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Hour 2: What's the biggest CFB story for you, as we head into the year? Plus, Jake Thompson joins the show. · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: Works Pickings Jackson live from the Whiskey sixty one Lounge
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  Speaker 1: Wow, why is there air?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: What's happening? We are the Out of Bounds Show ESPN
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  Speaker 1: It is here. I was watching clips this morning event
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  Speaker 1: not that I'm dialed in, I'm not going to claim that,
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  Speaker 1: but I was watching clips of NFL camp this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, man, do you realize how many thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people are going out there and watching I love it,
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  Speaker 1: and watching their team. But that means it's here. In
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  Speaker 1: high school football is just days away. And then we've
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  Speaker 1: got week zero for well, you got the Pro you
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  Speaker 1: got the exhibition game this weekend. More importantly, you have
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  Speaker 1: Drew Brees going into the Hall of Fame. They will
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  Speaker 1: play a game on TV, an exhibition game. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you degenerate gamblers will bet on it, which is fine,
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  Speaker 1: But high school football is days away. You got the
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  Speaker 1: Pro football Hall of Fame game. But more importantly, Drew
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  Speaker 1: Brees going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Kenton, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: And then Week zero, I mean, we're getting there. We
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  Speaker 1: are getting there, so you get to see Bill Belichick's
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  Speaker 1: awesome team in Dublin, Ireland. They don't want to see them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think North Carolina knows they're playing Week zero.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. They're talking about the twenty twenty nine basketball class.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they roll. I told you I was in
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  Speaker 1: Louisville for four days. Nobody was talking Louisville football or Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I heard some NFL conversations, I heard horse conversations. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants to talk bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: I did here. I did get a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an earful not in a bad way, of Mark Pope
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  Speaker 1: and whether he's gonna make it at So just to
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  Speaker 1: give you an idea of like here, all people are
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  Speaker 1: talking about at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and in their
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  Speaker 1: neighborhoods and when they're cooking out with their buddies and
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  Speaker 1: when they're hanging and having a cold beer or cold
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  Speaker 1: Dot coke, all they're talking about is football. Ole miss
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi State Kevin Deboor somebody you know, Saints. Yeah, can
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck and Kellen Moore get a little magic going
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  Speaker 1: in a weak NFC South Dak and the Cowboys they
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  Speaker 1: finished thirty second on defense? Can they finish really good
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  Speaker 1: job twenty first? Can Mahomes come back? Now there's a
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  Speaker 1: tie up there because of proximity. Uh, when you kind
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  Speaker 1: of get up there in the Midwest or trending. I
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  Speaker 1: asked a lot of them, are y'all South? Are y'all southern?
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  Speaker 1: Are y'all? What they say? Well, they were all over
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  Speaker 1: the place, but we we came to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: they are Southern. Whoa whoa? Yeah? But will Mahomes not?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, is he going to come back from injury?
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  Speaker 1: Of course he is, Uh, but you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is it just going to be awesome out of the gate?
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  Speaker 1: Hees really had three very mad years. I mean the
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  Speaker 1: you know, last year was a struggle. The year before,
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  Speaker 1: the last game we remember was the Super Bowl in
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  Speaker 1: which they were embarrassed. The last super Bowl they won
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  Speaker 1: before that was totally driven back bag Nola and the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs defense. I mean, it's been a while
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  Speaker 1: since he's had like a herculean elite. See four years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, since he's had just oh my god, this
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  Speaker 1: is crazy. Now he's had some plays like he does
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  Speaker 1: every year that are insane when he starts to get
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  Speaker 1: you know, moving around and doing his thing or as
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  Speaker 1: as this guy says, Mahomes is fan. He may be
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  Speaker 1: the best even over Lamar and Josh when he's healthy, right,
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  Speaker 1: because when he gets off the waggle, then protection, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, well, coverage breaks down. The coverage is already
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  Speaker 1: broken down when he's flushed out well most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: but protection breaks down, and then he hits Kelsey down
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  Speaker 1: the scene for twenty five yards and then Kelsey runs
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  Speaker 1: another twenty. My point is Mahomes coming off ACL and
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  Speaker 1: whatever l other ligament that he tore and so on.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, you talking about it, and then is it
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  Speaker 1: time for you know, we had a snooze or Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: See how Patriots and what are we looking at this
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  Speaker 1: year with the Rams and the Bills with the I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills have Joe Brady who went to LSU when
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  Speaker 1: they won the national title with Joe Burrow. So now
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady is is coaching Josh Allen in the same
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  Speaker 1: conference where May you may see him, but the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: aren't bad. Where Joe Burrow plays with the Bengals, angles
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  Speaker 1: aren't bad. They were the NC Championship a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years back. I holy smokes, Joe Brady, what is he like?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty three? Well, I know, it feels like it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: It feels like he was twenty five at LSU. He's
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  Speaker 1: probably do you really think he is? Oh no, I
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  Speaker 1: would think he's thirty seven or thirty eight six? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thirty a least. So when I was at
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  Speaker 1: that National Championship game LSU Clemson because Trump was there,
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  Speaker 1: which made it a anytime a presidents there getting in
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  Speaker 1: and out a booger, and I was a little late,
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  Speaker 1: and Jeff Jones, jonesy Q and Wickers, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a little upset with me. He's the one that
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  Speaker 1: had the sweet tickets. And by the time we finally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got in, it was all good. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: there was a little bit of a bottleneck to get
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  Speaker 1: in the National Championship game in the Superdome when Trump's there,
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  Speaker 1: and I left a little late from the mariny in
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  Speaker 1: the Uber and I had to book it because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want jonesy Q to be upset with me. He
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  Speaker 1: would have been twenty nine at that point, twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: years old. Is the offensive coordinator with Joe Burrow and
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  Speaker 1: the most prolific offense in the history of college football period. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: with two first round NFL picks who may end up
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame at wide receiver. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver alone, yes, yeh yeah, in Chase and Jefferson, right, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, and we just thought Odell and Landry were good.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Chase and Jefferson said, holding Elijah Craig,
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  Speaker 1: watch what we'll do, you know, I mean we thought Mettenberger,
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  Speaker 1: Odell and Jarvis were good. Now less Miles screwed that up.
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  Speaker 1: But which that was a factor too, Okay, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because I can't believe it. But Eddie O got out
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  Speaker 1: of the way, and Joe Brady channeled his his inner
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. Yeah, that's good, and whatever else he had
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  Speaker 1: picked up and his little little boy genius that he got,
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  Speaker 1: you know, labeled, which is fine. I mean that is
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  Speaker 1: a compliment. And they were unbelievable. I mean, I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe that that was that long ago. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like because I was there right before COVID and
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  Speaker 1: j Let's just say they played January eighth. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know twenty twenty because they won the twenty nineteen National Championship. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it was already here, and it's crazy that,
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  Speaker 1: like you know that that was just that. That was
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  Speaker 1: seven seven, eight years ago. Yeah, round about. And now
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady is the head football coach for the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 1: coaching Josh Allen and Joe Burrow is in. That's on
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  Speaker 1: the AFC side. Wow, And he's actually worked his way up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. He did come in
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  Speaker 1: as an OC, which is really awesome, been really cool.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been in the NFL for a while. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now six years. That's a good run of at least learning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm still surprised they fired Sean McDermott because
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  Speaker 1: he was like eighty three and thirty five. But you
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  Speaker 1: know whatever, Yeah, they ain't going through that old spell again.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to keep getting there. They know that
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  Speaker 1: all too well. This is Mac is on the Dancing
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  Speaker 1: moved a little further down the beach. We're in Seagrove,
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  Speaker 1: right behind Cafe thirty eight. He said, I'm ready for
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  Speaker 1: all these jaded tourists to take their golf carts and
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  Speaker 1: go home. But I think you've only got about five
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  Speaker 1: to six more days. Most everybody's in school or getting
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  Speaker 1: ready or moving into dorms and moving into apartments, and
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  Speaker 1: parents are turning the page on the summer, and I
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  Speaker 1: think you've made it. You may have one more week.
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  Speaker 1: He is loaded up with powder blue and red and
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  Speaker 1: This pullover that I'm wearing, I love it. Peter Malar
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  Speaker 1: looks great. Thank you Luke for doing out of bounds
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  Speaker 1: two Ole Miss or Mississippi State pieces for the year.
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  Speaker 1: You've got it at the Rogueman's store in Jackson. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: Insurance guest line. We're looking forward to that. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: caught up on Ole Miss football and their big first game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not their Their big first game is not LSU,
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  Speaker 1: it's Louisville. You have to you have to be ready
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  Speaker 1: to play that game. I don't think you're good enough
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  Speaker 1: to have your B game and go up there and
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  Speaker 1: win in Nashville. You may not. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: have your A plus game because you have more talent,
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  Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to be at least B plus
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  Speaker 1: but A minus type level or space because again you're better.
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  Speaker 1: But brom can coach and he'll have some wrinkles for
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  Speaker 1: you too. So yes, with Trinidad and that defensive line,
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  Speaker 1: that should be enough. But that's your big first game,
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  Speaker 1: and we know Mississippi State's is at Minnesota and then
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  Speaker 1: we know that the game of the regular season and
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  Speaker 1: the egg ball is always big, even even with Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: State deciding not to play real football for a while.
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  Speaker 1: But it is LSU at ole Miss, So that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the layout. I'm excited. It's a couple of things though.
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss and Mississippi State. Three of your first four
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  Speaker 1: games are tough. I mean, Ole Miss has Louisville neutral field,
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  Speaker 1: LSU at home at Florida as three of their first four.
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  Speaker 1: That's nothing's guaranteed there. Mississippi State, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: three of their first four at Minnesota, at South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri at home. You're gonna have to be ready early.
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  Speaker 1: There's no this year. There's no playing two or three
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  Speaker 1: conference non cons in a row. Although Mississippi State it's
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  Speaker 1: a p four at Minnesota in game two. Louisville has
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  Speaker 1: no experience at quarterback. Minnesota does have experience at quarterback
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  Speaker 1: with their six foot five, two hundred and thirty pound guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's more of a pocket guy compared to Kamari. My
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  Speaker 1: theory there, it's still early in his career. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to run for you to win, which is
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  Speaker 1: totally fine. In Minneapolis. That doesn't mean that he can't
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  Speaker 1: complete some passes of how people that means you don't
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  Speaker 1: even throw the ball the extremist of college football fans.
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  Speaker 1: But but I think you have to run to win
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis. Camarrio and Fluff will be the deal, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if Levy and Philip Montgomery totally commit to
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  Speaker 1: running the football early to try to get that winner
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  Speaker 1: to where Levy may can manage the schedule and stay around.
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  Speaker 1: That's in every right, that's a swing game, big time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because it's a fifty to fifty deal. It's
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  Speaker 1: a career swinging. You're no doubt, you're you're more Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: State's more talented. Minnesota has a much better head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Pj's been there a long time and he's won. In
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  Speaker 1: Oh reality, he lose that ball game. Hey, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think obviously, I don't think you make it out of starvel.
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  Speaker 1: But then where do you go? That's a that's a
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  Speaker 1: career swing game for him. He needs you can still
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  Speaker 1: find a path because you've got delicious home games against
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt in Missouri in Auburn. Tough path. It is, it is,
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  Speaker 1: And now the debate in the in the fan base
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  Speaker 1: which makes me cringe. Is is it six wins or
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  Speaker 1: seven wins to uh to keep you know, on whether
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  Speaker 1: you retain Levy or make a move just going backwards down. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there seems to be chatter, uh that six he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: At first it was seven. Steve Robinson came on like
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  Speaker 1: four or five months ago. I teed him up, I said,
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  Speaker 1: what's the number? He said seven. Now I'm hearing six
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  Speaker 1: lowering your expectations. To me, is is the big problem
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  Speaker 1: in the first place. If you're okay with that, you
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  Speaker 1: really don't want to win. That's my theory. And the
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  Speaker 1: span base is gonna and administration is going to have
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  Speaker 1: to decide if they want to win. So anybody high
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  Speaker 1: five and over six and six shouldn't be I do
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  Speaker 1: think it sends a message, you know, we're okay with mediocrity.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. Yeah, but but that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm picking that up on that and I think
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  Speaker 1: that that is uh yeah, yeah, oh it's so weak.
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  Speaker 1: But let's let it play out. Let's let's say this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be it's going to be a roller
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  Speaker 1: coaster ride. It is every year your team is your
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  Speaker 1: Whoever your team is, I don't care who it is
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  Speaker 1: in the league is going to get hit in the mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Your team is going to face adversity. And most of
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  Speaker 1: the teams are gonna have some highs. I mean there'll
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  Speaker 1: be one or two that are the exception. Okay, But
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  Speaker 1: you know what's crazy, Just about anybody can beat anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the league with this water down, fractured and splintered
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  Speaker 1: deal we call college football today.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, will Stein's going nine to three at Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: You know it, and I know it. I know you
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  Speaker 1: feel it. God, nobody cares about Kentucky football. Good, Lord
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  Speaker 1: of Mercy. Who do they play? Are they even on here?
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  Speaker 1: Youngstown State? Who may beat them? You know they've been
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  Speaker 1: known to play some football. Then they get Alabama, so
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  Speaker 1: they'll get smoked then at A and M. Good Lord,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Jake Thompson OLMSS football.
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  Speaker 3: Next, oh Man.
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  Speaker 1: Off the wackle, Trinidad Chambless off the wackle, Trinidad Chambless
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  Speaker 1: off the wackle. I don't think anybody plays off the
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  Speaker 1: waggle better in college football at the quarterback position than
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  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambless off the waggle. Yeah, yeah, you damn right.
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  Speaker 1: We are the out of down Show ESPN one oh
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  Speaker 1: five nine the Zone. We welcome in our friend Jake Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: old Miss Insider, uh, and he joins us on the
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  Speaker 1: Farm Bureau Insurance guest line. Jake, are you already at
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  Speaker 1: the practice field this morning?
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  Speaker 2: No? We we fired up. Tomorrow's we got one more
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  Speaker 2: day and then it gets going.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so are you tell me where you
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  Speaker 1: what is your current state of mind? Are you? Are
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  Speaker 1: you fired up? Are you excited? Are there butterflies? Anticipation?
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  Speaker 1: Where are we?
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  Speaker 4: I think I would be more anticipated and fired up
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  Speaker 4: if it was game day tomorrow, not first day of practice,
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  Speaker 4: because it's going to be very similar to uh to
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  Speaker 4: Spring at which I was kind of expecting in terms
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: of access and what we're going to be able to see,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: at least the first half of camp is it's going
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: to be very similar with your you know, Peak Golding's
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: from the school savings, so that shouldn't surprise new people.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: So we'll see if we get to see more than punts,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: which is what we saw basically in the spring. But uh,
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: you know, I can't fault them for it.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I get it. Everybody kind of does their own thing.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: So yeah, no, if it was Louisville and Nashville tomorrow
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: where I could see sixty four minutes of this team,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I'd probably be a little more excited. But it's uh,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a good day. We go around sometime
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: mid morning Thursday, and then that afternoon we do the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: big local media day with Pete and talk to all
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the players, So that that part would be good, just
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: to talk to somebody outside of you know, Trinidad and
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Kewana Will, which is about all I've kind of talked
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: to this summer. So on that side of it, it'll
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: be nice to see what those guys say about the season.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you love that? Once you get Pete Golding
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: going that, it's just pure content for all y'all and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: for us.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I guess you know. The one thing
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: I think he'll have to keep in mind is, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: and this isn't a knock, it's more of an unsolicited advice.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: If somebody has his ears listening, it's you could tell
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: the media days you try to answer one question, the
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: tampering question, and dodged it, and then the next person
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that asked it kind of learned or figured out how
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: he might could ask. It was not specifically about clintch
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: but said hey, how would you fix this?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Or that was the just of it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: I can't remember it overbatim, and then that's what fired
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: him up. So I think people are gonna realize you
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: can poke the bar enough, you're going to get him
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: going right. And that's where you know, that's where you know.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I don't want to see media training because you don't
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: need to muzzle him because he is great. I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: summer all in him.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Back to back.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: That was probably the best through two hours, three hours
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: of the entire week. I mean it was kind of
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: a blob media days until those two took the podium.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: So no, you don't want to change him, but you
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: can't show your cards because you know some of the
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: media guys will then start pushing those buttons.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's he's a great, you know, talker
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and conversationalist, which is good for you and I and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: he enjoys it. He enjoys, you know, visiting and engaging
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: and so on. He's natural.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: He'll talk ball for twenty five minutes if you just
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: say defense, which is what I watched in Cleveland last
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: month during the rubber road trip, somebody asked them about defense.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I think he talked about every single player on defense.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: So you got a coach that loves ball.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So Jake Thompson Ole Miss insider. Ole Miss
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: opens up with Louisville in Nashville against Jeff Brohm, who
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: is a damn good football coach. But they don't have
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: any experience at the quarterback position. And our friend Jake
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Thompson just mentioned Will Eccles and that defense looks serious
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: with Eckles and Perkins and so on. So how would you?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: And we don't know yet, but last year they were good.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And you've had some really good ones over the years,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: good lord, fourteen and fifteen among other years, you know
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: how good considering some of the defensive lines that you've had.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Can this twenty twenty six defensive line be with with
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: this group?
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: You know, I don't know if it'll be as good
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: as I guess two years ago. Now, whatever the year
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: was with Ivy and Peggy's and you know others, Prince Lee,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: Umaniel and all those guys that ended up getting drafted
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: at least a shot at the NFL camp. I can't
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: say it'll be as good as that, just because outside
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: of Eccles and Cam Franklin, I you know, none of
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: us will have seen what these guys.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Can do together.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And you know, Blake Purchase and some otheritions that they
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: brought in a defensive end.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: And I mean that on paper, you would think.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: It's supposed to be a really good defensive front, but
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: we got to see them all play together, and you know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of new faces, a lot of new pieces.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: And that's why I think a lot of people we
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: kind of talked to in Tampa, just other you know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: media people or national people, was that nobody's talking about
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: this on miss Defense enough.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: And maybe it's under the radar.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's more so that for us, you know
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: locally who cover them, it's it's always kind of a
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: wait and see. We got to watch the watch them play.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: How do they mold?
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Because offense you can kind of get a feel for
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: what the hell they're going to be because you just
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: kind of see that more. But defense, you know, Echos
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: is the guy. But I think it's going to take
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: a little bit of the Louisville game and then I
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: think a lot of the Charlotte game because that should
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: be you know, you would think if you're all miss
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: chumming the water, just get some get some reps, get
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: some more experience before the next week, uh, for us
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: to learn how good this defense can be, and then
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: they'll have to put that to the test, you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: l s U at Florida. It doesn't get any easier
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: from there. So I think he can be good, but
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: we're going to have to see kind of the proof
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: of concept first.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Do you think Eccles can be a first round pick
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: at some point?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he can play his way there, because
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: you know what everybody does those way through early next
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: year drafts immediately after the current Ears draft, for the
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: ones that I could find, you know, Eccles was the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: first Old Miss guy going off any kind of draft
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: board or mock draft, you know. So I think he
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: can be a first round guy, but I think he's
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: kinda have to play his way through that this season.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right? Jake Thompson Ole Miss Insider on the
• 26:33
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• 26:36
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• 26:42
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• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Thompson on the out of Bound show back to SEC
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: media days, What was your one big takeaway from from
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Golding and what he did say or didn't say?
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Jake, I think the biggest take is he was to
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: get back on the practice field.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's done a lot.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: He was in the midst of wrapping up that rubber
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: road trip, which obviously he's he's gonna love meeting the fans,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: but I think he's he's a coach.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: We we just said he's a good talker and can
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: say there are things and he's fun to talk too,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: but he's not really the most you know, he didn't
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: enjoy doing that. I think he's ready to get back
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: on the field and be a ball coach. And I
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: think he's also ready to kind of prove that those
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: three games weren't a fluke. If there was any overarching
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: theme to the entire week with first year coaches, that
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: was a lot of questions in the main room. It
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: almost felt like a.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Job interview all over again. A lot of guys are
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: asking why you why, why, why did you get it?
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Why should you be the guy.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: You know, we saw will Stein throughout I think this
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: team's better because I'm here, you know, that kind.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Of comment, that quote. So that was the overarching theme.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Of basically sitting there watching these first year coaches or
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: coaches at a new spot, even though they've coached somewhere else.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Why you? Why you?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And you know Pete got some of that, and then
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: obviously he kind of took over when he got going
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: there and and that kind of deflected from But that's
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is I think all these first year
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: coaches were kind of being put out of the microscope again.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jake Thompson on the Out of Bounds Show, Ole
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Miss kicks it off against Louisville in Nashville week one, Baby,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: then they take a week off against Charlotte, and then
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: we all know LSU at ole Miss. So looking at
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the Vegas odds, Jake Ole Miss plus eleven hundred to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: win the SEC and plus three thousand for the Natty,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, depending on what book you're looking at, right,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: So that's respected, but it's clearly behind several teams in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the SEC like Georgia, Texas A and m Bama and LSU.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: That's kind of the pecking order. Do you think that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: people are sleeping on this old Miss football team?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think also it just got historical
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: kind of evidence to go by. You know, I don't
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: agree with how Ruman Harper said it on TV that day.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I think at SC Media Days to start the week,
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: where he was, you know, picking on the new guy,
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Chase Daniels and said it's no Miss, he'll learn they're
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: not gonna win a national title. I'm not going that far.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: I think that was poorly said for you know, insert
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: any team into that sentence. But yeah, you know, I
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: think ale Miss.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Has to prove it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: You know, they've got the guys on offense, but I
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: think everybody knows defense is what wins you that title
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: or gets you in the running. And you know, it's hard.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Logo bias is a thing. It's just it's just if
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: best in college football in Vegas. Some of these guys
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: don't watch a lick of any of these teams all
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: the time or even reading to eerie stuff, but but
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: they do know what an Ohio State team alway usually does,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: what a nerve Dame team does Texas, you know, Georgia, Alabama.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: So I think that's part of it. But you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: also these uh, these Vegas guys, there's a reason the
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: lights staying all the time, and they know to put
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: some some teams with odds that are going to rile
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: up some people and go that's I'm gonna make a
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: killing all for this and put some bet down, you know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: better's bait. So it's probably a little bit of all
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: that in there. But uh, you know, a fote miss
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: can get through week three and be three and zero
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: head too Florida. I think you're going to see at
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: least the SEC shift in their favor. You know, it'll
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: probably take a little bit more than that for the
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: you know, the national title loge to shift. But yeah,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I think they just have to, you know, pile up
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: some debuts and and that money. It'll shift their way.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And do you believe that with all the shakeup? And yes,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Pete did a good job in the playoffs, but a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: lot of that was driven by what Lane had built,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: as you know, for six years. Do you believe ten
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and two is what it's going to take to get
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in Jake, until we go to twenty whatever, until we
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: go to sixteen, twenty or twenty four nine in three
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: is not going to get it. So when when you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: look at you know, it's it's somewhat manageable. But you
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: mentioned Elishu at home, that's going to be tough at Florida,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: tough at Texas, tough Georgia at home, and at Oklahoma
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: top and then I'm going I'm kind of glossing over
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: some SEC teams that you know, you don't ever know
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: could give anyone some pits. Do you believe this is
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a roster and a team that can go ten and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: two with a nine game conference schedule in Louisville on
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a neutral field.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think they can, but I'm gonna I'm
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: kind of a one that's leaning that I think a
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: nine and three team could get in, but with a caveat,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: it depends on who the nine are and who the
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: three are, because you know, I think that's going to
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: weigh into especially with think you basically saying to us
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: in Tampa that he taught with college football playoff people.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I guess the desks in the spring meetings and he
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: was given the word he used unsatisfactory answer, which basically
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: means the committee didn't tell them, oh, hey, we're going
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: to weigh that nine game schedule heavier and everybody else,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: But no, I think a nine and three team might,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: but it also depends on, like I said, who those
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: nine are and who those three are. I mean it
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: could be good losses, good wins, but no in terms
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: of all Miss on paper, I think they have a
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: ten and t team, but they've got you know, obviously,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: like everybody else, they got to go play the games
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: and show it. Pete Golden's toughest coach, first toughest coaching task,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: I think is that week between LSU and Florida Ver
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: lose LSU. His job is to get that team back
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: to level as fast as possible before.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Going to a very motivated.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: John sommerl who could not stop saying over and over
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: that he was beaten by ole Mists twice last year
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: by two different coaches. You know, with his two lane team.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: That that and he's a competitor like if your other coach,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: he's going to be motivated. And we've also seen how
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Ole Miss does heading into a big game at Gainesville
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: in recent history. You know, it's it's been been a challenge,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: especially with a lot on the line. So that's Pete's
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: first toughest job. If Miss Pete's lsu, you've got to
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: get him back down, make sure they're not coming off
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: of partying like an all night or in Vegas. If
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: they lose, you've got to get him back up to
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: a level and make them realize there's still eight more games.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: And you think, you know, we have plenty of time
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: to get back on track. That's too of lsub in
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: the first of these nine SCC games. If you lose,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: you've got your what you used to have, your normal
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: eight game SEC schedule to get.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Back on track.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was well done. Jake Thompson ole miss Insider,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss Spirit on three on the Farm Bureau Insurance
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Guests line, and by the way, for our listeners, because
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: you're busy and Jake and I are somewhat locked into this.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: What Jake was referencing was Sanke at Commissioner Sankie at
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: SEC Media Days said that they had a conference call
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: with the College Football Playoff Committee and his quote, I'm
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: kind of paraphrasing, was it was not a productive conversation. Okay,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: now when when and I think this is where Jake's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: going to when this thing is expanded, it won't matter
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to more, you know, but right now, I think it's
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: going to clip the league this year because we stayed
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: at twelve but bumped it up to nine games. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: so that's what Jake and I are debating. Can nine
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and three get you in? Probably not, But as Jake said,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: maybe it's really going to come down to going ten
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and two and eleven and one, and with Notre Dame
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: probably making the playoffs, that's taking a spot that they
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: didn't take last year. Does that make sense with their
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: easy schedule?
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And Penn State, y'all watch out. I mean, I don't
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: think Matt Campbell's better than James Franklin. I think it's
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: kind of a push, maybe a slight slide edge to
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: James Franklin. But y'all, that Penn State schedule is absurd
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: how easy it is. So I think that's something to
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Is we're thinking how many spots
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: are there depending on where Ole Miss finishes, Texas, Georgia, LSU,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Bama teams that we believe have a chance to make
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the college football playoff? Is that fair?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Jake?
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, you're actually right.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: I mean I think it'll be ten and two, especially
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: once we get to you know, middle of October and
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: half the season done and see who's butt and where
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: and who's one who hasn't and what conferences or you know,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: trending and not. But yeah, that's why I just think
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: on the outside, I'm just playing that, you know, advocate
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Devil's advocate of a nine to three could. But I
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: think you've got to have the right nine and the
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: right three because there's going to be plenty of ten
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: and two's across the country and especially in the Big
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Ten because yeah, Indiana's also got a cupcake off the
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: schedule after a signettes.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: SA we don't really run, we don't really run from anybody,
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: and they.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: You know, I know he doesn't sit there and make
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: the schedule, but he does that. That's his schedule this
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: year and Notre Dame. Everybody jokes about Notre Dame schedule.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. There's bobby reason.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: They decided to get back to the table and say
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Southern Cals played again in three years, uh to add
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: another one to their schedule, but that doesn't matter for
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: And Penn State they've got some.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: But they avoid a lot of the big boogeymen of.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: The Big Ten.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: They've got some some phones, but you know, a lot
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: of it's you know, kind of come down to just
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: as Penn State a little bit better than last year.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: And if that's the case, then yeah, they'll get in
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: when you at least expect him to. So oh, Miss,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think that best case or worst case
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: scenario for almost they've got to start five and one
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: head into Texas. I think, you know, they've got to
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: you know, I can give them one somewhere, you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: LSU Florida, just because that's a tough two weeks for anybody.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Uh So, if they're five and one head into Texas,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I think they're in a good spot. If they're worse
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: than that, it's going to be a tough back end
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: of the season, I think with who they have after that.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: No, that's fair enough. Jake Thompson, Ole Miss spirit Ole,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Miss Insider. Everything gets kicked off tomorrow and we're all
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  Speaker 1: ready and just in a few weeks they'll be in
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  Speaker 1: Nashville playing the Louisville Cardinal and Jeff Bram And again
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  Speaker 1: Louisville has no experience at quarterback. They grabbed a guy
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  Speaker 1: from West Georgia and a guy from Ohio, State, and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: evidently the guy from West Georgia played better than the
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  Speaker 1: guy from Ohio State in the spring game. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to make of that roll most of that,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see Jake Thompson on ESPN one oh five
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  Speaker 1: nine to the zone driven by your next gmccra truck.
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  Speaker 1: It foul, gmc pearl Brandon. Yeah, that Penn State schedule,
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  Speaker 1: that Notre Dame schedule, and that Indiana schedule. Good Lord,
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  Speaker 1: cupcakes for days, baby, All right, D line. I want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the D line in Eccles No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: the defense as a whole. Jake Thompson, we did this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit last time you were on. But I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to get and I know Eccles and Perkins, but
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  Speaker 1: I want you to rank them too. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to give me your top four or five defensive players
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  Speaker 1: for Pete Golding going into twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: Five I'll go five to one. I'll say five. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go Antonio Kite a secondary just because he had
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  Speaker 4: he had a great year last year with all the
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  Speaker 4: uncertainty coming in after how he left Auburn and played
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  Speaker 4: better as the year got on. I think you will
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  Speaker 4: be a key guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Four, I'm gonna say it's uh Keaton the linebacker from
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  Speaker 4: Keaton Thomas from Baylor. I think he's gonna be your
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  Speaker 4: green dot guy.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the linebackers an entirely new makeover. You know,
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  Speaker 4: take Perkins out of it, because he's such a hybrid,
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  Speaker 4: you can put him in either room. But traditional linebacker
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  Speaker 4: Keaton Thomas. I think it's going to be a key guy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I could go four B there with Luke
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  Speaker 4: for Ellie, the Cal transfer who's obviously everybody knows his
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  Speaker 4: name for different reasons, but I think he's only played
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  Speaker 4: one year at Cal. But I think, you know, Pete
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  Speaker 4: Golding knows how to coach linebackers, and he's got two
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  Speaker 4: new guys to help coach that room since he's got,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot more going on. But I think
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  Speaker 4: he Keaton kind of four A four B there.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: The three, I'm gonna say Cam Franklin, I think the
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: the Lake Corman guy takes a step up. And then two,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: you know, because I'm gonna be unique with one, but two,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna say Blake Purchase the Oregon defensive end.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's going to be a key guy on
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  Speaker 4: the other end with Cam Franklin. That's a newcomer that's
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: coming in and I think can thrive well with you know,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: we've seen how could ramdall join Er develops guys on
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  Speaker 4: the defensive line and gets them NFL ready or at
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  Speaker 4: least have a shot to play at the NFL. So
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  Speaker 4: I think that's going to be a guy to watch.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: And then one is just kind of your two MVPs
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  Speaker 4: I think of the entire defense or will need to
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: be and Echols and Perkins. I know I kind of
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: cheated there, but you know that's that's how I view
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  Speaker 4: the defense right now.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was good.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we needed, all right. So we've got transfers
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: from Baylor, Oregon and cal slash Clemson that are on
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the list with Jake Thompson, and then we've got some
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  Speaker 1: returning guys that played really well for ole Miss last year.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And that's I think that's the big question, like how
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the defense is going to be good? Will they be unbelievable? Yeah,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's the question. In Oxford.
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  Speaker 4: I think for ole Miss, they don't have to be
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: unbelievable just to touch better, because look how far they
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: got last year. With the defense that I think it
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: was not as good as what's on paper this year
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  Speaker 4: in certain areas. I think they got better at linebacker
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  Speaker 4: as a whole with depth, and I think they got
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: better in the secondary with some guys that come in,
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  Speaker 4: but we just haven't gotten to see them much, so
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: it's hard to say it. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: if they're just slightly better than last year, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: the offense can do what it's expected to do with
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  Speaker 4: two preseason Heisman contenders, that they've got a chance to get.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: To that tenant too and make another run and see.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: If you know, somehow they're one of the two in Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: All right, cool, we'll wrap it up with food and beverage.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Have you been to the Ship restaurant up there?
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I have not.
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  Speaker 4: My brother who used to live here, went there frequently
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  Speaker 4: and he enjoyed it. I have never made it there.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: I've got to expand my rotation of restaurants. It's kind
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: of a sad, you know, for you know, habitual rotation
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  Speaker 4: that I just got myself into the decade plus i've
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: lived here.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's cool, I've been. It's it's a fantastic place.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Have you been to miscellaneous. All right, we got to
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  Speaker 1: get Jake Thompson. Uh, my guys, Dolbron and Patrick Kelly
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: have to get uh Jake to the sip and to
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: miscellaneous for the right mojo for Old Miss this year.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: All right, tell me your your your I don't know.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Free restaurant rotation Jake Thompson.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my rotation is Ajax on the Square. If you like,
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  Speaker 4: if you're just needing some some good home cooking, that's
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: you know, you know, like you you know, Golden Crown
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: type stuff. You're you're good soaking cooking. Ajax has got
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: that in all different ways.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: If you're feeling like, uh, you know, a good burrito,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: good taco, I go to South Depot on the Square.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. And let's see a third one. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: think there's.
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  Speaker 5: There's ones that are worth of you, but I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: go Uh, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not try to it.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: I'm planning to try it today or tomorrow, but I'm
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: gonna just throw in a new one that and I'm
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: probably butchering the name app Applos applos oh applos.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they started.
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  Speaker 4: Here, got one up. I think it opened sometime last month,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's everybody seems to love it, so I
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  Speaker 4: want to throw that one out there.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you'll love the eros and everything else that
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: they're doing as they started here in Jackson. All right, Uh,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Jake Thompson, you're gonna have a busy, busy year, busy
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: August and you'll be hanging out with us a good bit.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you and we'll talk soon.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I appreciate you guys. Thanks a lot.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: All right, man, Ole Miss Spirit on three Jake Thompson, Uh,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: talking old Miss football. This is now Pete Golding's team.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: This is now Pete Goldings team with Trinidad Chambliss and
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Will Eccles leading the way among others. And uh, can
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss go ten and two with this schedule at Florida,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: at Texas and at Oklahoma and with some tough home games.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I think LSU at home and George at home. Yeah,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: will be challenging. Now, I mean there's some other games
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: that could be challenging. I was just running through the
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: schedule that defense could be filthy. We're live in the
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