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breaking news all right, said, go get it all right? So starting
off with Arizona soccer and volleyball, they traveled with Callen. Stanford soccer lost
last night to zero, but they could still salvage the weekend if they can
get a big win at Stanford and volleyball is still itching to get back into
it as they're looking for some key wins this weekend. So what's the record.
It's still very good, is it? I believe that they have lost
the last three games, so they're but they're not doing will overall. No,
not overall. They lost the A SU as well, so that's all
is a tough one. Okay, yeah, moving into uh wait, wait
what times the game today? Seven thirty or seventh? Okay thirty right,
yeah, seven thirty. I don't know if people know though beforehand there's gonna
be a wheelchair game going on so if you get there early, there will
be something good to watch. So, yeah, they always play play a
game there before the before the Red and Blue game, which is always fun.
That was fun. Yep. The guests tonight we'll include some big names,
headlined by Gilbert Arenas, Mike Bibby, Aaron Gordon, Andre Adela,
and Miles Simon. Yeah. I talked to Bibby today and he said he
was coming down. I was a little surprised. You'll see him. He's
got these big, huge all those guys. Huh, where'd you get that
from? That was just I believe sheer. Okay, yep. Yeah,
I don't know if people saw the schedule though. There's three point contests and
a dunk contest. Prior. I don't know did they have a three point
I think it's the first time they've done the three point before. Yeah,
I don't remember it. Yeah, it's it's it's never mind saying this is
a This is not a really a game. It's just a fun night.
It's a it's a thing. Yeah, it's an event. It's not a
it's not a Yeah. I mean, you know they're gonna play a scrimmage
for I think they played twelve two twelve minute halves or something like that,
which I think it was kind of quick too. It was just fun.
Yeah, Yeah, the intro intros are always fun. You know, new
new transfers get yeah, and you know, you know, the new guys
get fired up for it, right because it's the first time in front of
this crowd. They're gonna they're gonna go out there and try and impress some
people. And it's a different crowd. Yeah, it's not right, it's
not the usual crowd. Yeah. But sticking with Arizona Sports, we got
Arizona QB commit Demon Williams coming into town tomorrow. He rushed for three touchdowns
in the first half versus Brophy and he has had twenty six total touchdowns on
the air so the year. Wow, ye five games something that something like
that. Yeah, but he's definitely a dual guy. I'm curious to see
if whenever that is that he comes and plays here, what kind of offense
he'll be running he'll be running in. But he's definitely a dual threat guy
that we're gonna have to use exploit. So alrighty, you just got a
lot of quarterback coming in. They know many Dormans still still he's got I
mean, he's got guy. Yeah, I mean if you compare this to
his first year, this is drastic change. We were scratching for a court
for any quarterback and a healthy quarterback. Yeah, healthy quarterback. So yeah,
a lot to look forward for there. And according to Josh Newman,
as we touched on earlier Nate Johnson, we'll start tonight for for Utah.
So Organ State pick is looking pretty good. Right now, we'll see hopefully
you don't. You don't drink some there. I know Steve's probably gonna pick
the opposite now. No, I'm not touching that one. He'll do his
own damage. Any worried about that, I'll give him the cars, the
keys of the car that him drive. Fine, But I like you.
I think you talk could cover. But what you think I don't even know.
I don't even know you're pulling my thought process on this is that I
think Oregon State it's not very good. But because I think that they're going
to be better than we think, that's double negata, double neg Yeah.
Whatever it is, it's something I can't be right, so I'm gonna go
with being wrong. Reverse analysis. Whatever you think they are its opposite sticking
with injury news, looks like Bryce Young is gonna start on a Sunday.
So I mean, I think for the Vikings, this is the must win
because there's a lot of trade talk. Three it's it's I think this is
I mean, if if they would have salvaged to win. About the Chargers,
it's totally different. As you saw the Charger game, Staley would have
been fired probably if they lost that game. I mean, I mean,
what's picked to either win or contend for the division. I know in the
division with the Lion, everybody was was going crazy about the Lions going in,
but yeah, you can't be going three. And then last year with
I don't know if it was luck. I mean some call it luck a
lot of those close games, but I mean overall, it's just a lot
of teams in the NFL right now are struggling. Yeah, it's funny of
them. And we got the other game with the Bears. I mean,
both of those teams are struggling really bad. And I mean we'll see how
the coaching goes. But typically early on there's gonna be a couple coaches that
go on the hot seat. We'll see how I know the Bears are probably
thinking about it at least now. But yeah, there's a lot, a
lot of a lot of drama going on with certain teams. I heard even
a few rumors of Kirk Cousins. So, I mean, I heard people
talking about Kirk Cousins getting traded to the Jets. Yeah. Yeah, that
would be a good move for the Jets. What it's Yeah, yeah,
he's he's no one wants him in Minnesota. He's he's much better than what
they have now anywhere. Yeah, if you're a Jets fan, I didn't
take it. You're just good enough to make a mediocre Yeah. That's that's
it. That's it. He's done with Minnesota. Yeah. So, then
with Minnesota sticking with the NFL, they actually modify their gambling policies. They're
gonna punish players more harshly for betting on their own team. So a player
that places a bet involving him involving his own team will face at least two
years of a suspension, and then bets placed on any NFL game will be
at least one year. Okay, So I don't know, Jee's lucky he's
not in the NFL. Yeah, you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I should probably stay out of that. I mean, yeah, there's
a lot of guys. I mean, I don't know how they make these
mistakes though, I mean, just don't just don't do it. Well we're
talking, yes, I don't know if you saw this one. The Air
Force golf coach, the Air Force off coach got caught and he was gambling
on Air Force football and all kinds of other stuff. He signed up for
an online account, didn't say which one, using his girlfriend's name and email,
just in credit card. But they still somehow figured out it was him,
and he got fired, and he's got it, and he's he's he's
basically suspended for from coaching college for five years. Who now, what did
he make? Seventy eighty nine dollars something like that, But he had a
job. Now he doesn't because he couldn't. He couldn't, he couldn't help
himself. Well, a lot of college kids, a lot of them.
I mean, was it the Iowa schools right that both of them were involved.
They've they've lost a bunch of players this year because because they don't,
because they've been you know, gambling and stuff. I mean, just wait
till, wait till you're out man like just I mean, I don't know
a lot of the NFL guys they're getting they're already getting paid, and then
on top of it, well, yeah, the NFL. I was just
like, you know, I have no sympathy for those guys because you just
you just you just can't. You just can't fight you when you're making the
money you're making and stuff like that, you just can't. Yeah. But
sticking with the NFL news, I don't know if you guys saw the post
game from last night, but Jared Goff did uh kind of fight back a
little hit to Fitzpatrick after saying I didn't know I was a poor man's anything,
when previously Fitzpatrick called him a poor man's Matt Ryan. So he kind
of kind of punched back a little bit. But what did he say?
Uh, he was just you were just saying. Goff was basically saying,
oh, I hope that performance was good enough for you, and oh wow,
this is stupids Patrick. Yeah, I was Fitzpatrick because he's on the
postgame. No, no, no, My point would be I just just
coming from the ultimate the career, backup career poor man guy. Yes,
yes, pretty much. I was I would have said, I guess the
poortman knows what another poorman looks like. Yeah, I mean they try to
joke it off, you know, like a little bit, but you could
tell Jared Gofferm remembered that for re. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah,
there was a lot going on on social media about it. But yeah,
I mean the Lions, that's a big win for them, obviously going in
the lambeau Field and honestly, they controlled that game from the very beginning.
And oh yeah, I mean I watched, I watched a bunch of the
game and they just they just let him up. You know. I know
that there was a little bit of a of a thought that the Packers are
gonna come back because they kind of point. Yeah. Yeah, but the
Lions. Here's the thing again, Steve, that pisses me off. The
Lions. If they're three and one, they've been really impressive in their three
wins, including beating the Chiefs at Kansas City. Yeah, and I had
him in the one week that they lost at home. Just yet, I
don't understand why you don't be realized what you do or what kind of affect
you. And so I haven't taken them the last two weeks because of what
they did to me in week two. Well, there'd be one in three
had you taken them those times. It makes me mad now that Jacksonville did
that to me last week. I mean, losing at home to the Texans.
Are you kidding me? Yeah? Well I had that too. This
is this, This is the NFL. I g Von Lawrence is my fantasy
quarterback haut And there aren't they playing? Aren't they playing in London? Now?
Yeah, they got the London game this week. I hate I hate
starting players that are that are playing out of out of the country. So
I don't know. We'll see how that game goes. But yeah, a
lot of divisions are kind of still being figured out. I think that the
Packers last night we found out a little bit more. Yeah, I know
a lot of people early on kind of thought that they could maybe steer this
thing, but I don't know a lot. Last night maybe revealed a lot
about their offense in Jordan's Love, So we'll see how how it goes.
Yeah, I don't know how good Jordan Love is gonna be. And there's
I'm probably not the only one that thinks that, But I don't know.
Man, So you saw that Arizona's a nineteen and a half point dog.
I saw it twenty twenty yesterday it was seventeen, right, it opened at
eighteen and a half. Though seventeen I never saw it. I saw it
at eighteen, then at eighteen and a half, and then the next time
I thought it was twenty. If it's and it's twenty for us, for
you and me today, don't make our picks. Uh, you know the
before we get out of here, got it it got up to twenty?
Was I listening to the guys on one of the guys on the College Sports
in Choired College Football in Choired took took Washington, Washington either way. I
mean, that's a lot of points. I think I would excuse I would.
I think Arizona can score enough points to cover that. I mean I
wouldn't. I'm not all you talk about this and I was thinking about this
today. I don't know what I was thinking. Well, I thought about
with you. If you were if this show was in Oregon or Corvallis,
you wouldn't think Washington kick their ass, and you'd think that Corvallis is not
too bad in Arizona sucks. Using your same philosophy. Who wouldn't he Yeah
right, Yeah, I don't know. I think if I'm a if I'm
an Oregon State fan, I'm not all that enthralled with d J and g
l Lah. Yeah, but he can see he's had a better season so
far than than Dolora. Yeah. But they lost Washington State last week,
and they were not expecting to lose to Washington I don't know. I had
Washington State big you or I did, But I don't think they were expecting
it better than people think Oregon State fans and the team thinks they're gonna win
the league and they're no, they're not gonna do death. Yeah, I
think I'm Brad Pitt. There's seven to five? Yeah, Okay, is
Arizona seven five team? I don't no, Yeah, he had that bit.
Really. I think after them and I will will definitely know what what
team will have a better will certain have a better idea because I think tomorrow
will tell us, you know who they can compete with in the league,
right because they're playing essentially you know yo, Eiras said it. I've been
saying it. The best team in the league. Yeah, they get blown
out. Now you know that they belong in the eight nine. Well,
are you guys talk about that? How does that not son of alarms?
If you're the best, if the best team in the back twelve is coming
here and you think Arizona's gonna hang tough, doesn't make sense to me.
If you're a team, your team the guy who say is the best team?
Yeah? Is it a three point three three touchdown dog? Uh?
Yeah, I mean I know you have hope I would take I would take
the points. Realistically, yes, I would take the points. But what
I'm saying is that at the end, after this game, Sece Washington is
here, will happens if they get If Arizone gets blown out, then they're
like, you know, they're an eighth or ninth place team in the league.
But if they don't, you know, if they hang tough with them,
you know, then maybe they can. You know. Look, I
don't expect to win either this week or next week. I don't. I
really don't believe it. They'll be Washington or USC. What all you can
hope for as an their's own fan, The best that you should hope for,
Well, you're gonna hope for a win, but the best you can
expect. I guess is what I'm gonna say is that Arizone hangs with both
teams and doesn't just get completely out. Even if they do hang with both
teams, what does that do? What does that do for you? You
know, you feel like you can compete, Steve? I mean you play.
I mean you played as an athlete. You played games against teams that
you knew were way the hell better than you. Sure, sure, and
if you hung with them, you thought, okay, you know, I'm
you know, sure, but I didn't win. But there's also a chance
that Washington just comes in things and it's gonna be easy and doesn't show up
and doesn't play. Yeah, I mean we like that organ that one year
when they came in here that rainy day. Yeah, that was one of
those games where they did not just like to get a game and they came
out of nowhere. But okay, we gotta go. That's that's one thing
I want to ask Jake Fisher about that week. Okay, all right,
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Radio WAP. This is I on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez
on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to II on the Ball
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve your Jake. Now we have our usual
guy, Jake Fisher from you of A. How are you doing, Jake?
I'm doing well. How are you? We're doing? Okay? Big
game today this weekend Jake uh First of all, just your general thoughts on
going into this game. Then I want to pick your brain on something.
Well, I think that we saw during the Stanford game. Our guys may
have been looking forward a little bit. That's kind of knew we were gonna
win. But normally win go and you play a team before a top you
know ten team comes to town, a lot of the times you overlook them.
So I'm hoping that's not what it was. I hope they got the
kinks out, and you know, maybe just because there was a step up
in competition from the game prior to that, maybe that kind of to room
off a little bit. But you know, I haven't really looked deep into
the Washington team. I just know they have a bunch of future professionals on
both sides of the ball, a good pass rush, unbelievable of seaters,
and probably the front runner for the Heisman right now. So it's obviously gonna
be a challenge. I will tell you that, for whatever reason, we
always had that one game every year where we get an upset at home against
the good team, and let's just hope that that street continues. So,
I mean, they're really really good, but you know, as you experience
firsthand, you know, anything can happen. We've talked about that Oregon game,
your your senior year, Organ's coming in here. I think it would
number two in the country, two or three. No there, I think
we're four. For you know, you guys have had a bad loss the
week before and then you beat them, and it's like, how does that
happen? So how does that happen? It's college football. You've got good
players everywhere. It doesn't matter how highly you were recruited. You may have
been a zero star guy that got developed and how to wait Grossbert and you
know, turned into a player. I mean every single team, they don't
go into a game like this, you know, knowing that they're gonna lose.
They're trying to find, you know, ways to when they're trying to
pick a part. Who's the week we come to defense, you know,
you know, maybe can we get away with single blocking some guys so then
we can focus on taking somebody completely out of the game. There's a lot
of different things that they look at the Remember, everyone's got players, I
mean even us this year, we've got some you know, we've got some
future NFL guying on my team too, So if we're able to get the
ball to those guys, you know, you never know what could happen.
Plus, the good thing about this year's team is it looks like we're able
to establish the run really well and as long as you know, if we
get in the obvious passing situation, we don't make any mistakes. H And
just the fact that we've been running the ball so well and we've been looking
the clock really well going on these very long extended drives, if we're able
to make them, you know, commit a few turnovers and then get up
on them and you know, so the game of the pace kind of throw
them out of their rhythm. It could happen. So I want to you
to put your realist to kat on your your head. You have to go
to if you need minutes to get it, please do what Fan Drenk going
to like me this question. You have a couple I know you've been fighting
with a lumber on Twitter. What what do you think the chances are really
percentage wise? Percentage wise just because we're at home, I'm going you know,
but a lot of things going to go right. That's why I mean
this this team does not have the room for era like Washington. Washington can
throw a couple of picks, get behind and catch up with it pretty quickly.
I haven't seen us, you know, be able to do that.
I know that it was against Mississippi State, and I'm not entirely sure how
the rest of their season has panned out, but they don't have a quick
strike offense. These guys. They can get you from the five and go
ninety five yards because of these guys. So I'm just, uh, you
know, thirty percent that we're at home, but then hey, they weren't
giving us a very good percent as when we went against Oregon that day either.
Yeah, well that's the thing, you know, And as you said,
it's called it's college football, you know, and that's that's that's what
makes it as much fun as it is. But you know, besides besides
that, though, I mean, and I don't know, maybe we had
this conversation before, and if we did, I don't remember what it was.
But you know, going during that week, there had to be some
things going on around to you guys that maybe led you to believe that this
something like this was going to happen, you know, I mean, or
was there anything, or did it just all of a sudden materialized on game
day? Uh No, what it was was the fact that I forget the
kid's name, but he got interviewed and they had lost that believe it was
Stanford earlier in the year, when I thought they were clearly the better team.
Anyways, what happened was a guy got on and started jawing, saying
that you know, we're gonna treat it just like every other game, because
you know we're gonna have to go to Rose Bowl again, and hell,
his eyes and all this other craft, and so we were like, let's
knock them down a peg and put him in a different bowl game. So,
you know, there was a lot of bulletin board material. And what
I really liked about the coaching staff. You know, after a bad loss
like that, some coaching staff they'll start yelling Actually in film, aren't guys
were just like, hey, you know, get this one out of the
way, forget about it. The game that we got to focus on his
organs. They're a lot better than the team he just lost to, So
buckle up because we're gonna have a work week. And then, you know,
we felt like they were very simple offense they just had some dynamic guys.
I mean, all we did was basically sit back and play cover four
for a lot of it. You know, it's just and they get to
the ball so quick you can't really you can't really give too many calls.
You're gonna you know, they're gonna catch you off guard. They're gonna catch
you while you're making a substitution. So hey, this play as hard as
you can, run to the whistle and live to fight another day. So
i've's this of Jay and some of the other colors or people that have been
on the show since through four games, what's your overall impression of Arizona.
They're three and one. I get that, but last week they didn't look
too good, and they've looked spotty in places, right. I just think
that it hasn't clicked yet. And I understand from last year we got behind
a lot and we had this horse, so we were taking more shots and
doing that type of stuff. But hey, that offensive line, you can
lean on them to run and finish a game. That receivers. You know,
as long as they don't make mistakes, those guys can get separation on
anybody in the country. You know, a team Mack. He doesn't need
separation. He'll just jump over you. You know what I mean, it's
catch Raby, It's ridiculous. So I think we need to establish a little
bit of a run game, do a little bit you know, play action
pass. Can't get behind on first down and we got to take a couple
of shots downfield. You know, if we do that, and if our
defense can you know, minimize the damage because you know they're gonna score.
You can't say they're not going to score. And so and I'm really looking
forward to watching how the young defensive back to deal with these receivers. So
you know, if the defensive line can hold up, because they've got a
lot of pros on that offensive line too, we have a shot. But
that's saying a lot. Yeah. I mean, look I I I as
much as anybody want, you know, Arizona to do well and and stuff.
Going into a game like this, though, do you if you know
you're out manned or do you ever believe you're up? I guess I'll ask
you first, you ever believe you're out man And if you do when you're
going into a game, are you kind of like, okay, if we're
if we do this this, you know, we can feel good about ourselves.
Well, yeah, and you know the thing with you know, back
when we play you know, an organ, we knew we had the nation's
best running back on our side, and our offensive line had actually been clicking
pretty well the last couple of games, so we knew we were going to
be able to run the ball on him. And you saw he went and
set the record that day and ran over a couple of guys in the process.
For the defense, we knew we had, you know, players,
We just had to keep everything basic, keep the main thing the main thing,
and we knew that we were going to have to get a couple of
turnovers. Well we did that right. We had guys making big hits,
you know, dislodging the football. We had guys picking off Mariota and then
they I think one of the biggest things too. You know, we were
able to get out to a lead and we were able to milk the clock
and so they had to press a little bit harder. So I think that
we have an offensive line that we can do that. We just got to
get a damn weat. Yeah. Well, and I've been saying that all
week that they can't get off to a bad start, and they haven't started
well either of their last two games. Right, yeah, I think,
you know, if there's going to be any week to kind of change that,
this has got to be the one. Yeah, no question. So
what were your impressions about the Stafford game if you want to kind of rereview
that one? For us, it was just one of those games where it's
not that people were looking disengaged. It just looked like, you know,
kind of slow and like people's ski were in the mud. And you know,
I don't know, I think it's one of those games that maybe some
of those young guys, because they're not used to being on a good football
team all they've been here, I think some of those guys maybe overlooked it.
You know, And just to be honest with you, like him the
nature if you have some really good guys on your teeth, you can kind
of sit back and say, I hope that they're the ones that make a
play, like just rely on him. No, you got to think of
yourself that same way. You've got to be the one who gonna make the
play. And so, you know, we'll see how it goes. I
know that that Stafford team was probably very, very motivated from the prior week
kid as well, so they came out and wanted to know that they weren't
a team that should lose to Uh, I think of Sacramento State, right,
and uh yeah, and then we just kind of looked like we were
flat. No, yeah, I mean it was frustrating, but then again
I got to the end of the game and thought it was a road game.
It was. It was a PAC twelve game and they won. And
yeah, no matter what, you say, what's up and say, we
haven't had too many of those lately, so you know, well when we
can get them, great And then I mean there's been a couple of you
know, teams like Florida State barely really beating Boston College. So it happens.
Jake, you talked about bulletin board material. We see it all the
time now with Colorado and other teams places in Colorado. And you know,
I used to play many years ago. A friend dark he just I'm not
sure if if bulletin board material is really needed. Don't you just want to
beat them in the first place. Well, absolutely, and the bulletin board
material at the coach is gonna use is he's gonna say, after watching ESPN,
nobody picked you guys, So that's what they think of you. So
go ahead and take that for what it's worth. But I think we're good
enough to beat this thin You're in front of a sold out environment, and
you know these guys believe in you. We're doing a lot better. We're
on schedule, but we got to win a couple of these games and to
be one hundred percent hoss. If you're like the way that the Pac twelve
is said and up, man, they need a big upset victory against one
of these opponents coming up. So I think as a coach, you just
tell them, hey, all of the guys on TV, they don't think
you haven't fighting chance. I mean, look at the spread. It's like,
didn't they go up to like twenty and a half? It got to
twenty yesterday. I think it's dropped back down to nineteen and a half,
but it's still in the in the neighborhood of twenty yeah, And I mean,
shoot, like, just keep it close, make sure you can establish
the run, don't get behind the sticks, and don't give up any big
time plays early on because stuff like that can mess with your head. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I hear you. All right, man, well
it should be fine. I should be fund you're well. If I ask,
you're gonna say they're gonna win. Right. I have high hopes.
I have believe you're good. You're good, because that's been probably the most
not so definite thing you've ever said on the show. Yeah. I'm working
on becoming a politician. I guess that's good. All right, Hey,
thanks so much, man, have a great weekend. Thank you, Jake
Fisher. He was more subdued before. You know that. Maybe that's a
good thing. Oh yeah, I guess that's I have to see if I
recognize the man. Okay, all right, we've gotta take a break.
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It's Steve Romera and Jagen Sommts. This is Hi on the Ball Sports
fourteen Welcome back to all of the ball. Here a Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, You're Jay. You're getting crushed. Yes it is ten
to three? Is it okay? It wasn't sure? Yeah, yeah,
I'm kind of getting killed. I'm up to one of the bullest starts ever.
A ton of word horriblest Now I hit that butt dumb button. It's
the right word. I'm off to a terrible continue your horriblest to work,
work you have. I'm not too happy with my PI. I'm not too
happy. It's not the right word. I'm not too keen or confident in
my picks. It's a weird week. Yeah, yeah, it's a weird
week. Well, I feel good about him this week, Steve, you
feel good about it? You know? I don't. I really don't,
Jack McGruder, I really don't. I really don't. I don't know what
the hell I'm doing. Still, after all these years, they don't know
what they all are doing. Okay, so let's go for it, all
right? Am I going first? Okay? I have no idea what I'm
doing here this week. I looked at it before the show started. I'm
gonna go three, three pros and two college. My first pick is going
to be a sad one because of what I saw happened last week. But
I'm gonna go Dallas minus six and a half. They're at home against New
England. I just don't think in New England is that good. I think
it's a bounce back game for Dallas. They got Snookeerd in Phoenix. All
that six and a half is good number. It's under seven, so the
Cowboys are giving yet home. Yeah, they're not very good. I don't
think they're really good. But six and a half is a good number.
That wasn't a good number last week, Steve, and they lost the card.
Twelve, wasn't it? Twelve was twelve and a half? Twelve?
That was a horrible not I thought that'd be easy to comb all right,
So for some people, don't we pick and because there weren't really we just
had the Dolphins in the special I know the Dolphins are playing the Bills and
that's probably the best NFL game, but we just did the Dolphins. So
because there wasn't any other compelling games, we have the Broncos and the Bears
that we both have to be not compelling game. Well, it is a
compelling game though, because they're both awful. It's like who's gonna be the
worst? Right who who's gonna get up first? They're both knocked out right
now, Chicago's twelve twelve game, losing, streaky, bad feeling because he's
yeah, he's not having fun. All right, Well, then you know
what, I'll give you my NFL game since you give me one year.
Okay, games, Okay, Besides the Broncos, the Bears I'm gonna put
the kiss of death on the Eagles. Eagles, they're giving eight at home
to the Commanders. Pick. I don't I don't know that the Commanders are
all that good. They had trouble with the Ardinals. I don't run.
I like Ron Rivera, but I'm just you know, I'm just jumping on
a team that I think is really damn good and better than most of the
other teams in the league. So I'm gonna take I'm taking giving eight to
the Commanders, Okay, I'm gonna stick pro Steelers minus two and a half
over. The Texans are not a confident picking that one. Texans got lucky
last week. Crazy. They played against your jack Jacks the out of another
at home. I just don't see another team that I had on the money
line last week. Just so, just so fans, No, this is
how bad it is. Okay, money line, money line. So all
they had to do is win. I had the Ravens, did too,
lost to the cow to lost of the Colts. I had the Cowboys,
wow, and I had the Jacks. Wow. Oh that's that's you.
You gotta hit one of those games. There didn't have a quarterback. That's
why I took them and that and the Ravens. That the Ravens and the
and the and the Jags were my pick in the you know, in in
the pool because they were playing teams that didn't have quarterbacks. Wow, I
lost both of those. It was awful. Tis what it means. But
I'm not having quarterbacks doesn't really matter. And yeah, I guess in the
NFL doesn't mean as much. No, there's still pros, there's still cast
checks. So go go with your pick, all right. So I'm taking
I'm taking the I'm taking the Eagles. Okay, that's your pick. Okay,
So wait, oh, yeah, you've done two picks. I've done
two picks. Okay, Okay I did. I did the Cowboys and you
did the Steeler. Okay, okay, what's your pick? Your second pick?
Well, I oh, I thought I had given you one. Okay,
my second pick going to the college side, Well, I told you,
I'm taking organ State tonight, giving three and a half two. Again,
this is a pick I'm taking because I think Utah is gonna win this
game, but because I'm terrible at this, I'm taking organ State. Is
there a white flag of someone's just going to get that get that white paper.
Just concede right now. Five weeks in, I'm okay with it.
Take an organ state. He's he's throwing up, Steve, Steve, we're
in. We've played four weeks. Okay, there's a possibility of six points
per week, but on the average, you try to get three. If
you get three a week, that's where you're supposed to be. You've gotten
I have three for the season. And this is this is where in sports
the sports psychologists would come in and work with the athlete to get their mind
right, because no, no, let me you know what it's supposed psychologists.
This little ceramic helmet and the GROUNK machines, gotta I gotta rub those.
He hasn't touched those in the once. And thank god, they think
I'm afraid if I touch him, like an explode blow up in this.
Okay, So I've got an organ state. Tonight gave him the three and
a half to Utah. Okay, okay, uh, Denver, I'm going
with Denver in the pick three and a half. I just think Chicago is
just horrible. I'm just horrible. I'm taking them too. Now. You
know that so far in our pool, the the team that's favored by the
pool as yet to cover. Still doing well over four and last week was
a push we had, we had the and it pushed at three. Okay,
so I go in Denver. No, my, I don't even know
what to do here. I'm gonna go with Oregon minus a thousand points over
Stanford. I think it's Stanford. Stanford at home, Stanford play that they
always player was on a pout of their mind. So Oregon minus twenty seven
that's a tonne of points, a lot of points, but I don't care.
Yes, Stanford might feel good about themselves after, you know, taking
on lowly Arizona and almost almost just realized he got lucky. And the extinguish
organ is one of those teams that likes to run it up a little bit.
So, yeah, that could work for you. That's why, that's
why Vegas is Vegas. He just gave me two scenarios that may or may
not work. That's at Stanford at Stanford. Yeah, twenty people and there's
a lot of points you give up on the road. Yeah, I'm not
taking advice from you. You know that I never will, and you shouldn't.
I've seen this movie four times times Okay, I got this pick from
from Jack McGruder. I wonder where's Jack. I'm gonna see where's sting the
stadium? He uh, but Jack came on the show. He does an
upset pick, you know, an underdog pick. I guess every week he
likes Arkansas to take Texas. In him, he's the Arkansas could win,
and I've heard some other people say the same thing. So not only am
I gonna take Arkansas plus the six, it's a it's at a neutral site.
They're playing at the Cowboys Stadium. I'm gonna lock lock Arkansas. We
text A and M did lose their starting quarterback for the season, so oh
there's yeah. Yeah yeah, that's a rivalry game for them, so both
teams should you know, I should be a competitive no matter what. Yeah,
So I'm taking Yes, I'm zee and the Yeah, what's his name,
it's it's mcgrid's. Yeah, he's in there. I don't know where
he's at. You can't find him in there somewhere. So I'm already getting
text messages for people who are upseting me that I took the Broncos because they
took the Broncos anyways, but I'm locking Arkansas. Wait a second, I
like the start here. Here's exactly you're in this business now, right right?
Okay, Okay, just because you have a show and you're on whatever
station nationally or locally and you give out this information, right, doesn't mean
you know diddy crap about what you're doing. Right, just because you're have
the studio mcgroonder is three and a half, he has, he's ahead of
me. So there's that. So you're taking a guy's advice who's just a
half a point ahead of you. But it's it's not taking but he knows
what he's talking about. It's point to a guy. It's like going to
me asking how to make hot dogs or something I can't cook I never have
and asking me how to cook What the hell is that? I'm fine with
your pick. He's a three and a half and he's giving free information.
That should be he should be paying people for that. I take ismation,
doubled down on that. Okay, Okay, he's my friend. Okay,
who are they playing? What's the spread? Six? Who their favorite of
dog? Getting six? Arkansas getting okay, Okay, that's so funny.
You're taking the guy who lest he wins minus one point. We all have
tough weeks between you. You got six and a half points. I don't
know what to say. There you go. If you get no horse,
ration you pick him before him. You see how the horse has done.
They would have shot those two horses. Man, it's like having a tutor
that has exactly, that has dyslix exactly. I'm talking to you, either
of you guys the rest of the day. Okay, I got my final
pick. I'm gonna jump on your bandwagon for whatever dumb reason. I'm taking
Oklahoma minus twenty. They screwed you last week, so you jumped off.
I knew that. I knew that. That's why I'm at him now.
Perfect time, perfect time to jump on him, because you know why he's
jumped off. I'm off. I'm I am on the Fresno State and wagon.
They're they're giving Nevada twenty four and a half points. They're at home,
so that's one thing. Fresno State is really good. They might be
the the the top group of five teams. Nevada has the longest losing streak
in college football and they host me in Week one when they were getting like
thirty eight from from USC and didn't cover. There's a guy named SG Sports.
He hasn't played for two weeks and he's got Four'll leave me a little.
I may not talk to you. The rest of the day were always
we got a minute left. You took our what was your last college?
Or Oklahoma? Oklahoma? I think that's the other luck. You're gonna lock
that. Okay, all right, okay, so yeah, we gotta get
out of here. Okay, So Steve, he's got Oregon, Oklahoma,
the Cowboys, the Steelers, and the Broncos. I've got Fresno State,
Oregon State Tonight, lock d Arkansas. I've got the Eagles and also the
Broncos. I'm getting peppered with text messages. People are unhappy that it took
the Broncos because they took him. So anyways, all right, that was
fun. Alright, So see, I'm gonna I'm gonna gain some ground this
week. You wanna go double? You wanna go double or nothing? No,
no, no, no, I like the standard. I'm waiting for
my other fifteen dollars already. All right, Okay, all right, I
got it, I got I got it this week, Steve. I feel
good about it. Remember this, all right? It was fun week.
We had a lot of good stuff. Big game tomorrow. I'm excited about
this game. I think the Cats cover. I don't think they win.
I don't I don't think that. You don't think either one they are get
blown out. Yeah okay, especially at home. Yeah okay, all right
man, Hey, thanks for being here. Everybody. We will see you
on Monday. Wi us no Wire