WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:12.560 Be following is a presentation of play fly sports properties. Guys, they're trying 2 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:24.839 to turn to the goal line. What is the good ball hands? You 3 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:52.600 know? Patshaw up here comes the spot now. The side guy shot down 4 00:00:54.000 --> 00:01:00.439 that we're not good enough on either side of the ball to play continenturry football. 5 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.640 We can, we're not good enough to leave it up to one side 6 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.799 of the ball. The other comments from mississ State had football coach Mel Tucker 7 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:15.680 not very good right now. This is part of I'm Your host Jason Straehorn 8 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:23.079 along with my co hosts Otus Wild Damn say you sho shoot Colchrit, how 9 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:26.560 you guys doing today? We're looking at wounds, just like every other Spartan 10 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:34.439 in the state looking wounds. Short and sweet with that, responds, it's 11 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.599 just a sumber mood. It's gloomy out here, man. It's one of 12 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.599 those you get beat like that. There's a difference betwe getting beat and then 13 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:49.359 getting beat with when you're competing hard, right, And I think that's the 14 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:53.640 what's really tough for us as we kind of digest as losses, we know 15 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.480 we didn't give our best effort. It wasn't the quality of Spartan football and 16 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:02.439 so the wound is deeper when you don't give your best effort. And so 17 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.000 to your point, Jay says, the whole state. I think Spartan nation 18 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.919 is bruising batter right now. So is how do we how do we respond? 19 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:16.319 I think that's what we're looking at right now. Respawn is the key. 20 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:22.719 After a thirty four to seven beat down in the woodshed at home and 21 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.759 then the win streak for the Spartans, now Spartan sitting at two and two 22 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.479 overall, oh to one in Big Ten play and for the Big Ten opener, 23 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.400 guys, it was another day. Another quarterback who seemed to get off 24 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:40.560 tenor Morgan guy just had a stellar performance, right, Yeah, he had. 25 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.159 He had a heck of a day. He came in there. They 26 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:46.479 had their run game going, they had their passing game going. He could 27 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:51.680 do whatever that he wanted to do in the backfield. Their offensive coordinator could 28 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:54.759 call anything that he wanted to call. It was that type of game. 29 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.400 There were not one dimensional in any way, shape or form. We knew 30 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:04.039 going into the game that Minnesota likes to run the football, but with the 31 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:07.639 way that Tannam Morgan showed on Saturday and probably watch film of how we played 32 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.800 against Washington. They decided, hey, we're gonna throw the ball some and 33 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:22.280 they did that. Yeah, do not listen, that's do not lie. 34 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:27.400 You got ten out of twelve third down attempts. Like with third down we 35 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.520 gotta get off the field, and you complete ten out of twelve, Like, 36 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:35.000 there's no there's no rhyme or reason, there's no algorithm to be able 37 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.639 to say we're successful. So I want, I want you to to break 38 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.400 this downloads because Jason and I were both offensive players. So the defense is 39 00:03:44.439 --> 00:03:49.840 out on the field for these long, methodical drives. It wasn't Minnesota did 40 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:53.360 not have any big splash, you know, quick hit or plays for touchdowns. 41 00:03:53.479 --> 00:04:00.840 It was long, methodical drives. And you know it's that ten out 42 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.560 of twelve, like you said on that conversion, How does that make a 43 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:09.719 defense feel? Oh, I mean it's almost like you work all the way 44 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:14.759 up to that third down and the momentum should carry into making that getting that 45 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:19.000 stop right so then we can get into put return formation, get off of 46 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.879 the field. Rest. Now, when we did get that three and out 47 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:29.160 out of those two times the offense didn't convert, it was three and out, 48 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.600 So that's even a bigger whino for you where you like, man, 49 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.199 I just got a drink of water. Now I gotta go run back out 50 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:39.120 here and try to focus on getting a stop. And so I just think 51 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.199 in tandem, both sides of the ball weren't to your point, Coach Tucker 52 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:48.120 says, complimentary football is that when the front defensive linemen are getting a rush, 53 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:53.959 then the secondary or you know, mid line linebackers aren't covering, and 54 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.680 then if we cover, then we're not getting a rush. So it wasn't 55 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:01.240 it just wasn't connecting. And so I think it's that to that point, 56 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:06.439 is that sense of urgency is like we gotta go and go. I don't 57 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.240 know if you just I mean, we all saw and witnessed this. There 58 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.040 was no hunger out there, like there was no one guy we talked about 59 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.279 saying I'm gonna make the play. I'm not gonna wait on the other ten. 60 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.920 I'm gonna make the play, and just you just didn't see that on 61 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:26.480 Saturday. I just think from it goes back to the beginning of the season. 62 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.519 Right now, this is where we are now. We talked about it 63 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.759 in the very first podcast that we had. This is gonna be the make 64 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:38.680 or break year for Michigan State because the bright lights were gonna be shining on 65 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.600 East Lanson. All right, all our games we have not had a noon 66 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:47.000 game because you want your star teams play in prime time, you know all 67 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.560 that. I think we might have been reading the press clippings a little too 68 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.519 much, you know. I think it's it's trying to be a little too 69 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.480 cool for school a little bit coming out there, coming out of Spartan Stadium, 70 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:01.879 thinking just roll your helmet out there and be able to compete. This 71 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.480 is big ten football. Now. You have to be able to come out. 72 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:09.399 You have to have that fire. You have to feed off the crowd. 73 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.720 The crowd was trying to get into it. It was just sold out 74 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.720 Woodshed. It was sold out. They were trying to get into it, 75 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.319 but we did not give him much to get into it. For Yeah, 76 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:25.759 speaking of that, it was pretty abysmo for the offense and the defense really 77 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.920 didn't get much going on the other side of the ball either. Otis when 78 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:33.839 you look at how comfortable Tanner Morgan was in the pocket, completing twenty three 79 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:39.480 to twenty six of his passes sixty eight yards three touchdowns. It was just 80 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.160 not a lot of pass rush with no Jacob Slave wasn't. Oh yeah, 81 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:49.480 and you see how playmakers and the influencers are very well missed. You know, 82 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.120 you know X is obviously balance trying to get back. You know, 83 00:06:55.160 --> 00:06:57.879 you don't want to get him back too soon where then he's you know, 84 00:06:57.959 --> 00:07:03.279 re injuring that that injury. But you can tell, like the leadership standpoint 85 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:09.480 of the defense, but also even offensively, you just didn't see that. 86 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:13.160 And so no, I want to put a disclaimer out there, like we 87 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:15.879 don't prepare. I mean we all played the game. We don't prepare to 88 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.079 lose the game, right, Like, no one so spartanation, like no 89 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:24.360 one goes out there wanting to put this product out on the field, Like 90 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.720 let's let's be clear and let's put that out there. But I think there's 91 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.959 a difference between let's at least show that effort that we are we're trying. 92 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:39.319 We're not just gonna let them come into our home from Minnesota and just whip 93 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.560 whip us into shape. I mean everyone dresses and ties their shoes the same 94 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.639 way of getting prepared for that game. And so yeah, we missed some 95 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.560 key our key playmakers. Man, you can tell it, and then you 96 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:53.959 know it doesn't look too good when we got a stack of rack of top 97 00:07:54.040 --> 00:08:00.639 power opponents for the rest of the season coming in. So this weekend is 98 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:07.079 gonna be shaky man saky with another team that's that's good offensively, and our 99 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:09.639 defense just has not found the answers and we were looking for that answer right 100 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:15.160 now. All right, now, let's get into the ms U game day 101 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:22.759 stat breakdown presented by Ihip the two by two by two breakfast combo equals one 102 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.879 delicious meal, Enjoy two pancakes, two eggs your way, and two pieces 103 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.559 of bacon only for five dollars at ie Hot. Hurry in and enjoy this 104 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:37.440 deal for a limited time, dying in only. Price and participation may very 105 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:43.240 restrictions do apply. So, guys, when you look at the way that 106 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.759 this game unfolded, Minnesota comes in with an astount five hundred and eight yards 107 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:54.720 total offense, two hundred and forty of those on the grounds. A Yeah, 108 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.360 Minnesota. We knew Minnesota was gonna was gonna try to run the football. 109 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.480 That's their m that's their day. They want to run the football and 110 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:07.759 hopefully suck the defense up in the box and then go for something over the 111 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.080 top. But you know, you said five hundred and eight total yards of 112 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:16.440 offense and run and pass Like I said, everything was there. It was 113 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.960 absolutely you know, they had their way with the Spartans this past Saturday's It's 114 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.279 that simple. They had their way with it. That does mean, you 115 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.440 know, the Spartans aren't going to go back to work, go in the 116 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.080 lab and get things done. You know, look at the film, take 117 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.679 care of the problems. But right now I think we're struggling for an identity 118 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.039 as a team. Overall. We don't know what that identity is. Coach 119 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.279 Tucker hid it in the press conference when he said, you know, we 120 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:48.080 don't have that one side of the football that can carry us last year. 121 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.200 We did last year was the offense. It was to the Kenneth Walker effect. 122 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.000 I say as having on you know, on the team right now, 123 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:58.960 we don't have that this year. So we're gonna have to be able to 124 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.840 pull from all pieces and Uh draw energy and strength from each side and cheer 125 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:09.480 him on and with you. Oldis looking at how a guy like Mohammed Ibrahim 126 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:16.159 Ibrahim Uh twenty two carries one hundred and three yards against the Spartans looked like 127 00:10:16.200 --> 00:10:18.320 it was awful hard to bring down. Coach Tucker talked about him this press 128 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.879 conference. You gotta be better at tackling, no low tackles. What do 129 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:28.639 you say about that defensive Yeah, there were some moments where you know, 130 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:33.720 you saw him hit the outside of the you know, the tackle box and 131 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.879 just angles. Man. It's like pursuits were you know, fully accurate or 132 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.679 you know you're you're plugging up the holes in between the tackle box. But 133 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:46.519 then you know, where are our ad setters, where are guys that are 134 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.240 truly set in the edge to take him, make him go back into the 135 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.360 tackle box, and and you could tell there was no single tackles on that 136 00:10:54.399 --> 00:11:00.440 guy. It reminds me of Sean Green, but also reminds me of jau 137 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:05.879 We always joke about this, but jay U's bread, this bread and butter 138 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.720 was a half back draw where they just opened up the c and then you 139 00:11:09.759 --> 00:11:13.320 see, you see jay you come in and it's like it's me at two 140 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.080 fifteen, two twenty with this two forty five running back who was about to 141 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.559 try to just take my head off, right, and you gotta you gotta 142 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.440 figure out ways to get that man to the ground or slow him down. 143 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.360 And that's kind of how this how he was man like. He you know, 144 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.679 he's a stronger back. He knows it, so you gotta come with 145 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:39.600 it. And I just felt like we were everywhere missdirectional wasn't proper angles. 146 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.080 It wasn't all eleven hats to the football with a two minute or two whistle 147 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.200 drill that we used to do where you know that if I hit you, 148 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.480 at least somebody else is gonna be right there. We saw some of those, 149 00:11:50.639 --> 00:11:54.000 but it wasn't consistent basis that you know, at that time, we 150 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.840 couldn't catch up and keep up and you know, get back to the scoring 151 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:01.360 right and sticking when you oldest. I mean a week ago, Minnesota losers 152 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.440 their top receiver, Chris Appman bell for the season with a knee injury, 153 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.240 and you're thinking they're really gonna lean heavy on the running game, coming in 154 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:13.200 averaging over three hundred yards per game on the ground, but they go to 155 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:16.399 the air and the guy by the name of Michael Brown Stevens six catches targeted 156 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:22.039 six times, seventy three yards and then Daniel Jackson three catches forty two yards 157 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:28.919 but two touchdowns. Yeah, I mean, Jacoby Women had a good quote 158 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.840 about we knew about it was gonna be run, and we were focused on 159 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:39.799 stopping the run. But obviously they come out and they're passion and you gotta 160 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.200 be able to adjust. Like any great defense, they had to adjust and 161 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.720 that's the game plan, that's the scheme. And as you could tell, 162 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:54.120 there weren't no big home run passes besides that first touchdown on Chuck Brandley, 163 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.559 but like it was the Nicholin diamonds, it was the quick, quick comeback 164 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:03.120 slants did like it was just finding those in between holes that they did their 165 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:07.519 study. Coach Fleck had those guys ready to figure out what are those loopholes 166 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:13.879 that we as a defense are showing. And it was I think I said 167 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:18.879 that last night in post game, is that linebackers when they get their depths 168 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.600 on pass drops, you know, it's tough when you got both sides of 169 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.799 the both offense and passing going. So it's almost like double dutch. You 170 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.000 are here when I talked about you're running back, You're like, yo, 171 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.919 is it play action? Is it run? Or oh no, it's passed 172 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:37.120 or you just in between and you can't second guess and that's when you got 173 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:43.039 a veteran quarterback who takes advantage of that where I know that he's going to 174 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.240 probably bite on this run, this play action or this quick you know fake 175 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.399 draw boom right there, And so you can tell like it was just kind 176 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:56.440 of a guessing game. It was no clear concise movements directionally to make these 177 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.080 plays. And there was somewhere we talked about this on the sideline that guys 178 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.159 were close there. It just wasn't going our way. Man. He couldn't 179 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.399 bat the ball down and could even get a hand on it. So, 180 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.600 yeah, it was all confusion, but hopefully we get it, we get 181 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:15.399 buttoned up. Yeah, hesitation in traffic causes accidents, and it looked like 182 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:20.360 exactly what happened on Saturday. A lot of accidents out there with the hesitation 183 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:22.600 when you go on the offense side of the ball. Jay, you look 184 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:28.879 at what Peyton Thorn's performance was. Peyton had the seventeen for twenty four. 185 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:33.840 Not so bad, but no touchdowns and two interceptions, not including the fumble, 186 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.679 the costly fumble going in on the six yard line, turning it over 187 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.840 causing a flipping points right. Yeah, definitely, I think you know, 188 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:48.200 like I mentioned earlier this the Kenneth Walker effect. Right now, we don't 189 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.360 have a run game that's going to open up the pass game for us right 190 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.960 now. So Peyton, he's probably feeling that, you know, I have 191 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.000 to do everything, and he's pressing a little bit. He's pressing right now, 192 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.320 and that's what he's overthrown some of his receivers. You know, he's 193 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.159 trying to you know, that fumble, trying to get that extra yard. 194 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.159 Usually, when you know you have a run game, a quarterback's not gonna 195 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:13.799 go and take that hit, might go out of bounce, might slide a 196 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.480 little bit and live to play another down. But I think he's really pressing 197 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:22.480 right now offensively feeling. You know, I'm the captain of this team. 198 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.879 I'm the leader. I have to take this and put it all upon myself. 199 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.360 In order for him to be able to play freely and loose, We're 200 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.759 gonna have to get the run game involved. The offensive line has to be 201 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:39.480 clicking on all cylinders. The running backs they have to be able to be 202 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:41.879 able to put a foot in the ground and grun north and south. They 203 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.679 have to pound, pound pound until something breaks loose a little. Then you 204 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:50.639 can do your shiftiness. And I said it in a postgame show. I 205 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.000 don't know who Elijah Collins needs to talk to. He needs to go talk 206 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.159 to coach Tucker. He needs to go talk to Coach Johnson, his running 207 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:03.120 backs coach, to see what do I have to do to get on the 208 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.559 field more, because I truly feel he's the X factor in that backfield, 209 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.320 all right. He's the guy that can wear the defense down with those tough 210 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.799 yards. He can be the third and one and you have to learn to 211 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.240 embrace it. All backs have a type, all right. If you're to 212 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.320 thumper, embrace you're the thumper and be that guy. If you're the elusive 213 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.799 one, you're the elusive one. Don't try to thump. But we have 214 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:32.080 to do that. And if we open up our run game, that's gonna 215 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.240 open up the pass game, and you're gonna see Peyton some of the pressure 216 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.720 alleviated from Thorn's shoulders, you know, breaking down. When you look at 217 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.879 that play the turnover where Peyton was trying to do a little bit too much 218 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:45.440 obviously and run the ball and taking that hit, you know, I'm look 219 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:48.840 an offensive line. We don't carry the ball at all. You are a 220 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:52.840 professional at carrying the ball ju and Otis. You've carried it a few times 221 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.679 yourself on those Oskis picks going the other direction when you're going to the left, 222 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:00.000 it looked like this if you break on this play right here as we 223 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.799 look at it, Peyton's holding the ball with his right hand, which is 224 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.559 where the inside the defense is coming. As you see him getting stripped right 225 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:12.039 here. Yeah, you're todd as a ball carrier. The sideline's your friend. 226 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.519 The sideline is always your friend. You always have that ball on the 227 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:22.880 in the arm that's closest to the sidelines for two reasons. One, if 228 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.119 there's a fumble, percentage of the time it's gonna go out of bounds or 229 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.200 if they recovered, the defender will be probably on the out of bounce line 230 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.319 and it's going to be a dead ball. And the second reason is you 231 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.279 can use your off arm ass a weapon, stiff arm, you know, 232 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:45.519 shoulders, shake, all these different things. But it's those basic fundamentals that 233 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.319 you have to you know you do. It's the little things. The little 234 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.240 things add up to big things, and something as little as carrying the ball 235 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.319 in the proper arm, I get it. You're in the heat of the 236 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.839 moment, and it's one of the toughest things for back a ball carrier because 237 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.559 what do you want to do. You want to put the ball in your 238 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:06.119 most dominant hand, that's natural right there, your right handed. You want 239 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.160 to carry in your right hand. It's that training, you know, put 240 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:14.279 the ball in the closest to the boundary arm. And he didn't do that, 241 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.079 and we saw the results of that. Yeah, right, then seventeen 242 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.519 and nothing right there, otis and you know, going in getting ready to 243 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:26.240 cut that lead to ten, maybe maybe fourteen at that time, and you're 244 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.799 going to get at least three points right there, but coming up with nothing 245 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:36.079 and then allowing Minnesota to go down the field and score basically a fourteen point 246 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:41.240 swing in that ball game. Yeah, And I mean, to Peyton Thorne's 247 00:18:41.440 --> 00:18:45.000 credit, man, like to your point, you're in the heat of the 248 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.759 moment. You're frustrated that you're not having points on the board, so you're 249 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.720 doing all that you can to put a team on your shoulders and try to 250 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.519 as get close to that goal line. And it's just frustrating because it's like, 251 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.920 you know how you're you're playing a competitor. You're doing all that you 252 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.119 can, but he's not keeping up, and it's it's frustrated. Man Like, 253 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:07.079 I know he wants to be better and play better. We've seen him 254 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.480 play at his highest level last year, and you know, it's what have 255 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.480 you done for me lately? It's just the way this game is, man 256 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:18.000 like Coach d did her very best for us. Is that the media is 257 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:21.720 the same people that praise you, it's the same people that are gonna drop 258 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:22.960 you, you know, when things don't go your way. And so I 259 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:27.759 think that's the mantra that that everyone's doubting you. But internally, how do 260 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:33.440 we figure out that this is your ship. Let's take back command and let's 261 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.759 put this thing back on route, because I mean, we have the players, 262 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.039 we have the coaching staff. It's just like, let's play our ball 263 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:45.319 and like, let's focus on what we can control. And so, yeah, 264 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:48.359 it's just tough man. Peyton Thorn is a guy that you want to 265 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:51.960 lead, you want leading you right, and it's just tough that things aren't 266 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:55.799 clicking like they were last year. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. 267 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.240 We've all been to practices and we see how the players respond to Payton Thorn. 268 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.720 I mean He's definitely a vocal leader. He's a guy who leads from 269 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.880 the front, player led program. That's what coach Tucker has been talking about 270 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.160 all camp long. He's one of those guys and it just seems that he's 271 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.680 pressing a little hard and when you look at the interception here, he's just 272 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.160 it. Look, you know, he never One of the biggest tools, 273 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:21.519 in my opinion, for a quarterback is the ability to manipulate safeties and corners 274 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:26.200 with your eyes. And on this particular play, Peyton stares down the receivers 275 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:30.200 to the point where it was an easy interception. Yeah. I mean, 276 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.000 you look at the best quarterbacks I think about when you know we played the 277 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:38.039 first what back to back Matt Ryan's first round draft pick, Matt Stafford was 278 00:20:38.039 --> 00:20:45.079 their first round draft pick. First pick, Yeah, first picking and draft 279 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.319 back to back, right, I mean, this guy throws a no look 280 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.599 past on a back boundary on a slant just to look us off right and 281 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:55.920 like it. To your point, that's when I was being able to help 282 00:20:55.960 --> 00:21:00.319 coach young Dbs is that you gotta stay true and to you know that that 283 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:06.039 ball is coming out here versus you know I'm looking you, I'm looking at 284 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:07.880 that receiver. But it's all about the shoulder. Look, man, if 285 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.920 you're sitting you can look here in, but your shoulders are looking still there. 286 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.839 And to that clip point, look at those shoulders like eyes could go 287 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.960 whatever, but look at the shoulders. As soon as he lows up, 288 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.799 it's bom. It's an easy interception. That's how we as DB's lick our 289 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.920 chops when we see that. Look, I'm staying true and I'm still in 290 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.480 the vicinity of this route. As soon as that ball is releasing, break, 291 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.079 break and move. And then regardless of what you do, you hooking 292 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:37.200 swat. And that's what we weren't doing in our secondary. You got to 293 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:40.640 hook a squa swat. You may get there, let's get the interception, 294 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:45.279 but at least let's get a tackle. And so yeah, it's just tough. 295 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.559 Thosebu's past breakups. That's that pass breakups. Man. Look, you 296 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:55.400 can be all American and PBUs man come on out like, yeah, you 297 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.400 looking at the dv's Now they get trapped with like two interceptions, but they 298 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:02.799 got one hundred pbu's. You know, yes, that's that's definitely critical. 299 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:04.400 And there's one more, you know, and you know we hate to be 300 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:07.599 the dead horse with Payton. But we got to break this down. We're 301 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.200 analyzing this. This is our job to do. And you look at what 302 00:22:10.359 --> 00:22:15.759 happened in the interception on the screenplay. Ju You've been in the screen situations 303 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.680 before. This was you know, sometimes there's a crazy athletic play by the 304 00:22:18.680 --> 00:22:22.400 defensive lineman where they reach up and grab it and make a stellar play. 305 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.359 I can think of Hayward from Ohio State doing one of those. Connor's brother 306 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:32.039 when he was here, he made a play like that. This wasn't that. 307 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:37.720 This was a guy that was trying to get make a play and literally 308 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:41.240 trying to throw it through the defense to make it happen. Yeah, I 309 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.599 think, you know back to you know, just pressing, just trying to 310 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.599 take the team upon his on his back end and do something. And I 311 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:53.200 think too, it's so just like I mean, Otis had a great breakdown 312 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:59.960 for that TV there. I don't know, I'm like, I'm taking note. 313 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:04.880 It's like what shoulders. I'm like, we suck and sucking now. 314 00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:12.519 But the same thing with a screenplay. You know, a screen you want 315 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:15.359 to you know, you know it's offensive lineman. You want to invite the 316 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.960 rush all right, you stand up, you pop up, and you swat 317 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.279 that guy back to you, and you go to the second level. That's 318 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.960 a running back. Now you're seven yards deep and you say, okay, 319 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:32.880 and man on the line, I'm gonna bluff them, push them aside, 320 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:37.400 and turn around and get get the ball. But when you offensive lineman stand 321 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.680 up slap those d D lineman back, you get lost in the shuffle. 322 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:45.839 As a running back. Now okay, oh man, where's the d and 323 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:48.279 where's this? Oh there's a tackle. Now you're buzzing and passing these guys. 324 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.359 And then you got to get to a landmark. So everything on the 325 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.720 screenplay is a landmark. So the running back has to be at the exact 326 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.759 landmark that the quarterback is gonna throw the ball. And then simple for the 327 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.440 quarterback. You're taught as a running back, when the quarterback's arm goes up, 328 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.319 you yell, you make the go call, you yell go. Then 329 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.559 the lineman starts, starts, you know, going down to blocking the second 330 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.160 level. So I don't know if it was that miscommunication and the running back 331 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:19.000 did not get to the specific landmark that Peyton was throwing the ball to, 332 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:26.640 because that's all that's timing. Screenplays is all timing, and uh so that's 333 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.720 that's where I think that miscommunication. Peyton probably thought that's where my back's gonna 334 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.599 be because that's where you practice it every single time. You practice that play 335 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:38.079 all the time, and that's the landmark. You talk landmarks and you talk 336 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:42.759 sidewalks on screens. And he just wasn't in the defense, was in the 337 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:45.880 landmark. And you know, he tried to do too much. And I 338 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:49.640 think by the time he was releasing that it was that old shoot moment that 339 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:56.240 that is not a guy in green. Yeah, that's a dirt right, 340 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.440 that's what you're saying basactly. Yeah, it's not intentional grounding. He's into 341 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.839 the cinity. But you see that guy in front plugging it up, all 342 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.680 right. I mean we're talking. I mean those the linemen are taught to 343 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.839 or linebacker's talking. You see that linebacker try to buff and fluff and slip 344 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:17.119 you like you hold on to that like you hold on. So, yeah, 345 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:19.799 it's one of the decision making in time of frustration and dire need and 346 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:25.720 desperate ration. We gotta stick true to ourselves and climb back and get that 347 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.200 comeback. When so you said that stay true to yourself. And something that 348 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.559 that just keeps coming to mind when you said we got to stay true to 349 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:36.960 ourselves, is you know coach D'Antonio, he was a guy that when he 350 00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:40.240 coached, he was never too high, never too low, and he always 351 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:42.720 told us stay the course. You know, those are the words that he 352 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:47.039 always to say, stay the course. And I think right now, and 353 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.680 I'm talking to Spartan nation. You know, these fans that come to the 354 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:55.200 woodshed every single day, every single game to cheer these kids on. I'm 355 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:59.839 asking you, guys, stay the course, stay the course, stick man. 356 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.359 With the Spartans, we will right the ship. There's still a lot 357 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:08.599 of football left. Just stay the course. And great words to you, 358 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:15.039 absolutely, because yeah, you know, it gets real, gets real shaky 359 00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.039 and lonely man, when you've been praised for all that you've done in the 360 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:22.519 past, and then you know, you start hearing the whispers, you start 361 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.640 hearing people talking, you start seeing the writings on the wall and the media. 362 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.279 It's like, you know what, tune all that out. You know 363 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:36.440 what we're all about. We've trained for this adversity. Pressure breaks pipes, 364 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:37.960 man, but it also builds some diamonds, man. So we're gonna be 365 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.799 right. We'll get it right, get it tight. And this trip to 366 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.359 Maryland, well we'll define that, yeah, exactly. And I think you 367 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.960 know, Coach Tucker said, you know, we have the right man leading 368 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.000 the team for this. He said in the press conference. You know, 369 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:53.200 he told those guys, don't listen to the noise, don't listen to anything 370 00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:56.799 outside. I will handle it. It's all on me. And that's the 371 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:02.279 right step for Coach Tucker to do. And I think he's doing a great 372 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:03.880 job of shielding the players from that. I think the players just have to 373 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.799 go out, continue to practice hard, work hard, and we'll be all 374 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:12.519 right. We will be all right as we take on the Maryland Terrapians this 375 00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:21.039 Saturday in College Park, Maryland. All right. So going into the rushing 376 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:26.680 statistics a little bit now for Michigan State, you know, fourteen carries thirty 377 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.680 eight yards on the day on the ground. Ju that's not gonna be good 378 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:33.799 enough to get it done. To protect the guy like Peyton Dort, I 379 00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:40.480 don't care what level you play on Pee Wee High School, Juco, Naia 380 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:48.799 D one two three, mac Swack Sunbelt, anywhere you have to run to 381 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.359 win, you have to run to win, especially in the Big Ten. 382 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:57.960 I don't care how the landscape of football's changing. In the Big Ten Conference, 383 00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:02.839 you have to run the ball to win it, and it's on our 384 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:07.519 running backs. I'm gonna continuously challenge the running backs week in and week out 385 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:15.319 because I know there's the potential for them to be explosive. They still have 386 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:19.880 the moniker of the killer bees, but they have to start stinging. Oh 387 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:22.759 so you're not taking the name away from right now today you they're still the 388 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.240 killer Bees. They just got to show you some little more honey, right 389 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:30.640 exactly. The killer bees got to start stinging. Quit fluttering around the flowers, 390 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:33.559 quit pollinate in it, and get the stingers out. I mean, 391 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:38.839 look, you know the running game helps. On this stat, Otis time 392 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:44.920 of possession was abysmal. I don't think I've ever seen a game where Michigan 393 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:48.920 State was on the other side of a forty two minute, twenty nine second 394 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:55.039 to Michigan State's only seventeen minutes and thirty seconds with the ball before Otis. 395 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.519 Before you jump in there, I got this. This stat here's mind blowing, 396 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.880 and this is something that can tear a team apart because I can just 397 00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.599 envision the defense tight as hell. The offense coming off the field after a 398 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:12.039 third and three and hours, I can see them. I can see them 399 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:17.759 looking at hey, man, you guys gotta get us some break. I 400 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:22.279 mean, I mean that they're fully sweated through the you know, you know, 401 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.759 it's it's crazy. So like there was times when we've had these types 402 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:34.079 of games as players, right, and I vividly recall Javon Rigor and this 403 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:41.680 is my javan coming over and like loudly going, defense, keep balling. 404 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.720 We appreciate y'all. We'll get we'll get it right, We'll get it tight. 405 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:49.519 Basically, I remember those types of things when defense was balling and then 406 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:55.079 vice versa, where like if office was balling, then we just couldn't you 407 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:59.519 know, hold water and get you know, make a stop. It's a 408 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:03.640 difference between like offense, at least you guys are scoring and we all we 409 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:07.640 need is get a couple of stops and turn the tide. But then when 410 00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.240 it's not happening on the offense side, I feel like it's more detrimental because 411 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.920 we can only do so much if getting a pick six or turn the ball 412 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.160 over and getting back to the hands of the offense. But that's when you 413 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:23.319 start to see some divide and on the sideline, Now, I didn't see 414 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:30.240 anything happening on the sideline. Also didn't see guys stepping up and yelling for 415 00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.279 accountability, Like I didn't see any of that vibe going. And maybe obviously 416 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.680 I'm not fully inside that sideline, I mean, but seeing it from a 417 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:41.839 non verbal standpoint, just didn't see somebody saying let's go man, like we 418 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.920 still got this, or you know, we up, let's stay up. 419 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.440 And so that's where you're gonna see some stuff. Where are we gonna point 420 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:52.160 fingers at each other? Which I heard there was something to some of that 421 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.480 happening, But how do we collectively join arms locking in and let's get this 422 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.839 thing back on. Got a name recognition question for you guys. You know, 423 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.359 for the for the ball game, Minnesota Golden Golfer player by the name 424 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:10.880 of Mark Crawford. You know who he is. Nope, you're his name 425 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:18.319 on Saturday? No you didn't. That's the Minnesota punter. He has exactly 426 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:25.720 er rou punts for the day, zero zero. Before we're talking about complimentary 427 00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:27.559 football, this is exactly what mel Tucker is talking about. You have to 428 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:32.640 be good in all face. Now, Bryce Barringer does get four averaging fifty 429 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:36.960 point eight points punts per yards per game. So there is the bright spot. 430 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.640 Putting together can highlight tape for the combine. Oh yeah, oh yeah, 431 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.599 listen, just put I mean, this is how it typically happens. 432 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:49.359 We just put some guys in the league after last weekend, at least on 433 00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:56.680 notice. We typically are like the highlight reil of people's draft highlights when it 434 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.440 comes to the draft. I just feel in some type of way. Maybe 435 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:01.599 it's just me because I've played were here, but I feel like we always 436 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:07.079 on somebody's eyelights when it comes to drafting. You see this here, you 437 00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:12.559 see this this gray hair here, this one here, this one here, 438 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:17.960 this cuts the running backs are running, they give them grades. Moore's coming. 439 00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.920 We gotta the grays. Killer's got to prevent Jay from getting grades. 440 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:27.960 Guys, we just gotta put that foot down getting north and south. You 441 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.680 know, when you look at the defensive side of the ball, there's a 442 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:40.400 safety. Kendall Brooks eighteen tackles Otis bro solo. How about that? How 443 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:45.200 about that, by the way, guys, how about that's great? Yeah, 444 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.680 that's great. That is great, but that's problem when you got safety 445 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:55.000 making eighteen tackles, I mean that means something's not happening at that front level, 446 00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.920 mid level where like we out here cleaning up and obviously safety last line 447 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.640 of defense, that's what we do, but that's not what we always want 448 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.039 to do, right Like, we want to be able to focus on getting 449 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:12.400 that stop before we get to it so we can save some face and get 450 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:15.440 ready for this coverage. Now, that's an animal which we sought. We've 451 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:20.759 seen a dog uppear and that's a dog that we want who's gonna be hungry. 452 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.759 But we need some other complimentary players man, that got to step up 453 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:29.000 to where they know they can play. And I think that's what when you 454 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:34.039 hear accountability from your top down, with your head coaches having accountability, there's 455 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.240 no need to point fingers when your head coach is having accountability from himself but 456 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:45.200 also his his surrounding support system. So I'm excited to see how we respond. 457 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.680 It's either obviously we gonna stay in the pits or we're gonna rise and 458 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:54.039 rise out and there's nowhere else but up here, So we'll see how this 459 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.880 goes and how we handle the Terrifiants. Now now, Coach Tucker talked about 460 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:01.839 it coming and we know that as players, we talked about it during the 461 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:07.320 broadcast live that the boo birds. You heard boot birds out there ju yourself 462 00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:13.440 during the game. Now when you see a guy like Noah Kim into the 463 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:16.039 ball game late, now, I know that it was against the defense that 464 00:34:16.199 --> 00:34:22.159 may not have been the stellar starters of the Minnesota Golden Golf. But he 465 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.519 comes in again now six or seven and throws a touchdown, very efficient with 466 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.719 the ball, very accurate and looks like he's got some armstring. Does that 467 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:37.400 cause a controversy from the quarterback room perspective? I think from the outside their 468 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:45.079 scata quarterback controversy. I think from the inside there is not. But you 469 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:49.920 can't help but notice when Noah Kim comes in, he takes advantage off the 470 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:54.360 opportunities that's given to him. And all his yards, all his touchdowns are 471 00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:59.360 not in garbage play. You know, he at the time in against Akring 472 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:02.079 where he was in there and he threw another touchdown. You know, so 473 00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:08.639 he can play at this level? Is it maybe he comes in in spurts, 474 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:14.920 you know, to juvenate and energize the offense a little bit. Is 475 00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:20.480 that a thing or are we just saying Peyton Thorn is our guy and we're 476 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:24.239 gonna ride it till the wheels fall off with Peyton. Those those are the 477 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.760 questions that have to be answered. But right now, you know, Peyton 478 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.880 Thorn is the guy. He sees the game overall. As you know, 479 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:36.920 he sees the entire field, and he has great control of this offense. 480 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:42.079 He just needs to get his confidence and realize it's not all on him. 481 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:46.239 That's right. Coach Tucker again talked about it going through a tough stretch right 482 00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.599 now. The question was asked, did he see any issues with his staff 483 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.280 or players. He said that he's very happy with his staff. I know 484 00:35:54.360 --> 00:36:00.840 that there's people noise from the outside of the program talking about changes, especially 485 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.480 on the defensive side of the ball, But Coach Tucker saying no, he's 486 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:07.719 got a lot of confidence his guys are smart and that they will figure a 487 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.480 way and navigate through this. Does not want to make any knee jerk decisions 488 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:15.119 based off of a terrible loss like they had thirty four to seven. You 489 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:17.239 know, there's injuries, there's a ton of injuries and a lot of reasons 490 00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:21.079 behind it. But as they continue to break down the film, they're gonna 491 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.119 come up and find answers. Doesn't get in the easier as we talked about 492 00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:28.840 earlier, as they go on the road to Maryland to face the Terrapins, 493 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.119 who in my opinion, could have won that game in the Big House A 494 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:37.119 we could go against Michigan the team down the road. So it doesn't getting 495 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:39.159 the easier. They're gonna have an explosive offense and we're gonna break all those 496 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:44.760 x's and o's down on another episode. But this is gonna put a bow 497 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:50.280 on this show, and for J. L. Culprit and Otis Wiley, 498 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:53.119 this is Sparta. Have a good night, God blessed, and go green, 499 00:36:53.880 --> 00:37:00.360 go white. There you go.