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And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports, Chip Patterson, Barton Simmons.

Tom Prennelly, this is again, as we said in the last episode, we are excited about the Cover 3 era of this show.

But long time listeners of the show should expect nothing different from the things that they've become fans of.

The locks, the making of buzz, camp buzz, spring buzz. It's going to be all coming to you.

And this is the locks edition of the podcast.

Gentlemen, it is rivalry week. Happy Thanksgiving to both of you and yours.

How are we feeling on this earlier than usual Wednesday morning edition of the locks recording?

Well, we're a little trepidacious because I play Cover 2 Man myself.

So I don't know how I'm going to fit in this defense.

Well, the cover, the cover 3, of course, you know, to our, to our former Yale Safety Barton Simmons.

I mean, this is, that's, that's his favorite call right there.

Yeah, yeah, that or cover 4 whole just anything that just lets me just sit.

I'm going backwards. That's, that's what I liked.

So, so yeah, man, this is good use to it for now, Ellie.

We're low in the box, eight men and three on the, on the perimeter.

And we're going to, we're going to challenge people.

All right. So we've got a lot of, a lot of picks to get to.

And we want to make sure, of course, that we get to any Thursday and Friday action early,

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