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Ole Miss Preview | 2025 Georgia Football
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Introduction and Georgia Fans' Quirks
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All the people on Twitter talk trash about Georgia fans who bark at children, but what they think about the children who bark at other people? Other people, yeah, exactly.
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Welcome to My Got Up Podcast. I'm Jim Wood. In this episode, John Powell and I are joined by Hunter Jones to preview Georgia's matchup with ol Ole Miss. We talk through what we're looking for in the game, and we answer questions from you, our listeners.
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Hunter Jones Joins and Georgia vs. Ole Miss Preview
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Now, let's join the conversation in progress.
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When it's Ole Miss Week against the Fighting Hunters, you got to bring the man himself, Hunter Jones. Hunter, as always, welcome to the Ole Miss Week edition of My Got a Podcast.
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Yes. Thank you all for having me. it's ah i't I don't know if I'm good or bad luck because what have we done this? um I think this is going to be the third time and we're one for one. one ah One win, one loss.
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One in one. Yeah, yeah. We didn't use tiebreaker. We had to bring you back for a tiebreaker.
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No pressure. No pressure Hunter. um The yeah fighting hunters. Yeah. And then coming in hot off a, ah should we be recording apologies to the audience?
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The true man was here, but he had to go to bed. yeah But always good times showing off his new skills. Yes, he's a recently, and it really is recently, gotten to where he just talks all the time.
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a lot of yeah A lot of the times he's talking gibberish. i don't know what he's saying. yeah But there are he's got some words in there, and he recognizes things. And he was showing the guys here before we started recording.
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ah Every time he sees a Georgia logo, he barks at it. Yeah. It's so good. He's like, woo, woo, woo. Outside of your home, does he
Raising Children with Georgia Influence
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see very many of those ah out and about? Like, does he do it to out and about? Or is it just a at the house kind of thing?
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If he sees it, he'll do it. um But it's mainly here. And, you know, Megan's not too happy about it, but it's the TV. If he sees TV, that would be our TV.
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He'll go up to the TV and he'll say, ball. And then he'll say, everybody's like, what? And he's like, ball? who Because he knows that's where the games happen. this this is This is where my people are.
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That's so Has he seen the commercial? i't i can't remember what it is. ah what's the It's like an insurance commercial where the guy barks at his boss. Yeah, I'm sure he's you know it's been on when he's been there. I don't know how much paying attention he's been doing because the cars are out in living room and the all the toys are everywhere, so he's just going crazy.
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But he'll stop when the the football game is on and he'll you know like get into a trance and he'll watch it for a
Fall Festival Plans and Game Day Attire
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little bit and he'll turn and look at me and he'll go, woo, wo woo, woo, woo. Same.
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Right, right. So he's he's like, what, like one and a one and a half now? Yeah, one and a half. Okay, okay. All the people on Twitter talk trash about Georgia fans who bark at children, but what they think about the children who bark at other people?
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Other people, yeah, exactly. Dude, there's probably a whole swath of people on the socials that are just like, wait, I thought you were an Ole Miss fan. Yeah.
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But i would it let it be known he's raising them right. yeah Yeah. Here we go. And he's kind of picked it up on his own. I mean, we watched both games and he's got an Ole Miss shirt that he wears and he he has picked up on the barking and the Georgia logos more on his own.
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Amen. Amen. Great taste. Exactly. Exactly. He knows, he knows where, he knows where dad's season tickets are.
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That's right.
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Oh man. Well, I, I hate that the, the time, the, the three 30 timing, uh, is going to keep us from seeing you and the whole family this weekend. Um, but I know y'all be, uh, cheering on from the OS OS the best.
Game Preview: Georgia vs. Ole Miss
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Yeah, and it's going to work out good. There's like a little fall festival trunk or treat that's going on Saturday night downtown. So now I'm going to get a chance. We'll take him down there after the game's over and let him go wild. And his he's got a ah where the wild things are um costume because that's one of his favorite books.
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So he's going to be, I guess, what's his name? Max. Max. We read so many different books, I lose track of all the characters, but he's going to be Max from where the wild things are. That's the the the kid that's in the white the white getup, right? Yeah, the white wolf suit.
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The white wolf, yeah. yeah Yeah, that's fantastic. It's been a minute since we read that one. It's been ah yesterday since we read that one. should probably remember.
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it's funny yeah That's funny. Enjoy it. It flies It does fly by. so I'm coming here. I love steel yeah you go ahead i was just saying i was just dealing with the who didn't want to go to bed and They say it and much more loud and formulated words
Historical Coaching Changes at Georgia
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as opposed to just tears and crying.
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Right. Right. um I'm coming. I'm coming here from watching an episode of the bear ah with Kim and Lily. So things change. and Do different things. That's funny.
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Cool. All right. Stages of life. That's right. That's right. Let's, uh, let's hit the rundown and we'll, uh, we'll get going. We'll get going with, uh, with our special guest. Um, so as always, we'll just remind, everyone you can follow us, uh, at my got a podcast on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Tik TOK.
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All right, so matchup Saturday got kickoff at 3.30 p.m. Eastern at Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium. The Dogs come in at 5-1 and 3-1 in the SEC.
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Ole Miss 6-0 and 3-0 undefeated. It's a top 10 matchup. The Dogs are number 7 and number 9 in the polls. Ole Miss is number 5 in both. We've got the big crew. We've got Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreet, and Holly Rowe on the call. I know Herbstreet appreciates that with game day being in Athens and getting to call the game in Athens. He doesn't have to like leave game day early and fly to go the game like last week.
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um Okay, so a fun fact. The game is on SiriusXM84 again. So I guess the home games are on that channel. I don't know. I should probably stop talking that. um The official hashtag we will forget to use is hashtag miss M-I-S-S verse U-G-A.
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um All-time series record, the dogs. it's I'm always surprised at this. Georgia leaves the all-time series 33-14-1. Last meeting won by Ole Miss 28 to 10 last year in Oxford on a rainy day in Oxford.
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um Weather will not be like that this Saturday. It looks like it's going to be Chamber of Commerce Day, Highest 79, Sunny Day. I think the sun should be setting towards the end of the game like somewhere in the fourth quarter. should be Should be a nice day in Athens.
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right. That's what I got. um I know we've got Hasties, Hargaret history. I don't know. do we have any other miscellaneous fun type facts we wanted to hit? I did not ask before. I usually do.
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Yeah, no fun facts. No fun facts on this one, unless Hunter's got something that he wants to throw out there for us, because not the first time that we played these guys. We played them last season, so...
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I feel like we've covered the Ole Miss, you know side of the fun facts over the last two years. So I don't, don't think I've got anything new. All good. Yeah. All good.
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All right. Let's, um
Georgia's Uniform History and Quirky Coaching Stories
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let's hit Hasty's Hardware History.
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all right, let's do it. JP, you want to take this one or did you want me to? I'll take it. Yeah, that's good. All right. All right. This is our Ole Miss edition. ah We've reached a point in the football season where news of college coaches are getting fired and rumors of coaches being on the hot seat are part of their daily discussion. James Franklin was fired by Penn State after a mid-season collapse and Florida's Billy Napier seems to hold on to his job on a week-by-week basis.
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And goodness knows what's happening with Bill Belichick at UNC. Amen about that. ah Georgia has historically been slow to move on from underperforming coaches. Almost all Georgia fans can recite the list of coaches we've had since 1964. Vince Dooley, Ray Goff, Jim Donnan, Mark Richt, and one Kirby Paul Spark.
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Going further back, since Alex Cunningham resigned as head coach following the 1919 season to rejoin the U.S. Army, we only had six head coaches until Vince Dooley was hired.
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Herman Stegman, George Woodruff, Harry Meyer, Joel Hunt, Wally Butts, and Johnny Griffin. Of these coaches, the outlier for length of tenure and the one who is arguably the most obscure Georgia coach of the 20th century is Joel Hunt.
Current Team Injuries and Strategy Discussions
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have to admit, Jim, I did not recognize that name. Right. Yeah. Harry Mayer resigned as Georgia's head coach following the 1937 season. Mayer was well respected and well liked, but several disappointing seasons had worn thin the patience of Georgia's alumni who wanted new leadership for the football team.
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Meyer had his resignation help after his resignation was head coach at Ole Miss for seven mostly successful seasons. As a natural, speculation about Meyer's successor began quickly, with many speculating former Georgia All-American end Chick Shiver,
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would get the job. Or perhaps backfield coach Rex Enright. Some alumni pulled for former Madison A&M coach Wally Butts, who was having a great success at Mail High in Louisville, Kentucky.
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The university administration had its eyes on
Lane Kiffin's Comments and Rivalry Dynamics
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the former Texas A&M back Joel Hunt, who was then coaching the backfield at LSU after a short stint with the Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals.
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Like what? Yeah. Hunt had been a phenom at Texas A&M, setting a school record for rushing touchdowns in a season that would stand until broken by Johnny Manziel in 2012.
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I want to pause right here because holy crap. Yeah, that is crazy. That is an insane run, ah sir. Like, holy cow.
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Man. Yeah. Once he was hired, Hunt was allowed by the university administration to hire one of his assistants while the athletic board would hire the other in conjunction with the new head coach. That's just crazy. to There's so many things about like all this, this entire story. It's like, we have a coach that's like, I'm going to go back to the military.
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and You can, you can pick some coaches, then we'll pick some other coaches. like hope like the, the, current the mind cannot comprehend. One of the men hired was Elmer Lampe, Elmer Lampe. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right.
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Who would also coach the basketball team. Like what? ah The other was Wally Butts. Together, these men ditched the Notre Dame box offense run by Mayer and installed the single wing offense.
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Hunt also introduced new garish
Game Environment and Player Mentality
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uniforms with bright red pants and red or white jerseys. Hunter, this is where you come in and take your victory lap. So we'll give you an opportunity to take a victory lap that the original uniforms were varied.
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i got to say, Jason didn't even know that Hunter was going to be on. And this is like so perfect. it's So perfect. I'll just say that I will let history speak for itself.
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Yeah. Yeah. Miss me with the traditions. If you're watching on YouTube, we're seeing like the old black jerseys and stuff too. And these pictures that Jason sent us, it's, it's pretty sweet.
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I think, aren't some of those pictures, the, uh, of A&M like Joel hunt at A&M. I thought that was, yeah. Yeah. Some of them are. Okay. Okay. kind All right, where was All right, Joel Hunt's first, and as it would turn out, only season as our head coach started out well with wins over the Citadel, South Carolina, Furman, and Mercer.
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As he moved into the heart of the schedule, things took a turn for the worse after a loss to Mighty Holy Cross on the road in Massachusetts. He beat Florida in Jacksonville.
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Oh, sorry. He beat Florida in Jacksonville. He then lost to Tulane, Auburn, and Tide Tech 0-0, which is just like, what? and And lost to Miami in the last regular season game. At 5-4-1, he did little to inspire the Georgia alumni.
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Hunt was also known to be a hot-headed and had not made many friends on campus, which stood in stark contrast to the gentlemanly and well-liked Harry Mayer. It really was as if we'd fired Mark Richt and hired Johnny Manziel as his replacement.
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Wow, that's quite the thats quite the comparison, Jason.
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University administration took action to move on from Hunt after the loss to Miami. Though the circumstances of the coaching change are unusual. Word leaked to the press that Hunt had been fired and Wally Butts was hired as his replacement.
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Hunt maintained, though, that he had not been informed of any of that and still, as he assumed, was head coach head football coach. Hunt also maintained that he had a three-year contract and would have to be bought out.
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The university disputed this, saying that Hunt only had a one-year contract. Regardless of the circumstances, Hunt was out and Butts was in as as a head coach, a position that he'd hold until he resigned following the 1960 season.
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Again, i want to pause and say, wow. Yeah, long time. In 1939, Hunt took a position as head coach of the University of Wyoming, where he posted a zero seven and one record.
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He spent the rest of his career as an assistant in college and in the pros, even in the 1930s gym. Some coaches were just better suited for being assistants, not head coaches.
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Yeah. ah Joel Hunt was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1964 and the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1967. He passed away 1978. Yeah.
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he passed away in nineteen seventy wow Yeah. Good stuff. Good
Strategic Elements for Georgia's Success
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stuff. As always, Jason. Uh, good, good stuff. Indeed.
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And as he said, uh, let uniform Twitter make, make of that what, what it will, uh, with the bright red pants and the red or white jerseys. Yes. And do they have the red on red combination?
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People are talking. I mean, I think, I think that's what I'm hearing. and was it Was it the first, was it the first red out? yeah
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seriously Do they play Clemson? Oh, man. Should we mention also the... Oh, go ahead. good I was just going to say, like if you're on the YouTubes, definitely go and check it out because you'll find that there are some interesting... ah I guess they they aren't emails, right? They're like telegrams that were sent from fans to, i guess, the administration.
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One of which... I thought it was kind of funny, like basically telling a writer to go jump in a river, like, Oh my gosh, the smack talk back in the thirties, even, even in the thirties, we were trying to troll writers.
00:16:51
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Right. Right. Yeah. Um, I was just going to say that, uh, Jason let us know that like special, if you head over to the Hargit Larry and, and mentioned my got a podcast, you can check out books for free and you can get a free pencil. Yeah.
00:17:07
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Mention my got a podcast for your free pencil. That's right. um So yeah, be sure to check out, go stop by and see Jason. If you're in town in Athens at any time, like we always say on Friday afternoons, you can ah see the the latest exhibit, which this year is around the legendary ah swimming and diving program at Georgia curated by Jack Bowerly and of course, Jason Hastie.
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So thank you as always, Jason, for sending this over to us. All right. ah Let's see. couple news and notes. I guess really just around the injury report. um So coming to like Kirby's press conference, I didn't see any um hopeful kiss of death. um But he did talk ah about like a couple of things that I didn't realize. i think we talked about the Chauncey Bowens thing, John, in our Auburn review that that was when I'd heard about was his his press conference. So he was saying like,
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Like kind of go into the game. It had been bothering him a little bit. What and they weren't really sure if like that affected him in the game or not, but the other guys were kind of had the hot hand. So at any rate, he said he should be able to play and be good to go this week.
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um I think Gaston kind of like re-injured himself, um trying to see if he can go today. We'll see that. And then apparently cj Allen's had like a hamstring issue he's been dealing with. So I didn't know that.
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Um, but CJ Allen, not on the injury report, uh, green and gas in our probable this week. The, the new thing we just heard tonight is a safety. Kyron Jones is was listed as out.
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So sounds like some sort of foot injury. Um, and he is out indefinitely. Brutal. Yep. Um, just when the kid's trying to make a, make a run.
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Yeah. Yeah. Um, looks like we've got something, Elaine Kiffin comment. here Elaine Kiffin comment. I guess I must have added it and I forgot. No, I i added it in there. i was like, when did I do this?
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there's been ah I don't know if anybody saw it on the um Twitter. It was kind of circulating that Kiffin had made a fat shaming comment toward Kirby in one of his press conferences. He said he didn't look like he worked out or burned calories or something like that. If you looked at his ah oh yeah press conference.
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The question like... the question was like ah How many calories do you think that you're burning up there? And like, he was talking about how he seen, he saw Kirby's press conference. It didn't look like he was burning a whole lot of calories out there.
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like, like bro that That pissed me all the way off.
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Like, what a dick. he just He lives to troll, man. ah he he It really is. But I ah saw this quote, and you know he's trying I think he's trying to do damage control with the latest one that he put out where he was talking about how good Georgia has been over the last...
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you know, however many years and how hard it's going to be for them to go in there and win. and he said, uh, this, that this isn't coach speak. It's fact. This is an elite program in college football, the elite program in college football with the top coach in college football. So he's giving Kirby all the praise there. Uh, not trying to give any more bulletin board material. Yeah.
00:20:14
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The ship, the sip, the sip has already sailed. yeah and And he went on to say like, you know, i'll look at their records since 2020. He's like, I don't think they've had any regular season losses since Florida in 2020, except for Alabama and Ole Miss last year. he's like, just think about that for a while. And he just stopped talking.
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Yeah. i know I know he also said, like, after the last game um in Athens, like, two years ago, like, he he he was, like, really high on the Georgia environment.
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And was talking about, like, how that's, like, one of the best environments he's seen and yeah in, you in the SEC. So... Yeah, he's he's a been criticized in the Ole Miss student section after this past week against Washington State. Now, I mean, in the kids' defense, it's Washington State at, you know, an early kickoff, and it's hot in the sun in the student section, which they moved the student section.
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When I was in school, the student section was in the south end zone, and so it was in the shade primarily because they had the the awning over the top of it. And they made that into like, you know, some paying people seats.
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And then they enclosed the north end zone with like those metal bleachers, like the whole north end zone is just metal bleachers. And so they moved all students over there. So any day game.
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They're in direct sunlight and metal bleachers and it's tough. But his comment was, he was talking about his team underperformed. And um he was like, you know, we are, what we're ranked whatever in our stats, but we looked like we were ranked, ah you know, 128.
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hundred And was like, kind of just like our student section looked like they were not doing what they need to do. he he always throws jabs at the student section. Yeah. Oh, man.
00:22:06
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Yeah, I don't know. i Kirby's done. i don't know that he's so much said like the students, but he you know sometimes gets on the fans. for I wonder if that if they got that from Saban at all a little bit. Yeah. I mean, I've seen some people on ah Georgia Twitter who wish Kirby would get at the student section.
00:22:21
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a little late, a little arriving for the Kentucky game for sure. All right. Let's let's see. So for the kind of macro things for the game, if you look at turnover margin, I thought was interesting. Like both these teams are,
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in the wrong on the wrong side of that um so georgia minus turnover margin minus one meaning one more turnover than takeaway ole miss is actually minus four in turnover margin uh but in the the yards per play thing that i know we we we always track ole miss at one net yards per play 1.67 georgia Um, so favoring Ole Miss there in that category.
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Um, but let's talk about, what we're looking for when Georgia's got the ball kind of Georgia offense, Ole Miss defense. Um, I don't know, Hunter, I guess first to you, like, are these even like, like the players for Ole Miss that I've got listed? Like, are those the guys like to look out for?
00:23:21
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Yeah, I mean, the Ole Miss defense, is it's it's not the same one that you saw last year in Oxford. They lost a handful of guys to the NFL. But I think the main thing that you need to know is, you know, Pete Golding is actually a pretty good defensive coach.
00:23:38
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He was kind of, and Lane talks about it the same way, when you coach for Nick Saban, you do Nick Saban way, and that's what you do, and you don't question it, ah but you know under Lane, Lane has said he's tried to kind of be ah more of letting his assistant coaches do kind of what they're hired to do, and so Pete's got a pretty good defensive unit out there.
00:24:04
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a lot of guys are going to be flying with the ball. They're going to be well coached and be in the right place. So I think that's the main thing you can look forward to is Ole Miss is not going to be ill prepared as far as assignment and, um you know, fit and scheme and that kind of thing.
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It's just going to come down to players making plays. And, you know, obviously I feel like I like Georgia's chances if if that's what it's coming down to, but they're going to be well coached. They're going be in the right spots.
00:24:36
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Okay. Okay. Got it. Um, I, the, the couple of guys I had down were like TJ Daughtery is a the leading tack tackler line linebacker.
00:24:48
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Uh, is it, do you even know is Zavion Harris ZX? Yeah. Okay. Senior defensive tackle, um, has two sacks and then will Eccles is a sophomore defensive tackle has three sacks on the season.
00:25:03
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Interesting that like I guess there's just not a lot a lot of interceptions. So the leading interceptor has won a defensive tackle. So I don't know. Watch that watch the defensive line get their hands up. um we We had a question.
00:25:15
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Maybe, JP, you can give us a little insight on this. Alex Humphreys had asked us, he said, last year, huge battle in the game was George's offensive line against Ole Miss's D-line. I know you're always talking about the, uh, the Georgia offensive line. And then like he said, how does, how does Ole Miss pass rush look, look, look this year.
00:25:33
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Yeah, I mean, the the defensive numbers, Georgia actually has a better has better total defense, better scoring defense. um not like Not terribly, but um they do have nine sacks on the season.
00:25:50
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um So it's it's definitely a point of concern. like I'm sure that they're going to get to the quarterback at some point. Yeah. It just seems like that that's just kind of what has happened this season. So um as long as we can do our due diligence to stay on schedule, um as far as when we have the ball, um the things that I'm going to be looking for is can we establish the run?
00:26:14
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um It looks as though like they have a susceptible, they are susceptible to the run. um They've been giving up around 157 yards per game russianing So if I were to tell you, Jim, if, hey, Georgia had 157 yards rushing, like, would you take that? And would you think that we would come away with that? So if we can just hold them to what they have been used to, um the pass rush may not necessarily matter as much because if we can get the run game going, that will definitely give us some opportunities further down the road. But if we're sitting in situations where they can pin their ears back, they definitely have –
00:26:52
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Um, you know, if we get in second and medium or, um you know, or early down setting up downfield passing, like, you know, we've, we've got to get, uh, we've got to get our, we've got to get our guys in the right, in the right spots and get the right protections. Cause they're probably going to come away with a couple of sacks.
00:27:11
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Yeah. Hunter has that, i don't know. I guess, what have you seen from like the pass rush from Ole Miss? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the defensive line is still good. Last year, the defensive line was kind of a mixture of the guys that you you see their names popping up now. They were ah younger guys who got playing time, but that unit last year was really, really disruptive. They had Walter Nolan,
00:27:37
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the big time transfer and Jared Ivey and JJ Piggies. And, you know, those guys are gone, but Echols and human mailing. And i don't know if I'm saying that right.
00:27:49
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Cam Franklin, they're Zavion Harris. They're all returning guys that got playing time alongside those other guys last year. And I think that that was a big thing um with last year's team playing at Ole Miss was, you know, Ole Miss had a deep,
00:28:07
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defensive line, not just, you know, some talented guys, but they were, they had a lot of talented guys and that took a toll on Georgia's offensive line. So, um you know, it's a good thing they don't have those, those three big names back this year, um but they do have some guys that are, that are going to be disruptive and that are real talented.
00:28:27
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Okay. Yeah, I'm just kind of looking through their schedule. like gave up If you look at like the SEC, they gave up 23 to Kentucky, gave up 35 to Arkansas, gave up 19 to LSU. I mean, that's a pretty good defensive effort. But then 21 to Washington State as well.
00:28:42
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So, don't know. Feels like um and it could potentially be so susceptible there to this. Yeah, to the and the Washington State game was really weird. Like, they'd get Washington State to, like, third and 15, they'd give up, like, a 50-yard screen pass or, you know, a quarterback draw for 40 yards.
00:29:05
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And it was just – it was a weird game. um And Kiffin admitted to it. They he used the bye week. They had bye week before Washington State, and he straight up admitted that they were preparing for Georgia the whole time.
00:29:19
Speaker
and so yeah i did i did notice that uh that he basically has been talking about that they've been working on working on georgia for basically two weeks so yeah they slip walk right through that washington state game and it almost cost them okay yeah yeah i don't know mean i guess on our offense like I guess my question is just, can we, can we do things, can we do what we're capable of like from the start?
00:29:47
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And like, I don't know. I don't know if that's kind of been our thing for not just this year, right? Like going back to last year and even further. so so, so here's, here's where I'm at, Jim, as far as with our offense.
00:30:00
Speaker
Um, I i am basically looking for them to not um not turn the ball over. like but yeah That's going to be the most important thing for me this game because I'm just going to assume that the body of work that we've been putting out there is what we can all expect, which you know you can argue all day long whether or not that that's warranted that we should expect that.
00:30:24
Speaker
But the reality is is that it's just what has been happening and i can't get past it. We're still in show me territory, right? Yeah. I mean, it's almost like at some point we kind of accept, have to accept like what this team is, you know?
00:30:39
Speaker
Yeah. You just, you just have to recognize that. and And this might be a good, since we talked about it on the podcast before the podcast, Jim, like, are you results oriented or are you process oriented? Right.
00:30:52
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. And I, yeah, I, I kind of thought too, like, like i know the three of us are all in like different areas, like in the workforce, we've got a teacher, you know, I'm in more like it, John also similar, but what kind of more of a marketing focus, like, and it's like, it's something I like talk about even like playing golf too, and stuff like that, you know, like, are you going to worry about like your process of taking a shot or like the results of where the shot shot went?
00:31:15
Speaker
I think I'm not good enough. So like, I'll take whatever I can get at golf. So that's not maybe a good analogy. Um, but like, you know, it's like when, and this is almost, I I'm kind of feeling more like this on the defensive side. So maybe we can kind of do this, like as we're transitioning into defense, cause that's, that's the thing is that the last game against Auburn, it's like in the middle of the game, you're so frustrated and like Auburn's like marching up and down the field.
00:31:36
Speaker
And so you're like, ah, like this has got, this is, you we're terrible and like all this kind of stuff. And then like, you get to the end of the game, it's like, oh, they only scored 20. They only scored 10 points. And they like they had like did like nothing in the second half.
00:31:47
Speaker
So it's like, if you're a results-driven person, you know like it's hard to argue with the result of what they did against Auburn. um But I know Kirby is very process-oriented. So I guess I don't know like what's going on there. you know like Are they following the process the whole time?
00:32:02
Speaker
And then they end up getting to that end result? Or like are we straying from the process? you know I don't know. i say I would have to say that I think that they are... trying to follow the process as best as they can, given that they've got like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like when you have a bunch of new hires, right?
00:32:22
Speaker
Sometimes they may not know exactly what they're supposed to be doing, but you give them a set of tasks and these are the things that we're supposed to be doing. and even Even if they miss missed some of those steps, but they still have a satisfied client in my world, like we would consider that a win, like ah like a ah goal ah goals, you know, results driven kind of situation.
00:32:47
Speaker
um We'll work on the process after the fact kind of thing. sure um You may be messing it up. It's just because you just don't know any better. And maybe you're making mistakes that we just need to have more training. And I kind of feel like that's kind of what we're seeing on the field. You got missed tackles. You got missed, you know, people missing blocks. And you got the officially unofficial wide receiver. I got a podcast missing wide open passes downfield. Like um you've got,
00:33:18
Speaker
all kinds of different things um that are going on there. you got guys that are getting hurt. And so, you know, kind of like when someone goes down or goes on vacation, like there is the ramp up time to try to fill in that gap kind of stuff. So I kind of look at it like that. And like you said, it's hard to argue it, you know, some of the things, but you want to do better.
00:33:42
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Cool. Cool. um I guess we we can keep going there. Like Georgia stick with the Georgia defense Ole Miss offense. um And I think the the big thing for me is just really like the, don't know quarterback change is the right wording, but like, you know, last year um when dart went down,
00:34:04
Speaker
went down early in the game you're like oh man like that might bode well for georgia um and then you know backup quarterback comes in and like marches down the field um and like simmons yeah tell us about the backup quarterback he looks like well he looks like otherworldly but then now it's what trinidad chambliss is playing now so is is simmons still hurt hunter or like no no he's not he's not hurting anymore okay he's just uh he's going with the hot hand you know Yeah.
00:34:34
Speaker
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Okay. So yeah, so backup quarterback is the same backup quarterback as last year. They can yes came off the bench. yeah He came off the bench last year. He won the starting job this year.
00:34:46
Speaker
Got hurt. Trinidad came in, leads them to an unbeaten record, you know, ranked in the top five. And Lane's just, like I said, he's playing the hot hand. And so now he's the backup again.
00:34:58
Speaker
So what I hear you saying is that we should prepare for the backup as well. I don't know, man, because Chambliss has been. Just in case. Always just in case. Always just in case. Yes.
00:35:09
Speaker
um But yeah, I mean, this guy is what? Like a transfer from Ferris State? Ferris State. Yeah. yeah I don't even know where it where that is And Lane, I can't remember if it was ever right after the Washington State game. I think it was where they were like, well, what did you say to your quarterback? You know, he was because he had a but he hit had a rough game.
00:35:29
Speaker
um He was missing passes, turn the ball over. And he was like, I told him he needs useds to quit doing quit going back to doing Ferris State stuff and go back to doing Ole Miss stuff.
00:35:43
Speaker
Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. So anyway, so that, that, that kind of like jumps out to me, but he's also like second leading rusher on the team too. So he's kind of out there doing it all um for Ole Miss seven touchdowns, passing one pick 200 yards, 281 yards rushing and in three touchdowns.
00:36:03
Speaker
And then Kwon Lacey, the running back 587 yards, touchdowns. um are Are these the right receivers, Hunter? well Harrison Wallace and then Daquan Wright is the tied-in, actually.
00:36:15
Speaker
Those are kind of the main weapons. Yeah, yeah. And the other thing I want to say about Trinidad is he's he's going to play within – how do I say this?
00:36:27
Speaker
Because he's not – I don't want to call him a game manager. he's he's He does more than that, but he's not he's not going to be the one – is going to make the boneheaded mistake because he's trying to do too much.
00:36:41
Speaker
He's not going to do too much. He's going to do exactly what is given to him and what he's coached to do. So that's why he's, you know, second leading rusher is they use him a lot in that run game because that's his skill set.
00:36:55
Speaker
And he's, he's coached to do that. And he's, he's not going to be like running the ball, trying to run people over and that kind of stuff. He's going to get what he can get and he's going to go down and he's going to move on to the next play.
00:37:08
Speaker
He's very calm. He's very even keeled because he is a veteran, what I would call like a veteran player. He just is a transfer veteran player, but he's got that, ah that, you know, that it factor about him, which is why it's made it hard for Lane to know go back with Simmons because not only did he come in and and lead you to wins, but he's doing everything that you want your starting quarterback to do.
00:37:36
Speaker
And he is being everything that you would want the starting quarterback to be as far as how he leads the team and how he conducts himself at practice and on the field and that kind of thing.
00:37:48
Speaker
So he's a veteran presence on the field and he's, he's going to, He's going to do and have the team doing the things that their coach to do. It's all going to be about, I think, on both sides, execution and who executes better.
00:38:03
Speaker
Yeah. So I'm, I'm looking down the schedule and some stuff. So I, so this also is jumping out to me and I, I feel like this is more a thing with the offense than the defense, just with the noise. So this is only the second road game for Ole Miss.
00:38:17
Speaker
Um, everything everything's been at home except for they played at Kentucky and Simmons was starting back then. So this is his first game. He got hurt. was like Okay. he game Okay. so Okay, so I guess Simmons probably started that and Chambliss finished it, but then this is his first start on the road in the SEC. So some of the thing about as you're going to Sanford Stadium, you know, make make makes some noise.
00:38:40
Speaker
Kirby gave the challenge, the fans to be loud kind of thing was going on this week. don't know if you guys saw that. Yeah, saw that. And I think that's why Kirby Kirby is well aware that this is going to be his first road start.
00:38:52
Speaker
And so had to have your first road start be between the hedges with a head coach called them out hostile crowd. He knows that's a big tilt in Georgia's favor.
00:39:04
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. All right. Either of you guys got anything else for our defense, their offense? Yeah, i mean I'd like to see the defense do kind of the same thing. like Rather than having to play catch-up and figure out what we're actually supposed to be doing in the second half, it would be nice to start a game just firing on all cylinders, particularly against this guy.
00:39:28
Speaker
um I would say that just like with what's happened with Auburn, as well as what we saw from Alabama. We see that these offensive minded coaches are putting in wrinkles and, you know, to quote Kirby, like we haven't repped that kind of thing.
00:39:45
Speaker
um i would like us to be able to take a little bit more on the fly data and make adjustments in game as opposed to at halftime. um to try to figure out some of these things. I disciplined things like that are going to be really important for us um as we move forward. I also, you know, Jim, you and I were on the text thread, like the, the all 22 views.
00:40:12
Speaker
um I definitely saw on tape look, just looking at some of the things, like it just seems like that our defense is being in more been, but not break E.
00:40:25
Speaker
um and how the looks like the safeties cornerbacks and things like that are are kind of approaching some of these play calls where we're just selling out to not give up the big play kind of thing i'd like to see us get a little bit more aggressive Okay.
00:40:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, get after the, get after the quarterback, you know, on his first road start. ah But again, i will say kind of like we talked about last week too, though, you also have to contain, right? So um don't want to get like too much, too far upfield with that outside pressure and leave the middle light open.
00:41:01
Speaker
um Got to, you know, set the edge and stay home kind of thing. So yeah, agreed. Because he, he can run. He will run. He will scramble. and yeah mean you know he's not like one of these quarterbacks who is gonna just you know try to look to scramble and throw it away he he'll take off and he can hurt you if you break the contain yeah okay okay definitely something to watch for um Okay, let's see. ah As far as special teams go, um the kicker is Lucas Carnero.
00:41:38
Speaker
He is a junior. 12 of 14 on field goals, 22 of 22 on extra points. twenty two of twenty two an extra points And as we always like to know, Miss does take special teams seriously. They have a freshman punter, Oscar Bird, from Sydney, Australia.
00:41:52
Speaker
ah He is averaging like 45-ish yards per punt. So got the got and got another. I think this is like the second Aussie kicker of of late at Ole Miss as well.
00:42:04
Speaker
So got the Aussie pipeline continuing. What about in the kick return game, Hunter? Are any of these guys dangerous in the kick return game? not in my recollection that I've, you know, have anything come stand out in my mind, yeah but, um, I, it's a funny story talking about kickers. And I was having a conversation with, uh, one of the other assistant principals at my new school, who's a big LSU fan. He has LSU season tickets and he was texting me. He was all straught during in the Ole Miss LSU game.
00:42:36
Speaker
Um, and we were talking at school the Monday after Ole Miss beat them. And he was like, Dan, You know, ah knew ah knew ol Miss was going to win when Lane Kiffin actually started kicking field goals when they were down there in the red zone instead of going for it.
00:42:51
Speaker
He was like, you know, Lane Kiffin always just wants to go for it. And when he has these big games, he goes for it and he does something stupid and he'll never get it. He said, I texted my brother and I text you whenever e Lane Kiffin started kicking field goals. I said, damn it, we're going to lose this game because he actually wants to win.
00:43:07
Speaker
Oh, that's funny. and Amazing. Amazing. All right. Let's ah unless John, you had anything on special teams. e Make your field goals. This is the kind of game that's like, you know, payday missed field goal recently um that almost came back to bite us.
00:43:30
Speaker
So I'd like to – this is a game where you got to play – if you're going to play the way that we've been playing and not impose your will on the different sides of the ball, ah can't turn the ball over on offense. Yeah.
00:43:43
Speaker
um Can't give up touchdowns on defense, which we've been pretty good at. And then you got to make your field goals and not make any mistakes on special teams and almost play perfect.
00:43:54
Speaker
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00:44:41
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00:44:58
Speaker
Okay, so his questions. Number one, was the Auburn game the worst officiated game in Georgia history? I'm going to know. To me, no. I've been watching too much football for too long.
00:45:11
Speaker
1999 at Georgia Tech is the worst I've ever seen. that Nothing could ever top that. Is that the Jasper was down game? Yes. Yeah. And it wasn't just that.
00:45:22
Speaker
Also the field goal that they made in overtime that we blocked, like we blocked it and then they let them kick again, which it's possible that can be allowed. But generally the reason like you kick on third down is not for it to get blocked. It's like for, if you have a bad snap, then you just down it and kick again.
00:45:39
Speaker
We blocked it. And they were said something about like the ball never crossed the line of scrimmage or something weird. I don't know. ah Oh, wow. Yeah. So that was also very interesting.
00:45:52
Speaker
Controversial, controversial situation. ah and That, you know, that, that crew was, just was supposed to work the SEC championship game the next weekend and they were suspended. So they actually were taken off the field.
00:46:06
Speaker
So that's that's number one to me. I can't comment on that game considering I i was only five.
00:46:16
Speaker
I'll be right back, Jim. It was, a I would say this one was was one of the worst ones that I can remember in recent history. Not just Georgia game, but like overall, like it was, that that end of the the half was crazy, terrible.
00:46:34
Speaker
It was crazy. It was crazy. and like And just like, also just like the amount of time that it took. like Yeah, it felt like they were stopping every play. yeah Yeah, that's where I think that having the refs losing control of the game was was not ideal.
00:46:50
Speaker
Um, okay. So second question, who was the bigger troll at their peak Lane Kiffin or Steve Spurrier? Hunter, I feel like you have a unique, possibly perspective on this. Well, I mean, i think the easy answer is that it's, it's Spurrier because i think Lane Kiffin is just now getting to his peak.
00:47:08
Speaker
So if we're talking about at the peak, who's going to be bigger on The verdict is not in Lane Kiffin's got a little ways to go but for now I'll say it's Spurrier because he's just more, he's had more.
00:47:23
Speaker
Yeah. He knew right how to needle. He knew the exact buttons to press to. I don't know. I would say Spurrier for sure. um Yeah, definitely Spurrier. He was, he was the ultimate, the ultimate troll.
00:47:41
Speaker
Can you imagine if Spurrier would have been on Twitter like Lane is? Exactly. like Although i still think I still think that even if he was, he would still just use – he wouldn't use Twitter. He would use the media.
00:47:55
Speaker
that's That's my my perspective. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if he if he tweeted, you can't spell citrus without UT. Like, that would be pretty funny. So. Okay, let's go to GATA.
00:48:11
Speaker
With the college football ball season at the halfway point, what is the biggest surprise y'all have seen across the sport? What's the biggest surprise out there? That there's no dominant team. Yeah, I was going to say that. I think the biggest surprise is the parody.
00:48:25
Speaker
I think, you know, it really is, you know, it was always kind of a cliche before, you know, any given Saturday you could get beat. Well, technically that was true, but...
00:48:37
Speaker
you know that you know two thousand twenty one twenty two georgia team wasn't any given saturday they were you know yeah they could play their c game and beat most teams but now any given saturday anybody can get beaten i think we saw like even this weekend i was surprised that indiana beat oregon like they did because yeah i mean i'm but i'm a dan landing fan dan landing's up there coaching you know physical and preaching all the right things and has has the athletes and um you know you wouldn't expect it from indiana but here they come go into alton stadium and and beat them
00:49:17
Speaker
Yeah. No, I think that's right. I think that there's a couple of things that are wrapped up in it is my personal opinion is, is that it's, you know, you've got the NIL creating parody where you've got random guys that were going to schools that they never would have considered in the past. And they would normally go to the Alabamas and the Auburns and the Georges and LSUs of the world. um Instead, they're going to like, you know, Texas Tech or Colorado or whatever.
00:49:46
Speaker
ah where the hot hand of NIL is ah late it lately. I have a feeling you're going to see Oklahoma State open up the coffers for the next guy that comes through, because I'm sure that I'll be part of the negotiations as well with the next head coach, is that he has a war chest to operate from amongst ah the oil-rich folks out there, the pokes.
00:50:07
Speaker
Yeah. the The other thing that I think, Hunter, you might be able to give another perspective on is that just the kids today are not as motivated, I guess, for lack of a better description. Like yeah ah we've we've we've seen some guys in the tech store at the talking about it. Like these guys are just not built the same.
00:50:28
Speaker
Like yeah you got millionaires that are playing across the country right now that maybe are following playing with less of an edge because they can just oh well like the the old joke was like you know phil knickelson or tiger woods you know they they may lose their their you know they may lose championship sunday or whatever it's like oh well i'm just gonna go home to my riches and my beautiful wife kind of thing like these kids are college kids and i'll just go back to my dorm and
00:50:59
Speaker
party like a rock star or catch that flight to miami this weekend and just go drown my my sorrows at the font blue or whatever um yeah I agree with you. I think yeah ah you know it might be controversial, but I 100% certainty can tell you that, in my opinion, that is true.
00:51:23
Speaker
Kids are different. I mean, I've been working in a high school, except for my two-year hiatus at a middle school ah for the last two years since 2016, and um the kids just have a different mentality about pretty much everything when it comes to any kind of work, especially when you start talking about compensation for the work.
00:51:47
Speaker
um and i see it with our, you know, with our sports teams and um they just, they're not as concerned about winning and losing and, you know, necessarily, you know, doing the hard work as, for that outcome, as long as they get paid, as long as they get their personal, whatever they have set for themselves out of it, ah that's their number one priority.
00:52:20
Speaker
and And it's not just in sports. It's it's in the school. It's in the classrooms. it's um it's ah It's everywhere. It's just kind of the norm, um the mentality of, at least from what I've seen, they're it's all about me.
00:52:36
Speaker
And, you know, I'll do what's best for the team if it's what's best for me too. Right. Right. Interesting. yeah There's ah not a lot of sacrifice,
00:52:47
Speaker
um not rallying around the team. And I could get even more societal on larger themes that are involved with that. um But yeah, I just ah just think that the generation of kids in the generation that they've grown up in in the environment that they've grown up in has just been more encouraging of less ownership of yourself and more reliance on just getting by, whether it be through yourself or through outside influence kind of thing.
00:53:24
Speaker
You know, before they had to have the motivation to do extra, get the work done. And, you know, the types of guys that, you know, probably Kirby Smart has has't historically looked for,
00:53:36
Speaker
um Unfortunately, it's just systemic through all all of them. Like, i would say that where things are probably going to catch up to the high school kids is something that Andrew Carraway has been talking a lot about on Twitter is like,
00:53:51
Speaker
you know, there's less spots available for the high school kids. Um, so you've got kids that are not getting opportunities at some of these big programs because the big programs don't have time. They ain't got time for that.
00:54:07
Speaker
They gotta, they get, they need to hit home runs. I mean, look at our wide receiver core and, you know, look at the transfers that have caught passes the last, last weekend.
00:54:18
Speaker
um We can go out into the portal and get some of these guys and we don't necessarily have to break the bank on someone that's unproven un... motivated You know, Zachariah Branch, you that you think he's motivated?
00:54:30
Speaker
So you can get some of these guys that are motivated that are just not getting it done in other places. And you can go to the portal and not have to take a risk on someone that's coming out of high school. Like, I mean, I'm not saying that he's not, but i'm just saying, using an example like Taylor and Taylor or something like that, where, you know, it's by and large, looks like he's he's good to go, but he's not Zach Branch.
00:54:50
Speaker
You know what i mean? Yeah. You got to have you got to have ownership of your of yourself. And we need more of that in society as opposed to the helicopter parents that save their kids from consequences.
00:55:03
Speaker
yeah I think you see a lot of it with like how we were talking about it during the Auburn game in our text thread about how Kirby has has kind of adapted as a coach.
00:55:14
Speaker
You don't see the what I call it. I can't remember the exact word the rage Kirby as much anymore. The Kirby rage stroke. Yeah, because the kids today, they don't respond to that like, you know, those kids in 2012, 2011, that era of of college football player because, you know, you rage stroke on a kid nowadays.
00:55:41
Speaker
He's just going say, all right, well, I'll go somewhere else then. You get sued. yeah. or they they get Or they grab their they grab their their weighted stuffed animal and say, this is not a safe space. well yeah Stetson can take it. that's take um I'm going to keep us going. He just closed out with hopefully the students get this corrected for Saturday, which I think that was a Kentucky thing noon kickoff.
00:56:03
Speaker
I think student section will be will be good to go ah for Saturday at 3.30. He said 3.18 will be ready. 51 to 70 GATA. Sits in the same section as we do. so ah Go Dawgs.
00:56:14
Speaker
All right, let's go to John Michael D. First, does anyone know the whereabouts of cn Sam Pittman? Or are we still... This is...
00:56:29
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Wrong. Wrong thing. I hit the wrong button.
00:56:33
Speaker
it Does it stay in or doesn't it? I don't know. don't know. We're to have I put the wrong way. Okay, so we... Or are we still... Trying to put glasses on it Oh, so good.
00:56:46
Speaker
I don't know. and think we're starting to put glasses on it. I don't know where Sam Pittman is. I don't know. He's probably neck deep in some old cold beer. He's going to have he's having cold beer had a cold beer. And then two, is it too much to ask for the first half defense to hunger it down the first time?
00:56:59
Speaker
Um, yeah, i don't know. I guess we kind of talked about that earlier. Um, we'll see. We'll see TBD. Um, shout out to whichever one of y'all responded to the DM thread during the game. Help my sanity. That was me.
00:57:11
Speaker
Um, yes, that was me. Uh, John Michael D hit, he had had some, he was, he was, there was some extra little snitches stuff that we didn't even talk about on the podcast, uh, that he had him, had him like super worried.
00:57:23
Speaker
And then he was like, we were deeming about it during the game. Uh, and It was fine. I told him it was fine. i It was. So that's fine. all right. Uh, let's go to to Kevin.
00:57:35
Speaker
Uh, and this is, this is where that came into play. So Kevin says it's time for jeopardy. Your category is to the nines and it's a daily double.
00:57:48
Speaker
right. I said I was going to get the sound and I did. So yes, this team once beat Ole Miss nine times. Hello, UT and AU in a row, making Rebels fans start to think Hotty Toddy was just Bulldog for not again.
00:58:04
Speaker
Bonus points if you know the years. I did not look this up. I don't know this. hundred do I'm guessing Mississippi State. mississippi state was there Was there a nine-in-a-row streak for Mississippi State?
00:58:19
Speaker
now Now I got to go Windsopedia and look this up. LSU? know have to be got it It's got to be LSU. I can't imagine that it's Mississippi State. Making Rebels fans start to think Hottie Tottie was just Bulldog for not again. i don't know. that's my yeah reason That's the reason I say, is it Mississippi State?
00:58:37
Speaker
Man, there was a Mississippi State had a run in the 19 aughts from like 1915 to 1925. nineteen twenty five So, yeah.
00:58:49
Speaker
Back when this they actually had towels on the sideline. ah to a okay they just They just recently got rid of those, so.
00:59:00
Speaker
Okay. So we didn't get the years without having to look it up, but jp JP got it. ah Congratulations, John. You got your double Jeopardy right. So yeah, I had a whole like long Jeopardy thing that I accidentally hit the button for earlier.
00:59:13
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So got a couple other Jeopardy sounds on the soundboard. We'll see if they get used at a later date. and We'll move on to boss dog um TJ Witten on Twitter. He says, I'm personally of the belief that the second half of the Auburn game woke this defense up.
00:59:28
Speaker
I think it's a start of a more dominant offense. With that being said, what are your keys to the game with Ole Miss or better yet keys to a fast start on both sides of the ball? I know Kirby is like, there's no magic.
00:59:40
Speaker
There's no magic thing. um My joke was like, can we do the halftime adjustments before the game? don't know. I know um on Bulldog Brunch, I think they were talking about that, like, like these are, especially like on defense, like these are young guys and that it's like they're, they are, um they're thinking too much in the first half.
01:00:00
Speaker
So it's like, instead of just doing their thinking and then doing, and so it's like slowing them down that like, you know slight beat or whatever. And then it's like, They're getting getting behind, and then it's like, all right, well, no time to think anymore.
01:00:12
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So, don't know. That's where I kind of feel like the whole, like, tight versus loose thing. Just, like, cut it loose from the beginning. yeah Yeah. Cut your ass loose. Exactly. My thing is, and I know we talk about it a lot, probably put too much into it, but...
01:00:26
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there's something to be said about the first drive being scripted out. Like it's, it's what you plan in on doing. You've got the whole drive ready to go and it should be the best drive for the other team because that's what they're planning on doing. It's not until after you get knocked in the mouth and start to make adjustments that you start to see, know, things change and settle down.
01:00:49
Speaker
yeah, so I don't know what the answer is. I'm with you, though. i hope that ah I hope your belief is right. I hope it's more dominant defense going forward. Yeah, I would say that getting off the field on third and longs is going to be a key for the defense. um you know Just getting them to third down would be a ah start, too, especially if we're going to have the...
01:01:11
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a
01:01:14
Speaker
um there's There's that. But then on the offensive side I'd like to say that um you know I feel like that we have a repertoire of some past of some plays that seem like that they work pretty well.
01:01:30
Speaker
um let's fine Let's find some some packages that we know that that work. like Pretty much seems like it's a first down guarantee and every time we throw it to zach Zach Branch on third down.
01:01:42
Speaker
Um, I would say that incorporating some folks that have shown a propensity to catch the ball when we need them to, um is is also a good start for, for the offense, but, you know, just getting the drive going, um get some early success.
01:01:59
Speaker
Um, Yeah, I mean, ah it starts it starts up front on both these lines, right? Like, you've got to get penetration, you've got to prevent print penetration on on the offensive side. so Yeah, I think the key for Georgia's offense is with the way we run it and, you know, things that they do well, they have to stay on schedule.
01:02:19
Speaker
They can't get behind the sticks. Like, if if you're looking at third and long, it's it's not a high success rate. ah Yeah. Because that's not the type of offense that we're trying to run.
01:02:33
Speaker
But if we start looking at, you know, second and short, third and short, I feel like that's where, you know, he starts stacking plays and kind of getting into a groove with the play calling and the players. And we just got to stay manageable on second, third down.
01:02:51
Speaker
I think that's the key. Okay, yeah. yeah We're here. um Let's see. Let's go to Fletcher Proctor. Fletcher says, does Kirby embrace the dark side and troll the rest of the nation this week?
01:03:04
Speaker
Do we embrace our ultimate villain status? I mean, he is like... I know at least the Auburn vans were like, uh, one Kirby suspended or whatever for the timeout thing.
01:03:15
Speaker
Um, but he added PS, if everyone thinks we get all the calls, can we actually get all the calls and heal our way to the title this year? That's always what I say. Like, I'm always like, I'll take it. Like I'm never, I'm not one to say like,
01:03:28
Speaker
Oh, Georgia never gets a call. Like I want all the calls. Like I'm so used to that it happening against us, like throughout my life. Like I'm always like, yeah, I'll take it. Like if it's a bad call, I'll admit it and I'll take it. Like that's fine with me.
01:03:41
Speaker
So I don't know. I, I don't know that he will embrace it. I don't think that's Kirby's thing, but I think it would be cool if he did it.
01:03:52
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Having evil Kirby smart would be nice. Yeah, agreed. ah Let's see, Will Garland, I think we've got a couple of like actual schematic type questions. um So Will Garland says, what plays would you want to see Bobo run during those early scripted series to ensure that we come out guns a blazing and not playing our weekly game of catch up?
01:04:14
Speaker
I mean, toss sweep, obviously, but what do you guys have? Play action, beat pass. Yeah, Jimmy, you and I have talked about the actual play-action pass, not like the zone-read play-action pass.
01:04:27
Speaker
ah Yeah. let's line up and line up an eye formation or pistol and and run an actual, um, or not I formation, like, you know, underend under center, under center. um and that's what we, that's what we got on that, on that pass to Noah Thomas against Auburn.
01:04:42
Speaker
It worked. And I think like, I think you like, you, you were texted. You're like, see, yeah and it worked early against Tennessee too. i mean, that first drive against Tennessee, the, the first play, I think it was the first play. It was a haymaker yeah down the sideline.
01:04:58
Speaker
Yeah. I'm telling you, uh, and around to, uh, Oscar dope.
01:05:05
Speaker
It's coming. It's coming. Look, look for it. Look for it. Um, let's see. Jr real at J I real 16 or 10 on Twitter. Uh, for some reason, I feel like Georgia is going to thump Kiffin and bring and bring the, uh, bring them back down to reality.
01:05:19
Speaker
Um, we make We make them one-dimensional. They won't be able to score. My question, do we see Kirby call timeout again? ah That was just epic. Auburn might hate us for the Bama now.
01:05:30
Speaker
Yeah, i don't I don't see Kirby doing that again. um i think maybe next time he'll actually just clap and not call timeout but say he was clapping. Just my guess.
01:05:43
Speaker
Let's see. Matt Key has a couple. um First off, one, how many times will the broadcast bring up the fumble last week and the clap timeout issue? Who the broadcasters again? We got the good crew, right? Yes, it's like Fowler. Maybe one time and then they'll move on. I don't think if we had if we had McElroy or somebody like that, it would be it'd be bad and there'd be a lot of them.
01:06:06
Speaker
Somebody that's looking to troll. Yeah. True. I think a better question is, is Pat McAfee going to bring it up to him on on game day? Oh, yes. Okay, that is good question. You know, he he's waiting for that. He's living for that moment.
01:06:24
Speaker
I'm just calling it now. like When Kirby comes on stage, he's going to be like, alright we got Kirby smart here, guys. He's going to clap for Kirby. Yeah. And he's going to try to get Nick Saban involved, and he's going Coach, did you ever do anything like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:06:40
Speaker
good you all Or he's going to ask McSaven if he taught him that. Yeah, exactly. seriously exactly go As long as he keeps his dang shirt on, I don't care. um Let's see. Two, did we gain any confidence from the second half or are we back to the same story against the Ole Miss office offense?
01:06:59
Speaker
I mean, I'd like to think. Show me. Yeah. Yeah. Show me. hit Hit him with it, Jim. got it. show me And then third, execution or different play calling from the first to second half?
01:07:12
Speaker
That is a good question. like Like, what's the difference? Are we calling different plays? Yeah, it's execution. They're calling different plays because execution ain't happening. Trust me, Bobo would run the same play over and over again if it worked.
01:07:27
Speaker
True, true. And to a certain extent, he has been running some of the same plays over and over again because they've been there. It's just that the execution hasn't been perfect. Yeah. Yeah. um Let's go to all school. What's it going to take for us to come out of the box in the first half? Are we doing the second and half? I guess we've already talked about that.
01:07:45
Speaker
um I know the offensive line has injuries and the defense defense is young. Are we close to putting together a full game? I guess that's a little bit of a different spin on it. You guys think we're close to being able it for a full game or show me.
01:07:56
Speaker
Yeah. yeah ah We're close to doing it for a whole half, but not for a whole half on the other side. Yeah. um At some, at some point you got to look at yourself in the mirror and just recognize that this is who we are. Yeah.
01:08:12
Speaker
so the The body of work is only getting bigger. Right. So a strategery thing on that, Herman Wood asked, I know Kirby wants the middle eight, but is it time to take the damn ball first?
01:08:22
Speaker
No. give milk give Give me the ball on the second half. I'm good with focusing on the middle eight because you saw exactly why and what happened with Hugh Freeze. Yeah.
01:08:36
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we were we We got our head bashed in for and entire half, and it all turned around when we were getting ready to get get off the field. you know Inside of that middle eight is when we kind of figured something out. Yeah.
01:08:53
Speaker
i'm good I'm good getting the ball back. I think that didn't, was it? It was Josh. Josh, yeah. yeah Josh basically like said that when you when you take the ball in the second half, ah king it tends to create an extra possession for the team that that takes the ball in the half at at halftime.
01:09:12
Speaker
He was actually saying like the other way around. Oh, he was? jos argument Josh's argument was we should stop deferring and that we should take the opening kick. Um, yeah, that was, maybe i'm mis I misunderstood then.
01:09:26
Speaker
Yeah. I will say though, like, I mean, we did that against awesome. We, we did that against awesome P and like, we took the ball and I think we turned it over. So I'm always when the toss, when the toss differ, uh, um, I agree with you guys.
01:09:40
Speaker
um Um, I just go back to the NCAA football strategy. Like give me the ball so I can score double up before halftime. Right. Right. Uh, let's see. Ryan Heinco says, uh, last year, Austin Simmons came in for a drive after dart was temporarily sidelined and Simmons looked really good this year.
01:09:59
Speaker
New name this year, Trinidad and Tobacco Chambliss has, has looked really good against teams, not named puts glasses on it. Uh, Washington state. Is this a case where we months in over the back of quarterback coming into the second half? Once our defense has woken up from first half Trinidad, I guess, John, you, you kind of made that joke earlier.
01:10:17
Speaker
Uh, yes. Possibly. Although from what I've seen though, I mean, i don't know. I will. Simmons looked good last year. i think both quarterbacks are capable. um seem similar.
01:10:28
Speaker
Like they seem to have similar skill sets. So that was the thing to me and like the whole backup quarterback joke to me is more around like when the guy that comes in is very different than what you prepared for. Whereas I, so I don't think we have that as much of that problem with these two guys.
01:10:43
Speaker
Yeah, the main difference between Simmons and Trinidad is Simmons is more of a gunslinger. Like he's going to come in he's not going to hesitate to rip some throws that maybe you'd be like, oh, you know, I don't, maybe that's not where you should be going with it. Or you can't fit that in there, man.
01:10:59
Speaker
Trinidad's not going to do that. He's going to do the opposite of that. Okay. I'll take the risky throws. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. Okay. Cool. Let's go to friend of the show, Tim Riley.
01:11:11
Speaker
Addison is waiting until Florida week to jump in. So it's just me. ah So we've we've heard we've heard rumor that friend of the show, Tim Riley's daughter, Addison, who's a freshman at Georgia, ah is ready to start getting involved with the listener questions. So Addison, we're waiting.
01:11:25
Speaker
you know, but we're here, we're here when you're ready. We're you're here when you're ready. that So Tim says, what aspect of the Ole Miss offense is most concerning and how do we counter with our lackluster, uh, for us first half starts?
01:11:38
Speaker
I guess Hunter, what's the main thing? What, what is, what should most concern Georgia fans about the Ole Miss offense? Um, it's, this is a, not an easy question because, you know, Georgia had what I would, I would consider Georgia has a good defense.
01:11:54
Speaker
Um, and you know, some of the things that Ole Miss is good at are some of the things that, uh, Georgia is known for doing well defensively. um i think you know lacy is a very good running back he's a very athletic um it he's always he always kind of catches me off guard every time i turn him on and watch him run the ball for the first time because he looks like a wide receiver like he's got the build of what i would say like a wide receiver he's a little more tall he's a little more like
01:12:28
Speaker
kind of got the twitchy athleticism than what you would see from your typical, like more compact running back. Is he like a James Cook type? I would say so. Yeah, he he reminds me a lot of James Cook with the weight, but he's very physical and you wouldn't expect from him because of how he's built, but he's he's tall.
01:12:48
Speaker
And so he he he does not shy away from being physical, but he also has that very James Cook twitch kind of really make you miss type of type of feel and that's what makes him dangerous because you don't know if that's what you're going to get or if he's going to just try to run you over and and he's big so he can so he he would be my number one concern if they can get him going that leans right into what Trinidad is good at.
01:13:20
Speaker
And that's, you know, ah the the option, ah the RPO, like he plays within lane system very, very well. And if Ole Miss can run the football effectively, that opens a lot of things up that get pretty scary pretty quick.
01:13:37
Speaker
but Okay. Okay. Makes sense. All right. Let's go to this guy. I don't realize that.
01:13:48
Speaker
We got the hook dog. But JP, you didn't realize something. Oh, you were he was just talking about Lacey. And I was like, is it Kyron? QN? Like, apparently they're brothers.
01:13:59
Speaker
I didn't realize that. Kawan? Yeah. Yeah. Kawan and Kyron Lacey. um And then you got Gerald Lacey, who also plays in Missouri. it's like It's like the Gathers brothers, Jim.
01:14:12
Speaker
Yeah. Like these these three brothers are playing big time college football at some big time schools. Right. Seriously. Anyway, sorry. Squirrel. You're good. All right. ah We're the hug dog.
01:14:28
Speaker
Jason, looking forward to seeing seeing you on Saturday.
Nostalgia and Tailgating at The Grove
01:14:31
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ah He says the Grove or UGA for tailgating. Hunter, you have the best perspective on this. You do. I feel like I have a very biased perspective.
01:14:44
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You know, there's something about nostalgia and, you know, your, your alma mater and, you know, the place that you became you for a lack of a better way to say it.
01:14:57
Speaker
So like the Grove always is going to be my number one. I'm sorry to everybody that I see at the tailgates and Athens, but like, that that's That was my place.
01:15:10
Speaker
That was you know mine and Megan's place. that we We had our own tent when we were upperclassmen. and We did all the Grove things. and in um so the grove The Grove is just our spot. We've got a brick in the Grove with our name on it.
01:15:27
Speaker
Um, and the way that they tailgate there, it's not like anywhere else. Um, and you know, a lot of people, it's not everybody's, it's not everybody's, uh, forte, you know, it,
01:15:40
Speaker
If your thing is, you know, being able to um have, you know, hot food, if can grill, like with your open flame and have room to spread out and do activities, then it's it's not going to be your thing because the tents are touching each other.
01:16:00
Speaker
And you're right. You're saying that you can't have live music. And roast a pig right there on campus. yeah yeah i mean, can't relate, brother. yeah
01:16:16
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I will say i've I've only been to the Grove once when I was college, and I feel like I didn't have like the right tour guide or something. So someday, Hunter, we need to go with you and get like the full experience. Yeah, i guess the I have to say I've never been to Ole Miss, so I can't really give much of a perspective here. But all I can say is that the moment that they stopped playing Dixie in the Grove – is probably one of the worst travesties tailgating at Ole Miss, even even me never being there.
01:16:48
Speaker
But I'll say this. I will say this. As ah somebody who's done both and pretty, you know, is actively doing ah both every chance we can get,
01:16:59
Speaker
they are very similar in how they operate. And, you know, the thing, you know, tailgating is tailgating, I guess. um I say that having been to, these are the two places that I've tailgated other than the random road games when I was in college like going to Baton Rouge or whatever, but that's not, you know, what I, what I got going to Baton Rouge as a college kid for the visiting team is not the standard practice of tailgating and at LSU, you know?
01:17:29
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um But as far as what happens under the tailgate tents, it's very similar. It's very the same. You got, you you're good. If you're with good people in it, you know, every fan base has, know,
01:17:41
Speaker
the bad eggs and has the people who, you know, ruin it for everybody else. Ole Miss has those too. So it's just the setting is different.
01:17:52
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Georgia is very spread out. It's very, it's very spread, out very spread out. And like I said, Ole Miss is just, it's not, Ole Miss is very intimate.
01:18:03
Speaker
It's a very intimate tailgating experience. And, um it's easy to get lost ah because of the way the tents are set up they make their own roads between you know different Manning Way or Willis Way throughout the Grove um but the camaraderie and uh, that, you know, being there with your family and your friends that are like family. And, uh, that's, that's all the same that I see at Georgia too.
01:18:36
Speaker
And the bourbon, uh, the bourbons there too. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Um, okay. So he says if three 30 is the chef's kiss start time, which it is to me, I know Hunter, not for you for this week, John, I think you like four, four 15. Um,
01:18:51
Speaker
fifteen But what's the what's the what's the perfect pregame itinerary? I mean, you got the pregame run. I'm kind of good, John. You got the pregame run on campus.
01:19:02
Speaker
guys You got the the TEC from Carol's Country Cupboard. Yes. And then, i mean, then you got lunch at Morris Hall.
01:19:14
Speaker
pollen Pulling straight up to a parking spot that is just wide open on North Campus and walking through North Campus. Yeah. and And rolling up onto um the the Motown tailgate there. Yeah.
01:19:28
Speaker
and enjoying enjoying things there um on your pre-run through campus, you would have already stopped at some of the other tailgates that you, um, we, we also frequent.
01:19:41
Speaker
Um, and then, yeah. yeah And then all good tailgates ended up dogs. That's right. That's right. Okay. Yeah. I was going to say our, my itinerary depends on where I'm coming from.
01:19:55
Speaker
Like if I'm coming, we have something very specific that we do every time, depending on where I'm coming from. If I'm coming from, ah you know, the Metro, uh, we, we always stop at the same Chick-fil-A store.
01:20:11
Speaker
in Duluth. Uh, don't know why that was the one we picked, but that's the one we always stop at and we eat Chick-fil-A and then, we fight traffic and complain about it as we pass, uh, Gwinnett Place Mall and try to get, onto the interstate.
01:20:29
Speaker
Um, and then we get into, ah get into Athens and and park. And we always go to um my father-in-law's tailgate um but that they've always had. And it's it's kind of far out on the ah the east side of campus.
01:20:47
Speaker
ah So we start there um and work our way back towards the stadium. So we'll go from there and hit up Andrew Tent and hang out with him for a little while and then because he's he's right there across from Myers and then we'll head to when you say a little while I have a feeling that it's a little bit longer for us than you think that it is Hunter because we're always like Hunter where are you yeah yeah but he's like a little while where are you got long while yeah Hunter we're exactly where we're always
01:21:26
Speaker
Yeah. And then, so it's pretty much the same once we get to campus. The only difference is ah where, like I said, where I'm coming from, we still go to Chick-fil-A. If I'm coming from the lake, we'll stop at the Chick-fil-A in Madison and have our Chick-fil-A there. So it's always Chick-fil-A.
01:21:44
Speaker
It's either Duluth or Madison and then i get to Athens and hit up the same tailgates. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. We have to introduce you to the tenderloin egg and cheese.
01:21:55
Speaker
It's phenomenal. All right. What,
Favorite Podcasts and Recommendations
01:21:58
Speaker
what do you got? If you were James Franklin, what would you do with your $55 million dollars buyout? I mean, I would, I would retire.
01:22:05
Speaker
um i'm re retiring. and I'm going to have like ah top of the line wakeboard boat, surf boat and live on a lake somewhere. and like, you know, like somewhere where I can easily go to Athens, you know, and then like get into like a mountain area somewhere to do something like that.
01:22:20
Speaker
So that's, that's, that's what I'm doing. This is the multi, the multi-house perspective. I know. feel like this is like office space where you they ask the construction guy, what'd you do with the million dollars? And he's like, I'll tell you what I do, man. yeah yeah yeah Two cheeks at the same time.
01:22:42
Speaker
The main like, I do nothing. He's like, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing. was like, you can do nothing for nothing. Yeah, ah I would call up my buddy Hug Dog and figure out a way to make some generational wealth.
01:22:56
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. First phone call to that guy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. okay you guys get like serious like real answers okay i see how it is uh we're blowing it hey i'm not saying that i wouldn't do some of that same stuff not saying that i i'm clearing it with you first there you go okay yeah exactly and exactly exactly um oh man so i definitely would take good i was goingnna say I was going to say I definitely would take like a ah bucket couple bucket list vacations that I've always wanted to do kind of thing.
01:23:32
Speaker
yeah Like going to Ireland and Scotland and England, London. Yeah. yeah Well, now I have to do the Band Brothers tour. so The Band of Brothers tour. My dad was supposed to do one of those, but then COVID hit happened. Okay. it's one my come Some of my buddies did it a few years ago, so it sounds like a good time.
01:23:52
Speaker
um Okay. What's your favorite podcast you listen to each week that's not my got a podcast? Jason says he's in love with SVP. SVPod. Okay. That's the Scott Van Pelt.
01:24:03
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Nice. I mean, weekly weekly podcasts that I listen to um listen to the 20-minute-ish podcast with Josh. um And then you've got... um Waiting Since Last Saturday, the OG Punt and Pass podcast with ah Jake Fromm and ah Drew Butler and Chapel Belker, friends of the show.
01:24:31
Speaker
i mean, i have in season. Those are the podcasts that i listen to. um Admittedly, there are some podcasts that I used to listen to a lot more, but they've kind of gone on hiatus.
01:24:43
Speaker
um non-UGA I would say is my favorite my favorite podcast to listen to is Science Versus um and then you could probably file that under anything from Wondery I find that their podcasts are all very well done and very well made but Science Versus um in general is I find that they are very timely with their topics because like I'm trying to think like, for example, that they just talked about Tylenol and they just like ran through like all the stuff on Tylenol and autism and all that kind of stuff. And like, they'll, they'll take those kinds of things um for what's going on in the world.
01:25:23
Speaker
So they talk about supplements, like, I don't know. I found it very interesting. They just had a, pun they just had a podcast episode on sugar talking about its impacts. So I find that very interesting.
01:25:34
Speaker
Yeah, I, I am, uh, and I'll admit I'm not as plugged in as I used to be, especially now that I've, my commute's not an hour anymore. I don't have two hours in the car to dedicate exactly my content, but, um,
01:25:52
Speaker
yeah the same ones that john mentioned as far as georgia podcasts and if we're going off of off of sports podcasts i actually find myself listening to those a lot more um my favorite one is uh the bible show it's really good i feel like uh they do a really good job with like breaking uh the word and really making it digestible and applicable.
01:26:19
Speaker
um And, you know, be they have well what I would say I align with as far as beliefs and, um you know, theology.
01:26:31
Speaker
So not to get too into that, but that that's probably my number one that I listen to. um That's what Sam and Will, that word? Yeah.
01:26:42
Speaker
Yeah, that's the one. they're really I'm literally looking at it right now. I'm i'm like, I'm going to check that out. Yeah, and then ah also um the other one that I frequent, and a totally different topic, but I'm i'm a nerd.
01:26:55
Speaker
So it's called a the American History Hit, and it's like a podcast. Don Wildman is the guy who does it, um but he picks like a historical topic.
01:27:10
Speaker
to bring in an expert all on, and it's all American history. And so, you know, I can pick and choose which ones are topics that I'm interested in, like Teddy Roosevelt or Colonial America, or, you know, he'll even do things that are like real specific, like the Salem witch trials or He did one on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. That's one that got me hooked because it catered to my English teacher and history nerd.
01:27:38
Speaker
So he does a really good job with just talking about history and educating. And he brings in an an expert in the field and to give you some fun facts that you might not have known about whatever the topic is. So I'll pick and choose ones out of that that have topics that interest me. And those are pretty much the ones that I rotate between. i don't really veer off from that.
01:27:59
Speaker
Okay, so you guys have mentioned, like, same Georgia podcast on my end. So, outside of that, um not, like, a weekly one, but just in case you haven't listened to it, In the Red Clay is a really good one. it was like It's, like, a true crime podcast about stuff that happened, like, in Georgia. And, like, a lot there are things that happened, like...
01:28:18
Speaker
Athens ish general area. It's like about the Dixie mafia. So definitely recommend that one. That's a good one. Um, and then another one that's, I'm not sure that it's weekly, but it's more frequent. Um, don't know if you guys are familiar with Simon Sinek at all.
01:28:32
Speaker
Um, you'll see him on like, you've probably seen him like from like Ted talk type stuff. He like, he's all over like LinkedIn and you'll see him on reels and stuff. He's not for everyone. i know a lot of people don't like him, but I enjoy his podcast. It's called A Bit of Optimism.
01:28:45
Speaker
um it's fairly It's usually like 30 or so minutes, one interview per episode. He interviews some pretty interesting people. um I like his perspective on that kind of stuff. So that's a good one.
01:28:56
Speaker
Yeah. Sounds like like a Joe Rogan type situation. It's pretty good. yeah Yeah. I'll throw out some specific ones. I mentioned Wondery. um Anything by Wondery has been really good, but I'll specifically cite Business Wars and Sports Wars.
01:29:12
Speaker
um The Sports Wars is really good for, it addresses like rivalries and things like that that that happened in sports. um And then ah the Business Wars is similar, but it's taken in on business. So they did episodes on like Pepsi and Coke and Apple and Microsoft and you know those those kinds of things and they're very well done and they're almost like kind of like listening to a radio show from back in the day where they kind of like kind of dramatize different scenes and things like that and walk you through the history of companies and it's very interesting okay cool cool all right we got one more are y'all ready let's do it
01:29:59
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My god, a freshman. Trying to put glasses on. 90, 80, whoo, brother!
01:30:07
Speaker
It is time for Coast Trail Bills over unders Ole Miss edition.
Prediction Game: Georgia vs. Ole Miss
01:30:12
Speaker
JP, we're to do it this way. and out Hunter, apologies. didn't update the graphic to show your picks on the graphic as well. My bad.
01:30:20
Speaker
But John, you have the lead. So you can decide whether you want to take the ball or do you want to defer? Do you want the middle eight or do you want to you know start fast? We'll see. And then Hunter, we'll let you be like the tiebreaker on on each one, if that works.
01:30:34
Speaker
Where are they? oh there we going so first one is on the offense over under Georgia rushing yards, one 50. Do you want to take that one or do you want to defer over under rushing yards, one 50 hang on. I'm pulling up my notes. Where are my notes?
01:30:50
Speaker
All right, here we go. I've got my notes. Okay, so right there where you were looking, and you i need now i need another Jeopardy sound. I need the doo-doo. Exactly.
01:31:01
Speaker
We probably need that more more than just on these. um Okay, so yeah I'll go first. I'll He's taking the ball.
01:31:12
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Yeah, I'm going to take the ball. I'm going to go over 150. Okay. over one fifty Okay. um Yeah, I got to go over as well. Hunter, are we crazy?
01:31:22
Speaker
What do you think? and i I watched ah Washington State's quarterback break like 50-yard runs multiple times okay last week, so I don't think you're crazy at all. that sparks That sparks joy. Okay.
01:31:35
Speaker
Would you take the over, Hunter? I would. I would. Okay. um Okay, so over to me. Players with a catch over under five and a half. um I'm going to go over. I still feel like we spread the ball around a lot.
01:31:49
Speaker
I'm going to go under. Okay. Hunter, what do you thinking? I'm going to say over. Okay. I think I would like to maybe see it be right around yeah that number, maybe not too much over it. like what I hear you saying, Hunter, is that it's push.
01:32:07
Speaker
Yeah. We need to get we need to get our playmakers the ball more often than we need to spread the ball out, I think. You find your guys that are your guys and you get them the ball.
01:32:19
Speaker
Yeah. don't know if you're rushing over 150 yards, you might not need that many guys. Just saying. Right. Um, all right. And then let's see then John over under three and a half receptions for tight ends.
01:32:32
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Uh, I'm going to go over Jim. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. Uh, I'm going go under. wonder what do you think. I'm thinking under. Okay.
01:32:43
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Okay. um All right. So let's see. Then we'll take us over to the defensive questions. um So first up there, over under 300 Ole Miss passing yards.
01:32:59
Speaker
Man, I hope it's under. When I say under. I've got over, Jim. and Okay. Okay. think under I think Ole Miss' goal going into the game is going to be to run the football.
01:33:10
Speaker
If they can, and that's what they're going to do. if if If there's a shootout, then yeah, it's going to be around that probably. But i would I would think that it's going to be under it, and I would think that intentionally they they probably want to play under it also.
01:33:27
Speaker
Okay. um JP, over you, over under 45 quarterback rushing yards from Ole Miss. I don't know. Now that Hunter's talking about quarterbacks breaking off 50-yard runs, I'm second-guessing, but I'm going to stick with my gut here, my notes. I'm going to under.
01:33:42
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I'm going um i'm going to go under because and college, sack yards come off. was about to say, clarifying question. Yeah. Sack yards count as as as negative rushing yards.
01:33:54
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Hunter, what are you thinking? Hunter thinks it's a good line. Yeah. yeah Yeah. You could push it. Okay. And then over under first half points, 16 and a half.
01:34:10
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um I think that's a good number, honestly. I'm going to say under. We'll see. I'm going to go with over, Jim. Okay. Okay. I'm going to under. Under.
01:34:21
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Okay. Special teams over under one and a half Peyton Woodring field goals. Attempts. Oh, sorry. One a half field goal attempts. Correct.
01:34:32
Speaker
ah it's that's that's That's an important characteristic there, Jim. Yeah, that's correct. Sorry. I did not read the full over under. I'm going under. Okay. I actually agree with you.
01:34:43
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I'm going to say under. Okay. Okay. And then last but not least, game day people who pick Georgia over under three and a half.
01:34:54
Speaker
um Georgia is favored. um ah wait. Who's going here?
01:35:02
Speaker
I'll just go. I'll go. I'll just take it. I'm going to take the over. You are? Yeah. Okay. All right. I'm going to make a coach count, and people so I'll say under.
01:35:16
Speaker
This could have really been a separation Saturday, Jim. It could have been. It could be. It may still be. What do you think, Hunter? What do you think the game day is going to do? Over. Desmond's the one that's going to pick Ole Miss. He's the only one.
01:35:30
Speaker
we Desmond does do the, yeah. Yeah, he does. I feel like Desmond has no confidence in Georgia. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, Coach Trill, as always, ah thanks for doing this for us. Love it. Appreciate it.
01:35:45
Speaker
ah Hope to see you on Saturday. All right, guys. time to Time for the predictions for the game. um So I checked earlier this evening. So unless anything's changed, earlier this evening, Georgia on Odd Shark favored by seven and a half points with an over under of 54 and a half.
01:36:04
Speaker
That gives an implied score of Georgia 31, Miss 23 and a half. ah The Odd Shark predictive score has Ole Miss winning 40.7 to 39.8. So they've got a shootout.
01:36:17
Speaker
Parker Fleming and the CFB graphs has a Georgia win 30.86 21.21. to twenty one point twenty one Uh, and then our scoring impact thing that we do, uh, has like a one point win, uh, Georgia 27 to, Ole Miss 26.
01:36:33
Speaker
Um, Hunter, as the guest, do you want to lead us off? What do you, what's your, what's your vibe here? I think, and we, we've talked about it in our text thread. think that was, was that this morning that I woke up with the, the unexplainable vibe, um,
01:36:52
Speaker
I'll start by saying that if this game goes into a shootout, I would like Georgia's chances at home. um But it would not surprise me to see Ole Miss win a shootout type of game just because that's, you know, Lane Kiffin.
01:37:12
Speaker
Ole Miss is more of an offensive football team than a defensive football team. I think that's maybe the best way that I can put it. um So I think he's comfortable if he has to do that in doing that. I don't know how comfortable he is doing it on the road, um which is why I would say would lean Georgia.
01:37:28
Speaker
But I wouldn't be surprised to see Ole Miss win it in that situation. But – the vibe that I was talking about that I woke up this morning with is I just feel like this game is going to be like one of those 2015 era, like you would see Mississippi state go and play Alabama and Tuscaloosa and Mississippi state's undefeated Dak Prescott, you know, everybody wants to pick them. Everybody wants to talk about how they're the, you know, the upstart offense and what's wrong with Alabama. They lost to Ole Miss or they lost to whoever it is. And,
01:38:02
Speaker
On a weekly basis, they don't look great, but they find a way to win. and ah People are wanting to pile on them. I feel like Georgia's in that position now, and that's going to be this kind of game where you see like an ugly Georgia win that the final score is like 20-6.
01:38:21
Speaker
what? Early... to six ah and but you know earlier early early in the fourth quarter, you look at the scoreboard and it's a close score, but you think back to watching the game and you said, this game has never been close.
01:38:39
Speaker
Like Georgia has dominated this game the entire time, but it's just kind of been ugly. It's kind of been, ah you know, ah six or seven point, 10 point lead. And then all of a sudden they just, you know, they, they, they end it. But yeah,
01:38:56
Speaker
It's a really ugly win. Not high firepower or anything like that. They just kind of shut them down. Kirby sits on them, kind of breaks their will type of a game.
01:39:11
Speaker
So what's your score prediction, to a Hunter? 21, Georgia 21, Ole 6. winny one georgia twenty one ole miss six
01:39:23
Speaker
i like that's like yeah i love I love that. I love your score a lot better than mine. Yeah. yeah I don't know why I feel that way. I feel like that's the type of game we're going to get.
01:39:37
Speaker
I mean, I'll take it. um Going into the fourth quarter, it's like 10 to 6. and call Calling for Georgia to cover at home is a bold strategy, Cotton.
01:39:48
Speaker
Yeah. I was, so I was this morning, I was thinking kind of like a Georgia, the one I was harkening back to was like the 2002 game where we kind of, we pulled away, we pulled a away late.
01:40:02
Speaker
It was what I was thinking in my head. And looked back at like the actual score. It was, that was 31 to 17. So I'm not, I'm not, I don't think I'm quite feeling that. um And then, don't know, then John, you were also kind of like, our m MO is the tight games of late too, as well.
01:40:17
Speaker
So i'm gonna I'm kind of leaning into like what our score predictor says-ish, so I've got the dogs in ah in a tight one, 27-24. Bro, I've had 28-24 on mine.
01:40:32
Speaker
ah Mostly because, um yeah, i think that I think it's going to be a tight game. That said, um if one of these teams scores 30, first Okay.
01:40:44
Speaker
Yeah. I know, man. You said it earlier too, like protect the ball. It's, you know, it's just, it's so huge. Protect the ball. It feels like another protect the ball in the game. Protect the ball in the game.
01:40:55
Speaker
Yeah. 100%. 100%. Cool. All right. um We got
SEC Game Predictions and Weekend Plans
01:41:01
Speaker
coaches pick them. you guys want to hit those quick? Let's do it. All right. um Some games around the SEC from Coach Trill.
01:41:11
Speaker
Sorry, I'm trying to find my pick-em thing. um So first off, we've got Oklahoma. Where did my picks go? Give me a second. don't know what happened to picks.
01:41:25
Speaker
Okay.
01:41:30
Speaker
I forgot to mention Joe Cox is the offensive co-offensive coordinator for those of you that did not know that. oh that's that's good. i ah You had mentioned him the other day. yeah Now I know why that had popped up.
01:41:42
Speaker
Yes, Joe Cox, former quarterback, is the offensive coordinator for for o Miss. I believe that based on what others were saying is that he does not call the plays. No, Charlie Weiss Jr. is the like but ah offensive coordinator, the play caller.
01:41:58
Speaker
Yeah, joe Joe Cox is like a co-offensive coordinator slash assistant head coach or something like that. Oh, interesting. yeah all right we got okay so number 14 is favored by uh oklahoma sorry is favored by five and a half points at south carolina i'm gonna take a bounce back game for um oklahoma who you got hunter i don't know i kind of feeling like texas beats them twice their quarterback's injured i don't know that he should have played that game last week um
01:42:30
Speaker
They're on the road. South Carolina is one of those teams that sneak up and have a ah good game at home randomly. um twelve forty five kickoff.
01:42:42
Speaker
Just feels like a weird South Carolina win. hmm uh i've got oklahoma jim okay okay um let's see number 10 lsu travels to number 17 vanderbilt 12 p.m kick on an abc vanderbilt is favored by two and a half points over lsu wild i've just i've just i've just woken up from 2007 and i've fallen on the floor dead Yeah.
01:43:11
Speaker
I can't that. Man, i'm gonna I'm sticking with Pavia. Go, Vandy. I'm taking the doors. Yeah, give me the fighting trust funds. Go to hell, LSU. Nice.
01:43:25
Speaker
Then we got number four, Texas A&M travels to Arkansas, a 3.30 kick on yeah ESPN. I mean, I feel that I'm all A&M on there for me. Yeah.
01:43:36
Speaker
But wouldn't it be fun if, what's his name? Petrino. Petrino. when And beat him. Yeah. That would be wild. That would be hilarious. Yeah, I've got A&M in that one as well, Jim.
01:43:50
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, the cult the cult leaders. Yeah. um Mississippi State goes to the Swamp to play the Gators. 415 SEC Network, the Gators are favored by nine, nine and a half for Mississippi State.
01:44:03
Speaker
Can they both lose? Yeah, seriously. What's that? Can they but can they both lose? Can they both lose? Yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah. Hunter's taking the Asteroid. and I mean, there people are talking that, like, I saw something tonight, like, reports of, like, Napier is not, meet you know, they're ready to pull the trigger, basically.
01:44:25
Speaker
Yeah, if he loses to Mississippi State at home, he's getting fired on Sunday morning. Right, right. I'm going to pick Florida so that he stay hangs around for the Georgia game. Yeah.
01:44:37
Speaker
Yeah, give me Florida. Okay. Yeah. You can't pick Mississippi State. obviously No, never, ever. Obviously. And then the third game of the triple header on ABC. um So you got LSU Vandy at noon, the Dogs Ole Miss at 3.30, and then number 11, Tennessee at number six, Alabama, 7.30.
01:44:58
Speaker
Bama's favored by seven and a half. I mean, I guess, don't know. Having played both, I got to take Bama. Yeah, I'm taking Alabama.
01:45:09
Speaker
Look for my boy Bray to make some kind of play again this week. Kill us with the Ocean Springs hit, but it's okay. I know. He's killing me. I mean, good for him. but Yeah, yeah.
01:45:20
Speaker
I feel like every week he's popping up on the highlight reel with an interception or forced fumble or something. so And it's it's at Alabama, and i don't know if Tennessee can get it done as much as I might like to see it happen.
01:45:38
Speaker
um i think alabama's just they've they've kind of found it here lately yeah give me the cyanide pill after hearing that um yeah bama okay yeah i gotta pick bama at home on that one um but man how did we lose those guys a we gotta move on we've gotta move on it's in the past yeah all right that's how I want to have that one back.
01:46:05
Speaker
yeah well Yeah, we all do. i do I know the team does too. We may me get our shot. Yeah. yeah Rematches are going to be ah more normal these days.
01:46:16
Speaker
and I tell you, the the tieic the tiebreaker situation is going to be like insane on this on this one, I feel like. this year This season is going to be even more drunk than last season on the tiebreakers.
01:46:27
Speaker
Yeah, I hope the guy that runs that site has it ah primed and ready to not crash like he did last year. Oh, man. So what's – Jim, what's your situation for the weekend? What's your plan? So we're heading down – we're going to head down Friday, so no coming in hot the day of the game like last – like Kentucky. So we're heading down Friday night.
01:46:48
Speaker
But, I mean, we'll we'll still get there late, but at least we won't, you know – um we've got school on Friday and everything. So heading down after school on Friday. So we'll get there. We'll get there super late Friday night, but we'll at least be able to wake up in the morning and be in Nicholson um instead of a driving down from Charlotte Saturday morning.
01:47:08
Speaker
So, yeah. Excellent. Well, see see you there, bud. See you there. And Bonda's famous bed and breakfast. That's right. Don't worry, John Michael D. We will not do a group run, a group pregame run.
01:47:24
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. that That'll be a little weird, but we'll figure it out. Too good. Well, Hunter, I hate that we'll miss you this weekend. um but enjoy, enjoy from ocean Springs with, with the, with the true man and the fan, uh, we'll be, uh, uh, well, you can live vicariously through us.
01:47:43
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So and that was our our plan is going to wake up and take Truett downtown and tailnu to and do our downtown walk and get our exercise in because of the Tater Nut that we just ate.
01:47:58
Speaker
um And then take them to the library, ah do our usual Saturday thing. and And then I'm going to, I'll see y'all on the other side. going to unplug and stay off of the socials. And I'll see y'all on Sunday.
01:48:15
Speaker
I like it. I like it. Cool.
01:48:19
Speaker
All right. Well, um it's good to have Hunt the Jones back with us. It was great to see. it was good to see Truman. So ah again, yeah, I echo Jim's sentiment that we're going to be bummed to not see the the Jones clan Athens.
01:48:38
Speaker
Yeah. We'll make it happen one week. we We'll make it happen. It just couldn't be this one. All good. All right, guys. Well, we got the fighting hunters and we're to take them down.
01:48:50
Speaker
Go dogs. Go dogs.