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High School Football Road Tour moves on - Hartfield Academy and more · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 5: Wiberley, seventh day of August twenty twenty four, Champion of
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  Speaker 5: an hour late.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay.
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  Speaker 5: We're here for two hours, two hours today as we
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  Speaker 5: are on the road today, on the road the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the week, as we move into August, as we
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  Speaker 5: do a lot with college football, of course with high
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  Speaker 5: school football. We're out at Hartfield Academy today. It is
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  Speaker 5: day one of the High School Football Road Tour, brought
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  Speaker 5: here from Hartfield, right down the road here. They are
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  Speaker 5: a fantastic group. We'll tell you more about them as
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  Speaker 5: we move through the month of August. And of course
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  Speaker 5: today we're at Heartfield Academy. Tomorrow we'll be over at
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  Speaker 5: Jackson Academy visiting with over at the Brickyard with Brian
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  Speaker 5: you Bank and of course their head football coach and
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  Speaker 5: several others. Next week we'll be over at Madison Central.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna continue to move around to all the schools
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  Speaker 5: here in the metro as we head towards high school
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  Speaker 5: dot com. We'll have Mike Kershaw in the next segment.
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  Speaker 5: He is the head football coach at Missippi College. We
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  Speaker 5: will have Craig Bowman, the head football coach at Hartfield
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  Speaker 5: on beeB How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: What is going on?
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  Speaker 3: I'm just reading about this cotton candy burrito that the
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  Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals have rolled out that they're trying to inflict
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  Speaker 3: diabetes on everyone this football season.
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  Speaker 1: And it's what is it again?
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  Speaker 3: It is cotton candy burrito. It is M and M's Skittles,
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  Speaker 3: fruit loops, fruity pebbles and sprinkles wrapped in cotton candy
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  Speaker 3: shaped like a giant burrito.
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  Speaker 1: That is crazy. And who is Saint Louis Cardinals are
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  Speaker 1: putting these out?
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  Speaker 3: Arizona Kaiwa Moe and Company.
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  Speaker 5: Arizona Cardinals. Wrong bunch of Cardinals. That is interesting. We'll
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  Speaker 5: have to get more information on that, all right. So
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  Speaker 5: we are on the road today high school Football Road
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  Speaker 5: Tour number one. Wee at Hartfield Academy. So we're previewing
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  Speaker 5: the Hawks, and again I'm sitting in their press box.
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  Speaker 5: We had to move around a little bit because of
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  Speaker 5: internet connection, but that happens on these campuses as everyone
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  Speaker 5: is unique and every setup is unique, if especially if
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  Speaker 5: you are on these campuses trying to get internet and
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  Speaker 5: all that kind of stuff. But regardless of the fact
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful campus here off of Lakeland Drive, they have
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  Speaker 5: done so much. Every time I come out here, it's
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  Speaker 5: more has been done, More money has been put into
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  Speaker 5: this place. And right now I'm overlooking the football teams
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  Speaker 5: that are on about the forty seven yard line of
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  Speaker 5: their turf field facility. Got players in shorts and shells
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  Speaker 5: of course, helmets they're working on some pitch and catch
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  Speaker 5: and of course really getting acclimated here. I mean it's
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  Speaker 5: four o four in the afternoon. It's dang there, one
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  Speaker 5: hundred degrees. You put all that kind of stuff on,
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  Speaker 5: it's very, very hot. And we will talk to Craig
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  Speaker 5: Bowman about that. We'll also talk to Mike Kershaw about
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  Speaker 5: that as well as you know, the mental conditioning side
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  Speaker 5: of this, getting players out here running around in this
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  Speaker 5: kind of heat and of course trying to accomplish something,
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  Speaker 5: trying to get ready for kickoff, and then of course
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  Speaker 5: obviously wanting to protect players with brakes and water and
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  Speaker 5: that kind of stuff. But you know, what they have
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  Speaker 5: done here at Hartfield is remarkable when you talk about
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  Speaker 5: the leadership group and you talk about the you know,
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  Speaker 5: taking this campus that was once I believe University Christian
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  Speaker 5: many years ago and then taking it in a different direction.
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  Speaker 5: Not that it was going in a bad direction back then,
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  Speaker 5: but then the growth out here is just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And of course when.
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  Speaker 5: You pop in this tasted at campus, in this university,
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  Speaker 5: or this this high school here, as I'm saying here,
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  Speaker 5: look at some notes on universities, but on this particular
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  Speaker 5: high school, and then the growth out on Lakeland Drive
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  Speaker 5: into Flowood. It's it's just a perfect match. And of
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  Speaker 5: course Northwest Ranking is benefiting from that. We will visit
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  Speaker 5: with Northwst Ranking in the coming weeks. We'll just go
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  Speaker 5: down the road to Northwest and visit with them. Jackson Prep.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to visit with them back down south of here.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody in the Flowood area as far as schools have
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  Speaker 5: benefited for the population boom so to speak. Here all right,
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  Speaker 5: when we look at some notes here, let me go
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  Speaker 5: to my notes and see what we got going on today.
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  Speaker 5: Jim Harball looks like there's a statement on his I
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  Speaker 5: mean he has Jim Harball has a show calls Bie,
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  Speaker 5: we are you surprised the NCAA hit Jim Harball with.
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  Speaker 1: A hammer.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit because it's so useless.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Look, he's in the NFL. He's not coming back to college.
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  Speaker 3: He's been there, he went to college, he was college NFL,
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  Speaker 3: went back to college, back to NFL. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he's making a move again.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't see him going back to college. Chris
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  Speaker 5: Vanini reports earlier today with the Athletic the NCAA Hammers
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  Speaker 5: Jim Harball for COVID recruiting and inducements, plus not cooperating
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  Speaker 5: with the investigation and provided false slash misleading information, four
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  Speaker 5: year show calls and a one year suspension from everything
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  Speaker 5: if if he comes back to college football. So all
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  Speaker 5: of this, as they said in Division One Committee on
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  Speaker 5: Infractions panel determined former Michigan had football coach Jim Harball
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  Speaker 5: violated recruiting and inducement rules, engaged in unethical conduct, failed
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  Speaker 5: to promote an atmosphere of compliance, and violated head coach
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  Speaker 5: responsibilities responsibility obligations, resulting in a four year.
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  Speaker 1: Show calls order.
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  Speaker 5: So a lot of word salid here, basically saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 5: you are on a four year show calls and a
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  Speaker 5: one year suspension. However, if you come back now. Jim
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  Speaker 5: Harball's attorney, Tom Mars, tom Mars Law, of course, Tom Mars,
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  Speaker 5: who has been at the forefront of a lot of
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  Speaker 5: these big cases over the line twenty thirty years against
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  Speaker 5: the NC doable a representing coaches, representing universities, representing players
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  Speaker 5: at times you know, on the players coaches university side.
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  Speaker 5: Put this out courtesy of Mars Law Firm. Statement R. E.
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  Speaker 2: N C.
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  Speaker 1: Double A COI decision, he says, the firm says.
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  Speaker 5: The way I see it from Coach Harball's perspective, today's
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  Speaker 5: COI decision is like being in college and getting a
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  Speaker 5: letter from your high school saying you've been suspended because
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  Speaker 5: you didn't sign the yearbook. If I were in coach
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  Speaker 5: Harball's shoes and had an eighty million dollar contract as
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  Speaker 5: the head coach of the Chargers, I wouldn't pay any
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  Speaker 5: attention to the findings of a kangaroo court which claims
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  Speaker 5: to represent the principles of the nation's most flagrant, flagrant,
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  Speaker 5: repeat violator of the federal and anti trust laws. So
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  Speaker 5: Tom Mars basically just throw a grenade right inside the
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  Speaker 5: nc double A gave him two middle fingers and said, hey,
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  Speaker 5: there's nothing you can do about it. And that's kind
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  Speaker 5: of the way that whole thing shakes out. You know,
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  Speaker 5: one of the things that's going to determine, and it
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  Speaker 5: always does, who wins the national championship, who makes the
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  Speaker 5: biggest jump in college football? Does all miss make the playoff?
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  Speaker 5: Does Alabama make the playoff? It's it's not necessarily what
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  Speaker 5: goes on Saturdays. It's what goes on indirectly now and
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  Speaker 5: injuries can be a big part of that. Texas took
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  Speaker 5: a hit today Texas in practice as anwar Richardson, who
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  Speaker 5: covers Texas as Brett mc murphy, was talking about this
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  Speaker 5: Texas running back CJ. Baxter, who was expected to miss
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  Speaker 5: the season after tearing his LCL and PCL during practice
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  Speaker 5: on Tuesday. Baxter's injury will require surgery and recovery time
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  Speaker 5: in between six to nine months, so Texas likely loses.
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  Speaker 1: Its starting running back for the season. That is in backster.
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  Speaker 5: You know started six games last year as a freshman,
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  Speaker 5: but a lot of people expected him to be the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's other guys.
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  Speaker 5: But you can't have a lot of this as you
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  Speaker 5: head towards you know, the season, especially early, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: staying healthy is important. And Texas takes a hit in
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  Speaker 5: their backfield today with CJ. Baxter going on on the
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  Speaker 5: shelf with an injury. Troy Louisiana Tech on a home
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  Speaker 5: and home series twenty thirty at Troy twenty thirty two
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  Speaker 5: at Louisiana Tech, and Ian Rappaport confirms the NFL confirmed
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  Speaker 5: that the Lions and Giants their organizations have each been
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  Speaker 5: fined two hundred thousand dollars for multiple fights that broke
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  Speaker 5: out at the joint practices between the clubs this week.
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  Speaker 5: All NFL clubs are reminded in a memo sent last
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  Speaker 5: month that fighting and unprofessional conduct at joint practices would
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  Speaker 5: not be tolerated. So Lions and Giants, Daniel Jones has
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  Speaker 5: been a part of this. They've been practicing together, They've
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  Speaker 5: been getting after each other and a little bit too much.
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  Speaker 5: The NFL hits each club with a two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 5: dollars fine. Also, we'll get into some of this full story.
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  Speaker 5: The Saints exploring a potential signing of Pro Bowl safety
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  Speaker 6: Done right.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna take a time out. Mike Kershaw, the head
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  Speaker 5: football coach at Mississippi College, will join us on your radio.
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  Speaker 6: We return.
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  Speaker 5: We're at Heartfield Academy today, Day one of the High
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  Speaker 5: School Football Road Tour, brought to you by the Lovejoy
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  Speaker 4: my life.
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  Speaker 5: Academy today, day one of the high school football road Tour.
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  Speaker 5: We'll have Craig Bowman, the head football coach, coming up
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  Speaker 5: here in about thirty minutes. Right now, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: swing across town visit with head football coach at Mississippi College.
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  Speaker 5: Mike Kershaw is on your readio make sure to find
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  Speaker 5: him on X give them a follow at Coach m
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  Speaker 5: Kershaw coach, welcome in.
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  Speaker 7: How you doing brother, man, Jake, I'm doing fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: How about you, man, We're doing great. And look, I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate you jumping in. It was it was great to
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  Speaker 5: visit with you by phone yesterday or two days ago. Now,
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  Speaker 5: first off, publicly want to tell you, you know, congratulations
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  Speaker 5: on being the head football coach Atsissippi College.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you have spent some time in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: You're back here, so congratulations on being back and of
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  Speaker 5: course you know being over at Missippi College.
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  Speaker 7: Man, I appreciate that, and it is it is great
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  Speaker 7: to be back in state of Mississippi. Now we're just gonna
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  Speaker 7: be gonna be wearing a couple of different colors this time.
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  Speaker 1: Coach.
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  Speaker 5: For those that may not know, kind of take us
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  Speaker 5: through just a you know, kind of a flyover of
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  Speaker 5: your career. I know that you spent some time out
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  Speaker 5: at Rice and some other portions. You come from a
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  Speaker 5: football family. Just a little bit about your background.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so, I mean I grew up in a football family.
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  Speaker 7: My dad was involved at the Canadian Football League, so
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  Speaker 7: I was actually born and raised up in Canada, so
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  Speaker 7: I kind of grew up in the locker room up
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  Speaker 7: that way. Ended up going to high school in California
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  Speaker 7: and Louisiana. That's kind of where I got my way
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  Speaker 7: down to the South. Was finished up eleventh and twelfth
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  Speaker 7: grade in Louisiana. Funny thing is, I actually was recruited
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  Speaker 7: to Mimsispi College out of high school. Decided in actually
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  Speaker 7: one year, went to Western Colorado first, and then ended
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  Speaker 7: up transferring back to Delta State because they recruited out
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  Speaker 7: of high school as well. Played there from ninety six
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  Speaker 7: to ninety eight. Was my last year playing there. Graduated
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  Speaker 7: there in two thousand, ended up starting to coach there
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  Speaker 7: in two thousand and one. Stayed there till two thousand
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  Speaker 7: and six, decided to have a life change and got
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  Speaker 7: married to my beautiful bride in Austin, Texas, and moved
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  Speaker 7: out that way and got out of coaching for really
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  Speaker 7: about a ten year span, and was pretty much thought
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  Speaker 7: I was done with coaching, and you know, started my
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  Speaker 7: own insurance agency and did all that type of good stuff.
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  Speaker 7: But kind of once you're a coacher, never you never
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  Speaker 7: get out of it, right, It's always in your blood.
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  Speaker 7: And so once my daughter graduated high school, my wife
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  Speaker 7: kind of looked at me. She's like, hey, I can
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  Speaker 7: work remote. Is coaching ever something you wanted to get
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  Speaker 7: back into? And I kind of stopped in my tracks,
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  Speaker 7: and thirty seconds later I was calling on my coaching
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  Speaker 7: contacts and be like, Hey, I'm ready to get back
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  Speaker 7: in if anybody just gives me a chance. And so
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  Speaker 7: my first year at Rice, which was twenty eighteen, I
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  Speaker 7: sold my insurance company, volunteered with coach Bloomgren at Rice,
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  Speaker 7: and then as twenty nineteen, got the receiver job and
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  Speaker 7: was there and came over here the end of end
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  Speaker 7: of December and been into Missippi College rated role.
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  Speaker 5: Mike Kershaw on your radio head football coach at Mississippi College.
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  Speaker 1: When's the edition of the program? Coach?
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  Speaker 5: When you look at Mississippi College, Why did that make
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  Speaker 5: sense for you at this juncture in your career.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the first thing is you you just don't get
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  Speaker 7: a lot of time to be a head coach. You
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  Speaker 7: don't have a lot of opportunities to be, you know,
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  Speaker 7: be the guy to run your own program. So that
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  Speaker 7: that was intriguing to me at Rice. I also recruited
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  Speaker 7: Mississippi as well, and so every time I flew in here,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I'd always kind of think about, well, maybe
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  Speaker 7: I take over that program, what it would look like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I wonder why you know this is going on,
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  Speaker 7: that going on. So that made sense to me. I've
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  Speaker 7: got a lot of I've got a base here in
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  Speaker 7: Mississippi that you know, I still know a lot of
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  Speaker 7: lot of high school coaches here that my time at
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  Speaker 7: Delta State that either I coached with or they were
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  Speaker 7: student assistants over there, or guys I played with. There's
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  Speaker 7: a lot of high school coaches here that that was
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  Speaker 7: from the Dope State area. So I think I got
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  Speaker 7: a lot of contact here. It makes sense, you know.
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  Speaker 7: To me, I thought that this school is a sleeping giant,
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  Speaker 7: and I never understood why they never won, and so
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  Speaker 7: everything just kind of aligned up. And my good friend
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  Speaker 7: jud Boswall at Clinton High School, I talked to him
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  Speaker 7: about the job and he goes, hey, I got I
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  Speaker 7: got a pretty good relationship with the president and the
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  Speaker 7: athletic director. Do you want me to throw your name?
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  Speaker 7: And I was like, yeah, he goes, well, good, he
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  Speaker 7: already did. So that's something. How it just played out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that does sound like something jud would do,
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  Speaker 5: and that is no doubt true. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 5: this because you and I spoke about this, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: because when you pull up on campus over there, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a beautiful campus.
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  Speaker 1: The facilities are in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when you're there for a night football game,
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  Speaker 5: for instance, sitting here at Hartfield Academy. Heartfield won the
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  Speaker 5: MAIIST State championship against Jackson Prepp out there last year.
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  Speaker 5: It's a great atmosphere, it's a great place. You look
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  Speaker 5: around and go, why not here, especially with all of
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  Speaker 5: the talent and the fact that it's now it's back
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  Speaker 5: a Division two school and you guys have scholarships to offer,
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  Speaker 5: So there's there's a lot to offer right there in Clinton.
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  Speaker 7: In there, there absolutely is. And that's again another another
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: one of the reasons why I took the job. There's
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: some mulso some things in the recruiting side of it
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: that I think we've got some advantages on. But if
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: you lay it all out, you're like, why not kind
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: of like you said, why why not Missippi College? When
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: you bring kids on campus again, it is a beautiful campus. Uh,
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: you know, the football program. It's not not a secret.
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: They have not been very good since they've come back
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: from Division three, and so I would say a lot
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: of people kind of what you said yesterday on the
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: radio is kind of a kind of no one really
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: even talks about it is Asissippi College, and that's something
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: we've got to change, and change is really exactly what
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: we're gonna do in every aspect of our programs.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Mike Kershaw hit football coach Missippi College on your radio
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: talk a Chalk Taw Football. To excuse me, when's the
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: edition of the program and coach you? You guys have
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: a you you put together a staff. It sounds like,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: you know, be it a positional coach or uh, you know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: maybe a staffer. I mean from from places like Liberty,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: places like Troy, maybe TWU Lane. You've pulled in some
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: really sharp guys. It sounds like that have been a
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: part of some big time winning programs, be it you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: a group of five or Power five football. And you've
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: also flipped the roster pretty quickly on you.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we actually absolutely did we have to, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: bring in good coaches. These players came into my office
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: when I first got here as they coach. We just
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: want guys that, you know, know how to win in
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: college football, and so that's exactly what I did. The
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: guy that brought into my offensive coordinator actually coached with
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: at Delta State in I guess there's probably two thousand
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: and two through two thousand and four and very similar.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: We actually at that time, Delta State was running a
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: double slot option with Steve Campbell, and when we made
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: the transition, we decided to scrap that and go to
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: four vertical passing games, kind of what we're doing now.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: And two years later, we were the number one offense
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: in the country. So I'm very familiar and have a
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: lot of trust in my offensive coordinator, my defensive coordinators.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: Like you said, comes from Liberty. There's been a lot
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: of different places where they played great defense, and so
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: you know, he's been around a lot of different coaches.
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: He's been at Clemson, he's been at Troy, he's been
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: at Jacksonville State, and again last year at Liberty. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: we brought in some really quality coaches that either you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: they may be a little bit young and then they's
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: time to shine. And you know what, at the Division
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: two level, you got to take some chances on some
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: guys like that, and I really have a lot of
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: faith in what these guys are doing. And then yet
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: we flipped the roster we did. We brought in I
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: think as if we counted today, there was fifty five
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: new faces that were and are sitting in our team meeting.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: So the guys we kept, so the guys that have
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: bought in the guys that are ready to go. And
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: then the guys who brought in are guys that are
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: going to help out with depths, going to help out
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: with you know, changing changing what this offense and defense
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: looks like and bringing in some speed. And so we
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: had to get bigger, faster, stronger, and I think that's
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: exactly what we did.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: Coach talent aside to change a football culture. You know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: a lot of times we throw that in that that
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: lingo around a lot, you know, very loosely football culture.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: It's not the same as a culture in a city
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: or culture in a town, but it's there is a
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: culture inside every building.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We know that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: How hard is it to develop or not a different
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: culture at a place that traditionally doesn't have a culture
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: like that like you're wanting to have.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's tough. It's one of those deals that
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: you know, it's something you talk about every single day.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: And that's why bringing in new guys helps out that
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: a little bit, because it's not you know, it's natural
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: for the guys that have been here to kind of
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: have that, you know, hey, we haven't won or we
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: you know, we haven't done this right or done that right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: But we got to come in from day one and
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: talk about guys, we got to set a championship standard
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: and that's how we're going to live. So you may
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: be in the past where you could have been late
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: and that was okay, or you showed up for this
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: or that and that was okay. That's not okay anymore.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: And they understand that, Hey, whether or not at breakfast check,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: whether or not at you know, study hall, whatever it is,
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: the grades are going to be better. It's got to
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: be to the championship standard that we set and that's
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: how we're going to live. And if you don't live
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: that way, you can't play here. And so as I think,
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: coming in day one you talk about that, they buy
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: in and there's gonna be a couple of guys that
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: didn't buy in the spring, you know, and they're not
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: on the roster anymore, and that's great. But the guys
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: that did buy in, they're ready to go. The new
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: guys that were here this summer, they're ready to go.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: The coaching staff the same way. They got to buy
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: into the same thing. They got to preach the same
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: thing I'm preaching. And again, we're ready to roll. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: think are guys players wise, coaching wise, they're ready. So culture, yeah,
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: is it a sign that a lot of people have
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: in their building. Absolutely, but it's just got to be
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: preached every single day and they'll understand what the true
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: culture is once the championship standards is set.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Coach, last question, we'll get you on your way, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I appreciate your time today. What's the schedule look like
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: for you guys? Obviously with practice and I always joke
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: about this with everybody, we call it fall camp. There's
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: nothing fall about one hundred degree weather. But what does
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: that schedule look like from now until you guys get
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: ready to kick off Game one?
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: So it's kind of our reporting days today, So it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: kind of like Christmas morning. But the problem is, I
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: don't play with my new toys until Friday, so we
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: don't get to go out there and practice until Friday morning,
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: but we'll you know, we've got I think twenty one
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: practice before our first game. So I'm glad we don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: have to play tomorrow, but we got time to get
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: ready to go. We open up that shorter in Rome, Georgia.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: It's actually a Wednesday night game, which is kind of crazy,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: but it kind of fits our schedule really well. And
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: the cool thing about our Mississippi College alum that are
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: around the Jackson areas. We've got six home games and
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: so all these guys that are listening right now, we
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: need you back to this. You know, we need you
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: back to Clinton. We need to get to get you
• 21:30
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• 21:32
  Speaker 7: at our games here and get get you in the
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: new the new Navy blue and Celestial blue colors that
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: we got going on. And we're creating a new culture
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: right here and we want everyone to know it and
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: jump on, jump on the bandwagon for it.
• 21:45
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• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I appreciate your time today. Look, we appreciate what you're
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  Speaker 7: Jay, come on over every time.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I'll see you then. Thanks coach, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got some texts first from Magic Mike. He says, Jake,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: can you hear that it's Harball laughing at the NCAA.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, BEV.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Do you think Jim Harball is worried at all about being,
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: you know, a suspension and a show calls?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think Harball is concerned about that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: at all.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: PT for MSU He says, this is Jim Harbaugh today
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: and he sent it's a gift of Tommy Lee Jones
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: and the FEU digit fugitive saying I don't care.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: That is absolutely true.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: And a couple here from Possom Nick Joe and a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: bonus from Possum Nick Joe. Well, let's see. First, he says,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: can you imagine if you were one of the nuts
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: that gave that Texas running back a lot of money?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Then he says hertfield the high school version of nineteen
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: eighties SMU football.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Come on, Joe, come on? Is that his bonus?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: No?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: His bonus?
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: Is this?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: His bonus is a text he sent during Matt's show.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: But I liked it so much that I wanted to
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: save it because if I may go, if I may go,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Chris Brooks here, sure, possum Nick, Joe's our friend. Okay,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: he's not Matt's, so Matt can't have him. This text
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: was too good to not keep, I thought. He says
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: that he tossed a football with Jerry Rice at MSU
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: spring training in nineteen eighty six. So he was talking
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: with Bob Boyd when we approached him. He was super nice,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and he said I threw a better ball than any
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: other Joe he caught balls from.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Now does he know that or is he just guessing
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: that that he was the best Joe?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Joe says, Jerry Rice told him that he is the
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: best Joe.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jerry Rice actually said he was the best Joe interesting, Well,
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: I had no idea that Joe was a stute pass catcher.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: It doesn't surprise me.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: No me either, and j C.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: He says, after determining that Michigan was cheating, I think
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: we should discredit the national championship, Jake's national championship pick
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: from last year.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: It was a.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Sham of a championship, and so Jake should not be
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: able to claim credit.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Was it a sham?
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: Though?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, do we know do we know that any
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: of this is really even true?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, didn't we feel like last year somebody inside
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: the NCAA office had an act to grind with Jim
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Harball on everything else that was going that's going on around.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: College sports and college football.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, just look at what stays in the news
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: in college basketball with what obviously would name image and
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: likeness and things of that nature.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You can do whatever kind of you want to do.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: But even prior to that Jim Harball was targeted. It
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: felt like last year, I mean, he was suspended the
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: first four games, he served his four game sentence, and
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: then now it's almost like they got him as a
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: they gave him.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: A repeat of this. Doesn't this just seem like malicious
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: work by the NCAA.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. It seems like a man who did
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: wrong on two different occasions got in trouble for two
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: different things that he did one of them though he
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: kind of got away from now. So no, Jake, that
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: being targeted was just people. That was Michigan fans and
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: you actually decided that because I remember, I remember the day,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: oh y'all that decided that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Nevertheless, look, you can't ever take away what happened on
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: the field, like Reggie Bush. I mean, they took his
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: highestpin away, but did they really take it away? I mean,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: isn't it pointless penalties? I mean, if Beaver, if you
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: win an award as the best guitar player in Perl,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: I can't take that away from you regardless, no matter
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: how much I try.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Can I?
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: I guess not?
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: No, and you we can't take Jim Harball's trophy away.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: But these article headlines are funny. Jim Harball hammered by
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: the NCAA over I'm not even gonna try that word.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Some scandal with a huge show calls penalty. Jim Harball
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: doesn't care. Jim Harball isn't there. So now can we
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: officially call this the Pete Carroll deal two point zero.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I know you reference that yesterday.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's it's the same situation for me and God.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: When was that Pete Carroll left two thousand and nine,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: two thousand and eight. Okay, so sixteen years ago. He
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: hasn't looked back. So n Cuba, what do you There's
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: just what they're hoping. Harball wants to come back. Hardball's
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: not coming back. So this hammering him boiless? Yeah they
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I now they did hammer him. Okay, I will go
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: with the official definition because the show calls penalty is
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: hammering someone, But when they're already gone for the NFL,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: that hammer is not hitting them.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: And you know, we'll see if they try to handicap
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: sure on more and we'll continue to follow this. It
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: just seems like Michigan all of a sudden is in
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the crosshairs of the NCUBA and they may not be
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: getting out of it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Remember, Born is gonna get busted too. He deleted fifty
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: two text messages. That's not suspicious at all.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Well no, I mean he could have just been cleaning
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: his phone up. Oh yeah, maybe he was running out
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of storage. I'm just guessing. I have no idea.
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• 29:25
  Speaker 5: reviews in Saints camp. Spencer Ratler, by all accounts, is
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  Speaker 5: thriving in his first preseason with the New Orleans Saints.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: The rookie passer may not unseat starter Derek carrs QB one,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: but many believe he'll earn playing time this fall. Rattler,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: and of course, by the way, you could see him
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  Speaker 5: pretty quickly here in the preseason coming up. Despite those
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: positive news, found a way to arrange in range of
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: local fan base this week.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: It wasn't his fault, though.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: The fifth round NFL draft pick was asked by about
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: the toughest environment in college football. Going off his own
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: experience at both South Carolina and Oklahoma, he provided the
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: following list.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: The list was.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Florida number one, Tennessee to Georgia three, Clemson four, and
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: then Kansas State excuse me at number five, so you
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: can see there that this is probably headed. The response
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: immediately enraged nearby LSU fans who believed that he was
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: disrespecting Death Valley. Why are LSU fans so sensitive? It
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: seems like they are very sensitive. Don't worry about what
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Spencer Ratler said. He's obviously if you're a Saints fan
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: or an LSU fan, you're probably a Saints fan living
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: in the state of Louisiana. He's on your team. And
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  Speaker 5: I would say that he even look, he played the game,
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  Speaker 5: he knows where he played. He says Florida's number one
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: as far as environment and venue. Tennessee too, and think
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  Speaker 5: about that at Florida. Now, there is somewhat of an
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: entrance rivalry there with Florida and South Carolina, but Florida still,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: even pound for pound, has one of the best atmospheres
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: in venues in college football at the Swamp Tennessee number
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: two Georgia and then Clemson. From his you know time
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: or playing at South Carolina and Kansas State, it is
• 30:56
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  Speaker 5: you think Spencer Ratler could be the still of the
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  Speaker 3: In the future, that's that's a wide open space.
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  Speaker 5: Moving you through the middle of the week Wednesday, initial
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  Speaker 5: of the program will prompts you by new South Nurospine
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  Speaker 5: Mississippi Spine Center. You can find them online at NS
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  Speaker 5: two dot MD. They're open Monday through Friday eight am
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  Speaker 5: to five pm off flow Wood Drive not too far
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  Speaker 5: from here at Heartfield Academy. You can walk right in
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: or learn more schedule and appointment NS two dot MD.
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  Speaker 5: That's Mississippi Spine Center at New South Neuerospine. They're also
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: open on Saturdays eight to one. Right now, head of school,
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  Speaker 5: David Horner here at Heartfield. Kind of enough to jump
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: in and give us some time on a busy day. David,
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  Speaker 5: it his first day of school. I didn't realize hitting
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  Speaker 5: you on that day, but uh, and I was told
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  Speaker 5: by Richard that you guys, this is kind of a
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  Speaker 5: I can how you.
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  Speaker 1: Framed it up.
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  Speaker 5: You guys kind of give your class. The students here
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  Speaker 5: a late day today, so.
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  Speaker 9: Late star Wednesday for the upper school. But man, it's
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: good to be out of the office in the press
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  Speaker 9: box looking at cross country team, football team. Everybody's working
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  Speaker 9: hard on a hot day. Glad to be here in
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  Speaker 9: the air conditioning.
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  Speaker 5: Thought, Look, I appreciate you having us over today as
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: we start moving around schools in the area. And you
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  Speaker 5: said it was your twelfth year, correct, this is starting
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  Speaker 5: year twelve.
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  Speaker 1: That is hard to believe.
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  Speaker 5: I've known you now for several years, and boy, did
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: you anticipate Heartfield year one being what it is in
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: year twelve?
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  Speaker 9: Well, look, God's blessed and note I don't think anybody does.
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  Speaker 9: Anticipate that you take one step at a time in
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: faith and try to make the next best decision. And man,
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: God's been good. The communities responded to Heartfield's mission and vision,
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: and we're grateful to work with the young men and
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  Speaker 9: women that we get to work with, and got a
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  Speaker 9: fantastic group of teachers and coaches, and so it is
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  Speaker 9: exciting a lot of good things happening.
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  Speaker 5: You know, when you look at and we've talked about
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  Speaker 5: this a lot, the growth of this area. You know,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: from where we sit here, there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 5: You got Jackson Prep, which you're very familiar with, just
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: down the road south of here. You got Northwest part
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: of them hs say, just north of here. But then
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Flowwood just the boom here and the in the housing
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: and the in the development. I mean you just drive
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: right down from here and you know, people joke about it,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: called it Chicken Corridor. I mean, you got you know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: seven eight nine new restaurants. The growth in this area,
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  Speaker 5: and of course Heartfield is a big part of that
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: is really something to be you know, to be proud of.
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  Speaker 9: Well it is and one of the blessings in my job.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: I get to meet families moving into the community, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: it is a fantastic place to raise a family. Central
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  Speaker 9: Mississippi's great. Of course, there are great schools. We're glad
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  Speaker 9: to be among them, and plenty of families for all
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  Speaker 9: the schools, and we certainly have grown and thankful for
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: just exciting building projects, but new students and it was
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: it was a fun day meeting new kids and new families.
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: Orientation yesterday, and it really is exciting. And of course
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: you might see memes on social media about people dragging
• 34:57
  Speaker 9: back to school, but that's not how that's not how
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: you feel when you get into a and kids are
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  Speaker 9: excited to be here. They like a schedule, they respond
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  Speaker 9: to standards, expectations, they spawn they love good experiences, and
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  Speaker 9: that's what that's what great schools like the ones we
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  Speaker 9: have in our community provide.
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  Speaker 5: David Horner, head of school Heartfield Academy. Wednesday edition of
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  Speaker 5: the program Where at Heartfield Academy, Day one of the
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  Speaker 5: High School Football Road Tour. Last year, you guys, after
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  Speaker 5: the year before, come up a little short, get your
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: first high school football championship, after you know, watching Heartfield
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  Speaker 5: grow from you know, kind of a middle of the tiers,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: smaller school all the way to now all of a
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  Speaker 5: sudden Heartfield's right there with Jackson Prepp, You're right there
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  Speaker 5: with Mra, You're right there with Ja and some others.
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  Speaker 6: What did that.
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  Speaker 1: Mean for you that night to finally get that championship?
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  Speaker 9: No, it was special. I think the most meaningful thing
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: is when you get to know these kids. Yeah, you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: I'm out here. We're watching these uh these guys sprint
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: over to take water breaks. My kids are among the
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: junior high team or the high school team. And the
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: special part is knowing these kids and and they're they're
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: the characteristics that make them unique. But I remember on
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: this field, Jake ten years ago or so, watching Oak
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  Speaker 9: Hill Academy beat our eyes shut. It was forty four
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  Speaker 9: to nothing, and I remember we were trying to throw
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: passes in the end zone the last second of the game,
• 36:11
  Speaker 9: just so we can get a goose egg off the board.
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: And little by little you develop weight programs, or you
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: add to coaching staff, and boy, you improve things and
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: it makes it a place that people take pride in.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: You see the.
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: School culture, the school respond with spirit. And so that
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: was the culmination last year. Of course, any great coach
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: will tell you that. Man, it's about the process and
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: the journey and the result absolutely is exciting. But man,
• 36:39
  Speaker 9: the enriching part is when you get to experience the May, June,
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: July hard work, of course, the practices through the fall,
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: and then in the end when it does end in
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  Speaker 9: a championship, it's really really sweet.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: David Horner on your radio Wednesday edition of the program.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: And you look at the facilities, and you know, it's
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: different for private schools right than public schools because you
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: have to have the funding. You have to and you
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: to have the funding, you've got to have a program
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  Speaker 5: that wins. You got to people that invested. It's just
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: like it's a lot like a college, right, So you know,
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: if colleges win, then maybe you get donors that give
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: more to facility upgrades or they give to a certain club.
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  Speaker 5: The backing here at Hartfield is amazing. What you guys
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: division is when you talk about this football field, the
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: turf field, now, this press box, the bleachers, the field house,
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: and of course the baseball facility that is just right
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  Speaker 5: here to our right, you're not going to find better.
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  Speaker 1: Facilities than what you guys have right here now.
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  Speaker 9: Well, thank you, And the most exciting thing for this
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: week is opening up a new junior high school for us.
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  Speaker 9: And you know, we had fifteen classrooms that we added
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  Speaker 9: and certainly the facilities you named, and man, we're blessed.
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  Speaker 6: We do have folks that love our kids.
• 37:41
  Speaker 9: And and that's the thing that's the motivators when you
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: see these kids and you want to invest in them,
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  Speaker 9: the multiple hundreds of kids that have come before them
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: that have made it worthwhile to be excited about the
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: experience they're having. And so I get to be in
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: a position where I get to watch that happens. It's
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: a really rewarding role. But it's not hard because when
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: you get kids in front of adults and they get
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: to know them or of course their their parents, and
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: they get to know their friends, it's easy to love
• 38:10
  Speaker 9: them supporting them.
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  Speaker 6: It's not hard at all to get moms.
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: To come together to get gatorade and meals for a
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: road trip, sure, and so on so many different ways.
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  Speaker 9: But it does take a community, and that's when it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 9: really the most rewarding, is when everybody feels like they're
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: part of a process.
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: I got about two minutes here, and then of course
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: for you know, in your role as you know, head
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: of school, plus your staff and team, you have to
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: start continuously look down the road, right because you maybe
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: outgrow a place, or you have to think about the
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: next expansion, which is a good bad problem to have.
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, certainly, so there's always something new. But right now, man,
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: we're happy to get past day one right, And I
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: know there's families all over the community that are getting
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: ready for school or just went back to school last week.
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: And it's exciting because it's about our students growing. It's
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: about looking at the kid who you didn't see since
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: May and you say, man, when did you hit.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: That growth spurt?
• 38:58
  Speaker 9: Or when we come out here Friday night and you say,
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: I didn't expect that from him. Or you see leadership
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  Speaker 9: from you know, cheer teams getting ready for pep rallies,
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  Speaker 9: and these kids just several years ago were the ones
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: walking down the hall in a straight line with their
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: finger over their mouth because their teacher in elementary school
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: has got them, you know, he's got them locked up.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah I'm supposed to talk in the halls.
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: But now they've become they become leaders and they learn
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  Speaker 9: how to fulfill what God wants them to do and
• 39:25
  Speaker 9: they're they're each uniquely gifted and learning how they combined
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: their giftings with their interests and making that work is
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: really exciting to watch.
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  Speaker 5: David Horner, head of school, Heartfield Academy, year number twelve,
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: as the Hawks are off and running, not just on
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: the football field but in the school. David, thank you
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: so much for stopping in today. I know it's a
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: busy day and thank you so much for having us
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: out today.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely, Jake, thanks for covering high school athletics.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's fantastic. Hang right here with us.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to take a time out of here and
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: just a bit and when we come back, we'll grab
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Craig Bowman, head football coach for Heartfield. We'll also grab
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: a couple of players as well. We are brought to
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• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Get out see George and the team today. Back in
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  Speaker 2: Where it time?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, we're back with Jake Wemberley on the Afternoon Drive
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  Speaker 1: Early in the program, Mike.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: Kershaw, hit football coach Mississippi College, was on your radio.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Also David Horner, head of school here at Heartfield Academy.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: It is date number one of a high school football
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: road tour brought to you by the lovejoyd Group. The
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  Speaker 5: and also we'll tell you more information about how you
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  Speaker 5: can find them as well. We're also brought to you
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: by Maris Starcasino. Right now, senior on the Heartfield football team,
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: t J. Jones plays outside linebacker, strong safety. Kind of
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: drape him all over this defense.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: TJ.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Welcome in by how you doing all right? All right?
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having man.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: I appreciate you jumping in here, and like I told you,
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: at least we have to give you a little bit
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: of a break.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's a little hot out there there, it is, so
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: take us through before we get into this year.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: You know, obviously, Coach Bowman and the staff that you
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: guys say for you, you guys have done a great
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: job to get that first championship last year.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: What that meant to you?
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Obviously as a junior, you got a lot of seniors
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: or some seniors that have gone on to other places
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: colleges and here in universities.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: But for you, what for you last year? Well, what
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: it meant for me?
• 41:58
  Speaker 11: It was it was really everything because because Hartfield had
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: done a lot for me specifically, but a lot of
• 42:04
  Speaker 11: us that have tooken care of us. And then we
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: worked so hard to become the top dogs, you know,
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: because we were underdog for so long, and so for
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: us to go undefeated and yet alone win the whole thing,
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: it was just out of oudy experience.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: As you look at that now to this year though,
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: now the things have kind of changed, right, You're not
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: sticking up on anybody. You're not going into a stadium
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: on Friday night where people are like who are these
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: who are these hawks?
• 42:28
  Speaker 9: Who?
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: Everybody knows? Right, So the target is now in your back?
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: How has that changed? Kind of as a senior now
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: a leader on this team and your other seniors that
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: are on this team kind of through spring and the
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: summer workouts, where your mentality has to change a little bit, right,
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: how has that changed?
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: Well, definitely it has changed, you know, cause, like you said,
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: it's shifted from being then underdogs to now we have
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: the biggest target on our back, and so the biggest
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: thing as coaches, as a leader, you know myself, we
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: just stretched like, don't get comfortable, you know what I mean,
• 42:57
  Speaker 11: don't get comfortable, work hard, keep going because like everybody's
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: coming from us, so we don't.
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: We can't take one second out.
• 43:03
  Speaker 11: We can't take one day out, one step off. So
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: it's it's one hundred percent fast, hard football, all day,
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: every day.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: And of course just sitting here watching you guys. You
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: guys have been going for about an hour and a half.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: You couldn't pick a hotter day to start practice. So
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: is this date they want to practice for you guys?
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: Oh no, sir, We've been practicing all summer. But uh,
• 43:20
  Speaker 11: we got as far as practice practice last week. We
• 43:24
  Speaker 11: s last week, Yes, sir so, And of course.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: You guys, you know it looks like obviously the team
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: is in really good shape. Been a lot of moving around,
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: not a lot of dragging around.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: You guys run a pretty tight ship here.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Yes, is there what we do?
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: Coazes do not play about laziness. They don't play about
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: lolly gagging or you know, they don't play any of it.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: You know, it's fast level football. TJ.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: Jones he is one of the captains here for Hertfield Academy.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Outside linebacker strong safety Windy Wednesday addition to the program. So,
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: outside linebacker strong safety, you're on the field, would you
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: rather sack a quarterback?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Make a big run, stop? Pick a pass off?
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Which what?
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I know you'd love all of football, But if you're
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: picking one play, what is it?
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: Well, my picture prayerfect coghlight. I would imagine like a
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: slight receiver going out for a bubble and I just
• 44:11
  Speaker 11: come downhill and clean them.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm like a more like I love to
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: be aggressive.
• 44:16
  Speaker 11: You know in this sport, you know you got that
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: advantage and so yeah, you know, anytime as I get,
• 44:20
  Speaker 11: I try to take full of the advantage.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, how hard has that been as a player, you know,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: because the rules change so much and they obviously there's
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: the player safety element of it, and you know, you
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: guys obviously like all schools were the shelves on your helmet.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: You want to be that aggressive player, but then there's
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: certain things you can't do. There's not the head to
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: head contact anymore. To make that impact play, but then
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: also do it within the rules, if that makes sense,
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: because you see so many players that get maybe tossed
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: because a defensive player like yourself goes to make a
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: play you don't mean to because it's such a fast deal.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: You get that head to head contact, or you make
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: a play a horse collar. How hard is that to
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: kind of work yourself to remember, oh I can't do this,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: I said, oh I can't do that.
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: Well, it definitely has been difficult, you know, uh, trying
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: to restrain all that like aggressiveness in the sport. But
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: it's also been kind of and you know, kind of intriguing,
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: you know, to find out like just a technique of
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: it all, you know, just getting a technique of it all,
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: because once you get it down it's kind of like
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: a superpower, you.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Know what I mean.
• 45:19
  Speaker 11: It's like I know what I'm doing and now I
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: can go do it full speed, you know.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: And you bring up a good point.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: It is different in the fact that you know, football
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: has always been a physical game. It's it's that's why
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: people love it. I mean, it's a physical game, especially
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: with the line of scrimmage. But when you get out
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: on an island, like you watch these guys here work,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: uh you know some pitch and catch out here. Used
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: to as a defensive back or a linebacker, you could
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: jam a guy and you know, you keep your hands
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: on it. There's a lot of physicality there, but now
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: there is a little bit more of a skill to
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: it and that hey, I got to watch out.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: I can't do this. There's there's a lot of teas
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: to cross and a lot of eyes to die. Yes, sir,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: you are absolutely correct.
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: You know, they allow they allow a little bit of
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: touching in the first five yards out to day is
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: no touching. But even within those five yards, you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: you it's a quick jam's quick. But you know, like
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: I said, once you learn the technique, you learn the rules,
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: it becomes fun, you know. Just you replaced date of
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: grisss this with technique, you know what I mean?
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: So T J.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: Jones on your radio Wednesday edition of the program Senior
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Here at Heartfield Academy, Hawk, you're ready to play here
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks. It is hard to believe
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  Speaker 5: that you guys play what I think we said the
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  Speaker 5: sixteenth correct.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, thirty sixteenth.
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  Speaker 5: You guys be playing Heritage here academy. So is that
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  Speaker 5: gonna be here or is that gonna be on the road.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be here here on the road or here at
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  Speaker 5: the house. So you know, it's amazing. We were talking
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  Speaker 5: to David Horner about this, about the facility upgrades and
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  Speaker 5: now of course with the turf field and the way
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  Speaker 5: things look here. You've said you've been here most of
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  Speaker 5: your life, so to speak, But what does that mean
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  Speaker 5: to watch this grow, this the school grow, and just
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  Speaker 5: to see the facilities now, the weight rooms that you
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  Speaker 5: guys have and just everything that you guys have now,
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  Speaker 5: it's players, man, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's absolutely blessing.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 11: I remember ruing this was grass and we didn't have
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  Speaker 11: a track, you know, and then for us to now
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: get like a new weight room, new locker room is
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  Speaker 11: all like a blessing, you know what I mean. I'm
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  Speaker 11: just really really grateful, really thankful. And also it's like rewarding,
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: you know, because we worked.
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  Speaker 1: Hard for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, real quickly, and we'll let you go here. Favorite
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  Speaker 5: college team, favorite pro team?
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  Speaker 11: You got A favorite college team would be mc chalk
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  Speaker 11: titles Baby, how about that?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: And my favorite NFL team is the forty nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: Forty nine ers, so you like forty nine Ers for
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year?
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  Speaker 6: Oh yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Our producer Beaver, who's obviously keeping us a float on
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  Speaker 5: us a big forty nine Ers fan, So like another
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  Speaker 5: shot at those Chiefs, right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, we got to I need it. It
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  Speaker 6: has to happen. T J.
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  Speaker 1: Jones on your radio, TJ Man, Hey, look, best of
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: luck this year. I appreciate you taking some time with
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: us today. Oh you, no problem, Thank you for having me,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: and I really appreciate it absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: T J.
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  Speaker 1: Jones on your radio.
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  Speaker 5: Will got about three or four minutes here, we'll continue
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: on here, and of course you can take that off
• 47:49
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• 47:54
  Speaker 5: We'll get Craig Bowman on with us, the head football
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: coach coming up here in just a bit. As we
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  Speaker 5: continue to move through, you can Texas six er one eight, eight, five, three, seven, seven, six,
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  Speaker 5: some other stuff that we're following today. We'll get into
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty four NFL position by position breakdown on offense.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: AFC retains quarterback advantage, but NFC kind of closes the gap,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: And you asked yourself, have they really closed the gap?
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: We're talking about the NFC when you look at the
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: AFC versus the NFC, and you know, we've seen the
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: ebbs and flows of the AFC and the NFC over
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: the decades, and there have been years where the NFC
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: had the advantage, and then there's been weird years like
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: right now, where it seems like, as a collective, the
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: AFC has the advantage.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: It says last time.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: This time last year, it was declared that the game's
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: most important position a mass advantage for the AFC. But
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: after a season in which Dak Prescott finished second in
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: the MVP voting, brock Perdy followed up his magical rookie
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: run with a sophomore campaign that established himself.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: As a very good quarterback.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: He had Jordan Love who took a step forward for
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: the Green Bay Packers. Jared Golf had one of the
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: best years in his career. Matthew Stafford of course recaptured
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: his top form, and then we'll see what happens with
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: Kyler Murray, Kayleb Williams, Jaden Daniels. There has definitely been
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: a surge in the quarterback side in the NFC. You
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  Speaker 5: know about the AFC side, of course, with Patrick Mahomes
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: and Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow now CJ Stroud.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: To that mix, you still have justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: to at Tango looa, Aaron Rodgers now to that mix,
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: and we'll see if Anthony Richardson can can can add
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: to that. So, you know, there is definitely still just
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: a slight advantage in the AFC. When you look at
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: running backs, you have to give the advantage to the
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: NFC because of guys like Christian McCaffey. McCaffrey, you know,
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: you look at Sakwan Barkley, Jamiir Gibbs, b John Robinson
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  Speaker 5: and others. There's there's a definite advantage in the NFC.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: When it comes to running backs. We'll continue to look
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  Speaker 5: down this list and see which side has that advantage,
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  Speaker 5: but we're gonna have to take a time out. We
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  Speaker 5: We do appreciate David Horner jumping out, So t J.
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  Speaker 5: Jones right now though, quarterback and captain for the Heartfield Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: Came and Tapper is on your radio, came in. Welcome in, brother,
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  Speaker 1: How you doing good?
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  Speaker 6: Are you?
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  Speaker 8: Man?
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  Speaker 1: We're doing good, doing good?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: So it's hot and this is.
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  Speaker 5: The part where football players don't like it, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: because you're having to practice in this kind of element.
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  Speaker 5: But this is, you know, another year where you guys
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  Speaker 5: now are are are working to defend a championship. We're
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: gonna get to that in a minute. Take us through
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: there last year what that meant for you as a
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: quarterback leader of the team to finally get Heartfield their
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: first state championship.
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: So I came in as a new player, so I
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: had to break it in throughout the year, become a
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  Speaker 8: leader or everybody's trust, you know, then throughout the season,
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  Speaker 8: got everybody's trust, then got really close as a team.
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  Speaker 5: Did it from there, you know, when you look at it,
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  Speaker 5: it being able to kind of set some benchmarks, get
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  Speaker 5: the first championship, beat Jackson Prep. And I remember I
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: was working the game with Brian you Bank to night
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  Speaker 5: that you guys won. We were calling a game on TV.
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  Speaker 5: Take us through that night. What that was like for
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  Speaker 5: you as a player. You had some big moments that
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  Speaker 5: night as well, through some some pivotal passes touchdown pass.
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  Speaker 5: I believe that was right before the half maybe, And
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: I'm going back in my head, uh through through a
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  Speaker 5: fader out of belief, going this way from the press box.
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  Speaker 1: Left to right. H just to have those moments that
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  Speaker 1: What was that like for you?
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  Speaker 8: Our game plan was just keep it simple, do the
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  Speaker 8: same thing we've been doing all year. Get a playmakers, basically,
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: just do our thing.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: A little bit came and Tapper on your radio.
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  Speaker 5: He is a quarterback for Heartfield as the Hawks get
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  Speaker 5: ready to open the season coming up here in just
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: a couple of weeks. All right, So now the script
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: has changed a little bit. You guys are are not
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: even not hunting anymore. Obviously you're hunting, but you were
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: hunting well. So it's like we were talking with TJ.
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  Speaker 5: You're not sneaking up on anybody right on Friday night people,
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to anybody stadium and people saying who
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  Speaker 5: is who are these guys that know who you are?
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  Speaker 5: How has that changed or has it changed the way
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  Speaker 5: you prepare as a player?
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  Speaker 8: Not really, I mean you just got to keep on
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  Speaker 8: being like progressing. You can't be the same people you
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: were last year. You got to keep on going for
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: instead of like keeping the grudge from last year's team
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  Speaker 8: is new team.
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  Speaker 5: So talk a little bit about playing for coach Bowman
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  Speaker 5: and playing for for these coaches here and of course
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: you know, as you said, you're a second year player here,
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: facilities everything you guys, I mean right now, the momentum
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: that what Heartfield has and what your guys are carrying
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  Speaker 5: forward is is. Uh, it's pretty awesome to watch from
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: the outside end. Talk about you know, playing here your
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  Speaker 5: last year under this group of coaches.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, it was great opportunity. You know, they gave me
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  Speaker 8: everything and especially just a school. You know, everything's built
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  Speaker 8: around us. We're getting some new new stadium, new things
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  Speaker 8: around us. It's been great.
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  Speaker 5: You know, before we let you go here. Best college
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  Speaker 5: team or your favorite college team, your favorite NFL team?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you like?
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  Speaker 8: All right? Miss State and the Saints?
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  Speaker 5: Missispi State and the Saints. And I got to ask
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  Speaker 5: you this just as we were talking. I didn't realize
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  Speaker 5: who I know who you are, but I did not
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  Speaker 5: know who you are. I know your father from better
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  Speaker 5: quarterback in their prime?
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  Speaker 1: You or your dad?
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  Speaker 4: Oh me?
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  Speaker 5: Cavin Tapper on your radio, Heartfield Academy, Cavin, thank you
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  Speaker 5: so much for take us some time of the day.
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  Speaker 5: I'll let you just put that down over there. I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate you today. Thanks so much, Cavin Tapper on your radio.
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  Speaker 5: He's a quarterback here at Heartfield Academy. Will be a
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  Speaker 5: big piece to the Hawks this year as they continue
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  Speaker 5: forward to try to win back to back championships. Six
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  Speaker 5: Justin Simmons finally might have found a new home. The
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  Speaker 5: Saints are hosting the free agent safety for a visit.
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  Speaker 5: NFL Network insider Ian Rapperport confirmed it today per source
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  Speaker 5: holding their training camp in Irvin, Irvine, California, as Simmons
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  Speaker 5: remains one of the top free agents available as the
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  Speaker 5: preseason hits. After being really east by the Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 5: in a cost cutting move, this off season. The two
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  Speaker 5: time Pro bowler is coming off a down year by
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  Speaker 5: his lofty standards, having missed a few more plays than
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  Speaker 5: normally twenty twenty three, but remains a rangy safety somebody
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  Speaker 5: they feel like they can still contribute to a football team.
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  Speaker 5: So the Saints could possibly have an addition here late
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  Speaker 5: as they move into week one of the preseason. You
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  Speaker 5: All right, So we were talking about who has the
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  Speaker 5: best position breakdown this year, at least going into the
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  Speaker 5: season in the National Football League from quarterback position to
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  Speaker 5: running back position and down the road we go. AFC,
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  Speaker 5: you can kind of give the advantage at least still
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  Speaker 5: to the quarterback position. They're making some moves on the
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  Speaker 5: NFC side. Running back, you got to give it to
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  Speaker 5: the NFC because of guys like Christian McCaffrey, Chistim mcaff
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  Speaker 5: eciuse me, Aaron Jones, James Connor, several others, b Jon Robinson,
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  Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley, Jamior Gibbs. AFC guys, you still have Jonathan Taylor,
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  Speaker 5: Derrick Henry, And it's hard to believe that Derek Henry
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  Speaker 5: is still as productive as he is. That is a
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  Speaker 5: testament to his ability and to his work ethic, but
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  Speaker 5: he is still very good. Devon a chain Raheem Mozart.
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  Speaker 5: You've got Travis etn Joe Mixon. So there's not a
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  Speaker 5: big difference in the two running back side. But I
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  Speaker 5: think there is a difference, and you've got to give
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: that advantage to the NFC. What about wide receivers? Who
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: has the best group of wide receivers? We were talking
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: about groups of wide receivers the other day as far
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: as team by team stuff, but when you talk about
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: collectively over the AFC, the NFC, NFL dot Com gives
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  Speaker 5: it to the NFC by just a bit. First, you
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  Speaker 5: go to the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. You look
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: at Marvin Harrison, Junior, Malik Neighbors, Romodunze all playing in
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: the NFC side. Also, you have guys like Justin Jefferson's
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  Speaker 5: lamb Aj Brown, Davante Smith, Aman Russ, Saint Brown, DJ Moore.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of really, look, there's several that.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't mention, like Brandon Aiyuk, Tk Metcalf, Terry McLaurin,
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  Speaker 5: Drake London, Chris Olave. A lot of really good pass
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  Speaker 5: catchers in the NFC. You know, when you look at
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  Speaker 5: the AFC, there are some really good pass catchers, but
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  Speaker 5: I think the bulk are in the NFC. When you
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  Speaker 5: really start breaking it down. There's obviously Sumi, Jamar, Chase
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  Speaker 5: T Higgins, Tyreek, Keel, Jayden Waddle, Garrett Wilson's A Flowers
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: and some others. But the NFC gets that edge offensive
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: line slide edge to the NFC courtesy of NFL dot Com,
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: and that is kind of your offensive breakdown. You know,
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: when you look at the defensive side of things, and
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: we'll get into some of that, I think you could
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: probably give you know, you could your split hairs there
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: defensive defensive line, second level linebackers, and then of course
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: you look at corners and safeties, the defensive backs you
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: can split hairs.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: So the NFC is not far off as far as.
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  Speaker 5: Overall talent, which again when you go to the best
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  Speaker 5: teams in each side, you go back to the Chiefs
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  Speaker 5: and the forty nine ers and you're gonna find some
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  Speaker 5: of those position groups.
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  Speaker 1: On there as well.
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  Speaker 5: Six or one eight eighty five, three, seven, seven six.
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  Speaker 5: We also want to look at there. It looks to
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  Speaker 5: be if I got time today, we'll get into this
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: a little bit of brew brewing in Philadelphia between Nick
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: Sirani and Jalen Hurts. There is a divide there between
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: the head football coach and the quarterback that is there,
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: and it looks like it is its continuing to grow
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: just a little bit.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: We'll get into some of that.
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: Also, we got the ACC kind of a betting preview
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: if you want to look at the ACC as far
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  Speaker 5: as some things that you could play at a Marist Arcasino. First,
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: the ACC Championship odds, Florida State has the best odds
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: at plus two seventy five. The Miami Hurricanes have moved
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  Speaker 5: up to number two at plus four to twenty five,
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: right there with Clemson as well. Clemson right there with Miami.
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  Speaker 5: Then you got NC State, And again if you're looking
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  Speaker 5: Virginia Tech slides in here not in the same order
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  Speaker 5: Heartfield Academy right now. They're head football coach Craig Bowman.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of have to jump in with us and take
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  Speaker 5: a break. Coach, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 6: How are you? I'm doing great, Jake? This is this
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  Speaker 6: is exciting many I'm pretty sure. Press box.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this press box is awesome. This is really good.
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  Speaker 9: So this is is this?
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  Speaker 1: You're one of this press box?
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  Speaker 6: YEP, went up right there before the summer summer started.
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  Speaker 6: So just got the air conditioner hooked up a few
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  Speaker 6: weeks ago. We're ready to.
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  Speaker 5: Roll, and thankfully because it is working, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's funny we talk about the evolution of it,
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  Speaker 5: and we'll get into your team here just a bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I know you can appreciate this.
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  Speaker 5: The evolution of high school football from and now Texas,
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  Speaker 5: let's move them aside. They've always been a different animal
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  Speaker 5: California as well, you get out into Florida. But the
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  Speaker 5: evolution of turf fields, the evolution of press boxes, and
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  Speaker 5: anybody that's ever called high school football can can relate
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  Speaker 5: to this. That's doned any length of time. I've called
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  Speaker 5: football games almost out of like what would be almost
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  Speaker 5: a deer stand. But now you've got nice press boxes.
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  Speaker 5: Like with you guys here, the football fit. It's moved
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  Speaker 5: in a different direction at.
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  Speaker 6: It, Oh my gosh, I mean it, it's it's all
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  Speaker 6: about the experience now. It seems like, yeah, so we
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  Speaker 6: we've done a really good job of I've kind of
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  Speaker 6: taken our time going uh, you know, one piece at
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  Speaker 6: a time. We actually started with the tur field, and
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  Speaker 6: then we knew we were moving to six A. We
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  Speaker 6: had to expand our visitor bleachers and you know, then
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  Speaker 6: we come with a video board and then this this
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  Speaker 6: was the last piece. I mean, we went from a
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  Speaker 6: five hundred seat stone bleacher, right monstrosity, I sore, and
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  Speaker 6: to almost eleven hundred now so and and man, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's exciting and the kids are super fired up and
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  Speaker 6: the fans are fired up. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to t J.
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  Speaker 5: Jones and Cayman Tapper and appreciate you sending those guys
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  Speaker 5: up to seniors, two leaders on this football team. They
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  Speaker 5: talked about their experience here, and you know, you talk
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  Speaker 5: to TJ, a guy who's been here for most of
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  Speaker 5: his life, it seems like he was talking about, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I remember when this was a grass field, and I
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  Speaker 5: remember when, like you said, the bleachers. What you guys
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  Speaker 5: have done here is it's nothing short of amazing. And
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  Speaker 5: of course, talking with David Horner earlier, talk a little
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  Speaker 5: bit about that for you as a leader at football coach,
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  Speaker 5: just to see this thing now move in a different direction.
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  Speaker 5: You got the championship, We've talked about that, but then
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  Speaker 5: to change the trajectory now even again, because like I
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  Speaker 5: was talking to you two guys there, y'all aren't sneaking
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  Speaker 5: up on anybody on Friday nights anymore.
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  Speaker 6: No, we're not, you know, and look it has been
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  Speaker 6: I was here in twenty nineteen and actually one of
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  Speaker 6: our starting offensive linemen from that year, Eli Gooden, was
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  Speaker 6: out here at practice and he said, man, things are
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  Speaker 6: so much different now. I wish we had this And
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  Speaker 6: I said, they were the year that won eight football games.
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  Speaker 6: And I can remember fans coming up to me after games.
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  Speaker 6: I was off asive coordinator and said things like, We've
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  Speaker 6: always come to the games, but man, it's really fun
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  Speaker 6: to win. Yeah, And so you know, it was building
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  Speaker 6: a winning culture and the kids had to buy in.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, it doesn't just change we're talking about it.
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  Speaker 6: Winning takes a lot of efforts, starting in January and
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  Speaker 6: pushing all the way through a deep season and trying
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  Speaker 6: to keep the guys interested and trying to keep kids interested.
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  Speaker 6: These days are tough. Yeah, but man, these kids buy
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  Speaker 6: into things, and when they see the support of our
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  Speaker 6: community and our school, it just kind of raises their
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  Speaker 6: level of play.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you brought up something about the time that
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  Speaker 5: it takes. We had Mike Kershaw on last hour, head
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  Speaker 5: football coaching Misisippi College, and we were talking about he's
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  Speaker 5: in a very similar situation where you were several years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Now is trying to build a culture, trying to change.
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  Speaker 1: The way people think.
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  Speaker 5: I guess it's specific, but that does take some time
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  Speaker 5: and some patience right out of coaches, players, everybody. Because
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure the mindset of your team today, as you
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  Speaker 5: came off the field, you said, Hey, you told me
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  Speaker 5: when I'm paraphrasing here best practice we probably had off camp.
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  Speaker 5: So far, today's mentality much different than four years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, And Mike and I've spent some time together, and
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  Speaker 6: I'll be honest, just to plug Mike for a minute.
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  Speaker 6: We're super excited about what Mike is trying to do.
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  Speaker 6: He at Misippi College. I told him the first time
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  Speaker 6: I met him, you know, the high school coaches in
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  Speaker 6: our area need Missippi College to be a products our kids.
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  Speaker 6: Our kids want to go there. And and there's great
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  Speaker 6: talent right here. And he's invested. And so I'm really
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  Speaker 6: excited about Mike and and and we've we've talked a
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  Speaker 6: lot about about building your program, and he's shared right now,
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  Speaker 6: he compared those are great comparison. He said, right now,
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  Speaker 6: I feel like I'm putting the wiring into a new house.
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  Speaker 6: He said, it's much needed. You gotta have it. And
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 6: it's things like infrastructure and lockers and and and those
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  Speaker 6: culture things that matter to the kids. But you don't
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  Speaker 6: see it, you know, the public eye doesn't see it, right.
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  Speaker 6: And that's where it starts. I mean, you know TJ
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  Speaker 6: talked about a grass field. It has to start with
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  Speaker 6: a grass field. And and it just kind of you
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: have to build those You have to wire the house
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  Speaker 6: before you can paint it and put the nice frills
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  Speaker 6: in and the you know, all the all the nice
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  Speaker 6: cabinet tree and all those that stuff that goes into it.
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  Speaker 6: It takes time and and so uh, man, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we're excited about Mike and and and I know what
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  Speaker 6: he he has a big hill to climb. But if
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  Speaker 6: you're not up for the challenge, it's, uh, it's gonna
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  Speaker 6: be a tough road of hope. But I was up
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  Speaker 6: for the challenge here when I got the job into
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty, and man, we've worked really hard to get
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  Speaker 6: to where we are right now.
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  Speaker 5: Craig Bowman had football coach Heartfield Academy Hawks taking out
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  Speaker 5: another practice today. They're getting ready for kick off again.
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  Speaker 5: Some believe heritage on the sixteenth. Greg, Yep, next week heritage.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe it's next week week.
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  Speaker 5: Do you just as a football coach, and I know
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  Speaker 5: coaches talked, do you like where the calendar is? Is
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  Speaker 5: there talk? I mean, we're not getting any cooler until October?
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  Speaker 5: So is it kind of it is what it is?
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  Speaker 5: Or is there any chatter about moving that because some
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  Speaker 5: of the fans always have talked about that, about hey,
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  Speaker 5: maybe we need to start later in the season, But
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  Speaker 5: then you get into the school calendar as well, so I.
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  Speaker 6: Can't have it both ways. Jane, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 6: I like go ahead and starting. I don't like jamborees.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like scrimmages. It's kind of that fake emotion
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  Speaker 6: that you point kids too, but they know it's a scrimmage.
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  Speaker 6: They know it's a jamboree. So my thing is is, man,
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  Speaker 6: let's just go ahead and roll out and play, and
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  Speaker 6: it's gonna be ugly, it's gonna be sloppy. We're gonna
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  Speaker 6: have guys that go out on kickoff and kick return
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  Speaker 6: because it's all August sixteenth and not you know, September, right.
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  Speaker 6: I do wish we played a little bit later in
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 6: the season. You know, it would be fun to play
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  Speaker 6: in December and get that kind of cold weather. You
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 6: really only get like two games to wear a long
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  Speaker 6: sleeve shirt on the side. That's true, though, But I
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  Speaker 6: can't have it both ways. So you know, I'd rather
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  Speaker 6: just let's roll the ball out there and get it rolling.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a pretty impatient guy, So let's let's start season.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: And of course, you guys kind of play that way.
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  Speaker 5: And I say that, I joke talk about that, this
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  Speaker 5: ronal go next. Offensive philosophy you see it more and
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  Speaker 5: more now, you know, talking to Mike about it, Coach
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  Speaker 5: Kershaw about it, and you see it around the not
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  Speaker 5: just here, but around football. Now everybody's playing four wide,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's playing you know, hair on fire.
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  Speaker 1: But there has to be a balance on that too, right.
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  Speaker 5: As a coach, because this is one of the things
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  Speaker 5: people are discussed about Jeff Levy at Missippi State is
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  Speaker 5: you know, he's got a brand new defensive coordinator. Does
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  Speaker 5: he outpace his defensive coordinator? You know, too many plays
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  Speaker 5: too quickly? Talk about that about how you've seen offensive
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  Speaker 5: philosophy change.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it trends like shoes right, right, offense
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  Speaker 6: trends like shoes, and so you know, all offenses basically
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  Speaker 6: do the same thing. But but everybody wants to to
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  Speaker 6: kind of have the cool new shoes. And look, you
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: know they're teams in our league. I mean, Herbert and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 6: MRA plays super fast, and that's what he does. We
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: want the ability here at Heartfield to play fast. But
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  Speaker 6: we also, even though I've always been on the offensive
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  Speaker 6: side of the ball, I'm more of a defensive minded
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  Speaker 6: guy in the sense of, if we keep teams from scoring,
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  Speaker 6: we have a really good chance of winning. I don't
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: want to get into I hope me and MRA never
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 6: get into a sixty through fifty six game again. That
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 6: was the most stressful night of my life, you know.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 6: I mean I don't enjoy those games. I actually think
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 6: Herbert enjoys those games. I like a defensive struggle and
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 6: we so so even though we can go fast, I'm
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 6: constantly in our offensive coordinator's year about protecting our defense, right.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: We want to put our defense in the best possible
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 6: position we can. I don't ever want to away from them.
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  Speaker 6: I'm all about putting the best athletes up possibly can
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  Speaker 6: on defense. But yeah, offenses. Man like you know, playing fast.
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  Speaker 6: I think it does. If you can play fast, you
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  Speaker 6: can do some some really neat things and you can
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  Speaker 6: put the other team in a disadvantage. We we are
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 6: gonna more try and out personnel you, out leverage you.
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  Speaker 6: We want we want to find what are We play
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  Speaker 6: a lot of different personnel groups. We'll play with a
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  Speaker 6: tight end. You never see tight ends anymore. You're coming back,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah they are, Coach, They're coming back. They're trending back,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: just like burking Stocks and new balances. You know what
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 6: I'm saying. They're trending back. So, uh, we like to
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  Speaker 6: do those kind of things. We have some real unique
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 6: personnel packages that we like to play with.
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  Speaker 1: You got trying to stick around one more second? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: I take a time out.
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  Speaker 5: I do want to come back to that because you
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  Speaker 5: bring up something that I have talked about about tight ends.
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  Speaker 5: today high school football road Tour. We will go to
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  Speaker 1: Little football coach. I appreciate you guys having us out today,
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Man, I appreciate y'all. Jake, y'all did a great job
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  Speaker 6: with covering our league, and man, these kids enjoy coverage,
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  Speaker 6: and so we appreciate all y'all do.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to something you mentioned.
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  Speaker 5: You said, Hey, the tight end position's coming back, and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: I thought that was interesting because I've said this for
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: a couple of years. It's definitely coming back, but it's
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: coming back in a different form. You know, if you
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: go back what fifteen twenty years ago, the old fashioned
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: tight end that was put your hand in the ground. Now,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: obviously you've got some guys like Tony Gonzalez and some
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: others in the NFL that can catch it.
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  Speaker 1: But that was more of your block tight end.
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  Speaker 5: He's just gonna go out and catch a little, you know,
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  Speaker 5: five yard button hook, may catch the old banana rout
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: if you remember those things, tight ends run out of
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: the wing tea and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But now it is coming back.
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  Speaker 5: You look at what even college football the way Georgia
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: brock Bauers, they used a tight end. Michigan last year
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 5: used you know, eleven personnel, twelve personnel.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: It's coming back in the high school game as well,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: oh big time.
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  Speaker 6: And look after I think it was after since then
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 6: our third game of the season, we did not run
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: a personnel group that didn't have you know, either it
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 6: was either eleven personnel or twenty one personnel. And we
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 6: had regassed in the big six four. Yeah, who's going
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 6: to so they miss the pitch and he kind of
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: just changed the game for us, and you know, it
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: kind of gives you that extra blocker, you know, because
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: so many and listen, we have incredible defensive coordinators in
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 6: our league, but defensive coordinators have to remember how to
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 6: line up to a tight end. You know, they're used
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 6: to four and five wide. All of a sudden, now
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 6: you know they're having to bring somebody else down in
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: the box. And if you've got a guy like we
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: had last year with Reed, that can that can push
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: the vertical game a little bit, it makes them dangerous.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: And that's really what you're going to do. Is these
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 6: kids are getting bigger and more athletic where they can
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 6: move like a slight receiver but block like a tackle.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: And we had that last year and it was it
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: was great for us. And we've got another one this
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: year and a kid named Sam Oakley. And you know,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 6: he's not quite six four, but he's a big, solid
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: kid that can run and can block. And so we're
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: going to be in eleven personnel and twenty one personel. Again,
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 6: maybe not every down, but we're gonna be in a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about your your football team. Last year,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: we talked about it with you. It was a big
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: story because they stood out. Your offensive front, defensive front
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: dominated at times, big parts of the reason that you
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: guys were able to win state last year. Talk about
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: that those position groups this year, and then talk about
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: the importance because as fans we watch football, we want
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: to see quarterbacks throw at receivers catch it, big plays. Right,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: But if you don't play up front, especially late in
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: the year, you're not gonna win it.
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  Speaker 6: You're not. You got to I mean, football is always
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: going to be football, right, You got a block, you
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: gotta tackle, and you got to protect the football. That's
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: I mean, it doesn't matter what you do offensive defensively,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: that's what you have to do. So yeah, our offensive
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 6: lin last yere was was really probably the hard and
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 6: soul of our team, we had four seniors, you know,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 6: two of them are playing baseball at Hines, one of
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  Speaker 6: them is playing at Bell Haven, one of them is
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  Speaker 6: playing at Jackson State, and uh so we're we're returning
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  Speaker 6: one starter. So we've uh it's it's been some growing
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  Speaker 6: pains this spring and this fall camp, but the offensive
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  Speaker 6: front is coming along. Defensive front is is is as
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  Speaker 6: good as it can be. Drake with with Reggie and London,
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  Speaker 6: and then we have our nose guards Brandon Turner, who's
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  Speaker 6: kind of he's our quiet student council, but he's pound
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  Speaker 6: for pound, our strongest kid and and kind of wrecks
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  Speaker 6: a lot of things right there from the nose guard position.
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  Speaker 6: But we we are defensive line is is. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I put them up against any d line in the state.
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  Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the difference time.
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  Speaker 5: I'm getting into it because it's just because I'm a
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  Speaker 5: dork when it comes to football, and not to bore
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  Speaker 5: our audience, but you start talking about, you know, a
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  Speaker 5: four man front versus you know five min front or
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  Speaker 5: a three min front, and most coaches would tell you
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  Speaker 5: from over time, in years and years, you got to
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  Speaker 5: have a really good nose to run a three man front,
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  Speaker 5: you know, have a good nose. You can't run three
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  Speaker 5: man front. That's why a lot of teams run four,
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  Speaker 5: especially in high school football. But to have that guy
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  Speaker 5: that you can shade over a center how important. And
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  Speaker 5: some coaches would say, hey, we're lucky to have that guy.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, and so Brandon, you know, you kind of have
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  Speaker 6: the and Brandon is you know, two hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 6: two hundred and forty pounds, five hundred pounds squatter. But
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  Speaker 6: Brandon is a is a slicer and dice er. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: he's super quick off the ball. He gives centers all
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  Speaker 6: kinds of trouble because they, i mean sentners have to
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  Speaker 6: think about a lot, plus have to snot the ball,
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  Speaker 6: plus have to st step. And he's right in your
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  Speaker 6: face right there, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 6: In the other theory in those guards is you've got
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  Speaker 6: a two gap er, right, you got a bigger kid,
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  Speaker 6: you know. Terrence Cody was the epitome of that guy
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  Speaker 6: that I should just he was going to take two
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  Speaker 6: to three blockers period. And we have a tenth grader
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  Speaker 6: that's more fits that style. But Brandon, we love a
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  Speaker 6: fast little nose guard man. They make things happen.
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  Speaker 5: Craig Bauman on your radio head football coach, Hartfield Academy coach.
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  Speaker 5: We've got about four minutes left here, you know, when
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  Speaker 5: you look at football. As far as I'm curious to
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  Speaker 5: get your thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL. We just saw the NFL change their.
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  Speaker 5: Kickoff roles, right, Typically, if something that drastic and quotes
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  Speaker 5: changes it trickles. Do you expect to maybe see that
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  Speaker 5: in the high school ranks here in the next few years.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're gonna change something, you know, And I look,
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  Speaker 6: people may you may get Twitter blown up. I look,
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  Speaker 6: I'm fine with it. Before the game we both agree that, Look,
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  Speaker 6: we'll just put on the twenty five yard line. And
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  Speaker 6: I've heard other people say that, and I'd be fine
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  Speaker 6: with it. And listen, I've got two great returners. I've
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  Speaker 6: got Braylan Womack and Kensey West back there. So if
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  Speaker 6: coaches are listening out there, y'all want to kick it
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  Speaker 6: to them, that's fine with me, right, But you know,
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  Speaker 6: it is a high speed collision and uh and you know, I,
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  Speaker 6: like I said, I may get blown up about this,
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  Speaker 6: but I think it protects the kids, and I think
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  Speaker 6: it takes you know, the right kind of kid and
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  Speaker 6: a lot of scheme to try and protect your kids
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  Speaker 6: and do all these things. I'm for why even have it?
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  Speaker 6: Then it's like wood Bold, it's like kick and some
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  Speaker 6: of that. Well, I'm going to figure all that out
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  Speaker 6: in four minutes on the Jake Wimberley Show. Sure I
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  Speaker 6: am for some change in that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think if you talk to coaches, if
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  Speaker 5: you line ten coaches up and you talk ten to
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  Speaker 5: probably be somewhere down the middle.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot of people.
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  Speaker 5: And of course the end of there's the argument, especially
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  Speaker 5: when you get into the National Football League side as well.
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  Speaker 5: That's where a lot of guys, especially if they're drafted,
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  Speaker 5: you know, rounds five through seven, free agency, they make
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  Speaker 5: their ways on a team.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: But then the safety element you still have to play
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  Speaker 5: that because you even look at what you guys do
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  Speaker 5: in other high schools. Now, everybody's wearing the protective shields,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's doing everything they can to eliminate some of that
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  Speaker 5: extra contact through the week.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's about protecting the kids. I mean one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 6: If we're not protecting, we're not doing our job. That's
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  Speaker 6: why we work so hard in the weight room. Weight
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  Speaker 6: room is about protection and injury protection. That's why training
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  Speaker 6: is so important. That's why recovery has become a big
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  Speaker 6: part of our conversations in our game. I mean, we
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  Speaker 6: are constantly reading and trying to do everything to give
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  Speaker 6: our kids an advantage, one to be a better athlete,
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  Speaker 6: but also to be a recovered apt fleet and injury
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  Speaker 6: is a big part of it and how they come
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  Speaker 6: out of And yeah, I'm like the guardians. I wish
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  Speaker 6: I had to come up with it, Jake. It's probably
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  Speaker 6: cost a dollar to make and they're charging sixty or
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  Speaker 6: sixty a piece.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't be here today, Heck no, but it, I mean it.
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  Speaker 6: It is right for our kids.
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  Speaker 1: And we got about two minutes. You mentioned recovery. There's something.
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  Speaker 5: When I was coming up, this is a long time
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  Speaker 5: because I'm old guy. Now, recovery was your day off
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  Speaker 5: on Sunday, right, that was your recovery. And I'm kidding,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm not now. It's it's it's all about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: making sure you're stretching right, you're rolling out right. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: it's chiropractic work. There's so much that goes into recovery.
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  Speaker 5: But it's it's been able to prolong the athlete.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, And I mean we have a place right here
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  Speaker 6: in Flowood. Maybe I get some free advertise on this,
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  Speaker 6: but recovery, which is a family at Heartfield they've started.
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  Speaker 6: They have the cryo machine to have a chamber you
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 6: sit in and breathe. I mean, they have all these
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  Speaker 6: things and our athletes are very in tune to it,
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  Speaker 6: and so if we're not in tune to it as coaches,
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  Speaker 6: we're missing something. And you know, these kids demand that
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  Speaker 6: from us. Also. You know it's not just about ice
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  Speaker 6: bats anymore. Oh yeah, it's about cryo and cupping and
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  Speaker 6: all these other things, and we got to be in
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  Speaker 6: tune to it because that's what they're paying attention to.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Coach, we appreciate you taking us some time with
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  Speaker 5: us today. Thank you for having us out here today.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to tell you best of luck for
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  Speaker 5: this year. I think you guys are going to have
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: a great year and we look forward to seeing what
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  Speaker 5: you guys do this year.
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  Speaker 6: Take Man always love being on here. Go Hawks.
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  Speaker 5: Hey appreciate it. Craig Bowman on your radio. We got
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 5: about one minute left if you'll hang with me here,
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  Speaker 5: We'll visit here in just a second. We will be
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  Speaker 5: at Jackson Academy tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: As we continue to move on.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be to Maristar Casino with Keith Harty on Friday,
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  Speaker 5: looking at some futures in the National Football League and more.
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  Speaker 5: We appreciate Mike Kershawn jumping on in football coach at
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: Missippi College. Also Craig Bowman, David Horner. We appreciate keymen
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: Tapper and TJ. Jones, member ketchup Is King, Bacon's, and delicacy.
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  Speaker 5: Aloja means goodbye. We'll see you from Jackson Academy tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: See you then, good night.