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Good afternoon. This is Steve Rivera, you're jagon zoas and welcome to them
all here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Jay, I have one thing to
tell you. What in the world a prime time is going on in the
world. You know what. I don't know if I should say this right
out of the shoot on this, but you know what, Sun letters to
you. I'm already sick of him. I'm already sick of him because go
ahead, and I'm gonna jump in and go Okay. I was kind of
rooting for him on Saturday, even though I had TCU. I'm like,
this is spectacular what we're watching, unbelievable what we were watching. But then
you know, and prime time is prime time. He is who he is.
He's a personality, he's loud, he says what he says, and
I understand all that about him. But in the aftermath, okay, sure,
just all the stuff that he's done after that talking out of one side
of his face and saying something else and all this stuff, and it just
it bothers me when people have success and think they can do and say anything
right, right, And I get the I get what you're saying. But
let me ask you a couple of quick things. Uh didn't use Okay?
You have TCU right, Okay, didn't you say that they go over three
three and a half We talked eventually you have to be convinced that. So
I had him over, I over just for whatever reason that. Did you
see the whole entire press conference? No? I hadn't until I saw it
today for for something I'm doing, And I'm thinking, it wasn't that bad,
you know how this pieces on it and it looked bad. It wasn't
as bad, but it was still bad. It was young. But he
is who he is, right, he is Sean McCarver. Back in the
day the World Series, was it mccarm timccarter remember when he got dumped because
he had been critical of of of Dion back in the day and Dion dumped
the water on him in the in the locker room. He's not great for
criticism, obviously. He works very hard to be who he is. We
get that, but even stars like him are immune from it. Well,
here, here's here, here's the bottom line. Will bother me? Okay,
he's t we got receipts. You know he's calling He calls out,
you know, a reporter he said, who he said wrote something bad about
him? And the reporter is not a writer, he's a TV guy.
Edwarder and ESPN who happened? Edwarder didn't write anything, you know, not
in a tweet. He called him a celebrity head coach, which is what
he is, and maybe that's what he didn't like. But he never said
I didn't believe in you. He never criticized, He never said you're gonna
suck. Nothing like that. All he called called him a celebrity thing and
made a comment about the team that he's trying, he's turning over the roster.
He was. He was not critical of him at all. He calls
him out of the news conferences. I saw the bull junk that you wrote.
He didn't write anything, okay, and then wait a minute, so
then and then right after the right after the game, on the field,
he's talking about we got receipts, yaw, And then yesterday in his press
conference, he talks about how none of that bothers him. I don't listen
to it. It doesn't bother me. You know you, guys, I
don't care what you guys say. Sure, it's all bull crap, and
I hate I hate guys who do that. Sure he does. He's exactly
that guy. But you know what, you know what he's done. We're
here talking about it. Well, he started up. He's right up.
And you might want to include more wins for Colorado might well and less for
some teams in the Pac twelve. Who knows they're better than people. Look,
they looked like a football team. They got guys, I couldn't believe.
I went over and we talked about a week or two, three weeks
ago. Because he is who he is. He's a heck of a motivator.
He's kind of inspiring if you listen to him, just kind of say
what he says. But he went reverse on Saturday because he had a point
to prove, apparently to people. But just as easily as you win could
go to the other Well, that's it. Look and and they're they're they're
coming up against Nebraska. Look, they're going into the weekend. They were
already a like a two point underdog or four point underdog to Nebraska. Now
they're a five point favorite. I get it. People saw we saw what
we saw. But let's not forget that. We don't know how good TCU,
how bad, because that's a factor. Who you play matters at every
level, at every level, right, so we don't know what TCU is.
Nebraska looked bad on Saturday, but Nebraska still Nebraska. Matt Rules a
good coach. Maybe they show up, you know, they come back backs
against the wall kind of thing. So you know, I mean, there's
already people out there saying that that Sanders and Hunters should be up for the
Heisman because guys, they played one shrinking game against a possibly bad team because
he said that. Yeah, I get it, And they're just not used
to see this right away, which is fine. I mean, come on,
one time, my girlfriend asked me to ask a girl to dance,
and she said yes. All of a sudden, I was a ladies man.
Uh not to say the second and third one said no, I don't
think so, you know what I'm saying, It just happens. We'll see,
it's gonna be even a better season in the Pac twelve because we get
to see these teams come in and play each other, including Colorado, which
which I'm sure you adam as a as a way that that yeah, that's
not that. You can't mark that in pen as a as a win right
now, which is gonna be great for both of everybody. Yeah, maybe
maybe it's it's interesting. It's fun to watch, but you know, I
kind of I'm old school a little bit even tho. I get sick.
I get sick of guys, you know, who do well and then start
pointing the finger at them. Well where you're you are, what you are,
sixty four, sixty five, I'm sixty almost sixty old school. I
get both sides. I like it, but I don't. I'm sure your
kids friends and your kids are saying, yes, yeah, talk all the
crap you want, So I don't know it makes for a good story.
It's well, it certainly was the talk of the weekend for sure, that's
question and that and that's fine. You know, I'm okay with that because
it should have been the talk of the week. What they did was unbelievable,
you know, what they did was was unfreaking believable. I kept thinking
that you know that TC was gonna get its act together and win the game.
And they kept they took the lead a couple of times, and it
was a great It was incredible. It was a great game to watch.
Yeah, and they said the last man standing, and they were the last
man standing. Fun they were more talented. One of the things that I
heard before the game a Friday maybe on another show where well they got maybe
they got some good players, but they're they're not. They haven't been together
for a long time. You're playing football. Isn't this to do your job
business? If you do your job, all the pieces fall together they're supposed
to, because that's what that's the way it's mapped out. This is not
a corporate world where you where you have these people where you have to do
interchanging parts or whatever. No, this is a team. If you play
well and you've got a lot of good players, it should work. It
should work. Yeah. And the funny thing about it, a lot of
schools are gonna be like this. Arizona was one of them. And here
we are talking about Colorado when we saw a game against Arizona on a scale
of one to ten, Jake, because you sitting there for the whole game,
and I wrote about it. I was, I was mixed on what
I saw. If it was a scale of one to ten, I had
seven maybe yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I was underwhelmed.
I texted you that I was that I was way less than impressed. That's
the word. I was way less than impressed. At halftime, they're up,
you know, fourteen to three. Yeah, you know. And then
but then I looked at the you know, because I go to that the
stat broadcasting and I look at the stats and stuff, and I saw Arizona
had the ball four times. Sure, so you know that what bothered me
was that last seven minute drive that that any you had at the end of
the half. They held the ball for seven plus minutes at the end of
the second quarter, and I thought, the defense can't allow that to happen.
They to get the ball. The Arizona should have had the ball twice
in that seven minutes, right, So, you know, so I was
very underwhelmed. But then, you know, come around the second half and
I thought they dominated them the way you would have expected them to dominate them
for four quarters instead of two quarters. But your what your tition mouth had
already started doing. Yeah I wasn't, you know, But as I as,
I as the as the night went on, and then the next day,
and I'm you know, reading stuff, and I went and went back
and watched part of the game and stuff like that, and I kind of
thought, why why are we unhappy or why are we criticizing them for thirty
eight to three win where the other team didn't rush for a hundred yards,
didn't get three hundred yards of offense. You know, they blocked up,
they blocked a kick and ran it back for t I mean, all these
things that they did. When you look at the big picture, they did
what they were supposed to do. Did they put a forty up on them?
No, But you know they did a couple you know, they had
a couple mistakes, a couple of turnovers, but you know it didn't look
like a thirty eight to three game. And that I guess that's the thing,
you know, why you were a little disappointed. Your your eyes didn't
deceive you, and your expectations did because we all had this expectations that one
they're gonna kicked her, but because of what happened two years ago, purposely,
Yeah, that didn't happen until the end because they were still trying to
score points. They're throwing dinking, dinking or whatever. Uh, and they
just didn't show up to do that. But and that's fine. They won
the game and they're fine. It just kids, you breaves you a little
doubt right now, a little just enough to think that one first. I
you know, I'll be more even more surprised now if they go off and
beat the Yeah, and beat us. But let me t J. We
don't know how. We have no idea how good Mississippi State is. We
have no idea, so and we don't know much about anybody exactly. That's
kind of the point thing, because Colorado you don't know. But go ahead,
we should. We should get to at least be the first. Wait,
let's take our guests real quick. Yeah, Anthony Jimino got him out
of retirement, yes, man, as he says, they dipped his tope
back in the pool. He's back in the sandbox with us. So we
got him for three fifteen, three seventeen, and then I'm not moaning on
the other side to talk more about the PAC twelve thirteen and oh but who
they play again? I know, well again they've you know, they've got
some non a bunch of non par five wins. On the other hand,
the SEC went one and three against Par five teams. So who knows but
there but Steve. Every year they lose one or two of these games in
the first weekend, right, well, it would have been the floor,
you know, somebody they lose to, you know, you know Cal State,
San Louis Obispo or somebody like that, Portland State in the first weekend.
Every year. They didn't do that. This this is this is their
way of saying goodbye to the PAC twelve with a finger and it's saying number
one all right. Uh uh. Jed Fish had his press conference yesterday.
Since we weren't here yesterday, we're playing it today. But yeah, pretty
long, long kind of introduction. Uh. In the press conference, it's
basically summarizing the game and looking ahead. Did Mississippi State. Here's what Jed
had to say. Yes, I'm looking back at the way our team played
after watching the film, I would say, once again, we had some
opportunities. We only had four drives in the first half. It was a
strange game. I think it was nine possessions total. We wound up scoring
on six of the or five of those possessions. It's a It was a
strange game. The new timing certainly speed things up a little bit. So
by far, I mean we averaged nine yards a play, which I think
it's like fifth most in the country at this point in time. But we
only had fifty some odd plays, so offensively we were efficient. We did
a nice job. We avoid two turnovers in the red zone and could have
made for a great day. Of course, you can't avoid those unless you
hold on to the football, you don't scramble and unnecessarily taking hits, and
we just really missed on the throat to Team Mac. We just left it
a little bit behind him and he spun around and probably want to stay in
front of the corner in that case. Defensively, I would say without question
our defense communicated fantastically well played with great effort. We need to not have
five penalties that are personal fouls. We talked about that as a staff.
Whether it be the unnecessary roughness on a punt, whether it be an unsports
with light conduct with a shove late, whether it be too roughing the passers,
or whether it be a targeting. We just can't have those plays.
That is not going to work against an SEC opponent this week, So we
have to be more discipline there. But in regards to being challenged to be
more physical, they were being challenged to run to the ball, they were
fantastic. Being challenged to play with great effort, they did that. And
being challenged to become elite communicators. They're working very hard at that as well.
Great field goal block by tie tie and returned by Tacio. We spent
a lot of time working those and that was fantastic in teams. So when
you look at overall, you can't have a holding penalty on a return,
we cannot have a roughing penalty. But for the most part, I think
all three phases played at a high level and gave us a chance to win.
But now we are on to Mississippi State, certainly a very tough opponent.
I think that coach Arnett has done a great job defensively over there.
Now as the head coach, I'm sure he'll continue to do a great job.
But the defense is the defense. Saw them play against Southeast Louisiana.
They are tough to move the ball on. He knows exactly all the answers
to the test. You could tell he's been in that defense for a very
very long time, either running it, coaching it, being a ga in
it, whatever it might be. He is an expert in that defense.
So we got to work cut out for us there. Not seen much of
their offensive film yet, I do understand that they ran the ball for three
hundred yards. I do know that they're a little bit more balanced of an
offense than they have been in the past. And we'll have our work cut
out for us there. And we're excited about the challenge. We're excited about
going down to Starkville. I've only been there one other time. It's not
a pretty sight. When I was there, it was a We got beat
pretty bad at the University of Florida that year. Coach Jackie Chryl put hers
up, put it on us that day. So we got to have a
better day than that and know that the cow bells will be out and we'll
be ready for him the best we can. Okay, let's take a break
and then we'll talk more about it with Anthony. He was at the game
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on Tucson sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome, that's joining
the ball here Fox Look fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. You're jakins As
So now we bought a guy out of retirement. Happy birthday. How does
seventy five feel? Anthony Jayla? Oh? I could ask Jay. I
gotta think I am over them both double set up there for me? Yeah,
I told him. I told the jay the story about the book last
time last week. You know I was looking for a good writer. Well
I'll get Yeah, Well, welcome back to the sandbox, Anthony. Are
we here? You're you're coming back to play with us a little bit.
It's kind of interesting, is you guys. Maybe some other folks know.
I've had a you know, I got myself a regular government job for the
past three and a half years, so I haven't really been playing in the
sportswriter biz game. But the good folks at phn X Sports called a couple
of months ago and and it kind of tested the water as they have in
the last couple of years, and said, hey, do you want to
come freelance for us? And I'll tell you I don't I don't know why,
but for this maybe it was because all the realignment stuff. It's fact
that you know the team there's only teams right now are kind of interesting.
But I didn't say no, and then we got ourselves to a yes.
So what I'll be doing for them is probably writing a couple of stories a
week and some sort of news letter thingy kind of to be determined yet,
but yeah, you'll go. You'll be able to find me at least a
couple of times a week at gophn x dot com. Well, we're looking
forward to that. It's nice to have you back. And it's a free
it's free most of the I don't know what I don't honestly, I don't
know what the newsletter status is. I don't know if that's going to be
you have to butcher in your email to get it, or if there's a
cost associated with it. But almost all the stories will be free, all
right, Okay, get that old dad wisdom can wait. So so tell
us what you thought you saw on Saturday night. Okay, so I said
seven, seven out of ten. Yeah, you've called it a seven out
of ten. IM probably in the same in the same area. I might,
I might go seven and a half. But what were your thoughts?
My thoughts word that I was going to be really careful about not drawn too
many conclusions from that game right there. I think, fine, I'd give
it a would you give a seven, I'd give it like a six six
and a half conclusion and promising things. I think the offense is going to
be great almost every game there's a good They're really talented, they're really hard
to stop, and if the offensive line comes together as well as it has
the potential to do, this is going to be one of the best offenses
Arizona has ever had. Then the defense, you know, the defense's some
nice things, but the kind of mistakes they made, you do not get
away with that. And you don't get away with that against Mississippi State,
and you don't get away with that, and Pac twelve is going out in
a glaze of blaze of glory. You can't be turning the ball over in
the red zone. You can't be turning the ball over on downs, you
know around the thirty five. You can't have that blocking the punter or the
roughing to punter penalty that not only robbed you of a great great sale position
scoring opportunity, keeps the drive alive, they keep possession, they get their
only points of the game. Stuff, I guess just not gonna work.
There's some stuff to clean up. So let me ask me, did you
I'm sure you did this for the magazine? What did you predict for them
to win before the season started. We don't go, We don't. We
don't go final record, because I just think this kind of stupid to be
honest, to be going, hey, let's pick every game, like,
come on, man, it's uh, it's early May. We're gonna pick
every college football game. It's just it's just kind of silly. But did
we did? We picked him eighth in the league, which which I think
is where the Patrol media ended up in the preseason poll. I recall correctly,
we picked them. You know, we do rank every team one through
one hundred and thirty three nationally. I think we had Arizona around fifty one.
So you can tell by where we pick them that we expect him to
be a bowl team. So we expect him to be at least six and
six. All right, all right, well that's fair, so you know
I'll stick with that. Yeah, although getting right, because but one of
those six was beating Colorado, that suddenly looks a little more difficult. I
wanted to go there with you because that is gonna be another one. So
I was gonna say, do you stand by six and six still? Yeah,
I mean I'll stand by by now because a lot of things to happen,
and a lot of bad things can happen to Colorado before that game is
played, too, right, I think it was. Obviously Colorado was a
story of Week one. They were they were great. They've got two five
star talents, and they were much more cohesive and together than I thought they
would be for a team that had eighty transfers or whatever it is, and
a lot of those came in after spring ball. So to put together a
cohesive, discipline team very much to be on credit in the in the first
game there, right, Yeah, I mean I thought right away that you
is not the CCU from last year. TCU did not play GREATCU gave Colorado
a couple of things and blew a couple of opportunities themselves. So you know,
that's let's just see how Colorado does. But it was encouraging for them.
Yeah, well again they What what I saw more than anything was that
they looked like a football team, like they kind of you know, they
got guys. And so that's the thing that I saw it, you know,
And again, as Steve and I were saying earlier, we just don't
know yet. We don't know anything about anybody, right, I mean,
we think Florida State is really good because the way they beat the hell out
of LSU. You know, we think, uh, you know, Clemson
sucks because they got beat you know, by Duke. But you know,
we we we still don't you know, we think Baylor sucks. They got
beat by Texas State, but we still don't know. We'll learn a lot
more, particular by Arizona this week against Mississippi State. But as you said,
you can't make the mistakes that they made Saturday night and expect to win
games like that. Yeah, and that's the that's the thing. I want
to kind of see them clean up. But you know, when they do
start playing those cleaner games, they kind of look legit. And then,
you know, I was watching the when I was watching Colorado, I was
wondering, Hey, I wonder if Colorado it's kind of the Arizona they're gonna
have. Each team is going to have a lot of offense, and the
question is are they going to have enough defense? And of course Arizona defense
statistically looked a lot better than Colorado's, but you know, that was the
nature of the opponent. So we will we will see how that goes.
But you know, you're you know, you guys, remember what ended up
being the one of the great stretches of Arizona of Arizona football season was back
in nineteen ninety two, right when they started one one and one going to
Miami and then they almost beat Miami and go on a five game winning streak
where they beat three ranked teams, including number on Washington. So it may
be a case of we may have a month's worth of evidence and strange and
surprising things can still happen after that too. Yeah, and it usually does,
you know it, It usually does. And tomorrow phrase from Anthony jamineo,
we'll know when we know what Anthony, where do you I know we've
only we've only seen him for a year in a game, But where do
you put Jane Delora in terms of you know, quarterbacks at Arizona? Uh,
you know who who do you think has been better than him? And
who you know who's out there that you know everybody likes, who you think
he's better than. Yeah, I mean there's always uh, well, nobody
disputes number one in that list, which is Nick Pole. Right after that,
I guess it's up for a little bit of for debate. I didn't
see ton of Cliff jay I. You've got more experience with that than I
do. And of course it's such a different error. You go back and
look at the numbers and they just don't trans late to today's game. So
that makes it really difficult to start comparing quarterbacks of different times. But for
me, number, you know, I'm I'm kind of an I'm always in
the camp of what if when it comes to Keith Smith, because Keith was
might have been the second most talented quarterback I've scene here, because he had
he had the arm, he had, he had the legs. He was
ahead of his time. He would have been an all time RPO quarterback,
but that did not really quite exist at that time in major college football.
So you know, he would have been Pat White at West Virginia. He
would have been great if he had his in a little bit different system,
with a career of full health up the Moor. I don't know, where
do you guys, where do you guys put him? What? Who else?
Are you can both? Are you kind of considering that he might end
up in the company out I you know, I don't know, because I
uh, last week, sometime during the week that uh, that UCLA Arizona
fifty two to fourteen Willie to Atomic game was on, and I thought he
was so good in that game, and you know, he was just a
freshman, and you know, he had the concussion issues and stuff like that.
But you know, you feel like, I feel like if you put
Willie to Atoma in this offense, he would be a hell of a lot
better quarterback than he was in the Mike Stubs offense. So you know,
kind of doing things like that, I don't know, I see Willie up
there. You know again, Uh, who had a better freshman freshman year
at quarterback than aw Solomon? Ever? Yeah? Right, But then when
you know, you know, again, concussions and stuff like that after the
fact, and he never really materialized for as antially transferred. So I don't
know. Yeah, I mean that's a little bit of the story of Arizona
quarterback history. You know, you got that great freshman start from Willie on
New Solomon. You thought he he was the one. He was going to
lead Arizona back to to Big Bowls repeatedly. And then you go back to
the guy just mentioned when Keith Smith was hurt in ninety seven, this guy
named Ortie Jenkins steps in. It's a freshman and by the end of the
year, we think he's a hide candidate, right. And of course he
got Kello Tate, who was another guy who after his debut we thought,
oh my god, this guy's a Hydeman candidate, right, and they all
that's the best the story of Arizona quarterback history. They they tease and they
cantalyze and if something happens. So you guys are discussing the quarterback and being
one of the better ones and forever another wide receiver just as a unit has
got to be probably the best ever when you're talking about i mean the top
if you're talking about the top two. Here you've got Cowing and McMillan,
and that you might have to go back to ninety eight with Dennis Northcutt and
Jeremy McDaniel. That was you know, you've got kind of an all American
type player. In north cut two guys who played you know, Northcutt played
Vaalder in the pros and McDaniel but McDaniel was in college. Was really God's
really really good. So I think those that duo is probably the best I've
seen since I started covering the team, And this current group is probably the
best since then. Who played who was the who was another receiver alongside Gerner?
Because I just remember, you know, maybe yeah that's that was a
good group, big tall, physical guys. Yeah yeah, yeah, no
kid is I mean, I think this group is better than the group's definitely
better. What I like about this group is what they do after they get
the ball. I don't think I think I can hands down say they're they
you know, particularly cowing uh and then I you know, I think we're
gonna see some of that from uh, from Limonious Craig. Just you know,
they don't have to catch the ball deep to get a lot of yards.
I think McMillan does a little bit, but he's gonna make some great
catches. You know, he's gonna he's a guy who's gonna go over the
middle and make incredible catches. But you know, Cowen gets the ball out
in the open and it's it's crazy he can he can bust one anytime.
So that's what I like about what he does. Yeah, I'm I'm with
you there. I think you know, I'm trying to uh scan the memory
banks there. But he accelerates probably better than anybody else can here. That's
what Dennis Sporthcutt used to do, right, I did. This was just
great and at everything. Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean really I
think how he's got like the best Oh he's catching a screen pass or a
little off two yard out and he goes from zero to sixty yards enough time.
So he's really special by ways. And that's why I think he's going
to be great in the pros, even though you know he's not necessarily the
biggest, tallest dude. But man, there's that's a that's a skill set
that anybody wants. So last question before you go. So you're talking about
the quarterback and the running back. The running backs as a group another group
where they can you know, rotate out. You're not missing much different kinds
of different type exactly. You get what you need? Right? What about
that reunit? Yeah? I love them too, and that's part you know,
I tweeted that during the game, because you know, you guys remember
the old nineteen eighty nine, nineteen nine when Arizona was calling their offense the
back attack, and some of that was like David Eldredge and our Grade House
and even Lamont Lovett and some other guys that didn't necessarily have a thousand yards
seasons, right because they were pulling a lot of the carries. And that's
kind of the same way with this group. You've got. You've got four
I think the coaches are completely comfortable with They're all versatile in their own way.
They're a little bit different, you know, you got you've got some
guys that have a little more power than others. But they're all going to
be able to catch the ball for you. They're all going to be able
to play on any down for you. And this is a really good group
again. And so you got the receivers, you got the quarterback, you
got the running back, and I do like this offensive line. It's still
probably the biggest question mark, but again, you've got to go back twenty
five plus years to find an Arizona team that has at least potentially two and
fell offensive tackles, and that's what this group appears to have if they stay
healthy and the scouts, and the scouts are right, you have two future
pros and left apple and right tackle and that's really rare in Arizona. Okay,
Anthony, go enjoy the rest of your birthday. Yep, have some
sugar. Okay, enjoy the appreciate having you on, Anthony, taking the
time to do that. And well, we'll play some more later. Sounds
good. All right, thanks, An. We're a little bit over.
That's why I wanted to get I had some more questions, but we'll talk
about some of the things. We have more clips to. Yeah, we
have more jet fish clips from yesterday's past conference and we go through and just
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Ravera and Jagnsalis they have their eye on the ball on Tucson Sports Stage jet
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen streaming live on the Ihard Radio. Hey, welcome back
to One About here on Fox Sports fourteen, Kiptie. I'm Steve Rivera,
here, Jakes us and we're gonna continue with more jeh uh at the I
think it was the second half. I gunner Maldonado got the UH the targeting
costs, so one of their starting guys will be out this week with UH
for getting you got kicked out of the game. That's what happens when you
get a target and you're kicked out. And if if happens in the second
half, you miss the first half of the next game. It happens in
the first half, you just missed the rest of the game. Let's show
you at work, Let's show you will see. Yes, what do you
let USC? Then? What? Oh, you don't have to worry about
it? Oh? Well, you know when I got what the explanation I
heard on that was was that the first that week of the season, okay,
was week zero, So that what I thought, what I thought it
excused to be, it's the next game, right, it's whether it's a
week zero or week still whatever. Whoever. Somebody told somebody said that,
and I'm like, that, can't they made a mistake. They didn't get
another There's no way, there's no way. That makes no sense. And
just everybody playing on week zero and didn't record doesn't count, right, So,
I dude, I don't know what to tell you. That's just that's
just that's just what somebody said. That's what I heard. I don't know
how true that is, but that's what that's what I heard. Anyway.
So, but USC did not have to forfeit again. He didn't play the
first half of h that was a Christian Roland Wallace. The gated chance from
Arizona went over to USC. So got a targeting call in the US,
got a targting call in the E. No, you got kicked out of
the A s U game at the ends. He was supposed to miss the
first he was game. So anyways, okay, So yes, so Gunnarmaldanaoga
gets a targeting call. You know, it was one of those he it
was an unfortunate thing. I think it was. I think it was.
It was a good call. And and well you'll you'll hear, you'll hear
uh, you'll hear Jed say that, you know what what he thought of
the call as well. So here's what uh, here's what Jed had from.
Yes, here's what Jed had to say about the targeting call and what
they're gonna do with Calder model Nato out for the first half next week.
The position, So Gunner will be have to sit the first half of this
coming game. And you know, we have it. We have Dalton,
we have DJ Warnell, we have Herb and then we have price Sock.
We have to Carrio. So we have a really good group right there that
can rotate through and I feel really good about that group of six. And
then G seven came in and played well too in his five snaps. So
when you start adding those guys all up, I think what we'll probably see
is in the smoothest transition would just be it for Gunner and then but we'll
see what that other competitions look like. Genesis came in played really well as
well. So does Genesis and it and Dalton all wrote eight will work through
that in practice Tuesday and or uh yeah, Tuesday Wednesday, And then there
was a there was a follow up question on how Arizona coaches guys not you
know, get the targeting penalties and so here's what you had to see.
That's a tough thing, you know, some of those it's just you know,
sometimes a guy he's already made his move, guy ducks his head or
whatever you make, you make contact. I always say this instance an analogy.
And I don't know if the place you've ever been in a car crash?
Yeah, and did you see it coming? But you couldn't do anything
about it? Yes, that's this, that's this. You can't change your
body. I mean you're there, you're moving right exactly. You can't do
much about it. Yeah, so here's what you had to say. I
would lead with your shoulder. Lead with your shoulder is the best way to
to say it. You just can't lead with your face mask. So it's
like you're just gonna have to turn a little bit more than you normally would.
And no, if there's any chance of a catch tackle, do the
catch tackle. Because if you just go flying in there with a shoulder and
you mess, you know, you're you're you got a problem, right.
But if you just lead with your shoulder, tackle with your shoulder, keep
your head out of it. You're just gonna have to deal with some of
those plays that aren't necessarily the same blow up shots. You know, you
go back in time and you look at all the blow up shots of old
and you want to try to, you know, get your defense going,
and you go look at some of the film and you're like, I can't
show any of these right, None of these blow up shots of old are
the same, are allowed any longer. So you have to do really,
you have to be disciplined, and you have to lead with your shoulder.
It's funny, Jay, you couldn't show any Chuck Cecil. Well, there
was that question got asked. You said, Okay, Chuck Cecil was like
the master of the of the of the targeting. You know, how was
Chuck Cecil? You know, and he basically, Chuck's a coach. You
know, he knows what you're supposed to do don't do and that's what.
Yeah, it basically yeah, don't do that was basically it was. It
was a funny question because you know, you're talking about the heat seeking missiles,
sure and all that stuff. Who just you know, dive head first
into everyone sold a lot. You know, remember Benniel Loggy, I mean
just these dudes were just tough dudes. Bennon Centers, I'm sure, just
dudes, all those all those guys were just guys like that, you know,
all the great the game has changed, there's no question. Yeah,
it's just changed, all right. So then, uh, you know there
were some guys missing on the offensive line. Unfortunately, Raymond Polido had to
sit out. He got he crashed his bike, he got some stitches in
his hand. They don't even know if he's gonna be able to make it
this week. And stitches in his I think and something was in his hand
and then that's what I read, and I think I read that. And
then Jordan Morgan, uh didn't play too much after the in the second hand
key starters. Yeah. So so the Jed was asked, Okay, what
are you doing on the offensive line going to you know, going to an
SEC this week? Here was his response. Yeah, I think it was
a little tricky just because of the fact that Raymond was taking all the reps
of the ones for two weeks straight and then all of a sudden, after
your last practice, you don't have them. So there wasn't even a practice
other than walk through in the hotel ballroom that we were able to even get
the communication right. It's really a credit to Josh Baker and Big Jonah that
when Sam went in or JT went in, that they were able to get
all the calls out and they were able to help him and keep him confident,
and JT did a really good job. Sam did a good job.
Both of those guys are gonna have to play again this week unless something changes.
We won't know about Raymond really until I'm gonna say Thursday or Friday,
we'll we'll actually know if he'll be clear to play or not. So those
guys are gonna have to continue to step up. And then Joe Borgian came
in and stepped in in that left tackle role probably for about twenty four minutes,
you know, the last the second half of the third quarter on and
did a really good job as well. But Jordan is doing great and Jordan
will be ready to go. You know, you want, okay wine,
why did they do that? Because they were winning handling and they just wanted
to make sure that that uh, you know, they bring him along a
little slower because of the injury. What what do you think the deal was
there? Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but they're gonna
need these sechs of players. They got to have these guys, especially this
weekend. But you know, we'll see what happens. But you know,
again, the depth on this team, you know when you we're going through
the safeties right or through, you know, they got they got a bunch
of guys who they think and play and you probably can't play. What time
is the game at four thirty two some time? For thirty two some time,
it's gonna be a little hug muggy muggy over there. Right, yeah,
Yeah, there was some discussion of that, and he said, look,
we practiced one hundred and five degrees. You know, if they've got
you know, eighty five degrees and high humidity, well we do it.
Were playing one hundred five. It's a different heat, but it's still damn
and they played it in August most of the time. Right now, it's
gonna be the big dudes of the Joe what it called the Joe's, and
them what it called the XS, and you know about the XS and nose,
it's the Jos, Joes, the players. You have one team,
yeah, and then the guys got to go out there and play, right,
got got guys got out there and play. And then finally there was