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Will Kamario Taylor Play this Weekend? Big one In Oxford between the Rebs and Tigers · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: glad to be with you on a Monday night. Robbie
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  Speaker 1: Falk will join us here momentarily. We'll talk Mississippi State
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  Speaker 1: as they head down to LSU and take on the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers Bulldogs back in action.
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  Speaker 2: What's the health of Mario Taylor? What's the health of
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  Speaker 2: Fluff Bothwell? And more.
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  Speaker 1: Brad Logan expected to join us around 815. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss as they get ready to take on Missouri State.
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  Speaker 2: And more. So let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 1: As we go through today, some of this stuff we
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  Speaker 1: went through on my show today. But I want to
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  Speaker 1: go back through some of this as we get rolling here.
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  Speaker 1: First thing I want to do is get into my
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  Speaker 1: SEC eyeball test rankings, courtesy of me and nobody else.
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  Speaker 2: We'll say my bookie. How about that? Let me go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: The eyeball test is basically my rankings week to week
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  Speaker 1: that we do. And I'm going to pull these rankings
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  Speaker 1: in as the eyeball test.
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  Speaker 2: It's no analytics. It's just an eyeball test.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at that today.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Based off the weekend that was, Georgia is no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: I think, the best team in the SEC. They're the
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  Speaker 1: best team in the country. I think Alabama is the
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  Speaker 1: number two team in the SEC. I think both of
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  Speaker 1: those two teams are going to play in the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff. After that, I think it's up for grabs
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  Speaker 1: on does the SEC get three, four, five teams in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC.
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  Speaker 2: Into the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky, I like. Kentucky sits well. At number three in
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  Speaker 1: my rankings for the eyeball test, Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 2: And Ole Miss right there are four or five.
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  Speaker 1: You look at Missouri at number six, Oklahoma and Texas
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  Speaker 1: after the weekend, number seven and eight. And then I've
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  Speaker 1: got Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi State's opponent we'll get into in
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  Speaker 1: just a bit with Robbie Falk. And then I've got Auburn,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, Florida. It is a smorgasbord in the league
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  Speaker 1: as we kind of move through. And, of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: only going to get worse as we go through, and
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  Speaker 1: I say worse, the carnage. it's only going to get
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  Speaker 1: worse as we move.
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  Speaker 2: Through the week.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my eyeball test for the weekend. And again,
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  Speaker 1: you can check that out. I've shared that on X
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  Speaker 1: and more. Let's go ahead and bring in Robbie Falk
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  Speaker 1: to the stream, who's always kind enough to give us
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  Speaker 1: some time.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie, welcome in, brother.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your time tonight as.
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  Speaker 2: We move along here.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I tell you what, when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: carnage of the SEC, just kind of going through what
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  Speaker 1: I call the eyeball test, and that's just, hey, no analytics,
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  Speaker 1: just what you see.
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  Speaker 2: Over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The SEC really starting to cannibalize itself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, people are, going through injuries and you
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  Speaker 4: know it's just an absolute blood fest every single week
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  Speaker 4: this is what you signed up for when you um
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  Speaker 4: just stupidly went to nine sec games there was absolutely
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  Speaker 4: no reason to do that they were basically um conned
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  Speaker 4: into adding another conference game by other conferences that said
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  Speaker 4: they didn't play anybody and they very stupidly went and
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  Speaker 4: scheduled another SEC game which is only going to make
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  Speaker 4: it tougher for this conference to go win national championships
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  Speaker 4: and we're seeing that right now I mean the we're
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  Speaker 4: five weeks into the season and we've got quarterbacks that
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  Speaker 4: are uh you know out for multiple weeks which I
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  Speaker 4: mean this isn't a SEC thing I mean um you
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  Speaker 4: know UCLA's quarterbacks out for the rest of the season
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  Speaker 4: and You know, we've seen other quarterbacks, I think Iowa's quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 4: out for a little bit. I mean, this is just
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  Speaker 4: college football. It's, like I say every week, it's like
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  Speaker 4: walking around landmines. And it's, you know, crapshoot whether or
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  Speaker 4: not you're going to be able to be healthy. And
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  Speaker 4: we're seeing teams around the SEC. Alabama's got a ton
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  Speaker 4: of injuries. LSU's got a ton of injuries. Mississippi State
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  Speaker 4: has a ton of injuries. It is just a gauntlet.
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  Speaker 4: And it wears you down, man, mentally, physically, mentally. Everything–
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  Speaker 4: it's good for you. It makes the team tougher. But
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, by the end of the year,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what does that mean for all these teams?
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  Speaker 4: Are they able to stay healthy? So, yeah, it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of crazy. We're only five, six weeks into this thing,
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  Speaker 4: and we're already seeing people get decimated.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you're absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get into Mississippi State and LSU this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted your thoughts on– Mike Elko, because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've been around this business a long time. You've run sites.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a site now with State 1878. We know
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  Speaker 1: that social media isn't real per se, but I think
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  Speaker 1: when you start turning into message boards and subscribers and
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  Speaker 1: you know about Texags and how big it is, Mike Elko, bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad idea to go after Texags over the weekend, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 4: That was the wrong place to attack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you want to go after– I mean,
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  Speaker 4: no offense to our buddies that own three or two, four, seven,
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  Speaker 4: but if you want to go after them, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 4: Once you start going after Texags, which has been probably
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  Speaker 4: the friendliest fan site to a school that there is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't understand the process there by Mike Ilko.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is signing a death note. And I,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I felt like when Mike Elko was hired,
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  Speaker 4: I remember coming out on Twitter when they were talking
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  Speaker 4: about going and getting Mark Stoops and that whole debacle
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning, I thought Texas A & M should
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  Speaker 4: have hired Mike Elko immediately. And so I think that
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  Speaker 4: he was a great fit and he's done a good
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  Speaker 4: job there. You know, last year, I think they were
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  Speaker 4: benefit of their schedule and they probably weren't as good
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  Speaker 4: as their schedule suggested. And This year we're starting to
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  Speaker 4: see Texas A & M be Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 4: But now you've kind of planted a seed here that's
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  Speaker 4: never going to go away. He's never going to be
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  Speaker 4: able to erase what he said, and now they're going
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  Speaker 4: to know his true feelings. So when he's losing ballgames
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  Speaker 4: and he's not performing to the expectations that he's paid
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  Speaker 4: to perform, it's just going to be an absolute disaster
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  Speaker 4: for him. I don't know what it is about that place. Jake,
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  Speaker 4: but they can't succeed. They just can't. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: the culture there. It's the– I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 4: but they have as much money as anybody in America,
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  Speaker 4: and they've done nothing. I mean, they've literally done nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Last year was the first time they did anything of substance.
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  Speaker 4: They were in the playoffs. They got ran off their
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  Speaker 4: own field. At the end of the day, they didn't
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  Speaker 4: really do anything at all. They didn't play for an
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  Speaker 4: SEC championship. They've won nothing. in their entire existence, and
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  Speaker 4: they have more money than anybody, something is wrong there.
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  Speaker 4: Something within the culture, something in the administration. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what it is, but I do know my favorite
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  Speaker 4: thing that happens every single year is someone taking the
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  Speaker 4: record of Kevin Sumlin and comparing it to Jimbo Fisher,
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  Speaker 4: Mike Yoko, and Kevin Sumlin wins every time. Kevin Sumlin
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  Speaker 4: has a better record than all of these people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, as a matter of fact, that came out over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend again, and it's always out there, like you said.
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  Speaker 1: And Kevin Sumlin, at this very stage of Mike Elko's career,
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  Speaker 1: was three games better than Mike Elko.
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  Speaker 2: And if you go back and look, I.
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  Speaker 1: Think somebody put it out the other day, if you
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  Speaker 1: took Kevin Sumlin and the winning clip that he was at,
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  Speaker 1: and you kept him at that trajectory over the time,
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  Speaker 1: even to today, they would have saved like $ 160 million,
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  Speaker 1: and they would be like four games better than what
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  Speaker 1: they are now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he was perfectly fine. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 4: not a great coach, but he's performing to the expectations
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  Speaker 4: of what they perform. Jimbo Fisher was the same way.
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  Speaker 4: The money that they have wasted on players and coaches
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  Speaker 4: could help a third-world country become sustainable. I mean, it's sad.
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  Speaker 4: It's really sad to watch. but that's just where they are.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they blew up an entire stadium and rebuilt
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  Speaker 4: it in, like, a few months. Like, it's just crazy
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  Speaker 4: the type of money that they have, and they cannot
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  Speaker 4: do anything of substance.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of doing anything of substance, Mississippi State is headed
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  Speaker 1: down to Baton Rouge after an off week. Everybody's wondering, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Kamario Taylor, Kamario Taylor. I don't know that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to know this until they break huddle on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I really don't. And it's been talked about for
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  Speaker 4: two weeks. I mean, we learned– Pete Thamel's getting his
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  Speaker 4: report retweeted. Nothing of substance came from that. We knew
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  Speaker 4: that he was questionable, that there was really nothing. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of up in the air at this point. I
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  Speaker 4: was actually kind of maybe surprised in the word, but
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  Speaker 4: I was, I guess, a little more upbeat about this
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  Speaker 4: situation after hearing Jeff Webby talk about it on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: it seemed like to me that he's a little more
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  Speaker 4: day-to-day than people think that he does have a chance
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  Speaker 4: to play this week they're preparing for him to play
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  Speaker 4: this week the question is like we talked about last
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  Speaker 4: week like do you want to put him in that
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  Speaker 4: situation and risk him getting further injured do you rest
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  Speaker 4: him And, you know, I don't think that you go
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  Speaker 4: into this game thinking that you're punting this ballgame, but,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, essentially when you take that type of player out,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there are questions as to whether or not
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  Speaker 4: how you can compete in this ballgame against a really
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  Speaker 4: talented LSU team in that environment. But the question to
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  Speaker 4: me is just how severe is this injury? That's what
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  Speaker 4: I want to know. And I just don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's been kept under wraps how severe this thing actually is.
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  Speaker 4: There's been, if you read your favorite message board, it's
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  Speaker 4: gone from, hey, he's fine to we might have to amputate.
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  Speaker 4: That's kind of like the range of reports that we're
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  Speaker 4: getting from somebody's ex-husband's second cousin twice removed boss. That's
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  Speaker 4: where the information is coming from. It just is one
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  Speaker 4: of those deals where you can't get too upset about
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  Speaker 4: it or worry about it too much. We're not going
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  Speaker 4: to get any information out of Jeff Lebby about it.
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  Speaker 4: The Wednesday report is probably going to say questionable or
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  Speaker 4: doubtful or something of that nature. By Saturday, we'll know
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  Speaker 4: if he's going to play. To me, the big thing
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  Speaker 4: is just talking about Billy Puckett at this point. If
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  Speaker 4: that's your guy on Saturday, how can Billy Puckett put
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  Speaker 4: Mississippi State in position to go win? That's kind of
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  Speaker 4: what you're looking for at this point. And then if
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  Speaker 4: you have Camario, then that obviously changes the conversation a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So for those that may not be familiar with Billy Puckett,
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  Speaker 1: what can you tell us about him? And I remember
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  Speaker 1: when he was at Jackson Prep, I believe it was
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Prep, hard-nosed kid.
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  Speaker 2: He was a winner.
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  Speaker 1: And I think kind of take us through his story
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  Speaker 1: to where he's at today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a family.
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  Speaker 3: They're Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 4: I believe his dream was to play for Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised in high school that he
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  Speaker 4: didn't get more offers, that he didn't get more opportunities
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  Speaker 4: because I did think that he was a D1 player.
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  Speaker 4: I've been a Billy Puckett fan. You go look at
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  Speaker 4: his profile and you see no stars and you see
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  Speaker 4: that he's a walk-on. Well, immediately the average fan is
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  Speaker 4: going to say, we're screwed. We're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: throw this dude out there. But the fact of the
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  Speaker 4: matter is he went up against two guys that have
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  Speaker 4: experience in Division I football at quarterback, and he straight
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  Speaker 4: up went and won that battle for the number two spot,
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  Speaker 4: and it really wasn't close. He was the guy for
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  Speaker 4: Mississippi State behind Kamario Taylor, and it wasn't that those
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  Speaker 4: guys were terrible, that they came in and they didn't perform.
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  Speaker 4: It was that Billy was just better. If you look
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  Speaker 4: at some of the social media clips during the summer
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  Speaker 4: of the big plays that they were making at training
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  Speaker 4: camp and making in the scrimmage, a lot of those
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  Speaker 4: plays were off the arm of Billy Puckett. He can
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  Speaker 4: throw it, man. He can spin it. He can run
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  Speaker 4: this offense. Now, is he Kamario Taylor? Absolutely not. Am
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  Speaker 4: I going to sit here and tell you if he
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  Speaker 4: is starting on Saturday, the Mississippi State is going to
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  Speaker 4: go to Death Valley and win? No, I cannot with
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  Speaker 4: a straight face tell you that. What I can tell
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  Speaker 4: you is that the staff has confidence in him. The
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  Speaker 4: players around him have confidence in him. And quite frankly,
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  Speaker 4: I have confidence in him that he can go out
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  Speaker 4: there and run the offense and not completely fall apart.
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  Speaker 4: He has the tools that he can do that. So
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  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. I'll tell you this. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's more healthy than Kamoria right now. If you're wanting
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  Speaker 4: a guy that can get out of the pocket right
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  Speaker 4: now and move a little bit, He can do that.
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  Speaker 4: If you are just dead set on having a guy
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  Speaker 4: that can move around and escape the pocket, Billy Puckett
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  Speaker 4: can do that right now. He can make some throws.
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  Speaker 4: He can make throws downfield in.
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  Speaker 3: Those big plays.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see how it plays out. I have confidence in
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  Speaker 4: him going into that situation and being able to run
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  Speaker 4: the offense, but it's still concerning because he's never really
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  Speaker 4: done it before on this level and especially not at
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  Speaker 4: a place like death Valley. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the good thing is you get that game early
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  Speaker 2: in the day.
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  Speaker 1: It's not at night and, you know, Mississippi state is
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  Speaker 1: very familiar with the quarterback. They're going to roll out
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  Speaker 1: and see on Saturday played in the last two years
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  Speaker 1: and Sam Levitt. So you got to like Zach Arnett's
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  Speaker 1: chances and look, LSU has looked good at times, bad
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  Speaker 1: at times.
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  Speaker 2: You got to credit Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they rolled up, rolled all the dice on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and they went for two and won the ball game.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this is an LSU team that's reeling
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 4: This is going to be Lane Kiffin's worst team. And
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  Speaker 4: we can make jokes about Lane Kiffin. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure the Ole Miss fans are loving it. And
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  Speaker 4: quite frankly, most of us are loving it because we
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  Speaker 4: get to see a guy that's been talking trash and
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  Speaker 4: been getting away with stuff actually get some comeuppance, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for once. Or for once in, you know, the every
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  Speaker 4: now and then that he gets it back. But I
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  Speaker 4: think this is going to be his worst team. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it would be foolish to think that he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be worse moving forward. You know, the guy knows how
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  Speaker 4: to run a program. He knows how to recruit, knows
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  Speaker 4: how to build a roster. He's going to be better.
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  Speaker 4: But this team is not where he wants it to
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  Speaker 4: be yet. I mean, they don't have– I mean, Sam Leavitt,
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  Speaker 4: I was kind of surprised that was their guy, especially,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Lane Kiffin, because I don't– I've watched him play.
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  Speaker 4: I watched him play twice against Mississippi State. Neither time
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  Speaker 4: did I come away with that overly impressed. There's some
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  Speaker 4: things that he can do really well. There are his strengths,
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  Speaker 4: but he certainly has his weaknesses as well. And that
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  Speaker 4: is holding him back a little bit in this offense.
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  Speaker 4: But he's made some big-time plays too. And they have
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  Speaker 4: players on that team. They are still very talented. But
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  Speaker 4: they are also... right now injured and trying to fill holes,
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  Speaker 4: and there's some holes they didn't fill in the transfer portal,
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  Speaker 4: there's still some question marks with this team. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if State can go in there with the position
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  Speaker 4: that they're in and go win that game, but I
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  Speaker 4: certainly don't look at this LSU team and think national
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  Speaker 4: championship contender after what we've seen the last four weeks.
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  Speaker 4: First week, yeah, that looked like a team that was
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  Speaker 4: real deal. But since then, it's been very up and down.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Rob, before we let you go, tell everybody about State 1878.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: We wanted to come see you. It should be a
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: great weekend coming up. And, of course, Mississippi State with
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: that 2.30 ball game or 3.30 ball game next week
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: back at home against Oklahoma.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And we'll visit with you before then.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're doing some great things over there at State 1878,
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: so come check us out. We've got great video content, podcasts,
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: written content, message board component.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: We're doing events.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: We're going to be at the Nate Bargatze concert on Thursday,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: so come see us. uh, Thursday for that event, um,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: before the show. Uh, we're just really excited doing some
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: great things and, um, we hope that you come join us.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And, uh, you can tell everybody, no Billy says
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: pool lives over at state 1878.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: We have not been called out just yet by any coaches,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: but we'll see how that goes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you, brother. Have a good week, man.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Robbie fog, eight state 1878, uh, as he is on
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: with us tonight. And, uh, we're going to get Brad
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Logan in here momentarily as, uh, Let me tee this
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: up and get Brad in here. And there we go.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Brad, thank you so much. I know it's been a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: busy day for you. I appreciate you, brother.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: How are you? Man, I'm doing great. And I really
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: enjoyed that conversation with Robbie. And I'm fascinated with the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: game this weekend between Mississippi State and LSU on a
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: number of levels. I know during Jeff Libby's press availability
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: this morning, he did not say that Camario would or
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: would not be available. He did say, wait until when
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys talked about it. I caught the
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: tail end of the conversation, wait till Wednesday to the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: availability report. So I'm waiting like everybody else because with
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Camario Taylor, Mississippi state's completely different team. So I'm excited
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: to watch that game on Saturday for sure.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: There's no doubt.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I'll ask you the same question I led with Robbie because,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you know, much like Robbie, you and Ben, y'all do
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: a great job of the Ole Miss spirit.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Um, I'm sure you saw Mike Elko attack Texags over
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the weekend. Um, That never goes well.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I know we've got social media, but message boards are
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a little different because you've got people that are paying
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: them money. They want access. They want to be able
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to chime in on their opinions. They want to get
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: those notes like you guys give out great notes, I'm sure,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: to your subscribers on things that maybe you don't get
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: on a normal Facebook page or X page. How bad
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: of a miscalculation was that for Mike Elko to attack
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Texags over the weekend?
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Well, anytime that happens, you know that an apology is
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: probably going to follow. That's exactly what happened in the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: media availability with Mike Yoko. I think it was today
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: or yesterday. And it never goes well. And anytime you
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: start turning on your fans, and regardless of what the
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: situation is, that just means there's a level of frustration
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: going on with your program. And when you lash out
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: at people like that, I don't care what kind of
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: business you're in, if you lash out the people that
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: are paying your bills, it's probably not going to go
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: well for you in the end. And that's kind of
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: what we saw with Mike Yoko. Look, he's frustrated. He
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: had a lot of pomp and circumstance coming into the season.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I know I was one person that was really pushing
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Texas A & M with what we read. I thought
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: they kind of figured some things out defensively, and it
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: has not gone well at all. And, you know, Texas
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: A & M, Jake, as you know, it's a program
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: that digs back to, you know, you're talking about Kevin Sumlin,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: you fast forward what they've been able to do, hiring
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Jimbo Fisher, firing him and paying him like an absorbent
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: amount of money to just go away. Then you feel like, wait,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: maybe Mike Yelko has figured it out and had the
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: one good year. And obviously he's got a lot of
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: things going wrong. But here's the thing. This is a much,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: much bigger issue than just Texas A & M. You've
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: got an SEC that's got one and two, which I
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: think that's Alabama and Georgia. Then you've got everybody else.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: And then you've got Arkansas and Vanderbilt.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: And then maybe throw in another team or two there.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Everybody else can beat everybody else. And we'll see who
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: else might can beat Alabama and Georgia. That's yet to
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: be determined. But I'm fascinated to see how the rest
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: of the season shakes out. We'll learn a lot. about
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss and Missouri because, to me, this is de
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: facto college football playoff game. The loser's going to the house.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I don't think the winner or the loser of this
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: game could bounce back and run the table. The same
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: could be said for Missouri. So the good news for
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss, you get it at home. I mean, the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: home field advantage has been huge when you talk about
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: that middle-of-the-road SEC team, kind of where Ole Miss kind
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: of hangs out. I mean, some may argue that they're
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: at the upper edge of that middle road, and I
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: get that. Maybe they're the third or fourth best team.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I think Missouri's up there too. And so a lot
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: of that will shake out. The same can be said.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: We'll know a lot about Mississippi State and LSU. If
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Mississippi State goes to LSU and wins, then all of
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: a sudden you've got Mississippi State up there because they've
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: beaten Missouri, depending on what happens to them in Ole Miss,
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: and they would have beaten LSU. So I think you've
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: got Mississippi State kind of hanging out. They've got a
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: tough road at the back half of their schedule, too.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: So a lot of unanswered questions over the next couple
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: of weeks. If you're just a couch potato, Jake, and
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: you have no vested interest in this, and you're just
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: a dude from insert school here in the south and
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: you watch SEC football, this has to be the most
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: enjoyable SEC season you ever had. You've got nine conference games.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of fluidity in the middle. There's a
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: lot of competition in the middle. There's so many teams
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: that are a lot like each other. And no one
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: can really separate themselves so far, so it's got to
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun just for the average football watcher.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: No, I would agree.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I felt like Saturday was awesome. This past Saturday, Saturday
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: night was fun, and this Saturday will be as well.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: All right, so.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Takeaways from Ole Miss getting back on the field at
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt before we get to Missouri.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you look at what Ole Miss did
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: and what happened Saturday in Nashville was much more about
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Ole Miss than it was about Vanderbilt. winning in all
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: three phases of the game. It's almost like I talked
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: with Ben this afternoon. It's a bit like a roller
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: coaster for Ole Miss so far. You've got the hump
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: of LSU and dealing with that whole whirlwind of Lane Kiffin.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: When you get over that, then you just completely plummet
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and try to rebound after that awful experience in Florida.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Now you come back out on top. And I feel
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: like coming out of that, Jake, I'd love your thoughts
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: on this. It feels like after LSU, you're like, yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that's Lane's old team. They got mad and they beat him.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Then you've got Florida. You're like, what team is this?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: It feels like, to me, with Trinidad Chambliss, with John
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: David Baker's offense and kind of Pete Golding's defense kind
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: of resurfacing in Nashville, it feels like this is Pete
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Golding's team now moving forward. Watching the team and kind
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: of watching some of those mannerisms, the press room was
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: right off of the locker room, so I was kind
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: of standing there watching the team, kind of leaned in
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: where the locker room was. It feels like it's much
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: more of a camaraderie. It feels like this was a
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: bit of a bloodletting from kind of washing away the
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Florida game, the LSU game. I feel like if there's any,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: you know, if this makes any sense at all, I
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: feel like this team is much more Pete Golding's team
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: than it was a couple of weeks ago, simply because
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: it feels like they came together in Nashville. They kind
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: of righted some wrongs. They played much better in all
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: facets of the game and just completely demolished Vanderbilt. That
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: was kind of my takeaway.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I said all year long leading
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: into the season that, you know, I felt like Ole
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Miss would be up to play LSU, regardless of what
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: happened with the LSU game. I wanted to see Ole
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Miss the next week. How would they respond? You know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: coming off emotional high against Florida, obviously that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Didn't go the way they wanted it to. So to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: get back on track, I think, I think you're right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, you just kind of take the off week,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you put it all behind you and now the rest
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of the season, you know, you'll play it forward.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And I think there'll be, there'll be fine.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Speaking of being fine, Missouri comes to town this week.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, Austin Simmons comes back to Oxford. What do you
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: see when you see Missouri?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I see a really good football team and it's not
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: the type of team I really anticipated in seeing at
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the year. And that just tells me
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: how much better Mississippi state is because they beat this
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Missouri team in Starfield not long ago. That was with a,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: obviously a fresh Camario Taylor. And so, just so many
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: layers of the onion in the SEC, and that's what
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: makes it all so much fun. But this Missouri team
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: is really a fun team to watch, I think. I mean,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I think they're kind of the darling of the SEC
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: right now. Eli Drinkwitz is kind of the dude that
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: kind of hangs out, takes a jab here and there,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: but he's backed it up so far. I mean, Missouri
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: is a Mississippi State. Did that game go to OT?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: No, that one did not.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: It was close at the end, if I remember correctly.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: They're one win from Starfield away from being undefeated and
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: maybe top two or three teams in the country. They're
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: clicking on all cylinders. They have destroyed Florida. They destroyed
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: South Carolina. They beat. They lost to Mississippi State. But
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: how good is Missouri? I mean, I think they're good.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I think they're pretty good. But then again, they got–
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I think Mississippi State's really good, but then without Camario.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: There's so many unanswered questions. I think Missouri is good.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: We'll learn a lot on Saturday. I think Austin Simmons
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: is going to have a lot of pressure come his
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: way after what I saw against– with Vanderbilt and Ole
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Miss last week with Blake Purchase, Jonathan Maldonado coming off
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the edge, Cam Franklin kind of hitting his stride a
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: little bit, Sunterra Perkins. They're going to dial up the pressure,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: judging by what I saw this past Saturday. So I
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: think Simmons will have some of that. But he's really
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: good in the pocket. He's really good at spinning the football.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I like what they're doing offensively with him, making him
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: have a really good pocket. I am questioning a little
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: bit about their defense. We'll see how good that defense is.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: But Caden Lee is going to get his. He is
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: the one player that I told people today, of all
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: the people that transferred out, including Prince William Amiel and T.J. Dottery,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Caden Lee– He's the one. He's the one I think
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: that Ole Miss is going to miss the most, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to get his on Saturday. The
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: question is, will it be enough to beat Ole Miss?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a close one. I mean,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Vegas has it, I think, right now at six and
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a half. I expect that to come down. It's going
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to be a beautiful day. It shouldn't be any weather
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: at all. 72 and sunny in Oxford. It should be
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: a beautiful day for football. So I'm really excited about
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: the game. History, as you know, Jake, has not been
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: kind to Ole Miss when they played Missouri. The Tigers
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: have had Ole Miss' number dating back to when they
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: went and played Missouri. Back in 05, I think, when
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Ed Ogeron was a coach in Columbia. They returned that trip,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I think, in 06 in Oxford when it was a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: torrential downpour. Lost both those games. History has not been
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: kind to Ole Miss when it's faced Missouri. So they've
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: got that to kind of deal with. At the end
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: of the day, it's all about Austin Simmons versus Trinidad Chambas.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And as long as Ole Miss has number six, they're
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: going to have a little bit of an advantage over
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: teams like Missouri.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And I've got Ole Miss winning a close game on Saturday. And,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you know, when you look– and I think you said
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: it right. I mean, it really is a kind of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: a college football playoff elimination game. And the reason being
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is not necessarily because the SEC, it's just when you
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: look what's going on around the country. Take Iowa, for instance.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, Iowa beats– they lose to Ohio State. They
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: beat Washington. They've got an opportunity with an easier schedule.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You look into the Big 12, there's going to be
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: two or three teams that run off a lot of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: wins there. So the committee is going to have their
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: hands full with nine and ten win teams.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: And you don't trust the committee, right? Nobody does.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, nobody trusts the committee to say, oh, well,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss or Kentucky or Mississippi State sitting at nine
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and three, they deserve to be in based on strength
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of schedule. So each and every week is absolutely this
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: point forward throughout the league is going to be, you know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: some sort of a playoff game, I think, in the league.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I have no doubt, Jake. And you can quote me
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: here on October the 12th on this beautiful Monday night
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the good Lord has given us. There'll be a nine team,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: nine and three team make the college football playoff. And
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: I think it'll probably be in the SEC because they're
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the team there. They're the conference is going to have
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: the most difficult strength of schedule. They're the conference is
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: going to have a win over Texas or win over
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Georgia or win over Alabama or insert win here. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: then they're going to have a good a good loss
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to an Alabama, Texas or Georgia. And I think. In
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: order for Ole Miss to get to the college football playoff,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I think they're probably going to go 9-3. I'm not
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: deviating from that. As well as Ole Miss played against Vanderbilt,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I said Ole Miss needed to be 5-1 after the
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: first six games. I think they're going to drop two more,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: whether it be Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Mississippi State, Missouri. Out
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: of those five games, I think Ole Miss is going
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: to drop a couple. So that gets them to 9-3.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: The question remains, if Ole Miss beats Georgia, they've beaten LSU,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: and that would have mean they would have beaten Texas
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: or Georgia. Oklahoma on the road, is that enough to
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: get them in the playoff if they lose to Mississippi
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: State or if they lose to Missouri or whatever? Is
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: the Missouri loss bad? Is the Mississippi State loss bad?
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: It all depends on who you win and, most importantly,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: who you lose to. Is 9-3 going to be good enough?
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Depends on who Ole Miss beats. If they can beat Georgia,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: that's their biggest shot. They've got that arrow in the bucket.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: If they can get Georgia at home, somehow lose a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: couple more, I think Ole Miss has a great chance
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: at 9-3. Without a Georgia win, which they're number one
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: in the country right now, I don't know if a
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: win over Texas, Oklahoma, or Missouri and going 9-3 will
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: get you to the playoff. I do feel like with
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: their strength of schedule, If Ole Miss goes 10-2, regardless
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: of who the loss is to down the stretch, I
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: think Ole Miss is in at that point.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Brad, tell everybody where they can get your work. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: know you guys are going to be all over it
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: and busy this week.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, excited about our pregame show from 11 to 12,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: 30 at the Ole Miss Alumni Association. We'll have the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Talk of Champions Live outside the Ole Miss Alumni Association
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: near the Grove. So I invite everybody to come by
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and say hello. If not, we'll be streaming on all
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: of our social platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and, of course, YouTube.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And also you can follow us at our YouTube channel.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: That's at Ole Miss T-O-C, or it's actually Talk of
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Champions O-M. And then, of course, at the Ole Miss Spirit.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: That's an affiliate of all three at omspirit.com.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Brad, appreciate you, brother.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: We'll do it again soon.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Always, Jay. Thank you. Thank you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Brad Logan talking all things Ole Miss tonight as we
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: move along here on your broadcast. And, of course, we've
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: got a couple more things we'll get to real quickly
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: before we get out of here.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: We told you about the eyeball test.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Also, my weekly now from here on college football playoff
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: predictor poll. Let me put that up here and show
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: you who I have, at least today, on the college
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: football playoff predictor poll. And this is based on analytics
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff the committee uses. But based
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: on the predictor poll, no state bands. I do not
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: have state in the top 20. I've got them right
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: outside the 20. Georgia, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and Miami
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: as your best.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Four in the college football world.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Followed by Alabama, Indiana, Ole Miss, Texas, Kentucky, Utah, BYU, UCLA,
• 31:01
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  Speaker 1: And then SMU. So you can see by the records
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