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3 Guys Before The Game - Backyard Brawl Preview (Episode 657) · 3 Guys Before The Game

• 0:06
  Speaker 1: Shell we brawl. What say you might as well? It's
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: time for the backyard Brawl preview West Virginia. In the
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Pitt Panthers episode number six hundred and fifty seven of
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  Speaker 1: three guys before the game, and all three guys are
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: accounted for one wearing a very very sleek and debonair tie.
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  Speaker 2: Pitweek.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, things get real formal for Hoppy when it comes
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: to the pitweek. He dresses up out there right old school.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the series has been going on for one hundred
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: plus year, so he's just dressing like it's nineteen twenty and.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to a game. He's like, George, that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Like Papa bear hallis over there. We had him take
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  Speaker 1: off this full length jacket before he came in.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a hat, but he can't, of course wear
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  Speaker 3: that indoors, as you're not supposed to do. So you
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: put that on when you leave out and the young
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  Speaker 3: men go watch the young man compete.
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  Speaker 2: Go watch the young and compete in the border battle.
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  Speaker 2: Come on now, let's go, boys. Come I to young men.
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  Speaker 1: You know you've got more effort in you. Let's go.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go and listen, we're gonna get out of class
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  Speaker 2: at four o'clock and then we're gonna head over and
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  Speaker 2: have a good old fashioned uh what do you used
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  Speaker 2: to call them?
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  Speaker 1: The thoos? Yeah, gonna have a two's gonna.
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  Speaker 2: Have a kind of a zoos. Girls on this side,
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  Speaker 2: boys on the other.
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  Speaker 1: beyond numbers. All right, jump in.
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  Speaker 2: Can'll tell you one thing real quick. You made me
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  Speaker 2: think of something, all right the other day.
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  Speaker 1: You mean you're gonna jump off the format of the program.
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  Speaker 1: You're off the script of this show. Oh really, are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna do that that?
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  Speaker 2: At WVU Brad there was a curfew for the women
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  Speaker 2: in the dorms up until like nineteen seventy two. Really
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  Speaker 2: at a time, there was a curfew for years and
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  Speaker 2: years and years. Fortunately I came in when there were
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  Speaker 2: no rules later a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Later, but it was seventy two and they had to
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  Speaker 1: be in a certain time something like that. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: go over well now, I would think, huh, but if
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  Speaker 1: they reconstituted that rule, huh. We went back to the
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  Speaker 1: constitution here at the Favor College, and the preamble says
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  Speaker 1: that you you, you young you people, you need to
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  Speaker 1: be in your dorms and locked in by nine pm.
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  Speaker 2: Especially with the young ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of changed a little bit right now
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  Speaker 1: they go out at ten rather than rather than that
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  Speaker 1: have to be in by ten. All right, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things going on. We've got our food court for
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  Speaker 1: the backyard Brawl Friday and Saturday. We've got unbelievable music
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  Speaker 1: that is going to be performed. I'll tell you about
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  Speaker 1: that coming up here in just a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: we've kind of got a new relationship going with wv
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  Speaker 1: u's music entity, and they've got their whole They got
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  Speaker 1: a whole program and a deal where they sign and
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  Speaker 1: promote musicians from West Virginia from the school and they're fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, two Sides has basically become the house band
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  Speaker 1: for our Buffalo Wild Wings shows. Those two guys are good,
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  Speaker 1: really good, really good as long as they're together on
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, We've got even more live entertainment Friday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you the details coming up. Meanwhile, we begin
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  Speaker 1: with Hoppy's obvious observations. He's taking the games. You can
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  Speaker 1: see extremely serious, well well well done shirt there. I'm
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: sure that's heavily starched, a little too big. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Phil can fix that. By the way, I thought that
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  Speaker 1: when I walked I didn't want.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing you thought.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I but you came over here to get
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  Speaker 1: the picture taken, and I'm thinking, like, I'm seeing all
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  Speaker 1: this excessive baggage and I'm going to myself, like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: go over to Phil. He's got a custom tailor there
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  Speaker 1: all the time. They just walks the shirt in. He'll
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  Speaker 1: chalk you up, walk in and say, could you cut
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  Speaker 1: this thing the right way? I mean you could fit
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  Speaker 1: a kindergartener with the excess fabrica on that thing.
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  Speaker 4: He's right, Just go Sam Hill, Taylor, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's too big. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: So my first obvious observation, happy, shirt's too big? Now, hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: See if you guys agree with me. This game comes
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  Speaker 2: at a really good time. You're coming off an embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: loss on the road at Ohio Universe. That was an
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  Speaker 2: embarrassing loss, an embarrassing performance, particularly offensively. Now you come back,
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  Speaker 2: you're back at home. You have your traditional rival. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a sellout or near sellout crowd, probably
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  Speaker 2: a sellout crowd. So you got the crowd with you
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  Speaker 2: at least depending on how you perform. And Brad, you
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  Speaker 2: got a high risk, high reward game. If you go
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: out there and you win the game, then people are
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  Speaker 2: gonna be oh, okay, okay, I don't know what happened in Athens,
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  Speaker 2: but you beat your rival. Good. We feel good now,
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  Speaker 2: and let's go and see what happens. So you get
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  Speaker 2: a restart, so you have. That's that's the reward. But
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  Speaker 2: there's high risk as well, because you're playing your rivals.
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  Speaker 2: I said, if you go out there and you yack
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  Speaker 2: it up. If you lose badly, and by that I
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  Speaker 2: mean more than the spread, maybe doubleg you lose badly,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be really bad. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: very very bad, bad vibe in Mountaineer Nation about this
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  Speaker 2: football team. So that's what you worry about in terms
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  Speaker 2: of the high risk part of it. Now, if you
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  Speaker 2: lose but lose narrowly, if you lose thirty to twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven or something like that, you're still bummed out as
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  Speaker 2: Mountaineer fans. But he said, well, he's got some offense going.
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  Speaker 2: You got twenty seven points.
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  Speaker 1: See a little light, say a little flicker.
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  Speaker 2: A little flicker, but this, but this is where it
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  Speaker 2: gets to the bread. I know you're gonna break down
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: these numbers to hear that is that where is the
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  Speaker 2: offense going to come from? I mean, last week, seventy
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  Speaker 2: seven yards rushing and thirty two yards rushing. Thirty two
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  Speaker 2: of those were Jaime White's touchdown run. So the offense
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  Speaker 2: did nothing after that touchdown. Couldn't run the football and
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  Speaker 2: Nico was sacked four times. You're playing a pit team
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  Speaker 2: that had four sacks against Central Michigan. West Virginia's final
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  Speaker 2: seven offensive possessions netted fifty four yards. So as I
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  Speaker 2: look at this team preparing for this game, bread, I wonder,
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  Speaker 2: and I have some other observations, but I'll defer to
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  Speaker 2: you next is where does the offense come from? Where
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  Speaker 2: does it come from? And today you don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it evolves, today you don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: I was really well done on your part.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: On your first point. I kind of went, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: it's the perfect time to play pitt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind playing Robert Morris a few more times
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  Speaker 1: and it just kind of work some things through all
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  Speaker 1: their respect, with all due respect to those poor bodies,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, okay, I completely I completely embrace your high risk,
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  Speaker 1: high rewards scenario. You're right, if you are to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. If you were to win this game, then
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  Speaker 1: obviously you go like, okay, back on the track. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't, then you go, uh oh, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a long.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the old Maryland game. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: big barometer for how you feel as Mountainer Nation going forward.
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  Speaker 1: This does not represent Brad's spreads on stats yet, but
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  Speaker 1: Hoppy would attest to this. I mean, oh Brad a
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: little bit locked in, wouldn't talk, would would not talk,
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  Speaker 1: pregame warm up, No, Hoppy and iron in here Joval mood,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of going over some things like that,
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  Speaker 1: had his buddy hollyglasses on, like totally locked in the
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  Speaker 1: community and you can't talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: No, not when he's locked in.
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  Speaker 1: Like you literally talk to him and he goes completely deaf,
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  Speaker 1: completely def like one of them guards Buckingham Palace. He
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  Speaker 1: just kind of stands there like this, won't move, so
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  Speaker 1: he's locked in. That's my point. So like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: why are you so tight?
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  Speaker 4: Not tight? Just a couple of things. Well, two things.
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  Speaker 3: One, all due respect to you too, didn't care about
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  Speaker 3: what you guys were talking about, so I didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to engage. That's one number two. Number two, I also
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  Speaker 3: have quo. I think you asked the number one question there,
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  Speaker 3: where's the offense come from?
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  Speaker 4: This week?
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to it, and I do have some numbers
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  Speaker 3: to get into. But I think first, I think we're
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  Speaker 3: remiss if we don't stop and.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate what this is. Huh.
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  Speaker 3: I've said this many times, and I think we need
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  Speaker 3: to appreciate it today because this game is going to
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: go on hiatus again and you're not going to get
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  Speaker 3: it for a couple of years. So I think we
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  Speaker 3: should appreciate what this is. And you know me on this,
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  Speaker 3: on this stand, this is college football here, guys. This
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  Speaker 3: is what college football is, despite what some TV executives
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  Speaker 3: would like you to believe that it only exists in
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: the SEC or in ann Arbor or in Columbus. This
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: is college football. This is what is great about the sport,
• 9:01
  Speaker 3: and it's part of why it's too bad that ESPN
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: isn't here to shine a further spotlight on it. When
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: you have McAfee sitting up there, you have Saban sitting
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: up there, who would have gone on and on about
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  Speaker 3: his memories of this game growing up. That would have
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: been a neat moment for this game, never mind West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll take the baton. We don't need ESPN to
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: do that, Hopey, we'll handle this exactly right. This is
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  Speaker 3: an unbelievable showcase for college football and what it should
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  Speaker 3: be about. A rivalry that may be off the national
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  Speaker 3: radar this weekend, but it matters to both fan bases
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  Speaker 3: a lot. It matters to both programs a lot. And
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of storylines woven within this, but start
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: with the legends that come out of this game, and
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: some of them are unknown going in, and maybe that's
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: some foreshadowing for this one. When you talk about the
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: great plays, the John Pennington catch, Zach Abraham right, Tyler
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: Bittencourt's moment in this this is the game where legends
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: are made in some cases and other times where they
• 9:55
  Speaker 3: are reinforced. Mark Boulger going up to Three Rivers and
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: just cackling at people, laughed out, just threw another touchdown
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: pass a few seconds.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Time, coming in for the game. Good did you know that?
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know? Good?
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: God?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a text from one of his handlers
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: wanted to know, uh, the food court situation and Daniel's
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: hours awesome. Then he wants to yeah, load up little stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean one of the great games, like he did.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't need that game to become a legend. He
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: became one, but that this is the game that he
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: had that night in Three Rivers. I was like passkey
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: six touchdown passes. I mean just lined up, laugh at him, right,
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: Amos Zaraway was a great player. How did he start it?
• 10:34
  Speaker 3: Pretty good game at pitt first game, takes it to.
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  Speaker 1: The house, bros. Sweep left side, sixty nine yards.
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: Right, and we keep going on. Rashid on that wheel
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: route that he caught on the far side from where
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: we were sitting in the press box. You've got that moment.
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: How about Pat and Steve did they have did they
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: have a day in this thing?
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: How about Ben Collins interception up there?
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  Speaker 4: Keep going, keep going.
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: There's guys that emerge in this game that that fans
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: will remember forever. It's generational. You come out perform in
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: this game, and it's generational what your legacy becomes.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Now, just answered all due respect, Just answer to text
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: while we were talking here in the beginning, because when
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: this guy text you text him back, Bill McKenzie, he
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: just he just text He'll be at the ball contest,
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  Speaker 1: Bill McKenzie.
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  Speaker 4: Was his brand aided by this game?
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, I mean a legend a legendary play, a
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: legendary game, a legendary figure.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what happens in sports, in games that have
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: been played one hundred plus years. That's what happens, and
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: that's what this moment is. So I think before we
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: dive into the x's and o's and the nuance of
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: this game and the nuance of this particular matchup, I
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: think we should appreciate what this is about.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Give it around, Appreciate this, Appreciate this, Appreciate.
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  Speaker 4: This is college football.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: Kerchival agreed, agreed completely, And you cited some of the
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: great mountain your performances. There are more than that. By
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: the same token, like any rivalry, there are games that
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: break your heart, right, games that break your heart. One
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: seventeen years ago I remember for some reason stands out
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: to me when West Virginia played pitt I guess it
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  Speaker 2: was eighty nine and ended up in a thirty one
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  Speaker 2: thirty one time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had an interception of the end zone. I
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: won't say the guy's name, but he had it right
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: in his fricking hands. If he just catches the ball
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: in the end zone, takes a knee, games over anyway,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: go ahead. Well, just horrific clock management in that game,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: West Virginia kept snapping plays off early. Horrific.
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  Speaker 2: But again, just memories. It isn't all good. There was
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of good movies, but just just those kinds
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: of those kinds of things.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: West Virginia's first ever overtime games. Pitt, That's right.
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  Speaker 3: This may be justification, but how that's I think that's
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: part of whether you can you can say this or not,
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  Speaker 3: or feel it or not. That's the beauty of sports, though,
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: because you can't have the elation on one end that
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: you get when you win these without the absolute utter
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: kick in the stomach, this heartbreak that comes along with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what brings us all back each time,
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: and it's what gives you. You lose a tough game
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: at ohow, you and you bounce back. By the next week,
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  Speaker 3: you're bouncing in that stadium ready to go for one
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  Speaker 3: of the great rivalries in college because it is a rivalry.
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  Speaker 3: Because it is and it has a chance. You go
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  Speaker 3: into it with a chance to make your day, make
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: your month, make your year. And that's why we come
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  Speaker 3: back and enjoy these and embrace these moments.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: Related to that. And I had this jotted down. I
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: wasn't sure it was going to be an opportunity to
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: bring it up, but I will. Is that Pat Nardoozy
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: this week, says I don't want to speak for Alan
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Alan Green the idea pit And by the way, if
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: you don't want to speak for him, then don't speak
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: for him. I don't want to speak for Alan. But
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  Speaker 2: I think our athletic director has reached out to them WVU,
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: and they already got it filled up talk about the schedule,
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: which quote maybe means they don't want to play us.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, really, now, either he's just either he's baiting
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: West Virginia or he has no idea what he's talking about. Okay,
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: the series is going to go away for three years,
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: then it comes back for four. And I know for
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: a fact that WVU reached out to Pitt sometime back
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: and said, let's let's find a way to continue the series,
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: and what they got back was, well, what can you
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: do next year or the year after that? And West
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Virginia's got those commitments to the game in Charlotte. If
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: you're going to try to buy out of those, you're
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: not going to play two power fives and Brad, if
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: you want to buy out of Tennessee and Virginia, it
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: would cost you an arm and a leg. So but
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: it looks like I think you can expect a long
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: term continuation of the series at some point, and Nardoozy
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: to say that is really, well, really.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: A couple things. Now. I don't need to speak for Wren,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: because Wren does a good job speaking for himself, but
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: there are times when he's got to play the company line.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: But the reality of it is this, And this just
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: came out in the last couple of days. West Virginia
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: had said to Pitt, Hey, we want to keep this
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: thing going. Oh, let's keep it rolling, you know, pick
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: it up as much we can. Okay, Nardoozy doesn't want
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: want to play Ole Miss. They've had that in their hand,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: he tried. He's trying to get out of that game.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: So in order to get out of that game, he's
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: trying to play and go like, well, why don't we
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: play it earlier than twenty six because he doesn't want
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: to play ol Miss. Okay, this whole thing was done
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: long before he said that. So he's doing a little
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: transitive property little equals b biek. We'll see, then eight
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: will see. So he's playing fast and loose. West Virginia said,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: we'll play you, but we're gonna play one Power five
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: a year. And right now, our dance card is filled
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: up until that point. But we'll play it and whenever
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you want to play, play it for fifty years, you
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: want to play fifty years, play fifty years. He's trying
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  Speaker 1: to get that old Miss, and he's trying to do
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: the old backdoor cover like, oh, just don't understand, wey
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: West Virginia because your ass doesn't want to go play
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: old Miss. That's why Son'll be bringing that down this road.
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  Speaker 2: And note that the comment comes from Nardoozi, not from
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Alan Green.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Alan Green and Renter boys known each other for.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: A long time. That's what that was, non story.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: You know what else that makes these rivalries good that
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: you know what else makes these rivalry I.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Mean, yes that see stuff like that. It's not a
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: nonsense like that.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: On three Sports reported two days ago pitt Ole Miss
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: and discussions to start series. We guess what it's been
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: going on a long time. Now that they know West
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Virginia's going like, dude, we're filled. Now he has to
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: go play.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Him, and West Virginia is not wisely is not going
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: to a not going to bail out Nardoozi. Okay, not
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: gonna bail out in Nardozzi and Brad not going to
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: go back to playing two power fours in the non conference.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Keep this, keep this in mind for our listeners. When
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you read something right, when you read this stuff, it's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: normally like done Ben, done for like weeks months at
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: a time, and it eventually gets to the public eye.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: But these conversation is a long time. In this conversation
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: with West Freshon's scheduling, yeah, this, this whole Alabama thing
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: was done long, long time before it hit the public eye.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: And the same thing in this thing.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, I just it was a segue into that I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: want to bring that.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: No.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: But to your point, Brad, that also makes this rivalry
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: better because it's always good to have someone like on
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the other side. Oh is that right?
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: You talking your you talk in your smack.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he said what yeah exactly he said what he said?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: What's great?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: That that's a great I mean again, pick a big
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: twelve school. We're just not at that point yet in
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the evolution of those rivalries where there's a lot of
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: what you say, is that right?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: What's Matt Campbell gonna say to make you immediately.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Are like dialed into what like right, just lose weighting
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to pounds on this in there and they're doing the same.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: That's great.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: That's that's what this is about. That's part of the
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: story of what I think this is about and what
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: this weekend becomes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Karma, right, Karma's tough. I mean Nardoozi
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: taunted Neil Brown last year after Neil made the fun
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: comment and then dropped how many six in a row?
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Six?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, lost six in a row after he put out
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: that tweet making fun of Neil Brown and Karma. Man, careful.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: The other part of this, and this is certainly you will.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I think you need this. If you're West Virginia, you
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: need the weirdness of long standing rival at reees like
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: this to pop up in.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Your favor because you have none.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: We have seen, we have seen the weirdness go against
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: West Virginia in two of the last three years, right,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I mean just think about that, guys. You don't even
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: have to go back to the seven game where that
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's about as weird as it gets. Right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: West Rains about as big a lock as they could
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: have been in that game and didn't get home. Just
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: go to the last two of the last three where
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: all you need is an NFL receiver, what would become
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: an NFL receiver to just catch a football for a
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: first down and that game's over and you win in Pittsburgh.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: But not only does he not make the catch, it
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: doesn't just fall right harmlessly to the ground. It goes
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: through his hands and ends up in a pick six.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you kidding me.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Last year, you hold pitt in check for the bulk
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: of that game with a defense that really struggled all year,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: and yet in the final two minutes you give up
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: a double digit lead because they suddenly start making plays
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and you guys forget how to tackle.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was bizarre. That was weird.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Weird things happen, right, the block punt comes up in
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: last year's game, the phantom holding call on Wyatt mylem
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I can go down the list. And that's
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: just in the last couple of years. West Virginia's due
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: for weirdness to go in its favor. And again when
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: we'll get into some of this and we'll try and
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: piece together the path for a victory, and again without
• 19:30
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• 19:33
  Speaker 3: some things to happen. You need the pick six, you
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: need the blocked kick for a touchdown. You need them
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to really struggle in some certain areas and the weirdness.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: It's about time it falls back on West Virginia side.
• 19:43
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• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I think is is where the game could be won
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: for West Virginia, and that's Pitt's offense against West Virginia's defense. Now,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: are we too early in the process here of saying,
• 21:47
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• 21:49
  Speaker 3: know what you got to do now, now you've got
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to go win the game. Is it too early in
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the Yeah, I didn't know that I'd be saying that
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: in game.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Three might be a bit of an ask that you're that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: You're asking this defense hobby that I think's looked really good.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: I've been impressed with with not only some of the results,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: you know, shutting out Ohio, you in that second quarter
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: holding them to seventeen First of all, you feel like
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: if you would have told me that before the game
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: you hold that group seventeen points, that you would have
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: won that game. Right, So let's talk about this defense
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that I think has been really aggressive and has looked
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the part so far. Can they take a next step
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: against what's going to be the best offense. They've faced
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a talented quarterback that we saw eat West Virginia up
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: last year, a bunch of different skill guys. Is West
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Virginia ready to take a leap in a big moment
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: against a good offense and hold them not only down
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: but completely in check? And I think that's the biggest question.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I know those are high expectations and you're asking a lot.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: But let's look at some of these numbers for Pitt's
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: offense that so far has been extremely dynamic. The first
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: and biggest part of this, I think for Pitt coming
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: in is how do they handle this road environment. This
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: is going to be on its ear hoppy, this is
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: going to be insane. They not only haven't gone on
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: the road yet. If you look at one of their
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: strength to schedule, they have played the one hundred and
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: thirteenth strength to schedule out of one hundred and thirty
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: six teams so far. So this is going to be
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: a test for them too. Even in West Virginia's diminished
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: state offensively, they've got to come on the road. They're
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: clearly already thinking about the environment. Eli Holstein went back
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: to about nineteen eighty two to talk about batteries being thrown,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: so they're already talking about that. Nardoozy's already been out
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to talk about the lack of hospitality they get when
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: they come down here. So environments already in the minds
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: of them, Does that play into some reality hop can
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: do they come out and struggle because of environment? If
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's gonna win. I think that's got to be
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: part of the equation. If Pitt comes down in here
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: and gives it a ohway, is that right? You got
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: big problems. The environment has to matter on Saturday in
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: this game. If your pit as good as this offense
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: has looked, I think you've still got some concerns about
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: your offensive line. And this is the part that I
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: think if West Virginia's going to win the game, Hoppy,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: it's got to come right here. Their offensive line against
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's front seven that has been attacking so far
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: has been very aggressive and got great pressure on Parker
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: and Navarro last week. Now Navarro early got outside and
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: scrambled with some success. That's the concern you have, first
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: and foremost, can you bottle up Holstein last year? And
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I'll get to some of his numbers in a minute,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: but last year he really hurts you in those final
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: two drives scrambling and getting the victory right there. This
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: number came earlier this week from Chris Peak, who runs
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: panther Layer dot com, who's really good. He breaks down
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Pitt I think extremely well. Pitt has forty running back
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: rushing attempts this season. They've only gained four or more
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: yards on half of those, so they have not had
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: success running the ball, and they haven't run the ball
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: a lot. Only thirty five percent of the time are
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: they running it. So this is a team that has
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: struggled to run so far. Getting a West Virginia defense
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: that just showed at Ohio, you and its one test,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: it can bottle up the run. So can you lock
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: them in, make them one dimensional? That gives you the
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: opportunity to then line up and bring that pressure. Let's
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: talk about some of that pressure and what it may
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: do to Eli Hohlle. He has eight touchdown passes through
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: two games. Extremely impressive, four in each.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: But that a big butt.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: But I'm gonna give you a couple butts here. He's
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: had fifteen dropbacks under pressure. Sixteen dropbacks under pressure this season,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: five of eleven, forty six percent, one touchdown, one interception,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: and just seven yards per attempt. Again, as I often say,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: not a real surprise. Most quarterbacks struggle under pressure. When
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: he's clean, seven of his eight touchdown passes, just one interception,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: seventy eight percent completion percentage, and eleven point one yards
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: per attempt.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Think you might want to eat him up.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: You have got to get after this guy because he's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: got multiple weapons. We'll talk about some of them, but
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: they're really good at the skill position and it is
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: not just one guy. So you're gonna have to get
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: get after him. Here's where I think I'll make another prediction.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: We did it last week, said Parker Navarro was going
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: to throw you a pick.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Didn't know he'd throw three three extent, but you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Could see the numbers hoppy loading up that interceptions were coming.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: This has been the issue for Holstein so far. He
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: can be very good and very dynamic, highly recruited kid
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: and is getting better seemingly, but has some turnover issues
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: at times. So far on the season, just two big
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: time throws and three turnover worthy plays, even with the
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: eight touchdown passes last season the highest turnover worthy play
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: rate in the ACC. Teams led the country and dropped
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: interceptions against Holstein in twenty twenty four. For his career,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: just fourteen big time throws in twenty three turnover worthy plays.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: So is this a one or two or maybe three
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: pick performance from Holstein? Again, I think if West Virginia
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: is going to win, it's got to be that If
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: we come in Sunday and Holstein was really good and
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: didn't make any picks and handled your pressure. I think
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: you got big problems here, But can you force him
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: into forcing some throws and getting some turnovers. West Virginia's
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: sixth in the country right now in takeaways. They have
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: got after it. Now we'll go to the secondary problem
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: of once you get the ball, you got to do
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: something with it, which Swistream didn't do last week. But
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: it's got to start with you have got to take
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: a really good quarterback with really good skill, make him
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: uncomfortable and get some mistakes.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So you're saying full Hyaena defense.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Full Hyaena.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: But maybe everybody a Hyaena, not just the defensive backs
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: you like to say. I think it's everybody's got to
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: be a Hyaena.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Well, probably need some jaguars out there on the edges,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you know, need a couple of those.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Need a couple of those.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, last year against West Virginia almost identical numbers to
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: what Navarro just put up on you last week. So
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: last year Holstein went eight scramble attempts for eighty three yards.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Navarro was eight attempts for eighty six yards. Navarro had
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: six of his scrambles turned into first downs. Last year, Holstein,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: half of his scramble attempts went for first down. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: here's what's really going to make you sick. I'd forgotten
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: this until I went.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Back and looked.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Of those eighty three scramble yards, sixty seven of them
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: came in the final two offensive. That's where you just
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: you had multiple opportunities to tackle the guy and you
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: just couldn't get him on the ground.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: This guy's like, with all due respect, this guy is
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: easier to tackle than Parker Navarro. Navarro's got way more
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: shaken wiggle. This is a big dude you're talking about.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: You're talking about a six foot four, two hundred what
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: do they listen him at to twenty ish? This is
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a big horse of a guy, and so he doesn't
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: have that wiggle. But he's a big, strong and willing runner.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: You gotta get him to the ground, no question. You're
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: getting late breaking stats over there, now, what.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: No, I was trying to find something else I had.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I got stuff's all over I can't find it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Fourteen carries for twenty one yards last year outside of
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Holstein scrambles.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Huh say it again?
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Fourteen carries for twenty one yards.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, on, then we'll take one of those again.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: So you look at this and say, all right, they're struggling.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: They have questions on their offensive line. Holstein's susceptible to turnovers,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: and if you go back to last year and they
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: return a bunch of their starters Western.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: He does not.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: But that was a defense hobby that just struggled all year.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yet it really didn't for most of that pitch game,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: thirty four minutes of game time. In that pit game,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: you held them without a point thirty four minutes from
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: a defense that really struggled. And basically every game all
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: season except in that one, West Virgindia was locking them up.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: And again some weirdness. You had a touchdown called back
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: on a phantom penalty call, you had a pump block
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: that went for a touchdown. You had the inability to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: tackle him late there on those last couple of drives.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, this defense you would think would be in
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: a better position, allowing for they've probably gotten better offensively.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: That was early in Holstein's career getting starts. So he's
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: very talented. You have got to make him uncomfortable back there.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Excellent player, excellent player.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: You know. Steve Dunlap, former defensive coordinator, said told a story.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He said sometimes when Don Eland was head coach and
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Dunlap was a defensive coordinator, that if things weren't going
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: well offensively, Newland would tell them on the headset, we
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: can't do anything. You may as well let the dogs loose.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, just try something, try to create something. Defense
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: better on the end, call him for the dog. But
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I think that's what you're talking about, is that the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: defense exerting its will. Let me ask you about this, though, Brad,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: is that in that Ou game the defense was on
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a few forty minutes forty minutes And can you can
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: you get after it for forty minutes? Or do you
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: get tired to make mistakes?
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Well, let's get we'll get to offense here in a second,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: because I think that the primary question here is is
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: coming on the offensive side. Couple defensive notes to further
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the point that the defense has to be West Rains
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: defense has to be a lead. Pitt last season had
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: a season low thirty eight run blocking grade zero to
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty eight run blocking grade against West Virginia.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I just gave you the numbers. They had a forty
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: nine pass blocking grade against West Virginia and got the
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: win in that game. Guys, I mean, that's just more
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: maddening the more you go back and look at these numbers.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: So defense, to me just a critical component. If you
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: want to go ahead and just pick one in run
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: it back in for six, that'd be great, or even
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: a special team's play, you're due for one of the
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: odd plays to come back in your favor this time.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: All right, So hop let's jump over to the other side.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: West Rains offense against Pitt's defense. You're obviously getting the
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: best defense that you face to this point. They are
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: ultra aggressive. Talk about bringing pressure. They're gonna let the
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: dogs out. They're gonna bring it. Fifty three pressures already
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: through two games and ten sacks and it's coming from
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: all over. It's the front line, guys are coming. They
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: probably have the best linebacking crew, not only in the ACC,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: but one of the best in the country. So that
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: front seven is really, really good. It's gonna be interesting
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: to see what Rich does. To your point, can Rich
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: continue to try and go ultra fast knowing he doesn't
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: have the same weapons on offense and he's got to
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: have a defense that plays really well. But yet this
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: is what Rich does.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: When does Rich.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Ever say now I'm gonna alter what I do here?
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: It's always nope, You're gonna handle it, figure it out.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So I'm fascinated to watch the tempo from West Virginia pit.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: It's gonna run a little tempo itself. Does West Virginia
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: slow it all? Does it take more moments when it
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: slows down, or does it continue to try and go
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: at warp speed? I think that's first and foremost what
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: you want to watch here. The pressure part is a
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: massive part of this. What does West Virginia's offensive line
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: look like this week? Do more guys play only the
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: five starters played last week? Are there other guys that
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: are going to get in there and play this week?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Pits rush defense so far has been very good, just
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: seventy seven rushing yards allowed. Is that schedule adjusted or
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: has it been that good? We saw that West Virginia
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: struggled to run it last week against Ohio. You I
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: think it's it's safe to say this is going to
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: be a better front line than you faced last week
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: and you really struggled. Where do those yards come from
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: from West Virginia running the ball. So far on the season,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: West Virginia's fifty four percent run forty six percent pass.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: So if you can't run the ball, that instantly changes
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: what you want to do offensively. And you didn't need
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: my numbers to tell you that it's a rich offense.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: You want to run it point one eight expected points
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: added per rush. That needs to be better, but it
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: is light years ahead of where your passing offense is
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: right now negative point three three expected points added per
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: pass and you're getting a pit defense that's allowing just
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: eleven percent success rate on pass plays. So now put
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: those questions together. If you're struggling to run it, can
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: you throw it well enough? You haven't to this point
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: going against what's been a very good pit defense against
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: the pass that's going to bring pressure. Can you get
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: enough time and throw it well enough to win this
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: game throwing it?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And based upon the Ohio performance, the answer to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: your questions is absolutely not right. But that's but, but
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: that's why we play. That's what you see during the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: course of a week coaching wise, playing wise, like, okay,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: what can we do to fix this? But on paper,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: just based on the last performance, you're going like, well,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: this is going to be horrific. Now, these guys will
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: get after you. Like Brad said, they're front seven, they
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: will be in full attack mode. So you're going to
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: have a heck of a game a cat and mouse
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: going on here as to how do you move away
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: from that pressure?
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: So what can sometimes happen when you're ultra aggressive? It
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: could lead to some vulnerabilities on the back end. So
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: can you sustain a couple of blocks, Can someone get
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: to the edge and use some speed to get to
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: the end zone. Can you find an open receiver that
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: gets left one on one but the pressure doesn't get
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: home and you hit a couple of big plays, Because
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: that's an important part of this as well. When you're
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: pulling up set hop, you've got to have some explosive
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: plays because with an offense that's limited, the driving down
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: the field multiple times is probably a tough ask. You've
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: got to find some busts in their defense and use
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: their aggressiveness against them.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And talking to Rich this week, the negative yardage play
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is something that easy to say, but like he said,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you just cannot give them those negative yardage plays. The
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: minus four the minus two, the minus five, and all
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of a sudden you're looking at the chains. It's third
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: down and thirteen third down and nine third down twelve.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: You got to get away from that. So you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: first downs are huge in this game, right like last
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: week West Virginia where they finished thirteen three of eleven
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: r Yeah, well thirteen total for the game, like half
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: of where they need to be to be successful. You
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: got to get to twenty five. So the question is
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: how do you get your first down so you can
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: keep your offense on the field.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Go back to the throwing it for a second. Who
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: wants to emerge at the receiver position? We know Cam
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Vaughn is capable, He's really good. You know who else
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: knows that?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Pitt probably just says someone else other than Cam Vaughn's
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: gotta beat us. So can Cam shake loose for a
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: big play? That'd be great, but someone else has to
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: step forth. Whether that's that's pac Man Fox becoming Steedman Fox,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: maybe it's that. Maybe it's Gallagher's due for a breakout.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Had a big run last week but couldn't get it going.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Who in the passing game can help you here? And
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: that also starts up front. Guys, As we know, Nico's
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: been pressured on thirty one percent of his dropbacks. That's
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: a lot that's got to be better. That's just Nico,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: but thirty one percent of his dropbacks. And then here's
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: the other part and some of this again we say
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: this a lot with the numbers, they'll mature. And this
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: is a little bit of an unf fair number because
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: you've only played two games. But West Virginia does sit
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty fifth in turnovers lost. Again, that
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: bulk of that was against Robert Morris, so it's kind
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: of skewing those numbers. Probably goes without saying. I'll say
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: it anyway. Got to protect the football, got to play
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: flawless offensively, because I think your margin for air that
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: was already slim, got even thinner.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You know on that who's going to catch the ball?
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: If you, I mean you're looking around things, maybe tight
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: end position. Does a Grayson Barnes who's got the ability
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to catch the ball, does he kind of sneak him
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: for a couple of times to hit a couple of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: two three nice passes to your tight end possibility.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: It'd be a great time for tight ends.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: To emerge, right, a little something something.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: It'd be a great time for that to emerge. West
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Virginia sits right now number one nationally in percentage of
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: reid options. So trying to slow down those guys, get
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: some get some trickeration in there, Like what freeze those
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: linebackers for a second. Can you slow those guys down
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: a little bit from this pressure?
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Give me the definition of that stet that they're attempting,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: or that there are a.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Number of plays that they're running a reid option type
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: of play.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were just not a surprise. That's that's what
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: they do.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were a couple of plays there last week
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: that West Virginia left on the field because of the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: wrong decision by the quarterback, And now can you clean
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: that up this week? And they're there, can you clean
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it up?
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Let me give you one more defensive number that I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: didn't mention earlier that I think backs up what we've
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: been saying how good these guys have been against the run.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: West Frane is top ten nationally. Hoppy opponents are averaging
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: just zero point one yards before contact per attempt. Cool,
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: So you got dudes flying to the football there, So
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: keep that up, force them to struggle running the ball,
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: which they have all year and they did against you
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: last year. Make them one dimensional, and then take your shot.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Brad. Those are really meaningful statistics. The theme I hear, though,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: the theme I hear is you're gonna have to find
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: the defense. You have hope that they have the capabilities
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: of doing the kinds of things you're talking about. But
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: to me, it comes back to wow. If you're thinking,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: do you get something weird? You get a block punt,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: you get a pick six, you get them fumble at
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: their own two. Now you're trying. Now, you're trying to
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: come up with things that you need that you think
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you need to win the game, because you don't think
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: you can just do it. Line up and do it
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: offensively and offensively. We've touched on this. It starts with
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that offensive line. It really does. I looked up Mike
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Tice played for Maryland, played in the pros coach. He said,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: if you look at the offense like a fancy car,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the offensive line is the engine. That offensive line is
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: so critically important. It does as they say, start up front.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I look back when West Virginia under Neil Brown in
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Tony when they were nine and four.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you some names an offensive line. Wyatt Milam,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Nick Malone, Tomas Remac, Zach Frasier, Brandy Yates, Jacquil Hubbard,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Doug Nest.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Guys, guys, several of them, we're pros.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Some are playing and many of those guys got a shot,
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: got a looking camp. You gotta have pros up front,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: no question. Now your hope is again offensively. That was
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: a tough day when you lose your best runner in
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: the heat of the moment. Right, how much has a
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: week of practice, a week of game planning helped. But
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: the question remains, guys, where's who's the next running back
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: in We've seen Clay clay Ash, We've seen Bowers. You're
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: probably going to see Di or Hubbard this week.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Again.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Great time for one of those names to become legend.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: But here's some more numbers on the rushing of the football.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: So far, seven of seventeen rushes of ten or more
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: yards this season, Westrings had seventeen rushes of ten or
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: more yards. Forty one percent of those have come from quarterbacks.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: If you take Jahim out of the discussion of your
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: next six leading rushers, only one is a running back,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: four quarterbacks and one is a wide receiver. That's how
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: much Jahem meant to you. And again, those numbers back
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: up what you already know sincere Bowers is the only
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: running back in that group, and that's a guy that
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: just got one carry last week. So you're asking for
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: things that you haven't seen yet. And again that's what
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: this rivalry is made of, people doing things that you
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: hadn't seen yet and turning into legends. Can that happen
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: and specifically can it happen from the running game or
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: the running back position this week?
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: All right, I think I'm done with numbers.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Here's the reality of it. Pat and Ardozy's in his
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: eleventh season, that pit Rich Rodriguez is in a complete
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: restart of this program. Eleven years in your program. You
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: better have better players than the team that's just restarted.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: That's the reality. And they do. They're more experienced, they've
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: played together. But that doesn't mean it's an l That
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: means you're going in and you have got to play
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: like you just alluded to. You have got to play
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: above your level of efficiency that you've date, that you've
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: displayed so far, and you need the other team to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: play below their highest level of efficiency. That could happen.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: When you're on the road, things can happen. So that's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the reality of this game, right, that's the reality of
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: this game. If rich was in his eleventh year here
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: again and pitt was in its first year and they
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: had eighty one new players, what would you be saying,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: same thing flipped, right, that's the reality.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Come in, take your shot. Yeah, you're in a wild environment.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: That should help. Come out, take your shot and see
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: if some guys can make some big places.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Brad, You're right, and that wild environment can and does
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: make a difference. But as always a lot of that,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: especially after you get in maybe the second quarter or so,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: it depends on what the teams.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: You've got to start, got to give them a reason
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: to get going.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: So if you get to halftime, and we've seen this
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: a million times, guys, now, I mean we've seen this
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: many times, Tony. You have from the booth. If you
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: get to halftime and it's seventeen to three, okay, and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: as a coach or a player saying, wait a minute,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: we got the second half to play. We'll make some altercation,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: we'll do some things and you're saying that as an announcer,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: the crowd leaves. Okay, not everybody, but the students clear
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: out and a lot of people leave, and then you
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: lose that advantage, not completely. Got to start strong, people
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: will a number of people will flee from there if
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: at halftime you are not turning in the kind of
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: performance that people have in an expectation that you will.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: One percent agreed, got.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: To start strong. That's gonna be hard. Gotta start strong,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: no question. Then it built.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: That's usually in the that's usually in page one of
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: the Upset Manual is you've got to start fast. Here's
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: another number from Chris up at Panther Layer. The Panthers
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: don't usually do this under offensive coordinator k Bell. It's
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: been their fifteen games. They normally don't start fast. Just
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns in their opening drive in fifteen games. So
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: if you're looking for something early, if that defense is
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: out there and you can get a stop and get
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: that ball back, get that crowd cranked early. So hopefully
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: that trend continues.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: When you're talking about, yeah, things that you need to
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: happen that you haven't seen happen. If you get to
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: halftime and it's seventeen thirteen or something like that. Doesn't matter,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: who's seventy thirty. Okay, here we go second half. But
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: you need as the theme to me is that the
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: offensive line needs a better performance. Somebody needs to step
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: up at running back, the defense needs to have an
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: incredible game, and you need some for some weird things
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: to happen. Now that's a lot of things, and.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Get some great quarterback play. I mean, I don't think
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: it's a secret to say you're going to see multiple
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: guys here, and I know we keep saying that and
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen it at the rate that maybe it
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: was talked about. But you're gonna have to, Right, you're
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: gonna have to get Henderson in there at times that
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: has the speed maybe to break on. Is this where
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Scotty Fox reemerges? Right, is a guy that can throw
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: it and run it. I know you throw true freshmen
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: into tough situations like this, but you might have to
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: just mix guys in according to what is going well
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: or what is not going well. If Nico comes out
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: and he's dialed in with that RPO stuff that Nico
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: was so good at that was part of his advantage
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: last year year and the year before. When he's in games,
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: he generally throws that really well. If that's working, great,
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: keep running it. But if not, you might have to
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: mix some of these other guys in. Could Khalil Wilkins
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Tony get some time, right If you're looking for a
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: dynamic ball carrier, it doesn't matter if it's running back,
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: if it's a slot on a jet sweep. Just get
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: some guys in there that can potentially make some plays,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: especially if the offensive line is struggling.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think there's gonna be a hesitation at
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that quarterback spot. If it doesn't happen, they're gonna make
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: They're gonna you're gonna see your over underund quarterbacks could
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: very easily be two and a half. Take the over,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I would agree. If things don't go well, Yeah, I
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Rich is at the point where he's played four quarters already,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: he used two last week, and he knows the whole
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: thing hinges on that if it's not happening, they're not
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: gonna keep hitting their head in the wall because you've.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Got to do some non traditional stuff. If you can't
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: just line up and move the guy in front of you,
• 44:51
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• 44:53
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  Speaker 1: they got those geese flying out. So then well the
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: geese fly this time of year, they're going out, so
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  Speaker 1: they do a thing where like you can catch some
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  Speaker 1: fish and bang and it's it's a hell of a
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  Speaker 3: You know, I couldn't hold off till Saturday. I need
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: a gas today. I couldn't get the triple points, so
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I had to get my points today. Yeah, that's kind
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: of bummer with Saturday, right, triple points.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Triple points now one note, Yeah.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: I had a source today at the Elkview go mart.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: You know it's popular, yes, hopping today hop really Yeah,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: well you were at Elkview. I wasn't has source down
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: there checked in. It was busy, but you know what
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: they had there. They have those big I don't know
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: if it's a keg of water. I haven't confirmed the
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: it's those big giant waters.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: See those probably need to.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: Get that this week. Need to be hydrated this weekend.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: Mix in a water.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be hotter.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: Here's my advice for the weekend for the fans. What's
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: mix in a water.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Have a beverage, have a water, have a beverage, have
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: a three oh four, have a water.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: Now that don't The Postal Plaza does not. It's a
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: smaller store. They do not have the giant kegs of
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: water there. It just helped you just a well, definitely
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: has them. Hey my, I'm one picked up for me today,
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: hoppy from that person at the elk.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: So when you're on a boat, When you're on a
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: boat and you're.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: Fishing big giant, huge bottles.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: You're fishing and then the geese are flying by, that's
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: called cast and blast.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I didn't know that.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Cast and blast. All right, So let me tell you
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: a few things here, folks. The Three Guys food Court
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: in operation Friday and Saturday as we get you ready
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: for the backyard brawl. Got some unbelievable music coming in
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: this week, and I want to share a couple of these.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Cooper is a singer songwriter based in Morgantown. She
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: is signed on to Mon Hill's Records, and she got
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: some stuff going on, soulful, heartfelt sound, everything that hoppy isn't.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Jennifer's music explores themes of faith, love and healing, drawing
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  Speaker 1: from a personal journey. And then you got those pictures
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: up there, Jake, I got a couple of those photos there.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So that's her. We look forward to
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: having Jennifer Cooper and Jared McHale a rising star out
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: of Greenbrier County. His music blends traditional country with a
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: modern twist, authenticity, relatability that's carving out its own path.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: So that is fantastic. Also, can I show you the device?
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Can you put that picture of what's coming to the
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: food court? I talked about this on the last episode
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the lemon ah See wait, that's the that's the lemon.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Is that an escort for the lemon?
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, Lemon had a thing. I don't know if it
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: went down the highway, but that's really.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: But it is here in town.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: I spotted it on my way toward I spotted it
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: on the way over for the podcast. It is resting
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: comfortably in a shaded area right now.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Is that was that truck support staff for the women?
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: What got so we had the thing that's it had
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: like the flashers. It's a slow moving lemon I think
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: that's what it said, anyway, is it?
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I wrote? I rode by the food court.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: It's not there yet, It'll get not in position yet,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: it'll be there.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: It's so anxious you got to meet the Grateful Bread lady.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: You get so anxious over meeting these things. Just take
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  Speaker 1: your breath.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be there.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Here's what we're having in.
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  Speaker 4: Close proximity to the food court right now this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Here's our lineup REVCVS Barbecue, Grateful Bread, hopy'll finally meet
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  Speaker 1: finally the Baker, Lemonade and Connection three oh four and
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  Speaker 1: our featured guest, Our featured guest performer. She is absolutely tremendous.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: But this is the weekend for McKenna hope. She will
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: be performing. I'm just telling you right now, when you
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: hear a you're gonna go.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Like Friday end, Saturday.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she'll be uh. Keegan mcclan will also be there,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: and we're looking forward to having them. But this is
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: a big weekend music wise. Is big weekend, Like Charles
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Wesley Godwin will probably walk by and go like, is
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: there any way that I can get on that stage
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and we'll be like, keep practicing, Charles, you might be
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: able to if.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: You need connection three oh four. Obviously many of the
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  Speaker 3: go marts around the state have him on your way up,
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: but you can also grab them at the food court
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: and take them back to your tailgate.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: How about Chuck. So you know Chuck is busier in
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the One Armed Paperhanger, right, Charles, Oh, took the weekend
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: off so he can be at the pit game. Oh
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it matters, Charles will beat. Charles will be in attendance.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: So he had to tell Willie Nelson, just I'll be Willy,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: I'll be back. I got an important game, Bob.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Dylan, Willie Nelson, guys love playing with y'all, but going
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: to the Pitt West Virginia game to see you next
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: weekend on the road. So yeah, Charles will Charles will
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: be in attendance.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. We'd be at the tailgate.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: You think I don't know.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: I mean he showed up last year.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he might stop by. He might stop by. He's
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: not opposed to that, not opposed to that.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Did when he told Dylan to do and say, you
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: got a lot of nerves.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I still haven't. I still haven't talked to him. I've
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: asked him. I said, dude, you got to give me
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: a crazy Dylan's story. Like he goes, Okay, I'm gonna
• 51:02
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you've seen any of the have you
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• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I have none.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So Dylan's just on the piano and I just
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: want to hear some stories. Oh yeah, I want to
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: hear some crazy stories. So that's what we'll get into them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Texas says this. So my wife and I were
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  Speaker 1: enjoying a leisurely drive from Cincinnata to Athens last Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 1: just looking forward to the game and stopping for a
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  Speaker 1: nice lunch along the way. Of course, we queued up
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  Speaker 1: the preview episode to enjoy. I can't fully really can't
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  Speaker 1: convey the degree of stress and anks that flooded my
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  Speaker 1: jeep from the speakers when we realized that due to
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  Speaker 1: the inevitable impending gridlock that awaited us, not only did
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  Speaker 1: we not have time to stop to eat or use
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  Speaker 1: the facilities, we had also apparently left two days too late. Anyway,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to report that we made it in plenty
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: of time. Thanks for the laughs. I have to cut
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: this short now. We're heading into West Virginia next weekend
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: and I hope to have to prep for Gomart by
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: looking at satellite images on Google Earth. Beat the hell
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: out of pitt Robin, Cincinnati. You know one thing, you guys,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: give me a lot of crap about telling people to
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: get there early. Yeah, I've had zero zero zero people
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: tell me, hey, we got there too late, Thank you,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: you're welcome. I get no thanks for that. I got
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: people in their seats. They were there plenty of time.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: No one said, hey, traffic was really bad. I got
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: in there late. Thank you, You're welcome. You guys ripping
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: on me.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Didn't have any food because the concession stands were still
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: four days from opening.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Texter, they open up mid season, eighty plus new players,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: new staff, new scheme. Best staff in the world would
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: struggle with that. This is not a Neil Brown situation.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Patients required, rich Rod will figure it out. Texter. Hello, there, guys.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: I know there will be lots of doom and gloom,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: A bunch of new guys learning a new playbook, going
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: to create inconsistency. This year is going to be frustrating,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: and you have to believe that there will be improvement
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: as the year goes along. As much as I don't
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: like the hire, there's nothing that says there will be
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: regressing over riches years as a program builder. Let's go
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: have fun the blue lot Chris and Florida. Okay, Texter,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: what impact can we realistically expect if Jamori Robinson is
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: actually eligible and playing, what other things can be done
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: to bring a bit of success to the O line
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: other than the players get better. Chad and Ahaiah also
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Frank Moore's brother. Let's go and as always, thanks for
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: being there to help our sanity. Is Robinson going to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: play TBA? He is practice, that's the hope. But here's
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: the reality of it. Okay, So if you think, all
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're gonna put him on the field
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: and you've got Bruce Irvin and Gary still together, it's
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: not realistic. Number One, he literally hasn't been practicing up
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: to this week. Number two, his numbers, which are incredibly
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: professive impressive, were not done at a power for level
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: a year ago. So to think that instantly you're gonna
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: have magic man out there's not realistic. Can he become
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: a good player as the season goes on, Yeah, he
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: can become a good player. But to think all of
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: a sudden he's gonna have four sacks, probably not No.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: But here's what you can hope. You hope that this
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: is a close game. You hope that it's defensive driven.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: We just talked about pressure and getting after Holstein and
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: adding what could be a premier pass rusher here, a
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: guy that has aspirations to play at the next level.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: If that's ten plays he can give you and two
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: of them turn into pressures and one turns into a pick,
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: that's a win for a guy that you did not
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: have on the roster as of last week. So, yeah, Tony,
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: you're right. I mean, he's chances that he comes out
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: and changes the game. I realize you're slim, but adding
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: that guy to the defense for in whatever capacity it
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: takes on Saturday, you'll take that all day long.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Well then don't. Yeah, don't look at it as changing
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: the game. Look at it as making a play.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: And making a unit that has to be really good,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: giving you a chance with one extra player added in
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: that you did not have at your disposable before. I think, okay, great,
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: take it. What's the downside to that? There's no downside?
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: And guys, I also think too, of the positions on
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: the where you could come in and potentially make a
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: play that matters. Isn't it a rush end? Isn't it
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: a guy that all that you said, just go get
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: the guy with the ball, go.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, but go yes, but if they play tempo and
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: don't let you make a defensive substitution, can he be
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: out there six seven, eight plays? Does he have enough
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: in his tool belt yet?
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Maybe give me a big third down where he makes a.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Play, Texter, they do have some questionable tackles, don't they?
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: Bred the whole line?
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Right, the whole line has struggled to this point with pressure.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: So you're bring in a good pressure guy, go get him.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: That's the scheme, Texter.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: My effort team this week took me back to re
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: listen to episode number four eight nine WVU punch his
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: pit Tony. In this episode, you stated, oh, he quoted me. Oh.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Nation collectively wants to win so bad and they're
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: tired of not being the way it used to be.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: That they're saying, here we are, we are ready to
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: go do our part and let you win this game.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: So that's what he's say. Mountineer Nation is going to
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: be there and doing that. I bring this up because
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Nation will be there and they will show up
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: again like they did two years ago. But there's some
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: parallels with the game and what needs to happen this week,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: just as last week in Athens, the Mountaineer defense picked
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: off three in that game, players stepped up. I think
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: it's characteristic of Rich's teams that someone steps up. Whether
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: it's Pat White, Pat McAfee, who's it going to be,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Raydon Siders, Ben Cutter, Sincere Bowers, Mountaineer Nation will be there.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: Someone needs to step up, put the team on his
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: back as always and forever. Let's go Mountaineers.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: This is the game to do a kersival. Legends are
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: made in this game.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: When we were talking at the beginning of the show
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: about some of the great games, what was the common
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: theme we were naming what players?
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: Guys? Guys made place guys.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: There was that one pit West Virginia game where West
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Virginia scored fifty plus. I think they did two years
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: in a row right during White and Slaton and White
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: and Slaton combined. White and Slayton had over four hundred
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: yards rushing in that game. Over four hundred yards rushing.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: It's pretty good. That's pretty good. Hey, three guys. Professor
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Vinnie here, with the offensive line play not being optimal
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: through two games, would you say that the building blocks
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: for next year are there, particularly if they are unwilling
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: to play the younger guys. Are they not that good
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: yet or do we need a whole new O line rebuild.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that the offensive line wasn't
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: good in Game one? They put six hundred yards of
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: total offense up, They ran for over three hundred yards
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Robert Moore three fumbles. Okay, but like I don't listen
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: trust me. I'm well aware of the od line struggles
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: last week, but like to say that they were like
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: piss poor in the first game. I'm not buying into that.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Am I alone on an island? What do you say?
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: So you're not saying anything, So you're not buying it.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure they moved people as much as Rich
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: would want them to move people. I think that's the
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: thing there. Those numbers are really good. I don't think
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: they moved people enough. Now the question remains, is it
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: in them to move people as they get more experience
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: and more snaps. Those were guys that hadn't played a
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: lot of football, hadn't played a lot of snaps last year.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: So that's the question. You're trying to analyze something that
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: still has some runway here, and it's just how quickly
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: can they get up now? Maybe they come out this
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: week and start moving people. It'd be a great time
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: to start it. But I think up to this point
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: that would be the point the thing that you would
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: be worried about if your West Virnians.
• 59:31
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  Speaker 4: Oh I like that.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, Tony, you named it already, right, Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: That's because you don't use it on third and nine.
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  Speaker 4: Need to get a third and chin.
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  Speaker 1: I'm well aware of it. I'm aware when they use it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I made a statement. They a declarative statement.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't use it last week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why you got all defensive on either us.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't the one putting them in third and nine.
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  Speaker 3: Why is he yelling at us?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know it because he's stressed, he's worried, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to get.
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  Speaker 4: Tight with us.
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's just I'm sorry, tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Missed an opportunity to use it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm self actualized.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have? Did you have? Was there a third
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  Speaker 2: and short at all? Last two?
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  Speaker 3: Third and twos? But you went perimeter based on both.
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  Speaker 3: One was the pitch to Jehem. One was Nico rolling now,
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  Speaker 3: which again I think if you're trying to look for
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  Speaker 3: signs that you're the lines not where he wants it
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  Speaker 3: to be, that's that's a sign. Old Rich on third
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  Speaker 3: and two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when your line.
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  Speaker 1: Is where it needs to be, you honk it up
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  Speaker 1: in there.
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  Speaker 4: Twice and you're saying you didn't get on third down.
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  Speaker 4: I was that right. I guess we're gonna do now
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  Speaker 4: and fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Texter, my boss needed a cup of coffee for a
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  Speaker 1: pre dawn trip from Charleston to the Clarksburg Fairmont area.
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  Speaker 1: I was glad that he suggested the Elk View gomart
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  Speaker 1: As the back seat passenger. I got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: good fixtures of the sun. Look at that right there.
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  Speaker 1: They say, there's a promotion on game to it's triple
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  Speaker 1: rewards right there.
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  Speaker 4: It starts here.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy in the back seat, he says, a
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  Speaker 1: good check. A couple of good picks of the sun
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  Speaker 1: peeking over our West Virginia Hills. Keep on keeping on.
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  Speaker 1: Three guys signed by Fort Hill Felipe Mek You little inversion,
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  Speaker 1: got a little inversion going on right there, Hoppy. That's inversion.
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  Speaker 2: Version is if things if things are as they seem
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  Speaker 2: to be, Ask both of you guys this. Then, offensively,
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  Speaker 2: what are your options? Try to get try to get
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  Speaker 2: you know, receiver screens, throw to the slot tied in
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  Speaker 2: because you don't have don't have time really to get
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  Speaker 2: back there, maybe and throw it down field. What are you, tony,
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  Speaker 2: what are your offensive options?
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  Speaker 1: You run through every quarterback and find out which one's
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  Speaker 1: better to make plays? Really, yeah, okay, Bridges got to
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  Speaker 1: have a quarterback that makes place positive, big plays, plain
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  Speaker 1: and simple. He's got to have a quarter make make
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  Speaker 1: big plays. Whether it's his arm, whether it's his legs,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, you got to make a play.
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  Speaker 4: Right right, All that's on the table.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's right, I'm piggybacking off that. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: all that's on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Is cliche and is this sounds? Football is about making plays.
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  Speaker 1: You have to make plays. You just can't live off
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  Speaker 1: of three and a half, four and a half, three
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Eventually that goes. You gotta have a guy.
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  Speaker 2: But the guy needs help. The quarterback needs help.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the quarterback has to initiate the symphonies. He's got
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  Speaker 1: to addition, he's got to distribute the ball for the
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  Speaker 1: player to make a play in the right place at
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  Speaker 1: the right time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And here's the thing, guys, I mean, I know we
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  Speaker 3: talked a lot about the offensive line, and again you're
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: talking about if you just go out the Pro Football
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  Speaker 3: Focus grades fifteen out of sixteen in run blocking grade.
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  Speaker 3: That's got to be better for an offense that wants
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  Speaker 3: to run it. But you also saw some opportunities last week.
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  Speaker 3: A receiver was wide open behind the defense and you
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  Speaker 3: airmailed it and didn't get it to him. So to
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  Speaker 3: Tony's point, there are operaportunities there to make plays, and
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  Speaker 3: then that changes the whole game, right, the defense has
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  Speaker 3: to adjust to that. So this isn't just about offensive line.
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  Speaker 3: The whole offense has.
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  Speaker 4: To be better.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, when you get those opportunities, if they present
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  Speaker 3: this week, you can't miss a receiver that's behind the defense,
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  Speaker 3: You've got to make the play.
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  Speaker 2: If they can stop the run, if West Virginia is
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  Speaker 2: not able to run like last week, and if they
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  Speaker 2: can stop a run Tony just the guys up front,
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  Speaker 2: then you got a major problem because then there's more
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  Speaker 2: guys back and it's harder to pass. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: know how that goes. I mean it's like squeezing the balloon.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back, like, just take a look at Rich's
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  Speaker 1: history and tradition of what he's done with this offense. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: can you name me one good Rich Rodriguez game manager?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Just Okay, here's what I'm to say. Kevin White, quarterback
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  Speaker 1: for the Mountain Heres nineteen eighty four. He was a
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  Speaker 1: game manager. That doesn't work with Rich. Okay, he's got
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  Speaker 1: to have have guys who are dynamic at that quarterback spot,
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  Speaker 1: because his whole premise of his offense is built on
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  Speaker 1: that position. That's his that's his eleventh man that you're
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: not accounting for, and that's what that player has to
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  Speaker 1: be special. And when he has special guys, how many
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: times I got to say, right, Sean King, Woody Danzler,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: Rashid Marshall, Pat White, like it just goes on and
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  Speaker 1: on and on, Denard Robinson, Khalil Tate, right, Tyler Huff
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  Speaker 1: last year. They have their dynamic guys that make big
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  Speaker 1: plays from that position, and this thing is not going
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  Speaker 1: to percolate. I don't care how bad the O line is,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't ness I'm not saying that it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a bad line yet. It's a work in progress.
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  Speaker 1: But until you get that special guy. Rich is not
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  Speaker 1: a special this offense doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, right, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Brad Lewis was a really solid quarterback at the end
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  Speaker 1: of Don Neeland's tenure. Didn't fit into this those three
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  Speaker 1: and nine, three and eight back in the eleventh Yeah, agree,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: was followed by agree is dynamic?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you better move some guys up front. This
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  Speaker 3: would be a good week to start. You gotta move,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: you gotta move, guys.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: It's still that, like you said, Mike Tys said, the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line is like the yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You still got that's the engine.
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  Speaker 4: Move the guy in front of I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Care who you have back there. You gotta have at
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: least some help to allow him to make a play.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey see at the pit game.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: See no, I'll see you at the tailgate.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Tailgate this hellgate.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna you're you got like a big weekend, right,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: You're doing like interviews and stuff like that with with
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: the Senator Mansion. What is this thing?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Senator Joe Manchin has a book out called Dead Center,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: and he's doing a book tour and he's doing interviews
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: around the country with important, well known hosts. What the
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: hell's he doing with you?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Except for one? And that's this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Gail King, Brad Paisley, Happy Kerchieval what who doesn't fit
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  Speaker 2: in that? So Brad Paisley's interview on him, Brad Paisley's
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: interviewing them out of here. They're boys, they're boys. So
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Mansion has this book, Dead Center, which is out, and
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: he's having an event on Friday at Touchdown Terrace with guests.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you have to be inviting anything to
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  Speaker 2: show up.
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  Speaker 1: Gail King is going to be there too.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's the interview she's doing with him in New
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  Speaker 2: York or somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Gail, do you know how he started reeling him off?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Gail King? Brad Paisley, And.
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  Speaker 3: Let me end where I began. Well, sure, enjoy the
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  Speaker 4: He's pretty busy right now with the I understand he
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he could take care of that for you, Hoppy.
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  Speaker 1: Are even all right? Thanks to our producer Jake, we're
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