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the Ball. I'm your host, Jay Gonzalez, my buddy Steve, who's
normally here. I had to take the day off. He's you had some
business up in Phoenix to day. He will be back tomorrow. But I
brought in a Do I call you a friend? I call you I don't
know what to call you because I've known you since you were born. Our
family's very close friends. But it is Danny Martinez, who's the director of
operations prayers on the softball, who's agreed to come in and just hang out
with me for a couple of hours. So I don't know what you call
it. Day. I think you can call me a friend. I think
that. Yeah. I think are thirty hew old? Am I thirty three?
Thirty three years of knowing each other? Yes, Dan, you are.
You are older than I was and I met you, so that's that's
scary to me. But but Danny, the long time a PA announcer Fairs
on a softball you'll hear his voice it at all the games. But now
back is part of the softball program. And I know you were the sports
information director, but you were in the communication off but now you are a
part of the softball staff. Yep, I mean, how cool is that?
Oh it's it's I mean dream come true type stuff. You know.
I love that program. I worked with it for ten years and just developed
such a huge passion for that program. And to be able to go back
as a member of that staff is it's. It's it's really really great cool.
Yeah. Well, we're gonna talk a little bit about your job and
what you do, and then uh, the program. They're they're in fall
practice right now, so we'll talk about that a little bit later. But
I wanted to I wanted to get into a lot of stuff we got going
on. First of all, we're gonna have Jack McGruder here from Sports Betting
Dyeing dot Com. Jack and old friend uh old uh uh Pier at the
at the Zend Daily Star. He he he works baseball games during the summer
as an official score scorekeeper. He writes for Sportsbetting time dot Com. We'll
pick his brain about some of the college stuff going on, and so he'll
be here at three fifteen. Then at four fifteen, Bruce Pasco will be
in from the Arizona Daily Star. We'll talk to him about while the Kona
Thread New showcase. Now it's not just the Ridds, that's right, the
Red and Blue Showcase. Were you a part of that? Market is because
you came out of marketing. Were you a part of that? That was
one of the last things that I was working on or working with, one
of the last things that we were we were putting together when when I left.
So I was a part of it initially, but I don't where it's
gone since I left. I'm not one sure, but yeah, all right,
cool. So we'll talk about, you know, just kind of some
expectations that we had a we had a press conference with Tommy Lloyd earlier this
week, talked about some stuff. But you know, what do we expect
from the game. There's some a little bit of an I don't know if
you'd call it an uproar, but there's some people who are unhappy that it's
not on that it's not on television or streaming. We had Dave he could
explained that, yes, today, but we'll just talk about the game coming
up. And I can't believe it's not it's still September and we're talking and
there's actually gonna be guys on the Court's crazy basketball. That's crazy. Yeah,
very nuts. So anyway, so that's what we got going today.
But Jed Fish had a press conference today to get ready for the for the
game on Saturday. Uh, he had talked about a bunch of stuff.
There's the question of the quarterback. Uh, you know, who's gonna play
quarterback. We don't have an answer yet. We'll play some of that and
then just overall, you know, the buzz of the game, you know,
and I mean, is is there a buzz there? Has it been
a buzz around McHale over this game or maybe the weekend because the Red Blue
as well. Yes, there is, yeah, big buzz around mcale right
now. This is a huge, huge weekend, you know on campus,
just with everything between the Red Blue game, the football game, family weekend.
So there's definitely, uh, you know, you've felt it all week
I mean even starting Monday. We're you know, now one day away from
the Red Blue game. So yeah, there's definitely a palpable buzz around around
mcale. Very cool. That's good to hear. All Right, well,
we're gonna I'll just play Jed's introductory remarks at the press conference just kind of
you know. He prefaced it as he always does, about we need to
sell more tickets. He said, they're two hundred fifty tickets short of a
sellout, but it wants the crowd to be there. But then he got
into a little bit of you know what we can expect to see. So
here's what do you have to say at the start of the press conference.
Excited about the opportunity we have to play these guys. I think it's a
very good football team that we have coming in town. We have a very
good football team. And you know, it's a four and oh squad versus
a three and one squad, and this is one of the type of games
that everybody looks forward to in college football. Certainly our team does. Coach
the Board has done a great job with his program. They've got some fantastic
players. I expect all of them to play. It's gonna be a great
challenge and a great atmosphere. This is uh, this is gonna be Saturday
night at its finest in the desert and looking forward to seeing how well we
can play against what is a top five ball team, you know, getting
back to that, you know, the it's been a long time since we've
had one of these, Danny, Yeah, I mean, you know,
we went we've gone through a rough time with the football. I mean,
you know, you know for this you game last year, there was but
you know it was because it was the a SU game. You know,
they weren't going to a bowl game or any of that. So but this
is a game that has meaning to it and it's been it's the first one
in a long time. Yeah. Just having that big game feel, I
mean that's something we've we've we've had in McHale Center one hundred times in the
last you know, a few years, but we haven't had one in football
for a long long time. So just to have that big game feel,
you know, when the fans or when the team runs out of the out
of the tunnel tomorrow, the stands will be packed and it's gonna just feel
different than I think it's felt in a long time. So, yeah,
you're right, ASU was a little bit different, But I think that doesn't
really qualify because they're all all the games against but this one, I mean,
this has you know, Jed just said it. You know, four
and overs three and one, this is Arizona's one to know in the past
twelve. You know it might sound small, but that that's a positive step
for us. So yeah, big game. And it hurts my heart to
say they're three and one. But and I mean going into the Mississippi State
game, you thought they had no chance, right or that they probably weren't
going to win right now. Yes, yeah, it got into like the
third and fourth quarter and I was thinking to myself, oh, we should
we should win this game. We are the better team in this game.
And you know, just that on the road, sec environment, whatever it
was that caused some missteps in the first quarter. You change maybe just one
of those interceptions, and yes, we are four no going into this game.
But regardless, you know, the Pac twelve season starts now and we're
undefeated in the Pac twelve and it would be great to be four and oh
but but three and ones were good for this pretty good wit. You look,
we weren't going to be in the playoff anyway, so you know,
they're undefeated in the league. So obviously question number one, what's going on
with the quarterbacks? Jane Delora got got hurt and in the start of the
fourth quarter last week, nor Feeder came in game winning drive, did what
he needed to do. People are excited about nor Fa Feeding got people saying
he should be the starter. You know, I think Jed's gonna you know,
he's gonna go with with with uh uh Jade, you know if he
can. But the question is can he? So he answers that question.
Then the second part of this clip asking you know, some coaches require you
to practice in order to play, and he was asked that, you know
if Jayden, because he didn't mention Jayden did not practice yesterday. Does a
guy have to practice to have a chance to play. So here's the he's
answered both of those questions. Dolora and Wiley will we'll work out on Saturday.
We'll see how they look kind of very similar to the Joe Burrow plan,
we'll call it, and we'll see what that looks like. And the
most important thing that you can do as a football player is protect yourself.
So if you're unable to protect yourself, then I would expect them not to
play. If they're able to protect themselves, then I would expect them to
play. Yeah, I would say that is certainly something that we need to
look at for each player independently and individually. You know, Jayden has started
thirty two, pack twelve or thirty two football games already in his career.
Mike has started I think probably in that same range. I would guess that's
very different than a guy that started four games or two games or seven games
or whatever it might be. You look back historically when Jayden played Washington two
years ago he was at Washington State, when he played him this past year
he was, or last year he was here. He has experiences what they
do. Mike has experiences in what they do. So we always are cautions
of that. We don't really want to set a precedent that you know,
how much do you practice will determine how much you play. He was certainly
out at uh, you know, on yesterday's practice, So we'll have to
see what it looks like today to make some more decisions. So you know,
uh, game time decision, right and all we shadowing all this is
Mike Wiley's hurt too. Yeah, but you know, you think about they've
got three guys who can still carry you know, I, for one,
I love Jonah Coleman. Yeah, oh yeah, I can't wait for that
guy to be the starter. Yeah yeah. He's very fun to watch and
and just does nothing but produce when when he gets in the game. But
at the same time, going into a game against a team like Washington without
both members of your of your starting backfield, I mean, that's that's a
that's tough. You're you're already playing behind the eight ball. If if both
you know, and I like, just like you like Jonah and everybody likes
Jonah. I like Noah too. I think Noa fa Fita looked very,
very good against Stanford, and I'd have all the confidence in the world in
him. But you know, Jane Delora and Michael Wiley are the starters for
a reason, So you'd like to uh to have both of Well certainly you
know both of those guys that you know walking on the field are gonna have
probably many fewer butterflies. And say, yeah, no Fafita and Jonah Coleman.
But but Jed's Jed's okay with no Fafita. He was asked at the
towards the end of the press conference. Okay, if Ifida has to start,
you know what, what are your thoughts on that? Here's what he
said. I mean, I have not shot away from my feelings towards Noah.
I love Noah. I think Noah is and has been the ultimate professional,
meaning every single day he shows up to work ready to be the next
quarterback. He knows he's one play away. He's been told he's been one
play away for as long as he's been here. His preparation has never changed,
his film study has never changed, his note taking has never changed.
And now the only difference is it's now time to go. If that opportunity
presents himself, and if it does, Noah will be ready. And if
it doesn't, and no will be ready to play too and or beyond.
But I believe that his He's played a lot of football and this is not
his first time ever going out there. This won't be his first time that
he's ever had to lineup under center. But it certainly is a different challenge
than when you go in at the end of the game against Utah, or
you go in at the end of the game against Colorado when the score was
kind of out of hand, or when you go in and last week's game
kind of gives you a little bit different feel. You're down seventeen fourteen,
You're on the road in a game that you know, we were the favorites,
let's call it, and he managed that well. You know, I
don't think that they've had this go to a quarterback situation. I think I'll
go back to like Nick Foles and Matt Scott. Right, I would agree
with those full started games, but I think since then, yeah, when
I they had two good quarterbacks, yeah, at the same time, Yeah,
I would agree with that. That's I mean, you can argue that
when they had Kalil take and Randon Dawkins, the wrong guy was playing.
Yeah, but I you know, their quarterback situation wasn't as good as this.
No, and even even the years with a new I mean, no,
they're Yeah, I would agree. I think this is the best since
since falls and Matt Scott. But but like you said, I you know,
I think, no, for you do do a good job, but
to throw them in there to start against the number seven team in the country.
Yeah, and and not only that, I first of all, I
think that's their ranked way too long. Yeah, I do the best I
think the best team in the league. Yeah, I agree. I picked
them to to you know, to win the league. And you know,
if I ranked the teams in the league, now I did this. You
know, Steve and I talked about this yesterday. Yeah, I've got Washington,
then probably Oregon. Yeah, and then Utah and then USCO. They
don't look that good to me. No good, They're really good. They're
not a playoff team. I mean, well, I agree, and I
look at our upcoming schedule. You know, after after Washington it goes USC
Washingt Shington State, Oregon State, UCLA and a team I think might be
the best out of that group. I think Washington State, Washington State looks
really really good, really good, and Arizone has got to go up there,
and yes, which has never gone well, you know, going into
the seasons. I had that as a sort of a fifty fifty game.
It's not. Those guys are really they're really good, really really good.
But yeah, you know, but again, I think I think this week
will be fun whatever happens. I'm not sitting here thinking if if, if,
if Jane Delord doesn't start, they got no shot. Yeah, and
that's a good feeling to have. Yeah, for sure it is, you
know, and the same thing with Michael While Okay, throw Jonah Coleman there,
Get Speedy Luke a couple more carries. Yeah, get DJ Williams a
couple more care totally agree. And I think the good thing about this,
and I think Jed talks about this in a later clip, is you say
that you think we have a shot no matter who's the starting quarterback. I
think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the defense has
been good enough to keep us in every single game. And now, obviously
this weekend's gonna be a total step up than anything we've seen so far.
But the defense is playing. You know, you go back to Matt Scott
and and Nick Foles for the quarterback situations. I don't know when the last
time we had a defense that that looks as good as this one does,
so pre Rich Rods certain, Yeah, definitely. So you know, I
think that's a good baseline to start with. Is uh, you know how
good the defense has been. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our
first break. We're gonna be back with Jack McGruder, who's gonna well,
we'll get into some he's got he's been had some baseball duties, so we'll
talk to him about what he's seen from the baseball season as we head to
the playoffs. But then uh dak Ratcher Sports Betting time dot com. I'll
get some of his thoughts and some of the some of the games coming up
this week, and then we'll kick around sport jet pishtow. We've got some
more clips left that are pretty interesting, so stick around. We'll be right
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eye on the ball on Tucson Sports station Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Welcome back
on the Ball. I'm you're hosted for the day, Jay g Gonzalez.
My buddy Steve is out of town for the day. He'll be back tomorrow
as we get ready for a weekend of clock football. But I've got oh
pel Danny Martinez here, he's the directive operations for Arizona Softball. We're gonna
talk some softball in a little bit. But on the phone, we've got
Jack mcgooner, another old friend, guy who's been around quote like one hundred,
one hundred twenty years Jack, something like that. Yeah, it feels
like it. But Jackson been is I been great enough to join us?
They want to talk about a couple of things, and so I, uh,
for those of you don't know, Jack is an official scorekeeper. It's
a Major League Baseball parks most of the time, working in the summer at
in Colorado. You said you're doing the Diamondbacks games this weekend. Yeah,
I've got the Saturday and Sunday games, which could be pretty monumental for both
teams as far as against Houston, as far as those teams go for the
playoffs. Right, So Houston's not in the playoffs yet, right? No,
No, as as good as they are, it's a tight race in
the Al West, especially so the work left to do for everybody. Any
extra pressure on you, Jack, did you know, like be perfect with
the with the score book and stuff like that for games like this. No,
it's just another game. It's just another guy. That's coach speak,
man, that you're not Come on, you're not a coach. That's coach
speak. You just you know, I can't let that extra that extra uh
incentive play on us. You know, we just call him as we see
him. You can't put an extra strike on the you know in the book
for an Astro's batterer, so that he thinks he's got one strike, but
you know he's got too, and then you can't do any of that,
right, It's really it's really a mundane job. So but you know,
I mean, how to go this summer was there's still a lot of fun.
The rockets weren't very good, but you're spending the summer in Denver rather
than uh than the Phoenix areas got to be kind of nice. Yeah,
it really was a blast up there. You guys probably got the same weather
Phoenix, the one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and seventeen all the time.
Yeah, and I certainly didn't didn't miss that at all. But you
know, it's still it's still doing work, and it's still trying to be
trying to be good and make sure you make all the right calls. So,
yeah, it is a lot of fun up there. My wife's from
my wife from there, Joe, you probably do that, so that helps
a little bit to see get back in the home. Stopping drowns a little
bit. So seeing all these games and you know, you go in doing
what you do. You go to more games than you know most of us
do tell me about, you know, things like the pitch clock and you
know how many times you can throw it? First, I mean, did
the game seem a whole lot faster? Do you it? Really? Did
it? Really? Which was? I thought it was great because I thought
it just got too long in the last few years, with the batting glove
adjustments and pitching up your pants and all that stuff between every advant I thought
it was terrific. I think the players embraced a at least they got used
to it for sure. By the end of the year. I don't know
if we saw very many pitch clock violations at all. And I know the
bases, you know the bases. The change of the base has sped the
game up a little bit because everybody's running and still a lot of action out.
Very cool. So who do you who do you got? You think
the Braves are pretty much unbeatable? What do you think? Gosh? I
mean, they look like it, don't they. Yeah, Kuna is a
Kunya is such a great player. Their their rotation has been off and on.
But I think they that's they've got enough there to do it. That
lineup is very impressive. I don't know how you slow him down. Did
you get to see him? Did he did he come to Uh? I
did get to see him. I saw Kunya he did something. Oh I
saw you know what? Did you see this on the on the highlights?
Some fan in Denver ran out on the field. Kunia is out in right
field and he set up to try to take a selfish Oh, yes,
that was right, okay, all right, yeah, I remember seeing it.
Looks kind of serious. It looked like you might try to be doing
it some damage, and so all the security guys ran out there, but
all he wanted to do is take a picture of with him, And of
course they got there first and he couldn't do it. But so much for
that. Well all right, so no harm, no harm. Well,
yeah, but that was scary, That really was. I saw that.
That's that's that's gotta be scary for the play. Yeah, yeah, first
impression, definitely scary. Yeah. So okay, So we had a big,
big weekend of college football last week or a bunch of great games.
What's got your eye this weekend? Well, there's not quite as many good
games, but uh, Duke and Notre Dame ought to be a pretty good
game, I think. I also I also like the Texas A and m
Arkansas game down and down in Dallas. I think that'll be an interesting game
too. Oh they're playing that in Dallas. I didn't know that. Yeah,
they play They're playing at Jerry Jones Stadium. Yeah all right, But
you know when you when you saw that there was all the deal about the
Notre Dame o House State game last year when Notre Dame got beep out House
State. Then they went off and lost to Michigan. I mean, Marshall
the next week, I should we be taking Duke this week? I looked
at him real hard because I'm my job at sports Betting Dame right now,
sports betting diame dot com if you guys want to look that up. My
job is the pickoff sets every week, and it's been kind of hit or
miss. You know, they're upsets for a reason, right right, And
I really wanted to take Duke, but I just you know, they're they
really haven't. Florida State was had a bad game. They missed two field
goals, they outgained Duke in the first game, and the rest of the
Duke's schedule has been pretty pretty basic. So yeah, I just I think
Notre Dame will be a little fired up after that stupid defensive deal. But
they only had ten guys on the field. Can you imagine that? What
the hell? No, that's that was for two plays? Right? Yeah,
two plays? They they don't they don't have enough guys on the field.
That was crazy. It was crazy or great the first time, well,
the first time they didn't even see it right and they threw a path
and the second time to the big hole in the in the line. You
know, what is it? It's kind of up in the air everything right
now, right, I mean, George is not as good as George has
been. Alabama obviously not. I think why Washington is better than USC.
It's kind of a jumble right now. How long do you think before this
thing flushes out? It usually takes a couple more weeks, right, sometimes
so that the will Georgia's usually dominant or Alabama's usually dominant at this time,
and this year there's always you know, there's always guys that are should be
better or you think would make a run and get up at the top.
I'm really impressed by the PAC twelve this year. I know, I know
this is the last time we'll ever see him as they exist right now.
But they got a good bunch of teams. I'm with you on Washington better
than USC. I really like Michael Pennocks a lot. I know Arizona is
going to have their hands full this week. They'll probably give them a game.
Man, I washing them is hard to slow down. They're really,
really good. I really likes a lot. Two teams in the big team,
you know, Penn State and yeah, thissually going are probably better than
Ohio State right now. I guess we'll see how it plays out. They'll
end up playing each other as we go. What about the Ryan Day stuff.
That stuff is still going on between between him and Lou Hols. I
mean, Danny, you I know you you've you've heard all that. I
mean, you just leave the old guy alone. What you do? I
think that was that was a little ridiculous, and he's still yelling at him,
like what the hell? And then the Lou holds the fighting back.
I mean, what do we do with that? Jack? You know,
I think these old guys, I mean this guy's and Corso too, they're
just trying to get ratings for me. Sure, they're trying to they're trying
to throw lines out there, right, They're not trying to give you a
intense analysis a game. They're just trying to throw lines out there. You
just kind of kind of let that go, don't say you just gotta let
it, let it fly and say, wow, that's just some dope on
the internet saying something, So I'll just I'll just ignore it. Well,
well, we were talking this week about the fact that there's more and more
coaches are doing that, right, you know sand you know, the REA
acting to the stuff that they've always said that they don't listen to. Well,
we've always known they listened, but they haven't always reacted. I mean,
you're I mean out there. Yeah, I mean you covered, you
covered Dick Tomy. I mean he didn't you know, he didn't react to
this stuff. And you know other coaches that you've dealt with over time.
But now all of a sudden, it's all okay and everybody does you know
you had the Washington State coach going off last week. You know, we've
seen the stuff that Dan Sanders and Dan Lanning and all this stuff going on.
I like the Washington State coach coming up with that, because he was
right on that, and they get no respect. They just get no respect.
And sometimes you gotta fight that. Sometimes I got to say, hey,
we're here, we deserve some respect. Uh, be quiet? All
right. So when I'm looking back on your website, so you haven't done
your upset picks yet? When will that come out? Comes out tomorrow?
No, I'm sorry, it comes out Saturday morning. I got off tomorrow
and come back Saturday morning, Jack, I gotta make my picks tomorrow night
on the show. I mean, what the hell? Yeah? Well,
okay, all right, give you no. I don't know how much health
do you need from me? Well, I'll tell you what I'm I'm I'm
six out of fifteen, okay, No, six out of twenty. That's
about average. Six No, no, no, I'm six out of no,
six out of twenty. I'm six out of twenty. That's really bad.
All right. Give me give me a give me a game that I'm
gonna that I'm gonna put in my picks tomorrow. Okay. It doesn't have
to be enough set, it doesn't have to be enough to be any game.
They're getting six and a half or seven. Danny close your ears and
uh, I think therefore, well, can we talk about this or say
Danny just can't participate in the in the conversation, but you can talk to
me. Arkansas Jay is four oh and one and against the spread the last
five against Dann M. They've out gained them in the last four games,
so they'll they'll almost cover. Now, maybe they won't win, but I
think they're just as good as ay and M. And am always this a
point, don't they? Yeah, they do. Don't you don't You always
think they're supposed to be better than this, and they're not. Their quarterback,
they're starting quarterback was hurt last week, but I don't think it really
matters if he's if he's back or not. They win with defense, they
don't win with offense. Right all right, Jack, I'm taking They're one.
They're one for and one against the spread. Just throwing something else,
and they're one for and one against the spread as a neutral site favorite where
they are again, and they play Alabama and Tennessee in the next two weeks,
so they're probably just peeking ahead to those two games. All right,
I'm taking I'm taking Arkansas tomorrow listening to this and I'm taking Arkansas. Okay,
you can probably jump in again on this Jimble Fisher how much I mean,
he's got like one hundred million dollars buy up, but he could be
in trouble, can't. Don't you think it just I don't know. He
just hasn't produced there right to the levels that they expected. I know they've
had a decent team, but they were five, haven't had much offense.
They were hired, uh I'm sorry, go ahead, and they get you
know, the number one recruiting classes and they're all these you know, the
transfer portal. They're hitting it hard, and then there's just no results on
the field. There's you know, they have everything going for them, but
he just can't win football games. It's so weird. Yeah, they hired
motorcycle Bobby Trina to be their Trino to be their offensive coordinator this year,
and they still haven't done much offensively. They lost to Miami. You know,
Miami's a good team, but not great. They lost to Miami and
they just hung on to beat Auburn. So I yeah, there's just the
results to start their No, they haven't been absolutely how much do you do?
Do you do? Much of U NFL stuff, not too much,
no, no, just this as a watcher because Danny Lions are playing tonight
right now, yep, yep ye game. Yeah, I wonder if I
wonder if the Montgomery is going to be uh inactive or active. I have
heard the signs are pointing to that he is playing tonight, so that you
know, we need all the help we can get against the Packers, but
that that would be nice. I told I was really upset with him because
I had I had the Chiefs when the Lions beat him in the opener,
and then I had the Lions the next week when they lost to the Seahawks.
I'm like, I'm really, I'm kind of upset with Danny and the
Lion right now. So I don't know what to do. I like their
coach. He's kind of an old school, yeah, hard nose kind of
guy. I like him a lot. I think they I think they've got
a good team. You know, I'm on Saint Brown is Terrificcomery can gains
the yards. Yeah, I liked him a lot. Yeah, first time
in a while that I've been, you know, actually positive about the Lions,
And I just hope they don't rip my heart out. Yeah, well
then you can live on that first game for a couple of weeks. A
nice win for them, that was. Plus you've been in Arizona fan all
your line you're used to get, yes, Arizona Lions Tigers. Yeah.
Hey Jack, Hey, thanks a bunch man. I appreciate you joining us
today and I'm taking the Razorbacks tomorrow. Okay, so that one's on you.
Thanks Jake, thanks for having talking to you. I'll give you credit
on Monday, or I'll call you out one of the two. Please.
There's all right, Hey, thanks so much, talk to you later.
Thanks Jay ticket. Jack mcgreden one of our again, one of the old,
one of the old guys. He came to He came to town about
the same time as Greg Hanson, so wow, that's when he started at
the start, went up to Phoenix when the Cardinals got here, still working
for the Star, and then ended up with the Phoenix Papers. Yeah and
stuff like that. So he's got Jack's a long history back here. So
we've been friends for a really long time. So all right, we're gonn
take our next Fragrand come back. Got some more jetfish stuff to cover,
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Danny Martinez from the years on the Softball program. Steve is out today,
he'll be back tomorrow. We'll be back and we got you got a really
good show shaping up. We've got Yogi Roth from Peck Club Networks. Client.
You probably running into Yogi year time or two. Yogi's the best.
I mean, he is truly one of the best people in that you know,
in that industry, among all color announcers and just personalities. I think
he does his research better than anybody else. He's incredibly you know, personable,
and in every interaction I've ever had with him, I truly think he
is the best. He's never said no to Lay. He's so he never
said no, and I want he's calling the game Saturday against Washington. So
I said, hey, can you do the show on Friday? He said
absolutely, So he'll be here at three fifteen tomorrow, at three thirty five,
we're gonna have Kevin Singleton, one of the one of the honorary captains.
He and his brother Chris both played at Arizona UH back in the early
Dick Tomy years. So Kevin will be on with us, and then our
usual Friday UH analyst Jake Fisher will join us. Danny knows Jake Jake as
well from the old high school day. Yep, that's right, yeah,
Jake Jake. Was that good to see that he's still you know, he's
he's on your show. I didn't know he was on your show. That's
he's one of our sponsors. Okay, so we got Jesper, you know,
we pick his brain, right, he played the game, So we
go into a game, and I'm always like, Okay, this week it's
this. What was it like when you did that? Oh? That's great.
Yeah, we'll we'll pick his brain on that. So so we're gonna
have a loaded show tomorrow. But I wanted to get to some more jet
Fish stuff. I asked him, you know, what does what you know
Washington is? It's people have said scary good? What are they best at?
Offensively? Uh? And he just you know his his his answer won't
surprise you, but he'll he'll stand up for himself as well. Here's what
had to say about the Washington offense. Well, I mean, I think
there's no question that they throw the ball beautifully. They have an outstanding passing
attack. They have great wide receivers, they have an outstanding offensive line.
Their quarterback is elite. That's not to say that they don't have great running
backs and tight ends. But they have a great scheme. I think coach
the Bord is one of the better U if not one of the best offensive
coaches in all of the country. And coach grubbing him together is a great
combination. And they put their guys in position to make plays. They make
plays. They're at outstanding. They're outstanding on offense, and but I don't
we don't shy away from anybody on offense. We think we're one of the
best offenses in the country. And you know we're right now sitting at thirtieth
in the country. A lot of times would happen. You know, we're
three points below where we were last year. We had one hundred and seventeen
points within four weeks last year. We have one hundred and fourteen points this
year. But very different type of games we've played. We haven't had to
outscore people. Uh So we uh we certainly feel like our offense can match
up with anybody. But these guys are elite when it comes to how they
pass the ball, how they get their guys open, how they compete for
the ball in the air. And our defense is going to have a great
challenge one on one. You know, it's it's funny. They're three and
one, three and one. Yeah, they had a tough game against Stanford
last week, and that was a game I've said, that's a game that
Arizona normally lose. But all those things go wrong. For sure, your
quarterbacks are playing well, you got a bunch of injuries you're on the road
against a team that you feel you should be able to handle, and they
and they jump up and bite you. And it's a game that Arizona over
the years has lost, but they won. You know, the offense has
been scoring the points that we were expecting, but they're still three and one,
right, I mean, what do you what do you think when you
think about, Yeah, it's it's been kind of a weird season all together
when it comes to the offense, because what I see is an improved offensive
line. I think the offensive line looks really really good. Jordan Morgan,
I mean he could be he could be a first or second round pick.
I think he's that good. Jana Sevanaiah is you know, an elite tackle
in his own right. I think the offensive line is much improved. The
weapons are still there. The weapons are still there. T Mac looks even
somehow more physical and more explosive than he looked last year. Jacob Cowing is
still there. The running back, you know, stable is there. So
all the pieces are there. It just seems like something it hasn't connected yet.
It's there's there's something that you know, and and I have all the
confidence in the world that it's going to it's they're going to figure it out,
you know, maybe this way if they didn't. Yeah, so at
some point it's gonna come together because the pieces are there. I think the
foundation with that offensive line, that's that's what can take this offense to the
next level. Well, you feel like they at least have an offensive line
that might be able to you know, protect a quarterback, even against somebody
like Washington. Yeah. Right, I'm not even sure how good Washington's defense
is because they've not played anybody great. They scored a bunch of points,
there's still a lot we don't know about Washington, although all signs pointed them
being yeah, really damn good. But you don't feel like you're walking in
and thinking Arizona's got no shot in the trenches either. Offensive your defense,
that's the big thing is Especially when I was watching us play Mississippi State,
where you know you're going against an SEC opponent, I thought we looked just
as you know, every every bit as as physical in the trenches as Mississippi
State. So yeah, I think that, Yeah, you're right, I
don't think we'll be outmanned there. Well. Jason Shearer asked the question that
I wanted to ask, So it was, Okay, do you go into
a game like this thinking, okay, if we hold him to X number
of points or we've got to score X number of points to win the game.
Do you do you look at it that way? Here's what Jed had
to say. Yeah, you know I would say this, not really,
we don't. I think if you look at games, and you know that
I've study the NFL a lot. I mean you look at the Patriots versus
the Dolphins and it was twenty four seventeen, and then the next week you
look at the Broncos versus the Dolphins and it was seventy to twenty. You
just don't necessarily know how a game is going to go. You have a
certain plan on defense to try to contain an offense as as explosive as the
Miami Dolphins or the Washington Huskies. The way that we'll go, we'll determine
how we'll have to play the game. And we had three possessions on all
offense last weekend we scored twice. If they have three possessions on offense,
they can only score three times and they could score twice two. So you
have to look at all facets of it when you continue to try to figure
out how to play a game. The other part of it that I think
is really important is that when you go through these processes of trying to determine
how the game's gonna go, you have to look at all three phases.
You have to look at your team's hell, their team's hell, your team's
scheme, their team's scheme. And this is not a game that last year
was forty two thirty nine with seven minutes left in the game, and you
know, both teams were playing at a very high level. It could be
that or it could be different, but we're just unsure right now. They've
had a lot of possessions. We haven't had the same amount of possessions.
So we need to take the ball away to make sure we can get some
extra points. I mean, and really that's it. I mean, I
said, simple thinker, and I'm not a coach, right, I said,
affair hold him under thirty. They've got a really good chance. And
I think that that's the case. Yeah, whether that's their goal, if
they've set that number as a goal, I don't know. But you hold
Washington into four touchdowns, you'd like to think you win the game. Yeah,
question is will they right? Yeah, And I agree with Jed to
the to his point. You know, I think if you look at last
week, I don't think anybody would have thought that the score would be twenty
one, twenty or whatever it was. You know, at the end of
the day, the goal is to have more points than the other team,
right, It doesn't matter if that's three zero, It doesn't matter if that's
seventy to you know, sixty, whatever it is. You know that that
I think a lot of times, you know, I just kind of look
in the mirror with myself. I was upset that we didn't look a little
bit better against Stanford. I was I was upset that we didn't, you
know, win by double digits. Same thing with my line, you know,
I was upset that, you know, we only scored twenty points against
the Falcons, but at the end of the day, we won. Both
of those are two wins and and and that is the goal, you know,
of a game plan, of of you know, coaching, in game,
everything like that, it's to win the game. So so yeah,
I agree with you. I mean again, you know, when I put
my head on the pillow Saturday night after the game, I was like you
yeah, I'm like, yeah, come on, yeah, I mean,
these guys were a really bad team. Wait a minute, they won.
Yeah, don't be upset. And I took my own dang words because earlier
in the week I said, what if they win, no matter what the
score is, you have to be happy with it because it's a road game.
Exactly if they if they win seventeen to thirteen or yeah, you know,
you know, twenty eight, twenty four happening right because they won a
game. Yeah on the road. Yeah. Conference wins. Conference road wins
are like gold. I mean, you know, I obviously I think everybody
watching it wanted to look a little bit better, a little bit cleaner.
But at the end of the day, a win is a win, especially
on the road. Well, and this is a test for Washington right there
there. I mean, whether it's pressure or not, or they're just having
fun with the fact that they're considered, you know, a possible playoff team,
this is a this is the first real test for them, and if
they come and screw this up this weekend, their whole season can go right
in the crapper. If they don't come in and hold court against Arizona,
and as you said, it's tough on the road. They've got a history
of not playing well on the road and in Arizona. You know, Arizona's
beating them sometimes here that you just didn't spent the whole first half of the
week talking about the ninety two game where you were just a child, and
you probably don't even remember that. I don't remember. But you know,
you know they've come here with some really good teams and gotten beat Yeah,
you know, I mean that that game where J. J. Taylor got
hurt. You early, Arizone was gonna win that game. Yep, that's
right, right, and it looked like that's right. Yeah, did that
game go to over time? I think we took them to overtake it.
I think that. So, I mean the ASU game last year, I
mean that completely changed their trajectory last year as well. So yeah, exactly,
all right, Well, we ran out of time again. Danny had
chance to talks to the softball But we are. We're gonna get to that.
We're gonna take our last break of the hour of this hour. We're
gonna come back. We've got breaking newser there is some stuff out there.
We'll have a chat. We've got uh uh Bruce Pascal coming in at four
fifteen to talk about the Red Blue game. We'll go, we'll go through
that and then we'll we'll get to Danny stuff because yea, I invited the
years we could talk about what's going on around Arizona softball. I promise we'll
get to it. But breaking news coming back at the top of the hour.
We'll right back