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Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome

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to I on the Ball here Fox
Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Riverta,

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He's jagan Zaus. We got our
guy Sammy in with us today. So

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we hope we have no mistakes because
you sleeps the planet. Don't blow this

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dammy. Yeah. Well I was
good last week on the Times. I

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ran the board. Yeah yeah,
I didn't leave the mic on night even

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one time. Let me tell you, that's the only thing you were going

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on. I had a bad weekend. Man, another what's new? Hope

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for see? You're getting it right, I get it. I get it.

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You even broke the forty nine ers, I did. I broke the

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forty nine ers. I broke the
Eagles. Wow, he sucked. Well

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his family doesn't like commit anymore.
Yeah. Yeah, there's two people not

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talking to me right now. Well
do you have a play tonight? I

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well, no, I got I
played the baseball games. I took the

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Diamondbacks. That's not true, No
way, I take the Phillies. Good,

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good, tonight, let's go snakes. Yeah. Well, you know

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what, if I would have thought
about it, If I would have thought

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about it, I would not have
taken the Phillies. I would have taken

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the Diamondbacks just to piss you off, just so they could lose. Right,

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okay, right, but I'm glad
you rolled with the Phillies. I

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did roll with the Phillies. Good
good. I like where I'm at.

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Hey, look, I always bet
on who I think is going to win,

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not who I want to wreck their
life. Sure, sure so yeah,

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but but but oh I bet I
do wreck their life. All right?

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Good. So it's Bryce Harper's birthday. So hopefully, yeah, hopefully

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you betting on the Phillies will be
a wreck his birthday. Yeah, exactly

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or not or not? Okay,
So another bad weekend, another good one

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for me. So the distance is
pretty much dead, yeah, killing us.

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We should just start new. We's
just starting new, just I don't

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know. Yeah, maybe I press
and good like that. Well, welcome

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everybody. You guys can give us
a quick call five two o four one

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six seventy four forty I feel like
I want to give us a call.

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We're gonna talk a lot about this
big, big, I won't say big,

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big, big victory, but it
was a pretty compressive victory. Very

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impressed Saturday. Uh let me tell
you, mister Mikey here. Uh.

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Throughout the game, I'm thinking,
these guys look good. They're not going

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to give this up. And I'm
thinking I hadn't felt this way in a

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long time. Throughout the game,
I'm thinking, when is Washington State coming

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back? Because that's that's how my
that's how in Arizona. It's an Arizona

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fan thinks about that game. You
know, they they went down, you

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know the way they went down,
scored the first touch on you thought,

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oh, oh, here we go, right, you know, Washington State's

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got it figured out. And I'm
thinking, you know, we're talking about

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a forty eight, forty five you
know, football game. And then that

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was that. That was the last
we heard of them. So I was

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thinking that for me, this is
God. These guys look impressive. I

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even, you know, tweeted Fafieda
looks so good blah blah blah. And

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then I thought Fish is gonna have
a problem. Fish is gonna have a

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problem, what kind of a problem? What decision he's gonna make in the

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next couple of weeks. Yeah,
he's trying to. He's trying. He's

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trying to. He's being politically correct
right now. I'm not saying because he

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doesn't have to. He doesn't have
to right now, and he's not.

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And you know, he was asked
the question at his press conference today and

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he's not gonna he's not gonna uh
answer the Yeah, number three, he's

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not gonna answer the question for now. I don't know how you take off.

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Okay, here, here's here's what
I came up with. And if

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jayde Golrd he's going into Jed's office
and say you need to start him,

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well, you need to start.
I thought the same thing. You knew

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who I thought of Jason Terry when
you said, you know, I know

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Miles is back, I know this
is who he is. Keep him in

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there and I'll come off the bench. Yeah, Jayden. The good move

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on Jayden's part would be to do
that, is to go in and take

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the pressure off his coach. You
know, he gave him a big opportunity

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and say, you know what,
for the good of the team. But

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the way we're playing with noa feated
quarterback, he should be the quarterback.

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I don't disagree. Yeah, and
Fish may decide that anyways. Right,

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as much as he doesn't want to
take the job away from the Laura because

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of the injury, how can you
how can you take no Fafita off the

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field? You can? You can't. I don't think you can, especially

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against Wergen State. This is this
is you know, this is a game

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that can win. It's a big
game. But here's what he said.

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He was thinking of going into the
off week now, being in the bye

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week, that as we're evaluating where
we are and as a team where we've

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been, we're very fortunate. Uh
two is better than none, So we

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we have an ability to continue to
grow in that position, grow in that

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quarterback room, and see how good
both those guys can get. I think

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we all saw when Jaden went out
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quite a hobble out there. That
wasn't a very pretty jog. So I

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think we really have to see how
this ankle's coming along as we continue to

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work through what we're gonna do.
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what you said. If that happens
that happens, you got to stick with

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Noah at least some of the ex
players. You can get a sense that

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they they want to know where to
stay in. Well, look, they've

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looked in spite of the fact that
two of those games were losses. He

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came back and he won the Stanford
games for you know, very well,

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played really well in those two losses. I mean, I'll played the Heisman

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Trophy winner from last year, although
it's turned out that's not that hard a

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thing to do anymore. And then
you know, and then he wins this

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game and they didn't just go win
and you know, eke one out.

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I mean they beat them wrap out
of these guys. Yeah, and I

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thought they were pretty good going in, yeah, or halfway do a lot

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of people did, and they just
suspanke the heck. It's they've been so

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impressive. He talked a lot about
defense. I don't know if you've got

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that on, and that's been that's
just the complete that's kind of wrapped the

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bowl on the team because they've been
good offensively, but that's kind of made

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this team better well, I think, and and you know doesn't like the

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single guys out, but yeah,
yeah, you have to believe that that's

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no player. Well that happens a
lot too for good names defense. Yeah.

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So, uh, the guy came
back the defensive backs guy. Oh

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no, no, no, you
have to believe that this is as much

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about Doyne Keen as is. But
anybody are you going to be a real

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life said? They can remember it. I have to agree with you because

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I was thinking the same thing.
You know, it's different. We talked

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about him. They're just they're just
aggressives a lot of things and in the

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backfield they're much improved. Right,
let's say here, Yeah, here's what

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he had to say about because he
was asked about you know, the the

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the the the impact of Doyne Keen
on the on the defense. I think

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adding coach at keenan coach Richardson has
been enormous for our program. Those two

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guys have done an amazing job of
coaching the corners and the secondary in total,

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along with coach Cecil, Coach Nansen
and coach Kafusi. As a group,

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they've done a tremendous job. Now
you add in coach Humley's role,

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and then you add in what all
of our young guys and I can't.

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You know, they don't get enough
credit the graduate assistance and quality control coaches

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and how much they commit to this
as well. But the collective group of

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eleven that work defensive, that'll work
on the defense have really done a great

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job with our players. They game
plan together, they meet together, they

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really try to figure out the best
way to stop an offense. I saw

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today that Michael Pennix, Caleb and
cam Ward if throwing fifty seven touchdown passes

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combined on only one against Arizona.
So when you look at the way that

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those guys are that were defending the
elite quarterbacks, I would say that's that's

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really based upon the work that the
defensive staff has done together. Yeah,

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that's a hell of a stat.
Fifty seven touchdown passes by the three quarterbacks

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they faced in the last three weeks
and only one against as. When he

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said that, I'm like, come
on, yeah, Blair Willis had that

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this morning, and that's pretty that's
pretty dark impressive, you know. And

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later on in the press conference,
you know, he did talk about,

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you know, this was the plan, this was the plan from the beginning.

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They were gonna come. They were
to get the offense together improved the

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offense, and they did, and
the offense is still one of the one

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of the better offenses in the country
this year. And then they focused on

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the defense for this year. And
they remember all summer long, we said,

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if they make the big leap defensively
that they made offensively last year,

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that this team to get really good. And I think they're really good right

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now. He said it. You
use those words, but they're really good

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right now. He said that all
Saturday night, and that was my story

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for the next day because he he
he kind of softens a lot of things

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Saturday night after winning a game he
didn't he was not going to. He

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had every right not to, right, that was I mean, Steve,

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you know, well that was a
beatdown. Guys, you kids here,

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you kids here in the room.
Let me say this someone, not once

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did they have a game like this, Not once? Right? This is

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they beat Oregon really bad? Here
Remember that was like forty four to fifteen

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or that was the only one.
Okay, once made okay with with with

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Justin Herbert, So you gotta,
I think, and now this is his

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party the best win. You say
that last year was okay, but this

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year that's three seven years, fours
whatever year's Rich Rob took a while at

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the end. Come on, we
hadn't seen this in a while. This

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was a total domination offensively and defensively. You know, even at halftime at

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twenty to six, I'm like,
God, you know, this game's not

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over. They need to do something
early in the second half. And then

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they did, and they did and
and then and then it was just a

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beatdown the whole rest of the second
half and then got to the point where

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they were just they could have scored
as many touchdowns as they wanted. Sure,

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they let the dogs out. I
was kind of looking for sixty nine

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because that's what they put on a
couple of times. They did it twice,

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so but no, I you know, it was it was just a

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beatdown that that everything came together.
You know, they made three field goals,

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they scored all these touchdowns, They
threw the ball, they ran the

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ball. The ole bit lit poop
poop on both of you guys. So

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is this a one off? In
fact, during the PRENS conference to day,

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I'm thinking, I'm thinking, with
your momentum right stuff, You're obviously

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be asked, okay, would you
have rather not had the buy this week

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and just played because you're playing so
well? Or did you or were you

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okay with the I think the buy
I think the buys okay because of all

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the good things that they're going into
the buye with. Right, they broke

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the three game losing straight. They
they h they two game losing streak.

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You know, they played really well. They beat it the hell out of

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a team on the road. They
feel good about themselves. Uh, you

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know, I think I think this
actually hits perfect. Normally I would in

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baseball. Let's say you want to
keep playing. In this particular instance,

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I think they can use the break
a weekend off, right the thing?

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Yeah, I think so. You
saw against Washington Fafeta started his first legit

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game, played fine, lost by
a touchdown. Whatever, you go to

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USC, you lose in the double
overtime thriller. But we we had the

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game for majority of Yeah, and
then you see what we did this Saturday.

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We compiled everything from Washington in USC
and we we figuratively or realistically crushed

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Washington State. Now, if we
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I think you see us play a
very similar game that we did this

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weekend, not to say the bye
isn't a good thing. I'm sure those

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players would love the week off is
to get their bodies right then, and

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they're not really taking a lot of
the week off. I mean, they're

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practicing the next few days. Normally
a coach will give them after the last

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game, give them a few days
and then they come back at the end

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of the weekend. Plan. Instead, they're getting the next weekend off,

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hang around Watson football whatever. But
you know, Mike lev asked them,

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how do you you know you're going
into a bye week with basically momentum,

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how do you avoid you know,
the team getting complacent and kind of not

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not keeping that edge. Yeah,
well, we're not gonna take too much

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time off for that exact reason.
I mean, we're well, you know,

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we believe that we're sitting in a
position or we got to play good

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a week from Saturday, so we'll
take off. We'll give the players two

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days off. But they were in
here yesterday getting treatment. They were in

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here today lifting at six am,
eight am, ten am, depending on

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their groups. We're practicing each day. They'll be lifting again on Thursday day

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and then you know, they can
watch football on Saturday and hopefully get hungry

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to go play, and then when
we come out Sunday in full pads,

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we're gonna roll and we're not gonna
be complacent in anything we played. You

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know, some good football as of
late against some really good teams. Those

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are three top twenty teams in a
row, and we feel like if you

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look at how we played, we
sat there within a touchdown against Washington,

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within two points against sc on the
road, and then played our best football

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on the road again. So we
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games, and you know, this
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good we can be. Well,
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think you got. It's pretty coo. Gonna be over pretty quick, going

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really fast. There's only five games
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they can continue it. We got
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and who do we have? All
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against my better judgment. We're gonna
talk Diamondbacks to the next Go next with

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a Jack McGruder or our buddy.
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he's he's covering the Diamondbacks for Forbes
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how the Diamondbacks. He believes the
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they got so many young guys on
this team, all under contract and whatnot.

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So we'll talk a little bit about
that, just get his thoughts on

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this series with the Phillies. And
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uh Todd holdt House just elected to
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the honor, and there they ever
an exhibition game tonight and against some relatives

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of his. Is that what it
is? That's that's probat of what was

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pitched the story about. Okay,
cool, so we'll we'll talk to Todd

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hold House. So uh, let's
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well, observing us try to figure
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Yeah, our phone, for some
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So trying to get him to call
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buzzes in here in a second.
Okay, so we can talk diamondbacks.

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What's what are the odds? What
is that today? What are you today?

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Phillies are minus one sixty six money
line not too to get through.

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No, just his money line for
today. That's all I care about.

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What's about getting through? Must be
docent. Were probably we're probably Yeah,

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they're probably two to one. I
bet you were plus two six sixty one.

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That makes sense, That makes sense. I thought, wasn't Houston the

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paper two? Yeah, they're down
five to two again. They're losing right

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now. You're losing right now?
You had you had the Astros huh yeah,

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yeah, yeah, I had.
You know, you don't want to.

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I hate myself for that too,
because I hate those guys. I

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hate those guys and I'm not now
I'm now I'm mad at myself. I

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hope they don't ever win another game
in like world history. Ever. No,

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that won't be the kid knowing them, knowing them. They'll come back.

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I had the same thing last because
I like Berlinda last night, and

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then they were just too good for
him. Yeah. Montgomery for the Rangers

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pitched very very well. It was
one of those very very playoff games.

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Starting pitchers go five six innings,
like six hits for each team and two

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home runs and all of a sudden
it's to zero, right, and that's

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all. It was kind of not
in the script. Good game. Hopefully

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it has a Diamondbacks result tonight,
but to two fantastic pictures and Zach Gallon

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and Zach Wheeler Gallon could have won
the He's he's the best guy. He's

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our ace. And I mean I
think Phillies fans would say Wheelers there ace.

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Uh, he's a phenomenal postseason pitcher. So we'll see if we'll see

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if he can continue that. But
I mean both Zach's they're they're R A

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in the playoffs. Yeah, they're
e R A and the playoffs are sub

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two. So yeah, we'll see. I saw him pitch against Baltimore in

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the summer because I was I was
enjoying Baltimore. They were playing Baltimore up

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there. They beat they beat him. It was like late July, I

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think, yes, and I was
pretty impressed with him because Baltimore had a

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great year. Yeah, because Wheeler
Wheeler actually came uh from the Cardinals and

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then he went to the Mets I
believe, and then now he's the Mets

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were a dumpster fire. So yeah, but we'll we'll see. I mean

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you're not going to the game,
No, Yeah, I might go if

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there's games six or game five?
Sorry, should that play be Saturday or

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Friday? It'd be So let's see
they play Thursday, Thursday, Friday,

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and then Sunday. All at it's
the three two three, which two three

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two, which is really interesting,
Yeah, because that's how the NBA used

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to be, and then it was
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So if the Diarmacks can get one
in the bank, yeah, I would

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like that because it's the hardest place
to play in baseball right now. So

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if they can steal one against the
Phillies, who it's arguably the two hottest

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teams in baseball. Of course,
Well there's what's your momentum? Maybe I

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was gonna bring that up, because
what are the momentums so called momentums.

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It's just who's playing better? Right
to me, It's just who's playing better

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for that day? Yeah, for
that day, and either or can win

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it. Obviously, it's gonna be
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is a Madhouse Place Place rocks,
and so I mean, I think the

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Dbacks will be up for it.
There are a bunch of young kids that

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really don't know any better, a
bunch of guys that and you have some

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seasoned vets that have been around the
block, so they I think they'll be

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prepared. Which that's all. That's
all I can ask for right now.

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If they can just go in and
play good baseball then So we're waiting for

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Jack right still. He's gonna be
calling in. So after Jack, we're

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going to get the open line,
so you can give us a call.

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After that, there he comes.
Hey, Jack, thanks for calling.

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Appreciate it. Okay, you're on
the air, So don't don't say any

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swears, even though I want to
because I hate the Diamondbacks I'm really mad

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at right now Jack. Well you
know, you know, hey Jack,

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let me just say thank you very
much. Two weeks ago, I think

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Jay took your advice. I hope
we can get a game. And it

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was bad. Thank you very much. It was. It was bad.

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I apologize. It's all right,
Jack, I forgive you. It won't

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break up our friendship, although I
thought about it for a second. So

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yeah, it was it didn't look
very good. Yeah, I was three

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and one before that. Yeah,
all right, well okay, all right,

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so you're on the Diamondbacks covering them
for Forbes. I saw you wrote

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an interesting, interesting piece today about
you know that this looks like a team

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built for the long haul because all
the young guys. But you know,

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going in, you know, when
say a bunch of young guys, you

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know, the immediate assumption is they're
not going to be ready for the moment

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today. What are your thoughts on
that? You know, you're right,

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that is the immediate assumption. And
I thought you watched the games too.

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I thought they looked in the moment
completely. They didn't seem phased, they

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didn't seem bothered, they weren't swinging
the pitches outside the zone. I mean,

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they looked like a very experienced group
of guys, probably because maybe they

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because they don't feel the nerves yet
because I've never been there before. But

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those guys are really I've been really
excited, not excited, but the way

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they've played has really been it's their
best baseball right now. Now we'll see

407
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what happens when comes to Philadelphia.
Yeah, right now, they're really with

408
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They're playing with confidence and composer.
Well, you know in the Dodgers series,

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and I did go up for that
Game three, which was a lot

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of fun for a Dodger fan.
But you know, you know, with

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with Mookie Betts on the field,
Freddie Freeman on the field, the guys

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that the Dodgers have, Corvin Carroll
was the best player on the field by

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a lot in that whole series,
and he was just they had no answer

414
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for him. He's really he's really
going to be a superstar. It's maybe

415
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it's too early to say that,
but you look at a guy with twenty

416
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six homers and fifty four stolen bases. He really benefited from the rules change

417
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with the stolen bases, but he's
still going to get thirty five or forty

418
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in the old way. He's just
a terrific player. And you talk to

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the talk to thee his teammates,
and you talk to Tory Lavolo and Mike

420
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Hays, and they're really taken by
the way he approaches each game, the

421
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seriousness he plays with, the studying
he does, the you know, just

422
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the homework to prepare for each game. Yeah, I agree with you.

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I think he's I don't know,
what happened to Mookie and Freddie exactly.

424
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But Corvin was a terrific player and
kept tell Marte had a nice series too,

425
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.920
so Jack. At the end of
the day, what do you think

426
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about the Diamondbacks as a whole?
Here they played really well, didn't play

427
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so well in the middle of the
thing, and then they came on strong.

428
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What when you go look back at
these team, what do you see?

429
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Which team here? I see a
team because I was in Colorado this

430
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summer scoring when they had lost ten
of twelve and I don't know early August

431
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maybe, but I saw a team
that really was not playing well but had

432
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not lost their confidence. Christian Walker
specifically addressed that. He said, you

433
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know, we know we're in a
funk right now, but we don't.

434
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We know we're a better team.
It's not like they panicked, it's not

435
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like they said we've got to do
something differently. It's just that they needed

436
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to stay on the course, which
is what they did and then they started

437
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winning. They they have good players. I mean, Christian Walker is a

438
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terrific player, Corbyn Marte, Martell
Thomas might be the best centerfielder in the

439
00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:15.319
National League right now, and Gadby
Moreno has really turned over a new leaf

440
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and just been a star behind the
plate. So I think they just got

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back on track. You know.
It's you know how seasons show, there's

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ups and downs no matter who's playing, and they just found a way to

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write the ship and start playing better. And this is what happened. Can

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they win the World Series? Or
do you let me can? Do you

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think? I know there are a
number four pick right? Philly is really

446
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an impressive team. They could really
hit. Yeah, but I wouldn't put

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it past anybody. You know,
Saint Louis won the World Series when they

448
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won eighty three games during the regular
season with Tony Russa back in the old

449
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days, beat a Detroit team that
was supposedly unbeatable. So I just think,

450
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let's watch the games, let's see
what happened. So, Jack,

451
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you've covered a number of the Diamondback
teams over the last twenty some twenty three

452
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years. Whatever it is, where's
this team rank among those? Well,

453
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:15.880
it's on the cusp of being among
their better teams. Randy Johnson kurchuling that

454
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was the best team in Francise history. Obviously didn't won the World Series with

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that veteran group of Matt Williams and
Lagan Zalez, the twenty seventeen team,

456
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I'm sorry, twenty seventeen with Chris
Young and those guys were on the CUSP

457
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also, but they kind of didn't
carry it over the next couple of years.

458
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They were still playing on a small
payroll and it random Webb got hurt.

459
00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:42.119
You know, thanks can go to
go to heck with injuries. Injuries

460
00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:45.319
can kill any team, and that
team was bothered by injuries. But I

461
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.920
think this is this has a chance
to be, you know, the third

462
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:56.039
iteration of contending teams for the foreseeable
future, the fifth six five, six

463
00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:01.200
years in the future. You know
Tory level, his job has been he's

464
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:04.680
been on the hot seat, off
the hot seat, back on it,

465
00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:08.039
back off. But you know what, how does he keep hanging on or

466
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:12.119
what's his you know, as Steve
says, what's his secret, sauce?

467
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.640
What is making him a pretty good
manager? But then it goes to pieces

468
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:22.880
at times. Well, he's a
very good team team. He has great

469
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.079
relationship with his players. He tells
his players what he expects of them,

470
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and he, like most managers,
he doesn't kick them while they're down.

471
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He doesn't criticize his guys, but
he has a plan and if you buy

472
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into that plan, as we've seen
right now, it's going to be a

473
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success. I think he's a genuine
guy. He's not going to tell you

474
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one thing and then do something else
two weeks later. And the players appreciate

475
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that. The players like that.
They want to know where they stand.

476
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They want to know what's expected of
them, they want to know what role

477
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they'll be put in. I think, you know, when you look at

478
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some of his taking the pitchers out
early or he gets a little criticized.

479
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:05.839
He took Zach Gallon out the other
day against the Dodgers fairly early. But

480
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.359
the players know what's going on,
and the players understand that. The players

481
00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:13.079
understand it's a team game and that
I can hand it off to the next

482
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guy and we'll be fine. It's
not all about me, it's about the

483
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team. And he is. He
instills that quality in those guys, and

484
00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:24.759
you know, it just grows after
a while, right. You just start

485
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:29.000
you start believing, you start playing, and you start listening to the guy,

486
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and it follows through. He had
some horrible teams the last couple of

487
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.680
years. Yeah, I mean not
horrible, but but it was hard for

488
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.119
him to win with some of the
teams he had the last couple of years.

489
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And you can't blame the manager for
that, right, it's not his

490
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:45.240
fault. Not always. He's not
west with top quality talent, but you

491
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see what he's done with the talent
he has now, So you said you

492
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got some talent? Did they surprise
you at all? I mean they had

493
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.519
to, Yeah, yeah, they
had to, right, I mean,

494
00:33:54.599 --> 00:34:00.440
you don't know how you know,
Corbyn Carroll has a terrific mind, resume,

495
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:05.519
great scouting. The scouts love him, but how's that translated. We've

496
00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:09.000
seen a lot of guys who do
not quite make that transition the way he

497
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:15.039
has done this year. He's been
terrific. You don't know how Gabriel Moreno

498
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.039
is going to translate. He's had
again, scouts love him, he's got

499
00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:22.079
great tools, but how is that
going to translate on the field? And

500
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:28.239
Alec Thomas, I mean a lot
of these guys have continued their minor league

501
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.000
performance, which you can't always count
on, right, You can't always count

502
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:34.320
on that. You can't always think
that, oh yeah, that's just a

503
00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.719
direct line, that's just a straight
line up and so, yeah, they

504
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:43.679
surprised me a lot. It's kind
of been fun to watch that fun.

505
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.760
How long before Corbyn Kiroll's a Dodger. Well he signed through twenty thirty,

506
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:54.280
Jay, so I got him cor
Okay, all right, you got to

507
00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:57.639
put up with that. I want
to talk a little about the Dodger for

508
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:00.199
a second. Okay, feel free. They were the real Dodgers. We

509
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:04.519
didn't see the real Dodgers in the
playoffs. Their pitching staff was so cripply.

510
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:08.280
Yeah, no, that's not the
real Kershaw and that Urreas was gone.

511
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:12.880
They had to rely on a bunch
of guys that they weren't counting on.

512
00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.159
I thought, actually they did a
very good job this year of getting

513
00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.280
one hundred wins out of that team
because their pitching staff kind of fell apart.

514
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:22.840
I was not surprised at all.
The Tvacs Peter Well and that's fine.

515
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.960
I knew the pitching was gonna you
know, it wasn't. I mean,

516
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:28.800
you know, they rolled out the
old guy, Clayton Kershoff for Game

517
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.920
one and that he was their best
option in Game one, and I get

518
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.760
that, but okay, but they
didn't lose, you know, seven to

519
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.000
six and eight to seven, they
didn't hit at all, and that's what

520
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.159
that was the shocking part of it
to me. To me too, that

521
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.639
was surprising. Well, the Diamondbacks
were fortunate the way everything played out.

522
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You know, if they're the fifth
seed, they have to open the they

523
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:53.639
have to open the playoffs against Philadelsia, not against Milwaukee, and then you

524
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.360
know, that could be a whole
different story if something like that happens.

525
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.320
But they were able to rest Gallon
and Kelly. They've thrown Gallon Kelly two

526
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:06.039
games against Milwaukee and two games against
the Dodgers. That's their best two pitchers

527
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:08.760
throwing four to five playoff games,
and now they got both of them lined

528
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.159
up here the first two games against
the Phillies, so it's really broken well

529
00:36:13.239 --> 00:36:16.760
for them. Real quick. What's
your prediction on the series? You know,

530
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:21.679
I just think Philly is better.
I think Zach Wheeler and Aaron Nola

531
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Ranger. Send the Ranger Suarez.
They're gonna be hard to be because Harper

532
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.719
knows how to win these games.
Schwarber is a big hitter. But I

533
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:31.960
do think it'll be fun to watch. I mean, they'll try to run

534
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:36.079
on the Phillies and we'll see how
that plays out if we'll need to can

535
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.519
counter that running game. I just
think the Phillies are a little stronger.

536
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:42.639
All right, Jack, thanks for
joining us. Let me tell you this.

537
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Continue to give Jay Gate picks.
I just do what I can.

538
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You know what, Jack, just
because you give those picks doesn't even have

539
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the ball on Tucson Sports Big Yet, Fox Sports fourteen fifty Streaming Live,

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I Mean iHeart Radio, WAPs Hey, Welcome Back, to joining the ball

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here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve, he's Jay. Got a

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guy Sammy with us at least in
the building as well. We got about

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nine minutes. If you guys want
to quit, give us a quick call.

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Somebody was calling. We were still
on breaks. So if you want

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to give us a call five to
four forty, we'll take your call.

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We're gonna get back to some fishtails
except for I'm just gonna say that if

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the Astros lose today, they were
already dead to me. But if they

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lose today, they're like double dead. You know, you know, you

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have very few teams left. I
know that dead to you. I did

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You're going to be better on scnnected
because you haven't been. There's nobody left.

618
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A couple of interesting things. One, you know, the whole issue

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of you know, the quarterback.
I mean that's sort of the Yeah,

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that's a top story. So Jed
was asked, how, you know,

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how is how's Jaden DeLaura you know
taking this? You know, what's he

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what's he able to do and learn? You know, watching this stuff from

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the sidelines while he waits for his
his ankle to to you know, to

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fix and see what happens with his
job. But here's what he had to

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say about what De Laura has been
up to. Yeah, I think Jayden's

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Uh, you know, there's a
lot of learning that goes into not playing.

627
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Number one is learning how to rehab
learning how to spend your days in

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the training room when you've never had
to do that, Preparing yourself to help

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the person in front of you if
you're not necessarily accustomed to doing that you've

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always been the person in front.
How you work together and communicate what you

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see on the sideline, seeing it
from a different perspective, how to get

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your school work done during times when
you're not necessarily the starting quarterback, and

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how much work you can work ahead. Uh, there's a lot of different

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things that he's been able to do
during this time, and it's obviously challenging

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when you don't have that chance to
when you're not going out there and knowing

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you're the starting quarterback on every Saturday
the last three weeks, and knowing that

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you're not going to go out there
and start based on injury, but there's

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going to be you know, this
has gone on everywhere. I saw seven

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quarterbacks got knocked out yesterday in the
NFL, seven different quarterbacks got hurt during

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the games. There was four backups
that already started on Sundays, So you're

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talking about eleven backups potentially might be
starting next Sunday in the NFL. That's

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just the nature of the beast.
So what these guys need to do is

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they need to learn how to be
those backups. I think that it's a

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great credit. I mean, you
look at the Browns, right, So

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they started DTR last week, then
DTR didn't yet to start this week,

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Deshaun still wasn't playing. Then they
started PJ and then go and beat the

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forty nine ers. So you just
don't know how it's all gonna work itself

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out. So what your job is
to just learn, grow, mature and

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be a great teammate. Great stuff, Yeah, good stuff, you know.

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Yeah, he's got a lot to
deal with there. We'll get in

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this morning that we had a collar. Hi, you're on the R and

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I and the Balls. Gabriel calling
this week about Arizona's dominating win against Washington

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State. So they pray they basically
played great. I really, I'm really

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happy that Arizona took their frustration now
on Washington State because last week they were

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super duper close to beating USC.
And so I'm really happy about the about

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what happened. And so anyway,
no, I'm glad that you're a happy

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game. Game. All it takes
is waiting to make you happy. Hey

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game. So all right, So
the decision is getting harder and harder every

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day for for Jens time, belief
for dead fish, you know, and

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what to do at quarterback? I
you know, I kind of at least

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I think that there's no way you
can take Fita off the field. What

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are your thoughts he could play because
he because he played on the last few

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games pretty well, and I think
I think needs to play. Yep,

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yeah, yeah, ga are so. I am very I was very shocked

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at Nordon Dame beat USC. So
I was expecting that. And so if

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only Arizona would have beaten USC last
week. And and I have one question

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to ask you too, When USC, Oregon and Washington and u c l

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A go to the Big Ten,
who do you think which of those four

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teams will there can be multiple teams, which of those four teams do you

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think will struggle the most in the
Big Ten. I think is definitely Oregon,

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Washington and USC because their quarterbacks are
gonna be leaving. So that's why

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I think. So anyway, bear
down, Arizona, go Caps. All

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right, thank you, Gabe.
Than I think you see LA because they

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haven't been good in the back well
for a long time, right right right,

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no doubt about that. So can
I go? We have four minutes,

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So we're at the press covers,
right, And I've thought this every

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now and again, but today it
was like one of those early days.

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You see Jet up there, right, he doesn't look like a football coach,

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right, he looks like it looks
like somebody's dad. So he's up

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there talking. He's up there talking
a time. Oh, go ahead,

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go ahead, we'll talk about this. All right, let's take this call.

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You're on the R and I and
the ball. Yeah it's James.

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Hey, James, he's on guys. Are you James? You must be

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happy? So are you Are you
going? Are you going back to Arizona

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Stadium? If Fafeitus continues as a
starting quarterback, I might potentially go to

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a game this year if he's the
starter from now on and DeLaura is not

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starting anymore. But it's good to
see fefete stepping up to the plate and

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uh kicking butt and there's no controversy
at all. It's obviously he should be

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the QB one. I don't know
what the question is, right, Well,

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it's loyalty. Yeah, yeah,
you know, I mean I get

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I get that part of it.
Drew Bledsoe lost his job to Tom Brady.

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This is like, you know,
what happens every day, pretty the

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same thing with him. He was
you know, once the guy out plays

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the other guy, you lose your
job. That's how it is in sports.

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Unfortunately, I hate to be playing
for you, James. You know,

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look at this point, James,
with what Fafita did again, we

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we we haven't even mentioned that he
was a named Freshman of the week again

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in the fact, well back to
back. You know, how do you

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how do you put a guy like
that back on news? And I killed

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your breaking news? But that's all
right, that's where he goes. There's

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plenty I got breaking news. The
Astros suck. But yeah, I mean,

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you know, how do you?
Right? I mean, what did

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you think on Saturday? What did
you think was happening on Saturday? As

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in as in I means you were
watching you're watching the game. Did you

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think Arizona was in the end it
was going to be forty four to six.

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I mean, until it was forty
four to six, I didn't think

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Arizona. You know, I thought
Washington State could come back on him at

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any time. What obviously after the
USC game and they were up seventeen zero

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and they ended up getting you know, the USC came back. I thought

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Washington State could definitely come back.
But you know, UA's defense has played

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well, the offense place with a
spark, and you know, I think

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having this new quarterback put new will
life into the whole program. And I

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think we're ready to rock and get
a bowl game this year and keep building

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on this program. I think we
have a great quarterback now and let's keep

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rolling ahead, all right, man, James, all right, James,

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thanks a bunch, appreciate it,
Thanks all right, thank you today.

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So if I could finish, he's
up there. Look for what he looks

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that. I'm thinking he's rattling off. When he was coaching at the U

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c l A and the play calling
and then with the Rams, I'm thinking,

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man, maybe I missed something.
He didn't doing this for a long

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Maybe I want something here and he's
doing a good job with it. Two

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years ago, we were wondering,
what the hell are you doing again?

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Think about think about how bad Arizona
fans wanted Brent Brennan right to be the

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head coach. And all he's been
is a college is a college coach,

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you know. I mean, there's
so much we don't realize how much more

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experience Jed Fish he started going to
It's just the knock is he never played

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college football, so he must not
be a good college football coach, right,

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or you know he can't. He
can't be a good football coach because

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he didn't play. He was a
tennis player, right, but you know,

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guys learn how to do stuff.
You know, he was CEOs,

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didn't you know, weren't born to
be CEOs. No. He when he

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was saying that, I'm thinking,
you know what, Yeah, he's got

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something here. Yeah, yeah,
no, no doubt, no doubt,

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you know. And and then again
he's getting players because he because he's convincing

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players. I know how to get
you there? Right, You saw the

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the dig, the dig? Yeah
yeah, we'll talk about that in a

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seconds. So all right, we
got to hit the road top of the

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hour and be back Samy's got breaking
news. We took one of those left

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00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.079
from him already. But that's okay, Sammy. You're good, Yeah,

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I got, I got plenty of
all Right, we're good. We'll be

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right back, bro, won't you
come