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Five Star Brodie · Boundary Corner Podcast

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tonight, man, with a very special player.
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And who we've got tonight is wide receiver for your Virginia
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Tech hoagies, the all time receiving letter in VHSL
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history. I'm only going to call him
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Keelan Adams because I know his Mama don't like them to your
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body. Call him Brody.
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Y'all call him what y'all won't call him.
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But ladies and gentlemen, Keelan Adams.
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Yeah, I do it. Thanks for having me.
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What's happening? Thank.
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Thanks for joining us tonight. I really appreciate it.
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I'm with Curtis. I'm gonna stick with Keelan.
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I don't want to. I don't want anybody's mom be
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upset with me. So that's, that's that's why
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we're going to roll with him. Yeah, I might call him Key every
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now and then, but I ain't, I ain't, I ain't calling him what
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his Mama said. Don't call him.
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Yeah, we we own that scoop. They're going to be somebody
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around you in the future is going to be like, hey, Brody.
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And it's going to be like pop like you and his Mama, won't
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you? So Keelan, we appreciate you
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taking some time tonight, man. Got some.
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Definitely looking forward to asking me some of these
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questions to see how everything's going.
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But let's kick it off. We do know you missed a lot of
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time in the winter and in the spring with an injury.
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First of all, how are you feeling right now?
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I'm feeling good. I feel like it's been a long
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recovery process since the bowl game, but like coming, coming
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together, I feel like it's it's I'm feeling good right now.
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That's good to hear, I know. Now we were talking.
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You did not, you weren't Privy to not missing all those fun
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stuff, right? You still had to wake up every
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morning hunger drills and go to it, right?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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No, even though I was hurt, I was still at everything.
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I think in total I probably missed like maybe four days once
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I have my surgery, including the day of the surgery.
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I, I know I had my surgery, I want to say it was on like a
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Tuesday and then I stayed night there, came back Wednesday and
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did not think Thursday and Friday I was just at home.
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My, my mom, my parents came and they stayed with me for like a
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week. So like that whole weekend it
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was there and then Monday, I'm pretty sure I went back to the
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facility and I, I was there for everything.
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I just couldn't do nothing. Yeah, man.
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So you, you had the surgery, you had a couple days and then you
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were right back to it showing up.
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You had meetings, you had, you know, all the all the offseason
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workouts showing up and put in the middle reps as much as you
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could. Yeah.
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Yeah, good deal. Speaking of the injury, I mean,
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I know like a lot of times with things like that, I know you
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always like, it's, it's always good to like try to learn
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something like what was what was the biggest thing you learned
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about yourself going through that process and the recovery
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and all that? I say I learned two things.
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I feel like one thing I learned, I definitely learned like how
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blessed I am. Like just going through the
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whole process, it really made me think like, I'm still here.
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Like the surgery could have went bad, but it didn't, it went
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good. So it's like, that's one thing.
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And then it's like, even to be in the situation I'm I'm in now,
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like I'm at school, playing a sport that I love and getting
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my, my education paid for. Like there's a lot of people in
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the country that would really like want this situation or this
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opportunity. And I just feel like I'm blessed
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to have that and the people around me that supported me
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through this whole, this whole thing.
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And then the second thing I said is don't take things for
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granted, like how we said I was there to, even though I couldn't
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do anything, I was there watching practices and all that,
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you know, hunger drills. It didn't feel that bad because
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like, I don't think anybody really wants to do hunger
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drills. But like springboard, that's
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where it really like hit me where it was like this was like
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my first real injury. So it was never like, I mean,
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like in high school, I like sprained my thumb or something,
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sprained the ankle. But it was like I knew I was
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going to play in the game when it was time.
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I might have sat in the practice, but I knew when Friday
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came, I was going to play. But this was like the first time
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where it was like I really knew like I wasn't going to play in
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the in the spring game, like I wasn't going to go practice.
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So it was like it really made me look at football a little bit
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because this is the first time like I really couldn't do
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anything. Man, that's got to be tough.
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I was getting ready. I was going to actually ask you.
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I'm glad you reiterated this is the first time in your life you
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were like hurt, hurt, like couldn't do anything, couldn't
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do football, couldn't do practice, couldn't lift weights.
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So it's just I'm here and I I, I, I like what you said there
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because I think people do take for granted, especially I know
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there's probably teammates and there's probably guys, you know,
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all over football, all over just the real world, never been hurt
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from and it and it takes you away.
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I love hearing that. Kelly, what you got on tap next,
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man? Yeah, so Keelan is one of the,
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if y'all don't know who he is, do your research.
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One of the most accomplished players in Virginia history
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ever. We can go on and on.
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Coaches all over wanted you. I know of one that's close to me
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that definitely wanted you, but you know, it is what it is on
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all of that. We're glad you ended up at
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Virginia Tech, but just how is that process going through the
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recruiting process with kind of everybody, you know, wanting you
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to to come to the school? I started my recruit, my
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recruitment kind of early. I got my first offer in 8th
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grade. So like at first it was, it was
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fun. It was like a, it was, it was
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fun. And then as, as it went on, it
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started really showing me like all the hard work and the stuff
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I was doing was really starting to pay off.
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Like I was finally getting the things that I was working for.
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So by the time I got to about like junior year and I start
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trying to map out like, OK, what schools do I want to start
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looking at to maybe plan the official for or what schools
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like I started narrowing down the list.
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So when it got more serious. And but I mean, even then when
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it got more serious, it was still fun because it's like,
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like I said before, everybody doesn't get to do this.
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Like it's, it's not a lot of people in the world that get as
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many offers I had or TV things that I teach.
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So it was like it was, it was pressure when it came down to
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picking the school, but it like, I feel like it was a good kind
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of pressure because like I said, people don't, people don't have
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that type of pressure to be like, oh, I don't know what
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school I want to pick. It's so I look, I try to see the
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positive in that. And it was it was fun for me.
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That's awesome to hear. I'm looking, I'm looking through
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the list Tally you ain't lying offers Alabama, Ohio State,
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Texas A&M, Auburn, Miami, Penn State.
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You could have went anywhere, man, haven't you come here like
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looking at that. And again, we we were covering
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your recruitment and stuff. We talked about when you got it,
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but that's been a couple years ago and seeing you had all those
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offers, all those opportunities, you come here, I love hearing
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it. And then another thing you are
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definitely a driving catalyst of is Green Run to Virginia Tech.
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You were the first, you know, you know, you had Zeke this
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year. Come.
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I know he's one of the guys along with a few others.
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But how does it feel to be like that guy to kind of be the
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leader of the Green Run football team, getting the offers from
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Tech and saying, let's go here, let's do it in state, let's
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represent VA. It feels good.
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It's crazy because it's I mean, I've done a couple of interviews
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and I've gotten that question, just word it differently.
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But like I've never really like thought of myself as like the
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leader that started it. It was kind of just we all seen
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the same thing in the coaching staff and the people and just
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the school as a whole. So I never really looked at it
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as like I'm the leader of it, but like, I feel like we all, we
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all know what we were looking for.
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Like coming from a green run, we know what it was like there and
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we, we basically like, well, I know at least with me, I tried
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to find the, the green run in the schools.
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But I mean, I feel like we all kind of understood what we were
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looking for as far as a college and then we all end up picking
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the same school and it just, it's been working.
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Man, I love hearing that. And I mean, the, the next thing
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I got for you is kind of on the same vein and you just kind of
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talked about it a little bit, but like, you know, I'm sure you
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know it, but like the perception of Virginia Tech for a while in
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the in the 75 was not that great.
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And, you know, it feels like with with the pride regime
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coming in and kind of turning that corner, you know, talk to
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me a little bit of how you felt some of that perception change
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in the 757 as it pertains to Virginia Tech.
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Well, me personally, it definitely changed because it
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was actually like it was my second offer.
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It was UNC Tech and the UVA. And I got I was offered by
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Smitty and Tap with the old coaching staff and it was like
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they offered me and then that was it.
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Like I, I never talked to anybody.
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They never talked to my coaches, nothing.
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So like for the longest, like once I started getting a lot of
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offers, I really didn't see myself going to Tech at first.
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I didn't, I didn't see myself coming here because it was like
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I knew nothing about the school. I didn't know anything about the
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people. And like you said, the, the
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perception of Virginia Tech in the 75 wasn't really a good
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thing. So it was like being around that
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and then experiencing it for myself, like I'm not talking to
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these coaches or these coaches aren't talking to the people
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around me. I never really like thought
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about coming to Tech until Pride got here.
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And soon as he got here, he reached out to my coaches.
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They reoffered me with the new coaching staff and then from
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there they was in contact with all the people around me until
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they was actually able to talk to me.
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And ever since then, even now, it's still the same like I can
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talk to coach pride and we still have the same conversations,
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just like I was in recruiting. The same with coach Mines and
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all the other coaches. Man, it's I, I don't even know
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what to say about that because it's, it's one of those things
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you sit here and you know, we're fans, but it's like the level
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that you were regarded, the way you played high school football,
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the competition you played against, to say you got an offer
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that's wonderful, but you don't hear from anybody after that
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like that, that, that, that breaks me.
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And I know it's different with the coaching staff nowadays.
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And you know, it seems like they, they, they, they come down
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there, they like you said, they talk to, and I love what you
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said because it shows they're doing that.
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They talk to everyone that they could talk to around you until
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they until it was appropriate to talk to you.
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Because if they couldn't talk to you, because we know there's
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restrictions, there's all sorts of wild ships goes on for
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recruiting. It's like you can't talk to them
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now. You can't visit them now, they
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can't come here. They can.
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And it's like, at least they were trying to get everything to
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learn everything about Keelan Adams.
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So when they got a chance to speak to you, they knew you as
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much as they could without talking to you face to face.
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I love that. That's how recruitment work,
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man. You got to recruit families, not
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just players. So I mean, I think they've done
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a a good job of of that as of lately.
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Just shifting gears a little bit.
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We'll talk a little bit about last year.
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I know it was brand new to you coming in, you know, probably
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missing your senior prom, enrolling early, stepping on
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campus, getting ready to play and there was a lot of
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expectations on that team. Season didn't turn out kind of
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how we wanted. I know it didn't turn out how
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y'all want it. So with that though, kind of
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what did you learn from that experience with you coming in
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highly regarded like you were, you know, sitting and learning
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just a little bit and seeing it play out like it did?
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I feel like I feel like everyone on the team has the same
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mindset, especially now. Like last season was
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disappointing because it was it felt like we did so much in the
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offseason and built up to to have a good season.
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It didn't turn out the way that we wanted to, but just sitting
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back and watching I've I tried to find ways to become a better
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player so that way when it was my turn, I'd be ready.
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So like as far as the receivers, I tried to take something from
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all of the older guys that was playing.
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I tried to take something from their game and add it to mine.
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So when it was my turn, they there would be no question if I
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could do it or not. Like we had like Steve, Steve
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was like tough, great route runner.
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So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
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Like Steve could play anywhere. Like last year, we put him in
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the slot if we had to outside everything.
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So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
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So if if coach mine wants me to go to the slot, there wouldn't
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be a question. Like I don't know if he can do
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it. Like they're going to blow.
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No, we're confident and putting him there and just little stuff
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like that. Try to take something from all
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of those those other guys to make my game better.
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So when it was my turn out be good.
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Now listen. Full disclosure, this is
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Jonathan Talley speaking on his own behalf.
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I do not know this man. I'm not his family, so I'm
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speaking for myself. I was yelling at the TV to every
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game because I seen motherfuckers out there dropping
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the ball, not hustling. I can go on and on.
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I said, put him in, let's see what he can do.
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But I'm going to go back and say, God, don't make no
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mistakes, because I nobody knew kind of the injury that you was
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dealing with or you know what I'm saying, what could have
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happened, what it was like everything played out the way
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it's supposed to be. It's just crazy to me that you
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was able to do what you've been able to do on one leg.
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Like I watch a lot of film and you was you was eating people
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ass up with one leg even in the bowl game.
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So if that, if that never happened, like if they say, Oh
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well, he got hurt during the season, like you were injured in
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the bowl game and still show some glimpses of, of what you
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can do on the on the college level.
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You, you, you let everybody be known who you were in that bowl
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game with that big play. Because when it, because I
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remember watching it here at the house, it was like right back
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there, right there, right in front of the TV right there.
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You hit it and I'm like, good Lord, like that's what we've got
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on the back burner. That's the guy coming.
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Back why they said why they on the sideline.
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Why is he on the sideline? My bad.
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Hang on. It's true, though.
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Like that play. I think for some people, for so
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many people, it's like it's always what is he like?
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What is he like? And in national TV, late
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December, you go out there and do that.
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And it was just like, oh, oh, that's who he is for us, Yeah.
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We going to be alright. We going to be OK, we going to
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talk a lot about, we going to talk a lot about that on on the
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next show. So we ain't going to get Keelan
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all involved in that. But I will tell you, I will, I
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will tell you you, you definitely have people that have
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watched your game and understand what you bring to the table.
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So I know you quiet, I know you don't talk a lot.
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I've been so excited to see you doing, you know, more
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interviews, getting in front of the camera, things like that.
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That's awesome. But anybody who knows football
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and pays attention to football, if you don't know what this man
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can do on the football field, and I mean, you're not watching
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football. So we've been, we've been, we've
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been excited for you, man. We've been ready to see you, you
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know, just just come into your own and and do what you do.
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So definitely excited to watch you and and, and cheer.
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Y'all. I got to get one of those shirts
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too. Yeah, what is the shirt?
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Go ahead, shout out the shirt right there.
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It's pretty sick looking when this one.
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Yeah, that one. The the hoodie this it's a
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spider hoodie. It's a spider.
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In Oh no, I wouldn't talk about the spider.
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I'm. Talking about yo shirt, I
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thought you were. Talking about that one, huh?
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Yeah, I've seen the shirt. Yeah.
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You ain't seen the shirts, Curtis.
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I haven't seen the shirt. I thought you were talking about
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the shirts wearing. I was like.
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That's a young man shirt. He got it.
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Sally say he he, he, he aged out on that one.
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He aged out on that one. He talked about last season a
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little bit. Let's talk about this year's
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team and coming up, you know, you got a new offensive
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coordinator, Coach Monty. I mean, what a track record he's
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got, man. I'm I'm sure you probably looked
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it up and probably knew about it as soon as it was named
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high-powered offenses balance, though he's had wide receivers,
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he let them show out without a doubt.
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I mean, in his career since he became a coordinator about I
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think it's 14 years ago, 9000 yard wide receiver seasons 9,
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that's like 1 every other. And he had some who were like at
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981. So he clearly puts wide
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receivers in the position. So just in your short time, we
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know it's only been about 6-7 months.
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What's he like as a coordinator just in the meeting rooms and
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stuff? And what was your reaction like
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when the playbook was given? Like, so you know who he is and
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then all of a sudden here's the playbook on your tablet or in
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paper. What is he like?
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What's he like as a coach? And then what would you like
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when you got that playbook? When I got the playbook, I think
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that was around the time when I first started like really
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walking around screen bomb. And I had to brace.
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I still had the limp and everything going, but I had just
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stopped using the crutches. I've seen the playbook.
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I told Coach Ryan I might as well just go ahead, throw some
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cleats on. At this point.
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I feel like I'm good. But him as a coach, like I, I
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like him. I feel like he fits our offense.
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Like I feel like he fits with the players.
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He's really just trying to get the ball to the playmakers and
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let them do what got them here. Like that's the best way I can
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describe it. Like looking at it, watching the
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practices and stuff like that. That's really what it looks like
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to me. He's just trying to get the ball
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to the playmakers and let them do what they do.
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And honestly, it it reminds me of my like a playbook from green
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run like a high school. That's basically what ours was.
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It was just I want to say get open, but I mean that's that's
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kind of what it was like. It was kind of just get the ball
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to the guys and let them do what they do.
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And I feel like that's what this offense now, I feel like that's
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what this looks like. So I mean, at least for the
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receivers, I can speak for us. We love to play with.
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I thought I was going to hear that, you know, when we're
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lining this up, we were like, all right, he he's going to like
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this playbook. He's going to want to talk about
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it a little bit. He's he's going to want to give
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it a little bit of a little bit of shine there.
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Because I mean, you know, when you look at it like air raid
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concepts are, are, are made for, for wide receivers to get the
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ball in their hands and do what they do best, put up big plays,
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put up some numbers, move the sticks, get in the end zone.
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So I, I love that you have that sentiment as well.
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So we're excited about that, excited about this offense.
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I think there's some big things that we can do.
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And I think, you know, I, I like that it is, you know, air raid
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concepts, but it's still a balanced attack that way.
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It's not it's not all on the wide outs to do everything you
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don't have you go have that run support, you go have a good mix
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in there. But I think the concepts are
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there for y'all to do some some real big things of this.
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I'm I'm really excited about that.
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You know, let's talk about this a little bit.
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I know we talked about a little bit before we punched it.
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You know, me and Curtis, we've been friends, you know, close to
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30 years, not a whole lot that we don't have on each other.
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So we, we, we can't, we can't ever cut this thing off because
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because we got too much dirt on each other.
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But I don't want to get you in trouble with any other
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teammates. But like who's the guy that
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you've kind of connected with since you've been in Blacksbury
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that you might have that type of bond in with in the future?
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I'll probably say it. It's probably like two people.
22:34
Noah Jenkins on defense, before I knew him since like 8th grade,
22:40
we had like mutual. We had a mutual friend and we
22:44
all ended up in the group chat and then it became by the group
22:47
that we tested every day. And it was, it was like we
22:50
called it DBK because we was all receivers.
22:52
We was like young and we was like at, we was like the top
22:57
players in, in our areas. And it was like we was all
23:00
starting to get offers and everything like that.
23:02
And we, we just bonded like we was like the top players in our
23:05
areas. Because he's from Richmond.
23:06
He went to Highland Springs. Yeah, but I feel like it started
23:12
there and then as we went through high school, we were
23:15
still active in the group chat. Whenever we see we went to camps
23:18
together, the whole group chat went to the, what was.
23:22
It was a Rivals camp, I think our sophomore junior year.
23:26
I had it my sophomore year 'cause that's when I had
23:28
sprained my ankle and I didn't go to it.
23:30
I ended up going to the Rivals camp that was in Baltimore like
23:34
couple weeks later, but the whole group that was at that one
23:37
camp. So like I'll probably say Noah.
23:39
And then the second one would be Q reddish safety.
23:44
He was once we moved out of dorms, I end up moving with him
23:48
to our apartment and we've been close ever since then.
23:52
Like that was probably 1 of like the faster bonds that I end up
23:56
making, but between them still probably.
23:59
Yeah, got it. All right.
24:02
Is you Quentin y'all got to have more?
24:05
Is it just y'all or you got two more roommates?
24:07
Nah when we had first move that it was me and him.
24:09
I live with Bullet now but Noah OK got it.
24:15
Just two people man y'all lucky. I just live with like 4 people
24:19
dorms and the dorms 4 in the dorms that was that was one of
24:25
the person coming early if you moved in in the.
24:28
Spring. You only got to stay on campus
24:30
for a semester, so right after the spring game me and cute
24:34
moved out there. We go.
24:37
I'll blame you. So, yeah, you've been in
24:41
Blacksburg just to, you know, about a year and a half now.
24:44
I know you got some coaches that you're connected with, players
24:47
you're connected with. Is there any anybody just, you
24:50
know, even it could be related to football, but maybe not a
24:52
coach or a player that's kind of made an impact on you since
24:55
you've been in Blacksburg? My parents definitely have just
25:03
because like when I first got here that was the first time.
25:06
Like coming to college was the 1st for me for a lot of things.
25:11
This was my first time, like not playing.
25:14
I started as a freshman in high school.
25:16
So coming to college and not playing like that was, it was
25:19
weird for me 'cause it's like I felt like I was doing everything
25:22
that I needed to do and it just almost felt like I wasn't
25:27
working hard enough. But it's like in my mind I know
25:29
that I'm working. So it was like just them being
25:31
there for me and like being with me as I tried to navigate
25:34
through that. That time of, OK, you got to
25:38
take the backseat and learn. So when it is your turn, you'll
25:41
be ready. Like that's where I got that
25:42
mindset from. So I say them definitely.
25:49
I love hearing that, love hearing that, I mean.
25:51
Yeah, it's crazy man, cuz you know I ain't trying to put no
25:53
shameless plugs in. Go ahead.
25:56
Go ahead bro. No.
25:57
I'll let you. I'll let you finish.
25:59
You got a good thought going there, man?
26:03
No, I was just saying I wasn't going to put no shameless plugs
26:05
in or nothing, but just talking to your pops sometimes, man,
26:11
like because my son is a sophomore in high school and
26:14
sometimes it's like I have to call your pops and figure out
26:20
some stuff or what's going on with you so I can talk to him.
26:23
Because I'm like, hey man, I don't know what to say to this
26:25
dude. He's getting on my nerves.
26:25
I'm going to kick him out, You know what I'm saying?
26:28
So, you know, I call and get some advice or, you know, he'll
26:33
tell me some things like, you know, Keelan.
26:36
Keelan did this. Just some good stuff, nothing
26:38
bad. You know, Keelan did this or,
26:41
you know, he did this on his own and he started doing this.
26:44
You know, maybe you should talk to him this way because
26:47
sometimes parents, man, well, a lot of times parents, we don't
26:50
get it right. You know what I'm saying?
26:50
There ain't no playbook. It could be an apparent.
26:53
So a lot of times, man, we mess up or we, we, we may say the
26:56
wrong thing or do the wrong thing, but when you got good
26:59
people around you who aren't scared to share information with
27:03
you, man, it makes it a little bit easier.
27:04
So with your trials and tribulations of, of going off by
27:09
yourself and being that far away from home and, you know, leaving
27:12
school early and stuff like that, like I've learned some
27:15
stuff. So appreciate you, man.
27:17
Keep on doing what you're doing, my brother.
27:22
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's always important when you when you have
27:24
somebody that that's kind of your center, that's like your
27:27
grounding spot when you're going through some tough times or
27:32
fight adversity or going into new realms, like, you know,
27:37
uncharted territory for you. It's like, all right, well, I've
27:39
got somebody that I know can be my sounding board.
27:42
That's that's going to support me, but it's also going to going
27:45
to calm me out a little bit if I need to, you know, have a
27:48
different mindset or, you know, maybe adjust my way of thinking
27:52
a little bit to to kind of push through and persevere.
27:55
So having that in your life and having that as somebody that's,
27:58
you know, you are you are, has already been in your household
28:00
and that you, you know, you know, and you, you already have
28:03
a good relationship with that's, that's that's big time.
28:07
Let's talk about that trip, though.
28:08
So like, you know, the the drive from Virginia Beach out to
28:14
Blacksburg is not easy when you got about 4 1/2 hours when
28:19
you're on the road, you got to like a go to is or do you stick
28:22
with music? Are you more of like a podcast
28:24
person? Do you do any like audio books?
28:28
What's the vibe? What's your go to on those long
28:31
trips? No, it's definitely music.
28:36
It really depends around like the time when I leave because of
28:41
the drive, I'll be trying to time it because like got to go
28:44
through the tunnel and for whatever reason it's like it's
28:48
like people just see the bridge and just automatically forget
28:51
how to drive. So it's just, it's just like
28:54
realistically the drive is like 4 1/2, maybe 440.
29:01
But like the tunnel adds like a hour.
29:04
So really tech isn't even that far.
29:05
Like it's, it's really not. But it's like like summertime
29:11
when I would leave. We finished getting done with
29:13
our workouts in the morning. I'll try to get on the rule and
29:16
like either get there before the tunnel traffic started or after.
29:20
So like I'll probably start off with like some rap or something.
29:26
And then once the sun, the sun started going down, I'll call my
29:31
mom on my other phone. And then like once I start
29:34
getting sleepy, that's when the concerts start.
29:36
I'll start playing all the old songs she used to play.
29:38
And then when me and my sister was younger in the car, I start
29:41
playing all those songs and I get to sing and she's like, you
29:43
tired, ain't you? Yes I am, but I have two hours
29:46
so. Everybody got to know right now
29:49
that when he says all the old songs that that that she used to
29:52
listen. To.
29:53
Every song that we listen to in high school.
29:58
No, Keelan I, absolutely. That's normal songs for us.
30:04
Yeah, Keelan, I feel you. Sounds good. 100% Keelan, I feel
30:10
you on the tunnel, man. We went down to Sand Bridge this
30:12
year for family vacay, all right, in in Hampton Roads
30:16
tunnel. We were like, all right, it's
30:17
backed up. We're going to swing over.
30:19
We're going to go to the other tunnel on 664.
30:21
Swear to God, we get over there, everybody tapping brakes and
30:24
it's just like, oh, I like living down there.
30:28
Brian can attest to it. Brian's wife's fan that way.
30:31
I just, I just made a trip. No.
30:33
So they had me get off 64. They're like, yeah, get off 64,
30:38
you know, go around Hampton and then get back on just before the
30:41
tunnel. It'll be all right.
30:43
And I get off. And man, I waited in that
30:45
traffic to get back on to 64. I know it was standstill for
30:52
like a good hour off off 64, then we finally got back on.
30:58
The tunnel itself is never that bad.
31:00
It's just everything like people don't, as soon as they say, oh,
31:03
the tunnel's coming up, they just forget how to drive, just
31:05
like you said. That's the problem.
31:06
That's the problem. The tunnel is never that bad.
31:09
As soon as you see the light when you're coming out the
31:11
tunnel, all of a sudden everybody's doing more than the
31:14
speed limit. And it's like, why would we even
31:16
stop? There's nothing wrong.
31:18
You'll be sitting and driving for an hour and the whole time,
31:21
like you'll be sitting there and you'll be like looking like,
31:23
damn, it's probably an accident. Host somebody.
31:25
OK? Then as you start answering up
31:27
people like they would have got the accident cleaned up by then.
31:31
Then you start looking for clues.
31:32
You start looking around like, I don't see anything.
31:35
I don't see no smoke. I'm not hearing no sirens.
31:37
Pass me nothing. You get up there, there's
31:40
nothing you like. So what was I sitting for?
31:41
You get as soon as you see the light in the tunnel, like soon
31:45
as you get outside and the line goes from the solid white to the
31:48
dotted lines, all of a sudden people turn into speed racers.
31:51
And now, Now I'm 30 minutes from the house, even though
31:54
technically I'm forwarded because everybody wants
31:56
speeders. Yeah, it's bad.
31:58
But the only upside, in my opinion, of going down is you
32:02
stop at Pierce's Barbecue in Williamsburg, get you a nice
32:05
sandwich and eat it. And yeah, on the way.
32:09
But I'm gonna ask. This Pretty soon we gonna have
32:10
Bucky's on the way in. Like the next year we gonna have
32:14
Bucky's on the way. You're aware of that, right,
32:16
Kaylin? Up on New Kent, up when you get
32:18
back past New Kent, we get in Bucky's that's in the country,
32:22
that's in the country when you're coming up 64 before you
32:24
get to. Just before you get back to like
32:26
the 295, the swing exit there, like just past the horse racing
32:31
track. Yeah, I'm honest with y'all.
32:34
Y'all saying the routes like 64. I don't know.
32:36
I don't know where you guys are talking about.
32:39
I don't know my mom she was like when you stop halfway is exit
32:44
something something when you get off of this mom just send me a
32:46
picture. I don't know.
32:49
I can't type it on. Just tell me where I'm going.
32:50
I'll put it in the map, but I'll.
32:52
Figure it out. All I got right.
32:52
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on. First of all, 64 to it's it's
32:58
going to be a while for you to go back home.
33:01
You got to go to Pierce's, though.
33:03
It's some of the best pit cook BBQ.
33:05
If you like BBQ brisket, whatever some of the best.
33:08
It's in Williamsburg. I, I, I attest to it real quick.
33:13
Look, I just went all that to ask these three questions.
33:15
What's like when you you say you listen to current?
33:17
Well, it's like your current song that winds up on every
33:19
playlist. And what's old school that winds
33:21
up on every playlist? Current song probably be Oh no,
33:35
I listen to a lot, so it'll probably be like songs with an S
33:40
from like I'll probably say the artist OK, more more so artists
33:47
are probably like why be babyface Ray, no cap fat man.
33:57
They would end up on like almost all my playlist and then like
34:01
the old songs be like. I got to call my mom for this
34:10
one. You put him on the.
34:12
Spot you put you on the spot on that one.
34:14
Yeah, I'm trying to think like, because a lot of the songs I
34:17
don't know the names too. I just know like when she play
34:19
it, I know the lyrics but I couldn't tell you.
34:20
They buy, you do the lyrics. Let's see if we can play name
34:23
that tune. Plus, old heads can remember
34:25
those songs. Lord Curtis trying to make the
34:28
man sing on here. I'm trying.
34:31
To think like have fun, man. I'm trying to think like old rap
34:35
songs, probably like Snoop Dogg, Doctor Dre, something like that.
34:45
Who else? She played like.
34:48
She played like baby. OK.
34:52
OK, OK. You better not be Keelan.
34:55
You better not be in that car. Listen no pretty girl rock.
34:58
No, but look there, you got to hear, you got to hear me out.
35:03
Were you tired and trying to stay up?
35:05
Oh yeah, that's the ones that get you.
35:07
I'm telling you, you roll the window down and all of a sudden
35:09
life is good. You don't even realize you're
35:11
sitting at the tunnel anymore. You just, you just sit in the
35:14
car. You just having a concert.
35:16
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why it always finds me one of my
35:20
daughter's favorite songs. My daughter's 19, So one of her
35:23
favorite songs is like the I can't even remember the the lady
35:26
that sing, but it's on my Mama. It came out probably like 2
35:30
years ago. Anytime I'm in the car, that
35:32
song always sings to find the radio.
35:35
Like I put that on my Mama. Like every time I'm in the car
35:40
it finds me. So like you said, man, I could
35:42
be like feel like I'm nodding off and that and that hit me.
35:45
So it's like, OK, yeah, I got to wake up right here.
35:47
It is. It's concert time.
35:49
So I feel you on that. But hey, we going, we going, we
35:52
going to go to something a little bit easier.
35:54
I believe we always ask questions about food.
35:58
So this was kind of a two-part question.
36:02
Favorite meal from your mom's? Because we had to.
36:04
We talk about mom and then your favorite place to eat in
36:09
Blacksburg. OK, favorite meals for my mom?
36:16
The Alfredo, the spaghetti she made, Big ziti, the chicken Mac
36:29
and cheese. Black Christmas dinner?
36:31
That's probably like the best dinner ever.
36:35
You just named a lot of food, man.
36:37
Yeah, man, I'm just thinking about this home, you know, I'm
36:40
going to tell her. Come cook.
36:41
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
36:44
You'll tell her. We had that idea either.
36:46
OK. Yeah, I'm just calling Ma.
36:49
Can you can you come up here and just cook for like a week or
36:52
something? That's.
36:54
Right. My favorite place is eat and
36:56
black birthday will probably be I like Kabuki the baji place.
37:01
I like Kabuki PK's you. You're more of a wing person to
37:10
PK's. You go with the, you know, with
37:12
the wings. Yeah, PK's.
37:13
The wings then like Chipotle, it used to be Zaxby's, but I don't.
37:18
I don't know why they got rid of Zaxby's, but they did so.
37:21
Yeah, that that that, that hurts the team there.
37:25
That's that's back-to-back player interviews that have put
37:27
Chipotle on the map. Keep going on the map.
37:32
I think everybody we've interviewed, it's like 8 of 11
37:36
Chipotle, Chipotle, and I'm guessing it probably goes to
37:40
with what y'all were doing. Y'all were busy as heck.
37:42
It's like I just want some beef. I maybe want a little sauce and
37:46
some cheese and I won't go home. I feel like walking around for
37:49
two hours. I just want to get my food and
37:51
go home. It helped too because you know,
37:54
like when you train this stuff, you got to maintain a certain
37:57
weight so, so your body stays healthy and then and the safe is
38:00
supposed to be. And like when, when I was
38:03
talking to like our nutritionist and stuff and they like help us
38:07
meal plan and they try and help us like pick out things that
38:11
we'd like that we would like eating because that was one of
38:14
my hardest things. I couldn't eat.
38:15
I couldn't gain weight for anything because I just couldn't
38:17
eat. So I had to find ways to like
38:20
pick out stuff that I liked. So she was telling me she was
38:22
like, what is what's like your favorite fast food?
38:24
I'm like Chipotle. She's like, oh, you made this
38:26
easy. Just get double of everything.
38:29
You'll be good. So like, especially since camp
38:32
started, I've been getting to vote every day.
38:35
There we go. Every single it's around the
38:37
same time. It's the same worker every time
38:39
I'm going there, I'll go and like, you're back.
38:41
Yes, I am. Let me get a do do.
38:47
Do they already know your usual? Do they Do they got it down now?
38:51
Yeah, sometimes I switch it up, but like it is, it's definitely
38:54
one lady that works there and she was like, you want the same
38:57
thing? Yes, yes I do.
39:02
My God. What's up?
39:05
Hey, I got one question that's. Kind of off man do.
39:08
You got your do you got your your dog back up there yet?
39:11
Nah, Nah, he come back when we get down.
39:15
Can y'all hear me? Yeah, we got your tally.
39:19
OK, got you. Go ahead.
39:22
Came here not I was he he come back when we finished camp My my
39:27
parents going to bring him back. OK.
39:31
What kind of dog? I don't think they're going to
39:33
let him come back, man. They're going to keep.
39:35
Him. Yeah, my mom did say that.
39:39
Yeah. What?
39:41
What what kind of dog is he Keeling?
39:43
A pit bull terrier. What's his name?
39:47
Cartier. Oh, there we go.
39:50
I like that. Different boys.
39:54
Anything else? Because what?
39:56
What time's practice tomorrow? Let's ask real quick.
39:58
Are y'all about to hit a one of the mini camp breaks?
40:01
Nah, today was the break. We start mini camp 4 tomorrow.
40:05
Mini camp four starts tomorrow. Well, listen man, keep doing
40:11
your thing. You have been up the last really
40:15
it's been 50 minutes because we talked with them before we got
40:17
on. You have been a pleasure to talk
40:20
with the last roughly hour here. You are a very upstanding young
40:23
man. Great things are going to happen
40:25
to you regardless. Regardless, because I think you
40:28
got great attitude. I think you got positivity.
40:31
I hear some of these answers. Your head's in the right spot,
40:34
man. And we won't give Chris hell
40:35
tomorrow night. You tell him that, right?
40:44
That's right. That's right.
40:45
You take care of yourself, Tally Brown.
40:47
Anything else? Encouraging words for this young
40:49
man. Hey man, when you get your
40:52
chance, just go in there and do what you do.
40:53
That's all I ask. Just do what you do, brother.
40:56
Yeah, that, that, that's same sentiments, man.
40:59
You know, you're going, you're going to get a bunch of
41:00
opportunities this year. Just you get in there and, and,
41:02
and do what you you've always done and that that's going to
41:05
take care of yourself. Get in there and produce so you
41:08
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41:11
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