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our co host Jayu Nos for Dominus Culprit. I'm Jason stray Horn, and
we are the host here for this is Sparta on top of the Graduate Hotel,
the rooftop bar here in east Land scene and Jay you talking about the
performance from Michigan State against the akron Zips fifty two to zip. That was
a stellar performance. It was a stellar performance. And I see I like
that play on words that you did there to Zip there. Great performance by
Michigan State, excellent job by the defense corral into the football being down on
the sideline for that game. You could hear the physicality that Michigan State was
approaching this game defensively with they're guys flying down. There were eleven hats swarm
into the football every single time. So it was absolutely a well played game
by the Spartan defensively. Wow. I mean, you know, you looked
at how things were gonna get going in the early pregame warm ups, and
we're gonna cut to a shot of the MSU Hall of Fame inductee Draymond Green,
who was on hand in Spartan Stadium when he started giving a little bit
to the Akron zips in pregame. He's going after him a little bit there.
Yeah, yeah, you know that. That just goes to show that
Spartys we're one. You come at one of us, you're gonna get all
of us. It was really cool to see, you know, obviously he
was in the moment celebrating and enjoying himself, and you know it's good for
those Acron boys. You know, they had a little ten to fifteen seconds
of who who ah rah you know before the game. Nothing wrong with that
and that was a sign of things to come. And as we're talking we're
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Hey, two for two, you can't beat that, well, you
can't beat it. Can't beat that with a whiffle bat, with a whiffle
ball bat. So breaking it down, it was the largest margin of victory
from MSU since twenty fourteen. That was like a little bit after your playing
days, right, Yeah, it was a little bit after my playing days.
And I'll top he was one more over there. That's the largest shutout
win since nineteen fifty seven when the Spartans put a to the Hoosiers of Indiana
fifty four to nothing. That was a long time ago, man. Yeah,
definitely, definitely was. And you know, like I said, it
was all around good game for the Spartan and offensively, you know, I
don't think it's as sharp as they wanted it to be, but you know,
we had production from the offensive line. We have production from the running
backs. You know, they total nearly five hundred yards of total offense.
You know, that's never a bad day at the office, Never have that.
Never. When the offense is clicking like that, five hundred plus yards,
you know it's gonna be a good day. And we're gonna talk about
the rushing totals as you just touched on there, the killer bees, Brossard
and Berger totaling for nearly two hundred and sixty yards. Yeah, it's a
really unique take the way that Michigan State's approaching their handling of the running backs
by committee. In the past, if you have running backs by committee,
you usually played the hot hand and the other guy goes in. But this
time it seems like they're alternating series. So for an offensive coordinator, then
you have to change your game plan a little bit. For Okay, this
guy's strengths are this, this, and this. Maybe is he a better
pass protector than this? Can we throw the ball so many times? You
know, with Berger in or Broussard, which one is it? So that
a lot goes into play with that, and it's a unique approach for a
running back by committee. Yeah, it looks like they've really done a good
job of giving a balanced amount of carries, if you will, thirty two
carries between the two one hundred and eighty eight total yards. Berger with seventeen
for one oh seven. Broussard fifteen carries for eighty one of those yards.
Yeah, and those are all hard yards, you know for those guys.
I thought Berger he showed his explosiveness a little bit there, you know,
broke out on a couple of them, and the same thing with Brichard.
He showed his toughness, you know, running between the tackles. You could
see a lot of good flashes from those guys. And I think as they
as the season goes on, the more and more they get comfortable with the
offensive line, they get in that rhythm of the offense, you're gonna see
those flashes a lot more. But I saw some really good jump cuts at
the second level to spring them, you know through those big runs. We
love jump cuts in the offensive line. I know that much, and so
to the fans. But also let's talk a little bit about Elijah Collins,
who had an emergence, a guy that we haven't seen in a while.
Eight carries fifty seven yards. Yeah, you know, fifty seven that's his
uh, you know, most yards he's had in a game since a Pinstripe
Bowl. And you know he came out there. You know, is he
emerging as this third back, this guy that's gonna be out there and you
know, spell those two guys or maybe get a bit of a change of
pace guy. The thing I really like of Elijah Collins, I think he's
that bruising back that Michigan's He's the one, he's the thumper out of the
group, and if he can play himself into a bigger role, Michigan State
will be very dangerous offensively. He looked like he's a guy that can really
move that pile, especially in red zones, and that's something that shoots.
You used to do. I remember when your playing days, being able to
get the ball into the end zone, punching in for those scores that you
need deep into big ten play receive on the receiving end, Eleven different receivers
catch the ball. Ju Jayden Reids six catches for seventy six yards. Neon
Keon two catches for thirty six yards. But then your guy Trey Moseley two
catches twenty six yards in a tuddy Yeah, Trey Mosley. You know,
he's a He's a sneaky guy, That's what I'm saying. He's this guy.
He's a very unsung guy. You know, he's not gonna give you
the splash plays that Coleman and Reid will give you. He's gonna get those
hard, dirty yards. He's gonna be that one that sneaks in there,
and it's kind of like, you know, one of those big tight ends
that a program has that just somehow finds a way to get open. That's
how Mosley reminds me off. But he's in a receiver's body, and if
defenses were gonna have to are gonna have to start paying more attention to him
and game plan for him, especially when they get into the red zone.
The twenty and n specifically, it reminds me of Josiah Price back in the
day during the rolls exactly exactly getting those cheeky yards and those cheeky, cheeky
scores. It will spread around with eleven receivers on the receiving end as a
passer. Peyton Thorn eighteen to twenty eight two hundred and twelve yards, no
touchdowns this time two picks. Yeah, you know Thorn. The big thing
with him is, you know, and you heard him say at the end,
you know, in the postgame press conference that he's upset with himself for
you know, the timing's off and he's the bass is coming out and it's
sailing on him a little bit. The big thing you have to worry about
that Jason, especially with the quarterback, is he can't get in his head.
Yeah, he has to have that memory of a fish. A fish
hats memory for five seconds. That's why they swim around in a circle.
Doo doo doo doo up looks, you know, and they love it.
But so that's what a quarter he needs to do. Great movie, but
that's what a quarterback has to do. And he can't get in his head.
And I think right now, I don't want to say doubt, maybe
slowly creeping in, but he you know, he's thinking about it and that's
not a good thing. But at the end of the day, he is
our guy. Yeah, yeah, he's got to turn it loose. You
know. He had a little bit of that in the Peach Bowls. We
talked about before a week ago against Western Michigan facing his father. This time,
you know, he's there's really no excuse, if you will, for
a guy with his technique and caliber of play and his ability. So hopefully
he can get this together because right now he got a guy and Noah Kim,
Noah him, Noah Kim two for two, twenty two yards and a
touchdown. Yeah, Noah Kim really impressed me. You know, last week
he came in for the Western game and the first play, you know,
he released it, let it go deep, and it was almost a diamam
right. This week he comes in, you know, he's throwing the ball,
and one thing that really impressed me was that touchdown pass to Moseley here
as you can see, you know, on this he you know, it's
a play action going to the right and it's really tough for a right handed
quarterback to now turn around and roll out to the left hand side, turn
your shoulders and get your hips in there to deliver the ball that he did
for mostly in the end zone. That that was a very good play and
it really really impressed me. So if I'm Michigan State, I'm happy with
the backup quarterback that we have. In Noah Kim. You know, we
just need to see a bigger body of work from him. But I you
know, if something happens to Thorn, I think we can relax, Spartanation
can relax, and the ball will be in pretty good hands with Kim.
Yeah, Spartan nation right now. And if you look at social media,
if you're into that type of thing, there's a lot of people talking about,
Hey, what about Noah Kim. He's been pretty accurate. Waiting has
turned quietly though, and we will see Peyton Thorn get back into the player
that we know he could be. But kayten Hauser also a youngster, true
freshman, getting some tick out of California Saint John Bosco, the number one
program in the United States right now. In high school. He gets send
for you know, one or two, you know, two yards, But
he had a nice thirteen yard run. Yeah, I saw him total nak
a little bit there. You know, I was really happy, and you
know what made me excited. You know, that's why you play these games
early in the year, to see what you have offensively, defensively. A
lot of running backs. I think four different running backs played in the game.
Three different quarterbacks played in the game. We had some different receivers go
in there and defensively, same thing. So that is the purpose of having
these games. College football, there is no preseason. You know, some
might say a little bit, you know, this is your preseason, but
college this isn't. Look you asked jimbo at Texas A and m Well,
ask Scott Frost Nebraska, Georgia Southern. Yeah, exactly counted. So,
but if you're a championship caliber team, you have your team with the mindset
of I believe you know, coach Tucker probably said this, Hey, we're
going in there and we want to play a lot of guys and it's up
to the starters to get these second string, these third string guys in there.
These guys bust their butts in practice for you to get ready for the
game. Now you give him opportunity to shine under the lights in the woodshed.
That's right. He did that, and we could go having a really
tough, spirited week of practice. As we heard, everyone was very on
edge. If you will, we could go in practice and they responded with
a very very nice performance by the offense. Offensive line came out with a
very strong outing two hundred and sixty yards on the ground only allowing us sack
ju And you know, we know the Duplaine, Saint Mac and Carrick in
the middle have been doing a very nice job of getting pushed and protecting Peyton
Thorn and Noah Kim, But it was the tackles this week. Jared Horse,
who got his first start after not starting a week ago, granted out
of the ninety point one and Pro Football Focus number two O line offensive lineman
in the Power five. Spencer Brown right behind him at eighty percent point five
good fore sixteenth in the Power five. Yeah, that offensive unit, that
offensive line unit there, you would know at the end of the day the
score is fifty two nothing. But you don't see the praises in the paper
about the offensive line. But these guys are the jail, you know,
as far as Michigan State's gonna go, it's how far these guys take them.
Was really refreshing and really good to see Horse start and see him have
a good game. I hope, you know, whatever he has going on
or had going on, is worked out and he's good to go. Now
he's out of his head a little bit. You know, like last year
you saw some things from him, But I think this year he's focused,
yeah, and ready to go. Really worked hard to change his body in
the offseason. Yeah, definitely. And great job with the you know,
strength strength coaches here in Michigan State. They really you know, get these
guys ready to go. It's a it's a little it's different. It's totally
different. I was down, like I said, on the sideline there,
offensive lineman body are not what it used to be. No, not even
clothes, you know. Yeah, take it from those who know. Yeah,
it's not what it used to be. These guys are lean, they're
thick, and they're quick. Yeah, lean, bick and quick. Yeah.
So and that's where football's going these days, you know. And that's
how you can have these fifty two to nothing scores as opposed to these seventeen
fourteen games. Yeah. Jason Novak MSU strength and conditioning coach, guy who's
been been around, been in the pros for a long time, and img
as a strength conditioning guy and gets these players stronger through the season. I
remember back in our era, maintaining strength was a focus, just trying to
maintain Now they're actually getting personal records prs through the season. Towards the end
of the year, which is phenomenal if you think about it. Now we
go on to the defensive side of the ball and they pitch a shutout.
On the defensive side of the ball, pass rush yields five sacks. It's
Jacobe Winwick once again. Number four, three solos, two assists, five
total tackles, two and a half tackles for loss, one and a half
sacks, and force fumbles all over the place. You know, as a
defense, it's almost like a pitcher throwing a no hitter. At what point
do you look up and be like, oh, wow, we have a
goose egg up there right now. You know, how do we keep it
up? And you want to as a defensive coordinator, you want to go
into the next week's saying, great job, we shut him out. We
did what we were supposed to do. As players. Oh yeah, that
pressure starts mounting, especially when the game's out of hand in the fourth quarter.
They put the second string in, the third string in. These starters
are up chair, these guys on because they want that shutout. So it's,
you know, something really impressive when you get a shutout in Division one
football. Kudos to the defensive staff to the players and winmen. How what
more can he say about this guy? I mean, this was all over
the field, and we're gonna show some highlights of winmen with forced rumbles down
the field, I mean, fumble recoveries. He's just just an incredible athlete.
The guy who was named Defensive Player of the Week by the Big Ten
two weeks in the row, the first time ever in Michigan state history.
Yeah. You know, great player, great body of work that he displays
every time he steps onto the field. He has that go to work mentality,
great technical moves. Shout out to coach Jordan, you know, because
I think that's what's helping him. Uh. He's great with his hands,
using his hands, his swim moves, his rips, his dips, everything
and that having those things in your tool belt. Oh man, a tackle
sees you. It's a long week for a tackle. You would know that.
Oh, I'm telling you if you're watching film and you see this guy,
because usually some guys have one or two moves, and you have to
prepare for all Big Ten. If you have two moves, right too,
this guy has got unlimited Seriously, looks like von Miller out there. A
guy who has five excellent moves in his tool belt. Spin cycles, you
know, double dips, retraced ribs, the ghosts move. I mean,
this guy has all the tools that most college athletes aren't face. So if
you're if you're a tackle and college are you're watching that film and this is
the guy you have to block, you're looking at your scouting report, You're
looking at his profile, his bio. What are you thinking throughout the week?
I'm thinking about getting Limited Fournette from the Tampa Bay Buccaneer come up and
help me chip blocking like he did. You know my man from the Cowboys.
Yeah, person eleven from Heaven a cordon to skip. That's what I'm
looking for. You need to chip a nasty chip block to set the tone
a little bit, because that's that's all you really have against a player of
this gal. Yeah, and he said it in the post game show,
and you're gonna start seeing team game playing for him. They're gonna start sending
two guys, you know, three guys, two guys on him. I'm
running back, coming out of the backfield chipping him. And what that's gonna
do? Freeze up everybody everyone else. Let these other dogs hunt Yeah,
that's what's gonna happen. Yeah, I mean we think about that young guns
we're talking about. You know, obviously for Jacoby Women, Pro Football Focus
grades ninety one. In his first two weeks, six tackles, six assists
for twelve totals six and a half tackles for loss, four force fumbles,
one recovery, and the sex just continue to pile up up for Jacoby Women.
Now, sitting at I believe it's five and a half sacks total for
Jacoby winmen. But then you know, as you said, young guns are
getting involved. Freshman, true freshman out of Georgia Zion Young gets his first
career sack. Yeah, you know that. You can't script it better.
You know, last week we had a newcomer and against Western, you know,
first play it's a touchdown. And then this week, you know,
a true freshman coming in and that's the buzz and that's what that's the type
of team Coach Tucker's trying to form. Here. If you're a recruit sitting
at home and you watch a Michigan State game, you out the window.
I don't care if I'm a freshman, I'm going in. I have the
opportunity to play. If I work my butt off, I can go and
I can play. And so that's what's happening right now. And I'm so
happy for those guys. But the defense was swarming. I gotta give Derek
Harmon, another big fellow in the middle got his first sack too, and
the fumble recovery on that hit that Cal Holliday put in there. Man,
cal Holliday, what a day he had. Yeah, you know, didn't
have the huge tackle numbers performance out of the second level they're talking about the
linebackers, the Cal Halliday Brule and company Van Sumerin they had pedestriate numbers,
but they were very effective in that big hit by cal Halliday on acron Zips
which caused a fumble and recovered by Jacoby Winman exactly. So you know,
the defense is playing well. They're swarming to the football. You can't ask
her anything better. And that's what they're gonna have to do going into the
Washington game. Yeah, Washington game is gonna be a big one coming up.
A mere speed leads the team in tackles from the corner position. Now
this is not a normal looking cornerback. He's one of the first guys off
the bus type of cornerback. He out of Georgia. He's the one that
you go out, you pull up to the stadium. Hey, speed,
you go out first, you go off, you're going for the coin toss.
Speed, you go out there. You know he has the one long
sleeve on the leg, one short sleeve. If you're gonna have that swag
and dress and be like that, you gotta be a guy. Yeah,
you gotta be a guy. You can't just come in and be a you
know, look at you know, look good and stand on the sideline.
You got to be on the field and being a guy. And right now
he's doing that. And it is to say, you know, what does
it say about the scheme on your corner is your leading tackle? Hey,
you know it's a little bit. It's a little different. It's a little
different. But you got a guy who's big. He's six'y four on
the low side. He's got a lot of range. You can cover.
But nine tackles, five solo, four assists a tackle for a loss.
I mean a guy who's just all over the field as a cornerback, and
that's just another linebacker if you will, that can also cover down the field
right exactly. So I'm excited for this defense. It's you know, you
can't just help. But if you're in the defensive room at Michigan State and
you know, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when
you're gonna get your shot to eat. Yeah, it's true. I mean
it gets speaking of eating with pass breakups, you gotta talk about Charles Brantley,
who had a phenomenal game with three pass breakup Charles Brantley, This guy
I impressed me down on the sideline. I tell you, I promise you
mind leg is bigger than he is, but my leg is bigger than Brantley.
But this guy is a dog through and through. He had so many
good tackles coming up. Better hitter in the big ten, not at all.
And the way that and the thing that impressed me is he's hitting the
right way. He's coming in head up, good form, good position,
and uh, you know, happy for him. You know, little guys,
you have a chance. Little guys have a chance to you know.
Right now, misis State and on the men they're getting practicing, getting ready
for that University of Washington game. They're going across the country and at the
game. There were some festivities going on down there in the game, and
you know he had the chance to run into the two thousand and two Final
four team for field hockey. Huh. Yeah, definitely. They're one of
the first in Michigan say history to go to the Final four. They were
back being celebrated this weekend. You know, it was great a lot of
them, you know, some of them were in dorm mates with them my
freshman year, yeah and everything, and so it was really cool to see
see some of them and see them come back and be recognized and see where
they are in their lives now. Shout out to the field hockey team and
if feld hockey team's doing pretty decent this year here Michigan State, they are.
They are go show a clip of you on the sideline with the two
thousand and two field hockey Final four team. This is Sparta Podcast. We
are here today with the two thousand and two women's field hockey team. That's
we celebrate them today. Four to the Final four. Are speaking of fan
interaction, you were able to do some ticket giveaways outside the stadium beforehand,
right, Yeah, definitely, And I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna look
in my camera right here and say, if you're listening to this, make
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them about it. MAMAEM, MAMAEM likes free tickets. Everybody loves free.
Everyone loves free. I like that if it's free, it's for me.
And it was a lot of fest It was a festive atmosphere for Michigan State.
We had a lot of people back in town for the MSU a Hall
of Fame induction ceremony. We saw Draymond Green, who you got to spend
some time with on the sideline, and then Greg Jones, a guy,
a former Spartan dog who was there with you. You had a nice interview
with him, but you got a chance to catch up with Greg. Yeah,
I really got to catch up with Greg. I was a senior when
Greg was a freshman. He came in and played it and had immediate impact
as a true freshman and you know that goes to say why he's in the
Hall of Fame right now? And you know you looking for your call.
I'm so waiting, you know, I keep going to my phone services and
you're like, hey, man, hey, hey, is this thing on.
But maybe we get it postulously like herb Atteley, which something he shouldn't
have got it possumously because he decided to forego it himself while he was still
here. But for us regular guys, maybe maybe yeah. You know,
your grandkids can't accept exactly, you know, I just I just want to
go to dinner. I want a free meal. That's awesome. And speaking
of Spartan dogs, you know we're gonna talk a little bit about our former
running back compadre, not ju but Le'vion. How about him this weekend getting
in the boxing ring. You know, I'm like, way before this came
about, I seen a follow Olivion on Instagram. I see him in the
gym and he's thrown hands, he's doing boxing, and it's like, wow,
Okay, this guy looks good. He looks he looks legit. And
then he takes on future Hall of Famer and a former All Pro running back
Adrian Peterson did to make you nervous. It made me nervous because apiece taller
has to reach. Yeah, and so that's why I was like, oh
man, what's going on here? But he gave He gave him with a
smooth one and you could he it in AP's hest when he got hit.
It stunned him for a little bit deer in the headlights and those knee buckled
and went, oh, he's like, it's suck. He won two three,
He was out of there. He was trying when he got back up.
Look at the tape here he gets back up, he's trying to tell
the ref. You know, I'm good. He wasn't good. Good to
go and that was a rat for ap And it was just good to see
Spartans winning all over on the field, off the field, you know,
in the business world and everything that's right. And then that will do it.
For another episode of This is Sparta, here we are again on top
of the Graduate Hotel, the rooftop Rock Bar in East Lansing. Beautiful scenery,
beautiful place. Don't forget to get your rooms when you come to the
Graduate Hotel here and a nice beverage. You know, sometimes an adult beverage,
maybe not, whatever your choice is, you know. For ju Culcrik,
I'm Jason stray Horn and this is Sparta by the futvoted down. Whats
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