Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven to nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it gets much better than this. We
Speaker 2: are fresh off very exciting NFL opener last night, not
Speaker 2: the result I wanted. But if you just take away
Speaker 2: a rooting interest, rather it be because you're a fan
Speaker 2: of Lamar Jackson and the Ravens like myself, maybe you're
Speaker 2: a Chiefs fan, or maybe you just were rooting for
Speaker 2: your wager to hit. You take all that out and
Speaker 2: you just consider how entertaining the game was in the finish.
Speaker 2: I mean it, it was one of those nights where
Speaker 2: you do think to your subway second, how could the NFL,
Speaker 2: you know, have this matchup play out the way?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: You couldn't have scripted it any better as far as
Speaker 2: it being down to the wire, to the last second
Speaker 2: where Lamar Jackson and is it makes a great play
Speaker 2: to seemingly tie the game up, only to find out
Speaker 2: that his receiver had his toe on the line. Michigan
Speaker 2: was the right call. So a great night last night,
Speaker 2: other than, of course, the result, but a good game.
Speaker 2: Note nonetheless, we've got NFL tonight on a Friday. Some
Speaker 2: other college football games. A loaded slate of games tomorrow,
Speaker 2: including Louisville Jacksonville State, which, hey, probably won't be an
Speaker 2: exciting game, but it should be another beat down. That's
Speaker 2: what you want. That's all you can hope for in
Speaker 2: games like this, and then our first NFL Sunday. Again,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get much better than this. The only thing
Speaker 2: that could make this better is if I had a
Speaker 2: cold beard in my hand right now. But that's frowned
Speaker 2: upon it. You can't drink on the job. Thanks a lot, Biden.
Speaker 2: I'm at Trump. Yeah, Trump would be okay, I'm kidding,
Speaker 2: I should even as we get this close to the election,
Speaker 2: I shoudn't even joke about anything when it comes to
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 4: Especially people, that's the first thing they hear them they
Speaker 4: turn on the radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, both sides, by the way have have has shown
Speaker 2: you know how gullible they can be, because you know,
Speaker 2: all it takes is one little joke, me being sarcastic
Speaker 2: or just you know, making a joke.
Speaker 3: And you know those that.
Speaker 2: Are radicals, as they say, on the radical left of
Speaker 2: the radical right, they'll they'll chime in and you know,
Speaker 2: let me have it about how dumb I am when
Speaker 2: I was just making a joke, because I do think,
Speaker 2: you know, especially before Biden stepped down, whenever there was
Speaker 2: the the debate where you had Biden talk about porn
Speaker 2: star and the alley Cat, you got the morals of
Speaker 2: an alley cat. I mean like that, That's the ultimate
Speaker 2: moment in my lifetime that I can think of in
Speaker 2: politics where no matter what side you're on, if you're
Speaker 2: a hardcore Democrat or a hardcore Republican, like you have
Speaker 2: to all just look at each other and think, like, mat,
Speaker 2: are we really is this happening?
Speaker 3: Is this real?
Speaker 2: So anyways, I'm fired up five o'clock here on a
Speaker 2: Friday afternoon and getting you set for a loaded weekend
Speaker 2: that I kind of feel has already started, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna take you up till six o'clock. Let's go back
Speaker 2: to last night again. I was on the edge of
Speaker 2: my seat watching that game, honestly from start to finish.
Speaker 2: And it's just another reminder that because of my love
Speaker 2: for Lamar Jackson, I mean, I'm not in love with him.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a married man, and I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: got interest elsewhere, But I am a big Lamar fan
Speaker 2: want to see him do well, and he's already done
Speaker 2: very well in his NFL career, but beating Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: is something he's only done once. And right now, the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and Mahomes, they are on top of the NFL.
Speaker 2: And it would have been so huge for the Ravens
Speaker 2: to start the season off last night with a monumental
Speaker 2: victory and they came up short.
Speaker 3: And I'm not.
Speaker 2: Blaming it on the officials, because you know, that's what
Speaker 2: losers do. Because even though the officiating was I think
Speaker 2: one sided at times and really just inexcusable when it
Speaker 2: comes to the countless illegal formation penalties that were called.
Speaker 2: And yet if you go side by side and look
Speaker 2: at the same thing that the Chiefs are doing, they're
Speaker 2: not getting called for it. You know, the assistant coach
Speaker 2: Steve Spagnolia for the Chiefs being able to call a
Speaker 2: time out when you clearly can't do that and you
Speaker 2: were supposed to be flagged for doing it, and they
Speaker 2: didn't call a flag. I mean, that's not why they won.
Speaker 2: But like you know, right now, the Chiefs are on top,
Speaker 2: and I think when you are on a run like
Speaker 2: this as a franchise, meaning not only the success the
Speaker 2: Super Bowls, but like everything else going on the face
Speaker 2: of the league is Patrick Mahomes. I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: he right now is in the midst of a run
Speaker 2: that may end up being the best run we've ever
Speaker 2: seen from anybody in the NFL at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: And that's including Tom Brady. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: Pat Mahome's still young. You've got Andy Reid, who obviously
Speaker 2: is a hell of a coach, Travis Kelcey probably one
Speaker 2: of the best tight ends of all time, and yet
Speaker 2: he's dating the most famous celebrity on the planet. Like,
Speaker 2: right now, the Chiefs are on top, and I think
Speaker 2: referees probably aren't. I mean, I don't think they're in
Speaker 2: the bag for Kansas City. Like I'm gonna try to
Speaker 2: explain myself as best I can without making it sound
Speaker 2: as if I'm truly thinking that refs are cheating for
Speaker 2: Kansas City. But you know what refs are their human beings,
Speaker 2: and the human element is a powerful thing that is
Speaker 2: unavoidable in sports. And I just think that they're gonna
Speaker 2: be less prone to throw certain penalties on the Chiefs
Speaker 2: than they would other teams. Not because they're fans of
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, but like, let's be real, why do you
Speaker 2: think when you're at home you get a favorable whistle
Speaker 2: compared to when you're on the road. Because refs are human,
Speaker 2: they know they need to call it the right way,
Speaker 2: but like they're not perfect, they're gonna make mistakes and
Speaker 2: their instincts. Again, the human element that I refer to
Speaker 2: is going to be a powerful thing to where they
Speaker 2: know that if they make a call against the home
Speaker 2: team that's questionable, they're gonna get booed off the floor
Speaker 2: and they're not supposed to care about that, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure they don't, but again, the human element is a
Speaker 2: powerful things. So the hell with the reps and the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs? After last night? John pissed off?
Speaker 3: Get me fired? No, I just I thought I was
Speaker 3: over it.
Speaker 2: Now we're resetting it, and I just you know, those
Speaker 2: done illegal formation penalties.
Speaker 4: I mean, it doesn't seem like it was a bit
Speaker 4: overdone after hearing describe it, because it makes it makes
Speaker 4: sense for it to happen once, maybe twice, but then
Speaker 4: to have it be so just kind of out in
Speaker 4: the open, and then even the announcers reacting the way
Speaker 4: that they did as often as they did, it doesn't
Speaker 4: It does make it seem shady, even if there wasn't
Speaker 4: anything underlying about it.
Speaker 3: It's the best way to put it.
Speaker 2: Some shady stuff going on with the Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 2: Tonight again a rare NFL Friday night game, but I'm
Speaker 2: here for it. I wouldn't be mad if they gave
Speaker 2: us a Friday night game every week. They're not going
Speaker 2: to do it, understandably, so, but we've got the Packers
Speaker 2: and the Eagles should be a competitive game. Right now.
Speaker 2: It is Philadelphia minus two. It opened up at minus
Speaker 2: one and a half, so there's not been a whole
Speaker 2: lot of movement here. And as far as what people
Speaker 2: are wagering right now, fifty five percent of the money
Speaker 2: is on the Eagles to cover.
Speaker 3: So that's really close.
Speaker 2: That's as close as I've seen when it comes to
Speaker 2: just you know, the money that is being uh, that
Speaker 2: is being wagered when it comes to the spread in
Speaker 2: this game. As far as money line, UH, sixty two
Speaker 2: percent of the money's on the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then if you are somebody that likes to do
Speaker 2: over unders, the total is set at forty nine and
Speaker 2: a half and uh seventy percent of the money has
Speaker 2: come in on that to go over. I have not
Speaker 2: touched an over under yet. Are you you you hit?
Speaker 2: You did last week, didn't you.
Speaker 4: I bet on the over in Indiana FIU and that
Speaker 4: did not hit unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I don't mind. Like it's a it's a
Speaker 2: really different betting experience watching a game when you've only
Speaker 2: touched the total, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: I'll say this though, I think I mentioned this to
Speaker 4: you before. The under in Iowa games last year. I
Speaker 4: don't know how much it'll be be good for you
Speaker 4: this year, but that was one of my most constant
Speaker 4: wins last year was those unders and those Iowa football games.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, you would see how low they could set it,
Speaker 2: and you would wait till Saturday to see if Iowa
Speaker 2: can do the unthinkable and actually once again hit it under,
Speaker 2: and they would.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to get to that game later.
Speaker 2: I know we talked about it a little bit earlier
Speaker 2: this week, but the Iowa Iowa State matchup, I feel like,
Speaker 2: just when it comes to those that are really into
Speaker 2: the sports gambling space, I feel like, of all the
Speaker 2: matchups this weekend, there's a lot of people talking about
Speaker 2: this one, so we'll get to that a little bit
Speaker 2: later on. But with Louisville and Jacksonville State tomorrow, the
Speaker 2: cards are twenty eight and a half point favorites. We
Speaker 2: mentioned it earlier, a lot of the money, in fact,
Speaker 2: ninety eight percent of the money that has come in
Speaker 2: on this game, I'm sorry, ninety five percent is on
Speaker 2: Louisville to cover as twenty eight and a half point favorites.
Speaker 2: This thing's had a lot of movement opened up at
Speaker 2: Louisville minus twenty and a half. Now it's Louisville minus
Speaker 2: twenty eight and a half, so again, a lot of
Speaker 2: movement there. No real surprise Louisville was dominant against Austin
Speaker 2: p and Jacksonville State. You know, they're relatively new to FBS.
Speaker 2: They have had two nine win seasons in the Rich
Speaker 2: Rod era. And in our conversation we had earlier in
Speaker 2: the show with one of the beat writers for al
Speaker 2: dot com who joined us to discuss tomorrow's matchup, and
Speaker 2: really not the matchup specifically. We did talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about that, but it was more so just about
Speaker 2: you know, Jacksonville State sort of their program rich Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: The fact that he's there is kind of unusual given
Speaker 2: where he was twenty years ago when he brought West
Speaker 2: Virginia in here as a top five team. But in
Speaker 2: a conversation with Thomas Ashworth, I didn't feel this, But
Speaker 2: I will say when I say feel this, I didn't
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, maybe I'm overlooking this team. But there's
Speaker 2: a few people in the text line that have said
Speaker 2: that they think I'm overlooking this Jacksonville State team a
Speaker 2: little bit. And you know, maybe you're right, because I'll
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I didn't realize they had back
Speaker 2: to back none win seasons.
Speaker 3: But again, like I can't.
Speaker 2: This is where I think I'm a little bit different
Speaker 2: than other fans, and it's probably an issue of mine.
Speaker 3: It's probably to a fault.
Speaker 2: I have real expectations for Lowell, meaning I think they
Speaker 2: can compete and potentially find themselves in Charlotte again to
Speaker 2: play for the a SEC Championship. I feel better about
Speaker 2: that now that I did two weeks ago. And it's
Speaker 2: not only because louisll look good against Austin p because
Speaker 2: of the rest of the ACC However, you know, like,
Speaker 2: if I think that Louisville is as good as you know.
Speaker 3: If Louisville's remotely.
Speaker 2: Close to the team that I think they can be,
Speaker 2: and I think that they are, I don't care if
Speaker 2: Jacksonville State's won eleven games the last two seasons, Like,
Speaker 2: you should take care of business and beat this team
Speaker 2: pretty bad. Are you going to beat him sixty two
Speaker 2: to nothing? Maybe not, but if you do, I'm not
Speaker 2: going to be surprised. And somebody on the text line
Speaker 2: made a point that I hadn't thought of, but I
Speaker 2: kind of like where you're going with this. It's that
Speaker 2: Jeff browm knows the coach he's going up against is
Speaker 2: well respected as a football coach. I mean Rich Rod
Speaker 2: I mean, let's be real, Rich Rodriguez was really good.
Speaker 2: Like if he never left West Virginia, I mean, he
Speaker 2: would have been there for a long long time. And
Speaker 2: you know that just doesn't happen. Coaches don't stay at
Speaker 2: college is that long really ever, and especially in the
Speaker 2: last fifteen twenty years, the shelf life for a coach
Speaker 2: is just it's.
Speaker 3: Just not what it once was. But he's a good coach.
Speaker 2: Like everything that's happened with Rich Rod as far as
Speaker 2: you know how he ended up at Jacksonville State really
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with his ability to coach. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was sensational at West Virginia.
Speaker 3: I mean he won.
Speaker 2: Let's see, he had four straight seasons with ten or
Speaker 2: more wins, including he won the Sugar Bowl, he won
Speaker 2: the Gator Bowl. They lost i think in the Fiesta Bowl.
Speaker 2: So like he had a hell of a run there
Speaker 2: and then at Michigan. Clearly you know that didn't work out,
Speaker 2: but Michigan at that time had an identity crisis. Michigan
Speaker 2: went from coach Carr to rich Rod, and he wasn't good.
Speaker 2: He went three to nine in his first year, then
Speaker 2: five and seven and then seven and six. But like
Speaker 2: you know, I think a lot of coaches in that
Speaker 2: time would have struggled to win at Michigan. I mean, hell,
Speaker 2: Michigan struggled to find a competent coach for a while
Speaker 2: until they got Harball, and even Harball didn't win at
Speaker 2: the level they're expected and to until he got Connor's Alliance.
Speaker 2: So at Arizona, a place that's pretty tough to win,
Speaker 2: he was good there. I mean forty three and thirty
Speaker 2: five is not you know, elite but he had a
Speaker 2: ten win season at Arizona in twenty fourteen when they
Speaker 2: went to the Vesta Bowl, and he would still be
Speaker 2: their coach. I don't know if people realize this, but
Speaker 2: he had at Arizona. He was He was fired because
Speaker 2: he had a former administrative assistant who filed a multimillion
Speaker 2: dollar lawsuit claiming him of sexually harassing her and creating
Speaker 2: a hostile work environment for years. An internal investigation by
Speaker 2: the school conducted that they conducted did confirm I guess
Speaker 2: what was alleged. And he was fired in January of
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, and you know, later details came out and
Speaker 2: it's wild that he had he had an affair, but
Speaker 2: he did deny the sexual misconduct allegations. But he had
Speaker 2: members of his staff that were and this is what
Speaker 2: I guess the Arizona universe or the University of Arizona
Speaker 2: investigation concluded like there was somebody on his I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was like a wide receivers coach or
Speaker 2: if it was just like a quality control staffer. But
Speaker 2: their main job, John was to make sure that the mistress,
Speaker 2: who by the way, was an administrative assistant within the program,
Speaker 2: to make sure. The mistress and the wife were never
Speaker 2: in the same room together. They were never around each other,
Speaker 2: never saw because again, the wife's gonna travel with the team,
Speaker 2: So it's the administrative assistant.
Speaker 3: She works for the team.
Speaker 4: What's a chaotic job. Yeah, I mean, that's imagine and
Speaker 4: if you screw that up, you might be in some
Speaker 4: big trouble too, meaning who the person response keeping them
Speaker 4: out of the room.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, clearly he didn't do it. He didn't do
Speaker 3: a good enough job because the affair got out it.
Speaker 2: It sounds like she probably, you know, realized that she
Speaker 2: could potentially cash in on this whole thing. But it's
Speaker 2: actually not that far off from Bobby. I mean, Bobby
Speaker 2: was having an affair with the volleyball former volleyball player
Speaker 2: at Arkansas, who I think was also working in an
Speaker 2: administrative role within the athletic department at Arkansas. And you know,
Speaker 2: we all know.
Speaker 3: How that played out. Those two guys.
Speaker 2: Nineteen years ago two there were two top five teams
Speaker 2: playing each other at Cardinal Stadium, Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Speaker 2: back in that day, and again, it was the best
Speaker 2: environment I've ever seen for a louisvill football game. And
Speaker 2: here we are nineteen years later, Rich Rods bringing Jacksonville
Speaker 2: State the game Cocks into Llen N Cardinal Stadium and
Speaker 2: Bobby Petrino's call and plays at Arkansas as the OC.
Speaker 2: So both guys probably not at all where they imagined
Speaker 2: they would be, but you know that happens to a
Speaker 2: lot of people. But anyways, make sure you guys join
Speaker 2: us tomorrow. We've got game day coverage for you. The
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Speaker 2: White Attorneys, so Distracted Driver dot Com. So who knows
Speaker 2: what we're going to be reacting to. But the question
Speaker 2: I asked Louisville fans earlier was this, what could you
Speaker 2: see tomorrow? Rather it be is to tistic a result
Speaker 2: or just something visually, something your eyeballs witness that makes
Speaker 2: you feel like not only did Louisville sustain what was
Speaker 2: accomplished last week? And maybe that's not the right way
Speaker 2: to describe it, because I'm not really sure it was accomplished.
Speaker 2: But look, you did what you're supposed to do. You
Speaker 2: won sixty two to nothing against an FCS team. What
Speaker 2: could be done tomorrow against Jacksonville State, a team that's
Speaker 2: not FCS, but they're not far from it? What could
Speaker 2: be done tomorrow to where you feel like, Okay, we
Speaker 2: or stayed the same. I'm just as thrilled as I
Speaker 2: was last week, or maybe I'm even more so thrilled
Speaker 2: than I was last week, and we all know again disclaimer,
Speaker 2: I'll put it on the beginning and I'll put it
Speaker 2: on the end. Here, we have no clue what any
Speaker 2: of this is going to mean. You could have beatdowns
Speaker 2: against teams like this and be terrible, and I know
Speaker 2: Louisvell's not a terrible team. I'm just saying, like, that's
Speaker 2: why I hate these games, because when you do what
Speaker 2: you're supposed to do, it's encouraging, but you also can
Speaker 2: know realistically that it's just tough to really know what
Speaker 2: you learned about your team. So the text line has
Speaker 2: been loaded mostly from early on in the show. But
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Speaker 2: six five three zero seven ninety. Some of the texts
Speaker 2: that came in earlier in the three o'clock iur when
Speaker 2: I asked this, the first person was just mentioning they
Speaker 2: want to see the defense get another shutout. And some
Speaker 2: people have called bs on that text that stated Lois
Speaker 2: has never had back to back shutouts, But nobody's also
Speaker 2: given me any proof that that that has happened, that
Speaker 2: they've had two straight games where they've kept opponents scoreless.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things where like I just believe
Speaker 2: it because it sounds like it's really hard to do.
Speaker 2: But then again, you got to keep in mind back
Speaker 2: in the day, not a lot of points were scored
Speaker 2: in football. You could you could lose, you know, you
Speaker 2: could lose three to nothing in football back in the day,
Speaker 2: and it wouldn't be that big of a shock. So
Speaker 2: I have no clue if that's true or not, but
Speaker 2: I will say, if you go two straight weeks and
Speaker 2: your opponents don't score a point, your defense literally could
Speaker 2: not have been better, right, I mean that would be
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that would be sensational. So somebody on
Speaker 2: the text line earlier mentioned they want to see Pierce
Speaker 2: Clarkson look more comfortable.
Speaker 3: Yes, I want to.
Speaker 2: Give Pierce clark In a little bit a little bit
Speaker 2: of an excuse here. So there's been a lot of
Speaker 2: talk about Pierce really for the last few months because
Speaker 2: I think since the spring, Jeff has kind of made
Speaker 2: it clear that he's he's the guy that's the backup.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's also talked about Harrison Bailey. I think
Speaker 2: those guys have been kind of neck and neck. But
Speaker 2: from what I understand, in games like this, when you're
Speaker 2: up huge and you're going to your backup, so your
Speaker 2: quarterback that's a starter can rest, you would like the
Speaker 2: bit the reps are going to be more valuable and
Speaker 2: more beneficial for your program if they go to Pierce Clarkson,
Speaker 2: who could potentially take the reins and he needs reps.
Speaker 2: He's a guy that's not played a whole lot in college.
Speaker 2: And then with Harrison Bailey again, hopefully we never find out,
Speaker 2: but I believe that if Tyler Shutt got hurt in
Speaker 2: a real game. As of now, I think they would
Speaker 2: go with Harrison Bailey. I could be wrong, but I
Speaker 2: think they trust him a little bit more because again,
Speaker 2: he sees and he's experienced, and he's a former five
Speaker 2: star quarterback who came back to Louisville, who came to
Speaker 2: louis I shouldn't say he came back to Louisville, but
Speaker 2: he walked on last year when he transferred in so
Speaker 2: with peers of all the comments and I guess criticism
Speaker 2: that was out there, and I don't want to act
Speaker 2: as if people were bashing the young man. I mean,
Speaker 2: Louisville one's sixty to nothing.
Speaker 3: But what I.
Speaker 2: Heard more than anything in regards to Pierce last week
Speaker 2: was how small he looked. And I don't you know,
Speaker 2: I've never thought he was a guy that was going
Speaker 2: to get out there and we'd say to ourselves, Wow,
Speaker 2: we've got ourselves a big, a big gunslinger out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's listed at six ' to one.
Speaker 2: That's really not that short, although I will admit I
Speaker 2: don't know how real that six ' one is because
Speaker 2: he didn't look six to one to me. But then again,
Speaker 2: we're comparing him to Tyler Shuck who's six six, So
Speaker 2: you know, Pierce didn't look smooth. He did not look
Speaker 2: super sure of himself. But here's the excuse that I'm
Speaker 2: glad Jeff Brahm had mentioned. I think he might have
Speaker 2: said this at his press conference or maybe he said
Speaker 2: it on his Coaches show, that you know, this is
Speaker 2: the first year they're doing technology in the helmet where
Speaker 2: you can communicate with your quarterbacks via headset like and
Speaker 2: and by the way, did you see the the picture
Speaker 2: that's gone viral the you know, the equip the staffers
Speaker 2: who work with equipment for these programs, like the equipment
Speaker 2: manager and and and the folks that work for them,
Speaker 2: they're now having to charge helmets. Think about think about
Speaker 2: how many helmets you've got. You gotta charge your helmet
Speaker 2: like that's just something you've never had to do before
Speaker 2: when it comes to equipment management.
Speaker 3: But anyways, when.
Speaker 2: Pierce got in for his first series, those weren't working,
Speaker 2: so there was some there was not a lot of communicator.
Speaker 2: They didn't they're talking to peers. They don't know initially
Speaker 2: that he can't hear them. So when the so there
Speaker 2: was there was some miscommunication there that was nobody's fault
Speaker 2: other than technology, So that might have been why he
Speaker 2: looked a little bit again unsure of himself. So I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful that and I think he will get some reps
Speaker 2: tomorrow and hopefully he looks a little more, a little
Speaker 2: more smooth, and I I I don't think there's gonna
Speaker 2: be any I mean, I guess the only scenario where
Speaker 2: my thoughts on Pierce will change from now until I
Speaker 2: don't know next year is if, in fact, he does
Speaker 2: get a lot of reps this year because Shuck went
Speaker 2: down and they went to him. Because with Peers, if
Speaker 2: he does get valuable snaps and he looks solid, he
Speaker 2: looks like he's improving with each opportunity he gets to
Speaker 2: come in in a big blowout, that'll be encouraging. But
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that Jeff won't still look at what
Speaker 2: quarterbacks are going to be in the portal and bring
Speaker 2: in somebody who he feels like could be really good here.
Speaker 2: And it won't even he that won't have anything to
Speaker 2: do with Peers. So it's just a it's a new
Speaker 2: world now to where if you're a coach, the days
Speaker 2: of just knowing you're about to hand the reins off
Speaker 2: to this guy who's been sitting there for two years.
Speaker 2: That maybe the way some coaches go about it. However,
Speaker 2: it may also be, you know, you know, it may
Speaker 2: also be something that no coaches want to do because
Speaker 2: they if they can go with somebody they've watched on
Speaker 2: film who's played real college football for multiple years and
Speaker 2: they like what that guy brings to the table, it
Speaker 2: wouldn't shock me if every coach decides to take that
Speaker 2: path rather than just trusting that a kid who only
Speaker 2: has you know, real high school experience as your full
Speaker 2: time starter, Like that's a bigger risk, and sometimes the
Speaker 2: risk pays off, right Like Miller Moss at USC. He's
Speaker 2: a great example. He waited for three years before he
Speaker 2: got an opportunity at USC, playing behind Kayleb Williams. And
Speaker 2: there was another guy they brought in and I think
Speaker 2: was ahead of him on the depth chart that ended
Speaker 2: up transferring to Boise State and he didn't win the
Speaker 2: job there either. But Miller Moss, he sat around and waited,
Speaker 2: and he really showed against Louisville in that Bowl game
Speaker 2: last year what he can do, and he picked up
Speaker 2: where he left off with a really good performance against
Speaker 2: LSU this past weekend. So you know, I don't act
Speaker 2: like I'm anti Piercer, acting like he won't be the
Speaker 2: quarterback of the future. But I just know that even
Speaker 2: if he does enough this year in backup mop up
Speaker 2: duty that looks encouraging, Jeff will probably still bring in
Speaker 2: a really good quarterback in the portal if he can
Speaker 2: do that, and that'll lead to a lot of fans saying, well,
Speaker 2: I guess that means he doesn't like Pierce Clarkson because
Speaker 2: people did that last year with and I don't think it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be anything to do
Speaker 3: with Pierce.
Speaker 2: I think it's just going to be coaches can take
Speaker 2: advantage of the portal, and my goodness, Jeff Brahm has
Speaker 2: shown us that he's going to be a coach that's
Speaker 2: gonna utilize it to his strengths. All right, quick break,
Speaker 2: we'll come back on the other side. Keep this thing
Speaker 2: rolling along.
Speaker 3: Stick with us. It's coffee and company.
Speaker 2: Feel about Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: That's right, This is Coffee and Company, fueled by Thornton's
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety, about thirty minutes left
Speaker 2: before we get out of here for the weekend. For
Speaker 2: those of you that did miss this story earlier at WDRB,
Speaker 2: we talked about it in the three o'clock hour, the
Speaker 2: porch pooping. It became a big, big story here locally
Speaker 2: in just not something you typically see. It got so
Speaker 2: much attention just because of the unusualness here that it
Speaker 2: made it all the way to TMZ, Barstool Sports had
Speaker 2: different write ups about it, and you know, anytime there'd
Speaker 2: be an update, and I would think to myself, let
Speaker 2: me back up. Anytime there was an update before today,
Speaker 2: I would always think to myself, man, like I have
Speaker 2: so many questions here, like this doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 2: Like what how could this happen? And I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: maybe there's going to be something that comes out to
Speaker 2: where we find out. Okay, well that makes sense. And
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, maybe it's a publicity stunt. Maybe
Speaker 2: it is just something that you know, somebody wanted to
Speaker 2: do to see if they could make it on the
Speaker 2: local news and keep it rolling along. Like you know,
Speaker 2: I had no clue, but like there's got to be
Speaker 2: some explanation here, and we do now know the explanation
Speaker 2: as to what was going on, And honestly, John did
Speaker 2: a great job I think in the three o'clock hour
Speaker 2: of kind of laying out that despite this being you know,
Speaker 2: not a good thing by any means, but for everybody involved,
Speaker 2: the explanation here was really best case scenario. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's unfortunate still, I don't want to paint it as
Speaker 2: some great thing, but L and PD did announce earlier
Speaker 2: today that they now have identified who this person is
Speaker 2: and they won't publicly identify this person and they will
Speaker 2: not be charged with any crime because they've now determined
Speaker 2: that this is an adult male with with autism. And
Speaker 2: you know, just talking about it earlier, there's some other
Speaker 2: folks that have texted in some things they've heard since
Speaker 2: this became, you know, the update that explains it that
Speaker 2: this is somebody that is a special needs person. But
Speaker 2: some have said this this this young man has high
Speaker 2: level autism, high level autistic and has had some recent
Speaker 2: family issues that have kind of thrown him thrown him
Speaker 2: off a little bit. So hopefully there are people that
Speaker 2: are compassion here and and you know, this is a
Speaker 2: struggle for you know, for a lot of folks as
Speaker 2: somebody who's a father of a special needs child. You know,
Speaker 2: first thing I thought of when I saw the news
Speaker 2: of you know, the explanation, I thought, well, okay, that
Speaker 2: one that makes sense. This is somebody that is special needs.
Speaker 2: But also, you know, I love that LMPD just wanted
Speaker 2: to update people so they know what's going on and
Speaker 2: hopefully the story just dies off. You know, I have,
Speaker 2: I have, you know, fears of my own as a
Speaker 2: father of a special needs child, of you know, bad
Speaker 2: things like you know, just things that are just hardships
Speaker 2: you're going to endure that are you know of unavoidable
Speaker 2: at times. And it's not like hardships and worry for me,
Speaker 2: it's the worry you have for your for your child,
Speaker 2: which is a worry that you know, until you've been there,
Speaker 2: you really and I don't mean you have to have
Speaker 2: a child with special needs, but like when you're a parent,
Speaker 2: the worry you have for your child in general, the
Speaker 2: love you have for them, you wanting to keep them
Speaker 2: safe and you know, protect them, like it's it's a
Speaker 2: special thing that you really can't understand until you are
Speaker 2: in that position. So I just had like an awful
Speaker 2: visual of like they never finding out what was going
Speaker 2: on here with this special needs autistic man and somebody's
Speaker 2: like staging out the house because I think it was
Speaker 2: quite clear people could figure out where this was going on,
Speaker 2: and somebody just trying to catch this guy in the
Speaker 2: act and get out their phone and get some video
Speaker 2: and go viral, not knowing that they would be potentially
Speaker 2: harassing and making fun of somebody that has special needs.
Speaker 2: So again, I you know, not a not a not
Speaker 2: a good story by any means overall, but I think
Speaker 2: the update here is one that again to credit John,
Speaker 2: I think it's really best case scenario for everybody. I'm
Speaker 2: sure the homeowners understanding as to what happened, and they're, uh,
Speaker 2: they're compassionate, and you know, obviously it's not something that
Speaker 2: they want somebody defecating on their on their front door,
Speaker 2: but at least now they they can make some sense
Speaker 2: of it and hopefully they have some compassion. Clearly, l
Speaker 2: MPD is I think doing a good deed by letting
Speaker 2: everybody know, so that way it people stop bringing it
Speaker 2: up and it can kind of just die off, and
Speaker 2: you know, the family of this of this man, and
Speaker 2: you know, everybody involved can can you know, hopefully get
Speaker 2: through this and and and you know, deal with whatever
Speaker 2: they're going.
Speaker 3: Through because it's tough. It's tough stuff, all right.
Speaker 2: Uh real quick, let me talk to you once again
Speaker 2: about the fine folks my friends over at Jefferson Animal Hospital. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you have a pet, it's part of your family.
Speaker 3: I mean it is.
Speaker 2: I I couldn't relate to that growing up because I
Speaker 2: I had a dog and he was fine, But like
Speaker 2: I didn't, you know, I just did have the close
Speaker 2: bond with a pet growing up like a lot of
Speaker 2: people did. I'm married into being a pet parent, if
Speaker 2: you will. My wife super close with her dog, who
Speaker 2: has since passed away, and that really helped me kind
Speaker 2: of understand it because he was part of our family.
Speaker 2: He and I didn't get along a whole lot. But
Speaker 2: you know what, when I thought about my family after
Speaker 2: I got married, even after we had kids, I thought
Speaker 2: about our dog, just because it's life. So you never
Speaker 2: know when something's gonna happen with your dog, right, Things
Speaker 2: can happen, They can get ill, there can be accidents,
Speaker 2: and you know that'll make you panic. Well, I'm telling
Speaker 2: you if that does happen, it's only one place you
Speaker 2: need to turn to, and that is the Jefferson Animal Hospital.
Speaker 2: They've got the Regional Emergency Center over there on outer
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Speaker 2: of an emergency. Emergencies aren't something you plan, right, They
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Speaker 2: Obviously that's not an emergency situation, but you can schedule
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Speaker 2: So again, it's Jefferson Animal Hospital. They're open twenty four
Speaker 2: hours on outer Loop. You can give him a call
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Speaker 2: dot com. All right, Connor Stallions, he's back in the news.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a head coach this weekend. In fact,
Speaker 2: he might be coaching tonight. I would imagine, considering he's
Speaker 2: coaching in the high school ranks, that it's probably a
Speaker 2: high school situation. But he was the defensive coordinator. He
Speaker 2: was hired as a decordinator for some school in Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Detroit Mumford High School. Well, he's now the head coach
Speaker 2: at this school because the head coach himself, William McMichael,
Speaker 2: has had a stroke and is going to be needing
Speaker 2: a few weeks off to recover, may not even return
Speaker 2: this season. So Connor Stallion's the head coach for the
Speaker 2: Detroit Mumford High School. Whatever their mascot is, I'm not sure,
Speaker 2: but if you're so, he's coaching in Detroit, Michigan. You
Speaker 2: know one of the In fact, when this story came
Speaker 2: out that he'd actually landed a job, it was honestly
Speaker 2: broke by somebody who got an early look at the
Speaker 2: Netflix documentary, because they do that from time to time.
Speaker 2: It happened to me one time I felt really special.
Speaker 2: When they did the HBO documentary on the bag Man
Speaker 2: what is his name, Christian Dawkins for the whole FBI scandal.
Speaker 2: The director of that documentary that ended up on HBO
Speaker 2: reached out to me and gave me access to it
Speaker 2: and I could interview the director, and I felt so
Speaker 2: important being able to get an early look at something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: That PR emails.
Speaker 2: I mean like, well, but what happens is the PR
Speaker 2: folks they want to put this in front of a
Speaker 2: market that would be more interested than most. It's a
Speaker 2: fascinating story in general, but my goodness, it's about Rick Patino.
Speaker 2: I mean, so Louisville being the market, like it made
Speaker 2: sense for them to want to want to want to
Speaker 2: get you know, somebody like myself talking about it, who
Speaker 2: had an early look at it. So anyways, that's how
Speaker 2: the news broke that Connor Stallions was an assistant coach
Speaker 2: at this high school, because they actually showed footage at
Speaker 2: the end of the documentary of him coaching in high school,
Speaker 2: and the head coach, once he became public, said, yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got the most hated man in the country on
Speaker 2: my sideline running my defense, which probably somewhat of an
Speaker 2: accurate statement, because Connor Stallions is the guy who was
Speaker 2: really the main I mean, he was the guy out there,
Speaker 2: boots on the ground helping execute a huge, you know
Speaker 2: plan scheme to cheat, and that's exactly what they did.
Speaker 2: He can say whatever he wants, but in Michigan, the guys,
Speaker 2: like Michigan fans can't hate him, right, like Michigan, Like
Speaker 2: if he's coaching against like, let's just say Connor Stallions
Speaker 2: takes this team Detroit Mumford High School on the road
Speaker 2: next week and he's playing in rural Michigan, somewhere where
Speaker 2: that entire town they love the Wolverines, the Blue and Maze.
Speaker 2: He's probably getting a standing Oh is he? Note? Come,
Speaker 2: he ain't getting booed.
Speaker 4: He didn't get into like East Lansing or Michigan State
Speaker 4: territory where you're gonna get into some hostile environment.
Speaker 2: By the way, Michigan State looked like the biggest bunch
Speaker 2: of bitches in that documentary. I didn't realize this. They
Speaker 2: they had every play called in last year during that game,
Speaker 2: like sent in, they wouldn't do signals and they got
Speaker 2: killed and still blamed like they acted like they got
Speaker 2: killed because Michigan State cheated when you didn't actually even
Speaker 2: hold up signals for anybody to steal, you actually had
Speaker 2: your quarterback run over there. Like they just looked so
Speaker 2: weak and so like, I don't know, like I guess
Speaker 2: what they say in the rivalry world is a little brotherish.
Speaker 2: But like they got killed and they they're going through
Speaker 2: a rough year. They'd already fired what's his name before
Speaker 2: the Milton started. And they weren't good last year, were they?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, and they're not gonna be good this year,
Speaker 3: are they?
Speaker 4: I mean, they won't beat fau By.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: So Anyways, Connor Stallion's coaching high school football probably tonight,
Speaker 2: which uh, you know, probably not what he envisioned he'd
Speaker 2: be doing whenever he was given the game ball after
Speaker 2: some big ten victories for Michigan, because you know, he
Speaker 2: was the best cheater and he changed things for him.
Speaker 2: The worst part about it is, even if that didn't
Speaker 2: have a huge impact on their success, man, the timing
Speaker 2: of it is just not ideal. Like they did not
Speaker 2: really turn the corner and become elite until he started
Speaker 2: really executing. And I think knowing that he got the
Speaker 2: game ball, knowing what his role was. Like, that's to me,
Speaker 2: that's the most damaging evidence that Harball didn't know what
Speaker 2: this guy was doing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: That's that's almost it feels like them admitting not intentionally,
Speaker 4: that he was instrumental in the wins that they got
Speaker 4: or whatever win that you know he got the game
Speaker 4: ball for specifically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: I didn't get I mean I don't. I don't care
Speaker 2: enough about Michigan to like get bothered by. I actually
Speaker 2: think they were really really good last year, but the
Speaker 2: untold producers and directors like like whoever's in charge, because
Speaker 2: each each episode probably has different people from a creative
Speaker 2: standpoint working on it. But their theme lately is just
Speaker 2: those are pr pieces for the people they profile, which
Speaker 2: is really not what a documentary is like. You're not
Speaker 2: supposed to be having any creative control on a documentary
Speaker 2: about yourself or your story. It's somebody who wants to
Speaker 2: tell your story. But people who do this, you know,
Speaker 2: the right way, they understand their credibility in that world
Speaker 2: relies on being real and honest and not just trying
Speaker 2: to tell one side of a story. But I think
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan in the last dance docuseries. It kind of
Speaker 2: made it to where that was such a big hit,
Speaker 2: so well done that I think creatively a lot of
Speaker 2: these producers and directors when it comes to documentary stuff,
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, we could, probably, we could probably, you know,
Speaker 2: tell one side and not every angle of it and
Speaker 2: it might make better story. But I know a lot
Speaker 2: of people who watched that Connor Stallions thing ended up
Speaker 2: not feeling it, probably felt like they wasted their time,
Speaker 2: be honest with you. All right, quick break, we'll come
Speaker 2: back on the other side. Not a whole lot of
Speaker 2: time left before we have to say goodbye, but we
Speaker 2: will finish the show.
Speaker 3: Use the time.
Speaker 2: We have to talk about some of our picks this weekend,
Speaker 2: so stick around right here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Speaker 2: all right, So tonight with the Packers in the Eagles,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go Eagles. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Philly minus too in the NFL. You got any
Speaker 2: action you stay away from the NFL night in the
Speaker 2: NFL tonight, I hear you, any thought, any thoughts on
Speaker 2: Texas in Michigan Right now it is Texas minus seven.
Speaker 2: I'm just going I'm going Texas money line, although I
Speaker 2: don't love it. I have no clue what's gonna happen
Speaker 2: in this game, but I'm trusting that Texas will be
Speaker 2: able to just at least pull off a victory here
Speaker 2: even if they don't cover.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this will be a good test for one Sharon
Speaker 4: More in Michigan. I personally think he's gonna end up
Speaker 4: being a bum, but I mean, you never know. If
Speaker 4: I were betting this game, i'd probably take the Texas
Speaker 4: to cover this one.
Speaker 3: You are are all in on Iowa?
Speaker 2: I am correct, yes, so right now it is Iowa
Speaker 2: minus three. What did you get it at two and
Speaker 2: a half? Okay, so right now, man, the public is
Speaker 2: on your side. The money as well. Sixty four percent
Speaker 2: of the money coming in is on the Hawkeys to
Speaker 2: cover ninety percent of the money that's come in on
Speaker 2: the total John is under thirty five.
Speaker 4: And of course, so I guess we have a small
Speaker 4: sample size from the new look Iowa offense, but I
Speaker 4: happen to think they're gonna do pretty well this year.
Speaker 2: We'll see, Yeah, I one game. I'm really looking forward
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. I'm not gonna watch it from start to finish,
Speaker 2: but I do like Kansas minus four and a half
Speaker 2: against Illinois. I'm a believer in Kansas's not as an
Speaker 2: elite team, but I think they'll they'll take care of
Speaker 2: business there and then NC State and Tennessee. Right now,
Speaker 2: as we speak, it is Tennessee minus nine opened up
Speaker 2: at Tennessee minus five and a half.
Speaker 3: This is insane.
Speaker 2: Ninety five percent of the money is on Tennessee to
Speaker 2: cover here, John.
Speaker 4: I've got I got it at eight and a half, and
Speaker 4: I'm very confident in this, as apparently the rest of
Speaker 4: the betting world is. But the one thing I have
Speaker 4: when it comes to a fear with this game is
Speaker 4: the fact that maybe a lot of people, including myself,
Speaker 4: are just overreacting to Tennessee's big win and then on
Speaker 4: top of that the close game that NC State had
Speaker 4: with Western Carolina in Week one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if this ends up not hitting and
Speaker 2: Tennessee doesn't cover or ends up losing, it'll be that
Speaker 2: we just overreacted to n C State. But look, I
Speaker 2: don't think Grayson McCall is going to be a stellar
Speaker 2: when he's going up against an SEC team. I know
Speaker 2: Tennessee's not typically known for their defense, but this is
Speaker 2: a different world for him. Tennessee on their end, their quarterback,
Speaker 2: he's apparently believed to be one of the next Phenom's
Speaker 2: a guy that could be, you know, a first pick
Speaker 2: overall in the NFL draft when it's whenever he's eligible
Speaker 2: to be drafted. So I'll probably tell you on this
Speaker 2: one just because I just think Tennessee is that much better.
Speaker 2: And then I have to bet on this game. This
Speaker 2: is emotionally a wager as well, Like emotion is involved here,
Speaker 2: but I also believe it. Nebraska minus six and a
Speaker 2: half against Colorado.
Speaker 3: I've got that too good.
Speaker 4: I just feel like this is a perfect time to
Speaker 4: really put d On back in the call.
Speaker 1: Fim.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not that he was ever in it, but you know,
Speaker 4: in it for the first time.
Speaker 2: I mean again, I think just because of the flash.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you see him complaining this week about
Speaker 2: he was complaining this week about how his two guys
Speaker 2: weren't being talked at as the two Heisman favorites. Dude,
Speaker 2: you beat an FCS team by five, you bomb, you boom.
Speaker 2: But like, if they get housed by Nebraska, maybe that'll
Speaker 2: be a sign whenever the people who still like are
Speaker 2: gonna worship d On Even if he doesn't win, maybe
Speaker 2: they'll have an awakening and think, Okay, this guy might
Speaker 2: actually not be a great coach or even a remotely
Speaker 2: good coach. Anyways, I love it football seasons here, folks.
Speaker 2: Enjoy your weekend. Come back right here for us tomorrow
Speaker 2: for all the coverage for the Louisville game, and I
Speaker 2: will talk to you then right here on Sports Talk
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