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We made it, gang. NC State Football 2024 Season Opener. It's been a loooong Offseason. It's finally over. The NC State Wolfpack host the Western Carolina Catamounts tonight in Carter-Finley. Game 1 of the biggest season in recent memory.

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We made it, gang. NC State Football 2024 Season Opener. It's been a loooong Offseason. It's finally over. The NC State Wolfpack host the Western Carolina Catamounts tonight in Carter-Finley. Game 1 of the biggest season in recent memory.

 

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This offer is only valid from now until September 30th on one order and cannot be used with other promotions. Go to 5 hour energy today. Happy Thursday, happy Wolfpack football game day for the first time in the year of our Lord 2024 as always, I'm Grayson Boone joined by former Wolfpack defensive tackle, Kenton Gibbs. Kenton, we are so back. We have maybe never been this back ever. NC State football plays a real game on real grass against a real opponent tonight in Carter Finley seven p.m. We host the cat amounts of Western Carolina. We'll get into additional details. We've already given you some earlier this week. We're going to give you our final thoughts, our final score predictions and of course it is a game day. That means we're coming right back at you with Kenton's keys for the first time here in 2024. I am excited. I don't know how I was able to sleep. Well, spoiler alert, we're recording this on Wednesday night. I probably won't be able to sleep if I see so much as a single brick wall anywhere in my vicinity on Thursday, I can assure you that it will be knocked down with the quickness Kenton. It's game day. How are we feeling? I'm feeling great, man. I'm feeling great. Grayson. I love the energy. Please do not attempt to run through a brick wall with all due respect. You're a baseball guy. Take a bat to it or something, you know what I mean? Hit it with your meanest curve, but I do not attempt to run through a brick wall. But I'm going to tell you, it's the state should attempt to run through some catamoms this evening because boy, this is the time to find out, right? This is the time to find out if you are all hype or you are all everything that people said you were during all the offseason. We heard so much about so many teams that we zero has exposed. I'm looking at you knows that is a team that messed around when undefeated last year when they had their full slate of players came into this year supposed to be physically dominant over everybody and got pushed around in game one. So I would challenge NC State to not end up in that same position in terms of, hey, what is your strength has to be your strength. Do not have a moment where we're stuck sitting here afterwards looking around saying, what the hell just happened? Who the hell were those guys in red and white? We do not want to see that come out, handle business, do what you got to do. But the evidence game day and I'm geeked up like Fable, I'm just not seeing spaceships from bank here, baby. Months of anticipation, months of waiting for this day, months of talking about what we acquired in the transfer portal, months of breaking down our schedule, all the new players that we have to be excited about the nervousness about having two really big games and then 10 other games that we should stand on business. The months of talking about making it to the ACC Championship and the college football playoff, all of that finally comes to a merciful end. We're tired of talking preseason football, y'all. We want to talk about actual football. Today is the day. We've waited long enough. It's time to put the ball down and on 12 different occasions for the next three months, we're going to find out who the better team is every single weekend. I'm more than ready to get this thing going. I did see that DJ Burns is the alpha wolf starter of the game for this evening. Don't know if you could have a better selection for that. The stadium might actually crumble when that man walks out of the tunnel. He is going to get the loudest ovation I could possibly imagine when he comes out to start this game. Not only that in terms of DJ getting a loud standing ovation because he is DJ Burns, but this is still the first game of the year. This is the first time that some college students will experience a car or family team. This is their first one. This is going to be their first time being out there during this type of environment. And even beyond that, this game to me feels like a coming out part of your source for the wolf packs in the welfare. And I say that not to say like, oh, well, I hope they dig in their full bag of tricks and all that. I don't think you understand how rough it was at times watching that off its from last year. Yeah. And I mean, even against bad teams, there were moments where you were just like, what are the guys who was that? What exactly are we doing here? And so to see a situation, and that's not to blame it on any one player because it wasn't Brendan Armstrong or MJ Morris underperforming on their own. It wasn't a key on the Santa Bradley Rosner on their own. It was not that it was at the unit. The offense was not there. When you got one group going, another group didn't invite virtually and it was it was always something this year. No more. No more. We're expecting great things from the offense. And I'll tell you, I'm excited for this thing. More than any other reason, like you talked about with DJ Burns coming back and all that, we need that championship juju in the state. We need that against all odds, energy in the stadium, because this is the time. The odds makers not giving NC State the best shot in the conference to go ahead and when it don't get me wrong, we are tied for third. So let me not piss this Rodney Dangerfield. We get no respect to him. But we need that energy of, you know what, NC State is to be taking serious as a championship contender because they can go out and win an ACC Championship this year. But you don't win the championship in Charlotte on just that day. You win it by winning Thursday and then Saturday and then Saturday and then Saturday. That's how you get it done. You get it done one game at a time, go one and no every week, stack wins on top of each one and see what you can do at the end of the season. Touching on your point about this being the first game of the year, typically every home opener has that new energy in the stadium that you can feel. It's a new season, new expectations, new players. A lot of just overall excitement is palpable in the stands. I'm expecting that this evening Carter Finley, it'll be a couple notches above that typical home opener electricity. I say that because of the expectations, because of the roster we put together, because of the aspirations for what they want to do at the end of the season, which is making it to Charlotte not once, but twice. And then of course, making it into the new Look 12 team playoff. There is a different buzz already about this team before they get going. But once everyone steps into Carter Finley tonight and the players take the field and DJ Burns comes on the field as the awful Wolf starter, they play the interim music, they got the red lights going because it's a night game. It is going to be an extremely special moment for NC State Wolfpack fans. A season a new, but possibly the most lofty aspirations we've had, maybe ever, or at least in a really long time, probably all the way back to 2002, it's going to feel different. When it all boils down to it, it's standing on business for four straight quarters, 60 minutes of domination, we are better than you and we're going to prove it. 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I am excited about this. I am too ready to go and I hope the offensive line in the running game is in this running back room is as well because I can tell you right now if this rushing attack can do what it has to do today, that is a great arbiter and sign of things to come. To me, every quarterback wants to stay in front of the sticks, but especially a guy like Grace and McCall that specializes in making the right decision on time on time. You know what the normal antithesis or weakness of those guys is, is having to make these huge big time throws outside the numbers. Why is that important? You know when you're most likely to have to make those throws third in law, fourth downs, you know how you stay away from that? Run the ball effectively rush for 180 plus rushing yards. Number two, let's go less than three negative plays in the first half. There's a reason I said in the first half because I don't believe our starters will be playing much into the second half, but I need to see the same way I talk about the rushing game and stand on schedule. This less than three negative plays definitely plays in them. This means that you are again, you're either still made it or gaining yards on every single play. You need that because again, you need to stay on schedule. How's the clock ticking? This office needs to look like a Rolex perpetual movement, no ticking, no stopping, no it looks a little weird, it feels a little weird, less than three negative plays is definitely a key to success because if you are the more physically imposing team and you have a team on their heels, that's when you can hit them with all types of play action. That's when you can hit them with all types of deep shots because now they're loading up the box to stop you because you're in third and short, second and short situations. And so less than three negative plays in the first half, major key, last but not least, I know that all three of these kind of stick to the same thing, but that's on purpose friends. I promise you, it's very intentional, stay ahead of the sticks. You stay ahead of the sticks by averaging four and a half yards or more on first down. I need this team to do that because come out with the right temperament, do not sleep on this team, do not say, oh, we can, we can wake up eventually, no, come out of the gates hot, come out of the gates ready, come out of every first down, ready to move the chains again or come down close to this game is nothing more than their best versus our best. And I'll tell you already, our best is better. We are stronger, we are faster, we are better coached, we are more athletic and we need to shove it down their throat from go. During this, I expect that running the ball will be the main function of our offense just because there's no need to show your whole playbook with Tennessee coming in week two and there's no need to do anything crazy that's ineffective against an FCS team. Smash mouth football, run the ball, give it to Jordan Waters, let him go to work. Don't overwork him, of course, because of the whole injury factor. This new stable of healthy running backs should be put to full use against Western Carolina. You have four level backs that you feel comfortable, all four of them can be plugged into this game and can make a massive difference. Use that to your advantage, spread out the carries, make Western work, make them labor and then that is when you break them probably before halftime but if it's not at halftime then probably very early in that third quarter. This needs to be a no nonsense, no frills, no funny business, punch that time clock, go to work, earn your pay and then call it a day. Now catch and let's jump over to the defense and special teams. Absolutely, so defense and special teams create three plus, plus field position opportunities. So what does plus field position means? Plus field position means you're starting in your opponent's territory. Why is this important? One of the biggest factors showing the team who's boss is ending up in situations where you get one drive, one play touchdown or three play touchdown drives and you get that not just by hitting extremely big plays but also shortening the field. Now how can you do that, right? We've talked about the punt, we've talked about the punt return team and we've talked about who's going to be back there handling the punch and all that. Is it going to be coy? Is it going to be smothers? Is it going to be Concepcion? By the way, when people say Casey Concepcion is a lot like saying ATM machine or pin number, the last thing is that, never mind, we're not going to get into that. Long story short, create three plus, plus field position opportunities, give your offense short fields. I don't care if it's by a turnover, I don't care if it's by a big return, find yourself in situations where you've made it extremely easy for that offense to put points on the board. Let's go over to number two. The next one, sack Kogan's out of us three or more times. Here's the thing, right? Kogan's out of us is a good quarterback. He is a good court. Anybody who tells you, Kogan's out of this is a slouch, he's terrible, he's whatever, the man was the conference player the year last year for a reason. But I challenge you to find me more than one quarterback who is good horizontally. Patrick the Holmes made that one pass in the Super Bowl where he was parallel to the ground and it hit a receiver in the face. He ain't walking through that door for the catamombs. No other quarterback, if they are even to the ground, normally they're laying on it. That's how that works. You have to get to Kogan's office because he is the engine that makes this offense go. There in everything starts and ends with him. He stirs the drink, he makes the drink. He's the bartender with the towel over his shoulder, saying, "Shaken or stirred." If you get to him, the whole operation is over. Jack Kogan's office at least three times. And last but not least, no Western Carolina pass-catchers over 85 yards, here's the deal. If Western Carolina can run a ball on us, they deserve. They deserve everything that they get and we deserve everything that we get if we cannot stop a running game in which a team saw their best back leave, who by the way was young enough to wear it, the team was probably planning on having them back. If we cannot stop that running game, we deserve it. And that's why all of these are buying large based on the passing game. But last but not least, no wide receiver, no Western Carolina pass-catchers over 85 receiving yards. Let me tell you why this is important. If you can make sure that Kogan's office has to spread the ball around to beat you, how many quality receivers do you think Western Carolina? When you see games like this, and NC State has struggled in the past, I was a part of one of them. We struggled to pull away from Richmond my true freshman year. Well, I guess I wasn't part of it because I had a ton of kiddies that was watching from the balcony in the Murphy Center. But you get the point, will we play Richmond? I can't remember his name for the life of me, but there was one receiver that absolutely went off. We struggled so mightily stopping him until we knocked out their starting quarterback. I'm telling you right now, if you find ways to say, "You know what? If you're going to beat us, it has to be a complete team effort. Everybody across the board has to chip in. I think you'll be just fine." But if you let somebody become a star on that field Thursday night, it could spell for a very long night for the World Cup League. As we discussed earlier this week, if Western has any semblance of a shot against NC State, it relies solely on the shoulders of their quarterback Cole Gonzalez. He is their best player. He's their best returning player. He was their conference player of the year, the so-called last season. He's going to have to go absolutely insane on NC State's secondary if they're going to have a shot. Unfortunately for Cole Gonzalez, the NC State's secondary is one of the deepest groups we have on this team. So Western is at an extreme disadvantage in this game. That makes bullet point two and three here so important for the defense to come out and impose your will. Number one, when talking about field position, oftentimes it's very closely related with turnover margin. I expect us to win that in this game very, very easily as well. So I'm, I will be way more tuned into how many times we can get into the backfield and make Cole Gonzalez life difficult this evening and Carter Finley. That is going to be the story of the game. If you get after him, if you make him sweat, if you make him, if you pressure him into very poor decisions, it is going to be a wrap very, very quickly into this game. So these are our defensive keys and then I told you I was going to do it. I added in one more slide above all else, stay healthy. We cannot afford any major injuries in a week one game against a team that we're hoping to just get a lot of very meaningful reps for some depth pieces. We have one of our biggest two games of the season and I know you shouldn't look ahead, but it's really hard not to in Tennessee in week two. We have to be firing on all cylinders. If we want to have a shot at taking out the balls down there in Charlotte. So above all else, stay healthy, play smart football. Don't overdo it. Don't pick up any really dumb targeting penalties that could cost you some playing time as well. Just needs to be a very smartly played four quarters of football in which you put your best foot forward and you dominate the cat amounts. Couldn't agree more health is, you know, health is super important for this team and to this team. And again, this is why Grayson and I and games like this were so keen on get right church and let's go home, get be in the situation where you can get your starters out of game or the earlier you can pull your starters, the better because you keep their legs fresher, reduce the chance of injury, all those types of things. What the wheels off these guys don't play around, don't let them hang around. Don't let them because the biggest thing even outside of injury is when you play around with a team like this, start getting confidence. The game gets late is getting there, don't let this team stick around, don't let this team stay close, don't let this team believe that they can, that they can get anything done against you. You want their halftime speeds to be to be, we're not, don't look at the scoreboard. Don't look at the score. I just want to see you execute something with this do one thing well and we'll go from them. That's it. It could be Western Carolina, it could be App State, it could be the dirty foot club, it could be Tennessee. If you have a comfortable lead and you let that other team believe that they can stick around and come back and beat you, hope is a very dangerous thing. When you are the more physically imposing team, go out and let them know from the beginning. This is a no nonsense, no funny business game, you're the better team, go out and prove it. Take care of business and then we're on to the next one. That's really all that's left to say here about this game one against Western Carolina. 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Last couple minutes of our game day Thursday episode, now time for our final thoughts and our pregame predictions for tonight's match up against Western Carolina. Kenton, I'll let you go first. Just give us any additional thoughts, empty the notebook for tonight's home opener. You know, I wish I had a thorough in-depth notebook of like, hey, this is all the things to look out for, all the things to watch out for. This is a big match up here. There realistically is not much there. I mean, that's just what this is. TCB, take care of business, get out of dodge early, you know, make sure that Wolfpack fans are happy, okay? Make sure everybody's going home happy and make sure that even if they do leave it at time, they ain't missing nothing in the second half, okay? By the way, stay after that, but you get the point, you get what I'm saying, you know, do what you got to do, make it clear, make it definitive, make it decisive. First of all, knock out tight vibes, do what you got to do, Wolfpack. I'm not talking frozen yogurt, but I'll even add another letter, TCB, why? Take care of business yourself. Don't leave it up to Western to beat themselves. You go out and beat them. No nonsense. Like I've said a million times, no funny business. And the result that you're after will appear very quickly because we are the better team. We have the better roster, better every. We are more talented in every facet of this football game. Go out there and let them know it from the jump. Tenson, how about a final score prediction? How do you have it going down tonight? You know, everybody tells me a squeamish at 30 plus point lines and I get it. I believe NC State is a 32 and a half or 33 point favorite. I have NC State covering this spread. The final score that I have is 52 to 14 NC State. The line did change. The last time we talked about it, it was 33 and a half and an over under of 60 and a half. Now it's updated to 32 and a half and an over under of 61 and a half. My final score, I said it initially and I'll stick to it now. I have 49 10. I don't see a world where Western can really score more than 10 points. If they do, maybe 13, I find it extremely hard to believe that Western scores not one touchdown, but two touchdowns. Let's start the season. So I have 49 10. I think again, NC States can be able to get whatever they want. I have 49 to 10 as the final. As always through the season, I'll post these graphics on Twitter. Make sure that you guys tell us what you think the final score will be both in the YouTube comments and of course on Twitter as always. Last thing before we get out of here, if you're into this type of thing, I will be placing a five leg parlay. I have NC State covering this spread of 32 and a half. I'm actually taking the under, under 61 and a half because I don't think that Western will score more than 10. I have Justin Jolie anytime touchdown. His importance in this offense, I think you're going to see it right out of the gate. I have him scoring a touchdown. I have Jordan Waters anytime touchdown. And my last one, I have KC over 50 receiving yards. That maybe sounds a little bit low, but with all the new options, I wasn't sure how much KC that we're going to see in this game, but I do have KC 50 plus receiving yards. Something else I would love to hear is if you have any plays of your own, dump them into the comments. I love reading this type of thing. Same goes on Twitter. If you have any additional plays, some of you've already tweeted your plays, let us know. I always find these very fascinating to read through. That'll do it for us here on game day, this Thursday episode. I can't believe this is real. It is actually game day, should have mentioned this earlier in the episode, but of course, I will do it again now. Every regular season game, we do have a post game live show right here on our YouTube channel. Be sure to be on the lookout for that. Typically, we like to wait until after the post game press conference, just in case there's any any information we need to be discussing. So roughly 30 to 45 minutes after the game ends. If you don't see our tweet on Twitter, come over to our YouTube page. You'll see our red light light up when it's time to jump into the chat. Hope to see you all there. We really thoroughly enjoy doing these after each game last season. We get a ton of people to come in and discuss everything with us. Hopefully you're celebrating a win. I believe we probably will be celebrating a win, but come with your takeaways. We want to know what you all think about this home opener against Western Carolina. That'll do it for us here on Thursday. Can't wait to see this game tonight. Be sure to hit that like button, drop your comments in the comment box, and mash that subscribe button. If you have not already, we will see you all tonight for our post game live. 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