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WVU Game Recap · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to be boundary Corner podcast.
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I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian siglo buddy.
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We were angry. Yesterday we were and it's a
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great thing that happened. Probably for our hearts and, you
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know, our bodies that you headed down to VB for a show thought
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you'd be back by about 10:30 and then other things happen and you
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get caught because I think If this had been 24 hours ago, I
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think we probably would have ran it for probably two hours.
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You're probably going to get a slightly more well-known and
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thought out, break down here. You may not quite get the fire
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and brimstone that. You would have died last night,
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but we're still plenty angry, and you're going to see that
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come out here, ladies and gentlemen.
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So that's what buckle up with plenty angry, but it's Sunday
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night. So we're not We're having you
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know, complimentary Beverages. And if you know I'm having some
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water because we got to go to work tomorrow, you know, still
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haven't won. But you know you're having one.
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Nah nah. I'm good tonight.
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I'm good tonight when last night didn't happen to probably the
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best thing for my body. I would have to sleep at a
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normal hour, got a good amount of sleep, you know, and compared
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to a normal Saturday where we would have talked ranted, watch
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some late night football but we So, usually one am before we
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normally cash it in guys, only after Saturday rant.
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Yeah, your Saturday Ranch session.
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Stay up watching football but we didn't do that.
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But you know what? The loss 2721 to West Virginia,
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we got a lot to own pack a lot and it's it's primarily towards
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one side of the ball but we're not going to let the defense off
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the hook they had their moments especially in the first half.
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But Brian, we sit here tonight, man.
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And we just got straight up say it.
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It this game was the story of three drives re drives inside
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the 10-yard line, 9 + plays. 0 points:0 absolutely atrocious,
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red zone offense for really the entire game.
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But in particular, I mean those three drives were absolutely
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mind-numbing and let's start with the first one.
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So you have, you know, we thought we Yeah, just before the
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half, this is after Braxton, Burmeister has an amazing
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scramble gets outside breaks the tackle dies for the first down.
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Yep. And here's where things get get
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hazy. So first down, we know what
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happened we watched it. It should have been a touchdown
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that the the back judge called it a touchdown then they got
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together. They said no incomplete.
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Ball touch the ground review and I don't know how this crew comes
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back with not seeing definitively.
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That that ball never touched the ground.
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I have no idea what they were looking at every angle.
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I saw the ball. Never touches, hold on.
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This is why they did what they did.
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Just looking at it yesterday. All right.
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If that was ruled a touchdown, whatever way they called it on,
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the field was not going to be overturned. and because of the
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darkness of trays tadion Robinson's gloves in the
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darkness of the ugly West Virginia in zone and the way
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that ball came up When they called it incomplete, they had
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the mindset of it. Hit the ground, that's why it
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popped up. That had to be their mindset,
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right? That had it had to be with a man
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vs. Bear.
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Hands are underneath the whole time but that stinky, but if
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they keep it as a touchdown, then you sit here and say, well,
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his hands are there. That's probably why it popped
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up. You can't say the ground pop it
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up because there was no definitive evidence.
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So what they did is they screwed us on that if they called it a
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touchdown, it stands. We walk into halftime 27:14.
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It's a lot different ball game in the second half.
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Who knows how it turns out maybe we're not as a angry right now
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but we are, but that's what it was.
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Yep. So the review took, it felt like
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ten minutes. It literally felt like 10
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minutes. Like, you know, what do we do
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here? What do we do?
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What do we do? What do we do?
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And then they come back, call stands, no touchdown, and then
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Neal Brown, which I have an affinity for not liking him, a
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liked him when he was at Troy. You like a guy less?
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When they go to a rival School, let's call three timeouts in a
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row. Why we're just like yeah I mean
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that was so we lost about what six minutes on the review.
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Maybe then we had another and another three or four minutes
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lost on the three timeouts. Then we finally lineup fucking
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false start. Back up five, not a shot there
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now and then after all that, you know, we don't get it on.
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On third. No.
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Go out to kick the field goal there.
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We're on the right hash which for whatever reason John Parker
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Romo, struggles from him, right house, especially close up, you
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cannot hit him close and at my thought is he is a draw kicker
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and he's aiming just on the outside of the pole expecting to
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draw back. Don Parker, I need you to go to
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the golf course and hit a sand wedge.
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This week are weight or lob wedge and try to turn that ball
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over. That ball will not turn over the
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way you normally probably draw a ball that ball will draw only a
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little bit and that's what you're doing.
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Now I will put that on shall best because Chavez could be
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kicking when he's sitting there. Like listen son you need to aim
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for the middle. If you if you can duck hook that
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thing within 20 yards to the other side.
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Yep. Then like you shouldn't be
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kicking it all at this, at this point, you mean, We've obviously
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seen that he has a tendency to kind of leave it.
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Right. So we got to make some
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adjustment here in the fact that there hasn't been too just to
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make made at this point is disappointing.
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Well, hold it should go to the offensive coordinator.
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Who should have in the back of his head.
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He has struggled from the right, hash.
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Maybe I should run something to the left, hash to, at least, get
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a set up that way. Yep, but I don't think that guy
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stinks like that. It also we just to feel gold
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24/7. It Half.
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And I mean, I think for the majority of us it's just the
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thought of its games over. We all went.
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Yeah, pretty a lot of us had all those checked out but if we
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hadn't physically we had more or less mentally checked out at
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that point especially after we open the second half.
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You know, defense does a good bend don't break act but they
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still got another three to kind of start that off and we're
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like, all right, well, they're still scoring, we're still not
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there. It's gonna get ugly and then we
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kind of get to the the end of the third quarter.
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And you know, black share is a good run down.
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The sideline Gets In The End Zone just before the end of the
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third quarter and now we gotta got ourselves a 10-point game.
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But let's be honest though, with that Braxton bird might have
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saved that drive a 26 yard scramble.
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Third and 24, he doesn't do that.
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There's there's literally no pulse.
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We probably go for it on like third and 20, we run fourth and
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20. Run like a draw, you know,
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that's the way things seem to be shaping up nowadays, so he saves
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us. We get it in, like you
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mentioned, literally with one second left on the clock and
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maybe a little hope, but you're still sitting here like, okay,
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that's great, but it's 1/4. We really haven't done much all
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day. Are we really going to get two?
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Quarters defense is playing better defense.
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Finally locked in settle down a little bit, but then You know,
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let's talk about it. The bar no or excuse me garbage
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sack, get the temple. And yes, here we go.
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What we're going to drive, we're moving it Brian.
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We start, using all parts of the field, we start using some metal
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Parts with Caleb, a little Jet Sweep little outside Zone.
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It's like somebody was saying, hey, let's mix these things up,
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maybe we could actually get down and maybe we could score.
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And then we get down and then The Comedy of Errors started.
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Yeah. I put, what will I put a WTF?
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What kind of play was that on first down?
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After, after the after Jalen gets that huge gash in play down
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to the six? It's like they're on their
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heels. The only thing you shouldn't do
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is give them a simplistic. That's why I put it WTF play.
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Don't give them a simplistic play that will gather either
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their momentum back. What do we do?
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Let's just run right. Adam Boudreaux.
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Right out of this is the work we struggle.
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We struggled with push up front most of the day and You know, we
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had we had an earlier one where it was it was fourth in one we
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went for it. Didn't get it like we did.
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We couldn't sack up and get short yardage all day.
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Well let's we talk about. Let you I'll let you go on that
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one, its fourth and one you have Connor, blumrich six-foot-five
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220-pound who the week before showed, this can be done with
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him, they don't see him all day. That I really don't get that
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that design there. But let's Finish up what we were
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talking about on the, on the fourth quarter drive here, okay,
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the big head scratcher is the is the the third down play call.
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Well, let's locate the second down.
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It was a fake jet, a little inside Zone.
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To get us down to three on the Fiat, right?
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Hash all right, you got all this room left but one of the far
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right? Has you have all this room left?
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Tavian Robinson, great fade route.
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Tray on a great fade route right now.
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And you know, I got to watch it after the fact.
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So I knew what was going to happen, but I'm sitting there
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and I'm seeing the setup. I'm like you just you just you
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put everybody in the boxes at the person you want.
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And say, go beat your man. Instead you try to explain this
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in all of your football experience crying what happened.
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The thing they're doing in the thing that the concept that they
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wanted to do is, is something that has worked in the past when
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James Mitchell is in the game, James Mitchell is not in the
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game. Ladies and gentlemen, don't see.
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And when James, when James Mitchell, when they do this,
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this Jet Sweep to the short side, what they usually have is
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James Mitchell in there, which means that the strength of the
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defense is away from where the play is going.
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That was not the case with Trey motioning into the backfield and
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then taking the jet Suite, we ran right into the heart of the
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defense. There were two players that were
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not even accounted for in the blocking scheme on that side of
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the defense and it got absolutely blown the fuck up.
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My biggest issue with that. Brian is when Trey went set, it
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was still like that, they didn't move anyone.
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Let's go usually it's a check right?
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It's a check from you. What you would think you would
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think so yeah it's like nah we're gonna go we're gonna go
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right at them and you're sitting here and saying like you said
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you start counting players. There's like there's two guys,
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I'm blocked. There's there's two guys not
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accounted for in that scheme. How are we going to get this in?
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What probably should have happened?
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In that case I told you what my thought was, again, we still had
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a guy single, I think tavey on was hi, it's fake.
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The jet motion. Try to run him on a slant or
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something where you hope that quarterbacks eyes looks inside
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and he can't make the contact. And he gets any throw, a
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touchdown or that you'd ran Jet Sweep All Day.
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Braxton Burmeister had not taken it one time.
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You know what everybody says? Well we gotta you know we
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understand we need to protect him in this case, it is less
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than two minutes to go. It's almost borderline a minute,
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right? Oh no, this is the earlier one.
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This is the early and this is I think we go it's three minutes
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left. That's not much time.
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Because of what's that little bit earlier than that?
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We actually scored with three minutes left.
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Okay. Yeah.
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The holster scores that three minutes.
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This was like five or five and a half.
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Okay. Either way though, either way.
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Yeah, you have a chance to get within one score.
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Yeah. They have shown you.
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They're going to sell out. Pull it.
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Pull it. Pull it.
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Or if nothing else, right. Be creative.
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Right? Yeah.
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Jean. They're fake the jet running
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inside Zone. Run a speed option left.
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The only time that we like had a design run for Braxton.
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It was that dumbass forth in one.
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Everything else is either here, taking off for whatever reason,
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we are not using the read elements of the read option.
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It looks like way Way way too many times.
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It's a design call. Yeah, it's a design called
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they're not they're not letting Braxton read the defense and if
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they are Then they need to coach him up that he needs to start
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keeping it more often. But the way the way there, the
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mesh point is I don't see that as a read.
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I see that as him giving the ball all the way in carrying out
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the fake. Exactly.
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So, we lose three yards there, so we're back at the 6 yard
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line, where back exactly where we started after the great
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Holston run or the great Holston play and forth.
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Down its we're trips far Smith is near, he was in the backfield
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and I'm Therefore minute they're like a cover to so to me like
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they are sitting here kind of saying well you're going to have
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to run something short and quick.
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If you have a scramble drill going to keep two guys in the
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back of the end zone. So if you're doing any code
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across others, we're going to have a guys covered there.
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You know, it looked like maybe Drake was the past.
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It look like he hooked up but he was right.
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Like two guys are like this with it.
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They're just like that is just like In some chances, you know
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you almost just say it soon as he steps in hitches, just throw
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it on. If they pick it, you're down.
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14. If they pick it and wore it
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best, they're going to be maybe at the 20 at worst.
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They're going to be inside their own five.
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Yeah, it was held on too long. I know brought got beat, he was
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at actually, right, tackle at the time, he got beat on the
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edge that was, you know, the sack from would have closed out
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that that series. But I mean, that's trip number
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two, into the Red Zone into the inside the 10 at one point,
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inside the five no points, you know, then we have great
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defensive, you know, we already talked about the whole season
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scoring on the on the check down there.
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Yeah, hold them on third. Get the pic on the wall or gets
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the interception on the green. He sniffed that thing out like
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Gibby and we're back inside the 10 guys, we're back inside.
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The 10 were knocking on the door.
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There's less than two minutes to go in the game.
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Less than two minutes to go. I mean, this is the game.
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Yeah, this is the game. They have one timeout left and
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the way we had set in zone, I highly doubt they could probably
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cover the 30. The 30 to 40 yards, they need to
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get in field goal range. Um, Governor Gallego saying are
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tight ends need to be more involved.
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Agree with that, but the way that we're playing right now,
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you can't. You cannot risk taking gallo and
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putting them on routes. Well, you even going to, you
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need to leak him out like we've done in the past so many times,
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and we'll talk about it right now.
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Let's go ahead and fucking talk about it right now because on
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this game. Siding drive, we ran up the gut
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twice and then we had to Sprint outs to the right.
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Oh, what about that? That was our genius.
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Fucking plan to give the end zone.
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So lets you know the up and get calls are what they are.
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Right? Well I'm not long after the game
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ended just to get his feelings on it and in the first thing you
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said, was why in the world? Are you deciding on the last
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play? As of the game to cut half the
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field, like you were living like, I'll get it, like, can't
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understand that. So, it was, so infuriating to
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me, it's essentially saying, we don't, it's saying two things
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saying, we don't trust, our offensive line to give Braxton
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two and a half seconds to get a read and make a throw.
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That's that to me is unacceptable at some point.
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You got to trust your players to go out there and make a play.
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They've done it in this game. They fought and clawed and got
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back into this game. Do not trust the players to make
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a play. Trust them and give them an
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opportunity to make that play. Don't cut them off at the knees
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before the ball is even snapped, and that's what they did with
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those calls. They cut they cut half the field
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off and they said all right well it's an attempt to flood the
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Zone but there's so many damn Defenders already in the zone.
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Like it's not going to work, you'll get you might get lucky
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as hell that something comes out there but give your quarterback
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the whole field to work with. If he drops back he has an
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opportunity to take off and run. Yep.
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He doesn't have that with the a sprint out that they see coming
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from a fucking mile away. In the other issue on that is,
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you're also taking whoever's on the left side of the field and
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you're running backs and the tight ends at least one of the
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tight ends in that they're going to be out of the play.
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So whoever's over, whoever's on the left side of the field
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because we sprinted, right? Is out.
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Yep. Whoever's the running back is is
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completely out. So you are taking two weapons
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off completely. It essentially, you're making it
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a three on five game and you didn't leak any one to the back
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side. Side of that play.
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They had that. That's where we talk about.
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When we talk about tight ends getting involved, that's where
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we traditionally get. The tight ends involved is that
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we showed that Sprint action, and then we have either a drag
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going back across, or we have a tight end leaking out on the
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back side of the block. Yep.
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And we did none of that we've ever done of that.
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We're Malik like the yes year. He scored a couple on those
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linkages. He just he down block and
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eventually the Whoever he was blocking would like get off and
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just attack the ball and he would just take like three steps
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and it was just a easy touchdown and that would have been a
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perfect call on third down because if you actually had that
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because you still had plenty of time to get back up to the line
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and get a call in there. Yes you did.
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But we didn't do it. So there's your three
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opportunities and as much as people want to say, it could
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have been a blowout for West Virginia.
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It's 21 points as Ian. Max and I know there's a minimum
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but we hit the minimum. We goose egg do it and with that
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we're going to its time because we've done it before and we're
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going to it's going to be a little more hardcore tonight.
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So I told Brian about 10 minutes for we got on it's the old
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definition of insanity, right? Brian.
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Continue to do the same things over and over and expect a
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different result. Brad cornelison is insane when
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it comes to short side. You'll please, We've seen it
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since you got here. I can remember, I'm going three
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in three consecutive years. 2019, Kentucky was like third
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and three third and to brine we're driving.
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It's late. We get a first down.
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We almost can lock it up. We've got to get it.
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He runs a short side sweep with Hendon hooker.
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They sniff. It lose what 34 yards?
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We have to punt, they cleared Drive the field score touchdown
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last year, and this is the play. I talk about a lot.
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Third and three, North Carolina. We're driving.
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After that horrendous start, we have a chance to go down.
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Cut it to one score with just a few minutes left in the half.
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He throws a short side screen, three yards behind the line of
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scrimmage to tadion Robinson. Right?
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Yep, we eat it alive. He's down the next.
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Plays the inside slant that gets broken up and then it was the
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trade Turner play yesterday. Again short side box loaded,
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they eat it alive and I sit here in it's the same things his
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errors from five years ago. And subsequent years are
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continuously the same errors over and over and over again.
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And that makes me mad because I sit here is a novice at football
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and can say you can't continue to do that.
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Yeah, I mean when I look at it it feels like situationally and
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we talked about this before situationally it's like he talks
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himself out of good decisions. It is absolutely infuriating.
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Just watching. Good drives turn into either
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three points or no points because of ineptitude and key
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situations. Yes.
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I've just I like I said, I feel bad for the, for the offensive
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players because they really went out there and they played their
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ass off, especially in the second half.
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You know, a lot of a lot of I'll use the word a lot of grit from
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from the from the boys out there in the second half.
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But the it feels like they the staff wasn't didn't prepare
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them. Well enough to start this game
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and then key moments in the second half.
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We're just we're just killer. They were killer.
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It's back-breaking. You gotta you gotta you gotta
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put the ball in the end zone when you have the opportunity,
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you just have to. And when you have three like
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that you've got to get at least two of those three, at least two
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because you had them reeling. They were reeling on those last
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two drives you can say the one before, the half was a screw up.
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Those last two, they were reeling and if you don't write
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play on that first thing, V a touchdown be cut, but instead
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you call a, he called plays that let them regain their footing,
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get their breath, get their thought process back if he's and
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I had no in on the, on the drive to in the game.
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I had no problem with the first down, run call because you want
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to get a little bit more clock. Yeah, I want to take a little
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bit more clock offset first down.
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That's a smart play. You get inside the five.
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Hopefully, with that you, you get a little clock running you
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or you force them to use their time out, right?
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Yep. Second down.
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I did like them going back to the well really running
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essentially the same play again, and then back-to-back Sprint
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out. Same plate.
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You ran the same place both times.
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The same play first and second, the same play, third, and
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fourth, like, there's nothing else in the Playbook here.
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There's nothing else that you can come up with to potentially
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get it in the end zone and win a game.
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Yep. Like I said, I just, I really
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don't like taking away that much of the feel in again, a key
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moment. You know, there are strategic At
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times where you call the Sprint out, I just don't feel like that
25:26
is where I hated on on key Downs.
25:31
It just it seems lazy to me. It seems it seems lazy.
25:37
Brian you got anything else. You want to sound corn right
25:38
now? Because I'm going to go in a
25:39
little different direction about who I want to round them.
25:42
Yeah, go for it. Corn is the easy scapegoat he is
25:51
and we've seen it over and over, okay?
25:54
But Brian we work at jobs where if people do the same thing over
26:00
and over and it's wrong. Eventually they quit looking at
26:05
the person who does it and they start looking at the person
26:08
who's in charge of that person. Yeah.
26:11
Yeah and it's Justin Fuente. The same things keep happening
26:17
and it's on his watch, it's on him.
26:20
You have not went in and corrected your employees
26:26
problems and it is affecting everyone.
26:30
It is affecting the offensive coordinator is affecting all of
26:35
the positional coaches is affecting the players and it is
26:38
affecting the fans and it's on you because you should be making
26:44
the decisions. it's of if you're telling him, don't do this
26:49
anymore, let's call these plays and he's not Then you need to
26:54
fire him. If it's to the point where, you
27:00
know, we feel good about the design, we feel good about what
27:03
we're doing. But, you know, he has these
27:04
areas where he needs to work on its been 5 years.
27:07
If he hasn't work those out yet, if you can't fire him, you need
27:11
to take away responsibilities from and you will not do it.
27:14
He will not do it and it's you know what, and I know it's
27:18
tough. Justin you lived with the guy in
27:20
your 20s when y'all were just getting the coaching ranks and
27:23
you lived in the fraternity was so cool.
27:25
But guess what? You're making four point seven
27:29
million dollars a year, he's making right at half a million
27:31
dollars a year. And what we're seeing is a
27:35
program, especially the last three years is a average
27:39
product. We're not used to that the here
27:43
in a four-year run where Frank was average people that love
27:47
Frank said, it's time to go. We don't want an average
27:49
product, and you're giving us an average product and you're not
27:53
doing anything about it. You were hired to bring the
27:56
product back to where it was in the late 90s and the entire
28:00
decade of the 2000s and weave. One time in that the entire
28:06
tenure reach that level in, a lot of that was with holdover
28:10
players from the Beamer era. Yep, at some point, we got to
28:15
stop losing games like this, that we have no business losing,
28:22
its really frustrating at this point.
28:24
Because as you said, if the problem is everything, then you
28:30
need to fire him. And if the problem is the play
28:32
calling, then you need to do, either take over
28:35
responsibilities or hire yourself.
28:37
A co-coordinator that is just going to call the plays or hire
28:41
somebody on staff, give Adam like Tim Burger Shop.
28:46
But you got it, you got it. You can't do the same thing over
28:48
and over and expect different results, and that's what we're
28:51
getting. We're getting different results
28:53
in the thing is, what his, what his go back to his.
28:56
Well, he's had like some of the best offensive seasons in
29:00
Virginia Tech History. The first of all, you comparing
29:03
that to bronstein Spring, who ranked under left driven several
29:08
times with NFL Talent, son, and the other part is Georgia.
29:14
Great yard, your great yards without points or meaningless.
29:21
And that's what he does. He gets yards without points.
29:27
So if you ask me right now, would you want to Brian?
29:31
Would you want to average 538 yards, a game, but scored, 29
29:35
Points, or would you want to average 400 a game score?
29:38
38, thank the game. When it's pretty points of the
29:40
only thing that matters. If you're not scoring points, I
29:42
don't give a shit. How many yards you put it
29:44
doesn't because they're empty. I've seen teams average under
29:49
450 yards of game but they're averaging 42 a game, like
29:55
efficient, it's not at some point if you're putting the The
29:57
End Zone then that means either one or two things.
30:00
Number one, your offense is being efficient.
30:01
Number two, you probably also are pairing that with a good
30:03
defense. Yep.
30:05
And they're giving you the ball in good field position and they
30:07
did that twice. They did that twice yesterday.
30:13
You know, you did in another thing.
30:15
Let's go on to the continuing to kind of rant.
30:18
You talked about just a poor job up front getting push.
30:23
We look in that first quarter. We looked lackadaisical tell us
30:28
it looked like it was the first road game they had ever played
30:31
in their careers. It's not even that Braun.
30:34
You can have nerves. Usually you see nervous, energy.
30:37
Somebody makes a dumb play but you see people hyped up right
30:40
now? If we look we didn't want hyped
30:42
up and again that goes back to for Wednesday.
30:45
Your job is to get these guys in a mental state to go out there
30:49
and want to run through someone that first offensive play after
30:53
that screen which was a brilliant called the next couple
30:56
place is kind of look like Blah we blot, why are they behind us?
31:01
Why can't we get push? It's just like in the thing is
31:05
With The Wind that we've seen that happen numerous times,
31:08
we've seen them come out very, very lackadaisical, especially
31:11
on the offensive side. Takes a quarter and a half two
31:13
quarters to really find their footing.
31:17
And I'm going to talk about another thing, we're talking a
31:19
little bit about the offensive line.
31:20
I know that we've had some trouble, we had an injury in
31:24
this game. We are still working progress on
31:27
the right. Side.
31:29
But the big problem I have is on drop backs.
31:35
On Third and long. We are still pulling the damn
31:40
guard to the back side of the formation in pass Pro.
31:46
Get that shit out of the past Pro scheme.
31:49
Get it out of there. I don't want to see it and if I
31:52
gave up his only gave up two sacks on that and there was
31:56
about to other quarterback hurries where Braxton's running
31:59
for his life because of that damn scheme.
32:04
I mean, this this isn't the season well-oiled machine of an
32:07
offensive line that we were last year.
32:09
The right hand side of that offensive line is still a very
32:13
much, a work in progress. Keep it simple, keep it simple.
32:18
I got one more thing, I'm going to throw a quote up down on
32:21
Twitter last night for our buddy, being a garage.
32:23
Someone we chat with off and on and it was this if the head ball
32:27
coach really wants this job, he has to make the hard choices he
32:31
does, and it's either take the plague.
32:33
Call in to use away from it, which we spoke of, or you have
32:36
to let him go. The head coach can take over the
32:39
play calling, and show the passion to stay or he goes down
32:42
with the ship. So to me if Justin Fuente really
32:45
wants this job that, presser tomorrow morning, we're better
32:49
here. Changes.
32:51
Here's my thing, right? I don't think we're going to
32:52
hear a change. I just don't And with that it to
32:57
me, if you're somebody in the media, you would be like, why
33:01
not, you're averaging this year. What do we averaging 2024 game?
33:10
So many things right? 24-game, 2005 is 42, no 2121 on
33:17
the number. We play North Carolina who gave
33:22
up over almost 42. UVA, we played Middle Tennessee,
33:26
who has a G5 team and we gave up a team that's given up 32
33:30
Maryland who couldn't barely get 20 on Illinois's Friday night.
33:36
There's a problem steering and then they threw the ball, all of
33:39
all over the field and couldn't get any points.
33:41
And, you know, our problem is we just we can't manufacture we've
33:46
become so dinking, dunk. Like we can't manufacture big
33:49
plays anymore in this offense, you know, we missed the Home Run
33:54
threat that was too little Herbert last year.
33:57
And without the without those big plays and without the
34:00
ability to really drive the football down the field,
34:02
consistently, you know, We look very, very much, an average
34:08
offense to a below-average offense.
34:11
And I'm, you know, you referenced Beamer auto garage
34:14
there. I'm going to go ahead and
34:17
reference the quote that Andy, bitter, put out there on Twitter
34:22
saying it was a weird game because we had really no
34:24
business winning the game. But we also have no business
34:27
losing the game. It was it was a conundrum there,
34:31
right? Yeah.
34:32
We had no business, it being closed at the end and then It
34:36
was closed at the end and how close we came on, multiple
34:39
occasions to get in the ball in the end zone and coming up with
34:43
bubkes. Yep.
34:44
How do you lose that? And I'm going to say something
34:47
about Braxton Burmeister here. And this I'm not this is not a
34:49
knock, this is just stating the facts here.
34:52
Okay? So right now the abilities of
34:56
Braxton Burmeister especially in the passing game and driving the
34:59
football down the field, it's limiting the offense, but at the
35:02
same time, the skills that Braxton Burmeister brings to the
35:05
table with his ability to escape and generate yards when
35:10
nothing's there. Yeah.
35:12
Is also the reason that the offense has had success what?
35:14
So we're in a conundrum where he's generating offense that
35:18
isn't there but he's also not taking advantage of the
35:21
potential offense that is there. Yeah.
35:24
And that's positive because how many, how many college teams
35:29
would kill for a guy that can keep plays alive with their
35:32
feet? And if needed if needed Scramble
35:37
for 5 to 25 yards at a time, I would say about half the teams
35:43
in the country would kill for that and we have it but we don't
35:47
have the offensive staff to you know bring it out.
35:53
Yep. Why not spread it out?
35:56
John, come on. You want to as long as we have,
36:00
you know, corn. Yeah.
36:02
Instead of spreading it out, you run him to half the field.
36:05
You Oh, he's down any potential running lanes for Braxton and
36:09
also any passing lanes for Braxton?
36:10
So yeah, genius. Absolutely genius, genius.
36:14
You know, a couple things did come out of for wishon, you
36:18
know, Bryce and continue showing scrambling ability, Blackshear,
36:23
and Holston showing the versatility especially in the
36:28
second half. Yeah, big big run by blacks year
36:32
to get the touchdown. Great job by Holston, getting
36:35
the catch on. That dump making a guy Miss
36:39
running through a couple Windows to get into the end zone,
36:42
because if you two went down in the five, we would be talking
36:45
about four drives and not three. We do our own things really.
36:49
The other piece Caleb Smith yesterday, 70-plus yards
36:53
receiving and it was one of those things in that as you're
36:57
watching us, like, okay, where are these routes just in the
37:01
normal. In the normal offense, they
37:05
weren't, why do we, why do we have to be incomplete catch-up
37:09
mode for this to come out? Like he looked like a decent,
37:12
stick mover, which is what we all thought he was going to be
37:15
what we need last year when he was getting some snaps in the
37:19
early part of the season last year.
37:20
Like okay, well he's going to come in, he's going to be the
37:22
stick mover, you know, he's got good hands, good body and he's
37:28
out there and he ended up you know he had a he had a good
37:30
game. Assistant when targeted brings
37:33
the ball in when targeted. But we for some reason in the
37:38
passing game we just don't get the ball to our Playmakers
37:41
consistently. Well, the Central Asian Games.
37:45
The sad part is this, he is a perfect complement to what Trey
37:49
and taken do be an explosive getting in space.
37:52
Big play guys. He's the got right.
37:55
Yeah right one of them on Jet Sweep screens.
37:58
Having them go downfield. He's that perfect midpoint where
38:02
okay, its third and fourth, you know, listen Alphabet, exact
38:10
watches, not Target in the rest of the year.
38:12
Listen, write that down into being Final on for Caleb Smith
38:18
over under reception take the under but it's that whole piece
38:21
of if you have those guys trying to do explosive, things getting
38:25
down field and you third and four will.
38:27
Okay. He's your bail out, right?
38:30
But still don't be afraid to run those other guys over the top on
38:34
deeper plays because if nothing else you're going to make His
38:36
job easier. But you know, I think we're
38:40
regressing about that sort of stuff Prime.
38:42
That's okay. But let me let's wrap up a
38:43
little bit here on the offense. I think we've kind of talked
38:46
about a little bit but the big thing is that, you know, Zero
38:49
Energy out. The gate felt really
38:52
inconsistent with the play calls were in executing.
38:54
Well, situationally we were also well situation.
38:59
The whole situation was always like that.
39:01
Very rarely situationally. Do we absolutely Kill it.
39:07
Yes, usually below average to severely below average on this.
39:11
It's either scary season or like, oh, that was not what we
39:15
wanted. Exactly, so yeah.
39:19
All right guys. Before we do take a look at the
39:22
defensive side of the ball, we are going to take a quick pause
39:26
and have a message from our digital Partners.
39:28
Alright folks we're back here. We're going to move over to the
39:31
defensive side of the ball. We kind of wanted to out the
39:34
gate focus on off. Offense, because we feel like
39:36
that was where, where things really?
39:39
That's where we lost the game. That's where the game was
39:41
decided defense. Yeah, kind of a tale of two
39:44
halves. We had a pretty pretty rough.
39:48
Go of it to start out with especially the the opening play
39:52
for the West Virginia Mountaineers offense.
39:55
Well 75 yard touchdown run from Lady Browne someone we
39:58
mentioned. Yeah good back.
40:01
We mentioned his name 1,000-yard rusher last year Brian and that
40:05
play. You got a bronze, got the note
40:07
here, they schemed acts out of position and it was easily and
40:12
the first thing I saw on Twitter and it was hilarious.
40:15
Brian was back sucks and I'm text you, I'm like wasn't backs
40:20
doing his job because if he stays where he is, they're going
40:23
to flip that to the tight end and that tight ends going to
40:26
have a huge scene to run up. So it was one of those He's
40:31
doing his responsibilities responsibilities if he comes
40:34
across go with him. So a couple things here you know
40:42
it looks like there was a little miscommunication between I think
40:45
it was taped a daily and index there as far as who was going to
40:49
pick up the tight end as he flexed out in motion.
40:53
The bigger problem to me is that at the point of attack, Tisdale
40:58
got blocked and And not see your people as well as a little bit
41:02
early in kind of getting into a fit and then unfortunately he
41:08
was where lady wasn't big hole Dax tried to come back across
41:15
the formation a little bit late there.
41:17
Got his hands on him but that was about all he could do.
41:20
Yeah, Off to the Races and touchdown.
41:23
A after what we had done on offense with the huge screen and
41:27
then basically nothing after that.
41:30
That and that crowd was electric.
41:34
Oh yeah. But they punched Us in the mouth
41:36
there and they went from 10 to 11 real quick.
41:41
Heck. Yeah.
41:42
And again, on that play it, it was a great design by them in a
41:47
little miscommunication by us and wrong Gap fit, it is what it
41:52
is. So you, you brush yourself off,
41:56
we did not see any other runs like that the rest of the day.
42:00
But Levi, Brown continued to get us in multiple ways.
42:04
I think the guy was about 180 All Purpose, which is pretty
42:07
crazy. And we talked about, you talked
42:09
about his past catching ability and that was on display along
42:12
with his speed. So, you know, and as you know,
42:15
he had to be at a big damn game. Yeah, huge game, huge game and I
42:19
mean, I know, I know half the rushing yards came on that one
42:21
play, but I mean, he was still consistent the rest of the night
42:24
as well. The rest of the afternoon I
42:26
should say, as well. And I mean, Really.
42:30
I mean, great game by him. We had we did a pretty good job
42:33
of slowing him down in the second half, but the first half
42:36
he kind of owned us. Yes he did.
42:38
Alright, then their next drive after we go three and out where
42:41
we looked blase on offense like literally.
42:44
I think the you texted me vanilla ice cream run.
42:50
You're like my little we doing here like we're down they just
42:53
hit us in the mouth think of something they come back.
42:56
It looked exactly like one of those early series against
42:59
Middle Tennessee. State last week that we called
43:01
vanilla is hell and it was round 2 of that vanilla against the
43:05
team with the vision, a lot more Division, 1 players, and
43:08
whatever you want to thank of West Virginia.
43:10
And what they do, they did have one of the best defenses in the
43:13
Big 12 last year with some really good players now.
43:16
No, you know, you can't come out vanilla, all right?
43:21
But back to the defense, so we Pont, they start moving the
43:25
ball, they get about the Midfield and they take a shot.
43:30
Yeah. And it was a little stutter move
43:33
Armani bid on it. We're in man.
43:35
Right there were not enough own a big.
43:39
It was cover one. We had my fear people's deep.
43:42
Everybody else is manned up Armani bit, a little bit on the
43:47
on the stutter actually had really good recovery.
43:50
He was still in position to make the play.
43:51
There was a little bit of push off by the receiver, but Armani
43:55
did not turn around to make a play on the ball.
43:58
Probably why they let that go. Go.
44:00
I mean that was a good catch by the, by the West Virginia, wide
44:03
receiver there and they got a touchdown there up 14.
44:06
Nothing and we look like we can't do shit and they are just
44:10
fucking moving the ball up and down the field on us.
44:13
They're absolutely rolling. You know, right there and the
44:17
one thing out and I put on here, are we really in, man?
44:23
This is an Airaid concept. It's a power are a concept.
44:26
Y'all saw how they ran the ball? The air raid was created by how
44:31
mommy in the 1990s to offset when you don't have the most
44:36
talented receivers and you're playing better defensive backs.
44:39
It is a concept to take advantage of that, because if
44:43
you have really good Corners, you can consistently be in man
44:48
coverage. It takes advantage.
44:51
We saw J Hamm starting to go to the Zone scheme.
44:54
We're in really the last few years of buds 10-year allows me
44:59
Concepts. If we go back to ECU, Brian when
45:02
Lincoln was there he would eat Us Alive and but good cover
45:06
zero. Eat Us Alive 0.1 he would it
45:09
would be rough for me too rough afternoon into us to come out
45:13
and man against it. It was almost like this thing of
45:16
if they're going to hit you they're going to probably try to
45:19
hit your early. I'm one of these force them to
45:24
drive, especially after what we saw both in North Carolina and
45:28
Middle Tennessee State. They have some drives, but since
45:32
we're primarily sitting in different Zone schemes on
45:34
coverages, they get about to the 30.
45:37
And then when the shots couldn't be taken, they couldn't go
45:41
anywhere. Because essentially the field
45:44
got smaller, the guys who are running the back angle, okay, we
45:47
don't need to send 15 or 20 yards off.
45:50
We can say you know we are we don't need to be 25 or 30 yards.
45:53
All we could say in 10 to 15 because they don't have as much
45:56
room behind us. Yeah.
45:58
And we didn't know what we had worked so well and I didn't get
46:01
it. Yeah, it was kind of a flip of
46:03
what we saw last week in the first half, where we were
46:06
stubbornly sticking to playing off and all this stuff.
46:10
And then in this week, we were kind of stubbornly by sticking
46:14
to a man late here as well. So, we finally got back to a
46:18
little more Zone against them as the game progressed.
46:22
You know, we had talked about some of the knife Concepts that
46:25
they like to run to the twins side and they took advantage of
46:30
that. Some are really in the game, got
46:31
us into Micmac mismatches. You know, then we had the the
46:36
drive that got them up to 21. When that when they took the
46:40
when he got the third touchdown, that was some of the worst.
46:43
Act laying, I've seen this season, is that?
46:46
So the worst acting I've seen this team, dude.
46:48
I mean, that, that, that was reserved for 2018 and 2020, but
46:54
it was some, it was some pretty bad tackling on that drive.
46:57
We had Condor try to go for a Kill Shot, then they ended up
47:00
getting the first down. Then later, Connor was matched
47:04
up in the slot. They threw that little quick
47:07
hitch and he came in out of control.
47:10
Missed the tackle ends up skewed in.
47:13
The touch down there. So we had a couple other
47:15
interior plays where I think Dax miss one tackle.
47:18
I think Tisdale missed a tackle. Yeah we miss.
47:22
So just a bad drive for tackling overall and we got to clean that
47:25
up because we had done pretty good job of tackling and
47:27
bringing guys down, you know, once we've got in position
47:31
through the first two weeks, it was disappointing to see a
47:34
little bit of backslide there even though we did clean a lot
47:37
of that up in the second half. Yeah, and it was super
47:39
noticeable. My buddy, Mike from work,
47:41
actually hit me up and he's like Did we bring back 2018?
47:45
Tackling drills because it was so significantly noticeable.
47:49
The first two games, how we weren't missing tackles.
47:51
It was forms. It was and it's one of those
47:54
things that's like you want guys to be jacked, right?
47:57
But you don't want guys to be doing dumb, things that can
47:59
potentially help the other team, and that's what happened on that
48:04
drive especially. And, and some people can say,
48:06
well, you know, well, the first two drives.
48:08
Well, the first two drives, they hit us with bombs.
48:11
Yep, there was no chance to tackle.
48:13
These drives, we start changing things up, put us in good
48:17
positions to make tackles but stop them.
48:19
And we just with it's like they reverted like, okay, we need to
48:22
hit these guys hard. They're beating us like no.
48:25
We need to hit these guys and get them down because they're
48:28
beating us. It means they get more points.
48:30
It's going to become tougher that will limit the bleeding.
48:33
I think that's the big thing we were in the point now where if
48:35
we can stop the bleeding, we might have something, and then
48:38
you get that touchdown, they get the field goal.
48:41
I mean, It was a very demoralizing, first half, but on
48:46
both sides of the football and the fact that it was as close as
48:49
it was, you know, really is a testament to some of the second
48:54
quarter adjustments that Justin Hamilton made and then obviously
48:58
when we go into the second half, I mean that was a completely
49:01
different looking defense. I mean, I know they get a Bend,
49:03
don't break drive to open things off and then they really lock
49:07
shit down. After that, it's true, the
49:09
problem. What do we what do we just?
49:10
What did I just say when we were going in?
49:12
When You said it, we eat started getting back in the zone Concept
49:16
in that early Drive. They got down to the 27, the
49:19
Deep shots weren't there. Yep, use it for a stop.
49:22
They stop the hit a 44-yard field and that's all the scoring
49:24
they did in the second half. That's all the scoring they did
49:27
in the second half. I mean, because I'm a native
49:31
time of possession in the second half.
49:33
We dominated time of possession. In the second.
49:35
We wanted for the whole game we want to believe it was
49:38
completely dominant in the second half, but the whole piece
49:41
is like you have This you have this defense in place that will
49:45
stop this type of offense and it took you a whole crap, give
49:49
again, give Hamilton credit to say.
49:51
We got to go back to this to have any shot and it worked.
49:57
And you know, we look on here and defense continued to step up
50:02
making stops making their Drive short, not getting them, big
50:05
plays and then you know, you have the sack fumble by the
50:10
Garment is that we already hit on a little bit.
50:12
So one. Garvin has played great and for
50:17
one week, I was looking at a Mari bar, know, as being the
50:19
star of that defensive line, but really through three games, it's
50:23
been Taiwan garbett. Well, borrow had a flight was an
50:25
over yesterday nothing on the stats.
50:27
When we saw him out there getting attention, maybe that's
50:31
where he is right now. He's an attention getter, which
50:34
is good for the other guys to Feast on the line.
50:36
It's helping Taiwan garbage. Get those one-on-ones and he's
50:40
taking advantage of it. He's had three really good game
50:42
so far. Our he had a good game against
50:45
UNC just, you know, borrow had a better game overall, but garbage
50:50
has been steady player playing at a high level 33.
50:54
Great, three games. I really like what I'm seeing
50:56
from him and, you know, hopefully we get Barney back on
50:59
the stat sheet as we keep going along here.
51:02
But overall, I'm happy with the defensive play, you know, you
51:08
need Jolly the one, don't say the play The Adjustment because
51:13
The play in, the first point was atrocious, The Adjustment, and
51:16
those guys buying in and still playing their butts off.
51:20
I mean playing their butts off to give us a chance at the end
51:24
to win. Should not be looked down upon.
51:28
Yeah. Absolutely.
51:30
And and they really went out there.
51:32
Make plays. And while we're talking about
51:34
making plays the Waller interception went from our
51:39
chances were, very slim to our chances are pretty good.
51:45
Obviously, we did make the most of them, but our chances went
51:48
from slim to very good of getting the ball into a ranger.
51:51
We could put it in the end zone. Yeah, I mean in that play, he
51:55
sniffed it, he where he was, is he sniffed that play out?
52:00
um, the way Waller has played through three games outside in
52:04
inside, he is slowly making himself a little more money
52:11
every week. He's making a case for at least,
52:16
two days, probably day one in the draft.
52:20
And and that's that's a credit to him for getting healthy and
52:25
working hard and coming back in and just play in his style of
52:29
game. He's been aggressive when he
52:31
needs to be. He's been tightened coverage
52:33
when he needs to be, he's really been doing, do Doing everything
52:37
that you can ask of him. He's been playing in the slot
52:39
against some of the, the more athletic slot receivers of West,
52:43
Virginia and North Carolina and doing a good job and doing a
52:48
very good job. Yes.
52:49
I mean because nowadays A Nickelback in the NFL are guys
52:54
who are getting paid somewhere between like seven and ten
52:56
million where, you know, years ago, the Nickelback was the
53:00
lowest man on the totem pole, right?
53:02
Like yeah, you're like third string, you're like two seconds.
53:06
Guy that can play. Okay well they go throughout we
53:09
were matched up with like the Aaron more heads of the world
53:11
in. Yeah, the the early 2000s now
53:14
you're matching up with probably at least the second best
53:17
receiver on the team. If not the best, very true man,
53:20
very other times. I mean, the slot has really come
53:23
a long went from kind of that, you know, extra wrinkle to an
53:28
impact position. Very much like the tight end
53:31
has. So the guys that work inside,
53:34
the, the numbers and inside the hash is Are really the some of
53:38
the better athletes on the field now and the fact that Waller can
53:41
slide in and just lock up at both, those positions is really
53:44
impressive and is going to make him some money exactly.
53:48
But overall defensive an average day I'm not a borderline F first
53:56
half a borderline a second half and in you know what where it
54:05
frustrates you Is you see a guy who is in his second year?
54:10
Coordinating a side of the ball. Make adjustments that quickly.
54:15
That's where it frustrates you because the other guy has been a
54:20
offensive coordinator entitled. Close to nine ten years now and
54:24
he doesn't any and yet we're going back where we were 20
54:29
minutes ago y'all. But it has to be done because
54:32
hurt, we're circling back because the big problem.
54:36
The big consistent problem with the games like this.
54:40
Are we lose to an opponent that on paper?
54:43
We should at least match up against and we come out and lay
54:47
eggs against it, goes back to the coordinator.
54:51
I mean we can't keep saying well execution will excuse.
54:54
You have it at some point. The coach is responsible for
54:58
some of this, right? Well, the coaches told you that
55:00
he's a coach, didn't get them prepared, where they were
55:02
comfortable to execute in the game or they're delivering them.
55:06
Play calls that aren't good in the situation that They're
55:10
facing well that's the best of point right there.
55:13
They're getting a play called that even if they execute it
55:16
perfectly. The results are going to be
55:20
minimal. Don't know, it's almost more.
55:24
They're giving him a play called where they have to.
55:26
They have to execute perfectly in order for it to be a success
55:31
and that should not be. Why are we putting our players
55:34
in like, zero margin for error situations?
55:37
Well, you've talked about that when you played that your head
55:41
coach lasso, see his goals, it seemed like every time when he
55:45
called a play was the goal of the play is even if a few people
55:49
mess up. We're Going to have a positive
55:52
outcome. Something's going to be there.
55:55
Yeah and it seems like for us is if a few people mess up it is
56:03
usually I'm not going to see catastrophic although sometimes
56:07
you know, the Trey Turner to me was catastrophic when we were at
56:09
the three, we went back to the sticks which you know,
56:12
completely changed the game, the play calls.
56:16
So it's always it's always a setback.
56:20
The plays that have to be executed where every single
56:23
person has to execute perfectly, or it's not going to be a good
56:26
play continued setbacks, and when you go continued setbacks,
56:31
what happens? This place you get smaller.
56:33
Well, we can't from the six. We only can do this this and
56:36
this. So, you know, again, I hope
56:40
tomorrow, I'm sure me. And you Brian, while we're at
56:43
work, we're going to probably if they stream it.
56:47
Please stream it, please stream the press conference tomorrow
56:51
because I don't have time in my day.
56:54
We are, we have, we have Real World jobs.
57:00
We have families. We like to spend time with.
57:03
We do we eat dinner. Kids have homework.
57:07
Other kids. We had activities, please stream
57:10
it. So not at 3:00 as we're rushing
57:13
to get off work and do things we're trying to find it to to
57:17
put it on triple speed so we can hear everything is possible
57:21
straight line. Let's have a meeting tomorrow.
57:24
I have a meeting tomorrow. I don't care.
57:26
I don't think we were true mid and our picks this week.
57:33
There we go. 55, you can either take us or you can flip a coin
57:38
ladies and gentlemen, you're right Ron 1616 on the air 15:17,
57:43
we whiffed on UCF. Louisville.
57:45
That was a heck of a game, the pieces out all that a night.
57:51
Manny Diaz is officially on the hot.
57:53
Seat. Yeah, if they lose to Michigan
57:56
State by like three, Okay. They guess I'll let Big Ten
58:01
team, you know? Yeah.
58:04
You can't go out there and get shellacked by Michigan State.
58:06
Hammered? What is it 3817?
58:09
Yeah, he create. Can't put that one out there.
58:13
So do you is not back to you as you know, there, believe it or
58:17
not. I'll say I was wrong about this
58:20
tea. I thought they were going to be.
58:22
I thought they were going to take a step.
58:23
I thought they were going to be right there with with UNC and us
58:28
to, you know, when the coalition I wanted to run, they played
58:31
three out of conference game. Think it is true that they still
58:34
have a chance to win the coastal, but they are not a team
58:37
that is going to press Clemson at all.
58:39
And even though let's talk about Clemson laying a dud against
58:43
Georgia Tech but still come away with the win Come Away with the
58:45
but I think those delays screwed that up.
58:47
I mean I mean what time does that game in its start at 3:30
58:51
at end of what like nine. Yeah I mean it was it was it was
58:55
ridiculous. No it really gave Georgia Tech.
59:00
Any any and all chances that they possibly had to pull a
59:04
miracle. I still don't know what Georgia
59:07
Tech. What would Georgia Tech is?
59:10
No, we're still the most confounding team in the history
59:14
of college football. Brian you might take them off
59:18
the board right next week. I mean, yeah.
59:21
Like we're not, we're not picking Georgia Tech.
59:23
I refuse to find some like, no. I'm gonna, I'm gonna find some
59:26
random bronze going to look at a D3 game ticket before he picks
59:30
enjoy. If you say Georgia Tech, I say
59:32
pass for on the other hand is indie game, the FSU weight gain.
59:40
I mean, FSU I had somebody send me a message or they might win
59:45
three games this year. Um, hold on, let me get a kiss
59:48
my cousin down in South Carolina.
59:50
If you're listening tonight, he sent me.
59:54
A where is it here? So their own 3 first time since
59:59
76 Bobby's first year there, and they might not win two games,
1:00:05
because I Louisville next week. Louisville after looking at
1:00:11
competent, the first two weeks, looked more confident.
1:00:14
They look like they can beat FSU, Yep, it looks it's
1:00:19
literally Syracuse and UMass. Like the way UNC looked last
1:00:23
night. I think they're going to lay the
1:00:25
hammer on them Clemson's. Going to lay the hammer.
1:00:28
I think NC State's defense can stop them.
1:00:31
Yeah, well maybe they maybe they beat Miami or beast like it's
1:00:36
it's one of those things though that it's kind of sad because
1:00:42
college football's y'all can throw something and you can hate
1:00:46
me all you want. When Miami and Fs you were good
1:00:50
college. Football's better the third a
1:00:52
brass key in there too. When they're good programs
1:00:55
college football is a better sport in general and mean, hey,
1:01:02
they lost about 21 and I know wakes of pretty solid team this
1:01:06
year, but the athletes and shouldn't lose by 21.
1:01:09
They just shouldn't. What else Brion here.
1:01:13
The battle of the smart teams Bryan won that one.
1:01:17
I Big dude, guys. Can someone explain to you to
1:01:21
me? Duke is now your Georgia Tech as
1:01:30
true, man. Um, a Brian, yep, Temple got
1:01:34
slaughtered. We cannot look about that.
1:01:38
I was wrong on that one. But you said outright, what if
1:01:40
you want to just take us. As I said that was my potential
1:01:42
upset of the week. I didn't say out, right?
1:01:44
When I said that was a potential upset, you said upset, you now I
1:01:50
won't say this three of the bigger ranked games week He
1:01:53
crushed that. So and we agreed, all what we
1:01:57
agreed on two of the three Auburn Penn State Penn State
1:02:02
wins by 8. You know, if not, I'm still
1:02:09
trying to figure out or when they have some good running
1:02:10
backs and it's bone X doing dumb stuff.
1:02:14
The Florida Bama game. Can we go back real quick to
1:02:17
Auburn? Okay, the fade.
1:02:21
Okay. I must have missed that last
1:02:22
night. It was the the fourth down call
1:02:27
and they call a fade. So oh, why didn't we run one?
1:02:33
No, I'm not saying that I'm saying, okay, well that's a
1:02:36
decent third down call, but it's a 4th Down call and you give
1:02:40
your quarterback. Exactly one read.
1:02:43
Well, can I say something? I would have rather given us,
1:02:47
the faith in the Sprint, out on fourth down.
1:02:49
I'll agree with that because I'll note a and Trey can go make
1:02:54
that play. And I know BBQ throws a pretty
1:02:57
good fade. I know we at least be, it'll at
1:02:58
least be there where they have a potential to make a play
1:03:01
exactly. Um, the Florida Bama game.
1:03:04
I missed the first half but to see the way Florida fought back
1:03:08
in the swamp with electric. I mean Emma is a flawed team.
1:03:15
I don't. I don't think anybody out west
1:03:19
can catch him. I just I don't think so.
1:03:22
My ask me they think Pittman's for real.
1:03:24
We'll learn about Arkansas. I think.
1:03:27
When they play em, although am freshman quarterbacks done
1:03:30
pretty much until November but I feel like Bama can be gotten.
1:03:37
And Florida had the right ideas and just put them a quarter and
1:03:42
a half and welcome to adjust can get there.
1:03:45
Yep, they were a little there, a little Lower than they needed to
1:03:48
be adjusting. They didn't have a great initial
1:03:51
game plan. Yeah.
1:03:53
But everything, they did in game.
1:03:55
Took away. What Alabama likes to do, and
1:03:57
that's what you have to do. Very true.
1:04:00
And then the late-night, probably the one if we would
1:04:02
recorded last night, would have been watching BYU Zona BYU wins
1:04:07
again, bad day for the Pac-12, they're ranked team to of,
1:04:12
they're ranked teams lost. I feel like if they had another
1:04:16
FCS lost, To so not great there. But hey, we're average this
1:04:22
week. Continue to come here.
1:04:24
If anybody wants to take one of our parlays, go for it.
1:04:29
Anything breaking Brian, anybody gotten fired anything.
1:04:34
Yeah, you hope like wishful thinking, wishful thinking.
1:04:37
No, no, we haven't. We haven't seen the, the old
1:04:41
kick in the boot to brag, or Nelson yet.
1:04:44
So unfortunately, he is still, our offensive coordinator at
1:04:47
Until tomorrow. Well, but unfortunately probably
1:04:51
longer than that, probably longer than that.
1:04:55
Probably until this regime is done.
1:04:58
And if history is telling us anything then yeah he's going to
1:05:06
be riding it out until until he's done.
1:05:09
Because this is what I'll say for Justin Fuente doing this is
1:05:16
going to make him a less desirable candidate at his next
1:05:19
job because I think there's going to be a if they're in
1:05:23
there. Go look at and they're going to
1:05:25
ask you Brian Justin when parts of your team.
1:05:28
Team are failing continuously. What are you going to do?
1:05:31
And what's he going to say Brian?
1:05:33
What can he say? When they say, why don't you
1:05:35
fire that guy? I tell him to try harder, use
1:05:39
grit, stick-to-itiveness and try harder.
1:05:44
I'm a Survivor now. What do what he needs to do?
1:05:46
Is, do what Brian Kelly did at Notre-Dame?
1:05:48
And fire half his staff and bring in new guys, that can
1:05:53
improve in to get the job done. Somewhere else.
1:05:55
And keep the train moving. Yeah, he had three times to do
1:06:01
that. He had to do it at.
1:06:02
He had a chance to do it after 18 after 19.
1:06:04
And after 20, he didn't Dip, he didn't and that's on him.
1:06:09
That's why I'm saying, I'm almost past the corn stage, it's
1:06:13
all its corns fault because he's got a boss and his boss is
1:06:17
essentially letting him do what he wants.
1:06:19
That is what it is. Are we getting offensive
1:06:22
consultant in there again? No, because they'll be a fight
1:06:26
again. I want to fight fight was good
1:06:31
to fight. Didn't get us Round Up, heckuva,
1:06:34
heckuva, heckuva string of all winds and stuff.
1:06:36
They're all right. Y'all.
1:06:39
I think we're going to be wrapping this up because we got
1:06:42
work tomorrow in an eight, you know, Wednesday night is Monday.
1:06:47
It's not Thursday or Friday morning and Friday.
1:06:49
Exactly. So that's going to wrap up this
1:06:52
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