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Quiet Storm · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Now Miami wants to talk about it.
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  Several of these past plays in this last possession, the first
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  one took 11 seconds off the clock, 11 seconds.
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  It resulted in incompletion. They have not managed the clock
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  very well. But you you can say that to
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  Jacory Harris, but if he can't find anybody open, he can't.
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  Find anybody open. Let me tell you what has become
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  open this crowd that makes the task of Al Golden and Jacory
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  Harris that much more difficult. You lose a little bit of your
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  composure and your focus and understanding of the down in the
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  distance in the game at this point.
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  Now they've got they cannot let the ball die inbound.
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  Look at this. This is just spectacular.
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  These people are losing their mind.
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  This is beautiful. Virginia Tech has one defender
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  waiting back at the 15 yard line.
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  Harris frozen underneath, caught by Miller trying to stay alive.
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  The clock is in zero and Miller is down.
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  It's over. Alonso.
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  Tweety made the tackle in Virginia Tech wins.
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  I'll tell you what, if you like college football and you got to
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  watch this whole game, what else could you conceivably ask for?
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  It's one of the greatest games I ever saw.
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  Frank Beamer has joined us. Frank, just your typical
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  Saturday afternoon at Lane State.
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  And welcome back to the Boundary Corner podcast, a part of the
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  College Couple network along with my partners, Brian Siegler,
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  Jonathan Talley and Shelton Moss.
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  I am Curtis Wilson and we are brought to you by Doctor Jeremy
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  Counts down at the Counts Family Pharmacy, your friendly
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  neighborhood pharmacy, three O 1 S Main St. in Blacksburg.
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  And y'all, we kicked it off right there with one of the most
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  unbelievable calls in college football, in my opinion, in the
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  last 20 years in honor of Mike Patrick, who passed away
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  yesterday because hey, Mike Patrick called so many Tech
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  games throughout the years, first of all.
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  But when that game happened and literally for some reason Al
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  Golden decided to call a timeout, Mike delivered maybe
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  one of the best lines ever. And I don't know what to say.
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  I'll definitely miss him because to me, he was a voice of college
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  football, voice of the Hokies, voice of the College World
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  Series for years. And you know, take takes me back
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  to a happier time as far as being a Hokie fan was.
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  Let's let's, let's run it back even further for some of our old
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  heads. Him and Joe Thais are back on
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  Sunday Night Football. Yeah, I mean that that was my
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  introduction to Mike Patrick. And then obviously you're
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  calling all those games for the Hokies, especially when we were
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  winning some football games that'll have had a much better
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  clip than we are now. So rest in peace of that man.
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  Definitely a legend in the booth.
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  Definitely a legend man. Like I say, RRP definitely don't
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  want to over shadow what we're talking about because that's
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  very serious. But when I watch that clip, you
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  know what I'm saying? And I see him like that's that's
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  college football, that's Virginia Tech football, you
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  know, like that's just electric. That's what you see.
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  That's not what our dumb ass fans talk about when we talk
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  about that fucking song. It's not the song, man.
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  It's the the noise, it's the people, it's the atmosphere,
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  it's everything that Hokey Nation makes it.
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  Nothing wrong with the song. The song's good.
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  I don't hate the song, but that electric atmosphere is what
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  Hokey Nation is. And that's what people like
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  myself have grown to love, man. And then like I said, even with
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  him, you know, commentating that game, just I, I remember
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  watching it, I wasn't there. I remember watching it on TV.
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  Like it's just, that's what college football is, man.
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  That's what gets you. That's what gets you going.
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  You know, I and I feel like sometimes put a, a tweet out.
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  I guess they're talking about college football, the video
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  game. I was going to have MSN man in
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  it or they're talking about it being in there for the 26th
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  game. And I'm like, I don't care who's
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  blocking on our team this year. That's what I want to know.
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  Shelton, can I ask real quick, were you at that game back in 11
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  Miami? No, I was not the game.
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  So that was before I was really like a AVT fanatic.
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  Were you? Grown back into.
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  Yeah, I was. I was.
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  I was. I was 13.
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  I think so, but I do remember watching that game and that was
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  one of those core even like as a non fan actor, that was one of
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  those core Vt memories. You're kind of just like
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  watching the screen and awe and like, man, this is awesome.
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  Like that's, you know, it's unfortunate we haven't had, you
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  know, memories like that. We're still kind of, you know,
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  reminiscing on stuff that's so far back, but it's kind of it's
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  kind of become more part of like the the lore as time has gone
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  on. Yeah, definitely any any Miami
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  game, man. Like I told people whenever we
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  started talking about who we would play in the future and
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  they was talking about teams that we took away and things
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  like that. Like I said, my first game in
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  Lane Stadium was Virginia Tech versus Miami on a Thursday
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  night. So like Miami's probably that's
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  like that's one of my teams. If we play in Miami, I want to
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  be tuned in to that game. So goes back to this game blue
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  to the TV watching it, you know what I'm saying?
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  They come in weird high ranked team and.
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  I think they were. Were they favored in that game
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  or something? It was, it was weird, like we
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  were getting. Disrespected.
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  Yeah. Yeah, there was definitely
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  something there. Yeah.
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  I think it was like, I know we were like kind of close together
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  in, in record and rank and it was like, all right, well.
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  I know Harris was getting a lot of hype and stuff, right?
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  Yeah, around that time. He always got hyped.
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  We always shut his ass up too. Yeah.
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  So yeah, man, I just, I love the Virginia Tech Miami rivalry.
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  I'm calling it a rivalry. If y'all don't like it, it is
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  Kick rocks. It's a rock.
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  I love that rivalry, man. So listening to that starting to
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  show with that takes me back to happier times.
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  I'm still mad, but that takes me to happier times.
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  There we go. All righty so.
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  Everybody the The theme for this episode is Tally is the old man
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  yelling at the cloud so. Get all the lawn get off of.
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  It get off get off but along with tally yelling at the lawn
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  Shelton who I'm not Sheldon you had been in my Sheldon's been
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  working his ass off for pretty much the last three months.
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  He's back tonight. I like what Robbie said The
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  gang's back together tonight. We are going to go over spring
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  ball real quick. The spring game, our
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  observations from it with Brian being there and a couple other
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  folks and trying to watch a little pieces of the spring game
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  and read on things. And obviously we thought about
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  doing one last week, but last week was hell for all of us.
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  Tally was finishing up baseball. I had multiple games in the
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  middle of the week. Brian had multiple things.
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  Shelton's always working in the middle of the week.
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  So the other thing we mentioned was wait a second y'all, the
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  transfer portal opens up so we can come up here and talk about
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  6 players like so and so looked really good in the portal the
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  next day. So that's another reason we got
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  off. But we are going to hit it up
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  tonight. Talk a little bit about the
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  spring game this year. Finally, finally, finally we got
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  the version I wanted, Brian. We got offense versus defense,
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  which I have been screaming about for years and we got it
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  and it was a better game because you saw ones versus ones even
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  though they weren't a lot of ones on the offensive side of
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  the ball. We'll talk about that in a
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  little while. But Brian, just from being that
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  in person because it wasn't a game, but did you like that or
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  was it a little not enough people there to do it this year?
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  Do you remember it, Brad? I do remember it.
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  It's it's a cloudy memory, but I, I do remember it.
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  It, you know what, I like the format better, but without your
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  two best quarterbacks, it kind of dulled what the high end of
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  that would look like. Because I don't think we saw,
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  even with a limited and a vanilla playbook, as many passes
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  or as a consistent passing game as we would have gotten if you
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  would have had drones and pop Watson out there.
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  So I feel like we were kind of that kind of took away from the
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  full impact of that. And and, you know, just as far
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  as the atmosphere in general, I mean, I, I think, you know, a
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  lot of the fan base is feeling a little bit like tally right now.
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  So there there wasn't as many people out there, at least not
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  as many people that were willing to sit in 40° weather and watch
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  the Hokies play an exhibition game.
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  So the the vibes were a little little down this year, still
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  good, but not not quite where they had been, you know, last
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  last two to three years. But I think, like I said, I
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  think the format was good, but I think without your quarterbacks,
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  you kind of lost a little bit of the luster there.
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  Yeah, without a doubt because obviously, well, first of all,
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  we've said it in the past and some people get pissed off Tally
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  in in Shelton, right? Some people are like, well, so
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  and so is not playing. Why is he not playing?
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  And we've screamed on this show like why do you want to go get
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  him hurt during the spring game? The season ain't till September,
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  so when they said that, like you switch your hands up and it's
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  like this sucks. I'd love to see him play, but we
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  get it right. Yeah, definitely.
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  I I don't know man, like so I guess most chat mostly I'll go
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  to the spring game, right. Put in the chat.
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  If you go to the spring game, most of if you have been like
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  most people, you don't go to the spring game really for the game.
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  I mean, it's cool. You want to see some cool stuff
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  happen, but if you haven't been, I mean you going, you're going
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  for the for the vibes. It's a party, you know what I'm
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  saying? It's pre.
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  We we've been we've done the pregame show.
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  You know what I'm saying? You it's everybody's there.
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  It's like homecoming everybody. You you're meeting everybody.
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  You get to eat with a couple of you guys.
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  Did we first meet at the did I did we finally meet face to face
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  at the spring game? Brian is that spring?
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  It was spring game. See, it's like been knowing
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  Brian for it feels like a decade at least.
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  Like I thought he was. He could have been a Craigslist
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  killer. I don't know.
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  He could have been fake. And I've been talking to this
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  guy and zooming him for 10 years.
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  But the spring game is what actually brought us together.
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  So the spring game is more than just the game now.
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  This year's game vibes are going to be a little bit down just
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  because of last season, things like that.
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  But like Brian said, I mean, it was cold out there.
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  I was saying it was just a bad day to have a spring game to get
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  everybody in town. So that's just, I think it's.
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  Going to end up being the coldest day in.
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  April it is. So it's been warm ever since.
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  It was warm the week before when me and Brian were on the cruise
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  y'all were getting. It was hot up here, wasn't it,
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  Shelton like the the, the last, the last few days of March, it
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  was like when we pulled back into Norfolk, it was 88°.
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  It was warm so. She she was cooking.
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  But let's go to it. Let's get to it.
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  Defense dominates 3721. We I was going to talk about
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  like each line what what a quarterback Karen was out, Pop
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  didn't play. The only guy who got a lot of
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  reps is now in the portal. And so the only thing you can
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  maybe take from it is Keldon Ryan and AJ Brandt are big,
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  athletic looking dudes. Oh, there you go.
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  Well, Brian will be at that. I'll be back at it.
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  I'll be back at it. Holy shit.
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  Me, my wife, my son will be there on on May 7th, so we're
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  ready. But though about the only thing
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  we can take with this from the quarterback room is those two
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  guys look athletically as advertised.
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  I mean that that's it. Can can we get anything else
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  from the quarterback room except their their their potential
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  floors and ceilings were higher than Davi Balfour.
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  That's why he's in the portal. I mean, that's basically what I
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  took away from it. You know, Davi definitely looked
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  the most polished from a passing standpoint.
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  Obviously wasn't Rattle wasn't was a little more composed.
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  But I think when he's when you look at the athleticism and then
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  you know, you look at the the size of brand combined with that
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  athleticism, you you definitely impressed.
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  And I think that they're looking long term at at those two guys
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  being who they're going to lean on from a long term perspective
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  at the quarterback spot. Yeah.
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  I mean, in in today's world, it's like if you aren't going to
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  get on the field, you get in the portal.
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  You know what I'm saying? I mean, that's just what college
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  football is. So especially at the quarterback
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  position, you see somebody that comes in and you hear, you can
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  see, I mean, if you've been in any sports, somebody's got it,
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  they got it. If they've already started
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  overtaking you and you really want to get on the field or you
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  really want to be somewhere where you can make a difference.
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  I mean, there's nothing wrong with hitting the portal, man.
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  I the portal is what it is. I know it needs some tweaking,
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  but for kids that need to get on the field and, you know, need to
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  try to find a better situation for better situation for them,
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  like I'm cool with it. So no love lost for me, for
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  anybody who who decides to do something for the future.
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  Except Tennessee's quarterback, but we'll talk about that later.
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  We will talk about that later. There's.
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  There's just, no, I mean, there's one, there's one
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  quarterback in the field at a time.
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  And I think, you know, it's a position where you, you want to,
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  you know, stack some bodies, but once you find your guy, you're
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  going to come ride with him. Obviously that's Chiron, so you
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  know my man out. And there he goes.
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  Well, the funny piece is we're sitting here, we talk about AJ
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  and Keldon and it's probably, I'm going to guess it's probably
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  going to be this time next year that in all likelihood, one of
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  them will probably go to the portal unless they unless
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  somebody jumps way up. And, and I mean, that's just
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  what it is nowadays. But so that's done quarterback.
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  We know who the top two guys are.
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  We didn't get to see them, unfortunately, or we didn't get
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  to see them. We, we got to hear some comments
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  on how they looked and doing a few things, but we got to hold
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  that to ourselves. Let's go to the offensive line
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  because I think every single person, not only in this
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  podcast, but probably I would say 75 to 80% of Hokie Nation
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  agrees. If we don't improve there, it'll
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  make a hill of beans a hill of shit.
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  If Kyron plays great, if we can run the ball like crazy with a
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  great running back wide received, make unbelievable
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  catches because the offensive line was below par last year and
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  this year's got to be better. Brian, I know you told me
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  starting 5. Johnny Garrett at left tackle,
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  Lake Ganimet left guard, Kyle Altooner snapping center,
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  Ontavius Cunningham finally got to play with the ones at right
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  guard, and then obviously Thomas of Tomas Remack at right tackle.
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  OK, just straight up, I want to ask before I get to Brian
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  Shelton and Tally. Y'all look at these guys on the
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  line. Do you automatically feel a
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  little bit better than last year?
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  Same or worse? Sheldon, you want to go or you
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  want me to go? You go.
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  So at the spring game last year, we did see Montavis Cunningham
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  get in the game, right? We did.
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  Was it a long screen or something?
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  I've seen something happen with him run down field and make a A
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  block. At his size, that one play was
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  better than anything that two of our starters did through the
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  whole year. So the fact that he couldn't get
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  on the field on a bad offensive line, something wasn't right.
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  You know, I just didn't understand it.
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  So I think it was a little bit of a user error on the coach's
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  part. So I didn't feel like anything
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  we did was going to work. And, you know, Long story short,
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  those coaches are gone now. So, yeah, the people that we
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  have now, I feel it like it's going to be a upgrade at the
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  line, even if it's a slight upgrade.
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  I just feel like that we will get some better play or we'll
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  move on to somebody else if we don't get better play, which is
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  what I don't feel we did last year.
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  Everybody knows this. We don't want to sound like a
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  broken record, but somebody messes up and sacks his own
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  quarterback. He stays in the game.
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  It's fucking dumb. So my opinion, think we'll be
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  better there just for that. And I, I know the coaching is
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  better. Like I don't have to go into a
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  whole bunch of extra videos and talking and things like that.
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  That coach is better than the coach we had because of what
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  he's done. That's it.
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  Sheldon. Yeah.
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  I mean, I think, I think Remek alone kind of makes them better.
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  And obviously with the coaching too, like I just, I mean, I as
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  as I've sort of reflected on last year, I think Needless to
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  say, we were not getting the most out of our potential under
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  Matt Moore's predecessor, to say the least.
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  So I think, you know, but that you got some young guys come in
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  this year. So it's like I, I think you're
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  muted curse, by the way. I think it'll be a situation
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  where they start off, you know, kind of slow and sort of figure
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  out, you know, just kind of what you know, how they how they play
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  together. And there'll be some growing
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  pains. But I think by the end of the
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  year, hopefully with good coaching, they'll kind of gel
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  together. But it's, it's going to take
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  some time just with with how much, how much you there is
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  there. And again, that's what happens
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  when you ignore online recruiting for two years, which
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  is a conversation for another day.
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  But that's, that's what happened.
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  So we're stuck with it. Brian, you, you were, you were
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  there obviously taking a little mental notes, obviously having
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  people talk with give me, give me a couple guys what you saw,
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  what you like from each. Yeah, I was taking mental notes
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  during the game. That's you were taking.
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  No, I mean, so looking at the game, looking back at the game,
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  you know, you got Johnny G, you got Ganem, you got Altoon or you
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  got Cunningham, you got Remac. I mean, Remac held a pretty good
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  in Pass Pro. You know, looking looking back
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  at the tape looked pretty good in the run game.
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  Gannon was still kind of up and down.
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  I like some of what I saw. Had a couple whiffs that you
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  know, they're going to happen, but I'd like to see him clean
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  that up absolutely between now and fall.
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  Altoona lost control on a couple combo blocks, but still held up
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  pretty well across the board, especially in Pass Pro.
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  I like him better in Pass Pro than what we had last year.
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  We'll see if he's, you know, got that more, more mentality in the
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  in the trenches in the run. But I mean, he held up a little
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  bit better in pass Pro than the Moors did last year.
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  I'm interested to see how Johnny Garrett holds up and left.
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  I think he did a pretty good job in the spring game, but I don't
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  think there was a ton of interesting stuff thrown at him
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  where where he may have had to make some decisions or there
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  needed to be some communication from the center or anything like
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  that. So I, I think it's still a wait
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  and see. I'm cautiously optimistic on the
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  offensive line, especially compared to last year.
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  I think this is a group that from a talent standpoint is
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  better than what we had last year.
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  I just don't think that there's any single player on this line
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  as good as Xavier Chaplin. And that's my only concern
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  really at this point. I got you all right.
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  Who was the second group real quick?
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  So we saw Lynch, Nitta, Tommy Ricard, Bob Schick and Lucas
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  Austin in that second. Group so and that leads into
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  this so the second group two of them are already in the portal
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  along with Webb Davidson, whose name you didn't see and I think
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  that says some Brian, we were talking.
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  You said you don't believe you ever recall seeing Brody
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  Meadows. So again, I'm going to tell
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  everybody who's hurt or nicked up.
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  So but if you're telling me this is just like the way I feel
• 22:24
  about it. If you're telling me they have
• 22:27
  told Bob Schick to kick rocks with the guy who has played as
• 22:32
  much as he has over the last two years, then to me that's like a
• 22:37
  new leaf turning over right? Because you know he can he's
• 22:41
  solid in pass not the best in run, but he's a good body out
• 22:43
  there when you need one. If you're telling me they, like
• 22:46
  you need to go on you, you need to go on elsewhere, then that
• 22:51
  says a lot to me. Also, Caleb Netta, who snapped
• 22:54
  the balls in the bowl game, is gone.
• 22:57
  It tells me Tommy Ricardo is probably looking a lot better
• 23:00
  this time, too. Yeah, I.
• 23:02
  Think he was definitely nicked up at the bowl games.
• 23:05
  I think some of that was an emergency situation and some of
• 23:08
  that may have just been, you know, the, the, the current
• 23:13
  situation we're dealing with and wanted to see what other guys
• 23:15
  can do in, in, in that bowl game.
• 23:17
  I don't know exactly what they were thinking for that but but.
• 23:21
  All in all, we're we're tally Sheldon.
• 23:24
  Were either of y'all like shocked, especially with shit
• 23:29
  when y'all when I sent y'all that tweet yesterday, it's like
• 23:32
  Bob chicks in the portal where you you were shocked?
• 23:35
  No, y'all weren't shocked. OK.
• 23:36
  Nope, I was happy. Oh well.
• 23:39
  Get them out of here. Get out of here.
• 23:41
  Get on out of here. See, this is my thing.
• 23:44
  If you're going to be sorry, at least be sorry with young guys.
• 23:47
  But I don't want to see old guys doing the same thing.
• 23:50
  Like if you were my age and you still making the same mistake,
• 23:55
  you ain't going to take no old dog.
• 23:56
  New tricks. Get the fuck on.
• 23:58
  Get out. Like if you tell me you got a
• 24:00
  line full of freshmen or freshmen and sophomore, they're
• 24:03
  making a mistake and missing blocks.
• 24:06
  Hey man, we might have to live with that.
• 24:07
  That's growing pains. So that's like, I'm OK with
• 24:10
  that. Last year, 20.
• 24:11
  Seven years old, still missing the combo block.
• 24:14
  You ain't gonna ever make the combo block.
• 24:16
  You're never going to get the combo block if you're missing it
• 24:18
  at 2625. Like man, get a job.
• 24:24
  Get. Your LinkedIn page, right?
• 24:27
  Get that cover like get that cover letter going.
• 24:28
  Get. That get that cover letter going
• 24:31
  man, call you somebody. Chat your CV baby.
• 24:34
  Man, ChatGPT it get you a resume, get your resume right so
• 24:38
  you can and most of these I'm making jokes, but most of these
• 24:41
  guys when they're that old, especially if you've been in
• 24:43
  Virginia Tech, like you probably got a good ass degree man, go
• 24:47
  make some money. At this point, he's got at least
• 24:49
  two I. Know a lot of people in Alabama
• 24:52
  that's got this walking around and driving around with Virginia
• 24:57
  Tech tags that I know don't watch a lick of football because
• 25:00
  they're Virginia Tech grads and they are engineers and they are
• 25:04
  their grass probably looks perfect because they go out
• 25:06
  there and cut it with like freaking scissors and stuff like
• 25:09
  that. And they're probably rich
• 25:11
  because they make so much money and with their engineering
• 25:14
  degree, go make you some money, man.
• 25:17
  You ain't going to be good at football.
• 25:18
  Every now and then they'll call you and say, hey, we need you to
• 25:21
  come back and lead the cheer going into the fourth quarter.
• 25:25
  Come do that. Let's go, Hokies, get the fuck
• 25:28
  off the field. That's the only time you need to
• 25:30
  be on the field. You don't ever need to put a
• 25:31
  helmet on. So no disrespect to the people
• 25:35
  who left. Hey, what?
• 25:36
  We, we, we got a tally deep cut here from Jim.
• 25:38
  I I like this. We got a tally deep cut, you
• 25:41
  know. Oh, yeah.
• 25:41
  You know this about the Internet.
• 25:42
  Man, I see that. Man.
• 25:44
  My internet's been. You know what?
• 25:45
  My internet's been doing better, too.
• 25:47
  I'm happy. We know it has.
• 25:48
  We've lost you. I was gonna say I don't think
• 25:50
  y'all lost me since I went to Google Fiber.
• 25:52
  Man, I'm giving Google Fiber a shout out.
• 25:55
  If y'all are with AT&T, ditch them and go to Google Fiber.
• 26:01
  Google Fiber, man, they, they put me, they put me two routers
• 26:04
  in here. Extender, whatever you call it,
• 26:07
  man. We've been we've been good to
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  go. Not a sponsor but y'all could
• 26:11
  be. If you know Google, give us a,
• 26:12
  give us a. Call.
• 26:13
  Come on man, give us the call. Well, let's keep rolling and got
• 26:18
  a off the offensive line a little bit, but staying with it.
• 26:21
  This is like the transition point, Brian.
• 26:23
  We know and we talked about it a couple times over the last few
• 26:27
  months about Matt Moore's scheme.
• 26:28
  It's some outside, it's his own kind of going on the outside.
• 26:31
  It's gap inside. Did you see that and did you
• 26:36
  like what it did on the inside? Yeah.
• 26:39
  You know, what they're doing is they're mixing up a lot of that
• 26:42
  kind of split zone with with the counter.
• 26:46
  So you got the H back in there and sometimes they're going
• 26:48
  across, sometimes they're they're wall and they're kicking
• 26:51
  back out away from the run. So there's a lot of different
• 26:54
  things that they're doing with that that tight end, that H back
• 26:59
  that gives them a lot of opportunities both inside and
• 27:03
  outside. But we're going to see a lot
• 27:05
  more pulling in this system inside.
• 27:08
  I mean, you know, power and variations of power are going to
• 27:10
  be kind of the bread and butter of the insider run for this
• 27:14
  team. Y'all know what I did, man, for
• 27:19
  like 15 minutes and didn't mean to do it.
• 27:22
  I was going through my day at work, you know, YouTube just so
• 27:27
  happened pops up. I pull up a video of Steven
• 27:31
  People's highlights from whatever year that was. 2018
• 27:36
  maybe. Sounds right.
• 27:38
  Yeah. Our line was like Steven Peebles
• 27:41
  was going to get you like 5 yards like he wasn't Tooting or
• 27:44
  nothing like that. But I was watching the online
• 27:47
  during that and it's on YouTube. I think it was like a 10 or 12
• 27:51
  minute highlight video of Steven Peebles shot at the Steven
• 27:55
  Peebles hard, hard nosed football player.
• 27:58
  But the offensive line getting like four and five yards, just
• 28:04
  that, you know, punching the ball in and stuff.
• 28:06
  I'm like, man, what has this been?
• 28:08
  We ain't even got a line to do this.
• 28:09
  And this wasn't even good, you know what I'm saying?
• 28:11
  Like that wasn't even like a one of the best lines.
• 28:14
  But at the same time, just, you just look at the physicality and
• 28:19
  things like that. It's much different than what
• 28:21
  we've seen. So I'm I'm I'm very interested
• 28:25
  and excited to see what more can do and what he brings to the
• 28:29
  table, because like I said, I mean, he's a he's a proven
• 28:31
  coach. Like I'm going to be mad no
• 28:33
  matter what just because that's what I want to be right now
• 28:35
  until I see something. But I do know that I will say
• 28:40
  the coaching staff that we have, I feel like is better at just
• 28:45
  about every facet than we were last year probably.
• 28:50
  But this is probably Brent Prize best coaching staff in my mind.
• 28:55
  So, you know, as a whole. So I'm, I'm interested man.
• 29:02
  It is and and you mentioned about the run game.
• 29:05
  I mean, again, this is vanilla and take credit what you will,
• 29:08
  but we did average a little over four and a half, 4.7 to carry
• 29:12
  the kid from Coastal ran good. Bennett ran best.
• 29:16
  Yeah, Braden Bennett, like 75 yards on 11 carries.
• 29:23
  But again, it's so weird because you know he's probably not going
• 29:26
  to get that many carries in the game.
• 29:28
  Right. No and.
• 29:30
  It's probably going to be Stewart and probably would have
• 29:32
  a little bit of Hawkins and Bennett.
• 29:35
  It's going to be probably all over the place.
• 29:37
  So you'll. Mix, you'll mix in Coney and
• 29:40
  Mason behind him, but I mean it's going to mostly be Stewart
• 29:43
  and. Hawkins Yeah.
• 29:45
  So again, we don't know. We didn't see effectively what
• 29:50
  we probably wanted to see from the run game because without
• 29:55
  Kyron, without Pop would have in that element of the quarterback
• 29:58
  run, which we know is going to happen.
• 30:00
  You don't know what it's going to do.
• 30:01
  And we know the defense in some ways was playing vanilla, and
• 30:04
  we'll talk about that in a little while.
• 30:05
  But what did kind of pop was you can always see the difference
• 30:11
  between me watching like film and with somebody or things like
• 30:17
  that, with somebody who knows what's going on is wide
• 30:19
  receivers are easy to watch. You can see, oh, these are the
• 30:22
  routes they're running. Oh, you know, he just went, you
• 30:24
  know, that was a double post route with a little drag behind
• 30:27
  it or a little in routed behind it.
• 30:30
  And I think Brian, you know, obviously the big play was Cam
• 30:35
  Selden for maiden Green Kim Selden showing his athleticism,
• 30:38
  showing his speed downfield. But in your eyes, who else
• 30:45
  popped in that and was there anything as you were watching me
• 30:48
  and probably very vanilla offense that you kind of like
• 30:51
  like, oh, I like that, I like that.
• 30:53
  Let me if if we can do things like that with the full core,
• 30:57
  we're going we're going to probably move the ball some this
• 31:00
  year. Yeah, but I both greens look
• 31:02
  pretty solid, even though they didn't necessarily get a ton of
• 31:05
  action. You're looking at how they were
• 31:09
  doing like blocking. I was impressed with Donovan
• 31:11
  Green outside. He did, he did pretty well with
• 31:14
  the with the blocking. So I mean, we saw a lot of that.
• 31:16
  We got to evaluate that a little bit.
• 31:20
  We saw Selden on the wheel with the double pass from Aiden
• 31:23
  Green. You know, that was that was the
• 31:25
  home run play. Saw Wiggins out there.
• 31:28
  He looked pretty good, pretty solid.
• 31:30
  I mean, he, I know he, he kind of bobbled that, that diving
• 31:34
  catch that ended up in the pick 6.
• 31:37
  But I thought he, I mean, he made a, he made a really good
• 31:40
  dive to try to get that. That was a pretty poorly thrown
• 31:42
  ball that, you know, was almost a catch there, unfortunately,
• 31:45
  and went the other way. Yeah, route concepts.
• 31:48
  We saw a lot of, you know, drags, shallow ends, hitches,
• 31:55
  and then you're going to take some deeper shots off of that.
• 31:57
  So it's going to be a lot of stuff kind of in that, you know,
• 32:01
  3 to 7 yard range with the catch.
• 32:04
  And the thing that I saw a lot is that there were a lot of
• 32:08
  those that were open that the quarterback didn't get to for
• 32:14
  one reason or another. And some of it was happy feet,
• 32:17
  some of it was just not getting through progressions quickly
• 32:21
  enough. So, yeah, there was a lot of
• 32:23
  opportunities and a lot of yards that were left on the field in
• 32:27
  the passing game that you know, if if you've got a pop out
• 32:30
  there, if you've got a Kyron out there, you might end up seeing a
• 32:35
  little bit more on the stat sheet than you saw from this
• 32:37
  wide receiver group. Definitely.
• 32:40
  Only a couple passes behind the line of scrimmage.
• 32:42
  Josh, don't worry. Don't worry.
• 32:43
  Not too many, unfortunately. One of them got sniffed out real
• 32:46
  quick by Knowledge Harold, who we'll talk about in a little
• 32:49
  bit. He had, he had himself a pretty
• 32:50
  good game. Yeah, I heard.
• 32:52
  And so just like Brian was saying, so pretty much the two
• 32:55
  quarterbacks we had in the game for the most part, right, were
• 33:00
  supposed to be seniors in high school.
• 33:02
  So Brandon and and Ryan is supposed to be in high school,
• 33:06
  right? Yeah, for about 2/3 of the game
• 33:08
  that that's the guys that were in there.
• 33:10
  So I mean, you know, you're going to get what you're going
• 33:13
  to get there, but and we need our guys to be healthy moving in
• 33:16
  if we want to make some noise moving into the next year.
• 33:21
  But Ryan got to hit the nail on the head.
• 33:24
  Like you said, if you had the top two guys, you may have got
• 33:28
  to see a little bit more out of the, you know, wide receiver
• 33:31
  room. And the wide receiver room's
• 33:33
  been banged up as well. You know, you got some of the
• 33:35
  wide receivers that aren't there as well right now.
• 33:37
  So I'm interested just to see, you know, what route they go.
• 33:43
  How are they used to Kahi, you know, things like that cheer.
• 33:47
  You know, I, I, I'm very interested to see what they do
• 33:50
  with that room and who is going to step up to, you know, be that
• 33:55
  third guy or that fourth guy and stuff like that.
• 33:58
  And I did, I didn't watch much of the game.
• 34:01
  I haven't watched much of it because like I said it, it, it
• 34:03
  doesn't really matter to me right now.
• 34:05
  And I don't want to just be on that critiquing because I'm mad.
• 34:08
  But I did see the, you know, and, and hear about and see the
• 34:13
  the pick that Wiggins bobbled. And for him being a young player
• 34:21
  man, it it it's going to be so good when he can make those
• 34:24
  plays because that's going to be taking the next step for him.
• 34:26
  You know what I'm saying? Like he's going to be fighting
• 34:28
  to get playing time, going to be fighting to get on the field.
• 34:32
  So when he gets to the level where he can pull those 5050
• 34:37
  balls in, it's going to help the team, but also going to help
• 34:40
  him. So it's interested just to see,
• 34:43
  you know, what happens moving forward through the summer,
• 34:46
  who's going to step up? Because you know, it always
• 34:48
  happens. Somebody's going to stay the
• 34:49
  same, somebody's going to step up, somebody's going to fall
• 34:52
  off, somebody's going to get injured.
• 34:53
  Don't want them to be injured, but I'm interested to see kind
• 34:57
  of how those kids and how that room progresses.
• 35:00
  All right, let me Sheldon's looking up something real quick.
• 35:04
  Hopefully you can find the next couple minutes.
• 35:06
  But I want to ask you all this because last year, do you all
• 35:09
  know who our leading receiver was?
• 35:13
  Mason, Who was it? Was it Jay Lane?
• 35:15
  Jaylen Lane. The only catches he had.
• 35:18
  Probably 35. 39 So here's my question for y'all is with this
• 35:26
  new offense coming in, how many the the leading receiver this
• 35:33
  year will have how many receptions?
• 35:34
  Because I'm, I'm gonna throw it back.
• 35:35
  Don't look at Auburn because to Tally's point, that won't fill
• 35:39
  up Montgomery's offense at Auburn.
• 35:40
  He got hijacked last time he coached A collegiate football
• 35:44
  team. His top three guys were as
• 35:47
  follows. 7653 and 37 and it was too tight at 37.
• 35:53
  So y'all think about it real quick.
• 35:55
  I'll, I'll, I'll I'll I'm gonna let Sheldon go last.
• 35:58
  He actually Sheldon go first. How many receptions will the
• 36:01
  leading wide receiver have this year?
• 36:06
  35 he's. Gonna go 35.
• 36:08
  He's going. He's staying.
• 36:08
  Low tally. I'd probably say 47.
• 36:15
  Let's go with 52. That's a.
• 36:17
  That's a nice round. Number.
• 36:18
  Oh, that's your favorite number? Anybody see?
• 36:21
  I'm, I'm leaning with Brian here because if you look at the
• 36:23
  offenses here and a it's balanced.
• 36:26
  That's the first thing everybody says.
• 36:28
  He's a past heavy guy. No, he's not.
• 36:30
  Most of the time about 400 past attempts, about 400 rush
• 36:33
  attempts. So it's pretty balanced.
• 36:36
  And I think again, from what Brian's describing, think about
• 36:39
  some of those easy underneath routes, drag routes, shallow
• 36:42
  ends, you'll see him where he'll have hookup guys out in the
• 36:44
  flats. I'm tempted to say maybe plus
• 36:48
  52, Brown, maybe almost 60. Because if you think a guy like
• 36:52
  Donovan Green, who's played for like 14 years in collegiate
• 36:57
  football, which is pretty impressive that he's been able
• 36:59
  to do that, he's somebody said he needs to shave the mustache.
• 37:04
  Somebody make Ashley and shave the mustache.
• 37:06
  I'm going to go pit him because that mustache is on point.
• 37:09
  In my opinion. It is That thing is
• 37:12
  distinguished. It looks beautiful.
• 37:15
  Like keep, keep the mustache. But if you think somebody like a
• 37:18
  Donovan Green who's been at weight for a few years and you
• 37:22
  know his skill set and then you start thinking about well,
• 37:24
  Chand, anything about Selden and you think about all these guys.
• 37:29
  It's like, I think there is someone, if we run the offense
• 37:36
  that we should run. If we were on the offense that
• 37:39
  we should run, then I think somebody could wind up with
• 37:45
  close to 60. That's just my opinion, like
• 37:49
  understanding it. And I kind of again, I look at
• 37:51
  Donovan Green who is down in wakes offense.
• 37:56
  I think he might be the guy, but it I just feel like it there is
• 38:00
  going to be someone that does something crazy with receptions
• 38:03
  next year. Yeah, I feel like, I feel like
• 38:06
  just me. And again, man, I promise you,
• 38:11
  I'm not like wishing anything on nobody but somebody who's been
• 38:14
  injured. It's kind of they're injury
• 38:17
  prone. I don't want to use that word,
• 38:18
  but like I can only judge the future by the past for the most
• 38:21
  part. So you've been getting injured
• 38:23
  most of the time. Like I don't want to say this is
• 38:26
  going to be your year. You're not going to get injured.
• 38:28
  I just got to have in my head that what will we do if this
• 38:32
  person isn't able to finish the season or this person has to
• 38:35
  miss some games? So in my opinion, the person, if
• 38:39
  I'm going to think about who would be the leading receiver,
• 38:42
  it's got to be Aiden Green. You know, it's got to be Aiden
• 38:44
  Green. He's got to be the guy.
• 38:46
  He's going to be the most versatile.
• 38:47
  He's going to be the one who has taken the most snaps at Virginia
• 38:53
  Tech. It's probably going to be the
• 38:54
  one the coaches rely on most, even though I know he did get
• 38:57
  new, you know, new coaching, but the head coach is still the
• 39:01
  same. So Aiden Green is probably going
• 39:04
  to be the guy that they rely on the most unless somebody just
• 39:07
  gets open and we're able to get them the ball, you know, all
• 39:11
  comes down the offensive line. We know all that.
• 39:13
  But I can say you have some guys that you can use different ways
• 39:18
  this year. I just hope they use them right.
• 39:20
  Because if you use a guy like Brody Adams, when he come back,
• 39:26
  Keelan Adams, don't kill me. Keelan Adams.
• 39:31
  Keelan Adams, when he comes back, right, I see it watching
• 39:36
  him in the bowl game when he took that, you know, when he
• 39:39
  took that pass, it's like he or that end of round, it's like
• 39:43
  he's faster than that. Like I've seen him run a lot of
• 39:46
  routes and I've seen him run. He's faster than well, I didn't
• 39:48
  know he was having knee problems.
• 39:50
  You know, he wasn't 100%. So when you get a kid like that
• 39:55
  or even Takah Heath, Kah Heath is real, you know, quick twitch,
• 40:00
  you get him in a little bit of space, he can do some things.
• 40:03
  So those are going to be some guys that may eat up some, you
• 40:08
  know, 10 yard or 10:10 passes around the around the line of
• 40:15
  scrimmage. But also you got to have
• 40:17
  somebody who can take the top off.
• 40:19
  So who did we use to take the top off last year?
• 40:22
  Any of y'all? Felton.
• 40:25
  Felton and yeah, Felton. So in in my opinion, nothing
• 40:31
  wrong with Felton, but Felton isn't even your fastest guy.
• 40:34
  Like that's not your take the top off guy.
• 40:37
  We never put Jay Lane in the position and again, the
• 40:41
  quarterback didn't have much time to throw the ball, but Jay
• 40:44
  Lane's a four two guy. Hey, you just run and let's see
• 40:47
  if we can throw it to you. We didn't do that a lot.
• 40:50
  Like even when they were talking about it during the combine, it
• 40:52
  was like, well, Virginia Tech didn't use them to do this a
• 40:55
  lot. But he's he's super fast.
• 40:56
  And again, he was hurt as well. But I'm just hoping with all
• 41:03
  this rambling, I'm just hoping that the new offensive
• 41:06
  coordinator comes in and uses the pieces where they need to be
• 41:09
  used. I'm OK with each guy getting 10
• 41:12
  catches if they're productive, 10 catches.
• 41:16
  Put this guy here, let him do what he does.
• 41:18
  Good. Put this guy here, let him go do
• 41:21
  what he does. Cam Selton, right.
• 41:24
  He's a track guy that came from running at or from being a
• 41:28
  running back. He's probably not going to be
• 41:30
  the most crisp route runner, but he should be one of the fastest
• 41:34
  guys on the team. Probably going to put him on a
• 41:37
  deep ride and see if we can throw him the ball and not try
• 41:40
  to put him on some complicated this and that.
• 41:43
  I don't know man, y'all know how I feel about our old offensive
• 41:47
  coordinator so. We go with that stuff, all
• 41:49
  right, Sheldon, break it to us. So does Phillip Montgomery
• 41:53
  offenses. How many?
• 41:54
  What's the percentages behind the line of scrimmage?
• 41:57
  So I had to reduce the the number of attempts because they
• 42:01
  they throw so infrequently behind line of scrimmage.
• 42:04
  So the last two years at Tulsa where Montgomery had control the
• 42:07
  offense, Davis Brin was dead last among all all FBS
• 42:12
  quarterbacks and percentage of throws behind the line.
• 42:14
  So it's around 5.6% they do not throw behind the line.
• 42:20
  Davis Davis Brin was our quarterback.
• 42:23
  He was pretty good. They got injured at the cell end
• 42:26
  of that 22 seasons, but pretty put up some pretty, you know,
• 42:28
  big numbers. They pass a lot, but they just
• 42:30
  don't go behind the line. So it was kind of, yeah, yeah,
• 42:34
  5.6% for for Joshua, Wisconsin. So about one out of every, I
• 42:38
  guess 20 rows. So which isn't really, I mean.
• 42:42
  That's a big switch out for what we saw from from T bows, yeah.
• 42:45
  Yeah, you don't say like and it and it gets to what our friend
• 42:48
  Chris Coleman was saying, which is like, we don't necessarily
• 42:50
  know how well Montgomery fits our personnel.
• 42:54
  So like Kyron, a guy like Kim, you know, at least in 2023, a
• 42:57
  lot of his his success was predicated on, you know, throws
• 43:00
  upon line of scrimmage, getting guys in space, using the seal
• 43:03
  guys using their speed on the perimeter and setting up big
• 43:06
  plays with blocking. But and they did some of the two
• 43:09
  last year, not as effectively, but that's that's the way Kyron
• 43:14
  was used effectively. So I don't know if we're going
• 43:17
  to how, how that kind of contrast is really going to
• 43:19
  going to mesh well next year. So that'll be interesting to
• 43:21
  see. So we, we saw a couple, like
• 43:24
  looking at the spring game tape, we saw really a couple that you
• 43:27
  would consider they were either behind the line or designed to
• 43:31
  be a behind the line of scrimmage plays.
• 43:33
  That I remember you had kind of a zone RPO that, yeah, you could
• 43:44
  really kind of drop out to the, the, the HVAC that was coming
• 43:47
  across got to that split zone RPO.
• 43:52
  Ultimately they didn't throw it, but that would have been a
• 43:54
  behind the line of scrimmage opportunity.
• 43:56
  And then they threw a swing pass.
• 43:58
  They got ate up by Knowledge Herald.
• 44:00
  That's the only two plays that I remember in the spring game that
• 44:03
  were like true behind the line of scrimmage designs.
• 44:07
  And I think something like that is probably what you're going to
• 44:09
  see from a behind a lot of scrimmage standpoint.
• 44:11
  There's not going to be a true scream.
• 44:15
  Look, you're definitely not going to get any screens to the
• 44:17
  tight end like we saw a plethora of under Tebow.
• 44:21
  So expect maybe like, you know, swings and maybe some of that
• 44:27
  RPO in the split zone kind of really being the, the only, you
• 44:32
  know, couple that you'll see from time to time.
• 44:34
  Obviously with the caveat that they might, you know, change it
• 44:37
  up and add a little additional color to that as as we get
• 44:40
  further into the playbook. Yeah, and then 111 real quick
• 44:44
  point, I just I'll put a cap right now.
• 44:46
  So I looked up for for Kyron Summers last year.
• 44:49
  We were good throwing behind the line in 2023, but 24 was really
• 44:52
  bad. We were we were dead last in the
• 44:54
  FBS and passer rating on throws behind the line.
• 44:56
  So for Brian, I don't know how much of that was, you know,
• 44:59
  maybe guys not hitting their blocks.
• 45:01
  How much of that was, you know, defense is starting to key on
• 45:03
  those on those plays more because I think we have full
• 45:05
  full year of film. You can kind of identify that.
• 45:08
  And so maybe maybe tech was predictable in terms of how they
• 45:11
  structure the passing game. That could have been the case.
• 45:13
  So again. Said that.
• 45:15
  I remember y'all saying that about, I don't say eight games
• 45:18
  of the season. It's like people.
• 45:21
  No, I think it was a combination of everybody saying Tebow did
• 45:24
  not build like you have these plays that are good, you can't
• 45:28
  keep just going to that. You have to put new stuff in.
• 45:32
  Or what you just said right there happened, Shelton, where
• 45:34
  you go from a solidly successful team on passes behind a line of
• 45:39
  scrimmage to Jesus Christ, we can't get anything done behind
• 45:42
  the line of scrimmage where last year we we throw a pop pass, we
• 45:45
  get 15 yards. This year we can't do anything.
• 45:47
  So. I like screens.
• 45:50
  I mean, I know Josh doesn't, but I like screens.
• 45:53
  But I was, I was screamed out. I was screamed out.
• 45:57
  Well, because it was the same screens all the time, it wasn't
• 46:01
  variations. Yeah.
• 46:03
  I mean try to hide them. We just tried it out there.
• 46:08
  It looked like my son's team was playing.
• 46:11
  They had him playing quarterback telling him, hey, throw the ball
• 46:14
  to 72. Hey, throw the ball to 10.
• 46:16
  I'm like, that ain't no freaking offense.
• 46:19
  They the other team probably hears you.
• 46:21
  You know, you're supposed to be a, you're supposed to be a high
• 46:24
  level college football coach and team.
• 46:29
  We didn't look like that. I think Shelton hit the nail on
• 46:32
  the head when he said something about, I don't know how much of
• 46:35
  it was predicated on passing. I mean on blocking.
• 46:38
  Let me tell you, all of it was predicated on blocking, which we
• 46:42
  didn't do good. You know, the people we had
• 46:44
  blocking wasn't blocking worth the shit at all, ever, ever.
• 46:51
  We were stepping on the quarterback and guess what?
• 46:55
  I'm all for a coach changing his system to fit his players.
• 47:01
  That's what I think a good coach is.
• 47:03
  Not an Alabama fan. I'm a Nick Saban fan.
• 47:06
  Nick Saban would change offense or defense to fit his players.
• 47:10
  Y'all remember when Alabama used to turn around and run the ball
• 47:12
  like a? 100 * a.
• 47:14
  Game and then they start getting these quarterbacks that could
• 47:17
  move and throw and throw on the run and do all this stuff and
• 47:21
  Alabama fans will steal. I was like, you know what, man,
• 47:24
  that's a good coach. He hired some people who trained
• 47:27
  with the times. I want to see that done.
• 47:29
  And then if your players ain't getting it done, it's OK to sit
• 47:32
  them down. Hey, buddy, you can't throw the
• 47:35
  ball. You're a quarterback.
• 47:36
  Come over here and watch the game with me.
• 47:39
  You got the best seats in the house.
• 47:41
  Let's put this kid in and see what he can do.
• 47:43
  That's what I think should happen, but I'm not the coach.
• 47:46
  I ain't making millions of dollars.
• 47:48
  So hoping that's what they do. All righty.
• 47:53
  So there's a little bit of the offense and what we've seen.
• 47:55
  Obviously we we got to wait months now, but let's flip over
• 48:00
  to the defense because the defense had a highly successful
• 48:03
  day. Because they it won't.
• 48:05
  Many people who weren't aren't going to be starters that were
• 48:07
  not there. Like they were full in force.
• 48:10
  They were running extra vanilla because Brian, I believe you or
• 48:14
  Robbie mentioned like they mean blitz.
• 48:17
  Like they didn't even do blitzes, which we know.
• 48:19
  They had a handful of zone blitzes.
• 48:21
  That's about all they did. They didn't bring any like heavy
• 48:24
  pressures on on passing downs or anything like that.
• 48:27
  Usually if they it was more if they brought pressure, they were
• 48:32
  essentially trading out who was coming and who wasn't they, but
• 48:35
  they were still only rushing 4, maybe 5 at the most.
• 48:40
  So yeah, it was pretty. It was pretty vanilla.
• 48:44
  True. All right, let's get into it.
• 48:46
  Let's just talk about obviously everybody's focused on the
• 48:49
  safeties. Brian, you were there, you saw
• 48:53
  it in person. You you looked at a little bit
• 48:55
  of the, the game. What's this, What's this?
• 49:00
  Who's the who's the best of the all the guys that we brought in?
• 49:04
  Yeah, looking at that safety group, Christian Ellis has stood
• 49:08
  out to me as looking the best. He's going to be a ball hawk
• 49:16
  when when I when I look at him, I saw him.
• 49:18
  There was one where he jumped around and Davi almost threw it
• 49:24
  and he he pulled it back, ended up taking a sack and but he was
• 49:28
  going to be there. He was ready to it was it would
• 49:29
  have been a pick six. It would have been it would have
• 49:31
  been a beautiful thing if if Davi would have thrown that one.
• 49:35
  He looked really good. He was in in in every place he
• 49:38
  needed to be that I could tell. And he did a good job, as good
• 49:43
  of a job in coverage as he did in in hell in assisting in the
• 49:47
  run game. So he's definitely the guy that
• 49:51
  I think is going to be the most impact player of the new guys on
• 49:53
  the defense so far as far as we're the safety position is
• 49:56
  concerned. All right, and then what did it
• 49:59
  look like what we mixing and matching And you know it's
• 50:03
  pretty much is this going to be all the new guys with Quinn
• 50:07
  Reddish that pretty much going to be the room.
• 50:10
  That's what I'm thinking. I mean, so we, we really saw
• 50:12
  five guys out there. We saw Ellis and Flowers kind of
• 50:15
  in Group 1. Koval and Cash were in Group 2.
• 50:19
  Johnson mixed in there. When Reddish is healthy, he's
• 50:22
  going to mix in there. Obviously Johnson is no longer
• 50:24
  in that group. But if that's probably the five
• 50:26
  that we're looking at, we're looking at Ellis, Flowers,
• 50:28
  Koval, Cash with, with Reddish kind of mixing in there as well.
• 50:31
  I don't know whether he'll be in Group one or Group 2 or kind of
• 50:35
  mixing in with Group 2, but he'll be in that mix as well
• 50:38
  all. Right now, let's talk about the
• 50:40
  cover stuff because I know you looked at it and Robbie saw it
• 50:44
  and we tried a little bit about it.
• 50:46
  I think the one thing that has me probably excited about the
• 50:49
  defense is it's a disguise defense.
• 50:54
  And I remember Robbie messaged me after he saw spring game or
• 50:57
  messaged me. And you, Brian, he's like, yeah.
• 50:59
  He's like, they look like they're in Cover 2 shell right
• 51:01
  here. And the next thing you know,
• 51:04
  they in Cover 30, they're, oh, they're going to run a single
• 51:07
  high and the next thing you know, they're in Cover 2.
• 51:10
  How did that look? Because it looks from the way
• 51:14
  you described it to me and the way Robbie was describing it,
• 51:17
  Tally, I know you haven't watched as much, but from you
• 51:20
  playing it seems like that back end is almost we can show you
• 51:25
  anything, but we can get to whatever we want to confuse you.
• 51:31
  Yeah, when I when I was looking at it, it, it was really, I
• 51:35
  think, I think we're going to call some teams some problems.
• 51:38
  I think also, you know, with with adding that additional
• 51:42
  complexity to the coverage, you know, you're at risk that if
• 51:48
  somebody doesn't get a call or somebody isn't quite where they
• 51:50
  need to be, you know, you blow a coverage.
• 51:54
  But what I'm seeing is that there's going to be a lot of
• 51:58
  opportunities for us to confuse some quarterbacks and I like
• 52:04
  that there. It looks like it's a very
• 52:07
  simplistic way of disguising the coverage because it's it's
• 52:13
  usually just a it's it's kind of a replace situation or either
• 52:17
  you got a match call and depending on where where things
• 52:20
  go, you know, one guy can pick up pick up the the wide out and
• 52:23
  and stay with him there. There was a lot of interesting
• 52:27
  ways that they mixed in the coverages.
• 52:28
  I mean, we saw a lot of cover three.
• 52:30
  You just some cover 2, some cover one.
• 52:32
  They went to, you know, cover 6 a couple times.
• 52:35
  But I mean, I think majority, we're going to see two and get 3
• 52:40
  and then three and get 2. That's kind of going to be the,
• 52:43
  the bread and butter. But I, I, I think that's going
• 52:47
  to cause some guys, some problems, especially because we,
• 52:51
  when you mix in the zone blitz with that, I think that that's
• 52:54
  going to cause quarterbacks some headaches because they're,
• 52:56
  they're now having to adjust their brain of where they want
• 52:59
  to go with the football because the coverage is shifted up.
• 53:01
  And now they got a pressure coming from here that they
• 53:03
  didn't see. Josh said.
• 53:06
  Josh says this what Ellis does. The broken wrist set him back.
• 53:12
  Somebody broke their wrist. When did he break his wrist?
• 53:16
  I haven't heard anything about that.
• 53:18
  Yeah, I ain't known about that. Hey.
• 53:21
  Drop the link Josh for us if. I mean, I, I don't think it sets
• 53:26
  him back too much. I mean, usually a wrist.
• 53:28
  But have you heard about it? I haven't.
• 53:31
  I haven't either. Usually that's a four to six
• 53:33
  week recovery, but I don't know. I mean, it might, he might not
• 53:36
  be in summer workouts the way you want him to, but I think
• 53:40
  you'll be good to go for the fall.
• 53:42
  Who said? Who did French say was trash?
• 53:45
  French said somebody was garbage.
• 53:47
  Trench hated cash, no. No, no, I don't think.
• 53:50
  It was, I thought it was flowers.
• 53:51
  I thought it was flowers. Flowers.
• 53:53
  Flowers. That's the guy.
• 53:54
  That's the key from Rice, right? Rice, yeah.
• 53:57
  What do you look like, Brian? I mean, I thought he looked
• 53:59
  pretty good. I mean, he did look bad.
• 54:01
  He's doing a lot, lot of the he's he's playing deeper more
• 54:04
  often than not. So like when he when he's back
• 54:08
  in coverage, he's playing deeper or he's matching up in man.
• 54:11
  French they on your ass Well, I wasn't on your ass buddy.
• 54:16
  He is going to prove you wrong. Got to pick you up in his locker
• 54:20
  right now. He taking a.
• 54:22
  Locker. He snapped the picture.
• 54:24
  Here in the show, watch the. Podcast.
• 54:28
  He's like, all right bet. We have a new.
• 54:32
  Locker room yet it's coming. It's coming.
• 54:35
  I've heard that for three years though, I think.
• 54:38
  It's true this year. That's why I was.
• 54:40
  Asking we we edging the fuck out of this locker room.
• 54:42
  What are we doing? We keep pulling it back for we
• 54:46
  keep pulling it back for NIO money.
• 54:48
  We're going to do it this year. Picture going to be up in that
• 54:50
  new locker room. Buddy boy there.
• 54:54
  You go, Brian, you mentioned Harold couple times playing the
• 54:58
  nickel. We know IBM is the nickel guy
• 55:01
  too. I mean is is that base do?
• 55:07
  You think, I mean, we were in nickel pretty much the whole
• 55:10
  game, which I mean against the spread look, it makes sense.
• 55:16
  Like you're, you're that's kind of what you expect.
• 55:21
  You know, we we switched up the front a little bit.
• 55:24
  Sometimes it was more that true, you know, 24 look, sometimes it
• 55:28
  was a it was an odd look with a hanger.
• 55:32
  So it just kind of depended on what they were going.
• 55:36
  But I mean, the back end was pretty consistent there.
• 55:39
  Yeah, you had IBM Brown Murray was kind of the first nickel out
• 55:43
  there. But knowledge Harold was was the
• 55:45
  number two and I was really impressed with the way he played
• 55:48
  in the spring game. I ain't been watching it.
• 55:51
  I know he was going to be a dog. Supposed to be in high school
• 55:54
  too. Yeah, yeah.
• 55:56
  I mean, he was out there and he was, he was making some plays.
• 56:00
  He was where you're supposed to be under control.
• 56:03
  Didn't look like he was, you know, a guy that was going, you
• 56:07
  know, overrun a play or anything like that.
• 56:09
  He he did really well. All right.
• 56:13
  Obviously the news you mentioned John, Braylon Johnson being on
• 56:17
  here, Brendan Johnson now in the portal, I mean.
• 56:23
  It's. In my shock, no, because of
• 56:27
  everything that happened with the change.
• 56:29
  But it's also it it's that point to where eventually you got to
• 56:34
  be able to play, which I think Braylon Johnson is going to be
• 56:36
  able to play college football somewhere.
• 56:38
  But I I think no longer somebody think about this.
• 56:44
  It's like we're, we're not going to just save a spot just because
• 56:48
  of where you went to high school or who your daddy is or.
• 56:52
  I I think you can give a show me offer and, and let them get on
• 56:55
  campus and show what they can do, but you're not going to hold
• 56:57
  it for four years. There you go.
• 57:01
  Just because and you know, looking at that, I mean, you
• 57:04
  know, the thing the concern that we had with Braylon Johnson
• 57:08
  coming in is that he was kind of a tweener.
• 57:10
  You know, he's a he's a cornerback that, you know, we
• 57:15
  essentially had at safety wasn't quite as fast as fleet of foot
• 57:21
  as you would like to see from from a corner, kind of wasn't as
• 57:25
  physical and as good doing the things that you have to do with
• 57:29
  the safety that we wanted to see, especially.
• 57:33
  I mean, when we look at coming up and making plays in the run
• 57:37
  game. I mean there, there was a lot of
• 57:39
  a lot of whiffs from Johnson in that last year.
• 57:43
  You know, we we saw a couple things that that that went on in
• 57:46
  the spring game as well. It's just one of those things
• 57:49
  where at at some point, if you're not moving up the depth
• 57:51
  chart, you got to make a decision.
• 57:53
  And and I think, you know, some, some conversations were had that
• 57:55
  said, hey, you're going to be you're going to be the sixth
• 57:58
  guy. And it you know, you, you're
• 58:00
  already, you know, working on your third year in this program.
• 58:04
  What we looking at here? Said the new locker rooms with
• 58:09
  wit will be the old locker room with wallpapered in Found your
• 58:13
  corner quotes. I hope so.
• 58:15
  Hey, I, I. Hope I do not, no.
• 58:21
  If anything's going to motivate them kids to play, it's going to
• 58:25
  be our quotes, man. It's going to be our quotes.
• 58:28
  Oh Lord that's what you want. We will live in infamy in that
• 58:33
  shitty ass locker room. This is something that I'll ask
• 58:36
  Curtis. I'm.
• 58:37
  Going to tell you, Can I say something?
• 58:39
  Go ahead, you. Always own one in the chat
• 58:41
  tonight. All of y'all.
• 58:43
  I mean y'all is on one go they. Ramped up.
• 58:45
  They ramped up. They all ramped up.
• 58:47
  Curtis, this is what I asked, though, because I don't know for
• 58:50
  sure. I have not been on Twitter for
• 58:53
  real. Or X or whatever you want to
• 58:54
  call it, X videos. I don't know what we called it
• 58:57
  today, but is Braylon Johnson is a grad transfer, right?
• 59:02
  Did he get his degree in like 3 years or two years?
• 59:04
  He got in 2 1/2. I think he did, Yeah.
• 59:08
  That's crazy. That's awesome for him though,
• 59:11
  to leave with a degree and leave us a grad transfer like that's,
• 59:15
  that's good. That's pretty good.
• 59:16
  That's that's damn good. But yeah, in in I'm on mute.
• 59:26
  It's like 30 of them quotes in the locker room.
• 59:28
  Right. All right, all.
• 59:32
  Right. Thankfully we don't have any
• 59:33
  more. We lost tally we.
• 59:34
  Lost Tally, you said? Brian, you're on mute, Brian.
• 59:43
  I mean, Curtis, Curtis, you're on mute.
• 59:45
  That's what I'm saying. No, you're not on mute, but I'm
• 59:48
  just saying. That's what y'all got to do.
• 59:50
  Well, it's the court over here. All right, real quick, kick the
• 59:53
  linebackers. McDonald and Fleming are gone.
• 59:57
  Same thing. Both McDonald's are gone.
• 1:00:00
  Cam Fleming's gone, tried to make the move to linebacker,
• 1:00:03
  didn't work out. But Brian, I think from what
• 1:00:05
  we've seen in reading, it's, it's pretty much Keller Woodson,
• 1:00:09
  George, George Balance, shout out George Balance and Kayla, I
• 1:00:15
  mean, Kayla Spencer, right? Hey, man.
• 1:00:19
  So, yeah, there there was There was some fun rotations at
• 1:00:21
  linebacker, you know, the usual suspects.
• 1:00:25
  She had Keller, you had Woodson. Hang on, where is?
• 1:00:28
  Where is the where? Where's the?
• 1:00:30
  Where's the? Oh, no, no.
• 1:00:32
  I got. I got.
• 1:00:32
  I got you I. Got you, Josh Young.
• 1:00:35
  Josh Young. Put it in there.
• 1:00:37
  Yeah, I'll find it. Anyway, three time spring ball
• 1:00:43
  MVP Jane Keller in the starting rotation at Mike Woodson playing
• 1:00:51
  the other backer there. He had Balance and Spencer in
• 1:00:54
  there as well. I wouldn't say concerned, but
• 1:01:01
  like I'd like one more in the portal.
• 1:01:04
  I think that's kind of the my big take away from seeing this
• 1:01:06
  group and I I think they will hold up just fine.
• 1:01:11
  But I don't think I, I think maybe even we'll see some
• 1:01:14
  additional, some better play compared to last year, But I'd
• 1:01:19
  still like to maybe get another body in that room that has some
• 1:01:23
  experience in the portal as we're moving forward.
• 1:01:26
  I think, you know, looking at the offers we're throwing out
• 1:01:28
  there, that's not the only I'm not the only person thinking
• 1:01:33
  that. Yeah, and I mean, I think,
• 1:01:37
  again, I think what you said, we can live with it, but it's depth
• 1:01:40
  is depth, right? And you know, Keller's gone
• 1:01:44
  after this year. I believe balance is gone after
• 1:01:46
  this year too. So if anything, bringing the
• 1:01:48
  other guy in you, you kind of are setting yourself up for the
• 1:01:52
  future And and I don't know, spring to me, fuck the spring
• 1:01:57
  portal. Springboard needs to go away.
• 1:01:59
  I'm just going to be real. Spring Portal needs to go away.
• 1:02:04
  You know, that's, that's just my feeling.
• 1:02:09
  You want to do it. It needs to be sometime after
• 1:02:11
  the bowl games, but after national championship, it starts
• 1:02:15
  here. It's like 2 weeks.
• 1:02:16
  That's it. Then do it.
• 1:02:18
  Spring Portal fucks too much shit up, which we're going to
• 1:02:21
  talk about later. All right, Sheldon, you're back.
• 1:02:25
  Sheldon, people are very worried about you out here, very worried
• 1:02:29
  about you that potentially did you get Tally's Internet?
• 1:02:34
  Are you? Are you on Tally's Internet?
• 1:02:36
  I did not get Tyson. I had to.
• 1:02:37
  I had to take care of some business, got some water and now
• 1:02:40
  I'm back. OK, let's go to defensive
• 1:02:46
  alignment because I think of again after safeties.
• 1:02:49
  The only thing we kind of don't know is what the defensive
• 1:02:52
  alignment looks like. Again, look in it and Shelton
• 1:02:56
  you, you, you wrote stuff on this, you've read about it.
• 1:02:59
  See if kiss can do anything. That's the whole thing.
• 1:03:02
  He does not care. He to me, he is not married to
• 1:03:04
  anyone idea. He's not married to anyone idea.
• 1:03:13
  Front looks, all this stuff which I really like because it's
• 1:03:19
  you have to play through the personnel you have there and
• 1:03:22
  from what it looked like on Saturday, 2 weeks ago, it's
• 1:03:27
  going to look like that this year.
• 1:03:29
  So y'all, we, we, we, we, we wrote some notes when we chatted
• 1:03:33
  with each other. What did y'all like seeing out
• 1:03:37
  of all this as far as the alignments go?
• 1:03:45
  I mean, I like that, that we're kind of adapting the, the
• 1:03:48
  alignment based on the, the way that the offense wants to attack
• 1:03:55
  us. So we we can, we can really be
• 1:03:59
  flexible to what what they do and take that away.
• 1:04:04
  I think that's, that's one of the benefits of being, being
• 1:04:07
  multiple is that you may not be a hammer at everything or at one
• 1:04:16
  specific thing, but you're like, all right, you're a drill at
• 1:04:20
  pretty much everything. Like you can, you can handle
• 1:04:21
  some stuff here, you can put some stuff in.
• 1:04:23
  So there's a, there's a benefit of not really having as many
• 1:04:30
  holes or weaknesses relative to what an offense is trying to do
• 1:04:35
  from a scheme standpoint. Again, the the downside is that
• 1:04:39
  you know, if you, if you are really good in one area, you
• 1:04:42
  know you lose a little bit of that, that high end in that
• 1:04:46
  specific spot, but you know you can, you can.
• 1:04:48
  It gives you a lot more flexibility with different
• 1:04:50
  looks, adapting to personnel a lot quicker and adapting to what
• 1:04:55
  a a certain scheme is going to throw at you.
• 1:04:58
  I got you and you go ahead and hit us up here.
• 1:05:03
  Who was where and did you like where everybody was or was it
• 1:05:07
  one of those things like is it? Should this guy really be on
• 1:05:10
  this? Say that one more time.
• 1:05:16
  So tell us who was where and is there anything you disagreed
• 1:05:19
  with? Was there anybody when you saw
• 1:05:21
  them line up at a certain technique, you were like, should
• 1:05:24
  he really be there right now? Or were you like, you know what
• 1:05:28
  makes sense, makes sense, got to live with it because of what you
• 1:05:31
  got? All right.
• 1:05:33
  So I mean, let's let's do a rundown of the defensive line
• 1:05:36
  real quick and kind of where they were, what they were in and
• 1:05:39
  things like that. And then I can talk about what I
• 1:05:41
  don't really agree with, I guess.
• 1:05:44
  So primarily what we had interior 2 I and then you had a
• 1:05:51
  A3 or A4 I opposite that on the inside kind of that wide 9 or a
• 1:05:58
  or an angled 7 look from the defensive ends.
• 1:06:02
  Typically depending on whether there was a tight end either
• 1:06:06
  overhang or in line on their side or not.
• 1:06:10
  You had Jonkum on one side, Burgos on the other.
• 1:06:13
  At at the the outside linebacker positions, Jonkum had his hand
• 1:06:17
  in the dirt about 50% of the time, maybe not quite that stand
• 1:06:22
  up the rest of the time. A lot of times handles in the
• 1:06:25
  dirt on those early downs. You know, Gilliam and Copeland
• 1:06:30
  were at the two I in the 3-4 I, you know, depending on the
• 1:06:34
  alignment, they're respectively in the first group.
• 1:06:38
  You had laws and Nash in the second group in those same
• 1:06:40
  spots. And then the third group was was
• 1:06:44
  Evans and Priester. And that's, that's kind of where
• 1:06:47
  I was like, hang on, we got you got you got Priester at the at
• 1:06:52
  the three and then you got Evans at the two.
• 1:06:57
  I was a little shocked to see that probably Priester was the
• 1:07:00
  one that impressed me the least in that group.
• 1:07:05
  I thought he was really good at eating up some blocks.
• 1:07:10
  He didn't really shed well. He wasn't going to be an impact
• 1:07:13
  player as far as like shoot the gap or anything like that.
• 1:07:16
  He's very much a guy that's going to eat blocks and let
• 1:07:19
  Woodson and Keller guys behind him feast a little bit, but he's
• 1:07:23
  not going to really be that dynamic player that we saw with
• 1:07:26
  Aeneas Peebles, right? So don't expect that from
• 1:07:29
  Priester, at least not this year.
• 1:07:33
  Copeland flashed a little bit more of that.
• 1:07:35
  Obviously he's he's higher up in the depth chart, but he flashed
• 1:07:39
  a little bit more of that. I was, I like seeing Laws mix in
• 1:07:43
  there with Nash. I think that's going to be a
• 1:07:45
  pretty good combination behind Gilliam and Copeland and seeing
• 1:07:50
  Evans get that much run, you know, this early in his career
• 1:07:54
  was, you know, promising as well for his future development.
• 1:07:57
  Well, Evans, y'all weren't. Y'all weren't on a couple weeks
• 1:08:01
  ago. Evans checked in 62290.
• 1:08:05
  That's and again, that kid supposed to be going to prom
• 1:08:08
  next week, not be that 6290 coming in.
• 1:08:13
  He's got the chip because remember, he won the Under
• 1:08:16
  Armour stuff up in Maryland. Didn't get bumped at all where
• 1:08:19
  he should have probably been a four-star and that is what it
• 1:08:23
  is. But Speaking of defensive line,
• 1:08:26
  let's let's pivot real quick to this.
• 1:08:29
  One of the McDonald's twins is out.
• 1:08:30
  But today we got a commitment from Cody Huseman.
• 1:08:35
  Defensive tackle pronunciation to be determined but.
• 1:08:37
  You know, that's what I see it as if anybody's got it put in
• 1:08:40
  ChatGPT and make it happen. But defensive tackle, I think
• 1:08:46
  Brian, when, when I, first of all, Tally got mad and it's
• 1:08:50
  like, I need someone I know that's the first thing you
• 1:08:54
  texted Tally. He got upset about it.
• 1:08:57
  Tally. Tally was conflicted because
• 1:08:58
  Tally's like we finally got a green box there.
• 1:09:01
  Shout out Kobe Crawford. We finally got a green box, but
• 1:09:03
  it's not somebody I know. I want another neus peoples.
• 1:09:08
  I know that's going to be hard, but give me a proven guy.
• 1:09:12
  That's why I was at at that time.
• 1:09:14
  You know, I calmed down a little bit, but I'm still mad like if
• 1:09:18
  you want to go to the next level, you got to get some next
• 1:09:20
  level guys. This guy going to be a next
• 1:09:22
  level guy. And I'm excited about being
• 1:09:24
  Bale. You know, I'd like to see the
• 1:09:26
  I'd like to see the five twins on the field at the same time.
• 1:09:29
  I know he's well, he's not there yet, so that'll be good.
• 1:09:32
  You know, they got some good stuff going.
• 1:09:34
  Brian brought me back down to earth a little bit.
• 1:09:36
  It might have been Curtis. They have been doing they've
• 1:09:39
  done they've done pretty good in the portal.
• 1:09:41
  So I got to give them a little bit of leeway.
• 1:09:44
  You know, a lot of the people that we brought in through the
• 1:09:47
  portal, I think somebody even said it earlier talking about,
• 1:09:50
  you know, we wouldn't have got APR if we didn't have a portal
• 1:09:54
  at certain times, things like that.
• 1:09:56
  So, yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm excited to see what we can
• 1:10:03
  do if we go after anybody else who leaves, who stays, all of
• 1:10:07
  that stuff. We didn't kicked enough people
• 1:10:08
  off. We got some room.
• 1:10:09
  We better go after some people. Yeah, definitely.
• 1:10:12
  The big thing I'll say about him, I like his experience.
• 1:10:15
  I mean, he played 16 games last year.
• 1:10:18
  He played a bunch of games the year before and he red shirted a
• 1:10:22
  couple years ago and he's like 6-4.
• 1:10:25
  He's like 290. And I think, Brian, you made the
• 1:10:29
  point. I think, I can't remember where
• 1:10:31
  you put it, but you said this is just good for Priester because
• 1:10:35
  this gift, Priester, Priester now does not have to be forced
• 1:10:38
  into action. Priester can well a his.
• 1:10:43
  We know his weight in size now. Well, now it's like let's focus
• 1:10:46
  on technique with him, which is good, which is what needs to
• 1:10:49
  happen. With, and I think his movement
• 1:10:50
  too, like I think if he can get a little bit more explosive,
• 1:10:55
  like even if you know, and that may be sizing down even just a
• 1:10:59
  little bit from where he's at. But yeah, I think if he can get
• 1:11:04
  a little bit more explosive from working in the weight room
• 1:11:08
  doing, doing some conditioning, things like that, I think he
• 1:11:11
  could really, you know, make some noise.
• 1:11:12
  But I don't think he's quite there yet.
• 1:11:15
  This gives us some flexibility that really gives us, you know,
• 1:11:18
  at least five, maybe 6 guys if Evans continues to progress that
• 1:11:22
  you can kind of rely on in the middle there.
• 1:11:26
  Show me anything on him. I don't know if you looked up
• 1:11:28
  stats or anything about his play on PFF.
• 1:11:32
  Yeah, I just did. He was.
• 1:11:33
  So he was the 19th highest graded FCS interior lineman out
• 1:11:38
  of almost 500. So it's pretty good.
• 1:11:41
  You guys may recall Arias Nash, who we also signed a little
• 1:11:45
  while ago, the the DT from Mercer.
• 1:11:47
  He was the number he was #5 highest graded DT.
• 1:11:50
  So, so we got two of the top 20 FCS defensive tackles, which is
• 1:11:56
  pretty good. I mean, I know it's FCS, but
• 1:11:58
  like, you know, just reality is like, you know, when you're a
• 1:12:01
  program like Vt, you kind of got to find those, you know, those
• 1:12:03
  smaller school guys like those Simons in the rough.
• 1:12:05
  And I think I think the staff has done a good job of trying to
• 1:12:08
  get those guys that come from winning programs.
• 1:12:11
  You know that they kind of know, you know, just about that.
• 1:12:14
  They have kind of they have that work ethic and you know, have to
• 1:12:16
  kind of punch them with their way a little bit to get trying
• 1:12:19
  to get guys like that. So I think it's AI think it's a
• 1:12:21
  pretty good pick up. Sure.
• 1:12:23
  That's a great point to make is about the winning program thing
• 1:12:26
  because Mercer, what, 11 and three last year made it deep in
• 1:12:29
  the FCS playoffs. Obviously, you know, North
• 1:12:33
  Dakota State is the best of the FCS and last year I believe that
• 1:12:37
  they went, they won it last year, right?
• 1:12:39
  Yep, they won't beat Montana State.
• 1:12:41
  They beat Montana State, they were 14 and 2.
• 1:12:43
  So it's like, you know, they're good football.
• 1:12:47
  It it's effectively can they elevate to come to the highest
• 1:12:50
  level where everybody's just as good across from you.
• 1:12:53
  And I think again, tally, you mentioned a little bit earlier,
• 1:12:56
  that's the best thing about the portal now for these guys
• 1:12:59
  because these guys would never they would be looked at.
• 1:13:02
  But now if they come up and they absolutely ball this year at
• 1:13:07
  Tech, they're going to get drafted probably.
• 1:13:10
  You know, you think about like, like Jay Lane, as good as he was
• 1:13:14
  at Middle Tennessee, if he doesn't come to Tech.
• 1:13:17
  Same with Basil too. They don't get that opportunity.
• 1:13:20
  So I think it's pretty good. Brian, I know Bell did not play.
• 1:13:26
  I know Burgos, something happened, but he was looking
• 1:13:29
  good, did something and they were like, Nope, you ain't
• 1:13:32
  playing no more. You go over here and sit, but
• 1:13:37
  you're feeling OK. Between Burgos, Jonkum, Aysen,
• 1:13:41
  Steven James, Jeanette, Ben Bell, do you?
• 1:13:45
  Or, as always, go get an edge rusher.
• 1:13:48
  Don't matter. I mean, throw one more in there.
• 1:13:52
  You couldn't hurt. I I think, you know, you got
• 1:13:55
  Bell coming in. I think you might.
• 1:13:58
  Well, Bell's there. He he just hurt his shoulder.
• 1:14:01
  Yeah, but I'm saying as far as playing.
• 1:14:03
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, you know, he's, he's
• 1:14:05
  going to be somebody that you can count on, you know, come to
• 1:14:08
  fall. I'm I'm a little little
• 1:14:13
  concerned if, if we don't have maybe one more in there, though,
• 1:14:18
  because I like what I saw from Ace and I thought Jeanette he
• 1:14:21
  played a little bit better when he was kind of having to he was
• 1:14:25
  in that those those zone blitz looks.
• 1:14:27
  I I didn't see a ton of rush from him where where he's going
• 1:14:33
  to be some sort of impact player from a from an edge perspective.
• 1:14:37
  I think he could be a solid player, but I don't I don't
• 1:14:39
  think he's actually going to be be a big impact guy.
• 1:14:43
  You know, so you got three guys you feel like you can rely on
• 1:14:46
  Burgos, John Cumbell, you got Ace and Stevens that's coming
• 1:14:50
  along. And then you got Jeanette.
• 1:14:52
  That is probably a little more niche in terms of what he can do
• 1:14:56
  for you. So it it wouldn't hurt to get
• 1:14:58
  one more guy in that room that can kind of mix in with those
• 1:15:01
  guys all. Right so go go to home 3 or 247
• 1:15:06
  and look it forward and find an edge for us.
• 1:15:08
  Y'all cornerback room, last room I hit.
• 1:15:13
  I mean any from the look of the defense we're probably running.
• 1:15:17
  I mean we we've got IBM and I think the way you said knowledge
• 1:15:22
  played, I think it's going to be tough to keep him from getting a
• 1:15:27
  red shirt this year. I think the way you've mentioned
• 1:15:29
  how he played. But who else?
• 1:15:31
  Who else in that room? You've obviously got Lovis,
• 1:15:34
  Tomic Williams, Josh Spark did not play there is there's stuff
• 1:15:40
  saying he he might not be back for fall.
• 1:15:44
  We'll have to hear that when we see it.
• 1:15:47
  But who else got some run and who else did you like?
• 1:15:50
  And what about Lovett? Did is does Lovett look like he
• 1:15:55
  took that step? He looks like he took that step.
• 1:15:58
  I think he's definitely going to be easy stepped into that dog
• 1:16:01
  role in that room. I think the big question is, is
• 1:16:05
  there going to be other guys that can run with him at a
• 1:16:09
  consistent level where, you know, we don't get into
• 1:16:13
  situations where if one guy's down or especially if it is
• 1:16:15
  Lovett where we're, you know, behind the 8 ball, especially
• 1:16:21
  for if we're not going to have Clark, you know, come to fall.
• 1:16:23
  So I liked what I saw from IBM. He did blow the the double pass
• 1:16:28
  coverage there. You know, it was a bunch bunch
• 1:16:31
  wheel route from Selden. As soon as the first pass
• 1:16:35
  happened, he jumped it and, you know, seldom took off and to the
• 1:16:39
  races and and you know, Braylon Johnson was on the back end of
• 1:16:42
  that and didn't really do a good job of kind of getting over
• 1:16:44
  there from a safety perspective. Thomas Williams looked pretty
• 1:16:49
  good and no, no real big notes there.
• 1:16:54
  I tell you. JoJo Krim was probably the
• 1:16:58
  younger guy that probably popped off a little bit more than I
• 1:17:03
  expected. So keep an eye on JoJo Krim.
• 1:17:06
  Christian Williams got in the mix as well, Was fine.
• 1:17:10
  Not nothing impressive, but I'd say as far as like high ceiling
• 1:17:13
  guy, JoJo Krim of the younger guys is going to be the guy to
• 1:17:16
  keep an eye on. You heard a lot, heard a lot of
• 1:17:20
  good stuff about Krim just coming out of camp and things
• 1:17:24
  like that. So man, you got to you got to
• 1:17:27
  put the got to put the dogs on the field.
• 1:17:29
  You know, you got to burn some shirts this year.
• 1:17:30
  You got to put some people in and you know, put the best, the
• 1:17:36
  best talent that you have on the field to try to win games.
• 1:17:39
  So sometime the best talent is young talent.
• 1:17:43
  All right, y'all real quick, Andretti say you want to play
• 1:17:47
  games with y'all. Y'all get that?
• 1:17:48
  Down Andretti's in the house. Andretti's in the house.
• 1:17:53
  I think this is another room I like.
• 1:17:56
  I think you need one more just to feel good.
• 1:18:02
  Don't be, don't be, don't be mean to numbers.
• 1:18:05
  We're going to talk about the. Four.
• 1:18:06
  Hey man, we got we got some weird numbers.
• 1:18:08
  Here we always got weird numbers there we.
• 1:18:09
  Got junk of a 66. I mean, I guess that's fine.
• 1:18:14
  Got cream at 35. We don't have it.
• 1:18:16
  We don't have the the double fours outside anymore, Tally.
• 1:18:20
  Good, we don't need them. Well, we got a 35 somewhere
• 1:18:23
  running around back there now, so yeah, that ain't no better.
• 1:18:27
  He took up he he he took the mantle.
• 1:18:29
  He took the mantle. 44 is on a. And at least 35 is a safety
• 1:18:32
  number. Maybe not.
• 1:18:33
  Not a that's true. Not a linebacker number.
• 1:18:37
  All right. Obviously, we kind of went
• 1:18:40
  through it. We told you where we feel like
• 1:18:41
  we see with the portal and that's wide open right now.
• 1:18:45
  Over the next few days, one commit today, probably a few
• 1:18:48
  more coming in the next couple days.
• 1:18:50
  We'll see how they land. We'll probably discuss those
• 1:18:52
  transfers and the impacts on them.
• 1:18:54
  But let's flip over to the big portal shit that went down over
• 1:18:58
  the last couple weeks. And that's the Nikko.
• 1:19:00
  I am a lever situation. I don't know who wants to start,
• 1:19:05
  but if anybody would like to take the mantle and start with
• 1:19:09
  this situation and just give us your honest to God opinion about
• 1:19:14
  what happened. Tally this seems like you're
• 1:19:18
  you're bread and. Butter and you close to it too,
• 1:19:20
  Tally. Oh.
• 1:19:20
  Man, I don't know that just the portal is so crazy How look at
• 1:19:27
  things though I feel like, and this is going to sound crazy,
• 1:19:31
  this is going to sound crazy. So y'all just hang in there with
• 1:19:34
  me. A million dollars, $2,000,000
• 1:19:39
  whatever the numbers are $3,000,000.
• 1:19:42
  Would I love to have it at 39 years old?
• 1:19:44
  Yeah of course. But what these kids are trying
• 1:19:48
  to do with this NIL $2,000,000 ain't going to be shit.
• 1:19:52
  That's not going to change your family's life forever like you
• 1:19:56
  think. So you're chasing this, in my
• 1:19:59
  opinion, little bit of money when you can go and make the
• 1:20:03
  real money. And these coaches are
• 1:20:05
  fraternity, man. I just feel like these kids put
• 1:20:08
  theirself in bad spots and families put themselves in bad
• 1:20:11
  spots by playing that money game.
• 1:20:14
  And then when it comes down to doing, you know, NFL ratings and
• 1:20:20
  NFL interviews and things like that, what's going to be said in
• 1:20:23
  them back rooms? Hey, y'all, you might want to
• 1:20:26
  stay away from him. He's going to be, you know, he's
• 1:20:28
  not loyal. He's going to play your team for
• 1:20:30
  money, whatever the case may be. So I just wish people would be
• 1:20:35
  more careful with things like that.
• 1:20:37
  And then on the surface of this, just the surface, not even
• 1:20:41
  thinking that deep into it. It's like stuff coming out.
• 1:20:46
  He didn't want to play the the didn't want to play the playoff
• 1:20:50
  game. Asking for more money then
• 1:20:54
  wanting more money. Now.
• 1:20:56
  I probably would rather stick with Josh Hyper than the UCLAI
• 1:21:01
  don't even know who. Who is the UCLA coach?
• 1:21:06
  Curtis having to Google it? He don't.
• 1:21:07
  He don't fucking know was. It more or something or?
• 1:21:12
  I think you're. Right.
• 1:21:15
  All I'm saying is I've seen Hyper turn some good players
• 1:21:23
  into NFL players. I probably would want to stick
• 1:21:27
  with him and get the real money because the kid has talent so
• 1:21:31
  he's going to get itself to the next level with his talent for
• 1:21:34
  the most part. Long as he don't do nothing
• 1:21:36
  stupid and get hurt any of those things.
• 1:21:39
  I probably would want to stick out with a coach that I know has
• 1:21:43
  proven that he can get quarterbacks to the NFL so I can
• 1:21:46
  get the real life changing money and worry about the little money
• 1:21:50
  that you're getting now because if your talent can get you
• 1:21:54
  $2,000,000 in college, what can he get you in the NFL?
• 1:21:57
  Look at Cam Ward. Yep, pretty calm Ward man, Bet
• 1:22:00
  on the self, you know, put yourself in the right positions
• 1:22:04
  and probably going to be the first pick in the draft.
• 1:22:08
  What kind of money is that? Like that?
• 1:22:12
  I just wish these kids and this, these families would go back to
• 1:22:15
  knowing like that's the real goal.
• 1:22:17
  That's the life changing money there.
• 1:22:19
  But we're chasing this quick money and I just feel like that
• 1:22:24
  quick money is going to have some stipulations on it.
• 1:22:26
  Sooner or later they're going to start putting some stuff on that
• 1:22:29
  well, it's going to hurt some of these kids.
• 1:22:32
  And then my real opinion is, is fucking dumb.
• 1:22:35
  Stupid. It was dumb.
• 1:22:38
  Like this whole situation was stupid.
• 1:22:42
  She had many any feelings on this, as you and I, I don't know
• 1:22:45
  how much you get when Shelton's working.
• 1:22:47
  I don't know how much he gets to read into these situations and
• 1:22:49
  do all that. But anything on that?
• 1:22:52
  No, I read a lot with this. I, I say this every day because
• 1:22:55
  it's because I'm, I'm interested in like the, the politics and
• 1:22:58
  like the, the litigation aspect of this whole debate.
• 1:23:01
  You know, that's not the podcast and stuff.
• 1:23:03
  I mean, I could go on forever, but I would say just give, give
• 1:23:06
  my main thought. Like I'm a big, I'm a big free
• 1:23:08
  market guy. I think that Nico has his rights
• 1:23:11
  to bargain for what he feels it might be worth.
• 1:23:14
  I also think Tennessee has every right to make a financial
• 1:23:17
  decision in their best interest. And they decided to do that and
• 1:23:20
  they moved on. So to me, this is like the free
• 1:23:22
  market at work here. I know it's, you know, turbulent
• 1:23:25
  time, but I think this is just, you know, two parties deciding,
• 1:23:29
  you know, what's best. And ultimately, Nico, you know,
• 1:23:32
  screwed himself out of some money, or so it would seem.
• 1:23:34
  But I mean, that's the bet he made.
• 1:23:38
  So, you know, you make in life, you sometimes make decisions
• 1:23:40
  that don't turn out the way you want to.
• 1:23:41
  And you just got to learn from it.
• 1:23:43
  And, you know, that's his that's his right as an American.
• 1:23:46
  So I'm not super, you know, super rattled by, you know, this
• 1:23:52
  whole saga. Like I just, I, I think it's the
• 1:23:54
  free market at work. And I also think, you know, kind
• 1:23:57
  of like Joe Platt said, we don't necessarily know all the full
• 1:23:59
  details of everything, everything that transpired in
• 1:24:02
  the situation or why specifically Nico wanted to opt
• 1:24:04
  out at this particular time. So I, I know I don't have too
• 1:24:08
  much judgement on that part of it.
• 1:24:09
  But you know, I mean, it's just part of the, it's part of the,
• 1:24:12
  it's part of life. Like you, you, you move jobs
• 1:24:15
  because you think you might get a better deal.
• 1:24:16
  Maybe it doesn't work out. And that's just how, that's just
• 1:24:19
  how life goes. So I'm, I'm very much, you know,
• 1:24:21
  kind of a pragmatist when it comes to stuff, to stuff.
• 1:24:25
  Yeah. And I think when we talk about
• 1:24:27
  pragmatic approaches, if I'm in a good situation and I'm making
• 1:24:33
  good money, I'm going to have an offer in my hand before I step
• 1:24:39
  out on that. That's a pragmatic decision.
• 1:24:42
  And with as much tampering is already going on, if if you and
• 1:24:47
  your pops in particular weren't pushing things without getting
• 1:24:53
  something in writing or getting getting some sort of, you know,
• 1:24:56
  handshake deal before you start rattling cages like that, you
• 1:25:01
  put yourself in a bad situation. Because now you've got this,
• 1:25:06
  this kid gloves type of reputation where it's like, all
• 1:25:12
  right, is this tainted goods? Is this tainted goods?
• 1:25:15
  Like, you know, he pushed his way out of this.
• 1:25:17
  Is this going to be our fate too?
• 1:25:19
  Like you, I think the, the biggest problem with what he did
• 1:25:22
  and how he did it was that he didn't have a plan, a long term
• 1:25:29
  plan when when he started rattling the cages and I, you
• 1:25:34
  know, ultimately that landed him at UCLAA job that Chip Kelly
• 1:25:39
  said a coordinator, program coordinator role with the
• 1:25:43
  Raiders was was better than being the head coach at UCLA.
• 1:25:46
  So. Well, Ohio State first.
• 1:25:49
  Well, Ohio State first, but yeah.
• 1:25:50
  Ohio State first, Yeah, he's with the rated now.
• 1:25:55
  To me, it's all about what he thought he had leverage because
• 1:25:59
  he said there it's almost in the spring practice.
• 1:26:02
  I want $2,000,000 more. Whether they were shopping him
• 1:26:07
  or not, he went to them. You're going to give me $4
• 1:26:09
  million or Jim real quick, No, SEC cannot transfer with an SEC.
• 1:26:16
  That is a rule in their bylaws. They cannot transfer with them.
• 1:26:20
  That's why he went to UCLA. But to the point goes, he over
• 1:26:24
  leveraged himself. He thought they ain't gonna,
• 1:26:27
  they ain't gonna fucking let me go.
• 1:26:28
  We went to the playoffs last year.
• 1:26:29
  We were a good team last year and basically EIPL said Home
• 1:26:34
  slice. I've been coaching quarterbacks
• 1:26:36
  for about 15 years now. All of my get usually play
• 1:26:40
  pretty damn good. You're not worth the extra
• 1:26:44
  $2,000,000 and he screwed himself out of money and he's
• 1:26:47
  probably screwed himself to Tally's point tally.
• 1:26:50
  I looked it up. The first round draft pick Cam
• 1:26:53
  Ward's going to effectively get $43,000,000 with about 30 of it
• 1:26:58
  guaranteed. That's the point Tallies makes
• 1:27:01
  right there. 2,000,000 is nothing compared to 42.
• 1:27:06
  I'd love $2,000,000 right now in the tally's point.
• 1:27:09
  But forty $344,000,000, that's a that is a that is generational
• 1:27:15
  type of where literally it's not just your kids, it's your kids,
• 1:27:20
  kids that can keep living off that, living good, having a
• 1:27:24
  great life. So to me, he just tried to play
• 1:27:29
  the game and they would just like screw you mood.
• 1:27:32
  And that's the other issue with the college kids.
• 1:27:34
  To me, there's probably only about 5 or 6 players, like 5 or
• 1:27:38
  6 players. Seriously, that can say I want
• 1:27:42
  an extra $1,000,000 right now or I'm leaving and schools are
• 1:27:45
  going to give it to them so I can and.
• 1:27:48
  Then another, yeah, another thing too.
• 1:27:51
  When you talk about, you know, NRL, 'cause I'm, I'm, I'm on,
• 1:27:55
  I'm like, I don't want to have straddling the fence, but like
• 1:27:57
  I, I understand where it comes from from the organization
• 1:28:02
  standpoint. But also like I'm with Shelton,
• 1:28:04
  like I know these young men deserve to get certain things
• 1:28:09
  and it's their right to choose what they want to do.
• 1:28:12
  But I'm also looking at it from like my son, you know, now my
• 1:28:16
  son ain't going to get no fucking NIL like that.
• 1:28:19
  He ain't going to get nothing if he'll start hitting the ball.
• 1:28:21
  But what I'm saying is like thinking about a kid or young
• 1:28:29
  man getting $2,000,000, right? Sounds like a lot of money,
• 1:28:32
  right? They're like, oh, that's a lot
• 1:28:33
  of money. They don't deserve it or they do
• 1:28:35
  deserve it. Like do you know how many
• 1:28:38
  peoples riding on that 2 million?
• 1:28:39
  Like me, if I got 2,000,000 right now, I'm worried about
• 1:28:42
  four people. I got two kids and my wife.
• 1:28:44
  I'm worried about four people. I can make some stuff shake with
• 1:28:47
  2 million. These kids have whole families
• 1:28:51
  depending on them to get them places and move them across the
• 1:28:55
  country and bring their little brothers with them.
• 1:28:58
  So that 2 million between 20 people or however many people,
• 1:29:03
  it's not going very far because Mama want to call, Daddy want to
• 1:29:06
  call. We got to move because they need
• 1:29:07
  to go to my games and we live in a, they live across the country,
• 1:29:10
  so got to buy them a house over here.
• 1:29:12
  Like it's not the lottery, man. Like they're not winning the
• 1:29:15
  lottery. And I think that they just get
• 1:29:16
  caught up in the hype right then.
• 1:29:20
  And I just hope they look at things different.
• 1:29:22
  Like my goat didn't ever play the NFL.
• 1:29:24
  Jerrod Evans never made it to the NFLI.
• 1:29:28
  Know that there's politics in football.
• 1:29:30
  So if Jerrod didn't make it, I feel like a coach can put a word
• 1:29:33
  in and you won't make it no matter what your talent is.
• 1:29:36
  So again, I just won't these families and these young men to
• 1:29:41
  start thinking about it from a business standpoint more than
• 1:29:46
  they are thinking about it just from a money standpoint.
• 1:29:49
  So yeah, I hope he didn't screw himself out of money because I
• 1:29:54
  think the kids talented, you know, I think he's he's he's I
• 1:29:57
  think he's got something, you know, I think he can, you know,
• 1:29:59
  who knows how high he can go? But I do know that once you
• 1:30:02
  start, it's a good old boy society man.
• 1:30:05
  When you start playing around in that and they'll in the weeds,
• 1:30:09
  you know, somebody might get the more out.
• 1:30:10
  So we'll see. There you go.
• 1:30:13
  All right, well, Speaking of that, and because it kind of
• 1:30:17
  goes into a good segue into the last thing we're going to talk
• 1:30:20
  about tonight, the NFL draft is tomorrow night.
• 1:30:24
  I know all well, Sheldon, I'm not sure if you've got a game
• 1:30:27
  tomorrow, but I will be stuck to the TV probably like, well,
• 1:30:33
  Tally, you get to stay the the least because Tally's team is
• 1:30:37
  picking first. I'm my team's picking 11,
• 1:30:39
  Reinstein's picking 15 and Shelton's way back at like 30.
• 1:30:43
  But I wanted to just go through y'all and just hear what you
• 1:30:47
  want your team to do. And we're going to do it in
• 1:30:49
  order. So Tally with the first pick in
• 1:30:52
  the NFL 2025 NFL Draft. The Tennessee Titans, I mean.
• 1:30:57
  Cam Ward, They taking Cam Ward? I mean, we ain't hit on a
• 1:31:00
  quarterback in I think since like 1997 or something like
• 1:31:05
  that. I don't know, like we've been
• 1:31:07
  not good at drafting quarterbacks, but this is going
• 1:31:11
  to change this year. I like Cam Ward a lot.
• 1:31:13
  I think that that's the obvious pick.
• 1:31:16
  The only other person I thought they would have picked right
• 1:31:18
  there would be the generational talent, Travis Harner.
• 1:31:22
  But that's not what our team really needs right now.
• 1:31:24
  So I'm thinking, well, I'm knowing that we going for Cam
• 1:31:29
  Ward. So I'm just hoping that we got
• 1:31:33
  the line to block for him because getting everybody's
• 1:31:38
  going to judge their young quarterbacks by what Jayden
• 1:31:40
  Daniels did, right? True.
• 1:31:41
  No like that. That's what you want your
• 1:31:43
  quarterback to come in and do. Does he do that?
• 1:31:45
  I don't know. You know I don't, I don't think
• 1:31:47
  so. But if he can do a step better
• 1:31:49
  than we did last year, so we ain't got the first pick the
• 1:31:51
  year after, I'll be OK with that.
• 1:31:54
  I hear you by the way, y'all want to chat?
• 1:31:56
  I know Josh put in there Denver drafting to drafting Genetti.
• 1:32:00
  If you got what you think your team should do, say it.
• 1:32:03
  I'm going to go next. I'm a 49ers fan.
• 1:32:06
  If y'all don't know and everybody thinks like, oh, y'all
• 1:32:12
  need a lot of different stuff and it's like, no, our defense
• 1:32:14
  was asked last year, Rockford is going to get paid probably
• 1:32:18
  somewhere north of $300 million very, very soon.
• 1:32:22
  He is. And everybody's like he was
• 1:32:24
  asked, y'all couldn't win last year.
• 1:32:25
  It won't because of him. He was like 6 best quarterback
• 1:32:27
  in the league. Iuke was hurt, McCaffrey was
• 1:32:30
  hurt. He still played decent.
• 1:32:32
  But for us, I'd like to see U.S. trade back.
• 1:32:35
  But the, the, the truth is, if you ask me right now who we take
• 1:32:39
  or who I want us to take, I'm going to take kid out of Ole
• 1:32:44
  Miss. The D tackle, Walter Nolan, he's
• 1:32:47
  like 6-3. He's like 300 lbs.
• 1:32:49
  He is a hell of a run stopper. He's got some pass rush moves on
• 1:32:53
  the inside and we need to build that part.
• 1:32:56
  Brian, you're next on the clock. You know what I mean?
• 1:33:01
  Everything I'm seeing so far, they've got the Colts really
• 1:33:05
  want to get a tight end. I definitely feel it's a
• 1:33:07
  position in need. And lo and behold, who's
• 1:33:11
  probably going to be there? Tyler Warren, at least finest.
• 1:33:16
  At least finest. So I, I, I think that's going to
• 1:33:20
  be the pick. I think just as a, as a, as a
• 1:33:23
  Richmond guy, as a, as a Mechanicsville, as a, as a
• 1:33:26
  Hanover resident, that that would be a pretty cool pick for
• 1:33:30
  the Colts. If, if we end up not going that
• 1:33:34
  route or he's not available, I think Shamar Stewart, the edge
• 1:33:39
  from Texas A&M would probably be where I'd go if, if Ty Warren's
• 1:33:45
  not available there. Shelton.
• 1:33:49
  It's been a long time coming since you had a wait.
• 1:33:51
  Sean's going to have to wait up for the first time in how many
• 1:33:53
  years for the draft. Well, what are you?
• 1:33:56
  What's, what's your, what's your commanders going to do?
• 1:34:00
  Yeah, they'll probably be, they'll probably be defense
• 1:34:02
  focus because that's the way it, you know, they got improved the
• 1:34:04
  most. I think probably edge and corner
• 1:34:08
  will be the biggest priorities. Maybe wide receiver.
• 1:34:10
  I've seen a couple of mock drafts have a second wide
• 1:34:12
  receiver in the first round. But as far as it pertains to the
• 1:34:15
  Hokies, we do have a need for a more explosive running back.
• 1:34:18
  And I know that we, we had some workouts with, with, with
• 1:34:21
  Bashall Tooten. So it's possible they could go
• 1:34:24
  out your tune maybe in kind of a mid round pick 'cause I think it
• 1:34:26
  probably slotted, you know, third or fourth round.
• 1:34:29
  So it'd be, it'd be great if that worked out 'cause it's it
• 1:34:31
  fills A-Team need, but I think it'll be probably more of a a
• 1:34:35
  defensive minded draft for for the commanders.
• 1:34:38
  All right, no player in particular right there.
• 1:34:42
  Let me see there. I know there was what was?
• 1:34:46
  His name? What's cool I've done.
• 1:34:47
  I've only done 600 mocks in the last month.
• 1:34:50
  Yeah, there was a UCLA defensive end.
• 1:34:56
  Linebacker end, end. Yeah, he's flying out the boards
• 1:35:02
  too, because he went from like mid second, third round to like
• 1:35:07
  he might sneak into the back end of the first round.
• 1:35:10
  Yeah, who knows? That's true.
• 1:35:13
  That's true. That's true.
• 1:35:14
  They're going to be getting Malachi Starks is who they're
• 1:35:17
  going to get I How many Hokies are we all thinking 55 but.
• 1:35:26
  Who's the who's the I got? I got Peebles APR lane tootin
• 1:35:29
  strong. Is that that the five peoples?
• 1:35:32
  Tootin, APR Lane, Strong and Peebles.
• 1:35:36
  Yeah. Felton might slip in late
• 1:35:40
  seventh round just because 6-4, but I think 5 that's.
• 1:35:44
  What? She said.
• 1:35:46
  Boom, All right, I like this one.
• 1:35:48
  I'm I'm all started with myself. If our teams have to take one
• 1:35:52
  Hokie, who would I want it to be?
• 1:35:54
  I need it to be Anita's peoples. I need a three tech that can go
• 1:35:58
  eat because Nolan can play the one tech I want to me as peoples
• 1:36:02
  and I think of me as peoples will be the first one off the
• 1:36:05
  board. That's my prediction.
• 1:36:08
  I think in these people's going to be the first one off the
• 1:36:10
  board about y'all. You got a feeling?
• 1:36:13
  Tally, tally smiling. Tally 1 hokey when?
• 1:36:16
  If you say Tennessee, draft that man.
• 1:36:19
  We are getting Cam Ward. Like I said, it's going to be a
• 1:36:22
  young quarterback and we need wide receivers because Burke's
• 1:36:25
  can't stay healthy. Like he going to get hurt again
• 1:36:27
  this year and I wishing that on him.
• 1:36:29
  It just happens. Give me Jay Lane, man.
• 1:36:31
  I think Jay Lane's going. I think he's going to play in
• 1:36:34
  the league for a long time. Not saying he's going to be
• 1:36:37
  super, you know, dominant, but he's a pro man.
• 1:36:41
  He just does his job. And I think that if we could
• 1:36:46
  somehow get Jay Lane, I would definitely have on his jersey.
• 1:36:49
  It'd be a lot bigger than the 1 he wears because he had a very
• 1:36:52
  big guy. But I would get his jersey and
• 1:36:55
  be wearing it. So give me give me Lane, man.
• 1:36:57
  Of course I love Tooting, but you know, Sheldon already took
• 1:37:00
  him. So we'll say Jay Lane.
• 1:37:03
  Hey, real quick here, there was somebody, I can't remember who I
• 1:37:06
  was listening to. I've listened to a ton of draft
• 1:37:08
  podcast this year. Unlike normal, somebody said
• 1:37:12
  they think Jay Lane is the best punt returner in this draft
• 1:37:16
  straight up. Which means, again, if he can do
• 1:37:20
  anything on the wide receiver, he's getting it.
• 1:37:23
  Shelton, how about you? Yeah, I mean, I just think I
• 1:37:26
  just think dude would make the most logical sense based on the
• 1:37:29
  team needs. Obviously, you know, you, you
• 1:37:31
  could go Peebles. I I don't think it makes sense
• 1:37:33
  based on where they're drafting, but I I think tune would give
• 1:37:36
  them a really dynamic edge, especially with all the the
• 1:37:39
  skeleton I've got the threat of JD running.
• 1:37:41
  I think that'd be a really awesome combination to watch.
• 1:37:45
  Very nice, Brian. I mean, I could see, I know
• 1:37:52
  we're looking at edge and cornerback probably somewhere
• 1:37:57
  between rounds 1 to 4, right. So if we don't get an edge in
• 1:38:04
  the first round, if we, if we're able to get a tight end, I think
• 1:38:08
  we, you know, we, we could be in a, in a spot where APR might
• 1:38:11
  make some sense. So I I would like to see APR.
• 1:38:15
  All righty got Jim on here. You and Jim going to be fighting
• 1:38:18
  for him in the fifth round. So yeah, And that's tomorrow
• 1:38:24
  night. And again, it's always cool to
• 1:38:26
  see. I felt like the last few years
• 1:38:28
  we just hadn't had anybody get drafted.
• 1:38:33
  So anything else, y'all? Anybody else jump in the portal
• 1:38:37
  while you've been sitting here for the last little while?
• 1:38:41
  Not that we know of. Not that we know of.
• 1:38:43
  It'll all be revealed tomorrow. Well, with that being said,
• 1:38:47
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