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Class Orientation 2021 · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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My name is Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian siglo Curtis.
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It is a Thursday night. How you doing brother, brother?
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I'm doing pretty good. Just see your Lakers are
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wrapping up a win here tonight over the Bucks.
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Yes sir, yes, sir. If you laid your money and
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FanDuel, Gentlemen, it looks like all options are open seeing
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people post on Twitter tonight, some random.
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Oh, first person to score in this game.
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Oh, this person's going to score 10 points by the sixth minute of
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the game. Like, what was the, what was the
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promotion when LeBron James + 1 .4 wrong games, or The Greek
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Freak? Yeah. 4 plus 1 points, they were
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getting two to one odds, bet 50 to 150 bet, 50 to 100.
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Yeah so Clearly, that was the old.
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They're cooking it out there because everybody knew they were
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going to win that one started betting on everything.
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They're like, we're gonna get you guys, you sunk in, for at
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least some coin in this, this account and our hopes are that
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you're going to keep spending money and we'll get ours on the
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back end. Absolutely.
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And it's cool to have it. You know, it took long enough,
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it's one of those things like anything that gets passed as a
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law, it just takes forever versus just like just let them
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open it but obviously you know like the marijuana bill that's
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going to not go into place until 2023.
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I mean, I've got no problem if you don't like, you know, if we
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don't have like a shop on the corner and for months but you
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can at least legalized the carrying of small amounts of
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marijuana and And use of it in the short term, right?
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Yeah, let's be, let's be smart here.
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Let's not overthink this. Yeah.
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But they always are in place to manage it.
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Just Port. Everything you have for alcohol
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into the marijuana side of things and call it a damn day.
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But yeah, it's good to have. I have not signed up yet and I
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probably won't maybe. I know we'll have friends and
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you got a baby. Coming around man.
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You don't you don't need that that in your life right now.
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I don't need that in my life. You guys have coin that you're
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about to drop on stuff. You don't need to chance.
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Chance the exact the money running away on the, the sports
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book there. Yeah, exactly.
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Because it would be like, right now, as we're recording having a
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few drinks watching basketball, you know, I think Carly's gonna
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get hot tonight. Let me put a 30 dollar bet on
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this $30 own shit. So for me, I guess as covid
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slowly starts to to wind down with the vaccine going out and
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stuff like that. If you have it or friends have
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it, I just be like, hey, put 10 on that.
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Why are you doing it with cash? Because that's all.
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I've got always give you this and I Lose.
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I'm okay. I don't keep spending keep
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making ding students and my wife don't know.
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Oh yeah, definitely tell you if I was in Spain.
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Do for $150 wanting nothing happened.
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Well folks we've got a lot to get to tonight.
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What this episode primarily is on the back end, is going to be
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us going through some of the class of 2020.
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One obviously early signing period was in December and two
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weeks from now essentially signing period will be over
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that's when we come back and filling out the remaining of the
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class but we We've got a lot of news to get to since the last
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time we talked, which is back on National Championship.
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In the biggest just came down today, reports by just Cena
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Anderson, or coming out that Darryl Tapp is being pursued by
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the San Francisco 49ers for an assistant defensive line roll.
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Brian, I'm only get I have more coin in this.
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I'm going to let you get your feelings first.
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Then I'm going to come back, this sucks and it sucks for
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reasons that are mostly not on the field.
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I feel like on the field tap is a good asset but we don't know
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his ceiling yet and we feel like at this point to your link is
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the bigger player on that front. But in terms of everything,
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we're trying to get better at Off the field.
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He was, if not the guy one of the more important guys in that
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role, whether it's, you know, former player alumni relations
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with the team, whether it's recruiting in state of
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particular, the 757, I mean, this was the guy that was
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supposed to clean up some of the things that we have struggled
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with mightily the last decade, if not the last five years, and
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now it's potential that he's Going to be taking an NFL role
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probably not making much more than he's making with us, and
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having the same role on the team as he has with us.
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So, that's a little bit of a kick in the teeth.
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And I mean, I'm going to say it this is directly.
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A result of not getting rid of Fuente and having a more or less
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lame duck coach where a guy like tap that's up-and-coming.
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That's trying to keep a job. If someone comes calling that's
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that's he's going to take that call at this point because he
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doesn't know if next year is guaranteed.
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Absolutely, that is the biggest piece as you have a lame duck
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coach. That should have been fired, the
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Monday after UVA and he wasn't and for Darrell's.
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Safe does Darrell need money? No, Darrell May near me or 20
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million dollars in his NFL career and us meeting Darrell.
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You haven't caught a quick conversation with him.
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I have a feeling Darrell invested his money, really
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Wisely. He's probably doubled or
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tripled. What he made in the NFL, so he's
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not hurting for that, but clearly Darryl Tapp loves
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football and and he loves Virginia Tech, but it's that
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piece you just made if he feels Justin Fuente is a lame duck and
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if a mediocre to belong mediocre season gets him fired.
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He sitting without a job and having to scramble.
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Now if you asked me if I wanted Adam in the bay, or the bird,
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because I'm a 49ers fan. I want him in the burger, but if
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he goes to the Bay, why wouldn't he?
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Krista sarkar, defensive line coach was his defensive line
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coach in Detroit. Brian, you know, the name,
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Krista Circ crisp, your Circ is a Godfather, the wide 90 on
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that, dude. What he's doing, he's coached
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for 12 years, there's been regimes where everybody gets
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fired, but Chris concert because his unit performed D'Amico
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Ryan's? I new defensive coordinator.
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He played with Darryl in Philly for a season relationship.
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Kyle, Shanahan was the o.c. when Daryl was in the Redskins.
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It's one of those things. He has all these connections
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there and then they get to tell him.
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You get to coach Joey Bosa, get to coach Javon kinlaw.
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You get to coach Solomon. Thomas you get to coach this,
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really? I can tavius Street.
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I handled boy, you get this. This really good defensive line
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that was battered and bruised and still excelled you, come
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here, regardless. What happens, you've got a job
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next year. And you're probably going to
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build your resume good enough to where you can get your own
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defensive line job whether collegially or in the pros.
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It sucks to your point that the guy who is going to build, some
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inroads is in all likelihood gone.
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If something changes in the next, you know, 24 hours which I
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can't see it happening a we're down to coach, a huge
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personality. And you know what, I get this
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Eerie feeling that the powers that be are going to say, you
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don't get an extra coach this year.
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So we're going to be coaching short-handed, which is kind of
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bullshit. Because Jack's contract is not
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near what they were paying for Tracy.
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Claeys will get to in a minute well and that whole story but
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also, obviously we were paying Darrell some money here.
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So we're saying, you know, you're going to essentially get
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what couple hundred thousand back on 300 families deal and
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another almost 200 on tap steel and you're not going to bring
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anyone else into To shore some of that up.
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Yeah, I mean that's that's that's that's going to be
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interesting. So since we're there let's go
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ahead and talk about it, man. Tracy claeys retired.
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Jesus step down. He took.
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He took what we said personally and we he'd left the coaching.
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Business ran him off. He did not like his f+ and he
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just took his ball. And when you know what, For the
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first time in probably about 15 years, he was a positional
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coach. No, I do not think he was on an
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island. Some here, for those who are
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tweeting that out last week, But Casey had been coaching since
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about 1993 coach close to 20 over 25 years.
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He's got his money, especially, you told a defensive coordinator
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job for a decade. What they're paying, even what
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they were paying 10 to 15 years ago again, invest wisely.
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You're going to be fine. Yeah, but I think getting that
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that grand probably the covid you're probably didn't help him.
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It probably didn't even more down it hurt him because he
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didn't have a spring to really feel out the position.
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Yep. And get his feet back under him
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in terms of how how to coach the position and also have the time
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to put in with those guys and I feel like that hurt but I think
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also was just in turned like maybe a just a bad fit with
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what. Yeah and was trying to do.
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And what I think was envisioned for what his role would be
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coming into the defense and then what reality actually was, I
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feel like Clay's was kind of like a backstop.
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And a guy that J Hamm get through ideas off of and things
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like that. What?
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And I think some of the other guys on the staff ended up being
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that for J Hamm and not Tracy. And then, Tracy was number one
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coaching a Shin that was really kind of out of his comfort zone
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to begin with and his expertise was much less value than we
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anticipated. It was going to be absolutely,
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but saying that he goes now, some people feel like it was an
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apathetic move. I think it was the right move,
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Jack, Tyler's been coach. I think since the 2015
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essentially not long after he graduated, he started coaching
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Maybe if we had hired Jack, Tyler last year, we could have
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got Barry Odom or something in. I don't know.
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You know you know he coasted for a couple games anyway and was
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calling please one game. I mean so I mean, this isn't a
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guy that's coming in as green as people are making it out to be
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and you know I don't necessarily think it's nothing.
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Anyone say it's a bad move, I disagree with.
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But I mean, I'm not necessarily, you know, it's not Not a flashy
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move. It's not something that gets you
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super excited but it is a solid move.
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I think it's you know at worst neutral from my perspective, I
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like Jack. I think Jack does a good job
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with the guys. I think they he's young enough
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where he gets them energized and get them going.
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So I like that part of it and I'm hoping that, you know, with
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some of the experience he's had as kind of kind of being the
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number two guy in that role in getting you know brought along
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by Bud. Foster initially Nobody's
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talking about as much as they should, you know, I think that's
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going to be a good thing for us long-term.
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I think there's one other thing too.
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I you like jacking this role Jack when he can play Mike
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Jack's, not the most you know, athletic.
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He's not 64 230, he's not super fast.
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But the reason he was so good as he understood how to play the
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position now. I hope he can take that
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understanding and teach because as much as we not, that's
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hollifield That's a perfectly built like linebacker.
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He's six foot two, he's 230 pounds.
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Tisdale's needs to gain the weight, but athletically playing
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that plane that weak side linebacker of backer.
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He they both have skills. Jack, never had.
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If he can take what's in his mind, get it in their minds and
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get the mind in the feed, in the body, to work as one.
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Yep, that's what I have hope for with Jack Tyler because I think
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he can do that. Now, what I again, what I, what
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I worry with Jack is again, if this is a lame, duck coach
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situation, In a new, you know, we have a bad season and the
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winter gets fired Jack's. Polygon Jack's gonna have to
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spark back significantly lower and it sucks for him.
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If that happens, Braun, Rock returns, huh?
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Yes, I thought we already established that, but
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apparently, we need an announcement for it, which is
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fine. Fine.
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It's like one of those, okay. Well if you insist type
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situations, like, I get it's good for his brand and what his
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future is. But from a fan perspective, any
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time that we see, I'm making an announcement and you're a
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upperclassmen. You kind of, get a little Little
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antsy there whether it's transfer portal or whether it's
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I didn't think would be transfer portal regardless but you know,
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he has been at least putting feelers out there for shot at
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the NFL. So there was always that option.
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But pretty much everyone knew that Brock was coming back
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especially you know after the to what three-week Hiatus before
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this even got on everyone's radar.
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So yeah, that that was not shocking.
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The The piece that was, I wouldn't say shocking but I was
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definitely a little little disappointed to see you just
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because I like him and I wanted to see him come back.
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For one more year, Austin Cannon announced that he is, he's
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hanging up the cleats. Ladies and gentlemen.
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He is a, he's no longer a football player.
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Yeah. For Alston the stuff that he
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went through early on in his career?
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If you've never read about, you know, essentially you had
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Suicidal Tendencies and he fought through that and He
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busted his ass and earned a scholarship and then he busted
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his ass even more in cracked. The too deep and was essentially
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very important part of the offensive line for the last
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couple years. Yeah, heavy rotational guy both
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last year and this year and just again I was looking forward to
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52 coming back. If y'all know me 52 is my number
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so always had a headset. Some love for Austin Cannon
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there and you know good for him for making that decision.
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We're going forward and hopefully he'll what's that?
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Get to be on the lookout for him.
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He's from. Yeah, yeah yeah.
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So I'll I'll keep my eyes peeled for some Austin, Cannon
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sightings around the greater Mechanicsville area here but you
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know good for him and best of luck to him and his future but
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where it does suck with that is now yep.
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Do you no longer have a proven interior guy?
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To step in there a few weeks ago, we felt okay because we
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like braz going to be back if brought me to, he could play
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tackle, Austin, could slip in but now we've got five.
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We've got, we've got Silas, we got two new de we got Johnny, we
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got Brock, we got lettuce, Anybody goes down, your next man
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up is looking like Caden more on the inside and probably Hansen
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on the outside who have little to no experience.
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Yep. So he answers your swing guy
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that could probably a guard or tackle in a pinch so that'll be
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interesting to see he's going to be relied on heavily because
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pretty much any anybody that goes down, that's not a center
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he's coming in. I would, I would imagine unless
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some other guys are have come a long, a little bit more than we
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anticipated here between, you know, learning in this this past
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season on the scout team and things like that and whatever
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they pick up in the spring. Yeah.
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Alright the next thing I want to hit Ron is it's one that I have
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a love / hate. Okay.
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Texas A&M. Transfer.
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Connor. Bolingbroke.
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Tell me what you love, man. Looks like he was a pretty big
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part of their special teams, so they did a little bit of
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everything love that. Yeah, I hate to say this.
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It's almost like a taysom hill type thing.
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They're doing down in New Orleans taysom Hill.
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Yeah T1 Tannehill before him. I tell you what.
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I hate. Yep.
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He's a fucking backup quarterback.
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Like correct. I mean so much like the saints
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that decided not to play. Jameis Winston in the season
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instead roll taysom Hill out there in some sort of Quasi.
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Tim Tebow offense, that's what we're going to probably look
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like should the worst case scenario happened in our first
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string quarterback Braxton Burmeister get an injury, which
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happened a couple times this past Season.
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So it's not something that is outside the realm of
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possibility. Yep.
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So, unless not skating came in during the Clemson game and play
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probably the best he could play or less ties.
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Bullet comes in, you know, he's got the boiled, but may not
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know. They say this straight up.
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I don't want them to play college bullet because I know
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what corn would do to him. He's going to need seasoning,
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man. He's, I mean even under good
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scenario, So he would need a little bit of seasoning and
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that's no knock on Bullock. I think he has a very good arm
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but I think both in terms of reeds and in terms of kind of
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those intermediate routes and decision-making.
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I think he's still not quite there yet and we're going to
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need a little bit of seasoning before.
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We're ready to roll him out there against a CCD fences
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through. All right.
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Um one more that was in the portal that landed somewhere.
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Local guy here to us in the Year ta Jackson who's out of
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Cumberland County. So just to the West on the bus
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here, landed Ohio, I think it's a good spot for him.
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I think that's a chance for TJ's.
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Probably going to get a chance to compete for a starting spot.
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I think Frank solich is still out there in Ohio, really?
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I feel like since soldiers got there about 13, 14 years ago,
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they're always a good team. They want to make always solid
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never great. Always solid one, the Macintosh
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Apple pay Times. Had some good years best of luck
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to TJ? I think it gives him the best
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opportunity to play. Although now after everything
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that's happened here, TJ, please come back.
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Alright, Braun. Right time, here we go.
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Fumbling out of the end zone and the defense getting the ball is
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bullshit. Elaborate.
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All right, so they did not see someday.
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Cleveland driving getting ready? Scored?
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Touchdown. Higgins.
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Gets the ball. He's going for it.
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The linebacker from Kansas City lays.
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Essentially a illegal hit to him.
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He fumbles the ball in the end. And it takes a couple perfect
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bounces out. The defense got rewarded for an
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illegal hit and doing nothing that rule has got to fucking
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change. I Am with You 1000%.
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I'm going to go a step further. I threw it all the Twitter
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timeline earlier tonight. Do you know what?
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Is not even as bad of a punishment for an offense.
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As this rule, was that a fucking safety getting knocked into your
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own end zone is less. It gets punished less than this
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penalty because you get 2 points in to give the ball away, right?
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Yeah, you've up your in field goal range, in this case.
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So you're giving away three points at least And you're
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giving them the ball at the 20. So a safety is less punishment
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than fumbling the ball as you're going into score.
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I did it. Now we have our own variety here
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of what should happen? I'm going to go with mine first
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because mine's a little different than yours.
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Mine is if you were to Fumble the ball out of the end zone.
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No one recovers. I think you take it back to the
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line of scrimmage loss of down, go to the next town.
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Because in some way unless you just let it go, the defense did
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do something so if you were at the 40 they did something.
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I don't think he should be able to gain by making a mistake, but
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I don't think you should get the ultimate sacrifice of all the
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other team gets the ball even though they did little to
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nothing to, you know, get it yours is different though.
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Yes, I am going to essentially throw an olive branch to who
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Whoever the fuck out there actually likes this Rule now.
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Say okay. Well you say there's too many
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rules out there that favor the offense.
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We need something that actually hurts the offense here.
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Okay fine if you fumble the ball into the end zone and goes out
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of bounds you lose your down and you also have to spot the ball
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at let's say, let's say the 15 or the 20 yard line.
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Something that still makes the offense have to earn the next
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play that they're not set up for like you know, where they can
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run the ball up the gut for a touchdown or something like
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that, just to take advantage of the, the previous play.
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So I think that would give a little bit of equity there
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without being like, oh, well you fumbled, you got to give them
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the ball now. The fuck they did nothing.
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They didn't even recover it, it just went out of the endzone.
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So we hate that rule. Although, you know certain
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coaches, teach not to extend the ball.
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When you get down there, Belichick's the most noted,
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clearly, our coaching staff changes that as well see.
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Clemson. Yeah.
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Blackshear running shoulder first into the line.
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They're like, yeah, I guess two weeks earlier, they bitched a
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guy for extended the ball and losing it.
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Yeah. All right, let's move on to our
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primary topics of the day, folks.
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We're going to take a look at some of the 2021 recruiting
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class tonight. We're going to be looking at all
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of the early enrollees along with a few of the other selected
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guys a couple weeks from now. Just in case we add any
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additional players you know we're going to hit the rest of
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them now Top in. I want to just go ahead and hit
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this. Currently, we are the 43rd
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ranked class and the country it is up from last year, 10th in
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the ACC on it's not great. There are some players in here
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that I think, I think Brian, you've kind of felt this way the
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whole time. There's certain guys that we
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discussed the night, and a couple weeks that if they had
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played normal Seasons, they probably would have got
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significant bumps. And probably help where we're
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rated but it is what it is. Also if you were to put any of
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these guys in a class with maybe one or two four stars all weird
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and then you're talking about it, you're talking about a class
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that you can really kind of hang your hat on a little bit even if
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it's not where we want to be as at least where we have been
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consistently and historically so it's at least maintaining some
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of our better. Better region of recruiting even
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if Not necessarily exceeding and getting where we want to be but
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right now we're Treading Water. We're Treading Water, we're not,
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we're not, you know in the top five in the ACC like we're used
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to in terms of recruiting but we're also not in the very
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bottom or the bottom three or four like we were in 2020.
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I know some of that obviously was based on Size of the class,
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but they would that that's the rankings are the rankings, we
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can't change that. So that's what it was.
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But we had a we had 10 guys that enrolled early enrolled in
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January. So we're going to we're going to
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hit those guys today and kind of talk about them a little bit.
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And then we got five guys that I've kind of just I pulled out
28:07
his kind of guys I think could be or probably the higher
28:11
profile players in the class at Already on campus.
28:15
Exactly. All right.
28:16
So what we're going to do is I'm going to introduce the player
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rating, all that stuff and then I'm going to ask Brian three
28:24
questions and he's going to answer them questions.
28:27
You can be the same throughout. All right, so let's start Brian
28:29
with the easiest and notes notable.
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Early enrollee is Jack. Hollifield Dax is a little
28:35
brother. The 6 foot 3, 225 pounds Shelby
28:39
High School. Shelby North Carolina listed
28:42
tight end / it Inside linebacker apparently, we want him as a
28:47
tight end but that's no guarantee three-star. 87, you
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know, top 35 is rated as an inside linebacker.
28:59
You know, offers from as well as Tech, you know, he had some
29:03
offers from Michigan appstate, Maryland.
29:07
So Brian. My first question, I'll ask each
29:10
time is what is going to be Jack?
29:12
Holly feels 2020. One role on this team, I think
29:16
he's going to be a really good scout team player.
29:21
Wow, Mom even know special teams I think he could see some
29:25
special teams I think just based on his athleticism he might
29:28
crack some special teams but he I mean he's a he's a good
29:32
player. I think he brings Versatility to
29:37
the the Forefront which we have really highlighted in our more.
29:42
Recent classes is trying to get players that excel at multiple
29:46
positions and that we could potentially move around as
29:48
needed to fill some of the roster holes, which is, you
29:52
know, if you're not going to stack your roster properly, it's
29:57
good to have versatile players where you can fill in holes as
29:59
needed. I'd like to prefer us do a
30:03
better job of roster management. Management and scouting and
30:08
recruiting players to make sure that we don't have depth issues
30:12
at certain positions. But you know sometimes injuries
30:16
and sometimes departures create those but we've done a poor job
30:19
of roster management in general so I feel like versatile guys
30:23
especially like Jack are going to be helpful there and on the
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Special Teams so yeah probably a special teams role but I don't
30:30
think you see him getting very much playing time.
30:35
At a position whether it's inside linebacker or tight end
30:38
in 2021. All right, I'm not looking at
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2022. I want to look a couple years
30:43
down the road for these guys because by that time that's when
30:45
you expect them to be doing some big, what do you think his role
30:49
is going to be in 2023? I think a lot of that is going
30:53
to depend on what happens at linebacker this year next year,
30:58
okay? So essentially you're saying, if
31:02
we screw the pooch recruiting a If we screw the pooch recruiting
31:08
a couple, good linebackers to go with someone.
31:11
We're going to talk about here later, easy.
31:13
They're gonna flip them. That's that's my feeling right
31:17
now. I think more naturally, he would
31:20
be would fit in it tight end and what we like to do.
31:23
I think he very much could have a dog in Keene type role in the
31:27
offense little more. I think in terms of the passing
31:33
game could be a little more more use than Dalton was.
31:36
But kind of a do-it-all type jack of all trades at the tight
31:39
end position, if that comes to fruition.
31:43
But I think if we don't do the right things at linebacker I can
31:47
see him playing defense. Wow.
31:49
All right what's his best attribute and you can do you can
31:53
do it for Titan or linebacker yeah so best attribute is
31:57
probably going to be as versatility but in terms of
31:59
actual tool on the field, I feel like it's going to be his
32:04
ability to move in space. Just watching his film.
32:07
He seems very natural in terms of how he moves on the field.
32:12
So I feel like that's going to do well for him, whether it ends
32:15
up being inside linebacker force or whether it ends up being tied
32:19
in. Got it.
32:21
All right, we'll roll on another hokey.
32:25
Brother combo will look at next Jalen Stroman.
32:28
The six 190-pound defensive back out of Patriot High School and
32:32
notes Ville Virginia three-star 88 a top 50 safety, a top 15
32:38
players in the state of Virginia.
32:41
Brian obviously we've been talking about safety depth for
32:43
the last, you know, few weeks here.
32:45
What do you see as Jones potential role on the 2021 team?
32:48
Here's a guy out. The gate, I think he's Have a
32:51
big impact on special teams. I think he's going to see some
32:55
time probably only at least one special team grouping, if not a
33:00
couple he's he does a really good job of tackling so I'm
33:06
hoping that at least see him on, you know, some punt return may
33:10
be some sort of Punt and maybe some some kick returns so will
33:18
We'll hopefully see him out there on the field in that role.
33:21
We could see him as a at the safety position, maybe it at
33:27
Rover. Does he have a chance for too
33:31
deep? If like, everything went perfect
33:35
for him, he comes in, he gains perfect.
33:38
May be too deep, but I could at least see him as being, maybe a
33:40
late-game rotational player. Somebody that we're in year one
33:44
just trying to get on the field and garbage time whether it's
33:47
you know us winning or somebody else waiting, just getting him
33:51
some snaps out there against live competition.
33:53
I think that that's going to be what we see.
33:55
So maybe not a You know, someone you would call a role player but
34:00
definitely potential. Contributor out the gate.
34:03
All right, 20:23 roll 2023 rule. I think he's definitely at least
34:10
in the too deep, if not the starter at Rover.
34:13
All right. Easy enough.
34:14
There was genuine, the best attribute.
34:17
When you look through this tape and look back at your notes on
34:20
run fills. Oh God, this is your first time.
34:29
We are debating next year. If Brian should do a weekly
34:32
YouTube to segment about terrible.
34:35
Safety run, feels it. Is something he has a good job
34:40
of hanging and fitting where he needs to tackles pretty well.
34:44
So they mean those are things right out the gate that are
34:47
going to you know give Coach has a reason to try to get him on
34:50
the field as much as they can. So but you know that's going to
34:54
definitely be the attribute that that coaches are talking about
34:57
the most all we're all We'll stay in the state of Virginia
35:01
and go to Jalen Jones. The wide receiver, 61 185 out of
35:05
Thomas. Jefferson down in the RV.
35:08
A three-star. 88 top hundred receiver ranked 16th in the
35:13
state of Virginia. Didn't get to play this year,
35:18
which I hate for him, especially what they were doing down at
35:21
t.j. or that guy was really building it and Jalen was just
35:25
bawling. Yep.
35:27
What can couldn't really see anything.
35:29
You'll time for 2021. You know, lot of that's going to
35:33
depend on what guys on our roster Step up Transformer out.
35:39
Like Evan fairs did. Yeah.
35:41
Yeah. I mean so we've got, you know, a
35:46
bunch of got a couple guys that came in last class that you had
35:50
their Redshirt year. I'm using air quotes here
35:53
because it didn't really count. So, you know, guys like Tyree
35:58
might end up taking some steps and make become a role player
36:01
for us. 4:21, so if things like that happen pay you comes back
36:06
and is healthy and playing. Well, we may not see a whole lot
36:09
of Jalen, but if a couple of those guys either don't take
36:12
steps or not, we're there need to be, or aren't healthy.
36:17
You know, I could potentially see in Jalen getting probably,
36:20
not any heavy snap count, but enough snap count to, you know,
36:24
to talk about. But more than likely, he's going
36:27
to be a special team, contributor in your one, I
36:32
gotcha. You kind of going back to what
36:35
we were discussing in this plumber, when he committed 2023
36:38
role, is he going to be the why it is that going to be his kind
36:41
of top in, I think so, you know, I think the way he runs routes
36:50
is going to going to help him and I think that in some of the
36:54
the other things he does well with his hands, that could be
36:59
the role for him long term. But I think, definitely by 23.
37:04
He's a guy that seeing a significant snap count and and
37:09
doing some good things for us. All right, I'm going to just
37:13
guess and you tell me if I'm wrong or right his best
37:15
attribute is those hands or do you think something else I'd say
37:20
probably is Route running? Yeah, I think he runs some
37:24
pretty good routes. He needs to probably develop A
37:32
little bit more in terms of the full tree, but the routes that
37:36
he runs runs runs. Damn well, so when you say Ron's
37:41
well he done round, he's crisp. He makes his Cuts where I think.
37:46
I think this weekend, they more receivers, got land-based it for
37:49
rounding their routes, then or her like rounding the route out.
37:54
So he basically, if you ask him to go run a square end, he's not
37:58
going to round it. He's going to get there.
37:59
He's going to get to his spot. He's going to make that cut.
38:01
Yeah, he's got good fundamentals.
38:03
Within the the areas that he does, well, they haven't really
38:07
flexed him a whole lot in terms of the route tree, but the
38:10
routes they give him consistently, he runs very well.
38:13
All right. Well let's go down to Texas to
38:17
VT for our next guy. Dewayne Lofton wide receiver out
38:21
of North Side, High School in Fort Worth Texas, 510 175 3-star
38:27
considered an athlete a top 60 athlete.
38:30
Eat held 23 total offers, including Colorado is one of his
38:37
big ones along with Indiana. Louisville, Mississippi State,
38:43
and obviously TCU who were fighting there, at the end for
38:46
him, he was all State, Texas 5A and he was essentially his
38:51
District Player of the Year. Where do you see the Wayne
38:55
Lofton fitting into the 2021 Hokies?
38:59
You know, that's the one that I've been struggling with a
39:01
little bit because I feel like if we're going to see a receiver
39:06
kind of pop and get a significant snap count in year
39:09
one, this might be the guy, but it's going to be a lot of
39:13
different factors that play in there.
39:14
So in terms of comfort with that statement, I feel more
39:18
comfortable saying much like Jalen Jones going to be a heavy
39:22
special teams contributor. Before I would say he's going to
39:25
necessarily crack the 3D but wide receiver.
39:29
But with that all being said you know there's potential for him
39:34
to like I said with Jalen if there's a couple areas where
39:38
folks aren't quite there, he could think it's sneak in there.
39:42
I mean he's another guy that's versatile.
39:43
They mean they they did line him up in the backfield sometimes in
39:48
that offense so he can do a little bit of everything.
39:54
All right. Um so just the way you're
39:56
talking about him. Your I'm guessing 2023 if he's
39:59
not on the field every snap you're going to be shocked.
40:02
Yeah, he's definitely a guy that's going to have to be one
40:05
of those folks that take some big steps for us and gets on the
40:08
field. I'm hoping at least playing in
40:10
the slot if not outside for us by the time, 2023 rolls around
40:15
because he's got a lot of talent.
40:19
Good hands high point in the ball, you catching.
40:23
The Run making big plays with the ball in his hands.
40:27
So if he's not doing what similar to, what may be a table
40:32
on Robinson is doing now in about 20 23 then then we
40:36
probably dropped the ball there. Hmm.
40:39
All right, you've mentioned a lot of his skill sets.
40:41
What do you think is the best of those attributes other than his
40:45
versatility and being able to line up really at any receiver
40:49
position and in the backfield he's got good hands and hype.
40:53
Points the ball. Well, when he's got tight
40:55
coverage on him. So I think those attributes will
40:57
play well, just because that means he can truly do a lot of
41:01
different things. He's not taking out just because
41:05
you've got a man, you know, running stride for stride with
41:08
him. All right, all right, let's move
41:12
back over. Who to the Mid-Atlantic?
41:14
And let's take a look at Mike Johnson, the athlete out of West
41:17
Florence and Florence South Carolina. 511, 180 pounds 3
41:21
star. 86 by 24/7 held offers from Louisville.
41:28
Mississippi State, NC State as well.
41:32
I guess 20 21, where do you think she's considered an
41:36
athlete? What are you seeing?
41:38
Probably finding his footing at as much as getting on a chance
41:41
to get on the field? You know, that's a really good
41:45
question. I could see him.
41:49
Maybe eventually slide again, as kind of a kind of a nickel core.
41:54
Type role for us if not there, you know, potentially moving out
41:59
to boundary safety Rover, but I think hopefully nickel corner is
42:04
where he's going to find his footing 511. 180, probably still
42:09
needs a little bit more size for that role, but I hopefully
42:12
long-term he will be able to grow into that and become that
42:15
Forest. But initially, I thought the
42:16
gate probably scout team to special teams Tribute ER, for
42:24
Nike and in 2021. All right, so you kind of laid
42:28
it out there that you kind of seen as in between maybe a
42:31
safety or nickel type position. I mean, is I mean do you see him
42:36
being a starter in 2023 or Z is going to be more depth than
42:39
anything? I think he's going to be death
42:41
by then you know a lot of its going to depend on the
42:44
development Factor there and if he's able to put, put the weight
42:47
on, keep the speed and kind of learn the system and climb the
42:52
ladder there. But I definitely see him as a
42:55
potential contributor by 2023, but I don't think we're going to
42:58
crack the starting lineup unless either he projects higher than
43:03
we anticipate or something, goes horrendously wrong in terms of
43:07
our handling of the roster, all the way things went lately.
43:11
That could happen. I'm not gonna hold my breath on
43:15
it. Oh yeah, we're not talking back
43:17
here. That's not a rebellion.
43:19
Your average recruit in a given class is going to have this.
43:23
This type of greed. So no knock here at all after
43:28
you form. There's not a ton of tape out
43:32
there for him. So looking at some of the things
43:35
I did find, I think he does a good job tackling which is the
43:40
big thing that I saw from him that I think will translate
43:45
well. I didn't give a whole lot of
43:46
tape to see from him, mostly just like little Clips here and
43:49
there that I was able to find. But what I found that seemed to
43:54
be the thing that stood out for me.
43:55
In terms of being able to tackle for a for a player, his size.
43:59
All right, let's roll along. And let's go up to Jersey, take
44:03
a look at Jalen Hoyle the three-star, a tab Dwight Morrow,
44:07
High School in Englewood. New Jersey listed as a six foot
44:11
180, safety guy who also held offers from West Virginia and
44:16
Georgia Tech where do you see him Landing in 2021 run?
44:24
I think much like some of the other guys we've talked about
44:26
this is going to be scout team to a fringe special teams roll.
44:32
I think the fact that he's playing safety and then
44:35
projected to play safety, may end up maybe fast tracking him a
44:38
little bit more and potentially that boundary safety position
44:42
were or free safety depending on, you know, how the hell that
44:46
matchup goes. But in terms of 20 21, I just
44:50
think because of some of the other guys were bringing in, in
44:53
the A portal and and where I think strowman is, in terms of a
44:58
guy that's coming in, I think he's probably behind him at the
45:00
safety position. So, probably not quite cracking
45:04
that in any sort of role that would give him significant snaps
45:08
in 2021. All right, so 2023 depth and I
45:14
mean based off what you're seeing now and other people, I
45:19
mean, is 24 over his best too deep.
45:24
Yeah, cuz I think he has more potential to play the free
45:28
safety role than Stroman. So I think he might end up
45:31
sliding in there. He does a good job of tracking
45:36
the ball when it's in the air and making some big hits at the
45:39
point of the catch which kind of goes into your next question.
45:44
What's his best attribute? That's what he does.
45:46
The best apples are not trying to bury the lead here but
46:06
Virginia Beach 63 205 inside linebacker three-star, 84
46:11
rating. You know, is he a total of 12
46:16
offers, you know, all around looked at NC State, Bandy UVA
46:21
Wake Forest and West Virginia Also, had some interest piqued
46:25
inventors from Wisconsin. I immediately see 63 205, I
46:33
mean, unless he has gained a ton of weight since the last time he
46:37
was weight, or he can gain a ton of weight, I mean I'm assuming
46:42
not even cracking the too deep, right?
46:46
Not year one. No, definitely not your one.
46:49
I think he's got the potential to be a special teams.
46:52
Contributor obviously heavy scout team role for him.
46:57
I think are too deep is going to be pretty solid unless he comes
47:01
in and just you know, completely knocks the socks off of folks
47:05
and does some things that that we're not seeing out the gate or
47:09
seeing based on his size there but, you know, who knows.
47:13
But I think you know, more than likely It's going to be a
47:16
special teams roll and a heavy Scout team rotation for 4ec.
47:21
They're all right. I'm taking a look at this and
47:25
kind of knowing the depth chart about linebacker because it's
47:27
one of those having real acting all these guys, two years from
47:31
now. He needs to be 2012.
47:35
There he needs to be our backup might because Shawn right needs
47:39
to be like if he doesn't we are in deep shit depth-wise at
47:43
linebacker. Yeah, absolutely.
47:45
Yeah. He needs.
47:46
He needs to be the guy, at least in one of the linebacker roles,
47:50
but preferably the inside linebacker role, he hopefully
47:54
he's somewhere around 225 230, well, 63 frame rate frame
48:02
anymore. As well.
48:04
Sideline to sideline. So that's going to be the thing
48:07
that is that I see out the gate that he's going to do well.
48:11
So that's definitely his best attribute is the ability to kind
48:13
of move sideline to sideline. So he runs pretty well, I'm
48:17
hoping that he can get some more size on him.
48:19
So he's able to take on those guards and Sinners and double
48:22
teams that he's going to get at that inside position.
48:28
All right Braun. You almost said it that feel
48:32
like just the way he's built, you think that's his best
48:34
attribute or is it something stuff you've seen on the field?
48:38
Yeah definitely his ability to kind of run sideline to sideline
48:41
which is going to be necessary I think in kind of what we're
48:44
doing now in terms of the scheme that jam has.
48:50
So hopefully that's going to translate and like I said,
48:52
hopefully he gets enough size in there where he's not going to be
48:55
neutralized at the point of attack.
48:59
Obviously coming down from 75. You know, he's definitely played
49:02
some good competition. But you know, as always, you
49:07
know, it's going to be a step up as you get into the Collegiate
49:09
level. All right, Brian.
49:12
Next person I want to look at is sort of an under-the-radar guy
49:15
only other offer he had was from Charlotte that we kind of know
49:19
of generic table, 64 225 tied in at a Grove High School down in
49:26
the 336. Winston Salem.
49:32
We you know, low-rated but feels like a good bill does he have
49:36
any chance to see the field? Any in 2021?
49:40
I think you do stuff with special teams.
49:42
He's got a decent amount of athleticism coming out the gate
49:45
good size, so I think that alone is potentially going to give him
49:50
maybe some chance to get on a single specialty and get some
49:53
reps up there even if it's not the front line guys.
49:58
But yeah in terms of 2021 outside of maybe Maybe some spot
50:02
Duty on special teams. I don't see a whole lot of
50:04
contribution at the gate. All right.
50:07
I'm trying to think here. How are you know how our death
50:13
looks right now? And tight in obviously Big Stone
50:16
Gap, comes back, Big Stone. Gap comes in, has a good season,
50:21
he's going to be going in the first 50 picks of the NFL draft
50:23
next year. Your question about you've got
50:28
Gallo, who has definitely his set role but I feel like, I
50:32
think giveaway, I think Gallo, I feel like they're probably doing
50:36
The similar type stuff. So I think Gallo has a couple
50:39
more years of Eligibility is essentially.
50:41
He was he waiting for Galilee by 2023.
50:46
Yeah, that's probably, that's probably his chance of having a
50:48
significant role in the team is having Gallo out by 2023.
50:52
He'll probably cracked the too deep at that point.
50:55
And I think that's going to be that's going to be good for him.
50:58
He's not a guy that we recruited as to be a guy that's going to
51:02
be Frontline Talent at the position.
51:04
So, hopefully there's somebody else in the pipeline that we're
51:07
bringing in to kind of backfill, as well on.
51:10
We're hoping Jack gets to play tight end.
51:13
Yes, That is the Hope but if not yet.
51:23
So, this is kind of an insurance policy on that and hoping that,
51:29
you know, we get some solid Talent from from some somewhere
51:32
else that fill out the 3D rotation that we tend to go to
51:38
for most of these guys. So I usually have three tight
51:41
ends that are heavy contributors for us.
51:43
Even if they are not necessarily getting Targets in the And game.
51:46
Yep, Gallo is a redshirt sophomore that year.
51:49
So he technically has three years.
51:51
Should be a redshirt senior 2023.
51:56
What does it again? What's the best attribute to
51:58
get? Well, what's the one thing he
52:00
did on tape? Or you just see from his body?
52:02
That you say, that's like, if he can take that and put that to
52:07
the 10th power. He's going to do great things.
52:10
Kid can block like a tackle. Whoo.
52:13
Yeah. So, I mean, you know, I don't
52:16
know if we're talking about, like, you know, Dwayne Brown
52:18
here. But Brian, are you just saying
52:22
if he comes in at 240? It depends off, he blocks really
52:32
well. That's one thing I see is a good
52:37
good center of gravity with his dry blocks with his reach
52:39
blocks. Puts guys to the turf.
52:43
So I mean, that's what you like to see from a tight end so that
52:47
might that might be the thing that gets him on the field in
52:50
2023. Even if he's not one of those
52:53
first or second line guys, you know, there's going to be
52:55
packages where we have multiple tight ends out there, and if
52:57
we're running the ball, he might be one of those guys.
53:01
All right, let's move on to the guy who came the farthest to be
53:06
on campus and to me, it's amazing.
53:09
He got early enrolled, it's amazing.
53:11
He's on campus. Yeah, all things considered with
53:15
covid. In fact, he's there.
53:17
He's like, yo, military took the German be 63, 290-pound, 3 star
53:26
guard out of, you know, out of Germany.
53:29
The one thing Brian, you said immediately to me when you saw
53:34
that pic online was His size like yeah, he really is 290.
53:43
I mean I'm going to assume that 2021.
53:46
He's not well shit, I don't know, it's bad.
53:49
As we are guard death right now. I mean we're not I'd say we're
53:56
heard more tackle than we are at guard just because I think
53:59
Hansen probably is more Naturally Fit at guard even
54:05
though he can play tackle. That's why I would have
54:09
preferred of the two losses. I feel like the Nestor loss is,
54:15
is worse, because Nestor could play both, but probably play
54:19
could play tackle even better than he was playing it and
54:21
guard, especially long-term with some of the areas we have need
54:26
wise. But the thing I like, I don't
54:30
necessarily know that there's a role for him on this team in
54:34
2021. So, he's again, I think at this
54:41
point, he's just I'm happy that he's here and I'm happy that
54:44
he's going to be Additional depth in a just in case
54:49
scenario. But oh God, I'm hoping we don't
54:55
get to that while man. Now, Brian, he know, obviously
55:00
he was brought us by Paul Alexander longtime NFL line
55:05
coach who essentially you feel like he's just getting paid by
55:10
people to go overseas to countries and hate fine kids
55:15
playing football. How could he crack too deep two
55:20
years from now? There's potential.
55:24
I mean, he's definitely a guard that there's no moving him to
55:27
tackle. None of that.
55:30
Just looking at the his footwork, his frame and the
55:35
weight, some of the tape, he's definitely a guard.
55:38
He plays like a guard, his past Pro in his step and is set are
55:44
very guard. Like I don't think he has the
55:46
set and speed to play a tackle at the power 5 level.
55:53
But can be perfectly good as a guard at this level, because you
55:56
can move laterally in a pool scenario, but just getting out
55:59
of his stance and the kick that he would need in that set is
56:03
just not quite there for a tackle, but I can see him being
56:08
too deep in 2023, maybe 3D. I don't necessarily think he's a
56:15
guy that's going to be a Frontline player for US, unless
56:18
something changes, but good depth, good guy that you can
56:21
maybe plug-in and I need Sarah scenario here you bastard you
56:28
just having the body like already like yeah they not
56:32
having to do a whole lot in terms of adding sighs.
56:37
It's, we're talking about more refining.
56:39
What's there than it is? Adding to it?
56:43
So, I think that's the big thing for him is that, you know, you
56:46
throw 10 pounds of muscle on there and, you know, Define
56:49
things up a little bit and you're rolling.
56:52
All right, all right. Let's take a look next at the
57:01
Sean Elder. The safety safety.
57:06
A union 61 200 pounds. No, real rating, but I see that
57:14
build, and I'm automatically thinking with the year at Fork
57:17
Union even though probably didn't get to play this year,
57:22
just getting that development. Probably makes him a guy who
57:24
could jump special teams day one.
57:28
Yeah, you might see him special teams day one.
57:30
I don't know if you're going to see him in a role where Where he
57:34
would lose a red shirt over getting him on the field.
57:38
Okay, but again, he's at a another position where we need
57:42
some depth. So there's always a outside
57:45
chance just like this year with, you know, Chianti Jenkins having
57:48
to get in there on a significant amount of games and snaps for
57:52
us, but when he was healthy. But I don't think that's going
57:58
to be the situation for us this year.
57:59
Even with some of the depth issues, I think he's going to
58:01
definitely be kind of a redshirt type player potential, seeing
58:06
some special teams role even if it's only you know, a set number
58:10
of games so we can still keep that red shirt on him but long
58:14
term, I think might look a little better.
58:17
We'll see. All right, 20:23 obviously we
58:22
mentioned quite a few safeties in this class.
58:25
You know what do you feel mean? His best case scenario too deep,
58:30
probably best case in the area to DP.
58:32
I mean I think he could play the free maybe a little bit better
58:36
than he would play The Boundary safety or the Rover but he's got
58:41
good ball skills. Just looking at some of his tape
58:43
he does a good job of getting to where the ball is and when he
58:49
gets interceptions he does a good job of having some Vision
58:52
to take those bags so he takes a good play and makes it a great
58:55
place. So that's something that you
58:56
know as pokefans we like to see because we love seeing those
59:00
defensive touchdowns. Go ahead and write this down
59:03
attribute when he makes the plays, he makes it big so we'll
59:11
move on to our next guy. Now that is alternate the guys
59:15
that have been rolled they are on campus.
59:17
They are taking Glasses. They're doing the weight
59:19
program. The next few guys are some of
59:22
our higher-end guys that I think Brian probably one of the
59:25
biggest reason you pulled them. Is they potentially have a
59:28
chance to make more impact year one.
59:30
Let's start highest-rated guy in the class DJ Harvey.
59:34
The 511 165 lb Corner out of Sierra, Canyon in Chatsworth,
59:39
California for Star, you know, 20-plus offers including
59:45
Arizona, Arizona State Auburn. LSU Braska Notre Dame run for DJ
59:54
Harvey. 2021. Can he see the field and
59:59
significant a significant role? I think yes and there's several
1:00:05
reasons. I'm going to say this, I'm going
1:00:08
to start with the first one punt, returner, and kick
1:00:12
returner sumbitch can do it. What do we struggle with a lot?
1:00:19
This season, hot more than kick but more than kick and we had
1:00:23
probably one of the better, but we lost one of those guys to to
1:00:28
the draft now. But one of our better kick
1:00:31
return years but now we don't have Herbert anymore.
1:00:35
This guy returns punts returns kicks.
1:00:39
Please wide receiver at a borderline.
1:00:43
Power 5 level and is a definite power, 5 cornerback.
1:00:47
So the versatility and the ability to play special teams
1:00:51
out. The gate is going to mean, he's
1:00:53
going to have a chance to get on the field.
1:00:56
All right. I think he would probably have
1:00:58
more of a chance in a special teams role or potentially even
1:01:06
Cracking the the two or three deep at the the quarterback spot
1:01:11
but potentially seeing some snaps on the offensive side,
1:01:13
just to mix things up. He's definitely a cornerback
1:01:17
meeting room guy, he's not a guy that's going to be, you know,
1:01:22
sitting in on wide receiver, meetings or anything like that,
1:01:24
but definitely the potential there.
1:01:26
If you wanted to use him as a gadget, or a trick play every
1:01:30
now and then right 20:23, should he be a starter?
1:01:35
If he's not a starter then we probably got a bad evaluation on
1:01:40
this guy but I don't think that's the case.
1:01:42
I really like his tape. Like I said I like his
1:01:46
versatility he is a athlete with the capital A and he's a
1:01:51
playmaker with a capital P. Alright.
1:01:54
Well the ACT will see attribute that you saw in those tapes that
1:01:57
just jumped out that said this is why he can get on the field
1:02:01
early. But by 2023 he can be playing
1:02:04
potentially the boundary. Under type position.
1:02:07
All hawk in the ability to recover when he gets a bad read,
1:02:12
my love that, I love the second more than the first.
1:02:15
Because when you hear ability to recover, it means, you don't
1:02:20
have to be perfect. And, how many times have we seen
1:02:24
fish last? Few years?
1:02:25
Corners aren't perfect Gibby game over versus we go back to
1:02:31
our younger days with guys like d, hauled flowers.
1:02:35
Kendall, Fuller brand fly our brand of face on.
1:02:38
They got beat, but when they recovered that hand got in there
1:02:42
and they took it. Yeah, sure.
1:02:45
For you. Brian coaching and seeing
1:02:47
especially on offense. I do we meet the guy he
1:02:49
recovered and he tipped, it's like deflating exactly man and
1:02:54
that's what I like the most about him is that he's not a guy
1:02:59
that just because he loses a step or he, you know, rotated
1:03:04
his hips a little bit. It too late or too early, he's
1:03:07
going to give up on the play. I mean, he still going to try to
1:03:10
get their got the speed to recover.
1:03:13
Got the ability to know. Well, okay, well, I missed here
1:03:18
but I see what he's doing now. He gets to the spot.
1:03:20
He needs to get to, and has those skills to really still
1:03:24
make the play even when he's not in position.
1:03:28
In the first five, ten yards of the route?
1:03:30
Yeah, the only thing I wish, I wish you was on campus to go
1:03:34
ahead and start. Art sighs.
1:03:37
Sighs Harvey, If you listening you follow us on Twitter, let me
1:03:45
by mistake protein protein protein, keep it lean, you keep
1:03:51
him running but get them calories up.
1:03:56
I say this because the way you described him if he was on
1:03:59
campus and in between January and the end, Summer.
1:04:06
He could gain 15 or 20 pounds and he was playing 180. 185 the
1:04:10
way you talked about his skills. He would be one of those guys
1:04:14
pushing for a 2d position quit. Now again maybe the thing is he
1:04:18
shows up in June oh crap he weighed in at 180?
1:04:22
Yeah. Oh shit, alright.
1:04:26
Now the next guy essentially has no weight issues Kenji,
1:04:30
Christian, the running back at a penson Valley Alabama. 62, 200
1:04:35
pounds 3 star overall, I'm held authors also from Arkansas and
1:04:40
Duke, He ain't got no size problems.
1:04:46
Though he does. He does not have any size
1:04:48
problems. And only thing potentially
1:04:51
keeping him from having at least some role coming in this year.
1:04:56
Is the fact that we have like 30 running backs on our roster and
1:05:00
nobody's transferred out. Yeah, so I mean just as sighs I
1:05:08
mean you could see him end up special teams role but just
1:05:11
because of the sheer amount of running backs, we have a red
1:05:15
shirt is probably the best thing for him.
1:05:19
Only because we don't want to keep stacking guys with with
1:05:22
limiting eligibility, as we're going forward, unless for
1:05:25
whatever reason he's like 3D Talent out, the gate.
1:05:30
Well, if he can stay until 2023 because again, we have 6,000
1:05:37
running backs. I mean do you see him as sort of
1:05:42
the big back of this offense? If this is the offense in two
1:05:45
years, I think he's definitely a too deep guy.
1:05:49
I mean he's got kind of like some Khalil Herbert like
1:05:54
attributes okay the way he moves and the way he kind of gets to
1:06:01
the second level and can turn a good play into a great place.
1:06:06
So okay. I like those attributes and if
1:06:08
he's able to Maintain his speed, keep his size where it is, that
1:06:14
could be the type of role he has.
1:06:16
I don't think necessarily the he's quite got that upside,
1:06:19
although we didn't think that Herbert had that upside when he
1:06:22
came in this year either. So who can sell, who can tell
1:06:27
even the experts had didn't see that coming.
1:06:29
I don't even know if the guys that brought him in from Kansas
1:06:32
saw that as much. I mean, rumor is that they had
1:06:36
to use somebody, put them on him like that was Scout that we did.
1:06:41
Somebody said, hey, this guy's in the portal and he's even
1:06:43
better than the guy that you know, who got the starting role
1:06:47
their Kansas. So who's to say who's to say?
1:06:52
But I think, I like him a lot. He's probably other than and
1:06:57
Harvey. Probably the guy like the most
1:07:00
in this class. Especially in terms of got.
1:07:05
Probably the guy like the most on the offensive side.
1:07:08
No doubt. All right.
1:07:10
We're going to look at three more guys here before we close
1:07:13
out shop all in the trenches. Let's start with matthäus.
1:07:16
Stretch Carroll at a Gilman up in Baltimore.
1:07:19
Maryland, 63 220 three-star. 86 rated overall wish he would have
1:07:27
came down but you know, again it's a crazy year and you don't
1:07:32
know how many guys they can take in, but after seeing Robert
1:07:37
Wooten, get a lot of play. Does he have a chance to get
1:07:42
rotational especially with the waybill Terrell?
1:07:44
Nick likes to rotate. His guys, I don't think we
1:07:49
necessarily see him get rotation out of the gate, he's going to
1:07:53
be kind of Fringe there to me, like his athleticism and I like
1:07:58
the way. The way he works on the field,
1:08:04
we talked about it a lot, this guy's a wrestler as well and
1:08:09
some of that shows up on the field, some of that that work
1:08:14
ethic and the way he keeps going in the motor, but I could see
1:08:19
him Definitely Maybe hitting some of the Special Teams
1:08:22
potentially, but I don't quite like him kind of cracking the to
1:08:28
deepen less he comes on. Campus and make some noise with
1:08:32
just the fall Camp, not having the spring.
1:08:35
All right, 20:23, I definitely think he's a 2d player by 2023.
1:08:44
I'm hoping that he's probably a Frontline player by 2023.
1:08:48
You one of those guys you see especially as I think he's got
1:08:52
intangible. He's got the intangibles that I
1:08:54
like to see play that position. He's also versatile where
1:08:58
they'll stand him up outside and have him rush The Edge as well
1:09:03
as having his hand in the dirt. So he's got that.
1:09:05
Ability as well. So, I think guys like that.
1:09:08
Find their way on the field, and just seeing how he acts on
1:09:13
Twitter and things like that, his leadership, and those type
1:09:18
of things are attributes that are already standing out to me
1:09:21
now, because the attribute questions and today, the other
1:09:23
thing I really liked about him was his wrestling background.
1:09:26
And that usually a lot of times, you see, guys, you hear about
1:09:30
guys, getting on the field quick because they have that sort of
1:09:32
background because You know, what's the one thing you need?
1:09:37
You think on special teams? You need a good tackler.
1:09:39
Usually you bring a wrestling guy in there.
1:09:42
Going to get guys down quick. We understand leverage, they
1:09:45
understand fit. They understand all that shit.
1:09:48
And they also have motor for days.
1:09:51
Now, the one happy about him in the next guy we discuss is,
1:09:54
they're already in the upper in the two 20s to 30s.
1:09:59
So what the hope is, they get in to the weight program get into
1:10:04
the nutrition program. Am is it's a lot easier for them
1:10:07
to get to that 245, 250 where, you know, they can play every
1:10:12
down. Yep.
1:10:13
Speaking of the next guy, Cole Nelson.
1:10:15
Defensive end out of Johns Creek, down in Alpharetta,
1:10:18
Georgia. Three-star guy also held offers
1:10:23
from Boston College and appstate.
1:10:29
What were you thinking cold? What if I compared you to cold
1:10:32
to stretch? Who do you thinks he's more game
1:10:37
lock this year? I'd probably say stretch even
1:10:43
though I think Cole's probably body-wise maybe a little bit
1:10:46
more ready for prime time just because I think Cole has the
1:10:53
potential to slide down into a three technique.
1:10:58
Okay, in a pinch and a pinch played a lot of DN in a three.
1:11:06
Three man front in high school. So, you know, he's got an
1:11:09
ability to carry. Carry some double teams and
1:11:12
things like that. Those are better more typical to
1:11:14
some of the inside the Defenders there.
1:11:18
I like him. I still think he's probably
1:11:22
going to be red shirting in 21. I don't think he's quite going
1:11:27
to be ready for prime time. Maybe get sins on some special
1:11:30
teams, especially in the four-game stretch there that
1:11:35
that they can get before the red shirt comes into play.
1:11:38
But I like is I like his long-term prognosis better than
1:11:43
his immediate return, their wealth and long term, but then
1:11:46
mention a few other things you said I mean are you thinking
1:11:48
2023? He's fighting for the too deep
1:11:50
or you solidly in it. I'd say probably fighting for 2D
1:11:56
but I could see him easily being in there as well.
1:12:00
He's got like you said he's got good size out of the gate.
1:12:03
That's what we're looking for if tear link is still here in 2023.
1:12:09
You know, that that's obviously the hope for for anybody here.
1:12:13
But if cheer link is still here, you know, he likes to rotate,
1:12:16
you know, he likes to get other lines in there.
1:12:19
He likes to mix and match lines from time to time so I could
1:12:21
definitely see him being a guy. That's a heavy rotational player
1:12:25
by 2023. All right, last piece tonight
1:12:29
Braun. Let's take a look at the
1:12:31
offensive guard Bryce good and potentially Center.
1:12:35
The three star out of McMinn High School in Athens.
1:12:38
Tennessee. C-note guy that held a ton of
1:12:43
offers 27, including to some of the ivy league.
1:12:46
So obviously he's got a great, you know, academic head on his
1:12:50
shoulders. 63 to 300 pounds. Already we should again with
1:12:57
guard depth. I wish you was already here so
1:13:00
we can start looking at him but unfortunately he's not I'm
1:13:05
assuming you're thinking pure red shirt for him while he
1:13:07
learned for Pure pure red shirt only because if he was coming in
1:13:13
Spring I could say, you know, maybe he has an impact, maybe
1:13:17
he's at least a guy that's kind of, you know, Fringe 3D that can
1:13:24
potentially Sub in. If need be if we get thin it for
1:13:27
whatever reason, but not having the spring, I think he's
1:13:31
definitely going to have a full red shirt this year but If I'm
1:13:37
thinking past 2021 up to 2023, I can see him at least being a 2d
1:13:42
player. All right?
1:13:44
He does a lot of things. Well, particularly in the Run
1:13:50
game, he's nasty, he gets guys to the dirt, he pulls a lot in
1:13:56
his high school system, and when he gets out there, he does a
1:13:58
good job. So Brom, what about the
1:14:01
attribute? I mean, is it just having the
1:14:03
right size? I think it's the size but also
1:14:06
think his ability to move as an offensive lineman is pretty good
1:14:10
for that size. I think that's the biggest piece
1:14:13
here is that it's not just he's a big guy but he's a big guy
1:14:17
that can still still move around deliver a blow get guys to the
1:14:21
ground. Like I said, I love watching
1:14:23
this guy pull and deliver a blow.
1:14:26
Having that size and the ability to do that, right out.
1:14:29
The gate is going to be a big attribute for him.
1:14:32
Awesome. All right.
1:14:34
Well that is going to wrap up this section of our reviewing of
1:14:40
the recruiting class again. Two weeks from now, we're going
1:14:43
to come back with the remainder. If we add any additional players
1:14:45
want to hit them up. Brian is anything broke over the
1:14:49
last little while I haven't seen anything official about Good old
1:14:56
Darryl, Tapp here. So, right now, it's still a
1:14:59
pending to the 49ers. Hopefully, we'll see something
1:15:02
turn in our favor, although it's not looking promising.
1:15:05
No. Not looking promising at all.
1:15:06
But the only thing that's looked promising.
1:15:09
He hasn't touched Twitter and eight hours.
1:15:13
He hasn't liked anything in eight hours and he hasn't
1:15:17
tweeted or retweeting a couple days here.
1:15:20
So we'll see. You know what?
1:15:25
Happens, best of luck to Darryl, Darryl is an awesome human
1:15:28
beings. We want nothing but the best for
1:15:31
him. So yeah.
1:15:33
Alright, well, that's going to wrap up this episode of The
1:15:36
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