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Fall Camp Position Battles · 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 Sigler.
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  What's up buddy? How you Doing Wednesday night,
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  Wednesday night, folks pressing record to go through a ton of
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  stuff tonight man. Me and Brian.
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  We set on the production meeting for two and a half hours a day,
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  getting all this stuff together, it was fun, it took some time,
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  but email, we was a lot of stuff to kind of arrange and digest.
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  So we can make sure that we were getting everything to you guys
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  that we think you need. So yep.
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  And guys out there we are pressing record on Wednesday
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  night, we're going to be doing some streams on Wednesday night
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  to and during the weekday Wednesday, nights are going to
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  be nice to her present record. We're going to start dropping on
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  Thursdays now so as the season gets on, you've got a couple
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  days to press play, on any of our formats to Give a listen to
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  the game. So in a way Bridle is you can
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  say this is the beginning of our fall Camp, you just stay nice.
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  We're we're kind of breaking ourselves in as we Start for the
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  season. As you guys know, we're going to
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  be going live after on after every game in the season.
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  Those episodes will probably drop on Monday in full.
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  Give you a couple days to digest.
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  Those we're going to be back in the booth again on Wednesday.
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  Drop it on Thursday, give you a couple days to digest those
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  before, it's game time. So it should be a pretty good
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  format for you guys. Give you something to have twice
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  a week, but enough time to kind of Digest.
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  And not, not overwhelm you with content here.
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  Exactly. This is also a move to save me
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  and brine sleeping hours because Tina Brown were talking the
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  other week in her, like a great doing on Thursday, the issue
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  doing on Thursday is normally, there's some type of football
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  game on which after we finish recording, we're looking at it,
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  we're watching we're talking back and forth.
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  The next thing you know, we've down four to six beers and then
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  the next thing you know, it's 30 and we have to be at work and we
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  both have to be up early to get our kids ready, see Curtis said
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  12:30, but he's really mean in 130 and true really.
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  You know, by the time there's been, there's been several
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  nights where I'm like, okay, well I've stayed up this long.
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  I might as well go ahead and do everything I want to do to this
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  this recording so it can get out first thing instead of waiting
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  till the morning. So exactly.
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  So this was a move that is for the listener to You guys
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  multiple days to download the content?
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  Take a listen, but it's also for our bodies.
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  Because as we were joking, Brian, if you ever do anything
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  on Thursday night and it doesn't matter whether you were in
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  college or now, as we are in our 30s, with kids and real jobs,
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  Friday's will the carrot, you feel like, it's okay.
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  I can go on three hours of sleep, tomorrow's Friday the
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  weekend after that. Yeah, I can make it eight hours.
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  I can I can you know punch in punch out and then if I need to
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  get some extra sleep, I got that opportunity.
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  If I need to do a little power nap before I head out on a
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  Friday night, I can do that. That mean that's it's that's
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  what it's all about. Whether you're 20 or 40, you can
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  always make that excuse to get a little foul on Thursday night
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  because Friday, is always going to be a short one for you, or at
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  least it feels that way. Exactly.
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  And when you legitimately do that every weekend in the fall,
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  Plus obviously Saturday nights, where up late.
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  Anyway, recording watching the late games and then would you
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  like me sometimes if you all remember from last season
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  sitting on a deck freezing my ass off.
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  Exactly. And Gatlinburg recording the the
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  postgame podcast. Exactly.
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  Hilarious. Right.
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  Well tonight guys, what we're going to be looking at is we are
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  going to be looking at Camp battles for the season.
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  Obviously we had press conferences last week, you know,
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  media got access shout out some of the info, you know, credit
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  Andy, bitter - Zola Mike Barber amongst other, guys are going to
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  be getting into that before we jump onto that, we have had a
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  few commitments since we last met with you guys.
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  So let's start and take a look at those guys and and one other
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  big subject that broke just the other day.
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  Let's start with DeAndre Martin out of Life.
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  Christian Academy here in the r-va DeAndre originally from
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  Durham series ranked with the North Carolina recruits.
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  He is ranked 21 to a top 25 players from down there, three
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  star rated as an 87 by 24/7 and he is a hoss 63 and a half about
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  290 pounds and man, look in here a solid offer list.
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  You're looking at Florida, State, Tennessee, South
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  Carolina, and UVA, all offered as well.
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  So that interest from multiple Schools for I, what did you see
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  from this tape? This is a big kid and I think,
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  you know, we talked about getting some of these new
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  pipelines. This is definitely one that we
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  need to get in with life like Christian Academy but I like the
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  way Martin plays, he's got good size, kind of a good first step
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  for a guy that big especially at the high school level.
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  So I like what he's bringing to the table.
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  You know, I think an 87 is probably about right?
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  In terms of, we're waiting for him.
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  I would put him kind of as that high three-star range.
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  So I think to 47s, probably right on the money, there could
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  be 86 to 88 was kind of the range.
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  I was expecting so 87, came right in the middle there.
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  And, you know, we're looking, I don't know if he's going to get
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  enough ratings from the other venues to really to pull that
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  composite rating out there. But 87 solid.
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  I like the kid, I'm excited to get him in and I love that.
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  We're still, you know, focusing on these these big kids coming
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  out of the high school ranks and not some of the undersized guys
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  that we've been looking at before, you know, pushing 64
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  pushing 295. That's exactly what you want.
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  From an interior defensive lineman, absolutely primary
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  recruiters were Ron Smith and JC price and essentially beat out
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  South Carolina and Shane This one.
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  So, again, solid offer list solid size at a Uprising sort of
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  Prep School here in the r-va Life Christian Academy.
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  They've got quite a few, guys. It's like they're building some
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  down there, so definitely a good way to start the pipeline there.
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  Now Brian, just a few short hours ago, we got another
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  commitment. Yes, we did Mansoor delay.
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  Yeah. Mansur Delaney.
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  Yeah. That was a.
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  That was a, that was a pretty big one too.
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  You know, I know you got the probably you got the measurables
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  there, you can go ahead and read those off for it.
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  I mean Corner 61 180 pounds. So solid cornerback size their
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  number 15 player in Maryland, rating in 86.
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  But we know about lower star rank kids coming out of
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  Maryland, especially cornerback position and pretty solid
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  awkward list. You know, with, you know,
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  obviously us BC Louisville again.
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  Another UVA offer we had Last battle with Maryland there which
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  is good wind, you know, Michael I feel he's been recruiting very
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  well done at Maryland. The last couple years and he is
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  a hell of a recruiting head coach.
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  So what do you see in four men? Sore after he delayed us an
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  hour? Wow word is he didn't delay is
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  the guy doing his editing, the latest he was, he was waiting on
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  it at it, waiting on it that it's so ended up being about
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  what about an hour and 15 minutes later than anticipated
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  drop somewhere around. Around 6:15 6:20?
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  Yeah, he was he was aiming for a 5:00 announcement.
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  Originally so you know, I'll say this before I get into what I
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  see on tape, Winning the battles against the South Carolina's and
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  the Maryland's you always say, it's what we've got to do.
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  Consistently. Yes we do.
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  We're going to lose a few here and there to the Blue Bloods.
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  We can't lose commits that we sit well with two programs that
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  we are level with or above in terms of overall talent and
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  Prestige. So getting these wins,
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  regardless of what you think about the individual player is
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  Look good thing. So I say that to say this,
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  looking at Delaney's tape, I like the way he plays from a
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  physical standpoint does a really good job redirecting
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  receivers getting them off their path.
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  Probably is going to need to work on kind of turning hips and
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  making sure that if he's not able to get any sort of, you
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  know, physical element at the snap of the football that he's
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  in the right position. Throughout the entirety of the
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  route. But overall, I think he's a guy
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  that can potentially contribute to us in the future.
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  So I like this pick up, you know, it's not, it's not
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  necessarily moving the needle for us, but at the same time,
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  it's a solid pick up in the type of pickup, we need to
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  consistently go out there and win.
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  Absolutely, it's also a region of the country, we need to
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  continue to grow the relationships with and if we
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  need to get these type players, you go back 25 years ago when
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  you take a look, Get that 95 team and I know that's a long
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  time ago folks but there were a lot of Maryland kids, the
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  fuller's-earth in Maryland, we always had a decent pipeline up
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  there. Really big when Billy Hite was
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  there with the math of feel like Billy can walk in there, just
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  about get any player in but it's having that whole piece because
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  we always talk about what? What's what's of recruiting
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  blueprint, right? You can't get 20 guys from
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  Virginia and sit on that. It's getting as Brian always
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  wants three or four in the top. 10 6 to 8 in the top 20 in
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  Virginia. And then pick one or two, all
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  primarily two or three off from North Carolina.
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  South Carolina, Georgia Florida. And now the end of the day in
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  Texas, pick one or two off of there and occasionally from
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  somewhere else in that region. That's how you build a program
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  like Virginia Tech. You want 45 percent or so from
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  Virginia. And you want at least four of
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  those guys to be top 15 players. Yep.
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  That's what you want. Crap, preferably two of them to
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  be top ten and then you kind of go from there.
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  I mean we could fill the the team Ginny kids every year.
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  But at this point, the way other schools are recruiting.
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  We do well, but we would, we still wouldn't get to where we
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  need to be. So we still need to cast that
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  net especially to those areas that we sit well with
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  historically like Marilyn, like Duval like some of the areas in
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  Georgia that we've kind of started to carve out a path in
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  like the, the Triad, I mean, we've done really well in the
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  Triad. Of late.
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  So that's where we. I mean if you're if you're
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  talking outside of Virginia, that's where we need to focus.
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  Like Texas is great. We get a couple guys from there
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  every cycle, that's fine. But you still got to cultivate
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  those traditional pipelines that you have established since, you
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  know, the early 90s. Absolutely, in taking a look
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  here, mean, we have a class of twenty one so far and a tour
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  from Virginia. So they're right in that range
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  that you come over on about 45% from the state.
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  And then again, I'm just looking here and got not talk about the
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  Triad Xavier Simmons. You got a couple guys from
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  Texas. You got some Pennsylvania, guys.
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  You got some Georgia, guys, you guys from South Carolina, guys.
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  So this is the blueprint that should have never stopped, but
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  it did, but will digress on that one time.
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  All right, other big news this week, that broke and I'm sure
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  everybody's heard it by now, with Babcock gets an extension.
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  The 2029. That is a long time away.
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  Yep. Get the math behind our sons
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  will be driving when which contract is up, this is
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  accurate. Yeah, so as far as what are you
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  thoughts? I mean, what do you think with
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  which so far in his first seven years at Virginia Tech?
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  So I think there's there's kind of two angles to approach this,
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  and the first is going to be, I'll separate it by how he's
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  done, in terms of hiring and managing talent for the athletic
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  department. And then I'll bring you down in
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  terms of overall athletic Mission.
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  So on that first piece outside of football, he's done as good
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  as probably, any AD in the country, in terms of getting
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  coaches in With Talent getting Olympic sports and non-revenue
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  sports competitive across the board.
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  He's a damn good job at that. and, Say what you will about
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  Fuente. But that wasn't necessarily a
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  bad hire. When it happened, it wasn't the
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  preferred higher, but it wasn't a bad hire.
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  It hasn't worked out but hindsight's 20/20, so I'm not
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  going to say that. It was a whiff.
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  I'm going to say that. He probably had some options
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  that may have been a better fit that he passed on.
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  But there wasn't any red flags that said for went to a would
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  have been a bad hire when that higher was made.
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  So it is what it is at this point from that perspective.
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  Now, from a athletic department Mission standpoint, I think
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  that's where this comes into the most play, especially with Reach
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  For Excellence launching. And Regardless of what happens
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  with went away, whether he's gone after a season or two, or
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  whether he rides out the remainder of his contract, I
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  think overall. They've said you've done well
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  enough, where we're going to let you hire another football coach.
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  Yeah, you're going to get one more.
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  One more shot at this. While you're you're here based
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  on your overall track record we trust you to potentially do
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  better this time in terms of finding a fit and I Coming over
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  all. Now, you'll say Fuente is a bad
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  fit, just I think Flint with necessarily the way he came in,
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  but I think Fuente is a bad fit in terms of the type of coach
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  that fans wanted or expected coming off of beamer, I think he
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  did a good job of respecting. Some of the traditions and
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  things about Virginia Tech coming in, but he didn't kind of
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  get the nuances of what the fan base is expected from a coach.
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  That's 100% true. You go from prank, who is just
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  at that point in time and even up through that point in time
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  was lovable, Grandpa figure. Even if you go back, when we
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  were younger, if he was here, people that met him, he was a
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  very approachable person where people pay is not and could that
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  change of one day, maybe maybe not.
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  If if you get 12 wins a year, yeah it would change real quick
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  cuz everybody love you regardless of what happened.
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  But if one day here at the time was a home, run.
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  You look like two or three guys out there and he was one of you
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  had to get in. We got one of them.
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  Now, what's happened, subsequently?
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  Is not good, especially the last three seasons, not the first
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  two, because people jump on, and say, well, he extend them.
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  And after we were 19 and eight, we were 19 and eight.
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  And we were on the doorstep of beating Clemson in the ACC title
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  game like on the doorstep. If that happens in 16, The
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  Narrative changes but he had a lock him down because you knew
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  bigger programs were going to come sniffing now over all the
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  athletic department. I mean everything's competing
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  Everything dip, everything's competing at the NCAA level.
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  You know you had softball. Make it to Super Regionals.
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  You had so many guys in wrestling.
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  Make it track and field outstanding when the ACC again
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  baseball had a, heck of a run until the bullpen.
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  Just forgot how to play baseball.
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  But so many things are doing well.
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  Soccer is ranked again, soccer has been to a final four, I
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  believe. Think since what's been here?
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  Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong about that, but they've had
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  success. If he's been given the
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  opportunity because he's built everything right where wit make
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  this mistake and this is where we're going with for Wente is,
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  and you've said it numerous times to me.
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  And I'm sure you've set it to other folks.
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  He came in and he cleaned up the other stuff first instead of
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  paying attention to football first.
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  Now once he realized that what was going on in football, You
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  got to do something with, he has got on that fast.
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  The facilities upgrade the dining hall upgrade.
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  The student dorms it went, it was like 17 happen and then 18
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  happened. And then kind of realized like,
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  okay, we're behind and things would hammer down, and he's
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  gotten caught back up. And, you know, do we sit here
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  and say, if he starts spending that money in 14 on the football
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  program, when he first comes in, Are we where we are?
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  We don't know. We can speculate and say no we'd
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  have better facilities easier cells.
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  We wouldn't have the run-in with Baylor and all that stuff
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  whatever. But overall, he's put everything
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  else on good footing and now he is focused on the football
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  program and that's what's got to be done.
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  Absolutely. And, you know, we can look and
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  pick apart things and and everything else.
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  But I mean, looking back at 2014.
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  At that point, did we look at what was happening as a trend or
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  as a blip blip? So but then you had 14 yet,
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  fifteen different gone and then you had with maybe thinking new
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  head coach might be enough to right the ship long enough to
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  for me to get these other pieces in place and it will not see a
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  drop off. He was good for two years, it
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  wasn't good for the four or five he needed.
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  Start getting these things in place.
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  So not not saying that, that was the mindset, but, but trying to
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  think about it from a strategic plan standpoint, that might have
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  been kind of the angle. He was going at and just things
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  didn't quite hang on long enough.
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  In both the the pre Foo era and the the sense Foo era to really
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  make it look like, you know, the design that he had in his head
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  at the time. But it's the it's like the early
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  through there and then 18 was the Midfield area and we're part
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  of the lake through era. And the question is this season,
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  obviously what saves his job and I know we're going to probably
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  argue that all season with people Brian but what saves his
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  job? I know I've got a number of my
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  head, you've got a number in your head will be revealing that
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  in a few weeks and so who knows that's going to be the
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  interesting thing because Is in. For some people, it might be a
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  moving Target depending on what the wins and the losses look
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  like. And for some people, it might
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  be, if you don't hit this Benchmark or that Benchmark, I
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  think you should be gone. So it's going to be different
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  for different people. And, you know, that's Wednesday
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  forward to having some of you guys discussed this with us.
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  It has we, you know, shake down some of these wins and losses
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  this season because I'm sure that A point that topics going
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  to come up whether it's every week for good or ill every week
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  is going to come up every week. All right, now guys, before we
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  get into looking at what's going on with Camp depth and all that
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  we are going to go take a quick pause for a message from our
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  digital partners. All right, Brian.
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  Let's start it out here. Let's start on the defensive
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  side of the ball. Let's take a look at the
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  defensive ends first, and I don't think this was going to
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  shock anybody, you know, curl, the reports were seeing out
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  there Mari bar. No, Taiwan Garbutt up in the
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  first group, you know, obviously J, Hamm during the presser
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  mentioned last week. Barn is just scratching the
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  surface of his ability and he thinks that he's going to put
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  pressure on offenses that have to adjust to him which is going
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  to make a thing. Easier for Garba in the rest of
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  defensive line and probably the rest of the whole defense and I
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  agree completely with him on that.
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  Yeah, I think that was a good assessment.
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  I mean the type of just the physicality and the speed and
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  athleticism and he brings they're going to be shading
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  protection, his way chipping with tight ends.
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  That's going to potentially take an extra guy.
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  Out of a route is least in the early part so that that tight
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  end now because Has more or less a check down type option and not
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  somebody, you know, running a seam or or any other kind of
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  complex route in the middle of the defense for us.
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  So there's a bunch of things that that can happen from that
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  aside from just the trickle-down of you know, guy like Jordan
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  Williams not getting a double team, Garbutt having 10 one on
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  one on the other side. Like there's just so many things
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  that that opens up and take some pressure off those other guys.
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  So, having Bardot be able to, you know, take another step is
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  going to be important this year because, you know, we talked
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  about how how much of a step he took from Week 1 to the final
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  week of the Season. Not really having a, you know, a
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  true fall Camp to prepare and not really having the ability to
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  practice each week on the position like he wanted to.
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  So and he even mentioned himself, I mean this has been
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  Kind of the first off season in a long time for him, where he's
• 23:40
  been 100% healthy going into the start of a season.
• 23:44
  So I think that's going to play a big factor for him as well.
• 23:48
  And you know, he's obviously with with some of the things
• 23:52
  last year, he's dealing with some of the expectations that
• 23:55
  have been put put on him. We're talking about that right
• 23:58
  now. Me and what we're discussing
• 24:00
  right now. We're putting some expectations
• 24:02
  on him, but he talked about keeping that kind of a head down
• 24:05
  mentality and just kind of, you know, tunnel vision.
• 24:08
  Making sure that he's focusing on the right things as he heads
• 24:11
  into the season. So that's going to be big and
• 24:13
  hoping to see some big things from him this year.
• 24:15
  No doubt all no doubt. And in hearing those words out
• 24:19
  of his mouth during his presser, you know, last week was really
• 24:22
  good to hear especially about the offseason because you know
• 24:27
  we mentioned we mentioned you know him being healthy for the
• 24:32
  first time. Well this is really his first
• 24:36
  full offseason a An in-depth name, you know, he didn't get
• 24:41
  spring last year. We know how jacked up camp was,
• 24:44
  so he's getting full spring, he's getting full fall.
• 24:49
  He's got, Billy's got JC really tenured guys to teach him, which
• 24:56
  is great because you've seen those guys in their work and
• 25:00
  what they produced on the field, which is awesome.
• 25:03
  The blonde, he'll Adams, Jalen grip and running with the twos.
• 25:06
  Obviously the defense, Event position was really hurt by the
• 25:09
  Alec Bryant Justin Beatles and you know, wound transfers.
• 25:17
  I think Jalen Griffin might have something, a little shocked to
• 25:20
  see Eli Adams up there. But again, that's what we're
• 25:23
  running with right now and you got some of the freshmen.
• 25:27
  I have a feeling I'm going to be sneaking and sniffing around
• 25:30
  trying to crack at too deep along with Alfred Binet, Yeah,
• 25:35
  look to see. Probably a couple guys in there
• 25:39
  in the freshman class either propping pop into deeper
• 25:41
  rotating in there with a three deep.
• 25:44
  The big question is, does Belmar get his conditioning back and is
• 25:50
  he healthy enough with the issues?
• 25:52
  He's been dealing with thing from the end of last season, to
• 25:57
  be able to be pretty, you know, a big rotational factor for us
• 26:00
  this year, if he is then, And you know that's going to help us
• 26:07
  because that means the guy like Eli Adams is probably sliding
• 26:10
  into the kind of the three deep and not the 2D.
• 26:13
  Yeah and you get a little cold Nelson, who just looks like a 25
• 26:17
  year old man. Right now I'm not an 18 year old
• 26:19
  kid as a freshman in college. What can they do again?
• 26:24
  What Wilfred can do? We mention just a couple weeks
• 26:27
  ago with the transfer, he played defensive end and he racked up
• 26:30
  some stats at the Preparatory Academy in Connecticut.
• 26:32
  So it's me really interested in there.
• 26:34
  Let's stay on the defensive line.
• 26:36
  Brian, let's take a look at defensive tackle.
• 26:39
  Were you shocked to see Jordan Williams and Mario Kendricks as
• 26:43
  the first team out there? Not super shocked, you know,
• 26:49
  seeing Kendricks out there instead of Pollard wasn't wasn't
• 26:53
  too shocking. They've kind of been kind of the
• 26:56
  the 2A and 2B D. Tackles for me.
• 27:02
  I think what they're probably going with is having with Jordan
• 27:06
  and Mario. You've got even though with
• 27:08
  Pollard putting on a little bit of weight the offseason those
• 27:12
  guys are more or less kind of the same same body type with
• 27:15
  William. Dropping a little weight, this
• 27:17
  offseason and and Kendricks bumping up just a hair that
• 27:21
  gives you a little bit more flexibility with, you know,
• 27:24
  slides across the defensive front, almost having an
• 27:28
  interchangeable, one and three technique.
• 27:31
  Whereas, with your second unit there, Pollard in Josh fuka, you
• 27:35
  have more defined roles where Pollard is.
• 27:37
  Absolutely. A three technique and fuga is
• 27:40
  absolutely that one technique. So, That's probably where
• 27:44
  they're heading with with that type of alignment.
• 27:47
  So I have no problem with with Mario up there versus versus
• 27:51
  Pollard. But all those guys are going to
• 27:52
  get run, we talked about built here, link style here, he's
• 27:56
  going to rotate it. At least two sets of Guys,
• 28:00
  across that defensive line if not three.
• 28:03
  So you know, first team second team, I mean, the the difference
• 28:07
  in snap count is going to be minimal.
• 28:11
  Yeah, absolutely. I in the other thing that we had
• 28:14
  mentioned, mean, you talking earlier day during our
• 28:16
  production meeting was, you know, you can let you can bring
• 28:20
  polity. And with Jordan, let Jordan play
• 28:22
  the one, you know, you can bring Fuji in at the one.
• 28:25
  Let Jordan played the three or bring food gonna let Mario play
• 28:28
  the three and you have some mix-and-match options where you
• 28:32
  talked about Bill rolling rotating guys.
• 28:35
  Moving guys constantly, well, you've got enough guys, even
• 28:38
  though you get two guys who are really primary, setters, You get
• 28:41
  two other guys, who can constantly move.
• 28:44
  And I mean, I think that's going to be a key a for keeping those
• 28:47
  guys fresh. But be forgiven, different looks
• 28:50
  on the beginning of the line now.
• 28:52
  Something else that was mentioned.
• 28:54
  I think it was. Was it Pollard in mentioned it,
• 28:56
  right? We talked about Desmond, my
• 28:58
  Moody, um, Desmond down in the Tampa area.
• 29:01
  You know, the three-star commit last year comes in big 63 220
• 29:06
  already. So, already would probably a By
• 29:11
  to play maybe not in the best shape to play coming from high
• 29:14
  school but you hear that name mentioned by one of the leaders
• 29:19
  on the defensive line. It makes your head pop up and
• 29:21
  obviously Max Philpott the wall phone.
• 29:25
  Yeah. If you probably had to give me a
• 29:28
  third group, it will probably be those two.
• 29:31
  It sounds like mammootty is coming on pretty quickly there,
• 29:35
  obviously, big body guy and you let you like that out the gate.
• 29:42
  But the thing I look at is, you know, you talked about a little
• 29:45
  bit conditioning wise, is he going to be able to stand up to
• 29:48
  a snap count, but as a third string or even with that with a
• 29:52
  steady rotation, that tearling likes to employ that third line,
• 29:55
  is it going to get a lot of run but any run, he can get this
• 29:58
  year is to our benefit so hopefully we'll see something
• 30:04
  from him. But you kudos to Max Philpott
• 30:08
  earning a scholarship, having a big offseason in the weight room
• 30:11
  is As well, a lot of lot of kudos to him on that front as
• 30:14
  well. So good for him to kind of kind
• 30:18
  of push. Some of these other guys guys
• 30:20
  forward a little bit. I mean some of the some of the
• 30:23
  things we're seeing him flying up the depth chart in the
• 30:26
  offseason where he was more of a Norwood afterthought at the
• 30:28
  start of 2020. Well it's absolutely.
• 30:31
  I mean, I think that's where it with the defensive tackle group,
• 30:33
  you feel good. And even with the defensive line
• 30:36
  in general, you still feel good about it because you still to
• 30:39
  me, I think the As Pollard, you can play in the big end if you
• 30:43
  need it too. If you wanted to give a
• 30:45
  different look but those groups feel good.
• 30:49
  Now, the next group, there wasn't much out there about it.
• 30:52
  I don't think it shocked, anybody look at the linebacking
• 30:55
  corps, brine is highly films is down.
• 30:57
  Is anybody shot? No nobody's, nobody's.
• 31:01
  People are mad, because thanks a lot of people hate Dax and, you
• 31:07
  know, other than for what? Just You know, playing solid
• 31:14
  football, not spectacular because he was a cop, 150 guy
• 31:17
  and you know playing out of position for three years.
• 31:21
  I mean I get some of the the great white height tape tape,
• 31:28
  Buzz surrounding him, a great for what I mean, it's You know,
• 31:37
  so I get some of that like, you know, he was four star, you
• 31:42
  know, Bud, Foster prototype type player and output, hasn't
• 31:49
  matched expectations. But the fan base, you know, the
• 31:55
  fans that are passionate in his corner or very passionate and in
• 31:59
  his corner, and for those that point out the flaws sometimes
• 32:03
  that can frustrate them with the Credit given relative to the
• 32:09
  output, so I get that. But at the same time, I mean
• 32:13
  he's played solid, if unspectacular most of the time.
• 32:18
  Yeah. And he's been playing out of
• 32:20
  position, pretty much since he's been on campus will see if being
• 32:27
  at his natural position for a full offseason.
• 32:31
  Some of the other things that were gaps in his game, go away a
• 32:35
  little bit. That's my hope for him if he can
• 32:38
  take any Step At All. While playing a position, that's
• 32:42
  more of a fit for his athleticism.
• 32:44
  That's that's going to be. He's gonna have a pretty good
• 32:47
  sees. I'm not saying he's going to be
• 32:49
  some sort of all-acc caliber player but I don't think we need
• 32:53
  that with some of the guys we have on defense of wine.
• 32:57
  And some of the guys we have on the back end, we just need him
• 32:59
  to be where he needs to be every play and make the tackle.
• 33:02
  We need him to be the old school quarterback of the defense.
• 33:08
  Get everybody lined up. Make sure everybody's on their
• 33:09
  route assignment, fill the gap. Right.
• 33:11
  Get off the block when you need to find last part is going to be
• 33:15
  the part that he needs to work on.
• 33:17
  I'd like to see somebody about from Camp.
• 33:19
  So, if you're listening video, folks out there, let's see how
• 33:22
  he's doing on that now. Justin Fuente addressed allant
• 33:26
  is down, I tell you what, for us that follow it closely, a lot of
• 33:31
  folks were hyped when you know, talked about Tisdale gain and 18
• 33:34
  pounds Tisdale up. 22 2008. He played about 218 a couple
• 33:40
  years ago and was Fast I can't see 10-pound slowing him down
• 33:44
  that much which is great. And then he just talked about,
• 33:47
  you know, the focus and the maturity and he's in a
• 33:51
  completely different place than where he has been in the past
• 33:54
  and Alan Tisdale at backer has that capability to be.
• 34:00
  In my opinion, he could be an all-acc player now, is he going
• 34:05
  to beat remain or, you know, a DB Probably not.
• 34:11
  But be Tarik. That's a good one.
• 34:18
  So, it's not, it's not like he's down here.
• 34:20
  We're getting. We're going to get a bump up
• 34:22
  from Dax because we have more athletic guy out there.
• 34:27
  Now by all means what I like to see him become Tremaine.
• 34:29
  Yes everybody would or a DVD hell yeah.
• 34:32
  But I think it was great to hear that.
• 34:35
  Yeah. And I think, you know, I think
• 34:37
  the bigger thing, like, the weight gain is great.
• 34:40
  It was me. It to take on inside the Box
• 34:44
  blocks, because regardless of what you say, anybody says
• 34:49
  taking on blocks inside the box is different than taking on like
• 34:53
  a tight end leading out on a running play, or a crack from a
• 34:57
  wide receiver or anything like that from outside.
• 35:00
  The box, playing inside the box, has a different Beast.
• 35:03
  You got tackles guards and tight ends coming at you, coming at
• 35:07
  you from different angles. I mean, it's It's a different
• 35:11
  Beast. So the weight gain is going to
• 35:13
  help him with getting off those blocks, standing up to those
• 35:17
  blocks, and not, not getting pushed out of the gap.
• 35:21
  Now the other part of it, the focus immaturity is going to be
• 35:24
  big for me because more frustrating than anything with
• 35:29
  Tisdale's play last year. Wasn't he was too small or he
• 35:33
  wasn't wasn't able to take on on blocks.
• 35:37
  It was sometimes you look lost. He'd have a play where he just
• 35:41
  completely blew up with the offense was trying to do in the
• 35:44
  very next play he get the wrong read and be five yards out of
• 35:48
  position. And that was kind of, that was
• 35:51
  the maddening part of his game is that, you know, he just
• 35:54
  seemed like hadn't hadn't, quite put everything together with the
• 35:58
  defense and some of that could be attributed to the install in
• 36:03
  a covid year. And some of that was just, it
• 36:05
  seems like maturity, white, might not have been quite where
• 36:08
  it where it needed to be in terms of picking up the Playbook
• 36:11
  and getting everything down pat. So seeing that the coaches are
• 36:15
  calling out specifically that the focus and maturity have
• 36:18
  definitely improved. I hope to see that on the field
• 36:22
  because I think the kid can flat-out play.
• 36:25
  I just need to see it more consistent.
• 36:27
  Absolutely well, second teamers Dean Ferguson.
• 36:32
  I don't think that's a shock. A lot of people have heard of
• 36:34
  Dean name more and more and more hurting like he's going to be
• 36:37
  one of those guys that's going to need to step up because
• 36:40
  obviously dachshund his they'll do play a role on special teams.
• 36:43
  Now, the Shocker of this group is CJ McRae at backer CJ, fits
• 36:49
  the mold Old right? I don't think anybody's going to
• 36:52
  deny, you know, deny that. CJ's a call link your guy and I
• 36:57
  think, you know, you sit here You know, 63 220.
• 37:02
  He's kind of Tisdale, which is, there was a 19.
• 37:09
  Obviously if he's second team, he's done something in a pretty
• 37:12
  short period of time to get there with the three other guys
• 37:15
  on the roster so that that makes you feel good about that.
• 37:18
  Dove obviously. Don't hear the name.
• 37:20
  Keyshawn artist but we know Keyshawn can play.
• 37:24
  It's again, it's one of those groups where I feel good about
• 37:28
  going into the season. It's a group that I feel good
• 37:31
  about and I actually feel better about it now than I did
• 37:34
  necessarily A probably of even just a few months ago.
• 37:37
  Yeah, especially with with knowing what I know about
• 37:41
  Tisdale. Now I had a really big question
• 37:43
  mark about backer because I wasn't sure what to get from.
• 37:47
  Tisdale wasn't sure how fast CJ McCray was going to come along.
• 37:52
  And while there's still some question marks whether Dax is
• 37:55
  gonna translate. Now it is more natural position,
• 37:58
  you feel like he's, you know, you're not going to see
• 38:03
  necessary. Even if you don't see a boost,
• 38:05
  you probably not going to see a drop off relative to what we had
• 38:07
  last year with Rook. So I'm hoping that with with
• 38:13
  Tisdale, really, taking a step and hopefully learning to be
• 38:17
  more consistent in this play. That's going to pay some
• 38:20
  dividends with the run and not put as much.
• 38:22
  Each on the our safeties to have to make tackles in the Run game,
• 38:27
  because that was a big problem last year.
• 38:29
  Well, absolutely. Well, speaking of the guy,
• 38:32
  making tackles there is nickel with position and Shamari
• 38:36
  Connor, tomorrow Connor makes tackles and you know, Feel like
• 38:43
  J Hamm kind of gushed over and Brian.
• 38:46
  Yeah. I mean it was definitely he was
• 38:49
  took a good amount of time with a question related to Jamari to
• 38:54
  kind of talk about Shamari. The person kind of reserved
• 38:58
  until he opens up with you but once he does you know, sorry to
• 39:01
  get him to stop stop talking and that, you know, he's kind of
• 39:05
  stepped into more of a leadership role heading into
• 39:08
  this year. Being a third year starter kind
• 39:12
  of being one of the veterans on the a unit, And it's good to see
• 39:16
  because it means, we're going to need leaders at all levels on
• 39:20
  the defense and having a guy that, you know, everybody
• 39:23
  recognizes as a dog. Yep, taking on that leadership
• 39:26
  role. That's going to be big for that
• 39:28
  defense because they're going to follow his lead and he brings a
• 39:32
  lot of intensity when he's on the field.
• 39:35
  In him also, noted that he seems to be getting better with kind
• 39:40
  of reading the offense, pre-snap and getting a lot better in his
• 39:44
  coverage technique, which was probably the biggest weakness of
• 39:46
  his game last year was, was how he played in coverage, that's
• 39:51
  not. And if he can clean that up to a
• 39:53
  significant point, you know, we're going to be in a much
• 39:56
  better place than we were last year.
• 40:00
  He had some games where he he looked like the best player on
• 40:04
  the field. He had a couple games we're
• 40:07
  outside, the Run game, he was struggling and if he can clean
• 40:11
  up that element a little bit that's going to be pretty big.
• 40:15
  You kind of put him back in that.
• 40:17
  I mean I'll say this if he can if he can get a little bit
• 40:20
  better coverage, he's gonna handle that position.
• 40:22
  Similar to help mooc handled it when he was here.
• 40:24
  So yeah, it can see that and if that's been the focus and again
• 40:28
  the coverage wasn't terrible. It was again, I'll put it kind
• 40:33
  of like that it was solid but there were times he had the
• 40:36
  lapses and, you know, sometimes they're at the worst time.
• 40:40
  So again, I hear that and to hear, that's probably been his
• 40:43
  Focus because he's always a thumper, he'd always put his
• 40:45
  nose in there. He'd always try to make the
• 40:47
  tackle. We take a look death, while in a
• 40:51
  Seer people's Mike Hawkins, who younger guys?
• 40:57
  Not shocked to see Nikes name but little shock of seeing this
• 41:00
  year, people. Because I feel like Nike we'd
• 41:02
  heard a little bit more about him at the width position.
• 41:06
  So that is the one thing about this position that scares me a
• 41:10
  little bit. Is we do not have the death and
• 41:15
  it's like you said tomorrow being a leader tomorrow being a
• 41:17
  dog. You know he has to he has to
• 41:22
  stay clean. Yes.
• 41:23
  To stay healthy and yeah, yeah, I don't know who the next great
• 41:29
  nickel whip is going. To be in this defense I'm hoping
• 41:34
  it's Nasir people's. I mean sound I mean I know Nasir
• 41:37
  people's is really kind of you kept.
• 41:39
  You keep hearing his name mentioned as kind of a guy that
• 41:45
  is right on the edge of kind of making an impact, we heard him
• 41:49
  his name a little bit that the start of last year.
• 41:51
  So you know, maybe he's taking some steps and can can be a good
• 41:56
  Reserve but more than likely of all the positions on defense,
• 42:02
  Connors probably the one spot where he's not going to come off
• 42:05
  the field unless he's injured or being late in the game.
• 42:10
  Yeah, we got a lead more than likely.
• 42:15
  He's going to, he's going to be on the field.
• 42:17
  Pretty much every snap, every meaningful snap, at least.
• 42:19
  So Abso-freakin'-lutely, the concern there is not so much
• 42:24
  2021, it's kind of what's next. What's her name?
• 42:29
  Absolutely. All right, let's roll on, let's
• 42:31
  take a look at probably, again to of the stronger positions.
• 42:33
  On defense. Let's take a look at safety
• 42:36
  where hell of a story Devin Hunter running with the ones and
• 42:41
  at the boundary safety position and chianti Jenkins running with
• 42:46
  the ones that the free safety position and then Devon Taylor
• 42:50
  and Take daily backing them up, guys, with the experienced guys,
• 42:54
  with playing time. And then Jr, Walker and Jalen
• 42:59
  Stroman or third three, deep there.
• 43:04
  There's not a whole that is about it.
• 43:06
  I mean, you know, the only thing you would you would ask for is
• 43:12
  if you had like one guy that was like all-acc caliber that was
• 43:18
  coming back. That that's really the only
• 43:21
  thing you could ask for in this group and in terms of just
• 43:24
  experience and knowing that everyone in at least in the two,
• 43:29
  deep can handle their role and everyone in the 3D has talent
• 43:36
  and ability even if they're somewhat unproven.
• 43:39
  I mean that's that's as solid as you can expect from that unit.
• 43:43
  So and I'm hoping for big things from Devon Hunter, you know,
• 43:48
  he's been back with the team I think.
• 43:50
  I think for long enough at this point to kind of get his his
• 43:54
  football legs back under him and the fact that he's sitting at
• 43:58
  the one spot tells me that he's where he needs to be.
• 44:03
  Also the fact that tay was moved over to free says a lot.
• 44:08
  Hell tells tells me that Devin is where he needs to be
• 44:12
  absolutely and you know it's great to see jaelen strong and
• 44:15
  already in the 3D but I don't think Jalen's going to Redshirt.
• 44:18
  I think Jalen's going to be doing A ton of special teams.
• 44:21
  I think that one's going to have some packages and it's just that
• 44:26
  group it's just everybody has experience on the field.
• 44:30
  Connor is obviously motivated out of his mind and you talked
• 44:34
  about having an old all-acc caliber guy.
• 44:38
  We lost him last year. Could he have been that all-acc
• 44:41
  caliber guy? He was so highly touted, coming
• 44:44
  out of high school, he batted waited his time to get that
• 44:48
  chance and then you know what happened is what happened you
• 44:51
  know about last year at this point in time.
• 44:54
  And again, it's just a great story.
• 44:56
  Let's hop over Brawn to another room that is again, you started
• 45:03
  going down, it's just players all over the place.
• 45:07
  Cornerback room. You know remain Waller did not
• 45:12
  was not there Friday as a cold. Mast up there.
• 45:16
  They're taking all the precautions.
• 45:17
  They can first time really healthy starting since 19 when
• 45:22
  he was an absolute baller. Yep. and, you know, We talked
• 45:30
  about him, the injuries last year and everything that's
• 45:35
  happened. We're hearing him about being
• 45:37
  the leader him talking to guys about it.
• 45:40
  They getting it. So you've got that older voice
• 45:44
  in the room that? Yes, he was there last year, but
• 45:48
  when you're not on the field, it's tougher to bark, right?
• 45:52
  Yeah, it's tougher to bark and I think, you know, we talked
• 45:57
  about, I mean, the ideal scenario is probably what we
• 46:00
  were looking at, pre covid last year with an all-acc guy coming
• 46:06
  back. A guy that was right right below
• 46:10
  that opposite him. Even, you know, I know Walter
• 46:15
  never really got healthy last year.
• 46:16
  That's probably the ideal. This is probably the number two.
• 46:21
  This is because you No a healthy Waller is is a baller.
• 46:27
  He also he's a friend you know Fringe all ACC player probably
• 46:32
  at his healthiest so you got him on one end you got a true
• 46:40
  freshman that played damn good. The specially kind of thrown
• 46:44
  into the fire with Dorian strong.
• 46:45
  Last year was an All-American. Give that credit because you
• 46:49
  don't ya not playing freshman All-American.
• 46:52
  Yeah. You got Armani, Chapman solid
• 46:56
  bit, little bit bigger body Corner.
• 46:59
  If he can improve a little bit in man-to-man coverage, he's
• 47:02
  going to be damn good as well. Rhian Marie, kind of does a
• 47:06
  little bit of everything, I think he's probably a little bit
• 47:10
  better in coverage, but not as good in the Run game
• 47:13
  occasionally and You know, you got a freshman like DJ Harvey
• 47:18
  coming in, I think he's going to may not make make a an on-field
• 47:25
  impact this year, but having him is kind of that, third or fourth
• 47:30
  line quarter on one end. I think you'll see him at least
• 47:35
  take full advantage of of all the snaps you can get in the red
• 47:38
  shirt year but he might end up doing enough on special teams
• 47:42
  like a Jalen Stroman, where he's going to, he's going to have
• 47:45
  another impact for us this year. So yeah, the other piece and we
• 47:49
  always talk about you talk about taking tomorrow off the field.
• 47:52
  Is if you ever go against a team where you need a true nickel
• 47:55
  corner of all those guys, I think that is DJ hard now we'll
• 48:01
  see because really we didn't get to see last year.
• 48:04
  What hand would do in situations where they would continuously go
• 48:09
  at a Nickelback versus a true Corner?
• 48:12
  Yes, I'd be interested to see if maybe he doesn't work his way up
• 48:14
  but still he walks in the door. They His own, he's practicing
• 48:18
  with the threes. It means he's probably getting
• 48:19
  runs with the twos he had. I think the question with, let's
• 48:24
  go back a little bit to the nickel Corner doing, you know,
• 48:28
  looking Beyond this year a little bit.
• 48:30
  I know that that's kind of off topic, but do enough other young
• 48:34
  guys at the safety position. Come along, where you can move a
• 48:37
  Jalen strowman to a nickel Corner as well.
• 48:41
  Maybe maybe I mean and maybe on the nickel Corner Deb maybe you
• 48:46
  don't worry as much about because you do have Devin Taylor
• 48:49
  who's kind of a Swiss army knife that you probably could put
• 48:52
  there probably could not get the most out of it, but you could
• 48:56
  probably have three or four coverage sets will be like he
• 48:59
  will do this. Okay, we'll be okay.
• 49:01
  So maybe that's the view on it. But you know again, defense kind
• 49:06
  of top to bottom, you know, definitely feeling Better than
• 49:11
  where we were just a few months ago.
• 49:13
  Yeah, I think you feel with the defense that, you know, you may
• 49:16
  not get the top-end play that we've had in our best years but
• 49:21
  unlike last year there's not a lot of holes.
• 49:23
  They're not there's not a lot of spots where you can point at and
• 49:27
  say I'm concerned here defensive end as long as we stay healthy.
• 49:33
  I feel okay about that's probably the thinnest group in
• 49:37
  terms of what we're looking like beyond the Lime.
• 49:43
  But I mean really every other group you feel pretty solid
• 49:47
  about first line and at least comfortable with with the second
• 49:51
  line. So, yeah, I think you just hit
• 49:55
  the nail on the head, this group isn't going to be 2020, or 2018
• 49:58
  type metrics. I think you're looking at
• 50:00
  probably 20 19, 2016. I don't think they, I don't
• 50:07
  think they have the 2017 them. No.
• 50:09
  But that's a 2016 would be. I think they're a little bit
• 50:12
  better. Then 2019.
• 50:15
  I don't, I don't think they may be quite hit 27.
• 50:19
  Got it somewhere around the 20 2016 year.
• 50:22
  Which I mean if we can get that and do something on offense,
• 50:26
  which were about to get to, we might be, okay, something on
• 50:30
  offense pom, pom something on offense.
• 50:32
  Well, the something on office this year, Bryan, is for the
• 50:35
  first time in the 10-year of this coaching staff.
• 50:41
  We do not have a camp battle, right?
• 50:43
  And Burmeister is, you know, locked in at the number one spot
• 50:48
  coach one day said during this presser, you know, it's much
• 50:51
  easier on that one person to have that going on.
• 50:56
  And, you know, even corn said it helps expand the passing game
• 51:00
  when you just have one guy which what you get because you know as
• 51:05
  being you were talking through it.
• 51:06
  You're like well if it's only one guy, You know, you don't
• 51:10
  have to have ten plays and we'll have to get you reps on 10 plays
• 51:14
  but I got to get him and him rip something plays.
• 51:17
  It's like you're going to get these ten plagues.
• 51:20
  And these ten plays in these templates makes perfect sense,
• 51:23
  at least to me, but maybe a minute, you can install your
• 51:26
  offense at a much quicker pace. You're not having any and all
• 51:31
  coaches are going to trickle in wrinkles throughout the year
• 51:34
  because you have to do that because you have to give each
• 51:38
  defense. Something new to look.
• 51:39
  Look at as you go along, but in terms of Day, One packages and
• 51:46
  things that are kind of the bread and butter, you can have
• 51:48
  all of your bread and butter fully installed, and your
• 51:53
  quarterback is fully comfortable with all of those because you're
• 51:55
  able to wrap them a lot more than if you're having a truly
• 51:58
  split snaps between two or three quarterbacks.
• 52:03
  So that's only going to help Braxton because the more reps,
• 52:07
  the more comfortable he gets with The offense with the
• 52:10
  receivers with the nuances of picking up and knowing where the
• 52:14
  blitz is coming from, in certain situations.
• 52:17
  So that's going to help it. I mean, how much it helps is is
• 52:21
  to be determined, but it's better better than the
• 52:27
  alternative. I will say, I like of all the
• 52:31
  positions that you kind of want, someone pushing quarterback is
• 52:38
  probably the one you don't. I mean you want somebody that's
• 52:40
  going to make sure your quarterback is feels a little
• 52:43
  bit of. I can't go out there and half
• 52:45
  asset but you don't want a quarterback, that's constantly,
• 52:50
  you know, waiting for the hook Yeah, that's never good for a
• 52:56
  quarterback. So it's the minutes out.
• 52:58
  We finally have them in tality where a quarterback isn't isn't
• 53:02
  worried about. If I play a bad game, I'm
• 53:04
  getting yanked. Yeah.
• 53:06
  And that's the in cornelison set it, and I'm glad he said it,
• 53:09
  it's one of those things that finally, it's addressed by the
• 53:12
  coaching staff, about how mentally of that player like you
• 53:16
  said. But if the whole team and it's
• 53:18
  not just the to me it wouldn't be just the offense but the
• 53:21
  defense like okay who's only quarterback, you know, we what
• 53:24
  kind Game we play in this week, we're going to be doing the
• 53:26
  Notre Dame game from 2019 when we slow it to a snail's pace and
• 53:31
  try to run clock or is it something different?
• 53:34
  Now, some melts and you know, this is obviously physically, we
• 53:36
  can see you know Braxton has gotten bigger looks like he has
• 53:42
  gotten stronger, you know? And he mentioned it.
• 53:46
  He's not going to be shying away from any sort of contact or
• 53:48
  anything like that, but he's going to try to be smart.
• 53:52
  I like to hear that as long as we Don't put him in those bad
• 53:56
  situation because Ryan when you saw that number and he was one,
• 54:01
  it was like, what? Twenty two point seven miles per
• 54:05
  hour? That's fast, that's that's
• 54:08
  Elite. That is League.
• 54:10
  Like the top on the NFL level was is was was green moster.
• 54:15
  Luckily I'm a Niners fan 23 at 93 miles an hour and that's Ian
• 54:20
  mean. You're talking about a
• 54:21
  quarterback who can do that and he may not have been running in
• 54:24
  pads like the kids like you guys in the NFL are but that's still
• 54:27
  past. Yeah.
• 54:31
  What do you feel about the backups Grand?
• 54:38
  One G PB, how long we got now know.
• 54:41
  So I feel as good as I felt about the backups last year.
• 54:50
  I feel as bad about them this year.
• 54:52
  And that's I'm not trying to knock knocks Kate.
• 54:56
  Um, I'm not trying to not Connor, blumrich or Taj Bullock
• 55:00
  and Taj obviously gets a pass because he's been on campus now
• 55:03
  for like six weeks, yes or eight weeks, whatever it is, but It's
• 55:13
  just there's no sense of if Braxton goes down we're going to
• 55:18
  be all right. There is I don't I don't have
• 55:21
  that feeling. Now, there's a scenario where if
• 55:24
  Braxton goes down we can still win a couple games.
• 55:28
  Yeah. We won't but but but I mean,
• 55:32
  we're in a worse scenario than we were in 2018 after JJ goes
• 55:38
  down. Yeah.
• 55:39
  And we're with Willis the rest of the way.
• 55:42
  We're in a worse scenario than that.
• 55:44
  At least Willis. You knew he had.
• 55:45
  Even though it was a Kansas and he had won one game, he had
• 55:49
  played a significant amount of snaps, you take the Clemson game
• 55:52
  away. Last year, Knox has played
• 55:54
  nothing, and I know Felipe's pleased, you know, he said I'm
• 55:57
  pleased with his understanding of the offense and Joseph
• 56:00
  videos. Today he was out there running,
• 56:02
  he has a little athleticism nowhere near BB's but it's got
• 56:06
  at he's got a twitch but he doesn't have the Elite Speed
• 56:09
  that will really. He's not a.
• 56:11
  So let's, let's talk about how our offense runs, right in the
• 56:15
  running game you know, whether it's jet motion, whether that's
• 56:21
  whether it's other other window, dressing motions that we put in
• 56:24
  place you know there's inverted v r read option Hence all those
• 56:30
  things, those things don't work as well.
• 56:34
  If there's not a true threat for that quarterback to hurt the
• 56:39
  defense and out. I mean I feel like So Knox
• 56:46
  doesn't have so much of that. Connor has that but almost zero.
• 56:52
  Elements of the passing game that I would that I feel
• 56:56
  comfortable with. And then ties is too much of a
• 57:00
  work in progress at this point because of how short of time
• 57:03
  he's been on campus and running the offense where he probably
• 57:07
  has the highest ceiling of the 30 absolute bloody up, but the
• 57:11
  lack of experience is probably the barrier, right?
• 57:15
  Well, if you talk about the live experience being there six
• 57:18
  weeks, I mean there's a hole in the floor.
• 57:22
  I mean, let me see her like no not going to college, but look,
• 57:24
  I think he does have the highest thing.
• 57:26
  I think he has that potential to be a Jerrod Evans type figure,
• 57:29
  but he's young. He just got here and you can't
• 57:35
  depend on that if for nothing else, do not ruin.
• 57:38
  That kids mental makeup by saying, we're going to put you
• 57:41
  out there and it's like you know it's just different.
• 57:45
  So yeah don't feel great about what's behind me because great
• 57:49
  about BB. You tell me BB's healthy 12
• 57:52
  Games this year, you know we have a Fighting Chance because
• 57:57
  of those legs and because of his athleticism and now is more
• 58:00
  knowledge of the offense. I think we'll be in most every
• 58:03
  game if Braxton Burmeister is more or less healthy, for 12
• 58:07
  games, we will be in every game. We won't win.
• 58:10
  Them will be good, we'll hit it. Will ya, you know the question
• 58:16
  becomes What happens if we don't have them?
• 58:21
  And what I see is that there might be depending on when that
• 58:25
  would happen. There might be three games on
• 58:27
  the back half of our schedule that are still potentially
• 58:30
  winnable. In the rest, you could pretty
• 58:31
  much say or losses, Duke Syracuse and Georgia Tech.
• 58:36
  Maybe maybe the would be, the only games.
• 58:39
  I would say. We had a Fighting Chance in the
• 58:41
  conference. If Braxton goes down, midseason
• 58:44
  isn't available for those games. Got you.
• 58:47
  All right, another place where there's Question.
• 58:49
  There's the number one guy is tight in Big Stone Gap.
• 58:54
  James Mitchell on the Mac you list, you know, big thing food,
• 58:58
  talked about how he's improved. His blocking James is already
• 59:01
  kind of a athletic freaking self but I mean he had a chance to go
• 59:09
  to the NFL, he didn't because he knew if he came back and he
• 59:12
  improve those small areas just to hair instead of getting
• 59:16
  drafted in the sixth or seventh round here.
• 59:18
  He could be one of the first tight ends off the board.
• 59:22
  Let's talk about something else too because, you know, we heat a
• 59:25
  lot of Praise on Herbert last year and because of Herbert and
• 59:28
  because of some of the other areas that we were struggling in
• 59:31
  offensive Lee Mitchell didn't quite get a season to show show
• 59:36
  out as much as we would have wanted him to probably.
• 59:40
  We're going to see less of a true emphasis on the running
• 59:43
  game. This year, we're going to have
• 59:45
  to throw the ball, more this year to win games.
• 59:49
  And that's going to benefit James Mitchell stock, not only
• 59:52
  with us, but also in terms of the drafts.
• 59:55
  So that's going to be big in the fact that he's improved.
• 59:58
  His blocking means that he is the is, you know, truly a 3 down
• 1:00:04
  type player and because of his athleticism, you can be moved
• 1:00:09
  and lined up, pretty much anywhere across the skill
• 1:00:12
  positions on the line of scrimmage.
• 1:00:15
  So that's going to be big funny. He see mentioned It doesn't have
• 1:00:19
  any name image and likeness Till's yet, that was kind of
• 1:00:22
  shocking to me because I mean, he's a walking talking.
• 1:00:27
  Like Virginia Tech image. You would think someone at this
• 1:00:30
  point would have would have put something in place, like reached
• 1:00:32
  out to him. I know he's not necessarily
• 1:00:34
  pursuing it actively himself but he feel he would have gotten a
• 1:00:38
  lot of a lot of calls at this point, already told you there is
• 1:00:42
  some rock calling like a fault line yard work or SB Cox company
• 1:00:50
  in Blacksburg that you just call him and say we just want to use
• 1:00:55
  your face and put Big Stone Gap. Then our Stone company behind
• 1:00:58
  you. It's so easy.
• 1:01:01
  Any such a likeable guy to man. I mean especially y'all, if
• 1:01:06
  y'all didn't see it go back and look at his interview in the
• 1:01:10
  grit. Definition he won't work.
• 1:01:15
  He worked stick-to-itiveness in there.
• 1:01:17
  He worked in. It was doing what you said.
• 1:01:19
  You're going to do, even when you're not in the frame of mine,
• 1:01:22
  when you said it, like he worked in the whole spiel.
• 1:01:27
  That that we see on those those media drops from The Well, when
• 1:01:32
  Pete was doing the media drops, for Virginia Tech football,
• 1:01:36
  social media. We haven't seen them quite as
• 1:01:38
  frequently since the summer began their might.
• 1:01:42
  There might be a reason for that, I'm not sure.
• 1:01:46
  Anyway, moving on, let's let's look at this.
• 1:01:55
  He talked about the versatility of and with Drake and Gallo
• 1:01:59
  behind him, they're not kill him but they are essentially one who
• 1:02:06
  wore when you pass catching version him.
• 1:02:09
  One's more of a run blocking version of him Gallo the room.
• 1:02:12
  Blocker great, the catcher, which we also feel hope they
• 1:02:18
  decide to put him outside sometimes.
• 1:02:23
  Because Brian is someone that coached, when you have someone
• 1:02:27
  like big gap. And let's say, he's, let's say,
• 1:02:29
  he's only in line and he flexes you have choices to make her eye
• 1:02:35
  as a defensive coordinator, all right?
• 1:02:37
  If I leave a corner back out here and they run a Jet Sweep,
• 1:02:40
  if he gets his hands on and he's going to set the edge and
• 1:02:44
  they're going to have a lane. Well, I've told you man, we need
• 1:02:47
  to go, 22 Personnel, need to get where to get Mitch Mitchell and
• 1:02:51
  Gallo out. Are we need to get Holston and
• 1:02:54
  Blackshear out there in the same package?
• 1:02:57
  You can put Mitchell out there at the Z opposite tray at The X
• 1:03:03
  Gallo at the why you got Tay at the slot and then you got
• 1:03:07
  Blackshear. That can work everybody pretty
• 1:03:09
  much anywhere. So, Do it, do it Ronald's.
• 1:03:13
  A lot of 22 and a lot of 12 Personnel this year as you're
• 1:03:16
  going to hear them talk about it.
• 1:03:17
  A lot. Speaking of wideouts, let's look
• 1:03:21
  at the wide receiver room. First one, nice shot, kind of a
• 1:03:26
  shot because we didn't hear his name in the press conference,
• 1:03:29
  but we're hearing out there. Praise the store at The X.
• 1:03:31
  No shot. No and Jones.
• 1:03:35
  Thomas Jefferson Richmond, Virginia.
• 1:03:37
  The RBA is the too deep at The X awesome here.
• 1:03:41
  Kid, that's big. I'm sure some of that has to do
• 1:03:45
  with the changa Hodge injury but him coming home that fast is is
• 1:03:48
  huge is because him cracking the 2D business just of
• 1:03:53
  circumstance. Obviously with Chang of going
• 1:03:55
  down there was a need there but him stepping up and being with a
• 1:03:58
  kind of navigate the debris there as it was that quick and
• 1:04:04
  be a 2d player. First time on campus that's
• 1:04:08
  going to be huge for him. So kudos to him obviously.
• 1:04:11
  Trey lock down the eggs. He's locked it down the last,
• 1:04:15
  like, three years of this point. So yeah, that's not a big
• 1:04:18
  shocker. What did you think about the the
• 1:04:24
  Z with kind of essentially Kayla Smith and Jaden pay?
• 1:04:29
  You kind of being 1A and 1B we've heard, you know, the steps
• 1:04:35
  came Smith is taken to get better, but to hear rotating
• 1:04:39
  with pay you, I'm Nerd. If this is a thing that you use,
• 1:04:42
  Jaden back in to that Z position because I think would be the
• 1:04:49
  right move. Make sure he's comfortable,
• 1:04:51
  don't give him the full workload essentially don't overwhelm them
• 1:04:55
  when you have someone like Caleb who very capable plate.
• 1:04:59
  What if this trend keeps up? I think eventually for the end
• 1:05:03
  of Camp if they can if we continue to get the access I
• 1:05:06
  mean, Jane pay you, there's going to be one of the Caleb.
• 1:05:10
  Very capable back up but you know, the other thing about the
• 1:05:15
  Z is, you got other guys that can play it, we have a versatile
• 1:05:19
  room. You know, you've got tadion and
• 1:05:23
  Rahim could play the Z if needed, right?
• 1:05:26
  If you need it. Now, obviously we've got enough
• 1:05:29
  slot receiver between table a chair.
• 1:05:31
  Lofton. And I mean, I know you have
• 1:05:35
  things. You want them to do with black
• 1:05:37
  tear. You visualize things like you
• 1:05:40
  want to hear. You want him out here, I want to
• 1:05:42
  hear. I want to hear.
• 1:05:45
  What do you think it's about? The the slot.
• 1:05:48
  Because that's where we have three guys that are really
• 1:05:53
  excellent at it but also three guys that can play elsewhere
• 1:05:57
  needed Well, I think the big thing when we talk about the
• 1:06:00
  slot you obviously Tavian is probably a better fit in the
• 1:06:04
  slot. Then he was playing Z like he
• 1:06:06
  was forced into duty kind of the last couple years and months,
• 1:06:11
  he's more natural playing from the slot position.
• 1:06:13
  When you look at Blackshear, when you look at day one Lofton,
• 1:06:19
  both of them sliding in is kind of the the to a and the to be at
• 1:06:23
  that position. Some of that's by this St with
• 1:06:26
  Blackshear being someone that you're going to Line up at truly
• 1:06:29
  multiple positions, not just moving in throughout the
• 1:06:31
  formation. But some some snaps, he's going
• 1:06:34
  to be a true running back in some.
• 1:06:36
  He's going to be a true slide and some snaps.
• 1:06:38
  He's going to be a little bit of everything depending on, you
• 1:06:41
  know, what's needed from the play called, and the design that
• 1:06:45
  was from head. Coaches mouth.
• 1:06:48
  Yeah, you would be lined up all over the field.
• 1:06:51
  We wrote that down and I think Brian might be like, if He's not
• 1:06:58
  lined up all over the feeling that you and see after a few
• 1:07:01
  drinks. Brian might be tweeting at the
• 1:07:03
  coach. You said you'd be everywhere.
• 1:07:06
  I'm dropping the Morpheus gift show me.
• 1:07:12
  Say so we lined up all over the field, show me.
• 1:07:16
  But for real though, having Blackshear have that hybrid
• 1:07:21
  role, not only gives Lofton the opportunity.
• 1:07:24
  When likes your is more in that running back stage.
• 1:07:28
  Each of the game, you know, Loft and being the the true spell
• 1:07:32
  Forte or coming in. If they if we're mixing up how
• 1:07:36
  our receivers are lined up and we've shown that take and play
• 1:07:41
  outside so there might be some times when taste slides out and
• 1:07:44
  you bring in in Lofton to be the true Slaughter bringing
• 1:07:47
  Blackshear to be the true slot. So there's going to be things
• 1:07:49
  that we can do with mixing up where we deploy our wide
• 1:07:52
  receivers. That's only going to be a good
• 1:07:54
  thing because we can work on matches matchups against
• 1:07:57
  Defenders, depending on the skill set of our wide receivers
• 1:08:00
  and try to create those mismatches.
• 1:08:03
  Absolutely. And weighing off his name is
• 1:08:04
  more by the Pope, the head coach and the offensive coordinator
• 1:08:07
  again. A lot of expectations for him.
• 1:08:10
  This is a talented room. Super talented group, I think
• 1:08:14
  every day we mentioned you feel like could do something as long
• 1:08:19
  as they are, put in the right positions with the right game
• 1:08:21
  plan every week, do you do them? Wrong, is what's going to make
• 1:08:26
  this room? Not And I don't think you'll
• 1:08:30
  disagree with that. Now, let's let's jump on over to
• 1:08:34
  running backs. Because I don't think it's a
• 1:08:37
  shot. Caleb holsten's running with the
• 1:08:39
  ones and he said, a couple things that I think called your
• 1:08:43
  ear when he spoke to the media back last week.
• 1:08:48
  Yeah, that's the big thing was that he was watching a lot of
• 1:08:52
  tape and talking with Khalil Herbert and trying to impact the
• 1:08:55
  outside zone game in the same way that Herbert was able to in
• 1:08:59
  2020. And that's going to be big for
• 1:09:02
  him because if he can, I don't necessarily expect some of the,
• 1:09:07
  the big ones. Yeah, like like her bird busted
• 1:09:10
  because Herbert died. Only had great patience in the
• 1:09:13
  outside Zone. And once he hit the hole and got
• 1:09:16
  to the second level, he was so good at making that one arm
• 1:09:20
  tackle. Miss that turned like a 15 or 20
• 1:09:23
  yard, gain into a 40 to 60 yard. Touchdown, very treaty.
• 1:09:28
  Did it against NC State and Duke.
• 1:09:29
  He did a handful of other times throughout the season.
• 1:09:33
  You know, big plays were kind of a Hallmark for him and I don't
• 1:09:38
  necessarily expect all of that from Holston, but if he can just
• 1:09:41
  work on that patients and hitting the whole, if the right
• 1:09:45
  time and waiting for those blocks to set up. you know,
• 1:09:49
  sometimes with a running back speed is great but having being
• 1:09:57
  able to Throttle Down and then quickly throttle up when the
• 1:10:01
  whole opens is just as important as having that that raw speed
• 1:10:07
  Truman and obviously you can tell he's very comfortable this
• 1:10:11
  year. Some jokes going on with Jordans
• 1:10:12
  Wilson, Jordan Williams him and James Mitchell and oppressor and
• 1:10:16
  that's something else you'd like to see the guys are loose.
• 1:10:20
  They're throwing joke, questions.
• 1:10:21
  They're hanging out there watching each other's interviews
• 1:10:24
  and that was for numerous guys. Now, I don't know how happy you
• 1:10:29
  are to hear this but you know, Like she was going to get some
• 1:10:33
  runs with the running back one's and you know, but it's at least
• 1:10:39
  it was said by cornelison that they've tried to put too much on
• 1:10:42
  him last year and had him thinking way too much.
• 1:10:46
  And I think maybe that was a necessity because of depth
• 1:10:51
  issues. Because for me and you tell me
• 1:10:54
  if I'm right or wrong Brian, come coming in last year.
• 1:11:00
  We were hoping that we would be seeing him elsewhere.
• 1:11:03
  Not at the running back position.
• 1:11:05
  We're expecting him to primarily be lobbying occasional to the
• 1:11:10
  occasional change of pace back, but mostly lining up as the
• 1:11:15
  primary or secondary slot receiver, and we didn't see much
• 1:11:21
  of that, until towards the end of the season, and it seemed
• 1:11:24
  like towards the end of the season.
• 1:11:25
  He got better at they, have better deploying him, but
• 1:11:30
  because of that, they didn't use him as traditionally in the
• 1:11:34
  running game. And I feel like we're probably
• 1:11:35
  going to get a little bit of a mix of from a receiver
• 1:11:39
  standpoint. What we saw at the end of last
• 1:11:41
  year but they're still going to deploy him most often as as kind
• 1:11:45
  of a number two running back which isn't as long as you're
• 1:11:48
  doing the other things I don't so much.
• 1:11:50
  Mind him being a spell especially if he having known
• 1:11:54
  the offense a little bit more working a little bit more on on
• 1:11:57
  some of his vision and I don't think he has bad Vision.
• 1:12:00
  I think just sometimes early in the snap.
• 1:12:05
  He makes his first decision isn't always the best decision.
• 1:12:10
  And then kind of, once you've committed to a path, it's hard
• 1:12:13
  to kind of redirect and make the right choice there.
• 1:12:18
  So just a little bit more patience.
• 1:12:20
  Like I said, sometimes throttling down and waiting for
• 1:12:23
  the blocks to get where they need to be, is better than
• 1:12:28
  hitting the whole hard. You want to hit the hard on,
• 1:12:30
  like, short yardage plays and things like that.
• 1:12:33
  But for plays that are trying to go outside You want you want the
• 1:12:36
  blocks to get where they're going to be because that's going
• 1:12:38
  to give you the best opportunity, to turn a turn it
• 1:12:41
  into a big play. So hopefully he learns a little
• 1:12:44
  something like Holston from from her word on that front but I
• 1:12:49
  feel okay about it. I know I've said I don't want
• 1:12:52
  him just to be a spell back, but if the next guy we're going to
• 1:12:56
  talk about can carry some of that spell back load.
• 1:13:01
  That gives Blackshear the opportunity to Really work from
• 1:13:06
  the slot while also occasionally being that you know, offensive
• 1:13:10
  weapon that you need. But also being that that number
• 1:13:13
  two, running back and that and we're talking about Keyshawn
• 1:13:15
  King here who is fully back with the team.
• 1:13:19
  Seems to be the primary backup behind Blackshear and Holston
• 1:13:23
  and we're going to need him to play a role this year and be
• 1:13:29
  consistent when he gets on the field in that role it sounds
• 1:13:33
  like some of the things that were problematic last year that
• 1:13:38
  have been worked on. He's put on a little bit of
• 1:13:40
  weight and it sounds like he's been working harder in the film
• 1:13:44
  room as well to understand the offense and be able to carry
• 1:13:47
  some of that load. So looking forward to see
• 1:13:50
  Keshawn King because he's a hell of an athlete.
• 1:13:53
  You know, we saw that in 2019 when he got a significant amount
• 1:13:57
  of run that year so hopefully will, at least see kind of
• 1:14:01
  something similar heading into 2021, and another name Mentioned
• 1:14:06
  was Marco Lee and I know this is going to make a lot of people
• 1:14:10
  out there happy to hear that name.
• 1:14:12
  Oh yes. All we saw him a little bit at
• 1:14:15
  the end of the season. Big boy runs with power
• 1:14:21
  freakishly strong also went a frequency, strong different, and
• 1:14:26
  pads. Yeah you know and with him they
• 1:14:31
  talked about him not having that time hair last year with Good
• 1:14:35
  kind of getting a his body in shape, again, kind of getting to
• 1:14:38
  know the Playbook which I still didn't like just because of his
• 1:14:41
  size, like, you can find one or two power plays.
• 1:14:44
  We're gonna confirm one with him and something else.
• 1:14:47
  Cornelison said, and in this is where you hope going back to
• 1:14:51
  Keyshawn. King.
• 1:14:53
  He wants to see two guys emerge. The hope is its Jalen and
• 1:14:59
  Keyshawn. because the hope is if you have those two guys emerge
• 1:15:05
  You can have, you can have a Raheem Blackshear, be sort of
• 1:15:11
  that, he's the third guy will throw them in here.
• 1:15:13
  We're getting a few carries, but since we're going to have him
• 1:15:15
  all over the place. We don't have to focus on him
• 1:15:19
  spelling, you don't have to depend on him.
• 1:15:22
  For those spell carries, you can depend on him to be an offensive
• 1:15:25
  weapon that can be deployed from the backfield but he doesn't
• 1:15:29
  necessarily have to be that guy that's going to get you 12
• 1:15:34
  carries a game and need to get you.
• 1:15:35
  At least like 50 yards on those carries exactly how he's not
• 1:15:39
  going to have to be that guy. He doesn't need to be that way.
• 1:15:43
  And by all means with Braxton is the quarterback.
• 1:15:46
  You can't do the powers. Practice is not built like that.
• 1:15:49
  I know he got bigger I drown but please use more girly correctly.
• 1:15:54
  I feel like he's so big that on the third and to his body alone,
• 1:15:58
  hitting the line, could probably get you a yard and a half, and
• 1:16:01
  he just gets a little push. He's going to get you the first
• 1:16:03
  down. So, find the right role for him.
• 1:16:07
  You know, he looks like in pads, right?
• 1:16:10
  Who's that? Lee Suggs don't, I'm not making
• 1:16:14
  a comparison to ability. I'm saying in paths, he looks
• 1:16:19
  likely sucks. I'm gonna get a little bit
• 1:16:21
  better after we get off here and all right, so Braun, we have
• 1:16:25
  saved. Of course, you know, the best
• 1:16:27
  for last / you, taking a look at the offensive line and, you
• 1:16:32
  know, cornelison mentioned during his press conference,
• 1:16:34
  they weren't as deep as we are last year and we super-deep last
• 1:16:38
  year, but he's feeling better about the depth now than we did
• 1:16:41
  before the spring me and you talk about a we're kind of
• 1:16:44
  feeling the same way. Except for like one position and
• 1:16:48
  that's the first position. The left tackle is the to is
• 1:16:54
  Daryl, Bailey, who just looked over.
• 1:16:55
  I don't think that's the true too, but he's running with the
• 1:16:58
  tools to get reps. I think he'll be he'll get
• 1:17:03
  there, perfect. But I will say this, look at
• 1:17:06
  looking at him and practice. While a couple of those snaps,
• 1:17:10
  his technique didn't look the best.
• 1:17:12
  He looks the part at this point. Yes, he's long.
• 1:17:17
  He's got kind of that more thicker, lower body, but that
• 1:17:21
  long length up top that you want from a left tackle.
• 1:17:24
  Yeah, so he's looking the part that's a good thing.
• 1:17:28
  Number one, number two, everything I see is fixable,
• 1:17:33
  that's good. So there's nothing to say I was
• 1:17:37
  saying, okay, well, that's not going to get any better.
• 1:17:41
  So if he's if he's doing the right things technique aside,
• 1:17:45
  then I mean, That could be something, I'm not necessarily
• 1:17:48
  saying, if to neuter goes down, I feel good.
• 1:17:51
  But I'm saying if if he can take the steps from this seasoning,
• 1:17:55
  the next season, you at least feel a little bit better about
• 1:17:57
  the position going into next year.
• 1:17:59
  And then the big question is the move for tenuta from right to
• 1:18:02
  left, going to going to be good enough to hold down that
• 1:18:07
  Blindside. I think that that's a big that's
• 1:18:11
  a big question to. I think we feel better about the
• 1:18:15
  left side than we do the right side which we're going to get to
• 1:18:18
  but you know there's still some question marks with that
• 1:18:21
  especially you know, I think regardless of how well it's a
• 1:18:25
  new to plays this year, you're not going to see Christian Daris
• 1:18:29
  all level play this year so there's going to be some
• 1:18:31
  regression on that front. The question is, how much is
• 1:18:35
  that going to be? And how much of that is
• 1:18:36
  mitigated by what Braxton Burmeister brings to the table?
• 1:18:39
  From an athletic standpoint. Absolutely the question is for
• 1:18:43
  tenuta is his run is blocking his always good really it reads
• 1:18:48
  out on that the past buying a good and the hope is he brought
• 1:18:53
  the level up again don't expect their self-respect and aerosol
• 1:18:57
  type things you know you will be disappointed when we are saw
• 1:19:01
  went to next level in past Pro from from one year to the next
• 1:19:06
  every year we did. They went from the seeds will be
• 1:19:09
  to and They pretty much grade-wise 100% in the three
• 1:19:13
  years, he played. So now, I will say this and it
• 1:19:16
  goes to the next position of left guard.
• 1:19:20
  He's got a absolute horse with him and lettuce Smith starting
• 1:19:24
  out there. So, I think that is, will
• 1:19:28
  probably help Luke a ton, you know, they're showing Jesse
• 1:19:33
  Hanson as the backup. We have talked about several
• 1:19:35
  times, he's one of those guys that needs to step up.
• 1:19:38
  If you tell me Hanson, Up to where he can be a true left
• 1:19:43
  guard. Fill in for lettuce, I'm going
• 1:19:45
  to see. She has always put yours named.
• 1:19:47
  I'm sorry. That's going to make us feel
• 1:19:51
  better and really in that interview Brian, are his presser
• 1:19:57
  Smith's leadership is showing through solid with the stuff
• 1:20:01
  earlier in the year with Vice and Brock in them.
• 1:20:03
  But you saw even more, you know, on that presser.
• 1:20:09
  Yeah. I mean, It definitely seems like
• 1:20:11
  let's see the Smith and broke off under the de facto leaders
• 1:20:16
  on this line and it showed in the interviews from early last
• 1:20:20
  or late last week and it showed in some of the offseason stuff
• 1:20:24
  we've seen last year. And in this year, I think, let's
• 1:20:28
  see the Smith. Definitely took a step last year
• 1:20:30
  towards that leadership role. And it's only gotten stronger
• 1:20:33
  heading into 2021. He talked about carry over from,
• 1:20:37
  you know, the good year last year and he's like carry Isn't a
• 1:20:40
  thing got to stay focused on each game.
• 1:20:43
  No game, or season really carries over one from the other,
• 1:20:47
  it always has to be about preparation and execution each
• 1:20:50
  week each season. So that be that that's, that
• 1:20:53
  tells me that he's ready to lead and ready to kind of say, the
• 1:20:56
  right things to the other guys to make sure that they're doing
• 1:21:00
  the right thing day-to-day, and week-to-week to get those wins.
• 1:21:05
  And he talked about just across the board for the line you guys
• 1:21:09
  coming in and getting In some extra film and workouts on
• 1:21:11
  weekends. So that mean that shows that,
• 1:21:13
  you know, that leadership from the player leaders is trickling
• 1:21:16
  down to the rest of the team to. So, that's good to see.
• 1:21:20
  Oh, absolutely. And when he mentioned that, I
• 1:21:23
  think he was referring to the whole team.
• 1:21:25
  Yeah. Being the whole team out there
• 1:21:27
  on weekends and days off, still working still grinding.
• 1:21:31
  And, you know, I think we as fans, I think that's something
• 1:21:34
  we want to hear, because I think a, it shows you, it means a lot
• 1:21:39
  to these players. And hopefully it's the
• 1:21:41
  understanding of what Virginia Tech football is is, is that
• 1:21:45
  extra hard work? Is that extra effort?
• 1:21:47
  Is that grind? And you don't talk about grand
• 1:21:51
  extra effort, the guy started at Center Brock Hoffman being
• 1:21:54
  backed up by Johnny Jordan is that guy you know, cornelison
• 1:21:57
  talked about and you've already mentioned it leader big leader
• 1:22:02
  on the line and you can tell, by the way he carries himself, very
• 1:22:07
  confident kid and obviously a hard worker now.
• 1:22:13
  Brad did call him out and talk about, he had to get more
• 1:22:15
  disciplined. How many, you know, felt like it
• 1:22:19
  felt like it was every other game.
• 1:22:20
  He was doing a 15-yard penalty herding, a drive, which shows,
• 1:22:25
  you know, he's got the nasty streak to him but, you know,
• 1:22:28
  Brian. You played it.
• 1:22:29
  Sometimes. You got to pull that back.
• 1:22:30
  That you're going to hurt more than help and obviously playing
• 1:22:35
  Center, usually one of the smarter positions.
• 1:22:37
  So you feel good. There, you feel?
• 1:22:40
  Good. You bring in an all Big.
• 1:22:41
  Ten guy and Johnny, Jordan To be the backup in the way.
• 1:22:45
  It's looking Johnny, obviously he's there will mention a few
• 1:22:49
  minutes. He's getting some run it right
• 1:22:50
  car to one of the things from Brock, some presser kind of
• 1:22:53
  culture here. yeah, I mean, you mentioned a couple of the big
• 1:22:57
  ones was You talked about corn, talking about his leadership and
• 1:23:02
  his confidence. And, you know, we know he's
• 1:23:04
  confident, we've seen the Social Media stuff, but he also said he
• 1:23:08
  has hard work to back up that confidence.
• 1:23:10
  I think that's what you like to see.
• 1:23:12
  You know, you confidence kind of can tend towards arrogance, if
• 1:23:15
  you're not backing it up with doing the right things, while
• 1:23:19
  you're saying, the right things and talking a big game, so he
• 1:23:22
  definitely backs it up. He definitely needs to rein in
• 1:23:25
  that, those personal fouls and some of the Holdings there was A
• 1:23:29
  few Holdings but I think the personal fouls were bigger just
• 1:23:31
  because that's, you know, that's up here that's not in the course
• 1:23:35
  of of a play, you know. You get out of position or you,
• 1:23:39
  you know, you make a mistake with your hand placement.
• 1:23:41
  It's it's a the whistle blew but I'm still, you know, thinking
• 1:23:45
  I'm a badass and I'm going to finish this playoff.
• 1:23:49
  We play hard as hell. And then when the whistle blows
• 1:23:51
  you stop, that's that's that's just how it has to be.
• 1:23:54
  You can be as dirty as you want to be, but do that shit between
• 1:23:57
  the whistles? That's The Steel Net.
• 1:24:00
  So moving on, Brock dropped a little bit of weight.
• 1:24:04
  This off season 1, 2 3, 10. Yeah, I think that's going to be
• 1:24:10
  good for him, whether he ends up Center guard, or potentially
• 1:24:14
  sliding out to tackle, like some coaches have talked about, and
• 1:24:18
  that I said, I'm comfortable with if that's the best.
• 1:24:22
  If we have that, gets our best five on the field.
• 1:24:25
  I don't think that's an ideal situation.
• 1:24:27
  If that happens at Tells me that we've got a big problem at right
• 1:24:31
  tackle. I'm not necessarily that Brock
• 1:24:33
  is just a versatile player. You know you do.
• 1:24:36
  I'm saying I mean it's a sign that we're we're in a little bit
• 1:24:40
  of trouble if that's happens, but I'd prefer that over putting
• 1:24:43
  a right tackle out there that can't get the job done.
• 1:24:47
  So as we're talking about that a little bit, he also talked about
• 1:24:51
  Johnny, Jordan coming in said said he came in at start of
• 1:24:57
  summer. He's worked hard.
• 1:24:59
  He's acclimated with the unit, you know, kind of came in and
• 1:25:02
  said, and did the right things and they're really starting to
• 1:25:07
  gel a little bit there and click there.
• 1:25:09
  And, you know, he said, he was also excited about how much work
• 1:25:12
  Silas is an see got, and in the spring.
• 1:25:17
  And it feels like that's going to help that's going to help
• 1:25:19
  long term, regardless of, whether he ends up winning that
• 1:25:22
  spot at Right Guard or not. Because having that extra work
• 1:25:26
  is only going to be good for this unit from a deaf
• 1:25:30
  perspective because that's, that's the biggest concern
• 1:25:34
  outside of right. Tackle is what, what, what
• 1:25:36
  depths going to look like, if one or two guys go down, it's
• 1:25:39
  very true. And we regard as the other piece
• 1:25:42
  that I want to say that caught my eye year for the presser was
• 1:25:47
  Didrik Gioia Brazilian jiu-jitsu over the year.
• 1:25:50
  And if you ever heard about it is one of those really
• 1:25:53
  disciplined martial arts. So, I feel like that's him
• 1:25:57
  knowing like, I've got to get better, I've got to get smarter,
• 1:26:01
  I've got to be able to take control and tone it down because
• 1:26:04
  if you remember there were a couple drives last year.
• 1:26:08
  We're they were going to need to push it in.
• 1:26:10
  We have the defense on their heels, he makes a mistake.
• 1:26:13
  Himself recognizing that and then taking up something outside
• 1:26:16
  of football to help with that is huge.
• 1:26:19
  Now, Brian he mentioned Silas Dan Z Silas danji and Johnny
• 1:26:23
  Jordan are the 1A 1B at Right Guard.
• 1:26:28
  Backed up by the Freshman Caden. More who I know you love with
• 1:26:31
  the nasty streak. I feel fine about this.
• 1:26:35
  I do. I love to see Silas get it just
• 1:26:38
  because he's been here so long. Worked his ass off to get in
• 1:26:42
  that type of position and he's also a huge human being.
• 1:26:47
  And you like there would be some intimidation with against some
• 1:26:51
  teams. Yeah, I mean, he's a, he's a big
• 1:26:53
  man and in the Run game. I feel 100% confident that he
• 1:26:58
  can hold down the guard position.
• 1:27:00
  The question is, is there. Enough discrepancy in in past
• 1:27:05
  Pro relative to what Johnny arkadin can bring to the table.
• 1:27:10
  That takes him out of that position and moves into into a
• 1:27:13
  more of a reserve role. That's going to be the big
• 1:27:17
  question there. But I mean he's got a nasty
• 1:27:19
  streak. This is a guy.
• 1:27:21
  Let's let's rewind a little bit that we were talking about.
• 1:27:25
  Was slotted into start at tackle in 2019.
• 1:27:30
  Yep. Sorry, 2018, 2018, and injury
• 1:27:38
  ahead of that. The opening game, Chris and
• 1:27:41
  aerosol gets that job and never lets it go.
• 1:27:43
  And, you know, Silas has kind of been a 2d player ever since, but
• 1:27:49
  never, never quite getting over the hump.
• 1:27:50
  And hopefully, you know, this was his opportunity and he's
• 1:27:54
  able to take advantage of it. Beeping, let's talk about,
• 1:27:57
  Johnny, Jordan, a little bit more.
• 1:27:59
  Here, we didn't talk to him about him very much, other than
• 1:28:02
  Howie's acclimated with the unit here.
• 1:28:06
  He's going to be a significant player for us even if he's not a
• 1:28:10
  Frontline guy because he's one injury away from either starting
• 1:28:14
  at Center or guard. Yeah, because he's going to be
• 1:28:19
  the neck if he's not starting at Rygaard.
• 1:28:21
  He's gonna be the next best player at all interior line
• 1:28:24
  positions. Very true.
• 1:28:26
  Very true. The important he is, he is such
• 1:28:30
  a such a cock right now that if he can become That Swing
• 1:28:35
  interior. Got it makes you feel better a
• 1:28:38
  because we know we can rotate guys in and out or someone get
• 1:28:41
  Nick, you have a capable back up in this big Frank you're talking
• 1:28:45
  about a guy who is been waiting his turn.
• 1:28:47
  How about Tyrell Smith running with the wrong ones, right?
• 1:28:52
  As Camp begins and up to this point, I have not seen any
• 1:28:56
  notification that he has not lost that job, and I hope he
• 1:28:59
  doesn't lose that job. Because Tyrell is someone that
• 1:29:04
  I've seen people mention, you know, he has some great feat for
• 1:29:09
  a tackle. Yep.
• 1:29:11
  Nothing else. It might as well as run games,
• 1:29:15
  not great. You know what?
• 1:29:17
  I think our officers even with a lesser right tackle.
• 1:29:22
  You can be strong the wrong game.
• 1:29:24
  I'll take this Pasco this year. Now currently they're putting
• 1:29:28
  Clements and Shake as the backup.
• 1:29:31
  Kind of maybe a little shocked to see ships named not Clements.
• 1:29:34
  I know he was working over there but do you hope the man who's 25
• 1:29:39
  can hold it down? Yeah, I do.
• 1:29:44
  Although I feel better about Clemens.
• 1:29:47
  Than I did, I think at the start of spring and the fact you got
• 1:29:53
  Bob shake, at least gives you a little bit more depth.
• 1:29:56
  I feel like at this point, Clements is probably the true
• 1:29:58
  number two, but they're giving shik some run to number one
• 1:30:02
  acclimate him to to the system and, and to kind of that, that
• 1:30:08
  that's a position in general that needs to be pushed because
• 1:30:11
  there's no clear kind of leader in the clubhouse.
• 1:30:15
  I feel like, you know, Vamsi had some Advantage because he
• 1:30:20
  started the whole spring. He's a veteran, whereas Tyro
• 1:30:25
  Smith. This is really his first first
• 1:30:27
  run at being kind of the number one here so he doesn't really
• 1:30:33
  have it locked down while you know some of these these younger
• 1:30:37
  guys and a Juco transfer or making a run at that position.
• 1:30:40
  So there's truly a competition that I think, working working
• 1:30:44
  Bob Shake in there as quick as possible.
• 1:30:46
  We'll only Push those guys harder, you know, if Ty Smith
• 1:30:51
  comes out juice, I'll be happy. Just because If he, if he wins
• 1:30:58
  that battle I think that he's kind of the the one that's easy
• 1:31:02
  to cheer for because you know, those other guys have have some
• 1:31:06
  some time in their career to get there.
• 1:31:09
  So This is going to be it for him.
• 1:31:12
  He's not I don't think he's gonna go for.
• 1:31:13
  What's it will be ninth year. Hey eight.
• 1:31:17
  I'll just the screen but I don't think he's going to go in that
• 1:31:21
  direction. And still do I feel great about
• 1:31:26
  offensive lined up? No, no.
• 1:31:30
  I feel like I'm kind of with corn.
• 1:31:31
  I'm concerned about death, but I feel better than I did at the
• 1:31:34
  start of spring. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:31:38
  So on you know, Things I've never said before.
• 1:31:41
  I agree with Brad, Carl Nelson, Austin and listen.
• 1:31:46
  He's on coming. Be messaging you and being like
• 1:31:49
  Oh talk about Brad. Now, we cared about, you know,
• 1:31:53
  we just call it like we see it, you know, in our eyes and the
• 1:31:56
  best way we can. All right, let's roll on.
• 1:31:58
  Just a few other things that were kind of notated, you know,
• 1:32:00
  ham talked about that. The coastal has a ton of
• 1:32:03
  returning quarterback in. This is true.
• 1:32:05
  You guys Sam how back You've got the Eric King that you got Kenny
• 1:32:10
  picket on your 14 of whom, 15 touchdowns and and 11
• 1:32:17
  interceptions. And a guys this is this has and
• 1:32:19
  always will be a Kenny Pickett hate podcast, but you know what
• 1:32:25
  do you think I'm talking about was with having that many guys
• 1:32:28
  come back. You get to kind of look at tape
• 1:32:31
  and see essentially learning the nuances, the way they like to
• 1:32:34
  distribute, you know, and how to affect their plan to maybe do
• 1:32:37
  things. They don't want to do for us.
• 1:32:41
  There are some there is some tape on Braxton because he did
• 1:32:44
  play in multiple games last year, so it's both ways.
• 1:32:49
  But, you know, it is one of those things and, you know, you
• 1:32:54
  have how who lost a ton of production guy, you had his for
• 1:32:57
  high skies. Get drafted King coming off a
• 1:33:00
  knee, CL. It is not an ACL that was torn,
• 1:33:03
  like in September October of last year, an ACL is torn at the
• 1:33:07
  end of the season. And he said he's going to be
• 1:33:12
  ready. Week 14, Alabama, which man.
• 1:33:16
  Yeah you would. I hope mean I'm not saying it's
• 1:33:19
  not going to happen and I'm not gonna say he's not going to be
• 1:33:21
  fine. You know we've seen in the last
• 1:33:24
  few years, that ACL is more of a six-month injury.
• 1:33:29
  Now, that it was a full year injury crew but it's getting
• 1:33:34
  back up to game speed. I'm watching TV every day, it's
• 1:33:37
  sure both and it's honestly The mental is going to be where
• 1:33:43
  where I questioned at the most, for a guy that uses his legs, as
• 1:33:47
  much as he does both in the running game of the passing
• 1:33:50
  game. I mean, with the way they moved
• 1:33:51
  the pocket and the way they use him to influence defense has
• 1:33:56
  with his feet, that's going to play a role.
• 1:33:59
  So is the mental going to be there?
• 1:34:01
  I don't think the physical is necessarily going to be a
• 1:34:04
  problem but you know, we've seen it some now with even some NFL
• 1:34:08
  quarterbacks Burrow in particular, you know, they
• 1:34:12
  talked about he's a little little trigger shy early in in
• 1:34:17
  Camp and I don't know if you're going to see some of that with
• 1:34:21
  with dear King as well, true. That other things was obviously,
• 1:34:26
  it feel like this is brought up by just about, you know, all the
• 1:34:29
  coaches were there differences in 2021.
• 1:34:31
  I mean, it was a as close to a normal offseason as possible.
• 1:34:39
  They got the full workouts in and the winter.
• 1:34:43
  They got the full Spring ball. They've got the summer workouts
• 1:34:46
  working together when you're getting a normal fall camp and I
• 1:34:52
  mean the entire student body is at 96% for Virginia Tech.
• 1:34:56
  I'm assuming that the football team is up there.
• 1:35:00
  We will fit with them, requiring exemptions aside with them as
• 1:35:06
  requiring vaccinations to be on campus.
• 1:35:08
  It's more than likely the football team is in lockstep
• 1:35:12
  with those percentages. I would imagine it's probably
• 1:35:15
  only a very small amount if anybody which is a great thing,
• 1:35:20
  you know. And no thing ham talked about
• 1:35:22
  was just data. Just data in general and more
• 1:35:26
  opportunities in the one thing I think he said, Brian that you
• 1:35:30
  could really hear how much is we got to sit in a room together
• 1:35:33
  this year and talk about things and discuss this data and what
• 1:35:37
  we're seeing and and zooms great things.
• 1:35:41
  Like what we do right here are great, they are but to sit in a
• 1:35:46
  room with someone and read body language and different tones in
• 1:35:52
  the voice and, you know, this is what they're focused on their in
• 1:35:55
  this room. Well, by is knocking at the door
• 1:35:58
  over there. I mean, I'm really been working
• 1:36:01
  hard on being Prime earlier. They just chatted a couple
• 1:36:03
  minutes and Brian's kind of we're talking about this and
• 1:36:06
  Rise looking at an email from work and I hear some say.
• 1:36:09
  So next thing I know is Brian's, like, I'll be there in five
• 1:36:11
  minutes. I'm doing something.
• 1:36:14
  I deal with the to. Can you imagine being a
• 1:36:16
  Collegiate football coach and trying to go over this game
• 1:36:18
  film? Hey, take the dog out.
• 1:36:22
  What shit what'd I miss? Couldn't imagine doing that.
• 1:36:26
  So, you know, get that opportunity to actually sit in
• 1:36:31
  the room with your, with your team, with your guys, with your
• 1:36:35
  staff. I think the only thing it can't
• 1:36:40
  get worse right now and I'll say something else.
• 1:36:43
  I mean, this is, this is just for my observation and it is
• 1:36:46
  necessarily anything football-related.
• 1:36:49
  But for coaches in the past, if I was at home and watching film,
• 1:36:59
  my family knew I was definitely 100% working and not to bother
• 1:37:03
  me. When all you do is work from
• 1:37:06
  home. Home that delineation between
• 1:37:10
  work, Brian and coach Brian. And exactly.
• 1:37:15
  Dad Brian is, that's a lot. It's a little blurred.
• 1:37:20
  And, you know, sometimes the you know, say what you will, you
• 1:37:26
  might get a call out and be like, hey you got it, like you
• 1:37:28
  said, go walk the dog, like okay I'm watching film.
• 1:37:30
  But again those lines get blurred when every day is, you
• 1:37:35
  know, sitting at home and not Not at the office.
• 1:37:38
  So they understand the mind wanders, man.
• 1:37:42
  Did you get a lot more distracted when when you got
• 1:37:48
  kind of those elements in not just You know, work from home.
• 1:37:52
  I can get as much done work from home, but it's I get it done in
• 1:37:55
  a lot different ways. True.
• 1:37:59
  And I think some of that took some time to get adjusted to.
• 1:38:03
  I do. I'm very productive in spurts.
• 1:38:07
  More than I am when I'm in the office, it's more more of a
• 1:38:09
  spread out. It's a flood situation.
• 1:38:14
  The obvious, it's more of a flow.
• 1:38:15
  Where is when I'm home, I get a lot of work done and then I kind
• 1:38:18
  of all right. Now, I'm just going to have half
• 1:38:21
  time where I'm just working on, maybe emails and clearing those
• 1:38:24
  out and not not focused necessarily on.
• 1:38:27
  You know what, I put on my Agenda to start the day.
• 1:38:30
  So absolutely. And you talk about, you know,
• 1:38:34
  all that. And you here for Wednesday,
• 1:38:36
  really stressing about refocusing on, you talk about
• 1:38:40
  identity building the identity because he its kind of his go-to
• 1:38:47
  point, whether you love him or hate him, you know?
• 1:38:49
  It's the truth if you don't have and it's what you kind of way,
• 1:38:54
  you just mentioned learning how to work from home.
• 1:38:56
  You have to build an identity of how and to work from home with
• 1:38:59
  all the different variables in your own house.
• 1:39:02
  Last year, a ton of variables and what we're learning is
• 1:39:06
  everyone's code experience was a little different, everyone had
• 1:39:08
  to deal with it and how it affected certain teams was
• 1:39:11
  different. And when you're talking about 8
• 1:39:13
  weeks, and not having guys, Austin mentioned in last week,
• 1:39:16
  the guy who was the 2D big guard.
• 1:39:19
  Who's the 3D that Center is asked to play center.
• 1:39:22
  So now you've got three deep Center 3D guard.
• 1:39:25
  Who knows what's going on on the outside?
• 1:39:27
  But to his point is big piece was campus when we build our
• 1:39:31
  identity. We get to know each other.
• 1:39:34
  In because it's it's what it's six off.
• 1:39:37
  Six on one off, five on one off for on one often 31 off and then
• 1:39:42
  it's mine game week and then it's game week.
• 1:39:45
  You're slowly integrating who we are going to be as a team this
• 1:39:48
  year in. That's big you know if they come
• 1:39:55
  out here and they stink up the joint, will it be surprising?
• 1:39:57
  No but at least this year you can say you didn't have any
• 1:40:01
  handcuffs on me, man. No handcuffs, I mean you know,
• 1:40:05
  excuses on that in as well but I will say this The team seems as
• 1:40:10
  Loose as I've ever seen them in a good way.
• 1:40:16
  They seem like they're having fun, but they also seem like
• 1:40:20
  they're focused on proving the doubters wrong, and I'm hoping
• 1:40:25
  that's a good recipe for Success on the field.
• 1:40:31
  But they again they seem a little bit more.
• 1:40:37
  Kind of like those older teams like the camaraderie is there?
• 1:40:40
  I mean it definitely feels a little different this year.
• 1:40:44
  I don't necessarily expect significant differences in the
• 1:40:48
  win-loss column, you know. We'll we'll probably get to some
• 1:40:53
  of that in a future episode. But absolutely, I think this is
• 1:40:58
  going to be a lot more fun to watch.
• 1:41:03
  Then it was at times last year, because at times last year.
• 1:41:07
  Khalil Herbert aside. It was a little frustrating to
• 1:41:10
  watch. I'm hoping this is as fun to
• 1:41:13
  watch as 2016 2017. Yeah, I'm hoping that's where we
• 1:41:19
  are. Has anything come across the
• 1:41:21
  wire in the last hour and 42 minutes perhaps nothing.
• 1:41:26
  That I think we should really talk about right now.
• 1:41:29
  I think, I think we're good to go buddy.
• 1:41:31
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• 1:41:32
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