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Signing Day Redux · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Blacksburg Virginia. Don't we go to noisy stadiums
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  all around the country. I'm not sure.
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  We have ever been in a scene where bands are any more pumped
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  than they are right here. Tonight waiting right now.
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  For the Hokies to take the field, they are jumping.
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  They are screaming and it's been this way for the last 30
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  minutes, Frank Beamer weights in the tunnel.
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  This is the date that they have pinpointed on the can calendar
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  for a very, very long time. welcome back to the boundary
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  Corner podcast with with my partner.
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  Brian Sigler, I'm Curtis Wilson and Brian.
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  That was the voice of the legendary Ron Franklin, who
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  passed a couple weeks ago and I thought it was not more than a
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  fitting tribute to play the 2003 entrance to the Miami game
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  because man we can say it, right?
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  If you're of our age, if Ron Franklin was calling your game
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  on ESPN, it was a big. In deal, you do, that was a big
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  day, a matchup that weekend. The call was always spot on it
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  just it was so smooth. It set the picture.
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  He got everybody in the mood for a great game and as he said
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  there's no place like doing it in Lane man.
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  It wasn't, he had that one and then the 05 when he called that
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  game as well. That night it was two verses
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  eight. When he came back in 2005, it
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  was three verses 5. So, for a generation if again,
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  when Ron Franklin called your game on Saturdays, like, it's
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  big, it means there's a lot of eyes on the country and, you
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  know, he passed away 79 years old.
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  And, you know, it's one of those things that, as our age, like
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  things like this are going by, you know, Keith Jackson passed a
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  few years ago. And when Keith past it's like
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  it's part of your childhood and your adolescents, like, you're
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  losing it. And it sucks in a way.
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  But when you hear that call, it's just like, I mean, I got
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  goosebumps. Yeah.
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  You know, we were what 20 10, 19, 20 years old when I was I
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  was 19. He were 20.
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  Yeah I was 20. Wow.
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  So rest in peace Ron Franklin. Buddy, we have a lot to uncover
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  tonight. Yeah.
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  Yeah. A lot of stuff happened.
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  The last couple weeks, you know, we obviously are going to touch
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  on a little bit of this national Signing.
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  Day wasn't a busy day per se for the Hokies, but we were able to
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  close out kind of what we expected.
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  Got a couple last-minute additions and you know, we'll
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  talk about that schedule release and how its whilst overall a
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  little little light. We got a little bit of a
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  gauntlet in there. So we're going to talk about a
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  few things tonight here. A little bit of everything but
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  the first thing I want to hit on tonight.
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  Brian is We've been following it and most fokine ocean whose on
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  social media. Then following it.
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  What this coaching staff has done on the trail in the last
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  few weeks is just absolutely phenomenal.
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  Shout out, David coming him over at text sideline, hook me up
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  with this document, it and keeping track of.
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  In these last few weeks, this staff is went to 101 schools of
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  the 101. 70 have been in Virginia.
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  Which impressed said it. Yep.
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  We're going to saturate the state.
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  Yep, we did. And you know, he said it during
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  your in the repressor as well. You know, not just talking about
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  hitting schools where we got prospects, either closing out
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  422 or targeting and 23. But getting those relationships
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  back in schools that don't necessarily have a prospect that
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  are on our radar right now. Just so that those relationships
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  are in Place. You know with the time comes
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  around because it always does. Right?
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  I mean even some of the smaller schools in the state they're
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  going to have a guy pop here there that that's going to be on
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  the division one radar, right? I mean even Charlotte County
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  next to us is had a couple. We've had a couple in Halifax.
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  I mean, not a way, you know, even, you know Lynchburg little
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  bigger but you know, places like that.
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  Yeah. And think of some of the
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  mountain. Pools.
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  And I mean, they literally as we look through this list, they hit
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  everywhere. I mean, they hit down in the
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  Deep, South Western part. They hit South Side, they went
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  to EC glass, somebody, you know, our high school played against
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  and you played against. They were out here in the West
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  End, hitting up, Deep Run in Hermitage on the East End,
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  hitting up style and springs. No doubt we were going there.
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  All sorts of places down in the 75 from the beach, all the way
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  up the peninsula. Northern it sounds.
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  Crazy and it did seem like more than just a handshake and a, how
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  you do them if they think they were in there, you know, problem
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  mentioned today, he was at one of the smaller schools in
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  southwest and when he, when they knew he was coming, there were
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  like 14 teachers who were like, hockey fans or Alum waiting for.
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  I mean. It's a way it just when words
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  are one thing actions are another.
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  Yeah, we received it play out in real time, right?
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  We're seeing and not just shaking the hands of the coaches
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  or talking to the, you know, one or two prospects, that are there
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  for that school but going by and seeing the teachers that are,
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  you know, either hokey alums or a hokie fans that have reached
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  out as the days gone along. I mean, you saw several photos
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  with with, with teachers and with Yeah, I've been with with,
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  you know, even like PE teachers and stuff.
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  I mean, there's stuff all over the place guys, that aren't
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  necessarily directly involved in the recruiting.
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  But had they have an impact, right?
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  They they are, they are ambassadors for the tech brand
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  all the time because that, that's, you know, that's their
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  school. Or that's, who they like, that's
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  who they pull for. So, getting in good with them
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  and showing that they're part of the process.
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  I mean, that's big, that's only Gonna bode.
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  Well, the future it, absolutely. It's a great to see that.
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  Also great to see right now. Hey, basketball going up 11
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  points as we started the show. I think it was a two-point game
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  and I was like, why can't we just squash lesser competitors?
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  Like, they heard it and they have went on a massive run to go
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  up 11 here with about four minutes left in the first half
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  will be watching that and we'll talk a little Hoops later on.
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  It's always good to smash Pastor because Yes, he just had to get
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  people that he's got a punchable face, man, so punching and
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  everything. So let's set up this tonight,
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  guys. We already kind of mentioned it.
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  Big part of not what we talked about today, was the final
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  Signing Day, original Signing Day.
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  The class is kind of a bow on it.
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  Her you say, maybe if you will walk ons and things like that
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  trickle-down, but scholarship, guys are locked in and Brian.
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  We've been talking about this class being a better class.
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  Even with the turnover and I think again it goes to credit of
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  this staff. End in 24/7 ranked 33, fifth in
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  the ACC. What do you think about that
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  before we jump into some of these players?
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  I think they did a good job of holding on to what was there and
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  kind of making a few. A few good moves towards the end
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  to kind of fill out the roster and make sure that we're a
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  little bit better set up going into the 2023 class.
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  And I think they did a good job with that.
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  You know we lost a couple big names towards the end there.
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  Yeah but we replace those with, you know, a couple, a couple big
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  names as well and you know, did a good job of kind of rounding
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  out the edges with some of the last-minute additions between,
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  you know the couple flips we had towards the end of of the cycle
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  in the early Signing Day and then getting a big one from down
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  in Florida to kind of close out this round of signing day.
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  So I think overall the staff did a good job.
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  I'm looking to see, you know, some improvement heading into
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  2023. Absolutely.
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  Or at least not giving any ground.
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  Considering the late start in the 2023 2024 is where I'm
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  looking for the big big movement in terms of upswing.
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  In the, in the recruiting pool, where we're, you know, With with
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  the top 20. Yep, you know, Brent prosthetic
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  today during this presser about, basically, this class you start
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  relationships in ninth grade, they're coming in having to
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  start relationships roughly halfway through these kids 11th
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  grade year for the class of 2020 3 in the class of 2020.
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  To was. Well, it was just, this is who
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  we are. This is what we're trying to do.
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  I will say this, I think you're right about next year.
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  I want to see no worse than 33. I'd like to see a marginal gain.
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  I'd like to break, I'd like To see 29-28 be sweet to see mid
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  20s but I think that is I think it's fair and it's and he is
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  painting a picture and setting the standard of like don't
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  expect us to go from 33 to 13 and one year because that's not
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  how recruiting works and it's great to see that for Brian.
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  Let's talk about these three guys that were that signed
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  today. And let's start with this guy
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  first Daquan, right. I mean we got him way back.
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  When when did he commit? We see here.
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  Middle back summer of last year, right?
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  Yeah, I think it was early June. Yep, late June late, last year,
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  64 230 down from Perry, Georgia, he went from like a mid 80s, mid
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  three-star guy to a four-star guy and I mean you know, he
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  would be higher if Rivals had him as a tight end and not a
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  wide receiver. Yeah, rawal sort of screws his
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  composite up but 24/7 who count on what get more breaks him as a
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  90. So, you know, probably mention a
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  few Quick things about him. The first thing it kinda was
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  interesting and I don't think it's shocking.
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  I think, Brian you've been looking at tape.
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  We're going to be a tight end worry in a team process, said
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  that. And he talks about, you know,
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  they qualms athleticism to the position to 30, you know, and
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  he's just another piece of being that tight end oriented team.
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  Yeah. And I mean the thing with him is
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  that he is that that versatile player, so you can put him in
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  line, you can put him in a wing, you can put him in the aah, you
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  can put him out. I mean, he's the guy that can
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  really do it all for you and create mismatches across the
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  offense, wherever he's lining up.
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  So that's really the big thing for him.
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  He's got really good hands. Good ball skills.
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  He did pretty much everything down there at Perry between
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  playing a little bit of quarterback wide receiver tight
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  in on defense. I mean, he's really done it all
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  and that his versatility is as big as asset.
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  It and he's really shined pretty much everywhere.
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  He's lined up, exactly. Alright, so again, tight end,
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  Rune, that be three tight ends. Now with him Harrison, St,
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  Germain and Benji Gosnell. Now, brown flip over talk about
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  the big guy, next Xavier, Chaplin signs a letter intent,
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  even after getting a male offer from Michigan, offers from
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  Louisville. He holds with the Hokies, he
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  hadn't canceled a couple Ovi Store.
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  Other schools. So we might have gotten lucky
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  but 66, he's ran about 330 pounds.
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  Now as Brent probably talked about, he had lost about 30
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  pounds since you know, when he was offered and he camped here
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  and you know, he talked about this is a guy they wanted to
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  keep in the boat right away. Rudolph when visited him, right?
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  When the Dead period ended and he mentioned Elite size, As dip.
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  I think that is categorically corrective how big?
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  Yeah, yeah. 66 3:30. At the at the time he came here,
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  six 6355. So, 66-34 330 is a big man.
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  That's a, that's a big man. And that's that type of size
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  that they're coming in and we're essentially, Get him in the
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  weight room, smooth out the edges, get him in the on the
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  field and get him some reps. Yep.
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  No. There's no, there's not a whole
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  lot of seasoning that he needs in terms of of the weight room.
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  So in that in the weight room, might not be a problem because
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  the one thing that really impressed trial was how there
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  wasn't sloppiness. He, uh, thinks he's athletic.
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  I mean, you see him on the video, she posed.
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  Duncan I'm You have atletic quick, he moves.
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  Well, for that size. Let me ask this when you saw
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  him. Do that dunk.
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  Did you think about any like run blocks?
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  The amount of explosion in his legs like getting a hold of a
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  defensive end and just like probably, I mean, an ollie.
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  Oh yeah, I mean this guy's gonna, I mean, we've seen it on
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  tape. He's got really good for him,
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  run blocking he, he's got good drive, uses explosive male, has
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  a good punch. So, I think, you know, like I
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  said, Rudolph's going to get in there and smooth out some of
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  those edges. But I think this is a guy that
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  could potentially see some time for us pretty quick.
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  Not not sure if it'll be your one but Health in.
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  We are at tackle, look for you two to get him on the field
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  hopefully well and I think with his size, I think you could see
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  year one. I mean, you talk about pump,
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  protection field goal, protection teams.
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  I mean yeah, I mean, you got to weigh that against the you want
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  to burn a wrench. I mean, that's essentially if
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  you can, if you can find a way, not to sure.
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  But if he's your, if he's your best.
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  Number two, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta ride
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  it. Exactly.
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  All right. Well then, there was one brine
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  that kind of came out of nowhere and Prosthetics they doing
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  presser. They try to keep this very
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  quiet. They try to keep it on the down
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  low and literally yesterday everything started flowing
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  through and he committed signed today and that is Devon Alvis 3
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  star out of Melbourne, Florida. 62 180 looks like he's going to
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  probably play the safety position seeing you know,
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  Derrick Jones talked about him being the cheetah and then
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  Pearson Prelude putting some stuff out there.
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  They might be battling for him to play corner or to play it on.
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  Did you get a chance? I know it's been really quick.
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  Did you get a chance to look at anything?
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  I mean, he plays m7a, which is just a monstrous division down
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  in Florida. I haven't looked at a ton of
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  tape. I did kind of quickly glanced at
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  him. I know Provost talking about
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  looking at either boundary corner or potentially free
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  safety for him. So, yeah, I like him either
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  either spot based on the tape that I've seen so far.
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  Got a pretty good build already. I liked it.
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  We're going with a little bit longer Corner 62s, probably a
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  little taller than we're used to, but I like that a little
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  more size and he keeps the athleticism.
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  ISM, despite the extra height there.
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  So I'm looking forward to getting this guy on campus and
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  see what he can do. Yep.
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  And you know, process that he wants to get into about 205
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  being at what he is. Right now, that's a year to
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  gain, probably to get there physically.
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  But again, it's one of those, there's not a lot of Diamonds in
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  the Rough because it's called still ranked among the top
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  thousand players in somehow. You know, no other P1 offers,
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  you know, had I think Virginia state of Virginia Union offer on
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  a few other ones, so pretty wild a kid like that slips through
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  and again I think for the back end at gives us another DB to
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  work with. All right let's talk about real
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  Braun, quick to prefer Walk-Ons in.
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  I don't know a lot about them just names and seeing who they
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  are. But I think it kind of reaches
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  to the point going back to what This is all about being on the
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  trail problem about George balance out of cocks down in
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  Virginia Beach, and Latrell Sutton out of Highland Springs
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  belongs dad's plate here. You know, back in the 1980s,
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  Brother played baseball here at Tech. 61 linebacker luttrell's,
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  and outside, linebacker 61 195. This is how you make inroads.
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  You w player. They both had offers to other
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  schools and Especially sudden I mean we talked about the
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  importance of you know we've had two back-to-back years of taking
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  a preferred walk-on from Highland Springs.
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  True back-to-back years, got a preferred walk-on from Highland
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  Springs absolutely got Purnell as part of this class in terms
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  of scholarship athletes. So getting those inroads is
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  still big and it's going to matter long-term and Again
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  getting a guy like Latrell sudden.
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  I think he's you know, I don't know if he's a guy that can
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  eventually earn a scholarship but I think you know guys that
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  have played there in Holland Springs, they know how to ball.
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  Yes, they do. So if they can get some other
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  things cleaned up in their game that could potentially be an
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  offer there, but you know, worst case that's going to be somebody
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  that can give us a good look. You know, we can week out.
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  Yeah. And again it just keeps building
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  the inroads and recruiting into vital recruiting areas.
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  Our future and in and again, it's also awesome to see George
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  dad played here. You know, guy gets a chance to
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  follow in Dad's footsteps which is always a cool thing just like
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  a lot of the brother's stuff. So awesome to see that I'm sure.
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  We'll have a few more preferred walk-on before the end of the
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  week. Probably, for the next time we
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  meet. All right, Brian.
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  So what we decided to do is you know, we will always went
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  through these players when a lot You know Brown would break them
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  down real quick and sometimes that would take a long time.
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  So as we are getting into season 3 here of the boundary Corner
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  podcast, we're getting smarter not work, it's hard but still
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  making things. Interesting.
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  So we're smarter not harder right smarter not harder.
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  And so the kind of the way we looked at this class and we're
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  going to talk about every player, but we kind of put it
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  into three categories in Players that we like in each category
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  and we kind of broke them down. This we talked about and we
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  mentioned this before, we have a crown jewels of this class.
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  We were kind of the upper echelon for whatever reason we
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  call them one a blue-collar grounder guys, Brian Fields on
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  tape. They just go in there.
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  They do their jobs. Going to have a chance to make
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  it and then the under-the-radar, guys.
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  So Brian. Let's start it.
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  Let's start with the crown jewels and there's four of them.
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  Gunner, Givens start with him. The highest rated player in this
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  Virginia Tech, recruiting class Gunnar of top 200 player.
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  Top 25 at the defensive end position, you know, for Star
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  basically in the, you know, mid-90s low to mid 90s.
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  He is the crown jewel of this class, would you not agree?
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  Yeah, he's definitely there. I put him in.
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  Probably cam Johnson 1A 1B Gunner gets the the slight nod
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  there with the with the slightly higher rating.
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  And, you know, just the pedigree that everyone was looking at
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  that kind of the one of the big dogs in the state.
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  So, and I like it. I mean, you know, it looks like
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  he's going to be be on the defensive line for us.
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  He was kind of That tweener spot as his recruitment went along.
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  There. Is he going to be an interior
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  offensive line? Is he going to be potentially a
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  tight end? Is it going to be defensive
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  linemen settled on defensive line?
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  I think that's probably the best place for him.
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  He's shown good athleticism on both sides of the ball.
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  So I like him there. So they don't make a lot of 65
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  to 70 coming, straight out of high school.
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  Now, that's that's one of those things of like, if given Comes
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  in. I think he's enrolled already
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  and it starts clicking on the defensive line.
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  He's going to have potential to have a role year one, just
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  because of body size. Now you already mentioned the
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  second Crown, Jewel, cam Johnson, you know, top 300
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  player. You know in probably one of the
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  bigger reasons he's up here is where he plays, he plays at st.
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  Francis Academy at is an elite private school for free.
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  Ball. Six, foot, 165 pounds, already
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  enrolled love. Seeing that, how big is it to
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  get that in road to st. Francis with KM, it's huge man.
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  It's huge getting in with schools like st.
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  Francis and I mean, we can just we can run down the list of the
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  screen there. Yeah.
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  We could run through the schools there that we would like to get
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  better relationships with but Saint Francis is definitely up
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  there. You know, with the big boys in
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  that area. And you know, I like this guy's
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  take, you know, he's probably a little bit.
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  I wouldn't say raw but definitely a little little
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  little rough around the edges in some areas of his game but I
• 23:56
  think out the gate I mean he's got great athleticism and good
• 23:59
  technique overall. I think you'll make an impact.
• 24:02
  I don't know about your one but he's a, he's definitely a guy
• 24:04
  that you need to look out for your to as some of the older
• 24:09
  quarterbacks on this roster start kind of cycling out after
• 24:12
  2022. It's all so new here.
• 24:15
  So again, cam Johnson, another one of the crown jewels Use of
• 24:19
  this class. All right, we kind of started
• 24:21
  arguing about the next to but we finally settled.
• 24:24
  We had a debate, we did. But the next crown jewels looked
• 24:28
  at was Benji guys. Know the, you know, the 65 240,
• 24:34
  tight end played in Hillsville, this year, originally from North
• 24:38
  Carolina, he is in the North Carolina rankings, you know,
• 24:41
  four-star guy, you know, top 20 at his position.
• 24:47
  You know, top 350 and a country in he was originally committed
• 24:51
  to Ohio State decommitted. Whatever reason, I'd have to go
• 24:56
  back and read those stories, but there was a late surge by North
• 24:59
  Carolina. Try to get him in their boat, in
• 25:01
  crying them. Essentially closed the deal on
• 25:04
  it and we know how important North Carolina can be for
• 25:09
  recruiting. Yep, that's why he's here.
• 25:13
  Yeah, that's the big thing. So, I mean, when we talk about
• 25:16
  Benji, guys, do you know, regardless of the, the physical
• 25:19
  traits, he brings good size, 65 240, going to stealing a From
• 25:25
  North Carolina's backyard. After they've eaten our lunch
• 25:29
  for three straight Cycles is pretty pretty fucking good.
• 25:33
  And I like that we were able to make those moves and get that
• 25:37
  deal closed, especially with the coaching change and then pry
• 25:40
  being able to come in there and finish things off.
• 25:43
  Yep. So again, big big, you know,
• 25:48
  land getting the footing back in North Carolina, stealing a good
• 25:51
  player from down there. Big time the The fourth one.
• 25:56
  He's been there for a while for us and I don't think it should
• 26:00
  come as and eat it might come as a shock to some people.
• 26:03
  We consider him a crown jewel, but I feel like we feel like
• 26:07
  Richard Purnell is a crown jewel coming out of Highland Springs.
• 26:12
  We're still wondering what people are rating him on.
• 26:15
  I mean, you know, winner on you love this tape to playing at
• 26:21
  three technique. You feel like he also could slip
• 26:23
  out the big end. And something playing, something
• 26:25
  like a 56 technique. And it's getting that Holland
• 26:30
  Springs. One of their Elite guys yeah
• 26:35
  getting that guy to commit stay committed be one of the if you
• 26:40
  didn't notice were shot out there recruiting every day
• 26:44
  trying to get kids to come on and he's a crown jewel of this
• 26:48
  class. Yeah, in my opinion, he is, I
• 26:51
  mean, we look at it and, you know, I'm going to give the most
• 26:53
  Credence here to his 2247 ranking and 89 which is, you
• 26:58
  know, borderline four-star, composite is kind of that that
• 27:03
  high three item id, three kind of bullshit.
• 27:08
  In my opinion, I think he probably probably should be
• 27:11
  literally a high three or borderline for in most rankings.
• 27:16
  He's not quite there in a couple that, that brought him down
• 27:18
  there, probably because some of them have him as kind of a
• 27:23
  tweener on the d-line. That that might be what I think
• 27:27
  that but watching the tape, it speaks for itself coming from a
• 27:31
  program like Holland spring speaks for itself.
• 27:34
  So yeah, definitely a crown jewel in our book.
• 27:37
  Exactly. So there are the four crown
• 27:39
  jewels Gunner Givens cam Benji and Rashad the crown jewels of
• 27:46
  the 2022. Hokies recruiting class.
• 27:51
  Now, next Braun, we're going to look at the blue collared.
• 27:54
  Rounders guys tape. Taped it, you love more than the
• 27:59
  others because I know I know one of them.
• 28:03
  One of them I was on immediately.
• 28:06
  You sort of got me suede into the other two and let's start
• 28:11
  with it. We've already got his brother
• 28:12
  Kayden here Braylon more and Brian just like big brother.
• 28:19
  While he a blue-collar ground and did a bunch of nasty and
• 28:21
  him, he had a bunch of nasty and I'd say he's probably got a
• 28:26
  little bit more potential upside than his brother but probably
• 28:32
  isn't going to be able to out the gate play as quickly, so
• 28:36
  we'll see about that. But really nasty.
• 28:41
  Really good in the Run blocking game, just like his brother.
• 28:43
  Hopefully we'll see him really soon.
• 28:46
  Get on the field and get some chances to show what he can.
• 28:49
  I do, but I like what we're doing overall with this with the
• 28:54
  interior offensive line in this class, we're going to speak
• 28:58
  about the next guy here in a couple minutes.
• 29:00
  But yeah Braylon more is going to be somebody to keep an eye on
• 29:04
  because he's going to go in there.
• 29:05
  And again, that nasty guys always get end up playing
• 29:09
  somewhere somewhere somehow. I have a feeling to just because
• 29:14
  of defensive line, I know, we're kind of okay at d-tackle.
• 29:18
  His sighs. I mean, he could be right there,
• 29:21
  you know, battling for that soon.
• 29:24
  So, again, there might be internal fighting between JC,
• 29:27
  frison, Rudolph soon? Yes, 63 to 90.
• 29:30
  So, he's kind of got that, he's a saint.
• 29:33
  Yeah, he's kind of, right, well, you want to play.
• 29:35
  You don't play me guard, you want to play him, it d-tackle.
• 29:40
  I guess it's going to pinned on, if knowing him knowing and
• 29:44
  seeing his game, he's going to probably with that, whatever
• 29:47
  spots going to get him on the field, the fastest, that's where
• 29:50
  he's going to end up. He's already enrolled to so they
• 29:53
  will get to see him in Spring, which I think better helps to
• 29:56
  get that evaluation when side of the ball.
• 29:58
  He's going to be on. Yeah, you can get that
• 30:00
  evaluation pretty quick and that way gets get things settled
• 30:04
  before you really get into what will probably be a redshirt year
• 30:07
  for him, his freshman year, so Way he's working with his
• 30:12
  position group that he's going to be with long term because you
• 30:15
  got to get a good evaluation on him, you know.
• 30:18
  Really before that redshirt freshman year so that's going to
• 30:21
  be important. I think that'll that'll put him
• 30:23
  fast track on his on his route to you at least the too deep.
• 30:28
  Yep. Alright, next Guy, Brian, kind
• 30:30
  of already gave it away. Although we've got a few
• 30:32
  offensive. Lineman Brian loved.
• 30:35
  Johnny, Dixon out of Corpus Christi Texas, the 75 cents.
• 30:40
  Of transferred to Texas. Who's coming back to Virginia, a
• 30:44
  true Center, correct? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure we're
• 30:49
  Center. Yeah, I think that's probably
• 30:51
  why he's on the blue-collar ground because he is a true
• 30:54
  Center where, you know, those guys have got to be rough.
• 30:59
  Tough and also smart, as hell, Johnny, not enrolled, yet will
• 31:05
  slowly start figuring out when these guys will enroll, well,
• 31:09
  whether it will be First summer session.
• 31:11
  Second summer session will be getting here in August, but why
• 31:15
  did you you steer me really hard towards Johnny.
• 31:18
  Why why Johnny he's got a nasty trade but again, he's a guy that
• 31:24
  uses his intelligence, his ability to get in the right
• 31:29
  place and make the play to his Advantage.
• 31:33
  Just looking at the tape, it looks like a guy that could
• 31:36
  especially how thin we are at the position after the 2022.
• 31:40
  To, I think he could be a guy that's going to slip into the
• 31:44
  starting role or at least a 2d parole by his second year on
• 31:49
  campus. Also note here, that and again,
• 31:54
  it was awesome to hold onto him after the old staff left.
• 31:58
  Yeah. And he talked about what he when
• 32:01
  he committed back in April Point 21.
• 32:03
  He talked about, you know, He was he was a Virginia kid, his
• 32:08
  army kid though, or a military kid, and they got moved out
• 32:11
  there. And it's almost like this kid,
• 32:14
  was always a Virginia kid. It didn't matter who the staff
• 32:17
  because I think he might have came here.
• 32:18
  Whoever it was. Yeah he was looking to try to
• 32:21
  get back on this on the east coast probably particularly in
• 32:25
  Virginia from Jump Street. You know, this wasn't a Texas to
• 32:30
  BT situation. This was a I'm trying to play a
• 32:34
  beat irregardless situation. Baa 2, TX 2 VT.
• 32:38
  There we go. And include again, kudos to the
• 32:42
  staff. The current staff were closing
• 32:44
  the deal on the, on the handoff there because you know, things
• 32:47
  can still go sideways, you know, in those situations.
• 32:52
  So the fact they were able to stay on him and and close it out
• 32:54
  was good because he had quite a few good offers.
• 32:57
  So it was one of those to stay on and make, you know, make sure
• 33:00
  you close the deal. Alright, final guy here,
• 33:02
  speaking of VA in the 15 Kyrie moist in the 64 220 pound,
• 33:09
  defensive end out of King's Fork down in Suffolk.
• 33:14
  In this is one you pushed even more on me than Johnny but why
• 33:21
  do you see is him in that grinder, type role with moist
• 33:24
  and so he's got a motor and he's going to need it because he's
• 33:28
  probably going to play play that smaller end opposite of Gunner
• 33:32
  opposite. You know, Pernell if he ends up
• 33:34
  sliding outside He's got quick as he he often pass rush with
• 33:40
  his hand in the dirt and standing up.
• 33:42
  So he's kind of got a little bit of Versatility there.
• 33:45
  When it, when it comes to pass rushing, really good at getting
• 33:50
  flattened fast, chasing running backs out of the backfield.
• 33:54
  So you got a lot of tackles for loss where he tracked down a
• 33:58
  running back from behind behind the line of scrimmage.
• 34:01
  So I like his game overall. Again it's going to be a little
• 34:05
  bit of getting Ting, getting some weight on him and seeing
• 34:08
  how he can handle that. But, you know, out the gate, I
• 34:12
  like his his ability. Excellent.
• 34:15
  So again, our blue-collar grinders for whatever reasons,
• 34:17
  the streaks of nastiness Motors intelligent play bread and more.
• 34:23
  Johnny Dixon Kyrie moist in there.
• 34:25
  All right, Ron three guys, we are putting it under the radar
• 34:29
  and we've already talked about one of these guys.
• 34:32
  It was Daquan right. He was again a mid three-star.
• 34:37
  Just five months ago and now four star.
• 34:41
  We've talked about his athleticism, his versatility
• 34:43
  being able to probably line up anywhere as a tight end.
• 34:47
  And even though now he's a four-star we put him here
• 34:50
  because he wasn't he committed, it was just like well this is a
• 34:54
  good player and he's all for. This is still somewhat somewhat
• 34:58
  pedestrian, right? Somewhat very pedestrian.
• 35:01
  So you know, definitely under the radar In you know, it
• 35:06
  seemingly some of that extra tape with 24/7 made them go.
• 35:10
  Whoa, this is, this is a little different with this kid.
• 35:14
  Yeah. I'm, I was sitting here from day
• 35:17
  one. When I watch this guy's take.
• 35:18
  How is he not a four-star? How you do that?
• 35:24
  You did. It was mind-boggling how this
• 35:26
  kid was not a four-star and, I mean, you know, 24/7 is updated
• 35:30
  their their ranking for him, you know?
• 35:34
  We looked at it when we were putting this, some of the notes
• 35:36
  together for this episode. Well, yesterday or day before?
• 35:40
  Yeah, Rivals having him as a wide receiver is what's bringing
• 35:44
  down his, his composite rating on on 24/7 and on on three, if
• 35:49
  y'all have it checked out on three, some of the, the folks
• 35:53
  that started 24/7, have another recruiting site.
• 35:56
  Now, they've got ranking similar to 24/7.
• 36:01
  They go a little bit deeper industry standard.
• 36:04
  Great because if you look at industry standards, shout out at
• 36:07
  three industry standard. You're like when Brian was I'm
• 36:11
  sure you went on three. It's like who's bringing him
• 36:13
  down freaking Rivals? Hasn't like a 5.5 like a load.
• 36:18
  Not a myth 3 star. They have him as a low
• 36:21
  three-star. Even what ESPN has him.
• 36:25
  He was either a 79 or 80. Yeah, it was like a, it was a it
• 36:29
  was a high three very high three-star.
• 36:31
  So on three you kind of Of see a composite of a girl over there.
• 36:36
  You figure out who's bringing him down.
• 36:38
  Alright, next Guy Brian under the radar price.
• 36:43
  Do you? Yeah.
• 36:45
  Bryce Duke one of our many scholarship running backs.
• 36:50
  One of our many scholarship. Hey Willie a couple this class.
• 36:55
  Yeah yeah we we trimmed it down significantly.
• 36:58
  Compared to was it 2020 and 2021 aliens but Bryce.
• 37:04
  Do you got a Tuscarora up in Leesburg 5 1196 pounds running
• 37:08
  back and re-enroll, which is great.
• 37:12
  We were up at Tuscarora visit again because obviously, they
• 37:15
  they're not one of those. It's every 10 years.
• 37:18
  Tuscaroras putting out solid players every day, you use it,
• 37:22
  not every year, but why is he under the radar?
• 37:26
  He won the Metro player of the year, he had some ungodly
• 37:30
  numbers. In.
• 37:32
  I was told the brown I'm like we got to put in here because it's
• 37:36
  where he plays and who he plays those scores, not in the biggest
• 37:39
  division, the or Northern Virginia.
• 37:41
  So they're not playing allow the powers.
• 37:45
  If Bryce jute, put up those numbers somewhere here in
• 37:48
  Richmond or down in the 75. He wouldn't be a, he's like an
• 37:54
  85 composite, he'd be a 95 composite.
• 37:57
  Yeah, it breaks to played in Chesterfield.
• 38:00
  Virginia Beach. Every every D1 school would be
• 38:05
  coming after him. Chris time.
• 38:06
  Rumors, he put up. Yeah, Chris time but he doesn't.
• 38:12
  So last year we are now What we don't know is does, his does
• 38:19
  that Talent scale up yet? Yep.
• 38:21
  We haven't seen what that Talent looks like against higher level
• 38:24
  competition and we want, it'll be enough years.
• 38:28
  Yeah. It's going to it's going to be
• 38:29
  at least a little bit but I think I mean you can't turn your
• 38:34
  nose up at that production. Know it's hard to ignore that
• 38:39
  and running back is a position that you don't necessarily the
• 38:45
  jump in. Doesn't necessarily negate the
• 38:48
  ability, right? Yeah.
• 38:50
  Because Usually the thing that is that you see more with with
• 38:56
  the running back position, is that with other positions?
• 39:01
  I should say not the running back position.
• 39:02
  Other positions level of talent, you're usually talking about a
• 39:05
  lot lot. Bigger players, yep.
• 39:08
  But that matters more in the trenches that matters more when
• 39:11
  you're a linebacker as a running back.
• 39:14
  I mean as long as you can take the hits I mean the level of
• 39:17
  competition is only going to impact you so much.
• 39:21
  Only so much now I will counter this if you're playing what a or
• 39:26
  to a yeah and now that really has been interested in
• 39:31
  something. Look at what tusks or is I
• 39:33
  thought they were 38. We're efforting this and I might
• 39:40
  be completely wrong, but I swore Tuscarora High Schools 3A.
• 39:46
  I don't think they're too are. I don't think they can be to A1A
• 39:49
  being up in Northern Virginia and that's impossible.
• 39:54
  I hope he's by the way, up, 14 points, early, keep it rolling
• 39:59
  early 17, they're really putting the hammer down which is great
• 40:03
  to see. Obviously it has been more than
• 40:05
  a couple times this year having good leads and letting them
• 40:08
  dwindle away. And I feeling that tonight, that
• 40:13
  just missed a big dump for Georgia Tech where is Tuscarora,
• 40:18
  Brian, efforting efforting Georgia Tech cannot literally by
• 40:31
  shot right now. Ten-foot jump shot rooms out to
• 40:36
  get the rebound way up there. Short, we hit a three and now
• 40:42
  we're up 17. There we go.
• 40:44
  That's what we like to hear. That's what we like being in
• 40:47
  their division for early so therefore they're not the five
• 40:52
  or six. Therefore so they're playing
• 40:53
  some decent schools. So again it's not one or two, a
• 40:58
  or don't but don't Don't crap on one day or two a guys like Jeff
• 41:02
  King. No Justin Hamilton and other
• 41:05
  players have came from those small schools.
• 41:07
  All right Brian. Let's hit the last one up.
• 41:10
  The under-the-radar guy still trying to figure out his raid in
• 41:13
  here. From the RBA Thomas, Dale,
• 41:17
  Malachi moss and 63. 310 pound guy, guys.
• 41:21
  Got interest from pet interest from pitt, had interest in
• 41:24
  Colorado, Iowa State, Minnesota, Mississippi, State, NC State,
• 41:29
  Penn State West Virginia, UCF. You see ya?
• 41:33
  So good programs had super interested in.
• 41:38
  He's right at the mid-30s. I can't figure this out.
• 41:43
  He plays for a good. Team he plays in a good League,
• 41:46
  he chose production, he has size.
• 41:50
  He also doesn't scale as a scholarship which is awesome.
• 41:53
  If y'all read that story, some military stuff with his family,
• 41:59
  he's going to be on the team and he is not going to count as a
• 42:01
  scholarship, which is awesome for the team.
• 42:04
  But, you know also that, you know what kind of background he
• 42:06
  comes from. Yeah, I mean, this is the legit
• 42:09
  division one player that doesn't count against the scholarship.
• 42:11
  This isn't, you know, a chair, a charity.
• 42:14
  Even this this is this is us getting a guy that I think can
• 42:18
  do a good amount of damage and not counting against the
• 42:21
  scholarship number. So that's huge and, you know, we
• 42:26
  talked he's under the radar, you know, he's right there in that
• 42:29
  mid three range but I mean looking at looking at his
• 42:31
  tapie's Look at the build 633 10.
• 42:37
  I mean, he's going to be you interior.
• 42:40
  He's on the Indie tackle. This is a big need position for
• 42:44
  us and I think just foundational wise he's coming in at a size
• 42:48
  where like I said it's more of a you know you buff out the edges
• 42:52
  and I think he's going to be ready to do some damage inside
• 42:54
  there. Yeah and one of the tougher
• 42:57
  things to again it's where like the recruiting stuff Kind of
• 43:03
  screws up is. Any player that size is a mid
• 43:08
  three. You know is it's just really
• 43:12
  tough. Sorry having to do something
• 43:14
  here. Folks.
• 43:16
  It's just really tough to figure out how this guy flies under the
• 43:19
  radar. I would understand if we look at
• 43:21
  his offer list and we were his biggest.
• 43:23
  All right, let's see, have the CF and he had some coastal's and
• 43:28
  other places like that. But the school's I mentioned are
• 43:31
  legit Big Ten, Big 12 and you know, s Using spoons.
• 43:37
  He's got all of the Big G five schools on the east coast and
• 43:42
  then a good handful of power five schools, some of them with
• 43:48
  you know histories of putting out some really damn good
• 43:51
  defensive lineman like pit and like NC State in the other thing
• 43:54
  is where you place Thomas Dale, he's playing teams like bird.
• 43:57
  We know the product bird can put out in the toeic has put in
• 44:00
  players out, he playing Hopewell, where Henderson went
• 44:03
  Petersburg Dinwiddie That's a good schedule, that's a good
• 44:08
  schedule, that he played against, so blows my mind why
• 44:11
  he's one of the under the radar guys.
• 44:13
  So again folks the three under the radar guys.
• 44:17
  They Quan right. Bryce Duke, Malachi my Madison.
• 44:22
  So and like I said, we could have put Daquan right in there
• 44:26
  with the crown jewels if it wasn't for the fact that he was
• 44:29
  legitimately under the radar June.
• 44:33
  So the class in general again 33rd we feel, we feel good about
• 44:38
  it because there are some players in that, had some good
• 44:40
  tape and with this change in regime We feel like the probably
• 44:47
  going to be able to use them better and More in touch.
• 44:52
  Yeah. And you know, I think we kind of
• 44:56
  were expecting A big loss in the class as being a side effect of
• 45:03
  moving on which we needed to do and it you know, banerji players
• 45:07
  aside. You know, I think we came out
• 45:11
  about as good as we could have. Expected was a bump in the road
• 45:14
  and it's yet how easy to think. When Justin Fuente essentially
• 45:18
  stepped down, we were 26 27, we only drop about five to six
• 45:23
  spots which is only does not happen.
• 45:26
  All right, Brian. Real quick.
• 45:28
  I want to just hit you on this and then ask you a quick
• 45:30
  question. The recruiting makeup
• 45:32
  scholarship wise of this class? I mean, including Malachi
• 45:34
  Madison just because he's that type of player offensive ly, one
• 45:38
  quarterback. One running back two wide outs,
• 45:42
  three defensive ends. Six offensive, lineman
• 45:45
  defensively, six defensive lineman's one linebacker and
• 45:49
  three defensive backs. What it if this is you, if
• 45:55
  you're the director of player Personnel, recruiting whatever,
• 45:59
  how would your typical year look?
• 46:01
  Like, how would you want it balanced out?
• 46:04
  Because to me, this year is a hell of a lot better than what.
• 46:09
  We've done the last couple of years.
• 46:11
  It's a lot better because you always want to be like every
• 46:14
  year you want At least a handful offensive lineman at least a
• 46:19
  handful of defensive lineman, I think, defensive lineman and all
• 46:24
  of its alignment. We probably went a little
• 46:26
  heavier than we would in a typical year just because we
• 46:29
  have such a deficiency on both sides of the ball at those
• 46:32
  positions right now. And you always D bodies because
• 46:37
  you got five on the offensive line, you got to start, you got
• 46:39
  four on the defensive line, you got to start and defensive line,
• 46:42
  you're probably rotating a full eight, guys.
• 46:46
  To get it right? Yeah.
• 46:48
  To get even so. So so you're talking about eight
• 46:51
  positions that you're going to have to have game day.
• 46:53
  Ready on both sides of the ball? Yep.
• 46:56
  So you're saying probably offensive defensive line four to
• 47:00
  five a year regardless. Just we're taking eight to ten.
• 47:03
  We could go 11. We could go 12 exactly what
• 47:07
  about defensive back because that's when we went three I felt
• 47:10
  like we could go one or two more.
• 47:12
  Although I put zaevion Bradshaw at wide receiver he could Be
• 47:16
  over on the defensive backs that he does have that skill set,
• 47:19
  same with defensive back for 25 or do you could you go lower
• 47:23
  because of I think you can go, I think he can go for just because
• 47:27
  there is some position fluidity with some positions that we
• 47:32
  have. Now, you know, there's some guys
• 47:36
  you recruit as a safety that might end up at Sam.
• 47:38
  There's some guys that you recruited saying that might end
• 47:41
  up at safety. So there's some position
• 47:43
  fluidity there that could have some overlap But I think like
• 47:47
  4324 in a given year, maybe at the top end 5, but for would
• 47:52
  probably be the nice little middle middle ground there for
• 47:56
  DBS. And, you know, some of that's
• 47:59
  just going to depend on how the cycle is going through.
• 48:01
  Whether you're still heavy at corner, whether you're still
• 48:03
  having a safety and what that makeup looks like because
• 48:07
  safety. Obviously there's a little more
• 48:09
  position fluidity that there would be at somebody that's a
• 48:11
  true Corner. Yeah like km and like DJ last
• 48:15
  year Yep. And then the the rest, the
• 48:18
  linebacking groups, the tight ends wide receivers running
• 48:20
  backs. Quarterbacks, I'm one of those,
• 48:23
  I think we should take a quarterback every year.
• 48:26
  You don't know who's going to hit.
• 48:27
  You don't know who, you know, who's going to click.
• 48:30
  When they get to College the running back room.
• 48:33
  The way we add done it, just completely messed it up.
• 48:36
  I don't think we can take one of year.
• 48:38
  I think that's a two or three position a year because
• 48:40
  sometimes you have those guys come in and it does take them a
• 48:44
  while to get going, some guys can Take a look this year, it
• 48:49
  would happen. Give it a few games started
• 48:52
  rolling. You should have six to eight
• 48:56
  scholarship running backs at any given time.
• 48:58
  Not six to eight in one cycle. We had at one point.
• 49:04
  What 12? Or 13?
• 49:06
  Scholarship running backs on the roster?
• 49:08
  Yeah kind of insane can't do you know I feel like wide receiver
• 49:13
  linebackers depending on your Or offensive system incited.
• 49:17
  The peony offensive systems that's going to fluctuate you
• 49:21
  could probably get by with when we're here in front private
• 49:24
  generally say tight end dominant offense I don't think we're
• 49:29
  going back to the 1970s and run you know some sort of 78 million
• 49:35
  line just pound the ball but I think what they're looking to do
• 49:38
  is you're probably going to have minimum two tight ends on the
• 49:42
  field at a time 12 Personnel unless we are in Some sort of
• 49:46
  hurry up come from behind mode, but then, but then you take a
• 49:50
  look at guys like Daquan, right? And even a guy like, Drake or
• 49:55
  James Mitchell, we're even you can stay in 12 Personnel, right?
• 50:00
  You can say it well, personnel and still run your entire
• 50:03
  Playbook. They're playing The Joker.
• 50:05
  So, it's one of the interesting things going to 2023 will be
• 50:09
  paying real attention to keep an eye on folks.
• 50:11
  See how our, how their balance in this class out.
• 50:15
  Look at avoids of the next couple years.
• 50:18
  All right, Brian. Oh, by the way, we did take a
• 50:21
  kicker Didn't want to leave him off.
• 50:23
  We have a kicker on scholarship, he better be kicking field goals
• 50:26
  year, one much like Peter Moore did hunting.
• 50:31
  All right. Have you worked out last year?
• 50:32
  Hopefully it works out this year Order review, Brian, no ends no
• 50:36
  out. I guess that's good.
• 50:39
  Guys, this point, that's good. I mean right now we're probably
• 50:42
  going to see a little bit of fluctuation as we get towards
• 50:46
  the end of winter workouts, and will probably see more
• 50:50
  fluctuation. Or the spring Gabriel as we
• 50:54
  approach, the spring game but the fact that we didn't lose
• 50:58
  anybody in the process there, I think bodes well for folks,
• 51:03
  buying in at least in the short term, you know.
• 51:06
  I know some people are going to if they don't see themselves
• 51:09
  jumping up the depth chart like they want.
• 51:10
  That's another story, but at least in terms of what the
• 51:13
  coaches is, is selling right now.
• 51:16
  They're buying it. So I'm good with that now.
• 51:19
  Nobody in nobody out, but Jamari, Connor, and Annie Dear
• 51:22
  Thompson announced they're turning.
• 51:23
  That's good for the back end and I was big and I think I think
• 51:27
  Shamari Connor is going to be Sam.
• 51:29
  I think you doing the same. Now do you think he's going to
• 51:32
  play Sam and nickel or because what we've seen and what?
• 51:37
  Everybody Robbie who were going to be discussing within a couple
• 51:40
  weeks here last couple years? They stayed in base regardless
• 51:45
  like you go, three wide cool. We got a Sam linebacker, I can
• 51:48
  run what I want to run out of here with him.
• 51:52
  And I think it's good for him for Jamari, Connor to play that
• 51:56
  Sam. That's what he's going to play
• 51:59
  in the league. Now, the question is going to
• 52:01
  be, if we do, go to Nickel mr. Mori.
• 52:04
  Leave the field. That's the question.
• 52:08
  Yeah, a big one. And so there's there's two
• 52:12
  schools of thought here because You know, playing Sam.
• 52:16
  He's probably going to get less day-to-day practice at the
• 52:20
  things that he's probably are the deficiencies in his game.
• 52:23
  Yep. So he, that may not be something
• 52:27
  where you can just kind of flip the switch and moving back out
• 52:30
  there again and best, he'll still probably had the same
• 52:34
  liabilities in those situations that he had this year because
• 52:36
  he's not going to be wrapping it as much, even as he was last
• 52:40
  year that said having Having some fluidity there where you
• 52:46
  don't have to go. Nickel a true nickel package
• 52:50
  every time that that definitely helps.
• 52:53
  Well, it helps if you plan hurry UPS, right, very up team just
• 52:57
  like, we don't need to sub out. We're going to go to this next.
• 53:00
  If you have, if you got a team that you know, you get them in a
• 53:03
  third and long and you got a chance to, you know, they're not
• 53:05
  hurrying up so you can get your your true Nickel in there and
• 53:08
  get yourself package in there. That's fine.
• 53:11
  But if they're going hurry up, then you can stick with your
• 53:13
  base and still not. Be vulnerable, even though you
• 53:16
  still, you know, you don't have it as many still have, probably
• 53:20
  more holes than your nickel package has if they're going.
• 53:23
  Hurry up, but you're not bleeding.
• 53:26
  No, you're not at all. All right, Brian.
• 53:29
  Well let's flip it over to this. We're going to talk about more
• 53:32
  staff additions. We are completely away from Mom
• 53:36
  and Pops. Now we're not we're not you know
• 53:38
  Nationwide corporate we're definitely Regional corporate
• 53:41
  now and let's start with this one.
• 53:43
  If you recognize the name sounds familiar especially the last
• 53:47
  name it shouldn't surprise. You Jalen Belen has been hired
• 53:53
  to serve as the Director of own campus.
• 53:55
  Recruiting, why does the violin name sound?
• 53:59
  So familiar ask well, John Berlin was basically Frank's
• 54:03
  chief of Staff. 30 years, basically from the moment, Frank
• 54:08
  walk through the door and tell you he she comes from Wake
• 54:12
  Forest where she was an assistant.
• 54:14
  Essentially she was day, Paulson's chief of staff and
• 54:19
  their on-campus recruiting coordinator.
• 54:21
  So what she's doing here? So obviously has some
• 54:24
  backgrounds had been there for a couple Seasons graduated from
• 54:31
  Georgia, Southern mom. Mom is the chief of staff of the
• 54:35
  men's basketball program that are watching right now who was
• 54:37
  up 20 points. Second ago, love the high run.
• 54:41
  Yeah, I mean, you can say, you know, ties, I mean obviously
• 54:44
  that's that. You can spend that one way or
• 54:47
  the other but you know she's got the Bona fides to the back that
• 54:51
  up and I think it's going to be a good good asset and someone
• 54:56
  that Already kind of has an understanding of the way
• 55:00
  Virginia Tech operates and I think that's important and
• 55:02
  that's that's the big thing that prize.
• 55:04
  Been looking at, as he's built both the on the field staff and
• 55:07
  the off. The field staff is some of that
• 55:09
  familiarity with how Virginia Tech operates the, how to sell
• 55:13
  it. And also understanding the
• 55:15
  limitations and how to make sure that those don't get highlighted
• 55:18
  as well, which is just, as important in the recruiting
• 55:20
  process has anything else as well.
• 55:22
  Exactly, it's that she's basically been a hook your whole
• 55:26
  life with the exception. Option of going to Georgia,
• 55:28
  Southern for undergrad. You know she you know she left
• 55:33
  Blacksburg at 18, she's lived in Blacksburg for 18 years.
• 55:37
  You don't think she doesn't know that place ins and out like you
• 55:39
  said, know what to sell know what not to sell.
• 55:42
  Now she's the director of on-campus recruiting.
• 55:46
  So I think that she's primarily going to be the person when they
• 55:49
  show up for their visits. Now, the director of recruiting
• 55:54
  Kami Nations Kami Nations coming to us from Marshall.
• 55:58
  So, obviously Mike Villa on the ground.
• 56:00
  Anna. All of fingerprints, all over
• 56:03
  this higher. So, what did you do with her
• 56:09
  Thunder hitch? Yeah, she was at.
• 56:11
  She was at Marshall, when they signed their best class ever,
• 56:14
  ever. Ever.
• 56:15
  In bullying me wrong, I think having Charles up there is
• 56:17
  helping them out a lot, but having knowing someone like,
• 56:21
  this saw it be done in a way. It's awesome.
• 56:26
  But, you know, you know it, as at worst, they're not fumbling
• 56:29
  the bag behind the scenes, they're getting everything done.
• 56:32
  That needs to be done. Yeah.
• 56:34
  You know whether they're moving the needle forward.
• 56:36
  They're not, they're not setting the needle back.
• 56:38
  Nope, not at all. Um, she's actually been in
• 56:41
  Collegiate football since 2013 where she started as an
• 56:44
  assistant, a student assistant LSU that is her alma mater.
• 56:49
  So she graduated there in 17, then she went over to
• 56:53
  Mississippi State and served as a recruiting assistant while
• 56:57
  filigrana was the director of recruiting.
• 57:01
  Also some connection there joke, Moorhead was coaching there
• 57:06
  during That timeframe also Chris Marvel's are at that point in
• 57:09
  time as well. So obviously we see some
• 57:11
  interconnections there. Yep.
• 57:13
  In Dom, you know 1920 she was over at Austin Peay You know, I
• 57:21
  feel like this is, you know, solid resume, not blowing your
• 57:29
  things, but I feel like this is a villa Grana Comfort higher,
• 57:32
  from where his position is NOW essential he's worked with her
• 57:36
  and basically, he's saying to himself, she's going to get her
• 57:39
  shit done. I'm not going to have to worry
• 57:41
  about what she's doing that office.
• 57:43
  Yeah, well I think there's two things that stand out to me.
• 57:45
  So number one is obviously the relationship with the look Rana
• 57:48
  and the come Effort level that he has with her doing the roll.
• 57:51
  Number two, you know, we talked about the resume, but the resume
• 57:55
  says to me is that she's seen the inner workings of pretty
• 57:58
  much every level of college football to some degree up to
• 58:02
  this point. Yeah.
• 58:04
  The biggest programs. The bit, one of the biggest
• 58:06
  programs, your run-of-the-mill SEC.
• 58:09
  She's seen high-level G5. She's seen FCS.
• 58:13
  Yep. I mean, she seen how the
• 58:16
  recruiting happens at different levels and brings That
• 58:19
  experience to the table. Yeah, awesome.
• 58:21
  So welcome her aboard. All right, Brian.
• 58:25
  The next guy. when this floated down to us, was about 10 days
• 58:31
  ago, Like we have a pretty big high school head coach.
• 58:38
  He's coaching 275, he's coach down in North Carolina and it
• 58:42
  looks like he's going to be doing something.
• 58:47
  Glenwood Fair be gets announced director of high school
• 58:50
  relations. All right, so first of all,
• 58:53
  you've been in North Carolina, last couple years down Jewish
• 58:58
  Chambers down outside. Charlotte this team is 3085 over
• 59:03
  the last three seasons, they won back-to-back state titles in 19
• 59:07
  and 20 before that. He was Devon Hunters.
• 59:11
  Head coach down in Indian. River, and he coached down at
• 59:18
  Lakeland in the 75. and soften went to Liberty.
• 59:27
  I mean. What more do you want from a
• 59:31
  director of high school relations than that resume?
• 59:35
  See a, what is there to say Glenwood Farabee to me, it
• 59:39
  sounds like a golf name right Linwood.
• 59:42
  Farabee approaches the par-4 9th for his tee shot.
• 59:47
  Yeah, but what I really like about this higher is that it
• 59:51
  speaks further to that point that we've been making is that
• 59:54
  this isn't mom-and-pop anymore. We're approaching this from a
• 59:58
  corporate standpoint. Wait and wait for him to improve
• 1:00:03
  our Outreach to those high schools and improve the
• 1:00:06
  relationships. Also kind of set things up for
• 1:00:09
  the future because having those relationships, please helps us
• 1:00:12
  be strategic when we were just getting out of it, you know,
• 1:00:15
  which are which is really good to hear, because the guy has,
• 1:00:20
  I'm going to be director of high school relations in.
• 1:00:22
  I've been out of it, eight or ten years.
• 1:00:24
  You might have a good feel of what it's going from the
• 1:00:26
  University and what to look at. But maybe not so much.
• 1:00:31
  What's going on inside the high schools now, as you know, kids
• 1:00:35
  evolved. But Brian, let's continue to
• 1:00:37
  flip because the strength conditioning staff has added
• 1:00:41
  quite a few new members as well. And let's start by taking a look
• 1:00:48
  at the first to me. This looks like a basic hiring
• 1:00:52
  of this is my right-hand, man. He knows how I want stuff done,
• 1:00:57
  Greg Allen six years ago. Dodie you.
• 1:01:00
  So obviously, spend some time with the white Galt Also Serve
• 1:01:05
  down at Richmond before that in Marshall.
• 1:01:12
  This just seems like this is the whites right hand man.
• 1:01:17
  Yeah, definitely seems like this is a guy that he has a high
• 1:01:20
  degree of comfort level with that.
• 1:01:22
  He's bringing on. So yeah, I think that's going to
• 1:01:25
  be the guy that he's leaning on most in this staff, probably at
• 1:01:30
  the gay just because of that Comfort level.
• 1:01:33
  Yes, sir. Now, the next man needs no
• 1:01:36
  introduction. In Blacksburg Jarrett Ferguson
• 1:01:40
  returns Ferguson obviously a crucial player in the 99 season
• 1:01:47
  play for the Hokies 98. 201, then came back as the senior
• 1:01:52
  strength and conditioning coach 16 or 2006. 217 again it, you
• 1:02:00
  said it just a few minutes to go with Jalen Belen.
• 1:02:03
  In. You've got to know your culture
• 1:02:06
  and it seems like it every level Brent prize having a culture
• 1:02:10
  higher? Yeah, every level there's a
• 1:02:13
  culture higher. There's a guy that understands
• 1:02:17
  Blacksburg understand what it means to be a hokie understands
• 1:02:21
  the tradition and Jared Ferguson is just, another example of kind
• 1:02:27
  of getting back to the roots but still pushing pushing forward
• 1:02:32
  into kind of a new era as well. So, I think that's really what
• 1:02:37
  the staff is about. Injured person is kind of a
• 1:02:39
  microcosm of that on the strength and conditioning stuff.
• 1:02:43
  Absolutely absolutely. Alright.
• 1:02:45
  KJ forms, I'm still trying to figure out how we stole this guy
• 1:02:51
  KJ Florence last year last few years had served as the
• 1:02:55
  assistant strength and get you coach down at Old Miss.
• 1:02:57
  Yep. You just primarily for running
• 1:02:59
  backs, tight ends, and quarterbacks and specialists.
• 1:03:03
  Obviously, Matt Correll has shaped himself into probably
• 1:03:06
  being a first-round quarterback this year.
• 1:03:11
  You know, maybe it's just getting back home, guys,
• 1:03:14
  originally from Virginia Beach. He had went sometime in Marshall
• 1:03:17
  and 19 digit, some internship down at Georgia.
• 1:03:20
  So he's seen some workings of two, pretty big SEC programs and
• 1:03:25
  now we have him here really like this higher.
• 1:03:29
  Yeah, this is big for us. You know, again, getting back
• 1:03:32
  somebody that meeting with the Virginia Beach area, you know,
• 1:03:37
  went to Old Dominion for undergrad, graduated in 2014, So
• 1:03:41
  this is somebody with deep ties to Virginia that we were able to
• 1:03:45
  kind of bring back into the fold and I think having that pedigree
• 1:03:50
  and then seeing again, talk about old miss, you know, you
• 1:03:55
  also was at What marshall yeah from a while as well.
• 1:03:59
  So he seen seen a good deal of programs in a short period of
• 1:04:04
  time. I think he's going to be a big
• 1:04:06
  asset for us. Absolutely last one.
• 1:04:09
  Matte green holla. Coming from Georgia Southern.
• 1:04:13
  So obviously, you know, obviously probably has some
• 1:04:16
  contacts with Brad, Glenn there but did an internship down the
• 1:04:20
  South Carolina and if you know remembered the white did have
• 1:04:23
  some connection down to South Carolina.
• 1:04:25
  So to me it's not a probably not probably partially a buddy
• 1:04:29
  higher. Yes.
• 1:04:31
  But someone who spent three years at Georgia.
• 1:04:33
  Southern, he'd spent three years in appstate as system strength.
• 1:04:37
  Conditioning directors. They're probably Is one of those
• 1:04:42
  things where you've got. You got your right-hand man this
• 1:04:47
  is an up-and-comer that knows what you like same way
• 1:04:52
  important. You got Ferguson to me, you got
• 1:04:54
  Ferguson who knows the culture you've got Blacksburg.
• 1:04:59
  You've got KJ who sing big-time programs and develop some
• 1:05:03
  big-time players. And then once again you've got
• 1:05:06
  the whites kind of guy. So kind of a guides.
• 1:05:10
  I know these guys are going to hell.
• 1:05:11
  If these other guys along. Yeah, I mean, you know, we
• 1:05:14
  talked about strength and conditioning.
• 1:05:15
  I mean, yes, they have, you know, they're not quite as
• 1:05:19
  impactful day-to-day as the coach would be.
• 1:05:22
  But, you know, we talked about a guy that was interning in South
• 1:05:25
  Carolina and was working primarily with the defensive
• 1:05:28
  line that had your baby and clowning on it.
• 1:05:31
  You know. That's, that's a, that's a
• 1:05:32
  pretty big deal UGA. It's the Citadel spent time at
• 1:05:37
  appstate. Now, Georgia, Southern now with
• 1:05:40
  that, it comes to us. This resume is a guy that is
• 1:05:44
  kind of building there and I think this is yes it's a I don't
• 1:05:47
  I wouldn't call it a buddy higher, it's a relationship
• 1:05:48
  higher. Yeah and I think this guy has
• 1:05:51
  shown aptitude to get the job done, wherever he's landed at.
• 1:05:55
  So, freaking lutely. And then, Brian, there is a new
• 1:05:58
  position amongst Virginia Tech strength or Virginia Tech
• 1:06:03
  strength conditioning. And that is the director of
• 1:06:05
  sports science, who is Brian Jackson.
• 1:06:10
  He's had Add a similar role to this down.
• 1:06:13
  We've been married last year. Also did some stuff down at Duke
• 1:06:18
  implementing Sports Performance program is down there.
• 1:06:22
  It's really interesting to if you heard prior talk today.
• 1:06:26
  Basically he's it sounds like he's monitoring everything.
• 1:06:31
  These guys are doing, like, I know he mentioned something
• 1:06:34
  about like if a guy has a hamstring injury and he says
• 1:06:38
  he's okay in the stuff that Jackson's reading says now
• 1:06:42
  something's going on because his explosiveness is here.
• 1:06:45
  It was here. Yeah.
• 1:06:48
  And so he's almost like I'm not saying a private detective for
• 1:06:52
  the coaching staff on this sort of stuff, but he kinda is, and
• 1:06:56
  then his background, he was in the 82nd Airborne.
• 1:07:03
  I mean, what could it, you know, what are you going to say to a
• 1:07:07
  guy who's done that? Yeah, I mean he's here Here's a
• 1:07:11
  parachutist lady's life out there did that, and, you know,
• 1:07:19
  doing it in a way that, you know, is is even intense
• 1:07:23
  relative to, you know, the the normal side of that.
• 1:07:28
  And then and then coming into a roll like this, you know, I
• 1:07:31
  think putting putting science behind those essentially, the
• 1:07:35
  training aspects that we're looking at here and, you know,
• 1:07:38
  whether someone can be pushed harder.
• 1:07:41
  Whether they need to be pushed a little less but, you know, based
• 1:07:44
  on the data and based on things that he seeing, I think that's
• 1:07:51
  going to be big for us having in the scientific approach.
• 1:07:55
  And again, this this speaks more to us kind of coming into the
• 1:07:58
  21st century and using, you know, all the tools that are
• 1:08:02
  available at the tool belt and not overlooking anything that
• 1:08:05
  could benefit us off the field and on the field.
• 1:08:09
  Yep. 100% couple other things announced today, too.
• 1:08:13
  Big of a Winslow and you know, in a petty are going to be
• 1:08:16
  retained. Thank both those guys doing very
• 1:08:19
  good jobs in. This is interesting, kai-shan.
• 1:08:24
  Jared is going to move to a defensive GA roll me and you
• 1:08:28
  were trying to look back felt like Kai Shang was doing
• 1:08:32
  something with the Redskins a few years ago more on field than
• 1:08:35
  in a development role. Don't know.
• 1:08:38
  If this is one of those things is like as they are slowly
• 1:08:41
  building the analytics and changing the player development
• 1:08:43
  team. It's cool that he gets to stay
• 1:08:47
  because he is a hokie through and through probably one of the
• 1:08:49
  better safeties in the last 5-10 years and guy who had shot him
• 1:08:57
  and Chuck. Yeah.
• 1:08:57
  If not for probably a freak neck injury probably would still be
• 1:09:01
  in the league in some capacity because he was showing out there
• 1:09:05
  Yeah, I think this is big and I think getting him into a role
• 1:09:09
  where he can kind of have an impact on the field as well, is
• 1:09:12
  going to be good for him. I don't know what his long-term
• 1:09:15
  goals are in terms of whether it's coaching or, you know, a
• 1:09:19
  higher level off the field roll. But this kind of gives him that,
• 1:09:23
  you know, he's got experience both off the field and now he's,
• 1:09:27
  you'll have some on the field that he can kind of pivot,
• 1:09:30
  whichever way he decides to go and, you know, hopefully that
• 1:09:32
  ends up being long term with the Hokies but I This is a good good
• 1:09:37
  kind of career building move for him and something that's going
• 1:09:40
  to help us on the field as well. Abso-freakin'-lutely.
• 1:09:45
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  Now back to the episode and we are back in for those who are
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  watching us or watching the game, listening to us Hokies up
• 1:10:26
  16 with less than six minutes to go over.
• 1:10:28
  Georgia Tech. Let's just go ahead and put it
• 1:10:30
  away and make it a 20-point victory.
• 1:10:33
  There we go. All right Brian.
• 1:10:35
  This week, the schedule was announced.
• 1:10:39
  We knew everybody, we were playing, we just, and we knew a
• 1:10:42
  few of the orders, but we didn't know the complete order, and now
• 1:10:45
  it's kind of been laid out there.
• 1:10:48
  Let's kind of do this by quadrants of for.
• 1:10:51
  Right, let's take a look at the first four games we are at ODU,
• 1:10:55
  which will either be a Friday night or a Saturday game.
• 1:11:00
  Pretty sure. CBS Sports has that.
• 1:11:02
  I'm pretty sure they're probably going to put that in a prime
• 1:11:05
  time window. So be looking at a six or seven
• 1:11:07
  kick either one of those nights. So pretty big there.
• 1:11:15
  Yep. And then the home opener is not
• 1:11:17
  an easy task for Brent Pride, you know.
• 1:11:21
  Boston College in, you know Djokovic coming back and a
• 1:11:24
  pretty well coached team. They're well-coached team and a
• 1:11:28
  team that during the Fuente era kind of had a snake bitten.
• 1:11:33
  Most of the time except for that, that one game we got them
• 1:11:37
  when they were turning the ball over.
• 1:11:39
  So I think this is going to be an interesting one to look at.
• 1:11:43
  You know, are they going to be a step up or step down from where
• 1:11:47
  they were last year? I think, you know, See how we
• 1:11:51
  are at this point? I think ODU is probably a good,
• 1:11:56
  a good team to kind of cut our teeth against before we get into
• 1:12:00
  an ACC opener. Yep.
• 1:12:03
  Because they are, they are a team that doesn't have as much
• 1:12:07
  talent as we do, but they are a team that plays above their
• 1:12:11
  talent level, at a consistent level.
• 1:12:14
  So I think that's kind of a good, a good way to cut our
• 1:12:16
  teeth and then we'll see what we got against Boston College.
• 1:12:19
  Yeah. 19th of September is the Wofford game and, you know, an
• 1:12:23
  FCS team in which we need because September 22nd Thursday
• 1:12:32
  night Lane, Stadium against West, Virginia.
• 1:12:39
  What? When you this series happened,
• 1:12:41
  right? In, you know, it's Thursday
• 1:12:45
  nights aren't what they used to be for Collegiate football
• 1:12:48
  because the NFL is essentially taking it over, but this is like
• 1:12:52
  a power play right here because you're talking about the, the,
• 1:12:57
  the mountaintops of Thursday nights.
• 1:13:02
  Yeah. We're some of the West Virginia
• 1:13:04
  games. Absolutely.
• 1:13:05
  Absolutely. And I think Going to be Jack
• 1:13:10
  that game. I think the crowd is going to be
• 1:13:12
  Jack. I think there's going to be a
• 1:13:14
  bunch of people from the ages of 23. 273, not going to work
• 1:13:19
  Thursday or Friday that weekend and making it a full weekend.
• 1:13:23
  But to have that game because you immediately, when that thing
• 1:13:27
  popped up Thursday you you that's a Nike.
• 1:13:31
  Oh yes. As soon as it pops I was like
• 1:13:32
  yep. That's going to be Thursday
• 1:13:34
  night. Prom time.
• 1:13:37
  Prime time. We got West Virginia.
• 1:13:39
  Leah coming in to Blacksburg. They've got the Black Diamond.
• 1:13:42
  We want that shit back. Yes we do.
• 1:13:46
  And that's really going to kick off.
• 1:13:48
  What becomes a The Gauntlet stretch of this schedule, right?
• 1:13:52
  Yeah. The next four games, including
• 1:13:54
  the by go as follows at UNC, which is not scary place to play
• 1:14:00
  at pit, where it is scary, because it's so damn quiet.
• 1:14:05
  Miami at home on the 15th, open on the 22nd for a by and then a
• 1:14:09
  Thursday night game, the only Rowley he's hey yeah.
• 1:14:15
  That's gonna be a big A game which of those four games
• 1:14:19
  worries you the most probably. Probably Thursday.
• 1:14:27
  The NC State is going to be our toughest competition but I'd say
• 1:14:31
  pit is probably one be just because of how we historically
• 1:14:35
  play when we go to Heinz Field and even though I think pits not
• 1:14:41
  going to be as good as they were this year.
• 1:14:43
  I think they're going to still have a little smoke, they'll be
• 1:14:46
  good enough and that might be hopefully we're not the same
• 1:14:51
  same team that's traveled to Pittsburgh the last few years.
• 1:14:55
  And laid some eggs. Exactly, let's hope that is
• 1:14:58
  going to be washed away in the prior era.
• 1:15:01
  The other two games are just probably the two most talented
• 1:15:04
  teams will play all year. Rankings y star, y, yes.
• 1:15:09
  And in terms of just over all the recruits that they put have
• 1:15:14
  in the guys that they've grabbed in the portal UNC and Miami will
• 1:15:18
  be the most Talent Laden teams that we will play in this
• 1:15:22
  period. Despite the fact that they
• 1:15:25
  haven't always played up to that their their ranking the exactly.
• 1:15:32
  I kind of look at the first eight games and so much is going
• 1:15:37
  to be tone setting, right? Yeah.
• 1:15:40
  What happens in those first eight games, is it?
• 1:15:43
  You know expectations I don't some people already like a twin
• 1:15:48
  six wins. 10 wins, somebody said 12 wins, trying to realize what
• 1:15:53
  that person was on but you know, to each his own.
• 1:15:56
  Ha ha ha. Well, um, I mean there's there's
• 1:15:59
  not a game on here that we couldn't win.
• 1:16:02
  No, there's not, but there. But there sir.
• 1:16:04
  I don't think I have no illusions that we would come
• 1:16:07
  close to running the table. Yeah, the best part about this
• 1:16:11
  schedule. Let's talk about the last four
• 1:16:12
  games. Georgia Tech is going to be
• 1:16:15
  November 5th, Then followed by at Juke at Liberty, and then UVA
• 1:16:19
  at home. Best thing about this schedule,
• 1:16:22
  top to bottom is the furthest drive.
• 1:16:25
  This team has is pit, so they're definitely going to be getting a
• 1:16:31
  lot of these Places. You know, some Pro Hokies
• 1:16:34
  they're going to get you know like we should try that we
• 1:16:38
  should travel. Well you don't have to worry
• 1:16:42
  about the the travel fatigue is much.
• 1:16:45
  Yep. You're not on you.
• 1:16:47
  Not on a plane as long as I own the buses long and I mean, I'll
• 1:16:49
  all that is shortened. And then you talk about the
• 1:16:54
  stretches. So we start, I'd say we started
• 1:16:59
  about it. The average level, we ramp it
• 1:17:01
  up. A little bit.
• 1:17:02
  But then we kind of got a little bit of a, of a coast and Coast
• 1:17:06
  into the Finish. You know, I don't think it.
• 1:17:08
  I don't think it gets easy, but it definitely tapers off.
• 1:17:12
  I think it's easy. I'm sorry.
• 1:17:15
  Georgia Tech is Georgia Tech and Duke.
• 1:17:17
  Yeah, I'll give you their hemorrhaging players.
• 1:17:20
  Yep. Hemorrhaging players, I mean
• 1:17:23
  with Georgia Tech is hemorrhaging, Dukes under Elko
• 1:17:26
  on her brand-new system. Brand-new everything trying to
• 1:17:30
  get back to Duke where they were there.
• 1:17:31
  Are going to be a tough out. I just don't think they have the
• 1:17:34
  talent right now to do anything no, not this year.
• 1:17:38
  Liberty, Malik, Willis ain't coming back.
• 1:17:40
  They got Charlie Brewer. I've seen Charlie Brooker play,
• 1:17:45
  Charlie Willis, I know you freezes, it, freaking genius all
• 1:17:50
  offensively but he's not exactly working with a potential NFL
• 1:17:54
  quarterback. He's working with a average
• 1:17:57
  Collegiate starter even called that's trying to salvage a
• 1:18:01
  career because of concussions. Exactly, which is just so we
• 1:18:05
  don't know if Charlie was going to be starting by the next to
• 1:18:08
  last week in the season but more so with Liberty is all right, we
• 1:18:15
  saw what they did in 2020. Yeah, we lost one.
• 1:18:18
  We saw, they had a great season. They didn't have a great season
• 1:18:22
  last year. They were they were fine.
• 1:18:25
  They were okay, but they weren't doing or not doing.
• 1:18:29
  I think some people a rhythmic if they, if they were in a power
• 1:18:32
  five district, they'd be a Flirtin With the bowl.
• 1:18:36
  They'd be somewhere between five wins and maybe seven wins and be
• 1:18:39
  there up Grand last year last year with Miley.
• 1:18:42
  Those with Malik Willis. All right.
• 1:18:45
  So then UVA obviously they're going through their own coaching
• 1:18:50
  change. Lot of kids in the portal
• 1:18:52
  Armstrong's back. Yes.
• 1:18:56
  So I think they so that they won't have the same offensive
• 1:19:00
  line they had last year, but they've at least stop the
• 1:19:04
  hemorrhaging of offensive lineman that they were having
• 1:19:06
  with some of the signings that they had.
• 1:19:10
  But I think the overall Talent level is a step back.
• 1:19:12
  Now, we'll see you your to Jake and get them turned around
• 1:19:17
  really quick, but I think you definitely see a step back and
• 1:19:21
  offensive line play for UVA. I don't think they have a quick
• 1:19:24
  fix for that defense. So I mean, it's still going to
• 1:19:27
  be the Brandon Armstrong show and they had.
• 1:19:32
  I hope that works at least for the 2022 year.
• 1:19:35
  I figure exactly. All right, Brian.
• 1:19:38
  So there's the AC sketch that's are just an initial thoughts,
• 1:19:41
  obviously, as we get deeper, Deeper into the season and get
• 1:19:44
  closer to the season. We will do what we did last year
• 1:19:48
  game by game. Thought process.
• 1:19:51
  While we get our records you got a gut feeling that the Gate of
• 1:19:55
  how many you think we get. I don't honestly won't because I
• 1:20:01
  sit here and I think most important positions quarterback
• 1:20:04
  right there to me Jason or Wells, or better quarterbacks in
• 1:20:12
  Braxton was I think we're at least gonna get.
• 1:20:18
  Yes. Well I feel like you know we're
• 1:20:20
  going to talk about it in two weeks when we me and Robbie
• 1:20:23
  break down the both sides of the ball.
• 1:20:27
  But the competency of the of the play calling, I feel like is
• 1:20:31
  going to be significantly higher from what I've seen so far in
• 1:20:34
  the tape. I've watched so far so y'all can
• 1:20:39
  that's my teaser for two weeks from now.
• 1:20:41
  Y'all look forward to that. But I think that alone, even if
• 1:20:46
  you talked about the same Talent level coming back, you know that
• 1:20:49
  probably gets this one or two wins in the other direction now.
• 1:20:55
  I think we probably at least initially Talent.
• 1:20:59
  Why's it taking a step back on defense?
• 1:21:01
  So we'll see if if the pride factor is able to offset, that
• 1:21:06
  may be so, so we'll see. But I mean, if I had to go gut,
• 1:21:09
  I'm saying that somewhere between Five and seven.
• 1:21:13
  I think we might could get if you told me right now we get
• 1:21:16
  six, I'd be happy with that and that's based on the roster as
• 1:21:22
  it's constructive. Now, ask me again, once we have
• 1:21:25
  the next big portal and portal out after the, the spring game.
• 1:21:30
  Well, why don't we talk about the spring game?
• 1:21:33
  Because heck spring game, April 16th at 4:00, we could see
• 1:21:38
  something there and you could look at me and be like, did I
• 1:21:40
  say six? Higher higher or lower, but
• 1:21:46
  springing, April. 16th 4 p.m. will be on SEC network.
• 1:21:52
  You mean, it's going to be a SEC network and people can go in
• 1:21:55
  person. Yes, they can.
• 1:21:57
  What a novel fucking concept crazy, our current status for
• 1:22:01
  that game is TVD because we have weddings around the same time
• 1:22:08
  where you're going to be out of town a couple weekends, I'm
• 1:22:11
  gonna be out of town. Couple weekends in.
• 1:22:13
  Sometimes as you grow up to be an adult to ask to go out of
• 1:22:18
  town again, it doesn't fly all the time but either way we're
• 1:22:23
  going. What we're what we want to do is
• 1:22:25
  we want to get probably a quick hitting episode live from a
• 1:22:29
  tailgate at the spring game. We're hoping that happens.
• 1:22:35
  Obviously there's there's still some moving parts to that but we
• 1:22:39
  will let you know as soon as we both have.
• 1:22:41
  We've been given the green light both from our own mindsets and
• 1:22:46
  from our wives there's your key right there.
• 1:22:50
  Now let's talk about this. Braun spring.
• 1:22:53
  Practices are going to start March 18th in something that cry
• 1:22:58
  talked about. During the presser really caught
• 1:23:00
  my ear. He talked about those opening
• 1:23:02
  days of spring, practice aren't really practice days.
• 1:23:08
  Um, say this today, like the 18th 19th and 20th.
• 1:23:11
  Like installation days more step.
• 1:23:14
  Then hard-hitting practice days. What does that tell you?
• 1:23:17
  Do you think this is like his Norm?
• 1:23:19
  Or is this just this is brand-new here and I have to do
• 1:23:25
  it this way this year. Well I think you probably I
• 1:23:29
  don't know if we get as many practices but you're going to
• 1:23:31
  spend a good deal of practices out the gate especially in
• 1:23:34
  spring with installation, you know, you're bringing along more
• 1:23:38
  than likely some new Shman, obviously that have just
• 1:23:43
  enrolled, you're bringing along freshman at redshirting the
• 1:23:46
  previous year that probably ran more of the other teams Playbook
• 1:23:51
  than they ever got to look at our own teams play books.
• 1:23:54
  So the level of installation is going to be something like that
• 1:23:56
  out, the gate, regardless, it's always a good refresher to get
• 1:23:59
  some of the veterans back into that mindset as well.
• 1:24:04
  You know, there are there are some guys only team, you know,
• 1:24:07
  particularly a quarterback that almost has to do this.
• 1:24:10
  But then other position guys. That kind of really they soak up
• 1:24:14
  the Playbook. It's in their head unless it's a
• 1:24:17
  new play or something or another wrinkle.
• 1:24:19
  That the coordinators adding to the offense, they've got that
• 1:24:23
  shit in the memory bank and then there's other guys that they
• 1:24:25
  have to get those reps to really have that muscle memory.
• 1:24:29
  So that's why you do things like that, with installation because
• 1:24:32
  there's there's two guys that learn differently that our
• 1:24:35
  veterans and you got to bring those young guys along as well.
• 1:24:38
  Makes sense. 15 total practices. Brian will be the amount and
• 1:24:45
  starting the 18th are starting a little bit later than the old
• 1:24:49
  staff did for whatever reason. I think maybe a couple of it is
• 1:24:55
  I'd have to look but Tech Spring break is probably somewhere in
• 1:25:02
  that neighborhood. Maybe it's that we're going to
• 1:25:05
  wait a few days till they're back from spring break to get
• 1:25:07
  them into. It makes a lot of sense to me.
• 1:25:12
  But there are two new rules that have been passed concerning
• 1:25:15
  spring practice. The first is going to limit
• 1:25:19
  full-contact to no more than 75 minutes of a non scrimmage
• 1:25:23
  practice. What does that say to you?
• 1:25:25
  And you hear those words like that.
• 1:25:31
  I think it's good and bad, you know, I think we talked about 75
• 1:25:36
  minutes, no more than that for non scrimmage practice.
• 1:25:39
  You don't want guys getting beat up during the Spring but you
• 1:25:42
  also want to make sure that they are hitting your in the spring
• 1:25:44
  because that's when you get to do a lot more with fundamentals.
• 1:25:47
  You get to do a lot more with install, but if you're going to
• 1:25:52
  run install, you need to sometimes get that going full
• 1:25:55
  speed as well. So I don't, I don't hate it from
• 1:26:01
  a long-term Health perspective, but it gets you probably a
• 1:26:04
  little less out of some of those practices.
• 1:26:07
  Then you didn't even want I got you.
• 1:26:11
  I got what you mean by that. Um, I want to say used to be 90,
• 1:26:15
  so down about 15 minutes that is a lot of time.
• 1:26:20
  Overall I think again. I get like you've got to get
• 1:26:25
  physical because that is the nature of this game, but it's
• 1:26:29
  also if we're looking at a safety thing, which is going to
• 1:26:32
  go more and more to like, what's 15 minutes really?
• 1:26:36
  What's 15 minutes? What can you do that?
• 1:26:38
  You can't do in 75 now, the other one, this is a super
• 1:26:42
  interesting one, because They are going to be banning
• 1:26:46
  full-contact from occurring on two consecutive spring days.
• 1:26:52
  So basically no back-to-back pads, which obviously going to
• 1:26:56
  save some on the body, but also tells me there, it's going to
• 1:27:01
  probably be a thing for coaches. Like you now have to be really
• 1:27:05
  smart of how you plan these things out, right?
• 1:27:08
  Yep. Yeah.
• 1:27:09
  I think they're going to change how they probably do the their
• 1:27:14
  practices. They're going to be Periods
• 1:27:18
  where they that they don't include on the days where they
• 1:27:21
  can hit and there's going to be certain periods that they
• 1:27:24
  include only on days that they're going full pads.
• 1:27:28
  So yeah, I think that'll just change how they're going to
• 1:27:31
  structure those practices based on which periods in which
• 1:27:35
  specific drills and things are done on a given day.
• 1:27:40
  So, again, some new rules of the coaches have to abide by and
• 1:27:45
  live with. I think we're lucky in the sense
• 1:27:47
  that Brent prize a new coach, he new head coach.
• 1:27:52
  You can say, well, he's been at Penn State and they've been
• 1:27:54
  doing certain things, certain ways, coolest, part is, he gets
• 1:27:57
  hired as a head coach, he gets to put this together and then
• 1:28:00
  they say, well, you can't do this anymore, cool.
• 1:28:02
  Well, I was writing my plan out anyway and I can just take that
• 1:28:06
  into account for look forward to, which is a really great
• 1:28:09
  thing. First of all, right, before we
• 1:28:11
  get ready for our last segment here.
• 1:28:13
  Hokies up. Thirteen.
• 1:28:14
  Fifty seconds, left pastner in the punchable face and his
• 1:28:19
  stupid looking sideburns is he's like, he took a timeout down,
• 1:28:25
  13. I mean, we've seen, we saw
• 1:28:29
  Reggie Miller do the impossible one time.
• 1:28:34
  But come on man. Yep, I don't think that's going
• 1:28:37
  to happen. I did confirm actually their
• 1:28:40
  spring break ends March 13th, so that they're essentially giving
• 1:28:43
  them a few days to get back in the swing and then going full
• 1:28:48
  bore. But, but think about the genius
• 1:28:51
  of, they're probably going to do two or three days at weekend,
• 1:28:53
  right? Yep.
• 1:28:55
  Friday, Saturday, or Friday, Saturday, Sunday, huge
• 1:28:59
  installation program to start it right off the bat.
• 1:29:03
  We're the guys. We are back in the swing versus
• 1:29:05
  you know, doing it 2:14-15, middle of the week, you know, to
• 1:29:11
  me. It doesn't make sense.
• 1:29:13
  Alright Braun. There is essentially one game
• 1:29:17
  left in this football season and it is the CP available.
• 1:29:23
  And unfortunately. You got one guy that's not happy
• 1:29:28
  on this on this podcast or less happy much less happy for
• 1:29:34
  myself. It is not the same for Cisco.
• 1:29:37
  49ers with our Guy Darryl Tapp helping them out.
• 1:29:43
  It's the Rams and it's the Bengals.
• 1:29:48
  Thankfully, it's the Bengals. Yeah, because there are certain
• 1:29:52
  things we don't have to see leading up to that game.
• 1:29:55
  That pretty much as a Sporting Community, unless you live in
• 1:30:00
  Kansas City, no one wants to see Jackson the homes, not nobody.
• 1:30:07
  Nobody really wants to see Brittany either but definitely
• 1:30:10
  nobody wants to see Jackson homes, definitely - you Jackson
• 1:30:13
  so bingle's Rams on or off of mechanical bull.
• 1:30:18
  I said on or off a mechanical bull.
• 1:30:22
  I don't know if you saw that video this week and not see that
• 1:30:25
  videos this weekend, okay, but this game, we're not going to be
• 1:30:31
  spread here, but I just want to see what the line is.
• 1:30:34
  Rams are four point favorites. 49 and a half over under.
• 1:30:40
  Will let you do the saving because I can't right now.
• 1:30:44
  What do you think on this game, Brian?
• 1:30:47
  He got and I know we're really a long ways out, so people get
• 1:30:52
  hurt. You can always take your bed
• 1:30:54
  away. Yeah, I'm going to go, I'm going
• 1:31:00
  to go Bangles. You know, I think that that
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  defense does a good job of keeping them in there.
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  I think there's a little bit more fight in in the Bangles
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  will see if they can hang with that defensive line because
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  that's really the only thing that concerns me is that
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  defensive line, getting after burrow, and causing Havoc,
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  because the Bangles almost don't have an offensive line.
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  But if they're able to slow them down enough for Borough to cook,
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  I think they could be onto something.
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  All right. Interesting call Hokies win by
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  the way. Let's see if we can meet like
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  nine in a row going to the tournament next month.
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  Um, I'm completely against you. I think the Rams are going to
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  win this game. I think it's going to be a seven
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  and nine point win and it's exactly what you just said, it's
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  defensive line versus offensive line.
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  And that is a bad offensive line.
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  No, if ands or buts about it and let's go through.
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  It does Kansas City have an elite defensive line.
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  Now does the Titans have an events in Italy defensive line I
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  would say above average but not Elite.
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  Now Do the Raiders know? So how they got here is they
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  play three teams without Elite defensive lines?
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  If I think Aaron Donald and Von Miller going to just eat all
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  night and where most teams don't have that, one lockdown Corner,
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  Jalen range is just going to follow you more Chase all over
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  the field. I think Jamal Chase is going to
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  get his but I think Jalen's probably going to be able to
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  limit them enough. And I think personally that
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  defense is good, not great. Eight.
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  And I think our defense is great.
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  And we held that team to 20 points and we have an elite
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  defensive line. We have right, borderline Elite
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  linebacker. Play our back end is a little
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  bit struggling, but are back in. I think so.
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  But I think this game is like 3526, I think the Rams are going
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  to score it will end its. Is it funny for me being the
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  West in the NFC West guy and I'm not paying to see the rims win
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  because Stafford. Like they have their a-holes on
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  that team but they also have like good guys, like, you know,
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  Yeah, I get you. I get you.
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  Yeah. So, bronze on the Bengals.
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  I'm on the Rams, I'll grab the Bangles for now.
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  Like I said, I'll, I'll re-evaluate a little bit but my
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  gut listen. That's pretty freaking funny.
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