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Speaker 2: Everybody's LeVar Arrington here and yes, it's another week of

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Speaker 2: Quite Franklin with coach James Franklin and myself. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about the win against the Huskies and what

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Speaker 2: of Purdue. We talk mental health. Yeah, that's right, we

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Speaker 2: talk mental health on this show. Coach gives us a

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Speaker 2: little bit of insight on how to talk to or

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Speaker 2: how to interact with the kids, the young players, young

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Speaker 2: men that he's.

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Speaker 1: Coaching and guiding.

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Speaker 2: Is it easier, is it harder to coach at the

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Speaker 2: end of the year or the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 2: A lot of things to manage at both points and

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Speaker 2: times during the season. We'll get into that and a

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Speaker 2: whole lot more. Stay out and buckle up. Here's the ride.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna do this with Coach Franklin. Quite Franklin. Coach,

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Speaker 2: did you see I had to leave the game early.

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Speaker 2: I do apologize for leaving your side a little bit early.

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Speaker 2: I had to to get to Washington, d C. You know,

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Speaker 2: our old stomping grounds.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I made I made a long, long, long time coming

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Speaker 2: visit back to Washington for for a Commander's game.

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Speaker 1: But I got to ask, uh, did that same student.

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Speaker 2: Run up on you after this this home game when

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Speaker 2: y'all were hitting the victory bell, that did anybody run

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Speaker 2: up on you?

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Speaker 1: You know and and telling you everything?

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Speaker 2: But but your name is James Franklin for uh this

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Speaker 2: this last white out.

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Speaker 1: Game that we just played against the Huskies of Washington.

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Speaker 3: No. But but I want to stay a little bit

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Speaker 3: more on a positive.

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Speaker 2: I just I just needed to know that I want

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Speaker 2: to be positive too. I just wanted to know. I

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Speaker 3: But I wanted to say to you that I actually

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Speaker 3: saw that you went back to Washington, and I'm so

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Speaker 3: happy that you did that. And I'm so happy that

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Speaker 3: you were able to do that because you are beloved

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Speaker 3: a great you know, have a great day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would have liked for it to have been

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Speaker 2: a win. I know a lot of people were like, oh,

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Speaker 2: he went back. It was a Pittsburgh game. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I am a Steelers fan, I'm from Pittsburgh. I'm a

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Speaker 2: the kind words, but I did get my win in

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Speaker 2: State College, and the white out has been preserved and protected.

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Speaker 2: This Washington team, while a little bit of a struggle.

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Speaker 1: Not the same team as last year.

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Speaker 2: But Jeb is a dope coach man, and that was

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have plenty of trap games. That could

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Speaker 2: have been one of the bigger trap games of the season,

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Speaker 2: just based off of I know how it feels to

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Speaker 2: have a devastating loss a week before and have to

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Speaker 2: turn back around and get your emotions repped up for

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Speaker 2: another game. You guys seem to do that. It seemed

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Speaker 2: like a very balanced game as I watched it. K

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Speaker 2: Tron is a is a He's a battering ram.

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Speaker 1: He's a ram.

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Speaker 2: He got he got the bulk of the work. But

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Speaker 2: I see you working the baby in there. I see

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Speaker 2: Corey is getting his he's getting some touches now and

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Speaker 1: And Nick is Nick.

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Speaker 2: Their numbers were a little lower, but but k Tron

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Speaker 2: had the lower What like, what was the thought process?

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Speaker 1: And I know we're into the next game.

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Speaker 2: I do know this, I do know it, but just quickly,

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Speaker 2: what was the thought process going into this this week,

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Speaker 1: Into that game with Washington offensively.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the first thing was, you know, we

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Speaker 3: needed to win the game, no matter what one point,

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Speaker 3: twenty one points, whatever it is. We had to win

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Speaker 3: Tron's just playing really well, really physical. He's just such

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Speaker 3: a productive back. Battering Ram is a great way to describe.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he loves contact. Nick got a little dinged

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Speaker 3: which was great.

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Speaker 2: That builds, That builds experience, continued experience. On the defensive

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Speaker 2: and and Abdul is is. I thought, Abdul has played

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Speaker 2: good football and really good football. At times. I have

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Speaker 2: always felt like he could give us a little more.

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Speaker 2: There's there's always a little bit more there. That more

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Speaker 2: looks like it's coming to fruition and how he's playing

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Speaker 2: the game and this defense, Kobe had some great plays

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Speaker 2: the secondary, they had some great plays. Just how confident

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Speaker 2: how the offense play Going into a game against a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it helps, right. I think Kobe's playing

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Speaker 3: But I think you also realize when you change positions.

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Speaker 3: And I think the biggest thing that he's doing right

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Speaker 3: he's so focused on his get off and getting off

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Speaker 3: the ball. He's got caught jump off sides a few times,

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Speaker 3: and you know, when you're able to eliminate the negative place,

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Speaker 3: he's doing. Then I think he's getting the attention that

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Speaker 3: But I think that's the biggest thing is he's just

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Speaker 3: the good things he's doing. But Kobe's playing really well.

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Speaker 3: The secondary Terryan Decks always got the back end playing well.

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Speaker 3: Zaye Durant, I don't think he is getting enough attense nationally.

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Speaker 1: He is a beast. I mean he's a bull.

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Speaker 2: Zay Durant is one of the most impressive, physically gifted

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Speaker 2: Zaanine durant Is. I don't know why it's so quiet,

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Speaker 2: but he is a disruptive force to that defense front

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Speaker 2: with you there, coach.

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Speaker 3: And then I think, you know, I think we should

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Speaker 3: have Deny back this week in a bigger role. And

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Speaker 3: as you know, when you got Deny on one side,

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Speaker 1: He's a beast too.

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Speaker 2: You got some you got some goings, some some goblins

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Speaker 2: out there. You go into West Lafayette with this group

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Speaker 2: with with a good feeling, Uh, get the taste out

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Speaker 2: about as well. What is the message this week? What

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Speaker 2: has that been going into this Purdue game?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's it's it's pretty consistent around here. You know, again,

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Speaker 3: we just we can't get caught up in too many

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Speaker 3: the task at hand, and that is Purdue and being

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Speaker 3: and he's a problem. He's six foot four, he's two

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Speaker 3: coach is a really good defensive mind, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: That is eleven on eleven.

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Speaker 2: And going into this game, you said better, what do

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Speaker 2: what he can build on After last weekends showing in

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Speaker 3: I just think he's really for the last two years,

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Speaker 3: most importantly, the pieces of the puzzle around him were

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Speaker 3: making more plays around them. Obviously, Tyler Warren, we could

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Speaker 3: the passing game, the receivers continue to get better and

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Speaker 3: pretty balanced offensively, and Drew does a really good job

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Speaker 3: he's also making plays for us that we need to make,

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Speaker 3: you know, with his mind, with his arm, and with

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

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Speaker 2: You got you got receivers like there. I know everybody

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Speaker 2: They throw the ball. They like to throw the ball.

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Speaker 2: They're known for one and to throw the ball. But

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Speaker 2: also just that getting better and building towards more. How

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Speaker 3: Well, I think we're improved from last year. Last year

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Speaker 3: Their entire identity is not just as a football player,

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Speaker 3: and I think that's what Penn State is all about.

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Speaker 3: You know, my beliefs and Penn State's beliefs are the same.

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Speaker 3: So we're treating these people as young men that we

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Speaker 3: But when you do that, they'll give you the benefit

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Speaker 1: Indeed, good luck to you, coach.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you brother.

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Speaker 2: Y'all gonna be on the road for a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but hey, it's time to pay rent. You know, when

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Speaker 2: good luck to you guys, and we are man.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everything you're doing.

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Speaker 3: You too, I'll see you sooner, brother.

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Speaker 1: All right. Coach, all right, that's coach Franklin.

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Speaker 2: This is quite Franklin with the coach James Franklin and myself,

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Speaker 2: LeVar Arrington.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Make sure you stay dowed in, tuned in

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Speaker 1: to all things. Well. Disrupt you PSU, that's right.

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Speaker 2: So until next week, we are Penn State's LaVar Arrington

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