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Tuesday Edition of the Drive - Hour One · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 2: don't know, Rod, was it like one o two out here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's pretty darn hot. So just be
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  Speaker 2: just got to get an update. How many minutes? How
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  Speaker 2: many laps today? In this heat?
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  Speaker 3: Today was just over thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you a reprieve on minutes because it's hot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got done.
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  Speaker 3: The Fitbit air talked to me, this Fitbit Air. It
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  Speaker 3: has this thing called the AI coach. You know how
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  Speaker 3: I feel about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh you love this.
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  Speaker 3: I've gotten to where I like to actually talk to
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  Speaker 3: the quote unquote coach and yell at it and curse
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  Speaker 3: at it, and it gets it gets snippy right back.
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  Speaker 3: But really, yeah, it told me though afterwards it was
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  Speaker 3: it felt like one hundred and ten outside. It was
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  Speaker 3: like that volume in this one hundred and ten degree
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  Speaker 3: real feel was whatever it said. So yeah, anyway, it's hot.
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  Speaker 3: It is indeed hot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna get into a lot of sports.
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  Speaker 2: Change a second, but you're doing things. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you realize what's happening. You said you would never get
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok. You're now selling jewelry on TikTok. Brother, you
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  Speaker 2: said you would never use AI, and you have your
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  Speaker 2: own AI assistant on a fitbit. You do us next?
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  Speaker 2: What top gun?
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  Speaker 4: What's the logical next step?
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into it here. Chris Hammer reports and we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into some of this between today and tomorrow. How
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  Speaker 2: much does every roster cost? In the power for John
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  Speaker 2: Taltea and Chris Hammer spoke with a dozen of U
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of dozens of sources to find out
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  Speaker 2: conference by conference breakdout of what teams are actually paying
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  Speaker 2: this year. We'll get into that in some college football.
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  Speaker 2: Also yesterday, the AP Poll was announced. If you missed it,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio state number one, Oregon number two, followed by Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame in Texas, Indiana, the University of Miami, the Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 2: Texas A and m Ole miss and Oklahoma. That's six
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  Speaker 2: through ten. LSU comes in at eleven, Texas Tech and
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  Speaker 2: number twelve Alabama, thirteen BYU and USC that's fourteen and fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: followed by Michigan. Which excuse me, Washington, Penn State, SMU, Tennessee, Utah, Iowa, Houston, Louisville,
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  Speaker 2: and Missouri. So that's your AP pole if you care.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the coaches out from last week, We've got
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  Speaker 2: the AP These will be the two kind of identifiers
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  Speaker 2: that we use as we kick the season off next week.
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  Speaker 2: It is Week zero coming up this weekend, so if
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  Speaker 2: you want to have some college football on, that'll be fun.
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  Speaker 2: For Week zero. We'll get into some thoughts and there's
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  Speaker 2: you know, the overrated underrated stuff that goes on with
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  Speaker 2: the AP Poll. Also AP Poll by conference. When you
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  Speaker 2: look at the conference breakdown of the AP pole preseason,
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  Speaker 2: nine Southeast Conference teams in the initial AP Top twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: eight Big Ten teams at seventeen of the twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: also four from the Big twelve, three from the ACC,
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  Speaker 2: and one independent Notre Dame. No group of five teams
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  Speaker 2: in the AP pole that Sun Belt, Mountain West. That's
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  Speaker 2: the American Conference USA, the PAC twelve, and the MAC.
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  Speaker 2: As we move into the AP pole. Also, Alabama starts
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  Speaker 2: the season ranked thirteenth in the AP Pole. That snaps
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  Speaker 2: a seventeen year streak of being ranked in the preseason
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  Speaker 2: top ten, second longest streak in Pole history, as Alabama
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  Speaker 2: is at thirteenth. And again, I don't think it's fair
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  Speaker 2: for Kaylyn to born to be you know, again, he
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  Speaker 2: knew what he was taking when he took this Alabama job.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody that would have been compared against Nick Saban, unless
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  Speaker 2: they did Nick Saban things, was gonna get a little criticism. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: he gets a contract extension this past year. He's trying
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  Speaker 2: to get Alabama back into the College Football Playoff for
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  Speaker 2: the second straight year. Also, let's see here, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: do want to get into this from Shaun seam Emphasis
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  Speaker 2: sent me this earlier. It's you know, you've probably seen
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  Speaker 2: some of this celebration of some outlandish celebrations here recently
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  Speaker 2: over the last weekend travel ball. Now we've got one
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  Speaker 2: in football, a football coach out here. The next chapter
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  Speaker 2: for a sixth grader has officially had been announced twenty
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  Speaker 2: thirty three quarterback is committing to Charles Charlton Middle School.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got commitments going on in middle school out here.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get these kids rained in. Also in
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  Speaker 2: Penn State, we've got a crazy story thirteen Penn State
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  Speaker 2: fraternity brothers charged with running a major cocaine trafficking ring
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  Speaker 2: with some pledges in the fraternity allegedly forced and cut
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  Speaker 2: and packaged cocaine is a part of their indoctrination into
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  Speaker 2: the fraternity at Penn State. So some guys going from
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  Speaker 2: Penn State to the state pen in the state of Pennsylvania. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I love that LSU is not backing down on Jaden
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  Speaker 2: Daniels in the number five. They keep posting highlights of
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  Speaker 2: this young man, the defense back who took number five,
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  Speaker 2: making plays in practice. So you've got the ongoing saga
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  Speaker 2: between Jayden Daniels and LSU. Also, the initial Mississippi Junior
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  Speaker 2: College or excuse me, the National Junior College preseason poll
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  Speaker 2: is out as Iowa Western Community College is number one.
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  Speaker 2: No surprise there, they typically lived there. Hutchinson number two.
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  Speaker 2: You're Mississippi flavored. Northwest Mississippi Community College comes in at
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  Speaker 2: number three. You've got Tyler Junior College at four, Missippi
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  Speaker 2: Gulf Coast at number five, colin Is at nine, East
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi at number eleven. Also Hines getting votes and Itawamba
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  Speaker 2: getting votes in the top fifteen in your national junior
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  Speaker 2: college polls. Also NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell earlier today revealed
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  Speaker 2: he has quote no doubt and he left it at
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  Speaker 2: no doubt and he didn't go any further. There will
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  Speaker 2: eventually be NFL teams based outside of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: I would not be shocked at that, just because we've
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  Speaker 2: talked about this, the way the National Football League has played. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we've got I think seven or eight games in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL that's going to be overseas. They're going to be
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  Speaker 2: and what a hot one it is, sir? How are you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's warmed up pretty good obviously. In fact, following
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  Speaker 6: Sunday's scrimmage, I couldn't resist asking Jeff Levy, you know
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  Speaker 6: what's hotter the West Texas planes you grew up on
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  Speaker 6: the Oklahoma planes you worked at a few years or here,
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  Speaker 6: A deep South heat and humidity, And he said, it's
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  Speaker 6: a it's a real question, a fair question. All you
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  Speaker 6: know is is it was really hot Sunday when they
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  Speaker 6: get out there. But he was actually pleased with that
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  Speaker 6: because it showed when they ran. I think the first
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  Speaker 6: teams went forty seven snaps and the second team's forty
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  Speaker 6: or so snaps. Nobody fell out with the heat. They
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  Speaker 6: all seemed to handle things conditioning wise. Of course, they
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  Speaker 6: had yesterday to recovered. Today was the first day where
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  Speaker 6: they were back at practice, but no reported issues from
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  Speaker 6: that as far as they're conditioning or holding up. So
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  Speaker 6: that's a good start to the preseason. There with the
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  Speaker 6: first scrimmage in the books, I will have to go
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  Speaker 6: in and say that no, media did not get to
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  Speaker 6: watch any of the scrimmage. So everything we know so
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  Speaker 6: far has been told us by the three players we
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  Speaker 6: talked to today. There will be another scrimmage this weekend
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  Speaker 6: and also closed to media, though I believe m club
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  Speaker 6: members put in a boost for that. Good organization will
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  Speaker 6: be allowed to attend with membership and such as that.
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  Speaker 6: So they've entered the full scrimmaging part of it, and
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  Speaker 6: so far, as best we can tell, so good.
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  Speaker 2: David Murray talking Mississippi State football, Bolt was a couple
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  Speaker 2: weeks away from opening kickoff as they'll take on Louisiana
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  Speaker 2: one row at Davis Wade's Stadium, Tuesday edition of the program. Yeah, David,
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing always is, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: hope you don't have any injuries, and it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: so far everything's clean on that. What do we know
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  Speaker 2: about you know, we'll go defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and it's always so hard to tell, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: especially for you guys, because if things are closed up
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  Speaker 2: some reports about defense, maybe what this defense is looking
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  Speaker 2: like maybe some changes we may see. Has there been
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  Speaker 2: any reports of anything like that defensively, well, the first thing.
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  Speaker 6: To report again is this is strictly taken from players
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  Speaker 6: comments that they're enjoying it. I see whether it's defensive
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  Speaker 6: line linebackers, safeties, corners that are all enjoying this defensive
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  Speaker 6: approach under Zach Garnett, which mimics what we heard back
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  Speaker 6: in spring as well. Now, we did get to watch
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  Speaker 6: a couple periods on last Monday and Friday, No. Eleven
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  Speaker 6: on eleven, so we had to race around catch position groups.
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  Speaker 6: I came away thinking, you know what this defense can run.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to say they were exactly slow last year,
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  Speaker 6: but they weren't up there with real serious sec speed
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  Speaker 6: in some situations. I like what they're doing now. The
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  Speaker 6: defensive front seems much more mobile, that they haven't lost
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  Speaker 6: the size. Other than Diesel Moy who was way overweight
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  Speaker 6: last year, now he's trimmed down and actually looked a
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  Speaker 6: young recognize the same guy watching him fire off in
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  Speaker 6: drills such as that. The defensive ends certainly have great
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  Speaker 6: lateral movement. I like what the inside linebackers were doing,
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  Speaker 6: and I really believe that the outside linebackers, defensive ends.
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  Speaker 6: They're really going to raise the game as far as
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  Speaker 6: past pressuring this year. Judging by both limited observations and
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  Speaker 6: then following up the comments from the players as well,
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  Speaker 6: they are getting after the quarterbacks at least as much
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  Speaker 6: as they're allowed. What was the comment I heard from
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  Speaker 6: Will Whitson last week that Jeff Levy gets a little
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  Speaker 6: nervous when anyone gets too close to Kamario Taylor, which
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  Speaker 6: ought to be true. Otherwise they're getting back there and
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  Speaker 6: I think this defense is going to be seriously upgraded.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get a chance to talk to Jefferson this morning.
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  Speaker 6: I don't have that feature on Jean's stage as well.
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  Speaker 6: And they like the competition that the wide receiver group
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  Speaker 6: is giving them where they're short, medium, long routes such
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  Speaker 6: as that. So the attitude seems excellent, and frankly, I
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  Speaker 6: just think physically they are far far ahead at the
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  Speaker 6: last couple of years defensively as a whole, you know.
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  Speaker 2: David, And that's that's promising news, especially if you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about a team last year Mississippi State that and in
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  Speaker 2: the last two years, what was it two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I believe they had ten sacks collectively as a unit,
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  Speaker 2: and then last year they doubled that at plus one.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was twenty one. To you know, if
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  Speaker 2: they can get back to really putting pressure, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, if they can amp this defense up,
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  Speaker 2: it really calls you know, some turnovers create a you know,
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  Speaker 2: higher turn of a ratio of sorts that's on a
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  Speaker 2: positive side that's only going to help this offense that
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  Speaker 2: we know that's going to likely be pretty explosive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: One thing about it too, is when I talked to Jefferson,
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  Speaker 6: I said, well, you know, your best friend is the
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  Speaker 6: cornerback is a pass rush and he just said, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they're doing their part up there, and it isn't. And
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  Speaker 6: you mentioned sack totals. That's great, we wrote. Reporters love
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  Speaker 6: talking about the sacks and such. I'm more concerned about
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  Speaker 6: the hurries than even the kind of hurries that don't
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  Speaker 6: get credited. There just force the other team out of rhythm.
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  Speaker 6: Even if you don't create a you basically cost them
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  Speaker 6: a down in that situation. But I do think, as
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  Speaker 6: you say, this defense will be able to force some
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  Speaker 6: more turnovers just by making offenses operate a little faster.
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  Speaker 6: They want to and you know, flipping it to the
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  Speaker 6: other side. There they're getting a legitimate test by the
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  Speaker 6: speed of these wide receivers. Now I've mentioned before it's
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  Speaker 6: not a big group. We talked this morning to San
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  Speaker 6: Frisco McGee and while no big guy of any stretch,
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  Speaker 6: he's one of the larger wide receivers. This is a
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  Speaker 6: small receiver group, but it is fast. So now it's
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  Speaker 6: going to come down to the recognition the reaction by
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  Speaker 6: Cambarrio to get the ball to him, and as always,
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  Speaker 6: going back to the offensive line play and I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to withhold judgment on that other than to make this
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  Speaker 6: one comment. I think I said it last week after
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  Speaker 6: watching a practice, but I'm going to emphasize it after
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  Speaker 6: another day's observation. Last week, they looked like an SEC line,
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  Speaker 6: and we can't begin to talk about the rat change
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  Speaker 6: that is from the twenty twenty four season and almost
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  Speaker 6: as much sober last season. I like the physicality of
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  Speaker 6: the offensive line what we've seen in the drills so far,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm not worried about physicality from the running backs
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  Speaker 6: at all. I haven't seen the whole lot from the
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  Speaker 6: tight ends. A few running patterns out there, but they're
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  Speaker 6: working on pass protection from that group as well the
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  Speaker 6: day as we were checking it out. So I guess
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  Speaker 6: sum it all up and say that so far, at
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  Speaker 6: least in the non contact periods, they are serious to
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  Speaker 6: working on the passing game. I've got a feeling from
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  Speaker 6: what they tell us what's to get into contact work.
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  Speaker 6: The run game is taking the lead in this offense,
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  Speaker 6: because that's where Jeff Levy really wants to go with
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  Speaker 6: that offense this year.
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  Speaker 2: Talking with David Murray talking Missippi State football camp, it
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  Speaker 2: is a Tuesday. Bulldogs open up a week from Saturday
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  Speaker 2: against Louisiana Monroe in starbl Davis Wade Stadium. Yet, David talking,
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  Speaker 2: I was going to go there next to the running
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  Speaker 2: back room is you know, it's going to be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see with Jeff Levy this year. He's got Camaro Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: a guy that will make you play eleven on eleven
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  Speaker 2: and then fluff bothwell in that backfield. Plus some really
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  Speaker 2: good young talent to true freshmen from the state of Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Crosby from Gulfport, JJ Hill from two beelow. What
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  Speaker 2: this run game, you know how it kind of fits
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  Speaker 2: into this offense and will they be a little more
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily run heavy, but you know, run it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more with the quarterback that's mobile to try
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  Speaker 6: Well, for a comparison, we talked to l. J. Brudon
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  Speaker 6: this morning and I said, what's it like blocking for
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: this running game? And he just lit up and said,
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  Speaker 6: even when they make blocking mistakes against this defense, the
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: running backs are still creating yards on their own there.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: Now they've preferred not to make mistakes obviously, but it
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: gives you a clue of how seriously State wants to
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  Speaker 6: run the ball. You mentioned fluff bothwell, obviously it's the
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  Speaker 6: lead dog in this. And we talked to Xavier Gaton
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: this past week. You know, Colin Wilson haven't heard a
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  Speaker 6: lot about him here in preseasons, but he was the
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  Speaker 6: talk of spring camp on how drastically he's improved his
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  Speaker 6: game running back. There and then the two freshmen, you
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: just watch them moving, thinking, oh, yeah, these two freshmen
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  Speaker 6: out of Mississippi high school ranks, they are the real
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  Speaker 6: deals at running back at this point. This has got
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  Speaker 6: to be one of the better running back rooms I've
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  Speaker 6: seen at Mimisi State in many years, and I do
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  Speaker 6: mean many years in that regard. Now, I also have
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  Speaker 6: seen them doing a lot of drills catching the ball
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  Speaker 6: where they're behind the line, at the line, always feet
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  Speaker 6: facing forward moving. I think you'll see them use it's
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: not air raid routes they're running, but it's definitely get
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: the ball to them quickly and let them beat the
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  Speaker 6: guy that they're matched up with, especially if you get
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: some blocking from the wide receivers. Now that's where maybe
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: some of my concerns about receiver size come and play.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: But if they got the right technique, they can spring.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: These running backs do some things, So I really expect
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: everything that Jeff Levy has said since the twenty twenty
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: five season ends was he's committing to the run game.
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: But that doesn't necessarily mean just line up and slam.
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  Speaker 6: It also means deception, quickness, versatility, and using the short
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  Speaker 2: Make sure to get him on X at David Murray.
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  Speaker 2: As they get closer to kickoff. David always appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: Season as well, no doubt, David, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: We're at Northwest Franklin High School and right now we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be joined by two young men, their seniors on
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  Speaker 2: this team. First, we've got offensive lineman Jaden Ranson. He
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  Speaker 2: is a senior play center. Also along the interior, Jade,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Welcome in, brother. How you doing man, I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 2: You got Missouri Tigers shirt on, so you've been Missouri's fan,
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  Speaker 2: Missouri fan, ol miss old miss hey. But it's just
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna wear it right. Plus it's the colors. You
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  Speaker 2: for a few years. As you said, you moved from
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  Speaker 2: your time has been since you've been a cougar here
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  Speaker 9: It's been nothing but good. You know, I've been welcome
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  Speaker 9: with open ars, and it's been nothing but nothing, nothing
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  Speaker 2: And as far as playing on the offensive side of
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  Speaker 2: the ball, now you you are you starting this year
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  Speaker 2: at center or you one of the guards or kind
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  Speaker 2: of where you're gonna be lined up this year?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, who knows, really, we all know Friday, but
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  Speaker 9: right now I'm at guard, but I can't play some
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  Speaker 9: center tuoies whatever the team needs.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: On the offensive front. Would you rather if you could
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  Speaker 2: just do one or the other? Past block or run block,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: definitely round Block'd like to get downhill just a little bit,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: so you know, would you guys? Obviously last year, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a decent year last year. Kind of what are the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: goals this year for Northwest ranking?
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: Obviously not to go out in the first round. We
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: want to go all the way to the championship. But besides,
• 23:15
  Speaker 9: they just get better as a person, get better as
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: a team, and uh just become better.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: Man.
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  Speaker 2: If you were looking down your schedule now, Coach Cooper,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: We're gonna pretend he's not even listening to this right now,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: but you could just it's all about your first game,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: right It's about the scrimmage game coming up Thursday. Then
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  Speaker 2: you guys open up with next week. But if there
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  Speaker 2: was one team that you couldn't wait to play on
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: your schedule, who is it?
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: So our question? Uh?
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: Well, everybody, I know, everybody gonna say branded, but for
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: me to be Oh Grove.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Oh Grove. Yes, you know, it's interesting because I know
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  Speaker 2: for some of the Brandon guys and some guys here
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  Speaker 2: and even some guys at Pearl Oak, Grove has kind
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  Speaker 2: of become you know, a well it hasn't always been,
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  Speaker 2: but it's become more of a of an emphasis, a
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  Speaker 2: bigger matchup, you know, the Warriors. And of course for
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  Speaker 2: you guys, who would be the Cougars favorite NFL team?
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  Speaker 7: Cowboys?
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys? I don't know has the Cowboys even made the playoff?
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  Speaker 2: Since you've been alive this question, I can. I'm messing
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  Speaker 2: with you. What about favorite college teams? Oh? Mess? And uh,
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  Speaker 2: I always like the pregame meal question. If you're fixing
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  Speaker 2: the pregame meal, Coach says, all right, you get you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: get to do it. What are you feeding people tonight?
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna beat rice, guy, So I go like rice,
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: pregame meal. I probably go like some grilled chicken. Yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: grilled chicken to like. I like sammon, So I go
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: sammon and grilled chicken. Uh, fried rice.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: And I've asked this question for several years now to
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  Speaker 2: guys everywhere. Do you know it was right here and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I cannot remember the young man's name. It was either
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: last year or two years ago. Y'all had a teammate
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: and he said he responded with I don't eat pregame
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: meals and yeah, and the coaches were listening. They didn't
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: even know he didn't even eat pregame meals. So yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: he literally didn't. I've never heard of a young man
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: that wouldn't eat eat a pregame meal. He is Jade Ranson.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: He's an offensive line. We're gonna switch gears real quick.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you, brother, I appreciate it. And bring in Casey
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Swift as Casey as an outside linebacker here for the
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  Speaker 2: a little different time slot today. We'll see if we
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  Speaker 2: can go ahead and get Casey in here right now.
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  Speaker 2: Casey you with us, Yes, sir, I'm here. I'm here, man,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Now. You said you were a lifer
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Cougar grew up here in Floywood. This is this is it? Man?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It has it set in yet.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's starting to hit.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Man, it hits a little bit. I've been growing up here.
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  Speaker 7: I really enjoy the environment. You know, everybody tries to
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: stay positive around here, and it's overall a great community
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  Speaker 7: to be in.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: It's crazy how and you've probably seen it just you
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  Speaker 2: know you're you know, seventeen eighteen years of living here.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, Floywood has grown so much. You guys have
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: done some big things on the football field. You've had
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: some moments, some big moments at some missed moments. What's
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the final ride? What do you want to look like
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: for you?
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I want to take this as far as we
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: can because I know we got the guys that do.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Everybody may doubt us, but in my heart. I believe
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  Speaker 7: we can do it. We just got to keep working
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  Speaker 7: towards it and just keep our head in the straight
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: line and make it happen.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: So outside linebacker, I heard Rod talking to you about that.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: You know when you say outside linebacker today, that's not
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: old school.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Old school you had your Mike middle guy, and you
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: had your two outside Salm and Will, and a lot
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: of times those guys were run pluggers. Obviously, I'm sure
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you can stop the run. You like a very physical
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: young man. But that is kind of a hybrid, right,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got to be able to do a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: lot of things. I'm sure Russ the passer when they
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: call upon it. Uh, cover you know, covered tighty end
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: covered backs talk a little bit about, you know, kind
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: of the flexibility of playing that spot. U.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Well, so I played wheel. So we're more of the
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: run stot rather than the sam. It's more of like
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: a nickel guy at You just got to be ready
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: to get down on that line or be able to
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: drop in the coverage at any time. But it's a
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: very physical position and you just got to be ready
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: for anything that comes towards you.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: How has uh, you know, and again, always say, I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: can't call it fall camp. It's not fall. There's nothing
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: fall about weather, right, it's it's all. How has your
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: summer slash fall camp been so far?
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: It's been very high, very high. You know me and
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: I hear these long days, but I know it's gonna
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: be worth it. So just keep putting the work in,
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: working hard as I can.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: And if you were looking down that schedule, who's the
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: one team that you're gonna circle? Coach is gonna say
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the next game, but you're looking at going that team?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: For me, you have to be Germantown, really Germantown now
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: that they come, is that the first or second game?
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: That's the first game?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: First game going over there? That this year? And last question,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: if you're fixing the pregame mail? What are you fixing?
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: Honestly? I really like mac and cheese and some barbecue.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: That sound good.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: That might sound crazy, but we've had it and it's
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  Speaker 7: the most of like really, yes, sir, favorite favorite college, uh,
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: Missippi State?
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Very good. And then what about NFL team?
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: I'm a Cowboys man.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I got two cowboys in here with me. That's also, Hey,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I have nothing against the Cowboys. We like to pick
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: because they haven't been in the playoffs a long time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: They may make it this year. Man, I do appreciate
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: your time today, Thank you so much. That's Casey Swift
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  Speaker 2: and Jaden Rants and their two seniors on this Northwest
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