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This is I on the Ball with
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Radio Station The Good Afternoon. Everybody.

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

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Rivera, i'mong side partner Jay Gonzalez
and well, well, well look with

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the wildcat got dragged in. It's
Noah, No, I'm good to see

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you. No, good to see
both of you, guys. It's been

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a while. I swear. It
feels like I'm taking a year off.

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At the same time, it feels
like you guys were yelling at me ms

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sleep last. Our biggest question to
you though, did your dad know what

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you're doing here? Don't think so. Are we that bad that that that

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our interns keep us a secret from
their parents. It's funny because no one

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said last day, last Friday,
Jason he said he didn't it doesn't know

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he was doing this stuff. I
did, Jason. Well, I mean,

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well, but there's a whole bigger
conspiracy there because Jason is supposed to

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be in pre mad then studies in
journalism and his dad doesn't know that.

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Oh so, I mean that's the
thing. And if you if he told

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his dad what he was doing,
he'd be disappointed because it's because it's not

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pre mad, right right? If
I don't know why he doesn't just say

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that you guys are just pre mad. It's a prema. I think that's

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what he did. He said.
I think he said, they said,

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I worked with these two guys.
They're like doctors. Doctor. Doctor gets

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out that if you disaster well practice
insurance, you should totally take you know,

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health health advice, especially considering stress
from betting. It's it's it's what

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not to do, exactly, that's
what not to do. Don't let your

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bodies get like this. Yeah,
you know, we're bad examples exactly.

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Good to have you back, Noah, have you here from time to time.

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Let's see if you can remember which
buttons could push though today. So

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that's some stuff going on. And
let me tell you, Noah, if

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you haven't heard this already, the
biggest trump in college life is from a

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freshman to your sophomore year. So
we're expecting great things from you. I

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expect I expect the same, if
not more, in return. Good,

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good luck with them, you know, wait for you got to know noise

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that we are on the down.
We're getting worse by the day, not

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Better's gonna get a second wind,
hope. So that's it. Good second

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wind was like twenty five years ago, the only one that I gets from

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the from the vent, the little
things you put in your nose and the

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oxygen tank. I wanted to have
that. Don't don't say wind to Steve.

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No, no, you got all
kinds of wind. Yeah, I

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got a lot of wind. She
ate some lunch. We're happy to have

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you, man. Yeah, good
good day to day Monday. We're back

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obviously soggy Monday, but it's okay. Uh, we're gonna have a couple

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of things, a lot of things
on it. Well. Philip Stewart,

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the head football coach at Mirana that
you know there, there's their their field

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got flooded in last in last week's
storm. They're really banged up on Miranna.

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I mean, I didn't gonna drop
of rain that day at my place,

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but they got I mean their school
got torn up there. Oh yeah,

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they were. They were out of
school the next day. The field

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was underwater. A lot of repairs
over the weekend they were doing some work

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out there and one of the cool
things. Again you don't you don't see

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it in a lot of places.
Maybe you do, but I like to

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think that Tucson has some of this. But uh, you know, Morana

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opens with Cell Point on Saturday.
On Friday at Cell Point, a game

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that we've been talking about that we
want to go to get a look at

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the You have a recruits that are
on the South Point defensive line, but

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a bunch of the South Point football
players went over to Mirana to help work

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on the field because they want to
play them, which is I don't tell

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coach Stewart that we're gonna go for
that reason, but a really cool thing

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to see. But we'd like to
check in with coach Stewart. Let let

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tell us what's going on with this
team, what's going on with this facility,

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how they're managing through this and and
you know how they're going to get

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through it, and then talk about
his team because they're supposed to be really

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damn good, right right, right, so a good year. And then

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we're gonna have our guy Justin Spirits
on the other out of four o'clock,

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right, we want we want justin
to give us his uh his thoughts on

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on fall camp, which officially ended
Sunday. The According to Jed uh as

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a post scrimmage press conference Saturday,
the players have today off to get themselves

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situated at school, the first day
of school at the OVA, and then

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they were gonna have a team a
team barbecue, I presume at Jed's house.

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Maybe not. I mean wherever it
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a team thing. So and then
they began prep in earnest tomorrow for uh

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or the opener with an AU right
right, So let me we got we

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got time here. We have some
clips ready to go. Baby, we'll

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listen to one or two just before
we get to that. What with your

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naked eyes? What did you see? I saw guys right, They've got

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guys and guys that come in and
out. They can play a lot of

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guys. You don't see a big
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go go out on the field,
whether it's a on the line or in

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the defensive backfield, even you don't
know if a feed I thought looked really

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sharp. The running backs they got, they got four guys who're gonna run

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the ball. This year. Uh, and they're gonna use all four and

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they use them in different ways.
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while is going to be the guy. But I you know, you got

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uh, you saw speedy look carry
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in space. The receivers are who
we thought they were, right, they're

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out there catching balls and there.
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So I think, to me,
it's not so much it's hard for me

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to tell how much better they're doing
things. It just looks like there's more

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guys to at at at a higher
level. As I was looking through the

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sidelines. Uh, and maybe it's
my it's my being here too long.

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Is it's it's still small. But
they're bigger than the past and they were,

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so you know what I'm saying,
it's it's bigger but still kind of

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you know, yeah, they got
they still got catching up to do.

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Yeah, but you know the linemen
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lineman. They got more guys,
you know, Jacob Cowen and and and

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uh and Temac looked the same to
me, and a lot, you know

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a lot of people said team Mack
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same he is. Maybe he's stronger, maybe he's putting on some weight.

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Uh, and maybe he was carrying
it differently last year. But he's still

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out there catching balls. And he
looks, uh it looks confident. He

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looks like he knows exactly what he's
supposed to be. They're not gonna miss

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a beat there, They're not gonna
be And then wide receivers, Uh,

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it was it Cowen who who had
that great catch around the reverse Keen.

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He looks good, obviously, the
kid from Colorado, Montana, alimonious Craig.

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He looks like a guy now.
He looks like a physical uh,

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kind of a smart guy too,
bigger, you know, a bigger receiver

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than than Arizona normally has. Like
he's six two, but he looks well

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built. He's gonna break some tackles. Did you and the backup? Were

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you there when you We had a
chance to interview him, Very very good,

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very well spoken. He wants to
be in the sports journalism commentating type.

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Away, very bright. Yeah,
we told him with show him a

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thing or two. Good looks a
billion but so so they're gonna look great.

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I mean, and let me say
this, let's go to let's go

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to my question and I'm gonna preface
this. This was my column on Saturday

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Saturday and only asked one or two
questions because, Jay, if this team

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is any good, If this team
is any good, what's it going to

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depend on? Defense? The defense
has got to get better, right,

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So everyone talks about the you know
they're gonna be seven games with games,

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but no one talks about that side
of the ball. Yeah, they they

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got that's got to be better.
So that was kind of like my question

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to Nance, just to see where
they're at right now. Yeah, here's

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what John Johnny Nancer had to say
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this camp it's coming along, you
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last year was a lot of it
was neil because you know, before

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then there was man free type of
defense where you just covered the guy now

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would claiming more of his own.
So there's a lot of teaching, there's

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a lot of learning uh checks and
things like that. And I think these

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guys has been in the system now
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helping. So I like where we're
at, am I please know, there's

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a lot of things we need to
work on you know, too many penalty

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in the night. That's not going
to help us. Uh, you know,

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our techniques got to be cleaned.
Uh, you know so. But

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the one thing I like, we're
playing with great efforts. So I like

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where we're at as far as the
defense. Yeah. So, and that's

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hard to that's hard to see on
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It seemed like because they weren't tackling
the front line guys, they weren't tackling

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the starting receivers, they weren't tackling
the running back. You know. Jed

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mentioned in one of the clips,
I think we'll even play it that it's

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hard to tell was that a three
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It looked it looked like when those
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of three quarters speed. So I
think they were looking more of you know,

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our guys in the right place.
They now, the second line guys.

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Yeah, they were tackling and stuff
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they were just making sure that they
got out of this camp healthy, healthy

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and with with you know, feeling
like they accomplished what they needed to accomplish.

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We did ask, We did ask
Jed, you know what he thought

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overall of how things went in this
camp, and he talked about that.

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But then again, as as Johnny
Nansen said, they're very disappointed with the

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penalties in the scrimmage securdy night.
On a positive side, we practiced the

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right way. We took care of
our teammates. As you know, we

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tackled some groups, we didn't tackle
other groups. We all stayed healthy,

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We worked hard. We got a
lot done out of that practice. Situational

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didn't matter if we hit a thirty
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didn't matter if there was an interception. It was all scripted exactly how

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we've done it in other teams that
I've been a part of in the past.

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On this night, this night is
a really important night that we become

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a really good situational football team.
We gotta practice backed up, we gotta

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practice when we're inside to five,
we gotta practice third and longs and some

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of the things that occurred two minutes
twice. What we also need to do

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is learn from penalties. And I
was about as disappointing. I just talked

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to the team about that that it
was a great wake up call, and

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all of a sudden you know,
there's a little bit louder music. You

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know, you're in the stadium,
you've got different situations. You're not paying

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attention to the yard markers. You
don't realize, Oh, it went from

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second and five to third and ten. Now you're peeking, you're looking,

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you're moving your feet, and you're
not disciplined. And we had ten penalties

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on offense, eight on defense,
two in the kicking game. And you

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know, they know it now and
they'll talk about that, and the leaders

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in there talked about it, and
that is not the standard or the expectation.

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The standard is what I see out
there when guys are getting ext your

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work right now is the fact that
it's going to be constant. How hard

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can we go, how much better
can we get? What can we do

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to find a way to become a
great football team? And turning the ball

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over a couple of those. We
challenge guys to make some plays, but

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we got to learn from that.
And then obviously the penalties were the biggest

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concern for me to Yeah, one
of the things that I remember just now

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and noticing stuff because I'm not We'll
we'll have Justin's he's paying attention to this

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stuff. Was that speedy Luke once
he got the ball and was in space.

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Wow? Yes, Wow. So
obviously they're coming up with schemes to

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get that done. And he says
he doesn't want to make it obvious,

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but he's probably a nice decoy too. Yeah, They're they're gonna run him,

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you know, you know, up
the middle and stuff like that,

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just so that they know that every
time he comes in. They're not gonna

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you know, shoot him out in
space. But there that's the idea with

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him, And they got to get
him, you know, out in the

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open because he only he will make
guys missing. He is really he's bugsy.

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I mean he's you know, insect
like, you know, buggy where

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he can just get out of get
out and run. Yeah, he's yeah,

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he's very jukey, you know,
just whatever. That is the one

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that words he is. All right, let's buy one more clip. This

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is jet Fish talking about his defense
and then he gets into the running backs

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a little bit. Yeah. I
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It's nice to see the competition.
I thought Genesis Smith jumped in there

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and made one or two really nice
plays. Martell Irby got a pick.

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I think I had a chance to
catch one on a fourth and one on

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a throwback went through his hands,
but I think he made some plays.

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Dalton made some good plays. So
all four safeties and then gunner Maldonado showed

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up again as a good tackler.
So those five safeties and Nickels are all

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competing at a high level. I
think Stoke's is really showing what it looks

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like to work at that level at
the D line. We rotated all in.

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I'll have to watch the tape to
see what it looks like. It's

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very hard when you're going against not
when you're not tackling our running backs,

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it's hard to tell if that's a
three yard or a thirty yard game.

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tackle, Mike Wiley's really hard to
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We had him run some routes,
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it was nice to watch all those
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couple of plays are at the end
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mean just exactly what we said,
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come on emerging. He's still young, he is, he's what a sophomore?

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Yeah, you know, I mean
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I was looking. First of all, it was a great night.

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Oh they got was the weather perfect? I'm like, and Jed we'll play

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this clip later. But Jed talked
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in two weeks and there's not fifty
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not because of the weather, right, because that was spectacular, spectacular night.

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Don't many of those. But uh, but you know, I think,

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you know, he I was disappointed
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saw in the first play that they
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like that. But I get it, you know, yeah, they they

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probably feel, Look, we got
we got a shot at something here.

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We're not gonna we're not gonna get
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in our in our last scrimmage of
the of the of camp. Right,

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Okay, so cool, Let's go
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the coach Stewart. Ye, Philip
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Oss. Now on the phone,
we have Philip Stewart, the head coach

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at Marana Tigers Football. How what
are you, coach? I'm doing all

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right. How's it going? We're
doing fine? Thank you? You are

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very very busy. How are things
going up there? Well? Today a

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little things will a little bit more
relaxed. We was able to get back

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to the school after having the council
last Friday, So today we're just looking

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at the after mask. So tell
so, tell us what's the situation today,

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and you know, I mean,
what's the what's the prognosis? You

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know, when are you guys gonna
be able to use your field and what

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are you gonna do until then?
So as of right now, or we've

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been practicing on our backfield the whole
summer, so we've been having a place

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to practice. As far as our
home games have nothing been re scaled with

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Jess yet. But I think just
talking with the turf guys, I think

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we might have to miss our first
home game, but he said he should

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get it back for the second home
game. Well that's had of right now.

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Well that's good news. Yeah,
So we saw that a bunch of

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Cell Point guys came over over the
weekend. You guys were doing some doing

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some work or whatever. Wait,
what what did you guys do? And

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how did that come about? So, so what happened was once that storm

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had came through the other day,
our turf was being new, like laid.

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It was just not getting laid,
but the guys wasn't done yet,

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and when that storm came, it
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rolled it all the way up.
And the guy had told me instead of

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using the big tractors to unrolled.
It would rip. We needed a lot

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of manpower, We need a lot
of hands. So our community did a

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good job of coming out and getting
the word out to a lot of people

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in the South Point Head Coach Rogers
ended up reaching out to the accident.

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Wasn't okay for his boys to come
and help, you know, he didn't

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want those seniors to miss out on
our home game, so his players came

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over to kind of give us a
Linden help. Very nice. Awesome,

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that's awesome. Yeah, yeah,
very was awesome. It was a good

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sight to see, you know,
everybody putting in the differences aside to come

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out and help for the greater goods, right right, and they're gonna be

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one of the tougher teams. And
you guys are gonna be pretty good too.

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What do you think about your your
your team so far and what's our

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head? Well, my our team, we had a good summer this year.

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It was a real good summer.
Went up to camps as ownA to

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finish our year off, to finish
the summer off. So and we've seen

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some good things up there. I
scrimmaged the other day versus Rising and Coronadale,

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So pretty Goodwood, pretty good teams
out and seen it and we felt

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like we did pretty well on Wednesday
night. So we were looking good going

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into the season and we're excited.
So you've got uh, you've got Seth

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Point coming up on Friday. Has
think this disrupted your preparation for that and

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uh what are you? What are
you guys gonna do to get ready?

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It hasn't really messed up out our
preparation because, like I said, we

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haven't been on the field all summer. Right, we haven't been on the

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field the whole summer, So it
hasn't really messed up bout preparation. Today

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we're about to have our first meeting
after school to start our game plan for

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uh the South Point. So as
of right now, you know, it

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ain't really affected the boys, ain't. No, I'm gonna try to do

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a good job and the coaches this
week to kind of keep their mind focused

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on the one thing at hand,
and that's playing South Point on Friday night.

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So how big of a challenge will
that be as far as a challenge

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as far as keeping them focused.
Since it's not a home game, it

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was never scheduled to be a home
game. We knew it was going on

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the road anyway, So I don't
think that part is gonna secause I think

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next week because our home game was
supposed to be next week, but we're

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gonna have to be on the road
because the field won't be done well.

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I think next week will come with
the challenge of all we have to go

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back on the road again and stuff
like that. So I think this week

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will be fine due to the fact
that we knew we was already going on

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the road. All right. So
you guys are coming off at ten two

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season, got into the playoffs,
got a couple of games in there.

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South's deliberate about your team. Uh, you know what, you know some

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of the expectations, some of the
guys that you expect to be key for

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you. So I think, you
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to get back to where we were. You know, we felt like we

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let ourselves down last year with the
performance we gaze at the end of the

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season. But I think this year
I got a big senior class with the

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mindset of, hey, we want
to go win it off for Marana,

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and they didn't been there through the
bad teams. They hadn't been there with

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the good teams. So right now
they're trying to get the younger guys to

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get up to their level, raise
they level of play. So, like

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I said, this summer has really
been fun watching these seniors kind of take

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these young guys under they win and
kind of say, hey, this is

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the way we do things around here. We're gonna need everyone to get to

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where we're trying to go. So
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Oles. He has stepped up real
big for us to be to lead us

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on defense. My quarterback Jason Wood, he's stepping into the quarterback role this

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year. And then we got you
know, dead in the role but coming

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back at the running I'm at receiver. And then we have Jalen Collins,

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another returning guy on the other outside
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guys returning and like I said,
a lot of guys did real good things

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for us, and some as far
as stepping up as far as that leadership

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role, well, I'm excited to
see them play. It's been a while.

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I mean, you guys have been
consistently good for a while. Now,

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what's going on with Mariana football.
I don't know. I think it's

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something in the water, to be
honest, I just think, man,

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the one thing that I do preachers
family, and I think everybody is just

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coming together, and the more we
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Like this week, this past weekend
showed an example of what I mean about

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being a family. The whole Tiger
community was to come out and helps us

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get that turf on role. And
just seeing that, you know, just

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brings a smile to my face because
that's what I've been preaching for us to

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get where we're trying to go,
We're gonna have to do it together as

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it's showing. So it's it's funny, but that may have been a godsend,

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if you will, and part of
the expression because it helps you show

407
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.480
who's with you and who's not right
yep, yep. And my thing is

408
00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:22.640
things like to me, I don't
want to say it's supposed to happen,

409
00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.920
but it makes the story sound it
makes the story even better. YEA,

410
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:30.200
our journey to the state title.
We had to go through this hurricane at

411
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:33.200
the beginning of the season. It
just makes it all sounds better. So

412
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:36.640
I think, man, what happened. It happened last week. I think

413
00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:38.799
we've passed that. I don't think
we should get another hurricane. But I

414
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think that's gonna help us, you
know, write a beautiful end and at

415
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the end of the story. So
you mentioned you've got a new quarterback this

416
00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:47.920
year, and we all you know, from where we set the quarterback is

417
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.799
always key when when we're looking at
what's going on, tell us a little

418
00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:55.720
bit about your quarterback and the things
that he brings to the table. Well,

419
00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:57.759
he has a very very strong arm. I can tell you that he

420
00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:02.599
can get the ball anywhere on that
field. He's very accurate. And one

421
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:06.240
thing he has done this summer has
really really stuffed up as a leader.

422
00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:10.559
You know, he's getting the receivers
going every day at practice, he's uh,

423
00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:14.559
he's staying late after practice going over
film with me, asking me questions

424
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.839
that you usually don't get from players. He wants to be great, you

425
00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.480
know, he has a chip on
his shoulder. He wants to show everybody

426
00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.680
that he can play as the quarterback
position. So I'm excited for him.

427
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.640
I've seen him today this morning.
He was like, coaching, are you

428
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:29.799
ready to go? And I'm like
yeah, and he was like, well,

429
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.599
what's the game plan? I said, patience. So he's very very

430
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:36.759
excited, you know, to get
to see him today after school to kind

431
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.400
of go over the game plan so
he can so he can get ready and

432
00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:42.480
prepare his mind for Friday. But
like I said, this summer, he

433
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:47.359
really really has taking the next step
and I'm I'm just I can't wait to

434
00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:49.240
see him play. I'm very excited
for him. And like I said,

435
00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:52.720
he has a chip on his shoulder, so he's gonna do great things for

436
00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.799
us this year. And I think
the whole coaching staff and the players around

437
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.000
him is excited for him. Also, is he being looked at the places?

438
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:02.960
So as of right now, he
got a few small schools looking at

439
00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:04.599
him. But again I don't think
nobody really knows about him, so it's

440
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.279
gonna be a shot to a lot
of schools. But we have been seeing

441
00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:11.440
him the last few years how he
has developed. In this year he gets

442
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:17.000
his chance at the quarterback position,
and I just think he's going to explode

443
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:18.039
this year. And Pop gonna be
like, where did this guy come from?

444
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:21.640
He's always been here, you know
what I'm saying. And I think

445
00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:25.119
this is his opportunity to kind of
show everybody that he can play the quarterback

446
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.640
position. So so you know what
it's like to have You know, you've

447
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:32.519
got Jordan Morrigan from from Ranta out
at the out at the the U of

448
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.640
A. South Point's got a couple
of guys uh going over to the U

449
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:40.359
of A on the defensive line.
What kinds of challenges do they pose for

450
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:42.839
you guys? Uh? You know, defensively, I mean they're gonna they're

451
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.519
you know, they're good, and
so what do you what do you?

452
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.960
How do you look at that?
So to me, and like I told

453
00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:52.240
my players and my coaching staff,
you know, we've been hearing everything that

454
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.160
South Point has to have the big
D line, to have the big D

455
00:28:56.279 --> 00:28:59.559
line, and that's all I keep
hearing. And my question to my players

456
00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.880
was, as any of those D
line gonna cover us in space? Because

457
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.440
they just play D line. I
haven't heard nobody mentioned the dbs, the

458
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.839
receivers, the quarterbacks, the linebackers. The only thing they keep mentioned to

459
00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:12.599
us is the D line. And
I'm like, well, somebody got to

460
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.759
cover those receivers. You know what
I'm saying, somebody's gonna have to cover

461
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.039
that running back in space. It's
just a lot of things that we have

462
00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:22.400
a lot of weapons, and they
only mentioned it to us as the D

463
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.799
line. And like I told my
players, we're not going to worry about

464
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.440
what they have. We're gonna do
what we do best, and that's play

465
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.480
fast on every phase of the game, on every phase of the game.

466
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:37.759
So it's kind of a curse,
but not a bad one where you'll find

467
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.519
out exactly where you need to improve
where you can you know what I'm saying,

468
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:44.599
You'll know what you what a kind
of team you are first game,

469
00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.279
after the first game, And the
last two years we've been preparing for a

470
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:51.119
schedule like this. We've been preparing
for a team like this, you know.

471
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:53.960
So each year we have gotten better, and I think this year I

472
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.359
would our schedule with with the strength
of it. I believe we've been preparing

473
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.079
for us schedule like this, and
I think this year we'll be able to

474
00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:04.759
go out and show people we are
over here working. We do have good

475
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:08.359
athletes. You know, we are
taking care of business own and off the

476
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:12.559
seal. So I'm excited about it. I can't wait to everybody to get

477
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.400
to see what we've been doing over
here. So I'm really excited about it.

478
00:30:15.559 --> 00:30:18.400
So so let me ask you.
You mentioned you know that you're gonna

479
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:22.680
do what you do and you know
guys have to cover you on space and

480
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.200
that type of thing. How would
you characterize your team? Are you a

481
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:29.039
team that that is gonna that that's
how you're gonna, you know, make

482
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:30.799
your bones during the year, you
know, getting guy you know, quickness,

483
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.960
getting guys out in space. How
what what type of team do you

484
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.119
think you have? So we we
are we were on a spread offense.

485
00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:42.759
If we want five why we like
to get five receivers out in the past,

486
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.960
so a way we'll attack a lot
of defenses with our with our tempo.

487
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:49.960
We're gonna go fast, you know
what I'm saying. And we got

488
00:30:51.400 --> 00:30:53.039
you gotta be able to cover all
those routes. You can't double one guy

489
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.440
because not at least another guy.
We have a lot of weapons this year

490
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.519
at multiple positions, you know,
we have this year. So I'm just

491
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.119
watching these guys at practice, you
know, going in and out of practice.

492
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.759
It's just It's been exciting because we're
like, we're faster, we're stronger,

493
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:12.000
and we have a lot more football
knowledge this year. So I'm just

494
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:17.160
excited to see them go against another
team. And last Wednesday we went down

495
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:21.759
there to Horizon and we scrimmaged Horizon
and see the what is that Coronadale soul?

496
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.640
We show signs of it like whoa, they are going to be pretty

497
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:27.880
good. And with the Dawes,
the twos and even some of our threes

498
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.440
rotating in there, we was able
to have success. So I just can't

499
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:34.000
wait for us to display that out
on, you know, in a bigger

500
00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:37.160
stage. So again I'm excited.
I think we have a real good team

501
00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.440
this year that can do some big
things. A pardon my naiva tell or

502
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.240
whatever the word is. How long
you've been there for a while? How

503
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.119
long have you been there? So
I've been there. I've been here four

504
00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:49.960
years. This is going on my
fourth year. This is gonna be my

505
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.440
third year as the head coach.
Yeah. I came doing COVID and I

506
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:57.960
end up taking over at Springs.
Yeah, and I end up becoming a

507
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:01.799
head coach. Louis Murrie m Mary
has had stepped down and I end up

508
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:05.240
taking over, and so this is
going to my third year as the head

509
00:32:05.240 --> 00:32:07.920
coach. That's kind of how I
remember that you're still kind of new with

510
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.880
this. How has that come along? Giving your You're you're still a young

511
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.920
dude learning some things, but have
been successful. Well. To me,

512
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.519
it has been a learning curve.
You know. I'm still with my ups

513
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.720
and down, still learning. I'm
just doing the best I can. Uh.

514
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:25.960
A lot of it. My knowledge
comes from what we did back home

515
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.200
in Texas. I'm from Houston Decta, so a lot of my football knowledge

516
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.079
comes from that. I played at
a high level. So I have a

517
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:36.119
lot of stuff that I'm trying to
teach each and where one of these kids.

518
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:39.240
A lot of my coaching staff they
have played. They have played at

519
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:43.240
the college level also, so they
are able to give back a lot to

520
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.279
the kids. And I think with
a combination of all of it, we

521
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.720
are we are able to have successful
seasons because you know, most of my

522
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.559
coach has been there, they have
played it, you know what I'm saying,

523
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.720
able to give back to the kids
and not able to not only are

524
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:58.319
they able to they played it,
they're able to coach it. You know

525
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.039
what I'm saying, a lot of
people play football, but how can you

526
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:05.279
coach it? And they are doing
great jobs with the individual positions us to

527
00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:07.640
be positioned, I mean to be
successful. And I'm just getting all the

528
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.319
credit because I don't do nothing.
That's what I tell them. My coaching

529
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:15.200
staff does a great job of getting
the kids ready each I mean each week.

530
00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.240
So I'm thankful for them, and
I'm just glad that you know they

531
00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.160
are they doing this with me.
This morning, I actually thanks every last

532
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:23.720
one of them and say, hey, it's time to go on the journey

533
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:27.880
that we all talked about this summer
and they was excited about it, and

534
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.599
I'm excited to well, your time
in the NFL. I'm shre has impressed

535
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:34.559
them. They'll listen to you and
all that. I hope things in the

536
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.920
marina and the water stage fresh.
Not the rain, but the water.

537
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.519
A couple of a couple of clouds
over right now. I got the football

538
00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:45.319
players texting right now, coach,
it look like it's gonna rain again.

539
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:49.480
We haven't practice for sure. We're
gonna have practice. See people on the

540
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.720
watch. We're gonna do something.
So, like I said, we're gonna

541
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:54.519
figure out something. This rain trying
not to let us be great. But

542
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:58.480
I think it's gonna clear apors so
we're able to get out there and prepare

543
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.519
for this game we have on Friday. It's for people see clouds. It's

544
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:06.400
gonna rate it. We never see
it here it comes on. We're terrible

545
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:13.480
about that. Used to ride around
this time. It's hurricane exactly, so

546
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:17.480
I'm used to the rain early the
exactly I've already been preparing for this already

547
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.920
didn't have the place takes out if
the rains were we gonna each year kind

548
00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.760
of happened the same every year.
And it's funny because you talked about hurricane

549
00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:29.400
and you're saying hurricane No, no, Ricane, I've been through. Yeah,

550
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.039
hold my beard, that was nothing, man. Yeah. I tell

551
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:36.039
the kid. I was like,
oh, this is nothing. When we

552
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:38.440
get hurricane used, we get a
lot of water. Lots of water.

553
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:42.960
Ain't no driving. But thanks coach. All right, coach, looking forward

554
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:45.480
to us seeing you guys up against
South Point on Friday night. That'll be

555
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:47.559
It should be a fun game.
Well. I appreciate y'all. Man.

556
00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:51.480
Anytime I get to talk about the
Tigers, man, I'm all for super

557
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:57.000
Thanks, best luck, No problem. Thank you, Good dude. Good

558
00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.880
d I had forgotten how long he
had been there then obviously, uh my

559
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:06.239
guy have here. He's he played
for something, had some time in the

560
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:07.800
NFL, right, so you know
the guy knows what he's doing. What

561
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.599
he's doing. As he said,
we played, you know the guys that

562
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:14.320
got around me and played and then
and we know how to coach it,

563
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:15.920
right, Well, they don't.
He's gonna be a fun game on.

564
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:21.079
I mean, I don't know about
you, but I've definitely blocked it out.

565
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:22.880
I'm gonna go. Yeah, I'm
going ten and two. I mean

566
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:28.320
that there were nine to one regular
season uh got you know, gotten in

567
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:30.199
the second round of the playoffs.
I gotta be bad. But you know

568
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.920
I look gonna say, uh we
look across the field. Yeah, you're

569
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.400
the one that helped us with the
field. We still want to kick.

570
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:40.800
We're getting kicking, try to at
least very cool. All right, let's

571
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:44.119
take our break, we'll come back. We'll take your cause and play a

572
00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:49.480
little bit more of a jet fishes
a post scrimmage press conference on Saturday,

573
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.920
and then we'll have breaking news the
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Surgery. I on the Ball,
So welcome back to win the Ball here

628
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on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivera, He's jakins Ols. Got

629
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a guy Jason from Jason know what
they look a lot like? Yes,

630
00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:08.320
welcome back. Everybody you want to
call, please do five two four one,

631
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:12.599
six seventy four forty Good talk to
Cut Stewart. Yeah, you know

632
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.039
he's uh, you know, it
didn't sound as bad as I thought it

633
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.880
was there, you know, I
mean they're they're yeah, their field is

634
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.159
underwater, but you know they're gonna
get a fixed and they yeah, they

635
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.840
may miss a home game, but
and they play Tucson High, so they'll

636
00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.440
probably wound up playing at Tussan,
which means play on turf anyway, So

637
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.320
if that's the case, you know
they'll they'll be all right. And if

638
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:37.840
they're if the practice field didn't get
flooded and they can still practice and do

639
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.800
all those things, then you know
they'll they'll get through it, right right,

640
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:46.519
Okay, cool, just casually.
He's just like their their field is

641
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:51.519
under water, but it's okay,
it's okay, right, yeah, yea.

642
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.920
So is this like happening with a
lot of schools or like just no,

643
00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.519
they got it. Just they got
hit at that you know, Marana

644
00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:04.440
High schoo way way out in the
middle of nowhere. It's it's far's there's

645
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:06.800
not a lot out there. No, It's like Jay was saying before the

646
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.760
show started, he got no water. I didn't get it drowned. And

647
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:16.239
you know a few across down this
place and the down so and I'm not

648
00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:20.000
too far from there, you know, given mile a few miles and I

649
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:22.159
got nothing too that day. Yeah, and you're not that far. I

650
00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:25.440
mean, certainly not as far as
I am. But it was just one

651
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:29.440
of those weird things that they got
hit what's probably called what we call the

652
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:32.239
micro birds because they lifted up some
trees and throw on the ground anything.

653
00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:36.320
It tore up one of their uh
you know, the parking lot, tore

654
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:39.000
ups some of the solar installation and
stuff like that. So there was some

655
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:43.519
damager. They didn't even have school
the next day, so so it was

656
00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:47.679
bad. Welcomes Arizona, welcome here. But but again stewarts from from Houston.

657
00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:51.239
This was this is a slap on
the ridge. It was like,

658
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.639
hey, hold my beer, did
you have any hubboobs up there this year?

659
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.760
I didn't. They're small. There
was just like us, We just

660
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:01.599
covered there everything. You're like,
you're just like the word you say it

661
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:05.800
because you know you can get away
with it. Like the stuff. I

662
00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.119
never knew what did you know what
it was? I had never heard of

663
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:10.639
a until a few years exactly what
the hell is? Like? I've seen

664
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:14.880
those. We used to call those
dust storms right right, but these are

665
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.719
dust jokes on you. I learned
about that in like fourth grade did you

666
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:24.400
because you can probably no, that
was a few years ago year, as

667
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:27.599
I like to say to my kids
that that was the other day. That

668
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:30.920
was probably the same time that we
heard him exactly you were you about twenty

669
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.199
sixteen or sixteen years ago. You're
wondering what the heck is that storm comes

670
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:38.800
two years ago? So we learned
at the same time. Basically, yes,

671
00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:42.639
because there was like probably the first
one we've had like maybe a hundred

672
00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:45.480
years Arizona, and they're like,
I gotta teach everyone what they are.

673
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:50.920
Okay, let's get back to some
clips. Uh you talked about or Jed

674
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.519
Fish talked about his quarterbacks. Yes, yes, he's uh, well,

675
00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:58.679
you know he we kind of at
the post. We didn't get him for

676
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:00.079
a long time, but we just
kind of asked, okay, you give

677
00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:02.960
us, yeah, give us the
uh you know, update on this.

678
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:06.719
You know, talk about the defense, talk about the offense, talk and

679
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:08.800
so one of the things that he
was asked about, obviously was you know

680
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:13.400
how Jet thought the quarterbacks did during
camp. Here's what he had to say.

681
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:17.920
I think the quarterback play was pretty
pretty good today, pretty smooth operation.

682
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:22.599
I think we hit on a lot
of passes, but I think defensively,

683
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:25.159
they did a really nice job of
not just only defending the past,

684
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:28.920
but flushing guys out of the pocket. I mean, there are some times

685
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:30.800
that we would have taken off and
scrambled. I get that, and we're

686
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:35.320
not doing that when we're in red
jerseys. For the most part. There's

687
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.119
times that I think that we tried
to see what some receivers could do with

688
00:43:38.199 --> 00:43:40.800
the ball, but all four of
the guys went in there. All four

689
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.320
of those guys had confidence. We
got to speed up our operation with guys

690
00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:49.800
that are younger. No delay games, call the plays quicker, get the

691
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.159
motions right. But all four are
improving and all four of a way to

692
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:59.960
go. Yeah, Dolor looks good
when you see Fafita, what do you

693
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:05.320
think? What I think is that
if Jason Delora gets hurt, they're gonna

694
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.800
be Okay, that's exact same.
I think he's a little guy, but

695
00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.280
damn he can throw. He threw
an out pattern the other day and I'm

696
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.000
like that that that hits me in
the chest, It goes right through me

697
00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:21.199
right. Well, I'm a little
soft. I'm a little softer than the

698
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:22.719
other guys. But it was a
rifle, you know. I mean,

699
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:29.400
he's he's got a rocket a little
guy. He's actually football. He's good.

700
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:31.840
He's got a rocket arm and and
he's not afraid to use it.

701
00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:35.400
And you feel like he's got a
real good grasp of what they're doing.

702
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.199
He doesn't look he doesn't look like
a second string quarterback out there. He

703
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:40.039
doesn't look like, you know,
he hasn't had the practice. He doesn't

704
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:44.400
look like he doesn't know what he's
doing. And so you just think,

705
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:46.840
Okay, you know, the quarterback
position is in good hands. Uh you

706
00:44:46.920 --> 00:44:50.719
know, and maybe maybe other people
might not know that. You know,

707
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:53.159
people outside of here, if de
Laura goes down, they can say,

708
00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:55.119
well, if Delori one of the
best quarterbacks in the league, now he's

709
00:44:55.159 --> 00:44:59.800
gone and they got their backup,
they're gonna suck, you know. I

710
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.920
there's a pretty good feeling from you
know that that they've got they've got a

711
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.840
really good quarterback situation. Right.
No, it's it's far far cry from

712
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:13.559
what two years ago when they lost
one, two, three, three guys

713
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:15.599
man, and you're thinking, oh
no, they walk on out there for

714
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:19.079
a while. Yeah, you know, I mean it's like terrible. So

715
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.280
so there, you know, so
that that's and that's kind of what you

716
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:24.400
think of about all the positions,
right that a guy goes down. They've

717
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:28.880
got other guys now, and maybe
some of them are young and stuff like

718
00:45:28.920 --> 00:45:30.760
that, but certainly they're guys good. You know, they were they were

719
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:35.880
you know, uh, you know, highly tired recruits. They're guys who

720
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:37.719
have had a chance to get work
in. You know, they're not playing

721
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:44.119
guys that are brand new because they've
got guys their their their strength and conditioning

722
00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:46.599
programs. Seems to be doing,
you know, a great job that you

723
00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:50.000
got. I mean, you got
guys that look like football players out there.

724
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:52.559
Yeah, so did you Uh well, we were on the side of

725
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:55.679
where the defense was. Nance was
kind of like to himself down this side

726
00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:59.880
of it. He would be screaming
it of course the defense. Did you

727
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:02.880
notice, h Dwayne? Oh yeah, up and down the side, right

728
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:06.480
up and down the side. I
love him on the sunlight. He's just

729
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.960
just man, just getting guys fired
up, you know, not just his

730
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:12.199
guys, all guys from the first
play. I mean, he was on

731
00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.000
some dude right away. He's and
not in a bad way, but just

732
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:17.480
you know, he got that stride. He's just like he's just like walking

733
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:22.840
hard and fast and moving it you
know, very you know, an intensity

734
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:25.880
level that that you know, did
wonders for for you know, the team

735
00:46:25.960 --> 00:46:30.960
when he was here before. And
you can see the guys seem to respond

736
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:34.079
to that, right right. And
I think it's no surprise. Uh,

737
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:37.280
and I'm gonna be writing a story
about him later later on, but it's

738
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.280
no surprise that he has good groups. He always has good groups. Uh.

739
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:45.199
Coaches him up and and it's easy
to see that they play hard for

740
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:47.239
him, right. Uh. You
know, maybe they're not as talented,

741
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:51.599
but they play hard for him because
he's he's a very intense guy. But

742
00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:55.559
in a way that makes guys want
to harder as opposed to going what the

743
00:46:55.639 --> 00:47:00.519
hell right right? Right? Yeah, no, instead of playing hard because

744
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:01.920
they don't want to be yelled at, but playing hard because they don't want

745
00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:05.960
to disappoint it, right right,
And yeah, and they listen, so

746
00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:09.679
it's really cool to watch, right
all right. Last clip Jed was talking

747
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:14.119
about because again the all important red
zone, right he talks about you know,

748
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:16.679
that was just an area that even
the first two years have just been

749
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:20.639
an issue for them. So he
talked about the importance of the red zone

750
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.639
and the work that they've been doing
in camp. Yeah, we're getting better

751
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:29.639
there. We'll know at the end
of the season statistically, you know,

752
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.119
I you know our challenges. We
talk about it all the time. In

753
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:37.159
the red area. We're looking to
score seven and that is our goal every

754
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:38.039
time we go out there. And
if we can get that done, we

755
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:42.599
have a chance to be really special
there. Uh, you're not asking for

756
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.639
a ton of change there. You're
asking for you know, we had ten

757
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.599
possessions where we walked away with zero
points. If in those ten possessions this

758
00:47:50.719 --> 00:47:53.519
year we don't walk away zero points, we'll go from being eightieth to thirtieth.

759
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:58.599
If we if those ten possessions can
be six touchdowns and four field goals,

760
00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:00.519
we'll be in the top ten and
the country and the red zone.

761
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.000
So you're not looking at like these
huge gaps. Same with them a third

762
00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:07.239
down, make one more third down
a game. We're number one in the

763
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:09.679
country. So those are the things
that we need to continue to focus in

764
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:13.599
on and that's what we're gonna do
these next two weeks. We'll be in

765
00:48:13.679 --> 00:48:16.440
pads Tuesday, we'll be in pads
Wednesday, we'll be in pads Sunday,

766
00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:21.920
and we're gonna get after pretty good
this come a week. Well, no,

767
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:23.559
it's the time the media is not
allowed to watch, right, it's

768
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:27.559
over, right, and then they
get ready for the game next week and

769
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.559
when we have more access. I
think at least with the convert with the

770
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.320
discussed conference. Well, you know
the thing about what he's talking about the

771
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.320
red zone two is again I go
back to the rich Rod years. You

772
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.400
know, you knew that they got
down there, they were gonna score.

773
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.800
They were gonna score. They were
pretty good, and more often than not

774
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.880
they were scoring touchdowns because that offense
was just just the way it ran.

775
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:52.480
You know, they were hard to
stop. And you feel like they've got

776
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.559
the pieces to be like that.
Again, maybe not as much as rich

777
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.519
Rod, but certainly you know they've
got playmakers, I guess is the way

778
00:49:01.559 --> 00:49:05.559
to put it to once they get
down that they should be able to score

779
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.519
some points and he shouldn't be getting
shut out down there anymore. Right,

780
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:12.559
Well, they have people, I
mean, Speedy is one of them.

781
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:15.039
The running backs. The running backs, there's two units that you will not

782
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.320
have to worry about. Three units
actually, the wide receivers, right,

783
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.079
the running backs, because they're diverse
you know, one guy gives you different

784
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:25.199
things than the other guy, and
then the quarterback well, and you see

785
00:49:25.280 --> 00:49:29.679
the three main receivers. You see
you see team at six four, he's

786
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:32.920
gonna go up and get the ball. Lumonious Craig I think is six two.

787
00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:36.559
You know he's got it. He's
got the opportunity to go up and

788
00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:37.840
get the ball. But he's also
going to be a physical guy. And

789
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:40.960
then Coween just finds a way to
find a space out there to get open.

790
00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:45.599
He's kind of a smaller guy,
but quick, shifty, he's hard

791
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:47.719
to cover, and he can.
You know, he finds openings out there.

792
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:52.280
They got three different guys that do
three different things when you're down there

793
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:54.320
trying to find somebody in the end
zone. They got three different ways to

794
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:59.079
get open down right, and three
different type of players. That's my analysis

795
00:49:59.119 --> 00:50:01.400
of the n You're you're accurate.
You're accurate. You saw enough already.

796
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:05.199
Yeah, so we'll see. It's
gonna I think they're gonna be fun to

797
00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:09.800
watch. Uh, I'm hoping,
what's your prediction first so we have time,

798
00:50:09.840 --> 00:50:15.159
but for the first game. First
game for not prediction, but attendance.

799
00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:17.519
I'm more controlled people believe in this
team. I bet you. I

800
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:22.840
bet you it's over forty five forty
five. Wow, I bet you it's

801
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.320
high forts he's really one. I
just get a sense that's pretty good.

802
00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:31.000
Yeah, I just get a sense
that there's a buzz, a buzz sort

803
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:36.760
of you know, forming with with
people are talking about Steve. You know,

804
00:50:36.840 --> 00:50:38.519
I'm out there and you know,
talking, you know, in public,

805
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:40.960
and I see people and you know, how do you think the football

806
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:44.039
team is gonna do? How do
you think the football team is gonna do?

807
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:46.119
You know? And I'm getting asked
a whole lot more than I got

808
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:51.360
asked two or three years ago,
Right, I bet you, I bet

809
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:54.480
you they go mid to high forties
in the first game. Part of it's

810
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.119
gonna depend on how freaking hot it
is. If it's a nice night,

811
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:01.119
I can see. Plus, we're
gonna get the NAU crowd, right,

812
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:04.719
you know, there's a lot of
a lot of Arizona kids that play up

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at NAU, and so we're gonna
get them as well. They're gonna bring

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people. Plus, they won the
last time they were here. They're gonna

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come and see if they can do
that again. Sure, And I just

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hope they walk away with a big
old nod on their head. But that's

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another story, and you don't want
I got another guy. I've got a

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victor who calls in time again and
your dodger guy, uh tight ends,

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tight ends, very valid to McLaughlin, Tyler McLaughlin, he's gonna be man,

820
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you know, I mean, they've
just they've just got guys all over

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the places. And then if again, if if this is a good offensive

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line, then holy cow, you
know what they can do. But you

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know what, all the other teams
in the league have that too, as

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as you've said a million times.
But you want to be one of the

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guys who also has that instead of
one of the guys who does. Sure.

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Again, though again, though they're
gonna be good offensive, we kind

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of know that that's a given.
It's just that defense has to show up

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to make make this team better,
right exactly, All right, let's take

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our X break top of the hour, no breaking out the breaking news today,

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right, yeah, I think so. We'll be right back