It is officially Week Zero. As we prepare for the unofficial start to the College Football season we take a look at where the stock is for each position group. We also make our season W-L predictions for the Hokies in 2024.
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Music.
And welcome back to the Boundary
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Corner podcast along with my
partners, Brian Siegler and
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Jonathan Talley.
I'm Curtis Wilson and this
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fellas.
What is going on, man?
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We back.
We back.
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We getting we entering closer
and closer.
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We we back, we back to do this
every week.
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So that's how you know, we're
we're about to punch it because
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when we go in every week, you
know, we got content coming in,
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you know, we got games about to
happen.
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You know that things are about
to get real for the Hokies.
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Yeah, I agree.
I mean, you just ready, man?
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I mean, I think we got some
football, you know, this weekend
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and I got some high school games
to go to, some middle school
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games to go to.
So it it it's wide open, man.
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It's wide open.
And and that's what you want.
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Best time of year?
It's 100% on that tally, man.
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It's it's games going
everywhere.
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You driving by schools now, you
seeing the kids out there
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practicing.
We get more and more news from
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every single pundit in the
college football world.
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We're seeing more interviews,
Andy Better, David Cunningham,
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all the guys that take sideline
and the writers down in Roanoke
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at practice, seeing the stuff
every day.
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It's it's tough to hold down
because it is officially week
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zero.
We got game, like you said,
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Tally, we got games this weekend
that, that one Saturday
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afternoon.
I'm, I'm hoping I know Brian's
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not going to be at home.
I'm going to try to get in front
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of the TV and watch that game
because I want to see what
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Georgia Tech looks like and, you
know, and SMU later that night.
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Like, because although we don't
play SMU this year, they're
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members of the ACC.
They're going to be playing
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teams we are playing right.
Yeah, and they, and, and those
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are two teams that people are
kind of high on, or three teams,
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you know, Georgia Tech, some
people got Georgia Tech as a
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pretty good team.
Maybe one of our losses, you
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know, again, some people and
Florida State's always good in
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the ACC as long as they're here,
you know, till they leave, I
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guess.
And then like you said, SMU,
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man, a lot of people are talking
about SMU is a is a dark horse
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team this year.
So it'll be good.
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Good week zero man, Great week
0.
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Yeah, I mean, it's it's one of
those you got, you got some good
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matchups like you got to see,
all right, so you got Georgia
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Tech, Are they a team on the
rise?
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It's Florida State.
Have they retooled the way
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everybody thinks they have?
And and like you said, some of
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some of those unknown anomalies
from an ACC conversation as far
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as SMUI mean, it's not a, it's
not a matchup that's going to I
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think test them, but it is their
kind of intro into being AACC
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conference team.
We get to see them a little bit.
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And I'm looking forward to that
team in particular seeing how
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they kind of move forward once
they get into conference.
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Play 100% and we are actually at
the end of the telecast tonight.
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We are going to pick those.
It is our big screeners games of
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the week.
We only got 2 to pick from so we
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didn't have to scurry up and
down the the lineup card to
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decide what we're going to do
later this evening.
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Also, we are going to go through
the schedule and we are going to
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make our predictions of the
Hokies season record.
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We're going to break it down.
If you didn't join us last year,
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we're going to break it down
four games at a time and kind of
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get to the end there kind of a
little bit knowing the enemy,
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how we're feeling about the
Hokies playing them.
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And then we're going to look at
the position groups earlier
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tonight and it's sort of
something if you if this, if
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you're new here, this is the
first time because I'm looking
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up in the left corner.
We got a lot more people
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watching than we normally have.
We appreciate everybody out
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there.
Every Tuesday of the season of
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the season, after the Hoagies
have played, we do tell the
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truth Tuesday.
And basically we recap the game.
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We ask what went well, what went
bad, did anything happen we want
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ready for and what can we do
better moving forward.
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We're going to do that every
week.
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This week we're kind of telling
the truth of how we are feeling
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towards each position group on
the Hokie stock up, stock down
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or we feeling level.
So that's what we got in store
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tonight.
But fellas, I want to kick it
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off because out of nowhere
recruiting pick back up out of
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the out of nowhere for me.
Maybe I ain't been paying
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attention, but when you land a
top ten player in the state of
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North Carolina, a top 247 player
in Snoop Peterkin, 62172 out of
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Mount Tabor, a wide receiver in
Winston Salem like that, that's
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in some ripples.
Because Tally, I know you
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followed.
Everybody was saying he was
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going to NC State.
Oh yeah, I mean, I didn't pay
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attention to him because I
thought he was going to NC
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State.
What?
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Then you got to realize, man,
you got funtail minds on your
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team.
You're never out of it.
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So never out of it.
And another thing I didn't know
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the kid played basketball as
well.
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Yeah, yeah.
So that's that's our second dual
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sport athlete in this class.
That's pretty cool.
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So Micah Matthews and now Snick
Peterton and I mean, this is one
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that I think we made some good,
good progress late in the
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process because we, it looked
like, like y'all said he was NC
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State bound.
And all of a sudden, you know,
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so a couple of visits happened.
There's some whizzing.
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It's like, hey, hey, you know,
the Hokies are in play here.
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The Hokies are in play here.
Next thing you know, you know,
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we we get that commitment and
and that's big man, because I
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mean that that's again, Fontell
going out there and pretty much
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getting getting the guys that he
wants.
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Any anybody that he gets gets
really deep into the recruiting
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process with.
He seems to be able to pull in.
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And I mean that's a credit to
him.
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It it honestly at this point, I
mean, you know, I, I hope it
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doesn't have to happen, but you
know, you got to make him if if
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you can do it, the highest paid
non coordinator assistant in the
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country.
It's like the $1,000,000.
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Man, he's pretty.
He's pretty close to earning it.
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He's earning it on the field,
He's earning it in recruiting,
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so. 100% How do you argue with
that?
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I don't know.
I know this happened Saturday
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and we're busy.
Tally's got his son playing
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football.
We're getting ready.
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We we've sent our kids back to
school here.
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Did y'all get to see any tape
yet on him?
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On.
Peter can snook.
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Just go look at the first clip
on any of them.
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I mean, I mean, it's been a,
I've, I've looked at a couple of
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things, but from the one I've
seen, I think it was just huddle
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tape.
Go look at the first clip.
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He's running a kickback, he's
running a punt back and it's
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stiff on one guy.
Get to the end, get to the
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sideline and outrun everybody at
621-701-8170.
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And he played basketball.
It's Trey Turner, you know what
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I'm saying?
Same kind of body style kind of
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kind of speed from what I've
seen and then you get into a
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couple of other clips it's like
he's running away from people
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what I and I didn't watch a
whole bunch I'm not going to
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lie, but again, it don't take
you 2 hours to look at somebody
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and see if they can play ball
there you.
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Go.
First clip, running a punt back.
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Second clip, somebody threw him
a fade and he caught it over his
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outside shoulder.
Dove.
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Third clip, another diving
catch, this 40 yards. 4th clip,
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runs the kickoff back.
That's enough.
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What else do I need to see?
And Fontell wants you so.
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And this is this is another kid
that seems to be football first
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in, in terms of like, you know,
you got basketball, you got
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football, but he seems to be a
football first guy.
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You love to see that and I'm
excited for him man, because I
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think he is the kind of Trey
Turner that do it all type
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receiver, kind of do a little
bit of everything for you.
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And I think we kind of, we had
another cycle where you got kind
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of a traditional slot guy, you
got kind of a red zone thread
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and now you kind of got this,
this do it all receiver.
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So we're, we're again stacking
bodies and, and, and getting
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them where they make sense in
how we're trying to play, play
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offense and what our scheme is,
is designed to do and kind of
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mixing up their skill sets a
little bit. 100 percent, 100%.
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All right, before we flip it
over to the next commitment,
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just a shout out to everybody
listening tonight.
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Some of our regulars in here got
Thomas out here talking about
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the team.
Chris Lester, always good to
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hear from you man.
Our Buddy Clark down in Roanoke
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and Mr. Drones.
So appreciate you guys as always
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for listening.
But let's talk about the next
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gentleman that committed a
little bit earlier this week.
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Luke Stewie, a six foot 295 LB
athlete, classified as an
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athlete out of Avon Lake.
OH, just a three star, little
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bit lower than what we've seen,
but background, do a little
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research.
His dad Michael was a wide
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receiver.
Looked up the stats had like 700
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yards played three seasons back
from 94 to 97.
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Obviously if y'all didn't see
Dwight shouted out him the other
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day.
So obviously he's got that and
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again, it's Ohio.
We always, you know, me and
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Brian long for tally join.
We always talk about it's like
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if you can get some from Ohio,
you get some from Pennsylvania,
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a couple from New Jersey and
then a couple from Georgia and
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South Carolina and North
Carolina.
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Then you doing shit right
because you going to those
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football States and you pulling
out.
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Don't care where they ranked now
any any how anything on this kid
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yet that y'all seen or read
about since we landed him?
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So this seems to be one that
outside of the legacy piece,
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which is I think a big part of
this, and that's kind of why he
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was on the radar that, you know,
they had him into a camp.
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Apparently he really looked
really good at the camp.
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And I think a lot of times guys
that are in that kind of lower,
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lower three star ranking, you
know, they go to a camp, they
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either find a good fit or, or or
are able to kind of really go
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there and really stand out in in
a particular way.
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That's how a lot of these guys
get these offers.
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And I mean that that seems used
to be what happened for him.
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Yeah, definitely.
I've talked to my son about that
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a lot.
And just, you know, sports in
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general, you never know what a
coach is 100% looking for.
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You know, I mean, a lot of times
they'll tell you, but every now
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and then it's a skill that can't
be taught, whether it's high
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point in the ball or whether
it's the way you speak, you
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know, whether it's the way you
carry yourself and you're a
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leader through drills.
It's it's something.
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So it's no telling like what
they seen.
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But from what I've seen, I think
he plays both sides of the ball.
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Send him on some defense as
well.
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Ball skills are pretty good that
that wide receiver room is
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packed, man.
Like if you want to get on the
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field over there, you're going
to have to do some work.
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So I ain't saying that he can't,
but I'm just saying with him
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being able to play offense and
defense, I mean, that helps him
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out to find a place on the
field, you know, and, and again,
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like Brian said, him being a
legacy probably is a big piece
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to that, which is good.
I like to see stuff like that
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because the worst thing can
happen is that somebody loves
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tech and they played at tech.
They have a kid, he goes
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somewhere else and then he ends
up turning into Steph Curry.
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You just, I'd rather be on the
sidelines than be in the
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Olympics.
And then we'd be saying, hey, we
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should have.
So if somebody is, you know that
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that's that's part of that's
part of recruiting, that's part
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of building the culture.
So y'all keep doing what you're
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doing.
They'll get Lauren Johnson's
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other son to next.
The legacy too there.
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We go.
Yeah, 100%.
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And looking at him tally, you're
right, he does play both sides.
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He's playing a lot of inside
slot receiver, but playing like
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a free.
Looking at the tape here and
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it's on my left screen, he's
playing free and he's playing
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strong.
So he's playing inside the box
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and outside the box.
And one of them was a pick.
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He he went straight over top of
the guy and just took the ball
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from him.
I mean, you know, so is what it
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is.
So again, two more recruit
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pickups there.
Hokies currently 36th rank in
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the country at like 87.8.
That creeping back to that 88
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again, even with the 83.
And I know some people like
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recruit rings don't mean Jack
shit.
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Well, I think we can all tell
you look who's makes the play
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offs, look who's always winning
910 games.
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And when we were winning nine
and 10 games, those recruiting
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rankings were a little bit
higher than everybody thought.
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So it does matter.
All right, fellas, kind of the
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two-part of why we are here
tonight.
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Let us talk about the hokey
position groups and if that
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stock is up, if that stock is
down or if it's like this.
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And by all means, if you're out
there listening tonight and you
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feel like you got an opinion up
or down, throw it in the chat of
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how you feeling.
We'll definitely throw it in
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there.
So I am going to start, got to
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do this, right.
I'm going to start with Brian
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Talley because when I get to the
last one, I got to leave with
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him first.
That's why.
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No, that's fine with me.
You still watching?
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I'm.
I'm watching, I'm watching the
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chat, man.
I'm watching the chat I need.
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I need to chat to help me out
tonight.
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Need to chat to help him out.
Need to help all us out.
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All right, but we're going to
start.
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Where else will we start?
It is going to be the
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quarterback room.
And so Mr. Brian Siegler,
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quarterback room stock up, stock
down same.
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I mean, it's stock up, man.
It's stock way up there.
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There's there's three things
that are playing a factor here.
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Number one, you're starting the
season with the correct
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quarterback.
Unlike last year.
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With the correct quarterback and
you're starting the season with
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a quarterback that has started
games for you in this system.
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So that that's that's number
one.
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Number two, you now have a
backup that regardless of who
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wins the job, a backup that I
think is a better fit for what
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we're doing already with Kyron
drones compared to what Grant
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Wells offered last year.
So whether whether that next man
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up is pop, whether that next man
up is Colin Schlee, we'll we'll
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know soon as far as who's
winning that backup job.
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But whoever that is is going to
be a better slot in fit than
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what we had last year.
And then #3 is just depth.
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I feel like, you know, we have a
lot better situation from a
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depth perspective than we had
last year because of a lot of
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what I said in two.
But now you've got three guys
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that have had some experience in
this system playing in some
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games.
Colin obviously started a couple
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games elsewhere.
So you got a guy with with that
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type of experience coming in.
You got pop with a little more
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experience.
It's just top to bottom a a
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better quarterback room than
what we started with last year.
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Tally what?
About you Oh yeah no that
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definitely kind of like Brian
said I mean we had so many
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unknowns last year.
It's going to be probably going
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to be a lot of UPS.
But like I said we had so many
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unknowns last year like going
into the season and it's like
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well we hope what we hope it's
like this year it's like this is
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happening.
You know what I'm saying like
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this is going to happen.
So again, I mean, you y'all know
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everybody watching knows man.
But I will say something, you
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know, me and Chris, shout out to
Chris Lester, great guy, man.
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He's a good friend to me.
We we talk a lot about sports,
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but family as well.
And he said something that was
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pretty profound to me when we
got to talking about Grant
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Wells, he said and and and I was
one of the people who was
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Grant's a great kid.
I just didn't think he had the
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skill to get us to the next
level, you know, and that was no
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knock on him.
But Chris, again, me and him
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were talking and he said
something like I said, it was
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pretty profound.
He said all of these guys that
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are on the roster committed
after watching Grant Wells play,
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after watching that team beat,
you know, go set three games
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and, and three and seven,
whatever we were three and
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whatever 8. 3:00 and 3:00 and
8:00.
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Yeah.
After going three and eight,
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Grant was the quarterback.
You know, all of these guys that
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came in, Kyron came in, Allie
Jennings came in because they
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knew that this offense could go
to another level.
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So Grant Wells didn't really
hinder anything.
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He was a, and I don't want to
say he was a stepping stone, but
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he took the chance to come to
Virginia Tech to go through
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those games.
And we were competitive.
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We played a lot of games that he
played in with some kids that
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you know what, what else were
they would have started in Power
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5.
Still no.
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And we were competitive in those
games.
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And so it at least gave us a a
backbone to show recruits, Hey,
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if you come in, we can get to
that next level.
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You know, so Tebow could go talk
to Kyron drone so Tebow can go
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talk to Quan Felton and say,
Hey, this is kind of what it
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looks like.
But you know, this X's and O's,
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we need the Jimmy's and Joe's,
you know what I mean?
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So I got to give I got to give
him a little bit of credit on
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that.
I thought that was a a different
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perspective that I hadn't
thought of.
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That was pretty good.
And then, like I said, back to
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what we're talking about now,
you know, Karen steps in and he
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does what he does last year and
his stocks, you know, up
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tremendous.
And then they go in, they get a,
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a, a veteran backup to go along
with the young guys that we have
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in the stable as well.
So just kind of bring some
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balance after your starter.
When we get up on those games,
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when we go and beat these teams
42 to seven, like we know it's
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going to happen.
You can get our starters out and
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you can get some back up, some
work and they can go in.
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They continue to get their reps
and work on their craft as well.
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So stock up on that room.
All right, I'm with y'all stock
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up on this one as well.
And and and a lot of what Brian
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and Tally both said a lot of
that's intermingling.
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But I also think this and I
always think this perspective,
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there's three quarterbacks
powering's getting one reps the
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backup, whoever that is is going
to get some a little bit of one
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Rep.
They're going to work with twos
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primarily, but it's whoever the
third quarterback is, is running
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practice wild more.
So if that is Pop Watson, that
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is unbelievable for him, right?
Pop go out there, run the
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offense, get those reps Don't
matter who you're playing with,
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you're going to get live reps
because you're the practice
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squad guy and that's awesome.
If Pop wins the job and he's the
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backup, wonderful, Love it.
But then to what Tally just
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said, now you're putting a
veteran on practice squad.
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He's probably going to know
exactly what to do in every
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situation, which is going to be
getting us better prepared for
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the season.
So that soccer room is way up.
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You got Dobby belt for it.
Who, you know, came on campus,
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you see some other young guys in
the recruiting class.
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So I'm not even talking this
season, just in general that is
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through the roof.
All right, Tally, I'm going to
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go.
And the quarterbacks got to turn
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around and hand the ball off.
So I'm going to hand the ball
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off to you.
The running backroom, what we
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feeling like there right now?
Stock up.
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Stock down.
You know, you know what I'm
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going to say stock up as well on
this.
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You know, we got some people
that come back from last year.
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I like Bryce Duke.
I hated to see him leave, but I
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can understand.
But I like what I seen from
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Prelude in the in the Spring
game.
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I know spring games don't matter
and all this, but I'm just
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saying if we can use the plays
that I've seen him run, I don't
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know if it's him, I think he can
do it.
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But the plays that I've seen him
run with, you know, using the
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running backside of the
backfield and doing some
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different things like that, I'd
I'd like to see that.
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So I'd say the running back room
to stock up and then we we can
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keep Malachi healthy.
You know, we've seen him flash a
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lot at over the last two years,
but then, you know, injury hit.
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So we're going to go stock up.
Brian Siegler, you know I'm
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going to go stock up too.
I, I like what I've seen from,
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from Coney.
I, I think you're going to get
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a, a tutor that you 100% know
how to use the offense.
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I feel like the start of the
season we were kind of working
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him in kind of seeing what he
did best, where, where, where,
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what plays were going to be the
home runs for him.
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I think as we got into that
later in the season, we really
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utilized him a lot better.
So I think I think you're going
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to see a a better utilized
Tootin.
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I think Malachi seems to be at
at his most healthy that I've
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seen him in the last two years
heading into this season.
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I think that's a key element to
to what we're looking at here.
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And like I said, Coney, Coney
has has shown me something.
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I think he's going to be a
really good compliment to that
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1-2 punch and we'll see if some
of the other guys like Prelo get
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in there.
You know, we'll we'll see if if
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they make some some hay as well.
So I'm very interested to see
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what what goes on with that room
pass those kind of first two or
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three guys, but I definitely
think stock up this year all.
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Right.
I'm with y'all, I don't my
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percentage, it's a very small
up, very small up based on what
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TuneIn Thomas did and what kind
of Prelude did in the spring.
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Because after, after the first
two guys, it is the unknown.
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We don't know what Coney's going
to exactly be like on game day.
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Can PJ Prolu take some of those,
You know, those gimmicks, slash,
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you know, trick plays that they
kind of ran with him?
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Can they get that into a game
element?
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If they can, it's going to be
higher than I, you know, higher
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than where I am right now.
But it's just a little bit up.
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It's not like the quarterback
room, even though I like the
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guys behind them, it's just it
doesn't have that dynamic where
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you just feel like, man, this
room's really, you know, this
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room's really unbelievable.
One through 123, it's just like
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one's really, really good.
Two, it's healthy.
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OK, Three, if they run the right
place for them.
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So just a little bit up.
All right, we got to chime in
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real quick, not on this room,
but Chris Lester wanted to say
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something way, way up, way up
for the quarterback room.
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I don't disagree, Chris.
I don't agree at all.
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Like stocks is like through the
roof.
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All right, Brian Siegler, I'm
giving you like the easiest one,
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the easiest one, the easiest
one.
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This is the easiest one.
I'm I'm timing how long it's
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going to take us wide receiving
room.
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Way up, Way up.
I mean, there's really no other
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way to to, to phrase it, man.
I mean, you, you, you throw
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Ollie Jennings back into a mix
of very effective receiving
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corps that you had last year.
You got Aiden Green coming on
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and then you got guys like Brody
and Chan's coming in as as
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freshmen looking to make a
little bit of noise as well.
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You know, you throw in a chance
Fitzgerald here or there and see
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if he's taking another step in
development and maybe either one
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or two other guys that we don't
even know anything about yet.
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You know, Tucker Holloway, if he
gets healthy through the season,
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you know, he makes, you know,
some sort of impact on this
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group.
So I.
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Mean keep naming them.
We left out, we left out Steven
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Gosnell, we left out Aiden
Green.
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00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,000
I mean there's names on top of
names on top of names and then
441
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,080
you got them stacked up enough
where you got, you know, senior
442
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,040
leadership, then you got guys
right behind them.
443
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,800
Then you got the young freshman
coming in that are able to watch
444
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:22,000
the older guys.
Like it is amazing that Fontell
445
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,880
has has built that room.
The coaching staff in general.
446
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:29,200
But if y'all new here, if you're
new to Virginia Tech and Hokie
447
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:33,120
nation, like we ain't used to
that many athletes being in that
448
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,440
that wide receiver.
Now we've had some good wide
449
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,000
receivers come through here.
Don't not don't.
450
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,040
I'm not saying that, but when
you look up and down that roster
451
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,000
and you look at, you know, when
you get to college, the stars go
452
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000
away.
So we ain't just thinking about
453
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,480
the stars right now.
We're thinking about what we've
454
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,400
seen proven on the field.
And then the guys that have come
455
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,440
in, the freshmen that have come
in, we see them going against
456
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:01,640
good defensive players in
spring, in fall practice and
457
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,160
they look like they belong
there.
458
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:08,720
So that is way stock up.
Just I mean, just two seasons
459
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,520
ago, we were talking about this
being arguably the worst wide
460
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,000
receiver core in power Five,
right?
461
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,320
And and that's no disrespect to
the guys that were here that
462
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,600
were part of that.
It just the decimated roster
463
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,440
that we had at the end of the
Fuente era, especially at the
464
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,880
skill position group was crazy.
And in two, two to three, 2 1/2
465
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:34,320
cycles, really, you went from
that to arguably the best wide
466
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,200
receiver core in the ACC,
especially when we talk about
467
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,240
depth.
Yeah.
468
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,680
I mean, it is crazy.
It is crazy.
469
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:45,120
All right, we got we got
multiple people chiming in on
470
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:46,440
this.
Before I get my opinion, let me
471
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,680
throw this up here.
We got Kevin.
472
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,720
Yeah, To the moon, The bad boys
out there.
473
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:53,680
Yeah.
Way up.
474
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,120
Way up, way up.
Low country living Absolutely.
475
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,960
All the way up and and I'm with
y'all, this is one of those
476
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,160
things where you buy a stock at
like $3, you forget about it and
477
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,480
you walk around like a year
later and it's like worth 800
478
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,640
and you're like, whoa, what
happened?
479
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,280
This thing was not worth that.
And and tell you said list them
480
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,480
Felton Jennings, Lane Gosnell,
Aiden Green, Chance Fitzgerald,
481
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,760
Brody Chance.
What about XTB?
482
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,640
You saw him a couple times last
year break.
483
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,360
We couldn't even get that deep.
Didn't even think about that
484
00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:32,720
name.
It's crazy and.
485
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,720
You've got guys like Takahi that
we've heard about doing good
486
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,840
things before.
He got back, got his name.
487
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,640
He was, he was last year.
He got hurt like he was ahead of
488
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,600
some of the other guys and he
got hurt like that room was
489
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,440
super deep, man.
And what that creates when you
490
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,560
got that going on is
competition.
491
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,760
You can't just go to practice
and chill.
492
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,080
You got to go to practice and
you got to you got to go to work
493
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:00,400
because the next guy is trying
to get on the field.
494
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,000
So you can see that you can see
the competition, man.
495
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,240
You can see everybody wants it
like it is.
496
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,680
It's crazy.
All righty, all right, tally,
497
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,520
back to you on this one.
Back to you on this one and
498
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:23,560
tight end room, your room that
you played in up, down level.
499
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:25,760
Yeah, we're going to get to
that.
500
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:27,960
Let me see what Miss.
Miss Sarah he is talking about.
501
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:31,160
Miss Sarah, welcome to the show.
We got to correct you, because
502
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,760
if you're talking about Malik
Washington, he did not come from
503
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,000
Virginia Tech.
He came from another place that
504
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,920
has Virginia in it, the
University of Virginia.
505
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,800
So he's a great player, but he
didn't come from here.
506
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,920
And we don't like them.
We like him.
507
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,400
Oh he don't like them?
I didn't see that comment and
508
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,560
wanted to say that but we don't.
What tidying room?
509
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,160
Tidying room up down level.
Yeah, so y'all can beat me up.
510
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,440
I'm going to go down, man.
I got to go down.
511
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,680
And the reason I'm going to go
down is because we lost.
512
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,880
We lost, right?
You know, like he left.
513
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,960
Now, I'll say this, I think that
because some people say, well,
514
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,120
we get, you know, we get Gallo
back and we seen Biggie, they
515
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,440
were going to be here
regardless.
516
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,320
Like they're here so you could
interchange them, you could take
517
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,560
right out and put them in if
we're going to run the ball
518
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,600
because they are better blocking
backs than he was.
519
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,080
But at the same time, it was
like he was a defense, like he
520
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,280
was a mismatch, you know what
I'm saying?
521
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,960
Like him being on the field, he
was a mismatch.
522
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,360
So I think we have the wide
receivers that can take those
523
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,880
catches, which is great, but
we're just talking about that
524
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,840
tidy in room when you lose a
tidy in.
525
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,640
That was, I think he was third
on the team in receptions last
526
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,600
year.
No matter how you slice it,
527
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,160
yeah, no matter how you slice
it, go back and watch the tape.
528
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,480
He was he did what he was
supposed to do in the past game.
529
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,280
So no disrespect to the guys.
I like.
530
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,240
I like what I'm seeing out of
Saint Germain.
531
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,680
I like what I'm seeing out of
Benji.
532
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,120
I think Benji's probably the
most athletic out of the tight
533
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,480
ends.
Gallo's going to bring some
534
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,160
senior leadership, so that's
good.
535
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,840
He's been there nine years.
I just hope, you know, he's
536
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,520
healthy and everything.
You know, he he's he's able to
537
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,240
go out the way he wants to go
out.
538
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,880
But I'm going to go stock down
on that just because of that
539
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,200
reason, because he left.
Ron.
540
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,280
It's stock down, but it's it's
just a little bit.
541
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,000
And what it's, it's, it's mostly
to do with what Tally said.
542
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,120
I mean, you got to replace a lot
of production from a receiving
543
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,280
standpoint with Daquan Wright
moving on to Ole Miss.
544
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,720
So that that's a big one.
Everybody that listens to this
545
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:50,040
podcast, they they know how I
felt about Daquan Wright.
546
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,600
So we don't need to rehash all
that.
547
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,680
They know that I knew he was a
dude.
548
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,240
So there's no way that you lose
that off your team and there's
549
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,960
not some degree of drop off
there.
550
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,200
Now, what I think is going to
happen is that there's going to
551
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,960
be some replacing of that
production, but it's going to be
552
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,560
by committee.
You're going to see more guys
553
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:13,080
get involved in the offense in
more specialized ways instead of
554
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,160
having a guy like right, that
could do pretty much everything
555
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,680
in the passing game.
So you get Gallo back little
556
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,600
more of the the short
intermediate stuff.
557
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,800
A guy like Zeke Wimbish can do
those deep crossers, those
558
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,840
seams.
So we, you know, you kind of end
559
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,720
up, you know, replacing him in
terms of role with a a few other
560
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,240
guys, but in terms of just
having the one guy that can go
561
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,520
out there and just be a
mismatched nightmare, you don't
562
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,840
really have that anymore in the
passing game.
563
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,280
But I think overall blocking the
levels going to raise up a
564
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,600
little bit.
That's why I said it's only
565
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,200
going to be a little bit of a
difference, but I definitely
566
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,760
think it's a small step back in
that that position group.
567
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Yeah, 100% on that.
It is stock down.
568
00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,600
When you lose a guy tally stat
loud with 28 receptions, 366
569
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:05,440
yards, 13.1 per reception.
That's a huge thing to lose.
570
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,040
Now Benji Gosnell had his
flashes last year, had some good
571
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,200
plays and we're getting Gallo
back.
572
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,920
But it's Gallo off of me.
And like you said, he ain't no
573
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,440
spring chicken, right?
Gallo's an older guy.
574
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,640
Gallo did have over 600 yards
just two years ago.
575
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,840
So it's definitely there.
But it's down because I because
576
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,000
Wright was so dynamic like in in
as far as you say.
577
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,400
Well, well, he won the best
blocker.
578
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,080
You know what if you threw that
man on the field with the big
579
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,560
three right now?
I mean you put you twisting up
580
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,680
defenses because against a
nickel corner or against a
581
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,400
smaller cornerback right could
block you go out there against
582
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,200
the linebackers asked him to do
a hardship off the IT won't
583
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,480
gonna be there, but it is stock
down unfortunately for that
584
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,440
room.
All righty Brian, we're back to
585
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,680
you and obviously clearly
there's only one group left.
586
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,040
I also wanted to start with you
because I needed to hear Tally's
587
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,000
second point of view after.
Him, I'm I'm going to be calm,
588
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,400
be calm.
You know, I want you to be calm.
589
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,400
But Brian, what you've read,
what you've heard, where is this
590
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,600
offensive line at right now?
I'm going to say that the stock
591
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:26,000
is up.
It's not a resounding up, but I,
592
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,120
I think we're in a much better
position than we were even at
593
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,920
the end of last year for several
reasons.
594
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,120
Number one, you bring in a guy
like Cunningham that at worst is
595
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,680
going to be a very good depth
piece for this unit, right?
596
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,560
And then you got two other guys
in Brody Meadows and Lathe Ganem
597
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,200
that seem to be coming on in
fall camp after post spring.
598
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,120
They're pushing some of the guys
on that starting line for some
599
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,520
playing time.
So now you're talking about
600
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,160
eight guys, you know, with maybe
a 9th, you know, slipped in
601
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,680
there in terms of depth.
Whereas last year I think we
602
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:11,840
were more like maybe six at
times 7, but mostly 6 for most
603
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,480
of that year.
So you get a little bit of
604
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,400
wiggle room if, if there is a
guy or two that go down this
605
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,760
year and that I think that is
where the improvement is the
606
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,159
most is having a little bit of
wiggle room with this offensive
607
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,360
line.
If there is an injury here or
608
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,960
there, not feeling like it's the
end of the world.
609
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,960
But in terms of of front end,
we, we've got to hope that they
610
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,159
actually take a step talent wise
because I don't think we're
611
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,040
going to see a whole lot of new
faces on the line.
612
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,000
Jonathan Talley.
Oh, it's on me.
613
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,239
It's on you.
Well, I'm going to actually say
614
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:56,679
stock up a little bit, you know,
because as Curtis put it, if you
615
00:34:56,679 --> 00:35:02,440
buy stock at $3, sometimes it's
got to go up, you know what I'm
616
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,400
saying?
It might go up to three O 5.
617
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:12,120
So I will say, I mean from last
year, you go back and you look
618
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:17,560
at the early games, Tootin was
getting hit 3-4 times in the
619
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,880
backfield.
You know what I'm saying it he
620
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,480
couldn't do nothing.
He couldn't.
621
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,960
We we couldn't get no rushing
yards.
622
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,360
I think at one time we might
have like 20 rushing yards one
623
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,880
game and then maybe against
Purdue and then Karen breaks a
624
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,560
run and had more rushing yards
in that run than we did in the
625
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,800
whole game or something.
It's crazy stats for what we
626
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,400
were doing.
But again, the offense changes a
627
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,520
little bit.
People get a little bit more
628
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,640
comfortable.
We don't, I mean, we didn't lose
629
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,840
nobody.
So it ain't like we had a stud
630
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,320
that we lost and we're like, OK,
well, we just got to replace
631
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,640
him.
So you got pretty much everybody
632
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,080
back.
So at least you got some more
633
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,760
experience, you know what I'm
saying?
634
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,760
You got some experience and you
got some people behind you that
635
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,320
if you don't get your ass in
gear, you going to come out.
636
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,560
You got, you ain't just stuck in
there, you know, you're seeing
637
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,720
different people get in there.
And then like even with
638
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,800
Cunningham, people's like, is he
going to start?
639
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
You know, I, I seen him, he can
play.
640
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,880
I seen him in the spring game.
I again, you can watch somebody
641
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,840
play.
If you watch offensive line and
642
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,040
you watch the feet, you can tell
if somebody can move their feet
643
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,520
or not.
I mean, it ain't that easy.
644
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,560
But I mean, if you watch it
enough, you can say, OK, yeah,
645
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,560
he can move a little bit for
that size he can play.
646
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,640
So if he's not 100% the starter
and he's having to push
647
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,760
somebody, that means that it's
some good competition going on.
648
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,280
That means somebody don't want
to lose their spot.
649
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:49,480
So I'm OK with that.
So I would say up slightly until
650
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,760
I see a game, but we will be in
Nashville here shortly and I
651
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,480
will be looking at it close up
and personal.
652
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,240
So we'll we'll figure out how
the stock is after I leave that.
653
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,160
But right now, we're going to
say stock up a little bit.
654
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,960
Absolutely.
So a couple things before I
655
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,000
speak.
Here's a few people chiming in
656
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,240
big up from Thomas.
We got bigger, stronger, more
657
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,400
experience.
It is more experience.
658
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:18,920
Chris let's you got two things
to say, Coach foot for president
659
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,760
and a little bit more about
coach truck.
660
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,240
That's a big piece right there.
And I'm with Tally.
661
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,640
I'm stocked up a little bit.
I'm stocked up a little bit
662
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,000
because when we kind of got the
right stuff going, we looked
663
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,440
better.
We were by no means like that
664
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:39,280
elite top 25 line where, you
know what, if you beat us, we're
665
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,360
just going to have a bad day.
It was that we were maybe
666
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,000
average to maybe slightly above
average.
667
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,120
And now from the reports we're
getting, you know, David
668
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,400
Cunningham was with us last week
feeling like it could be eight.
669
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,280
That report that came out at the
end of last week about basically
670
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:03,840
there was a day where it was get
what Leif Ganem little more at
671
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,280
center, big more back at right
guard.
672
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,600
So now again, it's that depth.
It's but it's been we tally, we
673
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:16,920
joke about that nickel, but for
what this team was last year, if
674
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,880
it's just a marginal increase of
being a little bit better in the
675
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,360
offensive line, we saw what
happened when this thing got
676
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,600
going right.
If it's just marginally better,
677
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,680
that's a long way.
That's a long way from where it
678
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,560
was at the beginning of this
year last year or this line last
679
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,600
year.
All right, let's flip it over to
680
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,080
the defensive side of the ball
now and let's start with the
681
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,800
defensive ends.
Brian, where are you feeling up,
682
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:44,800
down.
Same.
683
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:50,480
I got a feeling the ankles say
down because shit I just I don't
684
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,000
think he can say down.
I'm, I'm not going to say down.
685
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,680
I, I, I, I'm going to say up.
I'm going to say it's a marginal
686
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,360
up.
What I think we, we know we're
687
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,480
going to get with APR right?
We, we know, we, we've seen him.
688
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,240
We, we, we saw what he can do
last year.
689
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,200
We know we're getting, I think
the big thing is that I think
690
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,760
having a full offseason with
kind of understanding who our
691
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,760
personnel is, I think you're
going to see big jumps from
692
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,360
Nelson and Burgos and that's
where we're going to see that
693
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,360
stock go a little bit higher.
And I think you got guys like
694
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,320
McRae and and Jordan McDonald
still kind of working in there
695
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,440
as well that give you a little
bit of added depth behind those
696
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,920
big those first three.
So I, I think the stock's up.
697
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,280
I don't think it's up
significantly, but I think it's
698
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,360
a, you know, it's going to be a
a nice little steady uptick
699
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,040
there.
Let me ask Tally, Tally, let me
700
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,280
ask you this before I flip it
over.
701
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,560
How much more can it go up
defensive end wise when the
702
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,240
defensive ends deal what they
did last year on a national
703
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,520
stage with Saxon tackle for
loss?
704
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:58,120
Well, it's, it's kind of hard
to, it's kind of hard to put it
705
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,760
in the words what it is.
But the main thing is, and it's
706
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,200
for me, I'm going to just go
ahead and put the line together
707
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,320
because it's so hard.
We have somebody who is.
708
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,440
I'll say either stock has to be
up or stock is the same, which
709
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,640
is fine.
But when you have somebody who
710
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,600
has a great year like APR did
and people say, well, you know
711
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,640
what you get with him?
Well, you really don't because
712
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,480
he could take a step forward,
which would be awesome, or he
713
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,760
could be right where he was last
year because people are doubling
714
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,480
them.
And then people are doing
715
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,760
different things to make sure
that they're game planning for
716
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,480
him.
And then somebody else, you got
717
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,960
other people on the line that's
going to step up and they going
718
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,960
to take, they can take those
tackle for loss, they can take
719
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,640
those sacks.
So even if his sack numbers dip
720
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,480
just a little bit, just because
he's there, somebody else is
721
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,120
going to eat just because he's
there.
722
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,240
A linebacker may not get
somebody to that second level
723
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:57,560
because they are saying you guys
don't leave him, stay on him and
724
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,360
let that linebacker, we going to
try to make the linebacker miss
725
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,440
with our running back.
You know, we going to put them
726
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,520
one-on-one or something and then
the linebacker goes and makes
727
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,720
the tackle.
I know that's a lot at one time,
728
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:11,680
but I'm just saying APR is
exactly what he needs to be.
729
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,760
He is a distraction for a
offensive coordinator before he
730
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,760
even steps on the field.
I promise you, everybody on that
731
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,240
offense is looking for 52.
You damn right they are.
732
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:27,480
So that I got to say stock up
just because of what he's done
733
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,520
and how he's made it and because
he's getting in people's heads.
734
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,400
But like I said, don't be
alarmed if it's a couple of
735
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:38,720
games and you don't see a sack
or a multi game sack form.
736
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,760
We got to look at that as a
whole because of him being there
737
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,520
makes that line so hard to
block.
738
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,920
All right, well, let me do this
because you said you wanted to
739
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,280
roll them into it.
I'll, I'll talk about both sides
740
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,600
at the end.
What about the defensive tackle
741
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,600
room, man?
I mean, you got Fuga coming back
742
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,000
and you mentioned just a second
ago, people's going to be
743
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,640
everybody's looking for 52.
Well then there's going to be
744
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,600
somebody that pulls up the tape
and says y'all realize #16 that
745
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,040
mother is a damn all ACCD
tackle.
746
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,720
We need to lock them too.
Where are you the tackle room?
747
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,720
Is that up?
I mean, it's got to be up
748
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,840
because again, I think that the
kids last year, young men last
749
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,680
year did a great job.
You know, like we have fell
750
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,440
Darius on here, nobody.
Well, we had a couple people
751
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,440
that felt like if he took a step
forward, it was going to be a
752
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,680
big year for him and that
defensive line.
753
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,160
And when he got his opportunity,
he went in and he did what he
754
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,280
had to do, like he shine, but it
was more of a collective unit
755
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,120
thing that they did.
You know, people, not people's
756
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,840
pilot was in, Kendrick's was in,
Fuga was helping Federus was in
757
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,800
doing his thing.
Like you just said.
758
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,680
The same with APR.
They're going to have to look at
759
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,160
16 and say what are we going to
do about him in the middle?
760
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,640
You know what I'm saying?
Like, are we going to chip him?
761
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,640
Are we going to have to send a
full back at him?
762
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,400
Are we going to not be able to
run a not be able to run a
763
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,920
screen because he's fast enough
to get to the line back to get
764
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,360
to the quarterback if we let him
through?
765
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,400
Like it's a lot of planning that
goes along with having those
766
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,160
players.
And I don't think that we are
767
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,240
aware of we have stars on the
team now, you know what I'm
768
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,080
saying?
And I don't just mean just the,
769
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,720
oh man, we got good players like
you got nationally ranked
770
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,080
players on your team that people
are going to game plan for.
771
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:40,600
Like if I was the other
defensive end, Keyshawn Burgos,
772
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,320
Cole Nelson had a pretty good
year last year.
773
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,200
Whoever's on that other side, I,
they better be licking their
774
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,640
chops, man, because they're
going to be looking to that
775
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,960
other side and worried about
him.
776
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,560
And it's Showtime to eat on that
side.
777
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,320
So I, it, it should be fun, man.
I I got to say stock up on the
778
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,080
whole line, but for those
reasons.
779
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Got it.
Sigla D Tackle.
780
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:08,560
Man, so you know, you got Fuka
coming back, got an extra year
781
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,320
here.
He's he's probably going to be a
782
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:16,360
captain, whether he's a guy that
has that or designation like we
783
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,480
were talking about on the
preview panel or whatever.
784
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,760
He's going to be in the steady
rotation for this group.
785
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,600
But then he bring in three key
transfers.
786
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,920
Amneus Peebles, you got Kamari
Copeland from JUCO, you got
787
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,600
Kelvin Gilliam coming in.
You also got some of the other
788
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,360
guys that are already on your
roster taking another step.
789
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,160
You got Malachi Madison, you got
Gerard Johnson.
790
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,680
You're throwing in a a youngster
like Emmett Laws in the end of
791
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,920
this group.
This room is way, way up in my
792
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,600
opinion, and I think it's
because of that depth piece that
793
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,760
we're talking about.
I think last year we had three
794
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,800
to four guys that we could rely
on consistently.
795
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,920
They were steady eddies that you
do what you can get out from
796
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,600
them.
I think Aeneas Peebles raises
797
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,080
the ceiling of this unit and I
think all the other guys they
798
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,640
brought in raised the potential
level for this unit.
799
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,800
Plus you have the added depth of
having being able to go really 6
800
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,160
deep at this group instead of
four or five deep.
801
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,680
Yep, that's the big piece right
there.
802
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:17,760
And real quick.
Got it.
803
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,840
Just a couple folks chiming in.
The defensive ends up Burgos
804
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,560
expecting a big year.
Low country.
805
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,400
Yeah, the me it for the
defensive ends.
806
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,560
It's slightly up.
I wish CJ McRae was healthy.
807
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,840
I wish we knew right now that
that leg was completely healthy
808
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,520
where he could play.
I would feel even better about
809
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,720
that room.
Defensive tackle to what Brian
810
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:46,760
just said, that room went from
being where it was really three
811
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:51,000
cog pieces to where you feel
like is it 4, is it 5?
812
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:56,680
Is it six that can actually play
and to to what Chris is saying
813
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,840
it right here, because the
honest truth is, and I know JC
814
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,080
Price, we talked to him.
Y'all, I got a feeling there's
815
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,240
going to be times JC is going to
stick people's and go stick APR
816
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,120
on the same side and say put
everybody over there.
817
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,160
Give me one on ones with some of
these young guys and make them
818
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,080
pay.
Because the 2nd it's it's not if
819
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,720
it's not the if it's when they
it's when that D line makes them
820
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,920
pay pops the quarterback causes
a fumble, massive tackle for
821
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,360
loss.
They have to sit there and say,
822
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,280
well, if these guys are going to
eat all day.
823
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,720
Can we consistently continually
chip and continually send the
824
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,960
full back and keep the tight end
in or we eventually going to
825
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,200
have to just we don't have to
play it straight up and then
826
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,600
that's what we want, right?
That's a decision.
827
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,600
And we've said all these names
and haven't really even talked
828
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,920
about Curtis Perry yet and, and
how he, you know, he might be a
829
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,320
situational piece in this group.
Situational 3 tech situational
830
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,720
big end.
So again, it's it's it's up.
831
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,680
I ain't putting it at the wide
receiver level of up, but it's
832
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,880
up.
All right, Brian, let's flip
833
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,920
back.
Linebacker room, linebacker
834
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,840
room.
And did you get a chance to see
835
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,480
some of those interviews last
weekend?
836
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,080
Which ones?
The what?
837
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,440
Lawson.
And with all those guys, it
838
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,920
seems like everybody, with the
exception of Brumfield, is all
839
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,240
over the damn place.
Yeah, it looks like they're
840
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:27,320
they're they're definitely cross
training that Will and star
841
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:32,000
position pretty heavily.
You know, you got Brumfield
842
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,520
that's kind of locked in.
It sounds like he's going to be
843
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,760
kind of that guy.
Mike.
844
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,880
You got guys playing star, guys
playing Will.
845
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,800
You got Kelly at star.
You got, you know, Caleb Spencer
846
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,520
playing a couple spots.
You got Caleb Woodson playing a
847
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,680
couple spots.
I mean, I think outside of
848
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,960
Keanta Jenkins and Sam
Brumfield, everybody else is all
849
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,480
over the place.
You know, Keanta is going to
850
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:03,640
probably be that, that first guy
at * and then Brumfield there at
851
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,320
Mike.
And we'll see who lines up at
852
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,880
Will and we'll see how much they
interchange that position.
853
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,920
And we'll see how much they move
guys from from start of Will and
854
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,080
back.
And I just love the depth that
855
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,880
we've created because I mean,
you got guys like Gabe Williams
856
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,240
in the mix here.
You got even Jade McDonald still
857
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,800
in the mix there, Jaden Keller
still getting his perennial
858
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:31,640
fall, can't mention of of being
in the mix.
859
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,160
So it's going to be interesting
to see kind of where the chips
860
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,520
fall with with those, those two
positions.
861
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,480
I think we're we're pretty
solid.
862
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,280
Brumfield, Mike Keonta, the
first guy up at star.
863
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,720
How those rotations work after
that is anybody's guess.
864
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,120
So up, it's still up.
Yes, still up because of the
865
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,080
depth.
Tally.
866
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:00,160
I'll say up off of 1 clip, I've
seen Keonta Jenkins try to take
867
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,160
somebody's head off the other
day on like a jet sweep or
868
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,080
something.
I don't know why he's doing that
869
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,520
to his own players in practice,
but if I see, I seen that.
870
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,080
So I mean, I got to say up.
But now, you know,
871
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,840
realistically, I mean, who did
you lose?
872
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,960
You didn't lose nobody.
You brought some people in to
873
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,560
help and you got some more
experience.
874
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,920
And again, you brought some
people in with some experience.
875
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,520
You brought in Brumfield, you
brought in, like you said, Caleb
876
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:34,320
Spencer Woodson's a year older.
Keanu Jenkins is the veteran in
877
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,160
the room.
Like I didn't even mention
878
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,840
Lawson, You know what I'm
saying?
879
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,400
Jaden Keller.
Somebody's got to have,
880
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,440
somebody's got to step up.
And again, it goes back to your
881
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,360
defensive line.
It's a team sport.
882
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,960
If you can keep those big
offensive lineman from getting
883
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,920
to that second level, getting
out there and and and mashing on
884
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,040
your on your linebackers and
then they just need to run and
885
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,360
stop the ball and come downhill
and fill holes, that is going to
886
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,040
make your that's going to make
that room better.
887
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,320
So it's an overall thing.
But just as that room, I say
888
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,560
that the backers up as well all.
Right, Thomas agrees with you
889
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,560
with saying the backers are up.
Chris laying a bold prediction.
890
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,120
Hokies going to increase Chris.
They do that.
891
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,040
They do 50 Chris.
That means they will increase
892
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,640
one sack per game from last
year, One additional sack.
893
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,720
And I know some people say,
well, that doesn't sound like a
894
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:34,240
lot.
One additional sack again.
895
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,560
Yeah, that's a lot.
Opt in as a shit ton.
896
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,640
As a lot.
As a lot I think.
897
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,840
Half the snack would be a
respectable #1 sack is a big
898
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,840
jump, but I think they could.
Yeah, that I think the potential
899
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,120
is there and I think, you know,
we we've talked about it.
900
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,480
I think you had nauseam at this
point with what it means to have
901
00:50:54,600 --> 00:51:00,000
a guy like Brumfield that is a
veteran Mike, that knows how to
902
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,800
be the quarterback of the
defense, because that was not
903
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,320
some, that was not an asset the
linebacker corps had at the
904
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:10,240
start of last season and.
And that's why for me, that room
905
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:13,960
is a significant step up because
of Brumfield, because it's
906
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,920
having that guy that knows where
everyone needs to go, where
907
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,600
everyone needs to line up, how
everything needs to get done.
908
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,880
And it's not, it's not like he
doesn't have he has the
909
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,480
experience.
He has in game experience.
910
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,120
He's played against some good
teams.
911
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,880
It's one of those things I, I
think I said to both of y'all
912
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,600
last year, it might have been a
state of the program.
913
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,760
I don't know if I was that drunk
at night when I said how much
914
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,320
better the linebacker group
played from year one to year
915
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,240
two.
And I said, you imagine if you
916
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,880
had Dax, it might where a guy
who knew how to line up
917
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,720
everybody who knew exactly where
to go, even though he might not
918
00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:48,680
be quick enough to get there
every time, but he's putting
919
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,120
everybody in the right spots.
And that's essentially why what
920
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:53,560
it is with Sam Brumfield coming
in.
921
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,000
Right.
All right, Tally, give me some
922
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,320
safety room thoughts.
Up, down.
923
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,520
Safety room, I'm still, I mean,
again, I want to go up on
924
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,040
everything, but I got to go
Safety room.
925
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:12,880
I'm gonna probably go about even
on that right now just because I
926
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,040
need to know if if Stroman is
going to get kicked out of
927
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,120
games.
I need I need to know if he
928
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,160
going to be in there or not.
You know, shout out to Strohman.
929
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,760
Strohman is a is a dog man.
He's a headhunter.
930
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,440
But we need him on the field.
You know, we need him on the
931
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,040
field and we know we got some
players back there, but we also
932
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,000
need to know what do we have
back there?
933
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,400
You know, we know we got we've
heard a lot about Reddish.
934
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,840
He's a freshman.
He's coming in.
935
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,560
We heard about, you know, some
different people back there in
936
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,560
the backside, but I'm going to
go about even just because we
937
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,320
again, I, we didn't lose
anybody.
938
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,360
We, we got the, we got the, the
group, the boys are back in
939
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,720
town.
We just need everybody to be
940
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:58,720
healthy and everybody to stay in
the game and not.
941
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,640
We don't need no targeting.
That's right, look who joined us
942
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,360
here.
Look who's back.
943
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,600
Where you been, Andretti?
Andretti, man.
944
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,880
Wait, what?
The game came out, That's what
945
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,680
it was.
We didn't play he.
946
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,600
Just came coming up for air from
the NC double.
947
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,440
A You ain't even, you ain't even
played him yet.
948
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,160
I got to find I got to get with
him.
949
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,880
I ain't played him yet either.
Oh man, Brian, where are you on
950
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,720
this room?
So.
951
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,000
I'm I'm right now I'm gonna
hold.
952
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,120
I'm gonna hold at at steady.
I'm I'm hold it the same here
953
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,040
for this, but I think it has
potential to go up.
954
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,680
So when I'm, when I'm looking at
this group, you know, Jalen
955
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,560
Stroman, he's he, he, he's a
dog.
956
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,600
But like Tally said, you know,
we we've seen situations,
957
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,560
whether it's injuries or whether
it's targeted and keep him off
958
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,360
the field a little bit more than
we would like.
959
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:55,400
Last year in general, injuries
and targeting kept our safeties
960
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,080
off the field more than we
wanted.
961
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,560
It was already a thin group last
year, especially with the with
962
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,560
the youth.
Outside of those first two, I
963
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,160
think we're in a little bit
better situation started this
964
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,120
year.
We really have three guys with
965
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,440
some significant experience at
this point looking at Stroman,
966
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,880
looking at Jones, looking at
most Phillips at this point.
967
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,040
They played a lot of significant
snaps last year looking for most
968
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,200
to, you know, take a take AI
think a pretty good step from
969
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,240
year one to year two.
I think the big question is
970
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,760
going to be is does what does
that rest of that safety room
971
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,960
give us this year?
You know, does you know Quinn
972
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,040
radish step in there?
Does Cam Fleming take a step?
973
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,600
Are we looking at Dev, Devin,
Alvis doing anything?
974
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,600
So I think those three are going
to be the big question Marks and
975
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,280
how much are we going to get
from them and how much are we're
976
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,320
going to ask to get from them,
whether it be because of
977
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,160
injuries or targeting or
anything else?
978
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,120
Because I think the first three
there, I think we feel, if not
979
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,080
super great about.
We definitely feel comfortable
980
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,000
putting them out there for
significant snaps.
981
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,520
All right, I am going to be
slightly down on this room and
982
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,840
it's not for the three guys that
y'all talked about in Stroman,
983
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:10,480
in most Phillips and in Jones.
I think I'm more disappointed
984
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,480
that we haven't heard names.
We've only heard Reddish's name
985
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,480
a little bit, but it's more of
Devin Alvis has been here a
986
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,840
couple years now, Fleming and
Noah Jenkins and a lot of those
987
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,920
guys have been here a few years
now and we're not hearing them
988
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,040
come up.
And usually with safeties,
989
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,080
usually about the second season,
guys can start making names for
990
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,400
themselves, right?
And that worries me a little
991
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:36,640
bit.
That worries me a little bit.
992
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,320
That's why I'm slightly down
because if I had heard one of
993
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:44,080
those names that we didn't hear
last year and we heard this year
994
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,840
like in camp, but we saw
something, you know, in spring
995
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,480
ball that Brian Talley or
myself, like it called our eye,
996
00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,400
that will make me feel better.
So I'm slightly down now.
997
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,200
Is there potential to go up?
Because I'm going to be straight
998
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:57,720
up with you.
Yes.
999
00:55:57,720 --> 00:56:02,400
Brent Pryor, he loves to talk to
us fans, he loves talk to the
1000
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,960
media.
He he's great on the mic.
1001
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,280
He lets people come in and watch
practices multiple times a week,
1002
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:09,760
right?
We know they're getting about 20
1003
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,760
minutes segment, which is a lot
of time, y'all.
1004
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,840
But the question is if he got
the ace in the hole and it's one
1005
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,880
of these safeties, ain't nobody
talking about that Vanderbilt
1006
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,560
game going force a fumble, get a
pick and then we're going to be
1007
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,800
like, look, coach, coach being
slick.
1008
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,160
Coach didn't want to talk about
him because he knew he had a
1009
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,280
fourth safety in that room.
That's where I'm interested,
1010
00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:33,480
Brian.
You get another easy one.
1011
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,240
You get another easy one.
Brian, I get, I get a layup.
1012
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,120
You'll be a layup.
Well, we got to have a layup to
1013
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:43,080
end this segment here how we
feeling about corners?
1014
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:49,160
Up you got another year
development for Lane.
1015
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:53,160
You got arguably the best
cornerback in the ACC and Dorian
1016
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,200
Strong coming back in.
Here you got another year
1017
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,120
development for Blake, Braylon
Johnson, Dante Lovett.
1018
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:03,920
I'm really excited to see them
grow into a bigger role in that
1019
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,680
cornerback room.
And then you got guys like Penex
1020
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,720
Williams.
You got Joshua Clark as a true
1021
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:12,680
freshman coming in there and
making some noise.
1022
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:15,960
I haven't even named a couple
other guys.
1023
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,720
So I mean, I think this room,
yeah, I got love it earlier.
1024
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:20,560
I got love it in.
There.
1025
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,560
Yeah, but I think, I think this,
this, this room is deep right
1026
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,520
now.
I think we can go about 6 deep
1027
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,240
and feel pretty confident, but I
don't think we'll need to ever
1028
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,960
get that deep in the bag as long
as we can stay healthy.
1029
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Tally, tally.
You got to go up, man.
1030
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,680
You got to go up and we going to
go all the way back.
1031
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,760
I know y'all might be tired of
me saying it, but I'm going to
1032
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,280
say it again until y'all get it
in your heads out there in the
1033
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,320
chat.
When your defensive line is
1034
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,560
better, it makes your whole
defense better.
1035
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,880
Start in the trenches when that
defensive line can get on that
1036
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,080
quarterback and make him throw
that ball just a split second
1037
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,840
faster than he really wants to.
Dorian Strong will go get it.
1038
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:10,000
Monsieur Delano, go get it.
You got again, like you said,
1039
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,320
Braylon Johnson back there,
Dante Lovett, those guys heard a
1040
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,560
lot about Christian Williams.
Christian Williams was hurt last
1041
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:20,160
year, you know, so he's back.
Joshua Clark, we've seen him on
1042
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,520
a couple of flashes.
I mean, a lot of these kids that
1043
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,920
these coaches that went out and
got, man, they're coming in
1044
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:31,560
ready to play body size wise,
like most of the time from the
1045
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,080
Virginia Tech.
We're kind of used to.
1046
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,600
We were thinking, you know, man,
we're going to have a couple of
1047
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,280
years of development, you know,
get the get the weight up.
1048
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,120
No man, they coming in ready to
play.
1049
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,480
Look at most Phillips last year.
Back to what you said, Curtis,
1050
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,240
when you said who's going to be
the one that flashes, man, you
1051
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,280
never know nowadays, like with
the, with the, how they've been
1052
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,120
recruiting and how these kids
come in, everybody has trainers,
1053
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,480
Everybody comes in, you know,
knowing what they need to do and
1054
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,920
have their body ready and man,
they're ready to get out there
1055
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,160
and play.
So all it takes is like you
1056
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,440
said, one play, Hey, this is
your shot.
1057
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,040
I need you to go in and do your
job.
1058
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,840
Boom, you going in and get a
pick, you go in and get a a, a
1059
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,040
fumble, you know, cause a
fumble.
1060
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,680
You know, the next thing you
know you're in the rotation.
1061
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:21,200
So I'm excited to see that.
But stock definitely up on that
1062
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:26,280
DB room.
Yeah, 100% the stock is up on
1063
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:30,280
the DV room.
I mean, obviously you mentioned
1064
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:35,800
Brian best corner in the ACC and
Dorian strong and probably, I
1065
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:42,200
mean it is you can make Just
Cause the best duo in the ACC
1066
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,560
with him and Mansoor.
I definitely think they are a
1067
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,800
top 20 duo in the country.
I think they're a top 20 duo in
1068
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,840
the country straight up.
But I think it's also because we
1069
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,360
saw Lovett play last year and we
saw Braylon play and it's like
1070
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,040
these guys are holding up.
They're true freshmen.
1071
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,120
Their bodies are already ready.
And then to add on top of that.
1072
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,280
We heard the name Christian
Williams that came out of
1073
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:08,800
coach's mouth a couple days ago.
Hadn't heard that name, so he
1074
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,560
clearly did something there.
And then Joshua Clark.
1075
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,080
And we saw Joshua Clark on field
of spring ball.
1076
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,920
We saw that like, OK, this kid
can play.
1077
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,480
And Curtis And Curtis.
Guess what?
1078
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:22,520
What?
Tell me somebody.
1079
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,520
No, no, you didn't miss nobody,
but we didn't even mention.
1080
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,840
Look who they're going against
in practice every day.
1081
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,240
Iron sharpen and iron, baby.
Look who they going against in
1082
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,520
practice every day you got to go
against that wide receiving
1083
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,520
room.
You better be getting better or
1084
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:40,240
you going to have to transfer to
Blue Valley State or whatever
1085
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:44,920
the place is north of state.
I don't know.
1086
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,600
You have to go somewhere to play
If you playing against them and
1087
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,680
they make you look silly and you
ain't getting no better every
1088
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,920
day.
So I mean, when you going
1089
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:57,840
against top wide receivers in
NFL caliber players, that's
1090
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:03,240
that's what you want.
So. 100% All right, well our UVA
1091
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,560
fan is asking here, do we have
game by game predictions before
1092
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,000
the season starts?
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1098
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,720
Pharmacy here in downtown
Blacksburg.
1099
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,360
My brother's a pharmacist, I'm a
pharmacist, my uncle's a
1100
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:28,680
pharmacist, my dad's a
pharmacist.
1101
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,880
I remember he would give me
M&M's to count in little pill
1102
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,720
counters.
This is something I've always
1103
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,600
done and I'm just lucky that
what I know so well is something
1104
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,800
that I can do and feel good
about it and get back to.
1105
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,000
People.
Pharmacies are your frontline
1106
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,520
defense.
Pharmacy's job is to make sure
1107
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,920
you're getting optimal care for
the lowest price possible.
1108
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,200
Also, we take the pressure off
of emergency rooms.
1109
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,120
I'll tell people immediately
when they need to go to the
1110
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,320
doctor, or I'll tell them if
they just need a cream over the
1111
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,400
counter.
If there's something that isn't
1112
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,040
commercially available, if it's
something that's not available
1113
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,600
in a certain strength or a
certain form or anything like
1114
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,840
that, we'll make it.
TaylorMade medications.
1115
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,800
Some of those options save
people a lot of money.
1116
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,480
What motivates me, I get to take
care of people and limit
1117
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,040
Blacksburg.
That's all neat.
1118
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,200
All righty, we are back and now
it is time that we made our
1119
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,040
season predictions.
By the way, I got I got to call
1120
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,120
Thomas out here.
Thomas 15 and no, don't work no
1121
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,520
more bro.
You got to be 16 and no to win
1122
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,800
the national championship, 15
and no don't get you there
1123
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,560
anymore because you got to win
the ACC.
1124
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,960
Then you got to win your first
playoff game, your second
1125
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,480
playoff game, then the national
finals.
1126
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,040
So 15 and O don't work.
I'll let you edit that to 16.
1127
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:43,000
But let's let's get it going
here.
1128
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,480
We did this last year.
We're taking it four games at a
1129
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,240
time from the beginning all the
way to the end.
1130
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:51,280
Let's just go ahead and throw
this out.
1131
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:52,520
Sheldon could not be here
tonight.
1132
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,520
He's doing some traveling.
Couldn't jump it on.
1133
01:02:54,920 --> 01:03:00,280
So for these four four games,
Shelton Moss, our esteemed
1134
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,040
colleague is saying 4 and up,
four and up.
1135
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,200
All right, I'm going to leave
this segment off because I'm
1136
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,120
going to let y'all have the last
two segments.
1137
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,800
I am agreeing with Shelton.
I do think we are going to go
1138
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,480
four and O in the first four
games.
1139
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,800
I think the 1st 3 opponents, I
don't think there is much to say
1140
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,360
about that, right?
You know, you look at who you're
1141
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,920
playing, you feel we are
significantly better on them.
1142
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,840
We would have to play literally
the worst fucking game of the
1143
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:36,440
season to lose to those teams.
Now the Rutgers game is going to
1144
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,360
be a game though.
But they've made the mistake of
1145
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,480
getting rid of the running
quarterback and they have the
1146
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,840
unfortunate pleasure of Planet
Lane Stadium now.
1147
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,200
OK, I'm going to answer
Grayson's questions real quick
1148
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:55,040
here.
The one that worries me the most
1149
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,400
of the first four is Rutgers
straight up.
1150
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,440
So that's where I am 4 no after
gate.
1151
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:05,680
And that's why I'm going to let
Tally go next.
1152
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:12,600
So Cali.
So I will say y'all making me do
1153
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,200
this?
I don't want you to even do this
1154
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:15,760
this year.
You know what I'm saying?
1155
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,560
I don't even.
You going to call and pick
1156
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:19,280
nothing.
I don't want to pick nothing, I
1157
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:24,840
just want to go pay attention.
But if I got to do it because
1158
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:30,000
Curtis has got saw contraption
back here is tied to my toe,
1159
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,040
that's going to blow my toe off.
If I don't make a the selection,
1160
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:40,080
I'll say four no on that first
four games.
1161
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,040
I will say to Grayson's
question, he said what games
1162
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:49,280
were what game worries me the
most out of the first four.
1163
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:56,240
I'm probably going to say ODU.
I'm not that worried about Vandy
1164
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,720
for whatever.
I just that going to ODU thing
1165
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,160
kind of kind of blows me a
little bit, you know what I'm
1166
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:04,560
saying?
So I ain't going to say we're
1167
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,760
going to lose, but it kind of
worries me a little bit going
1168
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,200
down that elevators getting
messed up and stealing stuff and
1169
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,760
all that kind of crazy stuff
happening.
1170
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,360
Like motions may run high and
then that Ruckus game, I think
1171
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,240
Ruckus just lost their starting
linebacker or something like
1172
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:20,400
that.
Oh, they did.
1173
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,440
Yeah, they just lost somebody.
Yeah, they just lost it.
1174
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,760
I think it's that starting
middle linebacker they just
1175
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:29,160
lost.
But if I am worried about the
1176
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,400
Rutgers game, like Curtis said,
being at home helps all that.
1177
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,320
Rutgers is going to be a very
physical game.
1178
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,200
So that'll take me into the next
4 when we talk about them.
1179
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:43,360
I think the Rutgers game gives
us a little bit of headache
1180
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,880
going to the next game.
I think we win that game, but I
1181
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,520
think it's going to give us a
headache going to the next
1182
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,040
games.
SO4 and O in the first four.
1183
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,960
Four and O Bron Siegler first
four and then answer Mr.
1184
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,160
Winbusher's question here.
Hey, hey, we're a, we're a clean
1185
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,840
sweep here, man.
We're a clean sweep.
1186
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:05,080
I got four and O out the gate.
The Rutgers game is definitely
1187
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,800
the one that worries me the
most.
1188
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,800
It it's actually worrying me
less than it did before.
1189
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,760
They named their starting
quarterback the information
1190
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:20,320
about their linebacker, but
that's a team that is very well
1191
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,200
coached.
They while they don't
1192
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:27,160
necessarily have the best
roster, they don't have a whole
1193
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,680
lot of glaring holes in their
roster.
1194
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:36,000
So it's a, it's a team that is
going to give you 4 quarters of
1195
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,560
football every time you play
them.
1196
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,200
And that, that's where you, you
know, you hope you don't have
1197
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,280
one of those first or second
quarters where you kind of
1198
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,480
sleepwalk and all of a sudden
you're down 10 and you're
1199
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,760
playing from behind against the
physical team.
1200
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,400
That's what you don't want.
But I think we still come out on
1201
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,840
top in that game.
And, and to Tally's point, I
1202
01:06:56,840 --> 01:07:03,440
think that game definitely plays
a factor in, in our October, but
1203
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,120
I don't, I, I, I do still think
we come out on top in that one.
1204
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,440
All right, we are now going to
flip it to October.
1205
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,640
I know I got some people out
here putting this up.
1206
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:13,280
Russia's going to be stiff.
I agree.
1207
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,920
Now we got the middle four and
this is the late September
1208
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:20,160
through October.
I'm going to go to Walmart 1st.
1209
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:23,720
Sheldon says we're going to go 5
million in this stretch with
1210
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:27,360
losses to Miami and to Georgia
Tech.
1211
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,680
So he's bookending losses at the
late September and late October
1212
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,000
tally.
Because you already kind of let
1213
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,880
it in there, man.
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to go to,
1214
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,400
I'm going to go two and two as
well.
1215
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,960
I don't even, I'm not going to
pick though, because I don't
1216
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,880
know what games to pick on them.
But I'm going to say we'll go
1217
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:50,000
500 on that just because of the
travel time that we'll be going
1218
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,360
through.
And then coming off those first
1219
01:07:52,360 --> 01:08:00,440
four games, you know, Rutgers
being a very physical game, you
1220
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,640
don't never want to think about
injuries, but it's football.
1221
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,000
What happens?
Do we have any of that?
1222
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,080
I think we're going to go down
and beat Miami, though.
1223
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,880
I'll say that you can pick
whatever other two losses you
1224
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:11,760
want.
I think that we're going to have
1225
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,200
a vendetta that game.
I think we're going to go beat
1226
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:15,920
Miami.
And I may change some stuff
1227
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,880
later on, but right now I'm
going to say I'm going to say
1228
01:08:20,359 --> 01:08:23,680
2:00 and 2:00.
You're you're picking that
1229
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:28,040
you're picking that like
struggle game against Rutgers,
1230
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:31,160
revenge game against Miami and
then maybe that let down
1231
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,880
overlook game against Stanford
in that West Coast travel.
1232
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:37,000
I don't see it but.
Robbie got in his head.
1233
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,680
Robbie got in his head last week
talking about the damn bye week
1234
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,960
shit.
Robbie got in your head, didn't
1235
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,240
he?
Fuck Robbie man, why don't you
1236
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,279
do that to?
Me.
1237
01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:48,120
You.
Know Robbie.
1238
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,200
You know you did.
That's it.
1239
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,080
I OK, Brian, go ahead.
Tally's at 2:00 and 2:00 in the
1240
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,920
middle 4.
I'm at 2:00 and 2:00 as well.
1241
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,760
I'm getting there basically the
same way Sheldon got there.
1242
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,920
I could talk myself in the three
and one here.
1243
01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:09,560
So just just to Full disclosure,
I could talk myself in the three
1244
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:12,520
and one.
If we weren't playing Miami, at
1245
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:16,080
Miami, coming off of Rutgers, I
would give us a good shot in
1246
01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:18,560
that game.
I think just those factors that
1247
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:23,319
play there.
And I think to, to Tally's
1248
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:26,279
point, if we, if we beat Rutgers
and beat Miami, that Stanford
1249
01:09:26,279 --> 01:09:28,960
game would be a, a, a prime let
down game.
1250
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:32,920
But I think with a loss to
Miami, you're going to, you
1251
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,520
know, circle the wagons a little
bit, get back on track, knock
1252
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:40,000
off Stanford before you get to
buy, go out and pound the fuck
1253
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,760
out of BC.
I think Georgia Tech is going to
1254
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:48,680
be one of those, you know, kind
of weird games that we always
1255
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,040
run into.
I, I was, I was looking at that
1256
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,600
game and looking at another game
that kind of leads off the final
1257
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:59,360
four is finally like, is that
going to be that one game that
1258
01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:03,880
we lose that we maybe shouldn't?
That's kind of where I'm at with
1259
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,880
those.
And I kind of I, I, I went back
1260
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:11,160
to, to Georgia Tech on that one.
So let me let me get Georgia
1261
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,760
Tech and Miami losses two and
two in the second floor.
1262
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,840
All right, y'all two and two,
Sheldon two and two, tally two
1263
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,840
and two.
I am not two and two.
1264
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,840
I am walking in here and I am
saying we are going three and
1265
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,280
one in these next 4.
But I am agreeing with you
1266
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,240
Brian.
I think the loss is going to
1267
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,520
come to Miami because I think is
that Roosters game is going to
1268
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,840
be physical.
It's a short week for us now
1269
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:41,000
Let's see.
Can I change my mind?
1270
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:42,800
Can we change our minds?
We do weekly predictions.
1271
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:44,200
Hell yeah we can.
Right.
1272
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,440
Because Miami's also.
Based on right now information
1273
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,160
once we get more information.
It's going to change after the
1274
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,840
first week we go beat the fuck
out of, we're going to go beat
1275
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,360
the fuck out of it.
And when people are going to say
1276
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:55,680
we're going to win the national
championship.
1277
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,240
So yeah, it's going to change.
It's three and one, but because
1278
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,760
it's it's what these guys are
alluding to, that Rutgers game
1279
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,520
is going to be physical.
If it was a Saturday, I think I
1280
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,520
could convince myself we could
go down there and beat them.
1281
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,040
But unfortunately it's Friday
night, so it's a short week.
1282
01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:13,080
It's a flip back.
Why do I think we're going to
1283
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,840
win the other three?
Because I think after that loss,
1284
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,480
I think it's going to be close.
And I think it's going to be one
1285
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:20,280
of those things.
They're going to be like, let's
1286
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,800
go to California, let's stomp
down the smart kids, let's get
1287
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,760
our break and let's go stomp
down these other two kids.
1288
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,760
Because I think BC doesn't have
a shot.
1289
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:33,960
PC really does not have a shot.
They're rebuilding.
1290
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,560
They're trying to flip their
offense to a Bill O'Brien type
1291
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,000
offense, which again, I'm fine.
Bill O'Brien type offenses.
1292
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,400
I think we can handle that.
And then Georgia Tech, they
1293
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:47,000
scare me, but it's something
that Thomas put up.
1294
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:51,760
Oh yeah, Thomas, Yeah, I want.
To put that on there, I don't.
1295
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,720
I'm with him.
And This is why I think we beat
1296
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,160
Georgia Tech.
I don't think they have the
1297
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,800
death.
I don't think they have enough
1298
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:02,720
to handle us beginning to end.
So we'd have to do what Brian
1299
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:04,000
said.
We'd have to sleepwalk through
1300
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:07,440
1/2 to lose Jordan, 1/2 a
football to lose the Georgia
1301
01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:11,120
Tech.
So I am three and one, all
1302
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,800
righty.
We made it to the last four
1303
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,160
games of the season and I'm
going to throw it up here before
1304
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:21,080
I kick to Brian Shelton has us
going three and one in the last
1305
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:25,800
four games and he is saying we
are going to take an L at
1306
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,480
Clemson or to Clemson.
Brian Siegler, where are you
1307
01:12:29,480 --> 01:12:33,520
standing on this?
I am also three and one with a
1308
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,960
loss to Clemson.
I think we actually go and
1309
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:43,520
handle our business in the Dome.
That's going to be a kind of a a
1310
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:45,240
game that sets up the next week,
though.
1311
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:50,480
I feel like that is going to be
a little bit of a battle and I
1312
01:12:50,480 --> 01:12:52,480
think we're going to come around
even though it's a home game.
1313
01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:54,600
I think we're going to give
Clemson every damn thing they
1314
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:58,280
want, but I don't think we quite
get it closed out in the end.
1315
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,080
I think we go and pound Duke
pretty good.
1316
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:02,520
I don't think they're going to
be a very good.
1317
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:06,800
Team pause.
Pause, man, pause.
1318
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,960
You said we going to go pound
Duke.
1319
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:17,120
That's hold on, let's do it all.
Right we go, we go.
1320
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,480
Take it to do.
It's pretty rough too.
1321
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:23,600
Ron is a three and one in the
last.
1322
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,560
And and UVA is going to be UVAI
mean we got them at home.
1323
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,720
We saw what we did at Lane
Stadium N it's only going to get
1324
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,440
uglier at Lane Stadium all.
Right tally.
1325
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,600
I got two and two here.
I'm going to just go ahead and
1326
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:42,040
tell y'all I can never pick us
to win in that fucking Dome
1327
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,640
until we win.
I think we got, I mean, I don't
1328
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,240
know, I ain't looking at
people's rosters like that for
1329
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,320
real so far.
But from what I've seen, I think
1330
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:56,560
we got a better setup than
Syracuse because they got a
1331
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,240
brand new coach.
I always give coaches kind of
1332
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,080
like project like you got to
have that year where you get
1333
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:06,080
acclimated to the school unless
you just had a dynamite takeover
1334
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,360
and you know, you just going out
and beating the fuck out of
1335
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,280
people.
Like I don't see Syracuse being
1336
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,640
that kind of team.
But I can never pick us to go to
1337
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,760
that Dome and do what we
supposed to do no matter what
1338
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,960
the record is.
So that's one of my losses and
1339
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:25,160
then it's going to be a toss up
between Duke and and Clemson, to
1340
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:29,440
be honest with you.
For me, that's just what I had.
1341
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:32,920
I can't pick which one.
That may be a let down, but
1342
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,720
we're not losing the UVA.
I'll go ahead and say that.
1343
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:42,480
So I said two and two QS and one
of those schools would be a loss
1344
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:45,640
if we did it.
But again, looking at the
1345
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,920
looking at the record, looking
at the, the, the, the games and
1346
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:53,600
schedule, that's going to change
real quick depending on what we
1347
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,280
do at first week and 2nd week.
So all.
1348
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,920
Right, I couple things I'm going
to throw before I before I make
1349
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,440
my final picks here, I'm going
to just throw a couple things
1350
01:15:03,440 --> 01:15:07,680
about numerous pieces.
That's why Thomas says also they
1351
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,280
have a shitty defense.
So y'all y'all what y'all
1352
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:11,760
picking up they?
Do He's right.
1353
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,280
He's not wrong.
The building of Chris Lester
1354
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,360
right here is next.
Chris says four and O.
1355
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,480
Yeah, Chris said eight and O88.
We can say 8 and O this.
1356
01:15:22,480 --> 01:15:24,520
Is building towards an 11 win
season so if.
1357
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:28,320
We get to 8 and O.
No matter what who we play next
1358
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:32,080
in those eight weeks, there's
going to be some people
1359
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:35,240
suspended off of X or Twitter or
whatever you call it.
1360
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:39,200
I promise you, the universe
don't want to see Virginia Tech
1361
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,960
be 8 and O because some of y'all
already be a little bit too
1362
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,640
wild.
And I'm saying that, Jeremy, But
1363
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:51,080
if we get to 8 and O, I'm
reporting some of y'all
1364
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,680
motherfuckers, I'm going to be
acting up.
1365
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,920
Oh, God, I got a couple more to
hit here.
1366
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:05,240
Grayson, he got this.
He got that.
1367
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:09,240
Thomas making a point.
We've only played up there two
1368
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:11,600
times in the last 20 years or
so.
1369
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,520
Actually, it's been two times in
the past 20 years.
1370
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:20,480
All right, so I'm sitting here
and y'all going to probably
1371
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:23,200
think I'm crazy because y'all
thought I was fucking crazy last
1372
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:24,480
year and I'm just going to put
it.
1373
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:26,920
Curtis, we know you're crazy.
I mean.
1374
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,120
Y'all, you just had a life, you.
Just had a big kind of dirty
1375
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,320
bastard like, yeah, you kind of
crazy.
1376
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,160
Founders Brewery, if you want to
sponsor us, we'll be The Dirty
1377
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:39,480
bastards over here.
But I'm sitting here and I'm
1378
01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:42,280
just freewheeling.
I told y'all eight wins last
1379
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:45,480
year if we started the right
quarterback, and I think if we
1380
01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:48,120
had started the right
quarterback last year, we would
1381
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,120
have won eight games.
I don't doubt that one bit.
1382
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,480
I think this year we are
starting the right quarterback.
1383
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,280
We have a veteran offensive
line.
1384
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:59,680
They may not be the best that
they're growing.
1385
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,400
We have a deep wide receiver
room.
1386
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,320
We have a 12 back punch.
Tight end room could get better,
1387
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,520
but at least it's some veterans.
At least I'm not dealing with a
1388
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,520
tight end room.
That is a bunch of young guys.
1389
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,800
They've all played significant
reps and the defensive side of
1390
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:19,760
the ball that last year in
certain games, it just felt like
1391
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:23,440
old times.
It felt like old times where we
1392
01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:26,240
were just knocking the shit out
of people, stacking at will.
1393
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,920
So as I get here to these last
four games, we have not won in
1394
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:38,720
the Dome in 26 years, 26 years.
It was 1998.
1395
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:42,680
Dwight Dick was a senior.
Al Clark was a quarterback.
1396
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,720
It's the last time we won.
And if you don't recall, if
1397
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,600
y'all remember, NCAA back in the
day used to have the craziest
1398
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:53,040
games.
That was one of them, was the 98
1399
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,000
game that we won was one of
them.
1400
01:17:56,680 --> 01:18:00,440
I think they snapped that
because I think it's what Chris
1401
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:03,640
Lester said right here, which
Chris, I saw it.
1402
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,680
These kids don't know about that
Dome.
1403
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:12,400
It's not up here for them.
And then I sit and look at the
1404
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,400
other three games or two at the
back end.
1405
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,880
I think it'd be funny as hell if
we got Manny Diaz fired his
1406
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,200
first year.
Dude, I'd I'd laugh my ass off
1407
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,480
at Dad and UVA.
We see where they are.
1408
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:30,200
They are a mess.
And then you look at Clemson and
1409
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:34,880
13 years ago, we sat there right
we could not do got Jack shit
1410
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,040
offensively.
There are certain people in the
1411
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:39,720
Virginia Tech community that
swears to God they had our
1412
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:43,360
playbook on both sides.
Maybe they did, maybe they
1413
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,160
didn't.
That was that was the turning
1414
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:51,560
point of the program.
It's where we've been for 13
1415
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,160
years.
We've been wanting to get back
1416
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:56,840
there, right?
We, we, we saw a glimpse of it
1417
01:18:56,840 --> 01:19:01,000
in 2016 and 2017.
I think it's time to flip the
1418
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,840
script.
They beat Clemson seven in one
1419
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:08,960
in conference will get us to the
ACC title game.
1420
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,720
Y'all just heard it.
Yep do do the math.
1421
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,400
Do the math of what I just did
is.
1422
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:20,280
That 11 and one it's. 11 and one
and and I have two thoughts of
1423
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,840
the ACC title game.
And I know I'm I know some
1424
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:28,680
people probably laughing at me
in the the the comments, but
1425
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,880
here's my thought on that.
One of two things is going to
1426
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:33,960
happen to Miami after they beat
us.
1427
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,520
Either they are not going to
lose a game head so big.
1428
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:41,560
So either they're going to be 12
and O in that game or going to
1429
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,760
be playing Florida State and
they're going to be 11 and 1.
1430
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,560
So it's the latter.
Because yeah, they're they're
1431
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,480
not.
They're not going to be a stable
1432
01:19:49,480 --> 01:19:54,560
and capable program for 12 games
in a row.
1433
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,960
So and Thomas, I'm going to
completely.
1434
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,560
If you ever seen Grayson McCall
play, he ain't always cracked up
1435
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,200
to be.
Everybody likes NC State because
1436
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,240
of Grayson McCall.
Grace McCall plays a couple a
1437
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:10,840
couple teams down in Coastal.
He ain't that good.
1438
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,880
He's been less since Jamie
Chadwell left.
1439
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:18,840
Hold on.
Yeah, I'm at 11:00 and 1:00.
1440
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:22,680
Tally is at 8:00 and 4:00,
bronze at 9:00 and 3:00, and
1441
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,120
Shelton is at 9:00 and 3:00.
So.
1442
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:29,680
Write it down, but I.
Like what Tally said, we're
1443
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,400
going to be changing our minds
all throughout this.
1444
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:35,040
And if I drank too much, that's
what that's what it is.
1445
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,960
I mean, you got to, that's what
it's about, so.
1446
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,280
I don't know, man.
I'm excited though.
1447
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:46,440
I can say that.
I can see, you know, I can see
1448
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,040
I.
Don't see six and?
1449
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:52,560
Six, I can see Curtis's.
I can see Curtis's 11:00 and
1450
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:56,200
1:00.
I can see 11 and one before I
1451
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,400
can see six and six, barring
catastrophic.
1452
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,880
Injuries to a significant
portion of the roster, right?
1453
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,640
So I mean, I'm, I'm excited, I
think.
1454
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:08,200
That this is going to be a fun
year and again, if it does
1455
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:12,720
happen, if it does happen, I
will say I have been saying for
1456
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,800
the last couple of years I don't
know everything but I know just
1457
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:19,480
about everything so y'all need
to listen to me all right?
1458
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:21,960
You lose by.
You lose by a lot.
1459
01:21:22,480 --> 01:21:23,560
You lose.
By a little.
1460
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,520
You win by a little, then you
win by a lot.
1461
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,680
I think this is our year that we
win by a lot because last year I
1462
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:34,200
still feel like that was the we
won by a little even though we
1463
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,200
won by a lot.
But I'm saying those games were
1464
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:39,040
still kind of competitive.
I think we just go in here and
1465
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:42,640
we just beat people this year
and once I see us actually do
1466
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:46,760
that a couple of times, y'all
know I'm going to get on here
1467
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:48,240
and.
Start acting crazy.
1468
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,440
I'm going to tell you right now
I'm going to get on here and
1469
01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:54,720
start wearing masks.
I told y'all I was going to get
1470
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,120
it.
We did that last year though.
1471
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:57,400
We.
We.
1472
01:21:57,880 --> 01:21:59,480
Man, I told y'all I was going to
get a tattoo.
1473
01:21:59,480 --> 01:22:00,720
What I.
Say I was going to get a tattoo
1474
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:06,760
if we do you did you said ACC.
That's the ACC I can't remember
1475
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:08,280
matter of fact.
Don't remember it.
1476
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:09,160
No.
Nobody even think.
1477
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,080
About it, because I ain't.
I don't want to do it.
1478
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:12,440
I'll go back and find all the
old episodes.
1479
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,440
I'll go back.
And find you even remember.
1480
01:22:15,440 --> 01:22:17,400
What I said is that state.
Of the program.
1481
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:19,160
I can't remember.
I said I'd get a.
1482
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:24,120
Tattoo if we do something.
But whatever that is, we need
1483
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,680
to.
Do it, but nobody.
1484
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,960
Remember it?
So I said if we make the ACC
1485
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,040
championship game, you won't get
a tattoo.
1486
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,440
Something like that, but I'm
I'm.
1487
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:36,880
Excited, man.
What did Andretti say?
1488
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:40,120
Oh, he said we need to put our
foot on the OD.
1489
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,360
U's something.
Oh, he's being nice.
1490
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:45,040
Is that fart box?
What?
1491
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,680
What is that?
What's that?
1492
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,880
Supposed to be, yeah.
We need to, we need to spell it
1493
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,640
out for me, Andretti.
We do need to go down and do.
1494
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,440
Something crazy to.
To ODU and Andretti ain't trying
1495
01:22:58,440 --> 01:23:01,640
to get.
Kicked off of YouTube Game track
1496
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:03,320
Kicked off of.
YouTube all.
1497
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:08,840
Righty all right, so there's a
predictions write them down do
1498
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,480
whatever.
I mean we do this shit for fun
1499
01:23:11,480 --> 01:23:14,640
y'all it's fun to sit here when
we when I said this is what we
1500
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,880
going to do guys think about it.
It's all first of all, that's
1501
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:23,360
what I meant right there.
Oh, Andre.
1502
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,240
We love you, man.
We love you man.
1503
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,240
Thank you for being back.
Remember, we're we're we're on
1504
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:30,120
Tuesday nights about nine O
clock.
1505
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:32,840
Take a break from the game and
come listen to us.
1506
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:37,120
We enjoy your stuff, man.
So I real quick.
1507
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:39,760
So before we wrap up everything
tonight, we going to do big
1508
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,200
screeners because there's two
games to watch this weekend.
1509
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,200
We already talked about them at
the top of the program.
1510
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:48,320
We going to make predictions.
We want some fun graphics for
1511
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:49,880
you next week when we actually
have games.
1512
01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:51,280
We're picking.
We're just going, we're just
1513
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:53,400
going to talk about it this week
and our goal.
1514
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:58,160
We also.
I hope is unveiling a new part
1515
01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,760
of big screeners.
We ain't going to tell y'all
1516
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:05,760
what that is yet, but it's going
to be a lot of fun with somebody
1517
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:09,960
we know very well.
All right, Georgia Tech, Florida
1518
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,520
State, Florida State, the
current line is -10 that's down
1519
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,440
2 1/2 points since last Friday
when I looked at it.
1520
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:18,440
Which one of y'all want to
predict this one?
1521
01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:23,160
First, take Georgia Tech.
Take the money.
1522
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:25,120
Take.
The points take the points.
1523
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,320
Take the points.
I don't know if they win, but.
1524
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:30,440
I'd take the points that line
going down for a reason.
1525
01:24:31,440 --> 01:24:36,000
Yeah, that if that line was like
8. 8 1/2 I think I'd I'd be
1526
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,000
right on it, but you're in the
full 10.
1527
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,680
That's tough to take.
All righty.
1528
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:48,120
See, I feel.
Like this is one of.
1529
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:51,240
Those trick games because you
feel like 10 to 14 is the right
1530
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:54,000
number, right?
By the way, Virginia Tech show
1531
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,800
you are right.
It was 2000.
1532
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:59,640
It was Michael Vick the last
time that won there.
1533
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,880
So the last time we won, there
were two Vicks on the team.
1534
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:07,080
That's a long ass time ago,
right?
1535
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:09,600
Like 10 is that number, right?
10 is the perfect number for
1536
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,800
this game because you feel like
it's going to be about 10
1537
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,480
points.
So does Georgia Tech fuck it up
1538
01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:17,760
in the end and give like a cheap
one away?
1539
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,760
I don't think they won't because
I think Brent Key, if you
1540
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,600
watched him play Georgia last
year, he plays them a little
1541
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:29,800
closer to the best 'cause he had
nothing to lose in that game and
1542
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:33,600
he should have.
He should have went for some
1543
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:36,800
more risk, but he didn't.
I'm with y'all Georgia Tech take
1544
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:39,400
the points.
Plus it's in Ireland.
1545
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,640
All that weird time and shit,
you don't know what's going to
1546
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:42,520
happen.
Weird stadium.
1547
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:49,640
All right, next one, new ACC
member SMU travels to Reno, NV
1548
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,880
to play to the Wolfpack of
Nevada.
1549
01:25:52,440 --> 01:25:58,120
This is a tougher one.
SMU 25 1/2 points.
1550
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:03,640
They are laying Wolfpack that's.
A lot of points, man.
1551
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,520
That's a lot of points.
Like I don't care.
1552
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:06,960
Who it is?
Why is that even a?
1553
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,760
#25 1/2.
That ain't even a number.
1554
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,160
You know what cool.
The only cool 25 that was was
1555
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:14,000
Barry.
Buns.
1556
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,480
Like 25 is not a number that I
want to roll with.
1557
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,960
I'll take SMU in the points.
You know why y'all know y'all
1558
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:26,720
many points Nevada averaged last
year on offense.
1559
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:29,960
How many?
Like 17 y'all know how much S?
1560
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:31,960
Y'all saw?
SMU play, if you try to play a
1561
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,680
stick, they can score, I think.
I think that's.
1562
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:40,200
Like a. 5614 game, if it's not
I, I, I think it's an absolute
1563
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:43,840
blowout.
SMU's got some cooking.
1564
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,960
I, I, I also think, I don't
think that's a game we can gauge
1565
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,160
SMU by.
Even if they blow the doors off
1566
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,280
them, it's a bagging.
Now if they struggle with them,
1567
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,440
that'll tell us more than
anything that first game.
1568
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,320
I think it's going to tell us
about those teams a lot.
1569
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:03,000
So yeah, I think it's so it's
hard to really gauge a a ton.
1570
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:08,880
On the first game, but I think
if you see SMU go out there and
1571
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:14,560
it's a really close game, like
less than two scores, you can
1572
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,040
derive something from.
That I think anything.
1573
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,600
I, I, I don't think they have to
cover for, for you to say that
1574
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,280
SMU is, is as we expected.
But I think if it is in that
1575
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,760
like 10 to 14 point range for a
win or, you know, God forbid
1576
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,480
they, they go out there and, you
know, lay an egg and lose, I
1577
01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:35,840
think that'll tell us more than
a blowout or just, you know,
1578
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:41,200
somewhere ��5 from that spread.
Yeah, I think SMU probably if I
1579
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:42,720
had to.
Look at it week 1.
1580
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,320
Defenses usually are a little
bit farther along than offenses.
1581
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:51,240
I would.
Think SMU probably would win
1582
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:55,480
that game by about 21 points,
but I would be scared to put say
1583
01:27:55,480 --> 01:27:59,560
they're going to win by 26, you
know, 4 touchdowns.
1584
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:04,000
I don't know.
So I would, I'm taking the Wolf
1585
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,120
Pack.
What about that first game?
1586
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:08,800
What are we going to learn?
From what do y'all think we
1587
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,240
learned about those teams?
Because I think that's, I would,
1588
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,600
I wish that that would have just
been a stateside game because
1589
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:19,480
that noon kick is just brutal.
Yeah, the the location I think
1590
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:22,680
in time kind of.
Screws with the logistics
1591
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:26,600
because both teams are having
abnormal logistics and that it's
1592
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,800
not just like standard stateside
neutral site logistics.
1593
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:34,600
Like you're, you're taking cross
pond flights, you know, you're
1594
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,880
playing at a completely
different time.
1595
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,840
Like you're basically playing,
you know, how many was it?
1596
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:42,720
8 hours behind, seven hours
behind.
1597
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:46,600
So, yeah.
So it's a, it's a completely
1598
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:52,000
different way of managing an
away game or a neutral site game
1599
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:55,400
than than if it would be here.
Even if you're playing, you
1600
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,040
know, out at the Rose Bowl or
something.
1601
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,680
I mean, it's still a completely
different scenario for them to
1602
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,520
manage.
So it's going to be interesting
1603
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:07,320
to see who ends up doing well in
that game.
1604
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:11,800
I don't think you can derive a
whole lot from it other than
1605
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,320
kind of seeing where the holes
are in each of those teams,
1606
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,680
whether it's, you know, certain
position groups and things like
1607
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:19,360
that.
I think that's where you'll kind
1608
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,320
of see the most that you can
take away and, you know, move
1609
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:25,000
into another week and say, all
right, well, we saw holes here.
1610
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:29,000
We saw holes there.
I'm just interested to see what
1611
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:30,160
Florida.
State looks like.
1612
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:33,880
Like, they really have to revamp
who they are.
1613
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:37,520
You know, they lost, not saying
it can't, but we kind of seen
1614
01:29:37,520 --> 01:29:41,400
how Novell did when he got
there, how he build it up.
1615
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:43,800
He wasn't just like a flash in
the pan coach.
1616
01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:46,800
Like it took him a couple of
years to get it to where he
1617
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,920
wanted.
And then those players that he
1618
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:52,440
brought in, you know, some of
them are in the league now.
1619
01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,720
You know, the quarterback that
that that he he built that
1620
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,800
program on his program on, you
know, the wide receivers that he
1621
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:02,280
brought in things like that.
And I'm not saying that he
1622
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:03,760
didn't bring in more good
players.
1623
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:05,640
I don't know that roster that
great to know.
1624
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:11,760
But I will say I'm not as high
on.
1625
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:15,360
Florida State as I was.
Last year, I just feel like
1626
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:19,440
looking at him from what he's
done in the past, he looks like
1627
01:30:19,440 --> 01:30:23,000
a coach that he'll build up a
little bit more than OK, I'm
1628
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:28,360
just going to retool that that.
Will tell the story and I think
1629
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,840
that game will tell the story.
About both those teams and how
1630
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:32,520
we can project them going
forward.
1631
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,440
So, yeah, All right.
Anything else out there?
1632
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:38,320
Anything breaking?
Nothing.
1633
01:30:39,440 --> 01:30:43,320
I know of nothing yet, man.
Nothing yet.
1634
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,360
All right, somebody call.
Funtell see if he got any more
1635
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:49,240
recruits.
He's getting fucking two wide
1636
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:53,560
receivers a week so call him and
see how he doing tonight.
1637
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:55,680
I.
I I ain't doing that.
1638
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,920
That man's in camp, that man.
Probably still in the office
1639
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:01,280
right now, working right?
You watch your practice.
1640
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:02,920
Tape for tomorrow.
You're damn right.
1641
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:03,880
He is.
All right.
1642
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:07,800
Well, folks.
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1643
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:10,080
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1644
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01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:35,760
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01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:40,160
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01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,960
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I know he's got multiple things
1654
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:46,640
going on this week.
What does he have going on this
1655
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:49,080
week?
He'll be at the farmers market
1656
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:52,800
Saturday.
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1657
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,200
He was down at the Village Grill
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1658
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:57,760
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01:31:57,800 --> 01:31:59,640
That's why I didn't get to
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1662
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,440
Thanks for all the comments in
the chat tonight.
1663
01:32:10,440 --> 01:32:13,400
Really appreciate you all out
there and as always, let's go,
1664
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And welcome back to the Boundary
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fellas.
What is going on, man?
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We back.
We back.
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We getting we entering closer
and closer.
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We we back, we back to do this
every week.
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So that's how you know, we're
we're about to punch it because
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when we go in every week, you
know, we got content coming in,
13
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you know, we got games about to
happen.
14
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You know that things are about
to get real for the Hokies.
15
00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,160
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, you just ready, man?
16
00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,200
I mean, I think we got some
football, you know, this weekend
17
00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,920
and I got some high school games
to go to, some middle school
18
00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,000
games to go to.
So it it it's wide open, man.
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It's wide open.
And and that's what you want.
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Best time of year?
It's 100% on that tally, man.
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It's it's games going
everywhere.
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You driving by schools now, you
seeing the kids out there
23
00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,280
practicing.
We get more and more news from
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00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,000
every single pundit in the
college football world.
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00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,200
We're seeing more interviews,
Andy Better, David Cunningham,
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all the guys that take sideline
and the writers down in Roanoke
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at practice, seeing the stuff
every day.
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It's it's tough to hold down
because it is officially week
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zero.
We got game, like you said,
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Tally, we got games this weekend
that, that one Saturday
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afternoon.
I'm, I'm hoping I know Brian's
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not going to be at home.
I'm going to try to get in front
33
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of the TV and watch that game
because I want to see what
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Georgia Tech looks like and, you
know, and SMU later that night.
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Like, because although we don't
play SMU this year, they're
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members of the ACC.
They're going to be playing
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teams we are playing right.
Yeah, and they, and, and those
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are two teams that people are
kind of high on, or three teams,
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you know, Georgia Tech, some
people got Georgia Tech as a
40
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pretty good team.
Maybe one of our losses, you
41
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know, again, some people and
Florida State's always good in
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00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,840
the ACC as long as they're here,
you know, till they leave, I
43
00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,360
guess.
And then like you said, SMU,
44
00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:15,280
man, a lot of people are talking
about SMU is a is a dark horse
45
00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,600
team this year.
So it'll be good.
46
00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:19,840
Good week zero man, Great week
0.
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Yeah, I mean, it's it's one of
those you got, you got some good
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matchups like you got to see,
all right, so you got Georgia
49
00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,080
Tech, Are they a team on the
rise?
50
00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:30,120
It's Florida State.
Have they retooled the way
51
00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:34,240
everybody thinks they have?
And and like you said, some of
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some of those unknown anomalies
from an ACC conversation as far
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as SMUI mean, it's not a, it's
not a matchup that's going to I
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think test them, but it is their
kind of intro into being AACC
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conference team.
We get to see them a little bit.
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And I'm looking forward to that
team in particular seeing how
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they kind of move forward once
they get into conference.
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Play 100% and we are actually at
the end of the telecast tonight.
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We are going to pick those.
It is our big screeners games of
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the week.
We only got 2 to pick from so we
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didn't have to scurry up and
down the the lineup card to
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decide what we're going to do
later this evening.
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Also, we are going to go through
the schedule and we are going to
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make our predictions of the
Hokies season record.
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We're going to break it down.
If you didn't join us last year,
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we're going to break it down
four games at a time and kind of
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get to the end there kind of a
little bit knowing the enemy,
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how we're feeling about the
Hokies playing them.
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And then we're going to look at
the position groups earlier
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tonight and it's sort of
something if you if this, if
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you're new here, this is the
first time because I'm looking
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up in the left corner.
We got a lot more people
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watching than we normally have.
We appreciate everybody out
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there.
Every Tuesday of the season of
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the season, after the Hoagies
have played, we do tell the
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truth Tuesday.
And basically we recap the game.
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We ask what went well, what went
bad, did anything happen we want
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ready for and what can we do
better moving forward.
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We're going to do that every
week.
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This week we're kind of telling
the truth of how we are feeling
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towards each position group on
the Hokie stock up, stock down
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or we feeling level.
So that's what we got in store
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tonight.
But fellas, I want to kick it
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off because out of nowhere
recruiting pick back up out of
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the out of nowhere for me.
Maybe I ain't been paying
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attention, but when you land a
top ten player in the state of
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North Carolina, a top 247 player
in Snoop Peterkin, 62172 out of
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Mount Tabor, a wide receiver in
Winston Salem like that, that's
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in some ripples.
Because Tally, I know you
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followed.
Everybody was saying he was
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going to NC State.
Oh yeah, I mean, I didn't pay
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attention to him because I
thought he was going to NC
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State.
What?
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Then you got to realize, man,
you got funtail minds on your
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team.
You're never out of it.
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So never out of it.
And another thing I didn't know
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the kid played basketball as
well.
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Yeah, yeah.
So that's that's our second dual
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sport athlete in this class.
That's pretty cool.
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So Micah Matthews and now Snick
Peterton and I mean, this is one
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that I think we made some good,
good progress late in the
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process because we, it looked
like, like y'all said he was NC
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State bound.
And all of a sudden, you know,
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so a couple of visits happened.
There's some whizzing.
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It's like, hey, hey, you know,
the Hokies are in play here.
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The Hokies are in play here.
Next thing you know, you know,
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we we get that commitment and
and that's big man, because I
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mean that that's again, Fontell
going out there and pretty much
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getting getting the guys that he
wants.
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Any anybody that he gets gets
really deep into the recruiting
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process with.
He seems to be able to pull in.
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And I mean that's a credit to
him.
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It it honestly at this point, I
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doesn't have to happen, but you
know, you got to make him if if
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you can do it, the highest paid
non coordinator assistant in the
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country.
It's like the $1,000,000.
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Man, he's pretty.
He's pretty close to earning it.
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He's earning it on the field,
He's earning it in recruiting,
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so. 100% How do you argue with
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I don't know.
I know this happened Saturday
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and we're busy.
Tally's got his son playing
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football.
We're getting ready.
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We we've sent our kids back to
school here.
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Did y'all get to see any tape
yet on him?
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On.
Peter can snook.
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Just go look at the first clip
on any of them.
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I mean, I mean, it's been a,
I've, I've looked at a couple of
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things, but from the one I've
seen, I think it was just huddle
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tape.
Go look at the first clip.
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He's running a kickback, he's
running a punt back and it's
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stiff on one guy.
Get to the end, get to the
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sideline and outrun everybody at
621-701-8170.
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And he played basketball.
It's Trey Turner, you know what
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I'm saying?
Same kind of body style kind of
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kind of speed from what I've
seen and then you get into a
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couple of other clips it's like
he's running away from people
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what I and I didn't watch a
whole bunch I'm not going to
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lie, but again, it don't take
you 2 hours to look at somebody
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and see if they can play ball
there you.
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Go.
First clip, running a punt back.
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Second clip, somebody threw him
a fade and he caught it over his
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outside shoulder.
Dove.
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Third clip, another diving
catch, this 40 yards. 4th clip,
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runs the kickoff back.
That's enough.
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What else do I need to see?
And Fontell wants you so.
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And this is this is another kid
that seems to be football first
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in, in terms of like, you know,
you got basketball, you got
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football, but he seems to be a
football first guy.
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You love to see that and I'm
excited for him man, because I
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think he is the kind of Trey
Turner that do it all type
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receiver, kind of do a little
bit of everything for you.
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And I think we kind of, we had
another cycle where you got kind
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of a traditional slot guy, you
got kind of a red zone thread
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and now you kind of got this,
this do it all receiver.
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So we're, we're again stacking
bodies and, and, and getting
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them where they make sense in
how we're trying to play, play
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offense and what our scheme is,
is designed to do and kind of
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mixing up their skill sets a
little bit. 100 percent, 100%.
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All right, before we flip it
over to the next commitment,
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just a shout out to everybody
listening tonight.
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Some of our regulars in here got
Thomas out here talking about
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the team.
Chris Lester, always good to
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hear from you man.
Our Buddy Clark down in Roanoke
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and Mr. Drones.
So appreciate you guys as always
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for listening.
But let's talk about the next
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gentleman that committed a
little bit earlier this week.
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Luke Stewie, a six foot 295 LB
athlete, classified as an
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athlete out of Avon Lake.
OH, just a three star, little
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bit lower than what we've seen,
but background, do a little
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research.
His dad Michael was a wide
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receiver.
Looked up the stats had like 700
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yards played three seasons back
from 94 to 97.
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Obviously if y'all didn't see
Dwight shouted out him the other
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day.
So obviously he's got that and
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again, it's Ohio.
We always, you know, me and
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Brian long for tally join.
We always talk about it's like
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if you can get some from Ohio,
you get some from Pennsylvania,
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a couple from New Jersey and
then a couple from Georgia and
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South Carolina and North
Carolina.
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Then you doing shit right
because you going to those
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football States and you pulling
out.
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Don't care where they ranked now
any any how anything on this kid
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yet that y'all seen or read
about since we landed him?
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So this seems to be one that
outside of the legacy piece,
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which is I think a big part of
this, and that's kind of why he
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was on the radar that, you know,
they had him into a camp.
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Apparently he really looked
really good at the camp.
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And I think a lot of times guys
that are in that kind of lower,
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lower three star ranking, you
know, they go to a camp, they
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either find a good fit or, or or
are able to kind of really go
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there and really stand out in in
a particular way.
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That's how a lot of these guys
get these offers.
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And I mean that that seems used
to be what happened for him.
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Yeah, definitely.
I've talked to my son about that
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a lot.
And just, you know, sports in
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general, you never know what a
coach is 100% looking for.
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You know, I mean, a lot of times
they'll tell you, but every now
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and then it's a skill that can't
be taught, whether it's high
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point in the ball or whether
it's the way you speak, you
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know, whether it's the way you
carry yourself and you're a
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leader through drills.
It's it's something.
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So it's no telling like what
they seen.
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But from what I've seen, I think
he plays both sides of the ball.
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Send him on some defense as
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Ball skills are pretty good that
that wide receiver room is
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packed, man.
Like if you want to get on the
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field over there, you're going
to have to do some work.
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So I ain't saying that he can't,
but I'm just saying with him
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being able to play offense and
defense, I mean, that helps him
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out to find a place on the
field, you know, and, and again,
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like Brian said, him being a
legacy probably is a big piece
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to that, which is good.
I like to see stuff like that
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because the worst thing can
happen is that somebody loves
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tech and they played at tech.
They have a kid, he goes
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somewhere else and then he ends
up turning into Steph Curry.
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You just, I'd rather be on the
sidelines than be in the
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Olympics.
And then we'd be saying, hey, we
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should have.
So if somebody is, you know that
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that's that's part of that's
part of recruiting, that's part
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of building the culture.
So y'all keep doing what you're
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doing.
They'll get Lauren Johnson's
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other son to next.
The legacy too there.
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We go.
Yeah, 100%.
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And looking at him tally, you're
right, he does play both sides.
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He's playing a lot of inside
slot receiver, but playing like
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a free.
Looking at the tape here and
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it's on my left screen, he's
playing free and he's playing
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strong.
So he's playing inside the box
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and outside the box.
And one of them was a pick.
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He he went straight over top of
the guy and just took the ball
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from him.
I mean, you know, so is what it
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is.
So again, two more recruit
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pickups there.
Hokies currently 36th rank in
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the country at like 87.8.
That creeping back to that 88
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again, even with the 83.
And I know some people like
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recruit rings don't mean Jack
shit.
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Well, I think we can all tell
you look who's makes the play
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offs, look who's always winning
910 games.
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And when we were winning nine
and 10 games, those recruiting
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rankings were a little bit
higher than everybody thought.
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So it does matter.
All right, fellas, kind of the
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two-part of why we are here
tonight.
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Let us talk about the hokey
position groups and if that
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stock is up, if that stock is
down or if it's like this.
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And by all means, if you're out
there listening tonight and you
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feel like you got an opinion up
or down, throw it in the chat of
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how you feeling.
We'll definitely throw it in
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there.
So I am going to start, got to
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do this, right.
I'm going to start with Brian
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Talley because when I get to the
last one, I got to leave with
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him first.
That's why.
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No, that's fine with me.
You still watching?
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I'm.
I'm watching, I'm watching the
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chat, man.
I'm watching the chat I need.
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I need to chat to help me out
tonight.
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Need to chat to help him out.
Need to help all us out.
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All right, but we're going to
start.
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Where else will we start?
It is going to be the
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quarterback room.
And so Mr. Brian Siegler,
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quarterback room stock up, stock
down same.
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I mean, it's stock up, man.
It's stock way up there.
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There's there's three things
that are playing a factor here.
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Number one, you're starting the
season with the correct
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quarterback.
Unlike last year.
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With the correct quarterback and
you're starting the season with
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a quarterback that has started
games for you in this system.
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So that that's that's number
one.
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Number two, you now have a
backup that regardless of who
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wins the job, a backup that I
think is a better fit for what
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we're doing already with Kyron
drones compared to what Grant
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Wells offered last year.
So whether whether that next man
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up is pop, whether that next man
up is Colin Schlee, we'll we'll
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know soon as far as who's
winning that backup job.
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But whoever that is is going to
be a better slot in fit than
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what we had last year.
And then #3 is just depth.
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I feel like, you know, we have a
lot better situation from a
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depth perspective than we had
last year because of a lot of
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what I said in two.
But now you've got three guys
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that have had some experience in
this system playing in some
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games.
Colin obviously started a couple
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games elsewhere.
So you got a guy with with that
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type of experience coming in.
You got pop with a little more
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experience.
It's just top to bottom a a
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better quarterback room than
what we started with last year.
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Tally what?
About you Oh yeah no that
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definitely kind of like Brian
said I mean we had so many
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unknowns last year.
It's going to be probably going
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to be a lot of UPS.
But like I said we had so many
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unknowns last year like going
into the season and it's like
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well we hope what we hope it's
like this year it's like this is
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happening.
You know what I'm saying like
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this is going to happen.
So again, I mean, you y'all know
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everybody watching knows man.
But I will say something, you
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know, me and Chris, shout out to
Chris Lester, great guy, man.
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He's a good friend to me.
We we talk a lot about sports,
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but family as well.
And he said something that was
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pretty profound to me when we
got to talking about Grant
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Wells, he said and and and I was
one of the people who was
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Grant's a great kid.
I just didn't think he had the
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skill to get us to the next
level, you know, and that was no
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knock on him.
But Chris, again, me and him
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were talking and he said
something like I said, it was
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pretty profound.
He said all of these guys that
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are on the roster committed
after watching Grant Wells play,
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after watching that team beat,
you know, go set three games
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and, and three and seven,
whatever we were three and
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whatever 8. 3:00 and 3:00 and
8:00.
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Yeah.
After going three and eight,
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Grant was the quarterback.
You know, all of these guys that
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came in, Kyron came in, Allie
Jennings came in because they
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knew that this offense could go
to another level.
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So Grant Wells didn't really
hinder anything.
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He was a, and I don't want to
say he was a stepping stone, but
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he took the chance to come to
Virginia Tech to go through
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those games.
And we were competitive.
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We played a lot of games that he
played in with some kids that
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you know what, what else were
they would have started in Power
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5.
Still no.
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And we were competitive in those
games.
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And so it at least gave us a a
backbone to show recruits, Hey,
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if you come in, we can get to
that next level.
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You know, so Tebow could go talk
to Kyron drone so Tebow can go
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talk to Quan Felton and say,
Hey, this is kind of what it
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looks like.
But you know, this X's and O's,
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we need the Jimmy's and Joe's,
you know what I mean?
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So I got to give I got to give
him a little bit of credit on
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that.
I thought that was a a different
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perspective that I hadn't
thought of.
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That was pretty good.
And then, like I said, back to
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what we're talking about now,
you know, Karen steps in and he
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does what he does last year and
his stocks, you know, up
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tremendous.
And then they go in, they get a,
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a, a veteran backup to go along
with the young guys that we have
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in the stable as well.
So just kind of bring some
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balance after your starter.
When we get up on those games,
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when we go and beat these teams
42 to seven, like we know it's
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going to happen.
You can get our starters out and
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you can get some back up, some
work and they can go in.
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They continue to get their reps
and work on their craft as well.
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So stock up on that room.
All right, I'm with y'all stock
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up on this one as well.
And and and a lot of what Brian
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and Tally both said a lot of
that's intermingling.
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But I also think this and I
always think this perspective,
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there's three quarterbacks
powering's getting one reps the
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backup, whoever that is is going
to get some a little bit of one
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Rep.
They're going to work with twos
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primarily, but it's whoever the
third quarterback is, is running
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practice wild more.
So if that is Pop Watson, that
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is unbelievable for him, right?
Pop go out there, run the
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offense, get those reps Don't
matter who you're playing with,
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you're going to get live reps
because you're the practice
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squad guy and that's awesome.
If Pop wins the job and he's the
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backup, wonderful, Love it.
But then to what Tally just
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said, now you're putting a
veteran on practice squad.
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He's probably going to know
exactly what to do in every
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situation, which is going to be
getting us better prepared for
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the season.
So that soccer room is way up.
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You got Dobby belt for it.
Who, you know, came on campus,
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you see some other young guys in
the recruiting class.
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So I'm not even talking this
season, just in general that is
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through the roof.
All right, Tally, I'm going to
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go.
And the quarterbacks got to turn
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around and hand the ball off.
So I'm going to hand the ball
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off to you.
The running backroom, what we
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feeling like there right now?
Stock up.
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Stock down.
You know, you know what I'm
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going to say stock up as well on
this.
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You know, we got some people
that come back from last year.
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I like Bryce Duke.
I hated to see him leave, but I
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can understand.
But I like what I seen from
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Prelude in the in the Spring
game.
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I know spring games don't matter
and all this, but I'm just
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saying if we can use the plays
that I've seen him run, I don't
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know if it's him, I think he can
do it.
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But the plays that I've seen him
run with, you know, using the
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running backside of the
backfield and doing some
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different things like that, I'd
I'd like to see that.
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So I'd say the running back room
to stock up and then we we can
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keep Malachi healthy.
You know, we've seen him flash a
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lot at over the last two years,
but then, you know, injury hit.
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So we're going to go stock up.
Brian Siegler, you know I'm
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going to go stock up too.
I, I like what I've seen from,
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from Coney.
I, I think you're going to get
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a, a tutor that you 100% know
how to use the offense.
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I feel like the start of the
season we were kind of working
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him in kind of seeing what he
did best, where, where, where,
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what plays were going to be the
home runs for him.
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I think as we got into that
later in the season, we really
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utilized him a lot better.
So I think I think you're going
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to see a a better utilized
Tootin.
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I think Malachi seems to be at
at his most healthy that I've
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seen him in the last two years
heading into this season.
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I think that's a key element to
to what we're looking at here.
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And like I said, Coney, Coney
has has shown me something.
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I think he's going to be a
really good compliment to that
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1-2 punch and we'll see if some
of the other guys like Prelo get
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in there.
You know, we'll we'll see if if
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they make some some hay as well.
So I'm very interested to see
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what what goes on with that room
pass those kind of first two or
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three guys, but I definitely
think stock up this year all.
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Right.
I'm with y'all, I don't my
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percentage, it's a very small
up, very small up based on what
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TuneIn Thomas did and what kind
of Prelude did in the spring.
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Because after, after the first
two guys, it is the unknown.
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We don't know what Coney's going
to exactly be like on game day.
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Can PJ Prolu take some of those,
You know, those gimmicks, slash,
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you know, trick plays that they
kind of ran with him?
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Can they get that into a game
element?
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If they can, it's going to be
higher than I, you know, higher
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than where I am right now.
But it's just a little bit up.
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It's not like the quarterback
room, even though I like the
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guys behind them, it's just it
doesn't have that dynamic where
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you just feel like, man, this
room's really, you know, this
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room's really unbelievable.
One through 123, it's just like
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one's really, really good.
Two, it's healthy.
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OK, Three, if they run the right
place for them.
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So just a little bit up.
All right, we got to chime in
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real quick, not on this room,
but Chris Lester wanted to say
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something way, way up, way up
for the quarterback room.
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I don't disagree, Chris.
I don't agree at all.
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Like stocks is like through the
roof.
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All right, Brian Siegler, I'm
giving you like the easiest one,
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the easiest one, the easiest
one.
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This is the easiest one.
I'm I'm timing how long it's
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going to take us wide receiving
room.
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Way up, Way up.
I mean, there's really no other
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way to to, to phrase it, man.
I mean, you, you, you throw
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Ollie Jennings back into a mix
of very effective receiving
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corps that you had last year.
You got Aiden Green coming on
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and then you got guys like Brody
and Chan's coming in as as
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freshmen looking to make a
little bit of noise as well.
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You know, you throw in a chance
Fitzgerald here or there and see
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if he's taking another step in
development and maybe either one
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or two other guys that we don't
even know anything about yet.
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You know, Tucker Holloway, if he
gets healthy through the season,
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you know, he makes, you know,
some sort of impact on this
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group.
So I.
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Mean keep naming them.
We left out, we left out Steven
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Gosnell, we left out Aiden
Green.
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I mean there's names on top of
names on top of names and then
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you got them stacked up enough
where you got, you know, senior
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leadership, then you got guys
right behind them.
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Then you got the young freshman
coming in that are able to watch
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the older guys.
Like it is amazing that Fontell
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has has built that room.
The coaching staff in general.
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But if y'all new here, if you're
new to Virginia Tech and Hokie
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nation, like we ain't used to
that many athletes being in that
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that wide receiver.
Now we've had some good wide
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receivers come through here.
Don't not don't.
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I'm not saying that, but when
you look up and down that roster
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and you look at, you know, when
you get to college, the stars go
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away.
So we ain't just thinking about
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the stars right now.
We're thinking about what we've
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seen proven on the field.
And then the guys that have come
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in, the freshmen that have come
in, we see them going against
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good defensive players in
spring, in fall practice and
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they look like they belong
there.
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So that is way stock up.
Just I mean, just two seasons
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ago, we were talking about this
being arguably the worst wide
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receiver core in power Five,
right?
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And and that's no disrespect to
the guys that were here that
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were part of that.
It just the decimated roster
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that we had at the end of the
Fuente era, especially at the
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skill position group was crazy.
And in two, two to three, 2 1/2
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cycles, really, you went from
that to arguably the best wide
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receiver core in the ACC,
especially when we talk about
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depth.
Yeah.
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I mean, it is crazy.
It is crazy.
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All right, we got we got
multiple people chiming in on
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this.
Before I get my opinion, let me
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throw this up here.
We got Kevin.
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Yeah, To the moon, The bad boys
out there.
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Yeah.
Way up.
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Way up, way up.
Low country living Absolutely.
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All the way up and and I'm with
y'all, this is one of those
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things where you buy a stock at
like $3, you forget about it and
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you walk around like a year
later and it's like worth 800
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and you're like, whoa, what
happened?
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This thing was not worth that.
And and tell you said list them
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Felton Jennings, Lane Gosnell,
Aiden Green, Chance Fitzgerald,
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Brody Chance.
What about XTB?
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You saw him a couple times last
year break.
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We couldn't even get that deep.
Didn't even think about that
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name.
It's crazy and.
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You've got guys like Takahi that
we've heard about doing good
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things before.
He got back, got his name.
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He was, he was last year.
He got hurt like he was ahead of
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some of the other guys and he
got hurt like that room was
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super deep, man.
And what that creates when you
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got that going on is
competition.
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You can't just go to practice
and chill.
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You got to go to practice and
you got to you got to go to work
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because the next guy is trying
to get on the field.
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So you can see that you can see
the competition, man.
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You can see everybody wants it
like it is.
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It's crazy.
All righty, all right, tally,
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back to you on this one.
Back to you on this one and
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tight end room, your room that
you played in up, down level.
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Yeah, we're going to get to
that.
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Let me see what Miss.
Miss Sarah he is talking about.
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Miss Sarah, welcome to the show.
We got to correct you, because
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if you're talking about Malik
Washington, he did not come from
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Virginia Tech.
He came from another place that
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has Virginia in it, the
University of Virginia.
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So he's a great player, but he
didn't come from here.
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And we don't like them.
We like him.
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Oh he don't like them?
I didn't see that comment and
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wanted to say that but we don't.
What tidying room?
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Tidying room up down level.
Yeah, so y'all can beat me up.
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I'm going to go down, man.
I got to go down.
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And the reason I'm going to go
down is because we lost.
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We lost, right?
You know, like he left.
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Now, I'll say this, I think that
because some people say, well,
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we get, you know, we get Gallo
back and we seen Biggie, they
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were going to be here
regardless.
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Like they're here so you could
interchange them, you could take
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right out and put them in if
we're going to run the ball
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because they are better blocking
backs than he was.
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But at the same time, it was
like he was a defense, like he
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was a mismatch, you know what
I'm saying?
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Like him being on the field, he
was a mismatch.
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So I think we have the wide
receivers that can take those
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catches, which is great, but
we're just talking about that
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tidy in room when you lose a
tidy in.
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That was, I think he was third
on the team in receptions last
526
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,600
year.
No matter how you slice it,
527
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,160
yeah, no matter how you slice
it, go back and watch the tape.
528
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,480
He was he did what he was
supposed to do in the past game.
529
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,280
So no disrespect to the guys.
I like.
530
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,240
I like what I'm seeing out of
Saint Germain.
531
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:04,680
I like what I'm seeing out of
Benji.
532
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,120
I think Benji's probably the
most athletic out of the tight
533
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,480
ends.
Gallo's going to bring some
534
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,160
senior leadership, so that's
good.
535
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,840
He's been there nine years.
I just hope, you know, he's
536
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,520
healthy and everything.
You know, he he's he's able to
537
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:20,240
go out the way he wants to go
out.
538
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,880
But I'm going to go stock down
on that just because of that
539
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,200
reason, because he left.
Ron.
540
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,280
It's stock down, but it's it's
just a little bit.
541
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,000
And what it's, it's, it's mostly
to do with what Tally said.
542
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,120
I mean, you got to replace a lot
of production from a receiving
543
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,280
standpoint with Daquan Wright
moving on to Ole Miss.
544
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,720
So that that's a big one.
Everybody that listens to this
545
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:50,040
podcast, they they know how I
felt about Daquan Wright.
546
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,600
So we don't need to rehash all
that.
547
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:54,680
They know that I knew he was a
dude.
548
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,240
So there's no way that you lose
that off your team and there's
549
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,960
not some degree of drop off
there.
550
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:03,200
Now, what I think is going to
happen is that there's going to
551
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,960
be some replacing of that
production, but it's going to be
552
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,560
by committee.
You're going to see more guys
553
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:13,080
get involved in the offense in
more specialized ways instead of
554
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:16,160
having a guy like right, that
could do pretty much everything
555
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,680
in the passing game.
So you get Gallo back little
556
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,600
more of the the short
intermediate stuff.
557
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,800
A guy like Zeke Wimbish can do
those deep crossers, those
558
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,840
seams.
So we, you know, you kind of end
559
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:34,720
up, you know, replacing him in
terms of role with a a few other
560
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,240
guys, but in terms of just
having the one guy that can go
561
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,520
out there and just be a
mismatched nightmare, you don't
562
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,840
really have that anymore in the
passing game.
563
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,280
But I think overall blocking the
levels going to raise up a
564
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,600
little bit.
That's why I said it's only
565
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,200
going to be a little bit of a
difference, but I definitely
566
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,760
think it's a small step back in
that that position group.
567
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,520
Yeah, 100% on that.
It is stock down.
568
00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,600
When you lose a guy tally stat
loud with 28 receptions, 366
569
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:05,440
yards, 13.1 per reception.
That's a huge thing to lose.
570
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,040
Now Benji Gosnell had his
flashes last year, had some good
571
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,200
plays and we're getting Gallo
back.
572
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,920
But it's Gallo off of me.
And like you said, he ain't no
573
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,440
spring chicken, right?
Gallo's an older guy.
574
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,640
Gallo did have over 600 yards
just two years ago.
575
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,840
So it's definitely there.
But it's down because I because
576
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,000
Wright was so dynamic like in in
as far as you say.
577
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,400
Well, well, he won the best
blocker.
578
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:37,080
You know what if you threw that
man on the field with the big
579
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,560
three right now?
I mean you put you twisting up
580
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,680
defenses because against a
nickel corner or against a
581
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,400
smaller cornerback right could
block you go out there against
582
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,200
the linebackers asked him to do
a hardship off the IT won't
583
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,480
gonna be there, but it is stock
down unfortunately for that
584
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,440
room.
All righty Brian, we're back to
585
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,680
you and obviously clearly
there's only one group left.
586
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,040
I also wanted to start with you
because I needed to hear Tally's
587
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,000
second point of view after.
Him, I'm I'm going to be calm,
588
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,400
be calm.
You know, I want you to be calm.
589
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,400
But Brian, what you've read,
what you've heard, where is this
590
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,600
offensive line at right now?
I'm going to say that the stock
591
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:26,000
is up.
It's not a resounding up, but I,
592
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:29,120
I think we're in a much better
position than we were even at
593
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,920
the end of last year for several
reasons.
594
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,120
Number one, you bring in a guy
like Cunningham that at worst is
595
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,680
going to be a very good depth
piece for this unit, right?
596
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,560
And then you got two other guys
in Brody Meadows and Lathe Ganem
597
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,200
that seem to be coming on in
fall camp after post spring.
598
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,120
They're pushing some of the guys
on that starting line for some
599
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,520
playing time.
So now you're talking about
600
00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,160
eight guys, you know, with maybe
a 9th, you know, slipped in
601
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,680
there in terms of depth.
Whereas last year I think we
602
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:11,840
were more like maybe six at
times 7, but mostly 6 for most
603
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,480
of that year.
So you get a little bit of
604
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,400
wiggle room if, if there is a
guy or two that go down this
605
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,760
year and that I think that is
where the improvement is the
606
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,159
most is having a little bit of
wiggle room with this offensive
607
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:27,360
line.
If there is an injury here or
608
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,960
there, not feeling like it's the
end of the world.
609
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,960
But in terms of of front end,
we, we've got to hope that they
610
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,159
actually take a step talent wise
because I don't think we're
611
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:42,040
going to see a whole lot of new
faces on the line.
612
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,000
Jonathan Talley.
Oh, it's on me.
613
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,239
It's on you.
Well, I'm going to actually say
614
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:56,679
stock up a little bit, you know,
because as Curtis put it, if you
615
00:34:56,679 --> 00:35:02,440
buy stock at $3, sometimes it's
got to go up, you know what I'm
616
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,400
saying?
It might go up to three O 5.
617
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:12,120
So I will say, I mean from last
year, you go back and you look
618
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:17,560
at the early games, Tootin was
getting hit 3-4 times in the
619
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,880
backfield.
You know what I'm saying it he
620
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,480
couldn't do nothing.
He couldn't.
621
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,960
We we couldn't get no rushing
yards.
622
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,360
I think at one time we might
have like 20 rushing yards one
623
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,880
game and then maybe against
Purdue and then Karen breaks a
624
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,560
run and had more rushing yards
in that run than we did in the
625
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,800
whole game or something.
It's crazy stats for what we
626
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,400
were doing.
But again, the offense changes a
627
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,520
little bit.
People get a little bit more
628
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,640
comfortable.
We don't, I mean, we didn't lose
629
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,840
nobody.
So it ain't like we had a stud
630
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,320
that we lost and we're like, OK,
well, we just got to replace
631
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,640
him.
So you got pretty much everybody
632
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,080
back.
So at least you got some more
633
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,760
experience, you know what I'm
saying?
634
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,760
You got some experience and you
got some people behind you that
635
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,320
if you don't get your ass in
gear, you going to come out.
636
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,560
You got, you ain't just stuck in
there, you know, you're seeing
637
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,720
different people get in there.
And then like even with
638
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,800
Cunningham, people's like, is he
going to start?
639
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,520
You know, I, I seen him, he can
play.
640
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,880
I seen him in the spring game.
I again, you can watch somebody
641
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,840
play.
If you watch offensive line and
642
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,040
you watch the feet, you can tell
if somebody can move their feet
643
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,520
or not.
I mean, it ain't that easy.
644
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,560
But I mean, if you watch it
enough, you can say, OK, yeah,
645
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,560
he can move a little bit for
that size he can play.
646
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:38,640
So if he's not 100% the starter
and he's having to push
647
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,760
somebody, that means that it's
some good competition going on.
648
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,280
That means somebody don't want
to lose their spot.
649
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:49,480
So I'm OK with that.
So I would say up slightly until
650
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:54,760
I see a game, but we will be in
Nashville here shortly and I
651
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,480
will be looking at it close up
and personal.
652
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,240
So we'll we'll figure out how
the stock is after I leave that.
653
00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,160
But right now, we're going to
say stock up a little bit.
654
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:05,960
Absolutely.
So a couple things before I
655
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,000
speak.
Here's a few people chiming in
656
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,240
big up from Thomas.
We got bigger, stronger, more
657
00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,400
experience.
It is more experience.
658
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:18,920
Chris let's you got two things
to say, Coach foot for president
659
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,760
and a little bit more about
coach truck.
660
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,240
That's a big piece right there.
And I'm with Tally.
661
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,640
I'm stocked up a little bit.
I'm stocked up a little bit
662
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,000
because when we kind of got the
right stuff going, we looked
663
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,440
better.
We were by no means like that
664
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:39,280
elite top 25 line where, you
know what, if you beat us, we're
665
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,360
just going to have a bad day.
It was that we were maybe
666
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,000
average to maybe slightly above
average.
667
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,120
And now from the reports we're
getting, you know, David
668
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,400
Cunningham was with us last week
feeling like it could be eight.
669
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:58,280
That report that came out at the
end of last week about basically
670
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:03,840
there was a day where it was get
what Leif Ganem little more at
671
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,280
center, big more back at right
guard.
672
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,600
So now again, it's that depth.
It's but it's been we tally, we
673
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:16,920
joke about that nickel, but for
what this team was last year, if
674
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,880
it's just a marginal increase of
being a little bit better in the
675
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,360
offensive line, we saw what
happened when this thing got
676
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,600
going right.
If it's just marginally better,
677
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,680
that's a long way.
That's a long way from where it
678
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,560
was at the beginning of this
year last year or this line last
679
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,600
year.
All right, let's flip it over to
680
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,080
the defensive side of the ball
now and let's start with the
681
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,800
defensive ends.
Brian, where are you feeling up,
682
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:44,800
down.
Same.
683
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:50,480
I got a feeling the ankles say
down because shit I just I don't
684
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,000
think he can say down.
I'm, I'm not going to say down.
685
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:57,680
I, I, I, I'm going to say up.
I'm going to say it's a marginal
686
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,360
up.
What I think we, we know we're
687
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,480
going to get with APR right?
We, we know, we, we've seen him.
688
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,240
We, we, we saw what he can do
last year.
689
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,200
We know we're getting, I think
the big thing is that I think
690
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,760
having a full offseason with
kind of understanding who our
691
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,760
personnel is, I think you're
going to see big jumps from
692
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,360
Nelson and Burgos and that's
where we're going to see that
693
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:23,360
stock go a little bit higher.
And I think you got guys like
694
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,320
McRae and and Jordan McDonald
still kind of working in there
695
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,440
as well that give you a little
bit of added depth behind those
696
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,920
big those first three.
So I, I think the stock's up.
697
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,280
I don't think it's up
significantly, but I think it's
698
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,360
a, you know, it's going to be a
a nice little steady uptick
699
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,040
there.
Let me ask Tally, Tally, let me
700
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,280
ask you this before I flip it
over.
701
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,560
How much more can it go up
defensive end wise when the
702
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,240
defensive ends deal what they
did last year on a national
703
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,520
stage with Saxon tackle for
loss?
704
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:58,120
Well, it's, it's kind of hard
to, it's kind of hard to put it
705
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,760
in the words what it is.
But the main thing is, and it's
706
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,200
for me, I'm going to just go
ahead and put the line together
707
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,320
because it's so hard.
We have somebody who is.
708
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,440
I'll say either stock has to be
up or stock is the same, which
709
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,640
is fine.
But when you have somebody who
710
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,600
has a great year like APR did
and people say, well, you know
711
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,640
what you get with him?
Well, you really don't because
712
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:23,480
he could take a step forward,
which would be awesome, or he
713
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,760
could be right where he was last
year because people are doubling
714
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,480
them.
And then people are doing
715
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,760
different things to make sure
that they're game planning for
716
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,480
him.
And then somebody else, you got
717
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,960
other people on the line that's
going to step up and they going
718
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,960
to take, they can take those
tackle for loss, they can take
719
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,640
those sacks.
So even if his sack numbers dip
720
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,480
just a little bit, just because
he's there, somebody else is
721
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,120
going to eat just because he's
there.
722
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,240
A linebacker may not get
somebody to that second level
723
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:57,560
because they are saying you guys
don't leave him, stay on him and
724
00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,360
let that linebacker, we going to
try to make the linebacker miss
725
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,440
with our running back.
You know, we going to put them
726
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,520
one-on-one or something and then
the linebacker goes and makes
727
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:07,720
the tackle.
I know that's a lot at one time,
728
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:11,680
but I'm just saying APR is
exactly what he needs to be.
729
00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,760
He is a distraction for a
offensive coordinator before he
730
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,760
even steps on the field.
I promise you, everybody on that
731
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,240
offense is looking for 52.
You damn right they are.
732
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:27,480
So that I got to say stock up
just because of what he's done
733
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,520
and how he's made it and because
he's getting in people's heads.
734
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,400
But like I said, don't be
alarmed if it's a couple of
735
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:38,720
games and you don't see a sack
or a multi game sack form.
736
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,760
We got to look at that as a
whole because of him being there
737
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,520
makes that line so hard to
block.
738
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,920
All right, well, let me do this
because you said you wanted to
739
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,280
roll them into it.
I'll, I'll talk about both sides
740
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,600
at the end.
What about the defensive tackle
741
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,600
room, man?
I mean, you got Fuga coming back
742
00:41:56,440 --> 00:42:00,000
and you mentioned just a second
ago, people's going to be
743
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,640
everybody's looking for 52.
Well then there's going to be
744
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,600
somebody that pulls up the tape
and says y'all realize #16 that
745
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,040
mother is a damn all ACCD
tackle.
746
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,720
We need to lock them too.
Where are you the tackle room?
747
00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,720
Is that up?
I mean, it's got to be up
748
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,840
because again, I think that the
kids last year, young men last
749
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,680
year did a great job.
You know, like we have fell
750
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,440
Darius on here, nobody.
Well, we had a couple people
751
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,440
that felt like if he took a step
forward, it was going to be a
752
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,680
big year for him and that
defensive line.
753
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,160
And when he got his opportunity,
he went in and he did what he
754
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:43,280
had to do, like he shine, but it
was more of a collective unit
755
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,120
thing that they did.
You know, people, not people's
756
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:52,840
pilot was in, Kendrick's was in,
Fuga was helping Federus was in
757
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,800
doing his thing.
Like you just said.
758
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,680
The same with APR.
They're going to have to look at
759
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,160
16 and say what are we going to
do about him in the middle?
760
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,640
You know what I'm saying?
Like, are we going to chip him?
761
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,640
Are we going to have to send a
full back at him?
762
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,400
Are we going to not be able to
run a not be able to run a
763
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,920
screen because he's fast enough
to get to the line back to get
764
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,360
to the quarterback if we let him
through?
765
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,400
Like it's a lot of planning that
goes along with having those
766
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,160
players.
And I don't think that we are
767
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,240
aware of we have stars on the
team now, you know what I'm
768
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:30,080
saying?
And I don't just mean just the,
769
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,720
oh man, we got good players like
you got nationally ranked
770
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,080
players on your team that people
are going to game plan for.
771
00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:40,600
Like if I was the other
defensive end, Keyshawn Burgos,
772
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,320
Cole Nelson had a pretty good
year last year.
773
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,200
Whoever's on that other side, I,
they better be licking their
774
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,640
chops, man, because they're
going to be looking to that
775
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:50,960
other side and worried about
him.
776
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,560
And it's Showtime to eat on that
side.
777
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:57,320
So I, it, it should be fun, man.
I I got to say stock up on the
778
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,080
whole line, but for those
reasons.
779
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,960
Got it.
Sigla D Tackle.
780
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:08,560
Man, so you know, you got Fuka
coming back, got an extra year
781
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,320
here.
He's he's probably going to be a
782
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:16,360
captain, whether he's a guy that
has that or designation like we
783
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,480
were talking about on the
preview panel or whatever.
784
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,760
He's going to be in the steady
rotation for this group.
785
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,600
But then he bring in three key
transfers.
786
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,920
Amneus Peebles, you got Kamari
Copeland from JUCO, you got
787
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,600
Kelvin Gilliam coming in.
You also got some of the other
788
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,360
guys that are already on your
roster taking another step.
789
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,160
You got Malachi Madison, you got
Gerard Johnson.
790
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,680
You're throwing in a a youngster
like Emmett Laws in the end of
791
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,920
this group.
This room is way, way up in my
792
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,600
opinion, and I think it's
because of that depth piece that
793
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,760
we're talking about.
I think last year we had three
794
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,800
to four guys that we could rely
on consistently.
795
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,920
They were steady eddies that you
do what you can get out from
796
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,600
them.
I think Aeneas Peebles raises
797
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,080
the ceiling of this unit and I
think all the other guys they
798
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,640
brought in raised the potential
level for this unit.
799
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,800
Plus you have the added depth of
having being able to go really 6
800
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,160
deep at this group instead of
four or five deep.
801
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,680
Yep, that's the big piece right
there.
802
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:17,760
And real quick.
Got it.
803
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,840
Just a couple folks chiming in.
The defensive ends up Burgos
804
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,560
expecting a big year.
Low country.
805
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,400
Yeah, the me it for the
defensive ends.
806
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,560
It's slightly up.
I wish CJ McRae was healthy.
807
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,840
I wish we knew right now that
that leg was completely healthy
808
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,520
where he could play.
I would feel even better about
809
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,720
that room.
Defensive tackle to what Brian
810
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:46,760
just said, that room went from
being where it was really three
811
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:51,000
cog pieces to where you feel
like is it 4, is it 5?
812
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:56,680
Is it six that can actually play
and to to what Chris is saying
813
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,840
it right here, because the
honest truth is, and I know JC
814
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,080
Price, we talked to him.
Y'all, I got a feeling there's
815
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:07,240
going to be times JC is going to
stick people's and go stick APR
816
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:10,120
on the same side and say put
everybody over there.
817
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,160
Give me one on ones with some of
these young guys and make them
818
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,080
pay.
Because the 2nd it's it's not if
819
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,720
it's not the if it's when they
it's when that D line makes them
820
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,920
pay pops the quarterback causes
a fumble, massive tackle for
821
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,360
loss.
They have to sit there and say,
822
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,280
well, if these guys are going to
eat all day.
823
00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:33,720
Can we consistently continually
chip and continually send the
824
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:36,960
full back and keep the tight end
in or we eventually going to
825
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,200
have to just we don't have to
play it straight up and then
826
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,600
that's what we want, right?
That's a decision.
827
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,600
And we've said all these names
and haven't really even talked
828
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:48,920
about Curtis Perry yet and, and
how he, you know, he might be a
829
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,320
situational piece in this group.
Situational 3 tech situational
830
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,720
big end.
So again, it's it's it's up.
831
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,680
I ain't putting it at the wide
receiver level of up, but it's
832
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,880
up.
All right, Brian, let's flip
833
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,920
back.
Linebacker room, linebacker
834
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,840
room.
And did you get a chance to see
835
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,480
some of those interviews last
weekend?
836
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,080
Which ones?
The what?
837
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,440
Lawson.
And with all those guys, it
838
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,920
seems like everybody, with the
exception of Brumfield, is all
839
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,240
over the damn place.
Yeah, it looks like they're
840
00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:27,320
they're they're definitely cross
training that Will and star
841
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:32,000
position pretty heavily.
You know, you got Brumfield
842
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,520
that's kind of locked in.
It sounds like he's going to be
843
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:36,760
kind of that guy.
Mike.
844
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,880
You got guys playing star, guys
playing Will.
845
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,800
You got Kelly at star.
You got, you know, Caleb Spencer
846
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,520
playing a couple spots.
You got Caleb Woodson playing a
847
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,680
couple spots.
I mean, I think outside of
848
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,960
Keanta Jenkins and Sam
Brumfield, everybody else is all
849
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,480
over the place.
You know, Keanta is going to
850
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:03,640
probably be that, that first guy
at * and then Brumfield there at
851
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,320
Mike.
And we'll see who lines up at
852
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,880
Will and we'll see how much they
interchange that position.
853
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:12,920
And we'll see how much they move
guys from from start of Will and
854
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,080
back.
And I just love the depth that
855
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,880
we've created because I mean,
you got guys like Gabe Williams
856
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,240
in the mix here.
You got even Jade McDonald still
857
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,800
in the mix there, Jaden Keller
still getting his perennial
858
00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:31,640
fall, can't mention of of being
in the mix.
859
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,160
So it's going to be interesting
to see kind of where the chips
860
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:38,520
fall with with those, those two
positions.
861
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:40,480
I think we're we're pretty
solid.
862
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,280
Brumfield, Mike Keonta, the
first guy up at star.
863
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,720
How those rotations work after
that is anybody's guess.
864
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,120
So up, it's still up.
Yes, still up because of the
865
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:55,080
depth.
Tally.
866
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:00,160
I'll say up off of 1 clip, I've
seen Keonta Jenkins try to take
867
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,160
somebody's head off the other
day on like a jet sweep or
868
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,080
something.
I don't know why he's doing that
869
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,520
to his own players in practice,
but if I see, I seen that.
870
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,080
So I mean, I got to say up.
But now, you know,
871
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,840
realistically, I mean, who did
you lose?
872
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,960
You didn't lose nobody.
You brought some people in to
873
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,560
help and you got some more
experience.
874
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,920
And again, you brought some
people in with some experience.
875
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,520
You brought in Brumfield, you
brought in, like you said, Caleb
876
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:34,320
Spencer Woodson's a year older.
Keanu Jenkins is the veteran in
877
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,160
the room.
Like I didn't even mention
878
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,840
Lawson, You know what I'm
saying?
879
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,400
Jaden Keller.
Somebody's got to have,
880
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:44,440
somebody's got to step up.
And again, it goes back to your
881
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,360
defensive line.
It's a team sport.
882
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,960
If you can keep those big
offensive lineman from getting
883
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:56,920
to that second level, getting
out there and and and mashing on
884
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,040
your on your linebackers and
then they just need to run and
885
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,360
stop the ball and come downhill
and fill holes, that is going to
886
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,040
make your that's going to make
that room better.
887
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,320
So it's an overall thing.
But just as that room, I say
888
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:13,560
that the backers up as well all.
Right, Thomas agrees with you
889
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,560
with saying the backers are up.
Chris laying a bold prediction.
890
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,120
Hokies going to increase Chris.
They do that.
891
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,040
They do 50 Chris.
That means they will increase
892
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:28,640
one sack per game from last
year, One additional sack.
893
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,720
And I know some people say,
well, that doesn't sound like a
894
00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:34,240
lot.
One additional sack again.
895
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,560
Yeah, that's a lot.
Opt in as a shit ton.
896
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,640
As a lot.
As a lot I think.
897
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,840
Half the snack would be a
respectable #1 sack is a big
898
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,840
jump, but I think they could.
Yeah, that I think the potential
899
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,120
is there and I think, you know,
we we've talked about it.
900
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:54,480
I think you had nauseam at this
point with what it means to have
901
00:50:54,600 --> 00:51:00,000
a guy like Brumfield that is a
veteran Mike, that knows how to
902
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,800
be the quarterback of the
defense, because that was not
903
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,320
some, that was not an asset the
linebacker corps had at the
904
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:10,240
start of last season and.
And that's why for me, that room
905
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:13,960
is a significant step up because
of Brumfield, because it's
906
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,920
having that guy that knows where
everyone needs to go, where
907
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:20,600
everyone needs to line up, how
everything needs to get done.
908
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,880
And it's not, it's not like he
doesn't have he has the
909
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,480
experience.
He has in game experience.
910
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,120
He's played against some good
teams.
911
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:29,880
It's one of those things I, I
think I said to both of y'all
912
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,600
last year, it might have been a
state of the program.
913
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,760
I don't know if I was that drunk
at night when I said how much
914
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,320
better the linebacker group
played from year one to year
915
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,240
two.
And I said, you imagine if you
916
00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:42,880
had Dax, it might where a guy
who knew how to line up
917
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,720
everybody who knew exactly where
to go, even though he might not
918
00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:48,680
be quick enough to get there
every time, but he's putting
919
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,120
everybody in the right spots.
And that's essentially why what
920
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:53,560
it is with Sam Brumfield coming
in.
921
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,000
Right.
All right, Tally, give me some
922
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,320
safety room thoughts.
Up, down.
923
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,520
Safety room, I'm still, I mean,
again, I want to go up on
924
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,040
everything, but I got to go
Safety room.
925
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:12,880
I'm gonna probably go about even
on that right now just because I
926
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,040
need to know if if Stroman is
going to get kicked out of
927
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:19,120
games.
I need I need to know if he
928
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,160
going to be in there or not.
You know, shout out to Strohman.
929
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,760
Strohman is a is a dog man.
He's a headhunter.
930
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,440
But we need him on the field.
You know, we need him on the
931
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,040
field and we know we got some
players back there, but we also
932
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,000
need to know what do we have
back there?
933
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,400
You know, we know we got we've
heard a lot about Reddish.
934
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,840
He's a freshman.
He's coming in.
935
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:44,560
We heard about, you know, some
different people back there in
936
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,560
the backside, but I'm going to
go about even just because we
937
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,320
again, I, we didn't lose
anybody.
938
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,360
We, we got the, we got the, the
group, the boys are back in
939
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,720
town.
We just need everybody to be
940
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:58,720
healthy and everybody to stay in
the game and not.
941
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:02,640
We don't need no targeting.
That's right, look who joined us
942
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,360
here.
Look who's back.
943
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,600
Where you been, Andretti?
Andretti, man.
944
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,880
Wait, what?
The game came out, That's what
945
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,680
it was.
We didn't play he.
946
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,600
Just came coming up for air from
the NC double.
947
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,440
A You ain't even, you ain't even
played him yet.
948
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,160
I got to find I got to get with
him.
949
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:22,880
I ain't played him yet either.
Oh man, Brian, where are you on
950
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,720
this room?
So.
951
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,000
I'm I'm right now I'm gonna
hold.
952
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,120
I'm gonna hold at at steady.
I'm I'm hold it the same here
953
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,040
for this, but I think it has
potential to go up.
954
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,680
So when I'm, when I'm looking at
this group, you know, Jalen
955
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,560
Stroman, he's he, he, he's a
dog.
956
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,600
But like Tally said, you know,
we we've seen situations,
957
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,560
whether it's injuries or whether
it's targeted and keep him off
958
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,360
the field a little bit more than
we would like.
959
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:55,400
Last year in general, injuries
and targeting kept our safeties
960
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,080
off the field more than we
wanted.
961
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,560
It was already a thin group last
year, especially with the with
962
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,560
the youth.
Outside of those first two, I
963
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,160
think we're in a little bit
better situation started this
964
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,120
year.
We really have three guys with
965
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,440
some significant experience at
this point looking at Stroman,
966
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:14,880
looking at Jones, looking at
most Phillips at this point.
967
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,040
They played a lot of significant
snaps last year looking for most
968
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:23,200
to, you know, take a take AI
think a pretty good step from
969
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,240
year one to year two.
I think the big question is
970
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:29,760
going to be is does what does
that rest of that safety room
971
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,960
give us this year?
You know, does you know Quinn
972
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,040
radish step in there?
Does Cam Fleming take a step?
973
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,600
Are we looking at Dev, Devin,
Alvis doing anything?
974
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,600
So I think those three are going
to be the big question Marks and
975
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,280
how much are we going to get
from them and how much are we're
976
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,320
going to ask to get from them,
whether it be because of
977
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,160
injuries or targeting or
anything else?
978
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,120
Because I think the first three
there, I think we feel, if not
979
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,080
super great about.
We definitely feel comfortable
980
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,000
putting them out there for
significant snaps.
981
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,520
All right, I am going to be
slightly down on this room and
982
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,840
it's not for the three guys that
y'all talked about in Stroman,
983
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:10,480
in most Phillips and in Jones.
I think I'm more disappointed
984
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,480
that we haven't heard names.
We've only heard Reddish's name
985
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,480
a little bit, but it's more of
Devin Alvis has been here a
986
00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:22,840
couple years now, Fleming and
Noah Jenkins and a lot of those
987
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,920
guys have been here a few years
now and we're not hearing them
988
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,040
come up.
And usually with safeties,
989
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,080
usually about the second season,
guys can start making names for
990
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,400
themselves, right?
And that worries me a little
991
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:36,640
bit.
That worries me a little bit.
992
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,320
That's why I'm slightly down
because if I had heard one of
993
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:44,080
those names that we didn't hear
last year and we heard this year
994
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,840
like in camp, but we saw
something, you know, in spring
995
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,480
ball that Brian Talley or
myself, like it called our eye,
996
00:55:51,240 --> 00:55:53,400
that will make me feel better.
So I'm slightly down now.
997
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,200
Is there potential to go up?
Because I'm going to be straight
998
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:57,720
up with you.
Yes.
999
00:55:57,720 --> 00:56:02,400
Brent Pryor, he loves to talk to
us fans, he loves talk to the
1000
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,960
media.
He he's great on the mic.
1001
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,280
He lets people come in and watch
practices multiple times a week,
1002
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:09,760
right?
We know they're getting about 20
1003
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,760
minutes segment, which is a lot
of time, y'all.
1004
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,840
But the question is if he got
the ace in the hole and it's one
1005
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:19,880
of these safeties, ain't nobody
talking about that Vanderbilt
1006
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:23,560
game going force a fumble, get a
pick and then we're going to be
1007
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,800
like, look, coach, coach being
slick.
1008
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,160
Coach didn't want to talk about
him because he knew he had a
1009
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,280
fourth safety in that room.
That's where I'm interested,
1010
00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:33,480
Brian.
You get another easy one.
1011
00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,240
You get another easy one.
Brian, I get, I get a layup.
1012
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,120
You'll be a layup.
Well, we got to have a layup to
1013
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:43,080
end this segment here how we
feeling about corners?
1014
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:49,160
Up you got another year
development for Lane.
1015
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:53,160
You got arguably the best
cornerback in the ACC and Dorian
1016
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,200
Strong coming back in.
Here you got another year
1017
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,120
development for Blake, Braylon
Johnson, Dante Lovett.
1018
00:56:59,920 --> 00:57:03,920
I'm really excited to see them
grow into a bigger role in that
1019
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,680
cornerback room.
And then you got guys like Penex
1020
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,720
Williams.
You got Joshua Clark as a true
1021
00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:12,680
freshman coming in there and
making some noise.
1022
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:15,960
I haven't even named a couple
other guys.
1023
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,720
So I mean, I think this room,
yeah, I got love it earlier.
1024
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:20,560
I got love it in.
There.
1025
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,560
Yeah, but I think, I think this,
this, this room is deep right
1026
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:28,520
now.
I think we can go about 6 deep
1027
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,240
and feel pretty confident, but I
don't think we'll need to ever
1028
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:34,960
get that deep in the bag as long
as we can stay healthy.
1029
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Tally, tally.
You got to go up, man.
1030
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:41,680
You got to go up and we going to
go all the way back.
1031
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,760
I know y'all might be tired of
me saying it, but I'm going to
1032
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,280
say it again until y'all get it
in your heads out there in the
1033
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,320
chat.
When your defensive line is
1034
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,560
better, it makes your whole
defense better.
1035
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,880
Start in the trenches when that
defensive line can get on that
1036
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:01,080
quarterback and make him throw
that ball just a split second
1037
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:04,840
faster than he really wants to.
Dorian Strong will go get it.
1038
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:10,000
Monsieur Delano, go get it.
You got again, like you said,
1039
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,320
Braylon Johnson back there,
Dante Lovett, those guys heard a
1040
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,560
lot about Christian Williams.
Christian Williams was hurt last
1041
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:20,160
year, you know, so he's back.
Joshua Clark, we've seen him on
1042
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:23,520
a couple of flashes.
I mean, a lot of these kids that
1043
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,920
these coaches that went out and
got, man, they're coming in
1044
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:31,560
ready to play body size wise,
like most of the time from the
1045
00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:33,080
Virginia Tech.
We're kind of used to.
1046
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,600
We were thinking, you know, man,
we're going to have a couple of
1047
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:38,280
years of development, you know,
get the get the weight up.
1048
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,120
No man, they coming in ready to
play.
1049
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,480
Look at most Phillips last year.
Back to what you said, Curtis,
1050
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,240
when you said who's going to be
the one that flashes, man, you
1051
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:50,280
never know nowadays, like with
the, with the, how they've been
1052
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,120
recruiting and how these kids
come in, everybody has trainers,
1053
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:59,480
Everybody comes in, you know,
knowing what they need to do and
1054
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,920
have their body ready and man,
they're ready to get out there
1055
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,160
and play.
So all it takes is like you
1056
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,440
said, one play, Hey, this is
your shot.
1057
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,040
I need you to go in and do your
job.
1058
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:10,840
Boom, you going in and get a
pick, you go in and get a a, a
1059
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,040
fumble, you know, cause a
fumble.
1060
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,680
You know, the next thing you
know you're in the rotation.
1061
00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:21,200
So I'm excited to see that.
But stock definitely up on that
1062
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:26,280
DB room.
Yeah, 100% the stock is up on
1063
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:30,280
the DV room.
I mean, obviously you mentioned
1064
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:35,800
Brian best corner in the ACC and
Dorian strong and probably, I
1065
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:42,200
mean it is you can make Just
Cause the best duo in the ACC
1066
00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:45,560
with him and Mansoor.
I definitely think they are a
1067
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,800
top 20 duo in the country.
I think they're a top 20 duo in
1068
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,840
the country straight up.
But I think it's also because we
1069
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,360
saw Lovett play last year and we
saw Braylon play and it's like
1070
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:59,040
these guys are holding up.
They're true freshmen.
1071
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,120
Their bodies are already ready.
And then to add on top of that.
1072
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,280
We heard the name Christian
Williams that came out of
1073
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:08,800
coach's mouth a couple days ago.
Hadn't heard that name, so he
1074
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,560
clearly did something there.
And then Joshua Clark.
1075
01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,080
And we saw Joshua Clark on field
of spring ball.
1076
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,920
We saw that like, OK, this kid
can play.
1077
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,480
And Curtis And Curtis.
Guess what?
1078
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:22,520
What?
Tell me somebody.
1079
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,520
No, no, you didn't miss nobody,
but we didn't even mention.
1080
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,840
Look who they're going against
in practice every day.
1081
01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:32,240
Iron sharpen and iron, baby.
Look who they going against in
1082
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,520
practice every day you got to go
against that wide receiving
1083
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:36,520
room.
You better be getting better or
1084
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:40,240
you going to have to transfer to
Blue Valley State or whatever
1085
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:44,920
the place is north of state.
I don't know.
1086
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,600
You have to go somewhere to play
If you playing against them and
1087
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,680
they make you look silly and you
ain't getting no better every
1088
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,920
day.
So I mean, when you going
1089
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:57,840
against top wide receivers in
NFL caliber players, that's
1090
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:03,240
that's what you want.
So. 100% All right, well our UVA
1091
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,560
fan is asking here, do we have
game by game predictions before
1092
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,000
the season starts?
Well, guess what?
1093
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:12,440
That is coming up after the
break with our sponsor from Main
1094
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,680
Street Pharmacy.
I can probably save you a lot of
1095
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,200
money and I can take a lot
better care of you.
1096
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,960
That's pretty much it.
My name is Jeremy Counts and I'm
1097
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,200
a pharmacist.
I own and operate Main Street
1098
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,720
Pharmacy here in downtown
Blacksburg.
1099
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:27,360
My brother's a pharmacist, I'm a
pharmacist, my uncle's a
1100
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:28,680
pharmacist, my dad's a
pharmacist.
1101
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,880
I remember he would give me
M&M's to count in little pill
1102
01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:33,720
counters.
This is something I've always
1103
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,600
done and I'm just lucky that
what I know so well is something
1104
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,800
that I can do and feel good
about it and get back to.
1105
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,000
People.
Pharmacies are your frontline
1106
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,520
defense.
Pharmacy's job is to make sure
1107
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,920
you're getting optimal care for
the lowest price possible.
1108
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,200
Also, we take the pressure off
of emergency rooms.
1109
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:52,120
I'll tell people immediately
when they need to go to the
1110
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:54,320
doctor, or I'll tell them if
they just need a cream over the
1111
01:01:54,320 --> 01:01:56,400
counter.
If there's something that isn't
1112
01:01:56,400 --> 01:01:59,040
commercially available, if it's
something that's not available
1113
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,600
in a certain strength or a
certain form or anything like
1114
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,840
that, we'll make it.
TaylorMade medications.
1115
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,800
Some of those options save
people a lot of money.
1116
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:08,480
What motivates me, I get to take
care of people and limit
1117
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,040
Blacksburg.
That's all neat.
1118
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:18,200
All righty, we are back and now
it is time that we made our
1119
01:02:18,200 --> 01:02:21,040
season predictions.
By the way, I got I got to call
1120
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,120
Thomas out here.
Thomas 15 and no, don't work no
1121
01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,520
more bro.
You got to be 16 and no to win
1122
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:28,800
the national championship, 15
and no don't get you there
1123
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,560
anymore because you got to win
the ACC.
1124
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,960
Then you got to win your first
playoff game, your second
1125
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,480
playoff game, then the national
finals.
1126
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,040
So 15 and O don't work.
I'll let you edit that to 16.
1127
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:43,000
But let's let's get it going
here.
1128
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,480
We did this last year.
We're taking it four games at a
1129
01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:49,240
time from the beginning all the
way to the end.
1130
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:51,280
Let's just go ahead and throw
this out.
1131
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:52,520
Sheldon could not be here
tonight.
1132
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,520
He's doing some traveling.
Couldn't jump it on.
1133
01:02:54,920 --> 01:03:00,280
So for these four four games,
Shelton Moss, our esteemed
1134
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,040
colleague is saying 4 and up,
four and up.
1135
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,200
All right, I'm going to leave
this segment off because I'm
1136
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,120
going to let y'all have the last
two segments.
1137
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,800
I am agreeing with Shelton.
I do think we are going to go
1138
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:16,480
four and O in the first four
games.
1139
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,800
I think the 1st 3 opponents, I
don't think there is much to say
1140
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,360
about that, right?
You know, you look at who you're
1141
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,920
playing, you feel we are
significantly better on them.
1142
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,840
We would have to play literally
the worst fucking game of the
1143
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:36,440
season to lose to those teams.
Now the Rutgers game is going to
1144
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,360
be a game though.
But they've made the mistake of
1145
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,480
getting rid of the running
quarterback and they have the
1146
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,840
unfortunate pleasure of Planet
Lane Stadium now.
1147
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,200
OK, I'm going to answer
Grayson's questions real quick
1148
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:55,040
here.
The one that worries me the most
1149
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,400
of the first four is Rutgers
straight up.
1150
01:03:58,880 --> 01:04:01,440
So that's where I am 4 no after
gate.
1151
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:05,680
And that's why I'm going to let
Tally go next.
1152
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:12,600
So Cali.
So I will say y'all making me do
1153
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,200
this?
I don't want you to even do this
1154
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:15,760
this year.
You know what I'm saying?
1155
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,560
I don't even.
You going to call and pick
1156
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:19,280
nothing.
I don't want to pick nothing, I
1157
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:24,840
just want to go pay attention.
But if I got to do it because
1158
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:30,000
Curtis has got saw contraption
back here is tied to my toe,
1159
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:34,040
that's going to blow my toe off.
If I don't make a the selection,
1160
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:40,080
I'll say four no on that first
four games.
1161
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,040
I will say to Grayson's
question, he said what games
1162
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:49,280
were what game worries me the
most out of the first four.
1163
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:56,240
I'm probably going to say ODU.
I'm not that worried about Vandy
1164
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,720
for whatever.
I just that going to ODU thing
1165
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,160
kind of kind of blows me a
little bit, you know what I'm
1166
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:04,560
saying?
So I ain't going to say we're
1167
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:06,760
going to lose, but it kind of
worries me a little bit going
1168
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:11,200
down that elevators getting
messed up and stealing stuff and
1169
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,760
all that kind of crazy stuff
happening.
1170
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:16,360
Like motions may run high and
then that Ruckus game, I think
1171
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,240
Ruckus just lost their starting
linebacker or something like
1172
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:20,400
that.
Oh, they did.
1173
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,440
Yeah, they just lost somebody.
Yeah, they just lost it.
1174
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,760
I think it's that starting
middle linebacker they just
1175
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:29,160
lost.
But if I am worried about the
1176
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:32,400
Rutgers game, like Curtis said,
being at home helps all that.
1177
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:35,320
Rutgers is going to be a very
physical game.
1178
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,200
So that'll take me into the next
4 when we talk about them.
1179
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:43,360
I think the Rutgers game gives
us a little bit of headache
1180
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,880
going to the next game.
I think we win that game, but I
1181
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,520
think it's going to give us a
headache going to the next
1182
01:05:47,520 --> 01:05:50,040
games.
SO4 and O in the first four.
1183
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:53,960
Four and O Bron Siegler first
four and then answer Mr.
1184
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,160
Winbusher's question here.
Hey, hey, we're a, we're a clean
1185
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,840
sweep here, man.
We're a clean sweep.
1186
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:05,080
I got four and O out the gate.
The Rutgers game is definitely
1187
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,800
the one that worries me the
most.
1188
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,800
It it's actually worrying me
less than it did before.
1189
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,760
They named their starting
quarterback the information
1190
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:20,320
about their linebacker, but
that's a team that is very well
1191
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,200
coached.
They while they don't
1192
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:27,160
necessarily have the best
roster, they don't have a whole
1193
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,680
lot of glaring holes in their
roster.
1194
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:36,000
So it's a, it's a team that is
going to give you 4 quarters of
1195
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:37,560
football every time you play
them.
1196
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,200
And that, that's where you, you
know, you hope you don't have
1197
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:44,280
one of those first or second
quarters where you kind of
1198
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,480
sleepwalk and all of a sudden
you're down 10 and you're
1199
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,760
playing from behind against the
physical team.
1200
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:54,400
That's what you don't want.
But I think we still come out on
1201
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,840
top in that game.
And, and to Tally's point, I
1202
01:06:56,840 --> 01:07:03,440
think that game definitely plays
a factor in, in our October, but
1203
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,120
I don't, I, I, I do still think
we come out on top in that one.
1204
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,440
All right, we are now going to
flip it to October.
1205
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:11,640
I know I got some people out
here putting this up.
1206
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:13,280
Russia's going to be stiff.
I agree.
1207
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,920
Now we got the middle four and
this is the late September
1208
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:20,160
through October.
I'm going to go to Walmart 1st.
1209
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:23,720
Sheldon says we're going to go 5
million in this stretch with
1210
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:27,360
losses to Miami and to Georgia
Tech.
1211
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,680
So he's bookending losses at the
late September and late October
1212
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,000
tally.
Because you already kind of let
1213
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,880
it in there, man.
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to go to,
1214
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:40,400
I'm going to go two and two as
well.
1215
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:42,960
I don't even, I'm not going to
pick though, because I don't
1216
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,880
know what games to pick on them.
But I'm going to say we'll go
1217
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:50,000
500 on that just because of the
travel time that we'll be going
1218
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,360
through.
And then coming off those first
1219
01:07:52,360 --> 01:08:00,440
four games, you know, Rutgers
being a very physical game, you
1220
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,640
don't never want to think about
injuries, but it's football.
1221
01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:05,000
What happens?
Do we have any of that?
1222
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:07,080
I think we're going to go down
and beat Miami, though.
1223
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:09,880
I'll say that you can pick
whatever other two losses you
1224
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:11,760
want.
I think that we're going to have
1225
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:14,200
a vendetta that game.
I think we're going to go beat
1226
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:15,920
Miami.
And I may change some stuff
1227
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:19,880
later on, but right now I'm
going to say I'm going to say
1228
01:08:20,359 --> 01:08:23,680
2:00 and 2:00.
You're you're picking that
1229
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:28,040
you're picking that like
struggle game against Rutgers,
1230
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:31,160
revenge game against Miami and
then maybe that let down
1231
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,880
overlook game against Stanford
in that West Coast travel.
1232
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:37,000
I don't see it but.
Robbie got in his head.
1233
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:40,680
Robbie got in his head last week
talking about the damn bye week
1234
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:42,960
shit.
Robbie got in your head, didn't
1235
01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,240
he?
Fuck Robbie man, why don't you
1236
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:47,279
do that to?
Me.
1237
01:08:47,279 --> 01:08:48,120
You.
Know Robbie.
1238
01:08:48,120 --> 01:08:50,200
You know you did.
That's it.
1239
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,080
I OK, Brian, go ahead.
Tally's at 2:00 and 2:00 in the
1240
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:55,920
middle 4.
I'm at 2:00 and 2:00 as well.
1241
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,760
I'm getting there basically the
same way Sheldon got there.
1242
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:05,920
I could talk myself in the three
and one here.
1243
01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:09,560
So just just to Full disclosure,
I could talk myself in the three
1244
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:12,520
and one.
If we weren't playing Miami, at
1245
01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:16,080
Miami, coming off of Rutgers, I
would give us a good shot in
1246
01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:18,560
that game.
I think just those factors that
1247
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:23,319
play there.
And I think to, to Tally's
1248
01:09:23,319 --> 01:09:26,279
point, if we, if we beat Rutgers
and beat Miami, that Stanford
1249
01:09:26,279 --> 01:09:28,960
game would be a, a, a prime let
down game.
1250
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:32,920
But I think with a loss to
Miami, you're going to, you
1251
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,520
know, circle the wagons a little
bit, get back on track, knock
1252
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:40,000
off Stanford before you get to
buy, go out and pound the fuck
1253
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,760
out of BC.
I think Georgia Tech is going to
1254
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:48,680
be one of those, you know, kind
of weird games that we always
1255
01:09:48,680 --> 01:09:52,040
run into.
I, I was, I was looking at that
1256
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,600
game and looking at another game
that kind of leads off the final
1257
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:59,360
four is finally like, is that
going to be that one game that
1258
01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:03,880
we lose that we maybe shouldn't?
That's kind of where I'm at with
1259
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:06,880
those.
And I kind of I, I, I went back
1260
01:10:06,880 --> 01:10:11,160
to, to Georgia Tech on that one.
So let me let me get Georgia
1261
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,760
Tech and Miami losses two and
two in the second floor.
1262
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,840
All right, y'all two and two,
Sheldon two and two, tally two
1263
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,840
and two.
I am not two and two.
1264
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,840
I am walking in here and I am
saying we are going three and
1265
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:29,280
one in these next 4.
But I am agreeing with you
1266
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,240
Brian.
I think the loss is going to
1267
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:34,520
come to Miami because I think is
that Roosters game is going to
1268
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,840
be physical.
It's a short week for us now
1269
01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:41,000
Let's see.
Can I change my mind?
1270
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:42,800
Can we change our minds?
We do weekly predictions.
1271
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:44,200
Hell yeah we can.
Right.
1272
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,440
Because Miami's also.
Based on right now information
1273
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,160
once we get more information.
It's going to change after the
1274
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:52,840
first week we go beat the fuck
out of, we're going to go beat
1275
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,360
the fuck out of it.
And when people are going to say
1276
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:55,680
we're going to win the national
championship.
1277
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,240
So yeah, it's going to change.
It's three and one, but because
1278
01:10:59,240 --> 01:11:01,760
it's it's what these guys are
alluding to, that Rutgers game
1279
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:05,520
is going to be physical.
If it was a Saturday, I think I
1280
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:07,520
could convince myself we could
go down there and beat them.
1281
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,040
But unfortunately it's Friday
night, so it's a short week.
1282
01:11:10,520 --> 01:11:13,080
It's a flip back.
Why do I think we're going to
1283
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,840
win the other three?
Because I think after that loss,
1284
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,480
I think it's going to be close.
And I think it's going to be one
1285
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:20,280
of those things.
They're going to be like, let's
1286
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,800
go to California, let's stomp
down the smart kids, let's get
1287
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,760
our break and let's go stomp
down these other two kids.
1288
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:30,760
Because I think BC doesn't have
a shot.
1289
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:33,960
PC really does not have a shot.
They're rebuilding.
1290
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,560
They're trying to flip their
offense to a Bill O'Brien type
1291
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,000
offense, which again, I'm fine.
Bill O'Brien type offenses.
1292
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,400
I think we can handle that.
And then Georgia Tech, they
1293
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:47,000
scare me, but it's something
that Thomas put up.
1294
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:51,760
Oh yeah, Thomas, Yeah, I want.
To put that on there, I don't.
1295
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,720
I'm with him.
And This is why I think we beat
1296
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,160
Georgia Tech.
I don't think they have the
1297
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,800
death.
I don't think they have enough
1298
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:02,720
to handle us beginning to end.
So we'd have to do what Brian
1299
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:04,000
said.
We'd have to sleepwalk through
1300
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:07,440
1/2 to lose Jordan, 1/2 a
football to lose the Georgia
1301
01:12:07,440 --> 01:12:11,120
Tech.
So I am three and one, all
1302
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,800
righty.
We made it to the last four
1303
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,160
games of the season and I'm
going to throw it up here before
1304
01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:21,080
I kick to Brian Shelton has us
going three and one in the last
1305
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:25,800
four games and he is saying we
are going to take an L at
1306
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,480
Clemson or to Clemson.
Brian Siegler, where are you
1307
01:12:29,480 --> 01:12:33,520
standing on this?
I am also three and one with a
1308
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:37,960
loss to Clemson.
I think we actually go and
1309
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:43,520
handle our business in the Dome.
That's going to be a kind of a a
1310
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:45,240
game that sets up the next week,
though.
1311
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:50,480
I feel like that is going to be
a little bit of a battle and I
1312
01:12:50,480 --> 01:12:52,480
think we're going to come around
even though it's a home game.
1313
01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:54,600
I think we're going to give
Clemson every damn thing they
1314
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:58,280
want, but I don't think we quite
get it closed out in the end.
1315
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:01,080
I think we go and pound Duke
pretty good.
1316
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:02,520
I don't think they're going to
be a very good.
1317
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:06,800
Team pause.
Pause, man, pause.
1318
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:08,960
You said we going to go pound
Duke.
1319
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:17,120
That's hold on, let's do it all.
Right we go, we go.
1320
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,480
Take it to do.
It's pretty rough too.
1321
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:23,600
Ron is a three and one in the
last.
1322
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,560
And and UVA is going to be UVAI
mean we got them at home.
1323
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,720
We saw what we did at Lane
Stadium N it's only going to get
1324
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,440
uglier at Lane Stadium all.
Right tally.
1325
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,600
I got two and two here.
I'm going to just go ahead and
1326
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:42,040
tell y'all I can never pick us
to win in that fucking Dome
1327
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,640
until we win.
I think we got, I mean, I don't
1328
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:48,240
know, I ain't looking at
people's rosters like that for
1329
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,320
real so far.
But from what I've seen, I think
1330
01:13:51,320 --> 01:13:56,560
we got a better setup than
Syracuse because they got a
1331
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,240
brand new coach.
I always give coaches kind of
1332
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,080
like project like you got to
have that year where you get
1333
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:06,080
acclimated to the school unless
you just had a dynamite takeover
1334
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,360
and you know, you just going out
and beating the fuck out of
1335
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,280
people.
Like I don't see Syracuse being
1336
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,640
that kind of team.
But I can never pick us to go to
1337
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,760
that Dome and do what we
supposed to do no matter what
1338
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,960
the record is.
So that's one of my losses and
1339
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:25,160
then it's going to be a toss up
between Duke and and Clemson, to
1340
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:29,440
be honest with you.
For me, that's just what I had.
1341
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:32,920
I can't pick which one.
That may be a let down, but
1342
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,720
we're not losing the UVA.
I'll go ahead and say that.
1343
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:42,480
So I said two and two QS and one
of those schools would be a loss
1344
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:45,640
if we did it.
But again, looking at the
1345
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,920
looking at the record, looking
at the, the, the, the games and
1346
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:53,600
schedule, that's going to change
real quick depending on what we
1347
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,280
do at first week and 2nd week.
So all.
1348
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,920
Right, I couple things I'm going
to throw before I before I make
1349
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,440
my final picks here, I'm going
to just throw a couple things
1350
01:15:03,440 --> 01:15:07,680
about numerous pieces.
That's why Thomas says also they
1351
01:15:07,680 --> 01:15:10,280
have a shitty defense.
So y'all y'all what y'all
1352
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:11,760
picking up they?
Do He's right.
1353
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,280
He's not wrong.
The building of Chris Lester
1354
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,360
right here is next.
Chris says four and O.
1355
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,480
Yeah, Chris said eight and O88.
We can say 8 and O this.
1356
01:15:22,480 --> 01:15:24,520
Is building towards an 11 win
season so if.
1357
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:28,320
We get to 8 and O.
No matter what who we play next
1358
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:32,080
in those eight weeks, there's
going to be some people
1359
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:35,240
suspended off of X or Twitter or
whatever you call it.
1360
01:15:36,360 --> 01:15:39,200
I promise you, the universe
don't want to see Virginia Tech
1361
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,960
be 8 and O because some of y'all
already be a little bit too
1362
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:46,640
wild.
And I'm saying that, Jeremy, But
1363
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:51,080
if we get to 8 and O, I'm
reporting some of y'all
1364
01:15:51,080 --> 01:15:53,680
motherfuckers, I'm going to be
acting up.
1365
01:15:56,040 --> 01:15:58,920
Oh, God, I got a couple more to
hit here.
1366
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:05,240
Grayson, he got this.
He got that.
1367
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:09,240
Thomas making a point.
We've only played up there two
1368
01:16:09,240 --> 01:16:11,600
times in the last 20 years or
so.
1369
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,520
Actually, it's been two times in
the past 20 years.
1370
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:20,480
All right, so I'm sitting here
and y'all going to probably
1371
01:16:20,480 --> 01:16:23,200
think I'm crazy because y'all
thought I was fucking crazy last
1372
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:24,480
year and I'm just going to put
it.
1373
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:26,920
Curtis, we know you're crazy.
I mean.
1374
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,120
Y'all, you just had a life, you.
Just had a big kind of dirty
1375
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,320
bastard like, yeah, you kind of
crazy.
1376
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,160
Founders Brewery, if you want to
sponsor us, we'll be The Dirty
1377
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:39,480
bastards over here.
But I'm sitting here and I'm
1378
01:16:39,480 --> 01:16:42,280
just freewheeling.
I told y'all eight wins last
1379
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:45,480
year if we started the right
quarterback, and I think if we
1380
01:16:45,480 --> 01:16:48,120
had started the right
quarterback last year, we would
1381
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,120
have won eight games.
I don't doubt that one bit.
1382
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,480
I think this year we are
starting the right quarterback.
1383
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:57,280
We have a veteran offensive
line.
1384
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:59,680
They may not be the best that
they're growing.
1385
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:02,400
We have a deep wide receiver
room.
1386
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,320
We have a 12 back punch.
Tight end room could get better,
1387
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,520
but at least it's some veterans.
At least I'm not dealing with a
1388
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,520
tight end room.
That is a bunch of young guys.
1389
01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:14,800
They've all played significant
reps and the defensive side of
1390
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:19,760
the ball that last year in
certain games, it just felt like
1391
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:23,440
old times.
It felt like old times where we
1392
01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:26,240
were just knocking the shit out
of people, stacking at will.
1393
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,920
So as I get here to these last
four games, we have not won in
1394
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:38,720
the Dome in 26 years, 26 years.
It was 1998.
1395
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:42,680
Dwight Dick was a senior.
Al Clark was a quarterback.
1396
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:46,720
It's the last time we won.
And if you don't recall, if
1397
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,600
y'all remember, NCAA back in the
day used to have the craziest
1398
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:53,040
games.
That was one of them, was the 98
1399
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,000
game that we won was one of
them.
1400
01:17:56,680 --> 01:18:00,440
I think they snapped that
because I think it's what Chris
1401
01:18:00,440 --> 01:18:03,640
Lester said right here, which
Chris, I saw it.
1402
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,680
These kids don't know about that
Dome.
1403
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:12,400
It's not up here for them.
And then I sit and look at the
1404
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:14,400
other three games or two at the
back end.
1405
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,880
I think it'd be funny as hell if
we got Manny Diaz fired his
1406
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,200
first year.
Dude, I'd I'd laugh my ass off
1407
01:18:21,200 --> 01:18:23,480
at Dad and UVA.
We see where they are.
1408
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:30,200
They are a mess.
And then you look at Clemson and
1409
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:34,880
13 years ago, we sat there right
we could not do got Jack shit
1410
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:37,040
offensively.
There are certain people in the
1411
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:39,720
Virginia Tech community that
swears to God they had our
1412
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:43,360
playbook on both sides.
Maybe they did, maybe they
1413
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,160
didn't.
That was that was the turning
1414
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:51,560
point of the program.
It's where we've been for 13
1415
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:53,160
years.
We've been wanting to get back
1416
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:56,840
there, right?
We, we, we saw a glimpse of it
1417
01:18:56,840 --> 01:19:01,000
in 2016 and 2017.
I think it's time to flip the
1418
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,840
script.
They beat Clemson seven in one
1419
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:08,960
in conference will get us to the
ACC title game.
1420
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,720
Y'all just heard it.
Yep do do the math.
1421
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:14,400
Do the math of what I just did
is.
1422
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:20,280
That 11 and one it's. 11 and one
and and I have two thoughts of
1423
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,840
the ACC title game.
And I know I'm I know some
1424
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:28,680
people probably laughing at me
in the the the comments, but
1425
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,880
here's my thought on that.
One of two things is going to
1426
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:33,960
happen to Miami after they beat
us.
1427
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,520
Either they are not going to
lose a game head so big.
1428
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:41,560
So either they're going to be 12
and O in that game or going to
1429
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:43,760
be playing Florida State and
they're going to be 11 and 1.
1430
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,560
So it's the latter.
Because yeah, they're they're
1431
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,480
not.
They're not going to be a stable
1432
01:19:49,480 --> 01:19:54,560
and capable program for 12 games
in a row.
1433
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,960
So and Thomas, I'm going to
completely.
1434
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,560
If you ever seen Grayson McCall
play, he ain't always cracked up
1435
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,200
to be.
Everybody likes NC State because
1436
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,240
of Grayson McCall.
Grace McCall plays a couple a
1437
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:10,840
couple teams down in Coastal.
He ain't that good.
1438
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,880
He's been less since Jamie
Chadwell left.
1439
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:18,840
Hold on.
Yeah, I'm at 11:00 and 1:00.
1440
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:22,680
Tally is at 8:00 and 4:00,
bronze at 9:00 and 3:00, and
1441
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,120
Shelton is at 9:00 and 3:00.
So.
1442
01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:29,680
Write it down, but I.
Like what Tally said, we're
1443
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:32,400
going to be changing our minds
all throughout this.
1444
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:35,040
And if I drank too much, that's
what that's what it is.
1445
01:20:35,040 --> 01:20:36,960
I mean, you got to, that's what
it's about, so.
1446
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,280
I don't know, man.
I'm excited though.
1447
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:46,440
I can say that.
I can see, you know, I can see
1448
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,040
I.
Don't see six and?
1449
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:52,560
Six, I can see Curtis's.
I can see Curtis's 11:00 and
1450
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:56,200
1:00.
I can see 11 and one before I
1451
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,400
can see six and six, barring
catastrophic.
1452
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,880
Injuries to a significant
portion of the roster, right?
1453
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,640
So I mean, I'm, I'm excited, I
think.
1454
01:21:03,640 --> 01:21:08,200
That this is going to be a fun
year and again, if it does
1455
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:12,720
happen, if it does happen, I
will say I have been saying for
1456
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,800
the last couple of years I don't
know everything but I know just
1457
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:19,480
about everything so y'all need
to listen to me all right?
1458
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:21,960
You lose by.
You lose by a lot.
1459
01:21:22,480 --> 01:21:23,560
You lose.
By a little.
1460
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,520
You win by a little, then you
win by a lot.
1461
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,680
I think this is our year that we
win by a lot because last year I
1462
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:34,200
still feel like that was the we
won by a little even though we
1463
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:36,200
won by a lot.
But I'm saying those games were
1464
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:39,040
still kind of competitive.
I think we just go in here and
1465
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:42,640
we just beat people this year
and once I see us actually do
1466
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:46,760
that a couple of times, y'all
know I'm going to get on here
1467
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:48,240
and.
Start acting crazy.
1468
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,440
I'm going to tell you right now
I'm going to get on here and
1469
01:21:51,440 --> 01:21:54,720
start wearing masks.
I told y'all I was going to get
1470
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:57,120
it.
We did that last year though.
1471
01:21:57,240 --> 01:21:57,400
We.
We.
1472
01:21:57,880 --> 01:21:59,480
Man, I told y'all I was going to
get a tattoo.
1473
01:21:59,480 --> 01:22:00,720
What I.
Say I was going to get a tattoo
1474
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:06,760
if we do you did you said ACC.
That's the ACC I can't remember
1475
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:08,280
matter of fact.
Don't remember it.
1476
01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:09,160
No.
Nobody even think.
1477
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,080
About it, because I ain't.
I don't want to do it.
1478
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:12,440
I'll go back and find all the
old episodes.
1479
01:22:13,160 --> 01:22:15,440
I'll go back.
And find you even remember.
1480
01:22:15,440 --> 01:22:17,400
What I said is that state.
Of the program.
1481
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:19,160
I can't remember.
I said I'd get a.
1482
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:24,120
Tattoo if we do something.
But whatever that is, we need
1483
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,680
to.
Do it, but nobody.
1484
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,960
Remember it?
So I said if we make the ACC
1485
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:32,040
championship game, you won't get
a tattoo.
1486
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,440
Something like that, but I'm
I'm.
1487
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:36,880
Excited, man.
What did Andretti say?
1488
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:40,120
Oh, he said we need to put our
foot on the OD.
1489
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,360
U's something.
Oh, he's being nice.
1490
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:45,040
Is that fart box?
What?
1491
01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,680
What is that?
What's that?
1492
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,880
Supposed to be, yeah.
We need to, we need to spell it
1493
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,640
out for me, Andretti.
We do need to go down and do.
1494
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,440
Something crazy to.
To ODU and Andretti ain't trying
1495
01:22:58,440 --> 01:23:01,640
to get.
Kicked off of YouTube Game track
1496
01:23:01,640 --> 01:23:03,320
Kicked off of.
YouTube all.
1497
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:08,840
Righty all right, so there's a
predictions write them down do
1498
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,480
whatever.
I mean we do this shit for fun
1499
01:23:11,480 --> 01:23:14,640
y'all it's fun to sit here when
we when I said this is what we
1500
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,880
going to do guys think about it.
It's all first of all, that's
1501
01:23:18,880 --> 01:23:23,360
what I meant right there.
Oh, Andre.
1502
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:25,240
We love you, man.
We love you man.
1503
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:28,240
Thank you for being back.
Remember, we're we're we're on
1504
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:30,120
Tuesday nights about nine O
clock.
1505
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:32,840
Take a break from the game and
come listen to us.
1506
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:37,120
We enjoy your stuff, man.
So I real quick.
1507
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:39,760
So before we wrap up everything
tonight, we going to do big
1508
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,200
screeners because there's two
games to watch this weekend.
1509
01:23:42,200 --> 01:23:44,200
We already talked about them at
the top of the program.
1510
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:48,320
We going to make predictions.
We want some fun graphics for
1511
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:49,880
you next week when we actually
have games.
1512
01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:51,280
We're picking.
We're just going, we're just
1513
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:53,400
going to talk about it this week
and our goal.
1514
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:58,160
We also.
I hope is unveiling a new part
1515
01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,760
of big screeners.
We ain't going to tell y'all
1516
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:05,760
what that is yet, but it's going
to be a lot of fun with somebody
1517
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:09,960
we know very well.
All right, Georgia Tech, Florida
1518
01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:13,520
State, Florida State, the
current line is -10 that's down
1519
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,440
2 1/2 points since last Friday
when I looked at it.
1520
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:18,440
Which one of y'all want to
predict this one?
1521
01:24:18,440 --> 01:24:23,160
First, take Georgia Tech.
Take the money.
1522
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:25,120
Take.
The points take the points.
1523
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,320
Take the points.
I don't know if they win, but.
1524
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:30,440
I'd take the points that line
going down for a reason.
1525
01:24:31,440 --> 01:24:36,000
Yeah, that if that line was like
8. 8 1/2 I think I'd I'd be
1526
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,000
right on it, but you're in the
full 10.
1527
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,680
That's tough to take.
All righty.
1528
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:48,120
See, I feel.
Like this is one of.
1529
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:51,240
Those trick games because you
feel like 10 to 14 is the right
1530
01:24:51,240 --> 01:24:54,000
number, right?
By the way, Virginia Tech show
1531
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:55,800
you are right.
It was 2000.
1532
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:59,640
It was Michael Vick the last
time that won there.
1533
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:02,880
So the last time we won, there
were two Vicks on the team.
1534
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:07,080
That's a long ass time ago,
right?
1535
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:09,600
Like 10 is that number, right?
10 is the perfect number for
1536
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,800
this game because you feel like
it's going to be about 10
1537
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,480
points.
So does Georgia Tech fuck it up
1538
01:25:15,480 --> 01:25:17,760
in the end and give like a cheap
one away?
1539
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,760
I don't think they won't because
I think Brent Key, if you
1540
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:25,600
watched him play Georgia last
year, he plays them a little
1541
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:29,800
closer to the best 'cause he had
nothing to lose in that game and
1542
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:33,600
he should have.
He should have went for some
1543
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:36,800
more risk, but he didn't.
I'm with y'all Georgia Tech take
1544
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:39,400
the points.
Plus it's in Ireland.
1545
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,640
All that weird time and shit,
you don't know what's going to
1546
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:42,520
happen.
Weird stadium.
1547
01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:49,640
All right, next one, new ACC
member SMU travels to Reno, NV
1548
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:51,880
to play to the Wolfpack of
Nevada.
1549
01:25:52,440 --> 01:25:58,120
This is a tougher one.
SMU 25 1/2 points.
1550
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:03,640
They are laying Wolfpack that's.
A lot of points, man.
1551
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,520
That's a lot of points.
Like I don't care.
1552
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:06,960
Who it is?
Why is that even a?
1553
01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,760
#25 1/2.
That ain't even a number.
1554
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:13,160
You know what cool.
The only cool 25 that was was
1555
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:14,000
Barry.
Buns.
1556
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,480
Like 25 is not a number that I
want to roll with.
1557
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,960
I'll take SMU in the points.
You know why y'all know y'all
1558
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:26,720
many points Nevada averaged last
year on offense.
1559
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:29,960
How many?
Like 17 y'all know how much S?
1560
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:31,960
Y'all saw?
SMU play, if you try to play a
1561
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,680
stick, they can score, I think.
I think that's.
1562
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:40,200
Like a. 5614 game, if it's not
I, I, I think it's an absolute
1563
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:43,840
blowout.
SMU's got some cooking.
1564
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,960
I, I, I also think, I don't
think that's a game we can gauge
1565
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:50,160
SMU by.
Even if they blow the doors off
1566
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,280
them, it's a bagging.
Now if they struggle with them,
1567
01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,440
that'll tell us more than
anything that first game.
1568
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,320
I think it's going to tell us
about those teams a lot.
1569
01:26:58,720 --> 01:27:03,000
So yeah, I think it's so it's
hard to really gauge a a ton.
1570
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:08,880
On the first game, but I think
if you see SMU go out there and
1571
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:14,560
it's a really close game, like
less than two scores, you can
1572
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:17,040
derive something from.
That I think anything.
1573
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,600
I, I, I don't think they have to
cover for, for you to say that
1574
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:25,280
SMU is, is as we expected.
But I think if it is in that
1575
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,760
like 10 to 14 point range for a
win or, you know, God forbid
1576
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,480
they, they go out there and, you
know, lay an egg and lose, I
1577
01:27:32,480 --> 01:27:35,840
think that'll tell us more than
a blowout or just, you know,
1578
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:41,200
somewhere ��5 from that spread.
Yeah, I think SMU probably if I
1579
01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:42,720
had to.
Look at it week 1.
1580
01:27:43,080 --> 01:27:47,320
Defenses usually are a little
bit farther along than offenses.
1581
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:51,240
I would.
Think SMU probably would win
1582
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:55,480
that game by about 21 points,
but I would be scared to put say
1583
01:27:55,480 --> 01:27:59,560
they're going to win by 26, you
know, 4 touchdowns.
1584
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:04,000
I don't know.
So I would, I'm taking the Wolf
1585
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:06,120
Pack.
What about that first game?
1586
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:08,800
What are we going to learn?
From what do y'all think we
1587
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,240
learned about those teams?
Because I think that's, I would,
1588
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,600
I wish that that would have just
been a stateside game because
1589
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:19,480
that noon kick is just brutal.
Yeah, the the location I think
1590
01:28:19,480 --> 01:28:22,680
in time kind of.
Screws with the logistics
1591
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:26,600
because both teams are having
abnormal logistics and that it's
1592
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,800
not just like standard stateside
neutral site logistics.
1593
01:28:29,800 --> 01:28:34,600
Like you're, you're taking cross
pond flights, you know, you're
1594
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,880
playing at a completely
different time.
1595
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,840
Like you're basically playing,
you know, how many was it?
1596
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:42,720
8 hours behind, seven hours
behind.
1597
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:46,600
So, yeah.
So it's a, it's a completely
1598
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:52,000
different way of managing an
away game or a neutral site game
1599
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:55,400
than than if it would be here.
Even if you're playing, you
1600
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:57,040
know, out at the Rose Bowl or
something.
1601
01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,680
I mean, it's still a completely
different scenario for them to
1602
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:02,520
manage.
So it's going to be interesting
1603
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:07,320
to see who ends up doing well in
that game.
1604
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:11,800
I don't think you can derive a
whole lot from it other than
1605
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:15,320
kind of seeing where the holes
are in each of those teams,
1606
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,680
whether it's, you know, certain
position groups and things like
1607
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:19,360
that.
I think that's where you'll kind
1608
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,320
of see the most that you can
take away and, you know, move
1609
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:25,000
into another week and say, all
right, well, we saw holes here.
1610
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:29,000
We saw holes there.
I'm just interested to see what
1611
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:30,160
Florida.
State looks like.
1612
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:33,880
Like, they really have to revamp
who they are.
1613
01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:37,520
You know, they lost, not saying
it can't, but we kind of seen
1614
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how Novell did when he got
there, how he build it up.
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He wasn't just like a flash in
the pan coach.
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Like it took him a couple of
years to get it to where he
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wanted.
And then those players that he
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brought in, you know, some of
them are in the league now.
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01:29:52,600 --> 01:29:55,720
You know, the quarterback that
that that he he built that
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01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,800
program on his program on, you
know, the wide receivers that he
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01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:02,280
brought in things like that.
And I'm not saying that he
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didn't bring in more good
players.
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I don't know that roster that
great to know.
1624
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:11,760
But I will say I'm not as high
on.
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01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:15,360
Florida State as I was.
Last year, I just feel like
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looking at him from what he's
done in the past, he looks like
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01:30:19,440 --> 01:30:23,000
a coach that he'll build up a
little bit more than OK, I'm
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01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:28,360
just going to retool that that.
Will tell the story and I think
1629
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,840
that game will tell the story.
About both those teams and how
1630
01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:32,520
we can project them going
forward.
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01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,440
So, yeah, All right.
Anything else out there?
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01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:38,320
Anything breaking?
Nothing.
1633
01:30:39,440 --> 01:30:43,320
I know of nothing yet, man.
Nothing yet.
1634
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,360
All right, somebody call.
Funtell see if he got any more
1635
01:30:46,360 --> 01:30:49,240
recruits.
He's getting fucking two wide
1636
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:53,560
receivers a week so call him and
see how he doing tonight.
1637
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:55,680
I.
I I ain't doing that.
1638
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,920
That man's in camp, that man.
Probably still in the office
1639
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:01,280
right now, working right?
You watch your practice.
1640
01:31:01,280 --> 01:31:02,920
Tape for tomorrow.
You're damn right.
1641
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:03,880
He is.
All right.
1642
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:07,800
Well, folks.
Week 0 and that waps up this.
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01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:10,080
Episode.
Of the Boundary Corner podcast,
1644
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:12,760
brought to you by Main Street
Pharmacy in Blacksburg, I'm
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01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:14,640
Curtis Wilson.
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1646
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:18,040
Jonathan Talley.
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1647
01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:21,120
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1648
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:24,280
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01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:28,880
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1650
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:33,640
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Roanoke Valley, he plays us in
1651
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:35,760
every week.
He plays us out every week.
1652
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:40,160
Check out his website,
jasonlongmusic.com to check out
1653
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,960
all of his live events.
I know he's got multiple things
1654
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:46,640
going on this week.
What does he have going on this
1655
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:49,080
week?
He'll be at the farmers market
1656
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:52,800
Saturday.
So check him out down there.
1657
01:31:52,800 --> 01:31:55,200
He was down at the Village Grill
last week.
1658
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:57,760
I don't know how that well, we
we did three hours.
1659
01:31:57,800 --> 01:31:59,640
That's why I didn't get to
mention it last week.
1660
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:05,280
Spotify, YouTube channel for
Jason's Facebook pages.
1661
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,160
Check him out there.
We thank you all for listening.
1662
01:32:08,360 --> 01:32:10,440
Thanks for all the comments in
the chat tonight.
1663
01:32:10,440 --> 01:32:13,400
Really appreciate you all out
there and as always, let's go,
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01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:14,440
OK?