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T&L Extra: Jon Hale of the Courier-Journal Previews Kentucky

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Kentucky has become one of Mississippi State's biggest swing games on an annual basis. Can the Bulldogs snap their three game losing streak in the Bluegrass State? Brian Hadad talks with Wildcat beat writer Jon Hale of the Louisville Courier-Journal to get a better look at State's eastern rival.

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0:00.0

A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

0:04.0

All right, the second half of our opponent preview on today's show, the Kentucky Wildcats.

0:08.0

We will be talking to John Hale, my friend from up in a Kentucky the Louisville Courier Journal been covering the

0:13.9

Wildcats for a long time up there no EPL jokes today John please I beg you

0:20.6

Let's talk about will love us he's the story of the Kentucky's off season thus far from me.

0:25.2

And look, when I saw him play last year, good quarterback. I was impressed with him at times.

0:29.8

I thought he gave Kentucky a dimension they hadn't had. They won a lot of games. Great for them.

0:35.1

And then you come into this season and we see him, you know, in a mock draft top 10 pick, top 5 pick,

0:40.8

number one overall pick in some mock drafts.

0:43.2

I thought he was good, but what am I missing?

0:45.9

What am I not seeing?

0:47.0

Am I wrong about Will Levis getting that much preseason hype?

0:51.7

I don't think you're wrong. I think it's a question of what he is now

0:55.2

versus what he can be and let's be honest the more reputable of these mock

1:01.0

drafts have him as kind of a mid to late first round pick

1:05.0

versus some of these that have him as the top 10 and the one that had number one overall

1:09.6

certainly was a kind of an outlier but I do think it's a question of he was good last year. He got

1:16.0

better as the season went along. He showed a pretty high amount of promise considering

1:21.4

he had just been a backup at Penn State.

1:23.2

It was his first years of full-time starter.

1:25.3

He has a great arm strength.

1:26.6

He can make plays with his legs.

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