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That was good. Off of Hastie's Hargaret history. Yeah. Yeah. No, shout out Jason Hastie. If you're, if you're in Athens, definitely stop by the Hargaret library. I promise you'll, you'll enjoy it. He's got a amazing artifacts there. All right. If we were Alabama, we'd probably claim that national championship. I agree. I would be shocked if they don't claim something from that poll because they claim everything. I had a couple of news and notes from Kirby's press conferences. He did get a question around limiting turnovers and basically about Carson throwing picks. He said out of 73 snaps, he had 68 winning decisions. But he said, I think the concern is the mistakes can't be catastrophic. So continues to, I think, kind of talk up and defend Carson a bit there. So that was his take there. And the other thing, just injury related. On Monday, he said he felt good about ETN. Today, he said he was a little, took it back a little bit, said he ran around a little bit, loosened up, took some reps. So it didn't sound quite as positive. And then he got a question on my leg. He's on a black jersey, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, he's like in a black jersey, like a no contact jersey. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see about that. And then he got asked about. Yeah, right. Seriously. Yeah. And then he. What's less than hopeful? He did drop the hopeful line on Smile. Smile London,, Robinson, and Anthony Evans. He got asked about all three of those, and he said, hopefully those guys are back. I don't know. We'll see. I don't know, Hunter, if you've heard anything that Lane said at his media availability. Honestly, I didn't look. I don't know if there's anything that's been buzzing with Lane lately. Yeah, I haven't seen anything. Honestly, I've kind of checked out of all the social medias this week. That's probably a good idea. Just in general. Why is that? Is something going on? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you might be able to provide this insight. Isn't there an injury that they're dealing with with their top wide receiver or something like that? Yeah, Trey Harris. Yeah, Trey Harris. It's also in the hopeful category of whether or not he's going to play. Yeah, he was a little banged up before the LSU game and he got hurt in the LSU game and he hasn't played since, basically. So, who knows? He tried to warm up against Oklahoma and ended up not going and then I don't even think he attempted it against Arkansas. Watch the space. Yeah, seriously. Watch that space and then the weather space. Definitely needs to keep an eye on it in the saturday i mean having their leading wide receiver i feel like it's going to be pretty important yeah yeah um okay let's see so what we can get into kind of the uh we're looking for kind of on the field um so just some overall things georgia is net yards per play is at 1.71 right now ole miss is at 3.33. Georgia minus one in the turnover margin, so that's on the bad side. Ole Miss plus seven turnover margin. So doing very well there on the turnover side is Ole Miss. Or do I have that backwards? Ole Miss has 15 takeaways. Never mind, I'm backwards. Oh, yeah, yeah. And eight takeaways. Yeah. So that's right. So as far as what we're looking at when Georgia has the ball, I'm curious, actually, I guess, Hunter, if I'm kind of calling out the right guys here. So leading tackler is Chris Paul. He's a junior linebacker, 65 tackles total, two and a half sacks. Trey Amos, senior cornerback, leads the team with three interceptions. And also has 35 tackles. And then Sunterine Perkins, sophomore linebacker, leads the team with nine sacks. I know Walter Nolan, also a big name on that Ole Miss defense transfer from Texas A&M. Yeah, I mean, the Ole Miss defense has pretty much been totally revamped, especially up front. You've got Prince Lee and Walter and big JJ Piggy, the mayor of Oxford, as well as Jared Ivey. That was kind of the emphasis that Lane had coming out of the Georgia game last year was that skill-wise, Ole Miss might have been able to match up well with teams like Georgia and Alabama, but where they were really lacking was up front, especially on the D-line. They were getting pushed around. So the big takeaway from the Georgia game was if we ever are going to compete with a team like Georgia, you've got to get the big guys up front. So that was the push in the portal, and that's where you see Prince Lee and Walter coming in. The linebackers are finally kind of up to the SEC par, and there have been some transfers in the defensive backfield as well. So Ole Miss on defense has been pretty much revamped from the team you saw last year in Athens to look more like a true SEC defense. Got it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the defense has been consistent this year. Like that, you think Ole Miss, you think offense with Lane Given, but seems to be kind of the reverse this year, honestly, just at least from a consistency standpoint. Yeah, definitely. I mean, they're way more consistent than the offense. I mean, don't get me started on how inconsistent the offense is, especially when it seems like they're playing a defense that has any kind of pulse. It's like they don't show up or they might show up for a drive and score on a big play and then it's nothing the rest of the game. They're very frustrating to watch. Yeah. So we got a listener question from Fresh IRC Podcast, kind of just pulling into this section, asked, should the Georgia offense take a run-first approach amidst the inconsistencies in the passing game? So obviously, been turning the ball over a lot. I'm curious your take there, Hunter, on how Ole Miss plays the run. Could that be a solid tactic for Georgia? I mean, general consensus is going to say, yeah, it would be a good idea to try to keep the ball out of Jackson Dart's hand, and you do that by running the ball. But the honest truth is that I think the Ole Miss defensive line is probably their strong suit. So I don't know if that's going to be a path to success for Georgia with those guys up front, especially with Georgia's inconsistent ability to run the football. Yeah. And just looking at the numbers statistically, Ole Miss has only given up 82.2 yards rushing a game, which is like second in the country in rushing defense. So I don't know. I'm kind of feeling like, I know, John, you said it in our Florida review, right? It's kind of like, this is the team and they are who they've shown us. And I think that's kind of been the identity has actually been more of the opposite of kind of throw to set up the run as opposed to run to set up the throw. And you've got the short passing game as kind of an extension of the run game. I don't, I really don't see us getting away from that, especially if we don't have a hundred percent healthy ETM. I don't know. That's just kind of my, I feel like it's more like just protect the football. Like, you know if, if Carson can do what Kirby said, like, okay, sure. He's making like, he's hitting that high, high percentage of excellent plays or whatever or, but the poor ones just cannot be, to use Kirby's word, catastrophic. I mean, throw the ball away. Throw the ball away. If you just throw the ball out of bounds on those, and you don't have the pick, it makes a huge difference. What do you think, JP? Yeah, I mean, the story of this game is ultimately going to be,, you know, in the games that I guess that there's a couple of different ways that I could think about this game. You know, I think that somebody tweeted out earlier today, I know John shared it with us. It wasn't his tweet, but he shared it with us that, you know, Georgia's actually averaging more points per game on games when Carson Beck throws interceptions. Yeah, that's wild. Which is just absolutely mind-boggling to me. So ultimately what that means is we're probably going to be good for somewhere in the region of 35 to 30 points on average. It looks like generally speaking, we've played some tougher defenses than Ole Miss has. I think that our offense will not be surprised by how good their defense is because we played the number one defense in the country because we've played Texas and they have one of the best defenses in the country. I don't know. As far as just what I'm looking for is just stop throwing interceptions. I'd love, we have our hats on. We have run, run the dang ball. I would love to run the dang ball and you know what, you know, to a certain extent, maybe there's, maybe there's some stuff that we're holding back on because we flexed Peanut out there in the last game. We've got Dwight out there that could potentially be an option for us with an injured situation at the running back position. I don't know. I don't know that we're going to be seeing a whole lot. I think that this just is the team. I think that statistically, it seems like that we should be watching for how many passes Carson throws if you are one that is concerned about the interceptions. Because when he throws 40 or more passes is when we get on the opposite side of the interception game. But when he throws less than 40 passes, we have a higher likelihood of not turning the ball over. I think that if we don't turn the ball over, we're going to win this game. Period. Straight up. That is just the way that things are going this year. If we win the turnover battle, we will absolutely win this game. What the margin of victory is, I don't think that Kirby Smart truly cares. Ultimately, I think that's really what we're going to be looking for is do we turn the ball over? If we don't, it's a guaranteed win. The only team that can beat Georgia is Georgia. Yeah, I still firmly believe that. All right. Why don't we talk about the Georgia defense and what we're looking for with Ole Miss. So, you know, impressive numbers from Jackson Dart. So 71% completion percentage, 3,210 yards, 21 touchdowns, only three picks. He's also the team's second-leading rusher, 77 carries, 254 yards and three touchdowns. You got Henry Parrish Jr., senior tailback, 678 yards, 10 touchdowns, and 130 carries. Like we said, Trey Harris is the leading receiver, 987 yards and six touchdowns, but don't know if we'll see him or not. Second-leading is Caden Lee's a sophomore. 615 yards. 36 receptions and a touchdown. I think for me, what I was kind of curious about this year, and Hunter, just looking for your thoughts here, was I really like Judkins a lot. I felt like he was a really good back. However, it seems like the ground game, they've been able to maintain the ground game even with that loss yeah um i don't know what it's going to look like coming into this game because i do know that parish got hurt um in the arkansas game but they do have ulysses bentley who was the number two behind judkins last year and it's kind of been a conspiracy amongst Ole Miss fans, kind of where Bentley has been all year. He didn't, I believe he didn't even really get a meaningful snap until the LSU game. And in the LSU game, he was kind of the primary performer. And then he disappeared again in the Oklahoma game. And everybody's kind of speculating like, oh, you know, what did he do? Is he in Lane's wheelhouse? But there's never been anything to come out, not even any smoke. So, honestly, I don't know what's going on with him. But he's a dangerous running back. I mean, he was the two behind Judkins, like I said. So, he's capable. Okay. Over, under on carries for Piggies in this game? I'm going to say over three. Three. That's a lot. I think if Ole Miss gets into a fourth and short, Lane's going to go for it, and he's probably going to give it to Piggies. And especially if Ole Miss is down within the three-yard line trying to score, Piggies is going to get it. Yeah. I think it's wild that we're still talking about. Like, I remember in, John, one of our – it was probably like our second episode or something, like very early in my Got a Podcast, when he was like a freshman at Auburn. Yeah, he used to play aturn yeah and you're like i found this guy piggies like he's a big boy and we're talking about him and then and then now here he is at old miss on the on the defense and uh you know playing mixing in a little offense as well it's crazy this guy's been around forever the stetson bennett of old miss right right um or yeah was it was it stackhousehouse or Brinson? I don't know if it's like they've been around for forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stackhouse has been here for a long time. I'd say a more accurate comparison if you want the Ole Miss comparison. I feel like I can give it because being a Georgia fan, he's, he's actually, no, that's not a good one. He's the Jordan Davis of Ole Miss. That's the best one I can come up with. He's their Jordan Davis. Is he that beloved? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they call him the mayor of Oxford. He graduated from Oxford high school. So he, he's a hometown boy too. Okay. Okay. So coming back to Ole Miss was a homecoming. Leaving Auburn to Ole Miss. Got it. JP, anything you're looking for specifically from the Georgia defense or what you're trying to stop? I mean, from the defense, I think that it seems like Ole Miss is going to get to their yards. It seems like they're pretty good at breaking the intermediate explosive plays. I think that the bulk of those types of plays are coming in the 20 to 30 yard ranges. They far outnumber us in terms of the offensive plays that they're able to execute in that, that are those big, those big chunk yards. I think that managing those as best as possible is going to be priority number one for us, because if you can keep the game in front of you against this team, I think that you're going to be able to control the clock, you know, stay in front of the sticks, that kind of thing. I think that that's, that's what I'll be looking for is can we keep the, can we keep the, the, can we keep the, their offense in front of us, not letting anybody get behind us, like what was able to do against Malachi Starks. They were able to rattle off that chunk yard gains when we had defenders that were looking in the backfield. I don't know that we're necessarily going to be too concerned about that in this game because they do have the number one passing offense in the country. So a lot of those passes are more like runs because they're going to be like quick screens and things like that. Right, Hunter? I think that they leverage the passing game more as a running game in many ways. So if they're swinging things out and keeping it outside the tackles, things like that, as far as how they have to get yards through the passing game. I like our options there. The only thing that I'll be looking for is can we tackle in space? Yeah. And I remember, I mean, last year, I mean, we were able to get pressure and get after Jackson Dart. So that's kind of what I'll be watching there. I would love to see the defense come out like we talked about what we saw against what we saw against Texas and didn't exactly see against Florida and hoping that defense comes out with the hair on fire kind of thing. I don't know. We'll see. There's a couple of things wrapped up there. We talk about Carson Beck and all the crap that we're giving him. Jackson Dart is in that same vein too like Carson Beck has seven interceptions. Jackson Dart has five. I think that I'm sorry, against the ranked opponents, against the ranked teams, Carson Beck has seven interceptions and Jackson Dart has five interceptions. Jackson know jackson Dart darts fairly pedestrian they're fairly even like and frankly you know you talk about these two quarterbacks they're fairly even against ranked opponents so i don't necessarily know that jackson dart's going to be able to i don't know outshine our quarterback necessarily remember remember what happened last year um yeah it's kind of where i was going because remember, he took off one time and took a pretty big hit. So curious to see that. Is he trying to run and is he willing to risk taking that big hit? Because that really affected him last year, I feel like. Yeah. I mean, just from my observations watching him this year, that's still in him. It's just kind of who he is. He's not going to be one to be shy about contact. He's done a little better about sliding, but when he gets in that competitive zone, like it's close, he's feeling it. He's trying to run people over. He got himself bloodied up a little bit against Wake Forest. They were beating Wake Forest pretty bad. He's trying to run people over and get his helmet knocked off and still trying to run people over and get in their face after. He's definitely a gamer. He'll be prone to take some hits because that's just who he is. Gotcha. Yeah. A couple of talking about those hits on the quarterback, a couple of things I'll be looking for from the defense. So Ole Miss is prone to allowing him to get hit and, frankly, allowing tackles for loss. So, you know, we are only – – you we know talk about our offensive line and how I don't talk to Stacey Searles on occasion. We're only giving up 10 sacks and we've only given up 33 tackles for loss. Ole Miss has allowed – was it 19 sacks on the season and 49 tackles for loss? But yeah, I think that that's something to consider as well. One thing that they do have, you know, talking about, you know, on the offense is they do seem to get to the quarterback more so than our guys do. But I think that's an indication of some of the offenses that they've played. But anyway, it seems like that they have given up more sacks than we have, and I don't think that we're necessarily off the charts in that regard. I think you made the joke that our Joe Moore Award, like preseason we were talking about Joe Moore Awards, and now we're like, yeah, about that. Right, right. Yeah, they need to act like it. So another thing, John, you brought up, which I think is going to be a very accurate point, and Georgia did a really good job about it last year, is Ole Miss, they're going to try to take shots. That's where a lot of their passing yards come from is the deep shot, the play action deep shot. They're setting that up as they go, and that's kind of their bread and butter, which is what makes them very frustrating to watch as an Ole Miss fan. When the shot plays are not hitting, it's like three and out, three and out, three and out, and no time is going off the clock. Kind of like a feast or famine. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Which I guess kind of leads into that inconsistency that you were talking about that you've been seeing from them. Yeah, I mean, I just go back to the... I hate to say that they ain't played anybody when they've played some pretty good teams but the defenses that they have played have not been as good as us. I think that South Carolina might have been the best defense they've played but yeah I think that we're going to give them much more of a test than they're probably anticipating. And I would say that this game has slowly, as the season has progressed, become less and less of a concern given some of the results that have happened over the course of the season. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Hunter, before we go into special teams, is there anything else we're missing on the Ole Miss offense? I think y'all got it. There's another receiver you might recognize, Juice Wells, South Carolina transfer. He's always a big play threat. They've been trying to get him more and more involved over the last couple of weeks. They've been missing him. Him and Darn are not totally synced up. But, he's you know, a big play guy, and he's dangerous. Especially if Trey Harris is out, he's going to be somebody that they're looking to. Okay. Got it. Okay, a couple of special teams things. So the specialists for Ole Miss, they got a senior kicker, Caden Davis. 15 of 18 on field goals, also 46 of 48 on extra points. He's missed a couple of extra points. Fire him into the sun. College kickers scenario? They should not have lost that Kentucky game. You got to make that field field goal, goal man man. yeah You're you're a a senior senior kicker. kicker you You got got to to make make that that field goal at home no excuse okay okay watch this space on the kicking situation um but they do take special teams seriously they do have an australian punter uh so fraser fraser mason i believe senior punter um he's averaging 46.23 yards a punt so they got an aust guy. Looks like Micah Davis is the kick returner. Anything to watch out there, Hunter? Can Brett Thorson keep his negative punt return yardage for the season? Yeah, I don't see any threats. As long as Thorson's back there, punting away, Georgia doesn't have to worry about that. I guess my only other special teams thing is kick it off out of the end zone. The other thing to watch is I will say I felt like we missed Anthony Evans against Florida. Kirby's hopeful that he'll be back. I kind of doubt it this week at least, so we'll see. I'll be looking for Thorson to have a much better game. Well, yeah, if we don't – he doesn't have to punt as many times as he did last game. I think Tony Waller said, like, he was worried that Thorson was going to have rhabdo because he had to punt so many times. You were saying something, John, sorry. No, that's what I was saying. I was saying I'm hoping that Thorson, when he's called on, has a better performance because I think that his net punting average took a hit in the Florida game. Yeah, yeah. I mean, when the announcers are saying, and that is not a good punt. Right, yeah. From our guy, that's like, I'm not used to that. Right, right. Yeah, that was wild. All right. Let's hit the list of questions. So as always, listener questions are brought to you by Working Web Media. So Working Web Media, they worked with us to redesign our website last off season. So we really wanted to upgrade it. One of the things that I really didn't like was our old merch store. 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