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The Year of Our Lord, 2021, Late Kick Extra podcast, probably listening to it a little bit later than you normally do. It's because we had a really, really busy morning. A lot of meetings and such. It was a net positive. I'll share with you what I can in just a second. A lot of this is hashtag confidential. But what I can guarantee you is the audio

will never sound better because I'm in the 24-7 sports studio. I'm all by myself, actually doing the podcast shirtless or as close to it as you can possibly get in an office setting. So anyway, enough with the partial nudity. Here's how you get in touch and here's how you submit a question. Josh Pate706 at gmail.com.

You can follow me on Instagram at Latekickj, Twitter at Latekick Josh, and I just want to tell you, it warms my heart to no end. When I log on after a show, we get off the air, Latekick Live, or after I release a podcast, and I start seeing those screenshots and your Instagram stories, or I see tweets, you know, confirming basically that you've been watching or listening to the show. I try and retweet or share

as many of those as I can. But like I've told you before, our podcast numbers, I just checked

this yesterday before I recorded, they are up month over month, a thousand downloads per episode.

It's the middle of May, guys. Everyone in our industry refers to

this as the absolute no man's land. It is the dead season, allegedly, for college football.

Our audience is growing, and it's not supposed to be growing. The reason, part one, is because

we do not believe in the offseason. And part two is because you have taken it upon yourself.

And I thank you. I am eternally grateful. I thank you for taking it upon yourself to be our marketing department. We don't spend money to advertise this show anywhere. We could never replace what you give me for free with a bunch of advertising dollars and marketing campaigns. And it wouldn't feel authentic anyway. So I'd much rather do it the way you guys are allowing me to do it. But like I said, you are allowing it. So thank you so much.

All right, let's roll into the podcast this morning because we got some really good questions here.

I'm going to start it off with Kenny. Kenny said, can in practice repetition affect game

time decisions and create biases, which I'm 85% sure is the plural of bias, among offensive play calls. Okay, so basically,

can what you see in practice influence your game time decision making? I think the answer to that is

yes, Kenny, but Kenny goes further. What I mean, he says, is if you've got a lackadaisical

defense in practice and some of the things you're reppping offensively work in practice,

can you put yourself in a bad situation if they may not work in the game, but you keep calling them because they worked

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