Be following is a presentation of play fly sports properties. Guys, they're trying to turn to the goal line. What is the good ball hands? You know? Patshaw up here comes the spot now. The side guy shot down that we're not good enough on either side of the ball to play continenturry football. We can, we're not good enough to leave it up to one side of the ball. The other comments from mississ State had football coach Mel Tucker
not very good right now. This is part of I'm Your host Jason Straehorn along with my co hosts Otus Wild Damn say you sho shoot Colchrit, how you guys doing today? We're looking at wounds, just like every other Spartan in the state looking wounds. Short and sweet with that, responds, it's just a sumber mood. It's gloomy out here, man. It's one of
those you get beat like that. There's a difference betwe getting beat and then getting beat with when you're competing hard, right, And I think that's the what's really tough for us as we kind of digest as losses, we know we didn't give our best effort. It wasn't the quality of Spartan football and so the wound is deeper when you don't give your best effort. And so to your point, Jay says, the whole state. I think Spartan nation is bruising batter right now. So is how do we how do we respond?
I think that's what we're looking at right now. Respawn is the key. After a thirty four to seven beat down in the woodshed at home and then the win streak for the Spartans, now Spartan sitting at two and two overall, oh to one in Big Ten play and for the Big Ten opener, guys, it was another day. Another quarterback who seemed to get off tenor Morgan guy just had a stellar performance, right, Yeah, he had. He had a heck of a day. He came in there. They
had their run game going, they had their passing game going. He could do whatever that he wanted to do in the backfield. Their offensive coordinator could call anything that he wanted to call. It was that type of game. There were not one dimensional in any way, shape or form. We knew going into the game that Minnesota likes to run the football, but with the way that Tannam Morgan showed on Saturday and probably watch film of how we played
against Washington. They decided, hey, we're gonna throw the ball some and they did that. Yeah, do not listen, that's do not lie. You got ten out of twelve third down attempts. Like with third down we gotta get off the field, and you complete ten out of twelve, Like, there's no there's no rhyme or reason, there's no algorithm to be able to say we're successful. So I want, I want you to to break this downloads because Jason and I were both offensive players. So the defense is
out on the field for these long, methodical drives. It wasn't Minnesota did not have any big splash, you know, quick hit or plays for touchdowns. It was long, methodical drives. And you know it's that ten out of twelve, like you said on that conversion, How does that make a defense feel? Oh, I mean it's almost like you work all the way up to that third down and the momentum should carry into making that getting that stop right so then we can get into put return formation, get off of
the field. Rest. Now, when we did get that three and out out of those two times the offense didn't convert, it was three and out, So that's even a bigger whino for you where you like, man, I just got a drink of water. Now I gotta go run back out
here and try to focus on getting a stop. And so I just think in tandem, both sides of the ball weren't to your point, Coach Tucker says, complimentary football is that when the front defensive linemen are getting a rush, then the secondary or you know, mid line linebackers aren't covering, and then if we cover, then we're not getting a rush. So it wasn't it just wasn't connecting. And so I think it's that to that point, is that sense of urgency is like we gotta go and go. I don't
know if you just I mean, we all saw and witnessed this. There was no hunger out there, like there was no one guy we talked about saying I'm gonna make the play. I'm not gonna wait on the other ten. I'm gonna make the play, and just you just didn't see that on Saturday. I just think from it goes back to the beginning of the season. Right now, this is where we are now. We talked about it
in the very first podcast that we had. This is gonna be the make or break year for Michigan State because the bright lights were gonna be shining on East Lanson. All right, all our games we have not had a noon game because you want your star teams play in prime time, you know all that. I think we might have been reading the press clippings a little too much, you know. I think it's it's trying to be a little too cool for school a little bit coming out there, coming out of Spartan Stadium,
thinking just roll your helmet out there and be able to compete. This is big ten football. Now. You have to be able to come out. You have to have that fire. You have to feed off the crowd. The crowd was trying to get into it. It was just sold out Woodshed. It was sold out. They were trying to get into it, but we did not give him much to get into it. For Yeah, speaking of that, it was pretty abysmo for the offense and the defense really
didn't get much going on the other side of the ball either. Otis when you look at how comfortable Tanner Morgan was in the pocket, completing twenty three to twenty six of his passes sixty eight yards three touchdowns. It was just not a lot of pass rush with no Jacob Slave wasn't. Oh yeah, and you see how playmakers and the influencers are very well missed. You know, you know X is obviously balance trying to get back. You know, you don't want to get him back too soon where then he's you know,
re injuring that that injury. But you can tell, like the leadership standpoint of the defense, but also even offensively, you just didn't see that. And so no, I want to put a disclaimer out there, like we don't prepare. I mean we all played the game. We don't prepare to lose the game, right, Like, no one so spartanation, like no one goes out there wanting to put this product out on the field, Like
let's let's be clear and let's put that out there. But I think there's a difference between let's at least show that effort that we are we're trying. We're not just gonna let them come into our home from Minnesota and just whip whip us into shape. I mean everyone dresses and ties their shoes the same way of getting prepared for that game. And so yeah, we missed some key our key playmakers. Man, you can tell it, and then you know it doesn't look too good when we got a stack of rack of top
power opponents for the rest of the season coming in. So this weekend is gonna be shaky man saky with another team that's that's good offensively, and our defense just has not found the answers and we were looking for that answer right now. All right, now, let's get into the ms U game day stat breakdown presented by Ihip the two by two by two breakfast combo equals one delicious meal, Enjoy two pancakes, two eggs your way, and two pieces
of bacon only for five dollars at ie Hot. Hurry in and enjoy this deal for a limited time, dying in only. Price and participation may very restrictions do apply. So, guys, when you look at the way that this game unfolded, Minnesota comes in with an astount five hundred and eight yards total offense, two hundred and forty of those on the grounds. A Yeah, Minnesota. We knew Minnesota was gonna was gonna try to run the football.
That's their m that's their day. They want to run the football and hopefully suck the defense up in the box and then go for something over the top. But you know, you said five hundred and eight total yards of offense and run and pass Like I said, everything was there. It was absolutely you know, they had their way with the Spartans this past Saturday's It's that simple. They had their way with it. That does mean, you know, the Spartans aren't going to go back to work, go in the
lab and get things done. You know, look at the film, take care of the problems. But right now I think we're struggling for an identity as a team. Overall. We don't know what that identity is. Coach Tucker hid it in the press conference when he said, you know, we don't have that one side of the football that can carry us last year. We did last year was the offense. It was to the Kenneth Walker effect. I say as having on you know, on the team right now,
we don't have that this year. So we're gonna have to be able to pull from all pieces and Uh draw energy and strength from each side and cheer him on and with you. Oldis looking at how a guy like Mohammed Ibrahim Ibrahim Uh twenty two carries one hundred and three yards against the Spartans looked like it was awful hard to bring down. Coach Tucker talked about him this press
conference. You gotta be better at tackling, no low tackles. What do you say about that defensive Yeah, there were some moments where you know, you saw him hit the outside of the you know, the tackle box and just angles. Man. It's like pursuits were you know, fully accurate or
you know you're you're plugging up the holes in between the tackle box. But then you know, where are our ad setters, where are guys that are truly set in the edge to take him, make him go back into the tackle box, and and you could tell there was no single tackles on that
guy. It reminds me of Sean Green, but also reminds me of jau We always joke about this, but jay U's bread, this bread and butter was a half back draw where they just opened up the c and then you see, you see jay you come in and it's like it's me at two fifteen, two twenty with this two forty five running back who was about to try to just take my head off, right, and you gotta you gotta figure out ways to get that man to the ground or slow him down.
And that's kind of how this how he was man like. He you know, he's a stronger back. He knows it, so you gotta come with it. And I just felt like we were everywhere missdirectional wasn't proper angles. It wasn't all eleven hats to the football with a two minute or two whistle drill that we used to do where you know that if I hit you,
at least somebody else is gonna be right there. We saw some of those, but it wasn't consistent basis that you know, at that time, we couldn't catch up and keep up and you know, get back to the scoring
right and sticking when you oldest. I mean a week ago, Minnesota losers their top receiver, Chris Appman bell for the season with a knee injury, and you're thinking they're really gonna lean heavy on the running game, coming in averaging over three hundred yards per game on the ground, but they go to the air and the guy by the name of Michael Brown Stevens six catches targeted six times, seventy three yards and then Daniel Jackson three catches forty two yards
but two touchdowns. Yeah, I mean, Jacoby Women had a good quote about we knew about it was gonna be run, and we were focused on stopping the run. But obviously they come out and they're passion and you gotta be able to adjust. Like any great defense, they had to adjust and
that's the game plan, that's the scheme. And as you could tell, there weren't no big home run passes besides that first touchdown on Chuck Brandley, but like it was the Nicholin diamonds, it was the quick, quick comeback slants did like it was just finding those in between holes that they did their study. Coach Fleck had those guys ready to figure out what are those loopholes
that we as a defense are showing. And it was I think I said that last night in post game, is that linebackers when they get their depths on pass drops, you know, it's tough when you got both sides of the both offense and passing going. So it's almost like double dutch. You are here when I talked about you're running back, You're like, yo,
is it play action? Is it run? Or oh no, it's passed or you just in between and you can't second guess and that's when you got a veteran quarterback who takes advantage of that where I know that he's going to probably bite on this run, this play action or this quick you know fake draw boom right there, And so you can tell like it was just kind of a guessing game. It was no clear concise movements directionally to make these
plays. And there was somewhere we talked about this on the sideline that guys were close there. It just wasn't going our way. Man. He couldn't bat the ball down and could even get a hand on it. So, yeah, it was all confusion, but hopefully we get it, we get buttoned up. Yeah, hesitation in traffic causes accidents, and it looked like exactly what happened on Saturday. A lot of accidents out there with the hesitation when you go on the offense side of the ball. Jay, you look
at what Peyton Thorn's performance was. Peyton had the seventeen for twenty four. Not so bad, but no touchdowns and two interceptions, not including the fumble, the costly fumble going in on the six yard line, turning it over causing a flipping points right. Yeah, definitely, I think you know, like I mentioned earlier this the Kenneth Walker effect. Right now, we don't have a run game that's going to open up the pass game for us right now. So Peyton, he's probably feeling that, you know, I have
to do everything, and he's pressing a little bit. He's pressing right now, and that's what he's overthrown some of his receivers. You know, he's trying to you know, that fumble, trying to get that extra yard. Usually, when you know you have a run game, a quarterback's not gonna go and take that hit, might go out of bounce, might slide a little bit and live to play another down. But I think he's really pressing right now offensively feeling. You know, I'm the captain of this team.
I'm the leader. I have to take this and put it all upon myself. In order for him to be able to play freely and loose, We're gonna have to get the run game involved. The offensive line has to be clicking on all cylinders. The running backs they have to be able to be able to put a foot in the ground and grun north and south. They have to pound, pound pound until something breaks loose a little. Then you can do your shiftiness. And I said it in a postgame show. I
don't know who Elijah Collins needs to talk to. He needs to go talk to coach Tucker. He needs to go talk to Coach Johnson, his running backs coach, to see what do I have to do to get on the field more, because I truly feel he's the X factor in that backfield, all right. He's the guy that can wear the defense down with those tough yards. He can be the third and one and you have to learn to embrace it. All backs have a type, all right. If you're to
thumper, embrace you're the thumper and be that guy. If you're the elusive one, you're the elusive one. Don't try to thump. But we have to do that. And if we open up our run game, that's gonna open up the pass game, and you're gonna see Peyton some of the pressure alleviated from Thorn's shoulders, you know, breaking down. When you look at that play the turnover where Peyton was trying to do a little bit too much obviously and run the ball and taking that hit, you know, I'm look
an offensive line. We don't carry the ball at all. You are a professional at carrying the ball ju and Otis. You've carried it a few times yourself on those Oskis picks going the other direction when you're going to the left, it looked like this if you break on this play right here as we look at it, Peyton's holding the ball with his right hand, which is where the inside the defense is coming. As you see him getting stripped right
here. Yeah, you're todd as a ball carrier. The sideline's your friend. The sideline is always your friend. You always have that ball on the in the arm that's closest to the sidelines for two reasons. One, if there's a fumble, percentage of the time it's gonna go out of bounds or if they recovered, the defender will be probably on the out of bounce line and it's going to be a dead ball. And the second reason is you can use your off arm ass a weapon, stiff arm, you know,
shoulders, shake, all these different things. But it's those basic fundamentals that you have to you know you do. It's the little things. The little things add up to big things, and something as little as carrying the ball in the proper arm, I get it. You're in the heat of the moment, and it's one of the toughest things for back a ball carrier because what do you want to do. You want to put the ball in your most dominant hand, that's natural right there, your right handed. You want
to carry in your right hand. It's that training, you know, put the ball in the closest to the boundary arm. And he didn't do that, and we saw the results of that. Yeah, right, then seventeen and nothing right there, otis and you know, going in getting ready to cut that lead to ten, maybe maybe fourteen at that time, and you're going to get at least three points right there, but coming up with nothing and then allowing Minnesota to go down the field and score basically a fourteen point
swing in that ball game. Yeah, And I mean, to Peyton Thorne's credit, man, like to your point, you're in the heat of the moment. You're frustrated that you're not having points on the board, so you're doing all that you can to put a team on your shoulders and try to as get close to that goal line. And it's just frustrating because it's like, you know how you're you're playing a competitor. You're doing all that you can, but he's not keeping up, and it's it's frustrated. Man Like,
I know he wants to be better and play better. We've seen him play at his highest level last year, and you know, it's what have you done for me lately? It's just the way this game is, man like Coach d did her very best for us. Is that the media is the same people that praise you, it's the same people that are gonna drop you, you know, when things don't go your way. And so I think that's the mantra that that everyone's doubting you. But internally, how do
we figure out that this is your ship. Let's take back command and let's put this thing back on route, because I mean, we have the players, we have the coaching staff. It's just like, let's play our ball and like, let's focus on what we can control. And so, yeah, it's just tough man. Peyton Thorn is a guy that you want to lead, you want leading you right, and it's just tough that things aren't clicking like they were last year. Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
We've all been to practices and we see how the players respond to Payton Thorn. I mean He's definitely a vocal leader. He's a guy who leads from the front, player led program. That's what coach Tucker has been talking about all camp long. He's one of those guys and it just seems that he's pressing a little hard and when you look at the interception here, he's just
it. Look, you know, he never One of the biggest tools, in my opinion, for a quarterback is the ability to manipulate safeties and corners with your eyes. And on this particular play, Peyton stares down the receivers to the point where it was an easy interception. Yeah. I mean, you look at the best quarterbacks I think about when you know we played the first what back to back Matt Ryan's first round draft pick, Matt Stafford was
their first round draft pick. First pick, Yeah, first picking and draft back to back, right, I mean, this guy throws a no look past on a back boundary on a slant just to look us off right and like it. To your point, that's when I was being able to help coach young Dbs is that you gotta stay true and to you know that that ball is coming out here versus you know I'm looking you, I'm looking at
that receiver. But it's all about the shoulder. Look, man, if you're sitting you can look here in, but your shoulders are looking still there. And to that clip point, look at those shoulders like eyes could go whatever, but look at the shoulders. As soon as he lows up, it's bom. It's an easy interception. That's how we as DB's lick our chops when we see that. Look, I'm staying true and I'm still in the vicinity of this route. As soon as that ball is releasing, break,
break and move. And then regardless of what you do, you hooking swat. And that's what we weren't doing in our secondary. You got to hook a squa swat. You may get there, let's get the interception, but at least let's get a tackle. And so yeah, it's just tough. Thosebu's past breakups. That's that pass breakups. Man. Look, you can be all American and PBUs man come on out like, yeah, you looking at the dv's Now they get trapped with like two interceptions, but they
got one hundred pbu's. You know, yes, that's that's definitely critical. And there's one more, you know, and you know we hate to be the dead horse with Payton. But we got to break this down. We're analyzing this. This is our job to do. And you look at what happened in the interception on the screenplay. Ju You've been in the screen situations before. This was you know, sometimes there's a crazy athletic play by the defensive lineman where they reach up and grab it and make a stellar play.
I can think of Hayward from Ohio State doing one of those. Connor's brother when he was here, he made a play like that. This wasn't that. This was a guy that was trying to get make a play and literally trying to throw it through the defense to make it happen. Yeah, I think, you know back to you know, just pressing, just trying to take the team upon his on his back end and do something. And I think too, it's so just like I mean, Otis had a great breakdown
for that TV there. I don't know, I'm like, I'm taking note. It's like what shoulders. I'm like, we suck and sucking now. But the same thing with a screenplay. You know, a screen you want to you know, you know it's offensive lineman. You want to invite the rush all right, you stand up, you pop up, and you swat that guy back to you, and you go to the second level. That's a running back. Now you're seven yards deep and you say, okay, and man on the line, I'm gonna bluff them, push them aside,
and turn around and get get the ball. But when you offensive lineman stand up slap those d D lineman back, you get lost in the shuffle. As a running back. Now okay, oh man, where's the d and where's this? Oh there's a tackle. Now you're buzzing and passing these guys. And then you got to get to a landmark. So everything on the screenplay is a landmark. So the running back has to be at the exact landmark that the quarterback is gonna throw the ball. And then simple for the
quarterback. You're taught as a running back, when the quarterback's arm goes up, you yell, you make the go call, you yell go. Then the lineman starts, starts, you know, going down to blocking the second level. So I don't know if it was that miscommunication and the running back did not get to the specific landmark that Peyton was throwing the ball to, because that's all that's timing. Screenplays is all timing, and uh so that's
that's where I think that miscommunication. Peyton probably thought that's where my back's gonna be because that's where you practice it every single time. You practice that play all the time, and that's the landmark. You talk landmarks and you talk sidewalks on screens. And he just wasn't in the defense, was in the landmark. And you know, he tried to do too much. And I think by the time he was releasing that it was that old shoot moment that
that is not a guy in green. Yeah, that's a dirt right, that's what you're saying basactly. Yeah, it's not intentional grounding. He's into the cinity. But you see that guy in front plugging it up, all right. I mean we're talking. I mean those the linemen are taught to or linebacker's talking. You see that linebacker try to buff and fluff and slip you like you hold on to that like you hold on. So, yeah, it's one of the decision making in time of frustration and dire need and
desperate ration. We gotta stick true to ourselves and climb back and get that comeback. When so you said that stay true to yourself. And something that that just keeps coming to mind when you said we got to stay true to ourselves, is you know coach D'Antonio, he was a guy that when he coached, he was never too high, never too low, and he always told us stay the course. You know, those are the words that he always to say, stay the course. And I think right now, and
I'm talking to Spartan nation. You know, these fans that come to the woodshed every single day, every single game to cheer these kids on. I'm asking you, guys, stay the course, stay the course, stick man. With the Spartans, we will right the ship. There's still a lot
of football left. Just stay the course. And great words to you, absolutely, because yeah, you know, it gets real, gets real shaky and lonely man, when you've been praised for all that you've done in the past, and then you know, you start hearing the whispers, you start hearing people talking, you start seeing the writings on the wall and the media. It's like, you know what, tune all that out. You know what we're all about. We've trained for this adversity. Pressure breaks pipes,
man, but it also builds some diamonds, man. So we're gonna be right. We'll get it right, get it tight. And this trip to Maryland, well we'll define that, yeah, exactly. And I think you know, Coach Tucker said, you know, we have the right man leading the team for this. He said in the press conference. You know, he told those guys, don't listen to the noise, don't listen to anything outside. I will handle it. It's all on me. And that's the
right step for Coach Tucker to do. And I think he's doing a great job of shielding the players from that. I think the players just have to go out, continue to practice hard, work hard, and we'll be all right. We will be all right as we take on the Maryland Terrapians this Saturday in College Park, Maryland. All right. So going into the rushing statistics a little bit now for Michigan State, you know, fourteen carries thirty eight yards on the day on the ground. Ju that's not gonna be good
enough to get it done. To protect the guy like Peyton Dort, I don't care what level you play on Pee Wee High School, Juco, Naia D one two three, mac Swack Sunbelt, anywhere you have to run to win, you have to run to win, especially in the Big Ten. I don't care how the landscape of football's changing. In the Big Ten Conference, you have to run the ball to win it, and it's on our running backs. I'm gonna continuously challenge the running backs week in and week out
because I know there's the potential for them to be explosive. They still have the moniker of the killer bees, but they have to start stinging. Oh so you're not taking the name away from right now today you they're still the killer Bees. They just got to show you some little more honey, right exactly. The killer bees got to start stinging. Quit fluttering around the flowers, quit pollinate in it, and get the stingers out. I mean, look, you know the running game helps. On this stat, Otis time
of possession was abysmal. I don't think I've ever seen a game where Michigan State was on the other side of a forty two minute, twenty nine second to Michigan State's only seventeen minutes and thirty seconds with the ball before Otis. Before you jump in there, I got this. This stat here's mind blowing, and this is something that can tear a team apart because I can just envision the defense tight as hell. The offense coming off the field after a
third and three and hours, I can see them. I can see them looking at hey, man, you guys gotta get us some break. I mean, I mean that they're fully sweated through the you know, you know, it's it's crazy. So like there was times when we've had these types of games as players, right, and I vividly recall Javon Rigor and this is my javan coming over and like loudly going, defense, keep balling. We appreciate y'all. We'll get we'll get it right, We'll get it tight.
Basically, I remember those types of things when defense was balling and then vice versa, where like if office was balling, then we just couldn't you know, hold water and get you know, make a stop. It's a difference between like offense, at least you guys are scoring and we all we need is get a couple of stops and turn the tide. But then when it's not happening on the offense side, I feel like it's more detrimental because we can only do so much if getting a pick six or turn the ball
over and getting back to the hands of the offense. But that's when you start to see some divide and on the sideline, Now, I didn't see anything happening on the sideline. Also didn't see guys stepping up and yelling for accountability, Like I didn't see any of that vibe going. And maybe obviously I'm not fully inside that sideline, I mean, but seeing it from a non verbal standpoint, just didn't see somebody saying let's go man, like we still got this, or you know, we up, let's stay up.
And so that's where you're gonna see some stuff. Where are we gonna point fingers at each other? Which I heard there was something to some of that happening, But how do we collectively join arms locking in and let's get this thing back on. Got a name recognition question for you guys. You know, for the for the ball game, Minnesota Golden Golfer player by the name of Mark Crawford. You know who he is. Nope, you're his name on Saturday? No you didn't. That's the Minnesota punter. He has exactly
er rou punts for the day, zero zero. Before we're talking about complimentary football, this is exactly what mel Tucker is talking about. You have to be good in all face. Now, Bryce Barringer does get four averaging fifty point eight points punts per yards per game. So there is the bright spot. Putting together can highlight tape for the combine. Oh yeah, oh yeah, listen, just put I mean, this is how it typically happens. We just put some guys in the league after last weekend, at least on
notice. We typically are like the highlight reil of people's draft highlights when it comes to the draft. I just feel in some type of way. Maybe it's just me because I've played were here, but I feel like we always on somebody's eyelights when it comes to drafting. You see this here, you see this this gray hair here, this one here, this one here, this cuts the running backs are running, they give them grades. Moore's coming. We gotta the grays. Killer's got to prevent Jay from getting grades.
Guys, we just gotta put that foot down getting north and south. You know, when you look at the defensive side of the ball, there's a safety. Kendall Brooks eighteen tackles Otis bro solo. How about that? How about that, by the way, guys, how about that's great? Yeah,
that's great. That is great, but that's problem when you got safety making eighteen tackles, I mean that means something's not happening at that front level, mid level where like we out here cleaning up and obviously safety last line of defense, that's what we do, but that's not what we always want to do, right Like, we want to be able to focus on getting that stop before we get to it so we can save some face and get
ready for this coverage. Now, that's an animal which we sought. We've seen a dog uppear and that's a dog that we want who's gonna be hungry. But we need some other complimentary players man, that got to step up to where they know they can play. And I think that's what when you hear accountability from your top down, with your head coaches having accountability, there's no need to point fingers when your head coach is having accountability from himself but
also his his surrounding support system. So I'm excited to see how we respond. It's either obviously we gonna stay in the pits or we're gonna rise and rise out and there's nowhere else but up here, So we'll see how this goes and how we handle the Terrifiants. Now now, Coach Tucker talked about it coming and we know that as players, we talked about it during the broadcast live that the boo birds. You heard boot birds out there ju yourself
during the game. Now when you see a guy like Noah Kim into the ball game late, now, I know that it was against the defense that may not have been the stellar starters of the Minnesota Golden Golf. But he comes in again now six or seven and throws a touchdown, very efficient with the ball, very accurate and looks like he's got some armstring. Does that cause a controversy from the quarterback room perspective? I think from the outside their
scata quarterback controversy. I think from the inside there is not. But you can't help but notice when Noah Kim comes in, he takes advantage off the opportunities that's given to him. And all his yards, all his touchdowns are not in garbage play. You know, he at the time in against Akring where he was in there and he threw another touchdown. You know, so he can play at this level? Is it maybe he comes in in spurts,
you know, to juvenate and energize the offense a little bit. Is that a thing or are we just saying Peyton Thorn is our guy and we're gonna ride it till the wheels fall off with Peyton. Those those are the questions that have to be answered. But right now, you know, Peyton Thorn is the guy. He sees the game overall. As you know, he sees the entire field, and he has great control of this offense. He just needs to get his confidence and realize it's not all on him.
That's right. Coach Tucker again talked about it going through a tough stretch right now. The question was asked, did he see any issues with his staff or players. He said that he's very happy with his staff. I know that there's people noise from the outside of the program talking about changes, especially on the defensive side of the ball, But Coach Tucker saying no, he's got a lot of confidence his guys are smart and that they will figure a
way and navigate through this. Does not want to make any knee jerk decisions based off of a terrible loss like they had thirty four to seven. You know, there's injuries, there's a ton of injuries and a lot of reasons behind it. But as they continue to break down the film, they're gonna come up and find answers. Doesn't get in the easier as we talked about earlier, as they go on the road to Maryland to face the Terrapins, who in my opinion, could have won that game in the Big House A
we could go against Michigan the team down the road. So it doesn't getting the easier. They're gonna have an explosive offense and we're gonna break all those x's and o's down on another episode. But this is gonna put a bow on this show, and for J. L. Culprit and Otis Wiley, this is Sparta. Have a good night, God blessed, and go green, go white. There you go.