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with Steve Robera and Jay Gonzalez on
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back to the ball here on Fox
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Jay. Now we have Kevin with
breaking news. This is I on the

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Ball, Breaking News on Fox Sports
fourteen fifty. All right, so we

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do have some breaking news today.
We're gonna go ahead and start with some

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women's basketball news. Former Arizona women's
basketball player Maya Naji has been in the

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local news recently for some comments that
resurfaced on the internet recently. J do

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you want to talk about that a
little bit. Well, we talked about

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this last week and she an Instagram
post of her surface from the last month.

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Yeah, from a month ago where
she was trying to clarify why she

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left the program and she called called
it a toxic environment. So PJ.

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Brown and and okay, well The
Star did a followup did a story on

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her, and she didn't walk things
back, but she kind of was she

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kind of explained more why she left
in a sense that it wasn't her dad,

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it wasn't outside influences. She was
her decision for a number of reasons,

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although she didn't number of reasons right, and and and somebody said they

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asked her, well, why,
you know, why why did you say

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this was toxic? And and she
said something like, you know, if

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I wanted to create drama, I
could create drama and I didn't create trauma.

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And I'm like, yes, you
did. It's exactly what you did

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when you called it a toxic environment. And you don't have to explain yourself

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to us about anything, but don't
tell us you didn't say that it's a

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toxic environment, which is exactly what
you said, and it did create trauma.

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You know. Adia Barnes was asked
about that in her post game press

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conference and she just basically an indirect
way and she basically said, look,

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I you know where coaches, we
hear stuff all the time. We just

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have to get past it and move
on. And that's what I'm doing.

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But oh, I had a question. You know, mynag he's not what

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nineteen years old, maybe twenty years
old. You know, we shouldn't sit

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here and and and rip on her. But you know, if you're going

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to say things, then take responsibility
for saying those things did you do?

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You have a lot of stuff you
can talk about. So Gino, I

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saw this yesterday. I don't know
before after that quote from Naj This is

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from Gino Ariema from Arim cut I
don't have my glasses and so be with

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me. How do you coach in
an environment where the players feel that they

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that feel like they got my eyes? This is the smoke pantys I suck

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hold on, I gues hold on
football love Okay? How do you coach

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an environment in an environment where the
players feel like they owe you nothing and

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you owe them everything? And I've
talked about this with n I L How

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how do you you're having a quarterback
who makes these money this money, or

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you have a player or whatever making
this money. Don't tell me what to

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do. Yeah, I'm making the
money. Let me the hell I am

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who I am? Right? I
don't know how that's possible. I'm sure

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I wanted to ask that a chip, But you know it's only going to

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get worse, no question, It's
only going to get no question, as

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he's as these athletes can make make
more and more of the money, and

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it's going to take special athletes to
not be that If you if you think

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that the parents were involved before when
there were little kids in high school.

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Now you have parents dying for them
to get scholarships and to get their bed

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right where it was where just used
to be about a scholarship, right,

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you know, getting into a school. Now it's about a scholarship and possibly

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hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars
and yeah, and how do you And

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oh, by the way, ex
school is giving me this. Yeah,

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and that was the case before,
X give me this. What about you?

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Well, now they're schelling, they're
giving them the number, right,

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and yeah, and that's and that's
the whole thing. And with this Tennessee

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lawsuit that we talked about last week, that the Tennessee lawsuit is basically saying

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a player should be able to go
out and negotiate their deal before they signed

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with the school so that they can
get the best deal. And that makes

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all the sense in the world.
It's just that's not how college athletics has

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worked and how college athletics can continue
to work. So I, you know,

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I don't know, but yeah,
it's a look and you look give

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it up for a deal. Because
she could have gone on there and said

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well, she kind of wanted to, but she she of course she wanted

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to. When they go low,
yeah she goes then and I did want

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to go low, but I didn't, right, and and so yeah,

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no, but that that's just the
way. And the thing is, you're

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talking about coaches who make millions and
millions of dollars in idea is true?

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Even a million dollars? And and
they're like, wait a minute. You

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know, I'm the one who's been
in this profession for twenty thirty forty years

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yearn what your second year is a
sophomore And you're telling me, you know,

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well, and there are some coaches
who have been playing I'll give you

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this. I'll give you this with
lout because and I know this because even

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DeAndre Andre he would ally they clashed
a lot because Andre thought he was the

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best, the smartest guy in the
room, right uh, and his sophomore

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year he was already gone. He
was he was gone, he was gone,

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and no one knew about it,
but he was gone pretty much.

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And they clashed because Luke couldn't coach
him. And one time i practice,

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he says, some of us are
going to be back next year, and

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I'm still gonna be here. You
know, I'm still gonna be coaching.

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I'm still the coach. And Deanery
they knew exactly what they were talking about.

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He was that was the year that
he was caught before the game,

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he was kind of already checked out. How do you and that's kind of

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how it all starts. You know
you're gonna get twenty seventeen eighteen, sean,

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how do you coach those guys who
are going to be here in two

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months? They could give a crap
because they'll be getting some money to play

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somewhere else, right now. That's
it? And and and you're right,

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environments are going to be toxic to
you, right right, Because at the

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other point that that that that you
said, well, if it's a toxic

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environment, why are the players that
we have left playing so well together?

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Right? And she's on the seven
players and that now there wasn't a little

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breaking there. There was an interesting
thing about Kayle and Gilbert that she's out

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not because of an injury, which
we thought that she was said for other

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reasons, just unavailable. She's unavailable
whatever that means. Right, Well,

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you're talking about a lot of different
things, could be a number of different

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things right, Title nine or whatever. You can't really say what's yeah,

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you know, what do you call
it for the students? Privacy? Yeah,

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there's privacy issues. So so you
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best players, certainly their best scorer. I thought Tom to commend to start.

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I thought they did a good job
with that is what they could flush

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from. They did about as much
as you could move, right, because

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they even tried to get a Da
to go on the record with and she

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obviously didn't and she did, but
it was a good, good attempt at

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that. Sure it was Okay,
that was a long one, so we

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do have some more women's college basketball
news. Juju Watkins came close to breaking

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the all time women's college basketball scoring
record when she scored fifty one over the

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weekend when the Trojans of USC upset
Stanford at home. She's just an incredible

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game. She's the only player all
year in Division one men's or women's to

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have a forty and ten game with
ten rebounds. And she didn't just do

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that, She's she went above and
beyond and did fifty and ten. Just

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an incredible performance. It's Stanford,
it was it was actually incredible to watch.

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I caught the tail end of that
game. Yeah. So, and

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and the reason we're bringing that up
is Arizona's got a face for this week.

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They're at USC actually on Monday.
She must be only eighteen, right,

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Only she's a freshman. She's a
freshman. She's only eighteen, boss?

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What nineteen? Yeah? So he's
eighteen eighteen, Am, stop,

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you just stop. Arizona's got UCLA
on Friday, and then they've got USC

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at USC on Monday, and they'll
be facing Juju Watkins, who, if

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not for Caitlin Clark over at Iowa, would certainly be the most talked about

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player in women's college basketball. And
this year she averaged she averaged forty forty

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points, seven and a half,
predybounds, four steals. She shot forty

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two percent from three point range over
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Stanford. So those numbers are unbelievab. I'm actually I'm gonna watch that game

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to see her. I mean,
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this year, but I'm gonna watch
it because I want guy to see what

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this looks. And that was my
second time seeing her when I watched them

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play Stanford, and I mean,
it's incredible every time that I that I've

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seen her. So I hope,
I hope we catch her on a good

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well. I hope for Arizona's sake
that we don't. But you know what,

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you do want to see those but
more incredible numbers from the MLB Today,

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Bobby Witt Junior of the Kansas City
Royals has inked the largest contract in

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the franchise's history, an eleven year, two hundred and eighty eight point eight

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million dollar deal. Bobby Witt Jr. Correct like any good, He's pretty

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he's pretty good. He's on the
Royals, So I don't know, I

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don't know what I'm guessing. His
dad was the original Bobby with watch much

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play, to my understanding of it, he has incredible speed, uh and

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and the Royals are hoping to somewhat
build around him in the infield. So

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wow, Okay, I mean,
i'd like to I'd like to think that

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I've heard of a guy when he
gets a contract like that, right,

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numbers are shocked. The numbers are
shocking. I didn't I didn't know that

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that guy existed. Some of the
contracts that we see now in sports like

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the Pat Mahomes deal, like whether
or not you you know how you feel

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about the fact that he is earning
that money. The numbers are eye boggling.

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Joel Embiid, last year's NBA MVP, this year's presumptive MVP, will

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may not be eligible for the award
when it comes because he's going to go

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undergo meniscus surgery, I believe on
his left knee, and he looks like

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he's gonna fall well short of the
sixty five game minimum and be uneligible for

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MVP honors this year. I agree
with the rule. You know, you

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got to play the games if you
want to win, you know, take

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home the stuff. I agree to, especially a sport that is so dominated

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by averages, if you're playing on
a smaller sample size and just blowing it

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up the way scoring can get blown
up. Today, we're seeing teams drop

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one hundred and fifty this season.
So yeah, I like the rule too.

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I saw Draymond Green was complaining about
it, saying that, oh,

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Kawhi Leonard only played X amount of
games during when he won deepoy over me,

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which actually is untrue. Kawhi Leonard
played seventy two and I believe sixty

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four games in those two seasons.
So some people complaining about it, I

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feel like don't get the full scope
of why it's being about something. So

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that is true. Steve Belichick is
going to become the University of Washington defensive

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coordinator. He was joined Jed Fish's
staff in Seattle. More name dropping.

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Yeah, you know you're trying to
keep that that connection to all his guys.

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So okay, we're gonna rag on. We're gonna rag on Jed.

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We we know you are. How
over it? No? But I mean

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no, but when they know,
when we start seeing him on the sidelines,

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he's in his purple. He went
on, do you already said about

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seven nine years? Yeah? That
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there nine years at I don't know
why people say stuff because they don't hold

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you to it. Looking exactly,
it's permanent. I love you until I

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don't love you. I mean,
it's permanent. And so now people can

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say, wait, wait, wait
minute, you've only been here three years,

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so you're going to You're going to
the Patriots. What the hell you

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said? You're gonna be here for
nine Yeah, we'll see Yeah, we

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see players in the NBA do it
all the time. Kyrie did it famously

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in Boston. But we also have
some news out of Washington. We know

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that Eric b Enemy was in line
for the commander's job. He has been

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ousted for Cliff. Cliff Kingsbury will
take over. That's tough, that's tough.

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What that dude replaces you falls forward
like we said, as we said,

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falling forward man, and he had
he had allegedly taken the Raiders job

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and uh and turn and turn away
from that. They said, what what?

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What was there was one where he
got hired somewhere and then he took

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the USC job. Oh yeah,
like overnight or something like that. But

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anyway, so now he's Cliff Kingsbury
off to off to the Washington commanders.

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Now they're saying, you're hearing that
Ron Rivera, who was was the fired

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Washington commander's coach. They're looking at
him as the defensive coordinator at the Cowboys,

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which is where Washington got their coach, because Quinn was the defensive coordinator

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with the Cowboys. He is now
at Washington. And so there you go.

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The NFL is a messy lead and
if you if you can get it,

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if you can get on the merry
go round and stay on the merry

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around your set for life. Yep, pretty much. Yeah, paging mister

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fish. All right, So the
Seahawks are expected to hire Jay Harbaugh as

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their special teams coordinator the Seahawks.
He's not going with He's not going this

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with his pop. No, he's
going to be the special names coordinator under

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head coach Mike McDonald. He's only
thirty four and he served in that role

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for the past five seasons at you
Michigan under his dad, Jim Harbaugh.

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Did you see the thing on on
Ben Johnson? The Blushings hate him or

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something because he because they were they
were coming to pick him up on an

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airplane, uh to take the the
Washington job, and he texted them while

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they were on the plane, don't
come, just say he's not going Stone

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Coach, and he was staying in
the Stone Cove. That's always as bad

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as when they fired Lane Kiffin on
the tarmact. Well they kind of did.

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The South Carolina kind of did the
same thing to to to uh Rich

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he didn't. I don't remember that
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don't remember that part of That's what
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was headed home. By the time
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anymore. So it's never happened there. It's collect the stoop's job. It

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takes to a m yeah this year, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep,

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yep. Okay, all right,
uh, good stuff, Okay,

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Steve Rivera, he's Jigenzones. Now on

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the phone. We have Ricky Honley, super Bowl linebacker. Who are you,

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Ricky? Good? How you guys? Knowing Steve? We're doing well.

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It's good to see you yesterday at
the besketball game. But hey,

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you know what that was as a
great basketball game to watch, was like

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they all of two halfs. But
I'm telling you that center that Stafford had

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he as an NBA player all the
way yesterday. He was making some shots

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for sure, that's for sure.
A big man like that hitting three pointers.

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You know, he was putting it
down. Yeah yeah, okay,

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Well, we have you on the
phone specifically to talk about super Bowl super

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Bowl week, right, How was
super Bowl week for you as a player?

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You know, I tell you what
I remember super Bowl week being something

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special. I mean, you get
there a week earlier, you come off

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the plane, you uh, you
know, you get to the hotel.

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The hotel and you know, you
got everybody all set up for the interviews,

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and I mean it's a whole production. I mean all the media,

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the people from your hometown that show
up the interview, and so if guy's

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never been to a super Bowl before, it's quite an experience. And I'm

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sure it's a lot bigger now than
what it was when I play. Well,

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well, thinking back to that first
one for you and you you went

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to back to back super Bowl.
So the first one where you kind of,

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I don't know, in awe just
kind of looking at everything that that

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happened, compared to the second one
where it's kind of like, Oka,

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I've already done this before. But
what was that first one, Like,

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like you said, when you got
to that week, when you got you

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know, to practices, the preparation
and then going into the stadium the day

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of the game and you know,
now you know this is the game.

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What were some of those what are
some of those moments like for you?

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I remember when you know, they
introduce you and you come out of the

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tunnel and you're running out linebacker from
the University Arizona, Rickey Hunley, and

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that's summer all and those guys calling
your name out in this don't know,

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one of a million people watching you, You get chill bumps. You know.

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It's ah, I tell you,
it's an amazing time. You know,

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you don't realize how big it is
until you're in that game, right

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in that in that moment. Yeah, let me ask you a quick question.

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Uh, maybe two or three years
two years ago, Jay and I

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were discussing this and it's gonna be
the dumbest question here today for me.

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Ricky. So you're a player,
and you're a player at this elite level,

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right, And it kind of goes
to Jay's question, and I said,

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these guys, the John Fena's,
the Ricky Huntleys, the Glenn Parkers

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have done this all their live blah
blah blah. Did you get nervous before

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this type of game or was it
your job and you were ready? You're

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nervous and then after the kickoff it
goes away, you know because now you're

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in the moment, you're in the
game. What is what is that?

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What is that nervousness? Like?
Though? Yeah, I mean, are

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you like sick to your stomach?
Are you you know, just kind of

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kind of wondering where the hell you
are. I think it's a little different

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for everybody, but for me,
you certainly feel the butterflies. But once

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the adrenaline starts flowing and you're running
up and down the field, you're more

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tired than anything, So it goes
away. Yeah. So some of the

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just some of the highlights I've seen
the last couple of days, you know,

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with the national anthem and guys crying
because it's a very emotional time.

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Did you there's a dumb question to
two. Did you cry because of the

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magnitude that you were in the Super
Bowl? Here you are with all these

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peaks again you know, well,
well, well let me ask you that,

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because you know, after all this
time, you know you're wet.

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You know we put you know,
we put you on our social media super

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Bowl linebacker. You know, nobody
can ever take that away from you.

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Yes, you didn't you know,
you didn't win. You didn't win one,

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but you were in it is it
is it is that the losing of

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it less painful or less uh now
than it was back then? Or is

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it still hurt really bad? It
never, it's never less. I mean,

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you can appreciate the fact that you
were there, and you were there

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back to back, and you went
to two Super Bowls and you did it

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with your brothers. But uh no, away, Yeah, well well okay,

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so then later on the Broncos do
win a couple of Super Bowls and

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Lway was there for those you know, did you have a chance to you

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know, kind of say hey,
you know, way to go, John.

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I mean, were you happy for
him? I'm assuming you were.

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Oh. I was happy for him, absolutely, But you know, I

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wasn't there. I was with the
Raiders, So I wasn't there at the

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game or with the team or anything
like that. You know, could you

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say the years? Uh? Could
you? I don't want to date you,

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but what the year eighties? The
years that I played? Yeah,

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well there in the Super Bowl,
in the eighty six Super Bowl and eighty

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seven seven, So you're right,
the times have changed. Yeah, so

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it is different, right, but
you know, and I was ironic both

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years that we played in the Super
Bowl, we played in the AFC Championship

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Game of both against the same team. You know, it was a Veland

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Browns times. One year was a
drive and the next year was a pumble

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and buyers buyers, ernest and you
know, the thing with Ernest Spiders,

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Ernest Buyers. I mean, he
was killing us all games. I mean

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he was, you know, they
they were just running the ball at will.

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And they're going down to the goal
on the score again and Ernest byners

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get the handoff and and it's a
lead play right at the linebacker, and

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I'm approaching Ernest, but Ernest looks
off to his left and there's a little

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cornerback, Jeremiah Castile, and he
decides to not run over Castile, but

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to run over the linebacker. And
Castile just went and punched the ball out,

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and that's how we got the ball
back, and that's why we won

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the game. You're thinking thinking back
to both of those playoff runs you're going

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into it. I mean, I
presume that every team that gets into the

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playoffs thinks they can get to the
super Bowl. But how real was it

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for you, you know, leading
up to that, before you actually got

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in. Oh, It's it's real, you know, because you know,

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leading up to the game, the
hype is just tremendous, and then you

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get two weeks of it. So, I mean, I'm sitting here thinking

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about this kid, Demetrius Flanting and
Flowers me on Arizona alum playing a linebacker

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and backup kid on special teams.
But you're going to the super Bowl and

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it's a big deal, and it's
a huge deal. I'm gonna ask you.

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Oh good, I'm sorry. Let
me ask you a generic question,

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Uh, not to the guys you've
coached, but how have athletes changed in

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this time since your time to today? But I think that they're bigger,

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faster, stronger. I think you
have a lot more guys that a lot

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more guys that you know take football
seriously and treating like a business, you

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know, and so it's uh,
you know, you get the best of

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the best. How how different do
you think you would be if you were

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from what you were when you played
to to if you were playing today?

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You know, physically, mentally,
would would your would your approach be different?

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How? How you know what kind
of NFL player do you think you'd

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be today? Well, knowing what
I know now versus knowing what I knew

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then when I was a player playing, I don't I didn't know squat compared

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to what I know now, the
approach would be so different. And I

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think the kids approach is so different
too, because you know they prepared themselves,

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they got mossus, they got to
the therapists. They take better care

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of their body, the nutrition wise, they eat better. You know.

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They treat it more like a business
than just you know, I'm on the

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team playing a game. The money
aside, the money that's being made now

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versus you know, when you were
playing, would you have preferred to play

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back when you played or would you
prefer to be playing right now right now?

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Why? I don't even know what
the money is right now. Yeah,

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but not counting the money paid more
money than what franchise were worth.

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But I'm talking about it, and
just in terms of the way the game

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is played. You know, the
guys who played you, who've been playing,

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who play your position now compared to
the way you played it back then,

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you know, do you like the
game more now? I guess it's

407
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what I'm asking then when you play
along those lines, though, the offense

408
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:44.319
has a big advantage over the defense
now because the defense can't really hit anybody.

409
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:48.480
Yeah, well back then you could
hit people. You know, there

410
00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.960
was none of this where everything is
hear towards protecting a quarterback, protecting the

411
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.599
investment. And they have to because
they pay those gots so much money.

412
00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:00.480
I mean, you know, my
home, that's what I have a billion

413
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dollars, you know, yeah,
you and you're not going to protect your

414
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half a billion dollar investment. So
every owner has the same interests, you

415
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.000
know, protect the franchise player.
So you were talking about what you know

416
00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.079
now compared to them. What are
maybe a couple of things that you uh,

417
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:21.680
what is that secret sauce? I
think the secret sauce is is just

418
00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:27.640
understanding concepts on understanding whether you're playing
with mayon eyes or zone eyes, and

419
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:33.599
getting your keys and going through your
key aggression so that you play faster.

420
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.759
You know, when you go from
college to pros, the guys are not

421
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:41.559
that much faster, but they play
faster because they read and they get their

422
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.720
keys and they go. There are
no false steps in college. You find

423
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:48.680
a lot of kids, even in
early pros, a lot of those kids

424
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.279
make false steps. You know.
They they'll take one two steps to the

425
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.279
right and then one two back to
where they started and then take off and

426
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.200
and and because they're fast, they
can keep they can recover ground, recover

427
00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:04.359
ground. But when you get older, you can't recover that ground. You

428
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.039
know, when you get in the
pros and everybody's playing fast and you have

429
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.119
two steps behind. You're not going
to bring in that league long. That's

430
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.039
why they call it the not for
long leads. No, I hear you,

431
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.720
No, I hear you. I
hear you. So uh when this

432
00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:19.960
week rolls around, though, do
you do you get I don't know,

433
00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.759
nostalgic sentimental about Okay, I played
in that game. I had a great

434
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.880
time. You know, is that
a Is it kind of a special week

435
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.160
for you still after all this time? It is because you know, every

436
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:38.519
every year they show those same highlights
the super Bowl, the championship games leading

437
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.400
up to the super Bowl, and
uh, you see it, you know,

438
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.759
and I tell you what, it's
hurt just as much when we we

439
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.720
lose that game. Yeah, it
feels just as good when we win that

440
00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:52.880
AFC championship game every year too.
You're you're you're a pretty good storyteller.

441
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.960
But do you when you have the
guys around or the guys you know,

442
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.279
whatever you guys are doing, do
you tell those Super Bowl stories? Oh?

443
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:03.920
Yeah, yeah, you know,
because the kids want to know,

444
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.720
They want to know stories, They
want to know what it was like,

445
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.000
just like you guys are asking questions
for the fans, the kids want to

446
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.920
know the same thing. They want
to get as close to the action as

447
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.480
they can and have a feel for
it. Because you know, there are

448
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.839
some guys that have those goals and
aspirations of going to that level of playing

449
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.359
in the big game, of playing
in the Super Bowl. And the thing

450
00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.160
that I always share with those guys
is, hey, you know, don't

451
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.000
take it for granted. You know
you're not guaranteed to be back here next

452
00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:32.759
year. Like we had a great
year. We played against Oklahoma, we

453
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:34.640
beat them in the Alimo Bowl,
but that game could have gone the other

454
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:38.319
way. Have we not banded together
and played hard on defense? What do

455
00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:41.200
you get asked the most about when
it comes when it comes to the Super

456
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.079
Bowls? What do you what by
a player but you know, say a

457
00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:51.599
college player or a recruit, or
you know somebody who's played in the NFL

458
00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:52.960
and didn't never get to a Super
Bowl? What did they ad? What?

459
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.799
What question do you get asked the
most about that? Say that question

460
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.920
again, what question you get asked
most about being in a Super Bowl?

461
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.279
What not from a fan or somebody
like Steve Right, but from somebody who's

462
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.920
played the game. Maybe they're a
college player or whatever, what do they

463
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:15.680
want to know? More often they're
actually, what what is that feeling like?

464
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.400
You know, because they can't imagine
that feeling because they it's a big

465
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:24.039
stage, it's on national TV,
it's actually it's broadcast worldwide. Everybody in

466
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:29.400
the world has eyes on you,
and you know, and there's no margin

467
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:35.039
for era, you know. But
you know, the players they compare it

468
00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:37.160
a little bit to what they do. But if they've never been to a

469
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:43.240
bowl game, you know, they
have nothing to compare it to, right,

470
00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.960
right, right, So I was
going to say to Jay to bring

471
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.480
up to Josh Passner. So in
ninety seven, he's a he's a freshman.

472
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.960
In ninety seven, the Arizona basketball
team wins the title and he's at

473
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:55.599
this podium. He calls his dad, it's his dad, We're gonna do

474
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:59.039
this every year. Look how easy
it was for us. I mean,

475
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:02.000
you get back, did you feel
Okay, we're pretty good, We'll be

476
00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:07.000
back again and again? You do, because you know what, when you're

477
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.119
there, you was like, oh, we're here, we've made it.

478
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.799
We understand what it takes to get
in. And when we were fortunately we

479
00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:15.720
were back to back. So you
know, we still felt like we were

480
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.680
gonna win. I mean, in
the second game, we were favorite to

481
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:27.119
win, and we we jumped out
in front ten to nothing and lost forty

482
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.759
five to ten. Yeah, yeah, I remember that game. Yeah,

483
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:35.319
that that I mean. I guess
I'm sitting here, you know, like

484
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:37.240
you said, not ever having having
had this feeling. But you know,

485
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.799
I don't know. I guess I
would think that over time you'd feel a

486
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.559
lot better about it. But I
guess I guess you never do. You

487
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:50.079
never do. I mean, it's
always there. It's always lingering in your

488
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:53.440
mind, you know. You just
you just wanted to taste that feeling of

489
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:57.599
being a Super Bowl champion, right
right, Well, Ricky, thanks for

490
00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.680
joining us. I appreciate it.
Riic lots of lots of fun hearing that

491
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:04.400
stuff. It's really okay, thanks
so much, Okay, thank you.

492
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:07.960
That's cool. I you know,
again, for us guys who have never

493
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.159
come close to anything like that,
just you can't it still can't imagine the

494
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.280
feeling, even when you you hear
what it feels. Let's let's if we

495
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:21.719
could real quick put the footnote to
this interview so people won't say, why

496
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:23.559
didn't you ask him yeah, well, that's yeah, we would. Uh.

497
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.320
When we requested the interview with Ricky
through through the u of A,

498
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:29.880
we were told that we had to
stick to the Super Bowl. We're not

499
00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:32.320
able. You know, I don't
know what what his situation is as far

500
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:36.480
as the coaches staff. So we
just said, we're just told stay away

501
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.679
from that, just talk super Bowl, which is what we did. So

502
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.920
if you were waiting for us to
ask him something about, you know,

503
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.679
the team or his teachuation, his
situation at the UFA, we weren't because

504
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:45.400
we don't know, right, we
don't know. We weren't. We were

505
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:50.159
instructed not to not to bring that
up. Okay, all right, okay,

506
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.840
so stick around. We're gonna wrap
this up. Five to zero four,

507
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.760
one six set. We'd love to
hear your thoughts. Uh, there's

508
00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.159
some early thoughts on the Super Bowl, right, Kevin, let's talk all

509
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:09.079
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556
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talk about anything, please do Saw
Richard texted me, is Arizona capable of

557
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getting to the Final four? He's
he loves to be twelve Richard, they're

558
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:44.000
capable. I just I'm not just
gonna sit here and say they are.

559
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And they're they're capable. I mean, don't you think, yeah, they're

560
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cape Yeah, they are capable,
but they can their match can be found

561
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:54.920
that first that first month. They
look fantastic, that's all. And they're

562
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.360
still living off that credibility. Yeah, they're still living. But yeah,

563
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:01.760
there's because if you're seeing if you're
watching them for the first time yesterday,

564
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:07.880
you're thinking, uhh, don't you
well, it depends on which half you

565
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:09.840
watched. Well, no, you're
watching the whole game. You're watching the

566
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:13.760
whole game, watching the whole game
and saying, well, these guys could

567
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:15.800
be be Yeah, but you got
to give them credit for coming back and

568
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.320
winning that game because they they they
look like a team that was about to

569
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.360
lose again, you know, same
as they did. I mean, you

570
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:24.679
look at you sailing. They're not
that good, but still a team you

571
00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:28.480
know, gets hot and they do
something and now you got to you gotta

572
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.559
figure it out. And you know, there's a lot of times there have

573
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:37.000
been times when Arizona has come back
to win a game and I fully expected

574
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.199
them to. I didn't think they
were coming back yesterday. We'll take this

575
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.239
call. Hi are on the aar
and I on the ball? Hey,

576
00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.760
Jay, this is done. How
you guys doing pretty good? Don?

577
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.840
Hey don? Don? Are you
the guy that texts me on Twitter?

578
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.400
Yeah? Okay, now what makes
sense? Now? It makes sense when

579
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:59.320
you said primo ticket, I don't
have a cousin Don, so that I

580
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:07.679
realized was you? Okay, so
it's up. Well at least you said

581
00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:13.360
it. At least you said it
right now, Jay Debt, Well,

582
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.239
I think what you're bab the underlying
tone of what you're saying is this team

583
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:22.400
is untrustworthy. I guess I guess
I guess I guess it. Answered Steve

584
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:25.239
questions, Yes, yeah, I
mean do I think they can get to

585
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.639
the Final four? Yes? But
do I Am I going to consider here

586
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.039
and say they are? No?
I'm not going to say that. No,

587
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.840
you you can't, because you know
the thing is is, as an

588
00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:39.920
Arizona fan, Arizona has never won
anything when they were supposed to. When

589
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:44.880
they won in ninety seven, they
were supposed to be good in ninety eight.

590
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.760
Yeah yeah, and then in ninety
eight they didn't get they didn't get

591
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:52.360
out of the sweet sixteenth. Oh
yeah, they got to the final.

592
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:57.679
But this team here, they have
all the talent. But in my opinion,

593
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:02.639
they play and this is top to
bottom all the way up to first

594
00:41:02.679 --> 00:41:08.639
round. Tommy, they play with
no accountability. No, this is what

595
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.159
he takes. What do you mean
by that? What do you mean by

596
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:15.960
what? What I mean is?
They can do, they do not they

597
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.119
can do, they do whatever it
is that they do. And it's a

598
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:25.159
okay, you never see, you
never see, you never see the coaching

599
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:31.039
staff and any of them come out
three steps onto the floor and start talking

600
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:35.920
to somebody that you wait for them
to get to the side. And there

601
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.599
was there was a time out early
in the game yesterday when they were pooping

602
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:45.599
themselves where Tommy Lloyd turns around and
he said, he said to his bench,

603
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:49.199
what happened? Dude, you're standing
on the court. What do you

604
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:53.719
mean what happened? You're right there. It doesn't seem and it doesn't as

605
00:41:53.800 --> 00:42:01.199
a as as an as a bystander
and some buddy that's I've tried to watch

606
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:07.199
their games and it's like, yeah, I forget it. This one's over.

607
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:09.199
So let me say this. I
don't agree with you completely, but

608
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:14.519
I know where you're going with because
if you if you watch Ricardo, he's

609
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:19.360
he's he's nuts on he got sent
to the they sat him down. He

610
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.639
gets nuts And not that you need
that as a coach, but if you're

611
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.199
looking for animation you do have it, you're not gonna get it from Tommy.

612
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:30.559
He's not that dude. He's not
Sean Miller, he's not us you

613
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:35.159
got He specifically addressed that. Yes, I asked him the question do you

614
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:37.360
go? That was my first question
to him. I said, do you

615
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.320
get? He said, no,
it's not gonna happen. It's not And

616
00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:44.960
he's not that dude. And I'm
not sure you want that dude? Do

617
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.039
you do you want that crazy berserk
guy? I don't And I don't mean

618
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:53.039
for him to be crazy berserk and
I don't mean that. I just mean

619
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:59.920
for him to be more than a
bystander. I mean I need to see

620
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:07.000
I'd like I would like to see
him be more involved than just standing on

621
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.760
the sideline. Oh, I get
what. I get what he's doing because

622
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:15.920
you know what, and I'll go
back to lude Olsen back in the days

623
00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:24.039
at the end of games when here
it was a one possession situation and ninety

624
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:29.039
percent of coaches call the time out. Lout would stand on the sideline and

625
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:32.280
cross his arms because they worked on
it on pre in practice. Well wait

626
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:35.679
a minute, let me stop you
there for a second, don because didn't

627
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:40.519
we complain that Sean Miller was micromanaging
too much and that the guy because he

628
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:47.440
was always yelling at instructions about that. Guys didn't They're too busy looking at

629
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:52.280
the bench to be playing doing what
they were supposed to be doing. So

630
00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.320
it's like it's like, you know, we won. We had Sean Miller

631
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:58.719
doing that, and now so Tommy
Lloyd doesn't do that, So now,

632
00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:01.559
well you're not doing enough. And
look from where I sit because I get

633
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:06.119
to wait, let me finish from
where I sit, and I because I

634
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.159
get to see this. He is
out there. You know he does having

635
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:10.960
you know, he's telling guys,
we're doing this, we're doing that.

636
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:16.280
So I'm not sure what how much
more involvement if if you want him to

637
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:22.400
have when we were saying that Sean
Miller had too much, I'm kind of

638
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.480
trying to figure out I think what
it I think what it gets? It

639
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.400
gets back to it doesn't look like
they're prepared to play these games. Yes,

640
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:34.039
how in the heck did they go
down by They were down by fourteen

641
00:44:34.079 --> 00:44:37.559
at one point Sunday. I get
it. I hear what you're saying.

642
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:40.719
Teams do this to Arizona. Teams
do this a lot. I hear you,

643
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.199
though. I hear you though you
don't anticipate them to go crazy the

644
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:47.960
opponent to go crazy like they didn't. I hear you, don And you're

645
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.760
right, but you're also wrong in
a sense of, uh, they're prepared

646
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:54.599
for this. It just doesn't happen. Yeah, sometimes the other team is

647
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.199
doing stuff. Well, I mean
it's happened three times in the pack golf

648
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:06.079
season. Done done, I mean
nobody, And nobody's crying about Florida Gulf

649
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:10.719
Coaster or whatever that that that team
was. And nobody's crying about Purdue because

650
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:15.519
that when Purdue plays, it's a
whole other set of they play. Get

651
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:21.039
to play by Duke rules, but
that's another conversation. So done. Nobody's

652
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:24.039
worrying about those two losses. Done
done. So at the beginning, it's

653
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:28.679
the ones that are unacceptable in the
PAC twelve. No, no, don

654
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.519
let me say this. This is
why I brought up the question because they're

655
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:37.320
not trustworthy. You're not. You
don't trust that. Who is nobody?

656
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:43.039
Yeah, exactly right? Who is
name a team that trust It's like Michael

657
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.719
lev last night tweeted out that you
know a lot of Omar Bollo haters were

658
00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:52.159
would be choking on their tweets,
and so I tweeted back at him,

659
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.679
and I go, do why because
he played one game? Well, he

660
00:45:54.719 --> 00:46:00.480
played one game year potential. One
game does not a season or a change.

661
00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:06.880
If they put three games together like
the second half yesterday, well then

662
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:10.320
that's something else. Now they're they're
getting into what they're what we all thought

663
00:46:10.360 --> 00:46:14.840
they would be. But until they
get there, they're not there in my

664
00:46:14.960 --> 00:46:19.960
opinion. No, no, John, we are related. I get you,

665
00:46:20.280 --> 00:46:22.800
I get you. I agree with
you. I mean I don't agree

666
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.760
with you. One game does not
make it. He's still having issues with

667
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:30.599
the free throws. We see that, right, But you have to have

668
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:32.719
you have to go with what you
got, and this is what you have.

669
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:37.199
Well, no, we're gonna have
to go with what we have.

670
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:44.039
I just hope that we don't go
after the round of sixty four. That's

671
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.960
that's all I'm saying. Because if
we continually play down to our competition,

672
00:46:49.400 --> 00:46:51.760
who are we going to play in
the first round. No, we're not

673
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:55.480
going to play Duke or Purdue in
the first rounds Now, we're going to

674
00:46:55.559 --> 00:47:00.280
play in the first round. This
team is as bad, is as good

675
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.920
as they can they want to be, but they can also go out in

676
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.119
the first round in the Pac twelve
and then the first round of the NANCA.

677
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:15.599
That's that's what I'm saying. And
and and you know, what this

678
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:22.800
team needs is what what Steve always
talks about. They need momentum, they

679
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.159
need toughness, you know. In
fact, Okay, thank you don for

680
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.880
the call. I appreciate you.
I'm gonna change your name to Rivera.

681
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:30.239
Change your name to Rivera. But
you know, the funny thing is I

682
00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:35.280
got a text midway through the first
half. And everybody talks about toughness,

683
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:37.519
right, everybody about And this is
what the texted me, A guy we

684
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.360
both know, a guy who knowledged
well, is this team needs to get

685
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:45.719
tougher. I think didn't we just
say this last year that this team did

686
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.159
get tougher did they get not as
tough? Are they not as stuff as

687
00:47:49.199 --> 00:47:52.360
we? What? I what?
I what? I was watching? You

688
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:54.000
you not your head? Oh?
I was not nay because I think they

689
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:59.239
did get tougher. But maybe we
overestimated just how tough they got. And

690
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:01.920
that's made beyond us. You might
have watched about six games and said,

691
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.920
oh, they're King Kong, when
maybe they're just a regular gorilla. See

692
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.239
what was happening in the first half
last night had nothing to do with toughness.

693
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:14.119
What it had to do with is
that Stafford was launching three pointers from

694
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:16.360
all over the place, covered and
not covered, and they were making them.

695
00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:21.400
And sometimes that happens, and that
doesn't mean that you're not playing good

696
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:23.840
defense. They were making shot.
It's a good subject. Let's take this

697
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:28.400
how you're on the air and I
on the ball. Hey, how you

698
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:31.039
doing? What's up? Brian?
I was watching that. I was the

699
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:35.679
game yesterday. And I don't know
what if Don was at the game or

700
00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.360
not. But if you watch Tommy
Lloyd, all because he doesn't scream and

701
00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:42.599
yell doesn't mean he's not coaching right. You would see him. You would

702
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.360
see him pull a player off the
side, like when when a free throws

703
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:49.920
are going on or whatever, and
they were cleaning the flow and he's talking

704
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:54.760
to the players then Okay, and
also too when when Boswell stole that ball,

705
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:58.960
they went for that drive and made
that terrible pass. Yeah, in

706
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:01.480
the second half he pulled his butt
out of the game real quick. Right,

707
00:49:01.679 --> 00:49:05.639
he talked about that too, Right, how those are important times?

708
00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:12.159
Yes, and also too if in
the first half, if you watch Stanford,

709
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.599
Stanford just I don't know what they
do in the first part of their

710
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:19.159
game. Those guys couldn't miss a
shot. I don't care where the shot

711
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.239
was from. They were just you
know, they hit that screen so well.

712
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:25.880
They're really good at it, and
it's hard to defend that screen and

713
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:29.840
it really is. The only guy
that didn't have a hand in his face

714
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:32.800
in that first half was the tall
guy forty two, because they hadn't pulled

715
00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:37.800
Bollow out under the perimeter to cover
him. Once they did that, he

716
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:42.119
stopped making shots. Right. And
also to that guy, hadn't he made

717
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:46.119
like he was like eight for thirty
all season long on three pointers, he

718
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.239
made five out of six foot yesterday. Well, just put an Arizona tag

719
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.679
on you. You gotta go.
You gotta go. Thank you, Hey,

720
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.840
Brian, thanks a bunch man.
Okay, we got some to do.

721
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.840
I gotta take care of little business
before we get out of here.

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know, Steve, this is another one

745
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of those days where Arizona's got a
top ten team. They're in first place

746
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:38.719
in the Pac twelve. Yeah,
I know where you're gonna go where they

747
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:43.519
go go. You know, they're
the hands down favorite to win the league,

748
00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:47.360
and yet we've still got people who
are unhappy with how they're playing.

749
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:50.760
I'm gonna you want to do this
with us meeting, I'm gonna buy a

750
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bar somewhere nearby and call it Life's
a bitch, and we're gonna watch there

751
00:51:55.199 --> 00:52:00.280
was only basketball and people can go
in there and write stuff on the wall

752
00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:02.519
and say whatever they want to say, right, whatever they want to say,

753
00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:07.559
and it'll make a ton of money. It's crazy, it's crazy.

754
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.760
Let's just say, hey, success
is brought you here? Yeah, I

755
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.039
mean yeah here. Somebody tweeted on
but put something, you know, tweeted

756
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:19.559
out. You know that our fans
don't understand that the other team, they

757
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:22.039
get up for us, they play
their best against us, and that's what

758
00:52:22.159 --> 00:52:24.960
that's their goal, and that's that's
what was going on. So you know,

759
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.239
guess what they're gonna It's gonna happen
this week, right, And it's

760
00:52:29.239 --> 00:52:32.159
gonna happen this week, right you
those two arenas this week are gonna be

761
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:35.679
ready for error. It's just the
thing is, you can't have it in

762
00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.920
March. You cannot have it in
Mark right exactly, And that's it.

763
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:42.519
That's it, all right. Uh, we appreciate you calling anyways, don

764
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.760
thanks a bunch and Brian too.
So yeah, we'll be we'll be back

765
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:50.400
tomorrow. We'll have some more Super
Bowl talk and obviously a big week Arizona

766
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:55.159
on the road, so give us
a call tomorrow. Thanks running Back