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Rivera. He's Chickensauace. We've got
a boy e on today. Welcome back,

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Ey, Hello, Happy New Year
to people who haven't listened to it

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so far this year. Welcome back
everybody. It's freezing. It's really welcome.

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Welcome to Christmas and two sounds,
Welcome to winter and tuson. I

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say there's ten winter days in the
year for at least how I call it,

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this is one of them. I
guess tomorrow yesterday? So was it?

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It was? It cooled? It
snow yesterday. I couldn't. I

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didn't say where I was at,
Yeah, I mean didn't at my house,

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So I goes, Okay, I'll
good include that it rained at my

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house two days okay, then tomorrow
b three Okay, we'll keep count.

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Welcome back everybody, Big weekend or
the cats back after too convincing wins.

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Is it all fixed? Right?
You know what? What are the fans

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thinking? Those same fans that were
bitching on last week are talking rose colored

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glasses? Good? Now we're all
bad. We're all good. Right.

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I'm monitoring it on Facebook because I
got those names. Now, you know,

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Oh the world does any know?
Oh this team played so great.

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I love Tommy lloyd Man. Yeah, just relax, everybody. It's November,

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November. It's January. Yeah,
it's January, and we have a

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lot of basketball to play. Here's
a concern Jay though. And we'll talk

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a lot about a lot of different
sports. Okay, So there are thirty

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three and one in the conference.
Uh played the schedule they've played? Now

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what because the PAC twelve it sucks? I never I have never said that,

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did you see? Yes, yes, I actually watched that because I

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couldn't leave that U c l A
could be that that bad Cone did even

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show up an didn't take any players. Yeah, you know, you you

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you wonder. I know they won
the they won the PAC twelve last year,

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you know, the regular season,
and you know they played Arizona in

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the championship of the tournament. And
I know they were that good, but

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it has gone so far south that
I don't know. And then just the

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way he's handling acted and handled it. Yeah, yeah, if you're u

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c l A, you have to
start thinking about whether or not you're gonna

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keep that well. I don't know. I think he wants. He might

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be a mutual decison to get the
hell out because his name is coming up

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at the Louisville job, but he
is who he is, right this uh

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this Crrent. If you're Louisville,
you're gonna you're gonna go get this guy

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better than the guy. You know
what you me ilion were all better than

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the guy, which is very surprising. But yeah, there might be a

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mutually part of ways. We'll see
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But this is u c l A. It's not it's not the San Diego

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State or or northern Arizona. It's
u c l A. Yeah, just

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just tough times there now. And
that's my point. And maybe I asked

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this question of Tommy down the road. Uh, Okay, you've played your

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schedule. You're doing well, or
your schedule shows that you've done well,

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but the PAC twelve ain't gonna help
you. It's not gonna help. Yeah,

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no it's not. And we you
know, we've talked about that,

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and so they're you know, well, but you know Tommy's dealt with this.

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A Gonzaga you know, Gonzaga would
have to go out and play what's

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the kind of schedule that that Arizona
played this preseason and then knowing that they

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weren't going to get any help from
their league the rest of the year,

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so they got to hang their hat
on what they did in the in the

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in the non conference. Okay,
so here, this is what I'm thinking.

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I'm just I'm throwing this spin balling
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are March twenty twenty. First wherever
in the United States says the number one

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or number two, and hypothetically they
lose. What's the first thing, The

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schedule didn't toughen them up, The
schedule didn't have them ready. Blah blah

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blah. What's the excuse going to
be that? You know, they they'll

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jump all over Tommy if they do
if they don't do well in the in

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the tournament. Okay, that's one
is one. B No, there's no

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one being. They'll just say Tommy
can't coach the tournament. But I think

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I don't think we know that yet. And I think Tommy knows, you

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know, Tommy knows what he's got
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got to get his guys to do. Yeah. I mean he you know,

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when when he when he saw what
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the year before. You know,
the roster he has now and the guys

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he has now addressed what he thought
were those were the shortcomings with those two

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teams. So I think he's got
a lot of confidence that that will work.

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I mean, he taught you know, I was listening listening to his

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press conference just a little bit ago
from yes, from Saturday, he said,

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he loves this team. You know, you were sitting there. He

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loves what he's got. You know, he loves a guy like like Keisha

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Johnson, who you know, as
he said, we didn't bring him here

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to score points, but you know
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you didn't even know it. Sure, right on Saturday, a guy like

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Palli Larson almost teared up when he
talked about he's got a little so emotional

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yeah, because you know, because
he loves he loves what he's seen from

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these guys that he's brought here to
do and address certain things with the team.

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And and these guys are doing that. You know, look at Pellea

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Larson. I mean last year at
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that he could you know, they
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the starting lineup because he was screwing
everything up. Yeah, he's a key

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guy. Again. Another another great
another great game on Saturday, and and

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and and and even last Thursday,
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Nobody we we learned maybe by Osmosis
or whatever with Mayakwa or telling us that

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Larson is the key, is the
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When he plays well, Arizona plays
well, we would have like, but

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it's true. And you know it's
funny because it's got me watching him more,

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right when he watching the difference when
when he's in the game, when

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he's not in the game, and
seeing how how different it is. There's

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a certain thing that he brings both
defensively and offen He'll hear the three pointer

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if he's open, you know,
he'll play defense, throws, he'll throw

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his body on the floor. That's
what you know. All those things that

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that those things that you notice he's
diving, throwing his body, all that

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stuff. My whole thing is,
this team is a very good team.

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I like this team a lot.
I'm not sure I'm at Tommy level yet,

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which of course I don't have to
be. But that tournament, which

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you're always judged on, that's a
tough deal. You have six bullets you

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gotta avoid and you have to have
six bullets youre in the chamber to win

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it. So it's very difficult,
and that's what he's gonna be judged.

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That's what event eventually. I mean, he can win the league. He

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can you know, he can go
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you know, win the league running
away, win the conference tournament. And

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if he goes into the into the
into the NCAA tournament and he's out before

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the Elite eight, they're gonna they're
gonna light him up. Yeah. Yeah,

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and by fans who have no skin
in the game except for the emotions.

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That's my whole thing. Okay,
we'll talk about that. We do

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have a good guest in house,
one of our first ones we've ever together.

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Yeah, this is gonna be finne. It's been a while, so

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they've had anybody in house but to
Justin Spears from that other radio station.

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But also there was one Daily Star
football beat writer. He's gonna come in

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studio hang with us for about forty
five minutes. He'll be here next segment

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and through the end of the hour, and we'll just wrap up the football

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on a football season, look ahead
the next uh, look ahead the next

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season. Uh did you clean the
Uh? Did you clean the house?

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Sir? I don't think you cleaned
the house before he came in. Yeah,

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I picked up my area and in
this area, your corner is still

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like my house. You got a
box of Pringles and a box of Ritz

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Crackers, two caps and some papers
that I don't know how long they did

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there for the original show. We
look good the rest of the the rest

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of the I guess I gotta I
gotta straighten up Joe Montana frame so that

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it's straight. He's gonna well,
we'll get them when we'll get him here

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in about eight minutes. No,
okay. Uh, So we'll talk a

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lot about football all this year.
Uh, to talk about the other things

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as well, to ask him,
you know, well, obviously get his

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thoughts on the National Championship Game,
which is uping about a couple hours.

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And then Jack mcgrinor sportspattingdime dot com
also writes for Forbes Sports uh their website,

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and so he's had some thoughts on
the on the college football playoff and

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we'll get his take on I'm hoping
he went with Michigan. Well he's all

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over Washington. Oh I'm doomed.
I'm doomed today. Well, it doesn't

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matter. Our league is pretty much
over, you know where we're settled.

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But I think Washington and they went
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I just got it at five five
Yeah, so you got it at four

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last week four and a half.
I'm thinking about going If I like it

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at four and a half, why
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half. Right, But there's something. How did that move on on point?

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Because that doesn't happen very often on
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moved a point, and then it's
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it got to five and a half
five and a half, I saw it

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back the other way because I decided
it five Yeah, okay, right,

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uh half a point? Who knows? I think it's gonna be a good

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game. Yeah, yeah, you
know. Look, look there's all kinds

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of predictions about what's going to happen. If Michigan could run the ball,

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it's gonna be a low scoring game. Michigan should win the game. If

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Michigan can't run the ball, and
or if Washington you know, can stop

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the run and you know, keep
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all over the place to be a
high scoring game and Washington win the game.

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Just everybody's got their own thoughts on
on what's going to happen, and

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you know, the game just now
at this point, let's play it and

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let's see what happened. I'm still
on Washington. I just think that I

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was talking to you know, Chris
on the way in. We were talking

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about its absolutely nothing, So what
is ja I know a little more than

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Chris. We were still talking about
the quarterbacks, and yeah, you can

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deny I still I still think.
I still think Arizona Arizon. I still

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think Washington's got the best quarterback on
the field today. Yeah, no,

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I don't disagree with you. The
kid is very, very good. He's

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twenty six and one or whatever it
is. Well, he's that guy that

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he beats you and you wonder how
he's beating you because he doesn't look like

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he should be. Yeah, exactly. I mean J. J. McCarthy

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just looks like a guy that you
know, he it looks like a typical

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Michigan quarterback, right, doesn't look
fast, doesn't look you know, overly

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strong, he's not super athletic,
but yet he finds way to beat Tom

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Brady like Tom Brady Brady. Okay, well, I take the guy every

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other day except for if you have
if I have pinnics available. You know,

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I think it's so one of the
things I brought to basketball thing up.

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I had seen something earlier and over
the weekend. Uh Arizona's strength of

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schedule. I think it's number four
or something like that. Pretty high up.

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But okay, so they beat Michigan
State a month or so ago,

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so long ago, right, Michigan
State is not that good. They got

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beat by Northwestern over the weekend,
uh fau fau. They've fallen since since

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they beat Arizona. They're not the
team that we thought they were that day.

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Right, So you know what I'm
saying, it's the Arizona's big wins

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have blost a little luster and and
and the wins coming up, I got

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no luster zero. Well that yeah, well that's the thing. I mean,

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this uh, this league is just
is just so bad. I mean,

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yeah, Arizona be cowed by what
like eighty points and then cow goes

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over to u C. L A
and wins. Yeah. I guess it

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was in the league ASU who looked
horrible sense because northern Northwestern Yeah, makes

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zero sense. So no, I
yeah, I mean I hear you.

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too, terrible. You know,
they were missing some guys, but you

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can't even if you're missing two players, you can't be losing by forty seven,

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right, right, Yeah, you
know you're right. Uh. And

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Arizona played pretty well against Utah.
They took a little time, but they

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beat them pretty handily. Yeah,
so you know, things things look okay

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right now. I never thought the
Utah game was in doubt. I thought

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maybe, you know, Arizona took
a lead and then also the games tied,

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and I just thought, you know, Arizona will rent will wear them

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down in the second half. Yeah, that was a good day for me

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because it was fourteen thirteen and a
half and you're thinking, okay, with

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about two and stuff, they had
fifteen point eight. Yeah, and they

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kind of stretched it out. Yeah, so it was good. We'll see

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what happens and the women. While
uh, seven players on the run,

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seven players, one fouled out,
the other one was in foul trouble.

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They go to overtime and beat Utah
yesterday, a ranked team, and then

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against Colorado. You know, I
mean they got a shot, they had

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a good clean shot to win the
game, and you know a little you

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know, eight footer or six footer
and back rimmed it and missed, and

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they would they could. They were
that close to a sweep of two ranked

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teams. Okay, so we got
too many. What do you make of

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that? Of the whole situation,
Well, well we knew that, you

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know, with injuries and illnesses,
and look, everybody in town is sick

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right now. You're sick. I
mean, I've still got this crap ass

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cold that I've had since I got
back from California. I talked to Nick,

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you know, meatballer guy. I
called him. He's at home because

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he's not feeling He just got back
from California. People are sick. And

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when you're we've only got ten players, you know, you run into illnesses

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and injuries and stuff like that.
That's the situation that you're in. The

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fact that they were able to pull
one of these games out in that situation

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says a lot about I think it
says a lot about their just their fight.

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I guess I would say, because
they could have. They had a

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really good chance to beat Colorado,
and then they did beat Utah with you

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know, you know, I was
listening to Ideas press conference Heleno player played

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off forty five minutes yesterday, you
know, I mean that's that It's ultimately

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gonna wear on them. So I
don't know how sustainable it is. But

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today, you know they're in good
shape because they you didn't go, You

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didn't work to be the game,
right, you didn't go. No,

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I watched so another seven eight thousand
people in the great I'm sure that fuels

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them too. It's could you be
home? Good to be home in those

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situations. I think it's gonna be
different on the road if you only have

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seven or eight people to play with. But good for Ada, I mean,

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she's being she's being pressured like I
think Tommy was or is in terms

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of being a better coach. Does
that make sense? Yeah, because she's

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and she's feeling it. Yeah,
Oh, of course she's feeling it.

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And and you know she's trying to
do all the right things and make all

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the right moves, and you know
thinks she's she's adjusting how she's managing her

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team. Right, if she talked
last week about the fact that maybe instead

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of chasing all these McDonald's, all
Americans were going to come here and think

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they should all have the ball,
maybe she should get some girls that she

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can come in, bring them in, develop them and without a lot of

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expectations. As you I called that
the Sean Miller coaching and went over right

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right right when we saw that.
You saw that for a number of years.

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Yeah, if you can't coach him, or they're not going to be

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coached, you don't need them here, then you don't need them to get

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somebody else. Okay, all right, let's take a break. Justin Spears

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should be waiting outside for us and
the Colts, So we'll go get him.

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Get him in here in the studio
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evaluation today. Steve Vera and Jacin
Salas they have their eye on the ball

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on Tucson's Sports Stay Shaft. I'm
Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome

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back to Why I'm out here,
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera.

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Here's Jakinsauce. Look who we have
here, justin Spears from the Arizona

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Daily Star. We don't even have
to mention the other show because no one

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wakes up that early in the morning. Do you are you awake? When

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do you do that? Actually,
that's not that's not true, Steve,

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because I'm always up at six o'clock
in the morning. I'm old guy,

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old guy up. That's right,
you're sleeping pretty soon. I hit the

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It's it's the nine o'clock at night, but I don't listen to. Yeah.

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Well, welcome to our humble abode, I mean seriously humble abode.

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And you guys have all the snacks, all the ritz and the Pringles house.

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I heard you guys coming in.
I was like, oh, they're

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only about five months old. There
is that, Yeah, there is that.

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Nothing to go with it. Welcome
to the show excited to hear guy.

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Are you you You probably learned in
the last year or so, there's

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never, if ever, when a
football doesn't sleep, be guess what,

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the Beat writer doesn't sleep. Hell
no, hell no. It was a

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busy year and with the program and
having such an incredible season. For this

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to be my first year, it
was pretty amazing. I'm not gonna let

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you. And well, it had
to be fun. First of all,

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we all know it's more fun to
cover a winner than a losing Yeah,

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right, I mean it had to
have been a drag from Lev Mike Leffer,

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you know those years that he had
to go through, the summing years

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and stuff like that. And are
you if you checked your breaks, if

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you checked your breaks from Lef from
Lev, maybe you wanted to come back

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on the Beat cutting the break break? Yeah, I was wondering. I'm

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like, Lev, you chose such
a bad year to lead because, I

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mean, because Laff first got here. His first game on the Beat was

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a drescable in twenty fifteen Scooby's very
last game, and then the year after

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that, like his first full season, they go three and nine, and

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then then there's the twenty game losing
streak. There's the coaching changes, like

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Michael, let I give that me
a ton of credit. I toad my

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cat to him because what he had
to endure as the beat writer, I

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could imagine trying to create the stories
of a twenty game losing streak, like,

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well, he was on two.
He's been on a couple times last

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month or so I blame. I
said, maybe it was you liv that

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created this. I joined the beat, and all of a sudden, he

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started winning the ball game. You
know what, I'm a guy who thinks

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like that, justin I think it
was all about you. It was all

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It was all about Steve telling people
they weren't going to win six games,

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so they were gonna you know,
you know it was it was about that

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I do what I can. So
you know, it's a little bit of

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all of that. You know.
I kind of held my expectations low.

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I thought they could get to six
games, although I've admitted recently in my

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heart of hearts, I really didn't
believe that there. I couldn't find six

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definite wins. Yeah, going into
the season, But you know what,

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we talked to you before the season, and I think you in the six

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win area. What did you really, really really think they were gonna do.

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I thought they're gonna go seven and
five. That was the the record

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that I had, you know,
my heart set on. And then the

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start of the season came and you
started to see, hey, Dion Sanders

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in Colorado, they're a lot better
than people think, right, And they

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put together two impressive wins to start
the year. There were college Football's or

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the nation's favorite college football team.
I mean so much so that the Starbucks

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that was it, Print and Campbell
were selling Colorado cups in their store.

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I'm like, you guys are right
up the street from University of Arizona.

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You guys are joining the Colorado Way, Like that's how big it was.

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And then you also looked at Washington
State as well in the conference. Yeah,

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and they had such a promising start, and you looked at those two

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games as going into the season as
like gimme games for Arizona. And then

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you're like, ah, I don't
know, man, this there's a lot

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of tough games on Arizona schedule.
Not every single game is going to be

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a gimme. And you started to
see them press throughout the season, and

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that, of course, the quarterback
change happened with no Fafeida taking over Jada

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Dolora's spot, and ever since that
USC game, there was just a switch

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to this team and they were just
completely different. And then they go out

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in smack Washington State, they go
out in edge, Colorado, and they

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just figure it out the way to
win ballgames. And I didn't expect them

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to be this good. Yeah.
Yeah, if somebody did, they were

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lying at the beginning of the year. If somebody said they were gonna win

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ten games at the beginning of the
year, they didn't really believe it that.

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You know, my brother says that
every year. Actually this year he

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didn't say, well, but I
don't know that he really believes it,

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but he says it. You know
who believed it was Jet Fisch And I

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remember going I remember going into his
office, and there's not too many things

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that I could say about the conversation
that we had, but it was my

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first year on the beat and I
wanted to have that conversation with Jet.

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And the only thing I will disclose
from that conversation was he looked at me

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and said, We're going to be
a really good football team. Like seriously,

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people were und are not counting on
us to be this good. Like,

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no, we're going to be a
really good football team. If we

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stay healthy and Michael Wiley and Jacob
Cowing and the younger players improve and develop,

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we're gonna win a lot of football
games. And Jetfish believed it from

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day one. And when your leader, when you're CEO in the company,

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is believing that much into the company
and makes the employees and makes the workers

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all want to buy in. And
that's what you saw. When did you

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start to believe it? Because we
talked about this, We even had jet

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on in those accidents. It was
Washington's Weston State game. That's when I

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started to believing. I'm thinking this
team could be very good. Let me

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ask you this way, sure,
what were you thinking? What did you

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think after that Mississippi State game?
Because there were two ways of looking at

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that. Yeah, well you guys
and you guys had five turnovers, you

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must suck. Or you guys had
five turnovers and got the game into overtime,

408
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Maybe you're not so bad. How
did you Which way did you look

409
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at that? Well? I looked
at it as kind of a glass half

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full perspective because the defense was the
big question mark going into the year,

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And if your offense can commit five
turnovers in SEC country and I know Mississippi

412
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State they were bad this year.
That was actually Mississippi State's best win R

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Right, that looked like a bad
loss for Arizona. But if your defense

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can go into that tough road environment
and create enough plays to keep you in

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the game, I walked away from
that like, well, if Arizona's defense

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can evolve this way, offense was
already good last year. They have already

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most of their starters back. They're
gonna figure it out at some point.

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I don't know when it is,
but I think this team is gonna be

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okay. But the switch flip for
me, I would probably say after the

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USC game. I mean they were
competitive against Washington, but Washington, I

421
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mean they got off to such a
hot start. They were up fourteen to

422
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nothing. Arizona's playing catch up the
whole way through. When they went on

423
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the road at USC and had such
a great start and took the Trojans all

424
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the way down to triple overtime when
they were twenty two and a half point

425
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underdogs, that to me was the
moment when things switch for Arizona. And

426
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sure enough that was the last time
they lost the game. So when uh,

427
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okay. So, so that was
the three four games into it,

428
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I think it could have been five. That was game five, five games

429
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and then by that time, uh
Fafida had already kind of come in right

430
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after the Stanford game. What did
you make of his situation because it had

431
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had de Laura not getting gotten hurt, Yeah, who knows what would have

432
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passed. Actually it was six games, six games, so they were three

433
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and three. Because there were three
and three, we thought three and three

434
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is well where we thought they were
gonna be, right, so then it's

435
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okay. So then Dlaura gets hurt
and then Fafida comes in saves the Stanford

436
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game. And then yeah, you
saw him come in and essentially kind of

437
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save the day because Jayden in an
offense, they stalled out against Stanford and

438
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Stanford had the worst defense in the
Pack twelve this year, Like there was

439
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:53.680
no excuse. I mean, Arizona
should have went in and took care of

440
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:59.440
business. They should have handled Stanford. But then nol Flafida comes in and

441
00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:04.720
while he didn't have the game winning
touchdown pass, he was the orchestrator on

442
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that drive that marched him down the
field and I think it was Jonah Coleman

443
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or DJ Williams who had the touchdown
to go ahead. But you saw the

444
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poise of no Fafiita, I mean, just being thrown into the game.

445
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And I'll never forget pregame warm ups. I went out there to Stanford Stadium

446
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.160
maybe two and a half hours,
three hours before a game time, and

447
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the first player out on the field
or one of them, was no fa

448
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Fida. I mean he went out
there as one of the first guys out

449
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:36.240
there, warmed up as if he
was QB one. And he's always stayed

450
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:40.480
like that because you're just one play
away. And if you have that mentality,

451
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.279
it's where they say stay ready,
so you don't got to get ready

452
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right, And that's exactly what no
Fafida did. And when he got his

453
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opportunity, he seized it and moved
on. So we had a guest on

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here. I won't say who it
is until after your answer, And I

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00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:57.160
mentioned this. I mentioned this during
the game or during the show to me,

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and I've covered enough games to say
that with all my heart. He

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came in and the team you saw
something. The team played harder, or

458
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:08.960
they played more composed or whatever.
I don't know if you saw that,

459
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.799
but did you see that or feel
that? It definitely seemed like the offense

460
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:17.839
took a big breath, fresh air. Okay. With that said, Jay

461
00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.240
kind of didn't believe me until you
went back to the back to the tape

462
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:23.720
and you kind of saw something too, right, I had. I did.

463
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:32.319
I went back and I rewatched the
you know when the period, it

464
00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:34.799
did look different. It looks something
looked different. Okay, So, and

465
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.599
I don't know what it was,
right, I can't put my finger on

466
00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.119
it, but something did look so
a week or so later, maybe maybe

467
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.759
a little longer. Lamont Honey,
who I think the world of, is

468
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.119
one of our sponsors, and I
said that to him. He laughed at

469
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.279
me. Right, he says,
the guys don't play harder for you,

470
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blah blah. But let me tell
you something in my mind, in my

471
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.640
heart, I know that happened.
You saw it too. I definitely saw

472
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.119
the offense move at a better rate, at a better pace. I mean,

473
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.920
for three quarters they couldn't move the
ball against Stanford, and then you

474
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:06.519
just throw them in the mix and
next thing you know, the offense moves

475
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:10.880
no problem. It was like there
was a confidence among them. But I

476
00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.400
mean, I'm gonna say this too, because that Stanford game came on again

477
00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:19.279
over the weekend on that PAC twelve
and Football and sixty, and I watched

478
00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:25.400
most of it. It was like
middle of the second quarter on and watched

479
00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:30.039
the rest of it. What I
saw, and I could be completely off

480
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:37.880
base on this, what I saw
was that Jane Delora did not involve Team

481
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:45.240
AC in the game near as much
as no Fafieda. He was, He's

482
00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.160
zero. He was throwing balls to
Coleman to and not Coleman to Cowens.

483
00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:55.839
That Noah Flafieda doesn't throw the count
hard catches, you know, tough where

484
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.480
you had to think, Okay was
tem mac open over here, and Jayden

485
00:31:00.559 --> 00:31:03.559
didn't look for him as much as
no fafeated it because like that ASU game

486
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.200
was crazy. He was just throwing. It was just him and and Team

487
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.240
AC playing catch ye all day long. Yeah, right, and then and

488
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.359
then all those games were like that. And know it's kind of like my

489
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:18.599
conclusion was, at the end of
the day, the reason they got so

490
00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.599
much better is because they have this
incredible talent in the team. Millen and

491
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:30.640
Noah Fafita used that talent way more
than Jayden Deloria did. I could be

492
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.400
completely wrong, but that's how I
look at it now. And No,

493
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:38.480
also didn't have really the bad habits
that Jaden Delora displayed, Like I think

494
00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:45.000
about that Stanford game really, and
Jaden would kind of just drift back in

495
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.680
the pocket and go into like this
abyss and it's like, your offensive line

496
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.039
can only protect you for so long, your receivers can only run routes for

497
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.880
so long, and Jaden would just
keep back pedaling and backpedaling and backpedaling.

498
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.880
And Jed has addressed it. And
I know the Offen, that's a staff.

499
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.119
They know that that's not what you're
taught. And that's Jaden Dolaura once

500
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.000
again being the improviser, kind of
doing things like, Hey, I'm gonna

501
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.279
play within the confines of your offense, but I'm gonna add my little twist

502
00:32:12.319 --> 00:32:16.240
to it. And sometimes Jaden didn't
necessarily see the field the way he wanted

503
00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:20.839
to know. If Afida is,
I mean, his vision's unbelievable, even

504
00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:24.039
though he's undersized for a quarterback,
his ability to read and make the right

505
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:28.039
place and get the ball out of
his hands quick he got the ball out

506
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.519
of his hands quick and even when
guys would blitz and try to jump up

507
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.279
and swat him, he figured out
a way to bend his arm and maneuver

508
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.839
ways in the pocket, so he's
able to get the ball up. So

509
00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:39.519
you're gonna tell me, and this
goes to my point, just to go

510
00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:45.160
backtrack real quick, is that you
don't see teammates seeing all this with Dolaura.

511
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:49.480
How long can we protect him or
look at the situation he's put us

512
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:54.000
in. Now with Fafida, we
have stability and more consistency, and we

513
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:58.480
just have to play football. Yep, I mean that's what I read into

514
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:00.920
that. Yeah, now you don't
have to hold the line, you don't

515
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:02.680
have to run around. Now we
have a quarterback who can be a quarterback.

516
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.680
Yeah, and just run the offense. Yeah. And and then there

517
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.640
Jayden also a lot of times tried
to make the home run play a little

518
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.519
too much. When you got you
got Jonnah Coleman, you got Michael Wiley,

519
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:17.160
you got this tight end in Tanam
McLaughlin. He's really good. And

520
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.839
Noah Fada made those throws. Just
move the ball down the field. It's

521
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.240
all got to don Okay. So
you come out of the USC game,

522
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.640
you think they're okay, they're pretty
good. They smack up on Washington.

523
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:31.960
I think it was that going.
It was after the Oregon State game.

524
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:36.039
I wanted to cut the clip again, to play it again, to play

525
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.599
today. After the Oregon Steak game, I said, there's an eighty five

526
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.160
percent win ten games. Steve made
fun of me. I have the clip.

527
00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:45.680
Okay, it exists. Wait wait, wait, he's never right,

528
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.880
I've never when Okay, when did
you think, okay, now you know

529
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.599
these guys are are not only are
they good, but they're really good.

530
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.640
They're you know, they might win
out and they might get ten wins.

531
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:02.759
When when did that come? Immediately
the game afterwards, when they went on

532
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:07.960
the road to Pullman and handled Washington
State by thirty eight points. Because Wazoo

533
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:12.280
they were ranked at the time,
all we heard about was man, this

534
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.440
Brennan Jackson guy coming off the edge. Their edge rushers are so great.

535
00:34:15.559 --> 00:34:21.320
I mean, they're gonna give Arizona
a lot of problems and Washington State.

536
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.559
And they also had Can Reward great
quarterback who was viewed as you know,

537
00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:27.679
a guy in the top half of
the PAC twelve and in the league that's

538
00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:32.320
littered with great quarterbacks and Washington State. They came out, drove the ball

539
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.400
down the field with ease, and
then Arizona went up and put up how

540
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:39.440
many points to win by thirty eight? I mean Washington State scored in the

541
00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:44.360
first drive. After that it was
punt punt, punt turnovers. I mean

542
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.480
that defense played so lights out that
game. That was one of the most

543
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:51.119
complete games that Arizona played. And
from that point on, if you can

544
00:34:51.159 --> 00:34:53.760
go on the road to and play
against a good Washington State team and put

545
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:57.199
a back kind of performance. I
mean, we were talking about Arizona.

546
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.440
They were supposed to be in the
the win little maybe you go from lose

547
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.440
big to lose little twiny little to
win big. This year was supposed to

548
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:08.639
be the win little phase. And
yet they're dominating teams like Washington State and

549
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:13.880
Utah at home and the homes late, and they're beating them by four plus

550
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:16.079
touchdowns. It's impressive. Yeah,
Okay, we have a lot of wisdom

551
00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:20.480
in the room today. It's not
for me and Jay, it's from Justin.

552
00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:22.960
We've got to take a break through
and come back on the other side.

553
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.480
Yeah, we'll be back. Justin
will kind of start, you know,

554
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:27.119
looking ahead little bit. Yes,
sir, I thought it was a

555
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:29.719
pretty good recap of what we saw. So what are we going to see

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next year? So stick around for
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Wapp Hey, welcome back to I Ining

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the Ball hero Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera's jakinsos in studio with

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us today the guy from the Arizona
You star Justin Spears. First segment went

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really fast, always go fast,
really fast. Flies were having fun.

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How was it with with two old
dudes and not named Uh? How was

606
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:19.239
it with without No, Without two
old dudes but not with Ali being one

607
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:22.719
of the dudes who's older, It's
been uh better, refreshing. Interesting.

608
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:25.960
Well, let's remember that Ali is
still way younger than both of us.

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I don't want to remember that every
well, he has no hair, but

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00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:32.360
he's still younger than that. You
guys are so kind to me. Every

611
00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:36.880
time I do a show with him. It's him give me some give me

612
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:40.559
guff about something it Yes, that's
what it is, That's what it is.

613
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.480
But justin Okay, So let's look
ahead to this football season coming up?

614
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:46.880
Wait, can we do one before
we do that, Let's go to

615
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:51.159
the championship game. I didn't think
they were gonna pull that baby off.

616
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:52.199
Did you think they're gonna pull that
baby off? In the fourth quarter?

617
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:59.199
What the alma? Yeah? No, it was over for me. You

618
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:01.239
know, they were going down score. Yeah, right, they're up twenty

619
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:07.480
four to thirteen. They're going down
to score. I'm sitting in a hotel

620
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.559
room with my daughter across the street
from Disneyland. I'm thinking, let's go,

621
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.519
let's go, get on the Space
Mountain, let's go do so.

622
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:16.599
But you know, then we saw
the Gunner Maaldna club. Yeah, that

623
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:22.679
was the ultimate turnaround. That play
right there just sparks something with a team

624
00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:25.880
that was lifeless for two quarters because
they got off to such a hot start.

625
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.360
They were up thirteen to nothing,
and then Oklahoma delivered the Haymakers in

626
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.719
the second and the third quarter,
and you know, Jackson Arnold was starting

627
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.159
to make the right throws and Oklahoma's
offense seemed to have no problem moving against

628
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:43.280
Arizona's defense. And it also no
fla Fida. I felt like was on

629
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:46.400
his back more times in that game
than he had all season, and Arizona

630
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:52.920
was discovering life without Jordan Morgan,
and you're shuffling over multiple offensive lineman.

631
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:54.880
You got a true freshman out at
left tackle, you got a guy who

632
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:59.039
doesn't really have much experience starting at
right tackle, and then you have Jonas

633
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:01.679
Sabina right there in the middle.
And they tried to figure out the right

634
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:07.519
combination. They brought in Laif Magnuson
back at guard and put big Jonah back

635
00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.960
at tackle, and it seemed to
be the right combination, and I really

636
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:14.639
thought Arizona was gonna lose. Well. What was going through my head there

637
00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.840
during those two quarters was, Okay, this is the big boy football that

638
00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:23.639
Arizona wants to play, but not
quite ready yet. Maybe they will eventually,

639
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:29.239
but we thought, you know,
because look, every league outside of

640
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:32.000
the Pac twelve is known for its
offensive and defensive line. Yeah, and

641
00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:35.119
I thought, okay, they were
good enough to do these things that they

642
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.360
did in the Pac twelve. But
this is Oklahoma the US. Oh.

643
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.559
You know, Oklahoma gets linemen like
Texas gets, like Alabama gets, like

644
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.400
Georgia gets, like Michigan gets,
like Ohio State gets. And Oklahoma has

645
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.440
those guys and they're it's taking its
toll on Arizona. That's where my head

646
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:53.400
was. Yeah, the Sooners have
a lot of Jimmy's and Joe's that they

647
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:57.840
have on both sides of the ball, and that defensive front, I mean

648
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.719
not many guys left on that defense. And so their linebackers, their defensive

649
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:06.719
linemen. They Brent Venables, their
head coach, who comes from a defensive

650
00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:10.679
background. He got very creative and
how he blitzed certain linebackers and they were

651
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.679
really getting to know Fafida and the
offense just didn't move the ball and then

652
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:20.599
all of a sudden, Gunner Maldonado
one of six takeaways in that game.

653
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:24.960
The turnover sword was losing some space
on that and for him to take it

654
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:30.880
back. And then the following possession, Marta Irbi gets the interception in Arizona.

655
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:35.119
They go on this tear and they
score seventeen points in the fourth quarter,

656
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:38.039
and then the ultimate knockout punch was
DJ Williams once he ran to the

657
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:43.679
end zone and Arizona essentially secured the
win. I'm like, this is a

658
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:45.679
micro cosm of the season. I
mean, they've always had their backs up

659
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:49.800
against the wall and they've answered the
Bell every single tik time. Right,

660
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.199
I thought the offense did a good
job in moving Flafieda around more get him

661
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:57.079
out of the pocket so that he
would be less of a stable target,

662
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:00.840
so you know, to get those
completions done. That throw he made the

663
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:02.760
cowing you know, you know,
out of you know, out of the

664
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:07.559
you know, out of the pocket
on the run and he finds cowing and

665
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:12.400
it's like, holy hell. You
know, you felt like I kind of

666
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.159
felt all year long? Was it
they figured it out? Yeah? You

667
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.239
know, And that's that's the thing
that again, let's you know, looking

668
00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:21.800
forward that you feel good about this
coaching staff is that these are guys who

669
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:24.599
it's not their first rodeo. You
know, they get into a game and

670
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:30.360
they figured things out. And that's
what they did all year long. You

671
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:32.199
know, they did it with They
did it with Washington by being able to

672
00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.679
get back in the game up against
Washington when you thought at fourteen to nothing,

673
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:38.159
I'm thinking, I don't know how
long I'm going to stay for this?

674
00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:42.639
Yeah, right, And in fact, my whole family left at the

675
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.079
end of the game, but I
stuck around. Now, I was leaving

676
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.320
when Arizona went and scored that touchdown
to get within seven. I'm like,

677
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:51.880
wait a minute, Wait a minute. You know, there was what a

678
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:53.440
minute and a half left or something
like that, and I'm like, you

679
00:43:53.519 --> 00:44:00.119
know, so it seemed like this
is a coaching staff with enough chops that

680
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:02.119
they figure stuff out. And I
kind of thought that's what happened in the

681
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:06.159
album all the way to the Alibable
yep. And you look at the three

682
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:09.000
losses this year, sixteen total points. So not only did Arizona win ten

683
00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:12.920
games, but I mean they also
left some meat on the bone. And

684
00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:16.079
there were two games that went into
overtime periods that could have easily gone in

685
00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:21.119
favor for Arizona. Now with that
being said, the Stanford game, the

686
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:22.960
Colorado game, there were also some
other games where it could have went the

687
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:25.880
other way and Arizona could have lost. All in all, I think it

688
00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:30.599
was such a miraculous season for Arizona. And to think that just a few

689
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:36.159
years ago they were riding this losing
streak. The program was ripped all the

690
00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:38.559
way down to the studs, and
now they have a winning brand. Awful.

691
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:43.000
Okay, now let's go, well, we've already seen you know the

692
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.239
future, right sure? Johnny Nansen
out of here. Yeah, you know,

693
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.960
that's what happens for Arizona. And
one of those fans out there were

694
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.480
saying, Oh, Jed's got to
stay, and he'll stay as long as

695
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:58.039
the price is right for him.
Yep. If an NFL team comes calling,

696
00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:01.679
he's gonna go. And anybody who
thinks that he'll stay because he loves

697
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:07.679
Tucson and he loves us. Yeah, and hey, you also look at

698
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:12.880
the situation going on in Michigan.
If Jim Harball leaves and Michigan's looking around

699
00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:17.440
like, now, what coach could
be a good successor to Jim Harball?

700
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:20.760
Well, how about the guy who
was the quarterbacks coach for him for two

701
00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:24.599
years and turned Arizona into a winning
brand. So don't don't rule out anything.

702
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:30.639
And that's why it's very important for
Jed to get this contract extension and

703
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:36.079
get fairly compensated and also get his
assistant coaches fairly compensated. So that way,

704
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:37.679
these programs like Texas, aren't we
even the checks around and coaching their

705
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.199
guys. Well, they know they
weren't going to keep Tony Nansen if Texas

706
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.559
wanted, even if the contracts were
done. But you're not surprised. But

707
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:51.559
anyways, you know, whoever,
whatever happens, it's still got good players

708
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:53.079
coming back. They do. But
they've got the core of this team.

709
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:59.760
I've already seen one. I think
I'll break bring it out during during breaking

710
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:04.360
news. But you know, somebody's
already got them, like sixth or seventh,

711
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:08.320
eighth, Yeah, yeah, yeah, our song too. It might've

712
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:13.960
been your big big game Boomer guy
was. But you know, we're talking

713
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:20.400
Big twelve favorite and also a favorable
schedule in the Big twelve two because a

714
00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.679
lot of their teams that they're facing
in conference play, some of them finished

715
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:29.119
in the bottom half of the conference. Now they are rising programs, like

716
00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:32.159
UCF is a rising program. They're
gonna face some really good teams. But

717
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:37.559
Arizona should be favored in pretty much
every Big twelve matchup. I think byu

718
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:43.199
Utah playing those schools, Colorado is
gonna get better in the portal with Deon

719
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:46.480
Sanders. ASU is getting a bunch
of talented players through the transferport like they're

720
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:52.440
gonna have some some tough games.
But Arizona they should be in the conversation

721
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:54.440
to be at least a top twelve, maybe even a top ten team,

722
00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:59.159
and with the College Football Playoff expanding
to twelve teams next season, and if

723
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:01.719
you're the Big twelve champion, you
also get a first round by I saw

724
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:06.400
the ESPN's way too early. Look
at the CFP next year and they have

725
00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:10.599
Arizona as the last seed getting that
buy, which is like I had like,

726
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:14.079
rub my eyes and do it double
takes. I'm like, how on

727
00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:17.599
earth did Arizona get into a position
where now they're in the national conversation.

728
00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.679
So let me poop poop both of
you guys real quick, because that's what

729
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.679
I do. Fine, well,
and this just comes to your your thesis

730
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:30.679
of your life. How okay,
Arizona's predicted for this, but history will

731
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:35.760
tell you it doesn't work out that
way. Yeah, in all honesty,

732
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.519
I mean never had there's your sidebar
for your special section for you. Yes,

733
00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:42.480
yes, all this glory glory stuff, But here's a couple of paragraphs

734
00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:45.000
that you guys need to read,
yeah, to be cautious. Yeah,

735
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.519
the all the one if years where
Arizona was number one in the country,

736
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.599
Desert Swarm the nineteen ninety eight season. I go back to also two thousand

737
00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:00.920
and nine, when Arizona had an
injured Rob Gronkowski and if he was available,

738
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.320
maybe him and Nick Foles would win
that game against Cal and Washington.

739
00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.519
And also the crazy game against Oregon
at home, we're winning a double overtime.

740
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:13.280
There's a lot of moments where things
seem like, okay, Arizona,

741
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:17.400
things are great right now, and
then there's the Lucy pulling the football away

742
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:22.920
from Charlie Brown or Steve pulling.
But back to what I was saying earlier

743
00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:27.559
was the Big Twelve schedule. Not
only does a favorite Arizona, but I

744
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.320
think the best team in the Big
Twelve that's not the four corner schools joining

745
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.719
is Oklahoma State. He just went
ten and four this year. Yeah,

746
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:37.000
they don't got Oklahoma State on the
schedule, so the only time they would

747
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.159
have to face them would be in
the Big Twelve championship. And if that's

748
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:45.039
the case, I would take Arizona. Yeah, No, I probably would

749
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:46.880
too. This team has a lot
to like. Obviously, I'm just bringing

750
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:51.760
reality to the to the mix.
But there's what's not to like here.

751
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.840
Yeah, everything sounds really good right
now. We've talked about this from you

752
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:59.199
know, with a coaching stampoint,
talked about it with former players and stuff

753
00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.400
like that. But again, you
know, when you're in Arizona, you

754
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.880
wait for it to fall apart the
next season after the other three ten win

755
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.480
seasons were not great. Sure,
you know things have to happen in the

756
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:14.039
off season. You know, they
still got to work hard, They still

757
00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:15.599
got to you know, the coaching
staff has to stick together. Although they've

758
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:22.000
already lost Johnny Nansen, but you
know, all these things have to happen

759
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.119
over the course of the off season
to keep this ball rolling. Ye,

760
00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:30.039
what do you think is the most
important thing for them? I think still

761
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:34.880
developing on the interior, getting guys
on the offensive line and defensive line.

762
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:38.880
I mean, they restored their defensive
line and really bolstered that position, and

763
00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:45.159
that allowed Jacobmnu to recavoc and make
a bunch of tackles, Dalton Johnson coming

764
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:49.960
downhill and making those kind of plays. If they can continue to build around

765
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.320
the ball and the line of scrimmage, I mean, they're gonna be totally

766
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:53.840
fine. But I mean, I
think Jed said it on the Jim Rome

767
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.920
Show eighteen or twenty two. Starters
coming back, you use the transfer portal

768
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.079
like free agency in the NFL.
If you're not living and dying by the

769
00:50:02.079 --> 00:50:06.719
transfer portal and you feel good about
your roster. That's a really good position

770
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:09.400
for a program. And that's where
Arizona's at right now. So things are

771
00:50:09.400 --> 00:50:13.480
on the up and up. I
would imagine them probably going into the portal

772
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:16.760
after the spring and getting a player
kind of like a Taylor Upshaw who came

773
00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.480
in late and then ended up being
one of the leaders in the PAC twelve

774
00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:22.840
and Sacks. I expect them to
have something like that. Yeah, yeah,

775
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:24.960
I mean yeah, really quick.
Well, what do you make of

776
00:50:25.039 --> 00:50:28.400
the kid who and I want to
say his name because I don't know how

777
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:30.559
to pronounce it, who left here
to go to Issue? Well, Jacob

778
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:35.239
can Geica, Yeah, Jacob kng
Geika. That's an interesting situation. And

779
00:50:35.480 --> 00:50:40.119
I can't ever remember a scholarship player
transferring from Arizona to ASC. You would

780
00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:45.039
know, I wouldn't. I can't
remember one. Doma Fall He was a

781
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.159
cornerback, but he was a walk
on, a scholarship player guy who was

782
00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:52.559
a really key contributor. That was
a little weird. Now, maybe NIL

783
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:57.159
had something to do with it.
However, I think ASU's NIL collective isn't

784
00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:00.239
as good as Arizona's in my opinion
just from my research and Dolge, it's

785
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:05.559
it's very interesting. You know,
I think that maybe he just also was

786
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.159
in search of more playing time.
You know, it has to be that

787
00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:10.519
because it wasn't starting and it doesn't
look like he was gonna start, No,

788
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:14.440
and he was, and he was
gonna have the same role next year.

789
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:15.440
So maybe he's just like, hey, I need to get on the

790
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.440
starting line, and AS is the
place for it, right, Okay,

791
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:23.880
Yeah, I mostly I mostly don't
care, but again, when guys leave,

792
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:30.719
but it stings a little bit,
but I wish bad things. And

793
00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:34.360
maybe last week only got like thirty
seconds, give me twenty seconds of where's

794
00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:37.559
singer gonna? Oh, Dorian Singer
back there? So I'm just kidding.

795
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.360
He's not coming back to Arizona,
at least I don't think he is.

796
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:49.559
Maybe he goes to Colorado or a
s U Colorado issue and one last thing

797
00:51:49.760 --> 00:51:53.159
ten seconds, uh Dolaora? Where
does he go back to Hawaii? That's

798
00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:57.239
my guess. That's not sourced by
any mean. But you'll go back home,

799
00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:00.960
all right? Hey, justin a
whole bunch, man. This was

800
00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.199
fun, absolutely, and you guys
didn't ask, but I got washing it

801
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:07.320
tonight in the Natty. We were
gonna okay, all right man, We'll

802
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:09.039
see you and good luck with your
show. Thank you guys seven am,

803
00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:13.840
seven am and Weekegy with with Oli
Park. Thank you.