Steve Ravera and Jayden Sallins, they have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson
Sports State Chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Eye on
the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve, you're Jays.
We've got some breaking news. Smith, just a little bit. This is
Eye on the Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. All right,
So I did mention this is gonna be one of my breaking news and I'm
still gonna put it. According to Tom Fournelley two for reporting these quarterback power
rank and so Noah Fafida falls in at number six, ahead of the quarterbacks
at Florida Florida Florida State, Ohio State in Houston. He's behind Michael Pennix,
jayde and Daniels, JJ McCarthy and Michigan Dylan Gabriel Oklahom who's emerged as
a Heisman Trophy candidate since the Texas game, and then Drake May who's been
a Heisman Trophy candidate all along, had no Fafita in there. So I
don't know what they base all that on, but wow, Caleb Williams is
not on the list and probably shouldn't be with the way he's playing right now.
I had forgot what you know with Jody Jody uh Ayler brought up at
that Cliff Kingsbury. But he is the quarterbacks coach over there. Yeah,
no, it makes sense now. And it's not so much for offenses the
culprint, but the defenses. But still he's not he's not playing He's always
been able to because of the player. He isn't as as he did against
Arizona. He helped, he helped them overcome the shortcomings of the defense,
you know, and and he and now he's he's not playing all that great
and so you know, man, it's a it's a it's a tough goal
for them over there. So that was an interesting one. Okay, here's
one. So all these layoffs and stuff that been going on at ESPN.
You seen have you seen this news? No? So you know, Disney
is now fi uh fie. You know, they're publicly traded, so they
got published financials and stuff all the time now, and the way they were
published, the way they were category categorizing their financials, ESPN was just tucked
in with all of their other TV assets, so you didn't know how ESPN
was doing Disney Channel and you know, the movies, all that stuff,
right, According to this it was they. It says they were lumped in
with all of Disney's linear TV and streaming assets and the Disney Media Entertainment.
Now they've separated out under Entertainment and Sports, which, according to this article,
this is from the Hollywood Reporter, is almost entirely ESPN. Okay,
so you're you're gonna tell me they're losing a ton of money. No,
last year they had sixteen billion dollars in revenue and profits of two point nine
billion dollars. So what's the big deal? That's the point. That's the
point. They're saying, Well, what the hell is going on over there?
You made nearly three billion dollars, You had all these layoffs. You
wouldn't give the PAC twelve a contract, you know, right? Right?
Well, the powers that be must need more money. Are they getting paid
at the top and not at the bottom? Yeah, I don't know which.
Of course, the bottom is in the millions. Yeah, that makes
no sense. I mean, it just doesn't. Yeah, says most of
most of the revenues came from carriage fees, you know, which is you
know, cable and stuff like that ten billion dollars advertising revenue of four billion
dollars. Are they just projecting because they anticipate people like you and me.
Were you specifically not not getting ESPN anymore through through cable systems? I don't
know. I don't know because they're there, because they're still they're still getting
still like like they're on YouTube, TV, well YouTube right right right,
so that's not maybe not as much as they were getting, you know,
from Cocks or the Comcast cable three billion dollars and then they've had these massive
layoffs and lended. You know, that's a year that's year to year year
last year two yeah, this was this was their sec finally. Yeah,
it makes no sense. It makes no sense. But I'm not the business
guy, so it makes no sense. And maybe again, like you said,
maybe they're they're projecting that that you know, revenues and stuff are going
to go down. But then we're this business and we're small time obviously a
local market, and I think athletes are way overpaid. No one needs to
make what they make if they're not saving their life. That's just my opinion.
And TV and all these journalists million two ten whatever yeah what why what?
Yeah? Why why is Pat McAfee getting paid as much money as he's
getting paid if half the come Steve, I've never really listened to Steven A.
I mean honestly, I don't. I don't. I don't like you
know what I'm saying. I mean, come on, Stephen A is Pat
McAfee. He's just loud, different, just different. I don't get it.
But it's not my pocket, but that's are taking. But yeah,
no, I mean but what Skip Bayless? They were paying him ten million
dollars. I don't get it. I don't really don't get it. To
do a show that is terrible and nobody watches, I don't get it,
man, I just don't. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, so I
just thought that was really really interesting to see in light of what we've been
hearing about, how you know, how bad it is over there and they're
they're, they're they're you know again, you know, you couldn't get a
they couldn't get it, get a deal with the PAC twelve. But thinking
all along was the lot of money for for for for TV contracts. Yeah,
well that clearly not, you know, clearly not. But anyways,
all right, this this graphic came out on social media today from Fox College
tupes the teams with the most ranked non conference uponts. We'll get to that
in a second. We've got a collar higher on the R and I on
the ball. Hey, this is Jeff airmer Schmid. Yeah, what's going
on. I was just wonder because I know I'm a little early. I
just wanted to see if I can just listen in and whatever and and kind
of sit in the waiting room or whatever. You must be bored, no
doubt. Okay, it really is. I'm sitting here looking looking at it
to be part of the conversation. Go ahead, stick around. Yeah,
breaking news. We're just going through some breaking new stuffles down the air here.
We're gonna then, but then you're gonna have to stay through it.
I don't need that. I just you get whatever you want to put me
on? Well do you want do you want to stay on? You want
to call us back? But you know that I can't use I just remember,
I just I just got sheets of paper in front of me, the
words I can't stay Yeah, every words, I can't. I've got my
finger on the dump. I've got my I've got my finger on the dump
button as we speak, Right, what do you want to stay on and
talk with us? Or do you want to punished? I think you guys
punished me. Didn't put me on for like two months after that. Goddamn
they're serious. Well okay, well do you want to stay on and instead
of the commercial and the okay? Cool okay, and then whenever you want
to throw me on the okay cool? Okay. Well, we were just
talking about stuff going on at ESPN. Okay, all these layouts. You
you probably know a lot of those those people from No I probably do something
some yeah I don't, but they made three billion dollars last year in profits,
and it's like, why are you laying off all these people? Yeah?
And why and why wouldn't you give the PAC twelve a contrac if you're
if you're making three billion dollars a year, what the heck, let's couch
money. Couch money. Yeah, yeah, there's there's so much money in
that thing and and all that, all the everything in the n C double
A with all the money coming in from TV revenue and stuff. That's that's
a crazy thing. The TV is control and everything now it is, Well,
well, we were talking about There was a survey that the Athletic did
that came out. The results of it came out yesterday and of the people
surveyed, ninety five percent think that TV is controlling all the realignment stuff going
on right now. Yeah. I would. I would bet if someone told
you to make a bet, I would. I was a betting person,
I would so, and I am a betting person. What are your thoughts?
What are your thoughts on Jeff? What are your thoughts and everything that's
gone on here? You know, Arizona going to the Big twelve and you
know ul USC bailed on the on the conference, all that stuff. I
hate it. I because I grew up San Diego kid. I grew up
U, c l A, U USC, Arizona. I mean I kind
of grew up that way. And it's Oregon. Oregon State is when I
was young. You know, my dad coached at San Diego State and it
was kind of the whack and had b y U and San Diego State and
then the Pac ten was just great and had you set USC, U c
l A, you know, Washington. It was all that and now it's
just it's just gone away. The best thing about it, I told someone
I said, the best thing about it, I think I think my records
I think don't doesn't my records get moved up? Do they do? They
want to just you kick out the old records and move up the other ones.
But now Arizona's leaving to the big twelves. I don't know where all
that those things go. Well, records, if you have any conference records,
I mean, yeah, any conference records that may be it. Those
are that's the last of you stay in the record book forever. I might
move up in an all conference team standing that's been good. I go from
the fifth the fifth guy to the first guy. It's gonna be great.
But so I don't know, it's just it's to me, it's it's just
hard because I grew for everybody. But it's just you have your loyalties,
you have your teams, you have your rivalries, and then all of a
sudden, they just they're gone, and it's just terrible. Or like the
biggest, one of the biggest wins of all time with Arizona, and we
went and beat Larry Smith on his final year and it was our senior year
and we beat Larry Smith and that was a great because we beat USC and
that was like that all. I grew up around that whole thing. So
it's it's crazy, it's crazy. Ye. So so well, let's talk
to you about about some other stuff we've been talking about the playoff. Are
you a baseball fan? I'm not. I mean, I'm a Yankee fan.
That it's close as a Candida When we just because we lived in New
York, I was gonna say, how you're from San Diego. How the
how did you become? I don't know. I don't even think they made
the playoffs this year. They didn't. But no, I'm not a baseball
but you're a baseball fan. It's about it, all right, all right?
Basketball? Uh No, not a big basketball fan. I am a
football. Yeah, I'm just a foot I have a football thing. No
you are you? Are you a fan of the teams you coached with or
played? Yeah? You know, yeah, No, I'm always that.
I always follow those guys. I love it. I coached in Indiana for
a year. I love it. Still watch Indiana still like it's still obviously
Arizona. But coaching, I mean when I was at the Jets, I
mean people always ask you you know you got you know you got got fired
to the Jets. Well we all got fired at the Jets, like it's
not but they but I spent five years there. That's more than they spent
there any college. And so I'm like, that's on my alma mater.
Yeah, and I said, I love to follow the Jets. I think
there. I have some buddies that are you know, we went and visited
during the December and the assistant uh GM took us on a tour of tour,
introduced my son to all the players. I mean just stuff like that.
It's just their great family and uh and I root for him. So
it's you, I don't know. And then luckily the other night that they
kicked the heck out of Philly and uh yeah, and that should they killed
them, but they beat them. So no, that's it. Yeah,
So you like what's going on over there right now? I mean they had
a you know, I had a nice game the other night. Yeah.
No, I think, yeah, they think the Jets are I think the
Jets are great. I think Clint will or the Wilson kids didn't get better
and better. He's he's I think there. I wish they had got Aaron
Rodgers still, but that that's it was crazy. But yeah, no,
I think that. I think it's like what's happening in Arizona. But I
mean they got they've got some really good defensive linemen going and so that's what
that's what the Jets started with. And that's what Philadelphia has done. They
just have a great up front, you know, five six, seven,
eight guys and uh and everyone's you know, Jetfish is doing the same thing.
He's they're they're loading up the d line and they're controlling that part of
it. And I think that puts them in every game. And uh,
and that's what the Jets do. The Jets are the same way. So
how much fun was it coaching at that level or was it? No?
It was it was it was, it was. It was great. I
love the part of me and I grew up a kid that we used to
run down to the Jack Murphy Stadium and get autographs from Lyle l Zato and
Lester Hayes and stuff when they came to town. I was like, I
just enjoy that part of it. And then you see, like for me,
you see Darrell Reeves and I just would like I would always try to
talk with him because he's such a great player, and then you learn that,
Wow, he's an unbelievable person, like he's a really good dude,
and uh, and you see making friendships like that is awesome. I like
that part of it a lot, you know, And I think the camaraderie
of the staff at that's always the same. It's a it's uh, you
do you lose a little bit in the NFL. In college, you're always
doing functions, You're always doing recruiting dinners. You're always in the NFL.
You kind of go to work and you get in, you do and then
at the end of the night, you take off and go home. Nobody
goes and has a beer together. You don't have recruiting functions, you don't
do so you don't do a lot of that. That's the only thing that
was the worst thing about the NFL for me. It's just that part of
the that you know, that getting to know a bunch of guys and families
and all that stuff. And it's always been such a big thing, which
was more of a grind the college side, like you said, with all
that other stuff you had to do or or the NFL. What the expectation
was, you know, this is this is the NFL. You got to
give before, before the before the portal and all that. I would say,
uh, the NF the NFL thing was hard because it's just sold.
Like you're seeing your buddies qualifying for bowl games in the college level and you're
and you're you're just excited for him, but you're only halfway through your NFL
season, so you're like, holy cow, I got to go all the
way through February. And you know that that part of it it was a
grind. But the part of now, the off season in the college there
is no off season. I feel bad for the guys because they just you
have to recruit the portal. If you want to be good, you have
to recruit like your normal recruiting. You gotta now, you gotta, you
gotta recruit all the way down to the end. And you got to find
somebody to give money to your top recruiter. He's gonna leave at the end
of the day. It's just it's just hard as haack. I mean,
the great thing is like for Arizona, I mean, you got Dwayna Keena
r obviously, but but Johnny Manson's a great not all not only is that
he's proven he's a good coach. He's the sucker can recruit now, and
he's recruiting from the portal he's recruiting for. He's getting guys that make a
difference, and I think that's what's gonna in the long run their defensive line.
I'm jetfish. Probably did it just right. You just kind of you
take all your best guys you put you start there, let me and then
you go from there. Let me interrupt it really kind of good. Don't
save that good stuff for after the break. Okay, So we're we need
to take our break right now. So we want to get into the u
of a stuff because that's that's why we called you, Jeff, because we
know you're good at that. So we're gonnait. We're gonna take our break.
So stand by, uh uh uh, don't hang up, and we'll
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eye on the ball on Tucson's Sports Stage chef Fox Sports fourteen fifty streaming live
on the hard radio Labs. Hey, welcome back to my I on the
walk here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. He's Jake. Now
on the phone. We have Jeff Hammersmith. You stayed on going on?
I can't stay on? Will you kidding me? What am I out?
Are you? Are you staying? Just bored? I was just bored,
so I called in to see if I can get on with you. Just
you come to the right places are you? Are you in Colorado? What
are you doing? Where you at? We're at Colorado. Yeah, I'm
still doing for now. I just got my kids getting them through, getting
them through high school. And then, uh, I'm just doing some fundraising
stuff for high schools. It's good, it's for right now. It's it's
a heck of a deal. Let me ask them. I get a chance
to help out a bunch of guys that say do sales and in Arizona,
California, that wherever wherever, I just couldn't you know, get leads.
So let me ask you, and I know the circumstances have changed for you
life wise. Uh do you do you foresee yourself getting back in the coaching
world. Yeah, I do. You know, I don't know if it's
going to be to start with, maybe yeah, I mean, if there
was, there's been a couple of ortunities, but we would have had to
move and I just didn't feel as far to to whoever was trying to hire
me, and and so I I, you know, I don't know,
maybe getting into the analyst part of it, but certain schools and obviously Arizona
being one of them, but there was there's definitely, you know, some
places we could go that that my son, because he's my daughter, is
a senior, but my son would be it would be okay, he'd like
to move there too, and I and then it would be a good fit.
So yeah, yeah, eventually, yep, I'll get back in.
For now, I just taking a little bit of a timeout. So one
of the reasons we wanted to talk to you is because, you know,
obviously one of the major stories of the season fair Zone is what's going on
with the quarterbacks. But the other big story is the defense. You know,
and and and Jed Fish talked about how they were trying to make a
big lead defensively, like they made a big lead last year. Offensively,
it appears they've done that because the defense has done really good. And certainly,
you know from where Steve and I sit, because we're old guys,
have been around forever, and you're almost as old as us because you know,
we were still pretty young when you were playing. But you know,
you play, I think I'm older. I get I get like dog years
or something. I get more years because I've been well through the ring.
Yeah eighty five times. Yeah, you did things with your body too that
Steve and I could never do. But anyway, you know, nor would
want to. But one of the big changes in, you know, on
the defenses, the Dwayne Keena's back. He's on the staff. Yeah,
you know he's back there. You see him on the sidelines. You see
he's the same Duayn Aquina. He's grayer, but he's the same guy that
you know he was when he was coaching. You just give us a little
bit about what you think Dwayne Aquina is or what he's about as a coach
and what you remember as a player with him. Yeah, I can't I
can't say enough about him. I guess he's the best coach I've ever been
around, you know, from a from an understanding part of it, from
my getting the Plague gets the players, He coaches hard, he expects,
uh you know, he expects the outcome with his players. He's he is,
he's I think I've said it before. He's the best around, but
he's And it's so great when he got there and and and I'm sure Johnny
is the same, Johnny Nansen is getting a chance to be around him,
just just having him around, his his attitude, his his positive, his
getting after guys, it's everything's great. And I think, uh, I
think that's he's all. I've been around a ton of coaches, you know,
whatever, been around and and he's the best. He is, uh
the best, and he'd probably be the best head coach at some point.
He'd be the He just knows people and he just gets the best out of
him. I mean, shoot, he got he made me a good player,
So I don't know he could do that. But I guess the question
that he's got a chance. But I guess the question is is how you
know what strikes you know what strikes the players? You know, I think
you just play so hard for him and you want to you just he cares
about you so much, and he yells at you so much, and in
which he did a lot with me. Uh but he but he cared,
you know, he cares about you a ton. And at the end of
the day, you know, when it comes down to one last push or
whatever it is, you just give it for him. And he's, uh
yeah, he's just special. And you I'm sure you get this when you
talk to Brandon Sanders, Chuck Cecil, you know, all those guys that
have ever played for him, and he's just a special person. So and
I'm just always so happy because the summer we went back down there and seeing
him around and seeing him talk and into the crowd and just having him around
him, Him and Donna, they've been great. I mean all that went
down with me. You know, they they were there, they were they
were they came to the funeral, the whole thing. So they just been
part of my family. But that's how he's everybody. It ain't just me.
So that's why he get the best at him. The guy just they
kill herself. They killed for him totally, and we covered you guys at
that time, and he was one of those guys. To me, he's
just one of those guys, one of those guys who relates not so much
relates to the kids, but he gets it. And at that level,
at this level, it's more about, yeah, you know, I am
who I am, blah blah blah. He's not that dude. He's just
not that dude. Yeah. Yeah, Well, he tells the story.
He told the story. I think I told this a while back, but
it was like he told the story that when we first met him, and
then it was the Cecil. I was a freshman. Cecils in there,
you know, thinks a bunch of guys were all in there and he was
having a DV meeting and he says, he goes, hey, you know,
hey, I'm a Dwayne a Quina. You know, I tried to
work on my every once in while, work on my personation of him.
But he goes, I'm Dwayne a Quina. I'm doing the DVS. He
goes, he goes that I came from Canadian footballs now. I was with
coach Tomey in Hawaii and I threw so many and his interceptions as a quarterback
at Washington. He goes, he thought I would be a good DV coach.
We just we all just started laughing and the sucker. But but what
he did, he's he was great for the distance for you understood what the
quarterback's reading. Like. He would sit there and he just points stuff out.
Here's what you're reading, here's our recombination, this is what the quarterback's
doing. And he would teach the DV room like he was a quarterback.
And but just and that was for that room. We needed it. You
know when the next room comes with something else. But he finds, you
know, he finds a way with me. I was an idiot pretty much.
I would just you know, I could go out there on the field.
I couldn't like take tests and all that. So he would he would
do a chair drill in the in the hotel before we left the stadium,
and he would say it was for everybody, but I know it was for
me. But but he would get us in there and go through the checks
and everything, and it was good. We had a you know, we
had some we had some guys if we could just line them up right and
we played and uh, we did a hell of a job in d lud
Would I say the same thing. I mean Todd Burd and all those guys
that when he came in, he was just a special and Chuck, I
mean, Chuck's the same way, a special person. So it's funny because
I think he was there. We talked him a few times before the season
started. He said he made Warren Moon. He made Warren Moon because he
was so bad at quarterback. I had to play Warren. Yeah, there's
no doubt. Just classic. So he is he is great. He is
great. There's some we get stories. We came down and I'm doing this
fundraising thing. So now so I'm doing We're at the National Coaches Convention last
year and who's one of the first guys to come down is coach a Keina.
So he gets down there and then as as soon as he's standing there
in front of his booth, because I'm just kind of grabbing guys getting them
on the what we do, they do a podcast, so I'm trying to
help the guys out. Hey, Johnny Lynn, jump over there, do
the podcast and all this well here comes to and as soon as a Quina
got there, the room was packed, get with people are in there.
We're telling stories. I mean, it was classic stuff. I mean just
but that's the way he you know, he is and he's just one of
those people like he has that way about him. He can he could put
a group of guys together if you and UH and Mark if if there's someone
you want to march out in front of everybody in your gang, he's the
guy. So if Air you were talking about the defense as whole the work
that Johnny Nansen is doing it. Look, I know we're talking about Dwayne
A. Kene here, but the whole staff is obviously doing a great job.
Yeah, Cecil included all those guys. The defense has made this big
leap. You know, as a guy who played defense at Arizona was part
of building of you know what the reputation for Arizona was as a defensive UH
program that was, you know, proud of his defense. What are you
liking about what you're seeing? Well, I think these days in the portal,
it's like the it's like the NFL almost, but it's you. Johnny
Manson is a good football coach. He is an amazing recruiter. He does
an amazing job with the guys. I just had a chance to watch him
a couple of times, going back to like spring ball or going back to
whatever, just being around him he's and he's he and a lot of guys
would probably have an ego, Hey, you're bringing in duyna Quina, what
do you mean? You know, but he takes in coach a Kena is
just those two guys together are amazing. And then you got and then you
got Lamont, you got all those guys up front, you got Ricky,
you got people just around the program, and then you now you start recruiting
like the NFL. I've been around for a little bit. But when you're
watch it on TV, when he could tell you the Philadelphia Eagles win so
many games because their D line is so good, and you look at you
look at the Jets, the New York Jets. Sala comes in and he's
a defensive guy. He fills the defense with the defensive line starting first.
And now when you start reading about you start watching games and they start talking
about how nine you have nine wrote guys rotating in D line and they started
and coach Fish started with a D line. You know, unselfishly, he
could probably start it with a couple offensive guys. But you but you go
to the portal, You grab guys, You grab a couple of transfers here
and there, and the next thing you know, you're you're kicking ass up
front, and then all of a sudden you start leading them. It's like
with Teddy, Bruce Ke, Chuck Osborne, all of Jimmy and Hoffin.
You start leading the country and in yards per game rushing, and it makes
everything else a little bit easier. And then I think, and just then
you got Johnny Nansen in the part of the coaching, but the recruiting part
of it, and you're bringing guys into coach at Keina and and letting them
just develop guys. It's hard to develop guys during the portal. But I
think as a team concept when guys it's hard to get a bunch of guys
from all over the place that just came from different places and a guy from
Michigan that came from Harball and this and that, and you try to mix
them all together. But somehow jet Fish has got and I'm going to this
point now, it's it's going to get better and better because they're starting to
play for each other, you know, that's the team thing. I mean,
they're starting to play for each other, They're starting to understand each other,
They're starting to love Arizona and and and uh and from there. So
I think it's good. Yeah. I think one of the things I've learned
in covering all these teams, basketball and football, they're coaching matters. And
I think you're talking about that now with with Nansen and Keenan and all the
rest of them, you could have the same players and not have the same
effect unless they had good coaching. Yeah, there's no doubt. Yeah you're
you're one hundred percent correct, but but you got it. But there's some
guys that some guys that are hard to coach, some guys that probably couldn't
sit in at certain places. But when you get them to Arizona and then
here comes Johnny n Ansen's coaching them, coach a Keena's coaching them, and
they're you and and all of a sudden, some guys, some guys can
coach anybody. Yeah, And if they don't coach anybody, if they if
they can't be coaching, they're not coachable. Then some guys are tough enough
to get to get out of a goddamn program and go go transfer somewhere else.
But I think just getting the right guys, and it's hard in the
portal because you don't. I'm guessing you know, you totally know. I
not have been involved in that as much, but I'm just watching it and
teams that just are getting guys from the portal and now right now they're all
starting to win games, and all of a sudden, they're starting to turn
the tide and and Oregon State's doing good and then this and it's the team
with those portal guys. They're starting to get it with each other and start
to play together. And I think that's that's what's making them great. And
I think that's what I think getting guys in too Arizona. And I think
again, Johnny and Ansen. I know he's on defense. He's as good
as they get from doing getting getting and recruiting and hell and doing that,
and he's a hell of a coach. And I think it's one of those.
I think that's what it is. I think it's guys. They're gonna
you get the guys in the family part of it and guys playing for each
other. Uh and later in the season, they're just gonna get better and
better. It's gonna be great. Well, Jeff, I wish you would
talk more. Kind of shot you guys want to say something. How are
you guys doing? Okay, run out of time. Hey, no,
I'm out of time. I don't get it about you guys. We just
didn't you Little Bill Walton you know I don't. Matter of fact, I
tell you what I was babing. Bill Walton was our babysitter when we were
kids. Oh god, from yeah, he's a Helix guy. Because he's
a helix. Why he doesn't doesn't Cecil talk this much? No? No,
no, he says four words. Well, Alan call Allan Sanders talk
more than that. Brandon does. Brandon does? Brandon exactly be a Brandon
of the same. We like talking. Okay, Well, thank you,
Jeff, Hey Jeff, thanks the whole bunch. Man, you guys,
that's fun. Glad you guys got all your words in. Thanks the budge.
We almost pulled it off. We almost pulled it off. He almost.
He got to the end. They had to hit the button. Oh
my god, Well that was Jeff Hammersmith. For those of you who didn't
know, he's fun. Oh hello, man, you do not have to
finish line. He's saying the word. I love that guy. All right,
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Ball here. Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve. You Jay, you
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I think I was quick on the dump button. Yeah, oh you think
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So that's very cool. Okay, cool, all right, cool,
cool' just keep it full. Yeah, again, looking forward to getting jet
Fish on tomorrow. We'll we'll just kind of poke his pick his brain on
stuff going on with the team. Uh, you know, it'd be well,
you know, we normally get him for you know, a couple of
press conferences a week during the season, so this is our time to get
into ourselves. And that's the questions that we you know, that we want
to ask. Right, So he'll be on a three in the three point
fifteen segment, so be sure to be here for that. Tomorrow should be
good. I don't think, you know, we're not going to get an
answer on who the quarterback is, but you know, we'll kind of kind
of kind of poke around and see, you know, how's how's the decision
being made, what's uh, you know, what's he got to consider all
those things. And we would not be good at this if we didn't ask
something like that. Yeah, well, of course, Steve, it's easy
for us. Yes, that's what we do, Steve, that's what we've
been doing for forty years. Forty years and look words gotten it right right
here across from each other. We're like a d dog. We're like a
d dog for the track there dogs dogs like a d dog the way we
were good once there used to be we were we were an a dog,
great a dog. Now we're kind of great on the way out being being
ready to uh be sent out to study. Yeah, that's it. I
might say, we've been out just study. Were g over. They're taking
it to the ranch, man, they're taking it to the ranch. Put
up a little timmy, Well you know were you picked dog track? Man?
I used to go. I used to the dog tracks in in in
New Mexico. No, no, gun, no just here when you came
here. Yeah, there was a lot of coins. Remember we used to
the parties up too, man for New Years. Oh yeah, I started
going to the dog track in I wasn't even old enough to did you did
you? Did you? You didn't live in that area? No, no,
no, no it doesn't matter. It doesn't exist anymore. No,
no it's gone. I mean everything it's is there. But I think they
still have off. Yeah. We used to go there and and then you
would go down to a Motto in the summer. Right because at the time,
back in those days, each county had a certain number of racing days.
Uh huh. So Tucson Greyhound Park would race basically from about September to
May, and they were run out of racing days and then the summer months
would be down at a model just on the other side of the Okay,
we got color high. You're on there and I on the ball. The
show is always guys. I just had a couple of comments to make about
the Diamondbacks. Okay, Uh, well, that one needs to make some
changes in that lineup. Tommy Sam's batting third the whole series. I think
he had a couple of hits against Milwaukee. Other than that, strikes on
about every other about every time off, he's had chantas to drive in some
bruns. He needs to get him out of the lineup, move on the
third and then put somebody mate at third base because there's no no reason to
keep them at third base. And uh, the pitching has been absolutely horrible.
Yeah, I hope, I hope we can get a win tomorrow.
But with Brandon flat pitching and the way the Phillies hit the ball, that's
gonna be tough unless the kid comes through with the miracles. So well,
he did a nice job on the Dodgers because I saw that firsthand. That
was great because I know you're a Dodger fan. Yeah, yeah, it
was hard to watch, but he he pitched great in that game and did
what they needed to do. Good stuff. Hopefully we can put it together
tomorrow because I'd like it to at least go six games and hopefully, hopefully
we'll win the next three at home. And you have a quarterback situation.
I don't think there's any question. I think Fish has to sick with Fafeeda.
Now, I mean, what do you get by putting the Laura back
in there? At this point, he earned the right to start. He's
played against three ranked teams, done a great job, and hopefully we'll just
see winning games and get into a good bowl game this year, Bowl game,
hockey, bowl games. Steve, it's all premature, baby. Come
on, guys, you said I said we're gonna win eight games earlier.
Oh you're the gun. You and Jeff the Fisher. Fisher, I predicted
six, but I think they can get to seven. So I'd like to
get into a better bowl game than the New Mexico Bowl or something like that.
Yeah, that'd be fun. I'm shooting for the I'm shooting for the
l A Bowl. I'd like to get I'd like to go to Sulfi Stadium.
Yeah, I hope we can. That might put us in a Vegas
Bowl or something. I think ye Vegas was good. All right, thank
you, Albert, appreciate it. Thank you. Oody. Happening bowl games,
Steve. They're talking bowl game, we're talking Bowl games. Well,
man, look at what wouldn't getting well? Three games? Actually three games,
I mean three games. I mean they lost two games, two top
ten teams, one of those on the road in triple overtime. You know,
those weren't wins, but they certainly were impressive. You know, I
kind of joke about being the guy in the room, but dude, midway
through that Washington State game, I'm thinking, God, these guys look pretty
good. I mean maybe it's compared to how they've been, but even they
look pretty good. You know the guy and who do we have on yesterday?
Who do we have on yesterday? Talked about Ted Robinson, talked about
the human bowling ball. He's that dude. They can't stop him. It's
really strange. I mean, you have a running back who's no one's even
talking about Wiley, which is sad. There's no controversy. They haven't missed
him because they've played so well, and it's just it's just amazing to me.
Are on the air and I on the ball. Yeah yeah, Steve,
I got beef with you, man, go man, go tell me
and you hate my boy, calam Mary Man, that's been gone going.
This should be old news to you. The dude's not gonna play anymore.
I was skeptical about him, But now that Caleb Williams is trash, you
got a roll? Hell wow, you're kicking Caleb Williams to the curb.
That is a He's like a Kyler Murray junior. Man. I don't need
that again. My defense rests here. I mean you kind of agree with
me by proxy. You know, Hey, the Cards have been playing great
football this year? Which Cards Louisville? Hey man, the only ones that
matter? Arizona? Who are you looking at? What are you watching?
What do you what do you want? Don't say? Don't say drugs.
Listen to the games on the radio. I don't watch it. You like?
Do you like their coach? Yeah? I think he's pretty good coach.
More portly talking about your cats because they look pretty good. Well,
first of all, they need to play no if feet yeah, the only
choice and if they roll j D L out there, I will do them.
You won't be alone, you won't be alone. Yeah, what do
you like that? What do you like? What do you like about it?
Right now? Just what'scoring? What do you like about They just seem
like a complete team now? Yeah, no, everything goes Yeah, you're
right, I mean, come on, what what what are he flop by?
What did he fly by? Right now? Honestly, there's they're pretty
good in a response. I mean, they're not world beaters, but they're
this is another team we've known for what right they're they're they're gonna be a
heart out for everything that the rest of the perfect rest of the week,
the rest of the season, right, heart out rest of the season.
Hey man, I'll leave it on this. This is what I expect from
Arizona. Not the best, but not the worst. Okay, you go,
all right? Okay, makes sense? All right, No, Nico's
maturity, he's kind of lessons. Yeah, he's kind of like you know,
yeah, changing it's not as crazy. Maybe he just kind of have
a good time. I think he's still doing a lot of it, no
doubt. So having fun. You remember when you were to you know,
I've run into him the last two games that Yeah, him and his pop
and I see those guys his pop used to call we call us originally.
But you know, look, you know the fans are fans, and they're
gonna they're gonna say what they're gonna say. And you know, Jed made
it clear that he's gonna make the decision based of course, of course is
right for the team. Yeah, but you know it's hard to argue that
what no Heat has done in the last three really four weeks to the Stanford
game, well you know that, how can you argue? I don't know
if you can go back just far. I can't because I don't remember,
uh when Khalil took over? Yeah, ooked ober right, guy came in
and what what where was this guy? Yeah? Where's he been all my
life? Right? And then all of a sudden he became the sky?
Yeah? What if this is happening right now? Yeah? And I remember,
you know Brandon Dick, Brandon no Dowkins. Yeah, Brandon Dockins Dixon.
He was he was a baseball player, Brandon Dawkins. You know,
he goes out, he goes out for a play and that was that.
Yeah. Man, you know, Clill went off and that and and that
was it. That's the last time he saw the field until until the issue.
Uh yeah, got hurt because got hurt. Got hurt in the game,
So you know, I mean, it does happen, and you gotta
go with what you gotta go with. So yeah, no question, you
know, I think that uh, you know, look, this is gonna
unfortunately, this is gonna percolate for you know, a week and a half
until we till we get to the game. But I like, like most
people have said, I think it's uh, it's uh, you know,
we are where we are, and that's Jed's just going to make a decision
that that you know, how do how do you win a game? You
win a game by letting off to your quarterback. I saw another stat just
now that the FETA is second best in the country right now on the defectiveness
when he's blitzed. The only quarterback in the country better than him right now,
Michael Pennix. No one they meant have mentioned that, and during the
show. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's that's just it. And
he's not playing against timbukto right, he's got played three ranked teams. Yeah,
that's a heck of stat. Yeah, it's a great stat. All
right, we'll be back tomorrow again. Jed Fish will be joining us at
the three fifteen segment, so be sure to come back for that. We'll
ask you some great questions for you, and uh then we'll see who we've
got at four fifteen, So be sure to be back tomorrow. Who's better chip around