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

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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. It is not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, this is a quite Franklin movement.

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Speaker 3: I get to be a part of it. I'm Lavarre.

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Speaker 2: So that's Coach Franklin. Welcome, man coach. Let's jump right

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Speaker 2: to it. This is the most important question I'm going

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Speaker 2: to ask you all season long. I know you're ready

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Speaker 2: for this. What's your favorite TV show?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: You got a favorite TV show, favorite movie?

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Speaker 4: Favorite TV show? I don't watch a lot of TV.

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Speaker 4: To be honest with you. What we'll do is like

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Speaker 4: in the summer when I do have time off, me

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Speaker 4: and my wife will like ben like shows. My wife's

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Speaker 4: a night out and I'm morning so, like we'll watch

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Speaker 4: a show and I'm ready to turn it off at

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Speaker 4: like like one. Like one is crazy for me, right,

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Speaker 4: she wants to go like till three, and I'm like, there,

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Speaker 4: Ben shows. But I don't really know if I got

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Speaker 4: like a favorite show or any of that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 4: don't don't. I don't do a whole lot of that,

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Speaker 4: but we'll we'll ben shows in the summer.

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Speaker 3: Let me hit you with this.

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Speaker 2: I do believe you were at the University of Maryland

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Speaker 2: when Remember the Titans came out. I believe if my

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Speaker 2: math is correct, I believe you were in College Park.

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Speaker 2: That would have been two thousand and one or two

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Speaker 4: Yeah, probably.

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Speaker 3: I remember.

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Speaker 2: I remember that time, and I remember because Maryland football

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Speaker 2: was really good. So I was actually living through Maryland

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Speaker 2: football because we couldn't win any games. Coach, and I

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Speaker 2: remember going to see Remember the Titans and anyway, So

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Speaker 2: I got to thinking about Remember the Titans and going

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Speaker 2: into this week, Coach, I feel like this is a

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Speaker 2: Remember the Titans type of week. Man like, remember who

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Speaker 2: we are, make them remember the Titans. You guys are

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Speaker 2: going into Columbus this team. I don't want to put

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Speaker 2: words in your mouth, but I'm gonna say what I feel.

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Speaker 2: This is a special group. It's a special group. When

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Speaker 2: you look at what you have, I think what you

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Speaker 2: have been striving to do since you've been there is

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Speaker 2: to build a team that understands what having that means.

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Speaker 2: Just because you might not be the first one onto

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Speaker 2: In fact, you're probably just as good, if not better

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Speaker 3: But you understand that we have waves. It's waves. It's waves.

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Speaker 2: You come in, he comes out, no fall off, he

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Speaker 2: goes out, You come in, no fall off.

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Speaker 3: That's what this team looks like. They don't. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: look like y'all get tired.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't look like you guys are dealing with too

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Speaker 2: many major injuries whatsoever. And I attribute that to they

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Speaker 2: don't have to play that much, they don't get too

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Speaker 2: much wear and tear, and yet everybody's continuing to eat.

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Speaker 2: This might be the first time I've seen a team

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Speaker 2: as complete from one and two, hell, since I've been there.

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Speaker 2: What like, going into this game, it looks like they're

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Speaker 2: going to have to remember this team. What's what's your feeling,

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Speaker 2: What's what's the overwhelming like, what is the message going

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Speaker 2: this week hitting into the Ohio State game?

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Speaker 4: Well, a couple things. I think your point on on

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Speaker 4: depth is a good one, and I think that's harder

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Speaker 4: I do feel that way. I said in the beginning

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Speaker 4: in the past. But I felt like are three deep

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Speaker 4: And I think all the points you made about, you know,

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Speaker 4: that that that will come back to get you you know,

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Speaker 4: as you know, you know, you're a defense of player,

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Speaker 4: and you're trying to make a play rather than just

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Speaker 4: do your job, and against good teams, the ball will

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Speaker 4: find that open gap. So making sure all of our

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Speaker 4: guys understand that we're prepared for this moment. We've been

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Speaker 4: preparing all year long. The reality is they've been preparing

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Speaker 4: all their life for moments like this. So let's let's

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Speaker 4: the letterman from the past, Uh, feel really good about

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Speaker 4: about how we compete and how we finish.

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Speaker 2: You know what's interesting about what you said is when

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Speaker 3: Thank y'all.

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Speaker 2: Ohio State, y'all made me one of the highest graded

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Speaker 2: nineties for that. But Michigan was the team during the week. Coach,

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Speaker 2: our coaching staff went from every other week, we're loose,

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Speaker 2: we're loose, we're loose. We get the Michigan week.

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Speaker 3: And we're looking at like, I mean, we practice hard too.

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Speaker 3: We're Penn State too.

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Speaker 2: You know football, Jesus, he's with us too, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, what's all this about? What has

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Speaker 2: gets hard sometimes when you have to hear, oh, well

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Speaker 2: can they beat them? How have they done against them?

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Speaker 2: What are they going to do in this game? How

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Speaker 2: has it been for the coaches psyche heading into the week?

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Speaker 4: Well, just like you just mentioned, and I think you

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Speaker 4: mentioned before, I think that's a that's a really important

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Speaker 4: story you just told. But that didn't work for you

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Speaker 3: It didn't.

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Speaker 2: We never beat them. Yeah, we never beat them. And

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Speaker 2: it showed up in the game, coach, like we would

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Speaker 4: And I guess that's my point is making sure my

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Speaker 4: that we got to get better this week, because that's

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Speaker 4: what we do every week. I've been saying that all

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Speaker 4: year long. I'm not saying it this week because it's

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Speaker 4: Ohio State. We had to get better the Iowa week,

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Speaker 4: where we want to go. We got to get better

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Speaker 4: individually and collectively all season long, and and ultimately it's

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Speaker 4: about us. It's about us handling our business. Obviously, we

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Speaker 4: got tremendous respect for Ohiose and what they've been able

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Speaker 4: to do and what we've seen on tape. But I

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Speaker 4: say that all the time. If the players feel a

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Speaker 4: difference in us and our actions and our behaviors.

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Speaker 3: It don't matter what we say. They can tell.

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Speaker 4: You brought up Maryland and I learned so much from

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Speaker 4: Ralph Region one one of the best coaches I've ever

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Speaker 4: been in, specifically as an offensive mind. But you know, yeah,

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Speaker 4: he would get up. He'd get up each week. Now

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Speaker 4: he didn't take the approach I did, but he'd get

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Speaker 3: Go this is a big week. You know, this is

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Speaker 3: a bit. Each week we won, it gets bigger.

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Speaker 4: Naturally, that happens, you know. But you could tell the difference,

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Speaker 4: like at Maryland it was Virginia was kind of like

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Speaker 4: it was different for the coaches, you know. So we

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Speaker 4: try to keep our approaches consistently possibly can. For the

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Speaker 4: story you just told about as a player, you know,

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Speaker 4: when when you were here at Penn State against Michigan.

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Speaker 4: We try to keep it consistent and and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: get better because we need to get better to do

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Speaker 4: what we want to do this season and not only

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Speaker 4: this week.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, okay, so we are relatively healthy. They have

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Speaker 2: an interesting little little injury report with their backs and

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Speaker 2: maybe the receiver is still healing up. What the game

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Speaker 2: plan is? It seems like it sounds to do the same.

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Speaker 2: So is it gonna be a heavy dose of run?

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Speaker 3: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Like? What are you? What are you seeing?

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Speaker 2: I personally think their secondary is always susceptible. I've not

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Speaker 2: were were actually vulnerable. But I gotta say, watching them

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Speaker 1: They are as.

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Speaker 2: Crazy upfront as they have been in years past. Good

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Speaker 2: I look at what we have upfront, I look at

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Speaker 2: feel pretty good. What what are you looking at?

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Speaker 2: What do you feel we have a distinct advantage in

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Speaker 4: Well, probably not going to get into those specifics. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 4: all right, just to be totally honest, but what I

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Speaker 4: will say to you is is I do think we

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Speaker 4: match up better than we have in other years. You know,

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Speaker 4: and you know we both have a tremendous amount of

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Speaker 4: That D line is always one of the best D

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Speaker 4: up better than we have. But back to your point,

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Speaker 4: your question, you're asking me about how we're going to

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Speaker 4: approach this game, and really back to the point you

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Speaker 4: were just making that goes back to what I was

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Speaker 4: saying is the players don't have to do anything different

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Speaker 4: than the coaches don't have to do anything different. Are

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Speaker 4: we gonna have some tweaks like we always do in

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Speaker 4: each game plan? Yes, but let's not try to become

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Speaker 4: an explosive offense on Saturday when we haven't been that

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Speaker 4: all year long. Let's let's stick to your identity. If

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Speaker 4: the explosive plays come organically wonderful, let let's let's let's

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Speaker 4: do it. But let's not try to reinvent ourselves on Saturday,

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Speaker 4: because what we've done all year long is pretty darn good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, my last question. My last question

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Speaker 2: would be who's having the best week of practice? Like,

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Speaker 2: who are you looking at like? And it could be

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Speaker 2: a couple guys.

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Speaker 3: Who are you.

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Speaker 2: Looking at like? They look good, they're dowt in, It's

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Speaker 4: Well, the first thing I would say is that, you know,

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Speaker 4: I've only seen Tuesday's practice. At this stage, I've only

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Speaker 3: Something enough to evaluate.

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Speaker 4: But I will say this, LeVar, I do think we

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Speaker 4: are practicing this year, this season, this team is practicing

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Speaker 4: I mean, when we go good on good periods, it's

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Speaker 3: I mean it is a battle.

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Speaker 4: And then our D squads, back to the depth, our

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Speaker 4: the D Squad's gonna get after you. And and that

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Speaker 4: every single day, you know, so like Jamal Lyons, who

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Speaker 4: He rotates down to the scout team and and and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's rotating up there, doing a great job giving

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Speaker 4: He's a guy like Jamil Lyons who's rotating back and forth.

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Speaker 3: So that's been really good.

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Speaker 4: And we're just practicing well. And you know, as you know,

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Speaker 4: if if you if you don't practice great and you're

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Speaker 4: practice what we preach, and we got to create great habits.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: A funny story speaking of the second teamers or the

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Speaker 2: of Larry Johnson senior. Larry Johnson Junior was a tailback

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Speaker 2: we we faced one running back that year, I'll say,

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Speaker 2: There was only one running back that we went up

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Speaker 3: I played scout.

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Speaker 2: Team on the Pros on the live series. I didn't

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Speaker 2: Now if they going live and we're over here and

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Speaker 2: they're doing something different, they're running nickel or they're doing

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Speaker 2: I went over and ran with the ones on offense

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Speaker 2: let me get my steps down, let me see what's

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Speaker 2: loved the mentality of this team, I said. We asked

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Speaker 2: What does this look like? They are some hard nos.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just I feel like I've never felt

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Speaker 2: like I wanted to play, coach, like I've never felt

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Speaker 2: let's do this. This group of dudes, that energy that

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Speaker 2: resonates from this team. It even makes old dudes like

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Speaker 3: It gives me energy, the energy.

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Speaker 4: God God play play what linebacker running back DM?

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Speaker 2: Well what trying probably probably run down d N coach

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Speaker 2: rundown Dan. I'll set the ads now. I'll still today,

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Speaker 2: I still could set an ads today.

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Speaker 3: I can still set an ad. Don't ask me to

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Speaker 3: run after nobody.

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Speaker 2: But this right here, them hands them hands coach like

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Speaker 3: See, people don't understand in the weight room that day,

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Speaker 3: I say you, in the weight room.

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Speaker 2: People don't understand how important the strength of your hands

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Speaker 2: Look look at this right here.

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Speaker 3: People don't realize this. Look those right there.

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Speaker 2: Look a lot that I was grabbing grown ass men

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Speaker 3: Like you go here, I'll set the ads for you, coach.

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Speaker 3: I'll set the.

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Speaker 1: Ads and the pinkies are the proof.

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Speaker 2: That's right. But I ain't gonna do nothing else. I

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Speaker 2: ain't got nothing else for.

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Speaker 3: You, coach. I wish you well, I wish you luck.

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Speaker 3: This shirt right.

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Speaker 2: Here, I wore this when I did the filming of

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Speaker 2: the intro when you guys came out into Lucas Oil

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Speaker 2: Stadium and handled some business against the cheeseheads. And let

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Speaker 2: me tell you something, I've been wearing it, and I've

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Speaker 2: been washing it, and I've been wearing it all week for.

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Speaker 3: Good vibes and good juju.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we did win the Big Ten championship that year,

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Speaker 2: and I just feel really like connected.

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Speaker 3: I feel connected everybody else you should feel connected to.

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Speaker 3: You're Penn State, Nickney Lion fan. If you're part of

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Speaker 3: our community, make sure you lift coach up, make sure

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Speaker 3: you lift the team up, make sure you lift them

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Speaker 3: all up. Be a part of it.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you tell Kate if you're not in the Horseshoe,

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Speaker 2: and make sure you're doing something that support. If you're

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Speaker 2: on social media, make sure you send the message that support.

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Speaker 3: If you're in the horseshoe, make sure they know we're there.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Hey, this is quite Franklin with Coach Franklin. I'm Lebarrings.

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Speaker 2: Until next time, we'll talk to you.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you brother.

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