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Speaker 1: Welcome back to A Peak Inside Gator Football. Allie Peak here. Guys,
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Speaker 1: in a friend of the show, Stephen Willis, locked on
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss. Stephen, we talked a lot during coaching searches,
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Speaker 1: during the game last year. This season kind of feels
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Speaker 1: like a different feel. I think, uh, you know, you
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Speaker 1: guys maybe feel a little lighter and, um, I think
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Speaker 1: Florida fans feel a little hopeful.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. First of all, um, I'm going to be honoring
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Speaker 2: respect week, um, as, as a good rebel should do
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Speaker 2: this week. Um, but second of all, yeah, it's good
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Speaker 2: to be off the lane, Kiffin ride. Listen, I understand
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Speaker 2: all the winds came. but the moment he got off
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Speaker 2: and was somebody else's problem with what's going on for
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Speaker 2: the last nine months in Baton Rouge, I was like,
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that could have been us. And we
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Speaker 2: would have been happy to do it. And we would
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Speaker 2: have been defending him just like all the Yahoo's are
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Speaker 2: doing down there at the moment. And at the end
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Speaker 2: of the day, you're just in a better position because
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Speaker 2: right now you want on the football field against those guys. And,
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Speaker 2: Pete Golding is 5-1 against ranked teams or 4-1 against
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Speaker 2: ranked teams in his young coaching career, including two top
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Speaker 2: ten victories. I can't imagine a situation where Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: fans would be much more excited than they are right now.
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Speaker 2: I know we're supposed to be sad because what happened
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Speaker 2: down in Baton Rouge, but Trinidad didn't go to Baton Rouge.
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Speaker 2: Kiwan didn't go to Baton Rouge. Those dudes, and it's
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Speaker 2: always about the jimmies, you know, Not the X's nose
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Speaker 2: and all that. So, yeah, I think they're in a
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Speaker 2: pretty good spot right now.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about this game that's taking place at 3.30
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Speaker 1: on Saturday in Gainesville. I want to start with Trinidad Chambliss.
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Speaker 1: You know, John Sumrall called him the best college football
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Speaker 1: player he's seen with his own eyes. And you've been
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Speaker 1: beating that drum for a while. What specifically makes Chambliss
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Speaker 1: different from a really good quarterback?
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Speaker 2: Listen, whenever these great quarterbacks come through college football, it's
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Speaker 2: usually because they do one thing really well. Like Cam
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Speaker 2: Newton was just a freak of nature athletically. Baker Mayfield
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Speaker 2: or Kyler Murray could do things certain ways. The first
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Speaker 2: thing I was telling you on another show that we
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Speaker 2: did that the first thing I noticed about Trinidad was
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Speaker 2: the game manager. He hopped in the four-minute offense completely
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Speaker 2: cold and ran out the clock and won the game
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Speaker 2: even before– anything else happened when he was still running
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Speaker 2: a retrofitted Austin Simmons offense at that point. And then
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Speaker 2: in the games, he started to grow and you can
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Speaker 2: see the playmaking ability and the ability to process. And
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Speaker 2: you're like, yes, this guy's Russell Wilson, whatever, you know,
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Speaker 2: everybody does the comps on it. And no, this guy's this,
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Speaker 2: this guy's that. And I'm like, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you can put him in that box because when he
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Speaker 2: throws the football, he literally looks like Drew Brees back
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Speaker 2: there throwing the football and When he runs the football,
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Speaker 2: he looks like Pete Kyler Murray. And you're just like,
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Speaker 2: are we in the middle of something special that's about
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Speaker 2: to happen to Ole Miss? Yeah. That's where the Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss fan base is because you've got the piece. You've
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Speaker 2: got the dude. I don't care who Ole Miss is playing.
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Speaker 2: I'm not betting against six against any team.
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Speaker 1: You know, what LSU game plan to stop and what
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Speaker 1: Florida will game plan to stop may– be very different.
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Speaker 1: But if you are Florida defensive coordinator Brad White, where
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Speaker 1: do you start with this Ole Miss offense?
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Speaker 2: I don't know because LSU actually had a decent plan
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Speaker 2: to where you just keep everything in front of you
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Speaker 2: and you keep him from making the explosives and it
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Speaker 2: didn't matter. Some of the windows that he threw touchdowns
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Speaker 2: in that game were insanely small. He threw a 25-yard
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Speaker 2: touchdown pass against a three-deep safety look with a window
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Speaker 2: that was about six foot wide and fitted in their
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Speaker 2: perfect ball placement. I would have gone in thinking that
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Speaker 2: was a great plan. And then in the second half,
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Speaker 2: they just turned out and it was like they're going
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Speaker 2: to blitz. He is one of the better quarterbacks in
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Speaker 2: the entire country against the blitz. It's one of those
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Speaker 2: things I don't know that you can be right. I
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Speaker 2: think the most important thing that Florida could have going
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Speaker 2: for them in this game is their pass rushers, that noise,
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Speaker 2: and getting off just a fraction of a second later.
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Speaker 2: Connor Halls, who's actually from Kissimmee, down the road, he's
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Speaker 2: been starting the last couple of games at right tackle.
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Speaker 2: The left tackle's unbelievable. You don't even hear his name
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Speaker 2: during the game. He's so good. But the first time
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Speaker 2: they go into a road atmosphere to where the reaction
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Speaker 2: time's just a little bit slower, maybe that's the secret
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Speaker 2: sauce because nobody has kind of figured out how to
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Speaker 2: do it to this point, and we're almost a year
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Speaker 2: into it.
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Speaker 1: You know, I watched some of your recap stuff, and
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Speaker 1: one of the things that you talked about, you made
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Speaker 1: a great point about, you know, that Ole Miss won
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Speaker 1: that game despite rushing for only 63 yards. Is your
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Speaker 1: ability to run the football a concern that you have
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Speaker 1: coming into Gainesville?
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Speaker 2: No, because Ole Miss isn't running the ball to win
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Speaker 2: the game. They're running the ball to keep the defense honest.
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Speaker 2: And also to remember in that LSU game, there was
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Speaker 2: a fumble where they lost 15 yards. There was a
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Speaker 2: stack where they lost 22. So actually the number was
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Speaker 2: closer to about 100 yards rushing when it was all
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Speaker 2: said and done. So that was enough to where LSU
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Speaker 2: defensively had to honor the run. So if that happens,
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden everything opens up. I think the
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Speaker 2: purpose of this Ole Miss offense is to maximize what
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Speaker 2: Trinidad Chambliss can do. And just a second, that play fake,
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Speaker 2: you have to think about it. JT Lindsey came into
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Speaker 2: the game after Kiwan Lacy got injured against LSU, converted
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Speaker 2: a huge fourth and one, got a nice explosive run,
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Speaker 2: two-point conversion, all of that stuff. LSU had to honor
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Speaker 2: the run. So I don't think it's about the yards
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Speaker 2: with Ole Miss. It's about whether you have to just
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Speaker 2: pay attention to the run game and honor the run
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Speaker 2: game more so than anything else. So Trinidad can just
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Speaker 2: be Trinidad.
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Speaker 1: Florida just watched Jaden Baugh run for 162 yards and
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns at Auburn, and he now has 100 yards
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Speaker 1: in all three of these games and then a couple
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Speaker 1: more dating back to last year. When Florida has the ball,
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Speaker 1: do you think that Jaden Baugh is the matchup that
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Speaker 1: scares Ole Miss the most?
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Speaker 2: Oh, Jaden Baugh is the 100% matchup of this game
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Speaker 2: because Florida's offense, they do a lot of things really well,
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Speaker 2: but it all starts with Jaden Baugh. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: he gets going, they can start with the play-action stuff.
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Speaker 2: The screens are more effective, things like that. I think
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss in this game needs to shoot for a
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Speaker 2: stat line with Jaden Ball where it's 27 carries, 115 yards.
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Speaker 2: If that happens, Ole Miss wins the game. They just
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Speaker 2: don't need it to be 27 carries, 180 yards, something
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Speaker 2: like that. That is the difference. And Ole Miss– Everybody's
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Speaker 2: going to talk about the missed tackle problem that Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss has and how much Jaden Ball causes that. Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss played Isaac Brown in the first week, and Isaac
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Speaker 2: Brown had 14 carries for 30 yards in the game.
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Speaker 2: They are pretty good at dealing with the running back
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Speaker 2: from time to time. Every now and then they go
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Speaker 2: to sleep, they switch off, and they get gashed. But
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Speaker 2: for the most part, they do pretty well. The problem
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Speaker 2: they've had is chasing around Lincoln Keenholz and Sam Leavitt.
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Speaker 2: That's where a lot of those missed tackles are coming from.
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Speaker 2: because you're chasing around quarterbacks. And I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: think that Aaron Filo is a willing runner. I don't
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Speaker 2: think you would compare him to kind holds or Sam Levin. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he will do it. I don't
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Speaker 1: think you necessarily have a ton designed for him, but
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Speaker 1: you know, where do you, so is that running back
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Speaker 1: and truly room because Duke Clark was actually phenomenal against
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Speaker 1: Auburn as well, but is that, Florida's biggest advantage? Or
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Speaker 1: do you think, you and I talked on your show
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Speaker 1: a little bit about Aaron Filo being such a game manager.
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Speaker 1: What about the way that this offense has run as
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Speaker 1: a whole gives Ole Miss pause going into this?
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Speaker 2: Pete Golding on Monday in his press conference said that
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Speaker 2: Aaron Filo reminded him of a coach's kid. And he's
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Speaker 2: just always calm, snap the ball over his head. He's
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Speaker 2: calming everybody down. He's doing everything that needs to happen
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Speaker 2: for that to happen. What gives Ole Miss pause is
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Speaker 2: Jaden Ball getting loose, and then all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: you can start doing the stuff off of it. The
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Speaker 2: play action of Dallas Thomas and Brown and all those
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Speaker 2: guys become much more effective. Maybe the tight end becomes
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Speaker 2: a weapon finally.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you have something like that, but it
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Speaker 2: all is predicated on Jaden Ball getting loose or whoever
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Speaker 2: the running back is getting loose because that's the John
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Speaker 2: Summerall thing. And one of the weird advantages that Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss has in this ballgame is that they faced John
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Speaker 2: Summerall last year twice, including most everybody that's on this staff.
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Speaker 2: So that was the team they played in the playoffs
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Speaker 2: last year in the first round. So you have an
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Speaker 2: idea what a John Summerall team looks like. And the
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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator for Ole Miss, played Tulane as the offensive
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Speaker 2: coordinator a year ago. Now, different defensive coordinators, and I'm
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Speaker 2: not talking about scheme stuff. I'm talking about how the
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Speaker 2: football team's going to play because you play a John
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Speaker 2: Summerall team, it's a fast, it's a physical team. They're
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Speaker 2: playing downfield. They totally take the identity of the coach.
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Speaker 2: You have an idea of that going into the swamp
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Speaker 2: in that game. Now, it's not Tulane players on the
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Speaker 2: other side. It's Florida players on the other side. So
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Speaker 2: if they take that in, You better pack a lunch, pal,
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Speaker 2: is what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Let's flip that around. Where is the matchup that Ole
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Speaker 1: Miss should feel best about offensively against Florida? Is there
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Speaker 1: a particular position group or player that you think you
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Speaker 1: guys could attack?
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a player that Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: can attack, but I will put it to you like this.
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Speaker 2: I will take Ole Miss' slot receiver and tight end
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Speaker 2: going against the interior defenders of the secondary. I'll every
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Speaker 2: day of the week and twice on Sunday. Caleb Odom
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Speaker 2: is a weapon. He is somebody that can destroy linebackers
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Speaker 2: in a mesh concept. He is somebody that can run
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Speaker 2: up the seams that safeties are not big enough to
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Speaker 2: deal with. He is basically what trade as green was
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Speaker 2: for LSU last year. He's a six foot six guy,
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Speaker 2: 240 pounds with excellent hands and can absolutely run. He's
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Speaker 2: a mismatch problem. And when you have the speed on
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Speaker 2: the outside of Deuce Alexander and, And those guys, the
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Speaker 2: middle of the field becomes where the fight's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: And that's where Trinidad's doing most of his damage right now,
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Speaker 2: if you look at it.
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Speaker 1: Traylon Ray felt like a major development against LSU. Seven catches,
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Speaker 1: 115 yards, and a touchdown. Now that there's another legitimate weapon,
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Speaker 1: does that make defending Chambliss even harder?
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Speaker 2: Yes, it absolutely does. One thing that somebody talked to
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Speaker 2: me last week about is what made Ole Miss offensively
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Speaker 2: so good over the last couple of years is you
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Speaker 2: didn't know who was going to be the dude that day.
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Speaker 2: It could have been anybody. And coming into the season,
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Speaker 2: everybody's like, well, Deuce Alexander will be there and Kiwan
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Speaker 2: Lacey might be there. But what then? Against Louisville, it
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Speaker 2: was Caleb Odom. He emerged. Against LSU, Trelon Ray emerged.
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Speaker 2: I think potentially Jontae Cook could emerge as well. And
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Speaker 2: if that happens, all of a sudden, you've got weapons
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Speaker 2: all over the outside. Potential Heisman winner in the backfield
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Speaker 2: and excellent running game. Potentially, as far as explosivity, I
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Speaker 2: think everything that everybody, I guess, predicted about Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: offensively whenever they lost Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weiss, that's
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Speaker 2: not exactly going to come to fruition.
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Speaker 1: How much does Ke'wan Lacy's health change this game? Even
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Speaker 1: if he plays, do you need him to be close
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Speaker 1: to 100% to help, we joke, make this offense one-dimensional? No.
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Speaker 1: but make this offense one-dimensional. How important is it for
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Speaker 1: him to be back?
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Speaker 2: I think it would be a big boon if he
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Speaker 2: was in the backfield because that changes the way the
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Speaker 2: other team's going to play. Because I think he ran
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Speaker 2: for 200 yards and three touchdowns against Florida last year.
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Speaker 2: A lot of these guys know what happened. When number
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Speaker 2: five's in the backfield, they're paying attention to that. But again,
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Speaker 2: it comes down to just do enough to where Trinidad
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Speaker 2: can do his thing. That is the offense at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Line Kiwan up in the backfield, eight, nine snaps in
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Speaker 2: the game, carries if that can happen, fantastic. Otherwise, I'm
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Speaker 2: perfectly happy with Makai Frazier and JT Lindsey as far
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Speaker 2: as pass protection with Trinidad Chambliss. But, yes, it absolutely
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Speaker 2: would be a– Kiwan Lacy not playing in the game
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Speaker 2: because he does have the ability every time he touches
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Speaker 2: the football to take it to the house.
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Speaker 1: There's been this strange pattern with Ole Miss in the
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Speaker 1: third quarter. We saw it against Louisville and Charlotte, again
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Speaker 1: against LSU. I know you've talked about it on your
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Speaker 1: channel quite a bit. What is happening there? And against
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Speaker 1: a Florida team that showed it can handle momentum swings
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Speaker 1: at Jordan-Hare, how concerning is it?
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Speaker 2: Well, it needs to stop. And it should have stopped
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Speaker 2: against LSU. Let's be real about that. Ole Miss kicked
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Speaker 2: off to LSU, had the ball. They went three and out,
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Speaker 2: and Ole Miss got a sack. They did what they
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Speaker 2: were supposed to do. It was the interception in the
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Speaker 2: short field that flipped the momentum in that game. So
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Speaker 2: that's when it got weird. The next drive, Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: got it, drove it down, and missed a field goal.
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Speaker 2: So it could have been a lot different than it
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Speaker 2: actually was, and it probably was better than we're giving
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Speaker 2: it credit for because, honestly, against Louisville and Charlotte, it
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Speaker 2: was not good at all. LSU was better, but if
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Speaker 2: you look at the scoreboard, LSU scored 14 points, Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss scored zero. So it's like, oh, what happened there?
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Speaker 2: And you have to look into it. I think Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss played better. They're getting ready to take maybe the
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Speaker 2: next step. Now, the problem is, like Caleb Odom said
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Speaker 2: in his press availability, you're going down to the swamp.
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Speaker 2: Don't make one bad play turn into four. And that
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Speaker 2: crowd can make that happen. So you have to be
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Speaker 2: locked in, focused, and all of that. More than just
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Speaker 2: the third quarter, you need to try and put together
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Speaker 2: a complete ball game. if Ole Miss puts a complete
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Speaker 2: ball game together, I don't know if there's many teams
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Speaker 2: in the country that can beat them.
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Speaker 1: You know, you bring up the swamp and this is
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss's first true road game of the season. And
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Speaker 1: obviously Gainesville is a very different environment. How much do
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Speaker 1: you think the swamp actually matters in this matchup, especially
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Speaker 1: for an Ole Miss offense that has already been operating
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Speaker 1: at a pretty darn high level?
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Speaker 2: I think it matters a good bit. Um, I think
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Speaker 2: the noise is going to be outrageous. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be important for Ole Miss to score early and get
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Speaker 2: on top early a little bit, kind of deflate that crowd,
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Speaker 2: because if they get going and it turns into a buzzsaw,
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Speaker 2: it can be a problem, as Ole Miss has seen 2015,
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Speaker 2: a good example of that. But I think that Ole
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Speaker 2: Miss is kind of uniquely positioned to handle it because
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Speaker 2: of the tempo stuff that they do. All of that,
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Speaker 2: the noise, they're going to be able to do it. Now,
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Speaker 2: I do worry about Therese Davis and Connor Hall starting
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Speaker 2: on the road. It could be Tommy Kinsler at right tackle.
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Speaker 2: He's a kid from Ocala that could end up handling that.
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Speaker 2: So it will be interesting. I know it's going to
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Speaker 2: mean a lot to those guys, but Florida does have
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Speaker 2: a pretty good sack record and the crowd noise. If
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Speaker 2: you're getting off the ball, that's an advantage the defensive
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Speaker 2: has that's just watching it.
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Speaker 1: So I am incredibly fascinated by this coaching matchup. Pete
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Speaker 1: Golding is a defensive-minded guy. John Summerall is a defensive-minded guy.
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Speaker 1: But both these teams are winning right now largely because
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Speaker 1: of what they're doing offensively. Where do you think the
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Speaker 1: chess match between those two staffs shows up on Saturday?
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Speaker 2: I think it's defensively and how Pete Golding deals with
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Speaker 2: Jaden Baugh. I mean, that is the key for Ole Miss.
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Speaker 2: You have to figure out a way to limit him. Now,
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Speaker 2: you're not going to stop him. He's too good to stop.
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Speaker 2: But like I said, if you can hold him to
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Speaker 2: 27 for 115, you've done a pretty good job. I
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Speaker 2: think Ole Miss has the best special teams in the
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Speaker 2: entire country. And that's going to come true. They've got
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Speaker 2: a kicker that never– there's never a kickoff return. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be about the back of the end zone,
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Speaker 2: the punter. consistently 45 yards and put it any direction
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Speaker 2: he wants to do, the return game is pretty good
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Speaker 2: as well. I think that offensively, Ole Miss does have
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Speaker 2: the advantage in this game because of six. And it
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Speaker 2: comes down to what Ole Miss does defensively. Ole Miss
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Speaker 2: has the ability to do it. Makai Barreau, somebody that
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Speaker 2: Florida fans should be pretty familiar with, gets a decent
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Speaker 2: number of snaps defensively. on that defense, him and Jaheim Otis,
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Speaker 2: they can go some big boy football. I expect Will
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Speaker 2: Echols to play a little bit of defensive end with
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Speaker 2: Cam Franklin with the running game that they're going to face.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be 300 pounders across the board. And
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Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting to see.
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Speaker 1: So I didn't have this written down, but I am
18:40
Speaker 1: so interested to talk to you about special teams because
18:43
Speaker 1: that's something Florida football historically has had exceptional special teams
18:48
Speaker 1: for the last 30 years outside of the last four.
18:51
Speaker 1: And it's something that we prided ourselves on, married to
18:54
Speaker 1: a punter, so something I pay attention to on a
18:56
Speaker 1: regular basis. Vernell Brown III had two punt returns for
18:59
Speaker 1: touchdowns a couple of weeks ago. Florida has, I think,
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Speaker 1: outside of a penalty on a kickoff, every single kickoff's
19:07
Speaker 1: gone out of the back of the end zone. Really
19:10
Speaker 1: solid field goal kicker. Wouldn't call him the best in
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Speaker 1: the country, but really, really solid. I am interested to
19:15
Speaker 1: see if there is some sort of special teams match
19:18
Speaker 1: up there. It feels like these are two coaches that
19:20
Speaker 1: care about them again, which I have asked myself the
19:23
Speaker 1: past few years, I wasn't sure if it was just
19:25
Speaker 1: a Florida not caring issue or it was a college
19:28
Speaker 1: football kind of moving away from putting as much emphasis
19:31
Speaker 1: on special teams. But that's interesting that you bring that up.
19:34
Speaker 1: And I am so intrigued now to pay closer attention
19:37
Speaker 1: to that matchup. I want to talk a little bit,
19:40
Speaker 1: both these teams just won games that they weren't supposed
19:42
Speaker 1: to win. You know, they, both, you know, I think
19:47
Speaker 1: it told us something about both of these teams. When
19:50
Speaker 1: you started to watch Florida's performance against Auburn, was there
19:53
Speaker 1: something that got your attention that, you know, kind of
19:56
Speaker 1: just left off the film to you that you were like, oh, wow,
19:59
Speaker 1: maybe I'll pay attention to this team a.
20:00
Speaker 2: Little bit more? Well, Florida jumping on Auburn, and I'm
20:05
Speaker 2: not talking about the score because for some reason at
20:07
Speaker 2: halftime that was a close game. but it wasn't a
20:11
Speaker 2: close game, if that makes sense. Whenever you actually watch
20:14
Speaker 2: what happened, it was not a close game. And going
20:17
Speaker 2: into that haunted house, because it is. Jordan-Hare Stadium at nighttime,
20:23
Speaker 2: it's a haunted house. It's a badger den. And to
20:27
Speaker 2: go in there and just take it to them like that. Now,
20:30
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. I was questioning this Alex Glesh
20:33
Speaker 2: thing in year one. Now, he might be ultimately the
20:36
Speaker 2: right dude, But whenever you bring G6 players into the
20:40
Speaker 2: SEC and expect more than being G6 players, that's kind
20:44
Speaker 2: of on you at that point. And that's what's going
20:48
Speaker 2: on with Auburn. I do think there's a chance that
20:50
Speaker 2: they throw up a 2-7 in the SEC this year because,
20:54
Speaker 2: like I said, it's G6 players. Yes, USF beat Florida
20:58
Speaker 2: a year ago, but they scored 16 points and struggled
21:01
Speaker 2: to do it against a Florida team that was not
21:04
Speaker 2: very good. Yeah. it's one of those things. Now you
21:07
Speaker 2: expect those same guys to go up to Auburn and
21:10
Speaker 2: beat Florida whenever they're playing well, especially offensively. Logically, that
21:15
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. So I see explosivity returning to Florida.
21:20
Speaker 2: I see physicality returning to Florida. And, you know, I
21:26
Speaker 2: have a weird relationship with it. John Summerall is one
21:29
Speaker 2: of my dudes. It just, He always has been whenever
21:33
Speaker 2: he was at Tulane and all this crap was going
21:35
Speaker 2: on with Lane. John Summerall was my first choice of
21:38
Speaker 2: what was going on. I freely admit that. And I
21:41
Speaker 2: think John Summerall wanted the job because he's coached at
21:44
Speaker 2: Ole Miss before and he knows the terrain there. But
21:46
Speaker 2: the timing didn't necessarily work out. So there's a lot
21:50
Speaker 2: to like about the Florida Gators and what they've done. Heck,
21:55
Speaker 2: When I was 16 years old, my only non-Ole Miss
21:57
Speaker 2: hat that I've ever owned was a Florida Gators hat.
22:00
Speaker 2: Danny Werfel is my dude. So I do think that
22:05
Speaker 2: Florida is going to win, and they're going to win
22:08
Speaker 2: big with John Summerall. I do not think they're going
22:10
Speaker 2: to win this game, though.
22:12
Speaker 1: What's the biggest misconception Florida fans have about this Ole
22:16
Speaker 1: Miss team?
22:18
Speaker 2: That their defense is bad. That is the thing that
22:22
Speaker 2: got LSU, I think. They thought it was going to
22:26
Speaker 2: come in and be a cakewalk because of what happened
22:28
Speaker 2: against Louisville with all the busts. Now, in that Louisville game,
22:32
Speaker 2: Ole Miss had 12 busts for over 300 yards given
22:34
Speaker 2: up in that game. Inside the red zone, one or
22:38
Speaker 2: two or three touchdowns all year. You don't really score
22:42
Speaker 2: touchdowns against Ole Miss in the red zone. And this
22:46
Speaker 2: defensive front seven is one of the best in the
22:49
Speaker 2: Southeastern Conference. So, with the bust in the back, if
22:52
Speaker 2: you can avoid nerfing the front– to where you have
22:55
Speaker 2: to protect the back end of that defense, they're pretty good.
22:58
Speaker 2: Sharif Denson came back last week, was very good. Antonio
23:02
Speaker 2: Kite actually came back. They were out the first couple
23:04
Speaker 2: of games. As you saw in the first half of
23:07
Speaker 2: that LSU game, when everybody's there and everybody's locked in,
23:10
Speaker 2: they're actually a pretty good unit.
23:13
Speaker 1: Conversely, what do you think Ole Miss fans are underestimating
23:16
Speaker 1: maybe about Florida?
23:20
Speaker 2: I think the screen game from Buster Faulkner, he's pretty
23:23
Speaker 2: elite as a coordinator. He's somebody that at the right
23:29
Speaker 2: time can pull out. You're expecting Jaden Baugh to get it.
23:32
Speaker 2: He throws a screen out to Brown or something like that,
23:35
Speaker 2: and it could get loose for an explosive. Just when
23:39
Speaker 2: you thought you were getting things under control, that blew
23:43
Speaker 2: the lid off of it. I think the Florida passing game,
23:48
Speaker 2: is the thing that's being underestimated at the moment.
23:51
Speaker 1: Give me the scenario where Florida wins this game. What
23:53
Speaker 1: had to happen?
23:55
Speaker 2: I think don't play clean. Ole Miss has to turn
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Speaker 2: the ball over, get penalties, missed tackles. If they don't
24:04
Speaker 2: play clean, they're not winning this ballgame. That's not even
24:07
Speaker 2: a question. If they play clean, I think Ole Miss
24:11
Speaker 2: has the better team. But you can't give Florida– You
24:15
Speaker 2: can't cut into that advantage by beating yourself on silly things.
24:19
Speaker 2: If you can avoid that, you're going to be all right.
24:21
Speaker 2: But anytime you play in the swamp, man, weird stuff happens.
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Speaker 1: All right, so this game's over on Saturday night, and
24:28
Speaker 1: Ole Miss won. What are we probably saying Ole Miss
24:31
Speaker 1: did successfully?
24:33
Speaker 2: Ole Miss just played a good ball game, and there
24:35
Speaker 2: was no letdown. They actually really showed up because everybody,
24:41
Speaker 2: everything around this game is about the emotional fall off
24:43
Speaker 2: of the LSU game. If LSU wins or Ole Miss
24:47
Speaker 2: wins this game against Florida, Ole Miss will be the
24:50
Speaker 2: fourth team in the BCS or college football playoff to
24:54
Speaker 2: win a ranked game three times in the month of September.
24:58
Speaker 2: The other ones was Ohio State in 2006, second one
25:02
Speaker 2: LSU in 2011, third one Clemson in 2017. All three
25:06
Speaker 2: of those played for the national championship that year.
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Speaker 1: That was the national championship that my husband won, uh,
25:12
Speaker 1: that 16. So I guess it didn't bode well for
25:15
Speaker 1: Ohio state, but I guess I got him there.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
25:17
Speaker 1: So now I need your permit permit. The, I need
25:20
Speaker 1: your prediction and I want to know what is the
25:23
Speaker 1: one matchup that you think ultimately decides Florida Ole Miss.
25:29
Speaker 2: Um, I think Ole Miss wins the game 34 to
25:31
Speaker 2: 28 and the matchup is Caleb Odom against whichever inside
25:35
Speaker 2: safety is on him at that time. Uh, I don't
25:38
Speaker 2: know how they're so multiple on defense. It's not a
25:41
Speaker 2: one-on-one type thing. But Caleb Odom versus the safeties in
25:45
Speaker 2: that secondary is going to determine a lot about this
25:47
Speaker 2: football game. All right.
25:49
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Stephen Willis from Locked On Ole Miss.
25:52
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25:55
Speaker 1: out on social media. Argue with you on game day.
25:58
Speaker 2: Yes, you can go see my podcast on YouTube at
26:01
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26:03
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26:07
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26:11
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26:13
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