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- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to a brand new edition of the Johnny Squirrel Podcast.
- 0:24SPEAKER_00: It's Johnny here with my co-host BW.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: What's going on, BW?
- 0:28SPEAKER_01: Not much, Johnny.
- 0:28SPEAKER_01: Had the off week last week.
- 0:30SPEAKER_01: Felt kind of weird not doing one, but ready, ready to knock out these last two games.
- 0:35SPEAKER_00: Yep, last two games indeed.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: I was uh spent the off week uh filming a movie, man, or a Christmas movie.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: So pretty uh pretty excited about that.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: It'll be out next Christmas.
- 0:44SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got married, right?
- 0:45SPEAKER_00: I got married and have three kids.
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a lot of people were confused by that, but uh that's how it works, man.
- 0:50SPEAKER_00: Got got me a wife and actually got two wives because the uh plot of the movie is kind of like it's a wonderful life, but it's called My Wonderful Life, and my wife in the movie's mother calls tells her that she wishes she was never born.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: So an angel comes down and shows her what her life would be like if she wasn't born.
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: So in one of the sequences, she sees me with another woman, and it's my wife then, because she wasn't born.
- 1:11SPEAKER_00: So I have two wives in the movie and three kids.
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: So uh it was fun, fun, fun stuff.
- 1:16SPEAKER_01: Nice.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: Be out next group.
- 1:19SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, we missed out.
- 1:20SPEAKER_01: Uh, I was supposed to go to the basketball game on Sunday, but we ended up having some sick, some sick kids at the house, so it didn't end up working out to go.
- 1:28SPEAKER_01: So I missed it.
- 1:29SPEAKER_01: But we had looks like we had a good game.
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: We the first half was not great, but we came back and took care of business at the end.
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: That's a good good non-fight.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: I didn't uh I didn't get I didn't get to watch it, but I did keep up with on my phone.
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, man, we we came back.
- 1:41SPEAKER_00: It looked like we were kind of having a trouble shooting in the first half, and they got ahead of us, and then and then we came back in the second half and and put it to them.
- 1:48SPEAKER_00: So man, that's that's awesome.
- 1:50SPEAKER_00: It's a really good sign because usually teams in the past, usually when they get down, they can't, it's hard to hard to get back.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: And the fact that we were able to do that, it gets a uh I mean they're they're not uh you know a well-known team, and that's uh Utah uh it's a pretty good team.
- 2:05SPEAKER_00: So um, so that was that was promising.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: So um, I like our schedule that we have teams like that, which gets you off conference play and march madness because when you get when you stack your schedule full of cupcake wins and get the get the uh easy teams out of the way, and then you cut the conference, it's totally different level.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: But if you start playing competition that's decent, uh before you get to conference play, it gets you warmed up for a conference play because SEC conference plays can be rough.
- 2:31SPEAKER_00: Um we got so many good teams out of here.
- 2:34SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be tough for sure.
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 2:37SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I'm excited about it.
- 2:39SPEAKER_01: We uh of course we got a couple more weeks in football season, which we'll talk about today.
- 2:44SPEAKER_01: And uh, we've also got a good episode planned for y'all next week for the egg bowl.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: We're actually doing doing the interview for that pretty soon here, too.
- 2:51SPEAKER_01: So, you know, stay tuned for both of those episodes.
- 2:53SPEAKER_01: And uh just mentioned this is episode 98.
- 2:56SPEAKER_01: Next week is 99, and so we're gonna have something big planned for episode 100.
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for an announcement about that.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm excited about episode 100 bw's hard to believe that we started this uh uh what was this 2021, I believe.
- 3:09SPEAKER_00: So three years ago.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: Um, pretty, pretty, pretty crazy.
- 3:12SPEAKER_00: So a lot of fun, uh, fun stuff we've done through the time.
- 3:15SPEAKER_00: Yeah, speaking of uh basketball, one more thing going back to that.
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: I saw our our buddy uh Shane Power posted uh on Twitter, and and man, I'm all for this too.
- 3:24SPEAKER_00: About uh doing uh, I mean, you know, we had the football team that went to number one back and honored them this fall.
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: I don't see why we're not honoring the uh 2004 SEC Championship basketball, men's basketball.
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: Miss City, I mean, probably the best Mississippi State basketball team we've had in like 60 years or something.
- 3:40SPEAKER_00: So um I that no one from the Athletic Department has reached out to them, but I mean I know they are willing to come back, and it actually would have been last season because remember it was um the spring of 04.
- 3:52SPEAKER_00: So uh, but we're still in 2024, so that's 20 years ago.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: So hopefully that they can make that happen because they definitely deserve to be recognized.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: That was an incredible team.
- 4:02SPEAKER_01: Sure was that'd be awesome.
- 4:03SPEAKER_01: They definitely need to put that together.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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- 6:23SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 6:24SPEAKER_01: Well, Johnny, we've got Missouri this week.
- 6:27SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, looking at that game on the schedule early early in the season, I wasn't quite sure about it.
- 6:32SPEAKER_01: They were they were pretty highly ranked to start the season.
- 6:36SPEAKER_01: They started off the season pretty good.
- 6:38SPEAKER_01: They faltered a little bit midway through the season.
- 6:41SPEAKER_01: Uh, it definitely seems like it is a team that's beatable.
- 6:45SPEAKER_01: But the last time I felt that way against Arkansas, we saw what happened with that.
- 6:48SPEAKER_01: So I don't know that I'm gonna necessarily get my hopes, hopes up too much for this game, but uh, you know, possibly a game that we're gonna have a chance to be in at least.
- 6:58SPEAKER_01: So we'll see what happens.
- 6:59SPEAKER_01: What what do you think about it?
- 7:01SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm the exact same way.
- 7:03SPEAKER_00: You know, at the at the beginning of the year, everyone was so high on Missouri, then they just kind of faltered and they they're kind of frogs.
- 7:09SPEAKER_00: It looks like they're not really as good as everyone says they are.
- 7:12SPEAKER_00: So this is a prime opportunity if you're gonna get a win to get a win.
- 7:15SPEAKER_00: But like you just said, we thought that with Arkansas because Arkansas was not that good, and we we appeared to possibly have a good chance chance of that, and they blew us out.
- 7:23SPEAKER_00: So uh I really don't know what to say about about the game BW, to tell you the truth.
- 7:28SPEAKER_00: Uh so weird because it seems like every team, there's so much uh uh every everybody can beat everybody in the SEC that this year, just looking at the uh schedules, but Mississippi State seems like we're at the very bottom and it's hard to do.
- 7:40SPEAKER_00: Uh so if they're ever gonna pull an upset, this would be the one to do it.
- 7:44SPEAKER_00: And um, and I do think it's attainable if the defense does not give up any that much yardage and points.
- 7:51SPEAKER_00: That's been the issue all season.
- 7:53SPEAKER_00: Is uh I feel like our offense has it has a good chance to score points, but the defense gives up so much.
- 7:59SPEAKER_00: So when the defense gives up that many yardage and that many points, and the offense can't can't do it, then that's how you lose all these games, and that's what's been happening.
- 8:06SPEAKER_00: So um somehow the defense can get it together and stop the quarterback, then uh got it got a good chance.
- 8:12SPEAKER_00: So um, but uh I'm I wouldn't I wouldn't pick us for sure because uh you you never you never can tell, but it sure would be nice because the guy it's gonna be senior day, and you know, a lot of these seniors on this team, what they've been there for four years and they've gone through so many changes as far as coaching changes and coach leach dein and different offenses coming in, then Zach Cornet, and then now Levy.
- 8:37SPEAKER_00: So it's like so much change and stuff they've seen through these four years.
- 8:40SPEAKER_00: So uh man, they deserve to go out winners, and and I think that would be an awesome way if they could somehow pull it together and win it for these guys, these seniors on the team, because uh it's been a tough year.
- 8:52SPEAKER_01: Well, Johnny, what do you think?
- 8:53SPEAKER_01: So if if you if you win this game, do you think it it increases your chances to beat Ole Miss?
- 9:00SPEAKER_01: Uh do you think it gives you the momentum and the confidence to beat Ole Miss?
- 9:04SPEAKER_01: Or do you think it's just a week-to-week thing?
- 9:07SPEAKER_01: And you know, you do you would you take one over the other?
- 9:11SPEAKER_01: You think there's a chance to get both?
- 9:13SPEAKER_01: You think there's a chance to only get one?
- 9:15SPEAKER_00: I'd rather lose to Missouri and beat Ole Miss any day, man.
- 9:17SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: There's no doubt about that.
- 9:19SPEAKER_00: But um, I don't I don't think, I mean, I I don't think even if you win, even if you do get a win over Missouri, I don't think it's gonna be like a confidence booster.
- 9:28SPEAKER_00: I mean, Ole Miss is so good this year.
- 9:30SPEAKER_00: Uh maybe it will be, but you know, it's so funny because everyone, including myself, would pick Ole Miss to beat State.
- 9:37SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's just they're hands above, hands down, better team all around.
- 9:42SPEAKER_00: They're they're a playoff contending team, and state is not everything is in Ole Miss's favor this year.
- 9:47SPEAKER_00: But you know how it works with Mississippi State Ole Miss in the past few years.
- 9:51SPEAKER_00: When State had a chance to with Dak to go Super Bowl, Ole Miss was not that good and they upset us.
- 9:56SPEAKER_00: So it will it, I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but that's your it would not surprise me uh if Mississippi State beats Ole Miss and knocks him out of the playoff race just because weird things happen all the time.
- 10:07SPEAKER_00: But as far as looking on paper, uh Ole Miss could should beat state by 100 this year.
- 10:13SPEAKER_00: I mean, it should be a bloodbath, but but you never know a deck bowl.
- 10:17SPEAKER_00: So uh, but I don't know.
- 10:18SPEAKER_00: I don't think this this game, Missouri game, has anything.
- 10:21SPEAKER_00: I don't think it'll I think it's just a game that we just desperately need to get a win.
- 10:26SPEAKER_00: Just to uh to end the in the season in the home slate with a with a win, but I don't think it'll affect next year, next week's game, no matter what.
- 10:33SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agree with you too.
- 10:34SPEAKER_01: I think it's it that game just seems to stand by itself for the most part and doesn't necessarily matter what you do the week before uh with that.
- 10:43SPEAKER_01: But yeah, you know, I'd love to get this win.
- 10:45SPEAKER_01: It would it would feel great.
- 10:46SPEAKER_01: But I agree with you.
- 10:47SPEAKER_01: I'd rather I'd rather beat Ole Miss if I was gonna pick one of them, but I see if we get both of them.
- 10:51SPEAKER_00: If I if I picked the score this week, BW, I was thinking on this.
- 10:54SPEAKER_00: I think I think the score I would pick something like uh Missouri Um 27, uh Mississippi State 14, something like that.
- 11:04SPEAKER_00: I think I think Missouri, I think it might be a close game, but I think Missouri will come out at the end.
- 11:09SPEAKER_00: And if they're quarterback, if they think they're quarterback, Brady Cook, I believe the guy's name, I think pretty good quarterback.
- 11:15SPEAKER_00: So I like I said, it just depends on the defense.
- 11:17SPEAKER_00: If they give up a bunch of yards and points, it's just gonna be hard.
- 11:20SPEAKER_00: But uh I think I think Missouri will win by a couple touchdowns when it's all said and done.
- 11:26SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agree with you.
- 11:28SPEAKER_01: I think you gave the defense a little bit more credit than I'm gonna give them.
- 11:31SPEAKER_01: I'll I'll probably give Missouri 35 points and maybe give us something like 17 or 21.
- 11:38SPEAKER_01: So 35-17, 35-21.
- 11:40SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm thinking.
- 11:42SPEAKER_01: Um, it'll it'll feel it won't be a blowout, I don't think it it'll we'll have a chance, you know, into the second half, but I don't think it'll it'll be close.
- 11:52SPEAKER_00: Right.
- 11:53SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 11:54SPEAKER_00: Well, it's uh it's been a it's been a fun year, a difficult year, but um it was we we've had some good things uh happen this year as far as improvement as far as the offense goes, because at the beginning of the year.
- 12:05SPEAKER_00: Well, we'll just looking at the get games that we played this year against the top teams in the country, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee.
- 12:12SPEAKER_00: I mean, there was none of them have been like 52 to nothing.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: None of them have been absolutely blowouts.
- 12:17SPEAKER_00: We were in the game, we knew we were gonna lose.
- 12:19SPEAKER_00: Even watching the game, you knew we were gonna lose, but we were fighting and and not giving up and fighting to the to the last whistle.
- 12:26SPEAKER_00: And uh that's kind of all you can ask for when you got a team.
- 12:29SPEAKER_00: I mean, you can't control the players out there as far as winning the game.
- 12:33SPEAKER_00: All you can do is just hope for the best and and not give up.
- 12:36SPEAKER_00: That's the main thing.
- 12:36SPEAKER_00: And and they didn't do that.
- 12:38SPEAKER_00: So uh, of course, moral victories don't count at all, but we sure did have a bunch of moral victories this year, and uh hopefully we can build on that for for uh for the next season coming.
- 12:48SPEAKER_00: But um, the defense is the issue.
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: You hear all these podcast people talking about the fire of the defensive coordinator.
- 12:53SPEAKER_00: So it'll be interesting.
- 12:55SPEAKER_00: I feel like if Levy holds on to him next year, then that's gonna start off the season on a bad note with Levy.
- 13:01SPEAKER_00: I mean, uh, if he wants to make an impression with the with the uh fan base, he needs to make a move and and and get somebody.
- 13:08SPEAKER_00: I know they're buddies, but I mean, this is a business that you can't afford to uh just because you're buddies with someone.
- 13:15SPEAKER_00: If it's affecting the play of the game and and all that sort of stuff, you got to make the right call.
- 13:19SPEAKER_00: So hopefully he'll get somebody with a uh defensive uh coordinator that knows what he's doing, that's had experience.
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: That's the that's what the issue.
- 13:26SPEAKER_00: That's what the issue I had was with Aaron Levy, you know.
- 13:29SPEAKER_00: I mean, of course, maybe we couldn't get anybody a proven head coach, but you need people with proven records, you know.
- 13:34SPEAKER_00: It's it's hard to bring someone in that has never done that thing and expect them to do good.
- 13:40SPEAKER_00: Uh so anyway, uh hopefully they'll make some changes on the defensive side of the ball going into the next season and uh and go from there.
- 13:50SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agree.
- 13:51SPEAKER_01: Unless for some reason we have his massive defensive performance the next two weeks, I think you gotta move there.
- 13:59SPEAKER_01: And if anything else, you just give the give us you know some confidence going into the offseason.
- 14:06SPEAKER_00: We did have uh we did have you know that quarterback from uh Noxaby, uh Kamario Taylor is a pretty highly quarterback, and he's come to Mississippi State.
- 14:17SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, that's that's something big time.
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: I don't know why he would, but I mean that that that's that's that's pretty cool that he's coming.
- 14:24SPEAKER_00: So uh and then I think in you know, shaping will be back next year, they say with a medical red shirt, and then Van Buren, I would think, would be the starter going in the season.
- 14:33SPEAKER_00: So we'll have a quarterback competition uh going into next year.
- 14:36SPEAKER_00: I would look for probably Chris Parson to transfer.
- 14:40SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know, that was pretty crazy.
- 14:42SPEAKER_00: Parson, you know, he played last year in the Kentucky game, and uh the last home game we had against uh who was it that we played, the non-conference team, uh UMass.
- 14:52SPEAKER_00: You know, we won the game.
- 14:53SPEAKER_00: It was awesome.
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: We get a win.
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: And I I figured they would put Parson at like a few minutes to go in the in the game.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: They literally brought him out and he took a knee, and that was it.
- 15:02SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, poor guy, man.
- 15:04SPEAKER_00: Like he works his butt off, and he all he does is gets to go in and take a knee.
- 15:07SPEAKER_00: So um I don't blame him one bit if he if he transfers out to get some playing time, but um, I do think we'll have a quarterback competition next year.
- 15:15SPEAKER_00: But I I I I think Ben Buren, what he's he's pro he's actually shown uh good signs this year of being a quarterback, so mobile quarterback too.
- 15:23SPEAKER_00: So I think he's our guy for the for the future, but we'll see.
- 15:28SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 15:29SPEAKER_01: Well, all right, Johnny, we'll we'll wrap up today, uh, kind of a short one today, but uh we we said we got a good one for y'all next week.
- 15:36SPEAKER_01: Got a uh very distinguished Mississippi State alum that's gonna come join us.
- 15:40SPEAKER_01: He actually played football for three years uh against against the old miss.
- 15:44SPEAKER_01: And so we're gonna talk about about the egg bowl with him, and and he's got some pretty fun fun stories to share with us about his time there and just uh lots lots of fun stuff.
- 15:52SPEAKER_01: So stay stay tuned for that next week.
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- 16:00SPEAKER_00: Well, one more thing, BW, uh, the college football uh polls came out, playoff polls.
- 16:04SPEAKER_00: What what were your thoughts on the on the playoff projections?
- 16:07SPEAKER_01: I wasn't too surprised by by any of that.
- 16:10SPEAKER_01: I just kind of fell fell like I thought it would.
- 16:12SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, there's a lot that's gonna happen these next couple of weeks.
- 16:17SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited just to see where where everything falls.
- 16:20SPEAKER_00: I know a lot of people on the Ole Miss side of things were they were nervous that that Georgia was gonna be ahead of them in the rankings and all that sort of stuff, and they beat them head to head, and then it came out, and Ole Miss was ahead of Georgia, actually, which they deserve to be.
- 16:33SPEAKER_00: They beat Georgia.
- 16:35SPEAKER_00: So um I I'm like you, I think uh not that those were really surprising, but uh these like you said, the this week and then and then the rivalry week uh and then the SEC championship and all that sort of stuff um will really determine uh who gets in and who doesn't.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: But uh I do think we'll get I think Alabama, I think Georgia, I think Ole Miss, I think uh Texas, and I think Tennessee, those five teams right there, or AM, if AM I think I think we'll get four, maybe five teams in the 12 team playoffs, which is which is uh we've got a good chance of being a uh SEC team winning it all.
- 17:11SPEAKER_00: But it will be pretty cool getting to see uh playoff games at home stadiums this year.
- 17:15SPEAKER_00: That's that's gonna be neat.
- 17:17SPEAKER_00: Um we'll see how it goes.
- 17:19SPEAKER_00: But we'll know a lot more after the uh the next couple weeks.
- 17:22SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
- 17:24SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
- 17:25SPEAKER_01: Well, all right, y'all.
- 17:27SPEAKER_01: We will talk to everybody next week.
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