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Speaker 2: All right, so I'm excited as hell for Saturday. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is not a game. I think anybody circled on
Speaker 2: the calendar or the schedule here for Louisville football because
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech is not that much of them. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not a marque opponent. They're better than I think
Speaker 2: most people probably thought they'd be considering they beat Florida State,
Speaker 2: but now, I mean, weeks later, that doesn't look like
Speaker 2: that impressive of a win. But it doesn't matter. They
Speaker 2: have a pulse, and I'm not sure Jacksonville State and
Speaker 2: Austin p did with respect because you know, those are
Speaker 2: not teams that are going to test you. So Louisville
Speaker 2: will have their first test on Saturday. And when I
Speaker 2: say that, I'm excited, and I'm emphasizing the word test,
Speaker 2: let me clarify what I mean. I'm excited because, hey,
Speaker 2: we've never had to wait this long to see Louisville
Speaker 2: play somebody we've heard of, and that excites me because
Speaker 2: I've been feeding for it. I've been jealous watching other
Speaker 2: teams at least get a chance to go out there
Speaker 2: and see where they stand, see how they stack up
Speaker 2: against peers in their conference, or teams they know that
Speaker 2: are really good of them had been able to do that,
Speaker 2: And to be fair, Georgia Tech's not really good. Lilves
Speaker 2: expected to win they're double digit favorites in this game,
Speaker 2: I think for good reason. But it's such a vast
Speaker 2: difference in what we've seen as far as competition in
Speaker 2: those first two opponents. So that has me excited, and
Speaker 2: that's why I keep mentioning test. But it's not as
Speaker 2: if they passed the test by covering the spread that
Speaker 2: means they're going to be great. I mean, that would
Speaker 2: be encouraging, but if they won technically, it would really
Speaker 2: just be them doing what they're supposed to do. So
Speaker 2: I think Louisville fans are justified and looking at this
Speaker 2: team and saying, no, we are legitimately a top twenty team,
Speaker 2: and we have an opportunity. We play to our potential
Speaker 2: and maybe a break goes our way here and there,
Speaker 2: maybe we find ourselves in the playoff. That's not delusion,
Speaker 2: that's not just, you know, a dream. I mean, it
Speaker 2: would be a dreamcome true fulfal was able to make
Speaker 2: the College Football Playoff. But what I'm getting at is,
Speaker 2: I think you've earned at least the belief that people
Speaker 2: have in you. AP voters still think you're a top
Speaker 2: twenty team. You're still being mentioned as a team that
Speaker 2: could potentially find yourself in the playoff. Now, most of
Speaker 2: that now has to do with conference standings and whatnot,
Speaker 2: because we all know when your league you're in. That
Speaker 2: wasn't the case previously. So what I'm getting at is like,
Speaker 2: I think Louisville's worthy of being ranked where they are.
Speaker 2: I think they're deserving to be favored, and it makes
Speaker 2: sense that they're favored by double digits against this Georgia
Speaker 2: Tech team. So I'm trying to find I guess the
Speaker 2: right way to state that. I'm again, I think you're
Speaker 2: justified and feeling great about your team given what you've seen,
Speaker 2: knowing who your coach is, knowing your personnel. But we
Speaker 2: can also acknowledge like none of it means anything until
Speaker 2: they actually play somebody where you feel like you're gonna
Speaker 2: get tested in any way, and Georgia Tech may not
Speaker 2: be the biggest test, but there's certainly a big step
Speaker 2: up from what Louisville had with Austin p and Jacksonville State.
Speaker 2: So coming off of BUYE, I would imagine they'll be
Speaker 2: ready to play Georgia Tech's coming off of a beatdown
Speaker 2: victory over VMI after they had to bounce back from
Speaker 2: their loss a couple of weeks ago to Syracuse three
Speaker 2: thirty kickoff. I'm excited for it, and I'm also excited
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Speaker 2: Lawyer's Suit, Distracted driver dot Com. Not exactly sure what
Speaker 2: reaction we're gonna get. I mean, it really depends on
Speaker 2: the outcome, of course, that's how it works. But I
Speaker 2: would imagine it'll be a victory postgame show and maybe
Speaker 2: people will be carrying some vibes with them from ellen
Speaker 2: n Stadium right over there to the Highlands Festival Music Grounds.
Speaker 2: Now I get it right, John.
Speaker 3: Highland Festival Grounds.
Speaker 2: Highland Festival Grounds that's where the Bourbon and Beyond Music
Speaker 2: festival is, as well as Louder than Life, which will
Speaker 2: be here next week. It's just, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: When I see people showing the they got tickets for
Speaker 2: sale or you know, listing tickets for sale and they
Speaker 2: mentioned the venue, I'm like, what, what's that? And then
Speaker 2: I realized, oh, yeah, it's just the field that they
Speaker 2: now and it's a I think it's a good location
Speaker 2: for it, to be honest with you, like I've I've
Speaker 2: been to a music festival there once. In fact, I
Speaker 2: guess I went twice, considering our brief stop at Louder
Speaker 2: than Life last year, And I mean, it's it's you
Speaker 2: got plenty of space, you know.
Speaker 3: The only thing I've ever heard people really complain about
Speaker 3: is that there's no trees. There's really no shad unless
Speaker 3: you're inside of tent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be that'd be a bummer, especially if
Speaker 2: it's hot as you know what outside. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: if that's the biggest complaint, I'd say, you know, that's
Speaker 2: a yeah, that's fine, yeah, because you know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: finding a place that has that much space where you
Speaker 2: can accommodate that many people and have many stages going
Speaker 2: on at the same time and not drowned each other out,
Speaker 2: Like you need a humongous area, and I'd say most
Speaker 2: areas available to you know, have a music festival of
Speaker 2: this size would not have a lot of trees. But anyways,
Speaker 2: I uh, I mean, I'll be there at least, you know,
Speaker 2: for the for a good chunk of the game, and
Speaker 2: then I'm I always have to leave early just because
Speaker 2: I've got postgame duties. But you know, I just there's
Speaker 2: so much talk about a potential traffic nightmare. I kind
Speaker 2: of feel like it's either gonna be one of two things,
Speaker 2: and nowhere in the middle and I could be way
Speaker 2: off here. I think it's either going to be exactly that,
Speaker 2: a huge nightmare, or it'll be fine. You'll have like
Speaker 2: a lot of staggering to where the majority of the
Speaker 2: people that are that are gonna be getting there for
Speaker 2: the festival are probably going to be going while you're
Speaker 2: at the game, and the majority of the folks that
Speaker 2: are going to the game are going to be arriving
Speaker 2: prior to the big crowd of those just there for
Speaker 2: the festival. That that's I guess the best case scenario.
Speaker 2: But you never know, right, you never You never know.
Speaker 2: And somebody's asked us on the text line. Two different
Speaker 2: people have asked the same question, and it's a legitimate question.
Speaker 2: I just you know, I have no way of knowing, Like,
Speaker 2: do you think Louisville will have less fans than they
Speaker 2: typically would there because of this festival because people will
Speaker 2: choose to go to that rather than go to the
Speaker 2: Louisville game. Yeah, I mean, I mean, you're competing with
Speaker 2: not only a huge event in our city, compet with
Speaker 2: one of the biggest music festivals in the world. It
Speaker 2: seems like, I mean, I don't I wouldn't be I'm
Speaker 2: not as well now I'm not knowledged. I don't have
Speaker 2: enough knowledge on the music festival scene to know if
Speaker 2: that's a real statement. But if you look at the
Speaker 2: lineup and you look at the amount of people that
Speaker 2: are going to be traveling from across the planet to
Speaker 2: be here, I mean, there's a lot of people in
Speaker 2: Louisville that probably go to every football game, but they
Speaker 2: see this lineup and they have access to tickets here
Speaker 2: in their hometown. They're thinking, Hey, I'm going on with
Speaker 2: the festival. Now it may work out to where the
Speaker 2: acts that you want to see don't actually perform at
Speaker 2: the time of the game. So look, I have no
Speaker 2: clue when it comes to the crowd, but I do
Speaker 2: think that that the and I don't even know the number.
Speaker 2: I intentionally didn't look for it. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the attendance was as far as the announced crowd at
Speaker 2: Austin p or Jacksonville State. But I know the Louisville
Speaker 2: fan base at least well enough to say this with confidence.
Speaker 2: When there's games against teams that, like, you know, we know,
Speaker 2: and you know you're coming off a ten win season,
Speaker 2: it's your first ACC game, it's against Georgia Tech that
Speaker 2: was just in the top twenty five a week ago. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm not telling you it's gonna be a sellout and
Speaker 2: you won't be able to find a seat and you
Speaker 2: won't be able to get in, but they'll I think
Speaker 2: they'll be a much better crowd and much better atmosphere
Speaker 2: there than what you saw the last two games. And
Speaker 2: that's not to say that the atmosphere and the crowd
Speaker 2: wasn't good, but the other two games, I don't know.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, there's no doubt this festival is
Speaker 2: a big deal, and people who love Louisville football and
Speaker 2: love sports have probably made a decision, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: beat every game. But there's twelve of those games every year,
Speaker 2: six of them I can go to at home. This
Speaker 2: music festival, if it's you know, if they just love
Speaker 2: Zach Bryan or love I don't know who's another big
Speaker 2: name on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Day on Saturday, I believe, I mean, I wish I
Speaker 3: had to pull up in front of me earlier, but
Speaker 3: I do know my Morning Jackets on Sunday they're a local.
Speaker 3: There's Sunday, there's Sunday. I believe Beck might be on Saturday.
Speaker 3: I've got the whole. So one thing I don't like
Speaker 3: about the bourbon and beyond posters, that's just a massive
Speaker 3: like all of the names of one thing. They're not
Speaker 3: separated by day like the Louder than Life festival typically.
Speaker 2: Is like there's people that I've heard of on Saturday
Speaker 2: that I'm like, oh yeah, I like them pretty well.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind seeing them, Like I have no clue
Speaker 2: if they moved the needle to where like, uh, oh
Speaker 2: you better, you better make sure you get there at
Speaker 2: this time because this, this band's gonna go.
Speaker 3: So the top four acts on Saturday. Obviously, we know
Speaker 3: Zach Brian them, Whiskey Myers plays before them, Cody Jinks
Speaker 3: and Young the Giant.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Whiskey Myers. I feel like it's kind of
Speaker 2: a big deal, but nowhere to the level of Zach
Speaker 2: Bryan obviously, but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3: Nico Moon's also on Saturday. I know he's a young
Speaker 3: country star, isn't he.
Speaker 2: Gosh, man, there are so many. I mean when I
Speaker 2: say so many, I don't mean that they're all like
Speaker 2: A listers, but man, it's a great lineup. I'm just
Speaker 2: looking at I'm going day by day here, and each
Speaker 2: day there's like Charles Wesley Godwin is there on Friday.
Speaker 2: I don't know how big he is, like mainstream, but
Speaker 2: like I really like him, and I know he has
Speaker 2: a big following. Dave Matthew's band on Friday is going
Speaker 2: to I mean that alone is a huge deal. I
Speaker 2: mean they have their own cult following. They do not
Speaker 2: I mean there, have you ever been to Dave Matthews show.
Speaker 3: I haven't, but I'd love to go to one if
Speaker 3: I happen to Snags and Passes for Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know people who don't like identify as like
Speaker 2: super fans.
Speaker 3: I have like a funny like nickname for their fan base,
Speaker 3: like Davies or something.
Speaker 2: They remind I feel like they're kind of like Parroheads,
Speaker 2: but I know they don't call them that. That's the
Speaker 2: people who would go to the Jimmy Buffett concerts. I
Speaker 2: don't know if the Dave Matthews super fans that go
Speaker 2: to many shows have a name for themselves like the
Speaker 2: parroedheads do. But I know people who don't like identify
Speaker 2: as super fans that have gone to a couple of
Speaker 2: shows that say like, you gotta go, like it's such
Speaker 2: a good time. So clearly they do. They do a
Speaker 2: pretty good job. Sunday. Tyler Childers me, my morning jacket.
Speaker 2: Sunday looks to be and maybe this is just the
Speaker 2: norm when it comes to music festivals, I'd say, outside
Speaker 2: of him, know what do I know? It's all it's
Speaker 2: all a matter of preference and who you really. You know,
Speaker 2: everybody's got their own taste and artists they do like
Speaker 2: and don't like. But Sunday seems to be the lightest
Speaker 2: day as far as big names other than Tyler Childers
Speaker 2: of course. And then Thursday's Sting. That's huge, right, I
Speaker 2: mean and Sting twenty wall.
Speaker 3: Flowers, Neil Young or whatever the guy's name is. Always
Speaker 3: get Neil Young and Vince Young or Vince Neil and
Speaker 3: the stuff, and they're two totally different people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody had backed out, and was it Sting that
Speaker 2: did replace him?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, no offense to the person who had
Speaker 2: to back out, whose name I'm also forgetting that you know,
Speaker 2: had some health issues. But like, I think we kind
Speaker 2: of upgraded, didn't we See we got the police, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, Sting's is a pretty big name. So again,
Speaker 2: good vibes here in Louisville as the Cards are set
Speaker 2: for their first conference matchup, a chance to you know,
Speaker 2: kind of see where they stand a test. I assume
Speaker 2: that they'll pass, but just knowing that it is going
Speaker 2: to be a much bigger test than the first two opponents,
Speaker 2: it's exciting to me. And we also have one of
Speaker 2: the biggest music festivals, you know, seemingly out there that's
Speaker 2: going to be in town, which is exciting. All right.
Speaker 2: If you're a Kentucky fan, are you excited about the
Speaker 2: rest of your season? I asked that sincerely because if
Speaker 2: I was you, which I can't put myself in your
Speaker 2: shoes because you know I'm not a Kentucky fan. But
Speaker 2: I think if I was a Kentucky fan that watched
Speaker 2: the last two weeks of my team, with the embarrassing,
Speaker 2: pathetic loss to South Carolina and and then you come
Speaker 2: out and give yourself a chance to beat the number
Speaker 2: one team in the country, Georgia, I'd be confused with
Speaker 2: how to feel and knowing what I should and having
Speaker 2: any idea of what to expect. You know, I I
Speaker 2: give them credit. Again, they didn't do anything for him.
Speaker 2: I'm sure me giving them credit doesn't make Saturday feel
Speaker 2: any better if you're a Kentucky fan. But I do
Speaker 2: want you to know I'm being sincere when I say it,
Speaker 2: because the atmosphere in Lexington on Friday or Saturday night
Speaker 2: looked insane and they played well. I mean, they came
Speaker 2: out they look to be as physical, as tough, as
Speaker 2: aggress I mean they were. Again, we all know that
Speaker 2: Georgia is the best team in the country. We all
Speaker 2: know that they're riding and insane streak of just beating
Speaker 2: the hell out of it or beating everybody, and then
Speaker 2: the only team that's beat him in the last couple
Speaker 2: of years is Alabama. Like Kirby Smart and Georgia, they
Speaker 2: are on top right now, and I feel like if
Speaker 2: they run through this season and win the whole thing,
Speaker 2: we'll actually look back at the playoff snub of last
Speaker 2: year and not talk about Florida State. We'll talk about
Speaker 2: how the hell did we live Georgie out. All they
Speaker 2: did was lose to Nick Saban and his last days
Speaker 2: the championship game, right Like, so we all know George
Speaker 2: is great, But I'm just saying if you could just,
Speaker 2: you know, use the whatever that thing is that Will
Speaker 2: Smith has and Men in Black where you can just
Speaker 2: like block out your memory. If you just watch those
Speaker 2: two teams play, knowing nothing about their expectation level this year,
Speaker 2: knowing the history of the programs, and you just watched
Speaker 2: what you saw between the lines, you would say that
Speaker 2: those are very comparable teams. And that's a credit to
Speaker 2: Mark Stoops for having his guys ready whenever the noise
Speaker 2: was as loud as it's ever been. As far as
Speaker 2: him maybe not being the guy that should be the
Speaker 2: coach their long term, nobody was saying he needs to
Speaker 2: be fired. At least I didn't hear that, and if
Speaker 2: anybody did, it was probably just getting caught up in
Speaker 2: the emotion that came with an embarrassing loss to South Carolina.
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, last week, I feel like it
Speaker 2: was as down as I've heard their fan base about
Speaker 2: football and their coach. And yet he had them ready
Speaker 2: to play and they, you know, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I can say they should have won, but they clearly,
Speaker 2: you know, we're right there with a chance to, you know,
Speaker 2: to potentially pull off the biggest upset of the season
Speaker 2: thus far, and they didn't do that. And who knows, right,
Speaker 2: if he goes forward on fourth and eight, maybe they
Speaker 2: throw a pick six, Right, We'll never know. But fourth
Speaker 2: and eight, midfield, down one to Georgia, three minutes left
Speaker 2: on the clock. Your kicker's already got some momentum established.
Speaker 2: He probably just needs a first down to be in
Speaker 2: position to give, you know, to give him a go
Speaker 2: ahead field goal. And yet Stoops punted it away. And
Speaker 2: then when he did get the ball back, there was
Speaker 2: nine seconds left on the clock and he was on
Speaker 2: his own twenty five. It was not even having the
Speaker 2: Stones to take that chance essentially was choosing not to lose.
Speaker 2: But you'd have a hard time selling that you're trying
Speaker 2: to win with that with that mindset, and I know
Speaker 2: there's some that say, well, I mean, do you really
Speaker 2: think Kentucky would have been able to get it on
Speaker 2: fourth and eight? Do you really think that you know
Speaker 2: their defense that they shouldn't have trusted their defense to
Speaker 2: get a stop? Like all that's true, you have to
Speaker 2: consider all like best case scenario, worst case scenario for
Speaker 2: both for both sides here, what was the best case
Speaker 2: scenario for you by punning it away? That you would
Speaker 2: get the ball back, but you'd be further away, like
Speaker 2: if you got a three and out, they're punning it
Speaker 2: and you may not even get back to midfield where
Speaker 2: you were in the first place. And you've got them
Speaker 2: on the ropes. I mean, maybe try to maybe try
Speaker 2: to get them to jump off sides. Maybe heck, you
Speaker 2: could get bailed out by a pass interference call, just
Speaker 2: like the Bengals bailed the Chiefs out yesterday. So it's
Speaker 2: not like a crazy decision. But I would love to
Speaker 2: know anonymously, Like if you asked every coach if they're
Speaker 2: in that situation, and they are Kentucky and they know
Speaker 2: they're playing Georgia, because that matters to here. You know,
Speaker 2: you got nothing to lose, You're not supposed to win,
Speaker 2: You're not expected to win. You know that. More often
Speaker 2: than not, if they get the ball back, they're likely
Speaker 2: going to do what needs to be done to win
Speaker 2: the game, which is what they did. I'm just curious
Speaker 2: if other coaches, if coaches in college football, view the
Speaker 2: decision from Stoops the way that seemingly everybody else does.
Speaker 2: It Just to me seemed like a guy that was
Speaker 2: being as conservative as ever. And to go back to
Speaker 2: what I said earlier when we discussed his decision to
Speaker 2: punt it away and not go for it on fourth
Speaker 2: and eight, Stoops is known as a really conservative guy.
Speaker 2: People know that he gets completely aroused by winning games
Speaker 2: three to six. But if he did decide to go
Speaker 2: forward on fourth and eight in that scenario three minutes
Speaker 2: left down one did Georgia at midfield in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't have been like, oh my god, Mark Stoops,
Speaker 2: how about this? He let his hair down. This guy,
Speaker 2: he's a he got a divorce. Now he's out there
Speaker 2: living life like a wild son of a you know
Speaker 2: what going forward on. I don't know why I bring
Speaker 2: up a divorce, but like you know, he's a single man.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty well known thing in Lexington, you know,
Speaker 2: so I probably shouldn't have mentioned that, but like you know,
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to It would not have been viewed
Speaker 2: as like, Wow, this guy's really he's really, he's really
Speaker 2: changed his app roach. I think it would have been
Speaker 2: looked at as well, Yeah, you're down one. Did Georgia
Speaker 2: at midfield in the fourth quarter with three minutes left?
Speaker 2: Of course you're gonna go for it on fourth and eight,
Speaker 2: but he decided not to do that. All right, One
Speaker 2: thing before we move on from Kentucky and I, do
Speaker 2: you want to talk some more about the NFL on
Speaker 2: the other side here? Have you seen the play that
Speaker 2: was the pick six that got called back? I don't
Speaker 2: think I have. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna send it
Speaker 2: to you because if I was a Louisville fan, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to give them the benefit of the doubt after
Speaker 2: a really tough loss. Meaning would I would I be
Speaker 2: would I be so sour grapes about a call to
Speaker 2: where I wouldn't just use my brain and realize that
Speaker 2: like that, there's no scenario that should have been a
Speaker 2: pick six because they had a receiver for Georgia who
Speaker 2: seemingly caught the ball and then went to the ground,
Speaker 2: and then the ball bounced up in the air and
Speaker 2: one of Kentucky's one of Kentucky's guys took it the
Speaker 2: other one and it was a pick six. On the field,
Speaker 2: it was called a touchdown. They reviewed it, and I mean,
Speaker 2: there's no scenario like this is one of two things
Speaker 2: because again you've got people saying I'm not saying they
Speaker 2: got the call wrong, but I know that if that
Speaker 2: was any other team they would have let that call stand.
Speaker 2: Why and how? I mean again, that's why I'm trying
Speaker 2: to like put myself in your shoes and say, Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe I would have sour grapes because losing in like
Speaker 2: losing a game like this in that fashion, knowing how
Speaker 2: big that play would have been at that stood, maybe
Speaker 2: I would have the mindset of, oh, they just they're
Speaker 2: out to get us. Because it's one of two things here.
Speaker 2: Either it's an incomplete pass because the ball hit the ground,
Speaker 2: which is what they ruled in, which is likely the
Speaker 2: correct call. I don't. I mean I thought that's what
Speaker 2: they would call, and that's what they did. Or the
Speaker 2: ground calls the fumble, which can't be a fumble. Therefore
Speaker 2: he's just down because the ball hit the ground like
Speaker 2: a like there's no scenario that would have counted in
Speaker 2: any way unless the reps didn't have the ability to
Speaker 2: go back and look at it, which they did, and
Speaker 2: it was again one to two. They had two options
Speaker 2: to essentially binge over and screw you. If you're Kentucky.
Speaker 2: The way you see it again, you're not getting screwed.
Speaker 2: It's the correct call. It's one of two things. Either
Speaker 2: it's the correct call, which is what they did after
Speaker 2: the fact, ruling that the ball hit the ground there
Speaker 2: for it's an incomplete pass. Or he caught it and
Speaker 2: the ball hit the ground, therefore it can't be The
Speaker 2: ground can't cause a fumble. So did you just see
Speaker 2: it for the first time?
Speaker 3: No, actually I had seen that before, but it is
Speaker 3: I see what you're talking about. I don't think if
Speaker 3: I was. And again, it's really tough to put yourself
Speaker 3: in the other team's position because obviously we don't have
Speaker 3: the emotional attachment to you.
Speaker 2: Because that's what it all is, is the gut punch
Speaker 2: of the emotional loss.
Speaker 3: But I do think, I mean, there's no way that
Speaker 3: this is actually a pick sick.
Speaker 2: And I'll give Matt credit on KSR. You know, he said,
Speaker 2: as much as I want to agree with all the
Speaker 2: fans like that was the right call, it just sucks
Speaker 2: to know that, Like, you know, maybe they like because
Speaker 2: I was watching two games this week and I can't
Speaker 2: think of which one it was in the NFL, but
Speaker 2: in college, heck, it might have been. It might have
Speaker 2: been that Georgia game when whenever they called roughing the
Speaker 2: passer on Georgia, which they shouldn't have. But like there
Speaker 2: are now times and I'm not complaining, but there have
Speaker 2: been a couple of questionable calls that you would just
Speaker 2: expect them to go review, and sure enough, they never do.
Speaker 2: And once the ball snapped the next play, you can't
Speaker 2: go back and look at it.
Speaker 1: All.
Speaker 2: Right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side,
Speaker 2: talk a little more about the NFL. We haven't completely
Speaker 2: wrapped up Week two yet, but we already got one
Speaker 2: quarterback who's been benched. The Bengals once again start zero
Speaker 2: to two, Niggay. There's something going on with Jamar Chase Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know he wants to be paid, but
Speaker 2: like he really cost his team in a major way yesterday.
Speaker 2: And something nobody's talking about, at least not that I'm
Speaker 2: hearing that I think is a really good story. And
Speaker 2: that's these dudes playing quarterback in the NFL that seemingly
Speaker 2: everybody wrote them off as if they were done, they
Speaker 2: were busts, and now they're thriving, and you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I feel like that should get more attention. That's a
Speaker 2: good story, is it not? Stick around? It's coffee and
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Speaker 2: seven ninety. I get why people claim Will Smith is
Speaker 2: one of the corniest like rappers to achieve some big
Speaker 2: time mainstream success. But like, I'd be a liar if
Speaker 2: I said I wasn't loving Will Smith when he was
Speaker 2: doing his damn thing in the nineties. Well, Will Smith
Speaker 2: had a had a great run in there in the nineties,
Speaker 2: Wild Wild West, you know, Men in Black. Yeah, super
Speaker 2: talented guy, and he's been in stuff recently. And I
Speaker 2: only know this because I was talking to somebody not
Speaker 2: that long ago. Is like other than him slapping Chris
Speaker 2: Rocket that Award show. Like, I don't really feel like
Speaker 2: he's been in anything, but he has. I just haven't.
Speaker 2: You know, in the days of streaming, and you know,
Speaker 2: you're not necessarily promoting something to box office as much.
Speaker 2: You know, the promotion that you see for movies that
Speaker 2: are exclusively on a Netflix or an Apple TV or
Speaker 2: a Hulu, because there's some really good movies that now
Speaker 2: just you know, maybe they do end up in theaters
Speaker 2: or you know, maybe they maybe they just go straight
Speaker 2: to the to the streaming. And when I say straight
Speaker 2: to streaming, I mean it's not an insult. It's just
Speaker 2: this is a production that that Netflix is, this is
Speaker 2: an exclusive, so they promote it within their own platform
Speaker 2: and then occasionally you'll see, like I guess, an ad
Speaker 2: or a commercial for it. But like when movies used
Speaker 2: to be really really hyped, it would be endless commercials
Speaker 2: meaning previews and stuff and like all and I'm sure
Speaker 2: they still do that to an extent. It's just you know,
Speaker 2: things have changed now.
Speaker 3: It's usually YouTube ads. I feel like we see the most,
Speaker 3: like movie trailers.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, and like I guess a way to
Speaker 2: view it. In a positive way. Is like I'll occasionally
Speaker 2: end up finding a movie on Apple TV or Netflix
Speaker 2: that has like a ton of really famous people in it,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, this is great. I didn't even
Speaker 2: know this movie existed, but man, this was awesome. Like
Speaker 2: I would have gone and seen this in theaters like
Speaker 2: this is how good it was. So something about you know,
Speaker 2: randomly finding something among the millions of things that you
Speaker 2: can seemingly find a watch on all the different streaming
Speaker 2: platforms out there. When you find one like unexpectedly, that's great.
Speaker 2: It's it's awesome. So anyway, shout out to Will Smith,
Speaker 2: and shout out to John the company man who's been
Speaker 2: able to come through for us throughout the show. Here
Speaker 2: we've been asking. I've asked him give me songs throughout
Speaker 2: the show that have something about a test being tested
Speaker 2: in some form or fashion, because you know, Lowell is
Speaker 2: going to be tested for the first time on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and I can't wait to see what happens, not because
Speaker 2: like I need them to prove something to me. I
Speaker 2: still think they're good. I think they could play not
Speaker 2: a great game and still win because I think they're
Speaker 2: better than Georgia Tech but you know it's a big difference.
Speaker 2: Then it's a big difference in a big step up
Speaker 2: from Jacksonville State and Austin p And unfortunately that actually
Speaker 2: says more about those two teams than it does Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: And for being honest, right, it's coffee and company. We
Speaker 2: are feel about Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: to ninety. So the big news thus far in the
Speaker 2: NFL in the early season, I mean, I think the
Speaker 2: fact that he's a number one overall pick and he's
Speaker 2: now been benched after two games, I'd say the Panthers
Speaker 2: benching Bryce Young is the biggest story thus far in
Speaker 2: the NFL season. But it kind of feels like, as
Speaker 2: I say it, I'm not really sure I believe what's
Speaker 2: coming out of my mouth because we're talking about the
Speaker 2: Panthers and like they're not relevant enough to where I
Speaker 2: feel like anything they would do can be viewed as
Speaker 2: a big time, you know, surprise, like a big piece
Speaker 2: of news, although it is. I mean, you're talking about
Speaker 2: a guy who was the number one pick in the
Speaker 2: draft last year and has now just what let's see here,
Speaker 2: he's eighteen games into his career, eighteen starts. He's now
Speaker 2: been he's been benched, and good luck you know, to uh,
Speaker 2: good luck to his coach who I'm not even sure
Speaker 2: who the coach of the Panthers is. Nobody believes you, bro,
Speaker 2: Like you said yesterday after the game that you were
Speaker 2: quite sure and confident and he really wasn't even a debate.
Speaker 2: You said, no, he's our quarterback, he's our guy, and
Speaker 2: you know, and now the next day you're saying you're
Speaker 2: going with Andy Dalton. I mean, what I'm getting at
Speaker 2: is he was clearly influenced to make that change, and
Speaker 2: it's unfortunate for Bryce Young and if he wants to,
Speaker 2: you know, he wants to consider this motivation and embrace it, right, say, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I got to sit back and learn and watch and
Speaker 2: really put myself in a better position to where when
Speaker 2: I do get another opportunity, If I get another opportunity,
Speaker 2: I'm more prepared because I've not been getting the job done.
Speaker 2: Know what that said. I don't watch enough of the
Speaker 2: Panthers to know if this is more of a hymn
Speaker 2: issue or more of just the organization. I'd send to
Speaker 2: think it's more of an organization thing, because you know,
Speaker 2: we're talking about the Panthers here, but I feel like
Speaker 2: for a good stretch there, if you were a first
Speaker 2: round pick at quarterback and you failed with your first team,
Speaker 2: and usually the determination of pass and fail isn't available
Speaker 2: this early on. This guy started eighteen games and he's
Speaker 2: in his second season and he's already been benched by
Speaker 2: the Panthers, So you know, maybe he ends up getting
Speaker 2: an opportunity if Andy Dalton sucks, they just decide to
Speaker 2: go back to him. I don't know, but I think
Speaker 2: seeing what's happening with Baker Mayfield, who has really resurrected
Speaker 2: his career and looks like not one of the best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the league, but I mean he ended up
Speaker 2: winning a playoff game with the Buccaneers, took advantage of
Speaker 2: that opportunity, and they look like a team that this
Speaker 2: year could be pretty damn good. And if they are,
Speaker 2: it won't be because they've got the best quarterback in
Speaker 2: the league. But this is a guy who is just
Speaker 2: a gamer. And I always got a lot of heat
Speaker 2: when I talked about this because I Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield were competing for that Heisman Trophy in twenty
Speaker 2: seventeen and no matter what, if Baker Mayfield didn't exist,
Speaker 2: Lamar wasn't going to win it back to back. They're
Speaker 2: never They just I don't think it's possible, honestly, for
Speaker 2: somebody to win the Heisman Trophy twice. I just don't.
Speaker 2: But anyways, Baker kind of an easy guy to dislike.
Speaker 2: You know, he did some stuff at Oklahoma that wasn't crazy,
Speaker 2: but obviously you know, got arrested, ran from the cops.
Speaker 2: Plays with a lot of confidence swagger. Therefore, I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people think he's a jerk, and maybe
Speaker 2: he is a jerk, but I'm telling you, man, this
Speaker 2: guy's story I've always admired it because I've never seen
Speaker 2: somebody have this many sort of layers to their story
Speaker 2: and their career where they bet on themselves and it
Speaker 2: worked out. They had the internal belief that I think
Speaker 2: a lot of people wouldn't have, and he does and
Speaker 2: it's shown. I mean, this is a guy out of
Speaker 2: high school, goes to Texas Tech where Cliff Kingsbury's the coach,
Speaker 2: and he walks on. It's a walk on at Texas Tech,
Speaker 2: and he ended up being their starting quarterback. He's, to
Speaker 2: my knowledge. He is still the only true freshman walk
Speaker 2: on quarterback to start for a power for power five program,
Speaker 2: and he did pretty good there at Texas Tech. Right,
Speaker 2: it looked like, hey, they really lucked out. This kid
Speaker 2: walked on. Let's put him on scholarship. He's going to
Speaker 2: be our guy. Well because he wasn't you know, I
Speaker 2: guess that flashy. He's not that big, good player, but
Speaker 2: doesn't you know it didn't have a doesn't have the
Speaker 2: strongest arm, not the best athlete. You know, I think
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury wanted a guy that he felt like was
Speaker 2: more of a Kyler Murray who he coached at at Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: or maybe even a who else did he have? I
Speaker 2: feel like there's another quarterback that Kingsbury coached, Oh, Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes was there with him at Texas Tech. So you know,
Speaker 2: because of all that, I think, you know, he just decided, well, no,
Speaker 2: we'll keep Baker, but you know, he's not the starter.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have to act like we're gonna have a
Speaker 2: new competition, which really isn't a crazy thing for a
Speaker 2: coach to say, but Baker, you know, felt some type
Speaker 2: of way about that because he felt like, hey, I've
Speaker 2: shown I should be our starting quarterback. So what does
Speaker 2: he do? He leaves Texas Tech, he goes and walks
Speaker 2: on at Oklahoma, where they don't have an open job.
Speaker 2: They have Trevor Knight, who was coming off a season
Speaker 2: where he led Oklahoma to a Sugar Bowl victory against
Speaker 2: Alabama and Nick Saban Baker. Mayfield walks on there and says, no,
Speaker 2: I'll win the job, tells Bob stops, Now, I know,
Speaker 2: I get it. You got a guy you know, have
Speaker 2: a scholarship. I'll walk on. And he wins the job
Speaker 2: and puts together a phenomenal crew at Oklahoma, goes to
Speaker 2: the playoff what twice? When's a Heisman Trophy in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Then he becomes the first overall pick with the Browns,
Speaker 2: and they bailed on him too early. I think they
Speaker 2: listened to a diva wide receiver, Odell Buckham Junior, who
Speaker 2: wanted to make it out that Baker was the problem.
Speaker 2: And diva wide receivers have been getting their way for
Speaker 2: a long time. But I'm curious if what will eventually
Speaker 2: see a scenario to where you know good For example,
Speaker 2: you think Josh Allen misses Stefon Diggs. Hell, no, he
Speaker 2: didn't have to worry about a receiver pouting about his targets.
Speaker 2: He can just go out there and play and utilized
Speaker 2: the weapons he has and they're gonna be fine. So anyways,
Speaker 2: Cleveland gives up on him, and this is where I
Speaker 2: mean again, I don't know if they're gonna make a
Speaker 2: movie about Baker's life his career, but I feel like
Speaker 2: it's at this point. If he ended his career tomorrow
Speaker 2: and retired, it's a story that I think would make
Speaker 2: for a good movie because after the Browns, you know,
Speaker 2: let him go, he ends up with the with the Rams,
Speaker 2: and to get snabs, he did, like Scout Mock defensive
Speaker 2: back for the Rams at one point where he's just
Speaker 2: out there kind of like taking up space in practice
Speaker 2: because he clearly is not on the depth chart and
Speaker 2: a guy that they're gonna, you know that they want
Speaker 2: to play quarterback unless they have to. So he got
Speaker 2: a chance when Stafford got hurt, but like the Rams
Speaker 2: didn't didn't see value in him, and by the way
Speaker 2: the Rams took him after Baker, Mayfield ended up being
Speaker 2: traded to the Panthers and they gave up on him.
Speaker 2: So this is a guy who is a number one
Speaker 2: overall pick ends up going to two other teams that
Speaker 2: both decided, yeah, we don't need him, we don't want him,
Speaker 2: He's not worthy of being our quarterback. That's the Panthers
Speaker 2: in the Rams, and now the Buccaneers give him a chance.
Speaker 2: He goes down there, wins the job and takes him
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, wins a playoff game last year, and
Speaker 2: now he's in position to, you know, probably go back
Speaker 2: to the playoffs if they can take care of business. So,
Speaker 2: you know, I just I can't say like I'm a
Speaker 2: big Baker fan, but I'm a fan of his story,
Speaker 2: and I love a guy who will bet on himself.
Speaker 2: And you can just tell when he plays, when he
Speaker 2: leads that huddle, that guy's got a lot of belief
Speaker 2: in his abilities. And sometimes I think that can be
Speaker 2: expressed with arrogance. And maybe that was how it came
Speaker 2: off to a lot of people during his earlier years,
Speaker 2: because I get it, he seemed like a pretty easy
Speaker 2: guy to dislike. But I still think his story is
Speaker 2: really really respectable. But he's not the only guy. I mean,
Speaker 2: look at Sam Darnold doing the damn thing with the Vikings.
Speaker 2: I mean they're not great, but like he doesn't look
Speaker 2: like he's a problem for them. I mean Geno Smith
Speaker 2: last year, what a story for him getting a chance
Speaker 2: with the Seahawks, and you know, clearly he's a guy
Speaker 2: that you can win with. Now, these guys aren't in
Speaker 2: that top tier quarterbacks, right, They're not up there with
Speaker 2: the Mahomes and the Allen and the Lamar. But you
Speaker 2: can win with these guys. And there's a lot of
Speaker 2: guys that get started. There's guys every Sunday that are
Speaker 2: going to start at quarterback that you know deep down
Speaker 2: you might win here and there, but like you're not
Speaker 2: winning because of them. So I don't know. I just
Speaker 2: think it's cool. And then, by the way, how about
Speaker 2: this Anthers have benched their first overall pick after two
Speaker 2: games into his second season, and they had Sam Darnold
Speaker 2: in Baker Mayfield on the same team just two years ago.
Speaker 2: Think about that, Well, let those guys walk, and now
Speaker 2: they're going with Andy Dalton because the guy they invested
Speaker 2: in they don't think is good enough to play right now.
Speaker 2: And since those guys left their previous spots, like since
Speaker 2: Baker left Carolina and Donald left Carolina forty six touchdowns
Speaker 2: and fourteen interceptions for those two guys. Not to mention,
Speaker 2: Cleveland gave all that money to DeShawn when they moved
Speaker 2: on from Baker and look at that mess. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get to our last break. We'll come back on
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