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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Football Quarterback Michael Hawkins Visits (Episode 718) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: We got a dandy for you. The summer series continues.
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  Speaker 1: We are joined by WVU quarterback Mike Hawkins. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: let's do this thing Mountaineer football. While you might think
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  Speaker 1: it's the off season, really not really not the off season.
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  Speaker 1: There is no more off season. The players have returned
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  Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks off after the stoppage of
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  Speaker 1: the semester. Summer semester is underway. Workouts are underway, and
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  Speaker 1: that means that the Mountaineer players are on the field
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  Speaker 1: twice a week. Now. You can't it's not practice practice,
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  Speaker 1: but it's as close to practice OTA's you can call it.
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  Speaker 1: So what better time than introduce you to our guy,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Hawkins. Thanks so much for being with us many sir,
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  Speaker 1: of course, first time we've met. I haven't had the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure of MENI you hear a lot of good things
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  Speaker 1: about you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to get going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely So this has been obviously a whirlwind since
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  Speaker 1: you get here back in the winter, right, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about how nice it is outside right now, but
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  Speaker 1: when you got here a little cold, you're a Texas guy.
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  Speaker 1: We'd love to know the story of how it all
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  Speaker 1: came about. One question that I have for you, how
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  Speaker 1: much did you know about West Virginia, if anything about
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia before West Virginia came into play as a
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  Speaker 1: potential place for you to enroll.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I knew about West Virginia just because
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  Speaker 2: of the Big twelve, And but I kind of knew
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  Speaker 2: about Pat White already. You had known the name, yes sir, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: But once they started recruiting me, it kind of started
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  Speaker 2: to click and just you know, learn more about you know,
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  Speaker 2: WU and how they are up here and just Morgantown.
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  Speaker 2: But once I got up here, I kind of felt
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  Speaker 2: like it was just home and just felt a good
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  Speaker 2: place for me.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that a lot of guys always tell us
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  Speaker 1: when we ask that question. They some they'll go Pat White,
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  Speaker 1: some will give us a little Steve Slayton, But invariably
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  Speaker 1: the name Tavon Austin comes up, like Tevon Austin's highlight film,
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  Speaker 1: Like if were you familiar with him at all? Had
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  Speaker 1: you caught that show?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've I grew up watching Tavon Austin when I
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  Speaker 2: was little, just you know.
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  Speaker 1: So how little? So with day that's now so you're old.
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  Speaker 1: How old are you before you're into this thing and
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  Speaker 1: you're watching that obviously you come from a football family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably elementary. See I've been watching him for probably
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  Speaker 2: my whole life, crazy just seeing his Everybody talks about
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  Speaker 2: Tevon Austin, So it's a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So West Virginia and then there's a connection here
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  Speaker 1: obviously because Zach Alley was at Oklahoma, right and Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Lily was at Oklahoma as well. How much did that
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  Speaker 1: play into it at all? When you start to get
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  Speaker 1: some recruitment from West Virginia, there's there's a little connection there.
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  Speaker 1: Did that kind of at least bring them up a spot?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely did. Just knowing that I have people here
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  Speaker 2: that I can trust and I've been close with in
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  Speaker 2: the past, and just knowing coach Alley how his defense
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  Speaker 2: is pretty it's not the same as everybody else's pretty anxiety,
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  Speaker 2: So it's definitely it was definitely a big step with
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  Speaker 2: other teams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So let's talk offensive system too. So you're
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  Speaker 3: in a rich Rod offensive system, What was the discussion
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  Speaker 3: about that as you were talking through and learning about
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia, You're you're a prototypical rich Rod type of quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: What about the offense?
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  Speaker 2: I liked it. I met first coach I met it
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  Speaker 2: with was coach Triggery. So I just got to run
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  Speaker 2: down of how they operate as offense and how uptemple
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  Speaker 2: they were and which I've never been an uptempo like
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  Speaker 2: I have here at WU, which is different, but I
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  Speaker 2: like it a lot. But when I got on the
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  Speaker 2: phone with rich Rod, it was really good just seeing
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  Speaker 2: how he gets the quarterback involved with the run game.
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  Speaker 2: And then he's gotten more into the drop back and
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  Speaker 2: it's been pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, rich Rod likes he likes the quarterback to run,
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  Speaker 4: There's no question about that. Do you prefer and I
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  Speaker 4: watched some highlights of you when you're in Oklahoma? Do
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  Speaker 4: you like design runs or just scramble runs? What works?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think works best for you? What do
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  Speaker 4: you prefer in that environment?
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  Speaker 2: I think now that I've been in it and matured
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  Speaker 2: more a little, it's more of design runs, just kind
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  Speaker 2: of standing in the pocket and getting out when I
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  Speaker 2: have to. So I mean design runs are probably the
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  Speaker 2: best thing, as you know, getting the quarterback going.
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  Speaker 4: You a slide guy or a head on guy.
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  Speaker 2: It depends.
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  Speaker 1: Slide slide, just slide, slide slide.
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  Speaker 2: You have to slide on. You have to slide to
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  Speaker 2: keep your body sick.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Brad, you're on the slide guy, aren't.
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  Speaker 3: You for him?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get down.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if it's like if it's like third and
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  Speaker 1: whatever and you need to get to the stick, you
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  Speaker 1: get to the stick. But if it's let's go play
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  Speaker 1: another plague. Yeah, it's a long season and those guys
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  Speaker 1: are out there trying to know, right, it's sir, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a question about that. So you get to Rich, you
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  Speaker 1: get to Rich, and Rich is different, right like he
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  Speaker 1: is he is in charge and off you go. What
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  Speaker 1: was that transition like when it all got started? Because
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  Speaker 1: there's Rich recruiting you and then there's Rich on the field,
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  Speaker 1: So it's a difference.
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  Speaker 2: It's very he's very intense, i would say, but he's
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  Speaker 2: very like hands on. He's he's very structured and knows
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  Speaker 2: what he want. So when you get on the field,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely different. But if you're a guy that loves
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  Speaker 2: to be coach hard, you'll love it. So I love
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  Speaker 2: how the way he coaches and carries hisself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the thing when I watch him practice
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  Speaker 1: is that he takes unbelievable ownership in everything because that's
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  Speaker 1: his offense, and he knows exactly he's done so many years.
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  Speaker 1: He knows exactly what it has to look like in
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  Speaker 1: order for it to work. And as you learned right
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  Speaker 1: in spring, it takes exacting detail. And if it's not there,
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  Speaker 1: he knows that eventually that's gonna cost you, so he
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  Speaker 1: corrects it. He's on spot correction. Guy on spot correction.
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  Speaker 1: But I've seen it through the years, those that rotation
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  Speaker 1: and that repetition eventually gets that thing. And then when
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  Speaker 1: that thing hums, it's it's pretty. When it goes, it's pretty.
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  Speaker 2: It's her. Yeah, definitely on on guy, you know, getting
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  Speaker 2: guys going, yeah, when it's not going how he needs
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  Speaker 2: it to go. Yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 3: What's the what's the biggest challenge tempo wise for you quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: I say the biggest thing with the quarterback in this
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  Speaker 2: offense is just getting the call. And it's so up tempo.
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  Speaker 2: You just have to be able to scan the feel
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick and get your guys a line, so but
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  Speaker 2: having a good pace to yourself and finding that pace
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of the best way. I said, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a place it's ideas. Did you feel comfortable
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  Speaker 1: at the end of Spring giving the quick look over
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  Speaker 1: to the sideline and knowing did you did you get
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  Speaker 1: the did you get to the point where you knew
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  Speaker 1: what was coming as a play call?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say the beginning of Spring, it was kind of
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to figel out how Coach rich trod calls
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  Speaker 2: in different situations. But I'd said I picked it up
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  Speaker 2: pretty quick, probably the fastest I've ever learned offense, just
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  Speaker 2: off of experience in the past. But yeah, just knowing
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  Speaker 2: what he thinks in certain situations since it was pretty
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  Speaker 2: way more easier once Spring got deeper into it.
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  Speaker 1: When I talk to people on staff about you, they
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  Speaker 1: say you are a whatever you want word you want
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  Speaker 1: to use, film rat film guy. Like they'll go into
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  Speaker 1: the room, it'll be dark, and like they won't even
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  Speaker 1: know anyone's in the room. They go, oh, he's back
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  Speaker 1: in the corner watching film. Have you always been a
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  Speaker 1: big study guy of film or is that something that
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  Speaker 1: you kind of understood that at this level you need
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: I say, once I got to college and I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of trying to fill things out, But once I
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  Speaker 2: got going, I probably say I was up there most
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  Speaker 2: of the day, get the night off, probably, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I probably say that's probably the biggest thing. Especially being
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback. You have to know not just what you
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  Speaker 2: need to do on the field, but your teammates too.
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  Speaker 4: Like do you find a direct correlation between the amount
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  Speaker 4: of film that you watch and then we got in
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  Speaker 4: practice and what you're able to do? Do you see
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  Speaker 4: a connection there?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, for sure. I mean you gotta when you
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  Speaker 2: watch him, you can't just watch it. You gotta understand
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  Speaker 2: the rules and the rules of the defense and understand
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  Speaker 2: where your guys are going to be and not just
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  Speaker 2: go out there freeball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah right, I mean how do you how do you
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  Speaker 4: process all that information that quickly? Because like you said,
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's a very uptempo many times, and you
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  Speaker 4: got to get lined up, you got to see where
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  Speaker 4: the safety is you got I mean, how do you
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  Speaker 4: work what's your progression through that?
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  Speaker 2: I'd say the biggest thing is just understanding the call,
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  Speaker 2: like we've talked about, and and then ID and who
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  Speaker 2: you need ID with a certain play that's called. So
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  Speaker 2: I said, that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 4: How much is Pat working with Pat? Pat White helped
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  Speaker 4: you because he was pretty good when he was a player,
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  Speaker 4: and I was talking to him at the spring game
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  Speaker 4: and I was he was he was very high on you,
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  Speaker 4: and he said that you were faster than he was.
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  Speaker 4: I said, come on now, I'm not sure Nyboy's faster
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  Speaker 4: than Pat White. So what has been your relationship with
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  Speaker 4: Pat and how much has that helped you.
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  Speaker 2: I've probably been with Colase White every time I get
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  Speaker 2: to touch bases with him, and then I'm probably with
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  Speaker 2: him the majority of the day, really just trying to
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  Speaker 2: pick his brain and you know, watch games and on
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  Speaker 2: our points coming up. So he's definitely been a big
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  Speaker 2: help to me.
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  Speaker 4: No, will he tell you any stories, because he's got
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  Speaker 4: a few stories. They won four Bowl games when Pa
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  Speaker 4: was qRT back. Does he tell you any stories about
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  Speaker 4: his days?
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  Speaker 2: He does, not a lot, but if I ask Hill,
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  Speaker 2: he'll get to going about it. But he's had some stories.
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  Speaker 3: He does, and you've seen him if you put the
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  Speaker 3: game film on with him in the room with you
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  Speaker 3: while you've been here. His game film he was a dude.
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  Speaker 2: He was a dude.
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  Speaker 3: Are you faster than he is?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. I can't really tell
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  Speaker 2: you that one.
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  Speaker 1: You know what he had? You know why he was
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  Speaker 1: so special because he had the two things that you
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  Speaker 1: don't often get together at the same time. He had
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable athleticism and he had unbelievable competitiveness. And you've seen
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  Speaker 1: athletes to your career, I'm sure you've seen great athletes
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  Speaker 1: that don't have unbelievable competitiveness. You've seen blue collar athletes
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  Speaker 1: that have unbelievable competitiveness. You know what happens when you
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  Speaker 1: put the two together. You get dudes? Yeah right, you
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  Speaker 1: get dogs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry. And Pat would also uh during the
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  Speaker 4: game when he got tackled. Pat would also might have
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  Speaker 4: a discussion with the opposing players too. He liked to
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  Speaker 4: g app a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was the angelic assassin. Like you know, he
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  Speaker 1: just kind of put that thing away and just but
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  Speaker 1: quietly do it. You talk it all during the game.
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  Speaker 2: I say, when I get going and I'm really in
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  Speaker 2: it it it depends, it depends, but I say, I
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  Speaker 2: like to get my guys going.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: See how they operate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, you've got another great one over there too.
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  Speaker 3: Rashid Marshall was one of the best to do it
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  Speaker 3: in this office as well. So you got two of
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  Speaker 3: the best inner rich rout offense eve that you talk to,
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  Speaker 3: Rashid match he's been around.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to her she probably every day, just you know.
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  Speaker 1: More.
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  Speaker 2: Our relationship has developed way more since I've been here.
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  Speaker 2: So he's definitely a great guy to just talk to
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  Speaker 2: going there and just have regular conversations.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, his game was pretty good. He's run it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he could do it all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a good life guy too, just life stuff
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  Speaker 4: that happens.
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  Speaker 3: And now, Rashid would not admit that Mike is faster
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  Speaker 3: than him. He would not would, but Rashid would still
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  Speaker 3: to this day say that he's faster than Mike. I'm
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  Speaker 3: I'm comfortable in saying that there's.
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  Speaker 1: Donation, but he would say that.
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  Speaker 4: He would say that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some speculation. You know, they got that new
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  Speaker 1: five for five rule that's coming out. There's some speculation
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  Speaker 1: that she'd thinks there's going to be a thirty for
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  Speaker 1: thirty and he gets to come back. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's still trained, right, I mean he's.
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  Speaker 3: In better shape now than when he played.
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  Speaker 1: He's still training. He's still training like he gets to
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  Speaker 1: go play next week. So you just be careful, like
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  Speaker 1: one day you might look over he might because you know,
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  Speaker 1: he does the uniform reveals during the season, they put
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  Speaker 1: the video on. He comes out there on Thursday and
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  Speaker 1: does the you he still thinks he's gonna play, So
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  Speaker 1: you just like that she'd just or over there. But No,
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  Speaker 1: in all seriousness, I don't think they could have a
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  Speaker 1: better guy as far as the role that he's in
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  Speaker 1: right now and talking with you guys all the time
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  Speaker 1: and kind of like giving you the lay of the land.
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  Speaker 1: One to make sure your stuff's all done, but to
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  Speaker 1: kind of be that intermediary guy of having played but
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  Speaker 1: at the same time being able to get that flow.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's perfect role.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Our appearance and our visit with Mike Hawkins from
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  Speaker 3: you see the little hoodie that's over by the way
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  Speaker 3: we get a little bit on set.
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  Speaker 1: Those are yeah, those are available now.
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  Speaker 4: Those are nice?
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  Speaker 3: So that is that, Peter, Oh, yeah, it's a little
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  Speaker 3: Mike knows.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good scene.
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  Speaker 3: Sitting right on the wall, you go in on the
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  Speaker 3: right hand sides up on the wall.
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  Speaker 1: You're big into those.
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  Speaker 3: On the other day, you're big into those hooting things.
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  Speaker 3: You like the hoodies. You like the hoodie too, right,
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  Speaker 3: the hood Yeah, hoodies.
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  Speaker 1: In Mike, you style, I can tell already with the
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  Speaker 1: glass frames and with the apparel. So you big clothes guy,
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  Speaker 1: you do like clothes. Okay, so let's walk through that.
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  Speaker 1: How long like have you always like? Would your mom
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  Speaker 1: say that even when you were a little guy like,
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  Speaker 1: you were picking out what you wanted to wear and
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  Speaker 1: it needed to be stylish.
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  Speaker 2: When I was little kind of more of my mom.
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  Speaker 1: She was putting, so she would dress you up nice. Yeah. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but you have any embarrassing photographs when you were young,
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  Speaker 1: like they made you wear plaid and things like that, or.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely do, probably to go deepen the camera.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah okay. And so as you've matured as a dresser
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  Speaker 1: with style, how would you describe your style?
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  Speaker 2: I'd probably say kind of. I love wearing Peter Mallar.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so you're not a card hard guy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. You're a Peter Mallar guy because it's it
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  Speaker 1: feels good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love Yeah, it just I like the text,
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  Speaker 2: texture fits.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Well. You got your pants too, you've done any of
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: your pants? Yea?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I have someone right now.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: He's fully Peter Millard.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I just got a bunch of those, dude.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: That's like, that's like a It's like sweatpants and pajamas
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: informal setting.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: It's comfortable, real comfortable and tony.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: When you find something you like, you buy.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I buy a lot. I get a lot of them.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I get.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: You didn't even get to his shoes. Oh yeah, put
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Jordan's stumps. You got Travis Scott versus Jordan's Can you
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: get him out have a scar?
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, So where do we stand on shoes? Big
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: guy on shoes? Yeah, big over under one hundred pairs
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: over one hundred. Yeah, you just said yes. I can
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: just tell but saying no, by not saying no, you
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: got over one hundred.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I have a good amount. But yeah, I'm definitely a shoehead.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Travis Scott just drops two pairs of new shoes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: On them.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Have you had conversation with the director of athletics here,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Ren Baker about shoes? Uh, you haven't talked to him
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: about shoes, Not really, dude. He's got a lit glass.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you've never seen that where in his house?
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Well haven't. I haven't been to his house, so I
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: wouldn't know.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: He it's it's yeah, how many think he's.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Got I don't know. But he constantly has a new
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: pair on, so I don't know how many.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot hundreds.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: The Travis Scott's too, he's got the got the gold
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and the blue travel scutchy of this bright Yeah, the
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: bright yellowish.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Favorite color.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I like the brown ones.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, suit wise, when you go suit I have.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: A couple me be in olkaholm. I we wore suits
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: before the games.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, same here.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had. I have about four suits. I love
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: wearing suits.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I or solid.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: One of them is pattern. It's my great one. I
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: have a gray, blue, black and brown.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: You're on the tea, he's on it, tire no tie?
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's that's why I wore te today.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and on their MinC Okay cool? All right, So
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: back over the football. Believe it or not, I got
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: a football. Go ahead, give me a football. So your
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: brother's here. Malik is here, sir. And did you, guys
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: ever when you were young ever scuffle it all?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Did you like what happened?
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: What?
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: It was?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Nothing serious? But we would play fighting, Yeah, all that
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: type of stuff.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Who had. Well you're a little older, you have you
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: have the advantage.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: So today he's a bit bigger now. Safety. He's back
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: there working out in the corner. What uh you guys tight?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: They were pretty close, yes, sir.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Kind of nice when you get here and you don't
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: know anybody and your brother's here.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good deal.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Scout him for us, Scout his game for us.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Malik is very physical, receiver, especially on the perimeters.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So I mean, you have to have the right guy
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: out there and know who's out there. But he's definitely
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a guy that can go get it in the air,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: come down and hit you. So he's definitely someone I
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: feel like he's gonna play have a big role this season.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Your dad was a college player, so was football from
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: day one, as long as you can remember, somewhere involved
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in the family. Yeah.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Probably when I hit four years old, I was you
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: were doing that? Yeah, I was on it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Did you how long did it take you before
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you realized how good he was?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Probably when I got to high school. I mean I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: knew when I was younger that how good he was,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: but I started to understand more things about him and
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: understand how he, you know, operated more and mentally. Well, yeah,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: he's definitely someone that's helped me a lot.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting, isn't it how it works out? Like
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: things go by really really quickly, so and kids get
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: id'd really really quickly. Nowadays in recruiting, like like he's
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: going to have a chance, He's going to have a chance.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: When do you think that people started talking about you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as saying like this kid can be, you know, better
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: than just a high school player.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Probably after my sophomore year, that was the first year
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I started at and then going to my junior year,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: started getting recruited a way more. I went to some
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: camps and then it kind of just took off from
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: there and I committed my senior year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: You kind of you're a little humble on that. I mean,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's not like it was just a couple of schools.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, I could I could pull out that, I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: could pull out the list here, not that not that
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: you don't remember, but you had offers from Oklahoma, Alabama, Michigan, Arkansas, TCU,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech, and uh, I'm sure there may be a
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: few others that that that were in there. Did you
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: enjoy that process the first time through of being recruited.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it definitely the first time. And then kind
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: of once I knew like soaring down, you know, schools
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: kind of dial down a little. So it was kind
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of just understanding who's for me, and so definitely did
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: a change in my recruiting.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Your official visits, did you where were your officials?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I did official visit at Arkansas, Oklahoma and TCU.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: It might when you played a lot your freshman year.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I think you played in like seven games maybe, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: you had that big win at Auburn, which was which
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: was huge, and you're a true freshman. You're at Auburn,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: you win the game, you come from behind and win
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the game. Didn't play as much your sophomore year? How
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: did you handle that? Emotionally in the quarterback room? Not
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: playing as much your sophomore year? And then how difficult
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: was it to leave Oklahoma?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Definitely was a change going to my sophomore year, But
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I learned a lot from my freshman year and kind
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: of helped me throughout the season. But when John got there,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: it kind of helped me understand more about the game
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: and our coach Arbocal obviously, just kind of learning behind
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: John and seeing how you see certain things. It was
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: definitely a help, especially going to the sophomore season, just
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: being ready for an opportunity that comes. But it definitely
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: helped me grow as a player?
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Was it? So you look at that sophomore year as
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: growing as a player rather than discouraging or definitely.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Growing as a player. I probably learned and developed my
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: mindset way more just having those people around me.
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• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Went fishing about two weeks ago. Really, I mean my
• 23:46
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• 23:49
  Speaker 2: twenty five fish were catching stripes.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, we gotta get you on sheet Can we get
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  Speaker 1: for bait?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Live bait. I don't know the exact fish, but it
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: was live.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Good fight.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good fight. My first fish, well, yeah,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: my first fish was pretty it was a good size.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: My hands slipped off the ride, so I had a.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: You were bringing it in. Yeah, So down in the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: New River here, which is about two and a half
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: hours from Morgantown, Okay, second oldest river in the world.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: That's not an exaggeration, second oldest river. Smallmouth dude, you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: go down there, we'll get I think we should do this.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: If you've got maybe a little time here, bring you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: down to the small and do a float trip down
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: there for the day.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I'll be down I uh, I went.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I did it. Caught ninety ninety two fish. Wait a minute,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: caught ninety two fish. You don't keep them, you're thrown
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: back in. And I seriously I think I lost ninety
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: at the same day. Because those small mouth they will
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: fight and they'll spit it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: They're pretty big.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're nice, just just just a good fight.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: So I wish.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was a great thing. Had a
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: guide that knew exactly. It was just it was just yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I caught we caught those I didn't catch ninety. Me
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and John my boy ninety two fish one day and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Lynn lost probably ninety. It was a great time. It
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: was a great time. So you'd like to fish, Yeah,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I love the fish. We'll get you over chest in
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the mountain ranch here, that's just right eight miles away.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: We'll go. They were in there. You can pull them out. Yeah, okay,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: what else you like to do?
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I love to I mean I feel like everybody says, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I love playing the game. But since i've been here,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I've been on some trails. I think the trails call
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it almost heavy or someone.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I went there with my girlfriend to my mom, So
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: it was pretty fun. I like being outside.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what we can also, probably I'm
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: gonna just use other people's time. So the director of athletics, Wren,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he fancies himself he's an Oklahoma guy. Yeah, fancies himself
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: as an outdoor guy. He's got a side by side
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: and he goes through all these little roads and he's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: probably you should probably get don't you think it'd be
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a fun treading the side by side? He'll be good.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: He got a he's got a crazy sound system in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that thing, and he just kind of goes away for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: hours up into the hills. We probably should do that too, Yeah,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that'd be fun. I don't think Rich. I don't think
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Rich is a good side. But you think Rich would
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: be a good side by side? I did, Ah, don't know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I can drive too fast on the trail.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I think rich. He I think he's want to stay
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: home and watch like land Man. I don't think he's.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's. I don't think he's doing the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: trail anymore.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I just finish watching Man.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: That's a great show.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It's a good Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I recommend how was Wren.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: The big outdoors guy if he's got like a twenty
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: five thousand dollars piece of gears, not like he's out
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: hiking wow dropping.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: He's a man of the people. He knows, he knows
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: where he needs to be. He got that side by side.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He likes to go out on that thing and just
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: go away for hours. He'll take that. He'll take you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to places and you'll see things like he's got waterfalls,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff, all this thing. So, yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you need to hook up with him.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Are you a college football watcher when you're not playing, Like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: just we'll sit down after your game's over and watch
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: other games. You like to watch the game?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, it was a good game. Like I love
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: watching college football. It's way more exciting than the NFL.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: But it's definitely something I enjoyed doing.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: What to be a quarterback is? Of all positions, it's
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a special spot. Obviously, there's only one of them. Right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: there's linemen, there's receivers, wides, inside guys. Right, there's a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: bunch of different there's only one qb so which brings
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of added pressure, right because like all eyes
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: are on you, you get to touch the ball every
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: single snap. What do you like about that?
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I'd say the biggest thing with me playing quarterback and
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: just learning the position was I just love being in
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the pressure, just being in a moment. It's kind of
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'd say, football is something I say that's pretty peaceful
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: for me. So I just love being able to, you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: pouring some others and get them going.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's go into this. This is this is good.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: This is good. We're going down a good path here.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: So peace is not the usual description for not usually not.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So okay, so this is gonna take us in here.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: This is what's gonna make you special. I think so
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: most people would absolutely run from the scenario of it's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: third down and thirteen and I gotta make this play.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: They're like, ah, let someone else throw that thing. You
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: enjoy that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I love it. Just being able to get the sticks.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Moving because is that is that some of I'm gonna
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: show the defense you can't stop me?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Also, just you know, moving the sticks and taking
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: one play by.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Play games on crowds roaring you hear it?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Just ease my mind. I mean you got to learn
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: how to embrace it and not let it overwhelm you.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Does a game go slower? I mean, in other words,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: sometimes there is this huge line, but when you're in there,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it's like you're in a different little zone. You follow me,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: is there? Do you feel that like once the thing's churning,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it's just like you're just playing ball.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like practice. No one's there. I mean,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: it's obviously a crowd, but I mean just out there
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: with your guys.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: It might go on that tell us about your work
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: with the receivers. I mean, what has that been like
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: because it has to be a timing issue and knowing
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: what the other what they're gonna do, what you're gonna do.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: So what has that been like as you've tried to
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: adjust to the new environment, new offense and receivers that
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: you didn't know.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been definitely a different environment here. But
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: just on the same page with those guys has been
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: really good. Just when I first got here, felt like
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: we were OTAs. So we've been going at it for
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: a while and I feel like our relationship has came
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a long way, and even with this summer is probably
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a really big summer for us, just you know, been
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: on the same page and understanding where they're going to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: be and understanding how I want to get the ball
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: to him. So it's definitely good.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: We had Jaden Bray on this show here recently. What's
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: he give us? Give us your scout on Jayden Bray's skills.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I love Jayden just I feel like I could throw
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: it up to him anytime I need to. He'll go
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: get it. He's definitely a guy that can win one
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: on one either if that's down the field or you know,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: at the sticks. So he's definitely someone I love and
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: embrace throwing the ball to now.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: He told us when he was on he was a
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: basketball guy first to like middle of high school? Would
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: you played you pitch at all?
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: With that?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: With your arm?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Now, Tony and I have seen you throw? You can
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: you can sling it pretty good? You ever pitch play?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I played basketball, but I didn't get to play in
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: high school. My dad didn't let me. I try to.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I try to sneak on my freshman year and play
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: for the or try out. But I played baseball in
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: middle school, but I didn't play in high school.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, so so dad just said we're doing football. Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I did track too, But what did you do in track?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I ran the four bah one like all the relays
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: except for the foreigner. I was the first ate.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: You enjoy that? Yeah?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I liked it a lot.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Last time you've been taped tested timed? Thank you.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Last time you've been timed in the forty was what?
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't remember for four Maybe I
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: don't it's been a while.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: But someone if someone would say to you, what do
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you run the forty and you you'd say, I'm a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: legit four four guy. Yes, the Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: What about when you guys in the spring of going
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: ones on ones, who do you look across the line
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: at and go ooh, I watch out for that guy
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: other than your brother? I mean, who who do you
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: worry about on the West Virginia defensive side when when
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: the ones are going at it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: We've got a corner. Chims. He's a guy that's very
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: like lengthy, he could cover really well. So he's definitely
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: a guy you look out there. You have to have
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the right guy out there and knowing on one on
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: one situations, Jamior, he's pretty good. So those those two
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: guys are someone I look for.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: You gotta keep an eyut for him, sir.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Go back to the receivers. Prince is a tall target.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I had a lot of connections to
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: the Uh huh. He's someone I've built a relationship with
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: pretty well, pretty close. He's a great guy.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: How much are you throwing right now? So obviously you
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: got the two times you go out each week with
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the team, but like, how what do you want throwing
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: wise throughout the course of the off season to make
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: sure that you're sharp.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Tuesday, Thursday we have development and then Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I'd like to, you know, kind of meet more and
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: walk through with the whole o'scale O line. Saturdays we
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: throw at ten thirty, get a couple of balls in
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: throwing to kill the legs. But that's kind of the
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: schedule right now.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: What about you like? Do you like in basketball? Guys?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: So I need to get up a thousand shots. I
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: need to get a five hundred shots from a quarterback perspective,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Are there is there a certain number of throws that
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: keep you sharp, but at the same time to make
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: sure that you're not throwing too much.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I'd say, just whatever I need to work on and
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: just kind of get a certain amount of throws, probably
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: fifteen throws each on each drill that I need to
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: work on a day maybe, but it's I don't want
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to overthrow.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Mike, what's how do you How have they
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: coached you in the passing game to say, to make
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: the decision I'm going to try to make the fit
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: or I'm going to throw it away and not and
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: not make them and not potentially make a mistake. How
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: are you coached on that and what are you thinking
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: during the play on that?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Can you explain that a little bit like the like you.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Got a receiver and you're saying, I think I can
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: get that in there, but then in otherwise, well, but
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I don't want to make a mistake, so maybe I
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: just throw it away and wait for the next play.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: So how they coach you up on that?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Biggest thing is just being decisive and great with how
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: do you see see the picture? Full of picture? But
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I say the biggest thing is just on the quarterback
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: and what he sees in the moment and trusting it
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and not being hesitant, because when you're hesitant, it's kind
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: of when problems start to come.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: An offshoot of that question is is you've probably learned
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: coach Rod not a big fan of turnovers? Yeah, nah,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: not a big not a big fan of turnovers, because
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard by now one hundred times no
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: team that has ever not turned it over or had
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a tackle for a loss in the game has lost
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: a game. Right. So, and his key to his success
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: when he was here the first time was that West
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Virginia was consistently among the nation's best in turnover margin.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Like Pat Rashid they just wouldn't give it away. You
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: get more possessions, you take advantage of other team's mistakes,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and you win games. So I'm sure that's just a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: constant message. You just came for them, sir.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's tough offensive line for a second. Got some
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: big guys, Get some dudes.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got some.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Got some experience too. Have you looked over and checked
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: out coach Trick at the other coach Trick you're talking
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: about Travis earlier. Have you looked over and watched coach
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Rick Trick? Have you watched him coach the line there?
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: That's intense.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's intense, especially in offseason. It was really intensive.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: But oh, it doesn't change, it's not gonna change.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's definitely one of the best that I've
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: been around so far, and he's so intense and he
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: knows what he wants. But he's definitely gonna have our
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: old line rights because the guys we have already, he's
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: just making them better.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: So you got to be cheering him on, like get
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: them trick because they're your guys. Right to get trick
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: will get him ready.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's good.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh it's it's amazing college football staffs. They
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: have this wild cross section, Like you know, you mentioned
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Pat and those guys. I mean that's ten plus years
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: they've been out now. But then you get these really
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: new guys, the graduates, graduate assistants, they're just getting into it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: You got the Pat level, you got the middle aged guys,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and then you've got older guys that have seen like Trick,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: like they've seen everything twenty two times backwards, like nothing
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: flusters them. They've gone into games like Trick's gone into
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: games before, like he might have three linemen that can
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: that are viable and he's just trying to right. Yeah,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: it's see, there's this great wisdom that comes from all
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: different sources. I think.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely different. And when it comes to that
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: man or, he's he's moved our O line around just
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: you know, learning what they can do, right. But yeah,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: he's definitely learning our O line and putting them in
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: the best situations.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the big things that he does
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: do is that every single player is going to be
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: able to play multiple positions. Because, as you know, there
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: was a season goes on, this guy's out, this guy move,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: this guy to here, move this guy to here, guys.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So if you don't have that diversity, you're gonna be
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: a problem. What about the guys you're handing the ball
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: off too. Yeah, they've got a bad dude there in
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: camp Cook, don't you.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's definitely a guy on him camp Cook. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: he's Those two guys are gonna be pretty special for us.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: So those just being around them, they're great guys just
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: off the field. Just you can laugh with them and
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: just talk however long you need to. So it's definitely
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a good deal.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That's a huge part of today's game. Let's face it, man,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the way that roster turnover takes place, it's not like
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the old days where you build freshman, sophomore, junior. It's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: like pour the water in. It's an instant team. How
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: do you think you guys, what are you doing to
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: try to bring guys to make sure that you guys
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: are connected so when the stuff really gets going in
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: adversity invariably is going to hit when the season goes on,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: you're going to have it. How are you guys trying
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: to make sure that you are together.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Just being with each other outside of football. It's probably
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the biggest thing. It's understanding, like you know, everybody operates,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: but just enjoying the time with each other, having the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: guys over going, you know, like fishing or bowling, all
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: that type of stuff. So it's definitely been. I say,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: with all the chransfer as we've had come in, we're
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: pretty close.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: You like the bowl cit again?
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Bowl bowl? Oh yeah, I can bowl.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Get more bowlers, there's more. This stuns me how many
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: bowlers there are out there?
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: With the ball?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I got my own ball.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I was going. You have a ball carrier, Yeah, the wheels, yeah,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you'll bring you have a ball, carry your shoes.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I don't have own ses, but you rent.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: He wears his own shoes. He doesn't even say so, yeah,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: does it do this? Or you go straight?
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Hey?
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Curves?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't curl. It curves, it does curve. Is there
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: average if you were to play on a consistent basis,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: would be about what you two hundred?
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Guys, I'm two hundred. My uh my highest side bowl
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: is two forty five?
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Wow? Really?
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: You ever hit a seven ten split? Uh?
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: No?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: No? Yeah?
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: How how did you get into bowling?
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Good question?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: My dad he has a he has his own balls,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: so he has like three balls.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So he's got the cases too that he brings in.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that got like the thing
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and he's bringing like he's dragging like two.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't bowl anymore, but when you know, when
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: we go bowl, he'll bring them. But my bowling boys back, you.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Know, Das, Oh you didn't bring it with him.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I have to get a shift.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get that. Send somebody, send Dusty Rutlets put
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Dusty rutligs on.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: So have you have you bowled here yet? Yeah?
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I bowled with d J. Ebs and oh yeah, Ry
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: and Prince and all those guys probably before we left
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: for our break.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: So Braid's bowling too, and Prince Prince is like where
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: they do?
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Were like, have they bowled before or this was their
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: first time?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Like they they didn't have the rubber bumpers in for
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: those guys. You're sure yeah they did. Did you did
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: you clean them? I mean, did you just knock them
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: all out when you bowled against those guys or did
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: they beat you?
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: No?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I won, Yeah I bowled one seventy.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: You had won seventy?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was pretty good.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. See I didn't know that I didn't know you
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: were bowler.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like bowling. I like play golf. I just got
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: my clothes up here.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: So it's an athlete. How many strikes in a row
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: have you done?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I think I've probably went all except for one.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: I had like a two ninety at one time.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: No, not to ninety. Well I've I've.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Had you got close? Yeah close, you sniffed it? Yeah? Yeah,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: oh you're well. I mean so you've been you've been
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: over to Keglers. That's where the bowling alley had bowling
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: alley down there, So you get some wings upstairs and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you go downstairs and do the Yeah, that's a hell
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: of the deal, sir. Huh. Things you learn on three
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: guys before the game. Dude's a bowler.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: It's not the environment right now in college sports to
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: be adding teams. I think you could have a pretty
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: significant bowling team here.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: We might have talked to Ren right after that.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of dudes that roll in here and
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: say they bowl.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Right after they had the softball team. We'll put the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: bow lead team out.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: There's not many guys, and you gotta build it. You
• 41:55
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  Speaker 4: I think now that we should, in all seriousness, have
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• 44:59
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• 45:22
  Speaker 1: This part so comfort food, just the warm, nice comfort.
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• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love barbecue. So when I got up here,
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you put it on the line.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: What what what particular item? Are we talking brisket? Are
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  Speaker 2: Brisket?
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  Speaker 1: Brisket? My guy here, butter butter? Okay, dude, all right,
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  Speaker 1: That we are going to do it. I'm not just
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  Speaker 4: To do that. All right, Okay, what did you.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: What did you learn about yourself high school? You transferred schools?
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: What do you learn about yourself as a person going
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: through all that?
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: I say, just kind of being able to lean find
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  Speaker 2: people I can lean on, which was my family. But
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: it wasn't a huge transition just because I grew up
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  Speaker 2: over there. I went to school probably five minutes away
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: from Emerson, so I knew all the kids there, So
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: it was definitely not a huge change, but just kind
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: of readjusting and finding yourself.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Brad. Do you know who went to Emerson out there?
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Basketballer Keante Ah?
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah he was.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: He was.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: He had a crowd every probably every home game, even
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: away games. But he's pretty good.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: He could play, he can play in the kind of
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: wild that you guys are both here now.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I told him. I seen he was
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: up here for a visit and I was like, you
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: gotta commit, you gotta Yeah.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the help on the recruit.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: We appreciate, appreciate any assistance you can get. Last night,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: we're recording Monday morning. So last night the Mountaineer baseball
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: team had that victory. Were you watching?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: I was, I've seen some clips too, but I definitely
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: need to go to the game.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean you might be able to get in.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I mean we just I think we could probably take
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: care of that. I would think we mentioned Ren Baker. Mind,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I think Ren could probably You think Rank could open
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: up is He's got like a couple of seats up there. Yeah,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I think he might be able to to sit you
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: down in there and become one of the people. I think.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: My point to that is, like, I spring game was
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the spring game, but you haven't seen the stadium, you know,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: field yet, But I think can you sense the passion
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: that West Virginia fans have?
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely can. Just the spring game, they did
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: the chant in the crowd. It wasn't a ton of
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't the stadium field, but I definitely
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: got chills on my arms. I kind of just felt
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: like so ready to just get it. But I've seen
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: I was watching a baseball game last night, and I've
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: seen the crowd just going crazy. So it's definitely something
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: looking I look up look forward to.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's Uh, Texas is so big that I
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: don't think you can kind of put this into perspective.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: But as you've probably learned and Rich preaches to you, guys,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: this is a small state. One point eight million people, right.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Metroplex is like just millions of people. And so but
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: it matters no matter what. Like you could go to
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: every single corner of this state, fifty five counties. You
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: could go from the top all the way down to
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: the bottom, and that flying WV is in somebody's house,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: on their yard, on their car. Uh, you just wear
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: on their clothes. It's just like it's a cult, dude.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: And uh and and they will and Pat will tell
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you that like once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer, Like
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: it's a tattoo, you're you're and you're gonna enjoy it. Yeah,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: you totally. You totally will enjoy it. So we're gonna
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: got it. So we got to get him fishing before
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: it's done. We'll get them up there to Steve's place,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: up chesting them Mountain Rancho. They'll just they actually, you
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: don't even need to put any bait on. The fishes go.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: You want us to jump in, we'll just jump in.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: They'll do that. We're getting them barbecue. I don't want
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: to bowl with him, no, because he's at a high
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: level shot, he's at a high level. I just like
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: I can't do that. Got to get him to the
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: baseball game, right, got to get him a tutor's biscuit.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: We've got a lot to do right, and he's under
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: practice underway going on.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: So you're you're probably in line again for a suit.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Have you gone over yet to Phil?
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: I have not. I probably need to.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's probably coming right, and so, uh,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: this will be a nice addition here. Like Phil, he'll
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: make you look good, He'll make you.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Look he knows Dan's yes.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, whenever you always trust a guy that comes
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: at you when he's got that tape measure over his neck. Yeah,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: like that. Those are the guys that like they know
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: now he doesn't wear socks a lot, Phil doesn't kind
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: of tapers his pants down. You into that show the ankle.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've done that a couple of times.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you go a little but pants are a
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: little bit short. You go up a little bit up.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: A little bitty stylish move. Yeah. You mentioned that you
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: watched Landman recently. You a big TV guy.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I love watching shows. Really Yeah, I'm actually looking for
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: a show right now.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Suggestions hoppy hoppy is over in that category? What would
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: you give them?
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: Oh? Gosh, I just finished. We just finished watching Hacks.
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that's that's a very well regarded series.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: You like, What did you watch most recent before Landman?
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: What was your favorite show slash series before that?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is definitely different, but it was Superman and Lois.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: It's yeah, we know, we know the pair.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: It was a like four season show, knocked him Out.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, call movies much movies.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I like movies.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, So like, are you in an action adventure guy?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Are you a what do you like?
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: It depends on the mood, but I'd probably say action
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: and adventure.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Uh huh. Yeah, So Spider Man series into that at all? Batman,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: You like those at all? Yeah?
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: I seen all of those. I actually rewatched all the
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Batman's like a month ago.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Joker pretty good. Mm hmmm hmm yeah, pretty solid.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Football road trip plane ride. What are you doing on
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: the plane?
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Sleep?
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: Read game, film, movie a movie.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: I just kind of want to get away from the
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: game a little, watch a movie. If I fall asleep,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: fall asleep.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: How do you know you're ready after watching tape during
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: the course of the week. How do you know, like
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: when you do your prep, go like, okay, I got it,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: shut it off, I know what I need to do.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I'd say just have a routine and having times where
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: you watch what you need to watch, and then you
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: get that done and you feel comfortable, and then you
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: can just keep going over whatever you need and probably
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: just going over to game plan.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Can you are you good enough? Are you a good
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: enough film watcher where you are watching it to the
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: point now where you're seeing defensive backs and safeties and
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: noticing tendencies that you can exploit.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like I've developed in that category a ton,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: And just having coach Ali here, I started meeting with him,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: so it's definitely he definitely helps me a lot, just
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: understanding like backers and after a week side or strong side,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: what the coverage is, all that type of stuff. But
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: when I watch film, I can definitely look for certain
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: things and that can help me during the game.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I know that during springball for a period of time
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: early Zach was running anything and everything all of the time.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Eventually Rich had said, we're not doing that, We're going base.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Just to get everyone totally into speak, like, how difficult
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: is it to play against the Zach Alley defense.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: It's definitely difficult. But once you've been in it, like
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I've been against his defense. This is going on my
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: year three.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, because scout team, you were running scout at
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: some point at Oklahoma.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Right, I never in scout team. But coach Venables has
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: the same defense as coach Alley, So I've been going
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: against his defense for two years now, so.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: You know it.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you watch films. Who was just talking about that?
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: So let's say we're in season. Is there you're watching
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: specific things by day of the week, is there? So
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Monday's this, and Tuesdays this and Wednesday's this. That's the
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: routine you're in.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Sunday after the game I watch our game,
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: and then I'll watch probably two or three games of
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: or maybe just two games of our opponent, and then
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Monday we'll go into quick.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: And then so that's just straight through watching all their
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: defen defensive place.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Just letting it play, just letting it go. If I
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: see something, I'll stop it, but just gonna feel how
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: they operate on defense. But and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: we have I have a routine of what I watch, Sir.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I would think that because of the diversity of defenses
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and the looks that Zach will give you that there's
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: probably not much during the course of a season that
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: an opposing team is going to do that you can't go, Okay,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: I see that. Have you reached that point?
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that there's not going to be a
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: team that we play that has his defense and does
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: like all the anxiety looks and pre snap rolling all that.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: So I definitely it would definitely help me in the
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: season just kind of be more settled and know what's coming.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Are you familiar we Are you familiar with Rich and
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the read option that he's largely credited for creating. Did
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you know that was him before? You got here.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't know he did. He created it, but I
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: was real familiar with it.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Mm hm. Talk about how he runs that aspect of
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: it and what how long did it take you because
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: everyone runs it a little bit different, like how how
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: does he do it a little bit different? And where
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: do you think you are right now in knowing that
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: whole concept?
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's it's definitely different how he runs it, but
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: just it's different because of his read keys he has
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: with the fronts and.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, without giving away the family secrets.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's definitely different. It wasn't a huge adjustment,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: but learning how he operates and what he thinks on
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: you know, read option was big part.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that you know that got created by
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: a mistake really and came up his quarterback at Glenville
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: State down the road, said you know we can read that. Yeah,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: and he went like, yeah you can. And then but
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the guy that and you'll meet the guy who was
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: his quarterback back then he does radio for us now
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: on the sideline and he but he wasn't super athletic,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: and he'd be the first to say I'm not super athletic.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: But then Rich went like, hmm, if he had a
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: super athletic dude that could do that. So then he
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: goes to Tulane and had Sean Brown who played in
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Went to Clemson, Woody Dandler who was superb
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: comes up here, Rashid and Pat Michigan shoelaces, same thing Arizona.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: So he's always had like dudes that, yeah, up and go.
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: It's her favorite pregame music.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: I listened to like R and B. It's different, but
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: I like to, I said on my mind, be chilled out. Yeah,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: I don't want.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: A couple of artists who would be who who? Who's
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: your guys?
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: This kind of newies are well not.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: Oh so it's not old. It's all like L Green.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: It's no, I don't know who that is.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: You just did you just throw Al Green in there?
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: You said R and B. I listened to like disrespectful.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, now, I mean to name the one, the
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: one R and B artist he knows Al Green?
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Not well, I mean there's other guys you could go to.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: It's like Mario, like Luke Chris. I listen to all
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: those type of guys.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not L Green. Yeah, I think you'd like it.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play L Green. I'm gonna play Al Green
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: before we leave. We can't do it now because like
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: youtubes would shut us off if we played any real music.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: But like you'll go like, yeah, I like that. Oh,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I've heard you know what you're gonna say. Oh, I've
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: heard that.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: He's trippling down on Al Green.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Gone with Barry White's on deck, Come with Barry White?
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Hopy have you ever heard of Barry White?
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: I've heard them.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I understand, I mean, I get it.
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: Al Green is still still alive and acting.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Is he really? Al Green's not dead?
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: He's eighty.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Bless his heart on Al Green on this show now
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden.
• 59:18
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• 59:20
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  Speaker 4: You what you just you just say things that occur
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  Speaker 1: Here's what we struggle with, Mike. As we do this
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: show more and more, we continue to date and age ourselves,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: and we'll ask people certain questions and they'll look at
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  Speaker 1: us like we got just.
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  Speaker 4: Throw in there.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Well, we said, like who was there? We asked if
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: they ever watched Seinfeld and they looked at us like.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: Asked that question, I think you did. You're the one
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: that's taking the Wii on this one.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Do you view us as old time out. I want
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to ask him a question. I just want a perception question.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: It's totally like I want complete on your quarterback. You
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: have to be honest, you have to have difficult conversations
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: certain times. I just want to Like when you came
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: in and went like a friend, guys are old.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I mean yeah he did, yeah, yeah, but
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: y'all's humor and the way you guys are were.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: You think we're do you think we're Do you think
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: that we're younger? Do you think we act younger that
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: we actually are? Do you think we act younger than
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: we actually are? Yes? See, that's all. That's probably the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: best we can do at this point.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: I will that was a good leading the witness by
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: him that that wouldn't have been his answer. He actually
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: that was a good leading.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: He's going to go back, going to go back and
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: talk to boys and go like, can you believe these
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: guys I talked to these old guys.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like he's gonna yeah, He'll go like, hey, I'm
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: gonna go do that three guys by I'm want to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: tell you what it's almost like going to a senior
• 1:01:53
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• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: He was gonna go back and say you this was
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: going great and was yeah, going really well.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Down.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: Hey, Mike, I'll just say it's it's great to have
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: you here in West Virginia. We love people moving to
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: West Virginia. This program is being rebuilt under Rich Rodriguez,
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: and uh, you'll find if you haven't already, that West
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: Virginians will welcome you and it's great to have you.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Here, sir, Thank you.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: This has been fun. Uh we got bowling. He's going bowling,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: all right. Barbecue, barbecue, fishing, fishing, tutors, biscuit. This is
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be a busy summer for it before you know what,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like, I mean, it's gonna be.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be on and we're gonna head over to
• 1:02:33
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• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 1:02:36
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• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. We're bringing Jade and Bray
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• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so that thing is the best thing was ever. Like,
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• 1:02:51
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