Speaker 1: You know, typically getting out of out of work, getting
Speaker 1: off work, leaving the office, leaving whatever, you know, wherever
Speaker 1: it is you go to work. Maybe it's not an office,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a you know, I don't know, but getting
Speaker 1: out of work on a Friday and starting the weekend,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what everybody's building up for, right Well,
Speaker 1: today was a day that we were actually going to
Speaker 1: be out of here pretty early. I knew the Bats
Speaker 1: had a game, but I didn't realize they were actually
Speaker 1: set to start at like fourth.
Speaker 2: We were gonna be done at four thirty. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: they were having a double header today. Yesterday's game got canceled.
Speaker 1: So they canceled the game today, which means we have
Speaker 1: a full show and tomorrow for those interested in the schedule.
Speaker 1: Now they've now canceled both days yesterday and today for
Speaker 1: the Bats, so tomorrow they're gonna have a double header.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know, typically I would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I was expecting to get out of here early, but
Speaker 1: now we got to work the full shift. But I'm
Speaker 1: not complaining because we're gonna have some fun. It's a Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm happy we were able to make it work yesterday.
Speaker 1: But it didn't feel like, you know, you got your
Speaker 1: full you know experience that you typically get with coffee
Speaker 1: and companies.
Speaker 3: So it feels right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're ready to rock and roll here for these
Speaker 1: next few hours. Obviously, a lot to get to when
Speaker 1: it comes to last night's results in the in the
Speaker 1: first round of the NFL Draft, as well as the
Speaker 1: the second and third round, which which we'll which we'll
Speaker 1: have tonight. And you know, I've got a lot to
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really know where to start, but
Speaker 1: we'll certainly get to it, and that'll be a big
Speaker 1: part of today show. But there's some other things that
Speaker 1: we'll get into. So make sure you stick around. Take
Speaker 1: us with you wherever you go. We'll be with you
Speaker 1: up until six o'clock. Take us with you again wherever
Speaker 1: you go. Listen live on the out RADIOP also listened
Speaker 1: live at seven ninety Louisville dot Com. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to make it like so draft specific, but I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like the NFL. Let's be real, it's king.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know it's king. It's not a feel,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a fact. The NFL dominates, you know,
Speaker 1: sports interest more so than any any sport out there,
Speaker 1: it's not even close. So you know, today I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: if I go like ninety five percent draft today, is
Speaker 1: it more so because you know, like I'm just a
Speaker 1: nerd for the draft and I love this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: or is it really like the most talked about thing
Speaker 1: and I kind of feel like, you know, it's the
Speaker 1: most talked about things. So but again, we'll try to
Speaker 1: have some fun with it. We're going to do our
Speaker 1: own draft today, a couple of them actually, with some
Speaker 1: different different things we'll be drafting, which I think will
Speaker 1: have some fun. But yeah, again, stick with us for
Speaker 1: the next three hours. If you guys want to join
Speaker 1: us on the show, we will let you know how
Speaker 1: you can do that. So again, just last night, I'll
Speaker 1: start with the beginning of the production that is the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. Doing it in Green Bay. As we discussed yesterday,
Speaker 1: it's a really rare it's a really rare market and
Speaker 1: I hey, even call, I don't even think it's a
Speaker 1: market it is. I mean, I guess technically the smallest
Speaker 1: cities technically can still be you know, there're still markets.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to pro sports towns Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I mean I believe it is the most rare of
Speaker 1: any right, Like, there are certain NFL, NBA, MLB teams
Speaker 1: that you know, you kind of feel like it's odd
Speaker 1: that they have a branch.
Speaker 3: Ose Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Oklahoma City is a decent sized city.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, maybe I'm selling them.
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. They don't have any other pro sports
Speaker 1: team other than the Jazz, But Salt Lake City is
Speaker 1: a humongous city, you know, So sometimes it's rare because
Speaker 1: you know it's a one off, right, Like, more often
Speaker 1: than not, big markets have all the major sports teams.
Speaker 1: The biggest markets have two, right, Like you've got you know,
Speaker 1: you've got two LA teams and two New York teams
Speaker 1: and in the different major sports. So Green Bay, I mean,
Speaker 1: not only do they not have anything else, Like Green
Speaker 1: Bay is the most like it's on an island in
Speaker 1: a world of its own when it comes to just
Speaker 1: being much different than most pro cities. And the fact
Speaker 1: that the Draft is there this year, there's kind of
Speaker 1: a cool element to it. But I totally forgot about
Speaker 1: the bike thing that like Packers fans ride bikes to
Speaker 1: the games. Did you know that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, usually yeah, I don't know why the packers. But
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 1: But again, like it's because it's like a training camp thing.
Speaker 1: It's like it's okay, I don't get it, Like I know,
Speaker 1: it's a thing, and maybe there's not really anything to get.
Speaker 1: It's just something that they've always done, so therefore it's
Speaker 1: just been a thing forever. But I give Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: some credit for riding out to open the draft on
Speaker 1: the bike to kind of, you know, pay homage to
Speaker 1: the host city that he's in. And I you know,
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, he's I mean, he has a pretty thankless job,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Like, there's really no scenario
Speaker 1: where like he's gonna be you know, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: viewed as like, yeah, we love the commission man. Like no,
Speaker 1: like anytime there's something to complain about with the NFL,
Speaker 1: everybody blames him. And like the NFL is super popular
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure how much of that is his doing,
Speaker 1: but like there's never any acknowledgment for anything that he
Speaker 1: might do that's good. It's just that you know, if
Speaker 1: something's wrong or so, you know, it's a thankless job
Speaker 1: and he's had it for many, many years and obviously
Speaker 1: he's not been perfect at it. Nobody's perfect at anything,
Speaker 1: but I kind of feel like in recent years he's
Speaker 1: he's sort of kind of you know, he's he's been
Speaker 1: able to lean in it a little bit, like the
Speaker 1: fact that they boo him and he like embraces it.
Speaker 1: And I remember when it was and maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: something he was doing for the first time, but I
Speaker 1: remember watching years ago, probably right after COVID. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: it was one of the first drafts that they had
Speaker 1: when they you know, they didn't do it in his
Speaker 1: basement like they did in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great.
Speaker 1: And as he's getting booed, he's like, come on, like,
Speaker 1: y'all can do better than that, like booming louder, like
Speaker 1: the all are weak, and I'm like, okay' he's you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of funny. You know, the bar is low
Speaker 1: because I don't think he's ever really shown much personality
Speaker 1: or much you know, you know, he doesn't have much
Speaker 1: of a sense of humor, but he's starting to kind
Speaker 1: of become a little bit more comfortable in his own skin.
Speaker 1: I saw him on with McAfee earlier today, and you know,
Speaker 1: he was he was pretty he was charismatic and he
Speaker 1: was you know, rather likable, but he didn't feel like
Speaker 1: a force. Like if you'd have told me that he
Speaker 1: was on with McAfee, I feel like he would have
Speaker 1: been trying to be like he would have overdone it
Speaker 1: as far as trying to be cool. But anyways, back
Speaker 1: to him riding the bike like it was so awkward,
Speaker 1: and I know Matt said this, I see it. Matt
Speaker 1: said this earlier on KSR and he's absolutely right. And
Speaker 1: I thought the same thing. It is hard to ride
Speaker 1: a bike slow because you got it, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: the ultimate balancing thing. You got to keep momentum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well yeah, because you got to keep your balance. If
Speaker 1: you're not moving very fast, you just fall Yeah, you
Speaker 1: got it. I mean it's it's a constant kind of
Speaker 1: back and forth because the slower you go and you're
Speaker 1: not balancing yourself, just gonna fall over. So he didn't
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of of runway. And it was
Speaker 1: a big it was a big, old bike like that
Speaker 1: they you know, reminded me of the bike you saw
Speaker 1: uh in the Wizard of Oz. I mean that's it
Speaker 1: didn't look like any kind of a sporty bike or
Speaker 1: anything like that, and so he's he's kind of teetering,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was fine, but it was just
Speaker 1: it really stood out as like that doesn't look smooth,
Speaker 1: Like if you're going to ride a bike out to
Speaker 1: get the NFL draft started, you know, you you first
Speaker 1: of all, you don't want to wreck, and he didn't
Speaker 1: do that, but like, did he have a practice lap
Speaker 1: or something, because it just looked painfully awkward because again,
Speaker 1: he was he didn't have much space to go anywhere there,
Speaker 1: he was moving really really slow. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to build it up as if you missed out
Speaker 1: on him looking like a complete clown, but it just
Speaker 1: felt really awkward and forced. But then again, you know
Speaker 1: he's I think he's he's gotten more comfortable in his
Speaker 1: own skin and kind of embraced the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: he's the commissioner. People are going to boo him. He's
Speaker 1: never gonna get any credit, but you know, he's the
Speaker 1: commission of the NFL, and with that, he's the guy
Speaker 1: that's going to be shaking the hands and these players
Speaker 1: when they're drafted. So like, don the bike look big,
Speaker 1: like it looks like a bike from the Wizard of Us.
Speaker 1: That's what it reminds me.
Speaker 2: It might look normal, but it's like decked out, maybe
Speaker 2: like all the decorations on it, just like I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe deceives your eye or maybe he's a really small guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, And you see, I've never I never hated Roger
Speaker 2: Goodell as much as everybody else has. Like I've always
Speaker 2: enjoyed the product of the NFL. Like he's never ever
Speaker 2: really been the center of attention, aside from I guess
Speaker 2: Patriots fans hate them because it's wouldn't it, Brady? And
Speaker 2: but I don't. I didn't know that the whole NFL
Speaker 2: united hate this guy. I remember like kind of growing up,
Speaker 2: but you know, I wasn't into the politicking of the
Speaker 2: NFL like it is now. But you know, rule changes
Speaker 2: have gone on throughout the years, but it seemed like
Speaker 2: everyone's adapted to it, and it's just the way that
Speaker 2: we view football now. And as we said, the NFL
Speaker 2: is an entertaining, very entertaining product. I think he does
Speaker 2: a very respectable job. I think he's doing a better
Speaker 2: job than Adam silver Is, and he seems to be
Speaker 2: universally loved well not anymore.
Speaker 1: He was and now he's not.
Speaker 3: Okay. See, I don't have the feel on him when.
Speaker 1: It comes with Goodell, Like I think, yeah, when I
Speaker 1: think about people not liking him, it's because of you know,
Speaker 1: inconsistent punishments. It's that really. I mean the Patriots fans,
Speaker 1: I mean they made him the biggest enemy ever because
Speaker 1: they they had everybody well I think they just had
Speaker 1: themselves believing that like the Belichick and Brady and all
Speaker 1: those guys were victims and Goodell was just out to
Speaker 1: get him, which was never really a thing. But right
Speaker 1: when I think of when I think of Goodell getting criticism,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of thinking, okay, and I kind of
Speaker 1: get that, is that you'd have a guy that did
Speaker 1: something rather minor and he would be suspended like a year.
Speaker 1: You'd have a guy like not you know, charges would
Speaker 1: be dropped because as of a settlement. But like we
Speaker 1: saw video and it was proven that this guy beat
Speaker 1: the hell of hell out of a woman, and yet
Speaker 1: because the criminal charges were dropped, like there really wasn't
Speaker 1: much of a punishment. But I don't really know what
Speaker 1: he can do about that, Like if criminal charges aren't dropped,
Speaker 1: like you just at that point, you just end up
Speaker 1: presenting yourself as the guy who it's your you know,
Speaker 1: it's your judgment call, right, it's your discretion as far
Speaker 1: as what you think is like you know, and then
Speaker 1: nobody would want to do that, Like there needs to
Speaker 1: be standard rules. Okay, if you get charged with this,
Speaker 1: here's the punishment. If it just comes down to like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna just decide, you know myself, Roder Goodell, as
Speaker 1: far as what you know, what the punishment was, or
Speaker 1: what the punishment you know deserving is, it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's a mess. But anyways, the first night of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, I thought it was phenomenal. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest talking point, as we said yesterday, no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: should or Sanders is going to be talked about more
Speaker 1: than anything, and he did not get picked. And I
Speaker 1: think it's safe to say that is the biggest talking
Speaker 1: point that alongside with the Jaguars trading up to get
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, which i'm i'm i'm I give them credit
Speaker 1: for making a move like that. Travis Hunter was believed
Speaker 1: to be the best talent in this draft for a
Speaker 1: long time and then throughout the lead up to last night,
Speaker 1: I don't really think to anybody, like to me, there
Speaker 1: was never any moment where people started to doubt, like
Speaker 1: if he was as good as everybody had been saying
Speaker 1: he was. He's special. But obviously the Titans need a quarterback,
Speaker 1: so they decided to take the quarterback that they think
Speaker 1: is the best in this draft. And then yet it
Speaker 1: turned out to where Travis Hunter was viewed to be
Speaker 1: going to the Browns and you know, I give the
Speaker 1: brown You know, the Browns were willing to say, okay,
Speaker 1: you know we we we'll move back, and you know
Speaker 1: we don't. You know, I was that in your mind
Speaker 1: a not a shot at Travis Hunter, but like the
Speaker 1: Browns willing to just give up the pick and move
Speaker 1: back three and not take him. It did kind of
Speaker 1: tell me that maybe the Browns aren't as impressed as
Speaker 1: as everybody else was, or maybe they just realized, look,
Speaker 1: he's a phenomenal player, but you know he's he's a
Speaker 1: defensive back. You know, you know not to say, you know,
Speaker 1: you clearly need like that, but you know, not to say,
Speaker 1: you'll just go find another Travis Hunter elsewhere. But I
Speaker 1: was surprised that the Browns were just willing to give
Speaker 1: that pick up because I've just believed that he was
Speaker 1: that for such a long time. Now, Travis Hunter is
Speaker 1: somebody that you know, regardless off he's receiver or defensive
Speaker 1: back both. I think he's probably going to be mostly
Speaker 1: a defensive back, but he's.
Speaker 3: Gotta be one.
Speaker 1: He's a game changing player, so you know That's feel like.
Speaker 2: They got a lot for him, though. I feel like
Speaker 2: it was a first round of next year, a second
Speaker 2: round draft pick, a fifth round, and I think something
Speaker 2: else but getting that the I feel like younger gms nowadays,
Speaker 2: and especially now, they're trying to go into analytics and
Speaker 2: that moneyball type of stuff where all the value is
Speaker 2: just in picks anymore, and that's all that they're looking
Speaker 2: forward to. I think Travis Hunter is a phenomenal prospect obviously,
Speaker 2: but from everything that I hear, because I'm not just
Speaker 2: like a Colorado watcher, they're fun to, you know, watching
Speaker 2: there on. But from everything I'll let the draft experts
Speaker 2: say that haven't you too, that he doesn't do anything
Speaker 2: like outstandingly well either on offense or defense.
Speaker 1: That's that's what the noise turned into with him, is
Speaker 1: that he was really good at both, but like it's
Speaker 1: more so just because of how gifted he is as
Speaker 1: an athlete and his talent. It's not as if like
Speaker 1: he's just this guy that nobody's going to be able
Speaker 1: to get open against. Right, And it wasn't as if
Speaker 1: like a receiver. Yes, so he's really good at everything
Speaker 1: because he's so athletic, but what's really his best tool
Speaker 1: in his in his bag? Right? And I guess, but
Speaker 1: I feel like if you're in the NFL, you'd be
Speaker 1: able to identify, Hey, we will because most programs would
Speaker 1: not have let him play both sides. And I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, if anything, give Deon credit for letting him
Speaker 1: do that and and it working out because he was
Speaker 1: very very good at both at the college level. But
Speaker 1: it was again mostly just because he's just a special talent.
Speaker 1: But I think the NFL realizes, look, we are going
Speaker 1: to give him an identified role, and he's got the
Speaker 1: tools and the ability that most humans don't have to
Speaker 1: where he's got a good head on his shoulders. He'll
Speaker 1: work hard and he whatever whatever direction we tell him
Speaker 1: he's going to be focused on. He's got everything needed
Speaker 1: to be exceptional at that position. I'd say that's the
Speaker 1: way you look at it. But I did see a
Speaker 1: lot of people kind of saying the same thing that
Speaker 1: the Jaguars might have given up a little too much
Speaker 1: to get him. However, with the with with picks being
Speaker 1: such a big thing that's traded now, the value in
Speaker 1: those picks is only dependent upon what you do with it,
Speaker 1: and you don't know until you know. So you know,
Speaker 1: having all those picks is great, but you could screw
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: I feel like he has to be a receiver because
Speaker 2: the only reason that you give up all that is
Speaker 2: showing that you still have faith in Trevor Lawrence. And
Speaker 2: he needs a weapon. But I mean, like he's not
Speaker 2: a play receiver. I mean he's gonna please. I mean,
Speaker 2: I could totally see them just trying to do something
Speaker 2: and trying trying.
Speaker 1: To do The Jags may be the franchise that would
Speaker 1: let him do both because when they have the loser,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars.
Speaker 3: Exactly that's what I was getting to, and.
Speaker 1: They trade it up and gave up a lot that
Speaker 1: people are like, man, he's special, but you gave up everything.
Speaker 1: But the jack Sho're probably thinking like we're the Jags,
Speaker 1: Like what do we have to lose, Like, take make
Speaker 1: a big move, take a big ricks, What do we
Speaker 1: have to lose? You know, being irrelevant and being a
Speaker 1: doormat in the NFL. We've been that for our existence.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like that they did that. It didn't
Speaker 1: care and I think you know that that was exciting
Speaker 1: to me. Now, as far as tonight, we'll get into
Speaker 1: sort of who's still left and who's expected to be
Speaker 1: taken tonight. But I've been listening to a lot of
Speaker 1: the coverage today, just national coverage about the draft, and
Speaker 1: the Browns have two picks. I think it is in
Speaker 1: this second round, or maybe maybe maybe they just reference
Speaker 1: maybe they were mentioning that they have of course a
Speaker 1: second and a third rounder tonight.
Speaker 2: But I think they have two picks in the second
Speaker 2: I think that the one that they got from the
Speaker 2: Jags in their original second So.
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're going to take a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I think it was Rich Eisen who and even Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee mentioned it as well, that it just doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like it's going to be shod or. Now, I we'll
Speaker 1: get into this later, but I actually think that Shad
Speaker 1: or like I think passing on him in the first
Speaker 1: round makes a lot of sense. But I also think
Speaker 1: if he's not taken early tonight, then it really is
Speaker 1: a nobody really thinks he's that good. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just I mean, there's no way for
Speaker 1: me to know if that's accurate or not. But I
Speaker 1: think to me and it makes sense. But it also
Speaker 1: is you know, it's not that much of a difference
Speaker 1: in my opinion, of a first round pick and a
Speaker 1: second round pick. They're both huge investments. But I think
Speaker 1: shad Or screams he might be special at some point.
Speaker 1: But man's that's a big risk to take him with
Speaker 1: a first rounder. But then when you get to the
Speaker 1: second round, it just seems as if there's going to
Speaker 1: be a level of Okay, he's worth it. In the
Speaker 1: second round. Yeah, it's a bigger it's a risk, but
Speaker 1: you know, it's not a first round pick. I kind
Speaker 1: of think that's the way this will play out tonight.
Speaker 1: So that's why I say, if you get to, you know,
Speaker 1: mid to late second round, and there has been another
Speaker 1: quarterback taken that's not him, it might just be that
Speaker 1: the teams that were really desperate for a quarterback, they
Speaker 1: came in knowing that this quarterback crop was not great,
Speaker 1: and of all that, they still don't think he's even
Speaker 1: one of the best in that group. Which again it's
Speaker 1: not that that's not picking on it. This is one
Speaker 1: of the things that just blew my mind because last
Speaker 1: night him not being taken, I mean, it was. It
Speaker 1: is a story, and I'm it should be discussed because again,
Speaker 1: as we talked about yesterday, no matter what's going on,
Speaker 1: good or bad, whatever, the Sanders family is going to
Speaker 1: stay in the news. They're gonna be headline news, They're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking, they're gonna be talked about. And it's
Speaker 1: a gift. It's a gift that they have. Dion is
Speaker 1: clearly that the guy who does it, but obviously now
Speaker 1: shoud or I mean, he's he's part of it as well.
Speaker 1: So with all that said, he turned into last night
Speaker 1: where some people are making him out to be a victim,
Speaker 1: like he like he was wronged by not getting picked
Speaker 1: last night, and I mean, I'm I'm listening to this
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, Okay, Nick, you're a hater, you don't
Speaker 1: like Dion, you don't like shit, or I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not personal, but like I don't. I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think shad Or is a to me, he seemed
Speaker 1: like an awful teammate in Colorado, through his player, through
Speaker 1: his teammates, under the bus, at press conferences. You know,
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to have a good attitude, doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: be a good leader, and he's cocky for really no
Speaker 1: good reason. So that's why I don't like him. But
Speaker 1: you know, if he was great, i'd say it, and
Speaker 1: he might end up being phenomenal. Who knows. But you know,
Speaker 1: last time, I'm listening to Lewis Ridick and even Booger
Speaker 1: McFarland who were doing hits on ESPN after the first round,
Speaker 1: and both of them said the same thing, but they
Speaker 1: said it a little bit differently, and it was along
Speaker 1: the lines of, there's certain things that Shadoor Sanders has
Speaker 1: that we hold against him, as far as the way
Speaker 1: he is and the way he plays and the way
Speaker 1: he carries himself. Where if it was somebody else they
Speaker 1: did the same thing, we'd look at it as a strength.
Speaker 1: We'd look at it as confidence and being sure of themselves.
Speaker 1: And I'm paraphrasing, I'm not quoting them, but they painted
Speaker 1: it as if it was unfair and he was wrong
Speaker 1: that he didn't get picked last night, And I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking, do people hear themselves the NFL draft? Getting
Speaker 1: drafted is not something you earn. You can be the
Speaker 1: best player on the planet. Somebody doesn't want to draft you.
Speaker 1: That's that is their decision. You're not entitled to be drafted.
Speaker 1: I mean you kidding me? Like the entitlement that I've
Speaker 1: always felt, like Dion Sanders and everything about Colorado football,
Speaker 1: like I've just never understood it, Like they've never earned
Speaker 1: anything as far as like you know, wins and losses
Speaker 1: and like accomplishments. They're retiring Shadoor Sanders Jersey he had
Speaker 1: a losing record, Like what are we doing here? So again,
Speaker 1: it'd be different if you actually did do something, but
Speaker 1: they didn't. But even if you did, even if Shore
Speaker 1: Sanders was a two time Heisman Trophy winner, He's not
Speaker 1: entitled to be drafted at any point. Like I don't
Speaker 1: get it. Like that's like me saying, Look, I've been
Speaker 1: taking care of myself. I've lost fifteen pounds, I've been
Speaker 1: in the weight room. Doctor Woods got me performing like
Speaker 1: a madman in the bedroom. So Margo Robbie, I'm entitled
Speaker 1: to a date. You hear me. I've been working hard.
Speaker 1: I've earned it. I've earned it. Like, I know that
Speaker 1: sounds like a crazy comparison, but it's not like nobody's
Speaker 1: entitled to be drafted. Nobody Like you can work hard
Speaker 1: and put yourself in a position, but you have no
Speaker 1: control if they want you or not. And here's the reality,
Speaker 1: you know, Manytimes, people are are are qualified for a
Speaker 1: job that they don't get because the people making the
Speaker 1: decision they might realize I don't really like this guy.
Speaker 1: It's not that I'm telling you he's bad, but I
Speaker 1: I don't don't want to work with him. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hire him because it wouldn't be a good
Speaker 1: fit because he's not likable. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: that's what the NFL is doing here with Shid or Sanders.
Speaker 1: But like, we spent way too much time yesterday at
Speaker 1: least I did you know it's I say we, it's
Speaker 1: all my fault. I'm the one that yaps for three
Speaker 1: hours but a lot about just the sand Like it
Speaker 1: really is amazing to me that Deon Sanders and you know,
Speaker 1: Colorado football and you clearly include shit or in the
Speaker 1: whole conversation here, like they're going to be talked about
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens for the next many years to come,
Speaker 1: just because of that's their polarizing That's what it is.
Speaker 1: But but now you've got people act as if like
Speaker 1: it's a conspiracy and they're taking there they're taking it
Speaker 1: out on shit or because they don't like Dion and
Speaker 1: they don't like the way he carries himself, or maybe
Speaker 1: they're jealous of his of his performance. I like, again,
Speaker 1: you can be like, you know, if we're talking about
Speaker 1: a committee deciding like which players are up for the Heisman.
Speaker 1: That's one thing the end, the NFL draft is not
Speaker 1: about earning it, because because there's there's guys who've earned
Speaker 1: a com I mean, they've they've earned act I mean,
Speaker 1: think about this really doesn't matter anything. Getting drafted has
Speaker 1: nothing to do what you've earned. It's about what they
Speaker 1: think of you and what they believe you can do.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy that the Bengals took last night,
Speaker 1: he may be great, he's a freak when it comes
Speaker 1: to the measurables, but he was statistically a poor player
Speaker 1: at Texas, A and m last year he was like
Speaker 1: he wasn't good. There's nothing analytically statistically that would make
Speaker 1: you think that the guy that the Bengals drafted was good.
Speaker 1: But he also is a freak who has got a
Speaker 1: lot of upside and the NFL things they can work
Speaker 1: with that kind of stuff. So I know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I sound like the biggest hater of all time when
Speaker 1: it comes to shit or Sanders. And look, this isn't
Speaker 1: his fault, but like the noise about the whole situation
Speaker 1: just took me aback because you're not entitled to be drafted.
Speaker 1: You have to you have to make somebody want to
Speaker 1: draft you, and you can't honestly control that. Like even
Speaker 1: if he was the best guy in the world and
Speaker 1: he was like, you know, out here curing cancer and
Speaker 1: kissing babies and you know, just just this ultimate you know,
Speaker 1: Philip what do they call it, a philanthroper? Like if
Speaker 1: he I mean, he could be God's gift to you know,
Speaker 1: the world. But that doesn't get you drafted. Like they
Speaker 1: have to want they have to want to draft you.
Speaker 1: They have to want you. It's not about like you're
Speaker 1: like there's no threshold of like your statistics or your
Speaker 1: accomplishments that get you drafted, and yet people act like
Speaker 1: he was wrong, and I just I don't. I find
Speaker 1: myself more now than ever when it comes to just
Speaker 1: things that are really big talk points in sports nationally.
Speaker 1: I just want to I kind of look around, like
Speaker 1: are we hearing ourselves here? What are we doing? Anyways,
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Speaker 1: So I guess it really wasn't expected as far as
Speaker 1: Tyler Shut getting drafted last night, and it started to
Speaker 1: feel that way as we got closer to the draft.
Speaker 1: But there were two quarterbacks taken, obviously cam Ward number one,
Speaker 1: and then the Giants did in fact take Jackson Dart
Speaker 1: And I mean, I feel like this is and you
Speaker 1: might have in Austin. I think you kind of said
Speaker 1: the same thing the other day. So I want to
Speaker 1: give you credit because maybe you put it in my
Speaker 1: brain and it just stuck there. But doesn't this scream
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Jets pick. Everybody is of the belief that
Speaker 1: this is not going to work out. He screams bust,
Speaker 1: meaning Jackson Dart. And it's like everybody, including you know,
Speaker 1: just the fans who may not know anything, but you know,
Speaker 1: they trust their eye, they trust their opinion because they
Speaker 1: watch a lot of ball. I don't think any other
Speaker 1: team needing a quarterback would have taken Jackson Dart. I
Speaker 1: think all the again will never know, but I feel
Speaker 1: like all the other teams that needed a quarterback, which
Speaker 1: clearly the first round showed us what the NFL thinks
Speaker 1: of this class, because I don't think anybody else would
Speaker 1: have taken Jackson Dart meaning I think if there was
Speaker 1: another quarterback taken, meaning that the Steelers or whoever else
Speaker 1: we know the Browns is going to want a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think if they were forced to take one, I
Speaker 1: don't think they would have taken Jackson Dart. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't know that, but like you just you're It's
Speaker 1: one thing if you just have an arrogance, because you've
Speaker 1: all you have this as a GM or as an organization,
Speaker 1: a franchise in general, you have a history of really
Speaker 1: identifying something that others can't and that you know, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get caught up in the noise of what
Speaker 1: fans are saying or what the analysts just saying. You're
Speaker 1: gonna trust your judgment, and really that's what you should do.
Speaker 1: But I don't know how that. I mean, again, he's
Speaker 1: got the look, he's got the size, he was successful enough,
Speaker 1: his numbers were decent, the numbers were good, but again,
Speaker 1: like he couldn't be Kentucky. And also a lot of
Speaker 1: his touchdowns from last year they came against the worst
Speaker 1: teams they played. So again, I'm not saying he's bad,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody else would have done it.
Speaker 1: But it's like the Giants are just so dead set. No,
Speaker 1: we know, like, trust me, we've got this. We know
Speaker 1: we know what others are thinking about this guy. But
Speaker 1: we were able to actually really see something that's there
Speaker 1: that you guys are just missing. And it reminded me
Speaker 1: of when Zach Wilson was taken by the Jets, because
Speaker 1: everybody just I mean, it just seemed like, yeah, that guy,
Speaker 1: you probably could have gotten him a lot later. And
Speaker 1: if there's any quarterback in this class that might be
Speaker 1: an absolute bust. He looks like the guy and that's
Speaker 1: exactly what played out was Zach Wilson. So maybe Jackson
Speaker 1: dart Is is going to prove a lot of people wrong.
Speaker 1: But that just screams bust. And with that said, now
Speaker 1: that we get to a round two again, I just
Speaker 1: think you're much more will If you don't love a
Speaker 1: quarterback but you like him and you really like him,
Speaker 1: I think you. I mean, it wouldn't. I don't. There's
Speaker 1: no rumor of this, clearly I have no inside information,
Speaker 1: but like I think, if there's a team out there
Speaker 1: that really likes should Or that really likes Shuck, or
Speaker 1: maybe they really like Jalen Milroe, because I mean, who
Speaker 1: was it? Was it? Kyle Brandt, was was of the
Speaker 1: NFL Network, was talking earlier today saying that he thought
Speaker 1: last night, if there was a third quarterback taken, it
Speaker 1: would have been Milroe ahead of should Or and ahead
Speaker 1: of Chuck. And I mean, again, what do I know?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: Last I check, Milroe was looked at as a guy
Speaker 1: that kind of didn't really have like didn't necessarily have
Speaker 1: the NFL upside, Like he's a big, physical, you know,
Speaker 1: big strong guy, and you know, he's not terrible, but
Speaker 1: to me, he's he's a little bit like Richardson, only
Speaker 1: in a way that you can tell he'll make some
Speaker 1: plays at times, but like he's still kind of developing
Speaker 1: as a quarterback. And look, guys go to the NFL
Speaker 1: and they got to get better. But I just think
Speaker 1: putting if you draft him early, like he's going to
Speaker 1: need to sit and develop, and I just you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's just not how the NFL operates anymore. If you're
Speaker 1: drafted pretty early at quarterback, in most instances, you're just
Speaker 1: throwing into the fire. So anyways, what I was saying
Speaker 1: is that if you find if there's a team that
Speaker 1: really really likes one of these quarterbacks that's still left
Speaker 1: and they just didn't like him enough to get him
Speaker 1: in the first round, because this crop of quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this draft is weak, as well as the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, they felt like there was really strong value
Speaker 1: at other positions that they just couldn't pass up on.
Speaker 1: Like you may see somebody trade up tonight to get
Speaker 1: one of these qbs. But again that maybe that is
Speaker 1: a little bit unrealistic because I think you'd see that
Speaker 1: if like you got to the second round, and people
Speaker 1: were looking around saying, Wow, could you believe this guy's
Speaker 1: still available in the second round. If they're saying that
Speaker 1: about anybody, they're saying it about shit or But I
Speaker 1: think it's just based off the buzz, the hype. Like
Speaker 1: and again I'm not acting like I think the guy's terrible.
Speaker 1: But the majority of why, the biggest factor and why
Speaker 1: he has discussed the way that he is is because
Speaker 1: of the story that he's Dion's son, and you know,
Speaker 1: he clearly has some good genes because Dion was one
Speaker 1: of the most talented individuals that ever played sports. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's how special he was. So you know, I the Browns,
Speaker 1: to me, if they take a quarterback, it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Shuck or Milroe, and rich Eisen said
Speaker 1: he believes it's gonna be It's gonna be Shuck, whereas
Speaker 1: Brand said he thinks it's gonna be Milroe because he
Speaker 1: thinks that the Browns kind of sneaky are in love
Speaker 1: with with Milroe, which I mean, I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: just being a hater, and maybe I'm just thinking, like,
Speaker 1: why would you draft because again, Shuck could get drafted
Speaker 1: early and like whoever whoever takes him like, should we
Speaker 1: surprised if their fan base is like, come on, this
Speaker 1: guy's twenty five and he was never good in college
Speaker 1: until this last season when he was at Louisville. So like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll admit it, like there's some bias to
Speaker 1: I think the world of Shuck, But I also don't
Speaker 1: think it's just because I'm a Louisville fan. I think
Speaker 1: as far as being ready to play the position right now,
Speaker 1: he's the most ready with the throws he can make
Speaker 1: with his maturity. And again all that stuff that's used
Speaker 1: against him about his age, I mean I look at
Speaker 1: it as a as a benefit, Like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't have maybe you don't have as many
Speaker 1: years with him because he's starting his pro career a
Speaker 1: lot later. But is that something that that should be
Speaker 1: on the minds of NFL teams when they draft the guy,
Speaker 1: Like you want to win right away and he gives
Speaker 1: you a better chance to do that. And again, as
Speaker 1: we've discussed this day and age, if you're a quarterback
Speaker 1: playing the style in the way that Tyler Shuck is
Speaker 1: going to play in the NFL, I mean you should
Speaker 1: be able to do that for a long time, Like
Speaker 1: you could still have some freak injuries, you know, like
Speaker 1: tearing an ACL or something like that, because a lot
Speaker 1: of those things are non contact. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think of the guys left. To me, yes, there
Speaker 1: may be so much more upside with a guy like
Speaker 1: shad or Sanders, but to me, there's much more risk.
Speaker 1: And if he ends up being, you know, a guy
Speaker 1: that's just simply not good enough to lead an NFL
Speaker 1: team as a quarterback, like I think that would be
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that makes sense with Shuck. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can sell that like he'll eventually turn
Speaker 1: into this guy that is just you know, way better
Speaker 1: than he is now. So again, ceiling I suppose is
Speaker 1: higher for Shador, but you still like there's a chance
Speaker 1: Shadoor never develops to where he's able to like do
Speaker 1: some of the things that like Shuck can already do
Speaker 1: as far as just the throws he can make. So again,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just being biased here and just you know,
Speaker 1: looking at it from a Louisville lens. But the Browns
Speaker 1: brought in Tyler Shuck, I believe for like two separate
Speaker 1: like they've again you know, they're looking at everybody, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's not the only person that they really
Speaker 1: did spend some extra time with as far as interviews
Speaker 1: and having him out to meet with the organization and
Speaker 1: all that. But I mean, I think if they take
Speaker 1: a quarterback, I would imagine it'll be milroll or Shuck.
Speaker 1: And if Shadowra Sanders ends up falling like the third
Speaker 1: round because again he's not the guy and in the
Speaker 1: in the second and third round, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: feel like you. I don't know, maybe I'm kind of
Speaker 1: spinning my wheels here because to me, he's the kind
Speaker 1: of prospect when it comes to just the upside and
Speaker 1: maybe just the god given ability that he has to
Speaker 1: where he could develop to be really good. If that's
Speaker 1: if that's what you really value, I feel like you
Speaker 1: would take him early. So you know, again, him not
Speaker 1: getting taken last night in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 1: to me, isn't really a big shock because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that great, and we know this
Speaker 1: quarterback crop is not viewed to be elite. But everybody
Speaker 1: passing on him, especially teams that you know, need a quarterback,
Speaker 1: and we know this class is not great like, I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty telling that the NFL does not love
Speaker 1: him the way that, you know, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of folks think that they did. It's just the hype
Speaker 1: train man. And it's not to say that he's terrible,
Speaker 1: but it's just wild to me that it's now, you know,
Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if it's just you know, Dion
Speaker 1: Sanders groupies that just you know, oh it's coach prom
Speaker 1: they're haters. No, they're like Deon Sanders deserve to be
Speaker 1: made fun of whenever he talked all the talk and
Speaker 1: won what three games in his first year, And like
Speaker 1: there's certain people that ran with, oh, they're just mad.
Speaker 1: What were we mad about? They didn't do? Like who cares?
Speaker 1: They're not they're not relevant. I mean they are because
Speaker 1: they get talked about, but it was for no reason.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like the cowboys in the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: like Lebron and the Lakers. Like Lebron and the Lakers,
Speaker 1: they could be awful or great, They're still gonna be
Speaker 1: talked about a lot. And that's just what Colorado and
Speaker 1: Dion and the whole you know, entourages is. But the
Speaker 1: layer that's been added as far as entitlement like that,
Speaker 1: just like do people hear themselves. You're not entitled to
Speaker 1: be drafted. It's somebody's decision do they want you or not.
Speaker 1: You could have the best stats, the best career ever
Speaker 1: if you don't get drafted. Yeah, if that's the case,
Speaker 1: then yeah, we'd look at those franchises that passed on
Speaker 1: you and say they're foolish. But it's their decision. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't earn a draft pick. You have to win
Speaker 1: somebody over, and sometimes you could not win him over
Speaker 1: and it's their fault, meaning it's it's their loss. But
Speaker 1: you're not entitled to be drafted at any point. And
Speaker 1: he will get drafted at some point and probably who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe he goes early tonight. But I do feel like
Speaker 1: if he does not go early in the first you
Speaker 1: know two, I don't even we'll pull it up as
Speaker 1: far as the order. But teams that you know, need
Speaker 1: a quarterback if they don't take if they don't take him,
Speaker 1: and then they don't take a quarterback at all, I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty telling that, like maybe people aren't hating
Speaker 1: on him, but they just don't think like he's worthy
Speaker 1: of an investment because that's what a draft pick is,
Speaker 1: all right, quick break will come back. On the other side,
Speaker 1: we'rectually gonna bring in the one and only mister Jeff
Speaker 1: Milby of Racing Louisville Louisville CITYFC. He was really talking
Speaker 1: up last week's last week's he got me fired up.
Speaker 1: It was a it was a real gut check kind
Speaker 1: of game for Racing Louisville and it didn't go well.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna, i mean, we're gonna see if he
Speaker 1: can keep it going. Because Jeff Milby has fired us
Speaker 1: up about some footy in the last few weeks. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been bringing the energy, but it sounds like the
Speaker 1: club's not bringing it and maybe they can feed off
Speaker 1: of his energy. But we'll talk to him on the
Speaker 1: other side. Stick with us right here, taking up till
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Speaker 1: Wrapping up the three o'clock hour, We now bring him in,
Speaker 1: mister Jeff Milby from Racing Louisville and Louisville CITYFC. Jeff,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna give you the floor, my man.
Speaker 1: You have executed really in every way since you've been
Speaker 1: joining us here on the show. And I know last
Speaker 1: week was a real gut check kind of game for
Speaker 1: Racing Louisville and obviously didn't work out all in a
Speaker 1: way that we wanted. So you know, thoughts and you
Speaker 1: know where do we go from here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Nick, Look, first of all about me executing, I
Speaker 4: just follow the scauting report, you know, I just read
Speaker 4: the scouting report before I come on here and do
Speaker 4: with the coaches.
Speaker 3: Just do your job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just just doing a job. Yeah. Look, last week
Speaker 4: not the result we wanted, not the game we wanted,
Speaker 4: not the performance that the coaches wanted. For one loss
Speaker 4: for Racing Louisville at home to San Diego. Really difficult game.
Speaker 4: I mean the third goal for San Diego went right
Speaker 4: between the Racing Louisville goalkeeper's legs. Just an absolute just
Speaker 4: one of those days, brendous mistakes, one of those days,
Speaker 4: just the way the ball bounced, you know, went against
Speaker 4: us all the way through. So look, it's been a
Speaker 4: lot of regrouping going on around here this week for
Speaker 4: Racing Louisville, but they've got an opportunity. Look, it's the NWSL.
Speaker 4: Every game is winnable. Every game you can compete if
Speaker 4: you show up on the right day, because there's so
Speaker 4: much parity in this league. There are a couple of
Speaker 4: teams we talked about Washington last week, Kansas City, Orlando.
Speaker 4: Those are kind of the top three teams that are
Speaker 4: a little bit difficult to beat on any given day.
Speaker 4: But everybody else in the league is gettable. And that
Speaker 4: certainly is true for Portland this weekend for Racing louis
Speaker 4: They're heading on the road. They play on Sunday. It's
Speaker 4: four o'clock our time, one o'clock Portland time this game.
Speaker 4: This Thorns are one of those teams, like I said
Speaker 4: about San Diego last week, one of those teams that
Speaker 4: either they're going to be in the playoffs and Louisville's
Speaker 4: going to be on the outside looking in, or Louis's
Speaker 4: going to be in the playoffs and they're going to
Speaker 4: knock Portland out. It's just they're battling for one of
Speaker 4: those final playoff spots. At least that's the way we
Speaker 4: expect the season to go. They're a team that's their
Speaker 4: biggest star used to be named Sophia Smith. She got
Speaker 4: married in the offseason. Her name is Sophia Wilson, plays
Speaker 4: for the US women's national team, arguably the biggest star
Speaker 4: in the league. Right now. She's pregnant, so she's out
Speaker 4: for the rest of the season. So it's a little
Speaker 4: bit of a different look for the Portland Thorns. So
Speaker 4: I think they're gettable. I think if Racing shows up
Speaker 4: on the right day and plays their best, they can
Speaker 4: win at Providence Park, which is, by the way, a
Speaker 4: really cool stadium. If for no other reason, tune into
Speaker 4: this game on Sunday just to see this place, because
Speaker 4: it's like the Wrigley Field of soccer. It's like one
Speaker 4: hundred year old stadium. They've retro fitted it for some
Speaker 4: great atmosphere there. Every time the Portland Thorns play, they
Speaker 4: get fifteen twenty thousand fans for every game out there.
Speaker 4: It'll be an intimidating atmosphere for Racing Louisville, but I
Speaker 4: think it's one that they can win. Portland played on Tuesday,
Speaker 4: they played a weird game on They're a random Tuesday guest,
Speaker 4: so right, so they're guests. So we're going to go
Speaker 4: out there Racing Louisville and hopefully get their number. Racing
Speaker 4: has played well against them of late. They beat them
Speaker 4: last year a Lynn Family Stadium, tied them at Portland
Speaker 4: last year, and then you go back two seasons ago
Speaker 4: they beat them. So their last three meetings they're unbeaten
Speaker 4: against Portland. So it's a real opportunity for Racing to
Speaker 4: bounce back on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys will hear the action here on Sports
Speaker 1: Talk seven ninety on Sunday at four o'clock, and you
Speaker 1: can actually check it out. As Jeff mentioned, it's going
Speaker 1: to be on a paramount plus just to check out
Speaker 1: the atmosphere. Fifteen to twenty thousand. That's a pretty impressive
Speaker 1: crowd that you can get there. And I know, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously coming off with tough losses, we discussed, but I
Speaker 1: do think there's something to be said about getting away.
Speaker 1: And I know they're not going to be gone the
Speaker 1: entire next two weeks, but this Sunday, Portland on the
Speaker 1: road and then they'll be in Houston the following Friday
Speaker 1: on May second, So you know, maybe this is a
Speaker 1: time to kind of, you know, come together, kind of
Speaker 1: kind of regroup, right. You know, you always want to
Speaker 1: be playing at home in front of your fans, but
Speaker 1: sometimes a team can kind of, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: almost like a retreat to where they kind of you know,
Speaker 1: they get some things figured out, they're you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're kind of away and not you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say there's distractions around here, but I think
Speaker 1: sometimes this situation, as far as how the schedule sets up,
Speaker 1: it could be pretty valuable to kind of get some
Speaker 1: things worked out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think I think too, Nick to your point.
Speaker 4: I think there's some pressure that goes away when you
Speaker 4: go on the road, right, you go, oh, no doubt
Speaker 4: into an environment like they're going to see on Sunday,
Speaker 4: we're going in.
Speaker 1: You're not in your own domain.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. And you know, also I'll say this,
Speaker 4: I mean this Racing Louisville crowd is a knowledgeable crowd
Speaker 4: that Lynn Family Stadium every week. They've seen this team
Speaker 4: go through these troubles the last two years and struggle
Speaker 4: and miss the playoffs, and a game like last week,
Speaker 4: they go behind and suddenly you can feel the energy
Speaker 4: kind of suck out of the building a little bit,
Speaker 4: and it's different on the road. That's not going to
Speaker 4: happen if they go behind. That's the way they're expected
Speaker 4: to go right, that's the way things are expected to go.
Speaker 4: So you're up against you got to have that underdog
Speaker 4: mentality for Racing Louisville this weekend at Portland, and I'll
Speaker 4: say this as well, if we're talking about the road trip,
Speaker 4: Houston is another gettable game. It's another winnable game next week.
Speaker 4: It's not one of these games where you're going up
Speaker 4: against the juggernaut. It's a game that if Racing Louisville
Speaker 4: shows up and plays right, they could win. So it
Speaker 4: could be a huge two game road swing for them
Speaker 4: as they try and rewrite the ship in the right
Speaker 4: direction after a couple of gross losses the last couple
Speaker 4: of weeks at home. It's a huge opportunity. That's the
Speaker 4: way I'm looking at these next two weekend games at
Speaker 4: Portland this weekend on Sunday, then at Houston next weekend
Speaker 4: before they ultimately return home on May night, a big
Speaker 4: opportunity to right the ship and get some mojo going
Speaker 4: in the right direction and some confidence before they return
Speaker 4: home to Lynn Family Stadium. But Nick, I have to
Speaker 4: say something. Last week I came on here and I
Speaker 4: made a mistake. Man, I'm coming to you with my
Speaker 4: tail between my legs because last week I came on
Speaker 4: here and I hyped you up. You got this US
Speaker 4: opened Cup for lou City, right the NCAA and of soccer,
Speaker 4: where you got MLS teams and USL teams all the
Speaker 4: way down to the amateur teams. You get the opportunity
Speaker 4: for big upsets, right, And I sold it to you hard.
Speaker 4: He did well. I messed up the date. I messed
Speaker 4: up the date. My friend I said it was turn
Speaker 4: up Tuesday. It's a while and out Wednesday May even better.
Speaker 4: Game is going to be played on a Wednesday, even
Speaker 4: better later in the week in the party a little
Speaker 4: bit harder, right, But it's Minnesota United coming to town
Speaker 4: of Major League Soccer and MLS team is going to
Speaker 4: play at Lynn Family Stadium against lou City on May seventh.
Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, that's not the only big
Speaker 4: game on the horizon right now for lou City. May first,
Speaker 4: that's next Thursday. Talk about you know, a thirsty Thursday
Speaker 4: kind of afternoon you want to have at Lynn Family Stadium. Nick,
Speaker 4: I know for certain you are not a fan of
Speaker 4: sports teams from Lexington. Is that correct? Is that a
Speaker 4: fair assumption?
Speaker 1: It's a fair assumption. And I hope you're not about
Speaker 1: to use the r word rivalry because they're not worthy
Speaker 1: yet to be considered a rival. What have they done
Speaker 1: to be rivals to a club that is racing or
Speaker 1: Louise CITYFC that really since launching has just been nothing
Speaker 1: but successful. Most franchises that just you know, start up
Speaker 1: like they did many years ago. All they do is win.
Speaker 1: Like you know again, rivalries are great for sports. You
Speaker 1: and I both know that it's fun. But like, we're
Speaker 1: not worried about Lexington SC yet, are we?
Speaker 4: No? But they're worried about us. I'll tell you that
Speaker 4: about us.
Speaker 1: And we're in their heads.
Speaker 4: Played in the preseason, right, that's right. These two teams
Speaker 4: played in the preseason and it felt like Lexington's Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: They scored a couples, they did. They took the lead
Speaker 4: in that one little brother that he came from behind
Speaker 4: and and just ripped their heart out of their chest,
Speaker 4: winning at three to two I think was the final
Speaker 4: score of that game in preseason. Absolutely, they're little brother,
Speaker 4: They're looking up at us. They are trying trying to
Speaker 4: size themselves up against us. I will say this, We
Speaker 4: are trying to make it a little bit of a rivalry.
Speaker 4: We came out this week.
Speaker 1: With yea because it's good for everybody.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Come on, they launched like they were about to just
Speaker 1: do what what what you know what Louislle City FC
Speaker 1: has done and like that doesn't happen really anywhere. So
Speaker 1: sorry to be so standard, but like, you know, come on,
Speaker 1: like earn your stripes before you start acting like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: we're we got a team too, We're gonna you know, no,
Speaker 1: come on, you know your role.
Speaker 4: Oh Nick, you're preaching to the choirt. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: around here at the office over here at Soccer Holdings.
Speaker 4: We have some serious disdain for those folks down a
Speaker 4: Lexings in because they came on the block, thought that
Speaker 4: they were the coolest new guy in school. Right, they
Speaker 4: don't know what they're doing yet, right, this is their
Speaker 4: first year in this league. They moved up to the
Speaker 4: USL Championship, which is our league where Loose City plays.
Speaker 4: They think that they're going to come in here and
Speaker 4: walk in with a big budget. And by the way,
Speaker 4: they've spent a lot of money on their roster down there,
Speaker 4: to give them some credit. But they think they're going
Speaker 4: to come in here with a big budget and make
Speaker 4: a big difference in this league. Not so fast, to
Speaker 4: quote the great and soon to be retired league course,
Speaker 4: so not so fast. You guys still have to come
Speaker 4: to the mountaintop, come to lend Family Stadium and prove
Speaker 4: that you deserve to be on this level. And that's
Speaker 4: the opportunity that they have and the opportunity that we
Speaker 4: as Louisville people and Louisville City fans have to come
Speaker 4: up to lend Family Stadium next Thursday and let Lexington
Speaker 4: know how we feel about them, both as a team
Speaker 4: and as a city. I think it's got the makings
Speaker 4: for a great evening to kick off Kentucky Derby weekend.
Speaker 4: That's our hope is that on Thursday Surby, you'll go
Speaker 4: the track, maybe get to you know, get your energy
Speaker 4: going at the track, and then come to Lynn Family
Speaker 4: Stadium and help Louisville City defeat Lexington next Thursday. We're
Speaker 4: calling it the Commonwealth Cup. It's presented by a Republic bank.
Speaker 4: Are great friends able to help us, We're gonna have
Speaker 4: a trophy on the line. It's gonna feel like that.
Speaker 4: That kind of college rivalry is what we're really going
Speaker 4: for between Louisville and Louisville City and Lexington. So that's
Speaker 4: another one to put on your calendar. You got May
Speaker 4: seventh against them and yeah, I can't even say it
Speaker 4: an MLS team. And then Thursday against Lexington May the
Speaker 4: first couple of big opportunities for the city at Lynn
Speaker 4: Family Stadium over the next week or so.
Speaker 1: Exciting stuff, no doubt. And Jeff, as always, we appreciate
Speaker 1: your time, appreciate your energy, and in as much as
Speaker 1: I do think Lexion needs to kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of cut their teeth a little bit before they
Speaker 1: think they're you know, they're gonna be hanging out with
Speaker 1: big brother out there competing and you know, getting some results,
Speaker 1: doing some real stuff. It is gonna be great because
Speaker 1: if you want people to get interested that maybe aren't
Speaker 1: and haven't really experienced what racing Louisville and Louisville City
Speaker 1: FC is, if you tell them, hey, this is our
Speaker 1: team in Louisville and Lexton's got a team like that's
Speaker 1: enough to get people interested and fired up. Right, it's rivalry,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I don't know about you, Nick,
Speaker 4: but I've never had a good time in the city
Speaker 4: of Lexington. I mean, you know, aside from a couple
Speaker 4: of football games and basketball games over the years, but
Speaker 4: I've never gone down to Lexington and been like, hey,
Speaker 4: this is a great town.
Speaker 1: Yeah, louis is the best thing about it is when
Speaker 1: you get to leave. That's the best part about it.
Speaker 4: That's right. The best thing about Lexington is when you
Speaker 4: get to leave. And we're gonna hopefully send Lexington back
Speaker 4: with their tails between their legs after next Thursday. Should
Speaker 4: be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: No doubt. Jeff, you are the man. Have a good weekend,
Speaker 1: my friend, and we'll talk sooner, my brother.
Speaker 4: Yeah, appreciation Nick, all right, that.
Speaker 1: Is Jeff Melby from Racing LOUISLL and Louisville CITYFC. Love
Speaker 1: the energy, love the enthusiasm, and uh oh he's great.
Speaker 1: We are We're I mean, I won't claim to be
Speaker 1: like somebody that's that's been you know a day one,
Speaker 1: you know there every game, but we what what Louisville
Speaker 1: CITYFC has been able to do since launching what roughly
Speaker 1: a decade ago. I mean, it doesn't really happen anywhere
Speaker 1: in any sport to where they've just been good ever
Speaker 1: since it started, and even the down year, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not anything close to what like a lot of
Speaker 1: teams experience in a down year. So you know, in fact,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if those in Lexton looked at
Speaker 1: what Lowell CITYS was doing and said, you know, we're
Speaker 1: going to try to do that too, and there's no
Speaker 1: harm in trying. But come on, like, let's not act
Speaker 1: like what they did was just something that comes easy.
Speaker 1: It's something that is really rare when it comes to
Speaker 1: an expansion team, just you know, right out of the
Speaker 1: gate being super successful. And here we are a decade
Speaker 1: in and last that checked. You know, their brand, their
Speaker 1: history is just nothing but winning for the most part,
Speaker 1: winning at a high level. All right, quick break two
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