WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:07.519 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jaken Zalece on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:13.919 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions kat 3 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:18.320 z R two side at iHeart Radio Station. Yet, very good afternoon, 4 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen. Cookie. 5 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:24.519 I'm Steve Rivera, He's Jaken zalez and we're still by ourselves, so 6 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:28.600 be where some scroups can. Maybe you'll hear the person on the phone. 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.479 Did he didn't call back? Re bran, No, I didn't hear myself 8 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:35.640 on the podcast. They made fun of me about that at lunch today. 9 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.079 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just said, maybe you guys, maybe 10 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:40.159 you guys should find somebody who can do this for you. I said, 11 00:00:40.159 --> 00:00:43.479 wherever we're trying, we're trying. You need an intern. I said, 12 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:46.119 you want you guys want to be the intern. It's not a paining job. 13 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:49.679 Oh no, there's nothing. I'm busy. Yeah yeah, yeah, 14 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:54.560 yeah. Because I was with some buddy day maybe another intern possibility. And 15 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:56.759 says I want to go see your show. I says, you don't want 16 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.799 to give a sho show. There's nobody here, there's nothing to see in 17 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:03.640 this little slow I mean, what are you gonna watch this talk? Oh 18 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.159 hard time watching us talk sometimes? Your wife, I'm sure it was tired 19 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.239 of I know she was tired of me this morning. I'll tell you what. 20 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:15.359 You well, we're both so busy. We both had stuff to do 21 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.719 and we have you know, both and I don't know what. Well, 22 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.519 I'm trying to get out of town, right, you know, I want 23 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:23.959 to leave town on Friday morning, and so you know, it's one of 24 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.400 those things. I'm on deadline on a bunch of stuff, including your story 25 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:32.079 that I need. It's almost o and then and then, uh, I 26 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.920 just got to get everything done. We're on deadline for for the magazine. 27 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.120 If you're like me, you have you're thinking about that. Well, you're 28 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.799 still doing this well and doing all this and then still thinking about that. 29 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:41.920 All right, that was the case, I mean, really, that's it's 30 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:44.519 kind of I was so distracted by everything else going on in my brain. 31 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:48.439 Yesterday I didn't turn on the button for the microphone button for our collar, 32 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:52.200 Brian, and so everybody only heard our side of the conversation. And then 33 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:55.239 I left the left the microphones as we went out. So it's like, 34 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:57.319 what else could go wrong? Well, there's more that can go wrong. 35 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.280 We're gonna try not to let that happen. We'll see what We have a 36 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:04.040 pretty good show today. I got You've got Ryan Radkey, right, Ryan 37 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:09.000 Racky, who's h the Sunday night football radio announcer for Westwood one Sports. 38 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:15.879 Former former Tusson sports radio guy, talk show guy. He's been a he's 39 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:20.039 been a play by play guy for the Reno Aces Triple A team and now 40 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.080 he's with Westwood One. He does called, he does n Double A tournament 41 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.680 stuff he does. He does the Sunday night NFL game. He's got the 42 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:32.199 Giants and the Cowboys this weekend. So he's got a Texas it is in 43 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:38.479 no that in New York. So he's coming on today. We'll just talk 44 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:40.680 about the start of the NFL season. You know what he thinks of some 45 00:02:40.719 --> 00:02:44.280 of the teams. There's still a lot of stuff going on, a lot 46 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:47.199 of person down news and stuff. We'll cover some of that in breaking news. 47 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:51.560 But Ryan Racky always a great guest, always a fun guy. We 48 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:53.800 have a great time with him. And so he's doing the Cowboys Giants game. 49 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:57.639 Yeah, and then we're gonna kind of preview some of the game today 50 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.199 and tomorrow. But today we've got Mississippi State state side, right, Jack 51 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.479 Buyers. He's the Mississippi State Rivals, a website guy over there, sort 52 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:15.120 of the Matt Mordeno or or say Troy Troy Hutchinson or Bryan Peterson for from 53 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:17.360 Mississippi State. We had him on before the game last year. Right, 54 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.120 Well, we'll see if anything changes over there. They had a press conference 55 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.280 yesterday. Today Today was the was the Mississippi State press conference with UH with 56 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:28.520 their coach and they had their quarterback on. So we'll find out from from 57 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:31.479 Jack Buyers what they had to say. Let me ask you a question because 58 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:37.120 you I thought this yesterday and didn't talk to you about it. So we're 59 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:42.199 in the PAC twelve, right, we live in the PAC twelve of Mississippi 60 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.639 State. May be good, may not be good, right, But I 61 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.879 think, like you mentioned this yesterday and it stuck me and I didn't talk 62 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:52.639 to you about it. There's this perception about the SEC right, whether they're 63 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:54.879 good or not good, they're in the seccent, don't matter who they are. 64 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:59.199 They're big, they're top, they're right, but not always good though. 65 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:00.919 I mean we could be long. I'm not sure we're wrong in this 66 00:04:00.919 --> 00:04:03.360 one, but you know what I'm saying, you live with this perception. 67 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:09.240 It's like you're a novel you you with the Lobos, which existed at one 68 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.960 time. It just doesn't. But the SEC has this reputation of being good 69 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:15.120 top to bottom, right, But I don't know if that's always the top 70 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:18.160 to bottom. But they've got you know, they've usually got seven or eight 71 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.079 pretty good teams that are hard and this is one of them, and this 72 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:24.160 is yeah, and this is one of them. But you know what I'm 73 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.839 saying, Oh, he's from the se SEC. So you know they're gonna 74 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.319 not always not always yeah, No, I mean, if Arizona is going 75 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.959 to play Vanderbilt, I'm saying they should kick their asses right right, But 76 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.240 you know, but they're going to play Mississippi State and you're miss State. 77 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:43.120 You handled Arizona was very physical. Uh, you saw the size difference with 78 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.879 those guys. We'll see how much Arizona has closed the gap on that if 79 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.639 they have. Nonetheless, here's the thing. People are on here think Arizona 80 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:54.319 can win the game, whether they do or don't. Why do you think 81 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.480 they're thinking that because they think Arizona is bare. Okay, who are you 82 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:00.759 talking to? Who's saying that? People that I talked to, they're not 83 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:05.439 saying we think we're gonna win. H They're saying we think we can win. 84 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:10.920 There's a difference. Yeah, explain that difference than who you're talking about. 85 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:13.199 I think you don't think can win. No at all, no chance 86 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.680 zero zero. No, I'm not gonna go deon Sanders on you. But 87 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.439 but not really percentage percentage Okay, good, good, good question. Uh, 88 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.160 twenty twenty five to thirty percent? Okay, that's it. Yeah, 89 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:27.000 but if you're gonna say, well, you have a chance, like dumb 90 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.079 and dumber, Okay, we'll have a chance. No, I do the 91 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:31.800 Do I think they're gonna win? No? Do you think they have a 92 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:36.879 chance to win? I guess twenty is a chance, but not what I 93 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:43.199 saw. You asked me this game maybe or ten days you goot. I 94 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.560 said, yeah, at halftime, at halftime on Saturday, I thought they're 95 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.199 gonna get their ask. But again, this goes back to the Final four 96 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:50.920 or the basketball season. When we went to the tournament. You say, 97 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:54.720 Okay, they're gonna win this game. They're gonna win that game. Fau 98 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.240 who they But because we don't know, we don't see them. You just 99 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:00.839 know fau who they. Well, let's go back to let's go back to 100 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.480 what when we had Rob rob waldrop on them. Okay, you know that 101 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.800 they opened the season one one and one and I think the one tie was 102 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:13.360 against bad Oregon State team, right, and then they go to Miami. 103 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:15.120 You just close your eyes. You don't want to look, right. They 104 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.680 should have beat them, They had a chance to beat him, right, 105 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:20.399 and they didn't beat him. And that was the birth of Desert Swarm. 106 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:24.959 And for the next three seasons they were really damn good. Yeah, so 107 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:28.800 you don't know. You don't know what what's going to turn a team on 108 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.519 from one day to the next, which is why we don't know. We 109 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.879 think Colorado's going to kick the crap out of Nebraska, but do we know 110 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:38.920 that We don't know. And the one thing I've learned that I've said this 111 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:41.920 on the show a few times and you've heard it a few times, is 112 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.079 that you you can never know in college basket of college footballers, college sports, 113 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.279 what team is going to show up given the emotional stats, uh, 114 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.319 you know, the motivation factor. Colorado had everything to gain, nothing really 115 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:59.720 to lose, right because of America outside of Dion and the team believe that 116 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:02.360 they're gonna loose, and then they win and it says, well, hell 117 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.399 would you guys? You didn't believe? It's not our job to believe? 118 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:10.680 Right, No, it's not. And that was done and that again I 119 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.680 said, it's telling you. You know, I'm trying really hard to like 120 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.120 what Dion Sanders is doing. He's making it really hard for me to do 121 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:21.319 that. Okay, we'll see you. But he doesn't give a crap but 122 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:26.879 what I think, But you know, he's making it really hard. But 123 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.120 nonetheless, you know, we don't know if Colorado is really damn good or 124 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.639 if they just had a one off because they were so excited and pumped up, 125 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.839 and maybe TCU is bad or whatever. You know, what do we 126 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:40.480 know about LSU, What do we know about Florida State? What do we 127 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.680 know about Clemson? What do we know about Duke? We know that what 128 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.040 happened last week, Well, we don't know that Clemson's going it's going you 129 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.000 know six and six? Right, No, it could have been one off 130 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:56.160 on a number of different teams. Duke, Colorado, they're already in the 131 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.079 top twenty two. They won one game. They were not even supposed to 132 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.680 win three games this year, and now they're in the top point. This 133 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.720 is and I see this on the show all the time, Jay, And 134 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:09.160 to you, it's easy to be the sizemology just after the fact. If 135 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:11.199 you're gonna tell me an earthquake is coming, I like it. But you 136 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:15.920 can tell me earthquak just happened. What's the point it just happened. No 137 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:18.639 One, no one I know, said Colorado. I was gonna win this 138 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.160 game. You have a pool, right, you have a pick? How 139 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:24.120 many picked? How many picked the game? I can tell you that real 140 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:28.920 quick, something like just over two hundred okay, so how many got it 141 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.279 wrong? One hundred and nine? So ten people got it right? Right? 142 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.240 No, I can tell you it was I have it right here. 143 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:41.399 No, Almost three hundred people picked the game and two hundred and two pick 144 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:48.080 tu, sixty six percent of the people got it wrong, right, Okay, 145 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.759 And I want to talk to the other dude, See what the hell's 146 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.600 how many of those people are gonna take Colorado this week? Right? Yeah? 147 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.600 And how many get that right or wrong? Well, it's like Arizona. 148 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.320 We didn't see. I think Anthony said the best it was, Well 149 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:05.360 he can't come to conclusions from that game. You can't and maybe because it 150 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.200 wasn't at you and they kind of kind of slowed down a little in the 151 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:11.000 first half, right, And I'm not touching. I'm not touching the game. 152 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.000 No, what is even if I wasn't an Arizona fan, what is 153 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.039 it? I'm not taking It's ten and a half. That's not a whole 154 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.399 lot of points. It's not a whole lot of What would you do if 155 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.759 you're gonna take it? If you if you said I had to take it, 156 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.039 I'd take me. Yeah, me too, because if he was fourteen 157 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.080 and a half, right, I'd probably take an Arizona and I thought that's 158 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.080 what it would be, not ten and a half. Well, that's not 159 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.039 a whole lot of points yesterday. But yeah, let me ask you. 160 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:39.679 I'm gonna bounce around here with you a few times. Don't saying like that 161 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:46.080 with you? Not on you? So uh, with the new offense with 162 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.480 a new clock management and Jed talked about this briefly on Saturday night. So 163 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.519 the clock is running. I think it hurts Arizona because it kills a lot 164 00:09:56.600 --> 00:09:58.759 of time it wants. You want Arizona have the ball a lot and because 165 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.639 they move from all potentially put that clock eats up as it goes right, 166 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:07.120 don't you think, well, well you're look at what any of you did 167 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.919 on Saturday night, right, They held the ball for so much of the 168 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:11.679 first half. They held the ball for the last seven and a half minutes 169 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.759 of the second quarter Arizona, as we said, Arizona could have had maybe 170 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.120 should have had two possessions in there instead any of you held the ball, 171 00:10:20.159 --> 00:10:22.759 they go in, look a fourteen to three. The game looks like it's 172 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.080 close or not. It wasn't, but it looked close. You're kind of 173 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.639 going, what the hell's happening? You know, Arizona got his hands on 174 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.039 the ball a whole lot more than the second half, and they scored more 175 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.000 and they won the game comfortable. So do would you agree? I agree? 176 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.080 I agree? Don't funny think about this? Okay, So they have 177 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:39.840 the clock to go faster to make the game. What's the point if you 178 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.279 have twenty five stopping just to watch the review of the plane exactly? I 179 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.120 mean, like, if you're army or navy or somebody like that, you 180 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:50.039 you like the clock shooting, it's because the other team doesn't get the ball, 181 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:54.000 you know. But if you're Arizona and you can put points on the 182 00:10:54.039 --> 00:10:56.559 board pretty much against anybody, which I think they can. Sure you want 183 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.360 you want, you want the ball. Sure Jet seems to be happy with 184 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:01.320 it. You know, he likes it because he used to it in the 185 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.159 NFL. But he wasn't happy that they only got four possessions in the first 186 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.279 half. We all heard what Chip Kelly said. He was pissed off because 187 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.840 they only had four possessions in the first half. Yeah, you see that. 188 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:13.960 That means you're defense has to stiffen up and get the ball back. 189 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.320 Right. But but for a team that has offense, mostly offense, you 190 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.919 need that ball and this clock is going to be a little, maybe a 191 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:24.720 little factor in right. Well you're look at what at any of you just 192 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:26.759 you know, they were able to run the ball a little bit in the 193 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.399 second half, able to keep the clock running and keep it and they just 194 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.039 kept the ball away from Arizona in the second half. Arizona if with without 195 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.799 the clock rule, and let's say let's say Delora doesn't funnel that, Arizona 196 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:41.240 could be up twenty eight to three at the half, and it was fourteen 197 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:43.200 to three. Well, Jed said this, and I didn't check the place 198 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:48.679 playlist. Fifty three total place, so you're talking about it could have been 199 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.759 seventies. They run seventy to eighty last year, right, seventy to eighty 200 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.480 plays last year. Rich Rod would run in the nineties. Yeah, so 201 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:58.360 that's gonna play a factor, especially with the team that loves the ball. 202 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.480 Yeah. So that's not a good thing. That's not a positive thing. 203 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.799 Yeah, So you know, and and again, I think it seems to 204 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.320 me, I would think that Mississippi Stage is gonna be built on its defense. 205 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:11.600 They're gonna want the clock to run. You're gonna want to keep the 206 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:16.279 ball out of Arizona's hands. Yeah, because Arizon canra and they can grind 207 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.600 it out. They can grind it out with the big guys. So we'll 208 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:22.480 see, we'll see. I agree the clock rule is I didn't. I 209 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:26.159 didn't know how much it would change it. But you're seeing that, You're 210 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:30.240 you're seeing a lot of games like that where there's only a handful of possessions 211 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.360 and then, like you said, in an Arizona team runs fifty some plays 212 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:39.799 that's you got to be incredibly efficient when that happened. Sure, and we 213 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.080 didn't notice it in the TCU Colorado game, at least I didn't because both 214 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.759 teams were just using five players and out scoring every five seven plays. Yeah. 215 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:50.279 Yeah, so you want to reach something, Yeah, we we gotta 216 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.799 got a minute. But no, I think that this is an interesting game 217 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.440 more more or less because you want to see what Arizona's look against the good 218 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:03.320 team. I don't. I don't give them much more of a chance than 219 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:09.279 you do for them to win this game. Okay, you know thirty chance. 220 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.919 Well, did I ask you this Saturday, did you adjust your win 221 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.879 total with Arizona? No? No, Okay, I'm still on five and 222 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:22.120 a half. I'm over. They won the games I'm talking about, Okay, 223 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:24.000 how they played, they won the game. I have no would come 224 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:28.679 now Colorado looks I'm still at six or seven games. Okay, Okay, 225 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.320 I still think they can beat Colorado because by by the time that time rolls 226 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.960 around Colorado, you have to understood Colorado. You have to understand it. 227 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:39.440 Well, they were really good on Saturday. They might not have the depth 228 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.320 that they're gonna need towards the end. Of the season. They got a 229 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.039 bunch of you guys and and you know, you don't know if they're other 230 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.240 guys. Can look, everything came together for them on Saturday, no doubt. 231 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:52.039 But I think that, uh, you don't know what's gonna happen some 232 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:54.799 of the things you say, and I think you over over analyzed. Sometimes 233 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.200 I like you over analyst. Sometimes sometimes I agree with it. All right, 234 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.320 let me read this. 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This is I on the Ball 335 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:17.279 with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to 336 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:21.319 the podcast on the iHeart Radio Whip Just Surgery, I on the Ball. 337 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.720 They welcome back to On the Vault on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hushteve Rivera, 338 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:29.799 you're jagons. Also now on the fun we have Ryan Radkey from Westwood 339 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.799 one Sports. How are you Ryan? Having the boys? How are you 340 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:37.799 back for another season? I see you must be ready and willing and all 341 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.599 that fun stuff. Get ready? I am, I am. I'm very 342 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:45.480 excited. I woke up Monday morning and could not believe it was finally game 343 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:51.400 week and yeah, absolutely ready ready to go. So we know you've You've 344 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:56.039 got the Cowboys Giants game in New York this weekend Sunday Night Football. But 345 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.799 let's talk to you first about the NFL as a whole. My first question 346 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:06.319 to you is, do you think the Chiefs are somebody you still penciled in 347 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:11.799 for the Super Bowl this year or is everybody catching up? Well? I 348 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:15.400 know, I mean, I think you certainly would consider them one of the 349 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:19.440 favorites in what is a pretty stacked AFC. I think everybody would agree with 350 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:25.039 that that the number of contenders on the AFC side is pretty remarkable. But 351 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:27.839 I think that Andy Reid and the Chiefs, especially last year, proved that 352 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:32.559 you can never count them out. You know, they trade Tyree Hill and 353 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:33.440 all of us are saying, well, what are you gonna do? I 354 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:37.880 mean, you just lost the best dep threat in the league that's certainly going 355 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.480 to have a massive impact on this team, and they're wearing rings at the 356 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.279 end of the season. So I think as long as Andy Reid and Patrick 357 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:51.039 Mahomes were there and together, you always have them in the mix. I 358 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:53.000 think what we've seen just in the last twenty four hours with the injury news 359 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:57.400 about Travis Kelsey coming out. Is just a reminder that everybody in this league 360 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.119 is vulnerable to injuries. You know, we like to say this a lot 361 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:07.119 that so and so or Team X is one injury away from dot dot dot. 362 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:10.319 Well, really that applies to everything in the league. You know, 363 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:12.279 if the Chiefs lose Travis Kelsey for an entire season, and let's hope that's 364 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.799 not the case, it sounds like the ac L is attacked and he's gonna 365 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:18.960 be okay. But you know, you lose great players, It's it's tough 366 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.839 to overcome. But I don't think you can ever count out the Chiefs as 367 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.680 long as as read and the homes are together. Let me ask you a 368 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.599 dumb question. You don't have to answer it because I have two kids and 369 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:34.799 I don't want to say whose favorite. But you actually do this, and 370 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:40.000 you do it well for a big time organization, big games. You also 371 00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:44.440 do college basketball. How much fun is or which one do you like better? 372 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:47.319 And that's a tough question, but how much fun do you have in 373 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:49.359 either one of them or both of them? I mean, I have a 374 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.480 blast you and all of it. I mean I literally can tell you that 375 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:56.799 I woke up Monday morning and I was kind of like a kid at Christmas. 376 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:02.079 I was very very excited that we get a chance to get back at 377 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:03.519 it. So, you know, people asking all the time, what's what's 378 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.839 your favorite, what's the most fun? I have fun doing all of it. 379 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.880 I really do. And I've been very very blessed to do the things 380 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.960 that I've done, To be in some you know, big time college environments, 381 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:18.640 to do the NFL the last couple of years, to be part of 382 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:22.519 the basketball tournament, and some great games and great environments. It's just it's 383 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.920 it's great. I mean, I don't I don't work for a living, 384 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:29.799 Guys, I spend my time around sports, and that's that's something that is 385 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.079 just amazing to me. That's awesome. So we mentioned you've got You've got 386 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.000 the Cowboys and the Giants. Uh, you know, has been over the 387 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.960 years a great rivalry. Neither of them been terrific recently, but still a 388 00:24:42.039 --> 00:24:45.599 rivalry. You know, how do you approach this game as far as that 389 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.240 kind of thing goes. I think it's fun. And you know, I 390 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:52.640 get a chance to work with my goli who played in the NFC East with 391 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:56.160 Philadelphia, and so he's really familiar with all these rivalry games and what these 392 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:00.480 mean to the teams. You know, I haven't get the great way to 393 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:03.519 start the season. Obviously, two teams that were both in the playoffs last 394 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.839 year. Interesting how they both made it to the same point. They both 395 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.640 went to the divisional round and lost. And yet you talked to the Cowboys 396 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.119 side, and it's kind of seen as you know, a failure in a 397 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.400 lot of ways that you know, once again, they got to the divisional 398 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:21.720 round. Seventh straight time they've gotten to the divisional round and lost. They 399 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.880 haven't been passed that since ninety five when they won a Super Bowl. It 400 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:27.079 means that the Giants go to the divisional round and it was seen as really 401 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:33.240 a rousing success and something for them to build on going forward. So I 402 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.200 think that's an interesting component to it. Obviously, both teams are a little 403 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:40.519 bit different. The Cowboys said good Brighter to Zieg Elliott in the off season, 404 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:42.039 which, you know, a guy that's been a cornerstone for them, 405 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.480 but they're really excited about Tony Pollard and what he can bring. You know, 406 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:48.720 the Giants also are a different team. I think that's still have some 407 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:51.799 questions to answer going into the year. So to me, it's a it's 408 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:53.079 a great way to start the season. Well, they had that issue with 409 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:57.759 sat all summer long. How does that affect things? Do you think? 410 00:25:57.799 --> 00:26:02.240 Are you it's done, Sku is going to play and that's the way it 411 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:04.720 is. Yeah, I mean and listening to some of the stuff he said 412 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.720 this week, and he was asked just today again about his contract situation and 413 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.960 he shot it down really quickly and said, all I'm worried about is Sunday 414 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.640 night, and all I'm worried about is twenty twenty three. In twenty twenty 415 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.240 four, we'll take care of itself. And you know, it's kind of 416 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.960 an interesting thing. He could have done what Josh Jacobs from the Raiders did, 417 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.640 which was basically sit out all of camp and then sign his deal and 418 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:30.839 show up this week. But he chose to sign a deal before camp he 419 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.240 even started, and he was there for the entire preseason all of camp. 420 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.279 Didn't play in the preseason game, but he was there for all of them. 421 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.559 So, you know, he's a guy that he speaks highly in New 422 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.119 York how much he loves the organization. He wants to be there, it's 423 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:47.680 just a tough time for running backs right now. It's hard to know where 424 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:49.240 it's going to go. But I don't think that's going to be an issue 425 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:52.799 at all for sa Kuon Barkley or for for the Giants. Have you in 426 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:57.680 your time? Is this your second or third year? This is year number 427 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:02.240 four actually doing Sunday? So I'm assuming you've covered every team out there, 428 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:06.200 right, You've You've covered it, covered a game almost. There's a few 429 00:27:06.240 --> 00:27:08.400 that I think we haven't checked off the list yet, but yeah, almost 430 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:11.519 everybody. So I was going to ask you what fan base is kind of 431 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:18.240 like the most not delusional, but kind of that kind of that word like 432 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.039 where you go and you think, wow, these guys are kind of crazy, 433 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:25.440 maybe in a good way. Well, look, I think every year 434 00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:29.519 the Cowboys kind of have that super Bowl or bust mentality, right from a 435 00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:33.039 fan perspective, certainly, I think that they're one that goes in every year 436 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:34.519 of we need to win the Super Bowl, that that's what we do. 437 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:38.920 And if they don't win the super Bowl, all apologies to Jonathan Tennacopo, 438 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.000 they look at it as a failure and that's just the way it is. 439 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:48.559 I think every fan base is probably delusional to some point in thinking that you 440 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:49.880 know, hey, one thing here, one thing there, we could you 441 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.960 know, win it all. And it's like, no, one thing here, 442 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.920 one thing there. You might be a wild card game. But that's 443 00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.680 what makes this time of the year fun. It's like in baseball, right 444 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:02.240 when they talk about in spring and hope springs eternal. I think it's the 445 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:03.720 same way right now for a lot of football fans that are thinking, you 446 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.279 know, hey, I like the way we looked in preseasons. Listen to 447 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:10.960 what Steelers fans are saying right now. They had a great preseason and they 448 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:14.480 feel like, hey, maybe this team is ready to shock the world and 449 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:18.200 maybe we're ready to be among the AFC contenders. So I don't know if 450 00:28:18.200 --> 00:28:22.279 I could point to one necessarily, but I do think the Cowboys are one 451 00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:26.640 that always have that mentality of it's either the super Bowl or we failed. 452 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:30.119 It's it's as simple as that. So our Lions fans delusional this year thinking 453 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.359 that they're you know, they're a playoff team after being so bad for so 454 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:37.359 many years. No, I don't think they're delusional. I think they're a 455 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:41.119 playoff team. You know, Look, they were running a cusp last year. 456 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.160 We did that game week a team last year in Green Bay, and 457 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.160 I gotta tell you, I was really impressed by what that team did because 458 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:51.680 they knew before the game they could not make the playoffs. They knew before 459 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:53.400 they walked out there, and long before, not like right at kickoff. 460 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:56.640 They found out, you know, an hour or half hour or whatever it 461 00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:00.839 was, before they even walked down in the field. They knew we cannot 462 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.839 do anything in terms of the playoffs tonight. All we can do is try 463 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.960 to knock off Green Bay, a division rival, and they played like the 464 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:11.599 playoffs were on the line. And you know, like watching hard Knocked last 465 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:15.079 year, and uh, you know, seeing some of the behind the scene 466 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.160 stuff, you wondered, you know that Dan campbell energy, is this legit? 467 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:21.039 Is this just an act this guy puts on. I think we all 468 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:25.160 found out last year it was legit. That team played hard for him, 469 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:30.079 that team believed in him and each other. And I was super impressed by 470 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.039 by them. And so, you know, they've been down for so long. 471 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.240 We don't root for teams necessarily, we root for stories. I think 472 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:41.039 it'd be a great story if they've found their way into the playoffs this year. 473 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:47.440 Wow, what are refreshing comment right toell? We don't, you know, 474 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:49.920 root for teams when we root for stories, I mean for we have 475 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:52.079 interns here, all right, tell we tell them all the time. You 476 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.880 can't. You can't root for the team you're covering or anything. You just 477 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.000 gotta you know, look at it straightforward. You know Jay Jay, and 478 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:02.160 we admitted Jay's the in this room here. I am kind of the old 479 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.240 cranky guy. And you know that cranky guy, right, you know you've 480 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:08.480 been a rect but but you're right, I mean you have to go and 481 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:14.200 kind of straightforward and not mean either way. Well, people ask me all 482 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.200 the time, who's your favorite team, and I'll say, well, I'll 483 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:19.799 tell you who I grew up rooting for. But I don't have a team 484 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.720 anymore. My job is to go in and call the game. My job 485 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:29.440 is not to go in and root for somebody and root for one team over 486 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:32.359 another. My job is to go on and tell you what's happening on the 487 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:36.599 field, to do that as accurately as possible, so you know the sports 488 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:40.079 I cover, I don't. I don't have favorite teams, but I certainly 489 00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.359 love a good story, and I certainly love. You know, look last 490 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:47.160 year when when we were in Minnesota and they were down at behalf and when 491 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.319 they started coming back in the fourth quarters, well I admit that, Yeah, 492 00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:52.559 I wanted Minnesota to finish off the largest comeback in NFL history. Sure, 493 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.480 because I wanted to see that. I wanted it to be a part 494 00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:59.720 of it. But now that's that's what it is. You can root for 495 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:03.039 store lines, but you certainly don't root for individual teams, that's for sure. 496 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:04.440 Who'd they played Miami hood two? When did they be come back? 497 00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:12.920 Send letters for people in Indiano. Okay, speaking of storylines, what about 498 00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.839 the Aaron Rodgers storyline? What what do you think is going to go on 499 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.720 over there? Well? I think it's a really good team. I mean, 500 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:25.240 look, they were a terrific defense a year ago, and they bring 501 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:29.799 back that defense with a lot of young guys, and now you add an 502 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:34.079 Aaron Rodgers and they feel like they're a really talented offensive team. Clearly, 503 00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.240 he's been the focus a lot in the preseason. If you watched the Hard 504 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.680 Knocks show this year, it might as well just be called Aaron Rodgers. 505 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.960 You know, he is the focus of that. But but I think they 506 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.039 have a chance to be really really good now you know, again, how 507 00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:52.200 to injuries and things like that factor in. We'll see Aaron Rodgers obviously, 508 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.480 the guy that doesn't miss games and and and stays healthy. But you know, 509 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.680 they'll the end of the biggest microscope and the biggest media market this year. 510 00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.359 It seems like they're well prepared for that. They seem like a team 511 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:07.039 that doesn't shy away from it. Just during some of the comments yesterday from 512 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.000 their guys talking about that they could possibly be not just a really good defense, 513 00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:15.920 but a historic defense and dropping the eighty five Bears in reference to what 514 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.240 they can be. They don't lack for confidence. So that's definitely going to 515 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:22.920 be one of the more interesting stories to watch. And I can tell you 516 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:28.240 Sunday night, Week four, Jets hosting Kansas City. I am really looking 517 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:30.160 forward to that game. I think that'll be a great early season matchup. 518 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:34.000 Yeah, no, you're right. One of the teams that intriguing me is 519 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:37.799 Baltimore. Quarterback signs. They should be better. They have their new right 520 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:43.440 receiver, right is it, what's his name? Beckham? Beckham. They've 521 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.039 got some parts now. They've always kind of lingered, but then they fall 522 00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:50.240 apart. You know what I'm saying, what do you think about them? 523 00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:54.640 To me? Another interesting story and and and one to watch. I think 524 00:32:54.720 --> 00:33:00.720 I'm a little more skeptical than maybe some others are because it was just a 525 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:05.480 couple of years ago that we went through the let Russ Cook era in Seattle 526 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:12.039 and that fell apart spectacularly, and I kind of feel like in Baltimore we're 527 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:14.920 kind of leaning towards that a little bit. I think when the Ravens have 528 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.440 been their best, they've been a team that had a terrific defense, they 529 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:21.160 ran the ball really well. And look, I'm not taking anything away from 530 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:23.799 Lamar Jackson. I'm not telling you that Lamar can only run and he can't 531 00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:27.400 throw. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, when they've been at 532 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.599 their best, this is what they've done. I think when you know the 533 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:32.920 Seahawks were at their best, they ran the ball, they played great defense, 534 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.680 and yes, Russell made plays that helped them win games. But all 535 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:37.960 of a sudden it kind of shifted to this. Well, you know, 536 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.160 Russell needs to throw the ball forty five times a game, and I kind 537 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.440 of get some of those vibes coming out of Baltimore. Like many we need 538 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.599 to let turn Lamar loose and he needs to be able to throw and he 539 00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.359 needs to do this. They need to upgrade their wide receivers. I don't 540 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:57.440 know that he needs to put the ball in the air thirty five forty times 541 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.759 a game, but we'll see. I absolutely could be wrong about that. 542 00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:02.759 It is an interesting story to watch to see how that goes early in the 543 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:06.960 year, especially with the new offensive coordinator and Todd Monken. So you're talking 544 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.760 that I'm looking at Jay and he's not looking at me. Sadly, I 545 00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:13.320 don't Khalil Tate. I mean, come on, here's the guy who just 546 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:16.239 run the ball, don't pass it so much, but quarterbacks got pass to 547 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:20.480 make him a pocket passer. Yeah, didn't exactly what you're saying. Is 548 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.719 it reminds me of Khalil? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. But okay, 549 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.000 okay, So I got one last question. This is personal. You know, 550 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:29.320 you know, we think about gambling here all the time. What do 551 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:31.719 you mean we exactly what I said? And uh, you know, I 552 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.519 mentioned that I was very unhappy with your Nevada wolf Pack for what they did 553 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:40.079 last weekend. But you know the way gambling has entered into the conversation. 554 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:44.400 Now, you know, in the NFL college, you know, everywhere, 555 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.360 do you get any kind of instruction about how much you can or can't talk 556 00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:53.079 about point spreads and over unders and things like that, or how do you 557 00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:57.639 approach that in the in the course of a of a broadcast. You know, 558 00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:00.960 I don't talk about it much at all. Uh, And that's really 559 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:07.079 kind of a personal choice. I've always kind of stayed away from that, 560 00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.719 mainly because it kind of helped me. If people would call me and say, 561 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.000 hey, what do you think about this guy? I'd be able to 562 00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.320 say, I don't even know what's this? What's the line? I don't 563 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.840 know? I didn't I didn't really look. So we don't talk about it 564 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:22.320 a lot unless Look, if you're doing a game where somebody's a three touchdown 565 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.840 underdog, you're probably gonna mention that as part of Hey, here's the upfilled 566 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:30.159 climb that Team D has against Team AU. They're missing six starters, they're 567 00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.719 a twenty one point underdog. That's gonna be tough for them. But other 568 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:38.000 than that, we don't talk about it a lot. I'm certainly not involved 569 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:45.159 in it. We are very sternly and heavily reminded every year that we are 570 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:52.039 not to be engaging in that. Maybe I get reminded of it more because 571 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:53.599 of the state that I live. Yeah, I don't know, although it's 572 00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:58.519 legal pretty much everywhere now. So yeah, it's something that I've always kind 573 00:35:58.519 --> 00:36:01.079 of stayed away from. I avoid certainly not anything that I engage him, 574 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.559 that's for sure. All right. So let me ask my last question, 575 00:36:04.840 --> 00:36:07.360 only because he's in the news now, have a big time, dion, 576 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:12.519 What do you make of that situation? I'll say what I was wrong. 577 00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.719 I went into last week and I kind of thought, this is a bunch 578 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:20.320 of hype, you know, I just don't see how this is gonna work. 579 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.320 And I've watched that game on Saturday and I was blown away. I 580 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:28.000 mean, they were great. To go on the road, and look, 581 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.440 we'll find out how good CCU is this year. Obviously they were really good 582 00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:32.840 last year. We'll see what they turn out to be this year. But 583 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.639 to go on the road in challenging conditions and you know, a hundred degrees 584 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:43.400 and play the way they did, I thought was unbelievable. You know, 585 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:47.679 I hadn't seen Sanders, the quarterback, Deon's kid play. I thought he 586 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:52.320 looked extremely poised in the way he handled himself. The Travis Hunter story, 587 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:57.800 to me, is already one of the most intriguing things I think I've ever 588 00:36:57.840 --> 00:37:00.280 seen. I mean, we're talking about a kid that's playing both ways and 589 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:05.679 played what eighty something percent of the snaps on Saturday at a position where he 590 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:09.639 has to run on every single play. Namely the last guy that did anything 591 00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:13.960 like that. We've seen guys that are corners that play a little bit of 592 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:16.760 wide receiver, maybe they played seven plays at wide receiver or vice versa. 593 00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.719 I don't remember the last guy that was legitimately on the field for almost every 594 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:28.239 single play going both ways, and he's really good. I mean over one 595 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.599 hundred yards he has a pick in the game. No, I don't know 596 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.719 if that's sustainable over the course of the year, especially playing after games in 597 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:38.760 Boulder at a mile high. But I thought it was all a bunch of 598 00:37:39.519 --> 00:37:43.199 hype and you know, look at the shiny new thing over here. But 599 00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:45.679 boy did they proved me wrong. Now, it's one game. I'm not 600 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.400 saying they're gonna win the National Championship. I'm not saying they're they're the best 601 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.199 team in the country. But I think that they definitely proved to a lot 602 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:57.880 of people, including b that they've been underestimated so far this year. Yeah, 603 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.599 okay, Ryan, always good to talk to you in that voice of 604 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:06.039 years. Can I borrow it for a week. You're sure you can borrow 605 00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.760 it for as long as you good. We'll hear you on Sunday night. 606 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:14.960 Thank you, Thanks, I appreciate it, Thank you Jay. What he 607 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:16.960 brings up is another point that we talked about it and I couldn't emphasis enough. 608 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:21.920 We don't know, We don't. People don't know, and they can 609 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.519 think they know. We didn't know about the laugh of you and we didn't. 610 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:29.760 We can know Dion has what he and you met a lot of new 611 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.280 faces blow he can't coach. We don't know. We can get all full 612 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.239 of themselves this week and come out and the bad. We don't and we 613 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:37.480 just don't know what we don't know. And like I said, we don't 614 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.639 know how good TCU is or is either. Right. Yeah, Hey, 615 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:44.639 thanks Ryan, Racty. That's great. He's always always a great guest. 616 00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:46.760 He's a pro. Love having you. So all right, let's take our 617 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:51.280 break long, but it was all well worth it. We'll be back. 618 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:52.800 We'll take your calls five to zero, four one, six, seventy four, 619 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:57.159 forty. 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Hey, welcome back to joining them all here on Fox Sports 676 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.800 fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, He's Jake. You have nine minutes. You 677 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:12.000 do you want to call us? Please do? This is your nine minute 678 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:17.159 warning because we have very little options when as I need that much of a 679 00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:22.599 warning just to be able to get to the party. Lib dang so calling 680 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:24.320 You can call in five two zero four one six seventy four forty if you 681 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.000 want to chime in. Well, you know, I you know, I 682 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.360 asked him about the Chiefs and and yes they're you know, you you still 683 00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:36.840 consider I'm a favorite. But you know, are there teams that there are 684 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.760 catching up with him? Right? Okay? And and uh and I don't 685 00:43:39.760 --> 00:43:43.760 know, I mean, you know, are the Bengals, Yeah, maybe 686 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:45.719 Joe Burrow. You know, there's some question about his his leg injury. 687 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:53.000 Uh what's his name? At at Buffalo, you know, they've Josh Allen. 688 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.920 They look like they're right there, but they just haven't. It hasn't 689 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:59.639 materialized. You know, the last couple of years he does he's done some 690 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:04.400 dumb things, either in the playoffs or in the regular season. You know, 691 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.639 the Patriots aren't anything anymore. I don't know, but you know, 692 00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:13.480 like this year, I expect a lot from the Chargers. Okay, I 693 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:16.920 feel like, like, uh, what do you Herbert? Yeah? Do 694 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:20.960 you? I drafted a whole bunch of them in my face. Oh that's 695 00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:30.480 anybody, try to refund your tickets. If you haven't, Justin must be 696 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:37.119 crying, really crying. Now he's gonna be upset with me. I didn't 697 00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:38.320 get. I didn't get. I didn't get Herbert, but I did get. 698 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:40.440 What do you have the odds up? Can you get the odds up? 699 00:44:40.719 --> 00:44:44.599 Chargers? They got to be more than fifteen to one? Probably? 700 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.639 Yeah? Probably? I think that if you like them, I would put 701 00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.760 twenty bucks on them. Senor, Well, I see if that's the thing. 702 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:59.159 I still don't think they're gonna win the the the AFC. I think 703 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:00.599 they're gonna be really good. But she's a gauntlet. Yeah, well, 704 00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.400 and that's the thing. It is a gauntlet. I couldn't even tell you 705 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.079 anybody in the NFC Dallas ain't gonna do it. Ellie Rams, they're done. 706 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:14.079 Uh so let's just go maybe if the quarterback stays healthy. Who else 707 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.719 could it be? In the NFC Green Bay? No, man, there's 708 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:22.159 there isn't very many. There aren't very many teams out there. Okay, 709 00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:27.519 really conference Conference champions. Okay, and it's AFC Conference champions. Yeah, 710 00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.920 Chiefs a plus three thirty. Yeah, this is a conference. Rest is 711 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:32.519 the conference? Yeah, because I just can get I'm not gonna tell you 712 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:37.679 what I've got this year because I do the Chiefs Bills plus five hundred, 713 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.760 Bengals plus five fifty, Jets plus eleven. I don't get that. I 714 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:47.719 don't get that either, Dolphins plus eleven, okay, Ravens plus eleven, 715 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.920 and then the Charges at plus four so twelve, okay, Yeah, they're 716 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:58.800 the number seven. No, go to the NFC. NFC, Okay, 717 00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.159 you got the you got the e Okay, who do you think is that? 718 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.960 Man? That's that's all I'll all I would get. And maybe I 719 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:09.519 got the Eagles, San Francisco, the Niners the plus three eight, what's 720 00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:13.559 the what are the Eagles at two sixty fifty to fifty? Okay? Is 721 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.079 that for the Chapman? What's that conference CHAMPI? Okay? What about super 722 00:46:15.079 --> 00:46:21.480 Bowl? Okay? Super Bowl? Yeah? After this the Philly and San 723 00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:25.800 Francisco, the Cowboys are and that's a delusional pick. Yeah, the Cowboys 724 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.960 are our next at plus six hundred, and then you go all the way 725 00:46:30.039 --> 00:46:34.360 to plus eleven hundred for the Lions. Okay, don't why why the Cowboys? 726 00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:37.360 Bs? What have they done because of the Cowboys? Because of the 727 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:40.039 Cowboys. I mean, that's where people will better if there's if there's a 728 00:46:40.039 --> 00:46:44.400 team that lives with hope. Yeah, it's the Cowboys. Okay, super 729 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:51.320 Bowl super Bowl champion. Okay, Chiefs plus six hundred, right, number 730 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:54.119 two would be Philly to me, you go seven hundred okay, Uh, 731 00:46:54.239 --> 00:47:00.840 Buffalo maybe, uh give me Cincinnati maybe? Well, you know, Niners 732 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:06.679 are next Niners and then Cincinnati okay, and then the Cowboys. Yeah, 733 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:12.440 and and uh they charged all the way down to twenty five one. Man, 734 00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:15.000 I think I'll put them there. Could be your Green Bay if you 735 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:15.960 do it. That's what happens to me. I don' think they win the 736 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:20.280 super Bowl, but you know, again, they win their conference. The 737 00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:22.719 chance of winning the super Bowl, yeah, yeah, because because the only 738 00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.079 team that you feel can be a problem, there's always that one team. 739 00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.679 They could be that one team. I don't I don't follow closely enough to 740 00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:34.920 know how good they are. Obviously the quarterbacks good. I don't know some 741 00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.760 of the some of people don't like to court the coach because he's not it's 742 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.719 kind of like too young or whatever. They don't they don't think that he's 743 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.679 the guy that leads them. I just, I just I've always liked Justin 744 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:49.199 Herbert, even when he was back at Oregon. I've always really liked him. 745 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:52.480 Yeah. One, because it seems like a really good guy, which 746 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.400 is to me important's important, you know about whether or not I like a 747 00:47:55.440 --> 00:48:01.280 player. We'll call on the air and I on the ball. Hey, 748 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:04.239 yeah, hey, you guys. I want to give you guys an easy 749 00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:09.280 tip for for betting. Okay, don't it's Richard. Don't do you think 750 00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:15.159 I mean Colorado is going to blow out Nebraska. Okay, I think the 751 00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:20.320 spread is like five points or something. This is the no brainer bet of 752 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.719 the season. And a lot of times they come on a no brainer bet 753 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.199 early in the year. This is it. I mean, this is a 754 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:31.920 joke that Nebraska has no offense, they had no very little creativity. They're 755 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:37.719 still mired in their past and that will be revealed. I've bet Nebraska Colorado 756 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:42.599 blows him out by half time. The line is actually it went after the 757 00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.320 games, after the weekend, it jumped to two, then it went to 758 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:50.440 five. Now it's back to three Colorado. Is Hunter gonna play? Is 759 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:54.920 he hurt? I don't know, see, because I saw something that there 760 00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:59.599 was a somebody hurt in the Colorado roster. I don't know who that was, 761 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:02.079 but yeah, there were a couple of people banged up. I saw 762 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:05.599 that too. I didn't see his I don't think he's injured. Okay, 763 00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:07.679 so I just and he's just fabulous. But I mean, they just got 764 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:13.960 such a prolific offense. Yeah, they're just gonna absolutely blow out and they're 765 00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:17.400 at home and this will be the most exciting Colorado crowd in how many years. 766 00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:21.239 So let me ask you, Richard h let me see something that me 767 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:23.079 or I mean, i'd be true. I think you're a realistic guy, 768 00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.199 because you know you text me all the time and we talk on the phone 769 00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.440 here. Uh yeah, do you believe you what do you believe it's going 770 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:37.679 on in Colorado? Legit? Not legit? We're wait and see. I 771 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.880 think it's I think they're a legitively very competitive team. I think if they 772 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.039 passed the eye test and all that, you look at the talent, you 773 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:50.159 know, it's a testament to the transfer portal. Also, what Dean was 774 00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:54.679 able to put together his style of Maybe his sons are excellent. His son 775 00:49:54.840 --> 00:50:00.000 is an outstanding quarterback, and that's good. It's going to get Taylor Williams 776 00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.840 little competition this year, right, and so I think they've got a very 777 00:50:04.920 --> 00:50:07.000 good looking team. How many games are gonna win? I don't know if 778 00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:12.599 they're gonna beat Nebraska, and it's gonna be very exciting to watch them. 779 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:15.360 Hey, my one other tip for the year is this. I believe that 780 00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.719 Cla Clayton Tune is going to be the quarterback for the Cardinals and I believe 781 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:24.599 that he will end up just about taking him to the playoffs this year. 782 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:31.719 Wow, look at he's now. Now he's he's brock Purty. Okay, 783 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:36.719 Tune is six three two twenty. He can see over the line of scrimmage. 784 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.400 He's got great vision. He's a very savvy, experienced quarterback. He's 785 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.480 got a very fine arm, and he's an excellent scrambler. And the one 786 00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.480 thing he can do that's outstanding is he's very a good screen pass. And 787 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.000 that's what Kyler has has a very big challenge doing, as we know, 788 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:53.960 is going to screen pass a little shot there at Kyler, but being able 789 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.519 to see over the line. So I like that. That's it, all 790 00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.639 right, Richard, appreciate by the way, it's it's a it's a safe. 791 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:04.360 It's a safe. Thank you, thank you. It's a safety for 792 00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:07.480 Colorado. That's out guyny miles six tackles last week, Richard, you didn't 793 00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:12.320 had a chance to say this to you. Go sooners didn't take kill somebody 794 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:15.440 over the weekend. Oh yeah, they scored seventy three some you know something, 795 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:20.239 somebody really bad, like one of the Texas states, like North Texas. 796 00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.039 But somebody like that. All right, So all right, yeah, 797 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:27.079 so it's a Miles Slusher, a defensive back played a big role in the 798 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.920 game last week, who is out this week? So anyways, all right, 799 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:34.280 Steve, I've been wanting to play this all week, uh, you 800 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.039 know, for one of our out songs. But I've just I haven't had 801 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:40.480 control of the mean I'm ready for it, good enough control of the of 802 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:49.440 myself. So September had that on Tuesdays, it had on Friday. All 803 00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.760 right, So we're headed out top of the hour. We're gonna have breaking 804 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.639 news when we come back. Then we're gonna have Jack Buyers from a Mississippi 805 00:51:55.639 --> 00:52:05.519 state Rivals website talking about the Arizona m Missipiate. This week's will Stick Around Stop