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Bulldogs vs. Bama: Can State Pull Off the Upset at Home? · Johnny's World

• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: All right, welcome back to a brand new episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's Johnny here with my co-host BW on another victory week after a big win on Saturday.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: How's it going, BW?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's going great, Johnny.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Just uh pumped up about this weekend, kind of nervous about it.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh been going back, watching some stuff from the game this past weekend.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm not sure who did it.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: It was like kind of like a recap of the whole game.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: And they had Phil Collins playing in the background.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Have you seen that video?
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: No, I have not.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, but I'm gonna send it to you.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Is it in the air tonight?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so it's like kind of it's long, it's a long video.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, it's like the the last drive and everything, kind of like Crescindos.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really cool.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Cool.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'd have to see that, man, for sure.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we'll have to get some stay smooth shirts too.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: You sent me uh sent me some of that.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh love it, love it.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: I was watching that.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh man, I love Camario.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: He's just uh so, anyways, doing good, doing good.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was uh stacking up wins, man.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, I thought after we got down, the atmosphere was awesome, man.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was rocking.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was, you know, we had talked about that last week.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: I was the first top 25 matchup there since 2017, and it lived up to the hype, man.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was the only seats I could see that were still empty were on the east side upper deck.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: There were a few empty seats up there, but other than that, the whiteout made it look just slam packed.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, it was it was rocking.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: The atmosphere was off the chain.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Just we get we start off hot.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking we're gonna blow them out, and then uh and then we let them get back in, then they take the lead.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: And at halftime, right before halftime, we we get down there and get zero points out of the deal.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh, this is not good.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then they take the lead in the in the second half.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I thought they were about to go up two scores on us and done that.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, there's no way we're gonna be able to come back.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: But man, we came back again and uh it's two weeks in a row down uh down to an SEC opponent, and we came back and got the win, and that was the first victory at Davis Wade in four years against his SEC team.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: So finally got that monkey off the back and and uh beat a beat a good top 25 Missouri team.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: It stinks that we didn't go.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we we went up to what number 16 in the polls, but I mean, uh I'm and they were ranked uh I think they're still ranked, but you know, just because of who we are, is we have to find our way, fight our way back.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: We're not the name brand like Bama and like Kirk Herb Street.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: You you probably saw that.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: He's always picking up picking against us, and and I'll see you.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: He picked against us again.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: He picked us, yeah.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, bring it on, man.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't pick us, don't pick us.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: I want you to pick against us every time, and we'll show you wrong.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: This guy's had us out for us for years.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: I remember in 2014 when we had game day there.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: He he was the only one on the set that picked Auburn to win that game.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_01: So he's always had it out for some reason.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Then he went on ESPN and cried after the bowl game with Mike Leach uh first year when we got in a fight with the players.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Remember that?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, This is a black guy, the college football might cry.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, dude, what the heck?
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why he hates Mississippi State.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: But I think actually, I think I I thought about this.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: I think I might know why.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: I think he was buddies of Craig James.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: And you remember who Craig James was?
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: The guy who signed that Leech put in the Yeah, so I think that might have something to do with it.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: But uh he he has it out for us, but you know what?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: I love it, man.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Just keep proving him wrong, proving all the all the national people that doubting is um wrong.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's all you can do.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, it was really impressive.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: They came back and Kamaria.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I thought he had an alright game, and then I looked at the stats, he threw for 360 yards.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: So one of those things, like you're like, wow, he really put up that many yards, and you don't think that he uh fluffed Bothwell, man.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: It was just like unreal, man.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Really, really good.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: And then he got heard, and then I'm what a what a warrior that guy is, and got back in there.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, you know, BW, I someone I saw this, I was like, before you go to bed each night, man, you need to fluff your pillows, and someone asks you, did you fluff them?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Say, I fluffed them both well.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Fluff those pillows, man.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Fluff both of them, both of them, you gotta fluff them well, both well.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Man, watching that on TV, like when he got hurt, um, you know, he was he's trying to get up, and like you could tell he was like, No, I don't want these guys to help me.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, he's like standing up and he's like trying to walk, and then he like kind of puts his arm around the other ones, and and and you can tell on his face, he's like, No, I'm like, and finally he just like takes off and kind of like starts jogging off.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and uh that dude is so tough.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's so tough, man.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Reminds me of like JJ Johnson back in the late 90s, just tough running back guy that can't can't knock him down.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was really good.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then I mean feel like we got a star quarterback, star running back, and star wide receiver.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's just uh unreal.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: Like Anthony Evans, that catch he made, probably one of the greatest catches at Mississippi State football at Davis Wade.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah, the way he stretched out and and got that ball, that was just unbelievable catch.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, it was it was awesome, man.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: It was really, really, really cool.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to the to the university too that they made uh I wish the Bama game would be at night so you could see it, but they had all the light shows in full effect, man.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the lasers, that looked awesome.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_01: Lasers, all that sort of stuff.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was it looked really, really good.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: And uh just the fact that that you win the game makes it even makes it more special.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we're sitting at 4-0 in BW, we were four and oh last year.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah and then the wheels kind of fell off.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I know in our preseason prediction, I had us going four and oh, and they had us drop in four in a row.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: But uh, and I know you had us losing Missouri but beating Bama, but man, I I really don't know what to think right now.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's really, really kind of surreal to see how good we're playing.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: But uh Yeah, I mean I was I was more nervous about this Missouri game than any other game.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think partially because I thought I wanted us to both be undefeated going into this game.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then I thought we had a chance at game day.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't look at the schedule, I should have realized if uh Iowa and Michigan or Iowa and Ohio State would get it since it's been the SEC past two weeks.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: And but I just like all this was at stake, man.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, gosh, if we lose this game, like I just felt so terrible.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's so funny because like I want to win this week, but I'm not near as nervous about it.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like winning that that top 25 SEC game, like got the monkey off her back, like yeah, playing with house money at this point.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like it just feels I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy it now.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that Iowa game, man.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of I think that was karma for Michigan for them cheating and winning that game earlier in the year.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they kind of got it got back to them.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm kind of had it glad it happened, but then uh I'm kind of mad that that happened because they took us away.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: But then again, like you just said, uh, I don't know if they do an SEC uh game again, but uh that definitely gave them a reason not to come.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: But SEC Nation will be here, that'll be cool.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um I just hate the uh hope the weather can hold off.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Um looks like it might have some rain in the forecast.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, uh Bama, I just don't know, BW.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know you you picked us to win earlier.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you still feeling that way, or what are your thoughts?
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you mine.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Johnny, I don't know.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I I'm kind of worried about it a little bit too.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: I think partially because Alabama's been playing better.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um I mean they dominated South Carolina, but South Carolina's kind of imploding too.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I think we uh we may have levied them uh like crew or something, you know.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um they they didn't look the same.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: And um Bama really played like their first like real completed game start to finish.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, they didn't let them hang around at all, really.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: And um then their quarterback is good, and um, you know, their Bama.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: I I I feel I feel better about it than I normally would, but for some reason I've just got this feeling in the back of my mind that it might it may not turn out.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um it may not be close even.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I I feel like I feel like if we if we play like we're supposed to and we don't have you know the line blocks and I don't know anything about Isaac Smith yet.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: We had a lot of penalties last uh weekend and Missouri did too, but just kind of cut out these penalties, false stars and all this stupid stuff, like can't have penalties, gotta have a perfect game if you want to beat somebody like Bowen.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and if fluff is a hundred percent, I don't know.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and and Isaac Smith, I hadn't heard anything on injury report today.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so there's a lot of things working against us that I'm a little worried about.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: But if we were at 100% and the line plays like they've played and they and they're blocking for Camario, and and I think Camario, like we've said before, he's the X Factor.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um if he has time, if we can run the ball a little bit, I think we can hang in there.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: But it could I could also see it not going well and it could get away from us, you know, kind of quickly.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: I I I think in the first quarter we're gonna find out what happens.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I'm gonna keep the faith, Johnny.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think it maybe is gonna be a little bit lower scoring game than we've had.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I see something like 28-21.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: We take it.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you think we take it?
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Will we tear down the goal post if we if we if we take it?
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: You haven't beaten Bama since 2007.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta tear down the goal post.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta do it.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but man, I uh I just don't think it's gonna happen.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: I picked Bama to win in the preseason, and uh I'm gonna stick with that because I think uh I think Keelon Russell, I believe is his name, the quarterback for Bama.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's he's up there with Camario.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think he's a dual threat guy and really good.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: And like you said, Bama in the past week, they've been it seems like each week they're getting bit better each week, and they just destroyed South Carolina.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: And Florida State, I remember when I turned it on a couple weeks ago, Florida State had a lead on Bama.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh man, look at this.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then Bama just turned it on to neck uh next gear and just freaking destroyed them.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I think we'll I think the rain's gonna, uh if it rains, I think that's gonna play in a factor too uh to keep it from being like a shootout, uh throwing the throwing the ball and all that stuff, because I can see it being a shootout, but with the rain, I think it's gonna be more of a run game.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um and like you said, it depends on Fluff's health.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: If he's healthy in the line can block and everything, I think we have a have a chance.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, just there's a statement has not, I mean, there's they've given me no reason to pick them against Bama.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: They haven't beaten him in over 20 years, um almost 20 years, and I just don't see why.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_01: I know everybody's like, oh, that was Saban's team, and but man, they're still Alabama.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I I don't know.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: I just uh I'm not gonna do it.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh BW, I was thinking, I was like, I think I know where this where this season is going towards.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like uh I feel like right now uh that I I think we're gonna drop it to Bama.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: Then we got that open egg, which is good, and then we got LSU, and uh and we got that at Tiger Stand in the morning.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: I still think we'll drop that one, but at Oklahoma, I think that I think we can beat them.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: They're not they don't seem to be as good.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: And then I think we drop Texas, and then I think we have a chance of winning the rest.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that's like uh, you know, finishing eight and four possibly or nine and three, which is which is really, really good compared to what we had going into it.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: But now if things go our way and we get the win against Bama, and somehow we slip flip up and beat LSU in the in the uh in the morning at the Tigers Stadium, and and we get we've finished with one or two losses.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: Man, we're in the playoffs.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: That's hard to believe.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: Hard to even talk about.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, we all know we all know that's probably not not gonna happen, but it's wishful thinking.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: But I I do think right now, as the season ends, I think we'll finish eight and four, which, hey, and then get a bowl game, try to get nine wins, which would be great.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: But I just don't see us winning this game.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh, I think it could, like you said, I think it might be a close game for a little while, but I think Batman pulls away, and I don't think it's close in the fourth quarter.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: I think they win by by a couple touchdowns.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I'm gonna say uh something like I do think uh I was gonna say a shootout like 40-something points, but I think I think the weather might might derail that from happening.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm with you, man.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's gonna be something like uh, I'll say like uh uh 35, 35, uh 24, something like that.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'll I'll say that about 10, 10, 11 points or so.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I do think that uh we'll we'll have a chance in the game.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: We're done that like last year, even with last year's team.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: We we we were in those games at the end.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: I still think we have a fighting chance, and what this is the best chance if we're ever gonna beat Ben, this is the best chance to do it.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: Got them at home or riding with this high motion, got Camario.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but it's just you got to stop them and you gotta have clean, clean game.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: We had a bunch of penalties uh the other night, so did Missouri, but gotta fit gotta clean those up.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Lions gotta protect, fluff's gotta be healthy.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: We've got to have a perfect game if we're gonna win.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Perfect game.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_01: And uh which we're which we could do it.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you can't can't you cannot count out Camario Taylor, man.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: He is a he has Nick Saban said, the truth and the light, man.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's he's the real deal, and it's only gonna get better with him.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um he's only 19 years old, so really excited.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: I watched that documentary you were telling me about uh on YouTube the other night, had like talked about Omar Connor and he was up there and and and his family.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: I love it how all these people like on game day last week.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Nick Nick Saban's like, yeah, if I was a coach, I'd be trying to reach out to Amario and get him in the portal.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, dude, no, he ain't going nowhere.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you watch that documentary and read everything he said about Mississippi State, he is a Bulldog through and through.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, money talks, but Mississippi State will weigh him heavily.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he wants to be part of the turnaround, and he is right here where he needs to be.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: There's a cool image of him and his brother praying before the game.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: He wouldn't celebrate with his brother afterwards.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, brothers on the team, he's right down the road.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is where he this is where this is him.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: This is uh Camaro Taylor is Mississippi State football.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: And and I can see him uh staying here and being very, very successful.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I love it.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: All the naysayers out there in the national media thinking he's gonna go somewhere, very similar to Josh Hubbard.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, they all thought he was gonna go to Kentucky or somewhere.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: But uh loyalty, man, it's very rare these days.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I've I feel like Kamara is a loyal guy and and he wants to be part of something special, and he's he's doing it.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: So uh of course we'll we'll Andy up and pay him and keep him on board.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: But um I think he I think having him on our team, you know, looking at the Heisman Trophy race, he's still in every single Heisman Trophy race.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: You see, he's like one or two, which is just unreal.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, if we lose this week, we'll probably fall down.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: But but the fact that he's right now at 19 years old this early in the season, way up in the poles in the Heisman trophy, that's just unreal.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then Ole Miss, man, you know, uh they they got smoked by Florida and uh Florida, I'm I'm thinking.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, top 10.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Unranked at the top 10.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's kind of like us in uh 2014.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: I remember we were unranked, and then we kept beating all those teams and just climbing up the poles right and left and get all the way up top.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: But man, Florida, they made a great hire, I think, with John Summerall.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Really good coach.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and and and the running back ball is he's just uh he's on the Osman list and really, really good.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: And but Ole Miss defense, man, suscepti uh is very uh succept susceptible, I guess I'm saying uh they're they're just uh not as what we thought, you know.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Let me go back for a second to this Missouri game.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: And just one thing to think about when we think about how we feel about the playing Bama.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I think I texted you, it was it was during maybe the first quarter when we were up 14 to nothing, maybe.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um and we they they pinned us back, um, had the ball, we were like back on our five, and we get it, they throw a first down.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um we get a first down, we're up on the 25 or 30, but it gets called back for offensive pass interference.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah um that was a horrible call.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at that, that was if anything, it could have been holding, it could have been holding on the return, which uh you're you know, on the pass or whatever, which I believe would have still been a first down.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: I think if we get a first down there and we go and score on that drive, go up 21 to nothing, um it could have been a different ball game at that point.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: And we you know, we kind of left the door open.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Drinkowitz is a good coach, and Missouri's, I mean, Austin Simmons is good.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: We left the door open, started making some mistakes, Camario wasn't playing as well at that point.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: But it if it would have kept rolling like it did in the Minnesota game, um we'd be feeling a little bit differently about this week.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, you're right, you're right.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: 100%.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, if we jumped off 21-0, man, you know, it would be hard for them to get back in the game.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, yeah, right, we'd be feeling a whole lot different.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I just don't uh I don't know.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be uh it'll be interesting.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hopefully we'll we'll shock the world and all the naysayers out there uh and get the win.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: But but yeah, uh going back to that for me.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't I watched part of it and then watched some of the rest of it and just it was glad to see Ole Miss get beat down like that.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: With after all, I feel like I feel like the tide is kind of turning a little bit.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they've been so in control of this rivalry for the past few years, and we needed a day.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: I thought it was gonna be last week uh when LSU, I thought LSU was gonna beat them, and we beat South Carolina, it was swapped, uh switched there, and but um they got that win, and I guess LSU, but but I feel like the tide is turning.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I know Dan Mullen said one time in 2009 after the eggball, there's only one team in the state that's on the rise, is here at Mississippi State.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I feel like that could be happening right now.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: I think Ole Miss defense, like I just said, is not is not good.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like Golding is going to be a Zach Garnett 2.0 hire as a head coach, and they're gonna be disappointed.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I see them dropping a bunch of games.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: So with that being said, let me talk about Zach Arnett.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: What a hire that was for Levy.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, just total difference from Coleman Hustler defense, uh, which was just one of the worst it ever had.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: And Zach Arnett coming on board and just that guy, he was he was kind of like when I'm talking about going.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like uh Arnett was over his head, inexperienced, didn't need to be a head coach, but that guy is a defensive coordinator.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: That is his bread and butter.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: He knows, I mean, he's he's a defensive coach, and he's showing showing why he's good right now and firing on all cylinders.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: The defense is looking great.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh really excited that that he's back uh at Mississippi State.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: I love that guy.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I was watching something a couple weeks ago and they had a video.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: Somebody was talking to Camario, and they're in the they're in the building there, and they're talking about watching the Avengers.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And he's talking about how he's watching the Avengers.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: He watches it like every day.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um really?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so, yes, it I'll have to see if I can find it.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: But he watches it literally every day.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: And he's talking about why he watches it.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: He was gonna watch it during the team dinner or something like that.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so he like turns to walk away.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he says his classic, like, have a good night, ma'am, or whatever he says.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: And uh he's wearing his Spongebob backpack.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: I saw the Spongebob backpack walking down the hall, and he passes Arnett.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: Arnett passes him.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, Hey Coach Arnett, and Arnett says, Hey, and just like keeps going, man.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, just classic, like Arnett, just like like nothing bothers him at all.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, exactly.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing bothers him, man.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: He he's a straight ball, man.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: That's all he wants to talk about is football.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, then cut out all the other BS, man.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh he's just a straight football coach.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I love it.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: I love it, man.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: The image of him and Levy at the at the end of the game, uh, because both of those guys have been through it, man, ever since Leech died.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: And it's just been downhill with Mississippi State football and Arnett, uh, what he had to deal with, and then Levy two years ago only winning two games and then dropping all those games last year to finally have a have a big win like that against the SEC opponent.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know they were just uh just thrilled and I was happy for both of them for that moment.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but like we said, it's just uh uh take it one game at a time, and and right now you gotta take care of Bama.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: But in the big scheme of things, if we drop drop it to Bama, like I think we might.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's not the end of the world.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got to off week next week to re refocus and uh before we head down to down to LSU.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: But I like our chances of uh of not dropping four in a row like I predicted in the preseason after winning corner.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I like our chances now after what we've seen and everything.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: I think we can hang, and I don't think I don't think many of these games are gonna be blowouts.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I really don't.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um and you got to feel a little better about the LSU matchup, just seeing seeing how old miss beat them, and then how old miss got beat by Florida.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um Right.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Well they play in Florida.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: And they but they they took care of uh AM.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I don't know.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, maybe they're not I mean, like we said before, Levitt's not really that great.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: And so you know, maybe you don't if you don't take Bama, maybe you get a chance to beat LSU.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you see where uh Landry's boyfriend, Wit Weeks, is out for the season, broke his leg.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, saw that.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a that's a hit to their defense because he's not their best defensive player linebacker.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, we have we have plenty of opportunities ahead of us.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: So uh I would just love it though if we shocked the world and beat Bama.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, like can you imagine if we win that game going into bye week and we don't have to play next week?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: And it would just be already the talk's all over about Camario, but he would be he would solidify him as.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Is the number one husband candidate right now and just the whole world, even Herb Street.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: But hey, can't be like Jonathan Graves, Herb Street.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: You're not jumping on the bandwagon.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to see you talking of Mississippi State.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to see you picking Mississippi State.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: You've been a hater for years.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: We want you to keep hating on us.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: So uh that's right.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, don't pick us.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Don't pick us.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Don't, don't, no, no, no.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: We know where you stand.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we'll see what Saban says this week, though.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Saban, uh I thought it was funny that I was looking at the sports talk Mississippi this week and they were going off on him about his comments about how he was saying uh if I was a coach, I'd be in the portal, getting trying to get Kamara to get in the portal when he's like Mr.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: College football going to Congress and all that stuff, kind of be in the face of college football, talking about how tampering is bad and all that sort of stuff and cheating and all that.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then here he is on national TV talking about trying to get Kamara good in the portal.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's pretty hypocritical, which I thought was kind of funny.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I just uh I like I like our chances with with with Kamaria.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think it's hilarious that all these people think he's gonna leave and and uh and all these people doubting us, man.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what we like, man.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we like.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Seems like we do better when seems like we do better in all sports when they pick against us rather than when we're sitting up pretty high in the rankings.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: We we seem to always falter.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: So uh keep keep hating, keep hating.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: And uh starble versus everybody, man.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's the theme of the year, I guess.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: And that's got truth starble versus everybody.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: So we look at it.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Is it gonna be like the Auburn game in 2014?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_00: It rained on that game too.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Sure it is, sure it did.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: It rained on that game, but then it rained and then it got cleared the rest of the game.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So it did.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: It did.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: It was a sunny day, and then it got and then it rained, and then it you're right, it cleared up.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, so that would be uh, and it was a day game as well.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we'll see, that would be a good uh good uh good thing to happen.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but we gotta stop that quarterback, uh Russell for Alabama.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um there, he's he seems to be really good.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we talk about that every year.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: Alabama always seems to have like no one knows who their players are at the beginning of the year.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: They don't know their, we don't know their quarterbacks always, who's it gonna be?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: We know it might be between these two guys.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then by the end of the year, they're in the hospital race.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Seems like that happens all the time, man.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: And sure enough, it's happening again.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: This guy's this guy's making a name of himself.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but I do think it's gonna be a pretty cool uh showdown between him and Camario, two of the best quarterbacks in the in the in the country, uh going at it.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yep, and hopefully it'll be loud.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I hate the games where 11 a.m.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: don't seem to seem to be loud, but hey man, the last time we beat Alabama at home, the last time we beat Alabama, period, was in 2007, and that game was an 11 a.m.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: game.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: So there you go.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well there that's riding for us right there.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that was Nick Saban's first year as head coach of Alabama and and Sylvester Kroom and Mississippi State knocked him out.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: And the first year is 11 a.m.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: game.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: So uh maybe this 11 a.m.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: game will be good for us, and we can take care of business.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: But uh regardless, it's gonna be be a fun, fun game, I think.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ready for it.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we have the bye week next week, but I think we should still do a show either way, yeah.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Recap it, and uh so we'll plan to talk to everybody next week.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we'll we'll do that.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I talked to my friend of mine came into town uh from Kentucky who's good friends with some of the basketball coaches, and he uh he told me we should get uh Chris Jans on sometime and he would get him on for us.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: So um try to get get in touch with him and we'll get Coach Jans on to talk preview the season.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: They had uh they had practices uh this Saturday before the football game.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't go to it, but they had a big big recruit on campus this weekend, BW, and it was Eric Dampier Jr.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay from MRA.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: He's a junior or a senior?
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's a junior, okay.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh five-star uh a prospect.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and you know, he everyone, I mean he's getting offers from all around the country.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Everyone's wanting him, and I really like our chances of getting him, especially with his dad and and the connection with MRA and Hubbard.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: And I feel like uh I feel like we got a really good chance of getting him, which would be really big.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then they had uh they had the uh Mississippi State Hall of Fame induction ceremony over the weekend, and uh and Mario Austin uh was in town, and he got inducted into the Hall of Fame.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I messaged Mario, you know, he's been on the show before.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: I love Mario Austin, he's a he's a great guy, and uh he it was awesome, man, seeing him back when we were in college, just dominating and he and knowing how knowing how what a good guy he is.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's just I told him well-deserved and everything, and he wrote me back, said thanks, and that uh I told him, I was like, Man, you might need to come back.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: I think he he lives in Minnesota now.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, You might have to come back from Bam again because every game you're at, we seem to win.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: He was at the Minnesota game, and then he was at the Missouri game, and he was like, You're right, you got something going there.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but he loved Mississippi State and he was so so honored and thrilled to uh to be back and be honored.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's people like it's people like him, man, uh that that uh that are Bulldogs through and through and and you see all the hard work they put into it, and then for them to get honored and and be respected among amongst all the Bulldog fans makes it all worth it.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: So uh really proud of Mario Austin for all he's done for Mississippi State.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I still remember when I was a freshman uh living in Hathorne Hall, uh Ontario Harper lived right across the hall from us.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: And and I remember one one day I just opened the door up to my dorm room, and their door was open across the hall, and there's a guy standing in there, really tall guy, and he's wearing like McDonald's sweatpants.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, McDonald's sweatpants, and then I realized it's Mario Austin, and he's a McDonald's all-American.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: McDonald's all American, that's right.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Had those sweatpants from there, man.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: I can still see it to this day.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of crazy.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we had some good times of Mississippi State basketball.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: I I I that's why I would have loved to have Chris Jans on to talk about the season.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: I know last year was a tough season.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: I think we hit missed on some recruits last year, obviously, but I feel like we're gonna rebound.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I think this year, uh being Hubbard's last year and uh get some guys around him.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh good things are gonna um happen for Mississippi State basketball.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, when the when when the hump's rocking, man, it's it's it's awesome.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: So really uh excited for the season coming up and and uh I think good things are in store for us.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: Same here, Johnny.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: All right, well, we'll we'll uh hopefully we'll get a win and shut up for old Todd Willie and all those guys and and the Bammers and and uh maybe Tommy Lee, you know Tom Tommy Lee, what's the guy's name?
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_01: Is it Tommy Lee?
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's a Tommy Ray.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: Tommy Ray, yeah.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: Tommy Lee is the Motley Crew guy.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: Tommy Ray, uh, I bet he'll be in Starville more than likely.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he will.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Comes to every game.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: And we had him on a few years ago talking about it, so maybe we can send him home sad uh this year because he's been happy too many times in Startville.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we need to send them all home and and uh and uh prove the world wrong.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then, like I said, we'll be back on a recap and and hopefully we'll uh we'll work a date to try to get Chris Jans on to talk about what all hoops.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: But uh everybody make your picks too.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: I know it's really just me, you, and and our buddy Juan uh are at the top of the leaderboard, man.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: But uh so it'll be fun to see who takes a cake at the end of the end of the season uh on the pick'ems because it's uh neck and neck right now.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: But uh that's that's a lot of fun to keep up with.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: And um But yeah, uh stay tuned.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Uh everybody check out check us out next week as we recap and get ready on the bye week and and uh hopefully we'll get ready to go to LSU with a with another win.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be awesome heading down there five and oh sure would be great.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: So uh y'all stay tuned.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned, go dogs.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: Go dogs.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: C BW.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Bye bye.