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The following is a presentation of play
Fly Sports properties. So we had a

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really good he went on Saturday and
UH in all three phases we played you

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know, confimary football, which is
what we need to do to be able

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to to win games. Our goals
is to play our best football in November

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and we want to finish strong.
So we got back to work, you

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know, this morning. The guys
really focused on the task at hand.

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Really proud of where our team is. You know, the coaching staff has

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stuck together the entire season and always
UH worked to uh to improve and get

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better, really good practice. A
strong opponent in the in Indiana, UH

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playing for the Brass Patoon, as
you know, so get a chance to

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get back in the woodshed one more
time, which is which is really important

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to us. So we got a
lot of work to do this week and

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we're really focused. You are looking
live at the Gradual Hotel Rock Bar rooftop

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on top of the Gradual Hotel here
in these Lansing. This is Sparta.

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I'm your host, Jason Strayhorn,
a long with my co hosts oh Wiley

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and jay U with the Sources shoot
you always switching up on Sources call crik

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Adam Schefter. Yes, sir,
sources say, gentlemen, we are now

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facing the the Hoosiers from Indiana just
five and five and trying to get bowth

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eligible. What are your sources say? If anyone, well before, if

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anyone can tell me what the hell
of Hoosier is, it would be me

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absolutely yeah, you know, I
mean it was a long ago. There's

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a war, and I guess they
said there was something going on with even

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would have their ears cut off?
Whose ears? That is exactly what it

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was. It's all I ever heard. Coach Baldwin said that in a team

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meet and when we're playing Indiana Indiana
one year year, well we got me

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after the Northwestern come back, it
was yeah, we got and they got

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fired. The next week he said
that in the team meeting they got,

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they got fired, and that that
obviously found whose year it was. I

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remember that Don Cougar mellen Champ was
singing and you think you down forty two

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to six or something said, I
will tell you a crazy story about this

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about when we played at Indiana,
so scene said, we preached we uh

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Northwestern, it's come back to college
football. Still still stand today, excited,

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you know, everyone's excited. You
know the season is going to be

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turned around. We go into play
Illinois, I'm sorry, Indiana, and

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everything is against us. The head
coach, Terry Hebner, passed away a

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couple of weeks and that was the
day that they were dedicating that day to

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him. Hebner's rock was out there
in the middle of the field in the

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fifty was John Cougar Mellencamp singing this
is U Country with the acoustic guitar,

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and I remember it was just an
eerie feeling that day. Well, you

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know why, let's let's take them
all in behind the scenes where we're standing

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at eerie like lake Cabin whatever it
was, the shining I mean in that

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movie the woods of the back country
of Bloomington, and we remember David Thomas,

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he's wearing the Michael Myer mass and
knocking on people's windows slide or it

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was like all the coaches are at
the bar. They kind of knew the

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rights on the wall. They're drinking, getting crazy. I mean at this

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point, like coach for drinking dirty
Friday night. Yeah, at this point,

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I mean. And so from that
point of view, let's fast forward

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to the game and we go back
in the locker room before kick off.

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You know, dear one, when
you go back, it was just quiet.

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It was airy feeling. We go
back out there, the game's going

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on, and I look, I'm
not gonna see this teammates name. I'm

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not gonna call hi out in blast. This dude was knocked out snoring on

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the bench during the game. Wow, that snoring during the game. Snoring

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not okay, surprised you didn't see
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So I was just like, you
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athletic it was gonna come out and
stif on the shoulder because it was funny

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stories like remember Devin Thomas, he
went back to back we did. We

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did bubble screens. A bubble screen
he called one. Takes it to the

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house, it's a flag, brings
it back. They they run the same

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bubble screen again, takes it to
the house. That's when we feel like,

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oh, Devin Thomas should have been
playing this entire time right, just

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sitting in the bench, was kind
of playing a role player, playing special

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teams. And then that following year
obviously Dvid Thomas, Adam and Rackliss and

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go thro but we talked about you
coming in and we talked about this is

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that game that we need to go
bowling. We need I mean sparanation.

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We want a postseason. We talked
about last season eleven to going to the

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Peace Bowl, playing in a big, big bowl game against Pittsburgh, and

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we can't have the drop off from
last season to this season not going to

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a bowl game. No, you
don't want that because the bowl game gives

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you those all important practices that people
want to have, especially coaches, to

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develop young players for the following season. The one wrinkling all of this is

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the December fifth Transfer Portal day that's
been assigned by the NCAA. Gods,

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who knows what that's going to look
like. On that day, the bowl

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game will be announced probably somewhere a
little bit around that same time. So

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stay tuned. This is going to
be fireworks when you talk about recruit and

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what's going on in the transfer portal
this year. Look out, there's gonna

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be movement happening that no one expects
in coming out going all over the country.

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So it's gonna be an exciting My
sources are gonna be really hitting out.

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Adam Shefterdy gonna but you know,
let's let's let's let's fast forward to

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to this week's game, all right, and uh from past from last I

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snug to the Sezars. Uh sweet
behind the scenes work you guys is going

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into sweep the sweet Euil Caesar sneak
sneaky blinders with little steaky fingers. And

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if you're into that kind of thing, the Spartans, make sure you go

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to Caesar Sportsbook app. The Spartans
are ten and a half point favorites according

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to ESPN projector three point eight percent
chance to win this game. So if

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you want to throw a couple of
shotos on the Spartans, hit that Cason

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Sportsbook app. If you're into that
kind of thing, you're into that kind

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of thing. I mean, guys, I don't think you have to qualify

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it as legal. You keep saying
end of that kind of thing. People

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do it. It's legal. Just
don't be be be responsible. But whatever,

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you don't believe any of this craziness
because we need our guys to be

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focused, because we know that they
have nothing truly to play for, right

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like we are one game away,
IU is three and seven coming in.

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You know they can be spoilers for
the season. But they're gonna come in

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and give us their best shot regardless
of what you know they put on from

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a record standpoint, and you know, you looked at what they did last

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week GAUS with Ohio State, Yeah, not much, not much at all.

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Fifty six or fourteen. Ohio State
came in, put up about six

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hundred and sixty plus yards of offense
on the Hoosiers, and the Hoosiers I

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think scored in the first quarter and
another garbage shutdown at the end of the

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ball game. Other than that,
it was all Buck guys the entire game.

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So you're right. I think this
is one of those spoiler alert type

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ball games too too, when you
look at they don't have anything to play

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for. But there may be some
guys that's trying to get some film because

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simmer fifth is coming around. They
may be trying to get out of there

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and transfer to some other school that's
gonna give them better to get to the

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NFL. Absolutely, you know we've
been in this situation, you know,

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as Farmer spartans, you know we've
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the best season and all you had
to look forward to is, hey,

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we're going out there to play spoilers. If we're not going to a ball

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game, they're not going to a
ball game as well. So that's the

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mindset I think Indiana's going to be
coming in here with and these guys are

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gonna come out here, you know, try to play, try to put

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some more work on film for other
schools or for the next level. So

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they're gonna come out ready to play. And this is an evenly matched game

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statistically, you know, so you
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things, points wise, points per
game. Indiana scoring twenty two point four

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points per game while Michigan State's twenty
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Thankfully, they're allowing thirty five points
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twenty five points per game. So
that's the biggest differential. That is the

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biggest differential, right, it's allowed, But everything else, like from passing

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and rushing, it's even. Yeah, and so it's it's expect another tough

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battle from a standpoint of this ain't
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you know, we got to come
with it a lot of emotions that are

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going to be high, because,
like we talked about, it is senior

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day and a lot of our spartans
that we've seen throughout the years, you

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know, think about these guys also
were some of those COVID players too,

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so you know, some of these
guys do have an additional COVID year that

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they can tap into. But to
your point, they may be also thinking

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about, all right, what can
I do at another spot. From a

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standpoint, I'm interested to see if
we're going to truly tap into the transfer

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portal like we did in the past, that we have a solid class we're

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building coming in and it's like,
do we want to put all of our

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eggs and energy into guys who are
coming in fresh from high school and build

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the culture from or you know,
are we going to bring in that you

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know, playmaker or difference maker that
we need from a holes filling from what

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we don't have right now? You
know, I think that that's a that's

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a big subject right there. We
talk about like what is the balance,

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what's the mix going to be between
high school players and portal players that are

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going to come in. From mel
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side of things, and the general
manager, Saye Khalif, who has been

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doing a phenomenal job in the recruiting
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I think one of the biggest determining
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the outcomes of those eight players.
You know, we know that now the

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Washington Now County or Michigan State Police
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prosecutors. What is going to happen
with those eight defensive players. Are they

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going to be allowed to come back? Are they not? Are they gonna

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be suspended and definitely remove from the
team. That's gonna determine. I think

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how many portal players are, how
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they have to go out and get
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a mix. It's never gonna be
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the other. It's always gonna be
a mix. It just determines. We

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just need to know what will the
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know asking you guys, how was
it when you had senior Day coming back

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in East Lands if you can remember
those that that last time you were able

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to suit up and play a game
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senior day. It was very emotional
for me, you know, coming

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to uh, you know, being
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Michigan State, playing there and just
the reigning the theme that was going on,

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you know, coaches saying coach coach
D'Antoni was big on saying, send

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the seniors out as winners, and
you know, so that was important for

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me. And it was a very
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know, we were playing Penn State, you know, to solidify ourselves a

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good bowl game. You know,
we were teeter right along the same line

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as this team where we're six and
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six and five going into this game. You know, you win that

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fifth game. That's the difference from
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playing in Orlando, you know,
and you know and getting some sunshine.

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So that was the mindset of that, you know, going out there playing

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and uh, you know, we
had a you know, that was a

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very you know, cool game or
the atmosphere was great. It was under

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the lights at Spartans team against Penn
State, and it was a rivalry game.

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So you're playing for that Land Grand
Trophy. So all the excitements there

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and we were able to fortunately pull
that game out, you know, to

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you know, to win that end. But it was just very special.

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I remember specifically staying out on the
field longer, you know, taking a

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look at you know, everything out
there, going around, giving high five

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to the students and the fans because
you know it's something. You know,

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these people have been there supporting you
for four years of your career and you

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want to make them proud. But
yet you know they're out there supporting you,

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so's it was very special. It's
gonna be it's an emotional time,

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but you know these players have to
put that aside, wants the whistle blows

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and then those emotionals can return after
the game's over. I remember that like

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it was yesterday, because we were
like once we won that game, we

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were running like we're going bowling,
like we like this Christmas like Christmas presents.

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I do remember, you know,
Coach d in the ritual of you

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know, we we will walk out
with before you will walk around the stadium

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with that rose right with the flower, and then you meet your parents and

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then you know, once you step
over with your parents. I have the

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picture of my parents' house is like, you know, you kind of all

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when it all settles in, you
start getting emotional because you're like, one,

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you got to still play the game
when you do the presentation, and

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then two like this is the last
time you do strap up in the green

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and white, and you know all
the stuff that led up to it.

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You know, it's been a crazy
ride getting to that that point. And

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then you also just thankfully I didn't
we both didn't have a loss on that

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senior day. We played Purdue and
we shut them out, which was a

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good, good, good feeling to
have, and then we went bowling,

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and so it was a great atmosphere. I think it was the point of

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like I didn't care who was there. I just wanted to win and and

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and go out on top because you
can all you're gonna always remember that last

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loss in Spartan Stadium if you do
lose your senior day. And I don't,

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I didn't want that to happen.
Absolutely, What about you spot what

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about senior You an't know about my
senior day because you see it all the

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time. Yeah, that was a
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there, because people think that that
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reason. But no, we were
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home and that was my senior day
against Illinois, and it was nice.

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It was one of the only senior. I was the only senior on the

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offensive line. You know, it
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lead a lot of young guys,
try to get them up to speak similar

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to this year. And you know, the offensive line coach Golden pat Rule

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had the offensive line gas come around
me and say they were picked. I

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was like no, I was fighting
it for a while, was like you

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got to carry You're not gonna be
able to carry me. And sure they

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were able to give me up.
They got me off the ground and then

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I just went with it. And
now it's a picture that that's all over

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it, but you guys won't stop
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no, that was a phenomenal memory. And you're right, you always want

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to go out winners on your senior
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Honestly. Yeah, while we're talking
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and what I have to say is
to Spartan nation, Spartan fans all across

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the globe, and especially the ones
that have the ability to be here.

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These guys poured their blood, sweat, and tears into this program. You

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know, there's a lot of stuff
that they do behind the scenes that no

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one knows. You know, everyone
sees, you know, the final products

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on a Saturday night or Saturday midday
or noon game or whatever. But these

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guys pour their heart, their bloodshot
and tears into this sacrifice. Is staying

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away from their families for you know, vacations, different things like that,

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all to deliver a good product for
you. I know the season is and

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where we're gonna get where we wanted
to be this year, but we need

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Spartanation to come out and show out
this game to propel these players to the

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next level. We need these guys. We need you to show these guys

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to support and the hard work and
cheer loud for them just like they've been

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doing, you know, to put
a good product out there for you guys.

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If you leave Spartan Stadium on Saturday
and you're and you have and you're

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still talking and your voice isn't hurting, you did not do your job well,

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said Jay, Because last year in
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that game, if you can recall
was very close until last minute turnover pick

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six by cal Holiday. You know
why that game was so close. That

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crowd from Indiana believe that they could
beat Michigan State and it was in that

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ball game until the very bitter end. That was a very loud crowd in

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a small stadium down in Indiana and
Blowmington, Indiana. You have to make

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it tough on them there when they
only have three wins this season. Spartan

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Nation, you gotta come out.
Is the last time you have to bear

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the weather here at home, and
you'll be missing football when it's gone.

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Trust me, you'll miss it.
So soak it all in dressing layers,

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lots of layers, because I'll be
doing the same thing, and so will

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shoot you on the sideline running out
there. I mean, so look,

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we're with you, every one for
all, all for one on this one.

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Giving away tickets this game. You're
definitely giving away tickets. Otis yes,

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yes, So look out on the
social and this is part of m

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s U enter to win. And
you know it's the Lincoln the bio link

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in to bio man. So line
up, we'll wore the tickets Friday Friday

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noon Friday and noon, we'll select
and be able to come to h the

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East Lands and and enjoy the game
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You know, back to this this
matchup, and when I look back

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last year, you know, I
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watching. How'd you feel up there? How was that? Oh? It

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was good? I mean, you
know, kudos to IU because you know

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I was recruited there and then they
sold that dream. What you see now

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like the atmosphere, got the whole
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what they put building like they added
renovations. It looks great. But if

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I look at that offense in our
defense, you know what they did last

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year that was successful that I'm sure
they're gonna probably try to do it again,

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is that they kept doing the quick
route, so quick passes. It

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was like no huddle, quick fast, get us tired, chart sub it,

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you know, subbing us in in
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quick. Bubble screens, jailback screens, set it up. Then they run

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the ball. So see that again, because I feel like for us,

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you know, when you got high
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has to respond there's no chances for
you to look to and huddle up and

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regroup. It's quickly like you need
to know what you got to do for

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this game, and I expect you
to come out with guns blazing because they

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have nothing to lose and we have
one game to gain. So we'll see

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the difference in like the momentum and
the energy because we got to start fast

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and strong. Definitely gotta start fast. You gotta start strong. And when

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you look at Tom Allen, he's
a guy who has definitely had his players

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ready to play. Indiana has always
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but with Tom Allen, he's brought
along the defense as well, which was

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a problem for Michigan State a year
ago. If you can recall that Jau

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Yeah, absolutely, you know the
defense you know gave Michigan State a lot

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of headaches. And it's gonna be
similar. You know, this game.

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They're going to try to limit our
big play. You know, that's

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the big thing. You know,
you're sitting in a defensive room, it's

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like we can't have explosive plays you
know happening on us. So they're going

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to try to do that. They're
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the run because the past two games, Michigan State has found success running the

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football, So they're going to try
to stop the run and put the ball

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in you know, make sure that
we have to throw and become one dimensional.

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So in order for us to be
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the ball in our playmaker's hands,
similar to what they did last year,

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you know, quick screens, tunnel
screens, different things like that. We

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have to be able to do that, and we have to have to have

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to be able to run the football. So straight the question for you.

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The past two weeks, you've seen
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You know, you see them starting
to have that momentum. They're giving

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Peyton Thorn protection in a passing game
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to run. So, like,
what more do you want to see from

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this offensive line? For me,
what I want to see from the offensive

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line is just more improvement, keep
building upon what they've started. To me

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in Illinois, that was a different
line that I seen in Illinois. In

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Champagne on the road, the windy
conditions, they really had a sense of

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urgency when it came to passing off
the twist and stunts and the blitzes and

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really firing off the ball with leverage
and creating space for the running backs to

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be able to run the ball,
which takes pressures off off of the quarterback

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and opens up a lot of lanes
for receivers because the linebackers now are getting

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blocked. They're in the ball game
now. Instead of just you know,

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having the defensive line eat up all
the blocks and not allow offensive linemen to

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get to the second level. They've
been blowing those guys off the ball getting

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to the second level, which reads
having on a defense and makes defenses one

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dimentially. Hey, like they start
guessing they're on eggshells, they're on roller

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skates. They don't know. Okay, they got to sell out in order

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to stop the run. And when
they start doing that, if they think

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it's a run and it's a pass, and we'll guess what happens on the

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back wide open on the back end. So that's what I see happening.

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That's why the trenches are so important. If you have a dominant line,

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then you can win most games.
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season. And we go back to
that statement that Xavier Henderson said, So

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we're gonna go as far as that
offensive line takes us. And this is

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nothing truer than it is right now
these past two weeks office of linemen and

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our defensive lignment. As true,
he stood up, stepped up, uh,

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and you see a different like possession
of nasty like they're hungrier right like.

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You see this this pizazz of like
as soon as they get done,

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it's straight to it. And let's
not forget that that was a game day

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you talked about last year, Indiana,

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you know, getting the ball in
the playmaker's hands fast defensively. You know,

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I think I agree with you.
I think they're gonna be They're gonna

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try to do the same thing.
So how do you have to be defensively,

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you know, in order to stop
that because they're gonna try to do

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this quick quick passes, these tunnel
screens run to suck the secondary up and

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then try to go over the top. So what keys do you have to

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read? Yeah, I think it's
like leverage or knowing your responsibility. I

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mean, we know that when a
bubble screen happens, we need the corner

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to come up and be aggressive and
set the edge. You know, the

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edge is kind of a fluid type
of landing point, so when that bubble

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happens, a corner needs to set
the edge and turn it back into the

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other ten that's pursuing, right,
and so it's quick to the ball.

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I think we used to had that
two minute whistle drill that absolutely hate it

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back and then you know back when
we were playing because like you can go

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straight long post route, we got
to defend it and then you got to

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run there and you know, break
it down, say you know Spartan's on

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three one two three and then run
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And it was training us for this
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you have to have stamina and you
have to be able to persevere through those

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long, long balls that go straight
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where you got to pursue. And
we had a little bit of issues me

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and Jay. You talked about this
about our pursuit, our pursuits for the

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first half of last week's game.
Angles was a little bit off where you

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got to be able to turn in
turn that that runner into the other guys

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pursuing that. Do your job,
just don't sell out and give him more

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space to run down the sideline.
So that's where it's going to be an

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advantage for us is if we play
our ball, we play our responsibilities,

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do our run fits, we'll be
we'll be in control of this game.

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I'm gonna ask you us defensive beat, honestly, what does it take in

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order to set the edge as a
cornerback or anybody that's out there on that

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edswer You need a lot of talent
or is it something else that you need

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in order to set the edge?
Man? This where that drill? Like

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you know, you do these drills
every day, right, and so it

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gets really like tiring, you get
tired of doing it. But when this

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happens in games, it's a no
brainer. It should be second nature is

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when you attack the defender, you're
gonna have a blocker. You have a

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receiver, you might have that slot
coming down. It might be a jail

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based screen from the outside receiver,
or you might have the slot doing the

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bubble. Somebody's gonna come block you. So whoever is that block that the

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guys get being blocked needs to attack
that defender or that office of receiver and

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shed him. And we're not saying
shed inside. When then you allow him

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to run outside on the sideline.
No, you need to shed him inside

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and then set the edge. You
know who does a great job. It's

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Chuck Browley. I mean that dude
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He's not selling out where he's gonna
take his body and eliminate everything.

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He's legit hitting you with the force
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And when he makes a decision,
he goes outside. And then that

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guy gots a go inside. And
you got the linebackers, you got the

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d lineman that are hitting that guy. And you know one two punchs is

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an assist tackle. Yeah, you're
talking. You talk about that shedding and

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keeping outside contained because as a runner, you're always taught hash number sidelines.

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That's where you want to go because
you don't want to cut back in because

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the pursuit coming from your home in
there exactly and offensively. If you have

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your guys, you're lineman doing the
right thing going downfield like that we call

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elephants on parade, you know,
going down there, you're supposed to go

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hash number sidelines and you cut back
in and get tackled. Those line are

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gonna be pissed at you, and
you don't want to go back to the

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hall the wood pissed off lineman.
No you don't. You don't want to

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do that to be able to full
and get to those those little small defensive

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backs and roll them up right and
then go chase your buddy down in the

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end zone or us down. You
talk about rolling up back in the day.

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I'm saying back in the day like
it was a long time ago.

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But cut off you were able to
just cut through the lineman and get you

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to the un So you have to
strategically hit him with outside edge arm free

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if it's coming this way, and
vice versa, where you're able to if

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they come inside. You're taught it's
like a defense end You're taught to spin

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around and then tackle right, but
you just can't just lay yourself out there

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and then knowing that you're gonna give
this guy Morris room to run straight down

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the sideline and the purduce chasing.
Oh man, it sounds like it not

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a lot of talent. Sounds like
a lot of heart is what's needed.

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Toughness, guts, intestinal g u
t singism you know about. That's a

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new one. That's awesome. Oh
man, those guys, we expect a

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very blustery, cloudy, cold day
in Spartan Stadium aka the Woodshed. What

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do you think the game is?
How? How's this game going to play

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out for Senior Day for the Spartans? Uh? Personally, I think you

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have to control the emotions. Like
coach D'Antoni would say, keep the line

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in the cage, keep the line
in the cage. Who it's time to

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go? Control your emotions, control
everything. Think about you know, we

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win the game, We're going to
a ball game. Think about, Hey,

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this is a next step to where
we want to be as a program.

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So those guys that are underclassmen are
playing their butts off for these seniors.

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These seniors are having you know coming
out, they're showing up, and

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they're showing out in Spartan Stadium for
the last time in their college careers.

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There is no more coming back,
There is no more you know, this

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is your first last in Spartans game. This is your this is your last

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walk from the Kellogg Center to the
to the stadium. This is your last

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you know, getting dressed in the
locker room, your last pregame warm up,

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all those things. Control those things
and play your game. And I

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think if Michigan State plays their game
and continue to you know, be on

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the path that they're on right now, they will find success and be successful

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on Saturday. Oh that was well
well said. That was well said.

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I think that whatever we're doing these
past two weeks in prepping for the opponent,

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we have to continuously do that.
And I think we're stacking up.

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We're not taking you know, looking
ahead. It's day by day. We're

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doing the proper uh you know,
homework on our opponents, and we're coming

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out playing with a reckless abandon You
don't you see them running out the tunnel

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and it means business. We're we're
cheering on each other, we're having a

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good time, we're also pushing through
when stuff doesn't go our way. And

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I see our staff and our players
making the adjustments compared to when we have

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our our our lows and losing these
games. We didn't make the proper adjustments.

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And we're making the adjustments on the
fly. You see it a difference.

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And so for me, and I
think for us as well, is

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that it's going to show up that
first kickoff, and that first kickoff is

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going to say, you know,
show us what this game is going to

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be like based off of like how
do we handle the elements? It's gonna

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be just as windy as it was
in Champagne. And so how is Peyton

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gonna throw the ball? How is
he going to share the wealth? And

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how are we going to attack the
run and how are we going to defend?

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And if we get to the quarterback
just like we did last week against

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Rutgers, and we get him to
the ground, it's gonna be a successful

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win for us. Like the sounds
of that, guys really like it.

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And not only do the Spartans need
to come out and cheer on the football

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team, you also need to show
the support for the team because there's gonna

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be a lot of recruits on campus. This is a very fertile time of

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year for recruiting. Signing Day coming
up in December for Michigan State football for

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all teams. Just had a big
time commitment from a four star linebacker acker

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down in. Yeah, down there
in the same time as a quietness.

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Absolutely, and you know you hit
it on the head. Recruiting, it

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takes a lot. You know,
Spartan nation, you play a big part

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in the recruiting. If people come
to the games and they see the stadiums

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full fans are cheering on their team, they're gonna say, hey, I

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want to be part of this.
If they see MTC says like, why

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can't I go to this other school
where they come, where the fans come

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and cheer the players one So Spartan
nations have a big part. If you're

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sitting there saying this team's no good, this team's no good, do something,

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get out support them so other guys
can come in and be part of

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this and elevate the program. That's
right. Javon Brown was a linebacker at

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the same time as Aquinas, who
has now committed to Michigan State. A

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lot of people in the class that
the class isn't done yet, far from

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done, so definitely making a final
push for a lot of these players.

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Are going to talk about this in
our future episodes. Gonna have some insiders

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and maybe even to two sources will
come up and talk to us, so

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you guys get an insight what's really
going on deep inside the recruit world sources?

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Is that eight ball when the real
sources right here? Adam Schefter of

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smartan Football right here, he's got
it. This is Smarting podcast, that's

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correct. And Ricos Ricos got more
on me that you got more, got

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more, Jesus Ricos. Great.
We gotta have re goo on here to

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talk about it all right, guys. Final thoughts, I think I've done

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enough. Final thoughts man with no
words. Oh man, you know,

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like I said, this would be
a pivotal way for us, uh that

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we thought this season was done.
Our guys have found a way to persevere

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all the craziness, all the negatives, and all the spotlight we have on

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that state on the way to get
to the good graces that they already knew

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that they were capable of. But
I think this one is gonna be a

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pivot win that we get this dub
and we'll be able to go to a

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bowl game. It's still continuously developed, like you said in the in the

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bowl prep, which is about three
weeks of just another we call that the

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winter Fall Camp. I mean it's
it's it's a hell week man. You're

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getting back to back to bases hitting
each other. Now, this is pro

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style. More Coach Tucker got these
guys getting fresh and healthy. But this

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is gonna be a great one.
This on this Saturday. Yeah, looking

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forward to a gentleman, you can't
wait again. This kickoff will be at

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noon on Saturday. Come out and
support the guys. Pregame show starts at

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ten thirty with Will Teeman, Yours
truly and to two don't call Adam Schefter

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Sources Culprit will be on the broadcast
at ten thirty am. Uh and for

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the game obviously kick off a new
Until next time, everybody, have a

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good night, God blessed, and
go green, right