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NSCI 101: Natural Selection · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast with my partner
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in crime. Brian Sigler, I am Curtis
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Wilson. Brian how are you today?
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My friend, there is football on the television.
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I am doing wonderful. There is multiple football on
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the television body. Multiple.
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You send me a picture, what you got going on there?
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All right, so we're recording the podcast.
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I've got my desktop. I've got my note, see, I've got
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You coming through here, got a laptop to my right.
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Miami UAB got the television above, my head Chiefs Texans.
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I'm gonna probably be flipping back and forth the Lakers
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Rockets. I'm probably gonna be flipping
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back and forth to see how the Braves game maybe ends up here.
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I'm not sure if that's come to conclusion at this point or not.
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So it's a good night but you buddy you got full Command
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Center style there man, love it and same on this.
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And brother I got I got the Red Sox game on.
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I got the UAB Miami game on. I got the cheese and Texans on
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Travis Kelce, just scored a touchdown.
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I want on them anywhere. I don't know if you do or not.
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I got you right to get someone that has my home.
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So I'd like to see less of that, the rest of the money but we all
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right. Exactly.
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Got you right here in front of me on Skype.
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Got the whole podcast stuff here.
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Ready to go man been a while. But after last weekend we had
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football, you were down at the beach so we were like let's just
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wait till Thursday be a fun night to record.
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Catch any games last weekend while you were down at the beach
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or are you strictly Beach mode strictly Beach Boat?
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I was ironically watching The Wicked Tuna Outer Banks while at
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the Outer Banks So I was doing some meta situation there, but
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that was, that was fun. Strictly Beach, though, we
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didn't really catch many games. I was falling along a few things
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while I was there on my phone, but wasn't watching much.
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We were, we were with some of our neighbors at a, at a house
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there in the Outer Banks. So kind of let them, you know,
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be the be the guide of what was on the television for the most
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part. So how about you, buddy?
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You catch anything card plum called caught the army game,
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where they just ran like crazy. It was sort of insane, just
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watching a triple option offense, cost them the game
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Monday night where Hey, listen. It matters.
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If you tackle in practice, maybe look like shit and normally
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service Academy Schools regardless who they play, they
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don't look like shit. They look fundamentally sound.
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If nothing else they look terrible.
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And of course, it comes out the day after they had been tackling
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and immediately. Yeah, we got to start tackling
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in practice. So I don't know if you caught it
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but you catch the video that came.
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I'm out from hokey football that showed a lot of the defensive
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highlights from practice. Showed a lot of tackling drills.
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Yeah like seeing that especially after you know what happened
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when you didn't tackle but yeah but it's funny.
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Those two teams BYU and army playing a couple weeks.
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So it's going to be interesting because they both looked
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absolutely dominant in their games.
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I don't think and called a couple game Saturday night but I
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really wasn't paying attention here and there and then so yeah,
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but uh, let's get to it. We got a lot of stuff to go
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through. Then compressors been some news
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to release. Let's start with the biggie man.
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And this makes you a happy camper advice heard by now.
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It's official. It's official.
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Raheem Blackshear is eligible. Find it now we're about to go
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ham because again I've been saying it since he announced
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that he was committing to Virginia Tech.
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This guy could be a problem on the offensive side of the ball
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and everything that's coming out of Camp backs.
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That up, everything that coach Foo is said everything that the
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quarterbacks have said has backed that up.
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This guy's going to be a weapon, he's going to be a tool.
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He's gonna do a lot of different things.
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You know the biggest thing is that he does A lot of things
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really, damn good. Yeah, so you can you just can
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deploy him in so many different ways and he, you know, it's
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almost impossible to prepare for a player like that because, you
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know, you can line him up everywhere, you can't just say,
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alright, well we'll roll the oral the defense towards him or
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roll this one player towards. So now he's going to be in the
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backfield, he's going to be in the slot.
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He might split out wide. I mean there's just so many
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different ways and different things you can do with me.
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Run jet suites with them everything.
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Yeah, everything it. Really open to hear some of the
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stuff that he talked about to especially you know.
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You hear him and food when he's got the news like, like food
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walked up. Doing basically said you better
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be ready to play and that was basically any talked about
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talking with Brock. A lot about the transfer
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situation. Brought really tell him stay
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positive but you mentioned it and it's been said and it's been
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seen the guys unique he can go everywhere.
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We're going to probably touch a little more later on especially
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with the why. Receiver groups, some news on
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there but it's a great thing. It's a great thing because now,
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That missing you feel like the missing piece?
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If there was ever a player Built For This offense it's him you
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get him on the field and you know it sounds like a win.
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It feels like all these years, we had lost in the portal and we
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lost in the portal and we finally won one and when you win
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it the caliber of player you're getting is a huge win.
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It's not like you're getting a very solid probably going to be
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a contributor. You're getting a guy that's
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going to be on the field. Every Map.
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Yep. Oh well lo and behold Saturday
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while you were at the beach I blow you up because out of
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nowhere freaking field. Jack hollifield commits to
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Virginia Tech. The three-star little brother of
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the linebacker Dax hollifield the midst, looking at him as a
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tight end, you know, had some pretty good.
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It offers, you know, you kind of look here, you know, Michigan
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Maryland, you know, NC State and North Carolina, Tennessee, good
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offer list. He plays linebacker in high
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school. Now, Brian have you looked at
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his tape and tried to make this a what he does and his build of
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what you going to do with the tight end, because it appears
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that's where we're taking it. Yeah, it looks like he's going
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to be tight end for us and probably going to be almost like
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a Dalton Keen type player for us.
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I would imagine with this skill set is size and the speed that
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that's what I would project him doing is kind of more of a h.h.
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bad guy that can lead out, but also a guy that could Block in
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line as well and you know has some of the athletic tools to do
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some damage in the screen game and in the short passing game.
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So I look for him to do stuff. Like that I three-star rating
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guy on 24/7, they still rate him as an inside linebacker there
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which is odd, considering they actually have his his projected
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position as tight in. So I'm not sure how that rating
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is helping or hurting us at this point.
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I don't know if you would be rated higher if he was being
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rated as a tight end, or if that is just reflective of what they
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think he is across the board. So it's interesting there that
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he's not either. Rated as an athlete or as a
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tight end, he's ready to his position that he more than
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likely will not play at the division one level.
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So that's interesting. But I mean, it's a great.
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Get we've said it before, Brothers play at Virginia Tech.
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Here's another one. So you know, it's a good get in.
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Like I said, nice to keep the family thing going for us.
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Absolutely. And with this commitment on
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helps Hokies helps the Hokies in the rankings.
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Moving up to 28. So now Officially top, 30
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staying at five moving wolf higher.
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In the ACC rankings again, we look at 24/7, we don't look at
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composite. And for those who haven't heard
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Ryan, you do the explanation of Rivals, okay?
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They're not having camps Rivals tries with the one that Jack's
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it up. The ESPN and that's the one that
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really because you never know when they're going to
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re-evaluate. And then a lot of guys that
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don't have a big offer list, they don't rate it all or throw
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a generic three star rating on them.
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That's essentially the lowest average three star rating.
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You can attach to a player. So it's really hard to know what
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that rating even tells you. It's there.
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It's part of the composite. But oftentimes, it doesn't tell
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you a whole lot, especially for guys that aren't that.
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That don't have a big offer sheet that aren't going to all
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these camps and things like that.
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Rivals is kind of in the middle there, they tend to rate more
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based on their Camp evaluations than they do on a lot of the
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high school tape. So you know mileage may vary
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depending on offer list and who's going to what camps and
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how many camps they're going to and things of that nature.
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I'm 24/7 seems to be good because they do look at the
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whole picture and they do reevaluate their rankings on a
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periodic time frame. So that's why we base our
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opinions. We carry their their opinion
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with a higher regard than the the other Publications.
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But unfortunately when it comes to the total class ranking
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composite still seems to be the go-to default by both 24/7 and
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Any publication that's, you know, talking about those
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rankings in general. So it's really hard to get away
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from it. But I like what 24/7 does better
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than the rest. Absolutely.
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And again, Brian. I feel like it's about every
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month. You give that synopsis.
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It's a great job. Hey, it's very true and it's why
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we go with them. And it's kind of, well, we'll
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stick with them and you look at where they got players, they
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usually hit more than more than not, Speaking of recruiting
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added a new staff member since the last time.
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We talked Brian. Yes we did.
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Yeah. Alex White.
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Young lady the UNC graduate from 2020 while there.
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She had worked for the unc's recruiting coordinator, and
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director of on-campus recruiting, which is her title
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at Virginia Tech. She had also had most recently
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been up at Appalachian State in a similar type role but
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obviously, you know, there's there's steps of where you take
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in You know it's what we needed were still years behind but
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seeing the that the pieces are being added.
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It's not nice. Yeah.
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And like you said, she's coming with some good qualifications
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here was in a role like this at UNC where she graduated then
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moved on to App State which, you know, there she was doing
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something very similar director of on-campus recruiting.
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I think it's a really big. Great.
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Add. The one thing that stood out to
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me was when I was looking apparently, she also did
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defensive film breakdown while adapt State.
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Oh, wow. Which I thought was a pretty
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cool thing to that, that comes to the table there.
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When you talk about on-campus recruiting so it sounds like,
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you know, there's she's not just someone that is there to handle
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the logistical things of the on-campus recruiting sounds like
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she can talk shop a little bit with the recruits as well, which
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is I think a very good attribute to bring to this role.
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So I'm looking forward to seeing what she can do in this room.
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Absolutely love hearing that she's helping break down tape
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again, you're going to be on campus with them, and you're
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going to be showing a lot of things, but if you need to talk
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to shop, that is such a key. She's also a baby man.
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I mean she's literally going to be four years older than most of
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these guys. Yep or years older absence ain't
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you want to talk about connecting with the recruits
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that are coming on campus? This is someone you need.
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This is the age. Each group you need and it
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reaches you. You know, with Corey and, you
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know, Avail wins over coming back, they're a little bit older
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doing the football side of things.
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But if we're looking at this on-campus, recruiting thing,
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this is, this is kind of a formula for help.
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Now, do you want to add some? Maybe some Hokies to assist her.
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Absolutely give her. Give them give her some people
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that can help with the lay of the land.
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You want to be playing football players, we don't know, let her
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build her step. If of who she feels like, it's
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going to be the best to help out but Again, work slowly catching
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up. All right, Brian.
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Let's get to the big news because not that the other stuff
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isn't big news. Bring your couple weeks ago, was
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massive news. Hollifield we were waiting,
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we're waiting. We're hoping he comes in
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building the recruiting staff, big news, but yesterday. when
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day comes out basically says, he has made his decision and that
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decision is Hendon hooker is our starter.
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I am shocked. Shocked.
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Not shocked at all. What was a little shocking?
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But maybe turned a few heads. I would say Braxton Burmeister,
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will be will play against UVA, will likely have a role in the
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offense this season, regardless of hooker, starting role here.
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So that wasn't exactly There wasn't a lot of details about
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what that's going to look like. So I mean, what did you take
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from that Curtis. Hi.
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Well, I took a couple things from the Braxton I think this is
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with all the craziness going on by saying those.
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It's a kind of a chance to keep Braxton.
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Hey you're going to be part of the offense in some way so we
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can keep you in how sources am going to the portal.
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As we see we get three four games in guys will get in the
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portal try to get to the next stop even though he's not
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losing. See this year, you still want to
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try to get where your attention. We could play next so maybe
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that's one reason. But other reasons is it's it,
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you forced other teams to game plan.
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You know, he is, he does have more speed than hinden, not the
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tendon slow, but he has more top end speed than him.
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So you're making teams have to look at additional Pape.
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Now, when the UVA comes around, we'll see how much he actually
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plays. So, you know, that's going to be
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an interesting thing. But honest, this is, this is, I
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want to put this in, make sure sounds right.
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So Grand Slam need to got you. If I told you henin hooker after
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the end of this 11 game season, 2268 percent of his passes.
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Threw for 26, touchdowns versus four interceptions.
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Heading hookers, six-foot-four 225 lbs.
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If he has that type of season, He can potentially move on.
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Yeah. I mean, it's not, I mean are you
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trying to be a realist here? But six foot four guys who are
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somewhat athletic? You know, he has a really good
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season. He could move up the draft board
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and potentially have to say next year.
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Hey, I'm gone. And what you get to do with this
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by having Braxton potentially start playing as you don't lose
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him. Yep.
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You don't look, you don't lose them and you get him, some
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meaningful reps in the offense. He would potentially be taking
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over should head and okra move on.
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I mean, I like what you're saying about the the idea of
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gamesmanship for UVA. I think that's part of it.
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I think there's some other aspects that play into it as
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well, having an unique skill set across all three of these
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quarterbacks I think the reason Seeing Braxton, get more run.
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Is that a guy like QP is going to have more of a specific type
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of package design for him if we get him involved in the offense
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but other than having a little bit more athleticism, the
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offense would more or less run the same whether hendon's in
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there versus Braxton. So I think having him is the guy
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that's kind of the plug their Works in that regard.
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But like you said, they brawl bring things different to the
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table. So I think that's going to be
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something that coach Fuente plays around with it, and he
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said it during the presser that, you know, Braxton had done a lot
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during camp, and he made a point that he had a lot of athleticism
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in a lot of could make some plays.
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And that, essentially saying it's going to be hard to keep me
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off the field even if I'm not, you know, the starting
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quarterback. So exactly what me, he also
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spent a lot of great things about About him to talk about
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he's just been pleased with everything.
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He's done throughout Camp, he continues to grow but also me
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and you looked at that picture of him then at the podium
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yesterday. Yep.
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Hendon, look, bear. And I know they said his weight
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to down a couple pounds. He looked bigger in his chest.
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We saw some of the photos of him.
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Practicing his legs. Look bigger.
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Yeah, I think he's more solid. I think, you know, when we look
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at look at him you might be down a little bit Weight Wise but I
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think he's Kind of spread it out a little bit.
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As it were, he's not not so much string, bean down-low anymore on
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the wallet. So I think I think that's going
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to be good for us and I liked I liked it coach Fuente went ahead
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and said you know hendon's our starter because that's what we
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wanted to hear. That's where we wanted to go.
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It's nice starting the year with a quarterback that you are
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familiar with and that you know, can leave the offense.
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You know, doesn't turn the ball over. /.
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So, I'm excited about that. It brings some continuity, and
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it's a guy that has shown himself to be a leader in that.
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All the guys on that offense. Trust.
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Exactly. And, you know, you also see pain
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and talked about it, he was working out in the Triad with,
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with Trey, the Old Hockey DJ Crossing with the recoiling from
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the Bears. Again it me and you talked about
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it, his dad. A hell of a quarterback, when
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you played, you know, you know, the Hall of Famer.
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I think down it in North Carolina, A&T.
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I don't think he let Hendon and his little brother just chill
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out during quarantine. I think he was like, you need to
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go, get better. Looks like that's what happened
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with with hinden, all right. So quarterbacks are set feel
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good about it. Feel really good about it but
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then we got bad news. Use my breakout player and I
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will put them as my breakout player, official he did break
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something, we don't know. Ankle leg is out indefinitely.
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They did not say for the season. Justin definitely.
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It's definitely a blow. But we're going to talk about
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the wide receiver room in a little bit here.
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Brian. But Brian, give me your personal
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experiences with The ankle injury.
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I mean do you think he's done one like we're not gonna see him
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until spring ball next year or could he show back up a lot of
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that's gonna depend on whether there was any ligament damage in
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the ankle if that's what was broken or and that severity of
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the the break more than likely if it was a pretty clean break,
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he's going to be probably eight to ten weeks total healing.
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Healing and then probably maybe one or two weeks to get back up
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to to playing shape after that. So you have some potential to
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get him back for Clemson, maybe a bowl game, if it's something
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like that. Now, if it's ligaments, you
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talked about more invasive surgery, you're talking about
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longer recovery time and you're talking about longer like
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physical therapy after you get past those, the recovery stage.
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So That would push him more into the kind of late December.
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Ramping it back up in late December and I just don't think
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that that's, that's something that's worth rolling the dice
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with, as he's coming off that injury because with ligaments,
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it takes a while to get them back to where they're operating
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at the same level. I had an ankle injury my senior
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year and of high school and I was even follow the following
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year to start off. I wasn't quite the player that I
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I was the year before in terms of flexibility and being able to
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drive off of that that ankle with the same degree of power
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that I could before one offseason in that program
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knocked that out. But you know it's one of those
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things to keep an eye on and you're going to want to not rush
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a kid back if he's got that type of ligament damage.
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Yeah makes sense. So let's hope for a speedy
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recovery. Let's hope it was a clean break.
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Let's hope maybe we get him. I'm own field time at the end of
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the season. Now some food came up with and
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said that kind of thing took all of us impact basically said if
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we were to have to play in Sea State this week, it was going to
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be a struggle, which I think we all went, huh?
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New Jaden's out. My other guys are probably
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banged up. Me and you we saw that in mean
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you had some conversation to did some digging and brown we mean
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you both can say we saw this report.
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It's are there is one major starter that would be out, do
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covid. Yeah.
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And I think that's that's one of the big things that we're going
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to probably see as the season goes.
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Goes along is that, you know, there's going to be the
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potential that a primary starter could miss a game or two
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depending on depending on what happens here.
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Obviously if they actually you test positive that's kind of a
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worst case scenario because you're talking about potentially
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other side effects from the illness impacting more than just
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that quarantine period. But if we're talking about
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things like contact tracing, I mean that can impact several All
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players at one time depending on the interaction, so that's
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definitely going to be something to keep a keep an eye on.
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It seems like This player may or may not be available.
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Come UVA time, that that's to be seen, but it is something that I
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think we're just going to have to deal with this year.
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And unfortunately, you know, it's impacted this here and
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again could have been a bigger issue if NC State was still on
25:25
the schedule. So kind of kind of glad we
25:28
dodged that bullet even though we were, we were hammering in
25:31
Sea State about a couple weeks ago about prematurely moving
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that game. Aim.
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It tends to come back to help us out a little bit here in this
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case. So big by those when you hear
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the way he was talking and you know, there's probably going to
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be some camps bumps and bruises where you'd like to get one
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extra week. Just a little healing from other
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players and this shit happens and then we're here and their
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skill positions that are cross training you know wide receivers
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playing corner. You tell them what you texted me
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earlier. About this and the coaches this
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year. Yeah.
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They're definitely going to earn their money, man because they're
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they're juggling a lot of different things.
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And that's not even getting into the logistical aspects of the
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protocol that they're following. Just the on the field stuff and
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not knowing, when you're going to have your guys ready to go,
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how when one player gets sick that can impact an entire room
26:33
or an entire? You know, if you're dealing with
26:37
an apartment two or three players on a team or something
26:39
like that, if they're in the living quarters, I mean, it can,
26:42
it can be some some big problems.
26:45
And I, like I said, the coaches are definitely going to earn
26:48
their pay this year regardless of how that record ends up.
26:51
Hopefully it ends up in our favor here but it's definitely
26:55
going to be a struggle throughout the year.
26:57
It's going to be a struggle with the patience of the fans because
27:00
I think they're going to see some big names at some point in
27:06
the season, are going to be sitting out for reasons that
27:09
aren't directly related to Major injuries or things like that,
27:13
that we're accustomed to seeing. So I think there's going to be
27:16
some frustration there, but I think it's like anything else.
27:21
I think the coaching staff and the players are gonna come out
27:25
of this, on the other side, better for it, but it sucks when
27:29
you're in the moment, absolutely.
27:32
Man. So you said it to me, they will
27:34
learn their money this year and, you know, definitely they're
27:40
trying to do things and I think it's going to be weeks.
27:43
We as college football hangout, just Virginia Tech fans are
27:45
going to be watching a game, and there's going to be somebody not
27:48
there and it's not going to be like he didn't there's no
27:52
reports of him banging. His ankle or you know bruising
27:55
his shoulder old crap that he get it.
27:58
And now I know people have been saying a lot of Oh, CDC,
28:02
guidelines 14 days. No, CDC.
28:04
Live lines are no longer 14 days.
28:07
So I wish people out there to keep saying that would correct
28:10
themselves. It's 10 days now, correct,
28:13
Brian? Yes, it is 10 days.
28:17
So, in obviously, I think some of the protocols others, you can
28:22
10 days quarantine or three consecutive negative test To
28:28
confirm it, you're done with it. So obviously, you know, acc's
28:32
testing three times a week. Regardless I think if you've got
28:35
a player and you know, he's one of your big players and they get
28:39
it. You know, there's going to be
28:43
testing every day every day. Let's see if we can bang out
28:46
three negatives to get it back at practice.
28:48
So yeah, I'm not sure how the protocol works on that.
28:51
I know we had talked about that before, but the big thing that
28:54
I'm questioning this one is that I see The the the specific
28:59
protocol is that if a player misses a game due to covid that
29:05
they would need to have consecutive test on Monday,
29:08
Wednesday and Friday of the following week in order to play
29:12
a game on Saturday, but I don't know how that impacts this
29:15
situation where we haven't played a game yet.
29:19
So, I don't know if we're technically considered in season
29:22
yet or not because we haven't started our season.
29:26
So I don't know if we can just kind of as soon as we get three
29:29
consecutive test, whether it's, you know, in on that game week
29:33
or not, whether that would clear someone to start practicing
29:36
again, or whether you have to follow that Monday, Wednesday,
29:40
Friday, where we might only get like a walkthrough with with
29:45
that player before, you know, we go to play a game Yeah, just
29:49
just more things. Answered than unarmed unanswered
29:54
than answered about this stuff. All right, let's get back to
29:57
good. Good news, Mitch been Rahim
30:00
Blackshear. Brian got the eligibility
30:03
immediately even the loss of J&P out.
30:06
Boost the room significantly found out.
30:10
And I want to get your take on this mention that kavion
30:15
Robinson will be playing some on the outside confirmed, by for
30:18
Wednesday. What does that tell you about
30:20
him? And about, what this Office.
30:22
Potentially look like it tells you that some of the things
30:25
we've been talking about on this podcast and of come to fruition.
30:32
We had talked about Tavian playing outside.
30:36
As soon as we saw Blackshear was going to be playing for us this
30:39
year. Potentially, waver, waver,
30:42
notwithstanding, now that we've got it, that's the reason he's
30:45
been playing outside some because we want to get our three
30:49
best guys on the field a lot and that's In terms of the receiving
30:52
position I think is going to be trait a and Blackshear under
30:55
both circumstances with with Mitchell out there playing tight
31:01
end and maybe even splitting out wide.
31:04
But what I like is that you can match up so many different
31:09
situations here with the same Personnel so you can run 21,
31:14
Personnel. You've got, let's just say, we
31:18
got Herbert at running back. Blackshear is the Second running
31:22
back. We've got a tie it in with James
31:24
Mitchell tray. And Tay outside, you can put
31:29
Blackshear in the slide, you can put Blackshear in the wing, you
31:32
can split James Mitchell out wide and put Tavia on in the
31:37
slot and have two running backs with Blackshear taking either
31:41
something in the Jet Sweep or running a scene from The Wing.
31:45
There's so many different things that you can line up and if
31:48
we're talking about running tempo, And that's what we like
31:52
to do. When we get some big plays in
31:54
there, you can run Tempo with so many different formations here,
31:59
without ever having to sub, because you've got a guy like
32:02
Blackshear that can literally line up at three or four
32:05
positions at any given time. And a guy like James Mitchell,
32:08
that can split out, wide and play in line tight in and play
32:12
the HVAC. I think the one thing, I mean,
32:14
you mentioned today, we're talking about some of the
32:16
formations would be your take. Let's flex mean, you mentioned,
32:21
let's keep A at The X. Let's put Mitchell out at the Y,
32:24
and then put tray. And he came inside the slot with
32:27
Herbert and you kind of sit there.
32:30
And when I asked you, I was like, Brian, what happens in
32:32
that situation and you were like, either the strong safety
32:36
is going to walk over one of the linebackers are going to walk
32:39
over James Mitchell because I don't think you're going to keep
32:42
him significantly under sized corner on James Mitchell,
32:46
especially when you got treyvion and or Rahim in the slot, they
32:50
have to go with them. Them.
32:52
And then you start talking about what and then I asked you, I
32:55
said Brian what if you're on a Jet Sweep out at what happens
32:59
and you essentially said you've lost leverage.
33:02
I mean now you've got a guy you like to have in the Box out of
33:06
the box and that Ali just opens up.
33:10
And that's going to be dangerous, there.
33:13
With the three other guys on the field that can touch the ball
33:17
and all of them we have seen run jet sweeps for significant big
33:21
gains. It's scary because as soon as
33:24
that safety has to walk couple things are going to happen that
33:29
safety. Walks over cool.
33:30
Where's that free safety? Is he staying back 15 yards or
33:33
she coming up on the box? Because if he's coming up in the
33:36
box man you talk about like running a Herbert pop passed.
33:41
Or running in a heme pop pass or a quick slant or something, just
33:44
attacking, essentially stressing them to say, you better, not
33:49
make a mistake with the where you're playing on the outside
33:52
where you're going to get burned.
33:53
You have no one back there to protect the tack the seam with
33:57
whoever we got dream Prejudice. Something else mentioned about
34:02
the wide receiver groups it again with the Jane injury
34:06
basically Chang and Evan are pleasing coach to pick up things
34:09
quick. I don't think that shocks us
34:13
with the age of those guys and being, you know, Chang of being
34:16
at Villanova for three years but no was always pretty good FCS
34:20
team, Evan being out of Kansas seen several offenses.
34:25
Again, it makes you feel good. It makes you feel good.
34:28
Like, I think with Evan fairs you getting the Red Zone, okay.
34:30
Throw him out there and put James on the other side of that
34:33
trade staying down here. Put him in the black backfield.
34:37
Yep. If they bring up some some other
34:43
mismatches there I mean when you're talking about those two
34:45
guys being with the skill that fares brings and then with the
34:52
just the output that Hodge brings to the table.
34:55
I mean those are guys that you're talking about are the
34:57
first man Off the Bench potentially for us.
35:01
I mean that's that's crazy that that you're talking about
35:04
getting guys in there that you're going to see very little
35:06
drop off between when you have to sub or when you have to have
35:10
a guy that Needs to come on for a particular role or something
35:14
like that in the Red Zone, because I think fares is going
35:17
to play that Red Zone. Role that, that Hazleton or Phil
35:20
Patterson played for us in the past, with those Red Zone fades,
35:25
Absolutely. Also we hear Kayla Smith who
35:28
caught some balls last year's continuing to take good steps
35:31
and you mentioned a grand, just the Personnel groupings.
35:35
We have the potential for now with the running back with the
35:38
wide receivers, with the tight ends with Mitchell and gallo and
35:42
Drake, There should I do put a I'll spot?
35:50
If we don't average 36 as we did with him and started last year
35:54
somebody I get fired. Yeah.
35:56
Because we definitely have the Personnel to create a lot of
36:00
matchup problems. We may not be at the top end.
36:05
Have a guy like Hazleton that you know, can run deep, but can
36:10
also he's got the size to make plays in the red zone as well.
36:15
We may not have that player anymore, the in one package, but
36:18
we've got so many Dynamic players that we can mix and
36:22
match as we need to. There's no reason we shouldn't
36:26
be as good or better on offense than we were with hinting at the
36:30
at the helm. Last year, I will say this.
36:33
It's kind of funny. I know they were talking about,
36:37
you know, talking about the quarterbacks, the new nickname
36:39
for hooker. Did you see it?
36:42
Oh, Oh, Captain Hook. Captain Hook.
36:45
I like it. I like it.
36:50
We need to keep that running the captain.
36:52
The hope is even though it's not Captain Hook I hope he you know
36:58
scores a touchdown and gives a Captain Morgan's pose.
37:03
But yeah. So all things considered what's
37:07
happened over the last few weeks has been relatively.
37:11
Positive news for the Hokies on numerous fronts and it's all
37:16
from and it's awesome that we're sitting here tonight. 14-7
37:21
Houston 14-7 Miami dick King he looked.
37:28
Okay. I'll tell you what has not
37:31
looked. Okay.
37:32
Well that the Miami Hurricanes offensive line Hold on.
37:37
Shot that offensive line will still going to be bad porous.
37:45
Now, what we thought was going to happen and what may still
37:48
potentially happen is the season goes along, is that the air raid
37:51
and having a quick trigger was going to take a little bit of
37:54
pressure off that poor unit. The problem is that they also
37:58
can establish anything in the Run game because they're poor in
38:01
that category as well. So unless they are getting
38:04
positive yards through the air. First and second down, they're
38:08
still going to struggle. Because anything more than the
38:10
three step drop, there's going to be somebody in Kings lap.
38:14
Yeah. And we've seen it tonight.
38:16
This was not planned At All, by us.
38:19
We've seen it tonight, several times.
38:20
They've gotten third and long. They don't know what to do.
38:23
They don't. There were certain 14 and just,
38:25
it was just like, it was like, it was chaos back there.
38:28
So you see all them automatically.
38:31
They have their week, they have their weakness or defense looks
38:34
good. The pass rush does Is not, you
38:37
can tell they're missing a guy. Who's gonna be a first-round
38:40
pick? Yeah you can tell me right now
38:42
it's even game other than a safety missing a fill and
38:45
letting a 41 dive go for 50 yards know what really grinds
38:53
Brian's gears. Oh man.
39:00
I was telling some other folks I'm gonna start I'm gonna start
39:03
my own little video series of, just me watching film of
39:06
safeties. Either filling late sooner in
39:10
the wrong Gap or what we've got coming in with the wrong
39:14
leverage. We're gonna go thing is
39:16
fundamental. Hey, that's what we need to do.
39:20
But along with this podcast, we're just going to do a ten
39:22
minute video of bad. Safety feels I'll bring it up.
39:26
I'll stay there. Just let you give the reactions
39:29
in your face. That's just like, it's going to
39:32
be like, the Gruden quarterback things.
39:36
This is going to be brutal shitting on quarterback.
39:38
Play is going to be shitting on safeties.
39:40
Filling, tell me what you did wrong there.
39:47
Did you choose the wrong side? Oh yes, you did.
39:50
You chose the wrong side? I've got a couple with a stick
39:52
though, like I need I need some sort of Catchphrase or, you
39:56
know, change my voice slightly. Lisa would like overemphasizes
39:59
the wrong word to funny, man. Ron, since we do have heat, pick
40:06
that homes. Almost had a massive mistake.
40:12
This is what happens live podcast?
40:13
We're not editing that out either.
40:15
No. All right, well, we got games
40:17
this weekend, Brian. And I thought what we would do
40:19
as the season gets here is we're going to weekly.
40:22
We are going to pick, obviously, we're going to pick a game, but
40:26
we're going to do the other ACC game.
40:28
As well against the spread, maybe throw in some over unders,
40:31
what we see happening. And then we're going to look at
40:32
one out of conference game. So, Brian, I'm gonna let you
40:36
lead us off. We've got Syracuse UNC.
40:40
Um, see is laying 22 and a half points.
40:43
What you got? Give me cues from the points.
40:49
And I am going to agree with you on that last year that you take
40:58
away the temple game. Every game was like a one or two
41:02
point of, you're telling me that that defense got that much
41:04
better in the season. And I'm not saying Syracuse has
41:06
a world beater but I don't see 22 and a half points.
41:11
The over-under, I think was like 65, so what they're saying is
41:15
basically 4222 type game. And I just can't see you and see
41:22
covering I think search you can get a couple late scores to make
41:26
it a little more interesting so we agree on that one.
41:30
All right um do you Notre Dame? I'll jump on that one Brian all
41:35
right what you got Notre Dame land 20 I am going to take the
41:39
Irish. In this case I'm also looking at
41:43
the over-under of 54. Go over 50 for Notre.
41:47
Dame has some players to score points.
41:49
Points. I think cutcliffe with the new
41:51
quarterback could probably get a few extra on there to get that
41:54
over. Not by more than 20 though, what
41:57
about you? Yeah, I'm going the same route.
41:59
I'm taking the Irish here. I just don't think with working
42:03
in a new quarterback that Dukes going to be firing enough on all
42:06
cylinders to put up quite enough points to Close the spread their
42:14
I do think you're right about the over under this.
42:16
So we'll see how that goes. But yeah, I'm going to take take
42:20
the Irish on this one. Yeah.
42:22
Like it's going to be like, Irish mid-40s.
42:25
Do you know, 21 like 48 51? Are they the overs hit easy?
42:31
So, yeah. All right, Brian.
42:35
And Nick, Georgia Tech, Florida, state, Florida, State laying
42:42
twelve and a half. Well you got here Call me crazy.
42:50
I'm going Florida State here. I'm buying a little bit of the
42:55
height. Not much of a height but just
42:57
enough of the hype by and just enough of the Mike Norvell
43:01
height to say 12 and a half hours of Georgia Tech Team.
43:10
I'm a billing course on. You not so fast.
43:12
I'll take Georgia Tech. Give me the 12 and a half.
43:16
They played hard last year for Jeff Collins.
43:19
I think they'll continue to play hard.
43:22
I think this one's going to be more of a grind, but I think
43:25
what college like to do and you mention what seems like decades
43:30
ago, the power Run game, I think that they're going to probably
43:35
try to slow it to a crawl against them, they're going to
43:39
try to slow it down. Maybe wrong, Morgan Wilson, some
43:41
of those guys at FSU on that line or beasts.
43:44
Yep. I think they're going to slow it
43:45
down and I'm sorry. Florida State's.
43:49
They have the second worst offensive line in the ACC they
43:53
do. Their offensive line is pretty
43:56
atrocious as well, but I think some of, you know, we said it
44:01
with Miami, I don't think Miami is quite having as much luck,
44:04
but I think some of the offensive wrinkles that are
44:08
going to be brought to the table are going to help take some of
44:12
that load off the offensive line.
44:14
I think they're probably a little improved based on what
44:17
they were last year. Hopefully more improved than
44:21
what Miami is showing right now. If I'm going to be correcting my
44:25
my guess here, but I think floor.
44:28
The state is going to be an improved team this year, so I
44:35
don't think they're going to be great, but they will be
44:36
improved. So I'm going to take them here.
44:39
Got it. All right, so the big matchup,
44:42
oh, the big matchup. And anyway, and what should have
44:49
been Virginia, Tech Penn State game day in Blacksburg.
44:54
Yep, then the weekend the big game day bites.
44:58
Hop is Clemson Lake Force. Weight gets the host game day
45:02
with no fans, which sucks. I don't say in Winston with no
45:08
fans in the middle of the stadium.
45:10
All right wait Clemson behind you seen the laundry list?
45:16
Yeah, I saw the line. They went, they went full
45:23
full-bore, Clemson there, I think Hudson's laying 30 through
45:29
I think last year they had 38 and they covered without he's
45:33
they're going to cover this again.
45:35
I mean that's my thought I'd 33. I think they're usually going to
45:39
cover it. Not so fast.
45:43
My friend give me waking the points.
45:47
I don't think that this Clemson offense is going to get to 50
45:52
and I think if they want to cover, they got to get to 50.
45:55
All right. I know that wake is losing a
45:57
good deal on on offense, including their quarterback from
46:01
last year, but I think they can get to like, 17 against Clemson
46:06
and I don't think Clemson gets too much more than 45.
46:10
So, The math Works in my favor, if I'm subtracting correctly,
46:15
there were 17, you get me by point, it's gonna be
46:23
interesting. You got a couple more matchups
46:26
here, one more ACC last ACC matchup this week is Western
46:30
Kentucky, Louisville Louisville, laying 11, and a half.
46:37
What you think man? Well I mean what's Kentucky was
46:40
a good team last year when they were not in, for which is you
46:43
know, the first thing this early in the season if you're looking
46:47
at lines and we're doing this for fun, maybe it'll be a beer
46:50
better, something at the end of the season.
46:52
Yeah. But the first thing we go, the
46:54
first thing you look at is like, let me look at last season 9 and
46:58
4. Let's see.
46:58
That's not bad, you know, they're not a big plan.
47:03
Okay conference. I just feel like Like it's
47:06
smelly it's one of those smell. He's like they want you to take
47:10
Western Kentucky like oh look the team believed it was good
47:15
too. So I gotta go Louise I think
47:18
Louisville's going to win by more than eleven and a half.
47:21
I don't see them like blowing doors off of Western Kentucky.
47:24
I don't see it like them by four scores but I see them like 17
47:30
somewhere. Like I see this as a 17-point
47:33
game. I think Lula's offense just
47:35
going to be You much regardless of whether Western Kentucky can
47:41
score on Louisville's defense or not Louisville is probably one
47:47
of the five best teams in the ACC this year.
47:52
I just think they're going to have more in the tank,
47:54
especially on offense and I think they're going to see their
47:57
offense. Probably take another step this
47:59
year relative to last year. So I think they're going to
48:02
score some points. They'll be in Probably at least
48:07
in the low 40s I would say and I don't think Western Kentucky
48:11
gets in the in the 30s so it makes sense, how you how you do
48:16
things just like you have to logically play it out in your
48:19
head and get the fourth - no, they can get the dirty and I
48:22
can't get to 30. Yeah. 42 42 27.
48:28
Yeah something like that. Yeah.
48:30
Alright. So we're going to go to the one
48:31
out of conference game, lots to choose from this week.
48:37
But I got to go with this team. Gave us what potential is going
48:43
to be our starting center for this year Coastal Carolina,
48:46
Kansas 10:00 Eastern Time Zone kick.
48:53
Because what do you think? I think Kansas is going to
49:05
cover. I think they're going to be just
49:08
enough to cover that, although I do think Coastal Carolina's
49:13
going to give them all they want.
49:14
For four quarters. I Coastal Carolina's win.
49:19
This game outright so give me the points.
49:23
Coastal's winning this game, Lock and Load.
49:52
And weekend. Because usually the second
49:54
weekend is going to be big matchup cross conferences.
49:57
Even some early in season big conference matchup, probably
50:01
not. But, you know, just to see it.
50:04
It makes us feel like we're in some sort of normalcy, even
50:08
without fans in the stands, you know?
50:12
It's our Traditions, you sit around, on Saturday, you slip a
50:16
few bruised, he little food and watch some college football.
50:21
Yeah, I'm looking forward to feeling like that, normal, as
50:27
normal as it can be Sports Saturday.
50:29
Now just, you know, getting some beers.
50:34
I'll make you some food BBQ and some some meat.
50:37
What you got, what's on the menu, Saturday menu, for
50:41
Saturday, I think I'm going to do some poor man's burn in, so
50:46
I'm going to get some some chuck roast smoking, web cut them up.
50:51
Will brown sugar and barbecue sauce?
50:54
Let them cook a little longer. A little meat candy, very nice,
50:59
my friend, very nice about you. You got anything on the docket,
51:04
you're going to bring to the table.
51:06
Um I got like three, I got like full 1 inch pork chops, that was
51:12
supposed to get cooked tonight, but didn't because chaos broke
51:16
out of my house. So, maybe I'll grow those up on.
51:18
Saturday evening, he go It's too early though.
51:23
It, sometimes you. You love to cook and Grill.
51:27
Don't get me wrong. I love to cook and grow as well.
51:29
But sometimes on Saturdays, it's just like, I'm just, what do you
51:32
want to order? You some Harley's Wings.
51:34
Yeah, let's do it half time. Half time happens in 20 minutes.
51:38
I'm calling in now. So and halftime hits.
51:40
I can drive up and get them. There you go.
51:42
Yeah, you got to time it right? You got oh that's going to be 15
51:45
minutes. All right all right.
51:46
I'll yep. Now leave the house now get
51:51
there. Get back maybe miss one play
51:54
second half kickoff. Maybe maybe a couple plays, but
51:59
I can live with that. Absolutely.
52:02
Well, folks, that is going to wrap up this photo of the
52:05
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52:09
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52:32
up drinking. I could back the three things I
52:40
even started exercising. Why use a heavy?