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3 Guys Before The Game - BRAWLTASTIC - WVU Punches Pitt (Episode 489) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  It's Sunday morning, and we're happy. Welcome in everybody. It's Three Guys
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  Before the Game, Episode number four hundred and eighty nine. As we quickly
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  moved toward five hundred episodes, the title of this one brawl Tastic WV Punches
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  Pit, Old School Football returns to Myelin Pushcar Stadium. I mean, heck,
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  I could have put on some late seventies early eighties music for that one.
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  thanks so much for being with us. I be Tony. That'd be
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  El Senatore. And the smiling man to the far side is the hopster.
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  WHOA. That was all good, so interesting game in so many different ways.
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  And we're gonna pull it apart for you and do the clothes. Do
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  the clothes on it because we gotta look ahead, not today, but coming
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  up this way. I mean, we okay, that one's in the book.
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  You put it in the book. Not gonna play it again. Big
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  twelve season opens up on Saturday, and here come the Red Raiders of Techs.
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  Not have a moment. Here's no, we're not We're not pushing that
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  because here's what we're gonna do. Because all week it was the biggest game,
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  biggest game in Neil Brown's career, A men's pressure on Neil Brown,
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  Neil Brown's jobs online, Neil Brown, Neil Brown, Neil Brown, Neil
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  Brown, Nel Brown, Neil Brown, Neil Brown, Neil Brown. Here's
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  what we're gonna do. Massive when great crowd overcame adversity in what was the
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  biggest game here in Morgantown in years. We've talked about it all last week.
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  You could feel it Friday Friday afternoon. It went to a new level.
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  That was big time game atmosphere, and we've seen a lot of those
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  over the decades here in Morgantown. That was one that was right up there.
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  That crowd was juiced, it was ready to go. It was loud
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  in there and you could feel it. And credit to that team, that
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  locker room, that coaching staff for rallying themselves when you're starting quarterback goes down
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  and finding a way with your backup game plan, with your defense that's been
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  much maligned. Stepping forth, I thought there's a lot to get into today
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  to talk about the performances that came through in a game that was that was
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  some would say ugly. I get it. The offensive performances on both sides
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  left a lot to be desired, I get it. But for West Virginia
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  to find a way to win that game in that environment, in front of
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  that crowd, kudos to that whole group. In the seminal Rock and Roll
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  Year of nineteen sixty nine, the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger
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  wrote and sang the song and they said, you can't always get what you
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  want, but if you try, sometimes you might find you get what you
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  need. You get what you need, and Neil Brown said, I'm liking
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  this. Keep going. Keep Neil Brown said in the press conference after the
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  game. It's been since November twenty fifth, twenty eleven specific date, since
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  the state of West Virginia and our fan base experienced a win that they've been
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  able to celebrate a win over Pittsburgh on the gridiron. And our state needed
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  this, our university needed this, our football program needed this. So this
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  is a huge win in a bunch of different levels, and we'll get too
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  different levels, but that's the word that stands at out to me is need.
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  Everybody needed this, and regardless of what it looked like, it was
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  a need that God fulfilled and that's gigantic. Well said, thank you,
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  agree, one hundred and two percent perfect. You're exactly right on the way
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  in. I was talking to a former Mountaineer running back under Johnson and he
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  said, Tony, said, Tony, that crowd was absolutely off the chart,
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  And I said, you know, I think that is because Mountaineer fans,
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  Mountaineer Nation collectively wants to win so bad and they're tired of not being
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  like it used to be. That they were saying, here we are,
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  We're ready to do our part to let you win this game. We were
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  ready to sell everything out and do this. That's why I think it was
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  at that level. I mean, the shots from up top and I'm sure
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  you guys saw it from the Comax blimp when they were showing the tailgating area.
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  It was it was. It was just you know, as far as
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  you could see people and the weather I mean came out of just like studio
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  casting, right. It couldn't have been any better. And so it was
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  the perfect It was the perfect atmosphere, the perfect execution. Yes, were
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  their games. Are their games that are more pleasant to the eye. Yeah,
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  you could say that, you have to say that. Well, no,
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  you could know, you could say that, but the only reason why
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  you play is to get one more point than the other team. And if
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  it was three to two, you'd still go like, we win the game,
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  because the only thing that matters at the end is who gets the win.
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  And so yeah, we'll pull apart why that game was that game?
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  I mean, we'll see a text here later I'll say, well, no,
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  I'll use it right now. If you do the math and center.
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  I know you've got numbers coming up here. Did you realize that filled your
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  Covic the quarterback from Pitt actually completed more passing yards to WV defensive backs on
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  returns than he did downfield. Yeah, they ate him up and that we'll
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  get into it because one of the matchups we hide it that last weeks.
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  That offensive line, the pit offensive line was going to struggle westvirgin You made
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  it struggle more. So we'll get into that a little bit. You know.
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  It was another good example of how TV executives have done a wonderful job
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  with college sports of getting this right and making national conferences instead of regional They're
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  right on this. It's going in the perfect direction. Get teams that are
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  further away rather than closer. Another example of how that's just it makes a
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  lot of sense. Everybody makes a lot of sense that those two schools are
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  not playing all the time in the same conference. Just kind of a just
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  a malaise over there, right, I mean, what are we doing?
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  Right? Another example of get it together college athletics and get these teams back
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  together a little bit. Right, So you think about that neither of the
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  teams obviously is nationally ranked right now. But where if you were flipping through
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  that game last night, among the games that you were watching, and you're
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  just going boom, boom, boom. Instantly the crowd captured your ear.
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  Sure there was this buzz and you go like, oh, what's this.
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  Well, there's a lot of gold, a lot of blue out there.
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  Wait wait, and the place is filled up, and so you go like,
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  well, what is this And it's like, I don't know what the
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  number will do nationally, but it was a hammer fest and it was it
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  was there And we talked about this a lot yesterday on our broadcast. Is
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  that all week? What was the national narrative? Oh, no games this
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  week? There's no games this week, but next week? No games this
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  week. That's when they normally have good games. And there were games all
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  over the games all over the place, and there always are and there always
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  are. Okay, So nobody nationally cares about Kansas State Missouri. You know
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  what. That was a great game with an historic finish or other games like
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  that. I mean that if you like college football, which we do,
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  then for God's sake, enjoy the game. Okay. So to my larger
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  point, which you've heard me scream about, and all due respect to national
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  guys, we have friends that are national guys. We do national broadcasts at
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  times as well. That's that's my whole point with college sports. You can't
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  just listen to what the national TV guys want to tell you about what's important
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  in college football today. They don't know the answer to that. This what
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  you saw in Morgantown showed there's a market for the regionality games that matter to
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  two family. I don't care if nobody in Wyoming watched that game. Don't
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  care if anybody in California even knew it was being played. Was that a
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  big deal for Morgantown, for the state, for both fan bases for that
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  night? Was that good college football? Was that good college sports? Yeah?
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  So I don't care that nobody on TV was talking about the backyard probably
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  yesterday. They don't know everything. They're not the definitive source on what people
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  can like. And I thought Mountaineer fans in particular showed that exact thing,
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  right. Don't care what y'all are saying, don't care what's going on with
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  the Georgia South Carolina game. This game mattered to the college sports landscape yesterday,
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  even if nobody on national TV wanted to talk about it. And Rant
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  well agreed. I think we're all in agreement here this morning, all in
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  agreement. So let's pull it apart. Yes, some numbers, Boy,
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  those Pro Football Focus guys this week really had to work late. They turn
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  it, they turn it around. We'll have some more coming throughout throughout the
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  week. Let's let's go through a couple of things. First, we gotta
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  do numbers. Now you want to keep doing overview numbers? Numbers, and
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  then we'll go back into some other Well, we're gonna get an overview stuff.
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  When we're getting an overview stuff in just a second. Once we start
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  getting into these numbers. But first let's uh, let's do this thing so
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  I check your numbers. Oh yeah, oh yeah, let's jump into the
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  analytics portion of the Show's time to jump into the numbers. As you may
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  us all of our numbers. Conley CPA group, well, actually Pro Football
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  by yeah, absolutely, Conley cp A group. All right, So what
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  are the what's the biggest what's the biggest thing you want to start with here?
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  Well, I'm gonna go we'll come back on the overall grades. We'll
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  do that kind as a separate part. Let's talk about some specific niche numbers
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  here to start, and I want to do kind of I want to take
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  this first category and do what we're doing with this game that it's you can't
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  build something up so big and then just kind of move on. It's all
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  right, time to turn the page to go to the next thing. You
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  need to sit and dwell on it a little bit. Let's do that with
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  the interception number. We spend a lot of time this summer talking about last
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  year's West Virginia team only had four interceptions all season. They'd average ten per
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  year under Neil Brown previous to last year, and they just didn't create enough
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  last year. And you've heard Neil Brown talk about that as well. So
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  let's stop for just a minute and appreciate how this defensive backfield in particular is
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  doing when it comes to taking the ball away. They now have five picks
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  through three games, and Beanie has been a ball hawk. Should add two
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  more, and he'd tell you that right hit him in the hand. Should
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  have seven. But let's just take what they've actually done. Five picks through
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  three games. So you've surpassed last year's total now in three different games.
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  And oh, by the way, don't look now, but you're tied for
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  eleventh nationally and interceptions. So for a category that we screamed about, like
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  you gotta get interceptions, somebody's gotta do. We gotta get back to doing
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  what you did again. Last year was the aberration when it came to defense.
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  Previous to that, this defensive unit had been very good. It had
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  been good at taking the ball away. So far through three games it has
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  done that. Five picks, eleventh nationally. And how about our guy in
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  Malachai Rouffen, how about the friend of the program. How about that athletic
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  pick he had at the end. It was all incredible, up over the
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  top, one outstanding. So credit to the defensive backs for the interceptions and
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  making plays. Now that comes with it. They're not the only group out
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  there just getting picks right. Some of that is because of the pressure.
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  We talked on Thursday's preview. I highlighted a specific matchup against their right guard,
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  the true freshman who really struggled. He didn't play last night. We
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  talked Thursday that if he didn't, then they had to put the backup in
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  or slide a guy by the name of Jason Collier back over. You're still
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  okay, you still have a favorable matchup. That line is going to have
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  trouble. And I specifically said there's two guys to watch that should have big
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  games based on where they line up and where their success come from. The
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  first is Trey Lathan. He is getting better each game and you can see
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  it. He's been a guy that's been applying pressure. I thought that he
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  had a favorable matchup on that him on the left side, the right side
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  of the pit offensive line. Lathan was fantastic yesterday's last night's game, second
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  highest graded defender for West Virginia, number one. He was credited with two
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  of West Virginia's five hits on Jerkovic, including that one where I don't know
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  how Jerkovic got back up. Lathan absolutely hit him square in the chat.
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  Jerkovic just threw that hail marry up. He's lucky that one wasn't picked,
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  so Trey Lathan came through. The other guy we said to watch was Sean
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  Martin. Martin was credited last night with two of West Virginia's four quarterback hurry
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  so that came to fruition that offensive line. Phil Jerkovic really struggled last night.
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  West Virginia helped make him struggle, and a lot of that started up
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  front, and we'll get into more guys up front that had nice games,
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  but a lot of that pressure helped lead to the interceptions. Guys were in
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  the right spot, coverage was good, and that pressure forced Jerkovic into some
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  bad decisions. So credit that whole defense on the interception part of it.
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  One other just stat like Nichee stat and go over to the offensive side.
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  We've talked how effective West Virginia has been running left with Wyatt Milam over there
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  today or last night. They were effective both ways. They went around the
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  left end and the right end thirty four yards rushing to each side, so
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  they were very balanced. Went outside there forty two percent of your rushing yards
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  though, came around the outside. That's a little bit different. West Virginia
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  had been making a right up the middle. Pit tried to stop that.
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  West Virginia adjusted and went outside. Start talk more about this. A lot
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  of credit to the tight ends there as well. The offensive lineman had some
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  good numbers, the two tight ends. The nice little wrinkle that Neil put
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  in with the double tight end motion where Traylan Davis was coming across first kicking
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  one way Cole Taylor, and behind him kicking the other. Those created multiple
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  holes. So Blaine Stewart over, they're doing a good job with those.
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  Of course, Blaine Steward doing a great job with him. So credit those
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  guys. They did a nice job. And the outside running was very effective
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  in this game. Yeah, absolutely, that's a good point. Yeah.
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  When again I talked Under this morning, he also on those runs to the
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  outside, said he said, hey, Tony, I said, yeah,
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  Under, he said, they're running don Neilan's old fifty eight, fifty nine.
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  Gave me fifty eight, give me, give me the fifty gave me
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  old fifty eight. I said, yeah, Well whatever it takes. Whatever
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  it takes, one other number before we move on. Our got our first
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  tight end touchdown catch, first one since twenty to the tight end Cole Taylor.
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  As we thought, the summer continues to be more involved and more of
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  a weapon in the passing game. Yeah, it certainly does, yep Street.
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  Speaking of going back to Trey Lathan on defense, do you think West
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  Virginia made a pretty good pick up there out of Gulliver Prep. CJ.
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  Donaldson and Trey Lathan high school teammates Lathan was the first guy that West Virginia
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  was recruiting, and then they saw Donaldson. They said, WHOA, what
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  do we got here? And at that point I think CJ's offer was two
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  lane and so that's how he got to West Virginia. So he got two
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  guys from the same high school shining on both sides of the ball. Yep,
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  did great, Tray was great. He and he just continues to play,
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  but that he took an advantage and exploited that match up along that pit
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  offensive line where they struggled all night. Grade Wise on the offensive line,
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  either you want to do it as a team, as a as a group,
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  or you want to do it individually. Who who had a big night?
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  Yeah, the second highest graded offensive player for West Virginia was Treylan Davis,
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  third was Cole Taylor. As we met those tight ends having having some
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  effect, then Ac Frasier, Doug Nestor right there, mylem in the seventh
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  spot, Yates in the eight spots. So as you would expect, those
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  offensive linemen did a great job. That's one of those games. Since we're
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  on the stats portion of this brought to you by the CONLEYCPA Group. Thank
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  you Coley Group's fantastic. I thought if I didn't look at the numbers,
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  and I didn't even look at those Pro Football Focus grades, and I didn't
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  look at the box score, hop I would have walked out of there saying
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  I thought that offensive line for West Virginia did a great job. You obviously
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  had a very limited package of plays that you were ready to go with Nico.
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  In the passing game, the pit defenders and we'll talk about this in
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  the preview coming up Thursday, because it is a concern West Virginia's receivers how
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  much Pit bodied them at the line, and West nine struggled to get off
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  of that. We'll come back to that. So you're really your passing game
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  was basically non existent. You found a way to run it successfully enough to
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  get the win, but the actual raw numbers were not very good. Rushing
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  the football. You didn't get to two hundred. You only average three yards
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  per carry. That stunned me all night. We referenced that during our broadcast
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  a bunch I kept saying, they're running it for more than three yards of
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  carry, aren't they? It looked it were running it well, I think,
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  And so the numbers didn't match what your eyes told you. Sometimes they
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  do, they back up what you saw. To me, that was different
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  because I thought that offensive line in the running game was very effective. CJ
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  goes over one hundred, but the raw data did not back that up necessarily.
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  That's a great point. I think what you did get at times was
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  plays. You got key plays, like key runs when you needed it.
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  Uh. And you know a run I'm thinking about is Nico Markuel, which
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  nobody expected him to run, and the previous times in the game he tried
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  to run, it didn't get anywhere where. It faked the hand on third
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  and six, third and six, and so he was I don't mean to
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  know still your story, but he read, he read the defensive end who
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  was not watching him at all, crashing on the middle right, and he
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  kept it on third and six and got the first This was just a great
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  what I'm refering to, which just was just a great play. So what
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  what stood out to me was again in an ugly game, but guys making
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  plays. So if you just look at the stats and maybe if you just
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  kind of generally watched the game, he said, Wow, that wasn't and
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  it was. But you know what you need you need guys to make plays.
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  How often have we talked about that? And you just got that.
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  Whether it's the interception, a key run, a key pass by Mark Joel
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  at a key spot in the game, that's what you got. And a
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  great catch on that pass by Preston Fox. Yes, yeah, Brow was
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  high. Fox had a guy draped all over him. He goes up and
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  catch it. That's the whole thing, hop, it's guys make Guys have
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  to make plays. And West Virginia did. They kept doing it all night
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  and that and the defense stood up and did its job, and the offense
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  did enough, did enough to get you home. Not only did enough,
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  but like coach Bound said, with Nico markiol And talk about a spot Tony,
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  I mean four plays into the game storybook, he's got to come in
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  and what's the backup get during the week twenty five percent percent of practice snaps
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  and he's got to come in, sell out crowd, ABC, the starters
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  hurt and got to come in and play. And then your playbook comes down
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  pretty significantly. So good job on the play calling, Good job by Nico.
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  Just don't just just don't lose, basic, don't don't lose. Don't
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  lose it, and he didn't. He didn't lose it. He had the
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  fumble. There was a mistake there, but he did not lose the game.
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  I think he gets a game ball for what he did given the circumstance
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  in that game. He's been really valuable as a long reliever. Excuse me,
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  he's now two and oh out of the bullpen. You know, sometimes
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  your starter gets something happens to your starter early and you gotta you gotta look
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  at your bullpart. Right, you're the closer, you're the setup guy.
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  Gotta have some you know, you got middle guys. Sometimes you need some
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  long receivers. You're almost like a second starter where you got to come in
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  out of the game. It's an unexpected get a blister on your pitching finger,
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  have to come out after two outs in the first Sometimes it's a nail,
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  sometimes it's a weird nail. Yeah, gotta come in, gotta go
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  to the bullpen. So he's two and oh and doing that, got the
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  win at Oklahoma State as a starter as the starter air quotes and then came
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  in in this game, So credit them. Can I give you some numbers?
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  So we were You're right, you look at the final stats on the
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  rushing and you say we only ran for three yards of carry, so they
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  did have fifteen negative fifteen yards. So Donaldson and Anderson rushed for one sixty
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  four on thirty seven carries net. That's what they got. So that is
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  four point four if you just do Donaldson and Anderson. If you do take
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  away the negative fifteen, Nico had a minus five and the team had a
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  minus ten, you get it to four four, which is solid, which
• 21:21
  is solid. Excuse me, I had to cough, what eout? You
• 21:25
  got to open that? How about it? Haze and a field goal?
• 21:29
  Huge? I mean that thing, that thing was it started out and it
• 21:33
  didn't It wasn't a big hook, but it kind of started going to the
• 21:36
  right and then just held its line and snuck right in. I didn't realize
• 21:38
  when it was happening in real time that it was that close. When I
• 21:42
  looked at the reply, I went like, whoa, that was like a
• 21:45
  golf shot. Did you see off topic? Stunningly? Did you see how
• 21:49
  bad Iowa Steak got screwed on that field goal? Yeah? It was in
• 21:53
  right. They had a field goal that went in. Officials waved it off.
• 21:56
  Why they missed it? They're looking up. They said it was outside
• 22:00
  of the pope, outside of the post. It was inside. It should
• 22:03
  have had a field goal as the late what do you? Harris said,
• 22:07
  too high? Too high, it was too high. Here's another number.
• 22:11
  This isn't down in the weeds number. But I thought this was really significant.
• 22:14
  Hop I was screaming about this during our broadcast when it happened. I
• 22:18
  think you owe a thanks to patting our doozy for getting three instead of seven.
• 22:25
  First first possession, first drive they had West Virginia but fuddled. I
• 22:27
  mean they were, they were mulching, and it was not only effective that
• 22:33
  they were gaining yards, but that way you were about to take the soul
• 22:36
  out of that defense earlier because there is nothing and we've seen it, we've
• 22:38
  seen it when West Virginia has been able to run the ball where you just
• 22:41
  say, hey, we're gonna run it. You can't do it about a
• 22:44
  boom here we come. And that was that first drive. They were mashing
• 22:47
  West Virginia and they get all the way down inside the five yard line,
• 22:51
  down a couple of yards away, and you're running the ball that effectively,
• 22:55
  and you decide, why why did you do that? Why why do you
• 22:59
  think it is naive? He's criticized all the time for punting in plus territory
• 23:07
  like that. It's a big thing. I thought, I said it right,
• 23:10
  you walked your mind. Was a huge moment because West Virginia had no
• 23:14
  wins on that drive defensively, and they were on their heels and you could
• 23:18
  see they were starting to go, oh my god, what's happening here?
• 23:19
  And then they got a win. That's a win for that defense to hold
• 23:22
  the three instead of seven. That never mind just the math of it that
• 23:26
  you're in the game were But I thought that was a massive mistake by Pat
• 23:30
  and Ardozy and helped West Virginia significantly. So that that plus four points that
• 23:36
  he gained out of that, I thought that was big. Right, you're
• 23:37
  right about that. At the time last night, I mean it's very early
• 23:40
  in the game. It's a first drive and some of us sat there and
• 23:41
  going no, no, you take the points. And you were beside yourself
• 23:44
  saying no, you're mashing West Virginia. Go for it, get to touchdown.
• 23:47
  And Neil Brown said after the game, that was a win. Yeah,
• 23:49
  think about that. Change the mindset. It wasn't just about the plus
• 23:53
  four points he gained by not it was mindset for that defense that was getting
• 23:57
  mulched to be able to go over on the sideline and high five and say
• 24:00
  that's a win. We stopped and bowed up there, and then they fixed
• 24:03
  what their alignment issues were and they come back. But think about this.
• 24:06
  They had sixty seven yards on their first drive. Okay, sixty seven yards
• 24:11
  on their first drive, all running, but never never yet they never threw
• 24:14
  it. And with two twenty five to go in the fourth quarter last night,
• 24:19
  Pitt had sixty eight total yards in the second half. Well, and
• 24:23
  you know, Tony, that first drive Hammond, they number six. They
• 24:26
  wanted to get him going, and Hammond had probably like thirty five forty yards
• 24:30
  in that first drive and didn't do anything after that. Yeah, I'll be
• 24:33
  interested when we go over there this week to talk with those guys what adjustment
• 24:36
  they did make when they went back out there, because as you said,
• 24:40
  I mean there were big running lanes on Pitt's first drive. They were gashing
• 24:42
  West Virginia. SoSE something something upfront got moved, which helped, obviously,
• 24:48
  Tony. I thought Neil Brown said that they did. They were not surprised
• 24:52
  by what Pitt did on that drive. I don't think they were surprised about
• 24:56
  what they were trying to do. I think may be surprised with how they
• 24:57
  were lining up to it, because they weren't. Those were big runs,
• 25:00
  Those weren't little. One other thing, you know, West Virginia holding Pit
• 25:03
  to three and a half yards per rush if take out the sacks four was
• 25:07
  critical. Remember how we talked about the play action and they want to get
• 25:11
  into play action, and I thought, again they were. They were predictable
• 25:14
  last night when they were going to that, but they only got to twenty
• 25:17
  five percent of their players were play action and the running game wasn't working like
• 25:21
  they wanted it to, so those weren't nearly as effective. He was not
• 25:23
  efficient in the play action game, and that part of their their DNA was
• 25:29
  totally taken away by West Virginia. I asked Neil Friday afternoon, I said,
• 25:33
  when Pit loses, why do they lose? He said, they lose
• 25:38
  when they go into the red zone and have to settle for field goals.
• 25:44
  Boom. They lose when they turn the ball over well, boom, and
• 25:49
  there you go. West Virginia outscored them ten to nothing on points off of
• 25:53
  turnovers, and you got an odd game. I mean, like you look,
• 25:56
  I'm looking at these stats right now. And if you didn't know,
• 26:00
  if it didn't say full game stats and you thought it said first quarter,
• 26:03
  you'd go like, okay, I get it. Total first downs between the
• 26:07
  two teams for the night twenty six, which is normally what one team has
• 26:12
  on a good night. But West Virginia had fourteen to Pits twelve. And
• 26:18
  look at this. You know Pitt's defense is designed to stop the run.
• 26:22
  Correct, So in the last two games against Pitt, West Virginia's will run
• 26:26
  for one ninety and one fifty one. So there you go. We've seen
• 26:32
  the evolution of this running game at West Virginia, which when Neil first got
• 26:37
  here, they had to start from scratch. There wasn't what you needed up
• 26:40
  front. And how many night games would we come in here and go like,
• 26:44
  can they get to if they can you think they can get to eighty?
• 26:47
  Like we weren't even going one hundred, right, It was seventy five
• 26:51
  or eighty in the first year. Then it moved to one hundred, then
• 26:52
  it quickly jumps to and that's that's the rebuild of the offensive line, and
• 26:56
  we've said that when well, the first thing Neil had to do when he
• 26:59
  got here was was established that offensive line. And you took some hits early
• 27:03
  because you were playing the babies, right. You had to play Zach Frasier
• 27:06
  right from minute one when he stepped on Campens. You had to put Wyatt
• 27:08
  Milin in there for many minute one. But now what are the what are
• 27:11
  those guys? Now? Yeah? Those are those the men up front?
• 27:15
  Ye, Thomas Remac you had to put in early because of the injury committer.
• 27:18
  He's turned out to be very good, and he he's the one guy.
• 27:21
  He's very very good, but he doesn't get the discussion because of the
• 27:23
  three West Virginia's upfront. But Brandon Yates is holding his own in there this
• 27:26
  year, right, he's taken a step forward. Let's let's do some more
• 27:30
  numbers here. I know we're technically out of the Conley CPA just keeps going
• 27:37
  version. Sure. So this defense, you know, we saw it struggle
• 27:41
  at times early on, and what do we say, hop it looks like
• 27:42
  it's going to have to be a defense that that bows up in the right
• 27:45
  zone holds you to three, not seven, it creates some turnovers, check
• 27:49
  and check, and then on third down step up right, then gain a
• 27:52
  couple of yards on firsts that stop him on third down, fourth or fourth
• 27:56
  down and get off the field. Here's some numbers on third down that I
• 27:59
  found in from last night. First of all, the average third down distance
• 28:03
  to go for Pitt was six point nine yards, so they were in third
• 28:07
  and seven on average. That offense with Djerkovic at the helm and Frank signeti
• 28:11
  collin the plays is not built to be third and seven, So advantage West
• 28:15
  Virginia. Then, when Pitt wanted to run it on third down, which
• 28:18
  it was more comfortable doing, they had seven third down rushes that only went
• 28:22
  for ten yards. He held him to one four yards rush on third down
• 28:27
  right. So those are the numbers that back up what you saw as you
• 28:30
  make them go third and long, that offense isn't built for it, and
• 28:33
  then you locked them up when they tried to run on third down. Very
• 28:37
  opportunistic defense last night by West Virginia defense. Fantastic effort. And let me
• 28:41
  just give you some names because these guys oftentimes don't get mentioned. But here
• 28:45
  are the final stats on the stops Trey Lathan finished as the leader in tackles.
• 28:49
  He had eight plus a TfL had a pass break up. Anthony Wilson,
• 28:53
  newcomer, had seven tackles, including six solo. They did not put
• 28:56
  on the stat sheet the face mask. Who that was? That was an
• 29:02
  ouch Beanie, but he came right back and made plays. Beanie Bishops seven
• 29:07
  tackles, including the pick that he returned for forty League Koba seven tackles.
• 29:11
  Jared Bartlett had five. Hershey McLaurin and Fata Molba each had five as well.
• 29:18
  Mike Lockhart continues to make some big plays. He had a tackle and
• 29:21
  a half kind of line of scrimmage, so he has come on. Tomowa
• 29:26
  dur A gi A finished up with three tackles, including he had one big,
• 29:30
  big time stop. Sean Martin had two tackles on the night you mentioned
• 29:33
  his ability to pressure get hurries. You remember that the one of his two
• 29:37
  tackles, he came from the backside and tracked down. Yes, who hoppy
• 29:42
  that was? That was a man. And then that gets back to like
• 29:45
  individuals, Tony, You're mentioning all those names, and each one of those
• 29:48
  guys stood out and making a key stop or a key player or a TfL
• 29:52
  during that game. Let's do a couple more here. Let's highlight some guys
• 29:56
  continue on this defense because I think or were you done? That's all?
• 30:00
  That's all you had. I didn't realize one cat from a Pitt Donovan McMillan
• 30:04
  at eighteen tackles. Oh, I wouldn't realize nine solos and nine assists.
• 30:11
  One of the things that we keep asking, all right, who's gonna be
• 30:14
  the playmaker? Who's going to be the playmaker? You mentioned Lockhart one and
• 30:17
  a half TFLs and one of those was a big boy play. He just
• 30:19
  flat busted through there. But here's something else to maybe watch going forward.
• 30:23
  We've talked about this guy, Jared Bartlett last night. The numbers don't necessarily
• 30:29
  reflect this, but especially at the end of the game, did you see
• 30:32
  what Pitt had to do to him. They ended up having to slide the
• 30:33
  running back to whatever side Bartlett was on because he was eating up both tackles.
• 30:38
  He looked like he did against Virginia Tech that game two years ago.
• 30:42
  If he turns into that consistent pass rusher and you've got Martin and now Lathan's
• 30:48
  coming. Now you're starting to piece together some playmakers. But I thought that
• 30:51
  was really noticeable that Pitt Late went, oh god, we can't stop ten.
• 30:53
  We need help over on number ten. You mentioned Molba that he stret
• 31:00
  to play a little bit as well. Here's a pretty good free agent acquisition
• 31:03
  out of the portal. Here's the stat that Pro Football Focus keeps You guys
• 31:06
  have referenced stops a couple of times. Here's how they define a stop.
• 31:10
  It's a tackle that constitutes a failure for the offense. One of the lead.
• 31:15
  The two leaders last night in that category for West Virginia lead Koba,
• 31:18
  No surprise, he'll be there every night. He'll leave that. Mulba had
• 31:21
  three of those. He had three stops. He was the highest graded defender
• 31:25
  last night. So you're starting to get multiple guys. We asked that question
• 31:27
  when they said we're gonna play nine defensive line, we might play eleven defensive
• 31:32
  line. Okay, it's fine. You know Shawn Martin can make plays.
• 31:34
  Who else is a playmaker? You're starting to see some guys inch up there
• 31:37
  a little bit and make plays. It kind of wins a little bit because
• 31:41
  I can't help myself rolling around as I woke up this morning. I thought,
• 31:47
  problem here Saturday. You're not gonna be able to rotate those linemen like
• 31:51
  you have been because Texas text is going to go fast. Yeah, and
• 31:55
  not let it's a great point. I let you make the defensive substitutions.
• 31:57
  Yeah. Yeah, we'll get into match up Sursday. Because there's some things
• 32:00
  that tech does. There's a reason they give Westernian problems. But you're right,
• 32:04
  that's gonna be. That's gonna be one, no doubt. I think
• 32:06
  you did a great job. You got any more numbers excellent, I got
• 32:08
  a bunch more, but that's good. We'll kind of weave in as through.
• 32:10
  You give me one more just to make me feel good play. You
• 32:14
  put the glasses back on for it. Yeah, this is you know.
• 32:16
  It wasn't a ton of snaps. And Neil will probably talk about this more
• 32:21
  when you go back. And I know people always joke when the coaches say,
• 32:23
  I gotta go watch the film, But there's a reason why you say
• 32:25
  that. You can see so much more. Marcus Floyd didn't play a ton
• 32:28
  of snaps, ended up as your third highest graded defender. Talked about it.
• 32:31
  Will he matter when he comes back in and you know a couple of
• 32:35
  times I thought the TV broadcast did a great job of showing a couple of
• 32:39
  angles from behind Jerkovic on that one interception by Beanie Bishop, and it showed
• 32:44
  how West Virginia limited and cut the field and pushed him into that one that
• 32:47
  quarter of the field and Djerkovic's trying to look deep and how much more muddled
• 32:52
  it is than for those of us that we're looking down on it and say,
• 32:54
  well, why didn't you throw it to that guy's wide open? Well,
• 32:57
  you're trying to look through all of those defenders, and it was a
• 33:00
  terrible throw. He sailed it, but West Virginia had every level of that
• 33:04
  covered, including Beanie Bishop behind the play and in front of the deep receiver
• 33:07
  to step right in there. Speaking of B Squared, I think probably the
• 33:12
  tackle of the year on the punt return when MJ. Devonshire of Pitt late
• 33:16
  in the game caught it at his helmet and Malachi, rather than using a
• 33:21
  conventional tackle approach which just went totally pro wrestling, picked him up and was
• 33:25
  body slamming him and he didn't realize that his teammate was coming in there,
• 33:29
  and he rusted him. Yeah, that was that was well done. So
• 33:34
  I think what helped West Virginia on that and our guy Malachi maybe because that
• 33:37
  because because I started screaming immediately a flag, don't throw a flag? Which
• 33:43
  flag comes? I thought, because I thought Malachi was going to get it
• 33:45
  for lifting the guy and jamming him. Thank goodness, some bonehead play by
• 33:51
  Pitt absolutely just shoves a West vir Virginia defender late right in the back,
• 33:57
  right in front of the official. I think it took his eyes off the
• 33:59
  play by Maliki. Flag comes in on Pitt on that one and and and
• 34:02
  Pitt. I mean West Virginia was cleaner on the play. Even it was
• 34:05
  an ugly game with penalties. Compared to Pit, Pitt it a lot more.
• 34:07
  I don't forget what I don't see the number? Was it like nine
• 34:09
  to four? What was it, Tony, I'm looking these numbers aren't right?
• 34:14
  Hang on one seconds? Well, I should have asked when we did.
• 34:17
  I literally was just looking at penalties. Yeah, so Pitt had nine
• 34:20
  for sixty five. West Virginia had four for fifty two. Yeah, and
• 34:23
  they had and they were they had bad penalties at key times too. What
• 34:29
  did Neil say preseason? What did they work on all off season, you
• 34:31
  know that, reducing penalties, reducing turnovers, being more physical, check check
• 34:38
  check. They had and Pitt had that key motion penalty. Remember they were
• 34:42
  ran up to the line, We're gonna sneak and then they had emotion penalty
• 34:45
  and fourth and one became fourth and six and there was execution. Yeah,
• 34:49
  by the way, they got I know that we don't. When I mentioned
• 34:52
  Pitt last night, Brad yelled at me, said, we don't care about
• 34:55
  Pitt. But Pitt's got some real they got some real problems. I mean,
• 34:58
  they have some real issues. Da covid Is I almost felt bad for
• 35:01
  him. I mean, you looked at him on the sideline. I mean
• 35:04
  he's he's defeated. He's a defeated guy. And you can't put it all
• 35:08
  on him. The quarterback gets too much credit, too much blame. But
• 35:10
  I mean he's getting crushed back there. But he was just also just making
• 35:15
  bad decisions under pressure. And but they got they got real issues and a
• 35:20
  tough schedule ahead Carolina this week, yeah, but North Carolina this week.
• 35:24
  Yeah, and they got later on they gotta play, They gotta go to
• 35:27
  the Duke. They got to play, notre dame. I mean they got
• 35:29
  issues. Yeah, you know what, I still don't care about them and
• 35:30
  their issues. On the next thing, I understand it. I'm just I'm
• 35:35
  just saying, bleeding heart, No, I don't feel sorry for him.
• 35:39
  I'm just I'm just acknowledging I would think they have some issues. By the
• 35:44
  way, I didn't realize he did this, but this is well done.
• 35:47
  What no, Brad, just I've dismissed you. Greg Carey of Metronews WV
• 35:53
  metronews dot com does this in game live update thing? Have you ever you
• 35:59
  followed that in the game. He does a really nice job. He does
• 36:00
  a great job, So you can check that out one if you want to
• 36:04
  either do it, you can. The thing about it is, even though
• 36:06
  he's live updating during the game, you don't need to necessarily look at it
• 36:08
  during the game. It's after the game because it puts everything back into perspective
• 36:13
  as you go back up. And I thought that was really well done.
• 36:15
  Hey, one last thing, just for a shout out one Oliver's straw playing
• 36:20
  after being in the boot. You can't keep an aw see down. Boot
• 36:22
  business is unfortunately too good for West Virginia right now. Oliver just gave his
• 36:25
  to Garrett Green there, so we got to get some information on Garrett's injury
• 36:29
  situation this week. But good to see Oliver's straw play. And then it's
• 36:31
  it's turning into the Malachi rough and show here. But how about what a
• 36:35
  heads up play by him on that punt that he downed inside the two,
• 36:38
  gets gets down on coverage, hop, turns around, finds the end zone,
• 36:44
  comes out, re establishes downs the ball. Yeah, great play.
• 36:46
  Great, I mean a great job by Rough and to handle it. That
• 36:51
  was really good. That block punt boy, so many things. I mean,
• 36:57
  block plaint didn't come back to hurt you. I don't see you about
• 37:00
  that. Yeah, thank goodness. So you would have remembered if it would
• 37:02
  have come back to hurt you. Yeah, it might might have been a
• 37:05
  pit I don't remember what. It's pretty good to you survived a fumble in
• 37:07
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• 37:10
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• 41:01
  Three people came up to me during the game and they said, why
• 41:05
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• 41:09
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• 41:22
  know, I'm keeping your brand up there. I think he took it.
• 41:24
  I think he bought it. I wouldn't. I wouldn't either. I said
• 41:28
  this to him. I M just try by you. But that's a bad
• 41:30
  spin zone for him. This is what I told him. This is what
• 41:32
  I told him. Listen, and this is true every time I okay,
• 41:37
  you guys confirm or deny this. When I do mess with him about fumbling,
• 41:40
  what do I also say? He also finished third all time in school
• 41:45
  history rushing the ball and never started a game. Then why does everybody come
• 41:47
  up to him and talk about the fumbles? I think we add that on
• 41:50
  to help under After you say the fumble part, I don't think that's that's
• 41:52
  that's the left handed compliment? Is what that is? From the text law
• 42:00
  respect Yeah, Craig and Knoxville, Tennessee, writes three guys. After pinching
• 42:05
  a nerve in my back on a golf trip about a month ago, I've
• 42:08
  pretty much found myself with lots of time on my hands since I've had many
• 42:12
  sleepless nights. I've always listened to your podcast. Great job as always.
• 42:15
  I found these most recent ones most enjoyable because I had to cancel my entire
• 42:20
  trip to Morgantown for the pit game. Listening to you guys makes me feel
• 42:23
  better and at least in a small way, makes me feel like I'm a
• 42:25
  Mountaineer fan. The other thing I've done a lot of is either watching old
• 42:30
  West Virginia games or highlights of classic victories on youtubes. While those old games
• 42:35
  bring back memories and great things, there's another thing that stands out. Shoulder
• 42:39
  pads. Yeah, shoulder pads. Back in the day West Virginia's running over
• 42:43
  people, taking no prisoners studs on the field, they had big shoulder pads.
• 42:46
  They're huge. I know teams have gone away from those, but maybe
• 42:51
  maybe we can bring them back. You know, win the big twelve play
• 42:54
  for the national championship. And people would ask the stack guy when the shoulder
• 42:59
  pad rule change? Why those teams wear them so long? And the short
• 43:04
  of it is this, it's technology and they figured a way that you don't
• 43:08
  have to have them as big as they were and you can get the same
• 43:10
  protection. That's also speed too, is the least you're in coming now.
• 43:15
  You don't have any knee pads. They're gonna be hip pads. Shoulder pads
• 43:17
  are smaller because speeds essentially continue to be floored by the lack or the thinness
• 43:22
  of pads and guys pants that they wear. Right, that's a that's a
• 43:25
  state the old days. You get the big old hip pass, the kneepads
• 43:30
  are way below the Yeah, got the thigh pads in there. There's the
• 43:32
  guys that just go with couldn't do it, so, yeah, the equipment's
• 43:37
  a little bit different. Yeah that's changed. Uh. Text on our way
• 43:43
  to the Three Guys food court and we walked by the Dana mobile last night
• 43:50
  last had a bad loss again. Yeah that didn't go well. You rule
• 43:54
  them, yep. Uh text. Great time at the tailgate, Thank you
• 43:59
  for putting it together. Alex Drew and Heather Eddie from Mount Morris, Pennsylvania.
• 44:04
  Look at that crew. Huh. I'd tell you we had a great
• 44:08
  time at the food court. Yeah. I was there briefly Friday. Yeah,
• 44:14
  you're there Friday, and enjoyed meeting everybody, talking to folks. It
• 44:17
  was a beautiful day. I met a young woman, Ellen Tony. You
• 44:21
  talked to her, Yeah, and she told a very emotional story. Her
• 44:24
  father had passed away, but her father was a big listener of Three Guys
• 44:28
  and and she just felt like she wanted to be there kind of make the
• 44:30
  connection to Three Guys. So we had a nice visit with Ellen, very
• 44:34
  nice. Later in the evening, a lot of people asked about you and
• 44:38
  some lady made a snarky comment and I'm sure he wouldn't have you know,
• 44:43
  he won't be here, And I said he actually was already here. So
• 44:46
  I defended you, Hoppy, thank you, appreciate you. Appreciate you both
• 44:51
  your your reputation procedure. So I had one of those lemonades. Another quarter
• 44:58
  a lemonade. I mean it was. I think it's a forward to the
• 45:02
  container makes that. So I gave some to my daughters on Thursday when I
• 45:07
  got were killing from about Thursday evening until Saturday when they were able to make
• 45:14
  it to the food court. I think my one daughter asked one hundred and
• 45:15
  thirteen times to go get that lemonade. I did notice. So I had
• 45:19
  that strawberry banana. That's when the folks at Tardy time they were excellent,
• 45:22
  terrific. So that strawberry banana was great. My daughter ordered the strawberry banana.
• 45:25
  I had part of it again on Saturday. But you know what,
• 45:28
  I had a little sample of there that might might move into the top there
• 45:31
  when we see Tardy Time again. They made an orange cream sickle lemonade excellent.
• 45:37
  I had I try to watch sugar intake. Sure, absolutely and so
• 45:42
  I wondered. And when I bought the lemonade and I said done. Now
• 45:45
  is there any sugar? They said, oh, yeah, there's at Yeah,
• 45:50
  but do you want to put sugar substitute in there? I think,
• 45:52
  well they did, but I said no, I'm gonna go with it.
• 45:53
  I'm gonna go with full sugar. It was delicious, tasted up somewhere else
• 45:57
  along the line. So Friday night I got one. I got one for
• 46:00
  the wife. Yeah, the lemon They made her strawberry banana and I watched
• 46:06
  him make it. Yeah, I'm lucky at ingoing a hypoglycemic shock at that.
• 46:10
  Plus they're awesome. They are awesome. And about a half cup half
• 46:15
  cup, I saw the quarter cup going there twice. That's a half.
• 46:19
  I wonder why that limit was Like, this is really really good sweet,
• 46:22
  It was awesome. T dubbed from Barber's Willem Fellas. Here's my postgame text
• 46:30
  from last week. First, we got to catch the ball. Both sides,
• 46:32
  defensive front and backers were beast the entire game. Leadership passion of starting
• 46:37
  quarterback is what West Virginia's lacked for years. Nico can do it all.
• 46:40
  Play calling, good, keep feeding Cole Taylor, give our defensive backs.
• 46:45
  You're in good hands with all State Players of the Week award. Anybody that
• 46:47
  can catch a pass from Jerkovic deserves it all due respect. This is mean
• 46:52
  all all preseason talking how good the old line can be, and deservingly so.
• 46:58
  But West Virginia's front seven the offensively or now the biggest topic of conversation.
• 47:01
  Coach Neil Brown said that Garrett is the heart and soul of this team,
• 47:05
  and when he went down, the whole team took a personal even in
• 47:07
  his absence, he was leading the charge. Nico settled down. You could
• 47:12
  see his confidence growing, great RPO decisions and he threw a BB to Clement
• 47:15
  on that post for a first down. I think came. The thing was
• 47:21
  humming in there. Yeah, keep feeding. Cole Taylor. Ask Brad real
• 47:24
  quick those slants. You know we talk all the time. We've sat there
• 47:28
  and practiced and watched those quarterbacks start together, and Garrett's ball comes out different.
• 47:31
  He's got some zip on that thing, Nico. Nico wound up brought
• 47:36
  the fastball on those slants, the two of them, they were outstanding.
• 47:40
  He continues, asked Brad what his preseason over under on total passes cup by
• 47:45
  the tight ends was for the season. How close are we in game three?
• 47:47
  Yeah? We landed on twenty five and a half was our number that
• 47:50
  we officially went with the Taylor at now Yeah and closing as a team,
• 47:53
  we might not play for the Natty, but the future looks really good.
• 47:57
  We're back to the team that everyone else hate seen on their schedule. Lots
• 48:00
  of great memories with West Virginia Pitt, but I agree with Brad. My
• 48:05
  all time favorites was Pat White's twenty six panther growl PS. I was the
• 48:09
  first, probably the only person in Cable County to burn a couch after a
• 48:15
  WV victory. I had it in my yard for two weeks prior to that
• 48:19
  with a free sign on it, but no one would steal it. I
• 48:22
  let that sucker up after the Friends of Coal Bowl number one, and the
• 48:25
  neighborhood has never been the same since. I appreciate all you guys do.
• 48:29
  Still drinking the kool leading Cable Let's go Mountaineers eight catches. Cole Taylor leads
• 48:34
  the team in number of receptions eight through three games on pace in a twelve
• 48:37
  game season for thirty two so he's tracking ahead of the over. Texter,
• 48:45
  Hey, three guys. I keep hearing so many fans complaining we shouldn't be
• 48:47
  scheduling two power fives. It is too hard of a schedule and we should
• 48:52
  play a MAC team instead. Well, I just got done watch and Iowa
• 48:54
  State lose miserably to Ohia. I think I'll take my chances. I'm playing
• 48:59
  rivals or power our houses like Halabama and a chance of losing it home to
• 49:02
  a MAC. If we want to be a big time program, keep scheduling
• 49:06
  big time schools. I can't wait for the brawl West Virginia. It's hard
• 49:12
  because the way scheduling works. West Virginia should get back to having a rival
• 49:16
  game, preferably Pit. But if not, if you can't do that every
• 49:20
  year, Pit Virginia Tech Maryland rotated. However, you want to do it
• 49:22
  and then play a MAC team and then play an FCS team, that's what
• 49:27
  your schedule should be. I agree with you. Skippy in Atlanta, thanks
• 49:31
  for the comment. Texter hanging out at the Three Guys food court, great
• 49:36
  time, fine hospitality. Ps kerchival is a hit and it's a howl of
• 49:42
  an evening. Sorry, Tony, with all due respect, your name isn't
• 49:44
  good for puns, Jason from Jefferson Hills. So they got those guys came
• 49:46
  full to work. See that's a live looking at the food court right there,
• 49:51
  you are looking loud. Yeah, really was wonderful over there. That
• 49:53
  was a steady flow starting Friday. When they eventually got open four o'clock ish,
• 49:59
  it was up in, fully functional and it was going and it just
• 50:00
  didn't stop. Tony and I were over there for a while on Saturday.
• 50:04
  I got there right at the open at ten, stay till about one o'clock,
• 50:06
  and it was just non stop people through their lots of exactly Tony what
• 50:09
  we thought, people coming from the different parking lots and just grabbing their barbecue.
• 50:15
  That was unbelievable, grabbing the barbecue and some kerchevel and heading out with
• 50:19
  a big lemonade there to walk out perfect greenbar carry was some great, great
• 50:23
  treats. Yeah, Rev Kev's Barbecue absolutely massive hit and they experienced what every
• 50:30
  great barbecue operator has. No moss, it's over. We sold out.
• 50:37
  That's by the way, that is the appropriate touch for barbecue. Let's now
• 50:42
  should end sold out? Yeah, right, exactly right. But well,
• 50:46
  you know what, they'll sold out. What you know what, they'll sold
• 50:50
  out? Kick the keg. Yeah, we kicked the keg kurchevel one by
• 50:55
  Yeah. Well guess what? As always hey listen, I mean as all
• 51:00
  well, the things that we do and I don't really do anything. I
• 51:04
  just the things that you do. You all do team effort. We you
• 51:09
  can say we team effort in the fourth Beatle, Dave, the fifth Beatle
• 51:15
  is that's really the most important part of it is these things where it's it's
• 51:22
  it's limited. It's limited. There's only a certain amount, there's only a
• 51:28
  certain opportunity. There's only so much. It's kind of exclusive. Well yes,
• 51:34
  and no, it's not. It's not exclusive in the sense sense that
• 51:37
  it's hoity toity. Oh correct, there's just a scarcity about it that we
• 51:40
  don't want to get too big. So we had a wonderful time and it
• 51:45
  was an event, so nice. We're gonna do it twice. You're doing
• 51:47
  it again. We're doing it this this weekend. Okay, they have some
• 51:52
  additions. I knew he was going to do it. I knew we're gonna
• 51:57
  have it again. Just stop stop. Maybe uh, maybe an addition to
• 52:02
  the drink line. You don't, you do not have that confirmed. Maybe
• 52:07
  a mimosa, maybe a bomosa set up there. He makes it harder,
• 52:12
  I know, he makes it harder because he says the stuff and now you
• 52:14
  got it. Now you've overpromised, bang in there. Well, I'm just
• 52:16
  saying, you're you're just you're just thinking, like Dave will figure something out.
• 52:21
  Well, they're just I mean, I just think we are opening.
• 52:23
  We are opening earlier because the game's at three thirty, so that eight am
• 52:28
  Saturday, that we're in fact happening. You think for sure that that's actually
• 52:34
  a wonderful idea. It's a really good idea. By the way, homeless
• 52:38
  Dave would just looked homeless. I mean, he'd like Spin had spent like
• 52:42
  the whole week. He was the only four of us that were working the
• 52:45
  actual thing. He's the only guy that worked. He did work. He
• 52:49
  had a million meetings with the switch. By the way, good job by
• 52:51
  the city, approving everything, standing off on everything, clear what we say.
• 52:55
  We just need just clear the hurdles and don't make it harder. Don't
• 52:59
  make it all guys, we're wonderful. Came over, did the walk through
• 53:00
  with you guys on Friday afternoon knocked it right out. One of the guys
• 53:04
  that was helping with that process stopped by with his son on Saturday. Enjoyed
• 53:07
  today, so thank you. Great. They were well done. The want
• 53:09
  they want to They want to see businesses grow in Morgantown. They were great.
• 53:14
  What's the fire guy's name? First name? Well, I don't know
• 53:16
  that that's for public disclosure. Why is it? Why does fire marshall have
• 53:19
  a gun? Why don't When he was over there during the inspection, they
• 53:22
  guy, they carry a gun. You know you would know. Why would
• 53:24
  why would the fire marshal have to carry a gun? I don't know.
• 53:28
  It's it's fire fire Marshall is a is a form of is a division of
• 53:31
  law enforcement. You're enforcing the law. I have no problem with that.
• 53:35
  I'm not saying it's a problem. I just surprised me. You know,
• 53:37
  I didn't. I didn't know they care. Does it surprised you when you
• 53:39
  go in the Kroger and somebody's walking around with a gun on her hip?
• 53:43
  I mean you got that too, so that might happen the one you go
• 53:46
  to Gucci. Kroger don't do a whole lot of guns. Really, nah,
• 53:51
  I don't see krog Rocket, Kroger Rocket. You go to the hard
• 53:54
  scrabble Kroger Kruger. I go to they go someone handing you disinfect and wiped
• 54:07
  a wop off your cart. When you get in there, it's okay,
• 54:08
  We're good. This one bummed me out. This text. Remember that wonderful
• 54:14
  couple that got married a couple of weeks ago and they sent us those pictures.
• 54:16
  Remember her husband wanted they just send us the cake. They were at
• 54:19
  the game, but we didn't missed him. They were in say she wrote
• 54:22
  me, said, hey, I'm we're in two sixteen. But the guard
• 54:24
  like wouldn't let us know where to get you. We wanted to say hi.
• 54:28
  Anyway, Emma and Troy from Charlottesville. You guys enjoy I hope that
• 54:31
  was a wonderful part of you know, the New Honeymoon, the backyard brawl
• 54:37
  thing. It was great. I'm sorry. Maybe one of these days,
• 54:39
  if you come to another game, come to the food court, we'll have
• 54:42
  mimosas efforting text or this is effort. This is eric I so this is
• 54:49
  this is a good one. Hop listening to this one. This was great.
• 54:52
  We'd spend a lot of time with Eric. This was good. I
• 54:52
  stopped and I spoke with Brad Friday night on the way back from the Pittsburgh
• 54:57
  airport where I was coming from BAMF, Canada. I wanted to say thank
• 55:00
  you to Brad and Tony for being at the speakeasy event. It was awesome
• 55:04
  support of West Virginia businesses. My family and I greatly enjoyed the banana,
• 55:08
  strawberry, cotton candy, peach lemonades with a hot and regular pepperoni roles on
• 55:12
  Friday and Rev Keb's meat on Saturday. We had three tacos, pulled pork
• 55:15
  and brisket. All are awesome. I greatly appreciate you guys for organizing it.
• 55:20
  And I added some pictures of Banff and Canmore, Alberta. I don't
• 55:24
  know if I got those pictures. I don't think that he did show us
• 55:29
  on his phone. Beautiful, but so he was in Canada for work.
• 55:31
  Yeah, went for a run in Canada while listening to the Thursday preview episode.
• 55:37
  Then on the flight back, caught the Red the second half of the
• 55:39
  preview episode, and then came Friday, walked out of that those awesome pepperoni
• 55:45
  roles from Oliverios. They'll be back on Saturday as well. So he took
• 55:49
  a bag of the pepperoni rolls Friday and had three big lemonades. To the
• 55:52
  point I just said, I mean, where are you a part? Can
• 55:54
  I help you carry something? Here? Got the big three service takes of
• 55:59
  lemonade from tardy time. He's carrying all that out and then came back with
• 56:01
  his son on Sunday and loaded on the barbecue. So thank you, are
• 56:05
  great to talk with you. You know, the takeout was a surprise to
• 56:08
  me. So Rev keV was doing this barbecue is to take a lot of
• 56:12
  people walking out of there with shopping bags full of meat. Yeah, and
• 56:15
  they had a ice operation. They were very numbers. If we had the
• 56:19
  deep analytics on their offensive efficiency, it was through the through the roof.
• 56:22
  They had to figure out Rev. You know what. I know how I
• 56:24
  knew he was really organized. I called him the week before and he said,
• 56:29
  he goes, buddy, he said, we're also good y'all say,
• 56:30
  he said, we had a training session. We set the whole thing up.
• 56:34
  They basically they had an exhibition game. He goes, we got we
• 56:38
  got to figure it out by the way elite. I think I'm not sure
• 56:42
  on this one either. The most of the thing. I'm also I think
• 56:45
  you might be able later this week to pre order your barbecue on Rev.
• 56:49
  Kev's website and pick it up at So you just say, hey, give
• 56:52
  me two I want two pounds of brisket I want to do and then you
• 56:53
  just walk in and say hey, it's the Smith party and they'll just say
• 56:57
  here's your food, and that's that's a great idea off to one of those.
• 57:00
  Yeah, you'd probably have overpromised that, but if that could happen,
• 57:04
  that's great for the parking lots. In fact, we had there was a
• 57:07
  couple there with their son from Texas visiting West Virginia. Folks went to school,
• 57:10
  visiting. They had met in grad school here at West Virginia from Texas,
• 57:14
  and they had just ordered their food. I don't know that this was
• 57:16
  appropriate by me, but I was talking to him and talk to him Friday,
• 57:20
  so I just said, oh, I like to know which thing you're
• 57:22
  from Texas. You've had good barbecue. Would love to know which. So
• 57:23
  I just hung out there while they took their first bites. Loved it.
• 57:29
  Loved it. I mean the ket the thumbs up. So this is the
• 57:31
  Sun said after his first bite, this is as good of brisket as I've
• 57:35
  ever told Texas native. Yeah, that's the best brisket you'll get. Did
• 57:38
  you meet the guy from Boston Friday? Did I meet the guy from Boston?
• 57:42
  He was beautiful, It was awesome. He didn't have an accent.
• 57:45
  Thought, yeah, pacmcayle right over there. The he was mean. He
• 57:52
  was guanted you attack him as soon as as soon as he started talking with
• 57:54
  us, and you said, hi, Pa, pa pa. Just a
• 57:58
  great story that he met somebody like they met at Myrtle Beach. He and
• 58:01
  this other guy and the guy, the other guys in West Virginia. Guys
• 58:05
  said you gotta come to the game, and okay, I'm coming to the
• 58:07
  game. Came to the game. He was in the game. Yeah,
• 58:09
  we had a nice talk about quit letting those people up there beat up on
• 58:13
  Joe Missoula. Like, someone stand up for Missoula. Get him smelp.
• 58:15
  Jason Tatum makes a couple more shots. Not all Missoula's fault, he agreed.
• 58:20
  So he's gonna carry the Missoula flag when he gets back home. Now
• 58:22
  he's at West Virginia fan. Here's the danger of sending an in game text.
• 58:27
  Okay, in game text. I know Garrett's out, but when Pitt
• 58:30
  loads the box, we need to throw the ball. If you can't win
• 58:34
  a one on one battle, then that's on you. Really, running up
• 58:37
  the middle against a loaded box does not work. Signed by Rob from Benwood.
• 58:44
  They I thought Neil Brown called a creek game. Well, a couple
• 58:47
  of things on that. I mean, in theory right against the little box
• 58:50
  huns. But you know what it also does. You have to keep doing
• 58:52
  that because keep him on the Niko pull. The Nico pull work because they
• 59:00
  up the middle right, and by the way, listening earlier, and I'm
• 59:01
  sure Rob heard it earlier, but the bulk of the running came around the
• 59:06
  edges. So you're running up the middle to show it to you four yards
• 59:08
  each side the defense. I mean, I would love to see Tony you
• 59:12
  you could see it. We couldn't see it on TV, but I think
• 59:15
  we mentioned earlier it was your boys, drink something. You're making me uncomfortable.
• 59:19
  Drink something. It's called clear your throat. I mean, gosh,
• 59:22
  did that make you uncomfortable? Bread Well, I don't know what's happening?
• 59:23
  And he started a gurgle. Almost well ahead, come on, that's that
• 59:28
  time of your allergies kicking in, thanks, kicking in me. I thought
• 59:31
  you did away with the handkerchief. Why did you? Where did that just
• 59:35
  come from? Where was your box of clean X? See? Now you're
• 59:38
  gonna put that back in your pocket or worse, on the table, and
• 59:44
  there's now germs. That's a bad pocket. Go on, move on.
• 59:50
  As weird as you are about germs. This still stuns me. With a
• 59:52
  handkerchief, you should call Clay marsh and ask him if you should be carrying
• 59:54
  that thing around. What the covids are? Give you some give me some
• 59:59
  education none that situation. Is a great guy, Clay, would you say,
• 1:00:02
  well happy? You know, remember to wash your hands frequently and put
• 1:00:07
  gas on your pocket. Anyway, text her you should never text in game.
• 1:00:16
  But I need to turn the TV off and listen to Tony on the
• 1:00:21
  radio. All I keep hearing is Tony imitating Sean. I am flipped out.
• 1:00:29
  I don't know why that would be a problem. It's a fine ball
• 1:00:31
  game. As we welcome you back. We had some fun with him.
• 1:00:37
  Oh it's good having him do the game. I mean because he knows us,
• 1:00:40
  he knows West Virgini. He's a dear friend of yours. Can he
• 1:00:43
  tells some stories? Brad and I had morning coffee with him on and he
• 1:00:49
  hed, nice to meet you. Awesome. Tell the story about the people
• 1:00:53
  you met in the restaurant. Brad. Oh, yeah, we gotta,
• 1:00:58
  we gotta give a shout out to our guys. Who'd we meet? Remember
• 1:01:01
  Casey and Stephen? We were there. How do you remember Casey and See?
• 1:01:06
  We were the only ones in there. We were there. We were
• 1:01:08
  the only ones in there eating. We had two great listeners came and we
• 1:01:12
  were having We were having some how do I sound weird? All of a
• 1:01:15
  sudden we were having coffee with Sean and we met our guys. So it
• 1:01:20
  was Casey from California, but he came to school here was a spot management
• 1:01:23
  major. He's gone back to California, works for the cal Irvine and Eaters
• 1:01:29
  take Office. But he was Stephen from will from Wheeling was in with him
• 1:01:34
  as well. He works in the financial industry. So they were They walked
• 1:01:36
  right by and said, hey, love the show, and then turned and
• 1:01:37
  saw that it was Sean. Loved his work on hockey in particular, say
• 1:01:40
  it was great to meet the Rangers, Fan Casey and Steve. Then Sean
• 1:01:44
  pulled deep. Sean pulled the move that you would never pull when they brought
• 1:01:50
  when Sean. They gave Sean his breakfast check and he told the waiter Mattie
• 1:01:55
  Mattias, very fine waiter, terrific. I think we might have got him
• 1:01:59
  a ray there with management. And he said, Sean said, I'll pick
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  their check up too. I'll take that. Did it very quietly, very
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  subtly, and he goes, oh, okay, So those guys he took
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  care of their breakfast as well. I probably would have expected them to pick
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  up mine exactly. That's the big difference, Texter. How does Neil punish
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  for unsportsmanlike penalties? No reason for CJ to throw his helmet after the easy
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  running makes me think there was no discipline in the organization. What are your
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  opinions that was? That was out of character? Now I know that the
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  story was he felt like he was getting hit late or something was happening in
• 1:02:36
  the pile, But I mean, you can't do that obviously, But I
• 1:02:38
  think that's out of character for CJ. I mean there's four penalties for the
• 1:02:43
  night in a rivalry game. So I don't think there's a discipline issue.
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  Listen, in some ways, I kind of liked it when he like it
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  was like that take that. He didn't give you a take that. Uh,
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  Texter, this is Parker's dad from Parker's Burg where story After the upset
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  win of Parkersburg High School over Parkersburg South Friday night, we're having a late
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  night snack. During the cooking process, I said, oh blank. My
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  nine year old didn't miss a beat and said, well, it is Pitt
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  week. We're allowed to say blank. As I've started to laugh with my
• 1:03:15
  wife just looking at me. My daughter then looked at me and said,
• 1:03:19
  well, dad, are we going to play the song? We're going to
• 1:03:20
  play the song. So we had a late night listening to Sweet Caroline WVU
• 1:03:23
  style helping my quick witted nine year old daughter cheers will push the Mountaineers to
• 1:03:28
  a win. Let's go. Then he says follow up after that fourth down
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  stop, My daughter jumps off of the couch and yells, we are going
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  to win. Eat blank pit. My wife looks at me and I just
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  smile insert tongue click Texter. As an honest question. Cute story, buddy,
• 1:03:46
  Yes, it is as an honest question. How bad must Pitt's quarterback
• 1:03:51
  room be off? Jerkovic is uncontested after one game where he completes less than
• 1:03:54
  a third of his passes in another game where he throws three absolute dead duck
• 1:03:59
  way options. Here we are after a week talking about Pitt after the game,
• 1:04:03
  and we still have not settled on Djerkovic or Jakovic. I thought it
• 1:04:06
  was Jakovic. Brad could not get out of the Jerkovic. I battled it's
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  jer I mean, you're probably confused because I just battled it, butchered it
• 1:04:14
  all night. I said it three different ways. I think the thing text
• 1:04:17
  by the way, the whole time, I just wanted to say Jerko.
• 1:04:23
  Yeah, like I was totally fouled up with the whole my back, Texter.
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  Hey, three guys, awesome wind. And I'm disappointed with Neil's postgame
• 1:04:31
  interviews. He completely downplayed how well Nico played. He didn't want to give
• 1:04:36
  him the credit he deserved for the win that was accomplished tonight. He definitely
• 1:04:41
  deserves more playing time and a second look at being a starter. Let's go
• 1:04:45
  Mountaineers. I didn't listen to the whole interview. I didn't hear that.
• 1:04:47
  So here's what I think about your comment. Whomever you might be, you
• 1:04:51
  want Nico Markiel to be the starter, and regardless, the way you're going
• 1:04:56
  to listen to Neil's comments is going to play to the way that you want
• 1:04:59
  it a sound. So I totally disagree. And yeah, we hear things
• 1:05:05
  what we want to hear. That's just the way our bodies are wired,
• 1:05:10
  and we go to things that if we want to get upset about something,
• 1:05:14
  we'll find something that'll make us upset. If we want to be encouraged by
• 1:05:16
  something, we'll find something that wants to be as encouraged. I thought Neil
• 1:05:18
  gave him a ton of credit both on the field after the game and in
• 1:05:23
  the postgame interview. But obviously, the one of the things that we like
• 1:05:29
  about Neil Brown is he is as coaches go, about as candid as you
• 1:05:33
  can be, about as honest as you can be. So he gave Nico
• 1:05:38
  credit for coming in in a very difficult situation and handling offense. Yes,
• 1:05:43
  he made a mistake, but otherwise he said he performed to perform well.
• 1:05:45
  He said he didn't lose the game Force, which is absolutely correct, which
• 1:05:49
  was complimentary. He meant that as a comp absolutely yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  I think you're dead on. I was just gonna say that Neil generally
• 1:05:56
  tells you like it is. And I thought his analysis of of Nico,
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  which I mean he they didn't ask him to do a lot because they hadn't
• 1:06:02
  prepared a lot. And he talked about the play sheet being down to a
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  half a sheet of paper. Your playbook is limited, and the fu listen,
• 1:06:11
  the fumble could have been catastrophic. That's the things you cannot do could
• 1:06:15
  have been catastrophic. You overcame it. And then he did a nice job
• 1:06:18
  with the pull on the RPO and the keeper the past to Preston Fox.
• 1:06:23
  Fox helped him, but he made a couple of plays, managed it pretty
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  Yesterday would have been a wonderful day as well, to be out on
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  the water, just per perfect, not a cloudness guy Jason Charleston, South
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  Carolina. I know early performances of other teams don't necessarily correspond to late season
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  wins, but how much of the early results do you think plays in West
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  Virginia's favor in terms of strength of schedule? A lot of games I would
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  have said were likely losses now appear to be more winnable after a few games.
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  I really like Neil Brown, but is he and his staff the crew
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  that will return West Virginia to championship status? Jason and Charleston South Carolina as
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  you know me, I told you earlier I was I'm holding a ticket for
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  over four and a half wins. I thought there was no way West Virginia
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  finishes last in this Big Twelve. And I think what you're seeing in this
• 1:08:00
  early season as things playing out that show you nothing guaranteed. Injuries as we
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  have just seen, are a major factor in this sport, but there's winnable
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  games in this league. Baylor scuffled through against Long Island yesterday. Kansas State
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  got beat by Missouri Ohio. As the texture mentioned beat Iowa stated in Ohiowa
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  State isn't on the schedule. Oklahoma looked really good again. UCF rolled,
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  but they've got a quarterback injury. Since Sinnati goes in and follows up their
• 1:08:23
  good win against pit by chunking it up to Mac team Miami of Ohio.
• 1:08:27
  What's happening in Stillwater? They continue to not be able to find the quarterback
• 1:08:30
  they're playing. Three, they get greased by South Alabama. All due respect
• 1:08:34
  to South Alabama. Now BYU, nice step up right means more in the
• 1:08:38
  SEC just means a little bit more. BYU lined up, didn't know what
• 1:08:42
  time zone it was, didn't know where they were playing, walked in put
• 1:08:44
  Sam Bunch, Sam Samu, what'say his name? Hartman Oman punched him right
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  in the face. Beat Arkansas, Houston. Dana is an absolute disaster.
• 1:08:50
  Messed down in Houston. They can't get it together. Texas came back and
• 1:08:54
  got a win. Kansas went out and messed around with Nevada ultimately got to
• 1:08:57
  win. Nevada struggled mightily for two years. Point wins are out there.
• 1:09:01
  You're gonna have to play, but wins are available. First time to report
• 1:09:05
  there. You're listening to us. You know, I don't know if you
• 1:09:09
  do this, but Tony an ideal on podcasts A lot of times I'll go
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  to time and a half from one point seven five to kind of speed it
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  up. If you try and listen to me on one point five, I
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  bet that's a miserable experience. I've heard that. Might have to slow it
• 1:09:19
  down. People tell me that Brad's hard comical. Yeah yeah, long time
• 1:09:26
  listener, first time textor were camping. We're camping at Summersville Lake, listening
• 1:09:30
  to Tony on my sports sync radio a twenty and a half second delay,
• 1:09:34
  and I'm watching the pit game by the fire. What a great evening.
• 1:09:38
  Well, fellas you inspired me. I stopped by in the Mount Nebo Gomart
• 1:09:42
  earlier today. No, I did not buy a fly rod, Slim Jim.
• 1:09:45
  I picked up some Rese's pumpkins. I just made a couple of s'mores
• 1:09:49
  with them. Boy oh boy, an absolute game changer, best smore ever?
• 1:09:56
  Thanks guys, eat blank hit endorse that Matt as well. Matt's out
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  of there from Fayettable hope do you replace the traditional Hershey chocolate couple of bars
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  on the smore? You drop a peanut butter cup in there? Oh?
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  Nice move man. Good job. Texter Jim from Clarksburg rights Caroline. That
• 1:10:16
  was a sweet wind. Enjoy your trip back home on country roads. Texter
• 1:10:23
  Jack from Charleston. I'm confused on the outcome on this one. On one
• 1:10:27
  hand, extremely happy we beat Pitt, but left the stadium with more questions
• 1:10:30
  than answers. Pitt's offense looks like they stole Kansas' playbook from our first nine
• 1:10:35
  years in the Big Twelve. If I'm a Pit fan, I'm thinking,
• 1:10:40
  why did we completely change our style after their offensive coordinator Mark Whipple left?
• 1:10:45
  That was the worst opposing offense I've seen from an FBS team in Mountaineer Field
• 1:10:49
  in my twenty three years of life, twenty three year old hard to judge
• 1:10:56
  our offense with a backup in the game. I hope Green can get healthy.
• 1:11:00
  He's worked hard to earn his job. Probably no more about that Monday,
• 1:11:02
  correct, Tony, I'll give you a feel. We'll start getting fields.
• 1:11:06
  I know this game would ultimately set the tone for the season, but
• 1:11:09
  I'm not sure now. Hopefully our defense can keep this moment moving forward.
• 1:11:14
  Texas Tech has shown no mercy on us the last few years. Got to
• 1:11:17
  get a win over the Red Raiders. Text her. To start the day
• 1:11:20
  off of the brawl, my brother and I visited the Three Guys food court.
• 1:11:24
  We crushed pulled pork and brisket, tacos, a peach lemonade, drawb
• 1:11:28
  your banana lemonade, a chocolate peanut butter, and fruit Loop's milkshake. Tony,
• 1:11:30
  you were right on all of the food. It was absolutely delicious.
• 1:11:34
  From there, we went to look in the Hall of Traditions to the Man
• 1:11:38
  Trip. Then we went our separate seats as we watched the Mountaineers beat up
• 1:11:41
  on the Panthers. From a neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I would consider today a
• 1:11:45
  pretty good thank you, three guys for efforting the food court. Let's go
• 1:11:47
  Mountaineer, as signed by Matthew not Morgan in Morgantown. That's a good day,
• 1:11:51
  Matthew, that is That's a good day. You Just and Neil Brown
• 1:11:55
  talked about this in the postgame. He talked about it frankly just I mean,
• 1:11:59
  he talked about it in the interview with ABC just after the game inut
• 1:12:02
  about the crowd and the atmosphere. I mean, you cannot overstate the impact
• 1:12:08
  and the enthusiasm the Mountaineer Nation brought to Morgantown this weekend. Into that stage,
• 1:12:13
  we had an unbelievable picture that you know, we do that on our
• 1:12:16
  game day coverage traffic with Kevin Neckliss up top. He sent a picture back
• 1:12:20
  of the of the blue loot right outside the stadium. Unbelievable, unbelievable crowd
• 1:12:25
  that does have to worry on those games where the blimps around. Because it
• 1:12:29
  was a topic of discussions. It did come up during our cover. Because
• 1:12:30
  I'll be honest with you, I had a friend broke that to me earlier.
• 1:12:33
  They were driving back from Uniontown, said is there is there a blimp
• 1:12:36
  up in the sky. I did not think blimps were still operating. The
• 1:12:40
  first images looked almost us. She's trying to drive and she got the you
• 1:12:45
  know, went to their long way. Wait, I have a camera phone
• 1:12:47
  there, so cut some slack there only so you were you were? You
• 1:12:49
  were befuddled by the fact it was a blimp here. I truly thought drones
• 1:12:54
  have totally overtaken the blimp. I didn't know the blimp existed only one.
• 1:12:59
  Did you know the blimp existed? Well, I didn't think they went away.
• 1:13:01
  I mean, you drone, what are you gonna? How you going
• 1:13:03
  to market? It's I mean it says good Yeah, I mean it says
• 1:13:06
  comb At. What's it to say? What did I say? It said?
• 1:13:09
  Said Comax? WV dot com or the side of the blimp or Goodyear
• 1:13:14
  one of those two. I mean you still need to have The picture was
• 1:13:15
  grainy, but I don't think it said Coma. I don't think. Well,
• 1:13:19
  we couldn't tell they are They are abs. When you do see them,
• 1:13:24
  they are absolutely so majestically weird. I love seeing them because they're just
• 1:13:27
  like this. I'm not opposed to blimps in any way. I just didn't
• 1:13:31
  know they still existed. The only blimp I never liked was the one we
• 1:13:34
  had to use inside the college Sam to drop cup on. So I'm not
• 1:13:40
  the only blimp I'm against, by the way, Texture said Matthew. Not
• 1:13:43
  Morgan and Morgantown. Did you tell everybody we actually met there? There really
• 1:13:46
  is at Morgan and Morgantown. Listener to the show. She's wonderful, broad
• 1:13:49
  id she She showed me her I did. She texted me this morning on
• 1:13:53
  the text line said can I have that picture that we made? So I
• 1:13:57
  sent that to her? Really as a Morgan and Morgantown Charlie from Midlothian scope
• 1:14:00
  spreads hoppy great team win. Last night. As Mary and I were finishing
• 1:14:03
  gassing up our cars at Kroger last night, I saw this couple pull in
• 1:14:08
  front of us. I approached them and sure enough, they were playing the
• 1:14:11
  game. I told them about Three Guys podcast and asked them if they would
• 1:14:14
  pose for a photo that I would send in. So here's Robin Jen from
• 1:14:17
  mid Lothian. They're getting fueled up at the Kroger somewhere in Virginia. I
• 1:14:20
  suggested they google episode four six zero, which is my picture on YouTube's One
• 1:14:26
  more Thing, Tony, can Sean do as good of an imitation of you
• 1:14:30
  as you do of him? I don't know. I've never heard any Tony.
• 1:14:34
  You're You're clean. I'm not sure you have any distinct character characteristics that
• 1:14:39
  would that would lean toward or open you up for caricature. I don't know
• 1:14:45
  why you say that, Hobby h do you bred? You agree? I
• 1:14:57
  agree? Yeah, yeah, I do. Sean to old us this story
• 1:15:00
  about the legendary hockey announcer Dan Kelly. Oh yeah, what I want to
• 1:15:04
  hear them. It's late at night in a they're in a bar and places
• 1:15:11
  like it's late clearing out, and Dan Kelly sewn like that was his idol
• 1:15:15
  as a hockey announcer. Yeah. Sure, And he just made some in
• 1:15:17
  their chatting and the whole thing. And Dan Kelly says to him, he
• 1:15:20
  goes, you want to go get some lamb chops? Says it's like one
• 1:15:26
  in the morning. He goes, yeah, I'll go get lamb chops.
• 1:15:30
  But he said it in Dan Kelly's voice. It was very good. Text
• 1:15:32
  or good morning, gentlemen, longtime listener, first time text or I thought
• 1:15:35
  i'd cheer a photo of my family. Enjoyed the inaugural three guys food court.
• 1:15:40
  Look at that they did a mural. My family and I visited Friday
• 1:15:43
  and Saturday. Everything we had was delicious, looking forward to visiting each time
• 1:15:46
  we come to cheer on the Mountaineers. I love you guys, I enjoy
• 1:15:49
  the show. My husband was super excited to get a picture with Brad Tony.
• 1:15:54
  We were hoping to see you too. We knew Hoppy would never show
• 1:15:58
  anyway. Love the Mountaineers, pits sucks and let's bring on Texas Tech.
• 1:16:01
  Thanks guys, Angie and Parsons West Virginia. Thanks they took the time and
• 1:16:06
  effort. They made a mural upper right there you see the kerchivl right on
• 1:16:10
  the table with the tailgating supplies. Yeah, well done. Thank you guys.
• 1:16:14
  Appreciate you coming. I was in game mode, was that dude.
• 1:16:17
  I'm just really I mean, in all seriousness, I was just really happy
• 1:16:19
  that you showed up on Friday. I enjoyed the Friday gathering. I just
• 1:16:24
  bring it really super serious though. When you go to these things, like
• 1:16:26
  even when we did our live events, like when I spot you and you're
• 1:16:30
  at the event, like you're always in this like incredibly deep conversation, like
• 1:16:33
  you just you could just tell you like you're locked in, like he's trying
• 1:16:36
  to figure out like House Bill sixteen thirty two. Don't you notice that Brad
• 1:16:41
  he locks in? You're like, I'm I'm a serious guy. You're serious,
• 1:16:46
  So why why he's so serious? Well, hopefully you can make it
• 1:16:54
  again because we're gonna do the same thing having mimosas did you hear promising?
• 1:17:00
  Oh? You know what else? Maybe not? What else? What do
• 1:17:03
  you get what? The pepperoni rolls that were unbelievably good may have a may
• 1:17:08
  have a Panini press to give those a little bit of a They haven't confirmed
• 1:17:12
  that either. Oh god, they have a panini pressed to warm those up.
• 1:17:15
  On your way out, you talk about putting that thing in there for
• 1:17:17
  about forty seconds, giving you a warm roll. I didn't think those were
• 1:17:21
  gonna make it to Saturday. Though those were flying off the shelves, still
• 1:17:26
  had impaired. Right with the kirche veil right there, get you a nice
• 1:17:28
  draft to kirch of veil. Nice hot get the hots hots are great text
• 1:17:34
  really want to say to speaking of additions. Tardy Time might have a little
• 1:17:39
  breakfast addition to their menu as well. I heard mini pancakes. We wait,
• 1:17:44
  you opened the door, But I just I wanted to just say that
• 1:17:46
  I because I something's coming that I didn't want. You didn't have to say
• 1:17:48
  what it was. They're pretty diverse if they can do lemonade and mini pancakes,
• 1:17:54
  got no control. Hey, three guys, I really just wanted to
• 1:17:57
  say, you know, you know what, you know why he does it?
• 1:18:00
  You know you've known him longer than yeah, yeah, because ultimately all
• 1:18:02
  of that stuff got done, all of his bs and talking early and saying
• 1:18:06
  too early, and there was and so he just sits back and guess when
• 1:18:10
  I told you, I told you I got done. I mean, I
• 1:18:12
  told you all that stuff would happen. That's why how continues to do it.
• 1:18:15
  I helped. I didn't say you didn't help. I'm just saying,
• 1:18:17
  there's it never goes the other way on you, Like, it's not like
• 1:18:20
  the food court didn't happen, right it Ultimately everybody, everybody else got all
• 1:18:26
  the stuff done, so it could happen even though he overthrow. You know,
• 1:18:29
  it actually is amazing. It is hard to do things right, especially
• 1:18:32
  something like that. There's a lot you have to go through. I do
• 1:18:34
  know that. And even though I had nothing at all to do with it
• 1:18:36
  except I showed it forty five minutes. But but but to put that together
• 1:18:42
  and credit you all and Dave, you know the fifth Beatle, because mostly
• 1:18:45
  it was it was a really really nice event. It's a nice thing and
• 1:18:49
  had a great field and it had a great feel. He's he designed it.
• 1:18:53
  Oh by the way, super shot out to Pronto Print up there there
• 1:18:57
  at the old mall. They did all the sign it with my guy Brian.
• 1:19:00
  Unbelievable. He does my my charts, he does he prints charts.
• 1:19:02
  Any print of the signs for the three guys, something printed Prano. Go
• 1:19:08
  to Prano print. Here. Here's the one thing. This is kind of
• 1:19:11
  like when I yelled at you because you immediately want to talk about Texas Tech
• 1:19:13
  after the giant win, after you built to pick game up to be the
• 1:19:15
  biggest game in Mountaineer history. Are you saying me, Yeah, I don't
• 1:19:17
  think he's talking to you. I didn't mention Texas Tech last night, did
• 1:19:20
  I? Yeah, you wanted immediately talk about it. What's next? I've
• 1:19:24
  forgotten classic you. So I'm about to do that. The one thing I
• 1:19:29
  think we need to let people know what I'm gonna do right now. That
• 1:19:31
  it was I think some people thought it was a private event, right that
• 1:19:35
  was available for any So if you're if you're in the blue lot, I
• 1:19:39
  tell your friends, come walking over. If you're in the green lot over
• 1:19:41
  there, walk over. That was open to everybody. I think there was
• 1:19:44
  some thought that people kind of looked in there and thought, oh, was
• 1:19:45
  that a private event. I can't gin's come on, come on. That
• 1:19:49
  was good. That's it. Okay that well, that's a good point.
• 1:19:51
  Come on in Yeah, yeah, well yeah, but here's the deal.
• 1:19:55
  But yeah, you can tell other people because obviously the people that are hearing
• 1:19:58
  this are listeners. We that's what I mean. I would like them tell
• 1:20:00
  their friends they can they can come over to Yeah. But also it'd be
• 1:20:04
  nice to kind of have this sense of like somebody wants to go and they
• 1:20:08
  go, can I go and they talk to somebody who listens to three guys,
• 1:20:11
  and three guys person says I can get you in well speak easy element
• 1:20:15
  of it, like you almost needed a password you needed to listen to the
• 1:20:17
  podcast. To know that it's there. And that's also the nature of the
• 1:20:20
  pop up stuff, right when you do pop up shops, you've got to
• 1:20:24
  have some code or know what was there. So that's what the crowd was
• 1:20:27
  this weekend. I went up to a couple yesterday afternoon and just started saying,
• 1:20:31
  Hey, what's going on? How you doing? And they I didn't
• 1:20:33
  realize, but they were waiting for their food. They were waiting for the
• 1:20:35
  barbecue and they had already ordered. And the guy says to me, he
• 1:20:40
  goes, what is three guys? And I said podcast and he goes,
• 1:20:45
  oh, okay, So he was just he knew Rev keV right, okay,
• 1:20:50
  was there? Good? Hey, three guys. I really wanted to
• 1:20:53
  say, as a youngish West Virginia fan, last night was my first ever
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  brawl in person. The atmosphere was awesome. Everything that I could have asked
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  or I did want to tell you, guys a very sad story regarding your
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  speakeasy. My buddy and I arrived in Morgantown a little late, as he
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  works the night shift, woke up late, but we wanted to make sure
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  to stop and see all of the West Virginia businesses and support We arrived around
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  four and grabbed a big lemonade from Tardy Time, which was great. Then
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  we got to taste a Pepperoni roll as we stood in line. We were
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  the next ones and a couple in front of us ordered the last three pepperoni
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  rolls that they had. My heart and stomach dropped, but we laughed it
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  off, enjoyed a nice treat from the Greenbrier Dairy. So all is well
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  and good. Really enjoyed the little get together and hope it returns when I
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  can get there a little earlier. Thanks for the time, Bailey from Ellenborough.
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  Thank you very much, Bailey. As you may have heard, we're
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  having mini pancakes, mimosas and a Panini press this coming week. Efforting senator
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  scopes and handkerchief hoppy. Hello, it's four thirty am. I just walked
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  into my house and I laid down after an amazing game, amazing atmospere,
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  amazing atmosphere inside my Island Pushcar Stadium. I've attended the first three games.
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  I'll be back next week for the Big twelve opener. However, I do
• 1:22:06
  have quite the dilemma on my hands. Oh boy, my girlfriend is penciled
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  in for the Texas Tech game. She's the best thing that has ever happened
• 1:22:17
  to me, and I couldn't see myself with anyone else. But with all
• 1:22:21
  due respects, she's never attended a West Virginia game when they've won TCU last
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  November, Xavier and basketball last season. In a first football game Texas Tech
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  at home two years ago, it was her. My friends have already labeled
• 1:22:35
  her bad luck. Should I invite her or see if the fourth time is
• 1:22:40
  a charm? I'll hang up and listen to the answer. This is signed
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  by the assumed Mayor of Eleanor Jamie Well. Let me tell you one,
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  it's very difficult in life to find that special person, that person that you
• 1:22:49
  want to spend the rest of your life with. As you have said,
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  so, I can completely get it, and let's be realistic about this.
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  I would absolutely dump her in a heartbeat. That's not the right advice.
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  We gotta get a win over Texas Springer. Stop leave home, stop stop.
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  I'm saying, he cut the whole thing off. He can't come either.
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  He can't come either, is the answer. Okay, he can't.
• 1:23:15
  He can stay with the girlfriend that's more important. Okay, he needs he
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  just can't come. That's a that's a good compromise. Right, Listen to
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  the game, Listen to us on the air, right, yeah, watch
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  TV. He can't come. That's better than you clowns. He's out.
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  Get rid of her Texter Adam and Morgantown. Hey, three guys, I
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  got the chance to meet Scopes while we were efforting for a home coming sweet
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  on Friday for my son. Oh my bad, Yeah I did read bad.
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  Hey, three guys. I got the chance to meet Scopes while we
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  were efforting for a homecoming suit on Friday for my son. I came back
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  Saturday for Rev. Kev's barbecue outstanding. Would Spreads, in his old role
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  in Collegiate Athletics have enough intestinal fortitude to play Sweet Caroline? Or would he
• 1:24:03
  have been in the hardesty Clement's doghouse? Love the show. Hopefully another three
• 1:24:09
  guys food court next week, signed by Adam in Morgantown. And so this
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  does bring up a topic. So during the game, they did push the
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  red button inside the pentagon and they played Sweet Caroline loud and clearly during a
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  commercial break over the public address at what point in the game, fourth quarter?
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  Up eleven? Okay, they hit the butt. They don't play the
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  song. I've never heard the song, but now I've never heard the band
• 1:24:39
  used to play it. The band used to play it. This was the
• 1:24:42
  Neil Diamond version over the Pelic address. Okay, And they went with it.
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  And in the past West Virginia stayed away from that. Because you now
• 1:24:54
  have sixty thousand plus West Virginia fans screaming at the top of their lungs blank
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  blank blank, and it reverberated, and for many it was the highlight of
• 1:25:05
  the night, the highlight of the night. What's your I'm sorry to finished
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  the story. No, I think what what's you're taking in? So here's
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  how I would answer the question, and I appreciate it. I go ahead
• 1:25:16
  and answer. I would not have had the intestinal fortitude to do it because
• 1:25:20
  I would have got strung up. I would not have done it. Right
• 1:25:24
  now, what's different With the advent and rise of social media teams going back
• 1:25:30
  and forth at each other on social media and putting those things in there has
• 1:25:33
  become more commonplace and accepted. So I can see why they went with it
• 1:25:38
  last night. I couldn't have got away with it. I would have been
• 1:25:41
  I would have gotten strung up on that. I kind of like it,
• 1:25:44
  though I'm not the decision maker. Tony's right that that will be a that
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  will be a memory, I say, also going to be a thing now
• 1:25:50
  when you go up there next well, they already I mean, okay,
• 1:25:55
  pitt fans say anything negative about the West Virginia fan base. Does that ever
• 1:25:59
  come up? Has there ever been a PA announcer employed by the University of
• 1:26:01
  Pittsburgh that ever made disparaging marks about this the people of this great state?
• 1:26:05
  Is that right? Is that right? So that's happened before, So you
• 1:26:09
  shouldn't do it because you're worried about what they might do. Saying that's what
• 1:26:12
  I think it is. I think the victor go the spoils. I think
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  Ren Baker. I think Ren Baker is a external, outward marketing guy.
• 1:26:24
  Yes, and I think he also gets the vibe that's why you're seeing a
• 1:26:29
  push in more marketing, more dollars in marketing, more fireworks, more making
• 1:26:34
  an event. And I think that he's like, it's entertainment, man,
• 1:26:41
  let's go. Let's give the people what they want. By the way,
• 1:26:44
  I think n Baker as a home game, you're playing a year fans,
• 1:26:47
  not theirs playing to year fans. Okay, okay, okay, I thought
• 1:26:53
  it was it was it was wild. It was wild. I'm just gonna
• 1:26:59
  say that. I think by Baker is of course he wanted us Fishing to
• 1:27:01
  win, but I think it took the pressure off him for the moment too.
• 1:27:05
  Because Rinn Baker wants to keep Neil Brown. Rinn Baker does not want
• 1:27:11
  to go through a big He doesn't want to fire a coach and pay him
• 1:27:14
  twelve or fourteen million dollars whatever it is in a coaching staff and then trying
• 1:27:16
  to find another coach. He likes Neil Brown. He likes all the things
• 1:27:20
  Neil Brown does. Neil Brown doesn't give Rinn Baker any trouble. Uh,
• 1:27:25
  it's it's a great fit. He wants to keep Neil Brown. He's looking
• 1:27:29
  for reasons to keep Neil Brown. Agreed, Yes, Oh, make things
• 1:27:33
  a lot smoother. Absolutely. Last night was a good step. Last last
• 1:27:39
  last text. Hey, three guys, this is the real Morgan and Morgantown.
• 1:27:45
  This competition between thing has just gotten so crazy. C J. Donaldson
• 1:27:50
  is a workhorse that we need to stay healthy. He proved after the game
• 1:27:54
  that he is more afraid of his mother than coach Neil Brown, who publicly
• 1:27:59
  said he'll be dealing with the penalty after the touchdown. I've never seen anyone
• 1:28:01
  answer a call during a press conference, but there's a first time for everything.
• 1:28:05
  There is. Mom called him while he was at the at the table
• 1:28:10
  during this postgame press conference. He knew mom calls, answered the phone absolutely.
• 1:28:14
  Not only did he answer it, if you listen to it, couldn't
• 1:28:16
  have been more polite. Sure, I had a yes, ma'am in there,
• 1:28:20
  asked if he could please call her back. Nice, didn't say I'm
• 1:28:24
  gonna call you back, busy, Yeah, please call you back. He
• 1:28:26
  was super, super polite. Yeah, very nice. Your mother, Your
• 1:28:30
  mother calls, he takes a call. Yeah, yeah, So, I
• 1:28:32
  mean, I'm sure as mom will get a kick out of that when she
• 1:28:34
  sees her son holding the phone when he's at the at the presser. All
• 1:28:40
  right, that'll do it. I hope you enjoyed the show and we're getting
• 1:28:45
  so just for FYI, if you're going to send us a text, we
• 1:28:50
  record at ten thirty on Sundays, they have to be in the live.
• 1:28:57
  They have to be in no later than eight thirty am. I'm looking at
• 1:29:00
  the text line right now, and there's just a good zillion of them that
• 1:29:01
  came in since. But hey, man, this is rock and roll.
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  We work, we get up early, we get up early. We got
• 1:29:08
  we got stuff up late, up early. Yeah, exactly right. We
• 1:29:10
  work late, we get up early, we play the game. We don't
• 1:29:12
  have time for you to go through your your Sunday brunch and then get around
• 1:29:15
  to sending us a text. I don't know everybody, I mean, so,
• 1:29:18
  so step it off. You just say what you needed to say.
• 1:29:20
  You didn't need to fire shots at everybody who he did, didn't it too.
• 1:29:24
  I just want to participate in the show, and you're saying, yeah,
• 1:29:27
  thirty, I am not accepting any of those. Uh. I don't
• 1:29:30
  know why you would text me so late. I've been up early. Why
• 1:29:31
  isn't anyone else? Said the guy that thought this program was live? I
• 1:29:36
  mean, yeah, just talking about being polite to the people who Yeah,
• 1:29:42
  and you just fought. We just talked about how polite CJ was and you
• 1:29:45
  just came firing right back. You didn't need to do that. Easy for
• 1:29:46
  you, clowns. Easy for you clowns. You come in here, I
• 1:29:49
  give you the text. Who do you think puts them all together? I'm
• 1:29:51
  trying to be fair. I'm saying, if you want to get in to
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  the text, then send them earlier. Don't get in on the guy that
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  doesn't even work for the show. So okay, God, it doesn't work.
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  You're doing that. I'm looking through staffs trying to get your spreads on
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