KSR Postgame UK FB vs Texas 10/19/25

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 16-13 OT loss to Texas.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone. It is the Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame show.
The Cats take a very difficult loss in overtime to
preseason number one Texas in a game that they should
have won but did not in overtime sixteen to thirteen.
We're gonna goheat. I'm gonna go ahead and open up
the lines. I'm gonna give my take on it, and

(00:23):
then I do want to take your phone calls. I
think this is a game where there's a lot of
various emotions that people can have, and I want you
to get a chance to express them. I'm just gonna
just start with mine. I went to this game. I actually,
since COVID, have not gone to a lot of games.
Part of that is doing these postgame shows, trying to

(00:43):
get out and get home in order to do them,
and part of it is I, you know, I don't
like to sit in the press box, so I don't
I don't end up going to a lot of games,
but I went tonight because I just wanted to be
in the environment and sort of it had been a while,
and you know, I had no expectations for the game.

(01:05):
I kind of thought Kentucky would keep it close, but
I did not think they would win at any point,
and then they did what Kentucky football does to me,
which is they got me to believe. Because when the
game was tied at thirteen and went to overtime, I thought,
you know what I mean, we got the momentum. Their
offense is dreadful. We can get. We score a touchdown,

(01:29):
I think we win the game. And I do think
if we scored a touchdown, we win the game. I
think we would have stopped them if we won the game.
But we did not, and we'll talk about that in
a second, and you get the loss. So I did
allow myself to get my hopes up in overtime, and
that was the first time in the game I had
and it didn't work out. Here's the bottom line about

(01:50):
the game. Kentucky was better. Kentucky had double the yards
three hundred and ninety five yards to one hundred and
seventy six yards. Kentucky had the ball for forty minutes.
Texas had the ball for twenty minutes. Just if you
just visually watched the game, Kentucky moved the ball up
and down the field. Texas had a couple of decently
big plays thirty and forty yard games, but otherwise was

(02:13):
able to do very little against the Kentucky defense that
played really well. And as a side note, not trying
to hate on the guy, because I really like the
Manning family, but Arch Manning is not good and I
have no idea where. I mean, I know where the
hype came from, but boy, it looks absurd when you
actually see it up close. So Kentucky was the better team,

(02:34):
but they lost. And they lost for two reasons. One
is relatively simple. Two huge putt returns. I mean, Texas
does not get the ball in the end zone if
not for that putt return. They kicked it. We kicked
it twice to one of the best punt returners in
the country. He might be an All American putt returner.

(02:56):
We kicked it to him twice. The first time the
coverage was bad, second time coverage is good. Guy misses
the tackle. I'd have to go back and see who
it was because I couldn't see it in real time.
But I think the guy thought he was gonna fair
catch it and didn't and then just wasn't in position
and they missed one tackle and he goes for forty yards.
You take those two plays out of the game. Kentucky

(03:18):
wins the game. But you have the plays, so you
deal with it. And the second thing is those third
and fourth and one place and as I was thinking
about because I drove back to Louisville, so I was
thinking about the the the March Stoops era. And you know,

(03:41):
we've talked a lot about last four minutes, the first half,
first four minutes, the second half. They actually did alright
with that tonight. But one of the consistent problems, in
addition to conservative play calling, has been we have been
bad at third and fourth and one in the last
few years. I don't know if you remember two years ago.
I feel like every game there was a major third

(04:02):
and one or fourth and one that we just couldn't get.
That was the Devon Leary year. I think that was
probably the difference between Devin Leary being successful and not
was we could not convert third and fourth and ones.
And tonight, you know, you have the one in the
first half and then you do it in overtime. Let's
start with the first half. I don't know what they
were doing running quarterback sneak back on back to back place.

(04:26):
Texas the strength of their team is their defensive line.
Every single guy on their defensive line is going to
play in the NFL, and two of the guys are
going to be first round picks. And the only area
that I think you could say where Kentucky was definitively
not as good as Texas tonight was running the ball
up the middle. And yet we did five straight plays,

(04:48):
two in the first half and then three in the
overtime where we tried to do that in situations that
it didn't come close to working any of the times.
The two quarterback sneaks in the first half were the
worst calls of ever seen. I think Bush maybe his
angle because I was sitting there looking where the coach's
box are. He had to have on third and one,

(05:11):
he had to have thought that, excuse me, it was
third and two. He had to have thought it was
like third and inches, because I don't know what he's doing.
On third and two, run and cutter sneak and then
they get to fourth in inches and they get stopped.
Disaster right there. I mean, I think if you score
a touchdown right there might be slightly a different game,
but they get past it the overtime. You know, in

(05:34):
some ways the overtimes as bad as it can go
for Mark Stoops and bush Hamton. You have a twenty
two yard play on the first play to kinder Claw
that gets you to first and goal from the three.
At that point, unless you get a false start, you're
going for it. I have no problems, by the way,
with Mark going for it on fourth down. Yeah, you

(05:55):
could say, well, you kick a field goal, but the
thing is they've got a good field goal kicker, so
even if they can't get in the end, so they're
gonna kick a field going You're gonna be right back
to where you were before. When you're first and goal
from the three and you're playing a team that was
preseason number one on your home field, and you've been
criticized as a coach for many years for being too conservative,

(06:16):
you've got to go for it. So I have no
problems with Mark going for it. He said he had
no regrets for going for it. He shouldn't have any regrets.
They should have gone for it. It's the play calls.
I mean, if you go back and look at the
play on fourth down Dante Daldell, he jumped from the
four yard line. How did they think that was gonna work.
The only place Texas dominated US all game was in

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the middle of the defense on the line of scrimmage,
and we went straight up the middle three straight times.
They got I don't want to say they got conservative
because they went for it, but the play calling was
vanilla right there. And it's a shame because I actually
think Bush Hampden called a pretty good game for most
of the game. I mean, they were creative. They put

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Cutter in some good circumstances. I didn't like some of
his sweeps and jets. We had like three or four
go for loss of yards, but they did a lot
of good stuff. I mean they had three hundred. Look,
they had three hundred and ninety six yards against the
defense that's one of the best defenses in the country.
So I can't criticize the play calling in general, but
I sure can criticize it at the end. And it's

(07:24):
a shame because this is the reality of the situation
for everybody involved. None of you feel good about this game.
None of you, not one of you feel good about
this game. The days in year thirteen, the it's close,
we feel good. It just doesn't work, especially with where

(07:44):
we are in year thirteen. This I actually think Kentucky
played really well. I mean, put the punt, put the
punt return coverage aside. I actually think Kentucky played really well.
I think that defense played great. They did. I think
Brad White owned Steve Sarkisian, who's a really good play caller.
I think Brad White did great. I thought Bush Hampden

(08:06):
was all right. I thought Mark showed some guts, but
you know what, when it mattered, they just didn't make
the right decisions. And so part of me says, is
this just how it's gonna be like, even when we
play well, even when we play well, we just can't

(08:29):
do the last thing to get the win. Somebody ran
through chat GPT and I don't trust chat GBT on
most things, but the stats too good for me to
not at least acknowledge it. And I think it has
to be close to true, even if you know it's
not true. How many games has a team gotten double
the yards and had double the time of possession and

(08:53):
lost and it said you have like a ninety seven
point eight percent winning to do that. Somebody did that. Now.
I don't know if that's scientifically true, but I bet
it's close to true. You have double the time of possession,
you have double the yards, and I think we only
had one turnover. There's no reason we should lose that game.
And it was there for the taking. It was there

(09:14):
for the taking. You had a third and one and
a fourth and one in the first half, and a
second and three, third and one, fourth and one in
the second half, and arcy me in overtime and you
couldn't convert. And that's that. And you're not gonna get
a better chance than that because Texas offense is so bad.

(09:35):
At the end of the day, Mark stoops brand of
football is designed to give you a chance to win
games like this. This is why we always played Georgia
pretty well. Is because we are built to play against
teams like this. We are built to play against teams
like Texas, and Mark Stoops's coaching philosophy will keep you

(09:56):
close in games like this. But then you have if
you're if that's gonna be your philosophy, we we're not
gonna be able to beat the teams that put up
huge yards. I worried Tennessee will crush us next week.
If you're gonna play that philosophy when you play a
Texas team and you double them yards. You gotta win.
You gotta win, and they just didn't. And there's a

(10:17):
lot of positives coming out of this game. Cutter Bowley
played really well. He made some bad decisions. He took
some sacks he shouldn't have taken. But he has improved
every game this year. He's gutsy. I like him. I
like the kid. You got something there, right. You didn't
even really get your best running back, didn't even really
get all that many opportunities, and you still did well.

(10:39):
You saw some receivers make some plays. You know, there's
a lot of good stuff. But when it came down
to it, first and goal from the three four plays
at it, you gotta score. If we score a testdown,
we win. They're not gonna score it. Arch May was awful.

(11:02):
They had eight first downs, folks. Eight. If I told
you before the game, you're playing Texas, They're only gonna
have eight first downs, you gotta win. We have twenty six.
We had twenty six first downs, they had eight, and
we lost. So where does that leave us? Well, I mean,

(11:23):
you can't say that this game proves that Stoops can't coach,
because clearly he can. He had this team prepared when
a lot of people it would have been easy for
this to be over two weeks since you last played,
the fan base, including local media like myself, basically given

(11:43):
up on the season. You could have lost the locker room,
you could have lost the coaching staff, and they came
out and they played really well. You also have to
say that much maligned coordinators, I actually thought I had
a pretty good game plan, and I will say the
players play their hearts out the entire game, but in

(12:07):
the end, you lost. And in the end, I guess.
And this is what I'm interested to hear what the
fans say A five nine, two eighty seven. Does anybody
come out of that game feeling more confident about the
Stoops era than before? I think it was proven for

(12:29):
people that say Stoops is awful, I think they're wrong.
But if your opinion was what I think a majority
of the opinion of the fan base was, which is
this program needs to go in a good different direction,
is there anything that just happened that would change your
mind about that? I think the answer is probably no. Unfortunately,

(12:50):
I think the answer is probably know. And this was
a good chance. This was a chance to get one.
This was a chance. I mean, Auburn may fire Hugh
Freeze tomorrow. You know, this was a chance to maybe
go into that Auburn Louisville thing and go who knows, maybe,
and he just couldn't do it. And hate it. I

(13:13):
hate it for the players. It's a great environment there tonight.
The fans showed up. Our bar was dominating the pregame
by Texas people, but at the game there were a
lot of Texas fans, but the Kentucky fans controlled the
crowd and it was a good environment, especially the longer
it went. And just can't do it. So I worry

(13:35):
that even though overall this was a positive performance, it
was another disappointing ending. It was another sign of frustrations
that have plagued the Stoops era. Poor play calling down
the stretch, special teams, mental errors. And I think we
come out of it, unfortunately, right back where we were

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before eight five, nine, twenty two eighty seven. I'm interested
to hear what you think. By the way, I am
still livid about the call that where they called the
false start when we they had thirteen guys on the
field that didn't cost us ridiculous, but it is annoying
they had thirteen guys on the field. We didn't do
one thing wrong that and we get the penalty. I mean,

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come on, but that's not what causes the game. What
causes the game is first and goal from the three,
and you can't get in. So if I'm nine two
eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we'll take your phone
calls and be right back. It is the Local Toy
Dealers KSR postgame Show. Welcome back. It is the Local
Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. Let's go for a couple

(14:39):
of texts here from the text machine, which is seven
to seven two seven seven four five two five four.
One person writes, Matt, what about the environment You said
you haven't been in a while. Did you think the
music and sound is better? Music better choices, Sound is
still not great. I noticed they had speakers on the field, Billy,

(15:01):
which I've never seen before. I don't know if they've
been doing that all year or not. So it was
it felt like it was a little better, but we
still have like an old speaker system that isn't great.
But I thought the fans were I give the fans
a lot of credit. I didn't know it was kind
of worried. When I was at the bar earlier, I
was like, is it gonna be all Texas fans in there?
And there were a lot of Texas fans, but there

(15:21):
were a lot of Kentucky fans too, and they were loud,
so I thought the fans were good. The fans gave
Kentucky a chance to win, so you know, it kind
of is what it is. One person writes, Matt, what
about Mark Stoops in the postgame show and in the
press conference, he sounded like someone who knows the fate

(15:41):
that is coming. I didn't hear that, Billy, because I
was listening to something else. What did it sound like.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
I mean, he was disappointed, as you would expect, but
I don't know if he had resigned himself to being
fired at this point. I mean there's a lot of
I don't think you.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Could say he would be fine. I mean, I'm sure, yeah,
I don't think that's I think what's a bigger deal
for him is how he he knows what the fans feel,
you know what I mean. I don't think it's so
much he's worried about what Mitch does. I think he
knows how the fans feel. Well person goes Matt. Before
we talked too much about Kentucky, can we just talk
about how bad arch Manning is?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Really bad? Miss time.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
I don't understand. I really don't, because here's what this does.
Here's what arch Manning does for me, and maybe the
kid will get good in the end. I got nothing
against the Mannings. I really like Peyton and Eli. He's
not good. And I have two two thoughts. One these
NFL draft mock drafts a year before the season, Billy,

(16:45):
they're just worthless.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Right, Yeah, it's just talking like.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
They're just worthless. I will say Todd mcshay's been saying
all year he wouldn't like even before the season started,
he was like, I don't know a lot of people
have arch Maning number one, so I give him. I
mean Todd mcshaye didn't say that, but they're worthless. He
was number one one in every mock draft and he's
is he the worst quarterback we've played this year? Feels
like it. I mean, he's not good. He missed open throat,

(17:10):
like I don't get it. And then second, Paul Finebaum
said he was the best player of all time, say
was the best college player since Tiba, Like have you
where did that come from? Like I said all summer
on my show with Myron, if he was so good,

(17:32):
why didn't he play in front of Quinn yours? But
I had no idea. It was like this. I kind
of feel sorry for the kid. I do. I mean,
I feel sorry for him. Put his name into Twitter
during the game. My goodness, poor somebody's poor kid. But
I cannot believe how bad he is. So I don't know,

(17:55):
but it just goes to show mock drafts at least
before the season's over. I don't know how how helpful
they are. All Right, who's up first?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Matt is up first?

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Mat, go ahead?

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Math, Yeah, Matt, I agree with you. I think the
offense looked a lot better tonight, but still just the
critical mistakes and the critical moments of the game. It's
just we're frustrating more heartbreak for as a Kentucky fan.
And I still don't understand, like how halfway through the
year our offense is still looks confused. I don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Like situations they did, I mean I thought in general
they did so like the first ten or fifteen plays,
we always script those, we look so good. Same thing
in the second half. By the way, when you the
plays we script looks so good and then we get
into these unique situations where it's not scripted, and then

(18:49):
sometimes we look completely lost.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, but I think it might be a blessing in
his guys, because Barnhart probably would have given stoops of
extension if Illulu we won tonight.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Sopreciate it. I appreciate the call. It would be interesting
to see what would have happened. I mean, they wouldn't
given you an extension, but if they won, Deny, you know,
I don't know what it means for the rest of
the year. But I just I don't know that this
helped him at all. Even though we played I think
we played really well. I don't know that it helps

(19:19):
because of how it ended. I really don't. Who's next?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Justin?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Justin? Go ahead, Justin, Hey.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Man, how's it going. Appreciate you taking the call. I
just wanted to want to talk about something that I
experienced at the game tonight, and it was it was
kind of one of the most unprofessional things I'd seen
from a UK staff. So you guys know, at the
end of the half and the end of the regulation,
there was like sixteen fit fourteen seconds left, we didn't

(19:47):
kick the field goal. I saw a staying we kind
of sitting near the end of the end zone, a
fan kind of yell and saying, hey, why don't we
go for it? Why don't we take a shot here?
When we kicked the field goal with like sixteen seconds
left at the end of the end of regulation, right
Mitch walked over to him basically shoved, shoved his fingers
his face, told him to shut up, and went back
underneath the goalpost. Then they kicked the field goal, and

(20:08):
he like kind of charged this van and was like,
shove it, shove it to him, And I was I
just like, I've never seen an athletic director interact with
a fan in that way.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean, you're a I mean, I just want to
be clear, and I can't. Obviously I was not there,
so I can't say yeah, exactly, yeah, but you're saying
you saw.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
That absolutely yeah. And actually one of my buddies, because
we couldn't believe it happened, one of my buddies saw
on Twitter like an ESPN video and you can see
like Mitch as the field goal is going through the uprights,
him kind of like start walking and fist pumping at
the fan, right, And I was I was like kind
of astounded. I was like, you know, he might not agree, right,

(20:46):
I know, like this is a legacy contract for him
with Stoops. Right, we all have our opinions on whether
or not Stoops is the right fit after thirteen years,
If maybe it's time for him to go, maybe it's not.
I kind of lean somewhere in the middle. But yeah,
I was very shocked to see Mitch interact with a
sand that way.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
Fans spent a lot of money to go to these games,
and I think that fan had a right to express
his opinion about you know what he thought we should
have been going. You know, you even alluded to the
conservative play call towards the end of the games, and
that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
I appreciate you telling me this. To telling that story,
I appreciate the call. I'll have to look at the
video to see the thing about Mitch. I could see it,
you know, for all the button, the top button, he
can get pretty worked up. Yelling at fans is almost
always a bad idea, though, if you're a coach or
a player or an a d SO. But of course

(21:40):
I can't I didn't see it, so I'm just taking
off what what what he said? Let me on those
things about the end of the first half and the
end of the second half, I don't think they should
have run another play on either of those. You did
not have a time out. Cutter had taken like three
or four bad sacks in the game. You could not

(22:01):
risk him screwing that up. So I don't think they
should have run another play at the end of the
first half or the second half. I mean, honestly, what
do you hopeing happens? You can really only throw it
to the end zone because if you throw it short,
you might not get down in time to stop the clock.
But I do have a complaint. It's not about not
running the play. It's Billy, why are you not running

(22:23):
the clock down? So it's the last play of the half, right,
It didn't end up hurting him in either case. First
time Texas kneeled. Second time, same thing, but it could
have could have. So, like, that's a little basic thing,
but it's illustrative of what frustrates me. You're gonna call

(22:44):
your final time out, there's fifteen seconds left. Just wait
till there's four seconds left, and then the game will end.
Why are you doing it with fifteen seconds left? You
give them a chance to the hill, Mary to throw
a quick out and then get out of bounds kick
a long field goal. I just it didn't matter. But

(23:04):
it's just an example of the little things that drive
me crazy that we sometimes do. What's next? Patrick Patrick?
Go ahead? Patrick?

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Hey, Matt, first time caller? Who so on that last
drive before I get into my point real quick, on
that last drive, Texas was really only bringing three on
the blitz. So I think taking a shot with fifteen
seconds as long as Cutter throws it to the end zone.
I mean, I think it's at least worth the risk.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
But what if you get it picked off? I mean,
when you say just throw it to the end zone,
what if you get it picked off?

Speaker 5 (23:37):
I mean that's true, But I guess you know where
we're at as Kentucky fans. You know, it's one of
those things. It's like we might as well do it,
you know.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Well, but he had a fifty two. He had what
a fifty two yard field goal? He's a pretty good kicker.
I think he's only missed one in his career before tonight.
I think I'm fine with it. I mean, I understand
the other case, but I'm fine with it. Like I
it's I don't know how many coaches would throw one
to the end zone right there now if you had

(24:06):
one time out, maybe you're right, but you had no
time out. So let's say you catch it at the
five yard line. The clock might just run out, you know.
And if you take a sack, Yeah, done, you take
a sack, Like, think about it, You're you're you're forty
yards away to give your receiver time to get to
the end zone, you might end up taking a sack.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
But my point was that they were only rushing three
on that drive.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well, that's true, you did, so you did say.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
We would have at least maybe had a chance. I
see where you're coming from. But another thing on one
real quick was just I think the frustrating things for
us as fans is that, you know, games like tonight,
we know that we're so close, you know, and it's
just so frustrating to be right there and know that
we can be competitive, and then to just know, like,

(24:53):
are we stuck in this stoops contract?

Speaker 1 (24:57):
You know?

Speaker 5 (24:57):
So that's all I had to thank for that.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah, I appreciate to call I mean, we you know,
it would be unfair to say we haven't won some
of these games. We have. We beat Old Miss last year.
But you know it doesn't matter to me what we've
done in the past. In some ways, this is about
now in the future, And I just don't know that
anything tonight changed anything when it could have. I mean,

(25:21):
if they had only won tonight and then didn't win
again the rest of the year, that wouldn't have changed anything.
But you know this would have been you could have
not Here's the thing. We win that game, Billy Texas
is out of the playoff. Yeah, and the arch like
arch Manning. You know, I get a thing from my
ESPREM producers about what we're going to talk about tomorrow
morning because we lead off with college football. We had

(25:42):
in our thing. If Kentucky won, we have to talk
about arch Banning, right m h. So like we could
have been a national story. Instead it's just another frustrating
Kentucky loss.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well quickly about the future, I mean, if we learned anything.
Cutter Bully is the guy.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean he certainly, yes, he certainly is. Now. You know,
we'll see what happens with the way the but he
was great tonight he was except except for a few
of those a couple of those sacks, but you know
what that some of that's just having This is only
what's fifth or sick games.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Bad interception too, He should have thrown it.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
That interception though, was bad, but it did it didn't.
I mean, they ended up getting no points from it,
So I didn't hate that one. It was a bad throw,
but he was trying to make something happen. Who's next, Wade, Wade,
go ahead.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
Wade, Hey, Matt.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
I think Mark Dukes hates all of us, like the
way that he just tortures us in these kind of games.
It just feels on purpose. At this point, I'm just
so tired of At the beginning of today, I had
no hope, and I honestly kind of wanted us to lose,
to just get this season over with and maybe we
can move on for the future.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
Fire him.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
But by the end of the game, I was my
heart was all in, and of course it gets taken
away in the worst way through a terrible game to watch.
It wasn't fun, and I had my heart ripped out
right at the end. And it feels like he's done
that several times at least once a year he does that,
and I'm just convinced that he hates me at this point.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Well, I don't think he hates you, but I get
what you're saying. They get you in just enough to believe, right,
just enough to believe. And that's and that because I
did not believe until he made the kick to go
to overtime. I didn't, I really didn't. I was like, well,
we're gonna lose, and then I did. Yeah, and then
I get it knocked out.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Yeah, I agree. And I have to disagree with something
you said earlier this week when a fan called in
and talked about nil and taking that away from Stoops.
I mean, we have no leverage in this contract situation here,
and us paying all this money for three wins a
season just seems ridiculous when we could be paying it

(27:51):
to something like baseball or softball or volleyball and having
an amazing season. I mean, if he's gonna make us miserable,
then I feel like the only way we can get
out of this is if we make him miserable and
go have a better sport year for something else. Give
it to anything else basketball, Give us a forty million
dollar basketball in Il.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, well, I don't. I appreciate the call. I don't
think I don't think. What I think is unique is
I think there are people who think that Mark stoops
like wants to hold the program hostage. I actually don't
think that's true. I think when you hear his comments,
he knows what the fans think, and I think it
hurts him. Part of what makes me sad about this

(28:33):
is if we go down this path, I know what
I'm gonna end up saying on one of these shows, right,
I mean I'm not I know what I'm gonna have
to say at the end of the year if it
stays like this. And the thing is he knows that's
how fans feel, and it bothers me. Whereas with Caliperry.

(28:54):
Cali Perry was the opposite. Cali Perry was like, I'm
gonna do it to show the fans, like stick it
to the fans. That's not how Mark feels. It hurts
Mark that the fans feel the way they do. And
that makes me sad because like he wants to be

(29:15):
loved by the fans. So part of the reason I
kind of think this is gonna end the way I
think it's gonna end is I think he's gonna want
it too too, unless something changes. And we can't completely
throw that away because we almost won to night Billy,
you know what I mean? We almost won?

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, and goes back to that Coller's point if they
would have just gotten blown out and lost and.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Oh listen, it was ten to three. I thought what
was gonna happen was we were gonna go three and
out and then they were gonna score a touchdown. It
was gonna be seventeen to three, which was exactly what
I thought the score would be before the game. And
I was like, well, this is this is you know,
we scored three points is terrible. And then we did
just enough to break all our hearts. Yeah, who's next, Ethan?

(29:58):
Go ahead, Ethan?

Speaker 8 (30:00):
Hey Matt, how's it going?

Speaker 1 (30:02):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (30:04):
Look there, I know we can't get out of the
whole Stoops contract situation, but there is absolutely no reason
as to why Bush Hampden has a job Monday morning.
There has got to be an offensive analyst on this
offensive anything on this staff that knows how to get.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Oh okay, so I understand where you're coming from on that,
but let me let me just play Devil's after can
and see your thoughts, because I think the calls on second, third,
and fourth down are indefensible, especially when paired with the
plays in the first half on the third and one
and fourth one. With that said, he also went for

(30:43):
three hundred and ninety six yards against one of the
best defenses in the country. Does that mean something?

Speaker 9 (30:51):
I agree, But nobody's gonna remember that.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
You're out like, you're right, you're right about like.

Speaker 9 (30:58):
It doesn't matter. It would have mattered if we had
won the game, and we had because they were not
like you said earlier, they were not scoring when they
got the ball back. If we have scored right there,
he had four plays to score from the three yard
line and overtime and he couldn't make it happen. It
was three runs up the middle.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
It's just ridiculous and that will probably be and I
appreciate the call. Whether Mark Stoops comes back or not,
it is almost certainly the case push him and will
not be the offensive coordinator next year. And to the
extent there was doubt left in that it probably ended
on those four plays. No matter what they end up
doing the rest of it, I don't think you can probably.
I don't think you can let him go Sunday because

(31:35):
you're playing Tennessee Saturday and you're gonna have to score
a lot of points if you're gonna have a chance.
And I don't know that putting a new guy in
there is gonna make that happen. But yeah, I mean
him coming back probably ended with those plays at the

(31:56):
end of the first at the end or overtime, because
you're because they would not have scored. Texas was done done.
They were, they were done done. If it wasn't for
those Puver returns. They have no offense basically, so and
who would have ever thought arts me? I mean that
it's so crazy to me how bad they are offensively.
One more and we'll take a break. Who's next?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Bed Bug?

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Bed Bug? How are you?

Speaker 10 (32:20):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (32:20):
What's going on?

Speaker 12 (32:21):
Matt and Billy?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
What's up? Nay?

Speaker 11 (32:24):
Well?

Speaker 12 (32:25):
Uh, before I started, I just didn't say the players
played their But I mean, I'm really impressed how they played.
They they tried everything they could to win the game.
They really did try, right, Yes, But all right, So
I'm forty two and washing the cat since what I'm

(32:49):
I was eight where I could actually remember and uh,
I'm not saying that I wanted I't rooting for them
to lose the game. But at the same time, but
don't get me wrong, I want to do them to win,
But at the same time, I'm like, man, if if

(33:10):
they win this game, then there's a chance that that
stoops comes back.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well, yeah, I mean, I know what you're saying, but like,
you still have to be you still have to want
to win, right, Like I mean, I don't know if
you ever get to the point where you're rooting against
your own team incentives and I'm not, you.

Speaker 12 (33:34):
Know, no, and that that's that's how I was trying
to explain it to my fiance. I was like, I
was like, I want them.

Speaker 10 (33:43):
It's so it's so hard.

Speaker 12 (33:46):
Because I want them to win. I can't. I can't
steem lose. I can't. I don't want them to lose.
But I don't want this guy to come back because
it's the same thing every single year, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah, No, I get it. I get what you're saying,
and I appreciate the call. You're not saying you want
them to lose at the same time, you want a
definitive resolution, and in your case, that definitive resolution is
it sounds like you want to coach and Jay. That's
what Drew and I have said all year, five and
seven would be the worst record you could have. But
it's looking less and less like we're gonna get five
and seven. But if you had won tonight, you know, Auburn,

(34:27):
I think Auburn might fire you freeze tomorrow, So you
don't know what's gonna happen there. And then well, I mean,
Vandy's really good, so I don't know that that looks
different than it did early year. But Louisville, I know
Louisville beat Miami, but I actually think if we don't
if we haven't quit, I actually think that game can
be very competitive. But but you didn't win. So if

(34:51):
I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we'll
take a break, take more calls, be right back. Local
Toy Dealers KSR Post Game Show, Welcome back. It is
the Local Toy Dealers KSR Postgame Show. So somebody tagged
Billy and I in a video of the kick, and
Mitch Barnhardt is definitely pointed somebody. Definitely, He's definitely pointed somebody.

(35:18):
Now that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that it was
what that guy said, but he's definitely pointed somebody, Billy.
I think that's fair to say, Yeah, that was, and
he's pumping his fist, so you know, certainly plausible what
that guy says.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Ads get frustrated too. Maybe that's something that happened.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
You had something, what was it?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, we gotta talk about Seth mcgawan for a second,
because at one point of the game he was wearing
a gold watch on his wrist while he was playing. Yeah,
and then we've.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Done that before, though we had a guy do that.
I can't remember. I think when we beat Floyd down
the Road for the first time in like twenty eighteen,
there was a guy somebody, maybe it was Juice Johnson,
somebody made a big play that was wearing to watch.
That's not the first time I've seen that.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
But we go ahead, okay, and then McGowan had to leave.
He had a shoulder injury. They took him to the hospital,
I believe.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Is that true.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
He then came back and then entered the game again.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yes, did they say that on the broadcast? Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
He actually exited the stadium from the other end, which
is where the ambulance. Usually is he was taken to
the UK Healthcare and then came back he was supposed
to get.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I believe you. But is that a billy source or
is it someone say.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
That that was the radio and TV brunch?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Okay, so okay, see I didn't hear any of the broadcasts. Okay,
Well that's crazy, and that would have been a legendary
thing if we won, right because he came back in
the game.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, came back into the game. So that's incredible from him.
If that's true, that is incredible.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
That's got to be the most famous leaving the stadium
go to the hospital since t Bow when Taylor Wrindham
hit him in two thousand and seven or whatever that
year that was two eighty seven. Who's up next, Enrique?
En Rik Arek?

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Good?

Speaker 1 (36:59):
How are you good?

Speaker 13 (37:02):
So my my opening point is like the opening drive,
I feel like we should have scored there.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
We should have, But.

Speaker 13 (37:10):
I mean third and two and you run a quarterback sneak.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Even I have to I would be interested if somebody
should say, I think Bush Hampden had to have thought
it was third and inches, because I don't think you
run that on third and two. He you gotta remember
where they're seated. Maybe there was an angle thing they
were trying to go quick. I don't know, but like
for me, that makes no sense. A quarterback sneak third

(37:34):
and two. By the way, I thought they got a
bad spot on that too. You know that's supposed to
be where you start sliding. I think he started sliding
just short of the line. I thought they got a
bad spot on the on the play before, but go ahead.

Speaker 13 (37:49):
I just thought that was a pronouncing way. I thought
we should have scored there, you know, regardless, I think,
you know, pressure or whatever, take the three points.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
But it was close.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
I didn't mind them going for it. I just wish
they had a better prep.

Speaker 13 (38:05):
But yeah, yeah, So, I honestly I think that Mark
Stoops is the best. Cause I'm thirty two years old.
Mark Stoops is the best coach I've seen at Kentucky
by far. I don't think it's Stoops. I think, you know,
it could here and there. We should have won this

(38:26):
game by far.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
But so do you Let do you feel Let's say
the team fins, Let's say the team wins one game.
Let's say they go win that Auburn. They finished four
and eight would you want another year of stoops?

Speaker 13 (38:42):
I believe in stoops.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Yeah, okay, all right, we'll go all right. Appreciate the call.
Nice to hear the uh the other opinions, One person writes, Matt,
do you think that's the most road fans of any
team we've had? Uh? No, Tennessee has had times for
they have more people because they're so close. But it
was a lot for a team that's coming from that far.

(39:07):
It was a lot. LSU when they came here last
time had a lot, but this was up there. I mean,
there were a lot of Texas fans there. They were
oddly though, Billy not into it. They were not loud
at the game and what like at my bar. They

(39:27):
were like there, but they were, like I said, they
all looked like and I say this is a compliment
actually because they were all very nice, but they all
looked like members of George HW Bush's Republican Party. Okay,
but you know what I'm saying, Like they all were
wearing like button up polos, brown polos and khaki shorts.

(39:51):
And you know they had that like swoopy haircut, you
know what I'm talking about, Like that like that's what
they end they all were like, couldn't have been nicer,
and they were all like gentlemen and like ladies. And
I heard they tipped really well, So I'm pro Texas fans.
They just but they were not very energetic for a
group of people that came in mass this far.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
I think they just must know about Arch, you know.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
I'd be interested to say, I'd be interesting to see
what they think of Arch because they can't think he's good.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Right, they would have lost this game. I mean it
would have been.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
It would have been bad for him. Yeah, who's next, Kevin? Kevin?
Go ahead, Kevin.

Speaker 14 (40:28):
Hey, Matt, you cannot compound of this call anymore what
you just said. Anyway, let me preface this first up
thirteenth Region from Cumberland, and uh, I had the greatest
thing of backing up Freddie Wayne for our entire high
school life. And he's my dog and I love him.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
And he's awesome.

Speaker 14 (40:53):
Yeah, I know, I love him. And that's what I
call it.

Speaker 11 (40:57):
At my house tonight, we just got home and.

Speaker 6 (41:01):
We're not mad. I mean, I think it's apathy and and.

Speaker 8 (41:06):
And it's scary too when.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
It did it like did it?

Speaker 15 (41:11):
Like?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Because apathy is I don't care whether we win or not.
Did you feel apathy or.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
Were you just like you know, I knew knew what
was going to happen. Yeah, absolutely, when when when the
debacle before halftime happened, looked at my wife and I said,
you know, let's let's anyway. But uh, this is not
my call. I'm my My day has been full. I

(41:38):
mean it's a wonderful day. And uh get to call
in and talk about Freddie, Wayne and well and.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Yeah we Ryan and Drew just saw Freddy a few
days ago and he he always says to give the
message that he loves the fans. And uh, I just say, everybody,
you know, say prayer for fred He has good days,
he has bad days.

Speaker 14 (42:06):
You bet you never had anybody on the call that
Freddy wanted the backup for four years.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
I have not. I appreciate the call man, thank you
very much. Uh, but everybody say, uh, you know, keep
Freddy your thoughts. He's a he loves this place. When
they went and saw him, all he wanted to talk
about was Kentucky football. So uh, he's a he's he's
a great man. And uh, yeah, who's up next?

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Nate is up next?

Speaker 16 (42:34):
Nate go ahead and Nate, yeah, man, there's let me
run throw some stats at you, and like the other caller,
I kind of I mean really setting an apathy. I
know you're you're giving a both sides scenario on that
third and two QB sneake, but that's just absolutely like ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Oh, I have both sides. That was a terrible call.
I mean, I'm not both sides. And I'm just trying
to explain why he did it because if he if
he didn't think it was third and inches, then it
might be the worst call I've ever seen.

Speaker 16 (43:06):
Absolutely, And in Power four games, Bush has only scored
two touchdowns in one game. We've only won two SEC
games at Kroger Field since November of twenty twenty one.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I want you to skip over the first one. In
Power four games against Power four teams, we have only
scored in thirteen of those games. We have only scored
more than one touchdown once and we've never scored more
than two. That's why you would have to make a

(43:43):
change if no other stat was correct.

Speaker 16 (43:46):
Well, yeah, especially at the headshed. And the only time
we finished the middle or top half of the SEC
is when we had a head football coach in the
United States Football League or the you know, National Football League.
Roman on our sidelines. It's ridiculous. And all the programs
surrounding us are getting better Indiana, Vanderbilt, Louisville. Meanwhile, we're

(44:07):
sitting here wondering how the hell we can't get in
the end zone when we're running, you know, have three
hundred and ninety five yards total offense. It's just ridiculous. Man.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
You still gotta go appreciate the call. I listen. The Vanderbilt, Indiana,
Louisville part of it is a huge part of it.
There's no doubt. I mean, the last eight days have
been about as bad as it could be in that respect.
When you have Indiana go win at Oregon, Louisville wins

(44:35):
at Miami, and Vandy beats LUSU at home to go
six and one. You know, when you're the person, and
I was this person for many years who says you
can't win here, you can't this, you can't that, I
don't think that's true anymore. In the Anile era and
in the Portal era, and Vandy, especially Vandy and Indiana

(44:55):
showcase that louis this different situation you're in the ACC
that's a different thing. If they need Indian are playing
in big conferences and they're getting it done. Let's do
one more and we'll take our final break. Who's next, Nathan, Nathan?
Go ahead, Nathan.

Speaker 17 (45:10):
Hey Man, this is a first time call.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Who are.

Speaker 17 (45:14):
I think my I was just talking thinking like a
lot of my frustrations have been just with the coaching.
Like they I agree, they actually had a decent game
pan tonight, but like like a lot of callers that said,
have you have said, it's in those big moments that
it's let us down? And I think that's where I

(45:35):
from myself. It's been very, very frustrating to see where
it's like you can kind of like the players play
a great game, but then you know in those big
moments that you can't trust the coaching to get us
through that.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Totally agree with you. Totally agree with you, Mark Stoops
from moment one. There are three Freddy Mager once said
there are three phases of coaching. There's uh like motivation,
there's preparation, and then there's endgame, right motivation. Mark's like

(46:06):
ninety percent successful. Was there would have been a time
I said, Marks, guys always show up they kind of
quit at the end of last year, and that was
the first time that had happened. But they came out
tonight and played. Mark's great at motivation. I actually think
they're pretty good at preparation over the years that I
think the game plan tonight was great. They just put

(46:27):
the shackles on Tennis or on Texas's offense, and we
actually had a pretty good game plan, I think on
our offense. So I wouldn't say he's one hundred percent
good at preparation, but a lot of times we are,
and I think more often than not endgame coaching, specifically
the stuff that is literally in the moment you have

(46:50):
to figure it out and go X and go A
or B based on what's just happened, and you have
twenty seconds to figure it out. We've always been awful
at it, and I hate to say that, but it's
a fact. We've been bad at time management from moment
one and it's really never gotten better. And I know

(47:13):
it's a little thing, but the fact that we didn't
let the last play of the first half and the
last play of the second half be our kicks and
we left time on the clock is an example of
what I'm talking about it didn't matter, But it's a
it's not understanding moments and we've been bad at it
and they are bad at it, and I'm they're never
gonna get better at it. They've had thirteen years. They've

(47:33):
never been good at it. They've never been good at
the end of the moment, you have to decide something
and you have to use the logic of what's just
happened to figure out what you're gonna do next. They're
awful at it, and they've always been aful at it,
and that's very frustrated.

Speaker 17 (47:51):
Yeah, I guess where where's that for me? I think
the stoops has been. I mean, there's a five year
runner who was so good for us, but then the
last few years is when you're not winning, and then
these small mistakes build up.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
But how many times? How many times can you think
of it? I'm not saying there's none, okay, but how
many games can you think of where in the moment
we made a decision where we outsmarted the other team. Now,
there have been games where we out scheme the other
team in lead up. I think got stoops as guys

(48:25):
have played their hearts out for years, But can you
think of a game of a time where we said, man,
our staff really outsmarted him in that moment.

Speaker 16 (48:40):
I can't, honestly the top of my head, I can't.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
And I appreciate the call. That's what I call those
Lane Kiffin moments, because Lane Kiffin, I think, actually screws
up in a lot of other stuff, but in that
he's as good as anybody. He's as good as anybody
in a moment of coming up with something. Well, maybe
last year against him, when we threw that deep pass
to Barrion Brown, maybe that was the moment, Billy, when
we did do that. Yeah, but there haven't been many

(49:05):
and I that and it's never gotten better, and I
don't really know that it ever will.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Was that the last time they won an SEC game?

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Yes? Yes, he If I'm nine two eight oh twenty
two eighty seven, the text machine is seven seven two
seven seven four five two five four, We'll take a break,
come back. Final segment, Local Toy Dealers KSR Post game Show.
Welcome Back, Local Toy Dealers KSR postgame Show. If I'm
nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Alabama beats Tennessee,

(49:33):
including a ninety nine yard interception return and Tennessee may
lose their baseball coach. So that's good, right, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Is he going to the majors? Is that official?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
No, it's not official, but it looks like he's he's
the favorite to get the Giants job. I think that
would be. That would be, I mean, be interesting to see.
You don't see a lot of college coaches go straight
to the UH to the majors. One person rights mad
I was at the game. I think the Texas fans
are the nicest group of away fans I've ever seen here.
You know, people had said to me that Texas fans

(50:07):
were awful. You know, maybe it was just they didn't
think they were gonna lose. I don't know. I found
them to be like maybe the most pleasant LSU fans
when they were here, were really fun. But they tracked,
they talked trash, and drank a lot. I don't know, man,
this was these were all like gentlemen. Maybe it's just

(50:28):
the group that decided to come the weekend of Keenland.
I don't know. By the way, Lexington was alive today
in a way like I don't know if I can
ever remember it being like that, Like every single part
of town. I mean, you had so many different things
going on, from the scare fest at Rupperina to the

(50:49):
protest downtown, to the parents weekend, to the bar to
like bars filled with UK and Texas fans, to Keenland.
It's just like the city was a buzz. We talked
about yesterday had the worst traffic in the history of Lexington,
and I genuinely believe that's true today. I can't ever

(51:13):
remember being in this city when everywhere you went there
were just people walking and having fun like it was awesome.
It really was a cool day. I mean, the ending stinks,
but I don't I don't think I've ever seen a
day where the city had as many people out in
it and it was perfect weather too. Just a just
an awesome day outside of the result of this game.

(51:34):
All right, let's go oppen.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
I was gonna say it looked like o Jo Cinco
had a good time at the game.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, how about Ocho Cinco in the student section? ESPN
I saw showed him and didn't mention him. They showed
the student section and he was in it. Nobody noticed,
I guess Mario Mario Mario saw him in there, went
and interviewed him, and his video with him has gone viral.
How about Mario bringing it uh uh? And going by

(52:00):
from his interview with Ocho Sinkle where he's Oho said
he was going to lead the fans onto the field.
If we weren't, I would love I would have loved
to have seen that. All right, let's do We'll do
six more and call to night. So let's who's up first, Austin, Austin,
go ahead, Matt.

Speaker 18 (52:15):
Special teams have been a problem since the start of
Mark Stops tenure here.

Speaker 9 (52:19):
It's never been.

Speaker 13 (52:20):
Fixed, and that's par for the course.

Speaker 18 (52:22):
I'll come from Clark County, Indiana. I'm not sure if
you're familiar with that at all, But.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
It's not always, not always. Remember we had the national
punter of the Year, We've had We've had some really
good kickers. I I don't know. I I think I
don't think that's a consistent Mark Stoop's issue, although it
was definitely an issue tonight.

Speaker 18 (52:44):
I'll come from Clark County, Indiana. I'm not sure if
familiar with that at all. If you're not, just google
Jamie Nole Bush Handen should be incarcerated for set. He's
making blood money he's incompetent, and he's a fraud, and
he's the least successful you OC in America. Please, Joe Kraft, right,
your boy a thirty eight point seven million dollar checks
so he can sit by his pool ship already won

(53:06):
and think about how awful of a coach and how
bad of a leader he's been in the end of
his tenure.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Please, right, I'll stop you right there. I appreciate the
call I gave you. Gave you a minute there. Yeah,
well that was the opposite of the one guy just
to me in the last segment. Right? Five more? Who's next? Edward?

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Is next?

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Edward? Go ahead?

Speaker 10 (53:29):
Hey, Matt, I've been a season ticket holder since Caluch
was a sophomore, and I'm as discourage as I've ever been.
We've got this clock in this management. It's end of
the first half, the end of the game. And then
Paul Cutter Bowley, He's played the game of his life.

Speaker 9 (53:45):
And we don't give him a chance to win the
game at the end.

Speaker 10 (53:48):
I mean, how do we do that?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Yeah, I mean, I know what you mean. I don't know.
I mean, you know, not a ton of people. Three, Well,
I would say, you're gonna go four times from the three,
you probably do at least want to give him one
or two shots at it. I agree with you, yes,
And I thought he was great. I thought he was great.
My only complaint was a couple of times he took

(54:11):
sacks in places where you just can't take a sack.
We one time it got us out of field goal
range and and uh we nearly got a safety once.
But I mean that that's nitpicking because I thought he
made some great throws, and I also thought he was
really tough and had a couple of runs that were
really impressive.

Speaker 10 (54:29):
The only time I thought he played good, he played super.
The only mistake he made was throwing that interception. I
mean the rest time he really didn't have a Well.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
No, he does have time, so and I appreciate the call.
He's got to make reads there I had. I had
a guy sitting close to me who was talking about,
he's in there right, like, there were reads he just
didn't make. So he didn't see the blitz coming and
check off, and so he held onto the ball. And
so you know, sometimes in a D defense, you're letting
guys run free. But the quarterbacks got to know that,

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so that he then gets rid of the ball, and
I think he just missed it a couple of times.
But the interception didn't bother me as much because he
was third and fourteen. He was trying to make a
play and they ended up not scoring. So I don't
I don't think that had a huge impact. Who's next, Jerry, Jerry,
go ahead, Jerry, yeah.

Speaker 10 (55:24):
Man.

Speaker 11 (55:24):
First off, the Texas fans were great, including my lovely wife.
To grew up in Texas, I had to put up
here in a long horn, dear over there that tonight.
But it you know, you got to take care of
your wife as far as the game goes, you know,
all to the game, I felt at some point our
offensive code coach with equipment by some of the setup
was perfect. Texas comes out flat after that big game,

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their offensive line and rest is where they were against
Florida and Archer is running for his life. Set up
was perfect. Crust upset up. I just just had that
hit your stomach saying sooner or later, we're gonna have
some script on offense, and sadly down there at the
end of the overtime, it did you and I have
to agree to history. I'm not kicking the field go there.
I think you can still go there because your defense

(56:07):
has been holding them out, and then you just play on.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Yeah, but again, let's play it out. I mean, let's
say you kick the field goal right there, then they
come down and let's say we hold them, and then
they kick a field goal. They got a good kicker,
so you're like, you're not it's not like they have
a bag kicker, and you assume they're going to miss it.
So now you're right back to where you were before.
Are you going to get a better chance then first

(56:32):
and goal from the three the second time around? I mean,
you know, I think you're sitting there playing the numbers.
He's he's at fourth and a half a yard. I
just feel like you got a better chance of getting
it on fourth and a half in yard than to
go back and be first and ten at the twenty
five again, which is what you're asking for.

Speaker 11 (56:50):
Well and well, I guess probably the bigest problem I
have with it is running those plays.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
I agree with that that is a bigger issue.

Speaker 11 (56:59):
And then and then start tried to bail him out
because because happened, you just you just you just you
just come out with twenty five. If you've got a
decent kicker can still go game over and start almost
screwed that up.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
He almost screwed it up. I'll tell you what. They
also bailed us out in regulation when that guy ran
out of bounds. I mean, we shouldn't have even been
in all your time. Appreciate the call. I mean that
guy just ran out of bounds that he like, we
got a break just to be an overtime there. I
mean I was happy for it. But yeah, Also, I

(57:32):
think Mark should have called the time out when uh
we let thirty five seconds run off the clock when
it was clear they were in field goal range. I
would have called time out before it ended up not
really mattering we got into field goal range. But again
that's kind of the clock management stuff. One person writes, Matt, seriously,
you think they can beat Louisville. That's probably Kentucky fans.
You don't live in reality.

Speaker 14 (57:52):
Yes I do.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
I don't think we're the favorite. You all should be
over a touchdown favorite. But let's play a little bit.
You lost at home last week to Virginia. Virginia should
have lost today to Washington State, who's like two and five. Okay,
So no, I don't think it's crazy. You guys almost
lost a pitt. You did lose to Virginia. Now you
beat Miami, that's awesome, but you're inconsistent. So is it

(58:15):
crazy to think that Kentucky could play with little No? Now?
Do I think it's gonna happen? Probably not. I think
we're probably gonna go into that game three and eight
and our guys probably won't feel like they have a
lot to play for, and we'll probably lose. But like,
I don't understand how Louisville the fans you just lost
to Virginia at home. Come on, you're not world beaters.

(58:38):
Now You're gonna play like three bad teams in the
next few weeks. So you're gonna go into that Clepson game,
you know what, seven and two or seven No. Eight one,
But then you're gonna lose to Clemson, who's not good.
Just remember I told you that three more. Who's next? Josh,
go ahead, Josh, hey man.

Speaker 19 (58:58):
So big thing that I have a issue with is
we let Cutter get into a flow. We let him
move the ball down the field, move the ball down
the field, and then we immediately cut him off and
just run the ball like we instantly stop all the
momentum that he gets and just cut it off for

(59:19):
I don't know if it's a hand him play call
or if it's stoops, but it just feels like we
kill his entire momentum automatically, just for no reason.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Yeah. Well, I mean you do have to balance it
a little bit of passing and running, but we weren't.
I mean, Texas strength is the heart of their defense,
is the interior of their defensive line. Like I said,
all four of those guys are going in the NFL,
and we appreciate the call in very important moments of
the game. Continued to think that that was gonna work,

(59:49):
And I don't know how we'd have thought that. One
person writes, mat, I'm a blue coat, been working at
these games for forty years. Texas fans were the nicest
fans as a group we've ever had.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
That's nice, Billy ty praise from a blue coat.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Two more, who's that? Roy? Roy? Go ahead? Roy?

Speaker 8 (01:00:07):
Hey, guys, first time, long time?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
What's up.

Speaker 13 (01:00:12):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:00:12):
One thing that really hurt me tonight is I've been
a Kentucky football fan for twenty nine years. I came
back to womb a UK fan, and we had four
fumbles tonight and we didn't lose one of them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
How many? That's true? That, that's really true. Yeah, and
that one the guy, the guy tried to scoop and score.
If he just falls, they get it and we ended
up getting it back. You're right with the bounces were
on our side.

Speaker 8 (01:00:36):
Man, that that last one, that Ty Bright musted, I
thought I was going to have Andrey me too, me too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
No, you're right, but that is, by the way, a
very good point to make. You know, we did fumble
the ball four times and got all four bounces. That's
not gonna happen in a lot of games. But go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
I do have one positive thing to say. I've been
going to your restaurant, your bars for a long time,
and I always get the wings. The wings are always good.
The last time I went, I got a burger. I
got the bacon jamburger and that was one of the
best hamburgers I have ever had in my life. Man,
I drive two and a half hours just to eat
it again.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
To be honest with you, well, that's very nice of you.
Thank you very much. We appreciate the call. We've really,
I think, very much improved the food quality there since
we reopened and I'm very proud of Today was our
second busiest day ever. If we had won, I think
it would have been our busy I think it would
have been our best day ever. So thank you the

(01:01:29):
folks who came in. I do have to say thank
you the Texas fans too. One more. Who's next, Bryan Bryant?

Speaker 15 (01:01:34):
Go ahead, Hey, guys, I guess last call. I'll try
to end them a positive because I wanted to pivot
to the defense. I just wanted to ask, what would
you rate this defensive performance and do you think it's
something that you can look.

Speaker 16 (01:01:49):
Forward to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Great? I think it was. I mean, let me answer anything.
I'll give you the second thing. I think it was
a nine and a half out of ten. I mean,
let's look at it. We held him to thirteen point
in regulation. Seven of those points were because of a
punt return where they got it inside of the five,
and three of those points were because of a punt
return where they got it inside of the forty. So

(01:02:13):
ten points were kind of almost given to them. So
I would argue the defense really gave up like three
points they made open field tackles. This team has been
bad the last couple of years. On open field tackles,
they made almost all of them. The special teams missed
a couple, but the defense there was almost no big

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miss tackles. When they had to make a one on
one play, they made it. They got pressure on Arch,
they had a game plan where they dared him to
beat them in kind of in three fourths of the
field range, like downfield. He couldn't. I thought the defense,
I thought that was a great game. And Steve Starkeishan

(01:02:55):
is a very good play caller, so Brad White I
think deserves a ton of it.

Speaker 15 (01:03:00):
But go ahead, yeah, because I mean, I want to
be confident on next week. But they just they played
so good tonight and it's like, I feel like they
might just feel deflated. And I mean, yeah, that's a
great Tennessee offense coming in. I just I hate a
great performance on defense and they come out and give
up forty points next week. So I just hope it's

(01:03:20):
a positive move forward.

Speaker 16 (01:03:22):
But I'm not.

Speaker 15 (01:03:23):
I'm not so high on going in next week because.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Yeah, I'm not. Now, the next week's different. I appreciate
the call. Next week's yeah, I mean, next week's different
because Tennessee plays an offensive style. Tennessee plays an offensive style.
That's that's much tougher for us. We're good against teams
like this, we are not good against teams like Tennessee.

(01:03:47):
So I'm not confident about next week's game. I thought
this game could be close, but it wasn't just close.
It was there for us to win. This wasn't a
I think. I said on the pregame show, it'll be
the fourth quarter, it'll be a one position game, and
we'll have the ball. That was true. What I didn't
expect is we'll go to overtime and we will be

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the better team going into overtime and we should win.
And we were, and then we didn't do it, and
so you're left with just the emptiness of we needed it,
we didn't get it. And now I think, even though
it was a great night in some ways in terms
of performance and a huge step up, we're right back
where we were before, where it's hard to feel really

(01:04:30):
really positive going forward. Thank you folks very much for
staying up with me. Tonight tomorrow be on ESPN from
ten to one and cover zero that evening. Billy, appreciate
you staying up as well. We will see you later
Kats lose sixteen to thirteen. This has been the local
toy Dealers KSR postgame show

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
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