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Steve Ravera and Jayden Sallins, they
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports State Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Eye on

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the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen
fifteen. I'm Steve, you're Jays.

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We've got some breaking news. Smith, just a little bit. This is

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Eye on the Ball breaking news on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right,

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So I did mention this is gonna
be one of my breaking news and I'm

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still gonna put it. According to
Tom Fournelley two for reporting these quarterback power

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rank and so Noah Fafida falls in
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at Florida Florida Florida State, Ohio
State in Houston. He's behind Michael Pennix,

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jayde and Daniels, JJ McCarthy and
Michigan Dylan Gabriel Oklahom who's emerged as

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a Heisman Trophy candidate since the Texas
game, and then Drake May who's been

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a Heisman Trophy candidate all along,
had no Fafita in there. So I

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don't know what they base all that
on, but wow, Caleb Williams is

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not on the list and probably shouldn't
be with the way he's playing right now.

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I had forgot what you know with
Jody Jody uh Ayler brought up at

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that Cliff Kingsbury. But he is
the quarterbacks coach over there. Yeah,

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no, it makes sense now.
And it's not so much for offenses the

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culprint, but the defenses. But
still he's not he's not playing He's always

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been able to because of the player. He isn't as as he did against

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Arizona. He helped, he helped
them overcome the shortcomings of the defense,

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you know, and and he and
now he's he's not playing all that great

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and so you know, man,
it's a it's a it's a tough goal

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for them over there. So that
was an interesting one. Okay, here's

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one. So all these layoffs and
stuff that been going on at ESPN.

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You seen have you seen this news? No? So you know, Disney

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is now fi uh fie. You
know, they're publicly traded, so they

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got published financials and stuff all the
time now, and the way they were

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published, the way they were category
categorizing their financials, ESPN was just tucked

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in with all of their other TV
assets, so you didn't know how ESPN

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was doing Disney Channel and you know, the movies, all that stuff,

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right, According to this it was
they. It says they were lumped in

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with all of Disney's linear TV and
streaming assets and the Disney Media Entertainment.

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Now they've separated out under Entertainment and
Sports, which, according to this article,

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this is from the Hollywood Reporter,
is almost entirely ESPN. Okay,

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so you're you're gonna tell me they're
losing a ton of money. No,

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last year they had sixteen billion dollars
in revenue and profits of two point nine

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billion dollars. So what's the big
deal? That's the point. That's the

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point. They're saying, Well,
what the hell is going on over there?

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You made nearly three billion dollars,
You had all these layoffs. You

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wouldn't give the PAC twelve a contract, you know, right? Right?

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Well, the powers that be must
need more money. Are they getting paid

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at the top and not at the
bottom? Yeah, I don't know which.

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Of course, the bottom is in
the millions. Yeah, that makes

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no sense. I mean, it
just doesn't. Yeah, says most of

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most of the revenues came from carriage
fees, you know, which is you

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know, cable and stuff like that
ten billion dollars advertising revenue of four billion

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dollars. Are they just projecting because
they anticipate people like you and me.

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Were you specifically not not getting ESPN
anymore through through cable systems? I don't

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know. I don't know because they're
there, because they're still they're still getting

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still like like they're on YouTube,
TV, well YouTube right right right,

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so that's not maybe not as much
as they were getting, you know,

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from Cocks or the Comcast cable three
billion dollars and then they've had these massive

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layoffs and lended. You know,
that's a year that's year to year year

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last year two yeah, this was
this was their sec finally. Yeah,

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it makes no sense. It makes
no sense. But I'm not the business

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guy, so it makes no sense. And maybe again, like you said,

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maybe they're they're projecting that that you
know, revenues and stuff are going

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to go down. But then we're
this business and we're small time obviously a

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local market, and I think athletes
are way overpaid. No one needs to

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make what they make if they're not
saving their life. That's just my opinion.

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And TV and all these journalists million
two ten whatever yeah what why what?

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Yeah? Why why is Pat McAfee
getting paid as much money as he's

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getting paid if half the come Steve, I've never really listened to Steven A.

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I mean honestly, I don't.
I don't. I don't like you

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know what I'm saying. I mean, come on, Stephen A is Pat

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McAfee. He's just loud, different, just different. I don't get it.

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But it's not my pocket, but
that's are taking. But yeah,

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no, I mean but what Skip
Bayless? They were paying him ten million

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dollars. I don't get it.
I don't really don't get it. To

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do a show that is terrible and
nobody watches, I don't get it,

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man, I just don't. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, so I

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just thought that was really really interesting
to see in light of what we've been

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hearing about, how you know,
how bad it is over there and they're

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they're, they're they're you know again, you know, you couldn't get a

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they couldn't get it, get a
deal with the PAC twelve. But thinking

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all along was the lot of money
for for for for TV contracts. Yeah,

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well that clearly not, you know, clearly not. But anyways,

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all right, this this graphic came
out on social media today from Fox College

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tupes the teams with the most ranked
non conference uponts. We'll get to that

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in a second. We've got a
collar higher on the R and I on

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the ball. Hey, this is
Jeff airmer Schmid. Yeah, what's going

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on. I was just wonder because
I know I'm a little early. I

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just wanted to see if I can
just listen in and whatever and and kind

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of sit in the waiting room or
whatever. You must be bored, no

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doubt. Okay, it really is. I'm sitting here looking looking at it

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to be part of the conversation.
Go ahead, stick around. Yeah,

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breaking news. We're just going through
some breaking new stuffles down the air here.

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We're gonna then, but then you're
gonna have to stay through it.

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I don't need that. I just
you get whatever you want to put me

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on? Well do you want do
you want to stay on? You want

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to call us back? But you
know that I can't use I just remember,

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I just I just got sheets of
paper in front of me, the

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words I can't stay Yeah, every
words, I can't. I've got my

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finger on the dump. I've got
my I've got my finger on the dump

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button as we speak, Right,
what do you want to stay on and

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talk with us? Or do you
want to punished? I think you guys

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punished me. Didn't put me on
for like two months after that. Goddamn

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they're serious. Well okay, well
do you want to stay on and instead

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of the commercial and the okay?
Cool okay, and then whenever you want

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to throw me on the okay cool? Okay. Well, we were just

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talking about stuff going on at ESPN. Okay, all these layouts. You

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you probably know a lot of those
those people from No I probably do something

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some yeah I don't, but they
made three billion dollars last year in profits,

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and it's like, why are you
laying off all these people? Yeah?

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And why and why wouldn't you give
the PAC twelve a contrac if you're

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if you're making three billion dollars a
year, what the heck, let's couch

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money. Couch money. Yeah,
yeah, there's there's so much money in

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that thing and and all that,
all the everything in the n C double

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A with all the money coming in
from TV revenue and stuff. That's that's

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a crazy thing. The TV is
control and everything now it is, Well,

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well, we were talking about There
was a survey that the Athletic did

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that came out. The results of
it came out yesterday and of the people

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surveyed, ninety five percent think that
TV is controlling all the realignment stuff going

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on right now. Yeah. I
would. I would bet if someone told

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you to make a bet, I
would. I was a betting person,

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I would so, and I am
a betting person. What are your thoughts?

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What are your thoughts on Jeff?
What are your thoughts and everything that's

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gone on here? You know,
Arizona going to the Big twelve and you

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know ul USC bailed on the on
the conference, all that stuff. I

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hate it. I because I grew
up San Diego kid. I grew up

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U, c l A, U
USC, Arizona. I mean I kind

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of grew up that way. And
it's Oregon. Oregon State is when I

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was young. You know, my
dad coached at San Diego State and it

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was kind of the whack and had
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then the Pac ten was just great
and had you set USC, U c

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l A, you know, Washington. It was all that and now it's

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just it's just gone away. The
best thing about it, I told someone

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I said, the best thing about
it, I think I think my records

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I think don't doesn't my records get
moved up? Do they do? They

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want to just you kick out the
old records and move up the other ones.

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But now Arizona's leaving to the big
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that those things go. Well,
records, if you have any conference records,

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I mean, yeah, any conference
records that may be it. Those

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are that's the last of you stay
in the record book forever. I might

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move up in an all conference team
standing that's been good. I go from

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the fifth the fifth guy to the
first guy. It's gonna be great.

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But so I don't know, it's
just it's to me, it's it's just

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hard because I grew for everybody.
But it's just you have your loyalties,

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you have your teams, you have
your rivalries, and then all of a

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sudden, they just they're gone,
and it's just terrible. Or like the

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biggest, one of the biggest wins
of all time with Arizona, and we

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went and beat Larry Smith on his
final year and it was our senior year

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and we beat Larry Smith and that
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that was like that all. I
grew up around that whole thing. So

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it's it's crazy, it's crazy.
Ye. So so well, let's talk

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to you about about some other stuff
we've been talking about the playoff. Are

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you a baseball fan? I'm not. I mean, I'm a Yankee fan.

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That it's close as a Candida When
we just because we lived in New

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York, I was gonna say,
how you're from San Diego. How the

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how did you become? I don't
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the playoffs this year. They didn't. But no, I'm not a baseball

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but you're a baseball fan. It's
about it, all right, all right?

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Basketball? Uh No, not a
big basketball fan. I am a

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football. Yeah, I'm just a
foot I have a football thing. No

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you are you? Are you a
fan of the teams you coached with or

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played? Yeah? You know,
yeah, No, I'm always that.

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I always follow those guys. I
love it. I coached in Indiana for

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a year. I love it.
Still watch Indiana still like it's still obviously

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Arizona. But coaching, I mean
when I was at the Jets, I

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mean people always ask you you know
you got you know you got got fired

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to the Jets. Well we all
got fired at the Jets, like it's

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not but they but I spent five
years there. That's more than they spent

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there any college. And so I'm
like, that's on my alma mater.

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Yeah, and I said, I
love to follow the Jets. I think

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there. I have some buddies that
are you know, we went and visited

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during the December and the assistant uh
GM took us on a tour of tour,

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introduced my son to all the players. I mean just stuff like that.

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It's just their great family and uh
and I root for him. So

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it's you, I don't know.
And then luckily the other night that they

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kicked the heck out of Philly and
uh yeah, and that should they killed

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them, but they beat them.
So no, that's it. Yeah,

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So you like what's going on over
there right now? I mean they had

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a you know, I had a
nice game the other night. Yeah.

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No, I think, yeah,
they think the Jets are I think the

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Jets are great. I think Clint
will or the Wilson kids didn't get better

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and better. He's he's I think
there. I wish they had got Aaron

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Rodgers still, but that that's it
was crazy. But yeah, no,

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I think that. I think it's
like what's happening in Arizona. But I

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mean they got they've got some really
good defensive linemen going and so that's what

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that's what the Jets started with.
And that's what Philadelphia has done. They

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just have a great up front,
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eight guys and uh and everyone's you
know, Jetfish is doing the same thing.

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He's they're they're loading up the d
line and they're controlling that part of

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it. And I think that puts
them in every game. And uh,

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and that's what the Jets do.
The Jets are the same way. So

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how much fun was it coaching at
that level or was it? No?

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It was it was it was,
it was. It was great. I

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love the part of me and I
grew up a kid that we used to

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run down to the Jack Murphy Stadium
and get autographs from Lyle l Zato and

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Lester Hayes and stuff when they came
to town. I was like, I

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just enjoy that part of it.
And then you see, like for me,

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you see Darrell Reeves and I just
would like I would always try to

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talk with him because he's such a
great player, and then you learn that,

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Wow, he's an unbelievable person,
like he's a really good dude,

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and uh, and you see making
friendships like that is awesome. I like

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that part of it a lot,
you know, And I think the camaraderie

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of the staff at that's always the
same. It's a it's uh, you

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do you lose a little bit in
the NFL. In college, you're always

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doing functions, You're always doing recruiting
dinners. You're always in the NFL.

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You kind of go to work and
you get in, you do and then

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at the end of the night,
you take off and go home. Nobody

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goes and has a beer together.
You don't have recruiting functions, you don't

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do so you don't do a lot
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was the worst thing about the NFL
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the that you know, that getting
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and all that stuff. And it's
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was more of a grind the college
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and you're you're just excited for him, but you're only halfway through your NFL

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grind. But the part of now, the off season in the college there

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is no off season. I feel
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have to recruit the portal. If
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to recruit like your normal recruiting.
You gotta now, you gotta, you

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gotta recruit all the way down to
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somebody to give money to your top
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of the day. It's just it's
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the great thing is like for Arizona, I mean, you got Dwayna Keena

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r obviously, but but Johnny Manson's
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he's proven he's a good coach.
He's the sucker can recruit now, and

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he's recruiting from the portal he's recruiting
for. He's getting guys that make a

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difference, and I think that's what's
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I'm jetfish. Probably did it just
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take all your best guys you put
you start there, let me and then

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you go from there. Let me
interrupt it really kind of good. Don't

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save that good stuff for after the
break. Okay, So we're we need

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to take our break right now.
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of a stuff because that's that's why
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Steve Rivera and Jacin Saliz they have their

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eye on the ball on Tucson's Sports
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on the hard radio Labs. Hey, welcome back to my I on the

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walk here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jake. Now

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on the phone. We have Jeff
Hammersmith. You stayed on going on?

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I can't stay on? Will you
kidding me? What am I out?

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Are you? Are you staying?
Just bored? I was just bored,

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so I called in to see if
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you come to the right places are
you? Are you in Colorado? What

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are you doing? Where you at? We're at Colorado. Yeah, I'm

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still doing for now. I just
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them through high school. And then, uh, I'm just doing some fundraising

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stuff for high schools. It's good, it's for right now. It's it's

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a heck of a deal. Let
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to help out a bunch of guys
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California, that wherever wherever, I
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So let me ask you, and
I know the circumstances have changed for you

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life wise. Uh do you do
you foresee yourself getting back in the coaching

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world. Yeah, I do.
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going to be to start with,
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was, there's been a couple of
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move and I just didn't feel as
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me, and and so I I, you know, I don't know,

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maybe getting into the analyst part of
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being one of them, but there
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places we could go that that my
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a senior, but my son would
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to move there too, and I
and then it would be a good fit.

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For now, I just taking a
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of the reasons we wanted to talk
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obviously one of the major stories of
the season fair Zone is what's going on

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with the quarterbacks. But the other
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and and and Jed Fish talked about
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big lead defensively, like they made
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it appears they've done that because the
defense has done really good. And certainly,

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you know from where Steve and I
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have been around forever, and you're
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we were still pretty young when you
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you play, I think I'm older. I get I get like dog years

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or something. I get more years
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Yeah eighty five times. Yeah,
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Steve and I could never do.
But anyway, you know, nor would

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want to. But one of the
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the defenses, the Dwayne Keena's back. He's on the staff. Yeah,

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you know he's back there. You
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he's the same Duayn Aquina. He's
grayer, but he's the same guy that

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you know he was when he was
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bit about what you think Dwayne Aquina
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and what you remember as a player
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can't say enough about him. I
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around, you know, from a
from an understanding part of it, from

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uh you know, he expects the
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he's And it's so great when he
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just just having him around, his
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getting after guys, it's everything's great. And I think, uh, I

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think that's he's all. I've been
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whatever, been around and and he's
the best. He is, uh

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the best, and he'd probably be
the best head coach at some point.

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He'd be the He just knows people
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him. I mean, shoot,
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that he's got a chance. But
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know what strikes you know what strikes
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you just play so hard for him
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which he did a lot with me. Uh but he but he cared,

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yeah, he's just special. And
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talk to Brandon Sanders, Chuck Cecil, you know, all those guys that

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have ever played for him, and
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I'm just always so happy because the
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him around and seeing him talk and
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the whole thing. So they just been

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00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.519
part of my family. But that's
how he's everybody. It ain't just me.

406
00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:48.240
So that's why he get the best
at him. The guy just they

407
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kill herself. They killed for him
totally, and we covered you guys at

408
00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:53.400
that time, and he was one
of those guys. To me, he's

409
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:57.000
just one of those guys, one
of those guys who relates not so much

410
00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:00.799
relates to the kids, but he
gets it. And at that level,

411
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.960
at this level, it's more about, yeah, you know, I am

412
00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:07.079
who I am, blah blah blah. He's not that dude. He's just

413
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.079
not that dude. Yeah. Yeah, Well, he tells the story.

414
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:12.680
He told the story. I think
I told this a while back, but

415
00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:15.599
it was like he told the story
that when we first met him, and

416
00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.359
then it was the Cecil. I
was a freshman. Cecils in there,

417
00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:22.000
you know, thinks a bunch of
guys were all in there and he was

418
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.880
having a DV meeting and he says, he goes, hey, you know,

419
00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:27.960
hey, I'm a Dwayne a Quina. You know, I tried to

420
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:30.319
work on my every once in while, work on my personation of him.

421
00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:33.319
But he goes, I'm Dwayne a
Quina. I'm doing the DVS. He

422
00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.119
goes, he goes that I came
from Canadian footballs now. I was with

423
00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:42.200
coach Tomey in Hawaii and I threw
so many and his interceptions as a quarterback

424
00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:45.279
at Washington. He goes, he
thought I would be a good DV coach.

425
00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.039
We just we all just started laughing
and the sucker. But but what

426
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:56.599
he did, he's he was great
for the distance for you understood what the

427
00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:59.880
quarterback's reading. Like. He would
sit there and he just points stuff out.

428
00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.279
Here's what you're reading, here's our
recombination, this is what the quarterback's

429
00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.440
doing. And he would teach the
DV room like he was a quarterback.

430
00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.480
And but just and that was for
that room. We needed it. You

431
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.960
know when the next room comes with
something else. But he finds, you

432
00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.680
know, he finds a way with
me. I was an idiot pretty much.

433
00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.599
I would just you know, I
could go out there on the field.

434
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:21.279
I couldn't like take tests and all
that. So he would he would

435
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.759
do a chair drill in the in
the hotel before we left the stadium,

436
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.519
and he would say it was for
everybody, but I know it was for

437
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:32.240
me. But but he would get
us in there and go through the checks

438
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:34.000
and everything, and it was good. We had a you know, we

439
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.839
had some we had some guys if
we could just line them up right and

440
00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:40.759
we played and uh, we did
a hell of a job in d lud

441
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:42.799
Would I say the same thing.
I mean Todd Burd and all those guys

442
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:47.559
that when he came in, he
was just a special and Chuck, I

443
00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:49.680
mean, Chuck's the same way,
a special person. So it's funny because

444
00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:53.160
I think he was there. We
talked him a few times before the season

445
00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:56.519
started. He said he made Warren
Moon. He made Warren Moon because he

446
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:00.480
was so bad at quarterback. I
had to play Warren. Yeah, there's

447
00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:04.960
no doubt. Just classic. So
he is he is great. He is

448
00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.359
great. There's some we get stories. We came down and I'm doing this

449
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fundraising thing. So now so I'm
doing We're at the National Coaches Convention last

450
00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:18.039
year and who's one of the first
guys to come down is coach a Keina.

451
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.400
So he gets down there and then
as as soon as he's standing there

452
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:23.480
in front of his booth, because
I'm just kind of grabbing guys getting them

453
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on the what we do, they
do a podcast, so I'm trying to

454
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help the guys out. Hey,
Johnny Lynn, jump over there, do

455
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the podcast and all this well here
comes to and as soon as a Quina

456
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.759
got there, the room was packed, get with people are in there.

457
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.599
We're telling stories. I mean,
it was classic stuff. I mean just

458
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.039
but that's the way he you know, he is and he's just one of

459
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.039
those people like he has that way
about him. He can he could put

460
00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.279
a group of guys together if you
and UH and Mark if if there's someone

461
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.559
you want to march out in front
of everybody in your gang, he's the

462
00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.920
guy. So if Air you were
talking about the defense as whole the work

463
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.680
that Johnny Nansen is doing it.
Look, I know we're talking about Dwayne

464
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:06.680
A. Kene here, but the
whole staff is obviously doing a great job.

465
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:10.240
Yeah, Cecil included all those guys. The defense has made this big

466
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:14.759
leap. You know, as a
guy who played defense at Arizona was part

467
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:19.079
of building of you know what the
reputation for Arizona was as a defensive UH

468
00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.480
program that was, you know,
proud of his defense. What are you

469
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:27.119
liking about what you're seeing? Well, I think these days in the portal,

470
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.960
it's like the it's like the NFL
almost, but it's you. Johnny

471
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.359
Manson is a good football coach.
He is an amazing recruiter. He does

472
00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:38.319
an amazing job with the guys.
I just had a chance to watch him

473
00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:41.279
a couple of times, going back
to like spring ball or going back to

474
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:45.039
whatever, just being around him he's
and he's he and a lot of guys

475
00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.000
would probably have an ego, Hey, you're bringing in duyna Quina, what

476
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:51.759
do you mean? You know,
but he takes in coach a Kena is

477
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.119
just those two guys together are amazing. And then you got and then you

478
00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.759
got Lamont, you got all those
guys up front, you got Ricky,

479
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.960
you got people just around the program, and then you now you start recruiting

480
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.440
like the NFL. I've been around
for a little bit. But when you're

481
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:11.359
watch it on TV, when he
could tell you the Philadelphia Eagles win so

482
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:14.200
many games because their D line is
so good, and you look at you

483
00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.599
look at the Jets, the New
York Jets. Sala comes in and he's

484
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.640
a defensive guy. He fills the
defense with the defensive line starting first.

485
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.319
And now when you start reading about
you start watching games and they start talking

486
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:30.680
about how nine you have nine wrote
guys rotating in D line and they started

487
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.839
and coach Fish started with a D
line. You know, unselfishly, he

488
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.000
could probably start it with a couple
offensive guys. But you but you go

489
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.720
to the portal, You grab guys, You grab a couple of transfers here

490
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:41.839
and there, and the next thing
you know, you're you're kicking ass up

491
00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.119
front, and then all of a
sudden you start leading them. It's like

492
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.759
with Teddy, Bruce Ke, Chuck
Osborne, all of Jimmy and Hoffin.

493
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:53.480
You start leading the country and in
yards per game rushing, and it makes

494
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.319
everything else a little bit easier.
And then I think, and just then

495
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:00.359
you got Johnny Nansen in the part
of the coaching, but the recruiting part

496
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:05.079
of it, and you're bringing guys
into coach at Keina and and letting them

497
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:07.359
just develop guys. It's hard to
develop guys during the portal. But I

498
00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:12.599
think as a team concept when guys
it's hard to get a bunch of guys

499
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.720
from all over the place that just
came from different places and a guy from

500
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.839
Michigan that came from Harball and this
and that, and you try to mix

501
00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:22.240
them all together. But somehow jet
Fish has got and I'm going to this

502
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:24.440
point now, it's it's going to
get better and better because they're starting to

503
00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:27.680
play for each other, you know, that's the team thing. I mean,

504
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.640
they're starting to play for each other, They're starting to understand each other,

505
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:34.440
They're starting to love Arizona and and
and uh and from there. So

506
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.680
I think it's good. Yeah.
I think one of the things I've learned

507
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.519
in covering all these teams, basketball
and football, they're coaching matters. And

508
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:45.720
I think you're talking about that now
with with Nansen and Keenan and all the

509
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:50.200
rest of them, you could have
the same players and not have the same

510
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.920
effect unless they had good coaching.
Yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah you're

511
00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:58.000
you're one hundred percent correct, but
but you got it. But there's some

512
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.279
guys that some guys that are hard
to coach, some guys that probably couldn't

513
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.079
sit in at certain places. But
when you get them to Arizona and then

514
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:07.559
here comes Johnny n Ansen's coaching them, coach a Keena's coaching them, and

515
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.720
they're you and and all of a
sudden, some guys, some guys can

516
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.440
coach anybody. Yeah, And if
they don't coach anybody, if they if

517
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:19.920
they can't be coaching, they're not
coachable. Then some guys are tough enough

518
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:23.440
to get to get out of a
goddamn program and go go transfer somewhere else.

519
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.519
But I think just getting the right
guys, and it's hard in the

520
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:31.039
portal because you don't. I'm guessing
you know, you totally know. I

521
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:35.240
not have been involved in that as
much, but I'm just watching it and

522
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.519
teams that just are getting guys from
the portal and now right now they're all

523
00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:42.400
starting to win games, and all
of a sudden, they're starting to turn

524
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.279
the tide and and Oregon State's doing
good and then this and it's the team

525
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:50.359
with those portal guys. They're starting
to get it with each other and start

526
00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.880
to play together. And I think
that's that's what's making them great. And

527
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.480
I think that's what I think getting
guys in too Arizona. And I think

528
00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:59.720
again, Johnny and Ansen. I
know he's on defense. He's as good

529
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.880
as they get from doing getting getting
and recruiting and hell and doing that,

530
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:06.960
and he's a hell of a coach. And I think it's one of those.

531
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:08.199
I think that's what it is.
I think it's guys. They're gonna

532
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:12.280
you get the guys in the family
part of it and guys playing for each

533
00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.159
other. Uh and later in the
season, they're just gonna get better and

534
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:16.519
better. It's gonna be great.
Well, Jeff, I wish you would

535
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:23.719
talk more. Kind of shot you
guys want to say something. How are

536
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:29.440
you guys doing? Okay, run
out of time. Hey, no,

537
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:32.440
I'm out of time. I don't
get it about you guys. We just

538
00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:40.519
didn't you Little Bill Walton you know
I don't. Matter of fact, I

539
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:44.280
tell you what I was babing.
Bill Walton was our babysitter when we were

540
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:50.519
kids. Oh god, from yeah, he's a Helix guy. Because he's

541
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.840
a helix. Why he doesn't doesn't
Cecil talk this much? No? No,

542
00:34:54.719 --> 00:35:00.880
no, he says four words.
Well, Alan call Allan Sanders talk

543
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:06.199
more than that. Brandon does.
Brandon does? Brandon exactly be a Brandon

544
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.360
of the same. We like talking. Okay, Well, thank you,

545
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.639
Jeff, Hey Jeff, thanks the
whole bunch. Man, you guys,

546
00:35:12.639 --> 00:35:16.039
that's fun. Glad you guys got
all your words in. Thanks the budge.

547
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:20.800
We almost pulled it off. We
almost pulled it off. He almost.

548
00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:22.360
He got to the end. They
had to hit the button. Oh

549
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.199
my god, Well that was Jeff
Hammersmith. For those of you who didn't

550
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.760
know, he's fun. Oh hello, man, you do not have to

551
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:34.840
finish line. He's saying the word. I love that guy. All right,

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Live I Mean iHeartRadio WAF. This
is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera

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and Jacobzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to on the

624
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Ball here. Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. You Jay, you

625
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got eleven minutes to me. If
you want to give us a quick call,

626
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put us Uh, those stone shows
up to what you're thinking. We

627
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:10.880
apologize with death. Amhig it works. I mean we hope it didn't.

628
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.400
I think I was quick on the
dump button. Yeah, oh you think

629
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:20.280
you got it? I don't know. We love Jeff, he was he

630
00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:23.400
was awesome. Called in early because
he was just hanging around wanting to shoot

631
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:30.519
the bull and he did, so
that's funny. Yeah, we'll take your

632
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.639
calls five two zero four and six
seventy four forty. Don't forget to listen

633
00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:37.079
to the podcast we posted every night. You can. You always find it

634
00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:43.239
uh sometime after the show on the
iHeart website and then uh, it takes

635
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:47.880
a little while for to render there
sometimes maybe probably four out of five times

636
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:52.960
a week. We'll also get it
up on our Facebook and UH and Twitter

637
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.280
pages, so you can easily find
it there. But uh, if you're

638
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.159
if you don't get a chance to
listen to us live, you can catch

639
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:04.079
us on the podcast. Were also
it shows up on Apple podcasts and Spotify.

640
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:07.519
So that's very cool. Okay,
cool, all right, cool,

641
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:09.760
cool' just keep it full. Yeah, again, looking forward to getting jet

642
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:15.039
Fish on tomorrow. We'll we'll just
kind of poke his pick his brain on

643
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:19.159
stuff going on with the team.
Uh, you know, it'd be well,

644
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:21.360
you know, we normally get him
for you know, a couple of

645
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.719
press conferences a week during the season, so this is our time to get

646
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.760
into ourselves. And that's the questions
that we you know, that we want

647
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.280
to ask. Right, So he'll
be on a three in the three point

648
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:36.079
fifteen segment, so be sure to
be here for that. Tomorrow should be

649
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:37.760
good. I don't think, you
know, we're not going to get an

650
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:40.559
answer on who the quarterback is,
but you know, we'll kind of kind

651
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:44.639
of kind of poke around and see, you know, how's how's the decision

652
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:46.679
being made, what's uh, you
know, what's he got to consider all

653
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.480
those things. And we would not
be good at this if we didn't ask

654
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.000
something like that. Yeah, well, of course, Steve, it's easy

655
00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:55.440
for us. Yes, that's what
we do, Steve, that's what we've

656
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.400
been doing for forty years. Forty
years and look words gotten it right right

657
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:02.639
here across from each other. We're
like a d dog. We're like a

658
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:08.039
d dog for the track there dogs
dogs like a d dog the way we

659
00:43:08.039 --> 00:43:12.440
were good once there used to be
we were we were an a dog,

660
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:16.079
great a dog. Now we're kind
of great on the way out being being

661
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:22.480
ready to uh be sent out to
study. Yeah, that's it. I

662
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:24.480
might say, we've been out just
study. Were g over. They're taking

663
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:30.000
it to the ranch, man,
they're taking it to the ranch. Put

664
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:35.000
up a little timmy, Well you
know were you picked dog track? Man?

665
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.559
I used to go. I used
to the dog tracks in in in

666
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:40.199
New Mexico. No, no,
gun, no just here when you came

667
00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:44.039
here. Yeah, there was a
lot of coins. Remember we used to

668
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.519
the parties up too, man for
New Years. Oh yeah, I started

669
00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:51.480
going to the dog track in I
wasn't even old enough to did you did

670
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.039
you? Did you? You didn't
live in that area? No, no,

671
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:58.000
no, no it doesn't matter.
It doesn't exist anymore. No,

672
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:00.320
no it's gone. I mean everything
it's is there. But I think they

673
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:06.280
still have off. Yeah. We
used to go there and and then you

674
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.920
would go down to a Motto in
the summer. Right because at the time,

675
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:15.800
back in those days, each county
had a certain number of racing days.

676
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:22.199
Uh huh. So Tucson Greyhound Park
would race basically from about September to

677
00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:25.599
May, and they were run out
of racing days and then the summer months

678
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:30.400
would be down at a model just
on the other side of the Okay,

679
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:36.440
we got color high. You're on
there and I on the ball. The

680
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:38.119
show is always guys. I just
had a couple of comments to make about

681
00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.920
the Diamondbacks. Okay, Uh,
well, that one needs to make some

682
00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:46.079
changes in that lineup. Tommy Sam's
batting third the whole series. I think

683
00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:52.079
he had a couple of hits against
Milwaukee. Other than that, strikes on

684
00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:54.480
about every other about every time off, he's had chantas to drive in some

685
00:44:54.599 --> 00:44:59.519
bruns. He needs to get him
out of the lineup, move on the

686
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:05.440
third and then put somebody mate at
third base because there's no no reason to

687
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:09.559
keep them at third base. And
uh, the pitching has been absolutely horrible.

688
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:13.039
Yeah, I hope, I hope
we can get a win tomorrow.

689
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.719
But with Brandon flat pitching and the
way the Phillies hit the ball, that's

690
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:19.840
gonna be tough unless the kid comes
through with the miracles. So well,

691
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.719
he did a nice job on the
Dodgers because I saw that firsthand. That

692
00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:28.360
was great because I know you're a
Dodger fan. Yeah, yeah, it

693
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.079
was hard to watch, but he
he pitched great in that game and did

694
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:35.360
what they needed to do. Good
stuff. Hopefully we can put it together

695
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:37.920
tomorrow because I'd like it to at
least go six games and hopefully, hopefully

696
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:42.760
we'll win the next three at home. And you have a quarterback situation.

697
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:46.199
I don't think there's any question.
I think Fish has to sick with Fafeeda.

698
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:50.199
Now, I mean, what do
you get by putting the Laura back

699
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:54.079
in there? At this point,
he earned the right to start. He's

700
00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:59.760
played against three ranked teams, done
a great job, and hopefully we'll just

701
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:02.760
see winning games and get into a
good bowl game this year, Bowl game,

702
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:08.320
hockey, bowl games. Steve,
it's all premature, baby. Come

703
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:12.119
on, guys, you said I
said we're gonna win eight games earlier.

704
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:21.039
Oh you're the gun. You and
Jeff the Fisher. Fisher, I predicted

705
00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:23.880
six, but I think they can
get to seven. So I'd like to

706
00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:28.119
get into a better bowl game than
the New Mexico Bowl or something like that.

707
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:30.159
Yeah, that'd be fun. I'm
shooting for the I'm shooting for the

708
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.079
l A Bowl. I'd like to
get I'd like to go to Sulfi Stadium.

709
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.920
Yeah, I hope we can.
That might put us in a Vegas

710
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:43.039
Bowl or something. I think ye
Vegas was good. All right, thank

711
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:46.880
you, Albert, appreciate it.
Thank you. Oody. Happening bowl games,

712
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:52.360
Steve. They're talking bowl game,
we're talking Bowl games. Well,

713
00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:54.800
man, look at what wouldn't getting
well? Three games? Actually three games,

714
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:58.480
I mean three games. I mean
they lost two games, two top

715
00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:01.039
ten teams, one of those on
the road in triple overtime. You know,

716
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:07.320
those weren't wins, but they certainly
were impressive. You know, I

717
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.440
kind of joke about being the guy
in the room, but dude, midway

718
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:15.039
through that Washington State game, I'm
thinking, God, these guys look pretty

719
00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:19.159
good. I mean maybe it's compared
to how they've been, but even they

720
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.960
look pretty good. You know the
guy and who do we have on yesterday?

721
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:28.199
Who do we have on yesterday?
Talked about Ted Robinson, talked about

722
00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:32.320
the human bowling ball. He's that
dude. They can't stop him. It's

723
00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:37.800
really strange. I mean, you
have a running back who's no one's even

724
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.880
talking about Wiley, which is sad. There's no controversy. They haven't missed

725
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.119
him because they've played so well,
and it's just it's just amazing to me.

726
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:52.199
Are on the air and I on
the ball. Yeah yeah, Steve,

727
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.559
I got beef with you, man, go man, go tell me

728
00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:00.800
and you hate my boy, calam
Mary Man, that's been gone going.

729
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:05.039
This should be old news to you. The dude's not gonna play anymore.

730
00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.639
I was skeptical about him, But
now that Caleb Williams is trash, you

731
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:15.159
got a roll? Hell wow,
you're kicking Caleb Williams to the curb.

732
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:19.280
That is a He's like a Kyler
Murray junior. Man. I don't need

733
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:23.239
that again. My defense rests here. I mean you kind of agree with

734
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:29.119
me by proxy. You know,
Hey, the Cards have been playing great

735
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:35.400
football this year? Which Cards Louisville? Hey man, the only ones that

736
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.559
matter? Arizona? Who are you
looking at? What are you watching?

737
00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:45.039
What do you what do you want? Don't say? Don't say drugs.

738
00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:47.239
Listen to the games on the radio. I don't watch it. You like?

739
00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:51.840
Do you like their coach? Yeah? I think he's pretty good coach.

740
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:58.119
More portly talking about your cats because
they look pretty good. Well,

741
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:00.119
first of all, they need to
play no if feet yeah, the only

742
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.000
choice and if they roll j D
L out there, I will do them.

743
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.800
You won't be alone, you won't
be alone. Yeah, what do

744
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.440
you like that? What do you
like? What do you like about it?

745
00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:15.440
Right now? Just what'scoring? What
do you like about They just seem

746
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:22.480
like a complete team now? Yeah, no, everything goes Yeah, you're

747
00:49:22.559 --> 00:49:24.679
right, I mean, come on, what what what are he flop by?

748
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:28.880
What did he fly by? Right
now? Honestly, there's they're pretty

749
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.079
good in a response. I mean, they're not world beaters, but they're

750
00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:36.559
this is another team we've known for
what right they're they're they're gonna be a

751
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:38.760
heart out for everything that the rest
of the perfect rest of the week,

752
00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:42.079
the rest of the season, right, heart out rest of the season.

753
00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.119
Hey man, I'll leave it on
this. This is what I expect from

754
00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.639
Arizona. Not the best, but
not the worst. Okay, you go,

755
00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:53.679
all right? Okay, makes sense? All right, No, Nico's

756
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.679
maturity, he's kind of lessons.
Yeah, he's kind of like you know,

757
00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:02.519
yeah, changing it's not as crazy. Maybe he just kind of have

758
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.000
a good time. I think he's
still doing a lot of it, no

759
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:12.039
doubt. So having fun. You
remember when you were to you know,

760
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:16.239
I've run into him the last two
games that Yeah, him and his pop

761
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:21.639
and I see those guys his pop
used to call we call us originally.

762
00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.800
But you know, look, you
know the fans are fans, and they're

763
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:30.199
gonna they're gonna say what they're gonna
say. And you know, Jed made

764
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:35.519
it clear that he's gonna make the
decision based of course, of course is

765
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:38.079
right for the team. Yeah,
but you know it's hard to argue that

766
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:42.760
what no Heat has done in the
last three really four weeks to the Stanford

767
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.840
game, well you know that,
how can you argue? I don't know

768
00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:47.960
if you can go back just far. I can't because I don't remember,

769
00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:53.920
uh when Khalil took over? Yeah, ooked ober right, guy came in

770
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.960
and what what where was this guy? Yeah? Where's he been all my

771
00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:00.280
life? Right? And then all
of a sudden he became the sky?

772
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:05.079
Yeah? What if this is happening
right now? Yeah? And I remember,

773
00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:09.880
you know Brandon Dick, Brandon no
Dowkins. Yeah, Brandon Dockins Dixon.

774
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.679
He was he was a baseball player, Brandon Dawkins. You know,

775
00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:16.440
he goes out, he goes out
for a play and that was that.

776
00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:22.800
Yeah. Man, you know,
Clill went off and that and and that

777
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:27.000
was it. That's the last time
he saw the field until until the issue.

778
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:31.000
Uh yeah, got hurt because got
hurt. Got hurt in the game,

779
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:35.559
So you know, I mean,
it does happen, and you gotta

780
00:51:35.599 --> 00:51:37.880
go with what you gotta go with. So yeah, no question, you

781
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:42.000
know, I think that uh,
you know, look, this is gonna

782
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:44.760
unfortunately, this is gonna percolate for
you know, a week and a half

783
00:51:44.840 --> 00:51:47.079
until we till we get to the
game. But I like, like most

784
00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:51.360
people have said, I think it's
uh, it's uh, you know,

785
00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:54.559
we are where we are, and
that's Jed's just going to make a decision

786
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:58.280
that that you know, how do
how do you win a game? You

787
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.880
win a game by letting off to
your quarterback. I saw another stat just

788
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:09.559
now that the FETA is second best
in the country right now on the defectiveness

789
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:15.519
when he's blitzed. The only quarterback
in the country better than him right now,

790
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:17.880
Michael Pennix. No one they meant
have mentioned that, and during the

791
00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:22.079
show. Yeah, yeah, I
mean, that's that's just it. And

792
00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:27.239
he's not playing against timbukto right,
he's got played three ranked teams. Yeah,

793
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:29.480
that's a heck of stat. Yeah, it's a great stat. All

794
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:31.920
right, we'll be back tomorrow again. Jed Fish will be joining us at

795
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:35.840
the three fifteen segment, so be
sure to come back for that. We'll

796
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:38.199
ask you some great questions for you, and uh then we'll see who we've

797
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:44.519
got at four fifteen, So be
sure to be back tomorrow. Who's better chip around