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We've got Frank, Russ, Dylan. We're without Chris tonight. He's at a, what would you call it, Dylan? The NARC convention. He's at a NARC convention in Las Vegas. So Chris, we hope you're having a great time with all your NARC friends and stuff. Yeah, so yeah, just wanted to do a quick podcast tonight. Kind of talk about the, so last week we talked about weeks one and two. We're going to talk about weeks three and four.
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First of all, how's everybody doing? How's your week spent? Fantastic. It's hot. It's too hot. I'm sweating too much. I'm not happy. It has been very, very hot. It's miserable. It's not big dude weather and it stinks. It's really not. No, you guys are slim. What are you talking about? Okay. Russ is a male model. What do we look at? Compliment Russ. Not a joke. Not a joke. You're talking to there. What's going on? We got to get Chris off the pod more. You're nicer to me now.
Yeah, I know I have Chris to help me pick on you. I finally feel 100% because I was sick last week. It was terrible. Yeah, we thought we were going to find a new host there for a second. It wasn't going to be me. It wasn't going to be me. Really. It's one thing before you host a podcast and then the three, two, one and then you're just like, it's a deer in headlights, man. Oh, I don't know how you do it, but you do it. Especially when you don't have the intro ready. It's just.
Oh God. I would have just, I would have turned it off. I would have been like, all right guys, have fun. I'm out of here. Yeah. I don't know what was going on. I got tested for all sorts of stuff. Flu, strep, COVID. It all came back negative. So just some really nasty sucky virus that I had for a week. So yeah, let's go ahead and kick it off. Like I said earlier, we are talking today about weeks three and four. So Russ, who are we playing?
So week three, uh, Saturday, September 16th, we play our return game at home against the Syracuse orange. This one's actually the first night game of the year. So it'd be seven 30 kickoff is what it's set for. Um, Syracuse, uh, what seven and six last year, four and four in conference finished third in their Atlantic division, pulled out a controversial 33 to 29 victory at home against us last year with a 25 yard touchdown pass with just seven seconds left.
The big storyline was the penalties in that game. I think, uh, pretty was called for 13 with 144 yards of, uh, penalty yardage, including the back to back penalties on our last, what was our go ahead score that had us kicking off at our own 10 yard line and set up that last drive for them. Um, Garrett Schrader, you know, was lowered as a, as a big time quarterback and, and was a threat.
John Tucker was kind of neutralized by our defense, but Garrett Schrader didn't really have that great of a game against this. He was 13 of 29 for 181 yards, but did have three touchdowns and he led them with 83 yards on the ground. But it felt like we bottled them up and he just made the big play when he needed to. But for the majority of the game, I felt like 90% of the game we, we had our way with him on defense.
Um, but yeah, they, uh, lost to Minnesota in their bull game, uh, the bad boy mowers bull and Yankee stadium, uh, 28 to 20, uh, they're kind of opposite of Fresno state, right? Like Fresno state, we talked about, they started one and four and they finished 10 and four. Well Syracuse started six and oh, and they finished seven and six. So wasn't there some, wasn't there some talk of like them being a, like a championship level team at some point?
Yeah. Cause uh, it was at one point Penn state and Syracuse were both undefeated and they were both kind of heartbreaking losses for us, but they were also both like top 10 or like top 12 teams, um, I think like five weeks in the season. So yeah, they were, they thought they were going to be great. And then they got smacked by Clemson and that just kind of started a run of, um, bad games for him.
So in that game, I mean like two, two things stick out to me, just like in my immediate memory one was, uh, it was pain Durham, you know, getting that 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty and then Brahm, uh, reacting to that resulting in another 15 yard penalty. Just want to share a little, little anecdote about that particular play. Um, so, uh, got, got this little, little autograph here from pain.
Um, and, uh, when I got this, I actually asked him, so what did you say that warranted that 15 yard penalty? He just kind of laughed and said, I don't remember and pain. I know you're listening. I think you do remember and I would love to know what that was. Tell the people we need to know. Yeah. So whatever it was, the referee decided it was a 15 yard, a yard penalty. And Russ, you have a better memory than I do about the specifics of, of plays.
Um, there was a play where, uh, we had stopped them on fourth down and someone got a late hit, uh, which led to a Syracuse score. Uh, that those are the two things that stick out to me about that game. Cause that was so fresh. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. You, you mentioned the back to backs there, but the one that sit out to me was the one that set them up on the 25 yard line with seven seconds left. Cause even up to that point, it was like, we still got this in the bag.
Like they, they might, they might be able to kick a long field goal, but then they had that late hit that took them from, you know, basically outside of field goal range. Cause you're talking about being on the, what the 40 or the 41 was it where they're at? So that's, you know, you're talking about a 56 yard, 57 yard field goal and college is not very makeable. Um, just ask Ohio state. I'm sorry. Um, but, um, yeah. So, uh, uh, it was, it was still looking good for us.
And then that penalty just kind of, you know, took the wind out our sails. And then I think the next player, like two plays later was that 25 yard touchdown pass. I still don't get why, because they were in man coverage on that final play too. Weren't they, they weren't in like any kind of a zone or cover or anything like that. Um, no, I believe we had, we had a safety of the top. I think we did.
We didn't, I don't think we went full man without help of the top, but, um, yeah, the penalties were definitely controversial in that game.
Not just those three we mentioned, but it felt like there was a, a couple of big passing interference penalties when, you know, there was people, I think, posting on Twitter videos of our receivers, basically getting played the exact same way that their receivers got played, but they were calling defensive pass interference on us, but we weren't getting the calls when we were on offense. So it was one of those games that it felt like was getting kind of getting called two ways.
Right. Um, and then I didn't Charlie Jones play like injured for a lot of that game or hurt or something. I thought he got pretty banged up. Yeah, like half the season, it felt like he was maybe not suiting up and then he'd suit up and get 120 yards and eight catches in a touchdown or something. Yeah. Yeah. So they're coming to town. Do they have a lot of, uh, do they have a lot of transfers?
They hit the transport portal hard, or I know you said that was kind of the difference between them and like Fresno state. So are they pretty well the same team from last year? Uh, well at the top, as far as the quarterback goes, yes, Garrett Schrader is returning. Um, I think he's a senior this year, but Sean Tucker did graduate and they did lose three starters on the line. Um, but they returned seven starters on defense.
Their defense is still going to be pretty similar to what we faced last year. Um, and they have their top receiver coming back, uh, or Rand, Randay around, oh, got Gatston. Sorry, if I butchered that name, um, he was the one that actually had the 25 year game winner against us too, but he had, uh, 61 catches for 969 yards and six touchdowns last year. And I think their third leading receiver returns as well. So they still got a decent pass game returning.
It's kind of a question mark who's going to run the ball aside from Schrader. Of course Schrader Schrader might be their leading rusher this year. So, um, I think it's, it's going to be a little bit different for us defensively too, because we've got, you know, again, we talked about the rushing quarterbacks and the dual threat guys that we might face in the first two games, having Walters with a defensive front, that's kind of hard to guess and is kind of ready for anything.
I think we're going to be a lot better equipped to face these dual threat guys than we have historically in the past. So I feel pretty good of these two games that we're going to talk about tonight. I feel a lot better about this one, obviously considering the historic background of the other game, but, um, yeah, I feel pretty good about this one. You know, get this one back. Do you guys have any score predictions? I know we didn't do that last week, but I just thought of it.
Does anybody have a score prediction for, for this game? Boilers by a billion. I always liked that prediction. Boilers by a billion, when like it's, you know, I'm looking at, I'm looking at PFF and for anyone who doesn't know, PFF is the company owned by Chris Collins worth pro football focus. They, they do. Yeah, they, they do a lot of really cool, um, re really a lot of really cool analytics and data behind football.
Um, so they, you know, they, um, let's say a quarterback throws a ball and it hits the receiver right in the hands and the receiver drops it. Um, you know, the receiver gets penalized.
The quarterback doesn't, uh, so that's, so that is sort of factors things like that, uh, in, in, in the stats, but just looking at last year's game against Syracuse, you know, our best performing defender was Branson Dean, uh, who, uh, you know, unfortunately has gone now, but, uh, number two is actually Scotty humpish, uh, humpic. I've heard it pronounced both ways. So, uh, Scotty, I apologize.
I know pronounce it incorrectly at least once, but you know, that's really encouraging to see, uh, Lawrence Johnson was up there. Um, cam Allen and Corey tries, uh, top five, uh, defensive players in that game. So what was the fourth name? What was that? Cam Allen, cam Allen. Yeah. Um, it was one of, one, one of his better games and, uh, you know, he, uh, he, he, he showed up. So good for him. Uh, Jack Sullivan's also up there. Um, you know, and that's, that's interesting to have him up there.
So high being that he was actually the one I did look it up. He was the one who had the late hit on fourth down, um, you know, to give him a first down, um, man, he's, he's, he's one guy I really, I will really miss. I wish he was in the black and gold again. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of guys now that I totally like space, all these guys that have left, Jack Sullivan, Lawrence Johnson, Branson Dean, miss those guys. And then, and then on the O line too, uh, losing a Spencer hostage.
He, I mean, I said it so many times last season, he was the unsung hero of the team, like hadn't given up a single sack all season. You know, losing him and Eric Miller is just, that's tough, but, uh, Walter's can recruit. I mean, uh, I, I, I've, I've said this, uh, I feel like some people maybe, maybe that I'm talking to right now will agree with me. I don't know how the rest of the Purdue fan base feels, but I feel like our floor for recruiting is gone up a notch.
Yeah. I don't know about our ceiling still. I think we're just as high as maybe as it was under our previous coach. Uh, but the floor is definitely up though. I think now we, I think now we expect to get at least a couple of four stars every year. Yeah. The man once said the ceiling is indeed the roof. So you never know. Yeah. Shout out Michael Jordan. But I just, you know, under, under a coach, coach Jeff Brahm, I'll say his name. We, um, you know, we would like the floor was lower.
Maybe the ceiling was a little bit higher. I mean, really like you take away Ron Delmore, you take away George Karloftis. The ceiling is, is one a hundred percent the same. And then like time will tell whether we get another George Karloftis or another, you know, Ron Delmore or the Hazel like the seller, like we see, we'll see the basement. See I don't think Hazel players were that bad. I think they really were. That's twice. That's twice. We just said his name. Come on guys. I'm sorry.
I'll throw salt over my back later. This is something that always pains me to think about too. Um, two quarterbacks who played under Hazel both left and went and started in the sec. Yep. Etling and Appleby. Yeah. And they played each other and they played against each other too. And I'm like, like, what are we doing wrong? Like we had both of these guys on our roster and one of them still in the NFL at Ling's still in the NFL.
It links, uh, fighting for Jordan Lowe's backup spot with the Packers. Yeah. He's actually, um, uh, I think, uh, Dylan's first draft pick in our fantasy football league. Probably. We'll see how that goes. Do we, we need more members for that. Don't we? We should, uh, pub. We should pub that. Yeah. Yeah. We should. Jawan Bentley as well. Uh, who's in the NFL and has had been having a very good NFL career by the way. Hey, we got a couple of boilers on my bangles.
Chuck sizzle, Marcus Bailey. And I'm a, yeah, I'm a shameless Steelers fan. I'm really happy to have my favorite Purdue player in the black and gold, black and yellow, uh, in the NFL this season. Bryson comes to play. The Rams come to a Cincinnati this year. I may have to go to that game. Friend of the pod. Yeah. I'll meet you there. Yeah. Friend of the program. Yeah. It's a hop, skip and a jump. Yeah. Hour and a half drive for me. I'll meet, I'll meet you in Cincinnati to watch Bryson play.
Yeah. Russ, you're even invited. I'm a Bengals fan now. I better be invited. I don't know. That star behind you says otherwise, sir. Well, I can't ever like if something's, if somebody's talking about something behind me and I try to point to it, I'm always wrong. It really messes you up. I was doing it before the podcast and I was like, yeah. Point to Mackie. Oh yeah. I mean, you're smart. Show off before we move on to our next opponent is one of my most hated opponents.
Um, I do want to take, take this opportunity to shout out some of our listeners. Uh, I think it's fun from time to time to look, uh, on our RSS feed and see where people are listening to us that, uh, come to find out we're really popular in Belgium. Uh, so, um, I know all you, you Belgian, um, listeners out there. We really appreciate your support. I did purchase a Belgian flag. Forgot to put it up. That's all I need. Yeah. And, and it's, it's totally legitimate.
It's totally not just, you know, people using a VPN. I'm sure very financially responsible. I am, but we're, you know, we, we have listeners all over the place where we're fairly popular in Nicaragua as a, as a country, France, Spain, Jamaica. I mean, just, uh, so, uh, really, I really appreciate the support internationally. An international program. I mean, you've been traveling all over the world. Big brain Bourdain over there. I've been spreading the word all over the, yeah.
Spreading the gospel. The boy, like, so, uh, so yeah, we, we, we have had four listeners in Spain. Spain, Spain, Spain. Gracias. Gracias. Hey, uh, gracias. You sound like the guy that nobody likes that goes out to you to like a Mexican restaurant. Can I have the quatsa Dilla please? Gracias. Gracias. To our, to our Spanish listeners, I will be in Spain in October. Love to, love to meet up with you. Put a face to a, to a name or, you know. Oh, you are going to Spain? Yeah. Yeah. Going to Spain.
Where have you been? Yeah. Of course. I've been somewhere other than the Midwest. Sorry. Went away in that joke. Went away in that joke. Good job. Well, no, you guys are technically in the South, aren't you? Technically. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like he considered the South. It is. And like, I mean, uh, I'm right on the border. So I, I go, I go like two miles North and I'm in the Midwest and it's really strange. I will say it is funny that, you know, I'll like, we're really close.
I'm really close to the border as well to Kentucky. And so like, I hire a lot of people that will come from Kentucky to work and literally a 20 minute drive across the bridge and their accent is so different. It's how do y'all and deep, deep, deep. That's where my, my mom's side of the family's from me. I'm bilingual. I can speak whatever that is and regular English sometimes, not all the time. I can't type it. That's for sure. I don't do words.
Good. So before we go to our next game though, I did write a couple of topics down that I wanted to get y'all slots on. So number one, Illinois hires Jim Leonard as a senior analyst for, I think senior defense analysts or just senior analysts in general. I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of shocked to see him take a position that's not more like hands-on coaching. I was kind of shocked about that. What do you guys think about that?
Yeah, that was my immediate reaction was like, Oh, Jim Leonard's fallen pretty hard. I mean, no disrespect to Jim Leonard, but like I, that's not what I expected to hear when I saw Illinois hired Jim Leonard. Right. Like not even as a defensive coordinator or anything, just as a, an analyst.
Yeah, I was surprised he didn't take a, I wonder, I wonder if there's like a good reason like why Wisconsin didn't move forward with him and why he's not been hired somewhere else or if it's just, you know, bad luck. Well, Luke Fickle's a pretty big name.
So I think if, if you can get a guy like that, you know, it does Trump some other candidates, but it might just be a feature where a situation where it was so late in the game that he just had to take some position to still be attached to football this year. And then he's gonna look for a position, you know, come October, November when their coaches are getting fired earlier before the end of the season. And then he can kind of pounce on one of those jobs.
Because now it feels like the coaching shift and the coaching hiring is doing, is done more late November, early December now, whereas it used to be like in the off season, but now it's like, you know, you gotta, you gotta hire your guy the first week of December. As soon as you get done with your last game. And sometimes it's like before your last game, you've already interviewed the guy. And then as soon as the final whistle blows, you're announcing your new coach.
So he might've just been, you know, behind the ball a little bit as far as getting into some of these, these job searches and putting his name in for some of these roles that were out there. So I remember he was on my shortlist for Purdue last year when they were looking for their coach in the off season. He, I think it was him. My dream list was like Garrett Riley, the offensive coordinator from TCU. I think he's now at Clemson. And honestly, I had no, I didn't know that would be Dylan.
Dylan probably had it or on. Oh, absolutely. That he was like, Oh boy, I just want to hear him say, go boilers every five seconds. Like I just imagine every like five seconds, go boilers. And I'd be like, yes, yes. Oil gumbo. I don't know. Whatever. It's like, uh, who's that? Who's the celebrity that you retweeted their video of them swing saying boiler up. They're like some race car drivers, Tony can on really some race car driver. I don't watch racing, dude.
I'm not, I don't watch cars go around in a circle for, Whoa. Whoa. Okay. We are most, our most watched city is the city of Indianapolis and you're going to down them on the Indy 500. You hate America. That's what that is. Sorry. I didn't know you were communist. Just kidding. David's not guy. He's very American. So I'm the subject of coaches and former coaches. What what happened with Jim Harbaugh? I caught headlines. I haven't looked into it, but he said some things that maybe are true.
I don't know. Vacate last year's big dance championship and you know, all is well in my book. But it just like, what a, what a, what a stupid punishment. Like, like, so he, he misses the first four games. Who did they play in their first? He misses the preseason. That's what he misses. I may be mistaken, but I believe it has to do with something about like buying a meal for a incoming recruit.
So yeah, it's especially lame when you consider that these guys are signed in six figures, sometimes seven figures and I L deals and you can't buy an incoming prospective recruiter. But a few years ago, didn't Harbaugh like, did he spend the night at a recruits house? Like that's fine. Okay. A grown man can spend the night in a kid's room, but he buys him a burger and all hell breaks loose. Like what do we, that doesn't make sense. I don't know about Jim Harbaugh, not Pat's material.
I don't know. I don't think he's staying in his room doing what? I don't think he's left in his room. Yeah. No, no, right? No, Frank. He had a sleeping bag. Hey, so I just, I just drew up this new play. What do you think? I think I'm going to have you slip slide right in here into the slot and I think, I think you'd be great. Whoa. Whoa. Wow. Okay. This is a failing. Guys, this is all about football. Okay. I was like, you could have picked, you know, we had a wide route.
Chris didn't even hear in this going off the rails. Well, and looking at, looking at their schedule, they play East Carolina. Okay. They can win that game without Jim Harbaugh. Then they play a winnable game. NLV is winnable. They can also beat without Jim Harbaugh. Then they play, it gets crazy now. Then they play bowling green. Oh God. They can be without and then Rutgers, mighty records.
Yep. I actually tweeted out kind of another shot and we talked about it with, I think when a Brent was on here about how weak Michigan schedule is, they basically schedule them like the SEC does where outside of their conference games, they schedule nobodies. So it's almost baked in that if they lose a guy for a suspension, the first four to six games, it doesn't matter because their schedule is front loaded with cupcakes. And so they're good.
They'll take the risk and go, Hey, if he gets suspended, he'll miss games that don't matter anyways. He's Carolina's a cupcake. How dare you. Mighty pirates. You know, I'm not going to lie. I sometimes I think about like, I know that was one of the big things that when Brom came in, he was like, we're playing a tough schedule every year. We're going to play the best of the best.
I'm always like, you know, I wouldn't mind just like getting some false hope one year, just starting off four or five and oh, and just being like, wow, this is it. We're changing times. And then we just play some like play Ohio state and just get gobsmacked. So the the IU plan. Yeah, I was going to say the IU plan. Yeah, just. Hey, by the way, isn't Bloomington in our like top three of I thought that's where you go with that.
Bloomington is number three in our list of specific cities where we have listeners. Yeah. Shout out to often Donna and Elio podcast for tuning in. Yeah, we very much appreciate that. Bloomington loves us. We'll go to tour. It is it is the cycle of an IU football season with respect to how their fans act. They go they go three and oh, because they play three, three cupcakes. And then their fans say, you know, we should be ranked.
You know, we're going to win the big 10 and then they don't win another game. I mean, it just like it happens every year. I what was like five or six years ago, they barely beat a bad Michigan state team at home and overtime and like their whole all 500 fans. I were there freaked out. You know, you football is back and all this back to what? Yeah, there's more burp. You have to have been somewhere to return there.
You know, you can't say like we're back when you like how how do they do whenever like Antoine Randall? I was there. I mean, like that's really the only like kind of era of IU football that what they were probably just like what Purdue was under like they were what were I mean, were they like seven, eight win teams or did they win like nine, 10 games a season or whatever? Well, he he I think they beat Purdue one year and I think it was because he played like a year longer than Breeze did.
So I think maybe like the year after Breeze left, they won't they beat us. But another thing I want to talk about these Purdue, the Boilmaker Alliance subscription service that they're coming out with now, what do you guys think about that? Yeah. Russ said he was signing up for the fifteen hundred dollar a month one. So way to go, Russ. That a boy. As soon as Dylan sends me his credit card info. Yeah. And be signed up. Well, yes, I'll I'll text that to you. I'll pigeon it to you.
No, but it is I mean, like I'm all about supporting the NIL and all, but I just wonder what it's going to be like, because I'm thinking of the way they're they're structuring this or at least what it sounds like to me is like a like a Patreon. If somebody has a Patreon, it's like if you're a love, if you pay five dollars a month, you get access to this and this. You pay ten dollars a month to get this, this and this.
It's like if you're paying fifteen hundred bucks a month, are you sitting in on coaches meetings every week? Buddy, I better have a spot on the team for fifteen hundred a month. I mean, I just want to be the backup kicker. I mean, that's you get to like fly the private jet whenever they. Yeah, OK, that's exactly what I want. I want the private jet and I want a headset on the sidelines for fifteen hundred, a hundred dollars, fifteen hundred dollars a month.
You got me sold with the headset and the private jet. I want the coach wall treatment. I want to get picked up in. I want to go from West Lafayette and fly the private jet just to Champaign. Oh, that's all of an eight minute flight. Yeah. Oh, every away game I better be able to use. That's a good point. Every away game you use the private jet. Bada bing, bada. We'll take it to Virginia Tech. It'll fit because it goes from twenty five dollars.
I think is the very first level all the way up to fifteen hundred for like the Founders Club or something, which even twenty five is pretty steep. I mean, when you're in the grand scheme of things, you know, Damon, is that the fifteen hundred dollar one, the one that you can call a play on Saturdays or something that you said? Yeah, that's a terrible idea. What do we want? They did that such a bad age. Oh, damn.
Hail Mary. No, for for for ten thousand dollars a month, you can you can set the basketball starting lineup for one game of the season. Oh, can you imagine somebody would donate ten thousand dollars like we're playing zone tonight, boys. That one guy who called into the Matt Painter show is going to do that. Hey, this would be the one year that I would I would be OK with any of the guys in a rotation starting a game like seriously.
Yeah. Everybody was crapping on that old man, but I'm you know, he kind of had a point at the end of the year. They kind of didn't do that great shooting threes. Take more mid ranges not to get into that or anything, but not to open that can alarm the dam damon to answer your previous question, Antoine Randall, 1998 first season. You went four and seven. Perfect. Nineteen ninety nine. His second season. Again, they go four and seven. Fantastic. Now we go to two thousand. Why?
Two K. The world's going to end. They go three and eight. That was it. Yeah. Two thousand one his senior year. Five and six. They did be pretty that year, too. It went five like they never he never had a winning season. And that's crazy because I just remember like he was like the heralded. Like God, he's like their Drew Brees for lack of a better term.
But even then, they don't talk about him a whole lot like you never like I feel like the average college football follower wouldn't have realized that he attended IU or played at IU. Who was it that you said? Well, wasn't there a recruit that was like I wouldn't have even known what pretty was unless until like the it was like the Purdue, Ohio State 2018 game. They were like, I would I didn't even know who pretty was until I like went for a visit or something like that.
Wasn't like Sanusie Kane or something. He like didn't know Purdue existed. That's not great. I hope not, because I love Sanusie and that would hurt in my soul if that was I could have sworn you said something about like, I don't know, maybe I'm thinking of somebody else or maybe he wasn't interested in Purdue until because he was like that. Like that was the game he came on a visit on or something.
Oh, no, there was there was a recruit who said that like that was like he remembered watching that game on TV and like that was like like a statement game for him. It was like, oh, like this is a program that's that's on the rise right now. I mean, because we like I mean, I remember like we were taking shots before that game. It was like, oh, we have nothing to lose. Like we just if we lose, we lose if we win, great, but like no one thought we were going to win, you know, like realistically.
So I wish I was on the podcast after that game. Oh, man, I would have been talking also to smack. Who is the transfer from Purdue that transfer to, I think, Miami and said, Branson Dean, Branson Dean, and then he's like, the weather here is better in West Lafayette. You're like, well, I would hope so. I would wait till that hurricane rolls in. Yeah, well, and not even that. And he said he went as far as to say that the city of Miami is better than the city of West Lafayette. I sure hope so.
Yeah, I mean, I love West Lala, but I wouldn't argue like high crime rates and, you know, what do you say? West Lafayette's Mayberry, like one of the a lot of Purdue fans were offended by that. And I'm like, I mean, no, like if you're if you're a college student, you would much rather live in Miami than you would West Lafayette, Indiana. Yeah, unless you're like a homegrown like one of us that just like and even then.
Yeah, I feel like unless you're one of those guys that's like homegrown, you're born and bred to love Purdue. I don't I think you would definitely pick Miami over Purdue every time. But for who comes to town, Russ, the team that has our number, Wisconsin Badgers, and they actually come into town on a Friday night. So it's a Friday night game, another prime time game, 7 p.m. was the following week.
There's not an off week between Syracuse and Wisconsin, but Wisconsin kind of underachieved last year, seven and six as well, just like Syracuse, four and five. They finished fifth in the Big Ten West beat Purdue 3524. I won't get too much into the game because somebody in this chat and actually went to that game. But the controversial thing in that game for me was the terrible coverage by ESPN, how they always stack their dang games.
And so if a game goes a little bit long, you're going to miss half the first quarter of the game. They're actually want to watch. So by the time you turned on. Yeah. By the time you turn on the pretty Wisconsin game, it was 14, nothing Wisconsin. So then it's like, OK, well, I'm going to grab something to eat real quick because the game's on. Now you come back. It's 21, nothing. You're like, what the heck's going on? OK, the second quarter, we'll turn it around a minute in the second quarter.
It's twenty eight to three. And you're like, OK, well, game's already over. This is great. But. So. But from the time we were down 14, nothing. We actually outscored them. Yep. That's what I was going to say. So from and even from the time, twenty eight, three, we got to go to twenty one to seven after it was twenty eight to three. Good old moral victory. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was just a game because I spoiler alert, I was the one at that game.
That was just a game where it was like, who like, who are we? That's what we kept asking is like, like we just look like completely different team than we did the week before, which is lost on me who we played the week before the Minnesota right that we. Yeah. Before we actually won four straight before before that game going into that game, we had a four game win streak.
So like we had just beat Minnesota again, a team that I think that was undefeated and a lot of people were saying should be, you know, should be in the in the talk for a potential, you know, college football playoff team. And then that, you know, that fell apart as it always does. But it was just like, who are we? I mean, like O'Connell through that, that pick six, the beginning, it just, it just no one looked in sync. But Mock Train had a really good game. Mock Train.
Yeah. He went for a hundred plus. Yeah. I think the story of that game was the big plays that we just gave up, you know, bad turnovers and then big plays because one of the telling stats from that game was Wisconsin had only one trip to the red zone. They put up 35 points with only one trip to the red zone. They turned that one trip into a touchdown, but that's it was big plays, right? The pick six and it had like a long return, I think, for a touchdown. So yeah, it was just the big plays.
We played well. Again, it was kind of like the Syracuse game. It felt like, you know, we, we had control of most of the game. It was just, we put ourselves in too big of a hole to start the game and then still gave up one or two big plays the rest of the way and just couldn't get back into it. Another thing that, that I remember specifically about that game and being there, and I know we talked about it on here was just how banged up the team was at that time.
I mean, the injury tent was up constantly. And like, you know, you'd see guys hobble off the sidelines, like into the injury tent and then they'd hobble back, you know, onto the field. Then they are not clearly not a hundred percent think. Jack Sullivan was in the tent like five or six times during that game. Charlie Jones is in and out the entire time. Literally the entire D line was in there. Sid Nor was in and out several times. Branson D was in and out.
So it was just very clear that we were very tired, very worn down, very beat up. And I think that was the game before our bye weeks. So we like desperately needed that finish line. Yeah. But it had, it had that same kind of storyline of every Purdue Wisconsin game that, you know, Wisconsin is just going to run the ball.
And in the first quarter, it's going to look like, you know, we can stop them and then come fourth quarter, they're getting four or five yards of carry and just marching their way down the field. And it's so frustrating because, you know, it, at the beginning of the game, it feels like we have a chance and then they just, they just continue to cycle in O line. And like, we just don't have the D line depth, even though I feel like we did have pretty good D line depth last season.
We just don't have the depth to match up with their offensive line. I really hope that's something that's different with coach Walters and can just strength and conditioning. I know every team goes through, you know, you're playing football 12 weeks out of the year, you're getting, you know, almost consecutively you're getting banged up, but it felt like every year it was like, what was it? 2019 or 2018 where it was like half a roster was out down and out.
I mean, the Cinderlar and more, they were both down on the same. I've never been in a stadium where it felt like everyone was like, at the same time. You read that game too? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's one of my favorite moments, I mean, I can't even identify his worst moments of in Ross said, as those two getting injured at the same exact time. Yeah. So I'm hoping that Cinderlar was on a record tear to start that season, right?
Like he was leading the college football in passing yards at that point, I think. One of my favorite Boilermakers, Jared Cinderlar. Who? Yep. That's not his first name. That is not his first name. I can't remember his first name, but Elijah Jared. He finished out a season with a torn ACL. Where did I get Jared? Jared Sparks, who was a quarterback who turned into a white. That's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly where I got. But who's Wisconsin? So, Breyvon Allen is coming back.
That's the big name. So, I know we're big, big fans of Devin Malkybie. And honestly, if I had my pick, I'd still take him just because he's our guy. But there's controversy on, I think it was Big Banter put out a top returning running backs and either didn't have Malkybie on there. He was like eighth or something.
But, Breyvon Allen, he's projected to actually be a top first round pick in the NFL draft, which if you follow NFL football, there's controversy right now over how devalued the running back position is, how they're not getting paid. So for a running back to be projected as a first round pick means that they're kind of a generational talent. You've also got Blake Corm at Michigan and Katron Allen. So there's a lot of good running backs returning in this league.
But yeah, Wisconsin's definitely, it seems like they're still going to be that pound the rock team. But the biggest addition they have coming in this year is Luke Fickel. Being the new head coach, new head man, that's almost a bigger impact than any one transfer is going to have. They got the quarterback too from. From SMU. Yeah. And they're likely going to be their starter because Graham Mertz went off to Florida.
They also brought in Nick Evers from Oklahoma and Brayden Locke from Mississippi State. But again, Tanner Mordechai is supposed to be the starter. They bring back their top three receivers and they also brought in three pretty decent transfers. So their passing weapons will be pretty stock full as well.
They did lose some defensive pieces, including two to Mr. Frank's favorite NFL team there, which Pittsburgh Steelers, they're big fans of the Big Ten, apparently, because they every draft pick other than two guys from some team down in Georgia, like the Bulldogs or something, some team down there. I never heard of them. But every other pick was from the Big Ten. Yeah, it was like Joey Porter Jr. first.
Yeah. Yeah. One Penn State guy to Wisconsin, Trice, and then offensive lineman from like Maryland, I think. So, yeah. Yeah. And I mean, I'll still have nightmares about Joey Porter Jr. against Purdue. Yeah. We just kept throwing to him. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. Just didn't make sense to me. Just kept throwing his direction.
So one interesting thing, when I did some research, I looked up, I was looking at an article on collegefootballnews.com about Wisconsin going into the season and just kind of recapping what they've done last year and recently. They had an interesting phrasing about Wisconsin and how they've done over the last decade or close to decade. So they said Wisconsin has, quote, earned the distinction of being the winningest FBS team in the last nine years to not make a college football playoff game.
I don't know if I'd ever describe that as a distinction, like, yeah, we're the best team to not make the playoffs. Like, oh, OK. But. I mean, well, it's just like Purdue always gets thrown into that lot of like best team, best college basketball team to never win the national championship. I think it's like them in Oklahoma right up there, maybe kind of going back and forth for teams that have won the most tournament games without winning a championship.
So sorry, go ahead, Russ. No, I was just going to say, I think, you know, Wisconsin is definitely of these first four games, the one that I'm most nervous about, not just because of the history, but, you know, they are very talented. They bring in a pretty high profile head coach, Luke Fickle, you know, obviously a high state to Cincinnati, had a lot of success in Cincinnati now, you know, in the Big Ten with Wisconsin and brought in some some decent transfers.
I feel like it's kind of a situation that, you know, kind of no disrespect to our roster because we did lose a lot of guys to the NFL. But Wisconsin's a little better stocked. And then he also brought in some transfers that are pretty well known. So I'm definitely nervous about the Wisconsin game. But I just want to remind everybody of how last year started and how kind of gloom and doom it was.
But we lost to both of these teams that we're talking about today, Syracuse and Wisconsin, and we ended up in the Big Ten Championship game. So just keep everything in perspective. Yeah, just chill the hell out. When Wisconsin finished six and six last season, too. I mean, it just because I remember feeling really good about our chances of beating Wisconsin because they they looked vulnerable. But I really feel like Purdue beat Purdue in that game. It wasn't Wisconsin beating Purdue.
And I mean, no disrespect to Wisconsin when I say that it just we made a bunch of sloppy mistakes that we wouldn't normally make. Yeah, yeah. You know, they lost. They got. Yeah, that's right. They got just like blown out by Illinois. Yeah, like I said, they had one red zone trip. So it wasn't like they marched up and down the field on us and had their way with us. Like we just didn't make the big plays when we needed to and made bad mistakes at bad times.
So. So while we were talking about the Wisconsin game, somebody did comment on our live post here on Twitter and said this is from Alan Pogue. Alan says Purdue must beat Wisconsin in football. The next game should be considered a must win in all caps. He says it's equal to the I.U. game. I agree. I honestly agree. Like the that's a lot of pressure to put on a first year coach. Yeah, that's that's the one caveat I'd say is the first year coach. It's a little tough to say must win.
But yeah, they're definitely I would almost rather beat them than I you right now for sure. Yeah. And I definitely think from the players perspective to like that's a game you have to want. You know, I mean, like I'll never forget Ray Phil Davis, like hyping up the student section before the 2016 Michigan State game, which I know says my favorite, like the best game I've ever seen in Mackey. But he was like, I've never been Michigan State. You know, this is my last time playing them.
Like, let's do it tonight. And like, the player should have that mentality. Obviously, it takes a lot more than that to win. But like I if I were a player, I would have that mentality. I think that's what I'm what I'm meaning to say. Not that I should not that the players should think anything about any specific game. But if I were a player, I would have that mentality for sure. Yeah, I mean, it's got to be a big game on the schedule.
I mean, having beat Wisconsin in 19 years, you know, they're always a thorn in our side. I thought the first time we were going to beat him in a long time was what was that a few years ago? We went to like triple overtime with him at Ross said, Ron Delmore had the most beautiful juke to them like the spin move. He spun them out of their shoes. Oh, my God. I remember thinking I'm here like out loud saying, did I just what did it? What was that? What did I just see?
Like my eyes couldn't believe I was waiting for that day. I was waiting for it. And so I mean, again, like the one the one positive thing when I look at Wisconsin's schedule from last year, again, it's college sports. There's a lot of variance here. But you know, they scored they scored only 10 points against Illinois, whose defensive coordinator was our head coach now.
So you know, I know he did a lot of like creative creative things in the last couple of seasons at Illinois, like putting five guys on the line. I don't know if we see something like that again, you know, again, against Wisconsin. But one thing I know is that Wisconsin's got not going to know what to expect necessarily. And neither do I. Well, I mean, by that time, though, that's already four games into the season. They might have a little bit of an idea by then.
But I almost said earlier when we're talking about Syracuse, and we're talking about the pieces that we lost defensively, that I think having a defensive minded head coach that is obviously bringing in a lot of transfers and trying to just kind of stock us with depth that might not be the big four or five star guys. But having this scheme is almost more important on defense than kind of who's in the game, if that makes sense.
Yeah, you know, if you could if you could put together scheme to put the guys in the right spot to make the plays, you know, and you don't get guys in one on one situations, it seems like we've always had in years past, like, show them with man coverage, show them with trying to make the open field tackle. But it seemed like it Illinois, which is not a football juggernaut, you know, sorry, not trying to be offensive there.
But you know, he Yeah, for him to turn that into a top five national defense and put guys what he put four guys in the draft this year, including like three guys in the first three rounds. Yeah, that says a lot about how you can scheme defenses and how you put guys in the right spot. So I feel pretty confident about our defense. The offense is the big question mark. I think witherspin was a top five pick and he came out of high school, I don't think with any stars or just like one or two.
So yeah, I mean, honestly, this year is just so like, I'm excited. I was looking over the roster, I forgot about a couple of the guys that he's brought in because he's we brought in so many. I mean, we've got the four star quarterback. That was an Ole Miss commit Braxton Myers. We've got the I think he was the safety in Arkansas, maybe he's going to be here. I don't remember the safety of some defensive position guy from Arkansas. We've got Jeffrey M. Bof from Auburn.
We've got Mark Wilson, he's from Arkansas. Marcus Wilson, he Marquis Wilson, he was from Penn State. So I don't know. I mean, yeah, this whole season is just I don't know. I just hope that every Purdue fan has some sense in their brain to not freak out and jump ship and say, I knew we shouldn't have hired this young fella if we're not beating Fresno State 45 to nothing by half. That's gonna happen. So where do you guys think we're at? Since we're a third away in the season, we're four games in.
I don't I don't necessarily think it's easy to make point predictions on games because we don't know what you know, not to get all frank on you all, but we don't know what the pace of play is going to be like. We don't want the run pass mix is going to be like. We don't necessarily know what the offense is going to look like. And, you know, are we sustaining drives? Are we going through and out a lot? So it's kind of hard to judge that.
But as far as wins and losses go, you know, where do you think we're going to be looking at four games in? And what would you be like happy with? Like what would you be like? OK, you know, I can I can see the future is going to be good. Where do you guys think after four games? I would be content. I would think at honestly at worst, I would think it's like two and two. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. So I am going to. I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
I'm predicting two and two and at two and two, I'm still feeling good about the season and what we have. I mean, for sure. Absolutely. It just like like Syracuse. Syracuse is probably a 50-50 game. We have no idea what to expect from Virginia Tech. We have no idea what we're going to get from Fresno State, as we talked about last week. And we have no idea. I mean, there's so many unknowns about our own team. You know, what's the road defensive scheme are we going to see? Who's going to start?
I mean, like we have had so many guys come in, so many guys leave. Like who's going to be on this? I mean, we just see there's. I will say that something that makes me feel really good about the team, and this could totally just be for show and just a really good thing to say in front of a camera. But you watch that. I don't know if you guys watch that video of like episode one of like becoming a Boilermaker that they just posted recently for the football program.
And it was guys like Marcus and Bo and other guys talking to Jenkins. Yeah. Talking to these new transfers about like, hey, what made you want to come to Purdue? And I remember I don't remember who was it was like the very last line in one of the interviews. It was like if everybody's playing their best, who's to say, you know, who's you know, I can't remember what it was exactly. Some about like, how can I lose if everybody's playing at their best or something like that? I was.
Yeah, I was ready to run through a brick wall already. So it seems like the team at least and again, that could just be here. You know, words being said, you know, it could just be, you know, for the camera. But it seems like the team and the new guys coming in, seeing this team for the first time, are seeing a team that is ready to go out there and play and kick some ass. So the one thing that the one thing that stuck out to me in that video was we went to the Big Ten Championship last year.
We didn't come away with a win. Now we're ready to go back and come away with a win. You guys are still my thunder. That's where I was going with this, man. OK, well, Russ, what's your prediction? We didn't we didn't hear from you. So I mean, I'm with you with you guys as far as what you said so far that I think, you know, two and two, I'd you know, I'd be OK with, you know, I can see, you know, Syracuse and Wisconsin being being struggling games and possibly losses.
And then if you're talking about those being losses, you know, I could see Virginia Tech being a tough game and then Fresno State's the first game of the new era. So, you know, I don't know what our record is with new coaches and and they're, you know, opening their careers their first season with Purdue, what their record is. You know, worst case scenario, I could see a one and three, but still feel kind of good about the pieces we have.
But yeah, like you guys said, that video was very motivational. It was so Marcus Ambo was interviewing defensive lineman Jeffrey Emba. So Emba and Emba, that wasn't confusing at all. Tyrone Tracy was talking to incoming receiver Jamal Edreen. And then Cordae Sidor was talking to Marquise Wilson. And yeah, they got to that part. My favorite part was not the coach Walt nickname that I know Dylan liked. But when they asked him, they asked all three of them, you know, what are your expectations?
And you guys brought up earlier how big of a game that Ohio State game was and getting guys like Sunisi Kane to go, hey, like I want to go to Purdue because they're on my map now. But we I think we're in our minds separating last year from this year and kind of rightfully so because it's a new head, you know, head coach, new era. But you know, it's still connected.
A lot of the same guys are coming back and these guys that are incoming are looking at that and going, hey, you went to the Big Ten Championship game last year. We're going to go again this year and win it. And then whatever happens after that is going to take care of itself. So yeah, these guys want to win it all. You guys are not coming in as a rebuild. They're not coming in because it's a new head coach going, hey, the first year's a throwaway. They're coming in want to win it all.
They want to go back to Indy and take home the trophy this time. So yeah, I predict for no, I really am very optimistic. I think Syracuse was a fluke last year. I think Wisconsin was just a couple of bad big plays. And I think having a defensive minded head coach that they can hopefully put a stop to those big plays. And we have a decently line, I think depth wise, we got Machabi coming in with a full off season knowing he's the RB one. I am very motivated for these first four games.
I think it could work out well. But again, like I said, we lost to Syracuse in Wisconsin last year and we still went to the Big Ten Championship game. So don't freak out after four games again this year. Don't do it because we started two and two last year, got to Indy. Well, I think those are all really good points for us. I think two and two is the low end. And I want to be optimistic and say, you know, say four and oh, but I'll say I admire your optimism.
We did get Pipe, you know, who chimed in and said we should be thrilled with two and two. So, I mean, I welcome all opinions, definitely. And Nick Burris said, what's up, Frank? Frank's fan club is here. Yeah, frankly. How do you know I love the big brain? Looking good, Nick. Looking real good, man. The big brain fan club, the Brainiacs. Oh, there you go. There you go. Look at you.
They could all like, like in so not to show my nerd side here, but like in wrestling, like usually when a wrestler is kind of getting over whatever the fans in the crowd will have like a sign that'll be something that they say or something they're known for, whatever, except for this time, instead of it being a piece of paper, it'll just be people holding up like a picture of a brain and it'll just say like Brainiacs. If we ever do like a game day setup, there'd be a lot of those. I didn't know.
I didn't know there was an association with nerds and wrestling. That's like, that's not the type of people who I associate with wrestling. Typically. I mess with wrestling. Little stone cold, Steve Austin. It's more of that flavor. Yeah. What Nick Nick Burris coming in with, with some, with some hot takes. Yeah. Nine games would be, I mean, I And Nick, Nick, I agree that that the beginning of the season is really the like really where it matters most.
Like we don't, we don't have any easy games. I mean, we, we go right into Fresno state, which Northwestern might be easy. That is so loud. Holy crap. Yeah. I forgot about that one. Yeah. And I mean, home against Indiana. Come on now like this. Oh yeah. That's a win. That's going to be a win. That's going to come back and fight me in the ass. All right. I guess what I'm saying is that there are no like ramp up games.
You know, you usually have like, like last year when we have Indiana state, right? So we don't, we don't have anything like that to like practice run. It was so hot there, dude. I was, you were at that game, right? Dylan. No, actually that was the one game I missed last year. Dude. It was so hot that day. We took, I remember my, so my wife. When she was in high school, long story short, she became really good friends with one of the German foreign exchange students that her family hosted.
And so she ended up coming back to visit last summer and we took her to a Purdue game. And what did she say? She was talking about how like hot it was. And it was so funny to like, she was so excited to watch Purdue play Indiana state and just beat the living crap out of them, which is like funny. Cause a lot of us, we probably were watching the game. We're like, you know, third quarter, halftime, we're like bored just because it's, you know, at that point. What could you be when shout was up?
You know, when shot was going on, she loved shout too. I shouldn't say that out loud, but she did. She loved it. She was like, no, this is so fun. Yeah. That's exactly what she's like. This is a lot of it. And the crowd, they pretty much left. Everyone was like, all right, this game's over. Let's go drink. She is still loving shot. I love it.
Yeah. Yeah. But enthusiasm was speaking of too, just we're talking about like, you know, this, the songs and things that stadiums are known for the followup on last episode, we're talking about Virginia tech and whether enter Sandman is going to be crazy or not. Look up their games last year. Like, cause most of the Virginia tech games, you can look up and go, Hey, Virginia tech, Boston college, 2022 enter Sandman.
And they had some noon games last year, especially late in the season where they were like two and four, two and five and enter Sandman was still jumping. So I think it's going to be a great atmosphere. Still. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be a ton of fun. I think this whole year is going to, going to be fun. I think that this is for anybody that's made a comparison to coach Walters and like Darryl Darryl Hazel. Cause I know that was a big thing.
Like right when he was first hired, I think that's a, a total joke. I think that coach Walters is a totally different person than coach Hazel. Not because of the fact that he is, but just their philosophies, their styles are so different. I mean, remember when we talked to Markel Jones, when we talked to Markel Jones on the podcast last year, he talked about how, I don't know what other word to use besides boring coach Hazel was like no music in the locker rooms. No like chit chat.
Just like very, like very serious, very get like locked in or whatever. He didn't want to go to music or any friend Chuck who brought the other was Chuck. Yeah. Yeah. What's that? Was he going relentless? Chuck who was talking about that be Hazel's was one brick higher. I could have sworn Markel talked about how like boring Hazel was. They probably both said it. Right. How boring the guy was.
Chuck, our Chuck friend of the podcast talked about the, like kind of the dichotomy between Hazel and Hope and that, you know, Hazel was like, you know, music playing in the locker room, kind of, or I'm sorry, Hope was the music playing in the locker room guy, you know, would grab your helmet, yell in your face, get you hyped up. And you know, Hazel comes in and it's like, no, yeah, he had a very business like approach.
No music in the locker room, which call how, I mean, they really respond well to that. You know how I think one of coach bombs, most iconic, like pregame speech videos, probably the one where he threw the chair right before Michigan in like 2018 or something. They hammered down, they hammered down again.
Yeah. Yeah. You probably could see, I hope coach Walters starts tradition of like, you know, Bill's mafia style, where he just like jumps off of a chair on to like breaks a table before every game. Like a good blitz here. Did you not see his foot was already in like an air cast or something like that? Like he's already, he's already the table jumping to us. We will do that. Like get blitz asked if we have a tailgate location. Yeah. I'm in H lot. So I mean, meet us there. I don't know.
Yeah. But you won't be in H lot. You'll be by the rowdy statue. You'll be fine. Yeah. Yeah. We need to get Dylan like a big magnifying glass and response to that officially get blitz is no Dylan's Dylan's at all the games, but definitely stay tuned here and we'll be, we'll be updating as those things. I'll hang out with these progress and yeah, Dylan will hang out with anybody. I just be you and me, you and me get blitz, but we'll do it.
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And they've got, they, they added a rail railroad tracks to gold railroad tracks. It looks amazing. So once we get another picture of that, or if I find that picture, I'll post it again, cause it looks awesome. It's like what everybody dreams Ross aid stadium would look like 24 seven. Like when they put the train, the train tracks around the perimeter of the field, like that's that board looks amazing. It's so good. I'm so excited to get it. Get ready tomorrow. They're doing, yeah.
Hopefully you're get your dice ready. Yeah. Yeah. I just, awesome. Well, I just noticed that was from blitz board. I'm such an idiot. I just realized that that's awesome. Actually because I use the name to segue into like, I still didn't get it. I still didn't realize that's who that was. Hashtag always blitzed. Dylan's always, I worked in the heat all day. All right. Leave me alone. I filled up propane tanks and I delivered them all day. Y'all we talked about this in our group thread.
Actually I think Dylan just pushes his old insecurities onto me because he, I may be older but he's the one that acts way older. I spent too much time with Russ. That's what that is. Starting to get senile. Dylan's like, Hey, don't you guys think it's funny when you like forget stuff all the time and none of us say anything. And he's like, Hey, yeah, Russ. That time I forgot. I forgot to even turn on my microphone for an entire podcast. That is true. He follows up like five times.
I'll whether we have a certain guest on the show or not, even though he's already been on the show. And then I asked like, Hey, what's the topics for tomorrow? No day. I want to, I'm not going to prepare or like, or like tonight, like 20 minutes for the podcast. Hey, we're still going live tonight. Cause I just realized what time it was and I was like, Oh shoot. It's Tuesday or even yesterday. I messaged, I messaged group channels. I thought it was Tuesday.
I thought we were doing a podcast tonight. It was Monday night. Yeah, maybe I mean, I retry, I apologize. And I retract that real joke I've made against Russ. No, you don't know. I'm not going to stop, but I was there. It is there. They're not. We found the reason, but anyway, guys, we'll go ahead and wrap it up here. Uh, cause we have hit that hour mark. So I just want to say a huge shout out to everybody that stayed tuned in. Listen, we really appreciate it.
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