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everybody. Welcome to I on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera, no Jay Gonzalez today, so all it is gonna be
with Sammy and Me. Today was their TV show, Sammy and Me.
I don't know, I've been watching TV that one. Hey, happy to
be here, No good, I'm glad you're here because otherwise we wouldn't be
doing this. I don't do that thing you do over there, So we're
glad to have you, Sammi. Hey, happy to be here. All
run the board and talk some sports with you. Sammy. I think Jay's
out, No truth through the rumor that he's out, because he went zero
for five last weekend. It would be a little upset to come on here
and talk. I got another weekend. I think he's embracing his difficulties.
Yeah, and I think last week didn't he try to go against his heart
and brain? Well he did. He did it for one he did,
at least for one game because what he wanted anyone, and then he lost
the other ones. So it might he might have to go to the betting
strategy of just paid what you think right right right, and people who know
know exactly what you just said. Okay, welcome, welcome to welcome everybody.
Busy weekend for a lot of people. We had the Red Blue game
on Friday, we had the big game on Saturday. I think he went
to both, right, I did. I was at both. Will you
go as a fan or you go as an observer like me this this past
year as a fan the years prior to was covering the games Red Blues on
my favorite for whom just for you atv Okay, okay, you were there.
You were one of the kids we saw there. Yep, I didn't
even recognize you. I was the head sports director down there. Okay,
nice, it's nice, very stuff. It's very smart of you to be
doing exactly what you're going to try to do in the real world. Yeah,
thanks and being here's guarantees though, no, no, never guarantees.
Yeah, we'll talk about a lot of different things. We'll talk about that.
We have Brian Peterson coming in from from Desert Swarmasy Desert Swarm should that
should be fun? And uh, and then in the second half, we're
gonna have Adam Lazarres from Arizona Assists. He had a big deal going on
Friday with the ex Cats that were here and a lot of the fans.
They had a big function before and after the game. I wanted to see
how that went and see how Arizona assist is moving along with the basketball program
as they start the season here soon. Okay, So so you went to
the games. Did you stay? You for all of them? Both of
them. I stayed for all of them, both of them. I really
Obviously the three point contests Friday and then contest is fun and all the hoopla
around it was really fun. But I was more interested in what we were
going to look like. Obviously some new guys. kJ Lewis look good.
Yeah, I'll talk about him a little bit. But and Kyl and Boswell
finally getting the starting point guard job hopefully, and then Caleb Blove. I
was interested to see what he was going to look like in a University of
Arizona, Jersey. And just more and more Ballow seems to keep getting a
little bit better. He got better. He got the biggest thing with me
would blow. I don't know if you saw him in the trip that they
took, he looked heavy and lumbering. He didn't look heavy and lumbering now,
which was surprising to me because I want to know how he lost that
weight, because I couldn't try to lose that weight. Yeah, I mean
it helps when he's twenty two years old, he's probably got some of the
best people in his corner telling him want to eat, what where to work
out. But he like, like you mentioned, he looked limber. He
looked more athletic might not be the right word. He's always been mobile an
athlete, But I think it was Kelli Larson through him Aliyop and he caught
it one handed, slammed it like we were kind of used to seeing a
little last year. I put a note of it as though, if if
he can just be who he is consistently. I know last year he was
really great some games thirty and ten rebounds and he would be an animal,
and then some games it would wouldn't get in double figures, have trouble rebounding
the ball. But I think the absence of a Zulus Tabellis this year might
free him up to well, there's they're gonna be. They're gonna be a
lot of big dudes out there, a lot of big You saw them play
altogether two at times both gets each other too, but the three seven footers
doing what they do. But he looked very impressive. I was more impressive
with this as athletically you were talking about and his weight loss and his kind
of will to get ready for the for the year. Yeah, and now
it's kind of Pelly Larson and Umar Balo might have to just be the leaders
this year because last year you had, I mean, Kirk Criso would try
to take over that leadership. And I think those two guys in the locker
room have to really preach what Tommy Lloyd's been trying to teach because they've been
in his system for two or three years now, and they the new guys
and even Kylan Boswe who's been there for a couple of years or yeah,
a year now though the new guys will look to them to be like,
Okay, how does Tommy coach? And by now they've realized it a little
bit. But when we get into the first couple of weeks and Pac twelve
play and it's Tommy has a certain way of coaching, and some players are
up to the challenge and some might not be so following Pele will need to
somewhat be leaders. So let me ask you this, because you made this
observation, what do you see from his from his style of coaching? What
do you mean by that? Yeah, I think each and every great coach
in college basketball has a certain style or a way that they go about doing
business. I think you do see a very because of how many years he
coached under marked few. You do kind of see a little bit of the
system that he runs, and he tries to get the players that can play
accordingly to a system. But again, he does have a lot of sets,
and by sets, I mean the plays that he runs and the personnel
in which he wants to put out there. You've seen that in the last
couple of years with the international recruiting. He wants to recruit guys that can
can both. He really enjoys toughness in his players, and I've really noticed
that. I think Pelly Larson's a great example. Kylan Boswell is very tough.
Caleb Love even in the first I watched him a little bit in the
trip they took Overseas. He's very He's a very tough guard, and that's
what it takes to win in college basketball. You need tough guards, you
need tough players. Yeah, well they haven't had that forever, right exactly,
And so I think that's something that he's trying to establish. And I
think he has done a decent job in his first couple of years here getting
the players that he wants to be sure, no question, but your toughness
is noted because they need that. Whether it happens, you could be tough,
but if you get a tough team that's tough for you, your toughness
means nothing. But no, that's good that you notice that. One of
the things that I really liked. And I didn't know if I started doing
the game, but I liked him when I first saw him more than a
year ago. More in a year goes Philippe, who who won the three
point contest. Who knew we had that in him. But he's he's going
to be a virtualtil guy. I'm not sure he's gonna start, but I
think that he's going to be a big have a big impact on see that's
really interesting because I was excited for him last year to see what he could
do, and there was no room. There was no room for him.
And similar to the to Vassar, the big footer we got last year.
I don't say those fancy words because I can't say right those two guys kind
of were the odd man out and that rotation last year. They want I
think he really want, and I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think
that Tommy wanted deeply to have Henry play and get some experience. Henry wasn't
ready. No, I think he's going to be fantastic, he just wasn't
ready. And what I noticed too, is he's playing alongside Baller as opposed
to last year. He would come out when he would go in when Ballo
came out, kind of that back up five and obviously ended up being two
bellas back up Ballow or going back and forth. But if he and I
noticed, he's put on weight. He doesn't look like the super skinny freshman.
Sure he looked like last year, and sure he's Tommy has him spreading
the floor when Ballows in there, and so it'll be interesting to see at
that. Yeah, he is and hopefully. His jump shot came a long
way from last year. Not to say it was poor by any means,
sure, just that confidence in being able to shoot it. Uh. But
it'll be interesting to see who the backup five will be to bollow. If
it is it is Vassar or his name's Crevos. I think he's gonna be
the guy. Yeah, he's gonna be the guy. I think he has
a lot of upside like Henry, but I don't know how many, how
many rotations will he be able to go to? Right? How deep is
he gonna be? I think he's gonna be. He have a lot of
good depth. H It's just you know they'll try to use it and then
they don't right down as you get closer to the tournament, they start to
whittle their their little line up here. But if he goes deep, he
Crevous, I think it's gonna be the guy. I think Crevous is going
to be the guy as well, just because watching him play with Boswell,
who will be the one or two? A lot with love in there.
He has a real high IQ similarly to Well. His soft hands, knows
when to role and he he got to the free throw line a lot in
the Red Blue game of grants. That doesn't mean much, but and it
looks as though he can. He has good touch from the line, and
so yeah, I think he might be the guy. It's funny you say
that, because I was thinking that during the game that at some point I'll
ask Tommy this the press conference, is how much does this team have when
it comes to i Q basketball a Q because the Euros are off the charts
with it because they've been playing in all their lives and it's and it's not
and it's not that the Americans don't have it either, but they're special because
they see angles, they see things that they that other people don't see.
You know, when you get a feel for it. They have a feel
for it. They just don't play exactly and you even look at it in
the NBA like Luca coming over and even Sabonis, like the European guys grew
up playing a very teams oriented game of basketball. And not to say,
like you mentioned, the guys growing up here don't have a great basketball like
you. I think, right, a lot of our teams are a lot
of our players do. But it's less one on one, it's less seven
seconds. Get the ball, get the shot up. It's more how can
we run this set to get the best look? And I think you see
that, and that's why Tommy goes over there and recruits those guys because he
wants guys to be able to make the right basketball play right right, Well,
it's it's and his offense is the ball will find its place to the
right man at the open time, right, you know, pass, pass
past past, you're open shooting. And that's why one thing I wanted to
mention is that this year and teams in the past, it feels like we
haven't had a guy that can create his own shot. I think Benedict Matherin
was really the only guy in the last couple of years. Yes, So
when you need a basket and who's your best player to go create a shot?
And I think he's and I think having Caleb Love on this team is
that person. Yeah, And that's a good observation because we haven't seen it,
but I guess that he would be that guy. How much he takes
advantage of that in a bad way. And that's been the question, right
because he had the ball in his hands a lot of North Carolina, probably
to his detriment because you know, he's labeled maybe a ball hog or whatever,
and maybe he isn't, but maybe that was his role when they needed
him, you had the ball. And what was really cool to see is
that he in the Red Blue game. And I know we can't keep going
back to it, but he was playing off the ball quite a bit.
And so one of the notes that I put down is if him and kyl
and can learn how to share the back sat, they're going to be very
very He must like this team because I know I do, because there's a
lot of talent there. What that means nationally is another thing. Because you
could be the best looking dude in the room, you're probably if you are,
you're probably in the wrong room exactly because there's a lot of rooms out
there. Other teams have very good teams as well. But this team's gonna
be a lot of fun. They're gonna be competitive with a tough schedule.
Uh, it should be should be a lot of fun for a lot of
people, and not just the two guys we haven't really talked about the The
guy that impressed me the most on Friday was kJ Lewis, And I don't
know if you you were in the building, i'd assume yeah. And obviously
you can go with the dunk over ballow, you can go with his just
likability. It seems like he's a very likable guy for the fans. He
had a chase down block on Caleb Love. You don't really you don't see
very often from a from a freshman. And I think he's just going And
I think he has this energy to him. Might just be he's a freshman
wants to come in and create that energy. But I think he's incredibly long.
Defensively, he's gonna be able to guard the opposition's best player at some
points. He has a smooth jump shot from what it looked like. Yeah,
And I think he's just pleasing. He has a fantastic motor, which
I think this team needs. He's got a good motor. I saw the
same things. Uh. He has an air about him. He's beyond his
years. Uh. I think he's gonna find some spots for him. How
can you not play him? He's so he'll play a lot. I like
his in everything you said it. I think it's spot on. I like
it too. It's just like he's beyond being a freshman. Yeah, And
that that Chase down block was very observant because it was true. I mean,
here's this guy, this kid coming from out of the blue, and
and then blow without prompting, talks about how good of a defender he is.
I mean he to a freshman. You don't hear that very often,
No, you don't. It's gonna be interesting. You talk a lot about
We've talked a lot about the depth we hopefully had, but there's only only
five players can play. We may have thought this time last year we had
nine to ten guys, but Tommy ended up only really playing seven right down
in crunch time. Yeah, and that's just how it is. It is.
If they played ten to begin with, I would not be surprised if
they played down to seven or eight by the time the nitty gritty happens.
Wouldn't be surprised. And I think, go ahead, and I wouldn't be
surprised if they stick with the ten. It depends. It just depends on
who's got the hot hand, right, And we didn't talk about Keyshawn Johnson
at all, but I think he's gonna be He's gonna be the blue this
team needs because he's been to a national championship. Yeah, and he's got
that. He's got that whatever that is, he's got that. I agree.
Yeah, and you need a couple of guys. I think that kJ
has that. I think your guys you just mentioned Johnson is Johnson. Yeah.
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Jay's out today by guys Sammy here and now I have Brian Peterson from
Acy Desert Swarm dot com. Brian, how are you? I'm great?
Thanks for having me back. Yes, yes, hey. Busy weekend for
all of us or those who go to the games. Let's start with football
because it's the most recent that we went to. What what I know.
You don't write columns, right, you write? You write game stories,
and you probably do you do an in game column kind of thing. I
mean, I'll tweet during the game from about and whatnot, but more,
yeah, I'm there, more to trying to cover the actual game and leaves
that up to other people. Okay, so I'm gonna give you a chance
to become a columnists. What was your biggest takeaway? I don't know if
you read me, but what was your biggest takeaway? I think this was
a game they weren't supposed to win and could have easily been blown out in
and they just kind of fell right in the middle. They played competitively,
they made a couple of mistakes that cost them a chance to win. But
the improvement is definitely there, and I think it's some people find it very
difficult to see improvement even in losses, and that they assume at this point
they should be five and zero and ranked in the top ten in the country,
and that's the only way that you can truly see that there's improvement.
But this is a game that they wouldn't have won last year and it wouldn't
have been as closed. Same with the Mississippi State game, and the Stanford
game is a game they probably would have lost last year. So there's been
that improvement. It's just a matter of getting over that hump is always the
hardest part, and you know that may just take a little while that they're
still going to lose to the teams they're supposed to lose to. Yeah,
yeah, no question. Let me ask you this because this is kind of
how I wrote it, well the week prior were what were your impressions after
Stanford? That they managed to win a game that they tried so hard to
lose and being able to do that is pretty significant because usually there's always that
safe statement about before you can win, you can, you have to find
a way not to lose, and they found a way not to lose that
game, and that probably showed some of the best improvement that I've seen this
season. So there were any concerns, you know how people this they're kind
of like the Sunday morning quarterback and they said, God, this team hasn't
done anything. You know they have, and then a week later this team
says, well, they played this team fairly. Well, So my point
was you can't go from one extreme to the other or the other way.
Row you can't, but people will. And that's just that's a level of
fandom. Everything is recency bias. That if a quarterback throws an interception,
he always makes bad plays, but you forget the touchdowns that he had previous.
A defense gives up a big run, you forget about the fact that
they had held opponents to sixteen points a game entering this last game. It's
just there's so much of that recency bias, and I think people aren't able
to kind of look at it from a grand scheme and that that just kind
of comes with fandom. Yeah, no question. And your website is all
about that, right, Yeah. I mean we're we're a fan site,
but we try to cover it from a legitimate, just down the middle perspective.
And sometimes people have trouble with that. They assume that we should be
raw rawing when things are good, and when they're bad, we should be
calling for the heads of people, And I mean, I just don't really
see it that yeah, no, and it shouldn't be that way anyway.
Well, what did you make of a fafida I thought he was solid and
he was not spectacular. He was not bad. He was just kind of
right in the middle. I think game manager is kind of a good way
to look at it. He didn't do anything other than that kind of Jade
Delora esque shovel pass where he got them in trouble. But he also really
didn't do too much where it was like spectacular and and above board they're being
able to elude some of the sacks and staying alive and being smart. He
just he didn't make any major mistakes in that. And I think that that's
probably the biggest difference between the two quarterbacks is that I think do Laura gives
you the best chance to win games and be explosive in games, but also
increases the greatest likelihood of having a blowout and having a huge bob of a
game, whereas I think Fafita, the floor is going to be higher,
but the ceiling is also lower. Yeah, so on Saturday, if the
Laura is fully healthy, you expect Fish to go to go with the Laura.
Yes, yes, he has said as much today, And really I
don't see him being the kind of guy that would cause somebody to lose their
job because of injury unless the person who came in just made it impossible for
him to go back to the original starter, and that wasn't the case.
Noah Fafita had a fine game, but he did not have a Khalil Tate
FBS rushing record kind of game. He didn't have a Nick Foles stepping in
for Matt Scott and leading to a huge victory and just making it impossible to
take him out of the game. Now, if and when Delora comes back,
when he's healthy, if he struggles well, now, the leash is
shorter, and I think the possibility of seeing both quarterbacks in a game increases.
And I don't think that Do Laura has as much of the leeway where
he can do no wrong anymore. So, Sammy, you made this observation
before Brian came on that the offense I thought was maybe or you thought was
simplified right for him. He didn't do anything that maybe that Do Laura would
have done or whatever. They just kind of made it simple for him and
he executed it. Did you Did you see that too? Brand It was
a little bit of that, but it was also more a matter of Safita
is I think much more willing to if that those first reads aren't there,
to check down and to play it safe, whereas do Laura a lot of
times. And we saw that, especially against Stanford, where he seemed to
really want to make that big play and it's just not always there. Fafita
was over five on passes of twenty ft yards or deeper down the field,
and Fish today kind of used the excuse of the not having the experience with
the first team receivers and not knowing how they're going to run the routes and
the timing and all those kind of stuff. I could see that a little
bit, but I also think that they weren't trying to take the deep shots
because while those can bring up big points, they also are harder to hit,
and they didn't want to give the ball back to Washington super quickly.
After those first three and out in the four and out in the first quarter,
they pretty much were sustained drives the rest of the way, which was
the game plan. So I think it was a mix of bolts. Yeah,
and on Saturday, is there a number in coach Fish's mind where if
the lore is said percent, he will play or is it a hundred or
busting things? Well, I guess that depends on what your definition of one
hundred is. I think it's just going to be a matter of if he
if he's able to be the kind of quarterback he is has in terms of
his mobility and being able to drop back, and that there's no limitations,
then he'll play. If there is limitations, then I think that it would
go to fafita to give him extra time. It's there's there's this kind of
window here where you've got the back to back road games against USC and Washington
State and then you have a buy So if he looks nowhere near close to
one hundred percent midway through this week, I wouldn't be surprised if they just
pull the plug and say, no, you're not playing this week, and
then you know, we'll see see about the Washington State game. But knowing
that there's an extra week off after that before you come into really the the
really more of the potentially winnable games down the stretch with back to back at
home and just more opportunities than these next two. So but I doubt he'd
give any sort of percentage. Yeah, no, I agree with you,
especially with Washington State coming up after the fact, right and going back home
or back where he was before coming here. But let me let me say
I was thinking about this, and I'm running out of time this last question
about football. So they go to USC. What was the prediction for you
in wins before the season started. I had them going six and six?
Okay, has that changed? Now? They've won every game that I thought
and lost every game that I thought. I in fact, I have them
losing the next two. I had them to USC and to Washington State,
so being three and four and needing to be able to win three of those
last five to get in and getting to six with ASU. The wins haven't
been, I guess, as impressive as I thought they could be. But
the losses also haven't been. They haven't been blown out. I mean,
they went to overtime and they had an on site kick with the opportunity to
try to tie it in this next game if they had recovered. So a
pair of one score losses, one on the road in overtime in SEC territory,
and won against the top ten teams. So I can't really think you'd
be too upset with that Stanford game. Maybe should have been a better over
all performance, but the fact that they played poorly in a lot of areas
and still one is promising. Yeah, okay, the reason they asked that.
Okay, so how's this gauntlet? USC on the road? Washington State
on the road back to back weekends. You talked about the little gap there.
They have a week off, then they go to Oregon or they play
Oregon State here, a better team than mostly well but a very good team
UCLA, which may be a winnable game here at home, and then at
another they're at Colorado, who who knows what's going to happen there, and
then Utah which is obviously very good, but they play them here. So
this is a heck of a heck of a next road next The next few
weeks are going to be tough. Oh yeah, I mean last year they
played at one point five consecutive ranked teams and going into conference play seventh straight
were ranked after the first game and some of them fallen out since then.
But yeah, I mean, there's there's three top ten teams in this conference
and they're going to be playing two of them in uh, they're gonna Yeah,
you played two of them in back to back weeks, and then an
undefeated team after that if Washington States beats UCLA on Saturday, I think this
is going to be the first time Arizona is gonna be playing like three consecutive
unbeaten pack twelve teams in gosh, probably at least fifteen years. So yeah,
I mean, but you have to play the hand you're doubt you know
that, Steve Yes, And sometimes you've got to throw it away to throw
it away. Okay, let's move to basketball real quick. Got a couple
of two three minutes. What were your impressions from Friday night? If you
can get anything from that, I mean, it was you can't get too
much from it other than the fact that it just seems like there's a lot
of guys and maybe there isn't like a superstar or like u Ben math Ain
a n Azulist to Bellas where you can say he's clearly going to be the
main guy on this team, But then how are we going to make sure
that we have other stuff if that one or two guys struggles. I think
that there's so much more potential for this to just be a very well balanced
and deep team where you goes eight, nine or nine ten deep in games
on a regular basis and are getting meaningful contributions, not just three to four
minutes from that eighth person. What remains to be seen if that stays that
way, But it sounds like Tommy Lloyd wants to be more deeper this year
because he saw how much it got in the way at the end last year.
Yeah, I think in Tommy's early stint here he hasn't really gone to
that depth, especially as the season progressed. What guys do you think or
who will those eight nine guys be that you think he might be able to
rely on. Well, I mean, he's brought in three transfers who are
all starters at major programs, and you figure if at least two of them
will probably start, Plus you have Pella Larson and Are and Kylin Boswell coming
back, So right there that six it's really going to come down. And
then I think kJ lewis, while being a freshman, he just seems like
a guy who's going to find a way to be a regular mix in there.
But then after that it's just going it's going to come down to the
other freshman of the international players, and the returning sophomore is Philly or Vichenen
and NRB Sarnil Anderson to prove that they deserve to be on there on a
regular basis. I think most of us Krebs is the best likelihood to be
involved in there. I don't know if it would be as a starter or
not. And then Maruscus potentially as well, if they can find what works
best for them. But the also weird thing is this is such a challenging
non conference schedule that I don't know. I mean, are you willing to
sacrifice, like losing some games just to make sure you're getting these guys the
experience or is it that they're only going to have those four or five quote
unquote buy games at home that you really can test that out. We will
soon see. That's why he gets paid the big books. I think you'll
probably give a lot of the guys a chance and see I really think the
undergo underdog guy is going to be Philippe. He has a shot and we
saw that Friday, and I think that he is understated. Last year didn't
really play a lot, but we might find something out of him. Yeah
yeah, I mean this team is definitely going to be much more guard oriented
than it's been the previous two years. But that also means with so many
more guards, if someone struggles, they're going to get pulled. You didn't
see that last year. I mean Kerr has a bad game. He's staying
in there because they really just don't have that beyond the three main guys.
If they have four or five guards now, then someone struggles and they go
to the next guy. Yeah, we'll see what happens a busy weekend.
It's going to be that way the rest of the year. Pretty much love
it. Yeah, thanks, Brian, appreciate you all right, Brian Peterson
from Azy Desert Swarm dot com, go to read the stuff, good stuff.
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Ball. Hey, welcome back to it on the Ball, Fox Sports fourteen
fifty. I'm Steve Rivera, James out today. Got a guy Sammy here
working the board. You guys want to call please do We're ready for you
five two o four one six seventy four forty tell me we're ready for them.
Oh, we're very ready. Okay, So you found some cool music?
Yeah, good ones. Well, I need to tell Jay about all
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but yeah, no diversity. Baby, Hey, that's where we're trying
trying to get some new songs. I like it. I like it.
Okay, anybody want to call Let us know what you thought about the Red
Blue game, the football game. What do you like the chances this weekend
about going to LA and facing USC. There are twenty two point dogs.
There were twenty point dogs here, like you are pretty good against the spread.
Let me say this, Uh so they covered the spread. Oh,
as we were talking before the actual show started, Sammy and I they were
they played close, right. I think people in Washington read it, wrote
it. They were never in it. I mean they were never in jeopardy
of losing it, give or take for that little the on site kick at
the end. Okay, granted, but they were also a touchdown away from
getting brown out. It would have been twenty one points had they not fun
with the ball on the five U A today and also on Saturday, talked
a lot about them will recovery that thing, we're not granted. Yeah,
when Stuke's got on the ball seemingly near the near the ends the end line,
you know, out of bounce line, Whether you got it or I
don't know, but it was tough to overturn. Yeah. I think the
big thing with this Washington you have a game is is we talked about it
before. If you're gonna be excited about this, then you have to ridicule
the Stanford performance. Yeah yeah, really really, or question or or critique
it exactly. There's or you just have to stay right in the middle and
be like, we beat a Stanford team that historically is a great program,
and then obviously having a down year, you're supposed to win that game.
You win the game. It was ugly, it was gross, whatever you
thought of it. You win the game. You take the win. But
and now that if you if you take the win and look at it like,
Okay, you win, then you can be you can say, oh,
we only lost by a touchdown to Washington. Sure, sure, No,
you have the same pair of rise right for that game. You have
the same pair of bise. You may not have the same bias. I
know that Jay would think of it as Okay, we won the game,
and hey, I'm really promised, I'm really happy how they survived on And
we'll talk about this tomorrow when he arrives, because that's what we do.
But he'll say Oh no, I liked how they play. They played close,
and I won't disagree with any of it, but but they were still
that close from being blown out earlier. It's not to say they would have,
but yeah, And I think if you swap performances, if you if
the way we played this Saturday against Washington, we played against Stanford, we
win that game by double digits. Sure, play the way we played against
Stanford on Saturday, we lose by thirty points. Sure, sure, Sure.
But the thing about it, and you're a former athlete, right every
day to me, and I've written this one thousand times and I believe this
more more and more as I write stories for the last fifty years, forty
years, every game is a season, Every game is a season. And
you're a golfer. What other sport do you do that You may be the
greatest golfer, goodood or whatever. He has bad days, he has bad
weeks where the best players or did he show up? He's not even making
the cut. You see all the time, and it happens. It happens,
whether it's smatch ups, you just get up bad that day. Whatever,
right you see it, you see it with I mean, we talk
a lot about Colorado, but you see it, especially the last two weeks
with them, they got they got boat raced by Sure and Sure that's a
tribute to Oregon. Their defense is great, and there was a lot of
incentive there was, and then this past weekend it looked like things were going
to get out of hand against US. Late in that fourth quarter, Colorado
had a chance to similar to Arizona. In fact, the show before ours,
we're talking about how they never had a chance and they probably didn't have
a chance. I think USC and everyone talks about Washington Oregon, but I
still think USC is probably the better team. Go ahead. We got a
call. Hello, you're high on the bet the ball. You're on the
air, Gus Gabriel. Gabriel. Fine, let me let me give you
a little bittee Gabriel. So I'm listening. I'm going home after the game
on Saturday night, and lo and behold do I hear Gabriel on the postgame
radio show And I'm thinking Gabriel's cheating on me. Oh yeah, sorry,
go ahead games that I just I support the media, whether it be you
guys, bearing all these show. What Jason Sheer does with his what's his
podcast, So I support every single media that covers that covers you know,
every Arizona you guys have. You guys have better media than Fresno. To
be honest with you, Thanks, What do you got on your moe?
What's on your mind? So I just want to give you my uh my
thoughts about the game on Saturday. So obviously the offense. Obviously the offense
struggle with scoring the first points in the first half, and the defense tried
tried their best to stop Michael Pennix. But I mean, I was hoping
for an Arizona upset, but I guess Arizona has a better chance to deal
I guess USC because USC's defense is not that very good. But I just
kind of wanted to say this after we played this last year of the pack.
I'm just really happy that Arizona does it. The Arizona is not going
to play against Oregon, UFC or even Washington because sometimes Arizona really sometimes Arizona
upsets those those three teams, but most of the times is the ZAC opposes.
So that's my thoughts. Yeah, no, I heard you say that
dealer night, So the guys didn't really want to believe what you said.
I hear you though, we're gonna go into a different conference, and you
might be a little pleased. Maybe you won't be we'll see what happens.
I think it's easier for Arizon to win more games in the Big compared to
the because comparison to the pastrol because Arizona is not playing a guest Oregon,
Arizona is not playing against USC Washington, Alkohol, Marks Texas. The Big
twelve is just wide up. And so so okay, no, I agree
with you. Thank you, Thank you, Gabe. We'll talk about that
once we get off the phone. Thank you much for calling and listening to
us. I don't mind you. I don't mind you cheating on me there,
Gabe. Thank you. So no, he's right, and we talked
about this at number of times. You're gonna go into a great basketball conference,
right and the basketball program is gonna have its handsful, which is fine
because you'll get tested every weekend, and every weekend will be fun for the
fans, and then when you get to the tournament, you'll be ready.
And if you're not ready, that's on you, exactly. I think it's
we got another car. But okay, okay, go ahead. I think
we'll take the car and then we'll go ahead and good and we'll talk.
Hello, you're on the air. Hello, this is Brett. I wanted
to, you know, inquire here about Arizona football, so I stopped projection
today. It had in the Guaranteed rain Bowl against Kansas. Sounds like a
great dame. It's just becoming a great out of a schedule. I just
don't see three wins in the near future. Can you hate that picture?
How can we find those three wins? No? No, I hate I'm
with you. It was this again, Brett. Okay, Brett, I'm
with you, man. It's gonna be very difficult. And I went to
the schedule. How many wins did you have to begin the year? Who
there, Brett? How many wins do you think Arizona was gonna work for
the year? Yeah, yeah, we can hear you. Hold on,
how many wins did you think they were gonna have before the year started?
Before the year three or four? And that's where I'm still at. I
think is game schedule huh yeah? S either I started with five. I
started with five. I don't disagree with you, because it's gonna be difficult
to find three wins here. I think the winnable games are UCLA, and
I'm not saying they're gonna do that. Ucla, maybe Colorado and and and
likely Arizona State. But but those other two are gonna be very difficult.
I hear what you're saying, and I don't I don't disagree with you.
It's gonna be very difficult. Alright, alright, thank you for the game.
And uh and in US next weekend or is it gonna be cool?
No, I don't think. I don't think so. But they, like
you said, like you said, the heavy, they've covered every game and
they played for some reason. They play you see, very good or very
well. So we'll see, we'll see, all right, Thanks Pratt,
Thank you man, Thanks you listening. Thanks going. I don't know what
game he talked him playing again about Kansas, but oh, there was a
I think in the most recent bowl predictions they have us if we win six
games, go into some bowl against Kansas, and that'd be that's just ironic
because we're gonna play them a bunch and the next football Okay, so you
were talking about something, we were talking what were we talking about that we
were interrupted by the call. We're talking about golf. No, no,
okay, well a question just before we go it's a break. So the
War's injuries really interesting. We were hearing that if he's not healthy this week,
you won't play, but then they might give him that next week off
get to the bye. If thea FETA plays well in these next two games,
it doesn't mean we have to win the game. But if he shows
progression and shows signs that he's becoming more confident, is there a question come
after the bye? If sure we roll with that guy? Sure the question
will come from the media. Of course I will, because that's what we
do. I will, will will. Will you lose the starting position from
the injury? You have ever heard the Wally Pip story? You know you
don't have to google that because Wally pipped. God, I don't know why
I'm saying this, because it just drew a blank. But Wally pipps the
starting whatever position in baseball. He got hurt and oh it was the Luke
Garrick. I think it was Luke greg who who who replaced him? And
lou Garrick never left the game again, even never, he never Wally Pip
never played again? Oh wow? Oh yeah, I mean Okay, it
makes sense because you see that a lot. The next guy comes in,
it comes in. It was yeah, yeah, he's just better and he
plays out of his mind and the other guy's lost. I don't know,
I don't know. Fafita is more of a stable quarterback, if that makes
any sense, because he's kind of like, just gets the job done and
De Laura is kind of a reckless dude, and you get what you get
either, big plays. We're kind of crazy plays. That's Taylor Swift for
us. Oh no, oh no, let's go. Let's go and come
back to that talk. But some breaking news, right, yeah, breaking
news midnight night. Come and pick me up, no headlights, come Joy