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This is I on the Ball with
Steve Rivera and Jakin Zalez on Fox Sports

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fourteen fifteen Howard by Nova Insurance Services. Make sure your most prized possessions katz

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

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Steve Rivera, here Jakin Zones,
and we're here for another day of a

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busy day. Yeah, busy day. But then we put together a good

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show. Yeah. Well we've got
some great guests. Yeah wow, now

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we might we can screw it up. I hope we don't, but we

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can. But yeah, we got
went out, got a couple of great

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guests for the for the show today. Who do we have, Well,

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we've got We're gonna start with Dana
Demil, the head coach at the UTEP.

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They're coming into town. You know, it's hard for us to get

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Jet Fish on the radio, but
we got coach Demilt. Yeah. I'm

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glad you dad. Yeah, but
we got Dana Demil. He's been he

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was on our show a couple of
years ago. They were they were going

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through a nice run and in a
bull season. Back in twenty twenty one.

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He's a form we're assistant at Arizona
under under Mike Stoops back in the

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mid two thousands, and so he's
got some connection here. But uh,

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you know, we we'll we'll,
we've reached out to him and he's going

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to join us today and just talk
about the game coming up. You know,

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we'll probably get into you know,
mid d miss Tucson. Well,

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you know, did you like it
here? That kind of stuff, But

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really, more than anything, they're
the next opponent up for Arizone and we've

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got the head coach of that team
coming on at at about three fifteen,

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well more like three twenty, but
uh here in the first in the first

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hour, and then uh in the
second hour. Johnny Avello our buddy from

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uh Draft Kings sports book. He's
the director of sports book operations at Draft

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Kings and we've had him on in
the past. We're trying to get him

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before the NFL season started. Didn't
work out. We've got him today.

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We'll just kind of talk about,
you know, what's going on in the

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gambling world, in the betting world
with uh, you know, the online

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gambling and that type of stuff,
and just you don't just see what's up.

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You know, we don't go we
don't trying to get tips from him,

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but we more or less try to
just kind of what, you know,

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what are people doing right? You
know, it's been what I think

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three years now that we've had it
here and here in Tucson and in Arizona,

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and you know, I mean,
I'm curious, are are are are

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betters smarter today than they were three
years ago? You and I have been

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pretty smart betters all along. Not
good smart, but you know, in

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terms of knowledge of how to make
bets, different types of bets. That

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kind of thing curious to as too, you know, other people you know,

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and how it's going. So we'll
talk to Johnny Vello about about that

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in the second hold. We'll see
about smarter. We have our picks today

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too. I know, we've done
a fab five Friday picks on Thursday.

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I have to be out again tomorrow, so we're gonna do them today in

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the in the last segment, after
we talked to After we talk to Johnny

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Vello, okay, no, cool, we also her jed today, right,

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so you'll have some of that.
Well, yeah, well let's let's

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kind of get into that because we're
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press comment just a really a couple
of hours ago, so this is hot

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off the presses, but you know, getting ready for the on Saturday.

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As always, JD starts out as
press conference talking about what kind of crowd

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they're hoping to have in that kind
of thing. So here's here's what he

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had and these were introductory remarks today
at the press conference. Excited about getting

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back at home this week, having
a home game here, looking forward to

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a great crowd. Sounds like we're
getting close, Sarah. We have about

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forty three or forty four thousand tickets
out. We're still trying to get as

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many out as we can for this
final Saturday or for this game coming up.

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Understand that the dub game is close
to sell out already, so that's

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exciting. Things are moving in the
right direction there. I don't know what

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time that game is going to be
just yet, but we need to really

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focus in on this one. Really
need to make sure we have our best,

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our best game this year on Saturday
night. That's what I told our

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team. It's gonna take. It's
gonna take us playing our best that we've

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played all year. Four quarters of
great football. You know, there's a

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saying that we've said it in New
England and others that before you have to

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win, you have to keep from
losing. And our goal this week is

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to take care of the ball,
not have a lot of penalties. The

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first game we had eleven penalties.
The second game we had five turnovers,

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you know, so we're looking to
have a clean game, disciplined. We

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had five penalties. This past game. Was a good job going from eleven

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to five. Keep bringing that down. Turnovers we had to the first game

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five. This game, we got
to bring that down and if we could

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do that, you know, we
need to do simple better. We need

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to do simple better and find a
way to put ourselves in position to compete.

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Knowing that we've got an offense that
is a challenge. They are a

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two back offense that runs power extremely
well. H similar or somewhat similar to

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North Dakota State of a year ago. Know that there's going to be a

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challenge there. Defensively, we know
that the defensive coordinator came from the SEC,

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has a really good feel on stopping
the passing game and some of the

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things that he does with his coverages
and his fronts. So we've got to

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challenge there and then we have to
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So it's gonna take all three phases
for us to have the outcome we want.

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And our goal is to go out
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Do you think so you have your
quarterback Delora, do you think he said

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safe is better? What do you
say about being safe? Kind of being

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careful, not carefree, you know, but safe for the ball? Right?

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Yeah? Yeah? They can't stall
over? Yeah yeah, But do

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you think he's capable with quarterbacks like
Delora? I'd like to think that he

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thinks he should be able to do
that with a quarterback like Delora. Whether

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he really can all different. Really, it's all different quest realistically. We've

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talked about it all week and I'm
trying to beat it again. But he

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is what he is and he's gonna
trying to make place for you. I

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think, yeah, I have come
to that conclusion. He is who he

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is and that's what he's gonna be. You know, I you know,

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in our you know, posting our
podcast and just said that, you know,

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buckle up, Arizona fans. This
is the way it's gonna be.

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And some days you're gonna hate it. Some days is gonna be great.

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You know, he may he may
play his an incredible game against Washington and

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then need to make one more play
and he does something dumb, and you

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know, you just have to be
ready for anything. And and if you're

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gonna sit there and get frustrated and
you know and hate it, you're gonna

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just make yourself miserable. Just understand
it, Like like when you were a

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kid, Right, you're got in
trouble, but you had to wait for

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your dad to get home. Right, you knew you were gonna get trash

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kicked, so you just dealt with
it. I don't know anything what you're

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talking about. You know, you
just doubt. You just said, Okay,

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I know, I know, I
know I'm gonna get my ass kicked

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by my dad. I'm just gonna
sit here. I'm not gonna worry about

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it. I'm just gonna deal with
it and let it happen when it happens,

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and then want from that. That's
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for all we can expect from Jane
Delord. You can expect bad things to

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happen with Jane Deloyd quarterback again.
You just expect that there's a whole lot

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more good things that happen. Yeah, well, you're I don't think he's

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gonna get a butt whipping from Jake, from from Jed because he's Jed's guy.

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And not only that, Steve doesn't
do what he's good. No,

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no, you need him, you
need him. You can't, you can't,

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you can't bust him down so that
then he doesn't want to go out

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there and try and do the things
that he can do to make to help

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you win. So let me ask
you this. Do you think that we'll

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see fa Fida this weekend at any
moment if they're in a big the same

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as always, if they get a
big lead, you know, there's body

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a bunch of points in the or
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I think so too. I think
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of that, because I think everyone's
gonna win this game by because of that,

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right exactly. Yeah, yeah,
that for that. Yeah, and

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it's not bad to give him,
give him a shot, you know,

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run some offense, see how well
he does. Right. One of the

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storylines on this is Jacob cowing uh
answered from UTEP two years ago, was

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their best player. Basically game sh
Arizona did a great job last year,

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he's doing another great job this year. Uh and uh, you know he's

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There are a lot of reasons why
he came, but Jed talks about his

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recruitment a Justin spears from there's when
Daily Start asked a couple of questions about

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that. Here's what the Justin aston
the answers from Jed fish when you looked

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at Jacob Colling's tape from Utah as
production, the amount of run after catch

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that he's able to get to the
fact that he was able to put up

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on sixty seven catches, I think
it was over eleven hundred yards. His

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ability to make guys missing space,
the toughness that he shows blocking, the

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toughness that he shows catching them all
over the middle. Really, there's been

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no surprises with Jacob calling from when
from what we saw on film to what

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we've seen in person, Jacob Colling
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be pro, we'll call it.
And as he's gotten better, stronger,

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I think that just experience gets you
better. But Jacob's film showed the type

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of player that he was going to
be when he got here. Acre by

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a lot of schools what what was
the communication like with him? What do

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you think ultimately sold Arizona. Well, I think I'd be naive to think

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it was in at least fifty one
percent. That he has a son here

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and the family aspect made a huge
difference for Jacob to be able to come

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back home, to be within an
hour and a half of his son,

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he grew up in the state of
Arizona, to be closer to his mom.

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All those things were a huge part
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it that I think he really appreciated
about us was the way we were going

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to use the wide receivers in our
offense and the way we throw the football,

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the importance that we place on wide
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He came in here had eighty five
catches in his first year, and our

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goal is to help him get back
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one of those wide receivers that has, you know, really historic numbers if

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we can get them to another thousand
yard year and another eighty Yeah, and

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he and he he was very fortunate
to get him right, very fortunate because

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he's done very well, but he
also knows how to use him so well.

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First of all, Jed, you
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one eleventh season. Uh, Cowen
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going to get better quickly so that
he could I mean, I agree with

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Jed that, you know, a
lot of it had to do with it.

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I had to do with this kid, right, But he still wanted

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to go to place I was competitive, So he was really being you know,

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you probably wanted you probably wanted to
go to a SU two, you

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know, yeah, because I mean
it lives up there. But you know,

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so if he if that's where he
was choosing, I don't know,

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maybe I don't know if he I
mean, he was at U tep so

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they're going to California, wasn't going
to be close and it was her two

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herb was at the time, so
he had to believe. And then you

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know, he came here and things
of you know, things that worked out,

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and then the fact that he decided
to stay. You know, when

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he could have, you know,
tried to go to the pros, probably

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would have been a maybe what do
you think a fourth fourth round draft picker,

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so you know, might have made
a team, started making money support

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his family, but he decided to
stick around. And so uh, you

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know, and and good good for
Jed, good for Arizona, and hopefully

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it's good for good for Cowing that
that he did that. Yeah, okay,

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no anymore. Yeah, let's got
one more clip because it was a

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really interesting approach because look, we've
been talking about this game that it's you

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know, in marketing the win call
him. You know, you gotta have

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your team's attention. Uh, you
know you and I think you throw your

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uniforms on the field on this one. He should win. But you know,

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obviously a coach can't let his team
think that he was asked just kind

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of his approach to a game like
this last non conference game and then you

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know, you got you got your
conference season starts next week. How does

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all that play into your approached to
this game? Yeah, you know,

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Ryan, I talked to the guys
about four quarters of the season. This

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is the end of the first quarter, and we gotta win every quarter.

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And that's what we talk about.
We you know, you want to go

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eight and four, you gotta win
every quarter, right, you want to

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go better than eight and four.
You gotta do better than just you know,

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go two and one. So for
us, for us, we got

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to win this quarter. We're putting
well, you know, coach speak would

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say every week you're trying to go
one and ozer, right, and that's

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of course the case. But with
this game, coming off of the type

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of loss that we had, we're
not settling for moral victories. This isn't

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year zero any longer. You know, where we were trying to compete for

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four quarters and seeing if we could
stay healthy for four quarters. We went

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into Starkville expecting to win. We're
disappointed we didn't. And now it's our

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responsibility this week to channel all of
those frustrations and then see how good we

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could be. You know, we
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by eleven thirty on US Saturday evening. Yeah, okay, I think that

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thought. What's blen thirty on Saturday? You know that game is gonna Yeah,

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let's say games over at eleven thirty
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Oh, you don't have to write
about it. I probably won't write

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about that night because there's no point
who's gonna stay up and read it.

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I'll write it in the morning.
You know I'm crazy. No, that's

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not true. I'm when I get
home from a game. I'm I'm up

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for a couple hours no matter what
time the game is. You know,

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the adrenaline is still going. Man, you quinn or lose. I don't

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believe you don't believe me. Okay, I believe that, but you ain't

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gonna read me. Good Steve,
I read your stuff. Yeah, but

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none a's three of them more if
you were to post it and I'm sitting

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there because when I go, you
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you know, my iPad goes with
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and stuff. If you post it
and tweet it or put on Facebook,

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I'm reading. I tell you right
now, don't stay up for me,

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because well I'm not gonna stay up
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that. I you know, I
it does. It takes me. Hold.

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It's same thing with a with a
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because you're you're two and four,
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what I guess? Yeah, So
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So all right, well let's take
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Steve Rivera, He's Jakinsauce. Now
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Waldeu tap football coach formerly of you, of a back in the day coach,

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to are the Mexican restaurants here miss
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they do. Yeah, you don't
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talked about last time was Galahara.
Uh, the Gualahara grew. But football

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ops person is they had plans now
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get and gets a margarita. You
know what you're talking about? Good welcome

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back. How do you feel good
that my favorite place to live of all

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the places I've coached? Isn't that
crazy? You know? I love living

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in Tucsa and great place to live. Obviously we love al Passo al Passos

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just like New Song kind of a
hidden jam that loved living in Tucson as

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well. So is there is there
any nostalgia to this for you? I

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mean You're here a long time,
but you came here, you coached,

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you lived here, I think three
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come back to a place like this, Is there anything about that for you

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that the kind of gets into your
mind at all? Yeah, Judd,

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You know, because it was fun
because it was after my time at the

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head coach at Houston. I came
in and and uh, you know where

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we were able to flip the program, you know, because Mike was getting

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the program, trying to get the
program back up and going, and then

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I was able to come in and
be with him when we flipped it and

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got to the Bowl game and got
the recruit and coached you know, Gronkowski,

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but Gronkowski brothers and and he got
to be a part of some special

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times and in Arizona and meet some
really special people Scott McKenzie, h Chris

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del Conte, uh, Jim Live
and just some great people that were there

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with me that I really have lifetime
friendships with. Now we talk about those

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times back then compared to this time, because Jeds did a phenomenal job recruiting,

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and I'm sure you could admit that, but but Mike had his special

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moments, right he got some pretty
good talent to come here. He really

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did. You can recruit the Tucson
There's no doubt about it. It's a

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great place to recruit to. It
was a one place I said that I

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you know, had recruited that Sunday
morning. When you saw the guys,

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they have a file on their face
because they have a good time. They

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enjoy the campus, they enjoy the
atmosphere, and it's a great place to

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go to school. So you've got
so now you got to play these guys.

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You know, it's a it's a
it's all. You know, every

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game's important since you don't have so
many of them. So just some of

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your thoughts on what you've seen from
Arizona so far, and then we'd like

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to you know, what do you
think of your team so far? Yeah,

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what I've seen from Arizona is I
think Jeb has done a tremendous job

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of recruiting some really good players.
Uh they're super explosive on offense, and

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they've gotten so much more athletic and
fast on defense. And you know,

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really exciting to see what he's done
to that program in such a short period

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of time. And I know everybody's
excited about what they're doing there, so

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a little bit a big test for
us. We got a really good team.

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You know, we have a lot
of kids that could have gone in

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the portal and gone many places,
and they decided to stay and play at

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UTAP and not take the extra money
and those sort of things that come to

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players to leave and have a really
good team. Obviously, we've had some

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tough road games so far this year, but we have a really, really

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quality team with some guys that are
Senior Bowl candidates playing on our roster.

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So our first home game was in
Alabama and we had a Senior Bowl there

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to watch us. And we got
a good team too. So we're looking

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forward to playing an exciting game against
a much much improved Arizona football team.

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And sorry to bring this up,
but you must have been very part broken

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of whatever word you want to use
with Jacob leading. Yeah, and let

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me talk about that. You know, just Jacob left for all the right

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reasons. You know, when he
came to me and said, coach,

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I'm going in the portal, he
said, I'm only going to go if

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Arizona Arizona State offered me. If
they don't offer me, I'm staying I'm

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still in ute. And of course
he got offers from everybody in the country,

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and he chose to go to Arizona
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his baby in Phoenix and South Phoenix. And so Jacob left for all the

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right reasons. He's a great player. I get questions just from the pro

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scouts about him every day. The
pro scouts would come through to see our

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guys, and they all love him, and I have nothing but great things

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to say about that young man.
So Arizona's blessed to have him on their

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program. Well he's really, you
know, sort of been the anchor to

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this receiving quarter that they put together
and there you know, and it's it's

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a good one. What made him
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would do that? And you know, he could have left last year and

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you know, gone on try to
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a living and you're with a family, and the whole bit that he would

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come back, I mean, what
did what did you see in him that

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that he was that kind of a
guy. That's that's who he is.

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He's a team player. He cares
about winning and losing, and he's super

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contentsive and and he wants to be
a part of getting Arizona to a poll

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game, you know what I mean. Just like he was a part of

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here, he wants to be a
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them in a poll game. And
that's why he decides back. So having

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grown up in that area in New
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New Mexico State, and you tempi
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how difficult if that's the right word
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an mo of where I've been,
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my whole career at Kansas State and
then was able to go to Houston when

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they were struggling and get that program
on its way to be turned around,

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and then came to you of A
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struggling. And you know, obviously
we slipped it when I was there and

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got it turned around and went back
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And so this fits me. This
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what you have to do. So
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coach in the first game. Did
you guys trade any stories about about Tucson,

411
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about restaurants, about anything like that. Yeah, he shared plenty of

412
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good stories about saw that he loved
it there too, you know. And

413
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and uh, it's just that,
you know, Tucson is a special place

414
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of the hard guys. I'm saying
that it really is. We we you

415
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know, had some great times.
We had a real cool little place where

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we have forces and we said we
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pool in our backyard. We didn't
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a really nice place. And you
can do all that in Tusson and and

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and really enjoy I take my first
three months there, guys, I kept

420
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saying, everybody, my gosh,
the weather is just gorgeous. Here,

421
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my gosh, the weather's gorgeous.
And everybody looked at me, like,

422
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what are you talking about. It's
like this all the time. Because it

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was January, February and marks right, and it's just the way it is

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there, you know. So we
loved living there, really did well.

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You didn't stay here in June of
July last month or so I knew you.

426
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Guys are gonna say that that's the
same way, and I'll pass.

427
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But remember I'm from Columbus, Ohio, guys, and so that cold weather,

428
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I don't have a room for that. I'll take the heat over the

429
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cold. Any time I hear you
about that, I hear you about that.

430
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But you were doing very well.
I think the last time we talked

431
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to was two years ago. You
are how was that season? Did that

432
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kind of start the ball ruling for
maybe what's gonna come up in the future.

433
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Yeah, guys had a really good
season in twenty twenty one. Last

434
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year, we were ahead in our
last ball game, and if we win

435
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it, we're gonna go to the
bowl game for the second straight year and

436
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for only the second time in school
history. And if we can get back

437
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to a bowl game this year,
it'll be the only second time in school

438
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.599
history that UT has been to a
bowl game in two out of three years.

439
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So we're doing some cool stuff here, and we got a good team.

440
00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.799
I really think we're going to challenge
for the cons this year. Obviously,

441
00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:44.839
we had a tough loss in our
first game and out of the Northwest

442
00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.039
last week and didn't play as well
in the second half. But we have

443
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.559
a really good team, So I'm
excited. I think this is our best

444
00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.160
team that we've had since I've been
What kind of game were were going to

445
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.920
see Saturday night? A lot of
always a lot of talk about since last

446
00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.640
year, I should they always about, you know, Jed's offense, but

447
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.599
the d defense played played very well
against Mississippi State. You guys, you

448
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:06.960
know, what do you think we're
gonna see on Saturday night? Yeah,

449
00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.880
I think that improvement that's is a
defense of Arizon gotten so much and so

450
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:18.759
we got to try to minimize big
place defense and handle the test a much

451
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:23.000
and more athletic defense of an air
so had recent years. And so there's

452
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.319
a lot for us that's gonna be
hard for us to accomplish. But our

453
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.039
goals are to create some big you
know, more big plays, eliminate big

454
00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:34.599
plays, win the turnover margin,
and I'll give us an opportunity to compete

455
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.720
in the game like this. Well, Coach Dana, We're gonna see you

456
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.000
Saturday night. I don't know about
this eight o'clock, nine o'clock start,

457
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:45.119
but you know I'm gonna start.
I'm gonna started as old. Dudes need

458
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.359
to take a nap, so you
know we'll we'll do that during this.

459
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.440
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask
Jed. I'm like, Jed, what's

460
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.759
going on here? Because you know
we're do you know what time we're gonna

461
00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:57.000
get back. We're gonna get back
to two. Uh, I'll pass on

462
00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:00.039
like six thirty in the morning,
and you still got to play a game

463
00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.200
the next week. So that's the
part of that that people don't slick about

464
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.519
you play late games like that.
Well, welcome to the PAC twelve and

465
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.599
you will because you're well aware.
Yeah yeah, coach, thank you for

466
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.119
joining us. Appreciate you, Hey, guys, great voices that you guys

467
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.920
take. Can appreciate you having me
on. Thanks Coach. Dana Demo.

468
00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:23.960
Dana Demo from UTAP. He's a
tough task. I think the lineus moved

469
00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:29.680
up a little, you know.
Okay, so it's eighteen, but look,

470
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.079
you know he's he's he's a UTEP. I mean, that's a hard

471
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:36.839
place to win. It's a place
Jay go ahead and he's winning. Yeah.

472
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:38.680
No, it's a place where like
the Mexico State Mexico, you go

473
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:42.039
to get fired. I mean,
you get a job and there's a chance

474
00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.640
that you're gonna get fired, and
it's a tough place to win, right

475
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.200
and he's in. He's in his
seventh year there now, so you know,

476
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.400
good for him. And again he
has picked you know, seven and

477
00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.200
six that he had a really good
season going to end up getting in a

478
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:56.079
bowl game anyways, because he was
like seven and one or something like that

479
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.039
or six and one when we talked
to him. They ended up seven and

480
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.440
six lost their bowl game when five
and seven, as he said, they

481
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.880
came within you know, the game
again to another bowl game. So you

482
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.039
know, I know, we like
that doesn't happen to you. Yeah,

483
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:14.559
exactly exactly, And you know,
I mean that was after he gets in,

484
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.000
they go, you know, win
two of the first twenty two games.

485
00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:19.759
See, I didn't realize realistically that
he was at Kansas State probably in

486
00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:23.160
the Snyder time and in Houston.
I didn't. I wasn't. I don't

487
00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.400
know why I didn't know that.
But he's gotten the places where you have

488
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:29.680
to kind of overachieve. It's funny
when you you know, we've been thinking

489
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.079
all weekends. I's gonna kick their
butts. Now we talked to him,

490
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:36.000
and you go pump the brakes just
a little bit because they're capable, you

491
00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:37.839
know. And again if if,
if bad, Jayden comes out for three

492
00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.559
quarters instead of one quarter anything,
and that well, he's the guy.

493
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:44.920
That he's the guy and a coach
where you lose one of your best players,

494
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.759
if not your best player? Yeah, uh, how do you recover?

495
00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:51.559
Recover from that? Right? And
and now he's playing against you.

496
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It's like Jayden, Well, I
like Jayden left here or somebody here with

497
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to him, right, Uh yeah, you know, uh, I mean,

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coach feel good about themselves. Well, you know he's I didn't realize this,

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you said this, Rob did he
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seven years. That's a long time
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then when you don't, they still
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rid of you, right, even
though it's hard. But he's got seven

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thirteen. He went two years ago, he went seven and seven and six

572
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two years ago when seven to five
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Fifty percent is a pretty good disrecord
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got some more Jets stuff. You
want to play some more some more Jet

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fish stuff. I had a couple
of interesting things. There was there was

595
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a question about how does James Delora
handle criticism, which I will play that

596
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whose uh, eleve, I can't
remember one of those guys. Well,

597
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let's go ahead and let's go and
go right into that, because great question.

598
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:58.840
You know that really is an issue, right, I mean, if

599
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he's and if and if he comes
off the off the field of jets screaming

600
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:06.079
at him, how does he think? Yeah, and I don't think he

601
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:08.840
does that, but think But the
funny thing is you've been to press confidence.

602
00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:14.480
Uh. He he makes those faces, he makes those faces that he

603
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.599
kind of doesn't like the question,
but he gets the question and he answers

604
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:20.159
it. But you don't like,
Yeah, why do you questioned me?

605
00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.760
Yeah? You know exactly. Yea, Justin Flow does that too. Here's

606
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.000
what he had, Here's what Jed
you had to say about that. As

607
00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.159
when it comes to criticism, I
don't know. I don't think I'm the

608
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:36.199
easiest guy to play for. When
it comes to a mentality of perfection,

609
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.559
when you look for things to be
right all the time and you want it

610
00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:45.800
to be perfect and you want to
give guys an opportunity to be successful,

611
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:52.000
I'm probably more critical on myself than
anybody is when it comes to and have

612
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.559
I given him the best opportunity to
be successful? Have I made it clear

613
00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:00.639
to him what we're looking for?
Is there something I need to do differently

614
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:05.920
or better? Criticizing a quarterback can
go either way. You know, are

615
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.199
you going to criticize him in the
confines of your office? Are you going

616
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:12.039
to do it in front of the
team. Are you going to do it

617
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.760
in the locker room, on the
practice field? It all based It's all

618
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:21.880
based upon, let's call it,
how you're how the team is approaching a

619
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:28.519
given day or a given week.
When it comes to standard and expectations,

620
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.960
I could say it's very high.
There's a standard to play here. There's

621
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.920
an expectation to play, how we
want our quarterbacks to play, the amount

622
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.920
of time that we ask him to
give to football, whether that be to

623
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:45.280
his body, whether that be to
in the weight room, whether that be

624
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:51.039
the training room, the film room, or on the practice field, staying

625
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:55.320
after leading the way. There's a
very high expectation, and if he doesn't

626
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:01.920
fulfill that expectation, there's a significant
critique. But I would say this year,

627
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:07.480
in comparison to last year, it's
not even close with his work ethic.

628
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:13.559
I do not necessarily criticize on turnovers
as much as I like to teach

629
00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:20.440
on turnovers and see what we can
do to eliminate some while also realizing it's

630
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:24.159
part of the game. So he
was very diplomatic. He he didn't criticize

631
00:41:24.199 --> 00:41:28.280
the turnovers. A couple of days
ago, he was very let me ask

632
00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:30.559
you this, and I didn't know
the response. I wanted to see what

633
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:36.119
it is to you. He imagined
Dolora playing for rich Rock. You,

634
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:43.000
oh, Rich Try would have had
a heart attack on the side. You

635
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.719
would have lost his mind on Saturday. Yea, he would have lost his

636
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.159
mind. What the hell are you
trying to do? I mean, that's

637
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:52.159
that's what you say. Nice you
know. And listening to that clip right

638
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.679
there, just in that what it
was a minute a two minute clip,

639
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:02.400
it really made me. I really
got a feel for why Jed Fish is

640
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:09.960
different as a head coach than most
other hits. His approach is more thoughtful,

641
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.400
less emotional, very very much.
So he's not your football coach.

642
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:19.239
Yeah, I mean he's not.
It's it's not that he's not that crazy.

643
00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:24.079
Rich Rod is an emotional coach.
Stops Mike Stoops emotional coach. You

644
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:31.599
know, Dick I get times more
emotional than Jed, but less emotional than

645
00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:34.920
you know, I mean, because
he could get pissed right, and he

646
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:37.519
could lose his mind. I mean, I still I still have a vision

647
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:39.760
of when remember at the end of
the end of the Washington game in ninety

648
00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:44.719
eight, the Leap by the Lake
and one of the players got a personal

649
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:46.679
fund got kicked out of the game, and he went and sat on the

650
00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:50.000
bench, and Dick chased him to
the bench, and I'm to get his

651
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:52.440
ass up and go stand on the
sideline with everybody else. And I don't

652
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:57.400
know that I saw Dick madder than
that ever, So he had that in

653
00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:04.639
Jed seems more or reserved, reserves
not the right word. I just want

654
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:10.320
to control, thoughtful, controlled.
He looks always looking at whatever I do.

655
00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:14.360
Now, what's that gonna mean down
the road? You know, I

656
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.239
think a lot of it is just
his personality. One. I wasn't gonna

657
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:20.599
say that first, but him having
been in the NFL. It's more.

658
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:23.480
You don't see NFL coaches doing that
yet. Up You're just, yeah,

659
00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:28.400
You're just a normal dude walking the
sidelines, watching and observing. Maybe that's

660
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:30.760
where he got it. Well,
the older guys, for one, right,

661
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:35.519
they're multi millionaire, they're gonna throw
you the finger, right, And

662
00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:38.199
if they don't have a good relationship
with you, guess who's guess who goes

663
00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.599
out the door? Sure not the
player that the coaches. So maybe that

664
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:45.960
makes you handle them different. Yeah, in fact, that's a good question.

665
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:50.239
Ask jed where did he get his
sideline demeanor? And he has he

666
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:52.880
always been that way? Save that
for next week. Yeah, I think

667
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.039
I will. I think I will
be coming to have to cut this piece

668
00:43:54.079 --> 00:44:00.280
out of the podcast because we don't
want they're not listening. Those guys listen

669
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.039
to Yeah, no, justin that
was a very good question. That was

670
00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.599
a really good question. And who
else did we say? I'd have to

671
00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:09.840
go back and listen to the question. I I don't remember. I don't

672
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:15.239
remember. So then he was asked, who who would you compare him to?

673
00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:17.920
Okay, did did you see that
I told you to? Something was

674
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.599
talking about Mahomes. Well here's what
he said. Okay, you know,

675
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:27.719
I mean I think that he has
traits of a lot of players out there.

676
00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:31.239
You know, he has traits of
a Patrick Mahomes where he can make

677
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:37.280
plays off schedule on a consistent basis. He's not afraid to throw the ball

678
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:44.280
at any given moment. I give
him the Brett Farve comparison, where he

679
00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:47.800
has a toughness about him, he
has a competitive stamina that he's okay with.

680
00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.719
He has such great confidence in himself
that if he makes a mistake or

681
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.800
turns the ball over, that's not
going to affect his ability to go back

682
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.440
out there. I think that you
look at a lot of these players,

683
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.960
you know. I mean, I'm
not going to give comparisons of like guys

684
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.679
we don't know right or bad players. That wouldn't be a comparison we'd want

685
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:09.920
to do. So we're always going
to pull from the great ones that are

686
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.000
out there. But we watch a
lot of Jalen Hurts, We watch a

687
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.559
lot of Patrick Mahomes. We watch
we certainly talk about the farms of the

688
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.480
world. And the biggest thing for
him is, yeah, he makes wild

689
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.239
plays, but I tell him,
you know, you don't need to be

690
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:31.719
Superman, just be Batman. Use
your tools. That was a pretty good

691
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:37.840
one. That everything that he said
about Jaden right there is spot on.

692
00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:43.719
Yeah, we've been talking about all
the week, he's got the fire invincible,

693
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:47.440
I can get this done. How
many coaches outside of Babe Khalil because

694
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:52.440
he did this to his detriment and
he ran, he ran into players he

695
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:57.320
tried to get eventually caused him his
shoulder into right where he and try not

696
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.039
to avoid the hit he initiated to
him that the first game where he you

697
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:04.119
know, run into and you're thinking, what are you doing? You're the

698
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:08.360
quarterback. So he thinks, he
thinks, not out of the box,

699
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:12.800
you don't want to do some of
the things he does right exactly, and

700
00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:15.719
and that's you know, I think
that's where you know, somebody like like

701
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:21.960
Dolora has it kind of looked at
himself, right, what's the right thing

702
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:24.480
to do here? Sure? Sure
play play with your head as well as

703
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:29.639
your arm and your body, you
know, I mean, do do the

704
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.199
do the right things. And I
think in the end that's all people want.

705
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:36.440
It's like if he would have been
thinking, he wouldn't have thrown that

706
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:38.199
first pick over the middle where the
guy where his guy was. All a

707
00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:40.039
sudden two guys were on top of
him, and then he threw it.

708
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:45.719
You know, those kinds of things. But again get used to it.

709
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:50.360
Yeah, no, I see,
I reminded myself of maybe Rogers with Green

710
00:46:50.440 --> 00:46:52.519
Bay when when he would have that
smirk for the other guys, he was

711
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.960
better than everybody, smarter, smarter
than anybody in the room, and the

712
00:46:57.039 --> 00:46:59.880
other guys screwed up. You know, the other guy screwed up. There's

713
00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:01.639
a combination of a lot of things. Uh, and we all are a

714
00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:05.760
combination of a lot of things.
Yeah. So final clip, Uh,

715
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.440
this is actually the whole press conference
so that we will played. But the

716
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:14.840
final clip was a question not a
question about I mean the fact that the

717
00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:17.599
protection has been really good. You
know, Jade Delora has had time to

718
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:22.400
throw He's yeah, he's run,
he's run sometimes, but uh, he's

719
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:25.400
you know, he's got an offensive
line that he should be able to do

720
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:29.840
some things with. Here's what Jed
had to say about the offensive line and

721
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:37.280
protection for Jade Delora. Yeah.
I think that our protection has been at

722
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.159
a very very high level. Uh, to only be we had one sack

723
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.639
in the game against Mississippi State.
I can't even remember if we had one

724
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:51.280
against NAU. One sack in each
game. So and we throw the ball

725
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:53.840
thirty five times a game, so
when you're sitting there. We've had seventy

726
00:47:53.920 --> 00:48:00.800
attempts at two sacks and we've always
we believed going into this season. A

727
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:06.199
healthy Jordan Morgan, a healthy Jonah
seven Ah. You know those are two

728
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:10.639
outstanding college offensive linement. And then
the three guys inside. I know Jonah

729
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:15.039
is playing more inside this past week, but the three guys inside that are

730
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:19.719
going to really help us. I'm
really hopeful on Polido. I still haven't

731
00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:23.320
gotten the final word there. If
not Polido, then we'll obviously have boorjon

732
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:30.400
in Jonah again in their combination.
But you know, the way we're protecting

733
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:32.599
right now, it's giving us an
opportunity to take shots down the field when

734
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:37.000
we want. It gives us an
opportunity in our screen game because we can

735
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.400
get guys out athletically, and then
when you can create a dish or a

736
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.519
pocket like we've been able to create
with the edge rushers being able to move

737
00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:51.199
them from the core, it's enabled
Jaden to work in the pocket a little

738
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:53.880
bit longer and be able to find
some guys down the field and a little

739
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:58.360
bit later in the down. Yeah, there's a lot to like about this

740
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.920
team. I mean, the just
is this is the best team that they

741
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.000
had in a long time. Well, and that you know. And the

742
00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:06.760
thing is that, you know,
the good teams that Arizona's had in the

743
00:49:06.840 --> 00:49:09.480
past always had a really good offensive
line. I mean, and so it's

744
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:14.880
it's gonna get better too, right, Polito he's not sure yet. In

745
00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:17.960
the beginning, he said he's waiting
to hear, but he's hopeful that Polito,

746
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:23.719
we actually Dukes is coming back.
There was one another guy saw,

747
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:27.960
so everybody's supposed to be back.
They still don't know about Polito. They're

748
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.119
hoping he's back. The thing of
it is that this this line was good,

749
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:35.400
has been good the first two games
without Polido, Yeah, right,

750
00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.039
and including to get at Mississippi State. They didn't get pushed around. But

751
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:40.280
I'm just gonna get the State.
But there's a lot to like about this

752
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:45.159
team. I'm not sure it has
that six squins in him. But you

753
00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:49.119
know, like we said, they'll
probably pull something off and then possibly lose

754
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:51.920
to something they shouldn't lose to.
Well, yeah, I mean, that's

755
00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:53.239
that's that's what's the way of the
world. Is kind of what you expect

756
00:49:53.280 --> 00:49:57.519
when you're when you're at Arizona,
you know, you do, you do,

757
00:49:58.079 --> 00:50:00.639
you do very cool things, then
you do some really dumb things and

758
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:05.239
it kind of offsets everything. But
I you know, I don't know.

759
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:09.559
I just think that that this team
has potential, do you know, to

760
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:15.079
do really well if they can just
keep their house in order. And by

761
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:16.639
that I mean you know, the
turnovers and the penalty. You know,

762
00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:21.199
there's there's two penalties in the first
game. There's too many houses in this

763
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.079
room, rooms in the house.
Keep in order, you know what what

764
00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:28.360
Jed said at the you know,
at the top, they've got to play

765
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.119
their best game. Go on and
play a really good game, not not

766
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.719
a bunch of turnovers, not a
bunch of penalties, not a bunch of

767
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:36.760
dumb plays. Okay, let me
give you this sto. So they win

768
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:40.199
fifty to twenty. Yeah, from
depends on what it looks like what they

769
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:45.039
okay, because remember you know we
we we liked it. We liked the

770
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:47.920
outcome of the Nau game. They
beat him thirty eight to three. Game

771
00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:52.719
was never in depth, right,
But they had all these penalties, they

772
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.440
missed some opportunities, you know,
a fumble and a pick. In the

773
00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:01.239
end, you thought they won,
and they won handily, but there were

774
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:06.840
some things there that you were concerned
about. That first half was and so

775
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.440
going into the Mississippi State game,
you thought, we still don't you know,

776
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:12.679
I thought I didn't think I had
any chance in HELLI beat Missispies.

777
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.400
It really did, I really did. And then after the first quarter I

778
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.960
knew they didn't. And then they
end up that they did have a chance

779
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.960
in hell, and in fact,
they don't do those stupid things and maybe

780
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:27.199
they win the game. So you
just I don't know. So, Okay,

781
00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.639
we're doing this show in Tucson,
we know about Arizona. What do

782
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.559
you think the people in Mississippi State
are thinking we're not that good? Right?

783
00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:37.480
Or yeah, we should have beat
the hell out of Arizona because Arizona

784
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:39.239
is not that good. Right,
So we beat the hell out of them

785
00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:44.199
last year at their place. Why
couldn't we beat well? Maybe either thinking

786
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:49.400
we just had a bad game.
Were they looking ahead LSU? Possibly possibly

787
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.079
they got because at halftime you're thinking, you know, we look at this,

788
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.320
we'd running all over the guys.
We got these guys, but the

789
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:58.880
but the shorties, you know,
and it's fourteen and that's fourteen to seven,

790
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:02.360
where Arizona was very happy with it. I you know, certainly when

791
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.000
Arizona tie the game, they're like, oh no, yeah, because I

792
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.159
know that's what I would be thinking
if we're here, If we're here on

793
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:14.960
Saturday and all of a sudden,
you TEP scores late and Arizona has to

794
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:19.000
score again in order to win the
game, You're going, Holy hell,

795
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.760
what's going on? You're thinking,
we can't lose their yeah, right right,

796
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:24.320
yeah, And that's the worst thing
that happened. That is the worst

797
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.880
thing that happens. So you know, it's uh, I just think that

798
00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:30.840
you know, when you when you
when you have a game like this,

799
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.920
it's back to your question, how
do you feel if they win fifty to

800
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:39.639
twenty. I'll feel good if there
weren't four turnovers and there weren't ten penalties,

801
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:45.000
and you know, and it was
just a fifty to twenty game where

802
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:49.039
they took command, had it in
hand, maybe gave up a couple of

803
00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:51.920
plays and they scored a couple of
touchdown. Okay, we gotta go.

804
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:54.280
All right, let's take our break. We're gonna come back breaking news here

805
00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:57.800
at the top of the hour,
so be sure to stick around for that

806
00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:02.239
and then we've got uh, Johnny
Avello from DraftKings sports book in our on

807
00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:04.079
the show in a