Louisville Football Postgame Show - at Notre Dame

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 R. White Lawyers, Sue Distracted Driver dot
com on Sports Talk seven nine day. Now here's Nick Coffee.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Driver dot com as the cards fall thirty one to
twenty four on the road to Notre Dame up there
in South Bend, and I'm gonna, well, before I just
dive in, let me say this, I'm gonna try to
find Jeff Brohm's press conference and share that with you guys,
because I am very you know, interested to hear his
comments after the game, and I'll hear more of the

(00:52):
other But if there is some type of a live
stream of that right after, I will let you guys
hear it as well. Now I don't know they're on
the road, so I'm not sure if the UFL social
media accounts will have have it live, but we'll let
you guys react to. The number to call in is
five oh two, five to seven one seventy nine hundred. Again,
five oh two, five seven one seventy nine hundred is
the number if you want to give us a call

(01:14):
and react to what happened. It was important for me
to remind myself to lay that out before we before
I just get going, because if I didn't, I feel
like I would have just started yapping and you know,
not remember to tell you, Hey, you can react to,
you know, because I got a lot to say. I
don't really know where to start, but I guess I'll
just tell you how I'm feeling as of, you know,

(01:34):
five minutes after this thing came to an end. I'm
not discouraged about, you know, Louisville football overall. You know,
ninety percent roughly of the teams that go and play
Notre Dame at their place don't win. So it's not
a bad loss. It doesn't have any impact on the acc.

(01:56):
So with all that said, I'm I'm as disappointed and
just like not angry. I'm just I'm just bummed because
I don't think Notre Dame is that good and they
won today. I mean they were I mean they won
the game thirty one to twenty four. I'm not gonna
act as if you know they didn't. They didn't earn it,

(02:17):
but Louisville made a lot of mistakes that I don't
think Notre Dame had a whole lot to do with.
And that's just a weird feeling. It's been, you know,
a couple of years since I had this kind of
feeling where I'm talking about a Louisville loss and I'm
not sure the team that they lost to was better.
And again, I know that sounds like such a sore

(02:39):
loser thing to say, and maybe that's what I'm being
and I'm just trying to disguise it. But you know,
Notre Dame just took advantage. They were able to capitalize
on many, many mistakes that Louisville made, bad decisions made
by the coaching staff. And you know, when you do
it to to this one, when you're when you're not

(03:01):
a top fifteen team and it happens and you kind
of know your ceiling is maybe seven eight wins, it
still sucks and it hurts, but like you know, you
kind of feel like that could be part of your
identity as a seven eight win team. I think Louisville
has the chance to be a lot better than that.
So when you're a top fifteen going up to Notre
Name and there's a lot on the line here, this
would be a big win. It'd be a monster win.
Everybody knows that. And yet in that situation, in that moment,

(03:26):
you self destruct in the first half and you really
can never recover from it, and you made some mistakes
in the second half as well. That you know, Sometimes
it's just hey, it's football, right, it's sports. It's not
just the specific sport of football, it's just sports. Right, Like,
you make a little mistake, you know, it's on the
opponent to take advantage of that and make you pay
for said mistake. Louisville did the same thing last week

(03:48):
with Georgia Tech.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Right.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, I'm not gonna say that Louisville got an
offense I'm sorry, a defensive touchdown and a special team's
touchdown because of luck. It was because you know, the
opponent made a mistake and louisll made them pay for it.
And Notre Dame did that today. So again, louil lewis
thirty one to twenty four. And what is not a
terrible loss? I mean, I mean, no loss is a
good loss. I don't believe in a good loss. But

(04:11):
in the grand scheme of things, this is not a
loss that really changes what Louisville can accomplish now. It's
also just salt to the wound knowing that, like if
you are potentially in the race for the ACC which
I'm not saying they're going to be, we'll see. I mean,
Louisville got to clean some things up today, and yeah,
you know, they made some mistakes today and they're four

(04:32):
games in. I don't think some of the things we
saw today, you feel like it's part of their identity
as a team that's played four games. But man, with
such a weird start, I really don't even factor in
in any way what happened against Austin p and Jacksonville
State because of the level of the opponent. So this
just hurts, man. It stings like this is a painful loss.

(04:54):
I'm as sad as i've been. And I don't mean
like I'm sad because I'm panicked and I'm worried. What
I mean is like Loulas should have won today many
they just they did some things that you know, you
wouldn't have expected. And I'll stand by what I said
at the beginning of the game. I was wrong. I
felt as if Louisville would be ready to play and
not hurt themselves, and that was that couldn't be further

(05:16):
from the truth. And I don't really know what led
to that, right, I mean, you've got I mean Notre
Dame started it off with their turnover on the kickoff,
which gave you just a gift, I mean some momentum there,
great play made from Shuck to hit the freshman Isaac
Brown in the end zone for the touchdown, and then
you know the fumble from Shuck when he took off.

(05:39):
I mean, that's I mean, that's not really fluky, but
that's just something like you know, you know't bank on
that happening. The punt attempt that went over the punter's head,
like those are things that you know, to go back
to last week's game against Georgia Tech, those are plays
that you don't You don't you don't count on those
things happening.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's great if you can take advantage when when your
opponent does that, but like Louisville gave them opportunities to
take advantage, and I still don't think Notre Dame is
that good. Now they won today, and again I keep
saying that, and I know it sounds like me being
a sore loser, but I'm just being honest. With Yeah,
I feel like when it comes to you know just

(06:17):
what I mean, let me just give you some numbers
that are gonna make me sad. I mean, Louisville total
yards today three hundred and ninety five. They had one
hundred and fifteen more yards than Notre Dame. Notre Dame
had two hundred and eighty. And yes, there were some
clear bad calls. I mean, the the offensive PI on
Colin was just insane. And I think Jason Garrett may

(06:37):
be looking for a gig next week because there were
two big penalties called that really did have an impact
on this game that he and he's working for NBC,
he's working for Peacock in Notre Dame, and yet he
had no problems saying like that. And even the rule
the rules analysts, which is such a wasted position, What
a wasted salary they pay somebody not because they're not

(06:58):
you know, that's not a personal shot at those people,
but like everybody at home watching the game can do
exactly what those people do. So just just a real
bitter feeling, you know, going to Notre Dame and losing
is what most people do. Again, roughly ninety percent of
the teams that traveled to South Bend and play against
this team historically lose, but to lose and know that
you really were a big factor in it. And I'm

(07:19):
never gonna take credit away from the opponent because Notre
Dame took advantage. That's what good teams do. But Louisville
really just shot themselves in the foot. This is the
first time I'm gonna say it. It doesn't have anything
to do. I mean, I'm sure I've said it before,
but like we're gonna be triggered about criticism for brom
and I understand that. I mean, if you could listen
to my show for five seconds and get a good
feel for how much I love Jeff Brohm and love

(07:40):
that he's here, and I think he's a great coach.
I still do as I'm speaking to you at seven
fourteen tonight. But he had a bad day. He tell
you that he had a bad day in every way.
I mean, I have to say he you know, completely
cost his team the game, because I don't believe that,
but clearly he did not have a good day with
some of the decisions, and you know, it just sucks
to know you could have lost and just you know,
it would have been much easier to deal with if

(08:00):
you lose this game and it ends up being just
because you went up against a team on their home
field that historically is one of the best programs in
the country. But that's not what happened. You know, you
lost because you just, you know, really shot yourself on
the foot and you did enough to get back in it.
You even't had a chance there late, right, I mean,
you're driving with a chance to tie it up, and
you just those mistakes early. It felt like, man, you

(08:22):
can't do this this many times against Notre Dame and
still win, right, Sure enough, That's that's how it played out.
So let's go to the home on five on two
f I's seven one seventy nine hundred is the number.
If you guys would like to give us a call
and react. I have no clue what the reaction is
going to be, because again, a loss like this is
I mean, you were you're not supposed to win it
Notre Dame. You were touchdown underdogs, But it didn't feel

(08:42):
as if you just went up against a better team
to night, and that just makes it an unusual feeling
for a loss like this. All right, let's go to Nate. Nate,
You're on Sports Talk seven to ninety.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
What's up, Hey, Nick?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Can you hear me? Yes, sir, Hey Nick, my name's
paid by the way, tat I appreciate, so call no code.
I just wanted to call this A long time listener,
first time caller. You know, I'm super proud of loul
was program, longtime fan since two thousand and six. Really
was the earliest that I can remember, you know, as

(09:14):
a fan. Look at the end of the day, of course,
I'm proud that Lil went out. They didn't quit on
the game as you would have seen, and maybe Bobby's
last year for instance. For me, it's just it's like,
what will it take for this program to get over
the hump? Of course, you know, look you're only five
games Dame, you're four and one or three and one?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Rather, what do you mean?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
What are you? Let me ask you this take like
when you say get over the hump, I mean, I
mean Louisville. You know that they beat Notre Dame last year.
I mean, this is this is a game that I
feel like, despite them being underdogs, like I kind of
feel like everybody going in kind of and I was
actually pretty proud this week just to know Louisville is
in a position where you're going up to Notre Dame
and you're not a delusional person to say you expect
to win, you know what I mean exactly.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Look at the end of the day, national media one,
you know, had a lot of folks in national media
and and end the general public had Notre Dame to
win this game and cover six. Look at the end
of the day, that's totally fine. But my difference is, Look,
at the end of the day, I've witnessed the two
thousand and six Louisville football team. Right had I had
Ruggers on the roads, could have had a chance to win,
to participate in the national championship game. What's the difference

(10:13):
between this program going from playing the program like Notre
Dame and having an opportunity to play potentially for a
playoff spot right forty nine percent chance of the winner
of this game to be able to play for the
college football playoffs, and what happened in return we lose
the game. What's the difference between Louisville football as a
program right now versus Louisville having a chance to make

(10:34):
the playoffs, to have a chance for making Like, Okay,
you know we have big games, big wins over Florida
and the Sugar Bowl. That's great and all, But what's
the difference between me as a fan being able to
witness my favorite team, my program who I bleed in
craft board year in and year out, being able to
play for a college football championship who I donate to
the nil too? I see has the top two portal

(10:56):
program or excuse me, transfer portal in the country. What's
the difference between us where we are now and being
able to get over that hump to be able to
beat Notre Dame at Notre Dame, to be able to
beat Clinton for the first time in program history, for
Jeff Brohm to be able to beat UK for the
first time in five years? What's the difference? Take, I'm a.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Huge what do you What do you mean? Like? What's
the difference? Like I don't, I mean, I hear you,
but like, what's the difference?

Speaker 5 (11:23):
Now?

Speaker 6 (11:23):
Then?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
What is it? Talent?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Is it play?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
I love Jeff, but jack championship game and a week
Big ten Big ten West conference if I'm not mistaken
a Big ten West. Sure, you know, Western Kentucky he
was able to. You know, obviously his play calling was
fantastic at Western Kentucky, but look at the talent he
was playing against in the ACC. He made the ACC
championship game last year, but it was a weaker ACC

(11:49):
than we've seen in previous years. Clinton obviously wasn't here
they were in the previous What is the difference between
Louisville getting over the hump to be able to compete
with teams?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Sure, I appreciate, I appreciate the call. Man, Yeah, I
think I mean today and look, the season's not over.
I mean, this loss has nothing to do with the ACC,
and I think they they clearly have to tighten some
things up. But I will say this, I mean, I
think the difference now. I mean, look, if you're talking
about like what's going to put them over the edge

(12:18):
to where they can win games like this, I mean
they should have Like I don't think they're I don't
think there. I mean today, I don't feel like you
were out there watching a team and just feeling like, man,
what do we how do we go get better players?
How do we you know, how do we stack up?
Like it did? It wasn't that And that's actually what
makes it a little more frustrating because I think you
really you know, and I guess Brom's press conference again, Tate,

(12:40):
I appreciate the call. I think Brom's press conference is
live right now and I'm not able to hear it
as I'm live on the air and I don't see
any kind of stream. But but I will say this,
I mean to quickly summarize what what I what I
I mean. I could go on for days in responding
to what Tate said there, but when it comes to today,
like I know they lost a Clemson for many times

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they played them, they haven't played them yet under Jeff.
And look, let's be real. Sometimes you just go out
there and you play a team and you just know, hey,
it's gonna take us taking advantage of every mistake they make,
us playing maybe not mistake free football, but playing as
clean as we can. And usually in these spots, that's
what this is. And today it's just unusual. It's bizarre
almost because you went up to Notre Dame and I

(13:21):
know it sounds like I'm not giving them credit, and
that's not what it's about. I just I don't think
anybody objectively if you're a non Notre Dame fan and
a non Louisville fan. If you watch Notre Dame all year,
I don't think you say that they're that good. And look,
what can you say about Louisville. Over just lost to
them and their best win is against the Georgia Tech
team that you know, a couple of plays go a
different way that may not be a win for them.
So I'm not saying Louisville is just a flat out

(13:42):
way better team and they played poorly Notre Dame took advantage.
We still have to see how good Louisville is. Trust me,
I mean I probably should have said that before we
got this far into the show, but it's just weird
to know that you just, you know, if Jeff takes
the points at the end of the first half, if
they get some you know, if they get the right
spot on some of these some of these fourth and

(14:03):
ones and fourth and twos that I think should have
been first downs, you know what changes. And that's not
necessarily your fault. That's just questionable officiating. But you also
have to expect that right that you have to expect
that when you go on the road, not to say
that you just have to expect people to cheat you.
But that's football, that's sports, right. The home team is
usually going to get a favorable whistle in some form
or fashion. And I think some of the cost some
of the spots were just you know, head scratching. The

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offensive p I on Colin was insane. So you know,
those are things where you know you can say, man,
that's just a bad break, But those things aren't as
impactful if you don't hike the ball over the punter's head,
if Tyler doesn't fumble it on you know, after a
thirty forty yard run, you know, you had a fumble,
you had a different you had another fumble too, and

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you actually got it back. So I mean, and by
the way, I think Tyler played great today. His numbers
aren't going to show it, but like I think, always
got a damn good quarterback. So it's just unusual. Again,
this is a raw and real reaction. This game just
ended within the last you know, fifteen minutes or so.
So I try my best to always be prepared when
we fire up to do this in any form or fashion.
But you know, this is one where I'm just kind

(15:07):
of I'm talking through because Louisville losing today was certainly
a real possibility. You know, I felt confident they'd come
ready to play and win. But I wasn't. If you
had told me five hours ago, you're gonna do a
post game show and it'll be Louisville losing the other day,
it wouldn't be. It wasn't as if my jaw would
have hit the floor. But for to play out this
week where you had one hundred and eighty I'm sorry,
one hundred and fifteen more yards than they did, and

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yet you still, you know, had to fight like hell
and scrap just to get within a touchdown. That's just,
you know, it's a head scratcher. It's disappointing, and uh,
you know, I'm disappointed. I mean, that's that's what I'll say.
I'm disappointed. Let's go back to the th foll months.
Five x two, five seven, one seventy nine hundred is
the number if you guys want to join us here

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on the Louisville Football Postgame Show. It is presented by
Alex R. White, Lawyer's suit distracted driver dot Com. Let's
go to Will. Who's up next? Will?

Speaker 7 (15:57):
How are you hey? Nick h U of l Fan
up here in Indianapolis, and so I'm gonna be dealing
with the Notre Dame fans for for the next week,
i'd say, but yeah, uh, I'm gonna be honest, as
I've listened to your monologue, I'm kind of in the
same boat as you.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Have.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Just got a couple of things.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
We've there are a couple of people that really just
showed that that we've got some dogs on this team.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
You know, We've got.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Lacey showed that he can be he has some promise, and.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Then Brooks and we'll have the catch of the year
in college football right now and he and he just
he just got active yesterday.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yeah, for sure, for sure. And uh. My second thing
is that, you know, the fact that we had so
many mental mistakes and then that, like you said, in
the first half of the fumbles that really just you know,
threw everything for a whack, and the fact that we
had a chance to win at the end of the game.
I feel like we still have everything in front of us.
I may be a little more positive than some of
the others, but it's disappointing. It's disappointing, but at the

(16:58):
same time, I think everything's still in front of Yep.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
And will I appreciate the call and best of luck
to you up there in Indianapolis. I know Notre Dame
fans are probably going to be feeling pretty good about
this one. And look, trust me, I know this is
one of those This is one of those things that
if people just take this exact comment and they don't
include context, you know, they could make fun of me
for it, and that's fine, but it is. It is
kind of a It stands out to me as a

(17:23):
lifelong Louisville football fan that my first games I was
going to watch and play at the baseball stadium like
a lot of people. And you know, I mean, I
just think that to know that Notre Dame and look,
most of it's because they lost in Northern Illinois, but
Notre Dame knew that they got punked last year. I mean,
you heard the NBC crew or I guess the Peacock
crew talking about how personal this was to Marcus Freeman
because Jeff Brown and his team bullied them last year

(17:45):
and really that game went't as close as the score indicated.
And you go to Riley Leonard, who Louisville ended his
season because they beat him up. Straight up, that's what happened.
They didn't score in that game, so when he was
a duke of course, So you know, to know that,
like Louisville has arrived to the point where this is
a very valuable win for Notre Dame. We still lost,
and I know it sounds like moral victory loser stuff,

(18:07):
but I'm just speaking as a real fan knowing that, like, hey,
this is different for us.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
We know that they're aware that we got some dudes
that can beat them and we should have beat them
today and we didn't, and it's our fault, you know,
it's you know, it's just it's a tough pill to swallow.
But no, I really appreciate Will's comments because I need
a little pick me up there because we got a
lot in front of us. I don't mean, I do
have some concerns, and we'll get to that later on.
I do when to get to the calls in just
a minute. But you know, Jeff has proven to be

(18:35):
a pretty damn good coach, and I'm not worried about
his coaching ability, but like he took some calculated risks
today that were not not wise and defensively, you know,
these guys made big these guys always seem to make
big stops when it matters, and I give them a
lot of credit. They did it last week against towards attack,
but I kind of feel as if from a schematical standpoint,
in organizational standpoint, that they they should be better. I mean,

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Ron English made adjustments right early on Riley Leonard in
the first quarter looked better than he has all years
of a quarterback. Now, part of that's because Louis will
put him in a good spot to do that. With
the with the punt that went you know, the attempted
punp that went over the punter's head and then shucks fumble.
You know that that clearly gave them momentum and he
didn't have to do a whole lot at that point.
But from then on a lot of good adjustments were made.

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And that big play that broke late, I mean, you know,
certainly they weren't in a good spot. I don't think
the aang I mean they were. That was a bad play,
but overall, the defense made adjustments and offensively, you know,
it did three hundred and ninety five yards total and
just have twenty four points. It just you know, it
feels very underwhelming. Overall, But again, there's two ways to

(19:38):
look at it. Right now, in the moment, this sucks,
This is tough. I hate that they lost because I
feel like they're better. It's what it could have should have.
I understand how it sounds, But overall, I still feel
like the pieces for this team, as far as personnel
or are in a pretty good spot. Although you know,
I don't know how good Notre Dame is. Like usually,
if your offensive line is going to struggle against Notre

(19:59):
Dame at time, or your defensive line or whatever it
may be, you would just chalk it up like, hey,
you're playing Notre Dame. But like, I don't, you know,
I don't know how good Notre Dame is. They lost
in Northern Illinois, and today they were good enough to win.
They played well for them for who they are, and
they they took advantage of every mistake Louisville made, and
that's what good teams do. All right, Let's go back
to the poem on Stobo. Two five seven, one seventy

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nine hundred is the number if you want to call in.
Let's go to Marcus. Marcus, what's up man? How you doing?

Speaker 8 (20:27):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (20:27):
Good evening, gentlemen, First of all, I want to say
that I love my team and I hope everybody else
does too. We got SMU. We got a lot of
stuff in front of us. But let's talk about this game.
We had poor time out management by Jeff.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Really really bad, really really bad.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
He could have asked for a measurement on a couple
of those. I know they reviewed the one in the
first half, but the second one on that last final
drive that was a first down. He could have asked
for a measurement. He didn't, but it's probably because he
didn't have a timeout, But that's his fault. We had
too many timeouse called because of the substitution patterns. One
time we had thirteen men on the field and you

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take the three in the first.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Half out of a time by the way they had,
they had that out of a time out, which is
just degregious. I mean, that's that's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
And Tyler's got to know when the journey's over. He
made a good run. He's he ran for over four yards.
Go down, don't try to take any more yards, just
go down. He did that the other times that he's
had the ball, but he tried to get the extra
yards and kept going and they stripped the ball. That was,
you know, a typical but our old line play. Let's
not forget that he was under pressure all night long.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
So that's that's, that's and that's what I met Marcus,
because I feel like usually I would say, well, if
he's under pressure, it's because you're playing Notre Dame and
that happens. But I don't really know if that, you know,
I don't know if that was. I don't know if
we I don't know if we chalk it up to that.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
You know what I mean, Yeah, exactly, but you know,
I'm gonna be at the SUMU game, going to Virginia
back home from Miami. We still have the playoff in
front of us, and all our acc games are what
matter now.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Ye curious doubt about it. Appreciate the call. Mark, good
to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
Man.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, Jeff, look, I said it, and I'm not going
to beat it. You know, I'm not going to beat
the dead horse here. But like Jeff had a bad day,
you know, and I think he would tell you that,
I mean, maybe not right now in the moment, because
he's probably very frustrated. And that's one thing again, it's
it's just different when Jeff like he's going to be
more upset and more bothered about this than anybody. You know,

(22:31):
he's not the kind of guy that will be here
and be I guess surprised that fans are disappointed because
he's a fan just like us. He just happens to
be somebody that gave his blood, sweat and tears to
the program, his whole family did, and now he's the
guy coaching it. So it's just different. So you know,
he was bad today, though I don't want to say
he was. I mean, clearly he made some really good
play calls. I don't want to say that he lost

(22:51):
the game for him, but just some really unusual, you know,
not decisions necessarily, but just risks that he's taken. I'm
sure at times, maybe not as many risks as you
typically see, but you know, the end of the half
was a real head scratcher. And then I mean to
not challenge one of those I don't know if that's
on one of his assistants, to not say because they

(23:12):
didn't get the fourth down call, but on the third whenever,
whenever they called I remember who, I don't remember which
player it was, but they went from one side of
the field to the other right two straight plays where
they went far outside and the first time around before
they you know, it was third down. When when it
was third down, I mean I thought they got it.
I mean in the fact that they I mean even
the announcers kind of seemed like, we'll see why where

(23:32):
they spot this, But it looks like he got it.
So again, it's all would it, could have, should have.
And I can't really think of a game, you know,
I'm just kind of you know, again, there's a lot
of things that you know, happened in the game that
I think to myself, Okay, make sure you remember to
bring that point up on the post game show, Nick,
because that that's a key moment in the game. But
I really was not in the mindset about preparing for

(23:54):
the post game as best as I can because I
was just, you know, I was just thinking about are
they gonna be able to find a way to win
this game? So, you know, the not challenging a couple
of those spots was was a head scratcher, and then
to not take the points. And you know, sometimes I'll
admit it. I have no problem saying I have a
tough time really knowing for sure. Okay, is that more

(24:15):
so on a coach that's play calling or is that
more on the quarterback that kind of stuff. But to
get the you know, to get the delay of game
in that critical moment at the end, like that's just
stuff like you know, you can't do. And to have
to use as many timeouts as we did early on
to where you didn't have any left like that just
and then but then you had like all your timeouts
at the end of the first half, Like it was

(24:36):
just it was, you know, mismanagement, I think is the
best way to describe sort of the way the timeouts
were utilized. And I've got no problem with a guy
who's not afraid to go forward on fourth down, and
Jeff's always going to be that guy that will more
more likely than not take that calculated risk. But it
didn't pay off today. And when you are someone that
can make those decisions, you have to live with the consequences.

(24:57):
And they were one to five on fourth down today
and Notre Dame was two or three. Let's go back
to Tholm on Stobo. Two is the number. Let's go
to Denny. Denny, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
How are you, sir, Hey Nick, keep beating that dead
horse played against Jeff Brams if I was thirteen years old,
call from the Whaley Pub here, and he's never sucked
more he was an athlete and watching him through his career,
you are dead on on what you're saying.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
It just makes no sense on the break calling that
we had tonight and what he was thinking. Highly disappointed.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Now do you mean, Denny, Denny, do you mean play
calling like just like you know, you mean just decisions.
You're not talking about specific plays.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
Right, yeah? Yeah, and of the first half play calling,
take the points some of the I mean we ran
three times in a row down there. I mean, it
just doesn't make sense on jeff last posession, yes, sir, Yeah, yeah,
I mean it just I mean, just highly disappointed. I
don't blame it on our kids a night at all. Jeff,
you gotta take this when you gotta go.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Look in the mirror, Denny. I appreciate the call. I mean,
I you know, I think Jeff would probably agree with
what you said as far as that. You know the kids,
I mean, they made mistakes too, But you know, I
guess I'm tiptoeing around it. And it's not because like
I'm worried, Jeff Brohm's gonna get mad at me. He
won't hear and know or care what I say on
this postgame show. Trust me, I know that. But I

(26:24):
still believe he's a good coach. I still believe he's
somebody that probably gives Louisville a higher ceiling than you know,
anybody right now as far as you know who could
coach here. And not to get corny and sentimental, but
he does provide something as the coach here that you
could have the biggest payroll ever and they wouldn't be
able to bring what he can bring. But today he
wasn't good and I think he would even tell you that,

(26:46):
and I you know, it's it's I know it sounds
as if I'm just so afraid to just say the
coach calls him the game and I don't really believe
that he was a factor in it, and I think
he would tell you the same thing. But this is
this is unusual. I mean, last year they were in
a lot of close games where they took advantage of
people's mistakes and they were able to hold on and

(27:09):
win in a game where you kind of felt like,
you know, maybe I don't know if we were I
don't know we were actually as good as the team
we just played as far as you know that game itself.
But today, you know, i'd actually forget I mean again,
I found myself in the last possession there that Terry
was not Terry. But Denny was referring to in regards
to like why we ran it pretty straight times, Like

(27:30):
the first time I got it because you were trying
to catch him off guard and maybe Eac could break
for a big run because he's got that kind of
a talent. But from then on, like it just seemed
I don't know, it seemed a little stubborn. You know,
I still think he's a play caller that is elite.
We just didn't get maybe the best of that today.
And honestly, he still did call some good plays and
the offense put up three ord and ninety five yards.
I mean, and that's the guy, you know, the guy

(27:50):
called him the plays is a factor in that. So
it's not that he you know, I think what Denny
meant is that just some of the some of the
big time in the moment decisions where coaches got to
make a big decision and Jeff made those big decisions
and they turned out to to you know, to burn
him because you know, he took a risk and you
paid for it. But as far as like schematic play calling,
like getting guys open, I still think we're in a
really good spot. It's just, you know, when it seemed

(28:14):
as if you really needed to make a play and
you really need you know, urgency was there, it almost
not only seemed like did you not come through and
make the needed play? You kind of just did some
dumb stuff. And some of that's just players, you know,
committing penalties, but some of it is also not to
take the points there, not to challenge the spot, and
you know, having twelve men on the field out of
a timeout is just insane like that that's I mean that,

(28:37):
that is absolutely something you point to and say that's
bad coaching. All right, let's go back to the fol lines.
Five ways, twof I've seven one seventy nine hundred is
the number? Is it is?

Speaker 10 (28:48):
Terry?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Are you with us?

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Yeah? With you?

Speaker 2 (28:51):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (28:52):
Terry?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
How are you?

Speaker 8 (28:54):
Man?

Speaker 6 (28:55):
I'm just I'm gonna piggyback on what I just heard.
Jet Brom was not good.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yep, that's probably the nicest way to say it.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Right, Oh, I'm being as nice as I possibly can
when I say that that that that was the end
of the first half, that that was awful. You have
three timeouts that that third downplay, No, no, no, no,
go back and watch the end of that first half

(29:23):
when that third down play with Bill, he had three
timeouts left, and he did not call the time out
and make those officials challenge at spot.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
No, that's what I'm saying. He did not use one,
which he should have. That's yeah, yeah, he did not.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
You're good.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
That that was awful. And not only after that you
hurry up and you run a fourth down play to
your slowest running back to the short side of the field.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
That you know, at some point it felt like he
was trying to make up fourteen points on that drought.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Absolutely, that's what and I think, and I think, honestly,
I think, I think Terry, I think that's the way
he seemed the entire game after they had those big
blunders early that that that caught that cost him, right,
I mean, Notre Dame comes out and scored what twenty
one early, and I think he from then on was
making decisions feeling like I've got to take this risk
because I gotta I gotta make it up.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
He seemed like he was trying to make up ten
to fourteen points on every play.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yep, I totally agree.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
But I'm calling a time out on that, on that
horrible spot on that third down.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, And I'm just I'm just thinking out loud, Terry.
I don't know how because it seems odd to me
now that I'm thinking about it. That not not a
one and maybe you know it. Look, Jet clearly runs
the offense. He's the guy calling all the shots. I
mean he hears from his his assistance, but I'm not
sure how much he really hears them, if you know
what I'm saying. And that's fine, because that's that's what
that's what he does. There should have been somewhat Lonnie

(30:53):
Galloway should have been in his ear saying we got
to take a time out. What are we doing here?

Speaker 6 (30:59):
I mean, I'm and his brother Greg is no more
than a foot and a half from his side at
all time.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's right, That's right.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
I mean, you know, it's just what it is. And
on the third down at the end of the game.
And I'm gonna skip past the horrible fourth down calls
we had all games. Every fourth down play call was
absolutely atrocious. We had the first down on third down
on that last ride. I mean he was he was

(31:28):
a full two feet you can go back to wash
the replay. That was a first down, but he burned
his time out and he couldn't.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah, and every one of.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
The timeouts we burned was an offensive that Jeff Brown
was not good today football.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
I can't disagree. And I appreciate the call.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
Terry.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Good to hear from you, and I think you did
a great job of kind of laying out specific moments
where it really stood out to where you can say, man,
and I know you didn't say this, and I'm sure
you still are. I assume you're still all in on
Bram like most of the fan base, and if you're not, whatever,
you can have your own opinion. But like today, like
there were some things that just you know, we're bad,

(32:10):
and I mean I did when watching that last play
there where he did get the where they didn't give
him the first down, and that's you know, essentially that
ended the game because you had two more chances and
you didn't get it, and he couldn't call that time
out because they'd burned one. I didn't know. I didn't
feel like he had it. But you know, if they
reviewed it and showed it, maybe I would have been wrong.

(32:31):
And sometimes when you just go off that yellow line
that's on TV, that can be wrong, you know, so,
but yeah, it was. It's weird, man. You lost thirty
one to twenty four to Notre Dame at their place,
and I don't think they played good at all. I
mean they made enough place to where they could make
it competitive, but like it's like the game never really

(32:53):
got rolling for him, and I just, you know, this
is a very unusual feeling for me. Is a lifelong
Louisville fan. There have been plenty of postgame shows and
plenty of games at that, you know, before I had
a radio show and whatnot. When I'm you know that
I that I you know, in fact, this is just
my this is just my personality. Like I oftentimes try
to compare situations, and this is one where I'm trying

(33:15):
to think, like how to what this game reminds me
of As far as the feeling I have as a fan,
and I can't think of one because as far as
like national respect, I don't think you lost any today,
not that people care about that. People want to win, right,
So I'm not saying that that matters. But it's just
it's such a punch in the gut whenever you you,
you know, and it makes it worse because you lost today.

(33:38):
And again, not to take credit away from Notre Dame,
they made the place necessary. They made you pay for
the mistakes that you made. But like, if we didn't
shoot ourselves in the foot with mistakes made by players
and you know, mistakes clearly made by coaches, we probably
win this thing. And maybe we win it, you know,
by ten or something. I mean, you know, we'll never know.
And it's what it could have. Should have you line

(33:59):
up and you play four of football and whoever scores
the most points and that amount of time wins the game.
And Notre Dame beat us today, So we own it.
But it's just a weird feeling, man, all right. Five
WUT two, five seven, one seventy nine hundred is the number.
If you guys would like to jump in and join
us on the show, Let's go to Dave. Dave, you're
on Sports Talk seven ninety, how are you.

Speaker 11 (34:18):
Not too good after this game? But I agree with
the first two callers about Brom. But you know, that
snap over the punter's head and the drop passes, you
can't blame that are Jeff Brom. I mean, I mean
it's and I'd say the most glaring problem with MOLO
is they just continue to give up long pass plays.

(34:43):
I mean, they're past defense stinks. Who's who's coaching the secondary?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
Well? I mean today I didn't I didn't feel as
if Notre Dame was lighting you up through the air.
I mean, they did a little more than maybe they
typically do it. I'm trying to pull up the numbers here.
I mean, yeah, they had one hundreds three yards through
the air. I mean I think there were a couple
of there were two touchdowns essentially, and actually one of
the touchdowns wasn't really a drop back. And your past
defense is terrible. They're one of the running backs caught
a pass out of the flats and that was the

(35:11):
last touchdown they scored. But before that, I mean, I
feel like Riley Leonard was in a spot to where
you know, he scored a touchdown pretty quickly right after
one of Louisvill's turnovers, and it wasn't good play and
it was bad defense by Louisville. But I don't, you know,
I think overall, I think Louisville defensively, I don't really
know what their identity is. I think they play hard.
I just don't feel like they're very well organized, which
I guess is a very light hearted way of me

(35:33):
saying I'm not really sure how well coach they are.
But you know, Dave, defensively, they started off rough, but
they were also in tough spots because Louisll kept turning
it over, like you mentioned, throwing it over the punters,
snapping over the punter's head the fumble. So I kind
of look back now and don't feel as bad about
the defense. Clearly they made some mistakes, but they gave
the offense a chance.

Speaker 11 (35:52):
I think, oh, they did give the offense a chance.
But you know, on the defense, it seemed like there's
a lot of confusion.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yes, they're not organized, you're totally right, Yeah, all right.

Speaker 11 (36:03):
Well, who's who's supposed to be on the face?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Ron English? Ron English is the defensive coordinator here that
last year, I mean Lowell's defense for the first two
and a half months of the season, Dave was really
really good. I mean, numbers were phenomenal. I mean they
were effective, they were the strength of the team. Louisville
was winning really at times in spite of poor quarterback play,
but their defense was really good and they could run

(36:27):
the ball. And then it fell apart towards the end.
And I don't know if they were just gassed or
what it was. But Ron English before the season started.
I give him a lot of credit for this because
a lot of coach coaches wouldn't do this. He was
asked about the defense falling off, and he said, look,
obviously we didn't play great towards the end, and you know,
some of that's this and that, but he said, some
of it's on coaching, some of it's on us and

(36:48):
and and strategizing, which you know, it's it's not like
it's unheard of for a coach to say that coaches
are accountable. But I do feel like he believed that
at times, you know, maybe he didn't have them and
what they needed to be in. Maybe he wasn't necessarily
leading the defense it needed to be leaded for them
to be successful. And then this year. It's not as
if they've given up a ton of points to you know,
terrible teams. And again today, some of those points Inure

(37:09):
Dame scored were not because the defense. I it was
because the defense, you know, had such a short field
to defend. But I do feel like for some reason
they're not organized for some reason at times when a
big play is made, it's not because oh wow, what
a great play caller. Man, what are you gonna do?
They got a guy we just can't we can't guard.
It's because you got nobody near the guy, or guys
are looking around like, hey, I thought you were supposed

(37:29):
to be there. And at the end of the day,
that falls on Ron English. He's the defensive coordinator. So
I know that's a long win, an answered Dave. But
you know, I think Ron English will probably take a
lot of criticism, maybe not as much as I thought
he was going to once the defense settled in and
didn't give up as much points in the second half.
But it does feel a little underwhelming with the defense
because they were supposed to be the strength of the
team this year as well.

Speaker 11 (37:49):
Yeah, well, I agree with you this game today, it
was winnable and if they coached well and played well.
Like you said, I think it would have been a
ten point win. That's that's what that's what makes me
so disappointing. I mean, it's not like we were in
into a great team, but I mean this game today,
it was winnable and it just slipped right through their fingers.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yep, Dave, I appreciate the call. Good to hear from you.
Hope you have a good night, brother, And another part
of that, because everything Dave said is true as far
as just you know, it just feels like, man, it
was right there. We just we played sloppy at times
and hurt ourselves and it really came back to bite us.
But what really makes it, you know, to be honest,
just sad for me, is that there would have been
a lot of value here you don't make. You know,
Let's say you shoot yourself in the foot six times

(38:33):
instead of seven, and you might be walking away with
the win against Notre Dame. And I know if you
do beat them, they're out of the playoff. They get
clowned because they now have two losses, and you know
that would have been the national reaction. But I don't care.
You'd have gone into Notre Dame. You'd have move to
four and oh on the season and you'd have had
a win. That really does have currency. It's got value
when it comes to your resume, and to know that

(38:54):
you didn't get it, but it was because of you,
it's just a it's a it's a bad feeling as
a fan. Again. Notre Dame. Marcus Freeman needed this and
his guys. Look, they made mistakes too, but not as
many as Louisville, and you know they needed it. They
came ready to play and they took advantage of it.
Or we need to get to a break. I've not
taken a single break yet, so let's go ahead and
do that. If you guys want to join us, you can.

(39:15):
Five two, five seventy nine hundred is the number. If
you'd like to give us a call. We'll get back
to more of your calls on the other side and
continue to react to this loss. The Cards come up
short at South Bend, losing thirty one to twenty four.
I hate it. I'm looking at these stats and it
just makes me so sad because statistically, I mean, Louisville
was really I mean, they were better at just about everything,

(39:35):
and yet they you know they lost and it sucks.
It's the louisvill Football postgame Show presented by Alex R. White,
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(39:57):
Alex R. White, lawyer's suit distracted driver dot Com. Nick
Coffee with you got about I don't know, roughly twenty minutes,
thirty minutes left. We'll see. But if you go, if
you want to join us, you can. Five way two,
five seven, one seventy nine hundred is the number. We're
gonna get back to the throone lines in just one second.
But man, looking at these numbers, and I'm sure a
lot of you've seen them. Maybe you haven't, maybe you
don't want to hear them, but I'm gonna share them

(40:19):
with you anyway. Louisville lost today thirty one twenty four
and they outgained Notre Dame by one hundred and fifteen
yards total. Louisville had one hundred and ninety three yards
on the ground. I'm sorry, louill Yeah, Louisville had one
hundred and ninety three yards on the ground. Notre Dame
had one hundred and twenty nine. Louisville passed for two

(40:41):
hundred and sixty four yards. Notre Dame passed for one
hundred and sixty three. I mean, louisill had seventy six
total plays. Notre Dame had fifty four total first downs.
Louisville nineteen, Notre Dame eleven. I mean, it's one of
those box scores that you look at and obviously, turnovers

(41:02):
are a big part of every game, right, Like it's
not uncommon for somebody to look at a box score
and then look at turnovers and think, oh, wow, you
know you were down three in the turnover possessions, Like then, yeah,
that would make sense to where it could be where
the numbers, you know, the numbers could look this way
and you not win. But they had turnovers too, and

(41:23):
you know Louisville had more. But just such a weird feeling, man,
I didn't expect Louisville to go to Notre Dame and
play poorly and you know, really shoot themselves in the
foot this many times and that really be why you lost.
And I think that's what happened today. A loss is
always a loss, and there's no scenario where Louisville loses
and we come on here and we celebrate, because that

(41:44):
would just be weird. But to know the value that
was there and to know that really you didn't, you
didn't get out of there with that win that had
value for you because of yourself is you know. It's
just it's it's unusual and I don't even you know,
And we'll see how the season plays out. We're still
trying to really figure out who Louisville is, to be
honest with you, because right now, as far as results only,

(42:06):
it remains to be seen. But I don't know where
Notre Dame just looks like they were better than us.
I mean, Riley Leonard played well today. He's a good
quarterback when it comes to taking off making plays with
his legs, and today he made enough plays with his arm,
especially early on, and you know, obviously Louisville was a
factor in him doing that, but either way, he made

(42:26):
plays and he's been good before. So I don't want
to act like Louisville went up there and made all
these mistakes and played a bum team and that's why
they lost. But like I just i'd be a liar.
And maybe this's just me being a Louisville fan, and
you know, maybe that's the homer in me, but I
don't think Notre Dame's that good. Which, hey, what does
that say about Louislle. They lost to him, so again,
that's what that But overall, that's what makes this such

(42:48):
a you know, such a gut punch. And usually when
you lose to Notre Dame at their place, it sucks
because you don't ever like losing. But again, ninety roughly
ninety percent of the teams they go up to South
ben and play Notre Dame in football, they don't leave
with wins. All right, let's go back to throw on spot.
About two five the number. Let's go to Lee. Lee,
welcome to sports Stock seven ninety.

Speaker 12 (43:08):
Hey, thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Man.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Sure listen.

Speaker 12 (43:12):
I'm a lifelong Notre Dame fan, but I'm also born
and raised in louisvill and a lifelong Louisville fan.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
I know it's early in the season, but you know.

Speaker 12 (43:25):
There's a twelve team playoff system, and Global made mistakes
early and they will capitalize that on the end and
before the end of season they will win acc and
they will go to the Playoffster Dame again. But listen, man,
I went out. I've been at the Cardinal Stadium watching

(43:45):
watching them play.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
Man.

Speaker 12 (43:46):
I'm I'm you know. I never thought Louisville.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Notre Dame would ever play each other.

Speaker 12 (43:50):
And the last three times they played each other, Loive
was two and one and they won in South Bend
the first time they win. So I know, it's a
little bit of a gut punch. As a louisvill fan
is bitter sweet, as a Notre Dame fan is bitter sweet.
But I believe both these teams any and will make
the playoffs. In Louisville will have the better showing in

(44:10):
the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Thanks fan, thank.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
You for the colleague. I appreciate it. Yeah, I mean,
I think both these teams are going to have a
tough road ahead to find one of those playoff spots. However,
there are twelve now, which means you know, you got
a better chance than you've ever had because they're given
out playoff spots more than they ever have been. But
you know, Notre Dame is a weird ass team. Now.
They now have two wins against top twenty teams, but

(44:34):
they have a lost in Northern Illinois, who isn't some
pesky MAC team that's competing for the G five spot
in the playoff. They're a MAC team that's not good.
I haven't even looked at the score yet. I know
they played NC State earlier. I'm assuming NC State won
that game. But anyways, you know, playoff. I'm not ready
to go there yet because honestly, I still think Louisville

(44:55):
from a personnel standpoint, I think they have a chance
to be really good good this year and really do
you know, do damage in the ACC. But if we're
just basing it off of results, they lost today, and yeah,
maybe you say that some of the mistakes were flukey,
but I don't know. Last week they were on the

(45:16):
other end of that, meaning there was a blocked kick,
which isn't the same thing as I mean, a blocked
kick can certainly be chalked up as a great defensive play.
Snapping the ball over the punter's head is just you
shooting yourself on the foot in a major way. The
defensive touchdown where Haynes King just decided to go full

(45:37):
Will Levis and just make a schizophrenic seeming play like
you know, you don't bank on that happening, which you
took advantage. So like, I still think Louisville has the
ability and the path, the players, the coach to do
big things this year. But they're three and one football
team and the only team they've played that's good. They

(45:57):
lost today and that's all that matters as far as
like how you evaluate where you are. But I also think,
you know, looking forward, I'm not thinking, oh man, how
are we going to beat SMU? What are we going
to do in Boston? College is on the schedule now
going to Clemson, It's gonna be tough for sure. And
that's the thing is that with you losing this game,

(46:18):
if you realistically want to talk about ACC like big
picture things, you know you now have more pressure to
to go win.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Again, I know this was not an ACC game, So
what I mean is, though you know you won't have
this as a non conference glowing victory to prop up
if you somehow come up short in the ACC and ACC. Look,
if you win your league, you're in. But you know,
you know it'd be nice to you know, not have
you know, beating Clemson easier said than done, certainly not probable.

(46:47):
Beating Miami at home I mean, they look more beatable
now after they were gifted a victory last night against
Virginia Tech. So you know, I I'm still very optimistic.
I just I think four games in, as we wrap
up the month of September, the first month of the season,
and you know, results based, it's still hard to really
know where Louisville is. And here's the facts that I
should have said before I really got on that tangent.

(47:09):
It's because of the schedule. You played two nobody's then
you had a week off. I mean, what a weird
start to the year. All right, back to the fall lines.
Five two, five, seven, seventy nine hundred is the number.
Let's go to Richard. Richard, you're on Sports Talk seven ninety.
How are you.

Speaker 10 (47:22):
I'm doing good?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
But you doing I'm doing okay. You know, I'm kind
of bombed. Don't know how to feel. I still like
this Louisville team a lot, but to see the way
this thing played out with mistakes made on their end,
it really cost him. It's just it's a punch to
the gut.

Speaker 10 (47:38):
Yeah, it is. First off, I want to say Peacock
coverage is absolutely terrible. But besides that, it's thanks.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
What do you mean because of like just how I
mean it's clearly a Notre Dame broadcast. I mean that's
what you mean, right, Yes, yeah, I mean, and it's
it's crazy. I'm sitting here thinking like how could they
do this? And I'm like, oh, yeah, because Notre Dame
literally has their own network.

Speaker 10 (47:58):
Yes, because the buffer, and we had buffer in the
whole first half, we missed like three minutes of the game.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
They don't let you pause on Peacock, which is wild
to me. Like I was, I was trying to catch up,
Like I'm not asking you to let me skip ads,
I just want to catch up, and like I got,
I had to restart the app to to to get
as close to live as I could.

Speaker 10 (48:16):
Yeah, but I think our quarterback grew up today. He
actually showed me, showed me a lot the last season,
so uh And we had q rally out the day,
so it may have made a difference back in. But uh,
I think we're gonna be alright going forward. I just
want to uh go cards and go take it.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Take this acc Yeah, thank you, Richard. I appreciate the call. Look,
when it comes to Peacock again, I found myself like
what what? And then I realized, yeah, because it's not
usual to watch a game on television when you are
a power for a program where quite literally the television
crew works for the school. I mean, I don't think

(48:59):
if you looked at Jason Garrett's linked in it would
say that he's employed by Notre Dame, but he is.
I mean, Notre Dame has such a national audience to
where they have like they're I mean, they have a
national audience to where NBC sees them as a big
valuable product on television therefore like it's their own network.

(49:21):
It's just unusual a lot of I mean again, you
even if you went in knowing that, it still seems
it's just different. Right, And we've had announcers in games
where I feel like they were really on our side
or really on the other side. That's not that unusual.
But like to here's just little things mentioned by the broadcasters,
especially the play by play guy, and then the people
at like at halftime, like Maria Taylor and why the

(49:42):
hell isn't Nicole Arbach talking college football on that set?
Like you know, no offense to her, but like she's
she was covering college basketball for fifteen years specifically, and
now she's just seemed odd. But they ask for keys
for the game in the second half for Notre Dame,
like specifically, and I'm like, wait a second, what about us?
And then or less? Oh yeah, it's because this is
this is Notre Dames networks. It was odd, you know, Peacock,

(50:07):
It is different watching the game in that in that
way I'm used to, even if it's like Amazon or
Hulu YouTube TV obviously, but that's not really a network,
that's just a streaming provider. But like I'm usually I
can just hit pause. I couldn't hit pause on anything,
and that you know that that that was unusual for me.
But when it comes to Tyler, shuck. I'm glad you
mentioned uh Lee or Richard that you really liked what

(50:29):
you saw, because his numbers didn't aren't great. You know,
he had the fumble, he had an interception that was
clearly not his fault. That's another turnover I completely forgot about.
So the numbers aren't going to show it. But look,
he's not perfect. He's gonna make mistakes. I'm not here
to say he's the best quarterback in the country, but man,
he's poised and he can make big plays when it happens.
He's got a confidence about himself that really factors into

(50:52):
him him being able to brush off a play before
and still stand in And you know, I mean the
play he made in the first half, did ja Cory Brooks.
That's one of the best players you'll see all year.
I'm telling you, like I know, it's you know, in
a loss today at Notre Dame, the play where Tyler
Shuck found Jacory Brooks in the end zone there, which
by the way, they went viral on the end they

(51:13):
went viral online because it's it was that impressive that
along with Colin Lacy's one head of catch, those are
two of the best players you'll see at this point
in college in college football, and you lost. It's just tough.
They're not as memorable when they don't result in a win.
But Tyler Shuck, I mean, he's someone that can make
will make mistakes, bad plays will happen, and I think

(51:35):
he's what stands out to me about him that's a
little bit different than you know, Jack Plumber, and I think,
to be honest, Tyler Shuck's a lot more talented than
Jack Plumber. But my point is I think Jack would
make a mistake and it would he would start to press.
He would try to double down the next play to
make up for said mistake, kind of like Jeff Broum

(51:55):
did today at times, I think, but Shuck is just
he's a smooth operator. And I don't know if he's
got like an NFL upside or not, but he's got
a good arm, he's got good size, and you know,
he can make plays. Man, he can make plays. And
again I'm trying to find the actual numbers here because
let's see here, ye, I mean, yeah, Schuck was twenty

(52:16):
four to forty one, two hundred and sixty four yards,
three touchdowns, and an interception. Those aren't great numbers by
any means, but like if you watch the game, I mean,
I think it's quite clear this guy is. I mean,
Louis's not gonna If Louisvill's having issues this year and
we don't get close to what expectations where before the
season started, I don't think it's gonna because you don't
have a good enough quarterback. And we couldn't say that

(52:37):
last year. I think we wanted times in spite of
quarterback play a year ago. All right, let's get to
our last break here, We'll come back. I don't know why,
but on Saturdays when I do the postgame shows, my
voice just begins to fade. But we'll come back. Get
some more of your calls and finish strong here. Louisville
couldn't do exactly that. Unfortunately, they came up shore thirty

(52:57):
one to twenty four. Of the score today as the
Cards fall to Notre Dame, and I just I got
I gotta close out this box, this this stat broadcast
deep dive numbers that I've been looking. I mean, it's
just it's everywhere you look from a number standpoint, you
ask yourself, how did we lose? But we did so anyways,
I'll get to a break. We'll come back on the
other side. It's the louis Football Post game Show, percented

(53:19):
by ALEXR. White Lawyers, suit Distracted Driver dot Com on
Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Louisville Football postgame
show here on Sports Talk seven ninety, presented by ALEXAR
White Lawyers, sudistracted Driver dot Com. Tough loss for the
Cards today, thirty one to twenty four. They lost by
seven points. They were I believe I don't know what

(53:40):
it was when it kicked off, but they were hovering
around exactly that throughout the week. It's not a loss
that like perception changes about Louisville nationally. I mean, most teams,
and I know Northern Illinois did go in there and
do what we couldn't. But it's still not a bad loss.
And you still have a lot in front of you.
You've got an entire ACC slate and opportunities not only

(54:01):
to win, but to get wins with value. I mean,
any win in ACC play has the same value when
it comes to league standings, and you know, your pursuit
to potentially get to the championship game. But let's be real.
You know, if you go, I don't know, seven and
one in the league and your one loss is to Clemson,
but you beat Miami, you know those wins aren't you know,

(54:22):
from from a committee perspective like that, there's still clearly
value there. So it's just it's just, you know, as
I'm talking through it with you guys, it's helping me
a little bit because it just I cannot think of
a loss that Louisville's taken in football that I would
compare this one to in any way you know, you
were making a lot of mistakes that clearly came back

(54:43):
to bite shit things you know you can't do. You know,
we'll get back to the fall lines in just one second,
but whenever you would in the first half, when they
had and they were able to capitalize on a mistake
at the beginning of the game, little do we know
that they would go on to make many more mistakes
than the other team would. But that happening over the
punter's head, shuck breaking three, breaking free for you know,

(55:04):
fifty yards seemingly and then coughing it up. You know,
the other fumble that you actually got back, the interception
where it was a good play and then Jakori just
bobbled it and they and you know, those are mistakes
that you make, and you think to yourself, like, man,
that might come back to bite us. That that's probably
not gonna that's probably not ideal. But yet you you know,
you take away one of those, maybe it's a different game,

(55:25):
and you had multiple of them. So you say that
in any game when you make big mistakes, you're like, man,
I hope that I didn't come back to bite us. I
said that from the beginning, and you know you had
many of them today and yet you take away one,
maybe two, and it's a different result, and a win
would have been huge, it would have I'm not gonna
sugar coat that. That's you know, that's where you That's

(55:49):
where I'm trying and struggling to find the balance. You know,
you had those mistakes happen, yet you still played a team,
really you played a good team really close and could
have won. But it also is bittersweet because man like
you could have played poorly and still been able to
say you won at Notre Dame, and yet you couldn't
do it. So it sucks. Five seven seventy nine hundred

(56:11):
is the number. Let's go to the phone lines here
on the Louis Football postgame show and we'll go to
Alan Allen. You're on Sports Talk seven ninety. How are you, hey, Nick?
How you do doing okay? How about yourself?

Speaker 3 (56:23):
I'm not bad? Like you said, the turnover is our
problem early, but help me on our down situation. So
the play calling.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Fourth down, I don't get it. I don't get it
at all. Yeah, I mean I can't. I think maybe
just trying to do my guess. And again, Jeff Jeff's
forgotten more about football in the last thirty minutes than
I'll ever know. But I don't understand like maybe just
trying to really do something that they would never expect
on fourth down. But like some of the decisions, some
of the play calling, like that's just directly on him,

(57:01):
Like that's just a really you know, some of the
going going outside with one of you you know, with
it just made no sense not to do a quarterback
sneak at times or just give it to your you know,
go right up the middle. And it seemed like he
was just trying to maybe do something they wouldn't see coming,
which at times that is strategy. But you know, he
took some he took some big risks today and nearly
every one of them bit him in the ass.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Yeah, I would agree, Uh what were we one for four?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Unfortunately one for five, one for five yep.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Uh well uh and two of those calls were I
just don't get it, ma'am. I can you help me out?

Speaker 2 (57:41):
I wish I could, And I appreciate the call.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
Alan.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
I Uh again, I just I'm going to assume that
he was just trying to do something that maybe they
wouldn't they weren't expecting. You know, maybe he maybe in
practice he feels as if if they're going to go,
if they're gonna line up and get one or two yards,
and it's just got to move the you gottah the
chains as best you can. Maybe that I again, I
can't make sense of it. I'm trying to think, like, well,

(58:05):
that's that's their best that's their best strategy when it
comes to getting a yard on fourth down, But like, no,
I don't believe that. So I don't know what the
helly he was doing. To be honest with you, I
think you know, And look, Jeff could lose a bunch
of games this year and he will still be viewed
by anybody who knows anything about football as a phenomenal
play caller. And I'm not saying that to to excuse

(58:27):
the big mistakes he made today with some of his decisions.
But what I'm saying is that I think when you
are somebody that is regarded as such a creative an
elite play caller, you can sometimes get in your own
head and try to be not too cute. But like
I think he knew he was throwing something out there
that nobody would have expected but like nobody would have
expected it because it's the least likely scenario that will

(58:48):
pay off for you. I don't think he was cocky.
I just think he might have overthought it and you know,
just was too risky. You know, Nick Saban on game
day to day, if you watched, he did pick louisll
to win, which you know, I'm not saying that to say, hey,
we should be good, we should feel good about ourselves.
But Nick Saban apparently in recent conversation with Scott van Pelt.
Scott van Pelt said this on his podcast last week

(59:09):
that just in conversation, not on television, not on radio,
just in passing. Nick Saban and Scott Van Pelt were
talking college football and Nick Saban talked about how much
he loved Jeff Brahm as a play caller, respects the
hell out of him, said he'd tried to hire multiple
times with no luck. And you know you even heard
Jason Garrett. I mean, like, Jeff bram is phenomenal at
his job. And I don't say that to say people

(59:29):
who are upset with him tonight are wrong. No, you
should be upset. He did not have a good day
and that's the nicest way to put it, but I
bring it up to say one to answer to your question, Alan,
I'm just going to assume that he just you know,
was just trying to get too clever and it bit
him in the ass. But I'm not worried about Louisville
as far as personnel. I mean, maybe I'm giving this

(59:51):
guy too much of the benefit of the doubt, but like,
I don't feel like when it comes down to Louisville
not being a good team, like it, let's just said,
they don't end up being the team we thought they'd be.
The here at the end of the day, who's that
fall on the coach because he's he's the guy that
it falls on and everybody knows that. But I'm not
I don't feel like we're going to be at the
end of the year and be like, damn, who do
we have out there coaching this group?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
So today, you know, maybe they did come ready to play,
but like it just you know, flukey accidents, but like
you can't It's hard for me to see the way
that first quarter played out and say that you came
ready to play and that's disappointing, you know, And that's
on the players as much as it is anybody. But
then clearly some decisions made by the head coach tonight
were a factor. And uh, I think even Jeff would
would say the same, and he probably already has. I've

(01:00:32):
not been able to hear any of his comments, but
wouldn't be shocked if he said the same thing. All right,
let's go to Aaron. Aaron, you're on sports stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
Who is supposed to be all right, let's hang up
on Aaron.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
I don't know. I think Aaron might have called it
a different show of the said, oh man, I mean
he was talking. He was talking football. I heard Florida
State there, but he wasn't talking to us. Was he
talking to his buddies and didn't realize we were going
to go to him next? Did he call a different show?
Is there a different show on right now? I don't

(01:01:05):
think there is, but I could be totally wrong. Aaron,
I'm sorry we left you holding so long, but you know,
it's it's it's it's usually what happens when Louisville loses
The phone lines are much much harder to get into.
So thank you for the call, even if it was
us taking a call from you elsewhere. But you know,

(01:01:25):
he called in he wanted to talk to us, and
then he was talking to somebody else. I don't know
if it was just somebody. Maybe he's driving back and
he's just he you know, he put the phone down.
I don't know what it was. All right, So real quick,
this has you know, this needs to be said, and
I would not have said it if I didn't, if
I didn't remind myself via my notes here in front
of me before the show started. How about Brock Travelstead

(01:01:47):
a school record fifty six yard field goal when they
needed it the most and a very tough environment at
Notre Dame. Shout out to that guy. When you win
and the kickers get the job done, they're a factor still.
I think they get enough credit, but man, you know
they get all the heat whenever bad things happened, and
he stepped up and made a huge field goal or
kicked it. I mean, that's it's a school record at

(01:02:09):
Notre Dame, not at home against Popcorn State when you're up,
you know, sixty to nothing, crunch time South Bend, fifty
six yards. Hell yeah, Brock Travelstead. And I know there
are many of you listening right now and I did
the same thing. That's why I wrote it down before
the show started to remind myself to do it. But

(01:02:30):
I know many of you are listening right now and
you're like, oh, yeah, I forgot about that because you
know it was it just you know that's what happens.
But shout out to him. I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I don't know if he's I mean, clearly
it's a school record, but like a fifty six yarder
on the road for travelstead for me, I would have said, yeah,
very unlikely, just because one, that's long for any kicker,

(01:02:52):
but also like he's really good in his sweet spot.
That's not his sweet spot. That was about twenty eighth
yards further than where he really is consistent, So you know,
still came in a loss, but you don't see that
very often. In fact, you've never seen it at Louisville.
That's the longest field goal ever made at for Louisville football.
All right, let's let's call it a night. Appreciate you

(01:03:14):
guys hanging out tuning in, calling in it. Actually, you
know this is therapy for me. I still you know,
I am sad and I need to stop looking at
these numbers in front of me. That really just make
it even more puzzling as far as how you lost.
But talking through it, at least you know it helped me.
I hope it helped you. If not, you know, I
don't know what I can do for you. But they'll

(01:03:35):
be back in action next week against SMU in a
game that certainly they should win. And I'll be honest
with you, they're eleven point favorites, at least they were
before today's results. That's gonna be a game where they
don't just need to win. I need to see them
put together a pretty clean performance. And I'm not saying,
you know, come out and win by four touchdowns, but
you know that SMU is not a very good team,

(01:03:57):
and you know you need to bounce back in a
major way. And I hope they do exactly that. And again,
if they win ugly, you know it's still a win.
I don't want to say if they better win by
this many or if they better look great, or it's
gonna be concerning. But I need Littleville and not just win.
I need them to look good doing it, not just
for style points, but just to you know, they they
got to get some rhythm going. I feel like, you know,

(01:04:18):
they came out and made so many mistakes early on
in this game. It really never felt like they were,
you know, not in it. But they were clearly in
the game, but it just never felt like they got
it going. And then last week I give Georgia Tech
some credit, but it was really it really wasn't a
clean game overall. So anyways, I'll quit yeap and we'll
call it tonight. It's been the Louisville Football postgame Show,
presented by Alex R. White Lawyers to distracted driver dot

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comrade here on SportsTalk seven to ninety do