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Michael Katz Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Professional Advice, USC Advice and of course he covers Old
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  Speaker 2: Miss for the Northeast Miss CIV Daily Journal in the
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  Speaker 2: SEC CATS. Welcome in, brother, what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna warn you don't ask me about the first two.
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  Speaker 3: The last one you could. I bet the last one's
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  Speaker 3: stare game. I make no guarantee on the first two.
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  Speaker 2: Very very fair enough, fair enough, all right, We've got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days under our belts. Always go here
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  Speaker 2: with the team coverage, injuries, injuries, injuries. What's the health
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  Speaker 2: of the program? First?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean from what we know, it's it's it's good. Admittedly,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't seen a ton, you know. We we've had
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  Speaker 3: one practice of availability and there's about ten minutes of
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  Speaker 3: special teams and I think that's what it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be tomorrow. So I we're not really seeing a ton.
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  Speaker 3: But from what Pete I guess it was last week,
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  Speaker 3: guys who they expected to recover from off season stuff
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  Speaker 3: are where they want them to be, and that includes
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  Speaker 3: guys like Carus Current another kwe ed shoulder surgery in
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  Speaker 3: the offseason. Those guys are are where they need them
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  Speaker 3: to be. So I think from that perspective, they're in
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  Speaker 3: a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you probably if you had a dollar
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  Speaker 2: every time he was asked or rode or covered about
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  Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss, you could probably retire and rightfully, so, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that we've seen a quarterback in this state
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  Speaker 2: grabbed this much attention since maybe Eli Manning when he
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  Speaker 2: was at Ole Miss And rightfully so. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: guy's definitely worth the hype. He's worth you know, everything,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no hype. I mean, the guy proved it.
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  Speaker 2: Talk a little bit about him and how he might
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  Speaker 2: be handling the pressure. I mean, because all eyes are
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  Speaker 2: on this guy in the right way, and he is
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  Speaker 2: one thousand percent one of the two or three faces
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  Speaker 2: of college football in the in the country in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the I think the AP's All American
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  Speaker 3: Team comes out tomorrow or Thursday, and I imagine he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be on one of those teams. He's been
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  Speaker 3: on a lot of preseason American teams. He's got really
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  Speaker 3: good Heisman odds. I think this thing with Trinidad, though,
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  Speaker 3: is he's just he's just a cool customer man. He's
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  Speaker 3: not phased by the noise or the excitement or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that. Like I think, in a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 3: he's the same guy that came here, you know, late
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  Speaker 3: last spring after springball as the D two transfer from
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  Speaker 3: Faris State who nobody knew anything about. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that guy is still the trendsit ad that is, you know,
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  Speaker 3: lighting up the sec He's just so consistent in who
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  Speaker 3: he is. He's just he's so solid. He's about as
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  Speaker 3: good as an ambassador as you could ask for for
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  Speaker 3: the program. You know, obviously his story is something that
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  Speaker 3: brings people in again the D two stuff and you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of coming out of I don't want to stay nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, he was supposed to be the starter
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  Speaker 3: going into last season. He ends up finishing as and
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  Speaker 3: Heisman voting and taking this team to the playoffs and
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  Speaker 3: staying when a lot of people probably would have left
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  Speaker 3: under the circumstances, you know, with the coaching change and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's there's a lot going on with college
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  Speaker 3: football that I think people are maybe not upset with,
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  Speaker 3: but don't agree with or don't like the way things
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  Speaker 3: are trending. But it's hard not to look at Trinidad's
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  Speaker 3: story and think of that as you know, Hey, college
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  Speaker 3: football is okay. This is a case of things actually
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  Speaker 3: working out the right way.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Kat's talking almost Football Tues the edition of the program.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure to get him on X and check him
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  Speaker 2: out at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Tuesday edition of
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  Speaker 2: the program. We haven't talked a whole lot about pass
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  Speaker 2: catchers in Oxford. I mean, obviously there's gonna be dudes
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  Speaker 2: and guys that can do it. Take us through what
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  Speaker 2: that room might look like this this fall were here
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  Speaker 2: in just a few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the one that we feel like we know a
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  Speaker 3: good amount about is Jus Alexander. He is switched to
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  Speaker 3: number one, which is, as you know, is a big
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  Speaker 3: deal in as for for ol mist receivers. They don't
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  Speaker 3: just give that number away. You have to earn that one.
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  Speaker 3: So that was I think a big part and I
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  Speaker 3: think that shows that, you know, the confidence to having him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he wasn't asked to be, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: main guy last year. You know, at different times it
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  Speaker 3: was different guys. You know, Deshaun Stribbling who is ripping
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  Speaker 3: it up and forty nine ers can't buy all accounts,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Harrison Wallace and Katan Lee. There were just
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys that did a lot of things.
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  Speaker 3: But besides, Vanner quietly had a really nice year. He
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  Speaker 3: had six hundred some yards forty four catches, he could
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  Speaker 3: get the ball, you know, on on on carry's sweeps,
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  Speaker 3: things like that. I think he's a really verstable player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's hard not to imagine him seeing an
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  Speaker 3: increased workload, as you know is the number one and
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  Speaker 3: the guy that you know, Trinidad is gonna instantly have
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  Speaker 3: a lot of trust in. I think another guy to
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  Speaker 3: look out for is John Tate Cook the second. He
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  Speaker 3: was a huge recruit out of Texas, five star, a
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  Speaker 3: top fifty recruit and twenty three and things that work
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  Speaker 3: out with him there and bounced around a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, talking to him, he sort of understands
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  Speaker 3: that he really needs to put this all together for
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  Speaker 3: his future and this is a really big year for him,
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  Speaker 3: and by all accounts, he's been pretty dynamic. Again, you
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  Speaker 3: don't become a five star recruit if you don't have
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  Speaker 3: some talent. And he's talking to John David Baker about
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  Speaker 3: him a couple of days ago. You know, he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that you know can beat you one on one
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  Speaker 3: in man coverage, but he's also a guy that you
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  Speaker 3: just get the ball to him in different ways and
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  Speaker 3: you let him make plays because he's so explosive. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that's going to be one to watch, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the one that I'm really interested in is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what's next for Caleb Cunningham. I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: was speaking of five star recruits. He's a guy who
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  Speaker 3: were big expectations, and you know, as a true freshman,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to come in, especially since I don't I
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  Speaker 3: don't I don't think he enrolled early. I believe he
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  Speaker 3: was playing basketball last year's so you know, he came
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  Speaker 3: in a little bit late, and I think he caught
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  Speaker 3: one path last year. But he's a guy who's got
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  Speaker 3: really high expectations. Again, as a five star in state receiver,
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  Speaker 3: I'm really curious to see how, you know, what his
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  Speaker 3: increased usage looks like, because again, you don't become a
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  Speaker 3: five star they don't think you're talented. And I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of talent there. It's just a matter of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what what do they have from these new
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  Speaker 3: transfer receivers and what do they think he can bring
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  Speaker 3: that maybe they don't have in the room.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise we won't know it until we know it. And
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  Speaker 2: here's what, you know, several things with his staff, So
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was talking about this in the first
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  Speaker 2: segment about Ole miss is. You know, there's some questions
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  Speaker 2: that like, for instance, on fourth down, if you're sitting
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  Speaker 2: on the forty five, you're on forty five yard line,
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  Speaker 2: fourth and two, you know, Lane was probably going for it.
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  Speaker 2: What do we anticipate this staff will do in those
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  Speaker 2: situations or is it just wait and see find out?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they're more conservative, maybe you see the same kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, hey, you know, buckle, you chin strap,
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  Speaker 2: let's go get it. Do we know that yet?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's there's I mean, I do
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  Speaker 3: think there's some wait and see. Now, granted we have
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  Speaker 3: seen it a little bit through you know, three playoff games,
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  Speaker 3: and I think we really saw at a glimpse against
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  Speaker 3: Georgia with the confidence in Lucas Carnaro to kick those
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  Speaker 3: long field goals. You know. Again, it's it's it's impossible
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  Speaker 3: to say what Lane Kiss would have done those situations,
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  Speaker 3: but he might have opted to go for it. That's
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  Speaker 3: just you know, that's that was his m O a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the time Lane when he was the head coach.
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  Speaker 3: So I you know, I don't I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: those historic kicks happen, if if if Lane is the
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  Speaker 3: coach again, it's impossible to say. Maybe he does take
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  Speaker 3: the points, but Pete did take the points, and so
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  Speaker 3: I do think that gives us a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a glimpse into what he is thinking. He'd really trusts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got the best kick of the country
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  Speaker 3: for my money.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think too, you know, pizza guy, that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna trust that defense. I mean, that's his group, that's
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  Speaker 3: where he's made his mark, and he's still call him
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  Speaker 3: the defense. I think that you know, in a situation
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  Speaker 3: where you know, if you know Miss say it's a
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  Speaker 3: fourth and two, uh, in a in a situation that
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  Speaker 3: maybe doesn't look great, and he does go forward because
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  Speaker 3: he had confidence in that defense. So I think I
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  Speaker 3: could see it going both ways. But the at least
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  Speaker 3: from what we've seen in in a in a you know,
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  Speaker 3: three game sample size, he's gonna trust his players, uh
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  Speaker 3: as specialists. And I think for for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: we've seen him make the smart play.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure to get him on X check him out
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  Speaker 2: Northeastmith cip Daily Journal. He'll have you covered, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one end of the other Old Miss Football. Through the
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  Speaker 2: season here and through the preseason, he's Michael Katz Katz
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  Speaker 2: always appreciate your time. Stay cool out there and look,
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  Speaker 2: we'll catch up and do it again very soon.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, Thank you, brother.
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