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Georgia Tech Game Recap · Boundary Corner Podcast

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Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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I'm Curtis Wilson, I'm Brian Siegel buddy, we are a only
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Monday afternoon only perfect fall Monday afternoon.
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I stepped outside is like 66 degrees a little breeze.
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The leaves are turning its fall, whether it's perfect.
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This is what we live for. This is what we live.
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Oh, it's so true. It this week's going to be like
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great and I think the next few weeks are going to be great.
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Like that little delayed this week guys, with Halloween Brown
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was out of town and I really didn't get kind of settled down
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until about 9:15 last night. So We made a call like yeah,
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we're not gonna be able to do this on Halloween night.
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Yeah shout out my wife who said y'all sure y'all can pull this
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off on Halloween night like yeah, we got it.
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She's been good. We don't got it.
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All worked out, gave us a little time to review the Georgia Tech
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game again and how was trick-or-treating Brian
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approximately. How many pounds did your your
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kiddo bring home? Probably a good two to three,
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man. I didn't I didn't put the scale
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on it but he made a good. We had a good lap around my
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in-laws neighborhood. They had a lot of fire pits out
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last night so that a lot of people sitting out in the
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driveway with the fire pits. Just watching the kids run
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around. It was a good time.
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It was a good time and we did not we knocked it out in about
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an hour and then we headed on home.
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Bye. You guys.
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Very nice. I would say somewhere between
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five and six Did a little something here at the house with
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the neighbors and walked around the neighborhood to a point.
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And I told Brian, we were getting down this bigger Street
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in our neighborhood, and we hit like four houses consecutive.
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There were like no candy. We're out.
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We're out. So clearly, what covid did was
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throw people into thinking, they could buy one bag of candy in a
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big neighborhood. Nope, so definite failure there,
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but we've got enough candy. D2 easily last us until next
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Halloween which is always the goal putting the candy bin.
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And yeah is that other courts still doing like kind of like
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the pre trick-or-treat stuff anymore or is that they didn't
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this year whenever they're looking for the corn maze, they
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did not have it this year but you know, it's a change in
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Dynamic. You came over a few years ago
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and it was their kids were a little younger and now their
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kids are getting a little older. So, It's an ever-changing
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Dynamic, but we had a great time with our folks and had some
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pizza and some drinks and then all went out together, strong,
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that about 100 100 yards long from one end to the other.
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There you go. All right.
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Well, Brian we snap the streak, buddy.
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We did, dude. Hokies that one won.
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We won. We won 11.
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Brown was right about Georgia Tech.
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Again, Brian is now like, two for two on Georgia Tech calls in
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the last. Here we go, here we go.
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Um, but yeah 26:17 when I was getting out of getting out of a
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little baseball as the game was ending and had people like, oh,
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not and I looked at it, nine-point lie about three
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minutes left, and you just kind of look like again, seriously,
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it's going to happen again, but it didn't the Guys held on 4 and
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4. Now you know 2 and 2 2 and 2 in
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the ACC get to into in the ACC Coastal not completely, the ACC
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Championship game, which is going to be whoever's in there.
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It's going to be a show, let's just sit, this is going to be
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the weirdest year overall man because especially when they
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like Atlantic. It's not looking great.
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Other than Wake Forest Lake Forest has had a couple.
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Cares even in there and you know, obviously Clemson it in,
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who we thought they'd be this year.
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They're not. You look at you.
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Look at the coastal. You know, you got UNC who
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definitely isn't who we thought they were.
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Oh no, you got Miami starting to Surge a little bit after kind of
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falling behind. Yeah.
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And then you got pit finally taking a loss in the in the
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coastal there. You know, what can they do?
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Due to right? The ship to make sure they keep
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the advantage, they have. Oh yeah, it's going to be the
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next month and that's where we're sitting at.
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We're sitting at one month away from, you know, essentially the
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end of the regular season it's going to be wild.
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Again, this it's more and more looking like 2007, another top
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10 team goes down, who was in the running for the Big 10 in
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Iowa. Not only did they go down, they
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got absolutely white by Wisconsin.
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Yeah, drug. That's Wisconsin's looked all
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year. It is.
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So it's like this. Get it's every week, it happens.
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It's a little more 2007, so can't I can't wait to see the
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next month. Especially me.
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And Brian are kind of doing love our kids playing sports and
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everything, but it's kind of like it's over very soon.
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We two games two games, two games, one game.
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All right, well let's start here, Brian.
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Let's start, let's look at the offensive performance because
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once again, we know the deal, just a Wednesday's been in that
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room more and more over the last couple weeks.
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Weeks. And what do we say last week?
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What do we say that? The number one point of this
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version, that we were going to, what had to be done.
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Feed the beast, and did they ever Feed the Bees between
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Malachi Thomas and He-Man 39 carries 186 yards. 4.8 per
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carry, not the five, we like, but a heck of a lot better than
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the 3.7 we've been averaging and Brian.
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Would you see out of Malachi man?
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That like like that makes you think he's the real deal.
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I tell you the thing that impresses me most about him is
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that he goes out there and there's not really a negative
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play in his game, he's always getting yardage.
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He has good Vision. Between the tackles when he gets
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to the second level, he can make guys mess and he just does a
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good job of not getting you behind the sticks.
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He's not going to dance the backfield.
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He's not going to you know search for the whole he's going
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to find. What's their get upfield?
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Get north and south and then try to To make a guy Miss.
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So and think that's the big thing and some of it is rubbing
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off on on him. His yards per carry the last two
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games are significantly better than his yards per carry for the
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season. He was like 5.8 on Saturday and
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I mean he had that big, you know, 25 + yd run that set up
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some things. He caught a couple passes for a
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few yards that again. Even if they don't go anywhere,
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it's that element of you. Must defend this with Rahim and
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you know, you got your, you've got to meet, you got your 12 and
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you got your want to have some diversity and it again I think
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we still want to see what both of them on the field.
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At the same time, I saw a play that was used with with the
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Wayne Loft and it caught my eye. I don't know if you caught this
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was on one of the runs they motioned to Wayne into the back
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Field behind the running back, snap the ball.
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It's a Old triple option plays what it is, except you're using
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a wide receiver, basically read it Braxton.
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Let It Go, but he pulled it and had the option to go to a little
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power option, right? And if you tell me, you put
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Rahim on the field and line them up wide and then motion him,
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it's even more diversity because if you're doing that, you're
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probably in a two tight end set. You know, you're in some sort of
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set where you're getting potentially a linebacker on him
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and to say, you're going to try to chase the edge with that.
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I'd love to see that play ran, let me ask this Prime because,
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you know, we're getting better. We're seeing the runs.
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Is there anything else we need to see from this room or any one
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else. We need to see from this room to
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maybe make it a perfect complementary room.
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I think at this point, the thing I'd like to see is maybe more
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targeting the running back in the passing game on passes that
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aren't screens. So, we know the screen games
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there. Yes, it's had had success here
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and there, not not unanimous success, right?
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It's had some, some negative plays and things like that based
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on when the, when the calls were made and things like that, but I
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want to see the running backs get involved in the actual
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passing game and some of that is putting some of those damned
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check Downs in this offense, where they can get the ball in
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space when the primary and secondary.
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Secondary options are covered and let them try to break a
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tackle, get up field, get the first down, maybe bust a big
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play. We haven't really seen that.
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There was some of that early in the season.
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We haven't really seen them. Put those elements back in the
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offense since then. But if we can get some of that
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in there where we can get these guys in space a little bit more,
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I think that would pay some dividends but I tell you one
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thing that has been put back Into the offense a little bit is
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some actual quarterback reads. Yes, there were numerous read
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options on Saturday and that definitely helped open up the
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offense, especially inside the tackles for Raheem and Malachi
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and you know, be behaving solid running game on Saturday 48
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yards on 11 carries. So you know right at four and a
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half a carry that's adjusted he did take a few sacks that might
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not have been great and There were a couple times he pulled it
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when he should have. Let it go the most and I think,
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the reason he let it go, cuz he thought he could wiggle away
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from the defensive end that was late in the third quarter.
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I think he doesn't pull it holds it and the guys like right right
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in front of him, and you see him wiggle and the guy just like
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stands. Like, you know, I'm not buying
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into the not taking that fake. Got about six yard loss and I
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tell you between that and then the scrambles, which we had seen
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earlier. In the season and you talked
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about Brian the whole time the offense.
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Is not doing the best because of Braxton, but the all sense is
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also not doing the worst because of Braxton and we're seeing it
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more and more and, you know, for him he had a pretty solid game.
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You know, close to 250 yard, passing couple, touchdowns, 64%
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completions but let's talk about the offensive line before we get
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into the passing game, I did not know this.
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I have not seen anything, it had not been any buzz, but Luke to
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Noodle was out on Saturday. I never heard the Reasonings or
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read the reasoning, but he was out and they had to get Nick.
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He got nicked against Syracuse, okay?
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But I didn't think you. It was one report isn't a game.
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Yeah. I didn't think was a missing a
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start situation so but you know, Silas filled in did a pretty
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admirable job there. But the person I was more
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impressed with was Parker Clements starting at right.
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Tackle probably had his best game of his career.
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I know it's still a young career.
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Here it is. But getting him on the field and
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actually having a game you know fish and be damned here, having
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a having a game where he looks like you know if he keeps
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progressing that he could be that guy at least at right
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tackle right now. If not you know potentially left
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tackle some time in the future that that's that's a good thing.
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Getting a guy out there and getting them some quality snaps
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and seeing them show it on the field.
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Yet that that's a positive take. Way, you know, outside of the
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outcome that you had getting the win.
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Exactly. Oh, the other thing is, you
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might be the only offensive line than that has ever got called
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for holding when he himself was being held on the screen pass.
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Like like there's not that that happened to me against
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Bridgewater back in 2004. So if that's the second
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documented time, ever second document of time a offensive
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lineman is literally getting held so they can't set up a
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screens. So the Defensive players,
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essentially is defensive holding in some way and he gets called
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it sets us back, 10 yards. But yeah.
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Let me ask this problem. Obviously, there were some
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changes if Luke comes back next week.
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Do you do you think it's Parker it right?
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Or do you think, do you think Vice sticks to his or going to
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continue to rotate? That's hard to say because
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obviously, you know, Silas did fairly well as well, you know,
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there were, there were some, I'd say Silas didn't do any worse
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and I've seen two new to do most of the Season, okay?
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So I think not seeing a drop off, there is a positive
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outcome. Again, we weren't playing the
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level of competition. At the defensive line that we
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probably played throughout the year.
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Very true. So you got to take some of this
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with a grain of salt but You still got to play who's in front
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of you. And if you go out there and
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handle your business regardless of who it's against, I'll say
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this, they look better than they looked against Middle,
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Tennessee, and Richmond. So, and I think Georgia Tech
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brings more to the table than Middle Tennessee and Richmond.
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So I'll take that, I'll take that.
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I will too. I still goes back.
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I still go back to what you always say, put your best five
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out there and the way we've seen Parker play the last few weeks.
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He, He might be one of the better 5, all the changing
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inside that offensive room. You're kind of saying we're
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seeing more positive than we are - we're seeing the line.
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Play with more fire. We're seeing them play better as
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a unit. You know, there have been times
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it felt like early in the season where we were, was it looked
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like this side of the line, felt the plate.
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This side of the line did feel the play and the next thing, you
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know, something bad happens. So yep.
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But again, in a positive direction on the line, now let's
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flip over to the passing game in Lowndes.
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Big part down. We gave up a couple sacks in
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Bryant and you've been preaching it.
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You've been slamming your hand on the table.
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We finally got it. We had some short.
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We had some good intermediate routes, we have some screens and
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then we sprinkled in some down field passes.
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That actually worked. How shocked were you that?
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Like what you've been banging? They finally did.
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And we saw every, I mean, what did Peter?
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But twice, maybe three times when we moved the ball, just
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about every yeah. Yeah, we were moving the ball.
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Every Drive, even in the second half.
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We only got six points but we were still having success.
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We just a lot of times either shot ourselves in the foot,
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whether it was a player with the penalty or whether it was, you
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know, a bad call at a bad time. We really only had one one
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series, I think in the second half that was truly awful and
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we'll address that here shortly. But yeah, it was definitely a
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more focused attempt at getting the passing game going.
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So I like that that that that's that's another positive, take
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away from this when they focused effort to get The Passing game
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going and the big beneficiary of that was Trey Turner.
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Oh my God was he man his career day. 74, 187 and a touch throw
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in the Ville Jet Sweep, egapp 194 One total yards from
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scrimmage and the display. And the first one was mostly
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him. It was him, it wasn't, it was a
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good design. Yeah.
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Go back and watch, and if you watch what it is, it's a it's a
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combo screen. Post will route, Caleb and him.
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Look like they're going to go into stock block.
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And essentially, if the guys lay off which they did or, they
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actually came up, they run their routes very well.
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Design concept Braxton. Put it short.
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If he puts it on the money Trail runs down, the sideline doesn't
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have to make any moves. He put it to him short which we
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know is a big problem, you know, one of his bad-looking passes of
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the day that worked out. But tail on that run, man.
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So many elements. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean he broke a tackle, he dragged got in the end zone.
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I mean it was, it was a big, big play for him.
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And then that kind of really got the kind of got everything going
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right. Like from that point on yeah, in
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the first half the offense was pretty much clicking and really
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only got stopped at one time where there was a couple of
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penalties set us back into a long down and situation.
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It's true. Yeah.
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And you you already said it a little bit but Extend having one
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of his better days throwing the ball in terms of statistics, but
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a lot of the routine throws are still looking a little wonky,
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right? What the ones that look wonky or
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is the ones that are getting about 20 yards downfield, right?
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Trace pass. The one that I remember was the
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first three and out where it was like a little comeback route
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about 15 yards and he put it short and you're sitting there
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because it was a really good design.
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In a really good call and he puts it short.
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Batavia on Robinson. Touchdown that ball wobbled and
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took forever kid. Get there.
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I know it was a rollout so I don't expect it to be perfect.
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But you know, that's one of those things.
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You feel like a middle school quarterback to make a better
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looking faster than that. At least a high school
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quarterback, most of them, at least somebody.
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Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how this goes
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forward and I think a lot of that's going to depend on how
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the next couple games go. Absolutely.
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Because I think at the next couple games don't go, well, I
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think we see Tosh you have to and then we'll see how that
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goes. You know, thankfully one of
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those games, the coming up and we're going to talk about that
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more on Wednesday but we're playing a team that doesn't put
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up a ton of points so we did More than likely knock on wood,
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it shouldn't eat a ton of points for that to be a w but we'll
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see. Well say we know how things
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break how crazy it is. The one thing that sort of drove
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me and you crazy Brian and continues to drive us.
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Crazy is some of the third down calls because they literally
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look like a coin flip call. It's okay, you know there's been
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times we criticized for being concerned. - yeah, we're going
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to criticize for that, but then there's times where being hyper
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aggressive is idiotic, especially the way we're running
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the ball. Well, there's being aggressive
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then there's being unnecessarily, aggressive or
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recklessly aggressive, right? I'm going to point out, we
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always talk about calculated risk.
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We don't, we don't talk about going out there and, you know,
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just throwing balls to the wall and and seeing what happens when
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you talk about taking calculated risk, understanding the
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situation and where risk-taking is beneficial for your team or
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where Ben are taking a risk. Doesn't necessarily hurt you if
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you don't get it. Yep.
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And Talk about third down in one after a team, just cuts it 2-1
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score and you're taking a 30-yard shot.
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Downfield with the quarterback that has struggled to throw
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routine balls all game. Yep, it just it didn't seem
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like, the right time you had had success, you know, in that 10 to
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15, yard range, most of the game, even when Braxton's not
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exactly throwing the Is spiral the ball.
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Still getting there in that range?
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Why are we taking not just the risk with the ball potentially
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but the risk of giving the team that has a little bit of
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momentum now giving the ball back after after a quick three
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and out. Right?
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Absolutely. And that's why I called them.
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That's why I put it on here, coin flips, because you don't
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know what you're going to get in that situation.
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Third and one, especially after they scored, is you want to slow
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that momentum. And the way we had ran the ball
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with Braxton. Malachi with Rahim, even ranging
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running the jet Suite, we were getting positive plays, we were
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getting positive place so it's one of those.
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Why not run it? Where I got more frustrated with
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it. Brian is there were some plays
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like third and 14, you know, we're we're running inside, you
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know, inside zone or run a QB draw versus okay.
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That is the plate. Take the risk.
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That is the place. Go downfield.
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If you miss it. Oh, well, we're putting anyway.
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If you hit it. Great, if you if they pick it
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well you're probably going to put it about where they'd get
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the ball but then but then there's this whole side where
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there were some plays where it was stirred and you know, 10 12,
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we ran like some quick slant, some quick passes one screen
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where it was like I like that call there.
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Yeah I like that call there because you're getting in your
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playmaker somewhere between five and eight yards, if there is
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one, missed tackle. Like, it's the, it's the, it's
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the Taylor Robinson Mastery of the inside screen.
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Yeah. And we talked about all the
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time, right? So, if you're going to throw the
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ball short of the line to game, it's got to be a ball.
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That gets your guys in space, right?
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You can't, you can't just be something where, you know,
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you're slamming, slamming the ball against the line of
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scrimmage, and hoping that it squirts out on the other side
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for a big game. Uh-huh.
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Again it's this whole it's literally he's taking the coin,
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he's flipping it on starting 15. I'm just going to run the ball
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here. All its third and one let me go
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deep. I like logic with my play
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calling, not just this might work here and in my logic
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doesn't mean predictable logic just means.
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Okay, this makes sense given the risk reward of the of the moment
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of the down and distance of the situation.
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Third, and one, if you tell me, we're going to pass the ball,
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we're going to run. A three yard out.
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We're going to run a little fake inside Zone and on a 3-yard out,
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we're going to try to put it front shoulder to catch the
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ball, perfect sense. It's a quick developing play or
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think about the Gallo play that he dropped a couple days ago.
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That was quick run. He went and hooked up what?
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Three and a half yards on the third and two play.
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He dropped it. Unfortunately, but that's okay.
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That logic makes sense. Yeah.
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All right, let's roll on how he was.
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We're special teams Saturday to winning that game and I mean, I
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mean, especially Parker Roma. I mean, and he's, he's really
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getting to the point where I mean, he is an absolute weapon
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for us is, you know, short short of the, the to missed short ones
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chip chip shots early in the season, which he's correct.
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Yeah, he's grumpy, he's been absolute money.
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And, you know, I'm not going to knock him for missing, the one
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he missed because he had, he had Plus 50 had the leg slightly to
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the left. So can I mean I'll take it and
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you can knock the call to take the kick there to take the
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points more than you. Do him missing it and he and you
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don't knock it to Bunch because he's shown, he's got the leg and
25:27
he's more or less. Got the accuracy to make it from
25:30
there. It's just, I mean that's that's
25:32
a coin flip call that you gotta, you know, note take that take
25:35
the risk if you want the points or take the risk, if you don't
25:38
get the points, you're giving up the field position and you know
25:40
what it is. Spots to the 48-yard urchin in
25:43
the first half, you know, playing Tempo getting in range
25:47
and then kicking it through like, that, that takes some
25:51
nerves. So, yeah, he's one of those
25:53
guys, you feel, if you get in a situation late, the way he's
25:55
been kicking. It can work.
25:57
Yeah. Peter Moore again, you know, I'm
26:00
team. He's got boom.
26:04
He's got touch when I say touch. If you he's trying to pin, you
26:08
he puts the wedge. If he gets the distant control,
26:11
Right? And it lands on the one.
26:12
It's coming back. So it's not rolling into the end
26:14
zone and the accuracy to the sideline.
26:17
I mean, he's 18 and if he can envelop, you get bigger and get
26:21
his leg even stronger than what it is.
26:23
He's going to be on an NFL team and for 25 years, without a
26:27
towel. Yeah, he's already at where most
26:30
second-year kickers are the real good.
26:32
Second York. Yes.
26:34
So if he can continue that trajectory that's going to be
26:37
big for him, that's going to put him in NFL conversations.
26:42
So that's going to be huge and I like to see it.
26:45
I like out the gate that, you know, special teams.
26:48
We had two big question marks coming into the season in the
26:51
kicking game. And both of those have been,
26:54
definitely more more assets than they've been liabilities the
26:56
whole year abso-freakin'-lutely, and we always talk about hidden
27:01
yardage. We talk about it with Romo, 10
27:04
yardage there because you're getting the points.
27:05
When you're not expected more, pending people deep Taylor
27:08
Robinson is another, just he He eats into net punting average is
27:12
anytime. He gets his hands on the ball
27:15
and this week, he had 31 total yards.
27:18
He had a little seven yard run that.
27:19
I think he started like at the 24.
27:22
He got it over the 30 and then he had the big 24-yard run that
27:26
really helped with field position.
27:29
It would not surprise me if the next month would not surprise
27:33
me. Is if they said just don't kick
27:36
it to him, he's a risk to take it to the house.
27:38
He always eats into our net punt.
27:41
You know, aim at 10 to 12 yards, short, and angle.
27:44
It will deal. Will will will will control the
27:47
outcome of the situation. Yeah.
27:49
Where he can't get the ball in his hand to potentially make a
27:51
big one. Absolutely.
27:54
Absolutely. Yeah.
27:54
He's definitely out there, helping us maintain that field
27:59
position. So now we got Pretty good
28:02
returns. We've had pretty good returns
28:04
all year. I know King was doing a lot
28:06
better when he was healthy, get them.
28:07
But the return game has been been good in the kickoffs.
28:11
Tay Rob has been excellent on punt return, especially for a
28:15
unit that last year was played by Bluffs.
28:18
Off my hand and not really able to find a guy that could be a
28:22
constant back there, to Rob has stepped up this year and not
28:25
just eliminated that aspect of it but become a big asset in
28:31
terms. Of helping with field position
28:34
and yet the kicker's doing their thing, man.
28:37
I mean, it's been a, it's been a solid effort on special teams.
28:40
So shout out to the our coordinator Chavez there and
28:45
just doing a good job. Absolutely.
28:47
Get these guys are ready for game day.
28:49
Absolutely. All right, Brian before we turn
28:51
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right. Brian a tale.
29:27
As old as time for any Virginia Tech defense, running
29:31
quarterbacks. And all those Sims didn't quite
29:34
do what Schrader did, we're what the guy for Notre Dame?
29:39
Did he still had a solid day? 11 carries 60-yard.
29:43
We've been sacked him a couple times into that.
29:44
So he's probably true. Carrie was probably probably
29:49
closer to 80. So let me ask this.
29:53
Is it the linebackers and the secondary or is it are we having
29:57
missing tackles or we haven't defensive line integrity?
30:00
And I got to see this yesterday with the Niners and Camera,
30:03
who's calling the game, but he showed in the first half how we
30:07
weren't in the right spots? So we were leaving, Justin
30:10
filled gaps to run through and then he showed the adjustments.
30:13
And it's like, there's nowhere for him to go because they're
30:16
keeping sound quality. What is it for this team right
30:19
now? While it's a little bit of both,
30:22
it's more of the former than the latter.
30:25
The D line is more or less doing what they need to do that where
30:30
they're struggling is actually on backside contain more than
30:33
they are on necessarily Gap Integrity.
30:37
Okay, A lot of times on with backside contain is that they're
30:41
they're relinquishing that leverage to the quarterbacks
30:45
quicker than they need to and then you know, the quarterbacks
30:49
got a little bit more To get to the edge than they do to meet
30:52
them there. So that's a little bit of a
30:55
problem, but I think the bigger problem is some of those missing
30:58
tackles and some of the safety fits that we've had the last few
31:03
weeks, they haven't been awful. The problem is that when they
31:07
have happened, it's very much like last year where it's when I
31:12
want to stay if he doesn't get where they need to be, that's
31:14
that's when you get those big plays coming up.
31:17
It's really hard to stop. Way for going from going less
31:22
than 20, if the safety misses, the tackle in the fit.
31:25
All right upside. Probably for the next month
31:29
until we get to UVA. We're not going to have guys who
31:32
are super Fleet of foot. Another got dudes, got a little
31:35
bit of athleticism, but whoever we see a b c does not and
31:40
Miami's to indict, similar to the kid at do a little bit of
31:44
athleticism, but none of that crap to be worried about. let me
31:50
ask this, all right, if I told you that gives was going to have
31:56
100 plus on less than 15 carries, close to 50 yards,
32:00
receiving But how would you have felt on Saturday at 11:55?
32:12
Yardage, I wouldn't have felt really good about their.
32:14
Like, that's probably, that's probably a bad day for us.
32:17
But when I slipped in no touchdowns Feel much better, but
32:23
much better. And and it it was a couple
32:26
things. I mean I think overall we did a
32:28
good job of being where we needed to be a lot of times.
32:33
I think the big thing that we had trouble with was was getting
32:37
guys to the ground. Consistently.
32:38
I mean the last few weeks we have become a questionable
32:42
tackling team we've reverted that's a little class earning
32:48
and we'll see if that Trend continues or if that tight.
32:51
Ends up a little bit. I don't know if it is just a
32:54
season wearing on and some, you know, technique going out the
32:56
window a little bit or what it may be, but we've definitely
33:01
struggled with getting guys to the turf consistently and I mean
33:04
one was like, I can't remember if it was if it was Sims or or
33:11
Gibbs. But we had one, we missed like
33:13
three tackles and one of those was like should have been
33:17
routine should have been yes, get him on the ground and then
33:19
all of a sudden he squirts out Breaks another tackle and next
33:22
thing, you know, he's in the Red Zone.
33:24
Yeah. And we got bailed out a couple
33:27
times. There was two big plays that
33:28
gives had they got called back for.
33:31
I think one was definitely holding.
33:33
I think the other was a block in the back.
33:35
Yeah. What was a block in the back?
33:36
They talked about that was like, it, was that borderline call?
33:40
But hey, sometimes they go your way.
33:43
Sometimes they don't, right? Yeah, yes.
33:45
I mean, we got bailed out on the, like I said, one of those
33:47
went for a touchdown. Long touchdown.
33:50
Yep. Dead ended up getting put back.
33:53
I think it like the 35-yard line or something like that.
33:56
So it was still, you know, he cut still cut the field in half
33:59
but it wasn't the huge, you know, 60 plus yard touchdown
34:02
that it was initially there, exactly.
34:06
I think the way we have to look at it especially with him is the
34:09
way Gibbs, how highly regarded was me again.
34:12
He was a top 50 player, a top five running back coming out
34:15
just, you know, two years ago. Did you have to feel okay?
34:19
Because He had 11 and he had 100 plus.
34:22
But once you take that 60-plus yarder that he ran later in the
34:25
second half out, we were getting to the ground.
34:29
We were meeting at the point of attack.
34:32
And that's what you and I and I found when our defensive line is
34:36
getting there. We do a pretty good job of
34:39
getting guys to the ground. It's when things when gaps are
34:43
there, when the holes are there, when the safeties have to come
34:46
up and the gaps a little bit bigger than you like?
34:48
And they've got to make that tackle in space and there's
34:51
still some wiggle room. Yeah, that's when things get a
34:54
little dicey and that's true with postings.
34:57
I mean, those are, those are just generally harder tackles to
35:00
make Make but you still got a big sure that you're getting
35:04
guys to the turf and if you're able to fit them up, you got to
35:07
get them to the ground. It's true.
35:09
Now one guy who did have a good day Brian statistic wise was
35:13
Alan Tisdale 12 total tackles two and a half for lost even had
35:16
a quarterback hurry and I know he had some missteps here and
35:20
there but is this one of these things where is this like is
35:24
this just had a really good day was it the type of scheme we're
35:27
playing or is it one of those things where airs you saw a few
35:31
weeks ago? He's clean them up.
35:33
Well he's cleaned them up where they're not as they're not as
35:36
penal as they were before. Yeah.
35:40
I mean that's really hard to say I think we need.
35:42
You know the jury is still out at this point.
35:44
I think I need a little bit more more tape to see if this is a
35:49
positive trend. Whether this is something scheme
35:53
wise that they did differently or if this is something that was
35:57
just kind of a kind of a one-off, you know.
36:01
Hopefully we're building on something going forward.
36:04
I didn't see it. I didn't see anything overtly
36:06
that said they changed how they were deploying him or anything
36:10
like that. Yeah, I think the only person
36:13
they that they deployed a little bit differently which actually
36:16
helped with one of the things we talked about last week was
36:19
seeing bar no stand up a whole lot more This week and I think
36:24
that that helped with his overall conditioning and play to
36:28
his strengths, a little bit more as well.
36:29
But when we do at Tisdale, like I said, I think the jury is
36:33
still out on whether, you know, this is going to be something of
36:37
a trend or whether it's just a one-off good day for him.
36:40
But either way, you know, he did pretty well there was like, you
36:43
know, like everybody there's a play here, play there that you
36:47
did, make that you could have. But in terms of his overall
36:50
game, probably, One of the better games.
36:52
He's played all season. Yeah, good for you, hopefully
36:55
build upon it, especially going up to the stretch run here.
36:59
All right, Brian. Something that we had harked on
37:01
and against the Syracuse game of how bad we were on the money
37:04
Downs, on third, and fourth down.
37:06
Well, this week significantly better on those two downs,
37:09
combine 4415 for Georgia Tech, definitely hurt them.
37:14
Now, one of those for was the touchdown where tomorrow Connor
37:17
did get sort of burned by McGowan and McGowan we know is
37:22
probably their best overall wide receiver but you know, just
37:27
looking at it is the field like was just just a game Flow.
37:31
Like we got a head so it hurt them or was it something
37:35
different? Where even when they were they
37:38
had managerial situations, they didn't know what was coming from
37:41
us in those situations. Probably a little bit of both.
37:47
I think we've been better on third down this year
37:56
significantly compared to last year but fourth down has been
38:00
awful. Yes.
38:02
And I think this is just kind of a.
38:05
We finally put that Trend in place for a full four quarters.
38:09
At least on third down. I think third down was probably
38:13
that was probably our best third down.
38:15
Yeah, performance, all year 33 for 12.
38:18
I mean, yeah, I'll take that every day.
38:22
Yeah, I'll take 5412 every day. Yeah, so, I mean, they'll on
38:28
third down, I mean, there's not a lot to complain about, you
38:32
know, I think we put them in situations where they felt like
38:35
they needed to get first downs because they were playing a
38:39
little bit of catch-up. Especially as we went further
38:42
into the the second quarter and Third quarter, but I think we
38:48
did it. We just did a good job of Taking
38:52
what they were giving us and kind of understanding, all
38:55
right, well, if we get them to the ground here will get off the
38:59
field understanding that down and distance.
39:01
And I think we did a good job of understanding that down in
39:02
distance and not giving them any more than we could allow, but
39:06
still doing a pretty consistent job of getting them to the turf.
39:10
All right. Well, something else we got to
39:12
do. We haven't seen too many of we
39:13
it was a fourth down, but we got a red zone stop.
39:18
You mentioned to me, you thought Collins was chasing points.
39:21
yeah, I mean, but isn't that sort of beneficial if a guy's
39:26
trying to chase points because they're down, you know, the way
39:32
we had played all year, you almost feel like if you look
39:35
statistically it, what we had done on fourth down and what we
39:38
had done in the Red Zone, you want to taking the same risk,
39:43
He's chasing points there and I say that only because of how
39:47
much time was left on the clock, but I get your point.
39:50
If you look at historically this season on fourth down and Red
39:55
Zone that was better than a coin flip, right more than enough
39:58
coin, flip significantly better than a coin flip and especially
40:02
you know, when you when you put the Red Zone factor in there.
40:05
So finally getting a actual true Red Zone.
40:08
Stop that wasn't a turnover and it was The turnover in terms of
40:14
forced turnover. Not a turnover on downs and
40:17
getting them off the field. They're obviously you saved
40:20
three, you gave your defense of confidence and the defense more
40:25
or less played well in the second half and really the whole
40:27
game. Overall, you know, missed
40:31
tackles the side. That's really the biggest
40:33
complaint I've got about the defense, I knew that their
40:38
tandem in the backfield we're going to put up some yards and
40:41
they did but we did a good job. Stop, you know, that one
40:44
touchdown on fourth and one aside fourth.
40:48
I forget what it was fourth and whatever that when Connor got
40:51
beat, that play is side, we did a good job.
40:55
The whole game in the secondary covering those wideouts.
41:01
Yep. Definitely, you know you only
41:03
have 180 our past and I know we talked about it.
41:06
They're primarily a run days team but they were still two top
41:09
60 ranked in both passing. And running the ball so you know
41:15
you're going to see more Ron but you knew they could be
41:17
successful throwing the ball. So I think that was a such a big
41:20
key and again. There were two guys.
41:24
There were two guys on the field.
41:26
That could really beat us. Jeff Sims and Gibbs.
41:31
They didn't beat us, they didn't beat us.
41:33
And if you told me, we're sitting here talking about loss
41:36
today, I'd say maybe Sims has 20 30 more yards and gives has one
41:44
or two more touchdowns but we held last piece KRON4, we take a
41:49
look at the pickles and wrap this thing up this afternoon.
41:53
What about the play of Jalen Griffin, man?
41:58
Yeah. I mean, he played well, he was
41:59
in that second line of that. Defensive end plate.
42:01
Played really well, you know, I don't know if this was kind of a
42:07
boost, his brother for the Griffin, the Griffin Bowl.
42:11
Yeah. Whether it was just a little
42:15
bit, lighter competition or whether it was something where
42:18
he's, you know, putting pieces together and starting to
42:21
starting to turn the corner there.
42:23
But that strip sack was a big moment in the game because that
42:25
set us up for one of the two field goals.
42:27
As we got to the second half that ended up being key and
42:30
closing this one out. So big shout out to Jaylin Griff
42:34
and that was a good game for him.
42:35
Hopefully see, see more of that against BC coming up this week.
42:39
It's true. And he should have had the
42:40
second sack because the that was a soft roughing the passer call
42:45
that he took her some supermodel, soft Charmin, soft
42:49
taking down Sims, that would have put them in like I think
42:53
forth and 26, or something insane.
42:56
Like, you know, But for him seeing just hymns take a step
43:02
and again with the Hope becomes it's not only with the second
43:05
line is some mixing and matching with the first team guys, to
43:09
give them extra breathers. We've talked about it.
43:12
We talked about Cole Nelson coming on.
43:15
I think Jalen has the skill set. You just have to deploy him at
43:19
the right time. I don't think just looking at
43:21
his size, you can't expect him to go into a lot of running
43:25
downs but When it's those second and long chances, let him go in.
43:32
And then, you know, put Garbodor barno out and then flip them
43:35
back in if he becomes third and short.
43:38
Like let's be wise with how we rotate him, because I think he
43:41
can become that guy. We need to give them those
43:44
breath. So when we get in those tight
43:45
games late, they're not done for the day.
43:49
Yeah, I mean he's the ideal guy to give bar know a blow their
43:52
he's the ideal guy to come in opposite Cole Nelson.
43:56
I think the problem that we were having early on is that our
43:59
second line was pairing him with Eli and and then that that
44:05
that's that's the way to undersized to be something that
44:07
you can roll for more than to place a few Downs of a series.
44:12
So I think that's the big problem in so having cold
44:17
Nelson, come on, I think maybe You something that's helping
44:20
Griffin really utilize his talents a little bit more
44:23
because he's got a bigger body opposite him that can do some of
44:29
those things to help out in the running game.
44:31
Where yeah you can still run at Jalen maybe but you know you'll
44:36
he's got somebody on the backside of that can kind of
44:38
clean some of that up and it can't run both directions.
44:42
Absolutely. Well, Brian prediction wise I
44:46
think Georgia Tech completely wrong.
44:48
Glad to Be wrong. You went for jigna Tech and we
44:51
did nine not 3. So you know super shocked me
44:57
only marginally shocked you this week.
45:00
Yeah only marginally. I think the thing here is that
45:04
you know I think some of this was pessimism was fully setting
45:09
in. Yes.
45:10
Still in and it's still in and and I think the thing that we
45:14
need to realize here is that because pessimism is set in we
45:18
can't Overreact to this outcome either can't because this is an
45:22
expected outcome at best, right? Like we expect to win by more
45:27
than a touchdown against this type of Georgia Tech Team every
45:30
year. So let's not beat our chest.
45:34
We can be happy with the with the wind, which we are very
45:36
happy with the win super happy. But let's not recalibrate based
45:41
on this win. We still need to do other things
45:45
against better competition before we start saying.
45:48
All right. Right.
45:50
We're making a turn here. Exactly, exactly.
45:54
So so grain of salt, but good, good, wind players played hard,
45:58
you love that and they play hard.
46:01
Every game Win, Lose execution, errors, coaching errors, all
46:05
that. I mean they've been putting it
46:07
all out there. So as you respect them for that,
46:09
you absolutely have to respect him for that, especially what
46:12
happened in three of the four games prior.
46:15
So super, super shout out to them.
46:17
And actually for the five games For that.
46:20
All right Ron, you almost did it.
46:24
So glorify his brother closed Circle was 9:00 and 1:00 and I
46:32
want to read down. Just so y'all know what he got,
46:34
Miami pit. He took mommy in the points.
46:36
Miami wins out. Right?
46:38
Syracuse at home. He laid the six Syracuse.
46:40
Won by two touchdowns. Took wait, wait!
46:43
Blows the doors off Duke. Could have what?
46:46
You probably could have laid 33 in that one so Good doubled it
46:49
up, is he say comes back, handles Louisville, Notre Dame.
46:53
Runs away from UNC late B, why you not only covers the two and
46:59
a half, almost hang 70 on UVA. In Provo, billing API, are they
47:05
easily be Texas state line else? Forty five to seven was the
47:10
final anyone who gave took Ohio state, land, 80 and a half
47:16
points has not watched any of their Games.
47:19
They were coming in hot, they had played trash.
47:23
Bronwyn Penn State. And then the big matchup of the
47:26
day he tooks party in the points.
47:28
Sparty wins out, right? And probably even the way we
47:34
regardless of that game for you were probably going to cover
47:36
that. Yep.
47:37
So 330, Florida, State, Clemson. There's about 12 seconds left on
47:45
the clock, Florida, State's down in stages down three, and it's
47:50
the ultimate bad beat. Ultimate bad beat since Lee.
47:56
There was a it was a fumble scoop and score scoop and score
48:00
with 3 seconds left. To draw.
48:06
We got it at 10. We did not get it at nine and a
48:08
half. I don't think we would have
48:09
changed either at nine and a half from FSU, and it doesn't
48:14
really change a ton in the, in our, in our matchups either
48:17
because we both went with with FSU here.
48:20
So no, don't change it. It will just move the draw into
48:24
the into the loss column for both of us.
48:26
Yeah. But what this week did do is, we
48:31
are going to have a race down the home stretch.
48:35
Even as crazy. And as bad as my weekend,
48:37
started a huge ACC Perfection for me 63 and one to keep a
48:44
one-game lead Brian's at 5140 and one.
48:49
I'm at 52:39 and one. So made it three games this week
48:55
Made Up 3 games this week, which I want to do like that myself on
48:59
the back for you. Going - enough.
49:02
I didn't lose them. Yeah.
49:06
You at least were better than the the coin flip to keep the
49:09
lead. I was better.
49:12
Hey, I was two out of three. I mean I don't trust PC anymore
49:16
so I will pick them to beat us because that's been my Mo don't
49:22
trust them. They're beating us then.
49:25
But yeah, it was, it was a fun thing to watch it.
49:27
When I woke up on Sunday morning and started looking, I woke up.
49:32
Like, in the middle of the night and I rolled over and I looked
49:35
at the phone and I saw it was like 45-42 UVA and that's why I
49:40
mean we lost that one. Didn't pay attention to how much
49:43
time was left. Turn it over, turn it over
49:45
again. When I wake up five hours later
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66 245, how much time was left in that game to scored for three
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touchdowns and a field goal? It's like, oh yeah, I was
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looking like early third quarter here.
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It was like 2:00 in the morning. It felt like I don't It was man.
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So again you know this is our Monday episode, we will be back
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crossing our fingers back to normal time Wednesday.
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Yep, 9:30. And then hopefully next Sunday.
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We're back at 9:30. Brian, anything else you want to
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talk about before we close it up here?
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I think we're good to go, man. I need some light work of that
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one. We did just under an hour just
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under an hour, I'm bad at all. Well, that's wraps up this
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episode of The Boundary form. Podcast.
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