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Be following is a presentation of play
Fly Sports properties. My guys, they're

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trying to turner the goal line,
but the hands, you know, Pat

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Shappo. Up here comes the button. Now the sidelight you show this spot.

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Well, welcome a top of the
Graduate Hotel, Well at the rooftop

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Rock Bar. I'm your host Jason
Strayhorn and my co host Jayu culcrit Choo

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Chow, and this is Sparta.
We are here to break down this week's

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game against the Washington Huskies, and
we're gonna preview it. Are you one

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of those people that says Washington or
Washington Washington? Okay, good, you're

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a normal human being and not a
serial killer. Is that? What is

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that? An FBI stat Washington versus
Washington? You know, one hundred versus

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hundred, hunt fifty versus fitty fitty
Thursday versus Thursday. Okay, now that

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we got that out of the way, the Spartans are traveling twenty three hundred

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miles to the West coast. Mel
Tucker takes his two and O team out

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there to face a two and oh
Washington Huskies team. Yeah, you know,

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you know you hit on that travel
there. It's it's difficult, you

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know, going from the west to
the east to the west, but it's

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more difficult flying from the east coast
to the from the west coast to the

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east coast to play. So but
the Spartans are going to be you know,

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making that trip out there will be
a little easier for them. But

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still you have to put everything into
account from you know, the acclamation of

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the elevation of where you are,
the temperature, you know, the time

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of the game. Washington Stadium's open, right on the water. You know

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how it's that wind gonna play.
Is it gonna be a swirling wind?

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Is it going to be a straightforward
when all those things have to come to

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play, expecially when it's really key
when you fly into the stadium that Friday

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previously, when you do a walk
through in the stadium, if you're a

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quarterback, if you're a kicker,
you know all those things, you find

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those different nooks and crooks about the
opposing team, stadium kickers, you mean,

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the people are the non people whatever
whatever says. So they're going to

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take that show on the road.
Mel Tucker says that he's really working hand

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in hand with his strength staff,
the conditioning staff, as well as the

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dietitians, all the people that are
making sure that those players are in the

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right frame of mind, the right
physical state. He's asking the guys to

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get an extra hour of sleep this
week too. Yeah, it's it's Coach

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Tucker really does a good job about
those outside of x's and those things of

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the game. He brings in sleep
specialists there, he has you know,

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on staff, nutritionists, the strength
and conditioning coaches. Everything outside of x's

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and o's is gonna be approach and
it's gonna be talked about. It's gonna

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be hit on, and the spartans
will be ready for those things that from

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everything from even the temperature of the
hotel room h when when the guys get

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in there will be worked on and
looked at. Remember, yeah, that's

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incredible. You remember a year ago
going down to Miami, there was a

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great plan in place for hydration because
of the extreme guip temperatures down there.

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Michigan State comes out on top of
that ball game. So looking forward to

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what's happening with the Washington Huskies,
Jay, you give us a look to

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what they have been doing and their
two wins so far this year. Yeah,

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you know, Washington They've been impressive
in their two wins so far.

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They have the Indiana transfer Penis Junior
coming in and Pinnis is familiar with the

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Spartans. Beat the Spartans. He
has beat the Spartans before, so he

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will be licking his chops for another
opportunity to he You know their offense,

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you know they're they're humming right now. They like to run the football and

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at times you'll see them getting almost
a double wing set offensive, a double

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wing formation and run RPOs out of
that because Penis can either pull it,

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throw it, or pull it and
run it or give it to the backs.

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They're averaging forty eight and a half
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You know, they're firing on all
celinders right now. This is going to

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be a very good test for our
defense. Yeah, you think about that,

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forty eight and a half points only
giving up thirteen to opponents. Yeah,

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the defense is giving up thirteen points
so far. The defense, you

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know, they like to They also
like to swarm to the football de offensively.

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You'll see them in a forty three
walk a safety down at times depending

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on the backfield set, or sometimes
they'll walk that linebacker off the edge.

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And bring him and it will be
essentially a four to two similar to what

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Michigan State plays. Wow, So
what do you think Michigan State's plan of

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attack will be going out to Washington
to face a team like the Washington Huskies

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from a defensive side of the ball. From the defensive side of the ball.

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I don't think anything changes. It's
gonna be staying at home, playing

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defense and reading your keys. The
linebackers have to especially with these RPOs.

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The linebackers they're keys. They have
to be the guards. They have to

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read the guards through to the backfield, and I think that's what they're gonna

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have to do. We're gonna see
a lot of aggressiveness with our secondary safeties

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coming down, corners coming up speed. He's gonna have another good game because

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of the type of offense that they
run. Michigan State secondary is going to

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be tested this game. You know, with the loss of a snow An

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X, they're gonna be tested with
this game because Pennis can throw the football

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around and this line at times can
give them time. Are you thinking that

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because of the ability for Pinnis to
use his legs, that there's gonna be

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a spy type of player for Michigan
State that's gonna be watching him. You

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almost have to. You almost have
to have someone, you know, being

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like I said, a safety coming
down, extra guy in the box.

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There uh to be that spy on
him. But yeah, I think you

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almost have to put a spy on
him. That's I think this is where

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Michigan State is going to be tested
because the loss of Snow, this is

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a position that's perfectly suited for his
skill set, his experience level. And

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now you're gonna have there somebody else. Maybe it's you know, it could

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be a gross a guy who can
get in there, and that's the safety

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that has a lot of range and
being able to stay home and have great

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eye control. It's very important for
the secondary guys to be able to buzz

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down into the box and then pay
attention to the quarterback who is elusive in

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his own right exactly like you hit
on that eye control. That is that

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discipline, you know, don't take
the cheese. You know, you always

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got to be, you know,
ready and disciplined. But I think this

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is a game. If I'm on
the Michigan State coaching staff, I'm excited

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about this game because you really get
to have fun with your guys that you

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have. You know, you have
a lot of talent on that team.

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You can rotate guys. I wouldn't
be surprised to see a lot of rotation

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on the defensive line for the Spartans
on Saturday. You get you get an

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opportunity to do different things schematically with
the defense, and you know, if

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we want to go to the offensive
side, Jason, I think I'm predicting

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that the Michigan State's offense is gonna
come out and it's gonna be a fireworks

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show on Saturday. They're gonna be
We're gonna see a lot of explosive plays,

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a lot of big plays. We're
gonna open up the playbook. The

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past two weeks, we didn't need
to open up the playbook. Last week,

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we came in with the mindset of
we're gonna stablished a run game.

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Now we established a run game.
Now they're gonna say let thorn eat.

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We're gonna see a lot of action. Our tight ends are gonna get involved.

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Are receivers going to get involved.
You're gonna see some reverses. You're

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gonna see some flea flicker. The
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It might come out. It might
come out this week. Way on the

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road, the flea flicker might come
out. I think Michigan State's offense is

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gonna put on a show offensively.
People have been saying that Jay Johnson has

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been calling a pretty conservative ball game
the last two weeks. And that's an

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interesting take from j U Nostradamus culprit
here, who was right a week ago

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and he said Michi Sate was gonna
hang a forty piece extra crispy. Let's

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go back to that tape. We're
gonna come in with that work mindset,

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that work montal mentality, that blue
collar mentality, and we're gonna take care

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of business. We're not gonna worry
about you know, who they are,

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what they are, and we're gonna
hang a forty piece on them. Crispy,

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too, crispy spicy, I say
spicy, A little spice on that.

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Yeah, there it is extra crispy, right, forty points. So

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now you said miss State is now
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if they haven't already coming off of
fifty two point victories against the akron Zips.

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Yeah, you know they're going to
open up the playbook offensively. The

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defense are gonna have a lot of
fun doing some different things with the schemes.

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But something that's overshadowed, and it's
overshadowed all the time, special teams.

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Special teams is going to play a
key role in this game. Whoever

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has the best special teams, they're
the ones that are gonna be in the

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best position to have that advantage.
But I think this is contradicted to what

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you've always said that kickers aren't people. I'm talking about kickers. I'm talking

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about your punter. I'm talking about
your long snapper, kicker. The kicker

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is different than the punters. Defensive
punter is probably one of the best players

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on the defense. Yeah yeah,
especially with our punter the ability to change

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the field like that. So yeah, special team's going to be a key

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part of guys flying down the field
making place. I expect to see a

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turnover too on special teams, a
turnover too. Yeah. Well, that's

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gonna be an exciting ball game for
Spartans traveling twenty three hundred miles west to

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see the Spartans in Seattle playing out
there in the Pacific Northwest. Seagulls,

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flying wind, swirling, lots of
salmon and seafood for everybody. For Spartan

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nation. Uh so, it's gonna
be an exciting ball game. It sounds

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like if you say special teams will
come down to a kick, because right

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now, this is what I think
will be a big difference for Michigan State

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because they open up as a favorite. I think it was Saturday morning or

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Friday night, and then by or
Saturday night, by Sunday afternoon, Washington's

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favorite by three and a half points
and climbing. Yeah, you know they're

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Vegas if you're into that kind of
thing. If you're into that kind of

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thing, the Spartans are not the
favorites. But you know, hey,

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you know that's an interesting little thing. If you're into that kind of it's

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always extra motive basic. Yeah.
But as for the players that don't learn

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into that kind of thing, they
just look at that as like people like

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them more. It's a it's an
insult. You know, you're a you're

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a big ten team. You know, you played pretty two solid games and

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now you're going on the road.
Yes, I see, you know that

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three points you know for you know, just being away from home. But

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you know, it's it's a it's
a tricky you know, it's tricky,

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you know, going out west.
But if the Spartans can go out there

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with the focus that I know that
they can go with, forget the sale

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gate and forget the alumni tailgates,
the bands, the the Husky Dogs,

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you know, the atmosphere there,
and just focus on what's happening between the

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lines. Spartans should have no problem
when we see Peyton Thornton come back to

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form that we know that he can
be. I think Thorn's gonna come back

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to form. I think he's gonna
do some uh. I think he's gonna

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go back into the archives to see
what was working for him and just go

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back to basics. He's gonna go
back to basics, and he now he

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knows he does not have to do
too much. He has good running backs,

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he has a good offensive line,
and he can just play his game

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now and let these receivers eat one
thing. Quarterbacks always have to remember,

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you know, you eat an apple
one by the time, you don't swallow

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the whole thing, and you never
go broke taking a profit. Take the

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checkdowns and let those guys do the
rest for you. Yeah, check down.

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You talk about a guy by the
name of Jay and Reed check down

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specialists, a guy who all you
need to do is get him the ball.

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I don't care if it's a jet
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He'll take at the distance with his
ability. And also in the return game

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to your point, the kicking game
will be important on the road to take

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that crowd out of the ball game. And we expect Michigans to take to

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travel well, yeah, Spartan's gonna
travel all it's you know from talking to

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people, they're excited about this.
You know, if you're a casual viewer

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that picked one game a year to
go to on the road, this is

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the game that a lot of people
are circling to go to. So Spartan

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Nation is gonna be represented really well
in Seattle this weekend. Now, this

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is gonna be a fun matchup at
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on the road facing the Washington Huskies
night game. There's not gonna be so

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much night game out there for thirty
pm out there, so we may have

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a little sunlight dusk, a little
dusk and the sun will set on that

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stadium on a Spartan victory that's right. We're looking forward to it for next

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week. And as we said here
at the Graduate Hotel, sitting the top

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here at the rock top rooftop bar, ju cochrit signing off with me Jason

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Strayhorn. But this is Sparta.
Have a good night, God bless and

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go great, Go White,