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- 0:22SPEAKER_00: Okay, welcome back to a brand new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: This is Johnny here with my co-host BW on a victory week, another victory in the books.
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: So, uh BW, how are you doing today?
- 0:35SPEAKER_01: Okay.
- 0:40SPEAKER_01: Doing good.
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: A-O-K, right?
- 0:42SPEAKER_01: A-OK, Johnny.
- 0:44SPEAKER_01: We did it.
- 0:45SPEAKER_01: We we did uh what I said was gonna happen.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: Yes, indeed.
- 0:49SPEAKER_01: I hope I'm wrong about this next game in our preseason predictions.
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: Right.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: Um yep, after the first few minutes of the game, Camorio's first throw has uh picked off.
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: I was like, typical Mississippi.
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
- 1:03SPEAKER_00: Get our hopes up, just like I said, and and everybody's getting on board, and then we lose.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: And lo and behold, if we don't come back from big deficit on the road at SEC, got me believing, BW, got me believing in Camario Taylor and Jeff Levy.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: Who would have ever thought a year ago I'd be saying I believe in Jeff Levy, but I believe in Jeff Levy because I believe in Camario Taylor.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: And Camario Taylor is, as Nick Saban said, the truth and the light.
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: If we had that, we had that guy, man, we're in every game.
- 1:31SPEAKER_00: I I I'm riding or dying with uh Camario Taylor, along with everybody else.
- 1:36SPEAKER_01: Man, you know, that that's what worries me is that if you go back and look at all these preseason predictions and all these all these things you see like all over social media, you know, our odds to win all these games, it just keeps going up.
- 1:48SPEAKER_01: Like every single game you look at now, the odds are better and better.
- 1:51SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, Camario's in the top two now of quarterback discussion, interchanging with Trinidad.
- 1:57SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, everybody is on the bandwagon except Jonathan Graves.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: Um but everybody's talking, man.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: And and I think he texted me the other night and said, I'm on the Levy bandwagon.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: No way.
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: He did.
- 2:12SPEAKER_00: He texted the other night and said that.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: So uh he said it him and his dad were going to the Missouri game.
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: So it's I don't know if that's good.
- 2:20SPEAKER_00: If we lose, it's his fault because he has not been on the bandwagon and he's been away from it.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: So if we lose and he's there and he's on the bandwagon, he might get banned from being a state fan from from now on out.
- 2:32SPEAKER_01: Look, we were talking about Noah Mashburn last week, and he was talking about how every single away game he went to, they lost.
- 2:38SPEAKER_01: He was like 0-7 or 0-8 in road games, and it and and I texted you, I said somebody needs to ask him to leave the stadium, and it worked out.
- 2:47SPEAKER_00: It worked out, yeah.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: I was the same way.
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: I was looking at all of his mentions on Twitter, and everyone's like, get out of the stadium, leave now.
- 2:54SPEAKER_00: This is ridiculous.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: Why are you going?
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: And then he was like, I feel bad, feel like I'm playing in the game.
- 2:59SPEAKER_00: Uh uh uh I'm sick of my stomach of this.
- 3:01SPEAKER_00: Oh and lo and behold, he he gets a pass, and we won't so maybe there's no such thing as jinx and all that sort of stuff.
- 3:10SPEAKER_00: Camario can just prove everybody wrong.
- 3:12SPEAKER_00: So uh maybe so.
- 3:14SPEAKER_01: Did you see?
- 3:15SPEAKER_01: I feel like it was two weeks in a row.
- 3:17SPEAKER_01: The uh the Minnesota game, they showed the one fan like by himself in the stadium, and then this this one they showed the South Carolina, the mascot.
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: He was sitting all by himself in the stadium again in the student section.
- 3:29SPEAKER_01: So we're clearing people out.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: Clearing people out, getting them out, man.
- 3:34SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, but it was uh it was a great uh great game.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: I uh I actually got disinterested when we were down so big, man, and uh kind of like turned it off a little while.
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: And we're we're on that we were on that delay because of the weather delay.
- 3:48SPEAKER_00: So I turned on the old Miss Hellish U game because that's game I was really interested in.
- 3:52SPEAKER_00: So I had that one on, and then I'd flip back and forth.
- 3:55SPEAKER_00: And and dude, every time I would not watch, we do something good.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, same here, man.
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: I was like, I can't watch it.
- 4:02SPEAKER_00: I turn it on and we and and we'd do something stupid, uh, get a penalty or something.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: So I was like, I can't do it, I can't do it.
- 4:08SPEAKER_00: So mainly I had the old Miss LSU game on.
- 4:11SPEAKER_00: I was watching it, and then every now and I had it.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: The old Miss LSU game on in the den, and then I had the state game on on the porch, and I was sitting in my recliner, so I could watch both, really.
- 4:22SPEAKER_00: So um I wasn't like all focused in on the state game because when I had it on the big screen, it was like we're loose.
- 4:28SPEAKER_00: I put it on the other one, and it seemed to work.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: It seemed to be the trick.
- 4:32SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you what I did, Johnny.
- 4:33SPEAKER_01: What's that?
- 4:34SPEAKER_01: So I was watching that.
- 4:36SPEAKER_01: I was about to turn on our game, you know, it was SEC network, I guess, and I put it on there, and it was of course the Vanderbilt um NC State game.
- 4:45SPEAKER_01: What a wild pinage.
- 4:46SPEAKER_01: And I was like, man, this game, like our game, it's gonna run over, like we're gonna, I'm gonna miss the first part of our game.
- 4:51SPEAKER_01: Um, and then like all that stuff happens, which is crazy.
- 4:55SPEAKER_01: And but it's like it took forever.
- 4:57SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, they're gonna um, you know, their score here and they're gonna kick, they're gonna kick off, and there's one second left, and is it gonna go to a million commercials?
- 5:05SPEAKER_01: It's like just turn it off, turn it off, you know.
- 5:07SPEAKER_01: And then then I realized it says weather delay for our games.
- 5:10SPEAKER_01: Oh man, yes, but I had the day, the whole day was planned out around that game, and then we were supposed to go to dinner uh at like six o'clock at Huey's, and so it's like, all right, I'll be able to watch it there, get there, and it's not on.
- 5:24SPEAKER_01: And the AM game is on like four TVs, and whatever other game was on, like four TVs, and and like no Mississippi State game whatsoever.
- 5:32SPEAKER_01: I guess they don't have the SEC network in there, and so I couldn't watch it.
- 5:36SPEAKER_01: And when I went in there, we were down 16 to nothing, and then when I came out of there, uh, you know, we had we had started coming back, and we were supposed to go to a show at seven.
- 5:46SPEAKER_01: We went by the house real quick, went inside, watched them score that touchdown to go up, like what was it, 38, 22 or something like that.
- 5:54SPEAKER_01: And then I didn't see anything after that.
- 5:56SPEAKER_01: And I was waiting on you to text me.
- 5:58SPEAKER_01: Like, I was like, man, Johnny's gonna tell me, you know, you're gonna text me and say, you know, who won or something, we blew it, or something like that, and it was taking forever.
- 6:08SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I'm not gonna check it, I'm not gonna check it, I'm not gonna check it, because if I check it, we're gonna lose.
- 6:12SPEAKER_01: And and so I finally checked it, and it was like 55 seconds left, and they had the ball, and we were up like 10.
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: I was like, man.
- 6:22SPEAKER_01: So but we we we finally did it, but I didn't watch most of it in the second half.
- 6:28SPEAKER_00: So yeah, yeah, I I I don't know what it was, but it was obvious when I turned it on, stuff would happen, and then uh one went away from it, and we were doing good.
- 6:36SPEAKER_00: So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna take one for the team and focus on the on the LSU game.
- 6:41SPEAKER_00: So uh but yeah, glad we got and got got the win.
- 6:45SPEAKER_00: And uh Davis Wade should be rocking come Saturday night against Missouri Tigers.
- 6:51SPEAKER_00: Uh this is I think I read where the first top well both teams are ranked in the top 25.
- 6:56SPEAKER_00: Uh, first matchup at Davis Wade since 2017.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: So that's uh that's nine years ago.
- 7:02SPEAKER_00: Uh Dan Mullen's last last season at state.
- 7:05SPEAKER_00: So um, and I'm pretty sure it's that Bama game because that was the the game where we had, I mean, we were really into it and they had that bogus play at the end where Calvin Ridley went out of bounds and everything.
- 7:17SPEAKER_00: So that place was rocking.
- 7:19SPEAKER_00: And then I think 18, it was a sellout when Mullen came back against Florida uh with Moorhead, but it wasn't, I don't think uh Florida was ranked, maybe.
- 7:28SPEAKER_00: Or we were one of them, I I can't remember if it was Western Florida weren't ranked.
- 7:32SPEAKER_00: So this is really the first time both teams have ranked since 2017.
- 7:36SPEAKER_00: So um long time ago.
- 7:39SPEAKER_00: Uh so Davis Wade's gonna be be rocking for the first time in nine years on a on a rank on a ranked matchup Saturday night uh under the lights.
- 7:49SPEAKER_00: They're gonna uh do the world's uh again this book of world records for the most cowbells ranging at the same time.
- 7:55SPEAKER_00: Uh they're just how did we not already have that?
- 7:57SPEAKER_00: I don't I was confused about it actually.
- 7:59SPEAKER_00: We did it at Cowbell Yale in 2015 because I was there and I partook in it.
- 8:04SPEAKER_00: Uh, but it was like the pepper alley type thing leading up to the game uh for 2015.
- 8:09SPEAKER_00: So it wasn't in an actual game.
- 8:11SPEAKER_00: So this is gonna be in an actual actual game.
- 8:14SPEAKER_00: So uh they're gonna do that and uh should be uh should be a fun night.
- 8:19SPEAKER_00: My friend of mine from uh that I met that I talked about before I met in the bar at Captain Tony's at uh in Key West is from Kentucky, and he came down a couple years ago for a basketball game, came for Super Bowl weekend, and and when we uh for the Saturday game, when Jacob Parker hit the Grand Slam and we ended up beating LSU.
- 8:39SPEAKER_00: So he wants to come down for a football game.
- 8:40SPEAKER_00: So he's driving down Thursday night to witness his first football game at Mississippi State.
- 8:45SPEAKER_00: So hopefully he'll bring good luck on that.
- 8:47SPEAKER_00: But uh looking forward to that.
- 8:49SPEAKER_00: But it's gonna be a big uh big weekend in Sar Vegas, man.
- 8:52SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be uh a first chance to show the world.
- 8:56SPEAKER_00: I mean, we've been like you said, we've been on SEC Network and well, I guess we're on SEC Network again, but but more people are gonna be tuned in now because the fact that Camario's one and two in the Heisman were Trinidad, which is so weird, man.
- 9:08SPEAKER_00: It's like 2014 all over again with State and Ole Miss because we didn't have Dak and and uh who was the quarterback?
- 9:16SPEAKER_00: But Wallace, they they weren't Dak later ended up being a Heisman finalist, but but it wasn't like this this early in the season.
- 9:24SPEAKER_00: Um, for me, like this is insane how it's like one and two.
- 9:28SPEAKER_00: Every poll you look at, uh Camario and Trinidad either flip-flopped one and two, but uh it was it was it was insane.
- 9:36SPEAKER_00: Um did you see Trinidad's interview after the LSU game?
- 9:39SPEAKER_00: That was hilarious.
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: People got real mad about it, but he was just caught up in his emotions, what he said.
- 9:45SPEAKER_00: No, I don't think I saw that.
- 9:47SPEAKER_00: So he he went on and on the air on the air, you know, they interviewed him after the game, and it was it Holly Rowe again?
- 9:55SPEAKER_00: I think it was.
- 9:56SPEAKER_00: I think it was Holly Rowe again.
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: Wow, he's always in the in the in the spotlights and stuff.
- 10:01SPEAKER_00: Um Holly Rowe was talking to him and he was like, I think thank God for this opportunity to to play.
- 10:06SPEAKER_00: Uh, and he talked about his faith and everything.
- 10:09SPEAKER_00: And and then he did the interview, and then at the end of the interview, he goes, Holly F and Ty.
- 10:14SPEAKER_00: He said the F-word on live, ESPN, ABC, ESPN, Holly Rowe there, like there wasn't anything they could do, couldn't bleep it out because it was like live TV, uh, and people were just ragging on him.
- 10:25SPEAKER_00: Like, how can you talk about his faith?
- 10:27SPEAKER_00: And then drop the F-word in the same thing.
- 10:29SPEAKER_00: And it was like, obviously, pure emotions here was going on, and he later apologized to it.
- 10:33SPEAKER_00: But man, every Saturday night when Holly Rowe has the mic, you never know what's gonna happen.
- 10:37SPEAKER_00: You never know two weeks in a row.
- 10:40SPEAKER_00: But uh, did you get to watch any of that game, the LSG Ole Miss game?
- 10:44SPEAKER_01: I watched most of the the second half, and I but I missed the first part, uh, which is really what I wanted to see.
- 10:51SPEAKER_00: Um but did anything happen?
- 10:53SPEAKER_00: I mean, I never really heard no, there was no air fights, nothing like that.
- 10:57SPEAKER_00: Like I thought it was gonna be.
- 10:58SPEAKER_00: They had security all around him coming in.
- 11:01SPEAKER_00: You know how they said we talked about last week, how they said um that they were gonna silence the ball when he comes out.
- 11:07SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, LSU ran out the exact same time Ole Miss ran out.
- 11:11SPEAKER_00: So obviously they did that on purpose, uh not to get booed or anything because everybody's tearing.
- 11:16SPEAKER_00: So they ran out that exact same time, and then uh nothing nothing really happened.
- 11:22SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, the game was uh LSU fought back into it.
- 11:28SPEAKER_00: Uh Ole Miss had a big lead.
- 11:29SPEAKER_00: It looked for for a little ways there that Ole Miss would come blow him out.
- 11:33SPEAKER_00: And then LSU started coming back in the second half, and then it just uh kind of what we talked about last week that Sam Levitt, if they had a decent quarterback, they would they would have won that game.
- 11:44SPEAKER_00: There's no doubt in my mind they would have won it.
- 11:46SPEAKER_00: Levitt is just an average quarterback, and Trinidad's Trinidad's uh just a notch above him.
- 11:51SPEAKER_00: Like he's he's a he's a good quarterback.
- 11:53SPEAKER_00: So if if you flip flipped that and Trinidad gone with Lane to LSU, LSU would have won that game.
- 11:59SPEAKER_00: There's no doubt uh with Trinidad.
- 12:00SPEAKER_00: But Levitz just he just proved it at the end that he threw a pick at at the end, and just he just folds under pressure.
- 12:07SPEAKER_00: He did that in Starville last week last year against state at Arizona State.
- 12:11SPEAKER_00: So uh, you know, I picked LSU to get into the playoffs, which they might.
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: Um we're only in week three, so but but I I don't like their chances really with with Levitz because he's not he's not the he's not the he's not the difference maker that's gonna do take him far.
- 12:27SPEAKER_01: And they play AM this week.
- 12:29SPEAKER_01: And I mean A and M looked horrible against Kentucky, but I mean it's hard to say which one of those is gonna lose two weeks in a row, but one of the two yeah, whoever loses that's out, man.
- 12:40SPEAKER_00: I think I mean they're they're they're done.
- 12:42SPEAKER_00: So uh this is kind of an elimination game for for either one of them.
- 12:46SPEAKER_00: But um, yeah, they the atmosphere at at Bought Hemingway was awesome.
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: It looked like it from the TV.
- 12:51SPEAKER_00: Uh they they really went all out.
- 12:53SPEAKER_00: I I laughed when at the end of the game when they talked to talked to Lane in the press conference, he said, he goes, Well, I I guess it took me to leave him for the atmosphere to look like that.
- 13:02SPEAKER_00: You're welcome.
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: Man, I love that guy.
- 13:06SPEAKER_00: Everybody hates Lane Kiffin.
- 13:07SPEAKER_00: And I read, I I finished reading his book.
- 13:10SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you heard about that.
- 13:11SPEAKER_00: It's called Lane Being Lane.
- 13:12SPEAKER_00: And the old book, it just talks about his life from from the beginning.
- 13:16SPEAKER_00: Like the guy's been spoon-fed his whole life.
- 13:19SPEAKER_00: Monty, his dad, uh, obviously, everybody knows who he is.
- 13:23SPEAKER_00: Got him, got him a job right and left.
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: And he really, he really hasn't done anything to do to earn himself anything.
- 13:31SPEAKER_00: And uh the whole book just talks about going from place to place and then his uh picking up girls under the name Joey Freshwater, uh, which is hilarious.
- 13:41SPEAKER_00: And but the best part, man, my favorite part of the book is him working for Nick Saban.
- 13:46SPEAKER_00: Um, they said, you know, after he got fired, they talked about the whole insta at USC.
- 13:51SPEAKER_00: He was determined he was gonna go to USC to coach, even though they had been uh put on probation with sanctions from the Reggie Reggie Bush years.
- 13:59SPEAKER_00: And he was like, I don't care, I'm going anywhere, I got the opportunity, I'm going.
- 14:03SPEAKER_00: And uh he went and I mean it was reduction of scholarships, bowl bands, all sorts of stuff.
- 14:08SPEAKER_00: And he did pretty well uh the first year, and then uh I think I believe it was the third year, they were doing really bad.
- 14:15SPEAKER_00: And they left him on the at the airport at US uh at LAX.
- 14:19SPEAKER_00: And uh and he was begging for a job.
- 14:22SPEAKER_00: Let me just finish the year.
- 14:23SPEAKER_00: And he's never been told no, like that's one of his problems.
- 14:26SPEAKER_00: No one ever told him no, and they told him no, you're not you're not doing it.
- 14:30SPEAKER_00: So he like went into pressure and everything, and then he got the job at Florida Atlantic and then did really well there.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: And then someone had asked Nick Sabin, because that was the time when when offense was, you know, Sabin and Alabama is built on defense and their offense was not up to speed with the uh fast-paced offenses that college football is starting to take over in that in that year, around 2014 or so.
- 14:54SPEAKER_00: So uh someone had asked Saban, they're like, You really need to hire Lane Kiffin.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: And and he's like, I can't do that.
- 15:01SPEAKER_00: I can't I can't do it.
- 15:02SPEAKER_00: So then let Saban talk to someone else, was like, let me know your thoughts.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: I mean, he wasn't getting any offers anywhere because of all of his toxicity and everything.
- 15:10SPEAKER_00: And uh the guy was like, Yeah, you should hire him, but he's gonna drive you crazy.
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: So they hired him, and man, he would do this was so interesting.
- 15:18SPEAKER_00: He would Saban obviously would draw up plays and they'd work on it all week long and practice it over and over and over.
- 15:25SPEAKER_00: Literally, the day of the game, he would uh Kiffin would crumble up the pages they'd been working on and just throw out plays that they had not even practiced and throw it in the game and he and they'd score touchdowns off of it.
- 15:38SPEAKER_00: And Alabama fans were going crazy, the players are going crazy, and he just looked over at Nick Saban, he's just furious.
- 15:44SPEAKER_00: He's so mad that Kiffin was doing this.
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: And this went on for like the whole time he was there.
- 15:49SPEAKER_00: And they'd have meetings, like, you know, Saban, like, all right, I'm uh the meetings at nine.
- 15:53SPEAKER_00: I might start the meeting at 8:30.
- 15:55SPEAKER_00: So you better get there between eight before 8:30.
- 15:58SPEAKER_00: He did it like to get there people an hour early for meeting, so no one would be late.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: And Lane said, excuse me, Lane said in the book, he would get there at like five minutes before the meeting, uh, just to piss off Saban.
- 16:09SPEAKER_00: Like, he just pushed his buttons nonstop, man, like over and over.
- 16:13SPEAKER_00: And uh ended up, ended up getting fired.
- 16:16SPEAKER_00: But um, and then you know, he took the job at Florida Atlantic to to work his way back up.
- 16:21SPEAKER_00: And then the Ole Miss job, they were talking about uh when he got it, he they said that he felt like he was better than the old miss the whole time he was there.
- 16:29SPEAKER_00: Like it was kind of kind of reminded me of Dan Mullen as Charble.
- 16:31SPEAKER_00: Every year he was trying to get his way out, trying to find a trying to find something bigger and better.
- 16:35SPEAKER_00: At the time, it was only Arkansas and Ole Miss that was available.
- 16:39SPEAKER_00: And uh he definitely didn't want to go to Arkansas.
- 16:41SPEAKER_00: And he talked to someone, uh, the Ole Miss golf coach was his friend, and and he asked him if they would be interested.
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: And and the Mannings were adamant against Lane Kiff and they didn't like him, they didn't want him.
- 16:51SPEAKER_00: And and lo and behold, they hired him anyway.
- 16:54SPEAKER_00: And and it was just it was just crazy, same stuff.
- 16:57SPEAKER_00: Like he didn't want to say in the book that he wanted to fly separately from the team and stay at his house, not at the hotel.
- 17:03SPEAKER_00: All these demands he had.
- 17:04SPEAKER_00: And of course, hey man, they were winning.
- 17:06SPEAKER_00: So they were they were meeting all his demands.
- 17:08SPEAKER_00: And then the the final demand was, you know, last year, we all heard about it.
- 17:12SPEAKER_00: He wanted to coach the playoffs and go to LSG, and they were adamant, like, you're not gonna do that.
- 17:16SPEAKER_00: And he really thought that he was gonna get to do it.
- 17:19SPEAKER_00: And uh he had his little temper tantrum and said he was gonna take all the coaches with him, destroy him.
- 17:25SPEAKER_00: Talked about how he ended up getting dabbo.
- 17:27SPEAKER_00: He really didn't even like Dabo, but then he got Dabo to turn in Ole Miss and Pete Golden and all that sort of stuff.
- 17:33SPEAKER_00: Just vicious stuff, man.
- 17:34SPEAKER_00: It's pretty crazy.
- 17:35SPEAKER_00: I I literally wanted to take Ole Miss down just because they wouldn't let him coach the uh the playoffs.
- 17:40SPEAKER_00: But uh funny, I mean, it was an interesting book, man.
- 17:43SPEAKER_00: Like he just they somebody goes, if Lane Kiffin was not a football coach, he would be a serial killer.
- 17:51SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I can kind of see that.
- 17:53SPEAKER_00: I can kind of see that.
- 17:54SPEAKER_00: Hey, and Monty, his dad, like loved everybody, would walk into the meetings, every talk to everybody, and Lane like would not talk to anyone.
- 18:02SPEAKER_00: They said that if he tried to talk to Lane Kiffin, he cannot literally carry on a conversation without being football.
- 18:07SPEAKER_00: Like, if it's not talking about uh offensive plays and football, he has no idea how to carry on a conversation.
- 18:13SPEAKER_00: Like he's super socially awkward and and introverted and he won't talk to people and just weird stuff, man.
- 18:19SPEAKER_00: Because you see the guy on the media just yam yapping it up on the media and loving the attention and everything.
- 18:24SPEAKER_00: But when it's like one-on-one conversation, they said it's a totally different person.
- 18:28SPEAKER_00: I thought I thought I thought that was interesting.
- 18:31SPEAKER_01: But uh Yeah, you know, he stayed in they stayed in Memphis, the LSU team.
- 18:35SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the Peabody.
- 18:36SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 18:37SPEAKER_01: Um, I saw they posted, you know, he's all into the Pilates and all that stuff.
- 18:41SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one of these he went and did Pilates like Saturday morning, and one of these places around here posted on their Instagram, like you know, he was there um Saturday before he even went to Oxford.
- 18:50unknown: Wow.
- 18:51SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so all these people had pictures with him Saturday morning.
- 18:55SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's funny.
- 18:56SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's a he's a strange cat, man.
- 18:58SPEAKER_00: But I love how he just uh pushes everybody's button, man, especially like Sabin.
- 19:01SPEAKER_00: I I can imagine what working with Nick Saban and Lane Kippen together, but it drove him absolutely insane.
- 19:07SPEAKER_00: But uh but yeah, I mean I yeah, everyone's talking about, oh yeah, see, well, you know, I knew that I knew this was gonna happen like when when they won, Ole Miss were like, we didn't need Lane Kippen, blah blah blah.
- 19:18SPEAKER_00: But man, literally Lane Kippen won uh uh Ole Miss won that game with Lane's players uh that that Lane recruited.
- 19:24SPEAKER_00: So it'll be interesting to see how Golding does in the next next year or so with with his own talent.
- 19:30SPEAKER_00: But uh but that one game, you know, it it doesn't really mean much.
- 19:35SPEAKER_00: I think LSU, if they if if Lane does what he did for Ole Miss at LSU in a couple years, I think they'll win the national championship just because he's that good of a good of a coach, weird guy, weird, strange guy, but heck of a football coach.
- 19:48SPEAKER_00: And uh, but but yeah, Ole Miss, I mean Trinidad, Camario, if they if they keep this pace up, and and I don't know if they will, but I sure hope they do, come Thanksgiving egg ball, that's gonna be a heck of a game, BW, between Camario and Trinidad.
- 20:03SPEAKER_00: But uh we got a long way to go before there.
- 20:06SPEAKER_01: It's a long way to go.
- 20:08SPEAKER_00: Gotta keep winning, gotta keep getting these wins and and keep keep showing out like he's doing and and uh the sky's the limit, man.
- 20:15SPEAKER_00: And that's the thing.
- 20:16SPEAKER_00: I would take, I told people I take Camario over Trinidad any day.
- 20:20SPEAKER_00: The reason why is Trinidad's 25.
- 20:22SPEAKER_00: Camario's 19, 19 years old.
- 20:25SPEAKER_00: The sky's the limit, man.
- 20:26SPEAKER_00: Can you picture him in a couple years?
- 20:27SPEAKER_00: I mean, and I love it how all these people are like, oh, yeah, uh Camario's leaving it.
- 20:32SPEAKER_00: State's not gonna be able to pay him, blah, blah, blah.
- 20:34SPEAKER_00: Look at Josh Hubbard, man.
- 20:35SPEAKER_00: Same sort of deal.
- 20:36SPEAKER_00: Hometown guy wants to play in front of his uh his family and friends.
- 20:40SPEAKER_00: Hubbard had offers from Kentucky, do all these big schools.
- 20:44SPEAKER_00: He knew they were wanting him, paying millions of dollars.
- 20:46SPEAKER_00: And he stayed loyal.
- 20:47SPEAKER_00: Of course, you're gonna have to pay him, but they're loyal, and I feel like Camora's the exact same way.
- 20:52SPEAKER_00: His goal has since he was a kid to play for Mississippi State.
- 20:54SPEAKER_00: Omar Connor is his uncle, and uh he wants to be part of the turnaround at Mississippi State football.
- 21:01SPEAKER_00: And then even Dax praised him um about how good he's been doing, and he's a fan of Camario.
- 21:07SPEAKER_00: So I don't see Camora going anywhere.
- 21:09SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, I think he's I think he's here, I think he's a bulldog.
- 21:12SPEAKER_00: I think he's gonna be loyal, but I do think we're gonna have to pay him.
- 21:14SPEAKER_00: And I think I think right now Hover's the most paid athlete on campus.
- 21:18SPEAKER_00: I think next year it'll be Camario.
- 21:20SPEAKER_00: I think they'll have to up to Andy to keep him, but I think he's loyal.
- 21:23SPEAKER_00: I think he'll stay.
- 21:24SPEAKER_00: So I think we got two more years with him, man.
- 21:26SPEAKER_00: And if he keeps playing like he's playing right now in two years, man, man, it won't be a lot of people.
- 21:33SPEAKER_01: Watch out.
- 21:33SPEAKER_01: I love the the snake thing he does with his fingers.
- 21:36SPEAKER_01: I don't know what that is.
- 21:37SPEAKER_01: Like he he he like intertwines his middle finger and and like points it, like points at the sideline, like everybody's doing it to him.
- 21:43SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know what that that celebration is, but I think it's hilarious.
- 21:46SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know either, man.
- 21:48SPEAKER_01: And then what about Anthony Evans, man?
- 21:49SPEAKER_01: His is his celebrations get better every week.
- 21:52SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they sure do.
- 21:54SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he's got some good ones, man.
- 21:55SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
- 21:56SPEAKER_01: He's got some good ones.
- 21:57SPEAKER_01: They interviewed him, they said, and it was like before this game.
- 22:00SPEAKER_01: He's like, when I score, and like it's like he already like, you know, was saying he's gone to love it, love it.
- 22:06SPEAKER_00: Uh and fluff, man, he, you know, after that first game against Louisiana Monroe, he didn't really get get many yardage and people are like, oh, I don't know about Fluff.
- 22:14SPEAKER_00: Dude, he's turned it up past two weeks.
- 22:15SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 22:16SPEAKER_00: Over 100 yards.
- 22:17SPEAKER_00: So when you got a stud running back, you got a stud wide receiver and a stud quarterback, and the offensive line is protecting you, dude.
- 22:24SPEAKER_00: You're you're legit.
- 22:25SPEAKER_00: You're good.
- 22:26SPEAKER_00: And that was a big thing going into the season about Camario.
- 22:29SPEAKER_00: I said this myself exactly.
- 22:30SPEAKER_00: I was like, I'm not gonna buy into the hype of Camario Taylor right now.
- 22:34SPEAKER_00: They always buying into because I don't have faith in the offensive line protecting them.
- 22:38SPEAKER_00: I don't think that they're gonna be able to contain the defensive players, and Camaro's gonna be on a run for his life all game.
- 22:44SPEAKER_00: Well, they've proved me wrong, man.
- 22:46SPEAKER_00: Offensive line has been looking really good.
- 22:48SPEAKER_00: Camario's having time.
- 22:49SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's right now everything's clicking.
- 22:52SPEAKER_00: And Arnett, that was, gosh, that's one of the best hires Levy made.
- 22:56SPEAKER_00: I mean, going from Colin Hutzler's defense, which was absolutely atrocious last year, bringing Arnett back.
- 23:03SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, at first when we were down so big, I was like, oh man, this is not good.
- 23:07SPEAKER_00: And then the defense steps up, and I mean, Arnett, I mean, just to not just to let those those those first two possessions, those field goals, yes, I mean, that was huge.
- 23:17SPEAKER_00: Big time, big time.
- 23:18SPEAKER_00: Because those those could have been touchdowns right there.
- 23:21SPEAKER_00: And they held them right there.
- 23:22SPEAKER_00: So defense is is looking good.
- 23:24SPEAKER_00: Every every uh part of the game right now for Mississippi State football is firing on all cylinders, and that's what you want, especially going into a top 25 matchup at home.
- 23:35SPEAKER_00: So um really, as I said last week, you there if you're a state fan, there's nothing at all you can complain about right now.
- 23:42SPEAKER_00: Everything is is good.
- 23:43SPEAKER_00: So uh got to keep going on.
- 23:45SPEAKER_00: And and uh as I said last week, best part about thing about being 3-0 is opportunity to go 4-0.
- 23:51SPEAKER_00: And uh, what do you think, Johnny?
- 23:54SPEAKER_01: What's gonna happen?
- 23:55SPEAKER_00: I'll win, man.
- 23:56SPEAKER_00: Win.
- 23:56SPEAKER_00: I can't go against them.
- 23:57SPEAKER_00: Yeah, go against them.
- 23:58SPEAKER_00: I think it's gonna be I think it's a huge crowd under the lights.
- 24:02SPEAKER_00: Uh everybody's gonna be ringing those cowbells.
- 24:04SPEAKER_00: And I think Camario's gonna put on a show for the world.
- 24:07SPEAKER_00: And uh BW, I think it's gonna be, I'm I'm gonna say something like uh uh let's see, final score 42 to 31.
- 24:17SPEAKER_00: How about that?
- 24:17SPEAKER_00: Something like that.
- 24:18SPEAKER_00: I think I think it'll be high scoring, and I think we'll win by about 10 points or more.
- 24:22SPEAKER_00: I don't think it'll be that close, but I do think it it's not gonna be a blowout.
- 24:26SPEAKER_00: Um, but I don't think it'll come down to the last second.
- 24:28SPEAKER_00: I think we'll we'll have the game under under control and get the win, but I think we'll put up some points.
- 24:33SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
- 24:34SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, Johnny, I picked us to lose this game beginning this season.
- 24:38SPEAKER_01: You did, and I did not feel good about this game.
- 24:41SPEAKER_01: Uh from the very beginning.
- 24:44SPEAKER_00: From the very beginning.
- 24:46unknown: Yeah.
- 24:46SPEAKER_00: So Amad Hardy's not playing.
- 24:48SPEAKER_00: And I remember seeing that in our thing.
- 24:49SPEAKER_00: I was like, if Amart Hardy plays, our chances of winning are going down.
- 24:53SPEAKER_00: He's not playing.
- 24:54SPEAKER_00: Yes.
- 24:54SPEAKER_00: So that's good for us.
- 24:55SPEAKER_01: Yes.
- 24:56SPEAKER_01: And then again, like what I was saying with these graphics, like the odds of us winning.
- 25:00SPEAKER_01: I think I looked at it, I looked at it last week, and they had whoever these people are had predicted us had a better chance to beat Missouri than we did South Carolina.
- 25:10SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
- 25:10SPEAKER_01: And so it's kind of interesting.
- 25:12SPEAKER_01: Um, and I guess a lot of it has to do with with with Hardy too, yeah.
- 25:16SPEAKER_01: But um but yeah, so I think we're favored in the game.
- 25:21SPEAKER_01: We're favored, and we're favored, yeah.
- 25:23SPEAKER_01: And Austin Simmons, I mean, he can throw it.
- 25:25SPEAKER_01: He's he's different than Sellers.
- 25:28SPEAKER_01: Um he's he's not gonna beat you on the ground, but he can throw it.
- 25:31SPEAKER_01: Um but I think their running game is is still good, but it it's definitely a a step back without Hardy.
- 25:38SPEAKER_01: I don't see how we lose, Johnny.
- 25:40SPEAKER_01: I mean I just I just don't.
- 25:42SPEAKER_01: I think we do it.
- 25:43SPEAKER_01: And I think I agree that uh there's gonna be some points.
- 25:47SPEAKER_01: I mean, I like your score.
- 25:49SPEAKER_01: Maybe I'll say I'll go with 45-35 somewhere in there.
- 25:53SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
- 25:54SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I think there's gonna be a lot of points scored, but I do think we're gonna win by about 10 or more.
- 25:58SPEAKER_00: Line, like I said, it's about six or something like that.
- 26:01SPEAKER_00: Uh, but I don't think it's I don't think it'll be a blowout, but I don't think it'll come down to the wire.
- 26:06SPEAKER_00: Uh could be wrong, but the way we're playing right now, you can't go against Gamoria Taylor.
- 26:11SPEAKER_00: There's no way.
- 26:12SPEAKER_00: I mean, he'll prove you wrong.
- 26:13SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, PW, I think uh, and you know, you picked you picked uh us to lose in the preseason, and then you had us beating Bama, and I was a flip-flop.
- 26:24SPEAKER_00: I had us winning this one and losing to Bama.
- 26:25SPEAKER_00: So uh it'll be interesting to see uh, you know, take care of business about Bama because Bama, I mean, Florida State looked like they I turned it on, Florida State was beating them.
- 26:35SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow, but then they ended up coming back.
- 26:37SPEAKER_00: So uh yeah, they they there's really nobody in the SEC right now, I don't think.
- 26:43SPEAKER_00: It looks like a world beater.
- 26:44SPEAKER_00: I mean, Texas, maybe Georgia, obviously.
- 26:47SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're but we don't play Georgia, so that's good.
- 26:50SPEAKER_00: But uh Ole Miss does.
- 26:52SPEAKER_00: Ole Miss, Ole Miss, yeah, Ole Miss, Georgia.
- 26:54SPEAKER_01: I'm saying Ole Miss plays Georgia.
- 26:56SPEAKER_00: Ole Miss plays, yeah, yeah.
- 26:57SPEAKER_00: Ole Miss plays Georgia, Texas, Ole Miss.
- 27:00SPEAKER_00: I guess those should probably be the the top three, and none of them.
- 27:03SPEAKER_00: I I don't feel I'm not scared of any of those three opponents with Kamario Taylor and what we have going on.
- 27:08SPEAKER_00: So um even that that Texas game BW Halloween night.
- 27:11SPEAKER_00: I said in the uh in the post in the pre previews, man, that's a that's gonna be a Halloween massacre.
- 27:17SPEAKER_00: I had us Tiger Stadium, that's gonna be a massacre.
- 27:20SPEAKER_00: I don't think so anymore, man.
- 27:21SPEAKER_00: I think we're gonna be in all these games.
- 27:23SPEAKER_00: I really do.
- 27:24SPEAKER_00: Like LSU game is uh is a morning game and and thank goodness and not a night game uh for for our sake.
- 27:30SPEAKER_00: Um I think we have a chance for them.
- 27:32SPEAKER_00: Levy just showed it last week that he's not not not that great.
- 27:36SPEAKER_00: And uh I there's really no game on the schedule right now at this moment, and I'm like, that's a for sure.
- 27:42SPEAKER_00: So uh I love that.
- 27:43SPEAKER_00: I love that.
- 27:44SPEAKER_00: You know, last year we were in all the games, and then we did stupid stuff to screw it up at the end.
- 27:49SPEAKER_00: But but I feel like with the more experience and the guys that Levy's hired, if he listens to them and we perform like we've been performing and defense steps it up, I hate to say this, BW.
- 28:00SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm not gonna jinx us or anything, but college football playoff birth could be on the line if we keep playing, playing like we are.
- 28:06SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's crazy to even think that.
- 28:08SPEAKER_00: Uh, especially when the pre uh people at projecting the season had us winning two and three games.
- 28:14SPEAKER_01: So uh we gotta get this one though.
- 28:16SPEAKER_00: I mean, this one.
- 28:17SPEAKER_00: This is a must.
- 28:18SPEAKER_01: We gotta get it.
- 28:18SPEAKER_00: If we don't get this one, can't drop this one because October, October, we talked about it before, and October is brutal.
- 28:25SPEAKER_00: Every opponent in October is a tough, tough.
- 28:27SPEAKER_00: But like I just said, nobody, Oklahoma, I mean nobody, nobody's scaring me, but those are tough teams, and they're all in a row.
- 28:34SPEAKER_00: So uh you really need this one.
- 28:36SPEAKER_00: Starting off 4-0 would be absolutely huge, man.
- 28:40SPEAKER_00: Absolutely huge.
- 28:41SPEAKER_01: I think what if we do win this one?
- 28:44SPEAKER_01: Alabama wins.
- 28:46SPEAKER_01: I'm hearing game day, but our game's freaking 11 30 in the morning.
- 28:50SPEAKER_01: I know.
- 28:50SPEAKER_01: Is there any way they can change up?
- 28:52SPEAKER_01: No, no, I guess it's locked in.
- 28:54SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 28:55SPEAKER_01: Um, which in some ways, maybe that's better.
- 28:58SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know.
- 28:59SPEAKER_01: Like it's uh not as high, not as much time to be hyped up.
- 29:03SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
- 29:04SPEAKER_00: Um how that would work.
- 29:08SPEAKER_00: Um I'm not sure, but yeah, it's it's crazy.
- 29:11SPEAKER_00: But it stinks about that because I saw that yesterday.
- 29:13SPEAKER_00: Um that our game's 11, and then LSU gets a home game against McNeese State at nighttime.
- 29:19SPEAKER_00: It's like, dude, what the heck, man?
- 29:20SPEAKER_00: I mean, I understand Tigers team at night, but against McNeese State, does that really need to be at night?
- 29:26SPEAKER_00: Like they could easily put state and bam at night.
- 29:28SPEAKER_00: But I guess they didn't want state to have back-to-back night games.
- 29:30SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
- 29:31SPEAKER_00: Yeah, kind of weird.
- 29:32SPEAKER_00: But uh, who cares, man?
- 29:34SPEAKER_00: Whatever time it is.
- 29:36SPEAKER_00: We take care of business, man.
- 29:37SPEAKER_00: Take care of business, get the win, and and and live to see the next week and go on from there and keep more wins.
- 29:45SPEAKER_00: You stack up, more stats you pad.
- 29:47SPEAKER_00: K1, man, climbing up that.
- 29:48SPEAKER_00: He's already at one and two.
- 29:50SPEAKER_00: So uh keep keep keep doing it, doing his thing, man.
- 29:55SPEAKER_00: Yep, keep doing it.
- 29:58SPEAKER_00: Well you need Trinidad to have a bad, you need Trinidad to have a bad game here somewhere for him to really claim the top spot.
- 30:04SPEAKER_00: But then again, if you want it a long way away, if you want it to be Trinidad versus Camario, wouldn't that be crazy, man?
- 30:11SPEAKER_00: Trinidad Camario one and two in the egg ball.
- 30:14SPEAKER_00: Uh Wiener wins the Heisman.
- 30:17SPEAKER_01: I think it unfortunately, I think the Heisman comes down to wins and losses, you know.
- 30:21SPEAKER_01: Yeah, with the team with the team.
- 30:23SPEAKER_01: So, but I mean Ole Miss has a ridiculous schedule.
- 30:26SPEAKER_01: So um they're arguably harder than ours.
- 30:30SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the only player that's ever that I know of that's won the Heisman here recent years has been Jaden Daniels at LSU, and they have they lost like three or four games that year.
- 30:40SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because you put up so many stats, but like you're right, man.
- 30:42SPEAKER_00: Mainly it depends that you're mainly the best player on the best team.
- 30:46SPEAKER_00: Um is how it works.
- 30:48SPEAKER_00: So uh, but yeah, I can I I can do is keep a winning.
- 30:51SPEAKER_00: Uh, what are your predictions, BW, on the Home Miss game this weekend?
- 30:55SPEAKER_00: Are they have to travel down to Florida at the Swan?
- 30:58SPEAKER_00: I think they're gonna lose, man, personally, because I think they're emotionally on a high right now on Lane Kiffin.
- 31:04SPEAKER_00: They have to get refocused in order to win that game.
- 31:07SPEAKER_00: And Florida is not the Florida of last year with Bill and Napier.
- 31:10SPEAKER_00: I think uh John Summerall uh is it was a great hire for Florida, and I think Florida football is gonna be on their way up.
- 31:17SPEAKER_00: So I actually like the Gators in this this game this weekend um down at the swamp.
- 31:22SPEAKER_01: What are your thoughts?
- 31:23SPEAKER_01: I picked the gators in the pick'em.
- 31:24SPEAKER_01: Um and I picked Ole Miss to win last weekend.
- 31:28SPEAKER_01: Um and yeah, I mean that uh Jaden Ball, um, he ran all over us last year.
- 31:34SPEAKER_01: You know, we were still in that game, but he's good.
- 31:36SPEAKER_01: Um at the swamp, like you said, coming down off that game.
- 31:40SPEAKER_01: I could definitely see it being a um, you know, maybe a low-scoring, like kind of stinker of a game, but maybe Florida, Florida wins it.
- 31:49SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think so too.
- 31:50SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think LSU and Ole Miss both, but everything, I mean, they've been for a year uh leading up to that game last weekend and the emotions from that game, you know.
- 31:59SPEAKER_00: I think both Ole Miss and LSU, who they play this week, I think they're gonna be tough.
- 32:03SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be tough, tough opponent for both of them.
- 32:06SPEAKER_00: Of course, AM lost to Kentucky, so they're they have their own emotions right there.
- 32:10SPEAKER_00: But um, I definitely think they'll be tough for both of them.
- 32:13SPEAKER_00: But I I think the Gators survive in the swamp, and and that'll change, change uh obviously that'll change the Heisman talk with Trinidad, but um, who knows?
- 32:23SPEAKER_00: We'll we'll see.
- 32:24SPEAKER_00: The swamp is not a not an easy place to go down there to win.
- 32:28SPEAKER_00: They know that firsthand from two years ago.
- 32:30SPEAKER_00: All they had to do was win that game two years ago with Jackson Dart, and they're in the playoffs, and they lost and uh kept them out of the playoffs.
- 32:38SPEAKER_00: So heck, that might be a revenge factor uh for old miss to give them motivation to to win down there.
- 32:43SPEAKER_00: But um, but I don't know.
- 32:45SPEAKER_00: It'll be interesting to see uh how everything plays out.
- 32:49SPEAKER_00: But uh I think I think uh I like our chances against Missouri and and I think hopefully next week we'll be back on here and get previewing the Bama game and talk about a win over Missouri.
- 33:00SPEAKER_00: Yo dogs, let's hope it happens.
- 33:02SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, indeed.
- 33:03SPEAKER_00: Um well and and you mentioned the pick'em, so make sure everybody who listens uh puts in their picks and and goes from there.
- 33:10SPEAKER_00: But we'll see y'all next week and cheer morning.
- 33:13SPEAKER_00: If you're at the game, ring your cowbell and ring it loud.
- 33:16SPEAKER_01: That's right.
- 33:17SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 33:18SPEAKER_00: See you next week, Johnny.