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I'm your host, Zach Blackerbie. And joining me today because it is a

War Rippoor Wednesday, Mike G. C. Dub with the War Rapor. Gentlemen, how we doing?

Amazing. It's game week. Doing great, man. It is game week. It is game week. Now, you notice, I am

wrapping the Cam jersey because I got to wear it one more time.

Rough morning, Tuesday morning, but we're going to get through it. We'll get through it together.

Indeed. Indeed. But yeah. So one thing I did last Wednesday or Wednesday through throughout last

season guys was I went over some of the top individual matchups that I'm

looking forward to on Saturday. And so I'd love to bring you guys into part of that conversation.

I sent you guys some of the ones that I'm looking at going into the Akron game and spending

a lot of time watching Akron. What a boring football team. And no disrespect to them or anything by, but like they're not good at a lot of time watching Akron, what a boring football team.

And no disrespect to them or anything by, but like, they're not good at a lot of different things.

And they've got a lot of like new mindset coming in.

So I don't think it's the current regime's fault by any stretch of the imagination.

I think it's just kind of the nature of all of it.

But yeah, I'd love to go through this. I think, you know, we'll start with

their quarterback, right, Cato Nelson, awesome name, but I've got him kind of slated against

Smoke Monday, just kind of quarterback versus a safety. So Cato Nelson versus Smoke Monday is that

first individual matchup to look at. And Nelson had a few games last year where he looked okay.

He threw for over 300 yards against Ohio, which is cool.

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