Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company.
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Speaker 3: I feel like this is, you know, legitimately important breaking news.
Speaker 3: But then again I kind of kind of question what
Speaker 3: I just said after considering it. The SEC has made
Speaker 3: it official that they are going to require schools to
Speaker 3: submit injury reports before every game. That is, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's something, But I feel like you're gonna be able
Speaker 3: to You're gonna be able to, like still be very
Speaker 3: vague if you want, and get away with it. Because
Speaker 3: if I list John as doubtful to be able to
Speaker 3: start a tight end for us because he's been dealing
Speaker 3: with something like I can just tell everybody when he
Speaker 3: starts and plays every snap, just a miraculous recovery. We
Speaker 3: said a prayer before the before we went out there
Speaker 3: on the field, and we got out there. It's a
Speaker 3: power of God. You know, you gotta I got to
Speaker 3: give the game ball to Jesus Christ because we prayed
Speaker 3: over John's hurt knee and now he's out there catching touchdowns.
Speaker 3: It's just an act of God. And you know, you
Speaker 3: never doubt him. You can never question him if you
Speaker 3: guys think there's any funny business going on, you take
Speaker 3: it up with the man upstairs.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, I feel like that's that quote came
Speaker 4: straight out of Daboswiney's mouth.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm just riffing, but like I could see.
Speaker 3: Like I mean again, like if somebody says, yeah, he
Speaker 3: was hurting, now he's not, or uh, he was good
Speaker 3: and you won't believe it. He had a flare up
Speaker 3: in the in the uh in the locker room, Yeah,
Speaker 3: comes out and yeah we got we got him in
Speaker 3: a full body cast. He got hit by a car
Speaker 3: in the parking lot this week, but then he was
Speaker 3: ready to go and then it just flared up. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why he's in a full bot. Like you could,
Speaker 3: you could get away with it. Now if there's actually
Speaker 3: like legitimate documentation, you've got to provide that, you know,
Speaker 3: shows that you're track like you know. But I just
Speaker 3: think if you really want to be vague about it,
Speaker 3: you can. I think there's there's a lot of college
Speaker 3: football coaches are consistent as far as how they handle things.
Speaker 3: They're all kind of caddy wanting to be super secretive.
Speaker 3: But I do think the injury stuff before a game.
Speaker 3: It really is based on the coach's personality. There are
Speaker 3: some coaches that do not care if you know about
Speaker 3: an injury. There are some coaches that are gonna do
Speaker 3: whatever they can to play the gamesmanship card and keep
Speaker 3: everything as super close to the best as they can.
Speaker 3: So anyway, yeah, the SEC is going to require all
Speaker 3: schools to submit injury reports before every game. All right,
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Speaker 3: It's mister Kendrick Haskins from Way three Sports. How we
Speaker 3: doing today, Kendrick, I'm good.
Speaker 5: I'm just sitting here and just looked up at the
Speaker 5: monitor and it's said the current temperature outside is one
Speaker 5: hundred and one.
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's insane.
Speaker 3: He sure doesn't say swamp ass. You sure doesn't say that.
Speaker 5: Brother's go go outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, stay indoors where it's cool. If you have ac
Speaker 3: I saw somebody today at a red light hot as hell. Outside,
Speaker 3: and they had a new car. I'm talking like probably
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, twenty two or newer. I mean it's
Speaker 3: a new car, new ish car, and you can have
Speaker 3: a car that agent maybe the AC's out, but like
Speaker 3: it looked like the person was choosing to not have
Speaker 3: the AC on in their car. And again maybe it
Speaker 3: didn't work, but like that psychopathic behavior. I think if
Speaker 3: you have AC today and you choose not to use it, right.
Speaker 5: Up there with the people who'll be he who are
Speaker 5: in full blown hoodies.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dude, well what's up with kids now?
Speaker 6: Like it's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 5: So I had a buddy from mine from Florida to say,
Speaker 5: they do it down there because the ke's the heat
Speaker 5: off their skin and i the sun off their skin.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I get that if you're wearing the
Speaker 5: thin ones, but they're wearing the full blown, thick cotton
Speaker 5: hoodies runner walking around in ninety ninety five degrees outside, I.
Speaker 3: Don't get it. I mean, I guess they're I guess
Speaker 3: are built different. They're they're either really stupid or they're
Speaker 3: just a lot tougher than our generation. Because I mean, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: because if you because like tomorrow night at the high
Speaker 3: school football games, you will see a lot of kids
Speaker 3: out there in excruciating heat wearing hoodies. And I'm like,
Speaker 3: what do you like?
Speaker 1: How?
Speaker 3: How do I just don't get it? I don't, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't get it at.
Speaker 5: All of that though, as you know, when it starts
Speaker 5: when it's freezing outside and around November towards the.
Speaker 6: End of the season, shorts, there will always.
Speaker 5: Be football coaches out there in shorts.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that makes look tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, it's It's just it's an image they
Speaker 3: try to portray. I think if it's okay to admit
Speaker 3: you might want to throw on some pants or that
Speaker 3: you might, you know where, you know, wear short sleeves
Speaker 3: because it's hot outside. I guess I'm I'm out on
Speaker 3: the fat on the latest fashion stuff because it's it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, I I'm glad you said something about that
Speaker 3: because it's so true. I know, and I look at
Speaker 3: people in question like this, maybe they've got like a
Speaker 3: skin condition, because who would be wearing long sleeves right now?
Speaker 3: It's one hundred degrees outside. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: So we've got football season around here. Actually, starts this
Speaker 3: week and Week zero was a nice appetizer. But the
Speaker 3: local teams are in action before we get into sort
Speaker 3: of a potential thing you could see that might make
Speaker 3: you feel pretty good, because these teams are coming here
Speaker 3: to get a check and go home, hopefully not injured,
Speaker 3: and you know their season ruined. That's just how this works.
Speaker 3: But before we get into that. In your coverage over
Speaker 3: the years, is there a game of this of this,
Speaker 3: you know the bye games where teams can you think
Speaker 3: of like the worst beat down ever or a team
Speaker 3: you saw that came in that just kind of looked
Speaker 3: the saddest and you were like, man, I'm sure they're
Speaker 3: ready for that clock hit zero and they can get
Speaker 3: out of here because they don't belong. The one that
Speaker 3: comes to me is basketball. When Isaiah Thomas brought FIU
Speaker 3: in here. Do you remember that years ago?
Speaker 6: Yes, it was so funny.
Speaker 3: He didn't get up off the bench. The whole game did.
Speaker 5: Not between him and remember when Clyde Drexler was Oh yes,
Speaker 5: and he'd never left the scorer's table and.
Speaker 3: He looked as if like he just wanted to be
Speaker 3: out there being Clyde the Glide and not really doing any.
Speaker 5: Coaching or it looked like he read be anywhere else
Speaker 5: but in the arena.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 6: That was a bad form as coaches have always been.
Speaker 5: Remember I remember when Dad Marley was at Grand Canyon, yea,
Speaker 5: and they came here, and I remember he actually did coach.
Speaker 5: And I remember because we used to shoot down by
Speaker 5: the opponent's bench at that.
Speaker 6: Time, so his son was like sitting right by me,
Speaker 6: so I was talking to him in timeouts and stuff.
Speaker 3: Dude, some of these former players that get into coaching,
Speaker 3: I mean, they like a lot of them don't need
Speaker 3: to coach, you know what I mean. Like they they're
Speaker 3: they're financially in a good spot. Like their legacy as
Speaker 3: a player is pretty good. And like I guess if
Speaker 3: you just want to be around basketball. But like you know,
Speaker 3: like if I played the game and I was around
Speaker 3: it a lot and I retired, like I have a
Speaker 3: hard time thinking I would want to get into coaching
Speaker 3: unless you know, I just had to for a way
Speaker 3: to make money. But some of these dudes who do it,
Speaker 3: like you know, like why did Magic Johnson feel the
Speaker 3: need to be the GM of the Lakers? He got
Speaker 3: eighteen other things.
Speaker 6: Going on ego.
Speaker 3: That's all that is. That's true.
Speaker 5: I mean it's rarely that you see a great player
Speaker 5: in the being a great coach.
Speaker 6: Like Larry bird is won, he was a pretty he
Speaker 6: was a good coach for the Pacers.
Speaker 3: Shut out my Pacers.
Speaker 6: I think when Rondo decides to actually start going into.
Speaker 5: Coaching full time, I do think he's going to be
Speaker 5: a great coach because he's so smart.
Speaker 6: But for the most part, it's never great players that
Speaker 6: go with that are good coaches. Yeah, they think.
Speaker 5: Because everything came so easy for them because of their talent.
Speaker 6: They're like, well, why can't you do this? Like does
Speaker 6: your magic Johnson?
Speaker 3: Yep. And I I mean most of the guys who
Speaker 3: do coach and have great success were players, but they
Speaker 3: were the guys who probably sat and observed a lot
Speaker 3: because they weren't elite enough to be out there. That's
Speaker 3: a good point. I mean, I know it's been it's
Speaker 3: it's kind of a trend before, but that's I mean,
Speaker 3: even like Bill Belichick, I mean, a guy who some
Speaker 3: would say is the best ever Popovich. I mean those
Speaker 3: are guys who, again, they were around, they were exposed
Speaker 3: to the sport, but it was never never because they
Speaker 3: were elite as players.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Belichick was like a lacrosse player or
Speaker 5: something crazy like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he volunteered. I think he volunteered to just be
Speaker 3: on the sideline one year and you know, just kind
Speaker 3: of mean. To say he worked his way up would
Speaker 3: be an understatement considering the career that does that he
Speaker 3: put together. But Louisville and Austin p on Saturday again,
Speaker 3: Louisville thirty six and a half point, favorite's likely going
Speaker 3: to be a big beat down. I hate these games,
Speaker 3: but also understand why they exist. And the reason I
Speaker 3: hate him as a fan, specifically just as a fan
Speaker 3: is that I like to figure out each week something
Speaker 3: about my team, and that's almost impossible to do. Because
Speaker 3: if Louisville was in a closer game to where they
Speaker 3: won by twenty nine and didn't cover, some would say,
Speaker 3: although that's concerning, they didn't cover. I would also say, well,
Speaker 3: it's because they know. They didn't really have to turn
Speaker 3: it on, because the human element kicks in when it
Speaker 3: comes to sports, like you know who you're playing, and
Speaker 3: then if you do blow him out by eighty, that's great,
Speaker 3: that's encouraging, but you also have to remind yourself of
Speaker 3: who you played. Is there anything that you are you know,
Speaker 3: if Louisville's looking to after one week feel like they're
Speaker 3: on pace to be the team that they want to be.
Speaker 3: Is there one specific thing you could see Saturday that
Speaker 3: you think would support that.
Speaker 5: I think if the offense is moving the ball and
Speaker 5: it looks more like the brom offives that were accustomed to,
Speaker 5: I think that would be a good sign.
Speaker 6: I mean, yes, they should do that against Austin p
Speaker 6: but you want to see that.
Speaker 5: You want to see them move the ball up the
Speaker 5: up and down the field like we're accustomed to seeing.
Speaker 6: So I think that's one thing. And then on.
Speaker 5: Defense, you want to see if the defense is as
Speaker 5: good as hype.
Speaker 6: Because I really do believe this defense is going to.
Speaker 5: Have the has the chance to be one of the
Speaker 5: best defenses that Louisvill's had in a very very long time.
Speaker 5: When you look at the pieces and you look at
Speaker 5: Julyatti over there.
Speaker 6: And everything they have. So those are kind of things
Speaker 6: you want to see.
Speaker 5: And I feel like as a fan, you want them
Speaker 5: to blow them out because like, if that game is close,
Speaker 5: if they don't cover it's one thing because because I
Speaker 5: hate I stay away from games like that because oh yeah,
Speaker 5: they get up a late, right, But like if it's
Speaker 5: one of those things where they're like in a nail
Speaker 5: bier at halftime, then that you worry a little bit.
Speaker 5: So as a fan, you kind of want to see
Speaker 5: them go ahead and take care of business early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on the defense, especially because and
Speaker 3: even if they do shut them out, I mean, it'll
Speaker 3: be a good sign. You know, you'll know who you
Speaker 3: did it as far as the opponent. But I'm starting
Speaker 3: to sense that Brom's comments about the offense during those
Speaker 3: fall camp scrimmages, I'm starting to get the sense that
Speaker 3: those within the program are starting to let it out
Speaker 3: that you know, maybe they now realize that the offense
Speaker 3: had some struggles in camp because you know, what they
Speaker 3: were going up against a really, really good defense, which
Speaker 3: you know, there's probably not going to see that many Clemson,
Speaker 3: of course, is always going to pack a great defense there,
Speaker 3: and there'll be other teams that'll give you a great look.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if Lowell's defense is as good as
Speaker 3: advertised and these really high level players continue to play
Speaker 3: at a high level, you know, Tyler Shuck may tell
Speaker 3: us at the end of the year that fall camp
Speaker 3: might have been some of the toughest toughest times for
Speaker 3: him as far as going up against a really really
Speaker 3: good defense, his own defense that you know, makes life
Speaker 3: a little lazy for you if you're a quarterback, right
Speaker 3: or the defense is great, you know, there's not as
Speaker 3: much pressure for you as the QB to go out
Speaker 3: there and just be you know, electric every night. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you can, it'd be great, but there's just not
Speaker 3: as much pressure there. It gives you a nice insurance policy, right, Right, You.
Speaker 5: Don't feel like you have to score every time you
Speaker 5: go out there.
Speaker 6: On the field because it's face that most times you're not.
Speaker 3: And Jeff's teams that Purdue felt like that, right, Like
Speaker 3: that's how in a Western Like if they didn't score
Speaker 3: every time, you felt like you were in trouble.
Speaker 6: Western still like that, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's true. Brand has has has been consistent, no doubt. Right.
Speaker 3: So with Kentucky, you know, they're playing a team from
Speaker 3: from the Sun Belt in Southern miss who has tradition
Speaker 3: and clearly has had some great teams you know historically,
Speaker 3: but they're really down expected to be one of the
Speaker 3: worst teams in their in their conference, and Kentucky is
Speaker 3: also big favorites here, a little bit of a step
Speaker 3: up from Austin p considering again, this is Southern Miss.
Speaker 3: But I mean, what could Kentucky put out there to
Speaker 3: where you feel like they would you know, be able
Speaker 3: to understand that it was level, that the result was
Speaker 3: based off level of competition, and that it's tough to
Speaker 3: really know, but like, what could be something they see
Speaker 3: to make them kind of feel like they're on track
Speaker 3: to where they want.
Speaker 6: To be a Southern myths beat them? And though was
Speaker 6: it twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah it was Shannon Dawson got canned by Mark
Speaker 3: Stoops and ended up calling the place for Southern I
Speaker 3: forgot about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and so but with that one, I think Southern Mississippi.
Speaker 5: Southern Miss is one of those teams is always tricky because,
Speaker 5: like you said, they do have great traditions, and they
Speaker 5: have teams here and there they can sneak up and
Speaker 5: get you like that team did in twenty sixteen. And
Speaker 5: so I would like, I want to see how good
Speaker 5: this quarterback really is and because you know he came
Speaker 5: in there laid against Kentucky last year when they played
Speaker 5: at Georgia, and so I really want to see how
Speaker 5: good Brandon griff is. And so again with them, it's
Speaker 5: can they move the ball? Because you know the defense
Speaker 5: is going to be there. Kentucky's defense is always.
Speaker 3: Going to be good, and they bring back more starters
Speaker 3: I think than anybody in the SEC on defense. Right.
Speaker 6: I was stunned when JJ Weaver came back.
Speaker 3: So he's one of those six year guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and one of the nicest kids you've ever made.
Speaker 1: I love JJ.
Speaker 5: And so they're going to be tough on defense. With Kentucky,
Speaker 5: it's always candy. Offense moved the ball in this face.
Speaker 5: I mean they've had a different offensive coordinator now what
Speaker 5: five years in a row, something crazy like that.
Speaker 6: So you want to see what this new offense is
Speaker 6: going to do.
Speaker 5: And be honest, it's Stoop gonna let the offense be
Speaker 5: the offense and be electric because I can Stoops prefers
Speaker 5: as to run the ball.
Speaker 6: Let's be honest.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's aroused if they win six to three, Kendrick.
Speaker 6: Right exactly, and so are they.
Speaker 5: Is he gonna let this offense turn loose if they
Speaker 5: have the opportunity, because they definitely have the playmakers on
Speaker 5: the outside with those receivers, So when we see that,
Speaker 5: that's always a big question with UK.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this guy may be a star, the play caller,
Speaker 3: the guy they brought in from Boise, But I'm going
Speaker 3: to tell you when you're in the sec and you
Speaker 3: can pay what Kentucky can pay, and Stoops has clearly
Speaker 3: put them in a much different situation than they were
Speaker 3: in prior to him. To me, that was the kind
Speaker 3: of higher that from an outsider's perspective and maybe a
Speaker 3: little bit of a hater on my end, that's the
Speaker 3: guy you hire so you can still control the offense.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's just the way I saw it, and.
Speaker 5: I feel that's kind of what it's been.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because they they've had teams like even last year.
Speaker 6: I mean they've got weapons.
Speaker 5: That's the craziest part about it.
Speaker 6: They do have weapons. There's no use of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those two receivers at any points if
Speaker 3: I mean again, it's all it's going to come down
Speaker 3: to their quarterback. You know, can can he get it done?
Speaker 3: Can he make throws? And I know they had drops
Speaker 3: last year and the hype was really unreal for both
Speaker 3: Danky and Barran Brown. And I've said it a few
Speaker 3: times during the summer. If those guys at any point
Speaker 3: go off and put together a performance against anybody that
Speaker 3: looks like it was, you know, one of the best
Speaker 3: wide receiver performances you'll see on a college football Saturday,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be surprised because I think both
Speaker 3: those guys are really, really talented.
Speaker 6: Of course, they had their best game of the season
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 3: Oh I know, I know, they came on late, they
Speaker 3: stopp dropping balls at uh at Elean and Cardinal Stadium.
Speaker 3: Just how, just how it's just the football gods torturing
Speaker 3: someone like myself. But uh yeah, that's thanks for reminding me, brother,
Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about your Cowboys. So obviously Ceedee
Speaker 3: Lamb gets paid and that needed to happen. I mean, goodness,
Speaker 3: gracious that guys.
Speaker 6: What's going to happen the whole time? Yeah, Dallas being.
Speaker 3: Dallas, Dallas being Dallas, well, Dak Prescott, Like I think
Speaker 3: Cowboys fans are so hot and cold on Dak, Like
Speaker 3: there's some that they're to support him for life and
Speaker 3: claim that you know, he's he's great and he's not bad. But,
Speaker 3: like I think the best way to describe dak situation
Speaker 3: with Dallas from an outsider's perspective, it just kind of
Speaker 3: seems like it's run its course. It's not to say
Speaker 3: that he's bad and then he's uncapable of being the guy.
Speaker 3: But it kind of feels like if it was gonna
Speaker 3: break through with him, it would have happened. But then again,
Speaker 3: you know, there's not that many quarterbacks out there that
Speaker 3: you know are better than him, right, he's not. He's
Speaker 3: in that weird tier for me, Kendrick, Like, he's not
Speaker 3: at the top tier, but he's better than most and
Speaker 3: that can get you paid, that can keep you around
Speaker 3: a long time. Because no, even Dallas wouldn't acknowledge this
Speaker 3: guy is as good as Mahomes or Alan or Lamar.
Speaker 3: But you know what, like he's he's better than you know,
Speaker 3: going and getting Jacoby Brisset, who's gonna start for the Patriots.
Speaker 3: So from a Dallas Cowboys fans perspective, like yourself, like
Speaker 3: what do you want to see them do here?
Speaker 5: With Dak, it's like I've been living the same It's
Speaker 5: like groundhol day when it comes to quarterback, because Dak
Speaker 5: is basically.
Speaker 6: Romo two point zero. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 5: The only difference is that Romo would show up in
Speaker 5: big games in the regular season, yeah, which Dak doesn't.
Speaker 2: Do that Dak.
Speaker 5: Dak is great against teams that are five hundred and below,
Speaker 5: but soon as they as soon as the bright lights
Speaker 5: come on against a big time opponent, that goes into
Speaker 5: a shell.
Speaker 6: But at least Romo in the regular season they would
Speaker 6: show up.
Speaker 5: I mean they had a fourteen to two season one
Speaker 5: year and then in the playoffs when Romo.
Speaker 6: Would go into a shell. So it's the same thing
Speaker 6: over and over again. That's great for fantasy football.
Speaker 5: But with DAK, I really and truly at this point,
Speaker 5: I'm good if they go ahead and it's like, you
Speaker 5: know what, we're gonna trade him. We're gonna pull a
Speaker 5: herschel Walker and trade him, get a whole.
Speaker 6: Bunch of draft picks and see what happens.
Speaker 2: Because I do.
Speaker 5: Think he is taking them as far as he's going
Speaker 5: to take He's not.
Speaker 6: I don't feel like he's going to take them to
Speaker 6: the super Bowl. But at this point, I just like
Speaker 6: to get to the NFC Championship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I hear you, and I just don't feel
Speaker 5: like he's the man. I've been out on him as
Speaker 5: far as that goes since for two years now when
Speaker 5: they lost at when they got hammered at San Francisco,
Speaker 5: that the next year when they didn't know the rule,
Speaker 5: I'm the snapping the ball rule, and so then last
Speaker 5: year when they got housed by Green Bay, I wasn't
Speaker 5: even surprised.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that's that's kind of what Dallas does.
Speaker 3: That's sad because like it was such a big game
Speaker 3: and you knew that they were good enough, but like
Speaker 3: when that played out the way that it did, you
Speaker 3: you probably sat there and it was sad. Kendrick just thinking, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is this is this is this is what I
Speaker 3: signed up for as a Cowboys fan. This is the
Speaker 3: way the football gods do us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's like that every time, especially when I
Speaker 5: hate when they're hyped up, like this year though, I
Speaker 5: have a little bit of because people are.
Speaker 6: Kind of downplaying them this year.
Speaker 5: They played better when they're we have low expectations because
Speaker 5: as soon as the.
Speaker 6: Slightest expectation comes, they Dallas.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for the first part of the season, I do
Speaker 5: think they can seek up aust some people. I love
Speaker 5: that they got Dalvin Cook hopefully still has a little
Speaker 5: bit of the tank. So they got them for nothing
Speaker 5: and they don't really have I mean, the only person
Speaker 5: really in front of them really Zeke, and so if
Speaker 5: he can't beat out Zeke for some carriers, then.
Speaker 6: We got problems.
Speaker 5: So I do like that they're flying under the radar
Speaker 5: a little bit and so maybe, but I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm out on McCarthy.
Speaker 3: I can't believe he got I can't believe he got
Speaker 3: another year.
Speaker 5: I can totally see them letting him play out this
Speaker 5: year as a lame duck, then making the big splash
Speaker 5: and hiring.
Speaker 6: Bill Belichick next year because that's what.
Speaker 1: That was does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be a big splash, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: All right. So we've been asking I've been asking the
Speaker 3: guests that have joined us this week on the show
Speaker 3: the same question as tailgating, because it's one of the
Speaker 3: best parts of college football. If Kendrick's going to be
Speaker 3: invited to the tailgate, but he has some requirements as
Speaker 3: far as what is provided at said tailgate. What are
Speaker 3: the three most important items to make sure we accommodate
Speaker 3: one Kendrick Haskins, right, And.
Speaker 5: You know, in this job, I couldn't even tell you
Speaker 5: last time, I just tailgated as a face because.
Speaker 6: Like, oh, you get to go to all the games.
Speaker 3: No, you're running, You're running the show. Now, tell Dusty
Speaker 3: to take care of it, man.
Speaker 6: Like even like he does, we still can't really call.
Speaker 6: I know, but the one point, I have to have
Speaker 6: some Indies wings.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 5: Indies wings are perfect for old tailgate. And you see,
Speaker 5: he saw my T shirt I posted on Twitter today.
Speaker 6: So it's a good brisket.
Speaker 5: Somebody else's got somebody if it's a noon game, somebody
Speaker 5: had to sit up all night the night before to
Speaker 5: make it and so and then I'm not a big
Speaker 5: beer drinker anymore, So good a nice bourbon couldn't be anything.
Speaker 5: It could be just like some O foe and I'd
Speaker 5: be good.
Speaker 3: I like it. Indies wings and a brisket that sounds
Speaker 3: like a hell of a tailgate. So again, if you
Speaker 3: guys have those accommodations, you can. You can find Kendrick
Speaker 3: usually walking through the Cardinals Stadium parking lot to go
Speaker 3: to the press box and maybe he'll see what you
Speaker 3: got and you offer him. I would be willing to
Speaker 3: bet he wouldn't turn it down. I mean, I can't
Speaker 3: speak for.
Speaker 5: Him, but I have to do a live shot. I
Speaker 5: would do it at your tailgate.
Speaker 3: There you go. You heard it here, folks. Good stuff, Kendrick.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 3: We'll see you soon, all right, oh man, I'll see
Speaker 3: you alrighty. Take care. That's Kendrick Haskins Way three sports
Speaker 3: good stuff as always with our man, Kendrick. Quick break,
Speaker 3: we'll come back. Keep this thing rolling along right here
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Speaker 3: company manage on all on alongside today, and I have
Speaker 3: some medical conditions. They aren't like super serious, but I
Speaker 3: have I have what's called I believe we double check
Speaker 3: here so sound as dumb. Yeah, I have two autoimmune diseases.
Speaker 3: Do you know what autoimmune diseases are, John, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what they are. I'm where they exist, though.
Speaker 3: It is something that will be with you forever, like
Speaker 3: and you know you can sometimes it might be bad,
Speaker 3: sometimes it might flair. No, it just happens. It just happens.
Speaker 3: So and it's something that like no matter what you know,
Speaker 3: if you test, you're gonna you're gonna have it. So
Speaker 3: I have, Uh, I'll start with the one that's doesn't
Speaker 3: sound as gross. I have psoriasis. And that's like like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of different forms of that and some
Speaker 3: people have it here and there, like I have it
Speaker 3: to where I have to take a shot every single
Speaker 3: every every other Monday morning, I take an injection of
Speaker 3: a medicine because if I don't, my body will literally
Speaker 3: look deformed. And I'm not I'm not exaggerating. I think
Speaker 3: I've shown you when I had it bad. It's I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm not exaggerating, right, Like, it's it's really really bad.
Speaker 3: So I have to do that and I'll have to
Speaker 3: do that for the rest of my life. And it sucks,
Speaker 3: But you know, I don't I look at it as
Speaker 3: a as a and there's a reason I'm getting all this.
Speaker 3: But I look at it as like, hey, I'm glad
Speaker 3: I found something because I didn't know what I had
Speaker 3: for a while or how I was gonna treat it,
Speaker 3: and now I have this medicine, and uh, I gotta
Speaker 3: get blood work done every couple months to make sure
Speaker 3: it's not, you know, giving me cancer, no joke, like
Speaker 3: that's why. That's that's why I have to get blood
Speaker 3: work done because that's what the The medicine is pretty
Speaker 3: serious stuff, but it helps me. So anyways, that's not
Speaker 3: something I like, but you know, it's life and I
Speaker 3: can treat it and I'm good. The other one that
Speaker 3: I have, same situation. I have to take medicine every
Speaker 3: single day and if I do, I'm usually good. But
Speaker 3: if not, like I'm gonna be in a lot of pain.
Speaker 3: And it's called gout and gout is a gross word,
Speaker 3: right like gout. If you don't know what gout is,
Speaker 3: and you tell somebody you have gout, they're going to
Speaker 3: back up like you're about to give them a deadly disease,
Speaker 3: and you're if you're carrying something. Then when we found
Speaker 3: out what COVID nineteen was like, gout is just a
Speaker 3: gross word. And if you have it, and you if
Speaker 3: you've had it before you know somebody that has one,
Speaker 3: you know how painful it can be. And also like
Speaker 3: you understand that, you know it's a serious thing, and
Speaker 3: you don't mean it's still a gross word.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: I remember telling people like, oh, I got gout, And
Speaker 3: I found that I had gout when I was like
Speaker 3: thirty years old, which is pretty young, I think, and
Speaker 3: they did blood work and did a bunch of you
Speaker 3: know tests, and like, now I gotta I gotta be medicated.
Speaker 3: But I remember, you know, telling a lot of it
Speaker 3: because a lot of people who have gout are holed.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a form of form of arthritis. So
Speaker 3: like when I was telling other people my age, I
Speaker 3: have gout, they don't know what it is. They don't
Speaker 3: know if I'm talking about like a deadly disease that
Speaker 3: they're gonna get or an STD like I don't know
Speaker 3: what it was. They just knew it sounded gross and
Speaker 3: they thought, Nick, you better get the hell away from me.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is, but keep your distance. Well,
Speaker 3: it's not it's not contagious. So I've always been insecure
Speaker 3: about the gout because one, it's something unhealthy old people get,
Speaker 3: and I'm not that old. I'm not an old man
Speaker 3: and I'm not unhealthy.
Speaker 2: I like here, and you call it the gout, so
Speaker 2: just gout.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the gau little I got it, I
Speaker 3: mean because I got it, so you know, Uh, I
Speaker 3: take medicine every day and I'm great, but I've always
Speaker 3: been insecure about those health issues because I'm a pretty
Speaker 3: healthy person. But I have two auto imune diseases that
Speaker 3: I will have for the rest of my life and
Speaker 3: I'll have to take care of and medicate and I'll
Speaker 3: be okay, and that's fine, but it was you know,
Speaker 3: when I had when I got and I got both
Speaker 3: of them at the same time, which, by the way,
Speaker 3: I don't know my doctor is full of crap or not.
Speaker 3: But when you get if you have one autoimmune disease,
Speaker 3: there's a good chance you're gonna have two just because
Speaker 3: of your body. So my immune system is really really
Speaker 3: weak because of the medicine that I take for the psoriasis,
Speaker 3: with the injections to here like like my body like luckily,
Speaker 3: I stay pretty healthy, but I don't have a good
Speaker 3: immune system when it comes to getting sick and stuff.
Speaker 3: So anyway, the reason I bring this up is because
Speaker 3: I finally think I have heard of a disease conditions
Speaker 3: sickness that I don't know what it is or how
Speaker 3: serious it is, but it sounds worse than galth. Can
Speaker 3: I tell you what this is? Tell me sloth fever,
Speaker 3: sloth fever. There is sloth fever detected in Jefferson County.
Speaker 3: It's called the Oropochi virus, but slow fever is what
Speaker 3: is is what it is referred to. And I I
Speaker 3: heard this yesterday from the one and the Only, Paul Miles,
Speaker 3: the hardest working man in show business, on news radio
Speaker 3: eight forty WHS. Because it is newsworthy that the first
Speaker 3: case of sloth fever has been reported in Jefferson County.
Speaker 3: Wolf Metro Department of Health and Wellness announced on Wednesday
Speaker 3: that a Jefferson County resident was diagnosed with the virus.
Speaker 3: Health officials said that the person has recently traveled with Cuba.
Speaker 3: They said the infected person had mild symptoms and is recovering.
Speaker 3: So if you're asking what this is, it's a arthropod
Speaker 3: born virus primarily transmitted to humans through the bite of
Speaker 3: of infected insects called midges. It can also be transmitted
Speaker 3: through mosquitoes, although that is less common. Symptoms are fever, headache, chills,
Speaker 3: body aches, joint pain. So this virus has been reported
Speaker 3: in parts of Southern America, South America, Central America and
Speaker 3: the Caribbean, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, Columbia, and also Cuba,
Speaker 3: and apparently there are eight thousand cases this year, which
Speaker 3: is very high. Like it's a very rare thing that
Speaker 3: has now become a little bit more common. And there
Speaker 3: have been a handful of cases in the United States,
Speaker 3: and I mean literally very few, and one of them
Speaker 3: is in fact here in Jefferson County. So yeah, only
Speaker 3: twenty one currently have been diagnosed with this in America
Speaker 3: and they all have come from being in either Cuba
Speaker 3: or Brazil, and one of them is right here in
Speaker 3: Jefferson County.
Speaker 4: So is this something that's supposed to be contagious. I
Speaker 4: feel like if it were, it'd be a lot more
Speaker 4: widespread than what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't, say I mean, let me just do
Speaker 3: a little quick, such a quick little Yeah, I don't,
Speaker 3: it's not doesn't there's nothing in this rite up about
Speaker 3: it that says that it's that it's contagious. But let's
Speaker 3: see what a quick is sloth fever contagious. Humans are
Speaker 3: have been have become infected while visiting forested areas and
Speaker 3: are believed to be responsible for helping the virus make
Speaker 3: its way to towns and cities. But person a person
Speaker 3: transmission hasn't been documented, so it's just you get it
Speaker 3: from bugs and insects, those damn bud Yeah, so like
Speaker 3: they brought it back, but like they're not going to
Speaker 3: spread it. So I guess that's it's not as alarming.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you go to CBS News right now, one
Speaker 3: of their top stories from yesterday is what is slow fever?
Speaker 3: Because it's now spreading in America? So when I look
Speaker 3: at the symptoms, here, let's see if I can I
Speaker 3: just read them. Here we go the symptoms of sloth
Speaker 3: fever fever, headache, chills, body aches, and joint pain. I'm biased.
Speaker 3: I think telling somebody you have slow fever sounds worse
Speaker 3: than telling somebody you have goup, even if you don't
Speaker 3: know what either are. Saw fever sounds worse.
Speaker 4: Right if somebody told me I had sloth fever. I
Speaker 4: would think I have a chance in not making it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, I mean trust me when I'm not.
Speaker 2: Knowing what it is. I mean I know what it
Speaker 2: is now, obviously not knowing beforehand.
Speaker 3: Oh I my life flashed before my eyes. When my
Speaker 3: doctor told me I had gout. I thought, I guess,
Speaker 3: I guess that's it for me at thirty years old.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I had a good run. I had
Speaker 3: a good run, man three decades, and the gout got me.
Speaker 3: But I'm better now. So the symptoms are not bad.
Speaker 3: When you have gout flare up and if you know,
Speaker 3: you know you can't walk like you wake up throbbing pain.
Speaker 3: You have certain like to a touch of the skin
Speaker 3: where your gout flare up is like in your feet
Speaker 3: or your hands, your joints, because it's a form of arthritis.
Speaker 3: If you really want me to get technical, what it
Speaker 3: is is uric acid crystals build up inside your your
Speaker 3: joints and like to the touch, like you can't bend them.
Speaker 3: I went to the doctor thinking I broke my foot.
Speaker 3: Didn't have anything happened, but like, I guess somehow I
Speaker 3: broke my foot freak accident. Couldn't move couldn't walk, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, it was when we moved into our
Speaker 3: when when this happened, it was we were moving and
Speaker 3: I can't walk. I called into work. I took a
Speaker 3: day off the show, and uh, I felt like such
Speaker 3: a worthless piece of crab now because just A had
Speaker 3: goalp But I had people over my house helping move
Speaker 3: and I was just sitting around with a bum wheel,
Speaker 3: couldn't move because I had the gollup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd feel the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, I I thought I had a
Speaker 3: broken foot, and they did an X ray because usually
Speaker 3: somebody my age would not have gout. And then they like,
Speaker 3: do you drink a lot? And I'm like, what's a lot?
Speaker 3: You know what your what's your diet like? And I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's not great, but I don't eat a lot of
Speaker 3: red meat. So like red meat. It used to be
Speaker 3: called the King's disease because back in you know, many many,
Speaker 3: many many centuries ago, you would eat red meat and
Speaker 3: drink wine if you were like it used to be
Speaker 3: if you were fat. Back in the day, it meant
Speaker 3: you were balling. You had money because you could eat
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It was cool to be
Speaker 3: fat because it meant you were you were a king,
Speaker 3: and they used to call it the king's disease because
Speaker 3: it became known. Whenever, you know, they would just eat
Speaker 3: red wine and red meat and that's how you get it.
Speaker 3: So I was in my own head when that happened,
Speaker 3: because I thought like, man, how did this happen to me?
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm good now. But I do feel
Speaker 3: like I don't have to be as embarrassed to say
Speaker 3: gout because I at least I don't have to go
Speaker 3: say slow fever. But again, I'm just from the conditions.
Speaker 3: I can tell you slow fever. What are the symptoms here?
Speaker 3: It's it's not even as bad as a bad gout.
Speaker 3: Can you die from slow fever? Let's do a quick
Speaker 3: Google search. Wouldn't be on the internet if it wasn't true.
Speaker 3: It says here. Some patients suffer recurring symptoms, and one
Speaker 3: in twenty can suffer more severe symptoms like bleeding meningitis.
Speaker 3: It is rarely fatal, though there are recent reports of
Speaker 3: deaths and two healthy young people in Brazil. So that's
Speaker 3: enough to scare me to where I don't want to
Speaker 3: go to Brazil or Cuba and get sloth fever.
Speaker 2: What if you turned into a sloth, that'd be really wild.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I don't have a big brain upstairs,
Speaker 3: but like when I heard the report yesterday about sloth fever,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, all right, like are they going to turn
Speaker 3: into a sloth? I mean I can be the only
Speaker 3: one that thought that when I had But also I
Speaker 3: think you could say sloth fever and people would think
Speaker 3: you're making up a virus like it's but it's but
Speaker 3: it's a real thing, and it's you know, it's it's scary.
Speaker 3: Anyone else is really scary?
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: In in our neighborhood, or at least surrounding our neighborhood,
Speaker 3: there have been foxes that have gotten loose. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: And uh that happens every now and then in the
Speaker 3: rural area that is Bullet County, and there's a lot
Speaker 3: of open I mean, like Zonting is where I is
Speaker 3: where I live in that area, and I live in
Speaker 3: a neighborhood that isn't as rule, but you know the
Speaker 3: majority of that area back there is just you know,
Speaker 3: land and people who have houses. They have a house
Speaker 3: on a on a lot of land. So uh, the
Speaker 3: Facebook group for that area they've been people have been
Speaker 3: taking pictures of this fox. They've seen it in their backyard,
Speaker 3: they've seen it on their back deck, and it looks
Speaker 3: like it's possessed. And it turns out it has mange,
Speaker 3: which is like a skin disease that affects fo that
Speaker 3: affects is these kind of animals. It's I mean, it's
Speaker 3: I mean, they look so sad and like they look
Speaker 3: like they're zombies. They look like they're walking dead animals.
Speaker 3: It's so sad and really gross. But it reminded me
Speaker 3: of the main, Like the.
Speaker 2: Is it deer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like there's I guess it's the same. Yeah, mange
Speaker 3: like a main Have you ever seen that? Their eyes
Speaker 3: get green? They literally look like I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: I mean, to be honest with it scares the hell
Speaker 3: out of me just looking at these pictures of these
Speaker 3: deers that have mange, and uh, there's something there's another
Speaker 3: form of like something they get where they just they
Speaker 3: become infected to where they're just like it.
Speaker 2: Looks like their bodies just disappearing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like possessed. So stay safe out there, folks,
Speaker 3: And you know, if you have the sloth fever godspeed,
Speaker 3: well wishes. It sounds like if you just you know,
Speaker 3: rest up, you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: That's what slaws through, right, I guess.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know much about sloths, but you
Speaker 3: know I could, I could point went out if I
Speaker 3: saw one. Come on, now, people are giving me a
Speaker 3: hard time on the text line about slow fever, like
Speaker 3: I can't be the only one who hurts somebody on
Speaker 3: a new station reference sloth fever and for a minute,
Speaker 3: think it meant that somebody might turn into a sloth.
Speaker 3: I mean, is that the dumbest thing you've ever heard?
Speaker 3: I've said dumber today?
Speaker 2: Probably? Maybe?
Speaker 3: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna get into tonight's matchups in college football.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of great games, but I think John
Speaker 3: and I are on the same page as far as
Speaker 3: which game we want to wager around. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: that on the other side. It's Coffee and Company. Feel
Speaker 3: about Thorton right here on Sports Talk seven ninety so
Speaker 3: when it comes to tonight's slate of college football action,
Speaker 3: I mean, the one the only game that features two
Speaker 3: Power five Power four now opponents. Unless I'm just missing
Speaker 3: one is the Minnesota North Carolina game. I mean, obviously
Speaker 3: Rutgers plays, but they're playing Howard, NC State's playing an
Speaker 3: FCS team.
Speaker 2: You've got playing an FCS team, and.
Speaker 3: Colorado playing an FCS team. Although that game is intriguing
Speaker 3: obviously because of the Deon Sanders factor, but also because
Speaker 3: is it North Dakota State. Yes, they're usually pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: So they've beaten FBS teams before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Colorado favored about ten and a half. I'm
Speaker 3: not touching that game, but man, I think one of
Speaker 3: the sports books tweeted this out, or maybe it was
Speaker 3: just somebody who is heavily into the sports gambling space
Speaker 3: on Twitter that the app that is Twitter or I
Speaker 3: guess now X would melt if Colorado lost tonight, and man,
Speaker 3: I'm here for it. I don't see it happening, but man,
Speaker 3: wouldn't that be great?
Speaker 2: It would be awesome.
Speaker 3: So Carolina is favored on the road at Minnesota, and
Speaker 3: I don't get it. And this has nothing to do
Speaker 3: with me, just you know, acknowledging that the SECS or
Speaker 3: the ACC is not a good league and needs to
Speaker 3: be better. But like Minnesota is at home.
Speaker 2: PJ.
Speaker 3: Fleck did have a down year last year, but I
Speaker 3: just like Carolina. I mean, they're gonna be bad this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's let's start with Carolina here, because I
Speaker 3: mean Mac Brown him. I mean, there's been hype for
Speaker 3: Mac Brown every year he's been there, and he's never delivered,
Speaker 3: and he's had an NFL quarterback to work with, and
Speaker 3: they just never have broke through. And they occasionally will
Speaker 3: light up the scoreboard, look good offensively, but then they'll
Speaker 3: lose to teams. I just feel like, and this is
Speaker 3: somebody just basing it off of the times I've wagered
Speaker 3: on them, but also the results do back it up
Speaker 3: a little bit. Carolina has been like one of the
Speaker 3: most inconsistent teams I can think of in the last
Speaker 3: four or five years. I mean, they were eight and
Speaker 3: five last year, nine and five, the year before six
Speaker 3: and seven. The year before that they went eight and
Speaker 3: four during the COVID season. Year before that they were
Speaker 3: seven and six. So I mean, they're never terrible, but
Speaker 3: like this year they might be terrible. I mean, they're
Speaker 3: gonna have to replace Drake May. They brought in Max Johnson,
Speaker 3: who's been an LSU and at A and M and
Speaker 3: he wasn't good enough at either to keep the job.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I I don't get it, Like I.
Speaker 4: Don't know a ton about Minnesota either, but when I
Speaker 4: look at what they've got that they're gonna be playing
Speaker 4: QB Max Brosmere. He's a six year transfer from New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: He's formerly passing yards leader. Yeah, so I'm assuming they'll
Speaker 4: have a pretty good offense.
Speaker 3: I mean, just looking at Carolina, I mean, their momentum
Speaker 3: with mac Brown has kind of run its course. Like
Speaker 3: they had signed three straight top fifteen recruiting classes from
Speaker 3: twenty to twenty twenty two, and now the last two
Speaker 3: classes have fallen outside the top thirty and they did
Speaker 3: eight in the portal but nothing special. They do bring
Speaker 3: back an All American running back in Amori and Hampton,
Speaker 3: which is good, but other than that, I mean, I
Speaker 3: just don't see them being like I could see them
Speaker 3: having a big drop off this year. They ended up yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I think last year. Yeah, they lost three
Speaker 3: straight games by double digits to come to end the
Speaker 3: season last year. So they've got I mean, and again
Speaker 3: that's a year ago, but they don't have a lot
Speaker 3: of momentum here and the quarterback they brought in again,
Speaker 3: has never been good enough to keep a job at
Speaker 3: a Power five school. He's certainly not going to be
Speaker 3: Drake May. And you know the portal. I mean they
Speaker 3: brought in some dudes. I mean they brought in fact
Speaker 3: two quarterbacks. They can't play both of them. They've got
Speaker 3: the running back Darwin Barlow from USC but again he's
Speaker 3: gonna be playing behind their All American. I I it's
Speaker 3: not like Carolina's favored against an elite team because Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Just looking at this game earlier today, I knew they
Speaker 3: took a little bit of a step back last year
Speaker 3: with PJ Fleck in the Big Ten. I didn't realize
Speaker 3: that they really struggled that badly. I mean they ended
Speaker 3: up going with three and six in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: I think, so seven losses overall, they were six and seven,
Speaker 3: you know, three and six, Yeah, three and six in
Speaker 3: the Big Ten. So I just I think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be at home. They're gonna have some home field advantage.
Speaker 3: And maybe I'm wrong here, but I think if you
Speaker 3: are a four year quarterback, a veteran guy, and yeah,
Speaker 3: the FCS is not the Big Ten of the ACC
Speaker 3: or anything like that, but you know what you're doing.
Speaker 3: And I feel like they're gonna get better at quarterback
Speaker 3: this year with this guy, even though he is coming
Speaker 3: from the FCS level. So I mean, with it being
Speaker 3: now Carolina minus one and a half, I mean Minnesota
Speaker 3: money line is I mean, it sounds like a band,
Speaker 3: doesn't it. That's the move Minnesota money line. They're playing
Speaker 3: a night at uh maybe the Railroad. Yeah, the opening
Speaker 3: act of the Palace for a Grand Funk Railroad. Minnesota
Speaker 3: money line. So uh, I mean, you're the big ten guy.
Speaker 3: I know you're You're I mean, you're with me on
Speaker 3: this with Minnesota. We both came to this conclusion that
Speaker 3: we like Minnesota tonightout even talking through it until we
Speaker 3: got to the show today. But is it more so
Speaker 3: based off of Minnesota or more so based off of
Speaker 3: like Carolina. You just don't think they're good because for me,
Speaker 3: I can be honest with you, it's more about Carolina,
Speaker 3: And I agree with you.
Speaker 4: And I think maybe a lot of this is just
Speaker 4: assuming they'll maybe transition a little bit better from Drake
Speaker 4: May than maybe some might think. But I mean, and
Speaker 4: maybe they will, who knows, But these Week one games
Speaker 4: they could be tough. You don't know a lot about
Speaker 4: any of the teams, and you're really just basing it
Speaker 4: off of hypeen and potential.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and this Rutgers team, I'm sorry, not Rutgers, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: They return four or five starters on the offensive line.
Speaker 3: They have a new defensive coordinator, which they needed to
Speaker 3: because their defense took a really big, really big step
Speaker 3: back last year. And it is worth noting that the
Speaker 3: new DC for Minnesota PJ Flex guy is Corey Heatherman.
Speaker 3: Do you know that name?
Speaker 2: It sounds familiar, but I don't know where he's from.
Speaker 3: Signetti Coatentree, Okay, was the DC at James Madison from
Speaker 3: twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one when they made that
Speaker 3: awesome transition from FCS to FBS, and then the last
Speaker 3: two seasons he has been the linebackers coach at Rutgers.
Speaker 3: And hey, let me tell you this, if you're getting
Speaker 3: a big ten promotion working under Greg Ciano at Rutgers, who,
Speaker 3: by the way, I mean weird to prop up Rutgers,
Speaker 3: but Greg Ciano is a hell of a coach defensively,
Speaker 3: and I think him getting that job at Minnesota kind
Speaker 3: of speaks to the reputation that he probably has is
Speaker 3: at an up and coming defensive coordinator. So we're rolling
Speaker 3: with the Gophers tonight, Baby Golden Gophers. That's right, Minnesota.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it would be another bad look for the ACC,
Speaker 3: but who cares. I mean, like, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: make wagers based off my hope that the ACC one
Speaker 3: day isn't an embarrassing conference. I want to make money
Speaker 3: and that's where we're making money tonight, at least, you know,
Speaker 3: that's what I hope happens. All right to five o'clock
Speaker 3: hours coming up next, and I hope you guys will
Speaker 3: stick with us here because we're going to finish strong
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