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Ole Miss Football 2026 Preview: Playoff Team Again? 🔥 || Jake Thompson · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: Are you already at the practice field this morning?
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  Speaker 2: No, we fired up? Tomorrow's we got one more day
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  Speaker 2: and then it gets going.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so are you tell me where you
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  Speaker 1: what is your current state of mind? Are you? Are
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  Speaker 1: you fired up? Are you excited? Are there butterflies? Anticipation?
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  Speaker 1: Where are we?
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  Speaker 2: I think I would be more anticipated and fired up
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  Speaker 2: if it was game day tomorrow, not first day of practice,
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  Speaker 2: because it's going to be very similar to spring at
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  Speaker 2: which I was kind of expecting in terms of access
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  Speaker 2: and what we're going to be able to see, at
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  Speaker 2: least the first half of camp is it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be very similar with your you know, Peak Golding's from
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  Speaker 2: the school savings, so it shouldn't surprise new people. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if we get to see more than punts,
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  Speaker 2: which is what we saw basically in the spring. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I can't fault them for it. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody kind of does their own thing. So yeah, No,
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  Speaker 2: if it was Louisville and Nashville tomorrow, where I could
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  Speaker 2: see sixty four minutes of this team, I'd probably be
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  Speaker 2: a little more excited. But it's it's gonna be good day.
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  Speaker 2: We go around sometime mid morning Thursday, and then that
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  Speaker 2: afternoon we do the big meat local media day with
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  Speaker 2: Pete and talk to all the players, So that that
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  Speaker 2: part would be good, just to talk to somebody outside
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  Speaker 2: of you know, Trinidad and Kewana Will, which is about
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  Speaker 2: all I've kind of talked to this summer. So on
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  Speaker 2: that side of it, it'll be nice to see what
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  Speaker 2: those guys say about the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't you love that? Once you get Pete Golding
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  Speaker 1: going that, it's just pure content for all y'all and
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I guess you know. The one thing
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll have to keep in mind is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and this isn't a knock. It's more of an unsolicited advice.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody has his ears listening, it's you could tell
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  Speaker 2: the media days to try to answer one question, the
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  Speaker 2: tampering question, and dodged it, and then the next person
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  Speaker 2: that asked it kind of learned or figured out how
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  Speaker 2: he might could ask it was it was not specifically
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  Speaker 2: about Clints, but said hey how would you fix this?
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  Speaker 2: Or that was the just them and I can't remember itverbatim,
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  Speaker 2: and then that's what fired him up. So I think
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  Speaker 2: people are gonna realize. So you can poke the bar enough,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get him going right. And that's where
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's where you know. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see media training because you don't need to muzzle him
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  Speaker 2: because he is great. I mean, Summer all in him
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  Speaker 2: back to back, that was probably the best through two hours,
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  Speaker 2: three hours of the entire week. I mean it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a blob media days until those two took
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  Speaker 2: the podium. So no, you don't want to change him.
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  Speaker 2: But you can't show your cards because you know some
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  Speaker 2: of the media guys will then start pushing those buttons.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's he's a great you know, talker
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  Speaker 1: and conversationalist, which is good for you and I, and
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  Speaker 1: he enjoys it. He enjoys, you know, visiting and engaging
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  Speaker 1: and so on. He's natural.
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  Speaker 2: He'll talk ball for twenty five minutes if you just
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  Speaker 2: say defense, which is what I watched in Cleveland last
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  Speaker 2: month during the Rubber Road Ship. Somebody asked him about defense.
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  Speaker 2: I think he talked about every single player on defense.
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  Speaker 2: So you got a coach that loves ball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So Jake Thompson Ole Miss Insider Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: opens up with Louisville in Nashville against Jeff Brohm, who
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  Speaker 1: is a damn good football coach, But they don't have
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  Speaker 1: any experience at the quarterback position. And our friend Jake
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  Speaker 1: Thompson just mentioned Will Eccles and that defense looks serious
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  Speaker 1: with Eccles and Perkins and so on. So how would you?
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  Speaker 1: And we don't know yet, but last year they were
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  Speaker 1: good and you've had some really good ones over the years,
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  Speaker 1: good Lord, fourteen and fifteen among other years, you know
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  Speaker 1: how good considering some of the defensive lines that you've had.
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  Speaker 1: Can this twenty twenty six defensive line be with this group?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if it'll be as good
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  Speaker 2: as I guess two years ago. Now whatever the year
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  Speaker 2: was with Ivy and Peggy's and you know others Prince Slei,
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  Speaker 2: Umaniel and all those guys that ended up kitting drafted
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  Speaker 2: at least a shot at the NFL camp. I can't
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  Speaker 2: say it'll be as good as that, just because outside
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  Speaker 2: of Eccles and Cam Franklin, you know, none of us
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  Speaker 2: will have seen what these guys can do together. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Blake Purchase and and some other additions that
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  Speaker 2: they brought in a defensive end. And I mean that
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  Speaker 2: on paper, you would think it's supposed to be a
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  Speaker 2: really good defensive front. But we got to see them
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  Speaker 2: all play together, and you know, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: new faces, a lot of new pieces. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I think, uh, a lot of people we kind of
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  Speaker 2: talked to in Tampa, just other you know, media people
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  Speaker 2: or national people, was that nobody's talking about this on
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  Speaker 2: Miss defense enough. And maybe it's under the radar. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's more so that for us, you know locally
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  Speaker 2: who cover them, it's it's always kind of a wait
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  Speaker 2: and see. We got to watch the watch them play.
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  Speaker 2: How do they mold Because offense you can kind of
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  Speaker 2: get a feel for what the hell they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be because you just kind of see that more. But defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Equos is the guy. But I think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to take a little bit of the Louisville game
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  Speaker 2: and then I think a lot of the Charlotte game
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  Speaker 2: because that should be you know, you would think if
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  Speaker 2: you're all miss chumming the water, just get some get
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  Speaker 2: some reps, get some more experience before the next week, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for us to learn how good this defense can be,
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  Speaker 2: and then they'll have to put that to the you know,
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  Speaker 2: LSU at Florida. It doesn't get any easier from there.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it can be good, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to see kind of the proof of concept first.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Eccles can be a first round pick
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  Speaker 1: at some point?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think he can play his way there, because
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  Speaker 2: you know what everybody does those way through early next
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  Speaker 2: year drafts immediately after the current Ears draft. For the
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  Speaker 2: ones that I could find, you know, Eccles was the
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  Speaker 2: first Old Miss guy going off any kind of draft
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  Speaker 2: board or mock draft, you know. So I think he
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  Speaker 2: can be a first round guy, but I think he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of have to play his way through that this season.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Jake Thompson, Ole Miss Insider on the
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  Speaker 1: Thompson on the Out of Bound Show Back to SEC
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  Speaker 1: media Days, What was your one big takeaway from from
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  Speaker 1: Gold and what he did say or didn't say?
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  Speaker 2: Jake, I think the biggest take was he was ready
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  Speaker 2: to get back on the practice field. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's done a lot. He was in the midst
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  Speaker 2: of wrapping up that rubberroad trip, which obviously he's he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna love meeting the fans. But I think he's he's
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  Speaker 2: a coach. You know. We we just said he's a
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  Speaker 2: good talker and can say there our things, and he's
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  Speaker 2: fun to talk too, but he's not really the most
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  Speaker 2: you know, he didn't enjoy doing that. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: ready to get back on the field and be a
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  Speaker 2: ball coach. And I think he's also ready to kind
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  Speaker 2: of prove that those three games weren't a fluke. If
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  Speaker 2: there was any overarching theme to the entire week with
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  Speaker 2: first year coaches, that was a lot of questions in
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  Speaker 2: the main room. It almost felt like a job interview
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  Speaker 2: all over again. A lot of guys are asking why
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  Speaker 2: you why, why, why did you get it? Why should
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  Speaker 2: you be the guy? You know, we saw will Stein throughout.
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  Speaker 2: I think this team's better because I'm here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of comment, that quote. So that was the
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  Speaker 2: overarching theme of basically sitting there watching these first year
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  Speaker 2: coaches or coaches at a new spot even though they've
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  Speaker 2: coached somewhere else. Why you? Why you? And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: Pete got some of that and then obviously he kind
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  Speaker 2: of took over when he got going there and it
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  Speaker 2: kind of deflected from that. But that's the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: is I think all these first year coaches were kind
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  Speaker 2: of being put onto the microscope again.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Jake Thompson on the Out of Bounds Show, Ole
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  Speaker 1: Miss kicks it off against Louisville in Nashville week one, Baby,
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  Speaker 1: then they take a week off against Charlotte, and then
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  Speaker 1: we all know LSU at Ole Miss. So looking at
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  Speaker 1: the Vegas odds, Jake Ole Miss plus eleven hundred to
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  Speaker 1: win the SEC and plus three thousand for the Natty.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, depending on what book you're looking at. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's respected, but it's clearly behind several teams in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC like Georgia, Texas A and m Bama and LSU.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the pecking order. Do you think that
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  Speaker 1: people are sleeping on this miss football team?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think also it just got historical
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  Speaker 2: kind of evidence to go by. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: agree with how Roman Harper said it on TV that day.
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  Speaker 2: I think at SC media Days to start the week,
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  Speaker 2: where he was, you know, picking on the new guy,
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  Speaker 2: Chase Daniels and said, it's all Miss. He'll learn they're
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  Speaker 2: they're not gonna win a national title. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: that far. I think that was poorly said for you know,
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  Speaker 2: insert any team into that sentence. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think all Miss has to prove it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got the guys on offense, but I think everybody
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  Speaker 2: knows defense is what wins you that title or gets
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  Speaker 2: you in the running. And you know, it's hard. Logo
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  Speaker 2: bias is a thing. It's just it's just is, especially
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  Speaker 2: in college football in Vegas. Some of these guys don't
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  Speaker 2: watch a lick of any of these teams all the
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  Speaker 2: time or even reading to eerie stuff, but but they
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  Speaker 2: do know what an Ohio State team all easily does,
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  Speaker 2: what a Notre Dame team does, Texas, you know, Georgia, Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's part of it. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: also these uh, these Vegas guys, there's a reason a
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  Speaker 2: lot stay on all the time, and they know to
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  Speaker 2: put some some teams with odds that are going to
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  Speaker 2: rile up some people and go that's I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: make a killing off of this and put some bet down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, better's bait. So it's probably a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of all that in there. But uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: foe miss can get through week three and be three
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  Speaker 2: and zero heading to Florida. I think you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see at least the SEC odds shift in their favor.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it'll probably take a little bit more than
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  Speaker 2: that for the you know, the national title livee to shift,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think they just have to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pile up some debuts and and that money will shift
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  Speaker 2: their way.
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  Speaker 1: And do you believe that with all the shakeup And yes,
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  Speaker 1: Pete did a good job in the playoffs, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that was driven by what Lane had built,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, for six years. Do you believe ten
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  Speaker 1: and two is what it's going to take to get
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  Speaker 1: in Jake, until we go to twenty whatever, until we
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  Speaker 1: go to sixteen, twenty or twenty four. Nine in three
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  Speaker 1: is not going to get it. So when when you
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  Speaker 1: look at you know, it's it's somewhat manageable. But you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned elish at home. That's going to be tough at Florida,
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  Speaker 1: tough at Texas, tough Georgia at home and at Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: Top and then I'm going I'm kind of glossing over
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  Speaker 1: some SEC teams that you know, you don't ever know
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  Speaker 1: could give anyone some pits. Do you believe this is
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  Speaker 1: a roster and a team that can go ten and
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  Speaker 1: two with a nine game conference schedule in Louisville on
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  Speaker 1: a neutral field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they can, but I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 2: kind of the one that's leaning that I think a
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  Speaker 2: nine and three team could get in, But with a caveat,
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  Speaker 2: it depends on who the nine are and who the
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  Speaker 2: three are, because you know, I think that's going to
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  Speaker 2: weigh into especially which think you basically saying to us
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  Speaker 2: in Tampa that he taught with college football player people,
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  Speaker 2: I guess the desks in the spring meetings, and he
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  Speaker 2: was given the word he used unsatisfactory answer, which basically
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  Speaker 2: means he the committee didn't tell them, oh, hey, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to weigh that nine game schedule heavier and everybody else.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I think a nine and three team might,
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  Speaker 2: but it also depends on, like I said, who those
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  Speaker 2: nine are and who those three are. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: could be good loss as good wins, but no in
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  Speaker 2: terms of All Miss on paper, I think they have
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  Speaker 2: a ten and two team, but they've got, you know, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: like everybody else, to got to go play the games
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  Speaker 2: and show it. Pete Golden's toughest coach. First toughest coaching task,
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  Speaker 2: I think is that week between LSU and Florida. We
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  Speaker 2: ever lose LSU, his job is to get that team
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  Speaker 2: back to level as fast as possible before going to
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  Speaker 2: a very motivated joh Sumrall who could not stop saying
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  Speaker 2: over and over that he was beaten by All Miss
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  Speaker 2: twice last year by two different coaches, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: his two lane team, and he's a competitor like if
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  Speaker 2: your other coach, he's going to be motivated. And we
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  Speaker 2: have also seen how All Miss does heading into a
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  Speaker 2: big game at Gainesville in recent history. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: been been a challenge, especially with a lot on the line.
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  Speaker 2: So that's Pete's first toughest job. If Miss Pete's LSU,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get him back down, make sure they're
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  Speaker 2: not coming off of partying like an all night or
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  Speaker 2: in Vegas. If they lose, you've got to get them
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  Speaker 2: back up to a level and make them realize there's
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  Speaker 2: still eight more games, and you think, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of time to get back on track. That's
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  Speaker 2: the beauty of lsub in the first of these nine
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  Speaker 2: SCC games. If you lose, you've got your what you
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  Speaker 2: used to have, your normal eight game SEC schedule to
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  Speaker 2: get back on track.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was well done. Jake Thompson on Miss Insider
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss Spirit on three on the Farm Bureau Insurance
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  Speaker 1: Guests line, and by the way, for our listeners, because
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  Speaker 1: you're busy and Jake and I are somewhat locked into this.
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  Speaker 1: What Jake was referencing was Sanke at Commissioner Sankie at
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  Speaker 1: SEC Media Days said that they had a conference call
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  Speaker 1: with the College Football Playoff Committee and his quote, I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of paraphrasing, was it was not a productive conversation. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now when when and I think this is where Jake's
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  Speaker 1: going to When this thing is expanded, it won't matter
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  Speaker 1: to more, you know, But right now, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to clip the league this year because we stayed
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  Speaker 1: at twelve but bumped it up to nine games. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what Jake and I are debating. Can nine
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  Speaker 1: and three get you in? Probably not? But as Jake said,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's really going to come down to go in
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  Speaker 1: ten and two and eleven and one, and with Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame probably making the playoffs, that's taking a spot that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't take last year. Does that make sense? With
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  Speaker 1: their easy schedule and Penn State, y'all watch out. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Matt Campbell's better than James Franklin. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's kind of a push, maybe a slight slide
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  Speaker 1: edge to James Franklin. But y'all, that Penn State schedule
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  Speaker 1: is absurd how easy it is. So I think that's
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  Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on. Is we're thinking how
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  Speaker 1: many spots are there depending on where Ole Miss finishes, Texas, Georgia, LSU,
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  Speaker 1: Bama teams that we believe have a chance to make
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff? Is that fair?
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  Speaker 2: Jake? Yeah, No, you're actually right. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: it'll be ten and two, especially once we get to
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  Speaker 2: you know, mid middle of October and half the season
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  Speaker 2: done and see who's who's butt and where and who's
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  Speaker 2: one who hasn't and and what conferences or you know,
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  Speaker 2: trending and not. But yeah, that's why I just think
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  Speaker 2: on the outside, I'm just playing that you know, advocate
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  Speaker 2: Devil's advocate of a nine and three could but I
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  Speaker 2: think you've got to have the right nine and the
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  Speaker 2: right three because there's going to be plenty of ten
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  Speaker 2: and two's across the country and especially in the Big Ten,
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  Speaker 2: because yeah, Indiana's also got a cupcake of a schedule.
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  Speaker 2: After a Signatty says, we don't really run, we don't
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  Speaker 2: really run from anybody, and they you know, I know
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't sit there and make the schedule, but he
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  Speaker 2: does that. That's his schedule this year. And Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody jokes about Notre Dame schedule. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's bobby reason they decided to get back to the
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  Speaker 2: table and say Southern cal has play again in three years.
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  Speaker 2: Uh to add another one to their schedule, but that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter for this year. And Penn State they've got some,
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  Speaker 2: but they avoid a lot of the big boogeymen of
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten. They've got some someones, but you know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it's, you know, kind of come down
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  Speaker 2: to just a Penn State a little bit better than
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  Speaker 2: last year. And if that's the case, then yeah, they'll
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  Speaker 2: get in when you releast expect them. To so oh Miss.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that best case or worst case
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  Speaker 2: scenario for almost they've got to start five and one
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  Speaker 2: heading to Texas. I think, you know they've got to
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  Speaker 2: you know, I can give him one somewhere, you know,
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  Speaker 2: LSU Florida, just because that's a tough two weeks for anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So, if they're five and one head into Texas,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're in a good spot. If they're worse
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  Speaker 2: than that, it's going to be a tough back end
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  Speaker 2: of the season, I think with who they have after.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: That, No, that's fair enough. Jake Thompson, Ole Miss Spirit,
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss Insider. Everything gets kicked off tomorrow and we're
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: all ready and just in a few weeks they'll be
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: in Nashville playing the Louisville Cardinal and Jeff Bram And
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: again Louisville has no experience at quarterback. They grabbed a
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: guy from West Georgia and a guy from Ohio State,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and evidently the guy from West Georgia played better than
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: the guy from Ohio State in the spring game. I
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: don't know what to make of that roll most of that,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: but we'll see Jake Thompson on ESPN one five nine
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the zone driven by your next GMC Sierra truck at Fowler,
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: GMC Pearl Brandon. Yeah, that Penn State schedule, that Notre
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Dame schedule, and that Indiana schedule. Good Lord cupcakes for days, baby,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: all right, D line. I want to go back to
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the D line in Eccles No, no, no, the defense
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: as a whole. Jake Thompson, we did this a little
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: bit last time you were on. But I'd like to
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: get and I know Eccles and Perkins, but I want
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: you to rank them too. I want you to give
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: me your top four or five defensive players for Pete
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Golding going into twenty twenty six.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Five I'll go five to one. I'll say five. I'm
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: gonna go Antonio Kite a secondary just because he had
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: a he had a great year last year with all
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the uncertainty coming in after how he left Auburn and
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: played better as the year got on. I think he
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: will be a key guy. Uh. Four, I'm gonna say
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it's uh Keaton the linebacker from Keaton Thomas from Baylor.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be your green dot guy. Uh.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: You know, the linebackers an entirely new makeover. You know,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: take Perkins out of it because he's such a hybrid
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: you can put him in either room. But traditional linebacker
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Keaton Thomas, I think it's going to be a key guy. Uh.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You know, I could go four B there with Luke
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: for Elliot, the Cal transfer who's obviously everybody knows his
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: name for different reasons, but I think he's only played
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: one year at Cal. But I think, you know, Pete
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Golding knows how to coach linebackers, and he's got two
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: new guys to help coach that room since he's got
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: you know, a lot more going on. But I think
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: he Keaton kind of four A four B there.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Then three, I'm gonna say Cam Franklin. I think the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Lake Corman guy takes a step up. Uh. And then two,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: you know, because I'm going to be unique with one,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: but two, I'm going to say Blake Purchase the Oregon
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: defensive end. Uh. I think he's going to be a
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: key guy on the other end. With Cam Franklin, that's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: a newcomer that's coming in and I think can thrive
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: well with you know, we've seen how good Randall join
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Er develops guys on the defensive line and gets them
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: NFL ready or at least have a shot to play
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: at the NFL. So I think that's going to be
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a guy to watch. And then one is just kind
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: of your two MVPs. I think of the entire defense
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: or will need to be and Echols and Perkins. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: know I kind of cheated there, but you know that's
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: that's how I view the defense right now.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: No, that was good. That's what we needed, all right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: So we've got transfers from Baylor, Oregon and cal slash
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Clemson that are on the list with Jake Thompson, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: then we've got some returning guys that played really well
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for ole Miss last year. And that's I think that's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the big question, like how the defense is going to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: be good? Will they be unbelievable? Yeah, I think that's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the question in Oxford, and.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think for ole Miss they don't have to be
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: unbelievable just to touch better because look how far they
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: got last year with that defense that I think it
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: was not as good as what's on paper This year
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: in certain areas. I think they got better at linebacker
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: as a whole with depth, and I think they got
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: better in the secondary with some guys that came in,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: but we just haven't gotten to see them much, so
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: it's hard to say it, but you know, I think
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: if they're just slightly better than last year, and obviously
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the offense can do what it's expected to do with
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: two preseason Heisman contenders, that they've got a chance to
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: get to that tenant too and make another run and
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: see if you know, somehow they're one of the two
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in Vegas?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: All right, cool, we'll wrap it up with food and beverage.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Have you been to the Ship restaurant up there?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I have not. My brother who used to live here,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: went there frequently and he enjoyed it. I had never
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: made it there. I've got to expand my rotation of restaurants.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a sad, you know, for you know,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: habitual rotation that I've just got myself into over the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: decade plus i've lived here.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: No, that's cool, I've been. It's it's a fantastic place.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Have you been to Miscellaneous?
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Not all right?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: We got to get Jake Thompson. Uh, My guys Dole
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Bron and Patrick Kelly have to get uh Jake to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the sip and to Miscellaneous for the right mojo for
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: old miss this year. All right, tell me your your
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: your I don't know. Free restaurant rotation, Jake Thompson.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, my rotation is Ajax on the Square if you like,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: if you're just needing some some good home cooking, that's
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you know, you know, like you you know, Golden Crown
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: type stuff, you're your good soaking cooking. Ajax has got
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: that in all different ways.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: If you're feeling like, uh, you know, a good burrito,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: good taco, I go to South Depot on the Square. Uh.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: And let's see a third one. I'm trying to think
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: there's there's ones that are worthy, but I'm gonna go uh,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I not try it yet. I'm planning to try it
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: today or tomorrow. But I'm gonna just throw in a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: new one that and I'm probably butcher in the name
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: app Applos applos oh applos.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they started here.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Oxford got one up. I think it opened sometime last
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: month and so it's everybody seems to love it. So
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I want to throw that one out there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you'll love the eros and everything else that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: they're doing because they started here in Jackson. All right, Uh,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Jake Thompson, you're gonna have a busy, busy year, busy August,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and uh, you'll be hanging out with us a good bit.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you and we'll talk soon.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I appreciate you guys, Thanks a lot, all.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Right, man ole Miss Spirit on three Jake Thompson talking
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss football. This is now Pete Golding's team. This
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: is now Pete Golding's team.