GEOG 400: Tracking a Hurricane

0:46 Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast. I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian seagull. How you doing, buddy? You got some Thursday Night Football. Here you are a jack down Thursday night. Your Colts playing. Yeah, we're down for right now. Phillips, trying to go for it on fourth down here. We'll see what happens. You're right, try to go for it on fourth down, looks like the own Richmond, not Richmond product, the VCU product, no Ali's getting involved in some of these. Yes sir, yes, sir. I took off today. For the Masters. Hey you hit me up a little while ago and said you had triple screens while you were working watching everything, you could Masters wise, which the I had, I had a man Corner pulled up. I had the featured group and then I had four five, six, you are doing it, man.

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2:19 And like Your codes are getting closer and closer and closer to the end zone. Let Me Take the Lead here, give it to Jonathan Taylor. I have them in a fantasy league. Please, please, please, although, he's weirdest case scenario. We could go another 3 here and I at least get some more fantasy points for from Rodrigo and we go man. Awesome. Well folks It's Thursday, it's time to know your enemy, which we do every week, win, or lose the prior week. We're going to still be here. I hope you guys enjoyed Saturday night. That was uncut. That was raw, that was me and Brian.

3:00 Quite a few beers deep given are true. Emotions of how we feel about the program right now, and but right now we're going to know your enemy. We are going to look at the Miami Hurricanes. The number 19 The country rolling into Blacksburg for the high noon kickoff, that has been moved to ESPN due to all the SEC basically, becoming a petri dish for the coronavirus. This it has, man. Yes, it is. Miami six in one. The one loss is to number one Clemson in Death Valley, so definitely a good team. And the second year with Manny Diaz With The Changes he made, and let's just start straight up with it, Brian.

3:40 Let's look at their offense and let's talk about the quarterback. Derek. In the Houston transfer, who is just seamlessly? Transition into Miami, likely, a lot of that has to do with the new offensive coordinator, retinol. Ashley in the Airaid system, you know, with especially with deer coming from the holgersson system, you know, last year and then before that Major Applewhite, he's always been some sort of that concept. And man, he's lighting it up 8. 1828 yards, passing 16 touchdowns for pics, leading the team in rushing to another mobile quarterback unfortunately or hundred yards in two additional touchdowns.

4:26 They're completing 63 percent of his passes 13th in the country, in passing yards, 11th and passing touchdowns, he has the fifth most rushing yards for quarterback and Brian will just happened. Touchdown Jet Sweep. Oh God. Are you kidding again with the quarterback? We definitely have to be worried about last week now Brian. Do the numbers are they telling the truth about what dear King are they telling lies from the tape says they're telling a pretty good amount of Truth, man, this guy's going to be a big big handful for our defense this week. As you said it's an air raid type system but it's more it's based in that are po.

5:17 So it's very similar to kind of what we saw UNC running to a point but the little bit more of the quick passing game versus shots down the field. Old. But King does a really good job of getting the ball out of his hands quick. But he'll take a shot against mismatches or off that play action. Really love targeting his tight ends, swing it out to the running backs in space and taking kind of shots up the seam with that. With that play action, to either the slaughter, the tight end. And you know, you said it with the rush of he can absolutely burn you with his legs as well. A lot of design kind of quarterbacks Weeps not as much up the Middle with any sort of like leads or Powers mostly on the edge but he's really good at the scramble drill will take off and really really burn things. If you're in like band coverage or anything like that where he has space to operate so want to definitely keep him in the pocket as much as possible and hit him as much as possible. We're going to be having our hands full all day man. Because Is he can really hurt a defense with his arm and with his legs.

6:32 Yeah, absolutely. Obviously the Russian numbers are there and then when you kind of look across the board, I mean he spread the wealth through his receiving. You talk about those short passes and stuff and other ways that here, he's hitting his receivers. I mean, they have five players with over 200 yards and seven games, that's pretty good. That tells me there might there's a couple guys leading the card here, but at any point in time, he can choose someone in go to that person. Now nobody has more than four touchdowns. What you can. You start getting? Down inside the 30 and 20 can, you can't keep which the way our defense has been playing. Lately, makes me worry even more, but I will look at two guys to specifically a, you kind of mentioned, one of them. He loves to go to his tight end and that's brother. Jordan 632 45.

7:21 One of the best tight ends in his class when he came out in 2018, and looks like he is going to return this weekend. Been out the previous three games, of course he comes. This weekend my and kind of look at some of his draft projections, I mean he's looking at probably being a second-round guy and you know one of those top seven, two five, five to seven tight ends in next year's draft. Now in only four games this season, you know, 18 receptions, 243 yards and you know, but when you hear 63 you here to 45, you hear about some of the brawn stuff already.

8:02 Chin, just, you know, offhand about what king likes to do. He's going to get into a little bit more on. Look at two other things Braun, here. I want to look at Harley only my Carly, the 5-11 185-pound wide out of Fort Lauderdale. Sure who of the five or season. Option is clearly King's favorite at this point in time. He's really excelled in this new system compared to last year's. You know, thirty five receptions for her 97 yards, receiving Being, he's already surpassed his totals he's yards total for last year, for touchdowns averaging 41 14.2 per reception. So clearly probably taking some shots, probably some of those wide receiver stings. You talked about now.

8:48 Brian, there is one piece that I've got to tell you about the, which I don't think she kind of shocked anybody, but in case, you didn't know, they're still one of the worst teams in the country at protecting the quarterback. Giving up almost three sacks of game, which you feel like that hasn't changed last year. Although, to me, I feel like they were given up more last year, but they weren't they were. Yeah, that's neither here nor there. So, Brian. How do you think the Airaid concept or not only the, not only helping the receiving core out but also helping the offensive line out. So yeah I'll start with Brevin Jordan. How the system is really led to him? Flourish you go with that.

9:32 Type of athleticism and that size getting him out in the flat and getting him up. The seam, you're really gives him room to operate and take advantage of mismatches in the in the secondary there. He's a big-time Red Zone threat and honestly an underrated blocker. He does some good things for them in the Run game as well. So he's a guy that we're going to need to account for every play. But as you said the guy that they really like to hit from a wide receiver, Our perspective is Mike, Harley you plays primarily in the slot and that's the guy that King really targets when he needs to move, the sticks is the tight ends and the slot receiver.

10:12 My Carly, he'll take kind of swings screens. I saw him take a slant against NC State to the house. So he's a guy that can take some of those short routes and make big plays out of them has really good Vision. Once he has the ball in his hands, And you can outrun most anybody on the field as well. So we're gonna have to account for him every down as well and you talked about the offensive line, man, they're not a great offensive line, they're probably just above average and run blocking even though the middle of that line is a little suspect but they're still pretty bad, been passed Pro. But with the RPO concepts with the Zone reads, with the play action with the ball, Getting out of Kings hands a lot faster, they're not giving up the sacks.

11:07 They were last year because the balls out of Kings hand and just his athleticism, if they don't have a great play, they don't block it well. But all of a sudden came can make something out of nothing and turn it into a positive gain there. So, you know, that unit has had a lot taken off of their plate just by the insertion of dear King into this lineup. Brian did you have like memories of some of the tie rod beer and Marcus Vick years when the lines weren't? So, great at Virginia Tech. Whether those guys couldn't make, you know, make just everything out of absolutely garbage.

11:47 Oh, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. You look at it, it's like, well, it's like Well, Kings, goodnight up and all of a sudden, he kind of gets outside and it's a, you know, a ten yard gain on. What should have been an 8-yard sack? I mean, We see that a lot with this team, it's going to be something that we're going to need to focus on. Like I said, I want to keep him in the pocket working that leverage and make sure that if he's stepping up, he's stepping up into the heart of the defense and not getting to the age where he can hurt us. Real bad. Other names to know what the wide receivers. Mark Pope D Wiggins and will Mallory all three over two hundred yards.

12:28 All three averaging over 12. George perception. So again, they got numerous weapons. So the two days we really focused on if you hear the other names being called, don't be shocked this week. Now, for on. Well we saved essentially the worst for last. Well, the worst when it concerns how our defense has been looking for the past few weeks. You know, we're going to look at the running backs, you know, we know King running the ball and this might be an are a type system. But this is again one of my de Faria, Dairy type system for the running backs are going to get the ball. Some they're going to get their voices and really there's two guys who have significantly stood out. The first is Cameron Harris, the 510 210-pound running back out of Miami.

13:20 So a HomeTown kid down there, he's a truly, your more traditional style running back getting 396 yards about 4.9 of Kerry also. Additional 87, receiving yards with six total touchdowns and the other guy will look at to me this is as a true freshman and it makes sense after they actually came in last year. He is the more are a type of running back Jaylyn. Nitin 510 195 pounds. He was literally one of the top all-purpose backs coming out of last year's class. We say, we want to say, we make fun of how they recruit. They still can get talented guys in night and definitely One of them 171 yards on the ground hundred thirty-five. Receiving yards also does some kickoff returns gotta like athene seven or five or seven returns has gotten 100 yards in that along with two touchdowns Braun after last week. And then after the way it game, and you know, after part to Louisville game, we know the problems we have on the Rushdie. What does this team do that?

14:29 Could expose it even more with King in these two guys. Well, what scares me is kind of the same thing that scared me against Louisville and they really didn't take advantage of it against us. But, you know, having running backs in a quarterback that can Rush against you at an elite level. In this case, Harris is more of the kind of stick moving one, cut tight back. He's also really good blocker, so you'll see him. Leading out for for King on some of those design quarterback sweeps, things like that. So he's the guy that's going to be probably getting the most snaps the most reps there on the offense. But you'll see Jalen night and work in quite a bit. He is much better on the edge in terms of The Rush game. They also use him as a receiving thread as you were noting. They're very much a duel Threat type running back there and he has really good speed and breaks tackles. So that's why he's kind of a threat on the Special Teams as well.

15:34 So we got to keep an eye out for him and the other guy that will mix in there. Occasionally, is Don Chaney jr. He's kind of a little bit of a mix of both of those guys. Got some, someone cut can break some good tackles, but they have used them in the run in the passing game as well. So keep an eye out for him. He's kind of the third down. Almost like a spell type guy that can really come in there and take carries that would either go to Harris or night, and just because he's a little bit more versatile. Nice, one. One thing I do want, everybody knows this team's only had eight turnovers in 27 games so they don't hammers the ball a lot. They do for a pretty.

16:17 Well three of those came against Clemson going. The other six game, they're averaging less than 1 turnover, per game. Solid conversion. A third down. Rated 43.9 worries me. Since Iris has significantly just keeps going upward 41.2 and stopping the rush. That's only 68 best in the country. So on the bottom side below average, in another thing I noticed and it goes back. When I hear you talk about the short passes, the quick scrambles, they are getting a ton of first downs a game. They are the 19. Essentially best team in the country. It getting first downs per game. So, you know, you talk about, they can hit the home runs but they're not afraid to get in the car.

17:01 Take a Sunday drive on you and say, okay, you want 12 plays. Let's do it. We can do it this way. So Bryan, we sit here and I made the joke earlier as we were getting all this stuff coming up. I was like, Brian. Have you really went to the depths of the despair that you're you don't even want to ride in the house? I want to get the ball out of Kings hands as much as possible. I want when we're talking about playing on defensive line, if they're in that zone reading that RPO. I want to attack the mesh and make the quarterback either get rid of the ball fast or give it to the running back. I don't want the ball in Kings hands for very long because the longer It's in his hands.

18:09 The worst things happen. I think it happened to the defense, getting the ball in his hands like with they squeezing that mesh point in the RPO. And in the zone read it's going to create more predictable outcomes in the running game. If we know, we can force the ball into the running backs hands. That means if our linebackers are where they need to be, if our defensive tackles are holding their ground, then we should be there to make the play. So I'm trying to create predictable more predictable outcomes here so that's what that would do. I'd have some Defender. Probably Chase Jordan, pretty much wherever he goes.

18:52 He's going to be a guy that they're going to try to get the ball out too quick and he's also going to be able to attack up the seam. I'd like to take away those type of plays as much as possible because that's going to be those little stick movers that end up kind of frustrating and tiring out the defense I knew this kind of goes some with what I've already talked about, but we need to set the edge. Motherfucker, please, please. Don't give up outside leverage to this team, because they will eat your lunch all day and the game starts at 12, so there's going to be lunch available.

19:36 And last man, if you can do those things you still need to tackle, tackle tackle. If we will not been doing a lot of no we haven't. But that includes Jordan, that includes night and that includes Harris that includes Harley in those passing game, includes King out on the edge or when he scrambles out of the pocket, there's going to be a lot of opportunities for us to make plays, but we have to make them in order to make a play. Defense, you have to tackle. That's a prerequisite. It's the truth man. In the last few weeks, it's been a struggle for us. So, you know, hope that something is clicking, you know, as Dax hollifield said at the podium, that feels like they were getting closer and closer, and it's about to click something needs to click, you know, if Something's Gotta click because the defense is had a pretty I'd say, I'm not going to say a bad run, but the last four games, haven't been great.

20:41 No. And two of them have been pretty bad about as, and I honestly Liberty was about as bad as they can get. It's very true, very true. So let's hope something clicks there and maybe it's the last week was the darkness before the dawn. Now, Brian, let's flip to the other side because, you know, the strength of our team Right now is the offense and let's take a look at Miami. Yeah, let's total Total Defense wise given up 393 game. Good for 50 s. So about middle-of-the-road, not great, not awful. I'm giving up 148 on the ground, which is fifty third in the nation 245 passing, which is 75th.

21:25 So, you know, of their defense, obviously, the running game is showing us the strength, but a couple of their games, they've gotten the head and teams have been Forced to pass though. Sometimes those skew the results but either way you look at it you kind of feel this is strength on strength for us, middle of the road cycling, the quarterbacks little lunch less than two and a half in game you know, 47th in the country. They have forced him to turn overs so definitely you know, five of each. So NADA not picking the ball off. Not punching the ball out but just kind of steady and believe it or not. It's one of those things where For what this offense does, they didn't need a super dominant defense.

22:11 They just needed a defense is doing what they're doing, which is playing very steady, you know, not doing anything spectacular. So with the so why is it with a lot of talent? They're just kind of there, not blah, they're not. Hey there more, okay? I mean, to me some of it has to do with the fact that when you've got a fast-paced offense, a lot of times other teams kind of match that Tempo, and that can put your defense On their own, they're on their heels a little bit. So sometimes you see that with, with, with offenses, that kind of play that more up-tempo game but we for look at this defense let's get into some of the minutiae of what they do and how they do it. So they're kind of a multiple front defense. They usually have a base to 45 nickel type defense. They're very similar To UNC in terms of alignment, but they deploy their positions a lot differently. They've got a what they call a striker which is kind of similar to like our whip position kind of an oversized safety with good coverage skills, ability to come up and play the run as well. You'll see them often cover the tight ends and guys in the slot. Depending on the, the Personnel

23:44 that the offense deploys, the player to watch there is Gilbert Frierson. He's the guy that is out there. The most at that position, key Entre Smith will work in there as well. But fear seems probably one of the better players on the defense just because of his versatility and ability to really run with guys but also make some plays in their running game. We've got the other position that we're going to talk about here is Viper. These are kind of your these are your stand-up Edge rushers. Think about what Trayvon Hill, did a lot last year. Think about what you've seen, Quincy Roche, do so far for them.

24:26 Jalen Phillips is another guy that will work in that type of position, primarily Edge rushers, and guys that are going to feel they'll slip out in the flat, but they usually don't have any strong coverage responsibilities and As I've looked I mean they will show various front so a lot of times they'll have that kind of that 245 look with those. Those Viper type players standing up sometimes they'll just have one standing up. Sometimes they will have a single D tackle in both of them standing up. Sometimes they will have almost like a 3/4 looks so they they deploy. These guys are really differently. Depending on the The opponent and the personnel and formation that the offense comes out.

25:16 And Yeah, Braun. You mentioned there. You know, obviously Roche, hokey Miss. I don't know if we missed bag for Roche. 31, tackles ten tackles for loss? He's tied for the team lead with Jalen Phillips at two-and-a-half another guy. You have not mentioned, it kind of caught my eye was Bubba. Bolden the six foot three. Pound USC transfer who is leading the team in tackles also has an interception also forced to bunch of fumbles. So, you know, you've kind of set that up. What is what is Bolton doing on this team and why are his numbers sticking out so much kind of across the board? You have a, he's kind of the other standout player in the secondary, you know, I kind of mentioned the guy that's playing.

26:18 Striker, he's more, more of a linebacker that that can cover bubble boldin's. The true secondary player that standing out here, very instinctive player. He has great speed and he's not afraid to hit, he'll Dil Laya pop on guys in the in the running game. And guys going across the middle of the defense, but he also plays the Deep have really well really well. So you'll see him get some Make some plays in the secondary with with some tip balls, some interceptions. But you'll see him come up and cover the run just just as well as you would see a linebacker. So really really versatile player there. The rest of the back end though is kind of susceptible to be enthroned on.

27:07 So I think we might have some opportunities there and on third down, they like to bring pressure they don't have great sack number so they're not getting home a lot with it but they are doing a good job of making quarterbacks throw before they're ready and that's created some of those turnovers we've talked about so they mix up their fronts a lot so we don't really know what level and who's coming pre-snap. So they do a good job with kind of disguising. Those blitzes. Oh yeah. Well, you know you mentioned bobbin essentially all the stuff he does. Well and I mean bone was a top hundred guy coming out he an elite Prospect and it's no doubt why you transfer from USC to Miami you know whether similar you know, schools are similar. So I guess in Southern California felt like you needed to go a lot more humidity.

28:10 Before you get into kind of breaking down, what we need to do on offense. If you think Rousseau was playing, do you think they would be a top 15 top 20 defense? You know, they'd be in that ballpark, you know, right now probably an elite level Roche and Phillips are are doing a damn good job but if you throw in another, you know, almost see caliber player potential All-American caliber player to be the focal point of that. I mean the sky would be the limit for them getting pressure on the quarterback. So that that would definitely, you know, I think at least Them up, probably in the, the top 25 range, or maybe top 30, you know, they're definitely missing his presence because you after Roche and Phillips, there's not a whole lot of great play.

29:05 There's some good play, but, you know, Quincy Roche at the Viper and Phillips playing both a traditional DNN that Viper role. You know, they've had some success with that. So, you know, not a big jump in the top end, but being able to rotate, Tate it, an additional elite-level, pass rusher into that, that mix would definitely help them out. Like so what are we going to do to attack and what do we need to do with that one? Well if there's a weakness of the defense it's kind of in the middle so I think we're going to see a lot of inside Zone. I would like to even though we saw too much of it last week, I would like to see us run some of the QB lead. And the QB powers to hopefully, get some gash plays up the middle there, but we need to get the ball out of hookers hands from time to time and let the running backs, make some plays. So it bothers me.

30:07 The potentially Khalil Herbert could be out again. We need to find another guy that can work between the tackles other than Herbert. I love black sheer but I think we are misusing him. As just ARB to spell back there. We need to use him in more versatile ways. And so I'm thinking maybe some other guys are going to need to step up to be that between the tackle type running back. If we got situation where Herbert needs a blow or in some case like this where potentially Herbert's going to miss the game. So that's the big thing.

30:48 I think this team is also susceptible to the screen game just because of how aggressive, they Play at the d-line and linebacker level. So that's where Blackshear can come into play. That's where you know Gallo or Mitchell if he's healthy can come into play. So hopefully we can see some more of the tight end and running back screens that will take advantage of some of their aggression. And honestly we're going to need to attack them in the passing game because they're going to stack the Box regardless of whether Herbert's in there or not. Yep. Because they know we're going to still try to use our offensive line. To assert a strong running game, whether the ball is going to one of the other running backs, like, I hope it will or whether it's going to be Hendon hooker running a ton of quarterback leading a ton of quarterback power or quarterback sweep. So yeah, I really hope that we're able to find another option and also keep them honest with the consistent and efficient passing game, So that we can really still run our Playbook the way, we'd like to be driven on something that, you know, when they said what are weak was guys? Like ties Gary.

32:02 And Mark, only are they just they just aren't quite ready, you know what, man, we know how those practices looking. Oh, this guy's looking better. We've know that you failed on that occasion. We could quarterbacks. Could you be failing with running backs as well? Potentially. Yes. And so maybe you just need to give those guys the opportunity on the field and just broke practice down the drain. Because in the situation you've got to find a second running back. I think black shoes Okay as a spell back to where we're going to give him a couple clothes that fun they have underutilized him. I love Taylor Robinson to death but why Rahim has not been on punt returns baffles. Is crap out of me.

32:46 Probably the one glaring thing shy. Best has not done good. This year is not given that were in the opportunity to actually return punts. One thing Brian I think could be key in this game potentially to help the Hokies is we've got to take advantage of all the penalties that they do. They're averaging 75 penalty yards a game. They are literally one of the worst football teams in the country. You think about that? Potentially you? Think 75 yards. You think that's an extra? Touchdown. In the way, we played the last few weeks and extra touch down in one game. One us an extra touch down one game lost us and actually if you go back even to the weight force game extra touchdown lost us the game. We need to take advantage of that run. Absolutely.

33:38 And I mean, we saw just watching the tape man, some of it is, you know, procedure sites type stuff, but some of its just being undisciplined and getting you know, Personal fouls. So yeah, this is still a Miami Team, guys. They're still gonna have some undisciplined play and gift you a first down here. There honestly, some some tight calls in the NC State game and UVA game, probably ended up losing both of those teams, a potential shots and knock off Miami. So, Hopefully, we can take advantage of them where some some of those other teams failed to do. So, Look.

34:23 Local can man you know what? Let's turn now to the pivotal players. And today it's kind of funny. It's going to be pivotal people. We had to go a little different here this week. I want to start with offense and it's not even a doubt. Who number one is, it's in the hooker this week, if hidden hooker doesn't play well, we have no shot in this game. Yes, especially if we got guys like Mitchell and Herbert potentially not being good enough to go, a lots going to fall on hookers, shoulders just as it did last week and he answered the Bell last week despite not getting the win, but he's going to have to do it again. If we're gonna have a chance to win this one, needs to play a turnover, free game, be efficient in the passing game and do everything he's been doing in the running. Game when his numbers called, it's true, it's true. The second one is the running back unit in whole, we've already kind of went in depth a couple times what that I'm sorry I want on my tangent a few minutes ago but that's going to happen when we're playing the way we're playing and Brian's already set it as well.

35:37 It can't just be juice if juices bang there's got to be somebody else like the out there runs are pretty said it numerous times black. Cheers, not That guy to be on the inside. Is he an okay spell yeah right. What is it? You want to give you three or four you know 45 inside. Cool. He's got to be used elsewhere. I don't care if it's Jalen Holsten. Marco Ali ties Gary. Anybody else? You want a name? We got to go ahead and try and you had a free year. What the hell is it going to hurt to give one of these guys, a chance to go out there? Even if you don't feel, they're ready in practice? Yeah, I agree with you, man.

36:21 You know, I said it a little bit, we were breaking down, you know, what we need to do, and I'll say it again. We need somebody in that running back room to step up. We talked about all offseason, you know, we bolster the running back room. We boast of the running back room and obviously Herbert, that's paid. Big dividends, you've missed used Blackshear a lot and then after that it's been kind of a question mark. Like okay, I mean we saw Holston get some some good runs Week 1. Against NC State and he had one or two early in the game against Liberty. And then once we realized that quarterback lead and quarterback power were working working, we just got lazy and just kept running that over and over and over. I and I get that you know, you can get 45 yards with that. Pretty much every time you call it, but at some point, you know, at what risk like, why are we just continually with this offensive line against a team like Liberty, just continually running our quarterback into the middle of that defense Trina? It's true.

37:34 And the other pieces you talk about Jalen and it's the piece and it's why. Our number third person is our number third person. He had broken that 12-yard run to get it inside the five. And Brian, after I say that, if people listen last week, who's the number three, Brad core Nelson. Mr. Corn himself in Brahma. Let you go ahead and give a couple of your reasons and I'm going to give my reasons why he's number three on me. Go ahead and Lead sir. Well, I went in just now about let's not kill our quarterback just because it's the easy thing to do again. We were playing Liberty.

38:20 We should not need an extra blocker and risk, our quarterbacks Health to get five yards of Pop. It's my opinion, y'all can disagree with me, but just because something working doesn't mean it's the best option. Number two, One of the biggest criticisms of always have is that he does a poor job of adjusting to get his offense comfortable when the initial game plan kind of goes out of the window and I never saw that. Adjustment. Again, he kind of took the easy route of just running hooker up the middle, the whole game instead of trying to get other guys, comfortable other guys involved. I honestly would prefer if we stop the the damn check with knees and just go tempo as often as possible because we went Tempo it clicked no matter who got the ball, it wasn't just about Hendon hooker.

39:21 It was about getting the ball out whether it's in the Run game or the passing game, And doing what was most effective. So, that would be my suggestion in that. Hopefully is something that we see in this game. It's true. And, and what you said there is where I am at. It's the whole, the check with me and all that crap. I think it's got to stop. Go get the guys comfortable, when I don't want to see this week, is us being primed situations. To score touchdowns or to game first downs and then the boneheaded calls come out. If he comes out here and he calls You know, if he calls the whole game like he does 80% of the game, can we win this game yet?

40:11 Could we win this game by more than one or two points? Yeah, we could but it was out there and it in its back to it again. Your yard line, you can take a 10 point lead and a half. You have a timeout in your pocket and you run with you ran or let's go back to you and see Brian. Essentially, I still feel the drive that swung that game in their favor with the plus. What? 42? Yep. Third and four. What sort of screen short side two yards behind essentially six yards where you need to, go to Tavian Robinson and then run a slant. Those are the ones that anger me the for him. That's dude, call the right game. Know your strengths, don't get your quarterback killed. Get people comfortable.

41:01 And you know what go Tempo? And if the coach comes in, as head coach comes screen. Hey, you can't keep doing that. Say listen, this is the only way I can get us going without screwing the pooch. Don't also, don't get a puckered asshole in the Red Zone, run Tempo, the whole field. All of a sudden, get in the Red Zone, you get a puckered asshole and start the overthinking things. You're still killing drives. He just said puckered asshole, folks. All right, well let's look at male Brown. Look. Well over to the defense and I feel like the first two are just becoming the constants. And it's not a shock, the first ones, a defensive line. And obviously with what they do, if we, especially on the interior mind, if we play, like we've been playing the last few weeks, again, if we continue with the similar combinations. Yep, I'll be a little different.

41:57 Maybe we're Pollard this week because they do like to pass and he can shoot up real quick, but if you're going to roll Pollard out, there you You can't roll Hewitt out there at the same time for significant snaps in a row. That's that's my opinion. Y'all can like it dislike it whatever you want to do with it. But that's that's what I'm saying. Tackles are going to have to hold their own hold their gaps, defensive ends are going to have a much tougher game. They're going to need to force the action at the mesh point and make King give the ball to the running backs. And if he doesn't Of the ball to the running backs. You need to make him pay for that. So are you saying in this case, Brian, like with their owner read, it's just like, don't care. Don't even read it.

42:46 Just go right after him. The read man needs to attack the mesh point with outside. Leverage you doing meaning that? Yeah, I don't think we're not flying up feel, we're flying at the mesh Point, okay? And in doing that, you should. Could force more often than not. King to give the ball to the running back. And if we can do that, I like our chances, a whole lot better than having to essentially account for both the quarterback and the running backs at the linebacker position, which we're about to get to the soccer linebacker positions. Number two, obviously last week we lost you know Ruck for the majority of that game and and they took it full advantage of that.

43:40 It appears he should be back. But it's the same way we talked about it earlier. You said it. You said it 17 times tackle, tackle tackle tackle. Yep, I'll all I want to see from the linebackers is good run fits in tackles being made. If that's all I get. That's all I want. So if we can do that, we can worry about the other stuff at a later time. Let's handle the basics of linebacker play. And to me, that's what needs to get done here. All right, holy shit. He's is he gonna score? No, okay, sorry guys. Holds about to go up big 17 here, right? Bronze going to have a few celebratory beers after we're done recording.

44:31 And after maybe his Colts, close it out, the Colts have left, a lot of points on the field to. So it's a 27, the factory at 27 with probably easily 10 points left on the field, I'll take that all day. Frank Reich, some credit here. By the way, Frank Wright running those Jet Sweep. Running this pot passes, he's essentially running away from the strength even though that one Clowney play that you mentioned was just horrible, but he's not letting them do essentially what they do up front. Hey Brad. I hope you're watching this. See, look. All right. Last one cuz The defense don't get out of this anyway.

45:16 This is the big one. Yep. Third down crops is a defense and Brawn. I put it on here. You didn't change it and I think you agree with me and this is as a whole the defensive coordinator Justin. Hamilton call the right plays coaches. I hope you're coaching. The guys up the things that we're seeing this week, that if we do, we're going to do it and the player. Keep your responsibility make the tackle because if third down happens this week like it did last week we offer them by 3. It's going to be a lot more. Yeah, absolutely.

45:57 And you know, taking it a step further, defensive coaches players on the sideline, keep that team hype on third down to where they're playing with energy, and not looking lethargic. It's like we get to third down and we're like, patting ourselves on the back and were like, forgetting. Oh, yeah. We still got to stop them one more time. Or we, at least need to stop them from gaining enough yards, where they can roll the dice on fourth down and Miami is a team that will roll the dice on fourth down ladies and gentlemen. So, if it's third, fourth, and three or less look for them to go forward, if they're not deep in their own end. It's very true man.

46:38 It's very true. So those are the pivotal people not little people and it might be more of this as we go along with these last four games of the season right here. Yep. All right. Brian solid. Today he would gets to 25 Hopefully it means his plays look better in practice, because it's not been great lately. We know he's the Heart of a Lion, great leader. But you know, we need to see the both on the field and I hope we're on that number, takes them up a little bit. I mean, in some ways, it's almost like he's playing bad, but he's being put in positions to play bad. He's so, I mean, you know, I'm not saying he was the best player on the field.

47:27 On the defensive line or anything like that, but you know, he plays hard and again, he hasn't been put in the greatest positions to succeed. Hopefully, they do better with that this week with him. Wearing 25, he wore 25 last year when we beat Miami. So hopefully that has some good connotations carrying over into this year. We'll see. Well, see uniforms look like this week. I did not see the reveal. Did we do a reveal? There was not so much of a reveal. It was a little photo. Drop that. You have any you know no video cut nothing like that. We just all right it's fucking maroon Hellman's is fucking maroon Jersey.

48:07 Fucking white pants fucking white. Cleats you done. Get out of here. I have they have players have been told you playing like, crap, we're losing games, nobody's allowed to go film something. Cool during the day, you don't, you don't get to take, you know, whatever half hour out of your day to throw one a Nice fit and get shot by by Zach and that team. So yeah I kind of like the idea they're just, you know, throwing it out there and being done with it. I mean you don't you don't get to do cool shit. When you play a game like you did against Liberty maybe that's just the way it goes.

48:49 All right Brian it's prediction time. And I fell flat on my face last week so I get to Let you leave this week. All right man. Well I like this to be a tight game but I don't like us to win it, all right. That's not saying we can't that's saying I don't think we will. I think we definitely have the ability to stay in this game especially if we can find some of the answers that I talked to, but it's going to be tight. And I think it's going to be a 4138 Miami victory. I'm with you I'm a little bit bigger of a number than you are because I think it's going to be very similar that we're going to have a couple times where instead of scoring touchdowns we score field goals I think it's going to be a good game. I think we're going to show pretty well. I think there probably will be some fire but the way I defensive played really You know, the last three weeks. I can't see us win this game.

50:02 I'm going to go 49-38 Miami as well. You know, it's one of those things. It's just you want to be a fan and we want. But when you know again rooting for them, you know, basically pretty much our whole adult lives, and a lot of our adolescent years, we want to be real. We don't want to be the That is always Hoagies are going to win. I don't want to become. What's the guy that was in d.c. for all those years? Larry Michaels? Winds were the most Dreadful team. I'm going to save our skins one. This 120 120 and it's like Dude, they're playing the Packers who were like, not in one who are scored. 46 points a game. You guys can't do anything.

50:52 So, you know, that's just me, man. And I think that's you, as well across the aisle are. Yeah, I mean, honestly, talent-wise other than Clemson and this year, Notre Dame. I think we can compete with pretty much any team in the ACC but we've just been so inconsistent and we got a couple guys like key guys, that might be out of this game just I just don't see it happening, man. Absolutely. All right. Well folks, we're going to roll on five games this week for ACC1 out of conference. Because as I said earlier, the SEC is benchley petri dish for covid and nobody's playing. As is the Big Ten is becoming and they're having to just officially fully cancelled games.

51:33 So, let's look at these four games, four, or five games run. Let's start with wake you and see you and see laying 13 and a half. Brian you let our game. So I'm going to leave this game. I mean, I like you and see and I think they're a good team, but I've seen Wait playing wake is very Scrappy and I feel like giving them almost to touch down is way too much. I think they will put up some points against you and see. I think I'll lose but I think it'll be a lot closer than what the experts think. Yeah, that's a one score game. Give me wake in the points.

52:14 All right, so we got an agreement here on this one and Chuck. Not that shocked. Yeah, I'm not shocked at all. Louisville UVA game got canceled. Last week, due to some issues down in Louisville. Can't blame us. Everybody's had it on our team, they can. Have it a second time and give it to you anything. Laying three and a half, a two and 14 playing three and a half. Where you think? Hollow Man. UVA is one of those teams that's burn me a couple times and helped me a couple times. Man, give me.

53:00 Give me Louisville. All right, Louisville for Brian. I'm going to go opposite on this one. I'm going to pick the lawyers here I just because when you hear team lost that much with covid, you know there are some guys out for my a game probably people not getting full weeks of practice and even like this I think UVA of scrap it together in some way, shape or form and beat them. So, I'll tell you what, I'll tell you the reason that I'm going Louisville's, just because that UVA secondary has been suspect and I think, I think they had some big plays down the field against this team. All right.

53:45 The next one Brian and I'll lead this one. He's going to BBC Notre Dame. Notre, Dame coming off that. Unbelievable when Saturday. Night over Clemson in touchdown, in the shadow of touchdown, Jesus, they are laying 13 and a half to be see, Brian, do you know the last time Notre Dame be the number one team prior to parity night I do not. It was 1993. It was a good vacuum is one of those first college football memories, they beat Charlie, Ward and FSU Essentially Ward's. Last second touchdown pass to the end zone. Fell flat, Irish wind flood the field like Saturday night. Going to many people.

54:33 Do you know who they played the next week? Who's up? He played BC? Do you know what happened the next week? What happened next week lost? Okay, getting themselves out of the national championship game. Okay, so everything wins this but I'm gonna lay the Thirteen and a half. There's no way you're going to say they're going to cover almost two scores coming off, that kind of emotional victory. So, give me BC, give me the Thirteen and a half points. I'm right there with you actually. We saw BC hang in there against Clemson.

55:16 I think it's a similar type deal here especially with Notre Dame coming off a big victory. Probably feel really good about themselves right now. Oh yeah. And I think BC you know, Notre Dame, does a really good job of taking away. The Run they say, do BC. Don't really run the ball man or yeah, we've talked about one of the worst running teams in it. So, you know, I think BC still moves the ball because they're not relying upon gaining, a bunch of yards on the ground. So I think BC is able to keep it close. Absolutely. All right, this is an interesting brine because the way everything's look down in Tallahassee, we think it's bad here and we've seen people take points like Listen, we're at least 4 and 3/4 to and Conference.

56:10 Fsu's Alex, what one in? Five, two and five, one and five in conference, right? Am I, yeah, I think Marvin Wilson and several other guys opted out this week. One of their wide receivers is transfer an Indiana. So what do you think? Brian on the FSU, NC State game. This would have been a bad line before the mass Exodus. Give me n c-- State, man. I'm gonna go right with you Brian because it's a mass Exodus.

56:51 You know. Yeah, they got their quarterback but you saw, you saw them just Hemorrhage points to pit and pit held them. But I think what it is, is the quarterback who did have those success for a few weeks, the tapes, getting out there. It's like, this is what we can do to take it away. So I'm going to take it with you, all right. We're go out of conference for the big one Saturday night. Night. Michigan at Wisconsin, Wisconsin, who has been coded riddle? For multiple weeks is land, 4 and a half. And I'm trying to figure out, you know, I know, Michigan's lost two in a row, you know, after the opening week, win against Minnesota, losing the Michigan State losing last weekend, Indiana, but you're talking about was Constantine that hasn't played in three weeks. You also don't know when that was Constantine is going to be how fully engaged.

57:49 They're going to be with all their players. I don't know if Michigan's going to win this game or not, but if you're giving me points in the way, I'm smelling things. I'll take Michigan over Khan. Yeah, this this one's kind of an interesting one because you got two scenarios that are working against each other. You've got Wisconsin, that probably is the better team if nothing you know everything all the other factors taken out Wisconsin's the better team, but they're coming off multiple weeks of dealing with covid. You don't know how many of their players are going to be 100%. How many of their players have gotten significant amount of practice on the other side, you've got Michigan, that has not played well, the last two weeks.

58:39 But you've got hard ball, that's probably coaching for his job at this point. You know what? Give me the badgers. Oh, okay. Brian goes with the Badgers. And we actually picked, let's see here. We actually disagreed on two things this week. So, yeah, it's like, it's like a record, especially for the smaller sample size.

59:31 Throwing a Boston butt on the smoker going carolina-style, okay? Yes, sir. What's, what? Some sort of a few must-haves when you do a Carolina style sauce. So I usually go with with vinegar and some Texas P, throwing a little brown sugar and some some pepper flakes that's in my Essentially use that as a mop sauce, and then I dress it at the end after I pulled it as far as actually rubbing the but itself, when I go carolina-style, I just go kosher salt. Hell yeah. I left, I left the mop sauce. Flavor, everything, and just let the salt do the talking as far as the rub?

1:00:14 Nice, man. Anything breaking other than your team is up 17 with the ball. 650. We run out the clock. Now, this is a Kill Shot here. Nothing else, man. I haven't seen anything come across my board also. Well, that's going to wrap up this episode of The Boundary Corner podcast. I'm Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian Sigler. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and subscribe for your podcast on your favorite Source, including Spotify, Amazon and apple music. It's always we let our buddy. Jason Long, play us out, catch him in Roanoke at Bloom Restaurant and Wine Bar on November 19th. He'll be playing at 5:30 so go out and see him if you live in that area. Also check him out on Spotify and apple music. We thank you for listening.

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