☕ Morning Coffee
“We kind of know what they do.”
That is Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz on Tuesday, talking about Pete Golding’s defense. Three of his players spent last season at Ole Miss, and Drinkwitz says the inside knowledge runs his way: “We don’t run anything like what they ran.”
Back in Oxford, the Rebels had a message of their own. Ole Miss just won by 35, and Deuce Alexander says it still hasn’t played a full game. Somebody is going to be wrong on Saturday. Today’s LOOM Flagship hears from both sidelines.
🎙️ He Said What? Missouri Edition
I think I’d be more concerned with what we know about them.
Eli Drinkwitz, on Ole Miss knowing Simmons and Lee
I think the advantage for us is, you know, we kind of know what they do. And, you know, and we got Chris that can tell us, you know, what their base defensive is.
Eli Drinkwitz, on former Rebel Chris Graves Jr.
We need to play our best, most complete game to even be in the game.
Eli Drinkwitz
Golding’s answer came a day earlier: “How do you make the same things look different and different things look the same?” Drinkwitz also said Austin Simmons got “Wally Pipped” at Ole Miss, and that All-American running back Ahmad Hardy still “hasn’t began a 2-week ramp-up period.”
🗣️ The Rebels Talk
- Deuce Alexander: “We still haven’t put a full game together.” And on his breakout year: “I’m not done yet. You haven’t seen anything yet.” Read more
- Antonio Kite: “It’s gonna be a lot of trash talking, me and Chris Graves.” He also says he’s fully healthy. Read more
- Connor Howes: the right tackle job is still a weekly battle with Tommy Kinsler IV. “We rotate reps. Just whoever has the better week.” Read more
🔥 Quietly a Monster
Blake Purchase leads Ole Miss in sacks (3.5) and tackles for loss (6.5), per the Ole Miss game notes. That is almost four of every ten Rebel sacks. Per On3, he had 3.5 sacks in three seasons at Oregon. He has matched that in five games.
The right tackle who blocks him every day agrees. Connor Howes: “I honestly think our D-ends are some of the best in the country.”
🏀 Hoops Tipoff
Beard: “Never Lose Your Chip”
The SEC picked Ole Miss men’s basketball 13th of 16, and Chris Beard spent SEC Tipoff in Birmingham saying that’s fine with him. “We don’t have a lot of slogans, but we do have a few that we believe in. And one of them is never lose your chip.” The Rebels have nine newcomers, and the first test is an exhibition against Alabama on Thursday at Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham. Read more
Coach Yo, Year 9: RISE
Yolett McPhee-McCuin starts her ninth season with 10 newcomers, no returning starters and a new, more “pro style” offense. The SEC picked the Rebels seventh. LSU transfer Jada Richard is “definitely PG-1,” and preseason second-team All-SEC guard Talaysia Cooper leads the newcomers. Read more
🔮 Saturday: No. 13 Missouri
| Matchup | No. 13 Missouri (5-1, 2-1 SEC) at No. 9 Ole Miss (4-1, 2-1 SEC) |
| Kickoff | Saturday, Oct. 17 · 2:30 p.m. CT / 3:30 p.m. ET |
| Where | Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford · Homecoming |
| TV | SEC Network |
| Watch for | Jamal Roberts, with back-to-back 200-yard games against Florida and Texas A&M |
Three days to Missouri. Ten to Texas.
📻 This Week on Locked On Ole Miss
| Monday | LOOM Flagship: what we learned in the 52-17 win |
| Tuesday | LOOM Flagship: He Said What? Pete Golding’s Missouri week press conference |
| Tuesday night | Rebel Squad LIVE: can Pete Golding’s defense stop Jamal Roberts? |
| Today | LOOM Flagship: Missouri week, from both sidelines |
🔗 Five Clicks
1. Deuce: “You haven’t seen anything yet”
Ole Miss’s leading receiver on the full game it hasn’t played.
2. Antonio Kite vs. his old friends
The trash talk with Chris Graves, and the takeaways Ole Miss finally got.
3. The right tackle battle
Connor Howes on Tommy Kinsler IV, bull rushes and the best D-ends in the country.
4. Chris Beard: never lose your chip
Everything Beard, Pinkins and Siulepa said at SEC Tipoff.
5. Coach Yo starts Year 9
A brand-new team, a new offense and one word: RISE.
💬 Join the Everydayers
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Missouri week. Hotty Toddy. 🦈
