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Brent Venables Hints At Some Good News For Sooners Fans: Injury Updates You NEED to Hear · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: So it appears that Sooner Nation may have got themselves
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  Speaker 1: some pretty good news heading into this weekend's game. A
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  Speaker 1: combination of news from Ole Miss as well as Brent
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  Speaker 1: Venables talking about the offensive line. I'm going to point
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  Speaker 1: out some of the things he said in Brent Venables'
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  Speaker 1: press conference that Sooner Nation, you should be happy about.
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  Speaker 1: Let's dive into that. Before we do that, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: so Brent Venables talked about, gave us some updates that
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  Speaker 1: we've been looking for. He talked about the, gave some
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  Speaker 1: praise to Jason Witten like he was supposed to because
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  Speaker 1: Witten has done some great things last game and kind
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  Speaker 1: of explained how things went down and how it worked
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  Speaker 1: out this past week. And we also got an update
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  Speaker 1: from Pete Golding as we prepare for the Ole Miss game,
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  Speaker 1: even before the availability report dropped. So this is kind
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  Speaker 1: of some good news. We'll talk about that in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But first, I wanted to make mention of Trail Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Keep him in your prayers. I don't expect him to
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  Speaker 1: come back this season. And Brent Venables kind of echoed
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  Speaker 1: that sentiment. He said that he had an infection that
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  Speaker 1: gave him a setback. from the injury that he had
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  Speaker 1: against Michigan, basically for the uninitiated. In the Michigan game,
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  Speaker 1: when he came across the middle and took a shot,
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  Speaker 1: someone got underneath the pads and he lacerated a organ.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was his liver.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, he's been out ever since. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you have not seen Trell Harris. That's an internal injury.
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  Speaker 1: He played the rest of the game and had like
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  Speaker 1: three more catches, took a few more tackles, and the
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  Speaker 1: complications didn't happen until later on in the evening.
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  Speaker 2: And from there, he.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that he had an infection that's kind of given
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  Speaker 1: him a setback and he's not banking on him coming
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  Speaker 1: back this season. So we'll just keep him in our prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully he gets better. He doesn't have any more eligibility.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of the college career for Trill. And
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  Speaker 1: as long as he gets healthy, I think he'll have
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  Speaker 1: a shot in the NFL. So we'll look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Now from there, BV did talk about.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Witten and how things worked out with that.
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  Speaker 1: And he talked about one thing that I appreciated, not
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  Speaker 1: only the emergence and resurgence of the offensive line and
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  Speaker 1: how it was led by Fasusi and Jake Mikla, but
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  Speaker 1: just kind of how Jason Witten interacted with them. And
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  Speaker 1: he talked about how, you know, Witten played offense, played tackle. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, tight end. So he has a relationship and
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the offensive line. Then there was a moment
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  Speaker 1: after the game where they were kind of talking or
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  Speaker 1: whatnot and And you kind of felt like there was
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  Speaker 1: a bond being created in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: And Jake Mikla was one of.
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  Speaker 1: Your big time leaders in getting things going for the
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  Speaker 1: line in that game. And so there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: appreciation for him, mainly because he talked about how he
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  Speaker 1: touches the ball the entire game. And Witten kind of
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  Speaker 1: mentioned this as well. He touches the ball all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And he's the one calling out for the line and
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  Speaker 1: the changes. Him and Fasusi really led to the push
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  Speaker 1: in this game to the point of Michael Fasusi getting
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman of the week. Now, BV mentioned that both
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  Speaker 1: of them were lineman of the week for the team.
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  Speaker 2: They shared it.
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  Speaker 1: They were linemen of the game for Oklahoma, and then
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  Speaker 1: Fasusi gets it at the higher level of the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: And so, hey, feels like Jason went and did the
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  Speaker 1: work needed to make this line look like we wanted
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  Speaker 1: it to. And so, yeah, complaints on me? Absolutely not. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play what Brent Venable said about a
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  Speaker 1: potential player coming back that you all have been waiting
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  Speaker 1: to hear about because.
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  Speaker 2: It will be great.
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  Speaker 1: To continue to improve on the offensive line, period. Before
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  Speaker 1: This is what Brent Venables had to say about maybe
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Fogel pulling back up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Coach, obviously your offensive line played a lot better
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  Speaker 3: last weekend against Florida, and you mentioned on your coach's
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  Speaker 3: show last night that Ryan Fogel is getting close to
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  Speaker 3: being available for you. Given that he has played left
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  Speaker 3: tackle all season and won available, and now you've got
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  Speaker 3: Michael Fasusi plugged back in, on the one hand, how
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  Speaker 3: much of a boost can he provide to your offensive
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  Speaker 3: line just by virtue of being available again? And then also,
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  Speaker 3: where do you kind of see him fitting in positionally
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  Speaker 3: once he is ready to go?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see about where we divulge all of that.
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  Speaker 4: When we run him out there, you'll figure that out quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Ryan's a very talented player, as we know. He can
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  Speaker 4: literally go play at an all-conference level when he's experienced
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  Speaker 4: and healthy and things of that nature, but all five positions,
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  Speaker 4: and be able to help us where we need that
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  Speaker 4: most help. We'll figure that out. when he's able to
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  Speaker 4: come back. But he's working really hard to do so,
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  Speaker 4: busting his butt. Nobody misses being out there with the
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  Speaker 4: guys more than him. But yeah, he's a very versatile player.
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  Speaker 4: And not everybody's like that. Some guys are just a guard.
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  Speaker 4: Some guys are just a center. Some guys are just
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  Speaker 4: a tackle. And Ryan gives you more quality depth because
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  Speaker 4: of his versatility. And so coaches will figure all those
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  Speaker 4: things out once he's available.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the reason we're making mention of him is George
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  Speaker 1: Stoya over there, as soon as Scoop pointed out last night,
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  Speaker 1: that a few of the players showed up to the
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  Speaker 1: Rudy's show that B.V. did, and Ryan Fogier was one
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: And B.V. kind of mentioned Fogier, maybe he'll be available
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  Speaker 2: this week.
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  Speaker 1: And if he's playing around like that, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: that means that he's hinting that that dude's probably going
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  Speaker 1: to be trying to come back.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to at least try to play. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: big question is where? And as B.V.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned earlier, The staff will figure out where they want
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  Speaker 1: him to play and what they're going to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, if you can get that man on
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  Speaker 1: the right side, get him at the right tackle, keep
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  Speaker 1: those eyes out there, rotate him with the Marion Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Ole Miss has got some good defensive linemen.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a good challenge there that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to deal with with Pete Golding and his boys.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can get in there.
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  Speaker 1: And have, like I said, Fosu on the right, Fasusi
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  Speaker 1: on the left, because Fosu plays so much better on
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  Speaker 1: the right than the left, buddy, sign me up because
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  Speaker 1: I think that we can move furniture. And I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the offensive line success is fully on
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  Speaker 1: Jason Witten and the way that he was calling the
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  Speaker 1: plays and the way things were set up because they looked,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, they didn't look as disjointed. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: good news, I mean, it's good.
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  Speaker 2: News for us. It's not good news for Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Golding in his press conference yesterday talked about the
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  Speaker 1: availability of a couple players on his roster. And one
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  Speaker 1: of those key players is Kiwan Lacey, the running back
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  Speaker 1: for Ole Miss. He's missed the last few games. He
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  Speaker 1: ain't playing this week either. He will not be available,
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  Speaker 1: he said. and one of their offensive linemen, Patrick Kutos.
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  Speaker 2: He is also.
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  Speaker 1: Out playing at right guard, but we'll get an old
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  Speaker 1: friend alert there. Troy Everett will actually be in that
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  Speaker 1: spot instead. I've actually seen him in some videos at
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  Speaker 1: right guard.
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  Speaker 2: He was playing.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see Troy Everett playing right guard for Ole Miss,
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  Speaker 1: most likely in the place of Patrick. And but you
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  Speaker 1: won't have Kiwan Lacey, which means it'll be the Malachi
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  Speaker 1: Frazier running the ball. They have another running back that
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  Speaker 1: I think is I think he's solid. I don't know how.
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  Speaker 2: Great he is. Let me get his name real quick.
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  Speaker 1: I had it pulled up a minute ago, but I
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  Speaker 1: actually just.
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  Speaker 2: Took it down.
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  Speaker 1: Shekai Mills-Knight, he's another young back, but he's a bigger back, 6'2, 225.
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  Speaker 1: So he's a bigger back. He ran for 52 yards
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  Speaker 1: against Georgia, ran 71 against Auburn. So he's a sophomore.
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  Speaker 1: He's a second-year guy. So he's only played a couple
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  Speaker 1: of games, played in seven games so far. So he's
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  Speaker 1: played in every game in some capacity. But he has
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back touchdowns, so he's scored in the last couple games.
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  Speaker 1: He's not someone to be trifled with. He's not someone
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  Speaker 1: that we should be playing around and acting like we can't,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be ready for. But BV reminded us
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  Speaker 1: that Trinidad Chambliss is a problem. And so as long
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  Speaker 1: as we don't be playing around with Trinidad Chambliss, we
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  Speaker 1: should be all right. Their defense is not very good.
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  Speaker 1: It's been showing that it's not. They've given up yards
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  Speaker 1: and points to people that they shouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: And....
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see what they look like going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we can use our defense like Georgia did and
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  Speaker 1: cause a lot of problems for them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll figure it out, though. Let me
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  Speaker 2: know what y'all think. Hop in the comments. We'll hear
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts. Think Fosier ain't going to play?
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready for the availability report on Wednesday night. And
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  Speaker 1: you know when we go live, we'll be waiting for it.
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  Speaker 1: So definitely want to hear from you all. Shout out
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  Speaker 1: Our live to talk about, you know, prepping for Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Got to doing my scouting, pulling up the advance numbers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling y'all though, for real, if we can continue
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  Speaker 1: our offense going the way it's gone, we may actually
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  Speaker 1: have a chance of causing problems. Because if there's one
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  Speaker 1: thing that Ole Miss will give up, It's rushing yards.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to give it up when teams block on them.
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  Speaker 1: The only two games this year, they've given up less
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  Speaker 1: than a hundred yards rushing. Every other game has been
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  Speaker 1: over a hundred yards. And a lot of them, there's
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  Speaker 1: 300 yard rushing game, a 295 yard rushing game, 170, 140.
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  Speaker 1: They gave up 140 to Charlotte and 162 to Louisville.
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  Speaker 1: So if we figure it out, there's a possibility that
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  Speaker 1: we can make something happen.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Me and Coop see you soon. Peace.