WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:07.559 This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:13.960 fourteen fifteen powered by Nova Insurance Services. I'm sure your most prized possessions kt 3 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.679 z R two side in iHeartRadio station, The Good Afternoon, everybody. Welcome 4 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:21.760 to IE on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. 5 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.079 He's Jagins. Also got a guy Kevin in today on a Thursday afternoon, 6 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:29.000 as we get closer to a big game on Saturday. And I mean 7 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:33.240 that seriously, because it is a big game. It is you know, 8 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:36.280 it's a third it's what a fifth straight against the ranked team. It's it's 9 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.200 another home game against the ranked team. It's u C l A. And 10 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:41.560 if they win, if they win, they're in a bowl game, right 11 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.920 right? Uh? But the thing is, Steve, they've got, you 12 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:50.399 know, five games to play again in a bowl game. Four five more 13 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.000 four games the wine. Yeah, but the next one is a big one 14 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.119 too. Yeah. But let me let me let's start this because I don't 15 00:00:56.439 --> 00:00:58.520 I don't know, and I want to ask you because we didn't talk about 16 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.759 this, but we kind of hinted to it. The last question to Jed 17 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:04.719 today was about you. That's a great question about the quarter, about but 18 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:10.879 about actually about uh Jane j how he's doing. And then he gave us 19 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:14.719 more information that we need to know or we don't know because he threw some 20 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.840 shade in there. He did throw some shade in that he's still trying to 21 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:19.319 make it seem and maybe it's you know, it's the game. He's still 22 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.319 trying to make it seem like either one of them could start right and at 23 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.079 seven thirty five, we'll know, right, we already know, don't you 24 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.079 know? I think we know, which makes it makes no sense, but 25 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.680 I get it. It's maybe him being funnier. Well, but Stephen, 26 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.959 you know, in a true competition, if he wants to keep this a 27 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:42.359 competition, you know, the job kind of stays a little you know, 28 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.280 the door stays a little bit open for the guy who maybe he has a 29 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.280 better week of practice. And so then they started, and so I don't 30 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:53.280 know, I mean, it sounds like, you know, it sounds like 31 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:59.000 he's gonna you know, he's gonna go with uh uh. From what we've 32 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.560 seen, it's got to be Fafita. But if is there something going on 33 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.240 in practice that tells us that that, Uh, you know, Jaden still 34 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:10.280 has a shot to start. We'll just start it over. Yeah. So 35 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:13.680 far, the only thing that I would know is that Noah has started the 36 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:19.680 last four games. That's the only change that's occurred there. So Jaden was 37 00:02:19.719 --> 00:02:24.719 three and one the first four games of the season, hopefully, uh Noah, 38 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:29.319 Noah's two and two at his games. And now we're sitting here and 39 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:31.240 we're going to continue to figure out each week who we want to play. 40 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:38.879 And I would say that Jaden and Noah have handled it fantastically well in a 41 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:46.080 very tough situation, and they have continued to support one another, root for 42 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.599 one another, share reps at practice, and coach one another up. Look 43 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:52.879 at hey, did you see this? Did you see that? Did you 44 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:54.120 see this? Did you see that? I would have gone here, would 45 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.319 you have gone there? They both have managed to, uh take care of 46 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.400 their business off the field. They're doing great in school. They're sitting there 47 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.719 in a spot right now where you know, they're both preparing like the starter 48 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:12.599 every single week, and that is what their job should be. And I 49 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.000 just tell them that at seven thirty five, I'll let them know who's going 50 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:21.680 to take the first snap. That was that was very strange, and he 51 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:23.520 said it with a straight face. Yeah, yeah, no, he was 52 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:29.240 you know again, is the gamesmanship? Is he trying to, you know, 53 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.599 keep the other team off their toes as much as he can, you 54 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.719 know, because a lot of a lot of coaches would say nor Faid are 55 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:40.560 starting quarterback until he shows that he's sure. I think though, that he's 56 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.080 trying to be nice, nice to both sides, play both guys, and 57 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:50.800 make sure they're both prepared. Who called earlier this week? Was it Jim 58 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.000 or was it Brian? One of those two? I think it was who 59 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:57.960 said You're not gonna like what I have to say or this might be out 60 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:00.400 of the ordinary, But I think they have a better chance with Jane. 61 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:03.280 What you here what he said when he said Jayane would be the guy, 62 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.639 We were like, what no, no, and okay, are they the 63 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.960 same quarterback kind of one, but one handles the game management. No, 64 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.079 I think actually, I think the very different quarterback Jayden is much more of 65 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:20.600 a threat to run around and and make no no, no no happened, 66 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:26.160 as opposed to he's gonna stay in the pocket, He's gonna take, he's 67 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:30.879 gonna take, he's gonna make the easier throw because it's open and he's gonna 68 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.160 take what they can give him, whereas Jayden is the guy if you know, 69 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:35.920 if there's a if you know, he's gonna go for the for the 70 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:41.160 long ball, you know more often. My point is I agree, I 71 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:45.120 agree, and because you're right, but it's more of a I agree, 72 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.800 but they're kind of still the same. There's a kind of Fafina hasn't had 73 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:51.680 the hasn't decided to run. He's more of a get the job done. 74 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:56.360 Look one, two, three, make the play. Jayden is already kind 75 00:04:56.399 --> 00:04:59.600 of thinking, if this doesn't happen, I'm running well in the sense that 76 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.480 the offense runs the same, they run the same place, they do all 77 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:10.480 the same stuff, just two quarterbacks executed a little differently. My whole thing 78 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.120 in bringing it up was it just seemed odd to me. Yeah, and 79 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:15.600 and he left. That was the last question. And he left. There 80 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:19.079 was no follow up, There was no and what what what can you can 81 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.399 you tell us what? I thought we had time for another question. I 82 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:25.519 was surprised that it ended, because you're thinking, what do you mean? 83 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.399 I mean, what do you mean? And it was just a simple how's 84 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.680 he handling? So we put both guys in the same bucket and talking with 85 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.480 her both handling. Well, well that wasn't the question. Yeah, how's 86 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:38.639 jaman han no? I Yeah, and he told us, but he told 87 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:42.040 us how bout them were handling, So you want to leave one out? 88 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:45.439 Yeah? The question. The answer was, you know he's saying, and 89 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.560 I'm going, God, really really really right? Right? And you should? 90 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:53.040 Yeah, you should in this business, you're thinking, where's he going 91 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:58.480 with this? Yeah, I bet you one hundred bucks it's going to be 92 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:00.120 I don't even know what we're talking about it. I just thought it was 93 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.920 because it's gonna beef. Yeah. I mean, there's no reason to not 94 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:10.079 start it unless I don't. I'm not unless U c. L A does 95 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.920 something that he doesn't feel Fefita can handle, like he's been talking about their 96 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.560 their edge rushers, all right, if he feels like he needs somebody who's 97 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:25.360 a little more elusive back there. But but you know the defenses that Fefieda 98 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:28.639 his face have had, you know, they've been good defenses. And what 99 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.439 the way Feffita handles, you know, a good defensive line or a rush 100 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.839 is by getting the ball out of his hands. You know, de Laura 101 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:41.000 handles it by running around. But in those first few games it wasn't working. 102 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.720 He was you know, he he you know, he was he was 103 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.600 hesitant, He wasn't making the throws. Guys were open, and then he 104 00:06:46.639 --> 00:06:49.000 was running and and you know, and he was getting them in trouble. 105 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:51.839 You know, a bunch of times that Stanford game, I mean, was 106 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.240 was was not very good. Although I don't want you to. I don't 107 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.639 want you to agree with me because of a one hundred bucks would be bad. 108 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:02.160 You agree with me? Yeah, I do one hundred percent agree that 109 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:09.560 Fafiita's gonna run out there. Maybe he's kind of like I don't know how 110 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:15.480 much Jed, how much thought Jed puts into these answers. Sometimes they think 111 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.519 a lot, And sometimes I think he's just confident enough of himself to just 112 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:21.519 say whatever he's gonna say right right and may and you know, so I 113 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:25.600 don't know if maybe he's just leaving it open that if you know, I 114 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.800 Fina gets off to a bad start, if he's having problems with the rush, 115 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:33.040 that we might see Jaden sooner rather than later. So so I know 116 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.639 I'm beating the stead horse. But ask me the question. Ask me the 117 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:41.800 question, how's Jay, how's Jade handling the He's I think he's doing a 118 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.759 tremendous job handling it. I think both of them are handling it. Well. 119 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:48.000 Uh thanks, I mean, I mean it's a simple answer. It's 120 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.680 a simple answer to a question. Yeah, without going into that. But 121 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:54.800 again, that's why I'm saying, you know, I think he puts thought 122 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:59.000 into these things to the point where he's still kind of trying to I don't 123 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:03.399 know. Maybe it's a comfort trying to keep Jaden motivated there and that's it 124 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:05.360 right there, and a lot and feeling like, dude, you can be 125 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.680 in there at any moments it right, No, it doesn't have to get 126 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.879 hurt for you to come in. That's it right there. He's trying to 127 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:16.360 soothe the savage beast or whatever that word whatever that Yes, yeah, to 128 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.240 keep him ready just in case, you know. But you know, getting 129 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.680 back to you know, how big a game this is. You know we 130 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:28.000 uh you know, I mean we've sat here and talked about how if, 131 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.440 only right or what if? And I asked Jed, well, you do 132 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.279 I do fans Okay, fans do I know I'm not the only one, 133 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:37.759 so fans Gias jed, do you you know, do you as a coach, 134 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.159 you know, play the what if game? What if? What if 135 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:46.279 we had been or not played so crappy in the first quarter against Mississippi State? 136 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.279 What if one play goes different in the USC game? You guys could 137 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.200 be sitting here seven and one. So I asked him, do you do 138 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.759 because everybody could do that. You could also say, what if they didn't 139 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.000 fumble the ball on the one yard line against MS to be staying in the 140 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.759 opening drive and then they're up seven to nothing. You could say, what 141 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.799 if you know, USC makes the field goal at the end? You could 142 00:09:05.799 --> 00:09:09.240 say what I mean, what if we make the field goal? Yeah? 143 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:11.279 I don't know. No, there's so many plays in a game. No, 144 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.480 I don't do that at all. Otherwise you'll just be You'll be playing 145 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.679 that game for every game you've ever coached and point to twenty five different plays. 146 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.879 The problem is that everybody thinks if you do something different than it would 147 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:30.440 have worked. So it's like if you choose to go for two, then 148 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.399 you would get it if you did it to start the overtime rather than in 149 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:39.759 the second overtime, or if you you know, cal went for two didn't 150 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.919 get it, but if they kicked an extra point, everyone would have said, 151 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.360 you should have gone for two to be able to get to win. 152 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.240 So I think that the what if game is it's an imperfect game that we 153 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:56.559 play, and it's an impossible game to do that with because there's one hundred 154 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:00.960 and thirty five what ifs in every game. Right when he was saying this 155 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:09.200 today, I know you played the you play it like Dominos. Look he's 156 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:13.440 got like two teams left in his little picks because he's giving up. And 157 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:15.960 I don't play that game too, I was going, he was saying this, 158 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.960 I said, I know why you asked that question, because that's you. 159 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.919 Well, I'm asking for the fans, you know, but I'm kind 160 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:26.840 of seriously, I asked that question for the fans, okay, because fans 161 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:30.279 want to know. I think fans want to know. Do coaches do that? 162 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:33.879 And I know coaches can't. Is he said, you move, you 163 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.320 move forward because you know, because like I said, everybody's assuming that had 164 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.000 Arizona gon for two, you know, against you, against you, that 165 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.240 they were going to get it. Yeah, they would have won the game, 166 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:45.919 lost the game right there. It doesn't work that way it doesn't work. 167 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:50.000 It's funny because you do this almost every weekend, when or when we 168 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.919 picked up friend the picture, I picked Detroit last week and you looked at 169 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:54.399 me. He got beat last week. So what does that mean? I 170 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.679 don't care. I gotta play again, They gotta play again. Yesterday means 171 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.480 nothing to me today? What if there's no what if? I like this 172 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.799 team now? So he's exactly right when he talks about what if I go 173 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:07.440 for two? The funny thing about it he was saying this, Jay, 174 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.320 and this is one of your questions, like for probably Knight yesterday you talk 175 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.320 about I don't know if he was joking about the media. Well, if 176 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.200 I don't get this, I'm criticized if I do do this. I found 177 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.720 that to be odd too, very strange, because why would he give a 178 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:26.240 crap what we think he does, which is surprising to me, not surprising 179 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.879 to me. Why because because because of the way he starts every press conference, 180 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.039 we gotta sell tickets. He cares what people think. What the hell 181 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.200 are hey? Greg's not writing stories anymore, I know, but he cares. 182 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.720 He cares what people think because he's still trying to sell this program. 183 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:45.360 And if he's being criticized, and he thinks that there's people out there who 184 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:48.519 aren't gonna buy tickets because of that. I do think he cares what we 185 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.559 think and what we say. He's wasted then didn't he's wasted his what maybe 186 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:56.159 no, maybe maybe not Steve, you know, maybe if it helps him. 187 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.279 I don't think what okay this is let me kind of separate this, 188 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.200 But I don't think that what we think, who's the week, what we 189 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:11.799 as fans and media thing impact his decisions. But I think he cares what 190 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.919 we think. You see what I'm saying. I don't think that because because 191 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.480 everybody said he should have gone for two, I don't think he thinks he 192 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:20.759 should have gone for two. Yeah, yeah, no, the we we 193 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:22.840 I get what you're saying, and I like your explanations, but no, 194 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.879 I mean, come on, you're not gonna please everybody. Two people who 195 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.919 get married to get divorced because they can't please each other. That's two people 196 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.240 he's gonna Fand no, no, I think about sixty percent of the world. 197 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:46.960 Sixty percent of the world, that's sixty that's just two people. Now 198 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:50.600 you have a fan base of thousands, you think you're gonna make everybody happen. 199 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:50.960 No, no, no, no, no no. And I'm not 200 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.919 saying he's doing that, but I think he pays attention to it. No, 201 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.480 And that's what that's why I'm saying. That's what I'm saying that I 202 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:03.200 don't think I don't think he cares from the standpoint of it riles him or 203 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.200 something like that, but I think he pays attentions. Yeah, well, 204 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.320 he's got it. Let me say this too, he's kind of kind of 205 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:18.080 easy because Greg's not around and he's not criticizing exactly to my point, thank 206 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:20.759 you very much. Yeah, nobody is. So what does the matter. 207 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:22.320 I know a couple of people, but they don't have they don't have platforms. 208 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.639 They don't okay, all right, they may shoot something out on Twitter, 209 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:30.159 or I may get a text or something like yan Yan who cares. 210 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.799 Obviously it falls, it's a tree of forest exactly exactly. So I found 211 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:39.440 that to be strange too. Well yeah, no, no, no, 212 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:43.120 I wasn't surprised by his answer at all. But because you know that, 213 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.559 because when you're the when you're a coach again, as he said, you're 214 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:50.000 going to just drive yourself, you know, bad stuff, crazy no question, 215 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.559 don't do that. And they're just not going to do that. Well, 216 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:56.120 you know the guy that we covered and I covered Loot. I don't 217 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:01.720 read the papers. Yes, yes, like it. All right, it's 218 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.240 curry to take our break. We're going to be back Tracy McDonald from the 219 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.799 Bruins Blitz, which has the rivals website for UCLA, so he'll come in 220 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.759 and talk about the Bruins and give us a little insight into them. And 221 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.639 then John Wilmer. 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Let Arizona Pest Control 296 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.160 get rid of your bad bugs, termites, bees, or rodents serving Tucson 297 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.599 and southern Arizona since nineteen forty seven. Go to azpest dot com to schedule 298 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:52.359 your free evaluation today. This is High on the Ball with Steve Rivera and 299 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.920 Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Subscribe now to the podcast on the 300 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.680 iHeartRadio app. I I'm a mam, Hey, welcome back to Why on 301 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.440 the Ball, you know, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, 302 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:08.039 He's Jagan Sauce. Now on the phone. We have Tracy McDonald from the 303 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.839 Brewin Blitz and Rivals. How are you, Tracy? I think you have 304 00:20:11.839 --> 00:20:17.640 a title in your last name. Pretty well. I believe a lot of 305 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:21.160 people have messed up my last name. The fact that you got it. 306 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:23.680 I like Tracy Jaws. I had it all the way. Okay, I 307 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:26.720 had it all the way. So we're all good. He'd like you to 308 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:33.160 believe that. So your this is your second year with the Bruins. How 309 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:37.640 is it covering? Uh? Jip oh? It's been interesting, you know 310 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.640 he I obviously knew of his reputation coming in, but really he's mellowed out 311 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.920 these last two seasons from what I've heard from the other reporters have covered the 312 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:52.039 team longer than I have. You know, he's he's still not so great 313 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:55.680 as far as you know, if you wanted to try to get anything injury 314 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.880 wise or anything like that. But that's pretty much any coach I've come across. 315 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.640 But yeah, no, he's been He's been an interesting person to cover. 316 00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:08.039 He's kind of like I'm assuming if you'd covered Reg Popovich with the NBA, 317 00:21:08.160 --> 00:21:11.480 you know, you just kind of have to roll with it. Yeah, 318 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:15.359 So, you know you talked about reputation. You know, we know 319 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.039 Chip's reputation has been you know, offense and the stuff he did up at 320 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:22.079 Oregon and and those kinds of things. But you know, the UCLA is 321 00:21:22.119 --> 00:21:26.000 all about the defense this year, you know, best defense in the league 322 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:29.799 right now. Is One is that surprising to you? And two? How 323 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:34.480 did that happen? Yeah? I think it's very surprising to just about everybody 324 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:40.599 aside from the people actually in that building. So I think it actually started 325 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.319 last year. Their numbers against the past weren't great, but they had this 326 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:48.200 pass rush. They brought in Kaika Maloy, who actually just wrote about. 327 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.559 I interviewed him after Tuesday's practice and he greatly improved the pass rush. They 328 00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:59.839 recruited Layout through Lotso out of Washington through the portal. They also got Gabriel 329 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:03.279 and Grace and Murphy through the portal and both of them have really stepped up 330 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:11.440 along with Lots to this season. But the big change back in the spring, 331 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:17.880 they hired Danton Lynn, the son of former NFL Chargers coach Anthony Lynn, 332 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.240 and you know, really young, energetic guy and he's just brought a 333 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:27.559 different mindset to this defense. You mentioned the improvement They go from the twelve 334 00:22:27.599 --> 00:22:33.440 worst pass defense last year to all of a sudden, I believe the forty 335 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:37.759 sixth best right now. So yeah, it's been a really big turnaround that 336 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:41.400 I think everyone's taken notice of. Yeah, Okay, okay, are they 337 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:45.880 are they still doing the screen of deception or whatever hell you call it? 338 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:52.160 Here's the screens on the sidelines. Yeah. So he was asked about that 339 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:57.160 actually before the Colorado gave because obviously the whole thing in Michigan and sign steeling 340 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:03.720 came out. Then he said, basically that was just because the familiarity on 341 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:07.880 the Arizona coaching staff. He had so many of their coaches on his staff 342 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.880 previously. It sounds like they're not going to do that, But I mean, 343 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.440 you never know, you know, it could just be a gamesmanship sort 344 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:18.559 of thing. But I guess we'll wait to see. So that the down 345 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.400 here in too soon. They've been we we as covering in Arizona have been 346 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.359 dealing with this. The two quarterbacks that they have here. You know, 347 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.079 Jane Delori got heard nor Feta stepped in. He's been playing really well and 348 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:33.880 Jane hasn't been able to get his job back. Chip's been dealing with a 349 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.119 couple of quarterbacks as well. What's the latest and who do we expect to 350 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:44.920 see on Saturday. So right now, the more than likely starter will be 351 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:51.279 Ethan Garber's. You know, he started against Stanford, well, initially started 352 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:56.839 the season as a starter, quickly lost that to Dante by the fourth quarter 353 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.079 of that first game, Dante ran into some interception issues. He had three 354 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:06.319 consecutive games with not only an interception, but three consecutive games with a pick 355 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:11.319 six, and then before the Stanford game, Chip mentioned that he was a 356 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:17.519 little bit banged up. So they went to Garber's against Stanford. Garber's got 357 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.200 to call again against Colorado. But you mentioned, you know, they do 358 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:26.400 have multiple quarterbacks. One quarterback in particular that they just got back their backup, 359 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.799 Colin Slee. He was more of a run option than someone who's actually 360 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:33.279 gonna throw the ball, but he has been very effective in that way. 361 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:37.480 So yeah, they've definitely been dealing with a bit of a carousel. But 362 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.839 all the players that we've spoken to, they've been dealing it, dealing with 363 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.400 it pretty professionally and they kind of understand it's about winning games and right now 364 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.400 it's working for them. So you've covered him for two years. But you've 365 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.559 been you're a LA guy anyway, right, You're Southern California guy. Is 366 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:57.920 UCLA of taking a step brother type of our younger little brother to USC? 367 00:24:59.079 --> 00:25:03.720 Now that USC's kind of a faltering I mean, so it's always been a 368 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:08.240 weird dynamic just with really pro sports in general when you come to the Southern 369 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:14.319 California area, right, And I mean, obviously it's a college sports we're 370 00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:18.240 talking about, but in a way it's almost like pro sports because you look 371 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:19.680 at the Chargers, you look at the Rams. You know they have a 372 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:26.359 tough time attracting people. And the big thing with any LA team is the 373 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:30.839 options around you. But as far as you know, in relation to UCLA, 374 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.880 USC football wise, it's kind of, you know, just always been 375 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:40.720 that feel around Southern California, even when you know some of the down years 376 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:45.279 US he has had before Lincoln Riley arrived. So UCLA is still kind of 377 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:51.200 trying to break through that. But I think right now where they're at, 378 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:56.240 and considering where USC's at right now, I think right now they are the 379 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:00.440 premier team in Los Angeles, which is kind of crazy to think when you 380 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.359 think about US, these expectations going into the sea. Sure, no, 381 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.839 they can need more to get more than twenty thousand people here. So, 382 00:26:08.319 --> 00:26:11.079 you know, it just it's kind of an offbeat question. But you know, 383 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:14.279 I think going into the year, because of all the you know, 384 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:15.920 the realignment stuff that happened, everything like that, that there was some thought 385 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:19.240 that you know, going on the road, you know, fans were going 386 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:23.279 to be all over the you know, the the UCLA and USC Washington, 387 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:26.240 Oregon because they were leaving and going to the Big Ten and all that kind 388 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:32.119 of stuff. But it feels like in reality, the whole Big twelve, 389 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.640 Big ten things sort of kind of taken and gone to the side. Nobody's 390 00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:37.319 even talking about it. I mean, do you sense that, I mean, 391 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.480 because I don't feel like they're talking about it here. Yeah, I 392 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:45.400 mean, it's not really a big point of contention. Even when we've asked 393 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:48.880 you know, Chip about it, he's kind of just kicked it down to 394 00:26:48.920 --> 00:26:51.519 the road. He said, you know, that's something for next year. 395 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:56.400 Right from the fan perspective, I mean, you look at some of these 396 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.880 non conference games they've had this year thence wise, I mean, you know, 397 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.960 they're still trying to get that buzz, so they're hoping that this move 398 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:11.119 to the Big ten creates more consistency with with that attendance, and I think 399 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:17.559 that's where I think you will see a more positive spin on things. But 400 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:19.640 as far as just the general buzz this year, I mean, it's not 401 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:26.039 something really being talked about. So yeah, it's it's really hard to see 402 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.920 where it's gonna go until next August actually does arrive. So Tucson does have 403 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:36.440 a local connection there the Bruno Fina. How's he doing and have you spoken 404 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:42.279 to him? Yeah, he met with the media believe Tuesday's practice, and 405 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:47.400 you know, he recalled his time growing up around the Arizona program, obviously 406 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:52.079 his father being the Arizona Hall of Famer that he was, and he also 407 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.880 mentioned, you know how he used to work in restaurants as a busser around 408 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:59.799 Tucstan. So yeah, he has very fond memories and he sounds like he's 409 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.039 really looking forward to going back there and playing. As far as the performance 410 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:10.759 this year, they're starting left tackle. They lost their left tackle each of 411 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:14.400 the last two seasons now, so he's kind of the third one in as 412 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.440 many seasons. Uh, there have been some struggles along the offensive line just 413 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:22.000 in general no matter who the quarterback has been. And I think that's really 414 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:26.200 why you've seen the role reverse where the defense has taken more of a center 415 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.799 stage of the offense is still coming along as a work in progress. So 416 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.480 the big thing will be, you know, if they can continue to protect 417 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:40.039 Ethan Garber's and uh, you know, kind of kind of keep them clean 418 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:42.319 and and try to get the offense back and do a more of a rhythm, 419 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:47.920 particularly in the first half of these games. What what what? So 420 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.559 you met with Chip Kelly this week? What is he saying about Arizona? 421 00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:55.160 Because the the you know, the you know, the impression is that, 422 00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:57.319 you know, Arizona hasn't been good for a while, you know, but 423 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.160 people are kind of getting surprised now once you know, some games being a 424 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:06.559 couple of ranked teams. So what's Chip's impression of Arizona? What has he 425 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:10.279 said this week? Now, he's been very complimentary, you know, he 426 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.400 noted there you know, even not not just their wins, but some of 427 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.000 the losses they've had. I believe they only lost their games by a combined 428 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.000 sixteen points or something like that. So he's noted, how you know, 429 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:26.400 they've got their full respect and you know, obviously looking back at last year's 430 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.960 game, what Jaden de Laura was able to do to them. You know, 431 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.960 it's definitely not an opponent they're taking lightly at least what they're as far 432 00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:38.920 as what they're saying publicly. And it'll be interesting to see whether it's you 433 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:45.720 know, the Laura or Noah Alfida what exactly their defensives like this time around. 434 00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:49.640 But I know that you know, Chips mentioned, uh, you know, 435 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.680 both of the quarterbacks kind of do the same thing, and uh, 436 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:56.440 they're preparing for both of them no matter what. But it doesn't sound like 437 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.079 they're gonna be too surprised. Yeah, everybody's talking nice about each other. 438 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:07.759 Jay, Everyone's keeping receives, everyone's keeping receipts. Man, Well, okay, 439 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.440 so you know Arizona's you said, Arizona's got I think they're fifth in 440 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:14.720 the league in defense. UCLA's first. So you know, we're talking about 441 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:18.720 two teams that historically don't bring in you know, when they're getting ready to 442 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:22.119 meet, you're not talking about their defenses. So what kind of what do 443 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:25.559 you expect to see on Saturday? I mean, you know the over unders 444 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:27.799 fifty, so you know, do you do you expect to see a kind 445 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:32.960 of a you know, your twenty one twenty game or something like that. 446 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.559 What do you think? So that's the weird thing because I was waiting for 447 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:42.279 more of a shootout when over when UCLA played Washington State didn't really happen. 448 00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:48.480 The weird thing is those games in Tucson, just from everything I remember when 449 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.720 I was covering the program there, and really when UCLA and Arizona meet in 450 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:59.880 particular, they're just really really wacky. So I'm expecting nothing short of some 451 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.559 strange, packed, all that through dark type of classic. You know. 452 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:11.640 I just think there's everything has gone so well for UCLA to this point, 453 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.400 I think, especially defensively that I think people are still waiting to see if 454 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:19.119 that other shoe is going to drop, and I think a little bit it 455 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:25.039 might, but I think their defense is improved enough to the point where they 456 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.319 can overcome any you know, lapses and defense that they might have. Yeah, 457 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:33.759 so it looks jay that Bruins have the same contagious disease that Arizona fans 458 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.759 have. At some point, they're hoping that they're looking forward, not looking 459 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:44.400 forward to, but worried about the next shoot to drive Tracy you covered Arizona 460 00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:48.039 football for a while here about ten, five, six, seven years ago. 461 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:51.759 What do you make of the impression of what Jed's done, because I 462 00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:56.440 think you were here for Rich Rod Right. Yeah. From what everything I've 463 00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:01.319 heard, and I still friends with Matt right known all that and everything he's 464 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:07.160 told me about it is the way Jed seems to have ingrained himself in the 465 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.519 community. I think Rich did that a little bit, but it sounds like 466 00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:13.839 Kevin Sunland didn't do that at all. And I guess, you know, 467 00:32:13.960 --> 00:32:19.839 Jed Fishes really bought into being a college, college town kind of coach and 468 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:23.079 uh really, you know, just ingrain himself in that community. I was 469 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:25.559 one of those people that were, you know, skeptical, and they did 470 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.160 hire him, and you know, obviously had no head coaching experience and all 471 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.680 that, and just as much as he jumped around in his coaching career before 472 00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:40.240 taking that job. But yeah, no, everything he's done and the foothold 473 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:45.519 that they kind of had getting into southern California, particularly in Orange County and 474 00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:50.079 grabbing some of those guys who are now you know, performing for them, 475 00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:54.440 I think he's done. You know, I'm better than expected job have one 476 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.440 go ahead. So you're from southern California. So I think Jed was asked 477 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:01.720 this question. I played later about we've seen it. We've seen that thousand 478 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:05.920 times. Jay, you know where I'm going with kids from southern California to 479 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.799 come to Arizona and play out of their minds because the US season, the 480 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:13.599 UCLAs didn't recruit them. Have you seen that because you you were here as 481 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:17.039 well. Yeah, no, I remember hearing all kinds of guys talk about 482 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:22.119 that when you know when that was covering the program and uh, you know, 483 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.680 wanting to show the UCLAs and usc is that they should have been recruited 484 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:32.279 more closely. I think it's the way everything's kind of shifted with conference alignment. 485 00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:37.359 Now you know the fact that Arizona's not going to be going up against 486 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:43.200 UCLA and USC regularly. I'm interested to see how that changes. I think 487 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.319 you're still going to see some of those guys because it is such a state 488 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:49.240 that's close by. I think you're still going to see some of those guys 489 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:53.519 trickle down out to Arizona, but I don't know how much more frequent it's 490 00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:57.200 going to be. Uh So that'll be something to keep an eye on. 491 00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:01.799 But I definitely think that's something that true. You know, especially doing the 492 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:06.039 recruiting side of things a little bit here and there. You always hear about 493 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.239 these guys who think they should be, you know, recruited more nationally, 494 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.679 and especially when it comes to their home state school, and when they don't 495 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:15.360 get that respect, there is that chip on their shoulders. So I don't 496 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:20.199 think that's something that's overblown at all. So lastly, I hope you're better 497 00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:24.079 than the previous beat writers we've spoken to when they face Arizona, because they've 498 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:28.480 been wrong a lot. What do you think is gonna happen this weekend? 499 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.960 I think I think you Sela pulls it out, but I think Arizona really 500 00:34:34.239 --> 00:34:37.119 gives it to them and makes it close. It's funny because I remember last 501 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:44.000 year Matt asked me this question along with Troy, and they actually were surprised 502 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.599 I picked Arizona to beat UCLA. They thought I still had some lingering, 503 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:53.440 you know or something. But so yeah, last year's resultant surprised me at 504 00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:58.920 all. But I think the way they've improved defensively this year, specifically the 505 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:01.840 way they've defended you know, some of those screen passes that can go for 506 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:06.760 big plays and things like that. I think UCLA has improved enough and shown 507 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.559 enough for the first I believe eight games of the season that they can get 508 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:15.400 pressure on the quarterback and their secondary can hold up. But I'm still expecting 509 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.320 a little bit more of a shootout. I think something in the mid the 510 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:22.800 high thirties and Arizona or UCLA figures out away in the fourth quarter to kind 511 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:25.760 of, you know, clean things up. So it looks like now the 512 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:30.440 only thing you have memories of Arizona is your phone number. Yeah no, 513 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:35.880 because I was too latey to change it. You're a sportswriger, of course 514 00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.440 you are all right, Thanks man, Thanks Tracy, Thanks about appreciate it. 515 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:43.920 Yeah, thanks for having me. All right. That feels good. 516 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:50.199 Yeah. I mean, you know, I I if I had to bet 517 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.400 it, I'd take the under. I take that. Yeah. What is 518 00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:57.199 the fifty? Yeah? Yeah, like you know, twenty one one, 519 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.840 yeah, twenty one seventy. That's good. I mean I'm looking at their 520 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.039 scores. What's is spreads still one and a half? One two and a 521 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:07.039 half is JUCAE ONCLA by two and a half. Like you take out that 522 00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:09.400 crappy outlier where they beat the hell out of Stanford when I had Stanford, 523 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.960 plus seventeen their games for twenty eight, sixteen, thirty six, twenty four, 524 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:17.320 twenty five, seventeen, fourteen, seven, h thirty five, ten, 525 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.880 twenty seven, thirteen. They're playing a low scoring, a lower scoring 526 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:24.880 game, So I don't know why that would be any different, because Arizona's 527 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.039 defense is good too. Sorry, all right, we went along. Let's 528 00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.360 take our break. We're going to come back. 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How about them Rangers. 577 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.320 I haven't heard too much from the Diamondbacks fans today. I don't like I 578 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:15.679 said maybe know two. You said you know about five? Yeah, I 579 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:19.159 well, you know, I didn't hear from my sister. She didn't. 580 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.599 I was in on the text on the chat where somebody was asking her, 581 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:25.360 my sister, how she was doing the last night or today this morning, 582 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:29.480 this morning? Yeah, but I haven't heard from anybody else. Yeah, 583 00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:31.159 Hey, they were one of two teams that got this far. Look, 584 00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:35.800 you know, I think we said yesterday that even if they lose it, 585 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.559 you know, it's a it's a great season for them. You know, 586 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.960 nobody expected them to get there. So you know, you go with that 587 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.159 where you know, on the opposite side, you know, the Dodgers get 588 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:49.239 into the playoffs and you know, yeah, coop the bed and so they 589 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.159 you know, it's a disappointing season for them. So you know, gig, 590 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:53.800 yeah, give it up for the d back. You see, I 591 00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:59.960 watched the the portion of the interview with the Tory Lavallo where you got choke. 592 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.679 I heard about that. You know, I mean that's the guy, 593 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:05.840 you know who you got to have an appreciation for that. He really wanted 594 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:09.719 this, even though you know, nobody expected them to get there. So 595 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.719 you know, look, you know, you got to have respect for what 596 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:17.880 they did. Yeah, And I wanted to ask you guys a quick question. 597 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.280 So the this year's World Series averaged just nine point one million viewers across 598 00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:28.519 the five games ever played. It's by far the least watch World series in 599 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:34.920 history, and the past four World Series are increasingly less and less the least 600 00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:39.079 watch matchups. We talked about that before the Shooters started and figured that would 601 00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:43.199 happen, that they would be not watched very much, obviously because it's not 602 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:46.400 really sexier attractive of Texas and Arizona. Who would have thought that, right, 603 00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:50.920 But we we also said that what does the matter if people want to 604 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:52.719 watch this, We're the world series, World damn Series. Yeah, yeah, 605 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:57.119 you know, I mean I watched all of them, you know, 606 00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.440 I mean, yeah, as much as I could. You know, we 607 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.280 were off trip or treating, but you were on trigger treating with our kid 608 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:07.039 on on on Tuesday night. But I you know, I had it on 609 00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.159 in my ear, you know, I was listening to it, paying attention 610 00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:13.840 to it. So you know, I'm a baseball fan and I was interested 611 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:15.239 in it. Yeah, I was just I was just really surprised that the 612 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.440 last four have been the least watched on record. It's it's you know, 613 00:42:20.280 --> 00:42:23.159 in general, and that's sports in general, right, and you know we're 614 00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:25.920 finding that out last four. You say, yeah, the last four have 615 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.719 been the least. I would you be surprised that twenty twenty was small if 616 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.400 it was because of COVID everybody's there's nothing else to do but watch Michael Jordan's 617 00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.840 you know, remember that you had a captive body and something that we couldn't 618 00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:44.800 wait for the next the next episode of The Last Dance to come on. 619 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.000 I mean, and I never cared more about the NBA than I did at 620 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:52.639 that time just three years ago. Yeah, I know, I never cared 621 00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:59.280 more about Pack twelve water Polo. Yeah really, and you were having to 622 00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:04.119 watch past Way Water polog man now. But you know, good for the 623 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:07.239 Diamondbacks, you know, and I'm sure that you know because we've talked, 624 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.079 as we talked to Jack mcgrudery, this is he doesn't think this is a 625 00:43:10.119 --> 00:43:13.159 one off. Yeah, you know, and a lot of people don't think 626 00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.519 this is a one off. They think, you know that, Okay, 627 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.639 now they're gonna be one of the favorites next year, right, well, 628 00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:21.400 you know that goes uh you give you the Josh Pastor. Yeah, deal, 629 00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:22.639 Oh we get here. It's gonna be easy, gonna be easy. 630 00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:25.639 Come back now. Now the the you know, the odds are already out 631 00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.360 and they're already picking the Dodgers and the Braves again, you know, for 632 00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:35.519 the rates for sixty five four fifty six to fifty, it's six hundred. 633 00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.840 That's good. I'm I'm looking. Tahani also hasn't signed yet, And whenever, 634 00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.639 as soon as our tany lands anywhere, that's gonna the odds are gonna 635 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.199 shift from. So what are the Dodgers? Maybe lenser the Dodger in a 636 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.679 second? Okay, they've got the Braves at seven hundred. Oh, I 637 00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:52.239 do that tomorrow. The Dodgers at seven fifty. I wouldn't do that tomorrow. 638 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:58.320 The Astros nine hundred, that's a good one. Then your Texas Rangers 639 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:02.880 at nine hundred. Where's baltim sixteen? Oh, I'd take that too. 640 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:09.679 Sixteen to one kind of got aroused a sixteen sixteen to one. I didn't 641 00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:15.360 the team fourteen that did for the number one. See yeah, yeah, 642 00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.519 So let me go back to just connected the basketball, so we know how 643 00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.320 just to kind of with the directs two thousand and one, they win in 644 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.960 everyone's happy, yeaha YadA. They're celebrated forever they get to the finals. 645 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.079 Now they won't be celebrated as much, right although, although they had a 646 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:34.880 fantastic season, just shorter from winning it. So I'll equal it to these 647 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:37.760 to ninety seven and two thousand and one where they got to the finals but 648 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.920 didn't win it. And in my mind, the two thousand and one team 649 00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.280 is much better than ninety seventeen. Yeah, but you don't say we don't 650 00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:47.440 celebrate it like those guys, right right, even though they were the championship 651 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.159 game, they didn't win it. Again, so hose against Duke because they 652 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:53.119 didn't win because they didn't win it, right, yeah, right now, 653 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:57.199 But you had a better team, I mean, I mean you rate okay, 654 00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.079 they rate the final fourteens for Arizona and you probably put ninety seven is 655 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.519 four worse than the fourth yeah, right, right, right, because ninety 656 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:09.119 four with Clidon Clidon and Damon Stottmaire. Yeah, I don't know, well, 657 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:14.199 ninety eight they were better. Yeah, they never got to exactly, 658 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:16.239 Yeah, you can. I mean there were some there were some teams that 659 00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:20.559 didn't even get to the front before that were better than the ninety seventeen, 660 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.840 you know, just in the ninety timing maybe timing. Okay, So here, 661 00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.519 since we're on the subject, Astros at nine hundred Textas Rangers, nine 662 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:35.280 hundred, Phillies eleven, Yankees fifteen Oriel sixteen, Blue Jay seventeen, Padres 663 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:40.960 eighteen, Raised nineteen, Mariners, Mets twenty, Red Sox twenty two, 664 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.719 Twins twenty five, Cubs thirty, Arizona thirty. The Diamondbacks are thirty. 665 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:51.719 Their way down the list. Yeah, no respect, no respect. What's 666 00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:57.719 what plus three thousand? You do it for the Diamondbacks? Yeah? The 667 00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.079 playoffs? Oh dude, give me twenty bucks and will put forty bucks on 668 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:06.719 it and come on after after I hit my over five for air forty forty 669 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:09.639 times. That's a ton. That's a pretty good price. I mean, 670 00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:14.599 the chances are, but if it's not a one off, well when when 671 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:17.519 you think that them to win the division would be the smarter because yeah, 672 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:22.159 they've always gonna get They've only got World Series odds out right now, so 673 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:25.440 I bet those will come up and they're probably waiting for as you said, 674 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:29.320 who gets so Tani and some of the other guys that are going to be 675 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.199 moving around. But you know, people want to bet this some of this 676 00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:35.239 stuff right away, and so that's that's what they want to take our money 677 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.960 just as bad as we want to give it to them, exactly exactly. 678 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:40.719 So, but no again, you know, just just want to make sure 679 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:44.599 we know, we talk about him and uh, you know, maybe we'll 680 00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:46.599 get somebody on down the road. But it was nice run by the d 681 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:50.440 Backs and it was very nice. That's fun to watch, really's fun to 682 00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.280 watch. You got your rooting for him, right, if you're here, 683 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.000 you got your rooting for him. But man, can you imagine though, 684 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.199 We're going to see what what Sammy says when he gets back. If you're 685 00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:06.159 a Diamondbacks fan, you bought three days of World Series tickets two three, 686 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:10.000 four hundred dollars five hundred dollars per game, and he saw three loss that's 687 00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:14.280 probably probably double that. Yeah, you saw three losses. Yeah, well 688 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.360 that that that couldn't have been fun and three bad losses. Yeah, I 689 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:22.639 mean they got crushed all three times. R I mean those games couldn't have 690 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.400 been fun at all. So at least you watch that. You know, 691 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:30.599 the Rangers were the first, yeah, you know, and the Padres are 692 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:34.800 the highest that have the best odds of a team that has never won it, 693 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:37.840 so that they're plus eighteen hundred. Also money, they just got so 694 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.079 much, They got so much potential, but they never materialized. You know, 695 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:44.719 what, what has to happen. I need to get one Soto and 696 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.360 Manny Machado off my fantasy team for them to have a chance. I'll tell 697 00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:51.480 the management over there, could you make a call to five two? Oh 698 00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:58.760 what pay? Pay me and I'll dump them. But I but Steve again, 699 00:47:58.800 --> 00:48:01.119 I said a number time I had three times, three key diamondbacks on 700 00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:06.239 my on my roster. Christian Walker, tell Marte and Zach Gallen, we're 701 00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:10.599 all on my team. Right. I'm not always the kids to death, 702 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:19.760 just often, just often always, not always. But yeah, so anyways, 703 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:22.079 so there you go, right, we got four minutes. I do 704 00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:28.079 want to play one clip from Jed because he was asked about are you talking 705 00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.800 to you guys about the fact that you need to win one more game to 706 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:36.199 go to you? But you know it's like, you know, coaches kind 707 00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:38.400 of stay away from but they just say it's one game at a time, 708 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:42.039 and you know, you know, we're only thinking about the next game. 709 00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:45.119 Here's what Jed had to say about whether or not he's talking to his guys 710 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.719 about win one more and you're in a bowl game. No, I you 711 00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:51.679 know, I I I kind of I don't know. I don't subscribe to 712 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:54.480 the coach speak. Really, I just like to tell it, tell it 713 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:59.440 honestly, and heck, we win, we go to a bowl, you 714 00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.800 know, And why would I not talk about that. I don't know. 715 00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:06.159 I don't know that whole thing of don't talk about that or don't tell you. 716 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:08.119 I don't know. I don't believe in that. I believe in Hey, 717 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:10.880 it's right in front of us. Go take it if you can do 718 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.400 it, and let's do everything we can to do it and see what it 719 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:19.559 looks like. Yeah. In fact, if I were writing a story, 720 00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.119 that's where I would go. That'd be my lead. Yeah, it has 721 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:25.880 to be that. In the quarterback, that would be my lead, and 722 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.440 then the second that would be the quarterback. Well and and and you know, 723 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.079 and uh and Tracy McDonald said that they're preparing. They're still prepared for 724 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:37.440 both quarterbacks. That's what Jed wants. Yeah, and that's fine, they'll 725 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.679 be ready for both. Yeah. But again, I don't think they run 726 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.159 anything differently. I think they executed different well, no question, yeah, 727 00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:46.199 but going to the bowl game. Things, see, the over under was 728 00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:51.719 five, so they've hit they've hit the number right, so now you need 729 00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:54.159 to get the over right right, which wouldn't be surprised, I think I 730 00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:58.599 said I fit five or six. Obviously that was easy. Uh. The 731 00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:01.559 guy who could be writing off old him of an apology. Jake if they 732 00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.280 get j if they get the eighth, and I'm thinking Jet, if they 733 00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:09.719 get to eight, Jenna's coach the year, no matter what organ does, 734 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.599 come on this, This team was picked to finished the eighth or ninth in 735 00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.760 the league. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, but there's 736 00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:21.280 gonna be some people out there who are gonna vote for sure, whoever wins 737 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.679 the league because it was such a hard league. Sure, but Jed has 738 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.679 done if I mean, he certainly should be in the conversation even now, 739 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.239 should be in the conversation because because you know, because nobody's taking them lightly 740 00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:35.480 anymore, and yet they're still out there winning game. Come on, I 741 00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:40.119 can't remember in the last five to six years, seven years that that we've 742 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:44.840 talked that. I've talked so favorably of the team, but you don't talk 743 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:50.360 about favorably about anything. Yeah, you're overweight, by that was a little 744 00:50:50.360 --> 00:51:00.920 retribution. Yeah, you're right, So I'm not gonna. I'm gonna but 745 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:02.840 so, by the way, you know what, I resent that because I'm 746 00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:08.400 not just a little overweight I'm allowed. You offered him, went for the 747 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.679 bank. I've put some effort into this body. Okay, this is taking 748 00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:16.199 some work. I was being very caught to you. This is taking some 749 00:51:16.239 --> 00:51:20.599 work. You don't You don't get like this overnight. Okay, you put 750 00:51:20.679 --> 00:51:22.760 some time and effort into it. Okay, and that's what I'm doing, 751 00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:28.440 all right, Okay, So all right, one more guest today. We're 752 00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:30.000 gonna have John Wilner. Will have him come in and talk about, you 753 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.199 know, what's going on around the PAC twelve. You know, as we 754 00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:36.960 sit here, uh, you know, I'm waiting for the Pac twelve to 755 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.280 crash. I'm waiting for USC to beat Washington and you know, get them 756 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:44.239 out of the playoff race. I'm waiting for somebody to beat Oregon, because 757 00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:47.840 that's how that's how we as Arizona fans. Don't get in your car because 758 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:55.000 you could crash because it or it could blow up. You bury the same. 759 00:51:57.159 --> 00:51:59.760 All right. So we're gonna take a break breaking news. We've got 760 00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:02.639 Kevin on the breaking news. A lot of stuff going on with more stuff 761 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:06.480 on the Michigan sign stealing things, so we'll talk about that as well. 762 00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:09.159 All right, So stick around and then John Wilner at four fifteen. If 763 00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:13.440 we does not cat if, I have a good sampling in that instead of 764 00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:15.039 boughts in the Atlanta Subsat, I'm gonna get loose.