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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody's LeVar Arrington here coming to you with

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Speaker 1: another exciting edition of Quite Franklin with coach James Franklin.

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Speaker 1: That's right. We're gonna talk big win out of USC

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Speaker 1: going into a bye week. We're gonna talk going into Madison,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin to play against the Badgers. We're gonna also finish

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Speaker 1: up the show with a candid conversation and response about

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Speaker 1: the mounting pressure of winning during the course of the

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Speaker 1: season and not losing, not losing at all. How does

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Speaker 1: coach Franklin handle the pressures of being successful in Happy Valley.

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Speaker 1: We're going to tackle those questions right now and Quite Franklin,

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Speaker 1: here we go. Buckle up, Hey, how you feel it?

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Speaker 1: How's everything?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Good? All right? Cause you saved that You either you

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Speaker 1: were under the weather last time I talked to you

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Speaker 1: might have been warrior mode. It might have been war

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Speaker 1: mode and were going to the coliseum as gladiators to

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Speaker 1: see what we got and see what we can do.

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Speaker 1: What was your takeaway from that game? Because I didn't

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Speaker 1: talk to you after that game, but that was such

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Speaker 1: a I'll say this. I remember in ninety nine, my

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Speaker 1: last year in school, we went to the Orange Bowl

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Speaker 1: to play the Hurricanes, and it was a build up game.

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Speaker 1: They were just coming off of probation. They were loaded,

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Speaker 1: them in a thriller like it was SHAFEI got a

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Speaker 1: Ad Reid to ice them. This was one of them

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Speaker 1: games where it's like the emotions of it felt the

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Speaker 1: same way I felt when I was a player playing

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Speaker 1: in that game. It was like, why am I not panicking?

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Speaker 1: I'm watching you guys and we are down big, But

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Speaker 1: I didn't panic like I didn't feel like there was

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Speaker 1: some real tense moments. Is what's your takeaway from this game? Coach?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, first of all, I mean, right now,

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Speaker 2: nobody wants to hear this because of the way their

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Speaker 2: last three games have gone. But that is a talented team,

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Speaker 2: that's a talented roster, and we're you know, at their

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Speaker 2: Did think it was louder than I expected it to

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Speaker 2: I thought his confidence was great. I thought Julian Fleming

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Speaker 2: coming up on those two fourth down stops was huge.

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Speaker 1: After some drops early on, like he could have he

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Speaker 2: Jay Reid always comes through with it with a play.

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Speaker 2: So to me, that was one of those games where

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Speaker 2: you know, we made it more difficult than it needed

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Speaker 2: other thing that showed up in that game that we

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Speaker 2: in that type of moment. I think that's going to

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Speaker 2: So big win. And then as you know, just you know,

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously we got a couple commits you know

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Speaker 2: when you win that type of game in that environment

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Speaker 1: Coach, you guys have the one and O mentality, that's

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Speaker 2: Well, it's our belief and my belief that I think

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Speaker 1: So that's happening.

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Speaker 2: And then as you know, it's not like I can

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Speaker 2: So it's like the confidence I think will naturally just

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Speaker 2: then as a team, if we just continue to get

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Speaker 2: In our conference, Wisconsin's just won the last three games

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Speaker 2: and is playing their best football right now. Our conference

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Speaker 2: is good enough that if you don't have your stuff

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Speaker 2: So I just do everything in my power to try

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Wisconsin Madison is always hard to play in.

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Speaker 1: It's just a it's a can't Randall is just one

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it, but it just seems like it's just

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Speaker 1: it's one of those teams that they I mean, they

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Speaker 1: then it's Wisconsin or Iowa over here. Right, So this

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Speaker 1: is like the way I look at it. We're playing

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you guys are embracing that, like

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Speaker 1: understand the magnitude of going to Madison and winning a

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Speaker 2: What's your record at Camp Randall, oh to one? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's it's a tough place to play.

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Speaker 1: To you and one versus Wisconsin. But to the point,

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Speaker 1: we lost to them in Wisconsin. All our losses when

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Speaker 1: them there. Michigan State lost there. You know, we lost

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Speaker 1: So it's hard to play on the road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I didn't know, and that's why I was asking.

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Speaker 2: I think me and you have talked a bunch about like,

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Speaker 2: comes off sometimes where you guys never.

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Speaker 1: Like we did better than y'all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, our last national title was in the eighties, coach,

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Speaker 3: So your team, your team, my team, our team the eighties.

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Speaker 2: That's right. So it's just interesting perspective to me. And

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Speaker 2: then I think the other reason I bring that up

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Speaker 2: I think to your point though, I think it does

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Speaker 2: those things help. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be about what we do Saturday night, and again,

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Speaker 2: to go because they will be. And after the way

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Speaker 2: they've played the last three games, they're a confident football team.

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Speaker 2: We're playing.

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Speaker 1: What is the health of the team right now? You

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Speaker 1: How's the health of the team and how you feel

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Speaker 2: I think early on as the season started, in training

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Speaker 2: we've been in a better place. And then I think

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Speaker 2: last week during the bye week, I think our structure

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Speaker 2: other thing we did is like, okay, who are the

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Speaker 2: football at their career at Penn State and this season, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we got this modified plan, but then we also need

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Speaker 2: to modify these guys like sal Wormley's been playing here

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Speaker 2: since you played here, Like you know, we can we

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Speaker 2: can cut his reps down, Ty Warren, we can cut

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Speaker 2: his reps down. Like so, let's fish strategic within the

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Speaker 2: by week we are fresher and we do feel really

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Speaker 2: play fast and play aggressive and play confident and can't Randall.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you this one and then I will

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Speaker 1: be done because you made me think of something here,

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Speaker 1: right so, because that was my last question, but I

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Speaker 1: gotta ask eighty eighty six, eighty four eighty six something

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Speaker 2: Well? What, I guess what I would say a couple things.

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Speaker 2: The other two things that I do that I think

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Speaker 2: I compare what we have done to our history since

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Speaker 1: People because you've had a ton of success with your players.

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Speaker 1: These players are our players, They're part of our community.

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Speaker 1: They've become a part of our community because you've got

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Speaker 1: it did create the conversation because for a time there

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Speaker 1: that was not that certainly was not a realistic conversation

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Speaker 1: being realistic with yourself, you know, Coach, I appreciate that

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Speaker 1: candid answer. That's really all I have for you this week,

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Speaker 1: I'd say. And uh, you know, let's let's let's let's

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Speaker 2: I will say that winn in l A was for

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Speaker 2: you because I know walking around La it had been

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Speaker 2: it had been a tough week.

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Speaker 1: Man. Man, hey, look it went from it went because

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Speaker 1: I was getting it bad the whole entire time. I'm

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Speaker 1: getting it bad. It went from dang to y'all pay

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Speaker 1: the rent ucla USC, we own Southern California. Y'all paid

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Speaker 1: for a whole entire year. So thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for that. I do appreciate you giving me that because

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Speaker 1: have handled it. We would have been good. Sure. Thanks

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Speaker 1: answering some some interesting questions. Some of these questions are

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Speaker 1: because we're in a safe place. So thanks to the

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Speaker 1: go to our social media sites. Disrupt you PSU, and

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Speaker 1: at King of the Mammals, that would be me. King

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Speaker 1: what it is, all right, all things Penn State, Penn

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Speaker 1: State football, all those things all right. Until next time,

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