Latest / Boundary Corner Podcast / Hokie Hi Weekend Part One
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- 0:45And welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast with my partner's
- 0:49Brian Siegel and Jonathan tally. I am Curtis Wilson and this
- 0:52portion of this episode is presented by dr.
- 0:56Lourdes Jeremy counts at the Main Street Pharmacy in
- 0:58Blacksburg. If you love this podcast, the
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- 1:05When you make your way to town, whether you've raised their UD,
- 1:09prescriptions a tube of toothpaste or just want to stop
- 1:12and say, hello, let Jeremy and his team take care of you.
- 1:15The money you spent at Main Street.
- 1:16Pharmacy goes towards the things you support.
- 1:19So next time, you're in Blacksburg head on down to 301
- 1:21South Main Street, fellas tally, I got to see you on Saturday,
- 1:28man. Face-to-face, meeting what a
- 1:31blessing after. What six years, four years, our
- 1:34long, it's been, it's been a, it's been at least four years.
- 1:37It's been, at least for every day talking finally had a
- 1:42face-to-face meeting. That's crazy.
- 1:45I tell you man. It was a good time though.
- 1:47We, we got up at Sharkey's. We did some other stuff around
- 1:50the stadium. Yeah it was a good time.
- 1:53It was a good time to whole week.
- 1:54It was a good time though. Y'all hung out and drink Jameson
- 1:57with Jeremy's. What y'all did?
- 2:02Okay. Compared with Jeremy, I'm
- 2:03telling you something else. Italian is that a hat?
- 2:09You purchase this weekend because I don't ever recall you
- 2:11wearing that before. That is man, it is a new hat,
- 2:14man. It's crazy because we stayed in
- 2:16Bristol and as soon as we got there, I stopped by Walmart and
- 2:21they had a Virginia Tech section and a Tennessee section.
- 2:25And I actually got this app from Walmart, then Walmart had that
- 2:29that's a Walmart and I seen it. I was like 12 bucks.
- 2:35Yeah, let me get on that Walmart and it's probably a large up to
- 2:42you. Curtis, we missed you man,
- 2:49missed y'all, two boys, and I got X like 20 times.
- 2:52Where's Curtis? We had a lot of where's Curtis
- 2:56everybody worried about Curtis and tally.
- 2:57I know you told them like Curtis got three kids Curtis can take
- 3:03care of the family and it was a good Down because what we're
- 3:17going to do after tonight, we gonna give you some high-level
- 3:20stuff we saw. Takeaways but Brian tally
- 3:23myself, we're going to get into the film room.
- 3:26Mmm! Take a look at some plays, some
- 3:28things we're seeing, who are feeling better about in our
- 3:32fourth party here Shelton. Well he's gonna be diving into
- 3:34some data and some analytics stuff from the game.
- 3:37So in two weeks, yes to we're finally going to take a break
- 3:41and feel like we've been going for ever and ever.
- 3:42We've been going hard to last two months, man.
- 3:45Yeah, that's not a joke but that content out man, you got to get
- 3:48it out, it's fun. So in two weeks, don't know if
- 3:52he's going to be Tuesday or Wednesday.
- 3:54Yet we have figured that out next week.
- 3:56We're going to be coming back with you.
- 3:57We're going to, we got to spring game somewhere, and we're going
- 4:01to look at some tape and discuss some additional things that we
- 4:04are seeing. But tonight, let's just start
- 4:07this. You guys been talking about it
- 4:08already. Y'all are all around the bird.
- 4:11All weekend tally. Drove up to Bristol stayed
- 4:14there. Drove up for the blast.
- 4:15For the day Brian. Let's start Friday night.
- 4:17You went to Sons of Saturday spring Jam.
- 4:19How was that? That was a blast, man.
- 4:23I rolled in like a little bit past starting time right there
- 4:26at 8:00. Went ahead and had to catch up a
- 4:30little bit because I was driving in from Richmond.
- 4:33Got to the hotel, had me a little love, little G and T,
- 4:37while waiting for the Uber sober over there, rolled in got a
- 4:43double gin and tonic in a tall boy beer to try to catch up with
- 4:49everybody a little bit went and talked to our good fellow Jeremy
- 4:54for a little while. Our other friend Faust was
- 4:57hanging out there so I was I was kicking it with them for a
- 5:00minute. Then I started making some laps
- 5:02made some laps talk to Southside Virginia's finest.
- 5:06David Wilson for a little while. Told him that our boy Robbie is
- 5:11still having nightmares about trying to stop him 15.
- 5:15Years ago, 20 actually a little bit more in that, 18 years ago,
- 5:18now, at this point, right? Yeah, he's still having
- 5:22nightmares trying to do that. So called him for a while, talk
- 5:25to the Edmonds Brothers, all three of them were there.
- 5:29Got to catch up with and get to chat a little bit with our
- 5:33buddy. Pete be I gotta with PB we were
- 5:35doing the show with PB on Saturday.
- 5:37I was like I got a chat with this man for a while, so we
- 5:40talked for a good while our partner that's not here tonight,
- 5:44Sheldon, pull Through got to chat with them for a little bit.
- 5:48Obviously shout out to the sons, Pat Billy Ray got to talk to Pat
- 5:54for a long while so that was good as well but the entire
- 5:58night was a blast man just seeing everybody together,
- 6:02everybody hanging out, everybody, you know, excited for
- 6:06the game, the next day so it was nothing but good vibes there at
- 6:09the at the spring jam. Now the question I have to ask
- 6:12you is because I know you were staying where in Christiansburg
- 6:15Radford Radford, total Ubers spent this weekend, so I spent
- 6:21as much on Uber, as I spent at the bar on Friday, hey, keep
- 6:27your head safe and I'd write about fifty five dollars on the
- 6:31Uber and I dropped about a little over 50 before tip on at
- 6:36the bar. So hey, it was a good thing.
- 6:38Then you went and had your drink on had a blast, not worried
- 6:40about getting back to the hotel. That's important.
- 6:44Alright so that was Friday, night Brian.
- 6:46Did Texas. Pretty early.
- 6:47Woke up said feeling good. What about 7:30 0?
- 6:51That's a man. I was ready to go, man.
- 6:59Let's do this. Obviously you know, Brian texted
- 7:05me and said I said heading to Joe's you had any Carol, he's
- 7:09paralyzed, man. You and got him some donuts on
- 7:12Saturday morning, I saw yogurt. Let's see, let's see.
- 7:15Build up to Sharkey's because y'all got to show our keys.
- 7:17But what did y'all hit up that morning before you get to know
- 7:20you had to drive up to a lie. So when you got in, where did
- 7:22you get up? Oh shoot, we are so Friday
- 7:26night. We went to the, we got to
- 7:29Bristol and went to the casino and stay away too long, the
- 7:34casinos just being built there so they don't have a lot of
- 7:37stuff done and you got that's often.
- 7:40But yeah. You gotta buy drinks and stuff
- 7:42like that. So I didn't get like super
- 7:45Hammered anything, but I got my drink on a little bit there.
- 7:49Try craps for about three hours, made a little bit of money and
- 7:55finally got home and or to the to the room and got into bed
- 7:59about 12:30. I say.
- 8:02Yeah, so we ended up leaving, we got there's about a two hour
- 8:05ride from Bristol to to take. So we left at left at 8:00 so we
- 8:13can get there about 10. And the first thing we did was
- 8:16we went to a couple of couple of like just stores bookstore.
- 8:22I think was campus Emporium. Yeah, a couple other places like
- 8:26that, just to grab some gear. Because, of course, when you and
- 8:28I were Bama, you don't see like that much hokey gear at all.
- 8:33So it was like a kid in a candy store.
- 8:36Just, let's go to the clearance rack.
- 8:39Just grabbing shirts off the clearance rack, for my kids, and
- 8:42my wife and stuff like that. And I should have bought a
- 8:47baseball jersey. I've seen a baseball jersey.
- 8:48I wanted that I didn't get, but the term was moving so quick
- 8:52that by the time, I was really diving into looking for stuff.
- 8:56It was time to get the shark. He's so that's--that that we
- 8:59didn't have much time before we were headed there and that's
- 9:03what we did. So, and rowdies joined us here
- 9:09on YouTube tonight. Well, sounds like a good time
- 9:11and you know what, you going back to you going back to
- 9:12Blacksburg release one more time this year.
- 9:15We know of, so you can tell you where is he then see what you do
- 9:18that after Adventure in from Radford over to downtown over to
- 9:22Carol. He's get you a donut, would you
- 9:23would you, would you get into? So, I headed up to.
- 9:27Well, first, I headed to Kroger had to get a little little PBR
- 9:31for the cooler. So then I had my, I had my gin
- 9:34and tonic in there with my PBR headed up to chicken.
- 9:38He'll shout out Drew and Mary. Got to hang it, there tailgate
- 9:42for a little bit while we were kind of waiting around. 44
- 9:45Sharkey's. Shout out, Stephen Wright.
- 9:49Shout out. Dan folks, who got caught a ride
- 9:52with me over to the Sharky. So we hung out there have some
- 9:56drinks, had some little ham and cheese sliders good way to start
- 10:01the day and yeah about, you know, 10:45 got in a truck
- 10:07headed over to shark. He's parked out there and back
- 10:10and we got the party going. Okay?
- 10:13So first of all, what was divided like It's your keys
- 10:16because from the sound of it, I did listen to y'all that place.
- 10:21I mean, y'all are there at 11:15 that place, sounded absolutely
- 10:24slammed back to limp on the line was around the door when we
- 10:27showed up at 10:45. Damn.
- 10:30And I didn't get there till about maybe about five minutes
- 10:34before you starting, because I was running late.
- 10:37So it was people already in and seated and it was just people
- 10:43everywhere. And they're like, hey y'all in
- 10:44the back. You know, I'm straight in the
- 10:46door, straight to the back. First thing I see a seagull with
- 10:49a big-ass straw hat on. And I'm like, yeah, that's him.
- 10:54You know and if I didn't if I didn't know who I was looking
- 10:57for, I found them real quick. Yeah, it's hard to miss me in
- 11:01that hat, man. Yeah, hard to miss me to have
- 11:05thought he was writing that's there.
- 11:08Now now there has been rumors and y'all were there.
- 11:12So is it? True?
- 11:13There was, there was somebody just sitting at The bar.
- 11:17Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 11:18Pretty pretty, pretty big guy beeping.
- 11:20Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy because I
- 11:24didn't even notice. I didn't like when I came in,
- 11:27well, you possibly muscle into the bad guy was gonna be line.
- 11:30You know what I'm saying? And I should have noticed that
- 11:33many black people around now, so, like a black person that big
- 11:37I should have been noticing, but I mean, I made a beeline to get
- 11:40back there and get started. And then somebody said, I was
- 11:43pretty cool. When you got Kam, Chancellor
- 11:45sitting at the bar, and I was like, Like he's here now and I
- 11:47was never a horse. Sure it's oh, man.
- 11:53When I went back, of course, my wife's like, hey, do you know
- 11:56who that is? And he walks by and he still
- 11:59Jack. I mean, yo, back looks like a
- 12:02door and he's every bit of you know, 65 64, 65 just joked.
- 12:10So why tell her was actually sitting right beside us at our
- 12:14table. Oh shit, till it.
- 12:15Yeah. Tell it microbrew was sitting
- 12:17like I could have reached my hand out and touch them.
- 12:21And that's a big, that's a big man, you know?
- 12:24I'm a big man, but that's a big man, dude.
- 12:27Yeah, so my wife parent that to his Michael Brewer was sitting
- 12:30over there with them. So like the contrast between the
- 12:33two, that's pretty impressive, as well.
- 12:36It was, it was a good time man. It was just everybody mixing
- 12:39them England and, you know, having a good time.
- 12:41And like I said, the Stars while I say Michael Vick walking into
- 12:45the stadium, no, Get to that a little later, but I mean just
- 12:48walking with fans taking pictures like is the spring game
- 12:51was definitely a good time. That was my first first spring
- 12:54game but definitely won't be my last.
- 12:56Hey Brian. We got to do some investigating
- 12:58here. One of our friends from back
- 12:59home works with a Steven. Right?
- 13:02Y'all gonna have to message Steven and a half, not things to
- 13:05not. See I don't think Stephen was a
- 13:08tech Alum, he just a big fan. So okay, hey, small world.
- 13:12All right, so y'all Sharkey's is always bumping Sharkey's.
- 13:16Always fun. It just is, it always has been.
- 13:19It always will be. Did y'all get an O'Brien?
- 13:22You said you were up on chicken Hill?
- 13:23Did y'all hit any other tailgates on the way to the
- 13:26stadium or what else y'all do downtown?
- 13:28So this is one time where I almost wish the kickoff is for
- 13:32because it seemed like there just wasn't enough time in the
- 13:35day to do everything, I wanted to do.
- 13:38Nope, but between hit that hit the tailgate early because I
- 13:42wanted to I had to get a little bit of tailgate Vibes and start
- 13:44the day because I wasn't sure. Sure, your time of day whether I
- 13:48was gonna be able to get back up there so I wanted to get their
- 13:50say hello. You know, get that feeling in
- 13:52there before we went over to Sharkey's and by the time we
- 13:55kind of wrapped up and kind of hung out and kicked it a little
- 13:57bit after the show, you know, it's already like 1130.
- 14:02We're like all right well we got a little time but we don't have
- 14:05a whole lot of time and you know, Jeremy throws out there.
- 14:07Let's go get a rail etat. So that's what we do.
- 14:10You have to get a regular top. It seems so Didn't I didn't I
- 14:17didn't go with my buddy that I was with Mike but, you know, we
- 14:22caught a big drink and they drink.
- 14:24And so he stayed down in Bristol with us and out and we were
- 14:30gonna eat the night before and I guess I don't know what he ate,
- 14:33but I know what he ate but I don't know of what he ate made
- 14:36him sick, but he was sick as a dog.
- 14:38So right after the, you know, the show at Sharkey's, every,
- 14:44but my wife went to the car. And was taking a nap and he was
- 14:48sick and I'm trying to check on him and make sure he gets this
- 14:51truck because he was weak and could barely walk.
- 14:53So I say all that to say I did not know they were the times I
- 14:59went to the field so I ended up getting to the feel about like
- 15:04you know after getting everybody situated about maybe like 215,
- 15:09something like that and as soon as I parked it was a lacrosse
- 15:12game going on. So me just being nice.
- 15:16The I just walked right into lacrosse game at the ladies was
- 15:19playing man and I was like, it was pretty intense, I think they
- 15:23were playing Clemson so it was pretty intense.
- 15:26So I ended up watching it for like 20 minutes.
- 15:30Just, you know, people would tailgate now, you know, passing
- 15:33out drinks and food and I'm just walking slapping hands and
- 15:37watching some lacrosse. And next thing, you know, I'm
- 15:40looking down like, oh shoot, we got to get in because people
- 15:43start pouring into the stadium so that that At it like Brian
- 15:47said, it wasn't a lot of time to maneuver between the event at
- 15:51Sharkey's and then getting inside the inside the game.
- 15:55All right, so what you're telling me right now is if we a
- 16:00if I can go next June, crossing fingers, I don't know that's a
- 16:03long time in the future, right 58.
- 16:05Did the podcast Roundup has to go at like 9:00?
- 16:09Yeah, we got to have a good like now we got a sitar to the rear.
- 16:14Yeah. Well, the problem was Sharkies
- 16:15unopened. 11. So right?
- 16:17But you know what on a game day like that calling people saying
- 16:23listen we want to get here now and do this.
- 16:26I got a feeling that open doors, why not?
- 16:29Because they know people don't come in and drink and make place
- 16:31money just saying just saying we'll do it at the pharmacy if
- 16:36we got to, there we go, whatever we got to do.
- 17:02And I think that's kind of the way everybody's feeling right
- 17:06now is a lot of optimism and based on what happened with the
- 17:09game and based on what they've done with the roster.
- 17:12But let's talk about the roster makeup of the game.
- 17:16M. Do y'all think it favorite
- 17:18anyone side maroon or white, of course?
- 17:21Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 17:23Big time. It was it look here for our
- 17:27house will say. I think your favorite maroon
- 17:30from jump. It definitely favorite maroon
- 17:32once we saw who the the scratches were.
- 17:35Yes. Yeah.
- 17:37And as, you know, if you, if you weaken the trenches, it's going
- 17:40to be not have a long day. So the lines were atrocious for
- 17:47the lighting. Yeah, for a little.
- 17:51Here's the white team starting line you've got ganam, who is a
- 17:56true freshman out there. You got Jack, hollifield you
- 18:00got, Johnny Garrett, Jesse Hansen, and Johnny Dixon, no
- 18:05disrespect act to any of them at all, but the only one we've seen
- 18:11on a football field playing division, one football at a
- 18:14decent level is Hanson. He had his struggles and the one
- 18:17that looked the best for that unit on Saturday was Jack
- 18:21hollifield. And that's a good thing, that's
- 18:24a good thing, we'll get into that stuff later, but then on
- 18:26the other side, you had two more Brothers.
- 18:28Yeah, you had shit who's fighting for that, right?
- 18:30Guards, find you had Parker and metals as well.
- 18:35Bernie Meadows, Brody that right there just told you like you
- 18:39knew as soon as you as soon as I started looking at the game and
- 18:41saw the rosters like that. It was like it's definitely no
- 18:44favorite this way versus that way.
- 18:46Now let me ask y'all boys this because of the makeup and y'all
- 18:51started seeing it. You know, we got that Friday or
- 18:53no Saturday morning started looking through it.
- 18:56Did y'all have one group which like I'm going to be I'm going
- 18:58to be interested to see what they look like together or that
- 19:01group together Talon:. Well yeah.
- 19:04So for me. Once I seen them more Brothers
- 19:08together, just because I know that there, when you look at the
- 19:14offensive linemen, they may not have everything, right?
- 19:17But if they got you hear, people say they got a Mean Streak.
- 19:20If you can have two to three mean streak people close
- 19:23together and they can just Mall some people.
- 19:26They can just create some chaos and I was like, I think Brian
- 19:30may have said it on one of the other shows, I can't wait till I
- 19:33just see them. Do a combo block, you know what
- 19:35I mean? And He definitely got to see it
- 19:37really early. I mean them, combo blocking
- 19:40going to, the second level was pretty awesome to see.
- 19:43So I was excited to see that and I got what I needed out of those
- 19:48two. You know?
- 19:49Of course it was a couple of other things that you are
- 19:51excited to see but definitely the more Brothers being together
- 19:56that group as well as some of the other line meant.
- 19:59You know, that's not the only two lineman, but those two lines
- 20:01and what were what, my eyes are, kind of fixated on because we
- 20:05got it. Currently a new center, you
- 20:07know, when when big more came on the show, and told us, hey, I've
- 20:11been working at Center. It was breaking news to
- 20:13everybody and to see him where he's progressed.
- 20:17We didn't see any bad snaps, we can see any fumble snaps its
- 20:20spring game but you know, just taking a look at it and seeing
- 20:23what we have. He looked pretty easy.
- 20:25Look pretty natural now, so it was good to see that crime about
- 20:28you. Yeah, you look the part he fired
- 20:30off. Well, you know, you talked about
- 20:32those double teams since we've been recruiting the more
- 20:35Brothers when you Get them. You can see the mean streak in
- 20:38the way they play. So yeah, I'm with you on
- 20:41watching those two, go at it in the in the trenches there they
- 20:45showed out. Well, giving me some confidence
- 20:47about where we're going to look like on the offensive line this
- 20:49year. But when I was looking at the
- 20:52maroon and white teams, I wish mine was kind of like a
- 20:56dichotomy between two things. I was like, I see drones.
- 20:59I see the three transfer receivers.
- 21:02I see this offensive line unit. That is very, very Questionable,
- 21:07are we going to really get the best look out of these, these
- 21:10transfers and out of drones relative to the offensive line
- 21:13play. So that's kind of what I was
- 21:15looking for. And for the majority of the time
- 21:18there, it kind of answered itself.
- 21:22Unfortunately, especially once you found out who the scratches
- 21:25were. Exactly.
- 21:26And then, let's just go right into that net.
- 21:29We all saw the scratches my biggest disappointment on the
- 21:33scratches with Xavier chaplain, because of how he Playing those
- 21:36few times. We saw him last year where he
- 21:39had his lapses but there were a couple times he physically just
- 21:43dominated people and he's a true freshman physically.
- 21:46I hated to see him go to your point Brown that really
- 21:49immediately significantly hurt the left side of the white team.
- 21:54And it also brought a third string her up because clearly it
- 21:57showed us protease the to at left your mom's the three.
- 22:02Anybody else y'all got out there that kind of disappointed in get
- 22:05to see Jalen Lane, you know, I definitely wanted to see kind of
- 22:10what we get out of jail in Lane, but of course it's spraying.
- 22:14If anybody's banged up, you don't want them to go.
- 22:16It's not anything, you know, you don't have anything to prove in
- 22:18the springtime so I understand them holding them out but I was
- 22:21excited to see him just kind of in his past.
- 22:25What do you look like in the Jersey?
- 22:28Just maybe maybe running some route so we can see what he has.
- 22:30So that was a little bit of a disappointment when I seen, he
- 22:33was scratched. Yeah, that was a big one for me
- 22:37too, but you know doubly. So I think, you know, they
- 22:39Quantum right being out as well. I wanted to see how those two
- 22:44kind of work together in some trips packages.
- 22:47So that's kind of what I wanted to see and we obviously didn't
- 22:49get to see that, unfortunately. So that, that was the big one
- 22:52for me is Daquan, right? And then again, going
- 22:55piggybacking off of you because when we had the the pregame
- 22:59show, I was like, I want to see Jalen Lane.
- 23:01That was, that was my big dick. I was like, whoo!
- 23:04Whoo! We're going to see I will see
- 23:06Jane Lane. So not seen him out.
- 23:08There was big. Not seeing right out there.
- 23:09Who y'all know? Probably favorite, favorite
- 23:12young hokey right now? So yeah, it was big.
- 23:17Absolutely. And, you know, the thing is you
- 23:21hear of your prize said, like Lane, like tweak to Sammy.
- 23:26So and so tweaked his back and when I hear them say that, it's
- 23:28just sounds like, you know, what?
- 23:30If this was a real game day, they do something for you and
- 23:33say, go out there and Crush. Shhhh but it's like you said,
- 23:36Talley this spring game. You got a little Nick.
- 23:39Nope nope we ain't trying to extend this any further?
- 23:42We got five months until the season starts.
- 23:44We'll figure it out then when the guys we mentioned that again
- 23:48I don't think more or less they have anything to prove in this
- 23:51game. They're they're not they're not
- 23:53fighting for a spot on the TV. They're not necessarily fighting
- 23:56for you know kind of getting significant playing time heading
- 23:59into the fall Camp. So sending them out, getting
- 24:03them that time to heal up. Up and not pushing an injury too
- 24:07far. I think is the best thing.
- 24:08So in those situations, you definitely are on the side of
- 24:11caution abso-freakin'-lutely. So let's roll in here.
- 24:16We got, we got some awards to give and these aren't the
- 24:20awards. Brent Pride gave after the
- 24:22spring game sitting on the field with all the players because
- 24:25tally got to see some of these players up close and personal
- 24:29and we're going to start this as a yearly tradition.
- 24:32Every time we somebody gets to go to the spring game.
- 24:35We now present to you, Jonathan tallies BMF, Awards BMF and if
- 24:42anybody motherfucker, big motherfucker Awards, alright?
- 24:48Alright, let's start here. Let's, let's, let's start on
- 24:51the, let's start on the defensive line who are the two
- 24:55big guys that when you saw, you know, we were getting bigger,
- 24:58they're Italian. And I think when you saw these
- 25:02two guys, you said, we really big now, Yeah so number two,
- 25:09what Keyshawn Burgos He's listed at 65 240.
- 25:15I think he may be a little bit bigger than that but when you
- 25:19seen him he looked he looked every bit of that he looked
- 25:23every bit of that in more. He was a just like I said, I
- 25:26said get off the bus type player just to see again, didn't watch
- 25:31a much in the game. Don't know what his production
- 25:34was in the game, but Watching him out on the field, warming up
- 25:38be a myth. All right, number two, number
- 25:44two, I had was number 14. Kyrie says like moist and
- 25:53oystering. Yeah, he's listed at 6. 42 38
- 25:59BMF that's all I'm gonna say. I'm Brian.
- 26:05You got anybody. You saw the own that.
- 26:08I'm gonna go with Lamar Lonnie jr. 65 3:30, right.
- 26:14That's a big motherfucker. It's one of those.
- 26:20One of those guys, you talk about getting off the bus,
- 26:22that's the guy. You want getting off the bus
- 26:24first? Yes, you want him off the bus
- 26:27first, everybody know. This motherfucker on this team,
- 26:31he ready to him. All right, all right, why
- 26:35anybody else on defense? But moving on to a couple of
- 26:39other people on defense, which we've already seen Kelly Lawson,
- 26:42but he looks the part of a football player, but one that
- 26:46was surprising to me was was most Phillips.
- 26:49Okay, he he's a freshman man and he looked he solid, you know, he
- 26:55is, he is, he is solid, I'm not sure what his it was.
- 26:59Got him listed at 62 180 187. He been in college.
- 27:05Do three months now. Yeah, man.
- 27:06I'd be 200. Yeah, he's got to have more than
- 27:09one 87 on him, but if he's 187, it's it.
- 27:12Ain't no. Fad know where I promise.
- 27:14You that I'll tell you who stood out to me.
- 27:22Antonio Cottman. Yes, yeah.
- 27:24For like he's long. But he's also, he's solid, but
- 27:28he still Moves like a cornerback, right?
- 27:31All right. I want a.
- 27:33Can I say one? Yeah, it caught my eye and then
- 27:35we talked about it on after Caleb, Woodson his yoke.
- 27:40Caleb LOL. Yeah.
- 27:40Be every bit of 215 or 220, he didn't even have a home.
- 27:44We did, they show the pictures and it was like, she saw some of
- 27:47the guys are when they got to him.
- 27:48It was just like, oh my God, like it was like 195, I think
- 27:53listed last year, he didn't went on, they didn't get him on the
- 27:57tech recruiting detect eating. Before he even gets here
- 28:00activity, big solid saying it, we lost a backup.
- 28:05It. Sam.
- 28:07That's the backup is saying. Yeah.
- 28:09When you look at him across the chest.
- 28:11Oh yeah. Just the the with that he has
- 28:14there. It's a solid kid man.
- 28:16Yeah, definitely when nothing, but raise about the kid.
- 28:20I mean every time you see something talking about Caleb
- 28:23Woodson Sean Quinn's like yeah he moves like a safety.
- 28:29Hits and tackles like a linebacker.
- 28:31I'm excited. I can't wait for that guy to get
- 28:33on campus. All right.
- 28:35Who else? We got a couple more players,
- 28:37right? So going to the offensive side
- 28:43of the ball, the wide receiver shoot just slipped my mind, the
- 28:50transfer that just came in, they called Felton, they come on
- 28:53Felton, they corn. Felton is solid.
- 28:56I mean I think they've got him listed at like 6:00 5 2008.
- 29:01Yeah, it's been a long time since we had a wide receiver
- 29:05that look like him and could move like he does.
- 29:09He didn't do much against spring game where you get to see him a
- 29:12lot, you know, make huge plays, but when he did get his hands on
- 29:16the ball, it's not one cornerback.
- 29:19That's bringing them down. It's a couple people got to hit
- 29:21him, so he was a BMF. Yeah, then what were, you got a
- 29:25little catch it run. That was, that was good to see
- 29:27cuz I mean, you can see you See the athleticism but you see how
- 29:30he runs the power to. So that was big and obviously
- 29:33with his height, you know, he's going to be a red zone threat.
- 29:35So, I'm waiting to see some jump balls to him later.
- 29:39I got to throw Xavier chaplain in there.
- 29:41I know he didn't play, but that's a big motherfucker.
- 29:43Yeah. See, I'm on the sideline.
- 29:47It was different. It was different one that I
- 29:51forgot on defense to was Malachi Madison.
- 29:55Oh yeah, yeah, he likes to 3305. Yeah, he asked.
- 30:00So that's a big dude, man. You know, and again, getting
- 30:04away from those 260-pound. Defensive tackles should help us
- 30:10in the Run game. Hey, grab grass, grass, grass,
- 30:14and hold your ground. That's what we need you to do.
- 30:17Some time comes out looking like Tim settle did his senior year,
- 30:22but like a couple inches taller. Yeah.
- 30:25Okay. That's kind of his frame.
- 30:27So you know, I'm he had a good, he had a good Saturday, so I'm
- 30:32hoping that we see some some other steps from him.
- 30:34Because if he takes another step, then he's going to
- 30:37definitely be kind of in that to deep rotation.
- 30:39I feel like. All right, so, there are the BMF
- 30:44Awards. If you have a BMF, you would
- 30:46like to present, please. Put us in the chat.
- 30:49We will definitely bring it up at a later point in time during
- 30:52the program. But now we got to go to the
- 30:54spring game. Post-mortem, we got to talk
- 30:56about it last week with Rowdy. Who's chit-chatting out here,
- 31:01here in the field house tonight. So he can't jump on because he
- 31:04be in and out. So he's chatting with his on
- 31:05YouTube, but we went through the group's, what we were looking
- 31:09for, what we were feeling. And as a post-mortem, what I'm
- 31:12asking my Gentleman to do and myself is where we feeling are
- 31:18we feeling much worse slightly worse, the same slightly better
- 31:22much better after spring. So I'm going to start here at
- 31:26the position group. We did the most investment.
- 31:29In in the offseason and that's the wide receiver room.
- 31:34Brian will let you kick this one off.
- 31:36Since BMF was tallies big deal where are you feeling with the
- 31:40wide receiver room, right relative to how I felt before
- 31:45spring game. I feel slightly better because I
- 31:48was looking at it and, you know, the question we had was, who's
- 31:52going to be four and five. We had the three guys coming in
- 31:57is four and five going to be a problem for And five is not
- 31:59going to be a problem. And however, we end up with that
- 32:02rotation is not going to be a problem because God is Dale,
- 32:06went out there. Did some work Tucker holiday
- 32:09without their did some work between those two?
- 32:13I feel like we are pretty set in the wide receiver room.
- 32:16When you look at the potential that Jennings and felt and bring
- 32:21in there and then once we get laying out there that can work
- 32:23in the slot, I'm really still excited about this.
- 32:26This wide receiver unit and we saw some separation.
- 32:29We saw guys that were making some plays after the catch and
- 32:33we saw some a lot more intermediate routes and
- 32:35intermediate games than we saw last year where it was either
- 32:39dinkin dunk or deep shot. We have some intermediate game
- 32:43and we finally show that that we have that capability.
- 32:46So I'm excited about that group. Callie.
- 32:50Yeah, so yeah, when we talk about the wide receiver room, I
- 32:55got to go with much better. Oh yeah, I got to go with much
- 32:59better because I knew going in, I thought I knew, you know, hey,
- 33:05we got a one and two, maybe a three already, we're looking
- 33:08for, maybe a 4 and a 5. I've all those guys are working
- 33:12like that. And what we saying, I don't know
- 33:15who's going to go where you know what I'm saying?
- 33:17Like a good problem to have is when you have playmate.
- 33:20Everywhere. And not just the caches, and the
- 33:23yards and stuff. We seen the route tree.
- 33:26We seen some guys, like I think it may be the first pass that
- 33:30God has now caught. Like he put the lane, he put the
- 33:33lane some moves out here and like an out-and-out.
- 33:36And like you said, kind of an intermediate route, maybe like a
- 33:3910-yard, 10-yard Route, 12 yard Route.
- 33:42And it was like okay my got something here and it's not that
- 33:46d'Alene was in such bad position but Sometimes, good offense.
- 33:51Just defense has is reacting. You know what I'm saying?
- 33:54Is sometimes when you got good offense, it just, it is what it
- 33:57is. So after seeing some of the some
- 34:00of the skills that some of the other wide receivers put on, I
- 34:02feel much better about the about that about that position group.
- 34:09Yeah I'm with both y'all definitely feel better.
- 34:12I don't know if I'm at the much better yet.
- 34:15I'm definitely slightly. I think I'm probably slightly
- 34:17above you bra know slightly because it Like y'all said, it's
- 34:21not just like you telling you mentioned, we felt good about
- 34:25Jennings, right? It felt good about laying.
- 34:27Okay, they've done stuff. Then you saw felt and you saw
- 34:31Holloway, and you saw a guys, now, take their steps, and it
- 34:33was a little bit of everything. Like, Stephen got Nails, looks
- 34:36more Precision. Running his route taka Holloway
- 34:38has speed number Holloway has speed and then you saw, like you
- 34:42said Brian, the intermediate, you know, felt that and I'm
- 34:46running some in routes running some Slants, running some 10
- 34:49yards. It's where we didn't have that
- 34:51last year and if you're talking about just setups, okay, it's a
- 34:55six-yard Slammy call it. All right, it's second and four
- 34:59to Play Books open now to do whatever you want because you're
- 35:01not behind it. So I'm definitely feeling better
- 35:04about this route. And I will shout out one player
- 35:07Jennings. Jennings had a couple misses
- 35:09early. Hmm.
- 35:11And but, but to me, what's the mark of a great player?
- 35:14He had a couple tip balls. He missed a couple passes.
- 35:17That should have been caught. He refocused in the Second half
- 35:20of that game, he caught two very good balls and had some good
- 35:24catch and runs. I love seeing that because
- 35:26footballing, perfect, you're not going to catch the ball.
- 35:29Every time he knew he made the mistakes.
- 35:31He refocused. He caught it and he effectively
- 35:33made a good play. So I think the consensus here is
- 35:37we are feeling better about the wide receiver room in general
- 35:40and I don't know what. Oh go ahead, go ahead Sally.
- 35:42Yeah, and I don't know what, I don't know what Jennings has
- 35:46been dealing with but they said he was dealing with an injury.
- 35:49Or something, right? And they said and you could tell
- 35:52he was a little bit of a step. I don't say a step slow, but
- 35:56just a step behind what he normally is.
- 35:58Yeah, even on that on a late touchdown, pass that he almost
- 36:03caught. I feel like when he's at his
- 36:06game speed, he catches that, you know, that's a touchdown a
- 36:09couple of other. You are the couple of other
- 36:12passes chemistry or just him when he gets to his game speed.
- 36:16I feel like that will I believe Paint him enough to say.
- 36:21Okay, this is what he is, you know, I'm saying, he's kind of a
- 36:23proven commodity, nobody knows what's going to happen in the
- 36:26game but when somebody's 1,000-yard receiver, you kind of
- 36:31know their 1,000-yard receiver. So yeah.
- 36:33Yeah, it was it was good like you said to see him bounce back
- 36:37and he's played a lot of football, man, and he's played a
- 36:39lot of football, so I'm sure he doesn't, he's not going to get
- 36:42routed especially not in the spring game, but he's not going
- 36:45to get rattled. We seen that firsthand when he's
- 36:48on Odie you, you know what I'm saying?
- 36:50I never got held in. Check just about all game to the
- 36:52last of the last to drive. So anyway, yeah, I was
- 36:57definitely encouraged by the about a wide receiver room.
- 37:01Yeah, it was big for me because, you know, talking about the
- 37:03intermediate stuff. It almost seemed like we had
- 37:06damn near as many receiving plays greater than 15 less than
- 37:1130 in that spring game than we had all lash.
- 37:14I know it wasn't that but it certainly felt like it.
- 37:17It did, it did and those are the plays that are going to move the
- 37:20sticks. Keep drives going setup, easier,
- 37:23second down. And that's what we missed a ton
- 37:25last year. By the way.
- 37:26Shout out on This Crew, Steven got Nails, guys know, got the
- 37:29most improved player on Offense. So obviously you know we're
- 37:33feeling great about one through five.
- 37:35I am kind of that weight definitely.
- 37:36He's moving a whole lot better. Well yeah and it doesn't being
- 37:40further removed from that leg injuries helping as well. 1000%
- 37:44and also we got to remember we had to find out where that play
- 37:46is so we can take a look further, look at it about him
- 37:49cooking delaying because obviously if it's a story to
- 37:52tell you ain't got to look too far this in the first place.
- 38:09Let's go to next again not a big change but tally I'll kick it to
- 38:16you. How you feeling about this room
- 38:17after spring on that room is a slightly better just because I
- 38:23expect out of Malachi. I kind of knew what they expect
- 38:27out of him. I didn't see a whole bunch.
- 38:28You had maybe one or two runs. What kind of tea does what he
- 38:32does. He falls forward gets a couple
- 38:34extra yards. Yeah just back to the running
- 38:37back room. You know, seeing to you know
- 38:39first play from scrimmage. He catches the catches, the rock
- 38:42should have been probably a tackle for one yard or no game.
- 38:46He cuts makes one man miss and goes for about what 78 yards.
- 38:51Yep, great to see that Bryce Duke and, and chance black.
- 38:55You know, they got busy, you know, it was nice to see a deep
- 38:58running back room because we know what happens in.
- 39:00Football, you know, somebody's going to tweak her ankle
- 39:03somebody. You don't want to say injury but
- 39:05it's football. Somebody's going to have to come
- 39:07out for series or game or play some.
- 39:10So you're going to need some people who's not a huge drop-off
- 39:13there. And again, Malachi Thomas, he
- 39:15didn't do much, but I did get to see him make a couple of plays
- 39:19where he looked like himself, you know, he's not going down
- 39:23with one with one hit and he's falling forward so that running
- 39:27right room made me feel slightly better yeah.
- 39:30And Thomas was The handicapped with the offensive line.
- 39:32He was dealt, if we're being honest.
- 39:34So yeah, it's not seeing him. Be quite as productive as some
- 39:37of the other backs isn't, you know, that shocking to me.
- 39:42But looking at the other parts of the room, I liked what I've
- 39:46seen in the passing game from 290, we didn't record a carry
- 39:50and I think some of that was just gain flow, right?
- 39:52So, I mean, there was some keeps on the some of those early
- 39:55Drives By Grant Wells that, you know, depending on the Read he
- 40:01could have got to carry the here there and then, you know, the
- 40:05other guys kind of took over after that.
- 40:07So Bryce Duke look good, still showing the same type of
- 40:12elusiveness kind of between the tackles chance black look much
- 40:17improved. Compared to what we saw last
- 40:18year. I think some of that was, you
- 40:21know, he's Shifty and he was getting to get be shifting at
- 40:25the second level. I'm not at the line of
- 40:26scrimmage, mmm-hmm, and I think that's going to help him Max.
- 40:31His potential in this offense. Yeah, so I like what we're
- 40:34seeing. I would give the grade wise, I
- 40:36will feel I feel slightly better about this group to because I
- 40:39feel like we got, you know, a guy that we can count on
- 40:42probably to that we can count on and then two other guys that are
- 40:45going to be good changes of Paces that can still get, get
- 40:47some yards and be productive in the offense and see what you
- 40:50just said. Right, there is why I put this
- 40:52room is much better because you do have to Dependable, guys.
- 40:56Tune Reign for a thousand last year at AT&T.
- 40:59And if you start listening, earning about his recruitment,
- 41:02his stuff really should have picked up in 2020.
- 41:06It didn't unfortunately. Unfortunately for him it didn't
- 41:09pick up because of covid. So reality is he probably truly
- 41:12was a P5 player because of whatever happened, he wound up
- 41:16at AT&T, he went down there, he showed himself that he was a
- 41:19good football player. He came up and he saw it in the
- 41:21passing game. You saw Malachi have good run,
- 41:23but I look at the two younger guys, because to me, older guys
- 41:28are experienced guys. You know what they do?
- 41:31They do what they do but for me the biggest was chance.
- 41:34Black chance black last year had some runs where he was trying to
- 41:37go down side and wait and get the Edge versus cutting.
- 41:41It was appropriate in. You saw Saturday, he got the
- 41:45ball, he was waiting, he made his move and he went a couple
- 41:48times. It was 34 yard gains a couple
- 41:51times. It was a good run is even longer
- 41:52runs. And with his past catching
- 41:55ability into bronze Point, we've got in this Coney to yeah, Coney
- 42:00Island. We had a couple good plays.
- 42:02I'm just trying to say that. So you've got him in the wings.
- 42:08Ain't thinking about Coney this year, let that man.
- 42:11Learn because if he's already shown it given the next year.
- 42:14But the bronze point is you got two guys.
- 42:17You can depend on two guys who have already kind of what they
- 42:21know how to do really good. Now we got to utilize it and we
- 42:26got obviously what's looking like, you know, a little bit
- 42:30better in a few It's, he will discuss that.
- 42:32All right, Brian. Let's flip over by the way.
- 42:34Running back room Bryce, do you got a special teams MVP?
- 42:38I get a feeling he ain't returning punts but he's
- 42:41probably doing some kickoff returns if he's getting that
- 42:44award. All right, let's go to the tight
- 42:46end room. You know, Nick Gallo gets the
- 42:49leadership award he's been here forever.
- 42:51Great leader. A great role model, solid
- 42:53player, tally. This is, this is your room.
- 42:56And so, how are you feeling about this, man?
- 42:59I would probably say about The same when I came in just because
- 43:03I didn't get to see right. But right again a lot of people
- 43:07say, right? So proven commodity because of
- 43:09what we've seen from him last year, I want to see him block a
- 43:12little bit more, I wanted to know if he can go on the field
- 43:15and he can block so we can use him everywhere.
- 43:20It was good to see. Benji back in the game.
- 43:22Benji you can still tell just a little bit for injury but he was
- 43:29moving. Really Ali good to be coming
- 43:31off, two big injuries, like that.
- 43:33I mean, you met some nice plays, you know, some nice plays, he's
- 43:36down there in the line he's blocking so it was good to see
- 43:40that. So but again, I didn't get to
- 43:42see right and Gallo got hurt as well.
- 43:46Yeah, yeah, Nick and they were just like, nope, game play.
- 43:48No more. Yeah, when Gallo got banged,
- 43:53like he went kind of weird and you saw moving, like I'm okay.
- 43:57But you know what, it's like the other guys are get Nick right?
- 44:00And forward. Now you're good, you're good,
- 44:03you're good. Yeah exactly yeah and you know
- 44:07look at it tight in, I'm about the same I'd say I'd put
- 44:10slightly better only because I didn't know what I was going to
- 44:14get from Benji and seeing Benji, what he was able to do.
- 44:19Showed good blocking put a good wiggle on Kiante Jenkins on a
- 44:25scheme. Play Early in the The first
- 44:27drive there to get a pretty good chunk play.
- 44:31I feel a lot better because now I feel like we got three proven
- 44:34Commodities because I feel like Benji is stepping up.
- 44:39It looks like he's finally at a point where he can contribute at
- 44:42the level that we thought he could.
- 44:44And that's only going to be good things, come fall.
- 44:48Oh absolutely, I'm definitely feeling better about their soon.
- 44:51Be kind of Benji, got now because with Benji Gosnell.
- 44:55Everybody's got to go back and look at that recruitment.
- 44:57Ohio State wanted him. And when he tore his ACL, they
- 45:01get to do what of Highland state in all the Big Blue Bloods do
- 45:04nah. You're good man, you're not
- 45:07coming here, right? So when you have somebody like
- 45:11that who then Ted gets to get that chance and now that he's
- 45:16coming back Like you said Talley after both those injuries.
- 45:20He is looking good. He's blocking that he's 65.
- 45:24He's 250 pounds that route. He ran, you know, you know that
- 45:29little that little is called. I don't know if it was a slant
- 45:31or if it was more of a 10-yard in, but when he got that ball,
- 45:36he was gone. It was a huge gash play.
- 45:39Yeah. Well, these days shorter swing
- 45:41and he ran an angle, Rowdy like the E.
- 45:43Like, showed, even ran an anchor up.
- 45:45Yeah. What you look for in you?
- 45:47Tight ends to is them snapping that head around like your when
- 45:52you go out to do your thing and you run your route, are you
- 45:55getting at head around quick? And he was and as soon as you
- 45:58got it around, the ball was coming to him, he made it.
- 46:01Great catch me', you know, made a good play to, so we'll make
- 46:04some run after the after the catch, which is what we've been
- 46:08missing that. We talked about that earlier.
- 46:11We haven't seen a lot of run after the catch lately.
- 46:13So when we, when we, when we see that would like, This is the and
- 46:19in traffic, you know, run after kick, catch in traffic is
- 46:23definitely, you know, much neat. So you take a ten yard play and
- 46:28turn it into a 18-yard play or seven yard play and turn it into
- 46:33a 12-yard plate. That's, that's a winning
- 46:36football. That is winning, football
- 46:39hundred percent. But y'all say it all the time.
- 46:42Ya'll say it all the time. You went in the trenches if the
- 46:45trenches play better, two teams going to be Better and Brawn is,
- 46:49I gave tally his room because that's his room, it will always
- 46:53be his room, but I giving you the offensive line room.
- 46:55Sir, tell me what you saw with the offensive MVP Parker
- 46:59Clements I will say I owe Parker clemmensen apology because
- 47:08because after hearing number one potentially, dealing with a
- 47:11shoulder injury, where he was not able to do, essentially,
- 47:15any, any major workouts leading up to last season and then
- 47:20combine that to what I've heard from Spring practice.
- 47:23And what I saw on Saturday, this is what I expected to see last
- 47:28year. This right here, is what I
- 47:31expect to see last year and I think Some of this is the impact
- 47:34that crook has had since he's been here.
- 47:37I think some of it is him just being back to the player that he
- 47:41was leading up to that injury. So you know, my bad Parker, went
- 47:47at you hard and based on the tape at it was what it was it
- 47:51was just fine but you know, you turned it around so far.
- 47:55Let's see if that carries in the fall and we could keep talking
- 47:58nice about you on here. Yeah.
- 48:00But I'd much rather do that than the Alternative.
- 48:03So I think shout out to Parker Clements there, but it was
- 48:06everybody else to everybody else too.
- 48:09All right. So, where'd you feel bored?
- 48:11The boys did some work. I love what, you know, we talked
- 48:14about already that those double teams.
- 48:16Look, good! Having those guys together.
- 48:19I think just the innate understanding that they have of
- 48:25what each is trying to do. That's going to nothing but help
- 48:28the fact that they went back you know years and years doing that
- 48:31together. I think that's A bond to build
- 48:33off of what I saw from. Brody Meadows was very
- 48:36encouraging in terms of having a third tackle, a swing tackle
- 48:40that we can put in there if we don't have Parker or chaplain
- 48:44available so those things right there.
- 48:47And again I already said his name earlier.
- 48:50Jack hollifield, I'm impressed by what I saw.
- 48:53He's not blowing me away. He's not somebody.
- 48:55Let's say I want him to start. Definitely not, but he's also
- 48:58somebody that I wouldn't feel awful.
- 49:00If a guy went down him. Washing out a game and being
- 49:03able to handle that role because I did I wasn't sure about that
- 49:07before spring game. He looked pretty solid out
- 49:10again. Not necessarily a guy.
- 49:12You want to be your starter but definitely a guy that can come
- 49:14in there and give you, you know, eight to ten series to close out
- 49:18a game if you need to. All right, so where are you
- 49:21feeling? Same slightly better much
- 49:22better. I'm going to go slightly better
- 49:26only, because I didn't see enough in the guard category
- 49:29specifically, Right Guard to where I can.
- 49:32All right, we've got enough on the interior depth wise.
- 49:35I feel like, you know, with the center and guard with the Moors,
- 49:40I feel good. It's kind of that third one, and
- 49:42then that extra one in the hole that I'm not quite sure about.
- 49:45So I would like to be a little bit more confident with my
- 49:49starting Right Guard. And if we, if we could do that,
- 49:52then I feel a whole lot better with a guy like Hanson or shit
- 49:55kind of being that swing guard that can sub in if there's an
- 49:58injury or somebody needs a blow. Well, I'm before tally jump
- 50:02saying I won't Go ahead and say crook feels the same way.
- 50:05We seen three offers go out for effectively three guards since
- 50:11its spring game. The kid in, Tulsa, the kid out
- 50:13of Wyoming, indicated appstate. So, he's feeling the same way
- 50:18you are. It's like, we feel okay, It
- 50:20Right Guard. We can be better, we can be
- 50:24better at right. Go tell me what you felt about
- 50:26the offensive line. Yeah, crook was feeling like I
- 50:28was feeling because he's saying that white team's offensive
- 50:31line, Brian. Some Kudos.
- 50:33And I got a, I got to be the Negative Nancy on here.
- 50:37I'm gonna go ahead and take, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, my,
- 50:40my, my grade was slightly worse because of that, second group,
- 50:49Johnny, and if your name was Johnny, I think you didn't do
- 50:52good. Just and Johnny y'all might need
- 50:55to start a boy band. I don't know what y'all gonna
- 50:58do, but you better get in the weight room and start blocking
- 51:00somebody number 79. 9i, only Garrett are going to be UPS if
- 51:07you don't get your mind, right? I'm telling you you're standing
- 51:10up around piles, you don't get rolled up on you, let your
- 51:13quarterback and you're running backs.
- 51:15Get killed standing around hit. Somebody hit him in the back.
- 51:20Push a pinch of kick him in the nuts.
- 51:22Do something, don't just, but that's that white.
- 51:26Team's offensive line. I'm not even going to go with it
- 51:30at the Freshman 50:56. Kind of go with him.
- 51:35He just, he should be going to prom right now, you know, and he
- 51:39got that and he got the task to block CJ McGregor.
- 51:45We didn't give him a BMF award. But big, dude, solid guy and he
- 51:52can move. He's got, he's got some skill on
- 51:55the end. I'm excited to see him play.
- 51:57The Freshman had Lined up against in the first place.
- 52:00And then we run like a quarterback a quarter of our po
- 52:04which if it was live. Does he really get him down?
- 52:08I don't know. Maybe, maybe drones make some
- 52:11moves and get loose. It's hard to do that when you
- 52:13got no contact but I know one thing 56 was beat and he was
- 52:17beat bad. He was he was received, he was
- 52:20cooked. So again, I'm feel like I'm not
- 52:24jumping off the cliff because I know we got a long way into the
- 52:27season. And I think that Ron crook is
- 52:30doing a good job. I seen more fight out of most
- 52:33guys, which is good and I know that he is trying to go get the
- 52:37stuff that we need. He said not a lot of offers for
- 52:40some Lyman which we need with a little experience and can come
- 52:44in and maybe fight for a spot. So I'm hoping that we grab some
- 52:47people out of the transfer portal and I would be, you know,
- 52:51probably changed my grade if we come in and grab a couple of
- 52:54couple of guys or if I could have seen Chad chap.
- 52:59I probably would have my grade at either the same, or maybe
- 53:04slightly better, but I'm just saying slightly worse because I
- 53:06didn't see that stuff. You need to see.
- 53:08See I'm alive. I'm in the middle of.
- 53:10Okay, I'm the same and here's why I'm the same way we need to
- 53:14see. Chaplain.
- 53:14I think we see chaplain. I probably need with Brian but
- 53:17the reason I say the same in that slightly worse is how Brody
- 53:20Meadows plate? Brody Meadows played a very
- 53:24solid. Yeah, I spectacular, he played
- 53:27silent. He played two, Point where I
- 53:29know if Xavier Chaplin gets banged in the middle of a game
- 53:33we're not going to go out there and fall off a damn Cliff with
- 53:35Brody Brody show when you and when you look at those sizes
- 53:38like Bradley Meadows is a big kid too.
- 53:42You're not 63 05? Yeah, you're dropping off a
- 53:45little bit as far as that but you're putting some big bodies
- 53:48in there so it's good to see them guys in there.
- 53:51But but what, but right now, the way I think we look at it is
- 53:56you've got like Six and you need seven you and that's why I'm the
- 54:02same now they brought I think probably what you.
- 54:05I think the reason Brian's going bigger for slightly better is
- 54:09because I think as I think I have a feeling you were staring
- 54:12at 58. A lot when white team goes out
- 54:14there seeing how Jack worked the oh yeah get that feeling.
- 54:17That's what I think. You looked at Jack so much and
- 54:19said Jax good enough where if some really fucked-up happens
- 54:24and we don't get that right guard and shit goes down.
- 54:28Crook would feel comfortable saying hey hey Caden, Slide the
- 54:33Right Guard Jazz complaints, enter your another thing that
- 54:36Brian probably looking at because of being Brian, is our
- 54:39offensive line guy. He's probably looking at.
- 54:41Okay, who is who is anchoring your line?
- 54:44Who is the best person on your line?
- 54:46Yes, Smash Bros. And if you say the Smash
- 54:49Brothers, or if you tell you, if you say Parker Clemens, if you
- 54:53looked at just those three oh yeah.
- 54:55Right. They raised the expectation of
- 54:57what I thought Parker Clemens sucked, we all do, you know what
- 55:02I'm saying? Like, that's
- 55:14like, that's got to be something, you know?
- 55:16And if he can emerge as a leader, which he's been there
- 55:19for a while, we need him to be a leader, so if he can come in and
- 55:22he can help some of these young guys, but also help some young
- 55:25guys. Bye.
- 55:27Showing his play like I think that's why I understand what
- 55:32Brian is. You know.
- 55:33I was on that on that kind of same level as well, but I had to
- 55:37be a little bit different cause he went first.
- 55:39Yeah, and I feel like we're close, right.
- 55:41We're close to being where we want to be.
- 55:44We're close to having that five that we're really comfortable
- 55:47with, and that eight, that were pretty damn comfortable with.
- 55:50I feel like we're close and if crook can go out there and find
- 55:55us a guard, a starting caliber Guard in the transfer portal.
- 55:59Yeah, that would do that. That's going to be the piece
- 56:02that's going to put everything together down.
- 56:03If you still got to jail, you still got to get acclimated to
- 56:06the new system. I get all that, but discounting
- 56:09that I feel much better about a Hanson or a Chic be in my swing
- 56:13guard with Jack being a backup center, and Brody, being my
- 56:18swing tackle. I feel like that's your 8.
- 56:20If you can get some level of starting caliber guard, if we
- 56:24don't get there, then we'll see. Obviously we're back.
- 56:27To the handsome and shit Shuffle at Right Guard.
- 56:30Which I don't necessarily feel great about but I at least feel
- 56:35like, all right. Well, if shakes pushing Hanson,
- 56:37Hanson was a starter. Last year, we might, at least be
- 56:40marginally better than we were last year at that garbage
- 56:43Edition. That's a great Point, whether
- 56:46we're where we want to be or not.
- 56:48So that's kind of what the way I'm looking at it, right,
- 56:50abso-freakin'-lutely. All right, let's hit the one.
- 56:52Last piece of the offense and I was quarterback.
- 56:56At which in this format, y'all know, I feel like Whoever has
- 57:01the better line regardless of skill, players is favored in
- 57:05that was Grant Wells, but I'm feeling better overall about
- 57:09this room. Yeah, me too.
- 57:11I am feeling slightly better to borderline more better because I
- 57:15feel like Grant has improved. And everybody said, well, Tyler
- 57:19being within this is going to suck, Tyler's, never coached,
- 57:22but Tyler knows the system and where he wants the ball to go
- 57:25and where players are Knowing how it's being blocked.
- 57:29That's how he's communicating. It has no filter through one
- 57:32message. And not one message, not three
- 57:34coordinators with one with one, having the baby.
- 57:38And what we saw from drones without the best offensive line,
- 57:42without the mess offensive line. He he does look the part.
- 57:46He does look like the body. He has solid footwork to be a
- 57:48freshman and you saw him make some good throw.
- 57:51He had a couple catchable balls that were dropped.
- 57:54It's not like you have easily a red 94 13, With no pics right?
- 57:58And maybe no touchdown. But that is what it is.
- 58:01And then, and I'll say this last piece, let's talk about pop W.
- 58:08All right, first of all, I need everybody take a step back,
- 58:12okay? Bob Watson will not be starting
- 58:15any game and if he is starting games this year, we're in deep
- 58:18shit. Okay?
- 58:20We're in deep shit. But he showed wiggle, he showed
- 58:24he had a good arm on that. Holloway Touchdown, let me roll.
- 58:28But let's control here, y'all. He threw that thing,
- 58:31flat-footed, you know, that's a thought he was kind of off of
- 58:34his back leg. You did know if you're playing
- 58:37against a one eye safety and a guy.
- 58:39Like, I don't think strewn was on the field at that point in
- 58:41time. You either a getting picked or
- 58:45be go back to kai-shan, Jared when he damn near killed, Tyler
- 58:48Boyd against Pitt about seven years ago.
- 58:52That's what you kidding with that ball.
- 58:54So control your narrative on Pop I could pop be our quarterback
- 58:58in two years, possibly, but the way I feel about it is you've
- 59:05got Grant and Chiron, fighting for the backup in the starting
- 59:08job, they're fighting for, they don't keep fighting for it.
- 59:11But now if it pops our third and Pops running scout team, I feel
- 59:17better about our scouting because you got somebody Wiggly
- 59:20back there you got somebody who can make throws and it's not
- 59:23just what can this kid do? So when I'm looking at
- 59:28quarterback, and I'm going to give you migrate out the gate, I
- 59:31feel slightly better about this position group.
- 59:37I feel like we didn't get as good of a look of Cairo and
- 59:40drones as we could have because of the same issues that you were
- 59:43just mentioning with the offensive line.
- 59:45And in particular the spring game format in general, where
- 59:49you're not hitting the quarterback.
- 59:51If you're within the 3-yard Halo of Chiron, drones they were
- 59:53blowing the whistle, yes, one of the Biggest parts of his game is
- 59:59not just his athletic ability, which he can show a little bit
- 1:00:02in this format, but his strength and his ability to run through
- 1:00:07arm tackles his leg power, which you don't get to see in this
- 1:00:12format at all. So that's, that's the Balaban of
- 1:00:16his game where he didn't get to show off where that's going to
- 1:00:19play a big role in who wins this job.
- 1:00:22Number 2 Grant Wells elevated. His is this is Is play.
- 1:00:27He ratchet it up. Compared not just compared to
- 1:00:30what we've seen in general, but relative to what we saw in last
- 1:00:33year's spring game where other than two bombs to Caleb, Smith
- 1:00:37burning Breann Marie. He didn't do a whole lot.
- 1:00:40He threw a few dumps down to gallo and that was about it.
- 1:00:45We actually saw him hitting receivers in various spots of
- 1:00:48the field. Intermediate 1 deep ball short
- 1:00:53stuff inside the hash outside. The hash we saw the things that
- 1:00:56we To see from him and the decision-making was better.
- 1:00:59He had one that was a borderline.
- 1:01:01Might have been picked off but everything else didn't even come
- 1:01:05close. And I think that that's a big
- 1:01:08step for him as well. Can that translate to live games
- 1:01:13that matter when the lights are on with the real lights?
- 1:01:16Not just these spring game lights, I don't know.
- 1:01:19But then you couple that with what pop Watson was able to show
- 1:01:23you feel like you got a good quarterback for the future that
- 1:01:26can give. Give you enough now and then you
- 1:01:28got two guys that are actually battling out where we have an
- 1:01:31actual quarterback battle heading into the fall and not
- 1:01:33just, all right, well, we're going to say this is a good
- 1:01:37thing to keep Jason Brown around because we all knew that it was
- 1:01:41Grant. Well, job at the end of that
- 1:01:42spring game last year and I don't think we feel that this
- 1:01:45year. So I think that's big for us.
- 1:01:47Oh yeah, definitely. And then that like so what you
- 1:01:50see from and I do people like I want to bash Wells and things
- 1:01:53like that. I really don't, I just want to
- 1:01:55win. But what you see what wells was
- 1:01:58able to do was he was on a productive offense, that guy's
- 1:02:02wife, that's why you say, man, he looks so much better yet.
- 1:02:07At one time, the running game was like, 142 - three, you know
- 1:02:12like you as a quarterback, you can't run RPO.
- 1:02:16If you don't have if you don't have a running game, you know
- 1:02:19what I'm saying? Like the wide open at drones
- 1:02:24now, no, no excuses for anything.
- 1:02:26Thing again, like you said, I'm going to say slightly better for
- 1:02:30that quarterback room because I seen drawings for, I think as
- 1:02:35bad as we can see him and I was still encouraged.
- 1:02:39Yes, yes, I've seen Grant Wells raise, his level of play from
- 1:02:44last year, but I liked about what I saying from Grant Wells
- 1:02:47was. He was more of a leader I seen
- 1:02:50in Motion in a little bit more. I've seen him kind of having fun
- 1:02:53with guys, after that ODU game, I feel Like he was a shell, I
- 1:02:58don't know if he was like shell-shocked.
- 1:03:00It, you know, he just was trying to go in and do his job.
- 1:03:04You got to have a little fun when you're playing football,
- 1:03:06you know what I'm saying? But when you to pull her back
- 1:03:07and you got to see on your chest, you got to go lead, you
- 1:03:10know, we didn't see a lot of that last year under their first
- 1:03:14time seeing him out there in the spring and my seen a little bit
- 1:03:18more leadership so that was encouraging.
- 1:03:20And then I watched a lot of pot Watson, you know, High School
- 1:03:24football is much different than College.
- 1:03:26But I just feel like he has the it Factor, you know, he is a
- 1:03:32small guy, he's probably gonna have to put on some weight.
- 1:03:35I don't know that he'll be the quarterback at Virginia Tech in
- 1:03:38two years. I'm not, I don't know, I don't
- 1:03:40know what he does. I feel like we're going to be
- 1:03:42watching him somewhere at some school and we're going to go
- 1:03:46down that kids. Good you know hopefully we get
- 1:03:49to see him and in a hokie uniform and we say that kids
- 1:03:53good, but I feel like in the future we don't see him.
- 1:03:56Starting quarterback for somebody or coming off coming
- 1:03:59off, when somebody gets injured and him going in and going man,
- 1:04:03that kids got it. So I feel pretty good about the
- 1:04:06about the quarterback room steel.
- 1:04:08Yeah. And I think the other reason
- 1:04:10where we feel good, as we know this defense is solid solid.
- 1:04:14We saw them stake their level up next year.
- 1:04:16We saw some plays on Saturday and that's another thing we saw
- 1:04:20both. Even the white unit have several
- 1:04:23drives and it was a mix match, you know, tally through.
- 1:04:26Enough. Hey who's this kid Curtis?
- 1:04:28And I gave him the pictures. Like oh, that's a walk-on all
- 1:04:31that's not you. So you knew of some Walk-Ons out
- 1:04:34there and everything. So let's hit this real quick
- 1:04:36before we close it up, run player real quick.
- 1:04:39Brine, standout player for you on the offense on Saturday.
- 1:04:45standout play for me on offense, I would have to go Give me
- 1:04:52Steven guys, Mel. All right, because I feel like
- 1:04:55the way he stepped up his game. It was supposed shocking to me
- 1:04:59and I'm excited for what he can bring to the offense in the
- 1:05:01fall. He's going to go Steven guys
- 1:05:05nail I was going to go cold but I'm gonna go chance black I got
- 1:05:13a touchdown ran a touchdown just looked a lot better than what
- 1:05:17we've seen them do and he had a year to get spring game so I'm
- 1:05:21gonna go chance black. If I'm gonna let Curtis say what
- 1:05:23he's got to say neither will Circle back around.
- 1:05:26All right, my standout offensive plate herbs were to Smash
- 1:05:29Brothers. Okay, but Moore's I mean no
- 1:05:32seriously, there was such a Curtis hanjin.
- 1:05:35No, no. It's just it's you saw them in
- 1:05:38tandem do some things and I know, luckily what we're going
- 1:05:41to do in two weeks is gonna be really fun because a couple of
- 1:05:43those run plays Callie. You said it about playing next
- 1:05:47to your best friend. You just saw it a couple times,
- 1:05:51they knew exactly what the other one was doing.
- 1:05:54And they were some Lanes just opened because I know I don't
- 1:05:58will mention as offensive stand out as got to be Tucker Holloway
- 1:06:01man albums, right? Look good, man.
- 1:06:05He's he's a little slim dude, man.
- 1:06:07But he's got some speed. I think he may be.
- 1:06:10One of the players that can actually take the top off, which
- 1:06:13is what we need. You know, stretch the field a
- 1:06:15little bit and it was fun. It was fun to see and play.
- 1:06:20It was fun to see him out there. I dimension for me is Parker
- 1:06:24Clements honorable mention for this cat is Benji Gosnell
- 1:06:28because three tight ends they could get on the field and play.
- 1:06:32And I know he wanted to see right?
- 1:06:34And we didn't get to see him but I think from what he did and I
- 1:06:38think he wasn't being held out for playing battery thing.
- 1:06:41I think they said he had a Nick and it's just like, I'm fine.
- 1:06:44Don't play him with Nick. They didn't go out there and let
- 1:06:47him go out there and make people feel bad on Saturday, in the
- 1:06:51fall. All right?
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- 1:09:20A ground are. All right boys let's talk a
- 1:09:22little defensive side of the ball because we know that's a
- 1:09:25good group. We saw last year, they made some
- 1:09:27good plays and I want to start with the safety.
- 1:09:31So fried, tell me what you saw from the safeties.
- 1:09:36I mean they only had the defensive MVP is bringing Jalen
- 1:09:39strowman over there. Yeah, he was all over the day
- 1:09:42and feel man, all over the field.
- 1:09:45He had the, The Break-Up that led to the interception on that
- 1:09:48last drones drive that got deep into Two into scoring range,
- 1:09:52they're made great tackles in the running game.
- 1:09:57Had some good feels. So he was all over the place,
- 1:09:59making plays in the spring game, really excited to see him kind
- 1:10:04of take that next step. So that was big for me and
- 1:10:06obviously defensive MVP says it all.
- 1:10:10Yeah, definitely. It's just something about seeing
- 1:10:13a safety with the with that with the hair hanging out of the
- 1:10:15helmet looking like Predator. Going towards somebody, you
- 1:10:18know, to see him and people's back there wide open like that.
- 1:10:23That is, that is a good sight to see but I was impressed.
- 1:10:26Also with most Phillips, man. I think you had to pick his
- 1:10:29well, like, yeah, the other typical.
- 1:10:31Yeah, another another kid. This supposed to be going to
- 1:10:34prom right now. Yes, yeah, it's playing playing
- 1:10:37football for Virginia Tech and show.
- 1:10:40Out in the, in the spring game and I think he was all over the
- 1:10:43field. He looks the part he is, I guess
- 1:10:47the lights weren't too big and I think he was again, it might not
- 1:10:51see him a lot. May not see him a lot this year,
- 1:10:53but he's already giving valuable reps in there.
- 1:10:57You never know when you're gonna need him.
- 1:10:59And then also, he can be this special team.
- 1:11:01Plus, it was encouraging to see what they have and safeties
- 1:11:04room. Yeah, I'm feeling we didn't tell
- 1:11:07a joke because I'm assuming slightly better.
- 1:11:09Slightly better. Slightly better.
- 1:11:11Yes, slightly bent actually, give me give me much better much
- 1:11:15better. That's wasn't sure who we had
- 1:11:19passed the first two. I knew we had some guys.
- 1:11:22I didn't know if we had guys that we could count on rely on
- 1:11:25and kind of lean on, I feel like, between what we saw from
- 1:11:30most Phillips, what we saw from Jaylen Jones who was kind of an
- 1:11:34unknown commodity as well. Seeing those to step up, you
- 1:11:38feel like, you know, you may, I want a ton of series back to
- 1:11:43back with those guys having to run, but you at least feel good.
- 1:11:46All right, well, we can have them in there for series or to
- 1:11:49get the other guys, a blow, get them back in there.
- 1:11:52So I feel like we actually have a little bit of depth to play
- 1:11:54around with it safety. Now that I wasn't sure about
- 1:11:56before this. So, I'm gonna go much better.
- 1:11:58I'm with you on much better, and it's, we mentioned, most it
- 1:12:02seeing him, you know, he can play Jalen Jones, I think, was
- 1:12:06the bigger question mark because Jalen Jones was slipping sides
- 1:12:08of the ball, Jalen Jones. Got special teams in VP for the
- 1:12:12defense shows you how good he played out on the defensive side
- 1:12:16of the ball, but just watching him in general, you talked about
- 1:12:19that, best hit by shell tooting. That first play Jalen Jones,
- 1:12:22missed, that whole up, and missed that.
- 1:12:23Tackle up in the Gap. Yeah, they Jenkins forced
- 1:12:26leverage. Cut tune inside.
- 1:12:27Right, to me, missed it. A few plays later, he fills the
- 1:12:32hole. He makes a tackle that could
- 1:12:33have been a seven or eight yard game.
- 1:12:35It was like a three-yard gain for chance, black, right?
- 1:12:38And that's things you look for you.
- 1:12:40Guys who make mistakes and then they come back and they make a
- 1:12:42good play, right? And Jalen strowman.
- 1:12:47We said this earlier in, this is us and he is no longer little
- 1:12:52strowman. He's no longer a little
- 1:12:53stronger. He's Jalen's from put the name
- 1:12:56on it because that kid is special, that kid is Suresh.
- 1:13:00Click on his name. It would probably going to have
- 1:13:03in this year next. Yeah, I don't think we're going
- 1:13:06to having three years because at the level he is progressing.
- 1:13:10We can get him. Or two more seasons.
- 1:13:11So enjoy a day and I think that room is down good.
- 1:13:15I think that one is no good. As long as we don't got to see
- 1:13:1827 in the backend back there. I think we're gonna be fine.
- 1:13:22You got steady Eddie People. You got playmaking strowman and
- 1:13:26you got two young. Good backups that rooms ready to
- 1:13:29go. All right, this is the tougher
- 1:13:32room to judge. It always is.
- 1:13:34And I know when we get into the tape, it's going to help us out.
- 1:13:37But tally, you were there in living / in Color for all y'all
- 1:13:42really young folks, Go YouTube In Living Color.
- 1:13:46Yeah. One of the best am Shannon.
- 1:13:48Fox show. Jamie Foxx carried away.
- 1:13:53His brothers Scott is such a good show, but In Living Color,
- 1:13:56you saw that game. How you feeling about the
- 1:13:59corners Four Corners? I'd probably say slightly
- 1:14:04better. And the reason I say that is
- 1:14:06because I was Dorian strong as always been a I think Dorian
- 1:14:11stronger than a solid player. I think he's been a solid
- 1:14:14player, but again, he was down last year with an injury, he
- 1:14:18could easily sit out this game. He could have easily not played
- 1:14:21this spring game because I mean, what does he got to prove?
- 1:14:24He's pretty, he's a senior, you know, but he went out there and
- 1:14:27he competed and again, he was the one who chopped chopped gal,
- 1:14:31that Gallo is a big, dude. If he has that you took for you
- 1:14:35to have to hit in in the flats and strong show, did he wasn't
- 1:14:40scared. And put his nose in there.
- 1:14:42Flip Flip Gala on his head, seeing him back in there and
- 1:14:47then canteen canteen looks like a ball of muscle man.
- 1:14:51He is he he looks the part he is all over the field as well and
- 1:14:56then, you know, I seen a couple of things from d'Alene, but
- 1:14:59again once I go back and watch, it went back and watched a
- 1:15:02little film. Yeah, he did get kind of twisted
- 1:15:06up a little bit but it wasn't so much of him.
- 1:15:10Him not having leverage he just didn't break when he needed to
- 1:15:14break. You know he kept the play in
- 1:15:16front of him instead of using his instincts and doing what
- 1:15:19he's what we seen them do so I don't think it was a bad spot, I
- 1:15:23don't think it was anything. I didn't expect and again I'm
- 1:15:29feeling slightly better about that wrong.
- 1:15:32They go. I'm about the same for me.
- 1:15:35I thought this was going to be a pretty solid strength of the
- 1:15:38team and I feel pretty much like that again.
- 1:15:42I feel like seeing canteen in person, he's lived up to the
- 1:15:46hype that we've heard from Spring practice from all the
- 1:15:50coaches talking about him, all the guys that have watched
- 1:15:52those, those practices what they've said about it to this
- 1:15:56point, he lived up to that on Saturday you d'Alene is is
- 1:16:01Years. I mean, nobody's gonna go out
- 1:16:03there and put a perfect number up in the spring game, right?
- 1:16:05You know, he had one or two where he probably like to have
- 1:16:08back. Didn't trust his trust his
- 1:16:11teaching kind of got a little bit made.
- 1:16:13Sure made sure. It wasn't going to be a big
- 1:16:15gain, instead of kind of trust him what he's been taught and
- 1:16:17kind of staying in that Hip Pocket.
- 1:16:19So that kind of you know, it'll come with time and and I think,
- 1:16:24you know, he's still a young buck out there so he's still
- 1:16:27learning still growing is but he but he didn't show me anything.
- 1:16:30That says, okay, Sophomore slump is coming.
- 1:16:32So right, looking at kind of further down though, you talked
- 1:16:38about strong strong, he looked like he was kind of back to
- 1:16:42where we thought he'd be at this point in his career.
- 1:16:44So I'm excited about him. I'm a little worried kind of
- 1:16:48Beyond those three. That's kind of what I've got.
- 1:16:52Got it, stay in the same for me. Cam Johnson, didn't look great
- 1:16:58still, looks a little undersized, like he's getting
- 1:17:01pushed around a little bit out there.
- 1:17:04You know, you'd like to see him kind of take that next step.
- 1:17:07He's really good when he can match up one-on-one but anytime
- 1:17:10he's not playing that straight up man coverage.
- 1:17:15It looks a little lost sometimes then kind of get get turned
- 1:17:19around a little bit when he's playing More in space and then
- 1:17:22zone. So what up another?
- 1:17:24I want to cut you off, but another reason When I said, I
- 1:17:26feel a little bit better. Again, these guys are freshman
- 1:17:32when you talk about the lane and Jonathan Johnson didn't look
- 1:17:35good coming off that injury, but we have some fret.
- 1:17:40We have a lot of freshmen coming in, that's not there yet.
- 1:17:44That I feel like if they could make this make the if they can
- 1:17:49make the steps that the Freshman made last year, I think we'll be
- 1:17:53in a good spot. Yeah.
- 1:17:54When you talk about convent, You talk about Johnson and you talk
- 1:17:58about cam Fleming got love those.
- 1:18:00Other guys that are coming in, I think that we brought, we
- 1:18:04bringing a lot of cornerback seeing that can play in a lot of
- 1:18:07different positions. You know what I'm saying?
- 1:18:10Yes, I'm on. Can do boundaries, summer,
- 1:18:11someone can move safety. Like I feel good about what the
- 1:18:15future goes to. You know, again, hey, look too
- 1:18:18far ahead, because we're just talking spring game and we're
- 1:18:21talking about getting ready for the this season, but I think
- 1:18:25it's going to be Then it's summer.
- 1:18:27I do I think it's gonna be interesting.
- 1:18:29Yeah, I'm like somewhere between the same and slightly better.
- 1:18:32I don't feel like good enough to say slightly better.
- 1:18:36What did say? Is everything changed, Cantina
- 1:18:39all checks the boxes. Tell you said it the other week
- 1:18:42and y'all said it is a corner. You're going to get beat
- 1:18:45sometimes just on why? Cuz the other guy knows exactly
- 1:18:48where he's going, what he's doing and you don't, and
- 1:18:51sometimes you lose technique, you lose your fundamentals and
- 1:18:54you just get beat. That is what it Is it's going to
- 1:18:58be interesting because some of those young guys are going to
- 1:19:00have to, kind of take the step, you know, like, when they get
- 1:19:05here or Cottman over the summer, or Cam Johnson, gained a little
- 1:19:11weight, getting a little bit better, you know, over the
- 1:19:14summer. But on the other hand, it's one
- 1:19:19of those things too. Is because somebody like a Jalen
- 1:19:21strobing go down and play a nickel Corner when you need to.
- 1:19:26He probably could. And again, I always like you,
- 1:19:29that's things. We can't factor into the room,
- 1:19:31right? Right.
- 1:19:32Because we didn't think last year about tomorrow, I guess,
- 1:19:35last week, so, it's more reasonably free safety this
- 1:19:37year. Dr. Martin went down played
- 1:19:39nickel Corner sometimes and it made the defense better.
- 1:19:42So if you're telling me somebody like strowman occasional is
- 1:19:44gonna go play nickel corner, Okay, I feel comfortable about
- 1:19:48most Phillips. Being the safety in that
- 1:19:50situation and they're trying to give somebody a blow but I still
- 1:19:53want to see one guy. At least one.
- 1:19:56I love to see to. I want to see at least one guy
- 1:19:58become that number for to really solidify the road.
- 1:20:02All right, let's go here to the linebacker room, linebacker
- 1:20:07room, interesting. Split we have McDonald and
- 1:20:10Tisdale on the white team. We had Keller and Lawson on the
- 1:20:14maroon team. Keller was given the most
- 1:20:17improved player. Tally, will you feeling about
- 1:20:20this room? After the spring, I'm feeling
- 1:20:22about the same. Killer is a big individual.
- 1:20:27Keller looks good, he can move good Tinsdale.
- 1:20:29He's been there a long time. We kind of know what we have in
- 1:20:33him. Don't be excited for him to at
- 1:20:36least have a whole season. You know, bar known injuries or
- 1:20:39anything like that but what no suspensions for gambling on the
- 1:20:42finals or whatever? They said he did last year.
- 1:20:47I feeling about the same. Nothing good.
- 1:20:50Nothing bad. I'm still I still got my own the
- 1:20:53McDonald twins. You know.
- 1:20:55I keep hearing a lot of a lot of chatter about them and they look
- 1:21:00the part they look good, but I want to see.
- 1:21:04I want to see some. I want to see something,
- 1:21:07especially out of the the linebacker McDonald brother.
- 1:21:11I want to see something that just like, okay, he's got it.
- 1:21:15So I didn't see that yet but you know I'm still I'm still looking
- 1:21:20and still optimistic so you go yeah I'm kind of with Tally on
- 1:21:25that one for real Jason Keller look really good.
- 1:21:30Really liked what he brought to the table.
- 1:21:33He's got a good mix of athleticism and kind of run
- 1:21:36stopping ability that. I feel like we haven't really
- 1:21:39had a bit. You don't you don't feel like
- 1:21:42he's a guy that's going to get lost in coverage a whole lot.
- 1:21:45Nobody Really run away from him unless it's a superior athlete
- 1:21:49and, you know, but he's still a guy that can impact the run run
- 1:21:52game as well. So I'm thinking he's kind of
- 1:21:55the, the lead dog in terms of winning that Mike spot.
- 1:21:59Looking at the at McDonald good and bad.
- 1:22:05You know, when I when I looked at it he had some plays where he
- 1:22:08looked. All right, look, kind of look
- 1:22:10the part a little bit and he had some plays where he wasn't in
- 1:22:13the right Gap, got pushed around.
- 1:22:15A little bit. So so that's a little
- 1:22:17Troublesome but I mean he's undersized.
- 1:22:19He's a guy that came in as a cornerback moved to safety moved
- 1:22:21to linebacker. You know he's still kind of
- 1:22:27building a body of a mic you know he played mostly in that
- 1:22:33that will spot last year. Some it's am last year.
- 1:22:35So he's definitely still undersized for Mike and right
- 1:22:40now if I had to pick one it would be Keller or you know,
- 1:22:44depending on how we met. Been there, whether Tisdale can
- 1:22:47hold that spot down or not but but Keller's by vote Kelly
- 1:22:51Lawson as advertised had a good game.
- 1:22:55Look look like the type of player that can is going to take
- 1:22:57that next step this year and your Tisdale was the Tisdale
- 1:23:03that we saw it parts of the the back half of the season last
- 1:23:06year which was much improved relative to most of his career
- 1:23:10with genja tech. So I feel like we got three
- 1:23:13solid guys there. Our kind of mixing in between
- 1:23:17those will and Mike spots. The question is, do we have one
- 1:23:20or two more? That can kind of take another
- 1:23:22step, because I didn't quite feel comfortable beyond that.
- 1:23:25So I'm going to get I'm going with the same on my party
- 1:23:28because I felt pretty good about the room going in.
- 1:23:30Yeah I'm afraid I don't miss I feel the same about that room
- 1:23:32because I felt good about the room going in, Tisdale played
- 1:23:36solid. That's what I expect from him.
- 1:23:38Keller in Lawson, show their athletic symptom and they're you
- 1:23:42know, they're Dynamic their dynamic.
- 1:23:45You saw all awesome come one time.
- 1:23:47It was like I don't know if this was like called Blitz.
- 1:23:49He came straight off the edge and just was right at drones sat
- 1:23:53I know that doesn't happen in a normal game, but to say he took
- 1:23:58that it was like four steps and he was there.
- 1:24:03But I feel the same about that room because I feel good about
- 1:24:05that room, I feel good about everybody in there you missing
- 1:24:09ju make McDonald made some errors here and there, but
- 1:24:11McDonald is going to be the fourth guy in that room, right?
- 1:24:15Right. He's not.
- 1:24:15He's not the second or the third.
- 1:24:17He's the fourth guy, and it's okay.
- 1:24:18If the fourth guy makes mistakes, because that's his job
- 1:24:21is to learn and to get up to be the third of the second Jenkins
- 1:24:24out on the outside. Steady is always like I said
- 1:24:27that that first play where he held he got leverage.
- 1:24:29He turned to write into. Where he was supposed to turn,
- 1:24:33missed tackle but he knew anything wrong.
- 1:24:36So I'm still feeling, you know, the same about that room, but
- 1:24:39the same was it was up here already.
- 1:24:41It will make the corners of the see.
- 1:24:43I'm interested to see how Stone comes in as well.
- 1:24:46It's true. Yeah, I'm interested to see what
- 1:24:48he brings to that room because he's going to have some
- 1:24:52experience. He's been in school for a while.
- 1:24:55And coming from somewhere. What is via my right come from
- 1:24:58you and, you know, I'm sure he's Going to have a lot of
- 1:25:02structure. He was All-American there.
- 1:25:06I'm interested to see what he brings to that room.
- 1:25:08So I think I think it runs on be nice.
- 1:25:13Very nice. All right.
- 1:25:14Well, one room we obviously all had questions about coming into
- 1:25:19Saturday was the defensive line we LED that last week and we
- 1:25:23discussing it tally. Would you see man I don't even
- 1:25:31know really how to judge it because you had so many people
- 1:25:34pieced together and not piece together.
- 1:25:37You know you had pollen and food go on one team and then you had
- 1:25:41see James Crais and Lawson on. Like it was just a lot going on.
- 1:25:48So terrific for me to really feel good about that.
- 1:25:52That room I would need to see our starting for together then
- 1:25:58so I can say, so that's where you go when Curtis is talking
- 1:26:02about that best on best, I would have loved to see who they
- 1:26:06thought the best for was there. You're down lineman in the Then
- 1:26:12you know, I could give you a better assessment.
- 1:26:16So again I would probably say Saying, you know, cuz it's not
- 1:26:23like it's not like, I see nothing so bad.
- 1:26:27You know, I know we had some young guys in there but those
- 1:26:30young guys are huge. You know, you can't teach sighs.
- 1:26:34I feel like food was going to be better than he was last year.
- 1:26:38Kendrick and pilot we kind of know what to expect side.
- 1:26:41Ya know what to expect out of those guys and then when you
- 1:26:44talk about the defensive defensive end, which is where I
- 1:26:47question mark is, you know, I really like CJ McRae.
- 1:26:51I don't know what it is just about how he moves or its body
- 1:26:54size Nelson. I'm not as high on, but I don't
- 1:26:58I'm not low on them either. You know, I just I'm higher own,
- 1:27:01CJ, McRae and I'm Nelson. But I would like to see all of
- 1:27:05those guys together. So I could have a better
- 1:27:07assessment of what we have in that room because it is the
- 1:27:10question mark for me. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
- 1:27:16I feel about the same. I didn't feel great about it
- 1:27:18going in. I didn't really see anything
- 1:27:19that changes my mind. Lat CJ McRae looks explosive off
- 1:27:24the edge, probably still a little undersized I mean I'd
- 1:27:27help you as much in the Run game.
- 1:27:29Kind of inverse for cold Nelson. He's a he's a solid Edge
- 1:27:32presence in the Run game. Didn't show me a whole lot in
- 1:27:35terms of getting after the pastor.
- 1:27:38I feel like he does have a motor but he doesn't have the skill
- 1:27:42set to get around the tackles the way he needs to.
- 1:27:45So if somebody else gets some pressure, he's going to be there
- 1:27:48to clean it up because he does have that motor, but I don't
- 1:27:51think He's got the skill set right now to be able to blow
- 1:27:54guys off the ball or give a good bull rush or or some sort of rip
- 1:27:59inside to get to the quarterback consistently one person I can
- 1:28:04say that. I was, I don't want to use the
- 1:28:07word impressed with, but I can see constant Improvement.
- 1:28:13Is pranay. I think he keeps getting better
- 1:28:16and better, you know. Not not saying he's exceptional,
- 1:28:21but For what I expected him to be every time I see him.
- 1:28:25It looks like he's doing a little bit more and a little bit
- 1:28:27more. He's adding some stuff to his to
- 1:28:29his Arsenal. So he I seen him.
- 1:28:32I seen him moving pretty good in the spring game to him.
- 1:28:36Yeah I'm with y'all looked improved and we log out Malik I
- 1:28:41meant to say Malik I'm good. He looked the best in terms of a
- 1:28:46guy that looks the part that showed up to, right?
- 1:28:50So that That's kind of the big thing for me, going further down
- 1:28:54the D and I thought Burgos flashed here and there, I don't
- 1:29:00think he's ready to be a consistent presence but I think
- 1:29:02he's somebody that can give us something this phone.
- 1:29:05So that's kind of what I'm waiting to see.
- 1:29:07I'm kind of waiting to see if any of these other guys.
- 1:29:09Take take another step between now and the Fall To Be A
- 1:29:12Difference Maker because I don't feel like we necessarily found
- 1:29:15out anything new from what we saw on Saturday.
- 1:29:19Yeah, I'm with y'all on this. It's the same, it's the same.
- 1:29:24I mean, we saw some good things from the interior, obviously,
- 1:29:27we're expecting to see some good things from the interior.
- 1:29:30We were expecting to see McCrae be good.
- 1:29:32I mean I was kind of slightly impressed with Cole Nelson
- 1:29:35because there were a couple times he got Parker.
- 1:29:37Yeah, he got. Why he got up into Parker, you
- 1:29:40got underneath, you saw him drive at arm and obviously, now
- 1:29:45the play was made by the quarterback but I see that it's
- 1:29:47like, okay? And then you saw y'all.
- 1:29:50You mentioned burgers. He saw moisten.
- 1:29:53Not spectacular. Not oh my God, that guy's
- 1:29:56playing defensive end but if you say, hey, we need one series to
- 1:29:59give coal and CJ a breather a couple times, you call them set
- 1:30:05aside Edge. Couple times, you saw them press
- 1:30:07the pinch a little bit and that's okay.
- 1:30:10The biggest one from the line was Malachi though.
- 1:30:13St. Malachi, forcing some pressure.
- 1:30:16He's a big body. I think, Malachi's 2D and I know
- 1:30:20you talked about Pinay But I think Malachi is 2D.
- 1:30:24By the time we get to fall. He's already got the body man.
- 1:30:27He's got, he's got some speed to him to be that big to like some
- 1:30:31quickness. I say, but yeah, he's definitely
- 1:30:35got the body for it. I think I don't you play with
- 1:30:37your matchups a little bit better because he's more suited
- 1:30:40to kind of be in that one, too. I that, I think pinet is same
- 1:30:46with. Obviously, fuga, is kind of kind
- 1:30:48of living that life as well. So if we can get those two, Two
- 1:30:51big guys kind of in the middle clogging.
- 1:30:53Up the center guard area a little bit more.
- 1:30:55You know open a can kind of be that fifth guy that kind of
- 1:30:57works in here and there whether whether we need somebody in the
- 1:31:01in the to I for a little bit but he can also work the three
- 1:31:04because I feel like he's more of a tweener between those d-tackle
- 1:31:07positions 100%. All right, I mean y'all were
- 1:31:14there y'all saw it who stood out run?
- 1:31:19Standing on the line. No, no defenses.
- 1:31:21Whole defense is a whole Stroman, 100%.
- 1:31:25Not even close. He went first, I was going to
- 1:31:30say strowman but if I gotta pick somebody else different, I'm
- 1:31:32gonna say Lawson but ain't you got struck trollman is shrub.
- 1:31:37In is the is the defensive MVP and it's definitely struggling.
- 1:31:43I mean he's everywhere. You know, when we look at the
- 1:31:46tape next week and show y'all a couple weeks ago, some plays you
- 1:31:48don't even see it even more. I mean, it's expected and took a
- 1:31:55step because he's definitely It was was all over the place a lot
- 1:31:59more than he showed last year. Well, honorable mention
- 1:32:02definitely Lawson on that when we look at that play and people
- 1:32:10see how much ground he covered to get there.
- 1:32:14He was, he was trying to say was beat, you know.
- 1:32:16I don't know. I haven't looked at it.
- 1:32:18Enough to know whose man that was whom an Jennings was but
- 1:32:23Stroman, covered a lot of ground to get to that ball.
- 1:32:27Doesn't respect on that man named.
- 1:32:29No more baby stroke. No more, baby stroller.
- 1:32:32Immortal stroke, he's big strong now.
- 1:32:34All right, y'all, we didn't set here for 90 minutes, anything
- 1:32:38broken out there in the last 90 I mentioned in basketball.
- 1:32:42Tonight, we gonna go past that one thing, I guess, I will say
- 1:32:46somebody mentioned it earlier in the chat.
- 1:32:49Talking about Caleb Smith retiring up there at Notre Dame.
- 1:32:54So just want to give a shout-out to Caleb Smith man.
- 1:32:56Once I hope You always a hokie, he definitely appreciate what
- 1:33:00Caleb Smith brought to us last year because we didn't have him
- 1:33:04in that in that wide receiver group.
- 1:33:06We may we may not have had any, any highlights.
- 1:33:09So Kayla Smith man, shout out to him.
- 1:33:13Hope everything's going. Good for you.
- 1:33:16Hope the next Endeavor in your life is as successful as you as
- 1:33:21a football was. Absolutely not very well.
- 1:33:27Spoken Talia. I think I'm gonna definitely
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