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Speaker 2: All right, let's get it started here, hour number two
Speaker 2: on a good Friday, getting you set for Easter weekend.
Speaker 2: A beautiful, beautiful day here in Louisville, Kentucky. I was
Speaker 2: out walking around downtown before the show today, just taking
Speaker 2: in the sunshine, the good vibes, and it's kind of warm.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not complaining, but I mean when I
Speaker 2: say warm, it's a good thing. But yeah, eighty degrees,
Speaker 2: and I hope that we continue to get this good weather.
Speaker 2: I've not really ever in my life, I feel like
Speaker 2: been so aware of when it is and when it's
Speaker 2: not sunny. Like usually I'm like, whatever, sunshine if I'm
Speaker 2: on the beach, cool if not, you know whatever, But man,
Speaker 2: good vibes are attributed to, I think sometimes a nice,
Speaker 2: beautiful sunny day, and that's what we've got here. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to be that way
Speaker 2: the rest of the weekend, but we can only hope,
Speaker 2: all right. So one thing I brought up a little
Speaker 2: bit earlier in the show was as Tyler Shuck just
Speaker 2: continuing to get nothing but rave reviews. I mean, there
Speaker 2: was a clip that made its rounds on social media
Speaker 2: of him having a really really hilariously bad bro at
Speaker 2: the combine. But it was like it was a yip,
Speaker 2: Like it was almost I mean it was, yeah, it
Speaker 2: was a bad pass, but I feel like that was
Speaker 2: clearly a a yip or he you know, it was
Speaker 2: a miscommunication about the route or something. But it's now
Speaker 2: being shared as like if this is the guy that
Speaker 2: everybody thinks is, you know, basically saying, hey, don't this
Speaker 2: is all a smoke screen. This guy's not even going
Speaker 2: to be drafted that early at all. They're just doing
Speaker 2: it to try to throw people off. Because by the way,
Speaker 2: everything you hear about the NFL Draft leading up to it,
Speaker 2: that's out there, that's that becomes like talking points from
Speaker 2: those that cover the you know, the NFL Draft. I mean,
Speaker 2: what sense would it make for anybody within an NFL
Speaker 2: organization to share with a talking head media member what
Speaker 2: they're going to do. If they're going to share and
Speaker 2: give scoop, the only way that that would be beneficial
Speaker 2: for said franchise would be to tell them a lie
Speaker 2: and know they're going to run with it to try
Speaker 2: to throw people off. So, like the NFL Draft, I
Speaker 2: love the draft, always have, always will. But there's so
Speaker 2: many conversations, storylines I guess that take place in the
Speaker 2: lead up that like I'm to the point now where
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, that's probably like this is probably not real. Now.
Speaker 2: I think the Tyler Shuck praise is real, But as
Speaker 2: far as like where he's gonna get drafted, I don't
Speaker 2: really know. I mean, it just depends on who is
Speaker 2: really really wanting to take a quarterback, because you can
Speaker 2: want to take a quarterback, but at least you should
Speaker 2: have the awareness, Okay, I want a quarterback. We certainly
Speaker 2: could benefit from getting somebody that could potentially be our
Speaker 2: franchise quarterback, but I gotta be realistic and know that
Speaker 2: that guy is not in this draft for us because
Speaker 2: we don't have an early enough pick, or there could
Speaker 2: be a team like, for example, I don't know where
Speaker 2: we pull up the NFL draft order, because I saw
Speaker 2: this as one of the many teams that was interested
Speaker 2: in Chuck and brought him in for visits, and I
Speaker 2: don't remember the like, when's the last time the Steelers
Speaker 2: drafted a quarterback Austin. It's got to be a long
Speaker 2: time unless I'm blanking on something I think it was
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett, right yeah, and he's already gone, right yeah,
Speaker 2: And that was again, Kenny Picketts, one of those guys
Speaker 2: that in the weird year of sports, like that's when
Speaker 2: he shined. And that was really the only year two guys,
Speaker 2: and we talked about this. I think we talked about
Speaker 2: it off the year yesterday. But two dudes who really
Speaker 2: became big names only for really one year, and it
Speaker 2: was the twenty twenty one season when we played college
Speaker 2: football and other sports with no fans because we were
Speaker 2: still you know, we had no lingering effects of the pandemic.
Speaker 2: But Kyle Pitts, the tied end at Florida, and Kenny Pickett,
Speaker 2: the quarterback at pitt those guys there were two of
Speaker 2: the bigger names in college football that year if you remember.
Speaker 2: And Kyle Pitts has been a bust thus far and
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett. I mean, I think the same thing can
Speaker 2: be said. So you know, if you're Pittsburgh and you realize, yeah,
Speaker 2: we just took a quarterback, well you can say one, well,
Speaker 2: we were fooled by the weird year that was the
Speaker 2: COVID season of college football, and clearly it didn't work. Out,
Speaker 2: and you know, they had Big Ben forever and since
Speaker 2: then it's just been you know, I mean, they've had
Speaker 2: a I mean, I feel like they've had a lot
Speaker 2: of different quarterbacks and some of them were never viewed
Speaker 2: as they're they're the franchise quarterback. But I mean last
Speaker 2: year it was justin field until it wasn't and then
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson came in, and now you know both those guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, where where's Russell Wilson? By the way, is
Speaker 2: he still in Pittsburgh? He signed somewhere else or see
Speaker 2: a free agent? Like a good question. I feel like
Speaker 2: he has signed somewhere. We would have known. But anyways,
Speaker 2: they also had a guy they brought back who gosh,
Speaker 2: Rudolph Mason. Rudolph. I guess they drafted him, didn't they.
Speaker 2: That was a long time ago, yes, now that I
Speaker 2: think about it. Yeah, So Pittsburgh drafts twenty one, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if they feel like they need a
Speaker 2: quarterback right right away. I mean, and look, if you
Speaker 2: need a quarterback but you just don't think that that
Speaker 2: guy's there, then good on you. Because a lot of
Speaker 2: I feel like there's many franchises that can't resist they'll
Speaker 2: convince themselves because they just know how big it is
Speaker 2: to get your new franchise quarterback that they will, they'll, they'll,
Speaker 2: they'll take a risk that's really not worth taking. But like,
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh's a team that maybe drafting him at twenty one
Speaker 2: with their first pick, meaning Shuck would be would be
Speaker 2: a stretch. But like if somehow he felt like the
Speaker 2: second round and I don't know where Pittsburgh is picking
Speaker 2: in the second round, let me take a look. They're
Speaker 2: gonna be at number doesn't do they have a pick.
Speaker 2: Doesn't look like they have a pick in the second
Speaker 2: round from what I'm seeing here, unless I'm just not
Speaker 2: unless I'm I'm just blind and don't see them here listed.
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be a team I would hope because
Speaker 2: this best case scenario for him that he ends up
Speaker 2: being taken by a team that does need a quarterback
Speaker 2: in the future and they're you know, they're decent right now,
Speaker 2: They're a good franchise. They're drafting later in the round
Speaker 2: because you know, they're not awful. Like that's a good
Speaker 2: situation for Shuck to where he can sit back not
Speaker 2: be the starter, right of way. Way, But if you
Speaker 2: know somebody phases out like let me. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: just find an example of a team. But right now, man,
Speaker 2: it looks like a lot of these I mean teams
Speaker 2: that draft late, like they know who their quarterback is.
Speaker 2: And I don't see that changing anytime anytime soon. I
Speaker 2: mean you've got let's see, like in the last eight
Speaker 2: picks or so of the first round. I mean the Panthers,
Speaker 2: I mean, believe it or not, I still think they're
Speaker 2: they're rolling with Bryce Young despite benching him and then
Speaker 2: you know, bringing him back, and you know they may
Speaker 2: be decent this year. Clearly the Texans took a step
Speaker 2: back last year. Stroud at least did I think he
Speaker 2: had a sophomore slump. But I still think he's shown
Speaker 2: enough to where he could be good and they're not
Speaker 2: going to draft a quarterback. Lamar and the Ravens at
Speaker 2: twenty seven. Let's see, I mean the Eagles and the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: clearly they know who their quarterback is. The Bills, the Commanders,
Speaker 2: the Lions, I mean the Rams. I mean Stafford's still
Speaker 2: with the Rams, right he did? He ended up staying
Speaker 2: yes he's so maybe maybe the Rams take him because
Speaker 2: and I could also see like, of all the guys
Speaker 2: who know good quarterback play, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 2: the offensive genius that is Sean McVay. Like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm not predicting it because I don't. I mean, I
Speaker 2: would just be guessing. But it wouldn't shock me if
Speaker 2: that's that's the kind of situation, And it would be
Speaker 2: a good situation for Shuck, right, Like he goes to
Speaker 2: learn from a guy who can clearly make a lot
Speaker 2: work with a quarterback who's got some good skills like
Speaker 2: Shuck has, and clearly there's no scenario that that Stafford
Speaker 2: plays that much longer. Right, So something like that I
Speaker 2: think would be would be awesome to see for Tyler Shuck.
Speaker 2: But here is a former loule of a quarterback, Jay Gruden,
Speaker 2: who now works for I believe Underdog Fantasy in a
Speaker 2: media role, and I believe this is him and Colt
Speaker 2: McCoy couldn't think of his name. They're breaking down NFL
Speaker 2: quarterback prospects and it's about a two minute clip, and
Speaker 2: I thought it was worth listening to. So here is
Speaker 2: mister Gruden, which, by the way, Austin, have you ever
Speaker 2: heard Jay Gruten talk? It's probably been a while since
Speaker 2: he has a head coach. I don't think I have.
Speaker 2: If I have, I don't remember it. I'm sure I
Speaker 2: did when he was an NFL head coach. But I'm
Speaker 2: telling you you wouldn't know that this is not his
Speaker 2: brother John. Let's say, sound exactly alike this guy Tyler
Speaker 2: Schuck other than him because he wears the red played
Speaker 2: for the Cardinals. What do you like about him? There's
Speaker 2: a lot to like.
Speaker 3: He would wear number fifteen, but us retired not because
Speaker 3: of me, because of David Gone.
Speaker 2: But how about David Going getting a plug and only
Speaker 2: hit pause because you have That's huge. That's that's Gruden,
Speaker 2: is it? I mean, that's clearly it is a Gruden.
Speaker 2: But you if those two, if you pick up a
Speaker 2: phone call from from Jay Gruden and he says it's
Speaker 2: John Gruden, you're not bat a eye. You believe that
Speaker 2: it's him. So it's it's a delivery. I gotta tell you, man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean like Belichick's son kind of sounds like him,
Speaker 2: And that's kind of trippy to people. I think the
Speaker 2: brother duo here, like you could convince me just from
Speaker 2: a from nothing but audio, their voice, the sound that
Speaker 2: they're the same person. Let's go. Yeah, Now, this guy.
Speaker 3: I talked to Jeff Bram, the head coach at Louisville,
Speaker 3: about him, and I was like, you know, this guy
Speaker 3: is climbing the boards. What is it about this guy?
Speaker 3: He said, He's throws a very good deep ball. He's
Speaker 3: a great competitor, and he's that curate. He loves football, right,
Speaker 3: and that's some good intangibles to have. He can throw
Speaker 3: the ball, now, I mean this guy, this guy, I think.
Speaker 2: It's not just the voice, it's the sayings and the
Speaker 2: way they say it. He could throw the ball, loves
Speaker 2: the game of football. We'll go third right behind Shador
Speaker 2: third quarterback taking. I really believe it.
Speaker 3: He's six foot five, he's a good athlete.
Speaker 2: What's the knock on him? Like? Why why is he
Speaker 2: just now like kind of become getting on everybody's radar.
Speaker 2: Was he hurt?
Speaker 3: Like went a couple of start Oregon went to Texas
Speaker 3: Tech went to Louisville. And Louisville had a pretty good year.
Speaker 3: They lost a Notre Dame in a close game, they
Speaker 3: lost tour. They were close to making the playoff as well.
Speaker 3: I think of one year starter at Louisville so you know,
Speaker 3: sight on the scene. I guess everything's about shandor everything's
Speaker 3: about cam Ward and all these your boy you Weers
Speaker 3: and Will Howard and all these guys. And this guy
Speaker 3: comes five gunslinger, ripping it down the fit.
Speaker 2: Who is this guy? He exceeded the throwing you know,
Speaker 2: the expectations at the throwing portion of the combine.
Speaker 3: That's really when I went back to start one. Look
Speaker 3: at this body. You look like this guy can He's
Speaker 3: not a very good athlete. This guy's a good athlete's
Speaker 3: forty five fifty yard running his notre name. He got
Speaker 3: stripped and fumbled, but still he's a good enough athlete.
Speaker 3: He can escape some pressure. So big, tall, prototypical type thrower.
Speaker 3: This is kind of you know, these other guys we've
Speaker 3: been doing six foot one, six foot two. This guy
Speaker 3: is everybody at six y five. Now, this is a big,
Speaker 3: good looking quarterback. He can rip it right.
Speaker 2: This guy.
Speaker 3: If I'm a coach or a scout and I'm not
Speaker 3: into the tight weight measurables at all, I really like
Speaker 3: to see guys play. But seeing what he's done behind
Speaker 3: center Jeff Brawn's offense, and compare him to the other guys,
Speaker 3: you Weers and Howard and all these other guys.
Speaker 2: He's right in the mix with all those guys. So
Speaker 2: clearly a lot of praise for for Tyler Shuck. And
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a little of a fan, obviously, I'm
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very high on Tyler Shuck, but I I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm watching highlights as I'm wanting to. Obviously you guys
Speaker 2: couldn't see that, but it's a video where there's going
Speaker 2: Shuck highlights as these two guys breakdown Tyler Shuck's season
Speaker 2: at Louisville. And you know, I think we've been so
Speaker 2: spoiled at quarterback and I think all year we knew
Speaker 2: that Schuck was good. And in a way it kind
Speaker 2: of felt weird because, like again, I talked about this
Speaker 2: throughout the season, and it got brought up earlier this
Speaker 2: week that nobody's really surprised that the NFL likes him
Speaker 2: because we could tell that the guy was pretty good.
Speaker 2: But I just think because there was no real buzz
Speaker 2: about Louisville or him this year because the losses and look,
Speaker 2: Louisville still a good season, but you lost a lot
Speaker 2: of games early that puts you out of the race
Speaker 2: for the ACC and honestly puts you out of the race.
Speaker 2: Pretty playoff conversation. So even when you were starting to
Speaker 2: win and look when you lost games, he played great.
Speaker 2: That's what kind of sucked, is that he went out
Speaker 2: there and put up numbers that were, you know, really
Speaker 2: really impressive. Like his game at Notre Dame was phenomenal,
Speaker 2: not just with the numbers and what he did, but
Speaker 2: like some of the throws he had insane. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: whenever you see that happening and it comes in a
Speaker 2: losing result, like I don't think nobody's blaming him, like, hey,
Speaker 2: he should have played better. But I remember thinking on
Speaker 2: a couple of the postgame shows this year for football,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking to myself, man, like that guy can't play
Speaker 2: much better, canny and we lost like it just you
Speaker 2: know it was not to revisit it, but Louisville lost
Speaker 2: some games earlier this year, and really that became kind
Speaker 2: of their identity. They made. They continued to make avoidable mistakes.
Speaker 2: And I still think you can say that the season
Speaker 2: was a success. It wasn't as successful as it should
Speaker 2: have been could have been. After two years, I think
Speaker 2: you still have momentum with Jeff brom still think the
Speaker 2: future is really really bright. But that was a real
Speaker 2: bugaboo for me is that, you know, I don't really
Speaker 2: know how good Louisville actually was, but I know the
Speaker 2: games that they lost, all of them but one were
Speaker 2: against good teams and like a little you know, you
Speaker 2: get rid of one of the major goofs at South Bend,
Speaker 2: you probably win and it's what it could have should
Speaker 2: have right. You know, you didn't win, you don't get
Speaker 2: credit for it. You lost, but in those games where
Speaker 2: Louisville fell short and you felt like, man, like we'd
Speaker 2: have just done this. Two things I don't remember any
Speaker 2: of the loss as ever, being because your quarterback play
Speaker 2: wasn't good enough. And also like I remember thinking, damn,
Speaker 2: like that guy played out of his mind and we
Speaker 2: still couldn't win. So, you know, I it's a weird.
Speaker 2: It's weird for me because usually when there's a guy
Speaker 2: from Louisville that is being praised like this as an
Speaker 2: NFL prospect, like none of us are surprised. And again
Speaker 2: it's not that we're doubting and not of the belief
Speaker 2: that these guys in the NFL are right about Chuck
Speaker 2: it's just I think him being here only one year
Speaker 2: and there was never you heard cult McCoy reference it there,
Speaker 2: Like there really was never any real momentum for him
Speaker 2: as far as like, hey, nobody would say the guy
Speaker 2: was bad. In fact, he would get praise. But I
Speaker 2: think because of his age and because of the injuries,
Speaker 2: it just became a non starter conversation about the NFL.
Speaker 2: And I look, his injuries are clearly something you got
Speaker 2: to be aware of, but he also didn't have any
Speaker 2: break that I mean, it's bone break things to where
Speaker 2: you can come back, and like it's there's no real
Speaker 2: like I mean, I guess you could always get injured again,
Speaker 2: but like it's not something that's chronic that's going to linger.
Speaker 2: And also I don't understand why the age thing is
Speaker 2: viewed as a negative. Like, yeah, if you've got a
Speaker 2: guy to me either, if you've got a guy that's
Speaker 2: nineteen or twenty and he's our twenty and he's already
Speaker 2: you know, showing upside and playing well, the benefit is that,
Speaker 2: like one, he could still get better, but also he
Speaker 2: can play longer. But like quarterbacks in the NFL, especially
Speaker 2: the way Shuck will play in the NFL. If he
Speaker 2: gets the opportunity to run a team, those guys are
Speaker 2: kept safe, like you can now, Like not everybody can
Speaker 2: be brady, but like you know, if you don't have
Speaker 2: some kind of like catastrophic not even a catastrophic injurry,
Speaker 2: but like if you don't have like a ligament kind
Speaker 2: of thing, or you're like Peyton manning his shoulders. I
Speaker 2: mean his arm just died. I mean, that's what happened
Speaker 2: with him. But like you can now, you're not going
Speaker 2: to be tackled very much at all, So you really
Speaker 2: are I mean I don't want to call it a
Speaker 2: finesse position, but he will be a guy that they
Speaker 2: won't have out there running with the ball. We did
Speaker 2: see at times he could make some plays with his feet,
Speaker 2: but obviously you know it's not worth risking it because
Speaker 2: he's got an arm. That's that's where the bread's butter,
Speaker 2: that is where that's that's his real weapon that he's
Speaker 2: bringing to the fight. So again, I think clearly having
Speaker 2: a guy that you feel like could still get better,
Speaker 2: but NFL quarterbacks, this is my issue with with Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson because that's why he would like Anthony Richardson and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I won't make this a long winded thing
Speaker 2: because I don't nobody gives a damn about the Colts.
Speaker 2: And I don't blame you. I hate that. I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I can't quit him. I try,
Speaker 2: I couldn't do it. Just you know, you're a fan
Speaker 2: for so long you make that emotional investment that fans make,
Speaker 2: like you can't quit him. I tried, literally try to,
Speaker 2: can't do it. So you know, they drafted Anthony Richardson
Speaker 2: and the dumbass franchise that is my Indianapolis Colts, Like
Speaker 2: they didn't have the realization that who has ever learned
Speaker 2: how to be a quarterback on the job in the
Speaker 2: National Football League? Nobody. Yes, guys get better, they develop,
Speaker 2: but at no level of Anthony Richardson, at no level
Speaker 2: of his career was he ever a winner. He went
Speaker 2: to and eight as a senior quarterback in high school,
Speaker 2: went to Florida, did not have a winning record, lost
Speaker 2: to Andy twice, never beat him. Actually, so like he's
Speaker 2: learning on the go in the National Football League. And yeah,
Speaker 2: the selling point is, man, he's raw, he's got a
Speaker 2: cannon for an arm. He strong and he can run, okay,
Speaker 2: Like throwing him in the fire is the way to
Speaker 2: get him experience, I suppose, But like to me, wasting
Speaker 2: a first again, somebody was gonna draft him first und
Speaker 2: even if the Colts didn't. But he's going to be
Speaker 2: the ultimate bust. His completion percentage last year broke a
Speaker 2: record for the worst since guess who Tim Tebow, Like
Speaker 2: the guy thinks as a quarterback and he's never been
Speaker 2: a good quarterback last that check. When you're a good quarterback,
Speaker 2: you have good stats and you help win games. Doesn't
Speaker 2: do either, and we wasted a top five pick on him.
Speaker 2: So the selling point, Like for those that are like, oh,
Speaker 2: you can't drive shuck cause he's old, those are probably
Speaker 2: people that looked at Richardson as like well, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean how how how can you learn how to
Speaker 2: do the job when you're not good at it already? Like,
Speaker 2: who has ever became a better quarterback in the NFL
Speaker 2: than they were in college? I know the answer, Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: But Mahomes he had like he put up big numbers,
Speaker 2: he just didn't playing a system that won games like
Speaker 2: Mymes was good. He just you know, it was a
Speaker 2: perfect match with him and Andy Reid and obviously he's
Speaker 2: got some good resources, so like, guys can get better.
Speaker 2: But Patrick Mahomes in college compared to Anthony Richardson college
Speaker 2: get the hell out of here. And Richardson was taking
Speaker 2: ahead of Mahomes. Now I know wasn't the same draft,
Speaker 2: but like if you can't tell, I'm still dealing with
Speaker 2: it that we drafted Anthony Richardson, And like, anyway, I'll
Speaker 2: move on because I don't nobody cares about the Colts.
Speaker 2: But anyways, back to shuck, uh what I want to
Speaker 2: do on the other side, If you know, even if
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a great long NFL career, he still
Speaker 2: had a really good season in the one season that
Speaker 2: he's had in Louisville football fans, I think we know,
Speaker 2: and sometimes he probably take it for granted. We've been
Speaker 2: pretty spoiled at quarterback. The bully County came out of here.
Speaker 2: We prospoiled at quarterback, pretty spoiled. We're spoiled at quarterback.
Speaker 2: It's like when I say, good to get to Old Change,
Speaker 2: quarterback got to go to Mount Washington and get to
Speaker 2: Old Change. That's that's that's the ultimate bullet. County Twain.
Speaker 2: They love the Washington Mount Washington. Yeah, I love the
Speaker 2: Washington that's what they call it. There's oh r and
Speaker 2: it folks, but they put one in there where they
Speaker 2: say it. But this is probably not nice to do,
Speaker 2: but it's with love. We're gonna talk about it. On
Speaker 2: the other side, who have actually been quarterbacks here that
Speaker 2: we would say were really bad? Cause there are some
Speaker 2: and I'm not bringing I'm not bringing this up to
Speaker 2: like dog them, but I think more than anything, you'll realize,
Speaker 2: even when Louisville wasn't good, even when Louisville had bad seasons,
Speaker 2: quarterback play wasn't like the worst part of it. Like,
Speaker 2: we've been pretty lucky with quarterbacks throughout different eras, different coaches,
Speaker 2: different systems, really different worlds of college football. So that's
Speaker 2: a good thing. All right, quick break, we'll come back.
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Speaker 2: live from our four Street Live Studios and downtown Louisville.
Speaker 2: Today was one of those days where I really felt like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm glad we're downtown. I mean, there are issues with
Speaker 2: being down here every now and then, but like we have.
Speaker 2: I mean, well, the only issue for me is that
Speaker 2: it's just a little further away than my previous commute
Speaker 2: to come to work. But I now and I don't know,
Speaker 2: I've said this the other day, but today is one
Speaker 2: of the days to make sure and do it. I
Speaker 2: ended up driving to the top of the of the
Speaker 2: garage and just you know, we have a pretty good
Speaker 2: view of downtown Louisville at the top of this garage,
Speaker 2: and I didn't leave my car up there. I'm lazy
Speaker 2: and drove back down and parked right outside of our door.
Speaker 2: But yeah, a lot of people out and about today too.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if there's like an event going on,
Speaker 2: or maybe it's just the fact that you will see
Speaker 2: more people you know, come out of their work caves
Speaker 2: down here in Louisville, in downtown, I should say, because
Speaker 2: you know, you want to be outside. It's beautiful. So anyways,
Speaker 2: happy to be here. Happy good Friday everybody, and let's
Speaker 2: try to finish strong here. I will say that Easter
Speaker 2: underrated holiday. And I'm gonna tell you why. In my
Speaker 2: opinion and everybody's different, Easter candy is the best candy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess every holiday that has candy involved,
Speaker 2: then I guess there's not that many you can get,
Speaker 2: like the the Sweet Tart bunnies, the uh sour Patch
Speaker 2: jelly beans, like that's right up my allley. I'm not
Speaker 2: a big chocolate guy, but like those big hollow chocolate bunnies,
Speaker 2: I'll put one of those away. I'll regret it after
Speaker 2: because I'll have just such a anything that's like real.
Speaker 2: And I guess a lot of like cakes, and I'm
Speaker 2: not a big cake pie that kind of that's just
Speaker 2: not my thing. And like donuts specifically, I can eat
Speaker 2: a donut, but like I usually regret it because it's
Speaker 2: just so rich and fills me up. I love it.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to like sour sweet candy Starburst,
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's right in my wheelhouse. And when
Speaker 2: I go to like I was at Mayer yesterday to
Speaker 2: pick up something, and uh, I mean there was a
Speaker 2: whole isle of of of candy for Easter, but like
Speaker 2: not in an aisle, but like in the middle. I
Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it, but like, you know,
Speaker 2: stuff that they have out kind of promoting that's not
Speaker 2: in its own place in an aisle, but it's out
Speaker 2: like in the middle. Uh. They had like a section
Speaker 2: of nothing but the sour stuff, and I resisted because
Speaker 2: you know, I don't need it. It's not good for me,
Speaker 2: and I'll just eat all the stuff my kids get
Speaker 2: in their Easter basket. So uh, worked worked out well
Speaker 2: in my older ages. Let's say that when I'm about
Speaker 2: to turn thirty two, I found myself not loving candy
Speaker 2: as much as I did when I was younger. That's good.
Speaker 2: I don't mind like a reses cup every now and then,
Speaker 2: like if I can go get if I'm like at
Speaker 2: I don't know, if I feel like I just need
Speaker 2: something while I'm like at the store and like I
Speaker 2: let me, I'll grab a Reseis cup. But like I
Speaker 2: don't know, like you said, like it's just too sweet,
Speaker 2: too rich for me. And that is part of growing up, man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidding you. Like I've always been
Speaker 2: a sour candy kind of guy, and I do love
Speaker 2: the sour candy is this sour sour patch Kids, Sour
Speaker 2: Skittles are probably the greatest candy attention ever. I don't
Speaker 2: know how I still have any teeth because I eat
Speaker 2: those in they're drape, But man, they got there. Used
Speaker 2: to be the super sour sweet tarts that were like
Speaker 2: I remember that, not like the powdery crunch, not at
Speaker 2: the power like the not the typical sweet tarts, but
Speaker 2: like they were like candy coated and they had like
Speaker 2: a really they were super sour. Yeah, and they were
Speaker 2: so delicious and they got rid of it, and it
Speaker 2: makes me really really sad. I wish I had to
Speaker 2: load it up on those before they became you know,
Speaker 2: non existent anymore. But let me give you an example
Speaker 2: as far as like as you get older, when you
Speaker 2: were a gweat cereal at all. I haven't in such
Speaker 2: a long time, but I do. I enjoy cereals. I
Speaker 2: ate cereal when I was a little kid, and then
Speaker 2: I just I don't remember when it was, but I
Speaker 2: probably I'm not kidding you, no exaggeration. I probably have
Speaker 2: not had a bowl of cereal in over twenty years.
Speaker 2: And it's not that I'm anti cereal. It's just like,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's not my thing. Seek it out.
Speaker 2: But when you're younger, you're more probably into the frosted flakes,
Speaker 2: and you're more into like, you know, fruity pebbles, Captain Crunch.
Speaker 2: Like you guys realize that that's candy with milk, Like
Speaker 2: that's like that's not good for you. And I'm not.
Speaker 2: You know, I eat a lot of stuff it's not
Speaker 2: good for me. I just talked about all these you know,
Speaker 2: sour candies that aren't good for me either. But as
Speaker 2: you get older, I think the belief is that all
Speaker 2: the people that get older they realize, well, because I
Speaker 2: can't eat the candy cereal anymore, I gotta eat the
Speaker 2: healthier stuff. I actually think more often than not, people
Speaker 2: just they look like it's just too much, like it's
Speaker 2: too much sugar to where you actually enjoy a little
Speaker 2: bit more of a what's a meat, what's a medium
Speaker 2: level cereal that's not like creos Yeah. Yeah, cheerios are
Speaker 2: good enough to where they're not completely you know, it's
Speaker 2: not like you're eating nothing but the marshmallows and the
Speaker 2: uh right in the fruit lucky charms. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so like I think you as you continue to get older,
Speaker 2: you'll you'll realize that you're probably not ever going to
Speaker 2: be a health nut. Maybe you will, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but you know, I mean nobody likes like nobody like
Speaker 2: you could be mindful of what you eat and be
Speaker 2: you know, and be aware of like your health, but
Speaker 2: not be a health nut. But I now know that
Speaker 2: even if I'm not looking out at all, For if
Speaker 2: i have a day where I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 2: do not care about the gloric intake today? And I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna pig out, and you know, usually when I'm
Speaker 2: hung over, I do that. But it's not like I'm
Speaker 2: seeking the healthy stuff. But there's certain things where I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't do that. Like, let me give you an example.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm in the minority. I'm an outlier because this
Speaker 2: thing is clearly, very very popular. Therefore there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people that think it's delicious. I don't know how
Speaker 2: people eat it, But again I'm the weird one, not
Speaker 2: you the donut burger at the fair, Like to me,
Speaker 2: that's like who enjoys that? Everybody clearly, but like me,
Speaker 2: it's just heavy, it's rich, it's just too much. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're eating two donuts as the buns, right right, that's
Speaker 2: a lot. And that's two of my favorite things ever,
Speaker 2: donuts and burgers. But they just don't. They don't. And
Speaker 2: that's that's one thing we met. We met some friends
Speaker 2: in Mexico. Years ago. My wife and I went on
Speaker 2: a trip. This is right after we It's actually it
Speaker 2: was a year after a honeymoon, so we were young,
Speaker 2: newlywed still and we ended up making some friends. Still, yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you. We met some some friends that I mean
Speaker 2: they became friends. We met and they were from Canada,
Speaker 2: but they were around our age and we had a
Speaker 2: we had a great time. And uh, one of the
Speaker 2: guys who I still talk to from now for every
Speaker 2: now and then, he said something. And in a late
Speaker 2: night drunken party at this resort we were having a
Speaker 2: ball but he said something, and even though I was
Speaker 2: insanely intoxicated, it stuck with him because I never thought
Speaker 2: about it. And he was right. Though. You know, America,
Speaker 2: we put a lot of good foods together that don't
Speaker 2: need to be together. They're great on their own, Like
Speaker 2: like a I can eat a bacon cheeseburger, but do
Speaker 2: we need it? Like, you know, like there's certain like
Speaker 2: donuts and burgers, they're both exclusively very great. Why do
Speaker 2: we need like it's just it's a force, and clearly
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's not healthy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: What it is with the donut burger with me is
Speaker 2: like I like donuts, but when you're eating a donut alone,
Speaker 2: you usually go and this might sounds so crazy out
Speaker 2: of context if you're not watching, but you usually do,
Speaker 2: like you hold it with the two fingers and you
Speaker 2: just like kind of eat it that way. So when
Speaker 2: you get the glaze and all the sweetness, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: the way you're holding a hamburger that has a bum
Speaker 2: and the way you're holding a glazed donut that's got
Speaker 2: all the glaze on it, Like, it's totally different, like
Speaker 2: I guess, And if it's uncomfortable for me to like,
Speaker 2: like I this is gonna make me sound like a whimp,
Speaker 2: and I'm sure people will make fun of me. I
Speaker 2: am well aware that the better chicken is on a bone.
Speaker 2: Chicken wings are better than boneless wings, which are essentially nuggets.
Speaker 2: I think both can be good. In fact, I like both,
Speaker 2: but I know that the chicken on a bone is
Speaker 2: as a as a higher quality, better chicken. But if
Speaker 2: the wings are so messy, like that's more work to
Speaker 2: where it's not really worth the difference. If that makes sense,
Speaker 2: you're absolutely yeah, Like if I gotta if I got
Speaker 2: to take a bath midway through the eight wings, I
Speaker 2: got like, you know, it's not worth it, like they're
Speaker 2: good like And that's thing with food. I mean, food
Speaker 2: is a big part of everybody's life, and I love
Speaker 2: good food. I don't even know what I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: for dinner tonight, but I hope my wife picks a
Speaker 2: great restaurant. But with all that said, like I'm pretty
Speaker 2: easy to please, like when it comes to because I'm
Speaker 2: a pretty plain eater. So same, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 2: now I'm hungry. Everyone's that just realize that I have
Speaker 2: an eating today. You want that donut burger, don't you?
Speaker 2: You got me commenced now, But I'll spend the whole
Speaker 2: time eating the donut burg because I have partaken in
Speaker 2: it before. But I spent the whole time eating it
Speaker 2: just like knowing I want to get this over with
Speaker 2: so I can wash my hands, Like I feel how
Speaker 2: sticky my hands are getting because I got a palm,
Speaker 2: the thing. And it's the same thing when I'm eating
Speaker 2: a traditional bone and wings, like I'm enjoying the process
Speaker 2: of doing it, but as like the napkins are piling up, it's.
Speaker 1: Just too much.
Speaker 2: Well it's a lot like you need you need to
Speaker 2: go like hose down after eating. And you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there are some foods that are good enough to
Speaker 2: where it's worth it. Maybe you'll you'll, you know, you'll
Speaker 2: eat it naked if you have to, if it's that good.
Speaker 2: But the donut burger, I've never even attempted it, and
Speaker 2: I just again, both both are exclusively fine. It's just
Speaker 2: I don't I just don't need that. But I just
Speaker 2: clearly they're popular. I eat Burger's plain anyway, like it's
Speaker 2: ten year old. So I can't imagine like cheese, lettuce
Speaker 2: tomato with like with the with the with the burger
Speaker 2: or with the donut, and I just can't see how
Speaker 2: that that that blend of flavor goes together. I'm with you,
Speaker 2: all right, So let's do this. Let's save this for
Speaker 2: we're up against it, and I know if we get
Speaker 2: rolling the clock management will be really terrible. So we'll
Speaker 2: talk about the quarterback thing I brought up a minute
Speaker 2: ago as far as just realizing how Again, the reason
Speaker 2: we're doing this is to realize just how great Louisville
Speaker 2: football has been at the quarterback position. Not to say
Speaker 2: that they're the best in college football, but we've been
Speaker 2: pretty spoiled with some great quarterbacks around here. And Tyler
Speaker 2: Shuck looking like a guy that could be taken pretty
Speaker 2: early in this draft potentially is another reminder that we've
Speaker 2: been pretty spoiled. So again, we'll finish the four o'clock
Speaker 2: hour up with that conversation. And I hope you stick around.
Speaker 2: Why would you not? I mean, I mean, come on,
Speaker 2: Donut Burger's quarterbacks. John says, we talked about it all
Speaker 2: this week, Candy. You know, you never know where we're
Speaker 2: going to go, and I like to convince myself that
Speaker 2: that's a good thing. I hope it is. If you're
Speaker 2: with us and you hear this clearly, you know you
Speaker 2: like us enough to stick around, So that's a good thing.
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Speaker 2: games this weekend. All right. So I had to read that.
Speaker 2: I had to read that. I feel like there's there's
Speaker 2: something missing like that? Was that just that? That's that's
Speaker 2: what was sent in to read? But like, but what
Speaker 2: are they listening to? Like get ready for the next
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Speaker 2: you know, So that's what it is, the PayPal campaign. Anyways,
Speaker 2: go check it out. All right. Also, I already regret
Speaker 2: doing this, by the way, bring and it wasn't something
Speaker 2: I had planned. It just came up organically. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to emphasize for the tenth time. Maybe the reason
Speaker 2: this is even being discussed is because it's a reminder
Speaker 2: of how fortunate Louisville fans are at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: But I can just see it now, like somebody who's
Speaker 2: you know, clearly moved on from football, has their own career,
Speaker 2: their own family, maybe a good day. You hear that
Speaker 2: show on seven ninety they said you were the worst
Speaker 2: quarterback in twenty years. I don't want to do that,
Speaker 2: but I also don't want to completely bail on it.
Speaker 2: But Tyler Shuck has a chance to be drafted fairly early.
Speaker 2: It sounds like and even before Shuck, Louisville fans, I
Speaker 2: think were well aware that we were pretty spoiled when
Speaker 2: it comes to having really, really good quarterbacks for many, many, many,
Speaker 2: many eras. I mean, I'm going back just the last
Speaker 2: twenty years, but even further than that, we've had some
Speaker 2: really good quarterbacks, including you know, the guy who's coaching
Speaker 2: our program right now. But in the last twenty years,
Speaker 2: so think two thousand, so think Brian Brahm on which
Speaker 2: is crazy to say, Brian started playing here twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: but here we are, Uh, who do you feel like
Speaker 2: comes to mind? Who comes to mind first to you?
Speaker 2: As far as somebody that you're like, yeah, that guy
Speaker 2: was not a good quarterback and we weren't good and
Speaker 2: he was a big factor in that. Who would you
Speaker 2: who comes to mind for you first? Okay, since we're
Speaker 2: just talking about that era, Hunter can't well, okay, now
Speaker 2: that that's a good one because Hunter. Uh And I'm
Speaker 2: glad you said Hunter, not because I'm saying, yeah, that
Speaker 2: guy stinks, he's lousy. But there are other names that
Speaker 2: could be mentioned. But I like, if you if you
Speaker 2: were the starting quarterback and then you weren't within like
Speaker 2: a few games or halfway through like that, like you know,
Speaker 2: I don't want to say you don't count, but you know,
Speaker 2: like you not being the quarterback the rest of the
Speaker 2: season kind of tells us that it didn't work out. Therefore,
Speaker 2: you know, there was a change made. So here are
Speaker 2: guys that I thought you were gonna say, Juwan Pass Uh, dude,
Speaker 2: I almost forgot it. Well because he's easy to forget
Speaker 2: because he wasn't the quarterback anymore. He got benched like
Speaker 2: three games in and they ended up having to come
Speaker 2: back because Elite got hurt. And like, obviously, you know,
Speaker 2: he never started a full season and I don't even
Speaker 2: know how many games he started overall. So can I
Speaker 2: mention two that you might have on your list and
Speaker 2: spoil it? Because these are another ones when I think
Speaker 2: about dark time for well, maybe not even dark time,
Speaker 2: but just dark quarterback time when you mentioned about being spoiled,
Speaker 2: but two that come to mind. They're on the same team,
Speaker 2: but they were just flat out bad. Justin Burke and
Speaker 2: Adam Frohman. See I I hear you, do you? But
Speaker 2: I feel like those guys weren't great quarterbacks, but we
Speaker 2: got everything out of them as far as what they
Speaker 2: could do. We're running the ball a lot too. He
Speaker 2: won that the Victor Anderson years and below. So Justin
Speaker 2: Burke was the guy I believe at the end of Cragthorpe.
Speaker 2: No I think so, but whenever, whenever, it was that
Speaker 2: last yet. So Burke was the quarterback in two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine, which yeah, he ended. I don't know if
Speaker 2: he got hurt or got bingched, But that year in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, which I think was Charlie's first year.
Speaker 2: They ended up I think it was his first year.
Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't, but it was a mixture of Burke, Frohman,
Speaker 2: and will Stein. But Frohman in twenty ten, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think he was great at the position, but
Speaker 2: he gave us everything he had and they found ways
Speaker 2: to win enough to where we got to a bowl game. So, like,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't claim that Frohman is anywhere near like one
Speaker 2: of the better quarterbacks in the last twenty years, but
Speaker 2: he's a good example in my opinion, if that's the one,
Speaker 2: If that's one of the worst guys that started the
Speaker 2: season for you all the way through, that speaks to
Speaker 2: how good you've been at quarterbacks, sure, because you know
Speaker 2: he was good enough to keep the job and you won,
Speaker 2: and it was that was a fun year because it
Speaker 2: was Charlie's first year. We were coming off the crag
Speaker 2: air uh and you got to that. I mean that
Speaker 2: Beef O. Brady's Bowl doesn't even exist anymore. I don't
Speaker 2: think the stadium exists, but that that felt like we
Speaker 2: were in the Super Bowl, didn't it? Like that was fun, man,
Speaker 2: that was really fun. Blow Pale running all over people.
Speaker 2: Uh so, yeah, Nick Mullins was he's a quarterback for
Speaker 2: Southern Miss at that time. Didn't he catch like a
Speaker 2: touchdown like a trickery, like weird touchdown in the I
Speaker 2: don't remember that, but I I just remember that Larry
Speaker 2: Ustation was that his name? U station, Yes, that the
Speaker 2: guy whatever happened to him because he was at old
Speaker 2: he was at Southern Miss and then he got the
Speaker 2: uh he got the North Carolina job. And I he's
Speaker 2: one of those guys that I just I just know
Speaker 2: Larry Stace. She's a basketball coach. I knew I had
Speaker 2: that wrong. Who coached Southern Miss in North Carolina. It's
Speaker 2: gonna drive me crazy and it's so and it's absolutely
Speaker 2: irrelevant from our conversation. But I have this issue or
Speaker 2: once I like I'm out there, it's on the tip
Speaker 2: of my tongue. I just can't. I can't move on
Speaker 2: from it. It is uh and it drive me insane.
Speaker 2: And again, this is not even it doesn't matter. It
Speaker 2: makes no difference about the conversation we're having, But I
Speaker 2: can't move on from it. You don't have any clue, uh,
Speaker 2: Larry Fedora that that was Southern Missus head coach in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. Oh god, now I'm just googling
Speaker 2: it because I'm I'm a madman. That sounds right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's him, but or it didn't sound right, but yeah,
Speaker 2: so that was him. He was at Southern miss then
Speaker 2: he went to Carolina and he he hasn't coached a
Speaker 2: long time, by the way, but yeah, he got fired
Speaker 2: at Carolina in twenty eighteen and he did some analyst
Speaker 2: work for a while. But anyways, he also is the
Speaker 2: one who said he doesn't believe c T is reel
Speaker 2: and you know, I think that probably didn't help him,
Speaker 2: you know, at finding another job. But anyways, the other quarter,
Speaker 2: like again, these guys they ended up getting binched. I'm
Speaker 2: not here to say that, you know, they're the worst ever,
Speaker 2: but like them getting bench means that, like, I don't
Speaker 2: think they should be in the conversation because you know,
Speaker 2: clearly the results spoke for themselves that they were removed
Speaker 2: from the position, if that makes sense. So you know,
Speaker 2: Hunter Campbell was a good one. But Hunter was good
Speaker 2: when he filled in for Brom when Brom got hurt,
Speaker 2: and then whenever he became the man after Brom left
Speaker 2: during Crackthorpe season. You know that's a good one because
Speaker 2: Louisville wasn't good that year, and I think there were
Speaker 2: a variety of reasons, but I do remember quarterback plays
Speaker 2: seemingly felt like one of those reasons. And also, I mean,
Speaker 2: I mean that's I would have never thought of Hunter.
Speaker 2: But I think you're right because I remember I can
Speaker 2: remember games where I felt like he was throwing it
Speaker 2: five yards, but he threw it five hundred miles an hour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he had only sixteen passing touchdown. You remember the hot
Speaker 2: take artists that were saying that the year that Brom
Speaker 2: came back and Hunter came back to be the backup
Speaker 2: again after filling in for him, Like there were people
Speaker 2: saying that Hunter Campbell actually was a better NFL prospect
Speaker 2: than Brom. I don't remember. And then he played out
Speaker 2: because he did good for Bobby. You don't remember him
Speaker 2: playing with Bobby. I remember got hurt in two thousand
Speaker 2: and four, I think it was, and it was the
Speaker 2: Bowl game against Virginia Tech where Michael Vick's brother Marcus
Speaker 2: Vick stepped on Bloomerville's leg. Yes, Hunter had a good
Speaker 2: run there to where people are like man not only
Speaker 2: does does Bobby Patrino have a Jeff Brohm next next
Speaker 2: year coming off injury? How about that Campwell kid who
Speaker 2: was great and then once it became Hunter's job, it
Speaker 2: just it didn't work. But look a lot of it
Speaker 2: I think had to do with just the guy coaching
Speaker 2: or so long hair loo other Again, like Malik, Malik
Speaker 2: was great in all aspects, he just didn't play for
Speaker 2: a great team. And he wasn't Lamar or he wasn't
Speaker 2: I mean, he had some big shoes to fill. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it coming off the shadow of Lamar, that was pretty tough,
Speaker 2: can I give you? And really, I tell you what,
Speaker 2: I don't really remember any games that Louisville lost under
Speaker 2: under sadder Field with Malik as the quarterback, where like,
Speaker 2: damn we'd a one if quarterback play wasn't great, but
Speaker 2: we also at times did win just because he could
Speaker 2: he could do some crazy things. Yeah. But also what
Speaker 2: I what I hate for Malik is there, and this
Speaker 2: is more so not this isn't his fat well, this
Speaker 2: is just the era that is Sadderfield. There's no notable win,
Speaker 2: there's no moment, you never beat your rival, you didn't
Speaker 2: have any real big Bowl wins that really seemed to matter. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like you never had a big ACC win, right,
Speaker 2: you never got over the hump and beat a Florida State.
Speaker 2: You never beat Clemson obviously, So like nobody would say
Speaker 2: he was bad. But there's not a moment to where
Speaker 2: when you think back to really good quarterbacks, he just
Speaker 2: doesn't come to mind as much as as put it
Speaker 2: this way, he doesn't come to mind as much as
Speaker 2: you would expect him to when you look at the
Speaker 2: numbers and the stats that he had because he was
Speaker 2: a quarterback here for many years and anytime he was
Speaker 2: the starter, he put up good numbers. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean Jack Plumber, I mean he again. Yeah, another good
Speaker 2: example if he's one of the worst. You went to
Speaker 2: the a SEC championship, but it was a wordly two
Speaker 2: hundred yard it was, and he was actually all ACC thirteen.
Speaker 2: I think. I think it was more so just because
Speaker 2: he had big numbers as far as yards because of
Speaker 2: Brom's offense and Louisville was good. But you know, it
Speaker 2: was a weird year watching Louisville football for these two reasons.
Speaker 2: One we aren't used to it no matter who the
Speaker 2: coach is. But also problem was the coach, which makes
Speaker 2: you think there's no way this would ever be the case,
Speaker 2: but it was. Louisville went ten and two and was
Speaker 2: a really good football team. But when you think about
Speaker 2: like things that really are their strength and things that
Speaker 2: are their weakness, they didn't have the worst quarterback in
Speaker 2: the league clearly, but quarterback play was one of the weaknesses,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And that's just not something
Speaker 2: you would expect from a guy, you know, meeting from Jeff,
Speaker 2: from a Jeff Brohm coach team. And also we just
Speaker 2: aren't used to if we're good and we're making noise
Speaker 2: and we're knocking on the door to you know, remind
Speaker 2: people Louisville football actually at times gonna be pretty special.
Speaker 2: It's usually because we have pretty good quarterbacks, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So just kind of weird, random name
Speaker 2: a guy that I also think doesn't doesn't count because
Speaker 2: you know, just because he got pulled Will Gardner, you
Speaker 2: forgot about it. Dune. I was about to say, are
Speaker 2: you okay he was because he looked good early and
Speaker 2: then you know, yes, that first game against Miami and
Speaker 2: the acc opener, like I remember the comment table numbers
Speaker 2: gushing over him. This is a Bobby Petrino quarterback dom.
Speaker 2: I think Brown ran all over Miami and then never
Speaker 2: played for Bobby again, I don't think. And then and
Speaker 2: then he went to the doghouse. And then also Will
Speaker 2: Gardner was great in that game. And then they went
Speaker 2: on the road to Virginia, he played terrible. And then
Speaker 2: I think he just got in his own head and
Speaker 2: they had to make a change. Yes, yeah, he at
Speaker 2: times looked like the part, but I think upstairs he
Speaker 2: just at times he would overthink it. Yeah, Reggie, Reggie
Speaker 2: stepped in because of that. And Reggie, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't even consider him a quarterback. He didn't go on
Speaker 2: the road and beat notre name. However, Reggie ended up
Speaker 2: playing two other positions and was just simply better at
Speaker 2: those two positions, both of them running back and receiver.
Speaker 2: All right, scrip down memory lane, that's fun stuff. Scars
Speaker 2: quick quick break, we'll come back. We will hit the
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