2024-10-15- KSR - Hour 1

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Speaker 3: All right, good morning, ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls. It is Tuesday, October fifteenth, Ryan Leman, Drew Franklin, Shannon the Dude here for Kentucky Sports Radio. Matt will be joining us here momentarily. Had you know, he got the injured wrist, so he had to get his wrisk checked out this morning, but he'll be with you soon. As always, Kentucky Sports Radio sponsored by the TJ. Smith Office called TJ. What's you Do? Shanne.

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Speaker 2: He'll make them pay.

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Speaker 3: He'll make them pay. We'll have our Clarks Puppet Shop phone line as will be open eight five nine two eight zero two two eight seven it's eight five nine two eight Oh cats. If you still have one of those phones, you can punch in the letters. What else we got sponsored Shannon, We got the a vision glass text machine which Matt has seven seven two seven sevens four five two five.

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Speaker 3: The Whiskey Thief Call the day.

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Speaker 2: And the tweet of the day, The Don Franklin od tweet the day, There we Go.

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Speaker 3: The Don McDonald tweeted the day. Uh. I told you guys last night I was trying to find some show topics. I was struggling to find new updated show topics kind of we do in the summer everything, because everything I want to talk about we've already talked about. Yesterday we talked about We're gonna have to So here's what I'm gonna start with this. Well, this is exact midpoint of the season three and three. Most people probably had us I think probably at four and two, so it's not that much off. But the fact that two of your three losses were at home to sell North Carolina and Vanderbilt, and you stunk in both of those games. That's why it seems like three and three is a lot worse than three and three.

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Speaker 2: When you played only twelve games in the season.

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Speaker 3: Only one game.

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Speaker 2: Makes the world of a difference. So I feel like that's kind of where we're at right now.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I had it's a four and two at this point.

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Speaker 4: I believe I did too. Sounds can do you remember?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, four two?

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Speaker 2: I think we all had four and two at this point.

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Speaker 4: Was no missing Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so now where are you? What's our record after the next six games? In Oh Boy?

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Speaker 4: Because of Tucky football, I fully expect them to win in Gainesville.

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Speaker 3: Yes, my god, I'm yes.

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Speaker 4: I know. I was commident they'd beat Bandy. It's a little different, but just because that's exactly what they do. Right when we've decided what they are, they going doing the exact opposite. We know how well they play on the road. They seem to play well in Gainesville. Here they've had Florida's number. I actually expect them to win Saturday, even though I'm about us down on stoops in Kentucky footballs I've been in many years.

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Speaker 5: I think they're gonna win, So then.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, an you may just do my schedule, play your next six games, so I want to see what you like.

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Speaker 4: I'm a sunshine pumper here because it's pretty bad right now. But Auburn kind of sucks, yes, so I think they'll win that one too. I'll just say they'll lose to Texas and Tennessee. I'm sticking with my original predictions. My confidence level is just way down.

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Speaker 3: So you say they're four and two, that way they would finish.

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Speaker 4: They'll beat Auburn, they'll beat Murray State, and just because it's Kentucky, they'll beat Louisville like they did last year to put a little lipstick on an ugly, ugly year.

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Speaker 3: So would you be okay with that?

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Speaker 4: M Losing to South Carolina and Vandy is a double digit home favorite.

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Speaker 5: That's a tough pill to swallow.

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Speaker 4: And the you know, we've been over the numbers two and ten in the last twelve home games. Whatever it is out of bye weeks, you know there's there's bigger problems than just a going off losing the Vandy. So I would still be disappointed with that, But I do think they're gonna respond this week right when everybody's throwing them aside, wonder if they'll make a Bowl game or win another SEC game. I expect to see the pictures we saw two years ago of maybe Dane in the crowd, Mark Stoops, the never back Down video, walking out agains. So it's it's gonna happen again, because that's what that's how it works.

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Speaker 3: Shannon, what about you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with Drew.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I could see Kentucky bouncing back and beating Florida. They're three and three, like Kentucky is. Auburn's terrible this year. I originally had before we start the season, Kentucky beating Tennessee. I don't think that's gonna happen now, and I think that you probably lose the Texas. Still feel like Kentucky can beat Lovelle, though I don't know if that's me just you know, being biased, but I still feel like Kentucky can get the seven wins. I just don't think that's good enough for the fans at this point, especially when eight looked like it was very doable going into last weekend.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, guys. In fact, I think they'll finish four and two. But for me, I will be happy with that. I when when I started thinking about this topic, and I'm thinking myself that think win four their next six, I'm gonna be excited. I mean, I'm back on board thinking that we are we're not in as much trouble as we perceived to be as of right now after losing the home to Vanderbilt, because like you said, they at Florida, they've had good success down there. Florida's not playing very good. That's the train wreck Auburn coming up here. That's the thing is you have to you can't lose another home SEC game.

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Speaker 2: You can't getting the on This win was huge. It was that, you know, that's the difference I think in maybe getting the seven and six or if we only get six, that's the difference in being Boel eligible. So that win was huge.

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Speaker 3: And what about the Tennessee game. Tennessee hasn't scored a point in the first half their last two games.

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Speaker 5: There's different looking Tennessee. They've had to grind it out.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they got a phenomenal running back.

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Speaker 5: He's what the best in the country.

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Speaker 3: What game do we play the best Kentucky grind it out?

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Speaker 5: I hear you.

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Speaker 4: I feel like you woke up on the right side of the bed today. You're You're back on board. You got his beat in Tennessee. I feel like I need a little more time before I match your enthusiasm. Like I said, I think they'll bounce back to Texas and Tennessee. I don't know about but I think they're just lucky that Florida and Auburn are down as bad as they are. Yes, Florida's starting quarterback Graham Merts is out for the season, although some Florida fans were ready to make a change. So you're gonna be facing DJ Lagwell. I think it's his second start. He started a game earlier this year. So you have Florida and Auburn in a good spot. You're just not in a good spot going into those games. I'm not I'm not as excited as you. I'm still hurt.

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Speaker 3: Shannon. Here's like I said, the more I thought about this, the more excited I got about what still has yet to come. What if I say, like what we just laid out and then we say, Okay, yeah, Vandy's just a lot better than we all thought. That's that's true, And I think that's true.

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Speaker 2: Vandy, believe it or not, it's only a couple of plays away from being undefeated.

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Speaker 3: Bandy, they should have.

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Speaker 2: Beaten Missouri and then I don't know, they lost bout four points in the Georgia State. I don't know what happened there, but it came down to like a last play. So I mean, that's yeah, they are a lot better. Nobody's giving them credit for that, but they are.

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Speaker 3: If Vandy beat number one Alabama and Missouri was like what six or seventh when they had them beat right, so what if? What if Missouri? We didn't give Vandy enough credit yet? Then we go out and win former next x and including that win over Louisville in the last game of the year. I go into the off season like I did last year. Like you said, putting lipstick on a bad season, That's exactly how I'm gonna field this year.

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Speaker 4: You're not ready to give Vanny much credit. I mean, there were twelve penalties, We had a guy that couldn't keep his shoes on. That I'm sure we'll get to. We got stoops just off out of bye weeks. That's a that's a bigger problem than just whatever is happening this week and next week. I'm very disappointed in the way they played Saturday. I don't yeah, I mean, Vandy's fine, but Kentucky should have won the game. They outgained him. They had so many opportunities, as Matt said on his post game show, if you just clean it up and don't shoot yourself in the foot, that game should have been a win.

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Speaker 3: A lot of fans right now, you've see it on social media. They are they have us at five and seven not even being Bowl eligible.

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Speaker 4: Both fans we over wrecked, over react a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Well usually for twenty four hours, a little bit four hour rule.

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Speaker 4: I mean when they beat on miss I think people were not think people were saying the playoffs, talking the playoffs. Not much has changed since then except you had a bad game against Vandy and now it's back to will they make a bowl game?

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Speaker 3: Back to make a bowl game. They still have seven wins out there.

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Speaker 2: I think, and if you get back to seven, it's just enough to keep fans hanging on for there.

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Speaker 3: I'm right there. I think I am right there hanging one of those things right there.

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Speaker 2: You know, if we were to get to you know, eight or nine, which isn't going to happen. But you know, if we did before the season, we would be talking, oh, let's build the statue. Then if we get to like five or six, it's all it's fire Stoops. But seven is right there in the middle, just enough to get us, uh, you know, still on board for next season.

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Speaker 3: Now, we want to hear from you. What do you think? How do you think they're going to finish these next six games? Eight five, nine two eight h two to eet seven. You did mention the the shoegate story that broke yesterday.

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Speaker 4: It's the biggest headline in in Kentucky right now.

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Speaker 3: Jamarion will Cox, red shirt freshman running back. Every time he touches the ball seems to pick up a first down. Very explosive, a guy that has become number two behind Demi Sumo, Karmbay. Stoops kind of threw m Mon of the bus yesterday. He had said somebody asked him why is he on the field more? And Stoop said, well, learn how to tie your shoes, tire your shoe, and you can stay on the field more.

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Speaker 2: There was a blunt, honest answer. I don't really think they threw him under the bus. It was just an honest answer.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot more to Stoop saying that than just a tied shoe. The fact that Stoops is comfortable enough to say in a press conference if will Cox in tin of shoes, just tell you how bad it is behind the scenes with him. He's called him out saying he needs to mature. I just think the kid's not doing what he needs to be doing on the sideline when he gets the ball in the game. We've seen it. Yeah, I mean he's been great, but there's a reason he's not getting many looks.

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Speaker 5: And I think.

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Speaker 4: Everything else, meetings, practice, keeping.

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Speaker 5: Your shoes on, he's just not doing it.

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Speaker 4: And it's gotten to the point that, because you know, you don't normally call a kid out like that, I think Stoops had seen enough that the shoe was the last straw. So even though that's a big quote, and that's one I think we'll we'll talk about with Kentucky football for a long time. Occasionally things happen where you're like, yeah, that's gonna get referenced for a decade. I think the he can't tie his shoes is one that's gonna linger. But it's more about the shoe. It's a lot of just will Cox not doing what it needs to be doing to earn more playing time.

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Speaker 3: I've never heard a coach ever one time say tire shoe. Learn how to tire shoe. And if he's trying to play SEC football and he's not tight his shoes, what is wrong with him?

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Speaker 4: And it was a big part in the game. That's the end of the half where they gave up the touchdown. I mean, he breaks a fifteen yard run, has to go out because the shoe comes off. I mean then they three straight incompletions and have to punt. It was a It seems like it's a big deal the way Stoops made it out to be, but it's an even bigger deal that it's to the point that he can call him out.

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Speaker 3: Does it go.

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Speaker 4: I mean I've heard that they will Cox will get in the huddle and just absolutely does not know the play and they're kind of having to hold his hand with little things. He's just not doing what he needs to be doing. And now the sho shoe was a last straw.

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Speaker 3: Now with him, he's number he's the number two guy. They could have some success. They need him, they could use him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's averaging five or six yards to carry. But that's you gotta do the little things. I mean, that's the littlest thing that's in kindergarten.

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Speaker 3: I know it, and I know what you know. It's a cool hip thing for the young kid kids. My uncle probably back and stuf. They don't. You don't. They don't tie their shoe a lot of time. The shoes are designed where you don't tie your shoe.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's not walking around campus man like, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Don't they wrap their shoes anyway?

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Speaker 4: How does the shoe come off?

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Speaker 3: That's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Off the Off the field, do whatever you want. You don't have to wear shoes if you don't want to. As far, I wouldn't even care what is of shoes you wear. But on the field, you gotta tie your shoes.

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Speaker 3: Does it all go back to the lack of discipline?

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Speaker 4: Yes, Soops has never called out players as much as he has this week. He was at a loss for words on Saturday as to what goes wrong out of BI weeks and at home he wondered out loud, like are the families asking for too many tickets? He was that far down the list of what could be distracted And it's clear he doesn't have any answers, so things like little mistakes like that. He's kind of telling us, Look, I am trying to prepare these guys in the most basic things you would expect them to do on their own without me holding their hand. Some of them aren't doing it.

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Speaker 3: Eight five nine two two two eighty seven. That's the Clark' Puppyshop phone number one. Take your call. How do you think they'll finish the next six games? We also got to talk about a snake that showed up in the Major League Baseball playoffs last night. I got a lot to talk about, So stick around. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. All right, Welcome back Kentucky's Ports Radio. Ryan Drew Shannon joined now by Billy R Sports wearing his new Western Kentucky hilltop for shirt with the big eyeballs on the back. Hey, Ryan, the the topper googly eyes are on the back of the hoodie. That's really why I'm here, is just to show you this new hoodie I got.

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Speaker 5: It's good hoodie. I had to donate to the Western Nil Fund to get this hoodie, and it was everywhere. Those those big red eyes was on college game.

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Speaker 3: Day, they absolutely, they were that. It was everywhere.

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Speaker 5: So it's taken over.

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Speaker 4: You give them like Patino money. What are we talking?

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Speaker 5: Oh no, not Patino money, not on this to Mimosa salary here. But you know what it was, it was a healthy chunk. And I'd like to see Kentucky, you know, kind of mix it up and throw things out there, like Western has we have some denim shorts or some denim jerse exactly. Yeah, they get people get behind that, they'll pay for stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Our topic this morning to start with was what do you think Kentucky's record will be their next the last six games?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And I was listening and I was surprised that all of you guys picked Kentucky to win a home SEC game in Auburn. I mean, I just can't do that right now. So I think I'm looking at three and three. I've kind of changed my opinion a little bit on the Louisville game because I originally picked Louisville to win that one, but they look bad. Yeah, I mean their defense looks really bad. So I think Kentucky will be motivated for that one could pull that out. But I can't pick Kentucky to win a home me SEC game moving forward until they started to winning them.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there's on the a vision glass text machine. You guys, answer this question. What's the most likely scenario. We went out losing only to Texas or we only went against Murray State in Louisville. Wow, hmmm, what's the most likely scenario?

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Speaker 4: So five and one or two and four?

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Speaker 6: Five?

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Speaker 4: You don't have to say five and one. After all the mistakes they made.

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Speaker 5: Tennessee is not the same beast that I thought that they I was trying to tell that to Drew.

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Speaker 3: They haven't scored a point in the first half or last two games.

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Speaker 4: So much of last Saturday was just Kentucky doing it to themselves, beating themselves up. If they could clean it up. I can't believe I'm talking myself into this turn round in that scenario you presented, I think I think five and one is more likely, but I don't. I don't like where we're going with it. I want to still be mad a little bit longer. I need to be grumpy, just a four days, okay, but I will say five and one.

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Speaker 5: You're turning me here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate to be the pessimist, but I think two and four is more likely than five and one, But I think four and two is more likely all of them.

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Speaker 3: So you're saying the two wins are just the last two games Murray stateon in Louisville.

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Speaker 2: If you're giving me this scenario, I mean, again, the most likely to me is four and two. So but if you're saying five and one or two and four, I'd probably have to go to and four.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, really yeah, I'd probably go too and four. It's it's funny how fickle a fan base can be. I mean, he had the program changing win at Ole Miss maybe the best of Stoop's tenure, and now it's it's back to what you know? What are we doing here?

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Speaker 3: Eight five nine two two two eight seven. Who's our first caller? Standing?

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Parker.

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Speaker 3: Parker, go ahead, Parker.

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Speaker 5: Hey, my question for you Matt or Mathon on the show right now?

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Speaker 3: But what do you think about the quarterback situation?

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Speaker 5: What do you think about playing both these guys right now?

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Speaker 3: Good question, Parker. Thank you appreciate your phone call. I'm starting to hear a lot of that, you know, Wimsit comes in basically just to run the wildcat and try to pick up three four five yards of carry. He did chuck one down the field against Vane the other night. What you're feeling about the two quarterbacks are using right now?

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Speaker 4: You know, Whims it made that good throw and I'd like to see him in the red zone where they struggle, but I did not like how they were going to him so early. It just kind of felt like, what are we trying? We just trying everything. You know, you want Vandergriff to a little bit of rhythm, and then here it is first quarter and we've got Whims taking so many snaps. It just I don't know they would know better than me ei there in the moment, but I feel like that was just throwing off Kentucky's rhythm in a game when they never really got going. I would have just let Vandergriff be the quarterback until you really needed Gavin.

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Speaker 5: In a package. I mean, I like the change of pace every now and then. But they're running the ball fine with their backs, right, I mean, even without Gavin Whims that ja Maryon Wilcox twenty ties, his shoes has been great. I mean, Demi sum mccarmbay is another guy that I think has exceeded expectations of some early on, so you know, why not give it to your backs more often? I think we've been yurning for that, but you know, occasionally I do like a little change of pace, and Gavin has shown that he deserves some playing time. I think obviously he's talented enough to be thrown in there.

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Speaker 4: I like to see him at the ten yard line when they're trying to score. I just thought out they went to him a little too early. I didn't really know.

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Speaker 5: What the objective was there, because the ball they made a good throw.

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Speaker 3: It was like a midfield and they've ran it out there. They do save him til they getting in the red zone a little bit, and I.

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Speaker 4: Just wonder what that does for Vandergrift's confidence, where he's trying to take another step forward and you're you're subbing out for your backup to come in and run a few times.

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Speaker 3: Now, the fact that they did roll whims it out and he chucked one down the fields, all right, that's probably what they need to do more of it. They're gonna utilize him because every time he comes in depenses. No, it's just this is Lynn bowdenback. There's gonna run the wildcat and he's gonna run.

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Speaker 4: It was good that they showed he'll throw it. So now teams moving forward that watched the tape know that that's a possibility. They put that out there. I mean, it's mostly gonna be runs, but he made a good play on that. They'll have to respect that moving forward.

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Speaker 3: I agree. Eight nine two two eighty seven. Who's next, Shannon? Dave?

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Speaker 6: Dave?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Dave, Hey, guy, ask how y'all done? All right? How you Dave?

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Speaker 6: I'm going all right.

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Speaker 5: I got a simple solution.

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Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, you're cutting out a little bit.

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Speaker 7: Go ahead, all right, I still have a step up solution for the football team.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 8: Quit playing home games.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you phone call. Uh. That's why I think this Auburn game coming up in two weeks is huge. You can't lose three sec home games in a season, and when really you probably your double digit favorite in the first two.

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Speaker 5: They'll probably be favorite against Auburn. You're right about double digit favorite. And tip of the cap to Vandy because they're having a great year and they beat Alabama, but.

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Speaker 3: You lose to Hugh Freeze. A struggling team like Vandy's probably better than we all thought South Carolina maybe is better than we thought going in this season, but Auburn is really struggling.

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Speaker 4: I mean stupid. It's obvious he doesn't have the answers, so I mean, we can't give the answers if he doesn't know. But he has to figure out why they're so bad and so undisciplined at home. He brings up, maybe they're playing too free, they're too loose, got friends in town home crowd. They might be trying to show off a little bit, do a little too much and not sticking to their assignments. I mean, he's throwing out every possible thing. But he has to figure it out because it is spanning years of coming out of bye weeks and now playing at home where they just look like a completely different football team. Maybe it's when they're on the road. We've talked about before. He's so good at getting his team, getting that mentality us against everybody here. You know, they love being the road team. We've seen him win so many games. That doesn't mean you can look so bad at home. He has to figure out what's off there, and it's in the preparation because we saw it right away with penalties and mistakes on that first drive.

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Speaker 3: That's why I feel good about the game at Florida. I mean, I know yesterday everybody was down and it was you know, are still mad about the Vandy lost, But yet now Florida coming up there on the road, Floridas struggling, I feel.

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Speaker 5: Good about it. Yeah, Kentucky's had some success and it's Florida over these last few years, especially in the Swamp. You know, former players have called out a void of leadership on the players recently, and you know, doo Miss Johnson was talking about how I'm just not.

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Speaker 3: Used to this. Yeah, right, he's just not used to it.

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Speaker 5: We've got to figure this out quick because we didn't do that at Georgia very much. So Yeah, I mean it's it's head scratching. Like Drew said, this is not just this last year. It'd be out of Bye Week's home games over the last few years. It's there's been the common denominator has been stoops his credit.

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Speaker 4: They respond well usually when they have a horrible performance, they really do. And you're going to Florida. You've won what three in a row against Florida. I think it's so crazy to say out loud. Yeah, two out of three in Gainesville. You know they're not going to be too intimidated by this atmosphere. They know how bad they looked at home in a perfect, perfect atmosphere. Craterfield's never looked better for a Vandy game. They know they dropped the ball, so I actually to expect them to respond well, even though there are some serious issues with the program.

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Speaker 3: Got a couple of lines open eight five nine two eight h two tweets seven. You want to call and get on board, Shane. We got to talk baseball for Matt gets here, because I don't know we'll talk about once he gets here. Okay, but are you watching the playoffs? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm kind of in a weird way. I'm not really a Yankees or a Mets fan, and I'm kind of rooting for a subway series.

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Speaker 3: Well right now, what Dodgers Mets are one to one, yeah, and the Yankees are ahead of the Guardians one zero. So it's just getting started. But last night at the Dodgers game, Shanny played. You know, we've seen cats run on the field, rabbits, squirrels. I think even as there was a game of skunk got on the field.

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Speaker 2: There's a raccoon. I think last maybe in a football game, was.

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Speaker 4: That Monday Night football when a cat ran out. It ran like the length of the field.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've seen that video, like the Yah dutchdown Boys Giants.

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Speaker 5: They did that with a squirrel too at a Louisville game.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, last night a snake was on the field. A dugout in the dugout a snake, Shannon, How does that happen?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess snakes are just hanging out at the stadium. Somebody should have told the Diamondbacks they're already out of the playoffs. I don't know that that's crazy, but I'm telling you, out of all the animals we just talked about that are run on the field, that would be the one I would be least likely to remove myself. I would rather go after a squirrel, a rabbit, a raccoon before I would pick up a snake.

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Speaker 5: Oh, it depends on the snake. I mean, if you know your snakes, you're fine.

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Speaker 2: I don't know my snakes.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's either.

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Speaker 5: And the snakes you just go and pick up.

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Speaker 4: This is playoff baseball, too. I think you set the tone in the dugouts.

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Speaker 3: And throw it. Well, I was reaching stuff online with anything. Somebody brought that snake into the stadium, like, so what do you do? Do you hide it in your pocket?

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Speaker 2: And yet person's crazy.

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Speaker 5: It's like the hockey fans that bring in an octopus, yes, a catfish. They got to sneak it in somehow.

00:22:22
Speaker 3: Well, I've never seen that a snake ended up in the dugout last night, and then it kind of jinks to doctors met one last night.

00:22:27
Speaker 4: I was pretty excited in the Yankees game. A video of Taylor Swift went viral and friend of the program Adam left Go is sitting right in front of her.

00:22:34
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't catch that booth.

00:22:35
Speaker 4: So why everybody's focus on Travis and Taylor? I just looked right next to them. That's our friend, Adam, No kidding. I thought that was why I went of course with Taylor went viral, but he he was the main star in the video.

00:22:46
Speaker 3: Adam Lefko, former KSR host, I think one time, wasn't.

00:22:49
Speaker 4: They hanging with the libs?

00:22:51
Speaker 3: All right? Well, take our break come back eight five nine two two two eight seven This is KSR.

00:22:55
Speaker 5: TJ. Smith, personal injury attorney called TJ.

00:22:58
Speaker 4: He'll make them pay.

00:22:59
Speaker 2: Now more of Kentucky Sports Radio presented by Stockton Mortgage. Here's Matt Jones.

00:23:04
Speaker 3: Shannon doing Matt Dirty playing that song while he's not here yet. It's okay, Little Tom T. Hall. Welcome back, Ryan, Drew Shannon and Billy R. Sports Here Kentucky's Ports Radio. Uh, before we go to the phone line, SEC Basketball Media Day today, Right, we're.

00:23:20
Speaker 4: Gonna hear from Mark Pope. Big day down to SEC Media days. You know, they came out with the media poll yesterday. Yes, Kentucky was picked eighth. What are all these idiots in the conference doing voting? What's eighth?

00:23:32
Speaker 5: Guys?

00:23:32
Speaker 4: Eighth?

00:23:33
Speaker 3: We all we kind of went through it the other day. There's like four or five really good teams.

00:23:37
Speaker 4: I'm alright with fifth to six.

00:23:39
Speaker 3: Yes, I think more that's probably more right, fourth, fifth, sixth somewhere in there.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jackson Robinson got some all SEC recognition. But yeah, today they'll be doing their interviews. If anyone cares, Cal will be speaking, you know, he'll be asked a lot about Kentucky. So we'll keep an eye on that. But it's uh, it's talking season for basketball right before they get it started here in a couple.

00:23:59
Speaker 5: Weeks eighth in the poll, but nine teams are in the top twenty five in the SEC. I think so, I mean that's just maybe indicative of how deep the conference is. Yeah, and not knowing what to expect with what Kentucky's gonna have.

00:24:10
Speaker 3: It's what Kentucky was pre season twenty third in the AP preseason poll came out yesterday, Right, twenty That seems about maybe about right, maybe a little low, but somewhere in there in the Yeah.

00:24:20
Speaker 4: I said this before, and I don't want to sound like a loser mentality. I would prefer to be ranked in the top five, but it will be refreshing to try to climb for once instead of starting the year at one or two and just watching ourselves fall. I don't want to do this every year. I would rather be number one, but it will be a nice experience to see, Hey, let's see if we can win a few earlier in the year and see what ranking we can get to.

00:24:42
Speaker 5: Well, you're climbing if you're in the Ken Palm, because they were forty second in that ranking, right, So if we're While we're.

00:24:48
Speaker 3: Talking basketball, Thecaden Lewis visit apparently went very well. I was here over the weekend for Madness.

00:24:52
Speaker 4: Had a gigantic birthday cake. That thing was massed all that you see that picture. The cake game has improved from that cookie. Someone wrote UK with their opposite hand a year or two ago, and now I don't know who. I don't know if that was a Jeff Rubies or a Brandy project, but that cake was massive and had to have helped.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: And all indications were that everything went very well. Of Billy with his visit, Well.

00:25:15
Speaker 5: We laughed, But I bet you that stuff means a lot to these kids. Yes, and il Era, what are you going to give me? And if the cookie cake like that, is that what's what's to come? Maybe you're not you don't belong at Kentucky if that's what you care about. But I bet you it does matter to seventeen year olds. And he got to he was the only visitor. You know, a lot of times they're sharing the spotlight.

00:25:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, to take all the good point, have all these conversations, get him all there one on one time. It was all about him all weekend. He was at Madness. He even recorded a pretty cool video of him just at RUP and the UK gear. And then I assume he did the football game. I haven't seen that, but I by all reports it went very well and he was already leaning UK's way.

00:25:51
Speaker 3: Anyway, it makes it different. You're the only guy there. They can focus all their attention on you and your family and talk to you. Though.

00:25:56
Speaker 4: Probably got to meet Rick Patino, probably.

00:25:58
Speaker 3: Did eight seven. That's our Clark's publish out phone numbers. So who we got next than in double J, double J, Go ahead, double.

00:26:06
Speaker 8: J, Hey guys. Two things. First, grew up in the Patino area, listening to him, watching him and everything. Seeing him go to Louisville like wrip my heart out and everything, but march madness with him coming out how emotionally got like, it does make me have that whole hero mentality and respect him and everything. Second of all, I'm a you know, season ticket holder for football and this whole pony up thing with stoops like we are ponying up. We are out there standing until we watched the other team leave the field with their heads how high while we're over there wondering what's going on? And I think you know whoever it is that's out there causing these penalties and everything. There needs to be some accountability, Like we need to have a coach that's going to be able to say, I know you're playmaker and we need you out there, but you can't keep doing what you're doing and causing us yards after yards. We need to have you sat down for a couple of plays and get your head right and then get.

00:27:11
Speaker 5: Back out there.

00:27:12
Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Appreciate the phone call. I mean, you know, I had something we talked about a lot yesterday. The just a lot of the penalties too were awful. Time when you're on the four inch line and you get a penalty after Burryon breaks his big return and you get another penalty that brings it back thirty five yards whoever it was, and Dane's penalty, of course that was a bad one. There's just things that have happened throughout that game that will not just that game, though most of the season makes you scratch your head, like what do where's your head at?

00:27:37
Speaker 4: You know, we were just talking during the break with a listener here, Like you can tell right away burry On on the opening kickoff kind of getting an extra shot in and jawing after the play. There was just so much of that, and it looked like Vandy was baiting them into it. It's kind of how Dane got caught. That guy was John with Daney pops him in the back of the head. You got to keep your cool there because those are so costly, and they found a way to do them at the most inopportune times against Vanderbilt. We'll never know how many yards it truly cost them, but it's a lot more than the one hundred and six or whatever the box score said.

00:28:06
Speaker 5: And losses and lack of discipline I think resonate more in the NIL era when fans are actually paying players to a degree, right, So maybe I think, tell me if I'm wrong, Ryan, Maybe fans think even more so now that they should play better and have even less patience if you're actually contributing to a fund that's paying these guys.

00:28:25
Speaker 6: Think.

00:28:26
Speaker 3: I think there's a little truth to that. You know, you're more invested in the team because you're more invested financially in the program. I think there's a little truth to that.

00:28:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, even if you're not giving money, you can at least people feel they can be a little more critical because they are. These are professionals now, they are getting paid to play the game. And if I were a booster that was giving a lot of money, yeah, I'd really feel entitled for them to play well because it's coming out of my pocket.

00:28:49
Speaker 3: Eight nine two two eighty seven. Who's next, Shannon, Poppy? Poppy? Go ahead, Poppy?

00:28:55
Speaker 6: Hi, guys, how you doing good?

00:28:57
Speaker 3: How are you Poppy good?

00:28:58
Speaker 6: Doing great? Listen, I'm Poppy the granddad, not Poppy the restaurant owner.

00:29:03
Speaker 5: We love poppies on the show.

00:29:05
Speaker 6: Yeah. I got to get down a Lexington and eat there. Two quick things. Years ago, I was a volunteer coach on a freshman basketball team, and I learned from the head coach there that, back in the day, John Wooden, the Great John Wooden, the very first thing he did with every year with his new team is set him in the locker room and taught him how to tie their shoes.

00:29:29
Speaker 3: Yet the story of.

00:29:33
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, okay, so that is true. Yeah, I'd always heard that. And then the other thing I just learned in life, having been a granddad, eight grandkids, three sons, all turned out to be good people. Young people tend to live up or down to your expectations as long as you hold them accountable if they have rewards. When they do well, they keep doing well if you hold them accountable, and there are consequences, you know, if they don't douse things right, they tend to correct those things. Then, So what do you think of that? And then I'll listen all fear.

00:30:11
Speaker 3: Okay, Poppy, appreciate Funk already, think Drew.

00:30:13
Speaker 4: Well, you're the expert. I don't have any young ones.

00:30:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, how did you discipline your children? Well, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't work.

00:30:21
Speaker 2: Uh.

00:30:21
Speaker 3: You know, little Josida just got in trouble a couple of weeks ago, and I told him, I said, look, everybody makes mistakes. You just got to learn from your stakes mistakes and not make the same mistake again, because you know, we all make mistakes going up when we're young. I have one son obviously, who made some really bad, big mistakes, and he's paying for it. So there has to be consequences, whether it's mistakes at home, mistakes at school, or mistakes on the football field.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:30:46
Speaker 4: And as we said, stoops with this last one, I've I've never heard him put it as much on the players. I mean, he's still taking the blame. But he said in these meetings. I said everything I could think of to get these guys prepared, knowing my history of Bay and how poorly we've been at home lately, said I did everything I could think of to drill it into their heads before the game, and they still just came out look the way he did so, I mean, basically, I mean calling him out without and you can't directly call them out when you're in his shoes. But that's the closest he's been to calling them out. They're just not doing what they're supposed to be doing.

00:31:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they're at practice every day. Maybe they don't have the depth and they know that. And a lot of these guys have to stay on the field because they don't have SEC caliber players at other positions.

00:31:27
Speaker 3: You know.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: I'm just curious, Ryan, at what age did you learn to tire your shoes.

00:31:31
Speaker 3: It seems to me like that was a kindergarten thing, right, I think it's about a kindergarten thing.

00:31:35
Speaker 5: I was thinking like six years old.

00:31:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about right, kindergarten, first grade somewhere in there. And you tire shoes every single day, especially if you're going out to play a football game or a baseball game, you're gonna tire shoes.

00:31:48
Speaker 4: I think Willcox has an il opportunities out of this. I know now it's not the time to be talking about in IL when he's made a mistake like that, but he's a big talking point around college football and Kentucky right now. I think there's a velcrow shoe Dell out there waiting for him.

00:32:00
Speaker 3: Foot Lockers got to hear this and jump And I like him. I like his game and with with you know, Chip train him out and then Patterson got hurt. I mean we're kind of that lock That running back room is kind of thin, so you know they need him.

00:32:13
Speaker 4: I really want more of him, and a lot of that's on him as we've learned and what he needs to do off the field. But I mean, going into that game on our football podcast, look It and Rouse, we're all talking about how this is an opportunity for Willcox and it took him a little while to get a look against Vandy, but he looked great. And then the shoe comes off and he's getting called out on on Monday.

00:32:31
Speaker 3: Let's get one more calling shat before we take a break. Who we got Patrick Patrick? Go ahead?

00:32:34
Speaker 6: Patrick, Hey, good?

00:32:37
Speaker 7: Morning, guys. I just got two quick things when basketball and football. The other guy mentioned thea tina a little bit. I'm twenty nine years old, so you know, my my former years of Tucky basketball really started when Cal came aboard. I remember a little bit before him, but when Cale came aboard, I really started the love Kentucky basketball. Sorry, and you know, really started to enjoy it, which meant I hated Patino, but it was very very cool to see him get his moment and and rub and the fans love him, and I recognize the history he has with Kentucky basketball, so it was it was very cool to see him at that moment. I was proud of him for that. So that's the first thing. And the second thing is the football. Matt mentioned Chip and Maxwell Harrison. You know they're not going to play anymore this year, and I was just curious if you guys knew why that was. And I could give insight to that at all if you're able to, So I'll.

00:33:33
Speaker 3: Hang up and Missen, I appreciate it. Well, I know what Chip it had got that broken wrist. There's a bone in his wrist and it's it's just not healthy enough where they feel confident with him hanging on to the football, and they get this strink back then and then the rich Harriston is a shoulder, right? Is it a shoulder?

00:33:50
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:33:50
Speaker 4: Train him. They keep telling us he's close. He may have even reaggravated it recently. But I think Stoops even said this week getting closer and closer. Hopefully he's not too far away. Hairston, I don't know anything specific, but just seems like the overall tone is not too positive about how quickly he'll be back. That it's going to be a longer issue.

00:34:07
Speaker 5: Trew is right, though. Steves keeps hinting at chip train and possibly making a return. He did it again last night and said that he's that hopeful that he gets on the field this week in practice and then we'll see where he's at.

00:34:17
Speaker 4: Look, this is a broken hand, I think he might.

00:34:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, you may be shocked. I'm not a doctor, but I know there's like there's that bone in your connects your wrist to your hand at afoid bone, afoid afoid bone that takes like a year to heal, Like it's like really slow.

00:34:36
Speaker 4: He would be a long time.

00:34:37
Speaker 5: That looks exactly where Matt's got this at.

00:34:40
Speaker 4: That that bone doctor right now, which should just now, but Harrison, it doesn't.

00:34:46
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound positive.

00:34:47
Speaker 5: Whatever's going on there?

00:34:48
Speaker 3: Eight five nine two two two weet seven. Before we take a break, a little shout out to Brian Hudson, former Scott County cardinal. Played his college football at Virginia Tech and then ended up at Louisville. Big UK recruit for a long time. Just signed a the New England Patriots practice squad. So he's getting a chance in the NFL. So I want to give him a shout out one of our local guys. All Right, we'll take our break. Come back. Eight five nine two eight two eight seven. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio. All right, welcome back Kaenteky Sports Radio, Ryan Drew Shannon and Billy R. Sports. We had a doctor chime in on our not aphoid bone. What is it? Drew?

00:35:24
Speaker 4: He says, it is a scaffoid bone, and it doesn't take a year to hell, but it's at risk to not hell properly.

00:35:30
Speaker 3: If a fractures missed, it takes a long time.

00:35:32
Speaker 5: Say you're about seventy found there.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: We had a from the Avisian last text machine from a guy by the name of Freddy Maggart.

00:35:39
Speaker 4: Have you heard of fred I'm a big fan of Freddy.

00:35:42
Speaker 3: Freddy broke the scaffoid bone. You know how many times he broke his scafoid bone?

00:35:46
Speaker 4: How many times?

00:35:47
Speaker 3: Take a guess? Three, Take a guess four? Shannon sixteen seven? Wow, broke the scaffoid bone seven times. I heard him talk about like one time they taped an aspirin to it, and ye put an aspirin on it and taped it up like that was really good.

00:36:04
Speaker 2: Yes, what does into your skin?

00:36:06
Speaker 3: Is that what they I guess they thought it was. Oh yeah, So that's.

00:36:10
Speaker 5: A good reminder. All these guys are playing hurt one way or another, right, I mean, most of the time it's not if but when.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Also from the a vision glass tech machine from Britt, I've broken both wrists. They take forever to heal and are never the same. So I guess maybe the you know, he's got an NFL future, Maybe he's wanting them there, trying to make sure it's healed properly so it doesn't hinder him in the future.

00:36:32
Speaker 4: And I don't think there's been a big urgency because Dimmy's really stepped up. Yeah, he's looked like a good good back. I mean, you want training back. You need a lot more depth there. But it wasn't the weakness of mind I thought it would be when training first went down.

00:36:45
Speaker 3: Eight five nine two two eighty seven. Who you got next, Shannon, Let's go to Peanut, Peanut, Go ahead, Peanut, How are you, Peanut? Peanut? Peanut? Hello, Peanut? All right, Well, thanks for the good contribution that is our Don Franklin. Not call today from Peanut there eight five, nine, two to eight seven.

00:37:13
Speaker 4: We're going to Don Franklin soon, right.

00:37:14
Speaker 3: Somerset Chevy, Don Franklin, Chevy in Summerset Friday. Yeah, there's no calendar. Look at you, and it is the Chevy one. Right, there's like sixteen, Don Franklin.

00:37:26
Speaker 5: That's what's on the schedule, all right, it's on Mario's graphic.

00:37:28
Speaker 4: And he wouldn't lie.

00:37:29
Speaker 3: Who's next, Shannon? Trevor, Trevor, go ahead, Trevor.

00:37:33
Speaker 10: Hey, guys, how you doing this morning?

00:37:35
Speaker 3: How are you? Trevor?

00:37:38
Speaker 10: You know, I don't know what to think about this offense, but I do know if we were able give Brocks more time and established the pocket, he probably could do a little bit more and more.

00:37:53
Speaker 5: So.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate funk.

00:37:55
Speaker 10: Our tackles. Our tackles are not the greatest, unfortunately, and I know you're close to one of them. But you know, all defensive lines got to do is run one stunt and he's Jaggers blown up every play.

00:38:11
Speaker 3: He plays guard. Yeah, he's the left guard. I appreciate it, man, precid phone call. The new the de offective line had definitely been an issue.

00:38:20
Speaker 4: It's been very disappointing. I mean, when Cox came back, you think there's a guy that's played a lot of football. But you know, Matt mentioned he's playing through a lot of pain right now yesterday, but he's he's been disappointing at left tackle. The callers right, I mean, maybe Vandergriff looks a lot better with a little more time. He also scrambles out of the pocket pretty quickly. Yeah, he's not staying there. He loses his composure pretty quickly. So it's on it's on both parties, but it has been very disappointing that line play.

00:38:47
Speaker 5: I'd even say a couple holding calls came because Brock was holding onto the ball a little too long and those guys can only block for so long. Yeah, right, so he rolls out. You gotta scheme. You gotta scheme to help those weaknesses that you have, whether it be chips or maybe bringing a tight end to help block. But there there is a real correlation between the offensive line issues and the lack of explosive plays by this team.

00:39:08
Speaker 3: They do a lot of sets that you know, brought two tight ends I think for that reason to give him an extra blocker out there.

00:39:14
Speaker 4: Tight ends.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have tight ends on the football team.

00:39:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would like to see more Willie Rodriguez. I'm a big josh Ka actually that we think there's a lot of depth at that position. But of all of them, I think Willie's kind of been coming in with a big, mean streak, looking good as a freshman. At that big hit against Ole missed right away. I'd like to see a lot more from all of the tight ends, but I want more of him too.

00:39:38
Speaker 5: Didn't the tight end go to Louisville Isaia coming?

00:39:41
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is he?

00:39:42
Speaker 5: I guess they're gonna play him this year? Or is did he graduate?

00:39:44
Speaker 4: I don't keep up with him too much. A few days ago.

00:39:47
Speaker 5: They're playing We've been all asking the same thing from these tight ends.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: When they do throw to a tight end, it seems to be Jordan Dingles. The only guy that.

00:39:55
Speaker 4: Had a touchdown yes year.

00:39:56
Speaker 3: Catus Kamari Anderson a big frame and a lot the fall.

00:40:00
Speaker 4: I haven't seen much of now former Cats, I've all kind of had to become blockers. Unfortunately, make it up. That's it, then, play.

00:40:07
Speaker 3: I want to mention our former cat that starred last night, Ray Davis. What a big game he had for the Bills last night.

00:40:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have a Pro Bowl running back go down, So Davis knew he'd get some increased carries, but he went into the game as the second back and he ended up being the MVP of the whole thing. He did the on the field interview with Van Pelt. Yeah, he was the first rookie to lead the Bills in rushing and receiving in the same game since like nineteen eighty six.

00:40:31
Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, we had twenty carries for ninety seven yards. I wanted to get one hundred yards.

00:40:36
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00:40:39
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00:40:43
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00:41:20
Speaker 3: I missed the first half, so when I turned it on and starts taking out, they're all talk about Ray Davis, Like, what am I missing? What's going on? DV. I didn't have no idea.

00:41:27
Speaker 5: He looks really good.

00:41:28
Speaker 4: I mean, James Cook when he's healthy, he's the guy there, pro bowler. But Ray Davis is gonna make some money in the NFL. I think he's gonna play a lot, even if it's not in Buffalo. There was a play Josh Allen scrambling, has his back to the end zone and throws it down to the fifty yard line.

00:41:43
Speaker 5: There's Ray Davis down there.

00:41:44
Speaker 4: Making a catch deep down the field to end up scoring on that drive, and then you know, getting twenty carries. He proved his worth and got the celebration afterwards, him running around with the cowboy hat on.

00:41:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.

00:41:55
Speaker 5: Josh talked about how proud he was of him after the game. Josh Allen the Bills quarterback, and I'm not gonna bet against that guy for as much adversity as he's overcome. He was at the Vandy game Saturday. How did you pull that off?

00:42:06
Speaker 6: Was he?

00:42:06
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:42:07
Speaker 3: All right, well we'll take our break come back. Mattic's expected to possibly join us here sometime in the next hour. This is Kentucky's Ports Radio