Louisville Football Postgame Show - SMU

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Louisville football game just ended, and it's now time
for you to react. It's the Louisville Football Postgame Show
presented by alex Ar White Lawyers, Sue Distracted Driver dot
Com on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
All right, good afternoon, and welcome in, Sue. The Louisville
Football postgame Show here on Sports Talk seven ninety, presented
by Alexar White Lawyers, Sue Distracted Driver dot Com. My
name is Nick Coffee, and if you guys would like
to join the show and react to what we just
what we just watched and what just happened. The result

(00:41):
Louisville losing thirty four to twenty seven to SMU. You
can do that. The number to give us a call
is five O two five seven one seventy nine hundred. Again,
five oh two five seven to one seventy nine hundred,
five O two five seven one seventy nine hundred. I'm
gonna say it one more time, five O two five

(01:01):
seven one seventy nine hundred. That way, at least you
can't say I didn't you know, tell you how you
can get ahold of us, because once I start, you know,
I guess bitching about what happened. You know, I'm the
only way for you to, I guess stop me from
doing that is probably just going to be for John
to tell me, Hey, such and such is on the line.
So that sucked. That sucked in a major way. And

(01:25):
I think at this point, I mean, you've played five games,
you've established an identity. You've really only played three games
against teams that you know matter, and what you did
in those first couple of weeks, even in real time,
we knew it was hard to know if you were
learning anything about your team because you know those come

(01:46):
that's not real competition. But since they've played teams we've
heard of, right two ACC teams and Notre Dame. The
identity of this team is that they're just not They're
not very good. They've got good players. I think Tyler
Shuck's a really good quarterback. Obviously, Isaac Brown has a
lot of potential. Corey Brooks is a stud, and there's

(02:07):
some guys on defense that I think from a talent
perspective are good and clearly have talent. And we've seen
them be really good here at Louisville, but not necessarily
this year, and it kind of feels like it's a
mess and before we kind of, I guess, dive in
and discuss, you know, what went wrong today. I mean,

(02:27):
any conversations that we're we've been having really for I
guess the off season up until I guess now. I mean,
any conversation about doing something substantial when it comes to
like an appearance in the college football playoff or going
to the ACC Championship game. Like, you're just wasting your time,

(02:47):
You're wasting your breath having those conversations. One, because even
if you did miraculously get a lot better, clean things
up and really, you know, just become a much better
football team, I mean, the odds are against you in
a major way at this point. But like even if
they weren't, Like even if you felt like this league
was going to be, you know, super balanced, to where

(03:12):
there's a lot of parody and everybody's losing games because
it's just that competitive. Even if that was the case,
which I don't think it's going to be, I'm not
sure it would matter for Louisville because they're a sloppy
football team. They're super disorganized on defense. Their offensive line
you know, isn't isn't good enough. I mean, you can
probably find worse offensive lines in college football. You certainly could,

(03:35):
but like they do, they don't do a good job
consistently with pass protection they hold. I mean really really
disappointing today, I mean really really really disappointing today as
Louisville loses thirty four to twenty seven to SMU, and
you know, just looking at the numbers here, I mean

(03:55):
four hundred and eighty one yards of offense for SMU,
I mean Louisville wasn't far behind at four hundred and
sixty one, you know, for penalties, I just I felt
like Louisville was penalized a lot more than SMU, but
each team had seven penalties apiece, and you know, SMU
was just better than Louisville. And that's that's kind of
that's a hard pill to swallow. I mean, that's today's

(04:16):
one of those days where, like I don't like last
week against Notre Dame, I felt, I truly felt like,
you know, you just made so many mistakes, meaning Louisville,
And yet if you just watch the game from start
to finish, objective viewers would tell you that Louisville was
a better team. They did so many things to hurt
themselves and they still could have won today. SMU was

(04:37):
just better and they shouldn't be. You know, maybe we
learned down the line that SMU is really really good
and they end up and by the way, every game
on their schedule the rest of the way, they're going
to be favored in. Like they may run the table
from here on out, and it will be because their elite.
It's just because the schedule has has has worked out
well for them. Now again, maybe we learned that they're
really good. But my point is this, like none of

(04:57):
that really matted. Like, let's just say SMU ends up
being really good. Let's say they win the ACC. Highly
doubt it, but let's just say they do. I would
still look back at this game and think how poorly
Louisville came out. They're flat, there's no juice. It's just
been it's just been off. Something has been off with
this team really all year. And you know, the emphasis

(05:20):
this week I think by just about everybody was to
just come out ready to play, play clean football and
not hurt yourself, don't don't make silly avoidable mistakes, you know,
and come ready to play and first possession of the game.
The defense was flat footed, flat overall, no juice, and

(05:40):
SMU's offense just made it look effortless. So really really
really disappointing results today. And I mean, before we get
to the phone lines here, I mean, I'm sure this
is probably not something. I mean, this is pretty obvious.
Maybe it doesn't need to be said, but I'll say
it anyway. This team right now is nowhere close to
the team that we know they can be, and they're

(06:01):
nowhere close to what expectations were. I mean, they're now
three and two on the year, one in one in
acc play, and they still have to play Clemson in Miami,
and Virginia is playing well right now, Like nothing would
really shock me as far as where this team goes

(06:21):
from here, because I think they've shown us five games in,
you're nearly halfway through your season, and you have an identity.
You're a sloppy football team. Your defense is disorganized and
poorly coached, and offensively, you certainly have some guys that
can make some plays. But I still feel like the
offense overall is is you know, I don't know I

(06:42):
talk for me to say they're a work in progress
when I see some of the big plays that are
made out there, but they weren't great today. They couldn't
get one yard to extend to drive, I mean against
SMU all right, five or two, five, seven, one seventy
nine hundred is the number. If you guys want to
jump in and join us on the phone lines, Let's
go to the phone lines and now and welcome in, Ben,
And how are you.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I'm not doing great, Nick, I'm pissed.

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I'm sick of it.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Man.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
The honey the ball, honeymoon's over and it's over. Man,
I just don't It's two weeks in a row that
the coaching has just I mean, it's been bad. I'm
straight up, and I love Jeff Brown, but it's been bad.
And fans just want to keep blaming the refs, like, dude,
what are you watching? Like the refs are losing these games.

(07:28):
We're losing these games. It's embarrassing the way that we
cry about refs every game. It's sickening, dude. And you know,
I went to the game today, Nick, and I'll be honest,
Attendants wasn't great. You know, it wasn't great, and and
a lot of that had to do was probably last week.
They dropped the ball last week, and you know you
asked them to come back, and man, we're just tired
of being mid. Because that's what we are right now. Nick,

(07:49):
We're just a mid program. We ain't good, we ain't bad,
We're just mid.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You know, do you think that we like, Uh, what
I'm struggling with right now is that, Yes, you're right,
Louisville is not a man I can't say they're a
good team. I'd say they're probably mean, They're not terrible,
but like they could lose to a lot of teams
with the way they've played up to this point. But
my question to you is, because this is what I'm
struggling with, Like I feel justified. I feel like I
can say they should be a lot better and it's

(08:14):
really disappointing. But maybe I'm wrong, Like maybe I just
had expectations for this team that weren't realistic.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
I don't know, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Mean, I mean, yeah, I don't know. If it's maybe
because there's a seven n il down sholde everywhere we
look at Hey, let's pay, let's go, let's go buy
some players, buy some players. Well, we've got a whole
offense through is I mean what three seniors and a
fifty year old quarterback. I mean, they're all they're all
up quit and we pay for them all, and you
know they're not producing any results. It's so so frustrating.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Nick.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
And and before I hang up, Nick, I just wanted
to ask you one thing, man, what the hell's going
on with your starting safety quitting on game day? I
ended up and listen Nick Weather show man.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
God, all right, thank you, thank you for the call.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Ben.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Look, I I'll say this, and there's lots of unpacked there.
I'll start with the officiating. And I wanted to wait
until later because yes, I mean for you to call
that a fumble on the on the field and then
go review it and say that it's undoubtedly a clear
you know, his his shin was down. I mean, I
think it's a very very questionable call it. To me,
it would be one of those things where if in fact,

(09:16):
you call it a fumble on the on the field,
the replay, which wouldn't give you enough evidence to say
that you need to overturn it. That's but maybe I'm biased,
but that's that's what I saw. But I didn't even
want to go to the officiating because of what Ben said, Like,
I don't think that matters today, Like clearly officiating, there's
been some real questionable calls that have been very impactful
and how some of these games have finished in the
last few weeks. But like put that aside. Even if

(09:39):
that wasn't the case, I think we can still look
at what we're seeing from this Louisville team and be
very underwhelmed. And you know, when it comes to the attendance,
I have no clue and I honestly don't really care.
Would be great if the place was packed today and
fans were there to you know, get loud, but like
I don't, I don't. That's not at all something I'm
going to to be thinking about when I look at

(10:01):
what Louisville could have done better to win. I mean, yeah,
it'd be great to have a full house, but like
that's not gonna that's I'm not going to give use
that as an excuse for this team to be playing
the way they are right now. And as far as
Devin Neil, again, like maybe we'll learn some specifics and
some details about what happened, but yeah, he he he,
he's no longer with the team, and it's because he
realized that, you know, if he plays one more game,

(10:22):
he's going to be out. He's going to be He's
gonna not gonna be out, but he's gonna be unable
to use a red shirt. And this is happening across
the country. He had some competition for his spot and
he wasn't playing as much, and you know, he decided, Okay,
you know, it's a job to This is a job
to a lot of these guys now, because what Devin
Neil can do. Unless I'm mistaken, I think he's only

(10:43):
played in three games. Therefore he's he's opted out. He's
going to be able to maintain this year of eligibility
and use it next year, and he could probably go
play elsewhere, and I don't know where that'll be. I
don't really think he's that good, to be honest with you,
but like he can go make money and somebody will
take him. So the timing was odd to hear that today.
I don't know if he actually left the team today
or if it was yesterday or this week, but yeah,

(11:04):
that that's happening right now in college football. It really is.
I mean that's not unusual at this day and age.
All right, let's go back to the pall lines. I
do want to let you guys know this, though, We're
going to try to get to Jeff Brohm's press conference
because I'm very eager to hear Jeff and hear what
he has to say, because you know, let's make no
mistake about it, Jeff Brohm's the head coach here and
this team is sloppy. They don't look well coached, and

(11:25):
that falls on him. He knows that, we all know that.
But these are going to be conversations that we haven't
really had in the Jeff bron era. Doesn't mean that,
you know, people are going to be calling for his head,
and if you are, I think you're you're a lunatic.
But that doesn't mean you can't criticize him. That doesn't
mean you can't say, hey, he's not doing a very
good job right now. And I'll say it, he's not
doing a very good job right now. All right, let's

(11:46):
go to Steve. Steve, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
How are you, ah Ben better?

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Nick?

Speaker 8 (11:52):
But I'm sure you're in the same boat.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
You're right, same boat.

Speaker 8 (11:56):
Okay, you know where do where do you start? I mean,
biggest problem the defense as a whole. But you know,
we're getting consistently burned in the back. We're not getting
any pressure at all on opposing quarterbacks. I can't remember

(12:17):
did we did we have a sack last week because
we didn't have one today. And you know, you're talking
about a potential All American at end. I know they're
double team, but that's not a reason.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yeah, he didn't have a tackle today. If you're talking
about Ashton, I mean, Ashton's been really quiet this year
and I think he gets held at times, and you're right,
he gets double teamed. But I think at this point
five games in the results of the results, he's just
not been a factor for this team very much.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Yeah, yeah, very questionable. But I think the real problem
is run English. I mean, there's no communication. There's all
kinds of mix ups, you name it, and that goes
back to the coche, to the coach, and he's got
to go. I mean, this is ridiculous. You're halfway through

(13:07):
the season with probably better talent than you had last year.
Although I know Riley's not in there, and I'm sure
that makes a difference, but you know, but okay, then
you go you go to offense. Big problem. There's the
old line. They're big, they're slow, which is and they're

(13:28):
not very powerful because you know, you're that big and
you can't get a yard on two tries. And I
realized probably a little more imagined to play would have helped.
Other than two off tackle attempts to get a first down.
You can't move anybody. You know, this club has some
serious problems. And you know it's you know, if they're lucky.

(13:52):
You know they're lucky they go eight in four.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, I mean, Steve, I appreciate the call. I mean
I I yeah, I agree, And I haven't even thought
about anything. I have not given any thought to any
type of record because I'm just at this point, like
you gotta really I don't want to go back to
the you know, go like start from scratch, but like
at this point, you are who you are, and I

(14:18):
it's I guess it's nice to know that some of
the issues that they have aren't really talent based. Now
some of them are. I mean, the old line, I
don't know how much better those guys are gonna get,
But the other issues defensively, I mean it again, it's
nice to know that, like you don't have to go
get new players to not have twelve guys running on
the field twice in the second half when the game's
on the line. But like, you've done that kind of

(14:40):
stuff enough this year to wear Hey, you look in
the mirror, that's who you are. We know it's fixable,
but you haven't fixed it. So you know, I they
can lose to Virginia next week on the road. I mean,
let's be real like, and I don't. I'm gonna try
my best to balance this and not make it sound
like I'm acting like this team's the worst team in
the world. They're gonna lose every game the rest of
the year. But like you can't really feel in any

(15:01):
game that you're going to be able to, you know,
comfortably win. I mean, you haven't won comfortably really against
anybody this year that that mattered. I mean, the only
team you've beat that that we've heard of is Georgia Tech.
And we all know that that game with you know,
two big plays went Louisville's way and that changed it all.
All right, let's go live to the Jeff Brown press
conference again. We'll go back to your phone calls once
once the press conference, ince fix it improve or.

Speaker 6 (15:23):
You can you know, pout about it and uh sault
can feel sorry for yourself. So we've got to look
in the mirror and uh get a better plan together,
uh so that we can start better, uh play better
in all three segments. That's what makes football, uh, you know,

(15:47):
team sport a tough game. You can either suck it
up and find ways to fix it improve or you
can you know, pout about it and uh sault can
feel sorry for yourself. So we've got to look in
the mirror and uh get a better plan together so
that we can start better play better in all three segments.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
It looks like there's some buffering going on here with
the with them is my mic on? Yeah, you're on,
You're good, okay. Yeah, So it seems as if this
press conference was pretty brief and less unless I'm wrong.
And by the way, I'm following this on Twitter just
like everybody else. I see someone has posted a video
of Tyler Shuck talking. I don't know if he talked
before Jeff. Usually that's not how it works, but I

(16:32):
mean it's we do we have it. John min'e still
buffering for whatever reason on Twitter. Yes, it's playing on
my end. But there it's rolling again. You want to
get let's go back to it. Yeah, well, hold on
one second.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
A consistent plan that doesn't have adjustments when they do
something different. Uh, and uh, that starts.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
With us, Jeff. You guys had that fourth and one
early on in the fourth quarter when the game was tied.
Did you consider kicking a field goal?

Speaker 10 (17:02):
There?

Speaker 9 (17:03):
Were you all gased that at that moment?

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Well, I wanted to get the touchdown. That falls on me.
We didn't get it. We've been bad the last two
games at fourth and one, So running up the middle
is not gonna be an option anymore, you know, throwing
the ball, getting on the edge, it's gonna be what's
going to have to happen because we can't get yards
pounding it up the middle. And that's disappointing, but that's

(17:26):
the fact of the matter is. So we've got to
be better as coaches to recognize that and have a
better plan because you know, we passed it on fourth
and one later and got a big, big game, and
if teams are going to sell out, we've got to
be more aggressive. Jeff, what are you.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Seeing from your offensive line right now? It looked like
they had trouble generating a push in the wrong game
and Tyler was under pressure a decent amount to the.

Speaker 6 (17:48):
Last two games have not been our best. We've struggled
at right tackle a little bit, and uh we've had
an injury today at left tackle that might be a
long one. So we've got some new guys in there,
and we've got to play better there now. With that said,
in order to balance that out, you know, it seems

(18:11):
like when we need to move the ball and throw it,
we've got to get the ball out quicker. We've got
to be able to mix in the run. We've got
to be able to do some different things to not
ask those guys to pass protect as much, because we
were not as sturdy these last two games as we
need to be.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
This weekend. Last week, teams have gotten off to fast
starts against you guys. Is there any one kind of thing,
I mean, you mentioned communication earlier, but is there is
there anything you're seeing that's allowing kind of your opponents
to get off to those fast starts.

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well, quite frankly, we need to coach better. I don't
think the uh the plan had too many adjustments for
different formations and empty sets. And some things like that,
and I don't get too much detail, but it needs
to be simpler, It needs to be sound and then
carried out. But it can't blame it all our players
that the plan needs to be better. That falls on

(19:10):
us and me. Uh So we've got to go to
work and make sure that you know, that part doesn't
happen again, because we have not gotten off the good
starts and it has been costly.

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Jeff, I want to word this correctly. Were you surprised
at the fumble reversal.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
And kind of play coverage behind it. Was there any
conversations about possibly up in the pressure, sending more of
a pressure package to kind of get Jenning's uncomfortable in
the backfield.

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Yeah, it was talked about all week and it wasn't
carried out. So we've got to, you know, call a
better game and make sure that we're way more aggressive
and that we have a consistent plan that doesn't have
a just when they do something different, and that starts
with us.

Speaker 9 (20:06):
Jeff, you guys had that fourth and one early on
in the fourth quarter when the game was tied, did
you consider kicking a field goal?

Speaker 7 (20:13):
There?

Speaker 9 (20:13):
Were you all gassed that at that moment, Well.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
I wanted to get the touchdown that falls on me.
We didn't get it. We've been bad the last two
games at fourth and one, So running up the middle
is not going to be an option anymore. You know,
throwing the ball, getting on the edge is going to
be what's going to have to happen because we can't
get yards pounding it up the middle, and that's disappointing,
but that's the fact of the matter is. So we've

(20:38):
got to be better, all right.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
So I'm not really sure words would have made anybody
feel any any better today, But yeah, some of the
things we were hearing from Jeff and not really sure
what he was asked, but either way, a lot from
what I could hear and from what you know I'm
seeing people sharing who are at the press conference. Certainly,
you know, coaching staff, broms making accountability for it, and

(21:01):
that doesn't really make anybody feel better. That's what you're
supposed to do. However, it's their job to fix it.
It's their job to have, you know, themselves not in
this position where they lose a game like this with
you know, sloppy play, poor coaching, you know, And I
will say I'm I'm very much a fan of coaches
that will just simply say what everybody knows is a fact. Yeah,

(21:24):
you're gonna have some coach speak that's kind of you know,
sprinkled in with that. But you know, he's right. They
can't just run the ball up the middle on fourth down.
They know that, and that's why that big pass play
on fourth down. I mean that that worked. Now, are
you gonna be able to do that consistently? I'm not sure,
But you know, I think Jeff's learned kind of the
hard way today what he has from a personnel standpoint,
and they don't have an offensive line that that is

(21:44):
very good. You know. Again, not to say that they're
they're terrible, but they're they're clearly the weakness of this offense.
There's no doubt about that. And you know, from a
defensive standpoint, I mean, I didn't I didn't hear a
whole lot of what he said in regards to the issues,
and again, words really aren't going to make anybody feel
any better they but what makes the most more frustrating

(22:06):
than anything when it comes to the defense is that
you know, they're just sloppy and they look unsure of
themselves at all times. They've made timely plays this year.
They even did so today, which tells me that you
got some dudes who can, who have some talent, And really,
I've never felt like talent was the issue. And I
feel like a fool. And I know I'm not the
only one, but during the conversation about Louisville this offseason

(22:29):
and leading into this year, was that you really didn't
think you were going to have to worry a whole
lot about the defense and their ability because of what
you brought back. And I know Quincy Riley's out and
he's a guy that you really need out there. And
Ashton Jelotte is a you know, all American caliber talent,
but he just hasn't been effective for you this year.
So defense is is a big issue, and it does

(22:50):
fall on Roun English. You know. I'm not here to
say that they should make a move right now, because
I'm not really sure what that accomplishes. But I will
also say that if in fact they did make some
kind of a move, I can't say I'd be shocked
given what we're seeing. I mean, I can't really put
into words without repeating myself over and over I'm trying
to find a new way to lay it out there,
to really articulate what I'm getting from this defense. But

(23:12):
they're just flat. They look around even before plays at times,
like they're unsure of themselves. When big plays happen, they
all look at each other kind of confused. I don't
see a ton of finger pointing, but they just don't
look like they're well organized and they're well prepared. And
that was evident today. That was clearly some of what
you heard there from Jeff so really disappointing. Is Louisville

(23:33):
falls today? Thirty four to twenty seven to SMU It
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(23:54):
are you hey?

Speaker 7 (23:56):
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Nick Man? I mean, that's that's just a game. They
like get it get away. I mean, it's always good
to be optimistic, but how many of those games are
we going to have where we say that. I mean,
we had him right there, so we have to have
that confidence going forward. I mean, I know, coming into
the game, we were a seven point six and a
half point favorite, so it's a game they expected us
to win. But I think the craziest thing that I
don't know. I've tuned in a little bit late, so

(24:17):
I don't know if you addressed it or not. But
I mean, obviously the fumble was a huge call. I mean,
if you slow it down, I mean, it did look
like his knee was down, so I can see where
they got that. But I think one of the biggest
players that they're not really talking about is I think
it was I want to say it was third down
when Tylas Schuck took out running to his right and
it looked like he was.

Speaker 11 (24:36):
Running in slow motion. Looked like he was running with
he was running with swimming flippers on. It was ten
yards away. Catches up to him. Sorry, Nick, I didn't
mean to interrupt you there. I heard you trying to
get back in, But I mean, I just don't know.
I mean when you're a seventh year quarterbacks, you have
to know where the first down marker is. And I
know he's not a running quarterback obviously, and but I

(24:57):
mean you have to get that first down. I mean,
at the end of the day, sm won the game
because they they had the best player on the field.
I mean, Kevin Jennings was far and away the best
player on the field. That dude is a baller. But
all right, Nick, I'm gonna hang up and listen, buddy,
love the show.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Thank you, I appreciate it. Cody. Yeah, with Tyler on
that on that third down that he was, I mean,
I'm gonna guess that he is somebody that is just
going to always make and he you see him at
times he'll he'll eat a play because he does not
want to get hit. And I don't think that's I mean,
I think that's mature, to be honest with you now.
On that play, I think he made a business decision.

(25:34):
And you know, maybe if I was him and I
was a seventh year guy and I have an injury history,
maybe I would have done the same thing. But it
was all right. He was just trying to get out
of bounds without taking a huge hit. It wasn't like
he was going to drop his shoulder and try to
push for that first down. I mean, it would have
been great if he did, but like I can't say that.
I'm totally shocked that he didn't. You know, I don't
even know why that was. You know, that wasn't the design.
I think he was him trying to make a play

(25:55):
and that was the best. The best thing he could
do is just try to run for it. But he
you know, it's like he was a yard away for
like ten minutes, it felt like, and he just kept
going to the sideline rather than making a move up
field to try to get that first down. So yeah,
I mean it's Kevin Jennings was great today. I mean, look,
completed twenty one of twenty seven passes twoit or in

(26:15):
eighty one yards, did not have a touchdown passing, but
he did run for one hundred and thirteen yards and
had a touchdown on the ground. He was really good today.
But I mean, I think Jacory Brooks is just as
talented and just as impressive. I think Isaac Brown is
a superstar freshman. And to know that we've got some
really good dudes that can make some plays. Like again, offensively,

(26:36):
I you know, I think Louisvill's got good pieces defensively,
I mean, like I the offensive line is clearly an issue,
and that's you know, you roll, when you roll the
dice and you go out and you build your old
line with a lot of transfers, you really never know
what you're gonna get. Sometimes you can go get an
offensive lineman that comes to you from you know, the
Ivy League or even Texas Tech, and you know, you

(26:58):
think you're getting somebody that can help you because they've
played a lot of football. But sometimes you get guys
who are moving around for you know, for for obvious reasons.
Maybe they weren't going to get a whole lot of
playing time where they were previously. So yeah, you know,
I'm not disagreeing with anything Cody said about Jennings and clearly,
I mean, SMU's got some good players and Red Ashley's

(27:18):
a good coach. They're probably gonna win every game and
the rest of the way here. I mean, maybe they
slip up to somebody, but you know, I think they're
a good team. But I think Louisville should be a
damn good team too. Louislle shouldn't be losing at home
to SMU. You know, I don't want to belittle them,
and really it isn't even about SMU being this new
team in the ACC. This is a Louisville team that
has good enough pieces to where you shouldn't be three

(27:39):
and two, and you know, when you lose, you know,
you shouldn't lose the way you lose the last you know,
two weeks. I mean, obviously you now have back to
back losses, the only two losses on the season, But
when you lose in that fashion with sloppy play, a
lot of penalties, just not you know, not coming through,
you know, when the game's on the line. I mean,
I think you have to look at every game the

(28:00):
rest of the way and feel like, yeah, you know,
if we don't play well, like we could lose and
I guess you know, week in and week out, if
you don't come ready to play, somebody on nocky off.
I mean that happened last year when the Luosville went
ten and two in the regular season. There were a
handful of games that could have easily gone the other way,
but just really disappointing because right now I don't even
want to talk about like records or scenarios about acc

(28:23):
title game and all that, because it's just even if,
even if, again, as I said earlier, even if the
league was super wide open and you felt like any we,
any week, anybody could beat anybody, I'm not sure that
would really matter because this team right now has shown
that they're not They're not capable, they're not good enough,
and it's not a matter of talent to me, it's
a matter of you know, execution and just coming ready

(28:47):
to play.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
All right.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Five two, five, seven, one seventy nine hundred is the number.
If you want to jump in and join us. Let's
go to Marcus. Marcus, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 12 (28:56):
What's up, hey, man, what's going on? I will at
the game highly highly disappointed. We couldn't pick up one
yard with two plays. You see it all the time,
just quarterbacks need it for two plays in a row,
just get the first down. We couldn't get the first
down on two plays. Defensively, run English. You know, he's

(29:19):
got to go. I heard all and we all heard
all off season that we have depth, depth, depth, depth,
Well where is it now?

Speaker 13 (29:27):
You know?

Speaker 12 (29:28):
We keep having mental mistakes. Coaching errors or whatever the
case may be. We had fifteen guys on the field
at one point and then we had one guy running
off onto the field in the red zone and we
get it off side. I mean, that shouldn't be happening
at this level, you know, high school, sure, but it.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Is inexcusable, Marcus, I mean, it really is. Some of
the yeah, some of the lack of organization, you know.
I mean, it's it is inexcusable to see some of
the things you see defensively. And look, I'm not gonna
mean these guys all have to make place and sometimes
they don't. Sometimes they commit silly penalties like Thornton's pass
interference down there in the end zone, but you know,
the defensive coordinator is accountable for that part of the ball.

(30:09):
And also, I just don't think these guys are being
put in great position to win, and I think they
might actually have some decent depth. They're banged up, no doubt,
missing Quincy Riley is a big deal, But I'm with you, man,
Ron English. I just it's hard not to imagine there'll
be some real consideration from Jeff Brawn. Maybe not to
can him and you know, fire him, but maybe just

(30:30):
have somebody else emerge as the guy that's going to
be responsible for the defense to get this thing on track.

Speaker 14 (30:35):
Well yeah, well.

Speaker 12 (30:36):
SMU had the same I had more pills than we did,
and they have a couple of personal files and they
had passed interference too. They overcame them though.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (30:43):
We do not overcome adversity. And every time, I notice,
every time we rise in the polls, then we go
through our head and we start playing poorly after we rise.
That has always happened. You can go through the history
of Ruble. They rise in the polls and then guess
what start taking and you know, it's ridiculous. Man, I'm

(31:04):
pissed off. I'm still going to go to the games,
still go and cheer them on, but I'm highly highly disappointed.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
And i'd say thank you for the call. I appreciate it, Marcus.
I would say fans or all of them probably in
agreement with you when it comes to just being just
just really disappointed. Like I mean, I'm angry a little bit,
but like it's more just like bummed, you know what
I mean, because nobody saw the season starting this way,
at least I don't think. I mean, maybe you did,

(31:32):
maybe you envision this team starting three and two with
back to back losses in this stretch of the schedule.
But if you did, then you probably didn't have them
winning a whole lot of games this year, I would imagine,
because again, you still have Clemson, you still have Miami,
and there's other teams in the league that right now
could easily beat you if you don't come ready to play,
like when you make these kind of mistakes, critical avoidable

(31:56):
mistakes that really can shift momentum in a game. I mean,
I don't think anythings off the table. All right, let's
do this. Let's get to our first break here, we've
gone about thirty minutes. We'll come back on the other
side and get right back to your phone calls. Five
oh two, five to seven, one seventy nine hundred is
the number if you want to jump in and join
us and react to what happened today. Louisville losing thirty
four to twenty seven to SMU. They follow one in

(32:16):
one in the ACC, three and two overall, and of
course back to back losses. We got to hear a
good chunk of Jeff Brumps press conference, as you could expect,
really disappointed, and you know he didn't he didn't deflect.
I mean, he made it quite clear that he and
his staff got to do better. We all know that,
and you know, hearing him say it isn't something we
should be praising him for. That's what you know, That's
what you expect from a coach. But now they got it,

(32:37):
correct it and even if they do, you know, if
they do, it'll be great. But shouldn't be in this position.
You shouldn't have this record, these results, and this team
looking the way they've looked. Right now, all right again,
fib oh two five to seven seventy nine hundred is
the number if you want to join us quick break,
we'll come back on the other side. It's the Louisville
Football postgame Show, presented by alex Ar White, lawyers who

(32:57):
distracted Driver dot Com on Sports Talk seven ninety. Louisville
loses today thirty four to twenty seven to SMU. I'm
sure you knew that, but you know, I guess that's
what I'm supposed to say when we come back from break.
Five O two five seven one seventy nine hundred is
the number if you want to react to what you
saw today, I would imagine most of the reaction is
going to be disappoint disappointment from the fans. I mean,

(33:20):
I know I'm disappointed. You heard Jeff Brom. They're clearly
very disappointed. And I mean, I'm trying to think of
a genuine like, I don't want to just say what,
you know, I don't want to give you a canned
optimistic glass half full kind of thing, because I just,
I mean, that's not I mean, I don't feel like
that right now. But I know that there's still a

(33:40):
lot of games left on the schedule and maybe SMU
just ends up being really really good. But like, even
if that's the case and they do end up getting better,
still having a pretty solid season, meaning Louisville, I still
just don't think you should be in this position. And
it really isn't even just about the results. And at
the end of the day, winning and losing is what
matters more than anything. Right, you know, you lost today,

(34:02):
you lost last week, and that always sucks. There's no
good loss, but it's the way you look, and it's
it's just how flat this team has been. Something has
been off. Even in the games they were blowing out
those bums, they played in Week one and week two,
it just never really felt like this this this team
was clicking. It just seemed off. And then once you

(34:23):
started playing you know, legitimate competition, better teams than Austin
p and Jacksonville State, it became quite clear something's just
off with this group.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
All right.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Five x two, five seven one seventy nine hundred is
the number if you want to jump in and give
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Lawyer's to Distracted Driver dot com. Let's go to Dave. Dave,
You're on Sports Talk seven ninety what's up?

Speaker 14 (34:47):
Well? How was that the game?

Speaker 8 (34:49):
They and I agree totally offensive line is a little average,
and the defense, as you say, they look confused, they.

Speaker 10 (34:58):
Don't look argonized.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
And Ron is right, I mean he's got to do
a better job. And Ron english, I don't.

Speaker 11 (35:06):
Know what he can.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
I don't know how he can just in fact keeping
this guy on because he just.

Speaker 14 (35:12):
They just they don't tackle very well.

Speaker 7 (35:15):
And the past defense is that procious?

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Uh what do you what do you say about that?

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yep, thank you for the call, Dave. I appreciate you.
Good to hear from you. Glad you were able to
go to the game. But uh, you know, I wish
it was a better result for you. Wish it was
a better result for everybody. Look when it comes to
Ron English, I mean what really really makes it tough
to to to? I guess defend him, No pun intended
would be that like he has good enough players I think.

(35:43):
I mean, there's guys on this defense that, even without
Quincy Raley, there's guys on this defense that you know,
are talented enough to be better than what you're seeing.
And some of the miscues and the issues isn't even
about a dude not being good enough. It's about like
being unorganized, being you know, clueless when you're out there.
I mean, these guys it's hard to tell right when
they got helmets on. You can't see their face, but

(36:03):
like their body language, and you know, even after a
big play where there's clearly an issue with the defense,
like they look at each other kind of confused, as
if they don't know how that happened. They don't know
why they were in you know, why they weren't prepared for,
you know, what had just taken place. It's just it's
and real quick before we get back to the phone lines.

(36:25):
Some people have asked this question about Ron English and
sort of like how he like, you know, how he
ended up as a guy that was here many years
ago at Louisville back in two thousand and eight and
so after he was the defensive coordinator at Louisville, which,
by the way, not to give you a history lesson.
He was at Michigan as a DC at the end
of I can't think of the name of their coach
that was there before they started hiring guys who were

(36:47):
not good. But he was a big hire for Steve
Cragthorpe and he joined Crackthorpe's staff. It was looked at
as a big win for Louisville because they needed a
new defensive coordinator and he was here for a year,
wasn't very good, and then he got the head coach
coaching job at Eastern Michigan. He was the head coach
there for I believe four years. Was not good. He
had an zero to twelve season, he had two two

(37:09):
and ten seasons, and he went one. In fact, he
went six and six in one year. But overall in
four years, Ron English as a head coach. I'm sorry,
five years. He was eleven and forty six, So after
that he was a I mean he took he was
out of the game for years. I mean after he
got fired as a head coach. He didn't work again
until you know, in twenty thirteen. He was fired at
Eastern Michigan. In twenty sixteen, he re emerged as the

(37:31):
defensive coordinator at San Jose State. He was there one year,
got canned, Then he went to Mississippi State as a
safety's coach, was there one year, then he went to
Florida for three years where he coached the safeties, and
then after that he got a job with Jeff Brahm
as the co DC and defensive backs coach, and he
wasn't great until I think maybe his last year there

(37:54):
with Jeff and Jeff's defensive Purdue was usually problematic, right,
they could score points, but the defense was never strong.
And then it got better under Ron English and they
had a year where they were pretty good defensively at Purdue. Well,
when Jeff made the move to Louisville, he brought Ron
English with him and last year, in year one, I mean,
defense was pretty good to be honest with you, I
don't know what's changed. I don't know how they You know,

(38:17):
something last year fell apart defensively, and Ron English himself,
he even acknowledged that, like a lot of the issues
towards the end of the year, defensively, you know, he
called it coaching. I mean, he kind of took accountability
before the season started, and then here we are and
it's it's still an issue, and you know it's I mean,
if Jeff was to make some kind of a move,

(38:41):
I don't think anybody, and I mean anybody can say
they'd be surprised, just because this is a results space
business and the results are really bad and there's no
way to say, well, hey I don't have good enough players,
or hey we struck out on the transfer portal. I mean,
I think you know, not to say players don't deserve
some blame as well, because they always do to an extent.
But the root of the issue, you as your defense
is very poorly led, it seems. All right, let's go

(39:03):
back to the phone lines five two, five, seven, one
seventy nine hundred is the number. Let's go to Adam. Adam,
you're on Sports Talk seven ninety what's up, Hey, Nick?

Speaker 7 (39:11):
How's it going.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
I've been better, but you know, I'll live. How about you.

Speaker 11 (39:16):
I'm good.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
I wish I was better as well. Unfortunately, I don't know.
I went to the game today. I just I know
the the stuff is Ronny English. I get that. I
don't understand everything. In the first half. I thought defense
played well. In the second half, honestly, we adjusted pretty well.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Third quarter they definitely, you know, third quarter, they definitely
make again because and I think that actually makes ron
English look worse, is because these guys from a personnels
don't standpoint at them. They'll make timely plays, They've done
it this year. But then they'll come out of a
time out with twelve on the field. They'll come out
of a time out and let Jennings run untouched for
what sixty yards? Like you know, I mean that that

(40:00):
that's what makes it even more puzzling. And not to
say that again, not to sound like a broken record,
but like, players do have to be accountable. But at
the end of the day, you you don't fire players.
Coaches are the ones who have to make these players perform.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
I agree. I went up to the notor Game game
last weekend same thing. I don't know what's going on
where we're not we're prepared in these situations. I just
don't get it. I can't. I can't fully put the blame.
I mean I can. I think, how do we get down?
And we we just we just opened this game. We

(40:34):
look lost, like what is going on? Where in our
game plan?

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Where?

Speaker 7 (40:39):
I mean, we just we just can't. We just looked
like we completely lost.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
We can't, we can't put it together. And Adam, what
really is frustrating is that the defense, it seemed like
today and I don't have the actual you know, chart
drive in front of me right now for every every possession,
but today it seemed like when the defense did make
a timely stop or something, the offense didn't capitalize, you know,
and then early on the defense couldn't get off the field,

(41:07):
but the offense was making big plays and just trying
to keep them within the game. You know, nobody's in sync,
it seems, and you know, not to just put it
all on the defense. Clearly, the defense, I think, you know,
they stand out today giving up four hundred and eighty
one yards to this SMU team and just being disorganized
in some of the silly penalties, but you know, offensively,
you know, they're sloppy at times too. They've got big playmakers, right,

(41:30):
I mean Isaac Brown, And I mean I think Lacey
was ineffective today, but I still think he's got a
lot of talent. And then I mean, you look at
I mean I still think Shuck. I mean, I still
think he's a guy that has has been better than advertised.
His numbers didn't necessarily reflect that today twenty two of
thirty five. But like the offense doesn't. The offense, you know,

(41:50):
not that it matters, but forty five minutes into this
postgame show, I will say I've probably given the offense
a bigger pass than I should have. The offensive line
has has been you know, sub subpar, and you know
the offensive times is sloppy too with some of their penalties.
I mean, I know he got hurt, and I hope
he's okay. But Monroe Mills, I mean, there was a
really a sack they gave up that really killed a

(42:12):
drive in the first half, and like I think Monroe
Mills fell asleep on the line, like just completely got abused,
and Shuck loses like nine yards. I mean, Nope, They're
just not sharp right now, and they hurt themselves. They're
a sloppy football team. They certainly have personnel that you know,
can can, can, can can make place, can get some
things done. But five games in, you know, you got

(42:32):
to look in the mirror. They're just a sloppy team.
They're not sharp and until they show us that they
that they can can consistently be a sharp team that
doesn't make a lot of mistakes to really put themselves
in these positions. I mean, I hate to say we
should just expect it every week, but like if they
do it next week, we can't say we'll be surprised, right.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Yeah, no, I'd agree. And I the thing that also
kills me is our O line problems. But also I
mean we're I can't remember what's driving is we ran
We try and run the ball third and I forget
it was third and two or third and three. We
try and run up the middle immediately stuff. We try
to run the same play again, no avail, and it

(43:14):
just it kills me. It just I don't know why
we don't try. I know we tried to get Jamar
Johnson into the game. I know all that, and it's
just it kills me. It just kills me because we
had the same complaints last week. We can put this
someone on BROM, we can put this on Run English,
we can put this on a number of things. But

(43:34):
it just it kills me sometimes the play calling, and
then it kills me with the defense. I don't know,
like you said, we're not in sync anymore. I don't
know what's happened, and it just we just look like
a team that's trying to fight between each other.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
The yeah and Adam, I appreciate the phone call to me,
it's a team that's kind of trying to figure out
who they are. And sometimes when you go out and
you and again I say sometimes like it's been a
twenty thirty year run of the portal, I mean it's
still relatively new, and I think you can go out
and get and feel really good about who you brought
in in the portal, meaning personnel. You know, proven guys

(44:15):
who've proven they can play at a high level. You
can get guys that you feel good about, but like
you really never know how it's all gonna work, Like
your rolling the dice when you build your roster the
way Louis's built their roster, the last couple of years.
It's not to say that, you know, you shouldn't rely
heavily on the portal, because to be honest, Louis is
going to probably always be a program that will rely

(44:37):
on the portal more than you know, the top tier
programs in the country. And I don't think that they've
gone to the portal. Maybe there are some guys on
the offensive line that they went in and grabbed that
just haven't been able to play at this level, and
that I get, you know, again your rolling the dice.
But I think you could even feel you can feel
justified that the guys you brought in are good enough.

(44:57):
But it's still not really all work because you know,
looking out there today, and I think it might've been
in the second quarter, I thought to myself, you know,
maybe they look unorganized because you know, even though they
had spring and they had Fall camp and they've now
played four games like it, you just got so many
new pieces together. And it's not an excuse for for
b I'm not saying like, look, when you live in
this world with the portal, you never know what you're

(45:19):
gonna get. I mean, there is some truth to that. However,
you know, it's on this coaching staff to figure this out.
But I think even they are learning sort of what
they can and can't do with the personnel they have.
I mean, Brom said it in that postgame press conference
just a few minutes ago. You know, they now know
we can't we can't just run the ball up the
middle when we need to get a yard or two
to extend a drive on fourth down, like I think
he tried it. As as Adam mentioned there there were

(45:40):
two straight plays where they did the exact same thing,
got the exact same result. And yeah, that's that's maddening.
But maybe that was like, Okay, well, now I know,
meeting Jeb prom maybe now he knows that he does
not have the personnel to do some things that he
thought he'd be able to do this year. All right,
let's go back to the phone lines. Five O two
five seven seventy nine hundred is the number. Let's go
to Richard. Richard, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety. What's up?

Speaker 7 (46:00):
I just going doing all right?

Speaker 8 (46:02):
Nick?

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay, Yeah, I just had I.

Speaker 10 (46:07):
Have an issue with some of the rotations we've got.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
Now this is Game five and this rotating.

Speaker 10 (46:13):
The defensive linement drives me insaying, first of all, you
take the the guys that are not the Misshape and
you run them in and out of the game the
whole time. They have no way to get in in
the flow of the game by running two plays and
running out. It's it's a disservice to them to have
to do that. And then my next question is why
in game five can we not have somebody Spyle running quarterback.

(46:37):
This is game five, guys, Yeah, this is year two
of this. This should not be hard.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Bro And and Richard, you know what's crazy is that,
you know, if you are if you if you are
the other team and you're watching little leave them before
today and you look at what they've done, you probably
throw out the first couple of games because of the competition.
But you know, hey, here's a weakness they don't do.
They don't do a good job. They don't do a
good job of containing a quarterback that can they can
take off and make plays with its legs. And yet

(47:04):
we still don't have any like you said, we don't
have any any strategy to kind of, you know, to
limit that. It's like they know what they can do
to really expose us, and yet we continue to let
him do it like it's just it's it makes no sense.
And again the more we talk about it, the more
I'm just thinking, like I don't know how Jeff doesn't
make some kind of a change at DC and.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
The Don Chaney experiment.

Speaker 10 (47:26):
Please please end it. Please please stay with Brown and Brown,
them them them kids, them kids are gonna be superstars.
And that's all I have because last week the slow
run to the I'm like, Jeff put somebody in with
some wheels.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
YEP. I appreciate the call, Richard, and and you know,
I don't want to say you just never play uh
you never played Cheney again. But I do think with
the offensive line, like for Donald Chaney to be a
very effective running back for you, I mean when he's not,
he's never gonna be a guy that's just gonna take
one too the house. But the line is not good
enough for a guy like him to be consistently effective

(48:08):
for you. I think Brown and Brown, Keewan and obviously
Isaac Brown are guys that run hard and they've got
a burst to where if there is, you know, an
opportunity to go make a play, hit the hole and
get six seven yards. They can do it. I think
with Cheney you're looking at maybe two yards max. Like
he's just not going to be able to Like again,

(48:29):
he's a guy that's effected for you, that you use rotationally.
If you've got a really good line, you can just
get get behind and run. And that's not what this
line is. All right, let's go back to the fol
linees five two, five, seven, one seventy nine hundred is
the number. Let's go to Taylor. Taylor, you're on Sports
Talk seven ninety. How are you?

Speaker 13 (48:47):
I'm good man, How are you guys doing okay?

Speaker 2 (48:49):
All things considered? I'm doing okay.

Speaker 13 (48:52):
I've heard that the last I heard that the last
couple of callers. I've got a couple of questions. So
a Brook, I'll tell you what man and dog out there, dude, Yeah,
Tyler threw him some good passes. You know, obviously the
DB's were getting after it. But man, it would be
fourteen points fourteen points right there. And I'll tell you
what though.

Speaker 7 (49:12):
The big thing is is what is what's Charlie Strong
doing of these days? You know?

Speaker 14 (49:17):
Can we get him to the DC coordinator?

Speaker 13 (49:18):
You know what I mean? Come on, Nick, Like, what's
going on?

Speaker 3 (49:20):
You know, I think he's I think he's.

Speaker 13 (49:22):
A coordinator somewhere in the NFL, but like, come on,
bring him in.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Yeah, that that'll never happen. But man, he was the
hell of a defensive coordinator and certainly had a hell
of a run here. But yeah, I mean, but I will.

Speaker 13 (49:35):
Say the last few callers in off of you, Nick,
You guys have really good points about the lackluster of
the line the defense. It's just like, man, like, can
we just we need to get.

Speaker 14 (49:45):
Some fire in there?

Speaker 13 (49:46):
We have it there, but it's just like and the
Brown Brothers.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Brouh, God, they're killing guys. Like, just just keep it
with them, Man, keep it with them.

Speaker 13 (49:54):
I'm out, guys.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I appreciate the guy kill car. Appreciate the call Taylor. Yeah,
I mean a couple of people have mentioned this. I've
seen it on Twitter, and then I have my text
line up here too for those that listen to my
show throughout the week that usually chime in on the
postgame show as well. That you know, and I I mean,
I guess it's all situational, right, like you never know
what you know? The portal one year may look like, Wow,

(50:16):
there's a ton of great old linemen to go get
and maybe sometimes you think, yeah, I don't know about
these guys, but I do think it makes more sense
for a program like Louisville, given really where they are
kind of in the hierarchy of of college football. I
think it makes sense to utilize the portal mostly for
skill position players like ja Cory Brooks, right, like a

(50:38):
quarterback in Tyler Shuck. But you may be better off
really developing And look, it's easier said than done. I'm Look,
they've recruited offensive linemen to come here and play, and
if they're if they're still mostly comfortable with playing the
dudes who've transferred in, I think that means that they've
not been effective at developing the old linemen that they recruited.

(50:59):
And maybe they realize these guys weren't weren't good enough.
But those making the point that you should you should,
you know, when it comes to the trenches, maybe you're
better off just recruiting at a high at the highest
level you can in developing those guys rather than going
and getting fit your offensive lineman from the IVY League.
And you know, I'm not picking on anybody but you know,
one of the guys on this team on the old
line is from Yale. That's John Mendoza, you know. And

(51:24):
I mean most of these guys I'm looking at on
the old line are guys who've transferred in. I mean Monroe, Mills,
Pete Niagra, even your backups Travonte Sylvester, Vic Colter. And
again I'm not saying never go get guys in the
portal because you always want to have depth, and I
think on defense level was able to really give themselves
some decent depth defensively with some late portal editions in

(51:45):
the spring. But you know, you know, sometimes you you
go load up at a position in the portal and
you feel pretty good about it, but once you get
to a real game and you get results, you know,
you might feel underwhelmed. You might feel like you know
you and get what you paid for, which is weird
to say, because you know, that didn't used to be
how it works, but now that's quite literally how it works.

(52:07):
All right, Let's go back to the phone LINESPOBA two
five is the number. Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, you're
on Sports Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 14 (52:13):
What's up, man, I'd ask how you're doing. But you've
answered that a couple of different times.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (52:19):
But in all seriousness, man, first time calling in this season,
kind of wanted to see where things go before I
ramble on. It seems that Brahm and the coaching staff,
I'm talking to them as a whole here. He has
to take responsibility for this. He's the leader of this crew.
So it just seems like there's a bit of a
sophomore slump, so to speak. It seems that the I

(52:40):
think that's here has a full They have a full
year of film on what he wants to do and
how he likes to play ball. I do agree with
some of the callers that have called it ahead of
me talking about the defensive slumps. There's a lot of holes,
you know, Julottie, I don't. I expected him to kind
of have an All American performance this year. Thus far,

(53:00):
he's been inconsistent and sometimes it's been a bit of
a no show. And I get it. I mean, he's
that guy. Maybe thieves are double and triple team in him.
That seems to be what's going on. But it just
seems that there's not been anybody on the team offense
or defense that said, hey, you know, let's rally the
truths here kind of you know, uh, you circle the
wagons here, let's go make a play, let's go do

(53:22):
something when it needs to get done. I mean, I
think there were multiple third and ones today, fourth and
ones where play calling or not. You you know, you
grab yourself by you know, by the cajones and say
I'm bigger, faster, stronger, let's get it done. And I mean,
for a lack of a better word, here, you lost
to a bunch of tax evators. Call it what you want,
but SMU is a bunch of tax evators. I don't

(53:43):
care what you say. Tax evasion. What they did in
the eighties, I mean the literal death penalty. And you
let them come into your house. And I think I
think the kids are saying to take over your trap, Like,
come on, man like, you lose to a bunch of
known cheaters who are gonna do what they want to do.
You got to put I don't know, man like, it's
just a little irritating to watch. I don't see anybody

(54:06):
really just stepping up and saying, hey, we're Louisville this year.
We don't do these types of things. We don't play
this type of way, and they kind of expected a
lot of people. Really, I think they just roll the
carpets out, hey, Louisville, so you're okay, we're not going
to play ball, and you go from there.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Jeff, I appreciate the call. And it is wild, how smu.
I mean, we talked about it quite a bit this
week on my show, just because they were the opponent
this week. But you know, they were they were paying
players whenever. It was a big deal, like a big
no no, and they got a death penalty from the
NCAA for that, as he just mentioned. But you know,
as soon as it became like okay to pay players

(54:41):
through NIL, they picked up where they left off in
the eighties. And you know, I mean, I don't know
how many guys on their team that were effective today
are there because of NIL or the portal. But I mean,
I don't think it's crazy to say they're a sleeping
giant because now you can have a ton of money
in and it can help you, like, you know, you
can leverage that into getting really really good players or

(55:04):
getting really really good coaches, and they have like seemingly
unlimited money. I don't think that's why Louisville lost today.
But like it wouldn't be wouldn't it be wild? But
like the last time they were relevant, you know, we
later learned they were cheating buying players. They got the
death penalty for it. And then now it's a new
world where you can do that and maybe they become
relevant again. I mean, look therrelevant now. They're gonna be ranked.
They'll be a top twenty five team now. So you know,

(55:27):
to this sounds so vague, and I've said it many
times today and I think you guys know what I mean,
but it just irritates me because I'm trying. I wish
I could put it, put it into better words. But
I agree with what you said about Bram and the
coaching staff collectively to where they they kind of look off.
They don't look and sync everybody from top to bottom. Really,
I just think they they something's off. They they've you know,

(55:51):
their vibe has just been, you know, kind of unsure
of themselves. And and at this point, you know, they're
still making timely plays here and there. I mean, it's
not as if you got blown out today. Heck, you
fought back in the third quarter. You've made a big
run and you had the ball with a chance to
take the lead and maybe, you know, flip this thing around.
And that doesn't mean a whole lot when you lose, right,

(56:13):
I mean, at the end of the day, you play
the game and you win or you lose. And Louisll's
lost these last couple of games, so to know that,
like at times, we see them step up on defense
and make a timely play. We see Shuck connect with
Jacorey Brooks for big play after big play. You know,
Isaac Brown's a guy that you know, I hope he
sticks around because he's got a chance to be really,

(56:34):
really special. But yet it's not all been in sync
at any level. Offense, defense, coaching staff. I mean, it's
just they've been out of sorts. And that's really disappointing
because I felt like you didn't have to worry about that.
I felt like this team, you know, we'll see if
they can be as good as advertised. We'll see if
Shuck can stay healthy and if he's you know, if

(56:55):
he's good enough. You know, we'll see what the other transfers,
you know, if they're good enough. But I didn't expect
to be five games in and you know, these types
of issues to be what really is is hurting you?
And really, I mean, let's be honest, right now, Louisville
has put themselves in a position to where what we

(57:15):
talked about all off season, even up until maybe this
morning or today, when when you were when Louisville lost
like ACC championship, like that's that's out the window. I mean,
I guess technically some crazy things could happen expecting unexpected
and maybe you end up there, but like I'm not,
I don't even want to talk about that. That's why
I haven't even thought about like what the record's gonna

(57:36):
be or what their potential postseason you know, situation looks like,
because I mean, what we laid out that we thought
was a realistic goal, not to say you thought for
sure they were gonna do it, but like you knew
it was on the table, and yet you've put yourself
in a position where now it's gonna be really really
hard to do that. And it's not really because you

(57:56):
got a bunch of bum players who you know aren't good.
It's because is your team five games in is just
out of sorts. You're they're sloppy, and you know what
that does. It makes it not a good football team,
certainly not good enough to be anywhere close to what
they should be. All right, let's go back to the
ball lines. We'll wrap this thing up here before too long.

(58:17):
But uh, let's go to Justin who's on Sports Talk
seven ninety. What's up, Justin?

Speaker 7 (58:22):
How's it going, Nick?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Yeah, I'm doing okay. How about yourself.

Speaker 7 (58:27):
Doing a little bit better now? But when's it gonna start?

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Like we do they talk about building a smaller stadium?

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Yeah, well, thank you, thank you for the call, Justin.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Man.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
That was a really really, really bad fake accent, I think,
and uh, you know, I'm clearly making a joke about
smaller stadium because of the crowd today, you know, So
have a good day, Justin. And if you wouldn't have
like laid it on so thick with like the like
obnoxiously twangy, I mean I wouldn't even call it an accent.

(59:00):
But like, you know, you could have just talked normal
and said that and I wouldn't have picked up on it.
But as soon as you started talking, I knew there
was something off there. I got it. I got a
pretty good radar for that. Yeah, yeah, the whole doing
the whole accent thing. Though, what what's funny is it
it was a UK fan I think trying to maybe
like disguise themselves as not a UK fan by saying

(59:21):
we when you're clearly not a Louisville fan, but like
you went full like your your fake voice was like
the stereotypical UK fan. So like, I don't you know,
and I don't know, but hey, look I get it.
They're going to make fun of us. I mean I
get it, Like it's the rival, and I knew going
into today when we started this postgame show once you know,

(59:42):
it was clear loisvel loss. Like, you know, we have
way more listeners on days like this, not only because
people want to hear what the reaction is when you
know you're worried and you're upset, you're disappointed as a
Louisville fan. But you know, this is pure inner, this
this is this is gold for UK fans. They didn't
even play today, They watched the louis of the game. Hell,
a lot of them probably went, to be honest with you,

(01:00:03):
I bet a lot of them went to the game,
maybe justin went to the game. But you know, we
lost and they celebrate that, and that's how it works.
That's how it works. So do we need to do
we need to get to do we have another breakdown?
He adjust things on my end. Okay, all right, well
I guess we'll do that. You know, we've got an

(01:00:23):
hour in that's technically what we're what we're supposed to do.
And I think it might have been Adam who called
in maybe two three calls ago, and you know once
once we exchange pleasantries, Hey, how you doing. He just
the first thing he said was I don't know, And
I get it, like I I mean that that I
kind of feel the exact same way, like I don't know,

(01:00:46):
Like I hate that they're in this position. I'm really disappointed.
And I actually think it would be it'd be better
if you just came out and you realized, man, we've
taken a step back here and and you don't have
a good enough quarterback and you know you you know,
you have injured Like I just think to know that

(01:01:08):
you're in this position mostly just because of not being
ready to play right out of the gate, not you know,
being disciplined, and you know, even play calling from the
coaching staff like these are things I wouldn't I just
didn't expect to be an issue this year. Didn't mean
I thought they'd be perfect. Nobody's perfect, but they've been

(01:01:30):
out of sorts really from the start, and it's unfortunate.
They're back in action next week taking on a Virginia
team that I haven't seen the updated score there. I'm
not sure if Virginia ended up holding on or not,
but you know you're going to go play them there
at their place. Louisville historically in the ACC is not
has not fared great there, and I think we all

(01:01:53):
know it's a game you could absolutely lose if you
don't come ready to play. So I hope they come
ready to play. And then of course my Miami two
weeks from today. And here's what's crazy. This may sound
insane given the results today and just the overall vibe
for Louisville football right now, but like, I think you've got,
you know, some good players to where like if you
do tighten some things up and quit hurting yourself, maybe

(01:02:15):
make a change at DC or just regroup there. Like, yeah,
you can get a lot better, But it would have
been nice to know that, hey, you were you played
really well at home against Miami, but you lost to
a team that you know is that good. But like
you know, I can't even really think about that being
a possible. You know, I shouldn't say a possibility, but

(01:02:36):
I just have a tough time even looking at any
game moving forward and feeling like that they'll be able
to win. And I'm not saying they're gonna go I'm
not saying they're going to go three and nine the
rest of the season. But when you make those kind
of mistakes and you're just you know, out of sorts
like they have been, I think again, Like I've said
many times, I think there's no real result that's off
the table here. All Right, that'll do it for us.

(01:03:00):
Have a good day, everybody. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday.
It's beautiful outside. Don't let try your best not to
let this ruin your weekend. I'm saying that knowing I
need to take my own advice because you know that sucked.
Last week, sucked, Today sucked. Everything sucks, but life goes on.
Have a goo day, everybody. This has been the louisvill

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