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Steve Robertson on Miss. State football: defensive backs, special teams and more · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let's join Steve live for the build up. What's your prediction. I've been
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  watching this team for a very long clim Guardian, and I can tell you
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  Steve. Welcome in, Sarah Man. I'm doing great. How are
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  you doing, Jake? Steve is hot, It is it is hot.
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  It's hard, Belie. We're going to play high schoolooball a hundred degrees on
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  Friday. Yeah, you know, it's what's crazy about that too? I
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  tell people all the time I couldn't wait to move back to the Mississippi,
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  and I've been here bout a decade. But if anything ever drives me away,
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  it will be the Mississippi summers, no doubt. Hey, I got
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  to email earlier. It looks like Mississippi State has officially sold out of season
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  tickets in football. You know we're talking to Beaver about this in the first
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  segment and talking to our listeners is you know, you get caught up in
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  all the hubb of of transfer portal and this and that and win totals and
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  such that would lead you to believe the energy around the program is as high
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  as it's possibly ever been with Misssippi State. Well, one could probably make
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  that argument at least since twenty fifteen, you know, when Dak returned for
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  his senior year, and that's the year they actually set the record. You
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  know, of course, capacity is down from what it was then because they
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  added the balcony seating last year. But yeah, I think the main thing
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  that the message is thin here is that Mississippi State fans believe in this program,
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  they believe in this coaching staff, they believe in this team, and
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  Vegas doesn't have to. The clowns and the SEC media didn't have to the
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  reality of it is is to people that matter. You know, the ticket
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  buying public, the people that buy that interlock in MSU shirt, they believe
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  and I think that's an important aspect of this. I think they're voting with
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  their ticket dollars to say, yes, we support Zach Arnett, we support
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  the Mississippi State program. Steve, we talked about a lot of players,
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  you know, from spring practice on one we haven't really talked about Jade and
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  Wally, And of course now he is a senior. What is to be
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  expected of him this year for Mississippi State. Yeah, he's kind of forgotten
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  man at times. You know, he's been kind of a steady contributor,
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  but I think, you know, you'd like to see him take that big
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  jump this year. You know, he showed up as a true freshman primarily
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  had been a high school quarterback. Moved out to wide receiver a little bit
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  later in the year, but you know, came in here as a true
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  freshman and really ignited things in many respects. And you know, here he
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  is now, and you know he's had some drop issues. You know,
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  that's one things we really felt like with the lead system, putting them on
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  that jugs gun and getting those reps would clear some of that up and it
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  has gotten a little bit better. But you know, State needs him to
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  kind of be the player they need him to be. You know, I
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  don't even know if he's the first teamer, to be quite honest with you,
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  I think he probably begins the year as the second team guy. But
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  he's got you know, first team talent, So it's up to him for
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  sure. Steph Robinson on your radio Tuesday edition of the Programs Talk Mississippi State
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  Football. Bulldog's getting ready for game week coming up, probably already in that
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  kind of preparation, Steve, what about Radar Jones transfer comes in from LSU.
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  What's what's been the buzz on him or lack thereofver we're kind of we're
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  seeing this pecon order this year. Well, you know, he wasn't able
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  to participate in the spring. You know, he had some academic stuff he
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  had to kind of clear out before he could eventually facilitate the transfer requirements.
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  But you know, got on the field of course the other summer, and
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  you know he's probably a gad thatt'll you know, play some mostly as a
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  reserve and be a special teams guy. I guess he's got another year available
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  to him. But you know, he's the guy that hadn't been on a
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  football field now, you know, coming up on what eighteen months, you
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  know, until this year, and so it's eager to see. But you
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  know, I think expectations with him probably need to be tempered just because of
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  the fact he has not played in a real football game in an awful long
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  time. Tons of talent we all know, but just hasn't realized that potential
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  yet. I think the change of scenery may be good for him, you
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  know, on new school with new coaches, kind of a fresh start.
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  I think this year he's probably a guy you know, it's just a little
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  bit down the depth chart, but I do think that he'll make some plays
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  for him Steve, what's been the word about the running game, and of
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  course that's gonna be different from Missippi State fans to see their team back running
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  the football. Now, you know, what does that look like? We'll
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  see. I know some listeners throughout spring and summer have said, you know,
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  this could be a potential you know, three you know, three yards
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  and a cloud of dust offense. I don't believe it's going to be that
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  three and out type of offense. I don't think it's going to be that.
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  It's just I think it's different for Missippi State fans to get their head
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  back around is they're actually going to run the football this year. Well,
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  I would say the people that have that line of thinking that you mentioned are
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  probably guys that didn't watch app State play it down last year. A lot
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  of misdirection, a lot of counters and things like that. You do have
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  some quarterback run stuff, but you got a lot of motion and action in
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  there that really kind of sets up the you know, the intermediate passing game,
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  and then you get those stafeties involved having to be honest and walk up
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  next thing. You know, you've got justin Roberson, you know, man
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  and man coverage outside the numbers and so, uh, it's a very innovative
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  and exciting offense. It's really kind of I don't know, maybe maybe this
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  is the better way to describe it. It's kind of like, you know,
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  even if you have some air raid fundamental concepts, you've got some of
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  that Dan mullen esque spread offense type concepts too. It's it's kind of a
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  hodgepodge in many respects, but uh, you know, State's gonna run the
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  football. But it's not just going to be lining up running half bag dive
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  and running off tackle and things like that. There's a lot to this and
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  offense had a really good scrimmage last Saturday, So yeah, I'm expecting this
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  team to score some point. You know, that was the thing last year.
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  I mean how many times Jake in a second half of the ball game
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  that you know, the defense just get gassed out because the offense just couldn't
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  maintain drives. And I think you're going to see a better job maybe controlling
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  the tempo of the game with this scheme, because I do think there is
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  some you know, a running back room that is very talented, shorten experience,
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  but long on potential. And you know what he marks is a guy
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  that expect to have a big year this year. But it's a lot more
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  than just Woody and Ford their guys. You've got some guys a compliment each
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  other really well. Steve robertson talking Missisippi State football Tuesday edition of the program.
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  Follow him on Twitter, get him at geanspage dot com. Steve Missisippi
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  State like always and this is you can take this for half. The SEC
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  is going to find themselves in some type ball games, you would expect LSU
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  and in week three is going to be a tight one. Carolina on the
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  road is probably going to be a tight one, you know at Arkansas,
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  Auburn, Kentucky. You know, and we don't talk a lot about special
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  teams until it's too late, and then when we talk about him, it's
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  probably a negative connotation there. What is the special team's unit shaping up to
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  be for Missouri State? Well, you know, they signed Nicholas Barmira out
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  of UCLA and he's been a little bit nicked up here the last couple of
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  weeks, and you know, word yesterday is it just like Kyle Ferry,
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  a true freshman is gonna get the first Bill Gold kicking opportunities. I do
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  think that Barmira comes back and you know, kind of works his way back
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  into the I think that's probably ideally what you wanted have Kyle kind of come
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  along a little bit later. But yeah, they got Krimins, this punter
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  from Australia who's been really, really good. So again it's the thing,
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  you feel good about your pieces, but until you put them out there,
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  you don't know what you have. I mean, anybody can do it in
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  practice, Jake. I mean, you and I hadn't played a competitive football
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  game and a generation, right, I mean, you know, it's like
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  we can get out there and look good at least decent enough in practice.
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  But until you've got somebody, you know, six two, two hundred and
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  fifteen pounds running a four point forty right at your chest, you don't know
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  what you have, you know, and so you know the pieces are there.
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  The potential is good, but the State's got to get some production of
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  that special teams group. And you have played some really good special teams in
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  the Egg Bowl and the RelA Quest Bowl, but it's kind of been a
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  moving target the last couple of years. You know, the first year when
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  you know Matt brid got here and he was special teams coordinator, State was
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  really good special teams wise, but the last two years, especially in twenty
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  one, you know, it's a bit of a train wreck. And so
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  you feel good about return. Guys. You got a couple of Americans back
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  there, you know, with Tulu Griffin and Davean Thomas. But you know,
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  you feel like you're going to be able to return to football. But
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  yeah, you got to be able to go out there and make the consistent
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  kick, and you got to be able to flip the field at times and
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  again you feel like you've got the pieces, but until they do it on
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  game day, you don't really know what you have. Make sure to get
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  them on Jean's page. Check them out scout Steve R on Twitter. Steve
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  always appreciate your time. Stay cool, We'll do it again soon, see
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