WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.560 Hell, everybody to the facilities of the iHeartMedia Megaplexis is 2 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:06.120 Dick Gabriel. This is the state wide edition of the 3 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.640 Big Blue Insidet. You've heard comments from Vince Merrow as 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.679 well as Nick menngeone. Now's your chance to settle in 5 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.079 and listen to more football chatter and some basketball as well. 6 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.440 Aaron Gershan of the Cat's Palls, Billy Rutledge from right 7 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:22.920 here in the studio, and Jeff Picoro the UK Network 8 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:25.440 will join us right here on the state wide BBI 9 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.320 border to order. It is the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel, 10 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:33.920 Billy Rutleds, Aaron ger sean Kentucky Tennessee coming up. It 11 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.439 used to be the last game of the year, and 12 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:41.399 that changed a long time ago. And it used to 13 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.439 be that Tennessee would just run a pro style offense 14 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.960 or a grind it that running style and for the 15 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.679 longest time beat Kentucky every year. Well that changed a 16 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:53.920 while back. That's changed when Joker Phillips was here. But 17 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:58.719 of late Aaron gershwan Tennessee sat Kentucky's number. There have 18 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.079 been some interesting games. We had a couple of Kentucky 19 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:06.319 wins twenty twenty, and I want to say seventy eleven. 20 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.599 That's right, should have been twenty eighteen as well. Oh yeah, 21 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:10.239 they went down the. 22 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.439 Last game I've ever been to, second to last I 23 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.560 think college football game i've been to just as a fan, Yeah, 24 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.239 as media, sitting in the upper deck at Neeland Stadium, 25 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:21.560 fully expecting. 26 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:25.040 Really cold night, for freezing night, and yeah, Tennessee kids 27 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.400 came out bare chested to warm up right and like, 28 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:29.120 look at us. 29 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:31.519 And that was a five and seven Tennessee team. I 30 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.480 think that was five wins, got vacated later on and 31 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:37.239 they dominated can win Kentucky team, and they had I 32 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:39.400 think the tailor kid who's I think he's still in 33 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.120 the NFL, had three sacks and Kentucky's offense couldn't do 34 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:43.959 a darn thing, and the defense give up a hail 35 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.400 Mary at the end of the first half. 36 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:48.000 To me, the most interesting though, was I think it 37 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:50.840 was the COVID year where it was back and forth 38 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:53.239 a little bit, and then Kentucky just kicked their buttet the. 39 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.680 Two pick sixes back to back in the second quarter 40 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:56.480 and then they. 41 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.640 Well know then I'm thinking of seventeen, Yes, seventeen seventeen 42 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:01.599 was was back and well that was the game that Yeah, 43 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:03.599 Stephen Johnson had to leap into the end zone to 44 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.680 win it. Well, then I'm there's a what was a 45 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.840 game down in Knoxville where they just destroyed him. 46 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.159 In twenty twenty they did, but it was it was 47 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:13.800 they already had the pick six. Yeah, they had the 48 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:15.759 pick six. It was the second quarter, it was I 49 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.520 think it was. I think they fell behind seven to 50 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:20.599 nothing or something, and then they outscored the thirty four 51 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:23.120 to seven urst away. But yeah, those are the only 52 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.199 three wins over Tennessee in my lifetime. And I think 53 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:27.319 Billies as well. Yeah, not a lot. 54 00:02:27.719 --> 00:02:31.080 I do remember the twenty twenty year because I was 55 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.360 I wasn't on the broadcast yet, and I was listening 56 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.840 on a golf course and we could not well, of course, 57 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:36.719 what was happening. 58 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.319 I was in a hotel room in indeed, doing a 59 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:40.919 little staycation. 60 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:46.159 Trip up there. Okay, Well, I just am so befuddled 61 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.479 by this Kentucky team, and I went to the little 62 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:53.319 gathering the nineteen eighty four team had on Friday night 63 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.840 at the stadium, and that was the topic of conversation 64 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.520 about this current Kentucky team because of course you know, 65 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.919 they all have ownership and rightly so. And they're like 66 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:07.000 talking amongst each other, talking to me, talking to jeppecorl 67 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.879 what in the bleep is going on? And I wish 68 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:16.080 I had an answer. Yeah, because the team that held 69 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:21.039 its own against Georgia and played almost it's not perfect, 70 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:23.960 but played about as well as you can play at 71 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.080 Ole Miss and then what happens. Yeah, and not only that, 72 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.879 you could draw a couple of parallels between Florida and Vandy. 73 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:37.960 I think the way they lost those games, this one 74 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:43.439 was this one was gashing the defense for huge chunk running. 75 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:45.960 Yeah, they couldn't stop the run. And look, I'm not 76 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.039 going to make excuses, but it is important to note 77 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:50.599 the second half when dark quest Hunter just ate, what 78 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:52.080 do you have? Two hundred seventy eight yards? I think 79 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.319 he broke an opponent record at Crokerfield. No d RK 80 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:58.240 Jackson and no there's another guy who's out the weaver 81 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.840 can have Weaver, thank you, But we're that said to 82 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.599 allow got to run for two seventy eight it's embarrassing 83 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:07.919 and it's I mean, this Kentucky defense two weeks ago 84 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:09.680 is ranked number ten in the country in run defense. 85 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.400 They're up to fifty second in a matter of two weeks. 86 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.400 And this is Look, I know they didn't give up 87 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.240 huge numbers on the ground, but a guy ran for 88 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.839 five touchdowns in the first start against them at Florida too, 89 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:21.279 So the run defense has taken a huge step back, 90 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.480 which is probably more shocking to me than anything else 91 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.000 because that you look at the defensive front there, I 92 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.399 mean NFL guys, two or three NFL guys in one 93 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.079 first round pick on that line, and then the two 94 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:35.079 inside linebackers are NFL guys. So it's just it's been 95 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:37.920 stunning how much they've regressed in that aspect. But to me, 96 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.000 it still starts and fends with this offense. Oh yeah, 97 00:04:41.319 --> 00:04:43.639 if I haven't scored more than twenty points an SEC play, 98 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:46.160 you're not gonna It's amazing they have an SEC win with. 99 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.680 That stat and that starts with the old line one hundred, 100 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.079 you know. But there's also quarterback drama. 101 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:53.839 Now, which we can get into that. 102 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:55.759 Yeah, I will. 103 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:58.519 Say, you hold your hat on, you know, the things 104 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.560 that you can rely on during tough time times, and 105 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.079 usually that's been run defense in the past, not lately, 106 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:05.680 and it's just you look back and you. 107 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:06.759 Beat Old Miss on the road. 108 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:08.879 Then you have a bye week, Dick, and you look 109 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:11.399 at the schedule ahead and it's like three winnable games. 110 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:14.680 You could set up a huge matchup against Tennessee, and 111 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.920 now it feels like the season's over. I mean, they 112 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.319 can still be bull eligible, but you've got to pull 113 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.839 off a huge upset in one of these next three weeks. 114 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:24.199 You have to do some things that you have already 115 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.240 shown you may be incapable of doing. 116 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.399 That's right, and then you still got Louisville at the 117 00:05:28.480 --> 00:05:31.120 end of it. You know, Aaron's chomping at the bit 118 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.279 to talk quarterbacks, but you know it's that was a 119 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.000 head scratching thing and all this and it's just it's 120 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:38.959 been the whole year, and I feel like at times 121 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:41.439 we've all scratched our head together and said, why is 122 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.319 this happening? Because, like you just started, Dick, one point 123 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.279 game versus Georgia beating Old Miss on the road, you 124 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:50.319 can't call those flukes. Those are great teams that they beat, 125 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.240 so like for them to turn around and play like this, 126 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:55.680 it's hard not to think that maybe some guys have 127 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:56.519 given up as well. 128 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:01.639 Yeah, and you wonder to use an overused term, but 129 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:04.399 it's but Vince Merrill brought it up because he said, 130 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:06.800 we've got some really good leaders on this team. Well, 131 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.519 this week is the stiffest test they've had in years 132 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.839 at Kentucky. But my question is how well we'll get 133 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.560 to your topic in a moment erin But this is 134 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:20.600 part of it. The quarterback's got to be a leader. 135 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.519 That's got to be a leadership position, and Brock Vanderft 136 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:27.439 hasn't shied away from that. You're inside linebackers. Those are 137 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.439 your quarterbacks on the field. You need I think something 138 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.240 in the back four. And the best guy they've got, 139 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:37.480 Maxwell Harriston, may not play again this week. You know 140 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:40.240 where is it? Eli Cox, I think is doing the 141 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.720 best he can up front trying to hold that line together. 142 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:44.040 Yep. 143 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.000 So the guys who need to dig down and drag 144 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.879 their teammates with them, you know, can they get it done? 145 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.199 Especially when you're talking about a quarterback who came through 146 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:58.120 the portal, a linebacker who came through the portal, who 147 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:01.800 don't have as much sweat in equity involved in the team. 148 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:02.879 That's what I wonder that. 149 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.839 Those are the two issues right, your leaders yet One, yes, 150 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.240 they're new to this program. They haven't been around like 151 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:12.360 the Dane Keys or the Eli Cox's, the Dereck Jackson's 152 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.399 And that's one thing. But two guys, you have to 153 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:18.839 lead by example too, and that means playing really good football. 154 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:21.800 And a lot of their leaders. I think Eli's playing 155 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:22.959 as well as you can, but you look at that 156 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:25.439 offensive line, it's hard to, you know, give too much 157 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.399 stock into his play. Rock Vandergriff has been up and down. 158 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.920 Jam and dukemus Johnson's played really well, but how much 159 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:36.439 of a leader is he? I don't know. Derick Jackson 160 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.399 is just such a quiet, soft spoken guy, and then 161 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.839 Max Harrison's not on the field, Chip Trainum's not on 162 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.759 the field like you have to have your leaders not 163 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.720 only show up in the locker room and know the culture, 164 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:51.439 but go out there and play well. Those are the 165 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:55.240 best type of leaders. You saw it Auburn. I heard 166 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.079 all week that their leader was fifteen on defense two sacks. Yeah, 167 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:02.000 pretty good, Dark West a captain, that's pretty good. 168 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:02.240 Yea. 169 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.279 I know they're having a tough season, so maybe not 170 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:05.680 the best example, but you're going to go up against 171 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:08.680 Tennessee next week. Their leaders are those veterans on the 172 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:11.000 defensive line, and boy if they played well this year. 173 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.839 So it's tough. It's a balance between knowing the culture 174 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.040 and playing and being effective, and you're not really getting 175 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:21.319 either of that, which is tough. 176 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:24.240 Yeah, But the discouraging thing is is the same issues 177 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.800 keep popping up, like there are. There are some games 178 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.680 where one thing can lead to another, and you can 179 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:30.759 accept that. But if I go through another game and 180 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.240 Kentucky loses the middle eight, then I'm just gonna freak out. 181 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.480 I mean, if we go through another game and we 182 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.919 can't score, I'm inside the five yard line, I'm gonna freak. 183 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:40.200 Out like this. 184 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.360 These are things that should. 185 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:44.440 Have been corrected and then you can move on and 186 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:46.399 work on something else. But when you don't correct them 187 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.240 at all, then you're just what's stuck in neutral? I 188 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:50.879 feel like that's a term that's been used a couple 189 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:51.320 of times. 190 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:54.279 But how do you correct from game to game different opponents. 191 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.720 I do think obviously you can correct some things on 192 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:00.639 the O line in terms of blocking technique and things 193 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:04.360 like that, but if they're just not good enough to 194 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.039 move Auburn's D line, if they're not good enough to 195 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:12.039 move Tennessee's D line. You know, I'm not because you 196 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:14.480 know the other kids, they get scholarships too, you know, 197 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.919 so if they're how do you fix that? That's the 198 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.000 to me, the most frustrating thing, and I can't just 199 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:20.879 you'll play better. 200 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:24.879 Well, I think was it somebody that mentioned it today? 201 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.080 Maybe they passed the ball more a little bit when 202 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:28.759 they're down on the goal line. You switch up the 203 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.480 play calling in the same past. 204 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:33.559 To Barrion Brown early in the game, was it first 205 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:35.960 or second drive, came around and would look like a 206 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.519 jet sweep, didn't get the ball and he kind of 207 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.080 looks deep and then he I don't know if he 208 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:41.960 was a safety valve or what, but he swings it 209 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.679 to Brown, got him in full stride. Good pass by 210 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.919 Brock and he takes it for like eight yards. And 211 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.039 I think I was talking with Darren about this. Suddenly 212 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.279 it's second and two, not second and nine or whatever, 213 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:56.879 and I thought, well, that's you know, maybe that's something 214 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:57.720 we're going to see tonight. 215 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.960 Nope, Nope, you know, and that's a good play call 216 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:02.600 on first down and not fourth and five, right, like 217 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:05.639 we've seen bubble screens on fourth be huge. 218 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:06.799 Fourth down play calls. 219 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.679 So it's just it's kind of been across the board 220 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.879 and not really one position group that you can blame. 221 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:13.919 And I thought, like the running back situation was really difficult. 222 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.679 You're down Demi, who's been great all year, Ship who 223 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.399 you know, spend whatever, but you got them back for 224 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:23.000 a week, lose them. So you have two freshmen in there, 225 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:26.279 but I thought both of them deserve chances to keep 226 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.159 it going and see if they can keep their momentum going. 227 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:31.159 I mean, Jamarion Wilcox take all the off the field 228 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.200 stuff out for a second first play of the game. 229 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.519 He gets basically stopped at the line of scrimmage, but 230 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:37.279 he's able to just keep his feet going and gives 231 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.279 you seven yards and then he subbed out right away. 232 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:41.639 It's like, let him build some momentum. And then Jason 233 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:45.200 Patterson had a I think fifteen or twenty yard run 234 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.799 that set him up for that touchdown that Wilcox scored. 235 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:50.720 He had one more carry the rest of. 236 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.720 The game, first seven carries, Like why. 237 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.799 Like these kids are like, again, I get it, the 238 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:58.720 offensive line's not great. You want to be balanced and 239 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:00.840 show that you can throw the ball to recruits whatever, 240 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.720 But like it's working. Why are you going away from 241 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.919 one of the few things you do well. I'll never understand. 242 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.080 I think they had thirty three plays in the first 243 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:12.840 half and only seven went to them. Again, you know, 244 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:15.159 it could be that there was the opportunity to run 245 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.960 more if there were a run pass option situation. That's 246 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.480 got to keep reminding myself is you know, did they 247 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.679 have the opportunity to run more and the quarterback, whether 248 00:11:24.679 --> 00:11:29.200 it's Whimsit or Brock, decides no, I got to pull 249 00:11:29.240 --> 00:11:32.320 it and go. That's always an issue when we talk 250 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.159 about the passing game. I don't know how to read defenses. 251 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.720 Jeff does upstairs, and he's always talking about he has 252 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.399 so and so wide open, but if he's running for 253 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:45.919 his life, you know. But other people have said to 254 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:49.320 Jeff Man, your quarterback locks onto his receivers, which is 255 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.000 I think a problem. 256 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:51.840 It is a problem. 257 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:53.519 We asked Bush Hampden about that today. 258 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:54.600 Yeah, and he didn't. 259 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.440 He kind of danced through, right, he said, he said, 260 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.120 you know, that's an experienced thing. And again the first 261 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:02.120 year starter, but if you've only got one and a 262 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.159 half seconds to look downfield, you know, what are your 263 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.000 progressions If you can get one, maybe two, and now 264 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.600 you're in trouble. So how do you how do you 265 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:14.320 make a decision? 266 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:16.320 Yeah, and then there's been a lot of issues this year, 267 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.279 there's no doubt. But I did not think in a 268 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:22.679 tie game it was time to switch the quarterback position. 269 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:23.279 That was weird. 270 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.440 Okay. My big thing is this Gavin went I'm not 271 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:32.679 trying to crap on Gavin Wimbsett at all. He's a guy. 272 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.279 We know who he is. Like he played. He was 273 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:37.559 a two year starter at Rutgers with a forty nine 274 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.799 percent completion percentage. He can run the football. But you 275 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:42.679 go to the first half when he came in for 276 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:46.559 his run place he ran for one yard total, three carries. 277 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.600 So Auburn had number two circle, they knew what he 278 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.120 was going to do. He took one deep shot, didn't 279 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:55.720 even get close to anything. Okay, so you know what 280 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.559 you're getting in Gavin Wimbstt. It's not and I'm not 281 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:59.480 advocating like, oh, if you're gonna ben h play Cutter 282 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.360 Bowly because with this offensive line, you cannot put Cutter 283 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.840 Bowley out there and ruin his confidence forever. But if 284 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:08.039 you had a backup, that was I don't know. I'm 285 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.039 not saying bow Allen, but a guy like bo Allen 286 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:14.080 where he has played multiple years, maybe he's like like 287 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.840 a Brock Vandergriff resume where he's just been a career 288 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.360 backup waiting for his moment. But he's a veteran then 289 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.799 that I'd understand. But a guy where you know what 290 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.840 he is and you know he's not going to help 291 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.639 you become a more accurate passing offense. And the moment. 292 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.559 When Kentucky has had success in offense, it's because Rock 293 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.279 Vandergriffs played really good football Ole Miss. They won because 294 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:38.399 Brock Vandergriff played from offensively. Brock Vandergriff made the big 295 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.519 plays when they needed him to, made the big play 296 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:42.200 to Dame Key in the end zone, made the great 297 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.120 play on the forty three yard bomb that ended up 298 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.679 going sixty three, whatever it was. I mean, just he 299 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:50.840 was the reason they won that game. Why are you 300 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.240 doing that to him when he's been the only like 301 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.360 whenever there's any success for this offense, he's in the 302 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:58.240 middle of it. I get you want. 303 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:59.960 To He's not bad in the quarterback run game. 304 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:02.679 No, he's better than Whimsett in my opinion, it just. 305 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:04.279 Because they don't expect it from him. 306 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:07.399 Right to me, it's just it's it was just a poor, 307 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.759 poor decision. They don't they don't have that guy. Wemsatch 308 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:13.600 is not the guy you go to in that situation. 309 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:15.600 We were talking it was a one like Philly' said, 310 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:16.440 a one score game. 311 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:19.600 Yeah, but we were talking in the previous show with 312 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.600 Darren about when you have seen Vandergriff given time to 313 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:27.480 throw the ball, he does fine. I mean, look look 314 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.399 at the play you just referenced, the deep bought of 315 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.360 Barian Brown. I've watched that maybe three or four times. 316 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.639 He drops back, sets to his feet and throws deep. 317 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.919 It's a perfect throw because the pocket was clean. 318 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:44.559 He had some good throws in this Fandy at Auburn 319 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.759 game early, I mean the one that Dan Dank. He 320 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.120 made some great catches, but they were put They were 321 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.200 putting spots where only he could get it. Yeah, there 322 00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.080 was a play even the second quarter where the second 323 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:54.720 quarter might have been what got him banks because he 324 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.720 threw that awful interception, right and excusable, but that throw 325 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:00.600 a hardly Gilmour on the sideline was a beautiful Yeah, Like, 326 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.919 why are you taking this kid out? And again, like 327 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.320 you said, Billy, it was seventeen to ten, like you're 328 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:08.200 a score away? 329 00:15:08.879 --> 00:15:10.840 Is it you're trying to get a spark? Is that 330 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:12.000 the Devil's advocate of this? 331 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:15.480 Yes, but it's to me it's and that I get. 332 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.240 But again, why Gavin Wimst's because not we know what 333 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:20.840 Gavin Wimster is. It's not like we don't know. It's 334 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:22.840 not like he is Brock Vandergriff where were going into 335 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:24.320 the year we didn't really know. It's not like he 336 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.720 was what Will Levice was in twenty twenty one where 337 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.840 we didn't really know, or even Joey Gatewood when they 338 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:31.440 tried him in twenty twenty. Like I'm just saying we 339 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.600 didn't know what he was, right, We know what Gavin. 340 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:35.600 You knew what the rep was, but you didn't really 341 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:36.080 know what you. 342 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.000 Had right where Gavin Wimst has nineteen games of starting 343 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.600 experience and he's played against elite defenses like you saw 344 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:42.440 on Saturday. 345 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:43.960 Joey Gatewood, that's a name. 346 00:15:44.039 --> 00:15:47.320 Yeah, but I'm sad touchdown. 347 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:49.240 Those are the type of backups and I would have 348 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.080 been okay with And that spot is my point. 349 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.600 Well, step back, come back and talk more football and 350 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.240 some basketball. Jefpikoro joins us at the bottom of the 351 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:59.080 hour here on the state wide BBI from Pikeville to 352 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.240 Paduca game. Really are gerseean Billy rud Ledge, Welcome back 353 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:04.039 to the state wide Big Blue Inside are going to 354 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.279 shift over to basketballs that you came in play tomorrow night. 355 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.080 No exhibition games for the women this year, so they 356 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.240 will remain a mystery for a while. But as Darren 357 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.200 and I were talking earlier, you hang a seventy one 358 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.440 point win on somebody, I don't care if it's States 359 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:24.080 Creek Junior High. You've played well. And I thought that 360 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:26.480 A lot of people said this on on social media. 361 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:29.759 Kentucky did what a good team should I'm not ready 362 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:34.039 to anoint them, but did what a good team should 363 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.039 do in a situation like that. It's just good to 364 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:39.000 go out there if you're Mark Pope and now you 365 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:39.960 get video to study. 366 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:40.159 Right. 367 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.120 Yeah, No, they played great and they took care of business. 368 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:45.360 But yeah, seventy one. I think it is the fourth 369 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.559 largest margin of victory and exhibition in UK history, So. 370 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:50.639 It's amazing they have such a stat But why not? 371 00:16:50.799 --> 00:16:51.080 Why not? 372 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:51.240 Oh? 373 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.679 Big bluehistory dot Com has everything. Oh yeah, shout out 374 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:53.960 to them. 375 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.080 But even if they didn't, Corey Price would dig it. 376 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:58.360 Corey Price would too. Yeah, those those are the two 377 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:01.840 outlets for it. But yeah, I mean I thought I 378 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:05.799 was just so it was such a fun watch, right 379 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.359 where the offense, they're moving so quickly, they're just chucking 380 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.720 up threes. They're they're not a lot of them aren't 381 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.519 like stupid shots either, Like they created space with their 382 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:17.640 ball movement and got some open looks, had some you know, 383 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:20.319 slightly contested looks like there weren't that many threes where 384 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:22.519 it's like no, no, no, no, what are you doing 385 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:24.960 like they were, and they passed them up that were open. 386 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.160 That bothered Pope after the game. So that was a 387 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:31.160 very very fun style of basketball. And I think the 388 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:32.920 I think I take more out of the you know, 389 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:35.000 I think you can get something out of that. The defense, 390 00:17:35.039 --> 00:17:36.839 it's a little hard to tell because they are playing 391 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.480 such lesser teams. And there were some open looks that 392 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:48.720 Wesleyan oops missed. He's that's our daddy right now. Angry, but. 393 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:52.920 Angry. There's some Chinese food. 394 00:17:52.960 --> 00:18:02.079 Now I'm sick to my stomach. But as I'm saying, no, Defensively, Freddy. 395 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:03.480 Freeman so rudely interrupted. 396 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:07.039 You just trying to ruin my life this week, but 397 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:12.000 such a nice guy too, not this week. But yeah 398 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.720 again defensively, I want to still see what this team's 399 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.799 all about. I mean, it was obviously the mont Butler 400 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.519 having six deals really impressive. Mark Williams did some good things. 401 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.480