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T&L Extra: Jon Hale of the Lexington Herald-Leader Previews Kentucky

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4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It's been four trips to the Bluegrass State since Mississippi State left with a win. Can this group of Bulldogs take down Kentucky in their home stadium? Brian Hadad talks with Wildcat beat writer Jon Hale of the Lexington Herald-Leader about this West/East showdown on Saturday night.

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A Super Talk Mississippi Media Production.

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So joining me now on the podcast, one of our old friends, John Hale, now with the Lexington Herald

0:08.9

leader up there in Kentucky.

0:09.9

You've been covering the Wildcats a long time, been a multiple time guest here on the

0:13.6

podcast. We will not bring up the struggles of Liverpool, I promise.

0:17.9

Who is bad. Beyond this one thing that I just cut

0:25.0

cut right to the chase and you ask you to give us as much of a status update on Will

0:29.6

Levis as you possibly can.

0:31.3

Yeah, I think he's going to play this week as my gut.

0:36.4

We've been told he was back at practice.

0:39.3

We saw him yesterday that we have to stand outside their practice field waiting for

0:43.4

interviews afterwards but you can kind of see through the bars at times. He was

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definitely practicing so that is not a ruse. He was not wearing his walking

0:51.4

boot anymore which he was wearing all of last week.

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Rich Gengaro, the offensive coordinator after Tuesday practice, said that he was trending in the direction they wanted him to trend, but still day-to-day.

1:02.0

So I think he's going to play. I don't think it's a final decision yet, but it seems like all

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indication so far as he'll probably be out there. How effective he is, if he's limited at all, that I don't know.

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That's really the next question is, how good can Kentucky be with a limited Will Levis?

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Well, probably better than they were without him at all last week.

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I mean, clearly the offense was just, you know, completely inept, basically with a backup

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quarterback who had never thrown a pass in a college game before Saturday.

1:31.2

They went real conservative, especially after the first play against

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