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What are the 1's, 2's, and 3's going to look like for Ole Miss college football team · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Us, oh Miss, spring practice set to kick off like everybody else around
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  the country. Now, some universities in colleges have already, you know,
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  almost exhausted. All there's spring practice. A lot of questions around the country
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  when you look at all Miss, of course, so if you guys want
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  to read about it, you'll need a subscription. On three you can go
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  read Jake's article on almost being teed up in a long haul with one of
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  the best quarterback rooms in the country. I just retweeted that earlier on X
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  I want to talk a little bit about that without giving it all the way,
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  but what are the I guess one two threes for Ole Miss, bringing
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  a lot of new guys to campus, trying to get everybody on the same
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  page in fifteen practices, Yeah, you know, and for us, I
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  think Kiss and Z even becoming more savan esque, and he is really kind
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  of keeping the curtain pulled for spring with us once we start up getting to
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  see a little bit once a week next week when spring break's done this week.
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  But they're really going to take it easy. He's just trying to keep
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  everybody, the ones that aren't healthy healthy and the ones that have had to
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  have some off season you know, clean ups for some procedures. You know
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  they will they will do very little but and get ready for for the summer
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  workouts and then you know, come August for fall camp. So that that's
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  gonna be It's gonna be hard to kind of see progress when it comes to
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  that in terms of what little we're going to see. But the questions that
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  they need to answer internally is get all these new guys as messed as possible,
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  which you know, this is old hat for Kiff and now who's mastered
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  having half a new roster, you know, three months after the last seasons
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  you know, completed and getting these guys to buy in. They had a
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  little bit they they had better chemistry last year. When they referenced two seasons
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  ago, there was just a lot of good players, but it did feel
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  like they had a great team. They had individual guys kind of maybe looking
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  out for number one, so to speak. But last year it all came
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  together and we saw how it ended went into Peach Bowl, you know emphatically,
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  you know that over in Atlanta, over Penn State, so you but
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  I think positionally they need to see how Walter Nolan and and Princely and messhes
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  and gets that defensive line. You know, Golding entering here too, and
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  that we saw how good he can kind of improve a defense, you know
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  throughout year one. Now he's going to have all his fingerprints on it and
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  his guys that he's recruited and high school guys with three impressive you know,
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  high school kids signed and we'll be here or are here. We'll all be
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  here come summer. So I think that's the key thing. And how you
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  know, it's kind of the trenches for both sides. How how will the
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  offensive line improved? They went and got some guys in the portal. Some
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  other guys are a year older, you know, but they've got to they've
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  got to show it because that was kind of the one week spot last year
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  of a potent offense. Is that offensive line. So now they got fifteen
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  practice to kind of go go through whatever the motions or maybe put on the
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  paths a couple of days and get some reps in and you know they won't
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  have Dart full go. He he was one of those that underwent some clean
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  up, you know, I think on an ankle issue, just to get
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  him full strength for what's going to be a special twenty twenty four. So
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  that opens the door for you know, Walker Howard to get reps and then
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  Austin Simmons when he's able to come over, not you know, outside of
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  split in baseball time. So it's really gonna I think Walker Howard's going to
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  benefit the most from that. I know that's a long winded answer, but
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  there's just so many kind of question marks that we may not get to see
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  answered, but that they need to answer internally. No, that makes one
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  hundred percent, you know, that's that makes one hundred percent, you know,
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  kind of facts there of what's going on at ole Miss practice. Jake
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  Thompson talking oll Miss, let me ask you about the quarterback room. You
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  mentioned that in your piece but without kind of telling them what's in the piece.
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  You talk about that quarterback room and you mentioned Walker Howard and you know,
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  I think that was a big win to keep him on campus for ole
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  Miss, you know, with Dark coming back, because he looks to be
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  at least today the heir apparent to dart after this year. But Kiffin has
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  done a really good job and I think ole Miss has done a great job
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  of stocking that quarterback room because a lot of teams don't have that, you
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  know. I mean you look around the country and you could probably rell off
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  ten teams where yeah, they got a transfer guy this year, that's gonna
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  be pretty good, but then they got to go get another guy next year.
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  Now that doesn't mean Ole Miss won't look for another quarterback after this year,
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  but that room is teed up and one of the better ones in the
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  country. Yeah, you know, this is Dart's team after two years competition
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  in spring. He's the guy doesn't have to worry about Walker Howard the spring.
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  You know, usurping him. They know the pecking order and the hierarchy,
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  and Howard is for twenty twenty five. And you've also got Simmons.
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  I mean, you may have kind of what I wrote in there as they
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  may have their third quarterback battle in four years, but not till next spring,
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  because you're gonna have Simmons and Howard kind of an equal playing field and
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  playing time and in classification, I mean, there's not really a right now
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  a difference because we just haven't seen either get a lot of time outside of
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  maybe putting them in for for garbage time in games out of hand. And
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  so An you've got Aja Maddox. So they flipped from Texas A and M
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  to Elk Grove product who is now a you know, this is his freshman
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  season coming up. So now I even got three guys. That's kind of
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  right there. But as you said, you know, quarterback in almost every
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  other position can't have enough guys because you don't know who's going to be there
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  in five months or you know, come December after a season, with the
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  way these transferred porter windows are, and now you don't know if it'll stick
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  with these guys who can at the moment transfer mold times without penalty as we
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  saw kind of happen there in December. That allows Ole Miss to have some
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  guys eligible for the bowl game. So the quarterback situation right now is looking
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  great. With dark for twenty four and then and beyond, and with the
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  way the college football playoffs are expanding and how they want to alter the format
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  maybe even more, it just plays into miss Ole Missus hands and what Kiffen
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  can do. And with the new schedule and the lack of divisions and all
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  that, it really opens up there's more of a margin of error and if
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  Ole Miss can kind of get this lined up with their quarterbacks and their offense.
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  Moving forward, I think they have a shot to be in every year
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  contender for the playoffs, at least in the short term. Jake Thompson always
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  does a great job. Make sure to follow him on on three at Jake
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  Thompson on three part of the Ole Miss Spirit at M Spirit on three as
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  well. Jake, thank you so much. Look we'll catch up and do
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  it again soon. I know it's gonna be a busy week for you guys
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  with baseball, basketball, of course spring football. It's a busy time of
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  year. Thank you so much. Thanks Jake. Look forward to talking to
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  you all again.