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Speaker 4: All right, let's get it started. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome
Speaker 4: into a Tuesday afternoon edition. I mean, it's always the afternoon,
Speaker 4: that's the show. I mean, we are a three to
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Speaker 4: know what, I need to have more awareness while on
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Speaker 4: the company man, mister John Alden alongside. And I'm stressed
Speaker 4: about some stuff right now, and I'm going to use
Speaker 4: the show today as some stress relief. John.
Speaker 3: It's good therapy.
Speaker 4: It is well really, it's just like I can I'm
Speaker 4: like in hiding right now, which the show going on
Speaker 4: because and I'm not like hiding from someone, but like
Speaker 4: I just got you know, I got to figure out
Speaker 4: what the hell's going on with my vehicle. I got
Speaker 4: to figure out like what I got to do, like
Speaker 4: what I'm gonna do when it comes to AutoZone, who
Speaker 4: has still yet to communicate to me after completely blowing
Speaker 4: the fuse in my vehicle. That's what the dealership did
Speaker 4: tell me, that that the main fus of my vehicle
Speaker 4: was was blown. They had to go get and you know,
Speaker 4: they had to put a new part in that kind
Speaker 4: of stuff. And like the dealership is telling me, you know,
Speaker 4: we'll let you know when it's done. And they've been
Speaker 4: they've been good, you know that they've been uh, they've
Speaker 4: they've been way better than than AutoZone. But like, I
Speaker 4: have this fear that I'm going to show up to
Speaker 4: get my car and like they're gonna give me a
Speaker 4: bill for an insane amount of money, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna pay it, you know.
Speaker 3: So there's that.
Speaker 4: So I'm using my my wife's grandmother's vehicle. Nana. Shout
Speaker 4: out Nana. She's she's a blessed Nana, and she's been
Speaker 4: letting me be a blessed Nana in her phenomenal vehicle
Speaker 4: these last few days while I try to figure out
Speaker 4: what's what's you know, when I'm gonna get my car
Speaker 4: back or if I am going to get my car back.
Speaker 4: And uh, I can't blame the car situation on me,
Speaker 4: you know, completely dropping the ball, procrastinating and just like
Speaker 4: you know, forgetting about something. This came up. I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe a month and a half ago or something, but
Speaker 4: I've been selected for Jerry duty and Bullet County totally
Speaker 4: forgot all about that until today I realized that's tomorrow.
Speaker 4: So I have Jerry duty tomorrow or like jury duty orientation.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what that is. I had to
Speaker 4: call our program director my boss here and say so
Speaker 4: I've got jury duty tomorrow, but I don't know, like
Speaker 4: if I'm like, am I gonna be there?
Speaker 3: Two hours?
Speaker 4: Am I gonna be there? Ten hours? Am I gonna
Speaker 4: get there? And they're gonna tell me I'm not needed?
Speaker 4: Like I don't know. So that's stressing me out, and
Speaker 4: I don't want to be stressed. I got into radio
Speaker 4: to avoid having, you know, like you know, to be
Speaker 4: in a grown up and here I am having to
Speaker 4: deal with you know, grown up stuff. So again, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna lock in here for these next three hours. I mean,
Speaker 4: I try to do that every day. But what a
Speaker 4: week it has been. But good news is Louisville Football's
Speaker 4: back in action in uh, you know, five days or so,
Speaker 4: and they're top fifteen team with a chance to go
Speaker 4: get a big time victory. That has me excited. And
Speaker 4: football season being here is good stuff too. Last night
Speaker 4: we had two Monday night football games that I you know,
Speaker 4: I was going back and forth, but I think everything
Speaker 4: I said yesterday, and I'm sure I sounded like I
Speaker 4: was just you know, whining and complaining about the NFL
Speaker 4: because of you know, my inability to win money betting
Speaker 4: on the NFL, and that's part of it. But like,
Speaker 4: even if you don't bet on the NFL, like I
Speaker 4: don't know how you could look at the product in
Speaker 4: the last few weeks since the league, since the season started,
Speaker 4: like it's just it's not great. And you know, NFL
Speaker 4: snobs used to look down on college football, and look,
Speaker 4: I'm not here to tell you college football is better
Speaker 4: than the NFL. Even if you believe that, and that's
Speaker 4: your opinion, that's cool, but like you're going to be
Speaker 4: in the minority because the NFL is king around here.
Speaker 4: We know that. When I say around here, I mean
Speaker 4: in this country. But I really don't. I mean again,
Speaker 4: I think it's more of just like you know, professional
Speaker 4: sports is so different than college but like if you
Speaker 4: consider the pro meaning what you're watching on the field,
Speaker 4: I mean, college football is way more entertaining. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't think I'm biased in saying that. I mean,
Speaker 4: sometimes you have some really good NFL games, but like,
Speaker 4: I don't think we've had many of them this year.
Speaker 4: So last night the Bengals go to oh and three,
Speaker 4: and man, they look like the Bengals of old. This
Speaker 4: is gonna this is gonna sound weird, but let me
Speaker 4: let me get there. I'm actually more impressed with Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow now than I've ever been. And it's not because
Speaker 4: you know, anything he did last night, because you know,
Speaker 4: they lost once again, and the video of him and
Speaker 4: Zach Taylor heading towards his office directly from the field
Speaker 4: right they walked off and did not go to the
Speaker 4: locker room. Those two just went straight to his office
Speaker 4: to probably I don't know, hash some things out, figure
Speaker 4: out what the hell's going on, but not even going
Speaker 4: to the locker room with the team right afterwards because
Speaker 4: they realize, oh and three, this isn't good. But I'm
Speaker 4: more impressed with Joe Burrow now because we're gonna look back,
Speaker 4: in my opinion, ten years from now and say, wait, no, no,
Speaker 4: he goes he didn't go to the Super Bowl. You're
Speaker 4: out of your mind. You dream that, now you're there's
Speaker 4: no way like and then you're gonna realize, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: they did, and Burrow I think was mostly responsible for that.
Speaker 4: I think Jamar Chase certainly was a big factor in
Speaker 4: that too. I mean, I think we all know he was.
Speaker 4: But quarterbacks just get more of the credit when things
Speaker 4: happen in a positive way and they get more of
Speaker 4: the blame when things happen in a bad way. Like
Speaker 4: I don't even think Joe Burrow has been like a
Speaker 4: huge problem for them this year. I mean he probably
Speaker 4: hadn't played great to his standard, but they're a mess.
Speaker 4: And then the year so far has been expect the
Speaker 4: unexpected as far as just some of the results. But
Speaker 4: I'm I think that's sort of been the case with
Speaker 4: quarterbacks as well, not just like with wins and losses
Speaker 4: with teams, but just again, right now, Sam Darnell would
Speaker 4: be your MVP in the NFL, Like that's crazy to say.
Speaker 4: Andy Dalton is the first quarterback of the season to
Speaker 4: give you three hundred yards and three touchdowns in a
Speaker 4: game like it's it's insane, And I won't claim to.
Speaker 4: I won't claim to you know, be this you know
Speaker 4: quarterback guru that can evaluate these guys at a really
Speaker 4: high level, because I mean I can't. But of all
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks coming out in recent years, one guy that
Speaker 4: I just kind of had I had a hard time
Speaker 4: thinking this was really going to work out was Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 4: And how about this guy last night for the Commanders.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's been sensational. Really, he's slowly but surely
Speaker 4: gotten more and more comfortable. And then last night in
Speaker 4: his third NFL game, I mean a performance for the ages,
Speaker 4: twenty one of twenty three passes completed ninety one point
Speaker 4: three percent ninety one point three completion percentage, which set
Speaker 4: a record for rookies. I mean two hundred ninety three
Speaker 4: total yards, tw hundred and fifty four passing yards, had
Speaker 4: three touchdowns, two passing, one rushing. I mean, this guy
Speaker 4: was sensational. And you know, let's be real, he didn't
Speaker 4: go to some great team. That's why he was drafted
Speaker 4: where he was, right, Like Anthony Richardson, Does he have
Speaker 4: a great system around him. No, And that's the Colts
Speaker 4: fault for just putting a guy out there to see
Speaker 4: what he can do. Cut his teeth and look, you
Speaker 4: can do that with certain guys. But Anthony Richardson did
Speaker 4: not win in high school, did not win at Florida,
Speaker 4: had a losing I mean, he had a losing record
Speaker 4: at Florida. And he's his high school team was two
Speaker 4: and eight when he was a senior. So to me,
Speaker 4: he's just a rare guy that yeah, you take him
Speaker 4: that early in the draft because you need a quarterback,
Speaker 4: but you got to let him sit because he's never
Speaker 4: been good at any level. You think you're gonna throw
Speaker 4: himut in the NFL on a roster that's already not
Speaker 4: great and have success. Good luck, and you're seeing it now.
Speaker 4: They did beat the Bears, And I bring all that
Speaker 4: up to say, like, Jayden Daniels is in a bad
Speaker 4: situation too, so is Anthony Richardson. So it's Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 4: And it's early for both those guys, especially since Richardson
Speaker 4: didn't play much last year because he couldn't play without
Speaker 4: getting hurt. But those guys get a bit. Those guys
Speaker 4: are getting a pass and look, not to say they
Speaker 4: don't deserve it, but like Kayler Williams has been bad.
Speaker 4: I mean he's been bad. His offensive line isn't good.
Speaker 4: But again, like to see this Washington team off to
Speaker 4: a two and one start with their rookie quarterback. Again,
Speaker 4: he didn't walk into a great situation either, So really
Speaker 4: really impressive last night. And I'm still not sure who
Speaker 4: is in fact good and who's bad. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think we know we got a good idea who sucks
Speaker 4: in the NFL but I don't know if we've ever
Speaker 4: gone three weeks in and been this unclear about all right,
Speaker 4: who do we think like might be kind of good?
Speaker 3: Can we say the Bills are the favorite right now?
Speaker 3: Or is that to be the Chiefs.
Speaker 4: I think the Bills look the best. I think that's
Speaker 4: spot on. I think again the Chiefs. Anybody's saying they're
Speaker 4: the best team in the NFL right now, And I
Speaker 4: don't blame you for doing this. I'm just saying you're
Speaker 4: basing that all off of what run they're on as
Speaker 4: we speak, because they haven't looked good all year. I
Speaker 4: mean every win they had they could have easily lost
Speaker 4: in a game where they, you know, to their standard,
Speaker 4: didn't play well. Now, again, good teams find ways to win,
Speaker 4: and they've done that every single time here. But you
Speaker 4: know they should have lost to the Ravens. That guy
Speaker 4: doesn't have his you know, that receiver doesn't have his
Speaker 4: foot on the line. On that opening night, you know
Speaker 4: they probably don't win. And then the bailout call. I
Speaker 4: mean again, Cincinnati gave them the game in Kansas City,
Speaker 4: and we know Cincinnati's not good at least right now.
Speaker 4: They look terrible. And then against the Falcons. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't think the Falcons are great, and they could
Speaker 4: have easily you know. Again, the play of the game
Speaker 4: in that Sunday night game between the Falcons and the
Speaker 4: Chiefs was from the punter who was able to make
Speaker 4: some acrobatic athletic catch when the ball was you know,
Speaker 4: sent ten feet ahead of him or ten feet above him.
Speaker 4: It seemed so Anyways, Monday night football last night, I
Speaker 4: mean it was I'm gonna watch it, I'm gonna consume
Speaker 4: the product. I love it when they give us two
Speaker 4: games rather than one. But I still just feel like,
Speaker 4: you know this, like it's great because we just love it.
Speaker 4: But as far as like the actual product again, I
Speaker 4: keep using that word product. What I mean is like
Speaker 4: it's just not been entertaining at all. And some people
Speaker 4: don't care about anentertainment value when you're just watching your
Speaker 4: team play, right, because it doesn't matter when right. You
Speaker 4: want to you want to see your team win. You
Speaker 4: want to you want you want them to look good
Speaker 4: doing it. But at the end of the day, if
Speaker 4: your team plays boring, not entertaining football, but yet they
Speaker 4: win all the time, you're gonna be happy. Right, So,
Speaker 4: like It's not like I'm saying the NFL sucks, but
Speaker 4: I just I feel like three weeks in this is
Speaker 4: an unusual spot. However, records in revenue, I'm sorry, ratings
Speaker 4: in revenue for the NFL has never been better, and
Speaker 4: that's all that matters to them, Like they don't have
Speaker 4: a there's there's no problem with the NFL. The NFL
Speaker 4: is going to continue to be king in a major way.
Speaker 4: But I just think I watch a lot of NFL
Speaker 4: games without really having a dog in the fight, because
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of times I watch my Colts.
Speaker 4: I'm a Colts fan, but I really don't, you know,
Speaker 4: And there's more often than not, if I found myself
Speaker 4: rooting for a team in the NFL, it's because I
Speaker 4: don't like the other team that they're playing. So, you know,
Speaker 4: I I'm just curious if if this is going to
Speaker 4: be the season, or if things kind of settle in
Speaker 4: and and you know, we get back to getting more
Speaker 4: entertaining football to watch. I mean, there's some numbers that
Speaker 4: kind of back this up that I'll get into a
Speaker 4: little bit later, but as far as like the amount
Speaker 4: of passing touchdowns three weeks in is way lower than
Speaker 4: it's been in forever. So anyways, let's see here, we're
Speaker 4: gonna have a guest joining us early in the show.
Speaker 4: At three point thirty, we will be joined by the one,
Speaker 4: the only, mister Zach Barnetta FootballScoop dot Com get his
Speaker 4: thoughts on the college football season thus far. Usually we
Speaker 4: just talk big picture college football stuff with Zach, and
Speaker 4: we'll continue to do that. But I would imagine when
Speaker 4: he's looking at the board the schedule this week as
Speaker 4: far as games, he's going to really prioritize, as far
Speaker 4: as watching and doing some coverage for the Football Scoop crew.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine this Notre Dame Louisville game's not on there. Again,
Speaker 4: it's easily one of the top three matchups of the weekend.
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got Georgia Bama and that is that's
Speaker 4: a that's a sensational matchup on its own. And then
Speaker 4: after that, you know, you're probably picking between Louislle Notre Dame,
Speaker 4: and then Wisconsin.
Speaker 3: And Illinoyd Penn State, Illinois.
Speaker 4: Penn State. I don't know why I say Wisconsin. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So you know, we'll talk to Zach curious to see
Speaker 4: what he thinks about Notre Dame because I mean, I'll
Speaker 4: put it this way, I am not here to say
Speaker 4: that I know they know that they're gonna win or
Speaker 4: that like I'm super confident because I usually don't, like
Speaker 4: I'm not. I don't do a lot of like prediction stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean not because like I'm scared. I just don't
Speaker 4: really like, I don't know why my prediction for a
Speaker 4: game is relevant. I can give you thoughts as far
Speaker 4: as what I hope happens, and I can share you
Speaker 4: know what, what I expect to see, but like you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not one that's like I'm gonna guarantee you Louisville's winning.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I did that, it wouldn't do any good.
Speaker 4: It's you know. So anyways, here's what I do feel
Speaker 4: comfortable in saying, I think they're gonna be ready to play.
Speaker 4: Does that mean they win? No, But I think Louisville
Speaker 4: football has has come a long way since the first
Speaker 4: time you played Notre Dame many many years ago, and
Speaker 4: in fact, when you did that, you beat them to
Speaker 4: where now, like we know, Notre Dame is legitimately a
Speaker 4: top you know, top twenty program right now as we speak,
Speaker 4: historically they're one of the best ever. But I get
Speaker 4: the sense that the fan base isn't like, oh, we're
Speaker 4: gonna kill them. They stink we're gonna shock the world.
Speaker 4: I think you just kind of have. I just get
Speaker 4: the sense that the fans, and I'm sure it's the
Speaker 4: same way with Jeff Brohm and his team, they're comfortable
Speaker 4: with where they are and they know that if they
Speaker 4: go play good football, they play clean football. They don't
Speaker 4: you know, they don't make a ton of me. Again,
Speaker 4: I'm about to give you all the cliches like don't
Speaker 4: like don't turn it over, like turnovers are you know,
Speaker 4: anytime people do keys to the game and they mention
Speaker 4: turnovers like yeah, anytime you just start turning the ball over,
Speaker 4: that's gonna be crucial. So again, I feel good about
Speaker 4: the matchup. I'm not worried about Notre Dame just being
Speaker 4: able to throw some dudes out there that we can't
Speaker 4: account for. But really, for me, it's just about the
Speaker 4: injury situation, and I don't think we're gonna get any
Speaker 4: update until we get closer to this thing actually kicking off.
Speaker 4: No other guests are going to join us other than Zach,
Speaker 4: so after three thirty, it'll be it'll be wide open
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Speaker 4: if you want to text end of the show. So
Speaker 4: can somebody help me out here? Jury duty orientation? Does
Speaker 4: that mean? Like I've been selected and I am part
Speaker 4: of a jury, therefore we're gonna have orientation?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Hey, you show up and they just kind of tell
Speaker 4: you what the process is because I don't know, and uh,
Speaker 4: I can't be the only one that like realized through
Speaker 4: the mail they got to show up for this and
Speaker 4: they walked in blind, not knowing at all really what
Speaker 4: they were were getting into. So you may be hosting
Speaker 4: the show tomorrow, John, I mean, I don't think that's
Speaker 4: gonna be the case. But you know, stay ready, stay ready,
Speaker 4: so you don't have to get ready. In fact, I
Speaker 4: don't know what they would do, but I did at
Speaker 4: least tell Gus like we'll see and what I don't know,
Speaker 4: like do they take your phone away? Like can, I
Speaker 4: have no clue what to expect. The only thing I
Speaker 4: know about a Jerry, and I guess Jerry duty is
Speaker 4: whenever I've seen like courtroom TV shows where they I
Speaker 4: can see the Jerry sitting over there, like I know
Speaker 4: that they've got a spot in the in the courtroom
Speaker 4: and that's where they sit. Other than that, I don't know.
Speaker 4: So we shall see, all right. So before we take
Speaker 4: a break and bring in Zach Barnett, we've got another game.
Speaker 4: We now know as far as the date and the
Speaker 4: time and the opponent for the Louisville basketball team. And
Speaker 4: they kind of I mean this, they put it out yesterday,
Speaker 4: the ACC did as well as U of L on
Speaker 4: their social media, and I think today later today the
Speaker 4: ACC will unveil the entire schedule for the basketball uh.
Speaker 4: And I mean, I haven't had the time to go
Speaker 4: look into it, and I will at some point. But
Speaker 4: Louisville they're gonna play Duke in December. Here their ACC
Speaker 4: opener will be again the Duke Blue Devils. It'll be
Speaker 4: six pm on December eighth. They're gonna host, Yeah, on
Speaker 4: the ACC network, They're gonna host Duke. So if you
Speaker 4: look at Louisville's schedule. Pat Kelsey year one, he's gonna
Speaker 4: have one of the toughest non conference schedules that anybody's
Speaker 4: gonna have. In that I mean, maybe not even just
Speaker 4: non non conference, because Duke is a conference game, but
Speaker 4: because of the ACC network they do, they do require
Speaker 4: you play at least one ACC games when most people
Speaker 4: are playing their non conference games. So I mean, you've
Speaker 4: got let's start with the fact that your second game
Speaker 4: of the season is at your third game.
Speaker 3: Of the season.
Speaker 4: Second game, Yeah, the second game of the season is
Speaker 4: going to be against Tennessee, and I mean, maybe they
Speaker 4: end up falling off a little bit, right, maybe Tennessee
Speaker 4: ends up taking a step back under Rick Barnes. That
Speaker 4: wouldn't be the craziest thing. But as far as right,
Speaker 4: you know, as far as what they're expected to do
Speaker 4: by those that objectively cover the sport, Tennessee's expected to
Speaker 4: be pretty good. Again. I mean, I'm looking here at
Speaker 4: ESPN's early rankings and they've got Tennessee at number thirteen.
Speaker 4: So you got the number thirteen team in the country
Speaker 4: in your second in your second game as the head
Speaker 4: coach at Louisville. Well, then you're gonna take on the
Speaker 4: Indiana Hoosiers, a team that also is expected to be
Speaker 4: pretty good this year. In fact, I think Indiana, not
Speaker 4: to say they're getting that, they're getting like a ton
Speaker 4: of Like I think it's understandable why they're like borderline
Speaker 4: like eighteen to twenty in a lot of these preseason rankings,
Speaker 4: because you know, with them, it's it's more based off of, Okay,
Speaker 4: did the guys they bring back get better? And are
Speaker 4: these trendsfers going to really work? But I feel like
Speaker 4: you could say that about just about any team, by
Speaker 4: about any team in the country. But I actually think
Speaker 4: from a personnel standpoint, I mean with Miles, Rice, Cannan, Carlisle,
Speaker 4: and Bacco renew Ballow, I mean, that's a hell of
Speaker 4: a starting five. Like as far as talent, now, how
Speaker 4: it all works together, I don't know. But Indiana, that's
Speaker 4: gonna be a tough game. So that's two top twenty
Speaker 4: matchups for for Pat Kelce in his first five games.
Speaker 4: And then after that you could be playing Gonzaga, you
Speaker 4: could be playing West Virginia. I mean Gonzaga. I don't
Speaker 4: know if I believe they're that good. They're good they're
Speaker 4: gonna it's gonna be a tough and they'll better than
Speaker 4: they were a year ago. But I don't know if
Speaker 4: I think they're top five. But you know, ESPN hasn't
Speaker 4: ranked number five in the country. So from then you
Speaker 4: return from the Bahamas to get Ole Miss who you know,
Speaker 4: Chris Beard in his second season there. They're a top
Speaker 4: twenty team. They're ranked number twenty. So now you throw
Speaker 4: in two other teams to round out the non con
Speaker 4: the I guess pre Christmas schedule. You've got Kentucky on
Speaker 4: December fourteenth at roupp Aerna. And where are they at
Speaker 4: in this ranking? I think they're They're in there somewhere right. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they're number twenty three, which I think that's a little
Speaker 4: I mean, I have no clue how good they're gonna be,
Speaker 4: But I feel like in most early rankings, John, I've
Speaker 4: seen Kentucky higher than that. Would you agree?
Speaker 3: I you know, I've looked at a ton of them
Speaker 3: yet this year.
Speaker 4: But when I say twenty three, do you think like
Speaker 4: that's high low or right about what would be?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just maybe I'm just in you know, maybe
Speaker 4: I'm being influenced by like Kentucky acting as if they've
Speaker 4: got like you.
Speaker 3: Know, and that is the team more certainly the case.
Speaker 4: It's like they got the team played for the winn
Speaker 4: National Championship. So look, and they've got good I'll be honest,
Speaker 4: they've got good personnel. I think they've got a chance
Speaker 4: to be pretty good. So you know, that's another top
Speaker 4: twenty five matchup. And then Duke. I mean, that's gonna
Speaker 4: be a big game, man, because that's Dukes acc opener
Speaker 4: as well. And I think Cooper Flag is gonna be
Speaker 4: the best player in the country this year. I really do.
Speaker 4: And I know that we are in the We're in
Speaker 4: a new world of college basketball where a lot of
Speaker 4: these guys that he's going to be going up against
Speaker 4: are grown men compared to him. He's fresh out of
Speaker 4: high school. But this is a guy who is in
Speaker 4: that elite tier. And what really really made it clear
Speaker 4: to me that this guy is different. He's special. First
Speaker 4: guy in a long time to hit the college game.
Speaker 4: That's just different. As a freshman was whenever he was
Speaker 4: working out and competing with the the United States team
Speaker 4: that we sent to the Olympics. I mean, he was
Speaker 4: competing with those guys and holding his own and in fact,
Speaker 4: at time's getting the best of them, Like there's video
Speaker 4: footage of that, and to see that he was unanimously
Speaker 4: voted by college basketball coaches in that CBS piece the
Speaker 4: Candid Coaches Series, as as the number one player in
Speaker 4: the country. So you know, Duke has not been the
Speaker 4: same Duke necessarily under John Shire. But there's still Duke
Speaker 4: and this guy is I mean, this guy is gonna
Speaker 4: be appointment viewing for a lot of people just because
Speaker 4: people want to People are gonna want to see is
Speaker 4: this guy the real deal? And I think he is.
Speaker 4: So Duke is number eight in these rankings, so let's
Speaker 4: count him out. Now you've got let's see here we
Speaker 4: just you know, just I was gonna say, it's not
Speaker 4: really math, it's just counting. I just want to make
Speaker 4: sure I get because I get, I want to go.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go look at it. And I don't know
Speaker 4: where where Louisville's gonna end up, but I feel like
Speaker 4: there's gonna it's gonna be hard to find teams that
Speaker 4: have as many challenging games in November and December. Maybe
Speaker 4: I'm way off here, but again, Tennessee, Indiana I guess
Speaker 4: West Virginia and Zaget really depends.
Speaker 3: On throwing that third Bahamas game because there will be three.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so no matter who you get, you're getting
Speaker 4: good teams. West Virginia probably won't be ranked, but still,
Speaker 4: like you know, you're gonna end up probably playing two
Speaker 4: ranked teams in the Bahamas at minimum, and then you've
Speaker 4: got Ole Miss and then Kentucky and Duke. I mean,
Speaker 4: you're looking at six seven maybe of your November and
Speaker 4: December games are going to be against like, like legitimately
Speaker 4: not just good competition, good tests, but like teams that
Speaker 4: might be really really good.
Speaker 3: And there is a two week gap between Kentucky and
Speaker 3: e Ku, will they throw another ACC game.
Speaker 4: That's this one's in between there? Okay, due, Yeah, so
Speaker 4: Duke will be on well I'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry, December eight, Yeah, Duke.
Speaker 4: From what I'm so, my guess will be that that
Speaker 4: will that will be They've done two ACC games in
Speaker 4: December I think for the last two three years, however
Speaker 4: long the AEC network has existed. So my guess is
Speaker 4: that there will be a game between there, because it
Speaker 4: makes no sense for them to not have I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's just odd. So yeah, I and who knows,
Speaker 4: maybe the second ACC team they play ends up being
Speaker 4: North Carolina. I mean, I don't know. I mean I'm
Speaker 4: looking here at these rankings. There's not that many ACC
Speaker 4: teams that are even in it. So, you know, it's
Speaker 4: exciting because, you know, I feel really good about where
Speaker 4: Louisville basketball is with Pat Kelsey. He hadn't coached a
Speaker 4: game yet, so we shall see. But like it's nice
Speaker 4: to be involved in these games where you don't just
Speaker 4: have to dread the overall situation and worry about you know,
Speaker 4: are we gonna lose bout thirty five? Is it gonna
Speaker 4: be another national situation to where the only reason this
Speaker 4: game is getting attention is because people are saying to themselves,
Speaker 4: can you believe what happened to Louisville GE's we won't
Speaker 4: have that issue. But like ready or not, Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 4: gonna be challenged in a major ways as he gets
Speaker 4: his tenure here at Louisville started. And I'm sure he's
Speaker 4: gonna be ready. He's a competitor, But I'm curious if
Speaker 4: like he would have signed up with this if he
Speaker 4: had a choice as far as this schedule, not the
Speaker 4: job but I think he's he's happy.
Speaker 3: To be here.
Speaker 4: All right, quick break, We'll come back on the other
Speaker 4: side and bring in mister Zack Barnett football scoop dot com.
Speaker 4: It's Coffee and Company field by Thorntons right here on
Speaker 4: Sports Talk seven ninety. That's right, Coffee and Company fueled
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Speaker 4: We appreciate you hanging out with us, and we always
Speaker 4: appreciate our man, Zach Barnett making time for us. He's
Speaker 4: a regular guest here and I like to keep Zach
Speaker 4: on his toes. Last time, I'm not sure he was
Speaker 4: expecting to talk Brooks and done, but we did. So
Speaker 4: I'm going to start with a question that I'm sure
Speaker 4: you're not prepared for. Have you ever been to jury duty?
Speaker 4: Have you ever been a part of a jury.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I have not.
Speaker 4: Would you want to?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Same here.
Speaker 2: I once this is a story for another day, but
Speaker 2: I once came embarrassingly close to falling for a scam
Speaker 2: after someone tried to convince me I miss jury duty.
Speaker 4: But oh, that's a great way to scam somebody, because like,
Speaker 4: if you're like me, the way I have jury duty
Speaker 4: tomorrow and I forgot all about it. So now like
Speaker 4: I'm having to scramble and like tell my bosses, like, hey,
Speaker 4: I forgot about this. I should have said something, but
Speaker 4: like I don't know, I may not be here tomorrow.
Speaker 4: So totally me just being me, being a dumb ass procrastinating.
Speaker 4: But because I have a very unusual fear of like
Speaker 4: getting in trouble, Like I know I wouldn't do well
Speaker 4: in jail, Zach. So I'm just I'm convinced that, like
Speaker 4: if I mess up something with jury duty, They're gonna
Speaker 4: put out a warrant for me and throw me in
Speaker 4: the slammer. So if somebody called me and told me, like, hey,
Speaker 4: you need to do this because you missed jerry duty,
Speaker 4: Like I don't know if that's what happened to you,
Speaker 4: but I would fall for it all the time.
Speaker 2: I've always known that about you that you wouldn't You're
Speaker 2: the type that wouldn't do well in jail.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean, I it's at least I'm transparent
Speaker 4: about it, you know what I mean. So again, it's
Speaker 4: a story for a different day. But like, did you
Speaker 4: you say you almost got scammed? Like you didn't like
Speaker 4: you didn't like lose money or anything.
Speaker 1: Did you? No?
Speaker 2: But I went again, this is embarrassing. So but I
Speaker 2: went as too far as pulling money out and prepared
Speaker 2: to take it somewhere, but I never I never gave it.
Speaker 4: You think that's embarrassing, dude, you met me? I mean,
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's I mean, that's not that bad
Speaker 4: I've done. I've done a lot of I've done more
Speaker 4: stupid stuff today, I think, Zach. So anyways, well, this year,
Speaker 4: when we brought you out of talk some college football,
Speaker 4: I'm not sure Louivels come up all that often, and
Speaker 4: I get why they hadn't played anybody that you'd want
Speaker 4: to watch until recently. And even the Georgia Tech LEUISLL
Speaker 4: game is probably not up there for those like yourself
Speaker 4: who cover this sport nationally, but Notre Dame Louisville. I mean,
Speaker 4: is it safe to say this is one of the
Speaker 4: bigger matchups on the card? I mean, obviously Georgia and
Speaker 4: Bama's in a world of its own, but it's a
Speaker 4: decent matchup for those who aren't necessarily rooting for either
Speaker 4: team here, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's number fifteen, I guess number sixteen. And you know,
Speaker 2: if we're being honest here that the national appeal is
Speaker 2: Notre Dame seasons on the line because the Northern Illinois loss,
Speaker 2: which has aged like milk on a hot summer day
Speaker 2: after the Northern Illinois turned round lost to Buffalo, Uh,
Speaker 2: this is their next best chance to have their season
Speaker 2: go up in flames before October even gets here. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and then Louisville is a team that's quasi interesting, but
Speaker 2: as you said, hasn't really played anyone yet and uh
Speaker 2: won't really for a while outside of this game.
Speaker 4: So when you when you saw and I'm sure you
Speaker 4: saw a good chunk of the of the Texas A
Speaker 4: and M Notre Dame game early on this season and
Speaker 4: it was a big win for Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame,
Speaker 4: did they stand? Did you think that was more of
Speaker 4: them kind of you know, looking like they're going to
Speaker 4: be a prettydamn good team this year or is that
Speaker 4: more of a sign of A and M because A
Speaker 4: and M has seemingly responded pretty well since then. Notre
Speaker 4: Dame again that lost to in Northern Illinois, as you mentioned,
Speaker 4: not aging. Well, I'm just curious what you did this
Speaker 4: is a game where Notre Dame if they lose, they're out,
Speaker 4: Like nobody's gonna consider that. They're not even going to
Speaker 4: be in the conversation for the playoff at all. I
Speaker 4: personally don't even think they should be right now because
Speaker 4: of how bad that one loss is. But I guess
Speaker 4: what I'm asking here is like, do you feel like
Speaker 4: Notre Dame, even though they had that slip up, those
Speaker 4: things happen, are they?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 4: How good are they?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. I mean the A and M
Speaker 2: when the Ryley Leonard didn't light the world on fire,
Speaker 2: but you chalked that up too well, it's a hostile
Speaker 2: environment and A and M is a good team. And
Speaker 2: how impressive was it that Notre Dame was able to
Speaker 2: pop some big runs when they really needed him. And
Speaker 2: now it turns out that A and M had the
Speaker 2: wrong quarterback in if they played that game again tomorrow
Speaker 2: and Connor Webman will not start, and that might have
Speaker 2: been the best we see of the Notre Dame pass offense.
Speaker 2: The most yards that Riley Leonard's thrown for is one
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two, and that was in the Northern
Speaker 2: Illinois game when it took him like thirty two passes
Speaker 2: to do it. He's if we assume his nil salary
Speaker 2: is a million dollars, then he's making a million dollars
Speaker 2: per touchdown pass right now he's throwing all over one.
Speaker 4: Gosh, that's a lot of money. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's one of many quarterbacks and I want to and
Speaker 4: I actually want to talk about that come up here
Speaker 4: at a moment, because I know that's something that you
Speaker 4: guys have been covering, that is that is eventually somebody's
Speaker 4: gonna realize what are we doing here spending all this money,
Speaker 4: essentially burning money to go get these quarterbacks in the
Speaker 4: portal who were fine but like good luck, really trying
Speaker 4: to show that you got some kind of return on
Speaker 4: that investment. But before we get to that, the big
Speaker 4: matchup Georgia Bama. Georgia, you know, they've they've looked phenomenal
Speaker 4: for years and then they had that really close game
Speaker 4: against Kentucky, and you know that I think that said,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know what that game told
Speaker 4: us other than this has become kind of a theme
Speaker 4: for Georgia because they had a really close game last
Speaker 4: year against a bad Auburn team who lost to New
Speaker 4: Mexico State after they nearly beat Georgia. Missouri outplayed them
Speaker 4: two years ago and still couldn't hold on, and neither
Speaker 4: team was able to really take that and finish strong,
Speaker 4: if you know what I mean. Whereas Kentucky, I guess
Speaker 4: we'll see if that ends up happening with them. But
Speaker 4: like Georgia in Bama, I don't know. I just I
Speaker 4: wouldn't be shocked if Georgia wins this thing, not necessarily
Speaker 4: going away, but like, I just think they're the much
Speaker 4: better team. But I'm just curious what your thoughts here
Speaker 4: on this matchup?
Speaker 2: Is I actually like Alabama to win?
Speaker 4: Okay, look at this, I've not heard anybody else say that, Zach.
Speaker 2: I just I like Alabama's ability to create explosives in
Speaker 2: the past game and the run game more than I
Speaker 2: like Georgia's Jalen Milroe. Maybe not as good as a
Speaker 2: drop back passer as Carson Beck, although the numbers say
Speaker 2: they're pretty close, but he's just such a better athlete
Speaker 2: than Carson Beck and every other quarterback in college football obviously,
Speaker 2: and I like both. The Alabama defense is a little
Speaker 2: bit questionable, their secondary is, but Georgia's receivers. Again, we're
Speaker 2: talking scale here. If they're playing Louisville tomorrow, then Georgia's
Speaker 2: receivers are scary. But going it's the quality of athlete
Speaker 2: that Alabama has. I think that's a draw and that's
Speaker 2: a relative weakness for Alabama. I just the fact that
Speaker 2: it's at home leads me to believe Alabama wins. If
Speaker 2: this game was in Athens, I'd probably take Georgia. But
Speaker 2: I feel reasonably confident Alabama wins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean against ranked teams. Deboa is twelve and
Speaker 4: two overall, and he, you know, this is obviously different,
Speaker 4: a different planet playing Georgia in Kirby smart, but he
Speaker 4: does at least at this point, have a you know,
Speaker 4: not at Bama because he's only in his first season,
Speaker 4: but he does have a track record of having his
Speaker 4: guys ready to play and winning when they play big
Speaker 4: time opponents. If in fact Bama does does get the victory,
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like that people are going to,
Speaker 4: like not say that this guy's better than saving but
Speaker 4: how how huge would that be early on in his
Speaker 4: first you know, month on the job.
Speaker 2: Essentially, Yeah, it's weird to say, but he I mean,
Speaker 2: he coached for a national championship this calendar year, but
Speaker 2: I think this is in some ways the biggest game
Speaker 2: of his career, and it goes back to the old
Speaker 2: the old coaching out of it, so he can take
Speaker 2: his and beat you where you can take years and
Speaker 2: beat you with his. For a guy to beat the consensus,
Speaker 2: you know, best program in the country, the preseason number
Speaker 2: one team in game four of a new regime would
Speaker 2: be extremely impressive. Obviously, Alabama lost some guys, but it's
Speaker 2: still the most talented roster of college football. But I
Speaker 2: mean your game four and Kirby Smart is what game seventy?
Speaker 2: I don't have no off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: but I mean they've been the They've won what forty
Speaker 2: one straight regular season games. This is the ultimate death
Speaker 2: machine in college football right now. So to be able
Speaker 2: to beat them in your fourth game with obviously a
Speaker 2: really good quarterback, but not a guy that you recruited,
Speaker 2: you know, you didn't have multiple years to develop your
Speaker 2: offense like you did at Washington. You're doing it relatively
Speaker 2: on the fly. So if you can do that a
Speaker 2: month in that's certainly in his home base, that would
Speaker 2: be more impressive. Than even winning the national championship at Washington.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for Bama fans, you know, they've been able
Speaker 4: to say, yeah, Kirby's been great, but you know, we've
Speaker 4: been the one team that has been able to take
Speaker 4: you down during this great run that George has been on.
Speaker 4: And if if Kaylin does it in his first matchup,
Speaker 4: I mean, that would be some major bragging rights for Bama.
Speaker 4: Not that they you know, not that they need anymore,
Speaker 4: and not that Georgia would feel like they're in shambles,
Speaker 4: but to the elite, the two elite programs, I feel
Speaker 4: like in college football, going head to head this Saturday
Speaker 4: should be should be a great game. But Zack Barnett
Speaker 4: is our guest joining us here talking to some college
Speaker 4: football on Sports Talk seven nine. You guys can read
Speaker 4: Zach's work at FootballScoop dot com. I know you guys
Speaker 4: enjoy his analysis each week, but does great work as well.
Speaker 4: And I really enjoyed the piece in regards to the
Speaker 4: quarterback free agency situation. And I don't I mean again,
Speaker 4: I just mentioned in a moment ago, I don't know
Speaker 4: how a lot of these coaches, programs andil collectives could
Speaker 4: say that they're getting like a return on their investment.
Speaker 4: But if somehow somebody's able to round up in ile money,
Speaker 4: I don't even think they think about our and they
Speaker 4: just say, hey, let's go get a good player. But
Speaker 4: I mean, the the early I guess part of this
Speaker 4: wave of the portal and the quarterbacks are gonna be
Speaker 4: the guys that get all the money. I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't see any change, Like I think, despite there there's
Speaker 4: gonna be way more examples of guys that got a
Speaker 4: lot of money to come in and transfer and it
Speaker 4: really they just didn't come close to living up to it.
Speaker 4: But I feel like if coaches know they've got money
Speaker 4: aside somewhere, it's not their money, it's money from a
Speaker 4: collective or money from you know, an individual supporter who's
Speaker 4: a big donor, Like they're gonna still go pay whatever
Speaker 4: they can to go get whoever they want. Like, I
Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna learn from these bad investments. Just
Speaker 4: curious your thoughts on it. I know you are much
Speaker 4: more connected in the college football world than I'll ever be.
Speaker 4: But again, it's embarrassing to see some of these, again
Speaker 4: big investments that have no chance of paying off. But
Speaker 4: yet I don't see it ending.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's just a And again I
Speaker 2: encourage everyone to go read the piece. And I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to come to these sweeping conclusions here because it's
Speaker 2: too early for that. But you look at Miami and
Speaker 2: cam Ward, and that guy's been worth every bit of
Speaker 2: what Miami paid for him and then some, and you
Speaker 2: know they're my prese. I mean, I think that's the
Speaker 2: a SEC champion and a college Football Playoff quarter finalist
Speaker 2: at worst, and they're not doing that with Tyler Van Dyke,
Speaker 2: Like that guy's been every bit a franchise player. But
Speaker 2: then you go next to if you're Florida State, well, okay,
Speaker 2: we missed a number one. Who's number two on our board? Okay,
Speaker 2: dju all right, well let's go get him. He's the
Speaker 2: next best thing. And just because he's necessarily the number
Speaker 2: two guy on your board doesn't make him, you know,
Speaker 2: that much closer to number one. I think you've seen
Speaker 2: other than cam Award, you haven't seen these guys come
Speaker 2: in and be transformational players. Like even Grayson McCall at
Speaker 2: NC State has struggled before he got hurt, and obviously
Speaker 2: that team is a disaster maybe the worst team of
Speaker 2: the ACC But he even said that he's not a
Speaker 2: guy that's going to lift him from three wins to
Speaker 2: six wins or anything like that. So, I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know when NC State paid him, but if you're
Speaker 2: a collective, you're thinking, maybe we're better off roll than
Speaker 2: what we got and spreading that out over you know,
Speaker 2: three defensive players that can help us at every level.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think people are always going to be enamored,
Speaker 2: uh with with the big quarterback, the star quarterback, the
Speaker 2: five star quarterback. You know at Oklahoma there that was
Speaker 2: kind of the genesis of the piece of what's going
Speaker 2: on in Oklahoma. After saving saying goodbye to Dylan Gabriel
Speaker 2: and then promoting Jackson Arnold a lot, pretty much every
Speaker 2: single Oklahoma fanils like, good ridden, Yeah, we got a
Speaker 2: guy who's more talented, who's going to be here longer.
Speaker 2: This is a sound investment for us. And then now
Speaker 2: they're going into their fourth game with a true freshman quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah again. Football scoop dot com is where you guys
Speaker 4: can check it out. Zach has a great rundown here
Speaker 4: of all the different programs that did bring in a
Speaker 4: veteran or just a quarterback from the portal and and
Speaker 4: he's given a verdict at least at this point as
Speaker 4: far as how that's working out. So really interesting stuff
Speaker 4: and keep up the great work, Zach. I appreciate you
Speaker 4: making time for us on short notice, and I'll keep
Speaker 4: you updated on my jury situation, although I won't be
Speaker 4: able to give you the details till the case is over,
Speaker 4: but just you know it's If it's something juicy, I'll
Speaker 4: let you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds great. And if you go to jail, make
Speaker 2: me your one phone call.
Speaker 3: I will, I will.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you'll do for me, but maybe
Speaker 4: just give me some good advice on how to protect myself.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if you've been to jail
Speaker 4: or not, but you do live in Texas. I feel
Speaker 4: like if you could survive there, you know you've probably
Speaker 4: got some tips for me.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sound good, Just give me call.
Speaker 4: Take care. That is Zach Barnett, a FootballScoop dot Com.
Speaker 4: I always appreciate him making time for us quick break.
Speaker 4: We'll come back on the other side. Keep this thing
Speaker 4: rolling along. It's coffee and company. Feel bouth Thornton's right
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Speaker 1: This you told me?
Speaker 3: He is this?
Speaker 4: Maren Morris, Miranda Lamb, Marenda Lambert. I don't know why
Speaker 4: I was thinking, Maren Morris. Yeah, I'm not too pretty
Speaker 4: for prison, but I wouldn't. I would, I wouldn't do well.
Speaker 4: There has anybody ever really? Actually, you know, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they have like been like in trouble because they neglected
Speaker 4: jury duty. Like I know that that's a dumb question. Yes,
Speaker 4: I'm sure they've made examples of people, but like the
Speaker 4: level in which they do that has got to be
Speaker 4: one of the most minor things ever, right, Like, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, maybe depending on if the person has a
Speaker 3: record of some sort. Yeah, but I feel like maybe
Speaker 3: if you have a criminal record, can you be on
Speaker 3: a jury It's a great question.
Speaker 4: Again, you don't know anything because we've never been a
Speaker 4: part of jury duty, and we have never been in
Speaker 4: trouble with the law. Like there's a lot of things
Speaker 4: that we're gonna we may never learn or will learn,
Speaker 4: you know, because we did something bad. Right, But yeah,
Speaker 4: it says if you receive a jury if you receive
Speaker 4: a jury duty related caller email. Actually, this is the
Speaker 4: first thing that comes up was actually what Zach was
Speaker 4: just talking about how he he almost was scammed. Did
Speaker 4: you appear that part of the interview.
Speaker 3: I heard that.
Speaker 4: So apparently this is like a huge thing that the
Speaker 4: US Department of Justice has a page on their website.
Speaker 4: It's the first thing that comes up when you just
Speaker 4: search jury duty information. Is not the first thing, but
Speaker 4: it's in the first page here that you know. It says,
Speaker 4: if you receive a jury duty related call or email,
Speaker 4: do not provide any personal information or send money. Federal
Speaker 4: courts do not call or email perspective jurors to ask
Speaker 4: for money or personal information, and they never serve an
Speaker 4: arrest warrant by phone. Real valid arrest warrants are always
Speaker 4: served in person. So if I got a call that
Speaker 4: told me I missed jury duty and that if I
Speaker 4: don't pay, there would be a warning out for my arrest,
Speaker 4: I think I would pay. I think too that I
Speaker 4: think I would pay. And look, just saying that is
Speaker 4: probably enough, like putting fear, Like that's a good way
Speaker 4: to scam somebody put fear into them, right, That's how
Speaker 4: a lot of this works, right, Like they'll target elderly
Speaker 4: people via phone, who a little bit more. You know,
Speaker 4: they don't know as much about this criminal world, but
Speaker 4: just praise on people like them. But you know, if
Speaker 4: if they give them a call asking for the personal
Speaker 4: information saying it has something to do with like their
Speaker 4: medicaid or something like that, like they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 4: be worried about their livelihood. Therefore, they're going to just
Speaker 4: hope and assume this is legit. And and you know
Speaker 4: that because what they do is they reach out with
Speaker 4: some of these scams and whatnot as if they're trying
Speaker 4: to help you, right, And that's just you know, that's
Speaker 4: that's awful to do. So, yeah, scammers out there. Uh
Speaker 4: And by the way, I can't confirm mine was not
Speaker 4: a scam. It was legit. But I'll never forget. We
Speaker 4: were in we were in Florida a few years ago
Speaker 4: and we went to a Publix and got groceries and uh,
Speaker 4: I got a text message that was from the bank
Speaker 4: that said an unexpected purchase at at this play where
Speaker 4: we went. So it was like an extra charge that
Speaker 4: they said via phone in the text message, Hey, please
Speaker 4: call this number to to UH to confirm or deny
Speaker 4: if this is a legitimate purchase or not. And I
Speaker 4: knew that what the phone told me was charged, like
Speaker 4: what the message told me was charged was not legit.
Speaker 4: So I called the number and I thought I was
Speaker 4: talking to like a legitimate customer service person, and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, they they kept I mean, they they did
Speaker 4: a really good job of fooling me. Maybe that's just
Speaker 4: me being an idiot, but like they were very like
Speaker 4: they knew that I'd been to to publics. So that
Speaker 4: made me already think that they were they were legit,
Speaker 4: because how would they know that if they didn't, you know,
Speaker 4: if they if they weren't really with the bank. So
Speaker 4: and they call in the number that I that I
Speaker 4: that I that I ended up calling them from the
Speaker 4: number I called when they sent in a message. Uh,
Speaker 4: they said, somebody will be back in touch with you,
Speaker 4: you know, YadA YadA, YadA. You know, we're we're working
Speaker 4: on fraud prevention stuff. We'll be in touch to to
Speaker 4: to to determine if other charges were legitimate or not.
Speaker 4: And they really didn't care about any of the charges.
Speaker 4: They just wanted me to give them my information. But
Speaker 4: they had a really impressive scam to make to do
Speaker 4: all this stuff to where I'm like, you know that
Speaker 4: they're doing the job and all all they really wanted
Speaker 4: was just my information, and they did a lot of
Speaker 4: stuff to where if I didn't give them my info,
Speaker 4: they were going to be just wasting time. But I'm
Speaker 4: sure they sit around and do it all day and
Speaker 4: all it takes them to probably get one person, and
Speaker 4: they've probably made a lot of money. So here I
Speaker 4: am on the phone with them because I ended up calling.
Speaker 4: I ended up getting a call from them after we
Speaker 4: initially talked, and they were asking legitimate questions, like they
Speaker 4: could see transactions on my account, and finally when they
Speaker 4: asked me like for they asked for something, they asked
Speaker 4: for some security question that I know was not a
Speaker 4: security question within the bank. So I told them, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if this is legit or not, Like I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if this is like something I don't know.
Speaker 4: Some's not adding up here because my wife told me, hey,
Speaker 4: that much the charge they're claiming that it that they
Speaker 4: flagged didn't even hit our account, like it's not like
Speaker 4: it's not real. And I told them that and they said, well,
Speaker 4: it just hasn't come through yet. We blocked it, so
Speaker 4: you probably won't see it on your on your account. Well,
Speaker 4: my wife works at the bank that we bank at,
Speaker 4: so you know, she's even like, okay, it could be
Speaker 4: you know, that's sure enough. The number you got a
Speaker 4: text message from, that's our automated system. So then she's
Speaker 4: on vacation, she checks her email and there's a company
Speaker 4: wide email that's telling everyone, buddy, hey, be on the lookout.
Speaker 4: We've got people that are targeting our members specifically. So
Speaker 4: I said that to the guy and he said, look,
Speaker 4: if you don't think that I'm legit. I mean, he
Speaker 4: didn't use those words, but you know, he was very professional,
Speaker 4: like a real customer service guy. He said, look on
Speaker 4: the back of your debit card and look at that
Speaker 4: number that it says to call if you have issues.
Speaker 4: And it was the number that I was connected with.
Speaker 4: But it was something called spoofing. He was able to discuss.
Speaker 4: He was able to make it appear when he would
Speaker 4: call or text me that it was really his number
Speaker 4: when it wasn't, which is scary that you can do that.
Speaker 4: So I was I was like, very I was almost
Speaker 4: entertained by the whole thing, very very happy that we
Speaker 4: were able to never give them the info and it
Speaker 4: was all just you know, we avoided it. But it
Speaker 4: also made me realize, like damn, like, I'm sure they
Speaker 4: get a lot of people like that, So be careful,
Speaker 4: all right, quick bright, We'll come back on the other side.
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