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3 Guys Before The Game - Neal Brown Visits (Episode 481) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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welcome in everybody, three guys before the game. It's episode number four hundred
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think strong? Yeah? So I got a situation. Remember, So I
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had this master plan when we started to show. I said, Okay,
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what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna text our guy to have Neil call right
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when we start the show, right, And then I forgot that my voice
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to record on my text to send it. Yeah, so I recorded everything
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in the whole open. So I had it anyway come together just fine.
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Yeah, we got textual healing coming up, all kinds of stuff. Had
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a really a couple interesting, really interesting texts that we're going to get into.
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So West Virginia here by the way, real quick before you start that
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is we're waiting for the head. He got a nice T shirt on today.
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I didn't think you'd notice. It's the efforting T shirt in case you
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didn't know, long sleep version, long sleeve, efforting T shirt. As
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I feel really comfortable, good, yeah, and seriously very good. Looks
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good And as you all know, we're heading toward that portion of the of
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the year where you need the longer sleep. I mean you go out to
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you do high school football games this weekend, right you It might just get
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in a little a little cooler, so you might want to do that.
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But that is available in case you want to take a look in detail.
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Are these? Are these available now on the episode eighty eight, episode eight
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hundred dot com? Yeah, check it out. Yeah, cool, cool
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efforting more styles too, really, yeah, constantly continuous update of styles we've
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had. We've had a couple of gees. I just sending the wrong number
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again anyway, so someone's confused. It's why you're saying call us now.
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No, No, I gave him. No, it's I mean you're sending
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it to some random person that shouldn't receive that. No, it's the right
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person. Just give him a different number. We'll get it anyway. You
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know, Like, I'm glad that Kirchival's not here because he gets very nervous
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in these situations. He'd be spinning around in that secret. Yeah, this
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is a podcast. We do whatever, And here's the deal. As as
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Neil kinto, sometimes the play breaks down, right, Sometimes the play breaks
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down and you just got to scramble out of it and pick up some positive
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yardage. Yeah. I have a feeling we'll pick up some positive yardage here
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and just in a matter of seconds. Yeah, you told me before we
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started that you did some you did some statistical work on quarterbacks that made you
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raise your eyebrow from the last time we got together. I did, and
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and what made you go, wow, Well, it just backed up what
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we what we've talked about. As as Garrett Green, assuming it's Garrett Green
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ascends to the starting position here, it's going to be cutting down turnovers.
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But then the other part of it is and let's just stand the passing side
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from the quarterback position, because I think we everybody listening to this podcast knows
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what Garrett brings when he runs the football, and I think that area is
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going to continue to improve and thrive. Be it on the run, pass
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option, be to scram will, be it a design quarterback run. I
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think the part that backs up the statistical part that backs up what we've said
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is that you know, PFF are friends over at PFF that do a deep
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di I've before and after or after every single game and put grades onto every
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position on the field. They have a stack called turnover worthy place, and
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that's defined as a pass that has a high percentage chance to be intercepted or
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a poor job of taking care of the ball and fumbling. So it doesn't
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necessarily mean that it turned into an interception, but sometimes the throw can be
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a poor throw. Could you hold that? I will hold that thought?
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Could you hold that? Could you hold that? Thought? Happy to hold
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that? Did just hold that thought? Just we'll get back to stop right
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there. Yeah, yeah, ladies and gentlemen. By the way, I
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told you he'd scramble out of the play, Yeah, you scrambled. He
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was a playmakers, a playmaker. Here please welcome to the three guys before
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the game. The head coach of the West Virginia Versity Mountaineers, Neil Brown.
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Hello, sir, how are you? I am doing well? I'm
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doing well. How do we have all three guys here? Is? It's
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just a twosome today? Thank you? It's a twosome. You become the
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third guy if you ever, if that was one of your dreams in life,
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you know, one of these days I'd like to be three guys before
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the game and be Guy three. You're in got it? Today's the day?
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Yeah, yeah, I'm just I'm wondering if I can do that,
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then I just want to I want to do the whole metro news gig,
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just daily daily radio show. I want to talk to the governor. I
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want to talk to Senator Mansion. I mean I'm ready. Yeah, yeah,
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Well, I tell you, what we're doing is a lot easier in
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what you're doing. I'll tell you that. Well, that's true. But
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however, what Hoppy has to deal with it, I mean, it ranks
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right up there. I mean he takes uh, he takes more crap from
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both sides than than one world would imagine. Hey, I'm prepped for that.
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I'm welcomeditioned for that. That's true. He can step right into talk.
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Fine, that's a good point to see. But here's the difference.
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Hoppy takes it from both sides. You get it from just one side,
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Neil, You like, you got your lovers and then you got your haters.
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But Hoppy has hate from both sides, which is really hard. That's
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the hard thing. Yeah, he created it though. Well, I'm glad
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you took a shot, Adam, I if it wasn't you. No,
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No, it's it's good radio. Yeah, good radio. I will say
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this. I will say this since you said I took a shot at which
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I didn't mean to, but it did come off that way. Is he
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is the one spot for news in West Virginia. I mean, I will
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give him that in job well done. Oh absolutely, he has built an
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absolute you're you're right, he has. He's built a brand in which he
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is the resource for information that comes out of the state. And obvious CBS
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News did that feature on him, and I mean that kind of just amplifies
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it. So yeah, it's impressible. Have you, by any chance you've
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had a few things on your mind here since camp started? Do you have
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a tally or an Excel spreadsheet on your computer of the brown mentioned index.
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We we've talked to you about this in the past. Oh yeah, I
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do not. I do not. I know who's I can probably assume it's
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pretty high. Go ahead, give me two. Give me two names you
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think is high on the BMI. Yeah, so outside of the normals,
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because you guys really don't chart the normals. When I talk about the Old
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Line or or Sean Martin Orrard Bergs those guys, right, let's go offensively
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BMI rating. Traylan Ray he's Bengo Bingo, He's winner, Jame White Bingo
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bingo into you're off feel good, starts doing really well. He knows I've
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talked about Michael Hayes some. When did I get asked questions about special teams?
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And then defensively Anthony Wilson, Yes, one, there's one. Other's
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one other one that I think maybe the league leader. You're the top of
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the BMI. Defensively is still missing out. See he knows, he knows
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he's on it, but he doesn't have it written down. If I don't
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have it, this is going off the top of my head. Yeah,
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he's on it. I don't know if you know this or not. But
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Brad he launched several years ago, he landed launched Will Greer's Heisman campaign.
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He he kind of got into. He felt pretty good about it, so
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he is now he now has launched a Heisman campaign for Jahime White as well.
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I mean, and the and the reason for it, bit tongue in
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cheek, is that because he was getting so much mentioned, not just from
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you, but from everyone, he's going like, well, we got to
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launch the dog on thing or you wanted to be first and last. He's
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been front runner. White. Yeah, okay, but hold on, hold
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on, let's talk. Let's have a serious question off Obviously we're having some
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fun there, but you have mentioned Jahime White a lot. Let's start right
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there because I think the surprise I'll speak for others, but also myself,
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I think the surprise Neal coming out of that is that's a loaded room.
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You've got a ton of running backs that we've seen produce, and yet there's
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a guy that's new on the scene that's really broken through enough for him to
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be top of the BMI. What specifically have you seen out of Jahim White.
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Well, let's talk about reasoning. First. Part of the reason is
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we've limited CJ and Jalen Anderson in some live situations. So he's got a
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lot of work. So he's he's got the most carries of anybody in Fall
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Camp, and so the more opportunities you have, you know, the opportunity
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to produce is higher. So he been productive, but he's had more opportunities.
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I like his game. I think he's really good match. The the
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fun thing about our running backs, they're all different. You know, you
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got CJ. He's a two forty guy that that has really good ball skills,
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still learning the position, but gets his shoulders downhill. JJ's kind of
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Justin Johnson's kind of the guy that can do a little bit of everything,
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and he's are probably our most disciplined running back. Jayden Anderson has a really
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unique style. He's very patient. He never looks like he's running full speed,
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but I don't see him get caught either. And then Jahim is kind
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of a slasher. You know, he's not very tall, but he's really
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strong. I mean if you look at his lower body, and he's a
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tough tackle, and so he can do things in the past game and he
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can he can he can break tackles and run inside and outside. And he's
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not you're some of the guys that are shorter and stature don't have long speed.
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He's got long speed. So with that said, Neil, and so
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he's just one of those guys, right, And so you mentioned Treylan Ray,
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and we're going to mention obviously, and you've been mentioning Rodney Gallagher.
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So in years gone by, when you first got into this business, it
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was extremely rare to have the ability for true freshmen, or at least that
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many, to literally get into the mix you know, maybe a special teams
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guy here there. Why has that changed over time? Well, by necessity,
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first of all, because if you don't play them, they're leaving.
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And so I think, and let me let me move back on this,
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because one of the one of the items is more and more guys are graduating
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early. So they're there in January, so they get fifteen practices, which
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is essentially equal to a fall camp, and they get a winner. Strength
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conditioning is very similar to your summer and so they're getting double what they would
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normally get. You know, before it was kind of the norm for people
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to graduate early. So I think that's a huge factor. Number two is
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a transfer portal is expedited because you always got a faint Okay, what do
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we need to do to make sure that we're retaining top talent? And probably
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in years past is you would look and say, man, I know player
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X is going to be a great player down the road. Man I want
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to red shirt him this year. That way he'll have four great years.
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Well, and you can do that with with offensive linemen and some interior defensive
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linement, but almost every other position you're gonna have to play them, and
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you gonna have to get him in the mix and play them with special teams
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and kind of gradually get them into the game action. Let's go back Neil
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and talk running backs for a minute now. For the Penn State people that
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are listening to a pen stop and listening to try and glean some information,
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listen, I mean, I don't want to your game plan, but I
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know like Eddie Vesten is probably gonna get a couple of carries Mike Lockhart down
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around the goal line. You give him a couple carries's gonna be about nine
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backs that you work in there. That's where the Penn State folks guy so
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now and they turn it off, would go back to us. Does this
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allow you these multiple guys and the need to play them early? Has that
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allowed you just in general terms? Sure, I know you don't want to
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give away the playbook here. Has that allowed you to get more creative with
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the offensive playbook? Given that you have so many running backs, specifically to
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try and get in there and get some action, you gotta figure out how
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you're gonna play your pieces. And I think that's always the fun thing about
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figuring out who you're going to be and what your plan is going to be
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is how do you get your best people involved and how do you get your
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best people of the ball And so that's been fun. The other thing,
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and I should have mentioned this with the previous question, is the summer OTAs
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have been really helpful too, because guys know what to do before you start
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fallking. They're not learning as you go. Balaal Marshall said this last week,
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and you've also said it regarding Nie Gallagher, that he has exceeded expectations.
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To this point, you all knew he was extremely talented, but how
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long it would take to adjust what what has he shown you in these preseason
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practices that made you all come to the conclusion that he's ahead of the line
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that you guys had kind of thought he would be. Well, it started
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in the summer when he first got here. For a guy that that you
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know, played football basically during football season and played basketball the rest of the
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time for most of his career, right up until his senior year, you
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know, he really competed hard in the weight room and a lot of times
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those guys that are making the transition over from basketball don't necessarily compete all the
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time in the weight room until they really appreciate what it does for him,
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right and so, and then he was really hungry. He was in the
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building as much as anybody over the summer, and I thought, I think
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that really endeared him to his team aids and the staff. So his work
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habits and his preparation were elite. And then the things we knew he could
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do. We knew he was gonna be good with the ball in his hands,
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and his route running has been further along than I thought it would be
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based on him playing quarterback in high school. And he's scrappy. He's been
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a factor on special teams, and he's really blocked for his size. He's
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blocked and learned the technique, can use the technique, can and been an
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effective blocker on the perimeter. The other guy you mentioned, it's almost turning
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into like an A and one A when you talk about these freshmen coming in,
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Gallagher being one, of course, and Trailer may Ray who you mentioned
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earlier as well. What have you seen out of him? What's the expectation
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for him as you get ready here for Penn State In these first couple of
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games, it sounds like, based on what you said earlier, those guys
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are both going to play right away, and the expectations they go out and
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make plays. Huh, Yeah, they're gonna play. They're gonna play for
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sure. You know, I try. I try to minimize the expectations.
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You know, I'm unsure, you know, I don't know how I think
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they're going to handle the elements and the speed of the game. And my
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belief is, but it's gonna be the first time, So I'm not naive
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to think that it's just going to be a normal Saturday for those guys either.
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So I tried to temporary expectations. Both of those kids are going to
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be great players. It's it's not if it's just when. When's that going
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to happen? And they're gonna play? But how much and how many targets
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all that kind of stuff. I think it's to be determined. You've been
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blowing a lot of noise inside the stadium to try to get you guys ready.
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My eye doctor is an Ohio State alone and he has been to Penn
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State four games since expansion, so we hadn't playing. They hadn't expanded to
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over one hundred thousand last time West Virginia play, and he says it's so
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loud that you literally cannot hear yourself talk. Okay, fine, we get
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that part of it. We've played in big stadiums before. How how do
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you deal with it? How big of it is that a is that something
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to getting you rolling over in the middle of the night worrying about it or
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how you're dealing with that. Did a lot of asking questions people that played
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there in big games. And I think that because it's the first game,
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because it's a night game, because it's a game that used to be a
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rivalry or was played every year for such a long time, I think it's
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gonna be really loud. And so spend a lot of time talking to Michigan,
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Ohio state people, people that played in the white out that that was
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and so our expectation is going to be really loud, and so in preparation
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for that, we've been working, you know, offensively and special teams.
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We've been working really since the summer on how we're going to handle that noise,
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and we've worked in fall camp and then starting tomorrow night it's gonna be
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we're gonna take it to a new level and then we'll go into our ipf
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our indoor practice facility and really turn up the volume in there is because we
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can control that and we can we can get it. We can get our
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guys prepared, and so if it caught us off guard, you know,
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that's one thing, but we're gonna have time to prepare for it and and
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hopefully hopefully be able to execute a high level In addition to that atmosphere,
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obviously, they're very talented on both sides of the ball. Let's take their
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offense against your defense. First. They feel they've got a great offensive line,
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they've got two star running backs, might be the best one two punch
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in the country. Defensively, what's the biggest key for your group? Where
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wild you think they've improved the most from last year and where does that show
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up against this Penn State team. Well, we gotta be able to get
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off blocks, and we got to tackle the running backs, and we've got
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to get multiple hats of the football. They're they're they're extremely talented. I
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mean, that guy a lottery pick in at left tackle. Their center is
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a is a veteran that's a kind of runs the show there and tell you's
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highly intelligent. The right tackle will be a draft pick middle round at worst.
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The two running backs are going to be longtime NFL players. They're a
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little bit unproven at wide out, kind of like we are. But their
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talent is It's not like I mean, these guys are recruited by the Who's
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Who, So I mean, you know they can they can play for us.
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It's about handling the elements. It's about handling the speed, getting are
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getting lined up, being able to communicate in a hostile environment, and then
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not only getting to the ball. But you got to arrive with bad intentions.
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And so that's the plan. We respect them. They're gonna have a
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new starting quarterback whoever they're going to roll out there. They may even play
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both of them, I'm not sure, and so we've got to be able
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to give him different give whoever it is different looks where they can't get into
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a rhythm. It's a small world that you live in, and so personalities
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and people that you've seen for years just find different places. Manny Diaz is
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their defensive coordinator. You have a history with him. How do you think
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he's thinking about stopping you? Or should I say, what has he liked
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to do against you in the past? Well, Man, he's highly intelligent,
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He's had a lot of success. You know, we started and we
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went against each other, and when I was at Troy, he was at
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Middle Tennessee and we got the best of that, and probably towards the end
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of that at Troy we had the better talent. And then when he went
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to Texas, I was at Texas Tech the first year he was there,
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he definitely had better talent, and he got after us, and then we
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played a really really close game and played pretty well offensively. In twelve he
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got us again, and then then he was at Mississippi State and I was
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at Troy as a head coach year one, and it wasn't even close.
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And so he had he had a bunch of NFL players on Missisipi State defense,
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and so I've got a lot of respect for him. I like him.
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I like him personally. He's really aggressive. He does a good job
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of being really looking complex. But this guy's playing really fast and he kind
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of lets them, lets them be who they are. And so, you
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know, I don't know if any of those previous matchups, I don't I
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don't know. It's about even after the Adam all up, but I don't
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know if any of that matters, you know, I think you know he's
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got the players on defense. I mean, this is an elite defense and
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I'm not sure we'll see anything like it the rest of the year. If
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you think about this is they've got three defensive ends that two of them one
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of them for sure lottery pick. I think two of'em be first round
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picks, and the third one may be at worst a third round pick.
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And I think he could better himself. They got a mic linebacker that's going
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to be a first round pick who's also unbelieve off the edge. They've got
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a corner it's gonna be a first round pick. They've got a safety that
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is going to be in the upper part of the NFL draft. They've got
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a nickel that's going to be in the upper part of the NFL draft,
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and etcetera, etcetera, the other corner. So I mean, this is
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a group that I'm being conservative here and this isn't coach speak. They got
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nine players that are going to be drafted, not nine that may play in
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the NFL or may not. They got nine players they're going to be drafted.
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And this will be the fastest defense we play and probably the most talented
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that we play all year. All right, last question, then we'll get
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you out of here. Let's talk about quarterbacks here for just a second.
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You said earlier in the week that the starter's been determined internally. You guys
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know that you're not announcing that just yet. So let's talk about both of
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them for just a minute. Of your history would suggest we'll see both of
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them at some point throughout the season, injury or otherwise. Let's start with
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each, just one thing on each. Biggest key. When Garrett Green's in
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the game to help the offense keep moving, is what for him? Same
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question for Nico. When Nico's in, what's his biggest key? Yeah,
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I'll go back to this. It's it's I think the the sense and quarterback
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battle sometimes is then the coach just picks who the starter is going to be,
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and then that's furthest from the truth. It's guys go and win jobs,
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and that's what's happened. Is the guy's going to roll out there at
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Penn State as a starter. I mean, he won the job, and
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everybody in our building knows who that guy is. And that's not that's not
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a negative to the guy that didn't It's just I think we got two quarterbacks
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playing at a high level, but one clearly won the job and and the
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other one's going to continue to challenge and continue to get better. And there
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are scenarios definitely where we could play both for sure. And and so I'll
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answer to the Nico question first is when he's in the game, we've got
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to do a really good job of because it's gonna be his first first game
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in that type of atmosphere. Right play against Oklahoma State, but it's pouring
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down rain. Oklahoma State is usually a very tough place to play, but
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it was about thirty five and raining sheets of it was it was very wet.
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Now Tony was up at a suit and press box. He was fine,
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but anyway, it was really uh unnecessary. Yeah, but he uh
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but he didn't have to deal with the crowd noise. And so we've got
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to do a good job of making sure that we prepare him for the elements
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and we do a good job of using the plays that he does really well.
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For Garrett, the key is for him, he's played a lot of
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football. Now he's only started to play most of the game of three,
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but he's played a lot he's played a lot and so the elements and the
25:02
crowd and stuff should not bother him. And because he's had to you know,
25:07
if you remember he played a lot when we went to Oklahoma and really
25:11
should have won the game back in twenty one, he played a lot in
25:14
that game, and so he's had to deal with that, and so he
25:18
has that experience to fall back on. The key for him is not going
25:21
to be too much. And then understanding the speed that they have on defense,
25:26
because he's fast, Garrett's fast. They got a few guys that are
25:30
faster. Yeah, all right, once again, we truly miss appreciate your
25:34
time greatly. I know you're super busy, so appreciate you doing this.
25:38
And whenever you want to be the third guy, we'll get a kirch a
25:41
lot here so fast you won't even remember that he was on the show.
25:45
Well, let's let a lot of hoppey know I asked about him. I'll
25:48
do it. Thank appreciate it, We appreciate take care. There is Neil
25:51
Brown head coach, so let's get a lot of good stuff right there.
25:53
So they're going inside the indoor practice facility and basically, if you don't have
26:00
a headache when you walk out, then you probably didn't have it high enough,
26:03
right, Yeah, And that's and he is of course right on here.
26:06
That's the challenge of this. It's not just the atmosphere, which is
26:08
which is going to be difficult, But West Vinia's played in tough atmospheres before.
26:11
It's not like it's a cakewalk walking into Norman, Oklahoma. Right.
26:14
Texas at times can be extremely loud, So West Virginia has seen that before.
26:18
And I don't mean that as any knock against Penn State because it is
26:19
one of the very best in the country. This is a flat loaded,
26:23
talented Penn State team. I think that's maybe even more the story. Normally
26:27
the story is the wide out in the atmosphere and Penn State at night.
26:30
To me, it's that defense. And he outlined that perfectly. This offense
26:33
has a lot of skill. This defense is flat loaded. This is going
26:37
to be an extreme challenge for West Virginia. Yeah, all right, We're
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Uh dum dum dum dumb to m dum dumb. This is likely three
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guys, first time texter and e one listener, so that means episode one
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new term. He listened all the way from episode one here from exit one
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on Ice seventy nine. It took me four hundred and eighty episodes to finally
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send a text. I wanted to share a story that will certainly make one
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smile. So a quick backstory. My grandson Cash was born last June.
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Had to be born in Pittsburgh because of a hard issue. This is my
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son, Kalub and his wife's first child. So last June, within a
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week of being born, Cash had open heart surgery. He had to stay
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at UPMC Children's for over one hundred days. He had a second surgery in
28:10
September. It was scheduled, so this was not complications. So Caleb's going
28:14
back and forth working in Charleston long weekends in Pittsburgh's lots of windshield time.
28:18
I told him about three guys so he could have something to help him with
28:22
the drives every week. It was nearly a year ago that he sent a
28:26
text that you read on the show. He was so pumped by that moment.
28:30
So three guys helped take his mind off the pressure of life. As
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he traveled back and forth, he would tell me how much he'd listened to
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the podcasts. There's a little guy right there, so a quick cash update.
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He is over one year old now and he's doing awesome and he's got
28:42
a bright future with some pretty cool scars to share later. That was the
28:48
backstory that needed to be shared to appreciate the rest of the story. So
28:52
last week Caleb had a big job interview with a large company here in Charleston.
28:56
Career job chance for him. In the interview, which lasted about an
28:59
hour, he told me about some of the questions that were asked. They
29:02
asked if you could spend a day with anyone and just sit and talk.
29:04
Who would you choose? They went around the three team interview panel and they
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all said their person and then, without hesitation, Caleb says, Tony Kurdi,
29:14
he calms me. I'm not sure how that answer was received, but
29:19
he was super proud of his answer. Maybe that calming voice is what put
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that board to sleep to check a bucket list item off for scopes and an
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unheard never happens with large companies. Caleb got the call two hours later on
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that Friday, he got the job. Maybe that answer calmed them too,
29:36
so put that on your resume. TC just goes to show us you never
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know the impact we have on those around us. Appreciate the podcast and all
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the efforting that happens behind the scenes. Ps. Whenever we get a three
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guys showing Charleston, I'll make you some brisket. You'll never forget shredded brisket.
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There it is in Dana's voice. He says, yeah, pretty good,
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you got it. Thank you very much, mister don Kinder Briskin.
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It's pretty good, right. Text on put cash back up there first.
30:04
Let's see cash again. We see the little guy out there. Can you
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put the little guy back up. Look at that shot. It's a great
30:10
smile. That's awesome. It's awesome, good for everybody. Glad he's well.
30:15
Yeah, see that bud light sign and that wherever he is he should
30:18
say Kircheville. When's Kircheville getting billboards? That's a good point. Yeah,
30:23
text or hay, Three Guys A couple of things pretty much unrelated to sports.
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I'm wearing a three Guys shirt that was recently gifted to me by my
30:30
son. I was thrilled to receive it, as I, who am not
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very tech savvy, was not having much luck effort in my way through the
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website to obtain one for myself. The shirt is by far the most well
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made, easy to wear soft shirt I've ever had. Here we go,
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thank you. The workmanship is superior, from the label on the inside of
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the logo on the back of the shirt and a stitching on the front boom.
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Secondly, Kermit's key Line Pie. I, like Hoppy, was a
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key Line purist. However, the day I saw Kermit's frozen key Lime Pie
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advertise on a chalkboard outside of Small FA, I knew I needed to try
31:00
it. It is a very thick wedge of pie frozen not a stick like
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a popstickle stick, and then dipped in either dark chocolate, milk, chocolate,
31:08
strawberry white chalk. Mmmm. It's yummy, also a little messy in
31:12
the end. Maybe with some efforty it could be on the food truck game
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day in the parking lot of Daniels. Here we go, Thank you love
31:21
your show makes me laugh, feels like home. Can't wait to get back
31:23
to West Virginia from homecoming shirt intoe sign by MJ and Savannah. So Jesus
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is I don't know if I don't know if it's a mail or female,
31:33
but regardless, regardless they're in on the food court as well. They probably
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know it's well it came with an open mind. Kerchival said only take key
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line pie one way, wouldn't come off that. Yeah, that's true.
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Texter. Hey, three guys. John w Here from Mascelin, Ohio,
31:48
hometown of Andrew Wilson. Lamp always a West Virginia connection. It's that time
31:51
of the year where Mountaineer fans get a little head crazy waiting for the season
31:55
to start so much that you're willing to do go to great lengths to see
31:57
the Old Golden Blue play Happy Valley. For example, hotel rooms all booked
32:02
way too expensive. I thought I was out of luck to get over the
32:06
Happy Valley on September two. However, after finding a treehouse for rent on
32:12
Airbnb only sixty five dollars and nine minutes from the stadium, I was able
32:15
to talk my dad and brother and to go into the game. We're excited
32:20
to watch the Old Golden Blue win by at least two touchdowns. If we
32:22
have to sleep in the trees to do it, we'll do it anyway.
32:25
Just wanted to share how crazy August can make those who bleed WV really enjoy
32:30
the show. Was really in a treehouse. You can rent those. I
32:34
need a picture of that, Okay, I need to follow up there with
32:36
a picture once they get out there. I want to see those accommodations.
32:38
See how that looks. Probably won't be a problem. Text or Pat from
32:42
Wheeling, I love the show A bit out of out of season. Question.
32:45
My wife and I just noticed that the men's basketball team has just signed
32:50
a cook a cook. We're wondering how many we have are on the roster,
32:53
because it seems as though they just keep signing people. We're upped about
32:57
fifty. Do they all stick now? Right now? It's twelve? Right
33:02
now, it's twelve. You can have thirteen on scholarship. You could also
33:07
do walk ons, so they have one scholarship to give. Obviously, you're
33:12
waiting on eligibility for rock Kwon Battle Rakwon Battle, so you just don't know.
33:20
And no, a fericon from last week, that's also an eligibility question.
33:22
You don't know if he'll be eligible. So yeah, they're not over
33:25
not over text, he dare, Three guys, all due respect, but
33:30
the previously mentioned text message last week was neither your first text from Portugal or
33:37
your first Portuguese pepperoni roll. Someone out stamped both of those bingo cards last
33:43
year. Look at this text, Darre, Three guys, this is from
33:47
September two, five of a year ago. I've got two quick stories.
33:52
I got married this summer and the wind Thursday was personally very fulfilling. My
33:55
wife's a hokey for our honeyman went to Spain and Portugal. I'm having breakfast
33:59
at my hotel in Libson and they had something called bread and sausage beautiful roll
34:04
stuff with Spanish chreizo. Portuguese pepperoni roll so good. I snagged a couple
34:08
for the flight home. My wife for our wedding asked for a certain Metallica
34:13
song to be played at the receptions, so while our hockey lums could dance
34:15
around to it, but it had one condition and I had a song too.
34:19
And then he went on HET's country rous so he they actually were there
34:22
Lane Winchester, Virginia. So this is the second Charizo pepperoni role in Portugal.
34:30
So excuse me. I completely did not remember that, but thank you
34:35
very much. And now it only furthers our need to try one of those
34:38
bad loves. To try one, I think it would be excellent. And
34:43
Texter, hey, three guys one of my classes on my day, I'm
34:45
out for out on the spot for a backyard brawl prediction. My prediction was
34:50
thirty five twenty four WVU and the Mountaineers run for one hundred and fifty plus.
34:53
Is this a crazy prediction or right on? No? Not crazy?
35:00
Okay, I might need two hundred plus on the ground, I'd bump that
35:04
up, Texter. Tony won't say it, but West Virginia is better at
35:08
quarterback than last year. Also, Jalen Anderson ten plus twenty yard runs this
35:14
season. I'll take the over twenty ten runs of twenty or more. I'm
35:19
my too. Excuse me, I'm I too. He got a good breakaway
35:22
speed Texter. I just tried again to have my first kerchival at Varsity Club.
35:29
Sold out again, Effreny, I mean, I don't know what we're
35:34
gonna do it that. I'll go one beer, can't keep it. Bill's
35:37
got more going, right, didn't We just did one batch, but he
35:40
immediately started another one, right except correct, gotta have enough for the food
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and Bradley the Greek Hello, and last episode a Texter mentioned they were getting
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married during the Saturday of Labor Day. All due respect, I feel like
36:44
this behavior selfish, all due respect, good luck to the lovely couple.
36:49
Of course, that's said, what are your views on this subject? That
36:53
was an elite backhand right there. He gave you the double all due respect
36:58
and then finishes not only good luck to the couple, gaving of course that
37:04
was parenthetical. David Knoxville, Tennessee continues that said, what are your views
37:08
on this subject? Should engaged couples try to avoid college football Saturdays? Our
37:15
fall Sundays inbounds is in a way open weekend considered fair gay. I love
37:22
the show. Hopefully I'll see in stay College Orlando so I can get my
37:24
hunting rifles scoped autographed. They've inten and Knoxville. I have no problems with
37:30
weddings on away games for West Virginia. If you have to do it in
37:36
the fall, go ahead and do an away game. I think you should
37:38
really stay away from the home games because invariably you're gonna have people have to
37:44
have to make decisions whether they come to your wedding or not, and chances
37:49
are you'll find out who your real friends are that might hurt your feelings.
37:52
Do what you want to do what you want to do. Don't tell people
37:55
how to live their lives. Do what you want to do. Don't on
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a football game. Doing on a football game. You had in our last
38:01
episode back on Monday, which one do Yeah? You asked a tight end
38:06
question? I did, Yeah, how many touch you had a tight end?
38:08
You go a trivia question and I go like, don't cheat, don't
38:12
look it up, Da da da da da, And so we had Oh,
38:15
okay, yeah it was. It was which tight end had the most
38:19
touchdown receptions over the last decades, So like from twenty thirteen through last season
38:23
twenty twenty two, which tight end had the most touchdown receptions? Don't look
38:28
it up. Anthony in point Pleasant said Trayvon Westco. Tremendous guests. That'd
38:32
be the obvious guess. I think Brett and Charlotte North Carolina said Trayvon Wesco.
38:37
Again, makes sense. Guys in the league. Then this one is
38:43
this person wins but they didn't give their name. Is this correct? Cody
38:46
Clay? It is correct, he says, Cody Clay. U No,
38:52
Tony, I did not cheat. Initially thinking Trayvon Westco. Feel like he
38:57
was used way more in the pass game than most tight ends. But then
39:00
I thought Cody Clay due a plane duration. I'll stick with Westco as my
39:05
answer. So you're out. But one guy did say Cody Clay. Cody
39:07
Clay was the answer on that that that's a great one. Yeah, good
39:10
job. Hey three guys. I'm a long time listener, but first time
39:15
Texter listening to episode four eighty this morning. On the over under segment,
39:19
I'll take the under yards, but over the touchdowns. If you remember Mike
39:22
talking about tight ends, Mico dropped I believe two t d's last season that
39:27
would have slid the number to a little. I do not remember what game,
39:30
but was clearly a red zone focal point for this staff prior to the
39:34
injury. It's Texas. He was, Yeah, it was Texas. I
39:36
believe that Cole Taylor could be the best tight end of the Big twelve and
39:38
be David Sills asking the end zone. Throw it up, throw it high,
39:42
Let the big boy go to work. Thank you. I love the
39:45
show. Agree. Last practice I was at I asked two long time observers
39:51
a football. I put the number there at four and a half touchdowns.
39:55
They couldn't have been quicker to give me an under I might. I might
40:00
play the alternate touchdown line. You get some nice plus money on that.
40:02
A lot of people getting intoxicated early on this stuff. You gotta be careful,
40:07
dude. Throw it up, Tony. I appreciate the feedback with all
40:09
due respect. My best friend's name is Peyton Hartman, currently running the Stray
40:15
Cat Jimmy Shack in Star City over there. I'm coming to run it with
40:20
him in late October. So these guys are coming in in October to run
40:23
that Chimmy Chonga place in Star City. He may need a proper shout out,
40:29
but I know he will love the shout out from two guys and number
40:32
one efforting. You three guys are great when listening to Tony on the radio.
40:36
Since we're seven, Thank you. Send me the address in the days
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that you guys want Chimmy's and Peyton is going to bring those to you guys,
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big, nice, excellent in. Can't wait to try the chimmy.
40:46
Oh, we'll take him. We're gonna, yeah, appreciate that. Texter
40:52
Faye and Fayetteville checks in. Probably not a real name, Probably not Tony.
40:58
I'm hearing the guy's wedding to back on our last show reminded me of
41:01
a quick story in twenty and thirteen, I was the best man in a
41:06
wedding the day West Virginia played Oklahoma State, big upset if you remember.
41:09
I'll spare the details, but after the wedding, my wife had to come
41:13
upstairs and drag me away from the TV on three different occasions. Once it
41:17
was for pictures, once it was to walk into the reception hall with the
41:22
wedding party, and then the last time to give my man's best toast.
41:24
So three times she yanked hi way at some pretty seminal moment moments in that
41:29
day. The third time she really let me have it. I think I
41:35
slept on the couch that night. Anyway, consult wv's football schedule before planning
41:40
a fall event. Weddings were made for April through August Anyway, signed by
41:45
Faye and Fable. So I wrote back to Faye, we'll hold on the
41:49
I can see why Faye had to go on the witness protection program there and
41:52
use a not real name, I wrote back, chastised. I wrote back
41:57
to Faye, I said, still Mary question mark because he said it was
42:01
twenty thirteen, but he has already been married at that point. He was
42:06
just the best man in this wedding. He says, twenty years in counting.
42:10
Someone has to mow the grass and open the jars. There you go
42:17
once again, three guys before the game. Also that all about all about
42:22
marital bliss, Faye not giving his real name as he fires that zinger there.
42:28
There are a lot of people that open their own jars. Your wife
42:30
moves the grass. She's off this year. She's on a one year sabbatical
42:35
and she's mowed it many times. Yea, yeah, because you went soft
42:37
and got a rider. For all those years you made her walking and push
42:39
it. Now you take over. You get on a rider, sit your
42:43
butt right on the thing and just drive around, drive around out there,
42:45
waving to people like you're doing something out there, just waving to the new
42:47
neighbors. Hey, are you doing good? To see you. So I
42:50
was moaning on Saturday, and she's out there because she still likes to help,
42:54
right, she likes to help. That's a pretty big more. So
42:57
she's gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna slowly in. She uses a chainsaw.
43:00
She can handle your mower, so it's zero turns. You gift her
43:05
a chainsaw once for like Mother's Day Christmas. Yeah, she asked for it.
43:08
She asked for it. So I got on my point is she's asking
43:10
for a chainsaw. Handling the chainsaw, she can handle your rider mower.
43:14
Yeah. So I fired that up and she's sitting there in the front of
43:17
the front of the garage. I take it out. It's zero turn so
43:21
I crank it and I start just doing circles, just spinning her eyes.
43:24
She looked at me like you, like you're the thirteen year old, all
43:30
right, why not? You're not gonna be mowing long. You won't get
43:32
through the whole mowing season. I've done every single time so far, this
43:36
year, you're gonna get the hook at some point. It might be next
43:38
round. First time fully yard fully comes in, you're getting the hook.
43:44
That grass comes in nice. She will not have you out there doing donuts.
43:46
Lawns had a great year because I because this new more has really super
43:51
nice heights. Like you know some much either like wan yeah, two three,
43:55
so you're not buzz cutting the thing. I got your quardinet long,
43:59
I got quarter inches. Yeah, I go three three two five three five
44:01
three seven five, So you're like really field in the old days when those
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Yeah, it'll be game week. It'll be game am I. Miss
45:01
Joan also taunts me about game week. Why, because she knows I get
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a little bit a little get get a little tight. Yeah, get a
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little tight on game week, and she'll give me. She'll start to Oh,
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45:20
gonna be long going Sundays on it. She's gonna go out there, just
45:22
take the mower and start doing it. Doing it on Sundays. That's fine.
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first solo effort quite well. Great new new nickname for him. I went
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leaning, Luke Leaping, I went leaping Luke Rowsy. Last episode. Yeah,
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learned a little bit more, little more about him now, Lucky Luke
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Rowsy, Lucky Luke Rowsey, Lucky Luke Rowsey. He like you, he
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likes the numbers a little bit, like, Yeah, you guys are gonna
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sure, you guys are get it. Yeah, and like you he does
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it in moderation as well. He should as well, he should everything in
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moderation. So lucky Luke Rowsy Miss Jack too, don't you, miss Jack?
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