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David Murray Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: Also in Richland today David Murray, he can help you
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  Speaker 2: seventh Sports dot Com David, Happy Tuesday, and what a
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  Speaker 2: hot one it is, sir? How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's warmed up pretty good obviously. In fact, following
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  Speaker 3: Sunday's scrimmage, I couldn't resist asking Jeff Levy, you know
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  Speaker 3: what's hotter the West Texas planes you grew up on
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  Speaker 3: the Oklahoma planes you worked out a few years or
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  Speaker 3: here a deep South heat and humidity. And he said,
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's a real question, a fair question. All
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  Speaker 3: he knows is it was really hot Sunday when they
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  Speaker 3: get out there. But he was actually pleased with that
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  Speaker 3: because it showed when they ran. I think the first
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  Speaker 3: teams went forty seven snaps and the second team's forty
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  Speaker 3: or so snaps. Nobody fell out with the heat. They
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  Speaker 3: all seemed to handle things conditioning wise. Of course, they
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  Speaker 3: had yesterday to recover. Today was the first day where
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  Speaker 3: they were back at practice, but no reported issues from
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  Speaker 3: that as far as their conditioning or holding up. So
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  Speaker 3: that's a good start to the preseason there. With the
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  Speaker 3: first scrimmage in the books, I will have to go
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  Speaker 3: in and say that no media did not get to
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  Speaker 3: watch a scrimmage. So everything we know so far has
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  Speaker 3: been told us by the three players we talk to today.
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  Speaker 3: There will be another scrimmage this weekend and also closed
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  Speaker 3: to media, though I believe m club members put in
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  Speaker 3: a boost for that. Good organization will be allowed to
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  Speaker 3: attend with membership and such as that. So they've entered
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  Speaker 3: the full scrimmaging part of it, and so far as
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  Speaker 3: best we can tell, so good.
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  Speaker 2: David Murray talking to Mississippi State Football ball. I was
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away from opening kickoff as they'll
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  Speaker 2: take on Louisiana mon Row at Davis Wade Stadium, Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: edition of the program. Yeah, David, I think the biggest
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  Speaker 2: thing always is, you know, you hope you don't have
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  Speaker 2: any injuries, and it sounds like so far everything's clean
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  Speaker 2: on that. What do we know about you know, we'll
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  Speaker 2: go defensive side of the ball, and it's always so
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  Speaker 2: hard to tell, like you said, especially for you guys,
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  Speaker 2: because if things are closed up, some reports about defense,
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  Speaker 2: maybe what this defense is looking like, maybe some changes
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  Speaker 2: we may see. Has there been any, you know, reports
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  Speaker 2: of anything like that. Defensively, well, the first.
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  Speaker 3: Thing to report again is this strictly taken from players
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  Speaker 3: comments that they're enjoying it. I see whether it's defensive line, linebackers, safeties, corners,
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  Speaker 3: they're all enjoying this defensive approach under Zach Garnett, which
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  Speaker 3: mimics what we heard back in spring as well. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we did get to watch a couple periods on last
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  Speaker 3: Monday and Friday, No. Eleven on eleven, so we had
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  Speaker 3: to race around catch position groups. I came away thinking,
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  Speaker 3: you know what this defense can run. I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to say they were exactly slow last year, but they
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  Speaker 3: weren't up there with real serious sec speed in some situations.
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  Speaker 3: I like what they're doing now. The defensive front seems
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  Speaker 3: much more mobile, that they haven't lost the size. Other
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  Speaker 3: than Diesel Moy who was way overweight last year. Now
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  Speaker 3: he's trimmed down and actually looks going a young recognized
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  Speaker 3: the same guy watching him fire off in drills such
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  Speaker 3: as that. The defensive ends certainly have great lateral movement.
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  Speaker 3: I like what the inside linebackers were doing, and I
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  Speaker 3: really believe that the outside linebackers defensive ends, they're really
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  Speaker 3: going to raise the game as far as pass pressuring
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  Speaker 3: this year. Judging by both limited observations and then following
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  Speaker 3: up the comments from the players as well, they are
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  Speaker 3: getting after the quarterbacks at least as much as they're allowed.
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  Speaker 3: What was the comment I heard from Will Whitson last
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  Speaker 3: week that Jeff Levy gets a little nervous when anyone
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  Speaker 3: gets too close to Kamario Taylor, which ought to be true.
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  Speaker 3: Otherwise they're getting back there, and I think this defense
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  Speaker 3: is going to be seriously upgraded. We'll get a chance
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  Speaker 3: to talk to je Jefferson this morning. I don't have
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  Speaker 3: that feature on Jean's stage as well, and they like
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  Speaker 3: the competition that the wide receiver group is giving them
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  Speaker 3: where they're short, medium, long routes such as that. So
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  Speaker 3: the attitude seems excellent, and frankly, I just think physically
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  Speaker 3: they are far far ahead at the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: years defensively as a whole.
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  Speaker 2: You know, David, that's promising news, especially if you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a team last year Mississippi state that in the
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  Speaker 2: last two years and what was it two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I believe they had ten sac collectively as a unit,
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  Speaker 2: and then last year they doubled that at plus one.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was twenty one. To you know, if
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  Speaker 2: they can get back to really putting pressure, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, if they can amp this defense up,
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  Speaker 2: it really calls you know, some turnovers create a you know,
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  Speaker 2: higher turn of a ratio of sorts that's on a
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  Speaker 2: positive side that's only going to help this offense that
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  Speaker 2: we know that's going to blackly be pretty explosive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. One thing about it too is when I talked
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  Speaker 3: to Jefferson, I said, well, you know, your best friend
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  Speaker 3: is the cornerback is a pass rush and he just
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  Speaker 3: didn't said, yeah, they're doing their part up there, and
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  Speaker 3: it isn't. And you mentioned sack totals. That's great, we wrote.
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  Speaker 3: Reporters love talking about the sacks and such. I'm more
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  Speaker 3: concerned about the hurries than even the kind of hurries
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  Speaker 3: that don't get credited. There just force the other team
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  Speaker 3: out of rhythm. Even if you don't create a turnover,
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  Speaker 3: you basically cost them a down in that situation. But
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  Speaker 3: I do think, as you say, this defense will be
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  Speaker 3: able to force some more turnovers just by making offenses
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  Speaker 3: operate a little faster they want to and you know,
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  Speaker 3: flipping it to the other side. There, they're getting a
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  Speaker 3: legitimate test by the speed of these wide receivers. Now
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  Speaker 3: I've mentioned before it's not a big group. We talked
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  Speaker 3: this morning to San Frisco McGee and while no big
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  Speaker 3: guy of any stretch, he's one of the larger wide receivers.
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  Speaker 3: This is a small receiver group, but it is fast.
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  Speaker 3: So now it's going to come down to the recognition
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  Speaker 3: and reaction by Cambarrio to get the ball to him,
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  Speaker 3: and as always, going back to the offensive line play
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to withhold judgment on that other than
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  Speaker 3: to make this one comment. I think I said it
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  Speaker 3: last week after watching a practice, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: emphasize it after another day's observation. Last week, they looked
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  Speaker 3: like an SEC line and we can't begin to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the radical change that is from the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four season and almost as much sober last season. I
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  Speaker 3: like the physicality of the offensive line what we've seen
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  Speaker 3: in the drills so far, and I'm not worried about
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  Speaker 3: physicality running backs at all. I haven't seen the whole
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  Speaker 3: lot from the tight ends. A few running patterns out there,
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  Speaker 3: but they're working on pass protection from that group as
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  Speaker 3: well the day as we were checking it out. So
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  Speaker 3: I guess sum it all up and say that so far,
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  Speaker 3: at least in the non contact periods, they are serious
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  Speaker 3: to work on the passing game. I've got a feeling
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  Speaker 3: from what they tell us what's to get into contact work.
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  Speaker 3: The run game is taking the lead in this offense,
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  Speaker 3: because that's where Jeff Levy really wants to go with
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  Speaker 3: that offense this year.
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  Speaker 2: Talking with David Murray talking Missippi State football camp, it
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  Speaker 2: is a Tuesday. Bulldogs open up a week from Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against Louisiana Monroe in starvill Davis Wade Stadium. Yet David talking,
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  Speaker 2: I was going to go there next to the running
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  Speaker 2: back room is you know, it's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see with Jeff Leavy this year, they's got Camaro Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: a guy that will make you play eleven on eleven,
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  Speaker 2: and then Fluff bothwell in that backfield, plus some really
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  Speaker 2: good young talent to true freshmen from the state of Mississippi,
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Crosby from Gulfport, JJ Hill from two. What this
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  Speaker 2: run game, you know, how it kind of fits into
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  Speaker 2: this offense and will they be a little more not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily run heavy, but you know, run it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more with the quarterback that's mobile to try to
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  Speaker 2: set up that passing game.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for a comparison, we talked to LJ. Prudon this
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  Speaker 3: morning and I said, what's it like blocking for this
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  Speaker 3: running game? And he just lit up and said, even
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  Speaker 3: when they make blocking mistakes against this defense, the running
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  Speaker 3: backs are still creating yards on their own there. Now.
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  Speaker 3: They prefer not to make mistakes, obviously, but it gives
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  Speaker 3: you a clue of how seriously State wants to run
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  Speaker 3: the ball. You mentioned Fluff bothwell, obviously it's the lead
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  Speaker 3: dog in this and we talked to Xavier Gaton this
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  Speaker 3: past week. You know, Colin Wilson. Haven't heard a lot
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  Speaker 3: about him here in preseasons, but he was the talk
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  Speaker 3: of spring camp on how drastically he's improved his game
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  Speaker 3: as a running back. There and then the two freshmen.
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  Speaker 3: You just watched them moving, thinking, oh yeah, these two
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  Speaker 3: freshmen out of Mississippi high school ranks, they are the
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  Speaker 3: real deals at running back at this point, this has
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  Speaker 3: got to be one of the better running back rooms
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  Speaker 3: I've seen at msby State in many years, and I
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  Speaker 3: do mean many years in that regard. Now, I also
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  Speaker 3: have seen them doing a lot of drills catching the
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  Speaker 3: ball where they're behind the line, at the line, always
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  Speaker 3: facing forward moving. I think you'll see them use it's
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  Speaker 3: not air raid routes they're running, but it's definitely get
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  Speaker 3: the ball to them quickly and let them beat the
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  Speaker 3: guy that they're matched up with, especially if you get
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  Speaker 3: some blocking from the wide receivers. Now that's where maybe
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  Speaker 3: some of my concerns about receiver size come and play.
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  Speaker 3: But if they got the right technique, they can spring.
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  Speaker 3: These running backs do some things. So I really expect
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  Speaker 3: everything that Jeff Levy has said since the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: five season ends was he's committing to the run game,
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  Speaker 3: but that doesn't necessarily mean just line up and slam.
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  Speaker 3: It also means deception, quickness, versatility, and using the short
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  Speaker 3: throw game as an aspect of the running game as well.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure to get him on x at David Murray.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you can get him on Jean's page too.
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  Speaker 2: Seven sports dot Com. All Yoursissippi state news as they
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  Speaker 2: get closer to kickoff. David, always appreciate your time trying
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  Speaker 2: to stay cool out there, my friend. When we talk
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  Speaker 2: next week, it will be game week.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I keep reminding myself that anybody who complains about the heat,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to hear from them. Come winner. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm here trying to store up my BTUs for
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  Speaker 3: when things get a little chilly in around January and
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  Speaker 3: the start of baseball season.
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  Speaker 2: As well, No doubt, David, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks guys.
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