Speaker 1: It's time for Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on
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Speaker 2: We're just a couple of days away from the second
Speaker 2: weekend of the NFL playoffs, and I am excited. First
Speaker 2: game is going to be the Texans and the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I kind of love Texans plus eight and a half,
Speaker 2: and it's probably just because I want to be able
Speaker 2: to believe that the Chiefs aren't as good as they
Speaker 2: actually are. But if you've watched them this year, they're
Speaker 2: still winning. And technically that's all that matters. Nobody's going
Speaker 2: to be shocked if they just roll in and win
Speaker 2: another Super Bowl. But visually and even statistically, the only
Speaker 2: thing that's super similar to what they've done as of
Speaker 2: the last I don't know five six years wins They don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not watching them every single week, but like,
Speaker 2: they just don't look like I remember many many games
Speaker 2: when you would watch the Chiefs play rather be playoffs,
Speaker 2: regular season, super Bowl, whatever, you would just sit back
Speaker 2: and think, it's not fair like this. You should they
Speaker 2: shouldn't be able to be this good. And again they're
Speaker 2: still winning. They're still really good. But just visually, I'm
Speaker 2: not as I just don't think they look that scary.
Speaker 3: Austin, we're talking about the the Chiefs, all right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: no they're they're not. But just the pedigree of everything
Speaker 3: that they have going on, of course.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna crumble in those moments, right, but they
Speaker 2: just don't look And again, if that's the case and
Speaker 2: they keep winning, that's great. But I don't know, I
Speaker 2: just feel like when I've watched him this year, it's
Speaker 2: just and by the way, Mahomes, he's winning, but like
Speaker 2: his statistics this year outside of wins, like it's extremely blah.
Speaker 3: It just always seems like every game that I watched
Speaker 3: this year and all mean to sound like that guy,
Speaker 3: but here you go, it just always seems like in
Speaker 3: every big moment you see him kind of get bailed out.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's good. They're gonna really eye
Speaker 3: on that when they get to the playoffs because maybe
Speaker 3: they just reached the point in their their dynasty where
Speaker 3: they're the regular season just kind of nothing. They get
Speaker 3: to do what they got to do to get by,
Speaker 3: but they they're just kind of waiting for the playoffs, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I feel like it seemed like that for
Speaker 2: them for a good chunk of the season. And look,
Speaker 2: they get some breaks that go their way and a
Speaker 2: lot of teams do. This is my theory on the
Speaker 2: Chiefs because I've been just like everybody else that whenever
Speaker 2: they get a late call or they get, you know,
Speaker 2: something that goes their way and they can take advantage
Speaker 2: of it. I'm screaming like what this. There's clearly some
Speaker 2: bias going on. They clearly are in the bag with
Speaker 2: Andy Reid and Mahomes. They want them to win. They
Speaker 2: want the Taylor Swift story to be the biggest thing,
Speaker 2: and if the Chiefs are still alive, then everybody's going
Speaker 2: to talk about it in real time.
Speaker 4: I feel that way.
Speaker 2: But I think what the Chiefs are is that they're
Speaker 2: so good that they will absolutely make you pay and
Speaker 2: absolutely take advantage of any mistake that you make, to
Speaker 2: where if you do, in fact give them a break,
Speaker 2: they'll bear you with it. Right like early this year,
Speaker 2: the Bengals should have beat them in Kansas City. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there was a I mean it was a blatant
Speaker 2: past interference, like something you just can't do. And I
Speaker 2: feel like all the noise was all here we go
Speaker 2: Mahomes and the Chiefs getting bailed out, Well, yeah they did,
Speaker 2: but that's your fault, Like you bailed them out, and
Speaker 2: then what are they gonna do.
Speaker 4: They're gonna make you pay for that mistake.
Speaker 2: So they've certainly had some breaks go their way, probably
Speaker 2: more so than others to an extent, and mahomes whining
Speaker 2: and crying at times seems to work for him, meaning
Speaker 2: the refs seem to, you know, make some adjustments. But
Speaker 2: I'm just a hater man, because are really good. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's out of line to say that
Speaker 2: they are currently in the midst of a dynasty. But man,
Speaker 2: I hate them. And you know what, every I mean,
Speaker 2: villains are needed, and they're a great villain I think sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're very very much an easy
Speaker 2: team to hate. And one of those reasons is because
Speaker 2: they're really good.
Speaker 4: And I don't want it to be good anymore. I'm
Speaker 4: tired of them.
Speaker 3: I just don't you throw in like.
Speaker 2: The Jackson Mahomes stuff. And you know, Patrick Mahomes's wife,
Speaker 2: she you know, I don't hate.
Speaker 3: Her as much as everybody else does.
Speaker 4: Talk to me about that. Why, Like what I mean like.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's just did you watch the Quarterback?
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna ask you, is because peep,
Speaker 2: everybody who I that show, which I have not watched,
Speaker 2: which is crazy because it's the exact kind of stuff
Speaker 2: that I love, but I haven't watched it yet. It's
Speaker 2: interesting everybody tells me that Brittany Mahomes.
Speaker 4: The bar was set so low for her. She's actually
Speaker 4: not as bad as you would think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: And that uh, and that Kirk Cousins looked like the nice.
Speaker 4: Wholesome man in the world.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean he's he's just your stereotypical white guy,
Speaker 3: you know, like dad, white dad, right, no white dad,
Speaker 3: which and and I never has a Viking.
Speaker 4: Like he's he's air monarchs. He's the Nike air monarch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the yourtypical Colts cash kind of Guy's well
Speaker 3: for the for the games, but I mean he's just
Speaker 3: I never loved him for the salary that he imposed,
Speaker 3: but I would have loved him as a Vikings quarterback
Speaker 3: if he didn't demand half the roster's salary. But the
Speaker 3: Brittany Mahomes thing, you know, she's a feisty, competitor athlete,
Speaker 3: just like Patrick Mahomes is and I guess that's sort
Speaker 3: of the way that they attracted it each other. And
Speaker 3: she's very supportive. I guess she could probably be annoying
Speaker 3: on an Instagram and from the surface, that's what every
Speaker 3: football fan seems to, you know, look at.
Speaker 4: And also her voice, I can.
Speaker 5: Understand that that's a real issue for me, like and
Speaker 5: usually if she's on social media yelling in a game
Speaker 5: like I just I want to go put my head
Speaker 5: in the wall.
Speaker 3: She's a competitor, she's also she's also not bad to
Speaker 3: look at. I think she's pretty hot regardless of what
Speaker 3: everybody you know, I mean, I mean she I would say,
Speaker 3: Patrick mahomesh you know, if you didn't know what she
Speaker 3: looked like and you didn't know who she was, you
Speaker 3: think Patrick mahomes his status in the world here is
Speaker 3: maybe the best quarterback we've had in a long, long,
Speaker 3: long time.
Speaker 2: Makes sense that you have a hot wife, right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: A real shocker. Real surprised if he didn't.
Speaker 4: So do you see?
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes kind of come off as a little bit
Speaker 3: as a cry baby, but he's also a feisty competitor too.
Speaker 3: He's yelling at Max Crosby.
Speaker 2: Made I've made this comparison before. These two guys, for
Speaker 2: really a good chunk of their career have been the
Speaker 2: face of their leagues. Patrick Mahomes in the NFL and
Speaker 2: Steph Curry with the Warriors. They're they're good people, Like,
Speaker 2: they're not criminals, they're not bad role models, They're they're
Speaker 2: they're pretty damn likable, to be honest with you, But
Speaker 2: I have just you know, I to me, they're the villain.
Speaker 2: Their team is especially like I and and really Steph Curry,
Speaker 2: I never really disliked him.
Speaker 4: I just disliked the Warriors.
Speaker 2: In a major way, mostly because of Draymond Green, and
Speaker 2: with that it just kind of, you know, Steph, Steph
Speaker 2: became a part of that. But Steph Curry, I mean,
Speaker 2: he's one of the best players of all time. And
Speaker 2: him winning a ring after KD left, I thought that
Speaker 2: said a whole lot about him. I thought that meant yeah,
Speaker 2: and really that era of the Warriors in general, you know,
Speaker 2: Steph Curry is he's he's a really good dude, and
Speaker 2: he's a he's a guy that's hard.
Speaker 4: He's hard to dislike.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm always going to be anti Warriors, and
Speaker 2: it's it's mostly because of Draymond. And one thing that
Speaker 2: that that, you know, did sort of change how I
Speaker 2: feel about Steph, and I guess reminded me that, like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I've never he's not a hateable guy.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm a hater. He's so good and his
Speaker 2: team is so good, and I hate Draymond. So I've
Speaker 2: just been again anti Warriors forever. But we went to
Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Festivities last last year, me my dad.
Speaker 2: It's the same trip. We do a trip every year,
Speaker 2: me my dad, my son, and my nephew. And last
Speaker 2: year we didn't go to the Louisville Games because you know,
Speaker 2: they were terrible. So we went to the NBA All
Speaker 2: Star Festivities and that morning there was an open practice
Speaker 2: that fans could come and watch, and Lebron wasn't there,
Speaker 2: and he was scheduled not to be there, so it
Speaker 2: wasn't like he no show, but he wasn't able to
Speaker 2: be there, but everybody else was and a lot of
Speaker 2: the guys were out there just kind of being too
Speaker 2: cool and just you know, not really into it. And
Speaker 2: it was mostly kids that were there just to kind of,
Speaker 2: you know, see the guy's practice. Yea, and Steph Curry
Speaker 2: got on the mic and kind of mceded and talked
Speaker 2: to everybody and was really into it more so than
Speaker 2: any other All Star And that at the time didn't
Speaker 2: really stand out to me. But my son he he
Speaker 2: the reason he knows who Steph Curry is because of that.
Speaker 2: He tells people he saw Steph Curry cool. And you know,
Speaker 2: had he not done that, my four year old wouldn't
Speaker 2: have any I mean, he can't name many NBA players.
Speaker 2: He knows Lebron, he knows Steph, but like he tells
Speaker 2: people he knows Steph because Steph was, you know, thirty
Speaker 2: yards from him talking to the crowd and you know,
Speaker 2: being engaging with fans and presence. That kind of stuff
Speaker 2: goes a long way, and same thing fit, same same
Speaker 2: thing can be said about Lebron, Like I get why
Speaker 2: everybody who doesn't like Lebron doesn't like Lebron, Like I
Speaker 2: totally understand me as one of the Yeah, I totally understand.
Speaker 2: But in the grand scheme of things, he's been a
Speaker 2: pretty good role model for kids as far as just
Speaker 2: you know, like he's he's done a lot of good stuff,
Speaker 2: seeming that he understands the value that he like, the
Speaker 2: power that he has, like he could change a kid's
Speaker 2: life by you know, man. There's one video that that
Speaker 2: was when he was with the Cavs for the first time,
Speaker 2: or it might have been when he when he was
Speaker 2: with the Heat, but he ran over over before tip
Speaker 2: off to a young young man in a wheelchair, a
Speaker 2: kid in a wheelchair, and and just kind of shook
Speaker 2: his hand. He was a special needs child, and you
Speaker 2: kind of really wanted to let the kid know that Hey,
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't know, I don't know what
Speaker 2: what message was exchanged, if anything, but it was just
Speaker 2: a it was a cool moment for Lebron to do
Speaker 2: that and the crowd to see it and go crazy,
Speaker 2: and then you could tell visually just that that was
Speaker 2: that was awesome for that kid. So you probably never
Speaker 2: think about it when you're growing up and you are,
Speaker 2: you know, dreaming of one day being a professional athlete
Speaker 2: and being a star. And obviously very rarely does it
Speaker 2: work out for people, because you know, only those that
Speaker 2: are very very gifted can can can do that. But
Speaker 2: with that I guess, uh status, that fame you're you
Speaker 2: don't you can say that you're not a role model.
Speaker 2: You're not trying to be a role model, but like
Speaker 2: you kind of like you are, like you know, you
Speaker 2: can do with that what you will.
Speaker 4: You're not entitled to live live a certain way.
Speaker 2: Because you have to worry if if kids who watch
Speaker 2: you are gonna that's not really your responsibility. But you
Speaker 2: know you also can use that and do a lot
Speaker 2: of good for people, and I feel like for the
Speaker 2: most part, those two guys specifically.
Speaker 4: Have done that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see, Yeah, the other NFL games on
Speaker 2: the other NFL game Saturday is the Lions and the Commanders.
Speaker 4: I Lions minus eight and a half.
Speaker 2: These are two, by the way, both games Saturday eight
Speaker 2: and a half points spread.
Speaker 3: I like the Chiefs to cover eight. I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: shocked if the Commanders put some frightend.
Speaker 2: I'm not doubting the Commanders anymore because I've been doing
Speaker 2: that for the last few weeks, just thinking that rookie
Speaker 2: magic was gonna run out. But no, they've been They've
Speaker 2: been really, really impressive.
Speaker 3: Just as well coached, and they have a lot of
Speaker 3: talent and what their defense finally could get exposed or
Speaker 3: beat up defense possibly could get exposed. I know a
Speaker 3: lot of people, a lot of Lions haters, including myself,
Speaker 3: has been saying that for the longest time because they
Speaker 3: got guys that were just sitting on a couch about
Speaker 3: a month ago now playing. It's gonna be really hard
Speaker 3: to keep up with Jaden Daniels and McLaurin and Johnson
Speaker 3: all those.
Speaker 4: They've got a lot of momentum right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I feel like, maybe I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 2: feel like that that seems to matter more than it
Speaker 2: used to, right Like, I think the Steelers that showed
Speaker 2: up in Baltimore, or Ryan Johnson should showed up in Baltimore,
Speaker 2: like they they were clearly not in a good way
Speaker 2: because they lost what five six games to end the season.
Speaker 2: So I mean Minnesota, you know, they ended up I
Speaker 2: mean they didn't have they didn't have a lack of momentum,
Speaker 2: but they ended up, you know, carrying a loss with
Speaker 2: them to LA and and or where did they play?
Speaker 3: But then yeah, well well it was technically a road
Speaker 3: game against LA, but they played in Arizona.
Speaker 4: Okay, I knew they played somewhere else, So you know, we'll.
Speaker 3: Answer your question a couple couple The Monday no Tuesday show. Yes,
Speaker 3: the Vikings and just in Minnesota in general, cursed, absolutely,
Speaker 3: cursed sports franchise, cursed town everything.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 3: They had the they had the Twins, they had the
Speaker 3: Twins championships, thinking like the eighties, But ever since then
Speaker 3: they've just been a tormented franchise, a fan base.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and and I'll look that that was that
Speaker 2: was a bad way to end it, especially after a
Speaker 2: season that was so successful until then till the very end.
Speaker 2: But also, the Rams are on fire. The Rams are
Speaker 2: dangerous right now. So do I straight up? I mean,
Speaker 2: I get why they're they're not favorites here and Philly's good,
Speaker 2: but no, I'm with you. I think the Rams are
Speaker 2: a team that they can make the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I really believe that.
Speaker 3: You get that quarterback and uh head coach Combo, that's
Speaker 3: going to be pretty scary.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: And the Ravens and the Bills will wrap it up
Speaker 2: on a Sunday evening.
Speaker 4: Bills were favored.
Speaker 2: I believe when it opened at one at one and
Speaker 2: a half, maybe now it is Baltimore minus one and
Speaker 2: a half. That'll be the That'll be the game of
Speaker 2: the weekend. I am really really looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna get the phone lines in just
Speaker 2: a second. But Austin, did you hear the radio announcers
Speaker 2: for the Vikings?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Paul Allen, the guy is.
Speaker 2: They They were all I mean the broadcast crew for
Speaker 2: pro teams. And I've net know, I didn't grow up
Speaker 2: listening to a pro team on the radio because we
Speaker 2: don't have pro teams around here as far as the
Speaker 2: pro sports that I watch, so like, I don't really
Speaker 2: have a connection or a reference point. But what I
Speaker 2: have heard, like especially when we have the Bengals guys,
Speaker 2: because the Bengals games, of course, are are on our
Speaker 2: station here at seven ninety, so I've listened to the
Speaker 2: Bengals radio crew, and I've listened to the.
Speaker 4: Colts as well.
Speaker 2: You get a little bit more of like the obvious homer,
Speaker 2: and I get it because you are on the team,
Speaker 2: but not on the team, right, you work for the franchise.
Speaker 2: You're not a player, but you're on their team essentially,
Speaker 2: So you know, it's a little bit more acceptable at
Speaker 2: the college level. It didn't used to be that way now,
Speaker 2: Like for example, Paul Rodgers, he works for lear Field,
Speaker 2: but lear Field, of course is the middleman for broadcasting,
Speaker 2: and U of L Learfield owns the broadcast right, so
Speaker 2: you know it's kind of by default. So you still
Speaker 2: hear some homerism from local broadcasts, from like college broadcasters,
Speaker 2: but in the NFL, it's like it's extra, it's big time.
Speaker 2: And to hear how mad these vikings radio guys were
Speaker 2: at Sam Donald, it was hilarious.
Speaker 6: And him Aaron Jones Addison in motion to the right,
Speaker 6: you receivers left rams Blintz.
Speaker 4: Donald gets away from it, steps up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He's holding it too long.
Speaker 4: Run just run off the twenty five yard line. He's
Speaker 4: sacked for a fifth time.
Speaker 7: All he's got to do is pull that thing down
Speaker 7: and run and get as much positive yardage as he can.
Speaker 7: There were five to seven yards easy there to be made.
Speaker 7: He saw Buffalo do this to them all day long
Speaker 7: because they're not always disciplined in their lanes. But if
Speaker 7: he pulls this thing down right there, he has a
Speaker 7: good five seven yards, if not more.
Speaker 3: Right, take what's there, but holding that thing, man, that
Speaker 3: guy is great. There are so many calls and then
Speaker 3: I just ran into one. TikTok. Some of the best
Speaker 3: home announcer calls and it's all Paul Allen and the
Speaker 3: Vikings broadcast. That's just being absolutely let down in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: So famous.
Speaker 4: I love the raw and real energy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's great. They got I think that guy
Speaker 3: is fantastic. He's definitely a home where I've tried listening
Speaker 3: to a show a couple of times. I really don't
Speaker 3: love Homer Radio, but just like listening to him call games.
Speaker 3: Of course, the one that's funny, the one where he
Speaker 3: had the Saints whe Brett Faarr threw across his body
Speaker 3: and he joked that one. This isn't Detroit, man, this
Speaker 3: is a super Bowl.
Speaker 4: That's that's a that's an iconic call.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you ever, if you're somebody that's interested in that
Speaker 2: entertaining broadcasters that aren't that, know that they're gonna add
Speaker 2: some flavor as well. You're gonna be entertained, not by
Speaker 2: just the sport itself, but they're going to bring something
Speaker 2: to the table. The Charlotte Hornets local TV guy.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I'm talking about. Yes, he's amazing.
Speaker 2: That guy goes crazy. Love everything, love his energy. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the one lines five two, five seven
Speaker 2: one seventy nine hundred is the number. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to join us, let's go to Paulette.
Speaker 4: How are you, hi?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 8: Hello? I wanted to mention another NBA player that has
Speaker 8: a great reputation, great athlete, great for the kids, and
Speaker 8: that's our own Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 4: You are absolutely right.
Speaker 8: I went to my sons up there and our Christmas
Speaker 8: gift was a third row seats and we got to
Speaker 8: see the game late December, and he comes out, he
Speaker 8: talks to the fans. The fans absolutely love him. Cleveland
Speaker 8: has really embraced him, and he's he's one of those He.
Speaker 4: Makes us look good, doesn't he? Paul Ette?
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, yes, and yes he talks to the kids
Speaker 8: so that we were all proud to be Louisville fans
Speaker 8: and at the Cleveland game.
Speaker 4: That's awesome, Paul.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate you sharing that
Speaker 2: with us. I mean, Donovan is I mean, what a guy?
Speaker 4: What a guy.
Speaker 2: Lamar and Donovan are phenomenal at what they do, but
Speaker 2: they're also guys that I feel like have an insane
Speaker 2: amount of respect from their peers within their professional leagues.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's quite clear both of them do to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, and you know, being good is
Speaker 2: really what matters. I guess when it comes to your job,
Speaker 2: like you can be a you can be a guy
Speaker 2: that gets respect and people like and you know, you
Speaker 2: got to be able to play. But those two again,
Speaker 2: we're Donovan is in the midst of an MVP caliber season.
Speaker 2: He won't win MVP, but the Calves are one of
Speaker 2: the best teams in the league. He's clearly their franchise player.
Speaker 2: And then Lamar Jackson's is about to win his third MVP,
Speaker 2: So that alone is awesome. But the fact that they're
Speaker 2: really good dudes, that that not only you know, are
Speaker 2: good role models for kids and and there you always
Speaker 2: see stories of them doing you know, using their platform,
Speaker 2: using their fame, their status to to do good.
Speaker 4: You know, they realize that they.
Speaker 2: Could change a kid's life or you know, give a
Speaker 2: kid a moment will never forget, just by you know,
Speaker 2: tapping them up at a game or something like that.
Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of examples of those guys
Speaker 2: doing exactly that. And you know both of them do
Speaker 2: this for sure. But I just think Donovan, with his personality,
Speaker 2: I mean, I cannot believe how often he is throwing
Speaker 2: love to Louisville's way, Like obviously you would think you
Speaker 2: would think that whenever louill does something great, he's going
Speaker 2: to be, you know, given support. You would think that,
Speaker 2: you know, when he's talking about college programs with his
Speaker 2: teammates in the NBA, he's going to represent Louisville. But man,
Speaker 2: this guy cares about Louisville in a big way, and
Speaker 2: you can I mean, it's it's very evident. And to
Speaker 2: see him where in U of L football gear just
Speaker 2: randomly on a you know, in Cleveland, when he's walking
Speaker 2: into the facility, to know that he went out of
Speaker 2: his way to try to help Louisville with whatever they needed.
Speaker 2: And I'm not sure this really put it over the top,
Speaker 2: but I know it didn't hurt to have Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 2: advocating for you to come to play at Louisville, the
Speaker 2: five star commit.
Speaker 4: Why can't I think of his name? Driving me crazy?
Speaker 3: Mckail brown, right, Michael Brown?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, Donovan is any Lamar Jackson could
Speaker 2: could never come back to Louisville again and never acknowledge
Speaker 2: us again. People are still going to know that he
Speaker 2: played at Louisville. That's always going to have some value
Speaker 2: for Louisville. But when these guys are at times mentioning
Speaker 2: how well the programs are doing that they used to
Speaker 2: play for, or just reminiscent on their time like that,
Speaker 2: not only is that a beneficial thing. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much it's gonna help you, but it certainly isn't
Speaker 2: gonna hurt you. It helps your brand, your reputation to
Speaker 2: see these guys that this statu is still being proud
Speaker 2: to be former players and whatnot. But it also hits
Speaker 2: you in the fields as fans, if you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he genuinely enjoyed his time here at Louisvill
Speaker 3: obviously because he stayed. He stayed what three years and
Speaker 3: two years. Well, he was also here during the Lamar time.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you heard interview where he's talking about he
Speaker 3: had the basketball team up at six am in the morning,
Speaker 3: just ready to go a tailgate and he was in
Speaker 3: the gym with the Donovan Mitchell doing windmills and stuff.
Speaker 3: And that was like right before the decline of Louisville
Speaker 3: after twenty seventeen eighty.
Speaker 2: Here hearing Donovan talk about Lamar Dunkin was insane to
Speaker 2: me because it makes total sense that he'd be able
Speaker 2: to do some crazy stuff, right.
Speaker 3: And I met him when I first started working here
Speaker 3: at iHeartRadio. We did some sort of remote at like
Speaker 3: an eye care doctor or something like that, and there's
Speaker 3: so many low there's so many fans and I just
Speaker 3: first started and the person I was working with there
Speaker 3: are also another part timer just like me. But I asked, you,
Speaker 3: you think they'll let me get a picture and she
Speaker 3: was like, no, no, no, We're part of the media.
Speaker 3: You can't be asking for that. And I'm like, all right, well,
Speaker 3: screw what you think, because I'm going to ask him anyways.
Speaker 3: And then at the end, I decided to go up
Speaker 3: after everyone was done and try to take a photo
Speaker 3: with him, and a security guard was like, nah, man,
Speaker 3: he's all done, and Donovan stepped in. He said, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: he works with them. We didn't get a picture with him.
Speaker 4: Yet he did the exact same thing. And then this
Speaker 4: is this.
Speaker 2: This is to me like one of the best examples.
Speaker 2: He came back randomly on a Tuesday night at Freedom
Speaker 2: Hall to watch the TBT team play.
Speaker 4: You remember that he flew in last year right, they did.
Speaker 2: He flew into the year set courtside with Pat Kelsey, okay,
Speaker 2: and like, I think that's the first time those two
Speaker 2: guys like met and like that.
Speaker 7: That.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a TBT game on a random Tuesday.
Speaker 2: So and at that game, we were down there on
Speaker 2: the floor and he was getting pictures with everybody. The
Speaker 2: same thing happened. He had he had taken some pictures
Speaker 2: and his security was kind of ushering him out, and
Speaker 2: he could tell that my sister still wanted to get
Speaker 2: a picture of Donovan with her son and my son. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and he saw that and like bypass them and just said,
Speaker 2: come on, let's let's get the picture, like just you know,
Speaker 2: just a good dude. Yeah, and you remember that kind of.
Speaker 4: Stuff you really do. All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll come back on the other side, and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna chat with the one and only doctor Eric McElroy
Speaker 2: from pro Reap Physical Therapy. It'll be good to catch
Speaker 2: up with doctor McElroy. So we will do exactly that
Speaker 2: and keep this thing rolling along until six o'clock. Don't
Speaker 2: go anywhere, keep it locked on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: Back to Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports
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Speaker 2: That's right, coffee and company rolling along here on a
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon, and let's welcome him in. He's doctor Eric
Speaker 2: McElroy from pro reapp Physical Therapy.
Speaker 4: Eric. How was a twenty twenty five treating you so far.
Speaker 6: The winter Wonderland?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been uh yeah, I mean it's been fun.
Speaker 4: It's last We're kind of a snow family meets. I'm
Speaker 4: the same here.
Speaker 6: You know, we love to get out a thousand times.
Speaker 6: You know, we had a great time in it. From
Speaker 6: a business side of things, it will challenge, but uh,
Speaker 6: I'm sure you.
Speaker 9: Know, it's like fumbling on the kickoffs. You just got to,
Speaker 9: you know, take the nice drive and get rolling and
Speaker 9: but it's definitely worth it. These are things that the
Speaker 9: kids are going to remember, you know what I mean,
Speaker 9: So it's worth.
Speaker 7: That reounce of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of fun. This was the first
Speaker 2: time I think both my kids actually got this kind
Speaker 2: of snow to where they could they could sled, they
Speaker 2: got to do the fun stuff and they got out
Speaker 2: of school in daycare, which I'm sure they were really
Speaker 2: really happy about. But this is usually the time of
Speaker 2: the year when a lot of folks tried to make
Speaker 2: an effort to get back in shape go to the gym.
Speaker 2: Gym's much more crowded in January, seemingly, but with the
Speaker 2: weather like this, I feel like this would have been nice.
Speaker 2: This would have been a nice excuse for people to
Speaker 2: just say, well, I'll have to wait because the weather's
Speaker 2: so bad, and then it gets to later in January,
Speaker 2: then they just don't do it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there were people who are
Speaker 9: putting it off because of the weather, and you know, yeah.
Speaker 4: You're right, because at first time back it can be
Speaker 4: the hardest, Oh, for sure.
Speaker 9: Well, people burn themselves out. You know, they go at
Speaker 9: it like five days a week and they haven't worked
Speaker 9: out in months, trying to get off the holiday weight,
Speaker 9: you know, trying to hit their goals early.
Speaker 6: And usually when they do that, to be.
Speaker 9: Very honest, it just sets them up for failure.
Speaker 6: You know, there's a lot of soreness and discomfort, and
Speaker 6: you know they were really playing well. I'm not trying
Speaker 6: to call people out, but that's just the way it is,
Speaker 6: you know, and.
Speaker 9: Things start to get busy, and especially as the weather
Speaker 9: warms up, so yeah, I think that maybe giving.
Speaker 6: Them a little bit of a slower start where they can,
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 9: As long as they didn't feel too cooped up. You know,
Speaker 9: hopefully with the cold and the snow, they didn't stay
Speaker 9: inside the whole time, and you know, got did something
Speaker 9: active with the snow. But yeah, I think that, you know,
Speaker 9: if it slowed them down a little bit, maybe people
Speaker 9: will be a little smarter about how they plan the
Speaker 9: rest of the year.
Speaker 4: I think it just a guess here.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to those who do get active
Speaker 2: for a week or two and then they just kind
Speaker 2: of phase out, I'm sure there's a variety of factors
Speaker 2: that lead to people doing that, but I'm sure one
Speaker 2: is that they were sore for a while, and then
Speaker 2: they tried to work out while really sore, and then
Speaker 2: that was painful and not enjoyable, and then they just think, well,
Speaker 2: if this is what it's going to be, then I
Speaker 2: don't want to do it. I would imagine if they
Speaker 2: give it some thought, they'd realize eventually you would you
Speaker 2: wouldn't be so sore. But what is it really just
Speaker 2: a matter of easing in in a major way that
Speaker 2: way you can avoid having it to I mean, you're
Speaker 2: probably gonna have a little stiffness, especially if you haven't
Speaker 2: done anything in a really long time. But I feel
Speaker 2: like the easier you go, it'll it probably help you
Speaker 2: when it comes to avoiding, just like dreading going back
Speaker 2: because you don't want to feel that pain again.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And I think it's having a plan too. I
Speaker 9: mean I think that you know, making sure you listen
Speaker 9: to your body. You understand that the weight's not going
Speaker 9: to come off as you're not gonna get shit strong
Speaker 9: as you you know, as fast as you think you are.
Speaker 9: You know it's not, that's just not the way physiology works.
Speaker 9: And so what happens is or you know, understand that,
Speaker 9: you know, kind of check your ego. We tell people
Speaker 9: that all the time. I know what you used to
Speaker 9: be able to do, but it's been a while since
Speaker 9: you've done it, and so, you know, we like to
Speaker 9: relate it back to athletes, like these athletes don't go
Speaker 9: into the off season start bench pressing what they did
Speaker 9: when they finished the off season last year. That's just
Speaker 9: not you know, they haven't been doing it as much.
Speaker 9: That's been more maintenance driven, recovery driven.
Speaker 6: So you know, I think that you know, you start
Speaker 6: with a plan that's reasonable, that that you know, and
Speaker 6: then you build upon that and you make sure that
Speaker 6: you are making change. That's the other thing, plan for change.
Speaker 6: If you're trying to run, make sure you have a
Speaker 6: plan on how do you want to increase your your
Speaker 6: mileage or your speed, you know, lifting, whatever it may be.
Speaker 6: Have a plan, and then you know, make sure your
Speaker 6: nutrition matches what you're trying to do.
Speaker 4: I think that's the hydration.
Speaker 6: Hydration is huge the cold weather, and Larry spoke to
Speaker 6: this last week, is we we kind of take it
Speaker 6: for granted. It's very easy to get dehydrated and cold.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 6: And you know those symptoms, the symptoms will a lot
Speaker 6: of times are harder to really you know, pay attention
Speaker 6: to or realize.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 9: And then the food, you know a lot of times
Speaker 9: there and you know, we're in this mindset of hey,
Speaker 9: we got to get these pounds off, but now we're
Speaker 9: increasing our activity. Well, it doesn't work that way. In fact,
Speaker 9: some ways your body will slow down. It's metabolism because
Speaker 9: it's fearful of you know, well, what's going on. You're
Speaker 9: you're taking less, putting less gasoline into my body. And
Speaker 9: then you're asking me to work harder.
Speaker 6: So it just doesn't make sense. So, you know, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of things like that that we got to
Speaker 6: make sure that we're paying attention to and management.
Speaker 2: So I know, you guys see patients of all ages,
Speaker 2: and you've a professional athletes, just the average Joe's children.
Speaker 2: I know you guys treat a lot of different patients.
Speaker 2: But I would imagine there's probably older folks who are
Speaker 2: getting back active and they just want to be educated
Speaker 2: on how they you know, about rest and recovery, and
Speaker 2: maybe they maybe they really maybe the last time they
Speaker 2: were active. I don't want to make them sound ancient,
Speaker 2: but maybe the last time they were active, the physical
Speaker 2: therapy world wasn't in the position that it is now.
Speaker 2: It wasn't as as as popular, wasn't something that was
Speaker 2: so common. I mean, I think there's probably a lot
Speaker 2: of a generation of folks that are really able to
Speaker 2: utilize you guys and didn't even know much about what
Speaker 2: you guys do.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, you know. I think the benefit of I
Speaker 6: speak for myself where I started my career coming from
Speaker 6: the athletics world, is that we you know, I explained
Speaker 6: to my old population my geriatrics.
Speaker 2: As you will.
Speaker 6: You're gonna work in here like you can still get stronger,
Speaker 6: you can still move there. And Nick, I'll give you example.
Speaker 6: You know, we all know and seeing the rise of pickleball,
Speaker 6: oh yeah, well you know there's a lot of fast
Speaker 6: switched muscle fiber activity and pickleball reacting and accelerating to
Speaker 6: the ball, and then you know, yeah, it's it's different
Speaker 6: for every age demographic seeing goals or whatever, but it's
Speaker 6: still there and it's relative. And so what happens is people,
Speaker 6: you know, we all have. People are why I felt, well,
Speaker 6: you haven't you haven't trained your body to participate in
Speaker 6: that sport. And it seems simple to you, but so
Speaker 6: you know, and unless you're you're doing the things you
Speaker 6: need to do to keep yourself ready for that, then
Speaker 6: you're more apt for injury or fall. And and so
Speaker 6: I think that those are things we try to educate
Speaker 6: our patients on, even at you know, the older demographic
Speaker 6: of hey, you know, we're here to work. We're gonna
Speaker 6: get stronger. You know, we're gonna we're gonna burn some calories,
Speaker 6: so we're gonna work on stability. We're gonna get you
Speaker 6: moved faster because we know that helps your balance for instance.
Speaker 6: You know, I think that you know, those are things
Speaker 6: that we try to educate them on that you know,
Speaker 6: we're not going to treat you just about your age.
Speaker 6: We're going to treat you about your ability and uh,
Speaker 6: and that's what we try to reiterate to them so
Speaker 6: they can make sure they hit goals that they are.
Speaker 2: Doct Jerk McElroy program Physical Therapy is our guests joining
Speaker 2: us here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the NFL playoffs, do you have
Speaker 2: any any preferences are you?
Speaker 4: Are you all in on we being got out? You know,
Speaker 4: I'm a moroncos sand Okay, so.
Speaker 6: But you know, we didn't expect them to, uh to
Speaker 6: go very far. But you know, it was good to
Speaker 6: see him in the playoffs again. It's been a long time.
Speaker 6: So now it's you know, I don't know, I'm kind
Speaker 6: of mixed feelings the who's left, you know. I mean,
Speaker 6: obviously would love to see Lamar proved it Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: I think that would be good, uh, you know, and
Speaker 6: a lot of the critics, as far as you know
Speaker 6: his I don't want him to be the Dan Marino
Speaker 6: of his generation of course. So uh but yeah, I
Speaker 6: don't necessarily have it in this point kind of you know,
Speaker 6: with the Lions, I've been tour mine, he's he's over
Speaker 6: performance and and okay, cool, we haven't with the Lions
Speaker 6: and so and they've never you know, that poor fan
Speaker 6: base has never won anything. So it would be kind
Speaker 6: of cool to see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of feels like this is you know,
Speaker 2: I want to say this is their year, but like
Speaker 2: it kind of feels like everything is shaping up for
Speaker 2: them to be a team that at least gets to
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I mean, they've they've kind of been
Speaker 2: building for this in the last couple of years, and
Speaker 2: certainly they've they've broke through in a major way.
Speaker 4: And I think.
Speaker 2: Because hello, can you hear me? Yeah, sir, Yeah, So
Speaker 2: because of because of the Lions and sort of what
Speaker 2: they've been in their entire existence. I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like you won't think of it ahead of time, but
Speaker 2: I think people may tune in and just you know,
Speaker 2: find themselves rooting for this, for this Lion's team. It
Speaker 2: looks like we lost doctor Macro. I'm not sure what
Speaker 2: happened there. There was some there was clearly some bluetooth
Speaker 2: going on. I think he at times we had him
Speaker 2: on bluetooth and then at times we didn't. He was
Speaker 2: going back and forth, which i've I mean, I know
Speaker 2: if you In fact, I bet everybody listening has probably
Speaker 2: either had that happen to them while they're on the phone,
Speaker 2: or it's happening when somebody else is on the phone.
Speaker 2: See if you can give him a ring, and yeah,
Speaker 2: let me do that. We'll get him back on here.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but we did lose him
Speaker 2: for a brief second there. But yeah, I thought about
Speaker 2: that last week because I went into the gym Monday,
Speaker 2: and it's the first time I've gone since probably like
Speaker 2: around Christmas time or something like that. So I was
Speaker 2: very surprised to see that it was relatively empty. I mean,
Speaker 2: I figured with it being January, there'd be a lot
Speaker 2: more people here than there was around November December whenever
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 4: But it was pretty light.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to the guy who who's who
Speaker 2: works there during the time when I go, and I
Speaker 2: asked him and he said, yeah, they had some people
Speaker 2: come in and sign up. They had some people who'd
Speaker 2: been gone for a while, and come back. But he
Speaker 2: said that they did not get anywhere near the typical
Speaker 2: amount of people that that that showed up, you know,
Speaker 2: the typical amount of people that show up to sign
Speaker 2: up just you know, to try to get in shape
Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year. And and he claimed
Speaker 2: that he believes it's because the weather just kept him away.
Speaker 2: And uh, if you didn't, if you didn't go back
Speaker 2: to the gym in the first couple of weeks of
Speaker 2: January because you put it off because of the weather,
Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked if you just continue to put it off.
Speaker 4: Hey, but hey, you should, you should, you should get
Speaker 4: back in the gym. Be healthy.
Speaker 2: It's good for you when it comes to, you know,
Speaker 2: taking care of yourself and being healthy. But man, it's
Speaker 2: a it's such a mental health thing for me just
Speaker 2: to go get a run in and exercise, and that
Speaker 2: that's really the payoff for me at this point, and
Speaker 2: you know, keeps me from you know, blowing up, because
Speaker 2: if I eat bad, then I feel like, hey, I
Speaker 2: can go get a run in and it won't be
Speaker 2: won't be quite a bad All Right, We've got Eric
Speaker 2: McElroy back with us. I'll I'll ask you this question
Speaker 2: just because we're up against it here. But Zay Flowers,
Speaker 2: it sounds like he may. It sounds like he may
Speaker 2: only play this season if Baltimore reaches the AFC title game.
Speaker 2: He's been day to day dealing with with this injury.
Speaker 2: Clearly it's a it's a it's a big deal, uh
Speaker 2: if they don't have Zay Flowers.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't look like he may then. In fact,
Speaker 4: the latest update here it says that uh.
Speaker 2: He says if save Flowers may only play again the
Speaker 2: season at Baltimore riches the FC title game. Head coach
Speaker 2: John Harbaugh had previously stated Flowers could play without practicing
Speaker 2: this week, and that could be the case as a
Speaker 2: wide receiver was the only player appsent from Thursday's practice session.
Speaker 2: But if he doesn't practice tomorrow, it sounds like he
Speaker 2: won't be able to go. There's not a whole lot
Speaker 2: of info as far as what's kept him out, but
Speaker 2: last week Carball seemed pretty confident that he'd be he'd
Speaker 2: be back in this game. And that is not that
Speaker 2: is not the case. It sounds like So again, I
Speaker 2: guess I'm asking you to just guess as far as
Speaker 2: what it is. But when you hear a coach speaking confidently,
Speaker 2: you would imagine he's getting that from the training staff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he just can you hear me?
Speaker 4: Yeah, got to make sure you can hear me.
Speaker 9: But yeah, he's not moving great or he's not he's
Speaker 9: not handling whatever they're trying to do with him very well.
Speaker 9: And I know it seems very general, but you know
Speaker 9: they're at this point in the season. You know they're
Speaker 9: they're gonna do whatever they can and get him back.
Speaker 9: And you know he may not practice at all and
Speaker 9: still play and that's totally fine, but they're challenging him
Speaker 9: in practice every day to try to make the best
Speaker 9: judgment on how he can perform. And you know what
Speaker 9: that tells me is, whatever it is, it's significant enough
Speaker 9: that you know his his it's really a performance issue.
Speaker 9: You know, he's not going to be able to perform it.
Speaker 9: You know, even at the slightest at the level they're
Speaker 9: going to need him to to compete.
Speaker 4: And that makes sense. He's not he's not as he's
Speaker 4: not as he's not his self with whatever he's dealing with.
Speaker 4: And that that's I mean, all these guys are heard, right,
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 6: He's like he's he's.
Speaker 9: Not evenna be performed well. So you know, it seems like,
Speaker 9: you know, it could be I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 9: read whether he had a lower exture, any injury.
Speaker 2: It's a knee, but that's all they're saying is knee
Speaker 2: that they haven't mentioned anything else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so he may have a legal his frame and
Speaker 9: they're really concerned about stability, or he's not tolerating being
Speaker 9: able to cut on it very well or jump and land,
Speaker 9: I mean things like that.
Speaker 6: He's gonna have to be able to do it, especially
Speaker 6: in a game that's important. So it's better off having somebody.
Speaker 9: Else in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 2: Doctor mclroy is always appreciate your time. Great to catch
Speaker 2: up and we will do it again soon. My friend, awesome,
Speaker 2: man have it going n take care. That's doctor Eric
Speaker 2: mclroy from pro Rea Physical Therapy. Always appreciate his time.
Speaker 2: I still think the Ravens can be a can be
Speaker 2: a team that goes on a run here wins a
Speaker 2: couple of games even if they don't have Flowers. But
Speaker 2: clearly they're better with Flowers. He's a really really good
Speaker 2: playmaker and hopefully he can get back sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2: But man, what a game on Sunday evening. We've got
Speaker 2: Bill's Ravens, the two MVP favorites, should be should be
Speaker 2: awesome quick break. We'll come back and wrap up the
Speaker 2: four o'clock hour right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome, Austin, giving you a nice treat in there
Speaker 2: on a Thursday watching me dance.
Speaker 4: That was hot.
Speaker 3: I wish I could keep you playing in this all day.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what you know.
Speaker 2: It turns out when I do try to dance, or
Speaker 2: at least do something that I hope is dancing, I
Speaker 2: end up just a few seconds in just doing a
Speaker 2: lot of pelvic thrusting.
Speaker 4: Kind it's kind of my sweet spot.
Speaker 2: If I don't have much, if I if I've got
Speaker 2: no rhythm, I'll just, you know, start humping air.
Speaker 4: And that's that's my dance move.
Speaker 3: That's why Tiffany love you so much. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 3: I'm kind of the same. I don't have any like
Speaker 3: dance moves. It's not like I could not like I
Speaker 3: could cut a rug or anything, but I could I
Speaker 3: could fill the rhythm.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can.
Speaker 2: You seem like a kind of light on your feet,
Speaker 2: kind of like you got a little rhythm, kind of
Speaker 2: like a dancing bear out there on the dance floor.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: The hips start to sway in and I can't promise
Speaker 3: you what happens next.
Speaker 4: You can't control it. It just when the music's playing
Speaker 4: and the and the vibes are there, you just get
Speaker 4: in rhythm. Right, No one is safe.
Speaker 2: That's how it works, all right. So we've been talking
Speaker 2: a lot of basketball today. Actually we talked some football
Speaker 2: talk some NFL too, But Louisville football, they are coming
Speaker 2: off of, of course, another another good season under Jeff Brohm.
Speaker 2: I still at this point and in a good place,
Speaker 2: not looking back at last year and thinking, man, Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: we were better than them, and they're about to win
Speaker 2: a national championship. Maybe, I mean, that is kind of bittersweet.
Speaker 2: But Notre Dame clearly has gotten better since they played Louisville,
Speaker 2: and look, they did beat Louisville. But Louisville football next year,
Speaker 2: as of right now, looks to be in great shape,
Speaker 2: especially on the offensive side. Miller Moss, the top ten
Speaker 2: quarterback in the portal, and then two freshman running backs
Speaker 2: that are going to be coming back that are sensational
Speaker 2: Colin Lacey, a healthy Colin Lacy this time around. Chris
Speaker 2: Bell had a breakout season, so much so that he
Speaker 2: turned down over a million dollars to enter the portal
Speaker 2: and go to Texas. That's the rumor, which considering it's Texas,
Speaker 2: I kind of believe it. But their offense may get
Speaker 2: even better if they're able to land one of the
Speaker 2: best receivers in the portal, which is Penn State's leading receiver,
Speaker 2: Harrison Wallace.
Speaker 4: Third.
Speaker 2: He is, I mean, he's got to be up there
Speaker 2: as one of the top receivers in the portal, certainly
Speaker 2: one of the top available because he's he's still available.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he is going to be visiting Louisville, North Carolina, Texas,
Speaker 2: A and M in South Carolina. That's the schools he's considering,
Speaker 2: so he can pretty much pick wherever he wants to go.
Speaker 2: He's probably a kind of guy at this late in
Speaker 2: the game and the portal that they're not going to
Speaker 2: be pressing for time. One of the reasons why you
Speaker 2: see these guys commit so early in the process because
Speaker 2: it's such a fast moving thing. You don't have a
Speaker 2: whole lot of time to sit back and decide what
Speaker 2: you're going to do in the portal, because more often
Speaker 2: than not, there's five guys that are basically going to
Speaker 2: get the same offer that you're gonna get, and you
Speaker 2: got to decide do you want it or not. If not,
Speaker 2: then they're gonna move on. And if you don't give
Speaker 2: him an answer, they're going to move on anyway because
Speaker 2: they got to fill that spot. So he's a guy
Speaker 2: that probably wouldn't have to worry about that because of
Speaker 2: how talented he is and because a lot of the
Speaker 2: guys who hit the portal have already found where they're
Speaker 2: going to go. So Bram adding another really really talented
Speaker 2: receiver would be just an added bonus, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, I mean, he was a Penn State for
Speaker 2: four seasons and in those four seasons he caught eighty
Speaker 2: four passes for over twelve hundred yards, averaged just about
Speaker 2: fifteen yards to catch, had six touchdowns. So clearly a
Speaker 2: guy that was very productive at Penn State and would
Speaker 2: be a big addition. So not sure if he's got
Speaker 2: a favorite, but clearly Louisville getting him on campus for
Speaker 2: a visit, says that they are there in the mix,
Speaker 2: which is a good thing. And I'm not going to
Speaker 2: go there. I'm not gonna say it, but it's on
Speaker 2: my mind. You guys know what I'm talking about. Right
Speaker 2: anytime I start to get excited and get to go
Speaker 2: there and get amped up for Louisville.
Speaker 4: Be a team that's lightening up scoreboards.
Speaker 2: But we learned that thirty five forty two points isn't
Speaker 2: enough because our defense at times can be such a liability.
Speaker 4: Like I don't want to have that worry.
Speaker 2: But the more excited I get, the more I think,
Speaker 2: oh man, it would be a real bummer if we
Speaker 2: can't capitalize on maybe one of the most explosive offenses
Speaker 2: we've ever had.
Speaker 4: So we'll see. We'll see. Ron English, it's on you, brother,
Speaker 4: all right.
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