Speaker 1: Welcome back, Welcome back to eve Sports Radio. Well, Shan
Speaker 1: and I have already been dealing with issues like we do,
Speaker 1: but we're professionals at this. This is Eves Sports Radio.
Speaker 1: It is June the eleventh, twenty twenty five. It's Wednesday,
Speaker 1: of course. Yes, it's a beautiful day outside. I'll get
Speaker 1: to that in a minute. My phone number is five
Speaker 1: zero two five seven one seventy nine hundred. That's five
Speaker 1: zero two five seventy nine hundred Sports Talk seven ninety KRD.
Speaker 1: I've got my young one on the other line asking me,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. How are you. I'm doing great
Speaker 1: this morning. You know, the technical difficulty has never seen
Speaker 1: to surpass us. You know, we get at least one
Speaker 1: a week, have two. That's why it's called live entertainment Antony.
Speaker 1: Things happen sen and are professionals that we work it out.
Speaker 1: My computer just wasn't working, so I had to come
Speaker 1: in through the phone line just like you're coming through.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we're here and ready to run row Antony. Yes,
Speaker 1: the weather's just fantastic outside. And yes, if people don't know,
Speaker 1: Monday was the first time in eleven years for my
Speaker 1: Simmons college golf outing that I got rained first time,
Speaker 1: and fancy, I'll let you describe it. Did we get
Speaker 1: rained or no, we did?
Speaker 2: It was it was on and off for a while,
Speaker 2: you know, it was it was a little different. It
Speaker 2: would kind of start raining hard for about you know,
Speaker 2: twenty minutes, and then we'll kind of cut off a
Speaker 2: little bit, then will come back on. It didn't fully
Speaker 2: stop raining until about two fifteen, two thirty.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I agree we started eleven ten. It was beautiful
Speaker 1: by the end when we were eating out in the
Speaker 1: veranda at Big Springs, it was beautiful. But guys, oh,
Speaker 1: it was just such a nightmare. I was like, if
Speaker 1: anyone has ever watched golf, and you watch the golf channel,
Speaker 1: or if you've watched the golf during the tournaments, they'll
Speaker 1: show you a torrential downpour raining like crazy, and there'll
Speaker 1: be a gentleman sitting under it looks like a little
Speaker 1: concession stand saying it's lightning up, it's lightning up. That
Speaker 1: was the entire hour and a half when we got
Speaker 1: through rain. I'm sitting there going it's lightning up, it's
Speaker 1: about to stop. My poor people were soaked. I mean
Speaker 1: just soaked. So I want to do something Anthony, because
Speaker 1: out of the twenty six or seven teams we have,
Speaker 1: we have a huge tournament. I want to say that
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty two stuck it out the entire way,
Speaker 1: and I want to thank them. I do. David Stanley,
Speaker 1: my teammate from a Ballot high school, great guy, great businessman.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Stefan Mack State Farm, Thank you. Wade Houston,
Speaker 1: Scooter McCrae, George Demmery, Steve Crumble, Bradford Smith, thank you.
Speaker 1: I had Mary kay lough Brooksy really good, great, great family,
Speaker 1: great things in this community. Thank you. Doctor Jerryson Darra
Speaker 1: from Campbellsville, came from Campbellsville, brought his team, won the tournament.
Speaker 1: Doctor Jerry and ire at University of Louisville together and just
Speaker 1: a fantastic serve the country. Fantastic man. If you need
Speaker 1: to learn how to shoot a gun, just asked doctor Jerry.
Speaker 1: He has every gun you'd ever see and he is
Speaker 1: a great marksman. We've got oh gosh, my mind, we've
Speaker 1: got Coca Cola. Herb Crooks, thank you for donating the drinks.
Speaker 1: Richard Pickering, Frank Harshaw, thank you, our heart. Buddy Peterson,
Speaker 1: thank you all, like always to supporting Simmons College, Heaven
Speaker 1: Hell Thornton's. Thank you for the donuts, your donations, your support.
Speaker 1: The Sports radio, thank you all, Ellen n Chris Brown,
Speaker 1: like always, the new football stadium, they do a tremendous job.
Speaker 1: Tony Coleman, Jerry Ellis at Shiny Park. Yes, the Ellis family,
Speaker 1: the Boxer, Great Family, Old National, Kenny Loggins of course,
Speaker 1: Anthony the Eves Town and Country, my boy, Billy Harmon
Speaker 1: who had Jack Gibbons on his team, Mike Vine, Herb Vine,
Speaker 1: my mentor, like I told everybody, that's just the truth,
Speaker 1: forever and forever. Gladys Barclay's Junior Bridgeman's Sons team of
Speaker 1: Chrise of course, the late great Junior Bridgeman Republic Bank.
Speaker 1: Like always, William Summers was out there meeting and greeting.
Speaker 1: Scott Trager has always supported e Sports Radio and Jerry
Speaker 1: East and Simmons College always. Court is the best, the
Speaker 1: best physical therapy in the city, no question. Randy Baufort,
Speaker 1: of course, used to be Trilogy Healthcare, my manager at
Speaker 1: University of Louisville. Martin Dunbar, Lee Wagner, my boy Lee
Speaker 1: Kyby Harrison. Guys, I mean, I just I love everybody
Speaker 1: that all supports Simmons, and guys, two thousand dollars there's
Speaker 1: a lot of money, so I appreciate you all coming
Speaker 1: out sticking it out with me. We had a great
Speaker 1: meal afterwards, and next year I'll talk to God and
Speaker 1: make sure it doesn't happen again. Victor Anderson in my
Speaker 1: neighborhood right here also supported my golf outing. So guys,
Speaker 1: just thank you for all the support and all the people.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I let everyone know
Speaker 1: that Simmons College and myself, I appreciate you all. John
Speaker 1: Gibbons drove from Cincinnati here guys to be a part
Speaker 1: of a golf out here. Roger Berkman, I mean, just
Speaker 1: everyone to make sure that Simmons is a success and
Speaker 1: to help Jerry Eves do that. I want to let
Speaker 1: everyone know I appreciate them. So now, Anthony, let's see
Speaker 1: other than that, it rained and I'll steel mad. Tuesday morning,
Speaker 1: I'm running around Anthony, picking up my dreams from Big Springs,
Speaker 1: taking things the coolers back to Big Springs, dropping off,
Speaker 1: picking up chicks after the weather's beautiful I'm like, the
Speaker 1: weather was beautiful Sunday. The weather was beautiful yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I mean it was during my golf outing. It couldn't
Speaker 1: have been worse. So anyway, that's the first time I'm
Speaker 1: batting pretty good. But I hated that for the groups
Speaker 1: that had to go out on Monday. Better luck next year,
Speaker 1: is all I could say. So anyway, that's where we
Speaker 1: are now. We've had all kinds of things transpiring in sports.
Speaker 1: We know, we've got the NBA game going on tonight.
Speaker 1: We'll be watching that changing ownership with Indianapolis coachs. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that Ersaes daughters taking over. We talk about
Speaker 1: that cat fans, And I'm being honest with you. I
Speaker 1: used to say anthy before you came on the show,
Speaker 1: that I was gonna bar vince Boro Big Dog out
Speaker 1: of the city of Louisville because he would come in
Speaker 1: and poach all the great players out of the city.
Speaker 1: Big Dog took him up to Lexington. Anthony, we've got
Speaker 1: Big Dog fans. Uh, Oh, we're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 1: That When when I found out about that, when a
Speaker 1: Kentucky big Kentucky fan called me and told me about that,
Speaker 1: that is a huge girl fan. He even said, uh oh,
Speaker 1: soop system in trouble. Stoop is in trouble, gentlemen. But
Speaker 1: we'll get to that, Simony. Where do you think, Where
Speaker 1: do you want to start? Where are we gonna start first? Today?
Speaker 2: You know, we we still got to get back on
Speaker 2: the topic.
Speaker 3: I know something that's still kind of on a lot
Speaker 3: of people's minds. It's talking about that Russ Smith situation.
Speaker 3: Now obviously we're talking about with him blowing less on
Speaker 3: the duy, blowing less than the legal limit, But we
Speaker 3: really wanted to get into do you believe that the.
Speaker 4: Breathalyzer in the field sobriety tests are really one not
Speaker 4: so much necessary, but are they really viable anymore at
Speaker 4: this point? Because people are blowing below the legal limit,
Speaker 4: they're blown lesson on the on the field sobriety test,
Speaker 4: and a lot of people are still getting duys or
Speaker 4: see't get arrested under that legal limit. Trying to figure
Speaker 4: out where the even ground is.
Speaker 1: No letting it almost not even so mu's letting it go,
Speaker 1: but more sort of a warning and helping someone get
Speaker 1: home safely, rather than someone's out who's just fully intoxicated.
Speaker 1: Anthony it's really tough. Everyone knows if you all don't
Speaker 1: thrust Smith with at my golf out in on Monday
Speaker 1: and his better half played golf CC plate with Mike
Speaker 1: Vine's team, and we understand what it transpired over the weekend.
Speaker 1: We do. And I want to say that there was
Speaker 1: a little of a police officer arrested for DUI off
Speaker 1: duty Hardin County was arrested for DUI. Also that blew
Speaker 1: less than the legal limit, okay, and the breathalyzer test.
Speaker 1: So I tell everyone, we like to be fair on
Speaker 1: the sports radio. I do not throw police officers under
Speaker 1: the bus unless they're wrong. I try to be fair
Speaker 1: on the show. I try to get both sides of
Speaker 1: the story. I don't give up names, but people do
Speaker 1: trust me after this long, this length of time being
Speaker 1: on the radio, Anthony and I do have friends in
Speaker 1: high places, and they do tell me the facts. I
Speaker 1: want to know the facts. I do, and then I
Speaker 1: like to try to inform you all to the best
Speaker 1: of my ability. I'm not a lawyer like some people
Speaker 1: on the radio. I know Matt's a lawyer, but I
Speaker 1: do get the facts, and you know, you don't always
Speaker 1: have to be a lawyer to be able to read
Speaker 1: and understand the law. The law. Most police officers are
Speaker 1: not lawyers, but they know the law. So I just
Speaker 1: want to go through the facts again. Russ Smith will
Speaker 1: stop the Baxter Avenue and Highland Avenue made a U turn.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we're going to see that on the body
Speaker 1: cam video. I'm sure so, guys, when this goes to court,
Speaker 1: I think next week. And we know civ Romaines is
Speaker 1: the best in the city. He is, He's very at
Speaker 1: defending his clients. He will have his case together in
Speaker 1: associa the city of Louisville. But we should see the
Speaker 1: U turn, okay, which is what brought the maserati to
Speaker 1: the policeman's eye. You make an illegal turn. You make
Speaker 1: a U turn on Backst Avenue and Highland Avenue if
Speaker 1: anyone's been there and it's going to make you go.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I haven't made you turns before.
Speaker 1: I want to be clear with everybody. I have made
Speaker 1: U turns when I'm not supposed to. I have, so
Speaker 1: I just want to be fair with people. But again,
Speaker 1: that's not the police officer's fault because he was doing
Speaker 1: his job. Let's just make sure I told my friends
Speaker 1: in high places that I would be fair, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to be I still have my stance on this.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the breathalyzer, Anthony and blowing the
Speaker 1: breathalyzer I've set for ten and a half years on
Speaker 1: Esports radio. Follow the directions of the police offic officers.
Speaker 1: That will keep you out of trouble. Now, a lot
Speaker 1: of people, if you social media, they say don't because
Speaker 1: police officers are asking you questions to trap you. Some
Speaker 1: are that's really bad. I don't know why, but they do.
Speaker 1: And that's a fact. I mean, we've heard it on tape.
Speaker 1: We've heard them and they're trying to get evidence from you.
Speaker 1: So a lot of lawyers will tell you never speak.
Speaker 1: But I don't say that police officer stops you. I say,
Speaker 1: the best of your ability. If you answer the questions,
Speaker 1: if you haven't done anything wrong, you should go on
Speaker 1: your way. You should not always, but you should. So
Speaker 1: Russ Smith follows directions. I found out Russ Smith was
Speaker 1: very polite. I want everybody to understand, not one negative
Speaker 1: word from Russ Smith, not one negative word from the
Speaker 1: police officer. I'm just being factual with you. Oh, not one.
Speaker 1: Both were very polite. Will you Restamith said yes, I will.
Speaker 1: Russ Smith did onseen and blew less than the zero
Speaker 1: point eight. Again, that doesn't mean, by law, you're not intoxicated, okay,
Speaker 1: That just means that you blew less than what they
Speaker 1: consider the legal limit. That's where I have a problem.
Speaker 1: I hate the gray area, the zero point eight to
Speaker 1: the zero point four to the zero point seventy nine discretion.
Speaker 1: I don't like that. Just make if it's if you
Speaker 1: blow zero point four, you're incotoxicated, simple point blank. The
Speaker 1: law gets police officers in trouble and it irritates the public. Period.
Speaker 1: Be definitive. If you're gonna make a law, be definitive. Period.
Speaker 1: Don't give me the gray matter. So for my hierarchy
Speaker 1: that I know you're listening, I'm with you. But be definitive. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he blows less than the legal limit, but that
Speaker 1: does not mean you're not intoxicated. So you have a
Speaker 1: field sobriety test, which I'm finding out now is truly
Speaker 1: the gauge. The field sobriety test is the gauge. I
Speaker 1: have not seen the tape of the field sobriety test.
Speaker 1: I want people to know that yet I will and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, but I haven't seen it yet, so
Speaker 1: I cannot and I will not speak about that because
Speaker 1: I don't know. But we'll have to wait and see
Speaker 1: that piece. The second piece, truly the most important piece
Speaker 1: of the tests of the two, the field sobriety anthem.
Speaker 1: So when that comes out and we get to see it,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure Restmith's lawyer has seen it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: Restsmith was there, he'll have his opinion. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: police officer is going to have his opinion. Both were polite,
Speaker 1: there was no issues, no issues guys at all. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's two sides of the story. I just
Speaker 1: read Rest Smiths on television this morning that he disagrees
Speaker 1: with the arrest, so it'll play out in court. But
Speaker 1: to help our police officers, the law should be more definitive.
Speaker 1: Now without seeing the field sobriety, I'm not to go
Speaker 1: any further with that piece of it. But this is
Speaker 1: a piece I did want to bring up on the
Speaker 1: legal side. But again we need to look into we
Speaker 1: the public, we pay it. An example was given to me,
Speaker 1: if you said Uber Holme, Rust Smith, and he did,
Speaker 1: and you parked the car on the side of the road,
Speaker 1: and you're intending for him to come back when eight
Speaker 1: hours later, when you would think that he would be
Speaker 1: fairly sober able to drive a motor vehicle. But the
Speaker 1: person decides to come back that night and get his vehicle,
Speaker 1: and he's still intoxicated. Right, So the police officer, my
Speaker 1: idea of sending him home, sent him home. But he
Speaker 1: comes back and gets the car, he wrecks the car. Guys,
Speaker 1: he runs into someone, he injures someone, there's a fatality.
Speaker 1: What happens is the legal system is set up. The
Speaker 1: person was to Russ Smith and the city Now it's
Speaker 1: our dollars, taxpayers, everyone listening, that's our dollars. The City
Speaker 1: of Louisville buys insurance to pay. I'm just gonna be
Speaker 1: honest with you. The City of Louisville has been wrong
Speaker 1: so much it's had a hard time buying insurance. It's
Speaker 1: police officers have let me be correct, we've been wrong
Speaker 1: so much it's hard for the City of louis to
Speaker 1: buy insurance on itself. Our police officers have been wrong.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact. So that does put a double
Speaker 1: edged sword to this the police officer. It's not are
Speaker 1: you kind of is? It's fair? It is the law
Speaker 1: that the police officer and it's his opinion. If he
Speaker 1: thinks you're intoxicated, he must arrest you. That's all there
Speaker 1: is to it. That he has to do his job.
Speaker 1: So the police officer did his job. Russ Smith is
Speaker 1: going to have opportunity and his legal counsel to do
Speaker 1: their job. We have the best, I think legal system
Speaker 1: in the world. Let it play out, we'll find and
Speaker 1: we'll follow it. But I still would like it to
Speaker 1: be more definitive if it's not zero point eight. Because
Speaker 1: here's why, guys, I'll call it legal. I don't care
Speaker 1: what anybody says. You can have a drink, period point blank.
Speaker 1: It is legal. So if you can have a drink
Speaker 1: and someone stops you, a police officer stops you, and
Speaker 1: you blow zero point four, and the results on ones
Speaker 1: that say you're drunk and you say you're not, well, guys,
Speaker 1: here's the issue that I have, not with Russ Smith,
Speaker 1: but with people that we don't know. A young man
Speaker 1: gets stopped, he gets arrested for DUI, he wins the case. Okay,
Speaker 1: what happens is that dui. No matter what, the legal
Speaker 1: system will drop it off. It stays online for a
Speaker 1: long time. And when employers start to employ people and
Speaker 1: start to look they check online. They do. I know
Speaker 1: it for a fact. That's all there is to it.
Speaker 1: My wife is a hiring manager Republic. They check. They
Speaker 1: do their job, they try to find out about the
Speaker 1: people they're hiring. So when they see these things that
Speaker 1: are online that have not been taken off, it makes
Speaker 1: it very difficult for young people to progress and get
Speaker 1: jobs because it never leaves and people make determinations from that.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted you all to know it is
Speaker 1: very very tough on young people that get arrested that
Speaker 1: are not guilty. It still stays there no matter what. Well,
Speaker 1: they're not guilty. It should show us not what it shows.
Speaker 1: It shows rest ofvents was locked up for a dui.
Speaker 1: They'll have to go research deeper to find out was
Speaker 1: he acquitted, what happened? They don't do. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of work. Usually people move on. So that's why we
Speaker 1: have to be more sensitive with these things. When we're
Speaker 1: not definitive telling the law, we need to as the
Speaker 1: community say what is the limit? Are we going to
Speaker 1: say at zero point eight or if a zero point four,
Speaker 1: make a decision zero point four you're illegal, zero point
Speaker 1: three nine, you're not, period point blank. Forget to feel sobriety.
Speaker 1: Let's move on. Then no lawsuits come after that be
Speaker 1: definitive with the law sing, We're gonna leave it there.
Speaker 1: On the rest of it. He goes to trial next week.
Speaker 1: Of course he's a personal friend of mine. I think
Speaker 1: I've been fair at both parties. But again, it is
Speaker 1: a two edged sword, and it is very difficult on
Speaker 1: young people that do get arrest records. It's hard to
Speaker 1: get them purged completely from the internet. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing about the internet to young people, and I preach
Speaker 1: to them all the time it's there forever you must
Speaker 1: think through what you do. E Sports Radio seven to
Speaker 1: twenty five And when we get back, we'll get back
Speaker 1: to sports talk to you in a minute. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Sports Radio seven thirty two. We ran two breaks.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my computer together, but my
Speaker 1: headphones in and neither shot, so I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: invest in new headphones. So I'll just have to get
Speaker 1: a go go on me account. Everyone knows I'm cheap,
Speaker 1: so answering, here's the deal before we move on operating
Speaker 1: vehicle not a motor vehicle while under the influence. And
Speaker 1: I want people to understand, no peace officer or state
Speaker 1: I'm reading the actual law. No peace officer or state
Speaker 1: police officer should failed to enforce rigidly this section. Okay,
Speaker 1: the only problem I have with the section is that
Speaker 1: it's a loop. It does not define if there was
Speaker 1: an alcohol concentrate of less than zero point five, it
Speaker 1: shall be presumed that the defendant was not under the
Speaker 1: influence of alcohol. If there was an alcohol concentrate of
Speaker 1: zero point five or greater but less than zero point eight,
Speaker 1: such facts are not constitute a presumption. I'm sorry you
Speaker 1: went back small, and they're gonna blow it one assumption
Speaker 1: that the defendant either was or was not under the
Speaker 1: influence of alcohol. But such factors may be considered together
Speaker 1: with other competent evidence. So here's the deal, guys all,
Speaker 1: I'm saying to the legal system, if we're not gonna
Speaker 1: go by the numbers, there's no reason anyone ever blows
Speaker 1: into the breathalyzer. I can blow zero point six or
Speaker 1: the police officer blue zero point whatever, But it's below
Speaker 1: the zero point eight. After you do it, he's always
Speaker 1: gonna look at job. I don't like that. So what
Speaker 1: it means is you should never blow into the breath
Speaker 1: of lize. That's why I'm saying, we've put the police
Speaker 1: officers in a bad position. We've put the public in
Speaker 1: a bad position. We need to make our leaders to
Speaker 1: be definitive about the law and what they want. Because
Speaker 1: right now, if I was telling someone I'm a non drinker,
Speaker 1: easy for me, but drinking is legal. Don't blow in
Speaker 1: the breath A lots if doesn't mean anything. We've seen
Speaker 1: that now twice. You can still be presumed guilty. And
Speaker 1: they may have been. I'm not saying they worked, the
Speaker 1: police officer or Russ Smith. I'm not saying they worked,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying now and I've read them, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: brow the breathalyzer. I'd say, so I passed. And I'm
Speaker 1: the person that told people follow direction, but with this,
Speaker 1: i'd have to say I passed. So that's all We're
Speaker 1: gonna move on. Anthy And I didn't even have a
Speaker 1: chance to tell you, Shannon, but I sent you something
Speaker 1: that I want you to take a little time loading
Speaker 1: we'll get to it. We'll go to something else. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna go straight to Pittsburgh because I didn't tell
Speaker 1: you the loaded Shannon, but go to your email and
Speaker 1: load something. I've got something with Aaron Rodgers. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Pittsburgh with Anthony. Let's go to Big Dog coming
Speaker 1: to university a little bit. What is your opinion when
Speaker 1: you heard that? What did you think?
Speaker 5: Well, I've heard I've heard different sides.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I heard the size obviously Wolves kind of.
Speaker 1: On the uprise right now, that while Kentucky's kind of
Speaker 1: a kind of a sinking ship is what I've heard.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna quot anybody on that, but I heard
Speaker 1: things aren't looking too good for Big Blue Nation when
Speaker 1: it comes to the football side and Mark steps, so.
Speaker 5: A lot of people are kind of getting out there
Speaker 5: why they can.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously, I.
Speaker 4: Think Louisville is a great move for him.
Speaker 6: Obviously, I think recruiting wise, you can still get good recruits,
Speaker 6: and the competition level to recruit there is not as
Speaker 6: steep as recruit against other teams in the SEC.
Speaker 1: That's one thing I will see. That's just pros.
Speaker 6: There's obviously being in the SEC, it's easier to recruit
Speaker 6: players because of the conference, the notoriety you get, the viewership,
Speaker 6: you know, the Kali for an average player in the
Speaker 6: SEC gets more praise than a good player in the ACC.
Speaker 5: And that is true right now.
Speaker 1: Just because the conference levels are so much different when
Speaker 1: it comes to steel wise. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we've seen.
Speaker 6: Players that have flourished and done well in the ACC
Speaker 6: throughout different times of different areas, and the AEC can't
Speaker 6: get back to that position. It also just needs the
Speaker 6: right coaches to put it in that position. Even recruiters.
Speaker 6: We have the Deshaun Wahingtons, Jamesinston, Lamar Jackson's, Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 6: Is it can get back to there.
Speaker 1: It's had all star quarterbacks, just has Pro Bowl quarterbacks
Speaker 1: come out of there within the last seven to eight years.
Speaker 1: I think more Pro.
Speaker 5: Bowl quarterbacks than the SEC.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a good question. You got a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion and hurt last year. I gotta give I gotta
Speaker 1: give every boy his a dude, because no one thought
Speaker 1: he could play, and he is a Super Bowl champ
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles. But I agree with you.
Speaker 5: I gotta I gotta, I got I got an unpopular
Speaker 5: take about Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: Everybody, don't hate me for it. I just don't think
Speaker 1: he's as good as what he is. He's just on
Speaker 1: the best team, if the best offense and the best
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. Okay, you don't have to be
Speaker 1: you don't have to be a superstar win a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Here's what i'n I fight for, Lamar Jackson, fight tooth
Speaker 1: and nail. Everyone knows. That's the one thing Louisville fans
Speaker 1: don't get after me about. They know I'm a Jackson fan. Anthony.
Speaker 1: That ball touches her hand first and foremost every play.
Speaker 1: And the reason that their offenses are so good Baltimore
Speaker 1: and Philly is the running piece of their quarterback, the
Speaker 1: running piece Anthony, which he brings in. It's not just
Speaker 1: a good threat, it's a triple threat. No, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about the just push. I'm talking about their
Speaker 1: playofftion run that they still do. Anthony. It's very difficult
Speaker 1: to prepare for Hurt Jackson running quarterbacks, Alan Anthony. It's
Speaker 1: hard to prepare for those guys. It really is, because
Speaker 1: it's a three head monster and he's one of them.
Speaker 1: People don't want to give him the zoo. And I
Speaker 1: want people to think about this. Two years ago, two
Speaker 1: years ago, in the Super Bowl, they lost to Anthony.
Speaker 1: The boy had game the five hundred yards pass him.
Speaker 1: The boy had two hundred yards rushing. They lost it.
Speaker 1: He had a big turnover at the end. But if
Speaker 1: you go look at his stats, he carried Philly. They've
Speaker 1: been to two super Bowls and give you miss dude,
Speaker 1: I'm just the one, the one that he did all
Speaker 1: the work. I to argue that the one he does
Speaker 1: all the words, he they lose the average work twice twice.
Speaker 1: Give you that man his due. He've been in super
Speaker 1: Bowl twice, and his super Bowl numbers, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: they're in the top five. Ever, he just had a
Speaker 1: big turnover. But I'm telling you know what, for some
Speaker 1: reason like to give him his due. Ruddy. But when
Speaker 1: you checked, we're talking about the best team. You got
Speaker 1: the best. No, no, you got the top run the
Speaker 1: three years ago. I'm talking about two or three years
Speaker 1: ago Antony. Looking they didn't remember the Super Bowl. They didn't. Again,
Speaker 1: as long as we I tell people this all the time,
Speaker 1: if I only evaluate somebody as if they win a
Speaker 1: super Bowl, then nobody's good. I'm just numbers and so
Speaker 1: short people.
Speaker 5: So I tell you questions solid, I'm gonna give.
Speaker 1: You an example. I'm gonna give you an example. Jerry's
Speaker 1: won NTU W A championship with University of LOUISO got me.
Speaker 1: Dirk Minifield, my boy Lexington went. I mean know him well, Anthony,
Speaker 1: you don't remember meeting, but he was in Houston with
Speaker 1: John Lucas all the camps when you were little, Anthony.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, as a player to player, Dirk
Speaker 1: Maunnafield is a better player than Jerry. She got me,
Speaker 1: never won, he never won a national championship. But that
Speaker 1: boy is a better player than I was, period, point blank.
Speaker 1: I've said it for I'll never change it. He is
Speaker 1: he was, Anthony. Was I frightening the player though? Could
Speaker 1: I beat a seam? Yes? All those things? But was
Speaker 1: he a better player? Yes he was. He never won
Speaker 1: the NAST championship, he won a state championship like I did.
Speaker 1: He never won a national championship. So it always because
Speaker 1: you win, it doesn't mean you're not a great player.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. But you just see that you
Speaker 1: have to have that comparison is not the same reason.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say this for multiple reasons, one being.
Speaker 5: Football and basketball is not the same.
Speaker 1: When it comes to championships. For a fact, you can't
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl with a bad quarterback or an
Speaker 1: average quarterback. And I had to say it. Even in NCAA,
Speaker 1: we have seen teams win with average point card. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I agree. You know you what's the last Super Bowl
Speaker 1: you can pull up?
Speaker 5: They won and the quarterback was just just horrible.
Speaker 1: Or he just wasn't that good. They don't even got credit.
Speaker 1: And he won the super Bowl last year.
Speaker 5: I'm getting him credit.
Speaker 1: I'm not about to just throw on top of the
Speaker 1: pedestal because and I put in the same situation if.
Speaker 6: We were, if we were starting to draft completely over
Speaker 6: and no Super Bowls were in pockets, would you be like, hmm,
Speaker 6: Jalen Hurts is the guy I'm gonna build my team
Speaker 6: around it. You probably picked five other quarterbacks in front
Speaker 6: of him.
Speaker 1: I might. But here's the deal, Anthony. It depends. It's
Speaker 1: why I told when Lamar.
Speaker 5: Was having It depends on the team. It depends on whose.
Speaker 1: Hell they want to build their team. Got me how
Speaker 1: they want to build what are they going to do
Speaker 1: to make their team successful? So, yes, it's unique. You
Speaker 1: have to get a quarterback and a coach and a
Speaker 1: staff that wants to build their team around a three
Speaker 1: headed monster past running back, quarterback running three things. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all, but I super Bowl. That's fine, super and
Speaker 1: we bring up Lamar all the time. But what is
Speaker 1: Lamaro missing?
Speaker 5: And that three had his stake that he hasn't had
Speaker 5: his entire career, that every other quarterback has had.
Speaker 1: Stars star even even his best His best.
Speaker 5: Wide receiver was was Zave Flowers and Marquis Brown, who
Speaker 5: was like the option to on the Cardinals. Now he
Speaker 5: hasn't had even Josh Allen has Stefon Diggs. He had
Speaker 5: Khalil Mack. Jalen Hurts said A J.
Speaker 1: Brown and Devonte Smith where we don't know how long
Speaker 1: and they are both all Pro quarterbacks. Davonte Smith is
Speaker 1: arguably one of the best wide receiver twos in the
Speaker 1: NFL other than t Higgins. Credit I think got you.
Speaker 1: Lamar has been trying to three hit his snake roll
Speaker 1: by himself other than Derek Hell, we're talking about her.
Speaker 1: I'm still telling you to Ben twice, Ben twice. And
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: a question. How is it that I will say and
Speaker 1: you will say that I loved Berrow. I thought he
Speaker 1: was m DP last year. He's been to one super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He didn't win it, but he's been to one super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He defeated Patrick Mahomes to get there, right, and I
Speaker 1: give him his dew, so do you. But when we
Speaker 1: say Jalen her for some reason, he's been the two
Speaker 1: super Bowls. His numbers in one of them is crazy
Speaker 1: good and and the numbers are phenomenal. Google him. I'm
Speaker 1: being honest, but we still he's won one, but we
Speaker 1: still give my hard time.
Speaker 5: Why is that because the same? His workload isn't the same.
Speaker 1: This is not the same. I can't compare apples or orders.
Speaker 1: He's not doing Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen type
Speaker 1: of work. He had a running back that almost broke
Speaker 1: he could have broke the NFL rushing record, laid off
Speaker 1: the gas, and we're saying so not Joe, Joe. Nobody
Speaker 1: else has had a running back and a rush over
Speaker 1: two thousand yards and like twenty touchdowns. Nobody Barkley had
Speaker 1: a great year. But Barkley had a great year because
Speaker 1: they still had to worry about him pulling that ball
Speaker 1: out and Jalen running it. I'm just telling you it
Speaker 1: makes it difficult on defenses. Just like Lamar. Lamar had
Speaker 1: a great running back this year. A great running back,
Speaker 1: Come on, now, a great running back. He could have gone,
Speaker 1: but no throw game. There's no throw games. It's all running. Like,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about?
Speaker 5: Is like is average at that?
Speaker 1: But with you so you're telling me the reason why
Speaker 1: Jalen was good is because he had great wide receivers.
Speaker 1: He's you can't you can't just pack in on the
Speaker 1: run game. You got two receivers. You got Devon Smith
Speaker 1: on the deep wall wide receivers. When we're gonna move on,
Speaker 1: we're gonna move on. When you knock a Super Bowl champ.
Speaker 1: That means he'll never be Secels that's all you Then
Speaker 1: there's no way he'll ever be a good in your
Speaker 1: opinion that you'll give him due. He's been there twice.
Speaker 1: He's doing it. I said he's good. I ain't saying
Speaker 1: he's great. You're saying he's just great up there because
Speaker 1: he has the best squad.
Speaker 5: I ain't give him that he's good.
Speaker 1: Wait, we're gonna wait, we're gonna want injury on one
Speaker 1: injury on that team, and they don't look the same.
Speaker 1: You let.
Speaker 5: He's out for six weeks, their record ain't the same.
Speaker 1: Well, last year, the year before, they had a rough year.
Speaker 1: They win a departed coach, but they still bounce back
Speaker 1: and he won a Super Bowl. And people continue to
Speaker 1: knock you. So I guess guarantee you he'll probably knock
Speaker 1: it on the door again. But we're not gonna give
Speaker 1: Jalen his dube. So anyway, Andy, we're seven forty five.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to Big Dog, Big Dog to Louisville.
Speaker 1: What does that say about the University of Kentucky. I
Speaker 1: think my opinion is that here's the facts when you're
Speaker 1: looking at it. Twenty nineteen, eight and five, they were
Speaker 1: fifth in the East out of seventeens. Twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: very good, ten and three, five and three in the SEC,
Speaker 1: ranked eighteenth in the country. Final ap tremendous season for
Speaker 1: Kentucky football. That's a tremendous season. Twenty twenty one, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty twos, three and five, seven and six, still Bowl
Speaker 1: Eligible defeated University of Louisville, it's rival eighth place Havan
Speaker 1: eighth out of sixteen fourteen teams. Sixteen came in twenty
Speaker 1: three twenty twenty three, five three and five in Conference
Speaker 1: seven and six again bow Eligible, tenth place in the
Speaker 1: SEC twenty twenty three. Last year, one in seven in
Speaker 1: Conference four and eight, fifteenth place in the SEC. So yes,
Speaker 1: Stoops's program, now that you look at it, when we
Speaker 1: see Big Dog leaves, which in my opinion, is one
Speaker 1: of the best recruiters in the country. No question, he
Speaker 1: would come in the city of Louisville and get every
Speaker 1: player that he wanted. Kentucky has been trending down, so
Speaker 1: by Vince leaving guys, that is a smoking gun. I
Speaker 1: truly believe that coach Stoups is gonna have to be
Speaker 1: successful this year. He's gonna have to be four and
Speaker 1: four in the SEC. Five and three would be better,
Speaker 1: but four and four would save his job. Three and five,
Speaker 1: two and seven, I think he loses his job. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem. And I think Mitch Martnhart's done a really
Speaker 1: a really good job. He's been there a long time.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran at this, but he loves to give
Speaker 1: coaches both ends. He's got Lucky would coach Cali Perry
Speaker 1: my Man paid him a lot of money up front
Speaker 1: and paid him a huge buyout. Anthony, I'm telling everyone
Speaker 1: I've been in this business forever. Everyone knows that that's
Speaker 1: been in the business. I'm either going to pay you
Speaker 1: up front but out on the back end. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pay you reasonable upfront and I'm gonna pay you on
Speaker 1: the back end. But I'm not gonna pay you both.
Speaker 1: What does that mean. I'm not gonna make you one
Speaker 1: of the highest paid coaches in the SEC and football
Speaker 1: and give you one of the biggest buyouts. That doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. I'm gonna give you one of the two
Speaker 1: when you're negotiating. Coach Steves has done a great job.
Speaker 1: It's not to where Kentucky can signing. He makes a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Nine and a half plus ten million dollars.
Speaker 1: He's got a thirty six million dollar buyout. And I
Speaker 1: think that something is gonna have to transpire and will transpire.
Speaker 1: And here's the funny thing. Even though Kentucky's got the money,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get fans Kentucky, You's got the money. Guys,
Speaker 1: trust me, it's a one time payoff. From what I read,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is not definitive. I have not
Speaker 1: gotten his contract in front of me. I can have
Speaker 1: miss when black Burnet's state school, I can run his contract.
Speaker 1: But from what I picked up on the internet, so
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is one hundred percent truthful. It
Speaker 1: is to be a one time payout. But I will
Speaker 1: find out for sure of almost thirty six million. So guys,
Speaker 1: we got to get to our last break at seven
Speaker 1: forty eight. When we come back, we're gonna listen to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers E Sports Radio. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: sports radio shout in. I'm gonna throw it to you.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to Aaron Rodgers speaking about his new team
Speaker 1: and coach, the Pittsburgh Steeven.
Speaker 7: If it is for a long time. There's a few
Speaker 7: iconic franchises in the NFL. I played for one of
Speaker 7: them for eighteen years. This is another one one of those.
Speaker 7: There's something special about, obviously this area. So many great
Speaker 7: quarterbacks are from Pittsburgh. I feel like Pittsburgh has been
Speaker 7: a part of my career from the beginning, playing for
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy for thirteen years, having Tom Clements with Tommy
Speaker 7: Clements to been on Old You are as my quarterback
Speaker 7: Hoast Forever, Don Capers, Kevin Green, Darren Perry, Ben McAdoo,
Speaker 7: Frank Signette, Luke Getsy. I don't want to forget anybody,
Speaker 7: but a lot of insurs in my life. The idea
Speaker 7: that somehow I need to or have spent most of
Speaker 7: my career playing outside of an offensive system is just
Speaker 7: not correct. So I'm gonna learn the offense and Arthur
Speaker 7: and I are going to talk a bunch this summer,
Speaker 7: and if there's things that I like that I'd like
Speaker 7: to see in the offense, Arthur, I'm sure is gonna
Speaker 7: put it in. But he knows how to call a game.
Speaker 7: I know how to get us in the right spot
Speaker 7: based on what's called. There's two or three plays called
Speaker 7: in the huddle. Sometimes my jobs to get us in
Speaker 7: the right play.
Speaker 1: Great, Thank you, Shannon Anthony. Really good point. The last
Speaker 1: point Aaron Rodgers speaking about as though calling two or
Speaker 1: three plays and then in the quarterback when he sees
Speaker 1: the defensive alignment will make the call. There's a lot
Speaker 1: going on in football games, a lot. That's why they
Speaker 1: huddle every play, and there's a lot to do as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. All it says to me is Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is definitely a top ten quarterback of all time, super
Speaker 1: Bowl champ period. Pittsburgh must want someone in next year's
Speaker 1: draft or a person that they're going to get out
Speaker 1: of free agency next year, because they signed Aaron to
Speaker 1: one year. No matter what, Aaron's forty one years old. Guy,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be forty it's not going to
Speaker 1: go to thirty nine. He's going to go to forty two.
Speaker 1: Now Pittsburgh will do a better job of protecting him
Speaker 1: and the discipline the Steelers will be better. But I
Speaker 1: think Pittsburgh just wanted to find a one year's solution.
Speaker 1: They didn't like the quarterbacks and this year's draft. They
Speaker 1: must like some in next year's draft that they think
Speaker 1: that they'll be able to get in their position. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're throwing this season away, Anthony. I think
Speaker 1: that they think that they'll make the playoffs again with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, which means they're going to be drafting somewhere
Speaker 1: eighteen to thirty two, and they think that they'll be
Speaker 1: able to find the player they want in that area,
Speaker 1: is my opinion. I think Aaron Rodgers picked the perfect
Speaker 1: team because Pittsburgh knows what it's doing. They understand the game.
Speaker 1: They play both ends offensively and defensively. They'll want him
Speaker 1: not to turn it over. His numbers last year for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers were poor. Thirty eight hundred yards, twenty eight touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which is good, but he had eleven turnovers interceptions, which
Speaker 1: is for him, way too many. At the quarterback raty
Speaker 1: a forty eight point one, so that's twenty fifth out
Speaker 1: of thirty two. But again, who was he playing for? Anthony?
Speaker 1: Who was he playing for? We surprise, So we'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. But I know it's a one
Speaker 1: year solution. This is not long term. And I think
Speaker 1: that they'll keep him upright. They'll run the ball quite
Speaker 1: a bit, and I think that he'll help him win
Speaker 1: close games and Pittsburgh is always in close games. But
Speaker 1: will they beat Baltimore and Cincinnati. I mean, we'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. Buffalo, We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that situation? It's a tough one.
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw the tapital the last few years,
Speaker 1: and even with the Jets of torn Achilles and the
Speaker 1: lead in the bounce back season.
Speaker 4: Afterwards, they didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: It's you know, I like Aaron Rodgers' quarterback, but I
Speaker 5: think his time has passed already. I just that's just
Speaker 5: the fact that for twenty million dollars, I think, in
Speaker 5: my mind is crazy.
Speaker 1: He's not worth twenty They didn't thirteen million, thirteen point six,
Speaker 1: ten million guaranteed. That's what he gets paid. Thirteen point six.
Speaker 1: That's one year deal. It is ten million guaranteed. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: and then the NFL standards not anymore. They're paying and
Speaker 1: they say college guys are getting for me any year.
Speaker 1: They say, your boy Cooper Flag make three million.
Speaker 4: Hey, dude, that's about what he's worth.
Speaker 1: That's about what And you do Blue Devils and Murray
Speaker 1: Racers bust them and sent them home. Murray's going to
Speaker 1: the College World Series.
Speaker 3: Just what.
Speaker 1: I ain't you're you're worth? Like, wait to train them.
Speaker 1: That ain't changed a lot of people.
Speaker 5: Dukes, basketball, Texas football, all the other sports is a
Speaker 5: tuls up. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I don't care about basketball and football push your pro
Speaker 1: NFL team whyt you leave them out.
Speaker 5: The Parrotlanta Panthers a horrible, horrible, probably the worst franchises
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 1: I have to give you credit. You've stuck with them
Speaker 1: all the way through your life. Guys, congratulations on having
Speaker 1: a chance to put a smile on someone's face. Please
Speaker 1: do God will. Then I'll be back Thursday, which will
Speaker 1: be the twelfth of June. We love you, talk to
Speaker 1: you later. Bye bye,