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Season Kickoff and Predictions · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast with my partner,
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  Brian seagull. I am Curtis Wilson, welcome to
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  the new normal brine. Yes sir.
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  Yes sir. Welcome back.
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  It's a Tuesday night. We're riding Tuesdays at least
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  from here on out to the end of the season.
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  We'll see how we pivot from there but yeah.
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  So look for us on Tuesday is going forward.
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  It's a good Tuesday night though.
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  Curtis how you feeling buddy. It is a Tuesday night little
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  earlier in the week. You know, Brian says, watch
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  first, on Tuesdays. We may flip it to Monday's for
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  some of the Thursday games just to get the content out there
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  earlier but I'm feeling good man.
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  You know it's it's the summer is winding down in all aspects.
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  Schools essentially is started here and it's footballs in the
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  air. Watch several preseason games
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  over the weekend. Yep.
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  You know, we've had some mostly fall weather here man, like,
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  especially last week and parts of this week or looking pretty
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  nice. Not, not.
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  Not that. Cool.
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  But unseasonable e comfortable. Yeah, comfortable.
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  Yeah. So we're really waiting for the
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  September games that's 102 and it's just like miserable
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  outside. Like this is it.
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  Fun like hot games. Hard games and football.
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  Just do not go together. At least we should we should be
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  pretty good for for the opener because it's, you know, 8:00, so
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  it's a night game but it down at the beach, you can get a little
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  humidity, a little breeze off. So down there who knows what the
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  weather potentially could be. Let's start, man, we have some
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  big news that broke last week. I don't think it shocked any of
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  but a quarterback decision was made Brian and I don't think it
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  shocked, anyone Grant Wells, the Marshall transfer was named
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  starting quarterback and I kind of asked you when it happened.
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  I said why now, why? Why not later?
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  There's there's a couple reasons to me.
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  Number one, you want to get last week of Camp, you want to have
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  your starter name? Do you want to kind of get that
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  comfort with the receivers? Getting those extra reps that
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  are true, starter will get and getting those reps with the guys
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  that he's going to be throwing to more consistently once the
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  season starts. And that's kind of the big thing
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  there and we know he's been majority working with the ones
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  but as you kind of wind down its the It's no more like ones.
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  Get equal reps with twos and threes and so forth, you're
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  starting to see okay well for every three or four reps that
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  grants getting you know Jason's probably only getting one or two
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  and you start getting a little bit imbalance there which gives
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  Grant a little bit better opportunity to get more.
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  Acclimated with that offense is still a new offense for him, new
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  offense for even guys that were Veterans of the team last year.
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  So it's important to do that as you get gear into this week.
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  Which is you know, my game week so you have want you close out
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  fall Camp, you got your starter name, you roll in the mud game
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  we can then you get full week one preparation starting next
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  week. Yeah, it's that timing piece and
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  when you explain that to me, it made sense.
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  Because now so it was named Wednesday.
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  So we got obviously he got Friday, he get the scrimmage
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  where it's probably what probably 80/20, if not 85/15,
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  where he was probably resting with the ones.
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  Sunday, Monday. Now they're doing a mock game
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  week likely this week, so it made sense.
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  Something I'm going to tell you something.
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  I don't think Brent prize ever. Going to put Brad Glenn on the
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  podium around Spring ball because Brad Boone was very
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  blunt in his assessment. When he said, oh no, no, no, no
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  Wells had a significant gap on Jason going, and after the
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  spring, where Brent prowl is a little more of a they're
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  battling every battle when was like, And he gave Jason the
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  ultimate compliments that you know, summer workouts, early
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  part of fall Camp, Jason was continuing to push it and got
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  better but he could never catch Grant.
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  So I just thought it was because that was just brutal honesty.
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  And if if you put him on the mic and made us, he say that, and
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  Brent prize to give him the side, I like no, no, there are
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  competing, some nobody has lead. I mean, I appreciate the
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  honesty, I'll be and I appreciate, I mean, there's
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  going to be some coach speak here and there but I appreciate
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  the honesty. Coming out from coach Glenn
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  there. I think that's going to be.
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  I think we kind of saw it right? When we watch the spring game, I
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  mean, I know there was some deficiency with the offensive
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  line that Jason was working with compared to Grant.
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  So, you know, there was some inequality, in terms of the time
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  they were given the cleanliness of the pockets, things like
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  that. At, but I think we can see just
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  with the throws the Christmas that there was, there was a gap
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  there and there was going to be a big gap that that would have
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  to be closed if Jason was going to take that starting spot and I
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  think as a team and as a fan base, I think we're probably
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  happy with the way this worked out, because now you've got the
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  guy that's going to be your potential starter for this year
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  next year, and maybe another year.
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  Pulling the trigger this this season.
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  I think that's important. Long term for this team because
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  the inconsistency at the quarterback position has been a
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  big Bugaboo for the last five years.
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  Yeah. That's been talked about quite a
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  few places. I Know, cover 3 pod, they
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  mentioned one of the hosts are Tom for nearly mention how much
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  he liked Grant Wells and about how the quarterback position had
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  been in flux at tech for so long.
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  A couple other things that That Brad Glenn said was he really
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  like the command that you know, Grant has of the offense at all
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  three levels but especially was very very keen on talking about
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  that deep ball accuracy, which you know what he said?
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  You know, normally like to take two to three shots of quarter
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  and then he's like but what Grant it could be more and
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  you're just like counting isn't that would be 12 if we do more.
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  Are we saying we're going to take if he passes 30 times Are
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  going to take half of them down, fecal it we're getting ready in
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  12 to 15 shots of game. I'll take that I'll take that
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  especially for taking that if we're able to establish that
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  running game and take most of those off a play action where
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  you get a clean pocket and be able to look look deep with a
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  clean pocket. Therefore for Glenn.
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  So for green, I mean, sorry, not for Coach Lynn preferred Grant.
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  I think that's the big thing, man.
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  And I think Glenn wants that clean pocket, but I think it was
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  the other piece, the other two levels because I think we've
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  seen some of the video Grant Wells.
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  He does have a really good deep, all very accurate on it, but
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  understanding now you're at the P5, not the G5 level, those
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  short and intermediate throws are going to be just as
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  important to move the chains. We talk about taking Chopsticks
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  great, but if it's second and 10, Ok, We're going to give an
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  easy intermediate throw. Oh here that's going to get for
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  26 yards. So we are set up in good
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  position that's when I hear that, that's what I feel.
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  Like Brad is saying if we take that shot on first, we feel that
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  Grant can get us with a good pass in to move the sticks
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  range. Yeah, and you know, we talked
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  about it when we had read ciancia from pits pick six
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  previews on here, that looking at last year's offensive metrics
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  You know, we had a lot of big plays but in the middle of that,
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  we didn't do a whole lot of in the past.
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  Okay. So if we weren't going for 30
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  yards, plus we probably weren't moving the ball at all.
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  Nope, and that's something that I think is going to change with
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  this new offense and with this new coaching staff and with
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  Grant Wells pulling the trigger is that short and intermediate
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  accuracy and routes that attack the middle of the defense.
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  It's in routes. Then attack the short
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  intermediate area is outside, the hash marks.
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  I think that's where we're going to see a little bit of
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  difference and that's going to get the quarterback more
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  comfortable with that's going to make the defense creep up where
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  you can take those shots more effectively
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  abso-freakin'-lutely. Last piece I want to mention
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  about something I noticed here in the Brad.
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  Brad Callen interview. He had talked about with Devin
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  Farrell Taj Bullock. He had not been focused on those
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  guys. At all.
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  And basically kind of said, when you're trying to find who you're
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  starting QB, is, that's my focus, not not getting in there.
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  Developing the young guys. But now he mentioned how with
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  this happening, it's almost he can start focusing figuring out
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  who's third team, who scout team and, you know, talked about
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  probably getting to see more of their reps is the sense I got
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  from it. So now I think really, as we get
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  into, you know, for five months from now, if someone leaves,
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  there's that clear indicator because Glenn got more of a
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  chance to actually work with them to see.
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  And give his opinion versus really what's been going on
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  since January. Yeah.
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  And some of this and my mindset is that when he's saying that
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  he's saying that, you know, when he's out there in practice, you
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  know, he's obviously paying attention to those reps, but
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  what he's not doing, he's not going back to the tape after
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  practice and meticulously going through their, their reps during
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  practice to see. All right, what's the difference
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  between him and him? He's not East on that aspect yet
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  he's focused. He was focused more on.
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  You know, is it going to be Grant Wells or Jason Brown and
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  now that he's gotten that he can devote a little bit more of that
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  time that last week after the starter was named this week
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  during my game week, seeing who? That that third guy is going to
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  be working with them to, you know, kind of get them a little
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  more up to speed in terms of, you know, where their
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  deficiencies are in the offense. So they are a little bit more.
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  Paired as we head into the season and then, you know, Tha
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  have that talk with the scout team guy and say, hey you're
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  going to make us better every week by giving us a hundred and
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  ten percent against that defense.
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  So that's when those conversations are happening.
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  Abso-freakin'-lutely. So, quarterback decision made so
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  less to worry about going into the ODU game.
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  That Grant Wells is the starter. I know a lot of people want to
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  Grant to start because of that three years you've got to got
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  three years. Get to learn the system, a lot
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  better, I let slip it over. Let's let's go, let's go down a
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  little bit because kind of the next news kind of sucks few
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  weeks ago. You know, we had the panel on
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  here and David Cunningham had been mentioning dalen, right?
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  Couple times. Well, if you didn't see,
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  downright posted on his Instagram.
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  Few days ago, season-ending surgery, we do not know what
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  specifically it was from the look of it.
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  I'm assuming the lower extremity injury because the picture was
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  Him from about his midsection up, I know.
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  This is a guy you've been home with, you know, basketball
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  player didn't focus on football and really that, senior season
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  really turned it on. And obviously, this is this
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  hurts to death because he was a guy that was battling probably
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  for fourth or fifth, it's fine. Yeah.
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  He was definitely kind of a guy that you were to look at it at
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  45 position. They're probably you know five
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  and he was going to see significant time this year, the
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  way it was lining up for him. So that's a big blow for us.
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  I think that there are some other guys in that room, that
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  can step up and take on that role.
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  But when you have a guy that's already kind of poised to take
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  that role and you lose him during fall Camp, that's always
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  a big blow. So it may take two three weeks
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  into the season. Before we really have that role
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  that fifth spot, kind of ironed out and fleshed out to where we
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  want it to be. Absolutely.
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  Now, another big hit and it was kind of confirmed with the team
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  photo will Stewart. TSL pointed it out, Malachi
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  Thomas, has the walking boot on one of his feet there.
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  For Enterprise, been saying he's week to week.
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  We, I see that. And I know I've said it to a
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  couple people. I'm like, it's got to Hank all
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  the way they're talking about it not a me usually a high ankle.
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  It's going to be week to week. Some guys can take a high ankle
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  get back in three or four weeks some guys and take six to eight
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  but hat, not having him in the way it looks.
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  He's not going to be do to you not having him.
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  For ODU does hurt the Russian attack in the overall attack of
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  the offense. Yeah.
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  And I'd rather I'd rather not have him ODU then against BC or
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  West Virginia. But you know, obviously I'd
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  rather have him on the field. You know, it's gonna you know
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  look like we're going to be looking leaning on Holston and
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  then we've got obviously Keshawn king that's kind of come on this
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  year. We got chance black that's going
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  to do stuff out of the back field.
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  Probably a lot the passing game, so there's guys behind him but
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  you know obviously Thomas I think had the highest upside
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  heading into this season because he I think he was already
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  probably ahead of where Holston was and obviously had room to
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  get even better from there. So, you know, hopefully we'll
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  get him back sooner rather than later.
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  I'm hoping at least West Virginia, maybe at the latest
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  UNC at the absolute latest but hopefully back sometime in
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  September if we can sooner the better for him.
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  You mentioned wholesome. Olsen was nicked, he did not
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  practice Friday but it's one of those things where that was
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  precautionary is what everybody was saying.
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  Like if this was a game day, he would have played.
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  But when you're number one run, Or you're 18 option is out.
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  Don't let the one B option get hurt.
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  I mean, don't let the one being. If there's a question mark, hold
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  about keeping keeping ready to go.
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  Keep him fresh, make sure whatever it is gets full
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  treatment and full rest and bringing back, you know,
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  practicing this week for for my game.
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  We yeah another person who had been out for a couple weeks.
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  Jaden blue you know was advised is going to be back soon.
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  I think he was out there in a non-blue contact, but not doing
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  drills. Oddly similar to Holston you've
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  lost Dallin, right? Who could be your 45 and you've
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  got, you know, you've got Lofton, you've got Caleb,
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  obviously, doing big things, it's again, I could see that as
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  a whole situation. Hey, he could play today, he's
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  our number three or he's our 2 to a 1, b, 1, C, whatever.
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  He's a guy that's going to be on the field, a lot.
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  This is a practice. Yeah, just yeah, we don't all
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  have got we got three receivers that we know are kind of Feel
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  Like A Step Above kind of where everybody else is right.
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  So and he's one of those three. So you don't want to risk having
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  one of those three guys, you know, aggravating something
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  that's more of a nagging thing and it turns into a bigger
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  thing. So, you know, hold him out, get
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  him ready. Like I said, I think it seems
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  like he's gonna be back practicing this week at some
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  point. So, you know, we'll see how how
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  that goes. But at least it seems like we
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  avoided another potential catastrophe there in a room that
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  That has a lot of question marks, right?
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  In a room, we could not avoid catastrophe and then we had to
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  avoid catastrophe, an excuse me, can I take it to a tree
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  sometimes? Alright, another couple rooms
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  that got hit kalai, Lawson out, one to two weeks stinks because
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  he is such an athletic freak. Not having him on the field but
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  it is a room with a lot of people.
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  A lot of people probably going to get playing time to good to
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  hear. Hopefully one to two weeks, you
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  could see his His knee was the knee area was wrapped in the
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  photo and Benji, guys. Nail another room that's deep.
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  He's being evaluated. I do not think I had not seen
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  anything being reported on him yet.
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  Obviously, you'll have media tomorrow, so be paying close
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  attention to that, you know? I would say it sucks more for
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  collide than Benji, because binge, he's going to be fighting
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  multiple guys to get on the field.
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  This year, after already coming off an injury.
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  So that's my opinion sucks for collide more than anybody.
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  Yeah, I think Benji was at a point where he was going to get
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  some reps this year, but I'm pretty sure he was going to be a
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  red shirt player. Whereas Daquan, right is is
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  fighting for spots on the depth chart for the for the full
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  season there. And and he kind of understand
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  that even unless Benji was going out there and completely lighten
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  it up and was Head and Shoulders above.
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  Any other young guys you want to Redshirt him coming off an
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  injury like that. So yeah I think that was always
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  the plan for him. Anyway we'll see if this has any
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  impact on those four games at. He would have had some some
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  playing time in you know, Lawson I think is the big, is the
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  bigger one at least in the short term that is a position where we
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  have pretty good depth. And obviously he's not the
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  Frontline player at that position but he is a guy that
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  was going to see significant number of snaps.
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  I believe just from his skill set, his length and things like
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  that. I think that that was going to
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  get him on the field even if it's just a pass rush type role
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  in the in the 2022 season, he was going to see some snaps so
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  hopefully he can get back out there as soon as possible so we
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  can get him some of that action. Absolutely, if anything catalyze
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  a big chest, Peace that they we know he was getting work.
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  It will, he was getting work at Sam can move around off the S
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  such an athlete and obviously go back to special teams to a guy
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  660. We've seen those box jumps.
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  I hope you can come back and get some PT be used on special
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  teams. All right, let's flip it.
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  There's been some talk obviously last week about position battles
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  and I think left guard, I think it is a war.
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  Or going on right there between Hanson and more because you
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  know, it's been said by coach Brent pry, bring l'amour's going
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  to get playing time this year. Said it, you know, and then he's
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  going to get some PT week. One said, yeah, it's a PT week
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  one and then we're starting to hear six or seven.
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  The used to be just six. Now we're starting to hear that
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  seven number which I know makes me and you both feel
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  significantly better on that offensive line.
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  Absolutely. Yeah, that and that's going to
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  be big and I think that left guard, I said it on the
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  timeline. I think we tweeted out earlier
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  this week or in the last week. Eek, you know, a guy like
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  Braylon more winning that job, only raises the floor and the
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  ceiling for the offensive line this year.
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  Because, you know, we knew that coming in, I was like, okay well
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  who's it going to be is going to be Jesse handsome at that spot,
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  you know, and we were pretty content with Jesse Hanson
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  holding that down. Yep.
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  The fact that brayla more seems to be kind of approaching that
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  level already. It really only having switched
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  positions, you know, late late in the spring.
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  That's big for a true freshman coming in and he's only going to
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  get better from here. So that like I said, that's
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  going to raise the floor in the ceiling for this offensive lines
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  potential this year and it helps the depth because now you got a
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  guy like handsome that is, he doesn't have a whole lot of Game
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  wraps. But he's a guy that has been a
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  power five lineman for a while, has shown some potential that's
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  going to improve your depth and obviously we were somewhat
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  comfortable with him as a starter as we were moving from
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  Spring and fall. Absolutely that.
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  Again that's only going to help that depth are now we're just
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  looking for that that one or two tackles to kind of Step into the
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  kind of fill out this this eight-man rotation That you want
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  to be really be comfortable with your offensive line.
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  I'm hoping that's a guy like Xavier Chaplin or Johnny Garrett
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  somebody, you know. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Hopefully one of those guys as prize mentioned, maybe it's not
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  the beginning but maybe by the time we hit October getting
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  those reps in practice. Working with Scout teams getting
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  in finally. Click, OK, we can now trust this
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  guy to play tackle as for the rest of the season.
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  So somebody Down as much depth as we have.
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  A lot of the linebacker is just fun this year between between my
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  quill and saying, man, I mean, you got Keller last week,
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  running with Dax Jason, Keller, running with the ones and then
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  there's mentioning that there are certain sense where
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  Tisdale's running with the threes on will but he's running
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  one's own Mike. Sometimes you're playing some
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  Mike I mean that room is just it's Lee, I would say that is
• 22:42
  our most talented room top to bottom in every aspect.
• 22:46
  Whether it be the mental aspect, the athletic aspect, the
• 22:49
  versatility aspect, definitely on defense, I'll definitely give
• 22:54
  you that on defense. I can make argument for tight in
• 22:56
  on offense but definitely on defense.
• 22:59
  I'm good with you there and yeah Keller running with the ones is
• 23:04
  great news because just like I was talking about with more and
• 23:09
  Hanson If you've got a guy beating out him in trench
• 23:13
  starter, that's only raising the floor in the ceiling of that
• 23:17
  potential that linebacker spot right there.
• 23:20
  Yes. And when you couple that with
• 23:21
  the mixing and matching of moving Tisdale into mic on some
• 23:24
  sets and running with Keller, that's improving your
• 23:27
  athleticism at the position because now you're taking a guy
• 23:31
  that has the athleticism to play Will and now you're moving into
• 23:34
  Mike Keller still running that will spot.
• 23:37
  I mean, that's raising the bar across the Lord, I feel like,
• 23:41
  you know, we'll see if that translates to better play on the
• 23:43
  field. Obviously, we haven't seen
• 23:46
  enough at this point to really make that judgment, and we've
• 23:50
  only seen it in inter-squad scrimmages.
• 23:53
  So, you know, we'll see if that translates into wins, but I
• 23:57
  think that's definitely raising the potential for that room.
• 24:01
  Both on the, like I said, from a florist and point in the ceiling
• 24:03
  standpoint, 100%. I cannot wait to see that unit
• 24:07
  play this season under Prime. Marv because I do think we're
• 24:12
  going to see a significant step. Alright, let's talk about D end.
• 24:16
  So it maybe I heard this wrong so I know you listen to it too.
• 24:22
  Call Nelson. And McRae are pushing starters.
• 24:25
  What Wei Zhang Who the hell's opposite of garbage?
• 24:27
  I thought they were fighting for.
• 24:29
  That spot. Is it?
• 24:30
  Is it Jay Griff? Is it somebody else?
• 24:33
  Because either way it's a good thing, it's a good thing to hear
• 24:37
  those two young guys and once again, it's bronze philosophy.
• 24:40
  Now that we're talking about these, you know, basically
• 24:43
  freshmen sophomores pushing for PT the whole group goes up.
• 24:50
  Yeah, I think that's the big thing and I'm not sure if he was
• 24:52
  meaning, you know, they were pushing the play level, that
• 24:56
  Garbutt was bringing to the table, whether they were
• 24:59
  referencing Griffin. In this situation.
• 25:01
  As being the entrenched starter at the position or what the
• 25:07
  situation would be, obviously Griffin was probably You know,
• 25:11
  the third-best DN that we had last season.
• 25:15
  So if you're just, you know, moving that into the current
• 25:19
  roster now that you've got bar know, in the NFL then that would
• 25:24
  kind of be considered the entrenched starters there, so.
• 25:28
  But I think the big thing for me is McCrea.
• 25:33
  McRae coming on in McRae being at least pushing for starting,
• 25:38
  if not, you know, fully in the too deep at this point, I think
• 25:41
  is a great thing for this defense.
• 25:44
  You know, no offense to Eli Adams.
• 25:47
  I like the craze size and speed combination a lot better than I
• 25:52
  do. What Adams brings to the table?
• 25:55
  I think Adams is a good, you know, 3D player.
• 26:00
  He's a guy that he's played enough reps.
• 26:02
  Now where you can put him out there, a handful of snaps of
• 26:05
  game and he can get stuff done for you.
• 26:07
  He's not the guy that I want out there for a whole series or for
• 26:12
  multiple series back to back. Absolutely.
• 26:16
  So again the more you hear the young guys named the the better
• 26:20
  you feel not only about this season but the future because I
• 26:24
  do believe this staff would be pushing.
• 26:27
  Whoever the best player is not necessarily seniority.
• 26:32
  I was I was hoping we hear something cornerback to is still
• 26:35
  a mystery between Chapman and Marie.
• 26:39
  Hopefully we get some info in the next couple days.
• 26:43
  Either way, I think again, both guys have a lot of playing time
• 26:46
  out there. You kind of feel comfortable
• 26:49
  with either one of them, you know, they both, they both can
• 26:52
  be good players. They both have their flaws as
• 26:55
  compared to their door in strong who is just seemingly.
• 26:58
  I think they've said it a couple times just consistent consistent
• 27:00
  consistent. Yeah I think that's the thing
• 27:03
  we've seen you know Chapman have good plays in Bad plays, we've
• 27:08
  seen Marie Marie, seems to be more matchup dependent in terms
• 27:14
  of his play whereas Chapman. It is more like truly
• 27:18
  inconsistent at times, but I think Chapman in terms of just
• 27:22
  pure coverage is the better option there.
• 27:27
  But, you know, does he have those?
• 27:30
  Is he able to do enough? And be consistent with it in
• 27:35
  order to keep Marie off the field at that corner back to I'm
• 27:38
  hoping so I think Marie is a good rotational type cornerback
• 27:42
  I don't know if he's a guy that I want out there for long
• 27:46
  stretches of time at cornerback to so you know and hopefully
• 27:51
  that room can stay healthy because I feel like there's some
• 27:53
  potential in that room. I think you got some players
• 27:55
  there. We just need to make sure that
• 27:58
  those front front line. Two guys, Chapman and strong,
• 28:03
  hold up, and play. Well and consistent.
• 28:05
  Absolutely. All right, last piece we're in
• 28:08
  about position battles. We had already talked about ride
• 28:10
  receiver, four and five and a half gallon, right?
• 28:12
  Would be pushing for that and then he goes down.
• 28:15
  Jaden blue goes down and it was a couple guys getting a lot of
• 28:20
  compliments and Stephen Gosnell and Christian Moss had been
• 28:24
  stepping up lately. Again you love to hear it.
• 28:27
  The transfer from UNC and they you know redshirt freshman
• 28:32
  getting praise from the Coaches. And, you know, is it just the
• 28:35
  same old coach speak? Maybe, maybe we don't see them a
• 28:38
  game this year. But again, names are getting
• 28:44
  mentioned in that. Always is a big thing.
• 28:48
  Yeah, Gosnell Mall stepping up. You know, we've heard of Keshawn
• 28:51
  King is now getting some touches that slot and flankers.
• 28:55
  So that's that's pretty big as well that we're finally finally
• 29:01
  Using that actual position flexibility to our advantage in
• 29:06
  getting guys, touches and Reps in practice at places that they
• 29:10
  can be a weapon on the field. So, that's good to hear.
• 29:16
  And we've heard obviously there's a lot of Buzz about
• 29:20
  Daquan, right? I know, I'm, I'm singing the
• 29:22
  Praises a lot, and I'm going to keep singing them until I'm
• 29:25
  born, 18 months with a 14-month love affair with daikon, right?
• 29:28
  And it's until I see something that tells me otherwise.
• 29:31
  As I'm going to keep helping this kid up because nothing I've
• 29:34
  heard has shaken me off. What I saw on tape and what I've
• 29:39
  seen otherwise, so I'm going to keep riding it.
• 29:43
  I think he's a guy that's going to help us in kind of that joker
• 29:48
  tight in position. And also a guy that could be
• 29:51
  doing some of the type of things that Bucky Hodges did for us,
• 29:55
  you know, when he was here out the gate and then we'll see how
• 30:01
  he Transitions into that that full-time tight enroll as his
• 30:04
  career goes along. But He's got potential to do
• 30:08
  some tight end duties, some wide receiver duties in year one.
• 30:11
  And I think he's going to be a guy that right out the gate is
• 30:15
  going to be playing significance.
• 30:17
  Nets for us on the offense in your one.
• 30:20
  I think I think you're right especially with some folks
• 30:22
  getting hurt and obviously the way you have seen Tyler Boeing
• 30:27
  used tight ends. I think it's very likely that he
• 30:29
  he doesn't, he plays me. Before and he gets that shirt
• 30:33
  burned. Let's talk about this.
• 30:36
  Kind of last piece of current going on with the tech team or
• 30:41
  something related to Tech in that is the ODU offensive
• 30:45
  coordinator. Dave, had a nude resigned three
• 30:49
  weeks before the kickoff of the game.
• 30:53
  Dave, Pat nude had previously last three seasons been down at
• 30:57
  Georgia, Tech with Jeff Collins. Obviously we saw Them last year.
• 31:02
  One down there. Also, you something I can
• 31:06
  remember two years ago. Brian, you talking about Georgia
• 31:08
  Tech and they were kind of a power smash offense.
• 31:12
  So going down to Ricky Ronnie that makes sense.
• 31:15
  But when you've had the guy, who's been in the quarterbacks a
• 31:17
  year, who's been calling the please who's been designing, and
• 31:21
  he's gone. I mean, I'm not complaining but
• 31:27
  that is a uphill climb even more for For ODU versus what
• 31:35
  seemingly Brent price trying to get to be an angry Virginia Tech
• 31:38
  Team. Yeah.
• 31:40
  I mean now you've got Ricky Ronnie everywhere.
• 31:42
  Essentially three hats at least in the short term, right?
• 31:47
  So he's now the head coach. He's the de facto offensive
• 31:50
  coordinator and he's now the de facto quarterbacks coach, that's
• 31:55
  a big fucking deal, right? You two weeks before three weeks
• 31:59
  before the season, whatever it was when he Uptown and I mean, I
• 32:03
  don't want to speculate too much but I've heard this might have
• 32:05
  been a similar to the Oklahoma situation, but oh, really?
• 32:10
  That's the Whispers. I am hearing it is not a public
• 32:15
  situation so I will not elaborate further.
• 32:18
  But yeah. Okay.
• 32:21
  But it's over to you so it doesn't get quite the sprout.
• 32:25
  A lot of Nationals ODU, it's not going to get the run as it would
• 32:31
  somewhere else. So again for us to me, it's even
• 32:36
  more. So for someone like Tyler
• 32:38
  bowing, if he's and Brent, it's Ricky Ronnie's brain.
• 32:41
  Now, it's not days. Brain, its Ricky Ronnie's brain.
• 32:44
  So that's a big thing. It's going to be really
• 32:46
  interesting to see. How they look?
• 32:50
  I'll pensively that night. All right, let's flip this one
• 32:54
  because this is one that sort of got some people riled up.
• 32:59
  Yes, the next 10 years. The out of conference schedule
• 33:04
  is not pretty even less. Pretty would be why you going
• 33:07
  off the schedule. Just so, if you haven't seen it,
• 33:14
  David Cunningham, put this out there back about August 17th.
• 33:20
  Next year. ODU, Purdue at Rutgers at
• 33:23
  Marshall. First of all, a trucker's at
• 33:24
  Marshall, we need to quit doing that.
• 33:26
  I know we talked about it. The panel's got to be stopped
• 33:29
  20:24. Write this one down at
• 33:31
  Vanderbilt Marshall at ODU. Again, we've got to stop it in
• 33:35
  Rutgers 2025. Finally, we get a Chick-fil-A
• 33:39
  kick off with South Carolina down in Atlanta van dod, ujm,
• 33:42
  you I mean, Arizona Wisconsin's on the schedule and like 80, I
• 33:49
  mean, It doesn't start looking decent again until 2030. 2030
• 34:00
  and even then it's not necessarily blowing your skirt
• 34:03
  up. It's just hey, it's good enough,
• 34:06
  it's good enough. What's the point that you've
• 34:08
  made? Several times big guy, why did
• 34:11
  we get such big games in the 2002 2010's?
• 34:15
  Why are we getting Ohio State? Why are we getting Alabama?
• 34:18
  Why are we getting USC? It's that whole well, there are
• 34:22
  top 20 team. So if we lose to them, it's not
• 34:26
  the end of the world. If we beat them it's a resume
• 34:30
  checkmark for us and and what's happened really since 2012 and
• 34:37
  over the last 10 years, we've had to really yet.
• 34:43
  We are getting close map to next Friday.
• 34:45
  Yes, yes, it's getting there. We've had.
• 34:50
  One really good season to okay Seasons.
• 34:54
  Bunch of mediocre season to ship seasons.
• 34:58
  And your big teams do not want to play you.
• 35:00
  When that is your track record, you have to start lower and
• 35:03
  that's where we are. Right now, we are bad enough.
• 35:08
  We're beating us doesn't help them and we're not, we're just
• 35:12
  good enough. We're losing to us, hurts them
• 35:15
  pretty bad. Exactly.
• 35:17
  There's a risk to losing to us. So that's why no one wants to
• 35:20
  play there. We're just risky enough, where
• 35:24
  it's a, it's a, it's a bad loss and we're, we're not helping
• 35:27
  them. If they go come down here and
• 35:29
  waxes. So more bodies nobody wants to
• 35:33
  place right now, exactly more of this Story is win more games and
• 35:39
  you become more attractive. When you win more games, you get
• 35:43
  to tell Marshall 02, you know, we're never coming to your
• 35:45
  place, you will always come here.
• 35:47
  You always drive here. We're never coming to your
• 35:49
  place. Yeah, I'm kind of sick of the
• 35:52
  driving at ODU and driving to Lynchburg, like we grew up in
• 35:57
  our from Lynchburg, we go to fucking Lynchburg, and I don't
• 35:59
  want to, I want to play the fucking game, they're all right.
• 36:06
  All right, so obviously end of last week.
• 36:10
  Brian, the Big Ten multi Network deal.
• 36:13
  Rolls out seven billion over seven years with an option to go
• 36:18
  up to 10 depending on if they add additional teams, I'm sure
• 36:22
  there's some contract language in there about what additional
• 36:24
  teams, they would need to add to get to that 10 million roughly.
• 36:28
  You do the math. It's a billion dollars a year
• 36:30
  with the 16 Team league. It's roughly probably right
• 36:33
  about 70 million. And then obviously on top of
• 36:37
  some other Deals. They have you're looking at
• 36:39
  probably close to 80 to 90 million per team.
• 36:42
  The most interesting piece is ESPN is shut out completely.
• 36:47
  Right. Yep.
• 36:50
  And they're going to be having a big game at 12.
• 36:52
  A big game at 3:30 on CBS in a big night game on NBC.
• 37:00
  Can we be one of the teams that you know, gets added to this?
• 37:04
  Because that is a ton of money and in reality, I think what's
• 37:10
  going to happen quickly and you're going to see it, you're
• 37:13
  going to have basically. Five teams are going to get
• 37:18
  those slots consistently. It's going to be Ohio State.
• 37:22
  It's going to be Michigan. It's going to be Penn State.
• 37:24
  It's going to be Wisconsin. And then maybe you can say six
• 37:26
  with At Michigan State, that's it Rutgers, Rutgers, Maryland
• 37:32
  will never be on the 330, it CBS or the moon, or the 7:30 night
• 37:37
  game, they will be moved to Peacock or Big Ten Network.
• 37:41
  They're getting flexed out. Did the did the size of the deal
• 37:46
  and then how it broke down shock you in any way.
• 37:50
  I'd say how it broke down, didn't shock me as much as the
• 37:52
  size. I think the size is I think a
• 37:55
  little bit more than what we thought was going to be coming.
• 38:00
  Good for them and I think, you know, obviously adding the
• 38:05
  team's they're adding is only helping that it's helping their
• 38:10
  negotiation on that side of things. but, I think how it's
• 38:17
  structured is good for them. And I think they kind of made
• 38:20
  the play of Hey, this could lure Notre Dame, this could lure.
• 38:27
  Some of the other Pac-12 markets.
• 38:29
  If we decide to go higher, go go, you know aim towards 20s?
• 38:32
  I think they're looking. I think they're looking a little
• 38:37
  bit forward in this deal as well but I think at the same time I
• 38:44
  don't think anything in this deal is moving the needle for
• 38:48
  Notre Dame. And I think that's, that's
• 38:50
  still, that's still the biggest domino to fall before.
• 38:55
  I think some bigger things start happening, long term.
• 38:58
  Yeah. You know, big things right now
• 39:01
  is, you know, I was told you to Dad conversation, it's looking
• 39:05
  like, more or less for the ACC to break up, you're looking at
• 39:08
  75%, there's not 75 percent of teens who's going to get offered
• 39:12
  elsewhere. So, it's a pipe dream for the
• 39:14
  ACC to disband and for potentially land in the SEC or
• 39:18
  potentially, the Big Ten. And let's grant of rights are
• 39:22
  broken or there's some other Other factors that come into
• 39:25
  play, but in that thing, there's going to have to be a legal
• 39:30
  challenge first. If there's a legal challenge,
• 39:32
  then all bets are off especially if that legal challenges is
• 39:35
  successful, but I think barring a legal challenge for good or
• 39:40
  ill. We're riding with the ACC for a
• 39:43
  while. Yeah, only upside now is, and
• 39:47
  you mentioned this, a few weeks ago, ESPN had money set aside
• 39:52
  for this, right? Yeah, how much can the ACC get
• 39:57
  out of it? How much additional can they get
• 40:00
  out of it to basically go from 38 million?
• 40:03
  I think it will 36.7 this year to that 45 50 million where
• 40:08
  you're still behind, but you're not as far behind.
• 40:13
  So how much can they get out of it?
• 40:15
  Or does ESPN take the money and put it back somewhere else?
• 40:18
  And obviously SEC is going to get more in a few years.
• 40:21
  But can the ACC or the Big 12 Pride additional money out of
• 40:25
  ESPN because now, ACC is going to probably get better slots.
• 40:33
  Right between could at least work and more consistent slots.
• 40:36
  Yeah, we're consistent slot because you've always got ABC
• 40:39
  ESPN ESPN2, then you get into the SP and you and then the
• 40:44
  Network's themselves. So, is it something where, you
• 40:48
  know, the ABCs get an ABC game versus the ESPN2 game of the
• 40:52
  ACC, networking plenty games to go around for all for all
• 40:57
  parties involved. You know?
• 40:58
  Sixteen fourteen teams roughly, that's seven games a week.
• 41:02
  So hopefully, Just better, slots showing increased viewers, but
• 41:07
  we'll see. I think the problem we're
• 41:09
  seeing. I think in, I mean, I looked at
• 41:11
  some of the, the numbers in terms of like most-watched,
• 41:17
  Teams with the with the, with the highest ratings.
• 41:20
  Virginia Tech got hurt a lot last year with ACC fucking
• 41:23
  Network. Fuck them.
• 41:25
  Fuck you put you put definitely the biggest game of the two
• 41:29
  biggest games of the year on there by putting Notre Dame and
• 41:34
  putting my any another. That's the thing we're trying to
• 41:37
  lure people in but when you're not getting Nielsen ratings,
• 41:41
  where you can say, Hey, listen, we played Notre Dame like that
• 41:43
  ABC game a few years ago, I think it was like 4.1.
• 41:46
  One are pretty good number for a Saturday night game, and now
• 41:50
  you're putting that game on the SEC network that doesn't get
• 41:55
  rated. So, you don't know how many
• 41:56
  people are actually doing that game.
• 41:59
  That's where, you know, if you're, if you're Jim Phillips,
• 42:03
  the one thing you better be slinging is saying you're going
• 42:06
  to put our crap games on there. You're not putting FSU on there,
• 42:09
  you're not putting Clemson. You're not putting Miami, not
• 42:11
  putting Tech. You're not putting Carolina,
• 42:12
  you're not putting state. You put waking pit on there.
• 42:16
  The you don't put the teams that draw eyes to our conference.
• 42:22
  That's--yeah that's-- and that's--.
• 42:23
  That's the rate. They're right.
• 42:25
  That mean, and I agree 100% with Curtis on that getting us on a
• 42:29
  sec Network. Especially those Marquee games
• 42:31
  that are going to draw eyes. You know, we were still dealing
• 42:35
  with situation where so many in the primary Market didn't have
• 42:40
  her in terms of coverage, didn't have it.
• 42:43
  It is, there are so many TVs in the state of Virginia in parts
• 42:50
  of Maryland that are Atlantic jority, majority Comcast homes.
• 42:56
  Well, basically thing about this it's really Pennsylvania down in
• 42:59
  the South Carolina I've got family in South Carolina.
• 43:02
  They have Comcast. So, I mean, North Carolina is
• 43:06
  chartered Charter primarily but I mean, yeah, once you get back
• 43:10
  into South Carolina, Xfinity picks back in there.
• 43:12
  So big, big, big Morgan, this type.
• 43:14
  So we'll get a just stop that or I can go for trust me.
• 43:19
  Y'all don't get to hear the Rams beforehand when Brian.
• 43:22
  These are the these are the filter drancy.
• 43:24
  The are ones that have been, you know, we've trimmed them down.
• 43:27
  We focused on well, over the last Last few weeks Brian.
• 43:32
  We did not talk about this last week because we had such a two
• 43:35
  weeks ago, we had our panel on but hope he's got another commit
• 43:40
  Hokies currently. Sending 36 composite 33, 24/7,
• 43:44
  young man out of Ontario, Canada, Ishmael Finn later, 64
• 43:50
  230, low 3, star has kind of some views from Arizona state
• 43:57
  with Central Michigan, Have you had a chance where there any
• 44:01
  tape out there on this guy from Canada?
• 44:04
  Yeah, there's there's some tape out there and I mean you know,
• 44:08
  I'm not trying to sell a false bill of goods here but the tape
• 44:13
  is better than the ranking but it's still not a needle mover if
• 44:18
  that makes sense. He's an 82.
• 44:21
  He said I'm going to hit him. I'd say if I was going 24/7 I'd
• 44:25
  be like 83-84. I mean solid but But
• 44:29
  unspectacular, but I think the size and and things is what
• 44:34
  standing out, and I think that's the thing that could be molded
• 44:37
  into something better down the road, but this is definitely a
• 44:40
  developmental type player. It's not somebody that's going
• 44:43
  to jump off the page or move any needle in terms of recruiting
• 44:47
  perception, 64 230. You can't, you know, that's that
• 44:51
  is a great body for a defensive end.
• 44:54
  And I felt like he camped with us.
• 44:59
  Let me see. I feel like he camped with us
• 45:03
  and they probably measure the variables somewhere.
• 45:07
  I'm pretty. I think he did camp, and they
• 45:09
  did say his measurables were verified select like legit, and
• 45:13
  that's probably why they offered him later as we're getting into
• 45:16
  this cycle. You know, we've got currently
• 45:18
  18, I think we get a lot more. They showed the senior picture,
• 45:21
  and I think I counted 48 guys on scholarship seniors, this year,
• 45:26
  I think we're targeting 26. He seven guys, this year.
• 45:29
  So thing quite a number. Yeah, I think that number and
• 45:32
  you kind of leave yourself a little wiggle room for a
• 45:34
  potential transfer. If a couple more guys, transfer
• 45:37
  out larger transfer classes. So again, got one more guy there
• 45:40
  in the boat, good to hear that. All right.
• 45:44
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• 45:48
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• 46:14
  Now back to the episode All right, so we did this last year.
• 46:18
  It's a lot of fun to do fun exercise.
• 46:23
  Everybody out there and we've already had a couple people put
• 46:26
  their records up for the year. Feel free to chime in will show
• 46:30
  them at the end, but we are going to go game by game records
• 46:34
  for this season. Now, there is a disclaimer These
• 46:40
  are our ceilings. Okay, this is our ceilings And
• 46:46
  we want to put that out there in case someone so y'all.
• 46:48
  So they wouldn't engage. Oh that's our ceiling.
• 46:50
  That's we're basically saying nobody gets hurt Malachi Thomas
• 46:54
  is their game 1. Kalaallisut is their game 1 and
• 46:57
  we have the most unbelievable. Football, season injury-wise in
• 47:01
  the history of football. And a couple things.
• 47:04
  Bounce our way and key games. There you go.
• 47:09
  So, no further. Again, we're going to get into a
• 47:11
  lot more detail. With last week, we've been
• 47:14
  reading and studying and prize been looking at some tape
• 47:17
  already, but let's start with ODU, Brian.
• 47:20
  What do you say there? For me, this is Virginia Tech
• 47:24
  all the way. I know I said it on the panel, I
• 47:28
  think we need to go out there and crush them make this a over
• 47:31
  by halftime situation. I think this is our chance to
• 47:37
  send a message that this team is not only better than what a lot
• 47:42
  of folks out there thinking they are.
• 47:45
  But sending a message in terms of the state, this is our state
• 47:49
  again. We should even be in Norfolk for
• 47:53
  this fucking game, but since we made the trip, we're going to
• 47:57
  get an ass whoopin while we're down there.
• 47:59
  Yeah, but before we head home, we're going to get one in before
• 48:02
  you head home. And I'm me Broader lockstep with
• 48:04
  this one. I am fully Virginia Tech on this
• 48:08
  one. They need to make the statement.
• 48:10
  They need to make, and I set it on a pan, I'll say it again.
• 48:13
  They need to make that Hundred-Foot walk back to ODU
• 48:16
  locker room. The most miserable walk of those
• 48:19
  kids lives and that they never want to see maroon and orange
• 48:23
  come back to that field. Again, to the point where the
• 48:26
  Ada has to cancel the series. And I think there's some guys on
• 48:30
  this team from going from 20. From 2018 who played going down
• 48:36
  there, probably with a bitter taste in their mouth.
• 48:38
  So I really like that. So I'm definitely going to be
• 48:41
  going VT. Takes one out the gate.
• 48:43
  We will be previewing this game next week.
• 48:48
  Alright, Bronn first home game for Brent Pride night game.
• 48:52
  Unfortunately, on the ACC Network, I get the ACC Network.
• 48:57
  Luckily, yeah, you throw your hands up its PC so it's not the
• 49:01
  big one although that game last. last year Friday pulled almost 2
• 49:05
  billion people on a frickin Friday night in mid-october so
• 49:11
  maybe it should be moved to a different network and maybe it
• 49:15
  will but that stuff pretty said but anyway This is one of those
• 49:20
  tougher ones in. As I was going through it, they
• 49:23
  got Djokovic going back half Li second year.
• 49:27
  They lost a lot of Their Own Line, but I'm sitting here and
• 49:31
  just thinking of that atmosphere that's going to be there in lane
• 49:35
  and I know you will be there. Bought us tickets this week did
• 49:39
  calendar cleared out, so mr. Siegel will definitely be there,
• 49:44
  but the, the atmosphere the electricity in the air a night
• 49:48
  game, which means people are going to be getting out to the
• 49:51
  parking, lots 7:00 8:00 in the morning.
• 49:54
  Going all day. I think taking when this will
• 49:58
  comfortably, when I say comfortably, I'm talking to
• 50:01
  scores at the end, something, when I get there, I'll say it,
• 50:04
  but I think Tech wins this one comfortably but not so
• 50:09
  comfortable. We're not like saying in the
• 50:11
  fourth quarter, put two more touchdowns on it because I don't
• 50:13
  want anything stupid to happen. Yeah, I'm not feeling quite as
• 50:18
  comfortable as you are about this in terms of the Gap in the
• 50:21
  score, but I definitely think we can pull this one out.
• 50:25
  My thing is, is that that Offensive line is banged up,
• 50:28
  it's still early in the season, they lost a lot of players from
• 50:32
  last year's team. I think this attacking Brent
• 50:36
  Pride defense will get after jerkin Vic early and I think
• 50:41
  that's the difference. It was the difference when we
• 50:43
  played in 2020. Yep.
• 50:45
  When we forced a bunch of turnovers early, absolute going
• 50:49
  to be something similar. I don't know if we'll get quite
• 50:51
  the bounces from those turnovers that we got then, but I think we
• 50:54
  put enough pressure on them early where we hold on for it
• 50:59
  abso-freakin'-lutely. Alright, Braun.
• 51:05
  We just say this one, the Whopper game Virginia Tech and
• 51:11
  in the words of Don, be 50 Burger, 50 smash them crush
• 51:16
  them. I won't 60.
• 51:18
  I will, I won't, you know what, Frank Beamer always kind of a
• 51:22
  nice guy. Wouldn't run up the score.
• 51:24
  I hope Britt prai has a little more but in him and it's like,
• 51:27
  56. Nothing in the third quarter,
• 51:29
  I'm trying to get to 70. I want a squirrel stop these
• 51:33
  guys. I'll pull my starters but I'm
• 51:37
  still running my offense. Exactly.
• 51:40
  I am trying to continue, I'll pull my starters but I'm still
• 51:43
  sending six on third down and long.
• 51:48
  So let's do a check-in 3 and 0 through the first three games,
• 51:51
  where we optimistic. Well, it's pretty seasoned if
• 51:54
  you're not optimistic, that's the rough fan life you have
• 51:58
  there, got to be a bitch or something.
• 52:00
  All right, so big one, Thursday night, Right.
• 52:06
  Blacksburg West Virginia, Black Diamond Trophy and I think
• 52:09
  someone said it's like going to be the 30th or maybe the 25th
• 52:13
  anniversary. It's going to be an anniversary
• 52:15
  of the first Thursday night game.
• 52:17
  Virginia Tech ever hosted so big, you're already people are
• 52:21
  already talking about going in taking a full weekend that the
• 52:27
  BC game was electric, this one's going to get downright obnoxious
• 52:31
  and insane because I always go back.
• 52:36
  Go find it was it 2,000? The Andre Davis three touchdown
• 52:41
  game, three different ways in the Wayne board block.
• 52:46
  Jesus, I think they seriously have a chance to get Fowler on
• 52:49
  this one and with West Virginia, in their back in being so bad,
• 52:53
  and I know we're going to look more in detail.
• 52:55
  A lot of these games and learning a new offense and going
• 52:58
  to sort of to a true are a and they're going to be four games
• 53:04
  in only three games in. I'm going to say we take the
• 53:08
  diamond trophy back here Braun. I'm actually with you and I'm
• 53:13
  basing it on a few things. I'm basing it on the The fact
• 53:16
  that, you know, we were this damn close literally to taking
• 53:20
  it back at their house last year, like, four times that
• 53:23
  close one time for ya and ya. I know they got JT Daniel, but
• 53:28
  they haven't named a starter yet.
• 53:30
  This is pretty late. I don't know if they're playing
• 53:32
  games with ship with pit on this or what they're doing at games
• 53:37
  at nine days, they better. But they have they have not been
• 53:39
  able to starter yet, so if if that's for real reasons and not
• 53:45
  for gamesmanship, Ship. That's got to be concerning
• 53:47
  because I think they were leaning pretty heavy on Daniels
• 53:50
  being the guy. So if he's not actually went out
• 53:54
  there and won that job, that's got to be concerning.
• 53:57
  And then you just couple that with what they lost in the
• 54:00
  secondary and the transfer portal.
• 54:03
  I think there's a lot of opportunities to score more
• 54:05
  points this year, on them. Yeah, and I think if we can do
• 54:08
  that, I don't have any confidence that they're going to
• 54:11
  be significantly better on offense.
• 54:14
  Nah, so I think I think we're able to pull it out.
• 54:17
  We're at home. It's a night game.
• 54:19
  It's in Lane. It's that attersee here.
• 54:22
  It's Thursday. I think there's just there's too
• 54:25
  much. I think lining up against them
• 54:27
  both historically and on the field that I think we can pull
• 54:31
  that one out with you. All right, Brian.
• 54:35
  So next game again, this is kind of big Meaning of The Gauntlet
• 54:40
  with West, Virginia, game, travel down to North Carolina.
• 54:44
  The next Saturday, what are you feeling on this one?
• 54:50
  This one I've got, I've got UNC pulling it out.
• 54:55
  I know they've got a lot of question marks at quarterback.
• 54:57
  They just named their starter May is took that job correctly.
• 55:02
  Yeah. I think that's, that's probably
• 55:05
  what we expected heading into the season.
• 55:07
  I think he was kind of I think the guy that was going to be the
• 55:10
  next man up he's one that job I think I mean he's a quality
• 55:14
  player kind of a bid for Star type Talent you know I think
• 55:20
  they get things going a little bit better on offense.
• 55:22
  I think they're improved enough. On defense.
• 55:28
  And we're not playing in Blacksburg on opening night with
• 55:32
  that atmosphere. So I think you don't get the
• 55:34
  Boost that we saw last year from that.
• 55:39
  So I think they add you doubt. I think it's a close one.
• 55:42
  I hate picking UNC. I don't think.
• 55:45
  I think anybody that's listen to me on this show understands my
• 55:51
  level of hatred for UNC so but There's enough factors there
• 55:59
  that are unknown for us and enough factors for them that
• 56:02
  work in their favor. It's hard for me to in good
• 56:05
  conscience, not pick them. So, that's where I'm at.
• 56:08
  Well, whether it's bad, conscience, maroon glasses,
• 56:11
  whatever. I'm picking Tech in this game.
• 56:13
  And I think it is because of Drake May being a first year
• 56:17
  stronger. Yep, that'll be his fourth game.
• 56:20
  But right now they're getting into true, freshman is running
• 56:23
  backs. No one has really come out.
• 56:25
  Other than Josh Downs. At the receiver room.
• 56:28
  The offensive line has continued to have struggles.
• 56:31
  The defense at game that we always talked about it.
• 56:34
  I can remember being on here almost a year ago talking about
• 56:37
  if we just had some decent frickin offensive play calls.
• 56:39
  We could have hung over 30 on that defense last year without
• 56:42
  breathing and I don't think they're going to take that big
• 56:45
  of a step under chizik. I think they are what they are.
• 56:49
  And when you're going from that, 245 to a base for three Lot of
• 56:54
  Things Different. You talk about guys putting
• 56:56
  their hands in the dirt not as confusing schemes.
• 56:59
  So I think that's where we go and I think take pulls this one
• 57:02
  out and I think it's going to probably be because of a Young
• 57:06
  quarterback. Probably truly facing his first
• 57:11
  defense that is going to just attack and attack and attack and
• 57:16
  not pull anything back you know because you know let's take a
• 57:20
  Look real quick just so I can feel better about myself.
• 57:27
  They've got Notre Dame the week before.
• 57:32
  Then they had its their FAMU Appalachian State, which they
• 57:37
  could be, that they could lose that game.
• 57:40
  And they can lose to towards. They could come in one and
• 57:42
  three. And I think if you do that to a
• 57:45
  Young quarterback, it will be shattered and then have a
• 57:48
  defense is ready to feast and let's just go history.
• 57:53
  They're foreign, what's four and 14?
• 57:59
  Since they've started playing this every year since 2004.
• 58:02
  Yeah, I'd we are historically very good against them, all
• 58:06
  right. Even in the evening down years,
• 58:07
  we play UNC. Well, we do.
• 58:11
  And if we just started the right quarterback in 2020, we had to
• 58:14
  beat them then to. Yes, we would have, yes, we
• 58:16
  would have in that shootout. All right.
• 58:19
  So I'm at 5 and 0 and you're at four and one, am I going to do
• 58:21
  something stupid? He's on the stupid here.
• 58:25
  Are you tell me? All right, so the next game is
• 58:32
  at wonderful. What used to be called Heinz
• 58:35
  Field in the 8,000. People that occupy it for the
• 58:40
  worst home atmosphere. Oh, am I being real?
• 58:45
  The worst home atmosphere? Yeah, it's awful college sports,
• 58:50
  the Pitt Panthers, And for the first time I do pick against our
• 58:55
  Hokies, I think 80 atmosphere is one thing.
• 58:59
  If you're going into a hostile environment and Carolina can get
• 59:02
  a little loud, it's louder and petal ever be.
• 59:06
  You can get up a little bit so it's going to, you're going to
• 59:09
  go there, it's not going to be laughs.
• 59:11
  I'm gonna be raucous and they have just a really good
• 59:14
  defensive line and I think with the questions we have on our
• 59:17
  offensive line, at this point we're five games in, you
• 59:20
  probably got some Nicks and bumps maybe some backups
• 59:23
  playing. I do think this one write this
• 59:27
  down and I'll hope I'm hoping my prediction is when we get there
• 59:31
  exactly like it. I think it's going to be an
• 59:33
  ugly. Absolute Freaking this fight.
• 59:37
  It's not gonna be a bunch of guns.
• 59:38
  It's going to be a fist fight in the trenches, and it's going to
• 59:41
  get ugly. And I do think the Hokies will
• 59:44
  hang, but I just think that defense will get us in the end.
• 59:51
  Yeah, I mean whether aside I think it's going to be almost
• 59:53
  like an opposite of what we saw when we were at that at Budds
• 59:57
  last game in 2019, it's going to be kind of that that tight
• 1:00:01
  asshole game ball and I think, unfortunately because the pitch
• 1:00:07
  trenches, they are more experienced in the trenches than
• 1:00:11
  we are, especially on the defensive line.
• 1:00:14
  Think they've got enough on the back end, to keep us honest and
• 1:00:19
  I think they're going to end up pulling the wind there, but I
• 1:00:21
  don't, I don't think they're going to run away with it.
• 1:00:23
  This isn't going to be those ugly pit.
• 1:00:26
  Blowouts that we've seen in recent memory last year and back
• 1:00:30
  in 1828, seven. And what 56:23 something like
• 1:00:34
  that. Yeah I think this is going to be
• 1:00:37
  a lot more of a truth back street brawl.
• 1:00:41
  All right, let's flip next run. We've got Miami coming into
• 1:00:46
  town. It's going to be a crisp October
• 1:00:49
  day mid-october. Miami.
• 1:00:53
  Highly ranked most people picking them, the wind, the
• 1:00:55
  coastal Van Dyke, getting a ton of Love.
• 1:00:58
  Crystal ball, getting a tunnel of their recruiting flying off.
• 1:01:01
  Looks like they're about to get a new state in which I really
• 1:01:03
  hope they do put a stadium closer to where the campus is
• 1:01:07
  the Orange Bowl. We've talked with divide big
• 1:01:10
  man, loved playing their love beating them there.
• 1:01:13
  I hope they get something that's similar to that because that had
• 1:01:16
  a great atmosphere. I can remember watching those
• 1:01:18
  games when we were younger, but let's flip this one in
• 1:01:21
  Blacksburg. What do you Say on this one
• 1:01:23
  brand. Love is in Blacksburg but I hate
• 1:01:27
  that. It's a team that I think finally
• 1:01:29
  has found the leadership to go with the recruiting that they've
• 1:01:34
  been doing, you know really I mean for a long time, right?
• 1:01:39
  They've always had players. They've always had dudes.
• 1:01:42
  I think they finally got the right combination of Coach.
• 1:01:45
  Again I think this is going to be the team.
• 1:01:49
  That's going to be the measuring stick along with Clemson for
• 1:01:52
  Virginia Tech success going forward.
• 1:01:54
  Forward. I don't think we win this one,
• 1:01:57
  but I think this is a game that if we can kind of stick around
• 1:02:00
  and hang around and make it ugly and stick there with it, to the
• 1:02:05
  end, that's going to say, something about this team and
• 1:02:08
  kind of put us in a good footing going forward.
• 1:02:10
  But I don't think we have the, the horses to win this one.
• 1:02:13
  Yeah, and I mentioned on the panel last, we could, you know,
• 1:02:17
  with this game if you beat them, great, I can't see us doing
• 1:02:21
  that, not right now. They do have a lot of talent
• 1:02:23
  like you said. The crystal ball leadership, a
• 1:02:27
  good quarterback, they have the talent there to beat us, but
• 1:02:32
  it's the measuring stick game. If you get in there and you make
• 1:02:36
  it a war for four quarters and even if they beat you, everybody
• 1:02:40
  looks at you again, right? Well, this team is supposed to
• 1:02:43
  be rebuilding and they're already.
• 1:02:45
  They're fighting one of the best in the conference to the end.
• 1:02:47
  And they're forcing them to barely get a squeaker on the
• 1:02:51
  road. That's what it is to me.
• 1:02:53
  Miami wins the game. Game but this is the game that
• 1:02:56
  if you tell me, you know, six months or four months from now
• 1:03:01
  we're talking about the game of the year, it's to me it could be
• 1:03:04
  this one. All right.
• 1:03:07
  So then we get a bye week on the week of the 22nd.
• 1:03:11
  And when we get a trip down to Raleigh on a Thursday night.
• 1:03:15
  ESPN, another Thursday night game with NC State.
• 1:03:21
  I hope people don't hate me for this, but it's NC State and some
• 1:03:25
  people like nothing. Remember of, for always painful
• 1:03:29
  enough for remember that game and that we could not get above
• 1:03:33
  13 points. I know they had a good defense.
• 1:03:37
  But I think this year they're just too balanced and so.
• 1:03:41
  So think about the losses so far, I have probably the best
• 1:03:44
  defense. We're going to play, probably
• 1:03:46
  the best offense, we're going to play and probably the best
• 1:03:48
  balanced team. We're going to play with
• 1:03:50
  offensive weapons. Good on defense.
• 1:03:52
  I think we drop in Sea State. I don't think this will be a
• 1:03:56
  measure stick game. I think it will be a good game.
• 1:03:59
  Just knowing David orange style and Brent price style.
• 1:04:02
  But I think because they are loaded with a lot of Older
• 1:04:06
  folks. Good quarterback.
• 1:04:07
  I think they do get us. Yeah, I agree with you.
• 1:04:11
  I think, I think they definitely take us down.
• 1:04:13
  I don't think it's a blowout, but I do think it's one of those
• 1:04:16
  games where NC State probably handles us, start to finish.
• 1:04:21
  It kind of keeps us at arm's, length, start to finish, just
• 1:04:25
  because of their bounds. Like you said, I think they've
• 1:04:27
  got a really good defense, especially in the trenches and
• 1:04:30
  they have weapons on offense, especially the guy that's
• 1:04:34
  pulling the trigger at quarterback.
• 1:04:37
  I think that's just going to be a little too much for us to
• 1:04:39
  overcome. I think that's a game where if
• 1:04:42
  we want to have the potential to win that game.
• 1:04:44
  We've got a strike early, get ahead, get a lead and make them
• 1:04:50
  have to get out of their game plan.
• 1:04:53
  And I don't think we're able to do that.
• 1:04:54
  So I think that's why we're going to.
• 1:04:55
  We're going to lose that one. Yeah, I think with the NC State
• 1:04:58
  game as not compared to the Pittsburgh or Miami game.
• 1:05:01
  I think the pit NC State game. We have to play our best a
• 1:05:06
  football game. I think that, you know, can we
• 1:05:09
  can we beat Miami and pit? Yeah, I don't think we can.
• 1:05:12
  I don't think we have to play our best football games, those
• 1:05:14
  games to pull wins. NC State's just to balance to
• 1:05:18
  not be on and every facet. All right, Braun.
• 1:05:21
  So you're the four-game losing streak.
• 1:05:24
  I'm at a three-game losing streak and the first week,
• 1:05:28
  November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of
• 1:05:31
  November Georgia Tech roles in Tulane Stadium.
• 1:05:35
  What do you think on this one? I think that they're about to
• 1:05:41
  look like the cat's V for Vendetta killed on.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah, I think Georgia Tech some get wax this game.
• 1:05:48
  I think Jeff Collins is going to already have his pants Ablaze
• 1:05:53
  from that Hot Seat by this point in the season and this is going
• 1:05:57
  to maybe be the one that pushes them over the edge and we get a
• 1:06:02
  mid-november firing like we had with with went a last year.
• 1:06:06
  So Yeah, Ron takes GT. I'm right there.
• 1:06:10
  That that place is a train wreck right now.
• 1:06:12
  So many guys leaving. What was it that some of the
• 1:06:17
  classes from three years ago aren't even in there too deep?
• 1:06:22
  That's that's bad. That's yeah.
• 1:06:24
  I mean that's bad evaluation and then development.
• 1:06:28
  They're not developing and add to that.
• 1:06:32
  Like at some point. They, you know, you had that you
• 1:06:35
  had the height recruiting classes.
• 1:06:36
  And now, none of those guys are playing.
• 1:06:38
  They're going with the guys that were playing a Transformer.
• 1:06:43
  So yeah, I think that's a That's a big one.
• 1:06:47
  I think, I think, I think with you that we smash them, I think
• 1:06:50
  we smash them. I think that's an ugly game.
• 1:06:52
  I think after a losing streak to, I think we make it.
• 1:06:56
  We make an example out of them, and if he's not fired before,
• 1:06:59
  then he will be after that game. All right, 11:12, the next week,
• 1:07:03
  we go down to Duke, where I know there is going to probably be
• 1:07:06
  anywhere between 20 and 30 orange.
• 1:07:09
  And maroon fans down there because it is officially Lane
• 1:07:14
  Stadium South when it comes to the games, due to the rebuild.
• 1:07:21
  Do you know, they're essentially where Georgia Tech's going to be
• 1:07:25
  next year. They don't have a lot Elko
• 1:07:29
  slowly trying to build it and think about the team, I mean, we
• 1:07:34
  play our best game of the year, against them last year, six and
• 1:07:37
  six and blew them out by 30. It wasn't even a game.
• 1:07:40
  So I think, you know, back-to-back wins after a rough
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  stretch. Tech easily takes care of do on
• 1:07:48
  the road. Yeah, I agree.
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  And I think arguably the roster is worse this year than it was
• 1:07:54
  last year. Even though I think Elko is the
• 1:07:57
  guy and I think elk is the guy that will get them at least back
• 1:08:00
  to respectability these, if not, you know, the highs that we saw
• 1:08:08
  during cut Cliffs rain there, but I think he'll at least get
• 1:08:11
  them back to respectability, but this isn't the year.
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  He doesn't have the horses. Like I said, it's a word.
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  It's roster top to bottom than it was last year.
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  And I think that was that is Georgia Tech's.
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  Not as bad as I was saying what I'm saying, relative to their
• 1:08:24
  roster. Yeah, yeah.
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  So I think, I think Virginia Tech handles us when I think
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  that's good, good back-to-back wins there to kind of set them
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  up for that. Stretch, run in Virginia.
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  Absolutely two games in. Virginia, on the 19th of
• 1:08:44
  November, the Hokies, Travel down 462 Lynchburg,
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  unfortunately, to play the Liberty Flames.
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  There you go. Put them up.
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  Why are we playing this game on the road?
• 1:08:55
  I also as much as we're going to have down at Duke, I think.
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  What's the size of that Stadium? I've watched a couple games,
• 1:09:03
  they don't sell out. They might have, I want to say
• 1:09:07
  it's a 35 or 40 thousand seat stadium.
• 1:09:09
  And they might have 15 or 20 in there.
• 1:09:11
  I mean it's bigger than ODU, but not by much, but not by much.
• 1:09:15
  Alright, I gotta, I gotta effort this before you go, you go.
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  What do you think? I will go.
• 1:09:22
  I will go while you're efforting I hate to say this, but this is
• 1:09:28
  a seven and five team last year that lost 75% of their offensive
• 1:09:35
  production. I do not care how good Charlie
• 1:09:38
  Brewer is he is not replacing that production?
• 1:09:42
  No, he's then, I think and I think if any pleased that
• 1:09:46
  November That yeah, that too Charlie Brooker.
• 1:09:51
  Probably is not making it to November to even play in this
• 1:09:56
  game. But if he does, he's not Malik
• 1:09:58
  Willis, he does not get it done. Hokies take care of business in
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  Lynchburg and we set up for the Commonwealth cup.
• 1:10:06
  The next week. I'm with you 25,000 seat
• 1:10:09
  Stadium. I've seen it a couple times.
• 1:10:10
  It's probably 15 to 18 thousand there.
• 1:10:14
  I have a feeling that will be a lot of orange and maroon on the
• 1:10:17
  road as well. I'm going to pick the Hokies and
• 1:10:20
  I am hoping as I hope with the ODU game and I hope with the
• 1:10:23
  wall for game and is Don be eloquently put in where I think
• 1:10:26
  everybody on that panel, agreed squash them, squash them, squash
• 1:10:32
  them, make them not want to break curfew on Saturday night,
• 1:10:37
  at Liberty, foot on the throat. But on throat, just smash.
• 1:10:43
  And again Charlie Brooker. Yeah he played last year.
• 1:10:46
  He quit on his team. Charlie Brewer has like ten
• 1:10:48
  concussions Charlie. Brew is not making it to
• 1:10:50
  November and for god sakes I agree.
• 1:10:57
  Like if you're if you're a coach like you were going to send you
• 1:10:59
  out there knowing if this kid takes one more bad head, he's
• 1:11:02
  not going to be able to have kids or even communicate.
• 1:11:05
  By the time he's in his mid-30s You can't have that many
• 1:11:09
  concussions Jesus. Alright?
• 1:11:13
  So Commonwealth cut Braun. I am, I'm leaving here and this
• 1:11:19
  is all I'm going to say in the last 22 years.
• 1:11:26
  One team has won. 21 team is 12. It's mental tech.
• 1:11:32
  Wins. I'm right there with you.
• 1:11:36
  I think I think Ted can pull this one out.
• 1:11:38
  I think, when you look at This offense.
• 1:11:43
  I think they are still going to be one-dimensional.
• 1:11:48
  I think they probably have one of the five best wide receiver
• 1:11:52
  cores. And you couple that with their
• 1:11:54
  quarterback, a top-15 passing offense.
• 1:11:59
  But I don't think that that is going to equate to enough to
• 1:12:05
  compensate for their lack of running game.
• 1:12:07
  It's not going to compensate for their lack of offensive line,
• 1:12:10
  death. Depth and its really gonna
• 1:12:12
  compensate for their poor defense, especially the
• 1:12:16
  secondary. They still can't get enough pass
• 1:12:18
  rush to cover that big-ass flaw. That's going to be the
• 1:12:22
  difference in the game. Well yeah, I'm and I'm going to
• 1:12:26
  give a little more insight. It's the the o-line, they
• 1:12:29
  literally lost a couple of their bus offensive linemen.
• 1:12:32
  They lost some of their best coaches on the offensive side of
• 1:12:35
  the ball and as good as Brennan as good as that core is, he's
• 1:12:40
  okay. Shit knocked out a lot this
• 1:12:42
  year. And I can already see Brent Pro
• 1:12:45
  basically, say, I'm gonna probably send six or seven and
• 1:12:48
  you're going to have to get rid of that ball really quick, or
• 1:12:50
  you're going to get hit even more.
• 1:12:52
  And, as bad as that defense was last year, I don't think it's an
• 1:12:57
  overnight fix. I don't think a coach comes in
• 1:13:00
  and hits the magic button and goes from being 129th to being
• 1:13:05
  in the 70s where you can be respectable, it does it work
• 1:13:09
  like that? Not Without talent and they are
• 1:13:12
  deprived of Talent on the defensive side of the ball.
• 1:13:16
  So I picked Tech wins this one as well as I said earlier.
• 1:13:19
  So Brian, let's tally it up here.
• 1:13:22
  How many you got what you got? I'm going to even for ceiling
• 1:13:26
  for the Hokies in 2022. I'm at 9:00 and 3:00 what a
• 1:13:31
  shocker. I'm back at 93 again, as the
• 1:13:33
  ceiling, Nice Shot, not shocked. Next we get a lesson, I will
• 1:13:40
  always is As much as I love coaching staff has gone three
• 1:13:44
  games last year that could easily turn the right way.
• 1:13:46
  It would have been 9 and 3 so it is what it is.
• 1:13:51
  But listen, y'all. So these are our ceilings, but,
• 1:13:55
  let's just be very honest. There is a floor.
• 1:13:59
  We specially with this team with the death, and we are not
• 1:14:01
  foolish and Brian. I'm going to since we're
• 1:14:05
  matching on this, I'm gonna let you make a statement on behalf
• 1:14:07
  of the boundary Corner podcast hour.
• 1:14:10
  Floor for this team because this is mine as well as Brian's.
• 1:14:14
  Yeah. The the floor for this team is
• 1:14:16
  five and seven. I don't see us going below.
• 1:14:20
  Five wins. I think there's just enough.
• 1:14:23
  Winnable games on our schedule and we don't travel enough to
• 1:14:28
  really feel like this is an awful team.
• 1:14:32
  This is a team that even with some injuries can just fall off
• 1:14:35
  the map. You know, when we talk about the
• 1:14:37
  games that are amenable All on paper out, the gate you're
• 1:14:42
  looking at ODU, you're looking at Wofford, you know, you're
• 1:14:45
  looking at Duke and Georgia Tech.
• 1:14:47
  Liberty is a very winnable game when you look at games that are
• 1:14:51
  kind of in that toss-up category you've got BC, you got West
• 1:14:55
  Virginia, you got UVA piss you and see, you can throw pin and
• 1:15:00
  you would see that conversation as well.
• 1:15:03
  But I think, in terms of true toss-ups, I think that those
• 1:15:06
  those games are still in that category.
• 1:15:08
  So you got The roughly seven games that are either toss-up,
• 1:15:12
  so you're going to be favored. I think we at least get five of
• 1:15:15
  those even with some of the flaws of this team and even with
• 1:15:20
  some things like injuries impacting this roster as the
• 1:15:24
  season goes along, that's the way to sum it up.
• 1:15:26
  Injuries again, if this team stays clean injury-wise, and
• 1:15:31
  when I say clean injury-wise, a guy can miss a week, okay?
• 1:15:35
  We can, we can live with that guy.
• 1:15:37
  Missing a month on certain aspects.
• 1:15:40
  We cannot William McCallum out there orange significant injury,
• 1:15:45
  going eight, and for stealing 947, who that floor of seven.
• 1:15:50
  I've hoped to get to say that next year and I get to go like
• 1:15:54
  ceiling of 10 or 11. And next year, I'll be maybe a
• 1:15:58
  little bit more tanked up, but when you're when you're talking
• 1:16:02
  floor of seven, you're talking about being confident a team
• 1:16:06
  number one, winning all of the matchups, they should win number
• 1:16:09
  two. Probably at least splitting the
• 1:16:11
  toss-ups number 3. Probably at least punching up in
• 1:16:15
  one game, right? And one game.
• 1:16:16
  Yep. I don't know if we're quite
• 1:16:17
  there yet, but I mean, I appreciate the optimism at this
• 1:16:21
  point, you know? I think if you're not optimistic
• 1:16:25
  in in August, you're not going to be optimistic at all.
• 1:16:29
  So, if you're not optimistic in August here either, let's think
• 1:16:33
  like a temple fan Jets fan Jags fan.
• 1:16:41
  Who else Texans? You're a fan of a team where
• 1:16:45
  it's just like, we want a good draft pick or can just see, I'm
• 1:16:49
  just watching because I need a reason, you're a Duke football
• 1:16:52
  fan, I need a reason to drink on Saturdays and football games on
• 1:16:59
  and we're losing, it makes me drink more, I mean that happens.
• 1:17:03
  It happens front, anything broken in the last hour and 20
• 1:17:07
  minutes, nothing, That's popped across my timeline buddy.
• 1:17:11
  I think we're good to to wrap it on up and all right.
• 1:17:15
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• 1:17:18
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