Speaker 1: Who's the kidd here? Who's the kidd here? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Now? Here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: So far this football season, Mondays have been have been
Speaker 2: pretty fun on the show, and I guess we can
Speaker 2: try to have some fun today. But for the first
Speaker 2: time this year, we are starting a week coming off
Speaker 2: of a loss for Jeff Brohm and the Louisville Cardinals
Speaker 2: in a game that I still think it might be
Speaker 2: on its own as far as just the insanely frustrating feeling,
Speaker 2: but also kind of knowing it's not like that big
Speaker 2: of a like, you know, it's not as if we
Speaker 2: learned on Saturday that the team that you know, we
Speaker 2: think is pretty good, like that they stink. I mean,
Speaker 2: we're not there. But what a weird feeling. I talked
Speaker 2: about it on the postgame show, and usually I try
Speaker 2: to kind of reset do a condensed version of that
Speaker 2: to start the show Monday. And sometimes there are different feelings,
Speaker 2: different thoughts that weren't there when I'm reacting to the game.
Speaker 2: As soon as it ends, like as soon as the
Speaker 2: clock hit zero, we just turned the mic on and
Speaker 2: start yapping, And that's our postgame show. And I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have it any other way. But here we are two
Speaker 2: days later and I still kind of feel the same,
Speaker 2: And I cannot think of a different Louisville loss in
Speaker 2: my lifetime as a fan that I think gave me
Speaker 2: similar feelings. I mean, there's been worse losses, trust me,
Speaker 2: but like that was just man that sucked to be
Speaker 2: in that position, to make so many mistakes and know
Speaker 2: that if you just maybe didn't make one, or maybe
Speaker 2: if you got a questionable call to go your way,
Speaker 2: maybe you end up winning. And when you can say that,
Speaker 2: I think moving forward, it helps you feel optimistic. But
Speaker 2: it also to me, it's just a punch to the
Speaker 2: gut knowing that if you just didn't hurt yourself, probably
Speaker 2: would have walked out of there with a win. And
Speaker 2: that's not to take anything away from Notre Dame, because
Speaker 2: they were able to take advantage of every mistake you made.
Speaker 2: They made you pay, and that's what good teams are
Speaker 2: supposed to do. So we'll continue to react to it
Speaker 2: and then put it in the rear view because you
Speaker 2: got to bounce back. You've got a game against SMU
Speaker 2: coming up on Saturday, and that opponent looks a lot
Speaker 2: different now than they did a few weeks ago. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think SMU is a pretty good team, and I
Speaker 2: think louis is a good team too. I think they're
Speaker 2: deserving favorites. I'm not discouraged by the personnel on this
Speaker 2: team really at all. There's one area that we need
Speaker 2: to discuss, and we will, but overall, I still think
Speaker 2: from a personnel standpoint, as far as the pieces, Louisville's
Speaker 2: got a chance to be really good. But right now
Speaker 2: they're about to play a team that if they win,
Speaker 2: it would easily be their best win of the season.
Speaker 2: So go do it. How about Mark Stoops and his team?
Speaker 2: Where the hell did that come from?
Speaker 3: What a win?
Speaker 2: Best win for Kentucky football? Probably like ever, at least
Speaker 2: in my lifetime. They beat Number six on the road,
Speaker 2: and they deserve a lot of credit for that. But
Speaker 2: I can't help but notice, and I'm sure I'm not
Speaker 2: the only one that has noticed this, Like they're not
Speaker 2: getting as much love as you would expect a team
Speaker 2: to get for going down to Ole Miss and knocking
Speaker 2: off Number six and really just bullying their opponent. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're getting love, trust me. Like it's not like people
Speaker 2: are saying that they didn't deserve to win. I mean,
Speaker 2: they won, but it does seem like Ole miss is
Speaker 2: getting more attention than Kentucky here because it might it
Speaker 2: might have reminded some people that Lane Kiffin a good coach,
Speaker 2: no doubt, but like he's not really won anything that
Speaker 2: ever matters, and there was nothing flukey about what happened
Speaker 2: in Oxford. I mean, I don't want to do the
Speaker 2: I told you so thing because that just feels weird
Speaker 2: as a Louisville fan who you know, wanted to see
Speaker 2: Kentucky lose every game they play, but even when they
Speaker 2: got busted by South Carolina, which by the way, that
Speaker 2: laws continues to look just very odd for them. But
Speaker 2: like I've known all along, like they have good players,
Speaker 2: they have good personnel. They're really good defensively and they
Speaker 2: have been for a while now. On offense, you know,
Speaker 2: they're not great. They're not you know, they don't light
Speaker 2: it up, and they didn't do that on Saturday, but
Speaker 2: they had some guys that can make some place. I mean,
Speaker 2: Barry and Brown Dankey, those guys are pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: So it is weird though to see them get that
Speaker 2: win and have their only losses be to Georgia and
Speaker 2: then a blowout loss to South Carolina, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: a bad loss overall. I mean it's not terrible, but
Speaker 2: you got blown out at home. And yet there's still
Speaker 2: like ten places out of being ranked in the top
Speaker 2: twenty five. That tells me that people didn't necessarily gain
Speaker 2: a ton of new respect for Kentucky. But they're just
Speaker 2: looking at Old miss as a bunch of frauds. And
Speaker 2: I'm not saying they are. Aren't. We're gonna find out
Speaker 2: because they got a tough schedule and we'll see what
Speaker 2: they end up doing the rest of the way. But
Speaker 2: they were not good on Saturday. And you know what
Speaker 2: that's Kentucky's doing, all right? It is Coffee and Company.
Speaker 2: We are fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you guys hanging out with us here on a
Speaker 2: Monday after noon. My name is Nick Coffee. The company
Speaker 2: man is out. He did louder than Life for a
Speaker 2: couple of days, and he just, you know, he didn't
Speaker 2: want to come in today. I mean, he took a
Speaker 2: planned day off, so it wasn't as if he called in,
Speaker 2: but he knew that louder than life was going to
Speaker 2: take a lot out of him to where he needed
Speaker 2: a day to rest. But you know who didn't need
Speaker 2: a day to rest. That's Austin Montgomery who's in the house.
Speaker 2: So I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure you were at
Speaker 2: every day of Louder than Life, were you not? Yeah, day,
Speaker 2: and yet you're still here an bourbon and beyond last week?
Speaker 2: Are you coming for the for the for the title
Speaker 2: of company man? Because I kind of feel like that's
Speaker 2: what that's what this is like. This this might be
Speaker 2: John being dethroned as we speak us.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't want to do that to my guy, John.
Speaker 3: He was bestowed by you, the company man, and then
Speaker 3: this played out the way it did, and you know,
Speaker 3: don't sleep, John, don't sleep.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, in all seriousness, if I went to
Speaker 2: music festivals for you know, a music festival for that
Speaker 2: many days consecutively, I would I would probably want to
Speaker 2: take a day off as well.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: But Austin he didn't do that. He's he's here, he's
Speaker 2: ready to go. Which we'll get to Lotter than Life
Speaker 2: because I do have a lot of questions and I
Speaker 2: want to kind of go back and maybe live through
Speaker 2: you because I love the event. He was able to
Speaker 2: go last year did not make it out any this year.
Speaker 2: And it's not like I regret it, but I know
Speaker 2: the vibes there are are unreal and I can't imagine
Speaker 2: what it was like. I feel like the vibes were
Speaker 2: even better because of the weather. Like what these are
Speaker 2: people that these are people that are going to embrace
Speaker 2: the mud and the nastiness and just turn it up
Speaker 2: a notch. And I wish I would have been there,
Speaker 2: not to necessarily partake in any like you know, mud
Speaker 2: fight fling in. I mean, who knows what goes on there.
Speaker 2: I mean it's there was a lot of that, yeah,
Speaker 2: but like to be a fly on the wall to
Speaker 2: kind of just observe it would be would be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun. So again I would lie to you
Speaker 2: and tell you we're gonna like get to a lot
Speaker 2: of different things today. I mean we might, but obviously
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what happened at Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about what happened in college football. Obviously
Speaker 2: at the thrilling matchup between I mean Georgia and Alabama.
Speaker 2: That game could not have worked out any better. If
Speaker 2: you're just somebody watching without a dog in the fight
Speaker 2: that wanted to be entertained. And it looked like you
Speaker 2: were gonna be able to go to bed early because
Speaker 2: Bama comes out and just completely whipping George's tail, only
Speaker 2: for Georgia to come back in miraculous fashion to take
Speaker 2: the lead only for one play. I mean, what a game,
Speaker 2: what a thrilling finish, and uh, Bama, you got it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know it's not Nick Saban anymore, but
Speaker 2: I don't see them slowing down really any You know,
Speaker 2: people were making the lame joke, like it's a lame joke,
Speaker 2: but like I get while people are making it, but
Speaker 2: it was like so predictable and there were so many
Speaker 2: people doing it that like before it was ever even
Speaker 2: put out there into the earth, like you already knew
Speaker 2: it was gonna be underwhelming, because again it's just you know,
Speaker 2: you walk into it. But when Bama was up, what
Speaker 2: twenty one nothing or twenty eight nothing, So I guess
Speaker 2: Nick Saban was holding Alabama back. Oh, like I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, like it that's not really funny at all,
Speaker 2: But again I'm making sense here. It lost any chance
Speaker 2: of being funny when you knew that everyone was gonna
Speaker 2: do it and try to like be clever. But Carolyn,
Speaker 2: or is is I mean, he's had a hell of
Speaker 2: a start, not just at Olbama. I mean that was
Speaker 2: an impressive win for him, but I mean if you
Speaker 2: go back and look at where this guy was, like
Speaker 2: what seven eight years ago to where he is now,
Speaker 2: I mean, what a rise in college football coaching for
Speaker 2: this guy. Some other results from the weekend we certainly
Speaker 2: need to get to when it comes to college football,
Speaker 2: some just because you know, we like college football around here,
Speaker 2: but others because they could impact the local teams. So look,
Speaker 2: if you guys want to join us on the show,
Speaker 2: you can. We'll open up the phone lines. We'll make
Speaker 2: this a show today where you guys can can react
Speaker 2: and sound off, maybe get some things off your chest.
Speaker 2: Maybe if you called the postgame show, maybe you've got
Speaker 2: different thoughts now compared to what you felt as soon
Speaker 2: as that being ended on Saturday. But either way, the
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Speaker 2: Listen live on the Alheart Radio. Have listened live at
Speaker 2: seven ninety Louisville dot Com. I'm not just you know,
Speaker 2: trying to delay the inevitable, which is just to break
Speaker 2: down all of the times Louisville shot themselves in the
Speaker 2: foot only for it to you know, come back and
Speaker 2: bite them. But somebody stole my my headphones, and I'm upset.
Speaker 2: I use the old school wired Apple headphones. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: the earbuds, yeah, earbuds. Yeah, So I use those, and
Speaker 2: I for a long time would just keep them with
Speaker 2: me in my backpack, and then, you know, after a while,
Speaker 2: I'm like, look, there's like two people that use this studio,
Speaker 2: so I might as well, you know, might as well
Speaker 2: just leave them here, right, don't. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: leave them right next to the board here. And I
Speaker 2: come in today and like, all the other stuff's here,
Speaker 2: but my headphones are gone. And I don't know who
Speaker 2: did it. I don't think he was Shannon the dude,
Speaker 2: because he's had plenty of opportunities. He's here every day
Speaker 2: in the studio and they've been sitting there and he's
Speaker 2: been able to resist temptation from stealing my headphones. And
Speaker 2: he's also my guy. He wouldn't do that. I don't
Speaker 2: think that all of a sudden, after his cats take
Speaker 2: down Ole Miss, that he can't fight the urge to
Speaker 2: steal my my earpot What they call earbuds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess the old school earbud.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I still call them headphones, but I
Speaker 2: guess technically they are referred to as earbuds.
Speaker 3: I would consider what you're wearing now was like head
Speaker 3: fund the big cans. Yes, Oh I hate these things, man,
Speaker 3: I actually like them. It makes me feel more radio.
Speaker 2: Absolutely hate them, and I don't know, I just hate
Speaker 2: how I sound in them. I feel like I'm I've got,
Speaker 2: you know, like a satellite attached to my head right now.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know. And comfort is crucial in
Speaker 2: what we do, at least in my opinion for me
Speaker 2: it is. Maybe others it's not. And I'm just not
Speaker 2: comfortable with these stupid ass headphones on and it's pissing
Speaker 2: me off. But you know what, I'll get through it.
Speaker 2: I'll get through it. I should have brought it back up,
Speaker 2: but I didn't. It's on me. I think I know
Speaker 2: who I need to go after though, because the and
Speaker 2: I'm kind of joking, but like I'm kind of not
Speaker 2: that makes sense. Like the Racing Loo broadcast on Saturday
Speaker 2: was a road game, so when they're on the road,
Speaker 2: they actually do the live play by play that you
Speaker 2: hear on our stations from this studio. They don't travel
Speaker 2: with the team for road games. They're doing the radio
Speaker 2: broadcast for a game that's not at Lynn Family Stadium.
Speaker 2: They're in here.
Speaker 3: I did not know that.
Speaker 2: And they were in here on Saturday. And now my
Speaker 2: headphones are gone. So like again, like it's not that
Speaker 2: big of a deal. I'm not accusing anybody directly, although
Speaker 2: I kind of kind of did, I guess. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm just laying out what happened. I'm laying out that
Speaker 2: the headphones were sitting here as they usually are, in
Speaker 2: the same spot every day we have, you know, somebody
Speaker 2: coming over the weekend, and now those headphones are gone,
Speaker 2: but nothing else is misplaced. Again, that's not proof. I mean,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think that somebody would just grab headphones that
Speaker 2: they knew were not theirs, but here we are.
Speaker 3: It's one of two things somebody is. It's just one
Speaker 3: of those you know when you're in the studio, especially
Speaker 3: if it's one you don't come into as often as
Speaker 3: you do, where you just kind of pack everything up.
Speaker 3: They were using that. Maybe they don't like using the
Speaker 3: bugear headphones, so they just kind of packed that up
Speaker 3: and put it in their bag. One A or I
Speaker 3: could be a honest mistake. I could could be honest mistake,
Speaker 3: but I could. I love I love a good conspiracy.
Speaker 3: I like to buy into Shannon. The dude just absolutely
Speaker 3: sabotaging your show. They got to got a big win
Speaker 3: the other.
Speaker 2: Day and lost of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. But also at the same time, I don't
Speaker 3: think those headphones are loud enough for Shannon, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's I mean, how old is Shannon? Like forty
Speaker 2: ish something like that, maybe can forty. Oh, he's he
Speaker 2: does an age man. He looks like he looks like
Speaker 2: it looks like a Ken doll. He's a great looking guy,
Speaker 2: but like by fifty he'll be deaf completely, like double
Speaker 2: double double ear. What do you call him? A hearing
Speaker 2: aids like he'll be he'll him and Venetti will be deaf.
Speaker 2: Tony already is uh. Shannon will be though, because if
Speaker 2: I don't check the levels before this board fires up,
Speaker 2: and he's the one that was in here previously. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just take the headphones off after I get blasted
Speaker 2: in my ears, and just once I realize I can
Speaker 2: still hear, I just thank God that that that that
Speaker 2: instance didn't make me deaf on the spot. But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna choose to believe that, you know, it
Speaker 2: could have just been a common mistake. They're they're gathering
Speaker 2: up equipment, and sure enough they grabbed a pair of
Speaker 2: headphones they thought were their's earbuds, I should say, and
Speaker 2: you know they weren't.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to be on headphone watch if it's
Speaker 3: not there by next week.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: And I don't forget these kind of things too. Just
Speaker 2: see you guys, know, just just be aware, all right?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Where shall we start with with Louisville Really just a
Speaker 2: disappointing result for sure, but not to regurgitate. But Louisville played.
Speaker 2: I mean, how would you even say they played if
Speaker 2: you watched that game from start to finish, because if
Speaker 2: you made enough plays to make it interesting to where
Speaker 2: you had, you had the ball late driving at their place,
Speaker 2: you were playing freaking Notre Dame in South Bend. And yes,
Speaker 2: I know that they're lost in northern Illinois as a
Speaker 2: head scratcher, but still, I mean, they've got good players
Speaker 2: and a win they were whatld have had a lot
Speaker 2: of value and to know that you didn't get to
Speaker 2: walk away with the valuable win. But it really is
Speaker 2: mostly because of just dumb mistake after dumb mistake. Like
Speaker 2: it's just it's maddening. And I'm not trying to do
Speaker 2: the sore loser thing like louill didn't, you know, like
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to act like Notre Dame didn't take
Speaker 2: it like Louisville did it last week against Georgia Tech,
Speaker 2: the same thing Notre Dame did. I mean, Louisville had
Speaker 2: some breaks go their way where you know it's not
Speaker 2: luck necessarily, but you took advantage of Georgia Tech making
Speaker 2: some big mistakes. You blocked a field goal and the
Speaker 2: ball goll ends up popping up right to one of
Speaker 2: your guys as he's in stride to take it to
Speaker 2: the house for a touchdown. Haines King went full Will
Speaker 2: Levis and made a really dumb pass and you took
Speaker 2: advantage of it. So it's not luck, it's just hey,
Speaker 2: if it cheam's gonna make a mistake and you were,
Speaker 2: you made an impact in that mistake, then you man,
Speaker 2: if you make them pay for it, like that's the
Speaker 2: best of both worlds. That's what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: That's how games completely flip, and that's what Notre Dame
Speaker 2: did Louisville. So you know, credit to Notre Dame, but like,
Speaker 2: I still don't know how good they are. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at the box score. I mean Louisville out gained
Speaker 2: them three hundred and ninety five yards to two hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty. They had more yards on the ground, more
Speaker 2: yards through the air, nearly double the amount of first
Speaker 2: down they had. I mean, it was it was a
Speaker 2: game where I don't feel like Notre Dame is that good.
Speaker 2: But you know that's not their fault, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it is. They should be better.
Speaker 2: But my point is I could deal with this a
Speaker 2: little bit easier if I felt like you went up
Speaker 2: there and you lost to a Notre Dame team to
Speaker 2: where you just knew you lined up against them on
Speaker 2: certain plays in certain instances of the game, and you
Speaker 2: realize you're just outmanned and you're just you know, it's
Speaker 2: gonna be really tough for you because they got some
Speaker 2: dudes that you just can't account for. That's not what
Speaker 2: this was at all. Now, they did bully our offensive
Speaker 2: line when it comes to pass protection, but other than that,
Speaker 2: Louis was a better team I think. And again it
Speaker 2: sounds like such sore loser stuff because if you don't
Speaker 2: win the game and you still claim you're the better team,
Speaker 2: yeah you can say that, but it really doesn't matter
Speaker 2: because you didn't win. You played the game for four quarters,
Speaker 2: they scored more points than you when it ended, therefore
Speaker 2: you lost. So I mean, just frustrating beyond belief for me.
Speaker 2: But it's nice to know that, like I still feel
Speaker 2: I mean, again, you don't have to feel a way
Speaker 2: I feel. I'm sure you feel different. Maybe you feel
Speaker 2: the same, it doesn't matter. You can feel the way
Speaker 2: you want to feel. But like, I still have a
Speaker 2: lot of confidence in this team as far as what
Speaker 2: they can do. I gotta see it you know, I
Speaker 2: got to see them put together a clean game. They
Speaker 2: haven't done that yet in the only two games they
Speaker 2: play that matter. I mean, what happened against Jacksonville State
Speaker 2: and Austin p You know whatever, you got to play
Speaker 2: who's on the schedule. You took care of business. But
Speaker 2: those games don't mean anything. So you play two games
Speaker 2: and you didn't play clean football and you didn't look sharp.
Speaker 2: And those are things you can control that has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with you know, a bad call or you know,
Speaker 2: just a mistake like coming out sloppy. You just can't
Speaker 2: be sloppy and make that many mistakes and really expect
Speaker 2: to beat anybody. But yet you almost did. But again,
Speaker 2: keep going in circles here, because that's what makes this
Speaker 2: whole thing so frustrating, is that all these things that
Speaker 2: like you just know, well, yeah, if you snap the
Speaker 2: ball over the punter's head and you give them a
Speaker 2: touchdown from that, well yeah, good luck winning, because you
Speaker 2: can't make those kind of mistakes and still win. A
Speaker 2: perfect pass from Tyler Shuck to Jacory Brooks, who's a
Speaker 2: great player, but he bobbles it and they get an
Speaker 2: interception and get a short field for an easy, you know,
Speaker 2: for an easy score. Tyler shuck showing some wheels, fifty
Speaker 2: yard gain it seemed, and then he goes down loses
Speaker 2: the ball. Like those are all things you think. You
Speaker 2: do one of those, You're like, well, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: tough to win now. But you did all those things
Speaker 2: and then made more mistakes, had more bad decisions, mismanagement
Speaker 2: with the clock, play calling on fourth down, like all
Speaker 2: these things went against well you did it to yourself,
Speaker 2: but like, these are all mistakes that if you make
Speaker 2: one of them, you're gonna think, oh, man, I really
Speaker 2: hope when this thing ends, we're not thinking back to
Speaker 2: that play or that play.
Speaker 1: You did all of.
Speaker 2: Them and yet you still could have won. So there
Speaker 2: is a silver lining there kind of. But I've yet
Speaker 2: to really get to the point where I'm gonna just
Speaker 2: fully bray embrace the silver lining aspect rather than just
Speaker 2: thinking to myself, how the hell can we be so sloppy?
Speaker 2: You know, how can Jeff Braum, you know, not just
Speaker 2: take the three points there? And you know it wasn't
Speaker 2: about running out of time there of course at the
Speaker 2: end of the first half, but like, how about you
Speaker 2: take a time out? You got three of them and
Speaker 2: just figure out, Hey, we know we're not taking three,
Speaker 2: we're gonna try to score here, so let's call it
Speaker 2: time out instead of being rushed and figure out what
Speaker 2: we want to do. Let's let's let's really take advantage
Speaker 2: of these timeouts and get a game plan together so
Speaker 2: we can execute better at the end of the half.
Speaker 2: And they did exactly the opposite. So it's just it's
Speaker 2: frustrating in a in a major way.
Speaker 3: I would also like to think, I mean, you just
Speaker 3: mentioned it at the top of the show, trying to
Speaker 3: find out what this loss felt like to other previous
Speaker 3: Louisville losses. I guess you can kind of go recently
Speaker 3: to last year at Pittsburgh, but there's a lot of
Speaker 3: factoris that was a sloppy game, and then I still
Speaker 3: don't believe that anybody had full trust in the quarterback. Wherever,
Speaker 3: when you walk away from this game at Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: you feel even better about the quarterback situation and you
Speaker 3: don't feel I wouldn't say not feel as great, but
Speaker 3: you come away quest the play calling and some of
Speaker 3: the time management that Jeff Brohm had. But there's just
Speaker 3: a silly interception, silly mistakes, let's just say, bad spots,
Speaker 3: and just putting yourself in these crucial moments. Last year,
Speaker 3: even though you are the better team, I didn't feel
Speaker 3: like there's a lot of players or Louisville find themselves
Speaker 3: beyond the markers too much, because you had the athleticism
Speaker 3: was shook showed a lot. Not only watched just in
Speaker 3: between breaks of when I can you know, in between
Speaker 3: mosh pitting and all that, but it was every time
Speaker 3: I turned it on, there was just something silly happening.
Speaker 3: And you can talk about.
Speaker 2: It not being able to get out of your own way, ketchley.
Speaker 3: Drop passes that turn into interception, especially when the game
Speaker 3: starts out so good for you score too later.
Speaker 2: You could not have asked for a better start. As
Speaker 2: far as how you know the first play played out,
Speaker 2: you know they fumble it, you score quickly. You've already
Speaker 2: got momentum in a place that you got to think
Speaker 2: it'd be hard to get momentum there unless something like
Speaker 2: that happens, and sure enough it did again. I can't
Speaker 2: think of a loss that I would compare this to
Speaker 2: as far as just how frustrating it was, but also
Speaker 2: knowing that like it. It didn't change anything for you.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that Louisville still can't control their own destiny.
Speaker 2: As far as winning the ACC. Do I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna win the ACC as of right now? I don't.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's not because I'm thinking that they
Speaker 2: just don't have the pieces. It's just, you know, I
Speaker 2: got to see something better than what we've seen up
Speaker 2: to this point, and that's just that's that's.
Speaker 3: Where it is.
Speaker 2: Last year against Pittsburgh, that was just like, yeah, you played,
Speaker 2: You played a piss poor game and a team that's
Speaker 2: not good took advantage of it, and you never were
Speaker 2: able to climb out of a hole. They did enough
Speaker 2: to climb out of the hole here. They made some
Speaker 2: adjustments defensively, they got better. They I mean, they were
Speaker 2: able to hold them scoreless in the in the third quarter,
Speaker 2: so you know, I I mean, in fact, the twenty
Speaker 2: one points you gave up to them in the first
Speaker 2: quarter and then that touchdown late after the interception from Shuck,
Speaker 2: I mean, to me, really it's it's a Cory Brooks interception,
Speaker 2: not a Shuck interception. But that's not what the stat
Speaker 2: sheet shows. But I mean, again, it's just it's the
Speaker 2: same circle. I keep going and I've been doing it
Speaker 2: since Saturday during the postgame show. All the things you
Speaker 2: did to lose the game and yet you still could
Speaker 2: have won. There's two ways to look at that. It's like, Okay, well, hey,
Speaker 2: at least we know we're capable. We just gotta we
Speaker 2: gotta fix some issues. And these issues are fixable. It's fixable.
Speaker 2: It's it's not something you gotta go practice. When it
Speaker 2: comes to coming out of a timeout and having twelve
Speaker 2: guys on the field on defense, that's that's just not
Speaker 2: being stupid. So again, these are things that you can
Speaker 2: absolutely see not being an issue down the line because
Speaker 2: it's not like you go get It's not like you
Speaker 2: gotta go practice and get guys better. It's just like
Speaker 2: cleaning stuff up. Don't be sloppy. But also again to
Speaker 2: to to know that if you just didn't hurt yourself,
Speaker 2: maybe one out of the billion times, seemingly you probably
Speaker 2: win that game.
Speaker 3: Hold on, I know why, I know why exactly that
Speaker 3: all played out Saturday, Nick, I think we're missing the
Speaker 3: big point. Notre Dame wore green. I think our players
Speaker 3: were a little bit confused. They had those green jerseys
Speaker 3: on memory. The captains of Notre Dame settled on it, right,
Speaker 3: They're gonna wear the green jerseys.
Speaker 2: It was a big deal.
Speaker 3: That was a huge, huge deal.
Speaker 2: I think that they look good too, by the way,
Speaker 2: I got to say, they look good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there, that wasn't bad. It was a green out.
Speaker 3: Yeah it looked. I mean, you just don't do that
Speaker 3: every game. The captains nick the captains get together and
Speaker 3: they discuss that.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they chose it. I mean, it didn't have
Speaker 2: once the game started. I don't give a damn about
Speaker 2: what they're wearing. But I will say, and it's easy
Speaker 2: to just forget about it now because I'm so pissed
Speaker 2: about how the game played out. But both teams I
Speaker 2: thought looked great. Like that was a really good uniform combo,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. So like a couple of things,
Speaker 2: I've yet to discuss the bad spots, the bad officiating,
Speaker 2: not because like I'm saying that, you know, we can't
Speaker 2: bring that up, like I mean, we can't change it.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, and they were bad calls, and maybe
Speaker 2: one of those things doesn't happen and you still win
Speaker 2: with all your mistakes. So you know, it's not like
Speaker 2: I'm choosing to just ignore it, but I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to specifically talk about those things and go
Speaker 2: from there. I don't want to, you know, don't turn
Speaker 2: it into a show. I'm not sure. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to turn it into a show where we just blame
Speaker 2: officiating for the loss. But you know, there's just a
Speaker 2: couple of things that like we've never seen, least I've
Speaker 2: never seen before, Jeb Browm said to data Is press conference.
Speaker 2: He's never seen a pass interference called on both offense
Speaker 2: and defense. Like that's insane. So we'll get to that later.
Speaker 2: And also, you know, it was clearly a big topic
Speaker 2: on the postgame show. I mean, I said it one
Speaker 2: of the first things I said when we started the show.
Speaker 2: Jeff Brom had a really bad day, and a lot
Speaker 2: of you called in and kind of said the same thing.
Speaker 2: Some took it even further. But like that's an unusual
Speaker 2: feeling for us, not to say he's been perfect, like
Speaker 2: they've lost it. I mean, I think in any game
Speaker 2: they've lost this year, you can look back and think
Speaker 2: that he made a mistake or made a bad play call,
Speaker 2: or you know, I mean, it's not to say he's perfect,
Speaker 2: but with such a big game in such a monumental
Speaker 2: opportunity blown because the team wasn't ready to play and
Speaker 2: because some of the decisions he made. I mean, like
Speaker 2: that's an unusual feeling for a lot of people. But hey,
Speaker 2: we got a call like it is. He was certainly
Speaker 2: a factor in the result on Saturday, and he would
Speaker 2: probably tell you the same thing. So, you know, I
Speaker 2: think we were toxic as a fan base for so
Speaker 2: long with basketball and football that any time you would
Speaker 2: criticize a coach or you know, express frustration, I think
Speaker 2: some people would act as if you were turning it
Speaker 2: into you want to get rid of the guy or something.
Speaker 2: And because we were toxic, like Saderfield was a weird
Speaker 2: thing to be honest with you, from the South Carolina
Speaker 2: situation on you know, the end of Mac, the whole
Speaker 2: Kenny Payne thing for the first you know, if you remember,
Speaker 2: for the first year, there were still people acting like
Speaker 2: that wasn't a disaster. So like, I think we can
Speaker 2: and look, Jeff's one of our own. So like, I
Speaker 2: think if there is a silver lining for me, I
Speaker 2: think we now know like we have a healthy and
Speaker 2: safe space where we can be critical of our coach,
Speaker 2: but no, we love our coach and know that he's
Speaker 2: good enough to be. You know, he's good enough to be.
Speaker 2: He's good enough for Louisville to be a serious team, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's still a top twenty caliber team right now.
Speaker 2: They went to the a SEC championship game last year.
Speaker 2: So it's just, you know, it stood out to me
Speaker 2: that nobody's making it personal. Nobody's saying the guy is
Speaker 2: a bum. But there was a lot of criticism thrown
Speaker 2: his way, which I don't think we had been there before.
Speaker 2: And yet you know, I think he wouldn't have it
Speaker 2: any other way. I think he understands. So all right,
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Speaker 2: You know one thing I'm aware of, but I'll be
Speaker 2: honest with you, I haven't thought about it at all
Speaker 2: since since since before the game, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: but all those things that we know Louisville did wrong
Speaker 2: that played a big role in them losing coming up
Speaker 2: short to Notre Dame is you didn't have Quincy Riley,
Speaker 2: who a lot of people think is your best NFL prospect.
Speaker 2: So that's an another thing that honestly, it depends on
Speaker 2: how you want to view it. Do you want to
Speaker 2: feel like, Okay, well man, that's another thing that we
Speaker 2: still played well enough to have a chance to win,
Speaker 2: and that's another thing that was going against us, So
Speaker 2: I feel good or you can say damn. That makes
Speaker 2: it even worse to know that, you know, with everything
Speaker 2: working against you as far as well, maybe it's not
Speaker 2: fair to say turnovers are going against you. I mean,
Speaker 2: you did that. That's not bad luck. I mean maybe
Speaker 2: some people view it that way, but.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you turn it over rather it be
Speaker 2: a fumble or an interception, you know that's your fault.
Speaker 2: I mean, the interception that was thrown by Tyler Shuck
Speaker 2: was not his fault, but it was ja Cory Brooks fault.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't feel like we really need to
Speaker 2: reset and list all the big mistakes that Louisville made.
Speaker 2: But I'll try to rapid fire through this. But all
Speaker 2: of their turnovers were avoidable. I mean, think about it,
Speaker 2: the the fumble from shock. I mean again, make you know,
Speaker 2: give credit to the defense, but that's again, that's your vault,
Speaker 2: and he knows that snapping the ball over the punter's head,
Speaker 2: that's something you did that really had nothing to do
Speaker 2: with notre Dame. If anything, you give credit to their crowd, right,
Speaker 2: maybe they were so loud you were just spazzing out
Speaker 2: out there as the long snapper. And then you know
Speaker 2: the interception that that happened later in the game and
Speaker 2: Notre Dame scored seventeen points off those mistakes. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's I mean, that's that's crucial. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 2: that's scary. You can't do that and win. And then
Speaker 2: you mix in those mistakes with I mean, the play
Speaker 2: calling from you know, from Jeff at the end of
Speaker 2: the half was just like so not him, and it
Speaker 2: just seemed like, I don't know, somebody put me on
Speaker 2: the spot on the postgame show and asked me to,
Speaker 2: you know, try to you know, I guess guess what
Speaker 2: he was thinking with that decision to you know, to
Speaker 2: stretch the edges when you need just one yard? Why
Speaker 2: not just running up the middle with Isaac Brown, I mean,
Speaker 2: or maybe do a QB sneak, like to try to
Speaker 2: go outside with Donald Cheney just seemed like maybe the
Speaker 2: worst thing that I mean, honestly, what do I know.
Speaker 2: I know nothing about football as far as play calling,
Speaker 2: and Jeff's probably already forgotten more in the last fifteen
Speaker 2: minutes than I'll ever know. So it's not as if, like,
Speaker 2: you know, he should listen to me, But I feel
Speaker 2: like if you gave me options of what to do
Speaker 2: in that situation towards the end of the first half,
Speaker 2: when you're trying to get a first down, that would
Speaker 2: have been the last one that I chose. So maybe
Speaker 2: he just said to himself, well, this is this is
Speaker 2: not at all what they're going to expect, so let's
Speaker 2: do that. Let's let's let's give it to Donald Cheney
Speaker 2: and try to stretch and try to stretch the edge
Speaker 2: because they won't see that coming. And you know, it
Speaker 2: was a risk and it didn't work out. I had
Speaker 2: no problem with him being aggressive, and I would have
Speaker 2: taken the three. But you know, I'm not even that
Speaker 2: bothered that he decided to keep going and try to
Speaker 2: punch one in. I'm just really disappointed and surprised what
Speaker 2: he chose to do with that decision, meaning those play calls,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I think they got the person down on
Speaker 2: one of them, and the fact that they didn't, you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't get reviewed is you know, it's another thing
Speaker 2: you can just add to the list of what really
Speaker 2: frustrated you.
Speaker 3: And he didn't.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like he you know, didn't utilize those timeouts,
Speaker 2: and that impacted Louisville being able to even get a
Speaker 2: play in before the half came to an end. But
Speaker 2: to see just kind of how disorganized they were, and
Speaker 2: it seemed like every time they got to the to
Speaker 2: the you know, to the line, it just kind of
Speaker 2: felt like they weren't. I shouldn't say they were disorganized,
Speaker 2: but like I could just get a sense that many
Speaker 2: of the plays the offense kind of looked unsure themselves,
Speaker 2: especially as the play clock the play clock started to
Speaker 2: get you know, lower and lower. So why not utilize
Speaker 2: those timeouts? I know, you want to go fast, maybe
Speaker 2: catch them off catch them off guard, have them on
Speaker 2: their heels. But like when it looks as if this
Speaker 2: is not going to go well, call time out. I mean,
Speaker 2: you had three of them and they didn't use them.
Speaker 2: And that's just again I thought that was that was
Speaker 2: a head scratcher from coach Brown. You know, he had
Speaker 2: a bad day. You know, he's had many many good days.
Speaker 2: I think this is an outlier, but it is just
Speaker 2: a it's really disappointing to know that this team has
Speaker 2: played two games against real teams and both times they've
Speaker 2: come out and they've been sloppy. Against Georgia Tech it
Speaker 2: was penalties and just being disjointed, and against Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: it was just dumb mistake after dumb mistake and sloppiness
Speaker 2: that was due to play calling, decision making from the
Speaker 2: coaching staff. I mean, getting twelve guys on the field
Speaker 2: right out of a timeout on d defense, it's just inexcusable.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is just I mean, that's that's egregious.
Speaker 2: So I think you do something enough times, it becomes
Speaker 2: your identity. Yeah, it's fixable. Yeah, it's an easy it's
Speaker 2: an easy thing to like not do, but if you
Speaker 2: do it enough, that's who you are. And I'm not
Speaker 2: saying Louisvill's identity is a sloppy football team, but we're
Speaker 2: not far from it. I mean, if they come out
Speaker 2: and they look as if they just aren't sharp and
Speaker 2: they're sloppy once again, but yet they still hold on
Speaker 2: to batsmu Hey, I'll take a win. But like I
Speaker 2: want to see him, I'm not asking for perfection. I'm
Speaker 2: not asking him to go out there and not commit
Speaker 2: a penalty. I'm not asking him to go out there
Speaker 2: and not make a mistake. I mean, things happen. But
Speaker 2: you know, in previous brom coached games, even last year,
Speaker 2: they had stretches of sloppy play and then they cleaned
Speaker 2: it up and really you know, got it rolling and
Speaker 2: that kind of you know, they did well enough to
Speaker 2: fight back. The defense made some adjustments. You know, clearly
Speaker 2: the offense made some place. Tyler Shuck looked good to me,
Speaker 2: and I mean really good. His stat line will not
Speaker 2: show you how good he actually was. If you watch
Speaker 2: that game, Ja Corey Brooks, that guy is a baller.
Speaker 2: A really costly mistake on his end, but man, he's good.
Speaker 2: Colin Lacey, you know what's he doing? His debut at
Speaker 2: Louisville make maybe the catch.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's special. So, you know, just a frustrating loss,
Speaker 2: no doubt. But we'll let you guys react. If I
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Speaker 2: welcome in Ben Ben. How are you doing this afternoon? Brother?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 4: Nick man?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I was mad after the game. Man, I couldn't call
Speaker 4: it in. I ain't want to cuss none, but man,
Speaker 4: I hear you. It was frustraight And I did listen though.
Speaker 4: On my way back to South Being, I went up
Speaker 4: there and it was you had a good show.
Speaker 2: How was the atmosphere?
Speaker 1: Man, it was not.
Speaker 4: It was good. I would go again, but I think
Speaker 4: it's slightly overrated. We don't know how good we got it. Man,
Speaker 4: no bird, no, no turn back seats and he's sitting
Speaker 4: on bleachers. Yeah, they got one replay board.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm glad you said that, Ben, because I'm
Speaker 2: you know, to Dame. Apparently it has made some really big
Speaker 2: improvements to their stadium since the last time a bunch
Speaker 2: of Louival fans went up there ten years ago. But
Speaker 2: I think what what people like really cling to when
Speaker 2: they prop this up as one of the best atmospheres,
Speaker 2: like in all of sports. And one of the coolest
Speaker 2: things to see is the tradition. And that's cool and all,
Speaker 2: But I'm somebody that sometimes sees tradition and I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: it's just old, Like I went to Kieron Indoor, Kevin Indoor,
Speaker 2: just old and small, like that doesn't make it cool
Speaker 2: to me, but you know, everybody's got their own preference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just felt like I was kind of going
Speaker 4: to church and a football you know. I mean, like
Speaker 4: I said, I will go again just cause, you know,
Speaker 4: but it was a little overrated, and I you know,
Speaker 4: I got some flat from Norre Dame fans on Twitter.
Speaker 4: They all just keep calling me fat because I want
Speaker 4: to turn back seat. Oh well, but I mean, you know, Nick,
Speaker 4: I was mad after the game, but I feel better
Speaker 4: about our quarter quarterback even after the loss, that he
Speaker 4: was a baller. He's a baller. And another thing, Nick,
Speaker 4: I'm glad you're you're being real about you know, bron Man.
Speaker 4: We love Bron He's probably all of our favorite coach
Speaker 4: in Louisville history already. But he had a bad game. Dude,
Speaker 4: he had a bad game. And you know, for everybody
Speaker 4: wanted to harp on the defense, I thought the defense
Speaker 4: was solid, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they settled in really nicely.
Speaker 1: They did, man.
Speaker 4: I mean the I mean Riley Winner had like one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards pass him. The leading rusher had
Speaker 4: fifty yards Russian. I mean, you know, like defense did
Speaker 4: the thing. Man, But you know, long term. I think
Speaker 4: a lot of people are saying, you know this, that
Speaker 4: game had nothing to you know, affect long term. But
Speaker 4: I kind of disagree because I mean, there's no room
Speaker 4: for error now, you know what I mean? So hey
Speaker 4: for I hang up and listen Nick over on Under
Speaker 4: ten wins this year. Now, man, hung up and listen
Speaker 4: to the show.
Speaker 2: But thank you appreciate it, Ben, Yeah, I'll be to
Speaker 2: start with his question there. I mean, as of right now,
Speaker 2: I think I have to say under. And I don't
Speaker 2: think i'm you know, I mean, I think most people
Speaker 2: would probably say under if you wouldn't, like, I don't
Speaker 2: think you're crazy. You did just lose to Notre Dame
Speaker 2: on the road, and even though you deserve to take
Speaker 2: the l and know that you know it's what it
Speaker 2: could have should have it, there also are factors within
Speaker 2: that game that they could have you looking at other
Speaker 2: games and feeling like, Okay, we're not gonna shoot ourselves
Speaker 2: on the foot that many times, right, and these opponents
Speaker 2: that we play, it's not gonna be playing Notre Dame
Speaker 2: at their place. But again, I'm going under until I
Speaker 2: can see them play a cleaner, a cleaner game and
Speaker 2: just look more. You know, they just don't look they
Speaker 2: look disjointed too much at times in these last couple
Speaker 2: of games, So I would say under But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: as far as you know the margin for air, I
Speaker 2: I've heard people kind of talking that to both sides
Speaker 2: of their mouth, and I don't think that's because they're
Speaker 2: trying to take both sides of it. But like, yes,
Speaker 2: you can still go to the ACS, or you can
Speaker 2: still go to the ACC Championship potentially, and of course,
Speaker 2: if if you win the ACC, you're in the playoff.
Speaker 2: So this game on Saturday had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2: That's all true, right, But if you are gonna potentially
Speaker 2: be an AQ team that's sniffing the playoff or i'm sorry,
Speaker 2: a non AQ team that sniffing the playoff because you
Speaker 2: didn't win your league, you would need a win like
Speaker 2: this to prop you up. I am someone of a
Speaker 2: belief that it would be really tough for anybody in
Speaker 2: the ACC to get an at large essentially just because
Speaker 2: of the league. I mean, that's just the way I
Speaker 2: see it. Maybe I'm wrong, but like I think Miami,
Speaker 2: if they stay rolling, maybe they could find themselves. I mean,
Speaker 2: if they win the league they're in. Maybe Clemson if
Speaker 2: they go eleven and one. I don't know. I guess
Speaker 2: the scenario where there's two ACC teams in as of
Speaker 2: right now, maybe it changes. Could be that Clemson ends
Speaker 2: up beating Miami in the ACC Championship game and yet
Speaker 2: Miami's only loss is that, then maybe they would still
Speaker 2: get in. They probably would, but you know, we're a
Speaker 2: long way away from that. But yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say that who cares this game didn't matter,
Speaker 2: because it did. But what gets me is just I
Speaker 2: know what a win at Notre Dame can do for programs.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen very often. Ninety percent of the teams
Speaker 2: roughly that go out there and play don't leave with victories.
Speaker 2: And I know Northern Illinois just did. So maybe the
Speaker 2: instant you know, the instant value wouldn't be there just
Speaker 2: because you were. You would be the second team to
Speaker 2: do it in a matter of what three weeks. But
Speaker 2: let's be real. If Louisville can go into the offseason
Speaker 2: and they would have had that win, they could then
Speaker 2: say they've not only beat Notre Dame two of the
Speaker 2: last times they've played them, they could say that they
Speaker 2: are now two and one in South Bend since they've
Speaker 2: been in the ACC and like, I'm not saying we'd
Speaker 2: put a banner up for that, but like, let's not
Speaker 2: act like they doesn't have value. And to know that
Speaker 2: you easily could have done it had you not screwed yourself.
Speaker 2: It's just again, it's frustrating. It's frustrating. All right, let's
Speaker 2: get to a quick break. We'll come back on the
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Speaker 2: the best quarterback in the league right now, which not
Speaker 2: something anybody would have said a month ago.
Speaker 1: But here we are.
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Speaker 2: says Nick, I'm with you one of the most frustrating
Speaker 2: losses I can remember as a fan. But when it
Speaker 2: comes to the players and the coaches, I still feel
Speaker 2: like we have a lot that can be accomplished. Go cards. Yes,
Speaker 2: and even though Jeff had a bad day, I mean,
Speaker 2: he still, you know, did some things as a coach
Speaker 2: that you know, puts you in the position to where
Speaker 2: you still probably I mean you had a chance to
Speaker 2: potentially overcome all those mistakes that were made by players
Speaker 2: and made you know, by him, or maybe not a
Speaker 2: mistake but just a bad decision, which again technically I
Speaker 2: guess you could chalk it up as a mistake. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I I what keeps me feeling, you know,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe not optimistic, but just you know, like
Speaker 2: I'm not worried that Louisville's going to play teams this
Speaker 2: year that you simply say, well, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2: We don't have any we don't have anything. We don't
Speaker 2: have we don't have the personnel to match up with
Speaker 2: him in any way. Now, clearly there's gonna be games
Speaker 2: where you play opponents and they're gonna have an advantage
Speaker 2: at certain positions because you know you're you're not elite
Speaker 2: at everything. Nobody really is. But yeah, I mean this
Speaker 2: is not a reaction to where you're questioning do you
Speaker 2: have the ability? Like is it possible? It's more so
Speaker 2: can they tighten it up and can they play clean football?
Speaker 2: And you know, and improve? And it's not to say
Speaker 2: that they've shown us from a talent perspective that they're
Speaker 2: good enough to beat anybody. I mean I think they're
Speaker 2: pretty good. I mean on defense, even like stan Kwon
Speaker 2: Clark that was his breakout game and it happened to
Speaker 2: be against Notre Dame, one of the top programs historically
Speaker 2: in the country. I mean, ja, Corey Brooks, we've seen
Speaker 2: what he can do all year. Tyler Shuck. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's looked good against the bad teams, and then against
Speaker 2: Notre Dame his stats won't show, but he played great.
Speaker 2: And then Colin, how about this guy? I mean, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of creative ways that Jeff can
Speaker 2: use him. So yeah, I mean, I'm it just sucks.
Speaker 2: I think tomorrow I'll not over it. But just you know,
Speaker 2: my tone may be a little bit different when talking
Speaker 2: a little football because it's just it still stings right now,
Speaker 2: all right, real quick, just as we sit here today
Speaker 2: in the NFL Week four that has yet to conclude,
Speaker 2: because we've got two games tonight. You know, what I
Speaker 2: try to do each week is to like, okay, who's
Speaker 2: who do we know is really good? Like who's And
Speaker 2: last week I'm not sure you could say anybody outside
Speaker 2: of the Bills in the Vikings were like really good teams,
Speaker 2: because you had teams that started the first two weeks
Speaker 2: looking like they were really impressive and then they come
Speaker 2: out and would lose to a winless team that you
Speaker 2: know stinks. But right now there are only two undefeated
Speaker 2: teams and that's the Vikings and the Chiefs. I mean
Speaker 2: I would, I'd still I don't know, I'm not. I
Speaker 2: think the Eagles losing the way they did to the
Speaker 2: Buccaneers was a bad sign for them. I mean, do
Speaker 2: we put the Commanders in there? I mean, they look
Speaker 2: really good these last couple of weeks with Jaden Dan Annieals.
Speaker 2: I was expecting that to be a really close game.
Speaker 2: They dominated the Cardinals. You know, the Ravens. They're two
Speaker 2: and two after starting zero to two. But I think
Speaker 2: you can look at their loss in Kansas City. And understand,
Speaker 2: they lost in the opener against a team that's currently
Speaker 2: in the midst of a dynasty, and it was you know,
Speaker 2: one play that they didn't get because the guy's foot
Speaker 2: was on the line that really changed that game. And
Speaker 2: then they had this head scratching loss to the Raiders.
Speaker 2: Of course, but that happens to some teams. But to
Speaker 2: bounce back and beat like last night, I think going
Speaker 2: into that game, everybody would have told you the Bills
Speaker 2: looked like the best team, and the Ravens knocked them
Speaker 2: down thirty five to ten.
Speaker 3: As for my.
Speaker 2: Colts, we did move to UH two and two on
Speaker 2: the season with a game that you know should have
Speaker 2: been shouldn't have been as close as it was, but
Speaker 2: you know, they held on in one. By the way
Speaker 2: the Steelers were, they not like the and again, this
Speaker 2: is what they do with Mike Tomlin, Like Mike Tollin,
Speaker 2: will well, Mike Tomlin will compete and win ugly. It's
Speaker 2: just that's his brand. But there were three and oh,
Speaker 2: and I don't think anybody actually thought they were they
Speaker 2: were very good.
Speaker 3: No, especially with their whole quarterback situation. And at one
Speaker 3: point they're gonna put Justin Fields at a kick returner
Speaker 3: and now he's doing wonders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look he's doing I mean, look they started
Speaker 2: three and oh there's there's clearly some value in doing that.
Speaker 2: But you know it just it never felt like it
Speaker 2: was legit with them, and I don't I can't. I
Speaker 2: can't say that for the for the for the Vikings.
Speaker 2: I mean that's your team. Yeah, I mean they've had
Speaker 2: they've had I feel like starts to seasons that are
Speaker 2: either really really good kind of like this, or starts
Speaker 2: that are like they can't win a game for like
Speaker 2: seven weeks or something like that. This seems like legit.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think it's fluky. I mean, you're you're
Speaker 2: a fan of them, I mean, are you Are you
Speaker 2: believing that this could be one of their best teams
Speaker 2: in a long time?
Speaker 3: Yes, I think so. And I can understand the the
Speaker 3: consensus that it's hard to look at a team prior
Speaker 3: to the season and say, a Sam Darnold led team
Speaker 3: is going to be really really good.
Speaker 2: Oh, you would get checked for insanity, I think, of course.
Speaker 3: But I mean it's all situation matter in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and he took a good pause going to San Francisco
Speaker 3: last year learning that Shanahan offense. But I mean he
Speaker 3: got drafted into their there's a study on these these
Speaker 3: quarterbacks who get drafted to save our franchise, right, Baker
Speaker 3: Mayfield save our franchise, Sam Donald save our franchise, and
Speaker 3: their dumpster fires. You know, Adam Gase hasn't been in
Speaker 3: the NFL in a while, their coordinator when Sam Donald
Speaker 3: was there is now a tight ends coach at Arkansas,
Speaker 3: and so like, I mean, put Patrick Mahomes in that situation.
Speaker 3: He gets drafted to a perfect place, and especially going
Speaker 3: into the season where everyone just thought that because JJ
Speaker 3: McCarthy is gonna be their future quarterback. I thought he
Speaker 3: looked really good in the preseason and it was always
Speaker 3: going to be a Sam Donald year this year, and
Speaker 3: Kevin o'connelly got to give it up to him. He's
Speaker 3: got to be one of the best young coaches and
Speaker 3: mix up with Brian Flores, who is just an absolute
Speaker 3: mastermind on defense. I think they might have one of
Speaker 3: the best defenses in the league. And don't let you
Speaker 3: know them getting outscored last yesterday against the Packers. Do
Speaker 3: it that the way they have their blitzes their pass rushers,
Speaker 3: and getting rid of Kirk cuz A was a great
Speaker 3: sign to disbelief. I never hated Kirk Cousins, but he
Speaker 3: took up a lot of cap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it felt like you guys were kind of
Speaker 2: starting all over and you were, and yet here you
Speaker 2: are looking like maybe the best team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's crazy to say. Some of
Speaker 2: the teams that they've beaten so far, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: how good they are. But they did go in and
Speaker 2: beat San Francisco at their place. I mean that's I mean,
Speaker 2: that's I'm sorry that they had that game at home,
Speaker 2: but still that's a win against a really good team.
Speaker 2: They demolished the Texans, who have been pretty good this year,
Speaker 2: beat him thirty four to seven. And then they got
Speaker 2: off to a great start at Lambeau yesterday. They were
Speaker 2: able to hold on before Green Bay made a big run.
Speaker 2: But no, the look they look good and I don't
Speaker 2: know why, but I'm a sucker for guys that get
Speaker 2: another opportunity whenever they were pretty much written off. I mean,
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold had been labeled a bust for many years
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and now he's thriving as honestly right now,
Speaker 2: statistically there's no better quarterback in the league. He's got
Speaker 2: the most touchdown passes. Yeah, I mean, it's just crazy.
Speaker 2: And then Baker Mayfield, same thing for him. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's a guy that all. He just became a joke
Speaker 2: because and I don't mean like he was, but when
Speaker 2: people brought him up, it was probably to joke on him,
Speaker 2: to clown him because of how things had played out
Speaker 2: for him. But sure enough, he takes advantage of the
Speaker 2: opportunity in Tampa when Brady moves on and he's having
Speaker 2: a lot of success, which, by the way, later we
Speaker 2: need to let you hear Tom Brady apparently took issue
Speaker 2: with some comments that Baker Mayfield had about the time
Speaker 2: those two were together in Tampa. And to hear Brady
Speaker 2: bring that up, was he doing the game? I heard
Speaker 2: the clip because it made its rounds online, But for
Speaker 2: him to bring that up if he was calling that
Speaker 2: game would be even better. But anyways, we got a run,
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