston College and obviously, you know, you're on.
• 31:11
  You got to give us some info about your BC Eagles.
• 31:14
  And let's start on the offensive side of the ball.
• 31:17
  You head coach to me Will longing your OC, but I got a
• 31:20
  feeling it's a heavy Bill O'Brien case from what you've
• 31:24
  seen so far this year, what are they bringing to the table just
• 31:27
  offensively in general? So it's, it has been a little
• 31:31
  madding, especially the past couple weeks.
• 31:33
  So really the story for BC, the first, you know, whether it was
• 31:37
  Florida State, Michigan State, a little bit, a little bit of
• 31:44
  Western Kentucky, but really like the they've abandoned the
• 31:48
  run game. Like where they've been most
• 31:50
  successful was running the football using their quarterback
• 31:53
  Tommy Castellanos, you know, as a runner, as a playmaker and not
• 31:59
  really having the emphasis as on him as a passer.
• 32:02
  And that's kind of where they've kind of veered away from.
• 32:06
  You know, it's specifically last week.
• 32:07
  I think Tommy threw the ball 25 to 30 times last week, which is,
• 32:11
  you know, he he's a good quarterback, but I would say
• 32:16
  like as a passer, not a great quarterback.
• 32:19
  Being a gunslinger is not his strong suit.
• 32:21
  It hasn't been in either season that he's been here.
• 32:25
  So it has been a little bit worrisome where it's kind of
• 32:27
  like, you know, where is this run game going to?
• 32:31
  Especially against Virginia last week, they were 14 nothing.
• 32:35
  They were moving the ball. So it wasn't as if, you know, BC
• 32:38
  was getting stuffed in the run game and they had to abandon it
• 32:40
  and become one-dimensional on offense.
• 32:43
  So the play calling has been, it's I, I would say it's been
• 32:46
  very suspect at times, especially with Will Lonning.
• 32:52
  I think a lot of people are a little frustrated with it.
• 32:54
  And, you know, there has been talks that Bill O'Brien is going
• 32:57
  to be kind of, you know, sticking his hands in the
• 33:00
  proverbial pot a little bit more going forward, which, you know,
• 33:03
  I wouldn't be upset about it all.
• 33:06
  Yeah. And I mean, I know historically
• 33:07
  Bill O'Brien has definitely been kind of a run first guy.
• 33:10
  So it's going to be interesting to see if, you know, he does
• 33:12
  start dipping his toes back in there a little bit.
• 33:14
  And whether or not you see some of that that percentage kind of
• 33:18
  go in your favor. I know you know, a game like
• 33:20
  Missouri, I think, you know, Castellanos threw I think like
• 33:24
  38 times. That's probably even though we
• 33:26
  had a pretty good game overall there.
• 33:27
  That's probably not what you want to see.
• 33:29
  No. And especially with with that
• 33:32
  game, it really shows you that when he throws the ball deep
• 33:36
  down field and really looks to stretch the field, he struggles.
• 33:39
  Even he did it against you guys last year at home in the first
• 33:43
  couple series of the game when he had a couple picks in the
• 33:45
  first quarter. When he's looking to really go
• 33:48
  over the top, he's not as successful.
• 33:52
  He's a lot more better, you know, in the short intermediate
• 33:55
  routes. They've really been utilizing
• 33:58
  Tray, Sean Ward out of the backfield on wheel routes from
• 34:01
  the running back position. And that's been a massive
• 34:03
  success for them. They've kind of gotten away from
• 34:06
  it. You know, we'll see on, I was
• 34:08
  about to say Saturday on Thursday, wow, on Thursday, if
• 34:10
  they kind of look to get back to that to really what works for
• 34:13
  them. But yeah, you're very spot on
• 34:16
  with, you know. Kind of 40 throws a game for
• 34:19
  Tommy is not what you want. What you really want is to take
• 34:22
  those throws down and get him more designed runs.
• 34:25
  You know, you want to have him touching the ball 40 times, but
• 34:29
  not not looking to throw at that many.
• 34:31
  It's, it's just, it's, it's not the type of quarterback he is.
• 34:34
  Yeah, you still want the offense to run through him, but not in
• 34:37
  in a in a drop back standpoint where you're slinging it around
• 34:40
  that much. So you talked a little bit about
• 34:42
  Tommy. Let's let's just focus on the
• 34:45
  run game. You got to run through what he
• 34:47
  does in the run game. Well, and you already talked
• 34:49
  about Tray, Shawn, Ward, really we, when we looked at the, the
• 34:52
  stats there, you kind of got 3 backs that that have got some
• 34:56
  pretty good burn with Robichaud in there.
• 34:58
  And and, and Richard, you know, which guys are working in the
• 35:03
  most in the run game and how does Tommy kind of work in there
• 35:06
  as well? So Tommy really he's more of
• 35:10
  like an improviser, which it's it's been a little, I don't want
• 35:16
  to say concerning, but so he missed the Western Kentucky game
• 35:19
  with an apparent leg injury. So not really sure if he's just
• 35:22
  been like a little hesitant over the last week to really kind of
• 35:26
  be creative on the ground or kind of what's going on there.
• 35:30
  But Robin Shaw is more of like a bowling ball.
• 35:32
  And you know, I know you guys were talking about Bayshaw
• 35:35
  earlier and you know, it's, it's, it's tough for me to to
• 35:38
  hear that, especially with how well he's doing because, you
• 35:41
  know, obviously we know he was originally committed to us,
• 35:45
  commits to you guys. We end up with Kai Robashaw
• 35:48
  instead, which was a fine consolation prize, But he's he's
• 35:52
  not Bayshaw, you know, but I would say Kai Robashaw, he's
• 35:57
  definitely more of like a bowling ball in between the
• 36:00
  tackles type of guy. He's a hard runner.
• 36:04
  Tray, Sean Ward, he's does have hands out of the backfield,
• 36:07
  which is really worked well within kind of the passing game
• 36:11
  and really helping them move the ball when they get a little
• 36:13
  stagnant. And Richard, Turbo Richard, he's
• 36:17
  Turbo Richard for a reason. He's very fast and he's a true
• 36:20
  freshman. Was not expected to really get
• 36:24
  much of any playing time this year.
• 36:26
  Really kind of started, you know, getting carries at least
• 36:30
  like at an extended clip. And the red bandana game against
• 36:34
  Michigan State had a touchdown there and he was really the only
• 36:38
  one who was effective on the ground against Virginia two
• 36:42
  weeks ago now. So that yeah, I mean, The thing
• 36:46
  is they do have 3 running backs. I would say all three of their
• 36:49
  skill sets are different. It's all just kind of depends on
• 36:54
  like who's got the hot hands on a week to week basis.
• 36:58
  You know, it's kind of been different on a, you know, from,
• 37:01
  from game to game. But you know, I think Turbo
• 37:03
  Richard is, is a name that has been popping up a lot.
• 37:07
  I mean, he was in the practice notes this week, had a real good
• 37:10
  week of practice. So I would look for him to kind
• 37:13
  of, you know, really, really look to elevate the run game
• 37:17
  this week for us. Hey, yeah, real quick question,
• 37:21
  Brett, I'm, I'm from down here in Alabama, born and raised here
• 37:26
  and, you know, follow Bill O Brown a lot.
• 37:29
  And yeah, I'll just say down here, Alabama fans killed that
• 37:35
  man. I'm talking about.
• 37:37
  I, I actually thought Bill Lebron's a pretty good offensive
• 37:40
  coordinator, pretty good coach. So just asking your opinion with
• 37:43
  him being you guys as head coach.
• 37:45
  And then I heard you say earlier kind of he would be or you guys
• 37:49
  will be OK with him dipping his hand kind of in the offense.
• 37:51
  How do y'all feel about him in his coaching style so far?
• 37:56
  I think it's, it's, it's been a thrill specifically with our
• 38:01
  last two coaches who, you know, we had Steve Adagio for seven
• 38:07
  years and they called him 7 when Steve, Steve for a reason.
• 38:10
  He was a very average mediocre coach.
• 38:12
  Really didn't ever bring them over the top.
• 38:16
  You know, I go back to like 2018 when we were seven and two had
• 38:20
  college game day and then lost the last three games of the
• 38:23
  season. That was kind of him in a
• 38:25
  nutshell. And then with with Halfley last
• 38:27
  year or the past four years, it's, you know, been a lot of
• 38:30
  positive talk and a lot of, you know, we're going to love our
• 38:33
  guys. We're going to do this the right
• 38:34
  way. It just never showed up on the
• 38:38
  field. You know, a lot of mistakes, a
• 38:40
  lot of mental mistakes in the the game.
• 38:42
  The game play itself wasn't very fun to watch.
• 38:45
  So I think coming into this year with Bill O'Brien, there has
• 38:48
  been a lot of excitement specifically because he is a
• 38:51
  local guy. You know, he's, he's from
• 38:52
  Massachusetts, obviously had a great career as an OC for the
• 38:57
  Patriots. And I think the thing with Bill
• 39:00
  O'Brien too is like, I think he gets it.
• 39:01
  I think he gets the BC situation.
• 39:05
  It's not, you know, you're, it's, it's not just your run of
• 39:08
  run-of-the-mill FBS, that type of program.
• 39:11
  There are like a lot of various things that kind of go into it
• 39:15
  specifically, you know, it's in a pro town.
• 39:17
  So there really aren't a lot of eyes and exposure on it to begin
• 39:20
  with. The academics are so high.
• 39:23
  And being in an area like New England, it's not necessarily
• 39:26
  like a hotbed for, you know, football talent.
• 39:30
  And I think he gets all that and is really kind of you using his
• 39:34
  ability to kind of understand the Boston College landscape to
• 39:37
  his, you know, to his benefit and really kind of get people to
• 39:41
  rally behind it. And, you know, I know the the
• 39:43
  fan base has been has been juiced about it thus far.
• 39:47
  And, you know, if you told us that we were going to be 4 and
• 39:51
  two, you know, even though, you know, the last last week or two
• 39:54
  weeks ago, excuse me, hurt, but if you told us we'd be foreign
• 39:57
  too, I think we'd be, you know, pretty happy about that.
• 40:00
  So yeah, so I think everyone's satisfied.
• 40:03
  Another question to ask just about that, to kind of build off
• 40:06
  of that, when you talked about, you know, Boston College being
• 40:11
  a, you know, kind of a different situation for a college town, a
• 40:14
  college program. A couple of things I know about
• 40:17
  Boston College. I don't follow Boston College
• 40:19
  I'm sure as much as you do, but they always have some crazy last
• 40:23
  names like Castellanos. I know that.
• 40:27
  And they always have a tight end wearing a cowboy collar and
• 40:31
  getting a lot of yards on Virginia Tech.
• 40:34
  So do y'all have a tight end this year that we need to be
• 40:38
  worried about? He's usually white.
• 40:41
  He's usually like 6-7. He's usually big and he's
• 40:45
  usually crazy. Last name, cowboy collar dude.
• 40:49
  We got to worry about that. You don't have to worry about,
• 40:52
  you don't have to worry about a white tight end.
• 40:55
  We have a guy named Tamari Morales is like a mouthful to
• 41:00
  get that out transfer from I want to he was at UNC last year
• 41:06
  and he had they have been working him into the offense on
• 41:10
  a week to week basis a lot more. And then we also got a guy
• 41:14
  Jeremiah Franklin, both guys are they're they're not high volume
• 41:19
  guys. I wouldn't expect them to kill
• 41:22
  you in the red zone. Morales is, you know, really who
• 41:25
  comes to play and no horse call us to speak of, you know, so I
• 41:31
  don't think you have to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 41:35
  I think I when I when he, when he said that the first guy, I
• 41:37
  thought it was Sean Ryan when he literally leaked over a Syracuse
• 41:41
  player back in like 2003 or something with the horse collar.
• 41:45
  So yeah, but no. Well, let's flip to this.
• 41:49
  We're going to stay on the offense for a couple more
• 41:51
  questions here and I and I want to talk about looking through
• 41:54
  the data, statistics logs, watching some of your game.
• 41:58
  Lewis Bond jumps out. He's doubled up on receptions
• 42:01
  from he's the leading receiver. He's doubled up on yards, couple
• 42:05
  touchdowns. What does he bring to the table
• 42:08
  and where does he line up? What do you like about him as
• 42:12
  from ABC perspective? I think biggest thing about him
• 42:17
  is just his overall confidence. I remember last year in the
• 42:20
  press conference, he talked about how there's no one in the
• 42:24
  country that could bring him down one-on-one in open field,
• 42:27
  which, you know, it's happened. So obviously people can, but I
• 42:31
  just love his demeanor and his just confidence and bullish
• 42:35
  attitude. The thing with him too is he
• 42:38
  understands route running like I think few people actually do.
• 42:42
  Like he actually uses his shoulders in order to kind of
• 42:46
  get get a cornerback to kind of shift and then he moves.
• 42:50
  So it's like little things like that that he does.
• 42:53
  He really is just like a dog on all three levels.
• 42:56
  Like he's he's good in the short game.
• 42:59
  He's good across the middle. He's good deep.
• 43:01
  Like he just he's he just has these shorthands.
• 43:05
  And I think the thing with him, it's not that he's a burner and
• 43:08
  he's like super fast, but his after the catch ability to get
• 43:13
  separation on the secondary is remarkable.
• 43:17
  You know, he did it with a game-winning touchdown against
• 43:20
  Michigan State a couple weeks ago.
• 43:22
  And he does it time to time again.
• 43:23
  But yeah, it's just he, he is a he's, he's got, he's got a
• 43:27
  finesse to him, but he also has just like a sheer toughness.
• 43:30
  Like, he's not afraid to go up and get the ball or go across
• 43:34
  the middle and get it. And you know, he's been doing it
• 43:36
  for two years now. And you know, he's an, and it's
• 43:39
  it's Tommy's. It's him and Castellanos.
• 43:41
  They're roommates, so they, they have a, you know, a rapport like
• 43:45
  any other. So, you know, he, if anyone's
• 43:47
  going to, you know, get you guys on Thursday, it's absolutely
• 43:51
  without a doubt going to be him. Yeah.
• 43:55
  And you know, when we look at a a A-Team like Boston College,
• 43:59
  you know, Virginia Tech historically, you know, we're,
• 44:02
  we're one of the the teams that's going to argue with you
• 44:04
  about DBU. You can make the case that
• 44:08
  Boston College could be, could make an argument for offensive
• 44:11
  line. You talk a little bit about the
• 44:14
  offensive line, what they do well, and maybe you know some
• 44:18
  things they don't do so well. I think the offensive line is
• 44:22
  one of the more sound groups in or on for, you know, especially
• 44:29
  like position wise. It all starts right up the front
• 44:32
  through Kendall. He's been, I believe he got
• 44:36
  snubbed for AC any sort of ACC accolades last year.
• 44:40
  I would say he's one of the better, if not a top three
• 44:43
  center in ACC along with Jude Boundary, who's our left tackle.
• 44:49
  There's just they they have, they have size and mobility,
• 44:54
  which is something that they had lacked the past couple years.
• 44:58
  But I've really kind of got back to I think especially like in
• 45:01
  their recruiting. But yeah, it's, it's, it's
• 45:05
  something that they're running game.
• 45:08
  They're as as the running game. The offensive line as a cohesive
• 45:13
  unit has been phenomenal. I think their past, the past
• 45:17
  game has been a little bit a suspect, which has led to, you
• 45:21
  know, Tommy having to really kind of rush around in the
• 45:25
  pocket and rush outside the pocket.
• 45:27
  And it caused, you know, quite a few turnovers and inopportune
• 45:30
  moments. So I think if Virginia Tech is
• 45:33
  really going to find, find a way to, you know, kind of expose the
• 45:39
  BC offensive line, it's going to be, you know, as as when we're
• 45:44
  passing the ball as opposed to running the ball.
• 45:46
  Because I would say, you know, in the trenches, BC has been
• 45:50
  phenomenal about being able to get positive net games from a
• 45:56
  rushing attack, you know, this year.
• 45:58
  And it's it's something that, you know, if, if they can come
• 46:01
  together, you know, in the passing game, then it'll it's
• 46:05
  it's a strong group. But I would say that's like
• 46:07
  they're one kind of, I don't want to even say weakness, but
• 46:10
  you know, there is some some room for you guys to kind of get
• 46:13
  through on them. Are you kind of looking at early
• 46:16
  down success being kind of a big key for that BC offense?
• 46:20
  And stuff, Yeah, yeah. Because especially like you look
• 46:23
  at you look at the weather, whether it was the Florida State
• 46:26
  game, the first half of the Missouri game, the Michigan
• 46:32
  State game and the first half of the UVA game, a lot of long
• 46:36
  drives, a lot of long drives. You know, we are really, you
• 46:39
  know, not only controlling, controlling the ball, keeping
• 46:42
  our defense, you know, off the field, you know, but running the
• 46:46
  ball successfully. That's where BC has been most
• 46:49
  successful. And that's something that, you
• 46:53
  know, and you see it when they kind of get away from that and
• 46:55
  they start passing the ball on, on early downs, get the
• 46:59
  incompletions, get the three and outs, things like that.
• 47:02
  But yeah, I mean, if you, if you look at a lot of their, a lot of
• 47:06
  their touchdown drives in the first half, it's a lot of
• 47:08
  8/10/12 play drives, you know, and I, I think that even the
• 47:13
  opening drive of the UVA game was like 9 or 10 plays in
• 47:17
  itself. So that's that's kind of been
• 47:20
  where they found the most success is controlling the ball,
• 47:22
  controlling the clock, you know, eating up time and, you know,
• 47:26
  kind of methodically moving the ball down the field,
• 47:28
  specifically through the ground too.
• 47:31
  All right, duly noted on those. And with that, we'll close up
• 47:35
  the offensive segment and we're going to flip over to defense.
• 47:38
  And our man Shelton has a couple questions and a couple things he
• 47:41
  wants to talk to you about. Brett on the D line.
• 47:44
  Yeah. So, Brett, it looks to me like
• 47:47
  you guys have done a pretty good job of limiting the run game.
• 47:50
  I think you're 27th in yards per rush allowed and 15th in the
• 47:54
  country in success rate allowed on defense in terms of stopping
• 47:58
  the run. Talk about the front 7 and and
• 48:00
  what why you think they've done a good job of preventing the big
• 48:03
  runs. I mean, so it really starts
• 48:06
  right in the middle. Cam Horsley and George Brooks as
• 48:09
  our defensive tackles have just been absolutely phenomenal.
• 48:15
  George Brooks was a transfer from Michigan last year and he
• 48:19
  had his moments, but you know, it was really taking it like to
• 48:24
  another level this year and being able to kind of stuff up
• 48:26
  the middle, you know, and it and it all comes back to the
• 48:30
  linchpin of the entire defense, Donovan Azaraku.
• 48:35
  He was great in 22 was almost non existent last year.
• 48:40
  I think he had three sacks all season and I believe all three
• 48:44
  of them came in one game. So really struggled last year
• 48:48
  and I think he, I mean, he, if he doesn't lead the country in
• 48:52
  Sachs, he did at one point and he has just been absolutely
• 48:56
  phenomenal for us. So it's just, you know, it's,
• 49:01
  it's it all comes down to it all comes down to really the
• 49:05
  defensive line play in general and just really how they've been
• 49:10
  able to kind of grow this year because I we're still really
• 49:14
  only rushing 4. You know, you really won't see
• 49:18
  us blitz much from like the linebacker position.
• 49:23
  But that kind of comes back to Tim Lewis's philosophy is of
• 49:26
  kind of bend, don't break. We have one of the best red zone
• 49:31
  defenses in the country this year because we're really not
• 49:34
  giving up a lot of touchdowns, a lot of field goals.
• 49:37
  And that's kind of been the philosophy of, you know, really
• 49:40
  relying on the secondary, you know, to make the plays,
• 49:43
  especially when we're in the red zone.
• 49:45
  But you. Know you you were right Brett 5
• 49:49
  allow touchdowns in the red zone this year yeah on 18 trips
• 49:52
  that's pretty that's pretty damn impressive in my.
• 49:54
  Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, a lot of I.
• 49:57
  Was gonna, yeah, I was going to ask about that because I, I
• 50:01
  would just look it up. So for for those curious, Boston
• 50:03
  College ranks 6 in the country and fewest points per possession
• 50:07
  allowed in the red zone, even though they they've given up a
• 50:10
  fair share of their red zone drives.
• 50:11
  It's just when they get inside of 20, you are not going to
• 50:13
  score against them. So, Ben, but don't break like
• 50:15
  you said. Great to hear one I was going to
• 50:20
  say. Go ahead.
• 50:22
  I'm sorry. I was going to ask more about
• 50:24
  Donovan. I mean, you know, because he is
• 50:27
  second in the country. At one point he was leading.
• 50:30
  He is second in the country. OK, second.
• 50:32
  Yeah, second APR fist. So anyway, Thursday night there
• 50:36
  are two guys who are absolutely tearing it up from the in
• 50:39
  position in this game. If you watch, if you're out
• 50:42
  there and you're not ABC fan, you're not a tech fan, watch
• 50:45
  this game for both defensive ends because these guys probably
• 50:48
  will be playing on Sundays in the next few years some sort of
• 50:51
  way. But what I want to ask about
• 50:53
  Donovan, is there any weakness to his game?
• 50:56
  Obviously that tells you there's a motor there, there's probably
• 51:00
  some bend. He's probably got some sort of
• 51:01
  what what are his moves you're going to see from him?
• 51:06
  He's extremely fast, a little bit undersized.
• 51:10
  So especially when he goes up against kind of like shiftier
• 51:15
  type of lineman, you can neutralize him a bit, but but
• 51:20
  the way he is able to kind of use his undersize against like
• 51:24
  big D tackles is his is his speed coming off the edge really
• 51:29
  just kind of like ripping through people.
• 51:33
  But yeah, I mean, there it's it's been amazing to watch.
• 51:37
  There really hasn't been much of like a weakness at least like
• 51:40
  you haven't seen it this year yet, unfortunately, you know,
• 51:44
  and hopefully that trend for us continues on Thursday because he
• 51:48
  has just been an absolute force. You know, even clutch play after
• 51:52
  clutch play, even against Washington, KY in the game that
• 51:54
  we squeaked out, had the amazing forced fumble in order to get us
• 51:58
  the ball back to score the touchdown to to beat them.
• 52:01
  So it's just it, it really all all starts with him and that's
• 52:07
  where our success comes from. And he's just he's, he's very
• 52:10
  fast. Like you watch you watch him
• 52:12
  from a defensive end position and you notice the speed.
• 52:17
  Can you please tell him not to embarrass #70 on our day?
• 52:25
  Hey, we had, we had to say it. We had to say it, I mean.
• 52:28
  I'll throw a damn and. That's.
• 52:29
  Right. That's right.
• 52:30
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put in a good word for US.
• 52:32
  Line up on the other side. 60. 565 is your man.
• 52:39
  Yeah, and. And looking at that, I mean, you
• 52:41
  know, it looks like at least from a offensive line versus
• 52:45
  defensive line perspective in the passing game, it's kind of
• 52:48
  strong on weak, strong on weak. You know, we got some both
• 52:52
  defensive lines that can really get after the passer and some
• 52:56
  offensive lines at least from a passport perspective with some
• 52:58
  question marks. So I think that's probably going
• 53:01
  to be one of the things we want to watch heading into Thursday.
• 53:04
  One thing that concerns me, especially from like a defensive
• 53:07
  standpoint, is our top cornerback Amari Jackson's out
• 53:12
  for the season. I believe he tore his ACL.
• 53:14
  So, you know, that's that's a tough hit for us.
• 53:17
  And he's been so, so locked down all freaking season for us.
• 53:22
  So, you know, we'll see. And you know, hopefully you guys
• 53:25
  don't expose the replacement too badly.
• 53:29
  Yeah. And we were going to talk about
• 53:31
  that next. So I'm glad you brought it up.
• 53:33
  Yeah. That that I think word just came
• 53:35
  in today that that is. Going to be season I.
• 53:37
  Think so. That's that, that that's tough
• 53:41
  for you guys and you know, obviously with, you know,
• 53:46
  offensive, offensive line, especially in pass for being a
• 53:48
  little bit of our weakness, having a maybe some of those
• 53:52
  routes coming open a little bit quicker might might help with
• 53:54
  that front. So I think that's going to be
• 53:57
  something that we got to watch heading to Thursday.
• 53:59
  But I don't want to take any way thing away from the rest of your
• 54:01
  secondary because you guys, even without, even without him there,
• 54:08
  you guys still have forced 9 interceptions this season in six
• 54:12
  games. Even without Amari Jackson
• 54:13
  there, Who else kind of pops to you on the secondary?
• 54:17
  Obviously you mentioned Amari's our lockdown guy, but you don't
• 54:21
  get 10 interceptions by having one guy and then the rest are
• 54:25
  scrubs. So there's got to be at least
• 54:26
  one more guy you like in that secondary.
• 54:28
  Yeah, Kate, KP Price and Max Tucker, who are both safeties
• 54:34
  for us, have just been phenomenal.
• 54:37
  I believe Max Tucker was the one who had the game ceiling
• 54:39
  interception in the red bandana game.
• 54:42
  So they the, the thing that I do like about them too, is they
• 54:47
  really do pick their spots when they go for the interception.
• 54:50
  So it's not like they're just ball Hawks who are, you know,
• 54:52
  prone to get burned either. They have, they have been able
• 54:56
  to play, you know, very sound, sound coverage and, you know,
• 55:01
  just somehow the ball's been finding them.
• 55:03
  Carrie Johnson, he's probably the most famous for probably the
• 55:07
  most egregious targeting play of all time.
• 55:09
  When he hit the guy against Pit last year.
• 55:12
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a great meme for a little
• 55:16
  bit. It's probably the highlight of
• 55:19
  of our season, honestly. And then everything he had, he
• 55:23
  had a pretty, pretty shaky one couple weeks ago.
• 55:26
  So he he can be prone to kind of the bonehead plays, you know,
• 55:31
  we'll see if if he can stay out of trouble.
• 55:34
  But you know, in terms of in terms of our safety position, KP
• 55:38
  Price and Max Tucker have been absolutely nails and lights out.
• 55:41
  So those are those are two guys I would keep an eye on on
• 55:44
  Thursday as well and especially in the secondary with, you know,
• 55:48
  Amara Jackson out. Very nice.
• 55:53
  Sheldon, You said you had one more thing you needed to ask
• 55:56
  Brett tonight. Yeah.
• 55:57
  So this is kind of out of curiosity, You mentioned the
• 56:00
  local New England high school recruiting base.
• 56:02
  Obviously, BC has kind of fallen some hard times.
• 56:04
  And you know, if you look at programs across the country, one
• 56:07
  of the biggest predictors of success is proximity to talent.
• 56:11
  We know that New England's not exactly a hotbed of recruiting,
• 56:13
  but you know, Pennsylvania is the state that's produced some
• 56:15
  good players. You know, New Jersey's produced
• 56:17
  a handful of good players. For you, what is B CS recruiting
• 56:21
  strategy in terms of geography? Like how do, how do you see them
• 56:24
  kind of attacking recruiting and, and maybe how does Bill
• 56:26
  O'Brien kind of, I guess, go about rebuilding this program,
• 56:30
  you know, kind of from where it was a few years ago?
• 56:32
  Yeah. I mean, he, I think he's putting
• 56:34
  more of an emphasis on looking to get local recruits,
• 56:39
  especially, you know, the top, the top four or five from
• 56:43
  Massachusetts or Connecticut. Like you said, New Jersey, NJ is
• 56:47
  a big one. I think with Shiano, with Greg
• 56:50
  Schiano coming back to Rutgers, it has created a little bit more
• 56:54
  of an issue because that was a pretty good pipeline for us, you
• 56:58
  know, for a while prior to that. But yeah, he has kind of talked
• 57:02
  about, you know, keeping the local guys home, you know, and
• 57:05
  obviously it's not an abundance as, you know, maybe, you know,
• 57:11
  schools down South might be able to see.
• 57:13
  But, you know, really focusing on that.
• 57:16
  And, you know, kind of like you said, whether it's PA or New
• 57:19
  Jersey or, you know, they they have found a bit of success, you
• 57:24
  know, kind of in the Florida area.
• 57:26
  Obviously that's where they flowers came from.
• 57:28
  So never, never, never going to complain about that.
• 57:32
  But yeah, I think for the most part, like you said, kind of the
• 57:35
  proximity to home and, you know, the regional and, you know,
• 57:38
  really keeping the kids, keeping the kids home that, you know,
• 57:42
  our our prize picks for you and I, I believe, I believe they
• 57:45
  locked up already the top three kids from Massachusetts for next
• 57:50
  year. So, you know, it's definitely,
• 57:52
  definitely helping and you know, obviously with the with the
• 57:55
  transfer portal and you know, kind of all that stuff, I
• 57:58
  wouldn't be surprised if they really start to utilize that
• 58:01
  next year. Bill O'Brien hasn't there's
• 58:04
  there's not a player on this roster right now that Bill Bill
• 58:07
  O'Brien brought in himself, you know, because, you know, halfway
• 58:10
  left so late after, you know, the transfer portal and all the
• 58:15
  recruiting. So he none of these none of
• 58:17
  these guys are his. So I think next year it's going
• 58:20
  to be very interesting to see, you know, what kind of players
• 58:24
  that he does look to bring in this type of personnel he's
• 58:26
  going to look to, you know, set out for.
• 58:28
  So, you know, I think next you're seeing him use kind of
• 58:32
  Jeff Haffley's toys this year. Next year you're going to really
• 58:35
  start to see more of his imprint, you know, as to like
• 58:38
  what his vision for Boston College football is going to be.
• 58:42
  Yeah, and and you really know that he has at least a good idea
• 58:44
  of the lay of the land in Pennsylvania, so he does.
• 58:46
  Know yeah that's how that. Looks like so.
• 58:49
  Absolutely. I didn't even think about that.
• 58:51
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 58:52
  So that that's something that to keep an eye on heading into
• 58:55
  probably next cycle, especially when you look at, you know, JUCO
• 58:59
  pickups and transfer portal. So keep an eye on that, Brett,
• 59:04
  we appreciate you jumping on. We're going to let you go.
• 59:06
  But before we do, tell us what, Tell the folks out there where
• 59:09
  they can find you and anything else you want to get off your
• 59:12
  chest here. Yeah, well, first of all, I
• 59:16
  appreciate you guys having me on.
• 59:19
  You know, I, I, I do always look forward to the Virginia Tech
• 59:21
  game every year. I think, you know, it is it is
• 59:24
  kind of nice to go back to the Big East roots and you know,
• 59:28
  it's definitely from our perspective, a lot of respect
• 59:30
  for you guys and it's a lot of fun being able to you know, kind
• 59:34
  of have like a yearly, yearly game with you.
• 59:36
  And so I appreciate you guys having us on.
• 59:38
  It was a lot of fun. You could find, you can find us
• 59:42
  at Eagles Weekly BC on Twitter, Instagram, you know, wherever
• 59:47
  else, and then our our overall website, Eagles Daily BC.
• 59:51
  So Eagles Weekly for the podcast and Eagles Daily is the website
• 59:55
  and that's it. Thanks guys.
• 59:57
  Awesome. Appreciate it.
• 59:58
  Brett, you have? A good one, thanks.
• 1:00:01
  Brett. All right, that was a lot of
• 1:00:04
  fun. Brett Lane, a lot of knowledge
• 1:00:06
  on us about the BC team. It's always good to have other
• 1:00:12
  podcasts here because it's also great to know it's like 4 guys
• 1:00:16
  who are BC fans who are doing the same things we're doing,
• 1:00:19
  running a website, doing a podcast.
• 1:00:22
  It's always, it's always good to make that connection.
• 1:00:25
  Now I hope we beat shit out of them Thursday night.
• 1:00:27
  As nice as Brett was, so. Hey, we got we got to keep it
• 1:00:32
  friendly, but it's still a rivalry.
• 1:00:34
  It's still a rivalry, you still talk trash, so let's get to it.
• 1:00:37
  We have talked about BC y'all have heard some names, some
• 1:00:39
  information. Let's now get to the hokey keys
• 1:00:43
  and we're going to start with Jonathan tally.
• 1:00:45
  Tally what is going to be the key to victory on?
• 1:00:47
  Thursday night, key to victory on Thursday night is going to be
• 1:00:52
  stop the opposing teams, quarterbacks, leagues.
• 1:00:57
  You cannot let Castellanos kill us scrambling around in the
• 1:01:04
  pocket and scrambling for big plays.
• 1:01:07
  So that is definitely going to be the key for us to for me and
• 1:01:11
  what I think of US winning the game.
• 1:01:15
  All righty till we get Castellanos legs.
• 1:01:17
  Castellanos if y'all don't recall 1000 yard rusher last
• 1:01:20
  year. Not as much this year, but
• 1:01:22
  obviously banged up with an ankle injury.
• 1:01:24
  So just because those stats don't look great this year, it's
• 1:01:28
  in that boy, it's in Tommy Castellano.
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  I like him calling Tommy, by the way.
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  I just just love him saying that.
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  Sheldon Moss key to Thursday night.
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  Rekindle that Thursday night magic.
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  So I'm going to I'm going to recite some statue guys here.
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  If you guys are ready, let's go. So since 1992, I think that was
• 1:01:49
  when Thursday Night Football first started as regular
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  program. I could be wrong but I believe
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  that is the case. Virgin Tech all time 24 wins on
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  Thursday Night Football in the regular season.
• 1:01:59
  That is tied for the most of the time with Utah.
• 1:02:01
  Now Utah has played a few cream puffs.
• 1:02:03
  Virgin Tech has traditionally played some pretty solid
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  opponents on Thursday night. So if you just look at FCSFBS
• 1:02:09
  teams, the Hokies have nineteen wins against on Thursday night,
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  which is most all time. They've also played 36 games.
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  Second link to Georgia Tech and win percentage wise, they're
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  ranked 7th among teams with at least 20 games played on
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  Thursday night. Obviously, this was a staple of
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  the program back in the Beamer days.
• 1:02:28
  He used it for recruiting to enhance the visibility of the
• 1:02:30
  program and he was in his bag back in the day at 11 straight
• 1:02:34
  Thursday night games from 1998 to 2005, although they are just
• 1:02:38
  one and three in the last four. So trying to turn around a
• 1:02:41
  little bit. They did beat Circus last year,
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  first Thursday night wins since 2016.
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  So it's been a staple of the program for decades.
• 1:02:47
  I think Tech, you know, it needs to kind of reclaim it as their
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  own. Obviously with the NFL playing
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  on Thursday nights, it's kind of lost some magic that had back in
• 1:02:57
  the old days. But I still think this is a big
• 1:02:58
  opportunity for Tech to kind of showcase themselves on the
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  national stage and say, hey, this is our night, so go get
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  that win. Yep, to that point, Syracuse
• 1:03:07
  game last year with an opposing NFL game, it went like 1.6
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  million viewers, which that's nothing to sneeze out on a
• 1:03:13
  Thursday opposing versus the NFL.
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  And yeah, I think you're right. Embrace it, bring it back.
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  It's still a national spotlight. If I'm sure everybody that is in
• 1:03:24
  the chat watching live wherever you are there, it's a it's an
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  opportunity still for the school.
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  Sports Center is going to be live on campus.
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  Matt Berry, if y'all haven't seen that, going to be there in
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  the middle of campus Thursday, like 2:30.
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  So if you're a kid out there got by all means there's your chance
• 1:03:42
  to get on national TV. Brian Siegel, I'm going to flip
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  to you next. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going
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  to, I'm going to piggyback off show in a little bit here.
• 1:03:50
  You know, Virginia Tech made Thursday Night Football what it
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  is, or at least what it was before the NFL kind of stepped
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  in there. So it kind of put Thursday Night
• 1:03:59
  Football on the map and it helped put Virginia Tech on the
• 1:04:01
  map in in that same token. So to his point, embrace it,
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  reclaim it. Love that.
• 1:04:09
  My key though is going to be get off the field on 3rd down on
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  money downs. If it's third down, it's 4th
• 1:04:14
  down. You're on defense.
• 1:04:15
  Get the hell off the field when you have a quarterback that can
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  do things with their legs. That's that's where Virginia
• 1:04:22
  Tech has been killed a lot historically and this season
• 1:04:26
  with the inability to get off the field when they get into
• 1:04:28
  those good situations where they can do so.
• 1:04:30
  So that's the going to be the biggest thing for me.
• 1:04:33
  Don't let those third and 6th, 3rd and 7th turn into first
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  down. 100% before I get to mine, I just I just got to am I asking
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  you a question tally? Yeah, I've seen it.
• 1:04:45
  We no Curtis, you we going, we going all get into that.
• 1:04:48
  You go ahead, you go, you go ahead and give us your key and
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  then we'll put that back up all. Right, we'll pull that back up.
• 1:04:54
  All right, so my key, and it's something Tally's been saying
• 1:04:56
  the last few weeks, but it's got to be finish, finish, finish.
• 1:05:00
  Defensively, sack the quarterback BC they are 101st in
• 1:05:06
  the country and sacks allowed. They're giving up over 2 1/2 a
• 1:05:08
  game. So clearly there is some issue
• 1:05:10
  there even with Tommy Castellanos having his little
• 1:05:13
  way ability. So finish, I want to see over 5
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  / 5 sacks Thursday night. The other one is the offensive
• 1:05:22
  side of the ball and I'm really glad Brett mentioned it.
• 1:05:24
  They are one hell of a red zone defense and somebody put in here
• 1:05:27
  about the way they set up. Brian, I think you mentioned
• 1:05:30
  something about it earlier this week.
• 1:05:32
  Just the way they their alignments and stuff, once you
• 1:05:34
  get inside the 20, they play very basically they'll give you
• 1:05:39
  3 all night. They don't really care.
• 1:05:41
  But finish we finished, it's been 18 drives in the red zone.
• 1:05:45
  We finished with 13, which is not half bad.
• 1:05:47
  So Thursday night you get in the red zone to get a touchdown
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  because I think that is for one reason and one reason only.
• 1:05:54
  I think that would break BC mentally if the first two drives
• 1:05:57
  you got inside the 20 and punched it in, I think this
• 1:06:00
  would be gone from that defense because that aura of
• 1:06:02
  invincibility inside the red zone, it's now gone and they can
• 1:06:05
  score on us, man, this isn't good.
• 1:06:07
  We're not a high flying shootout team.
• 1:06:09
  We can't do this. So finish, finish, finish.
• 1:06:13
  So before we go to the predictions now, I'll pull it up
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  for you, Tal. Yeah, Josh and Josh went and
• 1:06:19
  corrected my name too. I don't know why everybody
• 1:06:21
  leaves the the E out of my name on talent.
• 1:06:25
  He was. Yeah, Josh went and corrected
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  it. So cool.
• 1:06:29
  But yes, we did not talk about this, but that's something we I
• 1:06:33
  was going to bring up. So I did see the orange cleats.
• 1:06:37
  I'm just happy to have some style, have a little bit of
• 1:06:40
  drip. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:06:41
  Like I hate and pride's kind of a traditional coach, but I'm not
• 1:06:47
  just, you know, all you got to have black and white cleats.
• 1:06:49
  So you just got to have this jersey and it's just it's like,
• 1:06:52
  I don't feel like Virginia Tech is that kind of school.
• 1:06:57
  I think it's OK for us to have some pizzazz and have some
• 1:06:59
  different alternate stuff, you know, maybe some alternate
• 1:07:03
  orange uniforms, you know, I don't know.
• 1:07:07
  We're hearing some rumors about some stuff going on on Thursday,
• 1:07:11
  so I would be interested to see what they come out with.
• 1:07:15
  If you watch the presses, I think Kyron was talking about, I
• 1:07:20
  think he said something to the fact that I'm, you know, I'm
• 1:07:22
  going to be interested to see what we what our uniforms look
• 1:07:25
  like. So that has some people raising
• 1:07:27
  their eyebrows, but I like the, I like the orange and white
• 1:07:31
  cleats that they're practicing in and we'll play in.
• 1:07:34
  So I like to see what the rest of the uniform looks like.
• 1:07:37
  Kind of with that I have my orange on ready to go but on
• 1:07:42
  another note too I'll let you know Curtis and Brian and
• 1:07:45
  Shelton talk about how they feel about that and if we go orange.
• 1:07:48
  But I want to give a shout out to SWVA again, hook me up with a
• 1:07:53
  this is a shirt from them that I ordered and they also sent me a
• 1:07:57
  hat. Now this is kind of a big deal.
• 1:07:59
  I don't know hold on. Let me cut my light off so y'all
• 1:08:01
  can see that this is kind of a big deal hat here because I
• 1:08:06
  think this is kind of a prototype just for me.
• 1:08:09
  Just to let y'all know. I don't think this is out yet.
• 1:08:12
  So I'm kind of rocking some exclusive stuff.
• 1:08:15
  Shout out to my Got. A little one-on-one right now.
• 1:08:17
  One-on-one right now man. So again, y'all got to go in and
• 1:08:22
  shop with those guys. They took really good care of
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  me, sent me some cool, some cool stickers and things like that.
• 1:08:30
  So process was really good. Got my shipment really quick.
• 1:08:35
  So awesome, awesome experience with them.
• 1:08:38
  Y'all please go and shop with them now.
• 1:08:40
  I guess I'll go to my boy Shelton on this.
• 1:08:44
  What are you thinking about orange uniforms?
• 1:08:46
  If we have a more, you know, incorporating some orange for
• 1:08:49
  the orange out. Anything that makes us look cool
• 1:08:52
  on social media and help us in recruiting I am a big advocate
• 1:08:56
  of. What it looks like just we.
• 1:09:00
  Need to have swag. We need to have swag got.
• 1:09:03
  To have swag we got we going to go to we going to go to Brian
• 1:09:05
  Nexus and save Curtis for the for the end because he's got
• 1:09:09
  orange on. So Brian, what you think?
• 1:09:10
  You know when I I've heard some fun stuff.
• 1:09:12
  I've heard orange jerseys, I've heard white helmets with the
• 1:09:15
  script. I've heard every rumor about
• 1:09:17
  this week as far as uniforms are concerned that you could
• 1:09:20
  possibly have. And I'm here for all of it
• 1:09:22
  because I like having some alternates out there.
• 1:09:26
  I like being able to mix and match a little bit.
• 1:09:29
  I like that you have to have like a very good compliment, a
• 1:09:33
  very drip worthy compliment to your more traditional 99
• 1:09:40
  throwbacks that are our primary jersey now that we've kind of
• 1:09:44
  brought a little bit into the twenty 20s.
• 1:09:46
  So I think that would be a good contrast.
• 1:09:50
  Curtis. I mean not.
• 1:09:51
  I love the orange look and I mean the way the new uniforms
• 1:09:55
  look. I will be interested if they go
• 1:09:58
  to the orange look, the orange alternate.
• 1:10:01
  What color is the number going to be?
• 1:10:02
  Is it maroon or is it white? And I think either would pop.
• 1:10:06
  I think either a maroon number on the side would pop.
• 1:10:09
  I think a white number would pop.
• 1:10:11
  But they need to do it for no other reason.
• 1:10:13
  There's a bunch of people like Tally out there that if they
• 1:10:15
  drop that Thursday night and on Friday morning said, oh, you
• 1:10:18
  like the orange jerseys now. Now they're officially sail for
• 1:10:21
  Fanatics. Yeah, let's give.
• 1:10:24
  Up Charlie would get 3 or 4 real quick, but it is it's it's an
• 1:10:27
  orange effect game. The uniform needs to be orange.
• 1:10:30
  If you're going to do an orange effect, you'll need to be in
• 1:10:33
  white. You don't need to be in a room,
• 1:10:35
  You don't need to be in mix. It needs to be orange, orange,
• 1:10:37
  orange. I tell people all the time,
• 1:10:40
  whenever we get into it, over this uniforms and all, we need
• 1:10:45
  to be more, I said. Orange is one of our colors,
• 1:10:48
  like 1. Of our colors.
• 1:10:49
  Like when I'm not asking us to wear black or grey or smoky
• 1:10:53
  uniforms, like orange is one of our colors.
• 1:10:56
  So if we're going to have a orange effect, we should have an
• 1:11:00
  orange uniform. It's my opinion.
• 1:11:02
  Somebody, yeah, definitely, definitely somebody in the chat
• 1:11:06
  asked about the hat, said where can I cop the hat?
• 1:11:09
  Jason, if you, I see you in the chat as well, Drop y'all's.
• 1:11:14
  Drop y'all's website on there in the chat if you can man, just so
• 1:11:19
  some people can know where to find you and and grab some stuff
• 1:11:22
  from SWVA. Again, SWVA is the guys who
• 1:11:26
  hooked me up with the hat, so y'all check them out. 100% and
• 1:11:31
  now that they've hooked you up with the hats, you got to hook
• 1:11:33
  me up with a prediction tally. What's going to go happen
• 1:11:35
  Thursday night? Why I got to be first man then?
• 1:11:38
  OK, you don't have to be first tonight.
• 1:11:40
  Now you already go first. You already said it, so now I
• 1:11:42
  got to go. No, no, no, no.
• 1:11:44
  You sit there, Brian, go first. OK, now I'm on the spot.
• 1:11:49
  What's that spread at now 6 1/2? I believe that's where it was.
• 1:11:53
  It wasn't. Yeah, we're covering that.
• 1:11:55
  Give me 3120 Hokies. Let's fucking go.
• 1:11:59
  Shelton, what about you? I'll take Hokies 2720.
• 1:12:03
  I think it'll be a good game. B CS got good run defense, so
• 1:12:06
  it's not going to be a blowout, but I do think BT is a better
• 1:12:08
  team. Cassie, I was going to be a
• 1:12:09
  little bit a little bit hobbled so, but I think they'll take
• 1:12:12
  care of business at home all. Right, and I'll go and I'll let
• 1:12:16
  you close it out then tally Hokies win this when you
• 1:12:20
  mentioned the BC rush offense, but you start looking about who
• 1:12:23
  they played. Not exactly pounding the rock
• 1:12:26
  teams nowhere near the back of Basil Tooton.
• 1:12:30
  Hokies win 3424 with the intermediate passing game and
• 1:12:34
  Basil just going right down their throats because eventually
• 1:12:37
  it's just going to break. Oh, now I guess it's me, Hon
• 1:12:42
  Curtis. It's.
• 1:12:43
  You now see, Look, I'll waited till the end.
• 1:12:46
  So I got a, I'm a, you know, I'm a baseball guy.
• 1:12:51
  So I'm real superstitious. Like if you're winning in a, in
• 1:12:54
  a certain pair of socks, you don't wash them, you know what
• 1:12:57
  I'm saying? You just keep wearing them until
• 1:12:59
  you lose. So I'm still I've been betting
• 1:13:02
  against us or not betting against us, but I've been
• 1:13:05
  predicting against us and as soon as I predict against this,
• 1:13:08
  we have a great game or we play flawless and win.
• 1:13:13
  So I'm going to go BC in this. I don't really have a prediction
• 1:13:18
  yet. Let me guess, it's going to be
• 1:13:19
  close. So I would say BC 2417, I'm
• 1:13:23
  going to go somewhere around there.
• 1:13:24
  So that is only on the strength of every.
• 1:13:29
  Time. Every time I say that we're not
• 1:13:31
  going to win or we're not going to cover, we do it.
• 1:13:35
  So I'll say it like I said two weeks ago and last week, plaster
• 1:13:40
  my face in the locker room. I'm going against you.
• 1:13:45
  Hey, Tally's on his Michael Scott.
• 1:13:47
  He's not superstitious, but he's a little stitious.
• 1:13:49
  He's. A little stitious.
• 1:13:51
  There we go. All righty, so there are
• 1:13:53
  predictions. I got a bunch of y'all putting
• 1:13:55
  them in here, but don't forget when you put your score
• 1:13:57
  predictions, put who you think's going to win because it's been a
• 1:14:00
  couple times even us. We'll even pick against the
• 1:14:03
  Hokies. So we put that up there and do
• 1:14:06
  not forget as we move into our big Screener segment, we're
• 1:14:10
  giving away something YouTube 1999 in the comments to get
• 1:14:15
  entered to win a piece of the history of Virginia Tech.
• 1:14:18
  Make sure you're subscribed on there.
• 1:14:20
  Got to subscribe. Throw that comment 19 99 in
• 1:14:23
  there. That's going to get you an
• 1:14:24
  entry. Like I said, we're going to pull
• 1:14:26
  it on November 5th, the episode we're doing before Clemson.
• 1:14:30
  So you got three chances here and we're going to keep plugging
• 1:14:33
  it every week until until it's time.
• 1:14:36
  So until let's go get in there. I'll, I'll, I'll throw it up one
• 1:14:41
  more time here. One more time, there it is, a
• 1:14:44
  piece of the goal post. And the you got got the scores
• 1:14:48
  on the side. Hey, somebody asked.
• 1:14:51
  Somebody asked that. Yeah, somebody asked the
• 1:14:53
  interesting question in the chat.
• 1:14:55
  All right? You know, they said, they said,
• 1:14:56
  where's that goal post been for 25 years?
• 1:14:59
  So, so they did a giveaway shortly after that and they they
• 1:15:05
  held back part of it to do a 25 year.
• 1:15:08
  Anniversary run. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
• 1:15:11
  So there there's a bunch out there that were done in the
• 1:15:14
  first run bunch of years back and then this is kind of the
• 1:15:17
  second run for the 25th. There you go.
• 1:15:21
  And again, if you just want to buy one outright, go to our
• 1:15:23
  website and find the Goalpost pyramid.
• 1:15:25
  You can just purchase one for 199 and $0.90.
• 1:15:28
  Yeah. And part of that goes towards
• 1:15:31
  so, yeah. All right, so let's get two big
• 1:15:35
  screeners. As y'all saw at the beginning of
• 1:15:36
  the program, we watch games every week, ones that catch our
• 1:15:39
  eye. Last week, Shelton good week
• 1:15:44
  four and two. Shelton making a strong comeback
• 1:15:47
  after a slow. The middle portion there I went
• 1:15:50
  500, Miranda went 500. Tally and Brian two and four
• 1:15:54
  each, both still above 50% for the year.
• 1:15:57
  The Music Man got one right, but he got.
• 1:16:00
  The one he played the money right?
• 1:16:02
  He got the money thick right bro?
• 1:16:04
  He gets off this matter now so. Y'all, y'all got to give him a
• 1:16:08
  hard time though, because he he literally takes everything that
• 1:16:11
  we put in here. He puts a bet out there.
• 1:16:13
  We got another buddy that that we talk to regularly, Robbie
• 1:16:16
  Compton, that comes on here a bunch.
• 1:16:18
  He'll throw ABCP bet out there. So it's always fun kind of
• 1:16:22
  checking in to see, all right, how, how are they doing?
• 1:16:24
  How are they doing? Who'd you roll with?
• 1:16:28
  Did you roll with Jason? Did you roll with me?
• 1:16:30
  Did you roll with Curtis? Exactly who'd you roll with?
• 1:16:33
  I don't, I don't think it's Faye Tally anymore.
• 1:16:35
  I think, I think we're, you know, Tally's, you know, right
• 1:16:37
  at the 500 level. So he's he's.
• 1:16:39
  I think it man. He's coasting pretty good.
• 1:16:42
  Well, everybody's had good weeks on this thing.
• 1:16:44
  Ain't nobody, ain't nobody putting up a stink like an
• 1:16:46
  absolute, like stink, stink, stink, stink, stink.
• 1:16:49
  Everybody. If you've met with us at least
• 1:16:51
  one week on the right week, we made you some money.
• 1:16:53
  So you just got to figure out which one of us is right this
• 1:16:56
  week. That's all you got to do.
• 1:16:58
  So let's go to it. Brian, you got the first game.
• 1:17:01
  Where you going? What you got?
• 1:17:04
  Hey, we are going to Indiana baby.
• 1:17:08
  Nebraska, Indiana, this one kind of it, it looked a little weird.
• 1:17:15
  I didn't like the line. I think Nebraska's probably a
• 1:17:17
  little bit better than they're getting credit for here.
• 1:17:20
  I think Indiana may be a little over ranked at this point.
• 1:17:23
  They're getting, you know, they got the seven points there.
• 1:17:27
  I I, I like Nebraska here. So give me Nebraska.
• 1:17:31
  Yeah, I'm, I'm kind of with you on this one that that line has
• 1:17:34
  went down to 6 1/2. We caught it at 7.
• 1:17:37
  So play as what you will. Nebraska is five and one and ask
• 1:17:43
  us five wins, one loss, a full 7 point dog to Indiana.
• 1:17:47
  And if you take a look at Indiana so far this year, they
• 1:17:49
  are 6 and up. They beat FIU, they beat Western
• 1:17:53
  Illinois, they beat a God of UCLA team, they beat Charlotte
• 1:17:56
  and Maryland and Northwestern. That's like there's nothing in
• 1:18:01
  there that says oh that's a really good win.
• 1:18:06
  You deserve to be a top 15 in the country.
• 1:18:08
  Nothing's popping, so Lace 7. If Indiana wins, I don't think
• 1:18:13
  it's going to be by any more than 7, so I'll take the Huskers
• 1:18:17
  as well. Shelton.
• 1:18:20
  Yeah, I'm taking the Huskers. I feel like Indiana's due for a
• 1:18:23
  giant stinker. I mean, they've had a great
• 1:18:24
  season, but I just think they're going to lay an egg.
• 1:18:26
  So I'll take take Nebraska. I called, I called Shelton and
• 1:18:33
  he told me to pick Nebraska, so that's why I picked the one with
• 1:18:38
  Nebraska. And you know what?
• 1:18:40
  It's a clean suite, baby. And I got to put this one in
• 1:18:43
  there because it's a fun little comment here by Josh.
• 1:18:47
  Yeah, he does look like he moves like him pregame.
• 1:18:52
  Like I think that's what he's trying to do.
• 1:18:55
  Full on emulation. Man, Oh yeah, look, that's what
• 1:18:58
  he's doing. Oh.
• 1:18:59
  Lord got the got the haircut, got the bands got got the the
• 1:19:03
  whole look and pregame ritual. The whole 9 man.
• 1:19:06
  Right, it's. Funny funny, great value Mahomes
• 1:19:10
  2817. That would be a cover and an
• 1:19:12
  outright win. All right, I got the next game
• 1:19:15
  here and I'm looking ahead. I'm looking ahead to the 26th of
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  October because after this weekend, that is the next game,
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  Notre Dame is traveling down to Georgia Tech, down to Bobby Dodd
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  Stadium, right there in downtown Atlanta to play the Yellow
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  Jackets of Georgia Tech. And to me, as soon as I saw this
• 1:19:35
  game and I saw the line home Dog getting 10 plus points.
• 1:19:40
  I like Notre Dame. I think they're a good team.
• 1:19:43
  I think people are undervaluing Georgia Tech.
• 1:19:46
  Do I think Georgia Tech wins this game?
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  Probably not. But do I think by it's going to
• 1:19:50
  be some blowout? Hell no.
• 1:19:52
  Hell no. This is probably a touchdown at
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  best game. Give me Georgia Tech.
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  Yep, right there with you, Curtis.
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  It's the 10 for me. If you'd have put it at 6 1/2,
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  seven and a half, maybe you would have pulled the trigger
• 1:20:06
  10s too much. Georgia Tech on this one,
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  Shelton. Notre Dame has just annihilated
• 1:20:14
  almost everyone that they've played, I think in Austria right
• 1:20:17
  now. I think they're gonna keep it
• 1:20:18
  rolling. I think they went big all.
• 1:20:20
  Right. He's going flip Cali.
• 1:20:23
  Yeah, I'm going to follow the boys on this one, Brian and
• 1:20:26
  Curtis, and say Georgia Tech just because Brett Key, he has
• 1:20:30
  those guys playing hard at least.
• 1:20:33
  So I feel like they're going to, you know, come out excited about
• 1:20:36
  that game and keep it close. Yep, and Miranda's riding with
• 1:20:43
  Sheldon. And so is Jason.
• 1:20:46
  We got a split. Family here split.
• 1:20:48
  Decision there. Family All right, Shelton, where
• 1:20:52
  are you taking us for your big game this week?
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  Yes, well, it would have helped if I, Yep, there we go.
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  Louisville, Miami. I think it's a pretty good game.
• 1:21:03
  Two of the two of the better teams in the ACC as we know guys
• 1:21:07
  Miami has been playing with. I don't know, how would you, how
• 1:21:11
  would you describe it? Some angels on their wings.
• 1:21:15
  So I think, I think Louisville's going to take care of business
• 1:21:18
  and hand the Canes their first L of the season.
• 1:21:22
  All right, Sheldon says that Bron.
• 1:21:27
  You know what, I'm going with the you here.
• 1:21:32
  It's not necessarily that I think that they are ranked where
• 1:21:36
  they should be. I just, I've gotten to a point
• 1:21:39
  now watching some of these Louisville games the last couple
• 1:21:41
  weeks. I do not trust them even at
• 1:21:44
  home. So I'm going to, I'm going to go
• 1:21:46
  with Miami here. Yeah, I'm, I'm with Brian here.
• 1:21:50
  Even though I'm taking Louisville.
• 1:21:52
  Give me 4. I think this is going to be a
• 1:21:53
  nail biter of a game. They just beat UVA by 4 last
• 1:21:58
  week at home. I think it's a very close, close
• 1:22:01
  call. I think Louisville covers.
• 1:22:03
  I think Miami pulls another one out of the hat and maybe the
• 1:22:07
  rest help them. Yeah, I'm going to go with what
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  a hokey sideline. See it, he said.
• 1:22:14
  Miami and the refs, that's what I'm going to go with.
• 1:22:19
  There we go there we go lots of fun there and Miranda and Jason
• 1:22:24
  riding with Brian on this one. Four for the you on that land or
• 1:22:28
  getting or laying 4 points on the road.
• 1:22:32
  Tally. As as soon as you made the point
• 1:22:35
  last week and this game popped up, I didn't give Tally an
• 1:22:39
  option, y'all. I said this is your game because
• 1:22:42
  you've already been spot on because of the Tennessee game
• 1:22:45
  last week. Yeah, man, it is.
• 1:22:49
  You know, a lot of people talk about the Iron Bowl here because
• 1:22:53
  it is such a a rivalry game, but I really think Alabama fans in
• 1:22:57
  Alabama really hates Tennessee more than Auburn.
• 1:23:01
  I don't know if everybody remembers, but Alabama was on
• 1:23:04
  probation for a while. I think it was Phillip Farmer
• 1:23:07
  that was at Tennessee, was the one who snitched on Alabama and
• 1:23:11
  got them in trouble. So they hate, hate, hate
• 1:23:15
  Tennessee, and that's always a big game.
• 1:23:19
  So Alabama has kind of been, you know, treading water lately.
• 1:23:24
  You know, they did go down to Vanderbilt and take the L and,
• 1:23:28
  you know, last week at home, struggled with South Carolina,
• 1:23:32
  barely pulled that out. And now they're going to head to
• 1:23:34
  Tennessee. So I think Tennessee is going to
• 1:23:36
  be ready. Like, Alabama has a big target
• 1:23:38
  on them because it's kind of like the shark Smith blood in
• 1:23:43
  the water. You know, they've been waiting
• 1:23:46
  for Alabama to kind of show a weakness.
• 1:23:48
  And I think Tennessee's going to take advantage of it and and
• 1:23:52
  take this game this week. All right, Kali says.
• 1:23:55
  Tennessee, take the excuse me? Yeah, take the points.
• 1:23:59
  Yeah, yeah, Tennessee's going to win this one outright, in my
• 1:24:01
  opinion. Both teams had a little bit of a
• 1:24:06
  scare last week against what you would say.
• 1:24:08
  We're definitely inferior opponents from a talent
• 1:24:11
  standpoint. Both of them, as Tally
• 1:24:13
  predicted, looking kind of past their games last week to this
• 1:24:18
  week. But I think Tennessee just has
• 1:24:21
  more weapons overall, and I think they're going to end up
• 1:24:24
  prevailing in the end there. More 40 O league corso.
• 1:24:28
  Not so fast my friends, not so fast. 3rd Saturday in October.
• 1:24:35
  It is a classic. They have not moved this one
• 1:24:37
  yet. Goes back talking to my Daisy
• 1:24:40
  kid. Keith Jackson mentioned in that
• 1:24:42
  on ABC and I was about 11 years old.
• 1:24:44
  I still remember that. But in this space, Tennessee is
• 1:24:49
  not right offensively. They were coming out of the gate
• 1:24:52
  beating the shit out of people. Hanging 60, hanging 50, hanging
• 1:24:55
  70. They have went 2514 and they
• 1:25:00
  needed overtime to get to 23 against Florida.
• 1:25:04
  That offense isn't right. I think Tennessee is going to
• 1:25:08
  get stomped. Stomped 2 touchdowns.
• 1:25:13
  Alabama wins. I'll lay the 2 1/2.
• 1:25:17
  Everything in my brain is telling me to pick Alabama and
• 1:25:20
  honestly I'm probably going to regret it, but I took Tennessee
• 1:25:24
  just because. Sometimes you got a contrary.
• 1:25:27
  Sometimes you just got to say a brain no, take a take a step
• 1:25:32
  aside real quick. We're going to do some business.
• 1:25:34
  Exactly. And Miranda's riding with with
• 1:25:37
  you, Curtis, and so is Jason. So another split split family
• 1:25:41
  here. Split family again.
• 1:25:43
  All right, we are going out to Mormon country for the next one.
• 1:25:48
  BYU Oaky State. This is Miranda's pick.
• 1:25:52
  Oaky State I think most people probably expected this game they
• 1:25:58
  would be the six and O team, not BYUBYU laying a full 9 at home.
• 1:26:05
  Bron Siegler, What do you think about this one?
• 1:26:08
  I do think BYU prevails in this game, I think they are the
• 1:26:11
  better team, but that 9 is just a little too rich for my blood.
• 1:26:15
  So give me Okie State. Maybe.
• 1:26:18
  See, I'm the exact opposite of you.
• 1:26:20
  I think I seriously think Oklahoma State has completely
• 1:26:24
  checked out. They had one of the best running
• 1:26:26
  backs coming back, a like 9th year quarterback starter, solid
• 1:26:30
  offensive line. I think Shelton, you mentioned
• 1:26:31
  they had probably the most starts on their offensive line
• 1:26:35
  of any team in the country this year.
• 1:26:37
  And and they're three and three. They're pretty much out of the
• 1:26:40
  Big 12 race the way everything's shaped up.
• 1:26:43
  I think they've checked out. I think BYU is going to put it
• 1:26:46
  on. I think BYU wins by at least
• 1:26:50
  nine, if not more. I'll lay the points.
• 1:26:52
  BYU at home on Friday night at 10:15.
• 1:26:58
  Yeah, I so first of all, I love BYU.
• 1:27:00
  I've watched three of their games.
• 1:27:01
  I love everything that they're about.
• 1:27:03
  They're really physical team. Great job by Kalani Sataki.
• 1:27:07
  But I don't know, I feel like I'm taking OK state.
• 1:27:09
  I feel like they're due for some type of bounce back performance.
• 1:27:12
  I don't think they're going to win, but I think they'll do just
• 1:27:14
  enough to cover. But man, BYU what what?
• 1:27:17
  Probably one of the better, more remarkable stories of the 2024
• 1:27:21
  season. Just how good they've been.
• 1:27:23
  Absolutely. Yeah, I'm going to take BYU in
• 1:27:26
  this one just because I I haven't watched much of the
• 1:27:30
  game, but I've seen somebody come down on a kick off and
• 1:27:33
  absolutely annihilate somebody on that team.
• 1:27:36
  I can't even remember what number he was, but I was like,
• 1:27:39
  yeah, if they're hitting people like that, then they're probably
• 1:27:41
  going to win a lot of games. So I'm kind of looking at BYU to
• 1:27:45
  run away with this. Like you said, it kind of feel
• 1:27:47
  like OK State. I mean, yeah, I feel like, yeah,
• 1:27:53
  OK. State has kind of checked out,
• 1:27:56
  expected the running back to have a big year and he's kind
• 1:27:58
  of, you know, he's kind of chilling it seems like for the
• 1:28:02
  most. Did they give him a, did they
• 1:28:03
  give him like 7 figures? And he's just like, Nah, I'm
• 1:28:06
  good. Yeah, I.
• 1:28:07
  Don't need to do anything else myself.
• 1:28:09
  Right. So it's, it's crazy, but I
• 1:28:12
  really do think BYU is going to tap into the Mormon rituals and,
• 1:28:19
  I don't know, get some kind of extra power against the.
• 1:28:24
  All righty. These extra powers come from
• 1:28:26
  soaking. What's going on here?
• 1:28:28
  There you go. I don't know my my wife watches
• 1:28:30
  the Mormon live show. She could probably tell me some
• 1:28:33
  of the I was going. To say Curtis know a little bit
• 1:28:35
  more about it than we do, I don't.
• 1:28:36
  Watch it. The question is, is is your wife
• 1:28:39
  or your wife watching it too and just not telling?
• 1:28:41
  Y'all very likely. Possibly my wife watch a lot of
• 1:28:46
  crazy stuff. I don't know, babe.
• 1:28:49
  All right, she, she called the game, she's saying take the
• 1:28:51
  points. And our music Man is also saying
• 1:28:54
  take the points. And this actually is really good
• 1:28:57
  because the last game is one of the big, probably one of the big
• 1:29:02
  games of the year based on where these two teams are right now.
• 1:29:05
  We got Georgia, Texas. That is our Music Man's play of
• 1:29:09
  the week. And here's a little song for
• 1:29:11
  you. And welcome back to Guitar
• 1:29:18
  Elixirs and Gambling Picks. I'm Jason Long.
• 1:29:21
  I got a nice two game win streak going, so I'm going to keep this
• 1:29:23
  real. Short.
• 1:29:24
  This week I'm looking at that game down in Austin when Georgia
• 1:29:27
  visits Texas. Texas giving up 3 1/2 points.
• 1:29:32
  But they sure do look like the best team in college football
• 1:29:34
  for me, so I'm rolling with the Longhorns -3 1/2 against Jordan.
• 1:29:40
  As far as the song goes, there's a whole lot of good musicians.
• 1:29:44
  A whole lot of good songs come out of Texas.
• 1:29:47
  But as Waylon Jennings once said, one of those.
• 1:29:49
  Good Texas musicians all the way.
• 1:29:52
  When it comes down to Austin, Bob Wills is still king.
• 1:29:57
  And stay all night. Stay long and dance song, dance
• 1:30:01
  little long and pull off code in a corner.
• 1:30:05
  Don't see why I stay a little longer.
• 1:30:07
  Don't see why I don't stay a little longer.
• 1:30:17
  Hook em horns. Let's go Texas.
• 1:30:19
  See you next week. All right, the Music Man laying
• 1:30:25
  3 1/2 with Texas. Brian, what about you?
• 1:30:31
  I'm riding with him. He, he said it right.
• 1:30:33
  I, I don't really have another pick for the best team in
• 1:30:37
  college football right now. All of the the things I've seen
• 1:30:40
  are pointing to Texas and I think they take care of business
• 1:30:43
  there at home. All righty.
• 1:30:47
  And that's a good point. They they just beat the crap out
• 1:30:49
  of Oklahoma up in the Cotton Bowl last week, one of the games
• 1:30:53
  that I picked completely wrong. So you think I'd get on the
• 1:30:57
  train, but I just can't. Georgia already has one loss and
• 1:31:01
  if you take a look at the back half of their schedule, they
• 1:31:04
  have some more difficult teams. So I think it's going to be a
• 1:31:08
  desperate Georgia going into Austin and I think they at least
• 1:31:13
  cover. I don't know if they win, but
• 1:31:16
  I'll take the dogs and give me 3 1/2 points.
• 1:31:22
  Well, Texas obviously is the best team in the country this
• 1:31:24
  year. I think this is somewhat of a
• 1:31:25
  unique year in the sense that there's not a huge gap between
• 1:31:28
  #1 and everybody else. That being said, Texas is still
• 1:31:32
  the best and I just don't trust UJ offense enough to really
• 1:31:36
  score against them so I'll take Texas.
• 1:31:40
  Daddy. Yeah, I got one of my good
• 1:31:42
  friends that is a big time Georgia fan.
• 1:31:45
  One of my good friends is a big time Texas fan.
• 1:31:48
  They have been through the lows and the highs with both teams,
• 1:31:50
  so I just lean on them to talk about their seasons.
• 1:31:54
  My Georgia guy says that Georgia has a lot of injuries and he is
• 1:31:58
  nervous. And my Texas guy just got back
• 1:32:01
  from Japan and said Konichiwa, he he just says that they're the
• 1:32:09
  best team in the nation and they're going to win.
• 1:32:11
  So I got to go to Texas. By injuries, does he mean
• 1:32:15
  traffic violations? He said injuries.
• 1:32:19
  I ain't going to depth with him about why people aren't playing
• 1:32:23
  or what's going on, but he said we got a lot of injuries, so it
• 1:32:26
  may be. Well, it's the middle of the
• 1:32:28
  football season. Everybody got injuries.
• 1:32:30
  You know, that's, that's too vague.
• 1:32:32
  He, he, he trying to. And the question is, will you
• 1:32:34
  invite them both over to your house Saturday and watch this
• 1:32:37
  night game with them or they stay away from each other?
• 1:32:40
  No, that probably would be pretty good.
• 1:32:42
  I'm not doing that because I got AI didn't think about that.
• 1:32:45
  It probably would have been pretty fun, but I have a, my son
• 1:32:49
  has homecoming, so I'll be kind of running around after that.
• 1:32:54
  We we had a baseball cookout during the day and then he's got
• 1:32:57
  homecoming that night. So we'll kind of be running
• 1:33:00
  around and but I'm sure I'll be talking to him on the phone and
• 1:33:03
  they'll be on Facebook giving each other hell.
• 1:33:06
  There you go. Nothing like it.
• 1:33:07
  Nothing like it. We know the Music Man went with
• 1:33:09
  Texas and I am riding alone. You were riding alone, man.
• 1:33:14
  Riding with the dogs, there is all of that right there.
• 1:33:19
  It's an interesting board. Only really two Lee fully in
• 1:33:23
  agreement this week. All righty.
• 1:33:25
  Well, y'all, it has been about 90 minutes.
• 1:33:28
  We have went through everything this week and that is going to
• 1:33:31
  wrap up this episode of the Boundary Corner podcast.
• 1:33:34
  But I'm going to put a little something up before it because I
• 1:33:37
  saw this a little earlier. I didn't get a chance to get to
• 1:33:40
  it. Give me one second, Brian.
• 1:33:44
  Did I miss it? It was just a good little
• 1:33:46
  statement here and it's just something there it is.
• 1:33:51
  And Brian Cox appointment TV every week.
• 1:33:55
  Thanks for continuing to Brighton Tuesdays and looking
• 1:33:57
  some forward to each game week. And that's what we do it for you
• 1:34:01
  all. We have a lot of fun doing this.
• 1:34:03
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• 1:34:07
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• 1:34:10
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• 1:34:15
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• 1:34:18
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• 1:34:19
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• 1:34:21
  year ago. It was a ton of fun.
• 1:34:23
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• 1:34:26
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• 1:34:32
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• 1:34:34
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• 1:34:39
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• 1:34:52
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