August 15, 2025 • 43 mins
We're back and this time we brought with us VHSL all-time leading receiver Keylen "Brodie" Adams. We walk through Keylen's first year on campus, adjusting to college life, persevering through a difficult injury, and how he's fairing so far through fall camp. He also gives us a peek into how he fuels up for practice and why the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel is the ultimate bane of his existence.
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Welcome back to the Poundry Corner podcast, a part of the
College Huddle Network. Along with my partners Brian
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tonight, man, with a very special player.
And who we've got tonight is wide receiver for your Virginia
Tech hoagies, the all time receiving letter in VHSL
history. I'm only going to call him
Keelan Adams because I know his Mama don't like them to your
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body. Call him Brody.
Y'all call him what y'all won't call him.
But ladies and gentlemen, KeelanAdams.
Yeah, I do it. Thanks for having me.
What's happening? Thank.
Thanks for joining us tonight. I really appreciate it.
I'm with Curtis. I'm gonna stick with Keelan.
I don't want to. I don't want anybody's mom be
upset with me. So that's, that's that's why
we're going to roll with him. Yeah, I might call him Key every
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now and then, but I ain't, I ain't, I ain't calling him what
his Mama said. Don't call him.
Yeah, we we own that scoop. They're going to be somebody
around you in the future is going to be like, hey, Brody.
And it's going to be like pop like you and his Mama, won't
you? So Keelan, we appreciate you
taking some time tonight, man. Got some.
Definitely looking forward to asking me some of these
questions to see how everything's going.
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But let's kick it off. We do know you missed a lot of
time in the winter and in the spring with an injury.
First of all, how are you feeling right now?
I'm feeling good. I feel like it's been a long
recovery process since the bowl game, but like coming, coming
together, I feel like it's it's I'm feeling good right now.
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That's good to hear, I know. Now we were talking.
You did not, you weren't Privy to not missing all those fun
stuff, right? You still had to wake up every
morning hunger drills and go to it, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
No, even though I was hurt, I was still at everything.
I think in total I probably missed like maybe four days once
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I have my surgery, including theday of the surgery.
I, I know I had my surgery, I want to say it was on like a
Tuesday and then I stayed night there, came back Wednesday and
did not think Thursday and Friday I was just at home.
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My, my mom, my parents came and they stayed with me for like a
week. So like that whole weekend it
was there and then Monday, I'm pretty sure I went back to the
facility and I, I was there for everything.
I just couldn't do nothing. Yeah, man.
So you, you had the surgery, youhad a couple days and then you
were right back to it showing up.
You had meetings, you had, you know, all the all the offseason
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workouts showing up and put in the middle reps as much as you
could. Yeah.
Yeah, good deal. Speaking of the injury, I mean,
I know like a lot of times with things like that, I know you
always like, it's, it's always good to like try to learn
something like what was what wasthe biggest thing you learned
about yourself going through that process and the recovery
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and all that? I say I learned two things.
I feel like one thing I learned,I definitely learned like how
blessed I am. Like just going through the
whole process, it really made methink like, I'm still here.
Like the surgery could have wentbad, but it didn't, it went
good. So it's like, that's one thing.
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And then it's like, even to be in the situation I'm I'm in now,
like I'm at school, playing a sport that I love and getting
my, my education paid for. Like there's a lot of people in
the country that would really like want this situation or this
opportunity. And I just feel like I'm blessed
to have that and the people around me that supported me
through this whole, this whole thing.
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And then the second thing I saidis don't take things for
granted, like how we said I was there to, even though I couldn't
do anything, I was there watching practices and all that,
you know, hunger drills. It didn't feel that bad because
like, I don't think anybody really wants to do hunger
drills. But like springboard, that's
where it really like hit me where it was like this was like
my first real injury. So it was never like, I mean,
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like in high school, I like sprained my thumb or something,
sprained the ankle. But it was like I knew I was
going to play in the game when it was time.
I might have sat in the practice, but I knew when Friday
came, I was going to play. But this was like the first time
where it was like I really knew like I wasn't going to play in
the in the spring game, like I wasn't going to go practice.
So it was like it really made melook at football a little bit
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because this is the first time like I really couldn't do
anything. Man, that's got to be tough.
I was getting ready. I was going to actually ask you.
I'm glad you reiterated this is the first time in your life you
were like hurt, hurt, like couldn't do anything, couldn't
do football, couldn't do practice, couldn't lift weights.
So it's just I'm here and I I, I, I like what you said there
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because I think people do take for granted, especially I know
there's probably teammates and there's probably guys, you know,
all over football, all over justthe real world, never been hurt
from and it and it takes you away.
I love hearing that. Kelly, what you got on tap next,
man? Yeah, so Keelan is one of the,
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if y'all don't know who he is, do your research.
One of the most accomplished players in Virginia history
ever. We can go on and on.
Coaches all over wanted you. I know of one that's close to me
that definitely wanted you, but you know, it is what it is on
all of that. We're glad you ended up at
Virginia Tech, but just how is that process going through the
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recruiting process with kind of everybody, you know, wanting you
to to come to the school? I started my recruit, my
recruitment kind of early. I got my first offer in 8th
grade. So like at first it was, it was
fun. It was like a, it was, it was
fun. And then as, as it went on, it
started really showing me like all the hard work and the stuff
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I was doing was really starting to pay off.
Like I was finally getting the things that I was working for.
So by the time I got to about like junior year and I start
trying to map out like, OK, whatschools do I want to start
looking at to maybe plan the official for or what schools
like I started narrowing down the list.
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So when it got more serious. And but I mean, even then when
it got more serious, it was still fun because it's like,
like I said before, everybody doesn't get to do this.
Like it's, it's not a lot of people in the world that get as
many offers I had or TV things that I teach.
So it was like it was, it was pressure when it came down to
picking the school, but it like,I feel like it was a good kind
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of pressure because like I said,people don't, people don't have
that type of pressure to be like, oh, I don't know what
school I want to pick. It's so I look, I try to see the
positive in that. And it was it was fun for me.
That's awesome to hear. I'm looking, I'm looking through
the list Tally you ain't lying offers Alabama, Ohio State,
Texas A&M, Auburn, Miami, Penn State.
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You could have went anywhere, man, haven't you come here like
looking at that. And again, we we were covering
your recruitment and stuff. We talked about when you got it,
but that's been a couple years ago and seeing you had all those
offers, all those opportunities,you come here, I love hearing
it. And then another thing you are
definitely a driving catalyst ofis Green Run to Virginia Tech.
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You were the first, you know, you know, you had Zeke this
year. Come.
I know he's one of the guys along with a few others.
But how does it feel to be like that guy to kind of be the
leader of the Green Run footballteam, getting the offers from
Tech and saying, let's go here, let's do it in state, let's
represent VA. It feels good.
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It's crazy because it's I mean, I've done a couple of interviews
and I've gotten that question, just word it differently.
But like I've never really like thought of myself as like the
leader that started it. It was kind of just we all seen
the same thing in the coaching staff and the people and just
the school as a whole. So I never really looked at it
as like I'm the leader of it, but like, I feel like we all, we
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all know what we were looking for.
Like coming from a green run, weknow what it was like there and
we, we basically like, well, I know at least with me, I tried
to find the, the green run in the schools.
But I mean, I feel like we all kind of understood what we were
looking for as far as a college and then we all end up picking
the same school and it just, it's been working.
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Man, I love hearing that. And I mean, the, the next thing
I got for you is kind of on the same vein and you just kind of
talked about it a little bit, but like, you know, I'm sure you
know it, but like the perceptionof Virginia Tech for a while in
the in the 75 was not that great.
And, you know, it feels like with with the pride regime
coming in and kind of turning that corner, you know, talk to
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me a little bit of how you felt some of that perception change
in the 757 as it pertains to Virginia Tech.
Well, me personally, it definitely changed because it
was actually like it was my second offer.
It was UNC Tech and the UVA. And I got I was offered by
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Smitty and Tap with the old coaching staff and it was like
they offered me and then that was it.
Like I, I never talked to anybody.
They never talked to my coaches,nothing.
So like for the longest, like once I started getting a lot of
offers, I really didn't see myself going to Tech at first.
I didn't, I didn't see myself coming here because it was like
I knew nothing about the school.I didn't know anything about the
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people. And like you said, the, the
perception of Virginia Tech in the 75 wasn't really a good
thing. So it was like being around that
and then experiencing it for myself, like I'm not talking to
these coaches or these coaches aren't talking to the people
around me. I never really like thought
about coming to Tech until Pridegot here.
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And soon as he got here, he reached out to my coaches.
They reoffered me with the new coaching staff and then from
there they was in contact with all the people around me until
they was actually able to talk to me.
And ever since then, even now, it's still the same like I can
talk to coach pride and we stillhave the same conversations,
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just like I was in recruiting. The same with coach Mines and
all the other coaches. Man, it's I, I don't even know
what to say about that because it's, it's one of those things
you sit here and you know, we'refans, but it's like the level
that you were regarded, the way you played high school football,
the competition you played against, to say you got an offer
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that's wonderful, but you don't hear from anybody after that
like that, that, that, that breaks me.
And I know it's different with the coaching staff nowadays.
And you know, it seems like they, they, they, they come down
there, they like you said, they talk to, and I love what you
said because it shows they're doing that.
They talk to everyone that they could talk to around you until
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they until it was appropriate totalk to you.
Because if they couldn't talk toyou, because we know there's
restrictions, there's all sorts of wild ships goes on for
recruiting. It's like you can't talk to them
now. You can't visit them now, they
can't come here. They can.
And it's like, at least they were trying to get everything to
learn everything about Keelan Adams.
So when they got a chance to speak to you, they knew you as
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much as they could without talking to you face to face.
I love that. That's how recruitment work,
man. You got to recruit families, not
just players. So I mean, I think they've done
a a good job of of that as of lately.
Just shifting gears a little bit.
We'll talk a little bit about last year.
I know it was brand new to you coming in, you know, probably
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missing your senior prom, enrolling early, stepping on
campus, getting ready to play and there was a lot of
expectations on that team. Season didn't turn out kind of
how we wanted. I know it didn't turn out how
y'all want it. So with that though, kind of
what did you learn from that experience with you coming in
highly regarded like you were, you know, sitting and learning
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just a little bit and seeing it play out like it did?
I feel like I feel like everyoneon the team has the same
mindset, especially now. Like last season was
disappointing because it was it felt like we did so much in the
offseason and built up to to have a good season.
It didn't turn out the way that we wanted to, but just sitting
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back and watching I've I tried to find ways to become a better
player so that way when it was my turn, I'd be ready.
So like as far as the receivers,I tried to take something from
all of the older guys that was playing.
I tried to take something from their game and add it to mine.
So when it was my turn, they there would be no question if I
could do it or not. Like we had like Steve, Steve
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was like tough, great route runner.
So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
Like Steve could play anywhere. Like last year, we put him in
the slot if we had to outside everything.
So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
So if if coach mine wants me to go to the slot, there wouldn't
be a question. Like I don't know if he can do
it. Like they're going to blow.
No, we're confident and putting him there and just little stuff
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like that. Try to take something from all
of those those other guys to make my game better.
So when it was my turn out be good.
Now listen. Full disclosure, this is
Jonathan Talley speaking on his own behalf.
I do not know this man. I'm not his family, so I'm
speaking for myself. I was yelling at the TV to every
game because I seen motherfuckers out there dropping
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the ball, not hustling. I can go on and on.
I said, put him in, let's see what he can do.
But I'm going to go back and say, God, don't make no
mistakes, because I nobody knew kind of the injury that you was
dealing with or you know what I'm saying, what could have
happened, what it was like everything played out the way
it's supposed to be. It's just crazy to me that you
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was able to do what you've been able to do on one leg.
Like I watch a lot of film and you was you was eating people
ass up with one leg even in the bowl game.
So if that, if that never happened, like if they say, Oh
well, he got hurt during the season, like you were injured in
the bowl game and still show some glimpses of, of what you
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can do on the on the college level.
You, you, you let everybody be known who you were in that bowl
game with that big play. Because when it, because I
remember watching it here at thehouse, it was like right back
there, right there, right in front of the TV right there.
You hit it and I'm like, good Lord, like that's what we've got
on the back burner. That's the guy coming.
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Back why they said why they on the sideline.
Why is he on the sideline? My bad.
Hang on. It's true, though.
Like that play. I think for some people, for so
many people, it's like it's always what is he like?
What is he like? And in national TV, late
December, you go out there and do that.
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And it was just like, oh, oh, that's who he is for us, Yeah.
We going to be alright. We going to be OK, we going to
talk a lot about, we going to talk a lot about that on on the
next show. So we ain't going to get Keelan
all involved in that. But I will tell you, I will, I
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will tell you you, you definitely have people that have
watched your game and understandwhat you bring to the table.
So I know you quiet, I know you don't talk a lot.
I've been so excited to see you doing, you know, more
interviews, getting in front of the camera, things like that.
That's awesome. But anybody who knows football
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and pays attention to football, if you don't know what this man
can do on the football field, and I mean, you're not watching
football. So we've been, we've been, we've
been excited for you, man. We've been ready to see you, you
know, just just come into your own and and do what you do.
So definitely excited to watch you and and, and cheer.
Y'all. I got to get one of those shirts
too. Yeah, what is the shirt?
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Go ahead, shout out the shirt right there.
It's pretty sick looking when this one.
Yeah, that one. The the hoodie this it's a
spider hoodie. It's a spider.
In Oh no, I wouldn't talk about the spider.
I'm. Talking about yo shirt, I
thought you were. Talking about that one, huh?
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Yeah, I've seen the shirt. Yeah.
You ain't seen the shirts, Curtis.
I haven't seen the shirt. I thought you were talking about
the shirts wearing. I was like.
That's a young man shirt. He got it.
Sally say he he, he, he aged outon that one.
He aged out on that one. He talked about last season a
little bit. Let's talk about this year's
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team and coming up, you know, you got a new offensive
coordinator, Coach Monty. I mean, what a track record he's
got, man. I'm I'm sure you probably looked
it up and probably knew about itas soon as it was named
high-powered offenses balance, though he's had wide receivers,
he let them show out without a doubt.
I mean, in his career since he became a coordinator about I
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think it's 14 years ago, 9000 yard wide receiver seasons 9,
that's like 1 every other. And he had some who were like at
981. So he clearly puts wide
receivers in the position. So just in your short time, we
know it's only been about 6-7 months.
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What's he like as a coordinator just in the meeting rooms and
stuff? And what was your reaction like
when the playbook was given? Like, so you know who he is and
then all of a sudden here's the playbook on your tablet or in
paper. What is he like?
What's he like as a coach? And then what would you like
when you got that playbook? When I got the playbook, I think
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that was around the time when I first started like really
walking around screen bomb. And I had to brace.
I still had the limp and everything going, but I had just
stopped using the crutches. I've seen the playbook.
I told Coach Ryan I might as well just go ahead, throw some
cleats on. At this point.
I feel like I'm good. But him as a coach, like I, I
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like him. I feel like he fits our offense.
Like I feel like he fits with the players.
He's really just trying to get the ball to the playmakers and
let them do what got them here. Like that's the best way I can
describe it. Like looking at it, watching the
practices and stuff like that. That's really what it looks like
to me. He's just trying to get the ball
to the playmakers and let them do what they do.
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And honestly, it it reminds me of my like a playbook from green
run like a high school. That's basically what ours was.
It was just I want to say get open, but I mean that's that's
kind of what it was like. It was kind of just get the ball
to the guys and let them do whatthey do.
And I feel like that's what thisoffense now, I feel like that's
what this looks like. So I mean, at least for the
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receivers, I can speak for us. We love to play with.
I thought I was going to hear that, you know, when we're
lining this up, we were like, all right, he he's going to like
this playbook. He's going to want to talk about
it a little bit. He's he's going to want to give
it a little bit of a little bit of shine there.
Because I mean, you know, when you look at it like air raid
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concepts are, are, are made for,for wide receivers to get the
ball in their hands and do what they do best, put up big plays,
put up some numbers, move the sticks, get in the end zone.
So I, I love that you have that sentiment as well.
So we're excited about that, excited about this offense.
I think there's some big things that we can do.
And I think, you know, I, I likethat it is, you know, air raid
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concepts, but it's still a balanced attack that way.
It's not it's not all on the wide outs to do everything you
don't have you go have that run support, you go have a good mix
in there. But I think the concepts are
there for y'all to do some some real big things of this.
I'm I'm really excited about that.
You know, let's talk about this a little bit.
I know we talked about a little bit before we punched it.
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You know, me and Curtis, we've been friends, you know, close to
30 years, not a whole lot that we don't have on each other.
So we, we, we can't, we can't ever cut this thing off because
because we got too much dirt on each other.
But I don't want to get you in trouble with any other
teammates. But like who's the guy that
you've kind of connected with since you've been in Blacksbury
that you might have that type ofbond in with in the future?
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I'll probably say it. It's probably like two people.
Noah Jenkins on defense, before I knew him since like 8th grade,
we had like mutual. We had a mutual friend and we
all ended up in the group chat and then it became by the group
that we tested every day. And it was, it was like we
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called it DBK because we was allreceivers.
We was like young and we was like at, we was like the top
players in, in our areas. And it was like we was all
starting to get offers and everything like that.
And we, we just bonded like we was like the top players in our
areas. Because he's from Richmond.
He went to Highland Springs. Yeah, but I feel like it started
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there and then as we went through high school, we were
still active in the group chat. Whenever we see we went to camps
together, the whole group chat went to the, what was.
It was a Rivals camp, I think our sophomore junior year.
I had it my sophomore year 'cause that's when I had
sprained my ankle and I didn't go to it.
I ended up going to the Rivals camp that was in Baltimore like
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couple weeks later, but the whole group that was at that one
camp. So like I'll probably say Noah.
And then the second one would beQ reddish safety.
He was once we moved out of dorms, I end up moving with him
to our apartment and we've been close ever since then.
Like that was probably 1 of likethe faster bonds that I end up
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making, but between them still probably.
Yeah, got it. All right.
Is you Quentin y'all got to havemore?
Is it just y'all or you got two more roommates?
Nah when we had first move that it was me and him.
I live with Bullet now but Noah OK got it.
Just two people man y'all lucky.I just live with like 4 people
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dorms and the dorms 4 in the dorms that was that was one of
the person coming early if you moved in in the.
Spring. You only got to stay on campus
for a semester, so right after the spring game me and cute
moved out there. We go.
I'll blame you. So, yeah, you've been in
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Blacksburg just to, you know, about a year and a half now.
I know you got some coaches thatyou're connected with, players
you're connected with. Is there any anybody just, you
know, even it could be related to football, but maybe not a
coach or a player that's kind ofmade an impact on you since
you've been in Blacksburg? My parents definitely have just
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because like when I first got here that was the first time.
Like coming to college was the 1st for me for a lot of things.
This was my first time, like notplaying.
I started as a freshman in high school.
So coming to college and not playing like that was, it was
weird for me 'cause it's like I felt like I was doing everything
that I needed to do and it just almost felt like I wasn't
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working hard enough. But it's like in my mind I know
that I'm working. So it was like just them being
there for me and like being withme as I tried to navigate
through that. That time of, OK, you got to
take the backseat and learn. So when it is your turn, you'll
be ready. Like that's where I got that
mindset from. So I say them definitely.
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I love hearing that, love hearing that, I mean.
Yeah, it's crazy man, cuz you know I ain't trying to put no
shameless plugs in. Go ahead.
Go ahead bro. No.
I'll let you. I'll let you finish.
You got a good thought going there, man?
No, I was just saying I wasn't going to put no shameless plugs
in or nothing, but just talking to your pops sometimes, man,
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like because my son is a sophomore in high school and
sometimes it's like I have to call your pops and figure out
some stuff or what's going on with you so I can talk to him.
Because I'm like, hey man, I don't know what to say to this
dude. He's getting on my nerves.
I'm going to kick him out, You know what I'm saying?
So, you know, I call and get some advice or, you know, he'll
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tell me some things like, you know, Keelan.
Keelan did this. Just some good stuff, nothing
bad. You know, Keelan did this or,
you know, he did this on his ownand he started doing this.
You know, maybe you should talk to him this way because
sometimes parents, man, well, a lot of times parents, we don't
get it right. You know what I'm saying?
There ain't no playbook. It could be an apparent.
So a lot of times, man, we mess up or we, we, we may say the
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wrong thing or do the wrong thing, but when you got good
people around you who aren't scared to share information with
you, man, it makes it a little bit easier.
So with your trials and tribulations of, of going off by
yourself and being that far awayfrom home and, you know, leaving
school early and stuff like that, like I've learned some
stuff. So appreciate you, man.
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Keep on doing what you're doing,my brother.
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's always important when you when you have
somebody that that's kind of your center, that's like your
grounding spot when you're goingthrough some tough times or
fight adversity or going into new realms, like, you know,
uncharted territory for you. It's like, all right, well, I've
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got somebody that I know can be my sounding board.
That's that's going to support me, but it's also going to going
to calm me out a little bit if Ineed to, you know, have a
different mindset or, you know, maybe adjust my way of thinking
a little bit to to kind of push through and persevere.
So having that in your life and having that as somebody that's,
you know, you are you are, has already been in your household
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and that you, you know, you know, and you, you already have
a good relationship with that's,that's that's big time.
Let's talk about that trip, though.
So like, you know, the the drivefrom Virginia Beach out to
Blacksburg is not easy when you got about 4 1/2 hours when
you're on the road, you got to like a go to is or do you stick
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with music? Are you more of like a podcast
person? Do you do any like audio books?
What's the vibe? What's your go to on those long
trips? No, it's definitely music.
It really depends around like the time when I leave because of
the drive, I'll be trying to time it because like got to go
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through the tunnel and for whatever reason it's like it's
like people just see the bridge and just automatically forget
how to drive. So it's just, it's just like
realistically the drive is like 4 1/2, maybe 440.
But like the tunnel adds like a hour.
So really tech isn't even that far.
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Like it's, it's really not. But it's like like summertime
when I would leave. We finished getting done with
our workouts in the morning. I'll try to get on the rule and
like either get there before thetunnel traffic started or after.
So like I'll probably start off with like some rap or something.
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And then once the sun, the sun started going down, I'll call my
mom on my other phone. And then like once I start
getting sleepy, that's when the concerts start.
I'll start playing all the old songs she used to play.
And then when me and my sister was younger in the car, I start
playing all those songs and I get to sing and she's like, you
tired, ain't you? Yes I am, but I have two hours
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so. Everybody got to know right now
that when he says all the old songs that that that she used to
listen. To.
Every song that we listen to in high school.
No, Keelan I, absolutely. That's normal songs for us.
Yeah, Keelan, I feel you. Sounds good. 100% Keelan, I feel
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you on the tunnel, man. We went down to Sand Bridge this
year for family vacay, all right, in in Hampton Roads
tunnel. We were like, all right, it's
backed up. We're going to swing over.
We're going to go to the other tunnel on 664.
Swear to God, we get over there,everybody tapping brakes and
it's just like, oh, I like living down there.
Brian can attest to it. Brian's wife's fan that way.
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I just, I just made a trip. No.
So they had me get off 64. They're like, yeah, get off 64,
you know, go around Hampton and then get back on just before the
tunnel. It'll be all right.
And I get off. And man, I waited in that
traffic to get back on to 64. I know it was standstill for
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like a good hour off off 64, then we finally got back on.
The tunnel itself is never that bad.
It's just everything like peopledon't, as soon as they say, oh,
the tunnel's coming up, they just forget how to drive, just
like you said. That's the problem.
That's the problem. The tunnel is never that bad.
As soon as you see the light when you're coming out the
tunnel, all of a sudden everybody's doing more than the
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speed limit. And it's like, why would we even
stop? There's nothing wrong.
You'll be sitting and driving for an hour and the whole time,
like you'll be sitting there andyou'll be like looking like,
damn, it's probably an accident.Host somebody.
OK? Then as you start answering up
people like they would have got the accident cleaned up by then.
Then you start looking for clues.
You start looking around like, Idon't see anything.
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I don't see no smoke. I'm not hearing no sirens.
Pass me nothing. You get up there, there's
nothing you like. So what was I sitting for?
You get as soon as you see the light in the tunnel, like soon
as you get outside and the line goes from the solid white to the
dotted lines, all of a sudden people turn into speed racers.
And now, Now I'm 30 minutes fromthe house, even though
technically I'm forwarded because everybody wants
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speeders. Yeah, it's bad.
But the only upside, in my opinion, of going down is you
stop at Pierce's Barbecue in Williamsburg, get you a nice
sandwich and eat it. And yeah, on the way.
But I'm gonna ask. This Pretty soon we gonna have
Bucky's on the way in. Like the next year we gonna have
Bucky's on the way. You're aware of that, right,
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Kaylin? Up on New Kent, up when you get
back past New Kent, we get in Bucky's that's in the country,
that's in the country when you're coming up 64 before you
get to. Just before you get back to like
the 295, the swing exit there, like just past the horse racing
track. Yeah, I'm honest with y'all.
Y'all saying the routes like 64.I don't know.
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I don't know where you guys are talking about.
I don't know my mom she was likewhen you stop halfway is exit
something something when you getoff of this mom just send me a
picture. I don't know.
I can't type it on. Just tell me where I'm going.
I'll put it in the map, but I'll.
Figure it out. All I got right.
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.First of all, 64 to it's it's
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going to be a while for you to go back home.
You got to go to Pierce's, though.
It's some of the best pit cook BBQ.
If you like BBQ brisket, whatever some of the best.
It's in Williamsburg. I, I, I attest to it real quick.
Look, I just went all that to ask these three questions.
What's like when you you say youlisten to current?
Well, it's like your current song that winds up on every
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playlist. And what's old school that winds
up on every playlist? Current song probably be Oh no,
I listen to a lot, so it'll probably be like songs with an S
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from like I'll probably say the artist OK, more more so artists
are probably like why be babyface Ray, no cap fat man.
They would end up on like almostall my playlist and then like
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the old songs be like. I got to call my mom for this
one. You put him on the.
Spot you put you on the spot on that one.
Yeah, I'm trying to think like, because a lot of the songs I
don't know the names too. I just know like when she play
it, I know the lyrics but I couldn't tell you.
They buy, you do the lyrics. Let's see if we can play name
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that tune. Plus, old heads can remember
those songs. Lord Curtis trying to make the
man sing on here. I'm trying.
To think like have fun, man. I'm trying to think like old rap
songs, probably like Snoop Dogg,Doctor Dre, something like that.
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Who else? She played like.
She played like baby. OK.
OK, OK. You better not be Keelan.
You better not be in that car. Listen no pretty girl rock.
No, but look there, you got to hear, you got to hear me out.
Were you tired and trying to stay up?
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Oh yeah, that's the ones that get you.
I'm telling you, you roll the window down and all of a sudden
life is good. You don't even realize you're
sitting at the tunnel anymore. You just, you just sit in the
car. You just having a concert.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why it always finds me one of my
daughter's favorite songs. My daughter's 19, So one of her
favorite songs is like the I can't even remember the the lady
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that sing, but it's on my Mama. It came out probably like 2
years ago. Anytime I'm in the car, that
song always sings to find the radio.
Like I put that on my Mama. Like every time I'm in the car
it finds me. So like you said, man, I could
be like feel like I'm nodding off and that and that hit me.
So it's like, OK, yeah, I got towake up right here.
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It is. It's concert time.
So I feel you on that. But hey, we going, we going, we
going to go to something a little bit easier.
I believe we always ask questions about food.
So this was kind of a two-part question.
Favorite meal from your mom's? Because we had to.
We talk about mom and then your favorite place to eat in
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Blacksburg. OK, favorite meals for my mom?
The Alfredo, the spaghetti she made, Big ziti, the chicken Mac
and cheese. Black Christmas dinner?
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That's probably like the best dinner ever.
You just named a lot of food, man.
Yeah, man, I'm just thinking about this home, you know, I'm
going to tell her. Come cook.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
You'll tell her. We had that idea either.
OK. Yeah, I'm just calling Ma.
Can you can you come up here andjust cook for like a week or
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something? That's.
Right. My favorite place is eat and
black birthday will probably be I like Kabuki the baji place.
I like Kabuki PK's you. You're more of a wing person to
PK's. You go with the, you know, with
the wings. Yeah, PK's.
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The wings then like Chipotle, itused to be Zaxby's, but I don't.
I don't know why they got rid ofZaxby's, but they did so.
Yeah, that that that, that hurtsthe team there.
That's that's back-to-back player interviews that have put
Chipotle on the map. Keep going on the map.
I think everybody we've interviewed, it's like 8 of 11
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Chipotle, Chipotle, and I'm guessing it probably goes to
with what y'all were doing. Y'all were busy as heck.
It's like I just want some beef.I maybe want a little sauce and
some cheese and I won't go home.I feel like walking around for
two hours. I just want to get my food and
go home. It helped too because you know,
like when you train this stuff, you got to maintain a certain
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weight so, so your body stays healthy and then and the safe is
supposed to be. And like when, when I was
talking to like our nutritionistand stuff and they like help us
meal plan and they try and help us like pick out things that
we'd like that we would like eating because that was one of
my hardest things. I couldn't eat.
I couldn't gain weight for anything because I just couldn't
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eat. So I had to find ways to like
pick out stuff that I liked. So she was telling me she was
like, what is what's like your favorite fast food?
I'm like Chipotle. She's like, oh, you made this
easy. Just get double of everything.
You'll be good. So like, especially since camp
started, I've been getting to vote every day.
There we go. Every single it's around the
same time. It's the same worker every time
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I'm going there, I'll go and like, you're back.
Yes, I am. Let me get a do do.
Do they already know your usual?Do they Do they got it down now?
Yeah, sometimes I switch it up, but like it is, it's definitely
one lady that works there and she was like, you want the same
thing? Yes, yes I do.
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My God. What's up?
Hey, I got one question that's. Kind of off man do.
You got your do you got your your dog back up there yet?
Nah, Nah, he come back when we get down.
Can y'all hear me? Yeah, we got your tally.
OK, got you. Go ahead.
Came here not I was he he come back when we finished camp My my
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parents going to bring him back.OK.
What kind of dog? I don't think they're going to
let him come back, man. They're going to keep.
Him. Yeah, my mom did say that.
Yeah. What?
What what kind of dog is he Keeling?
A pit bull terrier. What's his name?
Cartier. Oh, there we go.
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I like that. Different boys.
Anything else? Because what?
What time's practice tomorrow? Let's ask real quick.
Are y'all about to hit a one of the mini camp breaks?
Nah, today was the break. We start mini camp 4 tomorrow.
Mini camp four starts tomorrow. Well, listen man, keep doing
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your thing. You have been up the last really
it's been 50 minutes because we talked with them before we got
on. You have been a pleasure to talk
with the last roughly hour here.You are a very upstanding young
man. Great things are going to happen
to you regardless. Regardless, because I think you
got great attitude. I think you got positivity.
I hear some of these answers. Your head's in the right spot,
(40:34):
man. And we won't give Chris hell
tomorrow night. You tell him that, right?
That's right. That's right.
You take care of yourself, TallyBrown.
Anything else? Encouraging words for this young
man. Hey man, when you get your
chance, just go in there and do what you do.
That's all I ask. Just do what you do, brother.
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Yeah, that, that, that's same sentiments, man.
You know, you're going, you're going to get a bunch of
opportunities this year. Just you get in there and, and,
and do what you you've always done and that that's going to
take care of yourself. Get in there and produce so you
take care of yourself. That does wrap up this episode
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tonight, man, with a very special player.
And who we've got tonight is wide receiver for your Virginia
Tech hoagies, the all time receiving letter in VHSL
history. I'm only going to call him
Keelan Adams because I know his Mama don't like them to your
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body. Call him Brody.
Y'all call him what y'all won't call him.
But ladies and gentlemen, KeelanAdams.
Yeah, I do it. Thanks for having me.
What's happening? Thank.
Thanks for joining us tonight. I really appreciate it.
I'm with Curtis. I'm gonna stick with Keelan.
I don't want to. I don't want anybody's mom be
upset with me. So that's, that's that's why
we're going to roll with him. Yeah, I might call him Key every
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now and then, but I ain't, I ain't, I ain't calling him what
his Mama said. Don't call him.
Yeah, we we own that scoop. They're going to be somebody
around you in the future is going to be like, hey, Brody.
And it's going to be like pop like you and his Mama, won't
you? So Keelan, we appreciate you
taking some time tonight, man. Got some.
Definitely looking forward to asking me some of these
questions to see how everything's going.
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But let's kick it off. We do know you missed a lot of
time in the winter and in the spring with an injury.
First of all, how are you feeling right now?
I'm feeling good. I feel like it's been a long
recovery process since the bowl game, but like coming, coming
together, I feel like it's it's I'm feeling good right now.
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That's good to hear, I know. Now we were talking.
You did not, you weren't Privy to not missing all those fun
stuff, right? You still had to wake up every
morning hunger drills and go to it, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
No, even though I was hurt, I was still at everything.
I think in total I probably missed like maybe four days once
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I have my surgery, including theday of the surgery.
I, I know I had my surgery, I want to say it was on like a
Tuesday and then I stayed night there, came back Wednesday and
did not think Thursday and Friday I was just at home.
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My, my mom, my parents came and they stayed with me for like a
week. So like that whole weekend it
was there and then Monday, I'm pretty sure I went back to the
facility and I, I was there for everything.
I just couldn't do nothing. Yeah, man.
So you, you had the surgery, youhad a couple days and then you
were right back to it showing up.
You had meetings, you had, you know, all the all the offseason
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workouts showing up and put in the middle reps as much as you
could. Yeah.
Yeah, good deal. Speaking of the injury, I mean,
I know like a lot of times with things like that, I know you
always like, it's, it's always good to like try to learn
something like what was what wasthe biggest thing you learned
about yourself going through that process and the recovery
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and all that? I say I learned two things.
I feel like one thing I learned,I definitely learned like how
blessed I am. Like just going through the
whole process, it really made methink like, I'm still here.
Like the surgery could have wentbad, but it didn't, it went
good. So it's like, that's one thing.
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And then it's like, even to be in the situation I'm I'm in now,
like I'm at school, playing a sport that I love and getting
my, my education paid for. Like there's a lot of people in
the country that would really like want this situation or this
opportunity. And I just feel like I'm blessed
to have that and the people around me that supported me
through this whole, this whole thing.
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And then the second thing I saidis don't take things for
granted, like how we said I was there to, even though I couldn't
do anything, I was there watching practices and all that,
you know, hunger drills. It didn't feel that bad because
like, I don't think anybody really wants to do hunger
drills. But like springboard, that's
where it really like hit me where it was like this was like
my first real injury. So it was never like, I mean,
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like in high school, I like sprained my thumb or something,
sprained the ankle. But it was like I knew I was
going to play in the game when it was time.
I might have sat in the practice, but I knew when Friday
came, I was going to play. But this was like the first time
where it was like I really knew like I wasn't going to play in
the in the spring game, like I wasn't going to go practice.
So it was like it really made melook at football a little bit
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because this is the first time like I really couldn't do
anything. Man, that's got to be tough.
I was getting ready. I was going to actually ask you.
I'm glad you reiterated this is the first time in your life you
were like hurt, hurt, like couldn't do anything, couldn't
do football, couldn't do practice, couldn't lift weights.
So it's just I'm here and I I, I, I like what you said there
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because I think people do take for granted, especially I know
there's probably teammates and there's probably guys, you know,
all over football, all over justthe real world, never been hurt
from and it and it takes you away.
I love hearing that. Kelly, what you got on tap next,
man? Yeah, so Keelan is one of the,
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if y'all don't know who he is, do your research.
One of the most accomplished players in Virginia history
ever. We can go on and on.
Coaches all over wanted you. I know of one that's close to me
that definitely wanted you, but you know, it is what it is on
all of that. We're glad you ended up at
Virginia Tech, but just how is that process going through the
(07:32):
recruiting process with kind of everybody, you know, wanting you
to to come to the school? I started my recruit, my
recruitment kind of early. I got my first offer in 8th
grade. So like at first it was, it was
fun. It was like a, it was, it was
fun. And then as, as it went on, it
started really showing me like all the hard work and the stuff
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I was doing was really starting to pay off.
Like I was finally getting the things that I was working for.
So by the time I got to about like junior year and I start
trying to map out like, OK, whatschools do I want to start
looking at to maybe plan the official for or what schools
like I started narrowing down the list.
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So when it got more serious. And but I mean, even then when
it got more serious, it was still fun because it's like,
like I said before, everybody doesn't get to do this.
Like it's, it's not a lot of people in the world that get as
many offers I had or TV things that I teach.
So it was like it was, it was pressure when it came down to
picking the school, but it like,I feel like it was a good kind
(08:38):
of pressure because like I said,people don't, people don't have
that type of pressure to be like, oh, I don't know what
school I want to pick. It's so I look, I try to see the
positive in that. And it was it was fun for me.
That's awesome to hear. I'm looking, I'm looking through
the list Tally you ain't lying offers Alabama, Ohio State,
Texas A&M, Auburn, Miami, Penn State.
(09:02):
You could have went anywhere, man, haven't you come here like
looking at that. And again, we we were covering
your recruitment and stuff. We talked about when you got it,
but that's been a couple years ago and seeing you had all those
offers, all those opportunities,you come here, I love hearing
it. And then another thing you are
definitely a driving catalyst ofis Green Run to Virginia Tech.
(09:24):
You were the first, you know, you know, you had Zeke this
year. Come.
I know he's one of the guys along with a few others.
But how does it feel to be like that guy to kind of be the
leader of the Green Run footballteam, getting the offers from
Tech and saying, let's go here, let's do it in state, let's
represent VA. It feels good.
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It's crazy because it's I mean, I've done a couple of interviews
and I've gotten that question, just word it differently.
But like I've never really like thought of myself as like the
leader that started it. It was kind of just we all seen
the same thing in the coaching staff and the people and just
the school as a whole. So I never really looked at it
as like I'm the leader of it, but like, I feel like we all, we
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all know what we were looking for.
Like coming from a green run, weknow what it was like there and
we, we basically like, well, I know at least with me, I tried
to find the, the green run in the schools.
But I mean, I feel like we all kind of understood what we were
looking for as far as a college and then we all end up picking
the same school and it just, it's been working.
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Man, I love hearing that. And I mean, the, the next thing
I got for you is kind of on the same vein and you just kind of
talked about it a little bit, but like, you know, I'm sure you
know it, but like the perceptionof Virginia Tech for a while in
the in the 75 was not that great.
And, you know, it feels like with with the pride regime
coming in and kind of turning that corner, you know, talk to
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me a little bit of how you felt some of that perception change
in the 757 as it pertains to Virginia Tech.
Well, me personally, it definitely changed because it
was actually like it was my second offer.
It was UNC Tech and the UVA. And I got I was offered by
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Smitty and Tap with the old coaching staff and it was like
they offered me and then that was it.
Like I, I never talked to anybody.
They never talked to my coaches,nothing.
So like for the longest, like once I started getting a lot of
offers, I really didn't see myself going to Tech at first.
I didn't, I didn't see myself coming here because it was like
I knew nothing about the school.I didn't know anything about the
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people. And like you said, the, the
perception of Virginia Tech in the 75 wasn't really a good
thing. So it was like being around that
and then experiencing it for myself, like I'm not talking to
these coaches or these coaches aren't talking to the people
around me. I never really like thought
about coming to Tech until Pridegot here.
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And soon as he got here, he reached out to my coaches.
They reoffered me with the new coaching staff and then from
there they was in contact with all the people around me until
they was actually able to talk to me.
And ever since then, even now, it's still the same like I can
talk to coach pride and we stillhave the same conversations,
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just like I was in recruiting. The same with coach Mines and
all the other coaches. Man, it's I, I don't even know
what to say about that because it's, it's one of those things
you sit here and you know, we'refans, but it's like the level
that you were regarded, the way you played high school football,
the competition you played against, to say you got an offer
(12:44):
that's wonderful, but you don't hear from anybody after that
like that, that, that, that breaks me.
And I know it's different with the coaching staff nowadays.
And you know, it seems like they, they, they, they come down
there, they like you said, they talk to, and I love what you
said because it shows they're doing that.
They talk to everyone that they could talk to around you until
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they until it was appropriate totalk to you.
Because if they couldn't talk toyou, because we know there's
restrictions, there's all sorts of wild ships goes on for
recruiting. It's like you can't talk to them
now. You can't visit them now, they
can't come here. They can.
And it's like, at least they were trying to get everything to
learn everything about Keelan Adams.
So when they got a chance to speak to you, they knew you as
(13:26):
much as they could without talking to you face to face.
I love that. That's how recruitment work,
man. You got to recruit families, not
just players. So I mean, I think they've done
a a good job of of that as of lately.
Just shifting gears a little bit.
We'll talk a little bit about last year.
I know it was brand new to you coming in, you know, probably
(13:48):
missing your senior prom, enrolling early, stepping on
campus, getting ready to play and there was a lot of
expectations on that team. Season didn't turn out kind of
how we wanted. I know it didn't turn out how
y'all want it. So with that though, kind of
what did you learn from that experience with you coming in
highly regarded like you were, you know, sitting and learning
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just a little bit and seeing it play out like it did?
I feel like I feel like everyoneon the team has the same
mindset, especially now. Like last season was
disappointing because it was it felt like we did so much in the
offseason and built up to to have a good season.
It didn't turn out the way that we wanted to, but just sitting
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back and watching I've I tried to find ways to become a better
player so that way when it was my turn, I'd be ready.
So like as far as the receivers,I tried to take something from
all of the older guys that was playing.
I tried to take something from their game and add it to mine.
So when it was my turn, they there would be no question if I
could do it or not. Like we had like Steve, Steve
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was like tough, great route runner.
So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
Like Steve could play anywhere. Like last year, we put him in
the slot if we had to outside everything.
So I tried to incorporate that into my game.
So if if coach mine wants me to go to the slot, there wouldn't
be a question. Like I don't know if he can do
it. Like they're going to blow.
No, we're confident and putting him there and just little stuff
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like that. Try to take something from all
of those those other guys to make my game better.
So when it was my turn out be good.
Now listen. Full disclosure, this is
Jonathan Talley speaking on his own behalf.
I do not know this man. I'm not his family, so I'm
speaking for myself. I was yelling at the TV to every
game because I seen motherfuckers out there dropping
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the ball, not hustling. I can go on and on.
I said, put him in, let's see what he can do.
But I'm going to go back and say, God, don't make no
mistakes, because I nobody knew kind of the injury that you was
dealing with or you know what I'm saying, what could have
happened, what it was like everything played out the way
it's supposed to be. It's just crazy to me that you
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was able to do what you've been able to do on one leg.
Like I watch a lot of film and you was you was eating people
ass up with one leg even in the bowl game.
So if that, if that never happened, like if they say, Oh
well, he got hurt during the season, like you were injured in
the bowl game and still show some glimpses of, of what you
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can do on the on the college level.
You, you, you let everybody be known who you were in that bowl
game with that big play. Because when it, because I
remember watching it here at thehouse, it was like right back
there, right there, right in front of the TV right there.
You hit it and I'm like, good Lord, like that's what we've got
on the back burner. That's the guy coming.
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Back why they said why they on the sideline.
Why is he on the sideline? My bad.
Hang on. It's true, though.
Like that play. I think for some people, for so
many people, it's like it's always what is he like?
What is he like? And in national TV, late
December, you go out there and do that.
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And it was just like, oh, oh, that's who he is for us, Yeah.
We going to be alright. We going to be OK, we going to
talk a lot about, we going to talk a lot about that on on the
next show. So we ain't going to get Keelan
all involved in that. But I will tell you, I will, I
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will tell you you, you definitely have people that have
watched your game and understandwhat you bring to the table.
So I know you quiet, I know you don't talk a lot.
I've been so excited to see you doing, you know, more
interviews, getting in front of the camera, things like that.
That's awesome. But anybody who knows football
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and pays attention to football, if you don't know what this man
can do on the football field, and I mean, you're not watching
football. So we've been, we've been, we've
been excited for you, man. We've been ready to see you, you
know, just just come into your own and and do what you do.
So definitely excited to watch you and and, and cheer.
Y'all. I got to get one of those shirts
too. Yeah, what is the shirt?
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Go ahead, shout out the shirt right there.
It's pretty sick looking when this one.
Yeah, that one. The the hoodie this it's a
spider hoodie. It's a spider.
In Oh no, I wouldn't talk about the spider.
I'm. Talking about yo shirt, I
thought you were. Talking about that one, huh?
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Yeah, I've seen the shirt. Yeah.
You ain't seen the shirts, Curtis.
I haven't seen the shirt. I thought you were talking about
the shirts wearing. I was like.
That's a young man shirt. He got it.
Sally say he he, he, he aged outon that one.
He aged out on that one. He talked about last season a
little bit. Let's talk about this year's
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team and coming up, you know, you got a new offensive
coordinator, Coach Monty. I mean, what a track record he's
got, man. I'm I'm sure you probably looked
it up and probably knew about itas soon as it was named
high-powered offenses balance, though he's had wide receivers,
he let them show out without a doubt.
I mean, in his career since he became a coordinator about I
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think it's 14 years ago, 9000 yard wide receiver seasons 9,
that's like 1 every other. And he had some who were like at
981. So he clearly puts wide
receivers in the position. So just in your short time, we
know it's only been about 6-7 months.
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What's he like as a coordinator just in the meeting rooms and
stuff? And what was your reaction like
when the playbook was given? Like, so you know who he is and
then all of a sudden here's the playbook on your tablet or in
paper. What is he like?
What's he like as a coach? And then what would you like
when you got that playbook? When I got the playbook, I think
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that was around the time when I first started like really
walking around screen bomb. And I had to brace.
I still had the limp and everything going, but I had just
stopped using the crutches. I've seen the playbook.
I told Coach Ryan I might as well just go ahead, throw some
cleats on. At this point.
I feel like I'm good. But him as a coach, like I, I
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like him. I feel like he fits our offense.
Like I feel like he fits with the players.
He's really just trying to get the ball to the playmakers and
let them do what got them here. Like that's the best way I can
describe it. Like looking at it, watching the
practices and stuff like that. That's really what it looks like
to me. He's just trying to get the ball
to the playmakers and let them do what they do.
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And honestly, it it reminds me of my like a playbook from green
run like a high school. That's basically what ours was.
It was just I want to say get open, but I mean that's that's
kind of what it was like. It was kind of just get the ball
to the guys and let them do whatthey do.
And I feel like that's what thisoffense now, I feel like that's
what this looks like. So I mean, at least for the
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receivers, I can speak for us. We love to play with.
I thought I was going to hear that, you know, when we're
lining this up, we were like, all right, he he's going to like
this playbook. He's going to want to talk about
it a little bit. He's he's going to want to give
it a little bit of a little bit of shine there.
Because I mean, you know, when you look at it like air raid
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concepts are, are, are made for,for wide receivers to get the
ball in their hands and do what they do best, put up big plays,
put up some numbers, move the sticks, get in the end zone.
So I, I love that you have that sentiment as well.
So we're excited about that, excited about this offense.
I think there's some big things that we can do.
And I think, you know, I, I likethat it is, you know, air raid
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concepts, but it's still a balanced attack that way.
It's not it's not all on the wide outs to do everything you
don't have you go have that run support, you go have a good mix
in there. But I think the concepts are
there for y'all to do some some real big things of this.
I'm I'm really excited about that.
You know, let's talk about this a little bit.
I know we talked about a little bit before we punched it.
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You know, me and Curtis, we've been friends, you know, close to
30 years, not a whole lot that we don't have on each other.
So we, we, we can't, we can't ever cut this thing off because
because we got too much dirt on each other.
But I don't want to get you in trouble with any other
teammates. But like who's the guy that
you've kind of connected with since you've been in Blacksbury
that you might have that type ofbond in with in the future?
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I'll probably say it. It's probably like two people.
Noah Jenkins on defense, before I knew him since like 8th grade,
we had like mutual. We had a mutual friend and we
all ended up in the group chat and then it became by the group
that we tested every day. And it was, it was like we
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called it DBK because we was allreceivers.
We was like young and we was like at, we was like the top
players in, in our areas. And it was like we was all
starting to get offers and everything like that.
And we, we just bonded like we was like the top players in our
areas. Because he's from Richmond.
He went to Highland Springs. Yeah, but I feel like it started
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there and then as we went through high school, we were
still active in the group chat. Whenever we see we went to camps
together, the whole group chat went to the, what was.
It was a Rivals camp, I think our sophomore junior year.
I had it my sophomore year 'cause that's when I had
sprained my ankle and I didn't go to it.
I ended up going to the Rivals camp that was in Baltimore like
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couple weeks later, but the whole group that was at that one
camp. So like I'll probably say Noah.
And then the second one would beQ reddish safety.
He was once we moved out of dorms, I end up moving with him
to our apartment and we've been close ever since then.
Like that was probably 1 of likethe faster bonds that I end up
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making, but between them still probably.
Yeah, got it. All right.
Is you Quentin y'all got to havemore?
Is it just y'all or you got two more roommates?
Nah when we had first move that it was me and him.
I live with Bullet now but Noah OK got it.
Just two people man y'all lucky.I just live with like 4 people
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dorms and the dorms 4 in the dorms that was that was one of
the person coming early if you moved in in the.
Spring. You only got to stay on campus
for a semester, so right after the spring game me and cute
moved out there. We go.
I'll blame you. So, yeah, you've been in
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Blacksburg just to, you know, about a year and a half now.
I know you got some coaches thatyou're connected with, players
you're connected with. Is there any anybody just, you
know, even it could be related to football, but maybe not a
coach or a player that's kind ofmade an impact on you since
you've been in Blacksburg? My parents definitely have just
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because like when I first got here that was the first time.
Like coming to college was the 1st for me for a lot of things.
This was my first time, like notplaying.
I started as a freshman in high school.
So coming to college and not playing like that was, it was
weird for me 'cause it's like I felt like I was doing everything
that I needed to do and it just almost felt like I wasn't
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working hard enough. But it's like in my mind I know
that I'm working. So it was like just them being
there for me and like being withme as I tried to navigate
through that. That time of, OK, you got to
take the backseat and learn. So when it is your turn, you'll
be ready. Like that's where I got that
mindset from. So I say them definitely.
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I love hearing that, love hearing that, I mean.
Yeah, it's crazy man, cuz you know I ain't trying to put no
shameless plugs in. Go ahead.
Go ahead bro. No.
I'll let you. I'll let you finish.
You got a good thought going there, man?
No, I was just saying I wasn't going to put no shameless plugs
in or nothing, but just talking to your pops sometimes, man,
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like because my son is a sophomore in high school and
sometimes it's like I have to call your pops and figure out
some stuff or what's going on with you so I can talk to him.
Because I'm like, hey man, I don't know what to say to this
dude. He's getting on my nerves.
I'm going to kick him out, You know what I'm saying?
So, you know, I call and get some advice or, you know, he'll
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tell me some things like, you know, Keelan.
Keelan did this. Just some good stuff, nothing
bad. You know, Keelan did this or,
you know, he did this on his ownand he started doing this.
You know, maybe you should talk to him this way because
sometimes parents, man, well, a lot of times parents, we don't
get it right. You know what I'm saying?
There ain't no playbook. It could be an apparent.
So a lot of times, man, we mess up or we, we, we may say the
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wrong thing or do the wrong thing, but when you got good
people around you who aren't scared to share information with
you, man, it makes it a little bit easier.
So with your trials and tribulations of, of going off by
yourself and being that far awayfrom home and, you know, leaving
school early and stuff like that, like I've learned some
stuff. So appreciate you, man.
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Keep on doing what you're doing,my brother.
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's always important when you when you have
somebody that that's kind of your center, that's like your
grounding spot when you're goingthrough some tough times or
fight adversity or going into new realms, like, you know,
uncharted territory for you. It's like, all right, well, I've
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got somebody that I know can be my sounding board.
That's that's going to support me, but it's also going to going
to calm me out a little bit if Ineed to, you know, have a
different mindset or, you know, maybe adjust my way of thinking
a little bit to to kind of push through and persevere.
So having that in your life and having that as somebody that's,
you know, you are you are, has already been in your household
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and that you, you know, you know, and you, you already have
a good relationship with that's,that's that's big time.
Let's talk about that trip, though.
So like, you know, the the drivefrom Virginia Beach out to
Blacksburg is not easy when you got about 4 1/2 hours when
you're on the road, you got to like a go to is or do you stick
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with music? Are you more of like a podcast
person? Do you do any like audio books?
What's the vibe? What's your go to on those long
trips? No, it's definitely music.
It really depends around like the time when I leave because of
the drive, I'll be trying to time it because like got to go
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through the tunnel and for whatever reason it's like it's
like people just see the bridge and just automatically forget
how to drive. So it's just, it's just like
realistically the drive is like 4 1/2, maybe 440.
But like the tunnel adds like a hour.
So really tech isn't even that far.
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Like it's, it's really not. But it's like like summertime
when I would leave. We finished getting done with
our workouts in the morning. I'll try to get on the rule and
like either get there before thetunnel traffic started or after.
So like I'll probably start off with like some rap or something.
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And then once the sun, the sun started going down, I'll call my
mom on my other phone. And then like once I start
getting sleepy, that's when the concerts start.
I'll start playing all the old songs she used to play.
And then when me and my sister was younger in the car, I start
playing all those songs and I get to sing and she's like, you
tired, ain't you? Yes I am, but I have two hours
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so. Everybody got to know right now
that when he says all the old songs that that that she used to
listen. To.
Every song that we listen to in high school.
No, Keelan I, absolutely. That's normal songs for us.
Yeah, Keelan, I feel you. Sounds good. 100% Keelan, I feel
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you on the tunnel, man. We went down to Sand Bridge this
year for family vacay, all right, in in Hampton Roads
tunnel. We were like, all right, it's
backed up. We're going to swing over.
We're going to go to the other tunnel on 664.
Swear to God, we get over there,everybody tapping brakes and
it's just like, oh, I like living down there.
Brian can attest to it. Brian's wife's fan that way.
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I just, I just made a trip. No.
So they had me get off 64. They're like, yeah, get off 64,
you know, go around Hampton and then get back on just before the
tunnel. It'll be all right.
And I get off. And man, I waited in that
traffic to get back on to 64. I know it was standstill for
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like a good hour off off 64, then we finally got back on.
The tunnel itself is never that bad.
It's just everything like peopledon't, as soon as they say, oh,
the tunnel's coming up, they just forget how to drive, just
like you said. That's the problem.
That's the problem. The tunnel is never that bad.
As soon as you see the light when you're coming out the
tunnel, all of a sudden everybody's doing more than the
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speed limit. And it's like, why would we even
stop? There's nothing wrong.
You'll be sitting and driving for an hour and the whole time,
like you'll be sitting there andyou'll be like looking like,
damn, it's probably an accident.Host somebody.
OK? Then as you start answering up
people like they would have got the accident cleaned up by then.
Then you start looking for clues.
You start looking around like, Idon't see anything.
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I don't see no smoke. I'm not hearing no sirens.
Pass me nothing. You get up there, there's
nothing you like. So what was I sitting for?
You get as soon as you see the light in the tunnel, like soon
as you get outside and the line goes from the solid white to the
dotted lines, all of a sudden people turn into speed racers.
And now, Now I'm 30 minutes fromthe house, even though
technically I'm forwarded because everybody wants
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speeders. Yeah, it's bad.
But the only upside, in my opinion, of going down is you
stop at Pierce's Barbecue in Williamsburg, get you a nice
sandwich and eat it. And yeah, on the way.
But I'm gonna ask. This Pretty soon we gonna have
Bucky's on the way in. Like the next year we gonna have
Bucky's on the way. You're aware of that, right,
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Kaylin? Up on New Kent, up when you get
back past New Kent, we get in Bucky's that's in the country,
that's in the country when you're coming up 64 before you
get to. Just before you get back to like
the 295, the swing exit there, like just past the horse racing
track. Yeah, I'm honest with y'all.
Y'all saying the routes like 64.I don't know.
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I don't know where you guys are talking about.
I don't know my mom she was likewhen you stop halfway is exit
something something when you getoff of this mom just send me a
picture. I don't know.
I can't type it on. Just tell me where I'm going.
I'll put it in the map, but I'll.
Figure it out. All I got right.
Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.First of all, 64 to it's it's
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going to be a while for you to go back home.
You got to go to Pierce's, though.
It's some of the best pit cook BBQ.
If you like BBQ brisket, whatever some of the best.
It's in Williamsburg. I, I, I attest to it real quick.
Look, I just went all that to ask these three questions.
What's like when you you say youlisten to current?
Well, it's like your current song that winds up on every
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playlist. And what's old school that winds
up on every playlist? Current song probably be Oh no,
I listen to a lot, so it'll probably be like songs with an S
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from like I'll probably say the artist OK, more more so artists
are probably like why be babyface Ray, no cap fat man.
They would end up on like almostall my playlist and then like
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the old songs be like. I got to call my mom for this
one. You put him on the.
Spot you put you on the spot on that one.
Yeah, I'm trying to think like, because a lot of the songs I
don't know the names too. I just know like when she play
it, I know the lyrics but I couldn't tell you.
They buy, you do the lyrics. Let's see if we can play name
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that tune. Plus, old heads can remember
those songs. Lord Curtis trying to make the
man sing on here. I'm trying.
To think like have fun, man. I'm trying to think like old rap
songs, probably like Snoop Dogg,Doctor Dre, something like that.
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Who else? She played like.
She played like baby. OK.
OK, OK. You better not be Keelan.
You better not be in that car. Listen no pretty girl rock.
No, but look there, you got to hear, you got to hear me out.
Were you tired and trying to stay up?
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Oh yeah, that's the ones that get you.
I'm telling you, you roll the window down and all of a sudden
life is good. You don't even realize you're
sitting at the tunnel anymore. You just, you just sit in the
car. You just having a concert.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know why it always finds me one of my
daughter's favorite songs. My daughter's 19, So one of her
favorite songs is like the I can't even remember the the lady
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that sing, but it's on my Mama. It came out probably like 2
years ago. Anytime I'm in the car, that
song always sings to find the radio.
Like I put that on my Mama. Like every time I'm in the car
it finds me. So like you said, man, I could
be like feel like I'm nodding off and that and that hit me.
So it's like, OK, yeah, I got towake up right here.
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It is. It's concert time.
So I feel you on that. But hey, we going, we going, we
going to go to something a little bit easier.
I believe we always ask questions about food.
So this was kind of a two-part question.
Favorite meal from your mom's? Because we had to.
We talk about mom and then your favorite place to eat in
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Blacksburg. OK, favorite meals for my mom?
The Alfredo, the spaghetti she made, Big ziti, the chicken Mac
and cheese. Black Christmas dinner?
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That's probably like the best dinner ever.
You just named a lot of food, man.
Yeah, man, I'm just thinking about this home, you know, I'm
going to tell her. Come cook.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
You'll tell her. We had that idea either.
OK. Yeah, I'm just calling Ma.
Can you can you come up here andjust cook for like a week or
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something? That's.
Right. My favorite place is eat and
black birthday will probably be I like Kabuki the baji place.
I like Kabuki PK's you. You're more of a wing person to
PK's. You go with the, you know, with
the wings. Yeah, PK's.
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The wings then like Chipotle, itused to be Zaxby's, but I don't.
I don't know why they got rid ofZaxby's, but they did so.
Yeah, that that that, that hurtsthe team there.
That's that's back-to-back player interviews that have put
Chipotle on the map. Keep going on the map.
I think everybody we've interviewed, it's like 8 of 11
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Chipotle, Chipotle, and I'm guessing it probably goes to
with what y'all were doing. Y'all were busy as heck.
It's like I just want some beef.I maybe want a little sauce and
some cheese and I won't go home.I feel like walking around for
two hours. I just want to get my food and
go home. It helped too because you know,
like when you train this stuff, you got to maintain a certain
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weight so, so your body stays healthy and then and the safe is
supposed to be. And like when, when I was
talking to like our nutritionistand stuff and they like help us
meal plan and they try and help us like pick out things that
we'd like that we would like eating because that was one of
my hardest things. I couldn't eat.
I couldn't gain weight for anything because I just couldn't
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eat. So I had to find ways to like
pick out stuff that I liked. So she was telling me she was
like, what is what's like your favorite fast food?
I'm like Chipotle. She's like, oh, you made this
easy. Just get double of everything.
You'll be good. So like, especially since camp
started, I've been getting to vote every day.
There we go. Every single it's around the
same time. It's the same worker every time
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I'm going there, I'll go and like, you're back.
Yes, I am. Let me get a do do.
Do they already know your usual?Do they Do they got it down now?
Yeah, sometimes I switch it up, but like it is, it's definitely
one lady that works there and she was like, you want the same
thing? Yes, yes I do.
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My God. What's up?
Hey, I got one question that's. Kind of off man do.
You got your do you got your your dog back up there yet?
Nah, Nah, he come back when we get down.
Can y'all hear me? Yeah, we got your tally.
OK, got you. Go ahead.
Came here not I was he he come back when we finished camp My my
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parents going to bring him back.OK.
What kind of dog? I don't think they're going to
let him come back, man. They're going to keep.
Him. Yeah, my mom did say that.
Yeah. What?
What what kind of dog is he Keeling?
A pit bull terrier. What's his name?
Cartier. Oh, there we go.
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I like that. Different boys.
Anything else? Because what?
What time's practice tomorrow? Let's ask real quick.
Are y'all about to hit a one of the mini camp breaks?
Nah, today was the break. We start mini camp 4 tomorrow.
Mini camp four starts tomorrow. Well, listen man, keep doing
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your thing. You have been up the last really
it's been 50 minutes because we talked with them before we got
on. You have been a pleasure to talk
with the last roughly hour here.You are a very upstanding young
man. Great things are going to happen
to you regardless. Regardless, because I think you
got great attitude. I think you got positivity.
I hear some of these answers. Your head's in the right spot,
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man. And we won't give Chris hell
tomorrow night. You tell him that, right?
That's right. That's right.
You take care of yourself, TallyBrown.
Anything else? Encouraging words for this young
man. Hey man, when you get your
chance, just go in there and do what you do.
That's all I ask. Just do what you do, brother.
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Yeah, that, that, that's same sentiments, man.
You know, you're going, you're going to get a bunch of
opportunities this year. Just you get in there and, and,
and do what you you've always done and that that's going to
take care of yourself. Get in there and produce so you
take care of yourself. That does wrap up this episode
of the Boundary Corner podcast, brought to you by Count Stanley
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