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Here are the Daily Journal All-Area quarterback’s thoughts for this week, as his team gets ready to face Tupelo High:
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We played a good game last week against Amory. We had a lot better blocking, and my receivers and I were on cue pretty much all night.
I feel pretty good now after my concussion against Hernando.
With a young team, I just have to be a lot more of a leader. I know they're going to follow me half the time.
We got Tupelo at home this week. Ashton Shumpert, who played for us last year, will be returning to IAHS as a member of Tupelo's team. I know he's going to feel something coming back home.
I don't think he's going to be the biggest factor. I think defensive end P.J. Jones will be – just getting him blocked. He's a lot bigger than all my linemen, so he'll be a test for them to block.
With our offense, hopefully we'll get him tired pretty early. Tupelo likes to sub a lot of people.
I hung out with P.J. in San Antonio at the U.S. Army National Combine in January. He's a cool guy. He's probably going to come to Ole Miss, too. We got to get to know each other a lot there. I think he'll go to Ole Miss. We talked about going to college.
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Probably every night I play NCAA Football. It's just kind of a thing I do. I'm pretty good at it. I play online. I guess people on there don't know I'm an Ole Miss commitment.
I'm Ole Miss when I play. I use my high school teammates in the game. I kind of created my high school team as Ole Miss. I got guys on there who I play high school ball with. I created profiles of my teammates and have them playing for Ole Miss in the game. I gave myself a high rating at quarterback – strong arm, ect. I put all my stats up.
I follow college football pretty closely. I mainly go to games every Saturday during the season. I will be at Saturday's Ole Miss game versus Jacksonville State.
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That was pretty fun going to out to San Diego to work with quarterback coach George Whitfield. I know I had to go out there to work, but we had fun doing a lot of other stuff.
For the most part, I was one-on-one with Whitfield. He does have different people out there as instructors, but when I was out there, I was the only one there.
I'll probably try to make another trip out there to San Diego – probably in May – before I go to Ole Miss. There's perfect weather out there all the time, I think.
After training in San Diego, the Rock Tour then started. It started there in San Diego and we went to camps at the University of Miami, Florida Atlantic University, University of Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio State, Penn State and Maryland.
Whitfield's the guy who put together that video analyzing Tim Tebow's mechanics.
I don't know for sure if Tebow's overcome all his bad mechanics, but it looks like it. He got hurt the other day, but he should be pretty good in the NFL.
As far as my mechanics, Whitfield said they're pretty good. He didn't really want to change anything about mine.
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We usually eat a pregame meal, something different every week. Last week we had hamburgers.
In the hours leading up to a game, I kind of stay off to myself most of the time, listening to music. I usually listen to rap before a game. I listen to Roscoe Dash. Sometimes I mix it up and listen to rock.
We have a thing we do before the game – and after the game if we win – where it's just dark in the locker room and we just have strobe lights on, and everybody jumps up and down. We have rap music blaring. After a game, we just cut it back on when we get back in.
We started that last year. Coach Oakley and Coach Leathers came up with it. We'll still do it this year.
After home games, we also mostly go up to where the people were tailgating, and they feed us there.
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