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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Louisville football game just ended, and it's now time
for you to react. It's the Louisville Football postgame Show
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Com on Sports Talk seven nine days Now. Here's Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, Welcome into the Louisville Football postgame Show presented
by Alex R. White Lawyers, Sue distracted Driver dot Com. Obviously,
I am not Nick Coffee. I'm the company man, John
fillin in for our man Nick this evening. And man,
what a game to be here for. Louisville loses to
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Stanford on a game winning field goal thirty eight to
thirty five on the road. And Austin's with me here
by the way, Austin, the Louisville struggler, Welcome in. Thanks
for being here alongside with me. I appreciate you join
me because this is I feel honored by the way. Yeah,
and this is a result that I feel like many
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people did not expect from Louisville tonight. And as you
go through kind of the way that this game played out,
it was a very slow start for the Cardinals, of course,
getting down ten nothing, they were able to kind of
figure some things out, got a big lead on Stanford,
but they were able. Stanford was able to continually hang around.
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And one thing that's been a big talking point for
this Louisville football team, I feel like all year long
is the defensive issues and that seemed to, you know,
clearly haunt them in the second half and then just
an absolute choke job, as you and I Austin were
talking about as we were watching the final seconds of
this game tick away. And I want to ask you,
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because you are a Louisville fan, I am not what
was kind of going through your brain during those last
couple of minutes when Louisville was trying to put things away,
but they kept shooting themselves in the foot probably more,
I mean not just more often than you would hope,
Like everything went wrong for this Louisville team down the
stretch here.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think you just kind of said it, shooting yourself
in the foot, And it's something that Nick would say
when he was here, is just self inflicted issues by
this team constantly and down the stretch. And it's always
on the defensive end too. So I mean, just what's
going through my head is just like here we go again.
Here we go again, and it just kind of and
I know it's definitely gonna be a talking point and
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reverberating throughout the whole week. But Jeff Bram again, the
narrative continues. That's something that me and Nick were talking
about earlier this week is one to avoid that next
bump after a huge win, something that's always haunted brom
Ever and his coaching tenure over the last few years.
And once again, mistakes rear their ugly head. And I'm
not gonna lie, I feel gross right now.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, and both you and I we thought this was
headed to overtime, of course, after the tying up touchdown
from Stanford, but Stanford gets an opportunity to get the
ball back with four seconds left because Louisville decides to
not punt the ball right, and they missed their fourth
down attempt to try to get back or you know,
I guess go for the touchdown. They missed the Tyler
Schuck missed the pass to his receiver, but on Stanford's
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ensuing play after that, they get out of bounds and
there's a unsportsmanlike passing penalty on was it Holloway right?
Teyon Holloway and that of course sets up the game
winning field goal for Stanford. Then you have the offsides
call or the off side's penalty excuse me for Louisville
special teams that gets them even closer, and Stanford drills
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the game winning field goal. You can't you can't make
something like this up. And I can't imagine what's going
through the team, said Jeff Brohm said, you know, the
players making the silly mistakes, because we're more than likely
watching overtime right now if you don't have that unsportsmanlike
I mean not even more than likely. I highly doubt
Danford would have gone for a hill.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Mary.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Maybe I'm wrong, but just the way things played out,
I can't imagine it being a more devastating scenario for
Louie in this game.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, it's absolutely gross you first of all, and we'll
get into it. I'm pretty sure whenever we get to
these callers are gonna have the same sentiment. But the
off sides you start the game off the first play
of the game on defense, you started got off sides,
and then you get another one late in the first
half just as well, And how fitting is it when
we talk about the problems on this defense, the problems
of self inflicted wounds that that's what ends the game
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just as well. And I feel like everything would just
kind of go in Stanford's way. That's something that they
really couldn't put their put their foot on the gas
when they really needed to. And I feel like a
lot of that started on the on the defensive end,
but you know, a lot of it got away from
doing what they did best. You had had you had
Duke that had three rushing touchdowns, and then they just
went to more of a pass put it in Tyler
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Shuck's hands, which most of the time I'm fine with,
but when you have something that was working, that was
working the whole game, Stanford couldn't stop the run whatsoever.
It seems like they kind of went away from it.
And that's what started the lull coming out of the
second half and through most of the fourth quarter. And
it it even it just seem when Louisville got their
last touchdown right before and when they went up thirty
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five to twenty one, something in me still felt uneasy.
And I think that that reverberates with a lot of
Cards fans out there. It's still felt uneasy just because
they know the things that have haunted them this whole
season has also haunted them in the game.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And the most frustrating part.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Is it's off a bye week, just after your biggest
win of the season, and one of your biggest wins
and one of your most statement wins since being in
the ACC, coming at Clemson and winning in such dominant fashion,
and then you just come out and had this performance
something that we are all wanting to avoid, but something
that cards fans and me myself all had in the
back of our mind like this could happen.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, absolute nightmare scenario for Louisville as they lose a
stand for thirty eight to thirty five off a game
winning field goal. Louisville's record now six and four, four
and three in conference. Stanford moved up to three and seven,
two and five in conference. And if you want to
give us a call, you can do so. Five oh two,
five seven, one seventy nine hundred. We'll go ahead and
go to the phone lines right now, and we'll start
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things off with with Marcus. Marcus, welcome to Sports Talk
seven ninety. How are you doing, sir, I'm doing all right.
Thanks thanks for calling. I know you probably expecting Nick coffee,
but this is this is something a little different tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But that's fine.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I know you're not all right. This game is on
the defense and it's also on coach brom and I
want everybody to realize he made some crucial mistakes in
this game. First of all, he should have called a
time out to review that fumble that Stamford went up
and got a quick playoff in the first quarter, second,
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first half or whatever, I don't know what it was,
and then Stanford got three from that. That was a
fumble the referee through the beanbag, and nobody even tried
to review it. They should have reviewed it. Secondly, it's
fourth and tent punt the ball man and if you're
going to go for it, get the first down versus
going for it. All that was dumb, and we have
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too many offside penalties. We had what do we have,
like five or six?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's undistanced, especially especially Marcus in an empty stadium like Stanfords.
To have that many offsides penalties, it seems completely egregious,
doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
There was nobody at that game, so you're right. It
has nothing to do with off that's discipline, and discipline
falls on the head coach. I don't want anybody talking
about Ryan English did this, blah blah blah blah. Jeff
is the head coach. He let us down this game
because he keeps going for it, being too aggressive instead
of playing it's a smart percentage plays and kick the
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ball and play for over time. You should have never
even got to that point. They were not ready for
this game. And who does that fall on? It falls
on the head coach. I'm tired of him saying, Oh,
we got to put our players in a better position
to win, We got to have a better game plan. No,
that was a terrible game. That was the worst game
we played all year. To a two and five or
to whatever the record was, one in five in the
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ACC That was awful.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Marcus. I appreciate the call, and I think a lot
of people are probably feeling similar to how you do
right now, because I mean, of course, there's no reason
to be happy about the way things played out right there.
But I mean Jeff Brom, I mean, he's known for
making good decisions, he's known for being very aggressive. We
talk about going for it on that fourth down play call, right,
and of course it doesn't work out and I don't
necessarily hate the idea of Jeff Brom being aggressive there,
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but at the same time, you knew it was going
to be a big risk, and obviously it didn't turn
out for you the way that you wanted it to.
But I do think I agree with you. And I
heard the announcers too during the end of that game, saying,
why not just go and punt this, play safe and
get yourself to overtime, Give yourself a chance to get
a score field, go whatever may beat once you get
to that overtime, And I mean, things couldn't have spiraled
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out of control in a much worse way than they did,
As we already mentioned. Austin, I know you'veuld answering phones,
but do you have any thoughts on what Marcus was
just saying?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No, I kind of had to agree, and we were
kind of talking about this off air. No one looked
like they were ready to be there. Obviously the fans didn't,
the players didn't, the referee, the main official the whole time,
he looked just about as disengaged as possible. He didn't
seem very enthusiastic. But I have to agree, Like, and
when I'm sitting there I'm watching those final ten seconds unfold,
and like you said, you hear the announcer saying, we
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know Jeff Brown likes to be aggressive. You could go
ahead and punt this thing. But I'm sitting there thinking,
I'm not really mad at the shot if you could
take the time off, and I mean they took the
time and they even gave them an extra second because
the ball fell with five seconds left. And think how
much that that came into play on that very next
play when they ran the screen pass out of bounds
and it was just one second left. So I mean,
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at the end of the day, with the benefit of hindsight,
that wasn't really a great call, and now looking at it,
I definitely would have punted it.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But I'm not super mad at that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But I can totally see where Marcus is coming from,
because go back again, when you're in these situations where
you're gonna have to pass, and most of the time
Tyler shuck has been efficient, but it's just been on
kind of like the deep plays and everything like that.
Your best offensive efficiency came from the ground today and
obviously you're not going to be able to execute those
plays when there's just under a minute left. So especially
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when we're talking about that fourth down in short, I mean,
you can't really run it, and it's it's it's just
it's tough. I mean, I totally, I totally see both
sides of it, but I mean, punting right there probably
would have been the smartest idea.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And to me, the more egregious thing is is the
player getting the unsportunately conduct. Yeah and doing guy, And
even even if that doesn't happen and Stanford throws a
hail Mary and can mean, you're much more less likely
to have that convert than a game winning field goalf. Course,
So let's go back to the phone lines. This time,
we'll go to We'll go to Dave. Oh, never mind,
let me. I'm used to being on the other side
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of things and putting the letting nick put the people
on the line, Dave, Welcome to Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, Jeff Brohm continues the trend that he set where
after he wins a big game, he turns around and
loses to somebody that.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
He shouldn't have lost to. I mean, this guy is
maybe a little bit above average coach, but no better. Today.
I was just furious about the whole damn game. Why
in the hell didn't he stick to the ground, I mean,
and we get twenty yards in penalties to set up
the game winning field. Go, there is no excuse Louisville
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lost this game. I mean, Stanford didn't win, and we
just handed them the We handed them the game.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I'm curious.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
I just I tell you this is like I said,
Brahm is an above average coach and that's it. Hell,
he'll never win any national championship at Louisville or any
other place for that matter, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He's not that good, Dave.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I appreciate the call, and I don't think people are expecting,
you know, Jeff brom to win national championships at Louisville,
And of course he's had some very questionable results this year,
and you know, coming off the ten wins season, I'm
sure it was very surprising. But I mean, Louisville just
shot themselves in the foot so many times you mentioned
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the twenty yards and penalties, and you were in control
of the game for not not the entire not the
entirety of it, but for the most of the second half,
you kept you would get ahead, Stamford find a way
to respond, you'd go back ahead another score Stamford to
find a way to respond. And there's just a lot
of things that Louisville did wrong to where this, you know,
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things didn't go in their favorite awesome, What do you
got for me anything? Right now?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean I'm going as far as saying maybe that
Jeff Brohm is and and maybe he's proven that this
year he's kind of come back down to earth, especially
what we were expecting last year. But once again the
trend continues. Like Dave said, the train got oh yes,
that's right after a big win. And it's more it's
like I said earlier, it's more frustrating coming off one
of the bigger ones that you've had in the.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
ACC and you had a bye week.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It feels like Louisville hasn't played football in like two
months and it was really only about two and a
half weeks ago, but coming off of that not looking
prepared and I and I understand where that's a situation
where going literally across America, the time zone, your your
body time zone is different. So like that that knocked
and probably probably played a big factor, but that's something
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that you have to have your team ready for. Everybody's
got to be consistent, and that they started off just
shooting themselves in the foot with the off sides and
the penalties. And it doesn't help when your your star
freshman running back goes down, comes back out again, has
his shoulder wrapped up, looks like he's ready to go,
and then constantly keeps making his trips back to the tent.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So the vibes were just vibes were off today. It
is very weird, and I'm glad you rementioned what what
Dave was talking about with having a disappointing performance after
a big win. Of course, last year it was the
Notre Dame game where you were you were undefeated at
the time. It was your first really big home game
with at Ellenin Stadium with Jeff Brahm as the head coach,
and then you follow that up on the road with
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the loss against Pittsburgh in a very I remember it
was a very rainy environment.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I can't remember what the spread was in that game,
but I'm sure Louisville were heavy favorites because that was
not a good Pittsburgh team like last year was. But
let's go ahead and get to one more phone. One
more phone. Call before we get to a break here.
If you do want to give us a call, it's
five O two five seven one seventy nine hundred. Let's
go to David. Welcome to Sports Talk seven to ninety David.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Okay, all I think I want to question is, right
towards the end of the game, I don't know why
they wanted to go for the bomb when all they
needed to do was to get in field goal rains
and attempt a field go There was a couple I
think second and third down he went for long passes
where if he went to just tried to get the
first down and get in field goal range, they could
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have kicked, tried, They could have done what Stanford did
does and maybe win a game with it because we
still had a time out and stuff. That's Molly Court,
that's my ally to play it is there's some of
their playing calling towards the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thank you for the call, David, Yeah, there's It did
seem like louisvill was trying to go for, you know,
the home run ball more often than maybe you'd like
to see, and especially in a game where, like I
mentioned earlier, you were kind of you kind of had
control during portions of the second half, and well, Austin distracted.
Somebody walked behind you in the in the studios here
at iHeart and I don't know who it was, but
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it kind of threw me off. I don't know who's
here this late besides us. I know, maybe there's a
ghost here at the iHeart studios. But yes, Louisville and
I know Jeff Broms known for the explosive offense, explosive place.
Tyler Schuck is a really good quarterback. But yeah, I
think sometimes you probably want to see Louisville slow things
down and kind of be more methodical with their offense. Austin,
you're somebody who follows this team pretty pretty intently and
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and emotionally of course being a fan. But what would
you have liked to see, to have seen differently from
Louisville and in those types of situations.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, it all comes down to, once again, you're kind
of hampered from the start, handicapped once you lose Isaac Brown,
but you're able to have Duke come in, and you're
able to have Cheney finally get on the board a
little bit, and you kind of went back to what
you know that you were good with With the running game.
I mean there were receivers dropping passes. There was even
a questionable play, but I shook at one point where
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he's about to sacked and he just kind of flips
it up ten yards. It almost got intercepted, but the
ball was dropped. What I would definitely liked to have
seen more energy coming out once again, and can't stress
enough coming out of what seemed like a two week break,
and then especially with such an emotional win where you
kind of finally check Clemson. There was a lot of
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play calling issues today and ultimately it falls on the defense.
Ultimately it falls on you're up, you two touchdowns with
six minutes to go, go out there and get a stop.
This is Stanford, no one's in the stadium. This isn't
Death Valley, you know, so like that that's the more
confusing thing. And then you got once again, no one
in the stadium, Like this was Taylor made for you
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to go out and finally handle business man Nick and
Nick talked about it all this week. This should be
one of your biggest wins of the season. You're playing
a team that's only won one game in conference and
they should be emotionally checked out, but wasn't able to
keep your foot on the gas and it bit you
in the end.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I'll be interested to hear what what Knick's thoughts are.
I know, it's a shame that he's not here with
us tonight, because I'm sure he's I don't know what
he's up to, but I'm sure he was keeping up
with the game, and I'm sure he's not happy with
the way things played out. But it'll definitely be interesting
to hear his thoughts on how things played out, because
I mean, it was a game that you should have,
this game that you really should have taken care of
business with, right. So this is the Louisville Football Postgame
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Lawyer's Suit Distracted Driver dot Com. Louisville. Of course, yeah
they're losers tonight. Good good call on that song, Austin
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good little three doors down, right there, But yeah, I
love it company man, John and Austin Louisville struggler with
you tonight. Unfortunately, no Nick, but you know you'll hear
his thoughts on Monday. Hell, I'm sure he'll have plenty
to say when it comes to what happened with this
unfortunate performance from Louisville losing stand for thirty eight to
thirty five. I almost said improving to six and four,
but that's not the case. There the record gets worse.
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They're six and four on the year, four and three
in the conference. Stanford moves a three and seven, two
and five, and man, just I think a lot of
people when when people look back on expectations for this
Louisville season, when you're coming off of a season like
they had last year, when they win ten games, but
they ended the season with kind of a you know,
a very rough stretch. You lost to Kentucky, you lost
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to USC in the bowl game. Of course, before the
bowl game, you lost to Florida State in the a
SEC Championship. So things were not necessarily trending in the
best direction going into the offseason, of course, But I
mean you won ten games. There was a lot of things,
you know, reasons to be excited. You had a good
recruiting class, good transfer portal, all that good stuff, and
then you get to this year and it's always kind
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of seemed odd because I remember when I think back
at the beginning of the season, Nick would talk about,
you know, those early games, you don't really learn much
about your team. You had dominate, dominant wins against Austin
p and Jacksonville State. So but you base everything off
of what last year was like, right at least that's
what it seems like fans mostly do, and rightfully so.
And then you start getting into your more competitive games
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and you start to realize that something's not or that
something's off compared to usual. The defense doesn't really live
up to expectations you have. People were referencing the Ron
English Quo quote from last year where he said that
people should blame him, and then all of a sudden,
I don't know if he I don't think he redacted that,
but there was some backlash or something when it comes
to you know what was said, and you know, different
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players not doing their jobs, all sorts of things. So, Austin,
I want to ask you now, and first of all,
before I do that. If you do want to give
us a call, you can do so at five oh
two five seven one seventy nine hundred. I know you
probably don't want to hear the company man's thoughts. For
those of you who are aware, I mean, I'm sure
many of you, especially if you listen to Coffee and
Company in the afternoons, you're aware that I'm not a
Louisville fan. I'm of course an Indiana fan, so I
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don't have the emotional ties to the nice Yeah, exactly,
I don't have the emotional ties to this Louisville lost
the way that you, you, Austin, are like that, like
Nick Wood and my Hootres didn't even play to day.
I watched him Indiana basketball instead before I came over
to do this show. But nonetheless, because of that, AUSTO
want to ask you, what are kind of your thoughts
on what you were expecting at the beginning of the
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season to where this Louisville team is now.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I mean, there was high hopes of everyone of possibly
ACC championship again, and I even know that that probably
wasn't even all that realistic because you are kind of
blinded by the fact that Jeff Brown's back. It's a
nice little homecoming. It's a what do you call it?
The honeymoon fites that we're still in so and ten
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wins and such a dominant team just kind of put
together people, especially like a quarterback that you just brought
in in the off season with Jack Plumber. Now you're like, Okay,
bron finally has this guy and shook. The thing is
is can he stay healthy. There wasn't a lot of,
you know, thought of what's going to happen with those
with those running backs that everyone knew, the receivers were good,
and everyone knew that. You even had a poor home
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schedule too, so it just always even came down to
the two the two big ones on your schedule, which
was of course Notre Dame and Miami wasn't even the
biggest game until, you know, until that happened when they
were so ranked or when they were so highly ranked.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yes, but then after that it's Clemson.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So you're just kind of thinking of you just got
to walk away with a couple of those you know,
you're gonna take care of all the all the nobodies
because you kind of did it last year. And then
it's hard it's almost indescribable to like such the complete
one eighty that this season has turned into. And it
all comes back to self inflicted wounds ever since, ever
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since their first.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Loss, and that and that's it too.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm looking at the schedule right now. Of course, when
you look at the results that happened, it felt like
every loss up until this point was was pretty much
acceptable in some way, shape or form. Right now, they're
the way things played out. Maybe you weren't happy with
how the loss happened, of course, but your first loss
was of course on the road to Notre Dame, and
that was at the time where people were kind of
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questioning whether or not Notre Dame Notre Dame was still
legit coming off of their loss to Northern Illinois in
that type of nonsense. But that was another game where
Louis Will shoped themselves in the foot.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
If I were called and it started off so hot,
you had the fumble, and it was everything was just
going so well. And once again it's just coming off
of ten wins is so unprecedented with the first year
head coach and get to the conference championship in which
you've never been to before, and then that's the kind
of revert back to your last question when you asked me,
what more or less was I expecting. I was expecting
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to kind of be in this situation. Maybe hang around
like the lower teams around the thirteen to the fifteen
and just have that conversation into the twelve team playoff format,
because once again, you knew that the games, it was
assumed you're going to take care of business with everybody else.
But it just always came down to the Notre Dame
on the road, Clemson on the road, and then Miami
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at home. But once again, of course we didn't know
Miami surgeons and the whole Camp Award, Heisman thing until
we experienced it firsthand. Yeah, so the complete once again,
I'll say it, the one eighty in which everything has taken.
The vibe just aren't good and no one's feeling good
about this, and as they should. We're not blaming you.
And there's there's I'm the one of the biggest Louisville
Homers you can find, but I'm also you've seen some
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of my tweets.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I'm a very salty guy. I can let people have it,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You let people to know to update their LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Absolutely, there's a lot of jobs that need to be
filled after this game, and there's a lot of a
lot of union work jobs that are possibly hiring for
some of these players out here. But I mean, this
is just something that's unprecedented. Especially it's it's so demoralizing
when they show the shot of the stadium and our
friend Jody Demmling had the shot of the stadium.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Literally, no one's there. I'm starting it halfway through the game. Thing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Did any of the player's family even attend? But you
heard a lot of audible car ds chance, so it
was mostly Louisville, And that's what sucked about it too.
So it's it's just a whole situation, everything taken into context.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Not a good day, another thing. All all four of
Louisville's losses this season by one score, of course, seven
points to Notre Dames, seven to SMU, seven to Miami,
and then three to day to Stanford. Let's go ahead
and go back to the phone lines five oh two,
five seven, one seventy nine hundred. Let's go to Will Will.
Welcome to Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hey guys, Yeah, I'm riding back from another state, back
to Louisville and and I look down, you know, you're
driving and stuff. It's thirty five to twenty one. I'm like,
oh shit, shoot, sorry, it's nine minutes to go. This
is over, you know, and think about how many bad
things had to happen, and like, if, okay, if I'm
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in this situation, I tell a player, if anybody gets
a stupid penalty, you're not playing the next game.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
I don't care who you are. I don't care how
good you are, I don't care about the NL, Like,
how can someone.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Be that stupid?
Speaker 11 (24:54):
It's totally ridiculous. You let me Well, my final point,
I've been a fan since I me had to a bucket.
But I'm telling you, Logo is the most difficult team
to It's it's sorrow, man, It's it's it's something's wrong
with Jeff, Like something's off. It's like it just doesn't
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for someone to be that smart, we think, just to
make these stupid mistakes and then a penalty. Okay, dude,
he's kicking a fifty seven yard he gets it, he
gets it.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
What are you doing?
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Yeah, and then these guys will.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
Play the next time, like with no penalty, Like, dude,
he's got a fifteen yard penalty after a play. You're
not playing the next game.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Thank you for the call. Will yeah again. Most people
are saying the same thing, and I totally get it
because this has really become kind of the storyline for
this Austin. But where do I go here with this?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'll just go ahead and say this, I do agree
with him, Okay, that something is something is off with
Jeff Brohm and even some of the body language on
the side.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And I won't.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I won't because let's be real, I wasn't a regular
per do watcher and watching how his cadence was on
the sideline and body language. But something's kind of of
bent off. I mean, you see the fire at you
know that at some points when he's you know it's
it's usually when he's yelling at his players for making
a mistake, and so you have the couple times I
saw him just kind of digging into Tyler Shuker and
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I wouldn't even say digging into him, but he's just
he's kind of like not what I would more or
less expect, especially when you got a guy that would
be a quarterback. But why would I say that, Because
it's a guy I'm talking about that was just going
at his brother in the two thousand and seven Rutgers game.
So I mean, he's there doesn't seem to be a
lot of teachable moments that he's getting through. I don't
know if the players just aren't getting it or or
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what it is on Brom's side, but just something I
will agree something is kind of off.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
With with Brom. I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You could just tell by the body language. You can
tell by the play calling. It's not as creative, but
and it's hard to even go back and say it's
hampered by you know, some of the injuries that they've had,
and of course with Isaac Brown going down, and it's
just something's off.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I agree with the Isaac Brown stuff too. And you
had you couldn't have had a better response today from
somebody like Duke Watson who gets three rushing touchdowns. I
heard the announcer say that that hasn't happened. I think
Grindo got three touchdowns on the ground back in the
Holiday Bowl, So I mean they had answers for you know,
issues like that happening. But with with somebody like Jeff Brahm,
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if things are off for him. I can't imagine. You know,
he's a very confident human being, of course, and of
course he loves being back here Louisville Zama Mater. But
maybe is it something along the lines like now these
having some in season adversity really unlike what you experienced
last year. Is the level of pressure for him kind
of different now that you know he knows that this
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is for the place that he that he played at
and was successful at and has you know, his his
heart tied to and that type of thing. So is
there an added level of stress that comes with figuring
out things and maybe making some I don't want to
say dumb decisions, but just decisions that maybe you wouldn't
have questioned in the past on Austin real quick, and
then we'll go to the phone lines again with somebody else.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I think it all comes back to the expectations that
you had on this year and the program.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
It could it could be pressure.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You know, this is his hometown, He's finally found his place,
and this is this is his final stop. Right That
seems to be the narrative everywhere that you look and
talk amongst Cardinal fans, and you know it's it. We
can talk, because I'll take the ten win season last
year that we had. I know that it ended really
not as well as we would have liked, but a
lot of the vibes and a lot of the moments
that happened last year were really good for the program,
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and of course making it to your first championship game
conference championship game.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But then you're left in.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
This situation, was all right, how do we top that?
And I knew that there would be with those expectations
that there would be sort of like a coming back
down to Jesus moment, But you know, not in this
situation like this, not in the way that you've lost
games this way. I guess that there is a silver
lining if you're going to be hunting for one of those.
Like you said earlier, all there, all their losses by
one possession, but it's they shouldn't have been when you
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watch the games and you see all the bonehead mistakes
that could have came down to play calling and everything else.
So that's what's left them hampered. Uh, just to start
the second half of the football.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We'll take one more call and then get to our
next time out. Five excuse me, five, two, five, seven,
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
What's up little nickelback here? Huh? It is a vibe. Huh.
Welcome back to the Louisville football postgame show sports Talk
seven to ninety. Louisville loses to Stanford thirty eight to
thirty five courtesy of a last second field goal by
Stanford's kicker. And man, the way they got the If
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you haven't listened to any if you haven't heard anything
we've talked about at this point, check out the podcast.
Uh crazy finish for for Louisville in this morning, and
not not in the good way, right Austin.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
No, No, not in a good way. And we were
talking about that as it was happening off air, like
this would be the craziest choke job if we saw
it happen, and what do you know, it's what happened
is exactly what happened, and it's been it's been happening
all season, and this is just gonna be It's all
gonna come back to this because I know Nick's not
here with us, but it's definitely gonna bring up self
inflicted wounds when we get to talk to them on Monday.
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And that's what it all comes down to. I mean,
it's shooting yourself in the foot. It's the game started
with a off sides and then it ends with two
bonehead penalties. Now you have the personal foul at the end,
and then you have the you have a Quincy Riley
jumping off sides doing pulling the old William Gay at
Rutgers two thousand and seven. It just brings flashbacks. It
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couldn't this couldn't have happened at the worst possible moment
for this team. And now is as we talk to
everybody today, a lot of fans are up in arms,
and I don't blame them. I don't blame them. I'm
a Louisville fan and this is you know, it's just
all feeling so fresh to me and I'm just trying
to gather my thoughts while doing this show. But it's
just tough, because dude, I left the house and I
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came here. It's a two touchdown lead, and you're at Stanford,
who you've sacked. I'm at one point in the first
half there was six sacks on Louisville's defensive line. Now,
I even wrote that in my notes for hoping to
talk about a win here, like Louisville's defensive line looks great,
but it's Stanford. And I had something else. I thought
their offensive line looked great once again, but it's Stanford,
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and so you can't lose like that in the way
that you left people open. You had one of their
guys literally go for bucks seventy on you in three touchdowns,
and that just can't happen.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's Stanford.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Crazy stuff. Let's go to the phone lines here and
take a couple more calls before we wrap this thing up.
This is let's excuse me. Let's go to James right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety Welcome in, hey fellas,
how you doing doing all right?
Speaker 11 (31:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Hey, welcome to the therapy session.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Ah yeah, I'm not gonna buy that. Man. What the
hell like? He said, how do you give a buck
sixty bucks seventy three? Touchdowns to a Stanford receiver. I
can't believe that. And it's all down to penalties. How
many yards and penalties do we give up?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'll know the amount of yardage, but I do know
they had. I think there were twenty total penalties for
the night, Austin, do you have that number for us?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah? There was.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
There was sixteen total penalties. So Louisville had thirteen penalties
one hundred one yards.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So he's got he's just sixteen total penalties.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
But yeah, go ahead, Okay, never mind that. Look, you
had a chance at eleven seconds left in the game,
fourth and ten. I was steal in the boat where
you kind of punt it away and you give them
the chance to go ninety eighty yards down the field
and try to get all that within eleven seconds. I mean,
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exactly like y'all said before I got on here, the
Rutgers game way back, when you cannot jump off side,
they're going to try to get you off side on
the fifty seven yard and when their kickers only made
a fifty one in his life at most, he's gonna try. So, man,
I just don't know what to think, Jeames. We've been
watching this game.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
We've had a lot of people talk about the issues
with the play calling. How do you do? What is
your what's your thoughts on just kind of going forward
on fourth down with only a few seconds left, and
then the way things ensued after the fact.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well, if if it's fourth and ten, I'll call it midfield.
I think we're on the forty five, maybe forty seven,
I'll call it midfield. I mean, I don't know if
we knew we only needed three points. That's kind of
how I feel because with him those three plays, that
fourth down little shot play to the end zone to Jacory,
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I mean, you could have went and got a first
down little cross route with Chris Bell, or you could
have went anybody else in a offense. I mean, we've
got some weapons, man, you come went to anybody else.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Thank you for the call, James. Yet there was awesome.
There wasn't really a reason to go for the home
run play, especially like James was just saying, you only
needed three points. Yeah, but maybe it's just Jeff Brom
being Jeff Brom and wanting to do something that seems,
I don't want to say uncharacteristic, but maybe he thought
Stanford wouldn't be thinking they're gonna be going for the
end zone here.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I mean I would think that too, would just kind
of listening to what James said. If you're gonna and
even off piggybacking off of what you just said, if
you're gonna take that home run shot, then get it
into your quarterback and get it into your offensive mind.
Let's at least run this down, stay back there for
as long as you can and let something develop. Don't
leave any time on the clock, or don't leave it
up to any chance where there's time on the clock
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and they get it at the fifty yard line, because
five seconds is it might as well be like a
minute in college football, you know, with the whole first
down rule and everything like that, and they still have
a time out. That's literally your biggest fear is they
get the ball on the fifty yard line, they at
least just get one fifteen ten yard play and then
all of a sudden they're in business. Not only did
they get that, but they had the two bonehead penalties
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that ensued and that's what left it. But if you're
gonna take that shot down field, just go ahead and
run the clock out while you're doing it, have Tyler
shucks got legs, he can run around, and when he
steps up, don't give Stanford a chance to do something exactly.
You stepped up in the pocket and made that throw.
Have a move over the side at bleed two or
three more seconds and leave it to a true hail Mary.
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But you know I'm not out there playing. I don't
have the quarterback goggles on. So it's maybe something that
Tyler saw Jacory Brooks just kind of flash open in
the end, thought that he could get it to him
right there.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
That was the timing.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
But I think there should have been some awareness on
the quarterback that there's this amount of time left.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You cannot leave them with anything.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Let's go back to the phone lines where we wrap
this thing up. Let's go to Sean. You're welcome to
Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 12 (36:00):
Hey, thanks taking my car. I appreciate it. I'll go
real quick. First of all, just imagine if that play
would have gone the other way, we'd be going, God,
I want to play way to go super call. Don't
you don't you hate it when the old thing is
you play to the you play to uh.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Play that you're playing playing not to lose.
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Yeah, you're playing to the other team, like you know
you played when you're playing Miami or nor days. You know,
you rise to the occasion you're playing Stanford, you ride
to their occasion.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You stick, you're sticking, you're playing down to their levels.
Speaker 12 (36:33):
What you're referring to you right right, right right, or
you go anticipating. You know, we got this kind of
thing and that, you know, and like our new basketball coach,
he's like, I don't worry about the next week's game.
I'm worrying about today today's game, period, you know. And
then the other thing I had to chuckle when the
guy was like, I will bench him next next week.
I don't care who he is. And you know, if
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you need to say that sitting from your couch. And
I remember when you probably went Patino and I cannot
remember the guy, but he always had this trouble and
he's he's the Capery said he is not playing next week.
And I happened to see Patino at O. Charlie's and
I'm telling nervous, and I went up to him and said,
you know, I know that was a hard call, but
I really respect that. The next week, the damn player
was in the game and who was hair old somebody.
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But I mean it's easy, you know, in hindsight, and
you know, it's it's just you know, you're damned if
you do, and you're damned if you don't. You know,
let's just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's it's it's thank you for the call, Sean Snatching
victory from the jaws of defeat. Yeah, snatching defeat from
the jaws of victory. Whatever you want to say, was
not good. And Louisville did not come up with any
victory tonight. Neither did any of Louisville fans.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah. She mentioned the play that we've we've been referencing
a few different times with you know, going for and forth,
saying we'd be celebrating if it had gone the other way,
and that's probably would be the case, because of course,
when you do something like that, it's like, Okay, yeah,
they knew what they were doing, they executed correctly, they
did things the way they were supposed to. But one
thing that also we've we've talked about after the fact
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is even though you didn't convert on that fourth down
and get the touchdown like you were going for, the
biggest issue here is what happened after the fact the
way that you I don't want to say misman I
guess first of all, you did mismanage the clock, as
somebody else referenced, by giving Stanford enough time to do
what they did. But here's the other part. Even on
Stanford's first play, or really the only play they had
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before the field goal, they didn't get enough yards to
get in field goal range. What happened was with the
unsportsman like penalty giving them the extra fifteen yards on
top of the off sides call on the special team's
defense to get them an extra five that's twenty yards
that Stanford would not have had. And we're more than likely,
I want to say, we're sitting here talking about a
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totally different scenario, because if that's the case, they would
have been in overtime and who knows what would have
happened during that frame. But you most certainly were not
necessarily talking as much. I mean, maybe we are still
talking about disciplinary issues, and I'm not talking disciplinaries and
like people need to be kicked off or whatever, but
like discipline the field, not getting pilties, that type of stuff,
but overall, just a crazy performance. Austin any final thoughts
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before we wrap this thing up.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I mean, as a Homer Louisville fan, like all that
we had now left is go be Kentucky. We feels
like I was texting my buddy co host of my
Babyfaces podcast, Billy Prickett, it feels like Purdue. It feels
like we're Purdue now we're at the four losses. We're
sitting here at six and four and then just a
little moral victories here and there, but just not executing.
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And it's certainly something that we did not expect a Bram.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
You know, I'm not one to.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Say go ahead and let his ass go, but there
needs to be There needs to be a lot of
there needs to be a lot of coming to Jesus
talk at the end of the season when they're structuring
up for Bram's third year.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Thanks for sticking around, and I know this wasn't Nick Coffee,
but hopefully this sufficed for everything that took place inne
between Louisville and Stanford. Be sure to check out, of
course Coffee and Company on Monday here Nick's thoughts and
everything that went down between Louisville and Stanford. I'm sure
he's going to have some fire takes on everything that
took place better than I would have. Of course, it's
good to have you back on the show. Though it
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was good to be Yeah, it was going to be back.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
It's you're not up at three o'clock in the morning
doing that.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
All right, Welcome into the Louisville Football postgame Show presented
by Alex R. White Lawyers, Sue distracted Driver dot Com. Obviously,
I am not Nick Coffee. I'm the company man, John
fillin in for our man Nick this evening. And man,
what a game to be here for. Louisville loses to
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Stanford on a game winning field goal thirty eight to
thirty five on the road. And Austin's with me here
by the way, Austin, the Louisville struggler, Welcome in. Thanks
for being here alongside with me. I appreciate you join
me because this is I feel honored by the way. Yeah,
and this is a result that I feel like many
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people did not expect from Louisville tonight. And as you
go through kind of the way that this game played out,
it was a very slow start for the Cardinals, of course,
getting down ten nothing, they were able to kind of
figure some things out, got a big lead on Stanford,
but they were able. Stanford was able to continually hang around.
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And one thing that's been a big talking point for
this Louisville football team, I feel like all year long
is the defensive issues and that seemed to, you know,
clearly haunt them in the second half and then just
an absolute choke job, as you and I Austin were
talking about as we were watching the final seconds of
this game tick away. And I want to ask you,
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because you are a Louisville fan, I am not what
was kind of going through your brain during those last
couple of minutes when Louisville was trying to put things away,
but they kept shooting themselves in the foot probably more,
I mean not just more often than you would hope,
Like everything went wrong for this Louisville team down the
stretch here.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I think you just kind of said it, shooting yourself
in the foot, And it's something that Nick would say
when he was here, is just self inflicted issues by
this team constantly and down the stretch. And it's always
on the defensive end too. So I mean, just what's
going through my head is just like here we go again.
Here we go again, and it just kind of and
I know it's definitely gonna be a talking point and
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reverberating throughout the whole week. But Jeff Bram again, the
narrative continues. That's something that me and Nick were talking
about earlier this week is one to avoid that next
bump after a huge win, something that's always haunted brom
Ever and his coaching tenure over the last few years.
And once again, mistakes rear their ugly head. And I'm
not gonna lie, I feel gross right now.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, and both you and I we thought this was
headed to overtime, of course, after the tying up touchdown
from Stanford, but Stanford gets an opportunity to get the
ball back with four seconds left because Louisville decides to
not punt the ball right, and they missed their fourth
down attempt to try to get back or you know,
I guess go for the touchdown. They missed the Tyler
Schuck missed the pass to his receiver, but on Stanford's
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ensuing play after that, they get out of bounds and
there's a unsportsmanlike passing penalty on was it Holloway right?
Teyon Holloway and that of course sets up the game
winning field goal for Stanford. Then you have the offsides
call or the off side's penalty excuse me for Louisville
special teams that gets them even closer, and Stanford drills
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the game winning field goal. You can't you can't make
something like this up. And I can't imagine what's going
through the team, said Jeff Brohm said, you know, the
players making the silly mistakes, because we're more than likely
watching overtime right now if you don't have that unsportsmanlike
I mean not even more than likely. I highly doubt
Danford would have gone for a hill.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Mary.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Maybe I'm wrong, but just the way things played out,
I can't imagine it being a more devastating scenario for
Louie in this game.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, it's absolutely gross you first of all, and we'll
get into it. I'm pretty sure whenever we get to
these callers are gonna have the same sentiment. But the
off sides you start the game off the first play
of the game on defense, you started got off sides,
and then you get another one late in the first
half just as well, And how fitting is it when
we talk about the problems on this defense, the problems
of self inflicted wounds that that's what ends the game
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just as well. And I feel like everything would just
kind of go in Stanford's way. That's something that they
really couldn't put their put their foot on the gas
when they really needed to. And I feel like a
lot of that started on the on the defensive end,
but you know, a lot of it got away from
doing what they did best. You had had you had
Duke that had three rushing touchdowns, and then they just
went to more of a pass put it in Tyler
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Shuck's hands, which most of the time I'm fine with,
but when you have something that was working, that was
working the whole game, Stanford couldn't stop the run whatsoever.
It seems like they kind of went away from it.
And that's what started the lull coming out of the
second half and through most of the fourth quarter. And
it it even it just seem when Louisville got their
last touchdown right before and when they went up thirty
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five to twenty one, something in me still felt uneasy.
And I think that that reverberates with a lot of
Cards fans out there. It's still felt uneasy just because
they know the things that have haunted them this whole
season has also haunted them in the game.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And the most frustrating part.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Is it's off a bye week, just after your biggest
win of the season, and one of your biggest wins
and one of your most statement wins since being in
the ACC, coming at Clemson and winning in such dominant fashion,
and then you just come out and had this performance
something that we are all wanting to avoid, but something
that cards fans and me myself all had in the
back of our mind like this could happen.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, absolute nightmare scenario for Louisville as they lose a
stand for thirty eight to thirty five off a game
winning field goal. Louisville's record now six and four, four
and three in conference. Stanford moved up to three and seven,
two and five in conference. And if you want to
give us a call, you can do so. Five oh two,
five seven, one seventy nine hundred. We'll go ahead and
go to the phone lines right now, and we'll start
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things off with with Marcus. Marcus, welcome to Sports Talk
seven ninety. How are you doing, sir, I'm doing all right.
Thanks thanks for calling. I know you probably expecting Nick coffee,
but this is this is something a little different tonight.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
But that's fine.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I know you're not all right. This game is on
the defense and it's also on coach brom and I
want everybody to realize he made some crucial mistakes in
this game. First of all, he should have called a
time out to review that fumble that Stamford went up
and got a quick playoff in the first quarter, second,
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first half or whatever, I don't know what it was,
and then Stanford got three from that. That was a
fumble the referee through the beanbag, and nobody even tried
to review it. They should have reviewed it. Secondly, it's
fourth and tent punt the ball man and if you're
going to go for it, get the first down versus
going for it. All that was dumb, and we have
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too many offside penalties. We had what do we have,
like five or six?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's undistanced, especially especially Marcus in an empty stadium like Stanfords.
To have that many offsides penalties, it seems completely egregious,
doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
There was nobody at that game, so you're right. It
has nothing to do with off that's discipline, and discipline
falls on the head coach. I don't want anybody talking
about Ryan English did this, blah blah blah blah. Jeff
is the head coach. He let us down this game
because he keeps going for it, being too aggressive instead
of playing it's a smart percentage plays and kick the
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ball and play for over time. You should have never
even got to that point. They were not ready for
this game. And who does that fall on? It falls
on the head coach. I'm tired of him saying, Oh,
we got to put our players in a better position
to win, We got to have a better game plan. No,
that was a terrible game. That was the worst game
we played all year. To a two and five or
to whatever the record was, one in five in the
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ACC That was awful.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Marcus. I appreciate the call, and I think a lot
of people are probably feeling similar to how you do
right now, because I mean, of course, there's no reason
to be happy about the way things played out right there.
But I mean Jeff Brom, I mean, he's known for
making good decisions, he's known for being very aggressive. We
talk about going for it on that fourth down play call, right,
and of course it doesn't work out and I don't
necessarily hate the idea of Jeff Brom being aggressive there,
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but at the same time, you knew it was going
to be a big risk, and obviously it didn't turn
out for you the way that you wanted it to.
But I do think I agree with you. And I
heard the announcers too during the end of that game, saying,
why not just go and punt this, play safe and
get yourself to overtime, Give yourself a chance to get
a score field, go whatever may beat once you get
to that overtime, And I mean, things couldn't have spiraled
(08:46):
out of control in a much worse way than they did,
As we already mentioned. Austin, I know you'veuld answering phones,
but do you have any thoughts on what Marcus was
just saying?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
No, I kind of had to agree, and we were
kind of talking about this off air. No one looked
like they were ready to be there. Obviously the fans didn't,
the players didn't, the referee, the main official the whole time,
he looked just about as disengaged as possible. He didn't
seem very enthusiastic. But I have to agree, Like, and
when I'm sitting there I'm watching those final ten seconds unfold,
and like you said, you hear the announcer saying, we
(09:15):
know Jeff Brown likes to be aggressive. You could go
ahead and punt this thing. But I'm sitting there thinking,
I'm not really mad at the shot if you could
take the time off, and I mean they took the
time and they even gave them an extra second because
the ball fell with five seconds left. And think how
much that that came into play on that very next
play when they ran the screen pass out of bounds
and it was just one second left. So I mean,
(09:37):
at the end of the day, with the benefit of hindsight,
that wasn't really a great call, and now looking at it,
I definitely would have punted it.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
But I'm not super mad at that.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
But I can totally see where Marcus is coming from,
because go back again, when you're in these situations where
you're gonna have to pass, and most of the time
Tyler shuck has been efficient, but it's just been on
kind of like the deep plays and everything like that.
Your best offensive efficiency came from the ground today and
obviously you're not going to be able to execute those
plays when there's just under a minute left. So especially
(10:06):
when we're talking about that fourth down in short, I mean,
you can't really run it, and it's it's it's just
it's tough. I mean, I totally, I totally see both
sides of it, but I mean, punting right there probably
would have been the smartest idea.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
And to me, the more egregious thing is is the
player getting the unsportunately conduct. Yeah and doing guy, And
even even if that doesn't happen and Stanford throws a
hail Mary and can mean, you're much more less likely
to have that convert than a game winning field goalf. Course,
So let's go back to the phone lines. This time,
we'll go to We'll go to Dave. Oh, never mind,
let me. I'm used to being on the other side
(10:39):
of things and putting the letting nick put the people
on the line, Dave, Welcome to Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yeah, Jeff Brohm continues the trend that he set where
after he wins a big game, he turns around and
loses to somebody that.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
He shouldn't have lost to. I mean, this guy is
maybe a little bit above average coach, but no better. Today.
I was just furious about the whole damn game. Why
in the hell didn't he stick to the ground, I mean,
and we get twenty yards in penalties to set up
the game winning field. Go, there is no excuse Louisville
(11:17):
lost this game. I mean, Stanford didn't win, and we
just handed them the We handed them the game.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
I'm curious.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
I just I tell you this is like I said,
Brahm is an above average coach and that's it. Hell,
he'll never win any national championship at Louisville or any
other place for that matter, Jeff.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
He's not that good, Dave.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I appreciate the call, and I don't think people are expecting,
you know, Jeff brom to win national championships at Louisville,
And of course he's had some very questionable results this year,
and you know, coming off the ten wins season, I'm
sure it was very surprising. But I mean, Louisville just
shot themselves in the foot so many times you mentioned
(12:00):
the twenty yards and penalties, and you were in control
of the game for not not the entire not the
entirety of it, but for the most of the second half,
you kept you would get ahead, Stamford find a way
to respond, you'd go back ahead another score Stamford to
find a way to respond. And there's just a lot
of things that Louisville did wrong to where this, you know,
(12:21):
things didn't go in their favorite awesome, What do you
got for me anything? Right now?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I mean I'm going as far as saying maybe that
Jeff Brohm is and and maybe he's proven that this
year he's kind of come back down to earth, especially
what we were expecting last year. But once again the
trend continues. Like Dave said, the train got oh yes,
that's right after a big win. And it's more it's
like I said earlier, it's more frustrating coming off one
of the bigger ones that you've had in the.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
ACC and you had a bye week.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It feels like Louisville hasn't played football in like two
months and it was really only about two and a
half weeks ago, but coming off of that not looking
prepared and I and I understand where that's a situation
where going literally across America, the time zone, your your
body time zone is different. So like that that knocked
and probably probably played a big factor, but that's something
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that you have to have your team ready for. Everybody's
got to be consistent, and that they started off just
shooting themselves in the foot with the off sides and
the penalties. And it doesn't help when your your star
freshman running back goes down, comes back out again, has
his shoulder wrapped up, looks like he's ready to go,
and then constantly keeps making his trips back to the tent.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
So the vibes were just vibes were off today. It
is very weird, and I'm glad you rementioned what what
Dave was talking about with having a disappointing performance after
a big win. Of course, last year it was the
Notre Dame game where you were you were undefeated at
the time. It was your first really big home game
with at Ellenin Stadium with Jeff Brahm as the head coach,
and then you follow that up on the road with
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the loss against Pittsburgh in a very I remember it
was a very rainy environment.
Speaker 9 (13:53):
Yea.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I can't remember what the spread was in that game,
but I'm sure Louisville were heavy favorites because that was
not a good Pittsburgh team like last year was. But
let's go ahead and get to one more phone. One
more phone. Call before we get to a break here.
If you do want to give us a call, it's
five O two five seven one seventy nine hundred. Let's
go to David. Welcome to Sports Talk seven to ninety David.
Speaker 10 (14:14):
Okay, all I think I want to question is, right
towards the end of the game, I don't know why
they wanted to go for the bomb when all they
needed to do was to get in field goal rains
and attempt a field go There was a couple I
think second and third down he went for long passes
where if he went to just tried to get the
first down and get in field goal range, they could
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have kicked, tried, They could have done what Stanford did
does and maybe win a game with it because we
still had a time out and stuff. That's Molly Court,
that's my ally to play it is there's some of
their playing calling towards the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Thank you for the call, David, Yeah, there's It did
seem like louisvill was trying to go for, you know,
the home run ball more often than maybe you'd like
to see, and especially in a game where, like I
mentioned earlier, you were kind of you kind of had
control during portions of the second half, and well, Austin distracted.
Somebody walked behind you in the in the studios here
at iHeart and I don't know who it was, but
(15:09):
it kind of threw me off. I don't know who's
here this late besides us. I know, maybe there's a
ghost here at the iHeart studios. But yes, Louisville and
I know Jeff Broms known for the explosive offense, explosive place.
Tyler Schuck is a really good quarterback. But yeah, I
think sometimes you probably want to see Louisville slow things
down and kind of be more methodical with their offense. Austin,
you're somebody who follows this team pretty pretty intently and
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and emotionally of course being a fan. But what would
you have liked to see, to have seen differently from
Louisville and in those types of situations.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, it all comes down to, once again, you're kind
of hampered from the start, handicapped once you lose Isaac Brown,
but you're able to have Duke come in, and you're
able to have Cheney finally get on the board a
little bit, and you kind of went back to what
you know that you were good with With the running game.
I mean there were receivers dropping passes. There was even
a questionable play, but I shook at one point where
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he's about to sacked and he just kind of flips
it up ten yards. It almost got intercepted, but the
ball was dropped. What I would definitely liked to have
seen more energy coming out once again, and can't stress
enough coming out of what seemed like a two week break,
and then especially with such an emotional win where you
kind of finally check Clemson. There was a lot of
(16:19):
play calling issues today and ultimately it falls on the defense.
Ultimately it falls on you're up, you two touchdowns with
six minutes to go, go out there and get a stop.
This is Stanford, no one's in the stadium. This isn't
Death Valley, you know, so like that that's the more
confusing thing. And then you got once again, no one
in the stadium, Like this was Taylor made for you
(16:41):
to go out and finally handle business man Nick and
Nick talked about it all this week. This should be
one of your biggest wins of the season. You're playing
a team that's only won one game in conference and
they should be emotionally checked out, but wasn't able to
keep your foot on the gas and it bit you
in the end.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I'll be interested to hear what what Knick's thoughts are.
I know, it's a shame that he's not here with
us tonight, because I'm sure he's I don't know what
he's up to, but I'm sure he was keeping up
with the game, and I'm sure he's not happy with
the way things played out. But it'll definitely be interesting
to hear his thoughts on how things played out, because
I mean, it was a game that you should have,
this game that you really should have taken care of
business with, right. So this is the Louisville Football Postgame
(17:21):
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Lawyer's Suit Distracted Driver dot Com. Louisville. Of course, yeah
they're losers tonight. Good good call on that song, Austin
(17:44):
good little three doors down, right there, But yeah, I
love it company man, John and Austin Louisville struggler with
you tonight. Unfortunately, no Nick, but you know you'll hear
his thoughts on Monday. Hell, I'm sure he'll have plenty
to say when it comes to what happened with this
unfortunate performance from Louisville losing stand for thirty eight to
thirty five. I almost said improving to six and four,
but that's not the case. There the record gets worse.
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They're six and four on the year, four and three
in the conference. Stanford moves a three and seven, two
and five, and man, just I think a lot of
people when when people look back on expectations for this
Louisville season, when you're coming off of a season like
they had last year, when they win ten games, but
they ended the season with kind of a you know,
a very rough stretch. You lost to Kentucky, you lost
(18:26):
to USC in the bowl game. Of course, before the
bowl game, you lost to Florida State in the a
SEC Championship. So things were not necessarily trending in the
best direction going into the offseason, of course, But I
mean you won ten games. There was a lot of things,
you know, reasons to be excited. You had a good
recruiting class, good transfer portal, all that good stuff, and
then you get to this year and it's always kind
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of seemed odd because I remember when I think back
at the beginning of the season, Nick would talk about,
you know, those early games, you don't really learn much
about your team. You had dominate, dominant wins against Austin
p and Jacksonville State. So but you base everything off
of what last year was like, right at least that's
what it seems like fans mostly do, and rightfully so.
And then you start getting into your more competitive games
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and you start to realize that something's not or that
something's off compared to usual. The defense doesn't really live
up to expectations you have. People were referencing the Ron
English Quo quote from last year where he said that
people should blame him, and then all of a sudden,
I don't know if he I don't think he redacted that,
but there was some backlash or something when it comes
to you know what was said, and you know, different
(19:31):
players not doing their jobs, all sorts of things. So, Austin,
I want to ask you now, and first of all,
before I do that. If you do want to give
us a call, you can do so at five oh
two five seven one seventy nine hundred. I know you
probably don't want to hear the company man's thoughts. For
those of you who are aware, I mean, I'm sure
many of you, especially if you listen to Coffee and
Company in the afternoons, you're aware that I'm not a
Louisville fan. I'm of course an Indiana fan, so I
(19:52):
don't have the emotional ties to the nice Yeah, exactly,
I don't have the emotional ties to this Louisville lost
the way that you, you, Austin, are like that, like
Nick Wood and my Hootres didn't even play to day.
I watched him Indiana basketball instead before I came over
to do this show. But nonetheless, because of that, AUSTO
want to ask you, what are kind of your thoughts
on what you were expecting at the beginning of the
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season to where this Louisville team is now.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I mean, there was high hopes of everyone of possibly
ACC championship again, and I even know that that probably
wasn't even all that realistic because you are kind of
blinded by the fact that Jeff Brown's back. It's a
nice little homecoming. It's a what do you call it?
The honeymoon fites that we're still in so and ten
(20:37):
wins and such a dominant team just kind of put
together people, especially like a quarterback that you just brought
in in the off season with Jack Plumber. Now you're like, Okay,
bron finally has this guy and shook. The thing is
is can he stay healthy. There wasn't a lot of,
you know, thought of what's going to happen with those
with those running backs that everyone knew, the receivers were good,
and everyone knew that. You even had a poor home
(20:59):
schedule too, so it just always even came down to
the two the two big ones on your schedule, which
was of course Notre Dame and Miami wasn't even the
biggest game until, you know, until that happened when they
were so ranked or when they were so highly ranked.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yes, but then after that it's Clemson.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
So you're just kind of thinking of you just got
to walk away with a couple of those you know,
you're gonna take care of all the all the nobodies
because you kind of did it last year. And then
it's hard it's almost indescribable to like such the complete
one eighty that this season has turned into. And it
all comes back to self inflicted wounds ever since, ever
(21:39):
since their first.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Loss, and that and that's it too.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I'm looking at the schedule right now. Of course, when
you look at the results that happened, it felt like
every loss up until this point was was pretty much
acceptable in some way, shape or form. Right now, they're
the way things played out. Maybe you weren't happy with
how the loss happened, of course, but your first loss
was of course on the road to Notre Dame, and
that was at the time where people were kind of
(22:03):
questioning whether or not Notre Dame Notre Dame was still
legit coming off of their loss to Northern Illinois in
that type of nonsense. But that was another game where
Louis Will shoped themselves in the foot.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
If I were called and it started off so hot,
you had the fumble, and it was everything was just
going so well. And once again it's just coming off
of ten wins is so unprecedented with the first year
head coach and get to the conference championship in which
you've never been to before, and then that's the kind
of revert back to your last question when you asked me,
what more or less was I expecting. I was expecting
(22:35):
to kind of be in this situation. Maybe hang around
like the lower teams around the thirteen to the fifteen
and just have that conversation into the twelve team playoff format,
because once again, you knew that the games, it was
assumed you're going to take care of business with everybody else.
But it just always came down to the Notre Dame
on the road, Clemson on the road, and then Miami
(22:55):
at home. But once again, of course we didn't know
Miami surgeons and the whole Camp Award, Heisman thing until
we experienced it firsthand. Yeah, so the complete once again,
I'll say it, the one eighty in which everything has taken.
The vibe just aren't good and no one's feeling good
about this, and as they should. We're not blaming you.
And there's there's I'm the one of the biggest Louisville
Homers you can find, but I'm also you've seen some
(23:17):
of my tweets.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I'm a very salty guy. I can let people have it,
you know.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
You let people to know to update their LinkedIn profile.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Absolutely, there's a lot of jobs that need to be
filled after this game, and there's a lot of a
lot of union work jobs that are possibly hiring for
some of these players out here. But I mean, this
is just something that's unprecedented. Especially it's it's so demoralizing
when they show the shot of the stadium and our
friend Jody Demmling had the shot of the stadium.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Literally, no one's there. I'm starting it halfway through the game. Thing.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Did any of the player's family even attend? But you
heard a lot of audible car ds chance, so it
was mostly Louisville, And that's what sucked about it too.
So it's it's just a whole situation, everything taken into context.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Not a good day, another thing. All all four of
Louisville's losses this season by one score, of course, seven
points to Notre Dames, seven to SMU, seven to Miami,
and then three to day to Stanford. Let's go ahead
and go back to the phone lines five oh two,
five seven, one seventy nine hundred. Let's go to Will Will.
Welcome to Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Hey guys, Yeah, I'm riding back from another state, back
to Louisville and and I look down, you know, you're
driving and stuff. It's thirty five to twenty one. I'm like,
oh shit, shoot, sorry, it's nine minutes to go. This
is over, you know, and think about how many bad
things had to happen, and like, if, okay, if I'm
(24:39):
in this situation, I tell a player, if anybody gets
a stupid penalty, you're not playing the next game.
Speaker 11 (24:44):
I don't care who you are. I don't care how
good you are, I don't care about the NL, Like,
how can someone.
Speaker 12 (24:52):
Be that stupid?
Speaker 11 (24:54):
It's totally ridiculous. You let me Well, my final point,
I've been a fan since I me had to a bucket.
But I'm telling you, Logo is the most difficult team
to It's it's sorrow, man, It's it's it's something's wrong
with Jeff, Like something's off. It's like it just doesn't
(25:16):
for someone to be that smart, we think, just to
make these stupid mistakes and then a penalty. Okay, dude,
he's kicking a fifty seven yard he gets it, he
gets it.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
What are you doing?
Speaker 12 (25:30):
Yeah, and then these guys will.
Speaker 11 (25:32):
Play the next time, like with no penalty, Like, dude,
he's got a fifteen yard penalty after a play. You're
not playing the next game.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Thank you for the call. Will yeah again. Most people
are saying the same thing, and I totally get it
because this has really become kind of the storyline for
this Austin. But where do I go here with this?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'll just go ahead and say this, I do agree
with him, Okay, that something is something is off with
Jeff Brohm and even some of the body language on
the side.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
And I won't.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I won't because let's be real, I wasn't a regular
per do watcher and watching how his cadence was on
the sideline and body language. But something's kind of of
bent off. I mean, you see the fire at you
know that at some points when he's you know it's
it's usually when he's yelling at his players for making
a mistake, and so you have the couple times I
saw him just kind of digging into Tyler Shuker and
(26:23):
I wouldn't even say digging into him, but he's just
he's kind of like not what I would more or
less expect, especially when you got a guy that would
be a quarterback. But why would I say that, Because
it's a guy I'm talking about that was just going
at his brother in the two thousand and seven Rutgers game.
So I mean, he's there doesn't seem to be a
lot of teachable moments that he's getting through. I don't
know if the players just aren't getting it or or
(26:45):
what it is on Brom's side, but just something I
will agree something is kind of off.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
With with Brom. I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
You could just tell by the body language. You can
tell by the play calling. It's not as creative, but
and it's hard to even go back and say it's
hampered by you know, some of the injuries that they've had,
and of course with Isaac Brown going down, and it's
just something's off.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
I agree with the Isaac Brown stuff too. And you
had you couldn't have had a better response today from
somebody like Duke Watson who gets three rushing touchdowns. I
heard the announcer say that that hasn't happened. I think
Grindo got three touchdowns on the ground back in the
Holiday Bowl, So I mean they had answers for you know,
issues like that happening. But with with somebody like Jeff Brahm,
(27:25):
if things are off for him. I can't imagine. You know,
he's a very confident human being, of course, and of
course he loves being back here Louisville Zama Mater. But
maybe is it something along the lines like now these
having some in season adversity really unlike what you experienced
last year. Is the level of pressure for him kind
of different now that you know he knows that this
(27:48):
is for the place that he that he played at
and was successful at and has you know, his his
heart tied to and that type of thing. So is
there an added level of stress that comes with figuring
out things and maybe making some I don't want to
say dumb decisions, but just decisions that maybe you wouldn't
have questioned in the past on Austin real quick, and
then we'll go to the phone lines again with somebody else.
Speaker 10 (28:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
I think it all comes back to the expectations that
you had on this year and the program.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
It could it could be pressure.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You know, this is his hometown, He's finally found his place,
and this is this is his final stop. Right That
seems to be the narrative everywhere that you look and
talk amongst Cardinal fans, and you know it's it. We
can talk, because I'll take the ten win season last
year that we had. I know that it ended really
not as well as we would have liked, but a
lot of the vibes and a lot of the moments
that happened last year were really good for the program,
(28:37):
and of course making it to your first championship game
conference championship game.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
But then you're left in.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
This situation, was all right, how do we top that?
And I knew that there would be with those expectations
that there would be sort of like a coming back
down to Jesus moment, But you know, not in this
situation like this, not in the way that you've lost
games this way. I guess that there is a silver
lining if you're going to be hunting for one of those.
Like you said earlier, all there, all their losses by
one possession, but it's they shouldn't have been when you
(29:04):
watch the games and you see all the bonehead mistakes
that could have came down to play calling and everything else.
So that's what's left them hampered. Uh, just to start
the second half of the football.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
We'll take one more call and then get to our
next time out. Five excuse me, five, two, five, seven,
seventy nine hundred is the number. If you want to
give us a call, let's go to Terry. Welcome to
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Speaker 2 (29:38):
What's up little nickelback here? Huh? It is a vibe. Huh.
Welcome back to the Louisville football postgame show sports Talk
seven to ninety. Louisville loses to Stanford thirty eight to
thirty five courtesy of a last second field goal by
Stanford's kicker. And man, the way they got the If
(30:00):
you haven't listened to any if you haven't heard anything
we've talked about at this point, check out the podcast.
Uh crazy finish for for Louisville in this morning, and
not not in the good way, right Austin.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
No, No, not in a good way. And we were
talking about that as it was happening off air, like
this would be the craziest choke job if we saw
it happen, and what do you know, it's what happened
is exactly what happened, and it's been it's been happening
all season, and this is just gonna be It's all
gonna come back to this because I know Nick's not
here with us, but it's definitely gonna bring up self
inflicted wounds when we get to talk to them on Monday.
(30:32):
And that's what it all comes down to. I mean,
it's shooting yourself in the foot. It's the game started
with a off sides and then it ends with two
bonehead penalties. Now you have the personal foul at the end,
and then you have the you have a Quincy Riley
jumping off sides doing pulling the old William Gay at
Rutgers two thousand and seven. It just brings flashbacks. It
(30:53):
couldn't this couldn't have happened at the worst possible moment
for this team. And now is as we talk to
everybody today, a lot of fans are up in arms,
and I don't blame them. I don't blame them. I'm
a Louisville fan and this is you know, it's just
all feeling so fresh to me and I'm just trying
to gather my thoughts while doing this show. But it's
just tough, because dude, I left the house and I
(31:13):
came here. It's a two touchdown lead, and you're at Stanford,
who you've sacked. I'm at one point in the first
half there was six sacks on Louisville's defensive line. Now,
I even wrote that in my notes for hoping to
talk about a win here, like Louisville's defensive line looks great,
but it's Stanford. And I had something else. I thought
their offensive line looked great once again, but it's Stanford,
(31:34):
and so you can't lose like that in the way
that you left people open. You had one of their
guys literally go for bucks seventy on you in three touchdowns,
and that just can't happen.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's Stanford.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Crazy stuff. Let's go to the phone lines here and
take a couple more calls before we wrap this thing up.
This is let's excuse me. Let's go to James right
here on Sports Talk seven ninety Welcome in, hey fellas,
how you doing doing all right?
Speaker 11 (31:59):
All right?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Hey, welcome to the therapy session.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Ah yeah, I'm not gonna buy that. Man. What the
hell like? He said, how do you give a buck
sixty bucks seventy three? Touchdowns to a Stanford receiver. I
can't believe that. And it's all down to penalties. How
many yards and penalties do we give up?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'll know the amount of yardage, but I do know
they had. I think there were twenty total penalties for
the night, Austin, do you have that number for us?
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah? There was.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
There was sixteen total penalties. So Louisville had thirteen penalties
one hundred one yards.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So he's got he's just sixteen total penalties.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
But yeah, go ahead, Okay, never mind that. Look, you
had a chance at eleven seconds left in the game,
fourth and ten. I was steal in the boat where
you kind of punt it away and you give them
the chance to go ninety eighty yards down the field
and try to get all that within eleven seconds. I mean,
(33:08):
exactly like y'all said before I got on here, the
Rutgers game way back, when you cannot jump off side,
they're going to try to get you off side on
the fifty seven yard and when their kickers only made
a fifty one in his life at most, he's gonna try. So, man,
I just don't know what to think, Jeames. We've been
watching this game.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
We've had a lot of people talk about the issues
with the play calling. How do you do? What is
your what's your thoughts on just kind of going forward
on fourth down with only a few seconds left, and
then the way things ensued after the fact.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Well, if if it's fourth and ten, I'll call it midfield.
I think we're on the forty five, maybe forty seven,
I'll call it midfield. I mean, I don't know if
we knew we only needed three points. That's kind of
how I feel because with him those three plays, that
fourth down little shot play to the end zone to Jacory,
(34:05):
I mean, you could have went and got a first
down little cross route with Chris Bell, or you could
have went anybody else in a offense. I mean, we've
got some weapons, man, you come went to anybody else.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Thank you for the call, James. Yet there was awesome.
There wasn't really a reason to go for the home
run play, especially like James was just saying, you only
needed three points. Yeah, but maybe it's just Jeff Brom
being Jeff Brom and wanting to do something that seems,
I don't want to say uncharacteristic, but maybe he thought
Stanford wouldn't be thinking they're gonna be going for the
end zone here.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
I mean I would think that too, would just kind
of listening to what James said. If you're gonna and
even off piggybacking off of what you just said, if
you're gonna take that home run shot, then get it
into your quarterback and get it into your offensive mind.
Let's at least run this down, stay back there for
as long as you can and let something develop. Don't
leave any time on the clock, or don't leave it
up to any chance where there's time on the clock
(34:56):
and they get it at the fifty yard line, because
five seconds is it might as well be like a
minute in college football, you know, with the whole first
down rule and everything like that, and they still have
a time out. That's literally your biggest fear is they
get the ball on the fifty yard line, they at
least just get one fifteen ten yard play and then
all of a sudden they're in business. Not only did
they get that, but they had the two bonehead penalties
(35:17):
that ensued and that's what left it. But if you're
gonna take that shot down field, just go ahead and
run the clock out while you're doing it, have Tyler
shucks got legs, he can run around, and when he
steps up, don't give Stanford a chance to do something exactly.
You stepped up in the pocket and made that throw.
Have a move over the side at bleed two or
three more seconds and leave it to a true hail Mary.
(35:37):
But you know I'm not out there playing. I don't
have the quarterback goggles on. So it's maybe something that
Tyler saw Jacory Brooks just kind of flash open in
the end, thought that he could get it to him
right there.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
That was the timing.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
But I think there should have been some awareness on
the quarterback that there's this amount of time left.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
You cannot leave them with anything.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Let's go back to the phone lines where we wrap
this thing up. Let's go to Sean. You're welcome to
Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Speaker 12 (36:00):
Hey, thanks taking my car. I appreciate it. I'll go
real quick. First of all, just imagine if that play
would have gone the other way, we'd be going, God,
I want to play way to go super call. Don't
you don't you hate it when the old thing is
you play to the you play to uh.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Play that you're playing playing not to lose.
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Yeah, you're playing to the other team, like you know
you played when you're playing Miami or nor days. You know,
you rise to the occasion you're playing Stanford, you ride
to their occasion.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
You stick, you're sticking, you're playing down to their levels.
Speaker 12 (36:33):
What you're referring to you right right, right right, or
you go anticipating. You know, we got this kind of
thing and that, you know, and like our new basketball coach,
he's like, I don't worry about the next week's game.
I'm worrying about today today's game, period, you know. And
then the other thing I had to chuckle when the
guy was like, I will bench him next next week.
I don't care who he is. And you know, if
(36:53):
you need to say that sitting from your couch. And
I remember when you probably went Patino and I cannot
remember the guy, but he always had this trouble and
he's he's the Capery said he is not playing next week.
And I happened to see Patino at O. Charlie's and
I'm telling nervous, and I went up to him and said,
you know, I know that was a hard call, but
I really respect that. The next week, the damn player
was in the game and who was hair old somebody.
(37:15):
But I mean it's easy, you know, in hindsight, and
you know, it's it's just you know, you're damned if
you do, and you're damned if you don't. You know,
let's just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
It's it's it's thank you for the call, Sean Snatching
victory from the jaws of defeat. Yeah, snatching defeat from
the jaws of victory. Whatever you want to say, was
not good. And Louisville did not come up with any
victory tonight. Neither did any of Louisville fans.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah. She mentioned the play that we've we've been referencing
a few different times with you know, going for and forth,
saying we'd be celebrating if it had gone the other way,
and that's probably would be the case, because of course,
when you do something like that, it's like, Okay, yeah,
they knew what they were doing, they executed correctly, they
did things the way they were supposed to. But one
thing that also we've we've talked about after the fact
(37:59):
is even though you didn't convert on that fourth down
and get the touchdown like you were going for, the
biggest issue here is what happened after the fact the
way that you I don't want to say misman I
guess first of all, you did mismanage the clock, as
somebody else referenced, by giving Stanford enough time to do
what they did. But here's the other part. Even on
Stanford's first play, or really the only play they had
(38:21):
before the field goal, they didn't get enough yards to
get in field goal range. What happened was with the
unsportsman like penalty giving them the extra fifteen yards on
top of the off sides call on the special team's
defense to get them an extra five that's twenty yards
that Stanford would not have had. And we're more than likely,
I want to say, we're sitting here talking about a
(38:43):
totally different scenario, because if that's the case, they would
have been in overtime and who knows what would have
happened during that frame. But you most certainly were not
necessarily talking as much. I mean, maybe we are still
talking about disciplinary issues, and I'm not talking disciplinaries and
like people need to be kicked off or whatever, but
like discipline the field, not getting pilties, that type of stuff,
but overall, just a crazy performance. Austin any final thoughts
(39:06):
before we wrap this thing up.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
I mean, as a Homer Louisville fan, like all that
we had now left is go be Kentucky. We feels
like I was texting my buddy co host of my
Babyfaces podcast, Billy Prickett, it feels like Purdue. It feels
like we're Purdue now we're at the four losses. We're
sitting here at six and four and then just a
little moral victories here and there, but just not executing.
(39:30):
And it's certainly something that we did not expect a Bram.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
You know, I'm not one to.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Say go ahead and let his ass go, but there
needs to be There needs to be a lot of
there needs to be a lot of coming to Jesus
talk at the end of the season when they're structuring
up for Bram's third year.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Thanks for sticking around, and I know this wasn't Nick Coffee,
but hopefully this sufficed for everything that took place inne
between Louisville and Stanford. Be sure to check out, of
course Coffee and Company on Monday here Nick's thoughts and
everything that went down between Louisville and Stanford. I'm sure
he's going to have some fire takes on everything that
took place better than I would have. Of course, it's
good to have you back on the show. Though it
(40:07):
was good to be Yeah, it was going to be back.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
It's you're not up at three o'clock in the morning
doing that.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
It's right, all right. This has been another edition of
the Louisville Football postgame Show, presented by Alex R. White
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