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Speaker 1: This is Quite Franklin with LeVar Errington. Each week, Penn

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Speaker 1: State head coach James Franklin and Penn State legend LeVar

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Speaker 1: Arrington will discuss game strategy and other insights on Penn

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Speaker 1: State football. Quite Franklin with LeVar Arrington is not.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody's LeVar Arrington here.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I know we took a little break, but it

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Speaker 3: was a bye week and it's happy times in Happy Valley,

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Speaker 3: so let's get to it. Another exciting edition of Quite

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Speaker 3: Franklin with Coach Franklin. James Franklin, that is all right

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Speaker 3: with me, you know, your boy lebar Arrington.

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Speaker 2: I just tried to drive this ship a little bit. Coach.

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Speaker 2: How was the bye week? How y'all feeling? How's everything going?

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Speaker 2: You know, it was good.

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Speaker 4: One of the things I'll throw out is maybe next

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Speaker 4: year during the bye week, you could have one of

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Speaker 4: the staff members like Chuck Loci or Kevin Threllko has

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Speaker 4: been with me for a long time. Maybe they can

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Speaker 4: kind of sit in so you can, you know, still

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Speaker 4: obviously be able to do the show.

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Speaker 3: Okay, perfect, perfect. It was my bad everyone out there.

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Speaker 3: Just so you know, I was traveling. I had a

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Speaker 3: little bit of technical difficulties. Coach was available, my internet

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Speaker 3: was not. So it is what it is, and it happened.

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Speaker 3: But it gave you guys some time to do some

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Speaker 3: things and give me some better questions heading into this

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Speaker 3: game versus you Mass. Uh, it's gotta be said. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna make sure that this is important. You talked about

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Speaker 3: it during the press conference as well. You Mass does

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Speaker 3: not mean a week off.

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Speaker 4: You.

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Speaker 3: Mass is not a team that should be taken lightly.

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Speaker 3: This is a big game, and it's a generation's uniform game,

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Speaker 3: and there's so much riding on keeping the momentum, the

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Speaker 3: build up, and so just like let's put to them

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Speaker 3: like this, just like our team and our coaches and

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Speaker 3: everyone have to show up to make sure we go

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Speaker 3: one and zero, so do our fans. How important is

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Speaker 3: it to you, coach, and important to our players and

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Speaker 3: important to the program as we continue to push this

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Speaker 3: as committed to participating when it's one of those games

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Speaker 3: that they may not perceive to be the big game.

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Speaker 2: How does that work well? I think for.

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Speaker 4: First of all, for us, this week is the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 4: and we try to approach each week like that from

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Speaker 4: a preparation standpoint, from a fans perspective, you know, right

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Speaker 4: now we're doing something pretty special. We're leading the country

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Speaker 4: in attendance right now. We need to keep that thing going.

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Speaker 4: I thought the Delaware week was a really good example.

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Speaker 5: We were playing.

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Speaker 4: Delaware, which is a program I got a ton of respect.

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Speaker 5: For me too, coach yep, exactly.

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Speaker 4: But it was a twelve o'clock kick and they were

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Speaker 4: So this is just another example of that. You know,

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Speaker 4: So we got a chance to compete for the attendance title.

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Speaker 4: But then on top of that, for the future of

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Speaker 4: And and you know, these types of games are important.

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Speaker 5: And I think the last thing is there's.

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Speaker 4: Examples every week of programs losing to teams that they're

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Speaker 2: To lose to, or almost losing correct.

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Speaker 5: So just there's a ton of examples.

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Speaker 4: I put them up every Sunday in front of the

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Speaker 4: And you know, I remember, like I think maybe the

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Speaker 5: You you know, these things happen.

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Speaker 4: So making sure that we are dotting the eyes and

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Speaker 4: because most importantly, we got to get better this week.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of dot and eyes, Manny Diaz got them dottingham

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Speaker 2: Just talk to me, take take me through it.

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Speaker 3: It was a bye week, but looking at how the

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Speaker 3: I'll jump over to Kach York and we'll talk offense.

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Speaker 3: But let's start with the defense. Going into the bye week,

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Speaker 2: Where are you guys at right now?

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Speaker 3: How you feel about the week's practice, by weekend, the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, he's done a great job. There's tremendous buy

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Speaker 4: I think one of the great signs for me was

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Speaker 5: That was the best practice we've.

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Speaker 4: Nice that's on the defensive side of the ball. That's

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Speaker 4: That was just practice in general. It was extremely competitive,

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Speaker 4: that mentality, that approach, that buy in at all three

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Speaker 4: complimentary football on the defensive side of the ball, especially

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Speaker 4: because we're a you know, LeVar, we're a one gap defense.

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Speaker 5: Sudden, you crease.

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Speaker 4: So it's been it's been impressive to watch. It's been

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the other side of the ball.

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Speaker 3: Coach yorchic has to me, I think he's gonna find job.

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Speaker 3: I see what the build up is there. There is

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: Drew Aler came out and said, you know, everybody relaxed,

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Speaker 3: I saw the press or too. I saw the question.

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Speaker 3: Drew Drew wants to do a little more. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: coach Yorchic is feeling good about where the offense is.

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Speaker 3: How do you feel about where where Drew is, where

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Speaker 3: the offense is, and and even talk about our running game.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know k tron.

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Speaker 3: Is is still getting healthy, but participated. Uh Trey Potts showed.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've been pleased. I mean, most importantly, we're protecting

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Speaker 4: We've shown that we can throw the ball to win.

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Speaker 4: We've shown we can grind games out, and you know,

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Speaker 4: I think we against Iowa. I think we had the

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Speaker 4: a crazy stat. Obviously, we want to be more explosive,

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Speaker 5: We show that we can run and throw.

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Speaker 2: We need to keep.

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Speaker 4: Create a little bit more explosive plays in the run game.

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Speaker 4: We need to create a little bit more explosive plays

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Speaker 4: in the past game. But I think those things are coming.

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Speaker 4: And getting Trey back, I think is going to be

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Speaker 4: Drew is shown as a young quarterback. He'll work through

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Speaker 4: his progressions. Some really good examples early on where now

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Speaker 2: All right. I love your ability to relate to by

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's the superpower because a lot of people

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Speaker 2: A lot of people don't really seem to be like

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Speaker 2: a guy like I peeped your sneaker game.

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Speaker 3: I saw you going with the Jays. In fact, make

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Speaker 3: sure y'all subscribe. Go to Happy Valley United. You can

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Speaker 3: get in on the action on trying to get the pairs.

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Speaker 2: Use that coach wart into the stadium, which was some Jays.

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Speaker 2: They was clean.

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Speaker 3: That was one of the more of my teammates told

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Speaker 3: That's another exciting edition of Quite Franklin with Coach Franklin.

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Speaker 3: Good luck this week, coach. Appreciate the time and keep

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Speaker 3: it going, man, keep the momentum going.

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Speaker 2: Super proud of you.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, if I was to say I

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Speaker 3: right now, I'd be telling you one hundred percent of

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Speaker 3: the truth. So just keep going away that you're going

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Speaker 3: and let's see what we can do against UMass. Coach,

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Speaker 3: out what we got going on Kei, Johanna and OJ McDuffie.

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Speaker 3: And as I mentioned, you can see me and Coach

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Speaker 2: All right, until next time, I'm LeVar Arrington. That was

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Speaker 2: State