Speaker 1: Hell, everybody to the facilities of the iHeartMedia Megaplex. It's
Speaker 1: is Dick Gabriel. This is the state wide edition of
Speaker 1: The Big Blue in Siety. You have heard comments from
Speaker 1: Mark Stoops and Jeremy Jarman, and tonight you'll be hearing
Speaker 1: as usual from our panel of experts, Aaron Gershan and
Speaker 1: the Cats Boss and our own Billy Rutledge from the
Speaker 1: UK Network. Stay tuned for the state wide BBI Border
Speaker 1: the Border. It is the Big Blue Insider Dick Gabriel,
Speaker 1: Billy Rutledge, Aaron Gershan looking ahead to Georgia, but you
Speaker 1: gotta look back at South Carolina, as we have heard
Speaker 1: for the first couple of hours of programming tonight and Aaron,
Speaker 1: we sat here last week wondering how that game went unfold.
Speaker 1: Never did the scenario come up that South Carolina would
Speaker 1: come in here and completely disrupt what Kentucky was trying
Speaker 1: to do offensively, never crossed my mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of my buddies who cover South Carolina came
Speaker 2: up to me in the press box on Saturday before,
Speaker 2: about two hours before kickoff. He's like, South Kentucky's going
Speaker 2: to blow them out right, like even their beat thought
Speaker 2: at least he did, and he told me A lot
Speaker 2: of his colleagues thought it was going to go the
Speaker 2: other way. And I could have if you were to
Speaker 2: tell me, Oh, Kentucky and South Carolina, low scoring game,
Speaker 2: Carolina is going to pull it out, I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: been shocked. Yeah, I thought Kentucky would win the game.
Speaker 2: I thought they'd actually do it pretty handedly. But no,
Speaker 2: this was worst case scenario. All hell broke loose, perfect
Speaker 2: storm of awfulness and a lot to take away and
Speaker 2: a lot to be concerned about.
Speaker 1: Billy, you were here running the network and keeping an
Speaker 1: eye on the TV, and it just never got any better,
Speaker 1: did it?
Speaker 3: It didn't.
Speaker 4: I wish we could air the off air conversations between
Speaker 4: you and Pick and Tom, but we can't.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't. We can't need to hear what we
Speaker 2: were saying in the press box.
Speaker 3: All right, this was a game.
Speaker 4: Kentucky was a nine and a half point favorite, ten
Speaker 4: point favorite that it opened at opened. This is a
Speaker 4: game that was going to get you college game day
Speaker 4: the next week with Georgia's supposed to be coming into town,
Speaker 4: and now they're going to South Carolina and not only
Speaker 4: fair and well, and.
Speaker 3: This is the third year in a row you've lost
Speaker 3: to Shane Beemer.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's got more wins at field or as
Speaker 4: many as you do in the last what two years.
Speaker 4: So it's just it's crazy to take a step back
Speaker 4: and look at the last few years. This game completely
Speaker 4: I think flipped our expectations for this entire season.
Speaker 1: Yep, and did so last year. You know, it is
Speaker 1: a pivotal game. It is a swing game, and now
Speaker 1: that's taken on a different connotation. Swing used to be
Speaker 1: you know, could go to either team. Now it's could
Speaker 1: affect the fortunes of your season. And I told you
Speaker 1: all before the show, I'd never been one to think that, well,
Speaker 1: this loss and the season's over, you know, And people
Speaker 1: usually talking about the scenario last week, people used to
Speaker 1: say that, Yeah, about when they played Louisville if they
Speaker 1: lost the first game of the year, Well, the players
Speaker 1: just pack it in. No, they don't. The fans pack
Speaker 1: it in. But this particular game, I'm hoping for their sake,
Speaker 1: it's not a window to the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Specifically O line prop which can just uncork an avalanche
Speaker 1: of problems.
Speaker 2: Yeah that. I mean, Look, we've seen some really bad
Speaker 2: offensive line play since the start of the twenty two season.
Speaker 2: They give up forty seven sacks in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: But I can't remember a performance that was as bad
Speaker 2: as this one. I mean, yes, you have to give
Speaker 2: South Carolina's d line their flowers, especially Canard and Stewart
Speaker 2: off the edge. They were as advertised, if not better.
Speaker 2: But to have a guy we were talking before the show,
Speaker 2: we're not PFF. Grades are what they are, they mean something,
Speaker 2: they mean nothing that's up for debate. You get an
Speaker 2: offensive line and a seventh year guy and Marcus Cox,
Speaker 2: who on one hundred point scale graded out at five
Speaker 2: point one pass blocking gave up six pressures, two sacks,
Speaker 2: four quarterback HiT's like and brought a lot of discourse
Speaker 2: about Brock Vandergriff after the game. Was there a bad
Speaker 2: read on an RPO? Yes? Were there like one or
Speaker 2: two clean pockets where he looked rattled? Yes, But it
Speaker 2: was unoperable. I mean, the offensive line just stunk it up.
Speaker 2: And what was so mind boggling about it is they
Speaker 2: moved dudes in the run game and can Tuckey was
Speaker 2: running downhill just fine all day. And they had one
Speaker 2: drive where they handed it off to either Sumo, Karbay
Speaker 2: and Patterson on eleven straight plays and that ended up
Speaker 2: being the field goal drive. So it was just a
Speaker 2: mind boggling, mind bogglingly bad performance in the past block
Speaker 2: game probably old line.
Speaker 4: It was also a little jarring to hear Stoops immediately
Speaker 4: after the game said say that there was nothing to
Speaker 4: build on.
Speaker 3: I mean he was down.
Speaker 2: Oh that was brutal.
Speaker 4: And then he came into his press conference today and
Speaker 4: said that they played hard but not smart. And I
Speaker 4: guess there is something to take away from the game.
Speaker 4: But when your immediate reaction is that was not one
Speaker 4: thing to build on. Is a guy that's been in
Speaker 4: football his entire life. I don't know if he's ever
Speaker 4: had a loss like that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he clearly he had just been punching
Speaker 1: the gun and stepped on But like Aaron said, I
Speaker 1: think you can build on that run game. I was
Speaker 1: very surprised pleasantly by Demi Sumo Karmbay running between the attackers.
Speaker 1: I just did not know, did not know if he
Speaker 1: could do that. I knew if he got to the edge,
Speaker 1: he has that speed, but ironically enough, he couldn't get
Speaker 1: to the edge. They were too too smart, not too smart,
Speaker 1: but too athletic to let him do that. So he
Speaker 1: ran it up between the tackles and he took.
Speaker 2: People with him and sort of the freshmen. Jason pattis, Oh,
Speaker 2: I like him too. They were great, and that's what's
Speaker 2: you know, that's frustrating. We can't talk about them more.
Speaker 2: But that part of it from the offensive line standpoint
Speaker 2: was just brutal. And then on the defensive side of
Speaker 2: the ball, like you want to feel pretty good they
Speaker 2: held South Carolina. I think it was two point eight
Speaker 2: yards per carry. Uh, not that much more if you
Speaker 2: had the sack yards. They forced three fumbles, didn't grab
Speaker 2: any of them, and outside of a couple breakdowns that
Speaker 2: are a big deal. Obviously, I thought the defense played
Speaker 2: a good enough game to win. So just infuriating that
Speaker 2: those things.
Speaker 1: Two of the breakdowns on communications issues lead to easy touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You had to pick six. So when you look, yeah,
Speaker 1: at yardage and points actually giving up, you can say, yeah,
Speaker 1: the defense, that's something to build on. But you right, Billy,
Speaker 1: when Stoop said, boy, you I'm sure you could tell
Speaker 1: because you can hear during the breaks how down He
Speaker 1: was on the postgame show with Tom just you know,
Speaker 1: that blank look in his face.
Speaker 2: It wasn't anger, it was.
Speaker 1: Strang Yeah, exactly, despair, despair, I did think, Billy, and
Speaker 1: you just brought it up at his news conference today
Speaker 1: when he said upon and he's always talking to every
Speaker 1: coach says, it's not as bad as you think, it
Speaker 1: is not as good as you think. It is the
Speaker 1: fact that he did say they played hard, because I
Speaker 1: wondered what he was seeing as I was down there
Speaker 1: on the field. I can't tell, uh, because I'm not
Speaker 1: a professional coach. Plus you got a better look at
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, Aaron than I do upstairs. But
Speaker 1: the fact that he said they did play hard, because
Speaker 1: if they hadn't played hard, and to me it was
Speaker 1: it's hopeless, right, But they did, So that's something that's encouraging.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: And talking about Stoops a little bit. He's taken a
Speaker 4: lot of blame for that fourth and one call early
Speaker 4: in the game.
Speaker 3: That starting with himself, right.
Speaker 4: And credit to him for singling himself out.
Speaker 1: Are you surprised when he did it? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the worst. I've covered stoops for six not as
Speaker 2: long as you, but for six years, and that was
Speaker 2: the worst fourth time, Remember.
Speaker 4: But his interview with you before halftime, he basically called
Speaker 4: out the play calling. You sure did, and you know
Speaker 4: Bush Hampden, I mean barry On Brown. Did he have
Speaker 4: a catch in the game?
Speaker 2: First game and his zoop CA career without a catch.
Speaker 4: And we had that situation with the jet sweep on
Speaker 4: second and one turns it into third and.
Speaker 2: Nine missed ai.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Do we sound like a broken record yet with play
Speaker 4: calling and offensive coordinators and sixty year with a six
Speaker 4: different one continuity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but nobody two years ago. Nobody ripped Liam Cohen
Speaker 1: two years ago. He was the darling at the SEC. Remember, yes,
Speaker 1: when he was first year. But he had one Dale Robinson,
Speaker 1: he had Will Levis, he had a better old line
Speaker 1: radio line. That's the key. But he brought that up
Speaker 1: again today, the RPOs of he kind of dwelled on
Speaker 1: that didn't the erin. Yeah, he seriated him, he said,
Speaker 1: but either hand off or throw it. Yeah, he clearly
Speaker 1: doesn't like the reading element of it, at least in
Speaker 1: that game, which I thought stuck out of the news
Speaker 1: conference today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was livid at that. I forget what was
Speaker 2: the situation on the on the end around Billy? Was
Speaker 2: it a second in short.
Speaker 3: The Jets sweep, Yeah, it was second one.
Speaker 1: Blew up more than one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there was also the one that one play
Speaker 2: call that killed me was you finally you have not
Speaker 2: even finally. Early in the game, you get hit the
Speaker 2: danky on the sideline, beautiful throwing cash thirty two yards,
Speaker 2: You hurry the line, which I like, and then you
Speaker 2: throw a wide receiver screen. Yeah, like that is that
Speaker 2: a Rich Scanguerrillo's playbook? Like what are we doing?
Speaker 1: So? I don't know what the defense was shown.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they were showing, but.
Speaker 1: That, to me, it's it's it's always all right, what's
Speaker 1: the defense doing. Maybe that's the right call, maybe it's not.
Speaker 1: Clearly it wasn't for that that moment.
Speaker 3: And it's different.
Speaker 4: You know, if you lose by a field goal or
Speaker 4: they make some spectacular plays, but for like your lineman
Speaker 4: to line up wrong, two plays in a row.
Speaker 2: Same guy and then you have a hold. It's just
Speaker 2: three plays in a row called back in the game
Speaker 2: forty six yards.
Speaker 1: See, I really wondered, because we did if they took
Speaker 1: South Carolina, for granted, their nineteen year old kids, we're
Speaker 1: growing ass men and we're up here talking about a
Speaker 1: bad South Carolina looked last week and was lucky to win.
Speaker 2: They were, and.
Speaker 1: Then Kentucky comes out and plays as though they had
Speaker 1: just spent the week looking at video of that game, like,
Speaker 1: oh we got this, you know. Yeah, in an SEC game.
Speaker 4: Well, the perception of every team in the SEC is
Speaker 4: when Kentucky's on the schedule, it's a win.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: I mean he used to be. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it still is.
Speaker 3: I would say it is the game as an achievable win.
Speaker 2: Yes, it still is.
Speaker 4: I think for them to make the season, and now.
Speaker 1: It's a swing game for the swing teams, there's no question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: uh but I think. I mean, I have told you
Speaker 1: the buddy Mine went to Vandy and for the law.
Speaker 1: You know, there were there have been streaks, Vandy said,
Speaker 1: streaks against Kentucky. But he told me every year we
Speaker 1: would circle Kentucky. Well that's a win right now. That
Speaker 1: started to change with Stoops. He was beating these teams
Speaker 1: that ordinarily you'd expect maybe they'll win, maybe they won't.
Speaker 1: Not lately, and that starts with South Carolina.
Speaker 2: It starts yeah, absolutely, Now three in a row to them. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, Missouri last year got him. Uh, and then
Speaker 2: two years ago Vandy got him. And look at the
Speaker 2: way those Commodores are playing. Man, that game at Kroger
Speaker 2: Field ain't gonna be no U, no layup this year.
Speaker 2: And uh, it's just and when it's just hard to
Speaker 2: be that optimistic when the offensive line, it just all
Speaker 2: goes back to that. I think there are things on
Speaker 2: defense that you can clean up, those communication issues. You
Speaker 2: know how good this front seven is. They still played
Speaker 2: great in the run game. Uh, they'll probably be fine.
Speaker 2: You still I think have optimism if you could have
Speaker 2: a pocket for Brock Vandergriff and those receivers and the
Speaker 2: running backs gave you something. But if if they're not
Speaker 2: gonna be able to press protect, you can't. You don't
Speaker 2: have lin Bowden like there's no way out of this.
Speaker 2: You have to have a balanced offense.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I don't know if probably they'll be fine,
Speaker 4: I would ever come out of my mouth after what
Speaker 4: I saw on Saturday.
Speaker 3: No, they may not get to six wins.
Speaker 2: No, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying there that offensive
Speaker 2: line makes it where you can't say that. Yeah, everything
Speaker 2: I'm saying every other area I think the defense will
Speaker 2: be fine. I think Brock can be fine.
Speaker 1: Behind that line if you can be if it weren't
Speaker 1: for ye oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying I'm not giving up on him as
Speaker 2: a player individually, but without those five well, no.
Speaker 1: He showed last week against it and mentally an inferior
Speaker 1: team what he can do if given time. You know,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna make mistakes. It's his first year as
Speaker 1: a starter. It's not an excuse. That's a reason.
Speaker 2: No, it's legit.
Speaker 1: But if you think it's an excuse, you know, try
Speaker 1: it yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're gonna blame anyone for that, you blame
Speaker 2: Kentucky's coaching staff for putting him in that situation that
Speaker 2: he has to be a first year starter. And they
Speaker 2: picked it. They picked their poisoned with that. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying it's a bad decision. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 2: you can't get on him for being a first time starter.
Speaker 1: Who else do you play?
Speaker 2: Well? They haven't recruited and developed well enough to have someone.
Speaker 1: Well that all that all goes back to Drew Barker
Speaker 1: getting hurt.
Speaker 2: It does, but they it just there's.
Speaker 1: Destroyed everything on their quarterback timeline.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 4: You know, there's an argument that, you know, keeping somebody
Speaker 4: in the school for more than one year would be
Speaker 4: beneficial and coordinator wise, coordinator wise or quarterback wise. But
Speaker 4: like coordinator wise, this Eric Wolford thing is just head scratching, Dick.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, is he coaching?
Speaker 4: Is he just recruiting because it doesn't feel like the
Speaker 4: offensive line should be making those kind of mistakes with
Speaker 4: Alabama's offensive line coach from last year.
Speaker 1: Well, just because he was good enough to coach at
Speaker 1: Alabama doesn't mean they're good enough to play well at Alabama.
Speaker 1: How good are these guys? That's the question, right, true?
Speaker 4: But they were historically bad at Alabama last year. We
Speaker 4: say that they were very good in the run game,
Speaker 4: but they were terrible.
Speaker 1: Was that was that Wolfer's fault?
Speaker 3: Or I can't fig that level.
Speaker 2: I don't know enough about twenty South Carolina same thing.
Speaker 2: They were in the top five in the SEC and
Speaker 2: rushing with a three and seven roster. They were the
Speaker 2: worst pass blocking unit. So like, at one point, is
Speaker 2: that okay? In twenty twenty one, when you were here,
Speaker 2: the offense line was good, but you inherited Schlarman's guys
Speaker 2: except for Dari Rosenthal, right, And and remember at the
Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty one they lost Eli Hawks and
Speaker 2: they lost Rosenthal for the bowl game, and they were
Speaker 2: terrible against Time, you know what, Oh they were?
Speaker 1: And then one are the other knocks on Wallford, not
Speaker 1: to be piled on the guy was when he was here.
Speaker 1: He didn't play anybody else but the same. That's why
Speaker 1: I said that he didn't build, that he didn't develop, right,
Speaker 1: That's right. You know now I can't remember who was there,
Speaker 1: if they had anybody worth developing. But it does go
Speaker 1: back to the terrible situation with John and when he
Speaker 1: was sick and you didn't know who was going to
Speaker 1: be here next year. You didn't know who you know,
Speaker 1: who was recruiting. It was just tough on them to
Speaker 1: recruit o Ligneman. It all, like you said, Billy, it
Speaker 1: all starts with the O line. And if it doesn't
Speaker 1: get any better, it doesn't matter how good your defense is,
Speaker 1: no matter who your quarterback is. We'll take a break,
Speaker 1: come back and try to think of some cheerier things
Speaker 1: to talk about a little bit later on. Ji Pecorol
Speaker 1: will get us revved up again here on the state
Speaker 1: wide BBI. In case you wonder what we talk about
Speaker 1: during the commercial breaks, it ain't Kentucky football. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about the NFL because Billy's Buccaneers played well, looked
Speaker 1: good in one behind Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: They did, and Liam Cohen and Liam Cohen our teams, well,
Speaker 2: my team, your team fought and was competitive, and it
Speaker 2: was a slipping slide down in San Paolo. It was
Speaker 2: the Giants the kind of similar to Kentucky, where the
Speaker 2: defense show you things, the run game showed you things.
Speaker 2: In the quarter well, the offensive line actually was good.
Speaker 2: The quarterback not so much.
Speaker 3: Not so much.
Speaker 1: What did Wandale do?
Speaker 2: He had twelve targets, so he's a feature. Six catches,
Speaker 2: a couple of balls that were thrown with Andrew Phillips
Speaker 2: had to play, Yeah, forced to fumble that Giants were covered.
Speaker 2: He was good and he had to stop at the
Speaker 2: goal line. That made it fourth down. But there you go.
Speaker 1: Give a touchdown and fourth Carrington Valentine I think is
Speaker 1: still her did not play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a rough one. Will Levis, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Will Levis had a rough one. Are there any former
Speaker 1: Wildcats on the on your Buccaneers right now.
Speaker 3: I don't think Mike Edwards. Mike Edward's not there.
Speaker 1: To be team now four?
Speaker 2: Fourth team no third, You're right, I'm sorry, Chiefs. What
Speaker 2: you go, Tampa case now.
Speaker 1: Buffalo you got it. You got a ring with the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: So uh, I don't know how many future pros are
Speaker 1: on this Kentucky team.
Speaker 2: And the Bucks. By the way, he's two, that's tried.
Speaker 1: He did get one back to back. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: But now with Georgia, that's the bad news. Well, you
Speaker 1: got a week to work on things, and you know what,
Speaker 1: they could be one hundred and fifty percent better and
Speaker 1: you won't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of hope that you just show play. Look,
Speaker 2: they've played Georgia at home really well the last couple
Speaker 2: of times they've come here. I mean it was both
Speaker 2: were I think two score games. Defensively held them to
Speaker 2: sixteen or less point in both those games. I think
Speaker 2: it stinks that you have to say it that way
Speaker 2: and you're kind of hoping for some moral victory Saturday.
Speaker 2: But that's that's just a testament and respect to how
Speaker 2: good Georgia is. And they've given up six points so
Speaker 2: far this season through three weeks. They have what I
Speaker 2: was talking to some people down there on their beat.
Speaker 2: They think it's the best secondary Kirby's had yet. Wow,
Speaker 2: so that they said the d line might be his
Speaker 2: weakest in a few years, but the secondary is the
Speaker 2: best he's had yet. Carson Beck proved last year though
Speaker 2: statistically he's the best quarterback he's had yet. So they
Speaker 2: have weapons every It's just look, they're the National champion
Speaker 2: favorite for a reason.
Speaker 1: Carson Beck. And and also they're now going blank on
Speaker 1: the kid that he that he replaced Bennett. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have both, Billy, I think it's erased the stigma of
Speaker 1: being a game manager. George is you know, so good.
Speaker 1: But they can make plays. I mean, Bennett can make plays.
Speaker 1: He's an NFL quarterback now and Beck's can't. So that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a real challenge. I felt like Kentucky did
Speaker 1: a pretty good job against this kid from South Carolina.
Speaker 1: He has got big talent and he's got a bright future.
Speaker 1: But he didn't hurt Kentucky the way I thought he might,
Speaker 1: especially with his legs.
Speaker 3: The quarterback for South Carolina with the rexpecs on. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's not that great.
Speaker 1: So well, he's a freshman it's a second game.
Speaker 4: So now you're gonna get the complete in verse and
Speaker 4: probably get that my point, the best quarterback in college football.
Speaker 3: So you think he is, Yes, I would say.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be the quarterback in the New
Speaker 2: York Giants next fall.
Speaker 3: Well, look at this guy. They must have the number
Speaker 3: one overall pick too.
Speaker 2: Well, Carolina is let's see, let's see Bryce Young improved.
Speaker 2: So take him there.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've got that back etn he transferred from Florida,
Speaker 4: I believe so. And his brother's doing some pretty good
Speaker 4: stuff at Jacksonville right now. So they've they've they've always
Speaker 4: had the weapons. And have they lost one game in
Speaker 4: the two years or something like that, and they're being
Speaker 4: held out of the playoff last year because they lost
Speaker 4: Obama in the SEC Championship.
Speaker 2: So Georgia's last regular season loss, so not counting the
Speaker 2: SEC Championship, which they've lost twice since then, was November
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty against Florida November one, the COVID shortened year.
Speaker 2: They lost two regular season games. They lost to Florida
Speaker 2: and they lost the year.
Speaker 3: They're still in the garage, Dick, I mean.
Speaker 2: I was still a student at UK I wasn't graduated yet.
Speaker 2: So it's just they're dominant and what they're doing. They've
Speaker 2: won forty one streat regular season football games and their
Speaker 2: only losses are both the Nick Saban and Alabama and
Speaker 2: the SEC titles since then.
Speaker 4: And Tim Couch was on the Collin Show now he
Speaker 4: was talking about throwing an interception too.
Speaker 2: When Champ Bailey was on the other side of the field.
Speaker 3: Pick your poison there, I.
Speaker 1: Guess, yeah, yeah, I remember that. You know Chris Hatcher,
Speaker 1: who's Aaron Rodgers hurt.
Speaker 2: His first completion as a jet was fumbled by Breisee Hall.
Speaker 2: It's a turnover, fantastic. His first pass was dropped by somebody.
Speaker 2: That's his first jet completion because he was over one last.
Speaker 1: While anyway, Uh, I lost my train of dot. No.
Speaker 1: Tim was talking about Chris Hatcher, one of the offensive assistants,
Speaker 1: and Hatches now the head coach at Samford down in Birmingham,
Speaker 1: but when he was the head coach at Valdosta D two,
Speaker 1: two of his defensive assistants were must Champ and Smart
Speaker 1: Really and yeah, he said, yeah, I wouldn't paying him
Speaker 1: as much as they're making now. But yeah, those guys
Speaker 1: are good football coaches. But Kirby Smart has figured it out.
Speaker 1: And really, before NIL became huge, he had because Georgia
Speaker 1: under Mark Rick, who was a terrific coach and a
Speaker 1: great guy, got tons of talent and won a lot
Speaker 1: of games, but couldn't quite close the deal on an
Speaker 1: SEC championship, or if he did, he couldn't get that
Speaker 1: national title. And Kirby Smart has broken through that way.
Speaker 1: Now NIL is only making the strong stronger, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he learned from the best. He was right
Speaker 4: there with Nick Saban for many a years. Yeah, he
Speaker 4: branched away and you know is going on his own run.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: If Georgia could just control their players from speeding on
Speaker 4: the interstate or in the roads, I mean.
Speaker 1: You know what, that's fixable, That's easily fixable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we first don't do it. We've heard a lot
Speaker 2: of the word fixable the last forty eight hours. That
Speaker 2: one's legitimately fixing.
Speaker 1: That is, there's fixable football and then there's fixable off
Speaker 1: the field stuff. But it puzzles me as to why
Speaker 1: they haven't fixed it yet. And I was going to say,
Speaker 1: somebody might get hurt somebody has gotten hurt already. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so that is that is a puzzler. But
Speaker 1: the one thing about Georgia too is I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: happened because we don't obviously cover them every week, But
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to catch them. Aaron, maybe looking a
Speaker 1: little bit past Kentucky, maybe looking at the videoing we
Speaker 1: got this game already.
Speaker 2: You got a hope. But look, Kirby runs that program
Speaker 2: to where they're just they seem bulletproof from that. I
Speaker 2: was listening to his press conference today, is talking about
Speaker 2: just how it's a battle every time they played Kentucky
Speaker 2: going there, it's one of the toughest trips in the SEC.
Speaker 2: And you know, I mean, this is the coach that
Speaker 2: told them that they're going to finish five and seven
Speaker 2: when they were everyone predicted them to win the national championships.
Speaker 2: You hope that's going to be the case, but I
Speaker 2: just don't see that happening. I think Kentucky to win
Speaker 2: this game, they're going to have to play unbelievable football.
Speaker 2: But honestly, like I said, just just show compete and
Speaker 2: keep it, keep it interesting, and you know what, circle
Speaker 2: the wagons get ready.
Speaker 1: For a while one of the championship years for Georgia.
Speaker 1: I recall, and you've got better recall than I do
Speaker 1: on this because you have to write about it every week.
Speaker 1: Kentucky played Georgia tougher, really, I think it was.
Speaker 2: That's where we left two games two years ago here
Speaker 2: at Krogerfield.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm thinking of the one at Georgia
Speaker 1: because that's what Oh okay, that's what put Will Levis
Speaker 1: on the radio. A lot of scouts exactly, and you
Speaker 1: know they're like, Kentucky played Georgia and Levis didn't make
Speaker 1: any bad decisions, and you know it was it was
Speaker 1: never a game in doubt, but it was a tight game.
Speaker 1: And then you know, the boating game was incredible. They
Speaker 1: had their tredibly fun They did have chances but lost it.
Speaker 2: Max Duffy's only bad punt in his career here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll always wonder what might have happened if c
Speaker 1: Rod had just caught that pass.
Speaker 2: But it's usually a good game when they come here.
Speaker 2: So you just hope that they can they can battle
Speaker 2: and show you something because right now fans are on
Speaker 2: at their wits end.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll come back and talk with Jeffichorro, the
Speaker 1: U can't at work, and more here on the state
Speaker 1: wide Big Blue Insider. Well, we are trying, we are efforting.
Speaker 1: The word is efforting to reach mister Percoro. Not always easy,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that, as you might expect. Now
Speaker 1: we're keeping an eye. Aaron Rodgers is still upright, my friends.
Speaker 2: Yes, but his first completion of his get career, because
Speaker 2: remember he was oh for one last year, was fumbled
Speaker 2: by Sorry.
Speaker 1: Was on my fantasy team last year and people kind
Speaker 1: of scoffed at me when I drafted and when we
Speaker 1: finally got healthy and started eighty yards. But I had
Speaker 1: a terrible fantasy weekends because just simply because of Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, and Bengals fans know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: It must be a brutal on s. I mean, it
Speaker 2: was brutal weekend covering Kentucky and being Giants fan. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine the Bengal Kentucky fan this weekend. Not many
Speaker 2: had it worse than them.
Speaker 1: No, and that killed so many people in their survivor pools.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but you know the two I think probably
Speaker 2: the two most popular picks and the survivors this week,
Speaker 2: we're Cincinnati and Buffalo and Buffalo. Arizona had them on
Speaker 2: the brink all day long too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had half my Survivor pool get out on Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: I took New Orleans, which was a great pick in hindsight,
Speaker 4: but now it's maybe a little bit more difficult this week.
Speaker 4: A lot of bad teams playing bad teams. So you
Speaker 4: know that's why, that's why you win the money.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you could always say, well just take
Speaker 1: whoever's playing New England.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that proved to be Aaron last week. Who's
Speaker 2: playing Carolina's another series.
Speaker 3: They are just fade them all year them.
Speaker 2: They might not win a game. Maybe, you know the
Speaker 2: Giants the Giant jump up and the Giants and Panthers
Speaker 2: playing Germany. Poor people over there are going to have
Speaker 2: to watch that.
Speaker 1: Well that's a tough one even you.
Speaker 3: Know, it's Giants Carolina in Germany.
Speaker 2: Later.
Speaker 1: Yeah football, yeah, exactly, American football. You know, we'll have fun,
Speaker 1: but yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel bad for those people. They have no idea
Speaker 2: what real football.
Speaker 3: Well did you hear any of Tom Brady in the booth?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 2: I did on red Zone. I didn't watch the game
Speaker 2: in full. I didn't. I heard. I saw he was
Speaker 2: getting a lot of criticism.
Speaker 1: Buddy of mine texted me and he said, mashed potatoes
Speaker 1: over white bread. But you know how one game exactly,
Speaker 1: it's not just one game, but his first game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to kill him yet.
Speaker 3: Three hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
Speaker 3: And Greg's better.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, that's the one thing that
Speaker 2: stinks is Greg Olsen. I thought was fan fantastical.
Speaker 1: But see, I remember when Greg Olsen started, he wasn't
Speaker 1: that great pride. Well, but here's the thing, Romo's the unicorn.
Speaker 1: Because Romeo kind of burst on the scene and he
Speaker 1: had the play calling thing going on, and that really
Speaker 1: I think lifted him in the eyes of a lot
Speaker 1: of people because it worked. Now, uh, he quit doing
Speaker 1: it that second year, and I had read something Aaron,
Speaker 1: you followed the NFL as much and more than I do,
Speaker 1: where NFL coordinators were complaining about that and why they
Speaker 1: would It's not like there's a pipeline from Romo's booth
Speaker 1: to the other team. But for whatever reason, he kind
Speaker 1: of backed away from that, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff in the trades about how Romo's not working
Speaker 1: hard enough and they had to sit down with him
Speaker 1: and have a do better talk or something like that.
Speaker 1: Nance came to his rescue. So but to your point, Billy,
Speaker 1: I got to wonder which bean counter at Fox Sports said,
Speaker 1: this is a good deal. This is good for us,
Speaker 1: It will turn into dollars for US viewers, therefore better
Speaker 1: ad sales, therefore more because we can absorb it. Was
Speaker 1: it a ten year deal? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just you know, all the stuff coming out about
Speaker 4: him not being able to criticize referees and if.
Speaker 1: He indeed gets to buy a piece.
Speaker 4: Of a team, right which should be approved in the
Speaker 4: middle of this year, at the end of the year,
Speaker 4: I think is a time which.
Speaker 1: To me is a smart move by the NFL. Why
Speaker 1: would you not approve it?
Speaker 4: Well, that's fine and dandy, but he's also still broadcasting.
Speaker 4: And if you can't criticize officials and you can't go
Speaker 4: to pre production meetings with Fox, I mean, I feel
Speaker 4: like you're you are missing out on what a color
Speaker 4: commentator should get do.
Speaker 1: We're missing out. Fox is missing out. But if you're
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, got it where you want him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you accept tom ownership.
Speaker 1: He's the greatest of all. No, I feel bad because
Speaker 1: Olsen has developed into a really good broadcast. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched a little bit. And my question has always
Speaker 1: been this, does he bring people? Will I turn on
Speaker 1: a game? And I looked in on it the other
Speaker 1: day because it's his first and I wanted to sample
Speaker 1: it and I didn't stay with it. But I don't
Speaker 1: even remember what else was on. But will he bring people?
Speaker 1: Will it? Will the numbers be markedly bigger the viewership
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady? Maybe they will, Maybe they'll prove me wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will.
Speaker 2: You, I think they'll just as the NFL is going
Speaker 2: to get viewers if you and I are calling the game, right,
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll actually No, And.
Speaker 1: Here's my theory on that. No, because they're going to
Speaker 1: be people regardless. But I don't believe people tune into
Speaker 1: any broadcast because of the broadcasters. Routinely they'll turn it off.
Speaker 1: If that's true, this is true, you and I would
Speaker 1: annoy people no end like we do every Monday night.
Speaker 1: But I think I truly believe that, and I think
Speaker 1: people would turn that off or mute it.
Speaker 4: Maybe, Yeah, I'd talk too much about the Western Kentucky
Speaker 4: Hilltoppers for the NFL audience. We're still waiting for Ku
Speaker 4: to score Dick and all that bs about the uniform.
Speaker 3: And no, no, we're actually gonna wear white, so.
Speaker 1: You can't do your white. Angry about that?
Speaker 3: I was, I guess the rules of rule, but you
Speaker 3: poked the bear.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a reason why the game hadn't been
Speaker 4: played in sixteen years. Irrelevant out because they got left
Speaker 4: in the FCS and then they couldn't get approved into
Speaker 4: a conference in Division one because Western didn't allow them
Speaker 4: to get approved.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1: UK.
Speaker 3: You had a chance to join the Conference USA.
Speaker 1: They were turned down. I thought they were.
Speaker 3: And part of it was because the.
Speaker 1: Hilltoppers didn't know that. Really, what did they do?
Speaker 3: They spoke against them?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Wow? Because they're Eastern.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3: They hadn't played that game in sixteen years. I believe.
Speaker 1: I was told it's because their stadium wasn't up to speed. Oh,
Speaker 1: and that's why they poured a bunch of money into it.
Speaker 1: And it is now, but there there are no openings
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't doubt that WK. You did, didn't they
Speaker 2: take like, didn't conference you.
Speaker 1: That's a recruiting thing.
Speaker 4: The problem with Western is that there's their town doesn't
Speaker 4: support them. Bowling Green just doesn't go to the games.
Speaker 4: The TV market's not big enough, so they don't get
Speaker 4: accepted into bigger conferences.
Speaker 1: No, and it's gonna be the same for Richmond, you know.
Speaker 1: But my point I made. Channel twenty seven interviewed me
Speaker 1: for a story they were doing, and what I said
Speaker 1: was this, Western Kentucky basically said to Eku, listen, we
Speaker 1: want to wipe out at our game to get our
Speaker 1: fans fired up so we can further kick your butt.
Speaker 1: Would you mind helping us out? And e k you
Speaker 1: said no, I don't think we will.
Speaker 4: Ek you got paid over three hundred thousand dollars to
Speaker 4: play the game, so so listen to your big brother.
Speaker 4: And where are the uniforms that we tell you to wear?
Speaker 2: Give me a break.
Speaker 4: When does the road team decide what uniforms that they're
Speaker 4: gonna wear?
Speaker 1: I just said by rule? I know.
Speaker 3: I learned that last week. What a stupid rule. The
Speaker 3: road team gets to decide if they want to wear
Speaker 3: white or not?
Speaker 1: See I am. I think it's a different rule of
Speaker 1: the NFL because the well no, But my point is
Speaker 1: the home team has for several years in some places
Speaker 1: forced the Dallas Cowboys to wear blue and not white,
Speaker 1: because traditionally the Cowboys always wear white even at home.
Speaker 1: The busy don't like wearing blue.
Speaker 3: The Bucks always wear white in the earlier the year.
Speaker 1: Well, and you would think that that would be the
Speaker 1: case with the Cowboys with Texas heat, although in some
Speaker 1: of the old school clips they're wearing the Navy blue.
Speaker 1: But yeah, trust me, having lived down there, that's a
Speaker 1: real point of contention for them. And you know what,
Speaker 1: LSU is the same way. They wear white at home.
Speaker 1: But that's I guess that the visiting teams come in
Speaker 1: to baton rouge. They like wearing their colors, because if
Speaker 1: that indeed is a case, if it's up to the
Speaker 1: visiting team, LSU wears white at home and every once
Speaker 1: in a while when they're on the road, they are
Speaker 1: forced to wear purple, which for whatever reason they don't like,
Speaker 1: which I don't understan because I think they're good looking, beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Northern Illinois too with a big upset.
Speaker 1: How about that Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: I mean, that'll probably keep him out of the playoff
Speaker 4: since he can't win a conference championship and you've got
Speaker 4: such a bad schedule.
Speaker 2: A and M is going to be their biggest win.
Speaker 2: They got it.
Speaker 1: I watched the interview with their head coach. It was
Speaker 1: just compelling, that postgame interview. And then there's a clip
Speaker 1: on Instagram that somebody I think it was his mother
Speaker 1: heard her husband who had played it in IU in
Speaker 1: the man cave and she fires her camera off the
Speaker 1: video and walks down the hall and it reveals this
Speaker 1: guy all by himself standing in front of the TV
Speaker 1: with the postgame celebration going on within IU, screaming and
Speaker 1: yelling about that win. So was that the worst loss
Speaker 1: in American Division one?
Speaker 3: Do you think besides Kentucky?
Speaker 1: Just in terms of what should have happened, that's worse.
Speaker 1: That was worse the day Kentucky's was bad.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you a really bad one too, And it
Speaker 2: gives you some hope. In October, I guess is offered
Speaker 2: and lose it to Kala.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I was listening to a podcast
Speaker 1: and there was a guy who is an odds maker, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, has a gambling podcast or whatever. And one
Speaker 1: of the studies they made was week one to week two,
Speaker 1: teams that were predicted to win by a blowout and struggled,
Speaker 1: so everybody was down on them in terms of betting,
Speaker 1: and they won big the next year. And conversely, teams
Speaker 1: that skated at Waltz to a win like Kentucky, so
Speaker 1: we all thought, well, you know they're gonna I didn't
Speaker 1: think they'd blow out Southronin never did. In fact, I said,
Speaker 1: you said it tends too much. I said it may
Speaker 1: come down to the last possession. Totally wrong. But in
Speaker 1: their study, teams that one easily struggled the next week
Speaker 1: and didn't cover action week. Yeah, exactly, right now. I
Speaker 1: don't know where you go with that from week two
Speaker 1: to week three, but there's something to that, not just
Speaker 1: in the fans clearly, but the players as well.
Speaker 4: And we've heard the old adage, have you heard the
Speaker 4: cliche yet this week? Or that you learn the most
Speaker 4: between week one and week two?
Speaker 1: Not a cliche if it's true. True, But it sure
Speaker 1: didn't work out this week, did it. Yeah? Not for Kentucky. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know so, That's that's what shocked me the most,
Speaker 1: was so many mental errors, not just the defense, but
Speaker 1: there were mental errors on offense as well. They just
Speaker 1: they weren't mentally sharp.
Speaker 2: And it was what was so infuriating about it. And
Speaker 2: we talked about Minci, who's fifth year guy in the
Speaker 2: two illegal formations, but it was so many older guys
Speaker 2: like Octavier the fourth and one South Carolina was just
Speaker 2: hard counting they were gonna punt because they saw what
Speaker 2: Kentucky did earlier in the game. Just trust your defense there.
Speaker 2: So they come up to the line of scribbage fourth
Speaker 2: and one around midfield, hard count, hardcount, hard count. Octavius
Speaker 2: Ockens on a fifth year senior jumps. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can't have that from a fifth year guy in your
Speaker 2: home stadium. And then the MINSI the two illegal formations,
Speaker 2: Marcus Cox and Eli Cox both had a holding those
Speaker 2: guys are old players, Like it's just so many bone
Speaker 2: headed mistakes from guys who have been around the block.
Speaker 2: It was that was probably the thing that surprised me
Speaker 2: the most of anything.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I felt like Oxen Dines was was
Speaker 1: the turning point. Oh yeah, when it came to do
Speaker 1: they have a chance to climb back into this game? Well,
Speaker 1: the thing because I felt like if they held there,
Speaker 1: maybe they can go back to the run game. They
Speaker 1: were still time sure to grind something out and get
Speaker 1: back in.
Speaker 2: It was it when that happens, okay, And well the
Speaker 2: thing is they got another chance. It was thirty three
Speaker 2: plays later. South Carolina's got third and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's like, Okayti pointed out today they converted
Speaker 1: only three, but they were all killers.
Speaker 2: And one was I know it was fourteen, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think nine, and then I don't know what the other
Speaker 2: one was.
Speaker 1: They were bad.
Speaker 2: And you know what, that was the one thing from
Speaker 2: the Southern Miss game. They'd allowed a third and eighteen
Speaker 2: and a third and nine in that game too.
Speaker 1: And Brad White, I'll never forget this, or at least
Speaker 1: throughout this year. First thing he talked about Billy at
Speaker 1: media day, yep, first thing they brought up. He brought
Speaker 1: up the stat about giving up too many third down
Speaker 1: plays and especially third and longs, and which which I thought, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: that's that's noble if you and I assumed they would
Speaker 1: cut down on those. And so far, no good.
Speaker 4: I've heard a lot about dirty eyes over the last
Speaker 4: couple of weeks and guys trying to make plays when
Speaker 4: they should be doing their job. And that goes back
Speaker 4: to what Stoops wants about playing with discipline, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: not not having penalties and doing your job and allow
Speaker 4: it's they called it the ultimate team game on The
Speaker 4: Stoop Show quite a few times. And while there's been
Speaker 4: a lot of blame, blame on the offensive line, sometimes
Speaker 4: it's there's something wrong with the helmet communication that causes
Speaker 4: this cornerback to go this way and then the other
Speaker 4: that led to one of the wide open touchdowns. Things
Speaker 4: like that. So it's always not one position group. But boy,
Speaker 4: was the offensive line bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the dirty I had the safeties, you know
Speaker 2: last year they didn't I know, there were injuries, Love
Speaker 2: It missed some time, Zion played banged up all year,
Speaker 2: Geiger missed most of the year. But they they struggled
Speaker 2: when they were healthy. And then you know, I asked
Speaker 2: Brad White about that when we did our one on
Speaker 2: one for the yearbook, and he kind of corrected me.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, they were just banged up. We'll be fine.
Speaker 2: You go look at you go watch the games back
Speaker 2: in these safeties out Zion I think has made some
Speaker 2: place I have. Zion played a really did and he
Speaker 2: had the scriptsack for In fact, I.
Speaker 1: Was thinking about him as our post game player, but
Speaker 1: Demi just has such a good game.
Speaker 2: But you know, Ty had the pick kind of right place,
Speaker 2: right time. He struggled Minor League Jordan Lovett got cooked.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Safeties have had a had a rough
Speaker 2: go the last two years. It's kind of kind of surprising.
Speaker 1: I was really surprised, Billy, like you said, and when stoops,
Speaker 1: he kind of glossed over it. But the technology was
Speaker 1: a problem apparently, uh, you know, whoever had the green
Speaker 1: dot helmet heard one thing and they signaled something else
Speaker 1: in from the sideline. So I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was sideline miscommunication or you know, he said that whoever
Speaker 1: had the helmet is it is it pop, whoever is,
Speaker 1: whoever might have been, whoever was you know stuff said
Speaker 1: he heard what he heard and then everybody else saw
Speaker 1: what was on the sideline, and so either way, it's
Speaker 1: a breakdown in communication.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and no wonder there is I know, the headset
Speaker 2: communication goes off when they're fifteen seconds left for play clocks.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's something like came in with
Speaker 2: twelve seconds. So yeah, well you wonder does that make
Speaker 2: a difference.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently we're not gonna be able to find mister Picoro.
Speaker 1: So we will take a break and come back and
Speaker 1: talk more college football in just a minute here on
Speaker 1: the state wide BBI. Well, what else is left to
Speaker 1: say about Kentucky's lost to South Carolina? Not much. Got
Speaker 1: to look ahead to Georgia, and you got to wonder, too, Aaron,
Speaker 1: will they tweak the play calling? And I don't know
Speaker 1: enough about bush Hampden's offense, and I haven't seen enough
Speaker 1: of it. Obviously. I did wonder why we didn't see
Speaker 1: draws or screens or something that might have helped the gate.
Speaker 1: Like Jarman talked about on the show tonight, those hard
Speaker 1: rushing ends. South Carolina came off the edges. Georgia is
Speaker 1: gonna come, I think, just off the edges, up the middle.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come everywhere. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: blitz much because I don't know that they'll have to
Speaker 1: out that's a problem.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have to. You're gonna see them
Speaker 2: get really creative, especially in the run game, and they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to because I just don't think I don't
Speaker 2: think you can fix what happened on Saturday in six
Speaker 2: days with the best team in the country. I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna see wildcat formations. Sorry, I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: see you got two three backfield looks, tight ends lining
Speaker 2: up a full backs. I think they're gonna do whatever
Speaker 2: they can to get some creative looks. And I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna try to run the damn ball because that's
Speaker 2: what was working for them last week. And if you know,
Speaker 2: Billy made the point about Mark saying there was nothing
Speaker 2: to build on. If there was anything to build on
Speaker 2: an offense, it was being able to run uphill and
Speaker 2: do some things. And like I said, this is not
Speaker 2: this is a young for the most part Georgia defensive line.
Speaker 2: When their best player, Michael Williams, he will be on
Speaker 2: that availability report. You didn't go this past week, so
Speaker 2: and he was in a boot watching the game. So
Speaker 2: like the one area of George's defense that might be
Speaker 2: suspect could be to Kentucky's advantage, and there, I think
Speaker 2: you're gonna see them try to try to hit that
Speaker 2: because and they're also if anyone knows Brock Vandergriff, it's
Speaker 2: going to be these Georgia defenders who want to against
Speaker 2: them in practice.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Stoops about that, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he would have downplayed it. But you got to wonder
Speaker 1: with a guy on your roster, in fact, you're starting
Speaker 1: QB who knows George's playbook as well as Georgia knows it.
Speaker 1: Is that an advantage of any kind? I'm guessing no,
Speaker 1: because I mean, having played against Georgia and coached against Georgia,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Stoops and Brad White and they all know
Speaker 1: their playbook. Anyway, what you need to know is when
Speaker 1: is it coming right? You know? And nobody's going to
Speaker 1: be able to figure that out. But they know the personnel,
Speaker 1: there's no question about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to ask Jeff Pikra about that.
Speaker 1: Who He's dead to me?
Speaker 2: He left us hanging.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I forgot completely. I tried to.
Speaker 1: I texted you to her mind, I'm old, no excuse.
Speaker 2: Should just let them vent. What'd you see on the
Speaker 2: field there Saturday, Jeff, Oh.
Speaker 5: Boy, I just I saw a lot of Look, they
Speaker 5: they just have to figure out something, Aaron. I mean,
Speaker 5: we you give a baseball analogy like a pitcher when
Speaker 5: they're hitting the he's got to be able to throw
Speaker 5: a strike with something of change up, a curveball, fastball.
Speaker 5: They have to be able to move the football somehow, somehow,
Speaker 5: you cannot play a football game and throw for forty
Speaker 5: yards in nowadays football, it just can't happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, have you ever seen anything like that, Jeff?
Speaker 4: I mean even against number one Georgia, they'll throw for
Speaker 4: more than that many passing yards.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even when we when when we when I played
Speaker 5: in the ten and one year we were we were
Speaker 5: pretty bad, but we still moved the football. We still
Speaker 5: got about three hundred yards a game and offense that
Speaker 5: we ran a lot more. But they've got it. Look,
Speaker 5: this offense is also predicated on running the football and
Speaker 5: everything stems off of that. And if they can't run
Speaker 5: the football, this isn't like people said we wanted. Did
Speaker 5: he just get out there and just really quickly sew it.
Speaker 5: That's not this offense. This isn't the West Coast style offense.
Speaker 5: And you can't change it. Now. This is what you've got.
Speaker 5: But they got to figure a way.
Speaker 1: A blot to your point about running the ball, I
Speaker 1: don't know about how you felt, but after that drive
Speaker 1: where like eleven to twelve plays, was running between the tackles,
Speaker 1: they moved people, they grounded it, got the third and four,
Speaker 1: they had this throw and it didn't work and they
Speaker 1: settled for a field goal. But at that point, Jeff
Speaker 1: ten to six, and I felt like Kentucky made the
Speaker 1: kind of statement you were just talking about. Did you
Speaker 1: feel like at that point they were back in it
Speaker 1: or were you still pretty concerned?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because the way that you can nullify that great
Speaker 5: speed that those guys have on the end and their
Speaker 5: quickness is run right at them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, You've always heard people say that, go right it both.
Speaker 5: You know all the great rushers, you know Henry, all
Speaker 5: these guys run right at them. That way, you're taking
Speaker 5: that quickness away and now you're just playing bully ball.
Speaker 5: And once an offensive lineman gets his hands on guys,
Speaker 5: then it's really tough for them to get away, and
Speaker 5: they can't use their speed because if they try to
Speaker 5: use their speed go outside. You just run inside of them.
Speaker 5: You're running back smart enough to know how to make
Speaker 5: those cuts.
Speaker 1: Well. I don't know much about the edge rushers for Georgia,
Speaker 1: but I know that they are talented at every position.
Speaker 1: That's Swyder here.
Speaker 2: It's their best secondary.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to catch up at you on
Speaker 1: the local show this week, mister Brook or are you
Speaker 1: are dismissed? Thanks so much, Aaron and Billy, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us Kentucky, Georgia on most of these
Speaker 1: same stations.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Good night from Lexington.