WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:59.479 Be following is a presentation of play fly Sports properties height twenty four to seven 2 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.200 lead and you guys did have five hundred and forty yards of offense. When 3 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.519 did you sense it it might be slipping away? And the last drive and 4 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:11.000 regulation when you got down looked like it might be a player to try to 5 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:12.799 get in the center of the of the goalposts and it didn't wind up there. 6 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:17.480 Can you talk about that drive? Yeah, you know, I don't. 7 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.519 I don't feel like I ever felt like it was slipping away. I 8 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.760 still was, you know, it was one hundred percent convinced we're gona win 9 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:23.640 the game. Uh. You know, it's a tieball game with about six 10 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.480 minutes left, and you know, so we're going to win the game. 11 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:27.359 We're going to going down the field to win it. You know, we 12 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.239 went down the field obviously, you know we were able to finish the drive 13 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.359 off. Uh, and yeah, we called a play to the right. 14 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.400 I haven't watched the film, so I'm not I'm not quite sure on what 15 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.239 happened. I you know, I kind of looked back. I saw we 16 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:42.959 had you know, maybe a little penetration. I'm not sure, but you 17 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:56.359 know, either way, you know, I don't know. Interesting words from 18 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:04.680 quarterback Peyton Thorn after the heartbreak loss on Senior Day in the Woodshed against the 19 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.199 Hoosiers of Indiana thirty nine to thirty one in double overtime. Spartans lose yet 20 00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:15.039 another game after a two game win streak, heartbreaking loss. I'm your host 21 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:22.800 Jason Straehorn along with my co host Jayu Caulcrick. This is Sparta. Jayu 22 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:27.080 will get right into it, hit this thing head on. It was disappointed, 23 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:31.000 to say the least. The performance offensively and defensively, and most importantly 24 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:36.879 the special teams were a big disappointment for Michigan State this weekend. Yeah, 25 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:40.360 absolutely, big, big disappointment. That was just if you're a Spartan fan, 26 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:46.120 if you're a former player or anything associated with Michigan State. That was 27 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.360 just a big, big kick in the gut, you know that game. 28 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.759 And you know, just like Peyton said in that in that post game press 29 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.199 conference there, you know, I was like him. There was no point 30 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.159 in time where I was like, man, we're gonna lose this game. 31 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.039 I just I felt like, wow, you know, we're making an easy 32 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:06.439 game hard and but unfortunately didn't come away. You know, you go from 33 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.120 you know, being in a position to become Bowl eligible and the next week, 34 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.439 you know, you're playing for an opportunity to play somewhere warm either you 35 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:17.919 know, maybe in Arizona somewhere or in Florida somewhere extend your season. But 36 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.680 now you're going on the road in a hostile environment in state college at Happy 37 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:28.159 Valley. You know, with your lifeline on the on the line. There, 38 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.520 So tough, tough game. Tough game. Yeah, definitely a tough 39 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:37.719 game. Spartans now five and six and yet one more game to play for 40 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.120 that all important sixth victory to be Bowl eligible. As you just said, 41 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:46.719 Jayu, as a travel to Happy Valley. 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Those pancakes are on point. You know, the different uh, 69 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.839 different syrups, bacon, everything. Big shout out to you, I hope 70 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:05.279 made me look like a VIP. My guest felt like VIP, you know, 71 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.759 in that tent and having that good food. Gotta love I hop, 72 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:16.240 we love him absolutely, thank you. We love you man. We're gonna 73 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:24.360 get right into this. The defense had struggles today Saturday against the Hoosiers. 74 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:30.959 You look at the mobile quarterback Dexter Williams, the guy who just torched Michigan 75 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.240 State defensively with his legs. Did not do it through the air j au, 76 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:40.800 but definitely with his legs. Yeah. Absolutely. You see over here, 77 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:44.160 you know, just a simple you know, he's faking the jet sweep. 78 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:46.680 It's a modification of a zone read, but going with the jet sweep 79 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.399 there and you know you got to stay home. You got to have a 80 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:53.920 spy on him, and you can't let a quarterback. You know, Torch, 81 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.680 you like that, so you know, kudos to him. You know 82 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.959 he's had himself a day running the ball. But you know, defensively we 83 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.800 have to you know, corral and you know tackle the ball carrier. Nex 84 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:12.399 to Williams sixteen carries for a net of eighty six yards, actually had one 85 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.480 hundred and thirteen with his legs, but was sacked. In you know, 86 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:20.720 college football, the sacks count against the rushing total, so eighty six net 87 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:25.800 shows up in the stat sheet. But just an elusive guy all day long. 88 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.800 Did not beat him with his arm at all, only seven yards through 89 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:35.879 the air until the second overtime. But plays like this bad angle there by 90 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:40.680 Xander Henderson try to click his heels to get him out of bounds. They 91 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:46.319 reviewed that play not to be not to go to Spartans way. Somehow it 92 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:54.279 still was seven total for Indiana early in that ball game. Then you look 93 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:03.519 at the next play by Sean Shivers defensive break this play down here, Ja, 94 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.879 Yeah, it's just the guys being you know, defensively, Guys not 95 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.040 in position to make the play, Guys getting sucked in and putting themselves in 96 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.759 way to be blocked. There. This is something that should have been you 97 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.360 know, no more than a gain of three yards there. You have guys 98 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:24.199 crashing down. Linebackers aren't scraping over the top to get in position there. 99 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.399 You know, you have to read your keys defensively, and we did not 100 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.519 do that on this play. Defensively, you know when the when the line's 101 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.279 crashing down that linebackers should be scraping over the top there to get in positioned 102 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:43.320 to make this play. Yeah, that's cal howadays missing a tackle? Yeah, 103 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.519 And you know when you look at this play, you know we're the 104 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.440 very beginning the design of it. When you look in Indiana, how they 105 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:56.759 set up. Yeah, trips to the left, we're in press coverage and 106 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.320 then receivers flew out wide to the right. There's only five defenders in the 107 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.679 box on that play. And how many offensive linemen do we have on any 108 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.360 given play? Right? But you know the thing is too you see the 109 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:11.559 guard and tackle or pulling. You know, as a linebacker you should be 110 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.519 in there for you read those keys, you know, follow the polers. 111 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.960 The guards will take you to the play. A lot of the times, 112 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.519 you know, there's no fullback in there to take you to the play. 113 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.559 So you have to read your keys. The line pulled and you know how 114 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:28.799 they got sucked inside. I'm not sure what he was seeing or if he 115 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.639 just lost the ball, but he should have been you know outside there to 116 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:35.039 either, you know, take on one of those blocks and hope the other 117 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.879 people come a corral to the tackle. But that did not happen obviously, 118 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:41.759 so you know, not a you know, the run defense was not there 119 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.919 for Michigan State this game. Yeah, it seemed like the players played a 120 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.600 little stiff, little cold, not really getting after it at this point. 121 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:52.840 This is in the third quarter, right here, right after halftime, when 122 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.879 Michigan State has a seventeen point lead. At this point, this is where 123 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:03.559 Indiana cuts it to and we go to another defensive play. Not really a 124 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.279 defense play. This is a special teams When you look at this one, 125 00:10:07.960 --> 00:10:13.879 Jalen Lucas kickoff return. You know, all game long, the special teams 126 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:16.759 is a killer from Michigan State. You know, starting with the very opening 127 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.840 kickoff. Michigan State won the coin toss deferred to the second half. They 128 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:24.440 kick the ball off at the beginning, and you know, Lucas has a 129 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.799 big kick return, getting Indiana in positive yards and then you know, they 130 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:33.799 go back again. Michigan State ends up scoring, you know, puts it 131 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:37.240 up thirty one to fourteen. You know, kick the ball off and this 132 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.120 happens. We have guys running down and not having contained. That's the issue 133 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.559 that you see. You just have the guys on the outside the ones they 134 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.720 should have contained outside, the twos. Inside there's numbered from the outside end 135 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:54.600 one, two, three, four, five and whatever side. If you're 136 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:56.080 in the right year our one, R two, R three, R four, 137 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.600 R five, our four and five and four and five. Those guys 138 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.919 are what they call ball men. Those guys are designated to hok and seek 139 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.279 to the ball like a heat seek and missile. We have guys over there 140 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:15.200 that are getting blocked. So those guys are not in position to make the 141 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:18.039 plays because they're getting blocked and you have to avoid, you know, if 142 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.080 the defender, whoever the way the defender's coming at you, you avoid to 143 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.000 the right and get back in your lane. We had people avoiding and staying 144 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.960 on blocks and not getting back in their lane. So that's why big plays 145 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:33.639 happen like this on special teams because guys are in staying in their lanes and 146 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:37.039 when they avoid like this, you should be avoiding to the right of the 147 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:41.440 defender and then get back in your lane. But we didn't have that happen. 148 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:43.759 So and this is what happens when you don't you know, do your 149 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:50.159 job on kickoff cover. Just an unbelievable play right there. That's I mean, 150 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:54.639 that was like an eighty yard return. The play before that was seventy 151 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:01.360 yards. Ye shivers from the offensive side of the ball. Big plays for 152 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.159 Indiana kept them in the ballgame. And you look at the overall stats, 153 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:11.039 Michigan State had five hundred and forty yards of total offense to Indiana's two hundred 154 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:16.200 and eighty eight yards. When you look at the stats JAU just looking at 155 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.399 ninety plays for five hundred and forty yards fifty one plays for two hundred and 156 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:26.600 eighty eight yards. You look at time possession, Indiana twenty three minutes twenty 157 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:31.080 three seconds the Michigan State's thirty six minutes and twenty five It's like that's a 158 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.559 that's a season high possession time possession for Michigan State, and yet they lose 159 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.559 the ballgame. When you look at just the stats, you know, nine 160 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.360 of eighteen on third downs to three or twelve when you look at those stats. 161 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.960 Could you who could possibly think that Michigan State would lose that ball game 162 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.440 if you look at it from a statistical standpoint, You know, that's what 163 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.240 That's a great question. You know if you lined up Ray Charles, and 164 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:56.360 you lined up Stevie Wonder and you tell and you read those stats to them 165 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:00.399 and they just listening to you, would everyone would say, oh, yeah, 166 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.440 Michigan State one. You know, they control the game with the time 167 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.120 of possession, They controlled the first down, They had two running backs over 168 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.799 one hundred yards Russian, They had over five hundred total yards of offense. 169 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.279 The opposing team only had two hundred something yards of turn off. There's no 170 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.759 way that Michigan State loses this game. That's what you say. A blind 171 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.879 person, you know, can can you know diagnosed that this will be a 172 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:28.000 win for Michigan State if you have those those stats. But obviously that was 173 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.360 not the case. And at the end of the day, you have to 174 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.039 play well on all three phases of the game, offense, defense, and 175 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.679 special teams. I think the offense came to play, the defense did not, 176 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.759 and the special teams did not either, not at all. And you 177 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:46.440 look at the special teams one of the hidden yardage points. So statistically, 178 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.039 if you look at it will be the kickoff return yards. Michigan State two 179 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:56.399 kickoff returns for forty yards, Indiana six kickoff returns one hundred and ninety two 180 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.759 yards. You know, Nick Sabe's always say every hundred yards offense, don't 181 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:05.000 matter where it is, equals six points. It's generally what you said. 182 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.080 So right there, you're talking about a twelve to fourteen point swing in just 183 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.960 kick return yardage. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta look at it though, 184 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:18.080 you so you know that stat that you said, Coach Savian would say, 185 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.840 you know, so they had you know, they had almost two hundred yards 186 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.039 of kick or kick return yardage. So let's look at once for a touchdown. 187 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:30.559 The second one was setting up a touchdown in the second play, you 188 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.279 know, putting them in that position, you know, to have Michigan stays 189 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.720 on the hills the very second play of the game. So that's where those 190 00:14:35.799 --> 00:14:41.200 hidden yardage is happening. A lot of people want to focus on offense and 191 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.639 defense heide of the ball, and sometimes the special teams get lost in the 192 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:48.759 mix. There. Special teams don't get as much time in practice as it 193 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:52.279 deserves, but at the end of the day, those hidden yards and those 194 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.360 things can cost you games. And that's what it did today on Saturday against 195 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:03.519 Indiana, no doubt. You look at the offensive performance of Michigan State running 196 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.240 the ball wasn't so bad. You had the the killer Bees this time. 197 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.480 This was actually Jalen Berger and Elijah Collins combined for over two hundred yards. 198 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:16.840 Berger twenty one carries, one hundred and nineteen yards net. Elijah Collins had 199 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:24.639 a day nineteen carries, one hundred and seven yards and two touchdowns for Elijah 200 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.080 Collins. You know, we're going to get into the breakdown of the offensive 201 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:33.240 side of the ball, and you look at this particular first play fleet flicker 202 00:15:33.600 --> 00:15:45.480 to Keon Cohlan. See the running game was working. They respected the running 203 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.879 game. So these plays work early on. You know, you see this 204 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:52.000 play here because it's the first play of the game. It's a product of 205 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.480 the last two weeks of Michigan State has rushed the ball for over one hundred 206 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.320 yards in both those games. And now this is why something like this happen, 207 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.679 and a good job. It's just a little wrinkle to the flea flicker 208 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.399 here because if you see that play, you see Thorn hand the ball to 209 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.440 Burger and slides a little to his left make it looks like he's running out 210 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.879 of the way. So what's gonna happen is that defense is going to collapse 211 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.600 in a ball carrier and take away the pressure from from Thorn. So Thorn 212 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:22.120 needs to get some more air under that give us receivers a chance to catch 213 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:26.559 and run. You know, he can't hang that up too long. But 214 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.279 you know, that's a great job. You know, open up the game 215 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:30.919 with excitement, open up the game, get everyone into it, get the 216 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.720 offense into it. And that's what happened here. Like I said, Michigan 217 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:38.279 States offense did a tremendous job. You know, this game. The offensive 218 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.279 line played well, the running backs played well, Thorn played well. The 219 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:45.159 receivers you know, they made big plays, you know, just like this 220 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:48.799 one here. So you know, kudos to the offense for Michigan State. 221 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:51.759 But you can't, you know, at the end of the day, it's 222 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:55.360 a whole it's a whole, cohesive unit game. I think that you know, 223 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:59.639 what you're saying is partly true, Jay, Mostly they played good. 224 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.039 Express seeing that first half of the game, when you live at the offensive 225 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:06.720 performance, but it was very up and down when you look at the game 226 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.000 and you start watching the film again. Here we're gonna show the third down 227 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.200 and goal situation that Michigas State was in early in the ball game that that 228 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.119 did not work. Peyton Thorn rolls out on a little little bootleg, can't 229 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:26.480 find anybody and throws the ball away. And what do you see next? 230 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:32.559 Well, fourth and goal and look at where the ball is. This is 231 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.400 irly. Take a mental note of this right here. The kicker we can't 232 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:45.119 call his name, easy chip shot from the ten ish yard line and the 233 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:52.400 left hash he makes it. How about that Jayu? Yeah? And you 234 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:56.400 know Thorn had he had Malie Carr on this on this play, so if 235 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:00.920 he just if he just you know, catch that ball sets Melie Carr opens 236 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:07.119 up. What Car did was as a as a receiver, you have to 237 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:11.279 find the soft spot, especially when you're in the red zone, especially when 238 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:14.359 you're inside your ten in the end zone area there, you have to find 239 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.319 the soft spot. You can either break it out to find that soft spot 240 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.720 to see where the linebackers are, or just sit. And that's what Malik 241 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:25.279 Carr did. Melie Carr came out, turned down like he was blocking, 242 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.240 snuck out and just found the sweet spot. Boom right there throwing throws the 243 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:33.519 car. He had two guys right there, but he didn't do that, 244 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:37.000 and he kind of got rushed and he was pressed a little bit. But 245 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.119 you know he had car and bag and I'll read right there. Just throw 246 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.079 it, make it. Let your players make plays. Let your players make 247 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.000 place. Trust your players to make place in that situation there. Don't press 248 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:53.079 theirself and don't get out of your element. Yeah, you saw that when 249 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:57.079 he made the bootleg turn to his left and he saw the defensive line or 250 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:02.079 defensive end in his face a little bit not too close, he panicked a 251 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.920 little bit and decided to bail. I think you're right. I think that 252 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:08.920 he fell right here. Can make that throw. Set his feet and make 253 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:14.480 the throw. Yeah, even a pass like that straight Like I'm not a 254 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.079 quarterback, but I don't think you need to set your feet for a two 255 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.559 yard You know you're not throwing it too far. You don't just throw it. 256 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.039 Let your receivers make place. A little flick of the wrist, a 257 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:27.319 little flick of the wrist, just a flick of the wrist, you know, 258 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.079 right there, Boom, let your guys make place. You trust them 259 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:36.200 all the time to make place, trust them this time. Yeah, and 260 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:40.319 so this is the first half thing. Now, here's the end of the 261 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:45.160 first half. After two bad plays. You know, you look at second 262 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.680 and first and goal, second and goal. Let's see what Peyton Thorn does 263 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:55.440 here in the sequential order. He tries to use his legs to outrun the 264 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:00.839 defense. Not something that he's known for. Definitely not something known for. 265 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.799 And definitely don't race to that. If you're a quarterback. You know, 266 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.200 if you're running back, race to the pylon, that's great, but uh, 267 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.319 you know, second and goal, get what you can stick your foot 268 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:15.039 down and go. Same thing here now. Now he had a chance to 269 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.960 race to the pylon there on that play, but he decided from the previous 270 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.640 play to stick his foot in the ground and go. But you know, 271 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:29.480 you just gotta what a great catch, What a great catch? Hey, 272 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:33.559 Now, that's just like you talked about on the previous play on the other 273 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.319 side of the end zone, where he could have just let the ball go 274 00:20:36.359 --> 00:20:38.240 and make it. Let us guys make a play. That's exactly what we're 275 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:44.000 talking about right there. Because Keon Coleman has covered on that play. But 276 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.839 it's key. You know, you have Kean, you have Jaden Reed and 277 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.119 Kean. You'll take them one on one any day against whoever and allow them 278 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:56.319 to make a play. He didn't do that on the previous play. This 279 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.000 one he does do. But the decision for Payton, it's a little up 280 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:03.839 and down in his decision making process, like, Okay, I'm gonna try 281 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.160 to run the ball, use my legs. Now I'm gonna stop and cut 282 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.720 back in instead of trust my speed. You know, I'm going to the 283 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:18.039 right and to the left. And then now, okay, I'm just gonna 284 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.039 trust my receiver. I'm gonna stare at him, but I'm gonna trust him. 285 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:25.319 And he makes the play. Yeah, exactly. That's one of those 286 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.680 places you know, they line him up and say my guy's better than your 287 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:32.440 guy, and we're gonna we're gonna prove it right here. And he threw 288 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:36.839 to Coleman. And that's why it's so disappointing and so frustrating to see that 289 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:41.039 the previous drive going to the tunnel end zone there when he had two guys 290 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.359 wide open and didn't trust it and trust himself to make that play, so 291 00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:48.799 it's like you hit on It's that inconsistency. That's why Michigan State's in the 292 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.400 hole that we're at right now. And at the end of the day too. 293 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.079 I know we're talking a lot about you know, the players, you 294 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:02.519 know, executing on on the field, but we also also have to put 295 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:06.200 some of the strain and pressure on the coaches to put these players in the 296 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:11.480 best position to be successful. All right, I am not as an offensive 297 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:15.559 coordinator. I am not gonna be at my own two yard line when I 298 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:21.000 have a back like Elijah Collins that's a bruiser. I'm not gonna sit in 299 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:25.079 the gun or and run a zone out and run a zone read, you 300 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:27.279 know, to put the ball in my quarterback's hand to run it. If 301 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:30.799 I'm gonna do anything with the ball in the quarterback's hand, it's gonna be 302 00:22:30.839 --> 00:22:33.880 throw the ball. But if not, I'm gonna hand the ball to my 303 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.960 backs and say you go and you get two yards. The coaches have to 304 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.480 put these players in the best position to be successful, and we did not 305 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:45.759 do that offensively at times. That's why there were some of those points that 306 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.640 were you know, taking off the board that we couldn't get and also to 307 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:53.359 that's why we're in a position to have to kick field goals because we need 308 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.480 to put our heads down. Run the damn football. Run the damn football. 309 00:22:57.519 --> 00:23:02.079 If you're on inside the the five yard line, you have a bruising 310 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:06.359 back that's proven time and time again that he can pick up those tough yards. 311 00:23:06.680 --> 00:23:08.880 Run the damn football four times in a row. Let your old line 312 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.880 do their thing. I agree with you, no doubt about it there. 313 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:17.319 I mean, you talk about fourth down conversions for Michigan State in this ball 314 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:21.440 game, one of four on fourth downs. I mean, we could do 315 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:26.359 a whole show breaking down the fourth down plays and it will make you sick, 316 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:32.039 as coach Mel Tucker loves to say, watching the film of the fourth 317 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.920 down plays as an offensive lineman, I know for you as a running back, 318 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:42.160 ju it makes you sick because personnel wise, ability wise, we have 319 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:48.880 the players. The structure and the intensity in which they go about the business 320 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:53.440 gives them no chance in order to convert. Now, five percent is unacceptable 321 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:59.920 on fourth down. Those are hidden turnovers, right, that's a turnover. 322 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.680 That's the reason why straight is we try to be too damn c Yeah, 323 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.960 you know, we try to be too cute for we try to play Trickham 324 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:12.519 Dickham offense on fourth down as opposed to you know, doing the bread and 325 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:17.559 butter. You're in the Big ten. It's cold outside. You run the 326 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:22.519 football when you run down Bill, you you have two backs for two hundred. 327 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:26.680 Indiana did not want to tackle these guys when they're going downhill. These 328 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:30.319 running backs were finally sticking the foot in the ground and getting north and south. 329 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:37.279 We have to run the football. You're playing Big ten football. Yeah, 330 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.960 look at the second half of this ball game. We're talking about the 331 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:45.599 inconsistencies of Michigan State offensively. Here is we open up the second half early 332 00:24:45.640 --> 00:24:51.519 in the second third quarter and Peythorne makes a good decision. Is great route 333 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:59.559 by Barker, just missus the ball. That's third down and sixth instead of 334 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.279 third down conversion first down and ten from roughly the forty seven yard line. 335 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:08.599 You have to punt the ball. Yeah, this play right here is just 336 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:12.680 all it's all mental. It's all mental on Barker's part there. You know, 337 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:17.759 that's an easy pitch and catch. You can't let you can't be like, 338 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:21.480 Okay, we're up seventeen we can be lethargic out here. It's all 339 00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:23.279 mental. You have to, you know, make a good throw like Thorn 340 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.319 did, a good read, good throw, put the ball in the right 341 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:29.720 position. It's you know, he has to come up with this catch. 342 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:33.559 Barker has to come down with this catch. There's no excuse for it whatsoever, 343 00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:38.559 No, none at all. And then then you move on to the 344 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.200 touchdown run here. Now look at look at this. The offensive line looks 345 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:48.400 great. Here. You got Elijah Collins running with a full head of steam, 346 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:53.279 strong, great balance. Look at how look he doesn't get touched until 347 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:57.319 he's four or five yards down the field. You know, there's a drill 348 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:02.680 that you do for this this play exactly. And if you're running backs, 349 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:07.039 if you're running back, if you're running backs, coach, get this clip 350 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:08.720 here and show your running backs. And all you do is you hold two 351 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.480 bags together. You blow the whistle. The back puts his nose against that 352 00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.119 pump is like pumps, like pumps, like puns. Bleg pump, blow 353 00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:19.759 the whistle. It opens up. This is the exact same thing you practice 354 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:23.680 day in and day out. Elijah Collins did that exactly. His offensive line. 355 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:27.000 We're making movement look at that. The offensive line pushes the guy three 356 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:32.119 four years downfield. Collins is patient back in there, grab their back. 357 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:34.519 His legs are moving. The reason why I say pump your legs is so 358 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.359 the people that are falling down can't have a still target to grab a hold 359 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:42.000 of. You keep your legs moving, and once you see daylight, boom, 360 00:26:42.119 --> 00:26:45.599 you explode through that. And that's exactly what Collins did here. And 361 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:49.240 the thing that pisses me off is we can be you know, on our 362 00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:52.319 forty yard line, our thirty yard line and run the ball like this, 363 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.720 but then we get inside the five and the inside the two, we decided 364 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.279 we want to be cute and do zone runs and put the ball of our 365 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:03.680 best players hands. The coaches have to put the players in the best position 366 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:08.000 to be successful. Gotta be downhill. That's when you're most dangerous, especially 367 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.960 with a team like Indiana who really doesn't have an answer for you. If 368 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.000 you go mono, I mono, and just lean against him and come fire 369 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:19.200 off the ball and press them like you did there. I mean, the 370 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:23.480 offensive line looked beautiful coming off the ball. That was a tremendous surge right 371 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.960 there and gave Elijah Collins all that room and you said, just kept its 372 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:32.000 legs moving and the crease happens. He didn't. He wasn't looking for cutbacks. 373 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:34.240 You see later on in the game and when the game's on the line, 374 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:38.200 he starts looking for cutbacks because the line wasn't coming off with that same 375 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:44.599 intensity. And you're having those those zone read runs, those those outside zone 376 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:48.720 plays on fourth and one that are mind boggling to guys like you and me. 377 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:53.960 Look at look at what happens right after that touchdown. Michigan State has 378 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:59.200 the ball. Now now it's you know, the kick return has just happened. 379 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:04.319 It's ten point game here and Peyton Thorn that was ball. It gets 380 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:14.319 tipped and Indiana comes down with it. Mh. This is a huge play 381 00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:18.640 in the third quarter. The tip drill here. You have the young freshman 382 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:23.319 Jeremy Bernard here just didn't seem look a little bit out of sorts there. 383 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.079 Ball hits him. He kind of falls down. Looks like the moment was 384 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:34.200 a little big for him right there. Pissed down your leg absolutely, ball 385 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:37.799 down. Now you hit your hands, get it down. Yeah, you 386 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:42.480 knock it down. I mean, man, this play here, if you 387 00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:45.799 see too and this is like, this is getting greedy. You know, 388 00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:52.359 my Grandpapy will always say you never go broke taking a profit. And with 389 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:55.400 what that means is, you know, you work your way down for you 390 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.279 take what the defense gives you. If you look at this play here, 391 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:02.039 you see Malik Carr in middle of the field on the hash wide open. 392 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:04.559 You know it's gonna be a six yard game. You know, boom right 393 00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:07.480 there, throw it. You never go broke taking the profit. You never 394 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:11.839 go broke taking the profit. That's like a if you throw the car and 395 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.559 he gets tackled right there, that's a that's like a good five yard run. 396 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.640 All right, throwing needs to stop and look staring down his receiver and 397 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:26.079 go through his his reads. You know, unfortunately the ball was tipped and 398 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:30.759 everything like that, but you know that happened. But you know, you 399 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.519 you make it easy in yourself, you know, don't put yourself in a 400 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.519 position to to you know, have the stress. You know. That's like 401 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:40.200 I said earlier, it's like the Spartans trying to find a way to make 402 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:44.519 an easy game hard and any way that we could even at this point here, 403 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.839 all Indiana wanted to do was get out of town. It was cold, 404 00:29:48.559 --> 00:29:52.079 they were on a seven game losing streak, and we made it tough 405 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:56.079 and kept them in a game and gave him something to believe in. And 406 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.759 you can't do that if you're gonna be a good team, if you're gonna 407 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:03.359 be a contender, you have have to find ways to step on team's throats 408 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.720 when they're down. And we did not do that this past Saturday. No, 409 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:14.000 I mean after this interception, Indiana was able to go down kick the 410 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:19.400 field goal to bring it within one score late in the ball game. Then 411 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:25.200 going into more offensive play from Michigan State, you see Elijah Collins now here 412 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:30.920 with a little cutback run and not being able to get anything. This is 413 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:38.359 third in goal, third in goal from Michigan State here with thirty three seconds 414 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.920 to go in the ball game. Everyone talked about this. This is what 415 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:48.039 we opened with with Xander Henderson up there with Peyton Thorn, and Peyton said, 416 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:51.960 hey, the play was to go to the right. I was trying 417 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.920 to get out of there, you know. So what everyone's want to know, 418 00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:57.480 where was that ball getting centered? Was it trying to get centered for 419 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:03.200 Ben Patten to make the kick looks like it was, And yeah, yeah, 420 00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:07.039 you know, I think that the thought process in this was this, 421 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.839 we're gonna we have a left foot, a kicker or our kicker you know, 422 00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.720 has struggled all year. What we're gonna do is we're gonna try to 423 00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.960 run a ball. We're gonna center the ball in the middle of the field. 424 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:23.559 We're gonna run a play that's designed to go to the right, and 425 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.680 if we break it for a big one to the right, great, If 426 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.599 not, we're gonna be centered and uh be in a position to kick a 427 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.359 field goal and win the game and get out of there on senior Day. 428 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:40.119 But as much as I praise Elijah Collins, as much as I love the 429 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:45.160 guy as a back, you you you're a senior, you have to know, 430 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:48.799 but this is a freshman mistake. This is something that happens when you're 431 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:53.480 a freshman or a sophomore. Even that, because, like I said, 432 00:31:53.519 --> 00:32:00.519 another quote from my grandpappy, we forget that objective is to drain the when 433 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:12.319 we're up to our ass and alligators all right, and something else. Absolutely, 434 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.920 you know, Elijah Collins at that time forget the objective is to win 435 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.759 the game. He didn't have to win it himself. I know, I 436 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.880 get it. I've been a running back. I've been in that position there 437 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:27.960 where I actually cost us a game. You're feeling that, you're feeling your 438 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.799 mojo, you're rushing over one hundred yards a senior day. You want to 439 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:34.839 put that explanation point on it. But at the end of the day, 440 00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:38.519 you have to do what what plays called. And that's why football is the 441 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:44.240 most selfless game you can play out there, because it takes eleven guys to 442 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:50.839 do everything right and what they're supposed to do for five seconds. There's no 443 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.880 other game like that. And that time there were ten guys doing what they 444 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.079 were supposed to do, and one guy did not do what he was supposed 445 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.039 to do. And like I said, you forget the objective is to drain 446 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.039 the swamp. When you're up to your ass in alligators to you, I 447 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:07.680 want you to look at this play again. So if he keeps this play 448 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:12.119 play side, he goes to the right, the blockings there, the blockings 449 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:16.480 there, it's absolutely there. I think he can score. He could go 450 00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:21.279 bounce to the right, go scoop and if he even has to go chase 451 00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:23.680 the pylon, he could do that. But the blocking was there. The 452 00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:30.480 play is there. There's no need. There's one guy and there's four defenders 453 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.400 on the left. There's no need to go on to the left. There 454 00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:37.359 the blocking is there. You just have to go. And I get it. 455 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.880 I've been in Elijah Collins' shoes before. All the praise I give him, 456 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.000 I have to give him some of the blame on this because I love 457 00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:47.839 the kid. I want him to come back again next year. I think 458 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:53.440 he's a hell of a back. But that time he had to run the 459 00:33:53.480 --> 00:34:00.400 play that was called yeah, which then leads us to the all important field 460 00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:04.039 goal. Look, hey, this is two yards deeper than the one that 461 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:14.360 we just showed a few moments back. It just had no chance. I 462 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:21.320 just no chance. You know, this is absolutely inexcusable. We cannot have 463 00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:25.639 this, and everyone gives me grief because I have a gripe with kickers. 464 00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:31.079 This here is why I have a gripe with kickers. You have one job 465 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:37.320 to do. It's your time now. And you know you had all the 466 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:44.239 he he's and ha ha has last week and now, Like my grandpappy would 467 00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:49.440 also say, the same thing that make you laugh will make you cry, 468 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.760 And that's what happened right there. You have to be able to execute, 469 00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.239 you have to be able to execute on all phases. I you know, 470 00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:01.519 special teams at Michigan State has to get from the long snapper, the holder, 471 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:07.159 and the kicker. The only shining star in special teams is Bryce Berenger, 472 00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:12.480 the punter, and I will even classify him as a defensive player as 473 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:17.360 opposed to special teamers. You know, you can't miss that. You're here 474 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.039 to do one job. In practice, you lolly gag around you. You 475 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.000 do all these drills on the side while everybody's you know, busting their butts 476 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:30.320 getting ready to put you in that position to be successful. And we talked 477 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.760 to this kicker last week and it's a lonely position. I get it. 478 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:38.519 But when you're called upon to do your part, you have to do your 479 00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.679 part. Yeah, there's no if, hands or butts about it. You've 480 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.400 got to execute when it's your number and your numbers called in that situation right 481 00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:52.760 there, super unfortunate for him and obviously for the seniors for that play. 482 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:55.719 Not deal not, that's not the only play that lost the game. But 483 00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:00.880 let's let's let's be real. That is a makeable kick. Then you go 484 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:06.320 to overtime, you have a similar situation. You block the kick from Indiana 485 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:15.840 in the first overtime, and then it's a bad snap from Mission State, 486 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:27.159 a bad snap, just unbelievable, unbelievable special against them life. You see, 487 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.840 the students are out there with no shirts on, risking their own lives. 488 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:35.800 But the bad snap, I mean literally, we should in this position. 489 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.199 We should not have been in this position at this time, this point 490 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:43.559 of time in the game. We should have been back at the cars having 491 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:46.119 our favorite toddies to warm us up. These students should have been at the 492 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:52.760 land Shark or at Ricks already enjoying their victory. These seniors a bar, 493 00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.639 at the graduate the rock bar. Absolutely, they should have been up there 494 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.079 at the rock bar and looking at Spartan State him saying, wow, we 495 00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:06.079 just did what we just had Yes, exactly, we shouldn't have been in 496 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:10.280 this position at all. And we put ourselves in this position from not playing 497 00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:15.239 in all three phases and from not being in the best position to be successful. 498 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:20.000 Is that what well we're gonna do too. Let's show like Spartan Nation 499 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:25.400 real quick, how two other programs were able to execute a last second field 500 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:35.920 goal this very day. DCU kicker comes out right, Yeah, TCU. 501 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:38.280 You know, let's play here. They called fast field teams practice this. 502 00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:42.119 It's fast, he'll goal. The clock is running, you're out of timeouts. 503 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.440 You run your kicker out there. Your kicker now mentally knows his steps. 504 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:47.880 You know it's gonna be one, two, three, boom kick. 505 00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.760 And you see that he didn't even have to pace him off. He knew 506 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.159 what yard line he had to be on. And and that's a guy that's 507 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.679 coment. That's a guy that's ready for the moment right there. Hey, 508 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.559 we're ranked four in the nation, we have a chance for the CFP. 509 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:07.480 This is on me. I'm gonna embrace this. Yeah, Spartans, we 510 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.840 need kickers that will embrace the moment. Absolutely, you talking about a guy. 511 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:17.440 They're ten and zero the seasons on the line right there, seven seconds 512 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.960 on the clock, no timeouts. They execute on the road by the way 513 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:29.000 road kudles to that special teams coordinator. Yeah, at those guys ready to 514 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:34.079 play. Then the school down the road. They have a similar situation at 515 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:38.760 home against Illinois. Illinois has him on the ropes. What happens here, 516 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:43.519 Well, Illinois blew that game. You know, all they needed was to 517 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.880 get a first down and they couldn't do that, and then Moody comes in 518 00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:53.360 and does his job, does what he's supposed to do. That, folks, 519 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:58.000 is the difference. I know, it seems that it's a big gap. 520 00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:00.800 It feels like it's a long way away. But Neil Tucker talks about 521 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:05.320 this, it's not that big of a difference between those teams that are at 522 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:09.280 the top aside from Georgia, the rest of those teams in the top five, 523 00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:13.280 six, top ten, and then the rest of the country. It's 524 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:17.079 not that big of a delta as far as execution is concerned. Talent, 525 00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:22.239 obviously, is something that we have to continue to work on. Having recruits 526 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:25.960 there this past weekend and watching that game, you hate to see that. 527 00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.760 You hate the temperature's cold. The one thing that's gonna warm those young guys 528 00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:35.239 up is a nice victory party at the end of the ball game, and 529 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:38.559 they weren't able to do that. JAU just a tough overall game for Michigan 530 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.599 State football wise. Yeah, absolutely, And you know one of the big 531 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:47.719 things is, you know, some someone people could be watching this and say, 532 00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.480 wow, these guys are tough on these players. You know, I 533 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:54.800 get it, you know, I've been in that position. I've been criticized, 534 00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.559 I've been praised, I've been cheered, I've been booed. It would 535 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:04.480 not be doing us. This is not that our show is. You know, 536 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:08.519 we love the Spartans were from Michigan State, you know, but we're 537 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.079 just like a fan sitting back at home. We frustrated as well. We 538 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:15.360 see that and we talk about it. You know, this is the type 539 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.719 of we want that atmosphere with this show, this barbershop feel where you you 540 00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.599 talk sports, you talk about it. But you know that's all we can 541 00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.079 do. You know, we wouldn't be the show that we are. We 542 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:32.480 wouldn't be the former players that we are, if we're not talking like it 543 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:36.199 is. Because you can go through your group text for former players, I'll 544 00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:38.840 go through mine and it's you know, this whole conversation you're talking about that, 545 00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:42.400 and I think you know, if you're a fan, this is something 546 00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:45.599 that you would appreciate as a fan. So you know, we're gonna keep 547 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.039 it straight with you. We're gonna tell it like it is. You know, 548 00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:51.199 when it's good, it's good. When it's bad, we'll say it. 549 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:53.320 Yeah, we're gonna say it. We're gonna tell you how it is 550 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.159 because we want what's best for those young men, because we understand how to 551 00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.599 end of this story goes, too. We understand what it feels like to 552 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:07.559 walk around campus having made those plays, and we also understand how it is 553 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:12.679 to walk around campus having not made those plays. And I don't know about 554 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.039 you, J Well, I do know about you, Ju. I'll take 555 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:20.679 making the plays every time over not making the places in situations such as that, 556 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.599 because it can stay with you now. It doesn't define you unless you 557 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:28.519 allow it to define you. But in situations like that, you have to 558 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:31.480 stay in the moment and do what you've been trained to do. Do not 559 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:35.880 think about what it's gonna be like if I make this, what it's gonna 560 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.480 be like if I make this block, if I do this touchdown, if 561 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.199 I cut back, don't think about all of what IFPs think about what you 562 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:45.360 need to do right now, right now, what not not a second from 563 00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.360 now, right now, when you're in those moments. And that's how guys 564 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.719 like Kenneth Walker that you've seen a year ago were able to execute the way 565 00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:54.599 they do. He doesn't think about the outside. He thinks about what he's 566 00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:59.079 doing right there. That's why it works so hard every day. You know, 567 00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:02.480 when we see things like that, we appreciate it as former players because 568 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:08.639 we know what it takes. It's really not focusing on something outside of what 569 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:13.920 everybody else thinks that you're not. You're not being extraordinary and thinking further. 570 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:20.360 You're being extraordinary by not thinking further. You know, you get more with 571 00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.679 less, and that's what we want. We want what's best with the Michigan 572 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:30.119 State football players and any athlete in Michigan State because we understand how hard it 573 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.000 is on a daily basis to do what you do. You've got class, 574 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:38.639 you've got all these outside situations, social calendars, and coaches screaming at you, 575 00:42:38.679 --> 00:42:43.400 guys like us, old fat guys like us talking bad about you. 576 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.079 But look, we also love you. We love you hard, and we 577 00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:52.920 love you well. So on to more brighter news. Jay, you we're 578 00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.920 gonna talk to you to get that nil money. Yeah, il money. 579 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.400 We're going to talk you know. I l yeah, un, that's you. 580 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:02.599 Basketball team, baby, We talked. We had a little show. 581 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.079 Otis nu. I got on there and did a little show about the Indianapolis 582 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.519 game, the big victory in double overtime, we had two double overtime games 583 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:16.280 this week. How about that which you say basketball over Kentucky just annihilated the 584 00:43:16.360 --> 00:43:22.239 Wildcats and this double overtimes. They go on to beat Villanova at home, 585 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:24.320 had a big lead that kind of shrink a little bit from one seventy three 586 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:30.360 to seventy one. In Jayu, you and I talked about the debut. 587 00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:34.159 What it was gonna be in the top twenty five? Did we not? 588 00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:39.400 We did? We did? Jay You said, you know, look we 589 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:43.280 had a little argument on him. He said they're gonna be twenty one. 590 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:45.800 I said they're gonna be top fifteen, and you said, I said, 591 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:51.079 at least top twenty is what I said. You did? You did say 592 00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.800 top fifteen. You did say that. I'll give you that top twelve. 593 00:43:54.960 --> 00:44:01.079 Michigan State basketball makes his debut on the top twenty five at number twelve today 594 00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:07.880 in the ap pole and our standing job. Funny thing at this football game 595 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:12.000 pregame, Coach Izza was down there, so I went up to him. 596 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.920 I was, you know, he he ha hid with him. I coach 597 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:17.679 you know, heck, hell, you know, you guys are the Cardiat 598 00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.119 kids. Heck of a season so far. Man. He's like Hey, 599 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.800 hey, don't praise me yet. You know it's too early. And just 600 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:28.599 like that, it is too early, you know, So Top twelve enjoy 601 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:31.800 enjoy those. You're gonna get more primetime games as we have to learn to 602 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:36.639 finish. You know, we get these leads, we're a great first half 603 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.320 team, and then we're great end of the game. We can show resolved. 604 00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:43.800 So let's let's have that consistency all the way through. But hey, 605 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.000 this team's gonna be fun to watch. I love watching them play defense, 606 00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:51.360 and they look like they're having fun out there, and they look like a 607 00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:54.000 close knit group that've been doing it for a long time and enjoyed themselves this 608 00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:59.360 summer getting better. They look outstanding. You're right, fun to watch it. 609 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:02.840 Be sure to follow. This is part of MSU because Jayu's gonna have 610 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.880 some some nice tickets for you guys. Anybody wants to come to that nice 611 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:13.119 toasty Breslin Center to watch the Spartans get out there and annihilate the competition. 612 00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:16.159 Don't forget to follow us on all of our social platforms. This is part 613 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:22.199 of MSU. You're talking Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, and even 614 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:25.239 TikTok for the hip hop. The young ones. You know what I mean. 615 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:31.000 Every week we're on Thursday, Tuesdays and Thursday at eight pm on any 616 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.559 of those platforms, and you can also go to anywhere else that you get 617 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:43.039 your your podcast. Miss will be out west Man in Oregon at the philm 618 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:49.000 Night Invitational coming up on Thanksgiving. How about that nice? I think I 619 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:54.000 might subpribe to the podcast so I can win tickets to who games. You're 620 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:58.679 gonna be out there handing You're gonna be one handing them out. Then you 621 00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:00.719 do. That's what I want to sit back and you know, win these 622 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:06.960 tickets and sit back. If I'm looking the podcast giving my tickets like this, 623 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.199 there's no other podcasts that does that. No, not like weekend in 624 00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:14.320 week out. So you know, I'm gonna we're gonna patter ourselves in the 625 00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:16.639 back because we take care of our fans. We take care of our subscribers. 626 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:20.679 Go to Seek and see the tickets. Look at the seats too. 627 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:24.079 We're not talking on those bleeds great seats. If you go to those socials, 628 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:29.920 you'll see some of our fans are followers that have won the tickets and 629 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.920 they taken pictures and say, hey, thanks, this is Sparta thank you 630 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.480 because and I think if I wasn't in the booth, I take those seats. 631 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:45.320 I definitely would all day long. Mister State plays Alabama on Thanksgiving night, 632 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.440 ten thirty pm Eastern. You know we're playing. They're gonna roll and 633 00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:53.960 tie in basketball. Thank god basketball. But that's that's that's gonna be. 634 00:46:54.039 --> 00:47:00.320 After my my Buffalo Bills take down the Detroit Lions. Oh my god, 635 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:05.880 sacriligious, you know, the State. So they had the game here, 636 00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.480 talk about that ju The Buffalo Bills had to cancel their home game because it 637 00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:16.119 was too much damn snow and come over to Detroit and play in the Detroit 638 00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:22.920 in the Ford Field House against the Cleveland Browns. Yeah. I was at 639 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:24.800 that ball game. And you know, a great strategy by the by the 640 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:30.159 Bills. They were the home team, but they chose the visiting team sidelines, 641 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:32.119 they chose a visiting team locker room. So it's just like a test 642 00:47:32.199 --> 00:47:36.920 run for them. They already won once there, you know, in Ford 643 00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:40.039 Field. Now now it's an opportunity to come back on Thanksgiving and win again. 644 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.119 And for all the listeners out there that are Lions fan, you're not 645 00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:47.119 a true fan if you're not throwing hate at me, you know, for 646 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.400 rooting against you guys. I want all the hate and all the heat that 647 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:57.280 you guys have after watching this, so when it's over, I can have 648 00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:01.360 the last laugh at you guys. No, Jay, you definitely a glutton 649 00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:06.920 for punishment. He loves this stuff and he knows they got Josh Allen over 650 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.320 there. They so so that's so be careful. That's why you're not getting 651 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:15.320 a lot of hate because you got a pretty damn good quarterback. Jay. 652 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:21.719 You also more issues for the tunnel, more tunnel issues from the school down 653 00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:27.639 the road. This past weekend against Illinois, it was another issue in the 654 00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.599 Michigan tunnel. At halftime, Red Bueloma came out of the locker room and 655 00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:36.480 was yelling that Michigan was running late and yelled for all of the different officials 656 00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:40.039 to hold Michigan back. But they let Michigan go and then Illinois was held 657 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:44.960 back and entered the field plate so built some issues in that tunnel. They 658 00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.719 added two minutes onto the clock because Illinois had to come out late because of 659 00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:57.440 it. Pile of hey. In the words of both old running backs coach 660 00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:04.000 Bobby Williams slash head coach Michigan State straight horn. That's a pile. You 661 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:10.880 know what. That's crazy, man, I don't We still don't have to 662 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:15.719 figure out. You know, prosecutors got this and I mean, it's just 663 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:20.239 ridiculous. What's going on over there? And they got every coach. So 664 00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:24.119 so it's what's the common denominator? We got Penn State pissed off, Michigan 665 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:31.800 State fight now Illinois problems. What's the common denominator? You tell me, 666 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:37.039 Jau, I don't know. Explain it to me like a mckinner gartner. 667 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.760 What is the common denominator in the tunnel incident? Oh? Maybe where it's 668 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.360 at, Maybe who it's against. They gotta figure this out. Man, 669 00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:50.559 This is getting ridiculous. But we all know those guys. They do nothing 670 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.679 wrong. They invented the game of football. There you're all whatever, But 671 00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.960 yeah, I'm done with that. I'm done with them. Let's move on. 672 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:05.400 I don't want to talk about Let's stop talking about him again. Michigan 673 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:08.880 State had the disappointing laws. Now five and six, one chance at redemption 674 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:15.679 as they go on the road, four pm kickoff in Happy Valley, and 675 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.960 we're gonna come back on Thursday night to talk more about that game. And 676 00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:23.360 we're gonna have a special guests for everybody, a very special guest of Spartan. 677 00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:28.679 Great. You know a guy who played in the Super Bowl too, 678 00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:36.320 winn Yeah, super Bowl champion, Michigan State Spartan. That's the teaser for 679 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:43.639 Thursday. All right, pease it up, baby, I'm punching my pearls. 680 00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.559 All right, everybody, let's put the ball on that one for jay 681 00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:50.760 U coping on Jason Strayhorn. This is Sparta. Have a good night, 682 00:50:50.800 --> 00:51:02.079 God blessed, and go Great, Go White.