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David Murray Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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Speaker 2: David Murray, you can get him at Jean's page two
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Speaker 2: of course get the podcast some more. David. Happy Monday.
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Speaker 2: How are you.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 3: I'm watching the lightning hopefully received from here at Browning Creek.
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Speaker 3: Some pretty electric conditions up until just recently, while I
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Speaker 3: was filing a couple of reports from practice this morning
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Speaker 3: and taking care of some business. But yeah, we got
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Speaker 3: to watch about twenty five minutes of practice today, Young
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Speaker 3: Jacob Bain, our teammate, looked at me, said, how did
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Speaker 3: you get a thousand words out of that? I said,
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Speaker 3: because I don't stand around talking to other medium members
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Speaker 3: or people out there watching, because I want to know
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Speaker 3: some things about this bunch, and I could far, far
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Speaker 3: far from see everything, and I really would have liked
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Speaker 3: to see what the receiver rotations is starting to look like.
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Speaker 3: I'll say this, I like the depth on the offensive
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Speaker 3: line vastly better. In fact, two years ago we commented
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Speaker 3: about it being a shortish line and not exactly physically primed.
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Speaker 3: They looked more like an SEC line. Now that's encouraging.
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Speaker 3: They've got good numbers at true interior defensive tackles and
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Speaker 3: plenty of defensive ends run out there. So it's obvious
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Speaker 3: that Jeff Levy and staff really went after an addressed
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Speaker 3: some of the greatest needs the last year and a
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Speaker 3: half or so, picking up off it lineman on both
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Speaker 3: sides of the scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: David, let's stay right there. I think that's Missippi State fans.
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Speaker 2: That's got to be encouraging to hear. And look, I know,
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Speaker 2: I know when a lot of times media or coaches
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Speaker 2: say well, we just look like a team. Well, first off,
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Speaker 2: you got to look good coming off the bus. If
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Speaker 2: you don't look the part, then you're sure not going
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Speaker 2: to be the part. But the fact that you know,
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Speaker 2: if you go back two years, it's twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty four, when Jeff Levy took the team
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Speaker 2: in twenty three, you know, winner of twenty twenty three
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Speaker 2: excuse me, and you know the transfer portal was what
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Speaker 2: two years almost not even really about a year and
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Speaker 2: a half in and the team was going through a
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Speaker 2: lot of flugs there. There was some misses from the
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Speaker 2: previous staff to the new staff. It is taken now,
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Speaker 2: I think two recruiting cycles and then some hits and
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Speaker 2: missus and everybody has hits and misses in the transfer portal.
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Speaker 2: To get to what you just said, yea more depth, bigger,
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Speaker 2: stronger fact of it.
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Speaker 3: That's the nature of too because again, as you and
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Speaker 3: I have talked about many times, the value of lineman
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Speaker 3: is so exaggerated in the market now that any big
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Speaker 3: body that can move is going to get a scholarship
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Speaker 3: off or somewhere. State has had better luck to my
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Speaker 3: eye so far, but again, we didn't watch any full
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Speaker 3: team work, so I'm not going to be the rbiter
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Speaker 3: of how much the offensive line is or not is
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Speaker 3: not improved until maybe we get to see some competition
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Speaker 3: out there. But from a starting point physically, they look
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Speaker 3: better as far as I say. The linebacker's not a
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Speaker 3: ton of size there, but goodness they can move. And
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Speaker 3: watching some of the safeties that they're practicing to get
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Speaker 3: linebacker like J. T. Taylor and a few others like
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Speaker 3: you know, they'll move around a lot in this because
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Speaker 3: they're doing all sorts of drills. Just this looks like
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Speaker 3: a faster team overall on the defensive side. Goodness knows
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Speaker 3: it's faster on offense. I have a feature in fact,
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Speaker 3: I did an interview with Zion Reagan's today and got
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Speaker 3: him talking about his a younger counterpart, Camden cape Hart,
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Speaker 3: about there's some of their summer racing there. Let's just
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Speaker 3: say that Mississi State track would love to have those
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Speaker 3: two on a four by four team at this point.
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Speaker 3: So reports the states improved speed on the offensive side
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Speaker 3: of the ball are absolutely true.
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Speaker 2: David Murray talking Mississippi State football Bulldogs in Week two
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Speaker 2: or camp are really getting into week two of Camp
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Speaker 2: Monday edition of the program. Yeah, David, I mean when
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Speaker 2: you start talking about speed and you can go read
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Speaker 2: that piece if you're a Gene's Page member or if
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Speaker 2: you want to get a subscription that David did on
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Speaker 2: the speed Mississippi State and the conversation with Zion Reagans
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Speaker 2: as well. To have those burners at wide receiver and
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Speaker 2: you know, not just the guys that can get down
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Speaker 2: the field and you know, get him down the hash
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Speaker 2: marks and get you that twenty thirty yard playmate. Guys
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Speaker 2: that can you know, cross a defense up on those
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Speaker 2: crossing routes. To be able to put three four guys,
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Speaker 2: you know, out there on the field to go with
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Speaker 2: Camario Taylor, who's going to move around and make you
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Speaker 2: play on eleven and eleven. That's going to make this
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Speaker 2: offense much better.
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Speaker 3: Well, not only that, but we didn't watch a whole
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Speaker 3: lot of pure running drills. They got to that later
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Speaker 3: in the periods we were watching, but there were quite
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Speaker 3: a few drills where the receivers were catching I say
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Speaker 3: the running backs were catching, I mean point blank balls crossing,
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Speaker 3: not the angled routes that maybe you saw under the
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Speaker 3: air raid more straight across and go immediate like that,
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Speaker 3: and those guys have some pretty good hands there. In fact,
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Speaker 3: for the quarterback throwing drills, they didn't use receivers. They
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Speaker 3: had them working a squall fluff bothwell. He served as
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Speaker 3: the target out there, just kind of took a place
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Speaker 3: about fifteen twenty yards downfield and just started sucking in
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Speaker 3: everything throwing his way by all the quarterbacks. And yes,
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Speaker 3: people want to know about the quarterbacks as well. Camarrio's
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Speaker 3: progress is right on schedule, maybe even ahead of schedule
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Speaker 3: at this point. Just watching how easily he handles everything
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Speaker 3: out there, I'm gonna say this, a Parker Pucket looks
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Speaker 3: like he really benefited from that freshman set out year.
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Speaker 3: I was really impressed with the progress he's shown just
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Speaker 3: since spring ball there. And I don't know what there
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Speaker 3: is for him in this particular season or future or
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Speaker 3: what went wrong elsewhere, but there is no denying Jaden
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Speaker 3: Rashata has every physical tool imaginable to play the court
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Speaker 3: of acquisition. It's just a matter of getting organized and
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Speaker 3: developed within a system. So give the guy time. You
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Speaker 3: can see why Missippi State took a chance. I mean
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Speaker 3: it cost them nothing after he's let go by Sacramento State,
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Speaker 3: But why not, why not take a flyer in this
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Speaker 3: guy because and you know, maybe he works himself into
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Speaker 3: a position where somebody tries to sign him out of
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Speaker 3: the portal next year. I don't know it'd be good
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Speaker 3: for him, but I just like what I'm seeing. There's
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Speaker 3: actually signs of depth at the quarterback position now, not
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Speaker 3: just numbers, but actual depth. Lord knows, I hope we
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Speaker 3: don't have to use it.
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Speaker 2: David speaking saying that right there, what is kind of
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Speaker 2: the pulse of the health of the team right now?
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Speaker 3: It's good. The only players not really working out today.
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Speaker 3: I think one of the kickers was excused for the day.
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Speaker 3: Only one player was practicing limited Let's see, that was
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Speaker 3: James Herd at the line of rapt position, but he
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Speaker 3: was still working out in non contract drills. And I
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Speaker 3: looked for DJ Reid and could not find him. But
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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean anything at this point, because again it
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Speaker 3: was just kind of a blitz look at everything. We'll
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Speaker 3: get to watch more practice on Friday. Until then, let's see,
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Speaker 3: tomorrow we get players. I think it back tomorrow, we
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Speaker 3: get Jeff Levy after practice, We'll get players on Wednesday,
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Speaker 3: and then we'll talk to Levy again after Saturday because
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Speaker 3: that will be the first screen image opportunity of this
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Speaker 3: year and get his report on that as well, and
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Speaker 3: we obviously won't be allowed to watch his media. But
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Speaker 3: I'll say this, they've offered us more opportunities in this
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Speaker 3: preseason than a year going certainly in spring. So I
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Speaker 3: think Jeff let me feel a little more comfortable at
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Speaker 3: what he's got to work with here.
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Speaker 2: David, we got a couple of minutes left here. Any
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Speaker 2: other notes we need to pass along. I think baseball
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Speaker 2: is getting ready for their fall session. Any other sports
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Speaker 2: notes at missip State.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm bogged down in football entirely, but Steve was
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Speaker 3: able to post a piece he talked to Brian O'Connor
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Speaker 3: and about the start of fallball coming up. What their
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Speaker 3: schedule is. I do want to comment to that the
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Speaker 3: basketball preseason games that they're going to play one of them.
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Speaker 3: It hasn't been made official, but I am pretty sure
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Speaker 3: the exhibition with Memphis, which is going to be on Friday.
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Speaker 3: I think of Oklahoma Football Weekend every indication because that's
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Speaker 3: going to be open to the public as well and
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Speaker 3: for people to get to look at Chris Jams team
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Speaker 3: out there. The one in Florida State will be closed.
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Speaker 3: I think it's in Pensacole at this point. So a
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Speaker 3: little bit of news here and there, but I mean,
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Speaker 3: we're just so tied up with football and the things
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Speaker 3: I wasn't able to watch today. I'll say this too,
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Speaker 3: a whole lot of special teams work, and it's just
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Speaker 3: they must have used twenty five different guys rotating at punt, block,
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Speaker 3: punt protect all sorts of things that harks back again
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Speaker 3: to the speed and I'm telling you, some of these
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Speaker 3: guys just have a knack for it. So you know,
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Speaker 3: special teams has been so legislated out of the sport
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Speaker 3: in so many ways. With the improved protections, although now
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Speaker 3: they've done a little something about that and the coverage
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Speaker 3: and such, I think the focus from now is going
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Speaker 3: to be trying to block kicks and misso be State
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Speaker 3: is already trying to get ahead of that curve this
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Speaker 3: year with some of their practice as well, because that's
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Speaker 3: I think where the grudgest potential and special team is
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Speaker 3: going to be is blocking a kick.
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Speaker 2: Make sure to get him on X and of course
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Speaker 2: get him at Jean's page two four seven Sports dot Com.
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Speaker 2: He's David Murray on Missippi State. David trying to stay
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Speaker 2: cool out there. It's a hot one right now. Look,
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Speaker 2: have a great week. We'll talk next week.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Jakin Ben all.
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