**The Clay Edwards Show – Ep. 1303**
Co-host: Creston Berch
Clay overslept Friday. Body finally called timeout after two weeks of four-hour nights. Chip and Creston held it down. Today we catch up and then some.
Ole Miss walked into the perfect letdown game at Florida and got stomped. Defense still can’t stop the run. They’re sitting ninth in the AP, 12th in the coaches poll with an open date then Vandy. State looks legit, 16th in the coaches poll, Alabama coming to Starkville. Rankings are still living in last year. First month of the season should move. It isn’t.
Clay vs Grok week four: Clay 17-9 ATS + totals on the 10-12 best games (plus the Mississippi ones). Grok 15-11. Season: Clay still beating the computer. Emotion and letdown spots still matter more than last year’s recruiting rankings. That’ll flip once the data pile gets bigger. We’ll see.
Ellis Autoplex question of the day: pinpoint the exact moment society got substantially worse. Answers poured in — COVID, Great Society, parents asking kids what they want for dinner, Obama, prayer and discipline leaving schools. Locally Clay’s line is Harvey Johnson telling Caterpillar/Puckett/Stribling to kick rocks on the drainage work at Lynch & 80. Anchor tenant leaves, corridor dies, wave rolls east and west. You cannot pay for a city with housetops.
Then the Ben Crump / Christine Wansley circus. Thursday’s press conference was half-truths and open-ended “facts” designed for you to fill in the horror movie. Snapchats were deleted — by other people in the group chat, which is how the app works. Phone left on the boat because he was standing in four feet of water and service sucks at the island. No blunt force trauma in any report. Red discoloration. Dry drowning explains empty lungs and stomach: larynx spasms, airway slams shut, no water ever gets in. Simplest explanation is usually the right one. He drowned. The boys are innocent. Crump and Wansley are doing a disservice to Nolan’s memory while she globe-trots instead of grieving.
Same playbook on Tasia Fortune. Third arrest. Drug debt. Hanging was staged after she was already dead. Sister said she weighed a hundred pounds soaking wet. Third Black face of “white supremacy” in Jackson. Stop inventing lynchings when the culture is eating itself at gas stations.
Kamario Taylor says maroon and white. Half the internet immediately assumes he’s on the first NIL bus out of Starkville. Let the kid play. Loyalty still exists.
Unfiltered. No sugar. Facts over feelings. Same time tomorrow.
