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fifty. I'm Steve Ribero. You're jigins On saying we have some breaking news
I on the ball, breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. All right,
Uh, whole bunch of stuff, smattering of stuff all over the place.
But we'll start with uh uh the U A Athlete Department announcing their twenty
twenty three Hall of Fame class. Uh. They've got eight people that are
going into the into the view of a sports Hall of Fame. Uh.
I don't even know where to start. You know, we'll just listen in
order that they listen to us track and field athlete. Her name now is
Beloved Promise, but it was Brigida Barrett. Just change your name. Oh
wow, what's what's her name now? Beloved promise? Wow. I'll answer
with that. You know, that's there's some religious implications that or whatever,
but that's her name now. But she was a high jumper. Here was
Olympian tw two thousand ninety twenty thirteen. Six time national champion, eight time
All American. Remember her? She nearly I think she Oh she was an
Olympic silver medal Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, so she's on there.
Kirstin Smith, a women's basketball player back in the eighties. Preston Guilmett a
pitture at Arizona. Uh, two time All American in two thousand and five,
two thousand and nine. Uh. He he got to the majors with
I'm trying to remember with the with the well then Indians Dave Rubil going in
right away. Uh, volleyball coach nineteen twenty twenty. How how long was
Kendle here forever forever? Because he because Rubio arrivals a lot of those numbers,
he was here longer than than Lute or Yeah or Dictomy or all these
Stephen Sambo across country and track and field twenty ten to twenty thirteen, Justine,
I guess it's lunts swimming and diving twenty five twenty ten. Then here's
one I've got mixed feelings about, Okay, because I get he's done a
basketball afterwards, no football player, he's done a ton after the fact.
But if you're talking about just his Arizona career. I'm not sure he's deserving
him. Don't even let me try to guess. I wouldn't know. Rob
Gronkowski, Oh, I mean he's gonna go into College Football Hall of Fame.
Well maybe it's not. He didn't do it enough. Yeah, he
basically played full season and part of a n go in the NFL Hall,
right, Or do you give it to him partly because of his after Arizona
career. If you give him to the basketball guys for they after the fact,
because that's what they do with the Ring of Honor, blah blah blah,
because ten years and that's probably and the rules kind of get Yeah,
I got moved around the guy, right, So Rob Gronkowski listed and then
John Perron, who how long did you know John? I loved him.
Yeah. I talked to him a lot for the stories for our bus money
and money stuff. You know, he thought. He taught me a lot
about all the you know, the finances of of Arizona Athletics from having done
again business stories with him, and like, you know, I talked to
him about the press box, right, the new press box and skuyboxes that
they built and how they had to refinance those because they you know they in
the day, right, Yeah, because because you know he said, he's
just like buying a house, but except it's you know, a fifty million
dollars house. Well, he's a good boy from New Mexico too. Yeah,
he has a draw. But he was in the He was in the
athletic department for thirty five years, most of that as the chief financial officer.
I loved him. He was a great guy. I think he came
out and played a couple of baseball games with us. Summer baseball saw him
a lot with his grandkids playing sports. Yeah, so John Parren. So
that's that's the class going in. Uh uh. The induction is November third.
Be Let me throw a weird question at you. So you were there
when I was there early in the years eighties nineties. Do you miss those
times for the guys like John Perron, the Centro Dempsey's, the Rouget the
Roses back in the days. I was there all the time, So I
have some feelings for those time, and I liked all those people, but
I don't dislike the people that are there now. Good. I though I
knew you'd come over with a good Well, we know a lot of them,
but we're not We're not We're not We're not there. We're not there
all the time. We're not seeing you know that, you know that we
were there. I have no idea exactly. No, No, back in
the day, we would I lived there. We lived all the time.
You're around, you're walking around with saleh Yeah, No, I mean I
remember, you know, I'd go down to the U of A, you
know, middle of the afternoon, hang out to see what's going on,
and then go to practice and all that kind of stuff. When I was
covering basketball. You know, you'd go watch practice and you'd see people to
sit with you and sit and watch games you watch. You know, you'd
see you know, you see John Perron and sell. It's a different time.
Is a different time, different kind of closed off and just be a
sign of the times. So that's the way it is. All right,
I'll throw this out there right away because I need to uh uh. Julio
yours the picture for the Dodgers and now officially on administrative leave, which would
probably lead to a suspension after after he was arrested. Apparently this was an
incident that took place in the parking lot of the of the soccer stadium where
he had gone to see watch Miami take on the Ella, and there was
some altercation, which is with his wife because it's still not giving any details,
but presumably it's his wife, the same person that he was with back
in twenty nineteen when he when he had a similar domessy violence charge. So
I'm gonna say he's done for the year. How does that And this is
totally totally besides the point, totally on. It affects the Dodgers totally because
he's like the main guy. Was he the right now? And and their
pitch staff to me was kind of their weak point. Anyways, I don't
know that even with him, they had the pitching to to, you know,
go win a World series, especially with what I saw the Braves due
to him over the weekend. So you know, again it's it's not the
most important thing going on and this issue, but nonetheless, yeah, I
think I think it hugely affects the Dodgers. They got their asses kicked yesterday
their first game without him against Miami. Not that not all that good.
So anyways, interesting development on how this again, how the times are changing
so there's some discussion rumor, but Caleb Williams's dad didn't squash it and kind
of fed the rumor that if he doesn't like who's got the number one draft
pick this year, he could just come back to school. He's making money,
right, he's you know, he doesn't have to He doesn't have to
go into the draft this year. You can go back to school and play
another year and hopefully a better team. The number one choice. Yeah,
because they he's he's unanimously considered the number one draft. He might not have
to worry about that. The Sanders kid might have to worry about Yeah.
Well, you know, I say the Cardinals got the number one pick.
Do you want to go play for the Cardinals? Right? No, John,
I will do that. Well, but see, he won't be going
down out he said, I'm not coming out right. Well, because he
will know, he'll know at the end of the season who's got the number
one pick. He might just say, you know what, I'm coming back
from another didn't roll the dice and get a better team. Now, whatever
team you get when you're the number one, it's not a good team.
It's not a good team unless somebody trades for that pick. But you know
he's got options basically not having to come out, hold out and do the
John Alway things. Another factor of the nil deals, right, because he's
got because he's got the money to stay in school and not you wann't be
comfortable and not to not have any any issues with it. All right,
Let's see what else? Uh? Speaking of nil deals, Page Bukers,
the guard Night from got a Nike shoe deal. Doesn't didn't say how much.
But you didn't hear her name very much last year. Now you know
the girl was a girl you did, was the one from LA Yeah,
yeah, so she she she's got her a Nike shoe deal. It doesn't
say anything about I didn't see anything about how much it's worth. It probably
doesn't have to tell anybody, but there's a you know, a Nike's a
big deal, right, I mean, you know, uh, Bjean Robinson
has his mustard and you know other people they've got cars and stuff like that.
But she's got a Nike deal that's like Milaca Jordan type stuff. So
let's see, we'll see how that goes. In the NFL, Nick Bosa
signed a hundred and seventy million dollars extension with the forty nine ers, including
one hundred and twenty two and a half million guaranteed, and he's the highest
paid defensive player in history. Well, every time someone signed something, they're
the highest time at some point. So Nick Bosa's he signed, ready to
go in time for the season to start, and so we'll see how that
goes. Other nfls of Cooper Cup ruled out for the opener with the Seahawks.
He's got hamstring issues. He's gone to see a specialist. I kicked
him out of I kicked him out of my team last night because I had
him on my team. I had him as my keeper, and I let
him go and somebody out drafted him and they can deal with him now.
Again to me, at hamstring issues, Linger, he'll have a problem with
that all year long, missing games and whatnot. Another NFL thing. Jake
Hayner, the quarterback from came out of Fresno State, got rookie quarterback,
got suspended six games for pegs. So he hasn't even played it down.
He's with the Saints and he's already suspended. Yeah, you see some of
the guilty please for the Iowa State, Oh No, I see that a
few of them who have already gone under they got busted. Man, they
got James Harden is in the news because somebody said that it was a report
from uh who was it from? H oh Ramona Shelburn from ESPN reported that
that he James Harden was quote unquote pouting that he didn't get elected as an
All Star for the NBA All Star Game, and then uh Adam Silver reached
out to him and what and offered him an injury replacement spot on the All
Star team. But he didn't see it because he was busy. He didn't
answer back because he was quote unquote pouting and by the time he went to
accept it and he wasn't going to accept it, Silver had gotten somebody else.
And now he's he's all upset. You're you're thirty something years old and
you're just a star in the league making millions. This is what concerns you.
What is there to pout about? Right? What is there to pout
about that? That's why I would never take I never I never want to
make a million dollars route for that guy. Campus is an AU guy.
He's an a guy that right, He's already got two strikes against him,
Arizona Beach Volleyball hired an assistant coach Austin. I guess it's Hosto Hoosto,
who's now an assistant coach. He started there as a as a student.
Man in Jersey's back as an assistant coach. So man moving up the ladder.
Nice, you know, get an internship here and you can you can
move on to places, right, ye? All right? And then one
last thing, Big game Boomer came across with the fifteen loudest and quietest college
football stadiums of last weekend. Loudest and loudest, quietest, loudest too,
Wow, tell me Alabama right to any stadium? Number one? Did they
be gaed the crap out of somebody? Followed by oh no, I take
it back? Is this it for week two? I think that expects I
was saying these these are for week two. So these who he thinks are
going to be the loudest and quietest statius for week two? Alabama called by
Texas attach, Mississippi State's going to be in there. They are not Colorado.
He's got them at number three. Oh yes, Mississippi State number four.
Yeah, there you go. I would assume I was stayed at number
five, Washington State at number six North Carolina State then a SEU, I
don't know sho. Who's their shoe. They've got Oklahoma state to state.
I guess Oklhoma State here. That's gonna be a tough game for them.
It is, he says, still thinks, Alice, you will be loud
even though they sucked it last week. It's got to be the scariest place
I've ever ever. Have you ever watched on video or seen it the entrance
at Virginia Tech. Nobody here. It's very crazy. Man. Go on
YouTube one day and just teck it. No, we saw it last ye
you shoot? You told me about it? Gives you goose bumps? Yeah,
very cool. I want I want to see. Yeah, you should
see we talked about your bad thing. Yeah, I'm gonna have a chat
with him. Although he got you, we need to work on on the
notches again. Do you see Mike Williams, former Tampa Bay wide receiver,
got killed in construction. Thirty six years old. Remember he is a great
right side receiver diet out. I think so. Yeah, thirty six years
old, I think so. I'm not sure. Thirty six years old was
at a construction site with his dad. I think something fell on him,
passed away, uh, steel beam or something. Yeah. Listed among the
quietest stadiums coming up in week two, Ohio State and Michigan and Florida at
thirteen, fourteen and fifteen. Wow, Washington at number nine, watching it
generally loud. There were a lot of people at their game last week.
They probably don't play anybody. Yeah, maybe that, Maybe that's it.
But let's also say that big bang Boomer, as much as we'd like him
on a show, and he has always wait, well, let me tell
you something he made, not made something up. He got something factually incorrect
about Arizona talking about hot the hot stadiums. Remember he said Arizona was hotter
than Phoenix because it's southern. It's the southern part of the Well, he
doesn't realize that Phoenix it's scorching, and here it's different and we're at a
higher elevation. So you know what I'm saying. When you when you're doing
all these seas, sometimes you get some things. He's guessing, guessing,
But we love him. Yeah, we still like him. He's fine,
all right, That's all I got. Steve Well, just in time or
to the break. Just all right, we're gonna take our next break and
we're gonna come back. It's gonna be Jack Buyers Mississippi State Rivals a website
talking about the bulldocks and what they think of the wildcats and what do he
thinks might happen this weekend? So stick around for that will very bad.
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This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports
fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on Fox
Sports fourteen. Could be I'm Steve Rivera, fe chickens all the staphone.
We have Jack Buyers from Mississippi State, Bulldog Blitz from Rivals. How are
you, Jack, I'm doing well. Thank you for having mere. Yes,
it's just good. It's good to have you back. You. You're
on last year with you trying to get a preview of what's going on Saturday.
So you had a big press conference today, correct with the with the
team, we spoke to them on Monday. Monday, Okay, okay,
cool. What'd you find out about Arizona what they're looking at? So,
you know, Arizona, it's kind of a it's kind of an interesting match
with the Obviously we saw this matchup this year, but you know, with
Arizona they have really good wide receivers right and Mississippi State it's a inexperienced defensive
back group. That's kind of the key matchup I'm looking at when I'm looking
at this game. You know, it's you lose a guy like Emmanuel Forbes
to the NFL drafting that's just hard to replace. So, you know,
with the wide recuper talent in Arizona has, it's kind of the matchup I'm
really looking at. You know, one of the things that you were out
here in the West. You know, you think of the SEC physical always,
you know, all kinds of big alignment all over the place. You
know, we the perspective we have is that, you know, Mississippi State
really just out muscled him last year. Arizona didn't have the horses. But
is that a reality? You know, does Mississippi State and most of the
good SEC teams not all, but the good ones have that in common in
terms of both on both lines, that the size, the physicalness, all
that kind of stuff. And how do you think that matches up with Arizona
this year? I think that's absolutely If you want to win in the SEC,
you need to win in the line of scrimmage because you know, Alabama,
LASU, Georgia, all of those teams are getting all the best guys
on front. So you know, if you want to you want the best
guys up front to be able to win. But I think Missisippi State's got
some good guys up there. Offensive line is seniors all all down the line,
you know, left tackle, the right tackle. You got some very
experienced guys. I think it's almost one hundred starts combined between them. The
defensive line is the kind of the same thing. It's a three three five
defense. You got a big nose guard in the middle of Nathan Pickering.
He's making a lot of plays last week. Jaden Crumberdy was a guy who
didn't get to play against Arizona last year because he injured his shoulder in training
camp. But he came along really strong at the end of last year,
and I think it's a guy who could be an All SEC guy at defensive
tackle. Pass rushing wise, it's nothing too crazy from Mississippi State, but
I think the push that can get in the running game is something that you
can give them an edge. Did I see a stat and correct me if
I'm wrong. I thought I saw a stat that says something like twenty of
the twenty two starters on offense and defen are either seniors or grad transfers or
something like that. Is that Am I mixing up the numbers? It's it's
not accurate, it's pretty close to accurate. Like it's either it's it's no
less than eighteen. I could tell you that right. Even the guys that
they had to replace, they replaced them with guys who you know, I've
been around for a while and we're you know, just kind of waiting them
for their shots. So you know, they got a really old team,
which I think kind of benefits them. So this is maybe not a weird
question, but something that people here. A lot of people all this way
liked Mike Leach a lot. How is life after after him? There?
Is it kind of strange because he's a character and he was a good coach.
It's definitely it's definitely a lot different like that. You know, those
two couldn't be any more different, and now I think that's what made them
to work so well. You know, Leech was kind of the laid back
personality on the offensive side, and on the defensive side, Zach Garnett was
you know, really intense, and I think that balance really works. So
I think you have that right now, Zack ground that is a very intense
coach. I think he brings out to the reality on the defensive side,
and you know, on the offensive side, Kevin Barbey, he's kind of
that relaxed guy. They're very different offerense friend Michael Leach, but you know,
I think I think Marr Barbet is gonna you know, get them in
going in the right direction. Let me ask you about the So how different
did it look last week to you or was it noticeably different or just little
things? How do they look? I mean with Michael there was no tight
ends, and you know Barbay's got tight ends on the field, so that
that's one thing that's different. Run plays, you know, Mike leachs the
only run play they would run would be like an inside zone or a draw.
So there's a lot more aspects in the running game. They rushed for
three hundred yards, which is something that they didn't do since I think then
Mullen was the coach. It's just, you know way. The one thing
that is very similar is that you know, everything's out of shotgun. I
think that was something a lot of people were worried about when they hired Ken.
Barbie was a Mississippi state. They're gonna feel from running air raid to
running everything under center, and that's not the case. Right now. Everything's
under shotgun, which I think makes things a little easier for Will Rogers.
You see a lot of different plays with their wide receivers where they're trying to
get them in space, whereas Mike Leacher is more of a just kind of
fit the system. But they would really like to get the wide receivers in
those screen passes and you know, end arounds and things like that, which
is another like very different aspect. So Arizona hasn't been out there forever.
I guess, right, what kind of atmosphere is it going to be?
Jay was saying how big is the city and how big is the how big
is the stadium? And where do those guys come from? Uh? Yeah,
the stock fells pretty I would say if the college wasn't here, maybe
twenty thousand people during the sum or obviously the college really makes the population a
lot bigger. The atmosphere. I'm I'm not sure what's we're expecting the crowd
this week. I think there's gonna be you know, some MPC really from
what I've seen, Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on with that.
I'm kind of disappointed in that. But obviously it's gonna be loud. Like
the cow bells are unique. You know a lot of people hate them.
I understand it, but you know, it's definitely gonna add to the atmosphere
and make things a little difficult. It's definitely a lot different in some of
the other places. Well, when you say a lot of people hate him.
Are you talking about people from outside? Do people who who you know
do missip some Mississippi State fans hate them? No, No, I'm because
that means jet Fish did mention that they were gonna be piping in cow bell
uh cow bell Uh? Sound into their practices uh this week to get to
you know, be able to you know, between plays and stuff like that,
to be able to you know, concentrate and figure things out. I've
heard people piping in music, but not piping in cowbells. Yeah. So
the rule, the rule with the cowboll is you're not allowed to ring them
while the center has a hand on the ball, right. I expect they'll
follow it. I feel like the only time they don't follow that rules when
the plane'll miss. So it should be good with that pre snap, but
it definitely should be interesting to see how Arizona adapts to it. So did
you grow up in that area? Did you cover that sid you cover the
team for a long time? Uh? No, I'm a student right now,
just start my senior year. I'm originally from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
so it was a bit of a different change for me to all wanted they
get, you know, away from the cold weather up and phility. So
you know, it's definitely a change. But I like it down here.
It's a little humid, but yeah, well I'm going to love it.
So what I was gonna ask you is, okay, so if you weren't
from there, did you come to Tucson last year or did you watch it
from the from over there? No? I didn't. I didn't. I
didn't end up coming on. I was gonna just kind of compare the contrasts
of the games right here. You come here, it's it's laid back,
it's kind of you know, we go the game maybe and Mississippi State.
You disappointed that some seats are gonna be empty? Yeah, you know,
because you know, over the summer they made all these announcements about how season
tickets were sold out and whatnot, and now we're seeing today you know,
there's tickets on you know, stubfall and whatnot going on for ten dollars.
Yeah, when come on, you gotta gotta come out and get to come
to the game. But I think I think a lot of people are saving
up for LSU next week. Well that's the game a lot of people are
hyped up about. I was gonna ask is there is there a chance of
any kind of a trap you know, is this a trap game for from
Mississippi State? Looking ahead a little bit. You got LSU coming in.
You already saw that they're human because they got their butts kicked last week.
It's an opportunity for Mississippi State to get off on, you know, on
the right foot in the sec You think that comes into play at all?
I think it could. But from what I've seen from this Mississippi State team
is they're just trying to establish themselves right, you know, just it's a
completely new offensive system. They're still trying to get their feet wet and matt
so I think they're gonna try to play there just because of that aspect of
it. I don't know how much they're going to be worrying about l s
who, but they could come into factor. We'll tell us how the you
know, the new coach and how he's taken on this, uh, you
know, the head coaching job after having been the defensive guy with a personality
like like uh like Mike League you know all this time, How does he
fit into that role? How do you see him as a as a head
coach? Fitting in. I think he's someone that when I saw him as
a defensive coordinator, he was someone I could see as a head coach.
I mean, obviously his personality is draft certainly different from Mike League, but
just you know, I mentioned earlier the intensity that he he just kind of
commands a room when when you're around him, and I think that's an aspect
that you know, serves him really well. He's someone who I think fits
Starkville really well. You know, he grew up in Mexico and he's been
around. He was at San Diego State for a while and it's different,
but he's kind of the country guy a little bit. So I think he
sits Starkville well. And just I really love the intensively at it brings.
Okay, all right, so what kind of game do you think we're looking
at this week? A lot of offense less offense? Uh uh. You
know, we don't know about Arizona. You know, they we think their
defense has has improved over last year, but you know, they played Northern
Arizona, so we don't know what are they expecting out there. And that's
kind of the same thing when Missippi State, like they played Southeastern Louisiana.
So it's like, I'm not really sure what to take a look in that
game. You know, obviously the offense is pretty impressive. I would lean
to a lower scoring game because I do think Mississippi States defense is going to
be really good, really physical. They're gonna stop the lune really well,
you know, just make delore and have to make some bad throws and offensively,
like as experienced as they are, it's still a new system and you're
still you know, going from southeast from Louisiana to Arizona. So I think
there could be some wrinkles where they struggle a little bit. So I would
expect, you know, a game, you know, in the lower scoring
kind of range. I wouldn't expect either team to put up thirty, probably
somewhere in the twenties. Under all right, we're gonna take that because you
said so, all right, I know it's legal out there in Arizona.
It is. It is, Yeah, but did tell you something, mister
Buyers, He's not right a lot. I'm doing okay, I'm doing okay.
So that's interesting. You said, I don't think that Arizona stokes stuff
the feelings of good football Honestly, if if they thought, if the people
miss Mississippi State thought that it was gonna be good football, they would go
watch this game. But stink. Yeah, I'm not really sure, you
know, you would think it's six thirty ES Central time kickoff, people would
be amped up about it. Yeah, I do think there are a lot
of people excited about, you know, Zach Garnett and everything. I'm just
kind of surprised is what I've seen you Obviously, I'm sure take still get
sold throughout the week, and maybe I'm just completely wrong on this, but
yeah, I'm pretty surprised about it. Okay, all right, all right,
well thanks Jack, We appreciate your time. Appreciate it. Wait wait,
wait wait good under thirty right under thirty? Who's gonna win the game?
I think they said we stayed to win the game. I do think,
you know it, being at home. Missaidy State did handle them pretty
well last year. I do think Missippi State I would give them, you
know, an advantage in the trenches, and I think that, combined with
being at home trying to gives them an advantage. Okay, that's okay,
not that you need us to tell you you're legit no, no, but
this is what it sounds like a good analyst. This is one of the
losses we thought would happen earlier this season. We did. Okay, Jack,
thanks abounch man, We appreciate it. Have fun on Saturday. Thank
you for having me care. That was Jack Buyers from a rivals. Uh
bulldog blitz uh talking about Mississippi State. So you know, I didn't realize
that alis you was was next week? So I you know, yeah,
that's obviously a thing in Arizona's favor, right, that that couldn't have an
impact on the game. Interesting that you think that it's gonna be a lower
scoring game, maybe something in the under thirty and the twenties. I think
one of them will. I don't think one of them will be under thirty.
I'm trying to look up what the over under is for that game.
Uh let's see there it is, uh over under sixty and a half,
over under sixteen and a half. That's that's right around where he's talking about,
right, Yes, that's it's thirty. That's say one of them scores
thirty one, thirty one to twenty eight. Is man, Yeah, that's
a tough number. Even if he didn't say that. I everyzone needs to
score thirty three points right to party needs to score thirty five thirty five,
and in Mississippi say it's not gonna not gonna not score twenty eight. Probably
at home. I don't know. I'd go over, I'd go over.
Yeah, I think everyone who's gonna score, I think I think they'll scores
some points. Yeah, we don't just score twenty four and Mississippi scorees twey
thirty five. That's right there, right, yeah, Yeah, don't gamble,
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a minute. They pay us for a minute. That's what they get.
Yeah, okay, I get that's what. Hey, Howard, if you're
out there, Howard and you're back from your embargo from us, give us
a kick buzz. You gotta see if you're still alive. Yeah, Miguel,
where are you? Miguel? We heard from Nico uh and and Gabe.
There's no controversy, so we won't hear. Where's James, right,
James? Oh, by the way, Brian, you got cut off light
yesterday because I didn't turn on your mic. If you want a call and
read that again, we're here or not. I butchered that, so you
didn't you didn't get on the air yesterday. I hope you hope you're okay
with that. I hope that doesn't mean you want he lives for that.
I know I know that that was that was That was a complete but job.
But it was good stuff too, but it is what is uh,
you know what. We didn't talk about this, but I think Richard not
to beat this into the ground, but I think he's pretty spot on with
the Colorado Morosca situation. Or is he saying Aska sucks because he's an Unklahoma
guy, which no, No, I think he's realistic. Yeah, I
think he's. But don't you think I mean I think I think he's I
think yeah, I think we don't know. Like like my brother at lunch
to day was gushing about how good Colorado was and then a couple of us
in the group predicting. My other brother Jean, was like, you know,
pumped the brakes just a little bit. Okay, you know, we
don't know, and we don't know. But but let me tell you something,
Jean, if you're listening, you can Zoss do have an impressional first
impression because because Jay, if you like to, you'll jump on him until
do you write that pody until he get write anymore. Let me just say
that my understanding is that Rick hit none of his bets last weekend. Rick
yeah, okay, yeah, he's a big Draft Kings guy. Okay,
and he had a lot of stuff going on. He thought he thought was
a great week in of football, but he didn't hit anything, you know,
so who know, And Jean's part of the two, and Jean does
some stuff. Yeah, not not near as much as as as as Ricky.
Uh you know, look, Rick's you know, Rick's at home,
he's hanging out, he's working from home. You know, Jeans out playing
golf, going on to eat, all kinds of stuff. So little different
lifestyles for the duo. So best. Rick has got some back issues right
now. He's sort of laid up, so he hangs around and watch a
lot of games. But hey, you know, I'm again, I'm excited
about this weekend that the NFL kicks in tomorrow. Good game tomorrow. The
lines and the yeah should be sent to Kansas City. Isn't it Detroit?
No, it should be very good because Detroit Detroit is gonna be good this
year. Yeah, yeah, it's in Kansas City. Stuff. She's six
and a half minus six. I can't say, because we're gonna make our
picks tomorrow. That's right, this is what's our what's the big game for
the weekend San Diego, Miami and San Diego. That game's in San Diego
Chargers minus throw tomorrow night, just off the top of the head, but
I'm not sure I'll do it. Look awful performance on the first week of
Fab five Friday Picks last week for me, I got one out of five.
Steve got three five. I'm already I'm already behind. I'm just gonna
maintain this, maintain this. We are going to do our picks tomorrow because
I'm going to be out on Friday. So the Fab five Friday picks will
be the Fab Thursday Friday picks this week only. I'm glad you call them
a Fab Friday and not Fab Friday fabulous picks, because I'm not fabulous picks.
You put the fab right in the right Yeah, right in the right
place, because it's always a fab It was always a Fab Friday. So
fabriady bad picking. But uh, you know yeah, so I you know,
I I like that. I like the Chiefs there. I think I
think I do six and a half under a touchdown? Yeah, chiefs at
yeah, opener totally. We know that they have to play well, but
against a pretty good team, right, They're not you know, yeah,
the Lions aren't going to sneak up on them. Yeah, you know,
they might want to put the lines in their place where they think they're all
that this year. Yeah, you know, all kinds of things. But
again, the NFL getting started. There's or some good games. Uh,
you know, the Titans and the Saints again, you know, Tennessee and
New Orleans kind of a big rivalry, a crap game. But what you
would call a very even game is the Cardinals and the Commanders. Yeah right,
it's in Washington. The Commanders are seven point favorites. The Cardinals,
who knows who the hell what they're Hell, they're good for a quarterback.
You got the Bengals and the Browns in Cleveland. The Browns are The Bengals
are two and a half point favorites. Again, the Dolphins, Chargers two
teams that maybe aren't being considered for the Super Bowl but certainly aren't considered to
be good teams. Yeah right, yeah, Packers and Bears, big rivalry.
The Bears are actually favored by point in Chicago. That's a fun one.
Seahawks and Rams a you know, a divisional game or Seahawks by five
and a half point favorite. Raiders and Broncos are traditional. You know.
The NFL did this on purpose. You got the Cowboys and the Giants,
of course, then the Monday night game the Bills and the Jets. Everybody
gets their first look at Aaron Rodgers in the Jets uniform that it is Bills
by two and a half. Wow in New York. Wow Wow, that's
nothing. Sounds like you want the Bills. Yeah. Yeah, Well.
The funny thing about the NFL and I, you know, I bet them
more than I do college, at least not bet them, but I picked
them. Uh that seems like a like a trap because it's an obvious one
of those games that's two ow something going on. We don't know. Yeah,
right, well, I'll have to look at that one. Tomorrow is
already coming up, so we're But again, I like the way the NFL
set this up for the weekend. Every game is a game that you kind
of go, all right, I want to see that one that's kind of
a you know, not not a rivalry thing, but you still want to
see. Is the forty nine Ers and the Steelers, right rock Purty,
How good is it gonna be? Uh, you know, right, coming
right out against against our second year a third year guy from Pittsburgh against again
against the Steelers, let me ask you. A UTEP plays Northwestern this weekend.
I think Northwestern is gonna win a game or two. That's a disaster.
A bad team beating really bad that that that that that that's like looks
like a mess. Yeah, in Northwest. It's hard to it's whether you
have a fractured team, which looks probably they do. Uh, just a
whole culture that's screwed up. Uh. And it's not really good anyway.
And not that long ago. Northwestern they were in the they were in the
Big Ten game a few years ago. Right, they play U TAP this
weekend at home. Guess the spread. You don't look at it, don't
look at don't look at it. I would think Northwestern would still be a
favor. Yeah, bye bye. Let's say four one and a half against
you tap? Yeah Northwestern? Wow? I mean you Tap lost to Jacksonville
State? Right? Yeah? Team? Yeah? Did rich Rod played last
week? They did? I don't know who they played. I don't remember
who they played because they won that game. He was pretty happy. Are
they okay? I think so. I'm pretty sure they played. These lines
are strange. That's some US Oklahoma fifteen and a half. Let's see.
But if they played. They played a non Power five game. This is
a weird weekend. Oregon's at Texas Tech. At Texas Tech. Guess that's
spread there, Oregon by twenty eight six and a half. Come on,
that's what Tech LOOMI exactly, this is a weird weekend. I'm better not
tell you because we're gonna have you're giving me some good games. Do give
me some good games? Six and a half. That that surprises me,
because yeah, Texas Texas again, you go to you go to Wyoming and
lose right in Oregon put eighty one through eighty one points on Portland State,
man, Steve, look at you know, Okay, here's another one.
Then Baylor loses to Texas State. I saw that. I wasn't going yeah,
seven and a half. I know that's another one. What's up with
that? And a shoe is what to Oklahoma State? And I don't know
how good Oklahoma State is as U is minus three and a half against Oklahoma
State. No, there were plush three plus three and a half plus three
plus three and a half At a SU they talked about, Oh, it's
gonna be really hot at a c It's pretty hot in Oklahoma people and the
people, come on, people overlook, over analyze all these stuff. It's
two teams splint against each other. And yeah, Oklahoma is pretty muggy right
now, you're you're boys in New Mexico State at ten point underdog to liberty,
liberty. I would take liberty, Yeah, liberty, liberty, liberty,
liberty. Here's a game that would be a good, a good NFL
game, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Yeah, hit giving up seven to Cincinnati,
North Texas five and a half point favorites coming off of Oh they got crushed
by Cal, but now they're twelve and a half point favor North Cal won
a game. What the heck? Y'all won a game by a lucky I'll
put fifty something? Who to Stanford played? Because I bet you Stamford is
gonna better When people think Troy Taylor, Troy Taylor is a very uh,
very methodical coach. It was a heck of a player. They're at USC.
Oh never mind, yes, it's friend USC by twenty seven, twenty
nine and a half. Would you take that? No? Wouldn't touchdown?
No? No, But I'm glad to see see this is the Gonzale s
effect. And it was a USC game with Nevada because you saw that they
played so bad. You figured they're paying bad again and they get cover against
Nevada. Okay Cal at home after scoring fifty six against from Texas. They're
playing Auburn. Aubert who Auburt sects Auburn by seven, six and a half.
Look at you, you could be here. You could be doing point
spread, Steve. I just gotta cover them, that's all. I don't
care about making the line. Let's cover the wad. Okay, Don Brown,
I'm at Massa, mass at Home gets Ohio when I move Ohio.
Yeah, when I move Ohio by five seven seven. Yeah, you could
you could be setting points bread, Steve. You could be setting because they
play They scored some points last week against some big team. Yeah. Hey,
did you see did you see the thing that the Michigan offense did last
week because of because of Harbuzz concension, They came out with it like a
missing man formation on offense or the first play, like like we should be
getting all emotional and sad about the fact that Harbus not, you know,
not coaching the game because he got because he got suspended not by the NC
double A but by his own school, and like the quarterback during pregame war
most was wearing a free Harbaugh a T shirt. Like guys, guys,
Harbor broke the rules. You know, he brough the rules. If you're
thinking he shouldn't, he shouldn't be sitting out of game, you need to
you need to think twice about that stuff, right, Okay, all right,
A good show, A quick show tomorrow we have do we have guests?
We don't have guests. We don't know, we don't Okay, we
have our picks. We gotta get to maybe. Uh, well, we'll
see. We always come up with some stuff. Man, it works,
it works, Steve, we'll have somebody to talk about the Arizona game.
Uh, Mississippi State game. I'm looking forward to the game again. I
want to see, right, I want to see we don't know, we
don't know. We don't know both sides, but we definitely don't know about
its right. I want to see what this is gonna look like. We
have jet tomorrow too, don't forget. I don't know if we'll be able
to get the conference press conference. What did I ask you about? Oh,
just about the perception of SEC the question you asked buyers about all the
teams like this. Yeah, Vanderbilts. Well, and remember he mentioned that
last time he went he went to Mississippi State, it was with Florida and
they got the butts. So that's going to be his impression. But I
don't know. You know, look, he's he's not gonna give up anything
that's gonna say, you know, you know somebody, Yeah, I'm gonna
throw fastballs. Okay, exactly. All right, thank you for being here.
We'll be back tomorrow. Are be sure to give us a call,
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