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Know the Enemy: West Virginia · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back, corner podcast. My name is Curtis Wilson, I'm
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  Brian seagull buddy, we're back on a Tuesday, its West, Virginia
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  hate week. Hey let's get heyo and man.
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  Hey hey tweek part 1 of the Season West Virginia weak man.
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  And man, we got a lot to uncover tonight but God, it's it did in
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  two nights. It's Thursday night in Lane
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  Stadium, Thursday night, Thursday night, the place where
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  Thursday Night Football originated and people knew it
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  could be something big. And I think it's the 26th
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  anniversary, something like that.
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  This year of, actually playing West Virginia, on the Thursday
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  night, I know where it like 20, where year 22 from One of the
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  nastiest games ever in the series.
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  When Andre Davis wants to fuck off for three touchdowns and way
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  Ward killed, a kid on that punt return.
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  It's still in probably every single person watching tonight
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  or listening has seen that play but if you're not you hokey fan
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  or a young hokey fan, go to stop pop, press pause or step away
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  from the live stream. Go to YouTube Type in Wing,
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  Ward, Virginia Tech. And let it do the search.
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  Nothing but fire, buddy, you doing I'm doing good man.
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  I'm doing good. It was a, it's been a good week,
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  so far. Been got some work done today.
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  Got to do a little segment on on a wad radio today, with Adam
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  Epstein radio 910 here in the r-va, the best Sports
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  Programming in the RV, a, if you did.
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  Then catch my man. Sigler out here 2 p.m. can check
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  in for a quick hit. There was awesome second hit
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  there, right. I went, I went through and I I
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  was I was cleaning everything up there.
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  We had the, I think the J mu beat writer was on there first
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  and then we had the, the 24/7 writer for UVA was in the middle
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  slot there. So, Yeah, I kind of felt I kind
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  of finish things off there for that segment.
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  Very nice. Very nice.
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  Well y'all like we've said at the beginning, this is West
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  Virginia, it is hate week but before we get into know, the
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  enemy of West Virginia. We've got to recap, what
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  happened? Last weekend, lot of things went
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  on before, and during that game, the Hokies take a win over
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  Wofford 6:33, Hokies go to two and one slightly off our
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  predictions slightly off, we're about 20 points short, on each
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  side. But nonetheless, a win, is a win
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  in this situation. And before we get into the
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  actual game itself, let's talk about the injuries in game and
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  before the game, you know, you had three key starters, not even
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  playing, and Keshawn King, Colin garbett, and Josh fuga.
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  And Brian, when you saw on didn't see, or when you heard
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  saw that, those guys weren't playing, did it?
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  Did it hurt your gutter? Was it more of a We can win
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  without them today. Yeah.
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  I mean I know we alluded to it a little bit last week when we
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  were doing the the preview episode, I was going to be fine.
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  If King and Caleb Smith, both sat this one out.
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  We need them more this week than we needed them against against
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  Wofford. Obviously, Caleb Smith played,
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  got a little banged up on a deep ball kind of late in that second
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  quarter, but we had quiche Shaun King out.
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  We had Taiwan garbage out, Josh fuga, sat I'm okay with that.
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  Like I said that, that's, that's a setup where you're going to
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  need those guys. For this stretch, we've got
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  coming up, so not just West Virginia, but the entire October
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  stretch, which is probably the most difficult section of this
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  schedule this year, having those guys as fresh as we can have
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  them for that for that push. I think it's going to be more
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  important than whatever they could have given us against
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  Wofford. So after it moved by the
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  coaching staff and unfortunately As I said, Smith got banged up
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  mid game seems to be. All right.
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  As has been practicing so far this week.
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  Same story with Silas Zante went down but apparently could have
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  went back in but precautionary just kept him out again.
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  It was Wofford game was in hand. Yeah, I need to push it.
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  Anyone that got nicked mid game with where that's for, was when
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  it was basically, they weren't able to do anything offensive ly
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  other than get a little first down and then essentially You
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  either get a sack or tackle for loss.
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  Nobody was going back in the game as far as king garbett and
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  food go. You already hit the nail on the
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  head, you don't play them this game.
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  Now could that score had been potentially uglier with King in
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  the game? Yeah.
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  And does the offense? Maybe need confidence.
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  Maybe. Yeah.
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  But on the other hand, he's Sean King.
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  Is the game breaker on that offensive for he and Caleb Smith
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  and like you said, even without you would have been found Caleb
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  not playing, which I think was still resulted in a Hokies win.
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  Caleb. Slightly Nick than the
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  immediately pull them. Is it one of those you could win
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  back in probably but it's one of those weeks to wear if you're
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  hearing about these guys injuries and West Virginia was
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  last Saturday I think every single one of them would have
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  been on the field. I think Caleb would have came
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  back. I think Silas would came back.
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  I think it's showing roster management that sometimes a
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  little Nick you don't need a guy to go back in games in hand,
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  let's move on. Yeah, with Caleb it seems like
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  it's like a rib issue, which those things can linger.
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  We know that. That's pain tolerance.
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  Oh, right, let laying out for that, that, uh, that, that deep
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  ball I think is what kind of probably triggered that for him
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  and it's pain tolerance, but at the same time, if it's one of
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  those lingering things and you feel like you can take care of
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  things without him sit him down. He came out, he went back and
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  when he came out in the second half, he wasn't wearing any
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  pads, he was just in the Jersey. So he knew his they was over.
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  We at that point, we were handling them very much seem
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  like Unless something drastically changed in the the
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  trajectory of the game that was going to be in hand at halftime.
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  You know, we came out, didn't play as well in the second half
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  as I was hoping. But, you know, again, as you
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  said, a wins a win. Yeah, exactly.
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  Exactly. All right, let's kind of take a
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  quick high level overview of some things.
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  You wanted to see last week, Brian.
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  I think we did see a few of these things.
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  The first is you said you wanted to get away from the
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  predictable, play calls the predictable Run play calls.
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  Early and drives. And I think from what I saw
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  watching the game and getting in, we saw a lot more passes, a
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  lot more quick plays on first down in the ball, in the air,
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  versus running the ball. Yeah, they definitely were
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  hitting more of those passes in early Downs.
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  That I think that helped get the offense in a little bit more
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  Rhythm. We still didn't finish as many
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  drives, as I would have wanted to go against that defense.
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  And I think that's Stills. You know, that's where we're
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  still a work in progress, with the with finishing drives and
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  closing out drives, we had the you know, the Miss block on the
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  on the 4th and 1 on the first drive, after you had some
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  productive plays before that, that got us in a pretty good
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  position there. To get some points.
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  Then you had a couple others where, you know, one thing here,
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  one thing they're killed killed a drive when you cross the 50s
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  so that means there were still some points left on the field
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  there that I feel like yeah. If we can clean some things up
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  you know that's going to be a little bit better.
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  Looking number than I think we ended up with on Saturday.
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  Yeah probably somewhere between seven and ten more points
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  probably somewhere closer to 40. Like we thought it would be.
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  But that that fourth and short play Early eight.
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  Okay, it's often off-tackle play and I told you like if you're
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  going to put Jalen Holston there I absolutely hate that play call
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  for him. He does not have that sort of
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  quick kick to get there if the play isn't blocked perfectly and
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  like I like you've been telling me so many times.
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  If certain plays aren't blocked perfectly you will lose in that
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  case it wasn't in that case we lost and you know print fry who
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  right there seemed very aggressive similar to the PC
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  game. Did not pay off.
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  Now comes back later. We have a fourth and short.
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  He tends to go a little more passive and I think something me
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  and you've talked about a couple times not only on here, but just
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  in passing conversation. It seems like Brent ply.
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  Is he looks at the data in the statistical points of what you
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  should and shouldn't do. But then he consensually plays
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  it by gut because there are times where you're like, oh he's
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  going to go for here. He kicks the field goal.
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  There are times like take the points, he goes for it.
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  So it's like to me it's a, he's kind of finding his rhythm as a
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  head coach of wendigo when to push and when not to push and
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  right now it's kind of been a healthy balance thus far in the
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  season. Yeah.
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  You wouldn't call them aggressive, you wouldn't call
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  him passive. It's definitely situational and
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  I think it's relative to game Flow.
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  I think it's relative to where we are on the scoreboard.
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  I think that's the big thing that we're looking at.
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  At this point is that he is, Aggressive.
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  I feel like when he needs to be or when he feels like it's to
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  his advantage and then plays it more statistical when it's
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  something that, you know, could be advantageous to punt.
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  Keep us keep the field position. When the game is a little
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  tighter, when things are a little still in the balance.
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  So I like the mix there so far. Most of the times that he's roll
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  the dice, I would have rolled the dice, and most of the times
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  when he's punted, I would have punished.
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  So, Have any big problems with what I've seen on that front.
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  I probably would have went I'd probably would have been a
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  little more aggressive not necessarily this Saturday but
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  overall then he's been so far. But again that's why he's got
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  the money and I don't armchair I can be a lot more aggressive
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  than he cans and because he's the one that's got to go to the
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  podium and answer for it. Absolutely.
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  Now the other thing I want to get your take on this from, you
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  know, playing at a Collegiate level.
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  Do you feel like that we played down Saturday, or did it feel
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  more like a controlled? We're going to win this game?
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  There's no need to press. There's no need to go
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  outrageous. They aren't as good as us
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  because I want to get your take on that.
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  Yeah, I think the big thing for for that is that I wouldn't say
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  we played down to the competition.
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  I think that there were times where we were not as effective.
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  As we want to be that some execution wasn't there and that
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  took points off the board. I mean I you know, when you say
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  play down I don't think there was one of those things where we
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  got pushed around where we look like, it wasn't a Richmond game
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  if we want to put it that way, from a couple years back, you
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  know, we didn't, we didn't feel like we were almost out matched
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  or evenly matched in that game. We definitely could do the
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  things that we wanted to do. We just didn't always execute as
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  Crisply as we could, or should have against the level of
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  Tolerance? Absolutely.
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  Well, that's kind of what I wanted to hear.
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  That's kind of, was my fault with never felt like down, it
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  never felt like the last couple years where there were teams you
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  feel really felt better than and you felt nervous getting into
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  the quarter. You felt like, from Jump Street,
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  we move the ball, we got aggressive, we didn't take the
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  points. The next time we took the
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  points, they the defense had everything under control.
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  So yeah. Alright, let's take a look.
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  Look at the offense just kind of chitchat about a few things here
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  and there. And then we'll look at DNA
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  before we before we jump in there.
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  We got a little question here from Clark I what's your
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  favorite piece of memorabilia and your case behind y'all.
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  All right so mine is not even hung up at the moment.
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  I have she rearranged the room last week Clark I have a
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  lithograph hand-drawn copy of Lane stadium in the snow.
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  I Clark hit me up on Twitter. I can tell you exactly who did
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  it. Was someone that lives down in
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  the Southwest? Virginia area gave it to a
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  friend of mine. And and that friend gave it to
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  me of my birthday present this year.
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  So soon, I'm hoping right about there where you see the golf
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  club and the guitar, right above the VT blankie.
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  That's where I'm going to try to get it.
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  I've got to find the brain because it's an offered frame,
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  but you see probably my favorite is going to be the the pendant
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  The Shield right behind me here in the corners a little dark you
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  can't see it but it's just actually sorry over here right
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  here. Yes, it's yeah, that there is
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  signed by Darryl Tapp himself so that's probably the the one that
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  I covet the most Darryl. Tapp one of my favorite all-time
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  Hokies probably easily in the top three for me and got that.
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  I'm trying to remember when it was Determine what game it was
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  that. It was spring game.
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  I want to say 2004. Okay.
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  Okay, so while we were young kids, while we were kids.
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  Yeah. Oh man.
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  That one. That one goes way, back.
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  That one goes way back way back. Absolutely.
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  I hope to have this hung up soon.
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  I've also got here on my left. I've had a couple times, you see
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  it? I've got the, the map of
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  Virginia in a would cast with all the counties outlined in the
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  BT. Crying the middle of it.
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  That's probably number two favorite as well as my plethora
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  of hockey game cups. So yeah, we've got quite a few
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  things and actually I'm looking over here, I've got both of the
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  I've got both of the beer mugs out from hardihood not now so
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  it's pretty pretty sweet. Oh, all righty.
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  All right, so let's Now flip it. All some question clock, we
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  appreciate that. We appreciate all you guys out
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  there in the chat. We see you tonight.
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  Lowcountry Brian Cox Clark Robbie.
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  Matt appreciate you guys listening and watching tonight.
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  Let's talk about the offense for on something.
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  You said last week, we needed to happen.
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  Is we needed to see something go on with the wide receiver
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  running? Man, did we see it from two guys
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  this week? Yeah.
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  Jaden blue and Christian Moss big big days for the Hokies blue
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  getting in the end zone. Making a couple NFL caliber
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  catches especially that one kind of down the seam between two
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  Defenders, elevating making the catch, bringing it down, moving
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  the chains, there and Moss. A lot of stick moving routes a
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  lot of possessions Type type, type things early on in the game
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  to get him going, he was really probably the standout player in
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  the first quarter. When we were kind of a little
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  under unsteady as we kind of got our footing, you heading into
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  the second quarter. They're absolutely.
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  And for blew it couldn't happen to a better individual
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  everything he's went through to not only have a good game but to
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  catch a touchdown pass and to just feel like kind of the
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  weight because we've been here and he's been nicked and then
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  he's been trying to come. Seen in play but we haven't seen
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  it. Develop on the field.
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  Clearly developing on the field last Saturday and then Chris
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  Moss. We heard his name several times
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  in the fall camp and was it one of those was it just noise at
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  coaches are trying to talk somebody up and get somebody
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  moving and this game we saw it and he had the one miss though,
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  the Oneness on the comeback which was if he catches the ball
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  the guy fell down behind him. He's probably dead to rights in
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  the end zone so I'm sure they're probably going to be working on
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  some come back. Drills this week, like secure
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  the ball first, secure the ball. First, somebody else, what about
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  Gallo getting back to the game. One type production.
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  I mean he did very little against BC and I mean to say we
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  win that game with him to a little production is kind of
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  unbelievable and now getting him back in and it's pretty awesome.
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  And yeah we kind of talked about it last week where it seemed
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  like BC was big-time keying on those short flat routes to the
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  tight ends. We We had it heavy in the
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  rotation against ODU. They were jumping on pretty
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  quick. I think just with some of the
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  different Personnel. We had some different play,
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  caller different play calls this week that got a little bit more
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  spacing in that kind of second level of the defense.
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  I think that helped Gallo get get open on a more regular
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  basis. And I think that'll that'll bode
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  well. We'll see it.
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  We'll see if we can keep that up against West Virginia this week.
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  And then it returned a Jalen Jones, man.
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  I mean only one catch but that was a pretty sweet catchy made
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  and looks like he's starting to get his Groove.
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  I know it was later in the game but again, just get him on the
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  field. Getting those reps.
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  Obviously ran more than just the one Rowdy caught but the wide
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  receiver room with Caleb with Gosnell, you know, with Lofton
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  and now with blue and Moss, sort of making an impact, it's the
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  depth of slowly. Building.
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  It's taken three games to get more than three deep and I'm
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  missing somebody there because Brian had the none of that was
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  the six we talked about, right? We talked about in the other
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  six, we talked about earlier in the season, so getting that
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  there's really good. And I know, God knows becoming a
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  steady Eddie God knows catching like three or four passes the
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  game. I think he's went one, two,
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  three but every time it's like a big first down catch and it's
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  moving the ball down the field, which is Really key.
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  Yeah and when we got the depth chart this week, for the West
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  Virginia game, we were looking at it.
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  We were like okay well this depth chart for the wide
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  receivers finally looks like what we thought it was going to
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  look like in Fall Camp. Right?
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  We got you got blue and Smith on the outside.
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  You got Lofton in the slot and then backing them up.
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  You've got now, moss and Jones outside with with Gosnell on the
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  slot. It's kind of what we thought
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  this was going to look like from Jump Street and you know,
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  heading into a big game like Like West Virginia, that's kind
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  of, you know, a good a good Comfort note to kind of feel
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  like, you know, the wide receiver room is finally
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  starting to starting to take some shape here and you know,
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  talk about Jalen Jones. Yeah.
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  He got the catch what impressed me was that, that yak that the
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  yards after the catch. And and how he runs with the
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  ball in his hand, he kind of runs with purpose.
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  It reminds me a lot of it. This is not a comparison in
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  terms of ability with this is a As in terms of what it reminded,
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  me of just seemed on the field. Anquan Boldin, right?
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  Yeah. Uh, okay.
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  He like Angry resentful wide receiver.
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  Yeah. Possessed.
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  Like don't get in the man's way. You are going to feel it.
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  So yeah, again, that room is slowly developing in.
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  You wish it was quicker but, you know, hopefully better now than
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  ever. And now talking about never,
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  let's talk about the Well, because we still saw some
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  struggles. Their first question, I want to
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  ask for, we get into your grades and dog house and a couple other
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  things. When you saw Gwen Moore went
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  down early and you saw shit come in.
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  Did that shock? You and then when Silas went
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  down and he came back out, give me some stuff on Bob shit
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  because I mean I think they're me and you're expecting.
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  Okay, here's your chance to put the other more brother in or
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  potentially Chaplin. Yeah, it was interesting seeing
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  Bob, stick out there, but I think we're probably at a point
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  where, when we look at the the other players that could go in.
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  I wonder if more and chaplain are deep enough in the Playbook,
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  or comfortable enough with the Playbook.
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  We're Rudolph. Feels like he can lean on them
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  and extended periods. Okay?
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  Or periods. Where we're not, you know, game
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  game isn't fully in hand. That's my that's my thought at
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  this point. As far as why they didn't get in
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  but he talked about it a little bit too is that that unit still
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  trying to gel when you're trying to jail you probably lean on the
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  guy that's had Had the more work the more experienced shit got in
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  there, held up pretty good. I've got no real major notes on
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  on how he did there. I think it was a solid outing
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  for him, nothing super impressive but you know
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  sometimes at all an offensive lineman has to do is be
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  anonymous and good thing. If you don't know the in sik and
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  less, unless you were looking for him sik, was mostly
• 22:20
  Anonymous. So that's, that's about as good
• 22:22
  as he could do. I think in that type of sub n
• 22:24
  Roll for First, big game that might be the best.
• 22:28
  That's the quote of the day right there.
• 22:29
  That if you're an offensive, lineman remain anonymous and
• 22:32
  it's a thousand percent. Correct.
• 22:34
  Because if you don't know the name essentially, nobody's
• 22:36
  getting hit and nothing's getting blown up and sometimes
• 22:40
  that's all you need to win football games, right?
• 22:42
  I mean and you kind of mentioned it in Lebron was alluding to was
• 22:46
  coach prize comment after the game of, somebody asked him
• 22:49
  might have been any better like you know why didn't the younger
• 22:51
  guys play? And he's like, you know, Joe
• 22:53
  Rudolph. Big thing is getting this first.
• 22:55
  Unit to gel together and it's not happened yet.
• 22:58
  And the question is, let me ask you, this is, does it come a
• 23:03
  point in time where if they aren't gelling?
• 23:07
  Rudolph makes a move where it's like, okay, I've got to figure
• 23:11
  out why we're not gelling and I've got to move someone out.
• 23:16
  Yeah, I think he's going to get to that point.
• 23:18
  I don't think he wants to. I think he knows that in terms
• 23:21
  of ability, these are his best five at the positions that
• 23:25
  they're Playing. But at some point, if it's not
• 23:29
  working you got to, you got to do some mix and match and I
• 23:31
  don't think we're at that point yet.
• 23:34
  But okay, you know, I think we're getting to a point where
• 23:38
  if we don't see some progress the next couple weeks, then
• 23:41
  that's going to be probably where he starts making some
• 23:44
  moves. But I mean, the grade for this
• 23:47
  week is honestly a day, communication is still a big
• 23:51
  problem for this unit. I don't think they necessarily
• 23:55
  The Sara Lee impose, their will against a team that has subpart
• 23:59
  talent and some of that was because of missed assignments
• 24:03
  miscommunication with assignments miscommunication
• 24:07
  with blitz pickups, you know, on that fourth down.
• 24:10
  I don't know whose responsibility was because I
• 24:12
  don't have the play call, but it looked to me like Silas and
• 24:16
  Jesse blocked the same Defender and there, and there wasn't that
• 24:20
  that's not a situation where they're working to the next
• 24:22
  level. Those are going to be cut off
• 24:26
  blocks. It's a backside play.
• 24:28
  There's not going to be anything too, intricate there.
• 24:31
  They should be blocking the same down linemen and letting one go
• 24:35
  completely free into the backfield.
• 24:38
  The only other option there is maybe that was drinks guy, but
• 24:41
  Drake had a cut-off on a guy that was the outside linebacker.
• 24:43
  So it looked like that was probably some sort of
• 24:47
  miscommunication on the offensive line part there and we
• 24:50
  saw that a lot throughout the game.
• 24:52
  There was, there was some sometimes stuff on the inside
• 24:54
  where I should have been working to the next level and kind of
• 24:56
  just hung around on a combo block.
• 25:00
  These are things that take plays that could be, you know, five to
• 25:04
  six yard gainers, 8-yard gainers and turn them into one or two.
• 25:08
  And that's the big problem we've had is it still on those early
• 25:10
  Downs, were not productive enough where we're giving the
• 25:13
  offense a chance to be in those second and manageable and third
• 25:17
  and short situations consistently enough even against
• 25:20
  a sub Park opponent like Wofford.
• 25:23
  All right, and And Brawn, I think we probably can.
• 25:27
  All guess who's in the dog house this week but go ahead.
• 25:29
  Tell us who's in the dog house this week.
• 25:32
  We're putting Parker Clements in the in the dog house this week.
• 25:36
  Not a good day. Overall run blocking and pass
• 25:38
  blocking. I was looking at PFF grades
• 25:46
  somehow. Grant Wells has a higher PFF
• 25:48
  grade in pass Pro. Then Parker Clements Not good.
• 25:56
  Not great. Bob migrated.
• 25:57
  All right, let's move off the offensive line and you know,
• 26:03
  hopefully that is improved this week because I think it has to
• 26:06
  be and let's talk about quarterback, play in general and
• 26:11
  let's talk about, you know, Grant Wells obviously definitely
• 26:15
  his best game is a hokey maybe one of his better games as a
• 26:18
  college quarterback, you know, over 300 314 in the air. 74
• 26:23
  percent complete. Ian percentage two touchdowns no
• 26:26
  picks and kind of looking you text.
• 26:31
  What did you text me about what you saw him doing?
• 26:37
  It was going through his progressions.
• 26:38
  Got better. That's it.
• 26:39
  Sorry, we pray for your good. Yeah, he was going through
• 26:43
  progressions, a lot better this week in the.
• 26:46
  Again some of that can be chalked up to a step down in
• 26:50
  competition level, but it still was his most consistent Day by
• 26:55
  far. I'll take seventy four percent
• 26:57
  completion, all day, every day, especially since there's only a
• 27:02
  couple out there that were truly badly thrown Balls by him.
• 27:07
  Yeah, and only one really bowl. That was kind of put In Harm's
• 27:11
  Way the whole day. So that was early with it, that
• 27:15
  cover to ball. He kind of tried to fit in.
• 27:18
  I don't think it was caught but it was it was one of those you
• 27:21
  go. Oh no.
• 27:23
  Okay yep. Yep.
• 27:26
  He left it a little bit lower than you wanted to little bit
• 27:31
  lower. Maybe put a little bit more air
• 27:34
  on it. Get it.
• 27:34
  Get a little bit closer to the sideline a little bit.
• 27:37
  Deeper. Yep.
• 27:37
  Yeah, so it was close but that was the really only close call
• 27:42
  all day and I think you took care of the football well and he
• 27:48
  saw the feel a little bit better.
• 27:50
  He still occasionally will stare down, his primary route, kind of
• 27:53
  out the gate of the snap and that's something that I think he
• 27:55
  needs to work on but You know, I give him a solid b-plus on the
• 28:02
  day, you know, not a whole lot of big critiques for him.
• 28:08
  I know a couple couple folks were killing him on the timeline
• 28:11
  but I mean these are things that we're going to have to kind of
• 28:16
  massage as we go throughout the year.
• 28:18
  You have to live with it. It's what it is.
• 28:21
  You have to live with what he is and I mean I know Jason Brown
• 28:24
  did get some run near the end of the game which to me is good.
• 28:27
  Getting the backup quarterback involved just in live game
• 28:31
  action. Where you has rough sea?
• 28:33
  Made a few throw pillows, it's good to have on tape.
• 28:36
  It's good to talk to. So I was very glad to see that.
• 28:39
  Now one room that you know, I don't know if you put this on
• 28:42
  the offensive line with the running back, room did not have
• 28:45
  a good day. Three point.
• 28:47
  Three yards a carry. We didn't have King, which me,
• 28:49
  and you've already looted. Tube that's fine.
• 28:54
  David Halston had an okay day chance flag.
• 28:56
  Probably probably, maybe the worst.
• 28:58
  He's looked this year. Maybe trying to, maybe he was
• 29:02
  one of the guys that was trying to press to improve trust.
• 29:06
  Press to impress, the coaching staff and you know, but lo and
• 29:13
  behold we think it's man, this is what I running back room is
• 29:18
  you know, Christ you comes out in the Can have and I know that
• 29:21
  that time game was in hand we had warned them down a little
• 29:24
  bit but you what was your take on Bryce?
• 29:28
  Do today Ryan, I mean I think you had a good day.
• 29:32
  We showed Some solid Vision, good burst in the hole.
• 29:38
  My thing was that he ran through contact to finish the run.
• 29:41
  That that's a big thing for me. So he showed that and then
• 29:45
  obviously you showed his ability in the passing game with that
• 29:48
  wheel route that he took for a touchdown.
• 29:50
  Wells, put it right right in the basket there.
• 29:53
  And you know, made a big catch, you know, not quite full
• 29:58
  extension but you know had his arms out, cradled it in there,
• 30:02
  took it to the house, I like that.
• 30:06
  When we look at King being out, we knew that there was going to
• 30:08
  be probably be some sort of step back in terms of production
• 30:13
  level from this room on the day. And we got that And I think, you
• 30:19
  know Holston at this point I mean, I know he's been banged up
• 30:24
  but more or less, he is what he is.
• 30:26
  And he's a guy that's going to be able to get you some some
• 30:29
  hard running yards but he's not going to break a bunch of big
• 30:32
  plays. He's just not that type of back
• 30:36
  and I think you were right when you talked about chance black
• 30:39
  pressing a little bit. I think there were times where
• 30:42
  you know, a little bit more patience, maybe would have paid
• 30:45
  off for him. But I think he was trying to one
• 30:50
  of those were hit the home run to early in the in the snap and
• 30:55
  you ended up blocks, didn't develop things weren't there and
• 30:59
  now you're getting to one or two yard gain instead of you know
• 31:02
  what could potentially been a modest.
• 31:03
  But solid gain when you're trying to hit the hole hard and
• 31:07
  break to the second level too quick.
• 31:09
  Absolutely, the one thing about due to, I know you talked about
• 31:12
  running through contact, obviously showing his hands has
• 31:15
  when he saw it, he went When he saw the lane, he went there was
• 31:21
  and that I know you talked about the vision you've got to have
• 31:24
  good Vision, but even there some guys that have really good
• 31:26
  Vision that essentially tend to wait and they're trying to make
• 31:30
  the perfect whole happen in his case.
• 31:33
  I know one was like a five yard run and it was like going to the
• 31:36
  left side of the line and he saw it and just cut it in and got
• 31:39
  four. And like you said, he ran
• 31:40
  through the contact to me that decision, making right to me as
• 31:45
  a running back, having the great vision but Guys who decide to
• 31:48
  say, I'm cutting it right here, I'm going to hit the hole and I
• 31:52
  go back, and I think the Jalen Holston run, we pointed out at
• 31:55
  BC, where that left side of line had it sealed and he was kind of
• 31:59
  waiting there. The linebackers coming in the
• 32:02
  whole meet him because he doesn't tackle you and you get
• 32:06
  through him. There's a lot of green are in
• 32:08
  front of units that decision-making saying, I've got
• 32:10
  to go now and again, when you see a guy have it that that kind
• 32:15
  of gets you pumped up. All right, let's flip over to
• 32:18
  defense for a couple minutes here and let's just talk about
• 32:22
  it. I mean they held offered under
• 32:25
  200 yards but it seemed very unspectacular.
• 32:28
  It wasn't like, you know, man. Of amount of sex.
• 32:32
  We had a significant amount of tackles for losses, but I think
• 32:37
  something we noticed is we saw very heavy rotation of a lot of
• 32:45
  different players throughout the game.
• 32:47
  Not just at the end when it was primary, just younger guys.
• 32:51
  All throughout the game. There were times where Keyshawn
• 32:54
  artist played like three Series in a row and we didn't see Dax
• 32:57
  at all. Yeah, there were long periods of
• 33:00
  the, the second line being in the game throughout throughout
• 33:04
  the game. It wasn't just, as you said,
• 33:06
  sprinkled into the third or fourth quarter.
• 33:08
  When the game was in hand, we saw a heavy rotation and that's
• 33:13
  taking to account that we had to starting defensive lineman
• 33:16
  already out. So we were already a little bit
• 33:17
  into the depth chart by default there but we saw, you know, DJ
• 33:23
  Harvey get a lot of run this week even more.
• 33:26
  So than last week we saw A lot more Bri on Murray on the field
• 33:32
  than we saw the last week and we saw those safeties.
• 33:37
  And in Sam backers, get irritated a lot more to.
• 33:42
  So we there was a heavy dose. We saw, you know, Lawson got in
• 33:45
  there, we saw a lot more Keller this week.
• 33:49
  It was a it was a really heavy rotation across the board and,
• 33:53
  you know, you say 200 yards under 200, but it was very
• 33:57
  unspectacular, there were first down here, first down there,
• 34:02
  then they punt. First out there wasn't a ton of
• 34:04
  three announce it wasn't a ton of like abject domination.
• 34:09
  Yeah, we're you know, pushing them into it like several, you
• 34:12
  know, third and 15 in longer situations.
• 34:16
  It was very much, a two yards, three Yards.
• 34:20
  No yards punt. You know, first down three
• 34:24
  yards, three yards, no yards. Like there were a lot of those
• 34:27
  type of drives where they get a get a first down here, get a few
• 34:32
  yards and they punt it back to us.
• 34:35
  So and I think some of that was by Design, not necessarily just
• 34:38
  because we had some of the younger guys in or guys that are
• 34:43
  less experienced. But I think some of that had to
• 34:45
  do with how we were playing them and Anjali, how we were playing
• 34:50
  them in preparation for what we're about to see this week?
• 34:53
  Yeah, I was going to ask you that.
• 34:55
  Let's look at defensive back room.
• 34:56
  Real quick. We allowed 70% completions,
• 35:00
  including DJ hard. Let a big one.
• 35:02
  Go downfield. But when you looked at the tape,
• 35:05
  how are we playing? Because it felt to me, we were
• 35:09
  playing off a ton and we weren't pressing any, it was a lot more
• 35:12
  read, react this week and a lot less blitzing.
• 35:16
  I mean, we talked about it last week.
• 35:17
  This is more of a West Coast type spread very similar to what
• 35:22
  they're going to be doing with the air raid with with West
• 35:24
  Virginia, which we're going to preview here in a little bit.
• 35:27
  I think they were kind of getting them set up for that.
• 35:30
  More of a read, react type, secondary approach, you know,
• 35:35
  there's not going to be a ton of getting in these guys faces and
• 35:39
  pressing them at the line of scrimmage.
• 35:43
  We look at West Virginia and I think some of that was by Design
• 35:47
  getting guys out there getting them comfortable with those
• 35:51
  looks because it is a little bit of a different approach that.
• 35:54
  I think what we would like to do against a more typical, you
• 35:58
  know, spread offense got it now but because of that I think we
• 36:03
  saw it again and in every every week we keep talking about it.
• 36:07
  Brian do. The tackle informed looked
• 36:09
  better this week than it has all year and it's been significantly
• 36:14
  improved all year, but it seemed like rapping and getting guys.
• 36:18
  Down quick. There were no chances for them
• 36:21
  to go any further than where ever, they caught the ball.
• 36:25
  Yeah, that's going to be key with that read and react.
• 36:27
  You've got to be able to come up and make the tackle in the open
• 36:29
  field, and we did that consistently.
• 36:31
  We didn't give them a ton of extra yardage.
• 36:34
  You after they made the catch, that's going to be key going
• 36:38
  forward. And hopefully, we can keep that
• 36:40
  type of play up heading into West Virginia this week.
• 36:44
  Yeah. Now let's talk about defensive
• 36:46
  line because obviously we were down a couple and when that
• 36:51
  happens, there are some guys who stepped up in the two biggest or
• 36:55
  without towel on garbage, CJ, McRae and Cole Nelson.
• 36:59
  Really took a big step up into a point where I think defensive
• 37:04
  line again, much like the wide receiver room is slowly.
• 37:07
  As we start playing more games slowly, starting to make itself
• 37:12
  deep vs. These are Still the only two
• 37:15
  good guys to play. Both guys had a sack.
• 37:18
  Both eyes were getting after the quarterback and it's great to
• 37:21
  see that. Yeah.
• 37:23
  And you know, I'm going to revise some of what I said at
• 37:25
  the start of the season. I was concerned about this
• 37:27
  defensive line to start the year.
• 37:30
  Yeah. From a deaf perspective
• 37:32
  especially d-tackle with really only having three proving guys,
• 37:35
  you know, we talked last week about Pinette coming in and
• 37:37
  getting, you know, so many efficient snaps and kind of
• 37:40
  closing that distance between his play last year versus what
• 37:44
  he's doing this year. You know, we've seen Cole
• 37:46
  Nelson. Now Step Up CJ McRae coming on
• 37:49
  the scene is going to be huge. He had some good plays against
• 37:56
  gets BC, we saw some more a lot more this week with him, getting
• 38:00
  kind of a steady rotation in that in that defensive line
• 38:05
  room. So if we can continue to to make
• 38:10
  these strides on the defense of wine that's going to help us.
• 38:14
  Because as we were talking about, you know, when you can't
• 38:18
  bring the pressure like you want to get certain types of Defense
• 38:21
  certain types of offensive attacks.
• 38:23
  Getting pressure with four is going to be key.
• 38:25
  Mario, Kendricks had a good game, he was living in the
• 38:27
  backfield. So if we can get more of these
• 38:30
  guys were, we can get pressure with for more consistently.
• 38:33
  That's only going to be better down the road and we won't have
• 38:36
  to necessarily worry about whether we're playing a certain
• 38:40
  type of offense or not. Absolutely.
• 38:42
  And then with those guys taking those steps now that, you know,
• 38:45
  Kendricks and Pinette of kind of entrenched behind fuga and
• 38:49
  Pollard, you got for their and with McRae and Kendrick.
• 38:52
  Along with garbett and Jalen Griffin.
• 38:56
  He's not been spectacular, but he's been very steady at the
• 38:59
  other end position. It's like, okay we are now we've
• 39:03
  sort of got a little more depth with where you feel comfortable
• 39:06
  rotating guys in and out to say, hey, this is your series, go out
• 39:10
  there and do it. And, you know, it's kind of
• 39:13
  funny, there's something around a lunch pail.
• 39:14
  It's like Casey Price. He's getting his yard dogs
• 39:17
  ready. And hopefully he can get them
• 39:19
  Feast on Thursday night. All right.
• 39:22
  One. I'm scary play as of hokey fan
• 39:26
  on Saturday and it was late in the game.
• 39:29
  We were punning, we had punted deep there.
• 39:32
  Guy attempts to make a return and Shamari Connor is on special
• 39:35
  teams as a gunner. And he absolutely lays the wood
• 39:40
  to that punt return. And we're like, yeah, heck of a
• 39:44
  hit, you know, I'm, we're all jacked up.
• 39:46
  It feels like the old days and you come back and you see the
• 39:50
  ref with the headset on looking at the damn video and you're
• 39:52
  like, oh no, you did that go mother.
• 39:57
  Yeah, we were big-time concerned especially with what we got, you
• 40:01
  know, coming into Blacksburg on Thursday.
• 40:04
  You know, we don't want a guy like Connor out for a for a
• 40:06
  half. Because of some bullshit call
• 40:09
  like that, thankfully targeting was reviewed, no targeting.
• 40:16
  I was definitely on the edge of my seat.
• 40:18
  That holds I was like, come on, let's go.
• 40:20
  We can't we can't lose this guy. But I mean they were talking
• 40:24
  about on the live broadcast you know, that he did weeks, the
• 40:28
  tweaks to the rules. Yeah.
• 40:31
  And you know now it's literally top portion of the helmet.
• 40:36
  This It's no longer just, you know, anything above the
• 40:41
  facemask, huh? So I think that definitely
• 40:45
  played in our in our favor, their thanks.
• 40:47
  So as much as the rule still needs to be fixed some because
• 40:51
  as much as they've overstepped the boundaries for targeting,
• 40:54
  they started bringing it back in because if you saw the hit and
• 40:58
  you put it up there, Matt Jones, who was in The End Zone, saw it.
• 41:01
  He, it was shoulder and the reason it got that look like it
• 41:04
  was a targeting those. Because literally the way the
• 41:06
  guy moved once Jim. All right, pop, It literally
• 41:10
  didn't look like the head hit. So, you know again, we held our
• 41:14
  breaths, we got through it but that they still need to make it
• 41:19
  more. You can't punish a guy I think
• 41:22
  me and you I think you said a couple times.
• 41:24
  It's almost like the first ones just to penalty 15 yards.
• 41:30
  The next one's an ejection. It's like it needs to be
• 41:32
  layered. You can't just continue your out
• 41:35
  a quarter for one you've made 12.
• 41:37
  Perfect hits today. 12. Perfect kids.
• 41:40
  Oh, this one's going to get you done for the next half of the
• 41:43
  next games. Well, my problem is that they
• 41:46
  don't take into account. The aiming point of the
• 41:48
  defender, true true. Because the aiming point was
• 41:52
  that the chest and then you see the offensive player, the guy
• 41:57
  with the ball is reacting to the hit coming and now all of a
• 42:00
  sudden you got helmet-to-helmet contact.
• 42:02
  The aiming Point needs to be taken to account if you're
• 42:04
  launching and you're leading with your head high from the
• 42:07
  get-go. Lutely call that a targeting.
• 42:11
  We need to that type of play, out of the game.
• 42:12
  That's fine. But if an Aiming point is that
• 42:15
  the breastplate of the guy with the ball are down.
• 42:19
  All the signs are there. You know, he's ducking down and
• 42:22
  getting in defensive position to take the hit and now all of a
• 42:26
  sudden, you know, it's a helmet to helmet or something like that
• 42:29
  then, Yeah, I mean that has to be taken to account.
• 42:33
  That's the modification that I'd like to see to that rule.
• 42:37
  Abso-freaking-lutely? All right, so let's put a bow on
• 42:40
  it, Wofford weeks over twenty, seven, seven win.
• 42:44
  And let's flip over to just take a look at some, some using
• 42:48
  college football notes Here in the first one brine for me and
• 42:52
  you, and probably all the folks in the chat and watching live a
• 42:57
  relief, the national championship will kick it. 7:30,
• 43:00
  this Year versus 8:30, still a Monday night, which sucks.
• 43:05
  But at least we're getting the bed by 11:00 then the stupidest
• 43:08
  thing. Let's kick it at 8:38.
• 43:09
  And I are you kidding me? Why our apologies to Grayson
• 43:15
  wimbush out there? The on the west coast, he can
• 43:18
  take the creation, can take a half day and had, well, this
• 43:22
  year, we actually can go to it. Yeah.
• 43:24
  Because if the sub far this year, so Grayson exactly by
• 43:27
  taking whoever's in it and go Heckle the fan bases there.
• 43:30
  So I love them. It's for us that our fans that
• 43:34
  watch legitimately from Labor Day weekend, Labor Day, Thursday
• 43:38
  night, until the national championship game regardless.
• 43:41
  Who's playing you just you just rewarded us instead of punishing
• 43:46
  us. It's a huge day after the night.
• 43:49
  It's a reward for 80% of the college football watching
• 43:53
  populist 85. There's not that many out there.
• 44:00
  All right, I'm including, I'm including the Mountain Time Zone
• 44:04
  in the Mountain Time Zone. It's two hours. 5:30 that's
• 44:10
  pushing it, man. It's five.
• 44:11
  Thirty. Thirty minutes early.
• 44:14
  Go grab your dinner. That is the upside.
• 44:17
  You get two happy hours, five o'clock, somewhere, and get your
• 44:19
  ass on the bar and watch the game.
• 44:21
  All right, the official move acc's.
• 44:24
  Officially moving to Charlotte. Like should have happened two
• 44:29
  decades ago, probably not in 2022.
• 44:33
  But finally done. I mean seriously like
• 44:37
  Charlotte's one of the biggest growing hubs.
• 44:41
  So I mean sure Joe has been up and coming for a while, it me is
• 44:46
  one of the Premier East Coast cities.
• 44:49
  Now it is one of the biggest banking institutions and
• 44:52
  everything, so making the move there made perfect sense.
• 44:55
  It's where they do media day. I mean we're going to do media
• 44:59
  day down here but we're located up here and it's just like that
• 45:03
  makes zero sense. So, you know, good for the
• 45:07
  conference. Hopefully, it shows that they're
• 45:09
  trying to take some things seriously and keep the
• 45:12
  conference alive. Maybe third gives you better
• 45:16
  than that. Move moving alone is not going
• 45:18
  to do it. I'm just saying.
• 45:21
  All right, third piece of news here.
• 45:23
  This is pretty cool for us, especially Lee since you know,
• 45:28
  me and you've known the family pretty much since we were kids,
• 45:32
  Mackenzie Lauder Hokies catcher last year on the Super Regional,
• 45:38
  team has joined the BT softball team as a student coach.
• 45:43
  I know her her dad, and her mom and her whole family or super
• 45:48
  ecstatic for her to continue to stay up there and do something
• 45:51
  she loves man. Yeah, I mean that's going to
• 45:54
  that's big for that family. I mean, that's a, that's a
• 45:57
  softball family. That's a coach.
• 45:58
  They are it just? It goes hand-in-hand man.
• 46:08
  Who had a deal with us in high school and it's classes.
• 46:12
  Yes, he did. Hey, but hey, it was good.
• 46:17
  Algebra teacher for me, I got like a b-plus and I was not good
• 46:20
  at math, at that point in time. All right, bra before we get
• 46:25
  into Know, The Enemy West Virginia.
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  the episode. All right, Brian well, let's get
• 46:57
  to it. No, the enemy West Virginia and
• 47:00
  let's just start right out the gate here, Braun, and let's
• 47:03
  start with the quarterback because he is the biggest name
• 47:05
  in this game and that is JT Daniels.
• 47:08
  The 6226 quarterback from maitre, d, high school, I'm in
• 47:14
  California in 2018. He was a five star QB.
• 47:18
  He was the number two QB in the country.
• 47:20
  A top-20 player. He transferred from USC where he
• 47:24
  originally committed to Georgia when he lost his job to Spencer.
• 47:28
  Spencer. Last year, transferred again to
• 47:32
  West Virginia. Now this year, you know, a lot
• 47:35
  of them written in knowing about him but just kind of doing a
• 47:38
  quick view on him from the first few games this year.
• 47:41
  I mean, is it still? Is it still there?
• 47:46
  I mean he still saw the quarterback, he gets the ball
• 47:49
  out really quick especially on early throwing Downs, accurate.
• 47:52
  In the short intermediate game probably could see improvements
• 47:56
  in his deep Ball, but he can still make all the throws.
• 48:00
  But his biggest thing is Poison the pocket.
• 48:02
  He doesn't really panic when things don't look good, or when
• 48:05
  the pocket pocket collapses around him.
• 48:07
  He does a good job is still getting the ball out but
• 48:10
  sometimes that's to his detriment.
• 48:11
  He hangs on in the pocket there when the pressures coming and
• 48:15
  dangerously. So He had a couple balls when we
• 48:18
  were looking at the, the pit game where, you know, guys are
• 48:24
  hitting his arm as he's throwing the ball, and he had 44 times,
• 48:29
  that is his hand got hit as he was throwing the ball.
• 48:32
  None resulted in a turnover or an interception or anything like
• 48:36
  that in two of them were completions.
• 48:39
  So, you know, does the Luck run out for him in this case?
• 48:43
  You know, if we can get some pressure on him will see. he,
• 48:46
  but he does do a good job of hanging in there and delivering
• 48:51
  Yeah, absolutely. I know he threw the pick six in
• 48:55
  the pit game, which was I mean, he I remember watching that
• 48:59
  game, he telegraphed that pass and when pit the pit Corner saw,
• 49:04
  he jumped that route and housed in essentially.
• 49:06
  That was the game. But you know, so far this year
• 49:09
  and he's put up some pretty good statistical data.
• 49:12
  You know, complete 64 percent of his passes.
• 49:14
  He's got over 750 yards already in three games 66.
• 49:20
  Touchdown only two interceptions, never been a real
• 49:23
  threat to run at all and he's not really that athletic of a
• 49:28
  guy but you know, overall he is who he is, that 64%, he's at 63
• 49:34
  8 for his entire career, he's got it close to 6,000, you know,
• 49:37
  over 5,500 is uni passing yards. So he is a good player on this
• 49:43
  team and I tell you what the guy, he's throwing to primarily
• 49:48
  his favorite Target. Price forward Whedon that wide
• 49:52
  receiver 63 220 for also 2018 class.
• 49:57
  North Carolina got played down in Holly Springs down in, Fuquay
• 50:00
  Varina, probably a lot of folks listening here tonight, probably
• 50:04
  familiar with that area. Look them up no offer from Tech
• 50:08
  when he came out. And you know, so far this year
• 50:12
  he is been kind of tearing it up.
• 50:14
  You know, almost 300 yards, through three games for
• 50:19
  touchdown. Owns averaging.
• 50:21
  Just a little over 12 yards per catch.
• 50:24
  What's the tape tell you about this big body guy?
• 50:28
  Yeah, he's probably the best all-around light out we've seen
• 50:30
  so far this year, you know, I li Jennings and they flowers did
• 50:35
  some some really good stuff but this is more of a prototypical
• 50:39
  NFL level type receiver, great blend of size and speed and he's
• 50:47
  a great route Runner. He's got good hands.
• 50:51
  High Point skills are off the charts.
• 50:54
  He'll he's really good at High Point in the ball but he will
• 50:57
  you will have a drop every now and again.
• 50:58
  So there's some opportunity there where, you know, key third
• 51:02
  down could potentially get, you know, drop one that gives us the
• 51:05
  ball back and I have seen him occasionally disappear for
• 51:10
  stretches in the game. But when he's out when he's
• 51:13
  feeling it, when he's in the zone, he's as good as as anyone
• 51:17
  you can really watch on tape. He's they use that NFL typed.
• 51:20
  Talent. Nice.
• 51:21
  Anybody else in the wide receiver room, catch your eyes
• 51:24
  that we need to kind of keep an eye on this week.
• 51:27
  Yeah, the guy opposite him. Caden praise.
• 51:29
  There's also someone, I would, I would watch both of these guys
• 51:32
  are big, body NFL type receivers, you know, you talked
• 51:36
  about, you know, Ford weed and 63 220 for appraisers, 64 211,
• 51:44
  and both of these guys are quick there.
• 51:47
  These are not just stick mover in Me a big, big body receivers.
• 51:51
  They have the quickness to beat you deep.
• 51:54
  They had the quickness to move, kind of underneath the coverage
• 51:57
  and get open and get some run after the catch as well.
• 52:00
  Yeah. And you mentioned Prather, you
• 52:01
  know, 64 210. So again, you say, big body,
• 52:06
  definitely, big body. Not quite the statistics that
• 52:12
  Ford Whedon has, you know, right at 200 yards, right out of 11
• 52:16
  per catch but still you see those scores and numbers.
• 52:20
  And it's like, he said, if he's opposite, he's probably
• 52:22
  definitely going to be getting the looks this week.
• 52:25
  Now, we're gonna look at the running back room next and, you
• 52:27
  know, as we were kind of decide who to look at, you know, Tony
• 52:31
  math is just had a big game against Houston last week, but
• 52:35
  the guy that's really called. Our guy, our caught our eye is
• 52:38
  CJ Donelson the halfback tight, end, whatever you want to call
• 52:42
  them 62 240. He's from Miami Florida, he is a
• 52:46
  true freshman. He was a three star in the 2022.
• 52:50
  Yes. And, you know so far this year,
• 52:53
  he's averaging almost nine and a half yards per touch.
• 52:58
  What's the tape telling on him run?
• 53:00
  Yeah, I mean, he's the guy that's listed as a tight end but
• 53:03
  he primarily lines up in the backfield.
• 53:05
  He's he's a tree running back. He reminds me of kind of a
• 53:10
  trimmer quicker. Brandon Jacobs.
• 53:13
  Okay he runs the ball. All right, you kind of kind of
• 53:17
  upright running Style. Isle big guy can can Barrel you
• 53:23
  over, but he also is he's quick enough at the second level where
• 53:28
  he can hit some big runs. He had a couple big runs against
• 53:30
  Pitt. I think one, especially early on
• 53:33
  in that game that I think set up their first score there.
• 53:36
  And, you know, you had a couple Red Zone, touchdowns against
• 53:40
  Kansas, and then another one again, spits.
• 53:42
  Oh, he's really effective, inside the red zone as well.
• 53:45
  So that's somebody that we need to keep an eye on because they
• 53:49
  don't run the Malt ball very much so but when they do, it's
• 53:54
  usually usually pretty effective and especially with with CJ
• 53:57
  Donaldson here. Yeah, and you mentioned a
• 54:00
  touchdown, he's got six total for the year already and we're
• 54:03
  in game, three on. Did you notice anything like
• 54:06
  with past Pro? Is that a another reason they
• 54:08
  are putting him back there. See, a better pass protector for
• 54:12
  when it's those are eight shot times when they're going
• 54:14
  downfield. He is showing the propensity to
• 54:18
  be a good blocker early, but he's still, I think learning the
• 54:22
  offense a little bit. He's definitely, more of kind of
• 54:24
  a package guy. Used them pretty heavily against
• 54:27
  Towson, but they used in more in packages against Pitt in Kansas,
• 54:34
  okay? Got it.
• 54:37
  And, you know, it's kind of shows only two receptions for 10
• 54:39
  yards this year as well. So not exactly, you know,
• 54:43
  lighting the world on fire as a tight end but definitely doing a
• 54:46
  lot of damage. Like I said, not and a half
• 54:49
  yards, a carry just under 300 yards for the season so
• 54:54
  definitely got, we've got to keep an eye on now.
• 54:57
  Ryan, let's go ahead and talk about the offensive line where a
• 55:03
  known face to just about everyone and Hokie Nation a
• 55:06
  Actually two very well-known, guys, the former hokey Doug
• 55:08
  Nestor and the guy that everybody felt like was coming
• 55:12
  to Blacksburg as one of the top prospects on the offensive line.
• 55:17
  Why am I alone? What has the offensive line
• 55:22
  looked like with sort of the switch over to the air raid?
• 55:27
  They look pretty good that they're still not an elite off
• 55:29
  of the line, but they look pretty good.
• 55:32
  I would, let's talk about my land first.
• 55:35
  He's probably their best overall lineman at this point.
• 55:38
  He's playing left tackle for them, he's good in the Run game
• 55:41
  in the past game, but he's also a guy kind of similar to Brock
• 55:46
  Hoffman. He's gonna, he's gonna get some
• 55:49
  penalties, he had a couple procedure penalties, against
• 55:52
  Pitt, had a personal foul call against Pitt.
• 55:55
  It had a couple other penalties since then so he gets penalized
• 56:00
  pretty heavily more so than you would think for an offensive,
• 56:05
  lineman of his caliber of play. So that's something.
• 56:09
  We might be able to take advantage of as the game goes
• 56:11
  along they move Nestor out to right tackle.
• 56:14
  Now he's probably their best overall run blocker, but he
• 56:17
  still like he was when he was a hokey kind of kind of mid and
• 56:21
  past Pro, right? But but but when they like to
• 56:24
  run they like to run his Direction.
• 56:25
  Action. He does a good job in the Run
• 56:27
  game and then you got your name. You haven't mentioned Zach,
• 56:30
  Fraser, the center number 54. He's kind of the opposite of
• 56:34
  Nestor. He's really good in the past
• 56:36
  Pro, but he kind of gets pushed back a little bit in the Run
• 56:39
  game. All right, have you seen that?
• 56:42
  I mean, I know it was a few plays during the pit game that
• 56:47
  clearly the line broke down. I mean, are they like a roller
• 56:51
  coaster ride? Where sometimes they're doing
• 56:53
  great. And then, all of a sudden,
• 56:56
  three, four, five, six plays in a row.
• 56:57
  They just look like dog crap. Yeah me they never were able to
• 57:02
  really assert themselves against Pitt in the running game.
• 57:06
  They had again a couple big runs and then they finished pretty
• 57:10
  well in the Red Zone but they didn't do a whole lot kind of
• 57:14
  between the 20s short of those couple couple big runs by
• 57:19
  Donaldson. So if we can keep them behind
• 57:22
  the sticks, that's probably going to be the most effective
• 57:24
  way to negate what they can do there in the Run game.
• 57:28
  All right, well, let's kind of talk about this offense.
• 57:30
  We've met And it four or five times, this is clearly an Air
• 57:33
  Raid Offense, something that you know how money back at Valdosta
• 57:37
  State in the 90s came up with and then Mike Leach brought to
• 57:41
  the Forefront of Texas Tech in the early 2000's.
• 57:43
  In one of his very first quarterbacks is their offensive
• 57:46
  coordinator, which is Graham. Harrell kind of give us a
• 57:50
  breakdown of some, of the stuff we normally see narrate and they
• 57:53
  do anything a little bit different.
• 57:57
  Yeah. I mean it's a fairly
• 57:59
  prototypical are a, but they do have a little bit more of a run
• 58:03
  emphasis than your traditional air raid.
• 58:07
  They like to employ Tempo, especially when they connect on
• 58:10
  a good run or pass on some of those early Downs, they'll get
• 58:12
  going back to the line of scrimmage.
• 58:14
  They're hurrying up there trying to get the next play out there.
• 58:17
  Trying to keep you on your toes. Keep you from being on the sub
• 58:21
  and then working those mismatches you know contrary to
• 58:25
  last year though they're not a eight running team but they can
• 58:28
  be effective when they hit a home run.
• 58:31
  You know we saw Donaldson hit a couple long runs against Pitt.
• 58:36
  We've seen math is get one or two here there especially last
• 58:39
  week against Towson so they can still hit that, but there's no
• 58:43
  Levi Brown out there this year, so don't expect to get
• 58:46
  completely gashed. Like we did last year when we
• 58:50
  played West Virginia in Morgantown, The rush is kind of
• 58:55
  used as a drive starter not really used as a drive started.
• 58:59
  You know, sometimes it is, sometimes, it's not, but it's
• 59:01
  more used as a change of pace from kind of that quick hitting
• 59:04
  pass game that's, you know, prevalent in the air raid.
• 59:10
  Got it. How much do they push it down
• 59:16
  for you because you have so many Air Raids where the push down
• 59:20
  field is almost like an old school.
• 59:24
  An old-school NFL philosophy where it's we're only going to
• 59:28
  take about two or three shots in a half.
• 59:32
  And then you kind of when I say that is because they're playing
• 59:35
  primitive, all right? You look at it tunnels and
• 59:37
  Bubbles and quick outs. Getting the ball out quick.
• 59:40
  Do they have a tendency to go deep alive or is it more of
• 59:43
  they're trying to Papi Papi Papi for a quarter and a half?
• 59:47
  And then all of a sudden once you come up then over the top
• 59:49
  they go. Yeah they kind of suck you in
• 59:52
  with that and they'll work some double moves off.
• 59:54
  Off of that. And they, the receivers they're
• 59:56
  both. Again, we talked about, they're
• 59:57
  both big out there but they've got, they've got wiggle, they've
• 1:00:00
  got speed so that helps them both in the short game.
• 1:00:04
  And when they decide to go deep though, so they have the ability
• 1:00:07
  to do both but they usually stay in that short to intermediate
• 1:00:11
  Zone, most of the time, but they will take a shot here and there.
• 1:00:16
  All right, got it. So, so sort of a balanced, not
• 1:00:20
  your typical original Airaid, where it was just a ton of
• 1:00:23
  perimeters then down, Where again, we've seen it, develop
• 1:00:26
  where there are some teams in area Concepts that are just
• 1:00:28
  attacking downfield, a ton. So very good to know that you
• 1:00:33
  know they're not just trying to stretch you vertically and
• 1:00:36
  horizontally they will stretch you vertically as well.
• 1:00:38
  So yeah that's one of them to keep an eye on but they're not
• 1:00:42
  just taking shots downfield all game either.
• 1:00:45
  Absolutely. Now Brian let's let's flip over
• 1:00:50
  to the defense here in just a second but there's a comment.
• 1:00:52
  I want you to throw up out there from our coach Rob like Compton
• 1:00:59
  talking about that. If you give the space if you
• 1:01:01
  press they, burp goes back to what we saw.
• 1:01:03
  Right against Wofford why we playing off.
• 1:01:07
  There it is, right there. All right.
• 1:01:10
  But now let's flip over to the defense and let's talk about the
• 1:01:13
  guy who probably should be playing in the NFL, right?
• 1:01:15
  Right now, I'm still trying to figure out why he came back for
• 1:01:17
  more seasons at West, Virginia. And that would be Dante Stills,
• 1:01:21
  the 64 285 column strong side defensive end.
• 1:01:26
  Call them a three technique. He is a damn good player, he was
• 1:01:30
  a four-star. When he came out in 2018, he was
• 1:01:33
  a top D top player in West Virginia that year.
• 1:01:38
  He was a top-10 defensive lineman, he was a top, 150
• 1:01:41
  overall player. He was a stud when he came out
• 1:01:44
  and he's lived up to it every single, basically, his entire
• 1:01:49
  time at West Virginia, Yeah, he's an absolute monster on that
• 1:01:55
  three-man front playing. That defensive tackle has a
• 1:02:00
  Relentless motor really quick off convert speed to strength.
• 1:02:05
  Really effectively they use them a lot in stunts.
• 1:02:10
  They'll bring them all the way across the the line of
• 1:02:12
  scrimmage. And he's got a spin move that
• 1:02:17
  for a guy. His size is as Elite as you can
• 1:02:19
  imagine. He's other moves are not as
• 1:02:22
  effective. Effective at the snap, but that
• 1:02:25
  motor is what really sets him apart.
• 1:02:27
  He keeps working keeps working. So he's a guy that if you're not
• 1:02:32
  staying on your block holding your leverage, he's going to
• 1:02:35
  eventually get to the quarterback.
• 1:02:37
  Yeah, I mean, he calls Havoc for them last year and in this year
• 1:02:43
  so far. I mean he's already at eight
• 1:02:45
  tackles 34 lost a couple of sacks his career numbers, 120
• 1:02:50
  tackles it again. This is as a plan to end on a
• 1:02:53
  three-man front. 120. Tackles forty seven tackles for
• 1:02:57
  loss in over 20 sacks. That's Ali.
• 1:03:02
  Again I think I think what he was projected like a second
• 1:03:05
  round pick last year and he came back which is just insane.
• 1:03:09
  Because usually you get a grade that how you go especially
• 1:03:12
  defensive lineman you will be taken.
• 1:03:15
  All right, let's talk about somebody who has to clean up
• 1:03:18
  what he does and that would be Lee and let me go Pogba KP o
• 1:03:24
  GBA, he is a Otis I try. He is a six foot one or
• 1:03:32
  230-pound linebacker Winston-Salem.
• 1:03:37
  North Carolina at Parkland. High School came out in 2019 is
• 1:03:41
  a three-star. He originally committed to
• 1:03:43
  Syracuse where he was for a couple years.
• 1:03:46
  Then he went to Juco route in 2021 and then transferred as a
• 1:03:50
  Juco to West Virginia and you know so far this season 18
• 1:03:58
  total. Tackles and one fumble recovery.
• 1:04:01
  So some solid numbers up front. What are you seeing on tape?
• 1:04:07
  Yeah, he's got, he's a great athlete and has good speed for
• 1:04:09
  the mic position. He's another kid with a great
• 1:04:13
  motor never gives up on the play.
• 1:04:16
  They'll send him on blitzes he. He's a guy that can kind of
• 1:04:21
  disrupt the backfield in the Run game and in the past game, but
• 1:04:25
  he does struggle to sometimes shed blocks in the Run game.
• 1:04:29
  So he does struggle from at that from time to time, so we can get
• 1:04:33
  up to the next level. On him.
• 1:04:35
  We can neutralize him a little bit.
• 1:04:37
  All right, so there's some key, some of those plays, we like
• 1:04:40
  you've been mentioning before, like he's going to be stagnant
• 1:04:44
  instead of going up to the next level.
• 1:04:46
  Let's hope we can get in his face.
• 1:04:48
  Alright, next, I want to talk about here is Marcus.
• 1:04:51
  Floyd Marcus fluid is a defensive back, he is 6 foot 194
• 1:04:56
  pounds Louisville. Kentucky is where he is from
• 1:04:59
  completely, unrelated out of high school on any service.
• 1:05:04
  When he came out in 2018, he started by going to An in-state
• 1:05:08
  Murray State. So in FCS program all hook, you
• 1:05:11
  should be very familiar with and then decided to transfer to West
• 1:05:15
  Virginia in December of 2021. Where is he lining up?
• 1:05:20
  Brian? What's he doing for the
• 1:05:22
  Mountaineers? Yes, he's a former Corner.
• 1:05:25
  Most of the snaps he was playing at his former stop.
• 1:05:29
  He was playing corner but now he's playing What's called the
• 1:05:33
  the cat safety in this 33 stag defense, similar to a Rover type
• 1:05:39
  of position, he's above average and cover and coverage
• 1:05:43
  especially when he can read to react versus being in man and
• 1:05:47
  he's a good tackler. Use them.
• 1:05:49
  Occasionally as a Blitzer. He does.
• 1:05:53
  Kind of similar to leak Pogba, he can disappear when you put a
• 1:05:57
  body on him. So if he gets blocked he doesn't
• 1:05:59
  do a good job of shedding and getting and making the play.
• 1:06:02
  He's at his best when he can just fly up into the spill area
• 1:06:07
  and make a play in The Run game. And like I said, he's above
• 1:06:11
  average in that that's own coverage, that reading react
• 1:06:13
  coverage. Did you see any sort of plays
• 1:06:17
  where he was left on a man? Like, if they went to some sort
• 1:06:20
  of cover zero recover one, where he was forced to cover a slot?
• 1:06:25
  He did okay but he doesn't have Elite level speed to keep up
• 1:06:30
  with guys and his technique is not that great.
• 1:06:35
  I mean, it's just average. So it's one of those things
• 1:06:38
  where we potentially look for a matchup, like a Dwayne Lofton or
• 1:06:42
  Jaden blue in that slot. If we get the right looks and
• 1:06:46
  maybe not going over the top, but try and some of that quick
• 1:06:49
  twitch type stuff where you feel like there's his skill set is
• 1:06:53
  not that I saw A few times and he got matched up in man where
• 1:06:58
  crossers were kind of plays that we could take advantage of him,
• 1:07:01
  okay? All right.
• 1:07:03
  Make a note of that right there. All right about we take a look
• 1:07:06
  at one more defensive player and then before we get into the
• 1:07:09
  defensive breakdown and that is the defensive lineman Taj
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  Alston. Six foot four 255 pounds,
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  another North Carolina, kid from Lumberton.
• 1:07:22
  North Carolina down there near Fayetteville.
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  He attended copia Lincoln Community College out in
• 1:07:27
  Nebraska and then he committed to West Virginia as a three-star
• 1:07:32
  in 2019, so far this season as an end, he's got a tackle for
• 1:07:38
  loss couple forced fumbles, which is very interesting to see
• 1:07:43
  what's the tape showing on him in.
• 1:07:46
  How does he do opposite of steals?
• 1:07:50
  He does pretty good opposite instills especially when the
• 1:07:52
  quarterbacks dropping back. He is more of a pure pass
• 1:07:56
  rusher. He's more of the true defensive
• 1:07:58
  end and this type of three-man front whereas Stills is more of
• 1:08:04
  the balance player. But he has really good speed off
• 1:08:07
  the edge, but he does struggle to make plays in The Run game
• 1:08:11
  when you run directly at him, when you put a big body on and
• 1:08:13
  he can be blocked. So I imagine we run away from
• 1:08:16
  steals a little bit. Run at Taj Alston and tried to
• 1:08:20
  neutralize his pass rush as much as we can, by chipping.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah, and we definitely need to do that because last year,
• 1:08:27
  against the Hokies have four total tackles including a sack
• 1:08:31
  and a half in the game last year down.
• 1:08:36
  In Morgantown. So obviously, he's familiar with
• 1:08:39
  the Hokies. Obviously he's familiar with
• 1:08:42
  some of these offensive line we're gonna be playing now.
• 1:08:44
  Brian, let's flip over. Let's talk about the defense
• 1:08:46
  itself. You've mentioned a couple times
• 1:08:48
  already. This they have not changed it
• 1:08:50
  yet. They're still in the 33 stack.
• 1:08:52
  And what you've seen, especially against Pitt and Kansas this
• 1:08:55
  year and why those teams were able to come out and get on top
• 1:08:58
  of the West Virginia Mountaineers.
• 1:09:01
  Yeah. So they're very average against
• 1:09:03
  the rush attack and that's the big thing.
• 1:09:05
  Pit was able to establish the line of scrimmage pretty early
• 1:09:07
  in that game. And it kept going, you know,
• 1:09:10
  throughout the game where they were able to run pretty
• 1:09:12
  consistently against that front especially with Hammond.
• 1:09:17
  He haven't had a lot of success against that front there at
• 1:09:22
  attacking defense, as most three threes are they do a good job of
• 1:09:26
  blitzing design. It, you know, confusing
• 1:09:29
  offensive lines, with how they bring.
• 1:09:30
  Pressure and where they're bringing it from and they rely
• 1:09:34
  on that pressure as they are at best, a work in progress, on the
• 1:09:38
  back end. You know, when you look at that
• 1:09:41
  that secondary, you know, you got five key guys there and only
• 1:09:46
  one of them was recruited by West Virginia, out of high
• 1:09:49
  school, everyone else is a transfer and most of them are
• 1:09:53
  transferring from FCS and G5 programs.
• 1:09:57
  So it's really an interesting interesting defense to face
• 1:10:03
  because there's a lot of new faces on the backend, pretty
• 1:10:07
  much all new faces on the back end, compared to what we saw
• 1:10:10
  last year will guide in up front.
• 1:10:13
  You know, it's kind of the the same old song and dance with
• 1:10:16
  Stills. You know, coming through there
• 1:10:18
  and Alston so if we can hold up in the offensive line category,
• 1:10:24
  which is probably where we're struggling with the most overall
• 1:10:27
  on. All fence right now.
• 1:10:28
  Yeah. If we if we can hold up the you
• 1:10:30
  know there's some opportunities there but you know occasionally
• 1:10:34
  you'll see them adjust to a four-man line.
• 1:10:37
  They did that in the second half against Pitt when pit was
• 1:10:39
  big-time gash in them in the running game.
• 1:10:42
  The Bandit position played by Jarrett Bartlett, he ends up
• 1:10:46
  lined it up opposite Alston with with Stills we went down into a
• 1:10:51
  more 433 technique. Are you glad that we got that on
• 1:10:57
  tape though? Are you glad that they sort of
• 1:11:00
  had a show that hand early against West Virginia about if
• 1:11:03
  they couldn't when they, when the three-man front is getting
• 1:11:05
  gas there, they've got to show the foreman and we're Partners
• 1:11:08
  got to come down and you glad that's on tape for our coaching
• 1:11:11
  staff. Yeah, we saw it some last year
• 1:11:14
  so it's not something that we haven't seen before.
• 1:11:16
  But okay, it's good to see what it looks like in this current
• 1:11:21
  version of the defense with some of those new faces on the back
• 1:11:23
  end. Got you, got you got you?
• 1:11:28
  All right, so there is kind of a overview of both the
• 1:11:35
  Mountaineers offense and defense and some of the key players will
• 1:11:39
  be looking at to not have good games alms Thursday night.
• 1:11:43
  Now, let's go to the Hokies for this game and Prime as I was
• 1:11:48
  looking at the data and Diving and looking at one thing.
• 1:11:52
  Then the other, something that caught my eye is third.
• 1:11:57
  Conversions in on both sides of the ball because West Virginia
• 1:12:00
  is one of the better than the country.
• 1:12:02
  They are completing 54 percent of their third Downs, which is a
• 1:12:07
  unbelievable number. I'd love to get 44%, but as I
• 1:12:11
  was digging and is probably all of us, heard Saturday, Virginia
• 1:12:15
  Tech doesn't give up their downs and it's not one of those were
• 1:12:20
  in the top 20 to top 15. We're number three in the
• 1:12:24
  country. And the Hokies are allowing Only
• 1:12:27
  17% of third down conversions defensively.
• 1:12:31
  So in one of those games where as the high-powered offense
• 1:12:33
  against the, you know, high-powered defense, That's got
• 1:12:39
  a, it's got to break one way or the other.
• 1:12:42
  And is there anything you foresee?
• 1:12:43
  That might assist the Hokies in keeping that, you know, 17% as
• 1:12:50
  the norm for Thursday night. I mean I think one thing that's
• 1:12:55
  helped us is that we got to practice a little bit of what
• 1:12:59
  we're going to get against West Virginia.
• 1:13:01
  Against Wofford, I think we've kind of seen what we can do with
• 1:13:07
  that style of offense and now we've had a correction period,
• 1:13:11
  right? Yeah, they went out there, they
• 1:13:14
  corrected some of those mistakes.
• 1:13:16
  We got some young guys to get some reps against that, that
• 1:13:19
  style defense. So that's I think that's key but
• 1:13:23
  the Key is going to be keeping everything in front of you and
• 1:13:26
  tackling. Because if you don't tackle,
• 1:13:29
  then that third down percentage is going to go up this week.
• 1:13:33
  Yeah we've got is we've got to be in the right position and
• 1:13:35
  then when we come up we got to make the tackle and make sure
• 1:13:39
  that they're not getting more than a yard or two after the
• 1:13:42
  catch in this in this offense. Yeah, it said big piece.
• 1:13:48
  Another key of ours, it's the tackling in space and so much
• 1:13:51
  with the are a concept is where they catch the ball as where
• 1:13:55
  they've got a fall. If you can do that consistently,
• 1:14:00
  you it will frustrate an Air Raid Offense.
• 1:14:03
  Consistently because instead of getting the five or eight,
• 1:14:06
  they're getting the 224 and putting them in unfavorable down
• 1:14:11
  in distances as you get deeper into the into the place.
• 1:14:15
  And then that Means we can get into a little bit more of what
• 1:14:18
  we like to do with, with dialing up pressure on on those third
• 1:14:21
  and long situations, 10 years back and go.
• 1:14:25
  All right, so I said it was both sides of the balls and, you
• 1:14:29
  know, as bad as we are at converting, we are 90th right
• 1:14:32
  now in the country and that's a thirty-six percent.
• 1:14:36
  So basically, when I have every three, third downs, we convert
• 1:14:40
  the are one of the worst defensively.
• 1:14:43
  They're 112 out of 131 teams and they Roughly only stop team's 46
• 1:14:48
  percent of the time. I'm hoping that our number can
• 1:14:56
  come up to their mean because if you tell him he we convert close
• 1:14:58
  to 50% of the time on Thursday night, I will feel really good
• 1:15:03
  about our chances at winning this game because the less time
• 1:15:07
  that offenses on the field. It's the best thing for us.
• 1:15:13
  Yeah, the big key is going to be getting them off.
• 1:15:16
  The field on third down and staying on the field.
• 1:15:18
  On third down, lengthening this game or sorry shortening this
• 1:15:22
  game is going to be key for the Hokies.
• 1:15:24
  I think, possessing, the ball and shortening, the game is
• 1:15:28
  going to be key for the Hokies in terms of pulling out of w,
• 1:15:30
  because if they're going fast, and they're running, a bunch of
• 1:15:33
  plays and they're going up and down the field, they're going to
• 1:15:35
  get some points off those. And eventually, those points are
• 1:15:37
  going to not work in our favor because I don't, I don't see us
• 1:15:41
  as a quick straight. We're not going to be able to go
• 1:15:43
  out there and stack points and match them score for score.
• 1:15:46
  If it becomes that type of game, abso-freakin'-lutely, Brian and
• 1:15:51
  that's kind of where it's the next kind of, And that we've
• 1:15:58
  been talking about about our key is, the Hokies Run game against
• 1:16:02
  the West Virginia run defense. The West Virginia is in, thanks
• 1:16:07
  for putting that up, thanks low country, living for that.
• 1:16:10
  I had heard that I do think Kings going regardless, I think
• 1:16:15
  it's one of these. He's at 35 percent on Thursday
• 1:16:18
  he's going because him and 85% is probably still better than
• 1:16:22
  any running back. We've got and for this running
• 1:16:24
  game, you know, can we Open it up.
• 1:16:28
  They're giving up roughly about 120 a game.
• 1:16:32
  It's roughly about middle of the pack.
• 1:16:34
  It's not Elite, it's not great, but it's not god-awful, but the
• 1:16:38
  whole thing is what kind of Brian's been mentioned about
• 1:16:41
  getting that going, if we're converting third Downs to hold,
• 1:16:45
  you back in and slowly, but surely if we're gasps, shing
• 1:16:49
  gasps, shing what has to happen with that, back-end Brian.
• 1:16:53
  If we're Gathering them for, for 27 yards, every play.
• 1:16:58
  Babies are going to play up in the Box a little bit more to
• 1:17:01
  help stop the run, help support the run.
• 1:17:03
  And eventually that's going to hopefully open up some stuff on
• 1:17:05
  the back end. We just have to be able to in a
• 1:17:08
  position to take advantage of that guy.
• 1:17:09
  Take advantage of it. But you've already mentioned, it
• 1:17:11
  is a flawed back in and it kind of shows, they do give up a lot
• 1:17:16
  more passing yards, then rushing yards.
• 1:17:19
  So again, getting the Run game going and getting them to have
• 1:17:22
  to get into situations where they're uncomfortable on the
• 1:17:25
  back. End is so cute.
• 1:17:27
  Now our success on the back end is predicated on getting
• 1:17:29
  pressure on the quarterback. They are not a great back-end
• 1:17:32
  team. So I think that's one of those
• 1:17:35
  things where we talked about Gala.
• 1:17:37
  If you if we start getting Gallo going and him a or Drake going
• 1:17:40
  in the flats early and we're picking up significant that
• 1:17:44
  immediately is going to make the safeties.
• 1:17:47
  Both the probably the Bandit and probably the the Rover got to
• 1:17:52
  come up and if that's coming up more and more, if they're trying
• 1:17:54
  to come up to me, 50 the cat the cat safety is calling her over
• 1:18:00
  for god sakes but if they're coming up more and more than you
• 1:18:04
  know, Guess what? There's going to be Lanes to
• 1:18:08
  throw down to those crossers. We've been talking about some of
• 1:18:11
  our better plays this year. All right, last piece in this
• 1:18:16
  this is just mind-blowing to me. So West Virginia has given up
• 1:18:21
  100 points this year in three games.
• 1:18:24
  So that means they're giving up over 30 points a game.
• 1:18:28
  The insane part is Brian. They've given up 63 in Red Zone
• 1:18:33
  trips. They finished in the Red Zone 10
• 1:18:38
  times. They've been scored on not times
• 1:18:42
  called by a touchdown. I don't think that's good times.
• 1:18:51
  Any of my Ferris Bueller fans know the reference nine.
• 1:18:55
  But seriously you know right now work at we've been down there
• 1:18:59
  eight, we are converting 75% of the time which you know, you
• 1:19:02
  want more than that. But to say that, you know, we
• 1:19:07
  what was the thing, we just talked about in The Walker game,
• 1:19:09
  we didn't finish drives. This is a team that just allows
• 1:19:13
  teams to finish drive. That seems at will if you get
• 1:19:15
  inside the 20 yard line, Yeah, it's one of those when we looked
• 1:19:22
  at earlier with the the third down, its kind of Unstoppable,
• 1:19:27
  Force against an immovable object.
• 1:19:28
  Now you've got the reverse of that.
• 1:19:30
  Exactly thing that's somewhat struggling to finish drives
• 1:19:33
  against the team that does nothing, but let teams finish
• 1:19:36
  drives. So, yeah, you got the, you've
• 1:19:38
  got a team that does that decides to trip up and fall down
• 1:19:42
  in the team. That does Au Lait and gets out
• 1:19:44
  of the way you can go score that touchdown.
• 1:19:47
  So, they're kind of the keys to what we're seeing with some of
• 1:19:52
  the data, some of the players in Brian, we have come, you know,
• 1:19:56
  every week we've got to do this and we met predictions beginning
• 1:20:00
  of the season. And now, it's time for this game
• 1:20:02
  prediction. And since you left last week I
• 1:20:06
  do get the honor this week sir. And this one was tough me and
• 1:20:09
  Brian we set about 30 minutes. This afternoon had a phone call
• 1:20:14
  just chatting a little bit of everything about what we can go
• 1:20:16
  over tonight. And all the data points.
• 1:20:21
  Say it's going to be a good game because of the contrarians of
• 1:20:27
  what's going on each side of the team is going to be a good game
• 1:20:29
  but it seems like everything leans, West Virginia they've got
• 1:20:33
  a okay defense versus where and they got a really great offense
• 1:20:39
  where we've got a great defense statistical wise.
• 1:20:42
  And I often say, it's not as bad as last year y'all last year
• 1:20:45
  were one of the three right now, we're ranked.
• 1:20:47
  A third. So we've actually improved
• 1:20:50
  offensively this year, whether we know it or not But I kept
• 1:20:54
  going back to thinking it's Thursday night.
• 1:20:58
  It's Lane, it's a sellout Justin what's?
• 1:21:01
  It's going to be in Okie colored coveralls to get the chant
• 1:21:06
  going? And I think it's going to be one
• 1:21:09
  or two big plays that completely swing this game.
• 1:21:13
  And for all those out there, if you can take off Friday, if
• 1:21:18
  you're going to the game, you better take off Friday because
• 1:21:20
  you're not going to be any condition to work if you are
• 1:21:22
  working on Friday. My condition is you need to call
• 1:21:25
  somebody tomorrow and say you're not working because I think this
• 1:21:28
  is going to be a thriller to the end in my prediction.
• 1:21:32
  I'm going to stick with what I had at the beginning of season.
• 1:21:34
  I think the Hokies pull this one out, I think it's a war and I
• 1:21:37
  think the Hokies take it by Point Thirty One Thirty.
• 1:21:43
  I like your optimism and we actually have West Virginia
• 1:21:47
  scoring the exact same amount of points.
• 1:21:51
  The problem is, I got the Hokies only scoring 24 of them.
• 1:21:56
  I've got this as a solid game front to back.
• 1:22:03
  We're in at the whole way. We're slowing them down.
• 1:22:07
  Just enough. We give up three touchdowns.
• 1:22:09
  We give up three field goals. We still keep a good defensive
• 1:22:15
  performance overall, but we don't quite do enough and the
• 1:22:18
  offense doesn't quite do enough to get that W.
• 1:22:21
  Bronze, basically, saying the offense is not going to finish a
• 1:22:24
  few times. Yeah, I still I'm not fully
• 1:22:29
  trusting this offensive line yet and I think the communication
• 1:22:32
  and the way that West Virginia likes to the bring, the the
• 1:22:35
  Blitz and the pressure from a lot of different areas if that
• 1:22:39
  communication has not taken a step since Wofford, Then that's
• 1:22:44
  going to be problematic. And when you're trying to close
• 1:22:46
  the game out, Anyway, you're trying to come back.
• 1:22:50
  You know, down one score trying to finish out your going to be
• 1:22:53
  throwing the ball. There's going to be that
• 1:22:54
  pressure and I'm just questioning whether we can hold
• 1:22:57
  up. Alright, so there you go.
• 1:23:00
  I got 3130 VT bronze. Trying to be the realest of our
• 1:23:05
  group saying, 3024 say I mean it's weird Pig against each
• 1:23:11
  other. Sometimes it's what happens.
• 1:23:13
  All right, Brian. So let's flip it.
• 1:23:15
  Let's look at our big screeners this week.
• 1:23:18
  What's going to be on your big screen and some point in time
• 1:23:20
  during the day? Saturday, I've got Florida at
• 1:23:24
  Tennessee, that's going to be my big screener.
• 1:23:28
  Tennis tendon. Oh hey, man.
• 1:23:32
  If we look at the, you know, the guys that are showing out, I
• 1:23:35
  mean, obviously, you know, we got one starter we're playing
• 1:23:39
  against this week that used to be on the Hokies.
• 1:23:41
  We've got another down in Louisville started on that
• 1:23:45
  offensive line. We got Hendon tearing it up in
• 1:23:47
  Tennessee that sees a Heisman front-runner.
• 1:23:50
  At this point tastes case playing good over Kentucky.
• 1:23:53
  Yeah. It's a tough look, man.
• 1:23:57
  It's a tough look. But when when I look at that
• 1:24:02
  one, Tennessee is actually a 10-point favorite here and
• 1:24:06
  that's a little too rich for my blood.
• 1:24:09
  Okay. So I'm going to take Florida in
• 1:24:11
  the 10 but I think Tennessee wins the game outright but I've
• 1:24:17
  got Florida and that in the 10 points here that is a lot to
• 1:24:21
  play. Especially I mean Tennessee's
• 1:24:23
  had very little success of the floor over the last Decade heck
• 1:24:26
  over the place full decade. So that is a lot to lay in.
• 1:24:30
  Again, they got up for Utah and I think I think that's a sign
• 1:24:36
  that now for me I'm going to stay in the ACC.
• 1:24:40
  It is probably the game that is either going to in DJ ukeleles
• 1:24:44
  career or springboard him to actually doing big things.
• 1:24:50
  As Clemson. Wake Forest is going to be a
• 1:24:52
  high noon kick. So I'm going to miss probably
• 1:24:54
  about half of this game because of Baseball, I'll come in, check
• 1:24:57
  the second half, probably be following on the phone while I'm
• 1:25:00
  there. I do think.
• 1:25:03
  Clemson wins think Clemson's a seven-and-a-half one favor.
• 1:25:06
  I think Clemson wins out, right? I'm not touching.
• 1:25:09
  That spread that offense is that offense is to anemic, in the
• 1:25:13
  defense is too good. I am going to say the under a 55
• 1:25:17
  and a half, I think it's going to be something like a 24:21
• 1:25:22
  game. Maybe 2824, Clemson pulls it
• 1:25:25
  out. Not enough to cover but I think
• 1:25:28
  that's going to be an entertaining game.
• 1:25:30
  There's actually a lot of entertaining games.
• 1:25:33
  You know, I chose this one and it was one more I think Saturday
• 1:25:36
  night in Corvallis Oregon State USC.
• 1:25:41
  You said it to me, when we talked earlier, this is a game,
• 1:25:44
  we're going to know if Lincoln Riley is for Real USC, in year 1
• 1:25:48
  because that's a tough ass place to play in Oregon, state has
• 1:25:51
  been playing very good recently. Yeah, I mean I think it's his
• 1:25:56
  first big test. I think we'll see if this is a
• 1:26:01
  team that's ready to actually be competitive and challenge for a
• 1:26:05
  potential college football, playoff spot.
• 1:26:07
  Or if they're just a team that has some talent, but it's still
• 1:26:10
  a year or two away from making that step.
• 1:26:15
  When you look at that team, though, they've got, they've got
• 1:26:17
  the players. Yeah, and you know, the question
• 1:26:20
  is has Lincoln Riley, instilled, that That winning culture enough
• 1:26:26
  in such a short period of time where things start to click when
• 1:26:30
  it gets tough a little bit. And so we think that there's
• 1:26:34
  going to be times where that game.
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  It might be a might be tough for a little bit.
• 1:26:37
  We'll see how they react. Yep.
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  Because because Oregon state scored over 30 every game.
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  This year they did have a would present of State in which, you
• 1:26:47
  know, everybody will say. Well, if we look at the common
• 1:26:50
  opponent, Fresno State. USC won by 21.
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  I listen to a podcast San Francisco, Niners podcast s in
• 1:27:00
  one of the guys went to Fresno. So he pays super attention to
• 1:27:02
  them and like their best player. Went down early, like early
• 1:27:06
  first half, so we didn't really get a reflection of Fresno State
• 1:27:10
  vs USC. So I'll probably be up till 1:00
• 1:27:13
  in the morning. Saturday, I'm just going to go
• 1:27:15
  ahead and booked into 9:30. Kick have a couple late
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  cocktails and some whatever's left over in the fridge.
• 1:27:23
  Remember to tell everybody though, that the transitive
• 1:27:26
  property does not exist in college football, so you can
• 1:27:29
  look common opponent. All you want to with that
• 1:27:31
  doesn't mean shit. It don't mean shit.
• 1:27:34
  It don't mean. Shit in its wild in, I think the
• 1:27:38
  last few weekends with some of these games and some of the
• 1:27:40
  finishes have just been Perfect. It's why we love Sundays to
• 1:27:47
  don't get us wrong. We love Sundays.
• 1:27:49
  We have our team's Brian is currently wanted to go well
• 1:27:52
  probably kill someone who wanted to kill 15 years ago but I mean
• 1:27:55
  when I can run but accurate accurate but but Saturday's is
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  where we live. It's it's I think when you're
• 1:28:05
  when you grow up in the South it's just it's just a little
• 1:28:09
  different on Saturdays and, you know, Brian, you went to us
• 1:28:12
  successful deep. Three school.
• 1:28:13
  Where even though at 1,200 people on campus, Saturday's
• 1:28:18
  were wild on Hampton cities campus during a football game,
• 1:28:22
  so it's a little different Force.
• 1:28:26
  Alright? Alright, be quiet.
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  Robbie that, that was one time after one too, many drinks.
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  No comment. Never let anything breaking over
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  the last little while we've been.
• 1:28:47
  All right at 90 minutes, brother.
• 1:28:49
  I think we're good. But all right.
• 1:28:51
  Well, that's going to wrap up this episode of The Boundary
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