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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to

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Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away.

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Speaker 1: Thanks fits well. Chad Pennyton is in our studio. He

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Speaker 1: came up all the way up from the South. Uh

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Speaker 1: got the late a little bit today, but we're happy

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Speaker 1: you're here for a special Friday installment of the podcasting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how about that on Friday? I think it's the first.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it is. I don't remember us doing any Fridays

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Speaker 1: last year. Jets Seahawks? What brings you into town? We

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Speaker 1: know it's a special a weekend when e'uroupe north Well obviously. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I love coming up here and visiting sweet partners for

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Speaker 1: the Jets and thanking them for their support and being

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Speaker 1: part of game day operations. Talking with you on the

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Speaker 1: podcast is always fun. And then also doing some entertaining

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Speaker 1: myself with a group of three couples from Lexington, Kentucky

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Speaker 1: who are having a New York Gicks experience. They've been

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Speaker 1: to Seth Meyers or going to Yankees game, They're going

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Speaker 1: to the Jets game. They're going to do a facility tour,

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Speaker 1: so part of that experience for them as well, do

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Speaker 1: they have Yankees tickets for tonight because right now the

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Speaker 1: Soaker I don't think that game is gonna take place.

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Speaker 1: I know it's not looking to U dry, but they

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Speaker 1: do have Yankees tickets for tonight Friday night game. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're doing something pre game with the organization too. It's

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Speaker 1: a special white eye. I'm hearing you're doing something for

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Speaker 1: the team right. Well, typically we hang out with our

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Speaker 1: them down to pre game on the field. Let him

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Speaker 1: may be something else there is Chad's gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the field. We're gonna have to find out the exact

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Speaker 1: details on that. There's something about a new air raid

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Speaker 1: air raid, Yes, yes, okay, I got yes, that's right,

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Speaker 1: air raid. I'm all over it. So you're gonna be

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect really. So last weekend

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Speaker 1: talked it into the school's journalism Hall of Fame down there.

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Speaker 1: How did your event go? Well? It went really well. Um,

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Speaker 1: the w. Page Pit School of Journalism and Mass Communications

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Speaker 1: you know, just talked about how special of the place

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Speaker 1: Marshall is and has always been. UM. And then we

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Speaker 1: you can only imagine how that went. UM. But it

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Speaker 1: was a great experience that the crowd was electrifying. It

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Speaker 1: was a great, great time there. It got a chance

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Speaker 1: to meet country music singer Craig Morgan. Uh, really talented artist.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately for Craig, his son I had had planned on

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Speaker 1: coming to Marshall to play football, to walk on, and

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Speaker 1: it's the defense was actually playing well. It's just the

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Speaker 1: What do you think is gonna happen when Louisville goes

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Speaker 1: That's where I think he struggles right now in his

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Speaker 1: It's a great matchup between Watson and Jackson. Do you

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Speaker 1: to see from an outsider's perspective, sure it is. It's

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Speaker 1: at places like per New, no question. So it's disappointing.

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Speaker 1: that's a big thing for Fits. What what would you

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Speaker 1: say to Fits Well, I think that the natural tendency

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Speaker 1: thrown five before in the pros and it's not a

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Speaker 1: good feeling at all. The natural tendency is to try

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Speaker 1: to do everything you can to erase that memory. But

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Speaker 1: you actually need to pull back a little bit and

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Speaker 1: allow the game to come to you, um knowing that

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Speaker 1: your shots are gonna be there, your opportunities to make

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Speaker 1: a big play is going to be there. Don't go

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Speaker 1: looking for the big play. Let the big play happen.

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Speaker 1: Think about moving the chains, think about being consistent, and

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Speaker 1: really think about your own mental mindset. That's so important

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Speaker 1: that you are processing your reads, your process and information

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Speaker 1: and you feel good about where you are mentally. Don't

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Speaker 1: try to make up for that. That's gone. It's over

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Speaker 1: with and move on. Well, Chef Pennyson, good to see

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Speaker 1: you up in New Jersey. We'll see you over at

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Speaker 1: My Life. Absolutely, I thank you.