WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:07.040 It's time for coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:30.280 Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee. Now 3 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:34.399 back to coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's on Sports 4 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:35.640 Talk seven nine day. 5 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:37.159 That wasn't supposed to play. 6 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:40.920 Sorry, I got distracted during the commercial break there, but 7 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.759 now you know we already had the voiceover go. I 8 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:46.560 tell you once, now I told you twice, so there's 9 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:48.240 no excuse for you to not know what you're listening to. 10 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:50.759 It's coffee and Company fuel. But Thornton's right here on 11 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.320 Sports Talk seven ninety. I got a little distracted because 12 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:58.280 I do find myself questioning my ability to be objective 13 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.640 and fair. I've kind of been in this spot for 14 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:05.480 the last, you know, a couple months, and it's been 15 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:08.000 discussed right like Louisville football. I can't tell you that 16 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:10.879 I believe that they're being disrespected. I can't tell you 17 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:13.560 that they're going to shock the world and prove a 18 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.159 bunch of you know, haters wrong, because I'm not really 19 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.920 sure they have many haters. Them being right outside the 20 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:22.760 top twenty five makes total sense, especially considering, you know, 21 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.560 anytime you really depend on the transfer portal in a 22 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.159 major way, like Jeff Brohm has done the last two years. 23 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.200 You really never know. Right. Last year worked out well. 24 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:35.359 They brought in a good mix of transfers that really 25 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:37.280 helped them have a great first season of the brom Era. 26 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:39.719 No reason to think that can't happen this year. But again, 27 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:44.000 you never know. They also started the season nine to 28 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.519 one and then lost three straight games, and these were 29 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.359 games where they were actually supposed to win. 30 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:52.760 I mean, I don't remember. 31 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.599 I could just be completely wrong here, but weren't they 32 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:57.760 favored against Florida State given the circumstances. 33 00:01:59.000 --> 00:01:59.359 I don't know. 34 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.840 Maybe I'm wrong with that because Florida State, even without 35 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:04.040 Jordan Travis like, they were still a team. 36 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:05.680 That everybody viewed to be a lot better than Louisville 37 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:06.040 I think. 38 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:08.840 But I know they were favorite against USC and they 39 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.520 were certainly favorite against Kentucky and they lost. So you know, 40 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:17.919 had they won one of those three, maybe they'd be 41 00:02:17.919 --> 00:02:21.000 in the top twenty five. So again I find myself 42 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.360 having these urges like, let me give you the latest example. 43 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:27.560 There's an email that came in from betonline dot ag 44 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:32.120 that gives us the odds for the passing leaders in 45 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:39.199 each Power four conference and there are eight quarterbacks listed 46 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.759 ahead of Tyler Shuck as far as the best odds 47 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.319 to lead the ACC in passing yards, And I'm thinking, 48 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.439 that's well, they got against my guy, Tyler Shuck. I've 49 00:02:48.439 --> 00:02:50.199 never watched Tyler Shuck play. I have no problem telling you 50 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.879 guys that, but you know, I'm feeling like he's going 51 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:55.960 to be way better than that, And it's like, what 52 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.039 am I basing that off of? Just me being a 53 00:02:58.080 --> 00:02:59.919 fandel Again, I think he does have a really good arm, 54 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:03.520 and I think if he's healthy, he has shown that 55 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:05.960 he's a guy that can be more. 56 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:07.719 Than just a serviceable quarterback. He's a guy you can 57 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:08.120 win with. 58 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:10.199 And they're not going to use him the way that 59 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.919 the other coaches used him at Texas Tech in Oregon. 60 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.800 So I have good reason to feel good about Tyler Shuck, 61 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:20.159 but like again, putting him at fourteen to one odds 62 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.560 to lead the ACC in passing yards with cam Ward 63 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:27.199 at the top, Haines King at Georgia Tech, Kate Club, 64 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.479 Nick Clemson, Grayson McCallen, C State, Preston Stone, SMU dj 65 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:33.560 Ugala Leiley. 66 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:34.400 Florida State. 67 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.039 Although he's always stunk like, why does he still continue 68 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.120 to get like benefit of that. Dj Ugla Leley's been 69 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.520 in the acc before and he was lousy Malik Murphy 70 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.759 at Duke like those are all the guys ahead of him, 71 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.840 and like it's not blasphemy, it's not you know, criminal 72 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.680 to have shuck where they have him. 73 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:53.080 But I don't know. 74 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.479 I think more than anything, as I give myself sort 75 00:03:55.479 --> 00:03:58.120 of a self psychological diagnosis here, I think I'm just 76 00:03:58.199 --> 00:03:59.280 like I got the bron fever. 77 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:00.120 That's what it is. 78 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.919 You know, I've always tried to be and I say 79 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.479 this being serious. I know at times, I you know, 80 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.879 can be sarcastic, like I'm a Louisville fan one thousand percent. 81 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:15.280 Have never shied away from that. In fact, sometimes I'll 82 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:17.639 be honest, right, I'm a Louisville fan, but I'll tell 83 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:18.879 you what I think things are bad. 84 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:19.439 I'll say it. 85 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.439 And that led to people thinking, oh, no, he's you 86 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:24.439 guys heard the lineup on seven ninety guys a UK fan. 87 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:26.160 They just they just told him not like a Louisville fan, 88 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:27.439 so they can have, you know, a little bit of 89 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:31.279 both fan bases. I saw him at lunch with Matt 90 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:33.519 Jones one day, he's in no way he's a Louisville fan. 91 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:37.000 So like you know, I try to be really objective 92 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:39.519 and just tell you like it is and also no 93 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:42.000 deep down like I do have an allegiance as a fan, 94 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.680 like I'm a Louisville fan. I want to see him 95 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:45.480 do well. I want to see Kentucky lose every game. 96 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.439 But I can also at least I try to be 97 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:51.720 objective about both sides. That I'll take my digs when 98 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:53.800 I can get them in about Kentucky because you know 99 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:56.079 it's part of the rivalry. But I'll be honest at 100 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.319 least I try to be he's best I can. And 101 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.000 now is being closer to football season, I kind of 102 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.519 I find myself wondering. 103 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.319 Like are you are you? Are you turning into the 104 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:07.120 ultimate honk here? Like are you are you being? Are you? 105 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:11.319 Are you a fanboy? Which what's wrong with being a fanboy? 106 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:15.240 I mean there is a very high negative stigmatism, I 107 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.519 guess with being a fan boy. 108 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:18.519 I think it's just what it sounds like. Yeah, it's 109 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:20.040 it's just so demeaning, right. 110 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.439 Yes, it sounds like you have, you know, all of 111 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.720 your eggs in one basket. When it comes to just 112 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:26.279 like you know, you can do no wrong with the 113 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:27.040 team that you like. 114 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:33.240 Yeah, And when I think of fanboy, I think of 115 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.839 someone honestly, well, I don't know, I don't mind. I 116 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:38.000 was going to go down a path we don't need 117 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.279 to go down. When I think a fanboy, I think 118 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:47.759 of someone who is unwilling to criticize their team, their 119 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:53.279 coach at any point, and they always play the disrespect 120 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:58.519 card and always act as if there's a conspiracy to 121 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.319 you know, hurt their program in some way or discredit 122 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.240 their program. And when their team loses, you know, it 123 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.160 was about the rest like that. When I when I 124 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.000 think of what a fan boy is, that's what I 125 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.040 think of. And there's no mirror in here. But am 126 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:15.399 I looking at Do I need to look at one? 127 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:18.120 Because I mean I don't feel like and I know 128 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.439 that there hasn't been a lot for you know, and 129 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:22.639 especially when you when it comes to Louisville basketball, for 130 00:06:22.680 --> 00:06:24.920 you to be truly upset about other than I mean, 131 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:26.480 you could be upset about what with the team, but 132 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.800 like in terms of like a controversial play call a 133 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.839 reason to be upset about a loss, I don't think 134 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.439 I've seen that side of Nick calls. 135 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.399 You mean football, No, you said basketball. 136 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.399 Well, I was referring to just in general, the fan 137 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.040 boyinous of your you tube in general. 138 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.279 Yeah, So like last year, I think I was. I 139 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:42.199 guess I was geeked up because it was. 140 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:43.879 Just a fun ride at the first year, right and 141 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:47.680 they were already had a schedule. I mean again, I 142 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.560 felt uncomfortable knowing they were in the midst midway through 143 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.759 of a very special season, and I wasn't thinking about 144 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:55.279 this is going to be a special year. We're going 145 00:06:55.319 --> 00:06:57.000 to remember forever. They might make the playoff, Like I 146 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:58.959 was just thinking like, hell, yeah, this is awesome. Man, 147 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.600 there's life back in the foot ball fan base. Satterfield 148 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:03.759 wasn't an awful coach, but I think it was pretty 149 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:05.600 clear we we capped out with him and it was 150 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:07.600 only going to get more difficult to win with him. 151 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:11.600 So now you know, if they don't meet expectation, like 152 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:12.279 we're gonna. 153 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:12.680 Have to be critical. 154 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.839 And one thing I do like about like you know, 155 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.800 because I've had there's been coaches that have been here. 156 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.519 Not to say that I was ever on their minds, 157 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:22.240 but like you know, they didn't like me because I 158 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:24.680 was honest, maybe among other things, I don't know. Maybe 159 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.160 they don't like me because of other things. I don't know, 160 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:30.600 But you know, like with Jeff brom if people if 161 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.680 Louisville stunk this year and they were like six and six, 162 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:37.040 clearly way below expectation, that would be it would be 163 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:39.399 it'd be a bad sign. That would be concerning, right. 164 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:41.879 I guess it's possible. But like if anybody was out 165 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:44.560 there trying to act like things weren't bad and they 166 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.199 had a platform like this one, Jeff Brown wouldn't respect 167 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.720 them because you know, he would know that that's just 168 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.040 people kissing his ass. 169 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:51.439 So I do. 170 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.480 I do like the fact that both coaches, I think 171 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:57.439 Pat Kelsey, who I don't know as well as Jeff, 172 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:00.240 but you know, from what I can gather, I think 173 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:04.240 they are very excited about the you know, Jeff's a 174 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.279 little different, he's one of us, but I think they 175 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:09.480 love that. Fans do always have high expectations, right, and 176 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:12.480 you don't have coaches they, let's be honest, Centerfield would 177 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.720 act as if fans we were over the top and 178 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:18.920 out of line for expecting more than what he gave us. 179 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.759 Like it sounds mean, but like he had a lot 180 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.279 of loser in him, and like that's not how these 181 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.680 coaches are wired. So like, even when the criticism is there, 182 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.439 I think these guys are gonna be so bothered by it, 183 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.000 so driven to win to where they're not gonna listen 184 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.639 to it. They're gonna and they're gonna know that it's 185 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:38.159 out there, and they're gonna probably think that it's expected, right, Like, 186 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.360 you don't want somebody that's going out of their way 187 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.440 to create negativity. And that's what people accuse me of 188 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:47.039 doing with Kenny Payne. No, that guy did it all himself. 189 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:49.000 Like you think I had anything to do with the 190 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.600 many disasters from a pr standpoint that Louis of basketball 191 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.080 went through during that era. I know by the way 192 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:58.440 they lost a lot, they never won. So this year 193 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.120 is gonna be different with Jeff because the expectations are there, 194 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.639 like it or not. And what I do know is 195 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.360 that he likes it. He wouldn't want I mean, he 196 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.679 can't control it, right, you can't control what expectations are 197 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:09.840 nationally or even from your own fan base. But like 198 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:11.879 if fans were like, man, I just hope we get 199 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.559 to a Bowl game this year, Like if Jeff heard 200 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.279 somebody say that he might punch him in the mouth. 201 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:20.159 Probably not, because you know he wouldn't do that. That'd 202 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:21.519 be a no no. But you know what I mean. 203 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:25.080 So I just need football season to start because I'm 204 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.720 getting more and more like, you know, I'm questioning myself, like, hey, 205 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.559 why am I feeling so Why am I being so 206 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.960 thin skinned to people not putting more love on Louisville's name. 207 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.440 And here's the thing, they're not. Like it'd be different 208 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.279 if somebody said they're going to be a five and seventeam. 209 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.200 In fact, the AP voters put Louisville at twenty six. Right, 210 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.639 they're the first team outside of the top twenty five, 211 00:09:45.679 --> 00:09:48.039 which means if they take care of business, right, if 212 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.720 they end up getting passed, I say getting passed, I 213 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.679 mean they they should curb stomp Austin p and Jacksonville State. 214 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.279 And when they do that, because of just losses that 215 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.159 are gonna happen within the top twenty five, by the 216 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.480 time they get to week three, their first against a 217 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:04.840 conference opponent, they'll be ranked. And once again we're looking 218 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:08.000 at that Notre Dame game. You start, you should start 219 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.759 three and zero. Notre Dame should also start three. And 220 00:10:10.759 --> 00:10:12.679 although I think they have Texas A and M beforehand, 221 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:14.879 and that one probably won't be it won't be built 222 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:16.559 up like last year. But still that'll be a big 223 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:19.120 opportunity to go get a big win in South Bend 224 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:22.240 and then from there. Sim used this team that people 225 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.840 think is going to be, you know, super competitive right 226 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:29.519 away in the ACC. So you know, I think Louisville 227 00:10:29.559 --> 00:10:34.919 being at twenty sixth is probably right on track with 228 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.720 what a lot of people expected objectively, because again, despite 229 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.200 the special season, they didn't win their last three games, 230 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.399 and they were expected to win at least two of those. 231 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.679 And again I thought, because of the Florida state situation 232 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.679 with and look, let's be real, they could have won 233 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:49.120 that game. 234 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:50.799 I mean, that was It. 235 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:52.159 Was one of those games where you reminded you had 236 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:53.840 you had to remind yourself, Oh yeah, we got a 237 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:57.360 quarterback that you know, in the worst out there, but man, 238 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.480 he doesn't come through when we need him at times. 239 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.360 And that's that's Jack Plumber, which, by the way, I 240 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.360 didn't watch a second of his preseason game for the 241 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:10.840 Panthers on Thursday, but I just did a quick search 242 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.559 to see, like, HM, wonder what people are talking about 243 00:11:13.559 --> 00:11:15.080 with Jack Plumber. I know he got some reps for 244 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:18.320 the Panthers in their first preseason game. Good god, I mean, 245 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.919 Panthers fans were ruthless. He must not have played well. 246 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:22.399 I haven't even looked at the stats. Maybe we should 247 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.440 pull it up here to see what Jack Plumber did 248 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:26.000 in his first game. 249 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:28.200 But I don't know. 250 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.279 Like he's clearly not a great quarterback. He does not 251 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:33.840 have a future in the NFL, I don't think. But 252 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.240 for some reason, I feel like any other quarterback could 253 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:44.840 have a similar bad throw, bad play, bonehead move, and Plumber, 254 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:48.000 for some reason, just is a bigger target for people. 255 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.960 They just unload on him. See what he did here 256 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.480 now now I'm curious to see what he did. 257 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:54.279 I see it right now. 258 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:56.759 It's not as bad as you'd expect based on you 259 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.279 saying the backlash. But he threw it twenty one times, 260 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.360 he complete little seven times, no interceptions, but no touchdowns either, 261 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:03.360 only eighty six yards. 262 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:05.240 And that's what's crazy is he was an All acc 263 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.600 guy last year, like third team I think it was, 264 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.639 and his numbers at the end of every game you'd 265 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.200 look down and they weren't bad. In fact, sometimes they 266 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.200 were pretty good, but you'd watch them and you'd know, like, hey, 267 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:23.039 that's a little misleading. So anyways, no more Jack Plalmer. 268 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:24.600 Now we got Tyler Shuck and I think he's going 269 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.600 to have a special season. All right, this is some 270 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:28.399 sound I wanted to play for you guys earlier, but 271 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.440 I didn't get around to it just yet. You want 272 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.200 to hear from the man himself, mister Jeff Brohms. So 273 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.480 he talked after practice on Saturday, which was a scrimmage. 274 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:39.519 They had their first legitimate scrimmage of fall camp. They 275 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:41.360 do a handful of these. I'm pretty sure every program 276 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.679 in the country does this to where they try as 277 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:46.399 best they can to replicate a real game situation in camp. 278 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:48.320 They bring in refs. I'm not sure how. 279 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:51.120 I'm sure different I'm sure different programs keep scoring differently, 280 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.480 or maybe they don't keep score. But this is where, 281 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.919 until you get to a game, you get a chance 282 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.879 as a player to actually, okay, under the lights, real 283 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.759 game situation again, as close as you can get. This 284 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.200 is where you have a chance to show what you 285 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.559 can do. And knowing what I know about Jeff, I 286 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:09.559 feel like he's somebody that you know what you see 287 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.399 is what you get. Like, I don't think he's being 288 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:15.559 I don't think he's being super strategic here to try 289 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:16.559 to motivate his guys. 290 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:17.799 I think he is knowing. 291 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:19.600 I think he's being honest, and I think he probably 292 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:21.679 knows that by saying this, he is going to motivate him. 293 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.480 But you know, he says he needs more playmakers out there. 294 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.440 You know, even new guys of the teams, they've emerged 295 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:30.639 in fall camp and they did it today. So that 296 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.080 was good guys who maybe needed a chance in a 297 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:39.360 scrimmage setting to step out and newly emerged did not happen. 298 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.480 So that is what we've got to work through. So 299 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:45.879 the guys that are new here, they're pretty much all 300 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:47.840 up to speed for the most part. That might be 301 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:49.240 a couple of mental bus that we got to make 302 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.360 sure we don't have happened again. But you know, the 303 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.399 ones that have stood out in fall camp stood out today, 304 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.039 and I just think we need more guys. It's not 305 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:57.919 enough yet right now. 306 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:01.240 So I mean, where I hear that, because I've listened 307 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.320 to that a few different times so far. Today when 308 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.679 I was cutting it up, I mean, I think that's 309 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:08.840 probably just a very direct and honest answer about what 310 00:14:08.919 --> 00:14:10.919 he thinks of his team after one scrimmage. He's not 311 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:15.159 being dramatic, he's not you know, calling anybody out specifically. 312 00:14:15.200 --> 00:14:17.720 He's actually acknowledging that the guys who have stepped up 313 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:21.440 so far in camp stepped up once again in the scrimmage. 314 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.600 But he's wanting to see more. And here's here's the 315 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.159 gist of what I can gather. 316 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.519 And again, I'm not the closest as far as being 317 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.960 connected to what's going on in practices that aren't open 318 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.320 to the public or that kind of thing, but it 319 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.399 sounds as if they feel like they have really good 320 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.159 depth on the defensive line, they feel like they have 321 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.559 good depth in the secondary, mostly due to the transfers, 322 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:42.960 and then you know what you have with certain guys 323 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:46.279 back defensively, it sounds like in that scrimmage there were 324 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.519 a few plays that really and this is where it's 325 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:49.799 kind of tricky for me, because there were a couple 326 00:14:49.799 --> 00:14:53.679 of plays in that scrimmage apparently that the defense, you know, 327 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.159 it was a letdown. They had a big play somebody, 328 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.399 you know in the run game. I don't know which 329 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.759 running back it was, broke free, you know, just a 330 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.759 just a big chunk play that can really just be 331 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.440 a momentum swinger and kill you. And the defense gave 332 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:11.600 up those last year towards the end, the defense from 333 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.480 being so reliable and just really the strength of this 334 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.360 team to where once she got towards the end of 335 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.840 the season, that just wasn't the case as much. I 336 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:21.360 think these guys got gassed a little bit and they 337 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:22.960 started playing better teams, let's be honest. 338 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:24.240 So you know, I. 339 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.679 Think they want to limit those defensive you know, big 340 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:34.000 you know, those defensive breakdowns. And Brom actually talked a 341 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:36.679 little bit more in that Q and A there about 342 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.159 you know, could sometimes it could be scheme, which when 343 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.840 he says that, you guys realize he's calling on his 344 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:43.600 own coaches, right, Like he's done that before. Like sometimes 345 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.799 questioning when there was a defensive letdown, a defensive breakdown, 346 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.399 you know, he mentions maybe they were in the wrong scheme, 347 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:54.720 which I mean I remember Jeff brob directly. I think 348 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:56.720 of halftime of the Georgia Tech game in the opener, 349 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:58.159 his first game as the head coach, when they looked 350 00:15:58.159 --> 00:15:59.919 like they were going to get beat bad, you know, 351 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.360 but halftime he was doing an sideline interview on his 352 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.039 way to the locker room and basically just said, like, 353 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.519 you can't. You know, you can't stay in the same 354 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:09.559 thing and not expect a good team to figure out. 355 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:10.200 How to counter it. 356 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:13.480 And you know, I think he really likes his defensive coordinator, 357 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.799 Run English and Run English. I mean, for the most 358 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.399 part last year did a damn good job. I mean 359 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.440 it didn't end well, but I mean, for the most part, 360 00:16:20.519 --> 00:16:23.600 the defense was really good. But I think from a 361 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.519 personnel standpoint this year like they have good personnel defensively 362 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:29.240 to where I feel like if the results aren't there, 363 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:31.480 there's gonna be a lot of criticism towards Run English. 364 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:33.039 And I'm not saying that that will be the case, 365 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:34.679 because I have no reason to think that they won't 366 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:35.919 be good. They have more depth than they did a 367 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.720 year ago. They've got guys healthy. I mean your trio 368 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:44.559 of Ashton Jilotti, Quincy Riley and MJ. Griffin who's now healthy. 369 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:46.799 I mean, that's a lot of talent right there. Not 370 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:48.759 to mention stan Clon Clark, who I think is going 371 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:50.759 to really emerge as a as one of the better 372 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.639 players in the ACC defensively, and then Ramon per Year, 373 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:55.000 who I want to talk about a little bit later, 374 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.559 rarely gets a whole lot of love because he's a 375 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:58.600 former walk on, but he's a guy that has been 376 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.200 valuable on the defensive line for quite some time. Every 377 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.399 year there's a there's a defensive lineman that come in 378 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:05.319 the portal that you just expect to beat him because 379 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:07.079 Ramon per Year was a walk on, and you know, 380 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:09.079 he was just a guy we had to use because 381 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:10.720 we didn't have anybody else. And that's not the case 382 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.000 that all this guy can play, so you know, defensively 383 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.799 they should be good. So back to the big chunk 384 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.880 plays that broke free in that scrimmage. If it was 385 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.240 a running I keep hearing that there's so much concern 386 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:24.799 about the running game because there hasn't apparently been somebody 387 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:28.319 that has really emerged. You have Cheney from Miami, who 388 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.519 you know, people act like he's slow as molasses. And 389 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:32.200 I'm sure he's not a guy that's known to turn 390 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.119 on the jets and just beat guys in a race, 391 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:36.640 but you know, people like handing the ball off to 392 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:38.440 him is like handing it off to a bowling ball 393 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.480 or something. I mean, again, he's not one that's just 394 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.759 going to break free in any given moment. But I 395 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.759 feel like he's showed enough at Miami to where you 396 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:49.240 know he might break free for a twenty five yarder 397 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.920 when you get close to the red zone for a touchdown. 398 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:54.359 And then obviously, Maurice Turner's been around a while, and 399 00:17:54.880 --> 00:17:57.599 I think there's been the expectation that if he was well. 400 00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:59.480 I think I think a lot of people thought if 401 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.680