WEBVTT - Full Show Thursday 8/13/26: Colts-Patriots preseason thoughts with Mike Chappell! 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.360 And here we go here. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.680 Anything you have a chance against oursimistic cowboy? 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.639 Okay, what you like to do? 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:19.200 Oh? 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:19.680 I don't know. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:21.120 Play chess? 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:23.880 Screw well, let's play chess. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.040 They give off the Jonathan Taylor Chuck cunning it his 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.200 way walking the goal line. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:34.000 He's in there, puts down and why Jonathan Taylor Wheeler 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:35.200 finds corn. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:42.080 Here's haliber into the front court, mishandled it. Mcgins a shot, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.159 he finds it. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.040 John. I have never been bedroom to be on the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:47.639 air with you. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.440 Here in Indianapolis, a place where so many of my 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:51.520 dreams have come true. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.560 The ride with jm V on ninety three five and 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:55.640 one oh seven. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.440 Five the Fan. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.720 So we are ready to rock and football see I 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:06.319 guess officially starts coming up today for thirty. We're underway 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:11.959 right here in this studio, Me and Bill and Casey 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.680 and Rick will be there a couple of different times too. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.720 We have the Colts pregame huddle at for thirty. Prior 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.000 to that, Mike Chappell, so I listen. I don't know 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.800 what's in the cards later off tonight. I don't know 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.479 exactly what we're going to be looking for. Like I've 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:34.440 gathered some thoughts in my tiny brain. And to start with, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.240 all the focus is going to be on the first 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:42.880 half for Anthony Richardson, and this is going to be twofold. 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.600 Is going to be his longtime fans and defenders ie 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:59.000 video gamers from Caleb's generation z Nerds, Sorry Caleb. They're 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.760 going to be helping a he looks great. Gotta find 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.240 a way to keep him. And then one of these 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.080 days he's going to end up being the starter. There's 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.720 going to be that. But then there's going to be 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.680 the other angle of in this case, can you just 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:20.240 play well enough to give the Colts back anything to 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.240 not force them into a situation where they have to 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:30.359 cut the fourth overall selection in an NFL draft? You 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:35.280 got a show, don't you? If you're Anthony Richardson, don't 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.120 you have to show? And what if he does? What's 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.840 our dialogue tomorrow? But I told you from one angle 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:48.600 what is going to be. But that is the one 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.239 thing to start with. I'm going to be looking for. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.800 I don't think it really mad yet does matter Riley 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.480 Leonard what Riley Leonard ends up doing in the second half, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:01.079 but just anything, can you get any thing for the dude? 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.240 Or will everybody just be waiting around to see when 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.960 and if he ends up getting released. So we'll start 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.720 right there. I know people have brought to my attention 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.440 the wide receiver position, and with good reason. However, I 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.080 don't know how much you're going to get out of 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.720 that tonight, because nothing is going to change my mind, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.440 and nothing is going to change the mind of my 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.040 chapel who joins us a little bit later on. You 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.880 know why there has not been significant action there so 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.920 far is to me incredibly ridiculous. But we've been down 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.520 a path that is similar to this, so nobody's really 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:44.160 surprised that they haven't decided to do something else. And 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:49.040 at this point the numbers, the confidence is dwindling on 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.040 what exactly you can do. But again, this path, the 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.520 feeling good about what you have and in quote liking 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:02.600 our guys that has been snuff doubt many a different 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:06.120 time in the past almost now ten years or going 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:12.800 into ten years, so unsurprising. But let's just say it 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.760 is unfortunately a tactic that has rarely, if ever worked, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.520 and frankly, let's just say it's never worked. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:25.279 Considering the results, it's never worked, so more. 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.719 Than likely it's not going to right here, so you 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.440 just kind of continue to wait around. So I don't 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.280 know what we're going to be looking for from wide 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:36.160 receivers tonight. So what positional battles? You got to go 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.400 out and get somebody. Regardless of positional battles, you gotta 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.880 hope these guys just look decent. Can you catch a football? 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.800 Can you rely upon them when things are actually real? 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:52.240 And week number one? So that is number two on 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:59.280 position battles list. I guess I get. I will say this, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.000 We'll go to a half. I was going to give 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.520 you three, I'm gonna give you two and a half. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.159 I am kind of curious about the offensive line. We 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.480 know who is going to be the mainstays on the 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.400 offensive line, but this is the Colts and we do 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.400 know that this Colts team will be injured. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:13.840 So how good do. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.440 You feel about those that are competent backups in any 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:24.440 other categories? Left tackle, left guard, center, right guard, right tackle? 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.640 Can you put together some guys that can come in 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.880 in Swiss Army? And I've say it the day on 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:37.400 the offensive line, so I'll view that that's a question, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.560 but I'll view that as two and a half. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:43.120 The third is. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.720 Going to be our good friend and the guy that 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:53.119 is incredibly focused and he's got his concentration on winning 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:58.800 this gig. We are groupie groupies, so you got to 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.040 see the team score or or put themselves in position 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.599 to score. So this begs the question. Let's just say, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.520 for example, the first half, Anthony Richardson you march down 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.160 the field. Would you rather see Anthony Richardson trying to 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.200 convert a fourth down to show everybody that hey, this 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.040 guy can actually play, or to maybe try to market 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.520 some skill set, yeah I know, Or would you rather 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.839 see Schrader or groupie come in to say, all right, 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.560 let's decide this bad boy decided right here, or at 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.520 least be on the path of deciding it in actual games. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.320 Got to think about that. So third on the list 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.920 is the Kicking Battle. And I think we all know 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.080 this to be true. Since Blake Groupie came on this show, 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.000 he had a wide margin according to many, and then 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:57.720 he decided to shrink shrinkage with shrinkage that margin with 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.120 coming on this show and then having all the bad 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:04.440 luck happened afterwards. Now, his first missus came clearly after 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.440 his appearance on this show, as I told him during 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.520 this conversation, we had Matt Gay on and everything was 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.520 going great, and Matt Gay was this guy, and everything 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.000 was going to be fantastic, and it all went right 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.440 in the crapper after he came on this show shortly thereafter. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.200 So we shall see. Those are three and a half 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.320 angles in which I think you should look for coming 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.800 up later on tonight. Other than that, it is just 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.280 a feel good that for a minute is going to 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.000 be back and I get to get back here at 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.520 four point thirty with my guys and talking up. That'll 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.880 be a fun time and just get football back. But 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.360 it is lean exactly what you're going to take away 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.560 from this particular evening the start of twenty twenty six 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.760 with the Colts on the road in Foxboro. Some different 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.840 and now you know what, I probably understated a little 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.440 bit too much, Riley Leonard. You would like your backup 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:11.280 to look decent, made no mistake about that. And I 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.800 think most people right now, everybody pretty much sold on 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.520 Richardson not being a part of this group, come hell 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.640 or high water. At the beginning of the season. Will 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.560 they carry three, will they carry him? Will they cut 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:31.880 him loose? So there is a little bit of drama. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.720 I don't know how dramatic is going to be, but 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.800 a little bit of drama regarding that aspect coming up 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.240 later on tonight, and we get you started. That is 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.520 the Colts pre game huddle my friends at four point thirty, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.959 and I bring that to you. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.280 Man, We'll be good to go. Thank you guys for 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.920 joining us. You gotta love. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:04.880 Yet the Indiana Bears, So please please point out because 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.160 I think we owe it to ourselves, our fun loving selves, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.360 to make fun of all these clowns that felt that 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.640 even if the Chicago Bears relocated a stadium to the region, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.760 to the arm pit of Indiana, well done. You gotta 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.640 have a state of the art stadium. So what do 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.679 you want to put it in? The armpit of Indiana? 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.680 The region? All right, that's where it goes stead of 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.679 the art. The last thing state of the art of 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.720 the region was like the Jackson five I think, right, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.280 the Jackson Family. That was the only thing that's ever 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:38.760 been stated of the art of the region that I'm 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:39.280 aware of. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:40.320 That true. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.319 ABC one, two three said that was state of the art. Yeah, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.360 since that point in time, not so much has this 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.760 been kind of an armpit but they're gonna put a 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.160 stead of the art stead well that's what they say. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:10:00.800 They're putting more pressure on Illinois and Chicago to give 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:06.240 them what they ultimately want. It is a political game 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:12.160 and yet another reason as to why politics and political 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.680 games and all this truly suck. But for us, we 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.560 get to sit back and we get to watch, you know, 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.880 we get to watch the State of Indiana and our 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.000 government officials trip over themselves to pat each other on 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:25.720 the back for it. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.720 And then we get. 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.080 The report yesterday that they were going to be called 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.959 if they they're going to move, and they're definitely going 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.000 and they're going to be called the Indiana Bears. A 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.240 point out the fools that felt that the Indiana Bears 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:46.280 would be the new name. That is absolutely fantastic. There 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:51.479 is nothing more stupid than that. The end the Indiana 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:56.360 Bears is what some felt they were going to end 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:01.360 up doing. Now, those that are smart, those that are savvy, 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:07.920 knew all along, and in fact knew all along what 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.960 George McCaskey referenced a little bit earlier today about that subject. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.480 No, we will be the Chicago Bears, whether we're in 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.240 Arlington or whether we're in him, and as Kevin said, 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.200 our folks on Hammond, that's where we're advancing our efforts, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.200 and that's where the bulk of bar time, attention and 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:27.720 resources are being devoted. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.400 That's they're going to end up in Arlington, aren't they listen? 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:31.920 I don't care. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.360 They can go to hamm and it's fine and good 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.120 for Hammon and the surrounding area. That make fun of 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.720 the armpit all the time. And because a a former 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.920 producer friend of mine, Tony, is from there, I used 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:44.679 to make fun of it and he was kind of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.959 caught halfway between thinking it is funny and then getting 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:48.480 mad about it. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.679 He was from Portage. He is from Portage. But I 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.719 make fun of it all the time. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.640 I mean, hell, everybody makes fun of Green County, so 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.800 I can make fun of the armpit whenever I want so. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:02.120 The Bears, as of right now, as of the moment, they. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.679 Are leveraging their forces to build a state of the 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.200 art stadium in the armpit, but will not be called 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:12.359 the Indiana Bears. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.760 That's beauty, the Indiana Bears. I like what you say. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.480 Like that too, the Indiana Bears. Can you imagine? I 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.080 love it? It's just crazy. I love it and listen, 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:25.920 there's nothing wrong. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.480 Maybe one of these days we end up with the 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.280 with the Bears and him and and the Bengals in 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.680 Lawrenceburg or somewhere in Dearborn County right there right Who knows, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.800 they'd probably end up in Kentucky before they would end 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:41.439 up doing that. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.120 But now you gotta love it the Indiana Bears. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:48.560 But you have to. You got a clown on the 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.600 folks that felt that that was going to be the case. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.439 Got clown Who in the world would think that that's accurate? 0:12:54.440 --> 0:13:03.960 What the Indiana Bears. But at least of right now, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:10.160 the leveraging is that of Chicago. I should say that 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:15.640 of the Chicago Bears being in Hammond. And we will 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:21.160 ultimately see where that goes. Like I said, and others 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.280 have said the same thing. So this is nothing that 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.760 is original by any stretch. We will believe it when 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:34.160 there is a shovel in the ground. I think about 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.079 that all the time. We knew a new stadium here 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.800 was coming. Remember Peyton Manning put that first shovel into 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:45.400 the ground where the Lucas Oil Stadium now rocks. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.079 We knew that was coming. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.559 Yeah, Unfortunately for people around here people around here that 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.560 volunteered and was a part of arguably the greatest Super 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.080 Bowl hosting of all time. I feel comfortable in saying 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.040 that because I'm from here. Yeah, that is me. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.760 I am rabble rousing. I guess a little bit here. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.719 That is me being If you want to know what 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.160 butt sniffer is, that's me being a butt sniffer. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:11.800 I'm sniffing butt. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.600 The greatest hosting of a Super Bowl of all time 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:25.120 was here. That's but sniffing me call myself out. But unfortunately, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.520 you're never going to see another one around here until 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.000 you do what until there's another shovel in the ground, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:32.720 and maybe you have a little bit of success at 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:37.360 some point to lead up to it. You know, at 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:42.400 that moment, this was one of the model organizations of 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.960 the NFL, and I think we know how things have 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:52.840 gone shortly thereafter around here. You know, you get wound 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.960 up into that and you get mad about what they're 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.040 not doing, and then you think about what you've been 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:58.840 a part of for the better part of the past 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:04.600 ten years. This app solutely has sucked, and it's much 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.680 different than how it sucked in the early stages of 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.160 the franchise, being here in the early stages of the 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.400 organization being here, everybody was just happy he had a 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.080 football team. Didn't matter, really, wins and losses did not matter. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.200 Old guys came to their penny loafers, the wives came 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.400 with their knitting. Nobody tailgated, and you came down here 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.480 and hey, we got an NFL team as that, and 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.800 it did wear off and you got a taste in 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.600 ninety five. Then obviously during the Napoleon and the Dungeon, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.320 the Manning era, they took it to a level that 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.960 you had always hoped for, never thought they were going 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.040 to reach. And that's the mark. That's the benchmark right 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:46.360 there and should always be the benchmark. One of these days, 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:51.320 hopefully they're able to work back from that or work 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.560 back to that, because this whole thing stinks. You know, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.880 this constant question, this not knowing. Remember the days when 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.160 you just thought, all right, it was by design. They're 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.440 gonna end up winning thirteen games. Hey are you gonna 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.680 win thirteen? You're gonna be the number one seed and 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.120 the AFC you're gonna get home field throughout the postseason. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.640 You know, how many of these posts, I should say, 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:18.360 how many of these nationally televised games. National games are 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.720 gonna be a part of It was never a question. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.240 Cut that meat. 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.960 And that's why it's always funny when people downplay that today, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.640 when people kind of make fun of it today, that's 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.640 how you know somebody is really stupid when they make 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:36.280 fun of that, because right now it's just a group 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.000 that continues to chase the tail. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.240 Not in a good way either. 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.920 So maybe lightning in a bottle this season and again 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.920 that starts coming up later on this afternoon four thirty, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.640 the Colts pregame Huddle, I am proud to be a 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.400 part of it, and you're gonna get more Rick Venturi, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:02.760 which is absolutely outstanding, Me and Bill and Casey and 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.119 they got this segmented and we've got yip yapping to happen, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.400 going to be great. We'll lead you right into count 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.360 down to kick off. Caleb's over there. I'm John got 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.879 a lot for you too. So we have stuffed what 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.800 is normally a three hour show into an hour and 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.960 a half. And Mike Chapel of CBS four and Fox 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.400 fifty nine, who was a part of the group in Canton, 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.919 Ohio this weekend when Adam Vanit, Terry goes into the 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.760 Hall of Fame. Mike's going to join us about that 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.080 about this team, and I'm sure we'll elaborate more on 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.480 exactly what I was trying to explain, what I'm going 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.400 to look for later on tonight, things that I will 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.440 zone in on, and we'll talk about that with Mike 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:44.320 coming up in the. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:45.520 Four o'clock hour. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:53.159 Meantime, you had a little practice meeting with the media 0:17:53.520 --> 0:18:02.679 from the fever and this this is working out well. Ultimately, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.560 all that matters is if you want or lose, and 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.560 I know to some of you out there, it doesn't 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.880 because you hate the coach, you don't want to fire 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:12.320 the coach. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.840 But let's be about winning. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.000 Don't cry and wind me on a daily basis about 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:23.320 all you care about is winning, and then when you 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.840 have a twenty one to twelve team, they're really the 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.800 only thing you care about is crap is stupid. You 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.600 just give yourself away as a numb nut, and I 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.760 don't want to view you that way. I felt bad 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.040 yesterday that I had to go off on a jackass 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.920 or two. It shouldn't be that way. I mean, honestly, 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:44.960 I think we all should be in the same gang 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.240 on this. You just want to see success from the 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.600 local team really, no matter how you get there, no 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:57.960 matter what path you take. And this group, this group 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.879 is working from the back a little bit on the 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.280 what has been said, it's like a blind man without 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.840 a cane kind of sometimes, Hey, I don't know where 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.760 we're going. Let's just go ahead of that. We'll say 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:14.040 something right here. Hey, we'll do something right here. Hey, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.399 believe me, we've seen this before. But it's got to 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.119 be about the winning. It shouldn't be about anything else. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:30.000 Twenty one and twelve speaks volumes. You don't can a 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.480 twenty one to twelve head coach unless you're stupid. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.400 Don't be stupid, especially. 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.720 One last year that accomplished what they accomplished last year 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.520 with me and Caleb as a part of it. Seriously, 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.840 the equivalent of being down a quarterback, wide receiver, your 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.000 three best players. You're down your three best players, and 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.440 you make it all the way to that final game 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.040 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.800 Now this goes and I'm going to go ahead and put. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.280 To bed or to rest, whole booing of the head coach, 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.040 because you guys know how I feel about that. And 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.919 ultimately you pay the price of admission. So if you 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.920 feel that as necessary, then so be it. But I 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:13.680 think you understand by now how that the players feel, 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.720 and especially Kaitlyn Clark, and Kaitlyn Clark is the one 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.760 that you care about the most in all of this. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:25.480 And that's spoke volumes after the game and the win 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:26.800 on Tuesday night. 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:28.880 So who we got qu'ed up right here. 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:33.000 We had some conversation right Caleb aliaht Boston was talking 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.639 about the booze that she heard when her head coach 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.240 was introed on Tuesday night at the field House. 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.600 I think when you are on your home floor and 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.520 your team's geting announced in the coach you announced, I 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.560 feel like there's no reason for any of that. I mean, 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:47.040 we come out here and we do everything that we 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.600 can to win. I think Steph does a great job 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.760 with us, like we love her and we appreciate her, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.320 and so to hear that it was it was really annoying, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.880 honestly and disrespectful. But for us, I mean we kept 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:58.959 the main thing the main thing, and we said we're 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:00.720 gonna come out here, We're gonna get that. 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:02.679 That's it, and that is about winning. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:04.960 I took it Further, I thought people that were doing 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.800 that were dumbasses, and that's just me, and I know 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:10.199 some people got offended by it, and you can just 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.159 be offended, but no, ultimately we should be about the 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:16.640 same thing, and that is about winning. And I will 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.720 say this, if everything with this squad goes into the toilet, 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.919 and it really doesn't even have to go into the toilet, 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:28.360 if they just simply put do not reach the expected results, 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:37.520 that's that is when we come calling, not for dialogue. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:38.000 Now. 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.280 Granted, you go back to Saturday and that was a 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:45.080 major swing and a miss. But the one thing that 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.760 you should note out of Tuesday night that others haven't 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:53.000 because others have significant agendas. And the one thing you 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.480 should note that I've explained to you is how that 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:02.920 was a make good moment for the head coach. Now 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.280 it also got back to you and got back to me. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.760 It was about those that were critical of it, but 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.200 it was a make good moment for the coach and 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:20.159 the team, which was what let's all say this together necessary. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:27.000 It had to happen, and that's exactly what did happen. Now, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.600 if you flip the script and Caitlyn Clark and Sophie 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:34.760 Cunningham shakes the head alongside what Kaylyn Clark is saying 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:36.680 in the post game after they went over New York. 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:40.080 If you flip that script and that said before the game, 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.480 the coach doesn't get booed the zero way. 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.639 Tomorrow night, the coach is going to get booed in 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:48.159 the intro. 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.600 I'm just trying to tell you what may not be 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:57.440 fashionable to you, and maybe it doesn't fit your agenda, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:00.840 or maybe it doesn't fit who is leading you around 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.040 by your collective nos on a lot of topics that 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:09.359 doesn't matter about basketball. But the basketball part, the wins 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.560 and the losses, that's what matters the most. And these 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.760 folks are telling you that right now. They're explaining that 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:19.400 to you. And in a world of the WNBA, when 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.159 most of the time either stuff is lost in translation 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:27.200 or completely bobbled and fumbled all together, that's really all 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:31.320 you can ask for. Kelsey Mitchell was asked about that 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:32.840 situation on Tuesday Night, too. 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.479 Yeah, kind of through me for a loop too. I 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:38.840 told her to her face, I say, coach, you know 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.680 this is for you in terms of just a sense 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:44.520