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

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Rivera, He's jakins Aus. Got
our new guy Sammy at the booth,

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so bewhere. Don't call us,
call sat hey, Jenny. I hate

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sports, absolutely hate sports, and
that has all everything to do with the

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La Rams. It was another tough
week, Steve. What a tough week

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for me. But I'm not gonna
lie, Steve. I was rooting for

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the field goal. My daughter also
had the forty nine ers, as she

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said, right next to me on
the couch, and I'm quietly, just

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in total silence, rooting for the
Rams to go kick that field goal.

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What in the world they screwed up? And you know you in what we

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do, we paint scenarios. So
there had a third and eight I think

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it was. They moved it to
the four second and eight, got it

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to two more feet or whatever,
and they didn't get the first down with

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about a minute and a half whatever
it was left. I'm thinking, that's

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gonna kill me. It's gonna kill
me. So they moved the ball down

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and then they had a chance to
intercept at the at the end zone right

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and the guy just didn't catch it, just didn't catch it, and that's

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gonna kill me. And then they
moved the ball down and they got it

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to the wein over twenty let's just
say twenty. And I'm thinking, is

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he gonna kick it? Why would
he kick it? And he kicked it?

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Why would he kick it? Jay? Because good coaches win, Great

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coaches cut so that he was aware
of the number had Oh of course he

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had to him. It was all
over Instagram. Yeah, they flipped it.

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It was all over spread. It
either it either caused you to lose

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the game and not. Some people. I'm right there, some people at

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the ramps, probably unexpectedly or pushed. But I'm sitting there going and I

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told, you know, I Toined, I said, you know, they're

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gonna go down to kick a field
goal. They're gonna she goes northern.

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I say, it's there because they're
gonna try and kick a field goal.

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Getting onside kick and then throw a
hail Mary, and then four seconds left,

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and I thought, Okay, they're
not going to kick the field goal,

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and then they did. Yeah,
when they walked out, when you

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started walking off, and I'm thinking, they're gonna kick kill the field goal?

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Yeah, I saw, I saw. What's the name the quarterback,

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Severed Stafford. When he starts walking
off the field, they are going to

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kick this field goal with four seconds
left. It's not gonna leave him any

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time. I will never pick the
Rams again, Steve. I had another

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tough week. You know, I
was going good. I got two games

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on saturd was two out of three
on Saturday. I'm like, all right,

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I got this. I'm good.
I was really mad at Oregon State,

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and I'm pissed at those guys because
I bad mouth and bad mouth and

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bad mouth, and and then they
give them my confidence, they give them

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my love, and they crap.
I saw, I hear you. You

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know the kiss of death for every
game and every pick is a damn field

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goal. Once they started kicking field
they your toast because it four I think

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it was. They lost at least
sixteen points of the old mess. I

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think, what the hell they have
been the hell out of him, and

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they just couldn't put the ball in
there right right. I'm you know what,

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I'm back to where I was it. They're not that good. They're

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not as good as everybody thinks.
Is not that good. I don't know

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about that, Jay, And I
know you're the Monday Morning even at one

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point he was like eleven for twenty
seven. I watch against a bad team.

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I watched the game. I know, I know I picked them too.

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I get it. But you're the
Monday morning, Monday afternoon quarterback.

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Overreact overreactor. Uh. And we'll
get to this with Arizona as well,

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because I wanted to get your thoughts
on that. But there's so many things

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in Colorado. I really, I
really. As the game was being played

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and we were watching it while Arizona
was being played, I'm thinking we were

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playing that night, I'm thinking,
why did I fall into the trap of

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a rivalry game? Because rivalry games
any any place, anywhere, anyway,

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And I think, why did I
even think of this? Sunglasses personal blah

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blah? Why did I fall into
that trap? You did? But you

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know, and it's funny because I'm
not rooting against Dion Sanders and Colorado or

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any of that. But I was
rooting hard. I was rooting for the

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upset. I'm always rooting for upsets, unless Arizona was the one that's getting

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upset, right, So I'm like, they're gonna lose. And then they

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didn't. They didn't. Damn that. That showed a lot of na for

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them to come back and get there. I think more of Norville now than

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I did before. And I thought
he was pretty good when he came here.

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And I told you about this Friday
Ny when he bought his team to

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play the Arizonable. Uh, his
team played tough, man, his play

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team tough. It's very tough against
another team that I'm sure you've kind of

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lowered the bar a little with Colorado
because of how they performed, right,

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Yeah, because Colorado, You're not. Nobody's gonna argue that Colorado State is

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a good team. Now. They
you know, they had some things.

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You know, Travis Hunter, you
know got on that that awful hit,

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you know, was that was out
of the game, you know, And

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again with him, you know when
you got starting two ways, they lost

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two starters, not one starter on
that sure, right, and plus some

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guy, a guy who's sort of
the heart of that that team along with

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Sanders. So you know, I
thought, man, everything's going bad for

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Colorado. And then they came back
and won that game, and we were

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totally wrong and totally where people said
were they playing. We thought Denver,

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We thought it was Denver and it
was in Boulders. Yeah. So I'm

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sitting there and uh, and I
just thought, I just saw somebody tweeted

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some video from the ACU game,
and everybody's watching the Colorado game on the

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phone, so were we. Everybody. There were guys across the out from

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us, and they were doing a
play by play of the game. I

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had it on on my phone and
we're all watching it on the Arizona game

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ended, but I didn't get up
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Man, sure sure, sure,
No. We were waiting on some of

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us in the media area where we're
watching the game because it was on stream,

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right but it was like a five
minute delay on stream for whatever reason,

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and uh, we were waiting to
go down. Luckily, Jed took

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a while to go down and and
finding the interception or the passion and completely

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in the end zone. So we
raced down and we got to give it

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to Colorado for doing what they did. But I too think you know,

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they're they're in big trouble against Oregon. Travis Hunters out for like three weeks,

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and you know they got they got
Oregon in USC You go play those

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two games, and who knows what
you look like coming out of those two

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games and what they'll what they'll do
going down the road. But they've certainly,

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you know, shocked the college football
world by going three and alt.

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You know, they're over under was
three and half, three and a half.

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So I just win one more game, true, and they're capable.

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Yeah, they're capable. Okay,
did you go to the game? I

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did not work? So okay,
okay, because it was it was it

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was not forty four, right,
it's maybe thirty eight forty? No,

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I think I think it was over
forty. Really, Yeah, the Zona

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Zoo was jammed at the beginning of
the top was not very full, I

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know, but but it's I thought
it was that that's included the intendency.

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I thought. No, I thought
it was well over forty. I really

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did. I didn't see that,
but you know, and I and then

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we can't see what's on your side
right on this side, and yeah,

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so no, I thought it was
well over forty and A Jed today as

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press conference said that he thought that
was going to be that they've already got

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forty seven right for that should be
a great game if they take care of

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the take care of business. It's
funny. It's funny. And I didn't

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go to the press conmence. You
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it's gonna be forty eight thousand.
We're happy, blah blah blah.

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We need more about two thousand and
more, but all our concentration is on

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the Washington think that you that's not
right. You just talked all our concentrations

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on St. Stanford. Thinking you
just talked about Washington. Well yeah,

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well he's just saying that's our next
home. But here's uh, he did

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talk about Stanford. Uh kind of
said, you know, this is why

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our focus is. Here's what he
had to say about right now, all

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focuses on Stanford, and uh,
the task we have in front of us,

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and we know it's a always a
tough task to go on the road.

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Uh, this is our first conference
game. They've already had a conference

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game, they've gone through that experience. So far, we have not.

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They're very well coached team. I
think coach Taylor does a great job.

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You could see the type of program
he built at sack State and now the

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type of program that he's trying to
build currently at Stanford. So we know

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we have our work cut out for
us with a very good football team just

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beginning preparations on that last evening and
then this morning, and so I'll be

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a little bit far away from knowing
too much about them right now, but

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did enjoy reviewing our tape and seeing
some of the good that occurred in our

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game on Saturday evening. Yeah,
it's strange. Uh, well, Stanford

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was not going to be good,
right, You wouldn't think they're good,

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right, And he's coaching, he's
coach speaking. Yeah, he got to

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he got asked about what do you
think about Stanford losing to Sacramento State the

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former Detroit Taylor's former coach, right, former team? Yeah he he uh,

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well, it's just like it was
just like, what are you gonna

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say? Right? Oh? First
of all, I mean sach State,

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I think is thirteen and one in
their last fourteen games. I don't know

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anymore in college football about upsets and
not I mean I think college football is

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up for grabs every single week.
We saw what Northern Illinois beat Boston College.

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Then we saw Boston College, and
then Florida State beat LSU, and

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then Florida State and Boston College.
We're thirty one, twenty nine. I

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think that just the way college football
goes. Right now, you're dealing with

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eighteen to twenty two year old kids
on a given Saturday. I think sach

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State it's a good team. I
think Stanford's a good team. Regarding us

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this week is more of the same. Regarding protecting the football, regarding playing

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clean football, winning the turnover battle, We've yet to do that. We

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were even this past week at one
one. And then really I would say

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we need to be able to all
three phases. Take a step, one

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more step forward. See if we
can be better in each phase of the

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game. And if we're a little
bit better in each phase of the game,

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it'll give us a great chance to
come back home, uh with the

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victorious. So, so you surprised
me yesterday when you said in your note

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about my story, right so see
and then you properly said it. See

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I do read your stories. So
just let's talk real quick about the game.

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It was a nondescript kind of game, but it was impressive in that

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they had a lot of things that
went well, right, Yeah, offense,

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defense, not a lot of bad
things. Yeah, well, here's

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the here's the thing. And and
Michael lev asked a question that I had,

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was you dominated the game. There
was never in doubt. You kicked

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their asses. They you know,
they they got in the end zone at

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the end of the game. It
was going to be a three another three

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point game, but it's only thirty
one to ten. Yeah, you didn't.

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It didn't feel like the domination that
it should have been. And sure,

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it's like you dominate like that,
don't you expect to score more point

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not? Look, they covered this, They covered the line. The line

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was eighteen and comfortably right. It
was never you. I don't think it

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was ever in doubt. But you
know, it was like, you know,

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you walked out of the stad and
you looked at the scoreboard and you

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thought, well, that wasn't that
impressive because it was you type you should

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have scored in the forties. And
you know, yes, you were impressive

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defensively, but it just didn't seem
like it was as dominant as it sounded.

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Here's what you had to say about
that. Yeah, I think that

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the way the game went, I
would imagine if we wanted to end the

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final drive, we could have kept
going in the final drive probably would have

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gotten us some points. We got
a field goal blocked and then we had

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a turnover. You know, I
think that we were we were five or

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five in the red zone, so
it wasn't that we weren't and four of

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them were touchdowns, So we did
miss out an opportunity in the red zone

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one time. But you know,
I don't know. I probably most of

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the time you'd have more than that, but the way the game was going,

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it was a situation where you know, you get ten more points maybe

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if you do a couple of things
better, and then probably sit there at

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forty one. Usually you get the
short fields are based on turnovers. We

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got one, and when we got
that one turnover, we scored a touchdown.

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A lot of times if those happened
earlier in the games, you get

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a multitude of turnovers and then you
get a lot of short fields and then

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you'll be able to start piling up
some points. We had to go the

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long way, and when we had
to go the long way. I think

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we had fifteen explosive plays at a
sixty nine snaps or something to that effect,

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but you still didn't have enough time
or enough yards. You get as

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many points as we all would hope. I want to play one more clip

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before we go to the break and
then we can talk about both of those.

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But I asked him about, you
know what goes into changing the running

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basks, because all four running backs
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good stuff, you know. Jonah
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run, Mike Wiley did his usual
stuff. J Williams ransom people over,

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uh, you know speed. Luke
got out on the open a couple of

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times. But his first response was
I can't tell you. But then he

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told us, you know what goes
into changing the running backs. It goes

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into a lot of things. It
goes into what we're calling. It goes

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into where they are physically, where
they you know, how many runs they've

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had, goes into there's a rotation
that we said ahead of time on how

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we want to make sure we get
different backs different touches. There's certain plays

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that we call for certain backs,
but a lot of times it's just a

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matter of who's up, who's up
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try to do the best we can
to get the rotation as uh as clean

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as we can get it, getting
guys in and out quickly. But there's

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always going to be some challenges there. And then obviously with Mike, he

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does so many things well, we
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the game. Okay, I thought, I think the running backs are becoming

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a very big, big part of
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do what the receivers do that catch, no question, the catch by by

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Team AC and all that stuff.
You know they're gonna how they do is

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going to be based on well to
your point of the question, which I

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thought was a good one, I
was gonna ask howd of gone this?

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For the first time in a long
time, Jay, and I don't really

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remember how long. It's a complimentary
olephanse where where the elephants via the air

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opens up the road the ground game, right and vice versa. That doesn't

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happen often now it hasn't happened often
here, right, And he talked about

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the balance. We'll play that clip
after after our you know, in the

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after I get heard that question.
But he talked about that and how balance

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they have been, which is which
is you're just a better team. Didn't

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have that balance had he had cadem
but he didn't have the reginal. It's

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he had one or the other,
right, right, no, no doubt.

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All right, Uh, we're gonna
be back. Troy Hutchinson is going

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to join us from goasycats dot com. We'll talk a little bit are about

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He was thenary captain and we'll just
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from goasycatch dot com. Troy,
how are you good? How about you

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guys? We're doing fine? Thanks
for joining us. Hey, would you

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get a question in today? I
did not. I was just listening and

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rivetted by Michael Love's question about more
points. Yeah, yeah, well we're

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talking about that that they just it
just felt like a game that they beat

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him by more than thirty one to
ten. It felt like I did they

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did. Yeah, you know,
I think what kind of led to that

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was the block field goal and then
the weird fumble by Tetoro McMillan early in

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the game. But yeah, I
felt like they dominated the game. But

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you look at that first quarter or
zero points in the first quarter again for

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Arizona. That wasn't good for the
over either, I can tell you that.

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So do you think they're a victim
of their own success? That everyone

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thinks that because they have a pretty
good offense, oh yeah, that they

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should be scoring more a little bit. But I also think that when you

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compare last year's offense to this year's
offense, there seems to be a little

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bit more flow offensively last year than
there is this year. And that's with

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the turnovers. I mean, they
have eight turnovers on the year already,

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and there's been a couple of penalties
here here and there. Rather it be

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a holding all start, just some
weird plays that's kind of set them back

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a little bit. I don't think
it's something to worry about long term,

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but I think they're getting there,
but they just quite haven't hit their stride

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yet often what do you what do
you mean by flow? Because in my

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mind, and I could be wrong, that this offense is much better than

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last year's. I mean that,
you know, they're not they're they're smoother

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in the red zone for sure.
But you have a block field goal one

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game, I think you have a
missfield goal the other game. You have

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eight turnovers. It's just not that
constant rhythm to finish off some drives where

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you know you're leaving ten eleven points
out there on the field. And I

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agree, I think overall it's a
better offense. You just haven't seen that

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game where at all fully clicks for
them offensively. Yet, you know,

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and and my thinking is that Delora
had never got into a rhythm against an

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Au. Yeah, and then that
then, I you know, obviously that

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kind of spilled into the first quarter
of the Mississippi State game. So it

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really wasn't until you know, the
second quarter, maybe even the second half

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of the Mississippi State game where he
kind of felt okay, like he's getting

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into a little bit of the rhythm, a little bit of a rhythm,

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and then he I thought he was. It was pretty good, you know,

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the whole the whole night, you
know, Saturday, and so it

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is different. And then again they're
running the ball more and they're they're more

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successful running the ball, which is
a big deal. Yeah, And you

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know the amazing part about that is
their offensive line has had a lot of

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shuffling right now with Raymond Polido out
of the game. And you've had Big

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Jonah jonahs Avenia moved from right tackle
to right guard at times. You've had

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Laife Magnus and come in and play. You've had Josh Bourgeon Joseph Bourgeon play

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right tackle at times too. So
you've seen the mix and match on the

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offensive line. And usually when you
have that, you know, much mixing

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and matching, it can cause issues
on the line, and we haven't seen

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that yet for Arizona. So I
think that says a lot about coach Carroll

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and it says a lot about Josh
Baker at center well. And and they've

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been protecting Delora pretty well. I
know he got think at SEC maybe once

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or twice on Saturday, but you
know, he's not running for and he's

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running some, but he's not running
for his life all the time like he

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did a lot. Yeah, last
year, Yeah, it seems like there's

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a lot more. There's a lot
less i should say, improvising this season

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than there was last season for Jaden, and you kind of saw that at

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the end of this year where the
offensive line improved and now this year where

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it's a cohesive unit and there's a
lot less running around because you know,

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he's running for his life and it's
more running because there's a hole now.

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So I think you're just seeing a
steadiness by Jaden inside the pocket this year.

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Do we know or have an update
on pl Yes, he said he's

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one hundred percent ready to go this
week. Yeah, that contact and practice,

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it be interesting to see how ready
he is right right right, And

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I guess in the starting lineup or
we don't know you because that's what I

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will assume that he will be in
the starting lineup. I know Carol talked

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about, you know, he won
the job during training campus was the week

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leading up to the UTEP game that
he didn't see that changing, but he

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was proud of how his guys were
able to step up. So when you

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add six six sixty seven, three
hundred and thirty seven pounds at that right

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guard position, and I think that's
going to be a bonus for Arizona.

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That kind of sucks from he's missed
a quarter of the season, you know,

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I mean we talked to his dad, right how ready was he to

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going right? There? Does been
posting stuff all the time. It's a

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quarter of the season. That's too
bad. So so overall, you know

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with this three you know, the
three games in the you know, non

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conference season, it's over now went
on conference. You know, he talked

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about, you know, being more
ready this year than last year for the

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conference season. What do you think? Yeah, I think they're at a

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better space headspace overall. I think
everybody's kind of understanding what they need to

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00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:41.000
do, especially offensively Janden's commerce in
the system. I think there's more of

407
00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:45.960
understanding of what's going on offensively from
everybody, all the transfers, and then

408
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.640
defensively it's night and day. I
think last year you saw a lot of

409
00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.039
holes, especially against the run during
the non conference compared to this year,

410
00:26:53.359 --> 00:26:57.000
where Arizona has been one of the
better run defensive teams than the country in

411
00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:02.960
terms of, uh the stats right
now and will that hold up? Who

412
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:08.400
knows, But you can see that
there's more understanding and more running to the

413
00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:14.000
football. Not a lot of people
are standing around and there it's game tackling,

414
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:17.519
and it's a lot better communication out
there on the football field, on

415
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:22.039
the defensive side of the ball.
Yeah, Okay, no, I was

416
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:26.039
gonna say it, just it just
seems like, you know, look,

417
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:32.039
going to games the last few years, you walk into every game thinking they

418
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.119
can lose today no matter who it
is, well except for and of you.

419
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.319
And then they did lose to any
of you last year. You know,

420
00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:41.400
at no point, you know,
on Saturday, either at my tailgate

421
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.599
party or once I got to the
same did I think there's a chance they

422
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:48.480
could lose tonight. And that's a
weird It's kind of you know, it's

423
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:52.599
it's sort of a weird feeling for
an Arizona fan after the crap that we've

424
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:55.799
been through over the last seven weeks. Because they're but they're just they just

425
00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.640
look better out on the field.
I don't know, guys, if you

426
00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.319
want to agree with me here,
but I've said this a number of times,

427
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.559
and I believe it even more now
because because my eyes are not deceiving

428
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:11.519
me, even though they're old and
I need cataracts broaly, so Arizone has

429
00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:14.559
gotten better, much better, and
you can see it. You can see

430
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.200
it, you can almost feel it, both on both sides of the ball.

431
00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:19.160
Special teams everything, right, they've
gotten better, and I've said this

432
00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:22.519
before, they've gotten better, but
so have other teams. Right, So,

433
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.319
in the real world of the PAC
twelve conference, because it's a PAC

434
00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:30.759
twelve conferent sides would start now,
where do they land? Where do they

435
00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.839
land? So you have eight in
the in the top twenty five right now.

436
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.440
I know that the UCLA coach said
Arizona belongs in the top twenty five.

437
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:42.039
Two that's a much crap. But
but do they still Are they ninth?

438
00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:45.880
Are they ninth? Are they tenth? Are they seventh? Where do

439
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:51.640
they land? Because you can still
get better yet still be where you're at,

440
00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:55.480
right, Yeah, you know,
I think right now, going into

441
00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.200
the conference play somewhere between that sixth
to ninth range. I think you can

442
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:03.200
make a case for Arizona. I
know there's teams that are ranked in you

443
00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:08.200
know, slotted ahead of them right
now, but you also don't know about

444
00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:12.039
those teams as well, Like Colorado. Yes, a nice win over TCU,

445
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:18.839
but struggle against a pretty poor Colorado
State team and took care of business

446
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.880
against a Nebraska team that isn't very
you know, talented as of right now,

447
00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:25.960
and going through their stuff. Oregon
State, you know, they look

448
00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.880
really good right now and DJA has
played really well. Can they hold that

449
00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:33.480
up? I think they will.
But in Washington State as well, they

450
00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.839
look improved. So I think,
yes, Arizona is improved, like you

451
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:42.480
said, Steve, but there is
a chance where they are ninth or eighth

452
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.279
in the Pac twelve. But I
do think you're seeing them move in the

453
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.400
right direction and you're going to learn
not only a lot about them, but

454
00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.279
some of the other teams that might
be overachieving at this point in the season.

455
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.599
Yeah, I'm with you. Well, I put them in this yeah,

456
00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.599
six to nine range, maybe even
six to eight, you know.

457
00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:03.240
I again, my opinion is of
Oregon State went way down this weekend,

458
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:06.400
not just because I had them and
they didn't freaking come close to covering.

459
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:08.640
Just I'm not oppressed with dj You
don't get oh you Leila, I'm just

460
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:12.839
not. He just did not very
good your eyes, I see him because

461
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.359
he didn't have a good game,
But but I you know, I've seen

462
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.880
him a couple of times and he
just doesn't look that good. And I

463
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.799
think there's a reason why he was
he's no longer at Clemson because they realized

464
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.079
now Clemson, you know, probably
could use him this year. But he's

465
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.559
just not very good. And so
you know, he's he's got the reputation

466
00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.480
because he was such a great,
you know, high school quarterback. But

467
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.960
you know, you're talking about,
you know, going into going into Pac

468
00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:40.160
twelve play. I think there's probably
no better way for them to start than

469
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:42.319
to go, you know, to
play Stanford, and Stanford is just not

470
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:45.279
going to be very good. You
will, you know, go win that

471
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.079
game, take care of business.
You know, he's he's not playing to

472
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:49.880
that. You know why, I
don't think there're any good you know,

473
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.920
I gotta asked a couple of times
about Stanford a Jed did, But uh,

474
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.279
you know, I I'm kind of
moving them up a little bit just

475
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.079
because they've been so methodical. I
guess is what I'm saying. They don't

476
00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:06.599
look they don't look out of sorts
ever, offensive or defensively. I guess

477
00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:10.400
what I'm trying to say, Yeah, you know, and it kind of

478
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.319
reminds me of last year. I'm
not saying that the same thing can happen,

479
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.920
but the same thoughts were kind of
similar. I mean, more questions

480
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.640
on the defensive side of the ball, but same thought process going into that

481
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:22.920
game against Cal. They open it
up, played very well the first half,

482
00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:26.640
and then lay an egg the second
half. So I think that's what

483
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.200
you're trying to avoid if your Arizona
is to not have that disappointing second half.

484
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.480
Now, this Stanford team is probably
a lot less talented than last year's

485
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:37.759
Cal team, but you still you
know, it's a it's a road game,

486
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.839
it's a conference road game, and
you never know. So yes,

487
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:44.519
they should be the favorites. I
think they are nine and a half point

488
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.839
favorites. I see here that I'm
probably covering that, but you just never

489
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:49.839
know how these conference road games go. Well, I wouldn't that's it,

490
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.279
And you still wouldn't take that.
I think so bad. Come on,

491
00:31:56.359 --> 00:32:00.599
you could have a second house if
you did, Steve, I've been following

492
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.440
their zone all my life. I'm
not giving the nine and a half points

493
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:07.680
on the road. You said something
I just Troy, don't get old,

494
00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:12.440
but you said something that's interesting to
me. Oh, Troy, it's twelve

495
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:17.119
and a half on draftings right now, twelve and a half, definitely not

496
00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:23.160
taking And here's the thing. Here's
the thing. If they win twenty seven

497
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:27.559
twenty four, you just have to
be happy. You go on the road

498
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:30.200
and went you have you win eight. You can't. You gotta shut the

499
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.240
hell out. Okay. So well, okay, so this is what I

500
00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.519
thought. So did anybody ask about
about Speedy Luke because he's getting more touches,

501
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:42.279
he's getting more action because I think
if they open it up with him,

502
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.799
because he has that potential to just
go crazy, if he has more

503
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:50.640
opportunity, yeah, him and also
Jona Pullman. I mean, Jonah's only

504
00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.799
had five touches in the last two
games, and last game he broke off

505
00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:57.599
with fifty nine yard or so.
I think if they get those to the

506
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.240
ball, and you're right, Speedy
Luke has kind of got him his foot

507
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.039
and rhythm in the offense right now, I think you're going to see those

508
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.359
numbers go up for both of them. But you know, whenever they talk

509
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.079
about the running backs, it's not
just one guy they talk about. Yes,

510
00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:14.480
they talk about Wiley all the time, but it's always the unit,

511
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.200
the corner of the running back room
and how balanced it is. So just

512
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.480
trying to you know, feed everybody
the ball is a tough task, and

513
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:24.279
you know, it's it's a good
problem to have if you if you're jetting.

514
00:33:24.480 --> 00:33:29.079
Yeah, you know, Steve and
you know, I've been on the

515
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:34.079
Michael Wiley bandwagon. You know all
off season you're thinking he's the key,

516
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:36.799
he's the key, he's the key. But I think you're you're right,

517
00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:38.480
Troy. It's not just him.
It's the whole running back, the whole

518
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:43.160
running back room. I'll tell you
what, I love Michael Wiley. He's

519
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.160
steady, he does so many things. He catches the ball, all the

520
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.359
things that he does. But I
cannot wait for Jonah Coleman to be the

521
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.880
guy. Okay, So the key
to what you see, he's the keys.

522
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:57.200
Just their their offense that he's gonna
have. If he has a great

523
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.480
year, they're gonna be really good. So you know, I was just

524
00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.160
gonna ask you both, is it
a case where and maybe that you don't

525
00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:08.119
agree as as Jaden goes, this
team goes. But see that and see

526
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.440
I think I think Michael Wiley and
the running backs take some pressure off of

527
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.519
Jaden. He doesn't have to do
everything well, tell Jaden that I know

528
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:19.159
that. I know he thinks he
does, but he doesn't have to,

529
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.280
you know. I mean the we're
on the Jonah Coleman broke like the other

530
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:25.360
night. I mean, he's just
like just ball up the middle, right.

531
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.920
But you know, and I think
it's less is more a situation and

532
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:34.519
to get Jadeen to work in that
frame of mind is going to be good

533
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.719
for this offense. But I mean, once the guns leaner, always a

534
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.800
guns leaner. He has that Jay
Cutler mentality where he doesn't see a window

535
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:45.719
he doesn't like, and you know, if you can avoid those moments,

536
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.920
that'll be good for Arizon him.
Okay again, tell him, tell him,

537
00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:54.599
tell him that. Looking for the
facial expression from him. Yeah,

538
00:34:54.639 --> 00:35:00.360
because I tell it's like Telly Khalil, don't you think thirty six times passing

539
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:06.079
is too much? He didn't like
that question. Yeah. Look, the

540
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:12.320
game was it was methodical. There
wasn't anything you know, uh, I

541
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:14.840
don't know, just it was it
was just me. Yeah, I mean

542
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.320
it was just that. But but
the thing is that, you know,

543
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.599
methodical to win a game like that
and just never be in any danger of

544
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.159
it. We just haven't had that
here for so no, no, and

545
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:27.480
it was it was non descript.
It was a game that they should have

546
00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:30.400
won by that many and blah blah
blah in two weeks. Well, no,

547
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.800
to take care business on Saturday on
Saturday, because I love the idea

548
00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:39.239
of Washington coming here on a Saturday
night for a game. Okay, thank

549
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:45.599
you, Troy, Thanks thanks Auch. Yeah, I you know, but

550
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:49.159
you gotta get that. You can't
go screw this up. You know.

551
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:52.239
No, no, And you're right. You're a fan because you know these

552
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.280
things and it can't happen. It
certainly can happen. All right, Uh

553
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:59.679
take a break, yes, no, yeah, all right, take a

554
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Steve Rivera and Jay Gonzalez on Fox
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Surgery I on the Ball. Hey,

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welcome back to I on the Ball. Here all Fox Sports fourteen fifty.

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I'm Ski Rivera, You're Jakin's all
Scott Sammy here today. We've got em

618
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eleven minutes. If you guys want
to give us a quick call, please

619
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do let us know what you thought
about the game. The team. Yeah,

620
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you know what I mean. We've
been talking about how it's just sort

621
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of nondescript, nondescript but still good. It's still good in the sense that

622
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there's one never felt threaten. You
know, when t Mac fumbled that bomb,

623
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I'm like, come on, guys, just just be clean. And

624
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then they didn't have another in turn
over the rest of the game. There

625
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are a couple of penalties early on
those went away, and then the rest

626
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of the game was just kind of
actually put the game on. I was

627
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working and just you know, the
game was the replay was on. I

628
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just I had it on. It
was kind of like nothing really happened.

629
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You know. We're a couple of
nice plays, you know, the great

630
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catch by t Mac, a nice
run by Jonah Coleman, you know,

631
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but other than that, they just
kind of beat him down. We have

632
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a call coming in, so no, don't do that. Just answer the

633
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call. Put the red button back
on, answer the call, and hit

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the microphone. There you go,
you're on the on the ball. Hey

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you guys, this is Gabe.
Hey Gabe, how are you guys?

636
00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:51.639
How are you doing. I hope
everything's going go for you. We're doing

637
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fine. What do you have to
say today's Gabe? So I know that

638
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this. I know that we are
going into packtball play for this week.

639
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:09.559
I think Arizona should not take any
teams lightly, and they need to score

640
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a lot of points like in the
forties and fifties and not make any bull

641
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:24.440
aheaded mistakes like turning the ball over
one time, we even five times,

642
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and so I think they need to
be from parad and not take any teams

643
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.840
lightly. No, I think Jed
has made it clear that they're not.

644
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He you know, he was given
the chance. He got asked, we'll

645
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play that clip in a minute.
You know, what do you think of

646
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Stanford losing the Sacramento State? And
he said, look, Sacramento State's really

647
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good of Stanford lost to them.
But yeah, but you just never know

648
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what's gonna happen. You gotta be
ready for anything. When we and even

649
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when we played against the team on
not I don't trust them because that rivalry

650
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is so tricky, dicky, and
so yeah, the Territorial Cup is so

651
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:08.239
wacky, So don't take any team
program. We gotta another our schedule is

652
00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:14.360
very difficult, and plus our every
single game is a coin flips. So

653
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:22.559
Arizona me's a not make any bonehead
and mistakes and be prepared. What do

654
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.840
you think about what you've seen so
far? I love it. I love

655
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:35.239
how the defense is doing good.
It's definitely improved. Thank you said last

656
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:40.679
week that let's as Arizona friends.
Of course, Jaden Lord, it's gonna

657
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:46.000
make a lot of good plays and
and and some what what the hell are

658
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:50.159
you thinking? Plays? Yeah,
so that's good way to put it.

659
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.079
Yeah, that's all right, exactly
exactly. All right, Dave, Hey,

660
00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:58.599
thanks a much. I appreciate the
call. All right, Yeah,

661
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:00.920
so you know he's right. I
mean, you know, you can't you

662
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:05.519
can't go on the road against against
anybody and make and make the mistakes that

663
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they that they made. Uh you
know at Mississippi State. You know you

664
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:13.320
just can't. You do that against
Stanford you'll lose. You do that against

665
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.559
anybody in the conference, you'll lose. And then so yeah, I mean

666
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.880
they got to take care of business. Anything that sounds like that's the thing

667
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:27.960
that that uh jet is jet is
ready for that guy, because you know

668
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:30.880
he talked about you know, Sack
State Stanford. You know, you can

669
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lose to anybody, you know,
eighteen to twenty two year olds and all

670
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.360
that kind of stuff. So one
of the things that you know, it

671
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:38.719
is being talked about is the balance. And we've been talking about, you

672
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:43.519
know, the running backs and whatnot
that they've been you know, they were

673
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.760
pretty balanced on on Saturday, and
uh, you know, it was just

674
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kind of asked, is that on
purpose? How? You know, how

675
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is that happening? The game went
a certain direction that we were able to

676
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stay very balanced. We as I've
said before, we really like our running

677
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backs, and I think we have
really good set of running backs. Sometimes

678
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the games don't allow you to stay
with the run as much as you want.

679
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Sometimes the games allow you to run
the ball more than you ever expected

680
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to run it. We would love
to be in that world of a thirty

681
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five pass, thirty five pass attempts, thirty five rush attempts, thirty two,

682
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thirty two, whatever it might be. You knowing the third down is

683
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primarily pass. I believe we only
had ten third downs or something to that

684
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effect, maybe eleven or two.
You know, we were somewhere in the

685
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fifty percent range on third down.
We ran the ball a couple of times

686
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on third down, probably one or
two at the end of the game,

687
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and then that one time on the
third and four on our own end zone

688
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:45.440
that Mike Wiley got the first down. But you'd love to be able to

689
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have that balance, to be able
to mix some runs in on third down

690
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:52.159
that allows you to kind of be
fifty fifty. Yeah, you know,

691
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and that's what they were. I
think the point was me. They went

692
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:01.519
thirty two and thirty two run,
run and pass on Saturday night and night

693
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:06.519
it looked like that. You know, they weren't throwing the ball all over

694
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the field. You know, every
play wasn't a pass play. Trying to

695
00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:13.840
look that up right now, but
uh, they Yeah, they had No,

696
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that's not that's not true. They
had, Oh that's the Mississippi Steak.

697
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:21.360
Laura Laura through it twenty nine times. I don't know the rushes,

698
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but it's balanced probably up there.
Yeah, so you know, I trying

699
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.360
to call it there it is the
U tap k. Yeah. They had

700
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twenty six, thirty two rushes,
thirty and twenty well thirty two passes because

701
00:46:37.199 --> 00:46:40.920
Noah fafeeded through a couple of passes, so you know, I mean it

702
00:46:42.039 --> 00:46:45.800
was thirty two and thirty two.
I mean, it's just again, while

703
00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.519
we loved what rich Rod did throw
it for five hundred yards and stuff like

704
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.840
that, you know, the way
you win games is to not the other

705
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:57.159
team doesn't know what you're doing.
That was That's a lot like told me,

706
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:00.519
right, it wasn't it just balanced? Kind of maybe maybe a lot

707
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.199
less boring people would argue that they
ran the ball too much, right,

708
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.199
especially because he came here and ran
the option. Well, you know,

709
00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.920
it's it's tough when you're going to
third nine and you're gritted up the middle.

710
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:14.760
Yeah, that was his biggest criticism
much. But still it's more balanced.

711
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.840
Now, I'm not sure that's a
good thing. But when you have

712
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:21.199
the running backs that he has to
your coint two point and to your question,

713
00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:22.840
he has a lot of different ways
to go. I mean, you

714
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:24.679
know, I'm looking at the stats
R and I look at these averages.

715
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:29.599
So Michael Wiley average four point nine
O carry, seventeen carries four point nine,

716
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.840
Okay, Jonah Coleman three carries for
seventy one yards twenty three a carry.

717
00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.039
DJ Williams five carries for forty five
yards nine yards to carry oh Ray

718
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:42.440
Shawn Luke, Speedy Luke two carries
for sixteen yards eight yards of carry.

719
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.880
You're getting those kinds of yards or
that kind of production from your running back.

720
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:49.400
You don't have to throw the ball
as much. But the fact that

721
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.800
you can, I think it really
makes Arizona, you know, kind of

722
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:55.119
dangerous. But again, they didn't
put fifty points on the board and people

723
00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:59.199
walked out of the stadium. Point
that wasn't all that impressive. And then

724
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.719
when you think about the fact that
UTEP was never in the game, it's

725
00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:06.639
like, you know what, you
know, I don't know. We just

726
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:08.519
want to win, right, You
just want to win the game. And

727
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.880
if it looks great, it looks
great. If it doesn't, you know,

728
00:48:10.960 --> 00:48:15.760
if it's a if it's a you
know, ugly, but a win

729
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:21.000
on Saturday against Stanford, you gotta
be happy with that. Yeah, unless

730
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:25.920
you gave the points, what did
it advanced? Advanced exactly? Win this

731
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.119
game and set up a great game
with Washington coming to town. There'll be

732
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.239
all kinds of talk about the fact
that Washington never does well in in the

733
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.440
state of Arizona. It's a ninth
game, it's still gonna be it's still

734
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.760
gonna be h September, it's still
gonna be hot, and you know,

735
00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:44.840
take your chances with that, but
don't screw it up this weekend, right,

736
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.840
we got a couple of mos We've
got one more clip. Let's play

737
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:52.800
this last clip because the defense is
starting to get I think very very much

738
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:58.519
of a personality with guys like Jacob
man who justin flow the defensive line,

739
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:04.199
trading Stokes in the back. But
he talked, had had some great comments

740
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:08.639
about Jacob Mondu and how what he's
doing to lead this defense. The Jacob

741
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:15.440
mon Who's story is always a good
one because it's almost hard to believe he's

742
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.480
still only a true sophomore. I
feel like we talked so much about Jacob

743
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.760
and his growth because his growth is
like happening week to week, not just

744
00:49:24.320 --> 00:49:29.360
wow, I remember back three years
ago when he's really you know, because

745
00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.920
of the fact that his first start
was week three of the season at one

746
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:37.119
year ago, we're really watching his
growth happen every single week. And with

747
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.400
Jacob, what I've noticed the most
of he's one of those people that's he's

748
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:45.239
like a plant you keep watering.
He wants more information, he wants to

749
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:49.840
learn about. He wants to be
able to be the type of player that

750
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:54.639
can recognize things that happen before they
happen and utilize formations to his advantage.

751
00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:00.519
So I've seen incredible growth with Jacob
each week, not from last year this

752
00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:05.280
year, but obviously having an off
season with us, which he didn't have

753
00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:07.679
a year ago. He didn't come
with the other guys. Remember, he

754
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:13.360
wasn't here in the spring where t
mac kean and Noah were, So our

755
00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:16.760
first experience with Jacob was in training
camp, whereas now we had him for

756
00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:21.760
that whole off season. After being
a starter and now seeing where he's going,

757
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:27.360
I think he'll continue to grow.
You know, I think he's going

758
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.079
to be a guy that by the
time he's done here, you know they're

759
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.199
we're gonna put Hi him on some
of the top linebackers that you know they

760
00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:37.480
played at Arizona because he's so good, so fast, right as you say,

761
00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:39.119
he's true sophomore, right right,
No, No, he's playing all

762
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:43.239
the time, and he's he's out
there doing stuff. He's got some great

763
00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:45.599
guys up front. I mean,
this is not this is not your father's

764
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:52.519
literally you have a football team.
Yep, it's not your grandfather's your father's

765
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.679
great grandfather. Yeah, it's good, it's it's good in a in a

766
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:00.559
different way, in a fun way. It was a funder right word.

767
00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:06.800
Yeah yeah, well yeah, because
because they're winning, Steve, I mean,

768
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:08.360
you know, true, what's three
games in? I know, but

769
00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:12.519
what what but since last since the
beginning of last year, they're eight and

770
00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.800
seven. You know, I'm happy
with that. That's a nate A nate.

771
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:21.159
Well, that's that's that's better than
and twelve or twenty or whatever.

772
00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:23.000
The heck. They were dark place. I know, it was a very

773
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:25.079
dark place. All Right, we're
gonna get out of here, take our

774
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:29.519
break, would and come back.
Sammy's gonna have his uh first shot of

775
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:31.920
breaking news, so we'll we'll be
back after in a few minutes and stick

776
00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:32.480
around for all that