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jacobsaf Kevin has come back. For whatever reason, I am back. They
somehow led me back into the building. I got anybody your own right,
we did. We didn't course, yeah, we certainly didn't pay him.
We're still waiting to get paid. Let me tell you about that. It's
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Now. Welcome to Thursdays A show. We have a pretty good one,
I think, I think. So, you know, we we had
a chance to get Jed Fish for an interview. We did it a little
earlier in the day, so we recorded it, so you'll you'll hear that
coming up. Uh. You know, we we had to fit into his
schedule, so we did so we'll have him for about fifteen minutes, and
uh, we asked some questions, you know, and I think we got
some uh some good stuff for everybody. So we hope you'll stick around.
We're gonna be playing that here after the first break, but just some you
know time for us, right, we don't you know, we go to
these press conferences, we get maybe a question in, right, so we
we got it for And these questions aren't how can I say game game week
right? Questions? They're overall big pictures. Right. We're not asking him
how you know what's Oregon State look like? Right? Right? You know,
we're just talking about some issues that you know, yeahs they're pertinent to
we're sort of a a at a midpoint of the season, and just get
some of his thoughts on some things that we see his fans, right,
you see his fans and I see us kind of we talk about it on
the show about him, right. I asked him about asked you guys about
how good of a coach he is? Right? I asked him that,
yeah, how hold, how good of the coach are you? He didn't
yell at me, so it was good. It was good, and we
did that. We did ask him. We we didn't ask him who's starting
on on state. But we did ask him a question about how he's going
about it, And I want to say, I thought you asked it perfectly
in connection to what's going on. You kind of didn't dance around it,
but you asked him in in in a way and you told him in a
way that he could give us a name. Yeah, right, you know,
because he'll say no, I don't know, Yeah, but no,
you asked it, you know, in a way that he could answer the
question. So you we'll get we'll get a little more insight into what's going
through his mind as he deals with these two quarterbacks who frankly, they they
they've won with both. And now, yeah, he's got to pick one
because I don't I don't think there's any chance he's going to any kind of
a two quarterback system. No, they're too similar. No, exactly exactly
right, exactly, you know that they're similar guys. So, uh,
you know, he's gonna he's gonna pick one over the other. And he
talks a little bit about how he's going about that. So we hope stick
around and listen to that. Yeah, that's just in ten minutes or so,
about about fifteen minutes for surettes then at the second hour we have we
have Adam Lazarus from Arizona assists one of the collectives helping this one is this
one is specific basketball. They've got alf A golf tournament coming up where you
can get out there and mingle with the players and the coaches and whatnot and
help them raise some money for the collective to provide some opportunities for players.
You notice I didn't say to pay the players, said to provide opportunities for
the players. But you know there's some we'll ask him, you know,
I will see if he's paying attention to what's going on over in Congress.
There was another ascended hearing on NIL this week. From the sounds of it,
it was kind of ridiculous. They were asking really dumb things. It
sounds like, you know what one one person wanted to ask, Well,
there's some kids at Harvard who are supportive of the Palace Indians, and so
you know, what do you what do you guys think about that? I'm
like, what the hell does that have to do with N I L right,
they're trying to figure out a way to not I don't know, do
what right to find their angle and work they want to ask about, yeah,
question and then and then there was there was a h you know,
there were some issues about transgender athletes. Again, what the hell does that
have to is like, if you're going to support transgender athletes, we're not
gonna pass any law that lets you do this or whatever. And then there's
just a lot of thought that what the hell are they doing even looking at
this? Right? So anyways, so we'll see if Adam Lazarus has any
thoughts on that. Okay, okay, there's that. Well, you know
what, it's one of those things, Steve, that it's out there and
somehow, sometimes somewhere it's going to have an effect on everything, and the
wrong people are looking at. Of course, of course a bunch of people
have no idea. Well in college that athletic Welcome to America. We got
to touch that. We gotta touch that. It's not good going too well.
It reminds me of the I think it was the mayor of Baltimore who
called Rafael Paul Merrow, you know, like Ronnie Palmieri or oh yeah you
know now he misremembered. Yeah, it's like if you have not if you
have no idea, about sports. Yeah, you could go try and be
knowledgeable, but don't try and speak to it when you don't know squatt.
Nothing's wrong with being honest about your perspective and like being willing to learn something.
That's also pretty well. You see you see a lot on TV news
and no disrespect, but the anchors when they're talking about sports, or or
some of them who don't you know pronounce or or Canada. Oh you're on
the load. Yeah, you know because you have so many you know,
news anchors who are having to do sports. No question, that a good
point. Just just read read what somebody wrote for you, leave it right
right, But you sound just pretty annoying. Yeah, I look forward to
hearing what he has to say about that. So I guess I'm a little
deep at the start. This is the Diamondbacks game starting now? Oh yeah
it's on or is it started? Two or three? Know it's on,
it was started, Okay, Okay, I don't know what Okay, you
ate it so no, okay, we'll keep you updated with that. But
you know what we're missing something I wanted to attend today, which is sad
there was a basketball media day because on basketball media Day it's being held on
the campus. I'm here for you. I'm here for my people on the
radio. It's funny like j you cried today for was not gonna show up.
Well, yeah, Steve, I didn't want to be here all by
my fellow. Well you no, So to explain, explain. It starts
on three thirty. I believe I'm looking up. I'm looking up the time
right now. I believe it. I believe it's at three thirty. They're
gonna they're gonna let the players. I'm gonna let the players, let the
media watch some of the practice. They're gonna talk to you. They're gonna
get Tommy Lloyd going doing a stand up. So not not at uh you
know, not in the press room. You can record and stuff like that.
Here it is, It says members of the media are asked to arrive
at three thirty. You can shoot some practice and stuff like that, and
then as soon as practice is over, there'll be a stand up media availability
with Tommy Lloyd on the court. And then when that's going, that'll go
for about ten minutes or so, and then after that you can re interview
players. Well that's all during our show. So what we're gonna do is
It says approximately four to ten is when coach Lloyd will be available. If
they get that up on YouTube fast enough for us to be able to pull
it off of there. We'll try and place some of it or all of
it in the last segment of the day, but don't hold us to that.
We're doing the best we can on that. It was either go to
this what I think is a very brief media day. It's or not have
a show, because you used to have a long time, even in Shawn's
time, it was longer. Outside of maybe the you'll get half an hour
with sure, with the coach, everybody get to ask their questions. Then
you get out and get you know, get players players and that's the perfect
time to get your own story with the players. Yeah, because you get
some one on one gets it. It's several hours affair for football, right,
you know, we get Jeed Fish, he comes in and we get
about a half hour with him. Then we get time with the coordinators,
time with all the assistant coaches, time with some players. It takes a
long time to go through that. You get a lot of stuff, maybe
too much stuff, but anyways, so we'll uh, you know, we'll
see if we can get that, get that put together in time to play
some of that at the end of the show. But hey, it's it
means basketball starting man starts tomorrow, Steve. We've got uh, we've got
the exhibition game with Lewis and clarka tomorrow at seven o'clock. Yeah, okay,
you're gonna be there. Oh yeah, yeah, because this is yeah,
this is what i'd like to do. Yeah, I'm not too keen
on the exhibition games, but looking forward to this year, it's gonna be
fun. I mean, we'll see some play play a lot of players,
right, We'll see how he goes with the with the transition or no transition,
but the roster and how much he goes or how far he goes.
Will you make anything of who are the first players on the court? No,
because I never do. I never do, and and and sometimes he
uh, you know, he uses guys in different ways. And this is
a team where they are kind of interchangeable parts. They really are to me,
you know, in the back court, in the front court, he's
got seven foot three three or four seven footers already all capable, right,
right, I was what you surprised by the way A Ballo was named like
the top player in the conference. Do you think that he is going to
be that player of the year kind of guy. I think there's a sense
that he is going to be that it's is by default or because he's going
to be that good. I so you understand why. Well, here's the
thing. You know, they weren't ready to put Kylon Boswell there because he
was never eve gonna start with started something. He wasn't you know, he
wasn't a starter much last year. Pally Larson isn't that guy. So you
gotta have somebody from Arizona, you know, first team and one of the
top players in the league. He's gonna average a double bubble this year,
right, So I mean, or at least like the ball, there's only
one ball, and there's a lot of players that can score. That's fair,
But you couldn't go ninety eighteen. That's what I'm not saying. Yeah,
fifty, but to your point, yes, but I think there's you
know, too many, too many players for one ball. I just I
just think last year in college basketball, we saw like by the end a
lot of their promotion was geared around the big men. Oh yeah, I
feel like so I guess to answer your question, I think it's a little
bit of both. But yes, by default because the numbers he's gonna put
up on the team he's on, it's gonna look the way it's gonna look
all right or predictive starting lineup? Okay, Ballo Well Boswell. You're asking
me about names. I'm gonna give Boswell, Opel, Larson h h Okay,
who's over three? Those three? Those three for sure? Who's the
who's the oh and the kid from San Diego Johnson ye? Okay, the
guard who has a guard? The other guard? Caleb Love name Bradley or
J. Lewis was all good? K J. Lewis is fantastic. I'll
go with Love only because how do you sit kileb Love to begin the year
and then let him either play out of it or keep it. Yeah,
that's that's the only reason why. Yeah, I agree with you on that.
But let me tell you, look at the who's left. Jane Bradley's
good, fantastic, right, you got Basar, who's pretty good. I
got the other kid, Moros yeah, the big guy yeah, the really
big dude yeah. And then Grievous. Yeah. I guess there's like three
of them. Do you have those three seven footers? They're gonna be fantastic.
We have a couple. We have a couple almost near seven footers coming
in for next year as well. So it's gonna be big from where I
have it up right here, we have Carter. We have Cardio Carter,
five star, eight twenty. Yeah, that's a big body out here.
Let me ask you, you're you're kind of a not a geek guy.
I'm a geek. He's like, Okay, you're a geek. It's an
endearing term. Good for you? Yeah, for us? Needs you care
about do you take? You take the recruiting stuff seriously in terms of okay,
God, we got this guy. The future is gonna be great.
You can't because you're talking about the sixteen. I like you even more.
It's a great it's a great way to tell the tone of a program and
the direction of a program. Well, I like it. We're output recruiting
and what I kind of don't like, although I like he's gotta he sounds
well, you wouldn't have a radio show if you both agreed. No,
no, no sounds smarter. But this is about you. No, no,
I agree with you. I agree that because we I hated recruiting and
chasing down the kidslah blah blah. I think you did. You did too,
But no, for that reason what you said, it does gauge where
the program is and horror's going. Right Other than that, because you don't
know what you're getting. It's really about looking at who you're getting beat by
and who you're beating out for these players and Carter Bryant, five star guy
we got, We beat out Duke and that's that's I mean, just off
names, that's a big deal. I mean, kids are looking at Arizona
like, oh I can win there, sure, But when you're when like
some Lendon and sometimes you know, you get the three star guys, Oh
they beat football ways you got to be or San Diego State, stuff like
that. You can tell a lot of a lot from that, right.
No, No, Like you're answer very sensible, pragmatic. What the hell
you're doing in this business? Yeah? And how did you get into this
room? Is what I want to know. Dang it, Steve, don't
go on and get guys smarter than us. Yeah, we need our jobs.
Yeah, you know, normally you like to surround yourself around guys around,
people who are smarter than you make you look better. He's making us
look bad. Yeah, no, no, he'll remember the names you forget.
Yeah, you got amut button over there in I do. I can
hit your microphone anytime I want. But yeah, you're gonna be on the
Google. That guy. You know, that guy, he's about seven years
old, that guy you know? All right, let's let's let's go ahead
and take our break. We're gonna when we come back, it's gonna be
Jedfish on the air with us again. We interviewed him a little a little
earlier today because you just we just had working into our schedule, so we
did record this interview. So but again, very pertinent questions. I think
Steve and I got our hands on him, and hopefully you'll learn something about
what's going on in the program outside of how they going to beat Oregon State.
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He's Jaconzales and non Ifon. We have ula football coach Jetfish. How you
doing doing great? Thanks? How are you guys doing? We're doing well.
Thanks for joining us. I think that if you wanted to run for
mayor, you'd win easily here. You're so popular, you're only as good
as your last dame. Well you look pretty dark. Good? Yeah you
did, you did so, Jed. You know you got your off week
right now so tell us about you know, just you know, your thoughts
of what you do during the off week. I noticed, you know,
you told us that you guys practice first, then a couple of days off,
and then you get ready for Oregon State. We've seen it where,
you know, flipped over where you give the guys a bunch of days off
and then come back and just go for the next game. What was your
what's your thinking on how you guys are going about the off week? Yeah,
what we did was we treated it like a normal week. The first
uh, let's call it four days up through today, but we just worked
backwards. We made Monday Thursday, we made Tuesday Wednesday, we made Wednesday
Tuesday, and then today would be a left day for us. So we'll
lift and then we'll give the guys Friday Saturday off, let the coaches go
recruit and then spend a family day on Saturday, and then Sunday we'll start
up again with what we would call it normal Tuesday, which is our more
physical practices. There's no right or wrong reason, but we talked about this
this week Jay and I. So you're on a roll here, and as
Jay says, momentum, would you have rather played because you were playing so
well, or does the time off come at a good time. Yeah,
I don't really think much either way. We don't get to define that.
So for us, our guys are there's always a great opportunity during a bye
week to get better. So and we're certainly not in a place where we
can't. We don't need to get better. We need to get better in
so many phases. So we're we had a good three days of practices,
and I think it's also a great time of year, right after the seventh
game to be able to get your legs back, and we'll wind up having
Friday, Saturday, next Monday off, so our guys will have a good
three out of four days off for their legs before we go back ahead it
Yeah, Okay, During the game, the TV camera pan to you,
and they do it often obviously, and I'm thinking, and you guys were
up you know, two or three touchdowns I can't remember, And I'm thinking,
ched must be thinking we've got something here. What you must think that
at some point in the last three weeks that you have something. Yeah,
I mean, I think while you watch the game going and you see the
evolution of our team, and you see the progress that our team has made
over the course of the two and a half years that we as a staff
have been here. We're beginning to see our guys believe more. And the
more you believe, the more confident you are, The more confident you are,
the faster you play. And I think we're beginning to see our defense
fly around and play super fast. And our offense has been moving ball on
a pretty good clip the last nineteen games or so, and we're beginning to
see that more consistently every week. So, you know, we've been saying
the last few days that it seems like there's really two storylines that have kind
of developed, you know, over your team. One obviously the quarterback situation,
and then the leap that your defense has made. You made you made
a point at your last press conference to talk about how, you know,
the plan was, let's get the offense going, get get that, you
know, get that works out and and make some progress there, and then
let's take care of the defense, hoping that you make the same kind of
leap that you did offensively last year. Do you at this point of the
season do you feel that leap has been made? Are you where you hoped
you would be. Well, I mean, we still got five more games
to play. I would say our defense has taken the type of leap we
were hoping they would make, and our offense. You know, the biggest
challenge was can you sustain being in top twenty five offense two years in a
row, And so far we've been able to do that, and our defense
has been continuing to improve and has made a huge leap. Statistically, the
leap has been probably one of the bigger leaps you could ever make. So
now we've got to play that way over the next five games. We got
to see how good we can be. We got to see if we can
earn a spot for another game after that. And but I'm very proud of
the way our defensive staff has put together the defense and the plan to be
able to get to the highest level. Okay, so the other storyline,
obviously the quarterback situation. We're not gonna ask you who you know, where
you are with, you know, deciding who's going to start next game,
but you're going through some sort of a process, you know, to to
determine, you know, what's the best thing to do. Can you tell
us any little anything about you know, what are the decision points for you?
Where what's the process for you to figure out your quarterback situation going into
Oregon State. Yeah, well, there's really there's really two questions that need
to be answered. Number the first question is is it even a competition or
is one guy still hurting the other guy? Not? So? If I
feel as if Jaden is not one hundred percent, then there's really not going
to be a hard decision. If I felt as if both guys could be
at the play at their highest level, then the decision would have to be
made on who gives us the best chance to win each week, and then
that will be the second part of the discussion. But right now it's really
I don't even have to get the part two and until I feel that I
can get the best Jaden to Laura possible, which would be one that has
great speed, one that has an ability to be elusive in the pocket,
one that has an ability to throw on the run and be able to push
off of his ankle. Yeah, no question. One of the things in
sports is that people say that the team takes on the personality of the coach.
I'm not sure if that happens in football would you say that it does
one and two? If so, what does this team have in terms of
its personality? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know
if that's what that I've heard that saying. I think what our team does
is they take on the principles of our program, which is number one,
we're gonna be professional and everything we do. So we're gonna come to work
every day with a mindset of getting better, treating people right, improving and
doing things right on and off the field. And you know, if they
take on the professional mentality, then yeah, they're taking on our personality.
The second one is resilience. We feel like we need to be resilient.
We need we feel that we have to have incredible practices. We don't have
to worry about the score. The score will take care of itself. But
regardless of what's happening, regardless of what people are saying, we're just gonna
go to work every day and work extremely hard at it. And you know,
I think that if we could take on those two personality traits and we're
in a good spot. Yeah. No, and you've done well to this
point. We had liv on a couple of days ago and Ted Robinson.
I asked lev this question. We weren't too sure about Jeff Fish in his
first year as a coach, but we've we've seen a lot of a lot
of success here in the last two two and a half years. How do
you think you've done and how much how much of a better coach are you
now that you have been a head coach for two and a half years.
Yeah, I mean, I think we always get get better with experience.
I think we always get better as the years ago. We also get better
with better players. We said that to that, you know, I mean,
I don't I would say that everybody's gotten better. Our coaches have gotten
better, our staff has gotten better. Who we have surrounded us are better,
the resources that we've parted to the program is better, and it's a
complete different team than we had in twenty twenty one. Yeah. In twenty
twenty one, we were inheriting a program and a team that wasn't nearly what
we have today. So we need to make sure, you know, we
I feel like I'm better, I feel like they're better, and in turn,
if we could continue to improve or even be better next year, Yeah,
something that's been and I don't know if you said this or we've just
assumed this, But you know, there's this feeling that as you were headed
towards becoming a head coach, you know, you've been around so many places
that you had a grand plan for what you were going to do and how
you were going to execute being a head coach and the way you were going
to go about it. How close are you to how you envisioned you would
be or how you envisioned you would run your program when you got one.
Yeah, I mean the beautiful part of being a college head coach is that
it is your program. So you don't have a president and a general manager
of your football team, and you have the ability to make the decisions that
are best for your program. And so I would stay very close to how
I imagined it in terms of building it the way we wanted to build it.
Now, that takes a lot of patience because you have to be we
had to be able to say we understand that the first year is really year
zero. We didn't have a recruiting class. We really had no opportunities to
bring people in in the portal, and the guys we did bring in,
you know, they weren't going to change the game. And then the second
year was going to be our first year, and you've got to explain that
to people that are decision makers, and you got to explain that to people
that are outside watching you, and that's always challenging. But I think in
that second year, guys saw how the team improved. You had to get
guys like Jade DeLaura and Jacob Cowing to take a risk and say they're going
to join a one to eleven team as a trance. And you got to
get all those sophomores or current sophomores that we're seniors in high school to say
we're going to go commit to a one and eleven team, a one in
twenty three team really and want to turn it around. So that was our
plan, and so far we're much improved, but we got five games left
and we got to figure out how to win some of these. Yeah,
But how much a part of that plan, though, was all the other
things you do. You're on the community, you're promoting the program. You
start every press conference by saying we need to sell this many tickets. You
know, the things that you've done to get you know, former players into
the program. All those other pieces of it that are also part of what
you're doing. Was that also part of your so called plan? Well,
I think it depends where you take the job at. You know, if
you take a job at Florida, which is my alma mater, you know,
you wouldn't be sitting there and you know, needing to try to sell
the place out. It's been sold out for whatever twenty years. You don't
need to be You're not necessarily making the same plea to be able to get
to that type of standard. On the same token, I feel like that's
what college football is all about. So when I envisioned, what was it
going to look like and what did I want? I wanted to sold out
crowd. I wanted an incredible student section. I wanted to DJ right there
in the middle of it. I wanted to party atmosphere for the kids so
the kids stayed for the game. And I wanted our all of our fans
to pour into the stadium and make it electric. So I start to you
know, that's kind of how I envisioned the program. We you know,
we needed to get it there. I envisioned the college football program where the
alumni were a major part of supporting the guys. So we had to get
there for that as well, and we're building that up. We have our
most amount of alumni ever coming to the homecoming game in a couple of weeks,
and we got to find a way, you know, we got to
find a way to sell this place out the final three weeks because we got
three really really important games. So with that, how has the public,
the locals embraced you, because they're talking really highly of you, now,
yeah, I mean they've been amazing. My wife and kids love it here.
I love it here. We love being around Tucson. We love being
in Tucson. I feel like Tucson is one of the most amazing places in
the world to live. So the public's been great, But I think more
importantly than that, they've been great to our kids and our players. And
our players love being part of the u of a family and when when that
works, that that that really helps in recruiting and gets great players here.
Well, coach, I think that's all we needed. It's nice to get
some time with you. You know, it's hard to get a question at
conferences. Well, I appreciate it, guys. All right, Well,
thank you, Jed. We appreciate good luck. You know, Oregon SA
date next week. Yeah, thank you, appreciated a good weekend, those
jetfish. You a football coach who's done very very well. Yep, you
know, uh, you know you're talking about this plan that he had.
You know, just you feel like he's got like a notebook something right,
a page on you know, getting fan interest, to the page on alumni,
and he thorough like that. Yeah. You know. He shows up
at a press conference and he's got stats. Yeah, you know, and
he's I feel like he's one of those stat frees. But not a football
guy, right, we talked about this, He's not. You know,
he comes into he strows into the room, talks to the guys, and
then he starts his bro thing and he's just one of the dudes. He's
not a football guy. But he's he's done very well out of here.
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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports
fourteenth fifty. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here at Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve, you're Jay got Kevin with us today?
That uh what twelvens sim Simmons, Ye, Jay went long? How dare
him all this good stuff? I already got a couple of texts? Yeah,
Well, you know, well let's you know, let's talk about that
a little bit because I think, uh, you know, what he didn't
say is kind of a big deal. What didn't you say? He didn't
say was that Jade DeLaura gets his job back as soon as he's healthy.
He said that you're one of those well again again to me. He said
that the court the starting quarterback will be the quarterback gives them the best chance
to win, if you recall, you know, right after and this is
what people were losing their minds about, was there saying that Jaden gets his
job back as soon as he's healthy. And and he and he's kind of,
you know, maybe realize that he's gotta you know, he's got to
look at you know, he's got to look at the situation he's got in
front of him, you know, because he said that at a time where
he didn't know what he had with Jade with U. Now he knows.
So now you gotta go And and what everybody that's only I think anybody fans
are asking play the guy that gives you the best chance to win. Well,
it don't just give the lord the job back just because he's healthy.
Right, No, no, No, you're exactly right. And that's what
I'm saying that, that's what I mean. Over the last three weeks,
and this team has look pretty darn good, even in defeat. Uh and
who's been behind the consenter? No, And and you know, and and
he's right, I mean, he's right. He didn't even have to make
a decision until the Laura is healthy. Well, you know, he's still
limpy. You know people you know, people who are at the game.
And I didn't see on TV. Sure he said he's still limpy, you
know, he's not he's not even walking you know without you know, he
still looks he's a junior Richard Jr. He's got another year of Algibilla.
Okay, let's just well it's I don't want to look too far, too
far ahead. If he doesn't play the rest of the year or very sparingly,
uh, he decides to come back. Here's what Here's what I'm here's
what I'm thinking of. Oh, well, I'm thinking here we go.
I'm thinking transfer. Yeah, well he's been he's this is I think his
fourth year of school. Okay, get the degree, can't get the degree,
so that you've got an option to be a grad transfer. If it
looks like you're you're you've lost the job for good, you know, and
and give yourself an opportunity to go to one more place where you can play.
If if it looks like no off of feet is the guy, but
you're also one injury away from being the guy again. Yeah, the players
don't think of it. No, No, I'm well aware of that.
I'm well aware of that. But like I want to what I want to
do for another year that you didn't want to be here in the first because
we all figured this was his last year, right, If he had a
good year, this is gonna be his last year. But even if he
didn't, well, it was hurt and doesn't start, he's not gonna get
He's not gonna get the attention of NFL people. No, no, no,
no. But if he does well in the combines and all that stuff,
that's because that's what it's about. Come on, you know, that's
what it's about. If he's good enough. And we don't know if he's
good enough, right, we just don't know that. And that's the point.
He's if he doesn't get to play much the rest of the year,
then he's got to go somewhere where he's gonna play and shut and show.
No. I hear you, I hear you. Uh, sorry to cut
you off. But speaking of getting like the reps to end the year,
don't you think that Fafida is a what is your retro freshman? Yeah?
Don't you think him getting the snaps on a team that is Bowl eligible looking
to fight to stay in the race. Like, isn't that a valuable piece
to this too? If you have the Laura ready to leave and then you
have a Fida, it's the peace who needs the reps. It's steep piece.
Yeah, no, it's steep piece because if he if they win against
Oregon State with with ffida, it's not even a question. It's not a
question anymore. The thing about it, too, is if he plays this
year, he's playing until he's a senior, because realistically he's not gonna play
in the NFL. That's that's my point. He's got three more years after
this, that's the case. And what he needs to do his hustle is
butt in school, get his degree so that he that if if there's not
an opportunity for him here, he can go play somewhere one year where he
does have an opportunity. So lots of guys do that. So ja,
I think Jay's got your future. Play. Yeah. When was the last
time you told another man how to spend his money? Yeah, well you
just did. He just did. I don't do that that, you know.
That's that's my advice as the adult in the room. That's debatable.
That's debatable. We already said though you under said Kevin smarter than both of
us, didn't say wise, or though I did not say wise exactly.
That's what really matters. Older. Yes, yes, if you guys want
to call it. You have six minutes, you can give us a quick
call five two oh four one six seventy four forty. I'd love to hear
from you. You know, I've I've been wanting to ask him those questions
about him his plan. Yeah, you know, because we can't. We
We've always those of us who kind of see the program a lot like you
and I do. You know, I just felt like he almost had a
notebook somewhere, you know, no but you said, or or or a
journal or something that you know where he's been taking notes for twenty years what
to do as a head coach. You and I have been around a long
time for a lot of the good coaches, a lot of good coaches here
and abroad. Uh, these guys didn't get to where they're at by accident.
They're not getting paid millions to screw up. And if there's polished people,
Loot was pretty good at what he did right, and pretty good at
what he did got paid handsomely. Uh. Sean, Sean was fantastic with
and he had Andrews before you would ask the question. Of course didn't always
answer the question, but he always had that on top of it. Jed
is well versed in what's going on, and he's been around. We have
a caller. Hi, you're on the AAR and I on the ball.
Hey, what's going on? Guys? Wow? I am truly impressed.
Are you so surprised? Do you sound surprise? I am truly impressed.
I didn't know if I was watching DNN and doing a show for Israel or
what the heck that was? That was good stuff. Seriously, I appreciate
it. Thank you well. Mikey liked it, so we're good. Exactly
what did you think? What did you think of his answer on on the
quarterbacks? I kind of like what you you said, jay I, I
I think now and uh and Steve actually said it also. The the decision
has been made for him, It really has. I've been on team Noah
for the last year, but nobody would listen to me. I mean I
saw him in California obviously at Survey and he was just which one of you
guys always says he has that hit factor. Yeah, let me ask you.
You you know the family, don't don't you correct? Yeah? Where
I worked with his dad. Yeah, So is there a bias there too?
No, not at all, not at all. In fact, his
dad used to tell me, oh, my kids this and my kids that
at twelve years old, and I'm like, dude, stuff that. You
know. I thought he was just one of those bragging dads. But but
now, man, he's Uh. When I saw him at surveyed his junior
year, I believe it was against Bishop a Mont and they could have put
one hundred up on them. What do you what did What did you see
back then that you like? Now? Oh, I'll tell you what one
one was that in factor his band of just what he's called, They did
that what's that hawka dance and all that stuff. But he was you could
tell he was the leader everybody. After every single drill to to start the
game came up to Noah, high five, hug, whatever it may be,
and then he was every player. I noticed it right off the bat.
This was a game at Bishop a Mot and I said, man,
that guy's a leader, big time. Yeah. And I didn't notice the
height. And I'll tell you that even back then, a couple of my
buddies says, I don't know about the height, and I'm like, ah,
he's sucking d one, guys. It don't matter. Yeah, well
you know, he's not flashy, he's good. He is at times.
She could get the job done that way, but he just gets the job
done. You made Did you make the pretty analogy? I did? I
was I was talking. We were talking in between the break Tuesday about how
like his processing is the main difference. He's able to make a decision or
not make a decision, uh, at least put second similar to pretty versus
like a Garoppolo where you look at Garoppolo, you look at the physical attributes
and you're like, well, I want that guy that's the quarterback, and
he watched him playing. Okay, he's good, and he watched Pretty playing.
You're like, no, that guy knows what he's doing right before he
does it. Everything right, I think you agree there? Right? Yes,
I love that analogy. Yeah too. And yet so he can do
things that that we haven't seen yet. He can wing that ball and you
mentioned it a whole year ago, Steve On on the on the scrimmage,
you said, he can wing that ball seventy yards if he wants. Yeah,
yeah, I know he's got he's he's got it. But it's not
like a special it's just like a complete it Like well, it's something that
you know that it's it's it's natural to him. It's you know, he's
not learning this, he's got this right, right right, just an instincts
and and those kinds of things and how to play the position. Sure,
No, I think the pretty energy last drafted just a dude who kind of
was there, but a winner, but a winner roster. That's why.
That's how he'round the game. Yeah, been around the game, and he
grew up with a football in his hand and those kind of guys. Uh
uh, exself, Victor, thanks for calling. I knew it was painful.
I tell you one more time, you guys that that was fantastic.
It was that. That was good stuff, all right. I know that
was painful for you to say, given your history. I love you,
vic Hey, thanks about appreciate your calling. I have to be painful.
He's usually ripping up. Well, actually, you you you're dodger. He's
a dodger. He's a dodger. Yeah, you know, we do,
you know, But you know, it's I think that I think the fans
are starting to hear what they want to hear, and that's really all you
know. I mean that that that's been the deal. But you know,
no, it's the guy. He's a guy, and I really you know,
do it once, yes, do it twice, Okay, you're three
times. He's a good he's a good shorter Backs. Take our break.
We're gonna come back. It's gonna be breaking news. Kevin's gonna break it
out for us. So stick around. Don't believe, they just laugh.
Don't believe, just laugh.