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Speaker 4: All right, let's do this. Ladies and gentlemen, Happy Friday.
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Speaker 4: hanging out with us yesterday. I think there was somebody
Speaker 4: out there trying to sabotage us.
Speaker 2: We had some.
Speaker 4: Transmitter signal issues, still don't know exactly what that means,
Speaker 4: and we did have people working on it pretty quickly,
Speaker 4: and I think by the time we ended the show
Speaker 4: things were better. I don't know that for certain, but
Speaker 4: I know we're in a good place today. No signal issues,
Speaker 4: and thanks to whoever was able to get that fixed
Speaker 4: for us. Whenever we were wrapping up the show yesterday.
Speaker 4: During one of the commercial breaks, John and I were
Speaker 4: going back and forth and our boss was in there,
Speaker 4: and he mentioned somebody climbing on the towers, and I
Speaker 4: had to ask, do you mean like somebody's climbing on
Speaker 4: the towers to fix it? Or we're having issues because
Speaker 4: somebody just randomly decided to start jumping on the climbing
Speaker 4: on these towers. So it turns out you got to
Speaker 4: I guess you got to climb up there to fix it,
Speaker 4: but I guess they were doing some maintenance stuff. Why
Speaker 4: they decided to do it during this show. They're trying
Speaker 4: to sabotage us, John, They're trying to bring us down,
Speaker 4: and they can't do it.
Speaker 2: They can't, especially now, not on a Friday.
Speaker 4: Not with football season going on right, not with the
Speaker 4: NFL opener yesterday, another NFL game tonight, mixed in with
Speaker 4: some college football, and then of course we got a
Speaker 4: full slate of college football action tomorrow, and then NFL Sunday,
Speaker 4: the first NFL Sunday of the season. Good stuff, And
Speaker 4: we're here to get you set right. This is the this,
Speaker 4: we are the opening act to get the weekend started.
Speaker 4: I guess technically it kind of already has started, because again,
Speaker 4: last night was not the result I wanted it in any.
Speaker 2: Way, and I just got to accept it.
Speaker 4: I think just by proxy, I'm a diehard Ravens fan
Speaker 4: because I hated to see them lose. I hated hearing
Speaker 4: Chris collins Worth just gargle on the genitals of Patrick
Speaker 4: Mahomes all night. I mean, it just makes me sick,
Speaker 4: and I keep doing what I've done before. When take
Speaker 4: it back to the Louisville football conversation in the offseason,
Speaker 4: you know, the Homer in me kept getting triggered because
Speaker 4: I couldn't really claim that Louisville was genuinely being disrespected.
Speaker 4: But every now and then I would see, you know,
Speaker 4: a team that I know Louisville's better than, get more
Speaker 4: love than them. And again, there's a fine line between
Speaker 4: like being disrespected and maybe just kind of flying under
Speaker 4: the radar slightly. And it's like last night, I'm sitting
Speaker 4: here thinking to myself, am I overly sensitive to the
Speaker 4: way they just, you know, lose their mind about Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: He's great.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's one of the best quarterbacks of all time,
Speaker 4: no doubt about it he's a better quarterback than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: I have no problem saying that both are phenomenal, probably
Speaker 4: two of the best. There's I mean, in fact, no,
Speaker 4: probably to it. It's a fact those are two the
Speaker 4: best quarterbacks in the NFL, and there's you know, you
Speaker 4: could probably put a couple of others in that tier
Speaker 4: with them. But nonetheless, like I keep, I keep doing
Speaker 4: some internal questioning here, am I too sensitive to this?
Speaker 1: Or is you know?
Speaker 2: Or is it really that bad?
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of louisvill fans are probably
Speaker 4: the same way, but we're probably in the same boat,
Speaker 4: meaning we are a little more sensitive to Lamar not
Speaker 4: getting the same level of love. And look, I don't
Speaker 4: think they were hating on Lamar last night. And he
Speaker 4: didn't play perfect. He played really well.
Speaker 2: If he was.
Speaker 4: You know, in the other ninety eight percentage percentile of
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks in the NFL, everybody would have said he
Speaker 4: had a phenomenal game. Right, go find an above average,
Speaker 4: pretty good quarterback. You give him those numbers Lamar had,
Speaker 4: and everybody would say he plays great. But Lamar again
Speaker 4: is a two time MVP, and he could have had
Speaker 4: all the stats he could have broke his own records
Speaker 4: that'll nobody else will ever break because of just because
Speaker 4: of the unique way he plays the game and plays
Speaker 4: that position. He could have done all that new records,
Speaker 4: shattered records, but he didn't win. And that's what it
Speaker 4: all comes down to. That is going to be how
Speaker 4: he's defined his legacy. I mean, not for us, because
Speaker 4: we know he's great, and anybody, you know, if he
Speaker 4: stopped playing football today because he wanted to go, I
Speaker 4: don't know, join a band and be a musician or something.
Speaker 4: Anybody claiming he was anything other than a phenomenal quarterback
Speaker 4: is just wrong. But I want so badly for him
Speaker 4: to get the same type of praise and acknowledgement as Mahomes.
Speaker 4: And the reality is he's just got to win super
Speaker 4: Bowls and that's not easy to do when Mahomes and
Speaker 4: the Chiefs don't look like they're slowing down anytime soon.
Speaker 4: But yes, last night, I mean, Mahomes making throws an
Speaker 4: interception just kind of gets ignored in the first half.
Speaker 4: Then he throws a bad pass and does make a
Speaker 4: miraculous play just instincts. Clearly he's a special, special gifted athlete.
Speaker 4: For him to be able to, you know, just go
Speaker 4: up and get a rebound seemingly after the ball was
Speaker 4: deflected and avoid an interception, right, that would have been problematic,
Speaker 4: and it was an impressive thing, but like, guy made
Speaker 4: a bad decision and it's still something that that you
Speaker 4: know that Tariko and Collins Worth, they just they just
Speaker 4: gush over and again he's he's really good and I
Speaker 4: don't really dislike him. I don't find him, you know,
Speaker 4: easy to dislike as a player or as a guy.
Speaker 4: But you know, when it comes to Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 4: the Ravens and going up against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna be all in with the Ravens
Speaker 4: and to see them lose the way they did last
Speaker 4: night was a real bummer. And it's one of those
Speaker 4: games that I'm not you don't have to be a
Speaker 4: conspiracy theorist to look at the way some games finish
Speaker 4: coming down to the wire, especially when you know that
Speaker 4: this level of professional sports, at the highest level of
Speaker 4: the NFL, it's all about entertainment. So what I'm getting
Speaker 4: at is, I don't believe for a second that any
Speaker 4: professional sport is scripted. But like, if you wanted to
Speaker 4: go down that path. This is another piece of evidence
Speaker 4: that I believe could support you in saying, how in
Speaker 4: the hell could the NFL with so many eyeballs on
Speaker 4: them as they get their season started, a rematch between
Speaker 4: the Chiefs and the Ravens, Mahomes versus Jackson, and they
Speaker 4: get it to end like that with a touchdown, you know,
Speaker 4: potential game tying touchdown be called good when it happens.
Speaker 4: And then clearly he was on the line, they got
Speaker 4: the call right, the toe was there, right. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like something you see in a movie.
Speaker 4: So I don't believe it'scripted. I don't want people tune
Speaker 4: it in thinking that I've turned into this big conspiracy
Speaker 4: theorist because I just don't believe that. And even if,
Speaker 4: like there was more evidence that suggest it, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: want to know about it because I want to be entertained,
Speaker 4: you know, I want to at least believe, and I
Speaker 4: do believe that it is real. But what a finish.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're a Roger Goodell and you're just
Speaker 4: looking at this game from strictly an entertainment standpoint, I
Speaker 4: don't know if it could have been better to be
Speaker 4: honest with you. So it was tough to see Lamar
Speaker 4: come up short, but hey, first game of the season,
Speaker 4: they were right there with the team that just won
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. So I still think this Ravens team
Speaker 4: can be pretty damn good this year and looks like
Speaker 4: they've got some young talent that really emerged last night.
Speaker 4: I mean, the tight end who I can forget his
Speaker 4: name already, but I mean he was sensational. You're gonna
Speaker 4: see him being picked up by probably just about every
Speaker 4: fantasy football owner. You know, every league's gonna have somebody
Speaker 4: looking for that guy. And I would imagine most leagues
Speaker 4: have already had somebody snatch him up if he wasn't
Speaker 4: already drafted in their league. And with Lamar, he doesn't
Speaker 4: look much different to me. But that was one of
Speaker 4: the talking points surrounding Lamar heading into this season, as
Speaker 4: he did lose some weight compared to where he was
Speaker 4: last year and even the year before that. He did
Speaker 4: talk about how he felt slow at times last year
Speaker 4: when running because he had that extra weight on him,
Speaker 4: and you know, he shed it a little bit of
Speaker 4: that weight and you can just tell, look, you've got
Speaker 4: a weapon with his legs. He knows that the Ravens
Speaker 4: seemingly know that now, so like, don't be a friend,
Speaker 4: like don't let him turn forty and you never really
Speaker 4: let him use the biggest weapon that he has, which
Speaker 4: which is his ability could take off and run and
Speaker 4: make plays. I mean, he is the most athletically gifted
Speaker 4: quarterback that has ever walked this earth. And I don't
Speaker 4: think there's I mean again, I know people bring up
Speaker 4: Mike Vick, and that's great. Mike Vick was great as well,
Speaker 4: but even Mike Vick himself, and I don't think he's
Speaker 4: just being the humble guy, like he's acknowledged that Lamar's
Speaker 4: just different man. So it was a bummer to see
Speaker 4: them come up short, but a hell of a game,
Speaker 4: no doubt. And again I found myself thinking, okay, am
Speaker 4: I am? I Am I being too big of a
Speaker 4: homer here because I'm not really sure if my Ravens
Speaker 4: and yes, I'm saying my Ravens now because last night
Speaker 4: was another reminder and it took me right back to
Speaker 4: that game last year and they played in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Like I can't identify as a Ravens fan. I don't
Speaker 4: have any Ravens gear, but like when the game's on
Speaker 4: and Lamar's their quarterback, just because of how big of
Speaker 4: a fan I have a fan I am of Lamar,
Speaker 4: I'm all in on the Ravens. Feels kind of weird,
Speaker 4: feels gross, to be honest with you, Like, in real time,
Speaker 4: I'm all in. I don't think about it, but after
Speaker 4: the fact, I'm like, man, why am I so upset?
Speaker 4: Why am I so bothered about the Ravens losing? And again,
Speaker 4: the answer is obvious, It's because Lamar. But it's just
Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever been in this position as
Speaker 4: a pro sports fan before, Like my all of my
Speaker 4: energy is just based off one dude. And I'm sure
Speaker 4: a lot of you can relate. It's just I've never
Speaker 4: been in been in this position before. So again, anyways,
Speaker 4: I feel like last night, everybody, regardless if you're a
Speaker 4: Chiefs fan or a Ravens fan, or you're a fan
Speaker 4: of anybody else, Like, objectively, I think people watch that
Speaker 4: and kept wondering, why are the Ravens getting called for
Speaker 4: this illegal formation every single play seemingly, and yet it
Speaker 4: doesn't get called on the Chiefs and you can see
Speaker 4: them doing the exact same thing. So you know that's
Speaker 4: not I'm not going to claim that that's why they lost,
Speaker 4: because look, the Ravens had a chance and they couldn't
Speaker 4: get it done. I mean, Lamar before that, that that
Speaker 4: pass that he you know, connected on that was not
Speaker 4: ruled a completion and a touchdown due to the receivers
Speaker 4: or the tight ends tobying on the line. You know,
Speaker 4: the play before that, he had a guy wide opening
Speaker 4: the end zone and he just didn't he didn't put
Speaker 4: the right touch on it. And it was it was
Speaker 4: I mean, it was it was his fault. I mean
Speaker 4: there's no way around that. I mean, he makes mistakes
Speaker 4: and he's not perfect. But man, that was tough to see.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to make it out like the
Speaker 4: Ravens lost because of the refs, but I mean, I mean, again,
Speaker 4: objectively speaking, I think a lot of people were wondering, man, like,
Speaker 4: are they the are the refs? Are they madly in
Speaker 4: love with Mahomes just like the announcers are? I do
Speaker 4: see an AI picture here that looks insanely like AI
Speaker 4: is scary, right, It's super useful. But the way you
Speaker 4: can do like the deep fake images, John like there's
Speaker 4: got to be some kind of a software or some
Speaker 4: kind of a platform that you can like upload a
Speaker 4: picture and it'll tell you did somebody AI this?
Speaker 2: Because it looks so real. I think, I know I've
Speaker 2: seen this on Instagram. They're supposed to they's supposed to
Speaker 2: be like a little kind of sub caption. Yes, that
Speaker 2: tells you whether or not creative via AI. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's also it also shows AI like when people like
Speaker 2: I guess to this day people still say they photoshopped
Speaker 2: themselves to look better, but it's not photoshop. Photoshop is
Speaker 2: an Adobe software. There's AI apps now that can like
Speaker 2: make your face look less blemish, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 2: and it looks like you wouldn't know that somebody did that.
Speaker 2: It looks very natural. So Instagram models and you know,
Speaker 2: those who look insanely hot online and somehow make a
Speaker 2: great living doing that. Like, they're all upset at the
Speaker 2: Instagram platform because now like everything they post it says like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's been doctored. Yeah, which you know, people still
Speaker 2: clearly love to look at it. But this picture I
Speaker 2: just DMed it to you. It's a picture of Pat
Speaker 2: Mahomes making out with the ref, and I swear to
Speaker 2: you it looks real, does it not? John would definitely
Speaker 2: catch some people with their pants down, if that makes sense.
Speaker 4: The skin tone of the ref is the only part
Speaker 4: that I can say, Okay, that doesn't look like a
Speaker 4: real hand, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Other than that, everything else is pretty. So Mahomes's face
Speaker 2: kind of looks extra puffed out for whatever.
Speaker 4: Because he's because he's madly in love with the ref
Speaker 4: who's making out with him. He's got what do you expect,
Speaker 4: He's got his tongue down. The ref's throw John's out.
Speaker 2: The ref who's just watching from behind, He looks pretty confused.
Speaker 4: Oh that's his that's his role. That's what he does.
Speaker 4: He's one of the watchers. He likes to just sit
Speaker 4: and observe while, you know, his other ref guy makes
Speaker 4: out with Mahomes. Who knows that this picture was was
Speaker 4: You know, it's not real, but it's out there on
Speaker 4: the field. Imagine what they do behind closed doors. This
Speaker 4: was out in front of the thousands of fans there, yeah,
Speaker 4: in Kansas City. So again people are posting those and
Speaker 4: it's not like just Ravens fans throwing it out there
Speaker 4: because they feel like they got wrong, but like the
Speaker 4: best example of how they just can get away with
Speaker 4: stuff because they are right now currently the you know,
Speaker 4: they are the flagship franchise in the NFL right now
Speaker 4: for a variety of reasons. One, they're super successful. They've
Speaker 4: got a bunch of Super Bowls in recent years. Mahomes
Speaker 4: is the best player in the league. He is the
Speaker 4: face of the league himself. Therefore that props them up.
Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, the most famous celebrity on
Speaker 4: the planet was at the game last night because she's
Speaker 4: dating the star tight end. Like they're up there right
Speaker 4: like they are propped up in a major way. It's
Speaker 4: always going to be the case as long as that
Speaker 4: whole thing is still intact. Mahomes, Andy Reid, Kelsey, the
Speaker 4: Swifties in the success Like you throw all that together,
Speaker 4: they're gonna be talked about more than anybody. And I
Speaker 4: get all that, but they shouldn't be able to get
Speaker 4: away with stuff like last night. Steves Magnolia, the assistant
Speaker 4: coach for the Chiefs, he called a timeout and the
Speaker 4: refs gave it to him. You're not allowed to do that.
Speaker 4: They didn't even flag them, they just gave them the
Speaker 4: time out. I mean, like like that's a blatant thing
Speaker 4: that everybody knows you can't do.
Speaker 2: But the Chiefs did it.
Speaker 3: All.
Speaker 2: Who cares.
Speaker 3: It's okay they might take a time out of time
Speaker 3: out here, And I got Steve spec Rowling ran down
Speaker 3: the sideline to get the time out call there as
Speaker 3: the Chiefs had a little bit of defensive confusion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think Andy Reid's a little concerned with
Speaker 1: that one too, because it didn't look like Baltimore totally.
Speaker 2: Had their act together either.
Speaker 1: So the defensive coordinator coming down to call time out
Speaker 1: as well and not the head coach cant bring Terry
Speaker 1: McCauley in our three time Super Bowl referee, our rules analysts, Terry,
Speaker 1: that's that's not.
Speaker 2: The way it's supposed to go.
Speaker 4: He can't do that.
Speaker 2: It has to be the head coach that comes down,
Speaker 2: an assistant coach. Nobody else can call time out sideline
Speaker 2: except the head coach.
Speaker 1: So spags calling. Now that official didn't recognize it, but
Speaker 1: it was recognized by the official in the back corner
Speaker 1: who saw spec Gola coming down.
Speaker 2: And he's cousin.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I know I can't do it.
Speaker 4: I mean he's you can't see it unless you watched
Speaker 4: it last night, and you know what play I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: The ref next to him doesn't see him doing it,
Speaker 4: and then finally realizes that the other rep has come
Speaker 4: over to Grant in the time out and then is
Speaker 4: yelling at Spagnolia saying, what do you know you can't
Speaker 4: do that, and he's really apologetic, defensive, like hand up,
Speaker 4: like oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, and he didn't get
Speaker 4: a flag. By definition, you're supposed to get a flag
Speaker 4: for that. And they again, that's not why they lost
Speaker 4: the game meeting the Ravens, but the Chiefs just get
Speaker 4: away with stuff and it makes me mad. And again,
Speaker 4: I don't know as much about football as many. In fact,
Speaker 4: I'm sure a lot of you listening know way more
Speaker 4: about the actual you know, x'es and o's when it
Speaker 4: comes to the game than myself. But you know, so
Speaker 4: I trust the you know, the folks who have a resume,
Speaker 4: have credentials in the world of football, like college coaches
Speaker 4: assistants who are also sharing the clips and the screenshots
Speaker 4: last night saying this is not an illegal formation, and
Speaker 4: they keep calling it on the Ravens.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: Cool formation on Baltimore.
Speaker 4: Offense.
Speaker 2: Number seven is not on the line.
Speaker 3: This penalty is the clime.
Speaker 1: It's fourth down, so that's seven. That's the wide receiver Bateman,
Speaker 1: it's not one of the offensive linemen. And he's uncovered
Speaker 1: here on the side.
Speaker 4: And they're showing the replay here. Yeah, nobody Again, they
Speaker 4: don't have any response because they're watching it and they
Speaker 4: just trot the field goal kicker out there, and the announcers,
Speaker 4: I mean even them, they can they have nothing.
Speaker 2: They don't know what that penalty was.
Speaker 4: They just decided we're gonna throw a bunch of illegal
Speaker 4: formation penalties of flags out there and that and not
Speaker 4: have to explain it. So again, I know, it's it
Speaker 4: sounds like I'm just, you know, crying because the ref
Speaker 4: stole the game from the Ravens, and I don't I know,
Speaker 4: it sounds like that. I get why it sounds like that,
Speaker 4: but they still had a chance to win.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't know.
Speaker 4: Every every story, every movie, every every you know in
Speaker 4: it from an entertainment standpoint. In sports, you need a villain.
Speaker 4: The Chiefs are the villain, but I don't find them
Speaker 4: unlikable like the Patriots were. The villains, and they were
Speaker 4: easy to hate. They wanted you to hate them. From
Speaker 4: the local rivalry perspective, the rivalry around here was at
Speaker 4: its very best as far as my lifetime, with Rick
Speaker 4: and cow going against each other. Col's a very easy
Speaker 4: guy to dislike if he is coaching your rival Patino.
Speaker 4: I don't know how easy he is to dislike, but
Speaker 4: like clearly he used to coach Kentucky Dinn he coach Louislle.
Speaker 4: That alone gives them reason to hate the man, Like
Speaker 4: I don't like the Chiefs, but I can't like I mean,
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey kind of seems like a douchebag, but like,
Speaker 4: you know, a lot of people like that's not I mean,
Speaker 4: there's a lot of people like that, right Mahomes. He's
Speaker 4: pretty likable. He whins and complains and you know, cries
Speaker 4: to the refs, but not any more than most elite
Speaker 4: quarterbacks in the NFL. At least, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 4: he does it that much. More So, I'm choosing to
Speaker 4: look at last night's NFL opener as a good thing,
Speaker 4: meaning like.
Speaker 2: I've got my team, the Colts.
Speaker 4: I'll always root for him and hope that they succeed,
Speaker 4: but I don't think they're going to be good this year.
Speaker 4: And then my second team, I guess, is just again
Speaker 4: by proxy because of Lamar, It's going to be the Ravens.
Speaker 4: And then I'm all in on being anti Chiefs. But
Speaker 4: I need him to do more, John, I need him
Speaker 4: to give me a reason other than just being a hater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm kind of with you for the most part.
Speaker 2: But one thing I do remember towards the end of
Speaker 2: last season, might have even been during the playoffs, is
Speaker 2: when Pat Mahomes went over to Josh Allen at the
Speaker 2: end of the game whenever they were facing the Bills.
Speaker 2: And I can't remember what he said to Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: but he really came off as a big d bag,
Speaker 2: like he was saying something, do you remember what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about? Not at all I could recall specifics about him.
Speaker 4: He lost his cool on the sideline of a game
Speaker 4: and through his helmet and he yelled at a teammate
Speaker 4: who made a mistake.
Speaker 2: If that's what you're thinking of, I don't know if
Speaker 2: there's a separate thing, And I probably shouldn't have even
Speaker 2: told the story without having specifics in my head. But
Speaker 2: there was a moment whenever he was speaking with Josh
Speaker 2: Allen after they had played the Bulls, and he said
Speaker 2: that was very the Bill. Yeah, the Bills. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: it's all good. And now I'm in my own head
Speaker 2: because I'm saying the wrong team.
Speaker 4: Now I'm looking it up right now because I don't
Speaker 4: remember anything like that. But never mean you doesn't mean
Speaker 4: it didn't happen, because you know, I'm sure because Josh
Speaker 4: Allen is still viewed as one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 4: in the NFL. But I think this passed offseason kind
Speaker 4: of heading into this year. There's been enough noise for
Speaker 4: the last few years. This is the Bill's year. They
Speaker 4: got the best roster in the NFL. Josh Allen, he's
Speaker 4: he's one of the best quarterbacks. And again, I think
Speaker 4: he still is one of those guys, but like there
Speaker 4: just hasn't been as much love for him because again
Speaker 4: it I mean, people have kind of expected if it
Speaker 4: was gonna if the Bills were gonna break through, you
Speaker 4: kind of feel like they would have already done it,
Speaker 4: especially when they had Stefan Diggs. So I'm sure there's
Speaker 4: there's some there's some some pure competition between those two guys,
Speaker 4: because you know, until Lamar won his second MVP, when
Speaker 4: people would talk about Mahomes being the best quarterback and
Speaker 4: they would go to who's the next best, I think
Speaker 4: a lot of people would would go to Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: So maybe and maybe they still would. To be honest
Speaker 2: with you, we're thinking of the same scenario. He did
Speaker 2: go off on the sideline, but after the game, he
Speaker 2: went over to Josh Allen said, while this effing call
Speaker 2: I've ever seen, Oh, okay, gotcha?
Speaker 4: So he was still heated about because I thought he
Speaker 4: It reminded me when Steph Curry against the Calves years ago,
Speaker 4: whenever you had the Warriors Calves, you know, mini rivalry.
Speaker 2: Although the NBA.
Speaker 4: Players are too cool to have rivals because they all
Speaker 4: love each other and want to hang out and sing
Speaker 4: Kumbaya together and join the same team. There's not real
Speaker 4: any competition between him anymore. But anyways, Steph Curry carries himself.
Speaker 4: I think Mahomes and Curry are in the same boat
Speaker 4: for me as far as guys that I would never
Speaker 4: question their ability. They're sensational, two of the best ever
Speaker 4: at what they do. But I just don't like them.
Speaker 4: But yet they've never really given me any reason, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, they don't seem that unlikable. I
Speaker 4: guess I'm just a flat out hater, which isn't something
Speaker 4: you want to be. But you know, at least I'm
Speaker 4: honest about it. Back when the Calves and the Warriors played,
Speaker 4: Curry got emotional and threw his mouthpiece because he was
Speaker 4: mad at a call and got a technical in his
Speaker 4: mouthpiece hit somebody in the crowd, and he went over
Speaker 4: and apologized, and like that's the first I saw him
Speaker 4: lose his cool and lose his composure and you know,
Speaker 4: kind of looked like a hothead. That was the same
Speaker 4: thing with Mahomes last year in that moment because that loss.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's easy to forget now, but they didn't.
Speaker 4: They went through a stretch last year the Chiefs where
Speaker 4: they were not they were not. They looked like they'd
Speaker 4: lost it a little bit. They'd lost their fastball. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you remember, they didn't have home field advantage last year.
Speaker 4: Pat Patrick Mahomes had never started a game as a
Speaker 4: quarterback in the playoffs where he was not on his
Speaker 4: home field until last year. And it was that game
Speaker 4: where they had they had a guy make a mistake
Speaker 4: at penalty. I don't know who it was, and it
Speaker 4: ended up, you know, keeping them from winning. And he,
Speaker 4: I mean, he went the sideline, slammed his helmet down.
Speaker 4: Was you know, I don't know if he I don't
Speaker 4: know if he needed to be like held back from
Speaker 4: going after the guy who made a mistake, but like
Speaker 4: he was hot about it.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 4: You know, he was complaining at the refs too, and yeah,
Speaker 4: he just he But again that's an isolated thing. More
Speaker 4: often than not, win or lose, he's usually pretty well composed.
Speaker 4: So again, I guess I'm just opening up here on
Speaker 4: this platform to acknowledge that these guys are awesome. They're
Speaker 4: actually pretty likable. But man, I'm a hater. That's I
Speaker 4: guess what I'm getting at. All Right, we got a
Speaker 4: lot more to get into, including an NFL matchup tonight,
Speaker 4: kind of you know, I remember hearing about there being
Speaker 4: a Friday night game after the opener, but I'd kind
Speaker 4: of forgot about it until last night when I was
Speaker 4: looking at what I want to do when it comes
Speaker 4: to wagering on the NFL. So we can talk a
Speaker 4: little bit about that. Also, you know, Louisville Jacksonville State.
Speaker 4: Still not much sizzle when it comes to this game,
Speaker 4: but there's a lot of other games we can discuss.
Speaker 4: When it comes to wagering, we will talk Louisville and
Speaker 4: Jacksonville State. Coming up in the four o'clock hour. We're
Speaker 4: going to be joined by a beat writer whose name
Speaker 4: is Thomas Ashworth. He works for al dot com covering
Speaker 4: Jacksonville State. We'll get his thoughts coming up at about
Speaker 4: four h five and then I don't have a whole
Speaker 4: lot to add, but it does seem as if they're
Speaker 4: starting to get there's more and more awareness out there,
Speaker 4: not nationally necessarily, but this South Carolina Kentucky game is
Speaker 4: huge for both of these teams. I've said it all week,
Speaker 4: and you can since the like both teams, I feel like, no,
Speaker 4: this is kind of a I mean, this is probably
Speaker 4: the most important game for both of them. So we're
Speaker 4: loaded the rest of the way. It's a Friday, we'll
Speaker 4: get yourself for the weekend. Hangout right here. It's coffee
Speaker 4: and company. Filbeth Thornton's on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna ask you guys the same question I have asked
Speaker 4: a couple of guests we've had this week, and that
Speaker 4: is given the circumstances here, it's Louisville football is off
Speaker 4: to a great start. One to oh, sixty two to
Speaker 4: nothing was the score in their game against Austin P.
Speaker 4: Now they've got another opponent that is probably not going
Speaker 4: to be that far off from Austin P. I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm not giving Jacksonville State enough credit, but you know,
Speaker 4: Louisville big time favorites in this game, and I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be shocked if they cover without much trouble. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you're going to see sixty two to nothing,
Speaker 4: but you know, if it happens, is anybody going to
Speaker 4: be that shocked? And it won't mean that Louisville is
Speaker 4: destined for another trip to Charlotte for the ACC championship game.
Speaker 4: It'll it'll just mean that they once again did what
Speaker 4: they're supposed to do against an inferior opponent, which is
Speaker 4: all you can do right play who's on your schedule.
Speaker 4: So the question I'm asking what could you see tomorrow?
Speaker 4: Rather it be a score, a statistic, or just something
Speaker 4: visually that will make you feel as if they took
Speaker 4: another step forward right like, it's gonna be tough to
Speaker 4: know what to make of it because it's Jacksonville State,
Speaker 4: But you know what I mean, right like, where you
Speaker 4: feel just as good, maybe a little bit better than
Speaker 4: you did last week against an inferior opponent. Now we
Speaker 4: all know the real first challenge is gonna be Georgia
Speaker 4: Tech when they come in here to Ellen N Cardinal Stadium.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm just curious five ox two five seven
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Speaker 4: seven ninety and uh love to hear from you. So again,
Speaker 4: what could you see that'll make you feel like? Okay,
Speaker 4: not to say that Louisville's perfect, because they're not, but
Speaker 4: where you could head into an acc opener again against
Speaker 4: Georgia Tech and you say, look, you couldn't have done
Speaker 4: much more or any anything better than what you did
Speaker 4: in those two opponents, given that you know you beat
Speaker 4: them down because that's what you're supposed to do when
Speaker 4: you have those teams on the schedule. Don't forget tomorrow,
Speaker 4: We've got you covered for the coverage game. Day coverage.
Speaker 4: We'll have the Louisville football pregame showers in about Pelladors
Speaker 4: and windows of central Kentucky as well as Jefferson Animal Hospital,
Speaker 4: and then postgame show will start as soon as it
Speaker 4: ends right here. So I would imagine John will probably
Speaker 4: be starting at about seven ish.
Speaker 2: Maybe that is that ending on. I would say six
Speaker 2: thirty and seven ish was if it's a three thirty
Speaker 2: kick three hours probably the bare minimum seven o'clock probably
Speaker 2: most likely.
Speaker 4: We didn't really get to experience it a lot last
Speaker 4: year because, to be fair, Louisville was not in many blowouts.
Speaker 2: I mean they I do remember there was one game
Speaker 2: I can't remember if it was against like Virginia or
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech, where I guess both teams were running the
Speaker 2: ball a lot and the clock just moved really quick.
Speaker 2: You remember having to kind of rush to get worry
Speaker 2: about being late.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and these kind of games, you know, especially in
Speaker 4: the second half, you see the clock just you know, dissolve,
Speaker 4: I mean it. So my guest hope is that between
Speaker 4: six thirty and seven we get the postgame show started.
Speaker 4: But again it's the Louisll Football postgame show. Love reacting
Speaker 4: with all of you fans who listen and are you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes hammered after you leave the game, which is okay,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, we can't call in and curse.
Speaker 4: Some people still try to do that, and you know,
Speaker 4: I get it. Emotions can can can be high, depending
Speaker 4: if you're really happy or you're really sad, and you
Speaker 4: might slip in a curse where we do. But you know,
Speaker 4: just just keep that in mind. But we hope, we
Speaker 4: hope to get a good group of callers tomorrow to
Speaker 4: react to whatever it is that happens. Again, it's the
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Speaker 4: so distracted Driver dot com. So again as soon as
Speaker 4: as soon as it ends, come right here to Sports
Speaker 4: Talk seven ninety and we'll react to whatever it is
Speaker 4: that happens. And of course, when you have games like
Speaker 4: we're probably gonna get tomorrow, which is a game that
Speaker 4: really won't be that competitive, it's not just about what
Speaker 4: happens in that game. It's about looking ahead to the
Speaker 4: next opponent, looking at teams you're gonna play, and just
Speaker 4: looking at the overall day that is a college football Saturday,
Speaker 4: all right, It's Coffee and Company. Feel about Thorton's here
Speaker 4: on Sports Talk seven ninety appreciate you guys hanging out
Speaker 4: with us.
Speaker 2: John. Did you happen to see the latest update on
Speaker 2: the on the porch pooper man? There's more to this story?
Speaker 4: Yes, So I saw earlier this morning on Reddit that
Speaker 4: he went back again, and I thought to myself two
Speaker 4: things here. One, there's no scenario this person does not
Speaker 4: know that they've become you know, you know, should I say,
Speaker 4: can I say famous?
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody knows the idemities? Maybe yeah, Like this
Speaker 2: thing made.
Speaker 4: TMZ guys like this was on TMZ, so it is
Speaker 4: a huge story that you know, it's not dominating the headlines,
Speaker 4: but you know, it's not often that you see something
Speaker 4: like this happened, especially one guy, same house, the guy's
Speaker 4: wearing the same shirt every time. It seems like this
Speaker 4: is just odd. So I thought to myself, One, this
Speaker 4: person has to know what they're doing. And again, the
Speaker 4: questions I had were unlimited whenever we brought it up
Speaker 4: the other day, like wait a second, like why is
Speaker 4: he doing this? Like what what's the story here? Is
Speaker 4: this some kind of a gag like to try to
Speaker 4: become famous? As the guy who keeps doing this is
Speaker 4: the homeowner in on it for some type of publicity.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, just a lot of questions, and we
Speaker 4: now have an answer as to what's.
Speaker 2: Going on here.
Speaker 4: And usually I think in situations like this where you're thinking,
Speaker 4: wait a second, huh, this doesn't make any sense what's
Speaker 4: going on here? Sometimes there ends up being a reason
Speaker 4: and an explanation that kind of makes you say, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I kind of get it, and that's what happened here.
Speaker 4: So WDRB is the first to report, at least that
Speaker 4: I saw earlier today this afternoon, that this person has
Speaker 4: been identified and they will not be publicly identified and
Speaker 4: they will not be charged as they are a special
Speaker 4: needs person that has autism. So again unfortunate for everybody involved,
Speaker 4: but like that makes it make a little more sense, correct, Yes, So,
Speaker 4: like you know, as somebody who is a father of
Speaker 4: a special needs child who has she's not on the spectrum,
Speaker 4: but she might be if she was to be evaluated
Speaker 4: again for it, which she has been before. But she
Speaker 4: has a lot of similarities to to children with autism
Speaker 4: and uh, you know, with sensory issues and and whatnot.
Speaker 4: Although she's Inna she's and if you have a if
Speaker 4: you have a loved one, or you are close to
Speaker 4: somebody with autism, especially a young child, like not ever,
Speaker 4: every not everybody's the same, not every level. I mean
Speaker 4: it's it's everybody's different, even if you seem to have
Speaker 4: like the same, you know, the same struggles at times
Speaker 4: socially because of of of autism. You know, what, what
Speaker 4: medicine might work for this kid may not work for
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 2: And the battle of.
Speaker 4: Figuring out what what you can do to make your
Speaker 4: child not deal with those uh, you know, those anxiety
Speaker 4: issues and just the you know, the you know, I'm
Speaker 4: trying not to get too deep into it because then
Speaker 4: I'll just then I'll just make this a whole show
Speaker 4: about it. And I don't know, we we don't want
Speaker 4: to do that. But like this makes this makes sense.
Speaker 4: And I'm so happy that like it wasn't somebody who
Speaker 4: caught them with a camera and shamed them publicly, because
Speaker 4: this became such a big story, Like I had a
Speaker 4: bad visual of that. Like as soon as I found
Speaker 4: out that this is this is the explanation, and that
Speaker 4: this person won't be charged and that the homeowners now
Speaker 4: understanding and that you know, this is a special needs
Speaker 4: person with autism. I mean I thought, well, I'm glad
Speaker 4: that it played out this way and it wasn't because
Speaker 4: if this kept happening and it became a bigger story,
Speaker 4: there might be somebody who would be staking out. I mean,
Speaker 4: you never know what people are going to do to
Speaker 4: go viral on TikTok, or to know, to capture something
Speaker 4: on their phone that they know is going to do
Speaker 4: big numbers on the internet like that's the world we
Speaker 4: live in now.
Speaker 2: Or even doing like a copycat first yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so for me, like I just had a quick
Speaker 4: nightmare visual of like this, this person with special needs,
Speaker 4: you know, being shamed by somebody who ran up on
Speaker 4: them with a phone and just started, you know, cursing
Speaker 4: at him and making fun of them or maybe even
Speaker 4: assaulting them without knowing that. You know, it's still it's
Speaker 4: still an awful thing that you know you can't do.
Speaker 4: But like, there's a real there's an explanation as to
Speaker 4: how this whole thing became what it was. So I'm
Speaker 4: glad to know that, and I'm glad that not only
Speaker 4: did it that it it played out this way to
Speaker 4: where we have, we now know how it all happened.
Speaker 4: But like, I'm just glad that L and PD put
Speaker 4: out a statement making it clear, like hey, because if
Speaker 4: you are a non a hole as a human being,
Speaker 4: like the story kind of ends now, right at least
Speaker 4: it should, you know what I mean? Like it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: So anyways, that that's the update, and I mean that
Speaker 4: I'm assuming that the story goes away now.
Speaker 2: I hate to say that anything is best case scenario,
Speaker 2: but is this the best case scenario for what it
Speaker 2: could have been?
Speaker 4: I would say for all parties involved, Yeah, because I
Speaker 4: don't because the cops aren't probably, I mean they're not.
Speaker 4: They don't they now at least have an understanding to
Speaker 4: what happened. They don't think they have some just rogue
Speaker 4: criminal who has a sick fantasy about doing this kind
Speaker 4: of stuff, right, And the homeowner doesn't probably feel like
Speaker 4: they probably don't know as to why this man with autism,
Speaker 4: you know, was ended up at their house alone, but
Speaker 4: at least they know, Okay, well he probably doesn't know either,
Speaker 4: because you know, maybe something's going on upstairs to where
Speaker 4: you know, just sometimes you can't really make total sense
Speaker 4: of certain decisions and actions made by by special in
Speaker 4: these people. So I think that's actually a really good
Speaker 4: way to put it, John, I think for all parties involved,
Speaker 4: this is probably best case scenario in a weird and
Speaker 4: very you know, unusual situation that nobody wants. But again,
Speaker 4: the way it played out, I think that's a good
Speaker 4: way to describe it. All right, I asking you guys,
Speaker 4: deliver this is a good text that comes in in
Speaker 4: regards to what you could see tomorrow that'll make you
Speaker 4: feel just as good as you did last Saturday with
Speaker 4: a sixty two to nothing victory and maybe feeling a
Speaker 4: little bit better heading into a real game against an
Speaker 4: acc opponent. And this person says, it's plain and simple.
Speaker 4: Another shut out, back to back shut us for Louisville
Speaker 4: football has never happened before. I'm gonna take you. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna take your word for that on the text line.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the case, but shutouts are rare.
Speaker 4: I mean shutouts they happen obviously, like they happened last week,
Speaker 4: but back to back weeks.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have to be in it.
Speaker 4: You have to be a really really, really really good defense,
Speaker 4: and you probably have to have opponents of this caliber
Speaker 4: back to back weeks, which is rare. I mean, heck, Louisville,
Speaker 4: they haven't had back to back opponents like this in
Speaker 4: how many years. I mean, we've talked about it before
Speaker 4: the season started. This is the that was the first
Speaker 4: time Louisll opened up on a Saturday against an FCS
Speaker 4: team since the Crack Throw Bear. So again, I don't
Speaker 4: know if that's true, but I'll take your word for
Speaker 4: it that this could be the first time louis has
Speaker 4: ever had back to back shutouts. Maybe they did it
Speaker 4: back in the day when the scores were, you know,
Speaker 4: three to six or three to zero, but certainly it
Speaker 4: doesn't happen very often. And again, I think Louisville's defense
Speaker 4: has proven enough with the guys they have back and
Speaker 4: the depth that they've added in the portal, the way
Speaker 4: where you can know that, yes, you played two teams
Speaker 4: that most people have never heard of, but if you
Speaker 4: shut them out like it doesn't just mean you did
Speaker 4: it because they stink.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 4: Also, I think it also supports the notion that Louisville
Speaker 4: fans have and believe myself included, that Louisville has a
Speaker 4: damn good defense this year. I mean I was talking
Speaker 4: about it earlier when I was on with Tony and
Speaker 4: dave On Has. You know, Jeff Brom, there's no doubt
Speaker 4: in my mind, and I went back and looked at
Speaker 4: some numbers. It'd be a big, big, big shocker this
Speaker 4: year if at the end of the season, this is
Speaker 4: not the best defense Jeff Brom has ever had as
Speaker 4: a head coach at Western, at Purdue, and at Louisville,
Speaker 4: And that could give us a little bit more of
Speaker 4: an explanation as to why he was a little frustrated
Speaker 4: with the offense after those scrimmages in fall camp, because
Speaker 4: you know what, they're going up against, a defense that
Speaker 4: is better than nearly every defense they're going to see
Speaker 4: on the field when they play in real games this year.
Speaker 4: All right, quick break, we'll come back. Keep this thing
Speaker 4: rolling along. It's a Friday. We're feeling good. It's game
Speaker 4: day too. I mean, we got NFL action on a
Speaker 4: Friday night. That feels weird, but hey, I'm here for
Speaker 4: it's also definite some weird, sir, That's right, baby. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm surprised the NFL decided to go head to head
Speaker 4: with Indiana and Western Carolina Football or Western Illinois. Right yeah,
Speaker 4: w I U I mean that's I mean, I know
Speaker 4: Goodell and the Shield they think they run sports in
Speaker 4: this country. But you got a lot of you got
Speaker 4: a lot of ego trying to act like you're going
Speaker 4: to be able to compete with the view with with viewers.
Speaker 4: Viewership is going to be on the Hoosiers And what's
Speaker 4: the leather? Are they really the leather? That's kind of awesome?
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Speaker 4: is Jamark Chase gonna play this weekend or not? I
Speaker 4: mean I kind of need to know from my fantasy
Speaker 4: football team. And I know that's why you guys tune
Speaker 4: in today because you want to hear about Nick's fantasy
Speaker 4: football team. And let me tell you, I do have
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase in one of my leagues. And you know,
Speaker 4: if he doesn't play, that's that's obviously that you know
Speaker 4: that's going to be my team's not going to be
Speaker 4: as strong. But I do see the latest this this
Speaker 4: came out a little bit before the show from ESPN
Speaker 4: that he's going to be a game time decision for
Speaker 4: Sunday season opener because of what has been called an
Speaker 4: aggravating contract dispute. So I mean, pay the man, pay
Speaker 4: the man. I mean, I feel like the Bengals have
Speaker 4: kind of a notoriously been known for being cheap, but
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase, in my opinion, is as valuable as Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow is to them. That sounds crazy because obviously quarterback
Speaker 4: is I mean, your quarterback position overall is super important.
Speaker 4: But when they you know, when they made that decision
Speaker 4: to draft Chase right after they had drafted Burrow and
Speaker 4: the Bengals made that run all the way to the
Speaker 4: super Bowl, the quarterbacks always going to get a lot
Speaker 4: of attention. I mean, that's just how that's how it works,
Speaker 4: especially knowing that at LSHU, Joe Burrow, you know, put
Speaker 4: together one of the best seasons we've ever seen from
Speaker 4: a college quarterback, and you know, his numbers were great,
Speaker 4: But really it was just that that LSU team with
Speaker 4: Ed or Jeron is still crazy to say because he
Speaker 4: has never really been a good head coach other than
Speaker 4: that year, But they were unbelievable, and they went fourteen
Speaker 4: and oh and it was a fifteen and yeah, fifteen
Speaker 4: and oh because they played in the SEC championship game
Speaker 4: and obviously won two the games in the playoffs. I
Speaker 4: mean they played. You won't find a national champion in
Speaker 4: you know, the last twenty five years that played a
Speaker 4: tougher schedule top to bottom than that LSHU team and
Speaker 4: they never lost a game and really weren't in that
Speaker 4: many close games. So, you know, Burrow doing that and
Speaker 4: then taking the Bengals to the Super Bowl and what
Speaker 4: his second third year whatever it was like that, that's
Speaker 4: going to get a lot of attention. But I mak
Speaker 4: no mistake about it. Jamar Chase was out there making
Speaker 4: plays that like nobody else could make, like he was
Speaker 4: just as important that season. And I think when it
Speaker 4: comes to your franchise, you're always going to prioritize your
Speaker 4: quarterback more than most positions, in fact, more than every position.
Speaker 4: And if you got a great one, you got to
Speaker 4: take care of him because there's not as many Like again,
Speaker 4: I don't think there's many Jamar Chases out there, if
Speaker 4: I'm being honest with you. That's how That's how sensational
Speaker 4: he is, but more really good elite young receivers come
Speaker 4: along more so than Joe Burrow type quarterbacks, if that
Speaker 4: makes sense. So, like, I understand why the priority for
Speaker 4: them was to pay Joe Burrow, but Jamar Chase he
Speaker 4: needs the bag as well, because that guy, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's twenty four years old and he is. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think he's in the comp He's certainly in the conversation.
Speaker 4: I would have no problem if somebody told me they
Speaker 4: think he's the best receiver in the league. I mean,
Speaker 4: Jamar Chase, Ceedee Lamb. Obviously, Tyreek Hill is still sensational.
Speaker 4: So hopefully they get this thing done because I mean
Speaker 4: the Bengals are also like I'm the worst John. I mean,
Speaker 4: just just call it like it is. I'm sure you're
Speaker 4: thinking it. I'm a Colts fan, but I always talk
Speaker 4: crap about them about how they suck. I'm mooching off
Speaker 4: the Ravens with Lamar, I'm mooching off the Bengals like
Speaker 4: I'm having an identity crisis as an NFL than.
Speaker 2: Does kind of suck. That does kind of suck.
Speaker 4: I mean, you don't have an NFL team, right, And
Speaker 4: I think that's good. Like, that's probably makes it more
Speaker 4: fun for you.
Speaker 2: You just enjoy it, right and not a true So
Speaker 2: like again, my wife has adopted the Buffalo Bills, or
Speaker 2: as I called him, the Bulls earlier, and so we
Speaker 2: kind of just tell we kind of just collectively watched
Speaker 2: the Bills. She gets more into it than I do.
Speaker 2: Believe it's her family that made her a Bills fan, right,
Speaker 2: Actually it's my family. Oh really, that's also I have
Speaker 2: a stepbrother up in Buffalo, New York that we visited
Speaker 2: and we went to it was a Buffalo Bills themed
Speaker 2: bar and they were they kicked the Steelers ass in
Speaker 2: the game that we watched them play in, and she
Speaker 2: just fell in love with how fun it was. Just
Speaker 2: the atmosphere NFL team. Yeah, yeah, oh I can totally
Speaker 2: see that. And so by association where Bills fans, but
Speaker 2: it doesn't I'm not as emotionally invested into it as
Speaker 2: I am with you know, my Hoosiers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my my wife is well, I don't know, she
Speaker 4: gets asked now and she's she I give her credit.
Speaker 4: She's owning up to it. Like she's always been a
Speaker 4: Seahawks fan. Her dad is a Seahawks fan. I don't
Speaker 4: know the connection. I think he went out to Seattle
Speaker 4: to do some fishing when he was young, and he
Speaker 4: just gravitated towards that team because he spent some time
Speaker 4: out there in that area. So he became a fan
Speaker 4: of the Seahawks. So therefore his daughter she became a
Speaker 4: fan of the Seahawks, and then she was really into
Speaker 4: when they were good, and even when they weren't good,
Speaker 4: she still, you know, was a fan and kept up
Speaker 4: with it. But when Pete Carroll, which by the way,
Speaker 4: I guess this is his first year gone, but Pete Carroll,
Speaker 4: when the dynasty kind of fell apart and Marshaun Lynch
Speaker 4: was gone and really it was just Russell Wilson and
Speaker 4: they started to kind of tail off, she lost interest.
Speaker 4: And now she's kind of going through what I'm going through,
Speaker 4: where like she knows if she tells people she's a
Speaker 4: diehard fan or that that's her team, you know, she
Speaker 4: doesn't feel worthy of being able to say that, because
Speaker 4: you know, it's just when it's convenient.
Speaker 2: I guess, I mean I'm speaking.
Speaker 4: For her, but like that's me, Like I'm a Colts fan,
Speaker 4: but I don't have any like, think about what the
Speaker 4: Colts have given me in the last five six years.
Speaker 2: Hell sadness, pain, And it could be worse.
Speaker 4: That could be a Cowboys fan and at least get
Speaker 4: my hopes of every year and then be let down.
Speaker 4: It'd be worse, actually all right, two hours left. Stick
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