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Virginia Tech Source Has Me EXCITED Before BIG James Franklin Opportunity! | Hokies | Old Dominion · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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  Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to ACC Football Addiction. Virginia Tech
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  Speaker 1: game two coming up in just about 24 hours against
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  Speaker 1: Old Dominion. TJ Pittenger, Joe Rogers from 1999 AM The Berg.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, week two coming. How you doing, bud?
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  Speaker 3: Doing well, doing well. Got a quinceañera tomorrow. Thankfully, the
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  Speaker 3: Hokies play early. So that works out in my favor.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate them scheduling that for me. Uh, week two,
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  Speaker 3: we're still alive. I'm happy.
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  Speaker 1: Um, week one was not super competitive, uh, a 70
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  Speaker 1: point win, which has everybody feeling good. When a new
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  Speaker 1: coach takes over a new guy starting you're, super thrilled
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Were there things in the game that you liked?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe one really positive takeaway to go like super 10,000 feet.
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  Speaker 1: And then one thing that you do want to see
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  Speaker 1: them work on going up against maybe a more difficult opponent,
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  Speaker 1: not a crazy difficult opponent, but a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: opponent this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a complete vibe around the entire program. It's
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  Speaker 3: a lot more serious this year. Everyone's more focused. You
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  Speaker 3: could see it on James Franklin's face. He had that
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  Speaker 3: thousand yard stare after Sandman. And the team didn't look sloppy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you can beat bad teams by a lot
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  Speaker 3: and still look kind of sloppy. South Carolina did that, actually.
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  Speaker 3: They looked a little bit sloppy. So everything looked tight.
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  Speaker 3: They looked organized for once. The Brent Pryor era was
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  Speaker 3: total chaos. There was no organization in that building. So
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  Speaker 3: that is a huge, huge positive for us. A green flag,
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  Speaker 3: so to speak. The only bad thing from the game
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  Speaker 3: is we had a lot of penalties. what 11 penalties,
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  Speaker 3: almost a hundred yards. So they've got to clean up
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  Speaker 3: some of these false starts. And I'm sure that's first
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  Speaker 3: game jitters, you know, getting the snap cadences, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting everybody on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I wonder too, like you, you import a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys.
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  Speaker 1: With a new coach taking over, obviously in this new game,
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  Speaker 1: in this new era that we're in, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of holdover, like just that communication. I also
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  Speaker 1: imagine like a coach like James Franken is not going
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  Speaker 1: to take that for long. That's like a, all right, man,
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  Speaker 1: you get like one, maybe two weeks, but like we
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  Speaker 1: ain't doing.
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  Speaker 2: This all year. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They were out there running on Sunday. I mean, he's,
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  Speaker 3: he's not putting up with nothing. It is a tight ship.
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  Speaker 3: Dad's home. So to speak.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm looking at this game. against Old Dominion. Virginia Tech,
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  Speaker 1: a big favorite, like nearly three touchdowns. It's anywhere from
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  Speaker 1: 18 to 20 points based on where you can get
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  Speaker 1: the line at. So a game that Virginia Tech is
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  Speaker 1: expected to win, but win closer. Like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that this is a team that's going to make you
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  Speaker 1: sweat super late into the game, like still should win
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  Speaker 1: pretty comfortably, but may not be the laugher that last
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  Speaker 1: week was against VMI.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on QB play heading into this one?
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  Speaker 1: Like, what were your thoughts on ground, like, In week one, obviously, again,
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  Speaker 1: opponent considered. You know, everybody looks like a Heisman Trophy
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  Speaker 1: kind of candidate when you win by 70.
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  Speaker 2: But just thoughts on, like, what he did in his
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  Speaker 2: first game in a Hokies uniform.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he looked really good. He made quick reads.
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  Speaker 3: He made the correct read. Only real downside was he
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  Speaker 3: missed on two deep balls. He only had three incompletions.
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  Speaker 3: Those were two of them. So he missed a couple
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  Speaker 3: deep balls. I'd like to see that get cleaned up
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  Speaker 3: this week. Old Dominion doesn't really look like a threat.
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  Speaker 3: they really struggled with the fighting Michael Vick Norfolk State
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  Speaker 3: team out there. It was 17-10 deep in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Their left side of their line looks like just a
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  Speaker 3: revolving door, really. So I'm not really that worried about them.
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  Speaker 3: Some people have mentioned that Franklin might not run up
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  Speaker 3: the score on Ricky Ronnie just because they have that connection,
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  Speaker 3: used to work together. I don't think that's the case
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  Speaker 3: at all. I think James Franklin is going to score
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  Speaker 3: until you make him stop. If you don't like it,
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  Speaker 3: stop it. I do not think that's the case at all.
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  Speaker 3: I see probably a 20-point gap this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The trench play, I mean, you mentioned their offensive
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  Speaker 1: line struggling, and that's where I, you know, as much
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  Speaker 1: talent as there is really all over this roster, from
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  Speaker 1: quarterback to tight end to some of the other skill
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  Speaker 1: positions to defense that retain some pieces, like just the
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  Speaker 1: gap in the trenches feels like just too far of
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  Speaker 1: a bridge to cross for me to even think that
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  Speaker 1: this is more competitive than maybe the spread is. Or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you went by 17 and you don't cover
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  Speaker 1: the spread by a point and a half. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody's jumping off a bridge, but I do
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  Speaker 1: think that like just that gap in what he's been
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  Speaker 1: able to build in the trenches in year one. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's been his mantra forever. Like good lines, good tight
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  Speaker 1: end play, like good solid defense, good fundamental football, which
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  Speaker 1: are all things that like have followed him for his career.
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  Speaker 1: That gap in talent this weekend likely going to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not that everything else wouldn't be the difference in the game,
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  Speaker 1: but that's kind of where it starts and ends for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you kind of start to see it fall
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  Speaker 3: apart later in the game with depth. They don't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of depth. They've got a lot of JUCO
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  Speaker 3: players on their roster out there at ODU this year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they even have a guy from Averitt. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like a division NA, IA school out there in Danville, Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: So not a lot of size, no depth, and I
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  Speaker 3: think at some point that sits in, and then we
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  Speaker 3: start to pull away. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. What what are the position groups that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe don't worry you in this matchup and didn't worry
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  Speaker 1: you last week against VMI? But what are the position
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  Speaker 1: groups where you kind of have your eye on to say, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: once we get into ACC play, once we start to
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  Speaker 1: play some of the better teams on this schedule, this
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  Speaker 1: is where I need to see us kind of take
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  Speaker 1: a leap, you know, zooming out from this game, because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, I don't know how much you're gleaning
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  Speaker 1: from a massive, you know, spread or, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: be downs in a row, but like, where are the
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  Speaker 1: position groups that you're saying, all right, if we really
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  Speaker 1: want to compete for something this year in the conference
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  Speaker 1: or beyond, this is where we probably.
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  Speaker 2: Need to get a little tighter.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Safety position. Tyson flowers is he's not really a
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  Speaker 3: P four level starter. Good news is we have DQ Smith. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: we might see him a little bit this week. He
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  Speaker 3: was pretty good at South Carolina last year. So he's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of getting back into the flow of things.
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  Speaker 3: We might see a little bit of him, but safety
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  Speaker 3: is definitely the position that we're kind of watching.
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  Speaker 2: The overall vibes, you know, not that this is a
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  Speaker 2: vibe show.
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  Speaker 1: We do try and talk about ball, but anytime there's
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  Speaker 1: a new takeover or a new coach, like you do
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  Speaker 1: want to know, like the, the read, how, how would
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  Speaker 1: you compare like the, the way that Virginia tech fans
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  Speaker 1: are bought in right now compared to.
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  Speaker 2: Any other new coaching staff?
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  Speaker 1: Because a new coaching staff comes in, there's invariably going
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  Speaker 1: to be some hype. There's going to be some excitement
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  Speaker 1: of things that are new, things that are like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we've turned a corner. Like everybody believes that every new
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  Speaker 1: hire that's happened anywhere in the country, like you feel
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  Speaker 1: really good about. But how would you compare it this
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  Speaker 1: time to other regimes that have come in?
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  Speaker 3: This is actually a lot more serious. You know, Franklin's
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  Speaker 3: a proven winner. The last two staffs, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't really know how Brent Pryor was going to be
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  Speaker 3: as a head coach. We weren't really sure if Justin
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  Speaker 3: Fuente could make the step up to P4 ball. But
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  Speaker 3: with James Franklin, we know what it looks like when
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  Speaker 3: he gets program running. So, we're kind of ahead of
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  Speaker 3: the curve, so to speak. The fans are already excited.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we packed the stadium for a bad VMI team.
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  Speaker 3: Got another sellout this week for a noon game against ODU.
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  Speaker 3: The energy's already there.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: It's definitely off to a good start.
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  Speaker 1: When I look at the next few weeks, Maryland next week,
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  Speaker 1: a game that I think Virginia Tech can absolutely go
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  Speaker 1: on the road and win Boston College. We have to
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  Speaker 1: add another one that I think Virginia Tech can go
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  Speaker 1: out and win. I think that Pittsburgh game is kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the litmus test for this team. I think
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback, I mean, he came to Tallahassee in his
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  Speaker 1: first start and just absolutely demolished our defense. I think
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  Speaker 1: they've got one of the better and more underrated quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in the ACC.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, guy goes out and throws seven touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who it's against. Like, yeah, he can ball.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And he balled last year and really turned their
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  Speaker 1: season around, too, after they had lost to West Virginia
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  Speaker 1: and started out pretty poorly. I wish they'd have played
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  Speaker 1: him one game after coming to Tallahassee. It might've been
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  Speaker 1: a little better for me, but yeah, I, I think that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to get through the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get through old dominion, get through Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: get through BC winning on the road, never super easy.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a big 10 team and a conference opponent
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  Speaker 1: that you play the next two weeks after this one.
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  Speaker 1: But man, that Pittsburgh game, obviously a big deal being
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  Speaker 1: at night in Blacksburg. You'd certainly rather play there than
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  Speaker 1: have to go on the road in the ACC and
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  Speaker 1: play at night.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, To me, that game is, you know, not
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  Speaker 4: that you lose that and all hope is lost, but
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  Speaker 4: that's the game that's kind of defined, all right, is
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Tech a good team, or are they one of
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  Speaker 4: the better teams in the conference?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that game kind of tells us if
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  Speaker 3: we're a contender or not. Are we a contender for
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  Speaker 3: the ACC? Kind of all hangs on how we look
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  Speaker 3: against Pitt there. You know, we don't play a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the top end teams in the ACC this year
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  Speaker 3: you know Georgia Tech didn't look great Stanford does not
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  Speaker 3: look good you know yeah that is really going to
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  Speaker 3: be the the game that kind of determines how the
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  Speaker 3: seasons goes are we a 10 win team are we
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  Speaker 3: eight win team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and that's where you know yeah there's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned some of the team, I mean, Clemson, again,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see kind of what they look like SMU, very
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  Speaker 1: turnover prone in their first game.
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  Speaker 2: That's a tough one on the road.
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  Speaker 1: UVA look good in, in week zero, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to see it from them consistently in the ACC, not just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, against NC state with, with Doran and those guys.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm, I'm with you, man. Like, I think
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  Speaker 2: you take.
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  Speaker 1: Care of business early and get that one against pit.
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  Speaker 1: You guys actually played two really good quarterbacks back to
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  Speaker 1: back with Heinzel and then JKS the next week out
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  Speaker 1: in California and, And so like, it's, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Tricky, but I do think the schedule is manageable.
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  Speaker 1: You don't play Louisville, you know, obviously the road trip
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  Speaker 1: to Miami is going to be tough for anybody, but
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  Speaker 1: we also understand that Miami is kind of like in a,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a tier of their own right now in the conference.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think it is like, can, can Virginia
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  Speaker 1: tech fight for that second spot to maybe force a
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  Speaker 1: rematch or to maybe get to Charlotte and, and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: then who knows what happens, but Yeah, that Pitt one,
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  Speaker 1: the Cal one, really interesting to be a back-to-back with
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  Speaker 1: two really good quarterbacks. And, you know, what does Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Tech's defense, like, have humming by that point, right? What
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  Speaker 1: are they able to do to limit those guys to
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  Speaker 1: keep themselves in games, to go out and perform themselves offensively?
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  Speaker 2: That's, like, the most interesting storyline of the year to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because, yeah, I think once you get to the Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Techs and Clemsons, even though those are big names in
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  Speaker 1: the conference, like, I don't think they're very good. And
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  Speaker 1: so you've got a great opportunity to, one at home,
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  Speaker 1: one on the road, to pick up more wins that
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  Speaker 1: you maybe before the season thought might be a little
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  Speaker 1: tougher than they are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Like Clemson, for example, I think the wheels are
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  Speaker 3: about to fall off that bus. I mean, they might be,
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  Speaker 3: it seems like they might be in shambles by the
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  Speaker 3: time we get to them. You know, we always play
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  Speaker 3: Miami close. Miami was really good when they had Cam
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  Speaker 3: Ward and we went down there and, you know, went
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  Speaker 3: to the wire with them, you know, came down to
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  Speaker 3: the Hail Mary play. They got the win, obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we always play them close. Virginia's looking good early. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it was NC State. How bad is NC State? We
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  Speaker 3: don't know. But we always play them. It's always competitive
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  Speaker 3: rivalry games. You know, toss up. Anything can happen. Who
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  Speaker 3: wants it more? So the schedule is kind of looking
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  Speaker 3: good for us. Cal does not look like a threat.
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  Speaker 3: UCLA beat the brakes off them. So I'm not I'm
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  Speaker 3: not too worried about anybody, really. But Miami on the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys have coming, you know, the games tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but what do you guys have coming over the next
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  Speaker 1: few days, few weeks?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a score prediction in this one?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I am going 42-10. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. Another comfortable win for James Franklin. Get
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  Speaker 2: to 2-0.
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  Speaker 1: And then next Saturday night in Maryland, not far from
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  Speaker 1: where you guys are at all, I think that's one
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of people want to see.
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  Speaker 2: What does it look like when they go on the road?
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  Speaker 2: What does it look like when they play an.
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  Speaker 1: Opponent with somewhat of a pulse? Not that I think
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  Speaker 1: Maryland's great by any means, but probably better than the
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  Speaker 1: last two opponents.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's going to be really exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Virginia Tech is one of those teams to watch this year. Joe,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you a ton for taking some time this
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  Speaker 1: morning and chatting. We'll talk to you soon, man.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to you soon. Everybody tune in to that Maryland game.
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  Speaker 3: There's some history there. James Franklin and Mike Loxley do
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  Speaker 3: not like each other. They previously worked together, so might
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  Speaker 3: get a little bad blood early in the year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thankful it's a night game. No, I'm glad that, like,
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  Speaker 1: all of the juice will be in that one.
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  Speaker 2: So appreciate you, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate Joe for joining us this morning to talk Virginia
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