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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to I'm the Ball, Lovely Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Here filling it for Steve real quick as he gets
Speaker 2: settled in.
Speaker 3: Thank you one, yeah, thank you one man. I have
Speaker 3: a show to do, I think, so I didn't realize.
Speaker 4: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 3: Our guests today are in house. Guest, of course, is
Speaker 3: mister Tim Bentley.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, how's everybody doing?
Speaker 4: Have I told to you since you went to New York?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but we did the marathon.
Speaker 7: I went there and watched it was like the super
Speaker 7: Bowl of marathons in New York.
Speaker 4: City, haven't we you've been back since?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about We talked about all the money
Speaker 6: you tried to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah I've got.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've talked about that.
Speaker 7: So I think where we left the last time was
Speaker 7: we were we were all excited about the big twelve
Speaker 7: Championship cross the country meet.
Speaker 6: Oh that's you've been texting me. You want to know
Speaker 6: what's going on?
Speaker 4: You mean you got another on Facebook on your phone?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that. Who's game. They were there.
Speaker 6: They didn't lose.
Speaker 4: It was a bye.
Speaker 7: They didn't were we were We had three points favor
Speaker 7: we were favored by three.
Speaker 4: You go into tonight's game, guys.
Speaker 7: No, there's you know, you can watch it on TV.
Speaker 7: There's so much going on today, right, I mean, there's
Speaker 7: the basketball game.
Speaker 6: Football game.
Speaker 7: There's the Tyson fight if that's if you're into that, you.
Speaker 4: Know, because that's the most talked about it is.
Speaker 7: It's as wild as crazy. And then you know, so
Speaker 7: just tons of stuff. I don't think I'm going to
Speaker 7: venture out that way.
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, so then don't stop there. High school football.
Speaker 7: There's high school football that's going on. Then there was
Speaker 7: regional championships for cross country. Today this is going to
Speaker 7: be like put.
Speaker 6: On your shoes.
Speaker 7: We're gonna change the name from Eye on the Ball
Speaker 7: to put on your shoes.
Speaker 3: Put on your get you right off. And then what
Speaker 3: else is there? Mister goody two shoes?
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 3: I forgot about that. So bull riding it's happening. So
Speaker 3: it's bull writing. Then nothing else bulling. Okay I thought
Speaker 3: it was rollo.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's the professional bull riding.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're starting their season on Leash the Beast starting it
Speaker 2: here in Tucson and in Arlington a T and T
Speaker 2: Stadium with I think they call it World Championships, but
Speaker 2: they're starting their season here in.
Speaker 4: Tucson and that's just TC Tcson Arena.
Speaker 6: Have you ever been to a rodeo?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did watch those bulls, Yes, I did.
Speaker 3: In fact, I just did a big story for the
Speaker 3: Tucson on the the Tucson Rodeo. It's one hundred year
Speaker 3: anniversary this year.
Speaker 4: That you didn't know, So I did a big story
Speaker 4: about that. You knew that I didn't.
Speaker 2: Did you know that I did a little class projects
Speaker 2: on the parade last year?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and it was their ninety ninth and yeah,
Speaker 2: so it was kind of a preview going into them.
Speaker 3: So I just finished writing that that'll be the next issue.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, but I have So where are you
Speaker 3: gonna go with this?
Speaker 7: Well, just just being at the rodeo when I used
Speaker 7: to work at all two on studios and we would
Speaker 7: do the college Rodeo Championships out there and just to
Speaker 7: watch those bulls and and you know, and those cowboys
Speaker 7: and cowgirls, man, they are they are tough.
Speaker 6: They'll punch you right in the face, man, and they
Speaker 6: just get right on that.
Speaker 4: And then the those talent, those dudes I think i'd put.
Speaker 3: I put them second to the dudes I would mess
Speaker 3: with if I were stupid, which of course is debatable
Speaker 3: because they could be.
Speaker 4: Uh, because wrestlers are Wrestlers are wiring and tough. You know,
Speaker 4: you know, everything angles and can build the crap out.
Speaker 6: Of you just hurts you and put you in a
Speaker 6: weir position.
Speaker 4: Bull riders would be second.
Speaker 3: Then maybe UFC guys third, UFC ladies, the guys both.
Speaker 7: You don't want to You want to know the toughest
Speaker 7: people I've ever met in my life, and I used
Speaker 7: to think it was until I met emergency room nurses.
Speaker 10: He tells me.
Speaker 7: Stories and I'm telling you, man, they they are not
Speaker 7: afraid of anything. If you're ever in a bar fight,
Speaker 7: you know, don't call them for backup because they will
Speaker 7: come and fix things for you.
Speaker 3: It's funny you say that, because my son is in
Speaker 3: the nurse He tells me the stuff that comes in
Speaker 3: and he's over.
Speaker 4: He's later in the day, you know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, if you're working second or third shift, you
Speaker 7: are seeing some things. So yeah, those those folks are tough,
Speaker 7: and you know, I mean not being of service, but
Speaker 7: then the things that they see and the things they
Speaker 7: do every day. So I mean, I sports is great,
Speaker 7: and you know those cowboys, and I think the emergency
Speaker 7: room nurses are going to fix those cowboys when they
Speaker 7: come in falling off the bowl.
Speaker 4: But yeah, what have then they've seen, right, those nurses, the.
Speaker 7: Stories, the stories that they tell, it is, you know,
Speaker 7: so being of service. You know, next time you see
Speaker 7: a nurse or somebody in scrubs, give give them a
Speaker 7: high five and the thanks because they do some good work.
Speaker 4: Right yeah, no, no question, because you'll need them. I
Speaker 4: know I needed a month ago exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so cool, I thank you one for that
Speaker 3: bull story. I was gonna say something else, but I
Speaker 3: fly with that. So you're going the game because you
Speaker 3: have to cover it, sir, Yeah, I'll be there. You're what,
Speaker 3: you're three and eight covering teams? What do you mean
Speaker 3: your record of covering teams?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, three three and six, three and six?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well I'm already giving you two more losses. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and and that and then basketball, right, they're gonna
Speaker 3: play the game or broadcasting game at least in the
Speaker 3: first half.
Speaker 6: Heard they're gonna they're gonna be able to watch the
Speaker 6: first half.
Speaker 7: And and I know we were talking about who's gonna
Speaker 7: be calling the game tonight. I mean there's there's you
Speaker 7: have eight people going everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my guest would be Brody jeff Brand, Jeffrey's son.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but Brian I made the wist
Speaker 3: choice of covering basketball rather than football. I think this
Speaker 3: is one of the rare, rare times he's ever missed
Speaker 3: a game either way.
Speaker 6: Either way, he usually makes it. He usually makes it work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'd fly in the last it for something. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I think it's gonna be a ton of fun.
Speaker 7: And it's a little bit later start, so it means
Speaker 7: football football tonight.
Speaker 6: And then so if you're going.
Speaker 3: What gives you that idea, don't lose me here, what
Speaker 3: gives you that idea?
Speaker 7: That's gonna be a little bit more fun because it's
Speaker 7: a little later, it's not gonna you know, the weather's
Speaker 7: been pretty good, so you can tailgate a little longer
Speaker 7: if you'd like.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're not talking football, No, I'm.
Speaker 7: Talking about the tailgate. I drove by there today. It
Speaker 7: looks like it's already going.
Speaker 4: That makes sense. I'm glad you clarify. I'm glad you're clearfy.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, so I'll be I'll be to be watching
Speaker 3: the games as a fan or just an observer.
Speaker 2: Can you be a fan you kind of trying to
Speaker 2: be still for while I'm covering? Yeah, no, I can't
Speaker 2: be a fan at all. Yeah, you just have to have.
Speaker 4: To tone it down.
Speaker 2: You know when I when I hear the bear down
Speaker 2: the fight song, I'll be tapping my toes. You want
Speaker 2: to get up or you want to you want to,
Speaker 2: I'll be silently.
Speaker 4: Clapping, But no, I will, I will.
Speaker 2: I'll try to keep my emotions down. It should be
Speaker 2: shouldn't be too hard to well.
Speaker 3: Is one of the winnable games, don't you think the
Speaker 3: spread is?
Speaker 6: What one and a half it looks like? Or the
Speaker 6: last time I saw is or Houston?
Speaker 4: Houston, Houston? They want a three straight? Right? Three straight?
Speaker 2: There was three out of their last four, good last four?
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe Utah they bea Kansas State Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, which was so two pretty good teams. I mean,
Speaker 7: at least early on kanas State. Yeah yeah, and and
Speaker 7: uh you know, but I was looking we were talking
Speaker 7: a little bit. You know, they're averaging fifteen or sixteen
Speaker 7: points a game. We're averaging twenty.
Speaker 3: Two twenty two, and that's generous because of the first time.
Speaker 7: If you cross, if you got, if you squinch your
Speaker 7: eyes and forget about those hundred points in those two games,
Speaker 7: we're pretty good.
Speaker 4: But you can't through there, I know. So it's yeah,
Speaker 4: I think my.
Speaker 3: Ex wife is on my resume as usus. I can't
Speaker 3: wipe that baby.
Speaker 6: But if you squint, you know, it's it's like that's
Speaker 6: a long time ago. That was a long time.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're having a face reality here.
Speaker 3: Yes, so we'll see. I mean, they're they're I think
Speaker 3: we were at the casino yes with Jay and mister
Speaker 3: jeez uh, mister so, Edgar so and and they're optimistic
Speaker 3: and Edgar didn't kind of get involved in the conversation.
Speaker 4: But Jay is.
Speaker 3: He's still holding not hope, you know, I heard him yesterday.
Speaker 3: He can hold if you have hope, you can still
Speaker 3: hold out. But like I said, you know, if this
Speaker 3: was a horse and and this is kind of just
Speaker 3: my analogy, and you're getting beat by ten links seven
Speaker 3: links a race, and this been the case because it's
Speaker 3: not been close.
Speaker 4: What gives you reason that this horse is going to
Speaker 4: win this race?
Speaker 7: Those long shot horses, man, those ones that are fifty
Speaker 7: to one odds, you know, that's that's the Jay's betting,
Speaker 7: betting on a long long shot.
Speaker 3: And he did better. He picked He picked a reson
Speaker 3: to win, which is fine with me. I'm gonna probably
Speaker 3: be totally wrong. Brian was there too, He listened. Brian's
Speaker 3: with me too. I mean, are you lying eyes lying
Speaker 3: to you?
Speaker 6: No way?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 7: I mean, look, I I love you of a sports
Speaker 7: and I love to be in a town where we
Speaker 7: celebrate to you of a sports.
Speaker 6: But no, not right now.
Speaker 7: I just I think there's an eye on I don't
Speaker 7: even know if there's an eye on the ASU game.
Speaker 7: I know we're all thinking, well, let's get get to
Speaker 7: a SU and win. I don't know if the players
Speaker 7: are even thinking that.
Speaker 4: No. I think it's like where's the exit.
Speaker 6: Right, you know? So like let's just you know, were you.
Speaker 4: At the press conference? No? I didn't go to any
Speaker 4: other press conferences this week?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Same? Well stuff? Really well, you know, Brendan's not going
Speaker 4: to inspire you.
Speaker 2: This is not and he's facing an uppill challenge he's
Speaker 2: just he's going trying to just go game by game,
Speaker 2: day by day.
Speaker 3: Right, which which of course he should, right, But it's
Speaker 3: not with any inspiration. I mean, not that, not that
Speaker 3: that is a qualifier or whatever. You just gotta go
Speaker 3: out and win. Do they have the players to do it?
Speaker 4: Who knows.
Speaker 3: But you know the thing about it is And I'm
Speaker 3: and by the way, anybody who wants to stick around
Speaker 3: from five to six, I'm gonna have the A team
Speaker 3: show with the Byron Evans and David Adams. Uh And
Speaker 3: there's two different opinions from the guys. But if you
Speaker 3: don't have the horses to win, and and and we
Speaker 3: talk more about Arizona, right, but there's another team and
Speaker 3: you have to kind of worry about the other team.
Speaker 3: And this team is halfway decent.
Speaker 7: Coming in well and and you know we talk about this,
Speaker 7: you know, our our losing streak. And if they're if
Speaker 7: they've won three out of four, they're probably feeling pretty good. Sure,
Speaker 7: And they're looking at at Arizona looking their chops. I like, hey,
Speaker 7: you know, there's there's there's a couple of holes, you
Speaker 7: know they I was just looking at their their their
Speaker 7: lead rusher here Rashwan. You know, he's averaging close to
Speaker 7: five yards of Cary's probably thinking, hey man, I could
Speaker 7: probably hit for a pretty good game if if it
Speaker 7: goes right.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, they're flipping there.
Speaker 7: They're looking at it like an opportunity where we're looking
Speaker 7: like we just got to get through.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: In the last three weeks, who were they, uh, West Virginia, Colorado,
Speaker 3: West Virginia and the Central Okay, so you have Colorado
Speaker 3: at home and at the time, I think you're saying.
Speaker 4: Okay, we've got a chance.
Speaker 3: We've been the last year, we got a chance, right,
Speaker 3: and well that chance went away and the kickoff pretty much.
Speaker 3: And then you play West Virginia at home, another team
Speaker 3: that's not doing as well, and you think, okay, this
Speaker 3: will be our win.
Speaker 4: You don't show up.
Speaker 3: You go to Florida in the game that okay, we
Speaker 3: have to play well to win, and that was not
Speaker 3: even close.
Speaker 2: So some might call it an astronomical disaster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you could stop.
Speaker 7: It was that right after the hurricane. Can we blame
Speaker 7: the hurricane? Can we find and can we find something for.
Speaker 6: The hurricane Hurricane Helene?
Speaker 2: What most fans are just trying to get out is
Speaker 2: that it was the space game for UCF. Then the
Speaker 2: uniforms inspired by NASA and all that stuff. So they
Speaker 2: they blow out teams when they wear those uniforms.
Speaker 6: Can we get some of those? I think we got
Speaker 6: a big space president.
Speaker 4: We talked about that.
Speaker 3: If you listen to us tim all the time, maybe
Speaker 3: this is before you got here. One about the look good,
Speaker 3: play good you've heard we used that beat the crap
Speaker 3: out of that thinking I don't care, give a crap,
Speaker 3: and be sure to hit the button, kiss like that.
Speaker 3: I don't give a crap, what the hell you're wearing.
Speaker 3: Just win the damn game if you look like crap
Speaker 3: and you win. And that's when I was younger and
Speaker 3: I played with pretty good teams.
Speaker 4: Would we jeans and a T.
Speaker 3: Shirt with a number on our back and we beat
Speaker 3: the hell out of teams we looked like crap and
Speaker 3: people would say, you guys, don't look then we beat
Speaker 3: the crap out.
Speaker 4: Well this is the good.
Speaker 3: Look at how well dressed they are, Okay, yeah, look
Speaker 3: at their cleats and their socks and their leggings. Yeah right,
Speaker 3: that doesn't help you hit the ball. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 7: I do And when we when I coached cross country
Speaker 7: and track, we'd watch these kids get off the bus
Speaker 7: and they would getting off.
Speaker 6: A motor coach and you know, their bags.
Speaker 7: Match, and my kids are like, you know, a little
Speaker 7: little short guys, little short ladies, and none of the
Speaker 7: uniforms match.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, you know, let's.
Speaker 4: The show, exactly, says So you get my point.
Speaker 3: So B and J go back and forth with this,
Speaker 3: and I know where I stand and I'm a fine
Speaker 3: with that. Put me in a gunnysack and give me
Speaker 3: a number and let's go.
Speaker 4: I would I would flip it a little bit.
Speaker 7: If Jay is going to say, looking feel good, I
Speaker 7: would say practice could play good. And I think I
Speaker 7: think your I think the baseball coach said that is yeah,
Speaker 7: is practice and play well.
Speaker 3: Let me go with this thing, because we're gonna go
Speaker 3: here in a little bit. Coach Brennan has continued to
Speaker 3: say that he's not uh discouraged by anything because practice
Speaker 3: has been great. They played hard, there's a lot of motivation.
Speaker 3: He said that for the last few weeks. At some point,
Speaker 3: shouldn't that it's got a showing exactly.
Speaker 7: I've said it a couple of times. Is do something easy,
Speaker 7: do something that you can have success right away for
Speaker 7: the first couple you know, and you've heard people they
Speaker 7: script anything you can do just to break the ice
Speaker 7: so that there's some momentum going, you know, get past that,
Speaker 7: you know, three and out, just have a couple of wins.
Speaker 4: I think had been doing that.
Speaker 3: They scored first kind of you got it, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is it, and then you didn't see it again, and
Speaker 3: not just once, it's happened a few times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, I.
Speaker 2: Think I think something that also kills them is the
Speaker 2: middle eight, uh, the last four minutes of the first
Speaker 2: first half. In the first four of the second half,
Speaker 2: they've been outscored. There's a white gap between the between
Speaker 2: Arizona and.
Speaker 3: The and that's not good because you go into the
Speaker 3: half beaten and you come out of the half beaten,
Speaker 3: and then you try to catch up and by that
Speaker 3: time you're too beaten, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, so we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna take a break, come back on the other side.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have Joseph Dwartdeff from the Houston Chronicle. He
Speaker 3: covers the Cougars out of Houston, and then the second
Speaker 3: half hour we're gonna have our usual Friday guy, Jake Fisher.
Speaker 3: Let's see how optimistic Hey is about this program, because
Speaker 3: you know he's mister an optimist.
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Speaker 10: Breaking down all they says and ohs. This is I
Speaker 10: on the Ball with Steve Rivera on Fox Sports fourteen
Speaker 10: fifty eight.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Going the Ball here on Fox Sports
Speaker 3: fourteen fifteen. I'm Steve Rivera, and today with me is
Speaker 3: Tim Bentley. Now on the phone, we have Joseph Dwartde
Speaker 3: from the Houston Chronicle.
Speaker 4: Joseph, how you doing? Hey?
Speaker 16: See how you doing?
Speaker 4: We're doing fine?
Speaker 3: I'm sure because I think you came in yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 3: You got up wherever hotel you're you're at, and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping you're at a nice one. You got him says, Hey,
Speaker 3: this Tucson area is pretty nice looking at chrisp.
Speaker 16: Weather, anything is chrispher than the weather at Houston, we
Speaker 16: either get a massive heat or hurricane, so there's there's
Speaker 16: really often no in between. So yeah, loving the weather here.
Speaker 16: Not my first time to Tucson, but it's it's always
Speaker 16: a nice change of pace, especially the com of year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, great. Do you cover basketball as well?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 16: I cover all sports, primarily to focus on is on
Speaker 16: football and men's basketball.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let me let's go to basketball first because
Speaker 3: I'm just curious, I think very highly infected. Next time
Speaker 3: you see him, mister Kelvin Samson, who's done a fantastic
Speaker 3: job out in Houston, covered him when he was at
Speaker 3: Washington State and he was part of the Pac Pac
Speaker 3: ten back then, a fan favorite down here. So you know,
Speaker 3: how is it covering him in the Cougars.
Speaker 16: Well, I mean, you know, this is his eleventh season
Speaker 16: and seeing where the program was when he got here,
Speaker 16: with the facilities, they either didn't exist or they were
Speaker 16: falling apart and the lack of winning. Uh, you know,
Speaker 16: this is a national title contender now every year. Got
Speaker 16: a great, great arena, great practice facility. And oh, by
Speaker 16: the way, yesterday they land what some considered the number
Speaker 16: one point guard in the country. He already had the
Speaker 16: number one shooting guard signedee in the country and he's
Speaker 16: also in line for the number one big man the cutries.
Speaker 16: So they've really ramped things up, not only with the
Speaker 16: consistent winning and tournament and sweet sixteens and final fours,
Speaker 16: but also the level of talent that he's getting in
Speaker 16: every year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, and he's a heck of a coach.
Speaker 3: Arizona found that out a couple of years ago in
Speaker 3: the tournament. We've known him for a while. They're tough dudes.
Speaker 3: Last year I thought that you guys would win it.
Speaker 3: I picked him to win it, and then the guard
Speaker 3: goes down with the injury.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that was tough. When you have your All American
Speaker 16: and Defensive Player of the Year point guard Jamal Ship
Speaker 16: go down with that ancle injury in the first half
Speaker 16: against the Duke. There just wasn't any way to overcome that.
Speaker 16: That should have probably been a final four team in
Speaker 16: the year that you were talking about, where Arizona was
Speaker 16: the number one seed down in San Antonio and Houston
Speaker 16: beats them pretty good, and then the following game in
Speaker 16: the Elite Eight, they go I believe it was two
Speaker 16: for twenty two on three against Villanova and lose forty
Speaker 16: eight forty four. I believe that that probably could have
Speaker 16: been another Final four team. So he's had some close calls,
Speaker 16: only one Final Four to date. But but yeah, this
Speaker 16: is a Arizona's gonna I think, you know, just knowing
Speaker 16: their history with Pac twelve and Pack tens, they're going
Speaker 16: to really like coming into the Big twelve. Because basketball wise,
Speaker 16: with Kansas, Houston, Iowa State, Baylor, Texas TEK, it's a
Speaker 16: really solid league from top to bottom.
Speaker 6: That's that's a good point. I'm glad you said that.
Speaker 6: This is Tim Bentley, it's good talking to you.
Speaker 7: I want to tell you that the coldest and hottest
Speaker 7: Christmas I've ever spent in my life two different Christmases.
Speaker 7: They were both in Houston when it was like ninety
Speaker 7: two degrees and the one it was like negative four
Speaker 7: degrees and all those freeways froze, and so I understand
Speaker 7: the weather you talk about entering the Big Twelve and
Speaker 7: that U of A Is going to like it. You know,
Speaker 7: I think our fans here in Tuson might be a
Speaker 7: little disillusion We thought it might be a little easier
Speaker 7: coming into the US into the Big Twelve. I mean,
Speaker 7: what did did the Houston fans go through anything similar
Speaker 7: or were there any growing pains?
Speaker 16: Well, the Houston fans waited kind of wandered in the
Speaker 16: desert for for thirty years after the Southwest Conference broke up,
Speaker 16: so they were anxious to get into the major conference
Speaker 16: discussion again. But when they got in, you know, Houston
Speaker 16: lost two in a row to begin conference play and
Speaker 16: they hadn't lost back to back games in about five
Speaker 16: years prior to join the Big Twelve. They lost to
Speaker 16: Iowa State and then the TCU. But then after that
Speaker 16: I think they reeled off. It was fifty fifteen of
Speaker 16: the next sixteen games they won, and then they won
Speaker 16: the Big Twelve by two games. So yes, and that
Speaker 16: was with Texas still in it in Oklahoma before they
Speaker 16: left it for some you know, if your UCF b yu,
Speaker 16: I mean they had taken them a little while to acclimate.
Speaker 16: Houston really just came in and stormed the conference. I
Speaker 16: don't even think they thought that they'd have that type
Speaker 16: of introductions to the league. And when you look at
Speaker 16: what Arizona is and how they have historically been, I
Speaker 16: think they could have a similar impact where you know,
Speaker 16: this is probably a four team race maybe in the
Speaker 16: Big Twelve with the Arizona, Kansas, Houston, and Iowa State,
Speaker 16: maybe Baylor. But it's certainly what I learned is going
Speaker 16: from game to game, it's a grind. I mean, it's
Speaker 16: literally a heavyweight fight every single night in the Big twelves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, And let's go with that. We'll go
Speaker 3: to the football program where Arizona's finding that out right
Speaker 3: right away. Hasn't really had a lot of any success
Speaker 3: in the Big Twelve, and Houston was struggling, but now
Speaker 3: they're doing well.
Speaker 4: What's been the turnaround for Houston.
Speaker 16: Well, you know, it starts a couple of things. They
Speaker 16: made a change of quarterback Donovan Smith, who had come
Speaker 16: in from Texas Tech last year. He had started most
Speaker 16: of the last year and a half. They switched it
Speaker 16: out from him to Xeon Chris really early early in
Speaker 16: Big Twelve play and since then, uh, they've won three
Speaker 16: of the last four games, two in a row. And
Speaker 16: then the second part of that is, you know, they've
Speaker 16: just been playing really good defense. You know, a lot
Speaker 16: of people focus on the fact that Houston doesn't score
Speaker 16: a lot of points offensively, but their defense has been
Speaker 16: really stingy for the most part all year. And they've
Speaker 16: stayed in games, the last two wins of both coming
Speaker 16: the fourth quarter down to the last two minutes. So
Speaker 16: then just been a big change. You know, they win tonight,
Speaker 16: and then if they were to beat Baylor his BYU's
Speaker 16: at the end of the year, that's probably on the
Speaker 16: road not gonna turn out. Well, uh, you got a
Speaker 16: chance to go to a bowl game if you're Houston,
Speaker 16: and after going one and four to start the season,
Speaker 16: that's a huge accomplishment in Willie Fritz's first year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it should be good.
Speaker 6: That's so.
Speaker 7: I just think of the U a fan looking longingly
Speaker 7: over there at the University of Houston. You know, we
Speaker 7: we would probably flip places in a minute to be
Speaker 7: kind of on the upswing instead of the downswing.
Speaker 16: So yeah, yeah, you look at you look at the
Speaker 16: way this thing was supposed to play out. Houston had
Speaker 16: a stretch where they were going to play. I believe
Speaker 16: it was Utah, Kansas State, Arizona, there was one in Kansas.
Speaker 16: All of those were preseason ranked teams. And it's just
Speaker 16: kind of the script has been slipped. And you know,
Speaker 16: who would have thought Arizona would be in this point
Speaker 16: right now? You know Arizona, you know, Kansas is in
Speaker 16: that predicament. Utah offt its quarterback, uh and it fell apart,
Speaker 16: and then Kansas State just it was that was the
Speaker 16: shocking one when Houston beat them. So, I mean, it's
Speaker 16: been a crazy year in the league. And oh, by
Speaker 16: the way, you know BYU in the playoffs. I don't
Speaker 16: think anybody saw any of this coming.
Speaker 6: Not not at all.
Speaker 7: And you know and b y U b y he
Speaker 7: is always strong and then to do it in the
Speaker 7: Big twelve and and make a run for it, I
Speaker 7: think it's it's going to be good for the Big twelve.
Speaker 7: It's like, but like you're saying, you know, kind of
Speaker 7: the the preseason favorites aren't going to show The Big
Speaker 7: twelve is going to show up. It's just not some
Speaker 7: of those preseason favorites, right what else you know? So
Speaker 7: the quarterback, I'm looking at him and he looks great.
Speaker 7: Who should Who else would we be watching? Maybe one
Speaker 7: on the offensive side and one on the defensive side.
Speaker 16: On the offensive side, I'd probably go with one of
Speaker 16: the receivers of Joseph Man Jack. He can. He was
Speaker 16: supposed to come into the year be the leading guy
Speaker 16: after they lost two big ones in the transfer portal.
Speaker 16: Hasn't really worked out that way, just because they have
Speaker 16: not had a lot of opportunities to throw downfield. This
Speaker 16: isn't a deep throwing team.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 16: Whether it's because of an injury that kept the quarterback
Speaker 16: from really being able to make those throws or pass
Speaker 16: protection he didn't have any time to make those throws.
Speaker 16: But I would go with him on offense and then
Speaker 16: on defense. I like Aj Halsey, he's the safety. He's
Speaker 16: up there near the top in the Big twelve in
Speaker 16: interceptions and pass breakups. And Michael Badden also at linebacker.
Speaker 16: He's kind of their their every wear around the ball
Speaker 16: kind of guy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 16: But they they don't have star power on this team.
Speaker 16: It's sort of been a collection of guys that, you know,
Speaker 16: Willie Fritz didn't have a lot of time to do
Speaker 16: things when he got hired and between high school recruiting
Speaker 16: and then portal. He really had to put this roster
Speaker 16: together pretty quick.
Speaker 3: So what's the talk of Arizona. I mean, obviously they're struggling,
Speaker 3: and not in a nice way or not in a
Speaker 3: good way. Struggling obviously means that. But it's been bad
Speaker 3: for the last five weeks.
Speaker 16: In terms of what what you think.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I know they're probably you know all coach
Speaker 3: talking and player of talk, but but realistically they're just
Speaker 3: not good right now.
Speaker 16: Well, a lot of a lot of them talk though,
Speaker 16: you know, for as bad as things that have been
Speaker 16: on on Arizona's side, that you know, they recognize that
Speaker 16: that's a pretty special quarterback receiver candem that they had there. Yeah,
Speaker 16: with McMillan and and forgive me for how do you
Speaker 16: say the quarterback? Is it fita FLFA.
Speaker 3: FFA, Yeah, you know those two guys right there.
Speaker 16: But but there's also, you know, a lot of the
Speaker 16: talk this week is you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 16: similarities between this game and when they went to Arrowhead
Speaker 16: and played Kansas in October. You know, Kansas was coming
Speaker 16: off of a coming off of a five game losing streak.
Speaker 16: They have a really dynamic quarterback and then Houston just
Speaker 16: went in there and fell behind. I believe it's twenty
Speaker 16: one to nothing. So they sort of saw some some
Speaker 16: similarities with tonight's game where they've got to get out
Speaker 16: to a good start if they can. They don't want
Speaker 16: this to go to the fourth quarter. But they feel
Speaker 16: like they've they've started to sort of develop an identity
Speaker 16: late in the season here and and now they feel
Speaker 16: like they can compete against teams and you know, I
Speaker 16: don't think anybody you know, Kansas State had a ninety
Speaker 16: four percent chance to win the game in the fourth
Speaker 16: quarter and Houston just pulls it out with you know,
Speaker 16: fourteen points in that in that quarter, and they haven't
Speaker 16: allowed a point in the fourth quarter the last two weeks.
Speaker 16: So a lot of good things going in that direction
Speaker 16: for Houston. But but they they have said, you know,
Speaker 16: Arizona presents a very difficult challenge, and it's on the road,
Speaker 16: and you know, it's a late game tonight, so there's
Speaker 16: a lot of things that that they've got to be
Speaker 16: careful about.
Speaker 7: Well, you're being very polite as a guest, Yeah my address.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're on the Christmas list, You're the Christmas but
Speaker 3: you're being you're being realistic and you're being really honest.
Speaker 3: They do have a one two punch, right. The one
Speaker 3: two punch hasn't been sold at any retail stores lately
Speaker 3: because it's just not any It hasn't been effective.
Speaker 4: And everything else, Arizona hasn't shown up.
Speaker 6: Right, we haven't had that big play and this is
Speaker 6: the kind.
Speaker 4: Of game Houston could lose.
Speaker 16: I've seen them lose this type of game in the past,
Speaker 16: but this is not the same Houston team. From even
Speaker 16: mid October. The last three or four week things have
Speaker 16: had the light bulb has come on. And you know,
Speaker 16: I can't say that they'll come in and win by
Speaker 16: three touchdowns tonight because I don't think they can score
Speaker 16: three touches down right, But I think they can win
Speaker 16: tight games. You know, I've said twenty four to twenty
Speaker 16: somewhere around there is what I was picking for tonight.
Speaker 16: I think it'll be low scoring. And you know, this
Speaker 16: time of year, you got to just wonder when do
Speaker 16: you catch teams. You catch a team that's got nothing
Speaker 16: left to play for and it sort of without saying
Speaker 16: it has mailed it in and thrown in the town.
Speaker 9: Or are you are.
Speaker 16: You looking to build off them?
Speaker 12: Then?
Speaker 16: In Houston, I think is the is the ladder. They
Speaker 16: are trying to build off something and nobody, absolutely nobody
Speaker 16: saw a ball possibility, you know, probably entering this year,
Speaker 16: and that they can get there. You know, six wins,
Speaker 16: you know that's not six and six isn't the greatest season,
Speaker 16: but for them, it's a huge stepping stone for next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Arizona feels the same way. Let me
Speaker 4: ask you.
Speaker 3: I'll ask you some questions at the end end of
Speaker 3: this conversation, but I'm sure you've been covering the team
Speaker 3: for a while now. The one thing that I've noticed
Speaker 3: in my long his tree is teams don't have emotion.
Speaker 3: Just don't show up and or play with emotion because
Speaker 3: if you don't have it, you just don't no matter
Speaker 3: how talented you are, you just don't play well.
Speaker 4: Did at any point.
Speaker 3: In the Houston season did you feel that emotionally? I
Speaker 3: felt that from Arizona for the last maybe month.
Speaker 16: You're talking about that in terms of this year and
Speaker 16: whether Houston had yeah, yeah, well no, you know, well,
Speaker 16: you know one thing and the difference between last year
Speaker 16: and this year. You know, Dana Holgersen sort of gave
Speaker 16: off that vibe of didn't care. You know, he kind
Speaker 16: of had that you know that mailed in a pro it.
Speaker 16: You could tell that it wasn't the greatest atmosphere at
Speaker 16: the at the end of his tenure at Houston. So
Speaker 16: they go out, they hire Willie Fritz. One of the
Speaker 16: first comments I remember being made at the press covers
Speaker 16: was that the administration said was now there's an adult
Speaker 16: in the room leading the program. And I thought that
Speaker 16: was an huge indictment on on how far and how
Speaker 16: much Dana Holgersson had lost the program in his latter year.
Speaker 16: So you know, Willie first is sixty, you know, sixty
Speaker 16: something years old, has been a winner to everywhere. This
Speaker 16: was his first Power five jobs. So right then and there,
Speaker 16: the things changed, the attitude change, the discipline change. So
Speaker 16: you know, I would say even during the losses earlier
Speaker 16: in the year, that was not something that anybody worried
Speaker 16: about what the maybe the the just the feeling or
Speaker 16: the culture was with the program. They knew, yeah, they
Speaker 16: knew where they were going and it may not have
Speaker 16: going to have been this good to be this year
Speaker 16: that they got there, but they felt that it was
Speaker 16: incapable hand. So yeah, they they've been a very you know,
Speaker 16: steady in that regard throughout you know, the wins and
Speaker 16: the losses the year.
Speaker 7: Right, We talked earlier a couple of weeks in a
Speaker 7: row about the expectations you was so good last year
Speaker 7: in a coaching change.
Speaker 6: You know, we just we thought it was going to
Speaker 6: go out.
Speaker 7: Situation in Houston was, hey, man, let's let's just let's
Speaker 7: just try to win some games and set the stage
Speaker 7: going forward so that that's been a good place to be.
Speaker 6: The team. Who's going to be the breakout star? I mean,
Speaker 6: who's what are we going to remember about your team?
Speaker 15: Was it?
Speaker 6: Is it going to be the quarterback when we look
Speaker 6: back on this era?
Speaker 4: Is who's it going to be.
Speaker 16: For this season?
Speaker 7: Or well just in general for Houston, Who's going to
Speaker 7: be Who's going to be the catalyst?
Speaker 6: Is it the switching quarterback? Is it the receiver? Is
Speaker 6: it for you?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 16: Do you know? I I think I think it's the defense,
Speaker 16: because you know, this is a team that got shut
Speaker 16: out two straight games. I mean that's how bad this
Speaker 16: this was. You know, we were you know, writing and
Speaker 16: and the media in Houston was was was sort of
Speaker 16: hitting them hard in October that this was a team
Speaker 16: that was going nine straight quarters without any sign of
Speaker 16: up scoring. Uh and and you know, and then they,
Speaker 16: to their credit, you know, Willie Fritz goes in and says, hey,
Speaker 16: we're going to make a quarterback change. It may not
Speaker 16: be the most popular move, but you know, what do
Speaker 16: we have to lose? And he kind of took that.
Speaker 16: So But but with that said, they don't win any
Speaker 16: of the games that they've won without their defense. And
Speaker 16: this is a defense that the last few years had
Speaker 16: just been atrocious. They were getting burned on big plays,
Speaker 16: they misstackles, there was just so much lack of discipline.
Speaker 16: But they have put things together where I look at
Speaker 16: them now and having you know, covered for twelve years,
Speaker 16: you know, on this beat and seeing different defenses come through,
Speaker 16: I look at them and say that, you know, if
Speaker 16: the game is close in the fourth quarter, they have
Speaker 16: what it takes to force a huge turnover. They've got
Speaker 16: a guy that will go in there like Halsey, who
Speaker 16: can you know, jump in front of a pass and
Speaker 16: make an interception. So if they're gonna if they're gonna
Speaker 16: eventually get to that magical number of six. The defense
Speaker 16: is going to be what gets them there in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Well, Joseph, thanks a bunch. Let me ask you a
Speaker 4: quick question.
Speaker 3: We use your mug that you sent us, Please tell
Speaker 3: me you're over thirty because you look like you're twenty two.
Speaker 16: Yeah, you know what, they don't do a good job
Speaker 16: by paper of updating photos. I probably I didn't want
Speaker 16: to send you the one that was on my Twitter
Speaker 16: because I was at a party and I think I
Speaker 16: had a glass of wine. Now, I was like, you
Speaker 16: know what, they might just think I'm some one of
Speaker 16: tho typical sports writers who's an alcoholic and like the
Speaker 16: drink and go to the bar.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 16: So yeah, but I'm much older.
Speaker 4: I'm much older.
Speaker 16: But hey, you didn't give me much time to was
Speaker 16: to go diging through the photo altum.
Speaker 4: I knew the Houston Chronicles to start taking my.
Speaker 6: Picture now kidding, I'm gonna come out to Houston. Hey,
Speaker 6: last question on my side. Are we going to see
Speaker 6: a lot of Houston fans tonight?
Speaker 4: Do they travel well?
Speaker 6: Or is Houston they don't?
Speaker 16: You know, don't I don't anticipate very many. If it
Speaker 16: was a game, you know, inside the state with Waco
Speaker 16: or Lubbock or for Orth maybe, but yeah, they just
Speaker 16: they don't travel yet. Now basketball sometimes there's a different story.
Speaker 16: So back in February coming up when I come back,
Speaker 16: you have to ask me that again, because I think
Speaker 16: you'll have a nice group of Houston fans that are
Speaker 16: at the Michale Center.
Speaker 3: Well, bring your ID because we got to make sure
Speaker 3: you're twenty one and we'll see you as.
Speaker 6: Everyone we're talking to show over twenty one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for letting everybody know we're a bunch of alcoholics.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Joe, Thank you man. That was fun. That
Speaker 4: was good. That's what I.
Speaker 5: Got out of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where's Joseph tonight?
Speaker 2: That's your future one, that's your future Who says it's
Speaker 2: not already happening?
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Speaker 9: Damn Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight man. They wrote me
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they roped you in their pardon the punt. No, hey,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't only listen watching that. It could be over quickly.
Speaker 3: But that's not gonna go to about eight o'clock as well,
Speaker 3: I think I think it's it's uh, it's it's nine
Speaker 3: o'clock in Dallas, right, eight o'clock eight o'clock here.
Speaker 7: And word on the street is they wanted to go
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they can.
Speaker 6: They can milk it for as long as they can.
Speaker 4: Show who do you got? Who is this? By the way,
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Speaker 5: I'd like to see Tyson. I think if it goes
Speaker 5: three or four rounds, Tyson. But if they go well so.
Speaker 9: I heard there are only two minute rounds though, that
Speaker 9: might help Tyson.
Speaker 4: That's true, there's only two minute rounds.
Speaker 9: That Jake Paul. He's a big boy and he's you know,
Speaker 9: he's thirty years younger than Tyson.
Speaker 5: As much as I want to see Tyson win, I
Speaker 5: would not.
Speaker 4: Be surprised if if Paul wins.
Speaker 7: I'm with you, my friend, I kind of want uh.
Speaker 7: I want Tyson just to punch him in the mouth
Speaker 7: and knock tech guy spot.
Speaker 4: Well he did yesterday. I know he did yesterday, slapped him.
Speaker 4: So are you a boxing dude? Well, a little bit,
Speaker 4: and I'm not.
Speaker 9: The hugest, but somebody's that there's a pre card before
Speaker 9: that they say two women are fighting, and somebody said
Speaker 9: they had one of the best damn fights I've ever seen.
Speaker 5: And I guess they're going at it again.
Speaker 9: So I guess I'll tune into this little early. Like
Speaker 9: you said, I think they fight about nine thirty.
Speaker 5: So I don't know how much of you I feel
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Speaker 4: What do you think, guys?
Speaker 9: Well, we twenty five thousand. I mean the fan's probably
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Speaker 6: That's no imember. We've been saying for the last.
Speaker 3: Thirty thousand, they'll now thirty eight ish forty ish because
Speaker 3: the sole tickets is.
Speaker 4: The tickets sold.
Speaker 3: You're right on them. You're right on the windowsoa and
Speaker 3: right exactly what we think.
Speaker 7: I want you to watch the watch part of the game,
Speaker 7: and then count would you count for us?
Speaker 6: Just count each each other fan in the stadium.
Speaker 3: Right, you know what, you know what, You're gonna have
Speaker 3: it made because you the basketball game starts at seven,
Speaker 3: that'll be over by nine.
Speaker 4: UA starts at a fifteen.
Speaker 3: You'll get the first quarter and maybe watch the end
Speaker 3: of that, and then you have the drink Paul, which
Speaker 3: could go to nine thirty an hour for you know whatever.
Speaker 7: And then all the high school games we have about ten,
Speaker 7: so you can watch the late the late news, and
Speaker 7: you have a full sports night.
Speaker 4: There we go, tell me tell you got beer at
Speaker 4: the house. I'll just go there.
Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you I'm about a mile away from
Speaker 9: and you know, four years ago they weren't anything. Mike
Speaker 9: them out, and all of a sudden, I mike them
Speaker 9: out and those kids, uh, they're one of the teams
Speaker 9: now in Tucson.
Speaker 4: Right, No, he's done a great job there.
Speaker 6: They've done that.
Speaker 7: That whole region down there and down in Vail has
Speaker 7: has done a good job. A friend of mine, herd
Speaker 7: kid is playing in Ironwood justin Maddox is having a
Speaker 7: good season.
Speaker 6: Get some big recruit letters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what's happening.
Speaker 5: And obviously some of our schools are on the road.
Speaker 9: I couldn't I can't tell them all, but you know,
Speaker 9: you've got some smaller schools and all that on the roads.
Speaker 9: The first week of high school football playoffs is always
Speaker 9: fun because you might have a couple of underdogs when
Speaker 9: in that start.
Speaker 6: And those kids that you know, they get up for
Speaker 6: it high school game.
Speaker 3: So it's scary, right. Yeah. Do you listen to the
Speaker 3: show every now and again?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I catch I catch you guys. You know I'm
Speaker 9: with you in the football it's it's rough and uh yeah. Unfortunately,
Speaker 9: my favorite NFL team is the Dolphins. Although I gotta
Speaker 9: say this schedule is get a little easier. Maybe old
Speaker 9: to us got to quit tackling guys who after throws
Speaker 9: a pick. I don't know if you saw that last Yes, yes,
Speaker 9: gam he took a knee to thehead of my great
Speaker 9: there going to another four freaking games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he needs to stop thinking because that.
Speaker 6: Wasn't very good.
Speaker 9: Maybe it's all the tattoos. Now you see him, he
Speaker 9: looks like that guy from what's that movie Moana? That
Speaker 9: dude's tatted from. I guess it's like a where he's from.
Speaker 9: It's like a heritage state, you know, all the tattoos
Speaker 9: and such.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for listening, Thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Gary, I'm appreciated guy, And uh, we'll don't check
Speaker 7: in next week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't be a spretty stranger. Thank you.
Speaker 5: All right, right, thank you.
Speaker 3: We gotta call it and get take calls now five
Speaker 3: to two, four, one, six, seventy four, forty Anybody have
Speaker 3: any thoughts on tonight's game? Are they gonna win? Are
Speaker 3: they gonna finally break through one?
Speaker 2: I don't believe so, like like I forget his name,
Speaker 2: but Joseph, Joseph, he said that defense is for real.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it.
Speaker 2: Arizona's had struggles with mobile quarterbacks and they Houston does have.
Speaker 3: This is the recipe, right, the recipe for success or
Speaker 3: for other teams.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I was looking at there there said they.
Speaker 7: He talked about those two guys at the top and
Speaker 7: they have like sixty four and fifty eight tackles. But
Speaker 7: then everybody else there's like seven, eight, nine guys that
Speaker 7: have thirty to thirty five tackles. So they are not
Speaker 7: missing anybody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they are only what three and whatever? What
Speaker 4: are four or five? Four or five? So so they're
Speaker 4: pretty good at four and five, I think. So, I
Speaker 4: think they've turned a corner.
Speaker 7: You hear it is You heard Joseph's enthusiasm, and I
Speaker 7: know he is tempered a little bit, but he's he's
Speaker 7: hearing it on the street and the fans are excited,
Speaker 7: the players are excited. The streets of Houston. I'm serious.
Speaker 7: The coldest I've ever been was in Houston. It was,
Speaker 7: and then the warmest at Christmas time it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's brutaled. I used to live in Dallas.
Speaker 6: I know, man.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe you're on the air and I on
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 10: Is this.
Speaker 4: Hello, you're on the air. Hello, Hey Jake.
Speaker 6: This is Steve, Steve and Tim.
Speaker 19: Hey, I had a question for you guys. I've heard
Speaker 19: on Jay's show, and I've heard him a lot of
Speaker 19: different shows. Uh, and I've heard of last week that
Speaker 19: everybody touchs Aaron Rodgers as his first ballot future Hall
Speaker 19: of Famer, and I'm just wondering why everybody thinks that
Speaker 19: guy is that. I mean, he won one super Bowl,
Speaker 19: He's lost almost every playoff game he's ever been in. Like, what,
Speaker 19: why does everybody hype that dude as he's going to
Speaker 19: be a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what show you're listening to, but
Speaker 3: they're probably right. I don't he's pretty good. But I
Speaker 3: think what makes him not pretty good is just his attitude.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's kind of a toxic dude wherever
Speaker 3: he goes.
Speaker 4: I agree, but Jay, his.
Speaker 19: Numbers aren't there. I mean, Eli Manning has got more
Speaker 19: more Super.
Speaker 5: Bowls than him.
Speaker 19: That guy's lost all of his playoff games at home.
Speaker 19: I mean, I just don't get why why do all
Speaker 19: the sports shows that dude.
Speaker 7: I'm not a big Aaron Rodgers, but it's it's not
Speaker 7: the playoff Hall of Fame, it's the it's the season.
Speaker 6: You know, it's it's your career hall of Fame.
Speaker 7: And I know they look at his stats and his
Speaker 7: that guy's unreal when he's when he's on the money,
Speaker 7: but he's you know he's You're right, he's horrible in
Speaker 7: the playoffs, and you know, he had a nice run
Speaker 7: to the super Bowl. But you know, with talent like that,
Speaker 7: I think what you're saying is he probably should have
Speaker 7: at least one more, if not two more super Bowls.
Speaker 7: But they're going to look at his he may not
Speaker 7: be like a strong you know, you know, unanimous first ballot.
Speaker 3: And I think his legacy is kind of being hit
Speaker 3: hard now that he's going to Detroit, Detroit to Jets
Speaker 3: and he got hurt and now he's not doing it
Speaker 3: very well.
Speaker 6: And it's his attitude.
Speaker 7: And you you would hope that, you know, somebody like
Speaker 7: him would come in and and you know, show these
Speaker 7: show these younger guys how to do it.
Speaker 4: And he doesn't want to do that, and he's grumpy
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 6: He doesn't you know.
Speaker 7: I'm with you, But I bet I do believe that
Speaker 7: it's it's a it's this, it's his season, it's his
Speaker 7: career stats, it's not his playoff stats, his playoffs.
Speaker 9: I was just curious for I was just curious for
Speaker 9: your guys thoughts because I keep hearing that and I
Speaker 9: just think, I don't know who's.
Speaker 4: Your who's your team? Who's your who's your team? Who
Speaker 4: do you follow?
Speaker 5: I'm a I'm a Bills guy.
Speaker 19: So I'm from Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we're gonna try to get John fen On
Speaker 3: here pretty soon.
Speaker 19: You know, being a Bills fan, it's kind of like being.
Speaker 4: A U of a football fans.
Speaker 18: Point.
Speaker 7: You got a big You've got a big game this weekend.
Speaker 7: Chiefs are coming in town.
Speaker 4: Hey, I think they're gonna win this weekend, do you.
Speaker 19: I'm hoping, man, I'm hoping we need it.
Speaker 3: They're given to to the Chiefs Kansas City due for
Speaker 3: this loss and even barely on the edge, So.
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna scooting by.
Speaker 7: I really I was ready to to uh, to congratulate
Speaker 7: my my Denver friends.
Speaker 4: That crazy Thanks thanks so much for calling.
Speaker 19: And hey, and Kyler Murray looks.
Speaker 5: Like he might even grow in a couple of inches
Speaker 5: the way you play in the last.
Speaker 19: Couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Now, you're talking crazy, guys.
Speaker 6: You know, I know it's Friday. I know it's it's
Speaker 6: almost almost putting time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not go in. I appreciate you all right later. Thanks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a big Rogers fan, especially when you're toxic
Speaker 3: like that. You know, you know his family doesn't even
Speaker 3: like you, right, But you're not wrong.
Speaker 4: You're not right.
Speaker 6: No, you're not wrong.
Speaker 7: And so I think, you know, when you look at sports,
Speaker 7: especially professional sports, you know you want you if you're
Speaker 7: not if you don't have a team, you want to
Speaker 7: watch great athletes. And if you're watching great athletes, you
Speaker 7: want them to be great in a lot of ways.
Speaker 7: And I think we can put up with people that
Speaker 7: are kind of, you know, rough around the edges. But
Speaker 7: you know, Aaron and to his point, I think I
Speaker 7: would say he's probably saying he's bad in the playoffs,
Speaker 7: but he's probably.
Speaker 6: Just saying he rubs him the wrong way. Man, he's
Speaker 6: not the nicest guy.
Speaker 3: So you remember two three years ago, maybe three years ago,
Speaker 3: I had I think it was fifty dollars on them
Speaker 3: to win to win the Super Bowl. So they they
Speaker 3: were doing very very well. I can't remember the team
Speaker 3: he was playing. He was like a fourth and fifteen
Speaker 3: on the twenty uh and he was running to the
Speaker 3: he had he could run into the end zone and
Speaker 3: he threw a pass that was uncatchable, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 3: what the hell are you thinking?
Speaker 4: They win that?
Speaker 3: Game, they go to the Super Bowl, they probably win it, right,
Speaker 3: And I'm thinking I'll never talk to this guy.
Speaker 6: Kid, Aaron Rodgers, don't call in right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't call it.
Speaker 3: He needs to get paid a million dollar, isn't that
Speaker 3: what what's.
Speaker 4: The name pays him in the morning McAfee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Maggie pays him, pays him a million dollars to
Speaker 3: be on the show. So probably something like that. I
Speaker 3: don't got ten bucks to pay. I got ten cents
Speaker 3: of Yes.
Speaker 7: It sounds like we have a food hook up with
Speaker 7: Wan so he knows the caneo guy that's.
Speaker 4: Said, yeah, tell my name's one what Toronto? Yes, thank
Speaker 4: you very much.
Speaker 6: This is my dinner. Guess Aaron Rodgers, come on down,
Speaker 6: let's go.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm u. I'm actually his cousin. Vomna, Okay, we
Speaker 3: got time, we gotta go. Okay, we gotta go. We're
Speaker 3: gonna come back with breaking news and then we're gonna
Speaker 3: have Jake Fisher oz through that