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Steve Rivera and Jacin Salis. They
have their Eye on the Ball on Tucson

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Sports Stage yet Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to Ian the

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back here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty
on Steve, he's Jake. We have

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Kevin with breaking news. This is
Eye on the Ball Breaking news on Fox

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Sports fourteen to fifty. All right, so we do have some breaking news

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today. I guess we'll lead off
with the news that Steve was alluding to

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earlier a little bit in the last
segment of the amateur Golfer who won Nick

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Dunlap. Nick Dunlap, Yes,
but the amateur golfer who won what kind

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of the American Express? Right,
gun Lap from Alabama, just twenty years

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old. He is no longer an
amateur. He has officially turned pro.

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I didn't know. Did he get
to keep the money? No, no,

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so because he was still doesn't get
the money. He didn't get money

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or tour points because right, he
still doesn't get the money or the or

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the FedEx cup points or anything because
that's behind him. No. But no,

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Well, because he was an amateur
at the time of the tournament.

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But what he did get, what
he did get is a two year exemption.

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He doesn't have to go get his
tour card. He's got a two

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year exemption on the tour. Yes, you're playing all the majors and the

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and the and the what do you
call it? At the end, the

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uh, the players, and I
think, you know, he gets playing

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all the big tournaments. But he's
also got he's got his tour card for

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two years. So I'd say he
wins one more time. You know,

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he keeps winning, you know,
he'll now he's he'll stay you know,

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I'm pretty sure that if I had
done that, i'd sign our school or

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or you know, he can he
can stay in at he can stay uh

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a student. You know, he
can still get a degree. But you

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know, the thing that seemed to
be struggling with, because I saw his

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press conference talking about that, was
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team. He's on the Alabama GoF
team, obviously obviously the best player,

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right and he didn't want to leave
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I have a commitment to my team. But I'm guessing his teammates said,

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yo, get your hell but over
on the PGA Tour because that's what

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we're all here shooting for you've got
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if I'm on that team and a
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what are you doing here? But
over to the PGA Tour. No,

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at the end of the day,
that's what you're doing. Everyone talks about

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Neuve or athleteses deciding to leave.
Yeah, of course that's what you want

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in the first place, is that
you're for that. That's like. That's

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like if you got drafted in the
Major League Baseball Draft and you're trying to

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decide if you're going to go back
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Baseball Draft and they said, well, you're you're on the major league team.

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You're you know, show up at
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You're you're not going to school,
right, correct? And he didn't just

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get drafted? Yeah, yeah,
you're. You got drafted and your and

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you're and you've been sent to the
majors. You're not going to say,

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well, let me think about whether
or not I want to leave my team

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baseball. Yeah, you hopping a
six hour bus ride in North Carolina somewhere.

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I think I'll go play and I'll
go I go to Dodger Stadium.

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There's some more breaking news from last
night for those who watched number nine LSU

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fall to South Carolina at home.
The battle of Kim Molk and Don Staley

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was really entertaining. So I don't
watch women's basketball. Confession on. My

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name is Steve. I have a
confession to me. The last time I

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watched was the IOWA. I watch
your game last year. What a great

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situation. Right then, I said, Okay, I was got home and

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I was doing a doing a story
for somebody, and I'm gonna watch this

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game just because because you tweeted,
so you texted us, I'm gonna watch

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it. It was fascinating, it
was great. It was great basketball.

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It was and I had to change
the channel because the glare from her jacket.

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I could stay with it. That's
what it was burning my eyes.

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It was like watching a car crashing
in terms of fashion, but to your

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point, one dressing the way she
did, the other one dressing how she

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did, and then Mokey going crazy
on the sideline. And then two minutes

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later she's on TV and she was
very sensible, very funny, very kind

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of practical, and I'm thinking she
can go boom boom in a sart beat.

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She's a lady. That's why they
play hard for her. I even

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thought that, I even thought that
she must be difficult night, Yeah,

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very much. So they're an intense
team too. If you're watching like Hayley

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Vanly last night, she was on
fire, the guard of the guard with

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the braids she had. And see
Steve, you see like you see Ta

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van Derveer. You see uh Don
Staley. They're not like that. You

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don't have to be like no,
but they're very Uh Loot wasn't like that,

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but he was stern. Oh sure
he was. You know what.

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That's what I think that. But
you don't have to be a big birthdaydad.

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Totally agree with Totally agree with you. But I think that I think

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technical with Tommy. I think people
want to see they want to see his

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head explode. They want to see
you get it done type of thing.

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Well, they want they want to
see him express how they feel. Right,

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they feel, they feel upset about
the game, and they want,

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they would him to project their feelings
onto the team. So they want Tommy

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to be as pissed as they are. And he's not. Well, so

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he might be, but he's not
going to show it to yet right,

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Yeah, well someone and sometimes Jed
was thought to be that very common composed

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of the sideline yeada YadA. But
you know what you got behind the scenes.

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Yeah exactly. But I I watched
it for for a few minutes,

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and then I can't remember what I
watched. I switch the guard that you're

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talking about, very fantastic and obviously
scored some points. I know what I

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did. I went, I went
and watched the the I watched the sixty

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minute replay of the Alamble. Oh
I hadn't. I hadn't really looked at

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it. Okay, how did that
really happen? You know what I've been

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I know why because I changed the
channel. The end of the u c

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l A Arizona game football game was
on, so then it was just right

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at the end. So then I
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I'll watch that, and I watched
that, so that's why I quit watching

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it. And then I watched that
into the air Zone. Yeah. In

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the basketball, yeah, I think
I watched the LSU South Carolina and today,

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well, well we're talking about women's
basketball. I've got I have some

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personal breaking news tonight. I am
going to an Arizona basketball game at McHale

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as a spectator for the first time
in close to forty years. Going to

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the basketball game tonight with my on
a date with my spouse. She invited

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you to go, she did,
So you better not say going to dinner

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and a basketball game and I don't
have to, you know, get there

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early and get the lineups. This
will be the first time I've been a

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spectator at and either an Arizona men's
or a women's basketball game since the eighties

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five eighty six men Olkowski was coaching. Who was she? Who was?

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Well? I didn't go to any
women's games back then, but I went

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to you know, I went to
a few men's games. I was a

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sports writer, but not covering,
not not on the on the basketball,

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uh, you know, covering the
team. So it would have been that

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year would have been my last year
going to a game there as a spectator.

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No, you're breaking news to me. That was my breaking news.

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Give me some cleaner teared up here. I'm all choked up. Play this,

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Kevin. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
sit in the seat like with a

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cup holder. I might get a
burrito or something or some nachos and just

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watch the game and guess what.
You can do whatever you want at your

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leisure. I can cuss if I
want to. Wow, Well, that

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implies that we don't cuss at the
table. We do. We do,

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we do. People are shocked at
the way we act at that table.

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We even shocked Tommy one time.
Speaking speaking of speaking of surprising things that

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have come up in the past couple
of days, we do have some NFL

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breaking news, Uh, Patriots,
Kashawan Butte was arrested over illegal gambling at

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during his time at LSU. He
was under the age of twenty one and

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fraudulently claimed to be over the age
of twenty one. Now, I told

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I told the guy this during the
break, but I did. What I

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did not tell you, guys,
is the amount of bets that he placed.

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So the alias account believed to be
used by Boute placed more than eighty

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nine hundred wagers with at least seventeen
bets on NCAA football games, including at

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least six involving LSU, according to
police. And I'm getting this from ESPN.

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But he never bet against himself,
never bet against LSU. That's right,

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That's that's what. Yeah, Yeah, not that. That means it's

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a Pete and Pete Rose thing.
One eight hundred, next, come on

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nine thousand, pretty much nine thousand. How when the world has been nine

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thousand times? Someone did the math
on Twitter. It's about twenty a day

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for like a Holy Molly or something. But yeah, and I saw I

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was watching I was doing my laundry
today and I was watching McAfee. I

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headed on and they had a graphic
up where allegedly he had he had deposited

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about one hundred and thirty eight thousand
into the account, climbed it up to

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five hundred and fifty thousand, but
by the end, by the time he

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withdrew the money, it was just
fifty thousand. Oh that's what happens,

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man. Yeah, So gambling with
his money and with his career. What

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do you get that kind of money
to do that? If you're his and

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you have five hundred thousand, you
can and you're on the LSU football team.

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Interesting. The Falcons in the NFL
have hired Raheem Morris as their head

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coach, the former Rams defensive coordinator
and former Falcons interim coach. They're going

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back to the back to the well
here yeah, and and there's only two

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jobs open now Seahawks and commander and
the commanders. And Bill Belichick still doesn't

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have a job. Would you hire
him? No, me too, you

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know, you know, not because
he's old. Yeah, supposedly he wanted

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the Falcons job, but he also
wanted all control and then they weren't good

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and they weren't going to give it
to him, and that that's why he

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that's probably why he didn't have a
job. It's like, Okay, we'll

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hire you, but you can't.
You know, this is not your team.

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You're the coach of the team.
Well you apparently you know Harbaugh got

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that at the Chargers and that you
know, he wasn't going to go to

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a job a job and not get
that. But hell, he was asking

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them to do the lake. Can
you forgive me for forgi me for sitting

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in any future sitting I'm doing?
Yeah? Can I break? Can I

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break rules and still not get fired? Oh? Pre confessional? But ready

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break? You know, look look
Bill, Bill, he listen to me.

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Bill, listen, take your you
know, take your take, take

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a year off, go do some
TV, you know, get a personality

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right or show the personality that people
say you have, you know, behind

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the scenes, you know, build
up your your your image, your aura,

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your mojo, whatever, and then
go, you know, take a

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break and go get a job.
But you're in your Why do you want

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another job? Seventy two years old? I think he's seventy two? Why

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why call it? Yeah, call
it a day. Yeah, that could

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be another part of and you know, team him up with the Brady.

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But as a as a competitor,
right, he maybe he didn't like the

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way end of you take one more
shot at this, fine, but you

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know what, take some time off. You might like it. I mean,

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he might like being retired and not
doing anything maybe, but he is

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close to that wins record though records. He's pretty close. I shouldn't say

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very close, but he's pretty close. Yeah, we do have one more

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NFL breaking news. Mark Andrews Ravens
tight end has been activated off the injured

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reserves. Well, yeah, they
cut somebody, cut somebody to get on

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the roster. That's a bummer.
That's gotta suck going into the AFC Championship

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and you get cut. And I
saw Deebo Samuel is supposedly playing, is

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playing. He's got the crack and
you know somebody there was a stat that

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they average two more yards the offense
averages two more yards per play when Deebo

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Samuel is on the field. I
saw that. Crazy. It's insane.

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I have another crazy start about Deebo. I was listening to a sports Gambling

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in the Lakes podcast the other day
and they were saying, uh, Deebo

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Samuel gets injured in fifteen percent of
the games he has played. That's a

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lot, that's a high percent.
You only you only play sixteen a year.

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Would you would you would you do
a prop bet on him to score

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touchdown this weekend? Wow? Would
you not touch him? No? I

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guess my. My indecisiveness tells me
nothing. Okay, because anytime touchdown bets

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is like I have to see a
strong trend. Yeah, like have some

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sort of indication of like, yeah, they're gonna be looking to get that

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person in the zone. But I
mean, Kittle came out last weekend after

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they after they won and said,
you know, if Deboe didn't get hurt,

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he would have had three touchdowns based
on the way the game plan was

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set up. So maybe coming into
this next week in his return, they

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can't help but put him back into
that role where he's making it anytime touchdown,

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but my money's not gonna be on
it. Okay. I yeah,

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man, I don't know. I
don't know what to do on the games

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this weekend. Just watch them,
don't screw them, don't. I'm not

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telling you which way I'm going to
have. You got what you got.

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If I'm surprised, said my buddy's
on her text chat. I said,

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I am selling the rights to me, not betting on your team. If

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you don't want me to bet on
your team, pay up. The bidding

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is open in the era, and
I l you gotta understand your leverage.

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It was leverage. No, I
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Is that it for you? Yeah? Well, we can talk about

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the Djokovic upset last night if oh
that was a big best. Let me

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just sit real quick. Where do
you think the This is from Yard Barker,

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the all the Best, the Best
Hires for the Rid of the Best

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Football Hires ranked them one to twenty
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Brennan of hiring Phil It's like the
top five thirteen? Really thirteen? Who

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was number one? I think that's
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going to but man was the best, higher, the biggest, The biggest

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impact is well the biggest impact,
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think. I think Kaylen, the
war is not going to do well.

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So I don't know, I don't
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try to send your LinkedIn what did
what did fish? Fish? I bet

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you people think that that's a great
hire like third. Well, if Brennan's

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thirteen and the boor is one,
I would say fish is like five.

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Okay. The problem with that whole
thing, the whole story is he's spilled

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tu Son wrong to us. See
you man, go on, this is

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not Tuscany. It is not all
right. We'll be back Dan Dan Manucci.

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Uh, the minuch is going to
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that he's been working with, and
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M. Steve Rivera. He's Jaginsawso
now on the phone, we have Dan,

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a new chief from Fox Sports ninety
ten or one of the great state

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quarterbacks mentors for some of the kids
in the state. Dan, how are

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you see? I'm doing good,
guys. Always good to catch up with

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you guys. He had a chance
to catch up with your new head football

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coach up here on Fox Sports nine
ten. Catch up with Brett Brennan.

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So you know Friday, it's football
Friday. I don't care if it's Christmas

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Day. If he's there, always
good to go on football Friday. Nice.

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Nice. What were your impressions of
him? You know what. I

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like the energy, I like the
enthusiasm. He's coached a long time as

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far as an assistant several years of
Stantose State. We talked about the influence

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of dtomy that he had second two
thousand and then at Stanose State. So

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I really liked his I guess modus
operational type scenarios of where he's going,

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what he wants to do, and
he's kind of like, hey, look,

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if guys want to say, we
want to keep him here. If

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some guys move on, there's nothing
much we can do about that, And

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kind of like the old saying,
guys, sometimes you just got to play

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at the hands of dope. But
he's he's ready and rare to go.

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I think, you know again,
it's it's been a very welcome, you

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know feel with him. You know, people feel you know, pretty good

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about you know, what they've got. But you know, there's there's the

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whole thing, right, well,
he was at Santas, they stayed.

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He wasn't at X or X or
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does that translate to a program,
you know, a step up like like

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Arizona and your talking to him.
I mean, he certainly hasn't seemed intimidated

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to us. But what what are
your thoughts, as far as you know,

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is is this too big a job
for him or not? No?

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I think guys the other thing too, You're only as good as number one

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your players. You're only as good
as the staff around you. And what

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it sounds like is that when Dino
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coming in with all his experience,
and you think it, uh, you

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know, Dwayna Kina coming in.
I mean, you've got a very experienced

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staff that's been the big boy balling
back, right, so you've got guys

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that know how to handle that.
But I think he'll be fine. I

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mean I would never demean a San
Jose State in the coffee they played in.

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They played a lot of big boy
football there. So I don't think

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at all that that's intimidating for him. And he understands it. And there's

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nothing football wise that he hasn't seen
that he can't perform in next year's Big

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twelve circuit, that's for sure.
Yeah, no question. I thought your

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question to him was went on,
You're like a fifty thousand dollars race horse

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going against one hundred thousand. Guess
what that happened. Those win, Those

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win in the big moments. So, Dan, one of the reasons why

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we had you on. We want
to talk about your experience with the high

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school kids and who you've coached.
But obviously you've coached one of the guys

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still playing in the tournament that turnament
in the playoffs this year with Purty.

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Yeah. I've been traying Brock Perty
since ninth grade and he's just a solid

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number one guy. He's a solid
young man. He's a faith based young

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man. He worked hard, he's
focused, he's called there's nothing that really

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unnerves him. And he's been like
that since day one, since I've been

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training him since ninth grade. And
feel like about Brock, he's a yes,

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sir, noser guy. He loved
to be coached hard. And trust

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me, you know, Kyle Shanahanck
can coach you hard now if you need

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to. But I mean, he's
just always been a hard working, diligent,

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looking to improve kind of guy.
And he's just the calm amongst the

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storm. And I told Brock this, I told Sean Perty his dad.

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I said, Brock is an old
soul, he's beyond his years and I

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think we see that in only two
short years, how he's handled that offense.

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He's handled all the pressure and amongst
all the naysayers out there want to

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put him as a system quarterback,
trust me, guys, Rock Purty is

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not concerned about any of that stuff, as I call it now. It

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does you know, he does say
a little bit of a burning desire to

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be the best he can, but
he really does ignore the noise. And

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Brock's the kind of guy, like
a lot of good quarterbacks, that seem

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to be undersold at times after the
end of the game. He's the kind

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of guy if somebody's turping anim he'll
just point to the scoreboard and bottom line,

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who wins and who loses. Right, So he's just been a very

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diligent, hard working, focused,
want to get better guy. And I

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think you're saying that with San Francisco
right now. Well, obviously, you

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know, all that seem seems to
have gotten lost into you know, who

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he was or who he was going
to be as a quarterback, you know,

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because he was drafted so late,
you know, the whole mystery irrelevant

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thing, and yet he's turned out
to be you know, this guy,

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you know, is there all those
things that you mentioned, is there one

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that stands out us to why he's
been able to do what he's been able

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to do when he wasn't, you
know, as highly thought of as maybe

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he should have been. Well,
guys, I'll be very awesward. So

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the guy he played forty six college
football games. Guys, he played in

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the Big twelve. He played against
big boy ball week in and week out,

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non conference. He was very successful. He won a Fiesta Bowl against

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Oregon here and that was interesting because
I also trained Tyler Schuck, who is

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the quarterback for Oregon, and then
there's Rock thirty for I. That was

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the COVID game. Really, so
many people came in, but I mean,

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he's done it so many times.
He's been so accurate. He's consistently

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consistent, as I like to say, and he's always had that so with

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me training him before he got drafted
and then after he got drafted going into

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training camp. He's extremely accurate.
He's got great timing, he's got a

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very good arm, got a tight
spin. He puts the ball where he's

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supposed to be. I think a
lot of scouts just missed a lot of

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that. But hey, guys,
beauties from the oide of Beholder Right,

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John Lynch, Kyle Shanda liked that
he played forty six football games in the

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Big twelve. That's great minor league
training, would you not say so?

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I think when he looked at that
and he got up there, he learned

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the playbook. He was diligent,
he's humble, he's hard working, but

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he's a quiet leader. He's got
that quiet conviction if you will. And

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myself and I think of Adam Snyder
who used to play for the forty nine

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ers. He's out here and I
trained his young son, Kale, who's

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at Perry. He also saw that
in him. So a lot of that

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stuff we saw in brock Purty.
He's just the madder guys of getting live

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AMMO reps in the National Football League. It's when you talk about him and

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in your description, I'm thinking Noah
Fafida Jay where a guy who just does

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the job, just the ball where
he needs to get it to. He

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has targets, obviously, but a
very system quarterback, okay, but a

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guy who knows as smart as an
old soul and gets the job done.

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Dude, if that's you're gonna be
a quarterback back, like that, I'm

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taking him, But he's not the
two guys. This whole system thing and

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this and that, well didn't.
Wasn't Joe Montganna part of the system.

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Wasn't Tom Brady a part of his
system? Isn't lamark action part of the

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system. You still have to get
in the car and get the Ferrari around

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the track of the finish line,
do you not. You got to know

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when to open it up, when
to slow down in the curves. There's

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so many things that drives me nuts. I'm like, yeah, that's great.

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You know all the great one that
outstanding receivers and running backs and and

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and the lineman. But you still
got to sink. You still got to

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pull the trigger. You still got
to put the ball where it's supposed to

406
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be. There's so many there's so
much minutia if you will, that surrounds

407
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a quarterback within a system. Yes, it's nice to have all those great

408
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guys. But in the meantime,
guys, if you, like I said,

409
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you get in that Ferrari Lamborghini,
you know what here learning how to

410
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drive that bad war in the fly
and he has done it flawlessly the last

411
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year and a half. Yeah,
and you were talking about bringing the Ferrarii

412
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and Lamborghini around the corner and parking
it all nice. There's been a lot

413
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of talk about what Party can do
with or without his stars on the field.

414
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Can you talk to us a little
bit about when the quarterback has all

415
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his his ducks in a row,
all his talent on the field, versus

416
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when he doesn't. What are some
of the things that allow him to still

417
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succeed within a system when some of
the parts are missing. Because there's a

418
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lot of Rock for I think the
biggest thing, guys is those backups,

419
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so that you're alluding to. By
the way, we just got where Deebo

420
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Stamuel will be playing the forty nine
ers, which is huge, as well

421
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as Mark Andrews, who is up
here at Desert Mountain High School out of

422
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Oklahoma. He's also been playing for
the Raven Just to give you a couple

423
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of injury updates. But I mean, rock, there's enough training, enough

424
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reps with the backups, you know, with the Jennings of the world,

425
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with the Ray Ray McDonald's of the
world, that he's not concerned about that

426
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now he may have to slow his
drop down on one receiver versus another receiver

427
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:49.039
like he was telling me last he
says, He says, coach. He

428
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says, sometimes I got a slower, more methodical drop with Deebo than I

429
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do with Ayuk. I have to
spin it out with speed it up with

430
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Auk because of their speed. And
I trained guys always know her receiver is

431
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when you're throwing to somebody, So
he understands it. So he had just

432
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what I hear you saying is he
had just very well. But he's not

433
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concerned. He figures those guys are
pros. They're ready to play and they

434
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got to do their job, and
he's ready to do his. Yeah,

435
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no, it's it well again.
You know, look, I don't know

436
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to me, either guy's a good
quarterback or he's not right. Yes,

437
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yes, you know. That's that's
how I say to that point, guys,

438
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not to me to interrupt you.
The guy is either he understands because

439
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.640
when when those headlights are on Brock
Party, he doesn't get panicked. He

440
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.519
keeps his poised. He understands,
and the other kid, when he makes

441
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a mistake or throws the pick,
shakes it off. I mean he had

442
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.759
pretty rough three quarters with the rain
and everything. Fourth quarter he goes six

443
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:53.680
for seven, has the Knight scramble
puts the ball we're supposed to be he

444
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:59.079
would have been seven for seven if
not by the drop by Kittle, and

445
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:03.279
then that's the all he made to
Ayuk was a perfect spot and that throw

446
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.440
that Jenny's coming across the middle,
why while getting hammered on, the throw

447
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:14.240
were perfect ball. So he performs
when that pressure gets tight, he loosens

448
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:18.960
up and he he loves the talent
and he loves that pressure because he knows

449
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he's going to perform. So you
mentioned some guys up in the Phoenix,

450
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but over the last ten years,
I don't know who you've coached as well,

451
00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:30.680
but that that market for quarterbacks in
Phoenix has become fantast turned out some

452
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.279
guys. So what's going on with
that? Well, I think it's a

453
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.720
combination of things. Guys that think
that we're getting more people up here.

454
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We've got like five million people within
a fifty miles for a radius, The

455
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high school programs are getting more toward
the college RPO spread offenses. And then

456
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you've got guys like myself that are
training quite a few guys that want to

457
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get better. And then you have
the seven you know, seven on seven

458
00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:59.960
leagues that are going on every off
season. So a lot of reps,

459
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.720
a lot of specialized training, which
I've been doing for gosh twenty five thirty

460
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:08.759
years now. And they they're focused. And I always encourage guys play another

461
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.440
sport, play basketball, run track, because I want a well rounded quarterback.

462
00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:17.480
I just think that that helps with
the team. But you know,

463
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:21.319
I look at the Tyler Shucks of
the world. Tyler's at Louisville now Shaba

464
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Purty who just he's committed to Nevada, He'll be going up there. That's

465
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.440
Brox brother. I looked at Dalton
sneed you know, Dalton's going to be

466
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.279
the starting quarterback for there's a Rattlers
up here. He broke all kinds of

467
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:38.000
records at Montana. I look at
so many of the guys that have you

468
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.799
know, have gone on and on
and on that have done a phenomenal job,

469
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.640
and uh, A lot of it
is just having that pretty much year

470
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:51.799
round training, but staying focused and
getting other things involved has really helped.

471
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:55.759
I think a lot of the progress
what's going on here up here in Phoenix.

472
00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:59.799
All right, give us your analysis
of Noah Fafid why has he been

473
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:01.880
able to just come out of the
box and be so good so quickly.

474
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:06.559
Number one, he's got good quote
work. Number two, he's accurate.

475
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.680
Number three he stays calm amongst the
storm. And number four he doesn't turn

476
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.680
the ball over. And it seems
as though he's picked up that system that

477
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.079
Jed had up there down there in
Tucson very very well. But I just

478
00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:23.200
I look at him, and you're
right, Steve. He seems mature,

479
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.640
bey on his years, and he's
got a hell of a arm, and

480
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:31.319
he understands, I think, what
to do and what not to do,

481
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:35.200
if that makes sense to you,
guys. He's he's good with the ball,

482
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:40.480
and I think his leadership qualities of
performance speaks louder than words, right.

483
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:44.599
I mean, when I played for
Chuck Knock in Buffalo, I'll never

484
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:49.160
forget this quote. He said,
what you do speaks volumes of who you

485
00:32:49.279 --> 00:32:52.720
are, and you know what that
was. That's when I see fa Fida.

486
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:55.480
He's not a very big hit,
but he's got a strong arm.

487
00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.160
But he plays within himself and doesn't
get outside the boundary, if you will.

488
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.240
As I like to say, he
colors between the line, guys and

489
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:06.680
that's very good for a quarterback.
No, no, I agree with you.

490
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.079
So, so who who are the
up and coming guys that we should

491
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:12.960
look out for. I know that
Heath's son is in an All Star game

492
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.759
this weekend or some kind of thing, and some have already committed. So

493
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:21.799
who who's next. Well, you
look at Mason Bray, that's that's coming

494
00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.440
up. Another young man named Caale
Snyder. Uh, he's gonna be coming

495
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:30.160
up in the ranks and be a
sophomore. I've got several other quarterbacks that

496
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:34.079
are that are coming up the pike. Dylan Dylan rared and he's a Notre

497
00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:39.400
Dame Prep. He's another outstanding young
man, Jackson Knutson from my five Alba

498
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:45.640
Mater McClintock High School Chargers. He's
leading the charge there. And you got

499
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.799
quite a few other juniors and seniors. I can't I can't rattle them off

500
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:53.240
right now that are really gonna kind
of set the stage for what's coming on.

501
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.039
I mean, another young man I
had was Nobbie brus On, who

502
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.839
was the two time Gatorade Player of
the Year, was at Liberty and they

503
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.599
won the state title last year.
He's already moved on to a issue as

504
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.760
a preferred walk on much like Demon
Williams did their u of a But now

505
00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:14.440
that he's gone, so there's gonna
be a handful of seniors to be or

506
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:19.559
juniors to be this year that are
definitely going to be coming up that should

507
00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:22.199
be an outstanding the job here in
the Valley of the Sun. You mentioned

508
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.679
Williams, How good is he?
Because Jed wanted him, Jed, he

509
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:30.199
definitely wi The word we heard was
that Jed wanted him more than he wanted

510
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:36.840
up at Washington. Well, I
think that's a little salesmanship right there.

511
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:43.480
Truth noah Fffita is right now.
He's ahead of the curve of a Demon

512
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:46.599
Williams, DeMont Williams. He is
a trust me. He's an outstanding quarterback,

513
00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.559
out standing on man, very athletic, goes the ball very well,

514
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:55.400
extremely accurate. But god, he
needs a bixit, some cheeseburgers, peanut

515
00:34:55.440 --> 00:35:01.519
butter and jelly sandwiches and some shake
just to get him up. Is like

516
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:06.239
a like a tuah, But I
kind of a guy. Deman has got

517
00:35:06.280 --> 00:35:10.559
the ability. Now if he plays
him, I'd be very careful because he's

518
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.079
not a big kid, and if
he gets banged around and and excuse me,

519
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.800
in Big ten football, you gotta
be careful. But yes, he's

520
00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.480
very talented, but no, he's
not a no fafita, that's for sure.

521
00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:25.920
Okay, Well, Dan, appreciate
your time. Thanks a whole bunch.

522
00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.239
Dan. Hey, anytime, guys, you know me, I mean

523
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:32.840
anytime you want to talk quarterbacks in
football, I am available. So I

524
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.880
always appreciated. And shout out to
those those other Wildcats and a case State

525
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.639
Wildcats's other Wildcats down there at Tucson. Thank you, thanks so much,

526
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.719
Dan, Thank you. That's a
good guys. Sure you you can listen

527
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.400
to him on Fox Sports. I
know Arizona fan liked hearing that. Yeah,

528
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:54.000
yeah, definitely like hearing that.
So many players coming out of Arizona.

529
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:57.559
They are and you know, especially
quarterbacks. I mean they're all over

530
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.360
and they're at all the big school
who's in Oklahoma and Rattler all those guys.

531
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:05.199
Yeah, you know again in rock
Perty. I mean, holy col

532
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:07.519
I could be in the super Bowl
in a couple of right. My whole

533
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.679
thing is because he was not considered
a very athletic, talented type of guy

534
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.719
and just a quarterback. Yeah,
I'll take Roger Staubach I'll take him any

535
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.000
day. Yeah, yeah, again. I mean I'm not kidding. I

536
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.760
mean I watch him play and I
think of Joe montagnae ya ya. Just

537
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.239
a guy, just a steady guy
out there. You know nothing flash.

538
00:36:25.239 --> 00:36:28.639
He just does the job. That's
what I would want. Yeah, all

539
00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:30.239
right, let's take our last break. Where to come back? It's Friday,

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man, Holy cow, Steve,
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Have a great weekend on that, Steve,

613
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.519
have you have you decided what you're
doing this weekend? No, I'm

614
00:41:54.519 --> 00:42:00.000
not. I'm not doing anything on
the NFL game Francisco. I have two

615
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:02.840
I have a Oh, you've got
some from the are your bets to get

616
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:06.239
to the super Bowl or to win
in the Super Bowl? So either way,

617
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:07.400
I'm not I don't know. That's
what you have the Chiefs and the

618
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:10.039
Ravens, right, So I don't
care who wins there. I actually want

619
00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:14.559
Baltimore to win because it's a better
odds. Yeah, Jay, you mentioned

620
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:17.440
that the Niners have moved to be
seven and a half point favorites seven and

621
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:21.760
a half. Right now minus seven
and a half is plus one hundred odds

622
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.559
for San Francisco. Oh, okay, do you think San Francisco is gonna

623
00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:29.440
whoop them? Yeah? It's even. It's even right now, even money

624
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:34.159
bet right, right? All right, let's take this call. You're on

625
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.440
the air and on the ball.
Yeah, this is Nika. What's up?

626
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:44.199
Hey? Now on bast talk talk
away. Are you where do you

627
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:46.239
sit with this? What do you
sit with this? Man? First off,

628
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:52.400
I like gay man, but he's
got to settle down. It was

629
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.199
one game and they last on a
buzzer. Bader Man, I told you

630
00:42:55.719 --> 00:43:00.480
to Gab is a little extreme,
but that's why we love Gabe. Oh

631
00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:04.360
you guys. We love all you
guys because you have your different personalities.

632
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:08.639
But the way I see it,
man, I'm kind of like Jays and

633
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:13.280
basketball. Los is not the end
of the world. Mm hmm. And

634
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:16.480
football, yes, I'll lose sleep
over it. Yeah, you want to

635
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:23.159
kill somebody, right, that's when
you start taking the Yeah. I hear

636
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:27.599
you, I hear you. That's
I think they do need to bench bar

637
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.599
as well for a little bit.
Something not right with him, right,

638
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.639
something's got to go give. I
think he's probably having girl problems. I

639
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:38.239
don't know. Okay, that's a
theory. I mean they could. It's

640
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.039
a theory. Not out of the
realm of passibility. Are you can invite

641
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:47.480
us to your wedding? Man,
I don't want to Let's just say that

642
00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:52.639
was a mistake. Thank you to
Ko. I appreciate you. Our faith

643
00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:57.400
is restored. Yes, the world
is fine out. We love you.

644
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:04.599
Hey, I love you guys man
right e specula because my god, rivera

645
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.760
guy. Maybe you have a thing
or two be your kid. I know

646
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:15.320
you couldno what's minus the lettuce?
Hey, anybody want to call us?

647
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:17.760
You got a lot of time.
Ten minutes five, two, four,

648
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:21.960
one, six thirty four forty All
the collars are coming out of the Woodwards

649
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:24.960
Howard, we had Nico, we
had Gabe, where, we had Docter,

650
00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:29.480
Brian, Bryan Bryan, Yeah,
yeah, absolutely, yeah, Okay,

651
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:31.840
we just need fat Mic talk about
his cowboys. So he might be

652
00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.519
he's an easy right now he's in
I don't know, uh, you know,

653
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:43.760
my brain tells me take the Ravens, you know, on Saturday or

654
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:47.000
Sunday. But it's it's kind of
like as a don't as they talked to

655
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:50.559
Ryan Racky, you know, as
we talked about I said, you know,

656
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:52.639
don't bet against Pat mc patrick.
Mahomes man, You've said that and

657
00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:57.239
you've said, yeah, I mean
it's like what the you know, you

658
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.880
know, look who's who's done it
in this situation, Mahomes or Lamar Jackson

659
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.840
Mahomes every time. And it's one
of those situations where I keep telling my

660
00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.400
friends all the time, if you
get certain players or teams at plus odds,

661
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.360
you gotta take them, and you
win some and you lose some,

662
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:16.519
but you're gonna win a lot more. Youse, didn't you always have to

663
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:21.960
if the Patriots were getting points?
Did you always take? Did you always

664
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.639
take? Go to the call?
Hi, you're on the air and eye

665
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:29.639
and the ball. Okay, this
is Tim dam How are you doing?

666
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:35.719
Just fine? Hey? I'm a
Purdue grad lived in Tucsons the past three

667
00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:40.840
years. So my take on Arizona
and any college game is that's very tough

668
00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:45.840
to win on the road. My
Purdue Boilermakers have lost twice to teams that

669
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:52.199
aren't ranked on the road. What
I see in the Arizona team is a

670
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.079
lack of being a team. They
don't seem to be supporting each other and

671
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:04.519
having fun. If you watch Purdue
any their bench and the whole team likes

672
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.320
each other. They they have a
great time even when it's a close game.

673
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:14.960
And I think you noticed that also
when the Indian Pacers came and celebrated

674
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:21.159
Mathern's honor just last week. Totally
agree with you, especially last month.

675
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:27.400
Great and that's actually what we were
saying about this team in Novembermber. Team

676
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.639
is very together. They're moving the
ball around. You know, it looks

677
00:46:30.639 --> 00:46:35.079
like they're having a blast and something
has flipped after the counter. I agree

678
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:36.800
with you. So let me ask
you to real quick, because you have

679
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.440
a pretty good team that you follow
and Purdue. Do you feel confident enough

680
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:44.079
to say that they'll make to the
Final four and actually do well there?

681
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:51.000
Because that's historically not true. I
think this year is the best year that

682
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.840
I see them having that chance or
opportunity, just because they have so many

683
00:46:55.880 --> 00:47:01.760
weapons. They their bench is so
deep that they can put just about anybody

684
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:06.480
in and not lose a whole lot. Did you go to the bench often?

685
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:12.320
Oh? All the time. The
last game, everybody on the bench

686
00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.679
had stats in the game. Yeah, okay, no, good for you

687
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:20.599
and cause back when as we get
closer to the traps pretty wide open though.

688
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:22.320
I think, you know, I
think there's a lot of people who

689
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.239
feel I mean, people still feel
Arizona, you know, can can get

690
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:30.519
there. Not Steve, Steve,
look, I absolutely think that Arizona can

691
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:34.320
get there. I just think that
they're going through a phase and once they

692
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:39.000
get that them mentality and go out
and just start enjoying basketball again, that

693
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:44.400
they'll do fine. And people just
have to remember it's tough to win on

694
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:49.760
the road anywhere. All the top
ten teams have lost on the road,

695
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:53.039
So can't get too too high or
too low. Right now. It's all

696
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:57.599
about March. Just I agree with
you that it's to thank you, appreciate

697
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:01.800
you, appreciate your calling buddy,
no problem. Yeah's too smart to be

698
00:48:01.800 --> 00:48:07.559
calling. Yeah, he's too calm
to smart. Right, No, he's

699
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:09.840
Everything he said is correct and he's
right this. You know, what what

700
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:14.000
we were saying about this team was
how much they look like they're having fun

701
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.320
playing basketball with each other, And
he's right. It hasn't looked like that

702
00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.440
during this stretch of games where they've
gone six. And I wonder if that

703
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:25.719
trip to Vegas hurt because that's when
they kind of got their win knocked out

704
00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:29.880
on them. You know, maybe
the Purdue game too, but but it

705
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.239
happened that Florida Atlantic was It's kind
of you know, they had that game

706
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.440
one, they lost it and then
they and then since Anna it's been you

707
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:38.119
know what it's been. The Atlantic
game was strange in the way that it

708
00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:42.719
unfolded, and I think might be
onto something with that Jag. I mean,

709
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:45.320
you know they got they got that
game to the overtime. You thought

710
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:47.480
you should be able to bury these
guys and they were not able to do.

711
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:52.559
Yeah. Yeah, well it could
be more than that. I think

712
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:54.719
it's probably more than that. Something
in hell, well again, the whole

713
00:48:54.920 --> 00:49:00.280
the whole aspect of you know,
enjoying being you know, being on the

714
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.960
court with each other and you know, playing well together. So I won't

715
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:08.039
I got an email, a message
here from somebody who wants me to kind

716
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.639
of analyze Tommy and say, come
that he's not the guy. But I'm

717
00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:15.840
not gonna say that because it's too
early, and it's he has a lot,

718
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:17.800
he's done really well so far.
But what about player of development?

719
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:22.599
This guy says, who has gotten
better from the time they entered the program

720
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:27.960
and then he left, especially this
year. I mean I thought Conan Bosball

721
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.079
had gotten better and then he's he's
kind of got him up, you know,

722
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:37.719
retracted or whatever the right word is
for that. But umar Babo got

723
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:43.000
one hundred times better from from his
first year to last bit. And so

724
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:45.960
I I don't know regrets. I'm
you know, I'm not. I'm not.

725
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:50.119
I'm not gonna I'm no way I'm
going into that, he said.

726
00:49:50.199 --> 00:49:52.519
He but he's kind of right because
you think over the last couple of years

727
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:55.920
he was teaching, he was making
him better, making him better, and

728
00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:59.760
then this year it hit a wall. It's just hit a wall. I

729
00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:02.960
was would say Polo Larson is this
season, he's probably the guy who's gotten

730
00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.840
the best. And that's more confident. That's more confidence too. He's got

731
00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.599
a lot of confidence now. Uh, and he too has kind of been

732
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:13.760
up and down a little. Look, I thought Azula's got a hell of

733
00:50:13.800 --> 00:50:15.920
a lot better now. He didn't
get to a point, you know,

734
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:20.360
he ran out of time to get
to a point where uh you know,

735
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:23.360
if you first if he had had
another year here, you know, but

736
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.239
he he improved. Now. I
don't think it's that. I think there's

737
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:32.800
just something going on with this team
right now that is there. There's something

738
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:37.239
weird out there, whether it's in
the locker room, whether it's they've lost

739
00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:42.119
track of each other on the court, whether there's uh, you know what,

740
00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:45.519
you know, one player who's not
playing in the system that we don't

741
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:50.719
we're not recognizing that. We don't
see people. I know what's on people's

742
00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.360
minds about that. But you know
there's something like that that is you know,

743
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:58.639
but it was working again, it
was working for two months and then

744
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.440
it stopped the problem too. So
do we have the press conmence with Tommy

745
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:05.960
once we got to have ten,
twelve minutes whatever. No one's gonna ask

746
00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:09.320
that question. No one's gonna ask
that question. Uh, what's the problem

747
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:14.079
is? Or internal is is?
No one's gonna ask him directly that question.

748
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:15.840
I'll ask him, Okay, I'll
ask it like this, though,

749
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:20.679
Tommy, is is what's is?
What's going on with your team and the

750
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.960
struggles that you've had and look,
let's call him struggles. You're six and

751
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.800
five. Is it something on the
court, is it something in the locker

752
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.039
room? Or do you get to
have any sense you ask him that question

753
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:36.519
of where that of what might be. I'm curious how he answers this question.

754
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.519
Ask him that question. It's a
great question. It's the question,

755
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:43.039
it's a legit question. It's the
question. I mean, I don't know

756
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:45.159
if you'd get pissed at the question, and it's certainly a question that needs

757
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.519
to be asked. He will,
he will in a maybe not show it

758
00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:52.079
way, but he will. But
that's fine. I won't like the question,

759
00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:54.079
yeah, but that's a great it's
the question. It's the question.

760
00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:57.920
He won't like the question. I
mean, you know, we've asked questions

761
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:00.320
before that the coaches didn't like.
Am I got told once it's that you

762
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:02.960
asked Jed Fisher question. He's really
mad at you, mad at me for

763
00:52:02.960 --> 00:52:07.519
what? And that's part of the
problem with the locals. Most of our

764
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.360
fans, and they are journalists.
I don't mind asking that, okay,

765
00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:13.599
And that's the question because that I
mean, that is I mean, that's

766
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:15.880
isn't that the one? The number
one thing people are wondering about this team?

767
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:20.960
Right? That's what about this?
What's the problem? Is it on

768
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:23.320
the court? Is it somewhere else? Can you can couch it the way

769
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.360
you did too? It's not a
you know, two months ago you guys

770
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:34.159
were humming along blah blah blah.
What happened gives yeah, interpersonal thing like

771
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:37.360
what's the difference between what happened in
twenty twenty three? And what's happening in

772
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:42.119
twenty twenty four. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, not afraid. I'll fight

773
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:45.239
him. It's not a bo it's
not afraid, but I'll fight. It's

774
00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:46.559
because you don't go to the press, cousin, and I don't either.

775
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:51.760
But it's the people who cover up
they're and Bruce is not. But it's

776
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:57.159
more fandom than it is press.
Yeah, it's true. And that's part

777
00:52:57.199 --> 00:52:59.880
of the social media outrage that we
see after every game too, because that

778
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:05.039
a lot of people that are trusted
for for reaction informed, they're not.

779
00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:10.719
They're not getting they're not getting those
answers. No, I can't. I

780
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:14.960
can't ask him that after a game. I can ask him that in the

781
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:20.639
course of our Tuesday weekday press conferences
because I'm That's why I don't come to

782
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.119
the press conferences, because I'm part
of the staff work in the game.

783
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.239
We'll let me ask you to Yeah, you ask him, No, No,

784
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.719
no, because I don't need to
write it down for you. No,

785
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:30.239
no, no, I have no
problem asking. But the thing is,

786
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:34.719
let's say they kick the crap out
of Oregon. You asked that question,

787
00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:37.519
what the hell do you want exactly
right? That that changes things that's

788
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:40.199
exactly it's time and place. But
if they lose to Oregon, it's a

789
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:45.360
legit question, absolutely, all right, circumstance. Nice job today, Kevin,

790
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:46.599
Nice time about a week, Kevin. Appreciate you sitting in a couple

791
00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:52.559
of times. Steve dub podcastcast.
Be sure to check out the podcast.

792
00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:55.880
It'll be up tonight. I'll be
setting it up pretty quickly, righting right

793
00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:59.920
here after the show. So yeah, a lot of people going to that,

794
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.000
so follow us on the podcast,
like us, subscribe us to us,

795
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:07.039
subscribe to us. Yeah, on
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796
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:08.519
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