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words from inside the Spartan locker room after the dramatic come from behind victory in
double overtime by Michigan State over Wisconsin in double overtime. As we know on
Homecoming this is Sparta. I'm your host, Jason Strayhorn along with my co
host Otus Wiley and Jay You to two pulker, big big game on Homecoming
weekend, Fellas, what do you think, big dubs? Uh? You
know it was great and you could tell, you know, from the beginning
from when that cliff we just played of Coach Tucker in the locker room,
fired up inspired. If you listen to that, you know, without with
blinders on, you wouldn't know that was a team that was on for losing
a four game losing streak. You would think that's a team coming out ready
to play another one. So it was very cool to get inside the locker
room footage and see the inspiration that was coming from there. Yeah, the
Jay's point, man, it was it was electric. Homecoming people coming back
from all over, from near and far. You just hope and wish that
every home game was that where everybody came back. But I felt a different
sense of I guess Pride Urgency playing free. You saw guys that I don't
know if you saw it with that Mobamba song playing, and you saw the
huddle and the sideline jumping and dancing around. To Jay's point in our last
podcast was that they were having fun, right, so to win in this
fashion. We always played Wisconsin to the nail, biers Man to the end
of the game. You know. They did say earlier that, you know,
the team that gets to seventeen will win the game, but clearly it
was more than that, and so it was electric. H I loved it,
every part of it. I can't wait to deep dive and talk about
it. How about the chop towels. How cool? Especially when the lights
man Like, at first it was like it started a little slow. It
was like hell, you know, and then when that when that overtime and
then that lights were hidding, You're like, okay, this this looked like
a little Heines, a little Acressure field. It looks like the acres Sure
field. Terrible Towe man. So kudos to Laurna Burley who is heading up
the fan engagement. She she she she brought that to life where we haven't
had that in a long time, where a stadium full stadium giveaway. So
I'm looking forward to putting that onto one of them sponsors that we have listed
to put their logo on that town. So you heard it here. We're
gonna get that done next year. Yeah, definitely, that was that was
ver. I love that plugging, plugging the business were more so, you
know, you know absolutely, I gotta love it, man, And you
said, it's exciting brand of football, you know. Thirty four to twenty
eight. Last time Michigan State had an overtime game was against Nebraska a year
ago, winning twenty three to twenty in front of the Spartan fans. But
it was just a special electric moment to have so many people back in town
for homecoming and a lot of recruits were there as well, and there was
a lot of favorable responses and reactions from the recruits. And we'll dive into
that in future shows when we talk about what an impact the Spartan fans made
on the future Spartans, because it makes a difference, and they came away
so encourage about the atmosphere. And that's what the young players think about the
atmosphere and Spartan Nation. You made a difference on that one, There's no
doubt about it. And you know, guys, it was an exciting ball
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it was an exciting game down to the wire. We talked about Wisconsin was
it was held to two hundred and eighty three yards a total offense, a
team that came in averaging well over three hundred and twenty plus yards a three
hundred eighty yard of offense in Michigan State. On the other side, three
and eighty nine yards of offense really kicked off by two hundred and ninety yard
or two hundred's a five yard performance by Peyton Thorn throwing the ball. Yeah,
Thorn had a you know, he had a good day. The communication
with him and his receivers, you could see that he felt he wasn't impressing
us much. And I say a lot of that credit goes to the fact
that Michigan State was able to establish the run game. And establish the run
game early in the first quarter, Michigan State already had fifty yards rushing the
ball. Now let's you know, rewind to last week's game when they had
seven total yards of Russian So that's night and day different. So that's what
we keep saying on here. Run the football. That's going to allow you
to open up your pass game. And that's what we saw with Berger,
you know, having the revenge game on his former team and our boy Elijah
Collins coming in and getting those tough it's getting that tough touchdown that was that
was the thing that kept the Wisconsin defense on their heels and we were able
to open up the pass game a little bit. Yeah, he doesn't,
he doesn't, he doesn't disappoint. He's definitely gonna bring up the running backsn't
no matter if we start off, quarterback goes back to the running game.
I mean, it's the bread and butter man. We know, we know
if you can't run, you can't run a rock. You can't just be
one dimensional. So you know, Dave loves to toe that rock man.
You know. So we were talking about this earlier with uh, you know
Jason and I. You know, we talked about where Elijah collins energy and
his his impact goes well beyond obviously told the rock. So when he gets
in there, it's electric. He hits the hole and grabs the ball and
goes straight north south and just you know, one hit. He's not going
down, He's he's seeing the hole quickly and getting getting north and south.
And so it almost lifts up j Burger where you saw him run in for
that end zone on that rushing touchdown where it was aggressive. He went through
and it looked like Jay, you bought there. It was like no,
knock him off one shoulder into the end zone. And so that's what the
pound green pound. That's that feeling where you feel like you almost just ran
that football in because it was aggressive with an angst and urgency of just I
need to get in an end zone and once you get an end zone,
you start feeling good man, And I think that's where we start to let
allow Wisconsin's defense have to respond to that, which opened up the passing game,
which we've been talking about it since day one. So if you have
a balance attack, you know, Peyton's able to do what he does best.
And you know, I don't want to knock him wood, but it
felt like Peyton Thorne was Backman and his mojo, playing free launching the ball.
Even if there were some overthrown passes, at least he was taking chances
down the field, which is a total difference than what you know he was
doing the past couple of games. Without a question. You look at the
production for Jalen Berger sixteen carries for fifty nine yards and a touchdown. Elijah
Collins fourteen carries for forty three yards, So just between the two of them,
that's thirty thirty carries. You know, Sure was talking about, you
know, thirty called run plays. You know that's last week we had thirteen
total run plays between three running backs. So that's what I'm saying. You
know, you have to try to establish the run game. That's gonna help,
that's gonna help you build your confidence and Otie, like you were talking
about, you saw Elijah Collins running and getting those tough yards, then what
you see Burger running getting those tough yards. Because when you have that running
back by committee, all of a sudden, that internal competition is that anything
you can do, I can do better. So that starts coming in and
those guys start feeding off each other. And what happens is the defense now
they're like, oh wait, wait, what's happening. Now they start getting
off the bench and standing on the sidelights watching the game. You know,
when the defense or the offense is watching their other counterparts play, that's when
you get that juice is blowing, and that's when the mojo's going and that
excitement is building. Now, Jason, we can't we can't go without saying
that the offensive line and the trenches looked a whole lot better. I mean,
we look at it where they were giving paying some time. They also
allowed him to do some some passing, getting out, getting outside the pocket,
but also kind of peeling back and helping them out. And so you
know that changes the game where then we can stretch it. Man, we
finally get our tight end big time. Catch, which was crucial, you
know, coming down running almost into the end zone. I mean, I
don't think no one wanted to try to tackle him and had to get these
legs basically. So yeah, offense was a different offense which also helps the
defensive side. They got a lot of breathers, so yeah, yeah it
was good. Yeah defensively, Well, before you we go to the defense,
Jason and Oates, like, do we have between Baker and our Titans?
Do we have the biggest Titans in the Big ten? Both our boys
are big and athletic. Yes, we're looking for Daniel Barker to be Daniel
Barker. You know, we haven't seen a glimpse of him since he had
that one handed touchdown in the corner in Spartan Stadium. You know, he
had that one big catch with the drag in Maryland. But kudos to Milie
Carr with that big seventy two yard reception where you know, Peyton Thorn you
know, put a zip on that ball and was for seventy seventy two yards
where set up Elijah Collins for that touchdown, which was crucial drive for us
in that moment. So you know, Jay, you I mean we talked
about having the biggest tight ends and the big ten. I mean, I
haven't seen big tight ends and athletic from any other offense you know, in
the country. Yeah, you're one hundred percent right, And you know you
talk about Barker not being there right now since that big catch. But it's
the next man up mentality. All these guys have the talent, and Malik
car displayed it. He has the size and he has the speed, you
know on that big run that he had outrunning some of his some of the
defenders from Wisconsin. So it's that next man up mentality. You practice like
a starter, you practice like you're gonna get those meaningful game reps. And
that's what happened. You know. I thought that when Malik got in the
ball game and was able to run that nice little seam route, it was
the fact that Michigan State had stayed so committed to the run. If you
look at that play, the two linebackers were looking in the backfield the whole
time. They didn't pay attention to the six five, two hundred and sixty
five pound behemos running right by him. I mean, it wasn't like they
couldn't find him in a crowd, but they were so focused on man,
who's gonna get the ball next, who's gonna be the bruising back between Elijah
Collins's gonna be Burger, a guy that we know that's still gonna lower his
shoulder pads and run through us, run through our faith. As we had
Darrel Worthy on here and he said that I like that term run through they
face. So in what happened, Malik Carr runs right by that face and
he goes seventy to y'alls should have scored. You know, he got tackled
at the very end. I think he ran out a little gas as he
got towards the sideline. But that is an athletic down the field. I'm
gonna take you. I'm gonna take you a little inside the huddle here,
and so I'm back in mind that you see a big run like that,
you obviously want a guy to score. But this a little bit of you
if you're a big back, if you're a logic college like, come on,
man, fall down at the one, fall down at the one so
I can punch it. Yeah, I mean Pete, shout out to Pete,
who's helping us run this thing? I remember was in our last podcast.
He was like, I didn't realize Jay, you had that many touchdowns.
I was like, yeah, it was because Jay reed or somebody got
up to the five. He got all that he got off of. In
my defense, in my defense, all right, I didn't have twenty one
touchdowns in twenty one yards. I had to wear eight hundred yards that year,
Thank you very much. Yeah, you was told that rock thing,
which I said, you had some glimches, but you also used to come
here ready crash packet package to the ball. Oh that's awesome. They don't
call it for nothing. For nothing, I mean, let's turn our attention
to, you know, the defensive side where you know we've been struggling these
past four weeks, right, and you clearly saw a whole complete change.
When x Xavier Henderson number three is back in the ball game playing dressed,
you know he did all that he could with the knee brace. We call
that the office of line don Joy knee brace. I've had the privilege of
wearing at my senior year, and it is not an easy task or feet
to sit there and backpedal and try to cover with that knee brace. But
when you see him in the secondary. You saw a complete change in the
communication where you saw signals, you saw him checking, correcting, even right
before the priest snap, and it was very active, and you saw a
difference in how we were playing, how we were attacking, and I think
the morale was up because you had your leader back and it almost sounds it
almost looked like he was communicating to every position on the field. And so
him being back in the limited reps that he was in, he made a
huge benefital factor, benefiting factor for our defense. I mean, ju you
saw it on the sideline, I mean the electric piece of it. Whereas
our front, our front seven was getting to the backfield. It was a
complete difference. Yeah, definitely. You know, having a guy like x
back there if won if a morale boost for the defense. And then also
too, let's not lose focus on the fact that Jacob Slade returned to the
middle there and creating that pressure. And something that I really really liked that
Scotty Hazel then did was he dropped Winman into that linebacker. So the Ran
kind of looked a hybrid four to three defense there, and I think that
that's what some of the success came from. I got a glimpse of that
when we were at Maryland there ran a stunt and winmen must have at the
end and dropped back to the linebacker stage, and that confused tongue an looa.
So I think that confuses a lot of quarterbacks, you know, having
him drop back like that. So I think that nice wrinkle, an adjustment
that Coach Hazleton did really paid dividends. Without question. You saw him playing
in his natural position at linebacker. He's got great feet, you know.
Obviously he's got a lot of pass rush ability, but against some of the
top level offensive tackles in the Big Ten, you know, he's just not
the large human being that you see sometimes playing on that end that that has
that short burst that gets out. He does have the moves, don't get
me wrong, but much more of a linebacker guy. Just what you hear
at Coach Tucker talking about it is one of the most self less since stefless
guys on the teams, willing to give up his glory in his most comfortable
position for the greater good of the team, in which that's what he's been
doing for the first six weeks of play here. Not only was he good
at being able to make those plays in the in the backfield and intercept the
ball again, he comes up with a another forest fumble. I think it
sits now on the season for Jacoby women being the first Michigan State defender ever
to be named Big Ten Player of the Week three concepts three times during one
season. That's a great feat. Guys. I was waiting on you,
Straighthormed to impersonate his voice when you talked about to Yeah, what is he
looking to do when he sees the ball? I was waiting on that impersonation
that you just need. So we got to play that interview. You know,
we can't. We gotta get the interview from the post game show me
and Jay you did, and obviously Will team was in the locker room with
the Goldie. But man, all I heard him say was, Man,
look him, Man, I just got to get that ball. That's what
That's what we're here, folks. The ball, he said. He goes
after the ball in full paths and walk through it don't matter. He's going
in the line to get food. He's looking for that ball. That's what
he wants. And that's what it was in New Orleans, man, and
that's what they think it was cool. Me and Jayu. We saw Brandon
Jordan after the game. Was one of the coaches you know that he helps
develop along the way I think out from Oklahoma. I believe he was,
and you know he was, you know, obviously very very happy. Jay,
you're getting elaborate on that. Yeah, you know, we did see
Coach Jordan. Had had an opportunity to hang out with him a little bit
after the game, and you know, he was thrilled with the way the
defensive line played coming together. Now all the pieces are starting to come there
and like I said, Jacob Slade coming in there being that forced rushing up
the middle because a lot of the times what people don't rather always you know
this better than anybody. If you if you get a lot of people rushing
upfield on the ends, what happens is the quarterback just slides up in the
pocket and he has the ability to run or you know, throw the ball,
but with slay and they're bringing that pressure from him in the in the
face, you know, he can't slide up in the pocket. So Coach
Jordan's doing a lot of good things with those guys. Winman, you know,
he said in the postgame show in practice he'said always, you know,
trying to knock the ball out of the running backs hands. And for running
backs, you hate that, you hate that. You know it's a Dane
practice. You just want to chaill a little bit. And you know you're
running through a walkthrough and you got a guy coming and knocking the ball out
of your hands. You know you're not expecting it, but you know it
pays dividends. He does it all the time in practice. And he said
he practices like he plays the game, and that showed on Saturday night.
Yeah, I mean the guy had eleven tackles and was just production points,
like kind of mind you of Greg Jones and all the production points he would
get in the game. You know, let's not forget you know, Angelo
Gross eight tackles. And then you got defensive back freshman Dylan Tatum, you
know, adding to six stops. It was a committee. It was a
defensive stopping the offense by committee. It's not just relying on one guy.
You know, you kind of want to see that. You don't want to
see your safeties. Eighteen plus tackles. Clearly something's not happening on the front
seven. But it looked like everyone was having fun man, And I think
that was a difference maker of whoever was out in the field. It was
basically, I'm gonna make the play. I'm not gonna wait on my counterpart
here to make the play. If we all have that mentality, I'm gonna
make the play, then all eleven was going to be at the ball.
You saw a different sense of urgency out there on the back end. We
did give up some stuff that we've seen that we've had some troubles with,
you know, the hook curls or the deep drives or deep outs, but
you know we could live with that. We didn't give up long ball,
you know. Besides, you know we talked about this with a mere speed
and you know the smash, the smash, you know, smash route,
the smash corner route, that's a universal route. And we talk about the
best corners being able to bake the flat route and get to the corner route.
And on that one touchdown where just loses eye control versus not knowing and
sensing that that corner is right there running his corner corner route and all he
had to do was peel back versus open up and his hips and it probably
would have been a turnover. Knowing that he has a long range tall you
know, tall body building, so you know, we'll get those buttoned up.
Man. I think that's what they looked at. We have an off
week, clearly, so we have some time to get people back up to
speed and healthy. Uh in your mind right too, where you get a
little relaxation. We're still doing practicing, but yeah, go ahead, go
aheads right. No, I mean you're you're you're, you're right on target.
And you know what I was thinking is this. You had that play
that a mere Speed missed in the corner. You had the dropped interception by
Dylan Tatum at the end of regulation. You also had another drop interception.
Brantley was sitting out in the end zone. This is in overtime, and
then Gross comes out of from the side Periffery and tips it and confuses him
and they drop it again. Those are plays that teams go into the tank
over if you look at what this team has been able to do, if
there's anything obviously, the win loss record isn't where you want it to be
as a fan or as a player, as anybody that's associated with the program.
But the ability for this team to be mentally tough enough to focus on
the next play and forget about what just happened and block out the noise is
incredible. It's absolutely incredible. I've seen teams which would that are that are
way have better records, that have had way better luck than this team completely
fractured by now on the sideline and in that locker room because you know,
offense ain't doing this, defense ain't doing that specialty like that, you know,
the complimentary football rhetoric that people I'm sure sick of on the outside.
It works, it's working because now that team is what we call a team.
They aren't watching film and individual groups. They're watching the film together so
they know, okay, we are close. All we have to do is
focus on the next play. And you are seeing the progression of this come
to light not only in you know, week over week, but play by
play. And there's a lot of people who talk to us, Jayu.
You heard them after the game that said, man, you know that that
missed interception. I was worried that they was going to come back to bite
them. Right, you guys have heard this before. You know, the
miss field go whatever, they could come back to bite you. It only
comes back to bite you if you focused on it all right, if you
focus on what I messed up on saying last quarter or last way, it
will bite you because you're not focused on let's ask at him. Yeah,
And something I wanted to, you know, talk about the defense that we
haven't seen in the past few weeks, is you guys saw this. You
feel as old as you know the feeling of this. The defense this week
got off the field on third downs. You know when it's third down,
the crowd got into it and they fed off the crowd and they were able
to get off the field and get their offense back on to the field on
third downs. That is something that's key, and that's something that's not a
you know, you don't have a third and eight and they complete it and
that's a punch and a gut keep that drive going and going and going.
So that's that's a big improvement. And I think that's due to changing a
little bit of the scheme and having guys back from injury. Well, we
also we forget that we have a weapon as a returner, so mentally we
need to get on the field so we get the ball number one, like
that's where he's best at in space, catching the pump return and taking into
the house, which he did take onto the house, which is very very
skeped out. Another one on that block where it was like a side block,
not behind, but it was very very game of benches. Right.
This is another one that happened where it was called back, but the way
he ran that pump return still the momentum shift. Even though it was called
back. We took that momentum back where at first I thought we were like
going downhill a little bit, and finally you know that drive. I feel
like that drive kind of electrified, you know, the offense again. But
we got to think about that when we're covering on third down. Dude,
we gotta get out the field so we can get the ball number one and
let him do what he does best. Yeah, and I'll say it.
I'll say it if everyone's thinking that everyone. For some people, the guys
in the locker room can't say. But this year, the Big Ten of
fishing has stunk. Big Ten officials stink this year. I mean you got
to give more contexted, I mean, like why why have they stunk?
I mean, there's okay for you get the targeting call. You know on
Fletcher, that's not a targeting call, but because from the booth, you
guys are on the field level. Okay, Now that call happened simultaneous to
another targeting call that happened down in Knoxville, Okay, the Alabama Tennessee game.
So we're watching and it was they were going to the booth, you
know the the film, and on one of the monitors in our booth,
they're showing another time the defensive lineman literally put his helmet right under the chin
of Bryce young heyas the trophy winner a year ago from Alabama. You know,
everybody's talking about how fragile the call against quarterbacks are being made in the
NFL level. You got a quarterback, Heisman Trophy quarterback that just got hit
in the chin with the crown of a defender's helmet. We have a defender
that graves the chest area with the forearm, not the elbow, the forearm
of a defender. He gets tossed. The guy from Tennessee stays in the
ball game. Simultaneous happened from SEC referees and Big ten referees. So yeah,
I mean, and also it hurts because, like shout out to Big
Mike one of my karmenanes Worth Flint Karmen as Worth a lums. You know,
you hate it because he was getting he was getting his motor going too,
you know, on the on the field, and so for him to
know come out now. I did see that the running back was clearly game
table and being like already down to where then it was like you can see
like was he pushed, but like the way he lunch, Yeah, it
should have been a person team, not targeting car. You're taught. You're
taught play through the whistle, your top play for I'm a running back.
I get it. I'm expecting a hit to come over. I'm expecting that
fire after the whistle, Like I said, one less, one less weapon.
Yeah, so if the players are expecting it, and you know,
the thing is, I think it looked worse than it because the running back
was he was wrapped up. He couldn't really put his arms up to defend
himself or anything like that. But at the end of the day, that's
not why a referees out there to make a play what looks worse than what
really is. They're there to call what they see, what happens. All
right, And I though I think that was a terrible call by them ejecting
that young man and uh the block in the back uh for the punt return
another one, and all through the season. The Big Ten officiating has been
terrible throughout this season. Even when we were at Washington, that was a
Big Ten crew and they made some very questionable calls there as well. So
overall, the Big Ten officiating has been terrible this year. They can't find
me nine penalties one hundred and three yards on the day. One hundred and
three yards. Every hundred yards equals rough with seven points, so when you
give them one hundred yards, you just spot them seven, so that it
should have been thirty four to twenty one when you look at it that way.
I mean, let's I got let's rewind rewind back to that fourth and
two where we didn't get in like I mean we thought. I mean,
I was like, Elijah Collins is going to get in. Clearly, I
don't know what happened, but I kind of blinked and it was already turned
over on downs. Like we also had a time out, So what else
could we have drawn up to get that that ball and the ball and the
end zone because that would have been a different change of shift in the game
too. Well, you know, from a from an offensive lineman's perspective,
you know, like jay U is probably gonna say, give me the give
me the lead the iol right over the guard. Anything that's just point blanking
over the top or right through right that's that's probably what jay U is gonna
like. Or the draw something like that, and that's what jay U's love.
But as an offensive lineman, we want change a direction misdirection on the
goal line because there's no time to react if you have athletes back there.
So what I'm talking about there is I mean a hard fake to the outside
with a nice boot leg. You guys understand the bootleg action. So make
all the action go. Let's say to the right, for instance, and
it looks like you're getting ready to hand the ball off to a speed sit
that's gonna run to the corner of the pielone over there, and then you
stop that action boot around, and you have a two receivers, so you
can either throw it to the short receiver in the flat somebody in the back
of the end zone, or run at your So that play is pretty much
I mean it's like a ninety five percent success rate if you run it somewhere
around the third, fourth down and go inside the three yard line. My
man, man, if you don't, if you don't stop right now,
stray. If you don't stop right now, you get you inside. All
you want to do is get the rocks. I don't have nothing to do
with to to. That's taking away from his stat that's all he cares about.
Don't be cut wine. You're talking about your stat. You're trying to
be cute. Let's do this, let's do this. Let's go back out
and then they look and toss the ball to what tim Tebow jump ask run
ball? No, no, no, put your head down the ball,
put your head down. Run you don't have too in the backfield. Look
we did that. It got stopped. That's the only time Colins have been
stopped with that. So you live and die that. I live and die
by that. Run the damn ball. You better you better had a right
guys up front opening that hole. That's all I'm saying. You better,
you damn well better have the right guys in there and then the gap opening
up the hole, because if not, you're gonna get stuffed full back gap
if you did you take that rock? Where's the fullback? Wow? What
happened to the full back? What happened? What happened to the dying breathe?
Like, where is the full bad? Put it? Put it?
Couple. He got a couple of years, he got a couple of years
of eligibility. Left you getting there and lead block a fullback dive? Baby?
Come on man, okay, okay, See if you threw a full
back in there. Now, this is where I say you can get a
little cute there. You fake that dive and then pitch it. Yes,
the tail back take See that that's a Jay Ring special right there. Right,
that's that's Jack Right? Is that is that misdirection? That's that's that
right? Fenty dive thirty nine toss g Get that guard kick kicking out there.
Put that guard out there on that corner. One on one child him
nice, talk to him. Nice. You see that big ham hock from
that guard running in front of you. That's a tailbag you salivating now?
Yeah? The ham honk just rocking. Ever reminds me of the game last
night between Philadelphia Eagles in Dallas and they were trying to control what's the player
at number eleven for for for Dallas' michaeh person ye Micah. Then they were
trying to control him because he was taking over the game, you know,
right, tackle had gone out from Philly and uh so so Dallas, I
mean Philly, sorry, running counters and just like kickout, like you said,
the g play the powers right at Parson with the guard. And if
you haven't heard it, go listen to what Chris Collinsworth said when he when
Dickerson knocked out Michael Parks. I won't say it on the air here because
it was questionable, but but Chris collins Worth, uh had a nice little
taste of what you're talking about with the ham hoops coming after you start salivating
as a running back. But that's the other side of it, you damn
call. You're taught as a running back. Run to butts, Run to
butts, that's what you're taught as a running back. But they don't save
butts. Well they don't say, but at least you're not aiming at ankles.
All right, guys, like, well, let's let's talk about the
time. Let's talk about the overtime. We're talking about coach now over over
calling that first play to the Jets, to the Jets, the Jet reverse
to your boy read and through that dime I mean it was a dime ball
like zip on it where if honestly, I thought I was about to get
accepted. But then you got King Kong koleman, that's what his new king
coman. Did you see that? I would that Picture prize shot of him
like basically had a Jordan jump and live and just I mean, Moss is
my man, and uh that that's a call that I'm glad to see versus
the conservative call like all right, let's let's go three down and get to
what we can get to and then kick the field goal. No, let's
go for the go and that first player like that is what I like to
see and I think everybody wants to see is let's take chances and live,
live and die by it. And that was a huge piece right there,
man where we needed that one. Now go ahead. So with that,
you know what that tells me as an offensive offensive coordinator. We don't trust
kickers. I think it's not the kickers, the law snapper now them,
it's all of them. It's all. It's all, it's all. When
you got to you got two long slappers and two or three kickers kicking in
the course of the five six games. We got nobody. And we need
to rewind and go find my man's who kicked that big field goal the first
time? Yes, yes, game, Yes, I asked him, did
you have some abilities like I am, I'm graduated. Let's get a j
R. Smith to come back. You complain, right, but ohis going
back to going back to your uh you know your point there. I think
that's just you know, coach Johnson going and saying, Hey, our guys
are better than your guys, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go
and we're gonna take that shot. And it was a well designed play.
And once again that's what happens when you run the football, because when you
do that and put the ball in your best player's hand, in Reed's hand,
those linebackers are shooting up, you know, and so he, you
know, great poise by Reid. He threw the ball up there, threw
it where he knew his guy, you know, can get hops, he
can go up and he can get that ball and bring it down. And
that was a great job. And the really cool thing is I was standing
right behind you know, his family and you know they were going crazy.
So it was really cool to see and good for them, and it's a
great statement for MSU's offense. Here. You got to play right there.
Did you see that ball? Though? You threw that ball like it was
like in the backyard. She was like a doubt, no, no follow
through. Yeah, but it was spinning though, it was ziffing like I
think it was so quick people couldn't follow it. They were like, what
is going on? But oh he scored touchdown boom. But then I mean
then we fast forward to when Wisconsin the last one. Yeah. Yeah,
So so Wisconsin has the ball and as we talked about it earlier, Jacoby
comes up with the big play. You know, there's two. So they
tie it up obviously with the play with a mere speed that you broke down
already otis and then the following possession. Wisconsin has the ball and Jacoby takes
it away. But the play that is ensuing go ahead, well that one
will obviously we score. Then Wisconsin has possession. You know, it's third
and long, and we were manned up, man free. We got to
talking. We got the safety in the middle and a mere speed kind of
you know, off the line, kind of trailing, but he catches up
to his man, so like his man is covered. It's that crosser on
the opposite side of what was trips right where the safety is trying to figure
out, okay, which level, which receiver do I need to go after
as I'm reading the eyes of the quarterback. But you think about it,
we didn't get pressure, Like, we didn't get pressure. So he's sitting
back there and just picking us apart, like well, I'm just gonna hit
this crosser and this deep dragon no touchdown and so right then and there,
But was it beyond that? We almost had the interception though, right and
we dropped it. Yeah, that's that same drive. Like that's when I
was like if we a lot of people in Spartan Stadium said that was our
chance to seal it and we missed that opportunity, and everyone was like,
I don't even know we can last the next overtime After they scored that,
then all of a sudden, first drive to your point, go ahead straight
and talk about women's capabilities of punching the ball out. Yeah, yeah,
so Jay, you know I was with Jacoby when women was able to knock
that ball out while the Badgers had the possession first in that second overtime,
and you know, they're backed against the wall at that point. You know
all they're gonna do, They're gonna be desperate that all you have to do
is kick a field goal to win it. After the big turnover in overtime,
Michigan State gets the ball Peyton Thorn. It's a called run play.
At the line of scrimmage. The linebacker is walking up into the a gap,
Sean Blin, and he looks outside and he sees his boy, you
know from from Little League, Jayden Reid. One on one. There was
no safety help. So Peyton change is a call. Like you know,
we've been talking about Peyton making the wrong call and not having a confident then
like that was not the Peyton that we saw on Saturday. Peyton changes a
call with a gutsy call because now, hey, you can go the ball
in arms way, they can pick it off, you can be going into
a third overtime, right, There's a lot of things that could happen.
But he trusted himself. He trusted most importantly his receiver in his offensive line
to pick up the block. He calls the audible one on one back shoulder
throat that we've seen feels like a hundred times to Jay Reid in the corner
of the end zone, the front corner, and he comes down with it
like in this ball game right there, walk off touchdown from Michigan State in
that northeast corner which has had so many wonderful well come back in final plays
for the Spartans favor right there. Guys with that Wisconsin must have nightmares up
that northeast corner because that's where you talked about the hill area. That's crazy,
crazy, you know, that's where that play was. But you know,
back to that, we talked about Thorn and his receivers getting back on
the same page and communicating well, and you broke that down perfectly. It
was a called run play. He looked over that, he didn't see any
safety help. He saw man to man and that's when he said, my
guy is better than your guy. And I'm gonna show you right now.
And this dates all the way back to last season. You saw it for
the two point play against Michigan, you know, to go up against them
last year was one on one. My guy's better than your guy. We
saw it in the Chick fil A Peach Bowl against Pitt that same play,
and we saw it a again on Saturday night. That is just simply having
confidence in your players. That's having confidence in your you know, in your
teammates and knowing that when the boss up there, the only person that's coming
down with it is number one wearing the green and white. I mean,
but man, this was the corner was seventy ten yards off the ball.
That's like, that's like, just invite the man, like, hey,
here you go, man, at least you're gonna get a first down.
I mean, I'm so glad that they had that that that that relationship because
it's crazy because we didn't even say hey, tap my head like bro,
Like you didn't even have to say anything. It was just like, look
to the right, I got you. Boom. I feel bad man,
because that dude was he was in a position too, and I those of
the nightmares as a dB because you handled it the right way. But best
ball, man, What did Kean Komen say? He was like, he
said, it's one hundred percent jump ball. I know I'm getting it fifty
fifty balls, not fifty fifty ball. Yeah. Look, I like this
let's talk about this one. Let's talk about this requip So March of this
year, Kean Coleman tweets out, hey, I can't even see it fully,
oh said dear me. In seven months, I'm gonna make you proud,
And then he did that, Look at that. That is a post.
That is a prize photo shot? Man, right? Photographer? Was
is that that got that? But man, that's being post poster. That
will be one of these boys like the one behind you. Otis hanging in
in his man cave for sure, Man, for Sure's funny. Man.
Well, guys, look, I mean it's been fun man. We got
a lot of a lot of memories from this ball game. We can always
talk about this one. To break it down, it was a great perform
on all sides of the ball. Offense, defense, and special teams were
included in this ball game. And the will to win coming back in overtime
of double over time was special. So, you know, before we break
it up and put a bow on this show, otis, what are your
final thoughts? Final thoughts? I think that whatever preparation we did last week,
please continue to do that. I think it was the point of like
I said, we had a US against the world mentality. We know who
we are, we know who are capable of, capable of, and now
it's time to rock that team down rows on the clock and we got rest
time this week. Kudos to Darien Harris and the football squad who they're doing
some community service week in the community, so kudos to that. But I
think it's time to truly get a little relaxation, get your body right,
get your mind right, and we're back to it. Man, getting ready
for that team down a rowlded seven thirty kick under the lights. Doesn't get
any better than that. Two wait her big balls to give me to go?
Yeah, yeah, otis you know hit it. You know, I
think it was Michigan State played complimentary football offense, you know, complemented the
defense. The defense complemented at offense very well. We had some blurbs and
special teams. So we had that big play with that punt return that was
called back. That's still some momentum that you can build off of. But
you know, it's time, you know, I think the offense is starting
to click at the right time. We're getting we're starting to get guys back
healthy access. He's gonna you know, have an extra week to rest.
State's gonna have an extra week to work. Rest of the guys that are
nicked up and banged up is gonna, you know, have that time to
rest. And I think, I don't know, Michigan football, Michigan State
football could be getting our swagger back, sure I could. Man. Hey,
I know everybody's excited about it, you know, except the Spartans,
a little older Spartans, you know my agent above that they're like, oh,
the age seven thirty kickoffs is going to be terrible. Hey, I
know how it is to be in that locker room that we love them night
game, So I mean thank you to whoever made that decision for Michigan Michigan
State to be a night on the road. Usually it's good f rom the
end of night. A lot of them ended with the lights on. This
was going to start with the lights on. So a lot of a lot
of festivities, I'm sure, and a lot of people getting very well oiled
before the game, if you know what I mean. So, you know,
keep it safe out there, keep it class these Spartans, you know,
but I'm sure that the team will give you something to cheer for.
So hey, let's pack the house. Why not? Like what, Well,
let's have a nice contingency going over there to ann Arbor and cheering on
the book boys down the road, uh, to see them bring home a
victory and keep Paul bunnying at home where he belongs. You know, And
guys, you know, I think this is a great show, a great
turnaround game after a four game skid, and perfect timing for as you said,
the guys can get healthy that have been a little bit banged up.
You want on all hands on deck going into this game. It's all important
game. We're gonna break this down several times before the next kickoffs. I
think our next show may be live, guys, from what I understand,
maybe maybe maybe go someplace. We'll see what happens. That's what I call
it. And the viz yes, a little soft, a little soft bab
all right, guys. Well, hey we'll put the ball on this one.
A good after you, guys, and for otis wild Jay, your
coach gone, Jason straight on, this is Sparta. Have a good night,
God bless and go green.