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fifty. I know this was done purposely, Jay, but your exit music
to go after the first hour? Perfect, h hold on, we're hanging
on for dear life. We certainly were on Saturday. Better hold on.
You were definitely hanging on for dear life on Saturday. Okay, lots of
stuff, all right, Well, I mentioned the the AP Football poll that
came out. A lot of stuff going on, But I want to start
with this AP football poll that came out. Eight pac twelve teams are in
it. That's the most a conference has ever had. Only the SEC has
ever done that. But you've got uh two teams in the top ten.
You've got USC at five, Washington at eight. Alabama's dropped all the way
to ten, by the way. Then you've got Utah and Oregon at twelve
and thirteen. You've got Oregon State at sixteen, Colorado at eighteen, Washington
State at twenty three, in Ucla at twenty four. I was mentioned,
everyone's gotta play seven of those teams. They don't have to play Oregon,
they gotta play the other seven. It's like, what the hell? You
know, as you as you keep saying that, you've been saying since,
you know, since the summer forever. Other teams have gotten better too.
Yeah, it's the portal. I mean, come on, Arizona got better,
but so did everybody. I look at this, I look at Arizona
schedule not and I put Ucla is a more winnable game than the Colorado game
because Ucla has got to come here. Arizon's got to go up to Colorado.
They're doing what they're doing. You know, it will Colorado run out
of gas at any point. They might, you know, the depth might
become an issue. You know, somebody could get hurt or anyone of a
number of things. But all of a sudden, a bunch of games that
you thought, you know, I mean, Austin, Washington States ranked,
Washington State and Oregon State games, and you said everyone's got to win one
of those games to get to a bull game. You know, what are
they going to do? But that's it. I think on any any other
year outside of well over the last five or six years, you feel confident
with Arizona having the chance to win. Right before they didn't have a chance
to win. Yeah, well that's it, you know. They It's like
you're walking into the stadium. I mean, when when Washington comes assuming there
is on the takes care of business, he's next few games. Yeah,
when Washington comes here, I'm going to that game thinking we could see something.
Right. I don't know what you have on breaking news, but you
you're talking about before I forget the subject. You're talking before we left on
break Uh. When was the last quarterback that Arizona had that had this type
of mentality? I want to say, And I could be wrong. Khalil
because Khalil because he had that confidence he could run. And then and when
they told him he could pass, here's the guy who thought he could pass,
right, he couldn't pass. He couldn't. He couldn't pass as well
as he could run. That's for sure, right that, that is totally
sure, all right? Obviously, the other the other big you know,
there's a lot of big news but the big news of the days Aaron Rodders
four plays into his career at the Jets, and he's out with it,
and then what do you think? What do you think? I know what
I'm thinking. I think they're gonna suck. They're gonna suck. And they
got and they won the game, and they what though coming to I sat
there thinking, I think in Buffalo screwing this up because you know, they
kept turning the ball over U Allen josh An kept throwing picks. I'm like,
you keep throwing those interceptions, You're gonna lose. And then then the
fumble and I'm like, you're trying to lose this game. You're working really
hard to lose this Not they're trying, but they were doing all the things
that they needed to do to lose that game. Kind of boys would do
that all the time, and they still probably might. Because instead of getting
seven to get three, they get seven. They get three instead of seven,
and by the time the fourth quarter comes around, the other team is
still around and they get beat by two or three points. I mean that
I just couldn't believe. And then, you know, you to lose it
like that on a kick return, you know, in the overtime, it's
like, you know what you deserve to lose that game, go home,
pretty much start over. And but Buffalo Allison, all of a sudden,
you know how good are they? Well let's let's let's look okay. So
the after Week one of the NFL, the new odds on Super Bowl winners
are out on draft kings. Who who you think is the favorite to win
the Super Bowl? The Chiefs Lostamy wrong? Oh the favorite? Forty nine
ers? Yeah, forty nineers of the favorite. What's the number right now?
That's that's that's that's doable. Still, Yeah, Chiefs are not seven
hundred their second well, Chiefs and Eagles are second type for second of seven
hundred. This is still good. That's still good. Money doesn't even better
money. Then you got the Cowboys at nine, that's happening, Buffalo Bills
at eleven, which I wouldn't even touch touching, the Bengals at fourteen.
I mean, Joe Burrow threw for eighty two yards on Saturday. But now
they're favorite against the Ravens Miami. Miami is next at fifteen seven, start
at twenty two, yeah, the seventh, and then the Lions are next
at seventeen hundred. It's here we go because I get I how can I
say this without studying like I'm doing. I blame you for all this you
want to go with this. I blame you for overreacting. This is Vegas
overreacting on week one. Well they're going seventeen weeks left. Yeah, well
they're going on when people are where people are putting their money. Right,
Well, it's people. It's Jenkins Owest reacting where they're putting their money.
Wouldn't you just stick with Kansas City, Philadelphia City, Philadelphia? Maybe the
Niners, Yes, maybe the I mean the Bengals. I think that's a
good number. Fourteen fourteen to one. Oh, that's a fantastic No.
B's not gonna throw for eighty two yards every game. No, you know,
no, just because you forget to bring the milk home one day,
your wife is not gonna dump you. Exactly. By the way, Aaron
Rodgers on My Family seam, Oh, I was gonna ask you that.
I was gonna ask you because I said, I said, I'm not joking.
I said, I bet you he'd be pass him him. Get get
the Jets on the line right now, and said, I have the reason
why this is happening to you drafted him all right back to the back to
the Jets, Jordan White had this safety guy who barely made the team.
Now he's out there playing. You know, you know, you're just happy
to be there. It's three picks in the game, triggers that he already
got his his season long incentive bonus John fifty thousand dollars for he was supposed
to get three interceptions on the season, got him all in one game.
He's got his two hundred and fifty games. Stuff happens, man, Sometimes
you're just you ever gone somewhere and you couldn't miss on picks or you couldn't
miss at the carnival or whatever. Yeah, you have one of those days.
Just have one of those days, man, yet miss a shot.
Going back to you were asking about about Jane Delores fake spike, Michael Wiley's
quote was today was I was a little confused when it happened. Credit to
Jayden and the guts he has to do that, which I think says a
lot that these guys are saying, keep doing what you're doing. What it
says, That's what it says to me. And then Brandon Carroll said,
a little bit of disbelief. The guys reacted well to an unplanned thing.
I'm glad it worked out. Now that was that One's not so much of
a you know, ap applauding them for doing it. There's my I'm glad
it works out. I worked out. I'm just trying to think of players
you've played with Poli in the past. I know I played with a few
dudes. They just find ways to win and add lib and you think,
what the hell do you just do? But you did it? Yeah,
you come on, you've you've seen it. They've been guys like that over
the years. Yeah. I mean you could think about the main Ben Mathern,
you say, what the hell? And then I mean there's been a
ton of them. There's been something. There's a lot of a lot of
them in the basketball side, maybe maybe a Derrick Williams. What are you
doing? Okay, that's good, you're gonna do that? Okay, that
works? That's good, good good, all good. So it's it's it's
all funny games until it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It it doesn't
work. Uh. That Jets game last night the most watch ESPN Monday Night
football game. Ever, you know why New York becas Rogers got her Aaron
Rodgers. Everybody wanted to Searon Rodgers and all of a sudden boom, twenty
two point six four million viewers. Yeah, people in New York who couldn't
get in, and they're watching their history of the team go. They went
from sixteen to one to fifty to one. Tune in all Yeah, Tom
Brady in the uniform. All kinds of people are saying Nick Foles, man,
go get Nick Foles. Oh, Nick Foles, that wouldn't be a
bad pick. He lookt out of shape that when he was here last week.
Yeah, which is which is much better shape than iland. All right
on on the down side, so he's uh, this whole thing with mouth
Tucker head coach at Mission Stake, big mass going on over there. He's
accused of sexual harassment of a woman whose life has become sexual harass. It
makes no sense, but perfect sense. What are you doing? Why would
you do anything that might even be close to that, whether whether it was
consensual or not. Why are you doing this when you've got a ninety million
dollar contract that can be taken away from you at any moment. To me,
that's just I don't understand, guys, who he's trying to sell it
as. It wasn't harassment. We were, we had an intimate relationship.
I don't understand why she's saying all this it's all a lie. Uh you
know, we're you know, we we were you know, doing stuff that
we both consented to. And she's saying, no, this is a woman
who lives her life. She's trying to prevent well, she's got a level
of credibility in this that if it would have been anybody else probably wouldn't have
it would have been he said. She said people are more likely to believe
her because of her life, what her life has been. Dead. Just
a strange situation. But Malt Tucker man, you know, dude, and
then he comes then he comes out with a statement, he said he might
be a racial thing. You know, they might just be wanting to get
out of their contract. They're looking for something in Michigan State, the place
where all this past is Lary Nasser and all this stuff. So and then
you got people saying, what the hell is going on in Michigan State.
You know, they're trying to say, we didn't know, we knew there
was an investigator going on, but we weren't privy to the details. All.
I mean, just a complete disaster going on over there. Their football
seasons through it, and not that that's the priority. Just two years ago,
wasn't it because they got in a fight with Michigan, was at Michigan.
That was last year. There was last year with the middle they won.
They won eleven games two years ago and then they went into the crapper
last year, had the fight with Michigan State and with Michigan in the tunnel.
Just the programs a total disarray now there, you know, and they
I mean they're you know, I mean think about you know, what's going
on in Northwestern Now, what's going on here? Going on in Iowa with
the with the gambling stuff, I mean, just caused a message. So
this is a boring story, but I'm gonna telling anyway. So Saturday,
Iowa places Iowa State and I'm with TJ who's from came from Iowa. He's
a big fan of all this. I went to the Iowa kind of like
party. They have someplace, a bunch of old dudes, old people.
I'm one of them, so don't don't And it was nineteen eighty eight eighty
nine dictum boring offense, just get it done kind of and TJ said,
this is Iowa, that's exactly. And I'm thinking I couldn't sit through this
a whole year if I was covering the team, And you almost can't do
that in this time of when, when that's not how football is being played
everywhere else, Right, why would't you go play there? Yeah? You
know, I I Steve, I am with you on that. It's it's
what was it? Who called him? Was? Who's about the offense?
And ever Albert Albert called that's what it was all in the first half.
I did that for the whole game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy
all right. Another another bad news issue of Kevin Porter of the Houston Rockets.
Kevin Porter Junior just allegedly just beat the hell out of his girlfriend broken,
fractured her neck. Uh, some serious injuries, deep cut above her
eye. He's facing fellon the assault charges and strangulation in New York. He's
twenty three years old. Uh, get out of you. Yet he's a
guy out of usc and Uh, now you know he's in he's in a
mess. Yea. According to according to the prosecutors, that he punched her
repeatedly, opening a gash over her eye, and then he then he strangled
her and he and he and he fractured her neck. I mean, dudes,
what do we think? What are you? What's going through your mommy?
He's had issues with stuff like that and not like this, but he's
stuff other stuff off the off the fie, off the court and we had
Hulu greeous. How how do you not another one to put yourself in position
to realize I can't do this, So you're dodger guy, mean, I'll
be back at all right now because he took his stuff away from his Spucker
room. Yeah, yeah, so's he's gone. We got some accusations in
the NFL from Jim Trotter, form reporter at NFL Network. He's followed the
discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and the NFL media, saying that because he has
spoken out about lack of diversity in pro football, particularly at the league office,
that uh that his contract did not get renewed. He's he's He's claimed
that the Bill's owner Terry gets his Pegola and Jerry Jones both are were caught
on video making racial racial racial comments. The guys from Buffalo, right,
the owner from Buffalo, from Buffalo. So now you know, now the
league has a mess in his hands, and we know that the past,
the league has not been very good at handling these things. You know.
We we saw the thing with the red skin or the commanders and all that
kind of stuff. So more more trouble on that on that front for the
NFL. All right, I think that's all I have. Steve, Okay,
perfect time, perfect time, out of time. All right, it's
right out of time. We're gonna come back. We've got Jody Aayler coming
up. We'll talk about some Arizona Cardinals, maybe some sun Devils or what's
going up going on up in Phoenix. So stick around for Jody Taylor from
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on the Ball. Then welcome back to On the Ball here on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jackon's Austin the phony up Jody either
from nine ten up in Phoenix. How you doing, Jody? I'm good.
We good. We'll rain today. So life is good? And yeah
great, so did we? It was nice? How are things? Who
you? Who? Who was upsetting you today? Oh? Today? Man,
it was so long ago. It feels like half the day's gone by.
I was ranting and raving like a lunatry guph, you know, just
the usual, just so you get Aaron Rodgers, not really Rogers, but
just the injuries. That was a bomber. Yeah, yeah, I saw
that you and I totally agree with you. Kime was on on a show
to this morning right or maybe yesterday, and he's he's talking about whatever,
yet he couldn't take care of his own business. No, Steve Khan being
any sort of media figure is just hilarious when he's never really ever answered any
questions about how all the dramatic failures the experience as a GM. It's like,
you know, I don't know you you see some of these guys.
Steve Khan was at GM for ten years in the NFL, right, and
then you see him like I'm sure you guys saw like when he was speaking
he was Jet Fishing's guest there was on a football and he was like telling
a group of UFA football players like, Hey, you can't measure your heart
and you can't measure what's in your mind. And it's like, oh,
can you tell me something? I don't know? After spending twenty five years
in professional football, like you think you'd have some insight. Then he goes
on Colin Coward's podcast He's like, you know, if you're hiring a coach,
you want him to be a real leader. And I'm like, oh
my god, Like this guy's basically singing the ABC's of football and passing it
off his knowledge. It's crazy, Like you would think someone would have more
insight that's been that long in the NFL. Yeah, Kaddy, no,
kiddy. So so the Cardinals not off to a great start. They go
up to Washington. I mean, you know, you go on the road
season opener, you don't every starting quarterback, you lose by four. I
mean you can say it's you know, okay, you know they presented themselves
well, but you know you got the Giants coming in, which, after
what the Giants did on Sunday, you think that they got to win that
game. But then they got three games that are just all losable games.
How big is this game Saturday or Sunday against against the Giants? In terms
they gotta get a win, don't they. Well they've gone. I mean
I hope they're going. I mean, this is a weird season. The
winning does not matter for the Cardinals. Okay, I know it's antithetical to
everything we believe in sports, and fans want to watch game day and see
win. But Sunday was the perfect Week one for the Cardinals. All that
matters to me is did this coaching staff have a clue of what they're doing?
Clearly we saw they did at least in Week one offensively, defensively,
and second of all, do they have a long term plan to get better
and they do. Everything that happens between that point and the end of the
season is probably going to be failure and expectations or everything. I thought the
Cardinals exceeded pretty much all expectations on Sunday beating the Giants. It is important
if you don't want to lose fifteen or sixteen games this year. But I
think most Cardinals fans have resigned themselves through the upside to being bad. Is
not a very talented team, so I get it. It's weird, but
winning is not really on the radar right now for the Cardinals. Door should
it be? Who's the quarterback? I reason I'm asking for this? What's
the quarterback's name? Josh Dobbs. So Jay mentioned Dobbs last week. I
think we both looked at each other. It's like, who might as well
be? Jody Eiler. Yeah, he's on his six team in seven years.
He was cut by two. He was on three teams last year.
Most famously, he played in the Week eight team game. He started for
the Titans against Jacksonville. It was sort of the winner goes to the playoffs,
and he played pretty well, but He's only started now three games in
the NFL. He's not a good quarterback. He's not an NFL starting quarterback.
He's barely an NFL backup quarterback. And you get what you get when
you start a guy like that and they spend a fifth round pick. It's
one of the few mistakes I think they've made. They drastically overpaid for Josh
Dobbs. I mean, Stefan Gilmour was traded for a fifth round or this
offseason and he's a starting cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys. So he's terrible.
But that's okay because the Cardinals don't have any delusion to the grandeur. And
until Kyler comes back, which we don't know when, we don't know how,
we don't know if you want, we don't know anything about his return.
But if and when he returns, then then the evaluation becomes a little
bit different. Is there a chance that he gets Josh Rosland and gets you
know, shipped out, and they go get Caleb Williams with the first pick?
I mean, will they with the amount of money that they put in
his contract. Yeah, I think there's a possibility. I mean, I
think there's a possibility that that's what Kyler wants, and I think there's a
possibility that that's what the Cardinals might want. There's always the possibilities, well
that Kyler comes back healthy and the new relationship with the GM and head coach
tastes fruitful dividends and he's back to being the Kyler Murray. It was an
MVP candidate for two out of his you know, first three years in the
NFL, and if that happens, everybody wins. But listen, there is,
as we saw with the Jets and in any NFL context, there is
no downside having good options at quarterback. And no matter how you cut it,
the Cardinals are going to have more than one option good options at quarterback
after this year. And that's not a bad place to be when we know
that they've had a history of bad selections though the UCLA kids and then and
then of course Color and this this franchise over the last but five has fallen
like a rock. I mean, come on, just a few years ago
this team was celebrated. Oh yeah, but I mean they're they're historically they're
you know, they're an awful franchise under Michael Bidwell, And so I think
you go back to that success and it was all Bruce Arians those first three
years, three straight double digit win years and Bruce arians first year, two
playoff appearances. The only time they've gone to the playoffs, you know,
back to back in consecutive years. There's only one other time that happened.
They made it to an NFC Championship game where they got embarrassed by the Carolina
Panthers. This is why it's so important this freset is this is very anti
Cardinals, who typically look for half measures and half steps to kind of be
competitive but not really like this is strategic long term planning. Some people can
call it tanking. I'll call it strategic long term planning because it makes sense
to me. Thanking to me is if you're just losing and you don't have
a plan, then that's just dumb. But if you have losing and you
have a plan, we own sports. You either have to be really good
or really bad because everything in the middle is no man's planning. There's no
upside to it. So Jay just had a couple of days off. I
call that load management, yes, but you can't load manage during football seasons.
You got to get that done in the suffer man. You you load
manage when your wife says your load manager for my first game, that's when
so you mentioned a minute ago that that that uh, you know, Jonathan
Cannon, you know first you know, uh, your first game as a
head coach, and you like what you saw? What did you like?
They responded to their coach. Their coaches are a bunch of adults. They
had NFL schames. They produced six sacks against the Washington Commanders with a bunch
of no names, Victor McCage, Dennis car Deck, each having some success
getting to the quarterback. They were flying around to the ball. They had
a couple of personal foul penalties when they were head hunting and being too aggressive.
But I'd rather tell a team to dial it back than they need to
ramp it up. And we just saw NFL level schemes. You know.
Here's here's how I framed the guys is under Cliff Kingsberry, the coaching staff
called the players back. Cliff Kingsberry was a terrible head coach with a very
basic offensive assist. It held players back. This time around, it looks
like the players are going to hold the coaches back, meaning the schemes are
there, the leadership is there. It's just a matter of upgrading the talent
before you see results and believe it or not. In the NFL, that's
probably the most fixable problem, particularly when you've got two first round picks,
three third round picks, and a bunch of cap space going into next year.
Okay, let's kind of transition to across the street in Tempe. What
have you seen there? Two games into a new a new career or new
era. I'll say this similar to Jetfish in year one. I'm impressed with
Kenny Dillingham's fresh approach, energy, enthusiasm. He's a worker bee. I
think he's exactly what Arizona State needed. And I think they're similarities between Fishes
building and what Kenny Dillingham's doing, albeit with the nil and portal. Now
it's just you know, you gotta have a salary cap basically for a program,
and you got to have re nil money, which Jed Fish didn't really
have to deal with. But then I say, I think Kenny Dillingham made
a classic first year mistake. He's bitten off more than he can chew.
I mean, there's fifty plus newcomers on this roster. They're starting a true
freshman, even though it had a fifth year senior and Trick Moore Day and
they've got Drew Pine healthy, Jade Rishat has not been bad, Like he's
not been bad at all. But it's a lot. Right, you're a
thirty four year old youngest d one head coach. You've got new coordinators,
news games, fifty new players, you've got a pretty challenging schedule, and
particularly in the Pac twelve or everyone's ranked seemingly but Asu and you of A
and you just its sometimes simpler is better, And the simplest option would be
starting the fifth year senior until at least he shows he's not up to it.
I thought he made a rookie mistake starting Jade Rishata, who's undeniably talented.
It's nothing he's done. I just don't think they need to add a
true freshman quarterback on top of everything else. Yeah, totally agree. I
completely agree, totally agree. You know, as you said, you know,
simplify right when you're when you're when you're doing something like for the first
time, just make it as simple as possible. And I was a little
surprised when they did that. And you're playing for your future Okay, you're
playing for success, right right? Well, yeah, the downside is which
in Rashott is like if he doesn't succeed, then people start getting in his
ear saying, Assu's holding you back. Now he's in the transfer portal.
Now he's headed somewhere else whereas if you if you put him in a position
to succeed. And by the way, guys, this is my problem with
it is if you're evaluating a quarterback, you want to be able to just
evaluate the quarterback. Right now, a SU's evaluating their offensive line, they're
evaluating their wide receivers, they're evaluating their running backs, and they've got some
talented kids in Elijah Badger and Jalen Conners, but they need to be able
to focus on either evaluating the offense or the quarterback. And it's hard to
do both. I mean, it's hard to do both, and they're trying
to do both, and I don't think it's gonna work, and I don't
think they're gonna win many football games. But I don't think that means Kenny
Dillingham was a bad higher because I still think he's the right guy for that
particular job. I mean, other than Dion Sanders, who obviously Michael Crowe
famously is you know, decided wasn't a good football coach. But that's kind
of part for the course with their president's thinking of Okay, let's talk about
that. You know, the way the PAC twelve disintegrated, there's a lot
of finger pointing and Michael Crowe as a guy who all the way back to
how he let Larry Scott, you know, run free in those kinds of
things. I mean, do you believe all that and do you think he
had that much to do with it or was it? I know it was
a total mass, but it's kind of like he was at the front of
the pack, leading the total mass. What are your thoughts? Yeah,
I think that to your point, there's a lot of blame to go around.
If this were a blame pie, then Michael Crowe does get a pretty
you know, healthy size of blame pie because I think he did have a
relationship with Larry Scott. He did sort of vounce for Larry Scott. It's
sort of stake his name and his reputation. By the way, and all
including Arizona's president, we're all under this, you know, misguided idea for
years that had to be an academic conference and let's not expand because some of
the programs that we would add would bring down the reputation academically. And there
was never the good sense from any of the presidents to say, hey,
let's divorce our academic from our athletics and let's just make the best athletic conference
we can. So that's not alone on Michael Crowe. That's on everybody,
right, that's on Arizona a SU and the remaining ten members. But I
think Michael Crowe is just He's It's tough because as US experienced explosive growth and
success academically and real estate wise. But you know, you're usually only one
of two things, are either an academic or an athletic school, and Michael
Crowe's trying to have both, and I think the results athletically have been questionable
at best. And so how hot on a scale of one to ten,
is the seat on the AD well. I mean, in a normal world
he wouldn't still be the AD but based on his relationship with Michael Crowe,
I'd have to assume it's barely warm at all, because he should. I
mean, they hired herm Edwards, who committed gross, you know, in
fractions that cost them the postseason this year and was embarrassing. And that's all
back to Ray Anderson. Usually that's enough. And there's other examples of,
you know, under Ray Anderson's leadership, poor examples of on the athletic department.
But I just think because Michael Crowe is kind of kind of invincible as
a leader of the university, that Ray Anderson's pretty safe too. Wow,
thank you, Jody. Let me Can I give you some advice next time
you next time you're on the show, could you have an opinion for us?
You just getting me all wound up about Arizona football. Man, I
was Jaden Lawd's got to clean that up. I mean, we thirty minutes
on it, we're talking about that. It just you're exactly that's exactly clean,
clean, no question. But you know you got good as did Jake
Cousin, bad and good Jaden. But he's he is who he is.
He's got all that confidence. The problem is he's got all that confidence.
Yeah, it's it's you know, it's his third year starting in the PAC
twelve and he is what he is and it's it's not gonna change. But
I also think it probably this is the best offensive line I've ever seen from
an Arizona football team, and it's it's gonna be a shame if that doesn't
result in an eight plus win season. But it feels to me more like
a six or seven win team because I just can't trust the quarterback to make
good decisions and pressure sit you. I'll mean, I think they'll be in
a lot of games, but I don't know how many the wins, and
and the rest of the league is so damn good. I mean, eight
ranked teams right now. It's wild the best offensive one you've seen ever.
And when you're twenty two years old, what's that? What's your point?
Nah? I mean, I'm forty one. You know, I'm an old
man. Now. I've seen a few things, not as many as you
guys, And I wasn't around for the Glen Parker John Cena kind of offense.
But you know, Van Britten probably the best. You know, Kevin
Barry played in the NFL when I was in college. And there's there's a
few guys, but I mean this is there might be three NFL offensive linemen
on this there might be, right, that's pretty good. They're getting better,
thank you. Jody has always hart Fell. It's good at jet.
Thank you man. He's always fun. He's always fun. One of the
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fifty. They welcome back to it. I'm about here a Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve Rovera. You're Jacob das So something gives me the impression,
chade that you with them to three years though you embrace being the kod
I do and I don't. Will are your way for be that again this
year? You know, I embrace it from the standpoint that stand it.
It's like bad Jayden. I know we're gonna have bad Jayden. All right,
he's out there. He may show up at every game. I may
have a great week picking game. That's you're one off, but you know
one Yeah, I mean you know I'm terrible. I'm two for ten.
I'm two for night, two for ten in in our picks, in our
in our picks. I'm sorry everybody. I didn't post our picks last week
for a reason. Now, yeah, you know again, you guys,
I need I need a little uh dispensation. It was my wife's sixtieth birthday.
We went on a trip to San Diego. I tried not to work
all weekend, and uh so I didn't get the picks up. But I
wouldn't one in five one for five again, So I'm two, two out
of ten. Steve is seven out of ten. I think I have had
a good week left. I have seven and a half. I think I
think it's seven points. But you're you know, you know, we we
have we bet five dollars each week and then we have a season long bed
and I'm down. I'm down two ODU right now, I'm looking you up.
Yeah, you're you're uh seven three, You've got seven points? Okay,
I think yeah, I think you've got I think you're seven out of
ten. I'm two out of ten. I got but I got one point
because I missed both of the added value games. So last week you were
pretty confident in your picks. Well, Steve, you know you think you're
gonna take the Chiefs in Alabama. You're gonna hit one of those games,
right I locked Alabama? They got their asses game. Well, there's one
of the things that we talked about. At least I mentioned to you that
the obvious scene not so obvious one was Oregon. The other one is Utah's
Scott. Utah did not cover I don't think they know they didn't. I
had that they didn't come half. They didn't, so that was obvious.
Half gets a team that how are you played badly? And whatever? No,
it's it's crazy. It's crazy, you know, it's like, what
the hell? So I'm an Oregan looked out and covering. Yeah, yeah,
luckily I had an organ. They got the fumble, and I mean,
I I started. I started about Thursday. I had because because we
remember we did our kicks on Thursday. I had, you know, I
took a Thursday game and I had the Chiefs and they got and they got
not only did they not cover, they got by, and so that was
terrible. And then you know, so then they go thinking I felt really
good about the Alabama game and then they lose. They lost but double digits
at home. People are saying Alabama's over there, saying that their coaches done.
Yeah yeah, they're already talking about will Steve Sarkisian be the UH Savings
replacement at Alabama. I'm like, what the hell is going on? So
I was, I don't know if you saw him? Like Twitter, I
never I rarely get on Twitter. I shouldn't say never. I rarely get
on Twitter. I post you when you when you post our show I tweeted,
retweeted, but I never get involved because I don't need to deal with
people on Twitter. It's just it's a mean fest. So I posted that
after Arizona was down fourteen to three and only down fourteen three days, people
need to relax. I mean, they're still in the game, YadA,
YadA. And I got some guy telling me let him be, let him
be, let him be. Fans, this is what they are. All
they do is complain. I'll they do his bitch bitch, bitch bitch about
stuff that's happening. Jayden, call him, get get rid of him,
bringing no the backup, and I said, he's doing I'm not gonna lie.
I were one of those I was. I mean, I didn't go
one twitters, but I'm like, you throw three picks and three possessions.
You got to think about sitting the guy down. A lot of people wanted
that, you know, and I thought, you're just at least even a
series set him down for a series and say just take a look, Okay,
calm down, aren't you gonna And again, that's why he's a coach,
jet fish coach. And I'm not And I'm saying I'm really honest,
I probably would have thrown off the feet in there and said, go in
there and give me a series. You don't throw a pick, here's the
ball, run, let it run. Well, it turned out to be
okay. It turned out to be okay except for the win. So I'm
just saying, you guys need to relax. And I got people, this
is what we do, blah blah blah. You know, we're the one
to pay your mortgage because you do these things. But really, okay,
you know, I'll quiet down and you ran. I'm saying, I'm saving
your life. You guys are having art attacks. Yeah, no, I
you know, I was very I was very upset. I'm like, what
the hell is he doing? But then I but then I thought like,
yes, wait a minute. You know, after the third interception, after
you after the fourth turnover, after the fumbling, there's still down to still
you're still in this game. They just go get a score up on the
board. And before the end of the half they did. They go in
down fourteen to seven. I'm like, okay, yeah, forget about all
that, come back and lay better in the second half. If you on
on any given day minus those picks, and they were down fourteen to seven
and a half on a normal Yeah, you're saying, okay, I want
a chance. We got a chance because I was watching the game with my
with my my kids, who you know, just live and die for this
stuff as well, And they said, guys, if you're just if if
we just somebody would have said to us, will you take fourteen to seven
and a half? Would you just sign that? Hell yeah, we would
have all right, good forget what happened, come out, play better in
the second and have your I love, have your Paulianna, he's a friend
of mine. If this would not have happened, yeah, of course.
If this would not have happened, if I would have been born six foot
four, I wouldn't be a radio guy. I'd be playing somewhere. Yeah,
you know so, I mean we're saying a thinking about it. We're
at dinner, you know, at the games over dinner, and we're talking
about it, and I'm like, if if you'd have told me without telling
me what happened in the game. Yeah, No, I don't know anything
about the game overtime. They lost the game in overtime at Mississippi State.
What I have been happy with that? I said, I would have been
happy. Yeah, sure, but I'm unhappy with it because you feel like
what could have been the circumstances. Right, well, it is what it
is. And now I think I think, like I said, I learned
more over the weekend that you do have hope because they are better. Yeah,
they are improved. Everybody else has improved to but at least they give
you a chance. Yeah, I mean, if they don't, if they
don't go out and and mess this up in the next two weeks, and
like I said, it win those two games. I'm walking into the stat
against Washington thinking there's a chance they can they can do something. Staffer's on
the road, right, Yes, of course they should probably win both pretty
easily. Oh, Stafford, and then and then Washington. Then it's you
that's your tip here Stanford there, Washington here, and then they go to
us. We're still doing that game. You're going right, Yeah, I
want to. Yeah, we haven't talked about I haven't talked about setting a
show over there. We should think about that, yeah, yeah, because
we want to have people come take a road trip. You know, absolutely,
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take this color. Hi, You're on the air and I on the ball.
Hey, this is done. How are you guys doing done? How
are you I'm doing I'm doing pretty good. And I agree with Jay.
You know, if you hadn't a known what had happened before I got to
fourteen seven at a half, he'd be, hey, we're in this thing.
Or if you'd known, if you didn't know how the game was played
and they got it and you've heard that they lost in overtime, you thought
that was a pretty good result, right, I would. I'm still you
know, considering where we started out and the way we were getting man handled
early. Because man, you know, Mississippi State looked like better than the
middle of the road SEC team on Saturday, right, because let's be honest,
they're still unranked or are they? I don't even know. I think
they are. I think they got ranked. Well, the first five minutes,
they just ran all over Arizona. You're thinking this is gonna be a
long day, didn't you? Well? I did. And then that's why
after the first three picks in the first you know, it's like if you're
not invested in the team, like follow the team, see how they're doing
and everything else. If you're not in like that, and you're like a
casual, casual watcher of the game, you'd say this is over, even
though Mississippi State they're gonna start scoring and it's gonna be over. But it
wasn't because the defense kept fighting the whole time. The defense kept biden.
And we've seen this team a culture goal that as soon as they gave up
that first third and nine they quit. Yes, and none of those guys
are here anymore, but that holds something there. They quit and we could
you could see it on the TV, you could hear it on the radio.
Yeah, but these guys did not quit, and they fought all the
way to the end. I think, in my opinion, you're on the
road. Those cowboys, those cowbells are ringing. No matter what. They
should have gone for two at the end of regulation, well, well there
was, there was. There was a lot of thought that they should have
where when they the possession, when they kicked the field goal to tie it,
they had a fourth and two that they should have gone for it there.
You know what all those guys think and if it doesn't work, what
the hell you doing? Well? No, the thing is is if if
Jed Fish goes for that, then you don't want He's got for lack of
another term that I might not be able to say on the radio, he's
got what he's got, he's got the guts to go for it. He
sinks his you know what. You know, he says, Hey, guys,
you know what, We're not going to mess around with overtime. Let's
get the heck out of this noisy place's goal for it's and that's all fine
and good. Let's not forget on that. I think it was the last
fourth. They went for the fourth and run like on their thirty yard line,
right, he's got some gamble. Yeah, he's got some gamble in
him, he doesn't. I I commend, I commend the whole team.
I mean Jaden, Jaden recovered. I mean, he went for it on
the on the Hey, I'm not gonna tell anybody, I'm gonna sneak play.
Yeah, and when they realized it, they pushed him in and then
then that was I mean, I mean, it was like everybody elevated themselves.
Now, you know, I'm I think we're in a good spot,
win or lose. This was one of those games. If we win it,
that's awesome, But if as long as we're competitive, and they were
done. I mean because they had to do it done. We got just
a couple of seconds. You know how many games did you put quick thing?
Quick thing, go, quick thing. Don't talk about as U A
D S no more. We could send a bag of hammers up there and
nobody would notice. Okay, we're close with that. Yeah, that's a
good one. Appreciate it, don thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
Man, talk to you later. Have a good one calling Ace right now.
And you know, maybe we talked a little bit too much about about
them, but it's it's still fun, all right. Hey, that was
good, good, good fun show today, quick, good times fast.
Thank you Joe Joey Aylor, good good opinions from you and Adam Green.
Appreciate the last second calling that as well. Good stuff on your thoughts on
Arizona. So all right, we'll be back tomorrow more great guests, so
be sure to come back.