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- 0:30Music. Curtis, look at this thing of
- 0:47beauty right here, man. Beauty, beautiful.
- 0:50Well, I I, I this was a great play at the end of the game.
- 0:54But it wasn't until our man below me here made a little
- 0:56comment on it Sunday about our man up top there checking out
- 1:01This is, this is, this is Jay Lane's last touchdown.
- 1:04But tally, what do you see on this play?
- 1:07A lot of blocking. A lot of stuff that hadn't been
- 1:09getting done this year. But Gosnell up top is holding
- 1:14the Fort down. He is blocking his ass off
- 1:19holding the Fort down at the top of the end zone, trying to push
- 1:23his man out of the back of the end zone so his buddy can get a
- 1:26touchdown and he holds him. He stalemates him right in the
- 1:30middle of the end zone. That's J Lane.
- 1:32Wrap it up. Awesome.
- 1:33A 30 to 13 hokie win versus Wake Forest.
- 1:37And welcome back to the Boundary Corner Podcast along with my
- 1:41partners Brian Siegel and Jonathan Talley.
- 1:44I'm Curtis Wilson. In this episode is brought to
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- 2:04reload last week and I'm sure they will be back for the
- 2:07Thursday night game in Lot 1. We'll let our buddy Grayson tell
- 2:10us that. So boys, it's been a busy couple
- 2:13days this week. We ain't really chit chatted
- 2:15that much. About we hadn't chit chatted a
- 2:17whole lot. We've been we've been all
- 2:19grinding in various different ways.
- 2:21Curtis getting ready for a trip. Me and Tally been.
- 2:25Working man, they they're. Working our asses off a little
- 2:27bit so. Throwing the book at me.
- 2:29Throwing the book at him, well, I didn't have much time to chit,
- 2:32chat or do much well the normal prep.
- 2:36I didn't get to do some other things I like to do because
- 2:39again, y'all said I'm, I'm heading down to the beach
- 2:41tomorrow for a few days, so I had to squeeze some work in for
- 2:45two days before I went down there.
- 2:47So I didn't get to listen to some normal college football
- 2:50podcasts, national stuff and listen.
- 2:53So I don't have any news and knows did anything.
- 2:57I mean, I'm watching. I got the Liberty Middle
- 2:59Tennessee State game on back here, which is 3535.
- 3:05It ain't even in the fourth quarter yet.
- 3:06So if you took the under on that screwed dunzo dunzo, I don't
- 3:12know what the line was. But yeah, I haven't seen
- 3:17anything news wise. Have y'all seen anything news
- 3:19wise this week? People killing Colorado for
- 3:23blowing a 29 point lead. Yeah, man.
- 3:27They murdering them, man. They killing them, they just
- 3:30kill. It's everywhere.
- 3:32You know, I mean, I so I think I got a problem with like some of
- 3:36the narrative though, like it's a it's a bad loss.
- 3:39I mean, you can, you can call it a bad loss, but I feel like
- 3:44everybody's very quick to pile on any adversity Colorado is
- 3:48getting. Oh yeah, and and I get that.
- 3:52You know, ESPN and a lot of other folks that are that are
- 3:56following this story closely kind of set them up for that.
- 3:59Yeah, because they're they're putting in front of everybody's
- 4:02faces all the time. Anytime you have a situation
- 4:05like that, there's going to be some blowback.
- 4:07But I I don't necessarily feel it's been fair at times.
- 4:13You know, I feel like there's a lot of lot of positives coming
- 4:17out of Colorado. I mean, I they probably haven't.
- 4:19They they're about one or two cycles away from getting the
- 4:22offensive line. They need to be truly
- 4:24competitive, but at the skill positions they're as competitive
- 4:28as it gets. Right.
- 4:29Well, see the problem that. I mean, that's totally right,
- 4:33because most teams, yeah, you hear about it, but Colorado's
- 4:36going to get a little bit more just because Dion and all of the
- 4:39stars that he's bringing to the game and stuff like that.
- 4:43So I understand it. But you know.
- 4:46The problem comes in on this game was that game was lost by a
- 4:51coaching staff 100%. You know, like you're going to.
- 4:56I mean that was the if you watched any of that game, if you
- 4:59watched, how would I unfold it? Because I was up at what was it
- 5:03like 130 watching it. And it was a it was a bad
- 5:09coaching, you know, outing, whether it be defensive coaches,
- 5:14head coach, whoever. You know, you had players
- 5:17disrespecting the coach on the sideline, coach prime.
- 5:21He was getting disrespected on the sideline by one of his DBS.
- 5:24And you know, Stanford one time just lined up and ran the same
- 5:28play like four times in a row. That's what Stanford did when
- 5:33Harbaugh was saying. It's like slant, slant, slant.
- 5:36It was just the same play. And Colorado just couldn't
- 5:40couldn't get out of their own way and partly because I mean I
- 5:43got to give a shout out to to Travis Hunter because the kid is
- 5:47a ball player but God dog man you got to give him a break.
- 5:50I mean he just was he just was he was gassed you know he's been
- 5:55out with that with that injury and then he comes back and he's
- 5:59he is grinding on offense you know had a great game on offense
- 6:03inside of the ball and doing what he can on defense.
- 6:05They got to get him some help but.
- 6:07Anyway, yeah, that I think that the main blowback is just
- 6:10because it was definitely on the coaching staff, you know, maybe
- 6:13not running the ball as much as they should being up 29 points
- 6:17and things like that. Yeah, it well, it's up.
- 6:19It's it's 29 nothing at half and and it is probably the worst
- 6:24team in the PAC 12. A-Team was one and four.
- 6:27They got blown the doors off by Oregon.
- 6:29The only team they beaten all year was Hawaii.
- 6:32They lost to Sacramento State, which is an FCS school.
- 6:36It's it's it's not sometimes who you lose to or it's it's how you
- 6:41lose to. Like if Stanford had caught them
- 6:43in their own game and it was 2827, OK, they play Stanford's
- 6:47game and they lost. But it was Colorado's game,
- 6:50right? It was high tempo shootout.
- 6:53We jumped on you early. That's the other reason.
- 6:56And I think what's also happened is the way we looked at the
- 7:00beginning of the season with the TCU game.
- 7:04I think what people are they, everybody put on that, well,
- 7:06they're going to do great. Dion, look at this, look at
- 7:09this. And like us who watched the
- 7:11sport a lot, like TCU ain't what they were last year.
- 7:14They lost a lot. Of people.
- 7:15They're not the same team and that's been proven after the
- 7:19Colorado lost. They've lost multiple games.
- 7:21Yes, they did. I think they took a dub last
- 7:23week, but it's like it's not the TCU that went 13 and O or 13 and
- 7:29one. It's probably going to be a
- 7:31seven and six and and there's those expectations.
- 7:34And again, sometimes I'm not going to say it's the only thing
- 7:38because Dion's not asking for it, is he?
- 7:40He's inviting people because he knows people.
- 7:43Oh yeah, Dion, Dion asking for it.
- 7:47Dion asking for it. Dion want the cameras, man.
- 7:50He want the shine which is. He needed to generate money.
- 7:54He's doing what he's supposed to do and.
- 7:56And some of this comes along with that, but.
- 7:58Some of it comes along with it, you know what I'm saying?
- 8:00Like. I think he's got the shoulders
- 8:02to handle it, man 'cause I. Mean he'll get it, he'll get.
- 8:05It I don't think he's worried about noise from one game here.
- 8:08One thing I will say though, I've seen a lot of people try to
- 8:11slander Shador Sanders and that kid is a baller, you know he he
- 8:17going to make mistakes as a as a football player.
- 8:19That kid is a baller, so. You know, yeah he threw that
- 8:22pick at the end. But again, I'm not going to sit
- 8:25here and try to slam there and for his play because he's he's,
- 8:28he's been, he's been the reason they won some games that they
- 8:33won. So the kid is leading the
- 8:35country in passing yards. The kid has 21 touchdowns and
- 8:38three picks. There ain't a team in the
- 8:41country that wouldn't tell you they want your quarterback doing
- 8:43that and putting it that way. Then the one ratio.
- 8:46Imagine if he had a decent offensive line.
- 8:48He ain't even got no line, it's true, but that's.
- 8:51He's got no running game. I think he's been sacked up at
- 8:54the top of the, you know of the country, think they've they've
- 8:58had the most or or top of having the most sacks.
- 9:02There's a lot of what's going on over there.
- 9:04So they are like they are. It's like.
- 9:06Them, we feel you. We feel your pain, man.
- 9:09We do feel the pain. You feel your pain with that bad
- 9:12offensive line, but say what you will four wins through seven
- 9:16games to where that team was last year.
- 9:18Oh yeah, he's already successful.
- 9:22It's a turn around now. He does have We were talking
- 9:26just the other day right after the game.
- 9:30He's got five games left and it don't get a it's he.
- 9:33He hits, He hits to meet Oregon State, Washington State.
- 9:37If you see a Utah, he's got five games.
- 9:40He needs two to get to a bowl or somebody said just get one
- 9:43because there's going to be some five and seven bowls teams.
- 9:46Everybody jump on on you. But there was that.
- 9:50I'm trying to think of what else was it over the weekend in the
- 9:56slate I'm trying. To I mean, the Colts starting
- 9:59quarterback is probably done for the season.
- 10:00So yeah, I seen that. That that sucks.
- 10:04That sucks. I definitely don't want you
- 10:06know, nobody to nobody to be hurt.
- 10:09But he's he's out. But you know what else it is bad
- 10:13and not taking away from his injury.
- 10:14He got hurt against my team and they still beat us.
- 10:19Priority gets the Titans we still lost.
- 10:21I just, I hate it because it wasn't like, you know, it wasn't
- 10:24even like a big, like, he's been hit big this year so far, but
- 10:27like, that wasn't even a big hit.
- 10:28He just came down awkward on that shoulder.
- 10:30You know that's how it all, that's how that's how it always.
- 10:32Happens, right? That's how it happens, all
- 10:34right. Can I make this point?
- 10:36Tell me y'all after we wrapped up Wake Forest, y'all turned it
- 10:39to UW Oregon and watch the end of that game Saturday.
- 10:42Holy, that that that gave me chill because that stadium, but
- 10:49it it reminded me of yesteryear. Like it made me think back to
- 10:542011 against Miami. When at the end of the game you
- 10:58couldn't hear yourself in lane. Like.
- 11:01But just watching the end of that game and the way everything
- 11:04took place, the going forward on 4th down the two plays and
- 11:07people like that's too much time.
- 11:09It's like, listen, you score when you can score, you don't be
- 11:12trying to hold back like we're going to try to run the clock
- 11:15out here. No, we get a touchdown.
- 11:17We go get a touchdown. Well, The thing is, is, you know
- 11:21even in that game, Oregon's coach, I mean, you going for it
- 11:26on 4th down, not kicking field goals early in the game come
- 11:31back to bite you. And I think sometimes these
- 11:33coaches just overthink it. You lose by three points, you
- 11:36say, well, field goals ain't going to win a game like this
- 11:38where a fucking a field goal could have win.
- 11:40I think he missed like 9 points or something.
- 11:44Something crazy. I'd have to go back and look,
- 11:45but. He's sometimes coaches just
- 11:49overthink stuff, man. It's like just do what got you
- 11:52here, do what? You just play football, you know
- 11:55what I'm saying? So I don't know, but that was a
- 11:58great game, too great game. It was an absolutely great game.
- 12:01I'm and I'm glad we put them away a few minutes early to
- 12:04catch the last five minutes of that game because it was well
- 12:06worth it. Because that's that is the one
- 12:08thing being a having your team and then knowing the sport so
- 12:13well. Like when they Greg, good
- 12:16evening, good evening. Because y'all know when they put
- 12:19us up at 3:30 and then they showed that game was going to be
- 12:22at three times. Like, damn it, I was hoping I
- 12:23was going to be at 7:30. Or I can just sit and watch this
- 12:26game. Like, now you got to put it at
- 12:283:30. Right, trying to hurt the.
- 12:31It worked out, though. We got we got to see the finale,
- 12:33we did get to see the finale and it was pretty awesome.
- 12:36But we also got to see this week a hokey win 3013 over to Wake
- 12:41Forest Demon Deacons. And yeah, even though we ain't
- 12:44got a game to preview we're going to do some fun stuff
- 12:46tonight. We always have as always detail
- 12:49the truth. Tuesday we going to talk about
- 12:52the good, the bad, what we didn't see coming, what we got
- 12:54to do better going forward. Y'all know how we do it
- 12:57second-half. If you were listening to this on
- 12:59a podcast, my suggestion stop at the second-half, pull up
- 13:03YouTube. We have 9 plays, 10 plays, 10
- 13:07plays, 10/10/10 plays, five offensive, one special team, 4
- 13:14defensive. We have good and we have bad.
- 13:19Just like the way we do it. We have some good plays, we have
- 13:22some bad plays talking about things we're doing good, what we
- 13:25want to see in the future. So if you are listening on a
- 13:28podcast, wait till you get home to finish second-half of the
- 13:31episode, go to YouTube so you can see the tape.
- 13:33The two guys around here, they know what they're talking about
- 13:35when they see guys doing things on the field and they going to
- 13:38break some of this stuff down, but let's talk about what went
- 13:41well, boys, and I'm going to just say this, Wake Forest
- 13:46basically told Virginia Tech early in that game.
- 13:48The way they were set up, you are not going to run the ball
- 13:52efficiently early. We don't think your
- 13:54quarterback's good enough to beat us in there.
- 13:56And guess what he did. Beat the ass in there.
- 13:59He leveled up in that passing game, They loaded the box.
- 14:03They put the safeties up. They paid dearly because Kyron
- 14:06drones went 20 for 29. And you know that's not a bad
- 14:10stat line. It's what the next piece is. 321
- 14:15yards over 11 / 11 per attempt, Two TD DS.
- 14:22He's still got 59 yards on the ground.
- 14:26What are y'all's thoughts on how he looked passing?
- 14:29Because again, Wake is not that elite defense speed like Florida
- 14:33State, But you know, they play sound.
- 14:35They play pretty aggressive. They're about a middle of the
- 14:38road defense and and he let them up.
- 14:40No picks. I seen him, the hooker, go play
- 14:45Wake and I was very excited because of his skill set and you
- 14:50know, us possibly being able to take that game.
- 14:53I can't remember. What year was it?
- 14:55It was COVID. It was a COVID year.
- 14:58That was a game, bro. That that game.
- 15:00Broke me. Well, you know at the beginning
- 15:02of this game, I tweeted. After that game, I was out.
- 15:06At the beginning, at the beginning of the that weight
- 15:10game, the game we just played, Nick Anderson comes up and makes
- 15:15a tackle. And I said if this motherfucker
- 15:17has a highlight real night tonight, I'm going to be pissed.
- 15:23I was like, I'm so tired of hearing his name because I
- 15:26remember he picked off him in three times in that game.
- 15:29So I'm like, hey, we ain't starting like this.
- 15:32But drones had no picks. Threw no pits no fumbles.
- 15:37You know we've been losing fumbles every week.
- 15:41We didn't lose. We didn't we didn't fumble the
- 15:43ball. Took care of the ball and he
- 15:46used a lot of different receivers you know we and and
- 15:50the crazy thing is is I'm always happy with a win especially a 30
- 15:55to 13 win. But we didn't even score as much
- 15:58as we could have. You know, we we, we.
- 16:02And you know, we wasn't clicking on all on all levels.
- 16:05So great win man and great job. But you just keep seeing them
- 16:11getting better and better. Him, you keep saying drones get
- 16:15better and better every. It's like he's getting more
- 16:17confidence. You know, even in that Florida
- 16:19State game, which you know, we all know what Florida State he
- 16:24is now and what we've seen, we've seen him take a step, you
- 16:28know, on the road. Team is down.
- 16:31Take that big run and like, OK, well let's see.
- 16:34We said it here last week. You know this white teams coming
- 16:37into town. This is a team that we can beat.
- 16:40We need to go out and we need to what, dominate from the
- 16:43beginning to the end. I feel like that's what we did.
- 16:47I mean we're going to talk about it a little bit later on here,
- 16:49but we took that game by the balls.
- 16:53So I'm just saying. So I was, I was excited.
- 16:57I was excited to see it, man. I was hyped.
- 17:00Yeah. And you know talking about
- 17:01drones play, I mean he leveled up and you're starting to see
- 17:07his confidence bleed over into other groups, especially on the
- 17:11offense. They're starting to play with
- 17:12more confidence. And I think that's going to be
- 17:14important in the long run, especially as we get into kind
- 17:18of this back half of the schedule that we're going to
- 17:19talk about here in a little bit. And you know there's, there's
- 17:22some opportunities here at this point.
- 17:24I mean, there there's really. I mean arguably any game left on
- 17:28the schedule is is a winnable game only one one game left on
- 17:31the schedule. I think as long as things go the
- 17:34way we think they will will we be favored to win or lose by any
- 17:39more than three points like. So we're essentially saying 4
- 17:42toss up games and and one that's probably less than seven spread
- 17:48right that that's probably what we're looking at.
- 17:50So we got a lot. We got an opportunity here to
- 17:54still. Reached the goal that we talked
- 17:57about at the beginning of the season and a lot of that has to
- 17:59do with drones play because he's levelled up.
- 18:02I feel like some of the some of what he's doing is even bleeding
- 18:05over into the defense. And as they're saying this, this
- 18:09guy can go out here and get some points for us.
- 18:11Let's get a stop. Let's give the ball back.
- 18:12Let's get the ball back. It's it's 100% true.
- 18:15And yeah, we we talk about the leveling up and I'm sure you all
- 18:19saw this out there and I'm going to mention it for those who have
- 18:21not seen it in the last 20 years.
- 18:24And 20 years is a lot of quarterbacks is a lot of games.
- 18:29Only two other players have went for 350, Jerrod Evans and Brian
- 18:34Randall. That's it.
- 18:36Tyrod didn't do it. Logan didn't do it.
- 18:39None of the other guys, not even him and did it.
- 18:41So I see that. And again, that's a different
- 18:43level. We know how Evans was back in
- 18:452016 and obviously we know how B Rand was in 2004 leading to the
- 18:49ACC Championship. But Tally, I'm going to go back
- 18:52to something you mentioned. He was finding every receiver.
- 18:55He found seven different receivers.
- 18:59So Holloway got a catch. Little big Gosnell got a catch.
- 19:03Felton got 3 catches. Daquan, right?
- 19:05We didn't pull this play. I know I wanted to, but I needed
- 19:09to pull one negative play that wheel route to Daquan, right?
- 19:15Like that was a thing of beauty. 30 plus yard gainer Toon caught
- 19:20some. Toon had the big gamer.
- 19:22It could have been uglier like you said.
- 19:24But let's talk about the two guys that really stood out on
- 19:28Saturday. Let's first of all, let's talk
- 19:30about Steven Gosnell tallies White Iverson out there the way
- 19:34he played. Iverson but we go look at his
- 19:38one of his plays early but six catches for 75 yards and it it
- 19:44seemed like every time there was a need of moving a stick or
- 19:47making a good play. You know what I've noticed about
- 19:49Gosnell, man, which I didn't, I knew he could run routes pretty
- 19:53good. His route tree looked pretty
- 19:56good, you know, going to the spring game, seeing him, I was
- 19:59like, you know, and even I think he put the lane in a blender in
- 20:04the in the spring game. So his route tree's pretty good,
- 20:07his feet are pretty good. But what I didn't know about him
- 20:10is his improvisation is Immaculate.
- 20:15He can't wait for drones to break the pocket.
- 20:19Seriously, if you go watch him, he cannot wait for a play to
- 20:24break down. He just goes and finds a zone
- 20:27and it's like everybody forgets about him and the camera don't
- 20:30even see him until the ball gets in the game.
- 20:32You know how sometimes you're like, oh, he's open, he.
- 20:34Lost the white guy. We're.
- 20:35The white guy girl, they keep losing him.
- 20:37They lose him until the ball gets in his hand.
- 20:39He will go find an open spot in that zone or between people when
- 20:44the play breaks down, when he gets out of the pocket, Man 12
- 20:47is is somewhere open, you know, and that's what you got to have,
- 20:53especially with a young quarterback.
- 20:55It's like that's his security blanket.
- 20:58A lot of times that should tidy in.
- 21:00But you know, Gosnell's been that, you know, it's been other
- 21:04games where he's been at 60 yards, 70 yards.
- 21:07He just, you know, he's not. He may get one, but he hadn't
- 21:12shown like a a big play where he's, you know, just beating
- 21:15anybody over the top or anything like that that I've seen.
- 21:18But he's just constant and steady and when we need
- 21:21something, when it's third and eight or I think it may have
- 21:25been like second and 17 something crazy, he gets a first
- 21:30down like he he he makes it to that stick and I'm just excited
- 21:35about what he's doing. I wish he had another year, but
- 21:40I think that a lot of these receivers are learning from him,
- 21:44what he's doing. You see people playing hard, go
- 21:47back to the Florida State game. Like I said, Aiden Green through
- 21:53that big block. Was it the Florida State with
- 21:56Aiden Green through the big block?
- 21:57Yeah, Yeah, it's like that. That's it.
- 22:00You're learning that in the in the wide receiver room, I'm.
- 22:03Going to give you some good news, Tally, go ahead.
- 22:05He does have a year of eligibility left because he is
- 22:08currently they he red shirted his first year so he is
- 22:12technically a red shirt junior right now.
- 22:15So he has one more year to come back.
- 22:18Well, I mean, shoot, thinking about that wide receiver room,
- 22:21don't want to go too far in the future.
- 22:22But next year that wide receiver room might get might be ugly,
- 22:27you know, think about if Jennings come back, Lankin's
- 22:31come back, Felton can come back, our nail can come back.
- 22:35Brody Adams is coming in chance. Wiggins is coming in it.
- 22:40Could get guilty. Man, I mean, if Aiden Green is
- 22:43there, you know, we can keep Tucker Holloway is there, man.
- 22:46It's a it's a lot of, it's a lot of potential out of that room.
- 22:49And then you get a quarterback that's doing what drones is
- 22:53doing, a dynamic quarterback that's making plays.
- 22:58Let's just talk about the weight game.
- 22:59All right. Hey, Siegler, Siegler, Siegler.
- 23:01Talk about the other man who been big on Saturday.
- 23:06Who's that? Jay Lane?
- 23:08Yeah, I mean, he had himself a day, 75 yard touchdown on that
- 23:15RPO thing of beauty. And also to answer after that
- 23:21kick return that kind of took a little wind out of the sails
- 23:24being able to answer right back, get the momentum right back.
- 23:27That was big and obviously we showed you the the opener there
- 23:31with with that little little wiggle in the screen game.
- 23:36I mean you know your boy likes likes the tunnel, the tunnel
- 23:39screen. So love to see the lineman
- 23:41getting out there and you know get getting some you know hats
- 23:45on some defenders out there and clearing the lane for for Jalen
- 23:49to take it to the house there. And you know, Tally talked about
- 23:53Gosnell kind of finishing the man off there in the end zone
- 23:55too, so. You know, there's a whole lot to
- 23:57like about what Jalen's bringing to the table right now.
- 24:01You know when when we were looking talking early this
- 24:03season, you know who's going to be kind of the breakout player
- 24:06in the wide receiver room? I was like it's going to be
- 24:08Jalen Lane. I thought Jennings was the most
- 24:10talented, but I thought Lane had the biggest potential to kind of
- 24:14really have a blow up season and have some some key moments
- 24:17throughout the season. And you know he's starting to
- 24:19step up in that role, especially with with Jennings out of the
- 24:22line up for the last few weeks. So yeah.
- 24:26You love. You love to see that and love
- 24:28seeing him having a big game like that against WAIT.
- 24:30You know what I love seeing though?
- 24:32And it and it shows how fast he is.
- 24:34That play showed he's got absolute burners, like because
- 24:39it was a guy there on him and he just hit that extra gear and it
- 24:43was just like, Nope, not even. And you can see homeboy just
- 24:46kind of. I'm not going to catch him,
- 24:49that's. Not going to happen.
- 24:49That's not going to happen. I'm going to, I'm going to stop
- 24:52running because I don't want to pull a hamstring because he's
- 24:54going to score a touchdown regardless of what happens with
- 24:56me. So I mean, so obviously on that
- 25:00side of the ball, it was great. I want to go to one thing before
- 25:05we go to defense, and that was the fake punt.
- 25:10I was fooled y'all. Yeah, I was shitting my pants.
- 25:13I thought we just snapped 1 to the next county.
- 25:16Yeah, I I was looking, I was looking at the at the.
- 25:18I mean, yeah, I was looking at the punter.
- 25:20I thought it went over his head. Like, oh, no, not again.
- 25:23Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, here we go.
- 25:25This is what this this is what we doing, You know, we don't
- 25:29give him the game. And then big, the next thing you
- 25:32know, they get like and then all of a sudden you see #17 running.
- 25:35At first they said Dylan Whitkey and then somebody, I think, I
- 25:39don't know if I was texting y'all or somewhere else.
- 25:40Someone was like Dylan Whitkey. Ain't that damn big?
- 25:44Dylan Wiki is not 250 pounds. Yeah, I think it was Brian that
- 25:48was like, Nah, he's got like £75 on Dylan Wiki.
- 25:53So it was it was it was Cole Nelson going out there and
- 25:57taking the snap. And I mean they executed it
- 26:00perfectly and tell you you said you would listen to the, you'd
- 26:04listen to some of the stuff that that play had been like they've
- 26:09been waiting for that play because the way the coaches and
- 26:11the way Steven and some of the guys talked about it, that that
- 26:15thing been practiced hard. And I think, I don't know, man,
- 26:18I got to go back and look or you know, pay attention a little bit
- 26:21harder. I think Cheetah talked about it
- 26:24a little bit. He said that everybody was
- 26:27fooled. He said, he said Prague got on
- 26:30the on the mic. It was like, you know, we better
- 26:33make sure we kick this or something.
- 26:34He said something to just try to make sure that everybody was
- 26:38thrown off. He didn't want no leaks, you
- 26:40know what I'm saying? He didn't want nobody to read in
- 26:42his mouth or nothing. So he, even the coaches said
- 26:46they were surprised and it worked, you know, it gave us the
- 26:49IT gave us the boost that we needed.
- 26:52It did. It was only it was only OK, pry,
- 26:56Holt. There were 13 people that knew
- 26:58that play was happening. Guys on the field and the two
- 27:01coaches. That was it.
- 27:03Nobody else of the 100 plus people knew ain't want to give
- 27:06away nothing. And Pry said he had to be talked
- 27:08into it, but I'm damn glad he was, because that ended up, I
- 27:11think, being being some of the juice that kind of got the
- 27:14offense going the rest of the game too, not just on that one
- 27:17play. Right, it's true.
- 27:19It's true and and again, it's. It's one of those things like
- 27:23and you guys did it because obviously y'all both played
- 27:26special teams in Y'all's careers.
- 27:29Why we keep practicing this coach ankle?
- 27:31Never use it. You keep practicing it because
- 27:34when it's at opportune time when that other team is sleeping
- 27:37right, we're going to do it right here.
- 27:39They ain't. They ain't expecting this at the
- 27:41plus 40. They might expected it to -40
- 27:44but they ain't expecting it to plus 40.
- 27:45But that was the thing with beauty.
- 27:47All right, let's flip over to the defensive side of the ball
- 27:50because that looked like some vinnish Virginia Tech on
- 27:52Saturday. Boys quarterback pressures out
- 27:56the wazoo 7 total sacks and APR. Antoine Powell Ryland with four
- 28:03of those the most. Since 1987, only one other
- 28:09player, JC Price, is the only other guy to have 4 sacks in the
- 28:12game for Virginia Tech. Now Brian, I'm going to ask
- 28:14this. We'll flip it to Brian first
- 28:16because he is our offensive lineman here.
- 28:20When you have to play somebody and you see them in a zone like
- 28:23that because he all day he got the four sacks, but he was
- 28:26constant all day just pushing and getting there.
- 28:29What's in your head? I mean, there are points where
- 28:34you just get absolutely shook. Because if if you, if you were
- 28:38getting work constantly like that, you know, we talk about
- 28:43offsides, we talk about seeing ghosts.
- 28:45We talk about the, you know, the quarterback in particular.
- 28:49The quarterback is going to have to start seeing ghosts as well,
- 28:54right? They, they start getting rid of
- 28:56the ball too quick, they start bailing on the pocket too quick.
- 28:58So, so many different things can happen when that comes into
- 29:01play. You know who else was seeing
- 29:03ghosts? The fucking riffs.
- 29:08Because one drive, I think they gave them like 40 yards.
- 29:11We commit a lot of penalties and we deserve some of them.
- 29:14But the face mask, that wasn't there because we touched them at
- 29:18the top of somebody's helmet, and I think it may have been a
- 29:21pass interference that wasn't really passing it.
- 29:23But anyway, the refs were shook too.
- 29:25I was shook. I'm like, there's no way we keep
- 29:27getting to this quarterback like this.
- 29:29How many tackles were lost? I mean, was it team?
- 29:32No 13. 1414 tackles for loss. Including the seven sacks, 4.
- 29:38That's crazy. Now tally you we we all were on
- 29:42him and and APR, I'm really glad 247 gave him one of the lower
- 29:48rated because I feel like like I feel like JC Price is a kind of
- 29:52coach. You would print some shit like
- 29:53that out and slap it in a locker for that motivation.
- 29:57Again, I think we talked to talked to Dwight a little bit.
- 29:59Shout out to Dwight, Victoria. I think we talked to Dwight a
- 30:02little bit about it and some other people.
- 30:04And hey, we talked to Matteo about it.
- 30:07You know what I'm saying? He he he did.
- 30:10I don't think you understand it. Yeah.
- 30:12But I'm like just why did they come up with some of these
- 30:15rankings? I don't know.
- 30:17You know, because anybody who popped the tape on, you know,
- 30:20out of high school, we know what he was.
- 30:21Then he goes to Florida and he produces why is that Florida?
- 30:25And then it's like, oh, he doesn't have a A rating till he
- 30:28commits to Virginia Tech. And I'm like, here we go again.
- 30:32Y'all are feeding my narrative. I already know what it is, you
- 30:35know? And then now he's freaking, you
- 30:39know, top five in sacks. Come on, man.
- 30:42But but it's at the beginning of the season, I think nobody
- 30:46thought we were going to be world beaters.
- 30:48But everybody kind of thought, OK, we got some stuff and that
- 30:52was one of the some stuff. Hey man, he he's one of the guys
- 30:55that may get us to to 10 sacks. He's one of the defensive ends
- 30:59that people are going to have to game plan for.
- 31:01This is things that we say. It ain't just saying us.
- 31:04I'm saying hokey nation like this is stuff that we talked
- 31:07about. But you mean to tell me, you
- 31:10guys sitting there at 247, give him what is 85?
- 31:15Well, I was just watching. Well, we all watched it.
- 31:17Not only the tape, we saw him in games last year against like
- 31:20Georgia, against Florida, against good teams like making
- 31:24plays and it was that rotational piece and he's no longer a
- 31:27rotational piece of Virginia Tech.
- 31:29No, I mean he he graded out. I mean, y'all.
- 31:32I mean, we have it here somewhere.
- 31:34I'll have to find it. His his PFF grades are insane
- 31:38and like and Greg, yeah, he was a beast.
- 31:43Yeah, he was an absolute beast on Saturday and I'm going to
- 31:46find that real quick. He was all over the place too.
- 31:48They were lining up a bunch of different spots, too.
- 31:50So taking advantage of his athletic.
- 31:52Yeah, I think he's been inside a couple times.
- 31:54It was just it was a good game plan, you know, it was
- 31:58something, it looked like we made adjustments and that's what
- 32:01you want to see as a fan. Like we're progressing, we're
- 32:04making adjustments. We're because I mean I said I
- 32:07was like you know Wake Forest. If you don't come in here and
- 32:10give us this game, they're a good coach team.
- 32:13They always are. And you know it.
- 32:15It was a hard fought game. You know the the the score was a
- 32:19little bit more outlandish than the actual game was because we
- 32:22were sitting on the edge of our seat most of the game.
- 32:24But it's like when you go back and you you know now that you
- 32:28know the outcome and you look at it or you look at the stats,
- 32:31it's like we dominated them. You know the the defensive game
- 32:35playing going into that game was on point.
- 32:38The offensive game plan was on point.
- 32:40Took us a while to get started. We'll talk about that but the
- 32:45you know it, it's just complimentary football was on
- 32:48was on point this week or last week.
- 32:51And and and I pulled it up here, he graded out total as an 86
- 32:56with a 73 pass rush grade. You start getting over like it's
- 33:0065, you start getting over 65 and into the seven.
- 33:03I think what Shell does tell us? That's when the guy's doing real
- 33:06good. Can I shout out one more else
- 33:07guy who actually toured up Saturday too?
- 33:09What about Deonta? Jenkins gets a sack.
- 33:13Three more tackles for loss, 12 total tackles, 4 lads and
- 33:17tackles. I mean they were bringing them
- 33:19and again, it's you're you're starting to see these pieces
- 33:22where he plays that star outside lineback position.
- 33:25He was coming in on blitz, he was back in coverages.
- 33:27He was man covering some people. He was coming down on run
- 33:31support. And you're starting to see,
- 33:33slowly but surely, the schemes coming together.
- 33:38They're starting to find the players that can play more, who
- 33:42need to play less. And and he's one that absolutely
- 33:46has stood out so much. What else?
- 33:50What else got y'all made y'all happy on Saturday from a
- 33:53dissensive side of all that went well?
- 33:570. Zero what?
- 33:59Explosive runs. Absolutely.
- 34:03Well, hell fucking. It wasn't no runs.
- 34:05What they had 30 yards, 30 yards rushing. 35 totally yards
- 34:10rushing and their longest was 12, which we're going to look at
- 34:13the longest run just so we can see what we did wrong, because
- 34:16we got to, we got to be truthful, 30.
- 34:18They averaged one, yeah. They averaged one.
- 34:22They averaged 1 yard to carry, right.
- 34:26I mean and that's what we talked about.
- 34:27We said they should not get any explosive runs because they
- 34:30don't have that type. And when you keep them and even
- 34:33you keep them underneath the 2025, it's like they weren't
- 34:37doing anything. And something else we mentioned
- 34:42also on a program about a big key was win a turnover battle.
- 34:46We didn't just win it. We dominated that turnover
- 34:48battle. I I know Derek Canteen should
- 34:53have probably had two interceptions tally.
- 34:56I know you listen to Coach Jones.
- 34:58What do you tell Coach Jones before he went out there and got
- 35:00the first? Yeah, I I didn't.
- 35:02I didn't. I don't remember.
- 35:03What did he say? He's like, Coach, I'm going to
- 35:05get you. I'm going to get you a ball,
- 35:07yeah. Out there and gets it.
- 35:09He's like, you know, it's always nice when they do that, but,
- 35:11like, but he played great and then the other pieces were the
- 35:19two forced fumbles. I mean, but it it's not, you
- 35:23know, there's forced fumbles where it's like it's in a muck
- 35:27pile and somebody gets the ball bumped out.
- 35:30They were forceful force fumbles, like it was like.
- 35:34I'm not saying they were trying to kill the quarterback, but
- 35:37they had bad intentions when they got to him.
- 35:39Both Lawson and Jenkins did, yeah.
- 35:43Yeah, and it's nice to see us get home, get the strip sack,
- 35:47recover it and, you know, get the ball back to the offense and
- 35:52make some plays. Yep.
- 35:54Yeah, definitely. If they've watched the defensive
- 35:57line. We talk about the people set.
- 36:00You know, we talk about APR and the sex.
- 36:02We talk about the the fumbles that that pocket was collapsing.
- 36:08Everybody was pushing the pocket.
- 36:10You know what I'm saying? It was nowhere to go.
- 36:13You know it There was nowhere for them to to to jump out and
- 36:17you know, get a 30 yard game as a as the quarterback.
- 36:21If we had that same style of of intensity when we played just
- 36:27say Rutgers, you know, who knows what happens.
- 36:30I know every game is different. But their quarterback killed us.
- 36:33He couldn't. He couldn't pass the ball, but
- 36:35he kept breaking runs on us. So put that last, put that last
- 36:39quote up. Brian, that last comment that
- 36:43Craig put up, because we definitely got to give McDonald
- 36:46a shout out. He came up big man. 3938, you
- 36:50still got some work to do? But 39?
- 36:54Hey, 39, he took a step, man. He took a step.
- 36:59He gave, he gave us some good stuff on that line, man.
- 37:01Like you said, not huge in the stat sheet, but he talking about
- 37:06collapse in the pocket. All of the boys in the middle,
- 37:10you know, McDonald, Parlor, Pennay, everybody who got in
- 37:14there was being disrupt, Fuga, everybody was being disrupted.
- 37:18It was good to see, man. It was good to see a game like
- 37:20that because going into the bye week there's just a little bit
- 37:24more confidence, a little bit more confidence.
- 37:27And the last half of this season, if you go in and play
- 37:31with confidence, especially in these home games, I mean, you
- 37:35know what I'm saying? We, we know Hokey Nation's got
- 37:37it. We know what they going to do.
- 37:39So I'm excited. It's going to be proud.
- 37:42One more piece of what went well before we get into the bad and
- 37:45we'll hit that for the first time all year.
- 37:48A team got in the red zone. And they didn't convert at least
- 37:51one of those possessions into a touchdown.
- 37:54Yes, we still are at the bottom of the barrel.
- 37:56They yes, we still have given up a score.
- 38:00But again, it's that progress that tally kind of always talks
- 38:02about. So they were, and they were
- 38:04close to 2nd down. They probably should.
- 38:06They were right on the doorstep inside the 10 and they didn't
- 38:09get there. They had to kick 2 field goals.
- 38:12And again, it's those small progressions.
- 38:17And I think something I'm going to say before we finish this off
- 38:20is it was not a good start the first four games.
- 38:25It wasn't what we're realists. But I think what we saw, we saw
- 38:29some of the stuff we saw last year, right?
- 38:32Some of the same stuff happened. And last year, it took eleven
- 38:36games to finally straighten it out, right?
- 38:40It only took four. It only took five this year,
- 38:42right? You're starting to see it.
- 38:45Instead of taking multiple games to fix things, it's taking a lot
- 38:49less, a lot less. You're seeing things done
- 38:52correctly, quicker. And I don't know if that's the
- 38:54players, the coaching style, I I can't say, but I but I can say
- 38:59things are getting flipped quicker than they did one season
- 39:02ago. All righty.
- 39:05So what went bad? You know, we ain't all sunshine
- 39:08and rainbows over here. We did Dark Clouds too.
- 39:11We we we only spit truth. And I'm going to say it straight
- 39:14up. And it's now the second straight
- 39:17game that happened. And it's really the probably the
- 39:204th in the last five. Yeah, slow starts.
- 39:25We can't. Defense did not have a slow
- 39:27start. Offensively, we started way too
- 39:30slow. Three and out.
- 39:32Three and out, Three and out. Yeah, can't do it.
- 39:36You can't do it. So yeah, slow start is not good.
- 39:40That's that's been the kind of the consistent thing.
- 39:42I mean, thankfully defense hung in there.
- 39:46They were able to make some plays, but we really couldn't
- 39:49get anything sustained kind of through most of that first
- 39:54quarter. When we finally did get it
- 39:56going, it got going. We were pretty much getting
- 39:58points almost every possession, whether it was field goals or
- 40:01touchdowns. But it just it took a while to
- 40:03kind of get there, right? Yep.
- 40:08And we and there's going to be again, Brian, you mentioned
- 40:10about the five winnable games left on the schedule, probably
- 40:13only one where we're probably more than a few point dog, if
- 40:17any dog. And that's going to be the thing
- 40:20like if we start slowing those games that could cost us the
- 40:23ball game. I think it cost for you.
- 40:26I think it cost the Rutgers game.
- 40:28I really do. I think if we get fast started
- 40:31and again we'll have a season long.
- 40:34Discussion in a few months here about what really should have
- 40:36happened in September. Stay on the program.
- 40:41You know, on that one, couple other things.
- 40:43Let's talk about the offensive line play was better.
- 40:50I've got to say Xavier Chaplin. I mean, I think it's almost
- 40:55clicked. He's just he's just young man
- 41:00you know like he's he's when you're playing the position he
- 41:04playing you're always going to go against the best defensive
- 41:07lineman like that most of the time happens Wake Forest people
- 41:13say you know some people say Oh well they're not a good team or
- 41:16they did. I mean Clemson scored seventeen
- 41:19points on them still Clemson 12 to 17.
- 41:22It was a close game. They're they're they're they're
- 41:27a Clint. I mean Florida.
- 41:29Oh, forgive me. They're a Wake Forest team.
- 41:32They're what I expect them to be most of the time.
- 41:35Hard nosed. Gritty.
- 41:37What? Who did we talk about shoot?
- 41:40Jay. Jay Sheen.
- 41:41I can't remember what number #30.
- 41:44If you, if you go watch him on tape like he is causing chaos.
- 41:49He is doing what he's supposed to do.
- 41:51So when you see Chaplin going against players like that or
- 41:55like last week and going against verse, I mean, man, he's only a
- 41:59sophomore who knows the Sky's the limit for the kid.
- 42:02He's got the size, it looks like, he's got the feet and like
- 42:05you said, it looks like it's starting to click.
- 42:07But a lot of that comes down to the attitude that the offense
- 42:12wants to have and. That was a team returning all
- 42:14four starters on that defensive line.
- 42:16Thank you Ian for that right there.
- 42:18But, but, but we start looking through the grades.
- 42:21I'm going to read them off real quick.
- 42:23Just so y'all know, Xavier 69.286 pass grade, Braylon Moore
- 42:3064.283 pass grade, 52 run grade kind of middle of the pack
- 42:36there. I keep moving down.
- 42:38Brody Meadows, 58 total grade with a 52 pass grade.
- 42:45And we keep coming to spot. K More also had a solid number
- 42:49being a center. Brian, tell me what you go to
- 42:52your verbiage about what a center is about their grades
- 42:56because Brian, Brian put a very good statement together as we
- 43:00were talking on the phone yesterday for a couple minutes
- 43:02I. Was just saying if you're if
- 43:03you're looking at run block grades, if your center is
- 43:07anything but like middle of the pack to low end of your
- 43:11starters. Then he's either elite or the
- 43:14rest of your offensive line is garbage.
- 43:16Because your center's at a disadvantage in a run block
- 43:19situation. 9 times out of 10 just because the snap has to
- 43:25happen, it's going to be. It's all going to be a little
- 43:27slower than what a guard would be or what or what a tackle
- 43:31would be. And you add to the fact that
- 43:34generally they are about. A foot to a foot and a half
- 43:39closer to the defensive line than the rest of the offensive
- 43:42line. The rest of the offensive line,
- 43:43they got a hat about splitting the the center's hip, right?
- 43:49It's just in front of their hip. So they're they're about a foot
- 43:52and a half closer to that. Those defenders too.
- 43:53So everything that they do is going to be a little bit more
- 43:56difficult and it's going to look a little more ugly in most
- 43:58cases. So if your centers out there
- 44:02putting up elite numbers, like I said, they're either elite or
- 44:04the OR the highest numbers on your team.
- 44:06They're either elite or the rest of the line is pretty garbage.
- 44:09All right, well, well, let's, let's talk about where the
- 44:12offensive line, where the struggles are.
- 44:13And I know these are PFF grades. Some people don't like them.
- 44:16Some people love them. Bob, they're really good for
- 44:18pass pass program. Pass Pro is pass pro.
- 44:22If if you see a bad pass pro grade, it's it's pretty true to
- 44:25life run grade because of the different calls, different
- 44:28responsibilities. You might see some fluctuation
- 44:31there as far as how accurate those are.
- 44:33But I mean, pass Pro is pass pro.
- 44:35Either you do it or you don't. Well, the right side of the line
- 44:38had two of the worst pass pro grades it might be in the
- 44:41country. Bob Chick was at an 8.4.
- 44:44Brody Meadows was at a 4.5. Brian, let me ask you a
- 44:46question. Let me ask you a question.
- 44:50Brian, you was coach before, right?
- 44:52You coach high school. Yep.
- 44:54So you used to coaching kids, you know, young men, all of
- 44:58them. You, you start getting in that
- 45:00age, young men you know, offensive line coach, you see
- 45:04what you've been seeing from 70 and 75 and the head coach, says
- 45:10Coach Siegler. I want you to go in and talk to
- 45:13him and I want you to give it to him.
- 45:14What are you going to go say to 70 and 75 about their play for
- 45:18this year? Well, I I don't need to say a
- 45:21whole lot because I will go ahead and and make the statement
- 45:24that I think we need to make and that is put them on the bench.
- 45:27That's the ultimate statement that I can make right now
- 45:30because at this point in the season.
- 45:34I've said my piece 456 times, so the only thing that's going to
- 45:40make a difference is making a change.
- 45:42And I mean, it's dicey and Brody get some more run because.
- 45:46A lot more run this week. You know you know between
- 45:48between Bob and and Braylon obviously being nicked up some
- 45:51he's he's getting a lot more run but I need to see somebody else
- 45:57at right tackle and and just to say.
- 46:01You know, somebody behind him is not able to step up.
- 46:05Parker may be the best we got at right tackle right now, right?
- 46:08He may be, but I want to see somebody else out there, at
- 46:12least for a little bit, yeah. Just to just to see if we can
- 46:16get somebody else in for for a series or so.
- 46:19Just so I feel better. Yeah, out of the talent doesn't
- 46:22let me feel better. Shit.
- 46:24Well, Johnny Garrett did come in for a couple here.
- 46:28He had two pass pro opportunities.
- 46:30He scored 68. That's only on two.
- 46:32I know that's not. Yeah, that that's a sample size.
- 46:34You can't really. Too small.
- 46:37But again, I I think, and we've been mentioning this last couple
- 46:40weeks and again we're not, you know, I don't, you know, they're
- 46:43kids, right? They are kids.
- 46:45And I say that to a point that Governor grown, Parker grown.
- 46:49He'd been in college a while. He got the ugly beard or
- 46:53whatever. It is what I'm saying.
- 46:56What? I'm saying is for.
- 46:57Us, we're we're we're fans and it's like we're critiquing and
- 47:01it's like it's they're not playing what?
- 47:03They're not showing improvement. And here's the issue.
- 47:06I think we have more than anything, the other four guys
- 47:10who are getting significant run, it's improvement.
- 47:14Every week they're doing something like Xavier's doing
- 47:17better. Brody's coming in on the fly and
- 47:18playing better. Does he have his lapses?
- 47:20Or we're going to see one in a little while where he screwed
- 47:22up? But you're seeing the other four
- 47:25guys take, it's not gigantic Leafs.
- 47:28I think Xavier Chaplin is borderline.
- 47:30It could be gigantic by the end of the season.
- 47:32But the everybody's taking good positive steps, getting better,
- 47:36playing better. They're not.
- 47:37And in some cases Chick is about where he was all season.
- 47:43Parker stepped back. So.
- 47:47There's two more pieces I want to hit here.
- 47:49The Fitz on the kick return with Keller and Lovett.
- 47:51We're going to actually look at that and kind of point it out.
- 47:54That was not a good fit by either one of those guys.
- 47:58They're young. That's OK, Coach.
- 48:01We got to improve. Third down.
- 48:03Y'all we were three for 13. We scored 30 points and we
- 48:06couldn't freaking convert 1/3 down to save our butt.
- 48:10I know Shelton says he's not the biggest fan.
- 48:13Of looking at third down, it's more of what you do on 1st and
- 48:152nd but when it's third down, 4 for 14 total because we went
- 48:20forward on the When you're 30% on 3rd down games like this
- 48:26where your defense forces some turnovers and you make some big
- 48:29plays. OK, it's not going to matter as
- 48:31much. It's in the 2424 games.
- 48:35It's in a tight games and I know I love Sheldon to death and his
- 48:39status and stats, but I sit here and it's like.
- 48:42Homie, if we keep getting the third down 13 times and we're
- 48:46converting 30% of those, we're not going to win that game
- 48:51unless we block a kick, force a turnover or hit one play
- 48:55touchdowns, they all don't happen every game.
- 49:00And I think what we need to kind of put together, I think this
- 49:02would be, you know, maybe maybe a metric we can look at.
- 49:05You know if we have some success on 1st and 2nd down and we get
- 49:09ourselves in 3rd and manageable 3rd and short.
- 49:13We need to look at how those conversions are happening.
- 49:16We know that percentage wise if we're putting ourselves in 3rd
- 49:20and long, we're probably going to struggle converting third
- 49:23downs. But what I want to see is us get
- 49:27into that like 80% completion rate when we're in 3rd and four
- 49:33or less. If we get to that point, then
- 49:37you feel like you know if we can stay on the field as long as we
- 49:40stay on schedule. And looking at drives and
- 49:44looking at at downs where we do stay on schedule, if, if we have
- 49:48drives where we were consistently staying on
- 49:50schedule, you know that plays well.
- 49:53Whether it limits the number of third downs you get because of
- 49:55your first and second down success or whether it puts you
- 49:58in those third and manageable situations where you're able to
- 50:01convert. The The more we can do that, the
- 50:03better, regardless of how we end up shaking out on the.
- 50:07The, the raw percentage, I think I want to, you know, it might be
- 50:10good to look more at a granular level and see, all right.
- 50:14So are these third and longs that we're missing on, are these
- 50:17third and shorts, You know what, What, what's going wrong on
- 50:22these specific plays? Is it execution, Is it a bad
- 50:25play call? You know, let's look at it under
- 50:28a little bit more of a microscope because, you know.
- 50:32To Shelton's point, sometimes looking at it big picture
- 50:35doesn't give you the whole story.
- 50:36But also 3 and 13 is kind of an ugly number to throw out there,
- 50:39right? And you get behind the sticks.
- 50:43Then you got to have trouble converting them.
- 50:45Third downs you got, you got to stop doing it.
- 50:48You got to start, you know, getting 3rd and short, you know,
- 50:52whatever. Make the play calls where you're
- 50:54getting 3rd and twos and 3rd and threes and you know, sometimes
- 50:57we can do the tush push instead of being at third and eight and
- 51:02stuff like that. Is finding Steven Gosnell for
- 51:05five yards on 2nd and nine. He's finding Felton for seven
- 51:09yards on like a little out to make it third and three.
- 51:12It's making those plays on 2nd down.
- 51:14Now this is where I'm kind of impressed.
- 51:17I I did some research here we are actually on the top half so
- 51:22we are better than 65th. We're 56 in the country and
- 51:25actual gaining first downs. Think about we when we've talked
- 51:29about it a couple times, we've had some struggles on 3rd downs.
- 51:33How much better that first down number would be.
- 51:36It would probably be getting into that territory where it's
- 51:39like they going to get them on first, they going to get them on
- 51:412nd and when they get them on 3rd, they going to get them
- 51:43there too. They going to keep getting the
- 51:44ball and keep moving it. So it'll be interesting there.
- 51:48All right, real quick. Tally, anything happened that
- 51:52you were not prepared for on Saturday?
- 51:55Well, I mean, I don't want to say not prepared for because I
- 51:58kind of know you know what he does but like drones, man, he
- 52:03just he is. He's got that moxie about
- 52:07himself man. Games kind of going back and
- 52:10forth. You getting a little bit of a
- 52:14running situation where they try to, you know, after the play,
- 52:17rip the ball and do all this and drones gets right in the face.
- 52:21You know, he's in the face, his offensive lineman jumping there,
- 52:24pulling back to protect him, and then you kind of start seeing
- 52:27the game swing. I didn't.
- 52:29I don't again, I want to say I didn't expect that because
- 52:31that's I do expect him to run the team.
- 52:35But when you have a quarterback that just got that little bit of
- 52:37a edge to him, I think that's why offense starts taking that
- 52:42edge and then that trickles to the defense.
- 52:45You start seeing people having fun.
- 52:47This team just has that edge. I talked about it.
- 52:50I talked about it from the first time I seen him play in that
- 52:53Purdue game. You know that one run where he,
- 52:56you know, is going out of bounds and he sees the, the cornerback
- 52:59and lowers that shoulder, You know, You know, just just just
- 53:03seeing that man and it's like every week he comes with
- 53:07something like that, he comes with that fire.
- 53:10He comes with a little bit of assholness to him, You know what
- 53:13I'm saying? And I like I don't.
- 53:16Have that. I really think the people who
- 53:19don't have that is the ones we see in struggle.
- 53:21I seen we'll we'll see it in the plays.
- 53:24You know, we seen Brody, you know, he misses a block that he
- 53:27should get, but he goes and lays on somebody.
- 53:31You know what I'm saying? Like, we go see that play, we go
- 53:34see that, hit somebody, hit somebody.
- 53:36I've seen 70 miss a block and start clapping.
- 53:38What the fuck are you? I'm sorry, Brian.
- 53:42What you thinking, man? Brian, what were you expecting
- 53:46on or not prepared for on Saturday?
- 53:48I was not prepared for our ability to answer one of those
- 53:54gut punch type plays. So seeing that kick return, I
- 53:59was like oh here we go, yeah, we done, we done lost the momentum.
- 54:05We might end up winning the game, but this is going to be
- 54:07another hell game for the next at this point.
- 54:10Was it fucking like 2530 minutes left in the game?
- 54:14Yeah, I think you texted. 25 minutes left in the game.
- 54:18Yeah. No, no, no.
- 54:18No, they they did this in the first half, so 36 minutes left.
- 54:2236 minutes, Yeah, 30. Yeah.
- 54:24Yeah 'cause they hold on, 'cause I got it here.
- 54:27It was exactly 302910 left when they scored that kick return.
- 54:32All right, all right. So my point is.
- 54:36That that's that's the type of play that last year in parts of
- 54:40early parts of this year would. Have fucked us up.
- 54:42Would have fucked us up to the point where it would at least
- 54:45been a hell game the rest of the way.
- 54:47It definitely, you know, could have turned ugly for us, but we
- 54:51responded immediately. I did not anticipate that type
- 54:54of response from the offense immediately gripping that
- 54:58momentum back and then never really letting it go the rest of
- 55:01the game all. Right.
- 55:05For me, I think it was just how the defense look because the
- 55:09defense took another gear on Saturday.
- 55:13Like I expected us to play good defensively.
- 55:15I did. I expected just just just so
- 55:22everybody knows it's Caron. This is the spelling of it.
- 55:29Thank you, Mr. Drones out there correcting everybody on that.
- 55:33But what I'll say is, is you saw you mentioned the edge of
- 55:38drones, right? And how I think that's passed
- 55:42along to the defense. I think you have a bunch of.
- 55:45I do think we have a bunch of dog defensive coaches.
- 55:48I do. I think Chris Moore, if you hear
- 55:50about him, yes, they kill us too, Sir.
- 55:57They kill us too, with the pronunciation sometimes, yeah,
- 56:00he said. It's pronounced like like Byron.
- 56:03All right. There we go, Everybody got that.
- 56:07That's your lesson in QV One's name.
- 56:10But you saw that edge come back and we, so long, for so many
- 56:15years, had that edge hitting people, forcing almost in some
- 56:19places, making people a little nervous to do things.
- 56:22You saw that at times, like another couple times when Kern,
- 56:26he was trying to get out and he was gonna throw and he was like,
- 56:28you could tell. He just didn't know what to do.
- 56:32He didn't know what to do and that's what I was surprised in.
- 56:35I think seeing that step makes me feel really good.
- 56:38All right. Yeah.
- 56:39And I think looking at that, I mean, you know, we had talked
- 56:42about when we were previewing like you know, we were expecting
- 56:46Griffiths. They don't really break the
- 56:47pocket on the edge. If they're running, they're
- 56:50usually kind of following the that running back on that slow
- 56:53mesh and things like that. And we didn't really see them
- 56:55kind of get in the groove with the slow mesh.
- 56:57Every time they tried that, we were in their grill.
- 57:00We were in their face. They were uncomfortable.
- 57:05That's, and that's what you want.
- 57:06And they got uncomfortable on both sides of the ball.
- 57:08All right, what can we do better moving forward?
- 57:11Obviously we got to avoid the slow Star Trek.
- 57:13Everybody agree with that? Oh yeah.
- 57:15How about this? And I don't want to say better
- 57:17moving forward, but keep finding his bag there sometimes is
- 57:22missing. But after that first quarter,
- 57:26and pretty much the rest of the game, Tyler Bowen was in his
- 57:28bag. Called him plays.
- 57:30He's gotten to a point. Now he doesn't.
- 57:32His script isn't always where it needs to be right off the bat.
- 57:35His adjustments have been pretty damn consistent all year,
- 57:40especially in the last probably four or five games.
- 57:44I'm telling you, it's Man, I don't know.
- 57:47I don't want to go too deep. I want to talk about this game.
- 57:51But it's like when you got a, I think everybody in the nation
- 57:56knows Drones is a gamer now, right?
- 57:58I think everybody knows that when he again, I go back to the
- 58:03play when they're, when they're screwing with him, the defense
- 58:06he he he gets about a 5 yard run and they're tugging the ball
- 58:10from him and pulling on him and stuff.
- 58:12And he gets up in the defensive face, getting the defensive
- 58:15lineman's face like first of all a quarterback in the defensive
- 58:19lineman face. A lot of times you don't see
- 58:20that. So once he do that it's like I
- 58:24feel like the offensive play caller started feeding off of it
- 58:27too. Oh OK you feeling you feeling
- 58:30it. That's not you do what you do
- 58:32like you noted that he going to bring that go ahead and let him
- 58:35do it. Let him be him from the
- 58:37beginning of the game. You know what I'm saying?
- 58:40Moving forward, like you said, Curtis, I don't I know we have
- 58:44script scripted plays that we have to go with.
- 58:46We're. Trying to get going, but when
- 58:48you got somebody like drones back there, you got to let him
- 58:52eat, man. Just let it like I think that
- 58:55call his. Number Call his number.
- 58:57Hey, what you saying? I don't know.
- 58:59I don't know the verbiage that they're using, but, you know,
- 59:01I've been in those huddles where it's like the coaches, like,
- 59:04what are you saying? We going, hey, we need, we need
- 59:07a spark. Tell me what we need to do.
- 59:09When we pop off break, I I think, I think, I think we going
- 59:12to have one of those. I really do.
- 59:15All right. We got to keep attacking
- 59:17negative plays and takeaways. That defense feeds off of it.
- 59:21We got a very good secondary. I think we've got to stay with
- 59:24them. Like I said, that's what
- 59:25surprised me. It was a different edge Saturday
- 59:28and everybody keeps saying we got to make a shirt because
- 59:33print probably loves to say it right Saturday.
- 59:37And we got to keep doing it forward because every game we
- 59:40have either one or right there in complimentary football.
- 59:46Takeaways, equal touchdowns. Bad plays get answered.
- 59:52So I think it's, I mean that's how you win, right?
- 59:59If the defense stops and you go score, or they force a turnover
- 1:00:02and you go score, that's how you going to win.
- 1:00:06Start stacking those. Start stacking those together.
- 1:00:09You're going to come out pretty good, most games, Yes Sir.
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- 1:01:47All righty. So we are going to get into
- 1:01:49watching some tape tonight. This is little know that self.
- 1:01:53This is a bow week. We don't have an enemy to
- 1:01:55preview. Quick note, we will be here
- 1:01:58Sunday night. Not Tuesday.
- 1:02:01It is a early game next week. Trying to get the content out
- 1:02:04early. Trying to get the breakdowns
- 1:02:06early. Plus Brian has all week to look
- 1:02:08at Syracuse all usually. Brian's got about a day and a
- 1:02:11half to look at this stuff. Tally's got about a day and a
- 1:02:14half to watch a convinced game. Florida State's fucked them.
- 1:02:19Up. That's the game I watched.
- 1:02:20Like I was focused on that game. And I mean, they doghouse them.
- 1:02:24Like I was kind of watching. Like, this is a measure state
- 1:02:26game for us. All right, man.
- 1:02:30We played them a lot tougher than they did, but let's get
- 1:02:32into some fun stuff here, all right?
- 1:02:34First play we got is the play we've been talking about.
- 1:02:37It is the 75 yard touchdown bomb happened in the same quarter.
- 1:02:41It's 410. That's right when they scored,
- 1:02:45right after they scored their kick return touchdown and
- 1:02:48Brian's going to let it play through.
- 1:02:49And then we're going to talk about a little bit.
- 1:02:58Don, don't right here. That's right.
- 1:03:00There, that, that. Extra gear.
- 1:03:01That extra gear. You hit the gear right there.
- 1:03:05Autumn. Linebacker's eyes was on one
- 1:03:09Don't let him run. Watch it that disco.
- 1:03:11Is coming again. It's coming again here.
- 1:03:13RPOI mean. Watch the Watch the safeties,
- 1:03:18both safeties pulling down. That's what you get when you got
- 1:03:25playmakers at positions. That's what you get when you got
- 1:03:28a game plan for a certain person.
- 1:03:32Watch both safeties. Yeah, they're right there.
- 1:03:34They're right inside each hashes.
- 1:03:37Watch it. All right.
- 1:03:40He's sticking that thing down, downhill, downhill.
- 1:03:46So that first safety is going to be a spill defender.
- 1:03:48He's he's going to be playing the run all the way, right?
- 1:03:51So, but that second one, they got sucked in late.
- 1:03:54That's what opened it up, man. That's what opened it up.
- 1:03:57Yeah, you got to open up now. He clapping like he in church
- 1:04:00got his hands up. Hallelujah, looking at the wrong
- 1:04:03man. It's just right, right there
- 1:04:05when he came up there, voided spot.
- 1:04:07Right there. That, that corner.
- 1:04:09Tried everything to get over there.
- 1:04:13What play called Great pass. Yeah, everything.
- 1:04:18Solid protection. Solid protection.
- 1:04:21You know what I'm saying? Everything worked out right.
- 1:04:25And this is this is a prototypical RPO, right Ryan?
- 1:04:30Yep. And.
- 1:04:33That's exactly how you want to draw it up.
- 1:04:34Like, that's exactly how the RPO can be an absolute dagger to a
- 1:04:39defense. And The thing is, what's more
- 1:04:43impressive about this RPO and and y'all tell me at this point
- 1:04:47in time, we weren't getting chunk plays in the run game.
- 1:04:49We were we were getting couple 2334.
- 1:04:54We didn't really start. We, we, we this is a game where
- 1:04:57you know identity wise. We wore them down on both sides
- 1:05:02of the ball because we wore them down offensively and then we
- 1:05:06started to be able to gash him in the run game, right?
- 1:05:09And we wore them down defensively and we started
- 1:05:11getting even more sacks, even more tackles for loss, even more
- 1:05:15strips like it. It it was a cumulative effect
- 1:05:19throughout the game. You know, from a statistical
- 1:05:22standpoint, we dominated cover to cover, but you saw that
- 1:05:27domination really come to fruition.
- 1:05:30At the end when they were just completely wore down on both
- 1:05:32sides of the ball. Very true.
- 1:05:34All right, so that's the bomb, the the perfect RPO.
- 1:05:37This is the system we expected to see.
- 1:05:40This is the system. Like Brian said, Tally, you
- 1:05:43mentioned these are the type plays that if you have
- 1:05:47playmakers like Jalen Lane and quarterbacks like Karen drones,
- 1:05:51that can be deadly no matter the defense you have.
- 1:05:56Because I think. There are a lot of defenses.
- 1:05:59You ain't going to control those safeties from avoiding those
- 1:06:01spots. All right, Second one here is I
- 1:06:05liked this play a it showed Kyron Kyron's running ability.
- 1:06:10Also Tally's boy Steven Gosnell. Let's run this one.
- 1:06:21Brian's efforting over there. Efforting.
- 1:06:24It's running, but it's not playing.
- 1:06:25Hang on, trying to make it hard on it, so I had to look at
- 1:06:29Hokeystone sometimes. Yeah, Speaking of that, what did
- 1:06:32you think about the hokey stone helmets we had at one time,
- 1:06:34Curtis? I've always liked the hokey
- 1:06:37stone helmets. I think we need to bring them.
- 1:06:39I think we need to bring them back for one game.
- 1:06:41For one game would be nice black.
- 1:06:43One game. I mean, I always want the 2010
- 1:06:49Woosley State jury back the black that was Fourth I.
- 1:06:54Like the Hokey stone, because I don't know, it's something to
- 1:06:59me. You could do the Okie stone.
- 1:07:02To me that would almost be games.
- 1:07:04Is it not coming up or is it finally coming up?
- 1:07:07Like easily incorporate that into either the like the the,
- 1:07:12the, the orange or the white out games.
- 1:07:16Like, to me, wouldn't it be cool to see that Gray with like an
- 1:07:19orange Vt? First of all, if they made a hat
- 1:07:21like that, you'd go by in about 2 seconds.
- 1:07:23Oh yeah, with a orange Vt Oh yeah.
- 1:07:26Oh yeah. I'll go get that.
- 1:07:28I'm going to get. I'm going to get just about
- 1:07:30anything orange, though. So they I mean, if they want me
- 1:07:33to spend money, they know what to show me all.
- 1:07:35Right, perfect. Perfect.
- 1:07:36This is the play right here. I mean, so I I'll let y'all talk
- 1:07:45about the concepts because you this one's a little bit
- 1:07:47different, all right? I ain't going to talk about a
- 1:07:48concept. I'm going to just talk about
- 1:07:49this play for a minute. All right.
- 1:07:51So again, you have a quarterback behind the line that's not very
- 1:07:56good. I think we had just got a
- 1:07:57penalty or something because we're at 2nd and 18.
- 1:08:01So they're they're they're blitzing.
- 1:08:03He breaks this pocket. Gosnell is out there just giddy
- 1:08:09because he knows that that quarterback's going to find him.
- 1:08:13I mean, when Drones breaks the pocket, he's looking down field,
- 1:08:17he can run the ball. But again, he's showing growth.
- 1:08:20He's showing. It pisses me off that, and I
- 1:08:24know that we're going to talk about this later on in one of
- 1:08:28our shows, but I just look at what he's done with the reps
- 1:08:32that he's had and in the games that he's played.
- 1:08:37What would be the record? You know what I'm saying?
- 1:08:40You got to go into what the record would be if we see.
- 1:08:45Come on. Two months in a couple bottles.
- 1:08:48What? This was the play.
- 1:08:49This was the play. You talked about this one.
- 1:08:51Yeah, that's it. Like that ain't easy for when
- 1:08:53when this when he shut shakes off this 230 pound linebacker or
- 1:08:59whoever's on his shoulder, that ain't easy to do.
- 1:09:02No. And I mean looking at it
- 1:09:04conceptually. So we got both slots are
- 1:09:06crossing they're kind of run running those deep crossers and
- 1:09:10then you got on the outside here just you got a little quick out
- 1:09:15from Gosnell and Gosnell just he finds his spot he he he gives
- 1:09:19him his quarterback a big target as he's escaping the pocket and
- 1:09:24then. You know, as impressive as that
- 1:09:26was by drones and then, you know, Gosnell being able to find
- 1:09:30that crease and give himself a big pocket.
- 1:09:32I like the run after here, yeah. Because he he he's going for the
- 1:09:36sticks. He get into the sticks, man.
- 1:09:39He he just smart. He's just a smart, yeah, just a
- 1:09:42smart football player. But it goes back to it's the
- 1:09:45broken plays in his passing, and it's goes back to having a guy
- 1:09:48like Gosnell, because if you watch Go Ahead play it Bron, the
- 1:09:52guy who's supposed to be covering Gosnell.
- 1:09:55Is right over there, right there.
- 1:09:58Those crossers. When when the pocket broke down
- 1:10:00those crossers ran him off. Gosnell just hooked up.
- 1:10:03Like I'm going to stay right here because I'm I'm I'm calling
- 1:10:07him drone security blanket because drones has it's now in
- 1:10:12his head because he said he called him KD in the interview.
- 1:10:16There you go, there you go. I like that.
- 1:10:18Yep, he called him KD. Because it's like, I know.
- 1:10:24If I get in trouble, you're going to go sit down in a spot
- 1:10:27somewhere that I can get you the ball.
- 1:10:29And that's what he does. He just stays on the sidelines,
- 1:10:33drones, gets out, you can see his eyes are downfield, and then
- 1:10:36all of a sudden he catches him out of corner and just fires it.
- 1:10:39There was no hesitation, right? And what he's good at what is
- 1:10:43what Drones has shown that he's good at is he's good at he's
- 1:10:46good at throwing the ball. I don't know what people tried
- 1:10:48to tell me earlier in the year but he's he's really good at
- 1:10:52throwing the ball on the run when they move the pocket when
- 1:10:55he breaks the and he he's doing that kind of off one leg throat
- 1:11:00he's pretty accurate throwing the ball that way.
- 1:11:02So we just got to let him, we got to let him eat, man, on the
- 1:11:06plays that that he's doing that, you know, we don't want the
- 1:11:09pressure to be the one to make him do it.
- 1:11:11But you know, it's great that he can do that and we got to use
- 1:11:14that to our advantage on plays. And that's why you want to roll
- 1:11:16the pocket probably a little bit more and kind of get him out on
- 1:11:18that edge and let him be able to do what he does best there.
- 1:11:22Right. It's also when you start doing
- 1:11:24that more and more, right? People are staying home and then
- 1:11:27you get that big run like Florida State, the big run like
- 1:11:30at Purdue where it's like we got to stay home.
- 1:11:32He can actually hit these paths and it's just like.
- 1:11:35Well, you just let this guy who can run a big old lane straight
- 1:11:38down the middle, all right? And.
- 1:11:39You're starting to get to the point where it's a pick your
- 1:11:41poison type thing. It is.
- 1:11:43It is all right. This is one of Brian's favorite
- 1:11:45plays and any offense, let him break it down here.
- 1:11:50Man, is it doing it again. Hang.
- 1:11:52On oh, is it? I had them all queued up and now
- 1:11:55I've got to like re add them here.
- 1:11:57So Oh my gosh this is a well this is this is going to be a
- 1:12:02Benji Gosnell play y'all second quarter, early part of the
- 1:12:05second quarter. This is helping set up the first
- 1:12:08touchdown tally. I'm sure you ran a number of
- 1:12:14these in your day, playing tight into just getting up, to just
- 1:12:18getting up the scene and flipping your head around.
- 1:12:20Yep. Concept.
- 1:12:24Too, we don't do this enough. And what I love here.
- 1:12:27So you know, we talked about going back to the ODU game, what
- 1:12:33ODU was kind of doing to us to open up some run lanes.
- 1:12:37We kind of did here to open up a passing lane up the scene.
- 1:12:40Look at this. Look at what we got at the
- 1:12:42bottom here. Way way out there.
- 1:12:45Way out there. Out right, right there on
- 1:12:47outside the numbers stacked. Get those guys outside the
- 1:12:51hashes. We got three guys outside the
- 1:12:53hashes here and that just opens that up right there man.
- 1:12:58But what you got to look at more is you in second and one.
- 1:13:02You know first of all on 1st down something good happened.
- 1:13:05So now you're in second and one. When you're in second and one
- 1:13:08you got options. You know, you can run ball, you
- 1:13:10can throw the ball because if you don't get something, you
- 1:13:14know, I don't want to say worst case scenario, but just say you,
- 1:13:17you throw incomplete pass or you know you lose a yard, you're in
- 1:13:213rd and two, you're still in 3rd and short.
- 1:13:23So it's the perfect time to be able to call something like that
- 1:13:26or to be able to, you know, have a play like that.
- 1:13:30But you got to be, you got to be successful on 1st downs, you
- 1:13:35know on those early downs you got to get ahead of the sticks
- 1:13:37and that is just that play is set up by the play before.
- 1:13:41So perfect, perfect play call. You know, it looked like Benji
- 1:13:48kind of got, got kind of got chipped a little bit.
- 1:13:50So it looked like he came out of his break kind of falling down a
- 1:13:52little bit. But good job by him to get his
- 1:13:54head flipped around because the ball is, as soon as his head
- 1:13:58flipped around, the ball is coming.
- 1:13:59If you can look at when when Drones releases this thing, you
- 1:14:02know he ain't giving the defense time to close in on that.
- 1:14:06One more thing. Pause it real quick.
- 1:14:08Ron Paul's right there. Look at the alignment.
- 1:14:12Was that? Was that Xavier Chaplin?
- 1:14:17Somebody, somebody is different up on top because that's not
- 1:14:20Parker on the top there. Oh, Chaplin's up there at the
- 1:14:24top, I believe. So that's a that's a very
- 1:14:27staggered no Parker's up there. Parker's up there, No.
- 1:14:31No, no, go look at now. Go back to it.
- 1:14:32Y'all going to see some. Just wait, see, go back just a
- 1:14:36hair. See.
- 1:14:38It's a pull right there. All right.
- 1:14:40Hang on, We wait right there. OK, that's probably unbalanced
- 1:14:43line. That's an unbalanced line.
- 1:14:45Yeah. So I think this was an RPO watch
- 1:14:48because if he comes down, he has it wide open.
- 1:14:52If that's covered, look at that, look at that if that's covered
- 1:14:56right there. Look at that run lane.
- 1:14:58Well, essentially, if they run with Benji, he's got a A lane to
- 1:15:02run up the middle. Yep, they didn't.
- 1:15:08They stayed. They stayed right there.
- 1:15:10They they sunk in. They already, as they've been
- 1:15:12doing all game, crashed one safety up in the box.
- 1:15:15So Yep, Yep, and we their game plan.
- 1:15:19Their game plan was to make drones, beat them with his arm,
- 1:15:22and he fucked them up by the. Way, by the way, that that play
- 1:15:28was set up by Drones Rusher 9, right?
- 1:15:31You know what I'm saying? So they seeing Ghost early in
- 1:15:34the game? Well, I say early it's second
- 1:15:36quarter, but you know we've been going three and out and we've
- 1:15:39been doing it. But somebody put that out.
- 1:15:41What? What Craig says, can we get
- 1:15:43Tebow credit yet? Yeah, we definitely can.
- 1:15:45But you know what? When we, when we see some bad
- 1:15:49stuff going on, we going to call that out.
- 1:15:52So when it's good we got to let them.
- 1:15:53We got to say, hey, you know, coaches is doing what they're
- 1:15:56supposed to do. And you know what's crazy too.
- 1:15:58I don't know what how this season's going in.
- 1:16:02Get me to a bowl game coaching staff.
- 1:16:04That's what we need to do. We got a a pretty decent
- 1:16:07recruiting class going. We need to hit the portal, blah,
- 1:16:09blah, blah, all of that stuff. But I'm interested to see what
- 1:16:14we do at quarterback coach. We ain't got a quarterback
- 1:16:17coach. We got a young quarterback with
- 1:16:22a offensive coordinator that's doubling as his quarterback
- 1:16:25coach as well. It's worked so far because
- 1:16:31that's why. Because that's why you.
- 1:16:32That's why you got the right quarterback in now.
- 1:16:35You know what I'm saying? Like at this point, I think me
- 1:16:37and Dwight was saying at the beginning of the season, at this
- 1:16:40point, you just got to get talent.
- 1:16:42You know what I'm saying? Yeah, coaching matters, but we
- 1:16:44just got to get some talent and that's what go ahead.
- 1:16:48We're also at a point in college football where you don't to
- 1:16:51Brian's point where he said he liked Tebow, there was.
- 1:16:54He's going to tell him what he wants to get done.
- 1:16:58Brian Chris is a quarterback coach.
- 1:16:59Brian Chris has been coaching quarterbacks for years.
- 1:17:02That's the guy who's working on the mechanics.
- 1:17:04But to what Brian Siegler said was the guy who's running this
- 1:17:08offense, who knows where he wants to ball to go, how he
- 1:17:11wants things done. That's in the head of Kyra or in
- 1:17:14or in drones right now. I'm I'm afraid I won't
- 1:17:16mispronounce it after. Drones, Curtis?
- 1:17:19Curtis shook. Yeah, you know I ain't drones
- 1:17:24dead. I don't like to screw up names
- 1:17:25too. I don't like defensive.
- 1:17:28Curtis screw up a name? Ain't no way, Ain't no way.
- 1:17:31But but you see, you see, you always said Brian you're OK with
- 1:17:36this. He's going to tell him how they
- 1:17:38want the offense train where the ball needs to go.
- 1:17:40What we want to do here, great. I'm fine with having an analyst
- 1:17:45work on his mechanics. It doesn't have to be the
- 1:17:47quarterback coach because if the quarterback coach knows what he
- 1:17:49wants to do and he can get it in drones head of how to execute.
- 1:17:53That's what matters. And every week, every week we
- 1:17:57see better and better. All right, this is another one.
- 1:17:59You know what else I like too? What I I mean again, pry is when
- 1:18:05I hate, I ain't going to say I hate.
- 1:18:06You know, sometimes when you hear coaches say, well, we want
- 1:18:09the right kind of kids in, you know what I'm saying?
- 1:18:12Like, sometimes when you hear that, it's like, what?
- 1:18:14What did that mean? Because I kind of want some
- 1:18:16kids. That's kind of fucked up, you
- 1:18:18know what I'm saying? I want some good kids, but I
- 1:18:20want some kids. That's kind of mean, too.
- 1:18:22But when you talk about getting the right kind of kids in, like
- 1:18:24Drone's his daddy as a football coach, he's coached him his
- 1:18:27whole life. So I'm sure.
- 1:18:29I mean, when he did his interview, he's talking about,
- 1:18:32you know, talking with his dad about the game and stuff like
- 1:18:35that. And I'm sure they look at film
- 1:18:37together. Like that kid has been doing
- 1:18:39this for a long time and he and, you know, just this was the
- 1:18:43perfect storm for him because he does have stuff outside of the
- 1:18:48staff that can help him. You know, he's got his family,
- 1:18:51is a big sports family. You know, he's got his
- 1:18:54quarterback coaches that he works out with in the offseason,
- 1:18:57things like that, man. It's just you can't coach some
- 1:19:01of the stuff that they're able to do.
- 1:19:03You know what I'm saying? You can't coach some of the
- 1:19:04stuff that he already has. So I'm just, I'm excited about
- 1:19:08what I'm seeing, man, and I got to get.
- 1:19:12Hey, listen, if I screw up a name, I will find a way to do
- 1:19:14it. QB One.
- 1:19:15How about that QB One? Let's do this here.
- 1:19:18This is, this is, this is the Will killer right here.
- 1:19:21This is the drive. We scored and make it 17.
- 1:19:25This is a big run for Malachi Thomas, who the last two weeks
- 1:19:27has looked so much better. I mean, yeah.
- 1:19:33Y'all liking what happened there.
- 1:19:36Well, what happened there? What happened there is that they
- 1:19:40they, I mean, they sent it in the broadcast.
- 1:19:41You see it here. They were running those
- 1:19:44defensive ends up the damn field.
- 1:19:45They were bringing safeties. They were bringing those, those
- 1:19:50nickelbacks, They were bringing corners off the edge hard, and
- 1:19:54we just ran underneath that there.
- 1:19:57Yeah, they was doing everything they could to make sure one
- 1:20:00didn't kill them. Their eyes are on #1.
- 1:20:03I'm just telling y'all, it's true.
- 1:20:06You got to think this kid ain't even played a lot of football.
- 1:20:09Nope. I love what the right side of
- 1:20:11the line did, though. They just.
- 1:20:13Just watching people right side let's side, let's side, let's
- 1:20:18side let's side of the line. Just watch people out of the
- 1:20:21way. So look at Chaplin getting two
- 1:20:24blocks there, rolled off the mic and then got up on the safety.
- 1:20:28Good. Hey, man, I like it.
- 1:20:30You got to have a little bit of attitude.
- 1:20:31This is the fourth quarter. We're up by 10 and I'm thinking,
- 1:20:35man, we're going to win this game 13 to 23.
- 1:20:37You know, we may drive a little bit and then we may pun and we
- 1:20:40may stop them. But no I.
- 1:20:43Yeah, I often wound to hit somebody.
- 1:20:46Our offense said no, we're going to score again.
- 1:20:50Oh man. All right, so there's some
- 1:20:53highlights from the offensive side of the ball the next three
- 1:20:56plays because y'all know we fair and balanced.
- 1:20:59We got to throw some Boo boos in there.
- 1:21:01We got to show some things that didn't go quite well.
- 1:21:05And the first one here, this is pretty early in the game was
- 1:21:08it's a, it's a, it's a it's a loss by Tuden and Brian.
- 1:21:12I'm going to let y'all go on this because this is some
- 1:21:13technical stuff that happened and this is the play that Tally
- 1:21:16talked about with Brody Meadows. Watch him.
- 1:21:20So there's the loss. But let's run it again.
- 1:21:23This is a combination of like 2 lineman getting blown up and
- 1:21:28another two lineman not doing what you're supposed to do, just
- 1:21:31looking like a cluster fuck if we're being.
- 1:21:33Honest. That's right.
- 1:21:35That's what it is. So I mean the right side gets
- 1:21:38blown up. They're doing the right thing.
- 1:21:41They just not winning. No.
- 1:21:43OK, then you go to the, you know, pretty decent job of Caden
- 1:21:48getting up to the second level there.
- 1:21:50Pretty decent job of Chaplin kind of walling off that
- 1:21:55defensive end that's trying to crash inside Brody.
- 1:21:59Completely whiffs. But bro, But Brody goes and and
- 1:22:02puts somebody on his ass after he completely whips.
- 1:22:05Man, if you going to fuck up, fuck up and hurt somebody, fuck
- 1:22:08up and hit somebody, you know what I'm saying?
- 1:22:11If if I wish we had a little sting.
- 1:22:12There's Brody right there. Yeah, play it one more time so
- 1:22:16everybody can see because he gets beat that that D tackle,
- 1:22:18swim, move to his butt and watch him, him and he finds somebody
- 1:22:22right in here and just like, I'm going to shove you down if
- 1:22:25nothing. Else, the entire defensive line
- 1:22:27played a game I like to call. Let's meet at the running back
- 1:22:29three yards in the backfield. Yeah, and right where you got it
- 1:22:34stopped right there. That is not a good spot that you
- 1:22:38want to be. You do never want to see your
- 1:22:40right tackle in that position that #70 is in right now.
- 1:22:44He's on his ass in the backfield getting pushed down into other
- 1:22:48guys. Yeah, so getting thrown on your
- 1:22:52ass is one thing. Getting put on your back as an
- 1:22:54offensive lineman is not a good look in a run in a run play
- 1:22:58call. Pass play.
- 1:22:59You might see it right. You're on your heels a little
- 1:23:02bit. You got to get a punch.
- 1:23:03They're coming at you full speed.
- 1:23:05You're supposed to be going forward here.
- 1:23:07Ain't no way you're supposed to be on your.
- 1:23:08Back on your back, you're leaning up against #30 like you,
- 1:23:13Forrest Gump and Bubba sitting out there trying to in war.
- 1:23:18Y'all leaning, leaning on each other.
- 1:23:20Get your big ass up and go hit somebody.
- 1:23:22All righty. So there is one of the native
- 1:23:25and y'all can see what happened. But it's also that thing of
- 1:23:28getting blown up. But to the point of these two
- 1:23:30guys, and I think it's why the younger guys are doing so much
- 1:23:33better, is they're playing fast and not thinking this hit
- 1:23:36somebody. OK, I got beat.
- 1:23:37Well, screw it. What if Tooten breaks that guy's
- 1:23:39tackle? If I can get up here and go blow
- 1:23:41somebody up, right? Confidence, man.
- 1:23:45You got the quarterback back that fight and then cussing out
- 1:23:49defensive lineman. You know you got your running
- 1:23:51back breaking 10 tackles in the backfield.
- 1:23:54Sooner or later the offensive line got to say fuck man, we got
- 1:23:56to do something too. So yeah, they getting a little
- 1:23:59bit nasty too. All righty, y'all know what this
- 1:24:02play is because y'all can see what it is.
- 1:24:03It's a kick return. Y'all know what's about to
- 1:24:05happen. Fuck that kick.
- 1:24:07Damon Claiborne. We talked about him, Virginia.
- 1:24:10Kid. He should have been a tech.
- 1:24:14Could have but. Yeah.
- 1:24:20This is one, I mean you kind of end up with love it kind of on
- 1:24:27the island here because you got a little bit out of your gap.
- 1:24:30You you want to like, pause it Probably.
- 1:24:36Maybe when he's about at the 1015.
- 1:24:41All right. So you don't want to see this
- 1:24:44right here? Down here at the bottom, you got
- 1:24:47three guys. Way too damn close.
- 1:24:51All the way. Pushed outside.
- 1:24:54And So what happens here is now you got your, your kind of
- 1:24:59safety valve here is now on the island because he's going to run
- 1:25:03right through that hole and he's got a two way read.
- 1:25:08He can go either way. So, so you got your your, your
- 1:25:12last line of defense there in a bad spot and he's got a blocker
- 1:25:15that's coming up on him. Now don't look away Thomas.
- 1:25:24You'll need to look at this stuff because what you can see
- 1:25:27is Lovett got put in a bad position and it was a couple
- 1:25:30other guys that effectively they blocked it up good because we
- 1:25:34were y'all are telling me three of the guys got in the wrong
- 1:25:38spots. You got 3.
- 1:25:40You got three in the gazzles, too.
- 1:25:41Those three guys at the bottom are way too close to that
- 1:25:44sideline. They're way too close together,
- 1:25:46like you don't. Right.
- 1:25:48There. Yeah, that's it.
- 1:25:49There's no good way. Out there, this guy has to be
- 1:25:51closer to the hash, needs to be at least probably 2-3 feet,
- 1:25:57maybe 4 feet closer to that hash, and he gets he was already
- 1:26:03too far to the left and then gets washed.
- 1:26:05Yeah, absolutely washed by the blocker.
- 1:26:09They did a good. They did a good job putting a
- 1:26:10hat on, a hat like. Yeah, I mean, it's blocked very
- 1:26:13well. I mean, this is about as good as
- 1:26:14you can block on a on a kick return.
- 1:26:16So because even if he's there with what happened, he was still
- 1:26:19going to get a chance to get Lovett.
- 1:26:21Lovett had to make a choice. Yeah, but what you want to do is
- 1:26:25you want to have that hole where that blockers coming through,
- 1:26:28you want to have that squeeze nice and tight so Lovett can
- 1:26:33make a decision to get up in there a little bit quicker to
- 1:26:37squeeze that. A little bit more, but he can't
- 1:26:40do that because it's such a a big area.
- 1:26:42He's got to play back and kind of see what decision the return
- 1:26:46guy's going to make and then that allows the blocker to get
- 1:26:50up in his in his in his grill there and makes makes that
- 1:26:53decision even harder now he goes down should the should the
- 1:26:58correct choice in this not go inside you sideline leverage and
- 1:27:03and go top I'm I'm pointing at the screen like y'all can see.
- 1:27:07I mean he's he's he's trying to bend it back.
- 1:27:09I mean he he thinks he has helped by the the the last line
- 1:27:13on the other side plus the the kicker.
- 1:27:16So if he's been in the back inside there should be more help
- 1:27:19there. So I don't mind him taking kind
- 1:27:21of an outside leverage on that block.
- 1:27:24Yeah, he's just trying to turn the playback inside, you know,
- 1:27:28And the only thing that you can, I guess, kind of do in that
- 1:27:32situation. Is blow that blocker up and try
- 1:27:35to blow him back. But I mean in the position he's
- 1:27:39in, he's kind of flat footed in that blocker's got a head of
- 1:27:42steam, so you know he wants to keep one of his arms free.
- 1:27:45He chose to keep his outside arm free and the returner just did a
- 1:27:48good job of following that block going inside and you know that's
- 1:27:53that's and then get. Vertical because he got vertical
- 1:27:55fast enough to get past the kicker.
- 1:27:57Yeah. All right, all right.
- 1:28:00There's another one of the bad again.
- 1:28:02We ain't perfect. Well, let's ask a question.
- 1:28:04Ain't we usually been kicking the ball out of the back of the
- 1:28:06end zone? What happened?
- 1:28:08Yeah, I don't know. Lowe's been kicking it a ton out
- 1:28:12the back. Of the So I I know there was
- 1:28:13some wind that impacted parts of the game.
- 1:28:17I don't know if we were kicking into the wind at this point.
- 1:28:22I know in the second-half and in every subsequent quick kick
- 1:28:26after this, I think we had one more he took, he put, he put
- 1:28:29deep, then we had one that got kicked out of bounds on what
- 1:28:33looked like an attempted pooch. Then we had another pooch later
- 1:28:39after they got that that last field goal.
- 1:28:41So the I think that the win was definitely a a factor there and
- 1:28:46I think if we weren't kicking into the win.
- 1:28:49After that return, we just decided to kind of pooch it and
- 1:28:51see and just you know, cut our losses, give them 2530 yards of
- 1:28:56field position and you know. Yeah, he did.
- 1:28:58He did. I think, like Craig said, he did
- 1:29:00do something to his shoulder, too.
- 1:29:02Yeah, I think it was on that play right there where he did
- 1:29:04something. So later on he was kind of
- 1:29:06affected by that because I think Pride talked about that in his
- 1:29:09post game. He did.
- 1:29:11All right, let's go now. We're going to go to defense.
- 1:29:14We're going to have one play because this was their best run
- 1:29:17all day and I had to pull it out.
- 1:29:19I know, Tally, You're getting tired, man.
- 1:29:21We didn't want. All you all good about all the
- 1:29:23good stuff. I'm just old, not as old as me.
- 1:29:27That's true, wake. Up, he said.
- 1:29:30That's true. So this right here was their
- 1:29:33best run and this was the early part of the fourth quarter.
- 1:29:37I believe at this point in time, we're going to be up 10 points.
- 1:29:39So they need to do something to get it up here, Brian.
- 1:29:44I'm looking for it. Hang on Ellison, Good run.
- 1:29:51Fourth quarter 1444 approximately is the time of the
- 1:29:56play all. Right.
- 1:29:58Let's see here, Dana. I mean, you try to remember it
- 1:30:04all, but as I was joking with y'all on Saturday night, my wife
- 1:30:08went out. So I had three kids trying to
- 1:30:10feed dinner. Watch a game, watch the other
- 1:30:11games, text with y'all, text with a couple chats.
- 1:30:18I don't remember this play exactly, so that's why I wanted
- 1:30:21it. Pulled A to look at it like what
- 1:30:22happened? Why did the play that happened
- 1:30:24this late in the game You good now, Bron?
- 1:30:26Nope. That was that was not running.
- 1:30:32That one's not running. All righty.
- 1:30:33That one we don't have. We were trying to get it in
- 1:30:36here. All right, well, let's go to.
- 1:30:38Not a good run for them. Do we have that one from the?
- 1:30:402nd we do have that one. We do have a big loss and this
- 1:30:44is sort of the how we're capping it here is these plays where
- 1:30:49third and one. I mean they were running at what
- 1:30:53is it T, triple T format. They'd already got a first down
- 1:30:57running it earlier. I mean, who is that McDonald,
- 1:31:03That's. McDonald.
- 1:31:04I mentioned them earlier. That's McDonald.
- 1:31:09And let's be honest here. Let's, you know, we'll be
- 1:31:11honest. This is.
- 1:31:12This is a good play because of. A individual effort, but look,
- 1:31:16if he doesn't make that play, what's there?
- 1:31:21He might run for a while. So that's that's a great
- 1:31:26individual effort that at least stopped the first down might
- 1:31:30have stopped the touchdown. Right.
- 1:31:32I think Jones is in pretty good position where he can probably
- 1:31:36make a play on that, but it's it's still a lot of room to
- 1:31:39cover. Right.
- 1:31:42And he's got A and he's got a free blocker coming out there to
- 1:31:45get on him. Yep, now Jones, You know, Jones,
- 1:31:49to his credit, does a good job here keeping that outside arm
- 1:31:53free and attacking the blocker and kind of limiting what could
- 1:31:55have potentially been there. But like we said, if McDonald
- 1:31:58doesn't make that play, that's at least a first down and and
- 1:32:02could be running for a bit. So very good individual effort
- 1:32:05to make that play. Get off the block, get in the
- 1:32:08backfield, make a short tackle. He just got skinny, got between
- 1:32:11them, you know, got in, got in a hole and when he got the ball,
- 1:32:19well, I'm kind of glad I pulled this play.
- 1:32:20Because it gives you a little good and a little bad.
- 1:32:23I mean not necessarily bad that we weren't, you know kind of
- 1:32:30sound there, but it was just it was blocked.
- 1:32:33Well, other than McDonald, I mean the.
- 1:32:37Good job by the right side of the offensive line of kind of
- 1:32:40collapsing the ends there. But you know, McDonald was able
- 1:32:45to shed that, shed that attempted block, get skinny and
- 1:32:49get in the backfield there. You see Kelly, you see Kelly
- 1:32:52Lawson back there, But Kelly Lawson's always on the he's
- 1:32:55always on the other side. So it's pretty much nobody was
- 1:32:58really trying to block him. It was just crossing his face to
- 1:33:03slow him up. So again, you know just where
- 1:33:06they were wanting to run that ball.
- 1:33:08They wanted to attack. You know that that hole there
- 1:33:11and McDonald did a good job to get that stopped.
- 1:33:14All righty. But again he's coming.
- 1:33:17That was backside pursued by him.
- 1:33:18McDonald lead slowed him. There is also you make a point
- 1:33:22where Brian he got skinny, he made the play.
- 1:33:24I think even if he doesn't make the play, I think he slows him
- 1:33:27down enough where Lawson backside probably.
- 1:33:29Right. Cleans it before he gets up
- 1:33:31field, but still it's again, there's still things to be
- 1:33:34worked on. That's a good play.
- 1:33:36That also shows the Steph McDonald took.
- 1:33:39The next two plays are the sax, y'all the strip sax, and I'm
- 1:33:43going to let Brian pull them up. The first one is the second
- 1:33:46quarter one. This is the Lawson one, I
- 1:33:48believe. Just the Lawson one Real.
- 1:33:52Quick, get it pulled up now you good trying to get it up here.
- 1:33:58I love doing this stuff, but y'all like, Oh yeah, I mean, he
- 1:34:04just man him. He ragged all him as he's
- 1:34:08pulling the ball out of his hands, like he ragged all him
- 1:34:12like from his elbow up. And let me, and let me tell you
- 1:34:19what's going on here for you guys who haven't played
- 1:34:21football. 21 comes on a blitz. He fucks up the quarterback.
- 1:34:28He talking shit while he did it because that look at the running
- 1:34:31back, he ain't even looking for the ball.
- 1:34:33He is trying to get some get back because Lawson probably got
- 1:34:37to the quarterback and said fuck you bitch or something like
- 1:34:40that. So the running back is got
- 1:34:41trying to protect his quarterback.
- 1:34:42Little D know the fucking ball is on the ground.
- 1:34:45So now we're jumping on that while he's fighting with Lawson?
- 1:34:48Dumb ass. Yeah, he got, he got his ass 8
- 1:34:50and then then he doing a little extracurricular there.
- 1:34:54Oh, pause. He got his ass 8.
- 1:34:58Brian, calm down. Now you know you know.
- 1:35:01You got to throw it up in there or something.
- 1:35:03You got to say, look, I say that, there you go, I mean.
- 1:35:08This is like Curtis putting, putting the, you know, the nuts
- 1:35:10on the chin. Oh yeah, we we got a little
- 1:35:14snafus here. It happens from time to time.
- 1:35:16More people heard that. I got more text about that.
- 1:35:18But look at the penetration. It's, it's, it's it's Who's
- 1:35:23that? And it's Nelson there.
- 1:35:25The line you can see the like, the inside.
- 1:35:27They are trying everything they can.
- 1:35:29I mean, Alt, who was that? Fuga just pushed the center back
- 1:35:32like 4 yards. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:35:35He couldn't, he couldn't step up.
- 1:35:36So I mean that. I mean, you got pressure coming
- 1:35:38off the edge on both sides, but he couldn't really step up into
- 1:35:41anything here because they coming boom.
- 1:35:47And then yeah, I mean, I mean. He's there pretty quick.
- 1:35:50But also look at the, look at the wide receivers up top,
- 1:35:52running routes. Nobody's whatever they're trying
- 1:35:55to run. That shit ain't working.
- 1:35:57No, you know what I'm saying? Like the the, the, the back end
- 1:36:01has been solid all year, you know, sometimes.
- 1:36:06And we're putting and we're putting them on.
- 1:36:08We're putting them on islands, Yeah.
- 1:36:09And it makes a point here. And I'm sure, Brian, you'll be
- 1:36:12talking about it next week about do we run more man against
- 1:36:16Syracuse to help the run defense potentially, I think, yeah.
- 1:36:21It's kind of a, you know, it's one of those things with a team
- 1:36:24like Syracuse where they got a quarterback that can really use
- 1:36:28his legs very well. You might see a little less of
- 1:36:32that. You're you're probably going to
- 1:36:33want at least one person with their eyes in that backfield a
- 1:36:35little bit more. But I think if we can get out
- 1:36:40and get a lead that's that's when you can start seeing some
- 1:36:43more man worked in there. Because they're going to have to
- 1:36:46be throwing the ball 1st and kind of looking downfield.
- 1:36:49So we'll see. I think it's a different type of
- 1:36:52matchup. I mean, even though Griffiths
- 1:36:55and Kern, they have some decent wiggle, like like I was saying
- 1:37:00when we previewed them, that kind of works more in that slow
- 1:37:03match where they're kind of following the running back or
- 1:37:06letting the defense flow with the running back and then kind
- 1:37:10of find increases on the backside.
- 1:37:12They are not a. Type of athletic quarterback
- 1:37:16that really kind of steps up and and and beats you vertically or
- 1:37:19beats you off the edge like the type of quarterback we'll see
- 1:37:23with with Schrader and and Syracuse.
- 1:37:25So a little bit of a different mix mix, but I I think we can
- 1:37:29still see a little bit more man than we've seen historically
- 1:37:33this season. So far.
- 1:37:36All righty. So there that is.
- 1:37:37And then finally the strip sack by Jenkins here.
- 1:37:40This is late in the fourth. We're up 10.
- 1:37:44I mean they just sprayed. I think they did.
- 1:37:45They bring double edged pressure here.
- 1:37:49No, just the one, just one. They they they showed.
- 1:37:52They showed like we're going to bring two off the same same side
- 1:37:55and then drop one. He's right there.
- 1:38:01I mean, he just, he just took the running back with him.
- 1:38:05Yep. Yeah, I mean, he comes over.
- 1:38:09Their running back should not do a very good job of blocking.
- 1:38:13Neither of them. Ellison didn't do great, but
- 1:38:18again, I think we're going to go here and just look again.
- 1:38:20Where, where? Look at the line in general.
- 1:38:22It's pushing, pushing back. We think both of the strip sacks
- 1:38:27were from a running back not getting a good block on the
- 1:38:29blitzer. Good time blitz, man.
- 1:38:33You know, we had some good blitzes and yeah, well, you got
- 1:38:37a defensive lineman, a defensive end that gets 4th. 4 sacks at
- 1:38:41one game. Yeah, you start seeing some
- 1:38:44fucking ghosts. Yes, you do.
- 1:38:47And I think it's if you look, I've got here.
- 1:38:50And this is what happens when you don't get a hand.
- 1:38:54I mean, you feel like you got a little triangle over here and
- 1:38:57nobody puts a single fucking hand on.
- 1:39:02He took off till he flew. He shot out.
- 1:39:06Nobody gets anything on him. The running backs has a hard
- 1:39:09time because, I mean it's a it's a pretty quick move.
- 1:39:12He's got to go across the formation.
- 1:39:14He takes a bad angle. He's a he's a little too shallow
- 1:39:20here. As soon as he crossed the
- 1:39:25quarterback face, he should have started getting vertical, but he
- 1:39:28did not. He he was a little slow getting
- 1:39:30vertical. All righty.
- 1:39:34So there is some film review from the Wake Forest game.
- 1:39:39Some people say we need to do stuff from the beginning to
- 1:39:42where we are now. And I'm like that takes a lot of
- 1:39:44time. You got four people with full
- 1:39:46time jobs. We can't do that.
- 1:39:49Maybe it's end of the season, maybe it will will bring Robbie
- 1:39:51and actually might be some we give Robbie do when he takes his
- 1:39:53break. Brian.
- 1:39:55There we go, Robbie, go through and look at the plays we got.
- 1:39:58We all get in here one night and talk it up.
- 1:39:59All right, so. There that is.
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- 1:40:43We got a six pack of games here and we're going to start in the
- 1:40:46ACC. The big one this week, tough.
- 1:40:49Say this Duke and Florida State, that is my big string.
- 1:40:52It's going to be 730. I believe that game is in
- 1:40:55Tallahassee. Bring it up, Brian Spread is 14,
- 1:41:03FSU laying 14. The way it's looking, Riley
- 1:41:07Leonard will probably be back for Duke.
- 1:41:09He was a game time decision against NC State.
- 1:41:12He did not play. I expect him back and with a 14
- 1:41:17point line, The way how solid Duke is on defense, how they can
- 1:41:20play offense, I think 14 is just too big a number.
- 1:41:24I do think FSU wins this game, something like 3121, but 14 is
- 1:41:31just way too good of a number as as well coached as Duke is and
- 1:41:35as much as Riley Leonard means them and potentially coming back
- 1:41:38this week, tally who you got on this one.
- 1:41:41I'm taking Duke too. I think, like you said, about 10
- 1:41:45points, Florida State gets to win.
- 1:41:47I don't know if Wilson will be back for Florida State.
- 1:41:52I know he got banged up against us.
- 1:41:53But Dukes look, Dukes look pretty solid, so I'm taking
- 1:41:57Duke, all right, like a couple folks in the chat with on us as
- 1:42:01well. Shelton chose.
- 1:42:05He's not here tonight. Duke, Duke, and Brian.
- 1:42:10All four, baby. I think, I think with Leonard
- 1:42:14coming back playing in this game, I I just don't think.
- 1:42:17I think 14 is just way too much. Way too much, way too much.
- 1:42:21By the way, I didn't mention this last week.
- 1:42:22Brian and Shelton both 5 O and one with their picks.
- 1:42:26I went 3-2 and one tally 2-3 and one.
- 1:42:31Told y'all Man, is that a faint tally?
- 1:42:33Faint tally. We all with you this week,
- 1:42:35though, because you were the first one to pick this when we
- 1:42:37were talking about it. All righty, let's go down to
- 1:42:40Tally's next to the Woods, third Saturday in October.
- 1:42:45Classic rivalry game ranked Tennessee versus Alabama in
- 1:42:50Tuscaloosa, 8 1/2 points for the Tide tally.
- 1:42:54This is your pick. This is your game.
- 1:42:56You definitely watch it. Man, I say give me the tide on
- 1:42:59that. It's going to be, you know, it's
- 1:43:01going to be a big game. Tennessee got them last year.
- 1:43:05Nick is pissed. I don't know.
- 1:43:08Alabama and Tennessee kind of have been trying to find the
- 1:43:12identity this year. But I think Alabama at home
- 1:43:14against Tennessee, I mean, it's kind of hate week.
- 1:43:17So I'm going to take Alabama. All righty, Shelton has Batman
- 1:43:22as well. Siegler, who are you wrong with
- 1:43:26on this one? Tennessee I I think, I think
- 1:43:30we'll see. Finally see it?
- 1:43:32We're going to finally see Alabama eliminated from the
- 1:43:34College Football Playoff discussion.
- 1:43:36Oh, OK, wait a SEC. So you.
- 1:43:39Think Tennessee going to win outright Win.
- 1:43:41Outright win. Oh shit.
- 1:43:44Oh damn. All right, I am not predicting
- 1:43:47that, but I'm also not predicting more than 1/2 point
- 1:43:52win. I'm going to take Tennessee as
- 1:43:55well on this watching pieces that Arkansas game.
- 1:43:59Alabama just isn't built that way to bury somebody.
- 1:44:04I don't think they can do it yet.
- 1:44:05Also want to give a quick shout out.
- 1:44:07Brian, you saw the text today, right?
- 1:44:10Dan, our buddy Dan. Oh yeah, yeah, he's one of our
- 1:44:15poker night friends here. Tally.
- 1:44:17He works for be the Match Foundation which is an
- 1:44:19absolutely wonderful non profit that goes all around trying to
- 1:44:22get people sign up to potentially be donors.
- 1:44:25He is actually in Tuscaloosa this week with a big drive
- 1:44:28campaign. Me and him talked the other
- 1:44:30night on the way he's like I'm going to Tuscaloosa.
- 1:44:32He's like I was like when are you going?
- 1:44:33He told me I'm like he's like Tennessee week.
- 1:44:35I'm like oh because you know you get so many people down there so
- 1:44:39shout out to him. I know he is down there this
- 1:44:42week. I think he's flying back Friday.
- 1:44:43Not going to be a stay for the game, but he's a once that
- 1:44:46atmosphere for it. All Righty Brian.
- 1:44:50I'm going to let Brian introduce this one because.
- 1:44:54You know, I saw this matchup, and I mean there.
- 1:44:57There aren't a ton of compelling games.
- 1:44:59There's a couple like good rivalry and quasi rivalry
- 1:45:03matchups, but there's not like a bunch of big ranked opponents.
- 1:45:07This week I was like, let's do something interesting.
- 1:45:09We'll keep it in the ACC. Let's have a mid off, shall we?
- 1:45:13Boston College, Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech.
- 1:45:17Five point spread here. You know what I like BC I've
- 1:45:25seen a little bit more from BC than I anticipated.
- 1:45:27If we're going to do a mid off, I think I think B CS going to
- 1:45:30have the edge here. I like what Castellanos can do
- 1:45:35at the quarterback position. I think he's kind of the
- 1:45:37difference maker in the matchup. So BCA mid off, it's in Atlanta
- 1:45:43is down at Bobby Dodd Stadium. I'm with Brian on this.
- 1:45:47When it's a mid off, take the points, I'm sorry, take the
- 1:45:50points, give me BC tally who you got in this three and three mid
- 1:45:57off of. Teams, man.
- 1:45:58I got to I got to go Georgia Tech, man.
- 1:46:01I got to go Georgia Tech in this game and they're at home.
- 1:46:05They taking the. They got the points.
- 1:46:09I got to go Georgia Tech in this.
- 1:46:10All righty. So he goes there and Shelton's
- 1:46:16with us on. BC this is this is the classic
- 1:46:18fade tally. Line that is see I do this so
- 1:46:22y'all can I I take the bullet so y'all can get the reward.
- 1:46:25Oh man. Tally just the shield.
- 1:46:30Exactly he is the shield. All righty the the the next one
- 1:46:34is the big one on Saturday. I mean massive everything
- 1:46:38implications in college football top ten match up.
- 1:46:45Penn State. Ohio State is going to be in the
- 1:46:47horseshoe. It's going to be a noon kick.
- 1:46:48Which I can I say this, I know this is Fox's shit.
- 1:46:51This game should not be at 12:00 on Saturday.
- 1:46:55I am sorry. It should not be at 12:00 on
- 1:46:58Saturday. This game is deserving of 8:00
- 1:47:01at night. Curtis says Fuck the big noon
- 1:47:03kicks. Fuck big noon kicks.
- 1:47:05Listen, there are a couple of games that should always be at
- 1:47:08noon. Red River Shootout.
- 1:47:13Always should be at noon. Always should be at noon.
- 1:47:15Always Michigan. Ohio State should always be at
- 1:47:18noon. And there's a there's a handful
- 1:47:20of other ones. This isn't one.
- 1:47:22It's the middle of October. People got kids playing soccer,
- 1:47:27kids playing baseball, other stuff going on.
- 1:47:31Festivals, could you please put this at 8:00?
- 1:47:34So when Brian gets home from soccer and Tally gets home from
- 1:47:37baseball and other stuff, they can sit down, order some food
- 1:47:41out, drink some beers and watch a good football game ran over.
- 1:47:46This was this was Shelton's pick.
- 1:47:48Who does Shelton take with 3 1/2?
- 1:47:51Penn State. All right.
- 1:47:54All righty, Brian. You know what?
- 1:47:56I'm right there with him. I'm with y'all.
- 1:48:01I think Penn State's going to win this one outright.
- 1:48:05I I can't. I can't foresee that.
- 1:48:08Like I I think this is going to be a war.
- 1:48:10I mean I think 3 1/2 I'll I'll take points.
- 1:48:13I just deal what y'all did. I just took the same y'all took.
- 1:48:15Oh man, there we go. This isn't paid Tally.
- 1:48:21This isn't paid tally. You can't paid if you join them.
- 1:48:26Hey, we we had to get together. What's your?
- 1:48:29What's your reasoning behind on this one?
- 1:48:31Is it just? Talk about Penn State.
- 1:48:34I just think, I just think Penn State's got the better defense.
- 1:48:37You know, Ohio State. I think Ohio State's a good
- 1:48:39team, but I just don't think they've been tested like Penn
- 1:48:42State's going to test them. And I think, I just think Penn
- 1:48:45State's got the better defense and they're going, I know they
- 1:48:47got the better run game. I just got to take Penn State on
- 1:48:51it. If you can, run the ball and
- 1:48:53play defense and be at least competent in the passing game.
- 1:48:57Ohio State's been just inconsistent enough where I
- 1:49:01think that's that's a good recipe to beat them.
- 1:49:03Right, 100%. All right.
- 1:49:08By the way, last time we all picked the same team, we we
- 1:49:12cashed out. That was the Alabama, Texas A&M
- 1:49:15game. Couple weeks ago we all went on
- 1:49:17the same way. We all cashed out.
- 1:49:19All righty. Next one we got a service
- 1:49:21Academy game. Air Force and Navy I believe is
- 1:49:27this. This is at Annapolis.
- 1:49:30Air Force is unbeaten. Y'all Air Force is unbeaten.
- 1:49:35They are 6 and O. But they got some bad news
- 1:49:37today. The man running that triple
- 1:49:38option attack is out there. Quarterback is going to be out
- 1:49:42for this game. We caught it at -11.
- 1:49:44Brian, this was your believe. This was your pick for the week.
- 1:49:49That was my this is my bonus pick.
- 1:49:51So. I'm taking Navy and I'm solely
- 1:49:54taking Navy because Air Force's quarterback is out.
- 1:49:58Say what you will about any sort of triple option, they, you
- 1:50:00know, they don't throw the ball whatever you want to the
- 1:50:03quarterback is the engine that makes that thing run.
- 1:50:07And if you don't have your starter in there and you're
- 1:50:09running a mesh that much in a game, that ball is going to
- 1:50:14probably hit the ground a few times with the backup
- 1:50:16quarterback in there. So that that's what concerns me.
- 1:50:18Give me Navy. Yeah, I'm.
- 1:50:21I'm right with you. Give me Navy as well.
- 1:50:25I was leaning Navy before that. I'm really heavy on Navy now.
- 1:50:28The over under is 36 1/2. Take the under what?
- 1:50:34Tally. Me and you were joking like
- 1:50:35tally. I was like tally.
- 1:50:37They run in a triple option. How many possessions is he going
- 1:50:39to be in this game? Not.
- 1:50:41Many 8, not many. Yeah, I, Curtis tried to help me
- 1:50:46win some money. He asked me like 6 times like,
- 1:50:48you know, the quarterback's out, you know, you know, you know
- 1:50:52he's not going to be playing and and I said, yeah, let me go
- 1:50:56ahead and switch and do what y'all do because I was going to
- 1:50:59take Air Force, but I'm like, Nah, man, let me switch, I'm
- 1:51:03going Navy too. And you know what I mean, kind
- 1:51:06of similar in that vein. Shelton was given the option and
- 1:51:11he said, Nah, I would, I would regret it if I did if I didn't
- 1:51:13switch it up. So he's like.
- 1:51:16I'm I'm going to let it ride. So he went with that
- 1:51:18information, by the way, Hold on, we got a ton of people
- 1:51:21talking here, Thomas says, Air Force Rex says that We got some
- 1:51:26stuff on here on, I'm going to put these up.
- 1:51:28We got some people saying Ohio State, oh somebody oh.
- 1:51:33Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.
- 1:51:34Y'all. Seen that?
- 1:51:36Hey, I know y'all seen that he he on.
- 1:51:38There we go. Spicy.
- 1:51:40I like it. All righty, Last one for our
- 1:51:45buddy John Earl. Just for John Earl.
- 1:51:48Shout out John Earl if y'all don't know him out there on
- 1:51:51Twitter. Hamden, Sydney alum representing
- 1:51:55Michigan State. Michigan Isn't this a battle for
- 1:52:00something? Feel like this is a rivalry
- 1:52:02game? It was a battle for something.
- 1:52:03I don't know. I know it's.
- 1:52:06I know they're rivals, but I don't know what they're battling
- 1:52:08for. They are.
- 1:52:09They're battling Michigan State, Michigan.
- 1:52:11It's a 24 point line. What does Shelton got?
- 1:52:19Yeah, we he's got the the Spartans.
- 1:52:24He's going with the dogs here. All righty.
- 1:52:28So he's taking that. He's getting those 24 points.
- 1:52:32Tally, which way you going? Man, I'm going Michigan.
- 1:52:35You know, Michigan State, you got rid of your coach up there
- 1:52:39because you didn't want to pay him that money because he wasn't
- 1:52:42winning no game. So you set him up with a hookup
- 1:52:44because he's an idiot. He fell for it.
- 1:52:47Michigan's going to come in and they going to.
- 1:52:50They going to atoll his sins. I I like the fighting khakis one
- 1:52:58there. Thomas Love that right there.
- 1:53:00All righty. That's some people saying the
- 1:53:03fighting Khakis Sparty Sparty. It's 24 point line and.
- 1:53:09That's a lot of points, man. You're going to be sweating
- 1:53:13that. One gave away some money and
- 1:53:16that one it is the bottle for Paul Bunyan's trophy.
- 1:53:19Yeah, that's what it is. Give me Sparty.
- 1:53:22Just way too much delay and and you know the Michigan team now
- 1:53:26could could we be sitting here and Saturday when it happens
- 1:53:30it's like 42 six. Yeah.
- 1:53:34And Callie be laughing to the bank.
- 1:53:36Michigan State ain't beating anything.
- 1:53:38Greg. I'm.
- 1:53:38Sorry, I'm sorry, Craig. Craig, I'm, I'm, I'm going with
- 1:53:42Sparty here, but I'm not going with Sparty to win on the money
- 1:53:46line. I'm taking them 24 points.
- 1:53:49Michigan State's coach was was definitely up there beating the
- 1:53:52ass. That's why he got fired.
- 1:53:53That was the only ass he that was getting beat up there, $98
- 1:53:58million is what it was. They did not want to pay that
- 1:54:02well, You know, when that first came out, everybody was like, I
- 1:54:05mean, he did OK, but honey, $8 million is like a guy who wins.
- 1:54:09An you know who did really OK? Kenny Walker did pretty OK.
- 1:54:15Yeah, he did. That's what it was.
- 1:54:16All right, So there are our big screeners for this week in
- 1:54:21college football. Again, that is brought to you by
- 1:54:25prize picks boys, Has anything broken in the last two hours we
- 1:54:31went to, I had a feeling we were going to go 2 hours because a
- 1:54:35lot of things happened and you know we a lot of times, while we
- 1:54:39can keep it, 90 minutes is we're talking and we're conversing
- 1:54:43back and forth. In the first few days leading up
- 1:54:45to this, when we don't get to do that, it usually goes 2 hours
- 1:54:49because we got a lot more out there to talk about and hadn't
- 1:54:52fit it at least once to chop it down.
- 1:54:54That is what it is. Can't do much about that, but
- 1:54:56has anything come out while I've been sitting here running my
- 1:55:01mouth? They're they're tearing up this
- 1:55:03Chargers fan that apparently was a Vikings fan back in 2016 on I
- 1:55:06think that's a different girl. I'm sorry.
- 1:55:10I say that I ain't pay. Ain't paid attention to look at
- 1:55:13the hairline, Tally tell me she don't look.
- 1:55:14Tell me if it's. The same.
- 1:55:15She's looking at hairlines, man. Yeah, I'm.
- 1:55:17About to go. I'm about to go check it out.
- 1:55:19All righty. Well, that is going to wrap up
- 1:55:22this episode of the Boundary Corner podcast.
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- 1:55:44I keep having somebody. One of my buddies named Phil
- 1:55:47keeps saying we got to make a complimentary football shirt.
- 1:55:52It's happening. I think it's going to happen.
- 1:55:54If we make a bowl, it's definitely happening.
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- 1:56:22First one he missed in a while, man first.
- 1:56:24One he missed in a while and. He said it's bye week.
- 1:56:26Fuck it. Andrea, you better be out here.
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