Hello, friends. Welcome to an all-new edition of Talking Champions. I want to say the Riverland Roofing Studios.

We're, of course, not the Riverland Roofing Studios. We're outside the Manning Center.

Because one being golden, he almost said coaches at Prescott. The last week of spring football is arrived. It feels like the rain is arriving to.

We'll work through. We'll work through it, Brad says.

How's everybody doing?

This is Jake Thompson.

This is Brad Logan.

I'm Ben Garrett, that little name down there, OMSPirit.com. That's a QR code is for the Oldbus spirit. Omm, period.com, is a free sign of the day. For $1 or $1.00. It tries that for five days, Jake. That's right? Yes. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. What do you take from practice

for the press conference? It feels like we're actually missing the good stuff this'm good. What do you take from practice today? I think the press conference.

It feels like we're actually missing the good stuff this week. It was like you said, they're going to play, move the ball stuff, play football. So I think we're missing all the fun scrimmage stuff that would give us, you know, a better look instead of us guessing off of 12 minutes of punts the first three weeks. you know I know, I think they're coming out as relatively unscathed. He seems happy about it. I kind of like this new structure. I know it's later in the year, there's no spring game, there was no scrimmages to watch. But I think for how Pete's going to run this program, I think it's – he likes it because now there is a gap in May, but they're coming right back, not that bottom. like an awkward so they have down time that could be right back again yeah i don't know who asked that

question was a great off there is a gap in May but they're coming right back not that bottom like a so they have downtime there can be right back again yeah I don't know who asked

that question was a great question what it was you oh give me a break who knew it's a

great question but it's true because like it's a tiered structure it was a

phase structure this this spring you really went into detail about what they'll be

doing for the next couple of months.

But this is the final week at Endzone Thursday. Friday is finals. What was your biggest takeaway, Brad, from what we heard from Pete Golding today? And also players, Jonathan Maldonado and Mackay Frazier, two transfers that hold us out in the off-season. I think we learned a lot about the Carrius current incident without learning a lot, Meaning, I think there was a lot of talking to the media.

By the way, I wonder who learned that from. But I thought Pico did a really good job today talking about accountability, about, you know, people making the right decisions. There were a couple of questions about certain players, if they're leaders on the team, can they kind of, you know, bleed into the rest of the team and leading them in right direction but he essentially said look it's on Friday night before game

look you have to be smart and he talked a lot about that and the direct quote was it's a legal matter

i mean there was a couple of things else he said but that was pretty much yeah but that to me jumped

out to me by about how he handled, handling adversity with Carrier's current. The biggest part for me was Jonathan Maldonado. I was blown away with him. I mean, I thought he was great with the media. I thought he gave some very pointed and candid answers. He said, hey, quote, I want to come to Ole Miss because I want to win a championship. He talked about the food program here, the nutrition program versus Novotis added 15 pounds. And I was just very impressed with him. I'm excited to see because he said, I'm just ready to play. You know, he said, I'm ready to play a game. I'm excited to see him on the field and to see Bakia, he is a menacing presence. I mean, he was huge. And he, at one point, you guys will see the video, if not today, later on on the Ole Miss Spirit. That's in Philadelphia Vaughn 3 at Owenspr.com and click that QR code, join us. And when he, he did his arms out like this, I mean, it was a huge wingspan.. I asked him a question about, you know, going up against the offensive line, he was complimentary of the tackles, specifically to Reds Davis. But those are the two things. Well, it's interesting, too, Jake, because when I was watching, it looked like, like, excuse me, Jonathan Malta, I'm trying to do, like, a player comp in my my brain the first person that jumped out to me was davis robinson who ended up being fourth round pick to the ravens former rebel who was a transfer came in for canada it's had a great run aflars was hurt last year but he looks like a guy does jonathan mildonado that like tavius robinson maybe less heralded or more unheralded than the

transferers but dude when you look at him the 15 pounds he's gained the need that

they have there he's one that could play a massive role for old miss as early

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