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Speaker 2: Awesome. This is Matthew. You can follow me on Twitter

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in the United States. And this week we have a

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great return guest, and it's kind of a time monitor

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tradition to have Brian Siegal to come on here after

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Labor Day weekend. After Labor Day weekend, so he's been

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on here a couple of times. You can follow Brian

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on Twitter at at SIG five zero five two. Let

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me spell that out for you at sei G five

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zero five two. He is one third of the Virginia

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Tech Football POUDC podcast Boundary Corner, and that's at Boundary Corner.

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I want to make sure that I have you your

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bio right there, Brian welcome. Is it still three people

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at the Boundary Corner.

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Speaker 3: You know, as far as regular host it is three,

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although our team has grown to six at this point,

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so we're actually pretty excited about that. We've got a

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and we've got a contributing writer as well along with

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Sheldon Moss that does the hosting with us occasionally and

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is our big data analytics guru. So it's still the

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core is me, Tally and Curtis, but we've got three

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other folks that hold it down pretty well.

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Speaker 2: That's great. That team's growing. It's awesome. Yeah, I know

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you guys are doing great work out there. Great work

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out there, and tell it just tell us a little

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bit more about bound Boundary Corner if you don't mind

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tell us about it.

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Speaker 4: Sure thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is our We're in our fifth year, so

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we're kind of we're getting in our groove. We've been growing.

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It's been really awesome and the support has been tremendous.

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But we kind of started as like just a couple

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buddies that have known each other since middle school and

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love talking Virginia Tech football. And we were like, hey,

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we do this every weekend, we do this a handful

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of times a week. Let's put something together and see

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if we can add some different perspective to the Virginia

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Tech football podcast community. And it's really, like I said,

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it's been an awesome experience. And h you know, we

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were just me and me and Tally were actually down

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in Nashville for the Vanderbilt game, which unfortunately didn't go

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our way.

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Speaker 4: But just having people come up to us.

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Speaker 3: And you know, say hello and you know, thank us

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for for what we do with the content, that was

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such a fulfilling experience. So it's it's been great and

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I look forward to putting out more, more years of

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content going forward.

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Speaker 4: It's been a blast.

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Speaker 2: It's fun meeting people in person, isn't it. It's pretty

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It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, you know, I yelled, go Hokies that a

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guy with a Virginia Tech shirt on downtown. He's like, hey,

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are you Brian Siegel I'm like, that's me. Hey, how's

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Speaker 2: So that's that's awesome, man, that's awesome. So let's get

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right to it this. Which ACC football team was the

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most disappointing team this past week? And who was the

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most impressive ACC football team.

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Speaker 3: Let's see, let's start with the disappointing and it's got

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to be NC State, right Like, looking at that performance,

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I expected Tennessee to win. I picked Tennessee to cover.

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NC State in that game. So I think that was

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the biggest disappointment for me, because, I mean, n C

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or five teams that were kind of in that conversation preseason,

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the conference championship, and they didn't really match up well.

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Speaker 4: At all against Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if they're going to match up

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elite teams in the ACC. Though. The ACC remains really

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of flipping on that with most impressive. You know, let's

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talk about fran Brown and Syracuse getting a signature win

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against Georgia Tech in the Dome, But I could also

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go the other direct to say, you know, Cal traveling

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too and taking down a solid, if not elite Auburn team.

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week before, and then you know them kind of not

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really putting the pieces together there against Syracuse, but but

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Speaker 2: Definitely, definitely, And one thing I'll add here to I

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guess I'm a little bit disappointed with with s MU.

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I thought that there would be a little better showing

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against BYU and they're kind of getting crushed up front

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taking a big step up in competition and it's taking

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a little bit to adjust. I think they'll get there,

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you know, I think they need to figure out what

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their quarterback is going to be with that situation is

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looking like there's still some instability there. But if they

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can't figure it out up front, I don't think any

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of that really matters, because it's it's gonna only get

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harder from here as they get further into the conference play.

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Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely, Jeff, you're a friend.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, Matthew. All right, looking ahead to the

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next week, Brian, it's a little bit light on the

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on the schedule, but there's some intriguing games out there.

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Which ACC football game are you looking forward to the

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most next week?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm seeing some good things from that Bill

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O'Brien led Boston College team, so I'm really interested to

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see what they look like against a top ten team,

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an SEC team like Missouri, who I think maybe at

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this point in the season, maybe a little over ranked.

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up against that team and whether that's a big contrast

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from you know, how they played the first couple of

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weeks where they've looked really really good the UH to

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open the season here. So I'm interested to see how

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they match up against that Missouri team since we know

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kind of you know, Florida State's looking a little, uh,

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a little wonky with their with their preseason ranking and

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things like that. So I'm really not sure what to

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make of it yet, but uh, I think we'll figure

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out what Boston College looks like against Missouri.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm also yeah, that's a that's a great choice

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because you know, despite Missouri's high ranking, I mean, they

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they basically you know, I haven't played a team with

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a pulse yet, but they have been impressive. So it'll

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be interesting to see, you know, how they handle that

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Boston College offensive line and Costianos at quarterback. It's definitely

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a game I do favor Missouri, but a good test

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definitely for both teams to see where they're where they're at.

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Florida State and Memphis. If Florida State loses to Memphis,

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the Wheels might completely come off the season. And Memphis, uh,

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they're only a five and a half point underdog. They

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Florida State. And you know, if they lose that game,

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what's the what's the story gonna be like?

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Speaker 2: Integ Ye, it's gonna be bad. I was about to

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say that, I mean, this is where Norvell and twenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think if they lose that game,

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all of the good work that Norvell did last year

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will be completely forgotten. I mean I think, you know,

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we know, those Florida State fans are tough. You start

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the year oh and three, you lose in Ireland, you

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get basically boat raced at home by Boston College, and

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then you lose to your coach's former team. You start

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the year oh and three with some of the games

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they have coming up on the schedule, Clemson, Miami, Notre Dame,

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the Coyle team that Brian already mentioned looking pretty formidable.

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I mean, you could you could be staring at, you know,

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a three to four win season really really quickly.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And it's really interesting because you know, I know some

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folks in that Florida State fan base and they are

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already have pretty much just thrown this season in the trash,

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are like, yeah, it's whatever we hope to be playing

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for this year is already done. And that's what happens

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when you start the year with two conference opponents and

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you go out there and lay a couple eggs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, you know, you know, we also have the

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backyard brawl this weekend. I love that rivalry between West

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Virginia and Pittsburgh. And you know, I think Pittsburgh's kind

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of They've flown under the radar a little bit here

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the first two weeks. They're trailing twenty seven to six

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in the third quarter to Cincinnati and they just put

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on a furious comeback to win that game. You follow

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pitt is looking like a team that you better pay

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attention to in the A C C. That's a that's

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Speaker 3: That team is going to be interesting because it looks

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like I mean, they've they've had some interesting games to

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kind of start the year. So I'm gonna seeing kind

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of the gauge this one really independently of what I

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saw at the gate, because I thought they were gonna

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fold against Cincinnati and then they roared back pulled that

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one out. So really gonna be a big test in

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the backyard brawl there with West Virginia.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, indeed, Matthew, you have a follow up.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually love key looking to see what Virginia does

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against Maryland. You guys are for all historians. Maryland was

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Speaker 5: The A c C. That is probably going to be.

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Speaker 2: A pack stadium in Charlottesville because you're gonna see a

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lot of Maryland fans make that trip. And I'm low

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key looking to see how much improvement Virginia will make

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will make because if they if they win that game,

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you know it, they you know they, it will show

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at least that Tony Elliott's making some improvements, right, you know,

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so I I will have my eye on that one

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Speaker 3: I'm interested in that one as well. I mean, that

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weight game last week was really interesting. It was uh

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in a lot of ways. I feel like gave them

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that game. You know, you can't make make some of

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the plays down the stretch like they made and expect

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to win a football game. At the same time, I

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think from a top to bottom, Uva looks a little improved.

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I'm not saying that they're taking a big step, but

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they definitely look like they have fewer holes throughout that

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team compared to last year, where they were kind of

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a decent defense at times and a gunslinger at quarterback.

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So I'm interested to see if that continues against a

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pretty good Maryland team. Definitely a talented Maryland team, whether

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they're a good, a good overall u unit or not.

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But you know, I think that's gonna be a good, good,

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kind of barometer of what we can expect for UVA

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for the rest of the year.

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Speaker 1: Sounds good there, Brian, Uh, Let's turn our attention to,

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you know, an acc team that could be on upset

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alert if they are caught looking ahead to a game

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on their schedule or otherwise just sleep walking on the field.

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that needs to be ready is Florida State. Is there

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another game or do you also agree with Florida State

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need to be ready for that Memphis game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah? For me, it's Florida State.

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Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be kind of a homer here because

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there was a very young assistant on that team named

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Ryan Silverfield. So now he's the head coach over there

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at Memphis, and looking at how FSUs kind of played

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so far, like we've already talked about, I think Memphis

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is going to give them everything they wanted more. You know,

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they went out there, Memphis did and beat a group

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of five power like Troy last week looked really solid

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against that team. So I think this is a big

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time matchup that you know, on paper, FSU should be

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able to just win that game on town alone, but

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as we've seen the last couple of weeks, that just

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Speaker 1: All right, Brian, let's step out of the ACC for

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a bit here. Which national FBS games are you looking

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forward to the most this week? And we're wide open

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with this question. This can be Power five, non power five,

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matchup and then give us that winner of that game

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or two that you're looking at nationally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm actually gonna head over to the

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Big Twelve for this one. We got a ranked matchup

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of new conference opponents. We've got Arizona at Kansas State.

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Arizona kind of cutting their teeth a little bit in

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the Big twelve after the Pac twelve folded there with

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with realignment. I don't really think either teams looked that

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great out the gate despite both of them being ranked,

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that Big twelve conference to kind of figure out who's

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going to be the top tier in that in that

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top tier of conference, and who's going to kind of

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slip into that middle tier of the Big Twelve.

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Speaker 4: And and for.

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Speaker 3: This one, I think it's going to be the home

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the home team's going to take it. So give me

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Kansas State in this one. But I think it's gonna

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be a very intriguing mashup to see see what Arizona does.

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Speaker 1: All right, that sounds good, Brian. Yeah, the nationally, I

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think Week three is not as strong as some weeks

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that that you'll see the rest of the year for sure. Uh,

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you know, game day will be down in in Columbia

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for l s U. South Carolina. We're gonna find out

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if South Carolina is, you know, can really make any

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noise in the SEC. It played pretty well against Kentucky

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this past week.

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Speaker 1: We know, took the loss, another season opening loss under Brian.

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I would say Alabama going to Camp Randall at Wisconsin.

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game against South Florida. You would have thought, oh, no problem,

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but they played really poorly against South Florida. That was

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a game that was in doubt with about nine or

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ten minutes left in the game. It was I think

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fourteen fourteen to twelve, and South Carolina or South Florida's

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defensive line caused a ton of issues for Alabama up front.

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but they give a lot of trouble to Alabama. They

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had them on the ropes in their previous matchup too,

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and Alabama did not play well. And they if they

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played like that at Wisconsin, that game's going deep into

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the fourth quarter as well. I don't quite understand how

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after performance like that you still have Alabama, you know,

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ranks fourth in the country. But we know, we know

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how all that works. We're not going to get it

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into that. But they they better play a lot better

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when they go to Wisconsin.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there wasn't the movement in the AP that I

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was expecting this week. Uh, in a lot of a

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lot of ways. I mean, you still got Notre Dame

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in there, much higher than I thought. I thought they

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would fully drop out. But they're they're even higher than

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you if you were to put them in there. I

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thought it was going to be somewhere in the in

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the in the twenties there, but you know, they kind

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of skirted into the top twenty still. So it's kind

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of a kind of an intriguing week as far as

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the AP polls are considered, because I think some of

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the teams that should have got dinged a little bit

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didn't really get dinged as much as they could have.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure some of the Polder store

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and are not even watching these games. Uh yeah, I'm

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agreeing with you there, Brian. I don't know how Notre

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Dame stayed in the they did. Not only do they

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stay in the top twenty five, they stayed in the

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top twenty as a thirty point favorite of Northern Illinois.

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I mean, hats off to Northern Illinoise on just an

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unbelievable upset. But we know if that had been an

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ACC team, you know, ranked number five and losing Northern Illinois,

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they would have they would have dropped at least twenty spots.

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So yeah, I don't know, I don't know if we're

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even watching these games that all. I mean, Notre Dames

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right now. They got a loss to Northern Illinois and

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you know, they beat a mediocre Texas A and M

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team on the road where you know, app State went

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into Texas A and M recently and won there. So

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you know, I don't understand the you know, oh my goodness,

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they wanted college station like, yeah, okay, lots of teams

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are doing that these days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely an inflated, inflated situation there. And you know,

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some of this goes back to and I'll gripe on

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it a little bit here, but you know, I think

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we put too much stock in preseason rankings and things

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of that nature, and I feel like that ends up,

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you know, for a better part of a month kind

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of muddy in the waters as far as the top

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twenty five is concerned.

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Speaker 4: In a lot of ways.

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Speaker 3: You know, muddy's the water throughout the season because you know,

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losses that are better than they are we're we're already

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kind of waited earlier in the process and vice versa.

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So I wish we could move away up from some

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of this preseason ranking and stuff like that, and let's

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get a couple of games under our belt before we

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start to you know, say who's good and who's not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very very good there, Brian Matthew, I'm gonna turn

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it over to you for our last couple questions in

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the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Ryan, what do you think of Northern Iowa going on

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the road to Nebraska.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm an FCS guy.

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Speaker 2: You know, I probably watch FCS more than anybody here,

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right because I am from Bargo, And I actually think

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that Northern Iowa, if he can get through that first half,

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they can take they can take Nebraska to the distance.

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There there, that's a pretty good team. And in water

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Water Loose Cedar Falls.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got to agree with you there. I think

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it's gonna be interesting because I'm not sure. You know,

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Nebraska's come out the gate looking pretty good, right. You know,

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you gotta win at Utap, you gotta win at Colorado.

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But I'm not I'm still not sold on that prime

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Colorado team. I still think it's very much a We've

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got some good talent here, but we're not a full

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team yet. Until they get good in the trenches, they're

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never gonna take that next step. And that's where they've done.

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I think the poorest job of recruiting and Nebraska's I

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think built a pretty good little, uh little program out

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there now, and I think they're starting to take the

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next step. But it's it's gonna be one of those

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games where if Northern Iowa can kind of, yeah, whether

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the storm through those first you know, one or two

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quarters and they're they're kind of still keeping it close,

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then that's gonna get interesting because you give a team

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like that, you know, a little bit of hope, you

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know that that's when you get in trouble as an

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as a Nebraska team. So I'm not I wouldn't pick

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them to win. I probably would have. I would barely

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pick them to cover. But I think it's gonna be.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely I mean, I would break Nebraska to win.

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Speaker 2: But it's uh, you know, Northern Iowa always plays good,

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disciplined football. They don't tend to not beat themselves. Nebraska

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is probably looking ahead to a primetime matchup on Fox

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at Friday night at eight o'clock against the Illinois right

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and nationally a national matchup, right that's you know, supposed

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to be really big at home. You know, they're certainly

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preparing for their you know, for a big conference you know,

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their first conference matchup on their first weekend home game

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that they've had in a long time, and you most

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are hoping that they're probably not looking ahead to that matchup, right.

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I mean it's it is always if you when you're

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looking ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you definitely can't overlook that opponent. And you know,

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I think Nebraska is starting to get a little bit

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of a little bit of hope on on their season

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as far as you know, big picture is concerned. So

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you don't want to catch them napping because they're they're

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looking past, h past this opponent to bigger things.

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Speaker 5: Definitely, definitely.

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Speaker 2: Okay, man, it's open microphone time and we're gonna try

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this out tonight. We got a couple of them tonight.

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This first one is only for our only for you man,

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and then we'll have an open night open mic segment

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for everybody. But this is our first open mic. Anything

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you got on your mind?

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Speaker 5: Brian? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, as a as a Virginia Tech football podcast host,

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I am hoping that we can finally get the traveling

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to Norfolk and beating Odu monkey off of our back

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this upcoming week.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: It's not a game that scares me at this point,

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but the way that we have had slow starts, especially

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on all offense the first two weeks of the season.

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It's definitely one of those things that's still in the

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back of my mind, like we're way better than this team,

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but we have not really done a good job playing

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this team at their place the last couple trips, and

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we cannot, by any means, come out the gate slow

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like we have these first couple weeks of the season.

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So I'm hoping that as we get further into September,

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some of these things start clicking for this offense and

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we look a lot better early, so we can go

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out there and hang a fifty burger on that team

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like we probably should, and get out of Norfolk feeling

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pretty good about ourselves.

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Speaker 5: That's a good take.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask you a follow up, and then

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we'll go to our next open microphone segment. But here's

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why follow up, and you brought up a good point.

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Can I ask why does it feel why does it

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feel to the casual fan that Virginia Tech has basically

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played I would say one good half in each of

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its first games.

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Speaker 3: I think what we've done offensively is probably do a

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little too much in the off season, and I think

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some of our game plans are a little more complex

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than they need to be. And I think what that's

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doing is that's creating some pressure on the offensive line,

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and it's by extension with them experiencing some pressure and

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also doing a little bit more. I feel like our

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quarterback is processing a little more than he needs to

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at this point. Every time we've come out and simplified

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and kind of went with a more one or two read, look,

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when we've gotten back to just establishing the line of

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scrimmage a little bit, we've had a lot more success.

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I feel like we've been trying to do a little

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stuff with misdirection and be cute, but it's still like

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close to the line of scrimmage and folks are starting

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to get a beat on that. And I think simplifying

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things a little bit is going to be I think

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a good recipe for success at least until this team

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kind of gels a little bit more and and and

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gets gets a couple of wins under the belt and

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puts four quarters together that they feel good about.

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Speaker 2: That is an excellent response. We are at open microphone

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number two. Jeff, I'm going to start with you this time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I want, I want to go back to something

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Brian talked about earlier in the show, and man that

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I watched a lot of that Cal victory at Auburn,

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and you know, there was a lot of criticism and

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a lot of circles for you know, the additions of

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Cal and s m U and Stanford and geography aside.

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You know that it's clear that you know, geography is

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just completely out of whack cross realignment.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But if you're looking to make a statement and kind

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of endear yourself to the ACC and say have the

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other fans kind of look at you and say, hey,

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they're playing a little bit of football out here, and

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they're making ACC football a little bit better here in

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the early going, you really have to give it up

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to Cal. I was so impressed, you know, going into

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Jordan Hare, which is you know, you know, the ninety

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thousand fans or whatever they had there. I mean, Auburn

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was coming off some seventy point win. Yeah, I think

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it was an FCS opponent. But I mean that's a

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program that's trying to turn things around. You know, they're

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trying to They had Alabama beat last year. I think

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we all remember the fourth and thirty play Alabama was

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beat by Auburn, so we know they've got players, maybe

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not been overall record. You know, they also lost it

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to Mexico, so we know that they're they're an SEC program,

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you know, trying to build itself back up. But I mean,

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they have a ton of athletes on that team. And

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for Cal to go in there and and control the

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line of scrimmage, they turned Auburn over five times. They

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had an excellent short passing attack that kept Auburn on

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their heels the entire game. And and that's that's probably

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the most significant victory outside of Miami winning at Florida

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that an ACC team has had this year to win

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down there. So you know, just a really good, you know,

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introduction to Cal football. And that's a team you've got

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to have on your radar screen. Now, if you can

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win at Auburn, you can win you can win a

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number of games in the ACC. So really, you know,

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great performance from Cal. We saw on Friday night Duke

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going to Northwestern. You know, we're not saying Northwestern is

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the cream and in the class of the of the

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Big Ten, but for a duke program under Many Diaz

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and Malik Murphy at quarterback to still come out of

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there with with a victory. That's a pretty significant win

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for for that program. During the fourth quarter in overtime,

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Malik Murphy kind of turned the corners as a quarterback.

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He'd had a pretty average night of football, but he

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put the team on his back and got Duke you know,

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leaving leaving Northwestern with a victory, and they have Yukon

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this week, could be looking at a at a.

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Speaker 5: Three and oh start.

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Speaker 1: So while while you know Florida Strait has their struggles, Clemson,

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you know, not playing well against Georgia as you know,

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we thought that at least it could have been competitive.

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They were blown out. I mean, you've got other ACC teams,

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you know, kind of stepping up a little bit under

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the radar and and and putting out some decent victories

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for the league. And speaking of Clemson, man, they finally

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got the training wheels off the offense. Uh, they got

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the young freshman quarterback and they haven't been able to

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go deep on anybody in for literally four years. It

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didn't matter who they were playing, even if they overmatched

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them in talent, and against Appalachian State Saturday night, I mean,

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it was it was just touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, or I'm

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just forty two zero before you know, we were halfway

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through the second quarter. You know, we'll see if Clemson

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can kind of maintain that momentum on offense. But if

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they can, if they can have that at any level

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where they can get behind defense, again, that's that's an

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absolutely different team than what we've seen the last several years.

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There's a couple of veteran receivers on that Clemson team

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that probably aren't going to play much anymore that we

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saw in the Georgia game, and that gives them a

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dimension they haven't had for literally years. So that's something

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to keep an eye on as well. If Clemson and

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has turned the corner as as an offense, you know,

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app States is one thing, and that's that was a

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great victory, but at least it's something for Clemson to

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build on going into the bye week. So we can't

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quite count them out at certainly by any stretch in

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the ACC picture, despite how they looked against Georgia. If

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they rediscover that offense, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It feels like Cornell Powell was still playing for Clemson

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the last time. They were able to take some deep

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shots with regularity. So it's going to be interesting to

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see if they can continue that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, what you got Brian waiting a second? A second,

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open microphone segment, anything for us?

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I'm just I'm just excited to be back

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with you guys again and chopping up a little ACC talk.

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I really appreciate what you guys do and how you

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bring everybody together. Lots of guys that I know in

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podcasting we're all the ACC and hokey block world love

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00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,079
jumping on with you guys.

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Speaker 4: I just wanted to say a big thanks for for

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having me back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We really, we really appreciate it.

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We really appreciate your kind words. So here's what I'll

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Here's what i'll Here's what I'll say. Like September is

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National Suicide Awareness Month, right, so I put a blog

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post out there today about how about resources for it

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for people and that sort of thing, and about how

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he probably you know, does my advice You need to

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take time for yourself, find some work life balance, you know,

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get some rest for yourself. You know, these are the

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sorts of things that that will help you when you

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when you go, when you go a lot, when you

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go along through life and just knowing when you knowing

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when you need to want you know, perhaps get away

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from a computer from oorkday and get some exercise and

576
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,000
that sort of thing to to you know, put to

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put you know, put yourself through a good serious, you know,

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series of well you know, for of what of wellness.

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Speaker 5: Just for you.

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Speaker 2: Know, it's it's I guess it's like finding time for

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finding time for yourself, mindfulness, you know, all these other

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things that you can do to try and try and

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try and make life better, try and make life better

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for you, you know, and that sort of thing. So

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you know, make sure you check out the post. There's

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there's some good suggestions on there on on just just

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try and try and try and to improve the quality

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of your life.

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Speaker 5: So, Brian, thank you.

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Speaker 2: So much for joining us in the All Sports Discussion

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ACC podcast.

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Speaker 5: We appreciated the kind words.

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Speaker 2: We also appreciate that you're willing to spend your Sunday

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00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:33,319
evening with us, and we'd love to have you come

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on again sometime on the show. Thank you so much

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for joining us, Brian.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks so much to both of you again, always

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a pleasure.

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Speaker 5: All right, have a great week, guys. Take care,