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3 Guys Before The Game WVU Football UT Martin Game Recap (Episode 738) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Welcome one and all. It's time for three guys before
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  Speaker 1: the game. Thanks so very much for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode number. I don't even know. Whatever. Not
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  Speaker 1: exactly sure. I think 738, 738. If you do score
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  Speaker 1: at home, it's 738. It is our recap episode. of
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia and UT Martin. The gang's all assembled, so
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  Speaker 1: their dictionary. Coming up, breaking down our game from yesterday
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  Speaker 1: including you. Picking up on that. Knock on wood, don't
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  Speaker 1: know of any injuries of note coming out of yesterday's performance,
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  Speaker 1: at least from the Mountaineers' side. Off the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head, am I right or wrong? Did our athletic
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  Speaker 1: trainers have to go out at all?
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  Speaker 2: They went out to get Kamari Wilson there, which was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit concerning. There's a reason that's a penalty.
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  Speaker 2: You don't block dudes like that when you cut at
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  Speaker 2: a knee. And Wilson went down and started pounding the turf.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought, oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He went out, went in the tent, but eventually came
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  Speaker 2: back out and played. But that was the one time
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: That was the one time.
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  Speaker 2: Because that was a close call there.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Good, good, good, good. So the result was 52
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  Speaker 1: to 7. West Virginia wins it. What do you take
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  Speaker 1: from the game? You know, I heard a wise man
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  Speaker 1: once say, football guy. It's never as good as it looks.
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  Speaker 1: It's never as bad as it looks. It's somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. And the same holds true from game one
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  Speaker 1: to game two. It's somewhere in the middle. But next Saturday, Charlotte,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, you'll know exactly where you are or have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good idea where you are. Next two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you know.
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  Speaker 2: Next three.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think if you play... Yeah, next three.
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  Speaker 1: But next two, you'll have a feel as to, okay, this...
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  Speaker 1: is a good thing, this is not good, this is
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  Speaker 1: not going to change, this might improve, you'll have a
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  Speaker 1: much better idea.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still going three. I don't know if you watched
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  Speaker 2: any of that Iowa State game last night.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They had Iowa State beat.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, had them beat.
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  Speaker 2: They had them beat. And again, rivalry games, so I
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  Speaker 2: know weird things happen. That was not an Iowa State
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  Speaker 2: team that I think a lot of people expected to see.
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  Speaker 2: Their defense was flying around. Quarterback made some plays. The
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  Speaker 2: next three weeks, we've said it all summer, guys. So
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  Speaker 2: you get through the first two, you knew you'd be
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  Speaker 2: 2-0 coming out of this point. Now the thing starts
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  Speaker 2: to get real. Virginia has looked really good. We know
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State back in the national title hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to apologize now?
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  Speaker 2: I never ripped them. I just said I was shocked
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  Speaker 2: how much love they got and that they had to
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  Speaker 2: give their trophy back after losing to Tulsa. The nice
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  Speaker 2: thing now, I think, Brett, your mark. flew back out
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  Speaker 2: to Boone Pickens Stadium and gave them another trophy. They
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  Speaker 2: were really good.
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  Speaker 3: They gave Mestermaker the Heisman this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he might have deserved it. That was a huge
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  Speaker 2: win there to beat a team that many thought was
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  Speaker 2: one of the two or three national championship contenders. Heck
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  Speaker 2: of a win there for Oklahoma State. So bottom line,
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  Speaker 2: I think the next three weeks, as we thought all summer,
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  Speaker 2: this starts to decide whether this is a bowl team,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're going to really have to pull some upsets
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  Speaker 2: out down the stretch. Big three weeks coming up here
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  Speaker 2: for the Mountaineers.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with Oregon?
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  Speaker 2: Slid by Boise State, who's a very good group of six.
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  Speaker 2: And then listen to people today. I didn't watch a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the game. Just saw the highlights like you
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  Speaker 2: guys did. That the score really wasn't indicative of the game.
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  Speaker 2: That Oklahoma State just dominated that game. Just flat out
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  Speaker 2: won the game against a team, again, that was expected
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  Speaker 2: to be one of the best in the country.
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  Speaker 3: And the Oregon quarterback has not been effective. Has not
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  Speaker 3: been effective. And they had a chance. Oregon had a
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  Speaker 3: chance late to... drive down and tie the game, follow
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  Speaker 3: the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: I know people aren't tuning in for us to go
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  Speaker 2: around the nation and talk about all these other games, but, man,
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  Speaker 2: there were some results, right? Michigan bounced back. They were
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  Speaker 2: left for dead after their escape. They come back and
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  Speaker 2: beat Oklahoma. How about Texas Tech? Very lucky to escape
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  Speaker 2: out in Corvallis. That Beaver offense was moving it. There
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  Speaker 2: were big chunks of grass that Oregon State had to
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  Speaker 2: work with. Texas Tech extremely lucky to be able to
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  Speaker 2: get on that plane and head back to Lubbock with
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  Speaker 2: a win.
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  Speaker 1: The BYUs in Arizona. Good game.
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  Speaker 2: They bowed up.
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  Speaker 1: Good game, yeah. They bowed up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Arizona had that early, and then BYU did a
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  Speaker 2: nice job coming back. It's tough to get them in Provo,
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  Speaker 2: but that was a good one. Utah's, or excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Arizona's rallied here the last couple years.
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  Speaker 1: And shout out to a couple of former Mountaineers. Jaheim White,
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  Speaker 1: Neil Brown took UNLV there in Denton, Texas, gave them
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  Speaker 1: a slap job, sent them home, gave them a big
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming.
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  Speaker 2: Jaheim looked really good, took a 40-yard swing pass to
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  Speaker 2: the house and got Dan Mullen and that UNLV team
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  Speaker 2: who had a nice season last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in. Hoppy's obvious observations are coming
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  Speaker 1: up here in just a couple of flashes. Fortunately, we
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  Speaker 1: got the game in before the weather came. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: above us to the north in Pittsburgh, they had a
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  Speaker 1: prolonged delay that screwed that whole thing up, but... West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia and the Skyhawks go at it for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time in the two schools' history. Game time goes
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  Speaker 1: three hours and 15 minutes, 47,049 on hand. West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: statistically played a pretty clean game. One turnover. It came
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  Speaker 1: extremely late. It cost them seven points. West Virginia committed
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  Speaker 1: just two penalties last For a total of nine yards,
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  Speaker 1: the visitors had six for 64 statistically. West Virginia goes
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  Speaker 1: over 500 total offensive yards, 525. In the air, 209.
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  Speaker 1: On the ground, 316. West Virginia is an interesting game.
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  Speaker 1: Time of possession. And this kind of gives you the
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  Speaker 1: idea that that is not the one-all, be-all stat. The
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Martins, Had it for almost 35 minutes. West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: had it for 25. West Virginia obviously was just more efficient.
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia on third down, 8 out of 12, which
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  Speaker 1: is good. But there are still a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: defensively that West Virginia does need to shore up before
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  Speaker 1: big boy football comes up. Hoppy, are you ready? I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: When did you do obvious observations? Did you do them
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  Speaker 1: last night? Did you do them when you woke up
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  Speaker 1: this morning?
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  Speaker 3: This morning.
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  Speaker 1: This morning. Are they hard or are they obvious?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're obvious.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: He's got thoughts that sound brand new. But they're things
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  Speaker 2: we already knew.
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  Speaker 3: He's got his.
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  Speaker 1: Whip bomb ready. Heaven knows.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make it quick before.
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  Speaker 3: His ladder blows.
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  Speaker 2: It's Hoppy's Obvious Observations.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: I like that animation.
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  Speaker 3: It's very good. The most obvious observation, but still an
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  Speaker 3: observation that needs to be made, is that from a
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  Speaker 3: win-loss perspective, you can't be any better than you are.
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  Speaker 3: You should have won these two games. You won those
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  Speaker 3: two games. That's a good start, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it could be worse.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously. And you won the games you were supposed to win.
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  Speaker 3: You're a third of the way to being bowl eligible.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean, you are. I was thinking this morning,
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  Speaker 1: by the time next Saturday's game's over, you've played 25%
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  Speaker 1: of the season.
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  Speaker 3: The season goes fast. So you would think that you
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  Speaker 3: could win four of the next ten, minimum, right?
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  Speaker 1: You would think.
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  Speaker 3: But as you say, the stretch, nice.
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  Speaker 1: Eh, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's interesting. We were at the tailgate, and
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  Speaker 3: all due respect, nobody's talking about UT Martin. Everybody's going, well,
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  Speaker 3: the Virginia game's out there. I mean, that's what everybody's
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  Speaker 3: talked about before the first game, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Virginia game.
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  Speaker 3: And I think West Virginia fan wise will be well
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  Speaker 3: represented there.
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  Speaker 1: The defense.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me go to the offense first. You're seeing early, Brad,
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  Speaker 3: what Mike Hawkins Jr. You're seeing the emergence of Mike
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  Speaker 3: Hawkins Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Agree.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. You thought and you hoped and you're seeing it like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's, that's, that's got a chance there.
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  Speaker 3: Got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Got a chance. I mean, he was the best player
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  Speaker 3: on the field yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Agree.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's really good. I mean, the numbers,
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  Speaker 3: that big long run he made, you know, like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: So I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's positive. But that also brings me
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  Speaker 3: to Scotty Fox, friend of the program, as is Mike Hawkins,
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  Speaker 3: is that, you know, Rich Rod said something after the game.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I'm glad Scotty got some reps there, and
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  Speaker 3: he's a guy we trust. So you have a backup
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  Speaker 3: who's a guy you can trust. and you have a run,
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  Speaker 3: and he may have to play a lot. You don't
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  Speaker 3: know what this season's going to bring, but you have
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  Speaker 3: a guy that you trust as the backup. Now, that's
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  Speaker 3: good for everybody except Scottie, because Scottie wants to play, Tony.
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  Speaker 3: And Scottie's got five to play five. He's got three
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  Speaker 3: more years. Scottie Fox is going to play somewhere, maybe here,
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  Speaker 3: maybe somewhere else. He's going to play a lot of
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  Speaker 3: football somewhere. He's that good. It's just right now you've
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  Speaker 3: got two pretty good quarterbacks. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with that, too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. That's the bad part about the quarterback position. When
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  Speaker 1: you sign up for that position, that's the one thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's got all the glitz and all of the glamour,
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  Speaker 1: but they only use one.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we talked about in the summer, that was
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  Speaker 2: an important free agent acquisition. Everybody's a free agent after
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  Speaker 2: each year. Keep Scotty Fox. You knew what you could do.
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  Speaker 2: You saw enough from him last year that you could
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  Speaker 2: win games. You knew he'd come back. That was a
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  Speaker 2: huge learning experience, and you're right. You feel like you've
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  Speaker 2: got at least two really good quarterbacks right now you
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  Speaker 2: can trust.
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  Speaker 3: And speaking of quarterbacks, the John Ron Hughley, they like
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  Speaker 3: him a lot. He got some playing time. He got
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  Speaker 3: a chance.
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  Speaker 1: He can matriculate the ball.
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  Speaker 3: He got a chance. So he got that. Defense, I'll
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  Speaker 3: just quote Rich Rodriguez, because in the first half, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when it was a game in the second half, everything
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  Speaker 3: was kind of a mess. But in the first half,
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  Speaker 3: UT Martin got some big plays. And the one play
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  Speaker 3: for a touchdown got called back.
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  Speaker 1: On a penalty.
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  Speaker 3: But, I mean, that was a big play. This is
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  Speaker 3: what Rich Rod said. We got to play better. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't say Tony. We got to play better defensively going forward.
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  Speaker 3: We got to fix what we did wrong today. It
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  Speaker 3: just didn't seem like our guys were comfortable at times.
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  Speaker 3: Too many of the ugly moments in the first half. So,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: it was missed assignments, missed tackles. UT Martin making a play. Tony,
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  Speaker 3: you watched it closely. So I don't know what it was,
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  Speaker 3: but you still saw some things defensively that need to
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  Speaker 3: get better real quick because of the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: I think, to paraphrase, to his point, they don't seem
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  Speaker 1: comfortable yet. I think there's a transition that happens when
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  Speaker 1: you put an entirely new group together where not only
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  Speaker 1: are the players learning, the coaches are learning what the
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  Speaker 1: players can and cannot do in a true game situation.
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  Speaker 1: So like Zach Alley will call next week's game better
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  Speaker 1: than he did the Coastal game and better than he
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  Speaker 1: did the UT Martin game because he now knows, hey,
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  Speaker 1: in this particular package, I can't send this guy like
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  Speaker 1: I did in the Coastal Carolina game because it's just
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  Speaker 1: not going to work. But I can. I have seen this,
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  Speaker 1: so we can do this. So it's constantly a process
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  Speaker 1: of tweaking it. So yeah, there's a lot of work
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  Speaker 1: to do. The one thing that I think you oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: hear from a theory or a philosophical standpoint, is they
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  Speaker 1: just can't put too much on these guys. Zach's whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is he can do 1,000 things, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter if he knows 1,000 things. The only thing that
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  Speaker 1: matters is what can your kids execute. So when they
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  Speaker 1: go into these meetings this week, I think they're looking
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  Speaker 1: at it and go, okay, what are we screwing up?
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of it. Don't do it anymore. What are
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  Speaker 1: we doing really well? Do that. And that's when you
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  Speaker 1: start to finally play. historically, when you have a good
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  Speaker 1: group of guys that have played a lot, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: go back and make me seem like I'm 5,000 years old,
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  Speaker 1: but Steve Dunlap would often say West Virginia's 1996 defense,
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  Speaker 1: like whatever he called, they could do. Because he had
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  Speaker 1: basically had pros and he had coaches on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And veterans. And veterans. So when you had the Mike
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  Speaker 1: Logans out there and all those guys, you could just
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  Speaker 1: go like Charles Emmanuel, go like, do this and they go,
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  Speaker 1: got it. Or they would come to the sideline and go, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're doing this. We're going to go to this. And
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  Speaker 1: he'll be like, yeah, but you don't have that continuity
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  Speaker 1: anymore when you're putting a band together. All right. And
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  Speaker 1: so it takes a longer time and you try and
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  Speaker 1: you pray and you hope that you can learn while
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  Speaker 1: still winning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well said. Uh, Brad, need to get the ball
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  Speaker 3: to DJ Epps. He averages 56 yards every time he
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  Speaker 3: catches a ball. He was good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get into this in spreads on stats, but it
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  Speaker 2: felt like he had 10 catches. He only had two. Monsters.
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  Speaker 1: But it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how many years did we talk about big plays, right?
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully they can continue that. And you get the
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  Speaker 3: ball to Epps, and there's another 10 seconds, right, that
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  Speaker 3: go off. And he's running past guys. He's breaking tackles.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was exciting.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it felt like he had so many catches
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  Speaker 2: because he's.
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  Speaker 1: Running for 10 seconds out there picking up 83 yards.
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  Speaker 3: So that was exciting. Two catches, 112 yards. Got a
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  Speaker 3: punt block. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Punt block? Was that a block or was that like
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  Speaker 1: an assault?
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  Speaker 2: Thought he was going to grab the ball out of
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  Speaker 2: the air on the drop. Got there before the punter did.
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  Speaker 3: Since 2016... FBS teams that block a punt have won
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  Speaker 3: roughly 63% of those games.
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  Speaker 1: That's it? I thought it would be higher.
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  Speaker 3: Well, coaches always say 90%. But it's not true. But
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  Speaker 3: you obviously improve your chances significantly.
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  Speaker 1: That's all it is, is 63?
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  Speaker 3: That's according to my independent research. We can double-check that.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's 63%.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be 80-plus.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you block it and return it for a touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: it's 76%. But it's not 90%.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't talked much about kicker Jack Cassidy. All he
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  Speaker 3: does is kick it out of the end zone. All
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  Speaker 3: he does.
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  Speaker 1: Classic take it for granted, right? We just shrug our
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  Speaker 1: shoulders like, okay, you're going to take it out at
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  Speaker 1: 25 and forget teams taking them out and bringing it
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  Speaker 1: out to the 38, to the 40, and they're starting like.
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  Speaker 2: Or just holding your breath that someone's going to pop one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we went through a period where when you
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  Speaker 3: kicked off, you were worried. Yeah. Right? And now he
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  Speaker 3: just takes it for granted. And he's had plenty of opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: How many times has he kicked off already?
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  Speaker 1: He's probably 9 or 10 by now.
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  Speaker 3: And there have been no returns, if I'm correct.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: No, zero. Zero returns. The thing that really impressed me
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: yesterday in the first half, not only was he banging
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: him into the end zone, he was continually putting him
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: right on the tee in West Virginia. Like within like
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: eight feet of the tee, he's like. It's pretty dog-nosed.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, one second. I think he's, is he 14
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: now of 14? He had eight.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: That could be it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: He had eight against Tennessee Martin. He had six in
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the first week. None have been returned.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: That's correct.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: That's good. And also, when he kicks off, he doesn't
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: get this big running start. He takes about four steps back,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: and he just launches it.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Has anyone heard? Does he talk?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: He's Irish. He's Irish.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: That would be awesome. That would be awesome to hear
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: from that young fellow.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Let's get him out for a pint.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I hope he didn't lose his Irish accent when he
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: played over there at Western Kentucky. and get one of
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: them Kentucky accents, I hope he still has that Irish accent.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Probably so.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: We had hoped going into this game that Cam Cook
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: would have limited carries, and he did.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: So, Brad, I've got to defer to you. When I
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: was jotting this down, I thought about you. I would
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: be interested in yards per carry in the first half
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: and also yards before contact in the first half.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Well, he's got a segment. He'll probably do something like that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Okay. You can hang on to that because I thought
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: he was stuffed. largely in the first half for the
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: most part, which surprised me a little bit. You're 7
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: of 8. West Virginia was 7 of 8 scoring in
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the red zone. Let's see. That's all.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: That's it. And nothing else? Sometimes you bring something else
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: non-football related.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Soft on us?
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: I don't have that today.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Heart not into the show?
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: No, there's a lot of obvious from the show. The
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: crowd was good, but if there was a game that
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: fans were not going to go to, it was yesterday's game.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Because you want to be at the opening game, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: you're going to Oklahoma State. Maybe you're going to make
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: the trip to Charlotte, but that was probably a game
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: you're going to skip. And also, when you got the
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: big lead, fans started to filter it out, and it
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: was freaking hot.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: It was freaking hot. I saw the forecast, and it
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: said freaking hot. Yeah. You know, you've heard of late-arriving crowd.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I thought yesterday was early departure. Early departure. Like, okay,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I got it. I see it. We're not going to lose.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going home. Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: And one other thing. I said 13 guys ran. It's
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: great that so many players got in because that helps
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: two things.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Right, Brad?
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: That helps with this week in practice because guys got
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: to play and also evaluation how do guys do in
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: games because a ton of guys played. And we always
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: talk about coaches say, I want to play a lot
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: of guys. And then they don't. But they did because
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: they got the early lead. 13 people carried the ball.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, so.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you did what you had to do against an
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: FCS opponent.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yes. Right?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We talked about that. Average margin of victory in those
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: games had been 35. You laid it on. The offense
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: looked great. Had big plays. Defense statistically was good. Although, yes,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: there has to be improvement. We know that. That was
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: just one of those. It was a good day at
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the park. You show up, you get your win, you
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: drill them, you move on, and now you get ready for,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: as we said, big boy football begins starting next week.
• 19:23
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  Speaker 1: idea that Coastal Carolina took boats to come to the game. Yeah. Obviously.
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• 22:25
  Speaker 1: What did it look like numerically, uh, Obviously, there are
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: certain things that you can tell when you watch it,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: but what do the numbers tell us about yesterday's game? Ooh,
• 22:36
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• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Probably very gaudy, gaudy numbers.
• 22:43
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• 22:46
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• 23:35
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• 23:39
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• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Just anything that made you go, huh? No. Nothing. Not
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: one number.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Again, like the game played out, stuff we thought, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I think that's where we start this discussion because I
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: think there's always interesting numbers that come out of there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it backs up what you saw. Sometimes it leads
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: you to say, okay, maybe what we saw is not
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: exactly what we thought. But let's begin as we'll do
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: each game in the review now that we have a
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: game under our belt, two games under our belts. Let's
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: look back at what we thought might happen Thursday and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: see which of those came true and didn't. First and foremost,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: we thought there'd be some turnovers in this game. We
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: talked about Calvez, the starting quarterback for Tennessee Martin. He
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: had fumbled twice and had two picks, four turnovers in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: the two games coming in. Thought that would be something
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: you could exploit. Guess what, guys?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Calvez had one in the first half, coughed up a fumble.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: You got on top of that for West Virginia. Serber
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: comes in, inexperienced quarterback. We thought pressure might get to him.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: He hadn't seen a lot of it on the season. Well,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: he saw some yesterday. That did get to him through
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: a pick early in the third quarter. So two turnovers.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Thought there'd be some. West Virginia got him. Second part,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: figured West Virginia would be able to run against this
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: UT Martin team. They did 316 yards rushing, six yards
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: per carry. Hoppy, as you noted, a lot of guys
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: got carries. This was an interesting number to come out
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: of there, I thought. 3.5 line yards per rush. So
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: line yards is really a metric that is used to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: evaluate the offensive line performance. Once you bust through the
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: initial crust and it's on the running back, the offensive
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: line doesn't get that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Is that a football term, the crust?
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Did you just make that up? No, Coach Dunlap used
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to love saying crust.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Never heard it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he loved crust.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So he's talking, that's the line of scrimmage where the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: engagement takes place.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Well, just like when the guys bust up and you
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: break through that and there's nobody back, you've broken through
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the crust and there's no one on the back.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Latimer broke through the crust.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Crust. Boy, he looked good, didn't he? If you just
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: took a snapshot video of Latimer running in that open field,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: good looking running back. 3.5 line yards per rush. If
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you did that over the course of a season, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I know before we get all the texts, competition adjusted.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I'm saying that because I put
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: a tweet out this morning and some of the sports
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: betting people nationally have somehow found it. And they're quick
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: to point out that West Virginia has not played a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: difficult schedule to this point, which should qualify under Hoppe's
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: obvious observations. Thank you to Twitter users pointing out that
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: West Virginia has not played a difficult schedule yet. Thank
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: you very much for that obvious observation. 3.5 line yards
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: per rush, just to put in perspective. If you did
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: that for a full season, you'd be in about the
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: 75th percentile nationally. So it means it was a really
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: good job performance in that game by the offensive line.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: 54% of your running plays had a positive expected points added.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That is good. 49% of your rushes on early downs
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: were successful. That's going to be a number we probably
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: watch all season, Hoppy. West Virginia's ability to get yards
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: on early downs is so critical. Because you get a
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: rich offense, and this one in particular with Cam Cook
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and DJ Epps and Michael Hawkins, and they can be
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: in third and four. Now you've got some options, right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Now you've got the defense in some tough spots. And
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I thought West Virginia's been really good at that through
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: these first two games, is getting themselves in third and short,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: third and medium, when you can do some different things.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Critical coming up against Virginia to stay ahead of the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: sticks on early downs. West Virginia was good about that
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. Mountaineer's very effective on the edges in this game, guys,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: running the balls. 51% of the rush attempts were around
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: the left edge or the right edge. So they went
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: outside a bunch. 10 of the 16 rushing first downs
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: gained went to those two spots. So effective on the
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: edges in this game. We thought there could be some
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: explosive pass plays in this game, given that the Skyhawks
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: were going to have to commit so many resources to
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: trying to slow the run. Guess what there was, Hop,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: in this one?
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you had some big plays.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You did.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Tennessee Martin came in with a high explosive play rate
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: against them. West Virginia didn't throw it a ton against Coastal,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: but they threw it downfield at almost twice the power
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: for average in week one. So we thought that was
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: going to be a formula here. You don't have to
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: throw it a lot, most likely, but when you do,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: there should be some big plays, and there was. Five
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of seven from Hawkins for 155, two touchdowns through the air.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: The aforementioned DJ Epps was really fun to watch, exciting.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Had 112 yards receiving, 83 of them yards after catch.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: So get the ball in his hands, let him cook,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and he did. Let's talk about quarterback Michael Hawkins. Four
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: more missed tackles forced. So let's run through some of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: these numbers. He's 25th nationally now among all players in
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: college football in missed tackles forced. He's third nationally among
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: non-running backs. Two rushing touchdowns yesterday for Mike. He has
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: three on the season. That's fourth nationally among non-running backs,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and he's 12th nationally in runs of 10 yards or more.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Not running back category, of course.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: You know what that sounds like?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: A guy that's having a good season and has some skills.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: Sounds like a Rich Rodriguez quarterback.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: It does, doesn't it?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Here's one for you. You want a wow? You want
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: a surprise?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Again, don't text me about the schedule strength.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Ha! Is this a... I mean, they played and they played.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: We can talk about the numbers. I know they're going
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to change.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Hawkins, number three nationally in passer rating among quarterbacks with
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: at least 20 drawbacks.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Pretty good start. Yeah, he's slinging it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: So again, hasn't had to throw it a whole lot.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: What happens next week? This will be fun next week.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: This is two teams that just want to run it
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: with two mobile quarterbacks that can take off and go.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Does the passing game decide next week? Can these defenses
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: do anything to slow each other's run game down? Then
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: does it fall back on the throwing? A lot of,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: and we're not previewing Virginia today, but a lot of
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: intriguing angles coming up in this game next week. Let's
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: talk about Cam Cook for just a second. Hoppy, you
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: mentioned he only had 10 carries. He had five to
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: miss tackles forced. In those 10 carries, he runs hard,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: doesn't he?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Explodes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: He is fifth now. in missed tackles forced. He has
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: 14 of them through two games. So he's, so far,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: what we thought he could be. Really talented back, can
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: make you miss. And how about his blocking? That was
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: one of the things, and he talked about that on
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: this show. He told us he thought he was a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: really good blocker, and that's part of why you can
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: leave him in in any situation. He had a good
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: game blocking yesterday as well when he was in. Available
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: yards metrics. West Virginia got 73% of the available yards yesterday.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: That's two straight weeks when you've been at 70% of
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the available yards, so a good start there. Fumble recovery percentage, guys.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: We talked about it in one of the over-unders yesterday.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: You forced a lot last year. You didn't recover as
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: many as you would like. That's working so far. You've
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: recovered three of the four that you forced this season,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: a whopping 75%.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Our boy Ben Cutter's been active. Yes. The first two games, right?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He got one yesterday, a TFL.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I think it's his cookies.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Very active. I think it's all he eats is his
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: mom's cookies. It's all he eats.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: A quick over-under number that made its way into last
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: week's episode. You might have a future career in bookmaking.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: It was a tremendous call by you. You set the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Martavius Boswell carries number at 7.5. 7.5 was the number
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: that was set. He got 8. Boswell goes over.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: As you predicted. But it was wonderful. I was less
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: impressed that you got it right, more impressed with the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: number you set. Very well done.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What I do is I base it on conversations that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I have when I'm in the building. And I'll go like,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: what are you guys thinking? Well, you know... Boswell, Boswell,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you know, he's coming. So that's how it came about.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Well, that's why I'm not impressed that you went over
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: on it. But you hit the number right exactly on
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the mark. That was well done. Seven and a half,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and he did go over. Do some offensive grades real quick. Again,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: in a dominating game, you're going to get a lot
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: that jump out to you. DJ Epps was number one.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Ryan Ward only had eight snaps but was graded really highly.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: You're number two grader. Got a touchdown pass down that seam.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Kendrick Triplett, high on the list for limited number of snaps.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Jiron Hughley, the 10 snaps that he has, he actually
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: sits number one in NFL passer rating right now, which
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: is one attempt. Cam Ball, I thought this was a
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: good sign. He had a really good run blocking grade
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: on his nine run blocking snaps. So that's just something
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: to keep an eye on. We talked Jaden Bray's run
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: blocking in game one. Nider had a couple good downfield
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: blocks where he was engaged on Hawkins' really long touchdown
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: run there. He was engaged blocking.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Like 50 yards down the field.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And the whole time. I mean, Hawkins was well past him,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: and he's still engaged. So Nider doing good. And we
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: know this offense. Those edge guys have to block well.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Cam Ball at that tight end position. If he can
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: come along in the run blocking game, that would be great.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I mentioned Cam Cook. Again, not a ton of carries,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: but he had an elite run blocking grade in yesterday's game.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Kevin Brown. Slides into the top 10 there. Best offensive line,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: offensive grade on the day. So that was good to
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: see from him. Wes King was in the top 15.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: LaMarcus Dillard, we talked about him on Thursday. The young
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: lineman that they like a lot over there. Missed the
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: first game. Got to play some snaps there. He did
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a nice job as well. Some defensive grade. Ashton Woods
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: was your top grade. Jameer Latimer was in there. Isaiah Patterson.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: led the team in tackles and stops. That's that PFF
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: stat that constitutes a failure for the offense. Patterson was there,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and Torber was there as well. So the linebackers, at
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: least grade-wise, showed very well. Tyler Stolski was in there, too.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Didn't play a ton of snaps, but he was number two.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: So almost all linebackers in your top five, which how
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: critical is that group going to be against Virginia coming
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: up in that experienced offensive line?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: A lot of good stuff there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent stuff.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I'll throw you at a couple. Want a couple?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Big plays. So a big play is defined, and what
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at, as a rush that's 10 yards or
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: more or a completion of 15 yards or more. And
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: West Virginia had 13 big plays, which accounted for 368
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: of its total yards. The thing that kind of makes
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you go, hmm, is that Tennessee Martin had eight big plays.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: You can't, you got to keep them in front of you, man.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So that's a little bit of a concern. That's something obviously.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: So West Virginia pressures as well defensively. They had nine TFLs.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of TFLs. You turn your microphone on.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: I didn't do it in this one because again, I
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: could have gone for an hour on that and really
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: you got the important stats out of the way. But
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: there were a lot of havoc plays again. So if
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: you're trying to pull out some positives from this defense,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: they do look that they are flying around. There were
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: more pressures, 12 in this game, not the ridiculous 40
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: you had against Coastal Carolina. But the Havoc number was
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: up a little bit again. Just continue to work to
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: get in the right spot. And then how you're going
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: to hold up against this experienced Virginia offensive line is
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: just going to be the thing that makes the difference. Linebackers, again,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: are going to be so critical past the defensive line, obviously.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: But a guy to keep an eye on I thought
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: was really good, Jason Hall, jumped out a couple times yesterday.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: I was like, well, who delivered that hit there?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: That's two games in a row.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: It is. It is.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: So he's a transfer from Villanova. Correct.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: You talk about a group that we mention a lot
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: of names with our guy Ben Cutter and Patterson and Torber.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: And you go down that list, Jason Hall's another guy
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: in that linebacker risk, Stolzky. So they're playing a lot
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: of that position. Hall was one I thought that stood
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: out a little bit yesterday, too.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: The Virginia, and not to jump ahead, but I am,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: their offensive line not only Are they extremely old with
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: two seventh years, two sixth years, and a fifth year?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Like when I watched them in their first game against
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: NC State, just massive. They just like lean forward. Just
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: big dudes. I mean, this could be absolute just old
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: school slug battle punch, nitty gritty dirt. It's... It could
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: be old school football.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they played Norfolk State on Friday and did what
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: West Virginia did to Tennessee Martin. Just not much to
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: take from that game. They handled their business and come
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: into this game. Cam Robinson for them, linebacker that was
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: dinged at the end of last year. What's his availability?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: How's he look coming back in this West Virginia game?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: So this will be a great challenge.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And they played a little cat and mouse. So Pribula. Pribula. Pribula.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: I'll have it down.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Pribula. That's what I said, Pribula.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: No, I was practicing, too.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Okay. Only carried it twice. Yeah, no need to. Take
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the over on two for carries against West Virginia.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Once again, Tony's right on the number.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, take the over on two. You could get up there.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: And so great cat and mouse game going to be happening.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, some similarities here. Just both teams want to
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: run it so much. Both teams have extremely mobile quarterbacks here.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So this will be a good test.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: So, Brad, you didn't– I must have been wrong then
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: about– I felt like that some of those runs in
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the first half were stuffed.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Particularly, were you getting yards?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: West Virginia, I'll say this because I didn't isolate it
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: off Tennessee Martin, but West Virginia's yards before contact number
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: as a team went up on the season.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So that number elevated here in week two.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Okay. Three guys before the game is brought to us
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: by GoMart. Here's a question for you. Do you drink
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Mountain Dew? Well, if you don't, then you might be
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: in the minority. You know, Mountain Dew is the number
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: one pop. Did you know that, Hoppy?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Number one pop.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: What do you want me to say, soda? There's another
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: one pop.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Does anybody say pop anymore?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people say pop.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: They do?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Probably not as much as I used to. But anyway,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: this month at all GoMarts, if you buy two one-liter
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Mountain Dews at GoMart, a dollar will be donated. to
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the Maddox Potter Foundation. So we strongly, and that is
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the biggest seller of pop in their stores. And so
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: if you buy two one liters at any go-mart this month,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a dollar goes to the Maddox Potter Foundation. And if
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you have a moment, look up Maddox Potter Foundation and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you'll see his story and it will be extremely worthwhile.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: So we strongly encourage you to do that.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Let me help Hoppy out here so he doesn't have
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to spin all day and worry about the question you
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: just asked. Hop, here you go.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: So stuffed runs counted yards gained zero or less. West Virginia,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: there were four of them on the day, 8% of
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: their carries. Now, stopped runs classified as yards gained less
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: than two yards. There were 14 of those, 28% of
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: West Virginia's runs. So Not as many maybe stopped or stuffed,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: but quite a few there that gained less than two yards.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: There are runs that gained four or more yards, opportunity
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: runs as it's classified here. 50% of West Virginia's carries
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: went for four or more yards.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: 50%.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I might have just been.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're looking for there?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Now I can relax this afternoon.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: I knew that wouldn't stress you out all afternoon.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You guys ready for some healing?
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: You ready for some healing? Brad, are you in? Please.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: You healing?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Although not much healing needed.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: The number and the tone were a little different this week.
• 39:26
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• 39:29
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• 39:34
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• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't say we. These guys were very busy over
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: at the food court this weekend. We had a lot
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: of stuff going on. And obviously not at home this week,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: which means that we won't have our regular deal. But
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: things started off Thursday night at Buffalo Wild Wings in
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the Suncrest Town Center. We had two folks there from
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the WVU rifle team. Olivia, world great singer. That guy,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: hold that picture for a second.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Hold on, go back.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Zach. Zach. So the guy in the gold apron there, well,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: that was Olivia there. Hold on.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Can we go in reverse?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: One more back. Back one more, Zach.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: First one. What are you doing?
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Didn't you want to talk about the rifle guy or
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you wanted to move forward?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, so the guy on the right where
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Hoppy's name is and the young lady on the left
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: where Brad's name is, they are members of the world
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: champion Mountaineer rifle team and had delightful conversations with them.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And they're gearing up for their season. So we wish
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: those guys luck. The very best.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: They were acknowledged during the game yesterday. Yeah, they did.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: They got their rings. Yes, yes. Ren Baker was out
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: there handing out jewelry. Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: It's a good day when you're on the field getting
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: your ring.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, handing out the bling. And then go ahead, Zachy.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: So there we are. Gold apron. We saw something. Two
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: unbelievable things have now happened in our hot check and
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: win contest. Two weeks in a row. One, the first week,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the dude almost blew it. And had to run out
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the back door.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: And Beth Robinson, just a silent assassin, just kept going
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: right through. Underdog victory for her.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: So former Mountaineer lineman Jaquay Hubbard, we got him into
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: the chicken wing cook contest. And the way you go
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: is you get 10 wings. They've got Carolina Reaper, Ghost,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: and Scorpion Pepper all mixed together. On them, they're just Jaquay.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: So you can win as long as you eat your
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: 10 wings in five minutes.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: And most people, if they do do it, go right
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: to the final second before they get the last one done.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Two minutes and nine seconds. And he had those things
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: down to the bone.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Clean.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: World's record.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Clean. I mean, like Joey Chestnut, he's in that category,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: He just hammered them.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, great to see you, Chukwai. It was fun.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Real quick, the other contestants, go back there, Zach, for
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: one second. The wing eating contest, the gentleman in the middle, Sam.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I give him a lot of credit. He was close.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: He needed one more wing finish to win the challenge.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: But he polished off 20 wings.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: He had eaten 20 before he sat down.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: 20 regular wings and then still stepped up to do
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: the contest. So he's in the middle. And our guy
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: on the far left, right in front of where Tony's
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: back is to us, but the Nick, came out of
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: the kitchen. They went to the bullpen, carried the elite
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: manager over there, Buffalo Aldins, went into the kitchen, tapped Nick,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: who's a previous world champion for us at one of
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: our events. Walks out, and he pounded his, too, but
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: it was no.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Match for Jaquay.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jaquay blew him out.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: By the way, Jaquay was not the only former Mountaineer
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: we had.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Nick Malone was there.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Nick Malone was there.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Great to see Nick. You can go ahead, Zachy.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: There's Hayden.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Hayden's there. He is a regular. Yeah. Good dude. And
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: then went to the food court over the weekend. We
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: had two food trucks because Rev Kev had a different event,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't work us, and you guys were there.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Pliables. Pliables. We're there on Friday night. There's Hoppy's back
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: right there at the event. Good crowd out there throughout
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: the Friday evening. And then the other truck right there
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: in the back of that photo, Bites and Sips, you'll
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: see some more pictures coming up in just a second.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: As we keep moving forward, Zach, you're okay there. There's
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: the Clear Mountain Stage here in this next one where
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: we had live music, Monhill Records there again. As we
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: keep rolling through here. All right, there's some more fans
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: enjoying there. So see what they're eating there? Those are
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the Smashburgers. Oh, Hop, you're getting a Connection 304 in there?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Friends at Parker's Work Brewing.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Let me have a cold beer.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, these next couple pictures, that's Jeff Woody.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Linebacker. Fullback. Yeah, running back.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Out of Southeast Polk.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: Same thing.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Out of Southeast Polk, just outside of Des Moines. He
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: played at Iowa State. He was in attendance for the game,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: calling the game for ESPN +. Hold it right there, Zach.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: So there's a picture. Got a Smashburger from Bites and Sips.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: That was the other food truck that was in attendance.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I also might have taken.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: One of those down.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, I had one too.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: It was very good.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Very good. So thanks to them for stepping up the winner.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: And he was, Jeff was, he reminded us that he,
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the last game he played was at Milan Pushkar, like 2013. Right, Brad?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Is that right? Yeah.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: The last game he played, which Iowa State won three
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: games that year, and one of them was against West Virginia.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of remember that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Sounds nice to Jeff to stop by the podcast there.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: He hung out for a while. He listened to the podcast.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: He listened to the podcast, got a cookie from Jim Cutter.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: So they serve all ages and sizes.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Lovely young ladies right there enjoying their pliables.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Little kids get the food, too, huh?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: There's me mid-bite of my Smashburger.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: But stop there and take a look at that picture.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: How beautiful was that night?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: It was a great evening. We had a great crowd.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: See the gentleman in the gold shirt I'm talking to?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: The dad of Colin, the basketball manager from last year.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Remember from Maine?
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Sure. Good kid.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Wonderful.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: They come down for games.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the Maine folks have become Mountaineer fans.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you? I mean, you're going to be a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Black Bear fan. You're going to be a.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Because their son came to school here. And now they're just.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: You know who that is, Tony? Wes from Tailgate Central
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: stopped by to see us.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Wes was there.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Talked about him. He had his surgery there and run
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: that 5K, right?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: It was a blast talking to him just about some
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: of those old touchdowns.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Animal House.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Tailgate Central days. Okay, hold it right here for a second, Zach.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: These people, we have to get them on. This was
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: a great effort. That's Kevin on the left, Lisa in
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: the middle there next to me, McGlumpy from Atlanta, okay?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Kevin's a high school football coach. Coached a game Friday night.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: They hop in the car, drove straight through to West Virginia, arrived,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: did not sleep, came right to the tailgate, took down
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Rev Kev's brisket in the biscuit to start their day.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Rev was there Saturday?
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: He was there Saturday. Excellent brisket on the biscuit. But
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Kevin and Lisa, shout out to them. Thanks for coming.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Great effort.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Kevin just hooked it up and just drove right through.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a surprise celebrity guest.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Johnny Estelle, Mountaineer assistant coach there in the gold. Jaden
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Estelle as well. Jaden there, his son off to the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: far right-hand side. So Johnny's become like a regular at
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the court, right?
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: He loves it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Why wouldn't he?
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: You know, such a people person.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's the best. He has to be there. Cookie time.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Baker's does, and they sold out.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Hold on one second. By the way, Matt Peasley in
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the picture before that in his group. This picture right
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: here in front of the Clear Mountain community corner, that
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: is Jackie Zuliani, mom of Carter Zuliani, wife of Rob Zuliani. They're,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: of course, the family owner of Zool's Lemonade, had a
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: big day. They took down 100% of their available yards
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: yesterday during the game as they sold out during the
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: game on that hot day. But Jackie Zuliani picking up
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: some Jen Cutter Cookies.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: They're doing kettle corn over there, too, I believe. Yeah,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: they're doing some kettle corn as well. And they're just
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: happy customers, right? Just happy people getting their baker's dozen
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: of those chocolate chip cookies. And then you guys, there's Jen.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: So then you moved out.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Just worked our way up as we were walking into
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: the stadium, worked our way through again. Great group of guys.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. There it is. We'll do it again.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: We'll do all the stuff before the Oklahoma State game.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: So this week, we'd be chilling. All right, here we
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: go from the text line. Hey, guys, shout out to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: the WVU sideline chain crew. Dan, Glenn, Steve, Jeff, Rick,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and the others. These are the guys that hold the
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: down markers and the chains. A few of these guys
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: have been running the sidelines at the stadium for now
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: over 40 years.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: Incredible.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Have a great season. I'll get myself in trouble for
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: saying this, but I don't care. Can we get the
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: digital down box on the sideline? Schools now have the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: digital one. It says first down, second, third, fourth. Why
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: can't we get that? I'll say this. Three guys is
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: willing to pay.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: We will pay. They can't cost much.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: What?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: No, we're not. We'll pay for the down marker.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: No, we're not. We will pay. We are not paying
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: for the down marker.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: The yard marker now works perfectly fine.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Homeless day, but we'll pay for it. Get us a
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: down marker that's digital so you can see it better.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: We're not paying for it. Sunny and everything, you can't
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: see what down it is.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Then you've got to take away their responsibilities. They're like,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Flip the thing over, whatever they do.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: They can just press the button instead of flipping the thing. Texter,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: I got to hang out with this living legend Friday afternoon.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: He couldn't have been any nicer. Picked up the world-famous
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Cutter's Cookies. Homeless said they may have been overhyped by
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you guys. The cookies, however, were delicious.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think overhyped.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: So you go, Hoppy.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: We had a great visit.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Texter says no better way to spend a Friday than this.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: No better way to spend a Friday... than that. A
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: couple of Connection 304s and a couple of cookies. Oatmeal pies.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Oatmeal cream pie.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: And chocolate chip there on the right.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: By Saturday, about 11, Brad and I were there, and
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: we were out of cookies. We were about out of,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: I think we had a couple of biscuits left. The
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Connection 304 Tap was about to run dry.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: It's a good day. Hey, three guys, did you see
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the story about Georgia putting their football highlights behind a paywall?
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Seems like a bad long-term strategy for building a fan base.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Will pay toilets make a comeback next? Thoughts on this story,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: and what if anything is going too far for cash?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: That's a good question in our new world. A quick
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: connection story. We were touring Fort Pulaski outside of Savannah,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Georgia recently. Park Ranger there chatted her up. She had
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: her MA from WVU in public histories programs. She said
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: that many of the park rangers across the country have
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: that degree. From the old WV, a shout-out to Shannon Rowe.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Did an outstanding job. There's Phil Ashland, Kentucky. Texter says, hi, guys.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: This is Matt, the Delta Ranger. mechanic in Talm, is
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it Talm, Georgia? T-A-L-M. I was listening to your show
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: about Eagle Ranch and Chestnut Mountain. Interestingly enough, Talmo, the
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: tiny little town that I'm from, sits 10 miles from
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: the Eagle Ranch. My son goes to school at Lanier
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Christian Academy. Several of his friends actually live in a
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: neighborhood that is part of the Eagle Ranch. One of
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: his best friends is friends with the guy that you
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: talked about that's created Eagle Ranch, Steve Finn. I do
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: believe this qualifies as a West Virginia connection. As one
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: of the families noticed my flying West Virginia license plate
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: when I picked up my son at their house. Awesome story,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: awesome program. And it just shows the Mountaineer mentality can
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: come from anywhere. Keep up the good work, guys. Love
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: to hear the story and the update on that connection. Texter,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: this is a good West Virginia connection right here. Kyle
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: from Rorgantown writes this. I have an all-time, all-time for
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: a West Virginia connection. I was in the football tailgate lot,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: and I ran into two people. One was from New York,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and one was from New Jersey. And wouldn't you know,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: they were both freshmen. Just shows you, there's always a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: West Virginia connection. It seemed like everywhere I walked today,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I saw a WVU fan. That is absolutely unbelievable, Kyle.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Kyle.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Here's a text. Start your game day the homemade way.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: And there is someone doing exactly what we told you.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Game day Saturday, you get yourself a biscuit or nine
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: from Tudor's Biscuit World and make your way up the road,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and that is an enjoyable thing. And don't forget, besides
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: those massive biscuits, those are called cat head biscuits, big
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: boy biscuits, they also have those protein bowls. You might
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: want to not do the biscuit portion of it. You
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: can do a protein bowl. They've got sausage. They've got vegetable.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: They've got bacon. Protein bowls, just pop in. Give those
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: a try. You may want to try something different if
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: you've had a bunch of everything else. A lot of protein,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: check them out. Tudor's Biscuit World, start your way the
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: way three guys do, the homemade way with a Tudor's biscuit.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I don't normally do this, but I'm going to. I'm
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: going to give a shout out. We get music and
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: songs and videos. Hey, just want to let you see this.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I listen to one. A gentleman by the name of Rob,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Bridgeport Guy, sent me a video that he made. Now,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I know it's AI, but it's pretty good. Did you
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: think it was pretty good?
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was okay.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: It was fine. If you go to YouTubes, type in
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: tailgate party, dub the letter V. Tailgate party, dub V. Football,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: WV Football 26 Hype Anthem. And pretty good. Listen through
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: it all the way. Just, I don't know, you can
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: tell me what you think of it. But thanks for
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: doing that, Rob. Really appreciate that. Hey, guys. So I
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: am a Jacksonville area total wine. I'm in a Jacksonville
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: area total wine. Picking up some game day Oktoberfest. And
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: this gentleman calls me over to sample his super clean
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Austrian TM vodka. He sees my West Virginia gear. He
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: asked me if I know Owen Schmidt. I said, nah,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: not personally, but he is one of my guys. He
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: proceeds to tell me that this guy that's selling the vodka,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: he's from Philly. He knows Owen. His son gave Owen
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: guitar lessons. They hung out, attended concerts and stuff.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Always a West Virginia connection. Hey, Owen, Frank in Philly says, hello.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Hello. That was Dan from Beckley, now in Fernandina Beach, Florida.
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: Texter.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: The oatmeal cream pies and chocolate chip cookies were excellent.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: No?
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Glad that you enjoyed. Texter. This is a
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: rare in-game text for me. As we enter the fourth quarter,
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: it appears West Virginia will be exactly where we wanted to,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: and it should be after the first two games. That being,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: with two wins under our belt, I am hopeful... The
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: majority of my fellow texters are also of a positive mindset,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: but I am certain there are still complaints about the defense,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: the fact that we didn't hang 70 on UTM, and
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: that Scopes has still not made inflatable helmet arrangements. Regardless,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: there is cautious optimism here on the banks of the
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Kanawha Falls. Finally, have my 80s fallen victim to the
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: 80s AI mullet trend, or is Scopes actually growing one himself?
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but notice a few wisps of hair
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: over his collar during the last show. So I think
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: this gentleman has me and you mixed up. I'm scopes.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: That's spreads. You just referred to yourself as scopes. I'm
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: scopes because I wrestled an attacking boar and killed it.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: With your bare hands.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: With my bare hands. That's why I'm scopes. That's spreads
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: on stats. Spreads. So he's talking about, I'm certainly not
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: growing my hair out. I like to keep it. I
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: keep it short. Brad from Saberton, we are not as
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: bad as some feel in the second half of the
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Coastal game, and to be determined if we're as good
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: as we looked against UTM, we'll know more after the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: UVA game what the rest of this thing looks like.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: This feels like what used to be the Maryland game.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: So he's saying the Maryland game, In the Virginia game,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: he's like, okay, here you go. This is kind of like,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: where are you? That's what the Maryland game used to
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: be for us, about the third week of the season.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Texter says, fellas, we have a third down travesty taking
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: place in the stands. I'm calling on Three Guys Nation
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: to help fix it. This guy's kind of upset. When
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the world champion Mountaineers force another team into a third down,
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: And Bill Nevin fires us up with, it's third down.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer fans rise to their feet as one with a
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: chance to actually impact the game. And what do they do?
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: They daintily wiggle three fingers in the air. I don't
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: know when or how this started, but I think it stinks.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: It's silent. It intimidates exactly nobody and inspires exactly nobody. 50,000
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: should be clapping as loud as possible while also shouting
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: at the top of their lungs. That's how you make
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: the opponent uncomfortable and help your team. Please, help stop
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: this nonsense. We need graphics on the board telling fans
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to clap loud, make noise. Wiggling our fingers is lame.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Let's start the movement. Go Mountaineers. Michael from Austin. Bill
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Nevin is doing his part. The three of us have
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: removed ourselves from any suggestions of music, anything to do
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: with operations. We just don't do it. And the reason is,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: quite honestly, it's just not worth it. It's not worth it.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: It's not worth the hassle that we receive when we
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: make a suggestion, so we just totally become Switzerland. We
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: just go like, yeah, great idea. Okay, fine.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Glad you finally come around to that.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I'm not doing that. Nice Wendy is a
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: little scary.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: I didn't want him calling me with the suggestions he
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: had back in the day.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: How often did you do that? A lot. Last two
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma State games are why I don't and never will
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: bet on anything. Go Mountaineers. Beat Virginia. Jay from Midlothian.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Good effort today. The real season starts this week. Glad
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: so many guys got actions. I want to see improvement
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: from O-line and past D. Ready to be in Charlotte
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Saturday over under on UVA game lasting two hours and
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: 50 minutes based on how much running there will be.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: He ends that by saying, stay groovy, baby.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: By the way, West Virginia did cover yesterday, so it
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: was a big number, too. 41, 41 and a half.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: Something like that.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Ted from Colorado. The Grateful Gnome is a sports bar
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in Denver and the owner, a WVU grad. Good times
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, including a pepperoni roll contest. This is the official,
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: look at that, sports bar for the Denver chapter of
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: the WVU Alumni Association. So, Ted. And all those folks there,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: they have a big time. They get a table there.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: How about that? in Denver. A little bit of a,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: it's a little earlier start out there, obviously. Our guy,
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Jim Smallwood, checks in. I saw him on my way in. Same.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Did you see him? Yeah, their tailgate there, yeah. We
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: were set up for tailgating as usual yesterday at 7 a.m.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: My partner in crime, Jackie, was absent from the game.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: She was playing in her very first golf tournament out
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: there at Berry Hills Country Club. There you go. So
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: there's me and Jim. Not to fear, I had great
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: assistance from retired Morgantown postal carrier Tom Unger. So there's Tom,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: a former mail guy. Always one of the first folks
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: we see is TC. I get a picture. I didn't
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: get a picture, but Brad stopped by. Keeping it alive
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: in Section 105, says Jim. Texter says this. Three guys,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Gary and Elkins. Beautiful day at the stadium today, and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: we took care of business. Listening to the preview on
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: the way to the game, fueling up at a Go-Mart
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: for my truck and tutors for myself. First truck, not
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: his pickup.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Although I'm in agreement that the fumble out of the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: end zone may be harsh, the penalty, it's what we
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: have as a formal rule. Learn the rules and play accordingly.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: And then he gives me a shot. Comes in with
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: a heater. And, Tony, there's 100 yards to fumble between
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the goal lines, not 99. You know what I meant.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: I meant, like, you got 99 until you get inside
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: of the one. Like, you could chuck it anywhere there
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: without it becoming controversial.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: By the way, the color commentator for ESPN.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Jeff Woody, the fullback from Iowa State.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Jeff Woody gave me a big counterargument to my point. Really?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, because why?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: I forget it all, but he had a pretty rational
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: argument as to why the rule made sense.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Do you feel smaller as a result of that?
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks. I felt like here's a guy who played
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: and he's an ESPN analyst that probably he had me
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: at a disadvantage.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: I really like Jeff. You had a solid argument as well.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: You don't have to shrink away from the discussion. In
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: my opinion.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that. But I tell you what,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: it was nice of him to come to our tailgate
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: and hang out.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Well, one thing we've learned, Brad and I have learned
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, not by intentionally, but
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: this podcast is viewed very often by guys that are
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: coming in to do the game on TV. Oh, really?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: They think that we know something. They think that we
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: got the inside. And so we've got a guy in basketball,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: our guy Pete. He loves the show. He might still
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: be watching it now, even though it's not even basketball
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: season yet. Love Pete. Pete's the best. By the way,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Gary in Elkin says, we pitched a shutout first half,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: but not so fast. A fortunate fumble recovery on the five.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: And a timely block below the waist took points off
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: the board. We still have room to improve.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, we do.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: We have to be able to rely on our defense.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: We can't outscore everyone. On to the next game. Let's
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: shout out the Cavaliers. Love the show. Let's go.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it this week. Yes, you have to improve.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: It's only game two with an entirely new roster, so
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: we'll probably say that all the way into November. I
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: am interested to see where this defense can get itself.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Is it going to be one that just has to
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: rely on third downs? Get off the field on third down, right?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Or continue to create turnovers and and get them. Again,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: you did that last year under Zach Alley on a
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: defense that had some holes in the pass game. He
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: still got some turnovers. He didn't recover them, as we've
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: talked about. So that looks like the formula. This is
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: not going to be a dominant defense, which is not
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: a surprise. Knew that going into the season. Can it
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: be one that's very good on third down to get
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: off the field and create some of those turnovers?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Final text. Will, previously of Charlottesville, Virginia, now South Bend, Indiana.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Until last year, I was a professor at the University
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: of Virginia. Now he is a professor at the University
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: of Notre Dame. A lot of my former colleagues are
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: excited about the game next week, as am I. Now,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: the question. Your opinion of Michael Hawkins so far. Your
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: options are the following. A guy. The guy. A man.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: The man. A dude. The dude. Well, I don't think
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: he's a, he's not a guy or the guy he's
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: better than that. Yes. So you go to, he's a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: man or he's the man, or do you go, he's
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: a dude, the dude.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll, I think to be the dude, you've got
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: to have a couple more games under your belt to
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: be the dude. And, but he has established himself as
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: a guy who is exciting and, but at the same
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: time controlled. I mean, what's impressed me? Because he hasn't
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: played a lot. What's impressed me is he's a guy
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: that doesn't make mistakes. He makes plays, doesn't make mistakes.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that, Hoppy. Out of the gate
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: for a guy that hasn't played a whole lot. And again,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: I know you're playing teams that you're better than, but
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: I've been really impressed with him so far. And not
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: just the numbers that we read off earlier, but he
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: has the look, right? He gets an open field. and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: it was economy of movement there on that 70-yard run.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good look. Cam Cook was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit behind where you would have loved for him to
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  Speaker 2: be to clear that guy out, and Hawkins saw it
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  Speaker 2: immediately and cut behind Cam Cook's back there, so that
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  Speaker 2: turned into a block, and then it wasn't messing around.
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  Speaker 2: It was straight up the field, showed great speed. He
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  Speaker 2: has some wiggle, as we've talked about, so he can
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  Speaker 2: throw it. So far, I'm really impressed. I think this.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's exactly what they thought they were getting
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  Speaker 2: so far. Now, a lot of season left and a
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  Speaker 2: lot tougher defenses to come, but I think it's been
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful start for Hawkins.
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  Speaker 1: He will get heated up this week like he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been heated up yet, and so the answer is ultimately
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  Speaker 1: going to be, how does he respond in that? I mean,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: keeping the ball in your possession this coming week is
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  Speaker 1: going to be key. These games are decided by the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: punched out fumble, the tip pass interception, a pick. That's
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  Speaker 1: how these games become decided. The momentum swings on those plays,
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  Speaker 1: so Can you continue to play efficient? It's the calling card.
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  Speaker 1: It's how Rich has won. Was it 196 games now?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: You just have got to play cleanly. Can they play cleanly?
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  Speaker 2: And they're saying the same thing. Because Pribula, similar to Hawkins,
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  Speaker 2: hasn't thrown it a whole lot. When he's thrown it,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: he's been ultra efficient so far this season. So, so far,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: these teams have almost mirrored each other coming into the
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: style of play and results.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we'll talk more about this Thursday and
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  Speaker 3: as the season goes on. But also for West Virginia...
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  Speaker 3: you're seeing what Rich Rodriguez, the Rich Rodriguez offense, and
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: what they want to do, Brad, and that is run, run,
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  Speaker 3: get some first downs, and then have a big play.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And you saw that a lot, again, opponent adjusted. By
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: the way, oddity of the, biggest oddity of the weekend,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: seventh-ranked Miami beat Florida A & M 77-7. Correct. Sevens
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  Speaker 3: were wild.
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  Speaker 2: Sevens were wild.
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  Speaker 1: They stopped the game with, they ran the clock in
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: the final five minutes. Did they really? Didn't stop it.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Second time that's happened in two weeks. Arizona State was
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: involved in a similar game. Kenny Dillingham said he didn't
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: even know you could do that.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I didn't know you could do it. I didn't either.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: I hope it's never done unless you're doing it to somebody.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you a scoring drive. Did you
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: focus on the time on the scoring drives?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you talked about that during the game, Tony. You
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: were amazed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 59 seconds, 93 seconds, 84 seconds, a minute 44, 203. 33, 621,
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  Speaker 1: and 413 were your last drives. But up until then,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: their first one, two, three, four, five, six, their first
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  Speaker 1: six scores were two minutes and 10 seconds or less. Okay.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Which is exactly what you want to do against that team, right?
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Did it. Check.
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  Speaker 2: On to the next one.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Just like you said, we're on to the next one.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: We'll be back on Thursday. We'll drop our next episode
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon. We will give you the full preview of
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: West Virginia and the Virginia Cavaliers.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: Take it on the mothership.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Been a while since we've seen those old boys. Last
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: time we saw them.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: I got a bad vibe on this, guys.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Last time we saw them was there at that stadium.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Same location.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Same location. Led to some changes there among their band.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Had some shenanigans last time.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did.
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  Speaker 3: Famous last words from the bowl executive. I'm sure this
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: halftime was approved.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: West Virginia fans are prepared to turn out. West Virginia's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: done a really good job of buying its tickets. Virginia,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: not so much. Unless they surge here this week, there's
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot more West Virginia fans in there.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: For West Virginia, it's like driving across town to go
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: to Charlotte.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: So hopefully everything goes well. Have a good week of practice,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: and who knows. Three guys before the game, thanks so
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• 1:09:34
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• 1:09:37
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