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Running With (and Over) the Devils · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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My name is Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian sigla.
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What's up buddy? Buddy.
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It is late night on Saturday after a long.
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Fun-filled day at college football where we see the Hokies
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take a win, 3831 over Duke. Did you have some Maalox during
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that game? Man, my anxiety was running like
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full bore that. Whole game dude.
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And you know, we got the word as things were getting close to
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kick-off. We're like, okay well we knew
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that probably the secondary was going to be thinner than it was
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last week and thinner than we would want.
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And that was confirmed what I wanted, 21 players out, how many
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starters Curtis give us the rundown here.
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All right. Well let me just give you the
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names of the primary contributors 21 out.
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Total including starting free safety Divine Diablo backup
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boundary safe boundary safety Jr.
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Walker too deep cornerback Devin, Taylor starting,
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cornerback Armani Chapman, Starting cornerback Jermaine
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Waller. Starting back or Alan Tisdale.
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And another, I'm going to consider Brian, Murray another
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starting quarterback out. You say, we thought in the week
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there would be a few guys. Yeah, this isn't even thin, this
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is a charcoal 34 best for best. Quarterbacks are not even not
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playing or best quarterbacks. And basically the safety dove
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with the exception that Kion to Jenkins and Terry Rodgers gone.
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On top of that, we already need J.
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Hamm was going to be out and then we find out.
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Ron Smith is out. So we got who's the defensive
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coordinator, isn't there? We knew that.
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Luckily, you've got who called one hell of a game last weekend
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against NC State, not there. So, who called The Game Cards?
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The report was, we did it back committee between jet Tyler and
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Tracy claeys. And it's just like, as we're
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sitting going up through the week, you know, we read things
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and we're seeing okay, it's going to be, it's going to be
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some different things when that stuff came out and that stuff
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came out, as I got home from playing golf today.
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And I started looking and I was just like this, this is good and
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I know we highlighted some of these flaws but when you take a
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whole back in and you're throwing these young guys, we
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you like their tape Dorian strong, the deer Thompson good.
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And players starting? Yeah it's scary and you're
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talking about guys. These are those names.
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Way down was counter Banks, hunter green, never heard of
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them. Tyler Matheny started free
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safety, kyanka obviously their last week at boundary safety.
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I mean it was just wow. And then as the game got into
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its had no clue what to expect and And Ron you know what we're
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going to do here in the next little while it's just kind of
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run down a little bit of everything and I'm going to let
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you give that man because I feel like there's some things you
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want to talk about being sort of our expert here and I'm going to
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fill it with some stuff I've got.
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But what do you want to kick it off with?
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We're going to kick it off with the offense because there's
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there was a lot going on with that in this game.
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I know we talked about the defense and all the starters
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that are out, we're going to get to that.
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But I mean the, The game is kind of how the offense looked in the
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first half and how the offense looked in the second half and
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look for luggage coming out. Yeah, it looks real sluggish
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coming out. Looks like we just never got
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into a good Rhythm, pretty much the whole first half, you know,
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play-calling was a little suspect right up the right out
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the gate, you know, we were running a lot of outside Zone to
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the short side of the field, which right?
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You know, you shake your head at you're like, okay.
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Okay. Well, you know you got.
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You got these guys that can get to the edge but you're you're
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shortening where that edge is your shortening where that
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running Ali's going to be and in stop Braun, you've always told
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me is executing that short Side Run play.
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It is difficult for the offensive line.
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Yeah, yeah. And I mean if your if your
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attack on you're trying to get to that edge and try to drive
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your man up feel, but also get make sure you can All them off.
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If you make that shorter it makes that running a lie that
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much smaller and the margin for error that much smaller and at
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some point that gives safeties more time to come up and make
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plays and make some feels outside the tackles there.
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So it's it's just, it's not a good situation when you see that
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many calls and we had a lot of those stack together with a lot
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of Fades so a lot of stuff outside the Purrs outside the
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hashes in the first half, shots downfield, nothing really in
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the, in the intermediate Zone to kind of make them, you play all
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areas of the feel there. So they were pretty much content
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playing kind of a cover three on us and, you know, let us take
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the shots and then stack the box with eight guys and try to stop
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the run in the first half and they were, they had some success
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with it, man. They did.
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I mean I'll let you go. Here, it will feel like the
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Danville shots were just very at inopportune times.
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I mean, we take a look at the first play of the game.
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Is a deep shot, and kavion drops it.
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So, if you feel like that's a good call, but it's one of those
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things. All right?
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You already know your thin the defense if you hit it great.
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But hey, now your second and ten, what happens?
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That first drive run. We drop the Deep ball.
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We run a short Side Run and we lose yardage and we have to
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punt. Yep.
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So it's just One of those things where it's just like, we missed
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two passes and the next thing, you know, after good defensive
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series were given the ball right back, but it baffles me and I
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know you're going to hit both halves but we don't see
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Crossroads we don't see drags, we don't see hooking up because
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the one thing I've noticed is they were loading the Box.
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Yeah. Now and if you'll say I'm a
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while here eventually it started not work.
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But those Danville shots. It just it drives me a little
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mad. Sometimes I agree ban and you
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know I don't mind taking a shot here there.
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You definitely want to Braxton Burmeister throws.
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A good deep ball. He does not have the arm
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strength that our other two quarterbacks have, but when he
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throws it on time, it's a pretty ball.
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So I have no problem with with the shots and I like the idea,
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but I just feel like the play calling flow wasn't there.
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Like those those plays didn't really make sense in a cohesive
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fashion of trying to like set something up with the defense
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that and I think Burmeister missed a couple easy throws
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after that, that big drop early on.
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So he had a hit a hit, a pretty good throws.
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A little under thrown to Tavian Robinson and then as he's
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getting both hands on it, Defender comes in knocks the
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ball down there. And then after that it seemed
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like he just didn't he lost a little bit of confidence with
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with throwing things that weren't just kind of those those
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shoulder Fades and we struggled past the bulb most of the game
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but also especially in the first half, trying to get some some
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plays down the field. Oh yeah I mean I noticed it was
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doing all throughout the first have.
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I've got I've just solved that bypass not a good pass bad pass,
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so it really stinks that that happened and I mean the the It's
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the numbers. I mean Braxton was under 50%
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last week, he was well under 50 percent this week and it shows
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that he is, he's not the passer, his legs are great, but it's
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just kind of showing he's not the passer and and yeah, and
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it's for efficiency that it is necessarily him not being able
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to get the ball out there. I mean, yeah, I don't mind the
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incomplete. I mean, They're going to come
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especially if you're taking shots like that, but it seemed
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like he let, you know, a play here, affect him later in the
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driver later later in the game. So he eventually settled in a
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little bit even though the passing never really picked up
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of did look like his confidence got better or it felt like he
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was wasn't overthinking it if that makes sense.
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Because there was a portion in the first half there where he
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look like he was thinking about every throw and that's not
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something you want to do. No, not at all, not at all.
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So I mean, I'm going to give this a be kudos to Duke.
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They did put some tight coverage on our guys especially some of
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those some of those Fades. I mean even when there was a
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good ball, they had guys there to knock it down, just like with
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with Tavian Robinson on that first deep one.
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You know we eventually got a couple one where at on the first
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touchdown Drive Tavian Robinson stepped up again after a couple
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- place for him and made a big play down the sideline and then
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we were able to hit Mitchell over the over the middle there
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for a touchdown right at this thing right up the middle of the
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field. Yes.
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And and let's talk about that a little bit, you know, we got a
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touchdown on that drive and it was on a it was a 15-yard seen
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for the touchdown and I was wondering to myself.
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Why are we doing that more? I feel like the middle of the
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field is something that we just do not attack enough when we do
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attack it. It's pretty.
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It's very like RPO. Like either, you know, a quick.
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Yep. Quick slant or something like
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that. In the RPO, we don't do a whole
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lot, a very good job of attacking that like 10 to 20,
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yard range of the field, you know, with a scene with the Dig
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and things that can really mess with the linebackers and
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especially with our running game operating, as well as it is.
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Like, why aren't we doing things that are going to make the
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linebackers have to pick their poison?
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Or you're a in the mentioned earlier?
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We saw more loading of the boxes we can we do it again.
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Sent equate. Obviously it's the four-man
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front First Agreement front but the piece about attacking the
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middle of field. It's just like you start doing a
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lot of things. When you start attacking, it'll
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feel a the safeties who are coming further up.
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We'll have to go further back easier, online course, First,
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the can't The Leverage, they have to guess on Leverage,
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right? They can't immediately.
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What we were doing is they easily get that outside leverage
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and just run out of bounds or some good passes as you
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mentioned. But essentially, the balls had
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to be thrown out of bounds because of how this guy's
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leverage. But what really pisses me off
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about Rancor Nielsen. And I'm going to put the blame
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on him because he is the uncle coordinator.
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Some people will say, well, you know, foods that no brand milk
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or Nelson's the offensive coordinator, Later.
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We have guys on this team that if we were to be consistently
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getting in space in the middle of the field, it would be really
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good and to your point I think Brad has his Excel spreadsheet
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and right now he's deleted. Those pages concerning the
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middle of the field. He lost the pages that had the
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Scenes and the digs and all those crossers that we love.
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Got to watch come to fruition on tape and then hey we're not
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seeing it because they're not calling it.
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Yeah I'm right there with you man but again I'm going to give
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a little kudos to do they did a good job of scheming us up and
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kind of taken away in the passing game.
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Some of the things we like to do early on but I did like as the
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the first half wore on. We started to adjust.
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To that with the defensive front was throwing at us.
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So we could get some things going in the running game,
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particularly some of the things we were doing with motion to
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kind of get our numbers better, so we could attack them inside
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the tackles, and then work in the outside Zone.
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And I will say, man, I mean, we said it last week, I'm going to
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say it again. Herbert, getting to the edge.
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I mean, I didn't think he was as fast as he is getting to the
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edge and a couple times. I thought, you know, the
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defender that was said in the edge Chatham flanked and he was
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still able to get there and then get up field and he's a guy that
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does not go out of bounds. You see a couple times, he had a
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lie out of bounds and he would like put his foot in the dirt,
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come back inside, and get another five or six yards.
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Exactly. And did he have a day-to-day
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man? 358, all-purpose yards, two
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touchdowns and there were pieces where when he got the ball,
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especially I know you're talking first half, but as we got to the
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End of the first half, he's getting the ball and he was
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getting up field. Yeah, I'm going to hit it more
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on the in the second half and it got while but he's a real deal
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and black shirt look better today.
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It was kind of coming together there.
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Yeah, Blackshear did look better.
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I think they had him were involved in the game plan with a
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ransom, or more 21 Personnel this week than they did last
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week, especially in the first half.
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I think we need to do a better job of getting Blackshear going
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in the passing game. I don't think he had a single
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Target today in the passing game.
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If he did I might have missed it but he did a good job in the
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running game and they did a good job of getting him the ball
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where he could kind of work in space.
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A little bit in the running game there.
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So I liked what they did with him.
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But I mean Herbert is just he's a full band out there.
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I said Last week we got lead back potential.
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I'm going to go ahead and say it.
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He's the fucking lead back. He is Ali and and he's the guy
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that can carry the load. He can make the big play he can
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he's he do it all guy. What I also liked and it wasn't.
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I saw it in the first half, I saw more than second half wide.
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Receiver blocking was really good this week.
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Yeah because when he got those edges he had some room to work
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when when Burmeister was running some of those outside zones and
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sweeps, Had guys up in the second level that were wide
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receivers making some plays, I will call out in particular,
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Caleb Smith and Trey Turner. I saw them doing some really
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good stuff blocking at the wide receiver position.
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So shout out there but I mean bad first half.
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I mean, it probably as bad as I could expected from an offensive
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perspective, in the first half, go to halftime up 10-7.
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Yeah. All right, we saw that from the
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offense defense. Obviously.
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We had a pretty good for a craft, you know, basically
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defense shut them out. So what did you shoot in the
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defense in the first half? Yeah, I'm going to say, just
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just, I mean, I think this is obvious, but Kudos all around to
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the guys that had to step up that.
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Oh my God. Yeah, maybe either weren't
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expecting to play at all, or weren't expecting to play as
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much as they did this week and just went out there and did
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their thing particular, shout-out to a Dory and strong.
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I think he had a really Good game never was out of position.
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So I think that's the big thing you like to see from for guys.
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Yeah, that guy's that young and guys, that hadn't had a lot of
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playing experience, you know. Some of the other things are
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going to come with time, you know, the play making and things
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like that, but if you put yourself in a spot to make the
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play every time, you know, things are going to happen, man.
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Because even if even if you don't make the play, You're
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impacting the play and potentially somebody else can
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come in there and clean things up for you.
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So if you're in the right spot, that that's half the damn battle
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right there and they were there the whole night and in the cage
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that they made a couple, a couple plays there.
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I'm going to give a another shout out to this man.
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Tyler Matheny he had himself a day.
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You know, we talked about last week what can't they Jenkins was
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able to do in his first start will Tyler Matheny had his first
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start this week and holy met he let everybody know that.
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Yeah he's probably not going to be your front line guy but he's
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a guy that can come in there. You know, if Devon Diablo has
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another another time where he has to miss miss time, it comes
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There and fill in admirably for a game or two.
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He's a guy that came up made some really good plays in The
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Run game to stop them. Some of those outside runs and
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some of the runs up the Middle where maybe we were out of
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position along the front seven, he was able to come up in and
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help and run support and then he had an interception there.
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So that that really kind of set us up.
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It set us up A big but the tip ball piece.
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Again it goes back to what you talked about with Dorian.
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He was in the right spot. Yep he would he work middle.
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He was middle of the field and that covered three.
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The ball gets tipped. He's not, he's not over here,
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he's not over there. He's exactly, we're supposed to
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be. When that ball got tipped, all
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he had to do was kind of just steps up.
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Jump, make the catch? Yep, I think it was actually
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Jenkins that was in, in man on that.
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He had a little bit of a little Trail technique and With the
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Matheny was playing over the top, saw the throw receiver
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wasn't able to handle it, Matheny stepped up, make the
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play right where he needed to be.
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And again, that's unbelievable. When I think we've been talking
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about some of the coaching staff changes all the time.
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Kind of your maybe we're seeing your to of Justin Hamilton at
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the safety position. Really getting his footing.
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Also, give Ryan Smith is Ryan Smith, clearly up until Well,
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but the latter half of this week, he was a gallant more on
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filled with them and we're seeing it, we're seeing more
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discipline. We're seeing guys, stay in the
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right lane, we're seeing got a leverage, right?
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And that is that's big, but I feel like maybe a few years we
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hadn't seen it as crisp. Yeah.
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Maybe my eyes had anything, maybe, maybe professionalize
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like and I do continue profession.
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Brian. Take no, no, we were doing the
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right things. Okay.
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Well, It different to me now, but Brian something else I
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noticed today. Allen says, that without dip,
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notice it from in the first half the morning, the second loved X,
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the death, but against an offense like this, this is where
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you need Tisdale and his range there were times where decks was
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essentially over in the slot. The way they had the alignment,
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yep, shouldn't be out there and and they, they made it a few
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times. Yes.
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Yeah. I mean if you've got decks mixed
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matched up, either man-to-man or in kind of a primary Zone
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responsibility against a guy like gray and a guy like more
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weedy, they're going to eat his lunch a little bit, just because
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he's not that guy that can run with those type of athletic
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tight ends. So that happened a couple times,
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but I mean, overall the defense defense played very well in the
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first half. Duke really wasn't able to
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sustain to drive. The only touchdown they had was
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For muffed punt that was picked up in the end zone.
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So you know, I'd say overall a great, great first half, I think
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some standout players in the first half that I'm going to
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shout out here a little bit Belmar.
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Yeah, he had himself a very good first half.
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He was coming off the edge strong.
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I think he had, he had at least one sack, I think he might have
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had to Justice. Reed was out there.
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Impacting everything pushing the pocket making Bryce throw before
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he was ready, which I think overall was are 100% our game
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plan coming into this thing and Curtis, we talked about it with,
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with blitzes last week. So we had delayed with his last
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week. What do we not have this week?
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We didn't have the delay blitzes, which kind of shock for
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a little bit and in essentially as the crime went on would not
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send the delayed blitzes do in the second half.
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They started slowly figuring out when we were coming and they
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were feeding great. Wait, now I me and you talked
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about it in the delay in the blitz scenarios.
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When we blitzed essentially, they never got any big games
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because it looks like behind the blitzers.
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We were running covered three, cover for where there were going
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to be guy behind. Yeah, which I'm really thinking
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probably that was in there by Tracy and Jack to say, hey,
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Eight to help those guys. Hey listen, you're going to be
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15 yards off. We Blitz.
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Head down. Look where the ball goes
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quicker. The ball.
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Make the tackle, but once again, run Talk about the blitzes.
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With on, let's get into the second half because there's one
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thing we mentioned it as we were chatting and ready to roll on
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here. I wrote this down.
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Mmm eloquently here in my book, short side runs, utilize our
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speed run as you looked at the second half, what do we start
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doing? We went away from those short
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side zones on offense, man. We started to run to the wide
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side, we started to get Herbert out on the edge.
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We started to get Blackshear out on the edge and let them take
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advantage of things in space and once we started doing that, the
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offense had a whole lot more Rhythm.
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Even when we weren't able to hit some of the pastor's down feel
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that we were attempting but you know the big reason why is that?
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Because we were able to get some effective yardage on first and
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second down. So even when we got into third
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down situations it was me. Isabel and sometimes, even when
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we got into third and long situations, you know, sometimes
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you go with that, you know, that's that simple play.
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Just to get a few yards and pun and all of a sudden, her bird
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gets an edge and gets up field and he gets a 20-yard gain on
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Third, and 16, and the drive stays alive and you get to keep
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rolling. They're so good things happen.
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When you're able to run the ball and run it to the to the area
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that lets you take advantage of the space.
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You have and space was a big thing in this game and
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especially in the second half because we started doing some
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things with how we were motioning, guys in and out of
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the backfield and across the, the line of the formation that
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really got some of those backers outside of the box, and some of
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the safeties outside of the box where we could really tear them
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up between the tackles a lot more.
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And we saw that wear them down as well.
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Inside Zone was a lot stronger in the second half, some of the
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traps and Is and things like that were a lot better in the
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second half. Quarterback counter this Play.
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I Loved man, I don't know if you saw it but we showed outside the
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Zone with black share, right? Yeah.
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Showed outside Zone with Blackshear and then ran
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Burmeister than the other direction with Christian Daris.
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All leading out in front and that was a thing of beauty, man,
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I really love that play. I hope he run that a lot more.
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I say something about that play. Yeah, yeah.
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Well this isn't a Christian dorsal.
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Oh yeah. Right.
25:42
Absolutely for him to cross like that, man.
25:44
It will. And I remembered the play you're
25:46
talking about because when I saw you think Chris and you see big
25:48
77 going, it's just like that might have made Chris a little
25:53
money. Oh, but I'm sure he can get out
25:57
there and make some plays. Yeah, it's a big-time thing
26:00
there man. And I just loved as much as I
26:03
should on. Would Brad did in the first
26:05
half. He Got into a little bit of his
26:08
own in the second half with his play calling, even there was
26:12
only one drive that I will be really critical of him on is
26:15
that, you know, we were moving the ball, good through the
26:18
ground and he comes out play action pass pass.
26:27
And then we're third and long. And I'm like, so we've had two
26:31
straight drives where we just pound.
26:33
Pound, pound pound Pound. And now you coming out.
26:37
Play action, Pass and Pass right out the gate like, you know,
26:42
read the room, read the room. We're dominating them in the
26:45
trenches right now. Let's not take the foot off the
26:48
pedal there. Let's keep keep going at them
26:51
and you know, I think we did a great job in the second half.
26:55
Other than that, one drive of, really moving the ball and being
26:59
consistent in the, in the Run game.
27:02
Yeah. Brah.
27:03
I think one thing to you probably feel wanted to try to
27:06
keep the ball. Passing it because the line had
27:08
some great protection. Today we mentioned that in the
27:11
in the code of the know your enemy show, we only allow two
27:15
sacks today so clearly we were doing a lot of stuff right
27:20
there. Not a lot of tackles for loss
27:22
from them. In, as you talk about the whole
27:27
screwed up, go in the past is because there was that point in
27:30
the third quarter where it was what six or seven consecutive
27:33
run plays and it was gashes. Yeah.
27:36
And it was so to the point is I think maybe I felt like I've got
27:42
a pass, they're eventually going to you know, they're going to,
27:46
they're going to find out and but it's like when the other
27:48
hand you did at one point running seven straight time.
27:51
So why even consider passing? Well I have no problem with the
27:56
with the play action pass but you don't stack those two plays
27:59
back to back on first and second and put yourself in the Excel
28:03
sheet says you do Brian. Michelle we trust in Excel We
28:10
Trust something I've noticed and maybe you noticed it during the
28:14
game maybe you didn't. I feel like Braxton Burmeister
28:19
is turning into a Ron, Willis territory of who his favorite
28:22
targets are. I feel like he looks like he
28:24
targets Big Stone Gap. James Mitchell.
28:27
And Tavian a lot more than tray lot.
28:29
More than you guys, unless specifically called bring
28:33
passes. Not looking for, the running
28:34
backs is much similar to what Willis did with Hazleton.
28:39
Completely opposite of what we saw from Hendon.
28:42
Last year were hidden open, man will get the ball.
28:45
Don't care who you are. I don't have a favorite Target
28:48
and that worries me. If he's going to be the guy
28:51
going forward. Yeah.
28:53
I think they're still at a point with Burmeister in the passing
28:56
game, where he is. If the first read isn't there,
29:02
it's like first rechecked down, run, there's not a whole lot of
29:06
moving away from that. And I think, I'll say this in
29:09
his favorite. We did a lot of a lot of the
29:13
plays called tonight, we're like two main routes.
29:17
So there wasn't a lot of options there.
29:20
If the primary guy wasn't open, or if you feel like you had to
29:24
move away from the primary guy, so I'll give him a little bit of
29:28
of credit and they're there wasn't a whole lot of
29:30
progression or reading the whole field or anything like that
29:33
because there was only two routes.
29:34
And a lot of times they did a decent job of taking away, both
29:37
of them and there were at least the the one that he wanted to
29:40
throw. So I think some of that is his
29:45
his maturity at this point. I don't I'm not sure if he's
29:48
ready to handle some of those more exotic routes that we have
29:53
in our Playbook. Yeah.
29:56
But that, that will talk about that probably a little bit more
30:00
as we get kind of to the end of the game and what we kind of
30:03
expect going forward. But you know, in general, the
30:06
play calling never got Braxton in a rhythm in the passing game
30:11
like he never I don't think at any point, he felt For that.
30:16
But I think in the second half, he at least was In the second
30:21
half he felt like he was at least kind of a 50/50 when he
30:24
put the ball up there and and I think that was enough in this
30:29
game thankfully now I will say while we're on the Braxton
30:34
Burmeister piece here, you know we had some really good drives
30:39
in the second half but we had one where we could potentially
30:42
put some really good cushion late in the game.
30:47
It would have been the hammer. Yeah.
30:50
We and he pull the ball late was like black, she was going to
30:54
take the outside Zone there and Braxton really late in the in
30:59
the mesh point there decided he was going to he was going to
31:01
keep it and go to the right and the ball just kind of Squirt it
31:05
out and all of a sudden Dima kg jumps on it for Duke.
31:10
And you know you kind of get that that bad feeling in your in
31:16
your chest. When that happens because it was
31:17
late in the game we were up three we were knocking on the
31:20
Door, and all of a sudden they got the ball again.
31:23
Yeah. And that was in a, in a span
31:25
where Duke had really started to move the ball against are tired.
31:28
Secondary. So you, you started to get a
31:32
little little antsy at that point, so it wasn't great,
31:37
right? Then it wasn't great.
31:38
It, I mean, I made a note here with that was a bad snap.
31:42
It was high and in that case I think Bryce no regard it as soon
31:47
as that thing was high, it should have just get it in two
31:50
black fish. Your gut, you either put it in
31:51
his gut, or if you can't get in his gut, you don't even carry
31:54
out the fake. You just go ahead and make you
31:56
like straight up. Yeah.
31:57
You just run the use from the second part of the read option.
32:00
He didn't late pull, you already said and I mean, at that point
32:06
in time and it would be the last one, we lose the turnover
32:10
battle, three, two, one. And we'd already where we were
32:14
that was going to be three points.
32:16
Regardless, the way we were running the ball.
32:19
We cook seven more points off. Lord, and if anything from this
32:22
game, I think guys will not be happy with turnovers if I know
32:29
Pope don't like them. So I have a feeling you guys
32:32
might be running some gassers on Monday for those three turnovers
32:36
because Braxton interception was absolutely brutal in the first
32:40
half and then that play. So in and another thing is going
32:46
to go back a couple, okay? You know, do this?
32:51
So fucking pissed. We're at the 3 yard line first
32:55
and gold from one dozen Quincy Patterson come in.
33:00
After the first play, we get stonewalled, we don't put him
33:04
in, yes, a couple Park letter Braxton scores on an outside.
33:08
I'm going to run great. I'm getting warm or anger at
33:11
this when you have a weapon of hips type used him, you also
33:17
great. Okay.
33:18
I want to run the ball, put them in there, let them load the Box,
33:21
you know, he can throw a very nice short fade route.
33:24
Yeah. Getting irritating to the point
33:27
of again you called. You said he called a better
33:31
second half. It's like it's the consistency
33:33
that It's consistency. Yeah, I agree and like I said,
33:39
he did call a better second half but he had probably an area here
33:43
area there. You were, you just shaking your
33:44
head like why are you? Why?
33:47
Why like, you know, sometimes it's a Personnel.
33:50
Like, you know, you've got a series of plays where you got
33:54
Blackshear and on the field, but you keep running short side
33:58
outside Zone. Like what are you doing?
34:01
What are you doing? Well but it's like there's no
34:04
flexibility. As adjustment now to get into
34:08
the halftime room, which when you, that's when you probably
34:10
think the 20 probably has more of a hand and what we want to do
34:16
some milk. I notice I know.
34:18
I'm kind of just interjecting pieces here and there.
34:20
Brian, we have another guy now that is proven, I know it's only
34:24
one time one time but another guy from slot showing Caleb
34:30
Smith running that Jet Sweep, the cat about a 12-yard gain And
34:36
once again, that help you talk about the motions and stuff.
34:39
Well, now that cable Smith's in the slot.
34:42
Okay. Well, what if he runs a Jet
34:44
Sweep teams immediately have to start thinking about it, right?
34:47
Yeah. And we only want ran what?
34:49
Maybe three of those in this entire game if you count the
34:52
double reverse. Yeah.
34:54
Okay. Yeah.
34:56
Do we didn't not run any jet sweeps?
34:58
Yeah. So that W.
34:59
This is a game and I think some of that is their defensive ends
35:02
getting out. Feel, they might have seen.
35:04
Hey, we're not. Have a ton of opportunities with
35:06
the way these guys get up field and maybe too much penetration,
35:11
don't take, you know, those 45-yard losses.
35:13
That people just bitch about when they talk about the Jet
35:16
Sweep. So that's probably something to
35:18
do with the man. But, you know, as bad as some
35:23
part of the parts of this game, were the way we close this thing
35:27
out on that last Drive was a thing of beauty, man.
35:33
We had Khalil Herbert Side Zone gets the second level gets,
35:39
takes it outside gets up the sideline, outruns everybody
35:42
touchdown. And I mean, that was one of
35:46
those things that we haven't seen from this offense known
35:50
time plays like that. Like, that's been what's been
35:53
missing 100%. Was a guy that once he gets to
35:57
the second level as that home run potential, and you know,
36:02
having that back in our repertoire, is going to make
36:05
Make the his offense really dangerous.
36:08
If we ever get The Passing game going with any, any sort of
36:12
Competency are for Braun, we ended up getting almost 50% on
36:19
third down conversion, it started off bad and then 26
36:22
total. First downs again.
36:24
We actually beat the beauty average.
36:27
But Brian, let's turn it back over to the defense in the
36:29
second half. Sure, let's get there because I
36:35
think we mentioned them in the first half.
36:37
As you mentioned Bellmore, this defensive line in general is
36:40
different and it's no doubt built till Nick Darryl Tapp are
36:44
the difference makers and we've created some, we've got a
36:48
monster line, not only our first team line, but our second beam
36:54
line. And some guys coming in at a
36:56
point where 13 line make an impact. 2019 38, total sex that
37:05
Looking at right under three again we have 13 into game so
37:11
far that's good and Chris Coleman found the stat and I
37:19
think it kind of shocked you when I told you earlier.
37:21
So 2019, defensive end, seven and a half sacks 2020 into
37:29
games. They're already at 8 and have
37:31
sex it seems like every play against you Even some of their
37:35
Quick Pass Place. It just seemed like we were in
37:38
their backfield the whole time and somebody you were really
37:43
excited with we made this move and you're going to hit him on a
37:47
lot of other pieces. We had a more a bar, no twice.
37:51
Today, two sacks who sex, buddy? And the one I really loved was
37:57
was late in the game. Good inside move inside, rip and
38:01
just got 82, tackles lunch, Got at the quarterback.
38:06
I mean and he later had one where he came off the edge did
38:09
the same thing, so he's showing that he's got some pass rush
38:12
moves, you know, I think going forward he's going to be used a
38:17
lot in scenarios where he's not in that having to you know make
38:22
a lot of reads. I think that's where he's still
38:24
growing right now where he has to read, run read past, you
38:27
know, figure out where he needs to be on a given play, but when
38:29
he's given the job, go after the quarterback.
38:33
Yeah, he's one of the best we have right now.
38:35
So I've got, I've got no problem with seeing him on the field
38:38
War. Hopefully, he works on some of
38:40
those those areas where he can figure out the scheme wise and
38:44
read wise what he needs to do. But you know, when he's got one
38:48
job, he takes care of business man and and then the second half
38:53
in general. I mean, I think we did a still
38:55
kept a really good job of getting pressure on Embrace.
39:00
We did the one thing I'm seeing and I think the reason that we
39:03
didn't do as many Any delay blitzes.
39:07
I think you know we talked about it in terms of what Bryce does
39:11
with the ball when he sees pressure like that, that
39:16
sometimes is enough when he feels it coming, he's getting
39:22
rid of the ball. It's not always accurate.
39:24
It's not always where he wants it to be.
39:26
And we saw that consistently man.
39:28
We had areas. I think he probably missed a
39:32
wide open man, about four or five times.
39:34
Yeah. If you did, just because he felt
39:36
the pressure, he had a couple guys that had some drops.
39:40
Especially, I think, Deon Jackson on 11, critical third
39:44
down through a slant to him. He could be, it's flexed out and
39:48
they threw a slam to him. He had to drop.
39:50
So I think those are the things that maybe were adjustments that
39:55
we kind of planned. Say, hey, let Bryce know that
39:58
it's coming, so it's already in his head before the snap that
40:02
he's going to have to get rid of the ball quick.
40:05
Right. That actually makes sense
40:07
because you did mention that, that sometimes when he gets
40:10
under pressure, he would just sling it on.
40:14
And he shouldn't for maybe that did make sense.
40:16
Why we didn't do the delayed blitzes this week.
40:19
I'm also thinking to I'll go back to my other point, I think
40:22
having the back half so depleted, like we just get we
40:26
had, we just have to attack, we can't get cute with it, we just,
40:29
yeah, have to force it. So those guys can see where the
40:33
balls going to vacant attack. A can use their Natural
40:36
Instincts and everything. I did notice some Bron and any
40:42
got more pronounced as the game went along.
40:45
I think it's just fatigue but we were not as crisp as tackling as
40:49
we were last week. Yeah.
40:52
And I think a fatigue of ain't be first time kids out there
40:58
because we missed some run Lane been we missed, at least I
41:02
counted on my hand, for five tackles for loss.
41:05
If not and then probably several one 22-yard gains some went for
41:10
big games and that's why it was such a competitive.
41:13
Second half is they popped a couple big plays on us and
41:17
definitely some things we can clean up for the young guys,
41:22
though. I think that's good because now
41:24
they've got them on take to say Hey listen you guys were at the
41:27
D1 level now and what's a lie right?
41:30
You've got to make a sound packable my we I think we made
41:33
some adjustments to that. I think these It's all probably
41:36
when they were making some halftime adjustments.
41:39
You know, they've got some taller wideouts, especially
41:42
Bobo. And I think I can remove the
41:43
other guy's name, but, you know, they're, they're taller
41:46
wideouts. And I think they saw, hey, we
41:49
can maybe take advantage of things outside against some of
41:54
these inexperience corners and they started to do that a little
41:56
bit and fatigue started to set in as you said and some of the
41:59
fatigue was just a couple times the defense of why not get there
42:04
and Bryce. Being able to throw on time, you
42:08
know, forms of Gone with the receiver today.
42:11
And he's a 6-3 guys. So correct.
42:13
There were two big guys on the outside.
42:15
Okay. Yeah.
42:16
And then, you know, we started to see them mix in Mateo,
42:20
Durant, and some running plays and he had, he had a good good
42:24
couple gashes where he was breaking a couple tackles as you
42:26
were talking about there. So definitely saw fatigue set in
42:29
there a little bit and that's to be expected as thin as we were,
42:32
especially, you know, at the linebacker and And secondary
42:36
level in particular. So I think that's just one of
42:40
those things we're going to have to work through.
42:42
I think we also say the dean Ferguson was not available for
42:45
this game. We didn't Dean not available
42:49
again. Hard with the depth are the at
42:54
the linebacker. Somebody probably could play
42:56
nickel. Probably in a pinch.
42:57
Could play strong safely world. So yeah.
43:02
Burn as we thought putting a wrap on this.
43:05
This. And I can't remember who put it
43:08
out. There is somebody that follows
43:11
both of us Falls to show because it popped up in my Twitter feed.
43:15
If I told you in the first two games, we're going to have 44
43:18
players out. Those players would include
43:22
Hendon hooker, Alan Tisdale Divine Diablo Jermaine Waller.
43:29
I'm betting somebody from last week, I know, because there is
43:32
some of the, some of the young, some of the wide receivers were
43:35
expecting to bet. Would you say we're two in a
43:37
even playing in Sea State, playing Duke.
43:41
No yeah I mean II think we baby split that but you know all
43:48
things considered I feel really good about where we are.
43:53
You know we had moments of it was kind of a tale of two halves
43:58
in a lot of ways. I mean, we played really tight
44:01
on offense in the first half and played a little fatigued, and on
44:05
defense in the second half overall, the game numbers
44:09
weren't bad. But I think you just the flow of
44:15
the game, wasn't what we expected.
44:17
And you know, a couple of mistakes that we made kind of
44:21
gave Duke some some easy scores or kept the score Closer by us,
44:26
not being able to punch it in. So that's really the big
44:31
takeaway for me is that if we can clean up some things and not
44:35
you know, hurt ourselves. I think that that's going to be
44:39
good for us going forward. We talked about the The muffed
44:42
punt that resulted in a touchdown for them.
44:44
That was their only score in the entire first half.
44:46
So if we can clean up those things, I think we're going to
44:49
be good going forward, especially if we get fully
44:51
healthy. And we're actually able to put
44:53
our email, at least, everybody being in the 2D, on the
44:57
starting, the starting lineup, I think that'd be, that'd be a
45:00
nice start there. Well.
45:03
But I think what, these first two games have done, is it has
45:08
told these young guys who had to step in at kind.
45:11
Of a moment's notice in a pinch, you guys can play in.
45:17
And a lot of times I you see young guys who don't get that
45:21
opportunity. They go out and they're talented
45:23
guys, but it's almost like nerves like I cannot do this.
45:28
You now have shown a bunch of young guys, you can do this, you
45:33
can do this at a certain level. You can do this at a level where
45:35
your team can win football games.
45:38
Don't forget that because there may be a time.
45:41
Later. This year, we need you in a
45:42
pinch and the more you compete, the more you're getting on that
45:46
field. So Brian and rege, wrap it up,
45:50
is there anything else we need to put a bow on tonight?
45:53
Yeah, I think the one thing I want to talk about just before
45:55
we wrap it up is the quarterback room and what we think what we
46:01
think that's going to look like going into UNC which is above
46:07
the matchups, we have had so far that's going to be the most
46:10
complete team. We played, are you sure I think
46:15
so. I think I think top-to-bottom
46:18
offense defense, special teams unit is going to be the best
46:20
team that we played. At this point, they did struggle
46:25
mightily but I think I think some of that was I can write off
46:28
to rust. I wish we would have gotten that
46:32
run, we didn't. But with the way Braixen,
46:37
Burmeister struggled in the passing game today and What?
46:42
We've kind of seen from two weeks of I'm not not.
46:45
He hasn't played bad but he's not as efficient with the balls.
46:49
I would like to see or Bondo. Who do you think is going to be
46:53
the starting quarterback for you and see for you?
46:55
And for the Hokies for you and T, it should begin to milker.
46:59
And and there's a my biggest reasons are is this With all
47:06
these new weapons with Herbert, with black shoe with Fair, she
47:11
was in the game tonight with working in Hajj.
47:14
With this offensive line, revamped clearly protecting the
47:18
passer better, creating some big run Lanes.
47:23
UNC has no tape. Whatsoever of what potentially
47:30
we could do within didn't set it earlier.
47:34
No knock on Braxton but hinden doesn't have one favor to
47:40
favorite receivers hinden reads, the play reads the field, get to
47:45
to the person in the best position to make a play and
47:48
against you. And see, they gave up a lot of
47:51
passing yards today against BC, BC could not run the ball.
47:55
We've discussed that they're struggling 884.
47:57
Four yards today. I think we're alike them alone.
48:01
Yeah and I don't know if you feel that way, do I think back
48:05
seams going to get it on some plays?
48:06
Yeah. Five antenna needs to be the
48:09
one. I mean I think all three of our
48:11
quarterback should have packages designed just for their skills
48:16
and they may be used to more or lesser degree on a given week,
48:22
you know, I think if you have a couple Series where you throw
48:27
Out there against you and see just to mix it up, make them
48:32
have to really honor the quarterback run but still be
48:35
able to pass the ball if you need to with some rpos and
48:38
things like that, I like doing that.
48:41
But what I don't want to see is I don't want to see Braxton
48:44
Burmeister out. There is the starting
48:46
quarterback for the whole game. I won't hand in hooker out
48:48
there. I think, just his command of the
48:52
offense and his ability to, as you said, read this read, The
48:57
field make the right play and I just his temperament is exactly
49:03
what you want at quarterback. And I think sometimes Braxton
49:06
Let's uh - play impact a play later, in the passing game, in
49:13
particular, so that's not the case with him a hooker Hendon.
49:17
Hooker is a guy that plays every play on its own, lets it come to
49:21
him commands, the Huddle. Well and has shown that when the
49:26
lights are on And he can make plays and whatever we lose in
49:32
the running game at the quarterback position by having
49:36
hidden hookers. A starter.
49:37
I'm okay with especially with what we have with Khalil Herbert
49:42
and Rahim Blackshear running the rock.
49:44
Well, it would be increase versus the decrease.
49:47
Do you completely lose your quarterback running game with
49:50
him? Didn't know you not, but the
49:53
exponential game. Yeah, happening.
49:57
It goes through the roof and, and when that starts happening,
50:02
you saw the lengths that they would stack boxes.
50:05
You imagine the first six, seven, eight, passes, and hinted
50:08
848. Just lighten them up all over
50:10
the place and that defense have to say k, linebackers need to be
50:14
a little bit further off. Safeties need to be 15 yards off
50:17
the line, the amount of bass For her belly like here.
50:22
Yep, it's huge man. We're talking back-to-back 300
50:27
yard rushing games, there could be a 400 burger and, you know,
50:34
so yeah. No, yeah, we're not knocking
50:37
Braixen Burmeister, but we're definitely team hooker here when
50:40
you're Queen hooker here, team hooker, but I will, share their
50:45
man will be in trouble for like a month.
50:48
All right, Brian. If there is nothing else and two
50:52
in the morning, that's going to wrap up this episode of The
50:59
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