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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody's LeVar Arrington here with another exciting addition

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Speaker 1: of Quite Franklin with myself, LaVar Arrington and coach James Franklin.

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Speaker 1: Big Week. This past weekend, the Fighting eliin I came

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Speaker 1: into State College to play Penn State. Penn State played

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Speaker 1: very well. Offense, played well, defense, played well. Special teams well,

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Speaker 1: they need to improve a little bit. But we'll talk

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Speaker 1: grading out the team. We'll talk what did you take

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Speaker 1: from from the game to go into UCLA week. We'll

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Speaker 1: also talk Nick Singleton, k Tron Allen, Abdul Carter, Kobe King,

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Speaker 1: Zane Durant, all that and more coming right at you

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Speaker 1: on Quite Franklin. Coach, it looked like it was a

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Speaker 1: dominant performance that took place on last Saturday on white

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Speaker 1: out energy. How you great the team and out of

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Speaker 1: the game. How you great the team coming out of

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Speaker 1: this week?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just thought we played well, really, you know,

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Speaker 2: offensively and defensively. Specifically, I thought our offense was physical,

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Speaker 2: really controlled the line of scrimmage, made some big plays

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Speaker 2: as well, and then you know, defensively again, when you're

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Speaker 2: playing a team that is committed to running.

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Speaker 3: The football the way Illinois is, and you're able to

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Speaker 3: limit their effectiveness and control the line of scrimmage, then

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Speaker 3: it's going to give you a chance to be successful.

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Speaker 2: And we talked about what their identity was and how

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Speaker 2: they've been built. I got a tremendous amount of respect

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Speaker 2: for Brett Bielima and Illinois and what they've been able

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Speaker 2: to do, coming off a big win at Nebraska and

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Speaker 2: coming to our place with a lot of confidence, and

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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, we kind of built that. We

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Speaker 2: beat them in a way that they're built.

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Speaker 1: Coach, when you have a game like this, what do

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Speaker 1: you take out of this particular game into your next

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Speaker 1: game versus U c l A.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the biggest thing is I think good

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Speaker 2: football teams have to find a ton of different ways

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Speaker 2: to win, and I thought last week was an example

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Speaker 2: of that. You know, you look at the West Virginia game,

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Speaker 2: the Bowling Green game, the Kent State game, and now

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Speaker 2: this Illinois game. They've all been different ways that we've

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Speaker 2: had to find ways to win. So, uh U c

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Speaker 2: l a Is coming to our place, It's not an

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Speaker 2: easy trip. You know, they're they're battling and fighting through

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Speaker 2: with a first year head coach and kind of figuring

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Speaker 2: out what their identity is gonna be. We see a

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Speaker 2: ton of talent on the tape, but just trying to

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Speaker 2: kind of figure out how they're going to put it

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Speaker 2: all together. So you know, those teams can be dangerous,

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Speaker 2: and you know we're we're looking forward to hopefully taking

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Speaker 2: another step in the right direction, and that's been our

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Speaker 2: focus all week.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot going on. Listen. Carter showed up, Zane

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Speaker 1: Durant showed up, Kobe King showed up. How dominant can

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Speaker 1: this defense this year be? It looks as though they

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Speaker 1: can be as dominant is pretty much any defense that

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Speaker 1: you've had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think second half and third quarter specifically, we've

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Speaker 2: played really good football. I think the next step for

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Speaker 2: us defensively is just make sure we're starting games stronger. Right.

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Speaker 2: You know, they were able to go down on the

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Speaker 2: opening drive and score a touchdown. After that, they weren't

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Speaker 2: able to do a whole lot. So we just got

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Speaker 2: to make sure that we're starting games the right way.

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Speaker 2: People spend a ton of time on opening drives, So

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Speaker 2: can we do some things that are tendency bait breakers,

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Speaker 2: make them second guess their plan early in the game

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Speaker 2: and hopefully created three and out and after that we've

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Speaker 2: we've played really really good football. I think the other thing,

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Speaker 2: obviously to clean up is some penalties, especially the pre

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Speaker 2: snap penalties where we're jumping off sides and things like that.

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Speaker 2: You build a reputation up there, people try to take

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Speaker 2: advantage of it. It's like anything else. Once you put

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Speaker 2: it on tape, you're actually going to see more of it.

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Speaker 1: Coach Nick Singleton k Tron Allen both guys that are

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Speaker 1: having tremendous years, all American campaign years. I mean, they

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Speaker 1: had such a great game against Illinois, but they've had

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Speaker 1: great games all season long. What's been the difference between

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Speaker 1: last year and this year? How are they aboul to

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Speaker 1: have so much more success now than what they were

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Speaker 1: able to have last year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think we're using not only those two,

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Speaker 2: but all of our offensive guys in different ways. You know,

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Speaker 2: two weeks ago, you know, I think we had eight

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Speaker 2: different guys score a touchdown. Where you're able to do

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Speaker 2: that causes a lot of stress on the defense. I

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Speaker 2: think the other thing that we're doing it Andy col

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Speaker 2: Nicky's doing a really good job of is the focusing

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Speaker 2: on the things that guys can do rather than the

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Speaker 2: things that they can't and playing to people strengths as

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Speaker 2: we develop kind of the whole player, and I think

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Speaker 2: that's been very valuable. But we got two experienced running

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Speaker 2: backs that going into year three here, they're guys that

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Speaker 2: can take at the distance. They can make you miss,

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Speaker 2: they can run over, they can run you over, they

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Speaker 2: can pass pro They're just very well rounded backs that

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Speaker 2: cause it difficult for people to defend us.

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for this week's addition of quite Franklin.

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Speaker 1: As you can see, there's a lot of excitement building up.

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Speaker 1: The stakes are getting higher, everything is getting bigger. UCLA

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Speaker 1: is coming in this week, and it looks like a

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Speaker 1: Penn State team that is continuing to improve. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to shore up kicking. They're going

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Speaker 1: to need those three points every single time they kick

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Speaker 1: for field goals. It can be missing field goals. Other

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Speaker 1: than that, the defense is looking like they're improving every

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Speaker 1: single week. The offense looks like they're improving every single week.

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Speaker 1: You got stars at different positions tight end and back.

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Speaker 1: The receiver's position still needs to kind of develop a personality,

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Speaker 1: but Drew Aler seems to be gaining more confidence. So

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Speaker 1: this is a good looking team and we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that looks going into the UCLA game and beyond. They

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Speaker 1: go from playing an LA team and state college to

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Speaker 1: playing an LA team in LA playing USC the week after.

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Speaker 1: So let's see it all how it all unfolds. We

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