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Clipping Eagle Wings · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast with my partner,
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Brian siglo. I am Curtis Wilson.
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Brian. How are you feeling in the Smoky
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Mountains tonight, or we just got ourselves.
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A big ol W. I'm Great man.
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How about you buddy? Feeling awesome.
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Not only a big ol W. Big ol W that we did not have to
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kind of worried about the last 30, 40 minutes of the game 4014.
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I guess you would call that a force Corwin.
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Yeah I like that. I like that.
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I'll take it or score when Hokies play a good all-around
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games. Now without you know, a few
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errors here and there And we're going to head on a little bit of
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everything today but again it feels great to get that win.
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It was awesome tonight. Ryan.
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I know you're sitting there at that cabin.
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It was also here in the band. It was all come here in the
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band. Whether it was, you know, you
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know whether the drum line or the hok IES Hokies it definitely
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brought a different feel and kind of more of a typical feel
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that we're accustomed to when we see a game in Blacksburg.
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Really nice to see that. Really like that.
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We showed up, especially the way we played in the second half,
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man, good game all around. I think from the three phases,
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I'm just glad to see that, you know, we didn't have a hangover
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from kind of a tough loss last week with you and see.
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No, not at all. Not a hangover at all.
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Unlike you and see who had the really bad hangover today with
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cloth, which probably will make some people mad.
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But on the other hand is, As you stated, we got on here.
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It's cool. Yeah.
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Well, as much as I like a loss to look like a good loss, I want
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to be level or higher than, but it seems that were competing
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against for to go to the ACC Championship game.
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So 100% were UNC loses, the better, our chances of getting
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their man. Hell yeah, and then we can look
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and say, well we only played are true.
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Number one quarterback for a half and we had all of our
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secondary out in some witch. Exactly, you know, I don't know
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if that's gonna, you know, come into play at any point but if it
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does, we can make a better case. They're so damn right.
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But again, let's get back to our game hook, he's win 4014.
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And let's just start out beginning real quick.
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Before it dropped seven o'clock, we found out, we were going to
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be without some players, some key players on Luke 2 Nu du out
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again. I think we pretty much
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confirmed. He was a covid at the end of
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last week. Because late last week's are
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just before UNC again. We're deep on the offensive line
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but Luke should be out. Come next week, which is awesome
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Jermaine Waller out, you kind of Wonder first time playing in a
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while coming off that foot if it's just mixing stuff and let's
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just take keep them out. We can we can control this, get
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it back to 100%. We saw a tweet earlier and week
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from jail and wholesome talking about.
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I just want to play and he was out today and me and you just
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said Brian a couple seconds ago because we're ready.
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Come on. I wonder if something happened
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with and and it sucks. Yeah.
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I mean, hopefully it's nothing serious.
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Maybe just a tweak or something like that.
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But you know, for a guy that's really kind of fought to keep
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getting back on the field every year.
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And it's always been just, you know, kind of one thing after
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another form of feel bad for the kid.
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Yeah. I said hope.
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Just something small will see him.
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Get some some key totes for us as the season goes along.
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Absolutely. And then, the last kind of the
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big was Jr Walker, which, you know, takes away from safety
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death. Looks like we made a few things,
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a little different with position.
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He plays tonight, we're going to that little bit later, but let's
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start brown with the Hokies offense, led by the captain
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Captain Hook, man. If you look in the hooker, man,
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One touchdown. No one player with more than
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twenty nine yards, but we really didn't need that much because it
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seemed like early on. We took some downfield shots.
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We had some intermediate passes look like, we were going to be
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setting up the screen game so all the areas were there for him
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and Brian would you see? Because that's what I would see
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in early and then as the game wore on what we didn't need to
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really pass, because They worried about it, we did meet
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the, we didn't need to throw the ball a lot because we were
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effective when we did and we were killing them in the
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trenches and that would that's a good recipe, man.
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When hooker was dropping back, he was connecting with his
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targets, he was affecting them at different levels, you know,
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he had one where he drove the ball down the field a little
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bit. He had a lot of intermediates
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and he had two or three screens couple swing passes, so he was
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working every area of the field. And that's You like to see from
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him. We don't need him to go out and
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throw 25 30 times a game. We just needed to be efficient
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with the passes and it needs to be able to hit all those levels
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of the defense. He did a really good job at that
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all night man. Yeah he does so good making Fast
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decisions. You see his mind work real
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quick, you know he gets the ball out to where it needs to go.
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If it's not there, he's not taking - plays.
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We saw a couple times trying to set up a screen or a throwback
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and It wasn't there. He just threw it in the dirt.
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Yes, so he wasn't taking any unnecessary risks with the
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football either. So Play, the clean game was
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efficient and was able to make all the throws all over the
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field. Absolutely.
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Now, Brian in this game, I know there was a play that made you
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super excited in the passing game of all the time.
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You talk about them that you put back to me.
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The screen and that's the only exit and you love the screen.
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Dad screen to juice that goes through 29 yard that go through
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a touchdown, would you see? Not only, I'm sure you had some
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flashbacks as soon as you saw that play.
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But what did you see on that play?
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That made it so beautiful and such an easy score because it
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wasn't easy score, dude, it was a thing of beauty.
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So so let's break it down at multiple levels.
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Number one juice, great vision, great Running great.
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Just waiting for the blocks to set up and then following what
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was going on there, but let's talk about the offensive line
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and what they did here. You had a nice kind of seal of
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the trash by less of this myth, which is important to make sure
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that you're running back. Once he catches the ball, has
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some room to operate, but the guys out there leading for him,
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Dara saw Brock Hoffman rocks out there Mall in the guy in the
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middle of the field and then the thing that really broke it.
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What would turn a big gain into a touchdown was what Darris
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always doing out there on the outside.
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Blocking his safety, engage with them three different times and
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just pushed him from the 25 yard line to where he was at the 3
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yard line. By the times you've got in the
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end zone, just a thing of beauty.
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I love it. And the way we were running the
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ball also the way we were passing it to all areas of the
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field that's when you can do those things and if humans legs
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too because you do that your back screen, something like have
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one of the screens in the defense just goes to it and you
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avoid middle of feel well in and showed it will talk about a
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little bit later. You avoid that area is filled in
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this can go in, which it's also now something that you got a
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little more excited about. Although I don't think we
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completed. Any passes on and if we did
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Apologize, we look real quick at my notes Here.
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Raheem black shoe. You saw them trying to start
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working him in the screen game, which I know that is something
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you want. Yeah, yeah.
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Definitely. The only one that he actually
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had the catch on was that after that, that penalty that backed
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us up with like third and 20 or something like that.
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Late in the game, got a screen to him.
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Did a good job of kind of waiting on his Blocks.
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Made a couple guys. Miss got a nine-yard gain out of
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it. There wasn't a whole lot there.
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They were kind of waiting for that type of play, but it's good
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to see him do that. And we need to do that a lot
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more, whether it's through the screen or just getting him, the
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ball in space outside of the box.
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There. I think if we can do that we'll
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have some success in see his game.
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Really? Take off.
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Absolutely. And as I said just a few minutes
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ago, no, not a lot of action with the wide receivers and
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tight ends tonight, Khalil screen, 29 yards, let along with
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heavy on Robinson's 29 yards, Batavia on.
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One of his plays early was essentially a post wheel combo
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with Mitchell and where it was a perfect play.
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And like, you talk about Hendon reading quick, he read that
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quick, that that safety stayed back here, and this guy went
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with Mitchell and he just fired it in there and it's a 20-yard
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gain dad moved us in this foreign territory pretty quick.
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And so, you know, once that starts happening, I mean, Braun,
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you know, if we're doing then the way we run or do we need it?
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No, that's kind of what I was going alluding to earlier.
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It's that, you know, he's showing that all of those things
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are in his repertoire he can hit them.
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He's showing he can hit him against this defense and once
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they see that, they have to honor that and we did a really
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good job of kind of leaning on our strengths tonight but mixing
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in those those passing routes in hitting.
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Like I said all those varying levels throughout the night
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where they really couldn't key in on just trying to take away
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Khalil Herbert. ER, all right, they couldn't
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stop the rush not at all. So when I say that folks like
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they legitimately could not watch all night, you know, we
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just take a look here at uses numbers.
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I mean, it was absolutely asinine with juice tonight.
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I mean juice 1/4 223, all-purpose yards, the 29
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receiving yards, he gets another 143 on the ground, he has to
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touch down Or should be one touchdown.
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I mean, my personal favorite Brown was that 58 yard run with
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the combo block, where I asked you to see it right, where
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lettuce and crisp, lettuce and Eris are taking it Gary salt.
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Insulin helps, get leather his, the perfect?
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He turns his guy. Yeah, big dog gets up field.
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Moths on and she's his perfect Ally.
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Yep. That was the big one, but it's a
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lot of other stuff. Tonight, that looked absolutely
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great for Herbert. Yeah, so, I mean, you know,
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let's start with her Birdman. I mean, what can you really say
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about this guy fourth game, for 100-yard, rushing performances?
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You know, something we haven't seen to to start as a hokie
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career ever and to have that many consecutive games, we
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haven't seen that since David Wilson.
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So that's that's telling you that what we're seeing here is
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something we haven't seen in a decade.
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So this is this is a pretty special run.
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We're looking at here. Yeah, I really like what he is
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doing with his vision, man. If you have setting up blocks
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waiting for Defenders to kind of commit to a fit and then kind of
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jumping outside or taking another angle.
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I mean he does so many good things to help his offensive
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line and you know once they get engaged he is so quick and
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putting a foot in the dirt and just kind of get through
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whatever Ali is there. And I'm just, I'm so impressed
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by what he does. He doesn't really ever have -
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carries. I mean we had a couple of
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Tonight? Where there were some
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penetration and then one where he tried to probably do a little
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too much, but they're so few and far between.
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I mean, there's really no criticism that you can throw at
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this guy. At this point, he's really out
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there tearing it up. He is absolutely tearing it up
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Brian, and I mean again, you know, through four games just
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rocking, I'm not even going to the all-purpose.
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He has 500 93 yards. That's right at 115 game and
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it's he's not getting 25, 30 carries.
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He's Getting somewhere between 15 and 20.
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He's making the most of it, which I know some people say,
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well, how are you ever going to sell?
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How are you going to sell a running back if he's not getting
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25 or 30 carries a game? Well, if he's averaging 10
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yards, a carry, why wouldn't you want to come here?
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Save your body and, you know, stay away from it but Brian is
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great at night. He had he was not the leading
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rusher tonight. The captain once again in and
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hooker leads the team with 164 yards.
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Rushing on 18 carries three touchdown.
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He has a long 31. I mean, those legs were big
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work. Those legs escaping the pocket
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tonight. Those legs keeping plays alive.
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I mean, my favorite play of the night with milk was essentially
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Blackshear. Running a nice of quarterback.
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I sew up the middle for a touchdown.
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Look like you just Got up there, sealed that guy, and I think on
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that play, somebody else do something good.
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On a bright bright guy, right up in the linebackers face and just
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drove him out of the play. Yes, nasty offensive line, man.
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So what did you see? Was it was it I'm not walking
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all scrambles, right? Because that not yet by so was a
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design. So was it just put mix?
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I'd call it a pretty perfect mix.
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I'm going to give break or Nelson a little.
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Shout out here. Brad Drew up some great things
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with him in hooker, and hidden hooker went out there and
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executed them about as well, as you can do, especially in the
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Run game and huge day rushing he had, please designed for him.
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He had things of the Zone, read where he made, some really good
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reads in the zone, read tonight. And it was able to get out in
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space, and I tell you the one thing I liked, but he gets in
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space. Is that he's got that speed but
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he's Shifty to, he may have made a bunch of guys miss out in the
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open field. He threw through some spin, move
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on that last touchdown. And then, you know, he's, it's
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underrated. He has really good power when he
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finishes a run. I mean, it's not Quincy,
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Patterson power and where he's just driving through, guys.
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But once a guy gets his hands on him, he's gonna pull him about
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two or three yards before he finishes off.
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So, He did so good. I mean, he had a couple
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scrambles out there, but most of it was in the zone read and some
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of the design quarterback Keepers.
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It's really funny. My mom's in town this weekend.
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Visiting, our friend went into made the move, she's like all
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the nice spin, my mom who she watches football games, but
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doesn't understand? Yeah, but it was like, it was
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great to hear that. 185 yards, you know?
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All purpose. We got a lot more than we can
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unlock it, we with yeah, yeah, I'll say this.
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I'm of two minds with what they're trying to do right now.
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I think that in terms of our game plan right now, we
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definitely need to get him more in the open field.
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We saw in the touchdown. It was actually something that
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probably could have easily went for kind of a three or four yard
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gain but he breaks a tackle and then breaks the dudes ankles and
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on the same move and all of a sudden he's in space and once
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he's in space, he is as deadly man.
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And what we need to do is get him the ball in space more, but
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kind of what I'm thinking, they're trying to do with this.
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I mean they're pretty much using him as an as kind of a spell
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change of pace back for her right now.
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I mean, I'm wondering if they're grooming him for more carries
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next year. Meaning with some of this but
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I'd like to see him just used as an offensive weapon right now
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versus how we've kind of been using them so far.
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But again, a big touchdown tonight and in the grand scheme
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of things that's very little to complain about.
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Yeah, exactly. Like we have a weapon that we
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haven't really used for three-in-one.
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We're scoring point or we're almost corn at will now pretty
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much. We got 40 tonight.
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Then we left points on the field.
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We liked a lot of points. I feel we might as well.
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He's two field goals, right? QT, field goals.
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When we missed one, we might. We had a couple of penalties
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that either pushed us out of field goal, range or took away a
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big gain. I mean, there was points left on
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the field. We could have easily got 50 on
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these guys tonight if me to play the way we should have and again
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that's still not discounting the effort.
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I mean the offense played damn good tonight, it really did and
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you talk about that and that's the scary part when you know
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that this could have easily. Ben it, what you will?
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This could have been probably a 50 burger that we we we did some
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things on defense or triple hit the second here.
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But let me hit one last thing because I know this is close to
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your heart, Brian. And I will say it for you.
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Get a little deeper into it. This offensive line group, even
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with some players out where nasty and would be.
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Yep. And, you know, I've been we've
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been talking about a little in a couple of plays.
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It isn't there. So I had a fuck.
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You pay me game. He showed out tonight, I mean,
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it popped off the film. I mean, even people that are
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novices watching offensive line play, can see what he was doing
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tonight. Yep.
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Yeah, absolutely. Was like I said, I mentioned on
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that combo how he helped got a field including the way.
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And there were some other place to where you just he he like he
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said, he's making himself for money right now.
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You haven't yet mentioned last week in PFF.
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FF and I think they, he is now in the top 50 of their draft
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board. When he's jumping up the board
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probably faster, definitely faster than any underclassmen
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tackle. Absolutely.
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And for him, I would say it sucks that he would leave.
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But you know what? Big guy go because you can play,
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you understand the game, they talk about how he doesn't have,
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doesn't have some lateral quickness, but he understands
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angles which can get you a lot of money because As you get
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older, the elite tackles lose that.
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And if they don't understand angle angles, you seen it Brian.
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You've seen guys who are good for seven or eight years and
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then they lose that thing. And they don't understand the
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Angles and they're out of the league.
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He understands angles would tell me he could last a long time in
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the NFL. What about the guy at the
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center? We put him as our number two.
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Yes, sir. And he's still, he's still
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learning the that dirty moniker. We're going to bring it back
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man. I love it.
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He's just he's in there in the trenches, doing all the Dirty
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Work. You see him working every, every
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gay man getting a couple key blocks on, some of the big runs.
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Yeah. I'm like I said, I really liked
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what he did on that hinted hooker.
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I so, touched down in the Red Zone, just completely took his
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guy, out of the plane made hookers job really easy, finding
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the whole, finding the alley, and get in the end zone on
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touch. So love what he's doing.
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He's a guy that, you know, might Not be getting the big accolades
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like Daris all, but he's definitely working his way
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towards something bigger as well.
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I think he's going to be a guy that's going to be someone to
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watch. I don't know if he'll be
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ultimately, if drafted in some of the higher Realms like we may
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see Darris all, but I think he's definitely a guy that's going to
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be on an NFL roster at some point tonight.
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You know, only giving up a one sack you make some good old.
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There were a few times, where the pressure was there, but it
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wasn't all night. So, that was the reason he made
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the right call to put everybody in position to pick up in a
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couple times. You know, when, when Henry was
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getting pressure, it was almost by Design because it was on some
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of those Throwbacks, your own, some of those screens where the
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linemen where they needed to be, just where the ball was going
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with, either taken away, too quick, or the, they're perfect.
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Call was made where the rush just got there too fast.
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So you know, you could set it up the way you want it to.
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So, you know, I really like that that offensive line and let me
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give another shout-out to let the Smith.
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Absolutely he's not jumping off like Brock and CDR.
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But I mean he is steady Eddie dude, doing things inside a
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couple big seals tonight. Getting good, good Zone blocks
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to free both Blackshear and Herbert on a couple plays.
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So really like what he's doing, did some good jobs when Hooker
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was getting outside the pocket and making some plays in The Run
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game as well. And on the on the Zone reads of
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he's been like I said steady Eddie just doing his job and
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having fun doing it looks like he's also, I'm guessing that he
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is lacking a little bit more because the night he had the
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defensive tackle, throw a punch at him and gave us his yard
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because he just stood there holding and all of a sudden he
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just kind of looks Let's see, we have at 350 yards,
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eight and a half yards per catch.
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Let's see here. We had how many yards tonight
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350 Braun written 50 on 41 carries
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that equals almost seven yards. Let me ask this if that's your
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in, he goes through that and coach would just like, listen,
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he's got to go place. Got get him out there, would you
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feel that your son's best interest in that coach's heart
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problem? No, no, you know, I think
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everyone appreciates, especially knowing what they know now, of
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where coach Fuente was coming from even if you still disagree
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ultimately, with decision. That was made.
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That's fair, you know, you can feel how you want to about the
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decision but I I think you can at least appreciate it.
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Let's go defense. You had some ups and downs
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tonight but Brian not one, not two, not three, not four.
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Defense calls has five turnovers tonight.
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Three forced fumbles, two interceptions.
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I mean be verbal, you know what? You know what, let's do.
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This will do kind of the good and the bad of the night,
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because I think that that's, that's, that's the best way
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we're going. We're going to kind of look at
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what happened tonight, because there were some bad, but when
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you say five turnovers are one, there wasn't too much bad.
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So now what I really like the most is how opportunistic we
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were taking advantage of Boston College.
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Every time they make mistakes man just either whether it's
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ball Hawking whether it's punching balls out you know we
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didn't let them get away with the whole lot tonight and I like
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that. That's It's kind of the typical
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Hokies defense that were used to.
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It is, it's like ham and tap got in there and just said, listen,
28:52
when you have the opportunity especially those punches
28:55
tonight, man, they were sitting there and they're trying to
28:58
grind. You saw them coming tomorrow on
29:00
that one, inside the 20-yard line, he came in and it just
29:04
looked like he was about to knock him out uppercuts.
29:07
It falls out, screw her on the when they were getting close to
29:11
the end zone. In and I think that makes us
29:16
feel better about Hammett slightly, teach these things.
29:20
The interception, first of all, if Garrett Hewitt doesn't hit
29:25
that ball. Brian Murray got his one later.
29:28
Yep. Put a few and doesn't hit that
29:30
ball. Brian.
29:31
Murray houses that he jump that route like okay.
29:48
It's sort of stinks for, you know, for him, he needs the one
29:51
later. Yep.
29:53
Our does off of the off of the Divine Diablo play man which
29:59
we're going to get to divide a little later.
30:00
So let me quite on that, but probably talked about two guys
30:06
that really could hurt this team tonight and we maintain the kept
30:12
them under control. Jose flowers, seven receptions
30:15
for 57 yards. I mean, he was averaging close
30:18
to 20 of carry tonight, right? At eight.
30:22
What did you see? You know, what do we do to him?
30:26
The big thing is, we didn't let him get deep on us man and we
30:29
did it, a bunch of different ways we mix up coverages.
30:33
Sometimes we hated him off, sometimes we almost played man
30:36
on him. Sometimes we just had straight
30:39
up cover three and they weren't able to get behind our defense
30:44
to make those big plays and we were able to when he did get the
30:47
ball. Even when he was in space we got
30:51
him down even if he got the first down and we didn't let
30:53
that turn into a big play. And I think that's the big thing
30:57
to take away is that he wasn't getting chunk plays against us
30:59
tonight. He was getting underneath routes
31:02
and if we, if you can make, say flowers run underneath all
31:05
night? You'll take that.
31:06
Yes, we will take that all night.
31:09
Now, then Braun their primary underneath guy, you got it okay
31:14
night, I mean long toward a touchdown, you know, which which
31:19
a hell of a play by him him stretching out there like that.
31:22
But then you kind of look at his overall statistics night, they
31:26
Okay, I mean forceps in 53 yards but we kept him under his normal
31:31
reception total. We kept well under his receiving
31:34
yards total. I mean you know, it definitely
31:39
helped having a full secondary tonight.
31:41
Getting a linebacker Corps that I know you're going to get into
31:44
a little while having everybody back for certain situations.
31:49
Yeah. Maybe the big thing we did with
31:50
Hunter long is that, you know, we didn't let you know, the only
31:54
the only time we really let Let him take a good play and turn
31:57
into a great play with that one. Touchdown broke a tackle
32:00
stretched out late. I mean he was a he was a damn
32:02
good play and we could have stopped it at least from being a
32:05
touchdown. So Kudos them on that play but
32:07
he's only other big play was on a scramble drill where he ran
32:10
toward the sideline and caught it right on the edge there that
32:13
was his only other big chunk. Play the met.
32:14
The rest of it was just you know a couple stick movers and a
32:18
couple your routes that got him, you know, eight or eight or nine
32:22
yards but he really was held in check and I think we did a good
32:25
job. Either running one guy.
32:28
I didn't let him just follow him where we did a good job,
32:31
shadowing him and Zone coverage. And we really kind of took away
32:34
the things he likes to do and let's talk a little bit about
32:40
the linebacking corps since we're here man.
32:42
Yeah well well let's first of all say this Rush defense which
32:47
we know that the whole team but last week the lab at record got
32:51
just absolutely obliterated tonight.
32:55
Rusty pints to 90 yards. Yes.
32:58
And see does double their yards per carry at one point, 8 2, 3
33:02
.6, but still it's three and a half yard to carry.
33:06
We will take that every week if possible under 100 yards under
33:09
four yards, a carry after last week that's a win.
33:12
That is a big win. But what did you see the wine
33:15
bag record? Do this week Grand?
33:17
Yeah, I mean they weren't playing as timid.
33:20
They were playing more downhill. Like you mentioned, I saw them.
33:24
Look a little Like they weren't out of position as much and I
33:30
like, I like that because that was the thing that bothered me
33:32
the most I think but to other than being timid in the last
33:35
game was kind of just how out of position they were on a lot of
33:38
situations there and they look like they were playing a little
33:41
bit more within their game. Not trying to do too much.
33:44
I'm going to give actually a specific shout out to Dax
33:47
hollifield who I raked over the coals.
33:50
Last week, pretty badly. He stepped up this game.
33:53
He didn't have a great game. I mean, he's not going to get
33:57
defensive player of the week or anything like that, but very
34:00
solid both in coverage stopping the Run decision making and his
34:06
tackling improved as well. So I'm gonna give him a personal
34:09
shout out here, but Tisdale abrooke looked, well, look much
34:13
better this week as well, played more aggressive and especially
34:16
in the second half your work looked more like the The Rookery
34:20
used to absolutely. He did.
34:23
He did now is one he put a pie. Hop on jerk a bitch tonight.
34:27
I mean, like Dirty Bit, the same after that, he didn't know, he
34:31
really didn't. He was getting rid of the ball
34:33
quicker than he was ready to do it quicker.
34:35
Like, I don't want to take another one of those.
34:38
Let's do a quick shout outs. We hit them up already but Brian
34:41
Murray, tamari, Connor, strong, who Brian wasn't he supposed to
34:47
be part of the no good? Horrible.
34:48
Very bad 2020 class and that nobody should ever play.
34:52
And they should have never went anywhere him and Quixote Jenkins
34:55
both Man. Yeah, yeah.
34:58
You know Devin Taylor gets to pick where it looked like I
35:02
think me and you were talking about it and I think Devin
35:06
player played some safety tonight because on that pick
35:09
mean you're talking to we were looking at We R Jr.
35:11
Walker was last weekend that quarter out.
35:14
He was in that similar spot. So again is build six, 1205,
35:20
little undersized but definitely has the capability to do that
35:24
mission. He read that ball perfect.
35:28
He saw what was happening? You know, drove on it.
35:31
Made the play, man. It was just, it was a good read
35:33
and that was a ball. That I think there's a little
35:35
bit of miscommunication between Hunter long and jerk evict there
35:39
and I think Geo that was just something that he took advantage
35:42
of it and he has really good ball skills.
35:45
He definitely goes after the ball.
35:47
So I like what he did and I liked the way he were able to
35:50
kind of make that safety position a little bit stronger
35:54
than it's been the last Last last couple weeks so good to see
35:57
him out there to make it two players from that position.
36:00
Yeah finding him getting himself on the field getting himself.
36:03
If you look at I mean that's part kind of about the
36:06
Singletary is I don't know where his draft stock is but his draft
36:11
stock is varying at the opportunity to come back next
36:14
year which helps with death all over the field.
36:18
Let's do this. Only one sex night.
36:23
I was a maribor know, kind of Gang tackle stack.
36:27
What did you see with the defensive line because it looked
36:31
a lot better. It looked like they were getting
36:33
pressure. They were making jerk of it.
36:35
So early it's a thing that they did the best was passed
36:39
wrestling's and pressing and squeezing the pocket.
36:43
So they did a good job of not really giving your Kovac
36:46
anywhere for him to kind of squeeze through Lane, step up in
36:49
the pocket, get outside the pocket, he had a couple times
36:51
where he got outside, was able to make some throws towards the
36:54
sideline, but But overall, throughout the night, we did a
36:57
good job of staying in this pass-rush lanes and the
37:00
defensive tackles for maybe taking still a step back in the
37:04
Rush game. Did a good job in the rushing
37:06
the passer kind of pressing the pocket backwards or covid
37:11
couldn't step up and either you know feel comfortable like
37:14
throwing it down the field or stepping up and really taking
37:17
off to get a you know, a few yards on a broken-down play.
37:20
So you know, kudos to those guys much improved game from last
37:24
week. I know the More opportunities
37:26
with more both drop back game versus the RPO that we saw with
37:30
you and see, but they took advantage of it and look more
37:33
like the defensive line we saw in the first two games than what
37:37
we saw last week. Yeah.
37:38
And even Brian mentioned about the defensive tackles, it looked
37:42
like and you probably could go later this week and look a
37:45
little bit deeper into it. Something happened after
37:48
halftime to with the defensive tackle.
37:51
You did not see the lanes as big and I don't know if it was What
37:56
essentially if it was different combinations of players or if it
38:00
was different techniques, they were taken care of.
38:03
But what am I going crazy? They did you not see that to it?
38:07
Look like there was something different there even though.
38:10
Yeah, we had a 10 point lead, but it was quickly down to 3
38:13
then back up at 10. Yeah, it definitely looked
38:17
different. I'd have to go back and look at
38:18
the table or to tell you definitely what, what kind of
38:21
changed, but you definitely saw them playing with, you know?
38:25
We said it with the linebackers with more aggression, they
38:27
looked like they were just attacking more and not thinking
38:30
as much and sometimes, you know, thinking is great, but it's not
38:34
great. When you're playing a quick
38:36
react game like football. Sometimes you just got to get
38:39
your read, make your decision and go.
38:42
Absolutely, alright, last part of the good night, he was our
38:48
number one. On a pivotal player buddy that
38:53
Heavenly definitely made such a difference tonight, man.
38:57
What did you see? Just overall because if you just
39:02
felt his presence there, it was just different.
39:05
You know, it seems like a couple times early.
39:08
We might have been lost but it's like he got them straightened
39:11
especially in that secondary as the game wore on, he was
39:15
definitely on them with tackling and he was reminding, people
39:19
hate just because we're there. We still got to make the play.
39:21
We got to make the tackle. He so he, the leadership was
39:24
there. But the play was there as well.
39:27
I mean, whether it was in the running game, coming up getting
39:30
some really good. It fits bring the players down.
39:32
He wasn't missing any tackles and in the, in the pass game and
39:38
he's playing a good job when he was, when he had deep
39:41
responsibility, making sure that they flowers didn't break off
39:44
those big ones, but he also when he was coming up the kind of in
39:49
the in the shallow part of the Zone, there we saw him make that
39:52
play that led to the the Murray interception.
39:55
He was a guy that got in there. Got his hand on the ball, kind
39:57
of knocked it up and you know Marie was able to clean it up,
40:00
get the pick. Kind of get a good run back
40:01
there. So the Devon Diablo, we missed
40:06
him these last two games and it showed up tonight and it showed
40:11
up, especially in the second half when his leadership really
40:13
kind of took over. And you know, he was able to
40:17
both get the guys where they needed to be but also make plays
40:20
himself with his physical abilities.
40:22
Absolutely. All right.
40:24
Well, you know, since it's been such a good night, we've been
40:28
talking about a lot of good things.
40:30
What's hit a few things? Defense came to light up this
40:33
week, still some things there that you need to see Improvement
40:37
on because we have to have some tough competition, down the
40:40
road. The first one bright and I
40:43
texted you numerous times, we can't get off the bleep and
40:47
field on, third and fourth down at one point.
40:51
Now, they ended, I believe tonight on third and fourth
40:55
down. I had it written down, and now I
40:57
have deleted it. Unfortunately. - you wrote it
41:03
down. Thank you, 11 of 18 but at a
41:05
point in time in the early part of the third quarter, they were
41:09
seven of ten and they were driving.
41:13
We were forcing turnovers. Yes.
41:14
But you know Brian me and you kind of talked about it in the
41:17
past getting the turnover is good.
41:18
But of a team continuously tribes on you.
41:22
You can't get a turnover every time.
41:24
Yep. Definitely got to get better.
41:26
I mean there's going to be offenses that we played down the
41:28
road. Probably not.
41:30
And, you know, the next two or three, but, you know, once we
41:34
get it into the Miami's and even the Pittsburgh's and then
41:39
obviously Clemson, there's going to be opportunities where we're
41:43
going to play an offense that is not going to just give us the
41:45
ball like happened. Like what happened tonight?
41:47
So got to be better on third Downs, getting off the field,
41:49
getting the ball back into that offenses hands.
41:53
Got to be better on key towns in general.
41:55
You know, sometimes we get them behind the sticks and then we
41:58
just very next down, you know, they get all the yardage that
42:02
they just lost and then some back like let's go ahead and
42:07
keep them down, while they're down, man.
42:08
You got to go got to do a lot better job at that, but the
42:12
fourth and seven and night where I think they ended up scoring
42:14
that one was, that was kind of that magic made you angry
42:19
because it's just like, they're in no man's land.
42:22
And it's Fourth and one or two, or even three, its fourth and
42:27
seven. We give up the big play in to me
42:31
that can really screw up a team mentality.
42:34
If she's just freaking feel right now.
42:39
Now let me ask this something you saw on the back end, you
42:44
know, to I think I might have noted it too, but I think we
42:48
were since we're using the leverage better.
42:50
We were attacking a little better.
42:51
It didn't upset me as much. But you talked about that, they
42:54
weren't attacking some of the underneath route from stuff,
42:58
which I think gets you because I think you, you see things like
43:04
that from a moth and defectors thing.
43:06
If you're not attacking, we're going to keep taking it and get
43:08
it to better offenses with players can attack them in the
43:12
field. It's not going to it's not going
43:16
to end. Well yeah and I made a note of
43:18
that they did better with that in the second half but in the
43:20
first half some of the underneath stuff, they weren't
43:24
coming up as quick as a as like they were so worried about not
43:30
letting them get behind and they just weren't attacking.
43:32
Even once the guy had the ball in front of them on the first
43:35
touchdown, you know, it was just a shallow dig kind of underneath
43:40
the linebackers and kind of ran past all three of them into the
43:44
alley and got the touchdown. I mean, that shouldn't happen.
43:47
Do you you texted me real quick that we lost leverage on that?
43:52
Why you Like real cloth leverage like Rook because it was the
43:55
wall and if wrote just instead of I don't know what he took
43:58
like this weird step. Where if you would have just
44:00
made him turn back in, he's going to have to go into three
44:03
guys to get a touchdown, he likely isn't.
44:07
But maybe it's the these guys having to learn again, we saw
44:14
more Zone conference and we place them in like a couple
44:16
times yet but we're seeing more Zone concept.
44:19
Where I think if we played man all night, I think we probably
44:24
would have. I think there would have been 14
44:27
more tolerable. I think jerk of each has a sort
44:30
of arm and with flowers and went long.
44:32
Some of the other guys, it's like that but whatever gets
44:35
irritating is the second and six and it's a little underneath
44:39
route and they get eight and you're like why?
44:42
Yeah we got to stop that stop that tackling better than last
44:48
week but there were some time I'm the ammonia chat and when I
44:52
hit you and I love Armani, dude. Just help wrap the guy up and
44:55
get him out of bounds. Yep, there's no need.
45:00
How many adults lie that that the plaintiff coming back
45:02
anyway, but you know, you're already there just get him out
45:07
of bounds, man. Get him out of bounds.
45:08
Make the easy play make. Yeah, I think that's.
45:12
And I think what we saw the first couple weeks that they
45:14
were making it easy play, it was get the guy hold.
45:19
There's going to be here. People here in a ton.
45:20
The second to get him down the only way last week, and then you
45:25
stall some, a lot of diving at Players week which was not that
45:30
good with, you know, Point get you upset.
45:33
But again as the game wore on it got better as the game wore only
45:39
got better. People say, well you have a
45:41
lead, you do different things. And it's like, yeah.
45:43
But when you get that on tape Grand, right, when Pam and
45:48
Clay's, Ryne Smith and No filter, Lincoln deltek.
45:53
Get that on tape. Like, this is what we need to
45:55
do. You think we're in this all
45:57
game? They're not driving it down.
45:59
Yeah. And I mean, let's go ahead while
46:02
we're kind of talking about that a little bit and give the
46:05
coaches, some shoutouts not just for a good game plan coming in
46:09
but for making really good halftime adjustments, especially
46:12
on the defensive side of the bowl because while we only gave
46:16
up seven in the first half, they drove the ball a few times on us
46:19
in the first half. And we were pretty stout in the
46:22
second half. Yeah.
46:24
After that. Open TouchDown Drive.
46:27
Yeah, we were. We were very Stout.
46:29
We work, we weren't great, but we weren't as bad and we
46:34
definitely were a lot better on third down in the second half.
46:37
Forget when we were first half, we were pretty bad over on third
46:40
down. Yeah, after that.
46:43
Yeah, after that early portion, where they got 27 10 out of 10
46:47
for he thrust the way 50/50, which Which is good.
46:52
Also we porch couple more turnovers.
46:54
They were having to do some different things and they had
46:58
some three and outs. So, definitely on that.
47:03
You mention it earlier. I know you want to hit it one
47:05
more time offensive. Tackles yeah, we need to see
47:10
them better in the Run game. I think they did a really good
47:12
job. Rushing the passer tonight
47:14
especially staying in their Rush lanes and pressing the pocket
47:17
but need to see more consistency from them in the running.
47:21
Occasionally they were still getting moved tonight.
47:22
Not anything. Like we saw against UNC, which
47:27
is good. It's nice to see them bounce
47:29
back this week but you know, I think we held them to 90.
47:34
I think we probably could have stopped, you know, a couple more
47:36
runs. And I would like to see more -
47:39
rushing plays from them. Maybe that would have been an
47:41
indication that we were doing some good things with the
47:43
defensive tackles there. They didn't have a lot of
47:45
negative plays but what they did have was they weren't able to
47:48
get anything established where they felt like they could Lean
47:51
on their running game, which is what we wanted to do is get them
47:53
out of that kind of make them one-dimensional and that's what
47:55
they were pretty much the whole second half.
47:58
Yeah. It pretty much was, I mean after
47:59
that touchdown they went fumbled punt down, fonts interception
48:05
and then they had one to end the game.
48:07
Yep, I'll say this, they actually came with a game plan.
48:11
That was different than what I thought.
48:12
I mean even within the running game, they were primarily
48:17
between the tackles like I said, some of that inside.
48:20
Soon, whether it was from shotgun or from Ace and they
48:23
actually mix it up and lots of night.
48:25
They ran some some sweeps with the other, their second team
48:28
running back a lot. They got him on the field, a
48:31
whole lot more than he's played in any other game.
48:33
I've watched this year. So you know, they brought
48:35
something new to the table that had been on film and we were
48:37
still able to adjust to it. So I like that.
48:40
Absolutely absolutely. So, you know, again 4014 when we
48:46
cover the spread which some people on Her today did not like
48:52
the fair telling us because take the 13.
48:57
There was also one of the other podcast I listen to I've texted
49:03
you on yesterday morning. Like I like so and so this is
49:08
what he said, pennies in the cap.
49:09
It off with Virginia Tech could win by 2026.
49:20
Yeah. They would have went six and
49:30
two. Okay, okay in three, you know,
49:33
again, you know game screwed. You let me win this week which
49:37
was trusted the Wahoo's, but what did I say?
50:27
And those with fifty six seven and half, it was it was one of
50:35
those one of the top screens and I had to go do something I come
50:39
back. I'm like, well, this is getting
50:41
changed. Click, we hit Miami pit.
50:46
We we got it at 14. They lost by 12 Liberty wins.
50:53
Again, that's screwed us. Anyway, what did I say though?
50:56
Even even without Pickett, Are we didn't run away from that,
51:01
but he gets a decent defense. Just You know, they struggle and
51:11
they should have they should be demoing.
51:13
That mean, you got lucky. Let's take a look at these other
51:16
ones. Syracuse Liberty Liberty wins
51:19
again. Liberty now has beaten teams
51:22
combined 2 and 17. I think I didn't see this game
51:28
because we ended up going out in the cold.
51:30
A sec about to meet some friends.
51:33
We stay there to 6:30 because everybody from the Everybody
51:38
from the neighborhood came out all the kids.
51:41
All the parents we were playing basketball and then the coach
51:46
that lives across the street, yours, all out here playing
51:48
fields all the families. Hey, I'm getting everybody
51:50
Pizza. So, he leaves comes back gets
51:53
two pieces for everything on the plate.
52:39
Like I said, A little bit of a matching Elle
53:09
column there. Notre Dame is going to be UNC.
53:13
Okay, got it. Somebody's got to beat Notre
53:16
Dame. Now they don't, you know, why
53:20
was it? Because we going to be Clemson.
53:22
Hey, hey, when they come to Blacksburg December this, it's
53:29
going to be a foot of snow on the ground.
53:32
What is this? I'm going to rub their little
53:36
hands together and be like, let's get dirty baby.
53:41
Last one. Which was the out of conference
53:43
Bama, who good, Nick Saban finds the as after three - test, which
53:51
I think I don't care that he did it.
53:52
I carry that. He got a different rule than
53:55
another coach, at least that's the appearance that it has.
54:00
That's the appearance it is, but it's also, that's also the SE
54:06
C's that if you get a, if you get a positive and then get
54:13
three consecutive - they considered a false positive.
54:20
The ACC doesn't do that and things like that, so it helps
54:27
that they're using the rabbit test.
54:28
If we could just get on that board, that would help us a lot.
54:31
I think, John don't get really do not get, I mean, unless you
54:37
see open up your wallet pay for these tests, get it done.
54:41
No, no, we just want to put some another name, you got like, two,
54:45
you got two of the best. Medical universities in the
54:48
fucking country. You do something.
54:54
Do something test faster because they're happy with what they're
55:02
getting right now. They know who essentially they
55:05
know who they want. It is what it is.
55:10
Let's rock the boat a little bit.
55:11
How about that? Anything else.
55:17
Surprised you from I know you were driving most of the day I
55:21
was driving. I was A little this little that
55:24
but I was checking in pretty regular and there's there's some
55:28
interesting things out there. Like I said, I think the some of
55:31
the later action shot and more and then UVA just kind of laying
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over in the second half. It's very true.
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Funny thing I got today was my cousin who South Carolina grad.
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I mean, I'm watching some of that game is like, what do they
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do here? They are not.
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I'm sending them like they are throwing some atrocious.
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South Carolina and he texted me, three or four things, his
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buddies tweeting. And it seemed like after that
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point, there were no more Flags thrown against South Carolina
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and they came back and scored like, you know, 17 unanswered to
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beat Auburn at the end. The SEC, protects their prize
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teams in some way, shape or form and this is there was, there was
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a Code Geass out there that says I'll bring you all down.
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This is what happens when y'all get us after midnight and it's
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after 1:00 a.m. in the morning, I've had a couple beverages as
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Michael sure. Brian has also woke up early but
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when Mom and town, I literally walked a little one downstairs.
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Hey, go. See Grandma.
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I'm going back upstairs. Sleep for a little felt good.
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Out great. We got anything else to hit run?
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Anything else that popped out? I know there's one thing you
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don't want to talk about, so I'm not going to bring it up but of
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are. All right.
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Well, if there is nothing else. Big man that is going to wrap up
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this episode of The Boundary Corner podcast.
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