Hello and welcome to football and grits.

A special welcome to the Tennessee fans who are just waking up from their 48-hour bender, I'm sure.

Joining the show.

They're not incredibly hungover,

missed opportunity.

Yeah.

Uh, a heck of a weekend. And that's, that's, that's the, that's the appropriate place to start, Brody, uh, with the Valls. The Hendon Hooker's show. Yeah, uh, 461 yards of total offense. uh i believe his he'd'd only topped 112 yards rushing one time ever.

I watched this game, actually.

The Virginia Take Liberty game against Hugh Fries and Malik Willis back in 2019, I believe.

I remember that.

Great game that I don't remember who won that game, but it was decided on the last second field goal, but it was tremendously entertaining because I remember thinking

Hooker and Willis was a heck of a showdown.

Anyway, a spectacular performance.

I think we've seen Hen and Hooker really mature as a passer.

I think he has a great grasp with this offense,

but he also has a great feel of the game itself.

And I think, too, he in general values the football,

and he makes such wise decisions.

And I asked him last week, actually,

you know, a pretty simple question. Why do you never throw interceptions? And then he was talking about

when he was in high school, they played in a pretty run heavy offense. He's like, I'd go eight

for nine for, you know, 218 and a couple touchdowns. And he's like, you knew when you were throwing the ball, you didn't have that many opportunities.

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