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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started. Our number two here
Speaker 2: on a Friday afternoon. It is also day two of
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft, and obviously there's a lot that goes
Speaker 2: into the first round. It's its own event, and it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Last night was awesome, and I really don't think that
Speaker 2: there was any real big stunner. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: shad Or Sanders not being taken, that's probably the biggest
Speaker 2: talking point as far as I guess the surprise in
Speaker 2: the eyes of a lot of people, And I don't
Speaker 2: really think it's that that shocking. And it's not even
Speaker 2: necessarily just about him. It's just that if shad Or
Speaker 2: Sanders was shoud Or Coffee, and you know, he was
Speaker 2: in the mix as one of the top five quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in this draft, just because you know that alone. It
Speaker 2: wasn't anything to do with the Dion and the Colorados,
Speaker 2: because people act like that hurts him without any realization
Speaker 2: that he wouldn't even get the hype that he gets
Speaker 2: and the attention that he gets if he wasn't Dion
Speaker 2: Sanders' son, Like that's I mean, he also was the
Speaker 2: starting quarterback for a team just a year ago, not
Speaker 2: this past year, but the year before it was awful.
Speaker 2: And most guys who you know, have an awful team
Speaker 2: and you're the guy leading at quarterback like that would
Speaker 2: be held against him. So what I'm getting at is,
Speaker 2: take away the Sanders component of it, the prime component
Speaker 2: with the way everybody views this as a pretty weak
Speaker 2: quarterback crop if it was, you know, any regardless of
Speaker 2: who it is, the fact that there was just two
Speaker 2: quarterbacks taken that more so speaks to you, is that, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the NFL is telling us that all the noise around
Speaker 2: this just being not a great group of quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: this twenty twenty five draft, they agree, meaning you know
Speaker 2: the NFL. So I think early on, I mean, I guess,
Speaker 2: I guess maybe you know, it was a big shocker
Speaker 2: to see that the Jaguars traded up to get Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: And I give them credit for making a big move
Speaker 2: because what do they have to lose? Oh, they get
Speaker 2: it wrong, and maybe they continue to be irrelevant. They've
Speaker 2: been irrelevant for ninety eight percent of their existence. It
Speaker 2: seems like maybe that's an exaggeration. But like the Jaguars
Speaker 2: took a chance, they gave up a lot of future picks,
Speaker 2: but they also did it for a guy that Yes,
Speaker 2: there's still clearly some concern. Okay, he's a super gifted,
Speaker 2: talented guy that is just special in that regard, just
Speaker 2: some god given ability that a lot of people don't have.
Speaker 2: And he's good at playing both the defensive back and receiver.
Speaker 2: But maybe he's not elited either, Like if that's the concern,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the Jaguars have shown us that
Speaker 2: they believe in his ability and really the way he
Speaker 2: carries himself, the way he I mean, I've been really
Speaker 2: impressed with him.
Speaker 3: I think he's a really likable guy.
Speaker 2: And I think that's saying something because I don't think
Speaker 2: Colorado in any way is really likable.
Speaker 3: And not to say they don't have fans.
Speaker 2: And yes, I've admitted I'm a hater, but let's not
Speaker 2: act like when Dion Sanders was losing games by you know,
Speaker 2: three touchdowns. Even if he didn't say it out loud,
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people enjoyed it because it's
Speaker 2: just human nature. Somebody that is so arrogant that talks
Speaker 2: and is so cocky without really any results as a
Speaker 2: coach to show for it. Like when they whenever they,
Speaker 2: you know, get humbled, you feel like, okay, yeah, you
Speaker 2: deserve that. Now. I don't think it's possible to humble
Speaker 2: Dion or shit or I just don't know if that's
Speaker 2: I don't think it's something that could be done. Although
Speaker 2: I will say I thought the video that Chad or
Speaker 2: posted or the video that was that was that was
Speaker 2: out there from him talking after his draft party where
Speaker 2: he didn't get taken. I mean I thought he handled
Speaker 2: it about as good as you as good as you can. So,
Speaker 2: you know, with all that said, Dion coaches as if
Speaker 2: his accomplishments as a player, his accomplishments as a hype man,
Speaker 2: his accomplishments as an entertainer, like he happens to think
Speaker 2: that that warrants him, like to be put up on
Speaker 2: a pedestal as a coach when it has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with it. I mean, I remember last year when
Speaker 2: he acted as if somebody needed to be thrown in
Speaker 2: prison because they didn't rank him as one of the
Speaker 2: best coaches in the Big Twelve, whenever he'd only coached
Speaker 2: one season of Division one football and he went three
Speaker 2: and nine or four and eight whatever. It was like
Speaker 2: he thinks that everything he's done as a player, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, he was special.
Speaker 3: He's a gifted, gifted guy in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: Again, when I say hype man, I'm not that's not
Speaker 2: an insults. I mean he's gifted at that, he's got
Speaker 2: the juice. But as a coach, you know, he did
Speaker 2: take a big step forward this past year. But it'd
Speaker 2: be easier to acknowledge that and really prop that up
Speaker 2: if it wasn't for the fact that Colorado Dion specifically,
Speaker 2: they carry themselves as if they've got six rings and
Speaker 2: got they got to put two of them on one
Speaker 2: finger because there's just there's not enough fingers, too many rings,
Speaker 2: because all they do was win, when in fact they don't.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a sight to behold.
Speaker 2: Whenever they would get they'd beat down big time in
Speaker 2: some games, and they'd still be chesty and yapping at
Speaker 2: the other team. Is if they're not getting their brains
Speaker 2: beat in like it, it's fascinating to me. So anyways,
Speaker 2: that's probably the biggest talking point. Travis Hunter ended up
Speaker 2: getting taken second and he was the Jags traded up
Speaker 2: to get him, as well as only two quarterbacks being
Speaker 2: taken shit or not being one of them, and Jackson Dart.
Speaker 2: I mean, they looked like everybody was well aware that
Speaker 2: the Giants I guess didn't you know even before the
Speaker 2: GM's teenage son leaked the pick on social media. It
Speaker 2: seemed as if there was enough buzz out there that
Speaker 2: they were going to make that move and take Jackson
Speaker 2: Dart and they did exactly that.
Speaker 3: So look, maybe they're wrong, but can you think.
Speaker 2: Of a quarterback Austin, but you felt like, man, that guy,
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what people see, that guy's
Speaker 2: going to be a bust and it ends up really
Speaker 2: really working out. And you were wrong because to me,
Speaker 2: I really felt like Jayden Daniels was gonna be was
Speaker 2: going to be, you know, not a bust, but like
Speaker 2: I had no clue he was going to be as
Speaker 2: good as he was in his first year. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: had the best rookie quarterback season in my lifetime.
Speaker 4: I liked, uh, yeah he did.
Speaker 5: I liked that Jayden Daniels also felt what you felt
Speaker 5: about Jay Daniels about bo Nicks, and he totally made
Speaker 5: me prove it wrong. But it feels like everything that
Speaker 5: I watched, or the only thing that I cared about watching,
Speaker 5: because I didn't watch Oregon a whole lot, was his
Speaker 5: biggest thing is it's just a lot of under stuff,
Speaker 5: a lot of quick passes, get it out, under slants.
Speaker 5: Everything's quick. There's not like a whole like developing. It's
Speaker 5: not like the West Coast spread pro style offense that
Speaker 5: they run at Oregon that translates to the NCAA.
Speaker 4: But no, I was wrong, Bo Nicks. Bo Nicks is
Speaker 4: actually yeah, I like the Broncos this year.
Speaker 2: You know somebody else who I thought was just to me,
Speaker 2: They did kind of scream bust. And maybe it was
Speaker 2: more so just because it was harder to really get
Speaker 2: a feel for guys who were wrapping up their college
Speaker 2: career during the pandemic in that twenty twenty one season.
Speaker 2: But I thought for sure that who's the quarterback of
Speaker 2: the Chargers?
Speaker 4: Who justin Herbert?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I thought.
Speaker 2: First of all, I thought he screamed bust and he
Speaker 2: had a good start. But I think at times now
Speaker 2: people are realizing I'm not here in trust me.
Speaker 3: This isn't me saying that I'm here for that.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that I was right all along that
Speaker 2: he was a bust, but I do think the early
Speaker 2: love that he got maybe it was warranted. But like
Speaker 2: I think people are now realizing that he's fine, but
Speaker 2: like he's not really special, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm here for all the Justin Herbert slander. I
Speaker 5: think he's a fine player too, but like everybody has
Speaker 5: always carved him out as if there's one guy that
Speaker 5: you can start your franchise over with, obviously it's it's
Speaker 5: my homes Burrow and then they just always throwing it's
Speaker 5: justin Herbert's always in that conversation, and like he's just
Speaker 5: like this elite molded after quarterback. And I think he's fine,
Speaker 5: but I just don't see him as God's gift like
Speaker 5: a lot of other NFL fans seem to.
Speaker 2: Well, he's talented, he can make plays, he has shown that,
Speaker 2: but here we are many years into his career. He's
Speaker 2: still young, but I mean he's been in the league
Speaker 2: for at least four years now, and yet he hasn't
Speaker 2: really done anything, you know what I mean, Like nobody's
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like all the guys thinks, but
Speaker 2: like he hasn't really done anything, and he's had some
Speaker 2: games where they were big games, and he's not only
Speaker 2: not done anything, he's in fact played poorly, like in
Speaker 2: Benefactor in some of their losses. So you know, you
Speaker 2: never really know. I mean, I'm trying to think of
Speaker 2: guys who everybody thought, there's no scenario they're not really
Speaker 2: good as because here's what happens. We tend to by
Speaker 2: the time a lot of these guys, not all of them,
Speaker 2: Like when Joe Burrow went number one, the reality is
Speaker 2: none of us knew how it was going to work out,
Speaker 2: but he was. He was getting all the love right,
Speaker 2: and it's worked out. He's been phenomenal. But a lot
Speaker 2: of the a lot of the quarterbacks that aren't in
Speaker 2: that position, like the Cam.
Speaker 3: Words or the or the Joe Burrows.
Speaker 2: You know, you end up getting to draft night and
Speaker 2: realize they've kind of been like broken down, like everybody
Speaker 2: they they've decided. You know, it's a roller coaster, right,
Speaker 2: you love them, then we don't like them, then you
Speaker 2: love them again, and then yeah, I don't know, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I'd have taken it in there.
Speaker 3: So like, you never really know.
Speaker 2: But one thing that is evident is that NFL teams
Speaker 2: cannot help themselves in most instances as far as just knowing, hey,
Speaker 2: that's a really important piece to your franchise, your quarterback,
Speaker 2: and you know you'll fall in love with a quarterback
Speaker 2: as a GM or really maybe just your front office
Speaker 2: in general, maybe even a head coach, because those guys
Speaker 2: clearly have some maybe maybe not all of them, but
Speaker 2: there's some coaches that have a level of influence on
Speaker 2: what's what's what's done when it comes to the draft.
Speaker 2: But like, you fall in love because you want to
Speaker 2: fall in love, not because it's genuine, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean, Like, you know, it would be really nice
Speaker 2: to have this man, I really love to have a companion,
Speaker 2: a girlfriend, somebody to kind of share my life with.
Speaker 2: And who knows, maybe we date for a while and
Speaker 2: we become, you know, pretty serious, and we have a
Speaker 2: real life together in a family.
Speaker 3: Like that's that's the dream for people.
Speaker 2: But like, sometimes you get to the point where you
Speaker 2: just want that relationship in that situation so much that
Speaker 2: you that you don't even really focus on the individual.
Speaker 2: Are they the right one to do that with? Or
Speaker 2: are you just saying, hey, you know, I'll I'll ignore
Speaker 2: or maybe be in denial about some potential flaws, some
Speaker 2: potential issues that we could have together. But I just
Speaker 2: want someone so bad that like, I'm going to force
Speaker 2: it to work. And that's what happens. I think with
Speaker 2: some of these NFL teams when they drafted quarterback and
Speaker 2: I just turned the NFL draft quarterback conversation into the
Speaker 2: Doctor Philshaw feel.
Speaker 3: Like, but you know, I think people, I think people
Speaker 3: get what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the Vikings on fire?
Speaker 4: How do you?
Speaker 2: How do you? How do you evaluate what they did
Speaker 2: last night?
Speaker 5: They they got the guard from Ohio State. I liked
Speaker 5: it at first, and I think I still liked it
Speaker 5: because they've fully have addressed everything that I've wanted to
Speaker 5: the last couple of years, and especially after watching the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl, like, beef up your offensive line, dude, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: They took a lot from the Colts. They took Wolf
Speaker 5: Fries and Brian Brian, Brian Kelly, Ryan Kelly for me, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it works for me. Ryan, I'm pretty sure it's Ryan Kelly.
Speaker 5: But and they beafed up. They beat up their their
Speaker 5: interior offensive line. They already have two stud tackles with
Speaker 5: Brian O'Neil and Christian Darisol got hurt last year, but
Speaker 5: as regarded as one of the best left tackles in
Speaker 5: the country or in in the NFL. But also since
Speaker 5: they talked about it, New York trading back into the
Speaker 5: first round literally right after their pick, and they gave
Speaker 5: up a first round for next year's so that makes
Speaker 5: me think that that offer was possibly on the table
Speaker 5: for the Vikings and they don't have another pick till
Speaker 5: the third round. They're pretty low one picks this year,
Speaker 5: so I thought you could have probably snagged him in
Speaker 5: the second round. But also reports come out that they
Speaker 5: were possibly He also blocked for CJ. Stroud a couple
Speaker 5: of years ago, so they were possibly afraid that the
Speaker 5: Texans could go up and snag him.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I'm fine with it.
Speaker 5: Uh, It just it just would have been It just
Speaker 5: would have been one hell of a package if you
Speaker 5: would have just taken what the Giants have given you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think when you trade up to get somebody,
Speaker 2: I mean, look drafting, I mean, anytime you spend a
Speaker 2: first round pick on somebody, you you you love that
Speaker 2: guy because because you've got to believe I mean, yes,
Speaker 2: you're not settling in the hurst times, you're not settling
Speaker 2: in the first round, like you know in your mind
Speaker 2: this is now. Maybe you end up not getting the
Speaker 2: guy you thought you you thought you would get at
Speaker 2: that spot because somebody took him. But the NFL, I
Speaker 2: would imagine there's rarely a scenario to where you're having
Speaker 2: to make a pick and you realize every single player
Speaker 2: that you had in the mix at that spot is gone.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it could happen, but like you
Speaker 2: should always be prepared to know where you're going if
Speaker 2: this guy's not available, if that guy's not available. But
Speaker 2: there is something that if you trade up, it is it.
Speaker 2: I mean there's no hiding it. You you are you
Speaker 2: love that player, you know what I mean, Like if
Speaker 2: you are a and that it's an obvious thing. But man,
Speaker 2: I really was impressed with with with night hearing Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was the interview kind of led to it,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't like he went out of his way
Speaker 2: to do it. But he's done multiple interviews as you
Speaker 2: could expect since being drafted with the second pick. But
Speaker 2: he keeps emphasizing that that team traded up to get him,
Speaker 2: and again, it's a no brainer. If they trade up,
Speaker 2: that means they're not going to risk you falling or
Speaker 2: not following them. They're not going to take that risk.
Speaker 2: Maybe they feel somewhat certain that you'll be there, but
Speaker 2: they're not going to take that chance because they want
Speaker 2: you so bad, they're going to give up other things
Speaker 2: to make sure they get it. But like he seems
Speaker 2: to really emphasize, like they didn't just want me, they
Speaker 2: traded up to get me, And again, like I just
Speaker 2: feel like he's mature to where he understands, like, you know,
Speaker 2: any team would be lucky to have me. But also like, man,
Speaker 2: this team really showed me they wanted me. They weren't
Speaker 2: going to risk me slipping, you know, to wherever the
Speaker 2: DAGs were picking. I don't remember what it was. So,
Speaker 2: you know, trading up again. For some reason last night,
Speaker 2: it really stood out to me that you know, there's
Speaker 2: no like, there's no scenario where you could try to
Speaker 2: sell anybody that you know you weren't totally all in on,
Speaker 2: said player. If you've given up things in the future
Speaker 2: just because you're not willing to risk them not being
Speaker 2: there when you were taking your you know, your original pick.
Speaker 4: I would say, also just because I'm a sucker.
Speaker 5: And this this just goes back to my compulsive need
Speaker 5: for wanting me to be like, see they're talking about
Speaker 5: my team. See they're talking about my team because I
Speaker 5: like that. Who's not a fanatic if you don't like
Speaker 5: when your team is a center of attention on TV
Speaker 5: and a crowdfull of other KANDA teams like, all right,
Speaker 5: let's go ahead and hype me up a little bit.
Speaker 5: And this goes back to the problem yesterday that we
Speaker 5: were talking about most of all of ESPN and sports.
Speaker 5: So like when you're watching on the ESPN feed last night,
Speaker 5: you're seeing that the Vikings make this pick, they're hardly not.
Speaker 4: Talking about them whatsoever. They don't even.
Speaker 5: Show the the the picture of Donovan Jackson at home
Speaker 5: like with his family and getting the pick or anything
Speaker 5: like that. The Packers were a pick right before, and
Speaker 5: they were doing like this what felt like a forever
Speaker 5: ceremony that was going on, So like the Vikings were
Speaker 5: shoved them between that and then once they got done.
Speaker 5: That's when here comes to New York Team Trader back
Speaker 5: into the first round. Let's talk about that. We're not
Speaker 5: even screw what the Vikings just did. So I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 5: you know that kind of sucks because that's at the
Speaker 5: point where the four letter network is at when it
Speaker 5: comes to that coverage, because they didn't break, they didn't
Speaker 5: give like the guy turning around and tossing the football
Speaker 5: up slowly while they have mel Kiper just rave over.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 5: No, mel Kiper is still there at ESPN, right, I
Speaker 5: can't think so and so like while they have him
Speaker 5: rave over.
Speaker 2: Well, there were so many different types of coverage for
Speaker 2: the draft too, Like you had the ABC, which was
Speaker 2: like the emotional family component. Yes, you had the college
Speaker 2: football talking heads for ESPN their coverage of it. Then
Speaker 2: you had the NFL people. But have you ever once considered,
Speaker 2: man that the reason, Like, when's the last time there
Speaker 2: was a whole lot of attention leading up to the draft,
Speaker 2: during the draft, or even after the draft. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the Chiefs or the Eagles, they're good. Any
Speaker 2: draft pick they get that works out. Just an extra topic, right,
Speaker 2: Like the Vikings had a phenomenal year last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the biggest storyline for them is that they let they
Speaker 2: let him, they let's Donald go and they and they're
Speaker 2: now embracing the guy they took it quarterback, So you know,
Speaker 2: but outside of that, like it's a good thing if
Speaker 2: you're not being like you're if you're not interesting on
Speaker 2: draft night as a franchise had a good thing ninety
Speaker 2: nine percent of the time, it's because you're not desperate
Speaker 2: to get players out of college to fix your broken franchise. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're already good. And the Vikings are in a great spot.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: It kind of fell apart late and I know the
Speaker 2: ending of the season was pretty sour, but like they
Speaker 2: got it. They got some good components to where like
Speaker 2: they should. Like it's another thing about McCarthy. He didn't
Speaker 2: have to be great. I mean, hopefully he is for
Speaker 2: the sake of the Vikings and he can't be terrible,
Speaker 2: Like he can't be a huge liability. But man, they've
Speaker 2: got a good play caller, they got a good defense.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're in a good spot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when when they lost to what well, first of all,
Speaker 5: when they lost they got absolutely blitzed by the Lions
Speaker 5: and they lost and had to go to the wild
Speaker 5: card to go play the Rams. The week right afterwards,
Speaker 5: and I don't think either of those two they just
Speaker 5: blitzed and they took over that offensive line. Sam Donald
Speaker 5: got sacked like thirteen times in like two different games. Again,
Speaker 5: they think he got sacked nine times in that Rams game.
Speaker 5: So the Vikings game plan just going in there just
Speaker 5: like we're going to make sure that this doesn't happen
Speaker 5: with our new quarterback that we have a lot of
Speaker 5: faith and so I'm I'm.
Speaker 4: Happy with that. So we'll see, We'll see what they do.
Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I'm always fine with them wanting
Speaker 5: to protect their investment.
Speaker 2: Look, I I'll admit I've been so out on my
Speaker 2: Colts really just with the just just just the the
Speaker 2: overall it. I Mean, there's just not good energy within
Speaker 2: that organization right now because you've got Ballard and Hearsay
Speaker 2: acting like everything's all right. We don't know what everybody's
Speaker 2: upset about. Pat McAfee, who I actually at times kind
Speaker 2: of think is a clown, but but he is somebody
Speaker 2: that was a part of the winning culture that the
Speaker 2: Colts had, and he's somebody that I don't think he
Speaker 2: was doing this for attention. I think he's seeing these
Speaker 2: guys carrying themselves as if they were a part of
Speaker 2: a you know, as if they have the results that
Speaker 2: Peyton and the gang had when any pactlets were good. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he cares about the Colts, no doubt. So like, and
Speaker 2: then you've got players with the Colts like wanting to
Speaker 2: fight McAfee like he's you know, he's he's created drama whenever.
Speaker 2: All he's doing is like acknowledging that things aren't great,
Speaker 2: you know, so much so that your franchise quarterback. I
Speaker 2: can't say that without laughing. You know, he's pulling himself
Speaker 2: out of games in the fourth quarter because he's tired,
Speaker 2: and then he tells the media that in the press
Speaker 2: conference like that really happened. So anyways, last night, I'm
Speaker 2: fine with their pick. You know, I think they got
Speaker 2: a really good tight end and Tyler Warren, and I
Speaker 2: think tight in positions clearly valuable. But you know, I
Speaker 2: thought to myself, Okay, buddy, get ready to catch eight
Speaker 2: yard passes that are going to be thrown at you
Speaker 2: at five hundred miles an hour coming from Anthony Richardson
Speaker 2: mister AR fifteen. But then I thought, okay, actually no,
Speaker 2: he'll probably not be our starting quarterback. It'll probably be
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones, who we paid too much money to get.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're a joke, and you know, I it'd
Speaker 2: be one thing if I could if I mean, they're
Speaker 2: in such a bad division, although I don't know, maybe
Speaker 2: maybe the division improves, but let's be real, like they
Speaker 2: they could be a terrible team and finish good enough
Speaker 2: in their division and their conference to where they will back.
Speaker 2: They'll be back in the same spot right picking at
Speaker 2: number thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and that'll leave them continuously in
Speaker 2: this same existence, which yeah, it could be worse. But
Speaker 2: sometimes to get to the top or at least make
Speaker 2: a big push to grow, you have to be bad.
Speaker 2: And they won't commit, and they are bad, but they
Speaker 2: won't commit to being bad enough. They won't embrace letting
Speaker 2: it just kind of fall apart so that they can
Speaker 2: they can regroup. They'll be in that range of like
Speaker 2: barely making the playoffs or barely missing it and looking around, like,
Speaker 2: what's everybody upset about? We weren't the worst team in
Speaker 2: the league. And it's like they didn't even like Peyton
Speaker 2: Manning and even Andrew Luck for a while, like the
Speaker 2: Colts had some respect about them, and they're not the
Speaker 2: like they want to live in a world where like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're not the worst team, everybody should be happy. Like no,
Speaker 2: like not at all. But again, I don't nobody cares
Speaker 2: about the Colts.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break.
Speaker 2: We'll talk on the other side about the quarterbacks that
Speaker 2: are gonna probably be taken tomorrow or you know, tonight
Speaker 2: and certainly tomorrow. But the latest mock draft, I like
Speaker 2: this spot for Tyler Shuck if this is where he
Speaker 2: ends up. And again, if this mock draft I'm looking
Speaker 2: at is accurate, I mean kid should or Sanders fall
Speaker 2: to the third day, I mean possibly, I mean again,
Speaker 2: I think just because of all the hype around him
Speaker 2: and all the just just just always being talked about,
Speaker 2: that would be viewed as like a real surprise, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be painted as a victim if that happens.
Speaker 2: But but you know, overall, I don't think it's that
Speaker 2: surprising because one take away all the prime aspect of it,
Speaker 2: as far as just you know, the TMZ world that
Speaker 2: those guys are in. Dion and his whole crew should
Speaker 2: or was good, but like nothing that would warrant like
Speaker 2: you got to take him in the top five. And
Speaker 2: again this is you know, as much as I keep
Speaker 2: gassing up Tyler Shuck and talking about how he could
Speaker 2: really have a chance to, you know, make it work
Speaker 2: in the NFL long term, I'm also willing to acknowledge
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why he's been able to really
Speaker 2: emerge as one of the top five quarterbacks in this
Speaker 2: draft is because, you know, no, no offense to him,
Speaker 2: but this quarterback class sucks. I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 2: way a lot of people view it, outside of.
Speaker 3: Maybe cam Ward.
Speaker 2: I mean, wouldn't be shocker if like there's one or
Speaker 2: maybe no quarterbacks that in the long run, you feel
Speaker 2: like we're guys that could change a franchise.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break, keep it locked right here.
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Speaker 2: the the quarterback crop here obviously two quarterbacks taken, as
Speaker 2: we've discussed, and I'd say it'd be a real stunter
Speaker 2: if the next three quarterbacks, in no particular order are
Speaker 2: Tyler shuck Shit or Sanders and Jalen Milrow. So there's
Speaker 2: really not any specific analyst that puts together mock drafts
Speaker 2: that I follow more than anybody else. So, you know,
Speaker 2: the NFL dot Com, NFL network, this is the latest
Speaker 2: that they have. This was put together just a couple
Speaker 2: hours before the show started today.
Speaker 3: So again maybe it's.
Speaker 2: Just purely guessing, but you know, maybe there's also some
Speaker 2: intel that they have at the NFL network. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to when it comes to QBS, the first
Speaker 2: quarterback taken tonight, according to this mock draft won't be Shuck,
Speaker 2: won't be Sanders, It will in fact be Jalen Milrow.
Speaker 2: And they have him going at let's see where's he going.
Speaker 2: I just saw it up here. Yeah, they have him
Speaker 2: going number forty, which is early in the second round
Speaker 2: to the Saints. Can hear that down?
Speaker 4: I didn't know it's still on.
Speaker 3: Sorry, that's all good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I never even know if anybody can hear it
Speaker 2: other than me. But here's the thing. If I wore
Speaker 2: if I wore the big cans on my ears like
Speaker 2: you do, and I didn't wear earbuds, I probably wouldn't
Speaker 2: hear the can because you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't hear it, right.
Speaker 4: No, I don't. I think it got fat fingered.
Speaker 3: That Yeah it's.
Speaker 4: The button.
Speaker 3: No, no, it was.
Speaker 2: It was really really low, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: you can feel like the knob is all the way
Speaker 2: down and it just again, it's a me thing more
Speaker 2: than anything. Most people would notice it. And again I'm
Speaker 2: not even sure it comes across the air. But because
Speaker 2: trust me, there's a difference in wearing earbuds and wearing
Speaker 2: headphones like you know, and everybody's got their own preference.
Speaker 2: But for me, like any little any little Uh. You know,
Speaker 2: I'd rather something be louder in my ear than just
Speaker 2: that little that little because the little faint sound makes
Speaker 2: me feel like, you know, I just makes me think
Speaker 2: it's something else, experience that something, so I feel it.
Speaker 2: You always go with the cans.
Speaker 4: Right, always thought this is radio to me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh, And and trust me, I think I'm
Speaker 2: one of maybe like three people that just has always
Speaker 2: gone to earbuds if I can. Although John Alden started
Speaker 2: doing it once we started working together, and then Venetti
Speaker 2: now does it. But I think it's because he's going deaf,
Speaker 2: Like he he wears these and he can turn the
Speaker 2: volume down lower and still you know, because I think
Speaker 2: if he'd continue to have it full blast with standard headphones,
Speaker 2: I think at this stage in his career, he might
Speaker 2: he might not be able to hear anything.
Speaker 3: It might be fully deaf.
Speaker 5: There are some people that don't even use the headphones,
Speaker 5: like you ever see Gus do it. Gus doesn't even
Speaker 5: use headphones. Just how do you strictly off the board.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 4: I mean he's uh, he's a pro. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: And that is one thing though that anybody who's never
Speaker 2: been live on the radio before or it always it
Speaker 2: always stood out to me that they're not used to
Speaker 2: hearing themselves in their own ear while they're talking. Clearly,
Speaker 2: when you're speaking and you you could hear yourself talking,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's a no brainer. But whenever it's
Speaker 2: in your headphones while you're talking, it'll trip you up.
Speaker 2: If you're not used to it, you clearly get used
Speaker 2: to it. But anyways, Milroe going fortieth to the to
Speaker 2: the Saints, which would be looks like the I guess
Speaker 2: the seventh eighth pick tonight in the second round.
Speaker 3: And look, maybe I'm a hater.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just thinking, like, you know, Shuck's way better
Speaker 2: than this guy, shucks way better than Sanders.
Speaker 3: But like, I don't even I don't think I've heard.
Speaker 2: Anybody talk about Milroe being like a guy worthy of
Speaker 2: an early pick in the draft. I mean, and by
Speaker 2: the way, second round is still an early pick. Let's
Speaker 2: be real. So to me, this screams, I mean, this
Speaker 2: to me screams the desperation that teams have to find
Speaker 2: a quarterback. I mean, he's talented as far as just
Speaker 2: you know, a big arm, big athlete and he's you know,
Speaker 2: he's not bad, but I just I don't know. Like
Speaker 2: if he got drafted in the sixth round, I would
Speaker 2: have thought, Okay, yeah, that makes sense, but again, what
Speaker 2: do I know? And then the next quarterback to be
Speaker 2: taken after Milrow, according to the NFL Network's latest mock draft,
Speaker 2: is in fact, the one and only Tyler Shuck and
Speaker 2: they have him going to pick number fifty two to
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: I don't love the fact that.
Speaker 2: He would be in Seattle because I don't think that
Speaker 2: their current coach, like I hear, here's the thing, I
Speaker 2: don't think the coach they have is going to be
Speaker 2: very good. I don't know that for certain, but you know,
Speaker 2: to me, he's one of those guys that just you know,
Speaker 2: was an analytics guy. And there's a lot of those
Speaker 2: guys that have been hired and they've been successful. But
Speaker 2: it just doesn't and I don't know, I could see
Speaker 2: that not working out well, especially because they're trading all
Speaker 2: their pieces, right, Like they got rid of Tyler Lockett
Speaker 2: and who's the big giant they had a receiver, the
Speaker 2: special athlete. Yeah, he's now in Pittsburgh. So like if
Speaker 2: Shuck's there and they do throw him out there early, like,
Speaker 2: I don't really know what he's got to work with,
Speaker 2: but he is from the West coast. Maybe he'd be comfortable.
Speaker 2: But you know, Seattle's a team that did a lot
Speaker 2: of folks think might take a quarterback. And then as
Speaker 2: it looks here, I mean, I'm trying to see where
Speaker 2: they even have Sanders going in this one, and look,
Speaker 2: they could be wrong. Maybe Sanders is the first guy
Speaker 2: taken the night. Who knows, but it looks as if, yeah,
Speaker 2: they've got him going. Well, here we go, third round.
Speaker 2: Let's see if he's in the third round. They had
Speaker 2: they had it on I thought they had both rounds.
Speaker 3: On the same page.
Speaker 2: They did not.
Speaker 3: But SHADOORA.
Speaker 2: Sanders is taken at pick number sixty seven by the
Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns. That's the fourth pick in the third round.
Speaker 2: And maybe maybe that's right. But I thought when I
Speaker 2: was listening to Rich Eisen and Kyle Brandt earlier, they
Speaker 2: made a good point that if the Browns liked Shadoor Sanders,
Speaker 2: they would have taken him like he would have been
Speaker 2: off the board. Maybe this here, this scenario would tell
Speaker 2: you that they liked him, but not enough. And then
Speaker 2: they thought, okay, yeah, we wouldn't take him in the
Speaker 2: first to the second, but we need a quarterback, and
Speaker 2: you know what, like we'll take him the third because
Speaker 2: that's a different And again, it is a different world
Speaker 2: when you invest a first round pick compared to a
Speaker 2: third round pick. I mean it's just you know, two
Speaker 2: picks apart. You only draft. You know, if it's a
Speaker 2: standard draft with no trades, then you only have seven
Speaker 2: of them, but seven picks meeting. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: let me ask you this when it comes to because
Speaker 2: I was watching the draft with some buddies last night
Speaker 2: and the they're Bengals fans, so clearly they view the Browns,
Speaker 2: you know, as bums, which you know, for good reason.
Speaker 2: The Browns for the most part have always he has
Speaker 2: been bums. But their initial reaction when the trade took
Speaker 2: place and Travis Hunter thought he was going to Cleveland
Speaker 2: and then realized he was going to Jacksonville, that like
Speaker 2: he got so lucky, like, oh, he's going to avoid
Speaker 2: Cleveland and he gets to go to Jacksonville. And I'm
Speaker 2: thinking Cleveland as a city is not great in like weather, right,
Speaker 2: but like Cleveland is a humongous market. Jacksonville, outside of
Speaker 2: Green Bay is the most obscure market in pro sports,
Speaker 2: especially the NFL. Yeah, because Jacksonville doesn't have any other
Speaker 2: pro team.
Speaker 4: It's I mean, they honestly don't even care about the Jaguars.
Speaker 2: No, they've been around long enough to where, like you know,
Speaker 2: they're not new by any means. But if you really
Speaker 2: give it some thought, it is crazy that Jacksonville, Florida
Speaker 2: has an NFL team. Like, he doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they're worthy of NFL team, we are,
Speaker 2: I mean, and we don't need one. I mean, I'd
Speaker 2: love to have one, but like that's not some people
Speaker 2: are talking about. So I actually think Travis Hunter. To me,
Speaker 2: there's a little bit of like Zion and Zion got
Speaker 2: hurt a lot and hadn't played, so it didn't really
Speaker 2: like it didn't really regis like it doesn't really add
Speaker 2: up now. But I was devastated for Zion when he
Speaker 2: went to the Pelicans because that's just an irrelevant market
Speaker 2: that like, you know, he'll bring them attention, but nobody
Speaker 2: cares about the Pelicans. Nobody cares about Jaguars, right, Like,
Speaker 2: and you know he is from Florida and he'll be
Speaker 2: in his home state. But like, I actually think if
Speaker 2: you're somebody that cares about and this is why, like
Speaker 2: Tavis Hunter, I don't think he cares about what market
Speaker 2: he's in. I think he wants to win. I think
Speaker 2: he's a competitor. I think he wants to you know,
Speaker 2: win football games and be successful. But you know, this
Speaker 2: is a business, this is your job. And even though
Speaker 2: Cleveland is viewed as like a dump, to quote joke
Speaker 2: Im Noah years ago in the NBA playoffs, I mean,
Speaker 2: who goes to Cleveland? Like you ever heard anybody say
Speaker 2: we're going to Cleveland for vacation. No, that was Jokim
Speaker 2: Noa when he was on the Bulls making fun of
Speaker 2: the Calves.
Speaker 3: And he's right.
Speaker 2: But Cleveland's a big market and they have a humongous
Speaker 2: fan base that cares. Like, yeah, they can say what
Speaker 2: you want about the Browns. They have a massive fan base.
Speaker 2: And I learned this about them when I was listening
Speaker 2: to whenever I would as you know, before I could
Speaker 2: make this my job my.
Speaker 3: Career, I listened to a lot of sports radio across.
Speaker 2: The country just because you know, I was obsessed with
Speaker 2: it and there was a show in Cleveland. I became
Speaker 2: a really big fan of and I learned that Cleveland fans,
Speaker 2: I guess, to deal with their existence and to maybe
Speaker 2: numb the pain. Nobody makes fun of themselves better than
Speaker 2: Cleveland fans, you know what I mean. So, like, you know,
Speaker 2: I kind of found them to be a little bit
Speaker 2: endearing because yeah, I mean the Browns, like we all know,
Speaker 2: Like that alone tells you. I mean, they're the Browns,
Speaker 2: but you know they know that and they care and
Speaker 2: they're passionate. Like I think Jacksonville could be good, and like,
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure it'll really matter a whole lot
Speaker 2: to that city. I mean, maybe that's an exaggeration because
Speaker 2: you know, clearly they have fans, but like, I don't know, Like,
Speaker 2: he'll be fine if he's good, because if you're good,
Speaker 2: you make plays and your team wins. That's all that matters.
Speaker 2: But I do think some players would have really looked
Speaker 2: at it. Really, their agent probably more than anything, would
Speaker 2: have been like, man the value because again think about
Speaker 2: like again.
Speaker 3: If he's good, it'll all work out.
Speaker 2: But Dak Prescott, do you know how much money he
Speaker 2: makes just because he's the quarterback for the freaking Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. He's not good. I mean, like he's
Speaker 2: not that good. He's fine, but like he clearly has
Speaker 2: a big contract. But like the Cowboys are the biggest
Speaker 2: brand in pro sports, maybe of any in America. So
Speaker 2: just because you're the quarterback of the Cowboys, you're gonna
Speaker 2: get endorsements, you're gonna be like, you're gonna be highly
Speaker 2: highly publicized. The ceiling as far as marketability in Jacksonville
Speaker 2: is just a lot lower. I mean, yeah, you can,
Speaker 2: you can get you you can be all over the billboards.
Speaker 2: You can have deals with with big businesses, big big
Speaker 2: money people in Jacksonville, and you know it'll it'll, you know,
Speaker 2: you'll you'll make money.
Speaker 4: But like they're like GM like look like he's eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like let's say, like, let's just say, you know,
Speaker 2: the biggest endorsement, advertising partnership deals for the for the
Speaker 2: best player for the Cowboys compared to the same thing
Speaker 2: for somebody with the Jaguars. We're talking about living in
Speaker 2: vastly different neighborhoods. I mean, and again we're talking about
Speaker 2: one extreme.
Speaker 3: To the other.
Speaker 2: But like Jacksonville, they're just irrelevant. Like nobody thinks of
Speaker 2: Jacksonville ever. The Browns, you know, like they're they're they're
Speaker 2: relevant to an extent just because of like they're the joke,
Speaker 2: but like they also like you can just tell brown
Speaker 2: there's a ton of Browns fans right like, and they
Speaker 2: care even though they're you know, Tom's They've been pretty
Speaker 2: you know, they've been pretty sad about, you know, everything
Speaker 2: for good reason.
Speaker 3: But like if I was, if I.
Speaker 2: Was Travis Hunter, I would you know, I'd like to
Speaker 2: think I would have the maturity to embrace wherever I'm going.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it my all and hopefully we win
Speaker 2: and they'll all work out, because I believe in myself.
Speaker 2: But like I actually don't actually thought Cleveland, Like there's
Speaker 2: an aspect of the Browns that if he went there,
Speaker 2: there would be a lot of attention because of the
Speaker 2: two things. Right Like, man, the Brown's got Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: Let's see how they screw this up because they got
Speaker 2: a special player. But the Jaguars, like the Jacks could
Speaker 2: suck and he could be elite and everybody will say, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: what did you expect? It's the do you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying? I do Uh I do Liam Cohen, I
Speaker 2: mean like that he's weird, that awkward, like serial killer type.
Speaker 2: So as soon as they traded up, like everybody's sharing
Speaker 2: that video, and it reminded me how like I wanted
Speaker 2: to go crawl in a corner and cry, like that's
Speaker 2: it's a painful, awkward, self like secondhand embarrassment thing, right.
Speaker 4: Everyone from the coach him or Liam Cohen, the coach.
Speaker 3: Oh, the GM, and the g GM's in second grade.
Speaker 5: He's he's like thirty years old. He's just he's like
Speaker 5: a couple of years older than the guy that they
Speaker 5: just drafted. And they're ran by well they're ran by
Speaker 5: Tony Kahan's dad.
Speaker 2: So and by the way that the spars money. Tony
Speaker 2: CON's got enough money to where maybe they'll all work out.
Speaker 2: But Javis, right, have you seen their boat? Dude?
Speaker 3: Oh dude, he's loaded.
Speaker 2: But but anyways, like if you look at it again,
Speaker 2: you shouldn't let looks tell the story, but like look
Speaker 2: at the young GM who looks like he's still in
Speaker 2: high school. And then you just just show the clip
Speaker 2: of of In doing the duval chant or the du
Speaker 2: duvall saying, and you would just say, like Yeah, there's
Speaker 2: no way this.
Speaker 3: Is gonna work out.
Speaker 2: I mean we could be wrong, like it looks for you,
Speaker 2: but still like I don't know the Jags or you
Speaker 2: know the Jags. Yep, quick break quick, we'll come back
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Speaker 2: All right, we wrap it up the four o'clock hour
Speaker 2: here on a Friday, getting you set for the weekend.
Speaker 3: This week went by really fast, which it's a good thing.
Speaker 2: Right, We're all working to get to, you know, this moment,
Speaker 2: the weekend, and it's five till five, so I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's many that have already started their weekend. There's some
Speaker 2: that'll get it started here soon. And you know, I
Speaker 2: take I take pride in that being able to you know,
Speaker 2: for those of you that do choin the dude, join
Speaker 2: us and choose to be a part of this experience
Speaker 2: that is Coffee and Company. If we're getting into the weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's not something I take lightly. That's something
Speaker 2: that's a that's a big responsibilities and not austin. I mean,
Speaker 2: we've got a duty to get them off to a
Speaker 2: good start, to get the weekend going.
Speaker 4: We want to get them in everywhere, but the weekend's
Speaker 4: more important, no.
Speaker 3: Doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Most important.
Speaker 2: And we've had some pretty crappy weather the last couple
Speaker 2: of days, but I do believe tomorrow is expected to
Speaker 2: be uh pretty perfect. Actually, I mean, you never know
Speaker 2: what to expect. Last week, I believe we thought we
Speaker 2: were going to get a lot of rain. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it and it worked out well. So maybe maybe we're
Speaker 2: we're due for some some sloppy weekend weather. But with
Speaker 2: all that said, I would I would sacrifice some wet
Speaker 2: weather this weekend if it means we don't get wet
Speaker 2: on Derby.
Speaker 4: That's what I was about to ask. Do we know
Speaker 4: the seven day forecast? Shit? Usually they're on it by now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let me ask you this. I just
Speaker 2: it's not because I'm pessimistic by nature. I mean I
Speaker 2: am at times, although I'm getting better at that.
Speaker 4: I just don't know. It makes me very cynical towards
Speaker 4: the weather.
Speaker 2: But I actually just now expect that we're going to
Speaker 2: not get good weather on Derby. And I don't I
Speaker 2: can't tell if that's my processing it so I can
Speaker 2: prepare for the worst hope for the best, because I
Speaker 2: do think that's a good way to approach a lot
Speaker 2: of things. It helps you, it'll help you, you know,
Speaker 2: avoid being super let down. And it also you know,
Speaker 2: it can make it even more excitingly if you get
Speaker 2: good weather, if you've just been assuming it was going
Speaker 2: to be terrible, then it'll feel you know, it's that
Speaker 2: unexpected joy of because that's what last week was, to
Speaker 2: be honest with me, I thought it was gonna rain
Speaker 2: all weekend and it was going to impact the Easter
Speaker 2: egg hunts for Easter, and it was gonna impact my
Speaker 2: daughter's baseball game, and it worked out well. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it looks like next next Saturday of next year, next
Speaker 2: Saturday we are expected to have. Right now, it says
Speaker 2: seventy five degrees and mostly sunny with a twenty three
Speaker 2: percent chance of rain, but during the day, mostly sunny, skies,
Speaker 2: high neer seventy five. Somebody, somebody spank me, I mean
Speaker 2: that's I mean, could that get better? Seventy five and
Speaker 2: mostly sunny, and it.
Speaker 5: Looks like it's literally gonna rain almost every day lead.
Speaker 3: And that's fine. Like again, Yeah, we'll sacrifice, is it?
Speaker 2: Like? I know a lot of people go out to
Speaker 2: the track and you know they find their day. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm still a big Oaks guy.
Speaker 5: I haven't been to Oaks yet. That's the one I
Speaker 5: haven't been to. Well, I'm going to five oh Tuesday
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people say that Oaks, you know,
Speaker 2: used to be the day for locals, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: it was. But even from from my earliest time thinking
Speaker 2: of Oaks, when I would go because that's our day,
Speaker 2: like usually, I mean for years I've gone to Oaks
Speaker 2: with my fan, with my wife and you know, we
Speaker 2: don't ever I mean, I work Derby, but she doesn't
Speaker 2: go to Derby. She's got Derby parties and I usually
Speaker 2: end up joining her there. But Oaks has kind of
Speaker 2: been our day. But I feel like even since we've
Speaker 2: been doing that well over ten years, I've just known that, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be a super local day and
Speaker 2: it's going to basically be just a light version of
Speaker 2: Derby because it's still pretty crowded. And then you know,
Speaker 2: you had Therby, but now Therby apparently has become too
Speaker 2: corporate and to you know, to like does Louisville still
Speaker 2: have a day they do five oh Tuesday, which I
Speaker 2: think like a lot of folks are like now embracing
Speaker 2: that is the locals day. But if you really think
Speaker 2: about it, I mean Tuesday on it's especially if there's
Speaker 2: good weather, it's really crowded and you may not realize it,
Speaker 2: but there's people there all throughout the week that are
Speaker 2: that are not local because that's what that's what Churchill
Speaker 2: Downs during Derby Week does. That's one of the things
Speaker 2: that I really I just felt dumb, and I feel
Speaker 2: dumb a lot in life. You know, I have moments
Speaker 2: where I'm like, man, you really are a real special dumbass.
Speaker 2: I mean it's not like, you know, not a daily thing,
Speaker 2: but trust me, I've had moments and this is one
Speaker 2: of those moments. Whenever I started doing the annual interviews
Speaker 2: at Churchill Downs, talking to folks you know that are
Speaker 2: there and bringing interviews back and being a part of
Speaker 2: the Derby coverage that we have on eight forty whas
Speaker 2: you know, I'd say like nine out of ten people
Speaker 2: that I talked to are not only not local, they're
Speaker 2: not from anywhere around here. And I think just because
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs has always been here.
Speaker 3: It's home for us.
Speaker 2: And a lot of times when I would go to
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs, you know as a kid, it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: during Derby. It would be just you know, one of
Speaker 2: the one of the days of the races. Like we
Speaker 2: still go, Like we love going a lot when it's
Speaker 2: like it's just the fall meat or you know whatever,
Speaker 2: Like Derby's great, everything that comes with it, it's awesome,
Speaker 2: but I actually enjoy going when it's not a big
Speaker 2: event and there's just not as much people and you know,
Speaker 2: for me, I can take you know, my son is
Speaker 2: obsessed with horse rays, so like he gets a little
Speaker 2: more access and he gets closer to stuff. So, you know,
Speaker 2: just because it's ours and it's been here forever. I
Speaker 2: never really had the awareness that when you look at
Speaker 2: Churchill Downs on Derby Week, especially Oaks and Derby, the
Speaker 2: vast majority of the folks that are there are not
Speaker 2: from here. They're there just because of that and that's special.
Speaker 2: Like we haven't and again I've known, I don't think
Speaker 2: you can be from here and not know how big
Speaker 2: the Derby is. But whenever it just you kind of
Speaker 2: get used to it and it's just you know, like,
Speaker 2: I don't see we take it for granted. I think
Speaker 2: we know it's special, but man, I mean we're talking.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember I went three straight interviews a
Speaker 2: few years ago, somebody from Amsterdam, somebody from Canada, somebody
Speaker 2: from Puerto Rico, and like two of them so coo.
Speaker 2: Like two of them they this was like the fifth
Speaker 2: or sixth time they'd come. Yeah, the others it was
Speaker 2: the first time and we weren't even having good weather,
Speaker 2: and these people were like, this is so cool, and
Speaker 2: it just made me, you know, it made me appreciate that. Like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't have any ownership of the Derby
Speaker 2: or anything like that, but we do have, like, you know,
Speaker 2: we do have something that's pretty cool. I mean, the
Speaker 2: Derby is one of the biggest events in sports every year,
Speaker 2: and there is there's a moment where for two minutes,
Speaker 2: there's there's an insane amount of people watching that watching
Speaker 2: a horse race that is taking place right here in
Speaker 2: our in our city, and it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: I love the Derby. White.
Speaker 5: When I first got here, I said the same thing
Speaker 5: about Thunder too. I just kind of didn't get it,
Speaker 5: and then I kind of got boogie on it. I
Speaker 5: got with the w I I got with the the
Speaker 5: big wigs tags, and I've got to go down there
Speaker 5: and cover it.
Speaker 4: And it is awesome. Yeah, I love being out there.
Speaker 5: It's I love dressing up, smoking a cigar with some
Speaker 5: big wigs from all over the place where you say
Speaker 5: Anstram someone from Atlanta.
Speaker 4: It's awesome.
Speaker 2: The energy in this city during Derby season, not just
Speaker 2: Derby Day or even Derby Week. It's it's special. But
Speaker 2: I just kind of feel like we didn't. It snuck
Speaker 2: up on us this year. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people keep saying, oh, it's because thunder over Louisville
Speaker 2: was was boat was canceled, and maybe that was a factor.
Speaker 2: But again I've said this and this is just me,
Speaker 2: Like I've never once looked, Okay, here we go thunders here.
Speaker 2: Let's cause I've never I mean, I know that it's
Speaker 2: a part of the Kentucky Derby Festival events, but like
Speaker 2: I never even I never even the connection that like
Speaker 2: we have thunder because of Derby, like you think it's.
Speaker 5: Also because of weather related Usually we're kind of in
Speaker 5: springtime and like, all right, it's starting to feel like
Speaker 5: it's Derby time. But leading up to it was literally
Speaker 5: a hurricane and we're doing and it's early May. Yes,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, like it's it's Easter was
Speaker 5: so late too. I think that had a lot to
Speaker 5: do with it.
Speaker 2: And I kind of feel like we've mean, what was it?
Speaker 2: Was it the Christmas season? We got robbed of like
Speaker 2: a week of it just because of the way Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: fell or something like, Yes, there was, there was something
Speaker 2: that we talked about on the show.
Speaker 4: Because we still had to come in Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't have we didn't have as much time
Speaker 2: leading up to. I don't know what it's gonna Oh yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it was. It was Thanksgiving, so Thanksgiving was later than
Speaker 2: it usually is, I believe, which meant once you once
Speaker 2: you turned the page from Thanksgiving, like we were a
Speaker 2: lot closer to Christmas than we typically are because because
Speaker 2: obviously Thanksgivings not on the same day. Thanksgivings on the
Speaker 2: same day. It's just that Thursday. Yeah, so all right,
Speaker 2: we got to get to a break. I'm sorry for
Speaker 2: taking so long, but we've got our draft coming up
Speaker 2: here before too long, and of course we'll reset some
Speaker 2: things and get you set for a round two and
Speaker 2: Round three Friday. You know, it's not the first round,
Speaker 2: which of course gets most the attention. But I feel
Speaker 2: like Friday is a sneak Friday Night of the NFL drafts,
Speaker 2: a sneaky undervalued sports day on the calendar. So looking
Speaker 2: forward to it this evening, So stick around, don't go anywhere.
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