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Wham, so we're on, We're on, we are Hello. I'm
just reading the news. Look, look the blue lad welcome back to Out
of the Ball. I'm Steve a little sleepy, but that's Jay and we
do have and we do have breaking I'm sleepy, he's dope, you're grumpy,
You're not sleepy. And Kevin mister happy. All right, Eye on
the ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Alright, alright, you
guys, So we do have some breaking news. Jayden Daniels has been named
the AP College Football Player of the Year. Do you guys have any thoughts
on that? I know director goes against James Heisman picks so well, and
Jake might be the one because he's an Sue guy. He wasn't an impressive
back then. How did he become this guy? Well, he got a
better team, He got better players around him, for sure. You know
you're at L s U. You know L s U, A s U.
You know which one, which one's gonna have better players? Uh?
There's that. But look, give him credit. He you know, he's
had a great he's had a great year, He's done some great things.
He's piled up a ton of stats, but his team isn't one of the
best in the country. And and that's that's kind of where I draw the
line on, you know, on on you know, I don't disagree with
these kinds of a war. Don't disagree with you because if you're the best
team guest player in the country on a pretty good team and you didn't get
him to or at least a very good record, right, and and and
and again, as Jake said, that's not always the case. Like I
said, you know, I thought I thought Andrew luck should have won a
Heisman. I thought Toby Gerhart should have won one, and I and I
thought Christian mccafrey should all those guys from Stanford. Stanford wasn't quite there.
And and so they gave him to guys you know who played in the national
championship games and stuff like that. And sometimes that's right. In this particular
case, I think that you know, all he did was pile up stats
in the second half of the season, not even a whole season, And
and uh, you know, guys like Michael Pennix and and and and Bo
Knicks did it the whole year. Ye, the whole year, from day
one. I don't agree with you much. I agree with you here.
And I also want to say that it seems that Daniels is picking up a
lot of momentum from the pros. Kirk Hirve Street was on Pat McAfee show
this morning really talking him up, saying, you know, a lot of
guys are gonna fall in love with Drake may Caleb love, but Jade Daniels
is actually the guy. And I don't know. I don't know if that's
true or we'll see time. Only time will tell. Yeah, but it
doesn't like Daman daniels stock is rapidly rising. It is. It's gone way
up. Brownie James was expected to make his USC debut on Sunday. I
believe it's a long beach. But yeah, that's only four months after his
Aready arrest this SUMMERTTY pretty aspirational story. I know he has the best doctors
and all that stuff, but it's really cool to see him still follow that
dream. Yep, we do have more second generation news as Southern Missus Frank
Gore Junior, the son of obviously the legend Frank Gore. He'll be entering
the draft this year alongside of Brendan Rice, Verry Rice's kid. I had
no idea. I didn't know he I didn't know he was there either.
I heard his name and stuff. I just didn't connect him to Jerry Rice.
Yeah. And then Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy after his surgery, is set
to coach on Sunday. He got his appendix removed. Weedy surgery. Dude,
you're burying the lead for Arizona. Go ahead with it. Jordan Morgan
lead the way. But Jordan Morgan announced today that he's not gonna He's not
He's gonna skip the Bowl game, which you know, one I predict.
I predicted it, like I knew what I was doing. But you know,
I'm not surprised at all. I thought, you know, if there
was ever a guy that you'd say, should you know, say he's had
a bad knee injury, why take a chance. Yeah, and he's gonna
be a number one He's gonna be a number one pick. Yeah, I'm
why take a chance on this game? I think in in in Jed Fish's
case, you know, he's got somebody that he'll he'll want to you know,
he'll give some time to and they'll you'll, he'll get get some extra
practice reps, he'll get some extra game time. You know, I don't
think it's a bad thing for Let me, let me put a little forking
this up. Would you have thought this five years ago, Oh, that
guys would do this? No, no, no, that you'd be okay
with it because you weren't. Christian mccafrey was the first one. And when
you I'm like, what a jerk? Yeah, what a jerk. But
it's become the thing now and and so yeah, now if you know,
if you got a guy who's skipping out on a New Years six bawl or
skipping out on a you know, playoff game or something like that, then
I got a problem. But at this point, you know, Steve,
you know I can. I can go with the times. You know,
the world is any tomorrow. Guys do what you want tonight, and Jay
can change. He said, That's why I read it. But now you
know, and again in his particular case, so you know, here Morgan,
you know he had an injury and and and you know, every game
he plays. You know, it's unnecessary for him to play in this game.
And and I actually think but the Jetfish probably completely agrees with him,
and he has he says, you know, thank you for letting the snow.
Let's get another guy. Well, in fact, I think that Jetfish
when he was asked last week, I think it was he kind of he
kind of he said, a couple of guys. They're a couple of guys,
So I'm sure this was one of them. Yeah. And then the
twenty twenty four four star wide receiver Dylan Gresham will take an official visit to
Arizona today. Uh. He's named Arizona Oregon and Washington is his top three.
Uh and he he did who was Oregon back in May, but his
recruitment is not back open. So I got a text yesterday from someone that
we probably both know, Jay Why hasn't hasn't Jade do Laura declared yet to
go somewhere else? And the only thing I could think of was, well,
he wants to go to the bull game. Yeah, Uh, that
would be the only thing or he's not gonna go anywhere. Well, first
of all, you know, you know what we've heard is that, you
know, he's he's not done with school right. In order to transfer and
be able to play right away, he's got to graduate, okay, because
he's used his free transfer, so he's got he's got he can go as
a grad student. So he's that's still youngest, he's still what was only
a junior eight Laura, Well, this is his fourth year. This was
his fourth year. Well he missed. Well, okay, so you I
mean you got to finish in four years. Not too many people do,
yeah, especially right in terms of right. So in order to get the
fifth year and be able to take that fifth year somewhere else, he's got
to he's got a graduate so that may not be available to him. It
might not be you know, I don't know. I don't know his transcripts
or anything like that. What I heard was that he might not that he
would need probably some of the summer to graduate. And if that's the case,
part of the thing is that you know, guys who are like grad
transfers and stuff like that, they try to get to their new school in
January, take part in supring ball and all that kind of stuff. And
he, you know, I don't know if he's there yet so he's in
a tough spot. Yeah, because he's played three years, right, He's
played three years and he had a red shirt. Ye, so you know,
uh, in order to get that, in order to play that that
last year and be able to transfer wherever he wants to go and play right
away, he's got to graduate. So he's gonna get his degree. He
is a tough spot, Okay. And honestly, that's that's pretty much all
the breaking news I had that was that was pretty relevant to us. The
Chiefs wide receiver Justin Ross is gonna return after the next game from his six
game suspension after his arrest this summer. But yeah, all right, did
did we go into the the APS all Pack twelve team because it came out
yesterday and I'm not sure when it when it came out, excuse me,
we talked, I think I leave talked a little bit about it, but
not we didn't go in death okay, So you know what, I think
what we talked about were the offensive defensive players of the year and all that.
So bonnets AP Pack twelve offensive player, the defensive end lat too from
U c L. A defensive player that killed boor was the pac twelve Coach
of the Year, and then uh shad Or Sanders Newcomer of the Year.
But Arizona got two guys on the first team. They got Jordan Morgan,
uh you know, on the first team offense, and then Jacob mont who
first team defense. And then they had four guys on the second team.
Uh there was tam mac wendell moe offensive guard, Tanner McLachlan the tight end,
and then they had uh Tacario Davis the corner or back are wrong on
the second team. By the AP, they're doing all their conference uh all
conference teams that they associated prest So those guys are on there, so good
for them. Okay, okay, anybody else anything else? No, no,
anybody want to call you have NBA playing tournament stuff. They're not gonna
have a third place game, right they just played the championship game. Correct.
I guess nobody would care about the third those take because after the break
and the conversation we had about Caleb Love, then I want to ask you,
Steve all Right who It's gonna be a hard question. Who's the best
team on THEIRS on basketball best player on THEIRS on basketball team? Right now?
What do you mean by player best player. You know, who's who's
there? Who's there? Who do I want? Yeah? I mean who's
who's Yeah? I mean is it? Is it Caleb Love? That Island
Boswell? Is it Keishad Johnson? Who's the best player on the team?
Or let's say the m v P. Who am I gonna Who am I
gonna draft for the Who's Who's the m v P? So far? Caleb
Love? I think that? Oh man, Caleb Love, this is my
top three Caleb Love Johnson? And then uh and then uh and then in
that order. Yeah. Where where would Lewis fall at five? Yeah?
Probably five? But Boo scares me, he just does. What do you
mean he scares you because because because if he gets felt and he's not,
if he gets felt at the line wherever he's It's like there was a question
they asked, Tommy, did you hear him? He should jump shot from
the pre throw line. He can't shoot pree throws. What is he doing
chugging jumpers from but he's making that? Then he should shoot jumpers from the
free throw line. He should run up and do a float? A float?
Do you remember the thing colco for two three years ago? Did you
trust Colocal with the line? Do you trust Ballow with the line? No?
No, thank you very much. Bollow under the basket. He missed
everything on one of those last in the last case. Yes, so you
understand what I'm saying. But I think Caleb, Caleb Johnson has been he
because he brings more than just things to the case. More than stats,
yes, more than stats, because he brings a toughness that they didn't have.
Right, and you've heard you've heard Tommy say dogs twice. Now he
wouldn't He didn't say dogs twice in two years? Yeah, yeah, no,
And I I think I would flip Johnson, Johnson and bos which it
wouldn't be oh two and three. So Caleb still number one. Yeah,
I think he's. I think he's. He's he's the guy on the floor
who carries himself with the most confidence, total willing. He'll if you need
a shot, he goes, I'll take that shot. All that he and
then he's he's he's surprised me because of the reputation that we all heard of
coming in that. You know, like you said, he's he's leaning and
steals, he leads and assists. He's going out to rebounds he's got he's
averaged nearly five rebounds a game. Yeah for a for a guard. Yeah,
that's really damn. He talked about Tommy saying, go get the rebounds.
Yeah, and so I you know, he's uh, you know,
and he's the leading scorer. Now they've got five guys in double figures and
and he's he's only four tenths of a point ahead of Keisha Johnson, but
he's you know, he's up there, and he's a guy that you can
rely on, you know, to get you some points. But he's got
four point seven rebounds a game. He's got uh, you know, a
couple of offensive rebounds. He's got thirty one assists, which puts him ahead
of everybody. Uh, Boswell is second, you know, with twenty nine
and then uh he and Boswell are typed for the team leading steals. He's
playing defense. Yeah, yeah, no, who's a killer. But yeah,
yeah, so I so you agree with me with him. I just
think that and we've had a discussion while you were I guess at a break
out that he's he's good. You just don't know when he's not going to
be good and when that's gonna happen. Well, why you have to worry
so much about that? Because I think they got enough guys that they don't
have enough scores. They don't have enough scores like him. You need scores.
It's like when Ben Matherin would go dark. You who did you rely
on? Yeah? Because Ben could score? Yeah, And you said,
don't worry, we got Ben. But but I was still worried. But
but Steve, would you know, like, I mean, you know he
since he doesn't play all forty minutes, there's times he's not in the game
and you don't sit there and think they can't score. I have. I
have a couple of times I'm thinking he's on the bench, I'm thinking,
what's he thinking'd get me back in? Yeah? Interesting? Okay, Well,
in the in the break real quick, Steve and I were talking about
the difference in coaching between Tommy Lloyd and the UNC coach I believe his name
is Davis. Yeah. Yeah. We were talking about how when you're watching
you and see it's almost kind of like a roll the ball out and we're
gonna do this and this is not the operation that Tommy runs. And I
think that's a big impact on the player that k would love has Ben I
think, right, like, the national conversation about him is been like on
a team where you just roll the ball out and be talentedact. In fact,
I asked Caleb this question. I think one of his successes is because
Arizona's offense is free flowing. You know, it finds the ball. He
finds the shot because it's moved so much. The thing is with him,
he's always open. Yeah, his shots are deep. Yeah, you know,
and you're probably too deep sometimes, right, so you're taking what are
you doing? Yeah, you don't need to ship exactly right, So,
but you're not. There are times, but I think most of the time
he's within the flow right without questions. But it's still a twenty five switter.
Yeah, shoulders think every shots going in until it is like you're the
defense rest because exactly you need that shot. What are you doing? Yeah,
you're right, Both of you guys are right? Are all right?
Man? All right? Let's go hold hands and sing. All right,
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Rivera and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to ye
about here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera, geeze Jakinsawis I want
a PHONEE? We have former U of a basketball player, Ricky Anderson,
How are you, Ricky? I'm great, I'm great, great to talk
to you. I'm gonna give you some grief right now. You we asked
for I asked for a photo. You send me a guy who looks like
Bradley Cooper with your with your glamary show. You know, you know,
with age, with change. I totally lived opposite when I was like get
nineteen playing from Kojo. Yeah, well you look good. Great for you,
Great for you. So let me tell you. We're gonna go ride
ranging on the interview, so everyone talks about Wisconsin twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
and I said, yeah, okay, but Wisconsin to me means Ricky
Anderson two thousand. Oh yeah, that shot, that shot almost I shot
it from half court. There is probably like seventeen from the three from the
three point lining and sweat. Well, that's that's why you're on the phone.
But let me say this, Uh you they were getting beat. There
was as the number one team in the country. Uh in terms of seed,
they're getting beat. Incomes Ricky Anderson and he hits this three. You
get him, you get him in the game, you put him in the
game. How was that? I remember I caught fire and and and I
remember pulling that shot from all of half court because I hit like three threes
or two threes and then I shoot it and it just goes in and out
and Coach Olla looks at me, just gives me the grand mic. Oh,
Ricky, what are you pulling from half court? Ricky? Ricky,
what are you doing? I know that was a great game. I remember
Gilbert. Gilbert was was bawling, but I came in for him because Coach
O got mad at him or something, and I just got hit a couple
of threes and we ended up losing. But god, that was a That
was a tough game. And yeah, when you you know, when you
think about that, uh, going back to that game, you know your
number one seed, Arizona's had a couple of disappointments here the last two years.
You know, being a really high seed, what's your approach going in
because you're feeling like you're supposed to win this game, but everybody in the
tournament is good, and you know you can lose in your case. You
guys, did you know to Wisconsin? How do you you know? How
do you approach that during the week or headed into that. Gosh, that's
like when you approach a game, you i mean the scout team. I
know that Tommy Lloyd has a great scout team, and you try to emulate
those players on the other team. And once you starts, once you start
to get a good scout team like Tommy Lloyd has right now, it's really
important. And when we prepare, we i mean basically go through all their
plays to detail and then try to kind of emulate. You know, that's
that style and that's what Coach Oh was so good at. You would just
I mean, our second stream could be a lot of you know, a
lot of teams. So when you prepare mentally to for those games, I
always thought it was like, Okay, this team's gonna be good, they're
gonna be tough. But in the back of your mind, you're just like
you got to grind. And I think these guys, you know, Caleb
Love and Johnson and these guys are just like tough. I've been watching them
and it's just going back to my years. I'm like, dang, they
got some good guards and and good big so so yeah, that kind of
jumped all over the place there. So let me let me tell you that
Jay uh So, Ricky and I had a pretty good relationships. Like I
told you before, back after the two thousand year in the locker room,
he said, Steve, Steve, I'm gonna red shirt this year. And
said really why? He says, well, you know, we get to
sit out. I think, why are you telling me I want to write
that you can't write anything? Why the hell did you tell them? I
remember that too. And then it was funny because when we when I red
shirted, they went to the National championship and Bobby you know, passed away
and that year was an incredible year. But I remember that moment when you
when you put a night out mad. I was like, Steve, what
are you doing with man? I had to we were loaded. That was
the best thing I've done in my whole career was red shirt that year.
Well, we'll talk about sitting on that year because, as you said,
they got to the National Championship game. You know, when you're when you're
on the bench at any point during the season where you're thinking, dang,
you know, did I screw this up? Or you know, what was
your attitude that whole year? Like like on this on the scout team.
Are you talking about just when you're you know, you were missing out on
that being on the court when you decided that season that the season that you
red shirted. How tough was that? That was? That was really hard
to I think it was Indianapolis to go to the Final four and not playing
the game. I mean, it was it was hard, but it was
pretty amazing because I mean I always I've told my daughter, my eleven year
old, that I was playing you know, Shane Battier and the scout team
and they're number one. I was playing all the number one players and they
coach I was like, shoot it every time, Ricky, shoot it every
time. So it was I mean, for me, it was tough.
It was tough to wash for a little bit, but then I mean I
was just I was just so into being just in chemistry with the team and
being involved even on a scout and keeping a positive attitude or even red shirting,
and I think that's that's important, you know, for for a team
to grow is have guys on the team that that really give it all and
you're playing, Yeah, give him as much as you can. I mean,
that front, that that front five, that five five is going to
kill it. So so so let me kind of explain our relationship too.
So you're you're one of the only I think, maybe the only one.
I could be wrong, Ricky. Where your dad played for Loot and you
played for Loot, right, Uh, And that's so it's a different dynamic.
But I told Jay before you came on a while back, about an
hour so ago, uh, about our relationship. But I said, yeah,
Uh, Ricky's the guy that if Richard was late for practice, he'd
yell at Ricky because of it. You were the you were like the guy
he' that was yelling. No matter what, we lost him, we lose
God, it looks like we dropped the call. I don't see if we
get him back, because he would have left after that. Yeah, it
was a great line. He has a great line unless he did, like
the question did we call him or we called him? But well, you
know, it's funny because you know, I was doing you know, stats
for that that whole period of time, and he just seemed like one of
the one of the guys you seemed to be having the most he did,
right, that was part of it. Quite get serious. I've always had
a smile on his face played hard, right, incredibly talented. You know,
he's one He's one of those tall guys who could the hell out of
it. And I just you know, but yet he wasn't one of the
guys. He wasn't Gilbert and he was like you said, he wasn't Richard,
he wasn't uh you know, he wasn't one of those guys. But
yet a guy who you knew, man a whole have a lot to those
to those teams. Yea, in that in that period of time. Okay,
I'm hoping give him the right number here or se if he calls in.
No, No, you're exactly right. You're spot on with your evaluation.
I wanted to talk to because that two thousand and three year that you
said he was on, which I don't doubt why he didn't play more of
a significant role because of because the team needed someone like him. Yeah,
no, nothing yet. No, okay, h that's strange. We can
try him. Yeah, let's try him. You have the number. You
need to turn his microphone off, yeah, okay, and they need to
turn the white button on so that we there you go. But uh,
you know, I I completely forgotten about the red Shirt year until I was
looking at his his thing today and then you know, as you said,
he sat out on his own, you know, to give himself two good
years after that, which he did. And you know those are those were
a couple of good teams, especially you know, the two thousand and three
team, as we said, that got to the lead eight and was within
a basket of going to the final four. Yeah, you know, so
I don't know that, you know, I don't know that he's one of
those guys that I feel like everybody knew him. Yeah, but again,
he wasn't one of the marquee guy. He was exactly what he did was
was that scout team. He was the Shane Battier guy. He was like
the like the Peyton guy. He was the guy that come in and just
be that guy. Yeah, and he was pretty good at it. Yeah
yeah, okay, about to get it. Yeah yeah, we lost you.
So so can you hear me? Connection? All right? We got
you now. So so I don't know if you've heard my life. You
were the guy with a special relationship with with Luke because of your dad and
all that stuff. But I was telling Jay that if Richard or Luke got
in trouble you'd be the guy he'd yell at. Oh. Yeah, I
was kind of like Coach O growing up with you know, like Bobby watching
us and growing up around you know, Kocho's grandkids and things like that.
He had kind of that not that edge on me, but he had like
almost like a family like a family deal, so he could yell at me
time if he wanted to. Yeah, I think I was the most yelled
player on that team by far, right, I get it. You know,
I coached my son in baseball. Right, I yelled at him more
than I yelled at all the other guys because I felt like I could.
Yeah right, Yeah, you felt like you could. And you want them
to, you know what, you want them to really do good. I
think Coach O really he saw a lot in me, and he just pushed
me. He just pushed me. And it wasn't for him, you know,
I wouldn't have played overseas. And you know all the great memories.
You know, I Arizona with you know, great players around in great community.
It's pretty special. And miss Coach O. Man, he's my dad.
And Dave Leslie that Dave Leslie played for lom Beach State with Coacho too,
and their birthdays are on New Year's Day is on New Year's Day.
My dad's on Christmas Eve, and Coach O they always call him out on
the boat and they go fishing every year, and my dad told me last
year that he missed calling coach O. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So
one of the things that you did, you so you took the red shirt
in that year championship here, you came back the next year. You guys
are okay, and then I don't remember this rinky and Jay was putting this
sout. So you were there in two thousand and three when they lost to
Kansas in Nana. So we ended up beating Gonzaga in the same court we
lost to Wisconsin that you talked about in Utah, so oh yeah yeah and
mid step back step okay, that was that same year, right, yeah,
okay, So tell me why weren't you more of an impact in that
in that Kansas game, because I don't remember you being an impact on that
game. I remember, if I fairly remember, I hit a couple of
threes in the first half and I got going, and it seemed like it
was just kind of like a blur. How we lost that game. I
mean things weren't clicking right, and I had Murph, like Murph Jack Murphy
the assistant right now. For Tommy Lloyd, it was our it was our
manager, our senior manager, and we still talk about, like God,
that Kansas game, there was a lot of things that kind of didn't go
our way. Yeah, and I think I really think that, you know,
if we hit a couple more shots, we only lost by three,
we would have won that game. But it was really it was really disappointing
because Anaheim. You know, I'm long Beach and I had basically every person
in my family was there. So it was kind of a kind of a
downer and a lot of people bring it up still, and you know what,
the past is the past, and you know, it's just kind of
kind of disappointing, but you know, it's it's nice to see the team
just succeeding this year and Tommy Lloyd going and doing this. So I'm really
excited. I'm gonna fly out with my daughter here soon and come to a
game. So well, Rick, I'm gonna I'm gonna make you feel worse
about that Kansas game. Okay, because my son, who was ten at
the time, huge fan, ended up working in sports information for ten years.
Yeah, and and and my godson. We were watching the game together
and throughout the game, we're getting our plans together for San Antonio because that's
where the Final four was that year. Then you guys lost, and those
two guys one was ten and one was eleven, and they balled like babies.
And to this day they talk about the because they've never been to a
Final four. Well, my son Adam, he was, he was two
or three or four for so I'm like, when we went in the ninety
seven Final four, I took. He has no memories of that. So
that's the only fine FO he's ever been to. So we had a lined
up, we had tickets, we had a hotel, all that we made,
all those arrangers during the course of the game. Then you guys didn't
win. That is just that is disappointing. But you know what, like
I I really, I really truly believe there's there's something there's something special about
not just this team, just the program where it's going right. I mean,
you can look at the past and you know it's not going And basically
a lot of devastating people that when we lost to Kansas and because I knew
it was Luke and I and Gardner's senior year and Bigodala was on the team,
and we just we just had Hassan Adams. I mean, we had
Celine Stottlemeyer, Channing Fry. I mean that was one of the I think
one of I'm not here, but like it was probably one of the best
teams coachos coach question. It makes the top five for sure. But let
me say that team last lasted at number one longer than any team that he
ever had. You know, that's all good. One of the things that
I think don't people don't know about you is you're good and everything you do.
He's a good golfer. He are you one of those guyss a bowler
guy? If you were going to call a phono to be your partner,
Dude, I'm calling Rick jack of all trades. I know, I know
you're a pretty good golfer. Are you kind of what's your handicap or was
you? So? My handicaps are four? But like I remember Andre when
we would play in the tournament, he was he was intrigued by golf.
The Goodala and I was giving him some tips and here and there and now
now look at him. He's almost a stratch golfer. Know ping pong.
Me and Luke, right, we used to battle in ping pong and he
was a really good team potber. But he had nothing with my horseshoe game,
my bowling game. Oh yeah, and then my golf came so yeah,
yeah, I got a lot of talent with my hands. I could
shoot it too, So I'm sure you're pretty good darts to no real quick,
what are you up to? We're going to take this? What are
what are you doing right now? You're your instructor? So yeah, I
got my master's degree and I just wrote a book, a training manual for
students. I wrote a whole yoga program. It took me two years,
and I kind of went to the yoga path at the college and the program
starts in the spring and for underprivileged students that can come in and get get
certified as yoga teachers and get jobs after they're dome. So again, just
impacting the community. For myself, I'm really really excited about, you know,
getting this program going so well. I hope I make you feel too
bad about that Kansas game. But I'd had to throw that out there because
my son. He's still like I said, he's thirty thirty now and he
still talks about that. So he's just like my dad. Man, my
dad every like I swear, every get together, he brings that game up
out like, come on dad, yikes. Okay, Hey, if Battley
Cooper needs a body double, you might want to look into it. You're
a little taller than him, though, I think. Thanks Ricky, Eric,
thanks the whole bunch, man. I appreciate it. I'll see you
guys hopefully. I see you guys in January February. IM gonna come out
for a pactuel games. Let me know, let me know. Thank you,
man, I'll talk to you. Yeah. Yeah, he's funny.
He's good. I think the world it made him feel horrible. Yeah,
he's funny. Come on, like I said, if Ricky, if somebody
got in trouble, it was Ricky twelve exactly exactly. All right, that
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Breaking down the hall the ex's and oh's. It's Steve Rivera and Jacin Semmins.
This is I on the ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty Hey, welcome
back to ain about hero Fox Sports Ports and fifty oh s team. He's
Jake, and I'm trying to pull away not from you but for myself here
before we go on Jafo Morales or our buddy from All Sports too. So
I put a Twitter poll up on the discussion we just had about you know,
who's the MVP prayers on men's basketball as of now? Uh? He
gave Caleb love kyl And Boswell and Keisha Johnson as a choice as the choices
and then other But it's a it's neck and neck, But go on there
and vote and we'll let's see what we come up with. Okay, how
many votes there? Forty one votes already? Yeah, okay, so yeah,
we would love to see your votes, and we'll we'll we'll, we'll
circle back to this year before at the end of the at the end of
the show. Okay, cool, Okay? Who goes fab five Friday picks?
Man, I think you should have to go first seasons. You're still
killing me, okay, and not not that I'm feeding off of your picks
or anything. We have five weeks left. I suck and I just just
want to go last. Okay, Okay. The big game is the Dallas
Philadelphia, right, we got to both pick Dallas, and so I'm going
all pro. I don't like the college game, so I'm gonna go with
Detroit. With Detroit last week they pulled one off for me at the end,
Detroit minus three and a half over Chicago. All right, Well,
then I will tell you that I'm doing that too. Okay, but you
know what I think the two times I picked them, they've not only not
covered. Don't tell me that I'm not trying to. They only have a
couples too. I know they lost on Thanksgiving, and not just that,
you know, in our picks, but I mean like I've bet on them
a couple of times. They've they've they've they've broken my heart on your dude,
all right, I'm just trying to wreck your day, right, So
we both got the Lions started off well, Okay, I'm gonna go Baltimore
minus seven. And of course you have Baltimore to think about their slim pickings.
So it is and it is, you know, we because we don't
have We've only got the Army Navy game as a choice in college, and
I also took the Ravens. Okay minus seven. This is not, by
the way, I locked the lines to make your life even worse. I
mean, they're playing the Bears. They you know, come on, they
have to they have to cover that, don't they. Yeah, well you
think they were down against the Bears at halftime in their last game they played.
So maybe the adjustments from from Dan Campbell. Yeah right, Steve and
I are both on the Lions the ring. That's that's good. You're gonna
have another one of mine. I'm sure okay, Miami, I'm sure you're
going I do not have the dollphins you don't like the points, probably many
points, too many points. I'm okay with the points. Yeah, Miami
minus thirteen, I think, yeah, it's uh yeah thirteen. Yeah.
I've been on the Dolphins last couple of weeks and they've helped you. Yeah,
I've chickened out on that. They're the only team you won last week
in the big spread. Yes, they're the only team that I watched.
I was over. I took four college games and I lost them. All
that was your fuck, Kevin, because you gave those out. You know,
That's what That's what. That's what Steve said too. I don't know,
I don't know. Maybe it is all right over too, but none
of us picks for mine anyway. All right, well then i'll here,
I'll give you my college pick coming in here. And I was I wasn't
gonna take this game because I never get it right. And it's a hard
game to pick because the emotions of it, the Army Navy, uh,
the rivalry, in the pageantry, the whole thing. But I you know,
I couldn't find four five NFL games that I could really get behind.
So I decided to take this game. And I flipped a coin and I'm
taking Army giving the three the Navy. Both teams are five and six.
Both teams have had their struggles, but Armies on a little bit of a
streak here at the end. They've won two games in a row, but
they did lose to U. Mass But I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Army
giving the three the Navy in that game tomorrow played in Foxborough. Okay,
that's good that you're going that way, because I'm not gonna take a college
game. Okay, my fourth game is gonna be Oh. I wanted to
go with the Jacksonville, but I didn't because of the quarterback situation. So
I'm gonna go with Indy. Okay, well, you know guess what.
Guess what I just just came to me. Guess who was quarterback? Is
Gardner? Now I will tell you that if if, if you know,
at game time, if Trevor Lauren, Trevor Larrench is gonna play, all
I'll make the sneeze Trevor Lawrence please play. But I thought about taking the
Colts. I thought that would be too much of a double ko d to
have Gardner Minshew and then to also take the Colts. I'm like there would
be no chance. I might as well just set a match to the Colts
if I was if I was going to do that, if I really have
a bad weekend, This is all on you, just all on you.
I'm gonna go back and take the Chiefs giving a point and a half to
the Bills that they're at home, someone's paying, not that I need.
If if if, if, if Mahomes wasn't playing, or if Kelsey wasn't
playing or something, I'd lay up. But check. You know, they
need to throw the ball around anyways. But I'm I'm not gonna take the
Chiefs giving a point and a half. I just think the Bills are just
kind of mediocre, you know. When they have they play that way have
it. So I'm gonna stick with the Chiefs. And they are at home,
all right. So we're down to the Cowboys Eagles game. We both
have to pick this game, Steve. I'm going with Dallas Monas three and
a half. I hate the I hate the half, but yeah, but
I'm going with Dallas three. Now, and you're going I had these picks
down. I I you know, I'm not. I'm not well, you're
not gravy training are our which was not good for you in it because our
bet is pretty much over. Yeah, I'm just trying to stay in the
top. So I gotta I gotta keep winning as much as I can.
The problem with this is, though everyone's gonna have the same bets. I'm
saying teams, Well, I can tell you that you're so far the the
you know where the contest where we where we have this heavy on the Ravens,
heavy on the Lions both let's see Bultimore. Heavy on the Chiefs,
heavy on the Dolphins. Yeah, that's just gonna will say, but always
saying the in the special, it's heavy on the Eagles. That's good,
you know, more than it's almost like it's not two to one, it's
probably like, you know, three to two, uh, Eagles over the
Cowboys. And I think it's just the Cowboys reputation of not being big game
time. No. The good thing with third home, third home, and
that's that's why they haven't lost at home in forever, which is surprising to
me given the history and and the Cowboys need to win a game like this.
It's a huge game for them. They just do an important game for
them. The Eagles got thumped last week, So I think they're gonna come
out with a little more that's and that's my issue with the game, a
little more of a determination, right, But I do think that the Cowboys
being at home, that's that's that's precisely right. But you know what,
it could be a three point game, and then this hook is not No,
it's not a good hook. So here we go. Steve's got the
Lions minus three and a half. Well, Steve and j both have Lions
minus three and a half, Ravens minus seven and Cowboys minus three and a
half. Then Steve went with the Dolphins giving thirteen to the Titans and the
Colts giving one to the Bengals. That game is at Cincinnati though, right,
right, right, the Bengals really played well last week. Was surprised
only yeah, what's the name? Right? He threw for a lot of
yards. Anyways, I flipped a coin, took Army over Navy, giving
three tomorrow in Foxboro. And then my other pick is the Chiefs over the
Bills. It's it's a it's a really bad uh, some really bad numbers
here. Steve's Steve's having a great year. Steve's it's almost sixty three percent
on his picks forty four wins, twenty six losses. I'm on, I'm
on the opposite side of it. I'm only at thirty four twenty four wins
and forty six losses. Twenty how many wins? Twenty four? But what's
your point total? Fifteen? Yeah, because you've lost a lot of I've
lost all the all the added value. Gu I'm like two for eighteen.
How do realize you lost that many? Because that's a lot of points.
I can tell you what I can tell you sixteen almost, I'm at almost
all of them. I am at for a combination of the special and are
locked. I am five for twenty eight twenty three. That's twenty three lost.
I've lost nine points off of those games, which is awful. Yeah,
and that's that's the valuable points. Okay, cool, I hope I
do well. Hope you do That means I hope you do well. Well.
Let me do I went three. I gotta get Steve, I gotta
get to I gotta get to twenty one points and I just got to continue
to win. But let me tell you, I went three and two last
week, which if I do three, three, three, I'm doing pretty
well. Yeah. I went three and two and I lost ground, which
makes no sense, but I lost ground, which it means everybody did really
well. Yeah, last week was a good week. There were a lot
of perfect weeks and you weren't one of them. And no, okay,
so there we are, we'll be we'll be posting these tonight. Big game.
We're big thinking about you went to the game last night. Women,
We didn't talk about them. Yeah, you know, they they crushed,
They crushed San Diego played incredible defense. They had like seventeen steals or something
like that. Is that what she's gonna have to hang her hand? I
had, Well, she's always done that, and I think, you know,
as I was I was watching the game and seeing the defense that they
were playing, I was realizing, I think that might be why, you
know, some of these players who come here to score points left because they're
being forced to play defense and maybe they don't want to. Maddy Connor goes
off and makes ten three pointers that but she wasn't a good defensive player.
She will step slow, but she can shoot the hell out of the ball.
You've got to play defense to play for Dea Barnes, and they did
that last night. But you know when when when Pac Twell play rolls around,
it seems to me like they're I don't know if they've got enough people
who can put the ball in the hole to to compete with the better teams
in the league. Will find out and maybe, you know, by playing
better defense and playing great defense, they might be able to to do some
things. But I think they're very I think they're really limited the offensively.
That's not a good questionally in this league, especially in this league, because
they're you know, you always got Stanford, but they are now two or
three other teams that are Stanford. Like right now Colorado you see you and
U C l A US he's got a player that like averaging like thirty points
a game. Well, she's the player that you're gonna be the players.
Yeah, and so you got USC, U C l a and in Colorado
who are all highly ranked. You know. Uh So it's it's it's this
is gonna be a tough season for them, I think. But you know,
as as if you talked about in the inter press conference today, you
know they're looking ahead. Take give just for a real quick call higher on
the air and I on the ball. You have to make this kind of
quick. Yeah, this is James. They just want to say it was
at the game yesterday. They started off slow, but poured on the defense
and especially in the second half, and they did beat Stanford's sisters, the
coach and the Stanford head coach. Right right, do you see? I
mean, what do you see? Though? I I don't know, man,
I'm not sure how this team's going to flush out over the course of
the year. Yeah, I don't know. I think the bench is going
to be key to be able to contribute to on the scoreboards. You know,
like Helena she plays hard defense but doesn't know we score a lot of
points and she was opened a few different times and doesn't even take the shots.
So I'm not sure what's up with that. But we'll see more when
they play with it Texas next, and they got Texas on way big game.
Texas is highly ranked, so we'll see how that goes. All right,
James, thanks a fun, appreciate it. James. James is one
of those loyal guys. Yeah, well he remember he went to San Antonio.
Yeah, in for the final four. All right, real quick,
before we hit the road. That uh uh the poll that Jab and Morales
put up Colin Boswell at Keisha Johnson, both at thirty three percent as the
MVP so far for the men's basketball team, followed by kay Loo Love at
twenty nine per Wow. Well, three guys. Look, those are the
three guys, right, but but they've also got then the guys at the
next level of guys are still all pretty good. Well, that's a good
thing to have a three headed monster. Yeah, that's tough. And they're
all different, right, They're all different, all right, So big game
with this concert to Marrows should be a lot of fun. We'll catch out
there. We'll be back here on Monday to recap all of that and we'll
see, uh what kind of revenge Arizona can exact on Wisconsin on tomorrow one
fifteen game at Kales. See you tomorrow, I'll see you Monday. The
down the River