KSR - 2025-09-2- KSR - Hour 1

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

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It's here, and you can come have lunch and see the guys. It's Ryan Lemon, Andrew Franklin. Shannon is on the first of 17 vacations during the football season. You give Sean Clark's puppet shop full line 859-2-8-02287. A Vision Auto Glass text machine is 772-745254, and this is sponsored by the T.J. Smith's office. If you call T.J. he'll make them pay. There's a guy, Ryan, who on the text machine, he keeps a vacation day tracker.

Yes. Where he keeps track of us to see how many days. he's a vacation. And last year, was it, yeah, last year I won because of that big trip in the sign. Right. It's the only time I've ever won. But I believe going into, I think this is the eighth year of tracking it. Shannon has won six of the seven years. And so I actually, I give him credit for that. That's pretty amazing accomplishment. Well, Shannon has made it known he gets four weeks vacation and he's going to take every single second of that entire four week vacation. He and I count to four differently. But I'm for it. Listen, if he can get out, look, he can, he, he, he, he, he, he

go for it. Yeah, he also does them. He doesn't care what's going on in the sports world. That's the thing about him. Like, I try to do mine at the most dead time possible, so I don't miss anything. It could be Final Four, whatever. I'm going to the beach. I mean, this is oddly a week.

The NFL starts. College football starts. I saw that, but, you know, I wonder if there's something happening with him and Cutman. I saw no filters off this week, too. Maybe they were all together, vacationing together. Maybe so. All right, so let's talk UK Toledo. I mean, that's the big story, obviously.

happened a few days ago, but we haven't been on the air. Since then, Cats win 24 to 16. It was kind of what you might have figured. We won by eight. The spread kept going back and forth between seven and a half to ten, so clearly that's where people thought it would come. I was of the opinion, Ryan, that I thought Kentucky, even though the game was a one-score game, most of the game,

I always felt like Kentucky was kind of in control of the game. It was very frustrating. me they got up 10 to 2 and they just couldn't make it a two score game turnovers it was just like come on just make it a two score game and they couldn't and then the second half it felt like we kind were rolling and then they let them score a couple times at the end sort of put their guard down it ends up being probably what I thought was best case scenario which is a win but a frustrating win and pretty much leaves everything up for grabs in terms of what people are going to feel about the team next week in Ole Miss.

I'm with you. Very, very happy they won. I wasn't going to care if they won by one point. They just needed to have to win that game. They got the win. So I'm happy they won. I'm like everybody else, not thrilled with the offense, especially the passing game.

I think it's fair to say not thrilled. It was bad. But the running game was maybe better than we would have thought. Yeah, the two things we thought going in, defense would dominate. They did. Running game, an offensive line would dominate, and they did. So if they just got to, you know,

maybe it's just because it was Calzada's first game, these new receivers first game. The passing game was just off. But I asked Drew this question when I came in. They go to Macklin early in the game, like maybe first possession. He makes a great catch down the right side. And then he disappears. He's a non-factor. There were, I was very happy with the defense, by the way.

I think I saw we were maybe fourth in the country in week one and getting to the quarterback. Wow. Like a crazy high number. We also were like third from last in QBR or something. So it all depends on what you want to see. I mean, there was some really positive stuff, and then there was a passing game that, you know, I don't know what to say about. But, Drew, your overall takeaway. My overall takeaway is, thank God for that 79-yard run in the fourth quarter, because I was pretty disappointed, like everyone else, for three-quarters.

What did they have? What was it, 10 to 2 at the start of the fourth? It was. And your one touchdown, you needed an interception to set you up at the 29. So if you had talked to me in between third and fourth quarters, I was about as disappointed. as you could be. Now the run game really got going. They leaned on them more, got it going in that 79-yard run, padded the stats. But I was leaving the stadium.

I said I would be happy with a win no matter what. I lied a little bit. So you were disappointed. Just, I mean, it's one game. I don't want to judge. Someone reminded me yesterday last year, Old Dominion almost beat South Carolina in week one. And South Carolina goes on. Has a great year.

And last year, we crushed Ohio. There could be overreactions, but I wanted a little more out of Kyle's out of the offense, even though it was week one. Yeah, I think that's fair. So let's quickly go through the good. Good. I thought defensive line was great. I think we have like, I think we legitimately have an SEC defensive line, which we,

which we haven't really had in the last few years. Offensive line, not great. I think good, like much improved. I don't know if Bush Hamden's, this will be better than the big blue wall. Maybe he should have been careful about that. But I think it's still, it's still certainly good enough. You know, quarterback, not good. But I will say, I had some people, you may have heard me on the postgame show say,

I wish somebody would look and see how the wide receivers were. Had multiple people who know football watch the film, because they have the all 22 available on ESPN plus, said our receivers never open. Like, never open. Now, you know, one person said, look, the quarterback's got to throw them open sometime. Fair enough. But, like, there was some people riding me going, Our receivers may be a real problem, like not able to get any separation against the SEC defensive backs.

You throw in a quarterback that I don't think is exactly Peyton Manning, and so now you might start to get concerned about the passing. That's good to hear you say that because just a fan. Yes it? Well, because of me, I put all the blame was on Calzada. I felt like he was just. Whoever it's on, it's the same result, too. Yeah, I felt like Calzada was just, you know, a second too slow.

Just get rid of it a little quicker, a little sooner, but maybe he couldn't. Maybe because the receivers were not open. But part of me is like, okay, if it was Calzada, that's a fixable, like it's one person has to fix their job or you got another guy. If it's a whole set of receivers, Drew, it's hard for me to figure. Now, you can say, and I think this is correct, Toledo apparently has two guys in their secondary that will play, that will get drafted in the NFL. Right. They have like a third and fifth round. So that's good, I guess.

But then there's a whole lot of SEC teams that have guys in their secondary. They're going to get drafted in the NFL. So if you told me before that game, three receivers caught a pass and it was like Fred Ferry or Gilmore and I think Macklin had one. I mean, law, I thought they were going to be feeding the ball over and over, just getting it to them however they could. He barely touched it. I got excited earlier.

I thought Hester's down the sideline was a catch. From my seat, I still say it's a catch. And that kind of thought they'd get him going, but then they're only one other big shot fumbled. So two of your close. And that was a great throw, by the way. I mean, that was a great throw by him, the throw to the end zone that ended up being an offensive pass interference. was a good throw.

They were, however, like, one for 14 on throws longer than 10 yards, which is not, you know, and that one ended up in a fumble. So, he overthrew some guys. So, like, that. So those are, those are concerning stats. But you win. That was the most important thing. And now Old Miss comes.

I had the sense in the post game show. I, my general belief is the mood of the fan base has not changed one way or the other. It didn't get better. It didn't get worse. It's kind of like everybody's in a holding pattern and then says, tell me, talk to me on Saturday. Would you agree with that? I would agree with that.

I'm kind of in the same boat. You know, we'll see what this team is really made of. Make some adjustments. Maybe Calzada plays better when you got Ole Miss coming into town. You know, while we're talking about this, though, the tight ends, we've been begging for the tight ends to be more involved for 25 years. Our two leading receivers were two tight ends. Yeah, I wanted them to be more involved.

I didn't particularly want us to, however, only complete five passes to the wide receiver the whole game. I also have to say, I mean, I'm going to be real. I don't understand Bush Hamden. I just, I don't understand his play calling. I don't really understand what the goal of the offense is at any given point. You know, I keep getting told we're going to establish a running game. Then we do. And then, like, on those two possessions where on the other side of midfield, we go throw six out of seven passes.

of which are complete. To me, that was what was a one-score game. We needed to get it to be a two-score game. I don't, I feel like he passes when I think he should run. He runs when I think he should pass. He may just have opposite brain to me. And maybe that's positive, but so far I haven't seen it. My biggest complaint with him is how in the world do you take a safety that who calls

that play? They're in the pistol and run the RPO and lead Calzada, 10 yards behind the line of your image just hung him out to dry there you don't even call that to put him in that spot but that was my biggest complaint with him yeah just line up run between the tackles and get a few yards get some cushion there's a lot of people very they were very angry i mean just you don't get a safe there's no way you should uh should have handed the ball but at the same time why put him in a position where he can make a bad decision and get in get in trouble so do you think they did or didn't show their hand with omis coming in they've tried to play a little conservative i don't believe

that i mean if they did that's if they did i would say that's insanely stupid because that team could beat you. Right? It was 10 to 2. Yeah. I mean, if they were, quote, unquote, holding things until Old Miss, then y'all are a lot cockier than I would have been, because we could have lost that game. I mean, Toledo, I knew they were talented. We talked about, like, why did people say it? I didn't realize, in sort of getting some of our prep for our NFL show, I didn't realize Toledo has five guys on that roster projected to be drafted. Just for the record, we have one. Now, a lot of our other guys are better than their guys. But they have a lot of dudes. I mean, they have a guy in the offensive line that's supposed to be a second round pick. I mean, they, you know, so,

so I hope we didn't take that for granted. No, I mean, maybe if you were hiding something early, but you would have gone to the deep to the playbook as that game went on. I mean, it was a touchdown game in the fourth quarter. So of course you're going to pull out it, more stops to get some points on the board. So let's talk about some people that were good. Alex Safari, he was great, like the dude that's projected to be picked in the draft. He was great. He was everywhere, man. He's that guy.

Every time there was a play, you look up, and he's getting off the bottom of the pile. So, yeah, I think we would expect a superstar season from him. Is it Stephen Sackham Soles? Sackham Souls. Sackham Souls. Where did we get that name? They've been calling him that since he's set foot on campus, so I don't know. But he showed us on Saturday why he has that nickname.

Two strip sex. That does feel like a name someone would call into this show and get, though. Well, let's take credit for it. Well, we should call him Sackham Souls. but he was great. I mean, he, and I think even though they got three sacks, I think they got a lot of pressure even when it didn't show up. Like I thought the defensive line and just the pass rush in general was great.

Brad White, you know, I know last year was a little bit of a step back, but generally speaking, I'm good with Brad White as a defensive coordinator as long as he wants to be. I feel like he always has a game playing that at least has you prepared. It seems like that was the game, I can't remember a game where we had that much pressure on the quarterback. They were brought all kinds of pressure all game long on that Toledo Heisman candidate quarterback. Like a run. Yeah. I think that hurt his Heisman.

By the way, he didn't look like a Heisman. No, he didn't. I mean, at least. Heard his Heard his Heisman odds. Whoever said that, I think, might have been reaching a little bit. Yeah. He was the same guy who said that Lamar Wilkerson was going to Kentucky. Did you, are running backs.

Got to like them, right? The two stars? I was worried for a while. I mean, at halftime, they had 20 rushes for 60 yards, three yards of carry. when the Toledo defensive line wasn't that intimidating. So I was worried, but they got it going. Be critical. It's a four-quarter game.

In the fourth quarter, they found it. I doubt I was wrong. Like I said, that did a lot of work for me moving forward. I will say, I was positive about them because I judged these guys by what happens when the first hand gets on them. And I thought they were pretty good at getting another yard or two after the first hand gets on them. You know, the best of all time.

We're like Chris and Benny at that. They're not on that level. But I still feel like those are guys who can like, on third and one, third and two, we won't get stopped the line of scrimmage over at all. Yeah, they definitely get that extra yard after they take that first hit. And I just like the fact we got two of them, just kind of rotating them. We got fresh legs back there most of the game. So I'm really excited about what these two guys can do the rest of the season.

We're running hard too. Yeah. McGowan especially, he almost needs to be a little more patient. He was energetic bouncing off everything in there. So overall, grade the game. You go first, Drew. No. Me?

I looked at you. Okay. I'm going to give them. A B. You're going to give me a B? I'm going to give them a B. Yeah. The defense is probably an A. Offense probably a C, so I'm going to give them a B. Yeah, I'll have C plus B. I'll go B minus. I'll be positive after a three-day weekend.

I'm going to be minus. I can't give them a solid B. And the only reason I'm not going to go C-plus is I do think we have a chance to have a really, really good defensive line. And that could be big for us against some of these SEC teams. you know and we had a couple times too we got a little unlucky we got a couple strip sacks that we just didn't recover the ball and to me once you get a strip sack you should recover that like 60 or 70 percent of the time because you got a guy back in the back field we didn't that's unlucky wasn't scoring territory one was in scoring territory yeah so uh you know I still be minus we won that was not it was not a given to me we were going to win that game so I'm glad

we did. After that off season, this isn't the time to be picky. Sure, we have more questions right now than we probably want, but at least they want to move on. At least they want. Now, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we have to talk about the atmosphere. There were more comments in my text machine about the atmosphere than the game. I was not there. Drew was. Ryan, were you there? No, I didn't go. So I want to hear what Drew has to say. But then we just got to talk about because it's always been an issue, but it feels like it was more of an issue Saturday than I've heard in a long time. We'll deal with it right for this on KS. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear.

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your podcast. Welcome back. Techie Sports Radio, 859, 280,000, 2287. We got people here from Greenup County. We got Lexington, Frankfurt, and Louisville, all in the house here today already. Had a great crowd here for the game on Saturday. Good pregame crowd for breakfast. It was kind of fun just to get, feel that feeling and you can get that true blue feeling again. Good pregame crowd. Good postgame crowd. To those of you came postgame, y'all came at once. And there was a lot of people. We got a little, we got a little up so I apologize for people who had to wait. We've decided, having seen that, we're going to bring in, everybody's ordering the burgers, which is good, but they take a little longer.

So we're going to bring in another, we're going to bring in another grill. Nice, okay. So we'll have, we'll be cooking them out, maybe out front and in the back. That's kind of cool. Just because, you know, everybody's ordering the new burgers, which is great, but they just take a little longer, so we've got to add some help. Our kitchen is as big as it is. Yeah, what you're going to do?

Can't do a lot about it. 859-2-80-2-2-807. The text machine, 772, 775, 254, one person right, still drives me crazy that we snap the ball with three seconds left on the playcock. You're playing a great team. Why not run, or playing a team you're better than, why not play some tempo? I agree with that, but that's just, I think we're barking. That's never going to happen.

I mean, we're going to always be waiting until the last second and, you know. And I don't know this, but I think that's just stoops the way he wants to play. He didn't want to play tempo. It is stoops, but like, it's just, it's basically. math. When you play teams you're better than, you want as many plays as possible so you take away the randomness. Like when we play Georgia, we'd like to have as few of plays as possible. The theory is the more plays we have, the more chance for them being better to showcase itself. But when we're playing a team we're better than, we want as many plays as possible because the theory

is over time, the better team will win and the randomness will take it away. And they don't believe that. I'm good with what they do against Ole Miss. I want them to slow it down. And The more plays we have, the better chance we lose. But against Toledo, Drew, we should be doing as many plays as possible because we're better than them. A different sport, but the 2015 Final Four, not teach us anything. Kentucky basketball, Wisconsin? Basketball? More possessions, more Carl.

Perfect example. One of the things, one of the reasons Cal would always scream push it is he knew that the more possessions you get the better. Now, sometimes they got away from that, like in 2015. Mark Pope, same thing. The worst the team, the faster we play. When we played Florida, he made the decision. Our best chance is to just, we can shoot threes more. So let's put them as many of them up as we can.

We seem to go against our strength by playing against a team that's worse than us and then slowing it down. I just, well, you said it though. I don't stoop some tempo. He's not going to go together. It's not going to happen. Field position, let my defense rest. Yeah. All right, let's talk about atmosphere.

I got more texts and comments about atmosphere than ever. First of all, decent crowd, Drew, wouldn't you say? Considering, I mean, I didn't know if it would be like that. I actually thought the crowd was pretty good, right? Yeah, and I didn't do much tailgating, but in my direct walk to the press box, a great tailgating scene too. It was, and it was great here. So, I mean, I think people were into it.

I was told music was particularly awful. Rick, with love. Okay. Are you going to hear this with love, Rick? I'm listening. But with love, are you listening with love? Always. Okay.

I was told it sounded the same. like Rick was running the ox court at the game. What's wrong with that? Well, I mean, nothing's wrong with that for you, but maybe for everybody else they want a little bit more mojo. I heard particularly awful. And they didn't play Grove Street, which, why did we take away the one thing that we had?

Drew, you were there. Are those complaints valid? They're very valid. In the press box, we can't hear very well, but we can at least know kind of the song that's out there. And before we even heard a lot of complaints, this is early in the game. We were joking about how it is hard for the DJ with Young versus Old to find a good song.

They managed to play songs that Young didn't want to hear and that old didn't want to hear. No one wanted to hear those songs. I was getting messages in the second half from all over the stadium, including one guy who's been to every game for a long time, and he said, I have the message to pull it right here. This is the worst music I've heard in my entire life in Commonwealth Stadium, what they were doing there. And the Grove Street thing, that has to be intentional.

It has to be intentional. And that's the one. Okay, so whether people liked it or not, now you have little old ladies in the crowd going play the party song. Like everyone has accepted that song now. Why would you stop it? Why? That atmosphere is best I could tell from the press box. And I know a lot of it was the play on the field.

That's part of it. That looked like we went back 15 years for atmosphere. I agree. I thought we were in like 2009, 2010 again. We had a flag that they must have gotten out of my car. It had strands ripped on it. Like it was a ragged old flag. Like, how do you not, it's game one.

How do you not have a flag that doesn't have a rip down it? And of all the flags that was ripped, it was the Kentucky flag. It was only the Kentucky one. Like, you couldn't rip the Tennessee flag? Like, why is it our flag that was ripped? We could probably get Grove Street Party played again, but it's going to take a whole lot of money. Now, that's a reason not to play. That hurt.

It did hurt. I've waited on Saturday to play. Here's the problem. You all laugh at this. And that encourages me. He sees the people. And we know it's like because no one laughed at home. No one laughed at him.

See, Mario's like, what are you doing, Mario? We are trying to move him to not be the dorquiest old man. And you're laughing at him. That's the problem. You encourage him. This is when I laugh when he can't stop laughing at himself. It's Saturday night to tell that joke. No, you did.

Yes. I've kept it in my pocket since Saturday night. All right. I think it went over great. I would disagree. All right. But back to my point. It is a, we have a hard enough time here getting atmosphere going for a variety of reasons,

including our sound system, came out of my 89 Honda that I drove in high school. Like we have the worst. Frederick Douglass has a better sound system than you can. And I've been told there's nothing they can do about it without it paying a bajillion dollars, and they don't. It's hard for me to believe. But literally, you can hear the feedback coming through it. It's awful. But even beyond that, can we not get someone there with some connection to creating an atmosphere?

They've done better at basketball. It's still not great, but it used to be bad at basketball. They've done better at it, right? They have, and this is one of the things we're laughing at is imagine you're this college kid. It's your first game ever getting excited. In the biggest moments are two, two, like we just have a coal whistle is like our rallying cry. It's all good. Damn, dooms walk.

I mean, I like that some, but that's not. You should not be playing that a football game. I love a slawburger fries and a bottle of ski, but I don't understand the connection. And we've done it for seven years now. What disappointed me? I felt like they actually made some improvement. I did too. The video boards last year were nice.

Yeah. It's just so bad. And look, the play on the field is part of it. I know that. That's part of it. But, like, third quarter, it's the one thing everybody wants. They have to bring that back. I mean, they have to, right?

I was told that someone at UK, and they gave me a name, I'm not going to say who, but somebody pretty high up was like, we need to get back to our Kentucky roots. No. No. I love music from Kentucky more than anyone. No, not in a football game. It's a party. It's not a banjo.

We'll be right back. This is why I thought you were doing the DJ and Rick. Because like this would be what they would play, right? This is cold play. I know it's cold play. That's what I'm saying. You shouldn't play cold play at a UK football game. But this is what, like you said they played Lip Biscuit.

Yeah. It's my very part of the whole game, honestly. You could see people looking around like, who wants to hear lip biscuit? That's what I meant. Like the young verse old can be hard. I understand that. Like young kids probably don't want to hear TNT. But, you know, that's a big stadium, so I get it.

No one wanted to hear a limp biscuit. Nobody. I think T&T is not perfect, but like it's okay. Yeah, no, no, you can do that. I'm excusing T&T. But like you can't, yeah, you can't do limp biscuit. I mean, that captured nobody. Yeah, I'm with you.

I don't totally, I don't know what they're trying to accomplish. They've got to fix it, though. We got old miss coming in. We need to, you know, we need to have a heck of an atmosphere. That's our, our biggest advantage going into that game. should be the atmosphere. Now, Mark Stoops had his postgame show last night, or his Monday night, his coaches show.

Pretty uneventful and not very exciting, except somebody called in clearly joking, like clearly trying to be funny. And let me just say, I don't like when people try to be funny in like a, like I could hear in his voice a thing that would often make me want to hang up on it. I could hear it in the guy's voice, the caller.

But in the call, he asked Stoops if he was motivated. And you could see on Mark's face in the video that he wanted to find the kid and ring his neck. You could just see it. You could see in his face. He was like, if I see you out somewhere, it's on. But he kind of like tried to, he was like, I'm always motivated. He didn't like him.

Now, again, Drew, I'm of the belief. Man, just roll with it. The Wildcat during the catwalk held a sign that said motivated, and it had the drawing. Like, I thought that was great. I don't know if he got in trouble when we posted it. I hope he didn't. But I thought that was kind of cool.

Like, embrace it. But it is clear. Mark Stoops is not having the motivated thing at all last night. That was obvious. Yeah, that call, you could tell he was pretty antagonistic with it, and Stoops' tone immediately changed. And, you know, if they don't win many games this year, I think he's just going to get a little more of the motivation needling that people are kind of already doing. Because they know it, they know it Erkson. You can take away the power of it if he was just like, you're exactly right.

Like he could have recreated the pose, right? And he could have said, I'm motivated. Bring me one of those T-shirts. Let's go. I'm ready. Like, shouldn't you do that if you were him? Of course he should have done that. Just kind of lean into it.

Make it part of your persona this whole season, man. You don't be the motivated guy because we all would rally around it, I think, for sure. It's not like he's calling him something awful. You know, if he was like being a real jerk. That way if it was something terrible. But motivated is a good word. Isn't it grateful? Everyone should be motivated.

Right. Beautiful. Now we're getting into Pope. Yeah. We should get all those. Extraordinary special. Elite. But he didn't like that.

Very obvious. He didn't like that. Now, Lane Kiffin said in his press conference yesterday, Tuckie's very well coached. They came out and surprised us last year, and he had some line like, we're going to have to surprise them back. And as soon as he said it, I was like, oh, no. Oh, boy. Oh, no.

I think he had me more. It made me nervous. I'm not going to lie. Because, like, clearly that loss bothered. I mean, it should have. It kept them out of the playoff. If they beat us, they're in the playoffs. So if I'm an Old Miss fan, that was one of the worst losses I've had in a decade.

So they're clearly going to want to prove a point. And the way it happened, Stoops broke character and went forward on fourth and seven with a 63-yard. Even Kentucky fans were like, what in the world did Mark Stoops just do? So I think that adds to it. I've even heard Kiffin, after that game, kind of saw Mark was like, what was that? Where did that come from, Mark? That's not you? I don't think I've ever been more shocked by a play than that one.

When they lined up, I assumed they were just trying to draw them off sides. And then when he threw it deep and then he caught it, I was in the stadium. I lost it. I mean, I was jumping on people I didn't know who weren't even fans of Kentucky. But I think they saw the spontaneous joy so much they just let me do it, Ryan. It was crazy that that worked. And it was, and it is so out of his stoop's character. But if you want to be successful in the SEC, you've got to take chances like that.

You've got to do things like that. He needs to do more of that. And then adding to it, we won by recovering a fumble in the end zone after that play. Like, that wasn't even the touchdown. That's set up. We fumbled on the – so it's just – And they missed a little – If you're going to be mad about missing the playoff, losing on a 6-3-yard bomb,

then recovering a fumble in the end zone. And they missed a little short field goal. They had a little short field goal to tie the game. And then he hooked it left. So Kiffin hadn't forgotten that one. Yeah. Who's up in that first? Got Jerry up first.

Jerry. Of course, it leads with Jerry. Yes. All right, Jerry. You know how this is going on. Hey, Matt. Well, you're right about the environment, but that's why I don't like those 1230 games. I mean, the state was a little flat, but it's, that's what I don't like those 1230 games.

It's always flat. And I always worried that Stoops team would be flat, too, but they weren't, which is they could read. Yeah, you're right. They won the game. But, you know, the big thing is they did win. the game they very easily could have lost against Toledo. But the defense, they had an A going to that last drive because they did deliver that knockout blow.

I agree with that. I think that's fair. And then, you know, Ole Miss runs that tempo too, and they didn't defend it very well. I mean, Ole Miss, I mean, grand, they were playing a direction school that sucks, but they, but they scored in their first two plays. Yeah. No, Jared, I appreciate to call. I might just cut you out there.

appreciate the call. Jerry's right. I mean, if you want to be worried more than you already are, Toledo goes tempo and goes 95 yards over the course of like eight or nine plays. Ole Miss will go tempo the entire game. And so we're going to have to figure out what to do about that because that was the moment Toledo did that, their coach was probably like, why didn't we do this the whole game? Now, again, we were sitting back and just trying to kill clock. So maybe if it wasn't the end of the game, that drive doesn't happen. But that wasn't ideal at all. No, and you shouldn't let up. But I do wonder if. if they let up a little bit, knowing the game was in hand there.

And you're right about Ole Miss. They're not just a little bit. They're number one in tempo every year. They're not kind of tempo. They are tempo. Now, their quarterback's not as good as what they had last. Two interceptions against Georgia State. Speaking of last year, Barry and Brown, first of all, I got robbed on that touchdown.

He did. Like, they got completely robbed. I don't know how they overturned that. He had five catches, 25 yards, so it was a lot of them were very short. But that play in and of itself was pretty amazing. I was watching when that happened. Yeah, I thought for sure he was in the end zone. I felt excited for him to get that moment.

You know, him and Dane both to get a touchdown on their first game and their new team would have been awesome. You know, I mean, we both, Drew, we both think it would be great for Dane to be on the team. You were pretty adamant that you felt like Beryn needed to be somewhere else. When you watched him have that game with LSU, was there a part of you that said, man, I just watched a group of guys not get open. It'd be nice to have him this year. Did you think that at all?

No, because it wasn't really personal to him. It was just that whole room needed a reset. He was kind of the bigger reason of that. I was actually kind of excited for him. It was really the whole Barry-on-Brown experience. No, their first series, I think he had an illegal motion penalty. He did, he moved. And I even wrote, on that penalty, I said, just wait, he's going to do something spectacular

later in the game because that's what he does. Then that catch came. Then his final stats were about what very similar they were last year, so it was really the whole Barry-on experience. That's a good way of putting it. really was the Berion experience. The illegal motion penalty had my text machine just lighting up and people going, see, here we go. And then he makes that catch and people write, man, it'd be nice to have a guy like that. But you know, they're not, they don't even have him returning,

they didn't have him returning kick. That surprised me. That's, that, that surprised me. He was preseason All-American in a couple places in kick returning. They didn't even have him returning kick. I thought he'd get more playing time doing that than he would maybe a receiver, exact opposite. But, you know, which we mentioned Maclin earlier. I thought he was going to be the go-to guy. He catches that one ball, and then, like, I don't think he was targeted the rest of the game. Macklin, Maclin and Law combined for one catch.

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Friday is our big country boy show before the first big home game against Ole Miss. We're at Country Boy in Georgetown. For those of you that have never been to that show, I think it's probably one of the most fun shows we've done. And it has been argued that Kentucky football has been on a downward slide since the last time Ryan Lemon did a motivation. speech, I'm making you bring it back Friday at Country Boy. You haven't done it in two and a half years. And let's be honest, we haven't won an important home game in two and a half years. It's time for you to do it.

And I have, I can't promise it, but I have in the works the possibility of somebody that could make that really, really cool. I'm not promising it, but I'm just saying if you're there Friday, there's a chance that I think, but either way, they'll definitely get the speech because I just told you, and I'm just telling you about it. I have many days to prepare. Barry M. Brown, by the way, also, you mentioned the full experience. He also got in an argument with his head coach during the game that got caught on television, too.

Perfect Barry and Brown game. Yep, but I will say, being a little critical of him, that was definitely a catch and a spectacular thing. It was. He got robbed. If the rule is when you cross the plane, you score, I don't understand why it's different. When then way after you score, you drop the ball. I know that's a rule about a catch in the NFL. I get it.

but when you cross the goal line, that's supposed to be different. The play's dead. So think about how many times you watch a football game. The guy jumps up and he crosses it with the ball. Then he might fumble it and it's still a touchdown. Why is it different right there? That doesn't make any sense to me. Even with the finish the catch rule, I thought he still finished the catch.

He ended up almost in the stands, but I still thought he maintained control on enough. I don't like that rule at all. Non-sports thing really quick. Somebody needs to let me know what the, excuse my language, what the hell's going on in London Kentucky. All right. You know, for y'all that don't know, I don't know either, but just get on TikTok and put London in Kentucky. I mean, it is, there is wild stuff. I saw a video last night of people trying to fight each other in a parking lot. Like, like, all I know is the mayor and the city council seem to be on opposite sides. But I thought like people didn't like the mayor,

but now it seems like, it seems like the town's like divided in half. Like half the town is on the mayor's side, half the town is on the city council side. It has something to do with that time. The guy got killed because he went to the barn to get whatever. But it seems like the people that are angry now, that's not even what they're angry about. People are calling each other names. I guess they're having an impeachment hearing tomorrow morning that is being streamed live. They're expecting like hundreds of thousands of people to watch live. It's like captivated the country. And even though it's only an hour from where I grew up, I don't really know what's going on. Do you?

Yeah, it goes back to that, the weed eater thing, right? But I think it started with that, and it's morphed into something else. Okay. I don't think it's about, because that was the cat, like the sheriff or, again, there are so many characters. It feels like I need a, I need a outline. But all I know is I get on TikTok, and it is just people screaming at each other, but no context of what's happening, Drew. I'm with you.

It seems much bigger on TikTok than it does around town. not heard one peep about it outside of TikTok, but there's a little floating head girl that she's got all the hot gossip and I keep up with everything she says. And there's like some brothers that people don't like. And then there's a woman that was on the city council and it felt like I saw her throw a rolling pin at somebody. Rolling pin. Maybe it wasn't a rolling pin. But it's just I would like to know because everybody's like tomorrow is going to be the craziest day in the history of local government. And I don't know what's happening. Should we go? Well, it's during the show. I thought about taking the show there and doing it, but like we'd have to be outside

and I don't know what's going to happen. And have a live reporter inside reporting on what's going on in there. I'll tell you what. Can I give you the assignment of between now and tomorrow trying to at least give us the cast of characters? Okay. Come on with the cast of characters. Do you have TikTok? I do not. That's going to make it a little hard for you to figure it out. I can know. But if you have one of your friends, though, don't be biased. Don't because they might say it's this person's We need an unbiased, because on TikTok, opinions are split about who's right. Can I call Reed Shepard? Would he know what's going on?

Or maybe if you're in London and a no, you should just text Ryan. Yeah. And they can compare all the notes. Yeah. Either way, I'd like to know because on TikTok, there was a rolling pin. A rolling pin was thrown. There's a great video online. And some of the people, the things they're screaming are not good.

And I'm not taking up for anybody because I don't know what they're saying about each other is correct. But what I did know is there were people yelling, at each other going way out blah blah blah and there were just some police officers just watching like they're just watching and these people are yelling at each other and they're and the police officers just like well hope everybody has a good day one guy's just trying to do his delivery like he's walking through him like with a with a box it's great it's good stuff all right who's next adam is up next adam go ahead adam hey what's up guys uh I don't know who your guy at UK is, but tell them that I don't know what going back to Kentucky football atmosphere means, but we don't need any more mony-bony, you know.

I think what they said, what I was told is they said, we want everything in the stadium to reflect, like the music to reflect Kentucky, which is just a horrible idea. Because while I love Kentucky music, it's not football music, right? It's like picking and grinning music. It's not, and that's not what you play. Like, Mario's rolling his eyes right now. Like, I love Tom T. Hall. But I don't want to hear ravishing Ruby when we're driving down trying to score a touchdown. I just don't think. I think that's the thought.

Right, right. Well, to be more positive about that, Jerry said that, you know, we could have easily lost that game. We also could have easily blown them out. We could. We did. We did. on the field. And just going into the next week, if the offense looked bad, but here's some zero sacks.

Yes. Only three penalties. Yep. Third down conversion, much better than last year. Correct. And then you talk about all the lost points on the field. If Rodriguez doesn't fumble that ball in the red zone, we score there. How many times did we get the ball near midfield?

and then we didn't turn that in the point. I totally agree with you. I think if you were to say like just quality of play, that was probably a two-touchdown win that mistakes we made made it an eight-point game. Would you agree with that? Yeah, I totally think so. I think they left a lot of points on the field

that could have really blown that game open. And unfortunately, did you ever feel like we were going to lose that game? No, I never felt that. I didn't either. And I appreciate the call. I didn't either. I never felt like we were going to lose. And so that's part of the reason I didn't have a terrible feeling about the game

is I didn't never really think we were going to lose. The moments into that game seeing that defense, I knew Kentucky was going to be in a good spot, whatever the offense was doing. I mean, what they hold him to 55, 60 yards rushing? The big Chip-Trainum storyline coming in, your old running back is going to come make you pay. And he had, I think, 41 yards. That defense was locked in. That's why I was never too worried or never really worried at all.

Yeah. And really they gave up, you know, that last touchdown with, what, a minute to go. You take that away, and it is a two-touchdown win. They just got a little prevent defense, I think, got a little lazy there at that last drive. Yeah, no penalty, or it's only three penalties, no sacks. The turnovers are frustrating. I mean, that's, you know, the turnover and also just, I consider when you get the ball at the 37, you don't move it, I almost consider that a turnover, too.

And Willie's fumble was like, I don't remember the. exact spot on the edge of the red zone 25 he was around there that would have been a big scoring opportunity it did feel like it was 10 to 2 for way too long three quarter it was 10 to 2 to 2nd to 2nd to the points that would make it a 2 possession game and that was frustrating to me that you're like that you I felt like the moment it becomes a 2 possession game this will be over and we just couldn't do it for a long time if they didn't explode and that was some good running in that fourth quarter and hang it what if we had just won 10 to 2 I mean and I guess you're still happy with a win, but what a very uneventful day that was for three quarters.

Yeah. Well, I mean, at least we're not Alabama. True. They're picked to go to the Music City Bowl right now, by the way. Yeah, I do want to talk about some of those other games from Saturday, including poor last night, poor Bill Belichick. I told y'all, over on infants, under on wins. That might be true, too. Over on infants, under on wins.

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