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Welcome to I on the Ball here
on Fox Sports fourteen to fifty.

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I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jagon's Oss, got our boys, Noah, and

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today Friday, Good, good Friday. Finally we're here. We may well,

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we sort of we're almost there.
I'm not gonna say we made it

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because we can still screw this up
in the next two hours. Yeah,

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I know, we're capable of anything. Noah, you were very talkative yesterday.

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It was nice. Well yeah,
well what does that mean, Bob,

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because he's usually kind of in the
behind the scenes, but he spoke

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a lot yesterday. Oh that guy
me. Oh yeah, yeah. Well

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it was a good conversation that we
had, you know, about the failure

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disappointment discussion. And actually I was
watched just a few minutes ago. I

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was watching that. They spent about
ten minutes last night on it on TNT.

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You see that, No, No, some really interesting perspectives. It

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was it was you know, Shack
and and Charles and and and and you

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know the guys. Uh, Ernie
Johnson, you brought it up. And

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so they basically said, first of
all, that what a great thing.

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And this is a conversation I've heard
all day about this, is that what

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a great thing. It was that
he that whether you agree with them or

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disagree with them, that Jannis handled
that the way he did and said what

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he did, because this created a
lot of conversation. Um, and that

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uh, you know, people are
talking about the whole issue, which I

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think, I think this is going
to help everybody because you know, you

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just have to see things for what
they are. But the funny thing was

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that did different perspectives at the table. You know, Charles said, Charles

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agreed with what kind of we said, is that, you know, just

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because you didn't win a championship,
you're not a failure. You didn't fail

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right, Uh. And you know, and and he was really and he

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basically was along the line he said, Look, he was, I didn't

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win a championship, he ship,
but I don't consider myself a failure.

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So you know, I grew up
in the projects. My mom was my

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you know, my mother was a
maid, and you know, six years

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later, look at where we are. I was, I'm a success.

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I'm I'm, you know, a
very big success. So I'm you know,

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I will consider the fact that I
didn't get a championship a failure.

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We just didn't get a championship.
Shack, on the other hand, said,

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you know it goes. I played
twenty years, I won four championships.

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I consider those other sixteen years a
failure, said, I failed in

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the years that we didn't win a
championship because my goal every year was to

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win a championship. So since I
didn't win one, it's a failure.

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But where where he kind of differentiated
it was that he said, but failing

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isn't always bad, no, right, if you, if you, if

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you, if something good comes out
of that. Said So, even though

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I do feel like I was a
failure of those other sixteen years, I

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don't feel like I was a failure
as a whole. And I don't feel

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like, you know, the failure
those failures were bad failure. Kenny Kenny

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Smith was kind of like, you
know, if you do everything within your

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capability to keep your team from failing
and the team still doesn't win a championship.

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You're not a failure and he said, you can say that Jannis did

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that. So it was it was, it was three. Really, it

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was a good conversation. I thought
it was very very well said by all

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three of those guys. Okay,
I think it's all everybody's different perspective,

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right, and you're not you're life
for your life ventures or life right skills

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or not skills, but what you've
been through in life right, And like

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don you know said you know,
I think it was don Or, it

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was it was Vic who said that, you know, he doesn't want me

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coaching his kids team because I'm I'm
I'm a believer in the participation trophy.

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Well, the truth of the matter
is I am not. But I'm also

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not somebody that smashes my kid's hand
with a hammer if he doesn't get a

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base hit every time, or if
or if the team doesn't win every time.

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I'm not that guy eating But you
know those guys, I know those

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guys exist, right, They're all
over the place, So no, I

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get it. But everybody's an individual
and they have Uh. You know,

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some of my soccer friends growing up, they were they were not growing up

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going what's our kids. They were
brutal. They were brutal, they were

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tough, they were on their kids, and you know, got to win.

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No, they don't know, don't
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about life lessons, learning and being
better. Can you. I just love

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the fact that more than twenty four
hours later, this conversation is still going

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on, and that really tells you
what he said, how impactful it can

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be. So I thought it was
very cool. So, No, when

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you were a kid, did you
have a lot of pressure, not so

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much from your parents or whatever to
be well and not fail? Because you

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you talked about this yesterday. Yeah, kind of kind of it was sort

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of like it wasn't necessarily that was
a pressure. It's more just like if

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things weren't mad or like certain grades
like I could say in school weren't like

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achieved and it was like this like
they'd be disappointed whatever. No, No,

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but in in athletics they weren't.
They didn't have too much pressure on

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that. Like I played competitive sports, um, like a pretty high levels

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and when we'd like lose in the
tournament final or something, they they really

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had no um, they really there
was like no downside for them. But

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they'd have an upside if we did
well. What about the what about the

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coaches? That's kind of where I
was going. Um, it depends on

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the coach. But the thing is
like a lot of the times coaches would

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be like their biggest thing is is
if if we lose, like if we

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didn't do everything we could to win, And then that's one thing, Like

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if we play an amazing game,
we do everything, we can't everything and

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learn. I think that's where it's
at, right If you if you don't

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give your effort, right, that's
a disappointment and and you failed at what

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you hope to do right. Um. Yeah, and then those and those

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are the ones that are hard hard
to take. You know what, when

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you feel like your team just didn't
go out there and do what's level best

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to win. I could always always
always take a loss if you felt like

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one there was effort and and and
you know and that that that there was

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you know that they tried hard to
win. But there were times that you

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could tell your team just didn't And
those are the times that you'd you'd have

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a talk with him after a game
and say, guys, that was terrible.

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You know, yeah, and you
know there were Any coach who's coached

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has had those, right, so
you know I'm gonna had those at the

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little league level all the way up
through high school that when I coached,

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and so it's just you know,
that's that's why you want now, you

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know. Uh, No on mensions, you know grades. Yeah, with

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grades, there was failure and there
was and there was you know success.

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I mean that was you know,
if you didn't have if you didn't get

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your you know, your a's and
bees. In my case, I had

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to get all a's and bees.
If I got to see that was a

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failure, you know in my parents'
eyes, It wasn't a failure in my

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eyes. I was like, Okay, I just didn't get there. You

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know, things happen, you know, and we all have our different pressures,

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right. Uh. The question was
probably not phrased, Well, it

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was a question he asked twice in
a role. Well it was. It

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was a great question, Steve.
I don't think there was anything wrong with

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the question. I think it was
a good thing that the question got asked,

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but even better, even better was
the way it got answer. Yeah,

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yeah, I agree, I agree. Well, we started the story

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here. The story the show we're
ready to go. What do we have

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today? Well, we got Jake
Fish or Friday guests will come in.

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We'll ask him about the draft and
uh, you know, he had friends

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drafted and we'll see you know,
just some of his uh his experience with

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seeing guys getting drafted. Um,
you know, I guess he would have

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played in high school when Kadem was
was in high school. So right when

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Jake, Jake's almost thirty. No, but Jake, Jake, Uh,

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well he started the U have A
in two thousand and nine. I mean

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he played with Kadem at the U
Kadem or who'd you say, with Kadem?

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Not with Kadem? Could he played? So he would? Because I

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want to I'm guessing. I'm guessing
the answer. If I asked Jake,

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who's the best high school player you
ever played against? I would imagine hit,

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say Kadem, unless with somebody else
that we don't know, a quarterback

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or something. But I already know
that I've already listened to you say,

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I'm not talking about Kadeem Carry.
Yeah they were teammates, Yeah they weren't

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teammates were here if they were teammates
at Arizona. Right, So I'd like

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to pick his brain on on that, and then we got Bob Camp.

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We'll talk about eight. We'll talk
about both the sons and uh and the

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Cardinals draft with him to see get
his thoughts on. So I was watching

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the draft. I'm sure you did. Two. I was watching from doing

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something else, and I was a
bit surprised, a bit surprised if he

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went at eight. Yeah. Yeah, I think when he got down and

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when he didn't get picked at seven, I thought, Okay, he's going

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to the Eagles at ten, right
right, But then, um, you

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know, I was watching too,
But then they were saying that Atlanta runs

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the ball and they don't be surprised
if they take him at at at eight

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because they try to run the ball, and uh, he might be just

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the guy for them, and so
I don't feel bad for him. Well

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I'll tell you who was it,
um who? I can't remember who who

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said it, but somebody in analyzing
it. Uh No, it was this

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morning on Dan Patrick. One of
the guys analyzing it this morning, and

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might might have been Mike Florio was
saying that he thinks that Cadeem carry Bijean

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Robinson makes Atlanta a contender right now. Yeah, that was the only piece

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that they were missing. They were
set. He said, there's seven and

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ten last year that all these pieces
they've got. You know, the way

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they the offense that they run that
Bijean Robinson puts them in the playoff picture

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right now. Yeah, I heard
that from the guy on ESPN. If

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we're going to see in the quarterback
Ozuski or whatever his name is talked about.

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Yeah, he was something. He's
it's it's wasn't the best pick for

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them, but the right pick for
them in terms of he opens up some

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things from them offensively, right,
especially with all the things that he can

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do, right you you know they
you see his the highlights issue. You

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know he can run. He beg
how big is he's five eleven two fifteen.

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He doesn't look it to me,
but he doesn't. I didn't realize

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he's two fifteen one. He looks
slighter than that he looked. He look

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he's a bruiser. I thought he
was taller. Yeah, me too.

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Well, I don't know. I
don't know what I'm seeing. But obviously

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very swifty, pretty fast, great
hands. They showed that one. There's

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one run where he gets a handoff, goes he's on the right sideline,

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cuts back all the way across stiff
arms, some guys gets to the end

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zone. It's just an unbelievable run. Which is the Reggie Bush like run

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that I was thinking about when we
were talking about him the other day.

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What a story, What a story, great story, great story. You

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know, not just you know,
not just for him, but you know

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his family, his whole family.
Then you know people all good people.

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They've all been uh, you know, just nothing. But but you know,

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great role models and and and you
know, great people in the community

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and all those things. And you
know, you love to see good things

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like that happen to a great family. So you not can you know,

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can congratulations not just to be Joan
but too his entire fan. Yeah,

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I think it's very cool. Yeah. I saw a post earlier. I

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don't know who it was, wrong
and what. Don't think it was Shane

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but probably oh it was probably David
Adams. Probably David Adams, who thinks

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for very highly himself obviously, um, but um, a guy who you

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said that he was probably usually the
best player to come out of high school

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in Arizona. In Arizona, Arizona, well, best running back for sure,

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best running back for sure, best
player. I at this point,

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I think you can say you had
the best, the best player to come

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out of Tucson. Yeah, what
about I don't know the state that well,

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I haven't only been trying to think
of some guys out of Phoenix.

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I mean, I don't know.
I'd have to sit there and think something

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about it. Maybe somebody can let
t I mean, you know you're drafted

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it, you know, eight high, you know, highest draft pick ever

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had a Tucson So um for now
you say, yes, Well, I

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mean you still have to wait to
see what he does. You know,

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if he if he has a good
career, how long it lasts, you

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know, because running backs, you
know, don't see it, don't you

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see if he's got if he does, if he does a great five years,

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that's all you can really ask for. If he goes beyond that,

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it's sort of it's sort of icing
on the cake. Yeah, well,

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so we'll see what happens. Congratulations
obviously to him. We'll probably talk a

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lot about him the rain remainder of
the show. We're gonna talk to about

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him next week for sure. Uh, Coach Bennett is gonna be with awesome.

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Okay, Yeah, Saw that he
was up there with him. There's

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a great picture of him. One
he needs a smile though. I tried.

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I tried to reach out to him
yesterday and I knew he was out

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there and he couldn't come back.
Yeah in time. You know, I

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watched uh, I watched some of
his uh, his post draft interview and

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um, you know, just really
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a very smart guy. Uh,
always a smile on his face, answered

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every question with a smile. Um. You just love everything that he's putting

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out there. And uh, whether
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or you know, he's being coached
and and uh, and you know,

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just having an understanding of you know, what he needs to be whatever,

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whatever's going on there, it's all
good because he looks he looks good.

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People love him. Um. You
know, I heard a couple of anilants

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say that he was one of the
top three players in the draft, but

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people just don't draft running backs top
three. Well he went eight. That's

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pretty dark. Well you see you
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Right, Yeah, we talked a
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didn't know who. How about that
man well, when when when the Colts

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took Anthony Richardson at a pick that
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including Pat Finley when he was when
he was on with us, I

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thought Will Levis is gonna drop And
he dropped all the way out of the

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first round. It was funny.
There was there was a clip from him

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pre draft saying, you know what's
what you know, what's the worst thing

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that you think in happy's the worst
things that you can sit there and wait,

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wait, wait, wait and not
get drafted. And that's exactly what

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happened to him. So yeah,
then you saw the pictures of every time,

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Hey, we've already gone through fifteen
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Friday's going fast already. Okay,
we're gonna come back to be Jake

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Fisher. We'll get his perspective on
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with some of his buddies who got
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today and Jake Fisher on the phone. Jake, Joe, how are you

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guys doing fine? Thank you?
So, what did you think about the

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draft. Well, my guy from
Susan Bejean Robinson, got drafted number eight

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overall. That's really all I cared
about. Um, I'm not really gonna

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be tuning in to the rest of
it until next year when some of myers

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in a Wildcat guys h you know, when they go so um, since

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we're probably not gonna have anyone drafted, I went ahead and just made sure

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the Tucson product got drafted number eight
overall, Susan Falcon Land Falcon is fantastic.

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And next year I'll be tuned in
a little bit more. Sot back

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to your days at Arizona. Were
who were some of the guys that got

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drafted during that time that that you
played with? And then well just that

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were there. I mean there were
some guys, right and I don't I

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don't remember if there was a bunch, but there were a few. Well,

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I had a Jern Kriner, you
had a Nick Foles, Earl Mitchell

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Brooks read some of those guys.
I mean we had oh and uh yeah,

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we had a couple of guys Golden
got drafted by the Pittsburgh Steeler.

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I mean we had a few,
Like you know, I was really blessed

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my first couple of years to play
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So, so did you kind of
from you know, from the side,

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I guess experienced some of that the
things they were going through where they did

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you get to talk to them about
all the stuff that they had to do

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and the process and all that.
I mean, what do you what did

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you hear about it that? Steve
and I don't, Well, to be

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one percent honest with you, I
mean, as soon as they you know,

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as soon as I've gotten to the
offseason after their last year. My

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big thing is I wanted to make
sure they knew I supported them. I

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didn't ask all the little, you
know, details and everything because I never

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thought in my all the dreams I
would get that opportunity. So I was

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just like, hey, I'm happy
for you guys. You guys obviously are

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awesome. You know, all everything
goes well for you and whatnot. So

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I didn't really hear all the little
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it for myself. Right. So, Jake, so you went through pro

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day, right, I'm curious,
did you, in your heart of hearts

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think, okay, if I do
really well i'd have a chance, maybe

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even to go as a free agent. Well, yeah, I had.

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I had three teams who now I
obviously don't like at all, but I

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had three teams that told me that
if I was there in the sixth round

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as a you know, and they
were looking for a linebacker, they were

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going to draft me. And so
I was sitting there with my parents and

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all three went by in that sixth
round and nobody chose me. And you

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know, it was one of those
things where I was I was a tweener.

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I was way too small to be
a linebacker in the NFL. You

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know, I was probably twenty five
years too late, obviously because everyone's huge

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now, but also I wasn't fast
enough and they didn't have any tape on

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me to play in the other position. So you know, I was one

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of those guys that was probably going
to be if I didn't make a roster,

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I was going to be on all
the special teams. And I was

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pretty much it. But you know, my I basically told my agent I

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don't want to get you know,
kind of tossed around and whatnot, and

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you know, my thing was,
hey, listen, if they don't value

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my skill set, which you know, I'm not a Marquis Flowers who's sixty

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three two forty and ran like a
four were one or some metis prode which

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is insane and he deserved it.
But I just wasn't that kind of an

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athlete. So I understand from that
standpoint, and you know, just kind

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of live with it. So a
lot of talk about Bijon and you know,

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coming through Tucson and you know,
Pop, you know a lot of

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people thinking the best you know,
Tucson high school football player ever? You

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played against some and you know,
I wanted to ask you, you know

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who the best player, best high
school player you played against. I think

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we know the answer, but I
want to I want to hear who you

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think that was in high school?
Tell me who you think. I'm gonna

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say, I think you're second team
Kerry. I didn't get a chance to

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play against him in high school.
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year is so apparently Ironwood and CDEO. Things got so heated that people were

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literally fighting in the parking a lot, like fifty people at a time.

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And then we moved up to five
A and the two schools basically said we

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don't want to play each other because
we don't want to, you know,

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have the police there and arrest a
bunch of people. So um, yeah,

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it got to that point. So
wow, his freshman year was my

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junior year. So I got to
watch him in the four A state championship

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against uh some wall I believe it
was he escotso Wall return a kick one

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hundred yards. I knew he was
going to be special from the get go.

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You know, I always knew Tenvins
was going to be awesome. He

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was just a little undersized, and
I knew he would, you know,

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eventually make you know, a college
roster. I think he should have gotten

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offered a scholarship, but you know, he was he was small when he

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was, you know, a senior
in high school, so I understand that

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point. But yeah, I actually
got a chance to play against the guy

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you guys probably don't remember. His
name is Javario Burkes and he went to

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the University of Nebraska. He was
about six to seven, three fifteen.

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I got, you know, I
got to see him at one of those

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big men camps up in up at
AFU, and he literally took a ball,

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he jumped, went between the legs
and dunked it over the ten foot

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goalpost at that height and weight,
and he was like the All Star center.

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But after his freshman year at Nebraska
he couldn't play anymore because he had

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some sort of artifact man. And
if he would have been able to continue

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playing, he would have been a
surefire top ten to fifteen, the britishaw

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Ferguson type guy like he was insanely
good. So let me ask you a

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biased question that I don't know how
you'll answer. So you talked about Tevis

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and you and kind of guys who
kind are undersized but play your butts off.

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Could the University of Arizona, because
everyone talks about talent, basketball and

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football, get you gotta have talent, gotta have four or five stars.

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Could the University of Arizona win consistently
with guys like you? Guys? Yeah?

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I mean, what is how has
Utah been doing you know, pretty

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you know, they've been doing pretty
well lately. Obviously, every now and

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then they'll have a star Luton Leley
who goes top fifteen or whatever. But

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they don't have a you know,
they're not ste they don't have guys getting

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drafted the first round every single year, so they find talent, they fit

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the scheme for the talent, or
they find the talent to fit this scheme,

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they coach him up. Make sure
that you know they're you know,

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junior senior there. They get their
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They study the film. You know, they have the consistency and the

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coaching consistency and the scheme, and
they just let their guys go out and

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play. And if you're a good
player and you don't have to think twice

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because you know the scheme, you've
watched the film, good things can happen.

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You know. I can't tell you
how many times I've seen someone get

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drafted, you know, and you
kind of just look back and say,

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who is this guy? And they
were kind of a plug in play type

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guy at something like a university of
you saw, so absolutely you can,

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and you just got to make sure
you have guys that know exactly what they're

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doing. They buy out to the
scheme, They play their butts off,

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and good things happen when that happens. Well, you got a guy like

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that right now coming up. They
think the tight end that that that went

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to I can't remember where, but
you know, he's a guy who just

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you know, made his bones.
And then he had this great sixteen catch

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game against USC and he winds up
in the you know, in the round.

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He's right, he's not gronk.
But you know, you taught tight

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end who gets into the first round. It just it took him five or

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six years to get there, but
he got there. Yeah, And this

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is the thing. This is what
I absolutely love about the NFL. It's

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a little bit different from um,
you know, college ball. They have

410
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scouts everywhere. If you're good at
what you do, they will find you.

411
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They will draft you, or they
will pick you up as a free

412
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agent, and they will develop you. Right. I mean, there's some

413
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of these guys, like the Wisconsins
in the world, in the Big Ten.

414
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They don't always have the best recruiting
class, but they're always winning nineteen

415
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games a year because they go to
the Dakotas. They go these places,

416
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they you know, they go look
over the entire football landscape. They find

417
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guys that they know can develop in
three or four years, and then they

418
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work their tails off to develop them. So if you are good, they

419
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will find you. So we covered
told me here in the late eighties,

420
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that was my football experience and then
lud of course, who coached up.

421
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A lot of guys who coached you
or did they and how much did they

422
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coach you up. I've had a
lot of good coaches, you know.

423
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Apparently I just wasn't, you know, I wasn't the model of linebacker that

424
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a lot of other schools in the
NFL didn't want. But thankfully, you

425
00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:18.920
know, I had a coach Kisch, a coach cast deal. Thankfully I

426
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had a coach minor, you know, a high school, you know,

427
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and there's a lot of other coaches
growing up, like my dad. Literally,

428
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my mentality is all from my dad. When I'm playing, it's just

429
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hey, listen, go make the
play. Don't celebrate too much. I

430
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know what you're doing. Go hit
somebody, get back because you have another

431
00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:41.000
play to go. So thankfully,
I don't think I've ever had a really,

432
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I don't think I've ever had a
bad coach. You know. Coach

433
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:48.200
cortis linebackers coach ever since I stepped
on campus over at Ironwood. He was

434
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awesome, you know, and he
coached my little brother before he got to

435
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Ironwood, so I had some familiarity
with him. But you know, I

436
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don't think i've ever had a bad
coach, to be honest with you,

437
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and I'm very blessed for that.
So so as you as you go,

438
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you know, go through college,
how many guys really believe that they're there

439
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to get into the NFL? Is
that a I mean, is that a

440
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thing? Or are there some guys
in No, Look, I'm here,

441
00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.920
I'm getting an education, I'm gonna
play, I'm playing my ass off.

442
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But you know, I'm not an
NFL guy. How many guys think that

443
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:22.000
way? And how many guys think
I'm there and I'm going It's almost universal.

444
00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.799
Yea. Literally everyone that you know, as soon as you're going with

445
00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:26.480
your freshman class, you talk to
you know, some of the guys from

446
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.960
Cali and Texas and stuff, and
they're every single one of them swears,

447
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.920
you know, put the right hand
of the Bible. They think that they're

448
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.359
going to make it. So it's
just one of those things where it's like,

449
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.480
hey, you know, thankfully you're
getting into some good classes. Thankfully

450
00:28:40.519 --> 00:28:44.200
you're you know, you're getting an
education. Thankfully you're making some inroads or

451
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some of the you know, some
of the people in the Tucson area that

452
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:49.799
own businesses and that can help you
and whatnot. But I mean, I

453
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:53.079
can't tell you how many times I
had to temper expectations. And I'm the

454
00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.279
one that didn't think I'd ever make
it to play college football. So it's

455
00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.119
just one of those things to where
some of these guys because they have cousins

456
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.279
or because you know they have they
have siblings, or you know, someone

457
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.400
in their family has made it that
far, it's like, oh my goodness.

458
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.000
You know, it's just like I
said, I had the temporary expectations.

459
00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:14.880
Um, if they made it great. If not, then hey,

460
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:18.160
listen, you gotta have something to
fall back on. And I'm not a

461
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.559
big h you know, proponent of
you know, you have to go to

462
00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.480
college. You have to go to
college, but if you're there, you

463
00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.240
might as well get an education and
something other than you know, the family

464
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:32.839
studies. Yeah. Um, so
let's switch to basketball real quick. Last

465
00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:36.039
time we talked to you, we
weren't sure what Carter Bryant was going to

466
00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:41.039
do. Uh, Arizona got him. The fans rejoiced, and then you

467
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:44.359
know, they became fans again and
you know, lose their minds. But

468
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.720
what were your what are your thoughts
when they got him? Well, I

469
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:48.839
knew they were going to get one
of the two. I was a lot

470
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:55.359
more confident in the Carter Bryant situation, the fact I actually know his uh.

471
00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:59.279
I think it's an aunt that went
there and played volleyball. But the

472
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.559
fact of the matter, if he
loves Arizona. He cried when he got

473
00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:04.160
to offer. It was his dream
school. He grew up on campus like

474
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:08.400
it just all that stuff. I
knew that was gonna eventually get to the

475
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.119
point where it actually, you know, secured the commitment. The fact that

476
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.400
we're in a great space in terms
of you know, we've got a one

477
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:19.559
seed two years ago, we got
a two seed last year. And the

478
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:25.240
fact that these guys know how to
develop players. And I mean Carter Bryant,

479
00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.720
he's not like some slender kid.
He's not sixty eight, you know,

480
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.920
one seventy. You know, it's
like a solid two, twenty two,

481
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.599
twenty five. So as long as
he's able to you know, kind

482
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.400
of refine his game, which he's
got so much going for him, I

483
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.799
think it's gonna be awesome. But
going back to the fans perspective, I

484
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:42.319
mean, you know, of course, I you know, it was a

485
00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:47.480
side of release when I got the
notification that he committed. I put my

486
00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:51.039
phone down and I was like,
you know, it might be another heartbreaker.

487
00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:53.519
Hopefully it's not. But you know
a couple of folks were telling me

488
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.079
that, you know, Louisville's coaches
weren't even at his last couple of games,

489
00:30:57.319 --> 00:31:00.599
you know, so they kind of
knew he was going Arizona, and

490
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.839
that kind of gave me a little
bit of comfort. But you know,

491
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.440
he stought some of these fans that
as soon as he committed, you have

492
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.759
twenty four hours of oh, you
know, coach Tommy load is awesome and

493
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:12.720
he's doing this and that, and
then today you wake up, you're going

494
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:17.720
you check it out and it's like
someone you know enters a transfer portal and

495
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.880
it's like, oh yeah, Tommy
would probably wait six months off for him.

496
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.000
It's like to stop me. And
you know the staff has a plan

497
00:31:23.079 --> 00:31:26.720
and know what they're doing. They're
executing it. If you look at their

498
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.440
you know, that class, they
have a top five class. I mean

499
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.200
they're literally ranked ahead of Duke,
and Duke has the number one or number

500
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.240
two class every single year, so
obviously they know what they're doing. Buy

501
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.200
in when he gets all of his
guys in there, and you know,

502
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.720
he's got athletes that could play defense, you know, obviously to make sure

503
00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.119
they're unselfish. They're very picky when
it comes to that stuff. They're gonna

504
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:51.839
be fine. And I think that
every single year we're either going to be

505
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.279
one or two in the conference,
whatever conference we're in. They could go

506
00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:59.240
to Big twelve, maybe Top three. But they're doing well and I like

507
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:01.119
it. And the actively developed their
players. They care about them a lot,

508
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:05.599
and they're very selective. Just goes
to show that. I think there's

509
00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:09.119
a lot more character there and I
just I really like what they're doing.

510
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:14.799
Okay, all right, what do
you do? What do you have going

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You're busy? You're by the pool right

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Awesome, great, Jake, have
a great weekend. You guys too,

527
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have a go on well great.
I always like Jakey's streaked to the point.

528
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Yes, yes, you know what. I always a good perspective,

529
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you know, I love. That's
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531
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I said, place that you and
I didn't get to go because we weren't

532
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college athletes. You know, He's
experienced so much, so I love picking

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his brain on all of those things, and I feel like we get some

534
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good guy. Give McCall if he goes

535
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to do to help. Yeah,
he's really good. All right, let's

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calls five two zero, four, one,

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appreciate a call. Give us shout
out whatever I talked about, whatever you

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want. So are your warriors going
to close this thing out? I think

597
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.960
so. I think tennights are best
chance because if they don't close it out

598
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:16.039
here, Sacramento is gonna go crazy
out the next game game seven. Yeah,

599
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:20.079
you don't want it to go a
game seven? They give I wish,

600
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.119
Yeah, that's that's a lot of
points. I won't touch that.

601
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I think I would take the money
line though, minus three hundred minus three.

602
00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:27.400
It's not a very good thing,
but I would take it with other

603
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things. That's why I asked the
kid if he thought the Lakers might be

604
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.920
able to close out today. I
mean, yeah, but like I don't

605
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:36.079
know if it's gonna be it's not
gonna be easy. What what's this?

606
00:38:36.199 --> 00:38:39.000
What's the spread? What's the it's
no, what's the account? Is it?

607
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.360
It's it's three two three Lakers.
We're going at home right now.

608
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.000
So they close it out. They
have they have they don't close it out,

609
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:51.880
they got to go to a game
seven at sac No, no,

610
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:53.519
no, no, Lakers No,
yeah, it's like all Lakers on that.

611
00:38:54.440 --> 00:38:58.320
It's a game seven for them,
like for Lakers, same with Worriors

612
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:00.519
are going to be at home too, right for game sake? Yeah?

613
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.559
Yeah, Warriors. They both have
to win and they play because they don't

614
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.039
want to go on the road again
and try to because Lakers probably can't beat

615
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.400
Memphis at home over there. No, they have blackstand things like it takes

616
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.519
a lot and then last time they
won, job wasn't you know it was

617
00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:16.840
a player? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, I think, Um, it's

618
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.920
gonna be tough. Should be a
finite of basketball. I guess. I

619
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:22.320
don't know. I kind of know
what I want to do, but I

620
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:24.320
don't want you to touch it,
so I'm not gonna tell you. Well,

621
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:29.360
okay, a money line partlay on
those two teams is paying minus one

622
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:31.880
over Yeah? Yeah, I'm not
doing that. I'm not doing that.

623
00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:36.639
You're going to Warriors, Lakers,
Warriors Lakers money line? Bat that's what

624
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.320
money line part minus one on four? Yeah? Yeah, that's not good

625
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:43.320
enough. Could you be twenty?
You get ten? Right? No?

626
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:45.599
You bet one? Would you say
one? One? Four? Oh,

627
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:49.400
that's even money. It's even money, it's even money. That's that's okay,

628
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.639
but then you have to sweat it
out. Okay, the popular the

629
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:58.559
popular prop beat right now, because
Clay Thompson has this history of going big

630
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:00.679
in game six is for some reason, Okay, this is a game six.

631
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:07.159
So the popular prop eck going right
now is Clay Thompson twenty five over

632
00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:13.000
twenty five points for what what's the
what's the that's what that play? Thoms

633
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:15.239
is going over twenty five points,
so you know there is there a number

634
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:19.159
on that. Um. No,
but but DraftKings is boosting it to plus

635
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.199
one fifty. Oh, I didn't
do that. That's good, one and

636
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:28.119
a half to one. Do you
think I trust Clay Thompson You don't.

637
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:30.800
I don't. No, he's not
the old Clay Thompson. No, no,

638
00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:36.840
But but you know who's turning into
the good, good green green.

639
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:39.880
Yeah, he's coming. He's come
up the bench twenty points of the night.

640
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.599
It was the first time since twenty
nineteen or yeah, he's played really

641
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:50.199
well. Mooney is uh yeah,
what's his name, Moody Money. He's

642
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.920
fantastic. This team has come to
life all of a sudden. Yeah,

643
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.400
Wow, they're better, they're better. They better be alive tonight because,

644
00:40:55.440 --> 00:41:00.360
like you said, game sevens on
the road aren't good to the to the

645
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.199
road teams. It's you know,
fans get so jacked up for for those

646
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.320
games. I mean you can expect
an incredible atmosphere. So and they'll be

647
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:12.239
a big atmosphere in Golden State tonight
because I think their fans know that they

648
00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.480
got to win this one today to
move on. Yeah, and then the

649
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.679
winner and so it's it would be
the Lakers and the Warrior and the Warriors,

650
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:22.119
right, if the two of them
win, it's a winner of these

651
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:24.199
two series, the Lakers and Warris, which would be great. And then

652
00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:29.360
the Sun's the Sun's Denver is gonna
be great. Yeah, you still think

653
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:32.000
that, you still think then take
take take out Denver. No, no,

654
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.079
but you got Denver. That's right, you do have Denver. Trying

655
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:43.079
I'm trying to go back to the
future's odds again. So, um conference

656
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:49.840
championships. You've still got the Sons
as a plus one sixty five, Warriors

657
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.519
a plus two eighty, and then
the Nuggets. This is for the conference.

658
00:41:53.239 --> 00:42:00.199
Yeah, what's the Denver three twenty
three twenty So they're the second third

659
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:07.039
favorite after Golden State. So it's
it's Suns, Warriors, Nuggets, Lakers,

660
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:12.639
Grizzlies, Kings. Kings are plus
five thousand. I would throw five

661
00:42:12.679 --> 00:42:15.159
bucks on that. They have to
win to night. They have to win

662
00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:17.440
to night. But you know they
win to night, all sad. That's

663
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:22.519
a really good bat. Yeah.
Don't you think they can beat the Suns.

664
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:30.000
Anybody can beat the Suns. I
don't know about that. So it

665
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:34.840
was Howard Howard given a scrap because
of the bench. Yeah, he's been

666
00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:39.719
following them since seventy two. Jay, I know more than you. Yeah,

667
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:44.639
so what get in line? Right? Get in line from people who

668
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.840
who know more than I do.
Sons and Nuggets Tomorrow. The Nuggets are

669
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.840
the favorite. Yeah, minus two
and a half, minus one forty on

670
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.159
the money line in Game one in
Denver. There's a reason why they won

671
00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:00.960
that they have the best record in
the West, although Milwaukee didn't didn't do

672
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.119
any of any favors because of you
can be the best team in the league

673
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:07.239
and still lose. Yeah. I
mean, you know, when you think

674
00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.920
about, you know, the Celtics, if they get past the seventy six

675
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:14.360
or you think that they're in the
championship, game again in the championship series.

676
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.480
I mean the Knicks and the heat
are on the other side. You

677
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.239
know that. That's what a five
in and an eight seed on the other

678
00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:23.840
side of the back. Look at
you. You don't follow the NBA till

679
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:29.800
now and give me follow a lot
of playoffs? Man, how about that

680
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.800
hockey? Well, I don't.
I don't follow the NHL until they get

681
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:36.320
to the Stanley Cup. You don't
have a hockey guy, You have no

682
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:38.159
hockey. I'm a big hockey guy. Oh yeah, Kings are probably my

683
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:45.400
favorite team Lao's I saw there.
I remember watching their twenty fourteen double overtime

684
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.519
winner in Game five. I was
I was actually like, um, the

685
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.760
second or third like Kings game ever
went too? Was their banner Knight in

686
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.239
twenty fourteen for their home opener.
So did you used to live in la

687
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:00.599
No, it's because I used to
visit all the time there, and like,

688
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:06.679
I never add an attraction to like
the Phoenix Suns or like the Diamodas.

689
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.559
Why why why the big USC fandom? My dad went there and it

690
00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:14.480
kind of was like my dream school. And then I know, why didn't

691
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:16.119
you go there? Because I didn't
get any money back. Yeah you want

692
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:20.519
to be a student. Yeah,
smart kid. Yeah, good idea,

693
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:22.159
I go here, smart kid?
All right, all right, all right,

694
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.159
you don't have Do you have usc
stuff in your room? I do?

695
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:30.760
He has, He has the trophy
of He has the Hasban trophy in

696
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:37.840
his room. Bush wants it back. By the way, seriously, you

697
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:44.039
see some guy put up thirteen billboards
to in LA telling the NC double A

698
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.760
to give Reggie Bushes no his Heisman
trophy back. No, he's I mean,

699
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.400
he owns a billboard company, so
they're probably billboards that he doesn't have

700
00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.119
anything on. Right, put up
third like something like thirteen billboards around that,

701
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.199
LA said, get ncable A,
give Reggie Bush his Heisman trophy back.

702
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:01.719
You know he should get it.
Come on now the rules? Hey

703
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.119
what the hell? Yeah, there's
what time when we couldn't go over?

704
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:12.199
You know OJ is another story,
right, but you give Reggie Bushes trophy

705
00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.719
back? I think he is another
story. Different, a whole different story

706
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:21.039
anyways, and fun stuff. All
right. So yeah, so I'm I'm

707
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:25.199
you know, I don't know man
Lakers and Warriors tonight. I mean they're

708
00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:30.920
both at home, so you feel
like they both should win the Lakers were

709
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.719
awful the other night. Yea,
even Lebron come on, said because I

710
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:39.239
played like s yeah, you know
in the press conference. So here's your

711
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:43.920
tip. There was I saw the
biggest line or whatever it was on TV.

712
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:46.760
The thing to have, they said, one of the best bets.

713
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.880
One guy said, I didn't bet
this. Uh Lebron over fifteen rebounds,

714
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:58.079
over fifteen, over ten rebounds,
over ten rebounds, whatever is check the

715
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:00.400
problem? Uh? But he said
that was a pretty much a given.

716
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:06.480
He's been averaging about fifteen. Huh, So that was one of them.

717
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:07.920
I didn't have time to look at
it, Sonny, I said, that's

718
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:12.360
interesting. Yeah, all right,
let's see what they got for a player

719
00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:17.000
of props on Lebron. Does anybody
want to call please? Do? I

720
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.159
mean, you got stuff going down
on any of these games? Victor?

721
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:24.159
If you want to give j crap? Home said bad word. I'm not

722
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:29.760
Pollyanna. I'm a lot of things, but I'm not Pollyanna. I'm I'm

723
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.639
stop. It was fun hurting my
feeling. I don't know if you if

724
00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:37.920
you go into Facebook today, but
a friend of mine who's very a very

725
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:44.880
staunch you a basketball fan, Patricia, she put a thing on Facebook Arizon

726
00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:49.360
a Wildcat basketball. I think it
is uh talking about if you were a

727
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.119
fan or something like that, what
would you do or given? Do you

728
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.039
give money? Do you go here? This? Here? This? Five

729
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:59.000
hours ago she put a vote,
this is a sure question. Blah blah

730
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:02.639
blah. Would you give ten dollars
annually, one hundred dollars annually, a

731
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.920
thousand dollars annually, um, some
other amount in the in the comment section

732
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:12.440
blah blah blah or zero nothing to
the to the cause of nil. Right,

733
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:15.119
great question. She sent me this
thing, and I says, well,

734
00:47:15.159 --> 00:47:17.519
even must have been listening to our
show because we talked about it all

735
00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:22.119
the time. Okay, so ten
twenty one percent would give ten dollars annually.

736
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.440
Fifty six said one hundred dollars annually. Uh, thirteen percent one thousand

737
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.920
annually, UM, three percent of
some other and six percent said nothing,

738
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:36.320
um. A one percent said fifty
and one percent. Okay, there's been

739
00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:38.920
sixty votes, and that's that was
a percent of just a lot of them,

740
00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:43.199
a lot of them. Uh.
We said, we already buy tickets

741
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.599
that cost us ten thousand dollars.
Just too much. We can be given

742
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.519
more. Okay. The problem with
that, Ja. And you know this

743
00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:52.679
because we've had the nil guy.
That money for the tickets, that's not

744
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:57.039
Nie, that's not Ani, but
that's just ticket to the universe, the

745
00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:00.599
universe and the universe. I don't
think the people the university has nothing to

746
00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:05.599
do with the kids because they're pretty
much did get their own or they pay

747
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:08.679
or they have the Arizona Assists or
other things chasing the money for them.

748
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:12.039
Right, that money is not going
to the app. So I think that

749
00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:15.920
people don't understand that that the Arizona
you're if you're donated to the University of

750
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:21.000
Arizona, that's that's the athletic department, right. And they can't give to

751
00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:22.679
the students, right, I mean
they get they give it to them and

752
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.480
from you know, indirectly, right
scholarships. You know, there's that that

753
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.239
stipend that they're getting now and stuff
like that. When you're talking about nil

754
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.360
money, that's it's all separate,
all completely separate, right. And she

755
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:38.079
brought that up because she has some
some friends in Kansas who give tons of

756
00:48:38.199 --> 00:48:42.679
money to the kids. And then
you say, hmm, well you know

757
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.679
I wonder yeah, I mean I
just wrote and well I didn't write a

758
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:51.440
check I sent in. I submitted
even hundred dollars best football football, some

759
00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:53.599
basketball due too, or I don't
have I don't get basketball. Okay,

760
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:59.239
that's okay. But you know I
paid six hundred and eighty dollars for my

761
00:48:59.440 --> 00:49:04.519
for my ticket, uh four hundred
dollars, but in fairness, only eighty

762
00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:07.000
that was mine because it was that
was a contribute, you know, we

763
00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:09.159
we we split, we split that
up between five people. But you know,

764
00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:14.639
four hundred dollars for the tailgate pass, another one hundred dollars for those

765
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:16.920
chairback seats you know in the bleachers. My wife and I get those are

766
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:21.920
fifty bucks at these and then a
ten dollars because they didn't because they didn't

767
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:25.000
charge us enough or anything. There
was a ten dollars processing processing fees.

768
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:30.320
I paid eleven hundred and ten dollars. Is there a price? Um?

769
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.159
And you can get better seats too
if you want to, right or in

770
00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:37.599
the central Is there a price?
And you're you've been a fan all your

771
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:39.800
life as far as you can remember, Is there a price? Would they

772
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:44.239
would price you out? Or you're
too big of a fan? Not too

773
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:46.159
now they know I've always just you
know because the tickets went up, right,

774
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:51.440
ticket prices one And I didn't even
ask. I don't I didn't even

775
00:49:51.480 --> 00:49:52.559
go look and see how much my
tickets went up. I just know that

776
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:54.880
they did. And I didn't even
look at it, you know. But

777
00:49:55.119 --> 00:50:00.159
you know what, dude, I'm
not that guy that looks at the price

778
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.239
of everything at the grocery store.
This is what I want, So this

779
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:06.840
is what I did. You know, I want this can of beans,

780
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:10.079
or I want you know these uh, you know, I want this steak.

781
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.599
It looks good to me. I'm
not looking to see how much the

782
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:15.920
price per pound is or whatever.
Um. But you know, I mean,

783
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.119
I just we said where we sit. Um. You know, it's

784
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.639
funny because we we've had a larger
group and it was a lot larger group

785
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.960
than it is now. And it's
kind of like we sit where everybody feels

786
00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:31.519
comfortable pain for their tickets. Um. We did move in a section like

787
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:36.440
three years ago, you know,
we moved a little one section over towards

788
00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:38.760
the center. But I remember when
I remember when, um, I don't

789
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:45.440
know if you were here when maybe
you weren't. When Cedric Dempsey introduced the

790
00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:51.760
um you know, the uh,
the premium. Yeah, yeah, I

791
00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.719
wasn't here, So we were we
were sitting in section one. Odo,

792
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:58.559
we gotta get out of here.
We were sitting Section one or two across

793
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:00.320
the way that section, and you
were gonna have to pay an extra like

794
00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.679
two hundred bucks for those seats.
We said, we're not doing that.

795
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.199
So that's how we wound up in
Section eighteen diagonally across the way. It

796
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.719
was. It was the last section
that didn't require a seat premium. Since

797
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.400
then, you know, we've we've
sure everybody's doing allbars. So so your

798
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:20.320
voice Section seventeen is that where you
moved or no, we were in eighteen

799
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.960
seventeen is the visitors section. Okay, we'll have more discussions about this on

800
00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:27.719
the other side when we have like
twenty seconds. But I'm curious if you've

801
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.480
lost you've lost some of the group
because the prices, No, okay,

802
00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:32.760
then let's talk about some we've lost
it. We've lost some of the group

803
00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:37.639
because they haven't been any good.
Okay, So that's another problem. Exactly,

804
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:38.480
it's a different issue. Exactly,
we gotta go. All right,

805
00:51:38.519 --> 00:51:40.719
let's take our break. We'll be
back breaking news the top of the hour.