Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company.
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Speaker 3: Crap, I don't know who the hell we think when
Speaker 3: we are get off our show, idiot.
Speaker 1: The kids are playing or tail off. The countries are
Speaker 1: screwing it up. Gold play inter murals, Brother, gold play
Speaker 1: inter Murals. They're supposed to be mature adults, but they're
Speaker 1: really not. Who's the kid here?
Speaker 3: Who's the kid here?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Now? Here's nick coffee.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how many there are, but there's certainly
Speaker 4: a few, and this is one of them. What I
Speaker 4: mean is one of those days that everybody just feels
Speaker 4: like should be a national holiday and we shouldn't have
Speaker 4: to have our normal Monday routine when you have an
Speaker 4: event such as big as the super Bowl, you know,
Speaker 4: taking place on a Sunday evening. And while I agree
Speaker 4: with you, in fact, I know a lot of people
Speaker 4: who took the day off. My wife used one of
Speaker 4: her vacation days today. Again I agree, I get it.
Speaker 4: Even if it was the case, we would be the
Speaker 4: ones that would not get off regardless, because you know,
Speaker 4: this is, believe it or not, this is a sports show, right,
Speaker 4: sometimes we talk about things that you know, have nothing
Speaker 4: to do with sports, and we end up going down
Speaker 4: paths that I'm not really sure how we how we
Speaker 4: get there. But you know, talking about the super Bowl,
Speaker 4: if that's considered work, then sign me up.
Speaker 3: Yah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sound like a real company man when I say.
Speaker 3: That, Absolutely, you were worth every penny.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm fired up and ready to be here, but
Speaker 4: I am I'm a little tired. I mean a little tired.
Speaker 3: You know, I thought about dragging at the day after
Speaker 3: the super Bowl, just dragging ass or yeah, I know
Speaker 3: what it is. What did you get hammered last night?
Speaker 4: Not hammered by any means, but she had as Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like I would say if I was going to have
Speaker 4: some some bruise on a on a work night and
Speaker 4: you know, watch any other game, I would say the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl was that turned up a couple of notches
Speaker 4: where maybe a couple more beers than usual and I
Speaker 4: was up later than I typically would be. So that's
Speaker 4: why I'm still a little a little tired.
Speaker 3: But did you go to a party?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, we uh we ended up getting together with
Speaker 4: some friends. They had a little get together with all
Speaker 4: the kids and there was a lot of fun, so
Speaker 4: big thanks to to Kaitlin and Stephen.
Speaker 3: Coleman who had us out.
Speaker 4: They had They had a great, a great little party.
Speaker 4: Everybody brought different foods and uh it was some good stuff.
Speaker 4: So you guys bring My wife brought meatballs, and I
Speaker 4: just brought what a super Bowl staple, and I brought
Speaker 4: bush lights for myself and and vibes be well guest ever, yeah,
Speaker 4: and I brought some vibes too, So we had a
Speaker 4: good time and I ended up it was kind of
Speaker 4: the first time that I've been at a Super Bowl
Speaker 4: party where I kind of really wasn't keeping up with
Speaker 4: the game all that much. I mean I was, but
Speaker 4: I wasn't intently watching and it was okay because it
Speaker 4: really wasn't worth watching because it wasn't much of a
Speaker 4: game at all. So we'll certainly talk about that as
Speaker 4: we take you up till six o'clock, hang out, take
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Speaker 4: Louisville dot com. Certainly a lot to react to from
Speaker 4: the weekend, not just the super Bowl, and we'll certainly
Speaker 4: do that. There'll be plenty of ways for you guys
Speaker 4: to be a part of the show, and I'll let
Speaker 4: you know how you can do that coming up here shortly.
Speaker 4: But in the end, I mean last night you said
Speaker 4: it right before the show started, how boring the game was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was awful.
Speaker 4: Did but did you take any like knowing that it
Speaker 4: wasn't competitive and it wasn't close? I mean, did you
Speaker 4: take any extra satisfaction knowing that it was the Chiefs
Speaker 4: that were getting brains beat out of them?
Speaker 3: It was funny? Yeah, I love how they didn't show
Speaker 3: Taylor Swift all that much.
Speaker 4: When they did, she got booed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't hear that part.
Speaker 4: Oh you didn't see that.
Speaker 3: I mean, oh, the only time I think they showed
Speaker 3: her like maybe late in the first quarter. I think
Speaker 3: it was, but I don't remember.
Speaker 4: Here she got booed. Yeah, she and you can and
Speaker 4: you can that's rough. You can actually see her looking
Speaker 4: very like surprised. She's not used to that and stunned.
Speaker 4: I mean I should I mean I think she probably.
Speaker 4: She kind of laughed it off. In fact, I just
Speaker 4: sent you on her the Sports Center. The Sports Center's
Speaker 4: Twitter account posted the clip of her getting booed, and
Speaker 4: they've got her up on the screen and she's kind
Speaker 4: of got a surprise reaction. She didn't you know, she
Speaker 4: didn't do anything crazy, But to me, I think she
Speaker 4: I think it was there was a genuine surprise that
Speaker 4: she was getting booed, as if she couldn't believe that
Speaker 4: anybody didn't like her. I mean, I'm sure she knows that.
Speaker 4: You know, there's nobody in the world that has a
Speaker 4: unanimous approval rating by just about everybody. But you know,
Speaker 4: she's clearly very popular. But I was not expecting her
Speaker 4: to get booed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could kind of see her mouth like what's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah she said what are they doing? Or why are
Speaker 4: they doing that? Yeah, maybe she did say what's going on?
Speaker 4: But like doesn't I mean, don't you think that was
Speaker 4: a real raw reaction, Like that wasn't like she she
Speaker 4: wasn't expecting it. And I hate saying this because I
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know anything about her other than
Speaker 4: that she's a really famous musician who has a crazy,
Speaker 4: kind of weird following. But you know, she's successful. I
Speaker 4: don't have any reason to like or dislike her. She's
Speaker 4: just very much whatever to me. But I kind of
Speaker 4: liked that she got booed, and I don't know why.
Speaker 4: Kind of made me feel like an a hole.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if they did that last year of No,
Speaker 3: I don't, and I don't think that's sharing.
Speaker 4: Wow, I mean I don't. I don't know if. I
Speaker 4: mean again, just looking at her, I feel like she
Speaker 4: might have been booed for the first time ever in
Speaker 4: her life.
Speaker 3: Oh, this isn't the Raors Tours, sweetheart, this is the
Speaker 3: National Football League.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that, I mean like it kind of all
Speaker 4: worked out for for for all of us haters if
Speaker 4: you were watching, really with that being the only element
Speaker 4: that had you interested at all. Right, Like, I don't
Speaker 4: like either of these teams. I disliked the Chiefs more,
Speaker 4: but as we got closer to the game, I started
Speaker 4: to think, Man, they don't really do much to make
Speaker 4: me hate them, Like I'm just a pure hater because
Speaker 4: they're so good. And that's not a good feeling, but
Speaker 4: you know, it is what it is. You can't really
Speaker 4: control how you feel about certain things. So I thought
Speaker 4: maybe when the game kicked off, I would be more
Speaker 4: neutral and just kind of think whatever. But no, I
Speaker 4: mean I don't see this fading at any point. I
Speaker 4: don't see this going away. When the Chiefs are on,
Speaker 4: I want to see them get embarrassed, and I rarely,
Speaker 4: I mean really do we ever see that. But to
Speaker 4: have them get killed, to have the the there's some
Speaker 4: crazy stats. We'll get into it. I don't have him
Speaker 4: pulled up right now. But how bad the Chiefs were
Speaker 4: in the first half. I mean, didn't the Eagles have
Speaker 4: more points than they had total yards in the first half? Yeah,
Speaker 4: like it was, I mean, and Mahomes was terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had more points and they had like first
Speaker 3: they had more first downs than the Chiefs had yards
Speaker 3: at one point.
Speaker 4: So to see them struggle, to see Mahomes press rather
Speaker 4: than you know, become the cool, comfortable quarterback that makes
Speaker 4: all the plays, I mean, he got rattled a little
Speaker 4: bit and it started making mistakes that you really never
Speaker 4: see him make. Like the game really got away from him.
Speaker 4: They got blown out. And you add in you know,
Speaker 4: sad Travis Kelce, you add in Taylor Taylor Swift getting
Speaker 4: booed as we just mentioned, like all of that came
Speaker 4: together and it was a beautiful night. But I just
Speaker 4: you know, I hate knowing that I I'm a satisfied
Speaker 4: watcher of the Super Bowl because because I'm just a hater,
Speaker 4: Hall of fame hater, hall of fame hater, that's what
Speaker 4: I am. And look, I think there are some really
Speaker 4: good villains in sports, and I think there are people
Speaker 4: that their brand is maybe not to be hated, but
Speaker 4: like they know going in Like Draymond Green, for example,
Speaker 4: that guy's a great villain in sports, right, Like I
Speaker 4: almost respect how much I hate him because he's a
Speaker 4: great villain, you know what I mean. Like he's he
Speaker 4: plays the role, doesn't care, and he lets you know
Speaker 4: about it exactly. I don't really know if the Chiefs
Speaker 4: are that way, but sure enough, I found myself really
Speaker 4: enjoying seeing them get embarrassed. And I mean, I'd be
Speaker 4: a liar if I said I think this meant like
Speaker 4: it's the end of the run that they've had. I mean,
Speaker 4: it could be, but I won't be shocked if if
Speaker 4: they end up right back there next year with another
Speaker 4: chance to win the Super Bowl. Believe it or not,
Speaker 4: this is not the first time that Patrick Mahomes and
Speaker 4: the Chiefs have been blown out on the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what. I gotta be honest, because
Speaker 4: they've just been so good and they've won two out
Speaker 4: of three or I guess was it two out of
Speaker 4: three that they'd won before. Yeah, and they were gonna
Speaker 4: go for the three peat last night. And just because
Speaker 4: they've just been so good for for years now, it's
Speaker 4: been a constant, I kind of forgot that when they
Speaker 4: did get beat by Tampa that they got killed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean they got So you've got Patrick Mahomes now
Speaker 4: with two super Bowls that really weren't competitive. And I
Speaker 4: was listening to Colin Cowherd today and he did a
Speaker 4: you know, I know, first of all, I love cow
Speaker 4: Herd for you know, for what that is, right, that's
Speaker 4: I mean, it's much. It's a national show. They're not
Speaker 4: going to veer off on things that aren't hard hitting sports.
Speaker 4: And they talk ninety nine point nine percent about the NFL.
Speaker 4: So you know, it may not be the most entertaining
Speaker 4: thing for folks around here, but I think he's really
Speaker 4: really good at what he does. And you know, his
Speaker 4: opening monologue about about Mahomes and sort of what last
Speaker 4: night did, it surprised me a little bit because it
Speaker 4: was just comparing everything to Brady, and I get it.
Speaker 4: Mahomes is the guy that has a realistic chance to
Speaker 4: potentially pass Brady or maybe catch Brady when it comes
Speaker 4: to rings much easier so than done. But he's off
Speaker 4: to a phenomenal start to his career. But he was
Speaker 4: almost setting it up as if like it's over now,
Speaker 4: and I'm thinking he's not even thirty years old yet.
Speaker 4: Now he's not. I mean, he'll be thirty next year
Speaker 4: when he plays. And he didn't look good last night.
Speaker 4: But I just I don't know, Like I wish that
Speaker 4: the Chiefs would, you know, their run would come to
Speaker 4: an end, but I think the fact that they're already
Speaker 4: taking shots at Mahomes and I guess maybe that really
Speaker 4: wasn't what he was doing. But there were things that
Speaker 4: Brady did when he would put together performances in the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl where he could win with maybe out without
Speaker 4: having better talent than the other team. Right, he could
Speaker 4: manipulate the defense, and last night, I mean that defense
Speaker 4: was dominant. I mean, Vic Fangio, he probably deserves the
Speaker 4: MVP of the game, to be honest with you, just
Speaker 4: because of how great that defense was. Their defensive line
Speaker 4: as a whole was phenomenal, and I thought Jalen Hurts
Speaker 4: did a good job and didn't even need Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 4: I mean he was out there, but like he didn't
Speaker 4: need to go have some crazy game. And I thought
Speaker 4: there's no chance they beat him without him being a
Speaker 4: big factor, and I was dead wrong, and it's because
Speaker 4: of how great their defense was. So anyway's back to
Speaker 4: the Mahomes thing. I mean, maybe there was some things
Speaker 4: that Brady threw out many of his Super Bowl wins.
Speaker 4: He was able to do that Mahomes hasn't done yet
Speaker 4: in these big games. But again, he's twenty nine years old. Yes,
Speaker 4: Mahomes has never came back from a deficit in the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, but he he has one? Two?
Speaker 3: Is it two?
Speaker 4: Or three? Did he already has? Is it three?
Speaker 2: Three?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean he has one. I mean he
Speaker 4: hasn't come from behind, but you know what, he hasn't
Speaker 4: had to in three because he has three Super Bowl wins.
Speaker 4: And yes, he didn't come back from behind like Brady did.
Speaker 4: I mean, again, I don't even like Mahomes, but here
Speaker 4: I am finding myself kind of defending him because his
Speaker 4: career is not over. He's got a lot more left
Speaker 4: and these little things that clearly were an issue last night.
Speaker 4: He couldn't will his team from behind. He's up there
Speaker 4: as one of the best of all time already, therefore
Speaker 4: the standard is set so high. But I mean, I
Speaker 4: think the Falcons choking a Super Bowl away to Brady
Speaker 4: was a bigger factor than Brady really fine than a
Speaker 4: way to come from behind. I mean, he still deserves credit.
Speaker 4: That was insane, but let's not act like it wasn't.
Speaker 4: The Atlanta Falcons on the other side, reminding us that
Speaker 4: they are the Atlanta Falcons, and there was some kind
Speaker 4: of glitch that they even got there. They just they
Speaker 4: were they were reversing course and and giving the game
Speaker 4: away because they you know, they were frauds. So I
Speaker 4: just I wish I could believe what some of the
Speaker 4: folks are running with that like mahomes is, you know,
Speaker 4: is it is probably going to be done for him.
Speaker 4: I mean, why can't they? I mean, I don't know how,
Speaker 4: I don't know what their contract situations with certain players,
Speaker 4: but they could run it back same team and maybe
Speaker 4: draft somebody really good a skill player and be even better. Now,
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts, I've always gone out of my way. When
Speaker 4: talking about Jalen, Hurts mentioned how much I respect his
Speaker 4: story because he's the rare dude who actually did have
Speaker 4: it all as far as the come up. He was
Speaker 4: an elite recruit. That's how you ended up playing quarterback
Speaker 4: for Nick Saban and Alabama. I mean, he's got a
Speaker 4: lot of talent. He was drafted in the second round.
Speaker 4: Like it's not he's not he's he wasn't bagging groceries
Speaker 4: or selling you know, furniture, whatever the hell Kurt Warner
Speaker 4: was doing, right, I mean, that story was out there.
Speaker 4: He was a journeyman where Kurt want to go to college?
Speaker 4: Because I feel like he's the one who like really
Speaker 4: had the story about you wouldn't believe this, this guy's now.
Speaker 4: I mean, you make movies about this. He went in
Speaker 4: Northern Iowa, So I don't know much about his about
Speaker 4: his you know, his college career, but I do remember
Speaker 4: they talked about when he was in the Super Bowl
Speaker 4: with the Rams that you won't believe it. This guy
Speaker 4: was just you know, bagging groceries or selling insurance, whatever
Speaker 4: it was. And then now you know, now you hear
Speaker 4: stories like that every now and then. But My point is,
Speaker 4: like Jalen Hurts, he actually, you know, he's had some
Speaker 4: God given talent his whole life, and he's been blessed
Speaker 4: to be able to take advantage of that and have
Speaker 4: a phenomenal career thus far. He's now a super Bowl,
Speaker 4: super Bowl champ. However, if you consider sort of the
Speaker 4: roller coaster of it, right, he gets to Alabama at
Speaker 4: that time, no quarterback from Nick Savid, it ever really
Speaker 4: been great, right, say, was still winning with just having
Speaker 4: better players than everybody in a really really good defense.
Speaker 4: AJ Mccaern was decent, but you know they didn't really
Speaker 4: have him do a whole lot. So Jalen Hurts comes in,
Speaker 4: everybody says, well, he's a running quarterback, he didn't have
Speaker 4: the arm. And he gets benched in the National Championship
Speaker 4: game for Tua. And yet you know, still kept a
Speaker 4: cool head about him, worked his tail off, was motivated
Speaker 4: by it. I'm sure came back to Alabama, was sharing
Speaker 4: quarterback duties a little bit, and then essentially got benched.
Speaker 4: I mean they went with Tua instead of him. What
Speaker 4: does he do? He goes to Oklahoma, puts up phenomenal
Speaker 4: numbers as a Heisman finalist, takes them to the College
Speaker 4: Football Playoff, proved that he could he could still be
Speaker 4: a great quarterback at the college level and take a
Speaker 4: team to the playoff. However, he didn't get a lot
Speaker 4: of credit for you know why, Well, he's playing in
Speaker 4: Lincoln Riley's system. I mean, that's in any quarterback you
Speaker 4: plug there. Look what Baker did, Look what Kyler did.
Speaker 4: I mean, everybody just said, well, that's why he had
Speaker 4: those numbers, So it goes pro I don't believe he
Speaker 4: was expected to be taken anywhere near as early as
Speaker 4: he was. He was a second round pick by the Eagles,
Speaker 4: and their fans hated the pick. I mean they they
Speaker 4: went insane when they drafted him because at the time,
Speaker 4: I mean, was that the time they were still thinking
Speaker 4: that Carson Wentz was going to be the guy?
Speaker 3: Or was he just gone Yeah, that's when, like Doug
Speaker 3: Peterson was still trying to ride with the Carson Wentz
Speaker 3: train because he was he was damn nearing an MVP
Speaker 3: before he got it, before he shattered his achilles or
Speaker 3: his ACL that year that they won to the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl and and your boy Nick Foles took over, right, Doug,
Speaker 3: Doug Peterson was he was still high on the Carson
Speaker 3: Wentz train.
Speaker 4: So look, the drafting, I mean drafting each other Hurts
Speaker 4: did kind of seem odd, but it's clearly worked out
Speaker 4: to this point. But he wasn't somebody that fans had
Speaker 4: a lot of confidence in. I mean even whenever he
Speaker 4: played in his rookie season, he didn't. I mean it
Speaker 4: wasn't much, but he didn't. He didn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 4: And then he became their starter in twenty twenty one
Speaker 4: and you know, had a winning record and showed some upside.
Speaker 4: Well then it was the next year where he broke out.
Speaker 4: They go fourteen and one. I mean, did he win
Speaker 4: MVP or was he? I mean, I know he was
Speaker 4: a finalist. I don't know if he ended up winning
Speaker 4: it or not. I kind of don't remember him winning it,
Speaker 4: but he was in the conversation Jalen Hurts, did he
Speaker 4: win MVP uh last night or no? No? In the NFL, like,
Speaker 4: I don't think he's ever won. He was up for
Speaker 4: it in the year they went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: But I but I guess he didn't get it. He
Speaker 4: had to be a finalist. But so my point is this,
Speaker 4: this guy has has you know, he's had that.
Speaker 3: Was a Lamar MVP.
Speaker 4: I think he's had the big stage clearly. Uh and
Speaker 4: and and it's not some rags to riches story, but
Speaker 4: he has had some real adversity where people have doubted him,
Speaker 4: and every time he's been able to prove that he's
Speaker 4: worthy of of of you know, I mean he he
Speaker 4: hasn't he's not worthy of your praise or your you know,
Speaker 4: or a pat on the back. I mean, he is,
Speaker 4: but like he doesn't have to get that. He can
Speaker 4: just go out there and improve it. I mean, that
Speaker 4: was a statement type of win for his legacy as
Speaker 4: as as an athlete. I And I'm and it's cornied
Speaker 4: at some but I love stuff like this because there's
Speaker 4: no doubt this guy's been motivating, right he probably I mean,
Speaker 4: and look, I'll be honest with you. Once he got
Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl in twenty twenty two, and then
Speaker 4: they came back to next year and weren't quite as
Speaker 4: good and he didn't have great numbers, you know, I
Speaker 4: kind of thought, well, you know, maybe that was not
Speaker 4: a fluke, but maybe that was you know, the best
Speaker 4: we've seen of him. And then sure enough this year,
Speaker 4: I mean they were twelve and three. And you know,
Speaker 4: he's consistent, he wins, he's a good leader, and I
Speaker 4: just think, you know, to have him actually get to
Speaker 4: his second super Bowl and finally win one and now
Speaker 4: this is just his Yeah, so this is his fourth
Speaker 4: year as their full time starter. Okay, so Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 4: same thing, didn't start as a rookie.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: What if I told you Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts
Speaker 4: now have the same number of Super Bowl appearances, the
Speaker 4: same number of Super Bowl wins, and the same number
Speaker 4: of Playoff wins. They have the exact same numbers after
Speaker 4: four years as the full time starter. Wow, I mean
Speaker 4: that's me again. I'm not saying we should start saying
Speaker 4: that Jalen Hurts is as good as Patrick Mahomes because
Speaker 4: I don't know if I believe that Patrick moms is
Speaker 4: clearly talented, But you know what, so is Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4: And as far as accomplishments. When it comes to quarterbacks
Speaker 4: and their legacy, what do we know? It matters when
Speaker 4: you do it, It matters what you do in the postseason,
Speaker 4: and Super Bowl rings matter, right, Like Lamar has two MVPs,
Speaker 4: he should have got a third this year, Lamar can
Speaker 4: win eight more MVPs. Not sure if you will, but
Speaker 4: his legacy is sort of it's on hold right now
Speaker 4: because people want to see him make a deep run,
Speaker 4: take the Ravens to the super Bowl and win. And
Speaker 4: you know, I think, you know, I hope he does that.
Speaker 4: I think he can do that. And I'm not even
Speaker 4: saying that it's fair because again, like there are quarterbacks
Speaker 4: that probably have more talent than Jalen Hurts, but you know,
Speaker 4: winning matters, not winning matters, not only for teams, and
Speaker 4: you know that's what it's all about. But as far
Speaker 4: as a player, when you have all these individual accomplishments accolades,
Speaker 4: it's impressive, but you've kind of proven that you're good
Speaker 4: enough as a player when you get those awards. The
Speaker 4: next step is can you go make your team better?
Speaker 4: Can you be the guy, the elite player, the all
Speaker 4: pro type guy, the guy that's potentially going to be
Speaker 4: in the legendary status, the legendary conversations? Are you good
Speaker 4: enough to go win a ring? And you know it's
Speaker 4: much easier said than done, but I do think it
Speaker 4: is wild that Jalen Hurts. I mean, and again hit
Speaker 4: his system. Who if he's got a great defense, we
Speaker 4: know that he's in a winning franchise, so trust me
Speaker 4: that that has a big factor in it. But right now,
Speaker 4: he's got two trips to the Super Bowl and one
Speaker 4: Super Bowl ring, and Lamar doesn't have one, Josh Allen
Speaker 4: doesn't have one, Joe Burrow doesn't have one, Justin Herbert
Speaker 4: doesn't have one. And again, I'm not saying he's better
Speaker 4: than those guys as far as what he can individually do,
Speaker 4: but I just I feel like there're always there's always
Speaker 4: there's always going to be some hesitation for some to
Speaker 4: just flat out say this guy is one of the best,
Speaker 4: and he is Jalen Hurts. I mean, because when it
Speaker 4: comes to the metric that you're going to pull to
Speaker 4: determine who, in fact is is elite, who isn't? What
Speaker 4: is he what else does he need to do? It'd
Speaker 4: be different if there's was some random trip to the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl and they won and he didn't have to
Speaker 4: complete a pass. But they've been here twice, and I
Speaker 4: know Barkley was a big factor this year and he's
Speaker 4: got a great defense, but he was a humongous piece
Speaker 4: to why they were good two years ago or the
Speaker 4: last I'm sorry, the last time they were in the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. So not trying to kiss his ass as
Speaker 4: much as I just did there. But the more I
Speaker 4: talk through it, I just what can this guy do
Speaker 4: to get the same level of respect that other guys
Speaker 4: get in the NFL that have not accomplished anything close
Speaker 4: to what he's accomplished. Didn't expect to get this worked
Speaker 4: up about Jalen Hurts Austin, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Passionate subject. Yeah, I mean it's good for him because,
Speaker 3: like I've seen like the story of him like really
Speaker 3: being quiet when getting benched in the National Championship Game
Speaker 3: and really kind of getting that character development. I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's like a learning under Nick Saban thing
Speaker 3: or is he's just a humble guy at the core
Speaker 3: of it. And there is a lot of times during
Speaker 3: this year where I'm like, man, that is a little
Speaker 3: bit cocky. You know, when he's coming out to the
Speaker 3: press conferences, he's got that quiet confidence I see more
Speaker 3: than that. Or he's on with SVP and he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's talking that mess. But I feel like he's
Speaker 3: earned that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, and I think he's doing it. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's kind of like, this is one of those things
Speaker 4: that that matters, but you can't you don't see it
Speaker 4: on the box score, and you really have no way
Speaker 4: to truly measure it from the outside. But he's a leader,
Speaker 4: Like I think when he's out there doing that, he
Speaker 4: is reflecting what that team, what that locker room feels.
Speaker 4: And it may be you know, some manufactured motivation about
Speaker 4: everybody's talking about our drama that's going on, you know
Speaker 4: that that kind of stuff, but like it works because
Speaker 4: they clearly play hard for him, and I mean, there
Speaker 4: was some nonsense going on about him and aj Brown
Speaker 4: and all that, but even if there is, I feel
Speaker 4: like he's the kind of guy that is a leader.
Speaker 1: Will be able to get through it.
Speaker 4: Like maybe they did have some petty, silly stuff, but
Speaker 4: I think he's humble, he's mature enough to where he's
Speaker 4: not going to let it get in in the way
Speaker 4: of them getting the job done. I mean, again, we
Speaker 4: don't know any of these guys on an individual level.
Speaker 4: But then he seemed like a good dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course he does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I tend to root for good dudes. And
Speaker 4: I tell you what, when it comes to you mentioned
Speaker 4: like Saban, and I'm sure Saban made a big impact
Speaker 4: on him, There's no doubt about that. But man, when
Speaker 4: I see situations like this with somebody that just again
Speaker 4: their character, their maturity, being a good leader, I think
Speaker 4: he's probably got really good parents. I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 4: know that sounds corny, but I feel like he was
Speaker 4: probably He's probably just built different, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: So congratulations to him. We got a lot more to
Speaker 4: unpack when it comes to the super Bowl last night,
Speaker 4: the halftime show, the commercials. We can talk about that, obviously.
Speaker 4: We've got a lot of to react to. When it
Speaker 4: comes to college basketball. Louisville didn't have Chucky on Saturday
Speaker 4: and then they lost James scott Our pets. Heads are
Speaker 4: falling off, everything's going wrong, And we got an update
Speaker 4: from Pat Kelsey. We'll let you know what he said
Speaker 4: about his players and their status. Kentucky, They've got Tennessee tomorrow.
Speaker 4: After a much needed win for them against South Carolina.
Speaker 4: Duke lost, which was kind of awesome. How about this,
Speaker 4: I shouldn't laugh because you know it's it's unfortunate, But
Speaker 4: how about Anthony Davis already getting hurt and he's out
Speaker 4: a month.
Speaker 3: That's tough.
Speaker 4: That's why you don't pay for him. He's thirty plus
Speaker 4: and he's broken a lot.
Speaker 3: Yuh.
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Speaker 4: As you could expect. We got started by discussing Super
Speaker 4: Bowl Sunday, and the only complaint I have was that
Speaker 4: the game actually wasn't as close as the forty to
Speaker 4: twenty two score ended up being. I mean, in fact,
Speaker 4: it wasn't. I don't think it was anywhere close to
Speaker 4: as close as as the final score indicated. I mean, technically,
Speaker 4: they scored late, so I mean the score is what
Speaker 4: the score is. But they were down at one point.
Speaker 4: I mean, was it forty to six? I think yes,
Speaker 4: I mean that that just knowing that they were down
Speaker 4: forty to six and that they ended up losing forty
Speaker 4: to twenty two, I mean, I have no I mean,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe it's just me being a hater, but like
Speaker 4: I'm not, like, Wow, what a good job to come
Speaker 4: back and say face, Like no, the game was over, like.
Speaker 3: In Philadelphia, brought Kenny pick it in, yeah for that
Speaker 3: victory cigar.
Speaker 4: And what am you know? Like again, it's just being
Speaker 4: a hater. But it's almost like the fact that they
Speaker 4: were trying to just say face at the end just
Speaker 4: made me think that they're lame. But again, what are
Speaker 4: you supposed to do. You're supposed to compete to the end.
Speaker 4: So they did anything wrong, but it's just like, come on,
Speaker 4: don't don't do this. Don't don't try to manipulate what
Speaker 4: we know is happening here. We want to we want
Speaker 4: to look back on this Super Bowl many years later
Speaker 4: and you know, see the see a score. That's going
Speaker 4: to really take us back to that night when we
Speaker 4: saw you guys get embarrassed. In fact, the Eagles when
Speaker 4: they were leading forty to six, that the thirty four
Speaker 4: point lead was the fifth largest lead that any team
Speaker 4: has ever held in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Wow you said fifth largest?
Speaker 4: Yep? Wow, And again they didn't holding on to that,
Speaker 4: but yeah, they were up third that thirty four point
Speaker 4: lead was the fifth largest that there's ever been in
Speaker 4: any Super Bowl, and it's also the largest lead any
Speaker 4: teams held since the Seahawks led the Broncos thirty six
Speaker 4: to nothing, which, by the way, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: comparisons to that Super Bowl stinker too. Yeah, and I
Speaker 4: don't remember it well enough to know, like if this so,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna believe what Colin Cowhard said, But you know,
Speaker 4: I don't. I mean, I remember Peyton just having a really, really,
Speaker 4: really tough time and Seattle was just so dominant. But
Speaker 4: he mentioned that it was the same kind of situation
Speaker 4: where the defensive line was just such a problem to
Speaker 4: where it was now. I mean, again, I guess it
Speaker 4: is comparable, because I mean I kind of feel like
Speaker 4: what they did last night had to be more impressive.
Speaker 4: But hey, thirty six to nothing was the lead that
Speaker 4: the Seahawks had against Denver, so I guess it was.
Speaker 3: First play of the game was like a fumble, and
Speaker 3: I think it went back for either a fumble six
Speaker 3: or like ended up getting Peyton ended up picking it
Speaker 3: up in the end zone. Can't but it was it
Speaker 3: was a nasty start for him.
Speaker 4: So Xavier Worthy breaks two rookie receiving records for the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. He finished with one hundred and fifty seven
Speaker 4: receiving yards and he had two touchdowns, breaking the record. Yeah,
Speaker 4: good day for him for a rookie in both categories.
Speaker 4: Which look, that's that's that's impressive. But you know it
Speaker 4: came in a I mean those were useless scores, right,
Speaker 4: I mean again, it's in the Super Bowl. So I'm
Speaker 4: sure if he never gets back to another one meeting
Speaker 4: Xavier Worthy, he'll always have that. And that's certainly worth
Speaker 4: a whole lot. But I don't know anything statistical from
Speaker 4: the Chiefs that is some type of a record in
Speaker 4: a good way. I'm thinking, yeah, but like you got killed.
Speaker 4: In fact, speaking of Xavier Worthy, this says here this
Speaker 4: is CBS says that Worthy was so good that he
Speaker 4: became the first rookie in NFL history to have at
Speaker 4: least one hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns in
Speaker 4: any playoff game, not just the Super Bowl. So, I mean,
Speaker 4: what a random stat that is really impressive to come
Speaker 4: from such a blowout game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at he says, at least that's one positive thing
Speaker 3: to go for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then Sequan again, he didn't need to do
Speaker 4: a whole lot, but no, you know, that's okay because
Speaker 4: he was a huge factor in their success this year.
Speaker 4: But last night, going into the game, he needed just
Speaker 4: thirty yards to break Tourell Davis's record for most rushing
Speaker 4: yards in a season including playoff games, and he got
Speaker 4: it with fifty seven yards, which I was surprised he
Speaker 4: had that many. I just felt like he would probably
Speaker 4: have been closer to thirty than he was sixty. But yeah,
Speaker 4: he ended up with twenty five hundred and four yards
Speaker 4: on the year, and that ended up getting him pastor
Speaker 4: Al Davis. That was in nineteen ninety eight. I remember
Speaker 4: that ninety eight season because early early in my you know,
Speaker 4: memory of being an NFL fan to at least an extent,
Speaker 4: and I remember he was he was a big deal.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so the Eagles became the first Davis. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Shanee Baldhead. He said this again, this is from CBS
Speaker 4: Sports that the Eagles also became the first team since
Speaker 4: the nineteen ninety eight Broncos to win a Super Bowl
Speaker 4: with the NFL's leading rusher. That is a random, yet
Speaker 4: kind of intriguing stat that, yeah, if you've got a
Speaker 4: ball carrier that's just dominating the league. And both these
Speaker 4: guys did, I mean they were able to, you know,
Speaker 4: be a part of Super Bowl, Super Bowl championship teams.
Speaker 4: But all the other rushing leaders I wonder. I mean again,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm totally off here, but you need to be
Speaker 4: able to run the ball. But I just think that's
Speaker 4: wild to know that it's only happened twice since ninety
Speaker 4: eight where the league's leading rusher ended up being on
Speaker 4: a super Bowl winning team. It doesn't mean that running
Speaker 4: the ball is not valuable, but I don't know. I'd
Speaker 4: like simire research in that, but I'm probably never going
Speaker 4: to do it, So you know, maybe somebody else.
Speaker 3: Had to be like when like the Emmett Smith days
Speaker 3: or and Terrell Davis days.
Speaker 4: Basically, yeah, but I'm curious, like before ninety eight, like
Speaker 4: was it a common thing and then it just kind
Speaker 4: of faded away?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean again, just quarterbacks just became all of
Speaker 3: a suddenly the most important ever.
Speaker 4: And they look they are important. But like this year again,
Speaker 4: like that's why Jalen hurts. He doesn't have to be
Speaker 4: out there surgical with his arm. You know what I mean,
Speaker 4: he didn't have to be out there with accuracy that
Speaker 4: nobody else has, and he can make enough plays. He's smart,
Speaker 4: he's a good leader, and he rarely, he rarely puts
Speaker 4: you in a spot where he's going to make a
Speaker 4: mistake that's going to keep you from winning the game.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I do feel like those that want to say, well,
Speaker 4: hey hurts, Look he had Sewon Barkley. You're right, and
Speaker 4: he had a really good defense. But when they made
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl a few years ago, I mean, he
Speaker 4: was the guy. I mean, not to say his defense
Speaker 4: was bad, and I'm sure he's he clearly had some
Speaker 4: good players within that offense, but you know, he was,
Speaker 4: I mean, he was the guy. When you looked at
Speaker 4: their wins and losses that year and his stats, I mean,
Speaker 4: he was the guy. He was the real factor in
Speaker 4: them being you know. I mean, he will put it
Speaker 4: this way. I want to say he was the biggest
Speaker 4: factors if he single handedly put his team there. But
Speaker 4: to say that he didn't have a big impact on
Speaker 4: them getting there, I mean that's crazy. I think it.
Speaker 4: I think it would even he would even be crazy
Speaker 4: to say it this year as well. However, you know,
Speaker 4: when people bring up that defense, which was phenomenal, and
Speaker 4: they mentioned Barkley, who was great, like it's gonna it's
Speaker 4: gonna sound like they're probably trying to take a little
Speaker 4: credit away from Hurrtz, But look, it was a collective
Speaker 4: effort that Eagles team. At times, they never like they
Speaker 4: had a tough time really putting together games where for
Speaker 4: four quarters they look like one of the best teams
Speaker 4: in the NFL. But man, they had flashes and enough
Speaker 4: games to get a really really good record, and they
Speaker 4: won when it mattered, and I really enjoyed seeing it,
Speaker 4: all right, So what I did not enjoy seeing was
Speaker 4: what I saw on Saturday afternoon, and that was a
Speaker 4: scary start to that Louisville Miami game. And and maybe
Speaker 4: I'm the only one that had fear, but I mean
Speaker 4: that game would have changed everything, And that's why I
Speaker 4: had some weird nerves. Also had some weird nerves going
Speaker 4: on just because I had a Saturday was the day
Speaker 4: where I went into my high school Hall of Fame,
Speaker 4: which was an awesome, awesome evening, but I was nervous
Speaker 4: just for the whole thing, and nervous for having to
Speaker 4: speak in front of a big crowd, which we'll get
Speaker 4: to that later. But that game against Miami, I never
Speaker 4: felt like they were going to lose. But any time
Speaker 4: they were only up I don't know, like less than seven,
Speaker 4: I got it a little squirmy, just because they already
Speaker 4: had Chucky not playing. And then James Scott, he gets hurt,
Speaker 4: doesn't come back, and you still should have won. And
Speaker 4: look you did, and I'm glad that they won. But
Speaker 4: this is just an unusual feeling when it comes to
Speaker 4: being a Louisville basketball fan. And I'm not complaining, because
Speaker 4: you know, this is a much better spot to be
Speaker 4: in than where we've been the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: But you just have such a weird resume, right Like
Speaker 4: the isolated standalone result on your resume that's just different
Speaker 4: than everything else is your loss to Georgia Tech. That
Speaker 4: loss doesn't look as bad now because Georgia Tech ended
Speaker 4: up beating Clemson, who then beat Duke. So what I'm
Speaker 4: getting at is you have solid wins, and a lot
Speaker 4: of them. You are a team that currently sits at
Speaker 4: eighteen and six and you are eleven and two in
Speaker 4: the league, but all your losses other than one are
Speaker 4: considered quality losses and you really don't have a good win.
Speaker 4: I mean, what is Louisville's best win right now?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: Is it West Virginia? Because if that's the case, that's
Speaker 4: probably not good. To be honest, their best win is
Speaker 4: got to be Clemson, and that win got a little
Speaker 4: better with them beating Duke, no doubt about it. But
Speaker 4: if Clemson is your best win and it's really not
Speaker 4: close after that, you can't control that. But like, that's
Speaker 4: not a good spot to be in. It leaves you,
Speaker 4: I think, insanely vulnerable with your resume, meaning where you
Speaker 4: have very little to gain right now in everything to lose.
Speaker 4: I mean, we'll never know, and I spend some times
Speaker 4: talking about hypothetical things that will never know, which probably
Speaker 4: is a waste of time. But I believe that had
Speaker 4: they somehow slipped up and lost, because again, if they
Speaker 4: would have, it still would have been bad. We would
Speaker 4: have been critical, it would have been a mess. But
Speaker 4: I mean, look at how thin they've been with injuries.
Speaker 4: I mean a week ago, they were already a team
Speaker 4: that was getting a lot of praise for having that
Speaker 4: level of success despite losing guys to injury. Case in
Speaker 4: prior korn Johnson. I mean, he brought two players that
Speaker 4: weren't able to play at all this year, and they
Speaker 4: were playing good basketball and clearly a team that looked me.
Speaker 4: They were in the top twenty five or at least
Speaker 4: right around it until the lost to George Tech. So
Speaker 4: then Chucky gets hurt non contact injury against Boston College,
Speaker 4: doesn't play against Miami. Within the first five minutes, James
Speaker 4: Scott looks like he got hit by Tyson and his prime,
Speaker 4: you know, and I didn't see it. This is the
Speaker 4: first thing I saw was leaving my son's basketball game,
Speaker 4: and I had it on my phone and I pulled up.
Speaker 4: I pulled out my phone with the game on, and
Speaker 4: the first thing that was on the screen was James
Speaker 4: Scott and looking like a bloody mess. I thought somebody
Speaker 4: punched him, and then I saw that he actually got
Speaker 4: hit while he was on the ground. So you lost
Speaker 4: both those guys, Like a loss still would have been bad,
Speaker 4: but I mean they're so thin, so they didn't lose,
Speaker 4: and that's great. But had they lost, And the reason
Speaker 4: and the reason I'm mentioning the whole had they lost,
Speaker 4: even though I know that they didn't, is because that's
Speaker 4: the kind of loss to a team. If you lose
Speaker 4: to them on your home floor, I think because of
Speaker 4: where your resume is and just kind of how it's
Speaker 4: put together, you're probably out of the tournament. I don't
Speaker 4: want to be dramatic. And again I know that they
Speaker 4: did not lose, but that's a loss that one no
Speaker 4: longer lets you say you have an isolated bad loss.
Speaker 4: That's just you know, we'll chalk it up as a bluke.
Speaker 4: That would mean you have two bad losses, one of
Speaker 4: them being catastrophic, and you wouldn't have any win better
Speaker 4: than your winning Clemson. And oh, by the way, you
Speaker 4: don't play a tournament team the rest of the season
Speaker 4: like that. That's so it's just a weird It's just
Speaker 4: a weird situation where they have such little to gain
Speaker 4: the rest of the way and every and I think
Speaker 4: quite literally everything to lose. Now if you get through
Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks, and maybe you lose to
Speaker 4: Pitt when they come here, because Pitt is a pretty
Speaker 4: good team in my opinion, still despite playing themselves out
Speaker 4: of the tournament. I mean, that wouldn't be a terrible loss.
Speaker 4: And maybe it's so close to the end of the season,
Speaker 4: that you've already put yourself in a spot to where
Speaker 4: you're It's early March, so like if you're not on
Speaker 4: the bubble, then then you're good. Like I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I just my worry is that I think
Speaker 4: they could they could somehow have a night, especially if
Speaker 4: they don't get chucky back soon, to where they could
Speaker 4: slip up and lose to one of these teams. And
Speaker 4: I worry that it might actually put them on the
Speaker 4: wrong side of the bubble. And I know it sounds
Speaker 4: crazy because right now they're viewed as like a seven
Speaker 4: seed at worse by just about everybody. But again, one
Speaker 4: more loss that is a bad loss. I just think
Speaker 4: it completely flips the resume. Doesn't make it terrible. But
Speaker 4: it also I mean, if Clemson's your best win, that's
Speaker 4: that's not ideal. So they were able to ride behind
Speaker 4: Terrence Edwards, who had a phenomenal game. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: he's I think he's been He's been good all year.
Speaker 4: He's averaging fourteen points four rebounds and was named coacc
Speaker 4: Player of the Week after his performance against Miami, where
Speaker 4: he put up twenty seven points, had ten assists, and
Speaker 4: five rebounds, played every single minute of the game, and
Speaker 4: if Chuck, you can't go this week, then Terrence will
Speaker 4: probably have to play every single minute of the game again,
Speaker 4: which is an ideal. But he was he was great.
Speaker 4: And rain Smith, I mean he ended up with six
Speaker 4: six three pointers. So I mean you made eleven threes,
Speaker 4: and you shot ninety one percent from the free throw
Speaker 4: line and you know, twenty assists on thirty three made
Speaker 4: field goals. I mean they they played well despite being shorthanded.
Speaker 4: It's just a situation where you know, you did play
Speaker 4: a terrible team who's five and eight now one and eleven,
Speaker 4: and it was a really good night when it comes
Speaker 4: to timing. And I mean that I'm not picking on Little.
Speaker 4: I mean again, they can't control the injuries, and obviously
Speaker 4: you can only plays on your schedule. But Miami being
Speaker 4: the team that was there given the circumstances, was best
Speaker 4: case scenario because they're so I mean, they're they're they're
Speaker 4: fade worthy, like they're the bottom's about the fallout kind
Speaker 4: of team, if that makes sense. So the worry for
Speaker 4: me was that they kept hanging around like Louisville didn't
Speaker 4: fully bury them until the very end, and when it
Speaker 4: was anywhere between like a five to six maybe seven
Speaker 4: point lead, I just had nerves knowing, man, if this
Speaker 4: slips away like it's kind of all over and look,
Speaker 4: that's dramatic. It's an open reaction, I'm sure, and it
Speaker 4: didn't actually happen. But this team in this season has
Speaker 4: been so fun for Louisville fans, especially considering the last
Speaker 4: few years, to where it would be devastating if if
Speaker 4: one we found out Chucky's gonna be out like for
Speaker 4: a long time, or they do end up losing one
Speaker 4: of these games and it takes us to where we
Speaker 4: thought for what I mean January was was insanely awesome, right,
Speaker 4: good vibes, You feel like, man, this is crazy. This
Speaker 4: guy's got us back in the right direction in a hurry,
Speaker 4: and for like and then one of these bad teams
Speaker 4: messing around and beating you in a year with the
Speaker 4: ACC is so down that you don't have any other
Speaker 4: opportunities to get big wins. That'll break my heart. But
Speaker 4: you know, I guess we won't worry about that until
Speaker 4: you know it actually happens. I guess. For me, though,
Speaker 4: the worry is that I think the chances of it happening,
Speaker 4: although aren't great, the chances get, you know, a little
Speaker 4: better for one of those losses to happen if you're
Speaker 4: going to be continuing to play without your best player,
Speaker 4: which is Chucky Hepburn. So I'll let you know what
Speaker 4: Pat Kelsey said here on the other side as far
Speaker 4: as both CHUCKI Hepburn and James Scott and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I I just want to know that he's going to
Speaker 4: be okay. And yet here we are roughly a week
Speaker 4: removed from the non contact growing whatever, and we still
Speaker 4: don't know anything other than he's I mean, I feel
Speaker 4: like finding out that he wasn't going to be able
Speaker 4: to go back in We're kind of still exactly in
Speaker 4: that spot because it's just day to day. We'll see,
Speaker 4: we'll see, and I'm not saying we're owed any information,
Speaker 4: but man, I just want to know. I want to know.
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Speaker 4: K Dot they call him right, that's right. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar,
Speaker 4: who is your your halftime performer last night, and certainly
Speaker 4: a lot of opinions on that, and certainly that's not
Speaker 4: a surprise which I have. I think I have an opinion,
Speaker 4: a take, if you will, on the whole thing and
Speaker 4: the reaction to it that is probably rare. So I'll
Speaker 4: save that for the four o'clock hour. It's nothing controversial,
Speaker 4: it's nothing crazy. But I don't have an issue with
Speaker 4: with him performing in what the performance was because I
Speaker 4: don't really mean it's just not me who cares a
Speaker 4: lot about that kind of stuff, right, So, but one
Speaker 4: complaint I do have about the whole thing. I'll get
Speaker 4: to that coming up around four o'clock. But Pat Kelsey
Speaker 4: on the ACC teleconference I believe it was earlier today,
Speaker 4: was of course asked about the hell status of his players.
Speaker 4: And here's what we know. Chucky Hepburn is still listed
Speaker 4: as day to day and there's really no update on
Speaker 4: that other than you know, he's still dealing with whatever
Speaker 4: he's dealing with with his groin. So the report from
Speaker 4: Jeff Goodman on Friday, I'm sorry Saturday was that he's
Speaker 4: not going to play, and I believe Goodman actually even
Speaker 4: indicated that the injury is not believed to be serious,
Speaker 4: but they don't think they need him, and they want
Speaker 4: to let him rest because they should be able to
Speaker 4: get past Miami without him, and maybe it'll be. And
Speaker 4: this isn't what Goodman reported, but you know, maybe there's
Speaker 4: also some thought to that that Louisville could benefit from
Speaker 4: having to play some minutes without him, just in case
Speaker 4: he gets in foul trouble or you know, maybe he
Speaker 4: gets injured down the line or something like that, to
Speaker 4: where they can get some real repetition in what they
Speaker 4: would do, what they would look like, really who they
Speaker 4: would be if they didn't have him available. So if
Speaker 4: that's true, then that makes me feel really good because
Speaker 4: one he could get some more time to rest and
Speaker 4: Louisville was able to win a game without him and
Speaker 4: they had to turn to Terrence Edwards and clearly those
Speaker 4: two guys on the four together that gives Louisville, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, the best backcourt in the ACC when they're
Speaker 4: playing well. I mean, you throw in Raine Smith, who
Speaker 4: can any moment knock down seven eight threes. I mean
Speaker 4: that's a really really good backcourt. So you know, it's
Speaker 4: nice to have those two guys Reign and Terrence if
Speaker 4: Chuck he's not available, But I guess working through the
Speaker 4: rest of that game against Boston College and everything on
Speaker 4: Saturday against Miami, at least now they have some again
Speaker 4: real like they were able to actually show that they can,
Speaker 4: you know, who they want to be whenever they don't
Speaker 4: have Chucky. So we'll see. I mean, I hope that
Speaker 4: it's not that serious, but you just don't know. And
Speaker 4: I don't believe that there's anything they're keeping from us.
Speaker 4: I really don't think that this is really that uncommon
Speaker 4: for a guy to have an injury that didn't allow
Speaker 4: him to come back in the game but didn't look
Speaker 4: too serious. And yet because the team is playing a
Speaker 4: really bad team the next game that a coach would
Speaker 4: like I bet this is probably pretty routine for this
Speaker 4: kind of stuff. But I'm just having a nervous breakdown
Speaker 4: over it because I know how important Chuck he is
Speaker 4: to this team, and one it would just be really sad.
Speaker 4: I mean not to be dramatic, but I mean if
Speaker 4: like he got hurt and it lingered and then they
Speaker 4: realized he can't play anymore, like that would be it
Speaker 4: for him at Louisville, And I hate even bringing it
Speaker 4: up because who knows. Maybe he's aokay and he's gonna
Speaker 4: play on Wednesday, but I just, you know, I hope
Speaker 4: that's the case, and not having any answers is probably normal,
Speaker 4: and it's it's more than fair. We're not entitled any
Speaker 4: information about his health, but I just hope he's okay.
Speaker 4: Now with James Scott, you know, he was clearly missed
Speaker 4: on the defensive end. And he's a guy that I
Speaker 4: don't think anybody is surprised when I say this. He's
Speaker 4: impactful for you in a variety of ways. And I
Speaker 4: think at times he looked like an offensive liability early
Speaker 4: on this year, and at times he's still a guy
Speaker 4: that you can tell he's not comfortable offensively unless he's
Speaker 4: got a a rim run or he's got you know,
Speaker 4: cleaning up. He's cleaning up right around the glass, or
Speaker 4: somebody lobs it to him right near the rim and
Speaker 4: he'll he'll finish the job. So and I didn't expect
Speaker 4: his injury to be terrible, but he did have a
Speaker 4: pretty bad dental situation. So this is this is the
Speaker 4: quote from Pat Kelsey says in terms of James. You know,
Speaker 4: we're very, very confident that he's gonna be able to
Speaker 4: play because he is extra he is. He was extremely
Speaker 4: frustrated that he couldn't go right back in the game
Speaker 4: the other day. But it was much more than just,
Speaker 4: you know, just tooth popping out. He had both front
Speaker 4: teeth knocked out, and then he had he had it
Speaker 4: got pushed so far up into his gum that they
Speaker 4: had to go in and extract pieces of his teeth
Speaker 4: that went into his gum. So a lot more extensive
Speaker 4: than just having your tooth knocked loose or knocked out,
Speaker 4: which you know that alone is not ideal. But here's
Speaker 4: more from Pat pat Kelsey's quotes. So so he spent
Speaker 4: a lot of time on Saturday in a dentnis chair
Speaker 4: in his basketball uniform, which is unique. I made the
Speaker 4: point a couple of weeks ago when you guys asked
Speaker 4: me about James and his personality, and he's such a
Speaker 4: wonderful kid, but I said, man, he'd rather have six
Speaker 4: root canals than come into a press conference and talk
Speaker 4: to you guys, And I think he just took that literally.
Speaker 4: But he's such a tough kid, like he's walking off
Speaker 4: the floor. You know, blood is coming out of his mouth,
Speaker 4: and you know, he looks at me and goes, I'm good,
Speaker 4: I'm good, I'm good, I'm ready, Like James, just relaxed,
Speaker 4: Let's get this taken care of, you know, And then
Speaker 4: he texts our strength coach while he's in the dennis
Speaker 4: chair to see if he could lift the next morning.
Speaker 4: Then he texts me about forty two times making sure
Speaker 4: I knew that he'd be ready to play. So James
Speaker 4: is kind of an example of a microcosm of just
Speaker 4: how of the toughness of our entire team. That's why
Speaker 4: there's so much fun to coach. I know, we got
Speaker 4: to get to a break. And this is certainly corny
Speaker 4: to say, I'm sure, but I feel like guys built
Speaker 4: mentally the way James Scott is, that's like best case
Speaker 4: scenario for Pat Kelsey to be able to get the
Speaker 4: maximum the maximum amount of value he can get from somebody.
Speaker 4: And by the way, James Scutts also a talented player
Speaker 4: that can jump out of the gym and can can
Speaker 4: run like a gazelle. I mean, he's he's still very
Speaker 4: raw and I have no clue what his ceiling is. Overall,
Speaker 4: but I mean, I think his work ethic and his
Speaker 4: motor has been evident. And you hear Pat Kelsey say
Speaker 4: things like that he can bring us more guys that
Speaker 4: have sort of that same mindset. All right, quick break,
Speaker 4: we'll come back with two more hours left, So stick around.
Speaker 4: I mean, where else would you go? I mean, maybe
Speaker 4: you have other options, But can there be a better
Speaker 4: option than this? I hope not. If so, don't tell me.
Speaker 4: I just want you to stay here with me. Don't
Speaker 4: leave me alone. We've got two hours left right here.
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