Moss Point Football: Humble and Hungry

When Moss Point started the 2019 season with five straight losses, there wasn’t much buzz around the program.

- "i definitely think nick saban ain't letting his - guys take no days off, cause- nick saban is the greatest- college coach of all-time and i- know they're working.

So i've - got to work if i want to be on- that level."

- when moss point started the - 20-19 season, with five straigh- losses... there wasn't too much- buzz around the program.- but that's all changed... thank- to a region 8 class - 4-a title... and a pair of- future division i signees.- introducing former news 25- student-athlete of the week - deuce lee ii... and his main ma- larry simmons... both humble an- hungry... during isolation.

- - nat ---> "set!

Scans left.

Climb, climb.

- now!

Good ball!

C'mon, baby!- catch it, let's go!

C'mon baby!- "a lot of guys i know, they use that as an excuse.

It's the - virus.

I can't come outside.- well, if you tell your mom i've- got to go work.

I've got to go- work.

Your mom, i'm - pretty sure she'll understand.- - - - no days off, for the reigning - district champs... who won four- out of their last six games,- last season... en route to an - eighth straight playoff - appearance... and their first - - - - post-season victory... since- 20-15.- "we had to lose some.

To be real, we had to lose some.

But- we came back around - - - - district play and we got our- swagger back.

We started- catching some balls.

We - stopped throwing picks, that's- on me."

The tigers get that swagger,- from the man under center...- deuce lee ii.

- the rising senior is widely - regarded as the best class of - 20-21 q-b prospect, on the gulf- coast... already in - - - - possession of division i- offers... from southeastern - louisiana... arkansas pine- - bluff... and surely more to - come.

- "i definitely look forward to proving the doubters wrong- because for me, - they've always been we've got t- get you here on campus.

We've - got to get you- - - - here to the camps, and i haven'- been able to go to the camps.

S- i've got to - get to those camps and i've got- to dominate, and i've got to go- out there and - prove to them that i'm the guy.- in the meantime... lee has been- putting in work, at the 6-0-1 - elite - - - - quarterback and skills- academy... where he was just- joined by his - favorite target larry simmons..- for the first time, on- wednesday... less than two- months after his first d-1- offer.- - - - "we're working every morning, and we look in the group chat - late one night.

Coach p - said larry!"

"i had got a call from my coach he had told me that the ole mis- coach wanted to offer - me, so i gave him a call.

I - talked to him.

He told me he- - - - wanted to give me an offer, and- after that everything had just- started flooding in."

15 days later... 10 more offers- auburn... nebraska... florida - state... southern miss... - mississippi state... alabama- state... oregon... indiana... - miami...- - - - and arkansas.

- three weeks after that... roll- tide.

- "i was just like wow, i just go an offer from alabama.

I was so- surprised."

It all happened so fast...- simmons still doesn't even have- star- - - - designation... on 24-7 sports.- "everywhere i go, people talk about me.

Telling me you're - going to be this, you're- - - - last season... lee threw for- more than 25-hundred yards... - and 25- touchdowns.

- simmons accounted for more than- - - - 1,000 of those yards... and nin- scores.

- despite being a wide receiver..- simmons says he tries to mirror- his game... after baltimore - ravens quarterback lamar- jackson.-