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High on the Ball with Steve Rivera and Jaken Salez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen.
Hey, welcome back to in the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
I'm Steve Rivera, you Jakensaris, and I totally forgot about breaking news
alas is High on the Ball Reaky news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Okay,
so you might remember that we had Jim Young on the show back in
late July. He had to put out sort of a public He wrote a
letter that then got put out on social media saying that he thought Bruce Hill
was his quarterback when he got here back in nineteen seventy five or nine seventy
three, was ended up being one of the great quarterbacks at Arizona. How
he thought he should be in the in the Ring of Honor at Arizona Stadium.
He is already in the you of a athletic Hall of Fame. But
school announced today that's like program announced say that Hill will be added to the
Arizona flip Our Ring of Honor at the homecoming game on November fourth. So,
whether Jim's letter or somebody else called attention to this deservedly in the Ring
of Honor. And you know I got you know, I was a teenager
when he was playing here. Got to see those three teams that he that
he quarterbacked. They were really fun to watch, you know, just I
mean, the guy had a rocket for an arm, he had some guys
to throw too. He had t Bell one another one of the all time
great receivers at Arizona. And so he's, uh, he's in the ring.
He's gonna be in the Ring of Honor this year. Cool. It's
very cool. Uh, it's cool. And look those teams were he would
a lot of a lot of has talked about that. Larry Smith put you
know, Arizona on the map. But even before that, Jim Young came
over here, and you know they had three great to three or four great
seasons beat as U at a time when the Arizona just never never beat ASU.
They had some some really good players. T Bell was in the NFL
for a lot of years, I think with the Steelers, So you know,
these guys were these guys were really good. I mean they're in the
whack. You were ranked a bunch, So you know, again, well
deserved for Bruce Hill to be getting into the ring of monor cool. All
right, So, hey, I know if you saw this creeped up on
me. I hadn't seen it until last night. And it's something that happened
on Sunday. But there was a Patriots fan who got in a fight.
Ye died. Now, as of last night, they were saying it was
a due to an injury in a fight because he got punched a couple of
times. But now they're saying it was after an autopsy's saying it was it
was an unrelated medical issue. Now, he wasn't a fight, there's no
denying that the video of it. But they're saying that the fight and there
was not not a traumatic injury that he had, and they called it an
unspecified medically. So you're telling me, Jay that this guy older guy six
Okay, that's even sad because he's younger than me. So he stopped to
six years old. Had he just gotten up left and and I'm not talking
about fight, he's just gotten up, said you said goodbye to the game
and went home, this would have happened. He might have. Now there
they called it unspecified. Did he have a you know, did he have
a heart attack because of the fight, right right? Or did he have
did the fight cause some other medical issue? Legal? What the what they're
saying is he did not have a traumatic injury. So he got punched in
the face. People though we got punched in the face, so you know,
he got a brain hammers. It wasn't anything like that. So now,
yes, you get in a stressful situation like that. Yeah, so
does it say what happens to the guy who hit him or who There's still
been no charges or anything filed, nothing legally that guy saved Oh maybe maybe
he maybe? Now you you can bet your you know whatever that this guy's
family is going to get a lawyer, sure, and they're gonna go try
and and squeeze something out of the guy who you know who you know was
in the fight with him. But we don't know who started the fight,
how did they They've got all kinds of video of it, so I'm sure
some of this stuff will come out. But but they're just saying that an
autopsy showed that he died of an unspecified medical issue and it wasn't a traumatic
injury that caused his death. But how do we get into Monday night before
this word got out about this, this guy died. I mean we didn't
know about it yesterday. No, No, he had seen it again early
this morning and saw that. This is what you see him a lot well
cameras now we everyone has in one camera. Right. You see all these
fights you watch, you see video of the fight, and all you see
a people instead of people around him trying to stop the fight, everybody's trying
to video of the fight because they know exactly exactly. It's funny because I
don't know, and I don't go to games that much anyway. I went
to a Diamondback game a while block. But the last thing I would do
Jay, the last thing I would do, and I don't do it.
Now we're an opposing uniform of some other time somewhere, like the Dodgers and
the Giants. It's like every other day. It's something. I would never
wear Dodging gear to a Giant's game, but I will to a diamond Backs
game because I'll keep it a harmless He's about five day everybody, he's about
five foot eight, five foot time, but overweight, gray hair. You
can't miss him. Looks at George Lopez again. So letters to me sending
letters to this guy. All right, I'll be looking for another partner and
I'll have an unspecified medical that's right, right. He died from diabetes,
not from being beat All right, okay, hey women, Arizona women's basketball
has lost another player, a transfer who was supposed to be sort of a
developing player, Fantag Gussama has left the program. So they're down to ten
players, uh for for the season right now? Who's Arizona women's basketball?
Oh? Yeah, wow? Because they had season an injury month. Montea
do had it season? Any injury? Now? Uh? Is that a
good This is dumb question. Well, now you can have the graduate assistant
the guys kind of play a practice, so sure that happens already. Where
the guys have enough players? I mean Aery McDonald's she was you know,
she was stuff. But they're they're down to temple if she was a front
court player. So I don't know, we'll see, but uh, you
know, numbers of numbers appear to be started to become an issue for well,
that's the whole thing Jay for her. I don't know if that's a
good thing or a bad thing, because I think one of the things that's
pragged her in the past, and I don't know this to be. In
fact, I'm just a doctor playing in the radio. That depth in terms
of making everybody or keeping everybody happy hard, it's hard. So now that
you only have ten, it will be that hard. Yeah, it shouldn't
be that hard, you would think. So. Anyways, let's see what's
my next thing. Okay, another hazy and scandal. UH Boston College.
I'm shocked, JA, the swimming and diving has been suspended. They're just
they stopped the entire program because because of hazing. The statement from UH from
the I guess the athletic department. The Boston College Men's and women's swimming and
diving program has been placed on indefinite suspension after university administrators determined that hazing had
occurred within the program. The university does not and will not tolerate hazing in
any form. During the suspension, all swimming and diving student athletes will continue
and have access to academic and medical resources provided to all Boston College students.
Jayden, just an estimate, and I have no idea. I'm throwing numbers
out now. The hundred and whatever Division one programs out there whatever. The
twenty five percent of them at least go through this, yeah, at least
without without looking into it, right, right, no, no doubt.
And twenty five being conservative? Uh no, yeah, I think a look
at the probably right yeah, probably a little higher than that. Yeah,
absolutely, absolutely all right. Kind of a mysterious thing going up going on
with the Bears. Their their their defensive coordinators suddenly resigned today. He said
he's taking a step back to take care of his health and his family.
But you know we're talking, you know, three games, two games into
the season, and he has quit. There was some rumor that there was
some sort of a law enforcement thing going on, and that's been shot down.
They said they had nothing to do with any of that. But you
know, Alan Williams, the defensive coordinate in Chicago, Bears just up and
quits. They also got rid of one of the backup quarterbacks, so and
and the problement is one of their leading quarterback there's not doing very well.
Very good, yeah, very good. So you know, jumping on the
on the uh uh deon Sanders bandwagon is none other than Nick Saban, who
in all that's right, that's why I never mind it. There there it's
a whole marketing things. His quote was, they play with discipline, they
do a good job of executing, They've been able to score points, playing
decent on defense. All those things to me are indicated. Jay, there's
one hundred and thirty whatever. Do as you would football prographs. Who in
the right mind, whether you playdon or not, would be asked the question
what do you think about Dan and say something bad? You're right, I
would, I could, I wanted. You know what I'm saying. I
know they're not gonna say any bad, whether they believe it or they do.
Plus, he's I forgot, he's sort of a business per together.
Yea, a flat commercials together. All right, See this one's right up
your alley. Poker care about this? So a poker player went on social
media said he's got stage four colon cancer, started to go fund me page,
go fund me account he raised because he wanted to he wanted to play
in the World Series of Pokers. He raised I think they said fifty thousand
dollars in donations, including donations from another poker player who who has who has
cancer, And then it came out that he in fact does not have cancer.
And after he played, you know in the uh in the in the
World Series of Poker, and he says he's not giving the money back.
So I said, his name is Whereas Rob Mercer from Baiejo, California.
It was it was figuring. People started getting suspicious because he was seeing gambling
on the floor at the casino where this was all going on. So they're
saying, is he gambling the money that that was donated to him. People
started asking questions, and then he finally came out and he said, I
did lie about having colon cancer. I don't have colon cancer. I used
that to cover my situation. What I did was wrong and I told people
I have colon cancer. I did that just as a spur of the moment
thing when someone asked me what kind of cancer I had. I'm sorry for
not being honest about what my situation was. If I would have done that
from day one, who knows what would have happened. And but then again
he said he's ai, Okay, okay, so did you go don't do
that. I know you're thinking about it, but you will take donation if
people want to give him to you. I'm on. I feel like I
told some of the other day. I'm like, we can. Bernie's guy.
The only thing that is keeping me up on my meds. You know,
No, I had my audis and all that stuff. Keep you because
I'm always shorting my stomach. COEs man, all right, I have something
once you okay, one one more, one more quick? On Bryce Young,
who the Caroline Panthers quarterback king did a nice shop on you know they
covered but did you know? But uh didn't win on on a Monday night.
But he's you're injured his ankle and he did it did not practice today.
So the Panthers have gone and signed a quarterback name Jake Luton to the
practice squad in case they need another quarterback if Bryce Young is not able to
play. So there you go. Okay, all right, what do you
got? Uh? Locally? Locally, I don't know if you saw this,
uh Pima or one of our great partners kind of we talked about them
all the time. They had their their Hall of Fame list. I don't
know if you saw that. My boy Raymond sends me this George Audius,
Gil Horettia, Jack Howell, Jason hawkmy will be inducted into their PEMA Hall
of Fame Athletic Hall of Fame. But here's one that I didn't realize until
I just saw it. The damon Alla Media. Greg Hanson, David Kelly,
and Javier Morales will be inducted as well. What the hell does media
service in their media service? I don't need to be inducted anywhere. We
have der minic. Well you have to be with to be better than what
we need to be a yeah, you know, well deserved it. Look
when when if you've got media covering the you in your college and yeah,
of course you have to go out of your way to do that, right.
This is the second class overall. So they're kind of just starting it.
Yeah maybe by next year. I don't know what has any money come
with this? No, no money. A plaque maybe maybe a plaque maybe
a plaque. Yeah, there's a big name. So audience aridio check Jack
Hall. You know I've told this, Sorry about Jack Hollamy, just not
you know, highly regarded coming out of high school. Just looked up with
PEMA later a couple of years there, did a nice job guy enough to
get on at the UVA and the next thing you know, he goes on
and has a long career in the Major Holiverdy High School because they say in
the hood see sip Weather. Yeah, exactly, exactly, good good,
good for those guys already obviously, right right, I mean in National champion
in Arizona. I'm trying to get him on. Jeff Kerrn, Jeff Kurring,
uh, Jack Hawckemy Jason. Right, George made it to the Major,
and so did George Adios. Yeah, pretty cool. George has been
a shot on the show. A few tips. Yeah, okay, cool.
I think that's it for now. All right, that's all I got.
Yeah, okay, Well, let's let's go and take our break.
We're gonna come back. Bow Brack from PHNX Cardinals up in feedings will come
and talk to us a little bit about what's going on with the Cardinals and
whether I should pick up Kyler Murray, a free agent in my fantasy football
league future. You're going to ruin the rest of his career, all right,
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This is I on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey,
welcome back to A on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm
Steve Rivero, you're Jakins as Now on the phone, we have bow Breck
from p h n X Cardinals who in Phoenix. How are you both?
Great guys, Thanks for having me. Great to have you on the show.
We're kind of kind of curious what is going on with the Cardinals.
I mean, that's that's a tough question to ask right there. I mean
we could go several different directions with it, but as far as you know,
blowing a twenty one point lead in the fourth, you know, in
the second half, that's probably the biggest question. You're asking, correct,
Yeah, yeah, and we only have thirteen minutes here, so we will
solve the world problems. What what what do you see? You know,
are they you know, just because they don't have their starting quarterback? You
know, are there some good things going on? What do you set so
far? No? On a sense is a team that's competing in the first
two weeks of the season that everybody counted out before the twenty twenty three season
kicked off. Obviously, you know a fan base watching their team relinquished two
leads, it's it's devastating, right, two games that they could have won.
That's heartbreaking, right, that's a tough pill of the swallow. But
I think you're seeing the new coaching staff gets put its fingerprints all over this
team, and it's a rebuilt at the end of the day. I mean,
this is a team that hit the reset button in January, hired a
new coach, hired new GM, hired a new front office, scouting department,
and they're putting in motion trying to build a new culture. And it's
tough to do that on the fly. And you know, I don't think
that the expectations were far off for this team, where if you're gonna base
it off of just how many wins are they going to get, you're gonna
come away disappointed. But if you look at them developing a culture and setting
themselves up for success in the future and sustained success, something that this organization
hasn't had and it moved to the Valley of the Sun back in the late
eighties, I think that you should be, you know, encouraged by the
direction of this team. It was funny to me. I watched some of
the game on Saturday or Sunday, and I'm thinking to myself, as they
were losing the lead, I said, the bit of old party gave again
in a call about late in the fourth courses, you know, we're supposed
to be losing these games, right, Tank didn't get the memo, right,
No, I mean it looks I mean they couldn't get off the field
in the second half. I mean that was a big problem. Through six
quarters, their defense was their strength, and then things just fell apart and
it was five straight scoring drives, including four touchdowns from Daniel Jones and the
Giants who had been shut out at that to that point in the season,
and it's just it was inexcusable. I mean, at no point can you
say, hey, you know, you could joke about a tank or or
whatever is going on. You can't ever say, hey, it's you get
a pass for giving up, you know, a twenty nothing leading in a
twenty eight seven lead. It was. It was a brutal, brutal hit
for this organization. But I think some encouraging things and you're hearing some nice
response from the coaching staff and the players early this week. The past gets
even harder now, I mean it's well, Washington, it's not the Giants,
it's two of the powers in the NFC right now, one of the
teams that are playing the best football. Dallas comes into town this Sunday,
and then you've got the San Francisco forty Niners the following week. You know,
this was this kind of came up with a with a guest, a
couple or maybe even just last week. You know, how much does the
winning and losing actually matter this year? Right? You mentioned it's a rebuild
and I'm not talking about actually tanking. But you know, is whatever the
record is at the end of the season any kind of a really big deal
to fans or you know, fans want to win, but in the end,
it's like, you don't expect him to do much this year. No,
and you know, this roster isn't in a position to compete right now,
and I think everybody realizes that. But they want to see this team
get elevated from its coaching staff if they want to know that they made the
right decision and hiring Jonathan Gannon, he made the right decisions and hiring a
staff, and that the guys that are making the calls as far as offense
and defense and special teams are the right people in place, and they want
to try to use this where the expectations aren't high as far as wins and
losses, to kind of decide that right. And if the team just sudden't
come out and compete and they're getting blown out each and every week, which
hasn't happened yet. They've been competitive, and they're taking their lumps as a
new coaching staff, which was expected. You know, that's fine, But
at some point, if they lose the locker room, if losing really just
kind of wears on everybody, then that's where it becomes an issue. I
mean, if they're struggling and they're owing ten and Week ten and they've lost
the locker room and you see a horrible product out out there on the field
the rest of the way, then that's an indictment on the coaching staff,
albeit where they set up for success, probably not, but it's it's going
to be important to kind of keep these spirits up in that locker room and
in the FA based they'll be able to tell throughout the way. UH.
That's that's just gonna be the most important thing. I mean, you can
you can lose games, but you can't not be competitive, and so far
we're seeing the best of both worlds. What the necessary medicine is for this
organization, you know, find out a lot about your coaching staff, your
players who you've been moved forward with, and then also maybe be in the
best position possible to draft the best players come next next Springs draft. So
I'm curious, how long have you been covering the team and how young are
you? And I asked that from two old dudes. Yeah, I mean,
not that young any longer. But I've been covering the team for over
a decade. Started at Fox Sports nine ten, the ir Heart affiliate up
here in Phoenix. UH, covered the Cardinals and and got got a press
credential that way back at the end of the ken Wizzen Hunt Europe and then
you know, went from there and I'm in the late late thirties. Okay,
so perfect question. Then, So I wanted to engage your your fandom,
not your fandom, but the fan base because you've seen it, you've
seen it for for a while. Now, can they continue to be patient
and are they? Wow? Man? That that's that's a really tough question.
I mean, if you looked at the stands on Sunday, you would
have seen that the patients has kind of run out and there wasn't a huge
appetite for the beginning of another rebuild. I mean, it's going to take
a lot of faith from fans that to buy into another rebuild and say,
hey, this, we've got it wrong the previous ten times and now we're
going to get it right this time. But I think that you're seeing some
encouraging things from Gannon and Mania Support, who took over for the time,
who left this the organization ceremoniously in December resigned. You know, it's it
is tough to be at the very beginning of this, but to see like
the positive direction and already see all the draft capital that they've accumulated, and
we're gonna make a decision as far as what the franchise quarterback is, you
know, soon after the season. I think that that's it's a it's a
it's I don't know, it's exciting is the right word. But uh,
it just really feels like, for the first time or a long time,
things are trending slowly, albeit in the right direction. So if you didn't
have a big fan base over the weekend, I guarantee you'll have one on
Sunday. But they'll be worrying Blue. I was just gonna say, now
you got the you got the Cowboys coming in for what will probably be more
of a home game for them. Yeah, it's gonna be. That's always
a tough pill to swallow, but I mean that's they travel so well,
they're all over the place. It's it's kind of a disease. It's it's
across the United States being Cowboys fan. I'm glad I got over my disease.
It is it is and they're and they're you know, they're they're not
fun. They're not fun. Kind of wait, because they're you know the
Cowboys. Here's the here it is, here's why, because the Cowboys haven't
been good, but they think they should have should be Wait wait, wait
this boat. Let me tell you this is coming from a Dodgers guy.
Well, they haven't won a World Series in a thousand years until a couple
of years ago exactly. So tell you, right, So tell us a
little bit about what what need what needs fixing more than anything? Obviously,
you know you got you got Kyler Murray on the sidelines, and I'm gonna
ask you about him in a second. But what needs fixing? Is it?
Is it stuff on the field? Is it? Culture? Is it?
You know? Management of the roster? I mean, where do you
think the big issue is right now? You know it was there was so
many issues and they had to clean up such a mass from the previous regime
that it was trucked to really kind of PenPoint. But you know, the
roster is is one where it can kind of pivot in any direction. But
you know, I think that the biggest thing is if there's not a whole
lot of talent on this roster, and they want to be a draft and
developed team, so it's gonna come via the draft next spring, so that's
where they're going to kind of expedite this rebuild that way. And then as
far as the culture, there's been an extreme culture shift with this organization.
You know. DJ Humphreys, their left tackle, said, uh, you
know, this was a culture shock. So things have changed drastically as far
as the people kind of making the decisions there for the Arizona Cardinals, and
I think people are excited about, you know, the direction that it's going.
So, you know, with with a better culture in place and soon
to get some better players on the roster and hopefully better drafting and developing.
You know, I think that that finally some consistency you'll see through this organization
going forward. That does Gannon look like he was ready for this job?
Yeah? He does. I mean he was completely prepared for this. This
was a job that he turned out maybe some collegiate opportunities because he was dead
set on being an NFL coach and this is this is the job that he
wanted and he was prepared for it. You know, people ask, well,
did he compromise his preparation for the Super Bowl? Uh? In order
to get ready for this job? And I'd say no, I mean this
is a job that he'd been preparing for for his entire coaching career, and
Monti Austin Ford identified him the previous summer, and he saw that he was
an up and coming guy as far as leader of NFL players, and you're
starting to see that, you know, he's really got the command of that
locker room here in Arizona. How I don't want to go backwards, but
I'm going to do it anyway. How bad of a decision was hiring Cliff
because it didn't make any sense at the beginning nor at the end. Yeah,
it was a bad decision. It was one of the more unprecedented moves
in NFL history to take a guy who's a failed to college coach thirty five
forty at Texas Tech, fired from his alma monitor uh, and then make
him an NFL coach. It was It was really one of those weird,
weird moves. But you know, it really was unfortunate, and you know,
it looked like it might have been the right move because you saw him
improve your year in and year out. He went three wins, the five
wins, eight wins, solemn wins, and then he fell off a cliff
for lack of a better term, and Max now he's the quarterback coach for
USC and probably a better spot for him. Yeah, made no sense to
me go ahead and ask me a question. Okay, so Kyler Murray.
First of all, I'm not even get into whether or not they should have
signed him do this contract. But I need a backup quarterback. And my
fantasy football team, I had Aaron Rodgers and I drafted him as a backup.
He's out. I need a backup quarterback. Kyler Murray's out there and
available in free agency in our in our fantasy league. Do I go get
it or not? I would hold off on that. I think he's still
got time. I mean, he posted on TikTok today that he wants to
be back soon, but this is a serious injury, and I think they're
gonna take their time. He's got He's at least out the next two weeks,
right, He's right. I would I would hold off of that,
and you could probably wait until he's at least activated and they'll get him up
to speed practice wise, and then maybe that might be the time to jump
in on Kyler Murray early and you'll still have enough time. What's the what's
the what's the thinking on whether or not he's going to be any good this
year or how long it's going to take him to get good. No,
I mean I think that the thinking is he's gonna get right back in there,
and he's gonna have a new offense that he's gonna play in, and
he's gonna, you know, uh, kind of revert back a couple of
years where he was on the right trajectory, and new coaching staff and in
better situation should bode well for for Kyler Murray. So uh yeah, I
think it's going to be something to look forward to for Cardinals fans. So,
uh, guys, I gotta run. I gotta get jumped on my
own show. I appreciate the thank you, thank you, Okay, bo,
we appreciate it, man, Thank you much. She will thank you
very much. Take care. Yeah, bo Bo. I was gonna ask
him, does he believe that I'm not come there? I'm doing two hundred
thousand miles away from Phoenix, right, So what do I know? But
I know he's a smallest quarterback who has to scramble out to be effective,
and he's already been hurt a few times. I'm not buying. I'm selling
I only need it for like two games. Well and then like when,
like when Trevor Lawrence has a has a bye week. I was gonna tell
both realize that with Jay's asking you, because this history is not good with
quarterbacks or players. So Aaron Rodgers going, what the hell happens? Yeah,
something in Arizona's making me twitch. You're giving me the hiccups. All
right, let's take our last break. Oh God, hiccups. You're gonna
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here you go, Steve. According to Draft Kings, of the top eight
Heisman top eight in the odds to win the Heisman Trophy, how many of
those are pac twelve players Top eight, Top eight, three four four out
of eight Williams Caleb Williams is the fave plus three sixty. Michael Pennocks is
next at plus five hundreds. So Arizona's got those two guys coming up after
this Stanford game. They're in the next two weeks. After that, You've
got uh, Shdoor Sanders, that's the sixth player plus eighteen hundred, eighteen
hundred, and then bow Knicks at Oregon at plus twenty five hundred. Four
of the top eight candidate or eight odds to win the Heisman Trophy are Pack
twelve quarterbacks. As a scary thought, Arizona doesn't have to play bow Knicks.
They do have to play Shador Sanders. They do have to play Michael
Pennocks, and they do have to play. Caleb Williams quinn yours is in
there. Sam Harbin from Notre Dame, the quarterback and Notre Dame is in
there. Jordan Travis, the QB at Florid State is in there, and
Jayden Daniels, the former a SU guy not the quarterback at LSU is in
there. The highest rated receiver or non quarterback is Marvin Harrison Junior, who
is I guess in the ten spot at plus twenty eight hundred. So I'm
you know, I'm sticking with Michael Pennocks. Man. He's uh, he's
the real deal. You know. It's kind of funny. I alluded to
this in the conversation I had. He's like that left handed hitter who's just
got a beautiful swing. Right. We always talk about how left handed baseball
players just have incredibly fluid swings. He lets he lets go of the ball
and it's like no effort and he'll throw it away the hell down the field.
He is really good. Yeah, I think he's really really good.
Anyways. All right, ay do you see Nick Folk AFC Special Teams players.
He's older than dirt, isn't he Yeah, but Dirt can still kick.
I'll have double Kick'll have double dirt. He had he had a game
winner, uh in overtime against U Who did they beat? They beat the
Chargers. My dark horse super Bowl team is over too. Yeah, they're
done. They need a court, they need a coach, they need a
coach. He's not he's not capable of giving him. He sorry, justin
sorry, Jake. He's not the guy. He's just not the guy.
I mean, how many how many years do you need to know or see
to see that he's not the guy, because they've been kind of this way
all the one and it seems like they got good players, right, Yeah,
just got one a better christin Herberts than elite quarterback. Yeah, I
think, and they've been in Dames. But if you can't win these games,
will they come back that or the game that they blew in the playoffs
Jacksonville? Exactly exactly. And he's a young dude. They got the guy
from Washington Dallas, right, the offensive coordinator that's not gonna help Dallas couldn't
use him. Yeah, it's just kind of like shifting shifting chairs on the
Titanic. Honestly, come on, this team is better than two and all
I yelled the justin Justin spears he's pretty crying. She is the emotion from
him, poor guy, Justin, You're not gonna make it to thirty weeks.
Jump off this team, please or listen to me. Don't don't follow
sports. Oh my gosh, I like tested, what the what the hell?
You know? The Chargers? I mean, you know they're making me
look bad? He goes, they're making me look bad. I haven't seen
any of his emojis. The picture came out once going of him laying on
his side. Yeah, that's all he needs to do is make one of
those. Michael Jordan with his face of the one of those that'd be fun.
But man, you know again and who they gut this week? Steve?
I remember, I don't know. Let's see, I'm gonna see because
again, like they're one of those teams where you think they gotta come out
of this, right they gotta win a game. But I kind of thought
that about the Bengals right there. The Bengals can't lose again because because they
you know, they lose again their screen, who's their backup? Do we
determine who they're backup? Was Cincinnati. Maybe they're not as good as we
thought when they were and they needed him. He's been out, he was
out six weeks before he came back. Well, he looks like he hasn't
played right. He looks like he was not ready for this. Yeah.
Yeah, the Chargers. The Chargers are at Minnesota and their favor by excuse
me. At one point, Okay, I've got a call, you know
it called maybe that's justin thoutas that we're good badmouth in his Chargers. Hi,
you're on the air and I on the ball. How's it going today?
What's up? Brian? Just calling about the game this King this Saturday.
All right, man, what do you think they should win? You
know, there's no doubt about it. As long as they don't make mistakes,
they'll win the game. You know, they beat you death. They
made what the one mistake? Yeah? One turnover? Yeah, the one
turnover and it uh. You know this, this team doesn't have they have
that, they don't have any They have to make sure that they win a
turnover battle every game, every game they have a chance to win. And
Jed made a point that they haven't done that yet. That you know,
obviously that all the turnovers they had against them a Mississippi State up and they
were equal in the also in the NAU game, so they haven't had the
turnovers. Yeah, you know, I mean, I mean, you are
playing U Tap and you know the only thing that probably disappointed me about the
U Tap game. You know, I didn't care we only scored thirty one
points. Whatever hell it was, it didn't matter to me. I didn't
think our defensive line put enough pressure on that quarterback. Okay, and that
quarterback missed a lot of throws of people that were wide open. Yeah,
and we're gonna we're gonna have to get better penetration on the defensive line because
there's no more gimmeis even though suppose league Stanford, but we don't know what
Stanford is going to be. They won their first game and they laid in
the second game, so you know they are playing at home. Conference open
there for him. You know, you never can't tell I have no idea.
Let me ask you for you to feel good about a win, do
they have to beat the hell out of them or are you going to be
happy with any win? No, I'm happy with the clean win, Okay,
all right, I mean it has to be. Okay, I look
at who they're playing. I mean, I was happy with the win.
I was. I thought they played a very good game. You know.
They weren't out there trying to throw the ball seventy eighty yards down the field
whatever, just methodically moved the ball, did a very good job at it.
Okay, I hear you. Yeah, you know, and you know
to me, that will win games to me because they could control the clock,
control the ball on both sides, and we have a we have a
good shot to meet that six win. Okay. Steve thinks are gonna win
eight? Steve thinks are gonna win eight? Who's gonna Steve said that.
You know, that's not right. The only way Steve wouldson are gonna win
eight is they combined two years. Thanks for listening, all right. Obviously
you guys must have gone to Rostico again and Jay forgot what's going on that
could happen. No, I still think that's gonna be fine. It's gonna
be five or six. That's the way I look at it. I think
so too. Yeah, I think you know, I'm I still think it's
six. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't six. And that's sort of the
line that's sort of the continues to be the line this year, right,
And they're right where we thought they would be. They're tuning one, but
that's where we thought. Okay, yeah, okay, Brian, thanks much,
mank you soon later. Brian's always good in this call. Yeah,
yeah, I wish I had a partner like that. I can be eleven
though you can't be. I'm not even gonna try and go there. I'm
definitely not gonna go there. You know, I don't know. I again,
you kind of want them to be impressive, right, you want airs
wanted to be impressive, to beat the hell out of somebody one time to
maybe but you know, going I know, maybe maybe maybe I'm too I've
got too much Dick Tomy and me and said to say, you go on
the road in the PAC twelve and you win a game, you take any
win you get, of course, thirteen to twelve or you know, fifty
to twenty, of course. But but Jay, if they went fifteen to
twelve, you're worried. You're gonna be Yeah, You're worried because then you
got Washington coming into town, right, I mean, you feel like you
want to see him go put forty on the board. Yeah, you want
to. You want to see them continue to get better against a perceived bad
team. Will happen? Who knows, but you think it should happen,
right, you know this team, If this team is better and considered better
offensively and defensively, shouldn't they beat this team by twenties? Should eleven and
a half? I think it's really low. I like the number. I
really do. I really do, even on the road, and we know
how how typicult it is to r. I hate double digit favorites on the
road. But how college are you say that? Okay, so, how
how are you doing this year? I'm terrible? Go the other go the
other way. Your theories aren't working nothing. I want to give you a
point with this. I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know all the theories. I've gotten four out of fifteen games.
Right, how are you doing this year? You know? Somebody just joined
the pool and I'm only two ahead of them. They missed the first three
weeks and I'm feel only two ahead. That person could be ahead of me
by next by the end of the week. Yeah, I hate that,
all right, Okay, Well, good stuff today, Greg mckinstrey. Really,
I really love hearing these stories of these these high school football coaches that
are coming here taking over programs that have been just you know, tough programs
to have, and they're they're doing stuff with him. I think that's really
cool. So, you know, good on for Greg McKinstry and the other
the other young guys that are coming here and coaching uh in in Tucson.
And then bo Brack gives somebody tell me not to pick up Kyler Murray yet,
So all right, I'll take his advice and let that guy sit for
a little bit. Yeah. No, In fact, he's already texting me
when can he get the copy of the thing? So you put the podcast
up right, you'll go up if on the iHeart website, and if I
get around to it, also get it up on Facebook and if I can,
if I can say something real quick, we're very popular, were popular
on on podcast right, you can find us there. I thought yesterday show
was very very good with Live and Good and with Bob Davey. If you
didn't have a chance to listen to it, you should. It was a
good, good, good two hours. Both of those guys were really good.
Both of those guys were really good anyways. All right, hey,
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