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need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
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don't need no meals. We don't need no cats. We need more dogs.
Were out a detainer. Ah, you're not that decayed. We weren't
good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling
you. We laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for
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Speaking of football, though, and I do want to before we do
that, let me just get to a tweet that somebody sent me regarding the
Jim Bowden discussion we had earlier on where the Tigers and other teams stand with
about twenty days left before the trade deadline. We read you that article a
lot of it. Coach aj En sent me a tweet and said, we
stand pat don't do either. Might be the only way to get Mayaida off
the team. There's another person, not a fan of Kenta Maaida. I
tweeted this out because I think it's a really cool, really cool article on
Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning is very likable otherwise he doesn't do as many commercials
as he does. He and Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley very likable people.
There was a recent question, I think it was from NFL Network who asked
him, if there's one wide receiver you could throw to that you never did,
who would it be. Now, this is a guy who's thrown to
some of the best receivers in the game and helped them become among the best
receivers in the game. Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Damarius Thomas, Emmanuel
Sanders among the Julian Lleman, all those guys, or I'm sorry, Wes
Welker, not Julian Edelman. Who do you think Peyton Manning chose Jerry Rice?
It's a good one. He chose Raymond Barry, who played for the
Colts from nineteen fifty five through nineteen sixty seven. Six time Pro bowler,
six time All Pro, won a couple of NFL championships, ranks fourth on
the Colts all time receiving list, third on the all time receiving touchdowns list.
Maybe some of it has to do with the fact that Peyton Manning really
respected Johnny Unitas and that was the connection. Remember when Unitas passed and Manning
wanted to play in high top black cleats because that was Johnny Unitas's signature,
and he was going to get fined by the NFL. What a ridiculous thing.
The NFL was going to find that one of the faces of the league.
They were going to find him for wearing high top cleats. That's idiocy
in honor of a legend of said league, right in honor of one of
the greatest players the league has ever had. And that's what you're gonna do.
Idiocy. But whatever, Peyton Manning. Maybe it's because of that connection.
Raymond Burry a longtime great Colt, one of the greatest Colts of all
time. But I still find it pretty interesting. But it did get me
thinking this. So I wanted to ask you and would love your participation.
Somebody's already participated in on Twitter at XP mornings. I ask you this when
it comes to this type of question, let's try to bring fans into it.
If you could watch one player in his prime, pro or college,
somebody you've never seen, you've only heard about, who you never watched,
who would it be? Number of names came flying through my mind, and
we're just talking football here, by the way, just football. Somebody tweeted
at us on XP Mornings Calvin Johnson, which surprises me. Calvin Johnson hasn't
been retired that long. You never saw him play, That's strange. Well,
maybe they're answering it from the from the Manning angle of like, who
would you if you're a quarterback, who do you want to throw to?
Well, I tweeted out this Peyton Manning says he if he could throw to
one receiver he never threw to, who would it be? Raymond Barry?
So we're asking who would be the one player you wish you could see after
missing them in their prime. So we're not restricting this to football. I
am restricting it to football. You are okay, Okay. I gave my
answer yesterday. Lawrence Taylor. I just you hear all about him as a
football fanatic and how much of a freak he was. I would have loved
to watch Lawrence Taylor rehab it. Yeah, you would have loved it.
So my mind went to a lot of different places, and I think the
easy answer to that is sometimes, well I never saw Bart's Starr play,
so I'd love to see bart Starr. I never saw Johnny Unitas play,
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with I don't know Merlin Olsen, who was part of a really good defensive
line. Right. Maybe maybe a guy like Otis Sis drunk back in the
Oakland Day, Bubba Smith, how about that somebody like that. Here's where
my mind went, so to two specific places. I would have loved to
have seen Kirk Gibson play at Michigan State. Now he's a friend of mine,
and I know how good he was. He wasn't good, he was
great. First Team All American, would have been a top five pick in
the NFL. Professionally, I wrote down three names Night Train Lane Hall of
Famer, Gail Sayers Hall of Famer, and Lance Alworth Hall of Famer.
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we referenced the article where Peyton Manning revealed the one wide receiver in NFL history
he'd like to throw a pass to who he never got to, and it
was Raymond Berry of the Baltimore Colts. I ask you give me the player
you would love to watch in his prime but never had a chance to.
Who's the one player college bro one of both Just football now on Twitter,
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see. Somebody wrote Calvin Johnson and I wrote back, h good one.
It's too bad you never got a chance to see him. I'm surprised that
must be a very young person on Twitter who's sending us that. Yeah,
if your answer is Kellen Johnson, I don't think you're legally allowed to have
a Twitter account. Yeah, not just not just that you must not be
a football fan. I mean that's that's crazy because he hasn't been retired too
long. Andrew on Twitter said, ray Nichke grew up listening to my grandfather
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Hill was the first player chosen in that draft. I know. But Ray
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his mask and wanted to tear your head off. That's a really good one.
Here's another one from Randy Bobby Lane. There's some Lions love right there,
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magg He's going to join us at thirty five after the hour, I wrote
Gail Sayers. Now, I'm sure a lot of people have heard of Gail
Sayers. Please not because of the Brian Piccolough story, just because he was
one of, if not well Jim Brown. He's one of the greatest running
backs of all time. Here's the unique thing about Gail Sayers, not that
he played at Kansas. The unique thing about him is that he only played
seven years in the NFL. And you really can't even call it seven because
his last two years he played it combined four games because of injury, So
he really only had five really good years, and one of those years he
was injured as well, because he only played nine of the fourteen games back
then. In fact, today Gabel Sears would be severely criticized for being injury
prone and not being a gamer because of the five If I can call him
full seasons again, in nineteen sixty eight, when he was twenty five years
old, he only played nine games, so on those five seasons, he
only played a full season three times. He was Rookie of the Year in
nineteen sixty five, again out of Kansas, Rookie of the Year unanimous I
think, finished fourth in the MVP the following season, led the league in
rushing and yards per game. Two years after that, at the age of
twenty five, led the league in yards per attempt and in his last full
season before he got injured in nineteen sixty nine, he led the league in
attempts, in yards and yards per game. But if I said to you
this player, forget about the name for a minute. This player played seven
seasons, sixty five games, rushed for under five thousand yards, but is
in the Hall of Fame and only rushed for thirty nine touchdowns. He only
back in the day when they actually ran the ball a lot more than they
do today, Gail Sayers had double digit touchdowns once his rookie year. His
rookie year, here's the difference. Gail Sears not only was majestical and fluid
as a running back, he was the best kick and punt returner of his
era. They did the double duty back then. So he's scoring touchdowns,
he's returning kicks, he's returning punts. He was phenomenal in that regard to
part of the reason he's a Hall of Famer. Plus he was a rock
solid human being. So Gail Sears is that guy for Kirk Gibson. Is
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he played, and I do remember him catching passes from Eddie Smith just from
discussions of people talking about it. You know, college football, it's not
like every game was on TV back then, but that dude was an absolute
man amongst boys. When he played at Michigan State University. He would literally
tell guys, Trent, you're trying to cover me, I'm going to run
a post and there's nothing you can do about it. And he would do
just that. And he is a legend on that campus and rightfully so,
absolutely as an All American in football and an All American in baseball, would
have been a first round pick in the NFL draft had he chosen to play
NFL, and he was a first round pick in Major League Baseball. You
talk about an athlete like he could have run track too. He would have
won as fast as a guy back then as you could find. He could
have done the decathlon. Yeah, yeah, he would have been. Yeah,
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would will himself into events that maybe he wasn't as strong at and he's still
doing that great attitude, great fighters mentality right now. KRK Gibson had a
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hour, Welcome back on a third. Glad you're with us on x'es and
bros. Across the Great State of Michigan. Trent Bally is our producer.
I'm Matt Sheppard, and we're proud and honored to welcome in Jim Comparoni of
Spartan mag He's the publisher of that fine publication since nineteen ninety seven. He's
covered MSU football and basketball and recruiting since nineteen eighty eight. He's a lead
analyst and sports editor for Spartan Magazine and he's covered NCAA tournaments, He's covered
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really good in breaking down a lot of the things that Michigan State football has
done and their depth chart and things of that. Everything that has go green,
go white you can find with Jim Comperoni. And we welcome him in
on this Thursday morning. Jim, appreciate the time very much. Jonathan Smith
has hit the ground running. What's impressed you most in his first few months
at the Helm there at East Lansing. Hey, great, It's great to
be on man. I really appreciate things for that introduction Helloed everybody, Detroit.
This is a lot of fun for me. I appreciate it. You
know Smith, you know, a lot of things are impressive. His temperament,
the things you hear about him from other people that have played for him
as a player or coached with him. Solid human being which we need more
of in college football. You hear a lot of those things from a lot
of people. You know. Demetrius Martin is his cornerbacks coach. He's coming
from the University of Oregon. Demetri is also coached at UCLA Arizona State.
They're both you know, grew up around the Pasadena area. They've known each
other a long time. They're finally coaching together now. Demetris Martin played at
Michigan State in the in the mid nineteen nineties, first for Perlis and then
for Staban. So Demetrius Martin has coached against Jonathan Smith a number of times.
Jonathan Smith coming from Arizona State and coached out of the Pac twelfth and
Martin says he's a defensive coach. Getting prepared for those Oregon State teams,
especially his last two teams at Oregon State. He said it was a headache
Oregon State made you defend every blade of grass vertically, horizontally, and physically,
and then they would hit you with with deep shots. An interesting style
of offense. They'll go under center more than any At Oregon State, they
were under center for the quarterback position more than any team in the Power five,
but they would also go deep off of that and just keep you guessing.
That established the physicality and then go to the air. You know.
Offensive style wise, Oregon State last year reminded me a lot of the way
Jim Harbaugh's offenses were at Michigan the last few years. So Jonathan Smith,
former college quarterback, has I would say like a Jim Harbaugh outlook on how
to attack defenses. And I think that style of play can play well in
the Big Ten and they will recruit to it, primarily with the Midwest and
branching out from there. So the things I hear about him from people that
have played for him and coached against him, coach with him, good person
and competitive, which doesn't always come across when you talk to him. Always
talk about how competitive he is. So all those things, step by step
give Michigan State a chance to rebuild a program from foundational standpoint it's going to
take a while, but I think they've got a pretty good person to try
to get those things done. Yeah, I agree, And I think it
says an awful lot about Michigan State when you can take a guy from his
alma mater to come to East Lansing in this type of quote unquote rebuild.
Whether we like it or not, Jim, we're all compared to somebody,
Okay, and with Jonathan Smith, he's going to be compared and every football
coach at MSU probably should be compared to Mark D'Antonio. And you mentioned a
good person, Well, I think that's similar to D'Antonio, because D'Antoni was
a good man. Right. There are other aspects of him as a coach
that he will have to adjust to and that he will have to be in
order to try and create his own shadow rather than Mark D'Antonio. What will
be his biggest challenge in his first year? In his first year, you
know, taking over a program that's had a lot of players leaving and a
lot of players coming in. I think forty or more new new faces and
new scholarship players when he count the incoming freshmen. So getting a team atmosphere,
finding leaders, gaining the trust of the players, which I think he
has. You know, that's that's that's one thing. You know, the
Big ten is strong. Everybody knows that Michigan State's schedule is difficult. Everybody's
scheduled the Big that is difficult, but it's also somewhat manageable in some ways.
But in terms of what you said about biggest challenges, you know,
in the middle of the schedule, dealing with Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon
in Iowa. Those four games come right in the middle of the schedule.
But I think the thing that's going to determine the direction of the season will
be two early season games at Maryland at Boston College. So these, you
know, challenges is getting off to a good start. Winning those two manageable
road games difficult Maryland, you know, that's an established program, you know
that's been in bowl games the last couple of years. Going on the road,
that'll be that's going to be a test to see if to see where
Michigan State is there early in the year doing that with Aid and Giles a
new quarterback. Giles has all kinds of talent. He needs to show that
he can make reads and lead the team. Offensive line has had a lot
of change over It was somewhat disappointing the last couple of years. Now there's
new people, a lot of unproven parts of that offensive line, So a
lot of in terms of unproven players offensive line and quarterback, and going on
the road for those two early games in September. I think those are the
immediate challenges. Yeah, that's a really good point, especially with Maryland.
I would argue that, you know, what Mike Loxley has done there has
been pretty impressive. You get a road win there at Maryland early on in
the schedule. I think that's something on which you can build. You bring
up the quarterback Giles and you said learning to read defenses as a former quarterback
himself, Jonathan Smith, how much will it help building a quarterback room in
East Lansing And what's the depth chart look like? You know, Chiles has
all kinds of talent. He was a four star guy out for California.
He's a big time recruit that went to Oregon State last year backed up d
de huey i'ngalalay at Oregon State. When Jonathan Smith and the staff came to
Michigan State Child's game with him, and he's a dynamic talent, dynamic personality.
He does have some natural leadership skills, all kinds of arm, six
foot four, really good quickness, really good speed. They used him as
a backup last year. You know, they'd usually give him one series per
game in the second quarter. I mean he's out there in Utah when Utah
was four and oh, and he's got a series early in the second quarter,
so he had some real experience. It was not just mop up duty.
He needs to show he can make reads. That's something I ate Matt.
I went over every pass completion that he made last year on TATE and
I watched the entire Utah game, the entire Stanford game, and you don't
really see him make reads and go to his second and third option. He
didn't do that yet, and he didn't do it in the spring game.
So in terms of reading a defense and those progressions, that's something that needs
to come around as he gets gets set for his sophomore year and then it'll
run some you know. No, they began that Utah game empty, you
know, with the receiver a tight end out five wide and the defense of
scrambling a point, decide what they're gonna do, because they prepared for a
team that would go, you know, tight end one back and ram it
down your throat. So they'll do all those things, and he can run
a lot of those things. And they've got the tight end Jack Velling coming
with him from Oregon State. You know, one publication ranked Velling the Pac
twelve tight end of the Year last year, so the tight end position is
in good hands. The center position is also coming from Oregon State, Tanne
Miller, second team of All Pac twelve. So those things helped Smith as
he gets his offense established and it's going to be a physical style of offense,
but that doesn't guarantee immediate success of course. You know at Oregon State
he began to inten in his first year, then five and seven, then
the COVID year. Then they started getting a lot of momentum seven and six
and twenty twenty one, and then had a big year in twenty twenty two,
going ten and three, beating Florida in a Bowl game, finishing number
seventeen in the country, and last year eight and four and also the top
twenty five. So it's going to take a while, but I'm impressed with
the offensive line coach and the style of play, Brian Linkred coming with him
from Morgan State to be offensive coordinator. A lot of interesting things to watch
and a lot of new names at Michigan State for Michigan State fans to try
to memorize and become familiar with. Yeah, so much good stuff at Spartan
Meg. We're talking with Jim Camperoni, who is the editor and the main
guy right there right the publisher of Spartan Mag. And he's been doing it
sinceeen ninety seven. It's amazing how much content you provide. You brought up
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the green and the white. Now you mentioned the offensive line, which is
it's the backbone, man, It's the reason you win. I believe in
football. Dan Campbell has proved with the Lions last year. Jim Harbaugh was
a big believer in it. I would assume Jonathan Smith has a similar philosophy.
And you brought up the center Tanner Miller, but also you wrote about
Luke Newman, who's poised to make an impact at right guard. Give me
the overall philosophy you think that jon Jonathan Smith brings to Michigan State and how
quickly he can implement that in this program. Yes, in a moment ago
you asked me on the death start at quarterback, I wanted to mention also
that the second stringer is Tommy Schuster from Chippewa Valley High School, Macomb Township,
Michigan. Yeah, transferring in from North Dakota, and he went out
to North Dakota through for nine thousand yards you know, school wrecord holder in
yards and touchdowns and you know sixty seven completion. He's only six feet tall,
you know. I I've not spoken with him yet. I'm pretty sure
that the Max schools did not recruit him coming out of Chippewaba. I think
I think you're right about that. I think he played in a state championship
and I called his game, so I think you're right about that. I
was surprised that no Max School jumped on him. Good point. Yeah,
and by the way, a great job of those high school games. Just
last night, I was I was watching Trey McKenny from Older Lake Saint Mary's
McCormick and the other guy called that one. But I went over. I
was clearing my DVR, and you know, I didn't really get a chance
to watch. I was covering the NCAA tournament and I watched some of your
calls just last night. It's a great job either state championship cull. Okay,
yeah, you call it game with Tommy Schuster and you know Shuster.
You may remember they won the state title at Chippewah Valley and he was something
like fourteen of fourteen in the state title game. The only person that's ever
done that really good. You talk about making reads, I went back of
some of the North Dakota games. Makes Reid's very accurate. He's only six
feet tall and he's not that fast. So that's that's why he ended up
at North Dakota. He went there, started for four and a half years,
set school records, you know, graduated there, went into the portal
and you know, always wanted to play in the Big Ten always wanted to
see if he could make it at a school like Michigan State, and Michigan
State did a good job going into the portal and getting him presumably his backup.
But I tell you what the coaches when you ask him about Schuster,
they smile and they just kind of nod and say, man, that guy
can play quarterback. So when Smith took over, Mischigan State's quarterbacks went into
the portal, you know, Noah Kim and kateon Hauser, and you know
when they showed up, they had no scholarship quarterbacks on campus. That's the
first time that's been the case of Michigan State's at the World War Two,
So they had to completely stock the quarterback position. Chiles was coming in,
they went and got Schuster and a couple of high school guys. So that
that's that's what the depth chart looks there. You know you mentioned Luke Newman.
You know, what we're doing is a series right now in Michigan State.
We are going over every single position on the depth chart I'm doing.
I'm doing a series of stories in which I project what I think the depth
chart is. Because Michigan State has not released an official depth chart since Mark
D'Antonio was at Michigan State. So I'm just going by what I saw in
the spring game, what I've heard from coaches here and there, what I've
seen with my own eyes. A lot of these players coming in as as
transfers, so you have to imagine some of these things. Now, Luke
Newman. I did ask Michigan State's off at the Wine coach Jim Halting,
when I saw him at one of the camps out at Wayne State a few
weeks ago. I asked him about Newman because Newman didn't play for Mischigan State
during spring practice. He's transferring in from holy Cross. He's from Birmingham Brother
Rice. Really good offensive lineman, but we was recruited at kind of that,
you know FCS level went to holy Cross three times all Patriot League.
I went and watched his film against Boston College. They're one game against a
Power five team, and he was left tackle for holy Cross, and I
think he looked better at left tackle against Boston College to Michigan State's left tackles
half the last two years. I think Luke Newman from Brother Rice comes in
as a graduate as a senior. Now, Mahaltick told me he's going to
be beginning at right guard, so that's where I'm writing about him in this
depth chart preview. But I like it. He's got quickness, he's a
mature, mature athlete, and he's sitting nicely in there at right guard.
I don't discount the possibility that he could end up at tackle. And I
think he's a good, solid, bona fide Big Ten player transferring in a
brother Rice product come in from Holy Cross. Yeah, and you wrote about
Christian Phillips at left guard. How does this team you mentioned first year there's
going to be some growing pains. We get it. We understand that he's
changing the culture to a certain extent by bringing some guys in. How does
this team, lack of a better phrase, tread water in year one?
Do you think what do they rely on? Got to get that run game
going and from their counter boot play action, rollout passing quarterbacks, got to
make reads, offensive lines, got to keep them clean to an extent.
You know, they got a couple good running backs show Nathan Carter's coming back,
had a pretty good year last year. Kay Ron Adams is the guy
transferring in from U mass Those two running backs solid players. You know,
Jalen Berger transferred out. He was repping behind those guys, and you know,
the wide receivers need to come around. You know, Montory Foster is
a senior more than forty catches last year, But I'm not sure they've that
they've got, like, you know, real game breaking, proven type wide
receivers. And as you know, over the years of State, when they
whether they've had good teams or bad teams, they've always had really good wide
receivers, proven wide receivers. This year, going into the year, this
might be the most unproven batch of wide receivers i've seen a mission State Gates.
That doesn't mean that they won't get it done. But you know,
Nick marsh coming in as a true freshman from River Rouge, the most talented
guy in the room, I would say, I think he's going to have
an impact. So there's a lot of question marks, but you know,
there's a smattering of talent and a lot of these guys want to be coached
up. They want some discipline. I think that discipline and attentiveness was lacking
the last two years with mel Tucker defense. A lot of transfers coming in
the defense ranked outside the top one hundred the last two years. Scotty Hazelton
never really got his defense, you know, untracked and you know, tightened
up it. It didn't work out. Joe Rossi coming in as the new
defensive coordinator was good at Minnesota. You know last year they were young at
Minnesota on defense. Prior to that, I thought Minnesota was one of the
more underrated defenses in the Big Ten. And I wrote and told my writers
when they played Minnesota two years ago, everybody, this is after Michigan State
won the Peach Bowl. Missisters State was in the top twenty and they just
lost out at Washington. Coming back home, I said, I predicted Minnesota
is going to beat Michigan, mister State. It's gonna be a tough game.
And a lot of my readers gave me a lot of flak for that.
Man, they didn't believe it at all. But that defense that Joe
Rossi had at Minnesota, I was impressed with, reminded me of Iowa defenses
a little bit. I think Jonathan Smith did a really great job going to
get a Big Ten defensive coordinator with Midwestern ties to come in and take over
a defense that had been the leaguer for two years. Yeah, that's good
stuff, man. There's a reason you're the king of East Lansing and Michigan
State. Jim Comperoni, thanks for all the insight. We could talk to
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