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3 Guys Before The Game - TCU Preview (Episode 492) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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All right, the last first of the season. Ready to go. A
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lot of firsts when you start a football season. One last first, let's
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do this thing. Three guys before the game, Ready to roll. This
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is the TCU Preview Episode four hundred and ninety two. So it's the first
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Big twelve road game. You've already had your first game, you've already had
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your first home game, You've already had your first Big twelve game. Now
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it's your first Big twelve road game. After that, I don't know what
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else is first second Big twelve games. I guess well, your first game
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in October, first game against Dana since the first game against your previous coach
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all season. I think we'll do that when you play Oklahoma State. What
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would it be ye, first time you've played Oklahoma State when they're really bad?
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game, first flight for the Mountaineers this season, they drove. Well.
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I bring that up because Neil brought it up during this press conference on Monday.
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He said, you know, as crazy as it sounds, he goes,
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you know, we've got a lot of guys that haven't flown yet,
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high school kids, you know, seniors that came in another freshman and he
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says. So we literally like in the early part of the week, go
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okay, who hasn't flown? Okay, kind of walk them through that and
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like who needs what? You know, do we give him a little dramamine
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what do we need to do? Because it's not funny if it's you,
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but you've been on these flights. When you go for the first time,
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there's always some kids that haven't done it before, and like all of their
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other teammates like they go like, he hasn't flown before, and then they
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just focus on him. And then if things get a little bumpy, immediately
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what happens all the eyes go like, how's he dealing with it? How's
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he doing? How's he doing? How's he Some guys just don't like it.
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Here's what I don't understand because I've seen this, but to get for
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example, because the plane's pretty full, three offensive linemen together on three seats
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together or three defensive linement, I mean the seats are barely It's a cattle
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call, dude, it's a cattle call. I mean you're in each other's
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laps night and day. Difference between football and basketball traup I mean basketball travel,
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I mean you spread your arms out, you can touch boat. I
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mean, you're just you're in a You're it's nice, beautiful, all the
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room. You want football. Then you're trying to eat. It's like Tyrannos
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source Rex. Your arms have to be like this eat. You certainly weren't
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consulted on the dramamine dosage, I hope, because you've had problems with that
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in the past. Overdose, the worst, hoppy. Yeah, how did
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I know? How did I know that you'd be a little bit? It
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took you, took you over a little bit, took me over. Yeah.
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They carry me through the airports because of him. What'd you take?
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I don't know. I thought, I just I thought, just a dramamine,
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have a nice little nap. Wake up. In Arizona, we were
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head of the bowl game. Insight Bowl. Listen, somebody gives you something
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in the airport, don't take it. Well, I thought I could trust
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him. Couldn't had to carry me off the plane, couldn't walk. That
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was that was. We had a basketball game at night. Then we drove
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to Pittsburgh and Mitch Fink, Hollywood actor or was in the West wing.
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Yeah, he drove us. He drove us up the up to the airport
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in his Saturn and his Saturn, remember Saturn's. He was going like two
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hundred and sixty one miles an hour, and we said, Mitch, play
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flights not till six in the morning. We're good. You take your time,
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we'll get you there anyway. So we got up early. So he
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said, man, I feel like I said, hey, take one of
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these. I didn't know the impact they would have on them. Literally these
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literally, that's that's what I agreed to take one of these. But well,
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I know he gave me more than one. Apparently was out. Wow,
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he was wobbly when he was walking through the halls of the Houston Airport.
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It was wobbly. I hope they're consulting somebody else other than you.
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Now. They're not coming to me for that. They're not coming to me.
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They're not coming to me for that. Okay, So let's jump in
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West Virginia and the horned frogs of TCU and the symbolize who West Virginia is
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playing. Hoppy came with almost a little tcuish color. They're not they're not.
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They're prominent purple, but they've got a little something in a lighter shade
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like that. Yeah, it's really it's it's primarily though the Kansas State throwback
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basketball uniform. Yeah, the leavenders. No, it's good color. They're
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going black on black, right, are they doing a black out? Black
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on silver, black on silver, silver numbers, black jersey. Yeah,
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it'll look up very dark. Yeah. And West Virginia. I can't say
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because they haven't released it yet. You know, gotta tell you what.
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I think our fans are really gonna like those red uniforms. I think you're
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really by all rights, this should be a big rebuilding here for TCU.
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I mean, playing for the National championship. Eight guys went in the NFL
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Draft. You use your quarterback, Max Duggan, You lose your big running
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back Kendre Miller, you lose all your receivers at Quentin Johnston, you use
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a couple offensive lineman. I mean you lost a lot of talent off that
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team. You lost I think seven offensive starters, so this should be a
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lost your offensive coordinator and Garrett Riley who went to Clemson. So this should
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be a big rebuilding your betony. Apparently, apparently the guys behind those guys
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were pretty good number one, and they went out and got guys they used
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the transfer portal hard I got some guys from Alabama and went out and filled
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some of those slots. So they have not really missed a lot. And
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that new quarterback channel or Morris is getting better every week, so Brady,
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they've rebounded nicely so far. The other side of this is I love when
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we start to get into this time of year because you're you're starting to each
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week that goes by the preseason projections or what you thought should be happening starts
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to go out the window a little bit right as you get more data that
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is happening currently, and I think when you look at West Virginia's that's certainly
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been relevant from the defensive side more than anything. And so as you start
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to get into this time of year, each of these tests gets a little
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bit stiffer as you move along. And if you're West Virginia, you've been
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tested already. You've played three power fives in your first four games. That's
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schedule strength. You hear me say this all the time. This time year,
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does the schedule strength benefit start to show itself here a little bit?
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Because if you're TCU, I think they're looking around going exactly what do we
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have this year work. We're not quite sure. Got surprised and ambushed by
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Colorado in that first game, which is understandable. I don't think anybody had
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any idea what Colorado was bringing to the table. And TCU got lit up
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by Shdor Sanders and that group. Then it was Nichols, Houston and SMU.
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So this is going to be the most they've tested since that Colorado game
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as well. So I'm fascinated to watch, all right, as West Virginia
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goes into a road environment. But okay, you've been on the road in
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front of one hundred and ten. All due respect to TCUs group, this
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group of West Virginia should go down and play. Say hey, let's try
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to go and take our swings. Does defense travel? You say that a
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lot in college basketball? Does defense travel? Going against you? Thought last
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week was going to be the best offense you faced, and maybe it was,
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but West Virginia held it in check. Now I think you get another
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good test against this TCU offense. My concern is the week has gone on
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has been geared toward how many times can you go out and play at a
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very high level of efficiency and with energy and by that I'm saying, So
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you open up the season the much Ballyhood Penn State game. Okay, did
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that, du Kane, you come back, You're supposed to win. They
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won, but you also had almost two hours of lightning. Okay, fine.
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Then the Pit game, right, you put all of your clams in
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the middle of the table and you went after it, hugely emotional game.
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Then last week again okay, fine for Pit, get over Pit. Because
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now this team's beating us four years in a row. We got to go,
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go, go, go go. So now, as Brad eluded,
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you don't have the instant energy that your fans have brought you for the last
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three games, and so you've really got to dig deep because not only emotionally
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but physically. Now every team needs a good breath after playing five games four
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obviously, but this will be the fifth game. So that's my concern,
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not that they can't and not that they're not going to put forth attempt to
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put forth the same amount of effort, but you just need you need some
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rest at times. I'm hoping they can get their rest starting Sunday and they
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go out there and ball out. But that's my concern. Well, and
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Tony's legitimate point. And also I think you're probably talking specifically to about the
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defense, which has just been lights out for the last couple of games.
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I mean, can they do that again, because I think they're gonna have
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to do it again? Have to get because you just don't know what you're
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gonna get offensively and is it gonna be Nico And you're probably then limited offensively
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as to what you can do, especially because Brad, what does West Virginia
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want to do offensively? Run it? They want to run the ball.
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Who is good against the run TCU? TCU was sixteenth in the country and
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run defense, they're only giving up eighty five yards a game. So that
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now like, okay, are they gonna be able to can West Virginia even
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though they have a good offensive line. Are they gonna be able to run
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on this TCU team? And they but they gotta throw some and they got
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seven they got a bunch of starters back. On defense, it's a very
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good defensive line for TCU, and they're just when you start looking at this
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and brand I know you have a deeper dive on the stats, concerns start
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to pop up everywhere. Flip side though, Colorado doesn't run it. They
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wanted to throw it. Houston doesn't run it, they wanted to throw it.
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Nichols throw it out. SMU in there yet. So who has come
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in against TCU that wants to and can run it as well as West Virginia.
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You talk to their folks hop and they're sitting over there and they're preview
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going, Okay, is this defense right to stop the run? Can this
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defense hold the run? They've got They've got some talented dudes on that defense.
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We've got a bunch of linebackers. But that's also potentially a defense that
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you may be able to run on. You know, West Virginia. Last
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year, Tony what CJ have against this team one oh four until he got
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hurt and it was eleven minutes to go in? Was it the third or
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I think third? Yeah, So we've seen and we've seen that three three
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five type of defense here at West Virginia for years. At times you can
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run on that. So again that's going to be a key every game for
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West Virginia. It's massive here and I'm gonna get into some time of possession
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stuff coming up from our spreads on statu from Conley CPA group but that's something
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to watch. Can you run on this defense, because I don't think this
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Frog's defense has been tested with a running game like they're going to see this
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week. Neil had something interesting that when I was chatting with him this week,
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and that was this that last week, coming off the emotion of the
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pit game, he took it a little bit easier on his guys so that
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they would be ready to go on Saturday. He said, the defense did
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fine with that. The defense did fine with that because when they came out
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Saturday, they were ready to go. He said. The offense didn't do
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well with not really being pushed and hard physically. And he said, and
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here's probably why the old line there are tons of experience there. Those guys
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were fine, he said. But he said, look who we're playing with
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in our skill spots. Right. C J. Dunton got a quarterback in
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Nico, very young, still very young. I think people kind of forget
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that he's still very young in his career. You have c. J.
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Donaldson, like eleventh or twelfth game. Jalen Anderson just played a little bit
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towards the end of last season, right, Hudson, Clement Rodney Gallagher,
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preston Fox, Devin Carter's the only guy with a ton of experience, and
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so he thought that because they didn't tax those guys, they didn't perform as
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crisply and do what they should have been doing as well. He said,
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fool me once, my fault, fool me twice, Shame on me.
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He pounded them this week Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, I mean pound them
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technique. He made them go hard Tuesday and Wednesday, so that on Saturday
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they know their assignments, they know that how to how to get yards after
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contact, make plays. So that was his that was his remedy for that.
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So what how's it translate? You're gonna have to complete some past plays
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too. I mean, you're just gonna have to. And they were there
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last week, and you heard Neil mentioned that if you go back and watch
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the tape, there's there's plays there and they were close. Those have to
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start being converted into things that work, and hop we spent most of our
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coverage talking about the difference in sets and play call. I thought. I
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thought Neil and that offensive staff did as good a job as you can do
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for what your limitations are going against what was a pretty good defense in deck
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in trying to get some new wrinkles out there to get guys open in different
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spots. But then you just have to execute. So another week of prep
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for Nico and those receivers another step forward. Can they now make the move
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to not just oh wow, look there were four different guys open on those
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four different plays. Now you have to complete those for a couple of big
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plays. Look, what do you do if you're loaded on offense? You
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line up and you go. You don't make it too complicated. Go we're
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doing this, but you can't stop us. Right, What do you do
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if you're not loader on offense? You disguise it, which is what they
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did last week. Confused Texas Tech with different formations things like that. Now
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you would think that that TCUs with a veteran defense, had a chance to
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look at all this. They won't be as fool necessarily as Texas Tech will
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be. So you've kind of used that. So I don't know. I'm
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a little bit worried about this offense brand. We talked about this game last
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week where it seemed like West Virginia was running successfully, and they did to
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a degree, but they only they average less than four yards per carry.
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So and what will it look like this week? Yeah, well, it
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was just a tale of two halves. And again I'm gonna get into that
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a little bit. The first half when Western and to control the game,
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jumped out to the lead and quite frankly offensively did enough to win the game.
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Then you ask your defense to just carry it. Everything totally flipped in
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the second half. So can you instead of just dominating for one half,
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can you translate that into recorders this week and be successful? But it is,
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it is almost identical to the same formula. And we'll talk further about
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this, but you're getting a you got a Texas Tech team that wants to
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go fast, number one in the country and pace. Now you're getting a
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TCU team that's fifth in pace. So you're gonna want to do the same
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thing. So what's West Vininia I want to do? Run the wall,
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control the clock, which they did a plus fashion in that first half.
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A plus do that again, you're going to be in the mix for a
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win. The thing that Neil also pointed out this week was the fact that
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they're playing a team that wants to go fast for the second straight week.
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Also helps TCU because now TCU sees on tape how West Virginia does handle a
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team that wants to play fast. So a little bit of give and take
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real quick on that. This is easy to say, it's an easy theory.
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It is hard to execute. But you saw what happens Texas Tech and
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want to go as fast as it could go. You were getting stops,
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you weren't letting them make plays, and therefore they can't go fast. So
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that also, as we said going into last week's game, it's a double
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edged sword. If they get going fast, yeah, they're gonna wear your
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defense out. But if you stop them, or they go fast and go
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three and out, which Tech did a ton in the first half, then
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that flips on its ear and it's a massive advantage for you. And also
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what happened in that second half was the Texas Tech, which they did not
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do in the first half. In the second half, they got that run
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game going a little bit right, so that opened up the pass more.
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And TCU has a good running back in Bailey, averaging one hundred and twenty
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yards a game, so there's a concern. And you also have a quarterback
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that'll scoot. Yeah, he'll run Chandler Morris, will Ronnie's run the ball
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a lot so far the season is Tyler Schuck was supposed to be a runner
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too, and so here's it just simply comes down to this defense is doing
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everything it needs to do to stop offenses. It saw how to stop a
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speed offense. It's just going to have to execute. I think the biggest
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point is what you guys said earlier is can you step up and ask them
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to give you an A plus effort again? Maybe you can. Maybe we
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look back at the end of the season and say, well, yeah,
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you can ask them because they were a legit elite defense right now, right
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now, that defense, it really is fascinating. It's and I'll talk some
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more about individuals, but that's what's making it elite is we could spend the
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next hour individually going through about seven or eight different guys defensively that have been
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big time players. This isn't a one or two guy having a big twelve
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defensive Player of the Year type of year. It's seven or eight different guys
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that you've got to account for, which is making that defense go right now,
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good relationship between Neil Brown and Sonny Dikes. Dikes used to coach Neil
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Brown. When Neil was at Kentucky, Sonny Dikes was the slot receiver coach.
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So these guys know each other a good bit. Here's Sonny Dikes with
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his thoughts on the Mountaineers going into last year. We'd lost four games in
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a row against him, had a really hard fought game last year up in
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Morgantown. We were fortunate to win, and so we know it's been a
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tough game for TCU in the past. This is a good football team,
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a team that was playing with a lot of confidence, you know, a
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lot of momentum, had a really good win against Pittsburgh and then obviously a
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really good conference win against Texas Tech last week. You know, they're playing
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really physical, playing really hard, and they look like typical, you know,
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West Virginia tough football team. So we'll have our hands full Saturday.
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And yeah, so doesn't that make your doesn't make your your your doesn't that
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make you feel good? He said, It's a typical West Virginia football team
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that's physical, physical, Like, yeah, yes, that's where we used
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to be. That was eighties, that was nineties, that was rich Rod,
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that was like hit you right in the mouth. And start getting away
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from that. Yeah, it's started, it's starting to come back. Now.
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That's good. So that's good. That's a good thing. You gotta
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I always said, you have to do something right, you have to be
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known for something. So let's let's be that blue collar lunch pail sticking all
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the your other cliches. Let's be that group again and be like gosh in
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or lose. You know, you're gonna be bruised well, and that really
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transfers over. That's certainly true of the defense, and they're doing that,
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but that also transfers over to your offensive style too. I mean, that's
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that's goodness. It's struggled so far to get going, and certainly it's not
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putting up the points you want to and a lot of that has to do
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if you had to go to your backup quarterback a lot earlier than you'd intend
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into. But that's the strength of this team too. That offensive line is
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gonna go hit you. Zach Fraser gonna run down the field and hit you.
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I mean, Zach Fraser's getting as many yards as the running backs.
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He's like hitting three people and he's nine yards downfield. Yeah, I would
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strongly encourage fans, if you're really super into this, and if you're listening
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to this, you probably are spend a little time after the game and with
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your tape. And I know you can't see it as well when on the
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TV copy, but where Zach Frasier starts and where he ends a play will
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make you go like wow. Like routinely he'll end up on the far side
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outside of a hash mark or at the painted number. I mean, think
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about what. And I asked Matt Moore this week, the fensive line coach,
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I said, have you like He said, I've never had a center
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that I could ask to do those things. I mean, my man is
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like, yeah, he patrols. He's kind of like I mean, he's
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like he's like an attack dog that patrols, like hey, just comes out
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like I got the perimeter secure here, like I got it all. He's
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like your escort. I mean that tripper runs around with Neil. That's what
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Frasier is. You get a guy on the outside, Frasers right there,
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run alongside. I'm not gonna hit don't get in here. I'm gonna hit
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you too. And that's and never mind then Whyatt milem on the outside?
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Who now you're watching Frasier, so you can't see Milem's a pro. I
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mean Milem absolutely erasiste. Yeah, the flip side. Doug Nestors is very
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good as well. He's gonna get a test this week. That's gonna be
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get into some other matchups here in a minute, but that's one to watch.
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You can help me with the name here, Paul oh Ya Walleye sounds
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leads or he's top ten in the Big twelve in pressures. And they all
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come from their left side, which will be facing the right tackle and Nestor
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and the right guard there in Yates. So wat's the right side of West
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Virginia's offensive line to have to when they go back to pass, you're gonna
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have to give Nico some time watch that side in particular. And Brad,
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that's a great point. That front is the strength of that defense. Those
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guys they have the front alone has eight and a half sacks this season.
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That's without pressure from the linebackers of the cornered safety and anything like that.
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They have sixteen sacks overall, but half those have come just from the guys
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up front. Yeah, which is which is tremendous for their defense. But
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guess when it's hard to get sacks hop when when you're running the football.
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So if you start to look how things match and yeah, you look at
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their pass rush, that can get home that funky three three five that you
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have trouble identifying coverages. You know, if you're Nico, you haven't faced
22:38
a lot of coverages, but you're not going to run it or you're not
22:41
gonna throw it a whole lot. So if you're West Virginia, that might
22:45
and maybe this one age well, but that might neutralize some of what they
22:48
have been doing really well to ECU getting after the passer because a lot of
22:52
these teams have thrown a lot against them too, so that might not be
22:55
as big a factor this week. If if you're West Virginia, you're gonna
22:56
win the game, you need to make it not a factor because you're running.
23:00
They're three down. Starting lineman weigh eight hundred and ninety pounds. I
23:04
think fellas two nine five three twenty Dominic Williams right in the middle, right
23:10
over the head by the way of Zach Frasier. Zach Frasier gets a different
23:12
watch that he gets a different test this week. He's a guy on top
23:15
of his head, which isn't always the case. And then the other guy,
23:19
Oh yeah, waal ya is two seventy five. I would think Frasier
23:23
likes that the old wrestlings come on in the ring. We're gonna line up
23:29
right here. Yeah, he's he's in. He probably can't scoot out,
23:32
yes, correct out to the sidelines, but he locks that one guy up
23:37
and that three three five, not the other two guys to his sides.
23:40
Here you go saying you can run inside. Well, we'll see. I
23:45
mean, if if you can neutralize that the nose right over your center,
23:48
then they're gonna have to worry about dropping more guys down in and then that
23:52
opens some other things, as we always say. So, yeah, that's
23:55
absolutely a matchup to try and watch. When you're not, don't watch the
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where do you got Well, we're talking about this defense for TCU and good
26:22
versus run, good versus pass a keynote. Johnny Hodges is out one of
26:27
their linebackers who was really talented. Tony. We bought some film this week
26:32
and he's a guy. You know, you're watching film a lot of times
26:33
there's a gotten, there's just a guy and he's all. That's their guy.
26:37
But here's something to keep in mind with them, this linebacker unit as
26:40
a whole. So Hodges is fifth in the Big twelve in run stops and
26:44
that's what what that definition is. It's a loss for the offense via the
26:48
run. Okay, okay, so Hodges fifth in the Big twelve and run
26:51
stops, but three of their linebackers are in the top seventeen in that category.
26:55
So you're gonna have to work on the run. Man. What you
26:57
would think that that's three three, five at those three guys are supposed to
27:02
absorb the blocks in the linebackers and they drop the linebackers down. Correct,
27:04
may have another injury or two over there. Excuse me, I said they
27:10
might have another banged up person or two over there. We'll see game day.
27:12
I want to see the young men get hurt, but if it's an
27:15
advantage for West Virginia, he'll take it for a week. Give that young
27:18
man for his greater health, stay out for a week, and lead back
27:22
for the next game. That's right, all right, you're ready. Yes,
27:23
we're gonna run tempo here. Because we're talking about tempo and pace just
27:27
mentioned earlier. It's gonna be a big factor all season long when West Virginia
27:30
plays running the ball versus keeping the ball versus how well can you do that
27:34
against the other teams? Saw this last week against Tech. As we mentioned,
27:37
they wanted to run tempo and go fast. West Virginia was outstanding in
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that first half a play where that game was really one offensively. It's going
27:45
to come into play this week as well. I mentioned the Frogs are fifth
27:48
in the nation. It plays run per minute, averaging two point seven nine
27:53
plays per minute. So there's two things to watch in this game when it
27:56
comes to pace. The first, can West Virginia's defense do what it did
28:00
to Tech last week? Hop listen to this on Texas Tech seven first half
28:06
drives last Saturday, only two went longer than three plays. Well, one
28:10
of them was a four play that ended in a turnover on downs. The
28:14
other went six plays and ended in a field goal. West Virginia forced four
28:18
three and outs on seven drives in the first half against Tech. Right when
28:22
you took when you seized control of that game, right number two, you
28:26
have to have success. If you're West Virginia, you're running it to keep
28:29
that TCU offense on the sideline. West Virginia did that last week in the
28:33
first half versus Texas Tech. West Virginia had a thirteen play drive and a
28:37
twelve play drive that resulted in a total of twelve minutes and fifty five seconds
28:44
of possession. That's just two drives that chewed up nearly an entire quarter of
28:48
time of possession. You talk about doing it right. The defense is slowing
28:52
them and you're running it right down their throats and they can't stop it,
28:56
and you're just holding the ball watching that time tick off. So that's the
28:59
blue print, right, that's the blueprint. It's just simply it's not about
29:02
how do you do this against TCU, it's what do you do? So
29:06
running the ball last week's successfully led to a time of possession advantage of twenty
29:11
one minutes and twenty five seconds for West Virginia versus just eight and a half
29:15
minutes for Tech in the first half. Literally textbook on how you do it.
29:19
I mentioned earlier, Tech is the fastest team in the country, running
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three plays per minute, So you're not getting a team that runs any faster
29:27
than Tech. In fact, so far they've been just a tad slower.
29:30
So you've already seen it. Now on the flip side, there are only
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four Power five teams in the country that run fewer plays per minute than West
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Virginia. Now that would make sense, right, That's exactly what they want
29:41
to do. So really you wonder why West Virginia is three and one on
29:45
the season, it's because they've been doing exactly what they want. Run the
29:48
ball, control clock, taking it from the other team, not letting them
29:51
score. Pretty good formula, hop you liked that. Formula like on a
29:55
school yard, would be kind of like the sixth grader going at third grade,
29:57
Hey want the ball, can't have it? Yeah, or just holding
30:02
their arm out on their head, you know, just hold on the head
30:03
of it, can't have it. So point being to all of that,
30:07
wat's the time of possession, the number of plays run throughout the game on
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Saturday. The chances are very good that whichever team is winning those two categories
30:17
wins this game. If if TCU comes out and they're running plays on your
30:19
hop and they're in the time of possession is not massively in favor of West
30:23
Virginia, he might have a little bit of a situation, right, just
30:26
edible nugget to that West Virginia is third down defense twenty five percent been great.
30:33
All right, So each of the last two weeks we've had some success
30:37
on here identifying some specific matchups to watch. Let's see if we can do
30:41
that again. TCU's offensive line is a work in progress still this season.
30:47
On the early season, we talked to Frog's play by play voice Brian Estridge
30:51
on sports Line this week. What was the term he used, Tony,
30:52
He said, it's growing, it's growing together there. So it's if they're
30:56
working on that unit coming together. Well. West Virginia's ability last week to
31:00
get pressure was a huge factor in that win, and in fact, that's
31:04
been true for the last two games. Next up here comes Chandler Morris.
31:08
Morris has the most dropbacks under pressure in the Big Twelve. That's a good
31:15
stack. Twenty seven and a half. Twenty seven and a half percent of
31:19
those pressures have been the responsibility of the right tackle. That bodes well for
31:26
Jared Bartlett and Shawn Martin. Bartlett is tied for eighth and the Big Twelve
31:30
in total pressures from the left side going against the right tackle for them,
31:33
so he's on the left. Sean Martin sits one pressure right behind Bartlett.
31:38
So you've got two guys basically in the top twelve of the Big Twelve pressuring
31:41
from the left side. Hop we're getting specific on this program pressures from the
31:45
left side. Watch Bartlett and Marl Sean Martin. Now it's a really small
31:51
sample size, but you can add in Lance Dixon and Marcus Floyd, who
31:55
are tied for first in the Big twelve in pressures from the left side by
32:00
safeties in the Big twelve, and West Virginia would seem to have a nice
32:02
little opportunity. Again, that's four different guys that are high up in the
32:07
category coming from the one side against the side of the line that TCU has
32:12
had some trouble. I would think Marcus Floyd took a lot of attention this
32:15
week in the TCU offensive room because my guy was explosive on Saturday, so
32:22
they'll know who he is now. They didn't know who he was last week.
32:23
I'll interestingly, you're not looking at my notes, but the next line
32:27
of my notes said, I would think TCU knows this as well. So
32:30
they're gonna have to commit extra resources though, to help that right tackle.
32:34
Is that going to be the tight end who's a very good pass catcher?
32:36
Does he have to stay in blockmore? Running back has to come over and
32:38
ship. If so, they're going to have to do something over there on
32:40
that side to help. When they do that, West Virginia now looks back
32:45
to the other side. You turn Trey lath and lose from the right side.
32:47
He's fifth in the Big Twelve among linebackers when it comes to total pressures
32:52
from the right side. So as you's a baby. The overall point here
32:58
is what I said earlier. There's multiple players that are getting involved in the
33:00
action here. This just isn't turn Jared Bartlett loose. But if they bottle
33:05
up Bartlett, well I don't know what to do. You've got people coming
33:07
from both sides of this line applying pressure all over. So that's the formula.
33:12
Run it offensively slow them down, don't let him have the ball.
33:15
And then on the defense, keep that pressure on Chandler Morris there and make
33:19
make them one dimensional. Bailey's been very good running the ball. Make him
33:22
run the ball. That also choose some clock there as well. They want
33:25
to go fast, make him run it. Put pressure on Chandler Morris.
33:28
I think you got shot. Okay, let's go a little bit on our
33:31
offense here. We got I know what you're saying. You gotta run the
33:36
ball, but you're not gonna You're not gonna be able to win again with
33:38
seventeen or twenty points. You're simply not. I mean, I'd be stunned,
33:44
right if it comes in and West Virginia wins this game and they're around
33:47
seventeen or twenty points, and like the nineteen eighty three score comes in there,
33:52
like it's like, and the final score this afternoon it's West Virginia seventeen
33:57
and TCU ten, Like, I don't think it can happen. And nowadays
34:02
football, with a team that wants to go that fast, you checkdown.
34:07
I mean, you gotta keep going back to that. Do you win with
34:09
seventeen probably not? Do you win with twenty that's gonna be hard. Can
34:13
you win with twenty four? Can you win that twenty four, twenty three,
34:15
twenty four, twenty one? That's that's conceivable. You get that pressure,
34:20
you get a couple turnovers, you run the ball successfully and keep it.
34:22
You're suppressing possessions. If you're running the ball, that just helps so
34:27
much. But no, do I think you can just do what you did
34:30
last week and not throw it. No, That's why we were talking earlier.
34:32
Those big plays that were there last week that you did not connect on.
34:37
You simply have to find a couple of those. Can I this is
34:40
your area? Can I give you a couple of stash Mine are so like
34:43
mine, our kindergarten stats compared to yours. But just for our folks out
34:46
there, TCU's most productive quarters are the second and the third quarter. They've
34:52
scored forty four second quarter points forty five fourth quarter points, So second and
34:57
fourth quarters they're stingiest defensive quarter is the first quarter. They've only given up
35:01
thirteen points in the first quarter this season. And just to kind of put
35:07
them numbers into perspective for you, they're averaging they're allowing just twenty points per
35:14
game, which is that's pretty stingy, right, happy twenty points, that's
35:17
only seven. That's the middle of the big twelve seven doing really well,
35:23
sixteenth best in the nation in rush defense. They're only giving up eighty five.
35:28
So last week, what was the number seventy seven or seventy eight that
35:30
West Virginia ran for the entire game in Lubbock and they had over that by
35:35
the end of the first quarter. So as you watch, listen to the
35:37
game on Saturday, these guys are only given up eighty five a game.
35:40
I need to see that though, Excuse me, I need to I need
35:44
to see how that turns out. They haven't played anybody that's been able that
35:47
has wanted to run on them. How about this number? Colorado doesn't know
35:52
what the running game is. They just dropped back and throw it. I
35:54
think Dana forgot to do you realize what their past defense is one hundred and
36:01
twenty first in the country. Yeah, because she's door Sanders suit for seven
36:05
billion yards against him. But I'm just saying, so, if ever there's
36:07
a time for West Virginia's past defense or pass offense to crank it. They
36:12
were given up two hundred and ninety two yards a game on the in the
36:14
air well. He threw for almost five hundred in that first game there.
36:19
That's what I'm saying, when you're still early in the season, you gotta
36:22
be careful on some of these and look at one who they've played, and
36:25
to what those teams tried to do against him. You know, Houston on
36:29
the other was down a lot too, so Donovan Smith was just dropping back
36:31
and throwing. You know. At the risk of repeating a much repeated point,
36:37
is that what's that I was just leaning in because you said, I
36:40
meant, oh, well, just that. And I think Neil Brown addressed
36:45
that this week. Is that that Nico Markiefee's a starter. Whoever's point,
36:47
he's got to have some help. I mean, he really does. I
36:51
mean he didn't. He's not. It's a two way street, two way
36:54
street, you're right everyone, I mean, and we talked thus about this
36:59
all time. Watching an offensive football play, there's eleven Oh it takes one
37:02
cat, seriously takes one cat to do the wrong thing. I mean,
37:06
that's the beauty of this game is that you have to have an unbelievable synchronicity
37:09
in order for plays to work. And if you don't, then one guy
37:14
can screw the whole thing up. That's why this whole offense needs to get
37:19
it going. I'm really interested in it. This will be a fun game
37:22
because you remember at the start of the season, I said, no,
37:23
this offensive line doesn't have to be elite, just has to be very It
37:27
has to be good and then sometimes it has to be very good. Well,
37:30
this Saturday, they have to be very good. This needs to be
37:32
one. This needs to be one. When the season goes over, we
37:35
go. You remember when they went to TCU and they freaking just laid wood
37:37
and pounded those guys and were able to run the ball. That's what this
37:40
has to be in order for you to have. Well, that's gonna be
37:43
that's until this passing game comes together. That's I think gonna have to be
37:47
the story every week. Frankly, I think it was the story last week
37:50
against Texas Tech. They're gonna have to be elite every week. It is
37:53
the story. I think that's right. I think they have to be elite.
37:57
I don't think it can be a just Hey, this offensive line was
38:00
pretty good. They've absolutely got to dominate. And listen, your defense played
38:02
great, complimentary football to help you there in the second half when you just
38:06
weren't getting the ball. But yeah, I think it's got to be elite
38:08
and that's why this. I think this is gonna be fun. This is
38:10
gonna be a good test. And you're on the road. You're almost a
38:14
two touchdown underdog, not a lot of expectations on this one. You can
38:16
in and just take your best swing at it. Absolutely, then we'll talk
38:21
next week. This schedule opens up, you're about entering the time when you
38:22
got to really make some hay. But this is one to me where I
38:25
think you just go in and say, all right, boys, let's go.
38:28
We've played a difficult schedule already. Well, yeah, we're on the
38:30
road, this sitting one hundred and ten thousand against a top ten team.
38:32
That's all due respect to Tecu, but let's go in house money. Is
38:37
that what you're saying. Yeah, I think there's a little bit of house
38:37
money here. You've you've held serve at home, You've started out three and
38:42
one, which there were so many people saying you couldn't do that. I
38:44
think you're in really good shape. You get on there and play loose,
38:45
free and easy. See what happens this week totally with you. Absolutely absolutely
38:50
ill bump people off. You say you're in a no loose situation, but
38:54
just go there. This is this is one of those fun ones. You
38:57
just go take rip your shot, you know, and if you walk out
38:59
of there with a win, I mean, this is a really good thanks
39:01
for having us. One coming back staring down the barrel of the teams that
39:07
are coming, You're feeling really good. If you get out of there with
39:10
a wind, So you think it's a thanks for having us. If it's
39:14
a big til, wait, you're going as two touchdown dogs. Yeah,
39:17
oh yeah, this is a big tie. This might be a walk out
39:20
of the radio booth, run across on a little fig and all time.
39:22
Thanks for having us. Yeah you got to do that one. Hope you
39:23
feeling okay? Yeah? Why well, I think you need some healing.
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I have the music on so loud it sounds like you're just mumthly kind
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a lot of text. Should he used the bathroom before? Well, if
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you need to go, we can make a line change like a hockey game
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text or forty eight out of fifty states. Great, when the Dakota is
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with a combined population, there's less of half of West Virginia. Why should
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we care? Wow, guy comes out killing the Dakotas. The rest of
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the country wants to put us in last place for everything, but population and
40:49
especially population density is safely away from the bottom. Just imagine if we were
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ranked by population per naturally level land, we might be near the top.
40:58
Just he kind of squeezed would be Texas or something. Text her, Hey,
41:02
three guys nick the Greek here from fair Lawn, Ohio, by the
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way of Bridgeport. Big missed opportunity from lou Wendell Marine sales. They could
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be selling bontoon boats. Maybe they are efforting. That would be great the
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bontoon. Sure there's no trademark attorney coming out. This is a story,
41:22
a West Virginia connection story. When I was in Greece visiting family, we
41:24
took an early morning walk up to the Acropolis to see the Parthenon. I
41:30
had a big WV flag with me, hoping to sneak a picture holding it
41:35
with the Parthenon in the background. As soon as I pulled it out of
41:37
my bag, I heard a loud whistle and a lady screaming at me forbidden.
41:43
When she got up close to me, she kept asking what country this
41:46
was from. I was trying to explain it wasn't a country, but it
41:50
was my university. As she was getting ready to escort me down from the
41:52
Acropolis, I started singing country roads to try to help explain in a way
41:57
she could understand. At that moment, it was like Zeusim threw down a
42:00
bolt a lightning Bolton as I saw the light bulb turn on over her head.
42:04
She ended letting me off with a warning. The song saved me from
42:07
lifelong family embarrassment or a Greek prison. You have all been a bright spot
42:14
when I've been feeling homesick. Thanks for being great ambassadors and representatives of the
42:17
university in the state of West Virginia. Signed by Nick the Greek. I
42:22
have a neighbor who's Nick in He's Greek, and he went to Greece this
42:24
summer. But it's a different Nick the Greek. Because Nick the Greek,
42:28
my guy would have told me already that he got busted. Well, there
42:30
used to be in Morgantown, the Acropolis Bar. That was Nick, right,
42:35
that was Nick. Yeah, Hi, three guys. I'll keep this
42:38
one short. If the offensive skill positions improved fifteen to twenty percent and yards
42:43
after contact total yards and plays of twenty plus yards with either Nico or Garrett,
42:47
we could be looking at nine to ten wins. Not impossible considering the
42:51
plays we've missed in the quarterback weather. I'm withholding judgment on the offense until
42:54
TC, but my client meter wouldn't take much to really start growing again.
42:58
Thank you. Preston o'kill. Tony, Hey, Tony, it's Jonas from
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the High Street post Office Elite customer Service. Thanks for last week's shout out.
43:07
I'm a small celebrity around here now because of it. One thing though,
43:10
for Hoppy, the Saberton office is actually called the Del's Low Office,
43:15
and although I'm sure you get good service there, you could get great service
43:20
at the Downtown or the Star City. Glad your guys support the post office.
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We love the show go here. Thanks for the correction. Oh I
43:27
just want to tell you, Jonas, we are strongly in support of postage
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stamps, always have been, and that won't change. Joe from Barbersville really
43:35
hoping the defense can keep improving like they have. If they do, oh
43:37
boy, look out, we may be in for one heck of a season
43:40
win this week and could really get some people talking. The excitement is brewing
43:45
with this team. Little update from my previous text. CABL Midland is at
43:47
the state golf tournament next Tuesday. Brad, you're welcome to ride along in
43:51
my golf cart. Well that's awfully enough, you know, okay, isn't
43:59
interesting how you win a couple of games and how the vibe. How the
44:05
vibe arcs toward a very positive trend. Yeah, as it should. It
44:09
was great to see you guys Friday at the food court. My wife and
44:13
three kids stop by. Will great to see two of you for once.
44:15
And the odd man out was not Hoppy. Side eye glance at Brad.
44:20
I just assumed Spreads had some cash bets going beyond on Behind Daniels, speaking
44:23
of that, Hoppy came over to the table where we were, and without
44:28
hesitation, he picked up one of my kids and gave him a big hug.
44:30
As a former employee of Hoppies, it warmed my heart to see that.
44:34
Needless to say, My wife was like, who the heck is this
44:36
man? I said, don't worry, he's a germophobe. Oh and he
44:39
used to be my boss. He then turns to me and says, is
44:42
there a bathroom around here? It sounds like y'all need some Porter John's,
44:45
So here you go, Hoppy, Sorry, I miss him. I did.
44:47
I had two days there, Friday was there early, came in late,
44:51
stayed till eleven o'clock that night. Sorry, well, sure, text
44:54
her close it down there, HU, that was you know, well,
44:58
never mind text a few saturdays ago, I finished my Mountain Roaster cup of
45:04
coffee, went to lou Wendell Marine Cells and saying Alma's boarded my special edition
45:07
James Bond pond toumboat. I grabbed a can a kerchivail out of the cooler
45:10
pilot in my boat down the Canal River to Point Pleasant. As I'm walking
45:14
toward the Moth manifestal I spotted a Gomart. I used Gomark card to get
45:16
a five pack of Reese Cups in an eight foot slim Jim stood out on
45:21
the edge of the crowd surrounding Point Pleasants. Mayor, who announced the permanently
45:23
banned a member of the three guys from the festival. Just as he was
45:27
about to identify the culprit, the sound of a prop engine down drowned out
45:30
his voice. We looked up, saw the Comax blimp. I pivoted toward
45:34
a Burdette camper and asked the Conley CPA whose it was. He said,
45:37
with all due respect, Tony, I think it was him. I'm efforting
45:38
to make sure that I'm right. Doctor Jeff and Charles well done. Literally,
45:43
the only thing he missed, Doctor Jeff, should have been wearing an
45:45
efforting T shirt. When he solid point, oh no, he's at the
45:46
end. He says, I am effortine to make sure that I am right.
45:50
He got him all in and nobody wouldn't wearing the shirt. That's true.
45:52
Episode eight dot Com Sean and Roanoke, Virginia had a great time Saturday
45:55
at the food court. Enjoyed the brisket, tacos strawberry banana lemonade, while
46:00
the wife enjoyed the wine bar. Spreads my question regarding the spread to the
46:04
game. I hope this isn't one of those funky lines that you've said you'd
46:07
like to lean into. I don't know, it just seems a little much
46:08
love the show. Guys. Let's go mountaineers. And there's there's a picture
46:12
of those folks right there. Good nice husband, wife and twelve and a
46:16
half. Twelve and a half as we sit and record. So it's gone
46:20
up pretty fast. It started at nine and a half. Well it's pen
46:22
Cerca and Las Vegas opened it at thirteen. So it's been it's kind of
46:25
been all over, where's the money, where's the play? Well, it
46:28
keeps going up, so it's been coming in on TCU. This next one
46:32
is pretty uh, pretty wild, pretty wild. Good morning, Tony brad
46:40
Hoppy, first time text her. I wanted to reach out to share a
46:44
pretty cool story with you guys. Seven years ago, my not quite seven
46:49
month pregnant wife, five year old daughter, and I were vacationing Outer Banks.
46:52
Two days before we're scheduled to come back to West Virginia, my wife
46:54
suddenly starts to have complications. We rushed her to the Outer Banks emergency rooms.
46:59
She spent twenty four hours before they eventually transferred us to Norfolk Hospital.
47:02
Upon our arrival, we learned the severity of the situation for the baby my
47:06
wife. The doctors rushed her into a surgery room. They performed an emergency
47:09
C section. While in the r trying to control my nerves and emotions,
47:14
one of the doctors asked me where I'm from. As soon as I said
47:15
north central West Virginia, he quickly asked me if we lived near Morgantown.
47:19
He talked to me about his visits to Morgantown, how much he'd loved it.
47:22
There's seconds after my son's born and placed in the incubator, the doctor
47:25
quickly runs in and starts to play country Roads off of a radio. The
47:30
entire room of doctors, nurses, and enthusiologists started softly singing that familiar too
47:36
as they finished preparing to take my wife into recovery. Because my son was
47:39
born nine weeks early, he needed to stay in the hospital's nick you after
47:44
a vacation was extended by two weeks. We got the green light flew him
47:46
to you guessed at Ruby Memorial Hospital, where he spent the next three weeks
47:51
before finally coming home. Now, last weekend, seven years later, we're
47:55
able to attend the WVU Texas Tech Game as a family. My son,
48:00
Nolan Alan Cooper was able to sing his song Alons alongside the Mountaineer Faithful.
48:06
Nolan may have a Virginia birth certificate, but he has a Mountaineer through and
48:08
through. Hey, look, let's try to show that video. So so
48:13
that literally is they're playing Country Roads. That's in the o R the day
48:19
that little fella was delivered. Then little guy goes in the incubator, there's
48:25
dad and baby seven two months premature is. Then there's the airplane to fly
48:30
him to Ruby. Then he's in Ruby. They put the little Mountaineer cap
48:34
on. This is awesome. And this is last Saturday though. That's awesome.
48:43
That's about as freaking good as it gets right there. That's cool.
48:46
Awesome, man, that's perfect. That's a happy ending to a difficult story.
48:54
Oh that's awesome. Here you go, man, A man looks good.
48:58
Huh. It's amazing. That's great, absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing.
49:04
What they do with premies nowadays, and obviously at WV Medicine and May it's
49:09
just unbelievable. Hey, three guys, please help me get the word out.
49:14
If you're going to allow this to go on, I've got to take
49:15
matters into my own hands. Signed by the real Morgan and Morgantown. So
49:20
there you go. They got they got a wanted sign wanted for plagiarism Morgan
49:23
and Morgantown. So there's someone else that claims they're Morgan and Morgantown. That's
49:28
the real Morgan and Morgantown. Hoppy. You know them, You've spent time
49:30
with them, you talk with them. I mean, I'm with her.
49:32
She's Morgan. Yeah that's true. Yeah, yeah, I mean that was
49:37
when I met them. She said she was Morgan. Idea license here and
49:43
normally we don't check ideas. She did she gave it? Text or scope
49:47
spreads and bellhop bringing the bell back. I meant to share this with the
49:52
all the Blimp talk. Last week after the victory over Pit we noticed one
49:54
of the good Year Comas blimp support vehicles in our parking lot. As you
49:59
can see, this was the highlight of the night for my nephew. There
50:00
he is next to the Comas blimp truck. Apparently they haven't updated the van
50:06
yet to include the Comas on the sube. I'm sure they'll include it next
50:07
paint job. Let's keep the Revenge Tour going Saturday against TCU. Signed by
50:13
not Charlie in Charleston, Texter Bryan from Williamstown eleven thirty eight on Wednesday.
50:19
I hope I'll make this in time for Tony's cut off. Who do you
50:22
think has to step up more this week? Receiving cores of the running backs.
50:27
It seems like we were in his physical later in the game last week.
50:30
Could be the box, could be the weather loaded box doesn't help thoughts
50:32
Also West Virginia connections. This is a good one. I was outside the
50:36
other evening doing some lawn work. My neighbor comes down. Never see him
50:38
much our properties touched since their road and the house is up the hill from
50:43
us. Very nice guy, help me, gives us some ideas as to
50:45
how to take care of some of our trees. It turns out, last
50:46
six years I've lived right next to Pete Collins, none other than the father
50:52
of childhood. Home of Metro News is own Ethan Collins. If Ethan's producing
50:55
the podcast, give him a hello for me and have him swing by the
50:59
next time he's home and load him up with some Kerchvells to bring by.
51:01
Haven't had any sense the January reveal. It's always a West Virginia connection,
51:06
always uh in one degree of separation. Yeah, welcome Ethan Williams. Sound
51:09
big game this week Saint Mary's Une Undefeated, Undefeated, Saint Mary's Blue Devils
51:17
text or there's new three guys. Schedule has me out of sorts and as
51:20
a rule, I don't like things to disrupt my routine. Send this text,
51:23
agree with you? So maybe so maybe Neil does have to go.
51:30
Just kidding about that, Neil, The schedule has me all out of whack.
51:34
Oh well, Beard to my cross now ont of more important things,
51:36
not actually Germaine to this show, but rather more of a Metro news thing.
51:38
I need the three of you to weigh in. Is it more prestigious
51:42
to be a Metro news Hawk or to win the Buckeye news Hawk Award like
51:45
less nessman did. This is keeping me awake at night and the spirit of
51:49
brevity. I'll stop there, enjoy the show coming up for Roke State.
51:52
Hoping the food courts going need some of that real legit rev keV BBQ beat
51:55
the Frogs Sean and Ralli Text in the future plans for food court? Why
52:01
did you do that? Just to ask you can do You can't do that
52:06
off air. You can't ask him that off air because now he's probably gonna
52:08
say we're committed for the next five games or something ridiculous. He's gonna give
52:12
you plans for twenty twenty five. Can you just ask that off the air?
52:15
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. I know, hey, there's
52:22
some there's some talk of doing one on the road at Houston. That's not
52:27
true. You can't get permits down there to answer your question. API efforting,
52:35
All right, Text, Hello, my brother in law introduced me to
52:37
you guys earlier this year. I'm a big fan. Seriously, you all
52:39
are the perfect combination of sports commentary, fair and positive takes, and fun.
52:44
Thanks for all you do efforting toward episode eight hundred. Now that you've
52:47
got your all podcast download representation from all fifty states time to this is amazing
52:52
story too. It's time to take research to the international level. My family
52:58
and I have been living and working from India the better part of the past
53:00
twelve years. Wow, where we live, it's ten and a half hours
53:04
ahead Central time. I'm curious how many other West Curious how many other West
53:09
Virginia natives and fans living abroad also faithfully listened to your show as well?
53:14
What percentage of international time zones do you think you've accomplished so far? Seriously,
53:16
the longer I'm away from home, the deeper to my dedication the old
53:21
Golden Blue seems to become. I could tell you countless ridiculous things I've done
53:24
over the years to catch games at all hours. This past weekend, I'm
53:29
up at one am local to watch the Tech game. When my twelve year
53:32
old wakes up to go to the bathroom, he sees me in the dark
53:37
living room watching the game on ESPN Plus from my laptop with the customer rabbit
53:40
ears. I've engineered so the app or website works correctly. He looked at
53:45
me from the hallway well a very confused, sleepy face. I motioned for
53:51
him to come over sit with me watch the game, and he said,
53:53
Papa, it's after midnight, what are you doing? And sleepily he walked
53:59
back into his room. He obviously still has so much to learn about priorities
54:02
when it comes to being a Mountaineer fan. We are efforting over here to
54:06
recruit all one point three billion people in this country to support the mountaineers.
54:10
Each time we traveled to India from the US, we bring a suitcase full
54:15
of WV shirts to hand out to our friends as gifts. It's always a
54:19
fun way for us to share a little bit of our culture and all things
54:22
we love and we've learned to love and share in their culture. Thanks for
54:24
all you do. Signed by Rocky Bombay from Putnam County living in Mumbai.
54:32
I don't like to request to follow up from Rocky Bombay, just what are
54:36
you doing there? And LL get there and he'll get you. Yeah,
54:38
he'll text. I'm sure all right. Curious you ever been to bomb You've
54:42
been India? No? I just a when I was going to Thailand.
54:45
It was stopped in what was then Bombay now Mumbai, but didn't get the
54:50
answers. No interesting text, Hello friends, just finished listening to Sunday's recap.
54:54
I'll mowing the grass at my family's camp property in Tucker County. I
54:59
wanted to give my worth input like everyone else has about Neil Brown. If
55:01
we can get wins against Houston Oaks States since and UCF, I'd say it
55:06
was a successful season. But ah, what do I know? One more
55:08
thing? I was in the Redneck Kroger yesterday and saw that they had the
55:12
Trust's beer in stock. Why can't we get them to sell Hoppies beer?
55:15
The man literally on the Mount Rushmore of the state of West Virginia take care
55:19
of you three Stephen and Morgantown. It's probably a whole different thing. Yeah,
55:23
it could happen sometime. Text, what's that very exclusive? Yeah,
55:30
it's kind of like you gotta gotta want it different to become the Pappy Van
55:37
Winkle of beers. Text her got one? I know spreads would love.
55:43
My wife and I were watching Red Zone on Sunday and I was kind of
55:45
tuned out when my wife goes. They just showed her. She's at the
55:50
game. Taylor Swift was at Arrowheads, sitting in Travis Kelsey's mom with mom
55:55
never let never live. No, I'm shooting never. I've bet a prop
56:00
so fast in my life. I was legitimately scared they wouldn't let me place
56:02
this bet there it is so he beats Kelsey anytime, touchdown score or live
56:07
betting tremendous explain that bet again. So as soon as he saw that the
56:13
announcement of that, Taylor Swift was in the stadium supporting Travis Kelsey, he
56:16
went in live on the Draft Kings app and and put a live bet on
56:20
Travis Kelsey to score a touchdown during the game. Because you figure Taylors there
56:23
he gonna feed him the ball after the game. You heard my home say,
56:25
I knew I needed to get in the ball because there sent there totally
56:28
agree. I was on my way out the door, literally walking out the
56:30
door to head to a youth basketball game. I didn't. I couldn't get
56:34
it in all I was driving. It's a great bet. Well the way
56:37
did that get reported at all? Pretty much? Much? Yeah? I
56:43
didn't hear it. Well done. Text dirt Us comes from Leonard and Lila
56:47
and Punta Gore to Florida. Due to the poor quality, lousy announcing,
56:52
spotty reception, we dropped ESPN Plus. Now I'll just listen to Tony.
56:55
Can't the Big Twelve do better? Don't get Brad started text Jeremy and Cooperstown,
57:02
New York. I'm trying not to jump the gun, but we just
57:06
won three straight for the first time under Neil, two of them with a
57:07
freshman QB. If you look at the Big Twelve standings, West Virginia one
57:12
of six in the league with a winning record, being picked dead last in
57:15
the preseason, best thing could have happened. The team is playing with a
57:17
chip on its shoulder. I love it. Now. My question is nine
57:20
wins a stupid thought. I love the show I'll see at the tailgate for
57:23
b YU go ears. Yeah, I would just say on that. I
57:28
mean, I mean, I love I love the optimism and this team.
57:31
I talked before the pit game about the arc, and the arc is headed
57:35
in the right direction. But boy, there's just there's just a long way
57:37
to go and a lot of I think a lot of parody in this league.
57:42
I mean, let's just try to get let's just try to get some
57:45
wins here. Let's just you know, let's keep it too expec together.
57:49
Yeah, let's keep peacecing together. Just get a snap here, a snap
57:51
there. There's some weird things coming in league, but there's also wins on
57:54
that sketch. You get out of September here, and you're going to have
57:59
more than a fair shot at a bunch of teams left on your school.
58:00
You are, but you are. The great part is you are where you
58:06
would have taken before this season. There's no question taken. I just don't
58:10
know that you could be in a better spot. You just weren't going to
58:13
go to Penn State and beat that particular team, so you couldn't have started
58:16
any better. And then, by the way I turned back to last year,
58:19
you're you're five and two over your last seven, right, you know,
58:22
I know it's two different teams, but you're starting to piece it together.
58:23
And there's still losses coming, there's no doubt. But this team has
58:27
done this program has done a nice job of writing the ship. Getting to
58:29
three and one at this point, and ain't going to run take your swings
58:35
text her, I just this week moved my family from Wyoming back closer home
58:40
to southwest Virginia, trip across the country. My wife and I are listening
58:45
to your show. I thought my four year old was sleeping after the episode,
58:49
and then she spoke up and asked if I could listen, if we
58:51
could listen to music now. I told her, oh, honey, I'm
58:52
sorry. I didn't know that we had woken you'd woken up, or I
58:54
could have let her pick the music sooner, to which she said, no,
58:58
no, no, it's okay, daddy. The Food Show was funny.
59:02
She said, the Food Show was funny, crossing demos here to get
59:07
the food young young food audience in. I guess that shows what the theme
59:10
of the last week show us. The last show food probably talked a lot
59:14
about the food court. Probably heard Yeah, is supposed to the Texas Tech
59:21
game going under our Apple podcasts and change our category there. Apparently shouldn't be
59:24
in sports, gotta be in food. If we kids know, the kids
59:29
know, kids know. Yeah, they're not They're they're not tainted by other
59:31
world boy things and food Food Show is funny. Text her good review,
59:36
Yes it is text her, I'm down in surfside Beach, South Carolina,
59:39
South Myrtle Just of course, my late morning walk approached a guy listening to
59:44
the radio when I thought, huh, that sounds like Brad howd talking.
59:47
Come to find out he's listening to Sunday's Three Guys. He's from Windfield,
59:52
down here for vacation. We spoke for a few minutes about the three and
59:55
one star. We both love the defensive effort, happy with the record,
1:00:00
us for the win itself. It felt like two thousand and four Maryland.
1:00:01
We needed it. Do whatever it takes to finally beat them. I'm way
1:00:06
past the point of carrying. How we win, just win. Let's keep
1:00:08
it rolling in Fort Worth, let's go. There's a guys walking on the
1:00:13
beach and he hears you sorry to ruin the morning long. Well, there's
1:00:16
a certain synchronicity about this Myrtle Beach, the Greater Myrtle Beach Metroplex, three
1:00:23
guys West Virginians all connecting. I mean, it all kind of makes sense.
1:00:29
Do you do you think do you think we could do a show in
1:00:35
Myrtle Beach? Oh? Yeah, yes, yes, I don't think there's
1:00:38
any question. Maybe not. Well, we couldn't have to Labor Day because
1:00:42
of football. But I mean, yes, I don't think. I don't
1:00:45
think there's any doubt. There's no doubt. Yeah all right, good du
1:00:50
so we going. Yeah, I'd like to do that. Charlie from Midlothian
1:00:53
Tony brad Dean. I'm watching the replay at Myrtle. It's not by Wayne
1:01:00
An. I was watching a replay the backyard. I was very surprised with
1:01:07
these two shots that ABC used going to commercial branks. This was the first
1:01:10
one, you see anything wrong. The second one was obviously taken by the
1:01:15
Comax blimp. There you go go back to the first one. Luke,
1:01:27
do it again? Oh because one striped. It's an old picture, so
1:01:30
go ahead, change it. Go to first so that's all gold, that's
1:01:36
gold Rush. And then the other one was what that was stripe? Huh.
1:01:42
Well they couldn't do I mean, in fairness, they couldn't. Let
1:01:45
me tell you something. Comax, the stuff that they have there, they
1:01:49
can. You want gold and give you gold, you want magenta, they
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give you magenta, you want blue, whatever you need, complete line of
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business office equipment. Plus they'll manage your it. They manage all that it
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hoppy day from Dayton efforting some family fun on my lou Wendell pontoon boat after
1:02:15
starting my day sipping some mountain near morning from my three Guys mug and now
1:02:20
there's a cooler of kirchevel on board. That's the way I celebrated the Texas
1:02:22
Tech victory. Sorry, I don't don the always a West Virginia Connection hat
1:02:25
for the pick. It always listens. Some banter. Love the show,
1:02:29
keep up the great work, Thank you, thanks question and if we beat
1:02:31
TCU, will any of the polls put us in the top twenty five stuffing
1:02:37
something? If you do, you might not be in the top twenty five,
1:02:40
but I think you've been that category of getting getting votes, receiving Texter
1:02:46
Sup Fellas, longtime listener, first time Texter or I commute in Preston County
1:02:51
for work and I passed by this local gym and Mason Town quite often.
1:02:54
I didn't know you guys got into the fitness business. Love the show,
1:02:58
Cameron says, Three Guys Fitness on the billboard text here truly you appreciate the
1:03:06
pod keeps me informed entertained. Thanks. I'm headed to Dallas for TCU,
1:03:09
concerned about the heat. Not for me, but for the team. Might
1:03:14
be ninety at kickoff. I suffered for years from leg cramps until someone recommended
1:03:19
a drink called Biolight. It works five hundred and fifty percent more electro lights
1:03:23
than major sport drinks. I'm not affiliated associated, nor do I own stock.
1:03:28
I just would like to witness a West Virginia victory at TCU. Please
1:03:31
pass a note to the training staff sign by Greg. So there you go,
1:03:36
Greg here to help l Can you get that at uh? Well,
1:03:38
I'll tell you what at the Croker five hundred and fifty percent more electro lights.
1:03:42
That'll do something. I was with some people in the health industry not
1:03:47
long ago, and they said that hydration is if you stay hydrated, really
1:03:52
hydrated, it would alleviate a lot of your problems. Really, they were,
1:03:57
they were really it couldn't overly stress how important? How are you doing
1:04:00
on that? I don't do a great job of that. How do you
1:04:01
do this? Drink a lot of water? Do you do a good job
1:04:04
of that? Because I can't sleep either, because you're up three times in
1:04:09
the middle the night, I fall right back to sleep, right back to
1:04:12
sleep. That disrupts a sleep cycle, right back to sleep. I really
1:04:16
struggle with it. I try, but I struggle. I'm tired next morning
1:04:20
because I'm up all night. I can't I can't find the right numbers.
1:04:26
How many times are you up during the night, Well, it depends on
1:04:28
how many I've had. If I'm up in that sixty seventy eighty ounces of
1:04:30
water, then it's multiple three three guys brought to us by depends when you
1:04:36
want to go at nights. Use depends Joe and Morgantown. I haven't done
1:04:42
the research, but this has to be the first time in Mountaineer history that
1:04:45
we've not worn blue jerseys once in the first four games of the season.
1:04:49
I love all the uniform combo uniform combos so far, but crazy thank you
1:04:53
probably won't see the team in blue until the Oak State game. Reforms have
1:04:59
been except for the great uniform. She would say this, people think about
1:05:01
a lot of things. That's what I would say. People think about a
1:05:04
lot of things. I mean, I'm first in line. I mean I
1:05:08
think about a lot of stupid stuff, but not that this was stupid.
1:05:11
I'm just saying people come up with different angles. Oh, you come in,
1:05:13
you think about you're out there, You're in a different orbit the stuff
1:05:16
you think about. I'm with him on the uniform discussion. I like that.
1:05:21
What's that mean? I just I like talking about talking about him.
1:05:25
Who are you talking to you? Would you say? What are you thinking?
1:05:28
I'm like Mark Fidrich like that way out there like that. No,
1:05:30
no, not like that. It's just you get you get into something,
1:05:34
and then you'll come in one day and you're like, you know what I'm
1:05:36
doing, and it'll be like something just lunar, just something that's orbiting out
1:05:41
there. You know what I'm doing now? Like you came in today and
1:05:44
I told you, you know, we talked about African You said, man,
1:05:45
I'm watching these videos now, like animals attacking animals. So that's what
1:05:48
you're into now. And what was that you was watching? The Oh that
1:05:54
was the Yeah, I forget what that's called. So you get onto something
1:05:59
and then you're like, you obsess about it for like three weeks, and
1:06:01
then he forgets that he ever looked at it in the first place. Then
1:06:04
he's onto this. I got an amazing ability to flush and move on.
1:06:08
He does right, Yeah, it's used flush move on. Yeah, wish
1:06:12
I could do that. That's the old add I'd like to take a little
1:06:15
of that with that. You do, Tony? That is you? What
1:06:18
is that song? There's a chance that what song? Something he was in?
1:06:25
What was that thing? Those are called shade? Those are cold?
1:06:27
What the heck is that? Remember that? Move on to the three Guys
1:06:34
Empire. I wanted to point out how great all the businesses were that represented
1:06:40
at the tailgate. They worked together. One concise example, the Chestnut brew
1:06:43
girl. Notice as the coffee guy didn't have a canopy, she goes over,
1:06:46
grabs one for him, helps put it up in a decent little rain.
1:06:49
You could have not have picked better businesses to embody the spirit of this
1:06:54
podcast. I sincerely appreciate that. Thank you, and you're right. I
1:06:58
mean, I've been and giddy and thrilled with that was exactly I think what
1:07:03
the three of us wanted that thing to be. It's chilled out, it's
1:07:09
fun. It's nothing stupid. People have fun, they eat, they drink,
1:07:14
they have fun. Everything's good. There's no bs, something for everybody
1:07:16
exactly. Kids can be their families can come through. It's great. Text.
1:07:21
Her time of possession stands out. Offense is keeping the defense off the
1:07:27
field. Our defense is getting time to rest before they go back out.
1:07:30
The offense holding the ball over thirty two minutes has increased each game, so
1:07:33
our time of possession has gone thirty four, thirty three, thirty one,
1:07:36
thirty one. Do you think this change is in conference play or is this
1:07:40
the identity? I hope it stays. Needs to be I'd like to have
1:07:45
ball forty three minutes again. Needs to be text or three guys. I
1:07:47
mean, you're up there and you're running of the place per minute you're you're
1:07:50
in the service academy area. I know they're throwing it just a tad moision
1:07:57
armies, but you're in service Academy territory. Can just run when you're when
1:08:02
you're driving down the road and you got a hanker and eat, or your
1:08:08
gas gage says we're heading toward empty. Don't forget to stop by Gomart,
1:08:12
Go for good times, go for Gomart, get your rewards cards, save
1:08:15
every time you walk in on money, money on save money on food and
1:08:19
gas, and on Saturdays. Go in there, use your card. You
1:08:21
get three times of points. Three guys, now that the number has been
1:08:26
set for the old line discount, I'll bring this up. I'm not an
1:08:29
accountant, but I have been in the past. So if I were combining
1:08:33
the old line grades as you did, Brad, I would have waited them
1:08:36
based on the percentage of run pay plays or pass plays. And by the
1:08:42
way, how's the Scooby Doo index? Look now, Wayne from Clarksburg.
1:08:45
So the Scooby Doo index was the route run? Thank you? Good?
1:08:50
Question. Can't answer that because they'll take fourteen mess to explain to these guys
1:08:53
what the stat was. But by the way, the number was two.
1:08:57
If you're elite, two yards per route run. I did check here recently,
1:09:00
Cole Taylor was pushing like one eight. Okay, good getting into an
1:09:04
area where you want to be because two's hard to get to. Here's one
1:09:09
for you. Is there any metric, Brad, keep throwing it. Here's
1:09:13
another person. Is there any metric that tells us which defensive line rotation is
1:09:16
the most off? That's a great question. Basketball. We love to do
1:09:18
that, right. We go in and look at the most effective lineups.
1:09:20
We can do that. I have not found what my stuff does not have
1:09:25
that. On defensive line, I don't know if there are other systems that
1:09:28
do. That's a great question to the royal errors of Effortine, Sir,
1:09:31
happy, Sir Senator, Sir Scopes, please enlighten the fair crowd of the
1:09:34
best food spots to visit this weekend in Fort Worth. So I jumped ahead
1:09:40
and I called my guy, Brian Estridge the Voice, and I said,
1:09:42
give me your top three food places for our fans. He came in with
1:09:46
Heim Barbecue. H E, I m Heim Barbecue. He came in with
1:09:51
Cat City Grill, Cat City Grill, and for Mexican Joe T. Garcia.
1:09:58
Joe T. Garcia, those are his, and Brian has a very
1:10:01
very good palette, so those would all be good. I've been to him,
1:10:05
and I think I've been at Joe T. Garcia's two and it's a
1:10:08
he know you'd never miss. Fort Worth is a neat city. It's got
1:10:12
a great downtown. And you know, Dallas is downtown's kind of like everybody
1:10:15
they work downtown and they leave, and fort Worth has more of a downtown
1:10:18
vibe to it. I like it. Texter Good morning, gentlemen. Listening
1:10:24
to the cattle drive there I've seen no, I've I've ever seen them in
1:10:28
action, but I see where it is. Yeah, I've been there before.
1:10:30
Like they just drive, like drive the cattle down the street. Yeah,
1:10:33
good morning, gentleman. Listening to the last episode, I'm inspired.
1:10:36
Don't know who texted about the movement. Not even sure you can show this
1:10:40
for legal reasons, But Brett seems like a cool dude talking about the commissioner
1:10:44
the Big twelve. I thought it would be a great merchandise idea for their
1:10:46
store. Signed by Fitty from upstate New York. There it is, what
1:10:50
time eastern? Brett, there's the commissioner. I think it's I think it's
1:10:57
a fair. I think it's a fair sure to be sold. Also,
1:11:02
is there any timeline on the NC double A ruling for ray kwon battle.
1:11:06
No, I chatted with those guys this week. You just literally don't know.
1:11:10
I mean, you're heck, we're in October coming up here. I'm
1:11:13
so mazy. Yeah, just go ahead and take some more time basketball.
1:11:18
I mean, couldn't. I mean if somebody well, I don't know,
1:11:23
I have no idea how it works, but I mean there's a lot hanging
1:11:28
there. Yeah, no answers, nobody knows how long it takes. But
1:11:31
whatever reason, it's a very end. It's a very a very very It's
1:11:42
a process shrouded in secrecy. It's a non linear system that just it's just
1:11:47
it's a there's a bunch of this, Like, for example, it's just
1:11:50
not one committee that makes these calls. It's it's people. It's it's it's
1:11:56
NC double A members, it's it's professors, it's athletic directors, it's I
1:12:00
mean they're in right, Brad, I mean it's those are the people that
1:12:02
make these decisions. You know, it's crazy, it's stupid. It's stupid
1:12:06
because we're in an environment where, okay, I'm this is a dangerous generalization
1:12:13
on my part, but anybody can go anywhere about any time and get paid
1:12:16
any amount of money. But if you're like, okay, but if somebody
1:12:19
says this is the process I'm going to go through, then suddenly it's it's
1:12:23
like a six month problem text or Hello, first time text ends. Part
1:12:29
of the struggles with the industry, all of that long time listener two points,
1:12:34
it's better to have Neil Brown, who's a great coach and West Virginia
1:12:36
players than Dion Sanders and a bunch of players for higher second, you guys
1:12:41
are in the beer business. I spend twenty four years in the Marine Corps
1:12:44
starting the mid seventies. I recognize a hangover when I see it. Our
1:12:47
road game stats will improve if the alcohol consumption is eliminated until after the game.
1:12:54
What's that mean? I have no idea, but thank you for listening.
1:12:58
Text or. I'm a WV grad at class of oh one. Grew
1:13:00
up in Mason County, recently retired. Father was a county administrator for forty
1:13:04
two years. He was around Hoppy a few times in that span and always
1:13:09
spoke very highly of him. I spent a few years as a political science
1:13:13
professor at Texas Tech, where I tutored some of the football players under Tommy
1:13:16
Tubberville. Even got to have lunch with assistant coach Neil Brown at the Texas
1:13:23
Tech Club back before I knew who he was. My wife WV class of
1:13:29
two thousand and I has always I've always been mountaineers, and even decided to
1:13:31
take our young daughters for a photo shoot at the girls preschool, which was
1:13:38
on the campus of Texas Tech. Cut to the picture, threw on the
1:13:42
golden blue, smiled like idiots as we posed mere yards from the Will Rogers
1:13:46
and soap Sud's statue. Anyway, love the show, which only the best
1:13:50
for Coach Brown. Oh crap, we don't have that picture at a nice
1:13:56
picture. They're at Texas Tech. Oh got it? I'm sorry. Anyway,
1:13:59
there they're a tech. Can you imagine having to tell someone your horn
1:14:03
frog hard pass text the lend from Scott Depot. Here a great time at
1:14:09
the food court Saturday morning. Tacos were awesome. There you go, those
1:14:13
four dudes. I think they a lot tacos Vale. Why wouldn't they?
1:14:20
Hello, Three guys Jeff Edwards from California checking in few points. I'll try
1:14:25
to keep this as concise as Tony instructed. First Off, I've been listening
1:14:28
to you talk about the three guys food court a couple of weeks. It's
1:14:30
been making me hungry. I wasn't able to make it to West Virginia,
1:14:32
so I decided to make my own pepperoni rolls the past few weeks. They're
1:14:36
not olive areos, but they are pretty good. Next, I wanted to
1:14:41
tell you I'll be seeing Kaiser White and Dante still's playing a few weeks.
1:14:45
It's so far I was able to get tickets for the Rams Cardinals veteran tickets.
1:14:49
I'm very appreciative of that, so he's a vet. Lastly, thanks
1:14:53
for the show. It helps me keep connected to West Virginia and keeps my
1:14:56
wife asking quote, why do you listen to those guys all of the time.
1:15:02
It sounds like college professor's lecturing. I think we've been elevated. Ps
1:15:10
she's from Indiana, doesn't understand Hollowell going to try to get her to a
1:15:13
Mountaineer game. Then she'll get it. Yes, thank you very much,
1:15:15
Jeff. We appreciate and say hello to the wife. Text he Hello,
1:15:19
three guys. Paul from Tampa my MVP so far this season. Preston Fox
1:15:25
first time in years, what did I say? You said? Preston?
1:15:28
We refer to him on our game to coverage is pac Man because of his
1:15:30
ability to return punts. This is the first time in years we can actually
1:15:33
rejoice when we stopped the team on third down instead of watching in horrors the
1:15:39
ball leaves the punter's foot. I'm actually confident Preston's going to secure the ball
1:15:43
and excited to see what he does after the catch. My opinion, last
1:15:46
two victories can be attributed partly to Preston's clutch play. No more sour stomach
1:15:51
watching punts fly go ears. I hope we don't jink him because that has
1:15:55
been a huge difference on this year's team with Preston Fox This next one's neat
1:16:00
Three Guys Texas Tech Weekend. I'm near Pittsburgh for a job interview final stages
1:16:03
with the Board of Directors. I'm asked what my hobbies are at time.
1:16:05
I love West Virginia sports, which means I hate pitt They must all be
1:16:09
West Virginia fans because they offered me the game. On the way home.
1:16:14
My way home, the three year old, overwhelmed, tired, we stopped
1:16:16
at the waffle house screaming and crying. We sat at our seats. Three
1:16:21
three dudes walk in. All were in West Virginia football attire. My boys
1:16:26
love in West Virginia football. I asked if they wanted to meet the players.
1:16:30
My son went from tears to smiles. I just wanted to give a
1:16:32
shout out to these three amazing players that took the time to talk with my
1:16:36
son. They said they were from Louisville. According to the roster, that
1:16:40
would be Beanie and Marcus Floyd. Thanks guys, should have gotten my boys
1:16:45
picture with you with them p one Jonah. That's nice, pretty good trip
1:16:51
from the fellas. You guys making a difference well from Andy in Tay's Valley.
1:16:57
I have a stat for you. This isn't correlation causation. It's a
1:17:00
clown show level stat that's right in. But what better program to share it
1:17:04
on? If Texas Tech is the new Maryland? I dug around since oh
1:17:09
one beginning rich Rod Era following a win against Maryland were five and five the
1:17:13
next game. However, all five losses were against ranked teams. TCU is
1:17:17
not currently ranked. But what about against us in Texas Tech? It's better
1:17:20
since entering the Big twelve after we've beaten Texas Tech, West Virginia's five and
1:17:26
oh and one of those wins was over then four rated Baylor. What does
1:17:30
this tell us? Nothing? But I found it interesting. Let's go by
1:17:34
the way rich Rod went oh and three in his first three years against Maryland.
1:17:39
That yeah, correlation Texter. Hey, Tony, I'm wondering if you
1:17:45
can confirm if these trading cards are legit or if I've been scammed. I
1:17:49
immediately jumped in and pre ordered four packs. But ever since, I keep
1:17:53
seeing this advertisement pop up on my news feed. So there's this company selling
1:17:58
trade I think it's real. I looked it up too, and that looks
1:18:00
like it's the real deal. I think you're okay, Think you're okay.
1:18:02
What Mountaineer Trading Cards? Yeah, schools, there's a yeah, they can
1:18:06
do that now, and I all that kind of stuff. So I think
1:18:09
they're coming out. I think it was like October two, they come out
1:18:12
what as old as new, A bunch of schools, like, yeah,
1:18:14
really, bunch of schools. Yeah, hey, two and three, four
1:18:17
guys. Hello. I heard Sean McDonough complaining about the loud PA during the
1:18:21
pit game while enjoying the MSM broadcast last week. Scopes was somewhat drowned out
1:18:26
by the PA. Is it just Sean? And I signed by Morton,
1:18:30
Kansas City via canast City. Now what's up with him? Well? Yeah,
1:18:35
I mean, loud is the new loud is the new orange. I
1:18:40
mean every school tries to get super loud. And I heard Ren Baker,
1:18:44
you know Ren said this, West Virginia's sound system, like a lot of
1:18:48
places, comes from one place, Okay, it emanates from one locations to
1:18:55
be a multiple Yeah, and it's hard. It's i mean pro places,
1:18:58
some pro places. Yeah. If it's all spread around, then it's not
1:19:00
as overbearing. I mean, like I'm just telling you, Like you go
1:19:03
to Texas, it's crazy TCU this weekend. It's stupid loud. Some places
1:19:10
in the stadium it's really loud. Some places it's okay because it's coming out
1:19:14
of one space. And also if it's you know, if the crowd,
1:19:16
if it's quiet, then you hear more, and it can be it can
1:19:19
be distracting. Currently text or basketball schedule, Guys, Mountaineers play thirty two
1:19:25
regular games. I get to watch twelve on TV twelve, all capital letters.
1:19:30
The media contracts are great for the Big twelve schools allegedly, but the
1:19:33
streaming of the games on ESPN Plus sure sucks for the fans. From what
1:19:39
I've heard, ESPN Plus can boast of second rate announcers who aren't even at
1:19:43
the games, and third rate streaming. Streaming leaves out a bunch of Mountaineer
1:19:46
fans who don't even get to watch. At least we have Tony to describe
1:19:50
what happens. But it's just not the same as being able to watch and
1:19:54
listen to Tony. You know. This is what I hope happens down the
1:20:01
road. I hope the option comes one day so that people can watch a
1:20:09
streamed game and pick what audio you want. Mhmm. You can do it.
1:20:16
You can do it. And I think in some see ESPN plus,
1:20:23
in these streaming services, at some point they're going to get a lot of
1:20:26
this and if you say, hey, you can hear both, then they
1:20:31
might say, okay, I'll do that. Who might say that? Who
1:20:34
might stands might go like, yeah, I'm in for that. Okay,
1:20:38
but you would have to do it. I mean ESPN is as long as
1:20:44
they get their commercials. I don't know how commercial commercials, so I think
1:20:47
you got to duck the audio when the local goes when when the when the
1:20:50
radio network goes away, you duck the audio. You force them to listen
1:20:54
to the TV commercials. That's what you have you can do. I mean,
1:20:58
like if Amazon now you can look on like when they had Hannah Storm,
1:21:01
wasn't it was that her bread? Hannah Storm? Was she doing the
1:21:04
Amazon and the other they had a female broadcast, they had the regular broadcast,
1:21:11
they have the Spanish broadcast, so you can click it on whatever one
1:21:14
you want. ESPN does us for national championship games. Now, yeah,
1:21:16
you can do that now, Yeah that's true. But you know, we
1:21:18
we've talked for a long time about that. I kept saying to people a
1:21:21
few years ago, stop stop complaining about TV, stop complain about ESPEN because
1:21:25
for those of us that are high end consumers of sports and chew up a
1:21:29
lot, the old cable model was the way to go. Pay for rights
1:21:31
fees, put everything on TV, and then we can watch it all.
1:21:34
And there were other people quite frankly subsidizing us being able to watch sports right
1:21:39
because they were taking a little bit of money off each gable bill. It's
1:21:41
going to continue to get harder like this to the basketball schedules one you've seen
1:21:45
where it's it's it's gonna go more streaming, which means then you're gonna have
1:21:47
to buy more individual packages. On that, Clint writes in he'd like to
1:21:51
suggest some nicknames for the Mountaineers. Garrett Green, Blond, QB Rocket,
1:21:57
Arm, Golden Gun, C. J. Donaldson, CJ Express. Aubrey
1:22:03
Burks glides, pass blockers, attacks ball carriers. My brother Adam compared him
1:22:08
to a shark, So Aubrey the shark Burks. No bonus name for Lou
1:22:15
Wendell the James Bond pontoon. Here's another Bond tune. Do you have any
1:22:18
You're not a big nickname guy, Tony list it happens organically. Do you
1:22:21
have anything? Nah kind of retired after the greatest nickname of all time for
1:22:27
Dennis Klichla the s stand Bull. That was. Yeah, that's pretty good.
1:22:31
Pretty good. Now, if it's there, I'll use one, but
1:22:34
it has to be organic. Yeah, Hey, Tony Brett happy. I
1:22:38
started listening to three guys a couple of months ago. Live in Cumberland.
1:22:41
Some of us here wondering why Danny King was played four years and has shown
1:22:45
the ability to kick the ball off and even out of the end zone.
1:22:46
Isn't at least handling kickoffs. Current kicker doesn't kick touchbacks often and didn't do
1:22:51
it against Texas Tech. I'm more of a baseball guy, but I enjoy
1:22:55
watching football. Can't help, but wonder if Neil prefers that scholarship kids like
1:22:57
Michael Hayes playing non scholarship kids like Danny don't play. Thank you for all
1:23:00
the hard work and your insights, Jim and Cormerlin. I would say that
1:23:03
to this that from a coaching standpoint, the scholarship and the non scholarship doesn't.
1:23:13
The only thing that matters to the coaches is who can do the job
1:23:15
the absolute best. Why because they absolutely need and want to do everything they
1:23:19
possibly can to win. The one thing on the kickoffs is yes, touchbacks
1:23:24
are super duper good. They they chart absolutely everything. I don't know it
1:23:30
would be worth a question, but I think they like Michael Hayes's hang time.
1:23:35
But again, I mean that job's open for business every week, and
1:23:39
if they don't like what they see, they can make that move. But
1:23:42
that's some he had gotten some touchbacks and the Texas side game the wind might
1:23:46
have been an issue, and also maybe just the coverage because the Texas tech
1:23:50
out a couple of returns. Yeah, that's that. That's how that goes.
1:23:56
Jeff from Scott Depot. I'm out in the Grand Tetons for my son's
1:23:59
wedding and not only have I heard let's go Mountaineers, no less than fifteen
1:24:02
times I'm walking through Jackson Hole, Wyoming guys walking his dog seize my hat,
1:24:06
asked if I was from West Virginia. Short story, He's originally from
1:24:10
Charleston, has lived in Jackson for five years. That there's always a West
1:24:13
Virginia connection. Now let's keep going, Tony, Please tell Brad to stop
1:24:18
asking you to overpromise on the food court offerings. Although I wasn't in Morgantown
1:24:23
for the game, I heard the mimosas We're fantastic. I'm looking forward to
1:24:27
the next event. Unlimited crab legs, caviar and the fresh sam Marizano tomatoes
1:24:30
pick straight from the Hills of osh Text three guys I'd love. During the
1:24:35
spreads on stats segment, Brad talk about one or stat lines that he thinks
1:24:41
might be interesting for the game for US degenerates who bet, such as Draft
1:24:45
Kings currently has West Virginia over under at two and a half tds this weekend.
1:24:48
Not Brian in Berkeley Springs. That'd be nice, edition, Brad.
1:24:54
Maybe you could throw in, hey, one little bet thing, right you
1:24:58
shut yourself off, go and say another sponsored segment is what that sounds like
1:25:00
to me? All Right? Uh, scope spreads hoppy sports books in this
1:25:08
day? What's that multiple apps operating in the state be a nice opportunity for
1:25:13
someone to come in and sponsor you were promote that sports prop bet go ahead
1:25:17
text her. On my way to Preston County Buckwheat Festival, decided to stop
1:25:21
off in Flatwoods for Rees's pumpkins. Sadly they do not have them out yet.
1:25:27
However, the Reces sticks were a decent substitute. Guys, come up
1:25:30
Thursday night to the festival. I'm gonna be grilling sausage. We average around
1:25:33
two thousand, five hundred patties a night. I'll grill as many as you
1:25:36
want. Signed by Nate and good. Now there it is nice. Yeah,
1:25:40
you've been there, Hobby, yep. And then the Fireman's Parade is
1:25:44
tonight for the Buckwheat Festival. That's a big deal. And then all this
1:25:47
weekend and a lot of communities around Preston County serving buckwheat cakes and whole hog
1:25:54
sausage, which I'm very big one. We had Morgantown homecoming parade yesterday.
1:25:59
Yeah down there and High Street. Uh text read on Sunday's show about the
1:26:03
struggle between listening to Tony and listening to you guys on game Day, I
1:26:06
share this struggle. I've been thinking about it. I'm gonna beta test this
1:26:10
Saturday my phone, one ear pod with play by Play in my right ear,
1:26:14
my iPad, different one bluetooth airbud with Metro News game Day, and
1:26:16
the other. I'll report back Sunday. Dave and Kaiser, I'll tell you
1:26:20
what it's gonna work like. Dave, You're gonna have a hell of a
1:26:21
headache. You're gonna hear about eleven people talking lap off Mike. Yeah,
1:26:30
he's back by the way. I've cut some cutting his grass. Try to
1:26:34
come back backdoor on him. He was cutting his back, turned me a
1:26:38
little bit. I was coming down the hill. I hit the horn like
1:26:41
trying to scare him. Didn't face him. Old coordinators, don't blink.
1:26:45
Hey, three guys, question for the center, big stats. I've not
1:26:49
heard that. I think one step that I have not heard that I think
1:26:54
would be interesting. Does he, by any chance have the yards after contact
1:26:58
on the quarterback? This week, most qbs slide before getting hit, but
1:27:01
I recall seeing Nico carrying a few guys one tough dude. Thanks, Oh
1:27:05
yeah, dude, thanks for asking. You have the ac Nico's averaging one
1:27:10
point nine six yards after contact. He had thirty six last week against Texas
1:27:16
Tech. You'll get in there on twelve attempts, so he's a little bit
1:27:20
higher than his average there. So there you go. Good question. Texture
1:27:26
experiencing major dave deja vu between the old Big East and the current Big Twelve.
1:27:30
Old Big East eventually collapsed after enough of the top programs left over a
1:27:33
period of years. The current Big Twelve going through a similar thing with upper
1:27:38
echelon programs leaving and being replaced by less prestigious programs feels the same to me,
1:27:43
and I wouldn't be surprised to see the Big Twelve collapse in a similar
1:27:46
way as we get closer to the expiration of the current media rights deal in
1:27:48
the early twenty thirties. Thoughts JD and Southern and cold Fields, Now,
1:27:53
I totally disagree with you. The reason the Big Twelve or the Big East
1:27:57
blowed up is because you had so many different institutions of different missions. The
1:28:04
fact that the Big Twelve is going to go to sixteen schools, their strength
1:28:09
in numbers that the Big East didn't have, and you had such a divergent
1:28:15
philosophy among the basketball and the non football you know, So, no,
1:28:18
I don't agree with you. You know What's what's I think there's another big
1:28:24
shift coming. I'm not saying it's over with, but I'm saying the Big
1:28:26
twelve isn't gonna go down. What's interesting is that the PAC twelve dissolved and
1:28:30
you've got like what five PAC twelve teams in this Hound twenty five something like
1:28:33
that. Oh, this is the year all years from again. Also,
1:28:38
your people are making decisions about the college sports industry that don't have the game's
1:28:42
best interest. You're you're blowing up the PAC twelve in a year when it
1:28:45
might go out having one of its best years. Multiple Heisman candidates, they've
1:28:48
been the story of college football so far, really good football being played.
1:28:51
Yea, let's blow Yeah, let's go ahead and blow that up. Good
1:28:54
decision. Yeah, First time texter or about a twenty episode listener, mostly
1:28:58
while driving my semi up and down seventy nine. Hopefully this reaches you early
1:29:01
enough. The group I was talgating was Saturday invited a couple of Texas tech
1:29:04
fans over. I heard them saying they were an hour early because they got
1:29:09
the game time from the Big twelve website. Yeah, you have allies.
1:29:13
Seriously, I offered them a couple of country Roads Dell beverages. I'm still
1:29:17
laughing watching a couple of Texas tech fans unknown they contribute to the trust best
1:29:23
money. I spent all weekend less than Fairmount. So those poor Texas dead.
1:29:28
We've we've moved into that terri trible. We've moved from us. Haha.
1:29:30
It's funny little thing. So there's absolute confusion in the marketplaces. Confusion
1:29:34
in the marketplace. Checking in from Vancouver, Cannon, I'm attending an industry
1:29:41
conference aimed at bringing together mineral processing professionals from around the world. Dinner last
1:29:45
night, I had the pleasure of sitting next to the subject matter expert from
1:29:48
Freeburg, Germany. Hello. Somewhere between our entree and dessert, he tells
1:29:54
a story about a time many years ago. It was work brought him to
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all places Martinsburg. As you guys say, always a connection, and they
1:30:00
spirit of peer review may offer a revision suggestion. Scopes perhaps from weirdon,
1:30:04
Warsaw, Martinsburg and Munich and all points in between, has very good Bryan
1:30:10
and Chandler by the way of Weirdon, by the way Hamilton High School,
1:30:13
alma mater of Tyler Shuck and Nico Markiol less than two miles from my house.
1:30:17
I'm efforting to acquire some Hamilton Husky gear and homage de Nico. He's
1:30:21
gonna send us some, so we're gonna get some gear. Sweet Let me
1:30:26
great Texter, Good morning, three guys, almost hoop season. The NCUBA
1:30:31
cut to the chase. Tell us well, the NBA cut to the chase
1:30:35
and tell us why West Virginia is going to get screwed again When they deny
1:30:41
ray kwon battle. We know what's coming. I feel bad for the kids,
1:30:44
the fans in the university. My next question would be, since this
1:30:47
will be twice in one year, let's sue the nc double A. Unfortunately,
1:30:51
battle would be involved, and that's probably why they won't do it.
1:30:55
But come on, quit letting the ncuble A change their rules midway through when
1:30:59
they don't have solid rules to begin with, and let them know we aren't
1:31:00
going to take being run over by them and anymore. Go to court see
1:31:04
contemporary injunctions from a favorable local judge that allows him to play until there's a
1:31:11
full legal challenge. Yes, understand, but your problem is, and Brad
1:31:15
can tell you the insight on this. You know, you might win that
1:31:19
battle, but long term you could lose the war, right, Senator,
1:31:24
I guess, But I mean, what somebody's going to do that. We're
1:31:29
already doing that with enforcement. Yep's that right. I think we chating.
1:31:32
We didn't didn't do that. We'll catch on take no, no, not
1:31:35
us. I mean maybe some school's going to do that. You know,
1:31:39
North Carolina was making some noise about some school's just going to say, don't
1:31:42
accept the ruling. We're playing or you know again, you could get well,
1:31:46
just as I said, you could get a favorable local judge and just
1:31:49
say, okay, that was good anticipatory steam though sorry pissed off forty to
1:31:56
last one. Professor Vinnie Halloween quickly approaches. I'm thinking about great costume ideas.
1:32:01
Notably, you could ask listeners to dress up as someone from Three Guys
1:32:05
and share pictures. But what about those costumes? What would they look like?
1:32:10
Just a half zip effortine pullover, I'm out near WV polo shirt,
1:32:14
a sweater vest. I guess I could get weird and dress as a can
1:32:16
of Sam Marizano tomatoes. Anyway, let's beat TCU. The line jump from
1:32:20
ten and a half to twelve, so we will see, says Professor Vinny.
1:32:26
Yeah, we will see. All right, that'll do this thing.
1:32:31
It was a good content. I thought a good content. Huh. Everybody's
1:32:35
in a better mood. Everybody's feeling a little better, a little more optimistic.
1:32:40
Yeah, we're gonna be to the overall mental health might be. It
1:32:43
might be a little tired when we come in here Sunday. Hey, what
1:32:45
time? Yeah, you'll get back late late. Let's just come directly here.
1:32:49
No, but we'll do at the same time. Ten thirty ye live
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live, ten thirty Yeah, join us live at ten point time. What's
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your deadline for the texts Uh, let's do the text deadline. I'm seven
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am. Is that fair? Oh? Yeah, seven AM's fair? Right?
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Is it? Because it's going to be late? I mean I might
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not print them. Oh I might just read them off the screen here,
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is and is football at pro and college combined this season one hundred and seventeen
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