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Speaker 2: I have to admit I rarely see much on Twitter
Speaker 2: that makes me laugh, like brings me, you know, to
Speaker 2: that level to where I you know, I really think, hey,
Speaker 2: that's funny. There's occasionally some good humor on there, but really,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's, as I always say, Twitter, although it
Speaker 2: certainly is resourceful, it really is just a toxic, a
Speaker 2: toxic place to be. But and this is a toxic
Speaker 2: thing I'm about to share with you, but it did
Speaker 2: make me laugh. Somebody photoshopped c J. Stroud's face on
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson in his cult jersey and said c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud dressed up as Anthony Richardson for Halloween last night,
Speaker 2: which he looked pretty bad. Stroud was eleven of thirty
Speaker 2: under two hundred yards no touchdowns. I mean, as somebody
Speaker 2: that was watching and you know, following that game closely
Speaker 2: and hoping that the underwould hit. C J Stroud really
Speaker 2: helped me. But you know, and I may be speaking
Speaker 2: out of turn here, I don't know how well he's
Speaker 2: done so far this year. I don't feel like he's
Speaker 2: having as good of a year as he did as
Speaker 2: a rookie, but maybe I'm wrong. I mean, he ended
Speaker 2: my coult season last last week, but or last season.
Speaker 2: But I mean, if he ends up having the RG
Speaker 2: three type career where he his best days were early
Speaker 2: on and then it kind of just fades. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying that'll happen with c J. Stroud because again,
Speaker 2: I think he's shown enough to where you would expect
Speaker 2: him to be in the league for a while. But
Speaker 2: even if you even you know, regardless of what happens
Speaker 2: with him, the others in that twenty twenty three is
Speaker 2: it twenty twenty three draft, Yeah, the twenty twenty three draft,
Speaker 2: I mean that was a pretty a pretty lousy quarterback
Speaker 2: draft at this point. Now with that said, there are
Speaker 2: some guys that had some you know, had some rough
Speaker 2: starts or maybe had you know, a good start, and
Speaker 2: then they hit a rough patch and you thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe their days in the NFL or are over, but
Speaker 2: then they they rebound. I mean Jared Goff with the
Speaker 2: ram with the Lions. I mean, everybody thought he would
Speaker 2: be there just you know, for a year because of
Speaker 2: the trade, and they go elsewhere. He's given him the
Speaker 2: most success they've had in a long time. Paker Mayfield, obviously,
Speaker 2: I thought his days were done whenever he was, you know,
Speaker 2: on scout team duty playing defense. I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: real story. The Panthers had him there doing stuff like that.
Speaker 2: He didn't get much of a run with the Rams.
Speaker 2: Now he's with the Buccaneers, and you know, he's in
Speaker 2: a really good spot. So maybe some of these guys
Speaker 2: end up, you know, getting it together. Bryce Young's already
Speaker 2: been benched, and Will Levis, I mean, my goodness, he
Speaker 2: made some plays last year with the Titans, but man,
Speaker 2: he's been awful this year. And there's one more. Who's
Speaker 2: the other quarterback that was drafted? It was that in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. It's gonna drive me crazy. And somebody laid
Speaker 2: out the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: The reason I brought the subject cause I just saw
Speaker 2: tweet earlier this week where they were saying, like, unless
Speaker 2: some of these guys get better. Oh the other one.
Speaker 2: I wasn't doing that to be funny. Anthony Richardson, but
Speaker 2: I don't even think of him like as a quarterback
Speaker 2: because he's not that. That wasn't a brain fart. That
Speaker 2: wasn't me like with a really poor attempt to make
Speaker 2: a joke about my guy. It's just I don't think
Speaker 2: of him as a quarterback because I know that he's
Speaker 2: not that, So that was just an honest mistake. Anyways,
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Speaker 2: us here on a Friday afternoon. Hopefully you had yourselves
Speaker 2: a good Halloween. Appreciate mother nature stopping the rain at
Speaker 2: least at a perfect time for us. We hit the row.
Speaker 2: We were gonna do it regardless. It was funny though.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of parents at the house before
Speaker 2: we took off, and there were some that I think
Speaker 2: were like wanting one of the parents to kind of
Speaker 2: like tell the kids, were like, maybe we'll hit a
Speaker 2: couple of hous Like there were a couple I think
Speaker 2: that didn't want to be the first to say, like,
Speaker 2: all right, so are we actually going to do this
Speaker 2: in the rain, because that sounds miserable for everybody. Can
Speaker 2: we have one of the bigger kids just take all
Speaker 2: the other kids so we don't have to go on
Speaker 2: the rain. Like nobody said that but I could kind
Speaker 2: of feel like nobody wanted to walk in the rain.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have wanted to walk in the rain, But
Speaker 2: as soon as we started to get out there to
Speaker 2: get our big picture together that we do every year,
Speaker 2: it completely stops. So it was it was perfect. All right,
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Speaker 2: Lawyer's suit Distracted Driver dot Com. I've been mentioning it
Speaker 2: throughout the week. I'm optimistic about this game. I know
Speaker 2: it sounds pretty half assed, kind of sounds like I
Speaker 2: guess I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth.
Speaker 2: A couple of you today have called me out on that,
Speaker 2: and I can't say that you're wrong, because you know,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you that I've got some real optimism. I
Speaker 2: believe that there was a lot of value in how
Speaker 2: they came back and won against Boston College to where
Speaker 2: internally maybe they really use that as the springboard to
Speaker 2: put together their first complete game of the season. Like
Speaker 2: I've said all that, but clearly I've hesitated to say
Speaker 2: like they're gonna win and it isn't because like I'm
Speaker 2: worried that, oh man, I'll be wrong if I say
Speaker 2: that they that they're gonna win and they don't. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I'll never hear the I can't be wrong.
Speaker 2: I'm wrong all the time. We all are, And honestly,
Speaker 2: that's why I don't really like the predictions. Like, you know,
Speaker 2: I like talking sports gambling here and there, but like
Speaker 2: I'm not big on having like a platform like this
Speaker 2: and everybody stick around because I'm gonna give you my prediction,
Speaker 2: because like it seems like very self centered, because I
Speaker 2: live in a world where I know that even those
Speaker 2: that get paid millions upon millions to you know, talk
Speaker 2: sports and give their predictions, they're wrong a lot. We're always,
Speaker 2: I mean, all of us are wrong about me. If
Speaker 2: everybody knew what was going to happen in sports, I mean,
Speaker 2: we wouldn't have sports books because you had to clean
Speaker 2: them all out. So you're right, though, like I I mean,
Speaker 2: that's I mean, if you want me to say it,
Speaker 2: I'll say it. Like I think they can win. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to say that I know that they will
Speaker 2: or I believe that they will, because again none of
Speaker 2: us know. But I feel better about this one than
Speaker 2: I have really any of the games this year. And
Speaker 2: again maybe it's an extreme reach for me to say
Speaker 2: that the rally in Boston is what is going to
Speaker 2: ignite this group, but we'll find out tomorrow if there
Speaker 2: was some real growth there or if it was just
Speaker 2: you know, desperation for me, as Louisville once again is
Speaker 2: in a situation where they've got a big game where
Speaker 2: they could really, really, I mean, it would change a
Speaker 2: lot for Louisville to be able to get this victory.
Speaker 2: And they've had other games like that this year, and
Speaker 2: we all know how those have played out. So maybe
Speaker 2: you get maybe it's desperation, or maybe maybe I'm onto
Speaker 2: something here, But we shall see tomorrow and certainly looking
Speaker 2: forward to it all Right. On the Kentucky side, they're
Speaker 2: playing Tennessee and I think I struck a nerve with
Speaker 2: some people yesterday because UK fans, you know, they'll they'll
Speaker 2: call in every now and then they'll text in and usually,
Speaker 2: of course, you know, they'll either tell me disclaimer, I'm
Speaker 2: a Kentucky fan, or they'll just say something that like
Speaker 2: makes it quite clear, like hey, L's down, card boy,
Speaker 2: Like if that's you, then I assume you're a Kentucky fan,
Speaker 2: or I can just see the previous messages that they've sent.
Speaker 2: So nonetheless, when I said that Tennessee's not like Tennessee,
Speaker 2: Kentucky aren't, like they're not really rivals. And it's because
Speaker 2: if rivalry has to go both ways, and I don't
Speaker 2: even mean like winning and losing, it's better when that's
Speaker 2: the case, because you know, it hasn't been fun watching
Speaker 2: Louisville lose in the rivalry. It never is. But when
Speaker 2: I say a rivalry has to go both ways, I
Speaker 2: mean both have to genuinely consider the other arrival. Tennessee
Speaker 2: does not consider Kentucky arrival in football. They don't ask
Speaker 2: twenty Tennessee fans who their rival is. They'll tell you Alabama,
Speaker 2: nineteen of them probably. I mean, they just don't mean
Speaker 2: like maybe if they live close to the Kentucky border
Speaker 2: and they've got a they've got a you know, a
Speaker 2: buddy that that is a Kentucky fan that they did
Speaker 2: that works with out of Like I'm sure there's you know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of coexisting in that area, I suppose
Speaker 2: where the state's border. But you got to keep in mind, like, yes,
Speaker 2: Kentucky has been more competitive with Tennessee in the last
Speaker 2: ten years than they've ever been. But if you're a
Speaker 2: middle aged dude or even like the history of your
Speaker 2: program as a Tennessee fan, like your dad probably you
Speaker 2: when you were younger, your dad's dad like never they
Speaker 2: were never threatened by Kentucky. So like, I just I
Speaker 2: don't think it's I mean again, only Tennessee fans could
Speaker 2: could could could answer this, but I think I know
Speaker 2: the answer. They don't really, I mean again, they like
Speaker 2: beating Kentucky, but just because they like beating anybody, I'm
Speaker 2: not ready to say that they'll view this game like
Speaker 2: Bill Vue when they play I don't know, Mississippi State
Speaker 2: or somebody else. But like they're they believe, you know,
Speaker 2: they believe their their rival is is Alabama. Interesting question
Speaker 2: that just came in. Do you think Tennessee views Kentucky
Speaker 2: or Vandy is more of a rival that's a great
Speaker 2: question that I don't know the answer to. I would
Speaker 2: say probably Kentucky, but I don't. I don't know, because
Speaker 2: you know, in Nashville there are some Vandy fans, but
Speaker 2: I would say Nashville is mostly a volunteer city just
Speaker 2: because the size of that fan base. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: I mean again, I would say it's probably Kentucky, but
Speaker 2: I really I really wouldn't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like Vall fans wouldn't want to consider somebody
Speaker 3: as lowly as Vanderbilt as a rival.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's probably. I mean, like who
Speaker 2: can Vanderbilt have a rival in football? You know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Like I feel like.
Speaker 3: All of like the private schools in each of the
Speaker 3: power conferences, they're all kind of rivals even though they
Speaker 3: never play each other, but like they just kind of
Speaker 3: want to be seen as the better one. Like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Stanford,
Speaker 3: I mean not really Duke. I guess they're kind of
Speaker 3: in a league of their own because they have Carolina.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, like it's they're kind of in their own little,
Speaker 3: their own little islands in their conferences.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And I can, I mean, I can appreciate Kentucky
Speaker 2: for this that, like, make no mistake about it, we
Speaker 2: are each other's biggest rival and there's no close second.
Speaker 2: We have other rivals, they have other rivals, but it's
Speaker 2: just different. Especially again I always say this in Louisville.
Speaker 2: That is where this rivalry is its most intense because
Speaker 2: there's so many on both sides. However, if you're a
Speaker 2: Kentucky fan and you grew up I don't know Whitley County.
Speaker 2: I think that's a city, that's a county that borders Tennessee.
Speaker 2: If you grew up around there and the majority of
Speaker 2: the fans you saw that weren't blue, they were orange,
Speaker 2: then yeah, like that there's a history. But like again,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's ever been enough consistent back and
Speaker 2: forth to where you would feel that, you know, Kentucky's
Speaker 2: a arrival and you need to beat them because it
Speaker 2: means more. I don't know, but again I've never been
Speaker 2: in those areas. Now in basketball, I actually think Tennessee
Speaker 2: does consider Kentucky arrival. But again, that's that's a sign
Speaker 2: of respect, right because they you know, they know you
Speaker 2: consider them a rival in football and they don't, so
Speaker 2: they're trying to do the same thing. I suppose in
Speaker 2: basketball now they're They're basketball has been pretty good, but
Speaker 2: obviously Kentucky's I would imagine, has been far. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know Kentucky's been far superior as a program. I
Speaker 2: don't even think Tennessee's ever been to a Final Four,
Speaker 2: but I would imagine as far as you know, winning
Speaker 2: the SEC and all that, I would say Kentucky's probably
Speaker 2: miles ahead of them. But with this game tomorrow, that
Speaker 2: was a long witted way of me getting to I
Speaker 2: just I can't think of a time where they have
Speaker 2: been this lifeless as a fan base. And it's not
Speaker 2: because they're actually you know, I'm just trying to, I guess,
Speaker 2: put myself in the shoes of a Kentucky fan. It
Speaker 2: really is like, got to be killing you on all
Speaker 2: sides here, because it's one thing to be potentially one
Speaker 2: and seven in the SEC when it comes to an end,
Speaker 2: that's terrible no matter how you slice it. But like
Speaker 2: to know that you should be better and you're not
Speaker 2: is really an unusual feeling for Kentucky. I would say,
Speaker 2: I'm sure they've had years where they let game slip,
Speaker 2: like the Will Levis season when he came back and
Speaker 2: they were pretty underwhelming lost to Bandy at home, Like
Speaker 2: maybe that's a year where like they felt underwhelmed. I
Speaker 2: don't know, but you know, you're losing to teams that
Speaker 2: you feel like you've put yourself in a position as
Speaker 2: a program to be better than and you shouldn't be
Speaker 2: losing to them. Also, you're getting killed. You're not just losing.
Speaker 2: And obviously your coach just I mean, you're questioning his
Speaker 2: ability at this point, and not only his ability, like, hey,
Speaker 2: he's got to get this fixed. Is he going to
Speaker 2: be able to do it? You're now questioning does he
Speaker 2: want to be doing this? And look, I know at
Speaker 2: times when there are struggles with a team, adversity, losing streaks, whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, that's when fans are going to be complaining
Speaker 2: the most for obvious reasons. And oftentimes when an issue
Speaker 2: is brought up to criticize that may not seem like
Speaker 2: a huge deal, it just gets lumped in with oh,
Speaker 2: that's just you know now people are people are overreacting.
Speaker 2: They're just they're complaining about every little thing. And maybe
Speaker 2: that maybe that's true, but what I what I think
Speaker 2: it is is when you're a fan, yes you're gonna
Speaker 2: complain when things are bad, and you're gonna be you know,
Speaker 2: you're gonna express your concern and feel a certain way
Speaker 2: about it. But it also leads to you being more
Speaker 2: heightened to to every little thing because you're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out how how did this go wrong? What happened,
Speaker 2: or how do we get it fixed? So you are
Speaker 2: paying closer attention to little things, and maybe at times
Speaker 2: you you try to you know, you try to make
Speaker 2: something bigger than it is and say, well, that's a factor,
Speaker 2: and others would they know that's ridiculous, that doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: You're just your nitpicking. But then maybe also you start
Speaker 2: to see things that you were blinded by that are
Speaker 2: legitimate and real. I mean Mark Stoops going to the
Speaker 2: SEC media days this year and being the biggest complainer there,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure he talked about football and whatnot, but
Speaker 2: like his whole demeanor this offseason and leading into this
Speaker 2: season was that he was he was burnt out, like
Speaker 2: straight up like I don't know how much longer I
Speaker 2: can do it. Those are things he said, real quotes
Speaker 2: from him. Which it is a different job now with
Speaker 2: an IL and I'm sure he is working hard, but
Speaker 2: think about it, but put you you know, again, he
Speaker 2: didn't say anything crazy, but ask yourself how often you
Speaker 2: hear coaches before a season starts talk about how burned
Speaker 2: out they are. Like that's unusual, probably not alarming, but
Speaker 2: like I remember thinking, hey, that's that's kind of weird.
Speaker 2: And then you know, now they're this bad. And yesterday, again,
Speaker 2: this is probably something because Stoops made a comment on
Speaker 2: his Coaches show that you know, fans are taking things
Speaker 2: out of context and this and that, and I don't
Speaker 2: think he was criticizing the fans, but you know, he
Speaker 2: was just basically saying, like, you know, sometimes people run
Speaker 2: with stuff, and you know they didn't really you know,
Speaker 2: the context wasn't what they thought it was. But he
Speaker 2: said yesterday on the SEC Coaches teleconference, you know, he
Speaker 2: made a sarcastic remark about having a bunch of night games.
Speaker 2: And I'll see if I can pull the actual the
Speaker 2: actual quote here, because it's probably no big deal to
Speaker 2: a lot of people. It's probably you know, a real
Speaker 2: reach to find criticism here because it's just you know,
Speaker 2: him trying to be funny. But here's his quote. He
Speaker 2: opened up the teleconference about he says, quote in neland
Speaker 2: stadium is a very hostile environment. I think that's our
Speaker 2: four straight eight o'clock Eastern game. Thank you for that.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of fun stoops of course, said sarcastically,
Speaker 2: like he's not crying and complaining, like raising hell about it,
Speaker 2: but to hear that that's where his mindset is is
Speaker 2: another sign that this guy's burnt out, like he's he's
Speaker 2: kind of you know, he's he may not have the
Speaker 2: juice to really keep doing this. I mean, not only
Speaker 2: because of his you know, complaint there, but I think
Speaker 2: every coach in the SEC would want night games in
Speaker 2: prime time because it's more exposure for your program. And
Speaker 2: also it's a sign that you've put yourself in a
Speaker 2: position to where they view you and whoever you're playing
Speaker 2: as a as a big time game. And to see
Speaker 2: it as like a negative thanks a lot. Like even
Speaker 2: if it was coming from a place of trying to
Speaker 2: you know, break the ice light in the mood whatever,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not a good look given the way
Speaker 2: things have gone. So again, I still think it's gonna
Speaker 2: be really hard to see somebody walk away from the
Speaker 2: amount of money that he would walk away from him.
Speaker 2: He just decides that it's run its course and he's
Speaker 2: leaving Kentucky. But then again, you know, if you really
Speaker 2: really are unhappy and you don't have the energy or
Speaker 2: the you have a damn to truly do what's needed
Speaker 2: to get things turned around. Like maybe if you are
Speaker 2: set financially, which he clearly is, then you will just say, look, ill,
Speaker 2: I'm good, I got enough money. This is going to
Speaker 2: be best for everybody, cause I mean, he's got to
Speaker 2: be miserable and I don't see it getting any better
Speaker 2: anytime soon for him. All right, Fibo two five seven
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Speaker 2: to Let's go to Dave. Dave, welcome in. How are
Speaker 2: you doing.
Speaker 4: Well? I tell you, U of L needs linemen on
Speaker 4: both sides of the ball. Offensive line just they're not
Speaker 4: very good. And you know, like I think they made
Speaker 4: some recruiting years of like Madden's Tanker. I thought he
Speaker 4: was a four star coman, I asked, well, I thought
Speaker 4: by this time, you know, he'd be playing a little bit.
Speaker 2: Dave, what what's got you fired up and wanting to
Speaker 2: call out our interior players on a day afternoon. I mean,
Speaker 2: I you know, our our our defensive line I think
Speaker 2: has good players. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not worried
Speaker 2: about that a whole lot. I think our offensive line,
Speaker 2: you know, they've had some injuries, of course, and yeah,
Speaker 2: there's some guys that I don't think have really panned
Speaker 2: out yet as far as big time recruits out of
Speaker 2: high school. You mentioned Madden, and then you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you get in some transfers, and I mean it's really
Speaker 2: a you know, a mixed bag of results, right, some
Speaker 2: guys really translate well, and then some guys, you know,
Speaker 2: end up being you know, a MAC level player or
Speaker 2: a D two level player like they initially were.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but for the most part, uh, shuck, Tyler Shuck
Speaker 4: just doesn't have a whole lot of.
Speaker 2: Time, That's true. I mean, look, they could if they
Speaker 2: were a lot better, then then then you know, then
Speaker 2: maybe Louisville would be even better offensively, they would be. Actually, however,
Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, if for Louisville's offense to
Speaker 2: be doing what it's doing throughout the entire season, moving
Speaker 2: the ball, I mean, and they're not. You know, they're
Speaker 2: helping get the job done. Now again, I'm sure a
Speaker 2: lot of it is scheme with Brahm, and he certainly
Speaker 2: knows how to still be able to put an effective
Speaker 2: offense out there despite an offensive line that maybe struggles
Speaker 2: with pass protection and that kind of stuff. So again,
Speaker 2: I think they're clearly the weakness of the of the
Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball. But you know, they've not
Speaker 2: been bad enough to where they've specifically, you know, kept
Speaker 2: the offense from doing their part.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but on the other side of the ball, the
Speaker 4: pass rush for most most of the time, I don't
Speaker 4: think they're pass rushing at all. Good.
Speaker 2: Well, and look, you're not wrong there because they haven't.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact that they just haven't been able
Speaker 2: to get to the quarterback as much as we would
Speaker 2: have expected. I mean, again, the results are the results.
Speaker 2: But man, I worry that like our coordinator on English
Speaker 2: at times just doesn't want to be aggressive, like I think,
Speaker 2: you know, you saw some aggression in the second half
Speaker 2: against Boston College, and when they do dial up pressure,
Speaker 2: I feel like more often than not it ends up working.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking myself, Dave, like damn it, why aren't
Speaker 2: we doing that more often?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, another thing that concerns me is at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the game. I mean, uh, you know, sometimes
Speaker 4: it looks like we didn't scout the other team well enough,
Speaker 4: or we weren't prepared, or they're just lacks coming out
Speaker 4: of the locker room. You know, it takes them a
Speaker 4: while to get going, like in the game up at
Speaker 4: Boston College.
Speaker 2: The same thing against SMU. I mean, look, Dave, I
Speaker 2: don't think I don't think you could be more spot
Speaker 2: on with that because I know that they do prepare
Speaker 2: and they do scout, but like it seems like in
Speaker 2: more than half the games this year, Ron English needs
Speaker 2: to see like two series from the opponent to get
Speaker 2: a feel for what he wants to do defensively. And
Speaker 2: that's just like, that's that's that's a coordinator issue, man,
Speaker 2: Like that is quite literally a guy just not having
Speaker 2: a correct plan in place to start. And that's I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's not on the players, you know.
Speaker 4: I agree. Okay, thanks stuff.
Speaker 2: Thanks Dave, appreciate it, good to hear. Good to talk
Speaker 2: some football with Dave on a Friday there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to carry some real positivity here, send some
Speaker 2: vibes to Clemson, South Carolina with the squad, and Dave
Speaker 2: wants to let me know he's unimpressed with our.
Speaker 5: Own Dave coming in guns of Blake. Yeah, I love it, Friday,
Speaker 5: I love it. But I mean he's right. Sometimes you've
Speaker 5: got to make adjustments on the fly. Sometimes the team's
Speaker 5: gonna throw something at you that you've never seen before.
Speaker 5: But I mean it looks like in competence. Just how
Speaker 5: obvious that is, Like, uh oh, what we had planned
Speaker 5: clearly isn't working and they're killing it. So let's revert
Speaker 5: to something different, Like sometimes that's going to happen, but
Speaker 5: it's happened too often. In fact, it's happened in the
Speaker 5: first game with Ron English when he in the opener
Speaker 5: last year. All right, stick with us right here on
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Speaker 2: This text says, Nick, I know you were somewhat joking
Speaker 2: about the conspiracy against Louisville and the ACC, which of
Speaker 2: Corey Brooks yet to be honored. But how ironic is
Speaker 2: it that Louisville's the only team in the ACC that's
Speaker 2: going to play all of the undefeated teams in the league.
Speaker 2: Coincidence question mark? Yes, I mean, yeah, that's coincidence. I mean,
Speaker 2: I can't tell if you're like asking, do I really
Speaker 2: think that the ACC gave Louisville a schedule that made
Speaker 2: it difficult for them to get into the championship because
Speaker 2: they don't like Louisville. I mean, I was joking. I
Speaker 2: wasn't somewhat joking, Like I think, you can clearly just
Speaker 2: have bad calls go against you. You can feel like
Speaker 2: you are just comstantly on the wrong end of incompetence
Speaker 2: within officiating, or you could feel like the league doesn't
Speaker 2: give you enough respect, Like there are examples that, truly
Speaker 2: I understand why people come to that, like like, man,
Speaker 2: what's going on here? But to truly believe that those
Speaker 2: are conspiring because they're that worried about you is a
Speaker 2: real like thing I can't relate to, like, like why
Speaker 2: would they like why do that mean? Like we're not?
Speaker 2: I mean it's almost like sometimes when fans think that
Speaker 2: there's a conspiracy against them at like that's widespread, like
Speaker 2: a high level, like it's overvaluing your your worth a
Speaker 2: little bit. Like, But to be fair, like I don't
Speaker 2: believe that anybody's out conspiring, you know, from from a
Speaker 2: you know, an objective view like the ACC. I don't
Speaker 2: think they, you know, would be bothered if Louisville ended
Speaker 2: up becoming a team that became, you know, one of
Speaker 2: the faces of the league, if you will. Right when
Speaker 2: you think about the ACC in football, you think Louisville's
Speaker 2: going to be in the mix every year, Like I
Speaker 2: don't mean I think they would welcome that. I don't
Speaker 2: think they would be bothered by it. But I mean,
Speaker 2: consider this last year, Louisville had a very manageable schedule
Speaker 2: that at that point it really was just it was
Speaker 2: it was a gift because you didn't even end up.
Speaker 2: I mean, the teams that we thought were going to
Speaker 2: be good in the ACC last year, I mean Louisville
Speaker 2: only played one of them, I think, and that was
Speaker 2: that was Miami towards the end. The other games were
Speaker 2: against you know, teams that you kind of looked at
Speaker 2: the schedule before the season started and thought, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is this is pretty pretty, it's pretty awesome. But this year,
Speaker 2: it's just the way it's played out. You have to
Speaker 2: keep in mind a team that that you know, didn't
Speaker 2: lose an ACC game for over a year and won
Speaker 2: the league out right last year by a mile, they
Speaker 2: were on this louill avoided them going into this year
Speaker 2: once again, and the other three teams didn't. Right, these
Speaker 2: teams that are currently undefeated in the ACC on paper
Speaker 2: going into the year, they had what we thought would
Speaker 2: be the toughest game for anybody because it was Florida State.
Speaker 2: Nobody knew Florida State was gonna fall off like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody expected Pitt to make this big of
Speaker 2: a bounce back. Clemson's always in the mix. It seems
Speaker 2: like I mean SMU, to be fair, I mean I
Speaker 2: was wrong. They have adjusted nicely in the league and
Speaker 2: they they're good. I mean, Kevin Jennings becoming their quarterback
Speaker 2: really changed what RD Ashley HT Lashley was doing offensively
Speaker 2: and it's it's working in a major way. And by
Speaker 2: the way, I don't know if you guys saw the
Speaker 2: news he is cleared to play. He was gonna be
Speaker 2: out and they got to go to their backup, Preston Stone.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's he's a guy who had like a
Speaker 2: lot of preseason hype. He got benched after two games
Speaker 2: and his team got a lot better. But Jennings has
Speaker 2: been cleared to play, and that's the ultimate, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell is gonna happen in that game,
Speaker 2: right because SMU's only losses against BYU, who seems to
Speaker 2: be better and better every week. They haven't lost yet,
Speaker 2: have they.
Speaker 3: No, they're undefeated, that's what I thought, so.
Speaker 2: You know, and I've watched a Shay they look really
Speaker 2: good and then Pittsburgh. You know, I have no reason
Speaker 2: to think that they're not legit, So you know, I
Speaker 2: leaned that that SMU's offense will will be able to
Speaker 2: to be the biggest factor in that game and they'll win.
Speaker 2: But anyways, back to the question, like, no, there's no
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. I mean, I don't believe that
Speaker 2: there's any kind of a conspiracy within the ACC to
Speaker 2: make Louisville's life more difficult. I don't. But again, that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I don't think that we've been on the
Speaker 2: wrong end of their awful officiating. I don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think that the bad calls Louisville has got
Speaker 2: this year, which I think they've had a lot of them,
Speaker 2: more than more than most, more than they usually do it,
Speaker 2: more than most. But sometimes it's just a bad call
Speaker 2: because it's a bad call, and like you end up
Speaker 2: on the wrong side of somebody's incompetence. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's ever because they're out like the referees are wanting
Speaker 2: to make sure they know that they help Louislle's opponent.
Speaker 2: Like what that doesn't make any sense? And I've always
Speaker 2: just assumed that the vast majority of those who say
Speaker 2: things like that are joking, like its tongue in cheek,
Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like it's not all right, John,
Speaker 2: I got some bad news for you. What is it,
Speaker 2: Jalen Hoodshaffino. Have you seen the latest with him? The
Speaker 2: Lakers are declining the option on his third year, which
Speaker 2: will you know, make him an unrestricted free agent. Rare
Speaker 2: to do that with with this young man, but you
Speaker 2: know why because Bronnie James's contract's guaranteed. So like there's
Speaker 2: there's a lot of NBA's scuttle butck going on that
Speaker 2: maybe Jalen Hoodshafino will turn into like the first victim
Speaker 2: of Lebron's nepotism.
Speaker 3: And I'll say I'm not I'm not following Jalen Hood
Speaker 3: Schafino too closely since he's been with the Lakers. I
Speaker 3: know he's been fairly underwhelming injury really yeah, uh, but
Speaker 3: I mean it is, you know, disappointing giving them the
Speaker 3: fact that he's being booted because of somebody who else
Speaker 3: who also shouldn't be in the NBA quite frankly.
Speaker 2: And like it would be fitting if Jalen Hood Schaffino
Speaker 2: ends up, I mean, he's gonna end up elsewhere clearly,
Speaker 2: and he ends like you know, who knows, maybe he
Speaker 2: just maybe didn't work out for him in the NBA,
Speaker 2: or you know, maybe he ends up in a new
Speaker 2: opportunity and is really good and people will look back
Speaker 2: and say, man, can you can you believe the Lakers
Speaker 2: had this guy and they ended up letting him walk
Speaker 2: because of early injuries and then making a spot for
Speaker 2: Lebron's kid. You know, now, again, as I said last week,
Speaker 2: whenever you know, those who played in a game for
Speaker 2: the first time together, even if that was what was
Speaker 2: on the table, which I doubt that they mean. I
Speaker 2: don't think that they were talking about it in that way, like, hey,
Speaker 2: Jalen and Shapino's a decent guy, but you know, we
Speaker 2: got to make room for Bronni, and that seems wild.
Speaker 2: But here, you know, here's the positive. So even if
Speaker 2: they knew going in like we might have to make
Speaker 2: some sacrifices, they're gonna be there's gonna be a good
Speaker 2: player we potentially move on from. But if that leaves
Speaker 2: the spot for Bronny there and he gets it and
Speaker 2: that gives us another three four really good years of
Speaker 2: Lebron before father time hits him, it's still worth it. Man.
Speaker 2: It is, like it sounds crazy, but it's still worth
Speaker 2: it because Lebron James has not shown any signs of
Speaker 2: slowing down. I mean, now, maybe he is energized and
Speaker 2: he's really really motivated because he's playing with his son
Speaker 2: and it's like a new world to him, and then
Speaker 2: maybe he overdoes it and he does start to show
Speaker 2: age like maybe that happens. But until I see Lebron
Speaker 2: James not show that on any given night he can
Speaker 2: look like he could beat the best player on the
Speaker 2: planet and completely take over a game against anybody, I'm
Speaker 2: going to assume that he's still in that level, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think you see that number, he's just like, yeah, well,
Speaker 2: you know, and look, I'm not saying he's gonna pay
Speaker 2: until he's fifty. But I think what makes of the
Speaker 2: many things that makes Lebron a legend as an athlete.
Speaker 2: I mean, again, I know he's off the floor, he's
Speaker 2: just you know, come on, Lebron, like he just has
Speaker 2: no self awareness. I get it, But I'm talking specifically
Speaker 2: as a basketball player. There's a lot of layers to
Speaker 2: what you can throw out There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: you can throw out there when you're making the point
Speaker 2: that he might be the best player of all time.
Speaker 2: One of them for me, the longer he plays and
Speaker 2: the more he holds up is the fact that nobody's
Speaker 2: done it. I mean, there are dudes who are eight
Speaker 2: years younger than him that start to really look old
Speaker 2: at the NBA. It's crazy to think about, and you'd
Speaker 2: be crazy if you don't stick with us for the
Speaker 2: rest of the show today. We'll take a quick break,
Speaker 2: come back and wrap up the four o'clock hour, and
Speaker 2: then we will hit the five o'clock hour with some
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Speaker 2: with us right here on Sports Talk seven ninety. So
Speaker 2: this is some breaking news in college football. So Ross
Speaker 2: Ellinger is the first to report that Greg Sank has
Speaker 2: sent a memo to SEC coaches and athletic directors ordering
Speaker 2: them to stop directing their players to fake injuries and
Speaker 2: says that instituting penalties will it's going to happen. It's
Speaker 2: happening on a third offence. I mean, I kind of
Speaker 2: like this because it's just I mean, it's it's one
Speaker 2: of those things though that like, I don't mean everybody
Speaker 2: does it. Nobody seems to be above it to an extent. Obviously,
Speaker 2: some are a lot worse than others. As far as look,
Speaker 2: if you watch college football just a little bit, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, where a guy will just
Speaker 2: fall to the ground all he's got a cramp. Uh
Speaker 2: And because it it really is, it's it's really a
Speaker 2: bad look for the sport that because everybody is well
Speaker 2: aware of what's going on, they don't even try to
Speaker 2: like hide that they're faking it anymore. And it's just
Speaker 2: a bad look. And you know, I just I think
Speaker 2: it's a really tough thing to uh, to try to
Speaker 2: enforce because you really don't know if someone's hurt, like
Speaker 2: only they know now you can you can see that
Speaker 2: it looks a little suspect and you can sometimes quickly
Speaker 2: learn that they were not really hurt. But like I
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't have the stones to just instinct,
Speaker 2: just instincts, just tell somebody right away, get up, you're
Speaker 2: faking you know what I mean? Like, and how are
Speaker 2: you gonna how are you gonna police this? As far
Speaker 2: as like, well, he was down, he was on the
Speaker 2: ground for two minutes, and that injury probably should have
Speaker 2: taken him fifteen minutes. Like there's I think it's really
Speaker 2: this is a slippery slope here, But I do understand
Speaker 2: at least wanting to address it and acknowledge it and
Speaker 2: and maybe maybe scare these coaches in these players to like, hey,
Speaker 2: if you were thinking about, you know, adding that to
Speaker 2: your game plan, Hey, this is the sign fall down.
Speaker 2: This we need to steal a time out to stop,
Speaker 2: to stop momentum or something like, don't do it because
Speaker 2: you know, the first offense is a fifty thousand dollars penalty,
Speaker 2: second offense is a one hundred thousand dollars third offense
Speaker 2: is a suspension, and assistants are subject to the same penalties.
Speaker 2: So again, it says the SEC will begin penalizing coaches
Speaker 2: this week if it is determined players you know, are
Speaker 2: feigning injuries, as they say, how are you going to
Speaker 2: determine that? Like good luck? I mean you can't prove it.
Speaker 2: And what's your threshold? Right like broken bone?
Speaker 3: Nope, I guess if you just see a player get
Speaker 3: up after it looks like they were having you know,
Speaker 3: whatever issue it could have been, and if they're it's
Speaker 3: not even really about how long they're down, but how
Speaker 3: they react when they actually get back up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but even then, like it's impossible to know for sure.
Speaker 3: You know, I guess if you have a cramp, that's like,
Speaker 3: you know, keeping you on the ground, that's one thing, and.
Speaker 2: A cramp, a cramp sometimes looks like the most serious thing.
Speaker 2: In fact, you can tell like players now know when
Speaker 2: they have a cramp. Now they'll look like they're in
Speaker 2: pain and they're uncomfortable. But you know, I think body
Speaker 2: language with athletes, especially football players, like they know what
Speaker 2: a cramp is. They probably had a many many times,
Speaker 2: and that may be something that is viewed as minor.
Speaker 2: But no, like if you've got a cramp, like quite literally,
Speaker 2: you can't walk and you could hurt yourself trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, just pop a muscle. So I can appreciate
Speaker 2: wanting to you know, clean it up, but good luck
Speaker 2: policing it consistently without some controversy. And I feel like
Speaker 2: this year specifically, it has absolutely become a part of
Speaker 2: the college football experience, Like you see it all the time,
Speaker 2: and I'm just used to it at this point, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, Like I'm just to the point
Speaker 2: where I'm like, you know, hey, this is now part
Speaker 2: of the game, and I think there's a chance, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is only the SEC. By the way, there aren't
Speaker 2: any other There are not any other leagues that I've
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe you know, obviously college football is
Speaker 2: a big copycat world, so maybe you see other leagues
Speaker 2: try to implement the same the same thing here we
Speaker 2: shall see, all right. This question came in on the
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Speaker 2: But this text say, Nick, who do you think has
Speaker 2: to have a good game in Death Valley for the
Speaker 2: Louisville to have a chance? Pretty generic question, But I
Speaker 2: mean I don't mean to I'm not I'm not insulting
Speaker 2: your question, but like, I mean, everybody's got to play well,
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I mean Tyler Shuck. I mean,
Speaker 2: if he has like a really bad day, that's not ideal.
Speaker 2: So like me, again, like a lot of pieces are
Speaker 2: important here. I'm not sure if it's one specific player.
Speaker 2: Like the defense needs to be good tomorrow, like they
Speaker 2: need to be goof free, if that makes sense. They
Speaker 2: need to not have plays where they have too many
Speaker 2: men on the field, or that they are looking around
Speaker 2: as the play clock's winding down and the opposing quarterback
Speaker 2: club Mick can just see that there's something off and
Speaker 2: he takes advantage of it, and other quarterbacks have done that.
Speaker 2: By the way, I mean cam Ward he talked after
Speaker 2: the Louisville game and the press conference, and I mean
Speaker 2: he wasn't really disrespectful. I think he was just being honest,
Speaker 2: but like he was talking about how easy you know,
Speaker 2: he was able to know where to go essentially many
Speaker 2: times against that little defense. So I mean, I hate
Speaker 2: to cop out and not really give you much of
Speaker 2: an answer, but like a lot a lot of people
Speaker 2: in different units need to play well for Louisville to
Speaker 2: be able to win against Clemson, because they're a really
Speaker 2: good team. But for me, again, it's the defense. I
Speaker 2: think if they're the defense they've been all year, it'll
Speaker 2: likely be a result similar to what we've seen all year,
Speaker 2: which is they make some plays here and there. You know,
Speaker 2: they're not terrible, but they're not consistent, and the offense
Speaker 2: is doing their part, but they just come up short.
Speaker 2: Like if the defense is the same defense they've been
Speaker 2: all year, then I think that's probably the result that
Speaker 2: we're going to get if they come ready to play
Speaker 2: and they can get off the field pretty early, let
Speaker 2: the offense get an early strike. I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: good way to get it started. And hopefully that's what
Speaker 2: we see. And hopefully you guys stick with us for
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