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Know the Enemy: Boston College · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast, I am Curtis
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  Wilson. I'm Brian seagull buddy.
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  Back here on a Tuesday night. We're moving past the bitch that
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  was last Friday and we're going to put it to bed tonight and
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  then we're going to move on to Boston College.
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  Well, we're gonna go in here. We're going to make some
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  corrections. We're going to close the book
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  other than the game Friday night.
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  It was a good time, I mean, right?
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  You You came over, kids came over kids frolicked, we had
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  drinks great food. Oh yeah, at the Wilson man cave
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  here. That's some Gino's had some,
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  some G and T's had said a little little this little than that.
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  Well this little that and in the game came on and and then let's
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  just get right to it you know, hope you start on one in the
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  printt ride regime era or the loss of 22:17 and A lot of anger
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  on this game. We felt it Friday night.
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  Brian the game ended about what 10, 35-ish you stayed around my
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  house or another hour as we vented?
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  Yeah, definitely would have been a good reaction podcast, but I
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  don't think I was venting and a lot of little bit of inebriation
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  and little bit of cursing going on there.
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  We've done that before. But this is a little different.
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  So, I mean, we've done podcast where I'm sitting in Boxer
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  shorts on the deck in Gatlinburg podcast and live after after a
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  game. So you know we could have pulled
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  the trigger there but I think this new format is going to work
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  better for us digest things. I get to look at the tape again
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  and we get to kind of put put to bed.
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  What was a bitter taste? I think for Week 1?
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  You know a lot of anger, you know, regardless, Of the
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  situation. I feel like that's when you
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  can't lose. No, not just because of the
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  opponent but also because when you look at your schedule You
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  know you hate dropping one of those games that is very
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  winnable. You know we're not we're not
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  going to say it's an easy schedule.
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  There's no easy games out there, you still gotta line up and play
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  and that we proved that on Friday night.
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  You still got to go out there and execute, you still got to go
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  out there and play the game. The way it needs to be played.
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  And there were a bunch of bunch of parts of that game where we
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  didn't play with the way, it needs to be played, no, not at
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  all. And let's start with the biggest
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  part and probably the biggest swinger that game was on special
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  teams and literally, Maybe. The ugliest effing long snap of
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  all time. That literally, when it felt
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  like, it went 35 yards and it leads to that ODU score.
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  I mean, it got snap to Suffolk to Suffolk, from from Norfolk.
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  Yeah, that's impressive. And that kind of proved to be
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  the one of the story that OT you needed us to screw up the score
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  and it started there, you know, they will 73 right there, they
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  get That to go 710 and it just it was one of those anytime
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  there is a anytime you're the favorite any time you considered
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  the better team are plays like that that happened and as soon
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  as it happens it's like that's a confidence grow up for them.
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  They took the lead and you know, special teams just all night
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  besides that. Obviously, I mean a 54-yard loss
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  in the net. Rushing.
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  Don't let the rushing stats fool you we did run the ball pretty
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  well but Overall, take that into account a bunch of holding Block
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  in the back for 30-plus joins that really, really hurt some
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  good returns by Keshawn king and a really good punt return by DJ
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  Harvey. So on the DJ Harvey it would he
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  was past the 40 and been startled behind the 15 and it's
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  like, we blew our feet all in that element of the game.
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  Yeah. It was almost a 30 yard penalty
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  on the, on the Harvey punt return.
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  Yes, you had a good solid. Return.
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  And then, you know, you have to back up 10 from the spot.
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  So that heard those other penalties hurt and penalties was
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  really the biggest part of this game.
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  Other than that big play in the snap and a couple interceptions
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  by Grant Wells. But let's go ahead and pivot to
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  the offense and Wells, you know, finish the game with four picks.
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  When you look at the tape, I mean that all on him I'd say
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  take the Hail Mary out. Take Take the hell marry out.
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  You know, you don't know who's to blame on that first.
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  One, there was definitely some miscommunication between what
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  wells thought, yeah, Smith and or Gallo we're going to do and
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  what they actually did. But the the other thing is the
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  prop, the problem here is that there were 22 that were critical
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  and bang one. Yeah, one, you got Pressman on
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  an out route. You shouldn't throw it in.
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  If you're going to throw it, you definitely can.
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  Throw it inside that got picked off.
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  That's essentially three off the board.
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  There, you're in field, goal range, and as long as you don't
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  put it into Suffolk or stepping in the Suffolk, you probably get
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  the, get the three there three there.
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  And then the other one, you know, me and Curtis were talking
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  about it when we were watching in real time, and then when I
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  watched again, I kind of saw the same thing that's a ball.
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  You just got to either throw in the dirt or if you're going to
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  take a risk there, take a, take a calculated risk down.
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  The field where you're either burying them deep or you did the
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  first down. There's no, there's no sense in
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  throwing three yard completion with a linebacker bearing down
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  on your running back and even then probably throw was a little
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  too much juice on. It could host have done better
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  and brought it in, maybe but Haiti, but that it should have
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  been thrown, it shouldn't have been thrown.
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  That's all it is. And if you're going to throw
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  even if you go to throw that, you got to throw it sooner
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  before the linebackers on your running back.
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  It's one of those. Those mental things where it's
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  like, you either, eat it, and throw it at Jalen, holsten's
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  feet live another down, allow Peter more to punt it and make
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  them go, hopefully 95 yards for a game-winning touchdown.
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  But to your point it's that okay, you gotta know, down
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  distant situation, it was third down.
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  It was, it was more than 10 and you're throwing it.
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  Three yards. Go downfield, you hit somebody
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  downfield the way. They were throwing Flags, it
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  could have been a phantom Pi call and essentially ends a game
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  right there. And and those are the those two
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  mistakes which they were critical errors.
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  Because If you punt the ball again, they went 60 yards on
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  their last Drive, they did not have to drive extra.
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  One of their field goals off of one of the turnovers.
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  That was like okay. Like you you're setting them up
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  one of their other one of the other.
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  The first time ever they got it in until they didn't move the
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  ball but they got us pinned deep against it.
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  All the turnovers were just in critical areas of the field
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  which you can say with there's a critical error everywhere in the
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  field but the reality is for us, it was They pinned us the then
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  short field for them. We took points awful, it wasn't
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  like, it was one of those pigs where it's like this hurt
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  nothing. Yeah.
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  He threw a pick to the 15-yard line from the from their 40. 50
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  k2d, Punk, who I think. By the time we got to the middle
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  of the second quarter. Just before the first pick, I
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  think we kind of at that point knew all right.
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  This is probably going to be a game where points are at a
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  premium as we're going along. And the problem that we had is
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  that we left points. Lots of all over the field.
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  I said it, I think I tweeted it. The grounds crew for ODU, is
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  going to still be picking up the points.
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  We left on the field by the time we recording this and they
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  probably are between, you know, the Lofton catch down at the 3,
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  yard line to set of it first and goal that was offset by the OPI
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  which and you it was a valid opinion.
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  God, the problem is it had zero impact on on the route?
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  So not that it should have been flagged but it's just completely
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  unnecessary, both on our port and everything else.
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  So that that one hurts because that's a play where it's a first
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  down, whether he commits the penalty or not, and then right
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  after that, you know, you miss on the, on the retrial and third
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  down and now all of a sudden you're against snapping the ball
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  in the Suffolk. We got to got to clean up, the
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  mistakes. The mistakes were the, the
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  biggest part of the game, impacted the game.
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  The most procedurally. I've never seen that many
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  procedural penalties in a game. I say that until I watched
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  Rutgers BC, there was a fuck. Ton of them in that game too.
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  I want to say, I want to say Rutgers.
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  Was it like eight penalties in the first half?
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  Either eight or nine penalties in the first half.
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  All right, well let me ask this just for reviewing the tape
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  being that Collegiate level is that something that can be
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  cleaned up and I'm not saying I'm expecting us to go from 115
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  yards of penalties, you know, close to on the offensive side
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  of the ball, almost 50 yards and procedural Pinto, 30, 30 yards
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  and procedural penny. Is that something being cleaned
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  up in one week or is that a slow go?
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  I think there's some that can be cleaned up.
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  Up pretty quickly. I think the the pies are
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  probably going to be the hardest thing to clean up.
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  I'm talking about the defensive ones when you look at the blocks
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  of the back. I mean that's you watch film,
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  you coach it. There, that should be an easy
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  fix. When you talk about the
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  offsides, that should be an easy fix.
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  I don't know about the whole Dax calling the snap count thing
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  because it was a silent count. So how do you call that?
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  But that's neither here nor there.
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  But, you know, things like that. I think could be cleaned up, so
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  if you ask me like yes, 75% of that can be cleared up pretty
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  quickly. The other 25% is going to take
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  some time. Okay, let's hope the 75 is
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  really quick. All right, let's talk about
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  offensively kind of some Right spots.
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  Let's talk about Keyshawn King because that kid blew up over
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  100 yards. Look great on the hundred on the
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  shooting. The kick return look good in
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  pass Pro, shout out Eric Carr out there today.
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  Putting that showing did you see the block?
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  He got you a gift. He absolutely destroyed that
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  linebacker. Come on.
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  Yeah I think it will talk about the dead truck later.
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  I'm going. Bring it up now.
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  He's one on the depth chart and when Malachi Thomas comes back,
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  From his injury. He should be one be, and I'm not
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  showing any disrespect to Jalen Holston.
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  The guy obviously is a team player.
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  He does all the right things. But when we looked Friday night,
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  Keshawn, King broke a big 30-yard had over 100 yards
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  chance black came in and broke 20 yarder.
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  Yep. And Jalen.
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  Fortunately only had about 16 yards on four carries and I know
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  he was banged up. I know he was banged up.
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  But it's one of those things where you get to a point.
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  It's you love a guy doing everything right in practice but
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  if you put them in the game and it just it doesn't click.
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  I think this is a coaching staff that will reward that and we
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  kind of already saw when you know black got more carries and
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  King really blew up. Yeah, I mean kudos to King for
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  really sticking with it. Yeah, during the times I know he
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  I'm sure there were times in the last two seasons where he was
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  extremely frustrated with his role in this offense and seeing
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  him getting his opportunity and taking the most of it.
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  That's big so kudos to him like what he was doing.
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  There are areas of like maybe, you know, here there where he
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  was, you need a little bit more Vision, or a little more
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  patience, but I can't fault the kid.
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  He ran hard, he ran, well, he was, he did good.
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  Once he got to the second level making guys miss and kind of
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  finishing the run. And as you said with Holston, I
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  mean, I get he's banged It up, and that's definitely, you know,
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  not practicing all week hurts, especially for Week 1.
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  But that being said, holsten's, a guy that's been in this
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  offense, a lot in his hand opportunities At some point
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  unless we see something significantly different happen
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  this week, you know, I feel like he's a guy that can that has
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  more of a minimal role for us going forward.
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  Then a guy that's going to be kind of the Bell cow.
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  So that's just where I'm at right now.
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  At this point, we'll see if, you know, if you turns in some more
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  opportunities this week against Boston College where he's now,
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  number two on the depth chart number two on the depth chart
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  now. Yeah, That's going to be
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  interesting to see because again, we had a great day
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  running the ball, especially Keshawn King.
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  Let's take a look at the tight end room.
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  Nick Gallo, obviously, you set it.
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  Since February Titans are going to be featured, a ton, Nick
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  Gallows, seven catches 49 yards, Double D in there, as well for
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  catches 24 yards. So 11 catches combined.
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  And I mean, I think you said it and obviously, if these Trends
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  kind of Old up for the whole season that room is going to
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  have a lot of receptions, a fair amount of yards for both the one
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  and two for the one and two tight ends.
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  And I know we saw you pointed out to me a couple times.
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  You saw some good blocks from them, but you also said, it's
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  something that they've still got to get better at yes, especially
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  Gallo, I think Gallo is a guy that blocks really well out in
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  space. He needs a lot of work.
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  Is in line blocking and some of its just understanding, what is
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  assignment is based on the alignment of the front, we saw a
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  bunch of up a bunch of times where he was just going after
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  the wrong man. Shipping at the wrong area.
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  Sometimes just flat getting beat when he did.
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  Have those kind of one-on-one opportunities with the defensive
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  end, he's got to get better at that and hopefully, you know,
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  with some extra practice in the in the system at least Hill.
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  He'll get those opportunities to at least get the scheme in the
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  block right because sometimes just getting there is good
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  enough, letting a guy go completely on block because you
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  did the wrong thing is never a good thing.
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  Yeah so the whole thing hope he can clean up but again
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  continuously I think those are going to be mismatches, I'm sure
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  you're hoping they bring your boy on we did not see him Friday
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  night but I think as the season goes is Brent processing.
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  This pressure today it's We're continuing that we have to
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  continue to create the depth. So yeah and I think you'll see
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  more of him once he understands the offense, he still he's very
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  much, you know what, for five weeks into this thing at this
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  point, so I think that's going to come with time.
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  I think we saw what Harrison Saint-Germain for a couple
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  plays. I think he was out there a
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  couple plays but you know, he had a spring, he probably has a
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  little bit better grass of the system, so if you're going to go
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  into that, that 40, that's probably why he was getting a
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  snappier there. Especially since we didn't see
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  Connor blumberg very much until the you know, Hail Mary started
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  coming out there true. True going to be interesting to
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  see that. Now, speaking of Bromley,
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  because when he ran those routes, that was out of the wide
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  receiver position in that room is hurting right now.
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  Obviously Kayla Smith got hurt during the game after having a
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  big catch early, having 45 yards in the quarter that he Laid
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  clearly he was going to be a big part of the game, the process
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  that he's day-to-day he is listed on the depth chart.
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  I don't know if that's for show, we never got any information
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  about what his injury was. So I want to see how that goes
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  but you know, the whale often had a couple good moment.
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  Steven guys, nail had a couple good moments but that that room
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  overalls hurt and if Caleb can't go for a couple weeks really
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  this week more the next week. I mean that's gonna hurt that
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  room and where you're probably going to have to see Connor
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  Brent. Yeah, the question is going to
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  be is if you don't want to rush Caleb back but at the same time
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  if he's good you want him to go if he's not good, you probably
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  want to hold him off and maybe even hold him off against
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  Wofford before you, you know, welcome the Mountaineers in the
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  town on Thursday night so that's kind of where I'm at with him.
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  I'm hoping that he's going to be good to go this week.
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  I think getting more game reps with Wells is going to be a
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  Thing. So I want him to get out there
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  as much as you can, but obviously, I don't want to rush
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  a guy back. It is has one of those soft
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  tissue injuries injuries, or something related to an ankle or
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  something like that. Take the time, you need get,
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  right? Because we're going to need you
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  more in October and we need you in September.
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  That's very, very true. All right, let's flip out that
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  room. Let's look at the offensive line
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  and sir, I'll give you what is seeds grades for the offensive
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  line. Run past and the cumulative.
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  For rushing grade. I give it a C+.
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  I thought I saw some good things always saying, we went over 200
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  yards in your eyes say we're just slightly above average for
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  that. Yeah.
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  I mean they're the problem is is that there were problems across
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  the board that kept rearing their ugly head throughout the
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  game. Okay.
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  I'll say a couple things so And I'm going to get to this in a
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  second, but Parker Clements did not have a good game across the
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  board. I thought Johnny, Jordan could
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  have been better in the Run game.
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  I would like to see him in play better in the Run game.
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  Not not bad, not a lot of negative plays but not a lot of
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  see, a lot of dominance out of him.
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  He should have been able to kind of reckon there so that was
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  disappointing as far as past pro d - and I know you say okay we
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  didn't give up you know sacks but There were there were
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  moments were Wells was getting hit as he.
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  Let go of the ball, obviously on the big plate of Caleb, he got
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  freaking clobbered as he let it ball go and that that was a dime
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  but he got on the interception. He was getting he had pressure
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  in his face, coming from the right side, the first
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  interception. And so he was getting pressured
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  all night. I'd like to see him.
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  Maybe, speaking of well, step up and maybe try to take off a
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  little bit more as those Extra pressure is coming in but the
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  tackles did not play very well in past Pro.
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  Saudi - great overall for them in past Pro and cumulative
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  grade. I'm going to go D plus I could
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  go c-minus d-plus but I'm gonna go D.
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  Plus in this case, the negative plays I saw were impactful and
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  I'm going to call out one person right off again, I already spent
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  said his name. I'm going to call out parties,
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  Log House, seeks, dog. Houses Parker Clement everybody.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Parker's in the doghouse this
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  week, I need to see better play across the board from him next
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  week, and he's shown, he can do that.
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  So that's why this was such a disappointing performance
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  because he showed at times last year, he can be depended on at
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  right tackle, you know? But he was, he had like four or
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  five Olay blocks. Called Lookout blocks or you
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  know a guy run past you just turn around and yell look out to
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  the quarterback. We had a few of those just
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  looked not as polished almost like he was thinking too much in
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  the Run game and I'm going to I'm gonna give somebody else a
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  little bit of a shout out. But I'm also going to gonna say
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  a few things about them. Jesse Hanson didn't have an
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  awful game, but Jesse Hansen is slow as shit with his polls.
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  That's not a good thing for a wisconsin-based running attack.
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  Then we're going to He's got to get faster with those.
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  I don't think that's a. I think that might be an issue,
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  I think he is what he is. I mean, but if he's more
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  consistent in the straight ahead and then the past Pro, how much
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  do you get out of young more right?
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  Dwight Vic chiming in. Don't understand why they don't
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  bring a defensive guy over for some offense I think it's death
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  right now the white because I think the guy I would look to to
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  bring over would be like DJ Harvey and he's literally your
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  top nickel Corner your top Returner and he's your number
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  two Corbin, Dorian strong. So if you put them over the
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  offense and he takes getting and he gets banged up, you're losing
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  a guy at threefold. So you're saying in the 2000s.
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  Yeah. You had Macho and D Hall playing
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  both sides, but you had some dogs behind them to.
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  You are deep behind them who are deep behind them in those days.
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  So again you know if the depth is built next year, maybe We can
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  do that. But I don't see that right now.
• 22:56
  But um, let's flip it over. Let's do talk about the defense
• 22:59
  for a few minutes and the white brought up moving a player over.
• 23:03
  I mean, the defense to me played very well all night under 250
• 23:07
  total yards for ODU, the defense itself only gave up 13 points
• 23:13
  which really impressive that you kind of see that now.
• 23:19
  Are there some things we need to get home with?
• 23:21
  Yeah, we'll have one sack. We were there a lot.
• 23:23
  We only came home once I know that's a big something.
• 23:27
  You were kind of watching that. We were one step short multiple
• 23:30
  times. We could have either been a sack
• 23:33
  or Or at least affecting Hayden throwing the ball.
• 23:42
  Yep. Yeah.
• 23:44
  I'd like to see. Miss get home at least two more
• 23:46
  times and there was like, I said, a couple times, we were
• 23:48
  there close, you know, we still ended up again, one sec, we had
• 23:54
  two forced fumbles, seven tackles for loss.
• 23:57
  We but this email was nine. Numbing is that you know, we
• 24:00
  still are missing those tackles in the backfield where you got a
• 24:03
  quarterback or running back dead to rights and somehow they say
• 24:06
  By you and get either solid gains camper for a first down,
• 24:10
  something like that. We got to stop those because
• 24:13
  those are the ones that extend those drives and end up costing
• 24:18
  you points. You know, we had we had Blake
• 24:22
  Watson dead to rights in the backfield on that.
• 24:24
  Fourth down play and you guys and somehow he's scored it
• 24:27
  through. They'll stop and they'll stuff
• 24:31
  to watch. That's something we've seen the
• 24:33
  last few years is just not cleaned up and I hope we would
• 24:36
  see it better. Now, I will say this, my lining
• 24:42
  on that at least nothing they may have broke out of the
• 24:47
  backfield but nothing went for anymore.
• 24:50
  I think maybe four yards was the longest where it felt like the
• 24:53
  last three to four years. It had been if they broke out of
• 24:55
  that, it was just a lot of air in front of them for 15-yard
• 25:00
  games that's not feel on it. Now, the other one you mentioned
• 25:04
  it a few minutes ago, where the penalties three penalties on
• 25:08
  defense and for penalties, excuse me, counting the Dax
• 25:11
  which we're still trying to figure out that rule, but the
• 25:14
  other three were for 30 yards. All Pi, the biggest one though,
• 25:20
  was the one that wasn't a pi, and that was the ball.
• 25:24
  It was a key, fourth, and two, they go shot on the left side of
• 25:28
  the field. The ball went 10 yards over
• 25:31
  bound as soon as we it was thrown.
• 25:33
  You can see it, hit the white mark on the outside of the ODU
• 25:37
  sideline. The white Mark is essentially
• 25:40
  the Box can cut the coaches, can go into correct and it's that
• 25:44
  white car. They can't go into that.
• 25:46
  Yeah, it on the outside of that your being here.
• 25:49
  Well, funny story, me and Brian are screaming at the television.
• 25:52
  My wife walks in be like the kids are asleep.
• 25:54
  I'm gonna close the door. Now we got, we got We can get a
• 26:00
  little rambunctious there. I mean, that was in that that
• 26:06
  but them get down field and get three points.
• 26:10
  Yeah, and the thing you hate about it is that I mean by the
• 26:14
  letter of the law, P i was committed but the ball was not
• 26:20
  not a catchable ball and that's where the problem is.
• 26:25
  I feel like that that rule doesn't get applied very often
• 26:29
  at all near know what nowhere near enough.
• 26:32
  I mean nowhere near be defined catchable.
• 26:35
  You know these guys aren't Stretch Armstrong, they're not
• 26:38
  out there you know with being to catch it with attachable Limbs
• 26:43
  and all this other stuff making plays.
• 26:48
  Yes, it's frustrating. But you know, those are
• 26:53
  penalties that I feel like If we didn't have all the other stuff
• 27:00
  I'd live with those. Yeah.
• 27:03
  Yeah. But especially considering how
• 27:04
  much we were bringing pressure and things like that.
• 27:07
  And how much these guys were in? Kind of man or de facto man,
• 27:11
  looks and secondary. I'm okay, I'll be okay with
• 27:15
  that, you know, three or four p is a game.
• 27:18
  I'm not gonna be that angry with, especially if it's ones
• 27:23
  where You know are either questionable like the one we're
• 27:28
  talking about that was out of bounds or stop the play.
• 27:32
  That could have been even bigger.
• 27:35
  You know, I'd much rather take the pi.
• 27:37
  Then take a 50, 60, yard gain, very true on that.
• 27:41
  Very true on that. A lot of other weird stuff sort
• 27:44
  of aftermath. Obviously the one everybody knew
• 27:47
  about in the middle of the game, was the coaches getting stuck on
• 27:51
  the elevator from down the locker room up.
• 27:55
  I've never heard of anything like that in my life.
• 27:59
  How does that happen? In a pretty new facility down
• 28:02
  there? And it was Pearson.
• 28:05
  And it was Sean Quinn trunk when they got caught in there along
• 28:09
  with some of the analysts because the first person you saw
• 28:11
  come back with Pearson, obviously that was thing.
• 28:15
  And then the blumrich and the fan, rushing, the field
• 28:17
  incident, Which he made an apology.
• 28:22
  And after the day it does not appear.
• 28:24
  That he will face any sort of suspension.
• 28:28
  It's really funny. You know, who Andrew Friedman,
• 28:30
  is here in Richmond, right? Weather guy.
• 28:33
  He's a UVA Grant and he put this big tweet out.
• 28:35
  Like I see, nothing wrong with you.
• 28:37
  Did like guys running at the field, you don't know what's
• 28:39
  going on, like, they're taking their lives into their own hand.
• 28:43
  Rushing the field, right? Yeah, I mean, I didn't see
• 28:47
  anything egregious. He saw a guy running at him.
• 28:49
  He lowered his shoulder. A little bit and you know yeah
• 28:54
  may contact got fell down, is what it is.
• 28:57
  I don't it's not something that we should be making more of a
• 29:00
  work. I mean the apology is fine.
• 29:02
  I don't think it was necessarily necessary but if you make the
• 29:05
  apology that that should be the only thing that we need to do
• 29:08
  and then you just keep it moving.
• 29:10
  Yeah. So as bad as those two things
• 29:12
  where the shittiest part was, what happened during the game,
• 29:16
  to our players locker room with some they're saying between I
• 29:20
  mean, I've heard eight, I've heard 10.
• 29:21
  I've heard twenty thousand dollars in items, stolen, and
• 29:26
  these when you in soon as you hear that, these are our players
• 29:30
  and our coaches personal belongings, you know, it is,
• 29:33
  it's probably guys, change is probably as watches their
• 29:36
  iPhones, whatever they carry with them.
• 29:40
  Yep. And odu's, wonderful security.
• 29:43
  Just let's guys dress up as janitors and just go on in
• 29:46
  there. If nothing else they want to
• 29:48
  keep this series. Every game should be in.
• 29:50
  Expert. Because clearly You know, I
• 29:58
  mean, people are talking about canceling, the series over this
• 30:00
  and I'm not with that. And I'll tell you one thing, one
• 30:04
  of the biggest reason, why for me, is that, at this point, it's
• 30:06
  a pride thing. Okay, if you cancel the series
• 30:10
  after losing back-to-back games in their house, it looks like
• 30:15
  you're running away from a fight and I don't, I don't think we
• 30:18
  can pull that whether it's something that went wants to
• 30:22
  entertain or not, Wouldn't have it at this point because that
• 30:26
  that's the way I would perceive it.
• 30:28
  I would perceive like, okay. And that's the way a lot of
• 30:30
  people were saying oh, you guys are ducking playing in Norfolk
• 30:33
  now. Oh yeah, it's true, it's true.
• 30:37
  Now if we go back and like 70,000 dollars get stolen from
• 30:41
  the locker room and you take the dummy we.
• 30:44
  Yeah, if we go down there and beat them by four touchdowns and
• 30:48
  shit, still get stole, okay, let's have a conversation then
• 30:50
  but can't go down there and lose. by 32, a G5 team and they
• 30:55
  were like, yeah, I think we're going to cancel the series
• 30:56
  because there was theft Alright, so there we go.
• 31:04
  Let's shut the book is closed. It ODU over we start BC week
• 31:09
  this week, but before that, we obviously got some news and
• 31:13
  obviously some of the bigger breaking news today, Brian from
• 31:17
  Virginia Tech my son Kelly out of DW.
• 31:21
  Daniel High School in Central South Carolina just north of
• 31:25
  Clemson. A three star quarterback commit
• 31:28
  It's to the Hokies. I don't know if that was late in
• 31:32
  the day. I don't know if you got a chance
• 31:33
  to take a look at this tape yet, I would have a chance to look at
• 31:37
  the tape. I have done a little bit of
• 31:39
  research on the kid. I mean, you know, I know
• 31:41
  Louisville was pressing hard for him.
• 31:43
  I think Oklahoma had given him an inviting supposed to be down
• 31:48
  there this weekend. He canceled.
• 31:49
  That to commit to Virginia Tech. So that's a, that's a big move,
• 31:54
  you know? It's again, it's not a You're
• 31:58
  the best really blows your skirt up in terms of accolades and you
• 32:02
  know, Big 4 star 5 Star type player.
• 32:04
  But it's another solid player that we're adding.
• 32:07
  And I think it's the type of player that fits what Virginia
• 32:10
  Tech is trying to do on defense. Yep.
• 32:12
  And it's another player from that 5 Hour radius northern part
• 32:17
  just south of Charlotte there. So obviously he's in the radius
• 32:20
  that we're continuing to Pummel pretty hard with the kid
• 32:24
  committing. It does take us where around 39
• 32:27
  in the overall Rankings and I haven't looked at that.
• 32:32
  A lot recently, I was really the season gets kicked off.
• 32:35
  We're sort of focused in on this, you know, few teams above
• 32:40
  us, have more commits than we do.
• 32:42
  So there are a couple chances that we could potentially jump
• 32:45
  back up into that 35 range. Under that's kind of brides.
• 32:48
  I this year's long as we get to it.
• 32:50
  So it'll be interesting how that plays out.
• 32:53
  All right, Brian, let's go to some other news and notes from
• 32:57
  the world of college football. And let's start with the portal
• 33:00
  decision that came out just a couple weeks ago.
• 33:03
  Basically saying that now, there will be two windows for portal
• 33:07
  transfers. The first window will be 45 days
• 33:11
  essentially after the playoffs are announced.
• 33:14
  So roughly early December to mid-January and then the other
• 33:21
  is going to be a 15 day period from May 1st to May 15th.
• 33:27
  This is effectively IE, if you look, there are some spring
• 33:30
  games that are on the 27th 28th, sometimes even the 30th, this is
• 33:34
  roughly, the after Spring Mall period.
• 33:37
  What do you like? What?
• 33:38
  Don't you like? What I like is the 45 days after
• 33:42
  the playoffs, it gives you enough time for players to
• 33:47
  evaluate their circumstances. Evaluate what's out there decide
• 33:52
  that the portals for them. Put themselves out there, it
• 33:55
  also wants, you know, you're wrapping up that It still gives
• 33:59
  you some time as a coach. To look at what's left and kind
• 34:05
  of fill in some holes that the portal created, whether you're
• 34:09
  grabbing guys from the portal, whether you're closing out a
• 34:12
  class before the second signing day there.
• 34:15
  So at the, I like that aspect of it.
• 34:18
  I wish that the Met Peary was maybe a little bit longer full
• 34:23
  month. It least another week.
• 34:26
  Yeah. I mean, I'd say go at least 25
• 34:28
  days, that's what I would go there.
• 34:32
  But I'd be okay with a full month, so that's a little short
• 34:36
  to me. But I feel like It's probably
• 34:40
  enough time, but I would have rather had maybe, like I said,
• 34:43
  at least another week or so to kind of really flesh that out.
• 34:48
  But this is a lot better than what we're dealing with now.
• 34:51
  And let allows coaches to while our roster building a lot, a lot
• 34:56
  better, you know? And now you got a situation
• 34:59
  where, you know, guys, once they make the decision in May, you're
• 35:05
  in, you know, they're buckling up for the the upcoming season.
• 35:09
  You're bottling up. You trying to get yourself on
• 35:11
  the field with paid before potentially announcing in
• 35:13
  December. Again, we've been mentioning
• 35:17
  that it needs to be some control of this it you know it's good.
• 35:22
  The players have this ability to transfer essentially when they
• 35:26
  want to or wherever they want to.
• 35:29
  But now the wind is the big part because what you don't want is
• 35:32
  obviously you think about when roughly that first period end,
• 35:37
  it's going to probably be right. To the National Championship,
• 35:40
  three weeks before national Signing Day.
• 35:42
  So your point already if you like a kid and maybe someone
• 35:45
  maybe one of the underclassmen leaves the room, take your spot
• 35:48
  there. But also think about the
• 35:51
  implication when it comes to the winter workouts about there.
• 35:57
  You've got those staffs putting enormous amount of time and I do
• 36:01
  a lot of that team but it's how they start individually.
• 36:04
  Start focusing on kids right at that point in time.
• 36:07
  If you got five kids, who don't I want to be there then they can
• 36:10
  essentially be gone and obviously more time for the
• 36:13
  other kids, I like the other piece and you mentioned and we
• 36:15
  talked about it, this afternoon, which added You now have
• 36:19
  coaches, once May 16th hit. This is our roster.
• 36:25
  Where I deficiencies where our strengths, we're not waiting on
• 36:29
  potentially some guy in July to commit to us.
• 36:32
  This is our team so storage strategic planning goes.
• 36:37
  Lot easier. Also think about those color.
• 36:40
  Can't those camps. We've talked about and kids
• 36:43
  going to become in the next cycle.
• 36:44
  You know what your teams looking like can people leave the next
• 36:47
  year? Yeah.
• 36:48
  But the whole thing is, this is what we look like right now,
• 36:51
  where we going to need help. So it's really helpful for not
• 36:57
  only the Hokies, but all School strategically to decide how they
• 37:01
  want to recruit and how the game plan you're going to look coming
• 37:04
  fall. Yeah, it is.
• 37:05
  I think it's going to help the portal players, too, because I
• 37:07
  think with having the window guys won't be kind of lost.
• 37:13
  In the in the salts, right? I think a lot of guys put their
• 37:16
  names out there, not in those times of year where everyone's
• 37:21
  focused on there. So if you're not a big name with
• 37:24
  your name out there in the portal, sometimes that's going
• 37:26
  to get lost the day. You got everybody, putting their
• 37:30
  names in within the certain periods.
• 37:33
  It's a lot easier to have a guy that okay.
• 37:36
  Well, I saw his name at the portal.
• 37:38
  Let's, let's see what he's about.
• 37:39
  Let's get some tape on him. Let's see how he practice.
• 37:41
  Let's see if you got any game. Last year.
• 37:45
  Absolutely. So good thing overall for the
• 37:48
  sport. Good thing overall for
• 37:49
  everybody. but then there were something better that is in our
• 37:54
  opinions that are overall for the sport long-term and that is
• 37:59
  the cfp essentially approved, a 12 team playoff, Something
• 38:06
  obviously we have had an episode Brian gave his his his diet
• 38:13
  right out back last winter. And believe it or not there are
• 38:18
  some things that Brian discuss that it's like, they listen the,
• 38:23
  the first one, I think me and you talk today.
• 38:25
  The best one was the first essentially.
• 38:29
  Six will be the highest six Frank Conference champions and
• 38:34
  then the next Six highest-ranked teams.
• 38:38
  Now the big part of that is you have to be a conference Champion
• 38:42
  to get a top four seed. Yeah, I think I know we both
• 38:46
  love that. That's the one.
• 38:47
  I like that's the one. I think everybody should know
• 38:50
  that because it's like you've actually got to do something on
• 38:52
  the field against a significantly good fo to earn
• 38:56
  something, not just be given a top.
• 38:58
  See if I think that's the big thing is that, you know, these
• 39:03
  conferences exist for a reason. Reason, you're playing the extra
• 39:06
  game for a reason that's got a matter.
• 39:09
  It hasn't mattered for a long time, you know, I think gone are
• 39:13
  the days of that, you know, one or two loss, Alabama team being
• 39:19
  in the top four because they're not going to be that team.
• 39:22
  That played the extra game. I mean, you can, you can apply
• 39:24
  the same logic to a Georgia or to an Ohio state had lost to a
• 39:27
  Penn State or Wisconsin, you know?
• 39:30
  If you don't play for and when your conference Championship,
• 39:34
  You're not going to be there, so that that matters again.
• 39:37
  Now, you can still make the playoffs but you will not be in
• 39:40
  that top four seat and that gives everybody a shot because
• 39:48
  if you win your conference you're in the playoff, you very
• 39:51
  well could be potentially in the playoff.
• 39:53
  As long as you hate to say this, that year pit went six and six,
• 39:57
  I don't think they would have made it in that year.
• 40:00
  But if you are a, if you're somewhere between a 9 and a 10
• 40:03
  win team your and you're in the power 5, you're likely going to
• 40:07
  be higher than some G5. I think this also sets a
• 40:11
  precedent that there is going to be a G5 schooling every Here
• 40:15
  without a doubt. You start going back and looking
• 40:17
  through the times, always, at least one.
• 40:21
  Now, the other one, this is the one that kind of got me Jack.
• 40:25
  So 1 through 4 gets about, those are for conference championships
• 40:29
  counting Samuel. The next 18 s will be playing
• 40:32
  games and they will be at the higher seeds either home field
• 40:37
  or a designated site determined by the higher.
• 40:41
  See I love that because a it's I'm just waiting for the day, a
• 40:49
  typically team that plays in sunshine and 75 degrees has to
• 40:54
  go to a place Like Madison or Ann Arbor or places like that,
• 41:01
  where it's like, so what's the temperature going to be negative
• 41:04
  6? Yep, yep.
• 41:05
  You know, it's going to be a foot of snow on the ground.
• 41:08
  I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to.
• 41:09
  I'm looking forward to potential appstate, hosting one of those
• 41:14
  games all have state hosting one of those game.
• 41:16
  Well, let's just do it back here.
• 41:17
  Think of that Marshall game back in twenty twenty nineteen, that
• 41:23
  we had a play in 2018, You 2018 when it was like 31 it was
• 41:28
  yucky, it was foggy. Those are some of the best games
• 41:32
  because it's like you can't out scheme.
• 41:36
  Someone it literally is going to be a physical game and I think
• 41:39
  seeing some of these potential venues you know, you take a look
• 41:44
  and you kind of think about last year seeing some of those venues
• 41:48
  on that stage right? That seeing those venues on that
• 41:51
  stage for a super meaningful game.
• 41:56
  That will shout out somebody. We're probably getting to this
• 41:58
  at some point in the offseason and people continue to say, they
• 42:03
  do not think it changes. Recruiting she had out, John are
• 42:07
  all out there who me and him he put together some data for me
• 42:11
  about how much top 300 Talent goes to certain schools.
• 42:15
  People continue to say well it's not going to change it's not
• 42:17
  going to change. How can that be?
• 42:19
  So how do you think it's not going to change if teams are
• 42:22
  getting two different levels of Of success.
• 42:26
  We saw that with the Hokies, right?
• 42:29
  The Hokies were team that recruited in the 30s.
• 42:31
  Got good started, recruiting in the 20s and then the team's you
• 42:35
  see this with so many. So every time I see someone well
• 42:38
  it's not going to change the way recruiting works.
• 42:39
  Yeah it is yeah it is couple of the other things, obviously it's
• 42:45
  going to be shaping up will be for quarterfinal bowl games and
• 42:49
  then obviously the semis and in the finals.
• 42:53
  Again, I think overall it's to me, it makes everything for the
• 42:59
  sport significantly better. Because some people say, well,
• 43:04
  oh, well, you know, some games just won't matter.
• 43:06
  And unless it's a playoff, I can't remember who said it,
• 43:10
  can't remember. I think it was Desmond, Howard,
• 43:14
  He literally just said this, you're going to give 20 to 25
• 43:17
  teams, hope at the end of October.
• 43:20
  Yep. Hope In hopes a dangerous thing.
• 43:25
  Yeah, yeah. I mean a lot of us are still
• 43:27
  coming off the the Hopi. Oh man.
• 43:30
  We're still detoxing after you know, getting ready for it and
• 43:34
  then we have one lost open the year.
• 43:36
  But yeah. So we talked about hope we talk
• 43:38
  about You know, you get into October, you still got something
• 43:44
  to play for and not just your conference Championship, but you
• 43:46
  got a chance to play in the playoff and playing a big game,
• 43:51
  potentially host a big game in the playoff, that's going to
• 43:54
  boost recruiting. You can't say it won't boost
• 43:56
  recruiting. There's going to be trickle down
• 44:01
  to these schools. Well, be, if I'm not saying is,
• 44:04
  I'm not saying it's going to be significant.
• 44:06
  I don't say, I don't think all of a sudden, if you know a
• 44:11
  what's the school? That's like kind of in that top
• 44:13
  25 well, it used to be a spy, but if we're if we're being
• 44:18
  realistic here, I don't know, man.
• 44:25
  I mean I was staying. I don't think I would stay, I
• 44:27
  don't think I would stay. So all of a sudden start
• 44:29
  recruiting like Alabama. No, but I think there could be a
• 44:34
  boost with that National brand getting even more prominent
• 44:38
  being on TV and then see the whole thing is it's the aisles.
• 44:44
  It's the more eyes on you or they're going to be some
• 44:46
  absolute destruction games. Yes, there is.
• 44:50
  But that's every week in college football, we've been On the
• 44:54
  we've been on the in the Hokey, in the last 10 years have been
• 44:57
  on the wrong side of some. But we got on the right side of
• 44:59
  some just dog stomping competition.
• 45:02
  So that happens even when two teams are fairly decently
• 45:06
  matched up. So I don't want to hear this.
• 45:09
  Oh, but what about the? What about the ask weapons?
• 45:12
  Last weapons happen, all over. Well, here's the thing last
• 45:15
  year, that the Bills and Patriots just shouldn't have
• 45:17
  played that game Ron. The bills are so much better
• 45:20
  than the Patriots, they shouldn't have played that game.
• 45:23
  In the Bills beat the shit out of them but they played the
• 45:26
  game, right? You played the game, you give
• 45:29
  someone a chance because who's not to say that the best player
• 45:32
  on your team, doesn't get hurt in the first quarter, he doesn't
• 45:34
  come back and even teams like Georgia like Alabama
• 45:37
  localhost:8080 certain players they lose on their teams you
• 45:42
  know, as well as I do. Those teams are not the same,
• 45:45
  it's true. It's true man.
• 45:49
  So overall wealth in playoff and they are saying 2026.
• 45:54
  I'm going to be straight up with you dog with my cousin.
• 45:57
  I think. ESPN going to Fast Track it to
• 46:00
  24. Well, I think they see what the
• 46:02
  ratings are doing for the non college football, playoff games,
• 46:05
  and they're like, all right. Well, If we have these games,
• 46:09
  they're going to, they're going to draw more ratings in the
• 46:12
  current bowl games are that aren't affiliated with the
• 46:14
  college playoff. So let's add those in.
• 46:17
  Let's get a couple extra games in, December that matter?
• 46:21
  Yes, and he's home environment Center.
• 46:26
  And I mean he'll they can still do like a college game day for
• 46:28
  those if they wanted to all. They'll I mean they they
• 46:31
  undoubtedly would you done? Download go to the biggest one.
• 46:34
  Heck, if you're in the honest truth is you might send
• 46:38
  different people to every location for that game.
• 46:42
  So it'd be interesting to see what they do.
• 46:44
  Oh yeah. Alright so before we get into
• 46:46
  the main topic tonight about knowing the enemy looking at BC
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  Now back to the episode All right, Brian.
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  So now some of our favorite time of the week and that's Know The
• 47:23
  Enemy. Let's take a look at BC and
• 47:26
  let's start on the defensive side of the ball.
• 47:29
  Let's take a look at cam Arnold the linebacker.
• 47:32
  Number 56, 1 227 pounds. He was a three-star out of the
• 47:37
  2020 class from Orchard Lake. Michigan, what are we seeing on
• 47:41
  the cam? Arnold Kate.
• 47:43
  Okay. Emerald is a former safety so
• 47:45
  he's got pretty good. Speed.
• 47:47
  This is his first year starting at linebacker.
• 47:50
  They kind of converted him. This offseason.
• 47:53
  They had him there in the spring and he earned the starting role
• 47:57
  coming to the season. What I'm seeing is he's really
• 48:00
  good at pursue what you would expect from a safety rate, but
• 48:03
  he's still working on shedding blockers in the box but he does
• 48:07
  make plays he flies around and he's pretty good in coverage as
• 48:11
  you would expect from a safety that's kind of moved into the
• 48:13
  box. There he does a good job of
• 48:16
  coverage. Out there on a running back and
• 48:17
  isolated. Where are we seeing him?
• 48:20
  Primary lineup is he playing well?
• 48:22
  Or she playing a little bit more on the outside.
• 48:25
  So he would be in the in the four to five in the Bud.
• 48:28
  Foster 425. He would have been a backer.
• 48:31
  Okay. Yeah.
• 48:32
  Alright awesome. Solid game up against You have
• 48:38
  against Rutgers had five tackles last year in a primary backup
• 48:42
  role, you know. 60 plus tackles three-and-a-half and loss in a
• 48:46
  sack. So obviously a young guy who is
• 48:49
  finding his coming into his own quickly in this half a defensive
• 48:54
  scheme. Now I know another guy you said
• 48:56
  the popped off at the tape while you were watching that game on
• 49:00
  Saturday afternoon by the way. Brian watch truckers BC, twice
• 49:07
  life. Twice, you deserve like statues.
• 49:12
  Well, you deserve a drink for that.
• 49:14
  But let's talk about Vinnie DePalma.
• 49:21
  What are you seeing out of any De Palma?
• 49:24
  He's more of a traditional inside backer kind of that
• 49:27
  prototypical Mike type player. He does really well in the
• 49:30
  blocks inside the box as a tackler.
• 49:35
  Sure. And getting guys to the ground,
• 49:37
  probably one of the better in terms of just pure mechanics and
• 49:42
  tackling that you'll see on that defense they don't really use
• 49:46
  them as a Blitzer and they don't really rely on him a lot in
• 49:50
  coverage. He's not on the field when
• 49:53
  there's an obvious path situation, so when they go
• 49:55
  nickel when they sub, they're pulling him off the field pretty
• 49:58
  regularly. Yeah.
• 49:59
  And I'm seeing Bryce steals name a lot when they come and doing
• 50:03
  that obviously dipalma, you know, a linebacker, you know, 61
• 50:09
  about 225 was a 20-18 three-star commitment to the Eagles.
• 50:18
  Obviously, this is his covid year.
• 50:21
  Yep, I'm not mistaken. This is his covid year.
• 50:23
  He should have been gone last year, solid, season last year.
• 50:28
  Fifty three tackles a few tackles for loss.
• 50:30
  So I think the one thing is had nine tackles against Rutgers.
• 50:34
  We're going to see his name a lot regardless, my hope is its
• 50:38
  further up the field then at the line of scrimmage but when he's
• 50:43
  in there I mean that's kind of his job, right?
• 50:47
  Yeah, he's kind of he's that guy that's kind of cleaning up in
• 50:49
  the middle there. Obviously, we hope that it's
• 50:52
  going to be more of that, you know, 56 yards, downfield before
• 50:55
  that contacts made instead of at the line of scrimmage.
• 50:59
  Absolutely. All right.
• 51:00
  So let's flip from the linebacking corps and let's take
• 51:02
  a look at the defensive back room because they do have some
• 51:04
  pretty good players there and let's start with a pretty highly
• 51:08
  talented guy that came to be sivaya transfer from Florida
• 51:12
  State and that's Jaden would be a six-foot-tall.
• 51:16
  You pay on defensive back safety.
• 51:18
  How to Fontana California at The Perennial power st.
• 51:21
  John Bosco out there a top 50 player top 10 safety in the
• 51:27
  country. Of course star, when he first
• 51:29
  came out, what are they using him as now?
• 51:34
  Obviously for him to get that haffley experience with the go
• 51:39
  coach in the NFL potential chance to land in the NFL.
• 51:43
  If it's plate warranted this year, Yeah, he's kind of playing
• 51:48
  that that nickel whipped tape roll you definitely, as we've
• 51:54
  seen in the more modern version of this defense, more of a
• 51:56
  nickel type type position with with heavy coverage
• 52:00
  responsibilities, they like to match him up against the tight
• 52:04
  end and the slot and he does really good in that role.
• 52:07
  He's good in coverage, especially in man coverage but
• 52:12
  he's also really good at coming down and filling against the
• 52:14
  rush. So you kind of Cleans up that
• 52:16
  spill area, they're pretty good as well.
• 52:18
  So he's definitely I'd say the best overall Defender, all that
• 52:24
  defense just because of how balanced he is and how much he
• 52:27
  can impact in the in the passing game and in the in the Run game
• 52:31
  and I'm assuming to would his body type and athleticism that
• 52:36
  lends itself to do a lot of things all over the field.
• 52:39
  Yeah. Yeah, they'll use them a lot of
• 52:41
  different ways, he'll Blitz. They don't Blitz a ton but when
• 52:44
  they do the, he's he's one of the primary guys that's blitzing
• 52:49
  and like I said, they liked him in coverage and they like him to
• 52:51
  kind of clean up the spill area and kind of press that edge.
• 52:55
  All right, so remember the name, Jaden would be not a huge
• 52:58
  popping game against rocker just five tackles one for loss, so
• 53:02
  we'll see how it goes. Now.
• 53:04
  Let's take a look at probably what you told me is their best
• 53:07
  corner. Elijah Joan.
• 53:09
  Six-foot-two cornerback from Harlem, New York played at
• 53:13
  Cardinal Hayes. High School with Reese are
• 53:15
  recruiting the 2018 class. What's Elijah Jones showing you
• 53:20
  Brian? He's their best coverage Corner,
• 53:25
  kind of a good balance of all. Three, kind of disciplines.
• 53:28
  They're good in man above average, press about average
• 53:33
  Zone. They usually match him up
• 53:36
  consistently against the best receiver on the other team.
• 53:39
  They I to at least so we're probably gonna have to scheme
• 53:44
  some guys away from him to get some additional spacing in the
• 53:49
  passing game. You know, he had a pretty had a
• 53:55
  pick against Rutgers took it back.
• 53:57
  Almost 40 yards, consistently, it looks like he's always been a
• 54:01
  good tackler you know, 25 plus tackles every season he's played
• 54:08
  All right, does it? Worry you if Caleb can't go?
• 54:12
  Does it worry you? That he would probably be
• 54:14
  matched up what probably Lofton or you think someone else?
• 54:17
  It depends on what we decide to do with Connor plumber.
• 54:22
  As weird as that sounds, that does sound weird.
• 54:26
  It does sound weird. I think, if we don't have Caleb,
• 54:30
  I think mixing in Connor is probably the best plan B, just
• 54:34
  because size and athleticism. He's the closest approximation
• 54:39
  to Caleb. So he could probably do some of
• 54:43
  that and fill that role a little bit.
• 54:47
  I don't think he's as dynamic as Caleb is.
• 54:49
  I think Caleb right now is probably our best overall We're
• 54:53
  all receiver on the roster right now, so but there's you know,
• 54:58
  there's some potential there to get blumrich, some extra
• 55:01
  touches, and it might be something that that happens.
• 55:04
  It might not, I do hope to see blumrich out there in on the
• 55:09
  field more than we saw him this past week because I feel like he
• 55:12
  does create some mismatched problems.
• 55:14
  Well let's let's just this is kind of flipping Hokies that
• 55:18
  sideline pass well. He actually made the catch.
• 55:21
  He was out. Out of bounds.
• 55:22
  But that catching itself was impressive and it's what we
• 55:25
  would have been in bounds. If the safety didn't come and
• 55:27
  knock you out the safety pushed in.
• 55:30
  So if nothing else, he's big body, just any, got some speed
• 55:35
  to send him down field. Can I ask this though?
• 55:38
  And we talked about a little earlier, I don't you can explain
• 55:41
  if they decide to match him up on Loft and obviously he's got a
• 55:44
  significant size weight advantage on the way in Lofton.
• 55:48
  What can we do to get DeWayne? Because we did see doing with
• 55:53
  some wiggle with a couple good catches last week.
• 55:57
  Yeah, I think we probably move in motion a little bit more to
• 56:00
  try to get some spacing at the snap.
• 56:03
  I think you try to scheme him. Open some more.
• 56:08
  You know, we saw We saw a play last week where we had to post
• 56:14
  to one side off of play action and we're and a krauser from the
• 56:19
  other side. Underneath that.
• 56:21
  Had to clear out play-action worked on the like sucking the
• 56:25
  linebackers in stuff like that. My give him a little bit more
• 56:29
  room to operate. You know, we might see some
• 56:32
  other other other techniques to get him open.
• 56:36
  I guess. I think the biggest thing is
• 56:38
  going to be getting him in motion where they're not able to
• 56:40
  get in his face at the snap. All right.
• 56:42
  Good to know. All right, let's talk about last
• 56:45
  player. Let's look at the defensive line
• 56:47
  and Donovan is a rock. Ooh.
• 56:52
  I did not go to the pronunciation guide on that one.
• 56:54
  Let me see if I change either was very waku as my guess is
• 57:01
  your rock. All right, I didn't hear it
• 57:04
  enough on the PA during the game to tell you exactly what it is.
• 57:08
  All right, well, either way he's number 6, keep an eye on and
• 57:11
  huge game against Rutgers 9 solo tackles Not usually, eight solo.
• 57:20
  Tackles two tackles for loss, a sack, he forced to fumbles.
• 57:24
  He was everywhere. He's 62.
• 57:26
  He's 236, so definitely little under sized defensive in
• 57:30
  Williamstown, New Jersey, and a freshman back yet, or a, or a
• 57:36
  freshman last year, sophomore, this year.
• 57:38
  So, a relatively young player when he was a three-star, what's
• 57:43
  it say, what's this? What's the tape?
• 57:45
  And what you see with him versus Rutgers?
• 57:49
  He pops out on tape. He kind of reminds me of bar.
• 57:51
  No light. Okay, looking at him, they use
• 57:54
  them. A lot of the two-point stance
• 57:56
  coming off. The edge just like we did in
• 57:58
  2021 with bar know. He has good speed coming off the
• 58:02
  edge. He disrupts, he has shocking
• 58:06
  amount of strength given his size and youth at this point and
• 58:10
  he uses that strength due to his Advantage.
• 58:12
  So probably a little bit stronger against the rush.
• 58:19
  But it's still a guy that you could potentially run at in
• 58:22
  order to mitigate some of that that speed rush off the edge and
• 58:26
  the way. We again, look for running the
• 58:27
  ball at might be the way to go. You mentioned kind of various
• 58:31
  pieces throughout talking about each of these Players.
• 58:34
  Let's just get high level on their scheme.
• 58:37
  Yeah, and I talked about it, it's a four to five.
• 58:39
  It's very, very familiar so system in terms of the scheme
• 58:43
  but they're less aggressively blitzing, it's more akin to the
• 58:48
  I am model then it would be the Bud.
• 58:51
  Foster model, they don't Blitz the time.
• 58:56
  They rely on their pursuit in the Run game and getting
• 58:59
  pressure with four in the past game.
• 59:03
  So they're comfortable setting back and they're comfortable
• 59:05
  playing various coverages and they don't bring a ton of
• 59:10
  pressure. All right, so I guess that a lot
• 59:13
  goes into haffley being, an NFL guy with his roots, right?
• 59:18
  Because you don't see as many aggressive schemes in the NFL,
• 59:21
  it's a lot more rush for play zone or various schemes.
• 59:25
  Some Zone, some man. How do you think we can attack
• 59:30
  this? I mean, the big thing is that
• 59:34
  kind of force them to over-pursue fooled them with
• 59:38
  misdirection that would be the primary way.
• 59:42
  I would attack them is, is try to get them pursuing one way in
• 59:46
  attack than the other. They do push hard when they're
• 59:53
  attacking the in the Run game and in the short passing game,
• 59:55
  they will get to the spot. So if we can get their eyes
• 59:59
  tricked, I think that's the best way to About it.
• 1:00:03
  All right, let's flip over to the offense, take a look at
• 1:00:06
  that. And obviously we're going to
• 1:00:09
  talk about Folger Kovac first, the six-foot-five now. 214
• 1:00:15
  pounds, took a little weight off of it from last year, if you
• 1:00:20
  remember him, Gibsonia outskirts of Pittsburgh for star in the
• 1:00:24
  2018 class of the top five quarterback top 100 player.
• 1:00:29
  Bridgely went to Notre Dame. Came to To BC in the 2020
• 1:00:36
  portal. He is currently one in one
• 1:00:39
  versus the Hokies in his career. And is there anything different
• 1:00:43
  popping this year compared to when you had a review for him a
• 1:00:47
  couple years ago? Because obviously we didn't play
• 1:00:48
  him last year. We did playing last year.
• 1:00:51
  You just had there were he was a game-time decision?
• 1:00:54
  Yeah yeah we were, we were preparing for a couple different
• 1:00:57
  options last year so we didn't necessarily Focus as heavily on.
• 1:01:02
  Jerk over. Just because he was somebody
• 1:01:04
  that we were familiar with from from previous season.
• 1:01:09
  I'd say, the big thing is the weight loss.
• 1:01:11
  He's still a big guy, but he's got enough wiggle and speed to
• 1:01:14
  break the pocket when necessary. You know, we've seen it before
• 1:01:18
  he's got a big and mostly accurate arm, he can get the
• 1:01:22
  ball. Downfield can throw on the run.
• 1:01:23
  Pretty well sometimes throws the ball, a little too flat on those
• 1:01:28
  intermediate routes. So we got opportunities there to
• 1:01:30
  pick them off their little Order to catch.
• 1:01:32
  So we might be able to you know as long as our Corners have good
• 1:01:37
  angles. There might be some that are
• 1:01:38
  hard part to catch there. But the big thing is that he
• 1:01:43
  does take risk with his body by staying in the pocket too long
• 1:01:46
  and taking unnecessary hits when he's scrambling.
• 1:01:49
  So that's going to be the opportunity to fluster him.
• 1:01:52
  Get him off his game. Rutgers did a good job in that
• 1:01:55
  in that game as it went on getting after gjakova.
• 1:02:00
  Can kind of taking them a little bit out of his game because they
• 1:02:05
  were somewhat dealing or early on in that game, especially the
• 1:02:09
  connection between him and The guy we're going to talk about in
• 1:02:13
  a couple minutes and as things were on Rutgers kind of started
• 1:02:17
  hitting him and it wasn't going quite the way they wanted to
• 1:02:21
  anymore. So that's going to be that I
• 1:02:23
  think the biggest thing we can do to attack him he will make a
• 1:02:26
  mistake with the football when he tries to do too much.
• 1:02:28
  So we got to do better than we did this past Friday night and
• 1:02:33
  when those balls are hitting our BB's in the hands of got to
• 1:02:37
  bring that in, if I was going to ask about that.
• 1:02:41
  That because you know he threw three touchdowns he threw almost
• 1:02:44
  300 yards under 60 percent completion percentage.
• 1:02:46
  We threw the two picks were they because he got hit forcing, or
• 1:02:52
  what it looked like with the two picked when you watch the tape,
• 1:02:55
  it was a mix of everything. The first one looked like he was
• 1:02:59
  more, just rushed the ball out, wasn't where it needed to be the
• 1:03:09
  One of the I think was a backer or a nickel was playing for
• 1:03:13
  Rutgers was playing, kind of that deep flat and he kind of
• 1:03:17
  saw where Phil's going, within sank back and picked it off.
• 1:03:21
  The second was more of a pocket was collapsing type deal.
• 1:03:25
  Alright so one of those essentially something we saw a
• 1:03:29
  couple times bad decisions being made.
• 1:03:31
  Let's hope that he makes more versus the Hokies.
• 1:03:35
  Now let's be realistic here it is.
• 1:03:37
  Boston College. So the They seem to run the ball
• 1:03:41
  and with Pat Garo you know what's he what's he looking like
• 1:03:49
  this year you know the 5 foot 8, 2008 from Levittown PA top 10
• 1:03:55
  player NPA in 2019 a three-star. What's he looking like this
• 1:04:00
  year? The first game it's kind of hard
• 1:04:04
  to tell. He looks like he has a little
• 1:04:06
  bit more juice in his legs. He did lose a little bit of
• 1:04:10
  weight in the offseason just like your Kovac did.
• 1:04:14
  It looks like his ability to bounce out and get to the edge
• 1:04:17
  as a little bit better than it was in years past.
• 1:04:20
  But he still a patient Runner and mostly between the tackles
• 1:04:24
  not really Elite Speed, especially he's not going to
• 1:04:27
  break one, a big one. If he gets to the second level
• 1:04:31
  unless there's kind of clear sailing ahead of him.
• 1:04:35
  And he's not really used a ton in the passing game.
• 1:04:37
  That's definitely not his strength, but they will
• 1:04:39
  occasionally throw the ball to. I'm here there when they need
• 1:04:41
  to, but he had probably one of his worst games against Rutgers
• 1:04:46
  and it was one that actually started pretty well.
• 1:04:49
  Most the yards that he got was in the first quarter and a half.
• 1:04:53
  Oh wow. I mean, he only had 25, he was
• 1:04:57
  under two and carry against Rutgers.
• 1:05:00
  And I mean, this is a guy who last year, you know, thousand
• 1:05:04
  yards rushing over five of care, you know, seven touchdowns.
• 1:05:07
  Obviously he's not a big pass catcher because he kind of is
• 1:05:11
  what he is. But I think we're going to get
• 1:05:15
  into why potentially, he is struggling a little bit more
• 1:05:19
  this year, but let's talk about the one guy on offense that
• 1:05:25
  Cannot let we cannot let him beat us and that is a flowers.
• 1:05:30
  You know they flowers every year just seems like he's there
• 1:05:36
  catching balls making plays, you know 22 touchdowns down his
• 1:05:41
  four-year career there, he was a three-star, he is a Florida kid
• 1:05:45
  from down in Fort Lauderdale in 2019 and I mean 117 yards with
• 1:05:51
  those two touchdowns on Saturday, man.
• 1:05:54
  He he had Game. That's pretty big.
• 1:05:59
  Yeah, he's a dangerous deep threat.
• 1:06:01
  He's also that home run hitter on that short stuff.
• 1:06:04
  So he has a has a big yards after the catch game, along with
• 1:06:09
  being a deep threat that can that can burn you deep down
• 1:06:11
  field. So got to make sure we're not
• 1:06:13
  allowing home runs to him. Don't let him beat you with one
• 1:06:16
  play. He also plays the ball.
• 1:06:19
  Well on on back shoulder throws, which we saw heard us against
• 1:06:24
  ODU a couple times. So we got to be cognizant.
• 1:06:27
  That when he's in those deep routes, he's going to come back,
• 1:06:30
  try to make a play on the ball if it's under thrown and does a
• 1:06:33
  really good job with that, he had won the first touchdown that
• 1:06:36
  he caught was kind of an incredible kind of combat back
• 1:06:41
  shoulder where, you know, I don't know how he got how the
• 1:06:44
  ball got in there but it did and he was able to make the play on
• 1:06:46
  it. He's also a big-time threat in
• 1:06:49
  the return game. So we got to do good on special
• 1:06:52
  teams, containing him there as well.
• 1:06:54
  Yeah. So you know, again, we have that
• 1:06:57
  one guy on the outside that can be that can beat us and, you
• 1:07:02
  know, we just, we cannot let it happen because you know, in
• 1:07:06
  their first couple games this year, it's really been.
• 1:07:09
  It was a and then the next guy we're going to talk about, you
• 1:07:12
  know. No one else had any more than
• 1:07:15
  two catches against Rutgers. Other than Zay flowers in George
• 1:07:19
  takas the number 80 tight end six-foot-six 247 pounds out of
• 1:07:24
  maple. Four-star.
• 1:07:26
  When he came out in 2018, again, went to the Irish then
• 1:07:30
  transferred to be see. I feel like BC has their portal
• 1:07:35
  school already set up when it doesn't work out there and you
• 1:07:39
  know, just this week, seven catches 84 yd.
• 1:07:44
  I feel like between flowers and Tack is, we're looking at the
• 1:07:47
  same two guys again, just like we did at ODU.
• 1:07:51
  Yeah, I feel like Boston College is becoming like the relegation
• 1:07:55
  school for the Irish, anybody that's not consistently starting
• 1:08:01
  or transfers out of at a Notre. Dame is heading over to the to
• 1:08:05
  the other Catholic school there in Boston.
• 1:08:09
  But, I mean he's had back-to-back games.
• 1:08:13
  We've now had big athletic, tight ends that were dealing
• 1:08:16
  with And tag has had a good game against Rutgers, they like to
• 1:08:23
  use them up the seam on kind of the shallow crossers and those
• 1:08:27
  quick outs and where he's going to hurt us.
• 1:08:29
  Probably the most is up the seam so that that's the one we got to
• 1:08:32
  be cognizant of and he's primarily used as a secondary
• 1:08:36
  read within the offense. He's not not the primary very
• 1:08:39
  often will hit him. Hit him on a couple of routes.
• 1:08:42
  Where he's the first look but usually he's the secondary read
• 1:08:46
  within the game. What about blocking do?
• 1:08:51
  We need to worry about him on the line.
• 1:08:52
  He does have good size obviously, or is it not in his
• 1:08:55
  game? He blocks, well, it's not his
• 1:08:59
  strong suit but it's not a liability either.
• 1:09:03
  All right, so there they are in now Brian.
• 1:09:07
  Let's talk about where their biggest issue is and it's
• 1:09:10
  something that I think probably shocked you a little bit as you
• 1:09:12
  were looking at it and that is the offensive line.
• 1:09:16
  I mean obviously I mean this week running the ball mean they
• 1:09:23
  barely broke 40 yards. They had a total of actually
• 1:09:27
  they didn't break 30 yards, 29 yards on 28 carries not good at
• 1:09:33
  all. What is it, what is it showing?
• 1:09:36
  What is that lunch going now? Yeah and some of that's negative
• 1:09:39
  yardage on some sacks but it still was a pretty garbage
• 1:09:42
  performance by the offensive line and the running game is a
• 1:09:45
  whole this is not offensive line you this year guys, we're not
• 1:09:50
  looking at your typical Boston College, offensive line.
• 1:09:54
  They are pretty much all young and inexperienced after the ACL
• 1:09:58
  injury to Christian Hagen e this off season, that really We put
• 1:10:03
  them behind the eight ball, they had one returning, seasoned
• 1:10:06
  veteran and then you lose him too, right?
• 1:10:10
  Now they're looking like in terms of guys with experience
• 1:10:14
  Ozzy trapillo whose class of 2020, started a couple games as
• 1:10:18
  a four-star, Prospect out of high school, he's really the
• 1:10:20
  best linchpin they have in terms of that.
• 1:10:24
  And I think he's had two starts in his career before before
• 1:10:29
  Rutgers. So The Run blocking wasn't bad
• 1:10:35
  but it was so inconsistent that they couldn't really
• 1:10:37
  consistently, get to the second level and they just BC felt like
• 1:10:41
  they needed to abandon that because it just wasn't getting
• 1:10:45
  the getting them ahead of the sticks.
• 1:10:49
  And when they went to pass Pro, it was even worse when they were
• 1:10:53
  early in the game when things are a little more balanced
• 1:10:56
  Djokovic had some time. Once they kind of went full
• 1:11:00
  full, Acid Rutgers was pinning, their ears back, Jacoby was
• 1:11:04
  getting crushed. All right, so obviously issues
• 1:11:09
  there and obviously they obviously had a changeup in
• 1:11:12
  scheme this year because I can remember Frank cignetti left
• 1:11:19
  them. Went over to pit and now you
• 1:11:22
  know they're looking at John McNulty who John McNulty's.
• 1:11:26
  Last stop was a tight end Coach over at Notre Dame.
• 1:11:31
  So what are you seeing? Does it does it make sense that
• 1:11:34
  he has a he was a tight end Coach faded from what you've
• 1:11:37
  seen. Yeah they run multiple lot of 11
• 1:11:41
  and 12 Personnel, pretty heavy 12 to start the game.
• 1:11:44
  It went more 11 as as things went on about a 60/40, pastor
• 1:11:50
  run is what they would like to be at obviously Rutgers kind of
• 1:11:54
  took them out of their game plan by the middle of the second
• 1:11:58
  quarter in that game and it was Very much a one-dimensional
• 1:12:03
  offense, which if we can do that, I think that's probably
• 1:12:07
  our best case essentially make them one-dimensional.
• 1:12:09
  And make sure say flowers, doesn't beat us with one play.
• 1:12:14
  But, yeah, the offensive line is definitely their weakness, and
• 1:12:16
  it's gonna hinder the heights that they could potentially
• 1:12:20
  reach because they're not going to be effective enough
• 1:12:23
  consistently in the Run game, and that's going to mean that
• 1:12:26
  your code is going to be dropping back. 35 + x, a game,
• 1:12:29
  trying to win it with His arm and hopefully get to getting
• 1:12:32
  enough touches. Buys a flowers where they can
• 1:12:34
  make something happen. All right.
• 1:12:36
  Let me ask this concerning, especially at offensive line.
• 1:12:39
  If I front seven, comes out and plays the way they did against
• 1:12:42
  odu's at good or do. We need to be at a higher level?
• 1:12:46
  I think we need to be at slightly higher level.
• 1:12:47
  When I'll say that, we need to finish plays better.
• 1:12:51
  We talked about it earlier, whether it's a tackle for loss,
• 1:12:54
  whether it's a sack, we need to get home and we need to make
• 1:12:57
  sure when we get home that we finished the tackle.
• 1:13:00
  Alright? Good deal.
• 1:13:01
  So that's Know The Enemy, both offensive and defensive, take a
• 1:13:05
  look, some players in some of their schemes.
• 1:13:07
  Let's flip it over to the Hokey keys.
• 1:13:10
  Told Brian this morning, we talked or this afternoon, we
• 1:13:13
  talk Brian have to change much up from last week what we were
• 1:13:16
  discussing, but it's written a little bit differently this
• 1:13:20
  time. So, obviously, the one I had up
• 1:13:23
  last week was turnovers and we've already talked about it a
• 1:13:27
  few times tonight. Obviously, we were negative 3 in
• 1:13:30
  that department, then the turnovers led to roughly 17
• 1:13:35
  points of offense for or production for ODU.
• 1:13:41
  Again, we talked about the locations, we've talked about
• 1:13:44
  where they were, but when you're negative 3, you should never
• 1:13:48
  expect to win a game. A, yeah, I mean, it puts you
• 1:13:52
  behind the eight ball and you couple that with, you know,
• 1:13:55
  something we're going to talk about later and it's just it's
• 1:13:58
  so hard to overcome no matter the level of competition that
• 1:14:01
  you're playing. But I mean turnovers is
• 1:14:05
  something that we're going to have to limit, you know, we
• 1:14:08
  can't have we specially To have them on special teams, that
• 1:14:12
  should be you know you snap it and kick it if you miss it
• 1:14:16
  whatever but we shouldn't be giving the ball over.
• 1:14:19
  We shouldn't be giving up points on special teams, we should
• 1:14:23
  never see that. So absolutely, that's number
• 1:14:25
  one. Number two, You know, we talked
• 1:14:29
  about Grant Wells, we talked about making some smart throws
• 1:14:32
  in the decisions. So yeah, two of them were
• 1:14:36
  grossly, Bad Decisions by Grant Wells, specifically by Grant
• 1:14:41
  Wells. You know, if he if he cuts down
• 1:14:45
  on that, you know, I'll take the ones where there's a
• 1:14:47
  miscommunication. I'll take the ones when you're
• 1:14:50
  just trying to make a play. Yeah I can't take ones where you
• 1:14:55
  see Pressman and you still throwing out.
• 1:14:58
  On the inside shoulder, I can't take the ones where, you know,
• 1:15:01
  we need 15 yards for a first down and you're throwing a
• 1:15:05
  3-yard. Check down to a guy with the
• 1:15:07
  linebacker on his back. Cut those down, cut those out.
• 1:15:13
  We can live to find another town.
• 1:15:15
  Yeah, so for the Hokies it's clean up now.
• 1:15:18
  I will say this BC is not exactly clean.
• 1:15:24
  I mean, they had three turnovers versus Rutgers.
• 1:15:27
  The two picks 50 kopecks in another fumble.
• 1:15:29
  And this is the team even with three turnovers had a lead under
• 1:15:34
  three minutes to go. Now, obviously, when Rutgers was
• 1:15:37
  without their starting quarterback and without their
• 1:15:39
  primary weapon in their tight end.
• 1:15:42
  So they were missing a few things but still a team that
• 1:15:45
  turned the ball over a lot, including they had 14 points off
• 1:15:49
  turnovers, including one that is literally at the Yeah for
• 1:15:54
  Rutgers. So I see that if we can if we
• 1:15:57
  can it's one of those like who cleans up their turnover act
• 1:16:00
  faster the Hokies or Boston College could win this game.
• 1:16:06
  And I know we've been talking about it all night, the other
• 1:16:09
  Keys Battle these. We just don't expect to be
• 1:16:12
  perfect. But if penalties, if we don't
• 1:16:17
  clean up penalties by 45 yards, I don't think there's any way we
• 1:16:21
  can win this game. Well, if you look at just the
• 1:16:23
  procedural penalties alone, that was about 50 yards against ODU.
• 1:16:30
  So if we clean up, just the procedural stuff, which is the
• 1:16:32
  easiest thing to clean up, you know, you're kind of hitting
• 1:16:35
  that Benchmark out, the gate. If you do that, and cut the
• 1:16:37
  turnovers at least in have, at least down to one or two, then
• 1:16:43
  there's a chance. You can make some some magic
• 1:16:46
  happen there. You know, you said it and we've
• 1:16:49
  kind of talked about it ODU, you know, we we didn't play well.
• 1:16:55
  You know, when you look at what beat we, when we look at what BC
• 1:16:59
  did they didn't play well against Rutgers and you said it
• 1:17:02
  all unisa. Yeah, go for it.
• 1:17:04
  You say would be seated first well BC shit, the bed against
• 1:17:08
  Rutgers. We let a cow shit in our bed and
• 1:17:11
  then we decided to jump in it, we as just wasn't one.
• 1:17:14
  I threw up. Ours was a bunch of screw-ups.
• 1:17:18
  And literally, not only do we let it happen.
• 1:17:22
  We just continue to wallow in it over and over again.
• 1:17:25
  That was the issue. It wasn't necessarily mistakes
• 1:17:28
  or me, it's football. Mistakes are going to be made.
• 1:17:30
  It's like they were happening over and over and over and I
• 1:17:34
  know Prime mentioned it in the one thing about while giving big
• 1:17:40
  shout-out price said it the first minute.
• 1:17:43
  And this is where I think the difference is first minute of
• 1:17:46
  his pressure after the game. The players were pressing.
• 1:17:51
  The players were pressing. I have to do a better job of not
• 1:17:57
  making them press within the first minute.
• 1:17:59
  He put the accountability and I think for a lot of people for
• 1:18:04
  the last five years, that wasn't the case.
• 1:18:07
  What was it always? Brian.
• 1:18:08
  It's always a t word, execution, always execution in Brian.
• 1:18:13
  Eventually got to the point where he said the motherfucker,
• 1:18:17
  you're the one coaching them you need.
• 1:18:19
  Teach them to execute better and you need to say that you need to
• 1:18:22
  teach them to execute better. Yeah.
• 1:18:24
  If some at some point it all comes back to you either, either
• 1:18:28
  you're not preparing them, you're not coaching them.
• 1:18:30
  Well, enough to be prepared or your recruiting the wrong type
• 1:18:33
  of players you need for them to be prepared.
• 1:18:35
  So it's at some point, it's coming back to you.
• 1:18:39
  You know, we can make excuses for a season here or season
• 1:18:43
  their of, okay? We just don't have the right,
• 1:18:45
  right guys, or not getting it done.
• 1:18:48
  When you start seeing a Pattern. That's what he's that's when
• 1:18:51
  it's got to go. So that that's that's the
• 1:18:53
  difference in. You know, I'm glad that we have
• 1:18:57
  some accountability but at some point obviously on this regime
• 1:19:02
  accountability is not going to get you where you want to be
• 1:19:05
  either eventually you got to fix those things.
• 1:19:07
  Go out there and get it done and get it done.
• 1:19:10
  All right, so speaking of getting it done, I think the
• 1:19:14
  third key and this is one that was actually fun to look at.
• 1:19:17
  And think about was the rushing offense.
• 1:19:20
  We had even with a poorly block gang, or a slightly
• 1:19:24
  above-average Block game on the running versus that BC run
• 1:19:27
  defense. We've already mentioned it.
• 1:19:29
  Don't let the stats fool you when there is a 54-yard scoop
• 1:19:33
  and score or by remember this, they take it off of the rushing
• 1:19:37
  totals. Realistically.
• 1:19:39
  The Hokies went over 200 yard realistically, 5.3 carry.
• 1:19:44
  I'm looking at the Rutgers game. You saw it?
• 1:19:46
  Brian! I'm looking at the data Rutgers
• 1:19:48
  went 40 to 42 12. All three of their touchdowns
• 1:19:51
  came on the ground. Give me a reason.
• 1:19:56
  Why is that brown? Why did Rutgers who?
• 1:20:00
  It wasn't the most talented team?
• 1:20:02
  Basically get five carry on BC. They're a little soft in the
• 1:20:07
  middle. I think we have some
• 1:20:09
  opportunities between the tackles to hurt them.
• 1:20:14
  They do have some good players out on the edge in The Spill
• 1:20:16
  area and they're going to try to Spill the rush out to those
• 1:20:20
  areas and let those guys clean up.
• 1:20:22
  But they are a little softer in the middle and I think that's
• 1:20:24
  where we Taking advantage, you know, you got a safety playing
• 1:20:27
  linebacker, still learning to get off blocks.
• 1:20:30
  I think, I think that's where we can kind of make some hay, and
• 1:20:33
  if they don't clean it up, I think that's our opportunity.
• 1:20:36
  Yeah. And this isn't just like a
• 1:20:38
  one-time thing because BC was not good last year.
• 1:20:41
  They were 90 s, it like 178 a game.
• 1:20:44
  So this is clearly an ongoing issue for halfling, his coaching
• 1:20:48
  staff with the potential to scheme change, you know, even
• 1:20:52
  though it's a four to five, something more traditional car,
• 1:20:54
  College not playing at the college way, which walk-in
• 1:20:58
  safeties up to the line filling gaps.
• 1:21:00
  You're going to without having the correct defensive Personnel,
• 1:21:03
  you're going to give up some yard.
• 1:21:05
  So, you know, it'll be really interesting to see.
• 1:21:10
  You know what team is able to convey turn it all around and
• 1:21:15
  you know, that's where we land here at our game predictions.
• 1:21:18
  And you know is you know, you know, three weeks ago I'm
• 1:21:23
  sitting here. We're saying Out in three weeks
• 1:21:25
  and four of five and seven in. Right now, some of the games I
• 1:21:31
  foresaw as potential wins, I'm recalculating and I can't do it
• 1:21:36
  until I see change. So unfortunately for me I've got
• 1:21:39
  to take BC and I got to take them and it's going to be a
• 1:21:43
  dogfight. I got to go 2824 you know
• 1:21:47
  Brian's heading up to Blacksburg on Saturday I wish I could I've
• 1:21:50
  got some things going on but what do?
• 1:21:54
  You think Brian. Are you going to be driving back
• 1:21:56
  down 81 Saturday night happier? It might be a long drive back
• 1:22:03
  and I'm kind of right there with you and I'm actually with you in
• 1:22:05
  a little bit more. Dramatic fashion I've got us
• 1:22:09
  coming up one point short 28 27 BC.
• 1:22:15
  I need to see it. I need to see us in prove I need
• 1:22:18
  to see with Improvement. Does that mean that the offense
• 1:22:22
  looks a little better more cohesive in terms of putting
• 1:22:25
  points on the board? And until I see that it's her
• 1:22:28
  too. Trust that we're going to see
• 1:22:32
  significant difference. I think there's going to be
• 1:22:34
  Improvement, don't don't get me wrong.
• 1:22:36
  I think we're going to see a good amount of improvement week
• 1:22:38
  one to week two. I don't think we're going to be
• 1:22:40
  in that I don't I don't think we're going to be plus 10 in
• 1:22:44
  penalties. I don't think we're going to be
• 1:22:47
  at five turnovers but I don't know if we're going to do enough
• 1:22:49
  cleaning up. Relative to what BC does to get
• 1:22:53
  it done. All right, some prawns and 2827.
• 1:22:58
  I'm in 2824 both going BC. Hope we're sitting here.
• 1:23:02
  Seven days from now saying we're completely wrong.
• 1:23:06
  It went wrong. Last we got, I'd love to be
• 1:23:08
  wrong again this week. Love it, love it.
• 1:23:10
  All right, let's go real quick. Do big screeners brine.
• 1:23:15
  I'll leave you with this one as well.
• 1:23:16
  I am hoping after the Hokies make me, prove me wrong.
• 1:23:21
  Long. I'm gonna probably be watching
• 1:23:23
  very closely the BYU Baylor game, obviously, future Big 12
• 1:23:28
  that's going to be out at BYU. Great atmosphere out there.
• 1:23:31
  I expected to be a brawl, Baylor is laying three in are getting
• 1:23:37
  three and a half points on the road.
• 1:23:40
  I think this game is going to be tight anyway, so when the team I
• 1:23:44
  shade and feel a little bit better about getting points.
• 1:23:47
  I want to take Baylor and three and a half.
• 1:23:49
  Both teams are ranked burned, by the way.
• 1:23:51
  Just So you want to know, I know you will be in Blacksburg and
• 1:23:57
  what game are you going to be trying to check out at
• 1:23:58
  Sharkey's, PK's tots wherever you may Land?
• 1:24:02
  Once you're down in the Homeland.
• 1:24:04
  Yeah, I'm going to actually take a look at that Tennessee pit
• 1:24:06
  game. I think there's some interest
• 1:24:08
  there on both sides. We obviously got, you know,
• 1:24:10
  Hendon quarterbacking the The Tennessee Squad there while we
• 1:24:15
  got pit is a game that we're going to look towards later in
• 1:24:19
  the year couple couple 757 products on that pit team.
• 1:24:25
  So you know you got you got some interest there as well.
• 1:24:27
  So when I look at that, I feel like this is based on what I saw
• 1:24:33
  week. One, this is Tennessee right
• 1:24:36
  now. They've got a seven-point.
• 1:24:40
  I'm going to take, I'm going to lay the seven.
• 1:24:42
  I'm taking Tennessee. All right, he is taking to the
• 1:24:46
  su-27 and I'd be with you on that just because of what we saw
• 1:24:51
  from pits defense and and if you can say lots of first game of
• 1:24:56
  the season like, yeah. But they had a game in front of
• 1:24:59
  them, they needed to get up and essentially their offense and
• 1:25:03
  partially West Virginia, save them, it'll be interesting to
• 1:25:06
  see that game. All right?
• 1:25:07
  Brian one more thing, it's not on the rundown but I got to let
• 1:25:10
  your aunt. Preseason rankings.
• 1:25:16
  Welcome. It's the most ludicrous thing
• 1:25:19
  ever invented. Especially in a situation where
• 1:25:24
  all the future rankings are judged against the original
• 1:25:27
  rankings. And that's my biggest problem,
• 1:25:30
  is that, you know, I saw, I forget who it was but, you know,
• 1:25:34
  I retweeted it. Someone was on the timeline.
• 1:25:37
  Yeah, we got, we got it, we got a blue check on the timeline,
• 1:25:40
  trying to talk against a 12 team playoff because Oregon got their
• 1:25:44
  shit kicked in. Well, they also lost their head
• 1:25:48
  coach last year, and now, we're figuring out.
• 1:25:49
  Okay? This Oregon team is an 11,
• 1:25:51
  ranked team. As it currently stands, we
• 1:25:54
  learned that they're not in 11th ranked team.
• 1:25:56
  We didn't learn that. Oh, and levantine got the shit
• 1:25:59
  kicked in. So in 11, ranked at the end of
• 1:26:01
  the season is going to be the same fucking thing.
• 1:26:03
  No, it's not going to be the same thing because we will have
• 1:26:08
  played games at that point and whoever that 11 seed is, will
• 1:26:12
  have a more deserving reason to be a fucking Concede then,
• 1:26:16
  Oregon. This is so much fun every year
• 1:26:21
  to get you to go on the preseason rankings rant, because
• 1:26:24
  there's always somebody doing something talking about how
• 1:26:28
  especially late in the year you really want to get Brian.
• 1:26:31
  Come back. If Joy, if organs like 4 and 8
• 1:26:34
  and somebody looking well, you know, George is being a few top
• 1:26:37
  10 teams, top 15 teams, but I'll be like, wasn't weak one.
• 1:26:42
  But was it was it even in September?
• 1:26:47
  And you've always said, rankings should be there, you know, it's
• 1:26:52
  one reason. I don't mind.
• 1:26:53
  Power rankings, I have a problem with official top 25 rankings.
• 1:26:58
  Yeah, the official PSP and do their power rankings.
• 1:27:01
  Let whoever wants to do Power Rankings based on, you know,
• 1:27:04
  preseason early-season don't make it an official top 25
• 1:27:09
  because again it throws off the calculations the whole rest of
• 1:27:15
  the season Brian. Would be okay if you went after
• 1:27:18
  three or four games, at least you have a body of work done,
• 1:27:21
  right? Yes, 3 and 0 to 3, you know, and
• 1:27:24
  you beat three really crappy teams.
• 1:27:26
  Your 3 + 0 + UV. Two.
• 1:27:28
  Really good teams and one above average team, your 3 and L is
• 1:27:33
  not the same as their three, you know.
• 1:27:35
  Give me rankings the first Monday of October.
• 1:27:38
  There you go. That's why.
• 1:27:40
  That's one reason. You probably one thing you've
• 1:27:43
  always liked about the playoff is they go deep into the sea.
• 1:27:46
  even before they turn them off, they go the seven weeks in seven
• 1:27:52
  seven weeks in and at least then, you know, the problem with
• 1:27:56
  the committee is that when it all comes down to it, They're
• 1:28:01
  going to put in a blue blood. That brings in the most money
• 1:28:04
  over another tea and it most of the time, most of the time.
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  But in terms of how we get there, at least the the process
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  is better than the preseason shit.
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  Well, my comment on preseason rankings, they're about as good
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  as an ejector seat and helicopter.
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  Think about that one, as you get ready to go to bed tonight.
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  Y'all Brian, anything breaking. I'm not seeing anything but
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  nothing breaking the depth chart came out.
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  You're feeling a lot better seeing kilise feeling better
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  about the wide receiver room. Yeah we got a couple more young
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  young receivers making that that depth chart.
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  We got Jalen Jones. Thankfully seems to be back up
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  to speed where they're putting them on the depth chart.
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  I saw Christian moss on there as well.
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  Those two are going to be big in terms of death at the receiver
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  position. We also saw Caleb on there,
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  whether you throw it on as a courtesy, or whether he's going
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  to be good to go for the game. Obviously, it's probably too
• 1:29:06
  early to tell there, but hopefully he's good to go
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  against BC. And then, we also saw obviously,
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  you know, Brianna Marie back in there.
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  So, coming off the suspension and Tisdale we found out more
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  about that. Yeah, apparently eligibility
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  situation. So, he's weird.
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  Yeah. I don't think we're going to see
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  him this week. He's apparently week to week as
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  they resolve that eligibility issue but at least you know, we
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  know what it is and now we know it's he's not in the doghouse
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  for. Nope.
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  Anything off the field. He's not his play.
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  He hasn't fallen off to a point where he can't help us.
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  So that those those are two things that are.
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  I think positives to take away from that.
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  Very nice. Alright, so now that we got the
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  couple breaking things, I wrote down here that's on me we are
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