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Speaker 2: I haven't seen a whole lot of reaction from Louisville
Speaker 2: fans in regards to Notre Dame making it all the
Speaker 2: way to the National Championship game, knowing Louisville really went
Speaker 2: there and lost by a scorer in a game that
Speaker 2: they just gifted Notre Dame. Not necessarily the game itself,
Speaker 2: but Louisville did everything you could to lose that game,
Speaker 2: and it's really crazy that it was as close as
Speaker 2: it was, knowing how good we now know that Notre
Speaker 2: Dame is. But I think I went through that after
Speaker 2: the Georgia game, right like I think last night, seeing
Speaker 2: them come out and beat Penn State and get all
Speaker 2: the way here, it just seemed as if some of
Speaker 2: the louis of fans that I that I follow on
Speaker 2: social media, and then some fans that I talk to
Speaker 2: that I'm friends with, I feel like they kind of
Speaker 2: had the damn we like we should have beat them,
Speaker 2: and they're maybe gonna win the whole thing. And that
Speaker 2: can make you feel one of two different ways that
Speaker 2: this was truly the what could have been here? Or wow,
Speaker 2: you know, we aren't that far off that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I guess it really depends on whatever perspective you have.
Speaker 2: But for me, I Notre Dame game this past year
Speaker 2: was just one of the weirdest, most unusual feelings I
Speaker 2: had as a fan because I had no clue how
Speaker 2: to feel. Meaning more than anything, I was frustrated, but
Speaker 2: I was also thinking, like, man, if you can go
Speaker 2: there and have that many mistakes that are really just
Speaker 2: you making a bad decision or you having bad luck,
Speaker 2: or you getting you know, being the victim of a
Speaker 2: really bad silly call like the double pass interference, I
Speaker 2: was ready to say, Okay, well that sucks, like I
Speaker 2: think that's gonna hurt because Notre Dame if they end
Speaker 2: up being good, like I feel like Louisville was right
Speaker 2: there and was as good, especially on that day, even
Speaker 2: though they lost. But then they started losing more games
Speaker 2: like the SMU Miami. So but here we are. Louisll
Speaker 2: ended up I think, finishing pretty strong, and clearly they
Speaker 2: were vulnerable at times and they nearly lost the bowl game.
Speaker 2: But I think when this team was playing well offensively
Speaker 2: and they really did throughout the majority of the season.
Speaker 3: I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Would take this offense against a lot of teams. Now,
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that they would win, because their defense
Speaker 2: wasn't quite as good and at times their defense became.
Speaker 3: A real, real liability.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it kind of seems as if realizing a
Speaker 2: team playing for the national championship this year is a
Speaker 2: team that you realize you could have eliminated a couple
Speaker 2: of mistakes and maybe won that thing by a touchdown.
Speaker 2: And look, I'm sure a lot of teams can go
Speaker 2: back and say the same thing about many games. But
Speaker 2: for me, I just Louisville kept making goof after goof
Speaker 2: that you just like can't do and expect to beat
Speaker 2: Notre Dame at their place even when they're not elite.
Speaker 2: And yet Louisville did all that and yet still had
Speaker 2: a chance late to win it. I mean the amount
Speaker 2: of just I mean Jeff's fourth and short calls, the
Speaker 2: spots that we got on some of those fourth and
Speaker 2: third down runs, the bobbled pass, the rare bobbled ball,
Speaker 2: a bunch of Cory Brooks that they took the other way,
Speaker 2: the rare Tyler shuck fifty yard run that ended up
Speaker 2: in him, coughing the ball up, snapping the ball over
Speaker 2: the punter's head, getting the delay of game late there
Speaker 2: with the chance to win it with the ball, like
Speaker 2: all those things. I mean, you take away two of those,
Speaker 2: it's a different ballgame. So you know, I'm optimistic about
Speaker 2: Louisville because I think there's a good chance this offense
Speaker 2: next year is as good as any offense we've had
Speaker 2: around here in a long time. We'll never have a
Speaker 2: guy out there making plays like Lamar Jackson because no
Speaker 2: other person exists and.
Speaker 3: Will probably ever exist, that's how special he was.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to just a high powered offense
Speaker 2: that's going to have a quarterback that you feel good about,
Speaker 2: Miller Moss certainly, he's got some really good weapons. When
Speaker 2: it comes to the receivers, Colin Lacey, a full season
Speaker 2: of healthy Colin Lacey could be dangerous.
Speaker 3: I'm getting I'm getting.
Speaker 2: What's his name, the guy who played at Trinity and
Speaker 2: then Purdue for Jeff, I'm getting Randell Moore Vibes. That's
Speaker 2: his name, right, Rondell Moore. I'm blanking on his name.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's how Colin Lacy could be utilized. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want to get everybody's hope, so but like
Speaker 2: that's the kind of player that he is. Maybe not
Speaker 2: that talented, but like Jeff could certainly utilize Colin the
Speaker 2: way he did Rondell. And then I think Chris Bell,
Speaker 2: as I mentioned throughout the last few weeks, I think
Speaker 2: he really finished so strong that it's I think it's
Speaker 2: accurate say he had a breakout season for Louisville, and
Speaker 2: then you throwing those two freshman running backs that were sensational,
Speaker 2: and then you get Kewan Brown coming back. I mean,
Speaker 2: I really think this Louisville team next year, from an
Speaker 2: offensive standpoint, could have some real firepower, which doesn't have
Speaker 2: anything to do with the defense. But kind of looking
Speaker 2: at next year's team, as far as we're they are
Speaker 2: right now on offense and on defense, they're probably not
Speaker 2: gonna be I mean, I still think you've got some
Speaker 2: good players coming back.
Speaker 3: I think that they've done pretty well in the portal.
Speaker 2: I'm not worried about Louisville's defense being so weak in
Speaker 2: regards to talent and depth that like we're just gonna
Speaker 2: get crushed defensively. But if they do, I'm gonna blame
Speaker 2: it on Ron English like I hate to be like
Speaker 2: this is I guess just how I'm wired. I'm excited
Speaker 2: about next year in a major way. I think Louislle
Speaker 2: will have enough talent, and I think Jeff especially on offense,
Speaker 2: like this team could.
Speaker 3: Be really good.
Speaker 2: But I'm already worried that You're gonna end up finding
Speaker 2: yourself in spots like you did this year, including just
Speaker 2: the last game you played a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 2: where you were lucky to win. And sometimes that's how
Speaker 2: it works, right, you can claim, yeah, we were lucky
Speaker 2: to get out of there live, and you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you get some breaks to go your way. I don't
Speaker 2: want to take anything away from Antonio Watts, who made
Speaker 2: that great play to to keep Washington from getting that
Speaker 2: two point conversion and ending it.
Speaker 3: But I just to go back to that postgame show.
Speaker 2: I just I worry that Louisville is gonna have a
Speaker 2: season where we look at this team offensively and feel like, man,
Speaker 2: like we could score with anybody. The defense doesn't need
Speaker 2: to be elite. They just need to be able to
Speaker 2: be consistent and be solid. And if next year they're
Speaker 2: not that, here's the facts of the matter. If they're
Speaker 2: not that next year, it could be that they just
Speaker 2: didn't do well enough in the portal and that they
Speaker 2: lost some good players and it's I guess, rebuilding whatever.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna blame it on Ron English because I
Speaker 2: feel like in the first two years Louisville's defense when
Speaker 2: it was and again this is unfair to him, but
Speaker 2: it's just how I see it. When the defense was
Speaker 2: playing really well, he certainly deserves credit for that because
Speaker 2: he's leading the defense, he's in charge. But I think
Speaker 2: it was more so based off the talent that they have,
Speaker 2: the ability, the guys they had. And then this year
Speaker 2: when the defense was underwhelming, I still think it was
Speaker 2: mostly due to the coach. I think it was I think,
Speaker 2: and he really put his foot in his mouth whenever
Speaker 2: he said last year when the things fell apart, that
Speaker 2: you want to blame somebody, blame me. Well, we did,
Speaker 2: and that's why the next year, whenever Louisville this meeting
Speaker 2: this past season, defense was unorganized. At times, you had
Speaker 2: too many men on the field. The body language was
Speaker 2: quite clear that nobody was on the same page. Like
Speaker 2: to me, that's the guy coaching leading, that's the guy
Speaker 2: that's organizing this and for him to come out and
Speaker 2: say that they thought that because they added a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys who've played a lot of football from the portal,
Speaker 2: they'd be able to really have it a pretty advanced
Speaker 2: strategy defensively, and then he said, well, we thought they'd
Speaker 2: have better football documen. Like that's the guy throwing players
Speaker 2: under the bus, so he's clearly going to be back.
Speaker 2: I feel like they were going to make a move.
Speaker 2: They already would have done it, So we'll see. But
Speaker 2: I just worry that if Louisville next year is really
Speaker 2: good offensively, but they find themselves sweating it out and
Speaker 2: maybe losing a game or two because the defense couldn't
Speaker 2: couldn't do their their part. I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 2: Jeff's fault because I think it's been shown in two
Speaker 2: years that not that you have the worst defensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: but I think what would be the harm in mixing
Speaker 2: it up and going and getting somebody else, because it
Speaker 2: would be unfair and inaccurate to say whoever you get
Speaker 2: will be better than him, because it's not that. But
Speaker 2: I just think this year, when they were struggling and
Speaker 2: you had guys arm tackling and you had the miscommunication
Speaker 2: when you you know, I don't know how anybody would
Speaker 2: view that as more so a coaching thing than a
Speaker 2: player thing. And when when that's evident, I just think,
Speaker 2: you you know, you wouldn't want to put yourself on
Speaker 2: that spot to where here we go again. We've got
Speaker 2: an offense that's got to score forty five points. It
Speaker 2: won't lose anybody. And that happened this year at times.
Speaker 2: And it's not to say they didn't bail you out,
Speaker 2: because look, against Kentucky they played really good. Against Clemson,
Speaker 2: they played really good, and Ron English gets credit for
Speaker 2: that for sure, But I also think when the success
Speaker 2: was happening, and again this is just you can always
Speaker 2: just pick whatever you want, right Like, when there's really
Speaker 2: good stuff going on, do you think it's more so
Speaker 2: due to the players of the coach. And we'll never know,
Speaker 2: like we'll never we'll never there's never going to be
Speaker 2: an exact way to determine how much success or failure
Speaker 2: was due to more player or coach. But Ron English
Speaker 2: has never been a good defensive coach elsewhere. That's why
Speaker 2: I kind of like, you know, I guess maybe back
Speaker 2: at Michigan. But we're talking like the Roy Carr days
Speaker 2: back in mid two thousands, roughly twenty years ago. All right,
Speaker 2: it's coffee and company. We are feel about Thorton's here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Appreciate you hanging out
Speaker 2: with us. We'll get into the NFL playoffs coming up
Speaker 2: here before too long, but we have a big college
Speaker 2: basketball weekend for everybody. College basketball is now in full
Speaker 2: swing with every I mean every weekend. You get in
Speaker 2: a ton of conference matchups throughout the week, same thing.
Speaker 2: And Louisville is off to a really good start here
Speaker 2: in the ACC, and I don't even think it's close.
Speaker 2: I think this game against Pitt is the toughest game
Speaker 2: they have left on the schedule, and they could play
Speaker 2: well and lose, because that's how much I think Pitt
Speaker 2: is good. And Pitt has probably more momentum than they've
Speaker 2: had in a long time, so it'll be a tough challenge.
Speaker 2: But I think it's also safe to say that Louisville
Speaker 2: has more momentum right now than they've had at any
Speaker 2: point this season under Pat Kelsey. Maybe during the Bahamas,
Speaker 2: right when they were still healthier and they beat Indiana bad,
Speaker 2: and then they've got that overtime winn against West Virginia
Speaker 2: heading into that Oklahoma game that kind of felt.
Speaker 3: Like real big, like wow, here we are, here we go.
Speaker 2: And then after that, of course there were injuries, there
Speaker 2: were some losses to you know, good teams. Of course
Speaker 2: there were the close wins against Utap and Eku. But
Speaker 2: since the Carolina game, this team is really just played
Speaker 2: good basketball. They just look like a really really good team.
Speaker 2: Not because you know they're elite and talent, but they've
Speaker 2: got enough and these guys play hard, they're physical, they
Speaker 2: play really good defensively. I mean, I just I know
Speaker 2: I selling a broken record, but the way they played
Speaker 2: these last few games. Chalk it up to the ACC
Speaker 2: being way down. I mean, whatever again, and I'm not
Speaker 2: looking at it that way, but I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: others that say, well, Louisville winning and being this good
Speaker 2: right now just speaks to how bad the league is.
Speaker 2: Well whatever they can say, that's fine, they maybe right,
Speaker 2: But I think to see Louisville winning the way they're
Speaker 2: winning against the teams they're winning against without certain things
Speaker 2: happening that I thought would be vital, meaning I thought
Speaker 2: Louisville wasn't going to win many conference games against anybody
Speaker 2: despite the ACC being down if they weren't making three
Speaker 2: point shots. And the three point line has not been
Speaker 2: a substantial factor for this team in their last three games.
Speaker 2: And in a way, that's like, well, should we continue
Speaker 2: to say this is a good shooting team? I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe not, but we also know that at any moment
Speaker 2: they could get hot and light the arena on fire.
Speaker 2: And now what they're doing, while not shooting the ball
Speaker 2: well and not making a ton of threes, they're getting
Speaker 2: They're getting better in every other area and I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I'll be there tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving for those who haven't heard me mention it
Speaker 2: throughout the week, and I'm sure you don't care, but
Speaker 2: I'll share with you anyway. I'm leaving right after the
Speaker 2: show to go scoop my dad, who has my son,
Speaker 2: my four year old Moose and my I mean, he's
Speaker 2: not really a moose, he's my son, but we call
Speaker 2: him moose. I think you guys pick up on that,
Speaker 2: but I didn't want to. And you never know if
Speaker 2: somebody just randomly tuning in, this guy's got a moose no,
Speaker 2: it's what we call my son.
Speaker 3: It'd be pretty cool though, it would be cool.
Speaker 2: So my nephew, my son, and my dad were all
Speaker 2: heading up to Pittsburgh. But we're gonna stay in Columbus
Speaker 2: tonight and then make the drive to Pittsburgh in the
Speaker 2: morning for the noon kickoff and then do whatever we
Speaker 2: can get into.
Speaker 3: We'll get into it.
Speaker 2: Who knows what you know the fellas are going to
Speaker 2: get into during the day in Pittsburgh tomorrow after the game.
Speaker 2: But I do know we're going to be watching the Uh,
Speaker 2: we're gonna be an enemy territory because I don't mind
Speaker 2: the Steelers, but I'm clearly all in on the Ravens
Speaker 2: here in the postseason, and I'll be in Pittsburgh watching
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers play. But of
Speaker 2: course the game will be in Baltimore. So I'm sure
Speaker 2: any bar we go into within any you know, with
Speaker 2: within a I don't know, sixty mile radius of downtown Pittsburgh,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be nothing.
Speaker 3: But black and yellow.
Speaker 2: But we're I'll be pulling for pulling for the Ravens,
Speaker 2: so hopefully you know that doesn't cause a scene. Are
Speaker 2: Steelers fans, Like I know, they're like they're they're they're
Speaker 2: die hard, they're hardcore. But are they like they're not
Speaker 2: like Patriot fans right, Like they're not like known to
Speaker 2: be a holes?
Speaker 3: Are they?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. But I've always had the uh,
Speaker 4: I've always had the opinion the most Steelers fans that
Speaker 4: don't live in Pittsburgh, I feel like wanted to when
Speaker 4: they wanted to find a team to cheer for, they
Speaker 4: didn't want to do the obvious bandwagon thing, like like
Speaker 4: the Cowboys or the Patriots, so they went with like
Speaker 4: the next sneaky best franchise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Steelers.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know a lot of Steelers fans because
Speaker 2: they're one of the national teams in the NFL, of course,
Speaker 2: but it's mostly people who just became fans when they
Speaker 2: were young, Like they're not connected to Pittsburgh meeting. They're fans,
Speaker 2: but they're probably you know, I guess they're technically fans,
Speaker 2: just like people who live in Pittsburgh, but I feel
Speaker 2: like it's different, you know what I mean. So anyways,
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to when it comes to the NFL's
Speaker 2: Super Wildcard weekend. Did you see that they're the NFL
Speaker 2: is no longer using super Wildcard. I guess they realized
Speaker 2: that was lame. Oh, they're only saying wildcard now, so.
Speaker 4: It's just regular Wildcard weekend now, I like super Wildcard
Speaker 4: super wild Card week Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, you can give us as many playoff
Speaker 2: games as you want and we're still going to be
Speaker 2: excited for them, because that's just what the NFL does
Speaker 2: to a lot of us. But one of the things
Speaker 2: I saw yesterday made me laugh and then I'm looking at.
Speaker 3: It as a real joke here.
Speaker 2: But maybe there are people who view these kind of
Speaker 2: things as if they matter. But since twenty seventeen, Sean Payton,
Speaker 2: of course Bronco's head coach. Now his record against bald
Speaker 2: head coaches is thirty and twelve, a seventy one percent
Speaker 2: winning percentage against bald coaches. And Sean McDermott, the coach
Speaker 2: of the Bills, is a man very bald. So maybe
Speaker 2: maybe the Bills are on upset alert here. I doubt it,
Speaker 2: but like, who would he like? Is that a real
Speaker 2: I mean again, you have no clue what to believe
Speaker 2: on the internet anymore, if it's true or not. Like
Speaker 2: there are graphics that have been made about this. Of course,
Speaker 2: you know, to try to be funny on the internet.
Speaker 2: Pardon my take. The Barstool podcast has it. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's it's being shared everywhere. But I would not be
Speaker 2: shocked if we ended up later finding out that, like,
Speaker 2: nobody verified this and in fact it's not real. But actually,
Speaker 2: here we go. I found the source. The Twitter account
Speaker 2: that is getting credit for this did point out that,
Speaker 2: I mean, these coaches are are technically bald. This is
Speaker 2: he has a real win and loss breakdown here. For
Speaker 2: Sean Payton, he beat Jim Caldwell and Sean McDermott, Todd Bowles,
Speaker 2: and Dan Quinn in twenty seventeen, but he also lost
Speaker 2: to dan Quinn once, so he went four and one
Speaker 2: against bald coaches in two twenty seventeen. He went undefeated
Speaker 2: against balt coaches in twenty eighteen, with wins over Mike Tomlin,
Speaker 2: Hugh Jackson, Dan Quinn twice, and Marvin Lewis. And then
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen he beat Bill O'Brien, Bruce Arians, Matt Naggy,
Speaker 2: Bruce Arians again, dan Quinn, Perry, who the hell is Perry?
Speaker 2: Fuel must have been an interim guy who was bald
Speaker 2: and then he also lost to Dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: So this guy's got receipts.
Speaker 2: I mean it's I mean again, that's just a random number.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, maybe people, maybe people are seeing
Speaker 2: that and thinking, okay, okay, maybe I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: make some adjustments here to what I was gonna wager on.
Speaker 2: Maybe I should be taking Buffalo here, Maybe I should
Speaker 2: be taking Denver. I'm sorry plus eight and a half
Speaker 2: because I mean, when it comes to balt coaches, he
Speaker 2: don't lose much. Which game are you most excited about?
Speaker 2: Outside of course your game? Obviously Vikings Rams that'll be
Speaker 2: the last game. Actually that's on Monday, so.
Speaker 4: That random Monday, that's right, because of all the the
Speaker 4: wildfire wanted stuff. I would have to say probably obviously
Speaker 4: the Steelers Ravens. I like that matchup.
Speaker 3: But that tells me that you think it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a close.
Speaker 4: Game, right, No, I think the Ravens run away with
Speaker 4: their the Hugs scoring teams.
Speaker 2: And so you're looking forward to because that's what you
Speaker 2: want to see, right, Okay? Because because I actually think
Speaker 2: I think the Buccaneers and the Commander's game has a
Speaker 2: chance to be a really competitive game, which could be great.
Speaker 4: It's got a high over him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then another game that I kind of feel like
Speaker 2: will be close, but I could be totally wrong, is
Speaker 2: the Eagles and the Packers. I probably am not giving
Speaker 2: the Eagles enough credit because I just think their coach
Speaker 2: looks like the biggest weasel.
Speaker 4: It's his name, uh Siriani. Yeah, like he just kind
Speaker 4: of himself looks like an Eagle.
Speaker 2: Well and then and he he really does, which reminds
Speaker 2: me earlier I was thinking, you know what, Carson Beck
Speaker 2: looks like Miami, because that's where he's transferring. Doesn't he
Speaker 2: doesn't he look like but he looks like Miami. So anyways,
Speaker 2: the Eagles are really good, but they weren't playing well
Speaker 2: early on, and it stuck with me when he was
Speaker 2: yelling at fans in the stands, like after they barely
Speaker 2: got by the awful Bears in one of the earlier
Speaker 2: weeks in the season, and it just, I don't know,
Speaker 2: just rubbed me the wrong way. But technically they are
Speaker 2: I mean, they're a really good team, and Barkley's been
Speaker 2: phenomenal and they've got some real championship pedigree. They've been
Speaker 2: making deep runs in the postseason for quite some time now,
Speaker 2: so maybe it won't be close. But I love Green
Speaker 2: Bay plus plus five and a half. But then again,
Speaker 2: they also didn't have a whole lot of momentum in
Speaker 2: the season. I just I don't know Eagles at home.
Speaker 2: Probably I should probably stay away from that one because
Speaker 2: I'm leaning Packers. But yet here I am like having
Speaker 2: to convince myself why I would take the Packers, because
Speaker 2: the Eagles was probably probably the better play Chargers Texans.
Speaker 2: We think happens there. We got Chargers minus three. Houston
Speaker 2: really a roller coaster type season where they look kind
Speaker 2: of a weird team, right, Yeah, well, they had enough
Speaker 2: success to get here. Part of it's because the division sucks,
Speaker 2: but also even when they were winning and getting back
Speaker 2: to the playoffs once again, Stroud took.
Speaker 3: Such a big step back this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like he he went from being a guy that
Speaker 2: looked like a future star in the league to a
Speaker 2: year where he still got a job. He's still the
Speaker 2: guy that's in their future, but if he doesn't bounce
Speaker 2: back to what he looked like more so last year, like.
Speaker 3: He could be.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was bad at times this year, Like
Speaker 2: they lost some games in prime time and they got
Speaker 2: prime time because he's this young, exciting quarterback, and I
Speaker 2: mean he wasn't very good.
Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I like the I probably
Speaker 4: like the Chargers in this matchup just because.
Speaker 3: I trust Harrorball here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Harball has had one hell of a year and
Speaker 4: he's honestly a really good head coach. Their defenses playing
Speaker 4: I'm not the big like the biggest, Like I'm not
Speaker 4: the biggest Justin Herbert fan. There's a lot of I'm
Speaker 4: a doubter of Justin Herbert. But they're coached really well
Speaker 4: and it's as familiar territory I possibly like, even though
Speaker 4: I kind of want to doubt Philly. That's gonna be
Speaker 4: a weird game green Bay and Philly because green Bay
Speaker 4: has been playing too well of late and Philly is
Speaker 4: just weird vibes all around. Like I said that their
Speaker 4: team they had the they had the the Hurts aj
Speaker 4: Brown stuff.
Speaker 3: Going on this year, and uh, that's true. I forgot
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: They still don't. They've kept everything with Hurts just kind
Speaker 4: of very on the lo lo like he's still I
Speaker 4: think he's now out of cutting cushion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to be available to play, but but
Speaker 2: there was some doubt that he wouldn't be able to play.
Speaker 2: And you're right, the AJ Brown Hurts stuff was weird,
Speaker 2: meaning they clearly it was exaggerated to an extent because
Speaker 2: that's just how the internet social media works, but for
Speaker 2: them to kind of act like it's all made up, no,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think anybody believes that, Like,
Speaker 2: there's clearly some level of disconnect.
Speaker 4: And then he got Hurts after the game coming out,
Speaker 4: It's that good enough for you kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 4: what cal was doing last year after it beat Tennessee
Speaker 4: and it came out, Yeah, and he did the uh
Speaker 4: you guys like that.
Speaker 2: But I give I give Hurts a pass because he's
Speaker 2: not typically somebody that would really like he's pretty low
Speaker 2: key and not really doing a whole lot to bring
Speaker 2: any attention his way.
Speaker 3: But he did.
Speaker 2: You know, I think he felt the heat that was
Speaker 2: there that our top receiver and our franchise quarterback aren't
Speaker 2: on the same page. This is not ideal, and he
Speaker 2: really wanted to me it was a tell. The fact
Speaker 2: that he felt the need to emphasize that, hey, we're
Speaker 2: good probably told me that they're not good to be
Speaker 2: honest with you, and they're making it work as best
Speaker 2: they can.
Speaker 4: But and I also happen to like, I know we
Speaker 4: were talking about the now that you give me the
Speaker 4: bald head coach record, I kind of I don't know
Speaker 4: if I like Denver to win, but eight and a
Speaker 4: half seems really really cool. Oh yeah, I think I
Speaker 4: think Denver gives the Bills a run for their money.
Speaker 4: I could see them going up early and I could
Speaker 4: see some like late heroics by Josh Allen for them
Speaker 4: to win. So if you want to place that in
Speaker 4: your parlay, I think that's a lot of points to
Speaker 4: be given. And experienced head coach, and granted they have
Speaker 4: they have a rookie quarterback who everybody was kind I'm
Speaker 4: still up and down on bow Nicks, but you know,
Speaker 4: this is familiar territory as well for Sean Page.
Speaker 2: But I think Peyton is Peyton likes the chip on
Speaker 2: the shoulder, the underdog role in bo Nicks. You never
Speaker 2: really know what you're gonna get. But I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like when you feel like, okay, yeah, this guy
Speaker 2: had a little bit of a flash. He's kind of
Speaker 2: a bum, and then it'll come out and play phenomenal,
Speaker 2: like you know. So yeah, I don't think know when.
Speaker 2: But the two biggest spreads here are eight and a
Speaker 2: half Steelers, of course, are eight and a half point
Speaker 2: dogs to the Ravens and the Broncos or eight and
Speaker 2: a half point dogs to the Bills. I would say
Speaker 2: the team there with a better chance of covering his
Speaker 2: dogs is Denver. And I say that more about because
Speaker 2: of Denver than I do anything about Steelers and Ravens.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break will come back. On the other side.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a guest joining us, Doctor Larry Ben's,
Speaker 2: a PROI of physical Therapy's gonna join us right here
Speaker 2: on the other side on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: I have not paid attention as closely as I as
Speaker 2: I usually do during our commercial breaks as far as
Speaker 2: the traffic and weather updates, and I have no clue
Speaker 2: what to expect. Oftentimes mentioned I end up showing up
Speaker 2: at sometimes earlier in the afternoon, sometimes before the show starts,
Speaker 2: and I just have in my mind what the weather
Speaker 2: was whenever I got here and there's no windows, so
Speaker 2: I still mentioned, you know, it's a nice day or
Speaker 2: it's been raining, and I could be like way off.
Speaker 2: But I really have no clue what to expect as
Speaker 2: far as the snow, because when I got here, we had,
Speaker 2: you know, we had some snow coming down pretty heavily,
Speaker 2: but it you know, it didn't it didn't appear to
Speaker 2: be sticking to any of the roads I was driving on.
Speaker 2: I was pretty pleased with despite the snow still piled
Speaker 2: up everywhere the main roads. Again, at least, you know,
Speaker 2: two and a half three hours ago, we're you know,
Speaker 2: we're we're in good shape despite despite us getting more
Speaker 2: and more snow and it's still being below freezing. So
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what it looks like out there right now,
Speaker 2: but hopefully it's not terrible.
Speaker 3: Is we do?
Speaker 5: We do?
Speaker 3: We have Larry here? I thought I saw him.
Speaker 4: I don't see him now to day, and I placed
Speaker 4: him on hold and it hung up. I'll give him
Speaker 4: a call back, Okay.
Speaker 2: We were efforting the one and only doctor Larry Ben's
Speaker 2: Priorio physical there be and we'll bring him on here
Speaker 2: in just a moment. But yeah, the when I'm looking,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to see if there's any like, you know, updated, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the closings and delays, Like there were a lot of
Speaker 2: businesses that that that have been closed earlier this week,
Speaker 2: but I think as far as that most places have
Speaker 2: been able to kind of get their parking lots cleared
Speaker 2: out and and you know, a lot of places are
Speaker 2: not going to be in good shape if they have
Speaker 2: to go a couple of days without uh, you know,
Speaker 2: without being able to be open for business.
Speaker 3: But schools, you still have.
Speaker 2: JCPS canceled, which of course means we don't have high
Speaker 2: school basketball going on, which is a real bummer. That's
Speaker 2: one of those things that uh, I know if I
Speaker 2: was in school. When I was in school and there
Speaker 2: were snow days, uh, it was a real big issue
Speaker 2: if it happened on a on a on a on
Speaker 2: a game where you had a basketball game. I mean,
Speaker 2: in fact, we had a snow day that we had
Speaker 2: one of our better players when I was a sophomore.
Speaker 2: He was suspended for a game because he got ejected
Speaker 2: and he was supposed to of his suspension on Tuesday
Speaker 2: and against JCPS school and it got canceled because of
Speaker 2: snow and they didn't make it up so we had
Speaker 2: to serve a suspension in the following game, and that
Speaker 2: was a district game, and it was one of those
Speaker 2: reminders that snow days can can can certainly impact your
Speaker 2: your your high school sports, which you know isn't fun
Speaker 2: because that's a special time. So hopefully they get everybody
Speaker 2: back to school here sooner rather than later. I know
Speaker 2: we're gonna we're getting some snow now, but I'm hopeful
Speaker 2: that the Sunday temperatures that are going to be a
Speaker 2: buff freezing can melt a lot of this and we
Speaker 2: can kind of get back to normal with the holidays
Speaker 2: and then this week with snow, I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like we've not had a normal week around here in
Speaker 2: a long long time. We've had some issues here where
Speaker 2: we haven't been able to be on the air because
Speaker 2: of some stuff. So I'm just looking for some I'm
Speaker 2: looking to get back into my routine. I'm very big
Speaker 2: on routine. All right, let's bring him in these doctor
Speaker 2: Larry Ben's of pro Rea Physical Therapy.
Speaker 3: Larry, how we doing. We stay in warm out there.
Speaker 5: We're trying to stay warm and hydrated and you know,
Speaker 5: making the most out of serving time here with all
Speaker 5: this weather.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's been a week. It's been certainly. I
Speaker 2: can't remember the last time we had a week where
Speaker 2: we had this much that we were impacted this much
Speaker 2: with this winter weather. But hopefully again it melts and
Speaker 2: we can get back to normal. But I wanted to
Speaker 2: bring up something that I just talked about not that
Speaker 2: long ago within the show, that I just learned about it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe it was being talked about among
Speaker 2: some Louisville fans who had some inside information, but I
Speaker 2: did not realize Noah Waterman was also injured like some
Speaker 2: of his other teammates, but he was playing through it.
Speaker 2: So Pat Kelsey on his radio show this week mentioned
Speaker 2: that Noah underwent a surgery in December, but it did
Speaker 2: not keep him off the court.
Speaker 3: Apparently he had some rods put.
Speaker 2: Into his hand and he's taping it up each and
Speaker 2: every day in practice and also in games. And I
Speaker 2: don't know the extent of the injury. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if you do, or if you would even want to say.
Speaker 2: But I heard that and I felt even more in
Speaker 2: love with this team and this group and what they're
Speaker 2: all about, because they don't make any excuses, they don't
Speaker 2: play victim. Noah has struggled at times, and he's been
Speaker 2: criticized by fans just for some of the of the
Speaker 2: games where he really didn't play well. But man, he's
Speaker 2: still giving it as all and sounds like a lot
Speaker 2: of guys might have might have set out, but he
Speaker 2: did not.
Speaker 3: So, you know, guys playing.
Speaker 2: Through injuries, you really never know what an athlete's going through,
Speaker 2: right You just assume that if somebody's hurt, you're going
Speaker 2: to know about it.
Speaker 3: But that's clearly not the case.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. I mean, I think the interesting thing about coach
Speaker 5: Kelsey and his philosophy is if you're hurt, you're hurt,
Speaker 5: and you certainly would move off the lineup, you know
Speaker 5: when that happens. And what you see at his practice
Speaker 5: is is you don't see a whole lot of people
Speaker 5: sitting around hurt. And you know, the specifics of his
Speaker 5: injury are a little bit you know, evasive purposely, but
Speaker 5: you know clearly he played through it. It's not unusual
Speaker 5: to see pins and things, I would call it describe
Speaker 5: more as pins as instead of rods. But I understand
Speaker 5: your point, and you know, see him, see him play
Speaker 5: through it. I mean, this is a team that you
Speaker 5: know where culture is king and the power of the
Speaker 5: unit and all the things he talks about. It's one
Speaker 5: thing to give lip service, but it's quite a enough
Speaker 5: there to act upon that, and what you see here
Speaker 5: is those values and action. It's it's been amazing year
Speaker 5: so far. I think the fans have absolutely been galvanized
Speaker 5: around this team, and it's it's it'd be hard not
Speaker 5: too frankly, so it's all things are going right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the the energy and just the overall way,
Speaker 2: the overall way that Pat Kelsey carries himself. It was
Speaker 2: quite clear from from the beginning when he showed up
Speaker 2: and introduced himself to us at the press conference, and
Speaker 2: then you could tell pretty quickly that it wasn't just
Speaker 2: slip service. It was it was genuine And I think
Speaker 2: really these last few games, I feel like you're seeing
Speaker 2: this team playing so hard and together and kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, getting more comfortable in this new version of
Speaker 2: themselves now that they know they're without a couple of
Speaker 2: guys they expected to be big factors for this team,
Speaker 2: but you know, they're not even shooting the ball all
Speaker 2: that well or relying on the three point shot as
Speaker 2: much and they're still just just out there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like they're beating teams up out there with this,
Speaker 2: with their physicality, with their defense. And I know you've
Speaker 2: been You've been around this program a lot more than
Speaker 2: others with your time in the Bahamas, and I know
Speaker 2: you you got a chance to know Pat kelseon the
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like just from it's just from
Speaker 2: a fan standpoint, I've never wanted to just be a
Speaker 2: fly on the wall in the locker room with the
Speaker 2: team more than this one.
Speaker 3: The camaraderie they have, they're very selfless.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's exactly what we needed and I
Speaker 2: think everybody knew that at the time, but to see
Speaker 2: it all kind of play out, it's been it's been
Speaker 2: really really special.
Speaker 5: No, it absolutely has. I think the other element I
Speaker 5: would sure team These are kids from various different backgrounds
Speaker 5: obviously not just geographically, but where they played in college
Speaker 5: prior to here. You know, you always hear all these
Speaker 5: negatives about the transfer portal, but this is an absolute
Speaker 5: example of the positives. You have kids coming in, they
Speaker 5: come from various coaching. You know, you mentioned Waterman, he
Speaker 5: you know, he was one of the ones that came
Speaker 5: from BYU and you know, they had a certainly a
Speaker 5: running gun type offense as well. So it's great to
Speaker 5: see the way they've melded together. You know, I think
Speaker 5: you have less you have more seriousness around, you know
Speaker 5: what the intent of what they're trying to achieve, they
Speaker 5: had to obviously buy. Every one of them was recruited
Speaker 5: by you know, the current coach. Think of that, you know,
Speaker 5: just in retrospect, a coach can come in oftentimes and
Speaker 5: inherit a team. It happens, you know, you take football,
Speaker 5: for example, Jeff Brob came in. Yeah, you're the transfer portal,
Speaker 5: but he was inheriting a lot of the recruits of
Speaker 5: the prior coach. That's normal in basketball, at least for
Speaker 5: this past year and at least at the University of Louisville,
Speaker 5: the coach was able to recruit his type of player
Speaker 5: using his type of recruiting metrics. He's very big on
Speaker 5: that also assessing, you know, their values and their work ethic.
Speaker 5: And one of the things I really respect about you know,
Speaker 5: how he is recruited is he looks at their past.
Speaker 5: Did they miss a lot of practice for being injured?
Speaker 5: And that's one of his key metrics, I know, just
Speaker 5: and some of the things he's presented you don't normally
Speaker 5: hear that. So the fans have united around it. There
Speaker 5: was all lip service. You know, everybody has a great offseason, right,
Speaker 5: but the way to come in show what you can
Speaker 5: do in the Bahamas, which we did even though we
Speaker 5: were underman and injuries ridden, and then get through that
Speaker 5: and now when you know, five games in a row,
Speaker 5: so it's pretty special. Hopefully we can carry the momentum
Speaker 5: forward and the signs look bright. I mean you saw
Speaker 5: the five star recruit and all things come come. That's
Speaker 5: right that you know, if the NCAA grants this extra
Speaker 5: year like they're talking about, I don't know who stays
Speaker 5: and who goes, but with nil and rev share, that
Speaker 5: can change the mathematics. You know, if you if you
Speaker 5: read about the NBA, they're thinking of already deliberating possibly
Speaker 5: getting rid of the D League because you'll have players
Speaker 5: stick around more in college, especially if it goes to
Speaker 5: five years. So it's really exciting time for the fans.
Speaker 5: And those are the positives around things like rev share
Speaker 5: and transfer portal. We're mostly here the negatives. So it's
Speaker 5: really helped.
Speaker 3: Us, no doubt.
Speaker 2: And one of the things that I've one of the
Speaker 2: things that was mentioned to me from those that either
Speaker 2: had some familiarity with Pat Kelsey or got a chance
Speaker 2: to meet him and be around him a little bit early,
Speaker 2: that he was very organs and very much a guy
Speaker 2: that you can tell he's got a lot that the
Speaker 2: attention to detail really stands out. And I mean, I
Speaker 2: can tell and watching this watching this team play and
Speaker 2: not even really going out of my way to look
Speaker 2: for it, but you can tell they're they're prepared, they're
Speaker 2: locked in, and they're having success and they're having fun.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned these guys in their background, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: But to kind of see it play out and and
Speaker 2: and and really be able to tell these guys feel
Speaker 2: appreciative to be here. And Louisville basketball is a special thing.
Speaker 2: We all know that, but recent years have been pretty tough.
Speaker 2: But yet these guys, man, they're they're they're treating this
Speaker 2: as a great opportunity and they're and they're all trying
Speaker 2: to collectively make the most of it. And it's just
Speaker 2: been a fun ride thus far. And we've still got
Speaker 2: a lot of basketball to be played. And I feel
Speaker 2: like they're just now rounding into form where you feel like, okay,
Speaker 2: maybe this team could be not just good, but maybe
Speaker 2: pretty good. So it's been fun, no doubt. Now do
Speaker 2: you know, help go ahead, sir.
Speaker 5: No. The only other thing I was going to add
Speaker 5: is that you know what you've seen with our marquee
Speaker 5: programs as mature coaches. So Pat Kelsey came in, he
Speaker 5: was not a new head coach. He had been a
Speaker 5: head coach for many years. I think Jeff when he
Speaker 5: came in football coach was in about ten. You know
Speaker 5: our volleyball coach. You know, Danny's been the head coach
Speaker 5: for a number of years now, Jeff Walls, you know
Speaker 5: Dan McDonnell. These are very, you know, mature programs in
Speaker 5: terms of their leadership, and they've gone through learning curves
Speaker 5: for many, many years and we get the benefit.
Speaker 3: Of all that, no doubt.
Speaker 2: The NFL playoffs getting started tomorrow and Lamar Jackson's going
Speaker 2: to be without one of his top receivers, Zay Flowers,
Speaker 2: will miss the game against the Steelers. Yesterday, coach Harbaugh
Speaker 2: mentioned that he's not going to be able to make
Speaker 2: it for this game, but did say that he'll get
Speaker 2: started again next week, and I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any specifics as far as what this injury is.
Speaker 2: Apparently he did go through something during their most recent game.
Speaker 2: But when you hear that he's just already ruled out
Speaker 2: and again you're getting so close to kick off, it
Speaker 2: makes sense for them to make that decision yesterday, but
Speaker 2: to know that he's going to be out there, I
Speaker 2: guess to try to give it a go the following week.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's probably it's encouraging, but clearly he's not
Speaker 2: in a great spot now, or he'd be out there playing.
Speaker 3: I feel like this is a pretty big injury.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Lamar and the Ravens have had such a special season,
Speaker 2: and say Flowers has been a big factor in that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no question you'll see all kinds of little
Speaker 5: people watching tomorrow night at eight pm. I can promise
Speaker 5: you that. And the one thing about you know Lamar
Speaker 5: is he's he's got so many weapons aside from key receivers.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, he's gotten his criticism for not
Speaker 5: making it, you know, very far in the playoffs, but
Speaker 5: look what he's had to overcome. He said, you know,
Speaker 5: it was it two year before last he had like
Speaker 5: three running his top three running backs that got hurt,
Speaker 5: and he's now got wide receivers. But he seems to
Speaker 5: now manage the game much better with again maturity, and
Speaker 5: you know, their backups are actually quite good. He's got
Speaker 5: Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3: And you know, he's quite a weapon.
Speaker 5: He got a lot. He's quite a weapon, and so
Speaker 5: you know, you look effectively. You've got two of the
Speaker 5: best running backs in the league, him and Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5: So I'm very confident he makes good decisions. He also
Speaker 5: has learned, I think, to play the entire game. I
Speaker 5: really you know, watch some of these games where they
Speaker 5: start out and maybe behind a bit, but he sticks
Speaker 5: with his game plans, well coached and the ultimate team player,
Speaker 5: and he's got the confidence of his team. So I'm
Speaker 5: very confident without Flowers, he's overcome these kind of obstacles before.
Speaker 5: But the other good news is they get through this
Speaker 5: game and he'll be back for the next.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Lamar is really showing how dangerous he can
Speaker 2: make a team with everything that he brings. Of course,
Speaker 2: because he's a special dynamic player, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: going to be anybody else that is quite like him. Ever,
Speaker 2: I'm a little biased on my end, but still he's
Speaker 2: a guy that's about to collect his third MVP. Not
Speaker 2: many people can claim they've been able to do that,
Speaker 2: but I think this year it's been you mentioned, he's
Speaker 2: comfortable more so just because he realizes that, you know,
Speaker 2: he can just you know, he doesn't have to be
Speaker 2: I mean, he's pretty spectacular. He can make plays that
Speaker 2: nobody else can. But you can tell this is a
Speaker 2: guy that now has a running back that is that
Speaker 2: is a force with Derrick Henry and at receiver they've
Speaker 2: got you know, Bateman's had a breakout year. Mark Andrews
Speaker 2: kind of looked like he was falling off and then
Speaker 2: he's really emerged.
Speaker 3: As of late.
Speaker 2: So I'm a Colts fan, so I don't have a
Speaker 2: whole lot to be happy about with this NFL playoffs
Speaker 2: coming up, but I'm definitely gonna be pulling for Lamar
Speaker 2: and the Ravens and hopeful that they can they can
Speaker 2: make a run real quick. This is this is This
Speaker 2: may be a silly question, but when you hear NFL
Speaker 2: concussion protocol, because Jalen Hurts is of course just coming
Speaker 2: off of a concussion protocol is going to be availble
Speaker 2: to play for the Eagles. What's a week like for
Speaker 2: a player going through that process whenever they're just kind
Speaker 2: of riding it out. What's what's practice look like. I
Speaker 2: would imagine it's it's pretty limited. But that's something you
Speaker 2: hear quite a bit about, but I'm not sure many people,
Speaker 2: including myself, really understand what exactly means.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so probably to put it most succinctly, in the NFL,
Speaker 5: you have very rigid rules around concussion recovery, and I
Speaker 5: think it's effectively five stages or six depending on how
Speaker 5: you count them. But you know you certainly have the
Speaker 5: injury and you have to rest, and then you're in
Speaker 5: this sort of observation period when you start to reactivate
Speaker 5: or start your movement. Start at very basic level. It's
Speaker 5: also the management. Can you get through a walkthrough, can
Speaker 5: you get through mimicking? If you have any recurrent symptoms,
Speaker 5: you go back a stage if you If you don't,
Speaker 5: you can progress to the next stage, which that includes
Speaker 5: you know, sort of more live activity, more more contact,
Speaker 5: and eventually you're able to return. But it has to
Speaker 5: go through that progression and each stage you have to
Speaker 5: demonstrate that you no longer have the symptoms, and it
Speaker 5: is monitored. This isn't just take your word for it.
Speaker 5: You've got neurologists, athletic trainers, physical therapists monitoring them for symptoms.
Speaker 5: They're not taking the athletic you know, they're not taking
Speaker 5: the athletes word for it. And so they did that
Speaker 5: as part of this massive you know, monetary settlement from
Speaker 5: several years ago. So you know you've seen the effects
Speaker 5: of this from TUA would be the most classic example
Speaker 5: it has at the recurrence of this, and you know,
Speaker 5: at the same time you're seeing it now with you know,
Speaker 5: as you mentioned, going to the playoffs.
Speaker 3: All right, Larry, last question for you.
Speaker 2: This is something I know you talked about recently with
Speaker 2: Terry Minors. And I'm somebody that falls in this, this
Speaker 2: this group of folks that because I'm not hot and
Speaker 2: sweaty and it's cold outside, I'm not thinking I need
Speaker 2: to be putting hto in my body and I've noticed
Speaker 2: my my hydration slipping a little bit. Talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about how like, I mean, when do people what
Speaker 2: are some signs that maybe somebody who doesn't give it
Speaker 2: a whole lot of thought that would realize, Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: that maybe it is the fact that I'm dehydrated. Is
Speaker 2: it being lethargic, is it just being tired? I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there are some plenty signs, but hydration is
Speaker 2: always important. But whenever you're not active and you're not
Speaker 2: out there sweating and just making I need water, I
Speaker 2: mean you still do You still need to hydrate regardless.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even more so because the symptoms are different. You know,
Speaker 5: you think of in this summer, when you're hot, you
Speaker 5: know that you know the symptoms, you're you know, you've
Speaker 5: sweat a lot, you're you know, you start to get very,
Speaker 5: very thirsty, much different than winter. I think the first
Speaker 5: and foremost is what is your skin like? Do you
Speaker 5: have chapped lips for example? That is a key sign.
Speaker 5: Dry skin would be, you know, a sign that you're dehydrated.
Speaker 3: It makes sense.
Speaker 5: A little bit of fatigue, a little bit of headache,
Speaker 5: you know. I tell people you better have a clear
Speaker 5: year in If you're seeing darker urine in the winter,
Speaker 5: it's not a good sign. Keep that water going. Lots
Speaker 5: of soups, stews, warm hydration options. I'm a big fan
Speaker 5: of layering clothing, even indoor if you're getting ready to
Speaker 5: do some physical activity, I think it's better to warming
Speaker 5: your body because you know the natural ambient temperature is cold,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have cold muscles. And keep with the drinking. Man,
Speaker 5: You got to keep with the hydrators. Avoid a lot
Speaker 5: of caffeine, avoid a lot of alcohol, and again, monitor
Speaker 5: those key symptoms of your skin, how you're feeling in
Speaker 5: terms of your metal state, hate and fatigue, and you
Speaker 5: know what your urine looks like. But it's we see
Speaker 5: more dehydration problems in the winter than we do in
Speaker 5: the summer. And that where you notice it is on
Speaker 5: older people because they're they're likely less inclined to monitor
Speaker 5: it because they're not sweating.
Speaker 2: Yep, that makes total sense. I would have never thought
Speaker 2: of it, but yes, it's not on your mind quite
Speaker 2: as much. But man, hydration is key. There's some times
Speaker 2: where I'm just feeling man, I don't I don't feel
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, And what it ends up most likely
Speaker 2: being is I just wasn't hydrated. Hydra to certainly keep
Speaker 2: it Larry, as always, I appreciate you making time for
Speaker 2: us on a Friday afternoon. Stay safe, stay warm, and
Speaker 2: we will talk to you soon, my friend.
Speaker 5: Thanks man, go cars and Golamar.
Speaker 2: Go cards, Golamar. That's right, doctor Larry Ben's pro. We
Speaker 2: have physical therapy.
Speaker 3: Quick break. We'll come back on the other side. Wrap
Speaker 3: this thing up.
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Speaker 2: We have very little time left here before we have
Speaker 2: to say goodbye, so wish me luck. How far is
Speaker 2: it to Columbus?
Speaker 3: Like three hours?
Speaker 4: It's about like three and a half maybe four hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really feel I mean, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I've said many things today that didn't make me seem
Speaker 2: like the smartest guy, but I really did completely lose
Speaker 2: lose sight of where we'll be tonight and what's going
Speaker 2: on tonight in that city. Now the event's not taking place,
Speaker 2: but Ohio State playing for a chance to get back
Speaker 2: to the national Championship game, and I'm going to be
Speaker 2: making Columbus my home for the evening and then we're
Speaker 2: heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow. It feels awesome to have Louisville
Speaker 2: Basketball one just alive and competing and winning and a man,
Speaker 2: this has been a fun team to certainly watch and
Speaker 2: root on, but you know, they got a big game
Speaker 2: tomorrow that would have a lot of value, that would
Speaker 2: really kind of change how we look at the rest
Speaker 2: of the season. And again it's gonna be easier said
Speaker 2: than done. They could play well and lose, but they've
Speaker 2: got some momentum and I can't wait. I can't wait
Speaker 2: for the whole weekend NFL playoffs. It's a night's game,
Speaker 2: of course, so everybody have themselves a good weekend, stay warm,
Speaker 2: stay safe. We're back at it on Monday, right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety