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This is I on the Ball with
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Radio station Yet. Hey, good afternoon,

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everybody. Welcome to I on the
Ball, you know, Fox Sports

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fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera here, Jakin Zass. Welcome to Thursday's show

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and our final one of the week. It's actually our Friday. It's our

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Friday. Yeah, we had no
one day. We'll have no Friday.

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I like these gigs well, you
know, and for me, it's that

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day, that day that you're trying
to get up and get away up.

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Yeah, it's busy, you know, it's it's busy. It's it's uh

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it's uh so much going on,
you know. I you don't have time

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for anything, so but you know, just trying to get everything done to

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get the heck out of dog yes, so that you won't be here.

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And I don't know how to do
these machines. I'm not I'm not coming

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in. I'm ex used to the
reason for that fun no show tomorrow,

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Sorry about that, but which means
we're doing our fab five Friday picks on

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Thursday today, So you'll catch those
in the last second, well at least

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at least on my side, because
I was one for five last week.

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Awesome means Jake Fisher will be here
today. I had three fifteen to talk

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about last game and the game up
this week. We've got some clips from

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Jet Fish from his Thursday press.
They head out to Mississippi State tomorrow,

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and then we're gonna have David Adams. Yeah, we've had him. It's

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been a while, we've since we've
had David, you know, a little

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little running back guy from them from
the mid eighties who was just you know,

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became one of the best running backs
in the Pac twelve or pack den

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back then. And despite his diminutive
stature, he's still a short guy.

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He just a little big or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So

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we'll talk to him on the second
hour, right, and then talk a

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lot about Fish. I didn't go
to Fish and day. What was he

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liked today? He was jed,
you know. And the thing is,

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Steve, the way the way the
way these press conferences are now, there's

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no flow to the there's no flow
to the press conference. Every you know,

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everybody's got a different question for their
story. So there's no continuity really

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to any of the questions. You
know, somebody asked a question, then

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somebody asked a question on a completely
different topic. Then the next question is

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on another topic. And at the
end of the day, everybody gets one

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question and you don't have any there's
no and everybody's got to pull whatever they

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game. Did they have to identify
themselves against No, No, it's no

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identifying ourselves. We did get you
know, we did get called on,

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but we didn't identify ourselves. Even
I asked a question, would you go,

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let's start with that one, would
you Well, I asked, you

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know, I asked Jed. I
said, is it is the the whole

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reputation of the SEC because we're talking
with of being of their alignment on both

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sides of the line, being bigger, better, you know, more physical,

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faster, you know, Is that
a real thing or is it?

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Uh? You know, is it? Is it a reputation? And he

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did have he did have something to
say to that. Well, first of

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all, I think that these guys
are in the top of the league.

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They were nine in four last year. Ye they finished third in the SEC

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West so I think they are on
the upper echelon of SEC teams. I

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think that there is something I made
the comment a year or two ago about

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how you grow up eating will determine
the size that you are. And if

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you're going to recruit a lot of
California kids, they grow up with certain

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nutritions there in the cafeteria that there's
certain nutritional value of the vegetables and the

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things that they eat. They're not
eating the same type of foods as they're

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eating in the South. And there's
bigger guys in the South they're just this,

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and there's bigger guys in the Midwest. So you have to be able

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to recruit those areas. If you're
gonna be able to be as big as

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they are, you're gonna have to
recruit, you know, some of those

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guys in the Ohio Michigan area to
be able to bring in the big guys

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on your program. We have a
really big team right now. We've recruited

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Hawaii and brought in some big guys
there. We've recruited Utah brought in some

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big guys there. But if we're
going to continue to be in that three

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hundred and fifteen pound six foot four
plus range of offensive and defensive lineman.

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You can see Bill Norton, one
of our bigger players was at Georgia and

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he's from Tennessee. Uh so we
brought him in, brought him over to

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us. So we've got to just
continue to recognize that there is a difference

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in size. And I do think
that you know, big players win.

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So we're working very hard to become
a big team. But we also recognize

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that there's some skill that we have
and there's some you got to play together

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and see how good of a unit
you can be. But when you when

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you put Polito out there next to
Jonah, next to Morgan, next whoe,

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I mean, we're we're pretty big
upfront as we are on the defensive

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side. So he answered it by
really not answering it right. Well,

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he did say that they are bigger
there. They are bigger in the you

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know, in the South and in
the Midwest specifically. What I didn't get

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too was because you can't do a
follow up question, right, was so

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how much have you gained on them? But I think he kind of said

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that they're they're much bigger than they
were last year. Right, Well,

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okay, they're bigger, they're bigger, stronger, who knows, but it's

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always been the West coast a sleekness
or stealth like against the bigger guys on

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the East coast well. And another
question to that end, he talked about

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he was asked a question about how
physical his safeties and defensive backs or and

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was he was. He pleased with
that, and so you know, again

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a thing that he said was going
to be important against Mississippi State was not

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only being bigger, but also being
physical. I want us to be as

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physical as possible. We're gonna have
to be extremely physical this week. UH

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coach Nansen and coach Cecil, coach
at Keena and coach Richardson have done a

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remarkable job of changing the mentality in
the mindset of the defensive backs that you

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go in there and you hit,
and you hit every play and you're not

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afraid to trigger, and you're not
afraid to be aggressive, and you get

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you're the runner, you get after
the ball carrier, you get closer in

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coverage to be able to make those
bang bang plays when it's when you're you

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know, one on one situation.
And I give the credit to those guys

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in terms of really locking in that
mindset of physicality, and the more physical

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we can be as defensive backs,
the better will be. That's a Seattle

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Seahawk trait of years ago when they
were the legion of boom, and we

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would love to get to somewhere close
to that mentality. So, you know,

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it's and I guess this is from
the travels that Jed Fish has been

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on. He's seen at every you
know, he's been every he's been in

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the Big ten, he's been in
the SEC, he's been at the next

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level, and you get a sense
that he really has a very good handle

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of what you gotta have to be
good, right, and not good just

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in the Pac twelve, but just
to be good you know on uh you

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know across the board, Like he
said, he wants bigger alignment because he

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knows you got to have bigger You
can't go play SEC teams and big ten

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teams and now probably big twelve teams. You know, with quote unquote Pack

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twelve alignment. You gotta have SEC
line, big ten line, and then

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you got to be physical. Let
me ask you something. Uh so I've

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been here since eighty seven, cupboard
told me with you uh stoops came on

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all the other coaches came on,
and I asked him initially when he took

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the job, you know, how
is he going to handle this when other

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guys before him couldn't do it right, couldn't recruit like? Has he done

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that? Has he done this better
than anybody before him, before Smith,

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before Smith at Smith? Oh yeah, a lot. He's recruited way better

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than anybody's ever recruited, by a
lot, by a lot in a very

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short time. The reason I asked
his stoops, I don't snoops was probably

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the second Stoop's got some really good
players because you know he had the you

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know, they went to Texas in
Oklahoma and you know in Louisiana, and

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they got guys from from there,
but not not in the quantity. Yeah

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see, And I know that was
a naive question, but you're right,

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it's more of a quantity. Will
know about quality down the road. He's

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getting some really good plays. His
best players are better than anybody's best players.

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But more than anything, he's got
more real yea, yeah, No,

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that was kind of naive question.
But and I asked because stoops stoops

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would in my wild garden, because
I didn't really follow Stoops, so I

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was too busy with Luke, so
I know he has some pretty good talent

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too. But think about it,
Steve. It's it's changed though, because

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you got guys available to you that
you didn't have available to right. You

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got a transfer or not a transfer. A guy who decommitted from Alabama because

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he just you gotta transfer from Michigan, you gotta transfer from Georgia. You

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got transfers from Oregon and Washington.
Those guys are available because for whatever reason,

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it wasn't a good fit for them
where they were. Doesn't mean that

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they're not good players or they aren't
as good as people thought they were going

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to be when they went to those
schools. It didn't work out for him

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there, and now you're getting the
benefit of that because they're still good players.

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But now they're here, or in
some cases they're grad transfers and they've

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had their careers and they want to
go play somewhere else one season for whatever

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reason, closer to home, whatever, or they want to be BMO you

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know, BMOC big man on campus, so they come to Arizona. So

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that's a big difference, right,
So maybe comparing the thing would be app

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not apples to apples, right,
And we always ask this question publicly,

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how would you handle the transferred or
how would he would like the nil?

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And he would have hated it?
He would have hated it. What about

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Dick, Dick would have done with
Dick would have had to do to win,

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So he would not have hated it. Yeah, I don't think he

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would have hated it. He would
have he would have embraced it. I

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think he would have embraced it because
because again I've told this right before,

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I just remembered in ending in the
parking garage talking to him because I was

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asking him if if it was summertime, and I was asking, could I

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go on a recruiting trip with one
of your coaches? And I went on

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just and it was an evaluation trip, so they weren't meeting with players.

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They were just going visiting with coaches
looking at film. And I went with

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Larry McDuff to San Diego for a
day and we went and did all the

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and we're talking about that and I
asked, I said, do you like

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recruiting? Anybody said no, And
he said, he said, what I

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don't like looking across the field and
the other team has better players than we

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had. That's what I don't like. So if I have to recruit to

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prevent that from happening, yeah,
I don't mind recruiting. And that was

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his answer. Yeah, and it
didn't and they did. Okay, so

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think on an occasionally a really good
place. But that wasn't his market.

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That wasn't tell me his mark.
Did Dick ever have a team mac No,

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no, no, he didn't know, but that's what was his market.

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That was it. That waspecial actually
coaching him up, making him play

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or having them play. Seeing And
what I'm saying is that jet Fish is

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high school recruiting. Its foreign above
anybody else that's high school recruiting. It's

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never been here already. But he
hasn't just hung his hat on that.

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Yes, he says, I prefer
high school recruits over getting transfers, but

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we're gonna get transfers to fill needs
because you need to, and any good

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coach will see again, we were
talking about this yesterday with with that Bo

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Sweeney and the story. Yeah,
he is stuck. He is sticking to

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his philosophy and he's losing because of
because of that, he's being hardheaded about

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the whole thing and and there,
and now he's losing. He's starting to

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lose because of that. People are
saying the Clemson, you know, the

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Clemson, Uh, you don't call
it a dynasty, but Clemson's place among

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them, say, the top three
or four teams in the country every year.

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Not only that, I mean they're
just saying it's over. It's over,

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They're done. They're they're they're you
know, regular team in the a

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SEC that can get beat by a
lot of other teams on Monday. Yeah.

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Yeah, better to have loved than
never loved before Jay, better to

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have a crown for a while.
But I get it, and it's just

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a one off. We'll see if
this went off for the duke thing.

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But I think a lot of people
are jumping to conclusions right away. Colorado,

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Clemson. Uh, I look at
what's going on at Stanford and cal

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What do you mean that they can't
get they get transfer? Well, they're

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in a tough situation because they're not
the point being, they're not getting transfers,

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and their program is shaking to die
and and and they're and they're saying

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that you know other teams that do
that, you know it's hurting them if

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they're sticking to I don't want I
don't want transfer. Yeah, you got.

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You gotta play the game the way
the game is the best way to

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play. I think Dick would have
seen that, would have recognized that,

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and I think you'll give you a
name right now. And he did that.

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Anthony Smith, Yeah Smith for one
year time for one year to come

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here. Yeah. Yeah, So
you know back then it was jac guys,

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right, get college guys. And
there were some junior college guys that

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that that Dick brought in Donnie Salem, you know it was one right,

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the guy from Iowa, A Paul
Pulled Glanik, right, remember, brought

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him in from my remember him.
Well, you guys like that that were

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you know, they were pretty damn
good from your own right, Okay,

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No, we had more, will
more Jeff later, right yeah, yeah,

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okay, all right before we bring
in uh Jake Fisher. The best

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the week guy. Jake Fisher,
former Ubay football player Jake kiting. Oh

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fantastic, you guys. Okay,
how'd you hit this curve ball today?

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Yeah? No, it's nothing on
my schedule. And you know what's really

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good about this is because I had
to stop at a bar to talk to

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you guys. I'm just going to
take the rest of the day off.

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There you go. We're good for
something. Yes, no, but this

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is moving all my work till tomorrow. Tomorrow's using my day where I can

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just come aswell. You know,
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everything, Jake can't everything. How
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at the bar. It's kind of
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to pick one closer. Okay,
you're gonna be with us for twelve minutes.

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It's good. Hey, So what
do you think of last week's game?

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You know what, I think they're
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I think they kind of kept things
a little plain, you know, a

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little close to the vest, and
you know, I'm hoping that they come

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out with a little bit more fire. But I mean from the start of

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the game, obviously, you know, you got some jedders and make a

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couple mistakes and then you can kind
of to me it looked like we were

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overlooking NAU and it looked like we
might be looking forward a week, which

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is never good. But you know, I'm just happy that we got out

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of that. It's kind of a
weird game. We still want thirty eight

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three. You know, there's a
couple of games I was involved in where

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it was kind of the same thing, looking you know, might be have

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a few people looking forward to the
next week. It's an ago. So

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you know, we got out of
there with a dub. The clock thing

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is still messing with me because a
lot of these games, I mean,

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in the first half it's slow because
they're getting used to not stopping the clock

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on first down and it's like,
you know, it cuts down on the

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drive and you know, it's just
kind of weird when we end the first

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quarter only up seven, and you're
like, well, what the heck is

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going on? So that's something we
got to get used to. But you

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know, we got out of there
with a win. That's all we can

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ask for. We we we talked
a little bit today about you know,

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because they're going to face an SEC
team in Mississippi State this week. Jed

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was careful because I want to ask
him the question about you know, the

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top lines in the in the league. I said, you know, I

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mentioned, you know, Georgia,
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State, but he made sure to
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among among those guys in terms of
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anyways, I asked, you know, is it a real thing that or

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is the reputation that the SEC has
bigger lineman, better faster, you're more

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athletic, just across the board,
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said it is. He said,
it is a thing. And uh,

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you know you played football with some
of these guys. Uh, you know,

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what did you see out there?
I mean, is it a thing?

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And you know, you know how
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lines different from the other leagues.
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always saw patsall they always have really
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in the first round whatever, that's
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Big ten they have the big boys. They like to run it down your

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throat. The SEC is a combination
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guys that just you know, kind
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if it's something in the water.
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the SEC, I mean just they
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are just kind of a level above
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know, a great left tackle that's
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know a big ten guy that just
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that's kind of where you have in
the SEC. And it's all over the

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place. Like I said, it
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I'm not quite sure, but I
mean those guys, they always have

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those monsters that you know, they
end up playing ten to twelve years in

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the NFL, and it's like,
where did this guy come from? Oh,

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Auburn of course SEC. So yeah, I mean we're gonna work hand

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school. Thankfully we have a bigger
D line than we've had. You know,

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it's a challenge. Did you do
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time who you thought that guy would
be? You know, can play anywhere,

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complaining in the SEC, complaining the
big ten wherever anybody. We come

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bed a couple of guys in my
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you know, Stoops actually did a
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and recruiting offensive lineman and you know, I can't remember all their names,

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but I mean I just remember as
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deep and just you know, having
to get teed off on while I'm coming

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know, type of headache pretty much
at the beginning of practice and it never

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goes away. So given what happened
last year, what did you think of

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last year's game? Will it play
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were under Mike Leach. Now it's
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mean from everything I'm hearing, I
haven't been at just scat them all,

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but I guess they're They're running the
ball a lot more so it's going to

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be a little bit slow over games. You're not going to have, you

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know, probably the big plays that
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Leach offense. But I mean,
like I said, it's a good challenge

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for us. I think that last
year was kind of an odd game.

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You know, I kind of agree
with some of the other guys that have

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shows that I listened to you where
you know, you never felt like we

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were in the games, but it
never felt like we were out of it,

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if that makes sense. Like I
mean, if we went on a

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quick run, got a big touchdown
and got a turnover, maybe, but

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it was just weird. They kept
us at arm's length the entire time.

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Obviously they were much bigger and stronger
than we were. Uh. You know,

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this year, I think we have
you know, the offensive line that

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could keep in the lower from running
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know, he stole something last year. I mean I felt bad for the

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man. He was just all over
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he could be consistent, you know, limit the mistakes, and if we're

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able to establish you know a little
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not getting behind the sticks, I
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asked you this before, but I'm
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this team underwent a change in coaches
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it happens with other and with other
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still different. And they're, like
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on offense, but a coaching transition, especially early in the season, how

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much does that have an effect on
how things go in terms of being organized,

407
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everybody knowing where they're supposed to be, everybody knowing assignments, everybody knowing

408
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how you get plays in and out. You know, how how really hard

409
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is that? I mean, it's
difficult, especially when you have an entirely

410
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new staff. But I guarantee,
even though they kind of changed up the

411
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way that they're gonna move the ball
and kind of how they're going to attack

412
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different defenses, I've got a lot
of the internal stuff that's still the same,

413
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so you still have that familiarity there. There's a comfort level there.

414
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Like I said, even though it's
different system, I'm sure that you know,

415
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they kept a lot of things to
saying. They don't have to do

416
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just a complete redo, So you
know, I think they'll be on top

417
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of their game. So let me
ask you, it's gonna be tough to

418
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play there, obviously, with all
the Cowboys and all the stadium the way

419
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it is. What was your toughest
place to play and how big of a

420
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.839
factor is playing on the road like
that? My tofice place to play.

421
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Oregon was always tough because I mean, they're right on top of you.

422
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Washington is probably the loudest. I
didn't get to play at Oklahoma State,

423
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but I went on the trip and
that seemed to be pretty difficult. You

424
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know, it's it's difficult. I
mean when we were at Oklahoma State,

425
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you have the guys you know,
pounding against the wall the entire time,

426
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and it, you know, kind
of distracts you sometimes. Uh. You

427
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know that could have been just me
because I wasn't in the game. But

428
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when it comes to Washington, I
mean that place is louder than any place

429
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that I've ever played at. Uh, it can make a difference. You

430
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know, if we're if we're trying
to get you know, some signals,

431
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and if there's a miscommunication because it's
too loud, well then you know you

432
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got to go to hand signals to
do it that way, I have to

433
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go to a silent count. We
just never know. It always changed the

434
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complexity of the game. Did you
ever play Did you play against either on

435
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the road, either in the SEC
or the Big Ten? Uh? We

436
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played at Iowa, Okay, but
I don't think we played any SEC teams.

437
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If I remember correct, I've been
hitting the head of lock guys.

438
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But talk about the atmosphere that Iowa
game. What was that like? Well,

439
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that was kind of your prototypical Big
ten. I mean they're they're exactly

440
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like Nebraska fans, like, you
know, you're you're leaving the field,

441
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and they kind of cheer you on
telling a good job even though you're just

442
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lost. And I mean they're a
loud obviously. I don't remember if we

443
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were there when they had their children's
hospital thing where you stop it right,

444
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and I will be different because our
entire locker room was pink. It was

445
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really weird. So other than that, you know, the fans were great.

446
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They were loud obviously, and that
helps the home team, but you

447
00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.279
know, we still had a chance
to win at the end. Yeah,

448
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:30.000
I remember that one. Yeah,
that was that Well, that was the

449
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game I think. Wasn't that the
game where Nick Foles first kind of hit

450
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the scene, right he placed Matt
Scott in the game and then uh yeah,

451
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and then he never relinquished. Never
David Position, let me ask you

452
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a dumb question, because I'm the
dumb question guy. How good was he

453
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.079
on when we played with him?
Right, you were a team and it

454
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was was it? Obviously did he
have that talent to become who he became

455
00:29:53.599 --> 00:29:56.920
Nick Foles? Yeah, of course. I mean he always had a big

456
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.160
arm, he had the best beat
ball I've seen, you know, and

457
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:04.640
he was just a team first guy. So you know, him and Matt

458
00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.039
were both you know, first team
first guys. But you know, when

459
00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.720
you have a guy transfer in and
you have a guy that has a year

460
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you know under his desk in the
system, normally you're going to go towards

461
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.920
the guy that's been here. So
I mean Nick had to go out and

462
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.799
earn it, and I think he
did. Obviously Matt, you know,

463
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.640
under Rich Rocks system, he was
perfectly built for that one. So I

464
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.440
mean everybody's kind of got their preferences
on the type of scheme and uh,

465
00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:34.160
you know, Nick Foles, in
my opinion, got shafted in the NFL.

466
00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.839
I think he should have been starting
for the Eagles for a few years

467
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.440
and I think politics played a big
deal there. But you know, he

468
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.640
got his you know, the Super
Bowl MVP. He's gonna be able to

469
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.359
tell, you know, everybody down
the you know lineage that he was able

470
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to do that against Tom Brady of
all people. So I'm just happy that

471
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.359
he ended up where he did.
Wasn't through another quarterback to d from Rutgers

472
00:30:55.960 --> 00:31:00.519
who transferred to Yeah, yeah,
so he had At one point we had

473
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:06.759
four NFL quarterbacks on the roster.
H don't quiz me on the names.

474
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.640
I'm terrible with names. If I
see his face, obviously I'll know his

475
00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:14.119
name. But we had Nick obviously, Matt had a brief stin, and

476
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then two other guys that are like, you know, one of them still

477
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.119
a backup and one of them had
to start a game for the Texans like

478
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.799
three years ago. This random,
but yeah, it was. It was

479
00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:26.640
pretty awesome. I mean, you
get to see take your NFL quarterback,

480
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.160
even if you're like on the threes
in practice. That was kind of cool.

481
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.960
Asking one more so, I asked
Jay this because I'm not a historian

482
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:38.119
football more basketball so and Jake's and
Jake, Jed has done a heck of

483
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:41.440
a job recruiting, obviously, probably
better than all the coaches before him.

484
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.400
What's so, why did it take
so long? I should say, although

485
00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:52.000
Stoops did a fantastic job right,
but probably not to the level that Jed

486
00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:56.359
has. Well, I think Stoops
got on to a great start because he

487
00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.920
had you know, his brother,
he had some many dikes, he had

488
00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:02.920
Kish. I mean, he had
all of these coaches that were always in

489
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.880
the top twenty five of the recruiters
in college football. So if you take

490
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.960
a look at that, that's why
they started so great. And then after

491
00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:13.519
my freshman year, both of them
are, you know, the two top

492
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:16.359
ones. His brother and Guy's both
left, so you know, you kind

493
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.279
of bring in two new coaches and
uh, you know, kind of from

494
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.359
there, you know, the recruitings
fell off a little bit. But I

495
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:27.079
think Jed's just selling the direction of
the program. He puts in the extra

496
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:29.359
work. I mean, the guy
goes out and raises money, does all

497
00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.559
that stuff. He could tell that
he's genuine about his players. And then

498
00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:36.640
he hired a bunch of guys that
brought into you know, the vision,

499
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.640
that are willing to go and be
the first ones to jump on a recruit.

500
00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:43.400
You know, they're not afraid to
run down the South Point. And

501
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:45.720
you know, I've heard on another
show. You know, as soon as

502
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:50.039
they were able to make contact with
the players, you know, the entire

503
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:53.400
staff showed up at six am for
you know, the guy's workout. So

504
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:59.000
these guys they believe in recruiting.
You have two at Arizona. You know,

505
00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:00.440
you can't just wait for people to
come there. It's not like you're

506
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.279
walking, you know, into La
with an sc logo, uh, you

507
00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.000
know on your sweater. So they're
doing a good job. I just think

508
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:13.119
that somebody needed to really buy into
the program. I have a family atmosphere,

509
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:16.079
and you know, it helps that
we're if we're putting up numbers and

510
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:20.359
going that way. But you know, I think it's going to continue.

511
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:22.880
Hopefully he stays there for a long
time. Okay, what kind of game

512
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.720
do you think we see on Saturday? Well, you guys know me,

513
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:29.960
on the Optimists, I'm going on
Arizona winning. I don't care what the

514
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:31.720
score is. I'm not going to
bet on it. Never bet on Arizona

515
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:36.920
or Nebraska because you lose every day
time. But I think Arizona is gonna

516
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:42.000
win. All right. But but
I mean, you know, Mississipioate ran

517
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.240
the hell out of the ball last
week. Again, it was a not

518
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.680
a you know, it was an
NAU type of opponents. Southeast Louisiana.

519
00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.000
They're they're different. So what I
mean are they gonna you expect to see

520
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:55.599
I'm trying to run it down the
arizon his throat, and you think they

521
00:33:55.680 --> 00:34:00.200
can. You know what, I
don't know what their game plan is,

522
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:05.559
but I think that when you have
these uh kind of pushover opponents in week

523
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.679
one and you know you're gonna be
playing a viable opponent week two, you

524
00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.440
save a lot, You keep a
lot to the you know the best,

525
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.960
and I think that they may come
out and do something completely different. You

526
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.679
never know. Uh, you know. The good thing is we probably have

527
00:34:20.760 --> 00:34:22.760
a few things up our sleeve as
well, so you know, it might

528
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:28.760
be a higher scoring game than we
think. But I'm just hoping that we

529
00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:30.760
can go ahead and stop the run
and you know, keep them behind the

530
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:34.360
six on third down so that we
can get off the field. Well,

531
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:36.760
Jake, thanks for joining us.
Go have a beer on me, put

532
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:39.239
on my tab and it spend more
time in the pull tomorrow since you won't

533
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.800
be on the show, you know, I'll go on Venmo and I'll ask

534
00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:50.960
for fifteen dollars. It's fifteen bucks. Never mind, I'm kidding, guys.

535
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:57.360
Thank you for having me on.
How do you get pick fifteen bucks

536
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.280
for a drink getting man right.
That was fun. All right, Well,

537
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:05.119
appreciate Jake Fisher get getting in here
a day early since we're not gonna

538
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.320
have a show to Mars and and
that was fun. Yeah. Always the

539
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.119
optimists too, Like I was gonna
tell him. I think it was Bill.

540
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:13.039
Was it Bill? Who's bills?
Bills? Bill? He's on joy

541
00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:17.320
He's on drugs, pic Win eight
games. Hey, whatever, Man,

542
00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:21.079
he's on those happy drus. He's
on he's on he's you know, he's

543
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:22.440
on the right path so far.
So we'll see what happened. I just

544
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:24.880
need seven more. All right,
stick around, we'll take your calls.

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I'm Steve Roberta here. Jakin's awesome. We got fourteen minutes. If

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you guys want to give us a
quick call. Somebody said to me,

610
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we I talked too fast with the
phone number five B four one six seventy

611
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four. For everybody, get your
pencil out so they're driving in the car,

612
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So you two four one six seventy
four forty give us a quick call.

613
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If you are listening for the first
time, give us a quick call.

614
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Let us know how foolish we are. Yeah we are. Well,

615
00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:31.199
wait till our wait till wait,
till wait, wait till we get to

616
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our five Friday picks on Thursday.
Some tough games this week. I think

617
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there's a bunch of easy games.
But I'm gonna say that now, and

618
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I'm gonna screw it up because go
ahead, give yourself a ko D.

619
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So I didn't really look. I
told you some yesterday. We were talking

620
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about a bunch of games, and
a bunch of them sounded, you know,

621
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yeah, hurt easy. Well that's
that's the problem. You know that

622
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.400
there are two are not Yeah right, they're not, but they look they

623
00:40:55.480 --> 00:41:00.519
look it, so you know,
I don't know, we'll see. It

624
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:02.920
didn't take me long. You know. I got some picks. I like

625
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:07.239
them. But I always like my
picks. I should say I always like

626
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:09.400
my picks. I usually like my
picks I like my picks this week,

627
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.519
we'll see. Okay, it didn't
go well last weekend. I'm upset get

628
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:17.599
it off to such a horrible I
owe you, but you owe me.

629
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So I saved five bucks for your
trip. Save for your trip until you

630
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come back. All right, that's
right, we got we're also beating five

631
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bucks a week. I forgot about
that, so I some need to pay

632
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for the thing. So we got
a call. We got a call.

633
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Right, let's take this calor.
Hi, you're on the air and on

634
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the ball. Yeah, this is
Jeff. Hey, Jeff, how are

635
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:44.719
you doing pretty good? I'm just
calling because I've got Steve's book from him

636
00:41:44.719 --> 00:41:50.320
the other day. Oh yeah,
and TI him a chance to read it.

637
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:52.400
But my wife read it and said
it was fantastic. Well, thank

638
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.000
you, Jeff. I appreciate it. Your wife, Yeah, thank your

639
00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.320
wife. Yeah. Yeah, you
gotta do better than me. I've only

640
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:02.880
read about four chapters. So and
I mean she didn't ride across from me

641
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:06.760
over here. Well, he reads
it what we have the guests on right

642
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.119
to what is anybody out there that's
thinking about it? And he had to

643
00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.800
get it because it's it's a very
good read. What would did your wife

644
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.039
give you some of the highlights.
What does she tell you that you need?

645
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.199
What what does she tell you about
it that makes you want need to

646
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.840
read it? Just just that that
it was that it was very good all

647
00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:30.159
the way through. She already finished
it, so she said it was very

648
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.079
good all the way through. Yeah, well, thank you, Jeff.

649
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.400
It was obviously Ivan j J knows
lou too, so that the guys played

650
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:42.199
hard for him, right, that
was undeniable. And eventually when they left

651
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.880
the program, they really loved him. They found out why he was so

652
00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:49.320
tough on them. You know,
it's like a dad. Like a dad,

653
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.320
you don't know until you get older. You you know, you get

654
00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:58.639
smarter as your dad gets older,
saying we get all wish it were,

655
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.639
We get all wish they were all
that good of a coach. Yah.

656
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.239
Right, well, thank you,
Jeff. I remember that was just recently

657
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:08.239
that I sent you the book.
Appreciate appreciate it. Thanks about that first

658
00:43:08.239 --> 00:43:14.400
time calling, first time calling?
Thank you cool, Thanks, thanks,

659
00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:19.280
satisfied. And yesterday was read read
a book day that it was I just

660
00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.119
posted something that I pick up a
book. No, no, you know

661
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:23.559
you've been reading a lot of stuff, so you've been reading a book.

662
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:29.320
Let's so much going on? Yeah
around here, But I don't have tackle

663
00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:34.079
books, right, no audio audio
books exactly. Put them on in the

664
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:37.559
car books time ten minutes call us
five, four, one, six,

665
00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:39.920
seventy four forty. I'd like to
hear from me. Are you do you

666
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.000
think Arizona's what's the spread? Ten? Nine and a half? Do you

667
00:43:44.079 --> 00:43:46.320
think they're gonna cover? Not so
much you. I've watching the callers.

668
00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.480
That's a lot of points, but
it's not I think that ten and a

669
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:55.159
half, nine and a half,
ten a half plea be different things.

670
00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:59.360
You know what, and you know
what in the Vegas it's a huge difference.

671
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:02.119
Okay, let's say this. If
Air's Onna loses bike ten, done

672
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:07.639
covers loses bike ten, is that
a good showing? Yeah? Uh yeah,

673
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:12.800
yeah, you know, say say
thirty five, twenty four, thirty

674
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:15.199
five, I'll go to your I'll
go to your thing that you always go.

675
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.400
It depends what that ten but it
looks like, Yeah, it depends

676
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:21.079
what the ten looks like, because
they could be I think they're gonna be

677
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.039
in it for a while. Let's
say let's say let's say they lose by

678
00:44:23.119 --> 00:44:29.199
ten or maybe they were down three
or seven going into the fourth quarter.

679
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.679
Oh no, and you think that's
pretty good, right, they're down by

680
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:36.360
twenty one and then kind of catch
up. Nuts not so much. So

681
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:37.800
You're right, it depends on what
it looks, right. But I think

682
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.440
that I really liked this team,
and even after last week's kind of like

683
00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:47.400
mediocres out in that that they have
a chance to to stay in games and

684
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.719
play well yeah, you know,
yeah, no, I I because they

685
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:53.800
have people. They have they have
people. I mean, what was the

686
00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.199
last time you said that? Yeah, they have guys. They have guys,

687
00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:01.519
and and you know, I I
think the thing the thing that I

688
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.679
the thing that I think, right, I think I think I think you

689
00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:12.559
know that I think I think this. You do feel that from even from

690
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:16.360
last year to this year, that
they're in a much better position to compete

691
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.599
last year, going into that game, I thought, no way in how

692
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.639
they just don't have the guys,
They're gonna get pushed around. And they

693
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:28.519
did. And when you saw them
right and then and and Arizona hung you

694
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.960
know, as who was it uh
that said was it was a Jake that

695
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:35.119
just said it? They? Oh
yeah, it was Jake would just said

696
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:37.199
He said, they were in it, but they weren't. You never thought

697
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:42.119
they were going to win the game, but they weren't ever really getting Remember

698
00:45:42.159 --> 00:45:45.599
the tall receiver, the dude was
just picking up picking apples, kind of

699
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:49.960
just grabbing the ball and scoring.
I think, you know, listen and

700
00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:52.119
listen to January. He talked,
talked about his line. You know,

701
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:54.920
I mentioned that that you know they've
got you look at the offensive line you

702
00:45:55.039 --> 00:46:00.280
got you know, Polido and Morgan
and all these guys. Yeah, there

703
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:05.519
there sizewise at they fiddle, which
brings me to ask USh of questions of

704
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:09.280
Polito. What's the situation? They
don't know yet both him and uh and

705
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:15.840
more stukes stukes he said, he's
still day to day. I think they'll

706
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:20.039
they'll make a decision tomorrows to whether
or not they're taking him, taking him

707
00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:22.079
with him. Yeah, all right, let's get more jets. So we

708
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:25.440
got about seven minutes left. Really
interesting question came up today and it was

709
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:31.960
asked by Michael lev because remember when
when when Dolora you try to run over

710
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.039
that guy fumbled the ball he had
on collision with the guy he went into

711
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:38.559
the medical ted you know, you
guys had to get checked over. He

712
00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:42.840
came back out. He didn't miss
any place. But the Jed was asked,

713
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.559
you know, how confident are you
that norfa Fitte is ready to go

714
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:50.880
if Jaden does that again and has
to come out of the game, good

715
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:53.920
us. Yeah. I would say
every week my comfort level with Noah gets

716
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:59.000
greater and greater and greater and greater. Uh he is. You know he

717
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:00.880
can run a pri this no problem. If we have to give Jaden the

718
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:07.639
day off, no problem. He
walks in there and he has incredible ability

719
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:12.599
to communicate the play. He has
a great ability to get in and out

720
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.039
of a huddle. He could make
all the throws. He knows exactly what

721
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:21.880
we're getting defensively, I would say
where Noah's continuing to grow is when you

722
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:24.719
get into those scrimmage settings, you
know, as what does he do in

723
00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:29.199
training camp, scrimmages or some of
those other ones that you know it's good

724
00:47:29.239 --> 00:47:31.039
on good ones on ones. What
does that look like where Jaden has so

725
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:35.639
much experience, Jaden can make plays
outside the framework of the play better than

726
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:38.840
most. You know, Jaden was
what one throw away from having his highest

727
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:43.800
career QBR. I think it was
at like two twenty five until he threw

728
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:47.480
that one interception to end it still
finished fourteenth in the nation. So I

729
00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:52.639
would say I feel very comfortable with
Noah. He knows the offense inside and

730
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.880
out. He's certainly the team feels
very comfortable with Noah. He throws a

731
00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.599
very good ball, as we know, and the team is excited that we

732
00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:06.840
have both those quarterbacks at any given
moment. Who else that question? It's

733
00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:09.800
a good question, Michael, It's
a good question. Levin Still levis still

734
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.960
reporting football, right. I know, he's a he's a senior writer,

735
00:48:14.039 --> 00:48:17.360
he's a columnist. He's asking questions
that beat writers at Yeah. Still,

736
00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:20.920
but yeah, that was I thought
that was a really good question. And

737
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:22.320
you know, Fafida looks the part. I mean, he looks like he

738
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:24.960
can do this. I mean he's
not super tall, but he looks like

739
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.119
he can do this. The question
is when, you know, when will

740
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:31.639
his time come to do this?
And again, I think Jed's gotta,

741
00:48:31.800 --> 00:48:35.519
you know, have a good feeling
that if something does happen to Delora and

742
00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:38.480
he does something dumb like that again
and gets clawberd, that they've got somebody

743
00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:43.360
who can step in and uh and
and we've seen him. We've seen him

744
00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:46.599
to the last couple of camps.
Yeah, it looks done good. Yeah.

745
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:51.960
A lot of discussion about the new
clock rule. You know, games

746
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.559
got short a little bit. Uh, you've Arizona didn't have as many possessions

747
00:48:55.559 --> 00:49:00.840
they would normally have ran fifty something
plays. He you know, Jake got

748
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:06.000
asked about what he thought about the
whole clock situation at this game on Saturday.

749
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:08.280
Yeah. Well, you know,
we had fifty three plays, but

750
00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:12.880
we averaged nine yards of play,
so we were I think fifth in the

751
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:17.000
country when it comes to yards per
play where we are after the week one,

752
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.840
So I think we would have had
more plays if we averaged less yards.

753
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:27.639
I'd prefer to average more yards and
have less plays. I would prefer

754
00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:30.320
to be explosive if we can be
explosive and score fast, if we can

755
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:36.800
score fast. I don't know if
you necessarily count on the quarterback having a

756
00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:39.760
fifty yard run or I don't know
if you count on some of the plays

757
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:45.440
that occurred in that game. A
block field goal for a touchdown, took

758
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:49.320
away an offensive possession. You know, because you're going the defense is out,

759
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.519
then the offense is about to go
out. But then you block up

760
00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:55.760
field goal, you score, the
offense doesn't go out again. So there

761
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:59.960
were some parts of the game,
Michael that I think is just a rare.

762
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:01.840
It won't happen again. Then I
think you'll get back up to that

763
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:07.400
sixty five to seventy play range.
So I'm I'm on record of saying I

764
00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.199
have no problem as long as the
game was three hours and eleven minutes,

765
00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:15.559
which it was, which it was. That's what an NFL game average is

766
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:17.639
about three fifteen, and I think
that's what a college game should average as

767
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:22.159
well. Three eleven. That's still
kind of long, and it's usually three

768
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:27.119
twenty five twenty. Well, well, I still say, okay, they

769
00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:30.400
shortened it, but they didn't because
of that. Upon further review, we'll

770
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:32.360
look at the clock and review this
is it and hold on, they'll be

771
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:36.880
back right back. But the first
quarter I thought went went really fast because

772
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:39.239
the clock ran the whole quarter.
You know, uh, any of you

773
00:50:39.360 --> 00:50:44.320
was running the ball. Half the
first half, they were running the ball.

774
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:46.840
They were running it successfully. It
just moved and moved and moved.

775
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:50.719
Sorry to tell you there's two halves. The second half didn't. Yeah,

776
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:53.440
well, I was having fun.
It was nice out. Yeah I was,

777
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:59.320
you know, yeah it was some
red vines. None of cheese,

778
00:50:59.360 --> 00:51:01.599
and you're not. I wouldn't add
enough cheese for my notches. We've got

779
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:06.840
too many. Okay, one more
clip, just asking just oh wait,

780
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.039
let's let's let's play this. When
he was asked about Mississippi State and what

781
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:14.159
they're doing offensively now because they ran
the ball for three hundred yards last week,

782
00:51:14.679 --> 00:51:17.280
so they were he was asking,
how different is this? Well,

783
00:51:17.360 --> 00:51:20.880
the first thing is you make a
commitment to it. Right. They made

784
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:22.599
a commitment to being more balanced than
a commitment to running the ball. More

785
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:27.440
like that's where it starts, right. Coach Leech did not have that same

786
00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.800
commitment. His commitment was to move
the ball. He used to always say

787
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:35.440
balance was getting the ball into all
the playmaker's hands, not balance of run

788
00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.400
pass. So that would be the
first thing I would say. Second thing

789
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:45.360
is schematically they've changed from a year
ago or the years ago for as long

790
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:49.760
as coach Leech was calling the games, was that they've decided that they were

791
00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:52.719
going to be more two tight end
sets. They were going to be more

792
00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:54.639
pin and poll, they were going
to be more gap scheme. They were

793
00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:59.920
not afraid to run the football and
bring guys across the formation and bring more

794
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.400
size onto the field, not just
spread it out and have four receivers out

795
00:52:04.440 --> 00:52:07.480
there with no tight ends. So
I would just say, was it's more

796
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:09.960
of a concerted effort. Uh,
they're gonna run the ball, and they

797
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.320
want to run the ball. They
want to be more balanced than you could

798
00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:16.199
see it from last week when they
I think hit that three hundred yard rushing

799
00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:22.280
mark. Okay, yeah, so
yeah, you know I again and then

800
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:23.320
like Jake said, maybe they were
you know, they didn't want to show

801
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.840
their passing game, you know as
much because if you can run the ball,

802
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.079
you're gonna run the ball, right
and any team that wants to run

803
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:34.360
the ball, if they're running it's
successfully, they're just gonna keep running until

804
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:36.760
it's not working anymore. Let me
ask you this, and maybe a coach

805
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:39.000
can cause after the break. So
you you are who you are, and

806
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.559
we don't anaz want to move the
ball passing and now running, right,

807
00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:47.480
do you really need to see their
plays because you already know what they're gonna

808
00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:51.119
do right right right? Said well, they didn't show Jake kind of said,

809
00:52:51.199 --> 00:52:53.480
they didn't show what they show well, you've seen it before. Yeah,

810
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:57.440
right, Well, except for in
this case it is different. You

811
00:52:57.480 --> 00:52:59.880
know there as he said, No, they're running tight ends out there,

812
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:01.320
Jack Buyers, are you know Mississippi
state guy. Yes, they said that,

813
00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:06.280
said Mike Leach never had a tight
end. They're running a tight end

814
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out there, so they schematically it
is different. So you gotta prepare different.

815
00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:13.760
Sure, I get it. You
remember when I gotta go. Sup

816
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.239
was a coach and they had a
spy on the sixth Street then and he

817
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:21.360
was concerned. I asked him,
it's you against them? What the what

818
00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:23.079
the kind of they know what you're
gonna do. You're still gonna do something.

819
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:27.119
Yeah, maybe I'm wrong, but
don't you Isn't that what it is?

820
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.079
I think you against me? And
let's go. Yeah, let's line

821
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:32.159
up and play. Yeah exactly.
All right, We're gonna take our break,

822
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:35.320
come back to the top of the
hour. We do have some breaking

823
00:53:35.360 --> 00:53:37.280
news for you. Then we're gonna
have our guests. Our other guests,

824
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David Adams will be in at a
quarter after