WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.879 Hello buddy to the facilities of the Iheartened Media megaplexus 2 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.160 is Dick Gabriel. It's a state wide edition of the 3 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:10.599 Big Blue Inside. You've heard comments from embattled Mark Stoops. Also, 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.080 we learned a little bit about the Auburn Tigers from 5 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.440 the voice of Auburn Football Andy Bertram. Now's your chance 6 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:20.600 to listen along as we chat with Billy Rutledge, Aaron 7 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.920 Gershawan and yours truly here on the state wide BBI 8 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:27.239 border to order. It is the Big Blue Insider. Dick Gabriel, 9 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:32.439 Aaron Gershwan, Billy Rutledge, Aaron in Gainesville for that debacle. 10 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.320 I don't know about you, but what surprised me the most, 11 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:39.560 and it was a game for a while, as badly 12 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.679 as Kentucky looked twenty seven to twenty Kentucky at the football. 13 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:49.439 But what amazed me, Aaron, was how Florida walked all 14 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:54.359 over the Kentucky defense at times. Not every time, you know, 15 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.560 a couple of they hold to a couple of field goals, yeah, 16 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.840 a couple of three and a half, But whenever it 17 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.280 seemed like Florida needed a big play, it got it. 18 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:06.439 I guess, you know, And there are a lot of 19 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:08.760 things we're going to talk about. You know, Billy's chopping 20 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.920 it a bit. But that's what surprised me the most. 21 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:13.959 I would agree. 22 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.879 I mean, look Florida, looking into them the week before, 23 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.040 their offensive line is much improved this year. So you 24 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:20.519 got to give a hat tip to that. And you 25 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.920 gotta definitely tip your cap to the running back ball. 26 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:26.359 I mean, five rushing touchdowns in his first career start. 27 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:30.079 I mean, that's unbelievable stuff. But my big thing is, look, 28 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.480 Kentucky's defense has been really, really good all year. They're 29 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.159 due to have a stinker. Every team there's not There 30 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:39.280 are very few teams in the country that don't have 31 00:01:39.319 --> 00:01:41.239 a stinker on one side of the ball. Georgia gave 32 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:43.920 up how many to Alabama, who's been terrible. Yeah, it's 33 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:46.959 like it's gonna happen. The thing is, on a night 34 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.359 like that, you need your offense to win you a 35 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.519 football game, and the offense, to me, I just go yes. 36 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:54.879 I was surprised that they got run all over, out 37 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.280 physical and all that the Kentucky's defense stuck. But to me, 38 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.040 it's okay, they're gonna have stinker. They had you know, 39 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.040 two years ago they had the sinker in Knoxville when 40 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.719 they were a top ten unit. The offense has to 41 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:07.400 go out and win you a football game, play some 42 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:10.479 complimentary football, help your guys out, and they can't do it. 43 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:12.919 That's to me. It just still goes back to the offense, 44 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.479 even with the defense being terrible and giving up I'd say, really, 45 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:19.159 they give up thirty four points because obviously there was 46 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:21.479 a pick six and then they got to pull up 47 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:22.879 the five yard line after our pick. 48 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:26.039 Were you close to a monitor in the press. 49 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:27.400 Box, yeah, TV. 50 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.120 I never got a good look at video of that 51 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:35.719 fourth down play where they could have gotten a first 52 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.960 down or into the end zone. But I felt like 53 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.759 the game kind of turned on that position. And I'm 54 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:45.199 as close to Stoops as I am to that wall 55 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.479 over there down on the sideline, and he was trying. 56 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:51.639 And that's why I asked him about the communication today. 57 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:55.319 He could not get the official. I think it was 58 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:59.520 the line judge to communicate with him, right, and that 59 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:03.319 situation and uh and the guy guy I heard the 60 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.560 referee got a little snippy with him, you know. 61 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:11.639 Yeah, I think Look, I couldn't really tell it was close. 62 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.840 I would probably to me if I thought it might 63 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:16.479 have been, but it was probably one of those like 64 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.840 call stands, this is what it is. 65 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:20.680 And I thought they got a bad spot. 66 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.280 They got a bad spot on it. And then there 67 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:24.599 was the one touchdown that I still don't know if 68 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.800 it was a touchdown or not. That Florida score. Yeah, 69 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:30.280 I didn't think so either. So the one official again, 70 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:35.319 I'm right there. The headlinesman was the one guy who 71 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:37.800 put his hands up. And what he did was he 72 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.360 obviously comes from the sideline. Yeah, he runs about three 73 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:44.719 or four steps and he sees and. 74 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.039 If this is why he did it, good on them. 75 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.120 He sees the Florida players put their hands up. He 76 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.080 shoots his hands in the air, then he pulls them 77 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.240 down and runs a few more steps before he gets 78 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.800 to the pile. Yeah, nobody knew it was a touchdown 79 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.560 except allegedly that official. Yeah, and look, they might have 80 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:05.400 gotten in on the next play. I understanding. 81 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.439 There's a lot of weird starts, but it just it 82 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.919 goes back to the defense playing its worst game of 83 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:12.680 the year. It was abound to happen, and then the offense. 84 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:14.159 You can't miss an opportunity. 85 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.680 You can't in the offense I mean even if Demi 86 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:18.920 maybe he did get a first down at the end 87 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:22.360 of the day fourth and one at the two yard 88 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.199 line after Christian Story finally makes a big play like that, 89 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:27.399 and you waste it. Two games in a row. 90 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.720 Fourth and two, you can get a first down. 91 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:32.279 Two exact two games in a row. You're inside your 92 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.160 opponent's three yard line and you score zero. 93 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:37.680 And this is a Kentucky team that's been known for 94 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:38.480 power football. 95 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.879 Yeah, and look they had And I get what Mark 96 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.720 Stoops is saying. With chip trainum in the hand, he 97 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:46.920 looks what if he fumbles, then he looks like an idiot. 98 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.759 I get somebody hit Hey, look, they're not stupid. As 99 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.680 soon as he carries a ball, they're going to aim 100 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:53.839 for that hand. 101 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:56.920 With helmets totally. So I get that, not that he 102 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.240 carried in the broken hand, But yeah, I just and 103 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:02.279 this is not on Stoops. I'd just leaping over the 104 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.240 line when you have a four hundred and twenty one 105 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:08.279 Pounty Town there, come on, that's play calling. That's play calling. 106 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.839 And then I'd like to know what the Stoops was asked, like, 107 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.040 was the play for Demi to leap? After the game, 108 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:18.240 he said, you've got to get a half inch by 109 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.079 any means necessary, so it didn't sound like the play 110 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.720 call was leap into a first down, leap into four 111 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:24.720 hundred and twenty one pounds. 112 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:26.160 I don't know if it came up on the show 113 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.839 tonight either, Billy, you can speak to this. But he 114 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:34.959 reiterated that only once did he get into the mix 115 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:38.480 on play calling, because people have accused him for a 116 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.680 long time of, you know, my word, interfering with play 117 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:44.920 calling or whatever, and he said, I don't, he said, 118 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.319 except for those one time. And I think it's when 119 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.680 when Whims had scored and he said, you know, essentially, 120 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:54.279 we don't want to get cute down here, just get 121 00:05:54.319 --> 00:05:58.000 the ball in the end zone and they did. So Yeah, 122 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.639 I couldn't. I was surprised he chose to leave. He 123 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.040 ain't the biggest guy in the world. 124 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:05.839 I also don't believe that from Stoops. I mean, I 125 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.720 think he is a part. I think he has been 126 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:10.920 a big part of play calling throughout the years. I 127 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:13.839 think maybe he's correct in one game saying that he 128 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.800 didn't do it besides this one time. I think that's 129 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:18.759 probably the truth when it comes to a lot of it. 130 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:20.839 But that's I digress. That's not even what I want 131 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.959 to talk about. I do feel bad for Stoops because 132 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.199 I feel like he's he's guessing what people are going 133 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:27.839 to say about what he is going to say, and 134 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.800 that's not a good place to be in. Right Like 135 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:32.040 the chip train hum thing, he's like saying that we're 136 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.240 gonna call him an idiot if he bumbles, because why 137 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.639 do you have a guy that just had surgery on 138 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.560 his hands. He's just beaten down. He's a broken man. 139 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.560 And that's how I feel right now, Dick. It's demoralizing 140 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.839 to watch this Kentucky offense. It's like Iowa football, except 141 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.439 you don't get the payoff of actually winning the game. 142 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:55.160 Good call, I mean, isn't it to accuse you of 143 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.639 playing Iowa football on offense? And you don't even have 144 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:00.959 the great defense to go with good defense? 145 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.639 But not and you have maybe your best wide receiver 146 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:08.000 room in the Stoops era. You've gotten a highly rated 147 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.720 recruited quarterback, and yet you can't pass the ball. I mean, 148 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:12.360 that is how bad this offensive? 149 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:15.480 Not going to play that kid at quarterback right now? 150 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:16.639 Got her bowling? 151 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.199 No, I'm talking about Brock. We're talking about the transfer. No, 152 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:26.000 brozactly right, and you the offensive line is so bad 153 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:29.120 that you are squandering talent at the receiver room and 154 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.959 at quarterback again with your fifth straight year with a 155 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:32.920 new offensive. 156 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.920 Yeah, but how many how many passes? Yeah, I was 157 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.480 going to say, bounced off hands into the wrong jersey 158 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.879 outside of daye Key drove me. Danky has zero drop 159 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.000 still in the year zero zero. I thought he had 160 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:45.720 won at least one. 161 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:46.160 None. 162 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.079 Dan Key has been as close. 163 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:50.120 I mean, you can't say perfect because he had the 164 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:53.319 fun and he had the stupid penalty against Vandy. Other 165 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.839 than that, he's had a pretty close to perfect season 166 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:00.720 eighth in the SEC and receiving with inept passing offense 167 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:02.920 that ranks one hundred and twenty third in the country. 168 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.959 But barry On Brown, like, yes, he has all the 169 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.319 talent in the world, He's not a good wide I 170 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:10.600 can't call him a good wide receiver right now because, 171 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:13.199 like you said, he's dropping past his timid going over 172 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:13.639 the middle. 173 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:17.399 I'm gonna have to ask about that about because Jeff 174 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:19.879 Jeff from freshman year on I want to get Jeff 175 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.879 blood boy. Oh yeah, both Brown and Dane freshman year. 176 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.120 Jeff was talking about route running and how much better 177 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:29.439 he thought they would be that second year. Yes, and 178 00:08:29.519 --> 00:08:31.680 I do believe now they're in their third. Dane has 179 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.440 made the jont Dane has made the question, I'm not 180 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.120 learned enough on that stuff. I haven't yet been asked 181 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.639 to play a wide receiver in college football. Yeah, but yeah, 182 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.279 thank you, But I would love to know how he 183 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:48.240 sees that. And of course Brown, you know, he's everybody's 184 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.879 first at least for a long time. Everybody's first name 185 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.159 up on the whiteboard, right, yeah, account for this guy. 186 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.440 Now it's Dane Key. Oh yeah. 187 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.600 They were double teaming Kay all night down there until 188 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:02.159 the score got out of hand. I mean, and look 189 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.440 why not? I mean barryon great play on the on 190 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.480 the flea flicker, he did what he does best is 191 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:10.919 go routes and get open. But on plays over the middle, 192 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:15.399 real route, he struggles. And like Jamory Macklin, I'm not 193 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.720 trying to pick on him. Guy was in a thousand 194 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.320 yard receiver last year. He's been. He's gotten six catches, 195 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:23.200 and part of that's because the past, right, not many, 196 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.799 but still like what's going on there that he's not reliable. 197 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.480 You know, they haven't gotten anything from Brown Stevens. 198 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:34.480 Is he not reliable or not right? Does he even 199 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:36.200 have so many issues? 200 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.759 The jet sweeps for the eighth time because they launched 201 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:41.720 that into the sun. 202 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:45.279 They need to just look. It's boring and it might 203 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.120 hurt recruiting. But like the only thing this offense is 204 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:50.519 good at is running down hill well, and they need 205 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:52.120 to just freaking commit to it. 206 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:57.600 But the problem was as well, Florida made them one dimensional. Yeah, 207 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:00.399 to extent, And if you're good enough to do that, 208 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.000 then you're gonna shut Kentucky down. 209 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:04.879 How about that first scrip? Didn't DEMI have like a 210 00:10:04.919 --> 00:10:07.679 fifteen yard run in the second play from scrimmakes Yeah, 211 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:11.639 like they're not without talent, Yeah, they're not. It's it's 212 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.159 mind boggling. And then it's another year where I. 213 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.759 Would love to know what Vandergriff might be able to 214 00:10:17.799 --> 00:10:19.600 do with just a little more time to throw the ball. 215 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.840 And he go through his progression that South Carolina game, 216 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.559 he has not been the same since. It's clear clearly 217 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:28.000 rattled him and I can't believe him. But there are 218 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.879 also plays where he has time and he has guys 219 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.600 open and he's locked in on Dame Key. 220 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:33.320 It feels like. 221 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.480 You guys mentioned recruiting. Who is barry On Brown's primary recruiter, 222 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:43.200 Eric Eric Wilford, the guy that did not cycle any 223 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.960 offensive lineman in so you could have depth. 224 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:49.000 Hey, he got in recruiting in the offensive Brown and 225 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:49.799 On Walking. 226 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:52.639 And Walker who took how many plays off in the line. Yeah, 227 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:55.120 he was playing himself out of the first round at 228 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.240 this point. Yes, I mean so, I mean I think 229 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.799 it goes back to the offensive line again. In the 230 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:04.480 void that John Schlarman left Walt Wells Genn recruit because 231 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.519 he was going to Eastern Kentucky. Eric Wolford just decided 232 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.759 to leave and Stoops welcomes him back because he was 233 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:11.120 roommates with that guy. 234 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:13.360 And not having an offensive coordinator, I mean in that 235 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:16.919 seven O season twelve years Yeah, you know how important 236 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.559 to recruiting, Like it's everything and you've i mean, Cutter 237 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:22.759 Bowley has come in here. 238 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.039 Oh it's works Gangarrillo. Oh wait no, actually Liam's back. 239 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:30.759 I'm committed. Oh now Liam's gone. Like it's like he's 240 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:33.000 a true freshman who's thought he was at his time 241 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:35.759 at UK was gonna have three different coordinators. It's insane 242 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.120 and some of that's not like some of that's honestly 243 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.039 your guy, Liam Cohen's fault. Some of it is, you know, 244 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.559 is you know Stoops had a miscalculation on Skangarrillo. 245 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.600 But keep in mind, I do feel for Bush handed. 246 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.519 I don't think he's a great has been a great 247 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.080 play caller this year, but he is what is he 248 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:57.960 was handed this He his fingerprints are not on this 249 00:11:58.159 --> 00:11:58.840 offense at all. 250 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.600 The thing was the memory we have of Liam. And 251 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:03.759 I'm not excuse me not knocking him because he's done 252 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:08.480 a great job. He's got a great relationship from the 253 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:12.799 Rams days with Baker Mayfield's right, But when he got here, 254 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:15.320 he had an NFL ready line, yes, and he had 255 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.600 an NFL ready slot receiver and a quarterback and an 256 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.399 NFL ready running back as well, exactly. So that's gonna 257 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:25.360 make a lot of OC's look good. But he used 258 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:30.559 them brilliantly. Right when he came back. Devin Leary kind 259 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:31.639 of let him down a little bit. 260 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.559 Yeah, And but I'll give him this. They averaged nine 261 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:36.480 more points per game last year than they did that's 262 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:40.840 correct under Skang and Skangerillo and Hamden, same exact number. 263 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.279 Twenty point four. Wow, is what they're averaging literally to 264 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.519 the t. They averaged twenty nine point one. I believe 265 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.320 with Cohens, not great, but better. And again I don't 266 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.440 blame Look, I'm a New England guy too. He's a 267 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:55.200 New England guy. That's NFL country. The dream up there 268 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.759 is to be in the NFL, and I truly believe 269 00:12:57.879 --> 00:12:59.720 that's what he wanted was to be an NFL play 270 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:01.679 caller and he got an opportunity to do it. A 271 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:03.960 guy in Baker Mayfield he's close with and with the 272 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.240 team that was coming off you know, the divisional round 273 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:06.720 of the playoffs. 274 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.480 Well, and that's what we had when they hired him. 275 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.039 When they hired him away from the Rams, it was 276 00:13:13.039 --> 00:13:15.639 like now, remember, folks, he didn't call plays for the Rams, 277 00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:19.440 you know, but knew how to do it obviously, but 278 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:24.120 had had the weapons and use them extremely well. So 279 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:27.120 but I do agree with Billy. I think, not that 280 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.200 I'm trying to pile blame on people, and I do 281 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:32.519 think they're better than they were last year because Kentucky 282 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:33.960 has been able to. 283 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:35.919 Run the football boggling. 284 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:41.399 Yeah, look look at the possessions against even Vandy, not 285 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.000 to mention Ole miss and that's what's the most frustrating 286 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.039 thing to me is they played brilliantly against Ole Miss 287 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.480 and played really well. Speaking of Liam Cohen television, Yeah, 288 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:57.919 bud against against Georgia, and at first I thought, well, 289 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:01.960 maybe George is not quit. Yes it is. And everybody 290 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:04.600 after that game, what's wrong with Georgia? No, Kentucky played 291 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.000 really well there, did you know? 292 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.320 And then they backed it up two weeks. 293 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:08.120 That's what's like. 294 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:12.120 Yeah, it's been a roller coaster the year. It's been bizarre. 295 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:14.240 And I'll tell you what. This game against Auburn, who's 296 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.159 not They're a very similar team where they're two and 297 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:19.080 five and they have a good defense and a bad offense, 298 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.600 Like this is as important of a game as I 299 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:22.120 can remember. 300 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.759 And Stoops is right, it's about turnovers. What about this? 301 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:29.519 Turn them over? Yeah, don't make it happen. 302 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:30.879 They don't do it. 303 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.080 Yeah, pick up a pass, recover a fumble. 304 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.159 I don't know if I've ever seen a stat line 305 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.960 like I did for DJ Lagway in that game, seven of. 306 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.320 Thirty seven, a completion of seven thirty seven was yet 307 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.120 I have no touchdown. I mean the one receiver Badger, 308 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.320 he had three catches. It was like fifty fifty and 309 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:51.039 forty one. 310 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.200 But that's the thing, like if they were a fantasy league, 311 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:57.919 no touchdown, yeah, yeah, if he had, if he had 312 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:58.799 the running back. 313 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.559 Yeah, as a true freshman his first career. 314 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.840 So you know, it was interesting two years ago down 315 00:15:06.840 --> 00:15:12.080 there where Kentucky wins, watching Kentucky in a place like 316 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.480 the swamp, what is it ninety thousand? Yeah, plus take 317 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.679 the crowd out out a game, and I'd seen it before, 318 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.600 obviously under stoops. They had more than one game, but 319 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:24.799 they've had success. They got two other wins, two wins 320 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:27.399 down there, and they got hosed out of another one. 321 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:32.639 Watching them, you know, well, Florida goes big play on 322 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.240 two drives but has to settle for a field goal, 323 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.399 and the crowd had to settle a bit, and then 324 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:42.679 when Kentucky drove for a touchdown, it had to settle 325 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:45.480 a bit. And when it the touchdown, I made a 326 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.440 twenty seven twenty Was that Gavin Womens. 327 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:51.080 That was the first drive of the first second half. 328 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:53.320 Yeah, I think I think I've told you how fans 329 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.080 liked to heckle any anybody down there that they know 330 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:01.080 is from Kentucky. And this one particular girl every time 331 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:02.759 I walk by or she would lean over and give 332 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:05.000 me the gator chunk and make a face at me, 333 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.559 and I just kind of smile. And then after givin 334 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.080 Wims's scores, I turned around a shot to look at 335 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:12.799 her and she had this look in her face like, 336 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.879 oh yeah, and n I was looking at her. 337 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.279 You know, Yeah, they have an open air press box. 338 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.639 You'd really get a good vibe. Oh yeah, best in 339 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:23.360 the sec from that perspective. And there was nerves in 340 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.000 that stuff. Oh yeah, Gavin found the end. But the 341 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:29.360 next thing, you know, right down exactly. 342 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:31.440 So all right, we'll take a break, come back and 343 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.360 talk more Kentucky football, maybe a little basketball as well, 344 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:37.080 and we'll learn about wide receivers from Jeppe Coorro at 345 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:39.360 the bottom of the hour here on the State Wide BBI. 346 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.639 Welcome back. We're going to separate from football for just 347 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.039 a moment because we have much more football coming up 348 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:48.679 with Jeppichorro. Boy, we need to talk a little bit 349 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.159 of basketball Blue White last Friday at Historic Memorial Coliseum 350 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:58.000 and the first exhibition game Aaron on Wednesday, What do 351 00:16:58.039 --> 00:16:59.000 you expect to see? 352 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.200 Yeah, well, obviously I was in Florida, so I didn't 353 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:03.879 get to watch the Blue and White game. You know, 354 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:08.920 hard to think there was any TV there wasn't, which, yeah, 355 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:10.359 I'm sure he did. But I can go on a 356 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.279 rant on the TV stuff. I'll leave it. I'll leave 357 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:13.079 it alone for now. 358 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:16.400 Because it's your birthright to see everything on TV. That's right. 359 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:21.440 I pay for eighty seven subscriptions back in the day. 360 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:22.680 Oh my god, No, but. 361 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.839 What I'm just excited to see them place. It sounds 362 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:27.599 like an easy answer, but I am. I'm excited to 363 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.720 see them line up against somebody else and see this 364 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.160 scheme in action, right. I mean, it's just feels like 365 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:36.240 what's different between this team and Cols. It just feels 366 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.599 like they're going to come in every game schematically like 367 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.519 trying to do the same thing, which is open themselves 368 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:45.240 up for three, have really good mall movement. Where it 369 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:47.119 felt like, which is this is not even a critique, 370 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.039 It's just like with Kentucky's offense under cal it was 371 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.839 kind of like, yeah, it was the dribble drive, but 372 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.039 it was also all right, whatever's working that game. 373 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.519 Yeah, Like there wasn't always a dribble, right. 374 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.119 But this is like their offense is what it is. 375 00:17:58.160 --> 00:17:59.880 It's like a football, like, this is our scheme, this 376 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:01.839 is what we're going with, and I'm excited to see that. 377 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:04.000 And I'm also excited to see them on the defensive end, 378 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.559 not only just switching it up with different defenses. But 379 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.039 one thing I feel like we still don't know about 380 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:10.839 this team is just how physical they are from a 381 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.480 rebounding and blocking shot standpoint. They have some size, They 382 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.119 have some guys who are obviously Conference Players of the 383 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:18.960 Year on the defense side of the ball, and Butler 384 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.799 and Williams. But I want to see what type of 385 00:18:21.839 --> 00:18:24.839 rebounding team this is. That's one thing that it really 386 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.880 feels like it sets the tone every year. If Kentucky's 387 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.559 a good rebounding team, they have a great season. If 388 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:30.240 they're not, they have a bad season. Last year they 389 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.440 were kind of mediocre, and they had a bad season 390 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.119 right a bad ending to the season. 391 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.559 I'll share something with you youngsters. You know the name 392 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.839 John Wooden. I'm sure, of course. John Wooden for many 393 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:45.240 many years believed that the most important stat on a 394 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:50.279 basketball sheet was rebound. Differentially, I'm right there with mister 395 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:54.400 wood Well, but he changed later in his career. It's 396 00:18:54.440 --> 00:18:58.839 still very important, he thought, but he changed the shooting percentages. 397 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:01.839 And I don't know if that sided. I'm trying to remember. No, 398 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:05.559 oh no, he was retired well before the three pointer, 399 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.920 but he did change his mind on that. But he 400 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.559 still put a lot of value in rebounding. You know 401 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:14.799