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Just go to indeed.com/bluewire right now and support our show by saying that you heard about Indeed on this podcast, that's indeed.com/bluewire, terms and conditions apply. And to hire, you need Indeed. Marcus Freeman, the preparation, the mindset, you know, it can't take a loss to have the mentality that we have to have mentally and physically to prepare the right way for an opponent. And so we have to be able to, you know, move past the previous game and really start the preparation the right way starting today as we meet with them this afternoon. And so, as I said, last week, we can be a really good football team, we got work to do. Let's evaluate the film the right way, let's come up with a plan to attack and affix the issues that we have, and continue to prepare and respect your opponent, you know, and know at any point, you can beat any team you play and you can lose any team you play. That's a beauty of college football. And so we got to prepare and understand that as we prepare. Go ahead, left, prepare. I think I heard. I couldn't get anything in between, but, you know, I hope he prepares. Well, at the end of the day, we're in another position where we can go out there and score 70 points. That should have been the whole moniker of what he was talking about is 70 point achievement. This is no different than the last week and the week before is that we have to go in there. And with the mindset, I heard mindset after preparation, but mindset was in there too. The mindset is what happened last week is the standard. That's what the best, what the fans were saying, the schedule was so easy because we can do that to everybody on the schedule. That needs to be the moniker, not prepare because we're prepared to me right now, sounds like a reset. It's reset the week to every time he says prepare, I'm saying he's going to restart and reset the team in the week to because you prepare week to and you said somehow the lack of preparation and week two is the difference and it's not needs to show me numbers and pro football focus numbers. I want to see that. So what you're telling Marcus Freeman is that domination because we showed it already has to be continued, right? Yes, it happens in preparation, but what else? What else are you doing in that week? There's something that happened that you got the guys up for outside of a bad loss. What was that? What got you up to play like y'all did in the last week? That needs to be figured out. And I doubt it's from a preparation standpoint because once again, once again, the schedule is the same thing every week, your morning, live, you go to class, two o'clock, go to practice, hit a meter or two after, and that's what it is. You don't do nothing. Don't get more time to prepare how you prepare. So domination in that mindset, whatever kicked in outside of losing, maybe losing kicked in, but that needs to be the standard that's carried on through the rest of the season. And maybe that's preaching physicality. Maybe that's preaching guys making plays and be putting in position to make plays and maybe that's even preaching. Hey, we need to get the ball to Jeremiah. But be honest, shit, we found out that when we get Jeremiah love going early, the team has success. That's what you go into the press conference and say, don't go in there and prepare because who prepared? Riley didn't prepare. He go in there and unprepared some games. So what are we talking about, right? Talk about the strengths of the team, that defense, holding guys under 21 points. That's what we need to do again. They go four games with holding teams under 21 points, that's pretty damn good. Hell, if we put 66 like we did in the last week, in the first two weeks, we'd be talking about number one team in the country. Seriously, even Georgia gave up more than what we've given up. Now, it's different competition, but still, like we would be a number one team in the country if we played like last week, in the first two weeks, because the opponent ain't no better. Light it. College football nation. What's going on? Marking in the second here. Handside access to the college football world and beyond every week, as three-time national champion head coach, Urban Meyer, announcer Rob Stone and I take you from the field into the locker room and beyond discussing the top moments in college and pro sports. Plus conversations with the biggest names from every corner of entertainment delivered to you at home or on the road. Watch triple option on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. 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No, but you see how fast they made a decision, man, good culture, yeah, yeah, yeah, Marcel Reid, he, he, they might have one down that left. They might have one. I mean, he plays with no fear and that's, that's half, you know, you're scary acting. He's going there. If it ain't there, I'm trying to, he had a little more in. Yeah. Yeah. Now, obviously, that's your first game, so nobody know what you look like. Connor, I'm kind of waiting to not give this job back. No, hell no. I don't get, I don't get why he missed, kind of waiting to not give this job back. It's. Yeah. My, yeah. Queensland get his job back. Shit, the way they hyped it. I hope so, man, because I mean, he just looks sad on the sideline like, y'all cheering pretty loud over there for double R. He said that Georgia gave up more points than Notre Dame on Saturday. He wasn't talking about for the season. Georgia gave up double digit points on Saturday, Notre Dame gave up seven and he said different opponents. I did. I'm not even interested in more opponents. We're not going to act like we sat down like Georgia, but hell, we asked some pretty good numbers that, that you can argue. Yeah. Yeah. Elizabeth Crook. Thank you for joining us while you hike out there in Utah, man. Be safe as always. Man, I do like that LA hiking, dude. That's not real hiking. You know how you just walk up some hills in LA, oh, yeah, me and my daughter, we went hiking before. You just up there. You're like, okay. Yeah. That's a nice view. You know, you get to see LA, you know, it's a nice walk. You sweat a little bit, you know, but that's not like real, I didn't have anything on my back. I didn't have a backpack or anything like that. That's the type of hiking I was actually a, yeah, I want to do that one day, bro. I put that on my list, man. I put that on my list. Next, he talked about, oh, the old line that left. Let's hear him talk about the old line that the job because Rudolph is done with that offensive line, you know, to have Pat Coogan go in there and Rocco Spindler, you know, I said this after the game, but two guys that could easily, you know, didn't get what they wanted after fall camp. They wanted to be the starters. They weren't and they prepared and they were great teammates and leaders for that room. And now they're in there and, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, but also some of the other guys I thought Sullivan Abscher played well, Gerby Lambert played well, Chris Tarrick played well, who's asking for the year in Billy for a couple of weeks, but man, confident in the offensive line. So, I'm losing, like, Patel, who had really seemed to be hitting a stride in the first few weeks of the season, what's the impact that Jordan Patel is a great player playing as since I've been here. You feel awful for the kid, you feel awful for him and, but you have to continue to move forward, right? And that's why you have depth and you have guys that are prepared and ready to step up and that is sad, but having a Jordan Patel, bro. He was really having one of his best seasons, you know, that sack production was really not going to be one of his things, but he had become a very, he was probably playing the best on the defensive line, looking at the first three games, he probably was playing the best of everyone. And you just hate that, man. And for a Google card to dedicate the rest of the season, his performance to him and how he's been a mentor to him, is absolutely amazing. Just to talk about the injuries, you know, Josh Burnham and Tash Baker are questionable for the upcoming game against Miami, Ohio, you got Tay Tay Jay Johnson. Is he Daniel? Did you hear Rubio? Who? Patel? Yeah, he's out for the year. He's out for the year. Tay Johnson, David Rubio, and Billy Shrauff are targeting, getting back, Billy would probably be back after the bot, gave him Rubio, hopefully he can get there for the Louisville game if not back after the bot and Tay Tay should be ready to go next week. Out for the season, of course, Tamer Benny Powell, Jordan Mattello, Ashton Craig, starting center. He's out for the year. Now, Charlie Dune, Charles Jagger Salk, a home of a kid, LeBron Payne, Styles, Prescott, Chance Tucker. All those guys are out with shoulders or either knees. It's literally like a shoulder or knee for everybody. That's all for the season, shoulder or knee. It's incredible, man. That's incredible. I saw somebody in the chat making an interesting statement that if Anthony Knapp goes down at a left tackle, things of, no, Sullivan Apscher can play at the same level that Anthony Knapp is playing at a left tackle. He can. You know someone that's flying under the radar that's actually, Emile Wagner is playing really good at right tackle. He is. Like, when you're not being noticed on the offensive line, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. He's doing his job. He's doing his job. He's holding up very strong men. Always told people the one thing that stood out to me is that he had a powerful punch in his hands. When he delivered the blow, very strong punch as an offensive line. As long as he doesn't allow people to get to his body because he doesn't have the weight, he's shown himself to be very careful at the right tackle position. That's really good. That's really good. Then for the invention guys to come in and do what they did, you miss action Craig. I think Ashton Craig was in his way to be a really top-notch center in college football. I think he was getting even better, the more start and the more games he played. So, feel sorry for that young man, definitely feel sorry for Jordan Matello, but the injury situation, all over college football, if you really watch, there are men, offensive linemen, defensive linemen going down like crazy, pretty much every game I watch this weekend. They're going down like crazy bro. You must have depth on the offensive line. I think Joe Rudolph needs to be applauded because the young men are coming in prepared, they're prepared to play, and they're playing well. We can nitpick. I can go and talk about Anthony Knapp and pass pro and things of that nature. I'm not doing that man. The kid has played three games in his college career. So that's his weakness, that's the part of his game he has to improve, that he'll get stronger, that will improve, but he just asked to the depth next year, when Charles Jaggerskaw comes in, everybody comes back healthy, the offensive line next year should be one of the top three units on the team. Yeah. Let me think, I have to think about that because the running back room is going to be incredible. Quarterback room will be inexperienced, game-wise, but incredible. Defensive backfield is going to be absolutely dumb-dumb next year, even when Ben Morrison leaves. Lineback is going to be dumb-dumb. I don't know, maybe I stressed out the top five, so that'll be a top five, but they're going to be good, none the less. Hey college football nation listeners, it's Erp and Meyer. Have you ever wanted to be in the huddle with two national champions? This is your chance. Join me, Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and Rob Stone every Wednesday, as we take you inside the biggest moments in college football, as well as navigate the ever-changing landscape of the sport that you love. Let us guide you into the new age and have a lot of fun along the way. Watch Triple Option on YouTube or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcast. Discover what you can create with popular services free for 12 months. Learn more at azure.com. Let's A-Z-U-R-E.com and sign up for a free account to start building in the cloud today. Steve Angeli, how did he look to you, coach? Oh, man, he played really well, which I knew he would. We have a lot of confidence. Steve Angeli made good decisions, took care of the ball. I know he wishes that he wouldn't have took those sacks, but man, I was really pleased and proud of the way Steve played. On Miami, Ohio, obviously another Mac team, are there similarities to Northern Illinois? I know every opponent's different, but what do you kind of see from them that could present the challenge? I'm a good football team. I can come in here and beat us if we don't prepare the right way, and so that's the similarities I see between those two teams, is that both of them are good football teams, and we have to respect them in terms of the way we prepare. Schematically, they're different, but a well-coached team, they do a good job of limiting your possessions on offense, both play really good defensively, and we have to really prepare our best to perform the way we want to have a victory on Saturday. Hey, Gola. I know you don't want to hear the word "prepare," man, but just talk about the first start. He was pleased with what he saw from Steve Angeli. Well, he should be pleased with what he saw all day. I mean, come on. Everybody played well, Steve came in and, you know, a lot of times, some guys need warm up. Steve didn't look like he needed warm up. I saw him make a couple checks. I saw him look confident. I saw him do what he was asked to do, and against a poor's defense, it wasn't really like he had to reinvent the wheel. I mean, he does exactly what he's supposed to do, man, and I think that is a credit to him being always ready to play. That's something that I guess you could mention, his preparation as a non-starter, but still being available. It's a testament to what he can carry with himself in any quarterback situation, because that's really good to have. It's hard for guys to be locked in when they're not getting the time that they probably think they deserve, and to be locked in. The moment you get that opportunity is, it makes all the difference, man, and so that's a credit to Steve being available and ready to go, and then it shows, so we got to see a lot of what we already knew, and I think Marcus Freeman led out of the bag a lot of what I was talking about. If Steve's more comfortable managing offense and making checks and making the right throws, not putting the ball in danger, he should be the lead horse, and then when you want that excitement and spark plays and you're trying to grind out a four-minute or you're back up or in tough positions, you throw Riley in there. Not only does he have experience, but he's a bigger body. He clearly doesn't like to throw, and you could throw some teams off like that in Hell. You put two-back system, put Steve at quarterback Riley on one side, and J.D. and love on the other side. Who knows what you can do? If that's the way that we're running offense now, I hope we stay open enough to be able to adjust when times are needed. I don't want to be able to be getting the gains that we're banging our head against the wall because he can't throw. Hell, we've seen this year, guys capable of doing it, so let's not go out and act like we have to lose the game because he just can't do it. Let's put somebody else in that can't do it and let's try to win the game regardless of how much we paid for it started. So there's a lot of questions and angst over James Rendell who averaged 37 and a half yards on his punts, and the struggle was in the punt game. It's a concern for the fight-nighters fan base, and Marcus Freeman was asked about that. I remember reporting coming to Lucky Lefty after I saw him punt saying, "Yo, I put the time on this dude because his punts looked immaculate in practice, and man, he was averaging like 4.4 to 4.5 hangtime." Then the next thing comes out in the regular season and it's like, "Yo, what the heck is going on? This is not the same dude I saw in practice." Because he's Australian. Yeah, but also listen to what Marcus Freeman said, "Left, come on, bro." You get your bias towards Australians and athletes. I've spent some time with Coach Bias, you're just talking about James as a guy that has so much talent. He can do so many things with the football. We really have to evaluate what we're asking him to do, and it gets the same thing we talk about offense and defense. As coaches, we know the talent he has. We haven't put it all together in a game, so let's evaluate what we're asking him to do. I know he can punt across the field, I know he can do a spiral punt, I know he can end over any punt, but what we've got to do is call the things that he can do in a game. That's on us as coaches, we've got to put him in a better position in asking him to do the things that he does well, get experience, and then we can have him do all these different types of punts. We've got to get him better in practice. We've got to maybe be strategic in how we ask him to punt in practice, usually in practice. You go punt period, and that's about all you get, but we're going to probably scatter some punts throughout practice to say, "Okay, treat this like a game." You might be sitting on the sidelines for 20 minutes, come back in, now you've got to execute. We as coaches are looking at ourselves and saying, "How can we help this guy with so much talent have success on Saturdays?" I hope that some of the changes we're going to make in terms of what we ask him to do, how we practice will help him on Saturday. A couple of things. First thing that stands out is evaluation, once again, once again, what are we doing? Why are we bringing the guy in then saying, "We've got to figure out what he's good at." That's crazy. That's crazy. Why are we bringing the guy in that we don't have specific roles for it? Because that way it's easy to move on because you're wasting games, wasting reps trying to figure it out, i.e., perfect example is Sam. Sam had a three-game contract. Sam, if you don't win these three-game games that we hired, you should be out of there. But those three games he didn't win was a good evaluation to say, "Was it worth it or not?" In my opinion, it wasn't. He was one for three. One for three. What are we evaluating on tape if we bring this kid in and then you bring him in and we get all the way to practices through the season and then you sit here talking about, "Well, I don't know what to do with him yet." What are you evaluating on film? Are we getting media hyped into these situations? We're like, "Oh, he did his trick-shot videos for five minutes? Will he kick it through a couple of tires from 50 yards away or did a backflip?" I mean, we've been getting wild by these highlight tapes or something. Here's the true evaluation, and that's not what I want to hear, that you got to find out what he's good at, and he's the punter that you're starting. While we rolling guys out there that we don't know, that's the second guy now, the second guy we don't roll out there that we don't know what he's doing yet, when was our quarterback? You rolling him out there trying stuff, hoping it like, "What are we doing? That's terrible." It's not all the way the punter's fault, clearly he was iffy to begin with if you got to figure it out at the moment. No, he wasn't down there, he wasn't iffy. When you allow him to punt regular, we saw him liven up close what he can do. Well, he can't stop the first game. Yeah, that's what you can do if you can't do it in a game, can't count out. No! He's not punt regular. They got him doing rugby style. We didn't see him right there. That's terrible evaluation on our part. That's terrible evaluation. We asked him to do this. All right, we're not just allowing him to just punt. And then you're talking about, "Oh, we're going to go more punks and more punks." He can punt with spin, he can punt end over end, like dude, just punt the ball. Just punt the ball, dude. Let's not overthink this position. Punter ball, 4.5 hang time, 42 yards. That's it. That's it, 42, 45 yards, 4.5 hang time, and we're cool. Cheating like a rookie. You don't dream like his age. Because you don't make anything. He's with cheering up to go out there and salsa it up and give you different looks. Let's just roll him out like we would a freshman. Kick it as far as you can and flip the field. Let's start there. That's all I'm talking about, which Chick-fil-A sauce is the best? Just get a sauce. Everybody wants to talk about, "I like Polynesian, oh, I like Chick-fil-A, oh, I like the Sriracha, I like, dude, if he has all these sauces, that's cool. Pick the one that you rock with." Yeah. Pick the one that you rock with and let him do his thing and let him get better because it's only going to get worse as the wins come into South End as the season changes. I don't want this dude averaging 37 kicking in to a 20-mile-power win, so now his punts are going to drop down to 33, 32. That's just silly to me. That's all. Well, once again, realization, that is the theme of today's show. That seems to be a realization within the program about a lot of things that, "Okay, look, this is what it is." The realization that Kingston Villamuosa was not part of that first half consistent rotation at line back and coming off his game is Northern Illinois, has nothing to do with his future, has nothing to do with whether or not he's going to be starting by the end of the season. But at least there was a recognition, like, "Hey, you have to clean this part of your game up." Jay Nazberry, once again, solid, Drake Bowen, once again, playing Jack Kaiser played on the other side of the line of scrimmage a lot on Saturday. I like seeing that from Jack. I like seeing that better in style. Yeah, your boy, Jason Onyay showed up big time. He'd been asking for a left. He flashed big time. Our male Mucum got in there, played a few snaps, low in Thomas. Like I said, everybody played, man. Everybody played. And it was very, it was very good to see. Yeah. But they had to hit mark in scrimmage to say that, to say, "Yo, we got him doing like three or four different styles in the game. Like, are you just picking and choosing like, "Okay, go out there, run me this time. Okay, this time, you go out there, punting like this." Sometimes you give guys too many options. Man, just go kick the hell out of the ball. Hey, kick the hell out. That's it. That's it. That's it. We're always doing it too much, like, dang, like, I know we smart and, you know, it takes all guilty of it left. We're all guilty of it. We all have something in life that we do too much. Okay. But it's fashion and something. We all have something in life or cars, whatever it is. We all have something in life where we do too much. We all have something. You know, it's probably just not visible to me as a people on a Saturday afternoon where everybody has something where, especially if you, man, I guarantee you, my wife has a list of stuff that she is like, man, this cash on does way. He does too much. He does too much. She tells me all the time. I thought you were so dramatic. She tells me all the time that my wife has this thing where she wants to be tough, because she's from the, she's from the 12 Deuce. Yeah. Okay. She's from the 12 Deuce. She's from the wild honey. So she wants to act like she's hard, you know, she's a big, salty world. So she walks around the house, always like trying to buck shoulders with me. Oh my God. Yeah. And she'll bump me and I'll like, dude, this is like, oh my God, I didn't push you that hard. Yeah. Yeah. And she definitely will put that on the list that you do too much. She does way too much. That's good though. Yeah. I know she would. And she does literally, that's where I know it's like, what you trying to do, man? You always bumping me. She's always trying to prove something, man. It's like, come on. That is actually funny. Yeah. Yeah. But she's been doing it the whole time, the whole time. She'll bump me and then she'll say, come on. Come on. They scared you. I just look at her like, man, let me get you right. I'll get you right now. Like Tiffany. Stop. Yeah. Stop playing. Just off look, just go somewhere, man. I tell all the time, my baby girl is tougher than you. Yeah. Well, you ain't not mad. I got, I raised one tougher. I was like, she's, she was raising the suburbs and she's talking and you like, stop. Stop. So that's the, that's Marcus Freeman and what he had to say to the media today. When you need meal time inspiration, it's worth shopping king supers for thousands of appetizing ingredients that inspire countless mouth-watering meals. 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