Speaker 1: So there is roughly nine and a half minutes left
Speaker 1: here in the second quarter of this Sugar Bowl match
Speaker 1: up between Notre Dame and Georgia. Georgia up three to nothing.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: They are driving, in fact, they look to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're on the looks like the twenty five ish yard line,
Speaker 1: so they're probably yeah, third and seven now, so maybe
Speaker 1: if they don't get it here, they kick a field goal.
Speaker 2: Tied up.
Speaker 1: But this game, of course, was delayed twenty four hours
Speaker 1: because of the situation in New Orleans on New Year's
Speaker 1: Eve night, so weird. I mean, I think there's In fact,
Speaker 1: we had two people on the text line mentioned that
Speaker 1: they actually forgot that this game was even being played
Speaker 1: right now. So yeah, it's on if you want to
Speaker 1: tune in. I mean, I don't want to encourage you
Speaker 1: to leave this great experience that is Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour. This is where we shine.
Speaker 1: So maybe you can just have it on in the
Speaker 1: background and continue to listen. Or maybe you know you're
Speaker 1: driving home from work so you can't watch, so you're
Speaker 1: stuck with us, I mean you're not You probably have
Speaker 1: other options. In fact, I know you have other options,
Speaker 1: but this is the best option, at least in my opinion.
Speaker 1: All Right, so this winter weather that we are about
Speaker 1: to get, that has every rush into the store to
Speaker 1: get the bread, the milk, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I think I've realized, No, I don't really even pay
Speaker 1: attention to what they're predicting anymore. And this isn't not
Speaker 1: trust me, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna start off
Speaker 1: the year at the you know, our first five o'clock
Speaker 1: segment on a Thursday in twenty twenty five taken a
Speaker 1: run at the meteorologist again because you know, do it,
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be worth it.
Speaker 2: But like they're wrong often right, and.
Speaker 1: Clearly it's a tough it's a tough tough thing to
Speaker 1: be super accurate because you know, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: any perfect meteorologists out there, So this isn't really about them.
Speaker 2: But I just know because of.
Speaker 1: The recent years of the build up and really nothing happen.
Speaker 1: And for those who don't know my whole take on this,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that that they are programmed and led
Speaker 1: by program directors meeting meteorologists to try to scare you,
Speaker 1: to really hype up something that they don't believe is
Speaker 1: a legitimate storm because they know if you're scared and
Speaker 1: you're worried, you're going to be more likely to tune
Speaker 1: in and tuning into their product, their news.
Speaker 2: That is good for them.
Speaker 1: So, like, I know, all that is like a lot
Speaker 1: of people believe that I happen to think that there's
Speaker 1: enough integrity and ethics within that industry to where you
Speaker 1: wouldn't you wouldn't frighten people intentionally or mislead them in
Speaker 1: a big way just because you think that they're going
Speaker 1: to be tuning in more. Now, I also think that
Speaker 1: there's at least a little level of it is that
Speaker 1: that happens just because you know it is a business,
Speaker 1: like believe it or not, the more you tune in
Speaker 1: because you're worried about whether, the better it is for
Speaker 1: those stations. Now, again, I think you can kind of
Speaker 1: know the game you're in, but also have enough integrity
Speaker 1: to where you're not going to go above and beyond
Speaker 1: or like really just lie because you think people being
Speaker 1: scared and wanting to be tuned in will help you.
Speaker 1: So what I'm getting at is if they end up
Speaker 1: being way wrong and we were expected to get six
Speaker 1: inches of snow or a foot of snow and we
Speaker 1: got nothing. They clearly get you know, get criticized by
Speaker 1: viewers like myself because you know, why did you tell us?
Speaker 1: Like how could you be that wrong? But I think
Speaker 1: the ultimate like where they got to be held accountable
Speaker 1: and there's something done about it at whatever level it.
Speaker 1: You know, you would do something like about it at
Speaker 1: the end of the day if weather wasn't really bad
Speaker 1: and it wasn't dangerous and everybody's safe and we didn't
Speaker 1: lose electricity and freeze our ass off because everything turned
Speaker 1: to ice at.
Speaker 2: The end of the day, that's good news that that's
Speaker 2: a good result.
Speaker 1: So like them being wrong is a good thing if
Speaker 1: that makes sense to where like they can you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if they're there's always
Speaker 1: going to be that crutch for them that hey, they
Speaker 1: were wrong. But man, it's because of this and that,
Speaker 1: and we just you know, we just take them at.
Speaker 2: Their word for it. So I think we've hit again.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here, but I feel like the
Speaker 1: threat that we're under here in the state of Kentucky
Speaker 1: Louisville of course as well in these next few days,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like it's pretty crazy to see what
Speaker 1: they are expecting. But I'm just somebody that now at
Speaker 1: this point, I'm not even going to be keeping up
Speaker 1: with it. I'll just see what happens and i'll make
Speaker 1: you know, I'll make the necessary adjustments I have to
Speaker 1: make as far as like my schedule with my kids
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff. But I did just get
Speaker 1: an update. In fact, we all got emails here at
Speaker 1: iHeart from Nathan Nelson, one of our vps of programming,
Speaker 1: and he's given us I guess you know the lowdown
Speaker 1: as far as what's expected from now until Sunday, which
Speaker 1: apparently Sunday is when it's going to be really really bad.
Speaker 1: It looks like tomorrow it'll be it'll be pretty cold,
Speaker 1: but you know, nothing as far as snow, at least
Speaker 1: that I can tell. Saturday really cold, but I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna get any precipitation. But Sunday is when
Speaker 1: the main storm is set to arrive. And here's what
Speaker 1: is projected according to our news partners at Wokhy. Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: snow and freezing rain develops west to east. The further
Speaker 1: north you go, it'll be mainly snow. The further south
Speaker 1: you go, it's going to be mainly rain, it says
Speaker 1: here Sunday afternoon, it's going to be snow, sleet, and
Speaker 1: freezing rain, and it's going to increase the intensity.
Speaker 2: The intensity will.
Speaker 1: Increase as well as the coverage of where this sleet,
Speaker 1: snow and freezing rain is going to hit. Looks like
Speaker 1: the heaviest is expected to be, of course, the northern
Speaker 1: part of this state, and it sounds like southern Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's going to be mostly just rain, which isn't fun.
Speaker 1: But clearly you're not gonna have to worry as much
Speaker 1: about it inconveniencing you if it's just rain. But Sunday
Speaker 1: night looks like there's going to be a heavy amount
Speaker 1: of freezing rain and then it turns to sleet and snow,
Speaker 1: and this is where it could be pretty significant if
Speaker 1: we get ice on the power lines and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So maybe they're right and this is a
Speaker 1: big time disastrous type of storm. But I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: sit I'm not saying they're going to be wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: not predicting that this is another one of those everybody
Speaker 1: was worried about losing power and not being able to
Speaker 1: get out of their house for a week and it's
Speaker 1: nothing like maybe it is, maybe it's not. I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but I just don't really have the energy to, you know,
Speaker 1: to to to use two three days now to just
Speaker 1: expect some big inconvenience of weather to come our way whenever.
Speaker 1: I feel like, more often than not, it's either not
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen at all, or it's nowhere near as
Speaker 1: bad as they sometimes believe that it could be. So
Speaker 1: make arrangements, I guess, if you want. But I'm somebody
Speaker 1: that's just gonna wait and see what ends up what
Speaker 1: ends up happening. I feel like we haven't gotten like
Speaker 1: a real big snow storm in a long time.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, it's been a few maybe at least since
Speaker 3: about two Christmas is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had a couple of years. The last I
Speaker 1: think last year was really mild as far as snow
Speaker 1: and all that. But the year before that, I remember
Speaker 1: we got some really really cold temperatures and some snow,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't like we had an enormous amount of it.
Speaker 1: It just it was so cold that you know, I remember,
Speaker 1: my driveway is a big hill and we've been there.
Speaker 1: I guess this is our third winner now, and I
Speaker 1: know two years ago there was I mean, there was
Speaker 1: about a week I think to where it never got
Speaker 1: above like twenty degrees. I feel like, yeah, and that
Speaker 1: led to where I could not get up my driveway
Speaker 1: until it finally got Oh that's brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't fun.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think I ruined some tires just trying
Speaker 1: to trying to be a tough guy, just trying to
Speaker 1: get up there, and it didn't work out, and I
Speaker 1: learned to learn the hard way when it comes.
Speaker 3: To I just hate driving during the when it's all
Speaker 3: icy and and well, don't get me wrong, I do
Speaker 3: like the nice calmness that snow brings, especially if you're
Speaker 3: sitting out there washing it or if you're just watching
Speaker 3: it and then like it's falling gracefully and it's like
Speaker 3: a soft snow. But the days that are after that
Speaker 3: and then it just starts to get all like brown
Speaker 3: and melted, and then it's all slushy and gross. That's
Speaker 3: what I can't stand. And for whatever reason, some of
Speaker 3: the roads don't seem to be treated. That's what I hate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've always and I think there used
Speaker 1: to be more people at least that I you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is still the case. But I think
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who don't like the
Speaker 1: winter and don't like cold weather, and like, I totally
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: I'm in the minority.
Speaker 1: I don't mind winter, and I think this time of
Speaker 1: the year is you know, not only just because the holidays.
Speaker 2: But I'm just a.
Speaker 1: Weirdo to where I really enjoy the cold months. When
Speaker 1: it gets dark early, it's what, it's nightmare fuel for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, but I just tend to like it.
Speaker 1: I don't really know why, but again it's just I
Speaker 1: guess I'm just.
Speaker 2: A weird though.
Speaker 4: I'll take this over sweating my ass off, you will any.
Speaker 2: Day save here, like I don't. I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: really like the summer.
Speaker 1: There's awesome stuff that comes with the summer, yeah, but
Speaker 1: like heat, humidity, like I just and it's such a
Speaker 1: downtime for sports for me. So like I just, I'm
Speaker 1: not as big on the summer as a lot of people.
Speaker 1: But if it's gonna be cold, which we're gonna get
Speaker 1: cold winters around here, maybe sometimes it'll be a little
Speaker 1: bit more mild, Maybe some years it's gonna be arctic.
Speaker 1: But I'm of the I just if we're gonna get
Speaker 1: cold weather, let's let's get snow. Like I've always had
Speaker 1: the mindset of that. I mean, if it an't if
Speaker 1: it if it inconveniences people in their livelihood, like if
Speaker 1: you know, if it keeps you from being able to
Speaker 1: go to work and you lose money, then that's one thing.
Speaker 1: If your kids miss school because of it, and that
Speaker 1: inconveniences you like, I get all that, but the only
Speaker 1: thing that sucks when we do get the snow is
Speaker 1: one how roads can be really bad, but also man
Speaker 1: whenever it's like a slow melt to where you briefly
Speaker 1: get above freezing, but then you know, it gets right
Speaker 1: back to freezing and you just got like the dirty
Speaker 1: snow that people have been walking in and then it refreezes.
Speaker 2: That's just gross.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I hate that.
Speaker 1: And it sounds like that maybe what is coming our
Speaker 1: way if if the predictions are correct to where we
Speaker 1: get a lot of it and you know it ends
Speaker 1: up being warm because it's gonna be right around freezing.
Speaker 1: It looks like on on I guess the weekend, but
Speaker 1: then I guess the real threat here is that by
Speaker 1: the time we get to late Sunday and on Monday,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever we get as far as snow, sleet, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so cold in certain areas that it's
Speaker 1: gonna freeze. And that's where you get into the real,
Speaker 1: real danger zone. But I've never personally been really impacted
Speaker 1: by a snowstorm to where I didn't have power, and that.
Speaker 2: That's really where it gets scary.
Speaker 1: Right if you're if you're snowed in, but you have
Speaker 1: electricity and you are warm, you're probably gonna get bored,
Speaker 1: maybe get stir crazy. But like I kind of like
Speaker 1: the thought of being snowed in. Yeah, it's kind of cozy,
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun, relaxing.
Speaker 4: Considering all the elements.
Speaker 3: You still have everything, and you're not just sitting there
Speaker 3: and can total darkness because you don't have electricity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where gets scary.
Speaker 1: So again, wherever you're located, I'm sure you're keeping up
Speaker 1: with it as well, and you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: That's kind of It's kind of where I'm at real quick,
Speaker 1: before we dive back in and start talking about the
Speaker 1: things we've been discussing this afternoon, obviously a big win
Speaker 1: for Louisville basketball last night. Great performance from this team,
Speaker 1: got a big commitment form Mikil Brown. We've also talked
Speaker 1: a lot of football. I do want to remind you
Speaker 1: of a feature on the iHeart Radio app that I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about. This is not relatively In fact,
Speaker 1: this has been around for a few years and I
Speaker 1: used to mention it every now and then, and then
Speaker 1: I kind of I don't know, I guess I forgot
Speaker 1: about it. But there are many of you that listen
Speaker 1: to this show on the ihet Radio app, and that's
Speaker 1: because you know, we and for those who don't realize,
Speaker 1: before streaming radio stations was a thing, I mean, it
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing, and iHeart made it made it a thing,
Speaker 1: which that's why the company used to be called clear Channel,
Speaker 1: and then once they created an app where you can
Speaker 1: stream live radio stations anywhere as long as you have
Speaker 1: some connectivity, it's kind of a big deal at that time,
Speaker 1: which is why there's still stations that aren't iHeart radio stations.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they pay Oheart Radio to have their station
Speaker 1: on the app because that's where people go to listen
Speaker 1: to live radio on their device. There's others out there
Speaker 1: that can give you the same thing, but I heeart
Speaker 1: is is the big stick, as they say. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who listen to iHeart Radio and
Speaker 1: when they listen to this show and be listening to KSR,
Speaker 1: maybe you listen to Tony and dwight On has But
Speaker 1: if you go to you if you pull open the
Speaker 1: app and I'm gonna do this, but I gotta turn
Speaker 1: my phone down because then.
Speaker 2: They'll be a really bad like delay because.
Speaker 1: Whatever I'm going to get from the app right now
Speaker 1: is going to be, gosh, no joke, probably two minutes
Speaker 1: behind what where we are live.
Speaker 2: That's just how it works with the stream.
Speaker 1: But right now again, if I pull it up here
Speaker 1: and I'm and I've got the app open, and it
Speaker 1: shows that I'm that I'm listening to Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1: At the top right, you've got the stop button that's
Speaker 1: black that you know, of course, you hit stop if
Speaker 1: you if you want to stop listening to us, which
Speaker 1: is funny, who would want to stop listening to us?
Speaker 1: But to the to the left of that black stop button,
Speaker 1: there's a red microphone button. If you click on that.
Speaker 1: What that does is it gives you the chance to
Speaker 1: You have to first open up access to your microphone
Speaker 1: from this app, which a lot of apps do that,
Speaker 1: then you can hit you Once you've allowed the app
Speaker 1: access to your microphone, you can then record whatever you want.
Speaker 1: Like let's say you want to call in, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to wait on hold, you want to call
Speaker 1: in and ask a question, you want to insult me,
Speaker 1: Like you know, this is just a way to interact
Speaker 1: with the show that like I kind of forgot about.
Speaker 1: But I would imagine as more and more each day
Speaker 1: we seem to kind of shift to the digital side,
Speaker 1: meaning if you're not in your car, you're probably listening
Speaker 1: to this live on the iHeartRadio app. You can be
Speaker 1: a part of the show by just clicking that button
Speaker 1: and recording your take, your question again, your insult, whatever
Speaker 1: you have. So I'm going to start mentioning that throughout
Speaker 1: early on here in twenty twenty five and not really
Speaker 1: sure what to expect, but maybe that becomes maybe not
Speaker 1: the most convenient.
Speaker 2: Way to be a part of the show.
Speaker 1: I'd still say our text line is is I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of riff raft that comes in, but
Speaker 1: it's also a pretty good resource to include interaction from
Speaker 1: the show. But this could be the same thing. This
Speaker 1: could be to where like, hey, we went to break
Speaker 1: and five people recorded something in the in the talkback
Speaker 1: of the app, and it's really cool. How I log
Speaker 1: into my system here at ihearten and anything you send
Speaker 1: is just right there.
Speaker 2: So have at it.
Speaker 1: Fire away again what I always say when it comes
Speaker 1: to calls and texts, questions, complaints, compliments, insults, whatever you've got,
Speaker 1: fire away And we can now include that in the
Speaker 1: talkback feature. All Right, we'll get back into the little
Speaker 1: basketball stuff here on the other side. And I haven't
Speaker 1: got to it yet, but I've been mentioning it. We
Speaker 1: certainly need to talk about the NFL MVP Award because
Speaker 1: I don't I just don't get the feel that Lamar
Speaker 1: is gonna win it. I think he should, and yes
Speaker 1: maybe I'm biased, but like, if he doesn't win it,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lose my mind because I know
Speaker 1: how this works. It's not because like people are plotting
Speaker 1: against him. It's just that you know, when you win
Speaker 1: it twice and you've set the bar as high as
Speaker 1: you have, even though you're having a really good year
Speaker 1: this year, maybe the best year ever. When it comes
Speaker 1: to stats, they're gonna want to give it to somebody
Speaker 1: who hasn't won it before. And I don't like that,
Speaker 1: but that's just the way it is. Kind of like
Speaker 1: the Heisman. Lamar could have won the Housmand twice, but
Speaker 1: you're never going to see somebody win that or twice.
Speaker 1: It's just not for right or wrong. It's just how
Speaker 1: it is, all right, quick break, keep a lock right
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Speaker 1: Day, so I mentioned the talkback feature that I was
Speaker 1: telling folks they could utilize if they want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the show and contribute.
Speaker 2: You don't have to call weight on hold.
Speaker 1: You can literally just use thirty seconds and give a take,
Speaker 1: ask a question, insult me if you'd like, maybe compliment me.
Speaker 2: Those those work as well. Probably not as good for
Speaker 2: the show, but it look nice today. Thank you appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean compliments. I'll probably just listen to them
Speaker 1: to to help my ego. I won't play them on
Speaker 1: the air because I know a lot of people wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to hear that. But I just did a little testing
Speaker 1: on my end with it, and it doesn't keep your numbers,
Speaker 1: so like this is a way for you to I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm in the back end accessing what comes in to
Speaker 1: this station and our other stations just from my log in,
Speaker 1: and there's no like, I don't it doesn't show your
Speaker 1: number or anything. It just all we know is that
Speaker 1: you know what you recorded came through and we can
Speaker 1: play it. So I hope it takes off because again,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people maybe don't want to
Speaker 1: call in and wait. Maybe they just don't like they
Speaker 1: maybe they don't have time, maybe they don't have maybey
Speaker 1: don't want to. But if you want, in fact, this
Speaker 1: could be the This could be a quicker way for you.
Speaker 1: If you're in your car and you're driving, and you
Speaker 1: know you shouldn't be texting and driving, so you won't
Speaker 1: text into the text line. You don't want to call in,
Speaker 1: so you just get out the app and hit that
Speaker 1: red button and you can record whatever you want, say
Speaker 1: whatever you want, and maybe it gets on the air.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's you know that. I think in a way,
Speaker 1: it could be one of the more convenient ways to
Speaker 1: uh in better ways to have interaction here on the show.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of ways for you guys to
Speaker 1: be a part of the show. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: mention that one as a as a new one, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know that this is the
Speaker 1: only way I think you could ever interact with us
Speaker 1: via your phone, and we don't have your phone number
Speaker 1: if you're worried about that, which I don't know why
Speaker 1: anybody would, but some people are kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: parade about that kind of stuff, all right. Currently in
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl, of course, the college football playoff game
Speaker 1: that was delayed until today, you've got the two minute warning,
Speaker 1: or it's the two minute warnings at the time.
Speaker 3: Out, so a two minute time out now the ten
Speaker 3: minute warning is owned by the NFL.
Speaker 1: Oh, you can't call it that, right, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So it's tied at three. We're tied at three apiece
Speaker 1: here and Notre Dame is driving with the ball. Looks
Speaker 1: like they're about midfield I think, or released close to it.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Been a close game throughout, low scoring, and I would
Speaker 1: have I mean, if you're Notre Dame, you got to
Speaker 1: be feeling pretty good about where you are right now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you're not in the driver's seat. You could easily lose,
Speaker 1: and it could get you could get away from you.
Speaker 1: But two minutes left, you're just tied at three at
Speaker 1: three apiece. The quarterback, who, of course, is spilling in
Speaker 1: for the injured what's his name guy's been there forever,
Speaker 1: Carson Bell.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he's playing well and it's just not
Speaker 1: showing up on the scoreboard. But you've been able to
Speaker 1: kind of you know, I think if you're Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: the nightmare is that like the kid comes out and
Speaker 1: you know he's talented, or he wouldn't be playing at Georgia,
Speaker 1: but he becomes out make some early plays and he's
Speaker 1: dialed up and just really playing with confidence. That could
Speaker 1: have been a tough thing to deal with, but doesn't
Speaker 1: look like that's happened just yet.
Speaker 4: Laura Rutler joined the screens always always get.
Speaker 1: Shout out, Olwer rutleysh Yes, that's right, all right. So
Speaker 1: last night Louisville of course got to win against Carolina.
Speaker 1: And this one may not have the same value that
Speaker 1: other wins against previous Carolina teams would have, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Care at all.
Speaker 1: Louisville played really well, and I was so happy to
Speaker 1: see them win a game where they they couldn't get
Speaker 1: good looks from three to fall. If that's something you're
Speaker 1: still concerned about as a fan, Like Man, They're gonna
Speaker 1: shoot a lot of threes, but I just don't think
Speaker 1: they're that good of a three point shooting team. That's understandable.
Speaker 1: I just think the ceiling for this team is always
Speaker 1: going to be at as high as when they are
Speaker 1: taking a lot of threes, getting good looks and making
Speaker 1: you know, a good percentage of them. They didn't do
Speaker 1: that last night. They also were really bad at the
Speaker 1: free throw line, which you can't be and expect to
Speaker 1: win many games against good teams.
Speaker 2: But they were so.
Speaker 1: Good at every other aspect right They were hustling, they were,
Speaker 1: I mean, their attention to detail defensively was really noticeable.
Speaker 1: They had some sets in the half court, some action that, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was I wish they ran a little
Speaker 1: more of that in the half court, and they have
Speaker 1: certainly in recent weeks with all the injuries. But I
Speaker 1: feel like when they do dial up some stuff, man,
Speaker 1: especially early on when they got that bucket for Noah Waterman,
Speaker 1: there was another bucket around the rim that they missed Trex,
Speaker 1: So I guess it wasn't a bucket, but like they
Speaker 1: were doing some things just keeping the defense moving to
Speaker 1: where they weren't so easy to defend. When you are
Speaker 1: just even though you rely a lot on movement and
Speaker 1: motion for you to get those good looks that you
Speaker 1: believe or high percentage looks from three, when when you're
Speaker 1: getting those and you're just consistently not making them. Again,
Speaker 1: Louis was a twenty nine percent three point shooting team,
Speaker 1: So when they you know, they're always going to shoot
Speaker 1: a lot of them, but when they just get into
Speaker 1: where that's just what they're doing it, and it's so
Speaker 1: obvious that the only thing they're trying to do is
Speaker 1: get a good look from three and you're having an
Speaker 1: off night, you know what you've done. You've made the
Speaker 1: night pretty easy for your opponent to where they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well we'll keep letting them shoot. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: going to give them a ton of wide open looks,
Speaker 1: but man, if this is what they want to keep doing,
Speaker 1: it's working well for us, so let's keep it going.
Speaker 1: So last night, again, shots didn't fall. They need to
Speaker 1: be better at the free throw line, but they still
Speaker 1: won a thirteen points because they were so locked in
Speaker 1: in every other aspect. So I think it's one of
Speaker 1: the best wins for the Pat Kelsey era. Some would
Speaker 1: say it is the best win, certainly the best win
Speaker 1: at home. And they've got some momentum here to start
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, not only because of the victory, but
Speaker 1: also because they landed a five star commitment, not actually
Speaker 1: during the game. Apparently this happened long ago, in fact,
Speaker 1: over a month ago, but they made it public last night.
Speaker 1: Mickel Brown Junior a five star point guard, the number
Speaker 1: one point guard in the twenty twenty five class. He
Speaker 1: was in attendance and he let everybody know that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a little of a cardinal and he's
Speaker 1: going to play for Pat Kelcey, which is big news. Again,
Speaker 1: you're adding a point guard that, again is the best
Speaker 1: in the country at his position.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 1: Some guys are top ten, top five players and it
Speaker 1: just never materializes.
Speaker 2: That happens. We'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: I don't expect that to be the case with mckel
Speaker 1: brown Junior, but he's one of those guys that is
Speaker 1: so highly regarded, you can claim that, yeah, we should
Speaker 1: be getting a lot out of him, even though he's
Speaker 1: a freshman. He's the type of freshman that you can't
Speaker 1: like just slow play with this guy, right, Like, no
Speaker 1: doubt in my mind he's going to be handed the
Speaker 1: keys to run this team next year as he should. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe we end up learning that he's not as good
Speaker 1: as we thought.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: We can't control that and only time will tell. But
Speaker 1: it's a really good talented player that even if he
Speaker 1: is a one and done off his one year here,
Speaker 1: he's helping Louisville and they're a good team because of him.
Speaker 1: Then you know what that's gonna do. It's gonna give
Speaker 1: you a chance to get more of those guys. And
Speaker 1: you cannot live and die with just those guys like
Speaker 1: you used to be able to when you had CALLI
Speaker 1: Kentucky Duke did it for a little while, Bill self
Speaker 1: like you're still gonna you know, you need other components,
Speaker 1: But man, having a young talent like for example, Duke,
Speaker 1: I think right now has a perfect balance. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they'renna end up being champions this year because
Speaker 1: they've taken some losses, but Duke has really really talented freshmen,
Speaker 1: like really talented freshman and then they also have some
Speaker 1: glue guys that are veterans that have played a lot
Speaker 1: of college basketball that are fine with being the fifth
Speaker 1: best player because.
Speaker 2: They're at Duke.
Speaker 1: They're not at you know, Tulane anymore. So that's a
Speaker 1: good mix. I think that's a good formula. I don't
Speaker 1: know if louis is going to be getting. I mean, clearly,
Speaker 1: this is the first big commitment Louisvell's got under Pat Kelsey,
Speaker 1: and it's also the second highest rate to commit Louisvill's
Speaker 1: ever had. The highest is Smart o' samuel. So certainly
Speaker 1: this is a big time get for Louisville and it's
Speaker 1: going to help them next season. But what I also
Speaker 1: think it can do is I don't know enough about
Speaker 1: recruiting to know if Mickel Brown Junior is like a
Speaker 1: if he is if he is he a trendsetter.
Speaker 2: Is he a guy that.
Speaker 1: Other uncommitted players are going to see at Louisville and say, okay,
Speaker 1: I want to go follow him because this and we're
Speaker 1: talking about the second highest ranked commit ever again, the
Speaker 1: number seven player overall and the number one point guard.
Speaker 1: So it's rare to get a guy like this, even
Speaker 1: like in the Patino day. I mean, it's just it
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't happen that often. But he's the first guy
Speaker 1: to commit in this class in twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 1: he broke the ice here and again, I don't mean
Speaker 1: that this is that you should just expect to get
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys like this, because to be honest,
Speaker 1: there's not many guys like him.
Speaker 2: He's that special as far as.
Speaker 1: You know where he's ranked and what he's expected to
Speaker 1: do in probably his only year as a college basketball player.
Speaker 1: But getting one of these guys to commit to Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey when Pat Kelsey I think so far has done
Speaker 1: a good job when you consider the circumstances as far
Speaker 1: as the injuries and him just building a team from scratch.
Speaker 1: I think, again, only time will tell. But I said,
Speaker 1: I've said this here and there throughout the season, and
Speaker 1: I'll say it once more. I'm not worried right now
Speaker 1: about Louisville having a guy that is going to get
Speaker 1: a lot out of what he has to work with.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I feel like you're in
Speaker 1: you know, this guy's either going to win here. He's
Speaker 1: going to die trying. I just think that's how Pat
Speaker 1: Kelsey's wired. And I'll give Josh Hurt a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: That's a component that had way more value than I realized.
Speaker 1: I knew it would be great to get a guy
Speaker 1: who would, you know, eat, sleep, breathe nothing but Louisville
Speaker 1: basketball because they want to win that bad or that competitive.
Speaker 1: But Pat's never been at a place like this like
Speaker 1: this is He's probably oftentimes thinking, man, I cannot believe
Speaker 1: I've put myself in this position to be the basketball
Speaker 1: coach here. There's no way I'm gonna let this opportunity
Speaker 1: fizzle away. I'm gonna do everything I can to really
Speaker 1: maximize what this can be. So with that, you know,
Speaker 1: I think with Pat Kelsey the proof of concept to me,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing some sign of it. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is Pat Pat at Louisville.
Speaker 2: This is what is he?
Speaker 1: How many games in now? I mean Louisvell's played a
Speaker 1: total of fourteen games at this point and they have
Speaker 1: a nine to five record. So like, if you're still
Speaker 1: out there thinking that you know, and you're right, like
Speaker 1: the Jerry still out who knows how this will will
Speaker 1: end up working out three years from now, But I
Speaker 1: still think I've seen enough to feel like, Okay, we've
Speaker 1: got a pretty good coach. If he can get some
Speaker 1: good players in here, guys to fit what he wants
Speaker 1: to do, wants to do, and get talent that you
Speaker 1: know he didn't used to get it places like Winthrop
Speaker 1: and Charleston and mckel brown's a great example of that
Speaker 1: that I think, Look, this thing could really work out
Speaker 1: in a major way. So I don't know, I mean
Speaker 1: for mickel Brown to give you that commitment, and I
Speaker 1: know Adidas was a factor and helped out. I know
Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell helped out as well, and that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff matters. But for Pat to get get a kid
Speaker 1: like this to commit to him when he hasn't really
Speaker 1: even had the time to show if he's going to
Speaker 1: be able to make it work here, I think that's
Speaker 1: pretty telling to his ability to sell. And I always
Speaker 1: go back to Rob Cassidy of Rivals, who was on
Speaker 1: with us talking recruiting over the years. You know, he
Speaker 1: mentioned of all the guys in that mid major tier
Speaker 1: for Louisville, like, if you don't get a Scott True,
Speaker 1: if you don't get a you know, a big name
Speaker 1: and you got to go to the mid major ranks.
Speaker 2: There's some good.
Speaker 1: Coaches to work to pick from, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to Dusty May and Josh Shirtz and Pat Kelsey, who
Speaker 1: knows who the best coach of them is? I mean
Speaker 1: that I remember that. That was something that Rob said
Speaker 1: that you know, he thinks the world of Josh shirts
Speaker 1: and he thinks Dusty May already shown.
Speaker 2: He can be a really good coach.
Speaker 1: But he felt like Pat Kelsey, his personality and everything
Speaker 1: about him, would be able to maximize, like to really
Speaker 1: utilize what Louisville has to offer and go recruit at
Speaker 1: a really high level. And only one in this class
Speaker 1: right here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: But that's okay.
Speaker 1: If you only get one freshman and it's just him,
Speaker 1: and you get other good players from the portal and
Speaker 1: you bring back some guys that can return, I think
Speaker 1: you can have a pretty pretty damn good team. So
Speaker 1: that was big news last night. And this is a
Speaker 1: video that I guess is going to come out in
Speaker 1: the Louisville. So Louisville Basketball does the series on social
Speaker 1: media and they'll be putting one out. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it comes out later today. I'm trying to double
Speaker 1: check here to see when we can expect it. But
Speaker 1: Mickel Brown himself posted a clip from it, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a little documentary kind of thing behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: Well, see if I can find the clip here. Well,
Speaker 1: and I can't find it, but either way, actually here
Speaker 1: it is. But this is a call that mckail Brown
Speaker 1: made to Pat Kelsey, and I don't know if I'll
Speaker 1: just let you guys here for yourself.
Speaker 6: What's going on, coach, mike L?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 6: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Just got out of practice? What's hold up?
Speaker 6: Man? Like he just gave me.
Speaker 7: If I'm like got a loss for words, I'm like,
Speaker 7: my man, Mikel Brown, the most outside my wife and
Speaker 7: my children, maybe the most important person.
Speaker 6: In my world right there?
Speaker 7: Nothing much, coach. How you doing.
Speaker 8: I'm doing great. I'm doing great, living the dream. I'm
Speaker 8: the head coach one of the most story, tradition rich
Speaker 8: programs in the history of college basketball. I'm recruiting PG
Speaker 8: one Mikel Brown. That you know, if if the stars
Speaker 8: around aligning the right way and my dreams come true,
Speaker 8: I'm coaching. You know, I coached Chris Paul and Jeff
Speaker 8: te and Is Smith, and I'm if he talked he's
Speaker 8: the best point guard that I've ever coached, if I
Speaker 8: have the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: So there is a video that I'm sorry, I guess
Speaker 1: this is from. I'm sure Louisville will have some content
Speaker 1: in regards to it, because that's you know, they do
Speaker 1: a pretty good job of putting stuff out as far
Speaker 1: as videos. But it looks like he has a meaning.
Speaker 1: Mckail Brown has a YouTube channel, and I guess he's
Speaker 1: going to post something that was a little I guess
Speaker 1: a snippet of preview of his of his process here
Speaker 1: as he's decided to come to lois. It was actually
Speaker 1: pretty cool last night and not something I was used.
Speaker 2: To, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was nice because you can go to a postgame
Speaker 1: press conference with Pat Kelsey and and and hear him
Speaker 1: talk about a player that it's already signed. So, for
Speaker 1: those who understand how it works, if mickel Brown committed
Speaker 1: verbally last night on a visit but didn't sign, which
Speaker 1: he signed in November, by the way, Pat Kelsey wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to talk about him. So you know that
Speaker 1: was that was cool to hear him talk about not
Speaker 1: only how big it is to get a player this talented,
Speaker 1: but also to you know, talk about his game, tell
Speaker 1: us what we can expect, kind of what he likes
Speaker 1: about him other than of course, you know, he's really
Speaker 1: really talented.
Speaker 2: So this is this is a different video. This is
Speaker 2: from the Louisville side of it.
Speaker 1: The first clip I just played with something that I
Speaker 1: guess Michel Brown's camp is is producing. As far as
Speaker 1: the content, this is from the U of L side
Speaker 1: of it. As as Pat Kelsey got the call, uh
Speaker 1: and when he found out that that MIKEL Brown wanted
Speaker 1: to come play for him here at Louisville.
Speaker 6: How did you feel when you got the commitment call
Speaker 6: from Mike.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to call you to say that they
Speaker 7: keep it on the love between between the family and
Speaker 7: and and all of my my closet, my closet and
Speaker 7: loved ones and between you guys that that I'm coming.
Speaker 2: Hey, man, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 5: Michael P g One, stop it, stop.
Speaker 6: It, let's let's think and go.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 6: You just made the greatest decision of your young life.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: This is it's it's you. You just flipped it. You
Speaker 6: just flipped this whole stinking thing. Man, it's on. It's on.
Speaker 6: There's never, ever, ever, ever a doubt in my mind,
Speaker 6: but when you just said the words to me, it's on.
Speaker 5: It's on.
Speaker 7: It's on. Coach, you'll get to it.
Speaker 6: Hey, man, I'm so stinking excited. I'm so proud of you,
Speaker 6: just the way you and your family went about this process,
Speaker 6: the professionalism that you showed, the maturity you handled this
Speaker 6: whole thing like a grown man. And uh and and
Speaker 6: and we're going to a final four. We're gonna win
Speaker 6: a national championship.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is.
Speaker 6: Hey, is your mom and dad excited.
Speaker 5: Let's go let's excite, let's go.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 1: So again, they'll have I think that that that clip
Speaker 1: there is a part of a bigger video project that
Speaker 1: they'll put out at some point, and maybe it's already
Speaker 1: out now, I just haven't seen it. That was That
Speaker 1: was a snippet from it, and you could tell there's
Speaker 1: there's real excitement there. And that isn't something I would
Speaker 1: usually play on this show, and it usually isn't something
Speaker 1: that I would spend as much time talking about because
Speaker 1: I know recruiting just is a very niche thing. But
Speaker 1: you're talking about the second highest length kid to commit
Speaker 1: to Louisville and he did it for a coach that
Speaker 1: you know, did in fact take over a program that
Speaker 1: that had gone through two years. None of us ever
Speaker 1: thought possible. And I know so far, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you aren't pleased or satisfied with what you've seen so
Speaker 1: far with this team. But I mean, I think if
Speaker 1: you consider, you know, if you take context in the situation,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Louisville's the future is bright with Pat Kelsey.
Speaker 1: I could be totally wrong, and maybe there's just some
Speaker 1: wishful thinking there on my end, but I think when
Speaker 1: he is able to start bringing in the caliber player
Speaker 1: that you used to get at Louisville every year, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think sky's the limit. All Right, we have what
Speaker 1: the hell happened? I turn away from the game, Austin,
Speaker 1: and now we got we've got a thirteen to three
Speaker 1: lead for Notre Dame. It was three to three with
Speaker 1: two minutes left, and now it's thirteen to three.
Speaker 3: I well, Notre Day made a kick to field goal,
Speaker 3: then the on the en suing possession, there was a
Speaker 3: strip sack football right there like at the goal line,
Speaker 3: and Notre Dame punched it.
Speaker 2: In three points for Georgia at halftime.
Speaker 4: Getting out of control.
Speaker 1: Georgia loses and the only team remaining in the playoff
Speaker 1: from the SEC as a team that just got there
Speaker 1: this year that benefited from the refs not having the
Speaker 1: balls to call blatant targeting late in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Texas may win the National Championship, but we'll be able
Speaker 1: to sit back and say, yeah, you all need to
Speaker 1: humble yourself because this didn't play out in any way
Speaker 1: like you thought it would. And still the best league
Speaker 1: top to bottom in college football. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: ever going to change, meaning the SEC. But it's all
Speaker 1: about the separation that they believe they have between everybody else.
Speaker 1: It's just it's not real. It's something that it's a
Speaker 1: world they're living in on their own because it means more.
Speaker 1: I guess all right, finally I said you for the
Speaker 1: last segment, we'll talk about the NFL MVP. I think
Speaker 1: there's actually a guy that if I had to vote
Speaker 1: for who should win the MVA, and it wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be Lamar, it wouldn't be Joe Burrow. It wouldn't be
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. If be somebody else, I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: is on the other side, and we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at just this overall process of the NFL MVP, because
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be shocked if Lamar doesn't win it,
Speaker 1: and it you know, it's just because he set the
Speaker 1: bar so high that I think people are kind of
Speaker 1: just used to him doing what he's doing and they want,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got to go above and beyond, which
Speaker 1: I kind of think he has this year. But also
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's had a hell of a year and he
Speaker 1: hasn't won an MVP yet. Right quick break, don't go anywhere,
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Speaker 1: Day so at DraftKings, Josh Allen is the favorite currently
Speaker 1: to win the MVP. Minus three twenty is his odds,
Speaker 1: followed by Lamar Jackson at plus two twenty five, and
Speaker 1: then you got a pretty drop off Joe Burrow at
Speaker 1: plus eighteen hundred and Sequon Barkley at plus three thousand.
Speaker 1: I actually think prior to the slowdown right mid midway
Speaker 1: through December. He's not going to play in Week eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think Saqwan Barkley. If I was gonna give it
Speaker 1: to somebody, not lame Lamar Jackson, I would have given
Speaker 1: it to him. That's how that's how good of a
Speaker 1: year he's had. What's crazy, though, is that Barkley he
Speaker 1: won't win MVP, but like I think he still should
Speaker 1: be a I mean, he's got the fourth best odds,
Speaker 1: so clearly he's in the mix. But he also won't
Speaker 1: win Comeback Player of the Year, Right, that's got to
Speaker 1: go to Donald.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, well the Comeback Player of the Year. They've
Speaker 3: now changed it to where if you were just like
Speaker 3: a schleppie and not great all that year and you
Speaker 3: come back and have a great year, you had to
Speaker 3: have been injured the previous year.
Speaker 2: And that's not Donald, right, Yeah, no, that's not Donald.
Speaker 4: Well they changed it.
Speaker 3: I guess you can call it kind of like the
Speaker 3: Damar Hamblin thing, because Joe Flacco won it last year
Speaker 3: because he was just sitting on his couch for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks before he just came out and just
Speaker 3: started winning games and then over Damar Hamlin. So they
Speaker 3: just made it to where if you were injured before
Speaker 3: then that's what qualifies you. But does Sam Donald MVP talks.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's not going to happen. But who would
Speaker 3: have thought? Who would have thunked this thirteen weeks too?
Speaker 2: I know you are really big on McCarthy. Yes, have
Speaker 2: you seen?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it was a big topic on
Speaker 1: Cowherd today that they are apparently shopping him because they
Speaker 1: they just can't let Darnald.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's true. I'm not I'm not believing it.
Speaker 3: Why though, it's because there's they're gonna franchise Tag.
Speaker 1: It's truly a tough Sam darn It's truly a tough situation.
Speaker 1: But they could get real value because because McCarthy would
Speaker 1: be the best quarterback in this draft, maybe outside of
Speaker 1: one to two guys. Yeah, that's what everyone said so far,
Speaker 1: So you could get a whole lot of value there,
Speaker 1: and I mean it.
Speaker 2: The Vikings are in a great spot this year.
Speaker 1: They're having a hell of a season and for those
Speaker 1: who don't know, Austin's a Vikings fan, but they are
Speaker 1: in a really tough spot, meaning like what to do here?
Speaker 1: Because both if you can keep both in cool, but like,
Speaker 1: there's also a big risk that if if the rookie
Speaker 1: you draft it doesn't end up being close to as
Speaker 1: good as you thought, and and you've let Darnald get away,
Speaker 1: then you could you could you could be regretting it
Speaker 1: if if the rookie ends up being traded because you
Speaker 1: feel that Donald's the guy because of this season, and
Speaker 1: then you kind of see the other version of Donald
Speaker 1: that has been in the NFL much longer than the
Speaker 1: current version you have on the one year phenomenal run
Speaker 1: that he's having, and then who knows, McCarthy's a legend somewhere.
Speaker 2: Else like it. It really is a tough spot.
Speaker 1: But I get the sense that they realize they could
Speaker 1: get real value.
Speaker 2: And getting rid of one of them. They just got
Speaker 2: to pick, you know what I mean, And.
Speaker 3: Then you have two first round picks in the next
Speaker 3: year's draft. Then you could see what they do with that.
Speaker 3: But from just all the insights and everything now here,
Speaker 3: and I'm not an NFL inside or whatsoever. I'm just
Speaker 3: ring to me, thank you a slippy that listens to
Speaker 3: podcast and and kind of the insiders a talk over there.
Speaker 3: Donald does our JJ McCarthy is the guy. To that
Speaker 3: front office organization. However, this magic carpet ride that they're
Speaker 3: on with Sam Darnald, it would be it'd be just
Speaker 3: hard to go ahead and give them up. So you
Speaker 3: at least got to bring him back for one year.
Speaker 3: You don't want to kind of learn from the mistakes.
Speaker 2: Of itald one year deal.
Speaker 3: He is on a one year deal and he's on
Speaker 3: like ten million dollars, but you can franchise him, kind
Speaker 3: of let him name whatever he wants for forty million
Speaker 3: for next year because they are sixth in cap But
Speaker 3: at the same time, they just moved off of a terrible,
Speaker 3: terrible Kirk Cousins contract. And the thing to do now
Speaker 3: when the NFL is just have a rookie scale quarterback contract,
Speaker 3: and that's how you're.
Speaker 2: A That's what I'm gonna say that.
Speaker 1: That's what makes McCarthy more intriguing than people realize, is
Speaker 1: that they know they can play. They can get him
Speaker 1: cheap while he's a rookie, so or at least on
Speaker 1: his rookie deal. I should say, so, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what I would do. I think Donald he's balling out, yes,
Speaker 1: I mean he like he's I mean, he's somebody that
Speaker 1: was thrown into terrible situations when he got to the NFL,
Speaker 1: because that's what happens when you get drafted really early.
Speaker 1: And now he's with a great organization that is really
Speaker 1: in a good place just about everywhere else. And if
Speaker 1: he's not with Minnesota next year, he'll be making a
Speaker 1: lot of money somewhere. Yeah, I think I want the
Speaker 1: Colts to get him if he leaves.
Speaker 9: The Who's Sam Darnald, Yes, just because we're never gonna
Speaker 9: be bad enough to be or at least never gonna We're
Speaker 9: never gonna tank again, and we didn't even tank whenever
Speaker 9: we got the whatever pick it was to get Richardson,
Speaker 9: and he's already a bust.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Colts would be terrible. I mean,
Speaker 3: shann was an offensive coordinator. He could be a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 3: But that seems to be like the sentiment around the
Speaker 3: league with everything that's in Minnesota right now, Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 3: having Jordan Addison justin Jefferson, and that's a great spot
Speaker 3: to be if you're a quarterback, and that is quarterback rehabilitation.
Speaker 3: You also got to think, remember they signed Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: halfway through there. Daniel Jones is on the backup too,
Speaker 3: so it's it's Quarterbackabilitation University up there in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: With the way things went with the Colts this past
Speaker 1: weekend against the Giants, I mean, I'm now to the
Speaker 1: point where I won't really have much confidence in anything
Speaker 1: unless there's an overall change. Just the culture right now
Speaker 1: is so bad. I'm not a big Pat McAfee guy.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't dislike him. He's just not really
Speaker 1: my cup of tea. But I think he's actually been
Speaker 1: spot on with everything he said in regards to the
Speaker 1: way the Colts is. The way the Colts franchise is
Speaker 1: being run right now, just to I mean, not good
Speaker 1: by any means. But anyways, the NFL stuff that I
Speaker 1: wanted to get to with Lamar, I mean the reason
Speaker 1: I hate the NFL MVP and really the NBA, Like
Speaker 1: if you're truly gonna make it the most valuable player
Speaker 1: on a certain team, that's a different conversation, but that's
Speaker 1: there's no defined consistent criteria for the MVP award to
Speaker 1: where you can kind of just say, yeah, that guy,
Speaker 1: he was the best player. But you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give, and Darnold would be really deserving if
Speaker 1: Lamar wasn't already played better then he's played in his
Speaker 1: entire career, when he's already got two MVP trophies in
Speaker 1: his case. But we're out of time. Have a good night.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow, right here on Friday,